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I STATE NEWS ITEMS.
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Dukes is Recovering.
A. F. H. Dukes, one of the three
members of the state dispensary board
of control who has been seriously ill
at his home in Branchville, is reported
Improving and his recovery is looked
for.
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Key ward's First Pardon.
Governor Hey ward granted his firstpardon
last Monday to Robert Boyd,
serving an eighteen months' sentence
for grand larceny in Clarendon county,
Boyd is said to be in a dying condition.
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Fire at Greenville.
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works, located at Piedmont, was totally
destroyed by fire one night the past ;
week. The loss is estimated at $4,000; J
insurance $1,000. The origin of th<
fire is unknown. (
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Requires Compulsory Education. 1
The state senate after some discussion
has passed a bill requiring children
over 12 years of age to attend
school for at least eight weeks each
year, and fixing the penalty for non
compliance at a fine from $5 to $20.
The proposal to make the offense
punishable by imprisonment was voted*
down. It is impossible to say whether
the house will pass the bill but it has 1
many friends in that body.
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Seaboard to Use Old Station. *
The decision of the Seaboard Air ?
Line not to build its projected passen- A
ger station on recently acquired prop- *
erty in Columbia was announced a day
or two ago. *
This followed upon city councils re- 1
jection of the offer of tne railway com- i
pany of $15,000 in lieu of certain work I
required by council. The result will *
thn Totnntinn >?* thn rna.fl nf its
old passenger station for the time. *
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New South Carolina Industries.
The Chattanooga Tradesman reports *
the following new industries for Soutli I
Carolina for the past week:
Rock Hill, cotton mill; Greenville, 1
$25,000 development company; a
Charleston, $100,000 timber company; s
Ice factory; Columbia, $30,000 develop- 1
ment company; Clinton, $20,000 spin- E
die cotton mill; Walterboro, $10,000
iron works and supply company; Fori c
Motte, $15,000 oil mill; Camden, $5,00C t
supply works. c
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Cannot Issue Frice List.
South Carolina cotton commission a
men are showing a disposition to take ^
a "back seat" just at present, since the v
meeting of the cotton spinners in Charlotte,
when prices were advanced all *
along the line on yarns. As one com- ^
mission man expresses the situation,
"We cannot issue a price list, as the a
Cotton Spinners' Association has gone J
and done it."
It is claimed that the middle man
will be unable to secure the prices ?
which the spinners adopted at their
Charlotte meeting. The market is re- ?
ported as showing a disposition to become
easier. p
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Woman Killed by Hand Car.
While walking across a trestle on the
Southern railway at Piedmont, Mrs.
W. M. Davenport and little boy were '
struck by a hand car loaded with c
cross ties and hurled to the ground, a ?
distance of 35 feet. Mrs. Davenport's
death resulted an hour afterward.
It is believed by attending physicians
that the boy will recover from
the injuries sustained by the fall. "
It is said that no blame is attached
to the railroad authorities for the accident.
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Mrs. Davenport was a highly re- ^
spected woman and was well known
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Father Killed by Deputy.
While attempting to capture an es- 0
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caped prisoner late Saturday afternoon,
Special Deputy L. C. Knox shot
and killed T. P. Vernon in the Olympia
mill district. Vernon was 53 years ola
and worked in the Olympia mill. g
Knox had arrested John Vernon, d
son of the aeau man. who. in some
way, escaped from the officer. Dep- a
uty Knox went to the Vernon home Jo g
search for the^ young man. Though
armed with a search warrant, Knox
met with violent opposition by. the parents
of Vernon. An altercation ensued
and Vernon struck the officer
over the head with a stick, while Mrs.
Vernon made at him with an open
knife. Vernon secured his revolver,
but before he could use it the constable
shot him twice, killing him almost
instantly, S
Morgan Iron Works Sold.
The chief interest at Spartanburg
last Monday centered in the sale of the ^
Morgan iron works. There were only B
a few bidders for this property, among
them being H. E. Ravenel, W. S. Mont- ^
gomery and a gentleman fron outside
the city. f'
The prperty was bid in W. S. Mont
gomery and others for $10,400. This v?
property was put up on December
sales day, but did not bring the upset
price, $28,000, and the sale was postponed.
A decree was then granted by ?
the equity court by which the property
should be sold to the highest bidder,
on sale day in February. Mr. Mont- (
gomery is a prominent mill man of t
South Carolina. ?
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Cotton Goods Used as Money. r
John B. Cleveland, of Spartanburg, y
one of the vice presidents of the Amor- t
lean Asiatic Association for the pro- r
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motion of Asiatic trade a few days age
made an interesting statement regarding
the cotton goods supplied to the
Chinese and foreign trade, coming
largely from this section.
"These goods," said Mr. Cleveland,
"are used as a medium of exchange in
some of the foreign countries, notably
in Abyisinia on the northwest coast
of the dark continent.
