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/ }. li ' umors ADVANTAGES. -|- J -m-r i qp T "1 J" TT1 n fONUW* Of Two cotton mills (total easily 100,- I I?I I I III I I' Mift... IJ ~ 5SS2SS3 1 -O- Hi U 111 v .lj 1 1 ,Tl Hi iO# f&HSL^Sf ' ' ^ ; VOL XI.IX. NO V.'. ~~~ UNION. SOI in (' V liOU! N A. Kit I / *1.110 A Y.RA ft - CLOSING 0 Having determine! , mercantile business, ] entire stock of goods ONE-HALF NEII This is 110 humbug get the advantage of REMEMBER 50 CENTS WILL YOU SI.25 E P. M. C Next Door to Allan Ni< milflifi OFFERS HEWflRO FOR I'EttPETRATORH OF THE PALMETTO, (JA., HORROR. FURTHER DETAILS OF THE AFFAIR Kjc-lVltnraifii Sny the Negroes \?r? Shot Dowii I.lkc Iloga and Were Shown No Mercy. Governor Candler, of Georgia, took prompt notion in the endeavor to bring the perpetrators of tho Palmetto lynching to justice by issuing the fol lowing I* roc I mil at Ion. Whereas, official information haa been received at this department that on the night of March 15, 1899, an unknown mob foully murdered Henry Bingham, colored, Tip Hudson, colored, Ed Brown, colored, and Bjitl - SC7UoS?te^ea~iii!r w.ii awaiting a committal trial upon the ' charco of arson, in the county of Campbell. I Lave thought proper, therefore, to issue this my proclamation hereby offering a reward of live hundred dollars for the apprehension and delivery of the first member of said unknown mob and a further reward of one hundred dollars for each additional person so implicated, with evidence sufficient to convict, to the sheriff" of said county and state. And I do moreover charge and require nil officers in this state,civil and military, to bo vigilant in endeavoring to apprehend the said members of tlio unknown mob in order that they may be brought to trial for the offense with which they stand charged. Given under my hand and seal of the state, this the Kith day of March, 1899. A. 1>. OandIjKR, Governor. By the governor. Phi Mr Cook, Secretary of State. Oovcrnor'it Strong Condemnation. Governor Candler said in an inter viow Thursday morning: ;,I regard the outrage as simply in excusable. Those men had heen at rested, as I am informed, and pro< was at hand to convict them. The wero in the hands of the law. T1 law was amply uble to punish then and the interposition of this mob two hundred disguised men wi entirely unnecessary, since with tl proof in the hands of those who hi made tho arrests conviction and pu ishment were absolutely certain. "I shall today offer the largest i ward tho law will authorize for t apprehension of any ono or more the perpetrators of this dastarf deed, and 1 will try to see to it t) they are prosecuted to the limit of I law. Such outrages mnat stop i Georgia." *- -? VrairailT. [i Drlnim I ' Further details of the deplorj ^ affair show that is wbh one of hor The negroes killed wore: Tip Hudi Bud Cotton,Ed Wyun and lleury B ham. John Bigby was fatally h John Jameson, shot, but will reeo |- George Tat u in, arm broken; I x Brown and Clem Watts escaped v I out injury. I The men wlio were guarding I negroes are well known and pr I nent citizens of Palmetto, and sworn in only Wednesday as hj guard for the night. Bud Cotton, who was killed H eonfessed to the burning of the t in Palmetto and had implicated t H others wlio had been arrested. Eye witnosses state that wlie , mob broke into the warohom guards were placod in line, them, ami marched around the and then marched to the front ^ room, near the door in which th They were placed in lineagni front wall of tho building and o iMuwmm m m mm n n iUI oALb!? I to go out of the L will close out my at TEI Y YORK COST. i offer. Come and A my Bargains. . BUY WHAT WILL COST LSEWHERE. * iOHEN, : diolson's Book Store. ?!"! 