The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, January 27, 1899, Image 1
vol, XMX. NO. 4. UNION. SOUTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. I AXI'AliV I SOS). st.oo A VHAR.
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FILIPINOS MORE AGGRESSIVE
, AGUINALIH) SAID TO BE RAPIDLY
CONCENTRATING HIS FORCES.
AGONCILLO DEMANDS RECOGNITION
Islander* Arc tmlar tho I iiiprenolon That
XV* Ar* TryliiR To llnmbiig Them.
Outcome L'liccrtatn.
Advioea from Manila via Hong
Hotter atato that tho Tndenanoia fnewn
|ft .s paper) issued a supplement "Wedues^
l day containing a dispatch purporting
JWfy to cortlo from Mulolos, the Rent of the
< rebel government.
W It comments upon the appointment
of the commission and says:
"The Filipinos naturally suspect
this a new attempt to humbug. Dewey
and Spencer Pratt promised uh independence
if the Filipinos republic was
stable. The Filipinos are disillusioned.
They believe the commission is
a ruse to gain time until they have accumulated
formidable forces, when
America, abusing her strength, will
begin a ?ar to ratify her sovereignty."
The Ilidependencia then adds that
all the commissioners are partisans of
colonial expansion and incidentally
asserts that the archbishop also favors
annexation "with the sole object
of gaining the sympathies of the winning
side, immaterial which, in the
interests of the religions corporations."
The Filipnos of fatallonn and Gegagalin,
mistaking salutes exchanged
between lirit'sh and German warships
on January INth, moved 11,000 men to
the front of battle, covering the adjacent
country, but tlicy did not attnck
the American lines.
Reports from the interior indicate
that Aguinaldo's authority is now generally
recognized. Every available
man is being recruited and arms depots
are being established at San Rarditio,
Union, Trinidad and other large
IOWI1S.
Tlio surrounding country is being
levied on for supplies and the Filipino
troops are living on the fat of the land,
while the native villagers are com *s
^ - polled to subsist ou (ice. Y
* It is estimated that there ore fully
"* 30,000 Filipinos under arms, and it is
said that there are nearl3T fifty Maxim
guns at Malolos, some of theiu having
been recently acquired.
The Filipino military authorities
are convinced, they say, that the
Americans will he unable to work
effectively outside of Manila in the
event of hostilities, hence they feel
confident in the future.
Many of the Filipino officers complain
of alleged discourteous treatment
upon the part of Americans at
A^oid-IIIo WinilH Ki.oirnlt Ion
A Washington special says: Senor
Lope/, secretary of Agoneillo, the
Washington representative of Aguinnl<1o,
cnlled at the state department at
1 o'clock Wednesday afternoon and
lodged with the chief clerk a communication
which, according to the common
expectation, marked the critical
stage in the Philippine question. This
is the third attempt made l?y the Filipino
representatives to secure ollieial
recognition from the United States
government.
The advices from Manila, which
have reached the war department, are
far from reassuring. It is understood
that General Otis reports an expectation
on his part that the insurgents
are about to force an issue, and if this
should lie so. the result cannot he
foreseen. Manila itself, and not lloilo,
as might at first he supposed, is regarded
the danger point just now.
General Otis is so sure of his ground
that the oflicials here feel 110 doubt
as to the outcome of a hostile collision
between the American and insurgent.
forces under Aguinaldo, particularly
as General Otis would have the
enormous advantage of the full cooperation
of the American fleet under
Dewey.
Milt it is |>nrti<Milarly desirable tlint
even a 1 ?n1111? rmliii^ in n victory bo
avoided just now, for the president
lins by no means surrendered his conviction
that the misguided Filipinos
can he brought to an understanding of
the real objects of the United States
and peacefully accept the conditions
sought to be imposed.
eixkimik VFKsrs <;onz\u:s.
Kililor of Smith ('ui-olliiit X?'tv?|?iper
I'mi hf* ii npiihhI ion
a dispatch front Kdgefield, S. c!.,
says tliat the state is stirred up over
the charge of lying made by Mr. lT.
(i. Gonzales, editor of "The State,"
ngninst Governor Kllerbe.
Some of the county papers are demanding
that Kllerbe be impeached.
They sav that in order to get the support
of "The State" newspaper Kllerbe
agreed to make certain recommendations
to the general assembly now
in session, and that after making this
promise the governor refused to de
liver the goods.
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OFFICERS LEAVE SERVICE.
By Direction of tlie I'reatdent They Are '
Temporarily Dlnclinrgnd.
