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Kp ARE NEEDED
KINES ARE LANDED TO PROMl
TECT OUR PEOPLE
WO MAY LIVE IN CUBA
Jul Be Used to Guard Plantation*
^Hllln the Eastern Part of the Island,
j Owners Fearing Death and De11
straction of Property at Hands of
I Frank confession of President
'fcoinez that ho was unable to meet
jjjthe demands of the large plantation
ItawnerB in Eastern Cuba for adequate
guards against the marauders and
Insurrectos, was the factor that
prompted Capt. Kline, commanding
the United States naval station at
Guantanamo, to dispatch nearly half
of his available force of marines Into
the interior of Cuba. His action gave
the signal for the departuro from
Key West to Guantanamo of half of
the second squadron of the Atlantic
Fleet, which had been lying at anchor
at Key West for the last week.
The facts, as disclosed at the State
department, are that several of the
large American, British, French and
Spanish companies operating plantations
and mines in Eilitern Cuba, telegraphed
the Cuban Government,
through tho Alcade, of Guananamo,
a demand for 100 regular troops for
each of their mills and fifty for
each of their cane fields. In reply
President Gomez pointed out that a
compliance would require the use of
1,250 of his best troops and he could
not spare them.
Meanwhile, complaints multiplied,
the situation in Guantanamo was becoming
more alarming and the Guantanamo
Sugar Company had definite
information that the rebels intended
to destroy one or more of the foreign
estate there. The manager of the
Spanish-American Iron Company,
near Cuero, was threatened with the
destruction of all property between
that place and Juragua.
To add to all this, the owners and
representatives of several of the
largo American properties near Guantanamo,
having failed in their application
to the Cuban Government, appealed
directly to Capt. Kline. Capt.
Kline, judging that the gravity of the
situation demanded the use of American
guards, sent 450 of his marines
from tho naval station by boat up
Guantanamo Bay to a landing place
near Caimanora, tho terminus of the
railway running up to the city of
Guantanamo, fifteen miles inland.
The gunboat Paducah, about the
same time, reported the situation at
Santiago so critical, which determined
Capt. Kline to call upon the navy
department for more marines. Accordingly,
Admiral Osterhaus
promptly dispatched from Key West
to Guantanamo tho fourth division of
the Atlantic fieet, comprising the battleships
Ohio, Missouri, Mississippi,
and Minnesota. They are under
command of Rear Admiral Usher,
who, by virtue of his superior rank,
will assume command at Guantanamo,
when ho arrived there yesterday
morning.
Admiral Usher can easily land 1,200
marines and blue jackets, which
force, with tho marines and sailors
available for landing parties, would
make a formidable little army of
about 2,000 men. If this force is
not sufficient, Admiral Osterliaus's
remaining four vessels may be called
upon for further levies. For tho
present it is the policy of tho ftfate
department to maintain the third
division of tho fleet at Key West to
guard against any uprising in Havana.
In one way the distribution of tho
American marines as plantation
guards will servo to test the real purpose
of tho Cuban Government. It is
calculated that Gen. Monteagudo's
troops, being relieved in large part
from the onerous duty of guarding
plantations, will no longer have excuse
for failing to move immediately
and rcleutlessly upon tho insurgent
negroes.
Thero is grave Intimation In recent
tragedies that this may becomo
an International, duty if tho Cuban
Government longer delays action, j
llannnrn t<nnnrfnf1 n n.ifir* nf
lit! IIIISII I I I v I UJIUl vvu I,
horrible atrocity which occurred near
Saviga, in Oi lento, which Is believed
to bo only one of many similar cases.
IIla information, derived directly
from the Cuban secretary of State,
was to tho effect that a band of negroes
entered tbo houso of a former
whito official of prominence, tied him
and Ills son and outraged his wife
and two young daughters before bis
eyes. Tho son was killed In cold
blood whllo endeavoring to break his
bonds and reocuo his mother and
sisters.
fiheriflf Saved Fiend.
SlierifT Tull, of Somerset County,
having in his custody, Wesley Miles,
a negro, aged forty-five, who it la alleged
twice attempted to aosault the
fourteen-year old daughter of William
J. Phillips, of Princess Anne,
Maryland, eludod a mob which pursued
the prisoner with the avowed <
purpose of lynching him* j
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ABOUT GOOD MABS~
SUPERVISOR FEliDKR HAKES
TALK TO THE CARRIERS.
