r TURMOIL IITCUBA Palma May Yet Have to Appeal to United States. REBELLION IS SPREADING Insurgents Capture Another Town and ,Control Two Important Points. Bandera, Their Black Leader, is Killed. A special from Havana, Cuba, says: Two bloody battles were fought on Thursday between insurgents and rural guards. In one General Quentin Bandera, the negro leader, was killed, and the other resulted in the capture of San Juan de Martinez by the rebel forces. The revolutionists are now occupying two important cities on the Island. A force of rural guards and volunteers has left Cienfuegos, province of Santa Clara, to engage 300 insurgents, who left Las Lajas under the command of Colonel Guseman, mayor of that town. May Appeal io United States. Lively interest in the outcome of * the political disturbance in Cuba is evinced in New York city, which has not only harbored frofn time to time many of her prominent men, but is bound to the island republic by everstrengthening commercial ties. Advices to local business houses from Havana insist that the revolt has not yet assumed alarming proportions, but tend to qualify the official assurances that the government has the situation thoroughly in hand. It is believed that the next few days will demonstrate wither the present uprisings may be dignified by the term "rebellion" or to be classed with the sporadic outlawry with which the government has already successfully coped. The active loya'ty of many Cubans of influence * * * *-i. m. Is admittedly in cloudl. 10 wuat extent; if any, the sentiment for annexation to the United States figures in the unrest and what stand the Americans in the Isle of Pines will take has awakened considerable speculation. ' Unsuccessful efforts to quiet the disturbances are told of in a dispatch dated Wednesday and received Thursday morning. The dispatch says that eighty veterans of the revolution met Tuesday and in a resolution pledged -themselves to use their personal influence to bring the strike to a bloodless 1 termination. i John S. Fiske of the firm of J. M. 'Cebalios Co.. Cuban-American bankers, said that the cable dispatches ! received by his firm from Havana indicate that there was no need for alarm at present. He added: "If President Palma finds that his government is unable to cope with the situation he will call upon the United States for aid. That woula mean pacification and then annexa *s , ? x ttoii. In any. country governed by white men it is a natural consequence that the negroes will be to a certain -extent kept in the background. That is what happened in Cuba and is the cause of the insurrection." Colonel Carlos M. Aguirre, a veteran of the last revolution in Cuba, who apparently is the leading spirit among the Cuban-Americans in New York, who are opposed to the Palma regime, has drafted a letter addressed to President Roosevelt, after he has obtained the signatures of several Americans who hold property in the Island, asking the United -States to in, j terveae. This letter calls attention to the many wrtmgs alleged to have been suffered by the liberals at the bands of the government, which he } declares are responsible for the pres; ent uprising. It calls on President 4 Roosevelt to appoint by the authority of the terms of the Piatt amendment, VI commission to preside at a new elec} tion for president in Cuba. * ? _____ SHAW DENIES A REPORT. . I u? ~ - .. =.... i t ^w. vj iao nv iiiiciiiiuri or Duying United States 4s. s When asked about the ruraor that - he was about to purchase government \ bonds, the 4s of 1907, Secretary Shaw *, asserted: "XW.cfently somebody is trying to deceive the thoughtless. Every man with financial sens^, recognizes that occasion for relief does not exist. It seems strange that rumors shcfhld be so persistent that I am going to do a thing, the doing of which at this time would be universally recognized as uncalled for." NEGRO SOLDIERS REMOVED Battalion is Finally Sent Away From Fort Brown, Texas. A dispatch was received at the war department Saturday from Major Penrose, commanding the battalion of ne gro troops at Fort Brown, Texas, announcing that his command left Brownsville for Fort Reno Saturday morning. Major Penrose makes no mention of a number of troopers said to have been arrested. * ... FEAR MOVES NICHOLAS. I Czar Issues Hurried Ukase Dealing Out 4,500,000 Acres of Government Lands to Peasants of Empire. A St. Petersburg special says: The distribution of crown apanages, the first part of the administration agrarian program, by which it is hoped to win the peasantry to the support of the government at the coming elections, was put in effect Monday, when an ukase was published transferrin? the 4,500,000 acres of apanage lands to the Peasant's bank for distriDntion. The urgency of the situation is such that me UKase, wmcn was sigueu the day of the attempt on the life of Premier Stolypin, was gazetted without waiting for final decision as to the method and terms of payment. The principal question whether the latter shall be 33 or 60 years, has not yet been decided. The announcement on this point and of the transfer of ten millions acres ?f crow* lands will be made later. The lands chosen for this first distribution include: 1. Lands under cultivation which are noc contiguous to forest tracts, and where leases have expired. 2. Forests adjoining or surrounded by peasant holdings. 3. Wood lands suitable in the government of Archangel and Vologda. RUSSIAN PRESS INDIFFERENT. Blcody Work of Reds Meets No Condemnation by Newspapers. A St. Petersburg special says: The ooen campaign against the government which the socialists inaugurated with the attempt on the life of Premier Stolypin Saturiav and the assassination of General Min Sunday, has produced such feeling of resentment at Peterhof that the specter of a dictatorship has been revived. The government, it is claimed, can only rely on force to fight the terrorists, as the public press, which might be expected tc- manifest a revulsion of feeling against the crime which sacrificed rhe lives of a score of innocent persons, in the attempt to murder a man who personally had not given cause for offense, remains coldly indifferent. Indeed, while expressing formal words of condemnation, the hidden satisfaction of the fact that the object of the campaign is to strike terror into the heart of the government is hardly concealed. Only the Novoe Vremya and the official Rossla denounce the terrorists as enemies of society. The conclusions of the liberal press are summed up in the charge made by the Rech, that the government alone, is guilty and responsible for what has happened. RAILROADS CAUGHT NAPPING. * None of Them Able to Comply in Full With New Rate Law. A New York special says: The new railroad rate law, which applies to all railroads doing an interstate commerce business, went into effect at midnight Monday night. It will be enforced by the interestate commerce commission. According to the new law the roads were to have filed with the commission by midnight all their'tariffs and charges, showing not only the 1 full cost of transportation from point to noint. but also what items go to the making up of this cost. r/4 It is stated that in fact not a single company had been able to fully comply with the provisions of the law re' quiring them to have all their schedules on file by midnight. The schedule of switching charges was the most difficult of completion. * Under the law every company, which failed to complete its schedules might be fined, but it is understood that the interstate commerce commission will give sufficient additional time in every case when a road has given evidence of sincere intent to comply with the law. Under the new law the country begins upon a new era so far as passes and free transportation is concerned and the death knell of special privileges is sounded. , 1 TEXAS COTTON DETERIORATES. Crop is Further Threatened by Excessive Rains and Worms. The Galveston-Dallas News publishes reports from 503 correspondents in r>rkfrnn nr/v^nrinc* riistriotc nf Tfwn? 1" 0 --?. ? > Oklahoma and Indian Terirtory, written on August 24. They show that the crop has deteriorated, and is further threatened by reason of excessive j rains; intermittent showers and depredations ef boll weevils and boil worms in a very large proportion of the territory covered. OLD HULKS ARE SOLD. Dismantled Spanish Ships Captured by Dewey Bring $103. Three Spanish ships, captured by Admiral De^vey in Manila bay, in May, 18^8, were 'sold by the navy department at Washington, Monday, for $103. The ships were advertised at several Asiatic ports, the cost of advertising being $28. The ships are the Albay, Manileno and Mindanao. They have been stripped of everything moveable and are simply old hulks. f EFORM SPELLING A La Carnegie System is Adopted by President. NOTIFIES