"The goods so used are principally
the brown sheetings and drills, and
they are valued at the rate of 20 yards
to the dollar. These goods are received
as barter not only in the seacoast
towns, but throughout Abysinia.
A considerable part of these goods
ire manufactured at Pelzer an'Jl Piedmont
and at Whitney and. other mills
of this section.
"The Asiatic trade is now very good,"
Mr. Cleveland says, "and a wholesome
iemand is existing. One mill of this
section has sold several thousand
sales during the last few months for
:he Asiatic trade, the goods being
shipped direct in consignments 01
1,000 bales each.
"The mills, however, would like to
secure bettor prices, the demand beng
better than the prices received,
rhe check to Chincst trade which was
inn to the hover nnrisine has entirely
ranished and the mills are enjoying a
rery satisfactory Oriental trade at this
:ime."
CANAL TREATY IN PERIL.
President and Secretary Hay Alarmed
Over Attitude of Senator Morgaf?
in Opposition to Ratification.
A Washington special says: An important
conference was held at the
tVhite house Saturday, the participants
being the president, Secretary
3ay and Senatdr Cullom, chairman of
:he foreign relations committee of the
senate. The subject under discussion
vas the status of the Panama camil.
;reaty.
The situation, with regard to the
reaty as it has developed in the senite
is giving the administration and
ts supporters grave concern. The
>resident is exceedingly anxious that
he treaty should be ratified at the
earliest possible moment. The conerence
held Thursday was with a view
>f ascertaining, if possible, what could
>e done to hasten consideration of the
reaty by the senate. It is quite cerain
that the advices received by the
resident are not reassuring.
An effort ^s to be made to get the
reaty out of committee with a favorible
report. That the effort will be
uccessful is reasonably certain, but
ts troubles in the present view of the
uatter will only have begun.
Senator Morgan, chairman of the
ommittee on inter oceanic canals,
akes the ground that me negotiations
on-ducted by the state department
rlth Mr. Horran. representing ColomilS^are
not valid, as he holds that Mr.
lerran did not possess the necessary
.uthority to make a treaty binding on
ds country, and it is understood he
fill use his utmost efforts to defeat
he treaty in its present iorm. Indeed,
he intimation has reached the presient
that when the treaty is called up
or final consideration in the senate,
mendments will be offered to almost
very section of it. It is stated definLely
that another amendment to the
reaty would imperil the entire canal
roject, as the government of Colomia
might hesitate to accept amendlents
made to it, particularly if they
lvolved essential details or princiles.
During the conference the situation
ras considered carefully, but what
ecision, if any, was reached, could
ot be ascertained.
It is known only that an earnest efDrt
is to be made in the senate to soure
ratification of the treaty at the
resent session.
FRIGHTFUL HOLOCAUST.
Vomeri and Children Lose Life in
Rurninn of Aoartment House.
A special from Vancouver, B. C.,
ays: In a fire which broke out on
lalcolm island, some distance up the
oast from Vancouver, in a common
ving house where twenty-four famies
lived .eleven women and children
rere burned to death and seventeen
iher people were injured Thursday
vening last.
ENGINE STRIKES TROLLEY. ,
[leven Passengers Injured on Street
Car in Springfield, Ohio.
A Big Four passenger train, struck '
street car at a street crossing i?j 1
Springfield. Ohio, Friday early in the
vening. The car was well filled with
eople, and it was hit squarely in the
enter, driving it 50 feet beyond the
rossing.
Eleven persons were injured, two *
f whom are seriously hurt.
THREE DEAD; DOZEN HURT. ,
tock Trains Crash Together on Chicago
ajnd Northwestern Railway.
Three persons were killed, four se- |
[ously injured and eight slightly in.ired
in a rear-end collision between
tock trains on the Chicago and North- J
-estern railway near La Fox, Ills., 1
Wednesday.
The trains came together in a dense ]
)g ,the engine of the rear train crash- 1
l% into the caboose ahead without
aiming to the fated passengers. 1
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POWERS REPLY TO CASTRO,
itick to Reservations Contained in
Their Original Proposal.
The joint reply of the powers to
lastro's qualified acceptance of nrbi-1.
ration was handed to the United
States ambassadors at Berlin and
.ondon Tuesday. The note aims to
urther smooth the way for a settle- 1
uent, which possibly may be reached
rithout arbitration. The powers,
towever, do not abandon any of the
eservations contained in their original
proposal.
FOURTEEN MILLIONS
Is Claim of the Allies That Little
Veneznela Must Pay.
BOWEN'S PLAN MEETS FAVOR
British, German and Italian Ambassa*
dors Urge Their Governments
to Accept and Lift the Blockade
at Once.