He Telle Them Something of the History
of Good Road Building In Orangeburg
County*
Supervisor F. J. D .Felder made a
practical and most Interesting talk
to the Rural Mall Carriers at their
picnic at Etheridge's Mill Pond on
Friday on the subject of good roads.
This is a subject that Is very near
the hearts of the mail men, and all
other good citizens, and Mr. Felder
was given close attention. He said:
"In my opinion, the history of road
building began in earnest in the year
1895, when the County Board passed
a resolution authorizing the employment
of the convictB on our public
roads. Up to that time we had done
a certain class of work on the roads,
it is true, but it was done by summoning
the citizens of a community out
on the road, from one to two days,
each year, and when assembled, they
were put under the supervision of overseers
whose only aim was to fill up
the large holes and do such other
work as was urgently needed, and
thus render the roads available for
much use. It was not Intended that
the work done In this way should be
of a permanent character. But when
the county board passed the resolution
referred to abovo, and under its
authority, the chain gangs were put
to work on our county public roads.
The idea rapidly developed that tho
work so done on roads should be of
a permanent, rather than a temporary
character.
"The first work under this resolution
was done on tho Bull Swamp
public road.
"Tho result of this small experiment
was that from working five
miles of road around the Court
House, the work of the chain gang
now reaches Into every township In
the county, going even to the boundary
line, and from a few convicts
we now have about 45 and can find
use for all we can get.
"In the meantime a law had been
passed by the Legislature authorizing
a special tax levy for road improvement.
Under the provisions of
this law, the citizens of Zion township,
under the lead of some of Its
active spirits, got up a petition containing
the names of two-thirds of
tho citizens of that township and filed
Lhe petition with the County Board
asking the Board to call a meeting in
that township in order to determine
If the people would be willing to put
on an extra levy of 1 mill In that
township for road Improvement. In
response to that petition the County
Board called tho meeting asked for
and tho citizens of Zion township voted
tho extra levy and authorized the
Auditor and Treasurer to collect it.
With this start, tho County Board
tt (in t alinnrl on ti hull* f Via a.. ?/l
i v %?*? vi?v4 uuu ?/ u n i buu in at oauu |
and clay road Just beyond the river
swamp on tbe Ninety-six road,
thruogh that heavy sand bed that was
once so dreaded by travelers who used
the road, but which now lives In
their memories only.
"This small beginning of the sand
and clay road was such a success and
po satisfactory to the people who traveled
there sprang up a great demand
that clay be put 011 every sand bed In
the county. The various supervisors
tried as hard as they could to meet
this demand with the result we have
to-day about 700 miles of sand and
clay road and moro than any other
county In the State. Not only that,
but our sand and clay roads have
brought to our county national recognition
Thft envornninTit r?fTl/?ln1a In
charge of tho road improvement
train, which stopped In Orangeburg
sorno time ago, there spoke in the
highest praise of the roads in our
county, and only a few weeks ago
Leslie's Weekly published in New
York, contained a commendation of
the roads to bo found in our county.
"The most perplexing problem with
which 1 have to deal as Supervisor, is
to find 80D10 way to satisfy the appeals
that are constantly pouring in
upon me from all parts of tho county
by citizens who want immediate work
done upon tho roads which they travel
~WJ i t h mv iivnaon f fnrnn If 1u aim
ply Impossible to respond to all these
appeals. Under the present law, the
only force I can use for road work Is
the chain gang and the best I can do
with that Is to give a fair proportion
of Its time to each of tlio townships
endeavoring to work the main lines
of road and leaving the township
commissioners who have complete
control of the townships' road fund,
to take care of the neighborhood
lines. We have In this county about
J 450 miles of public road and tho
chain gang can build only about 80
to 100 miloa of public road In a year,
and in the course of every two or
three years it has to start back again
over those already built and keep
them in good condition, so you will
soo how it Is that there are t Ore calls
than I can answer.
