The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, March 02, 1905, Image 3
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I Bussia Not Altogether Justi- j
fied in North Fei Affair.
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THE OFFICIAL DECISION I
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Ftrffc, on British Fishing Boats by Roj- j
eatvensky's Fleet Was Without' !
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Just Cause, So the Interna .
tional Commissioners Say.
decision of the international
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commission of inquiry into the North
i * Seat incident was publicly announced
?? the closing session of the commission
at Paris Saturday.
The decision lengthily sets forth the
circumstances and incidents and gives
the opinion of the admirals on the various
important points involved. The
decision says the delay of the Russian J
transport Kfunsehatka, following the
breakdown of her machinery, was per
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. haps the cause of the incident. Tne
commander of the Kamschatka dgaaStfd
to Admiral Rojestvensky and
reported that he was attacked by torpedo
boats. The a&miraJ, therefore,
had reason to believe he was attacked,
and -gave orders for strict vigilance
against the possible approach of tor
pedo boats.
The majority of the commission
outsiders, that Admiral Rojestvensky's
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-, orders were not excessive in lieu of
war, particularly under the circumstances,
and that he had every reason
jto consider the situation very
alarming.
The commission, the decision says.
, recognizes unanimously that the fishing
fleet committed no hostile act and
die majority of the commissioners bef
* tng of the opinion that there were not,
> neither among the fishing boats, nor in
their vicinity, any torpedo boats, the
opening of fire by Admiral Rojestp
vensky was not justified.
The decision further says that the
Rsslmn commissioner did not share in
the latter opinion.
"hi any event," the decision con?
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ttnues," the commissioners are glad
to recognize unanimously that Admiral
Enjeetvensky personally did all he
could from the commencement to the
^ end to prevent the trawlers from being
the object of the fire by the Russian
squadron."
Concerning the squadron's proceedbig
without assisting the damaged
trawlers, the decision says:
"The commissioners are unanimous
tho circumstances nreced
tag and following the Incident, that
there was such uncertainty concern.
ing the danger to the squadron as to
warrant Admiral Rojestvensky in continning
his route.
"However, the majority regrets that
the admiral did not inform the neighboring
maritime powers of what had
ccnrred."
"The commissioners declare that
-- their views as formulated are not
of a nature to cast any disrespect on
the military valor nor upon the sentiments
of humanity of Admiral RoJestvensky
end the personnel of his
v sqnedron."
SHOT FOR A FOOTPAD.
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Atlanta Citizen Mistaken for Highwayman
and Instantly Killed.
Thinking he was being held up by
a footpad, Thomas G. Foote drew a
pistol Sunday night at the mouth of
en alley on South McDaniel street iu
Atlanta and shot Peter F. Ryan dead
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In:-his tracks.
* Not "knowing whether he had killed
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<08 man or not, Foote continued on |
bis way to get assistance. Ryan was
a wen known business man, being secretary
of tho Atlanta Wire and Iron
Wbrks Company. .
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RETURN PEONAGE INDICTMENTS.
United States Grand Jury at Montgom.
ery After Law Breakers.
f Tb? gfand jury in the United States
court for the middle district of Alabama
In session at Montgomery,
Thursday, reported a number of true
5111a charging peonage and whitecappmg.
S. D. Miay, sheriff of Crenshaw
.-rnmty. who recently disappeared, was
indicted for peonage. The jury in
vestigated one lynching case, but fail*
ad to return on indictment.
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TO WIDEN COTTON MARKET.
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Senators Clay and Foster Wiil Ask for
Half a Million.
A Washington dispatch says: Senators
Clay and Foster have decided to
ask for $500,000 for the purpose of
poshing the inquiries into the possibilities
of wider foreign markets for
cotton and corton- products, and will
present this in the shape of an amendment
to the sundry civil bill.
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HOT SPRINGS FIRE-SWEPT j
Forty Blocks Go Up in Smoke. Caus- j
tag Loss Aggregating Two Million j
wonurs; v.-wy i hree Fatalu.es.