1 iul not to move at the cost of their lives. gORl. They <1 id not speak, neither did fee they move, and not a word was suid jW() by the guard to the mob. vj,,j The men then walked around where ver< they could get a good look at ill? Qr<J trembling, pleading, terror stricken p negroes, begging for life and declaring relu tlint they were innocent. <jie. There was a moment's pause of ?|deliberation. The negroes thought it j,j|j meant that the assassins hesitated in fam their bloody deed, but tho men only jt) hesitated because they wanted deliber- cftni ate action and a clear range for their jof, bullets. The negroes, helpless, tied together Wtjr with ropes, begged for mercy, for they waB saw the cold gun barrels, the angry yftn and determined actions of the men, one and they knew it meant death to ftgG( them. On leaving tin? horrible scene of ^ their work tho whitecaps turned to ^ give a word of warning to the guard, ^ and then disappeared as silently in the night as they had arrived. Tho military sent by Governor Can- . . dler Rrrivod at IU:4U o'clock Thursday morning on * special train imJ - npQ command of .j.*-?..??go or the r place. reci MONEY BEACHES 11 AT ANA. bee tlia The Meutla With tlie Three Million* on hig Hoard Kilter* Jlarhor. The Mcado, with the 83,000,000 in ?0j cash on board which is to be paid to 8^,. the Cuban soldiers, entered the hari bor nt Havana Thursday night, and no] prepurations are being pushed for the ^lit disbursement of the money through the agency of Gomez. The military 1)e assembly held no meeting during tho py day, and its members are demoralized 8^,, and altogether at sea as to their future program. UR One result of the assembly's discomfiture is already apparent in the vj efforts being made to secure the re- W) inoval from office of the civil governor of the city, Honor Mora, and the snperintendent of police, General Mario c] Monoeal, both of whom are accused by the Gomez faction of having shown undue partisanship in trying to repress the popular demonstration of 0 few days ago. BAILEY A CANDIDATE. c Tho Houston l'ont I'lihllnhcH u Special to . ,f That KflVct. y The Houston, Texas, Post prints a 10 staff special in which it is definitely i, and decisively announced on authority ' of of himself that Congressman Joseph as \V. Bailey, democratic leader in the no late congress, will he a candidate for id United States senator to succeed Cliiln ton, whose term expires March 1th, 1901. n|?n stand for re T6- .M1'. MIII1IIII nin ... he election nnd there are also meutioued of other prominent democrats, lly Hat A (<()>'('I LI.<) OFF FOR PARIS. the ? in Aarntof Airiilunlilo Pi ar? Aincrlciina llnve nincoTpri'il Ilia rimi of Communication. A Loudon cablegram says: Agonible of Aguinaldo and the ror members of the former statr of the Jon' Filipino at Washington, have gone to ing- P,ir's order to confer with the Fililiot* P'no j'H'ta there. ver' Neither body has received news from Ison ^lo Philippine islands during the past irith- days. They say they feai the Americans have discovered and stopthe ',01' ,iu>an ' ?' getting news from omi- Manila. were III RIAL PERMIT REFUSED iccial Willie Woman In Savannah U'luhnl 1 1,(1,1 Ito Hurled Ainonfr Ni-itrnr*. itores Miss E. A. I'liilo, white, from W# ill tho terford, X. Y., for many years teacln in the Haven home for colored chili n the roil died at Savannah adavorlwoag ,e the One of her last requests was tli ' ... i....I,, i,,. hnricd i*t ! e colored i>e six at in-' room pie's Her attendants ivm of the l.v promised to comply with lr wis o mob 1>itt when u burial per.nit .i-? :i pii? ?I for n lejjnl ?i fiic:i!ix as i list the '"iriti rcii. I*tio permit *. atlni rdcrcd ore, refused. Hin HK CYCLONE L'ES OUT A WHOLE FAMILY IN AIAUA.MA. I OUT OF FLEVFN WERE KILLED slllngr. l>oiiiollnho<l iiimI Tr?e? Pulled Up Ity Knot*?Ennrmou* I>i*mnge Wrought. terrific cyclone struck Cleburne nty, Ala., near Edwardsville, at 7 ock Saturday night and there wa? i of life and great damage to propr. 