"To decrease the pressuro upon me
I wrote a letter to the Legislative
delegation during tho last session of
the Legislature asking them to provide
some way whereby I might get
funds enough to enable me to org&n'
ize at least two more forces to be
kept constantly at work on the roads.
My idea was to have more gangs of
[free labor consisting of about 25
BRYAN NOT IN RACE
SAYS SO IN LETTER READ TO
DULUTH CONVENTION
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MINNESOTA FOR WILSON
Statement from Bryan Stops Effort to
Stampede Minnesota Democrats to
Commoner?-Wilson Adherents
Dominate State Convention, which
Instructs Delegation for Wilson.
Minnesota Democrats in State convention
at Duluth Thursday voted to
send a full delegation of 24 delegates
to the Baltimore convention with instructions
to vote for Woodrow Wilson.
It Is agreed, however, that whenever,
in the opinion of two thirds of
the delegation, Wilson's nomination
is impossible, the vote may be thrown
to another candidate.
Victory came for the Wilson forces
only after followers of the Champ
Clark and William J. Bryan had
made an attemnt to have the dele
gates either instructed for Bryan or
not instructed at all.
As a result of the attempt to
stampede the convention for Bryan,
tho 'hall was an uproar for more
than an hour. During all that time,
however, the name of Clark was not
mentioned, even by those who contended
for an uninstructed delegation.
Several delegates who are said to
favor Clurk are not 011 the list but
they are under instructions to vote
for Wilson.
Tho Clark manager, H. S. Williams,
said after the convention that
he would carry his fight to the national
convention at Baltimore.
Tho Wilson men selected Fred B.
Lynch of St. Paul for national committeeman.
It became evident early in tho convention
that the opposition to Wilson
was hopelessly in tho minority,
John M. Freeman, a Wilson man, was
named temporary chairman wl.hout
opposition. C. M. Tiff of Minneapolis,
was made permanent chairman
on the same manner.
Several laudatory speeches were
mado In favor of the Kebraskan and
h Ll r> t m a o ? 1 r**?/l 1 if nV. ^ ^1
aid n ao iuuuj; CUUt'lCUi
The clamor for Bryan ended when
Guy Thomas of Minneapolis read a |
letter from Mr. Bryan saying he was
not a candidate for president and
John W. Freeman made an address
urging that as the mojorlty of Minnesota
voters had named Wilson as
their choice, the convention should
stand by him.
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TAFT DELEGATES IN OHIO.
lie Was Indorsed While Roosevelt
Was Voted Down.
Ohio's Republican State Convention
awarded President Taft the six
delegates-at-large to the natiohal convention
by a vote of 390 1-2 to 362
1.-2. The state ticket will be chosen
at the adjourned session, which was
called for July 2.
IIo was also victor when the convention
adopted the majority report,
of the resolutions committee, as fnl
lows:
"Wo do heartily endorse the administration
of President Wra. Howard
Taft."
Warren G. Harding, former candidate
for governor, who addressed the
convention for President Taft, was
hissed by Roosevelt supporters when
ho declared that in supporting the
former president "they were driving
their Titanic full speed ahead into
tho ice."
Puro political .brigandage," said
Colonel Roosevelt, at Oyster Day
Wednesday night of the capture of
Ohio's six delegates-at-largo to the
Republican National Convention by
supporters of President Taft.
hands in each, working under the direction
of an overseer who would
take his orders from mo and have
caca or uiese gangs equipped witn
road machinery bucIi as is now used
by the chain gang. With two extra
gangs I could get twice the work I am
now able to get with the chain gang
and it would be a permanent character,
and it seems to me a wise expenditure
of money to organize and
maintain it. The Legislature, however,
did n<^t see fit to carry out my
suggestion along these lines and in
consequence we will have to struggle
along as bost we can with tho chain
gang.
''I wish to say right here to-day,
that the only way in the world that I
know of to get more and better roads
and to got. t.hero worked, is to have
our Legislature furnish means with
which to got moro force to work the
roads. You have got to have money
to build roads. There is no use for
me to try to deceive you about this
important matter, and I wo?ld not do
ao if I could."
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Flvo Burn to Death.
Five negroes wero burned to death
when Are destroyed Morris Turner's
home near Lynchburg, Wednesday.
Turner's three children and two
grandchildren are dead.