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Fire swept the southern portion of j
Hot Springs. Arkansas, early Saturday j
morning, doing imfhense damage and
causing the known death of three persons.
The Josses are variously eati- j
mated at. one million to tsvx> million j
dollars. Forty blocks were burned.
Three charred corpses were found |
among the ruins, and, as several persons
are reported missing, the death
list may be increased.
The fire, which started at 2:39
o'clock a. m., was the worst the state
has ever experienced, and in five hours
had burned over an area of one square
mile, Block after block of residences,
business houses, hotels and other
buildings were swept away and the
entire town wap panic-stricken, although
the fire was confined to the
southern part of the city. Street car
wires and telegraph and telephone
poles were destroyed and these services
were temporarily demoralized.
The flreswept area includes every
house on Chapel street, all of Market
street, from Central avenue west;
Grange street to Grand avenue, and
a portion of Oak street.
Among the buildings destroyed are
the Grand Central hotel, the Lee house,
Moody hotel. Plateau hotel, Columbia
hotel, the county court house, jail,
First Mothodis: church, the - Jewish
church and residences and stores to
a large number, conservatively estimated
at from 200 to 250.
The fire started in the Grand Central
hotel and its origin is a mystery.
A strong north wind was blowing,
and before the fire department could
reach the scene the flames spread rapIdly
to adjoining buildings. A general
alarm was sounded and every engine
in the city responded.
BLAZE IN NEW ORLEANS.
Sweeps Away Big Grain F.levators Filled
With Wheat?Twenty Thousand
Bales of Cotton Also Destroyed.
>Fire involving millions of dollars
loss in physical property, and that
strikes a serious, if temporary, blow
at the immense export trade of New
Orleans, swept the river front Sunday
night and wiped out the vast freight |
terminals of the Illinois Central, known
as the Stuyvesant docks.
'Nearly a dozen squares of modern
wharves and freight sheds, two magnificent
grain elevators, hundreds of
loaded cars and vast quantities of
freight, including 20,000 bales of cotton,
were destroyed, together with a
large number of small residences.
The ocean going shipping seems to
have escaped serious damage. A
number of firemen and employes of
thed ocks were injured. Actual estimates
of the losses are impossible as
yet, though they may exceed $5,000,000.
The Stuyvesant docks extend from
Louisiana avenue almost to Napoleon
avenue, a distance of 12 squares. The
wharves between these two points
were covered with miles of trackage
and steel and iron sheds ran the whole
distance.
The two grain elevators were of the
most modern construction, the upper
one having a capacity of a million
bushels.
Thousands of bales of cotton, several
hundred thousand packages of
sugar, great quantities of cotton seed
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UU iUlQ UU V>MO, luuiuu auu v<v?^
conceivable variety of freight filled the
warehouses and sheds.
Practically all the export business
handled by the Illinois Central was
put aboard ships at these docks. The
docks and improvements have been under
construction for ten years past,
elaborate extensions and immense investments
having been made after the
constitutional convention of 1898 made
it possible for the road to invest per*
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manently at this point.
The fire was discovered shortly after
7 o'clock. It was said to have resulted
from a Journal that had not been
sufficiently oiled. The whole plant
was equipped with gigantic water tanks
and fire extinguishing apparatus, but
the blaze, small at the beginning, almost
instantaneously got beyond control,
communicating through the conveyers
to the lower elevator and some
of the sheds.
NO LAGGING IN ALABAMA.
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mvvomcni V? nuiu uwiiun ?na ncuutc ;
Acreage Starts With a Vim.
W. H. Seymour, who was elected
president of the Alabama Cotton Association.
will begin at once the work
of Interesting the farmers all over the
state in the movement to hold cotton
already made, reduce the acreage and
reduce the amount of fertilizer. Every
part of ther state will he reached.
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HAD RICHf TO FIR [
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North Sea Commission is
Favorabie to Russia.
