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SCHEME DISCLOSED
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Bryan Says He Has Lifted
Lid of Teddy's Policy.
ATTACKS RECENT SPEECH
President is Accused of Hankering After
Centralization of Power and
Proposing National Incorporation
of Railroads, Etc.
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William Jennigs Bryan, in comment>
Ing on President Roosevelt's speech, in
Lincoln, Neb., Saturuday nigh:, said:
"The president has at last disclosed !
his scheme for centralization at which
he has hinted in former speeches. In
his address he .proposes the national
incorporation of railroads and o her
corporations engaged in interstate
commerce.
"Here is the secret. It is cut at
last The states are annoying the corporations
and the corporations demand
federal protection from state legislation.
The president thinks that action
must be pressing as regards those corporations
which, because they are
* common carriers, exercise a quasi
public function.
"The states have been enacting 2cent
laws and laws reducing freight
.rates, and the railroad managers demand
that the/ shall be relieved from
further fear of such legislation. The
president's ideas make him an easy
victim, and he yields to the entreaties
of the railroads.
"If it was the public he sought to
protect he would recommend federal
remedies which would not interfere
with state remedies, but it is the railroads
and not the public that demand
the removal of authority to Washington.
The democrats can be depended
upon to oppose with all their might
i this movement toward centralization.
If any democrat wavers, his constituents
should lock into his business re
lotions and see whether he is under |
obligations to the railroads.
i "A Hamiltonian republican like the
president may honorably think that the
larther the movement is removed from
the people, the better it will be, but a
Jeffersonian democrat does not.
."It is very doubtful whether the republican
congressmen from the west
will dare to support the presidents
proposition, but if an attempt is made
to put such a measuure through con>;
gress the democrats will stand a gcod
chance of retiring every western republican
who votes for It. Let the democrats
present an unbroken front on
mis vitai
TO SUE CENTRAL DIRECTORY.
Bonholders Don't Like the Way They
Have Been Treated.
Saturday morning the third income
& Central railroad bondholders in Sa|
vam>i received telegraphic inquit
s ^ies from Lazard Frerers. a French
firm on Wall street, New York, advising
them that the firm would go into
court. They proposed to contest in a
if legal way the decision of the directors
withholding the dividends on the four
millions, of third income.
This firm called on the Savannah
bondholders to know if they could be
i assured of their co-operation in such
a suit An affirmative answer wa3 sent
y at once.
TO COVER TREASURY SHORTAGE
Grafting Was Done by Pennsylvania
Officials, Says Shumaker.
Jamss M. Shumaker, former superintendent
of nublic buildings and
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grounds at Harrisburg, Pa., who is implicated
by the reports of the capitol
investigation commission, has declared
he will make a full confession of aLi
he knows in connection with the capitol
scandal. He claims that the manip(ulation
of the funds was engineered
by a high official of the state to cover
i ' up a shortage in the state treasury.
ENGINE CREW MEET DEATH.
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Boiler Exploded, Killing the Engineer.
Fireman and Brakeman.
An engine on the Central railway
blew up about 4 o'clock Sunday morn^
ing, near Raccoon, Ga., killing three
men.
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Engineer Will B. Hutchings, Fire
man, John Borders ana israiv^uinu Aitliur'
Weicher, colored, who were on
the engine, were killed.
I/; The cause of the explosion is not
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EASY JOB FOR ROBBERS,
Bank Safe Opened by Some One Who
Knew the Combination.
Robbers broke into the People's bank
at Wiggins, Miss., a small sawmill
town, 25 miles south of Hattiesburg,
at an early hour Friday morning, and
secured $1,400, the entire contents of ;
the safe. The safe was apparently ;
opened by some one who knew tie :
combination.
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| ALABAMA STANDING PAT.
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State Will Have Nothing to Do With
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and His Federal Court.
Ia a sensational statement made SatJ
urday to the United States court for
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Montgomery, Jadge Thomas G. Jones
Presiding, Attorney General A. M.