PUBLIC PRINTER New System of Orthography Will Be Used Hereafter in Documents, Messages and Letters Emanating from White House. A special from Oyster Bay, N. Y., says: President Roosevelt has endorsed the Carnegie spelling reform movement. He issued orders Friday to Public Printer Stillings that hereafter all messages from the president and all other documents emanating from the white house should be printed in accordance with the recommendation of the spelling reform committee headed by Brander Matthews, professor of English at Columbia Uni-* versity. This committee has published a list of 300 words in which the spelling is reformed. This list com tains -such words as "thrue" and "tho" as the spelling of "through" and "though." The president's official sanction of this reform movement is regarded as the most effective and aru?priip?5t method of inaugurating the I new system of spelling throughout the country. Not only will the printed documents emanating from the president utilize the reform spelling, but his correspondence also will be spelled in the new style. Secretary Loeb has sent for the list of 300 words which have been reformed and on its arrival will immediattely order all correspondence of the president and of the executive force of the white house spelled in accordance therewith. As the spelling reform committee shall adopt new reforms, they will be added to the president's list and also to that of the public printer. , While the order to the public printer does not contemplate an immediate reform in the spelling of official documents from the executive departments in Washington, it is regarded that more than likely the respective heads of the departments will fall in line with the president's ideas and have their official documents printed in the new spelling .WOULD OUST POLITICIANS. Small-Sized Row Over Bryan Recepception is Incubating. A New York special says: Harry W. Walker, who has had an active part in arranging the reception to be given to William Jennings Bryan by the Commercial Travelers' Anti-Trust ' ? A X. _ U.iA | League on August; su, gave out a statement Friday to the effect that politicians headed by Alexander Troup, of Connecticut, and Norman E. Mack, of Buffalo, are trying to control the movement, and that the league will control the arrangements for the reception even if it has to tell the politicians to retire. "Mr. Bryan accepted the invitation from the Commercial Travelers' AntiTrust League," said Mr. Walker, "and we think that he will appear there as stated." Mr. Mack, who is the democratic national committeeman from New York state, said, in reply to the statement that there was a popular impres sion that the Bryan reception would be a political affair, and that Mr. Bryan regarded it that way. "Why shouldn't politicians take part in it?" he said. Mir. Mack said he is not making trouble in the committee and that there is no talk of Hearst in the arrangements. DEPOSITORS IN MAD RUSH. Great Scramble to Get First Money Paid by Wrecked Bank. Sixty policemen were overwhelmed in Chicago Friday by a mad rush of men and women who were determined to get the first money paid out by the ruined Milwaukee Avenue bank. Receiver eFtzer had made arrangements to pay 20 per cent to 5,000 of the 22,000 depositors and everybody was anxious to be among the 5.000. YOUNG GIRL TAKES FLYER. Stole $140 and Started Out to Have a Great Time. Lucy Hill, 11-year-old daughter of Frank Hill, of Kokomo, Ind., took $140 from a, dresser, bought some new clothes, jewelry and a railway ticket j to Dallas. Texas. She started south alone. Her parents thought she had been stolen, but she was soon heard j I from in Oklahoma. "Oh, I just went | out to have the time of mylife," was i her explanation. PITCHED BATTLE FOUGHT Between Posse and Gang of Negro Workmen at Railway Camp. A pitched battle occurred Saturday at a railway camp at Crab Orchard, Va, near the Kentucky state line, between an officer's posse and a gang of negro workmen led by John Powers, a white man, in which Powers and Charles Smith, white, were killed, and William Barker, a member of the posse; an unknown white woman and three unknown negroes I were wounded. V- ^ ** 1 . + / H : * " - \ ^ 'REVISED ELECTION NEWS Hoke Smith Carried 118 Counties in Georgia State Primary; Russell Carried 11, Howell 9, Estill 4 and Jim Smith 3. Practically complete primary returns from all counties in Georgia show that