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BUNGLING JUSTIFIABLE
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Fatal Firing on British Fishing Ves- (
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sels Warranted ? Semi-OfFiclal
Statement Issued at Paris, (
Anent the Findings. *
A Paris special says: A semi-official
announcement appeared Wednesday 1
relative ro the work of the interna- !
tional commission, which has been
considering th? North Sea incident. It 1
Is as follows: '
"The Hull commission met this
morning in the ministry of foreign
affairs, and again this afternoon, in '
order to proceed to a final examination
of the report recapitulating its
conclusions. The report is rather long '
and comprises about ten large pages. ]
The principal author is Admiral Von
Spaur, Austrian, but all the members .
of the commission collaborated in
drawing it up. The commission gives |
no opinion on the question of the presence
or absence of Japanese torpedo
boats in the North Sea, declaring .
merely that the Russian admiral legitimately
believed that his squadron
was endangered, and that he had the ,
fight under the circumstances to act ,
as he did. The commissioners refer
to the Russian government's engage
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in ems lu mucmiuij tuc vaumg v* i
deplorable incident.
The report will be sent by special '
messengers to the Russian and British
government, not because it is subJect
to modifications at the instance of
one or the other of the governments, 1
the commission's decision being without
appeal, but the commissioners do
not wish the powers interested to 1
learn through the press of the last '
public sittings and the conclusions J
reached. There is nothing in this pre- ,
llminary communication or report except
an act of deference."
The public sitting for the reading
of the conclusions will probably be
held on Saturday. The proceedings
probably will be closed by a Bpeech
of thanks by Admiral Fournier, pres- ,
Ident of the Commission, to his colleagues.
Members of the commission who .
were seen Wednesday refused either
to confirm or deny the foregoing
statement, but officials having favorable
opportunities to judge of the results
of the inquiry regard the statement
as substantially correct.
A .London special says: A strong
chord of Indignation is sounded by
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the London daily newspapers Thursday
morning over the semi-official
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statement reuuve cu cue uocmuu ui <
the North Sea commission giving to
Russia the victory, but it is still hoped
that the publication of the full text
of the commission's report may modify
the impression produced by the
preliminary version, which is one of ,
intense disappointment.
The Daily Mlail goes so far as to (
declare that the decision has dealt J
a death blow to arbitration. Some of '
the newspapers blame the government ,
strongly for ever consenting to subJect
such a matter to arbitration,while
some of the government organs find
?old comfort in the fact that the
country by doing so avoided war with .
Russia.
No question is raised that the decision
must be respected, and Great
Britain's share of the heavy costs will 1
be ruefully paid; but it Is held that
the decision leaves the question of a neutral's
right on the sea in a deplor- 1
ably unsatisfactory condition and creates
a dangerous precedent
SENTENCE 13 FORTY YEARS.
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Manila Court Goes Hard With Major
Carrlngton for Embezzlement
Mhjor General Corbin, commanding
the Philippine division, cabled the
war department Wednesday a con
flrmation or the press report 01 tne
conviction of Major Carrington at (
Manila for embezzlement, and stating :
that the sentence was for forty years.
General -Corbie stated:
"Major Carrington, convicted by the 1
court of first instance of all counts !
against him. Sentenced to forty years 1
in the Bilidad prison. Appealed to
supreme court"
IS NOT SEEKING PEACE.
Japan Indifferent as to Whether War
C.ontlnes or Otherwise.
Japan, through her minister at
Washington, Mr. Kogoro Takahira, has
categorically and absolutely denied all
rumors and reports that she was suing
for peace, or that any act of the mikado's
representative here can be possibly
so construed.
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UNIVERSITY IS LIBERAL. !
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Confers College Degrees Upon Roose- ;
velt, British Ambassador, German j
Kaiser and a Few Citizens.
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Commemmoration of W a-shington s ;
birthday by the University of Pcnnsyi- !
vanla at Philadelphia was? made nota- ;
ki- v.? >?? fo/%* that rpnrpsent.atlrGS of :
IMU UJ IUC AAVk .
three world powers participated In the !
exercises.
The United States reported by the j
chief executive of the nation, Thew- I
iore Roosevelt; Germany, represented j
by Baron Speck ron Sternburg, am- j
bassador to this country, who acted j
as the personal representative of. the !
emperor, and Sir Mortimer Durand, the i
British ambassador.