By direction of the president the .
following named general officers havo
been temporarily discharged from the '
volunteer army of the United States
army, their services being no longer
required by reason of the muster out
of volunteer regiments: ,
Major General H. C. Merrinm, Brig- '
adier Generals John M. Bacon, Edwin
D. Sumner, William W. Gordon,
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"uiuun Aft. ?' lllirn, V\'I1U 11. XIlllll r " f,
Ijeonard W. Colby, Edgar R. Kellogg,
John B.* Castleman, Tliomaa H. Bar- i
her, John F. Weston, Eugene Griffin
and John W. Clous.
Borne of the brigadier genorals are
officers in the regulat army who, during
the war, accepted volunteer rank.
The remainder were appointed from
civil life. The latter will proceed to
their homes.
DIFFERENCES ADJUSTED.
Tilt" <"nnl Operator* ami Miner. Itcarli An
Amit-iiltlf Acri'i'inriit.
Carnegie hall, Allegheny, I?n., rang
with "America" Tuesday night in
commemoration of the wage difference
which was effected between the coal
operators and miners of the states of
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Pennsylvania.
The settlement means peace
for more than 100,1)00 men and their
employers as far as the general issues
are concerned.
The settlement was reached after
?>ne of the most notable gatherings in
the history of the industry. The leaders
of both sides made a bitter tight, i
ami it looks as if there will he a split ]
and chaos prevail in the industry.
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SMITH MAKES PROTEST. j,
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0|>|mih<-w I'Iiiii of 1'iiltliiK A. A H I'. j
Itiiml In ( Iiiho Number Kile.
President ami General Manager ,
George C. Smith, of the Atlanta and ]
West Point railroad, appeared before ^
the Georgia railroad commission Tiles- (
day morning to show cause why the ,
road should not be put in class nam- |
ber one. ,
President Smith urged that no act- ,
ion be taken by the commission now j
and that the company be allowed to
remain in classitication number two, (
as it was an inopportune time to cut |
down the revenues of the road. (
FATAL .FAMILY Ft'El>.
A I'llclii'il Itiittlc In AVIiic-li n Number of
Men Are Killed
A Nyshville, Tenn., dispatch says:
Last Friday on the line between Lee
county. Vs.. and Hancock county 1
Tenn., a section remote from the telegraph.
a battle occurred between '
twenty members of tin* Kdily family
of Virginia and the llamsev family of
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Tennessee.
The battle lasted several hours, during
which a number of men on both
sides were killed and injured.
A i|iiarrel of long standing resulted
in the light, particulars of which are
not yet obtainable.
THESE lilTA RAISE.
Stntlon Agi'iits iiihI Teli-Ki'iuOierM In MInnniirl
I'loiniHi'il mi Allvmirr.
A Kansas (Jity dispatch says: The
station agents and telegraphers 011 the
lines of the Kansas City, Pittsburg
and Gulf railroad north of Kansas
City have been granted their demands
for better wages. The grievance committee
which laid the claims of the
men before the general ollicers have
been promised that the wages of the
11(10 agents and operators involved will
be increased .$10 per month.
i i >i * i r.r in .uii,i.>.
Tciih l.i'Kinlutitre Klrcln Senatorial ('anil
Mate II nil III m nil sly.
A dispatch from Austin savs: The
senate ami house of the Texas legislature
met Tuesday at 110011 in their
separate ohainhors. The Ifoii. Charles
A. Culberson, the sole democratic
nominee, was eleeted without opposition
to sueeeed the retiring senator,
linger (k>. Mills.
SAVANNAH'S \KW MAYOR.
Air. Herman >1 i'J ri'i W I ii 4 I 'out 4'Mt Over
Hon. .1. .1. Mi-Honoiiuli.
\l'l?r a spirited contest, Herman
Myers, ex-mayor of Savannah, <}a.,
president of the National hank of Savannah
and of the Savannah Grocery
company, was elected mayor Tuesday
over Hon. .1. .1. McDonongh, to succeed
Mayor I'. W. Meldrim, by a majority
of .'hjn votes.
PRISON APPROPRIATION ( IT.
Onh Half Million Available l ot ItniI<Iiiir
at Atlanta, (in.
A Washington dispatch says: Tho
attorney ^i-'iernPa estimate for tlie
first appropriation for the federal
prison at Atlanta, (la., will probably
has been discovered tlint this wns the
sum ?>r if^i iu< 11 v set out in the art providing
for such a piisou. There is ail
additional $100,001) for interior equipment.
It is the attorney general's
idea that this sum will he snllieient to
go ahead w ith the n ail) building, and
that the wings and other buildings
can be added after this has been
completed.