ACT DF A GRAZY MAT
CUTS THK THROAT OF HIS TWOYEAR-OLD
SON.
I'ritoner Lodged In Jail to Awnit Ac*
tlon of Authorities to Determine
His Mental Condition.
News reached Washington, D. C.,
on Thursday morning of one of the
most brutal cold-blooded and atroicub
murders ever committed In that
county, when John R. Glbbs, a white
man residing In Bath about twenty
miles from Washington, killed his
two-year-old son, by cutting his
throat from ear to ear, with a razor.
The facts, as nearly as can be ascertained,
are that Glbbs who was a
widower, and resided with his mother
and child, Wednesday afternoon
came home and found his son playing
on the floor with another child.
Ho called the child to him saying:
"come here, honey, daddy want you,"
and took tho child In an adjoining
room.
His sister happened to pass the
door a few minutes later, and hearing
a gurgling noise, thought the
father was putting his son to sleep.
She opened the door and was horrified
to find the child lying on the
bed with his throat slashed from ear
to ear and nearly severed from its
body.
She immediately screamed, and
the rest of tho family rushed into
the room, the father In the meantime
leisurely walked out on the porch,
and sat down as if nothing had happened.
When questioned, he said he had a
motive in killing the child, but
would not divulge it. The murderer
was arrested, and brought to Washington
and placed in jail.
Feeling is strong against the prisoner
in the town of Bath, and much
indignation has been expressed over
tho affair. A coroner's inquest was
held over the child's body and verdict
rendered that child came to its
death at the hand of John It. Gibbs.
Onitiion is divided as to prisoner's
sanity. Some think he was crazed
by dope or whiskey. His mental condition
will bo inquired into by the
authorities.
SOUTH DAKOTA FOIt WILSOX.
Xew Jersey's Governor Gets All of
the Ten Delegates.
Governor Wilson gained a signal
victory in South Dakota, winning in
the direct primaries a solidly instructed
delegation that will cast 10
votes of that State in tho Baltimore
convention. This victory is especially
important in view of tho fact that
South Dakota is the home of ex-Senator
Pettigrew, one of tho chief supporters
of Speaker Clark.
Nineteen Wilson delegates elected
by the people in Ohio wero bound by
unit rule in instruction to vote for
Governor Harmon by the Ohio State
convention, although many of Governor
Harmon's friends opposed such
action.
The New Jersey delegation, which
stands 24 for Wilson and four for
Jim Smith, had a meeting in Trenton
Wednesday. The 24 Wilson delegates
decided that as tho voters
of tho two Essex county districts
had elected anti-Wilson delegates, it
would not be proper under the direct
primary system to adopt tho unit
rule.
The South Dakota primary and not
tho Ohio convention is indicative of
the prevailing opinion of the Democratic
masses that Woodrow Wilson
is the only Democrat who can hope
to defeat the nominee of the Chicago
convention, both in the cast and in
the West. Wilson as the Democratic
nominee will not he a sestional candidate,
even as ho has not been sectional
candidate in the preconvention
campaign.
Kiv More for Clark.
West Virginia's six delegates at
largo wcro instructed to vote for
Champ Clark, at Baltimore, as long
as there was any hope of his nomination,
hv the St aite Democratic Convention
here to-day. At district conventions
earlier in the week Clark
received six Instructed delegates, two
unlnstructed were favorable to him
and 'two more unlnstructed were
said to favor Governor Harmon, of
Ohio.
Instructed for Clark
By a voto of 33 4 to 2 42, tho Arkansas
State Democratic Convention
refused to embody in Its platform
an Indorsement of tho so-called
"grandfather clause" as a qualification
for suffrage. Eight delegates
at large with half a vote each, as well
as the district delegates, were inutrutod
for Speaker Champ Clark.
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Spoony Girl TjOHt Diamonds.
Mls3 Nellie Burns, of Unlontown,
N. Y., has complained to tho police
that aftor a stroll In th9 moonlight
with a young man at Yonkers, whom
sho permitted to hold her hand, she
missed her diamond ring.
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Lad Drowned at Savannah.
Tho surf at Savannah claimed Its
first victim of the bathing season
Tuesday when Joseph McNally, a*ed
10, was swept beyond his depth and
was drowned before ho could bo
given assistance.