The occasion was marked by one of 1
the most enthusiastic demonstrations
ever witnessed in the Academy of
Music, where the exercises were held, j
President Roosevelt was the orator
of the day, his theme being "Some '
Maxims of Washington."
The degree of doctor of laws was j
conferred upon the president, the Ger- !
ru?ui emperor, the British ambassador, i
Rear Admiral Charles E. L. Clark. |
U. S. N., United States Senator Uhilander
C. Knox and David T. Watson,
a distinguished lawyer of Pittsburg. 1
Thomas Bailey Aldrich. the poet and j
author, received the degree of doctor {
of letters, and upon 'Robert Simpson
Woodward, president of Carnegie institute,
was conferred the degree of
doctor of science. Barcm von Sternburg
received the degree for Emperor
William. v.
When the president appeared on the
Btage, the hand played "Hall to the ,
Chief," and the entire assemblage j
arose and cheered for nearly five min- j
ute. It was a splendid ovation and '
the president smiled his appreciation, j
bowing his acknowledgment at its con- j
elusion. During his address, the pres* |
ident was repeatedly cheered and hla
reference to the navy which he ad- !
dressed directly to Admiral Clark, who
sat on his left, aroused great enthusiasm.
The president was the guest of
the First City Troop at luncheon and
left at 3:25 for Washington.
BUST OF WASHINGTON. j
Presented to Congress by France
Through Ambassador Jusserand.
A Washington dispatch says: Amb
as as dor Jusserand presented to the >
congress Wednesday the replica of j
the original marble bust of George
Washington, which was destroyed by a
Are In the library of congress in 1851.
The ceremonies took place in the
rotunda at the capitol, where the
bust was unveiled, and in the president's
room in the senate wing.where j
speeches were made by the ambassador
on behalf of the French donors,
and by Senator Wetmore of Rhode
Island and Representative Mccieary |
of Minnesota, on behalf of the two
branches of congress.
President Pro Tern Frye of the senate
presided.
The French ambassador placed in a
receptacle of the pedestal documents
containing a history of the bust announcing
that the acceptance by the
United States of the gift from France
sealed eternal friendship between the
nations. 8enator Wetmore read a resolution
adopted by congress accepting
the gift, and the ambassador delivered
a speech of presentation.
NO SENATOR IN 8IGHT. j
Twenty-ninth Ballot in Missouri Legls- ;
lature?One Defection.
There was one more defection from
the forces of Thomas K, Niedringhaus,
the republican caucus nominee in the
Missouri legislature Wednesday, when
the roll "was called for the twentyninth
ballot to 8eclect a successor to
United States Senator Cockrell. The |
ballot resulted as follows: Ooclcrell 73.
Niedringhaus 64, Kerens 12, MeKinley 1
5. Petti John 1, Ossenfort 1.
BODIES BEING RECOVERED.
Remains of Seventy-five Explosion \
Victims Taken from Mine.
A Birmingham dispatch says: At 8
o'clock Wednesday evening seventyfive
bruised, blackened and disfigured
bodies had been recovered from the
Ill-fated Virginia mines, In which the
awful explosion occurred on Monday
afternoon, entombing what Is now confidently
believed to be more than one
hundred and fifty of the best miners
in the Birmingham district
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INSURANCE MAN SUICIDES.
Captain ArnaM, Georgia Manager of
Phoenix Life, Ends Existence.
With his wife's pistol, Captain
Charles Arnall, general manager of the
Phoenix Life Insurance Company, and
one of the best known citizens of Atlanta,
blew his brains out in the bath
room of hLs residence. 17 Baltimore
block, Thursday morning. No cause
In assigned.
OLD LADY IS MUMT
Mrs. Chadwick Refused to i
Ancumr nuoofinne in Pnnrf
nuon&i yuuoiiuno in uuui u j
WAS ACTING ON ADVICE I
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Farcical Bankruptcy Proceedings Held
in Cleveland Consisted Principally !
of Spats Between Opposing *
Attorneys.