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SHE PUSSES CUE Bill
MEASURE IS FAVORER BY A VOTE
OF ?H TO 0.
liOYEKflMtNl LIBtKALSUBWKIBtK
Kill Provlilm For InMmncr of On* Million
Nlinrnn nt WIOO Kuch to
Constrnct W?t?r Way.
The senato-8Hturdny passed the Nicaragua
canal bill, decided to make the
auti-Bcalping bill the unfinished business
and continued without the com-,
pletion the (^nsideration of the Indian
appropriation bill. A number of ,
amendments were made to the Nicaragua
canal bill, and there were innumerable
short speochos during the
day. There was, however, no opposition
te a vote when the time came, and
* roll onll on it developed only six i
uurn in l?> II11III
The Nicaragua canal hill, as it passed,
continues tlie|name of the Maritiin,o
Canal Company.
Tt provides for the issuance of 1,000,^00
shares of $100 each. The canal
company is required to call in all the
stock issued except that held by the
Nicaragua and Costa Riean governments.
The company is also required
to redeem and cancel all bonds and
*crip heretofore issued by the company
and to satisfy all cash liabilities.
To enable the company to comply
ivith this requirement, treasury warrants
to the amount of $."<,000,000 are
authorized, with a proviso to the effect
that only so much of the amount shall
be paid as shall be required to pay the
Actual cash value of the rights, privileges,
franchises and property at the
time of the payment, the value to be
iletermined by commissioners to be
Appointed by the president. This
being done, the secretary of the treasury
is authorized to subscribe for 95,)()()
shares of the company's stock for
the government of the United States.
The present members of the board of
directors are then to resign and a
board of seven is to be appointed in
their stead, consisting of five on bebulf
of the United States, and one
each on behalf,of Nicaragua a?nd Costa
Rica.
The directors on behalf of the
United States are to be appointed by
the president and confirmed by the
senate.
No two of them arc to be residents
of any one state, and no person who
has heretofore been interested in the
canal company is to be appointed to
this office. They are also prohibited
from being interested in eontraets o'n
the canal.
Kacli of the directors, except the
president, is to receive a salary of $5,IHM)
per annum, and the president is
J>1' 4 II A 1!
in mm- cii,ipuii, /vii traveling expenses
lire to he paid. Annual reports are
required. There is a provision against
declaring a dividend except upon the
net earnings.
The company is authorized to contract
for the completion of the canal
within six years. The payments are
restricted to $20,000,1)00 annually.
The canal is to lie large enough "for
the use of the largest sea-going vessels
ut a cost not to exceed the estimate of
the engineers, and not to exceed $115,- I
000,000." This amount is made a
permanent appropriation for the work
to lie used as occasion may require.
The hill gives the government a lien
upon the property to secure the repayment
of the moneys advanced, and
the president is empowered to declari
forfeiture of the property to the
United States without the necessity of
judicial or other ascertainment.
Thereafter a full title is to rest in the
government of the United States.
The president is also authorized to
secure any change in or modification
of the terms of the concession, either
from the concessionaires or from
Nicaragua and Costa Uica. In case of
failure in such negotiations the presi- |
dent is also empowered to negotiate
for another route across the isthmus.
He is fur?her requested to open negotiations
for tlio abrogation of the
Clayton-Mulwer treaty or any other
treaty fouinl to he in existence and
standing in the way of construi tion.
The neutrality of the canal is granted,
hut the right to protect it against
the interruptions of business between
the Atlantic and l'acitie coasts of tho
United States is reserved.
NF.I,SON IS FOK FXI'ANSION.
Minnesota Senator I'roornlH h StroiiR Con?titiitiiontI
Xranmeiil.
The senate was in session for tivo
hours and a half Friday, hut the session
was practically barren of results.
Air. Nelson, republican, of Minnesota.
spoke in opposition to Mr. Vest's
anti-expansion resolution. Mis address
was a constitutional argument
in support of the right of the United
States government to acquire territory
He maintained that it was no longer
an unsettled question that this country
had the power, not only to acquire
foreign territory by discovery and
conquest or trenty, but also to govern
territory so acquired.
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PtACL TKKATY I'M KilTAlS.
Opponent* of MenHiiro Mny Korco It Over
to An Kxtrn M?*hh|uii. *
Although the motion for mi executive
session was made by the ehairmau
On foreign relations, tlie peace
treaty was not taken up in the senate
Monday. The status of the treaty as
outlined by a member of the commission
who favors ratification is:
Tlie opponents claim to have 33 or
34 sure votes against the treaty. That
would defeat it, which would necessitate
an extra session. Jf there is to
be an extra session, tlie friends of the
treaty say they may as well take it
over unrejeciea ny mis session, r ney
do not propose to bring it to a vote
unless they are sure of ratification.