'he storm had a wide path and was ;reat force. Trees were pulled out tho roots, fences blown for miles houses jjicked up like featherB smushed to pieces, he home of Lewis Coffee was litly blown to splinters and ten out deven in the family killed. Tho is as follows: iewis Coffee, aged fifty-five, tax astor of Cleburne county; Mrs. Cofaged forty-six; Leila, aged twenty; James, age<l tweuty; Lula, nged iteen; Jacob, aged thirteen; Dejo, ageil eight; Dollie, age?l ten; >ver, aged six; John, aged four, lessie Coffee, aged twelve, the only t uining member of the family, will i ho home of Coffee stood on a little lie, with eleven members of his ily, including his wife, were witliund their awful feelings ns death ie can only be surmised. The large liouso was picked up bodily and bed to pieces, while the inmates e dashed up and down until life extinct, finally to land at least 200 Is away. When help came all but were dead, Ilessie, the daughter, d twelve, who was fatally hurt. Iturli'ft III Olio (al'HVf. undny morning arrangements were 10 for the funerals. It was decided lay them all side by side in one ve and the gruve digger was given order. The excuvation was six ; deep and was eight feet long and and "a Vhou sand*peopl^w?i^?^^ he old home, torn and tattered, illed the fact only that it had once 11 the abiding placo of the Coffees, u whom none in the county stood ;her. .... .. mmediately after demolishing the [Toe family and home the storm uck the residence of J. W. Wilder, was completely destroyed, but he r any of his family wore at home ot j j time. , ' \ndrew Stiepnn's home went down xt. Mrs. Stiepan and her little ba ?i,oiicath Iocs and both were tuu^u*. . ^ ^ riously injured. The cyclone at tliis point broke niiiKt ft mountain, and went toward uskndine, eight miles cast Edwardslie, where Hooper's big grist mill as blown down. From All that can be learned the eyone originatetl at Iron City, and two ouds forming the funnel-shaped one, it together just ahead of Coffee's Duse. In addition to the dead, a long list f injured has been compiled. Those who saw tho cyclone say tha' lesides an immense fuunel-shapet loud, it bounded along like a rubbe all, rising at intervals and leapinj or several hundred yards without do ng any damage. Then when it d? tceuded it would pick up houses an rruah them to pieces, uproot trees c twist them off level with the groun and sweep all before it. Near Heflin a white woman, wlioi namo could not be learned, was kill* and live persons in the same famil hurt. It is estimated that about lif buildings weie destroyed, betwei twenty and twenty-five persons i jured, in addition to those killed, ai over a score of farms devastated. The path of the cyclone presents terihlo scene of havoc. Timbors wrecked houses are scattered in ev< direction. Home were carried hi into tho air and others were drn deep into the ground or through * trees. Mnny head of cattle were k ed. But for tho fact that tho coun over which the stormed passed sparsely settled, the loss of life wo have been much greater. Thoro w many marvelous escapes. m1les talks to lkoislatow i Mrs. Mllt-n Win l'nmt rated at Itepo Sherman's Ueatli. XT\ Miles Major Uenerni 11 Cinuu ... ito<l the Massachusetts legislator n Boston, Tuesday. Each branch a recess after General Miles ha< k. dressed them, during which the ! hers were presented to the visitor j. .Inst after leaving the statehous ,, of tin- afternoon papers containin ,i? uunoiincement that Mr. Sherina n. died was shown the general. |j. The contradictory report wa j, received for s<me hours late while General Miles expressed i,. tent ion of carry out the day gram, Mrs. Miles requested tl numerous engagements he can A Igor ^ '" *? ' $& HHtiou tcrmA^MLt, one of the cauipa In th? neighbqti of Atlanfe^Ct*. The CTlr a h? ip/nber of troops to be locati at any one camp will not be large, f It is said at the department that on about 15,000 soldiers will bo locatei but there is likely to be much chun ing around among the men. Troops returning from Cuba are 1 be detained in the Georgia cam] about twenty days at least before b ing sen/ to their homes or to the nortl em podts. HAM(| AM) REED PKOMENAVl A Clone Conference 11.1,1 It?twrrn I*rc ItWnt'n A<lvlncr mid Ivnumy, A press correspondent at Jeck; Islam?