A Washington special says: The
British and German ambassadors and
Count Quadt, the German charge
d'affaires, Wednesday night called on
Mr. Bowen, Venezuela's representative
in the negotiations, looking to a
raiding of the blockade and settlement
of the claims against Venezuela,
The conference was by appointment,
ami at th<a rpnnpst nf the renresenta
tives of tho allies. It is believed that
the purpose was to present the claims
of the allies to preferential treatment
in payments over those nations which
have not exerted physical pressure on
Venezuela, but it was impossible to
get any direct information on this
point.
The conference broke up at 12:30
o'clock, and the representatives of the
allies proceeded at once to their
homes. It was made known that no
agreement had yet been reached for
the raising of the blockade, and that
further word must be awaited from
Europe before this state of the negotiations
is Rassed. Mr. Bowen made
tho following statement:
"We have been discussing tonight
certain points which needed to be
clearly understood. They have been
referred to us for consideration and
our views are now to be communicated
at once to Rome, London and Berlin."
The further statement was made after
the conference that there was absolutely
no foundation for charges
that Germany was delaying the signing
of the preliminary protocol. The
representations considered emanated
from the London foreign office.
Fourteen Millions Asked.
The Italian and British ambassadors
and the German charge d'affaires
at a joint conference Wednesday
agreed 'to cable their governments
urging a prompt acceptance of Mr.
Bowen's last proposition, to enable
the lifting of the Venezuelan blockade
at once. In this cablegram, which
was sen at noon, t was suggested
that consideration of the details of
the proposition bo postponed until alter
the signing of the preliminary protocol.
Signor Mayor des Planches, the Italian
ambassador, as the ranking representative
of the allies, called on
Mr. Bowen during the afternoon and
informed him of the dispatch of the
joint cablegram to the powers and expressed
th ehope that it would expedite
the arrival of the final answer.
Partial confirmation has been obtained
of cable dispatches that Belgium
is to take a prominent part in
the administration of the customs receipts.
Mr. Bowen declines to discuss
the details of his plan, however, until
the blockade has been raised. Late in
the day he gave out a brief statement
of the diplomatic debt of Venezuela
and the methods for its future adjustment.
in round numbers this debt
amounted on December 31, 1901, to
something over $14.000,-.00. and consisted
of claims which had been previously
adjusted. Mr. uowen's plan
provides that 13 per cent of the customs
receipts of all the Venezuelan
ports shall go toward the payment of
this debt.
Senatorial Deadlock in Washington.
The eleventh ballot for United
States senator, taken at Olympia,
Wash., Wednesday was as follows:
Ankeney, 5G : Preston, 44; Turner, 22;
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Spoonsr Given Full Vote.
The election of John C. Spooner as
United States senator to succeed himself
was reaffirmed Wednesday in joint
session of the Wisconsin legislature.
He received th full party vote.
RIOTS QUICKLY QUELLED.
Governor of Connecticut Promptly
Orders Troops to Waterbury.
Eight companies of the First regiment,
Connecticut national guard, and
five companies of the Second regiment,
with two gat ling guns, were
called to Waterbury Sunday night at
the command of Governor Chamberlain,
because of "the imperative need"
occasioned by the trolley strike sit
nation. The riot about tiie streets
Saturday night, coupled with threats
of further disturbances, led to the
call for troops.
UNJUST AND UNREASONABLE.
In Strong Terms Caracas Newspapers
.Score Attitude cf Allies.
All the newspapers of Caracas have
published articles to the effect that
the act of the allies in imposing upon
Venezuela special preferential treatment
in the settlement of their own
claims is on a par with all their precious
acts since the beginning of the
present difficulty, namely, unjust and
unreasonable.
HELD EULOGISTIC SERVICES.
House of Representatives Convene in
Special Session.
A Washington di.-;pai< h rays: The
house met at noon Hand:;;.' for the
purpose of pronouncing eulogies in
memory of the late Senator McMillan,
of .Michigan. The speakers were
Messrs. Corliss. N. A. Smith. Hamil
ton. S. W. Smith. (lardn-r and Henry
C. Smith, of Michigan; Rabcock. ol
Wisconsin ,aml Burton. < i Ohio. At
1:35 o'clock as a further uarlc of respect
th? house adiourneg*
! EDUCATION BOARD ORGANIZED.
! For Education in the South Rockefeller
Gives Hundred Thousand Dollars
a Year, for Ten Years.
The general education board recently
chartered by congress for tne promotion
of educational work in the Uni- j
; ted States, organized in Washington j
| Thursday. The board consists of W.
: y. Baldwin, Jr., Wallace Buttrlck, j
J. L. M. Curry, Frederick T. Gates, I
; Daniel C. Gilman, Morris K Jesup,
; Robert C. Ogden. Walter H. Page,
i George Foster Pcabody, John D. Rock*
I efeller, Jr., and Albert Shaw. Mr. 1
j Baldwin was elected chairman, Mr. j
1 Peabddy treasurer, and Mr. Buttrick ,
j secretary and executive officer.