.Garber said that he did not appear
ia answer to the application for a
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blanket injunction by the Louisville
and Nashville for the reason that the
court, in an elaborate opinion, had
already given its views of the case,
and to make any effort at all would,
he felt, be futile.
Ke said that this opinion had beer,
sent in r.amplilet form all 'over the
state, one of them having reached him
at his office.
The incident arose over the effort
of the Louisville and Nashville to have
a blanket injunction issued restraining
the solicitors and sheriffs of the <
state from indicting or prosecuting for
violation of laws now restrained by
the federal court. Saturday had been
set down by Judge Thomas G. Jones
. of the federal court for sheriffs and
snUeir.ors rn renlv also for the attorney
I general to make answer, the state, in
! a sense, having been made a party to
I the proceedings.
Attornev General Garber said that,
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in exercising the discretion granted to
the attorney general and railroad commission
in the summons served upon
them, that the attorney general and
j the counsel for the state had decided
not to appear, and that they had
j reached the conclusion because the
court had within a day or two after 1
granting the restraining order, issued
an elaborate opinion on the case before
counsel for the stale had been
given an opportunity to argue the
questions involved in the case.
The attorney general declared that,
so far as he knew,; this action b
Judge Jones was unprecedented. j
Having made his statement, Colonel
Garber asked to be excused from further
attendance upon the court, which
request was granted by Judge Jones, 1
and tlie attorney general immediately 1
left the court room. 1
More time being asked by some of
the solicitors, Judge Jones held up 1
the hearing for some days, during 1
which time he extended the order 1
made several days ago, which is in '
itself a restraint. 1
Later in the day Judge Jones as- 1
sured a delegation of railroad men
who called on him at his office that 1
they would be protected from indig- '
nities on the part of state officers and
if arrested by any of them for failure '
to observe state railroad laws under '
restraint by the federal court parties
making arrests will be at once arrest- 1
ed and severely punished.
FOUR KILLED; THIRTY INJURED.
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Two Heavily Loaded Excursion ! J
Trains Crash Together.
Four persons were killed and thirty
more or less injured when a westbound '
St. Louis and San Francisco passenger
train Saturday and eastbcund pas- '
senger, both loaded heavily with ex- '
cursionists, collided head-on near Sa- 1
puipa, Indian Teritor?.
The wreck is said to have been due ,
to the failure of the dispatcher at Sa- '
pulpa to issue an order to the eastbound
train to take the siding at Red
Fork.
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ERRING GIRL IN BAD PLIGHT. 1
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Miss Whaley Who Eloped With Parson j
Cooke is Heard From.
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Deserted and about to become a
mother is the terrible situation of Floretta
Whaley, the 17-year-old heiress
who eloped last April from Hempstead,
L. I., with the Rev. Jere Kencde
Cooke, then rector of the exclusive St.
George church, to which August Belmont
and other rich New Yorkers belong.
The whereabouts of Cooke is
unknown.
3RYAN IN HIS FOURTH WRECK.
Nebraskan is Shaken Up While on His ?
Way to Chautauqua.
As Wiiliam Jennings Bryan adjusted
his necktie and brushed the cin- .
ders from his trousers, after emerging
from a wreck nsar 3elvidere, 111.,
"Wednesday, he reflectively murmured,
' four.'*
Then drawing his diary, he noted ,
down the location and the date, with
these words: '"Fourth time a wreck .
has occurred on my various journeys
to speak at the Rockford Chautauqua. .
Where is the silver lining?" I .
NEW HEAD FOR ASYLUM.
Dr. Jones Succeeds Late Dr. Powell of
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Georgia State Sanitarium.
Dr. M. M. Jones, who has been connected
with the institution for a number
of years as second assistant phy- f
sioian, was elected by the trustees on j
Thursday as superintendent of Geor- ^
gia state sanitarium at Milledgsville
to succeed the late Dr. T. 0. Powell. |
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THE SOLID SOUTH
Urged to Climb Into Republican
Band Wagon by Taft.
IS UNDER BLACK SHADOW
War Secretary and Presidential Candidate
Opens Republican State Campaign
in Kentucky at
Lexington.