/ wires that a close confcreni between Speaker Reed and Senate M ark/Han na was the special feat in of Tuesday's stay of the presidentii part*. .J>t was held at Sans Souei, an tLe li^k"-hat it was held was careful] kep*' ,111 the public. t apparently not ? too pleusai conference, judging by the look on tl fnc/of the big speaker, while ho wi watting arm in arm with Hani thpugh the hallway of Sans Souc has been a long time since I hit'"had a very pleasant look on h ft&* flnst how much there was of th e/nfercnce, there is, of course, no tel ilg STATE GIVES ROM). tcorglii Required to Pny For I'rlvllejfo Appriilinic From Dcclnlon. The supereedeas bond which Jud| ppeer'of the United States court, Maoon. required the state of Georg when he granted the motion /he<attorney general to appeal fro Southern r. i? O.^ax iotlmnn received from Atlanta. The bona for $250. JULES CAM RON 1>ELE WATER Hy Queen Urgent to lttprmrnt Spain Ratification of Trenty. Advices from Madrid state that 1 queen recent has signed the dec giving Jules Cambon, French ami sudor at Washington, full power represent Spain at the exchange of ratification of the treaty of peace v the United States. LIEUTENANTS INELIGIBLE. Four Men Discharged Iterance of liolUvnrnii Ahead of Academy Clasi i The w ?r (i*.r has been i fied that four of the B'ecoiiti ?i?recently appointed in the army, ing been previously discharged ! the West Point Military acadi t were therefore ineligible for app ment. ' The provision of law is thn j cadet who lias been discharged r be appointed in the army ahead < g class in which he was serving. A TAX ON MA RBI AWE. Revenue Slnmp Most Bf Attach . l.tcriine* Wlion ItMiol. 1 A dispatch from Huntsville, Ala. Probate Judge Stewart has re< notice from the government th I marriage licenses issued from hii must be stamped with n 50-cen ^ nue stamp. This will increase the cost o u(j riage licenses to $1.50. , ft MUSTER ROLL OF CUBAN Government Onicinla Learn Deflnl try Number of Goniec'a Men. A special from Have.na say ,?n Cuban army has 13,219 men e ,.e This number includes corpor J sergeants, but excludes comnr 7 oflicers. The figures are the i the official inquiry iuatitutec u the direction of the departnn ere manders for tho use of tire mil ministration. !S* MILES CHAMPIONS WIIE rt of Declares lie Is Not a Party to t ? !... lotto General. vis- * o nt A Washington dispatch sn took attempt to make General Mile il ad- sildo for the attack upon nem- Wheeler, recently einphasi/ the war department with a ie one preventing his becoming a ig the the regular army, is another n had anti-Miles crusade. Now Miles indignantly denies tl s not been in any v.ay a party t?i r and on General Wheeler. Ho liis in- all along the consistent 's pro- W lieeler and now wants hi int her penuanent and prominent p celled, army. ?r ? e-1 # 0d * l Prudential Ins ?o ?^OF AIV eli Home Office, % E* Newark, N. J. J - Assets, July i, 1898, y\ Surplus, July 1, 1898, ; STRONG AS Tl &I I 1 ( ~ I te Jf-Zz is in!*/' in .o is ijmi is JSKEjifc tK9f/\2lV:t^4r'/ of UaS-'JW^/V' S is *? i fi 11IT^-^ nt ^^^p|PP8S|gn?^^ ;ia Income for i8g"]. - - - The Prudential has forged it ,n front rank of the great life ^ offers all that is good in life reo JAMES O. WYNN, asto C. T. RAWLS, den the m M. A. riOORE, J I Ini. Api. iotiUo'v wodern plant! SI LUMBEP t no Our capacity in our li Bhfu lumber is sold in nearly ev ) {10 If your dealers do not ke< they get it at once, or wri into buying a substitute, u ed to good." 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