The business offices of the board
' will be at 116 Nassau street, New
I York city. One of its main objects is
! the promotion of rural free schools in
j the southern states, although the charj
ter contemplates educational work in
j all parts of the United States. Pend*
J ing the granting of the charter, the
I board has been at work for a year unj
der articles of association.
i At the beginning 01 us wom a ,
: "generous friend," as stated by the
: board, subscribed $100,000 a year for a
! period of ten years, which sum, the
board says, has enabled the demon;
stration of the possibility of effective
work and the practicability of philanthropic
co-operation with tho public
authorities. It -developed later that
j this donor was John D. Rockefeller.
; Other sums of money, smaller in
amount, also have been received.
The board issued the following an
nouncement:
"In developing Its constructive pro
gram to aid rural authorities, state
superintendents of public instruction
in Virginia. North Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama and Louisiana have held conferences
of all their county superintendents,
at which the executive officer
of the general educational board
: has been a most welcome guest. He
has accepted an invitation to meet
the county superintendents of Florida
at Gainesville fti that state next
week. The knowledge thus acquired
and the relations established have
convinced the board tnat the opportunities
are now at hand lor ">ise and
prudent investment of large sums of
money to promote the education of
all the people throughout the southern
states. The fact is demonstrated that
no wiser or more patriotic opportunity
for philanthropy is before the people
"The board is now organized to re
ceive funds designated for the further
prosecution of the work begun, to act
as trustee for the holding and investment
of funds designated for the bene
fit of institutions of learning, and tc
pay over the annual income of such
funds under the terms of the trust, to
see that funds given conditionally to
institutions through the board are distributed
in strict accordance with the
conditions. Funds held by the gener!
al education board are free of taxa
tion."
LEE OVERMAN WINS TOGA
Named for Senator in North Carolina
Democratic Legislative Caucus.
Le? S. Overman was nominated
I United States senator in the North
j Carolina democratic senatorial caucus
at Raleigh Thursday night on the
sixty-first ballot.
The final vote was: Overman 73,
Watson 58, Craig 11. The nomination
is equivalent to an election.
Le? S. Overman is 49 years old. He
is a lawyer of ability, a native Oi Salisbury,
and in 1874 graduated from Trinity
college. He was private secretary
to Governor Vance ,and has been a
member of.the house of representatives
five different times, having been
| speaker once. %
In 1895 ho was democratic candidate
for senator to succeed Vance. In
1900 he was the state democratic presidential
elector.
KANSAS MAY BAR BLACKS.
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I Disfranchising Bill of Sweeping Nature
Introduced in Legislature.
A resolution was introduced in the
j Kansas legislature Thursday to amend
: the election laws so as to exclude all
r ?~ or,/} . n rpnillrp all
i negroes irum wims ?
| foreign born people to become natur!
alized before voting. There is much
i sentiment in favor of the resolution,
! and it will cause a hard contest.
MEXICAN BANK SWINDLED.
| Slick Cuban Gets Bogus Check for
Sixteen Thousand Cashed.
A swindle by which a Cuban named
j Juan Prieto is alleged to have suci
ceeded in getting a check cashed for
1 $16,000 at the Bank of London and
' Mexico, in Mexico City, has just come
to light.
j Prieto arrived in Mexico from Ha!
vana with Treveno's circus last year.
Recently he is alleged to have preI
sented to the Bank of London and
. Mexico a check on the Colonial bank
! of Havana, representing himself to be
the Cuban agent of the Bank of London
and Mexico.
BANK CASE DECIDED.
High Court Says National Institutions
Are Above State Banks.
The case of Easton vs. the State of
! Iowa was decided by the United States
supreme court Monday in favor of
Easton, thus reversing the supreme
ccurt of Iowa. The case involves the
applicability of state laws regulating
state banks to national banks. The
! court's decision puts national banks
! above state banks.
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TOO MUCH CORONER.
Two Juries Interfere With InvestigaI
tigation of Wreck in Arazina.
Conflict of authority between the
two justices of the peace of Tucson,
Arizona, is retarding the investigation
j into the responsibility for the train
wreck at Vails. Under the laws of
Arizona justices of the peace act as
| coroners. Tucson has two justices,
! and therefore two coroners, both of
j whom claim the right to hear testimony
on the wr^chj
I Cream of News. |
Brief Summary of Most
Important Events
of Each "Day.
?J. H. Land and family, of Ea^t
Alabama, were drowned in a freight
cor that plunged into the Mississippi
at Vicksburg.
?A bill is to be introduced in the
Alabama legislature seeking to relieve
Birmingham of the criminal element.
?The house met in Washingtoa
Sunday and eulogies were pronounced
in memory of the late Senator McMillan,
of Michigan.
?Senator Quay has changed his
tactics and will not Insist on night
sessions for the statehood bill.
?The Pullman Car Company announces
increase of pay of employees.
They will get ten hours' pay for nine
hours' work.
?Governor of Connecticut sends
troops to Waterbury because of strike
riot there.