SAYS HE CAN'T WIN
FRIENDS OF TAFT WILL DESERT
| HIM FOR HUGHES.
MARKED FOR SLAUIiHTER
The President's Most Intimate Political
Friends Are Afraid of His
Weakness Before the People and
Believe That He Would Be Defeated
in the General Election.
The Washington correspondent of
the Atlanta Journal says a wellthought-out
plan to deprive both William
H. Taft and Theodore Roosevelt
of the Republican presidential
nomination has been devised by leaders
of what is known as the regular
faction of tho party. The men
who entertain designs hostile to Taft
and Roosevelt, are the men who
forced the nomination of James S.
Sherman, of New York, for the vicepresidency
four years ago, in opposition
to the wishes of Messrs. Taft
and Roosevelt.
On the surface, these leaders favor
the re-nomination of President Taft.
They have come to the conclusion
that Mr. Taft would be certain of defeat
if nominated, and that there
would be no more hope of success in
naming him than there would be in
the attempted burglary of an empty
safe.
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v icts-i'i euiuKii t ii ur in mi, r^nnu
Root, Joseph G. Cannon, William 13.
McKinley, Senators Smoot, Crane,
Penrose and Galllnger are the memI
hers of the Old Guard who, outwardly
supporting President Taft, are secretly
devoting their time and talents to
j the introduction of a third man in
the race.
They wil lgo to Chicago, prepared
at the proper time, to present the
name of Charles E. Hughes, of New
York, associate justice of the United
; StatesStates supreme court, for discussion
as the presidential candidate.
The members of the Old Guard mentioned
have practically given up hope
of nominating President Taft and
they will go to any extreme to defeat
Colonel Roosevelt. They are far
from convinced that they will be able
to attain their ends, but they are in
a desperate situation and intend to
play the game to the limit.
It is safe to say that practically
every regular Republican leader of
prominence is firmly convinced that
he will pass from public life, if Col
onel Roosevelt is again elected to the
Presidency. It is a fight for survival
and therefore a fight to the finish.
Although the Roosovelt-Taft forces
were in control of the Republican
convention of 1 908, the Old Guard
was successful in its efforts to nominate
Mr. Sherman as the vice-presidential
candidate. The scheme to
put Sherman on the ticket with Taft
was hatched long before the convention
was held. It was conceived and
promoted in secrecy.
During the closing days of the fight
on Mr. Taft, who was O. Iv.'d by Mr.
RooseVelt, the Old Guard sought to
get some glory out of the contest.
They went to work in behalf of Mr.
Sherman, and the name of the Now
Yorker was sprung upon the convention
with a sudvlenness that swept the
Roosevelt-Taft leaders off their feet.
It became known that some weeks
ago President Taft was strongly urged
by certain regulars to give countenance
to a movement for a third
man. Tho president, so the story
goos, agreed that his nomination
probably meant party defeat. However,
his reply to the suggestion that
he should consent to be sidetracked
was couched in language so expressive
that it was never repeated.
The regulars above named are going
to Chicago in an effort to push
aside the president and predecessor
and place the standard in the hands
of Associate Justice Hughes. They
are not sanguine of success, hut. the
stakes are so large that, they intend to
play the game as indicated.
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EASY THING, SAYS MACK.
Democrats Won't Have Any Difficulty
in Winning This Year.
"The Democratic party has several
candidates for the Presidential nomination
and any one of them is strong
enough to defeat either Taft or
Roosevelt," remarked Norman M,
Mack, chairman of tho Democratic
Committee at New York, while oti a
visit.
"If half what Roosevelt and Taft
are saying about the Republican party
la true, then that party ought to
he indicted by the grand jury," continued
Mr. Mack. "Tho American
people have made up their minds to
kick tho Republican parly out of
power and it doesn't mako any difference
whether they nominate TaftFtoosovelt,
or a dark or brown horse."
Tires Out of Pnpor.
Pneumatic tires of chemically
treated and compressed paper have
been brought to notice in Franco ard
Germany. Tho material is said to be
as strong as steel and as olasttc an
rubber, yielding tires that are noiseless,
waterproof and cheap.