With a discussion of the race problem
and of general political issues, and
with an appeal to Kentuckians and
other southern men to come to the aid
of the republican party in support
of those principles, which he believed
they favored, Secretary of War Taft,
Thursday, orened the republican state
campaign in Kentucky at Lexington.
Calling attention to what he called
the south's lack of representation,
in the councils of the nation, he declared
that this was true "because one
single issue lias made it the perpetual
tail of the democratic party, so that,
however small the northern head it
wags th2t tail.
X UV3 OV/UHX 1IC4.0 L 1JL1 IWH.U L^C JilUU j
ows of ail issue tiiat circumstance
ought long ago to have removed from
political controversy to bind it solidly
to the democratic party, no matter
what principles or candidates that party
has adopted."
He calied attention to the prosperity
of Kentucky, its developing industries
and agricultural wealth, and expressed
the belief that Iventuckians who
favored a protective tariff had blindly
voted the democratic ticket because of
the feeling of the race issue.
Then, taking up the race question,
he said:
"I am not a pessimist with respect
to the rac? question. I am convinced
that it is .working itself out, and I am
convinced that nothing has so much
contributed to its gradual solution as
the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments.''
After mentioning the various means
of disfranchising voters, declaring that
such laws were proper if applied'with
equal fairness to both white and black,
tie expressed the hope that the colored
citizens, under the leadership of such
men as Booker T. Washington, would
become respected business men of
communities in which they live. The
secretary continued:
"And when they exercise independence
of judgment in respect to political
issues we may be sure that gradually
the right to vote will be accorded
them, and they will exercise a far j
more useful influence as intilligent and
solid members of the community for
the benefit of their race than the ignorant
membe.'i of their race would
tiave exercised had they been allowed
Lg vote. In this way through devious
ways, which cannot be justified or
approved, we may still reach a result
Ihat will square with the requirement
af the federal constitution, and will
give to the negro every political and
economic right, and will confer great
benefit upon the colored race.
"The negro is necessary to the south
as a laborer, skilled and unskilled.
Were the negro to be withdrawn from
:he south, the difficulties agriculture
would labor under can nardly be overstated.
The negro is an American, he
las no other country than this and
:an have no other country than this,
md when called upon to dfsnd it
lays down his life with the same freelorn
that the white man sacrifices his.
[t is our duty to see to it that his
path is made as easy as we can and
:hat his progress is as incessant as
proper encourgtment can make it. His
aest friends?the one that can do most
iOr Him ana me oue in mmv reepevia
fvho sympathizes wtih him most?is
svho sympathizes with him most?is
:he southern white man."'
PENSION FUND PROPOSED
3y International Typographical Union
for Disabled Members.
The Internationa! Typographical Union
adjourned at Hot Springs Saturday.
What is regarded as the most im
portant feature of the entire conven
tion was the adoption of a resolutior
approving and referring to a referen j
dum vote of the subordinate unions J
the proposition to levy an as3essmem
to provide a 'Pension fund for disabled
members over sixty years of age anj
who have been members for not leas
than twenty years.
RAISULI HOLDS HIS OWN.
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Bandit Likewise Holds His Captive In j
a Contest at Arms.
Information lias reached the state
iepartmerit at Washington bv cable
to th? effect that the bandit Raisuli
ias completely defeated the large
torce sent against him by the Saltan
Df Morocco in an effort to iccure the
release of Cuid Sir Henry MacLean.
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COMPROMISE IsToFFERED
By Georgia Railroads Anent Passenger
Rates?Ask Two and a Half-Cent
Basis on Larger Lines.
According to representatives of important
interests very close to the railroads,
the lines in Georgia will make
no fight against the order of the state
railroad commission making reduced
passenger rates effective September
2d, but will offer a compromise proposition
instead, asking for the establishment
of a fla: 2 1-2 cent a mile
uab 15 UIl tllC lai^cr lamuauo, u uul
upon all liDes.