An extra session, tliey say, will
j^oaii nil extra session of the whole
Avingress. 4\ conditional appropriation
is made to pay Spain the $20,000,/>90,
or, unless some arrangement is
made with Spaiu, to extend the time
of payment three months. The United
States, it is said, would not like to make
this request. It is believed that, in
view of the possibilities cf 1111 extrn
session, unless the treaty is rattified
j at this session, the opponents will
[ yield before adjournment, as a very
general desire is expressed to avoid an
extra session.
SOUTHERN PROttRESH,
The New I mliiM rh-fc lte|toite<l in llie South
N IMirinu the Week.
The more noteworthy of the new
industries specially reported during
the past week include a company
organized at New Orleans to manufacture
brooms, brushes, etc.; a cigur
1 factory in Florida; 11 $100,000 cotton
I com press iu Arkansas; 11 cotton mill
in N- fth Carolina; n SI00,000 cotton
seed-oil mill in Alabama; a $.">n,000
1 one in Texas: another of 00-ton capacity
in the same state, and the rebuilding
of one recently burned in Georgia;
a $80,000 creamery and refrigerating
plant in Georgia; electric light plants
! ill Twill itsi Oil 11 Vnrlli r'onnlinn n??<l
; x e::ues?ee, mi eiecivicai supply c(mii
puny in Texas; flouring mills in Teni
nessee, Texas and Virginia; gold mines
i in North Carolina; a hardware company
in Texas; a 10-ton ice factory in
Alabama; iron mines in Tennessee; a
petroleum company and a quarry and
mining company in Texas; a :l5-ton refr^gevntim?
plant in southwestern
i Loulshnhf; two saw mills in Louisiana
i and one in Virginia; a shingle and
lumber mill in Texns; a stave factory
i in Kentucky; a 1,000-ton sugar mill in
' Louisiana; sulphuric ether works in
Virginia; a telephone company in
i South Carolina, and waterworks in
Louisiana. Tradesman (Chattanooga,
TeJtn.)
IvOKK OF A COW A KOI. Y MOB.
Of I Man mill III* Son Kill Il.v Whitec-ii|ix?I
la ii^hli i AIhii Woiiuoeil.
. The details of a shocking tragedy
that occurred late Saturday night, near
cVdqnitt, Miller county, (la., were recowed
Monday afternoon.
At a late hour of the night a party
of Wined men, disguised as wliiteeaps,
w<\t to the house occupied by old
ini% llustin and family, and one of
the% acting as spokesman, called to
the T mates to come out. (lid man
Kustin arose and opened the door, his
appearance being the signal for a volley
of shots, some of which struck him,
bringing him to the floor.
A grown son and daughter of the
old man, on hearing the tiring, atteiniiteil
to eseano- lmt tliev too wore
j 11r??il upon by tlio whitccap raol? and
j struck down. The son died 111 a few
I minutes, and advices state that old
man Kustin has also died from the ef!
f"cts of his wounds.
The daughter is not dangerously ini
jured, and will recover.
The lviistins were respectable,industrious
people, attentive to their affairs
and well thought of.
<01,0X1 A I, COMMISSION NAM Kit.
IVi'Momo'l of Ottlrtulft Wlm Will l.oiik
After New Territory
The secretary of war has completed
the organization of a colonial commission
to undertake the administration
in Washington of all matters of detail
respecting the government of territory
acquired during the war or occupied
by the United States forces.
The personnel of the commission
will be General Robert 1'. Kennedy,
of Ihdlefontnine. Ohio; Curtis Guild,
of Massachusetts, and George W. Watkins,
of Grand ltapids, Mich.
I'p to tins point the secretary and
tin' assistant secretary have undertaken
themselves to ileal with the adniiiiistnition
of the insular affairs hut
the questions involved have become
so iiiinieroiis and eomplieated that it
has heen found absolutely neeessarj
to rail for assistance.
The commission will deal with tin
bestow al of franchises and concessions
the distribution of moneys to he spent
in public improvements and all of tin
troublesome issues that have arisei
and are likely to arise in Cuba, I'orti
lticoand the Philippines.
The new commission is to act on
tirelv within the powers conferred lei
the secretary of war and his sanction
will he necessary to give effect to anj
line of action proposed hy the com
mission.
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