?The Jefferson Memorial Association
rdpads for funds to erect a monu
ment for the aathor of the Declaration
of Independence.
?General Miles dined with King
Edward at Windsor Castle, Sunday
night.
?The crown princess of Saxony and
M. Giros will come to the United
States shortly.
?Sultan of Morocco attacked the
pretender's forces at daybreak
Thursday near Fez and completely
crushed them.
?Health authorities at Mazat'an.
Mexico, attribute the bubonic plague
due ta an American vessel, from San
Francisco stopping there.
?Young couple engaged to be married,
killed by the cars nerr Savannah.
?Misses Benning, daughters of the
late general, at Columbus, Ga., ar?
protesting against the destruction ok
a sycamore tree their father planted.
?Senator Pettus, of Alabama, reelected
by the Alabama legislature.
?Six men killed by the explosion of
boilers at Anniston, Ala.
?In the habeas corpus case at Kosciusko,
Mies., the court denied the
writ and-the eleven white men charged
with killing two negroes were sent
baclL to ?
?Before the-strike commission Attorney
Darrow charged that the operators
are responsible for the coal
shortage.
?Twenty persons were killed in the
railway horror at Plainfleld, N. J.
?Miss Dickenson, who is to be a witness
in the Young murder trial, has
been threatened with death if she repeals
secrets of the Mormon church.
?It is reported a>. Washington that
Judge Emory Speer will be promoted
to the circuit court Oi. appeals, and
that District Attorney Marion Erwin
will succeed Judge Speer.
?There was a snarp colloquy in the
senate Wednesday between Senator?
Carmack and Bevcridge over cruelties
in the Philippines. Senator Car
mack practically canon senator ueveridgo
a liar.
?The special court to try the suit of
the crown prince of Saxony tor divorce
has convened at Dresden.
?The British, German and Italian
ambassadors have urged their governments
to accept Minister Bowen's
last proposition and raise the blockade.
?A negro labor agent was killed
Monday in a lumber camp in Harrison
county, Mississippi. He had refused
to leave when ordered.
?Eli Rogers, a crazed man of Union
count, North Carolina, Monday afternoon
killed Miss May Pressley and a
negro boy.
?The democrats of the Alabama
legislature in Joint caucus Monday
nominated Senator Pettus to succeed
himself.
?Senator Morgan, of Alabama, is
making a fight on the Panama canal
treaty.
?The house has adopted a resolution
caking for information in regard
to the Indianola affair.
?Ihe Afro-American council has isrued
an address condemning 'ho south
for ?'s treatment of the negro
?Philip Doblin, who swore that
Lemuel Quigg offered Congressman
Lessler $5,000 for his vote, confesses
that he perjured himself.
?Judge William R. Day, of Ohio,
has been offered and accepted "he pos'tion
of associate justice of tha United
States supreme court.
?Lieutenant Armstrong, of Alabama,
is dead of the smallpox at Manila.
?At Wartburg, Tetn., Morris Jett,
a youth, was killed by an exploding
gun. His aged grandmother died after
hearing of his death.
?At Durban, South Africa, the bubonic
plague is committing such ravages
that the people arc fleeing.
?Throe alleged widows are suing
for damage for the death of a negro
fireman at Spartanburg, S. C.
?Steamer Dawson City, eighty-six
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days (JUL il UUI lMfluv;, i vai^nuo mil
Townsend, Wash., with 110 losses.
?Senator Teller says if he is refused
a certificate of election by the
governor of Colorado, he win carry his
case to tho United States senate.
?John D. Rockefeller is bothered by
letters telling him now to better his
weak stomach, the result of some joker
who reported that Rockefeller would
give $1,000,000 for a cure.
?An unknown white woman walked
on a bridge on the Central below Macon,
knowing that a train was just behind
her. She was decapitated.
?It is announced that the blockade
of Venezuela will be raised at once
under satisfactory terms.
?In the elections in France Saturday
Count Boni de Castellano was returned
to the chamber of ueputlos.
j FRANCE TO ACT ALONE
i No Rift Yet Appears in the Low*
ering Yeneznelan War Chad.
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ALLIES REJECT LAST PROPOSAL j
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Representatives of Powers at Washington
Entertain Gloomy View,
But are Stiii Using Every
Effort for Pacification.
It developed at Washington Saturday
that the answers of the allied powers
to Minister Bowen's latest propo
sition arrived Friday, but were not immediately
presented to the minister.
The answers were to the effect that
the allies could not consent that the
United States and the other claimant
nations receive the same treatment as
the blockading powers, and that .ney
therefore rejected in toto Mr. Bowen's
final proposition.
Knowing tne consequences -uiai
were to follow the presentation of this
answer, the representatives of the allies
took upon themselves th responsibility
of withholding the notes of
their governments, and of again cabling,
urging a retraction of their
preferential demand. Exchanges are
still in progress between the Italian,
British and German embassies, uut
there is no evidence that the allies intend
yielding. If they hold out, their
representatives must present the joint
refusal, and the Washington negotia
tions will come to a standstill.