This proposition is said to have been
studiously considered by practically all
the executive officers of the different
roads operating in the state. A meeting
'behind closed doors has been held
in Atlanta. One of the officials pres- ;
ent laconically remarked that the Alabama
situation was being discussed.
Notwithstanding the report that the
Georgia rate reductions were not finally
disposed of, it is known that, according
to the Present plans, no fight
will be made against the reductions.
The rumors that have constantly increased
in their circulation prescribe
tbe following method of proceedure by
the railroads:
The suggestion that the new commission,
which will be organized by
the last of the week, revoke the proposed
graduated rates ordered by tbe
nresent commission, and establish, in
stead, a flat 2 1-2-cent a mile scale, {
has been made. This scale to be ef- !
fective upoif all the larger railroads, !
including the Central of Georgia, the
Southern railway, the Western and Atlantic,
the Atlanta and West Point.
! Ihe Atlantic Coast Line, the Seaboard j
| Air Line, the Georgia railroad, the j
Georgia Southern and Florida, the |
Charleston and Western Carolina, the j
Louisville and Nashville and the Ma- j
con, Dublin and Savannah.
It is not known whether the smaller
lines will be a party to the 2 1-2-cent
basis or not, but it is possible that
they will continue to operate upon a
3-cent or more bases, as theyf could
not be affected any more under the
compromise scale than the proposed
rates of the present commission.
Although the Louisville and Nash
ville and the Macon, Dublin and Savannah
lines are classified at 3 cents
a mile, under th? proposed rates effective
September 2d, it has been
pointed out that owing to their connections
with some of the larger roads
they will be placed under the 2 1-2-cent
a mile basis.
The larger roads connected with i
these interests, so it is said, will be
willing to sacrifice the possibilities of
the 3-cent a mile basis so as to place'
the roads upon the same footing for i
convenience of arranging the tariffs !
as well as the profit of the patrons.
Although the Western and Atlantic
railroad would be in class "A," the two
cents a mil?' class, and the Louisville
and Nashville in class "D," at three
cents a mile, the Western and Atlantic
is virtually a Lcuiaviile and
Nashville interest, and under a rate of
2 1-2-cent a mile basis, the Western
and Atlantic would b? raised to that;
basis and the Louisville.and Nashville
lowered a cent a mile.
The Macon, Dublin and Savannah
would operate under the three-cent a
mile scale under the 'proposed rates,
but the Seaboard Air Line which operates
the M. D. and S., is in class
"C" at 2 1-2 cents a. mile, and the
Cat basis would place them both under
the same tariffs.
If the smaller roads are not able
to operate under a 2 1-2-cent a mile
basis it is not probable that the larger
roads will ask for any reduction
as the establishment of the compromise
rate will nor affect them.
The principal rtason that is said to .
govern the roads is the alleged discriminations
that the rates make when
two parallel lines are placed in differ- J
ent classes.
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CAN SPEND EXTRA MONEY.
Rush Work on Canal Will Continue
Without Hindrance.
A careful examination of the law
governing the construction of the Pan.
ama canal shows that the president io
authorized to grant the request of the
isthmian canal commission for permission
to create a deffciency cf $_\000,000
during the current fiscal year to
meet the requirements of the engineer
department for an enlarged scale of
operations.
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EXPLOSION MANGLES SIX.
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Boiler of Coal Barge Gave Way,Wreaking
Death and Destruction.
A boiler on the coal barge Patter- j
son, which usually plies betwten New I
York and Boston, exploded Friday at J
Lang's Decks, in Hoboken, killing the j .
engineer and six other men. The .
boat had been lying at the Acks sey- eral
days and preparations were being j ,
mads to get unut-r j 1
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organization"
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Of Georgia State Railroad I
Commission is Effected.
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NEW MEMBERS SELECTED '
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Callaway of LaGrange 3rd H i I Iyer of ,
Atlanta Make the Full Quota of
Five Members ? McLendon
Elected zt Chairman.