STOLE WILSON VOTES
DELEGATES ELECTED FOR HIM
GIV EN TO HARMON.
The Washington Times Comments la
Severe Terms on Adoption of Unit
Rule bjr Ohio Convention.
How Gov. Wilson was euchred out
of a large block of votes in the Ohio
State convention is told as follows
in the Washington Times today:
"Nineteen Wilson delegates, representing
nearly one-half of Ohio's
vote in the Democratic national convention,
were disfranchised by the
Ohio Democratic State convention
, Tuesday.
"In the Ohio primaries Gov. Wilson
captured 19 out of 21 district
delegates to the Democratic national
convention despite the fact that Gov.
Harmon was making much the same
sort of a 'do-it-to-please-me' campaign
that Taft was making ou the
Republican side.
"It was a great victory for Wilson
nnd the progressive element of
Democracy. But by the same sort of
private ofllce manipulation of the
State delegates that distinguished
the Republican State convention, Gov
Harmon's forces secured control of
tho Democratic State convention and
put In force the unit rule on Ohio's
Baltimore delegation. This disfranchises
tho 19 Wilson delegates as
well as the great body of Ohio Democrates
who elected these delegates.
"Thus by arts known to politicians
we witness one presidential candidate
robbed of 19 delegatee elected
to vote for him and wanting to vote
for him and another candidate|against
whom thousands of his party registered
an overwhelming protest is
given the right to vote these 19 opponents
to his own advantage. If
ho does not want them he can,
through the enforcement of the unit
rule, deliver them to some one else
equally as undesirable to them and
;hcir constitutents as he is."
The New Jersey delegation, which
stands 2 4 to 4 for Wilson, at a
meeting on Wednesday refused to
adopt the unit rule, which they had
a right to do, holding that the people
having refused to instruct the
four delegates that were not instructed,
they would not do so. Tills Is
the right view to take of the matter.
Tn Ohio the people instructed nineteen,
and yet the State Convention
reverses the people and instructs
Wilson's nineteen delegates to vote
for Harmon. That is the kind of
ring rule that brought about the
present revolution.
ADVERTISING AS A GUARANTEE
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It Proves Tat a MerchaRt Believes in
Ills Goods.
When a business concern invests a
In riTA mim nf mnrmv In u lionilcnina
q w w %? vf vyj A * M UMUUUUUJiV
8toro and equipment for retail merchandising,
the public feels a certain
degree of confidence that the concern
has goods worth examining. People
argue that unless they had established
a reputation for fair dealing and
unless they had goods that they know
filled a need, they would not dare
spend so much money.
Advertising, likewise, acts as a,
guarantee of substantial business
character. When a firm spends money
freely on this necessary form of
salesmanship, the public conclude?
that it must have goods back of it
that have demonstrated their worth*
or tho firm would not have set apart
this sum of money for selling them
through tho newspapers.
A concern that does not advertise
impresses the public as merely an experiment.
Tho fact that it may have
been in existence for many years does
not help it so very much. Tho public
may even look at mere existence
for a long term of years as a disqualification,
indicating preference for old
nmo memoes. it takes advertising
to prove that you liavo confidence in
your goods.
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WILL VOTE FOR HARMON.
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Thoy Become ho by the Adoption of
the Unit Rule.
Covornor Judson Ilarmon Wednesday
won his fight in the Ohio Homoera
tic State Convention for application
of the unit rule by a voto of 51)7
to 1155 and will have tho undivided
support of tho State's 4 8 delegates
in his candidacy for President at the
Baltimore Convention.
Tho Anti-Harmon forces, led by
Mavor Nnwtnn IV RnUnr
land, made a. determined fight on tho
unit rule proposition and declared
they would file their protest at tho
National Democratic Convention.
Nineteen of the forty-eight delegates
to tho Convention are Wilson
adherents elected at a direct primary,
but under tho unit rule will be obliged
to cast their ballots for Ilarmon
at Baltimore.
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Cuban Town Bnrued.
Estosez, tbo real leader of the no- , j
gro Insurgents, has captured and j
burned the town of Lamaya, on tho
branch Mno of tl.e Cuba Railroad* J
thirty miles from Santiago. The gov* I
eminent gave out thia Information 1
Monday night 1