Baron Sternberg, Germany's new
envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary
to the United States, conferred
Saturday with Count Quadt,
who, as charge d'affaires, nas thus far
conducted the Venezuelan negotiations
for Germany. Afterwards the
minister called by appointment at the
state department and presented his
letters of credence to Secretary Hay,
and afterwards to the president. From
the white house Baron von Sternberg
went to the British emoassy.
Baron von Sternberg in L*s calls at
the state department and the British
embassy found the outlook for a relief
of the present deadlock exceedingly
gloomy, and he has cabled as much tc
his government.
France- tojGo Alone.
The French legation Iras notified the
Venezuelan government thaT-ip virtue
of the convention of 1S67 Fnine!"'
was allowed to collect directly a part
of tie revenues of several customs
houses in Venezuela as a guarantee
for her diplomatic claims arising out
of the previous revolutions. France',
it is said, renounced forever, by the
convention of 1865, the exercise of
this right on condition that the interest
on this debt always should be regularly
paid. As this payment has not
oeen maae, rrauce, wiiaout asKing me
auttorization of Germany, England
and Italy, intends to revive her right
of direct collection. The French
charge d'affaires, Quievreaux, has paid
visits to the foreign minister and has
also called on President Castro during
the past forty-eight hours.
This activity on the part of France
is evidently in connection with her intention
to revive her rights, and is
considered as an answer to the attitude
assumed by the allied powers.
A special from Caracas says: In
reply to Minister Bowen's inquiry as
to what Venezuela intends to do regarding
the demand for preferential
treatment made by the allies, President
Castro has telegraphed:
"The Venezuelan government desires
equal treatment for all the creditor
nations of Europe and America,
keeping in mind, in addition, its diplomatic
conventions and anterior stipulations."
MILES DINES WITH ED.
England's Ruler Hob-Nobs With Ranking
American General.
A London dispatch says: General
Nelson A. Miles was the guest of the
king and nueen at dinner at Windsor
ctCiinrlotf -nlcrlit TV?o^
vuoviv ?JUUUI*J uigut. A UV/ pi 1UVC auu
princess of Wales and others were
among the party. King Edward is enjoying
the best of health.
SHIP TRUST LAUNCHED.
Great International Mercantile Marine
Company Elects Officers.
At New York Friday the complete
organization of the International Mercantile
Marine Company was announced.
The officers of the incorporation
are: President, Clement A.
GriScom; vice president in Great Britain,
Sir Clinton E. Dawkins; vice president
in America, Philip A. S. Franklin;
treasurer, James S. Cwartz sec
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retary, Emerson E. Parvin; comptroller,
Monroe G. Tilley; general
counsel, Francis Lynde Stetson.
BIG LAND SALE IN FLORIDA,
Savannah and Jacksonville Men Purchase
Half Million Acre6.
The lands granted to the Jacksonville
Tamna and Kev West railroad.
507,984 acres, were sold at Green Cove
Springs, Fla., Monday for 32 1-2 cents
per acre. Lawrence McNeil, of Savannah,
and W. F. Coachman, first
vice president of the Consolidated Naval
Stores Company, of Jacksonville,
were the joint purchasers.
PLEDGER WAS CHAIRMAN.
Colored Assistant Register of Treasury
Corrects Erroneous Statement.
Cyrus Field Adams, assistant register
of the treasury, has written a letter
to The Atlanta Constitution in
which he shows that W. A. Pledger,
of Georgia, and not Adams, presided
at the meeting of the Afro-American
council in Washington the other even
ing, when James Hayes, the Virginia
negro lawyer, delivered himself of a
red-hot speech, which has been greatly
aflticlMd* - ... .
PEA30DY TRUSTEES MEET.
Directors of Big Educational Fund :
Gather at Washington.
The board of trustees of the Pea>- j
body education fund held a special j
meeting in Washington Thursday for ;
the purpose of formulating a plan by I
which the work of the board and that i
of the general education board, which ;
is working along the same lines, shall
not be duplicated. The following members
were present:
Samuel E. Green, Massachusetts
James D. Porter, Tennessee; J. Pierpont
Morgan, New York; Chief Justice
Fuller, ol the supreme court Wilr !
liam A. Courtenay, South Carolina;
H, M. Solerville, Alabama; Charles j
S. Fenner, Louisiana; ex-President D. j
C. Gilman, of Johns Hopkins univer- j
sity George Peabody Wetmore, Rhodo
Island; Senator Hoar, Massachusetts;
ex-Attorney General Richard Olney;
ex-Secretary of the Interior Hoke
Smith, Georgia; Rt. Rev. W. C. Doane,
New York.
The general subject of education in
the south was discussed.