Hoke Smith has carried 118 counties for governor, Judge R. B. Russell 11, Clark Howell 9, J. H. Estill 4 and James M. Smith 3. This will give each in the state convention, which meets in Macon on September 4, the following vote, insuring the nomination of Hoke Smith on the first ballot by an overwhelming vote: Hoke Smith 304, Russell 26, Howell 18, Estill 32, J. M. Smith 6. | There are necessary to a choice on the first ballot 184 votes, the total number being 366. Mr. Smith, therefore. has 120 votes more than enough to give him the nomination. XlUKtl OLU1LLL Wail ICO (.lie iviiuniuo 1 counties: Appling, Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Bartow, Berrien, Bibb, Brooks, Burke, Butts, Calhoun, Campbell, Carroll, Ca-1 toosa, Chattahoochee, Chattooga, Cherokee, Clay, Clayton, Clinch, Cobb, Coffee, Colquitt, Columbia, Coweta, Crawford, Crisp, Decatur, DeKalb, Dodge, Dooly, Douglas, Early, Elbert, Emanuel, Fayette, Floyd, Forsyth, Franklin, Fulton, Glascock, Glynn, Gordon, Grady, Greene, Gwinnette, Habersham, Hall, Hancock, Haralson, Harris, Hart, Henry, Houston, Irwin, Jackson, Jasper, Jeff Davis, Jefferson, Jenkins, Johnson, Jones, Laurens, Lee, Liberty, Lincoln, Lowndes, Macon, Marion, Mcintosh, Meriwether, 'Miller, Milton, Mitchell, Monroe, Morgan, Murray, Muscogee, Newton, Oconee, Paulding, Pierce, Pike, Polk, Pulaski, Putnam, Randolph, Richmond, 'Rockdale, Schley, Screven, Spalding, Stewart, Sumter, Talbot, Taliaferro, Tattnall, Taylor, Telfair, Terrell, Thomas, Tift, Toombs, Towns, Troup, Union, Upson, walker, i Ware, Warren, Washington, Wayne, I Webster, Whitfield, Wilcox, Wilkes, Wilkinson and Worth. Judge R, B. Russell carried the following counties: Bulloch, Charlton, Clarke, Dade, Heard, Lumpkin, Montgomery, Stephens, Turner,. Walton and White. Clark Howell carried: Dawson, Dougherty, Echols, Fannin, Gilmer, Pickens, Rabun, Twiggs and Quitman. Colonel J. H. Estill carired: Bryan, Camden, Chatham and Effingham. James M. Smith carried: Madison, McDuffle and Oglethorpe. THREE YOUNG WOMEN DROWNED Went Bathing in Small Branch and | Fell-Into Deep Pool. Three young women were drowned! Saturday afternoon while bathing in a small branch in the northern suburbs of Griffin, Ga. They were: Mrs. A. R. Spangler, a bride of a few months, aged 15 years; Miss Beulah Hancock, aged 16, and Miss Pearl .Ramsey, of Co. mbus, Ga., aged 18. The only eye-witness to the affair was a 4-year-old sister of Miss Hancock, and the little tot is so badly frightened that she can give only very meager particulars. About 2 o'clocfk in the afternoon Mrs Spangler called at the Hancock home and asked Miss Hancock and her guest, Miss Ramsey, to accompany her to the branch, only a few hundred yards distant, to get some white clay. Reaching the branch they found in a secluded spot a pool about twelve feet wide and twenty feet long and decided 'to take a bath. They disrobed and a negro woman, working in a field near by, saw one of them jnmp from the bank into the water several feet below and a few moments later the- other two followed. Attracted by screams, the negro woman ran to the rescue, but when she * ? ?f ?"? J WfA A Vvnf A 1 ttinvcu uutuius wao occu uui cue placid surface of the pool. The bodies were later found all together, and medical aid was too late. Locked in each others arms they had gone down and all weie beyond human aid. FAIRBANKS ON RACE ISSUE. I Vice President Says Negro Problem Rests With Negroes Themselves. Vice President Fairbanks and Booker T. Washington, Saturday addressed the Ohio State Negro Industrial and Educational exposition at Grove City, a suburb of Columbia, O. Regarding the race question, Vice President Fairbanks said: "The settlement of the race question, or race problem, rests with the negroes themselves. I believe these negroes, who make up 10 per cent of our population have improved won- derfully, and they are taking advantage of opportunities at their disposal." WORK OF TRAIN WRECKERS. Crn??ti?e D!An Tm?I/ Oh* i w ???? ?? iuwvm vii i avr\j wub r ?ncvi to Derail Engine. An attempt was made Friday night to cause a wreck on the Central railway between the sixty-ninth and seventieth mile posts, near Scarboro, | Ga. A crosstie was' placed on the track by parties unknown. A freight train from Savannah, bound for Macon, struck the obstacle. Fortunately, the train was not running at a high rate of speed, so It did not leave the track. * i i