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At Cleveland,- Ohio, ACra. Chadwick, j
when placed on the stand in the bank- j
ruptcy proceedings against her, Fri-!
day, before Referee Remington, re- j
fused at first to be sworn. After a
consultation with her attorneys, she
finally consented to take the oath.
She was then asked to state her name.
She refused to reply to this or any
other questions that .followed.
Mrs. Chadwick sought refuge in her
privilege as an accused person, and
she refused to answer most of the
questions on the aground that what
she said might tend to aid the prosecution
of her criminal cases. Referee
Remington found in her favor,\ although
he insisted, against her counsel's
wishes, in making her
qu&si-explanation of her refusal
."My financial affairs are so <!2$sely
allied with the case in the federal
court that anything affecting thai one
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must L'.evesjxaiujr aucvb ,
said Mrs. Chadwick, and the referee
declared that that explanation of her
position was as admirably expressed
as it could be. ?' "
"What they want is to get possession
of your information," stoutly declared
Attorney Dawley, on behalf of
Mrs. Chadwick. "They want to have
a look at your hand. They are trying
to ascertain our defense. Now, if
the government will tip off its hand,
we might arrange a deal."
Dawley frankly told the court that
Mre. Chadwick was only following his
advice in refusing to be sworn. Attorney
Grossman, for "Trustee" Loeser,
Insisted on an examination, however,
and Referee Remingtcn finally decided
that Mrs. Chadwick would hayfe
to be sworn and take the witness
stand at last.
At the Very outset, Mrs. Chadwick
refused to give her name. Another
lorg wra<ngle resulted over this seemingly
unimportant question. It was
In vain that Grossman declared he had
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no designs of trapping the witness
into an incriminating reply. Mrs. Chadwick
simply refused to say that she
was Mrs. Cassle L. Chadwick, and,
smilingly, persisted in that course.
Referee Remington vainly appealed
to her, explaining to her, cajoled her,
and almost threatened her. He went
at length into just what her privilege
was, and Just what amounted, to contempt
of court Mrs. Chadwick was
an interested listener to all he had
to say, but his conversation moved her
not a jot Finally, Remington grew
a little exasperated at her cheerful
indifference.
The entire examination was a series
of wrangles and disputes between opposing
attorneys.
Mrs. Chadwiclr answered a few questions,
but her answers were remarkably
free from information. Finally, the
court and counsel on all sides agreed
that the examination nright just as
well let off abruptly," because there
Vas no hope of securing any information
from the bankrupt. Accordingly,
March 31 was set for the resumption
of the hearing, with the understanding
that Mrs. Chadwick would testify freely
on that date if the criminal cases
against her had been disposed of by
that time.
Mirs. CbaJwick had paid $3 fro?
her own funds for . carriage to convey
her from the county Jail to the
bankruptcy court, a distance of one
block:
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HOUSE HONORS TEXANS.
Statues of Houston and Austin Accept j
ed for Hall of Fame.
The house Saturday divided its time j
between legislation and patriotic exercises.
An hour and a half wae spent In
passing minor bills.
Legislation tben gave way to oratory.
in which many members participated
in honoring the memory of Sam
Houston and Stephen F. Austin, following
which the marble statues of j
each, which have been placed in Stat- j
nary Hall by the state of Texas, were j
formally accepted. . j
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The Oklahoma house committee has f
recommended for passage ' Walker's !
bill, providing for the appropriation j
of $200,000 to erect and maintain a J
territorial oil refinery at Stillwater, j
Representative Clifton Wilder'? bill j
appropriating $125,000 for the estab- j
lishment of a state oil refinery was
favorably reported to the Colorado
house by the finance committee Wed?
nesday.
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US^OF VICTIMS GROWS..,
Ninety-two Bodies Were Taken fitm
Virginia Mines by Heroic Rescuer#;
Up to Thursday Night.
A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch says:
At 8 o'clock Thursday, ninety-two bodies
had been recovered from Virginia
mines, and the rescue work con tin"v?