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Tne most important acuuu
was the adoption of the following resolution:
"That in the opinion of the board
of trustoes, the fund in its hands, or
a portion of the income thereof,
should be applied so far as legal and
practicable to the establishment and
maintenance of a teachers' college, to
be called the 'Peabody College for
Teachers,' at such point in the southern
states as may be found advisable
That a committee of five, to be appointed
by the chair, is hereby directed
to confer with any other boards or
persona interested in the subject matter,
and to report a plan for carrying
into effect the purposes and Objects
above stated, and that the committee
be authorized to call to their aid such
specialists as may by them be deemed
necessary."
The following persons were appointed
as the committee:
Dr. Gilman, ex-Secretary of State
Olney, Senator Hoar, J. Pierpont Morgan
and ex-Secretary of the Interior
Hoke Smith.
The board also adopted a resolution
discontinuing the payments for scholarships
that have been given for some
years to a certain number of students
at the Peabody Normal school at Nashville.
The continuance of the piy;
ment was declared "inexpedient." The
discontinuance will not take effect until
October, 1904, so as not to interfere
with existing scholarships.
The Peabody fund capital is now
32,100,0fl&^- day's proceedings
>slt6w~that a final dfstri&Ution of the
Peabody fund is now in contempla-^tion,
although such final winding up of
affairs will require some years for
consummation. No definite plan of
action was formulated, and it will be
in the neighborhood of a year before a
final flnfi sarisfactorv basis can be
agreed upon. The committee appointed
under the resolution regarding cooperation
late in the afternoon conferred
with a committee from the general
education board, consisting of Robert
C. Ogden, of New York; George Foster
Peabody, of New York, and William
H. Baldwin, Jr., of New York. At
this conference the subject of education
in the south was generally discussed'and
methods for avoidance of
duplication of work of the two bodies
were talked over, but no definite line
of .action was formulated. The next
meetiDg of the board will be the annual
session to be held in New "iork
in October. Chief Justice Fuller presided
at the session, and Dr. Samuel
A. Green, of Boston, was secretary.
APPEAL OF SILVER NATIONS.
Mexico and China Ask Co-Operation ?f
United States?Message to Congress.
President Roosevelt Thursday sent
the following message to congress:
"I transmit herewith a report from
the secretary of state with accompanying
notes from the Mexican amoassador
and Chinese charge d'affaires au
interim which seek the co-operation
of the United States in sucn measures
as will tend to restore and maintain a
fixed relationship between the moneys
of the gold standard countries and the
silver-using countries. I recommend
that the executive be given sufficient
power to lend the support of the
United States in such manner and to '
such degree as he may deem expedient
to the purposes of the two governments.
HALL CLOSED TO BOOKER.
Negro Educator Not Wanted at Meeting
to Be Held in Gainesville, Fla.
Recently W. N. Sheats, Florida's
state superintendent of public instruction,
invited Booker Washington to deliver
an address before the joint convention
of county supfrintendents of
education board to meet in Gainesville
on February 4th.
Mr. Sheats is severely censured in
Gainesville, which he claims as his
home town, and County Superintendent
Holloway telegraphed The Gainesville
Sun that Booker Washington will
not be permitted to speak in the auditorium
on the occasion.
MAJOR*GLENN EXONERATED.
Declared Not Guilty of Unlawful Executions
in the Philippines.
A special from Manila says: Major
Edwin G. Glenn, of the Futh Infantry,
who was tried by courtmartial on
the charge of unlawfully killing pris- 1
oners of war, has been acquitted. i
Major Glenn has been ordered to (
return to duty. The verdict was a
popular one.
SOLDIERS WERE BRIBED.
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Morocco Sultan's Victory Gained by ,
Gold as Well as Guns. i
A dispatch from Tangier says: The 1
features of the sultan's victory over the
forces of the pretender, Bu Hamara,
show that the battle was stubbcfc-nly
contested and the former's success
was largely due to the co-opera- 1
tion at a critical moment of the Beni 3
Ourein tribe, whoso defection from the )
rebel# the sultan had previously pur- (
with gold, J
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SUNDRY CIVIL BILL
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Reported in Boose of Representatives
by Cbairman Cannon.
PROVISIONS OF TBE MEASURE 3
Aggregate Appropriations Carried $||
Amount to Over Seventy-Eight
Millions?Some Important Sfe&J
Items Set Forth. . i&jSj
A Washington special says: The
sundry civil appropriation bill reportr ^
ed to the house Monday by Representative
Cannon carries an aggregate
appropriation of $78,007,929, which is
$8,886,432 less than the estimates and
$17,355,870 more than the current appropriation.