THIRTY-FIVE SLAIN By Bomb Thrown at Russian Premier Stolypin. BUILDING IS SHATTERED Assassins Gained Entrance to Residence Through Intrigue?Bodies of Victims Literally Torn to Pieces. i A St. Petersburg special says: thirty-five persons were killed and twenty-four wounded as a result of an attempt Saturday afternoon to assassinate Premier Stolypin with a bomb while he was holding a public reception at hi-: country home at Aptekarsky island. The premier was slightly wounded in the face and neck by flying splinters. Among the dead is General Zameatin, the premier's personal secretary; M. Khovostof, former governor of.tke province of Penza; Colonel Fedoroff, commander of the premier's personaf guard; Court Chamberlain Davidoff, Court Chamberlain Veronin and Aide Doubassoff and four women and children. The wounded include M. Stolypin's 15-year-old daughter and his threeyear-old son, and a number of persons prominent in the social and official worlds. Of the four conspirators who en gineered the outrage, two were Kmea with their victims, while the third, who acted as coachman for the party, and the fourth, who remained inside the carriage, Were badly wounded, and are now in the St. Peter and St. Paul fortress. Whether the assassins who entered the crowded reception hall threw the bomb or accidentally dropped it, probably never will be known, as all the immediate eye witnesses were killed. The tremendous force of the explosion absolutely blew out the front of the premier's residence and carried away the ceilings above and the floors beneath, and the walls of the adjoining rooms. People were literally blown to pieces. Those who were not instantly killed were horribly maimed orlacerated, and c.11 the others present were prostrated by the shock * Two more persons injured by the explosion died during the night, bringing the. total number of deaths up to thirty-five. Twenty-six persons were instantly killed. It appears that the assassins were well supplied with, funds. They paid $125 in advance for the rooms they engaged. Before leaving these apartments they disguised themselves and made the house porter drunk Young Girl an Assassin. Saturday's unsuccessful attempt on the life of Premier Stolypin, with its sickening, useless slaughter of thirtytwo persons, was followed Sunday night by another revolutionary outrage in which General Min, commander of the Seminovsky Guard regiment, was killed on the station platform at Peterhof by a young woman, who fired five shots into his body from an automatic revolver, and then, without resistance, submitted to arrest. PALM A TO OFFER AMNESTY. Cuban President Anxious to Effect Peace Without Bloodshed. The anxiety of President Palma of Cuba to extend every possible opportunity for peace without bloodshed and his desire to permit those who joined the insurrection under misguidance to repent, has led to Consideration Tiv tho nrosMont and his rahf net of a project decreeing a thirtyday amnesty period, during which the Insurrectionists are invited to lay down their arms and return to their peaceful pursuits. Asks Aid For Earthquake Victims. President Roosevelt has issued ' a proclamation appealing for aid for earthquake-stricken Chile. The proclamation was issued after, a consultation with Acting Secretary of State Bacon at Sagamore Hill. "23" FOR FINING SYSTEM. Postoffice Department to Employ New Means of Enforcing Discipline. Fining employes as a means of enforcing discipline in the postal service, a system that has been in operation for many years, is to be abolished. First Assistant Postmaster General Hitchcock, who has jurisdiction, has reached the conclusion that it is detrimental rather than helpful. He proposes to establish in its place a uniform system of efficiency records, which will be put into operation as soon as perfected. REWARD OUT FOR RAPIST. Governor of Georgia Will Pay $250for Negro Assailant of White Women. For the apprehension of the unknown negro, who made a brutal assault upon Miss EtheT~~Lawren ||3 Palindrome. The oldest of these riddles (which sjj read the same backward as forward) is: "Madam, I'm Adam," which is addressed to our first mother. The 'M best is a California palindrome. It was accidentally discovered by seeing : |j the verso of a canvas bakery sign in Yreka, Cal. It read: YREKA BAKERY. ' Jj The coach which the lord mayor \|| of London riles on state occasion* has been in use since the year 1737.