HOC
The foul odors from the decomposing
bodies have now become so unbearable
that the rescuers work in short
relays, and hundreds, of pounds of
disinfectants have to be' used to make
farther work possible.
Fifty-five funerals were conducted
in the suburbs of B'nainghaTri, chiding
the day, all of which were for victims
of ihe awful disaster.
It is estimated that there are, at
least, twenty-fivf more bodies to; be
taken out, and the rescuers hare to
flniah up the "level" they are now on.
and open one more "level."
There are three bodies in the bottom
of the lowest level, which, it is
expected win require at least ten days
bo reach.,
The bodies are those of ths pamper
and his assistants. They are covered
with water, and since the pompiftg
machinery was ruined by the expk> ^
3ion, it will take'a much longer time '
to get the water out of the mines. . ||j
Governor Cunningham has officially
instructed State Ullne- Inspector Gray O-Jl
and his assistants to make a thoroqga
investigation of the disaster and re- |
port to him at the earliest practiceble
moment
The relief fund for the stricken lamHies
continues to grow. Bessemer
alone has raised over $3,000, and the
total subscriptions so far retarded
amount to more than $15,000.
SENATORS ARE CALLED.
A Special Session of Upper House: to iM
' Convene March Fourth.
President Roosevelt issued a proo- ?J|
lamation Thursday convening the senate
In special session at 12 o'clock,
March 4, to "receive such comTntretaar &sgs|
t'ons as may be made by the ezecative."
The proclamation reads:
"By the President - of the United . . Jj|
States of America?A Proclamation: .$m
Whereas, Publid' interests require that, J|
the senate of the United States be cogs- \f
vened at 12 o'clock $n March 4, next,
to receive such communications as
may be made by the executive; . ja|
"Not, therefore, I, Theodore Rooee- ;i||
velt, president of the United States of
America, do hereby proclaim, and de- . r;s
clare, that an extraordinary occasion - ||
requires the senate of the United '4jS
States to convene at the capitol, in Cv||
the city of Washington, on March 4, |||
next, at 12 noon, of which all persons v
who shall at that time be entitled to . <||
act as members of that body are hereby
required to take notice.
"Given under my hand and the seal- '^8
cf the United States at Washington, "3
on February 23, tie year of our Lord
one thousand nine hundred and flvet 2g|
and of the Independence of the United
States the one hundred and twenty i
ninth. "THEODORE ROOSEVELT."
MILES PUBLISHES LETTER. .
Compiles in Part With Request of Mrs JIS
. Jefferson Davis
General Nelson A. Milec has part:
ly complied with the request of Mfca ^
Jefferson Davie, made that he publish cM
in full any letter or note that he may jS
have from her in which she thanked
him for his treatment of President ,
Jefferson Davis. The letter which he
publishes is as follows: . V "Fort
Monroe. Va., May 23, 1865.? is
Please receive my thanks for , your ' 0
courtesy and kind answers to my questions
of this morning (May 23). 1
cannot quit the harbor withoot beg-.
ging you again to look after my hue ^
band's health for me. Yours very re
spectfully, , r
(Signed) "VARINA DAWIS." */f|
LA I MKW SLA I tU run I UUM.
Friends of Neidringhause Make Move
to Select'Another Candidate.
Gardiner Lathrop of Kansas City |
may be decided upon as a compromise X
candidate for United States senator
to succeed Francis M. Cockrell, ac- ' ' %
cording to political gossip in Kansas
City, Mo. 1 "\|||
This gossip is based upon a conference
bold with Mr. Lathrop by Alox ??
Neidringbause, a brother of Thomas
Neidringbaus, the republican senatorial
caucus nominee, and others.
ALL BATTLE FLAGS GO BACK. * M
Senate Adopts Joint Resolution for
Their Return to States. ;
The senate Thursday unanimously
adopted Lamb's Joint resolution pro- X J
viding for the return of captured confederate
flags and recaptured union
flags to the proper authorities of the >||
states in which the commands were Xp
organized. The full list of confeder- X |
ate flags shows a total of about 440.