Three million dollars is
recommended to relieve distress in
the Philippines. The bill carries
$10,429,412 for construction work on -^"3|
federal buildings authorized by
Following are some or tne appropnar
tions made under this head:
Baltimore, $400,000; Beaumont, Tex^
$75,000; Dallas, Tex., $125,000; Ellis ,im
Island, N. Y., improvements, $380,000; S\
Fort Smith, Ark., $75,000; Memphis,
Tenn., $175,000; Nashville, Tenn., |75,000;
Newport News, Va., $100,000;
New York custom house, $300,000; ai|
Waco, Tex., $75,000; Washington, D. t %
C. (laboratory bureau national standards),.
$150,000.
The sum of $20,233,150 is approprf- |
ated for river and harbor contract
work authorized by congress, being?
$14,466,393 in excess of the current ^
appropriation. Among the items are
the following:
Charleston harbor, $30,000; Kentucky
river, Kentucky, $200,000; Am- ; |
broso channel (New York harbor),
$733,000 j Ohio river, dams 13 and 18, jS
below Pittsburg, $450,000; San Francisco
harbor (removal of Blossom
rock), $50,000; Boston harbor, $150,000;
Baltimore harbor (Spring Garden),
$222,000 Curtis bay channel,
Baltimore harl>or, $146,000; HamptonRoads,
$215,000; Norfolk, Va., harbor,
$83,957; Savannah, Ga., harbor, $720,-/
000; Galveston harbor, $300,000; im- 7
provement channel at Galveston, $200,*
000; Appomattox, Va., river, $175,000; .-Pm
Southwest Pass, Miss., river, $1,000,*
000; Galveston ship canal and Buffalo
bayou, Texas, $500,000; Trinity riv^ap^sg
JCeiaa^lESO.OOO; Ouachita?>rtv r, Ax- :77f
kansas aml-LQiiisi^Sa;^^$650,000; Mte--7
sissippl river from mouth of Ohio riv- |||
er to the mouth of the Missouri, $650,- <^||||
000, and from the mouth of the MIav:4,
souri river to St Paul, $400,000; Tennessee
river (at Colbert and Bee Tree7>|
shoals), $350,000; improving Ohio riv-; 7
er below Pittsburg, continuing construction
of dams 2 to 5, inclusive-, .vJot
$300,000; dam No. 8, $200,000; dock
at dam 11, $200,000; dam 37, $400,060; *J|S
Monongahela river, $455,960 ; Big
Sandy river, West Virginia and Ken-'
tucky, $50,000.
Under Mississippi commission^ ;
From head of passes to the mouth of - ::.7a
the Ohio river, $2,000,000.
The excess of the proposed aptffo^J^jgsS
priation over the current year is
plained by the committee's report to
be due to the increase of $14,464,393
for river and harbor work and the
$3,uuu,uuu anowed lor the reiier ol r i
distress in the Philippines. Among M
the principal items dn the hill are the
following: ?...>?
Engraving and printing, $2,7S$,08&; "
geological survey, $1,026,570; home for |9
disabled volunteer soldiers, ?4J69,808,
an increase of over $1,000,000 over the
current appropriation; life saving service,
$1,837,110; light house establish- '{im
ment, $3,824,000; enlargement of mill- ;|B
tary posts, $2,765,500; revenue cutter
service, $1,450,000; expenses United
States courts, $5,933,280. An increase
of $300,000 is made in the item for the ; r|
enforcement of the Chinese exclusion
act. The sum of $100,000 is approprl- ^3
ated for the demarcation of the United
States and Canada boundary line. .
The bill appropriates $80,500 for ex- -.V|
penses of the executive mansion, aa jSH
against $40,500 appropriated for the rijjg
cunciii jear, ttuu lOr llgDUIlg -.'ft*
the grounds and mansion, the current 31
appropriation being $7,500.
TO HONOR JEFFERSON.
First Subscription to Memorial Received
by Admiral Dewey.
A Washington dispatch says: In response
to the appeal made for subscriptions
to the proposed memorial
to Thomas Jefferson as the author of qg
the Declaration of Independence, Admiral
Dewey, Monday, received the ^
first subscription to the project It
oame from the Colorado Daughters of
the Revolution.
Roberts Director of Mint
The senate Monday confirmed the
nomination of George E. Roberts, of
Iowa, to be director of the mint
COLOMBIANS ARE HAPPY.' vj
Are Jubilating Over Signing of
Panama Canaf Treaty.
At Colon, Colombia, Friday, the news
received that the canal treaty between 4
rho TTnitert States and Colombia had
been signed caused much Jubilation 3
throughout the isthmus, and hopes are
expressed that the United States will djsj
3oon begin work on the canal.
Latimer Giver? McLaurin's Toga. ..'"Is
Congressman A. C. Latimer recev- JS
ed the unanimous vote of both branch- . es
of the South Carolina general as- '%
sembly Tuesday for United States *
;enator to succeed the Hon. John L.* .J
McLaurin.
To Mark Graves of Confederates.
The house committee on military*
affairs Tuesday offered a favorable
eport upon the Foraker bill to appropriate
$200,000 to mark the graves
>f confederate -soldiers and sailora
rfee died in northern prUons.
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