Georgia's new railroad commission j
was completed Monday Uy the appoint- !'
inent of two additional members, or- j
ganized by the election of a chairman
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and other officers, and is now ready ;
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for business. j'
Announcement was made during the }
morning of the appointment of Fuller j
E. Callaway of LaGrange and Judge i
George Hillyer of Atlanta as the two j
new members of the commission.
Mr. Callaway is a well known merchant.
banker and cotton mill man of
i^aGrange, who has male remarkable
success in the business world. Judge
Hillyer is a well known Atlanta lawyer,
now retired.' Both are able men, !
and will undoubtedly give the people
good service on the board.
Both Commissioners Callaway and
Hillyer were swcrn in by the governor
immediately after their apointment
were announced by him, and their
commissions were issued.
The new commission, as reorganized.
is composed as follows:
Hon. S. G. McLenden of Thomasvills
chairman. Mr. McLendon was
appointed in place of Commissioner Jo
ser;h M Brown, who was susDended
by order of the governor.
Hon. H. Warner Hill of Greenville. '
Hon. 0. B. Stevens of Cornelia.
Hon. Fuller E. C:?.;away of LaGrange.
Hon. George Hillyer 01 Atlanta.
Judge James K. Rmes of Atlanta, '
attorney.
George F. Montgomery of Marietta,
secretary.
In accordance with the request of
Governor Smith a meeting of the new ,
commission for organization had been
called by Secretary Montgomery for
neon.
The board was called together with ,
all members present at that hour by ,
the retiring chairman, tf. Warner
Hill. Judge Hines. the attorney to the
commission, could not be present, owing
to a previous court engagement,
but will be with the commission at it3 ^
next meeting.
The commission proceeded first to ,
the election of a chairman. Commissioner
McLendon was nominated for
fhie hv Commirsinner Stevens
and was unanimously elected.
Later in the meeting George F. Montgomery,
secretary to the board was
unanimously re-elected to that portion
under the new commission.
It was decided to leave th? selection
of a stenographer to tiie commission
to Chairman McLendvn for the reason
that the stenographer will principally
serve the chairman, who will be in the ,
office daily.
The selection of a rate expert, as (
provided for in the new act, wa3 left
over for the present, but v/ill probably |
be taken up at Friday's meeting.
While the new commission took no
formal action upon any subject at its
organization meeting, considerable important
work was discussed. .
When the new railroad commission
got through with its preliminary work .
of organization it adjourned until Fri- ,
day morning. ,
Subsequently it learned that certain
railroads wished to be heard upon the ,
question of a modification of the pas- ,
senger rate order passed by the old j I
commission to go into effect Septem- j
ber 2.
In order to accord tJiis hearing, the j
commission decided to hold a meeting j
Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock.
A number of railroacs, Particularly
the Atlanta and West Point and the
Western' and Atlantic, which werj put j
in the 2-cent class, and the Georgia j railroad
ana the Atlantic Coast Line, !
which were put in the 2 1-4-cent class, I
are anxious to have the commission j ,
modify its order so as to put in a fiat ! *
rare of 2 1-2 cents on ai! the principal I j
railroad systems of the state.
The reason for this request grows i
out of a desire for uniformity and. it J ,
is stated, the 2 1-2-cent roads desire i *
the change made for the reason that j
at points where they compete with the j
roads of the lower rate, they would : ^
have to charge the lower rate also.
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TO AGREE ON WAGE SCALE. i
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Mill Owners and Operatives at Fall ^
River Will Hold Conference.
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An important meeting of cotton mail- !
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Lifacturers and operatives will be held ' j
in Fall River, Mass., to endeavor to t
settle a difference which has arisen. T
Phe operatives demanded a fixed stan- t
iard of length cf every piecs of goods c
woven as a basis for wages. i c
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From View Point of Both Striking TeU
egraphers ar.d Officials of the Two
Companies.
3. J. Small, president of the Commercial
Union of Telegraphers, arrived .
in New York frein the west Sunday.
He was met at the station by a large
delegation of striking telegraphers.
In the afternoon he attended a meeting
of the striking telegraphers and
made a brief address in which he detailed
the general situation, refraining
from discussing loc^l conditions.
Mr. Small gave out an optimistic
statement regarding general strike
conditions, in which he said:
"We have fully 80 per cent of ail the , M
commercial telegraphers in the United
States on strike. This applies to small
and large cities. Thousands of one-man
offices are closed and the keys to the
doors are in the possession of city of- J
ficials to be turned over to the inspec- tors
of the company when they arrive.
"We have started to raise a large r
fund?two of them, in fact. One of
these is for the benefit of the strikers
and the other to be expended in favor "
o? government control of the telegraph , "
lines. Although the call for funds has >
only been out a few days, many remit- ,v||
tances were received before I left Chi- '
"Nothing has been published about
arbitration but the cry from coaht to *
coast is 'no arbitration.'"
In the face of the statement by the x y^SH
president of the striking union, both rJg
the Western Union and the Postal telesraph
companies emphasize their declaration
that the situation 13 improving .ffaW
daily and that, barring a few unimpor- -Jjtant
towns, conditions are gradually . j
getting better and assuming a normal
condition. They announced that they v
are handling all the business offered
Once more Belvidere Brooks, super- | v|
Lntendent of the eastsrn division of ' \ ^
the Western Union, asserts that the
strike is over as far as his company
"The strikers are whipped to a fin- /||
ish," Brooks said. "If'they do not y
know they are whipped they will knodr
it soon. We will run our own Job . -:
here, without dictation from any one ;^$j|
or any union."
The telegraph companies are say- . "
ing little and improving their service. .
The following contract of the Postal
Telegraph Company, just issued, is in- ,
dicative of its policy, and means not
only that there will be no union re- y'Jgn
cognition, but that even a committee
from the ranks of the strikers will
not be treated with.
-I hereby agree, if given employ
merit by the Postal Telegraph-Cable
company, to render full and fsdthful f|
service at all times refraining from ' ':j
?.l! agitation and interference with the
company's business; and I further ;'jj?
lgree that I will work carefully and Sj
ivell with every operator be he union
The foregoing applies to every appli- ' . %
:ation for employment in every Postal
)ffice in the country. While the Wes;ern
nion has not adopted any form
)f contract, it is requiring each operitor
to make application for work. $
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DAUGHTER OF DAVIS INSULTED. .\'j?gB
Mrs. Hayes Objected to Old ProcUma- '
tion and It Was Taken Down.
When Mrs. Margaret Howell Jeffer-~
XJai'os Hanorhtpr of the JsBi
><JU i^ans iia;
president of the Confederacy, learned . JS
:hat a me'mbsr of the fighting Fifeenth
Pennsylvania cavalry, attend- .
ng the reunion at Colorado Springs /M
lad hung on the walls of the Antlers ' iB
lotel a ccpv of the old proclamation
jffering a reward of $300,000 for the
irrest of her father and othtr Confedirate
leaders for alleged complicity 4|j|H
n the assassination o? President Lincoln,
she immediately raised a protest
o General Palm-r. Before her protest V-Jj|l
lad been received, however, General B
?almer had heard of the proclamation
;nd ordered that it be taken down, '
CASH FOR CANAL WORK. .jw
The President Approves Colonel Goethal's
Request.
The president has aprpoved Colonel
}oethal's request to continue expendiures
in excess of the pro rata allowed
or the construction of the Panama ca
lal for the present fiscal year on ac- -;j|
:ount of present necessities and uncreseen
developments since the estinates
were submitted.
Congress will be requested at the
text session to make an appropriation .
o cover th^ deficiency, which is plac*
d at eight millions.
TUG GOES TO BOTTOM.
Vas Rammed by British Steamer.
Five Believed Drowned. j
The tug Geory of \.?:imingtoa, Del.,
vas sunk in a collisich with the Britsh
steamer Banstable Monday night in - j
hr Pa'.apsie river. Five men are beieved
to have lost their lives. Six of
he survivors clambered up the side
if the steamer by means of the anhor
chain.