Savannah Tribune

Published by The TRIBUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY. V)L. XV. HALF HUNDRED MINERS KILLED Most Disastrous Explosion Ever Known In West tVigrinia. ENTOMBED WITHOUT WARNING Relief Parties From Surrounding Mines of the District Rush to the Rescue. A special from Fire Creek, W. Va., says: The most disastrous mine explosion ever known in the New River district occurred at the Red Ash mine shortly after the miners went to work early Tuesday morning. Although the most heroic work of the rescuing party had been going on incessantly all day it was impossible at the time to estimate the full extent of the loss of life and property. More than fifty dead bodies were soon taken out and the number of dead men may reach eighty-five more. It was thought Tuesday night that at least forty-five were still entombed in the wrecked mine. The Red Ash mine is a large drift and the explosion occurred near the entrance, which was this closed by falling slate, autombing a large number of miners. The scene of the disaster is between Fire Creek and Thurmond, on the south branch of the Chesapeake and Ohio railway, and every assistance possible was rendered by the railway company and by the adjoining mining towns. Relief parties from great distances arrived as soon as possible. State Mine Inspector Pinckney with a corps of experts and many workmen were constantly on the ground rendering all assistance possible and devoting his attention more toward relief than to an official investigation as to the cause of the disaster. J. Fred Effinger, of Staunton, Va., the present owner of the mines, spared no effort in the work of rescue and relief, and his manager, Ferdinand Howell, had all the men available at work in trying to clear away the debris and rescue the entombed men. The managers and bosses of all the mines in the district hurried to the scene as soon as possible and joined in the work of rescuing. The work was greatly impeded because of the extent of the enormous blockade at the entrance to the drift. At the mouth of the mine the scene was beyond description, the wives and children and the neighbors of those who were known to be entombed were there in full force and their anxiety and distress was most intense. After the men got under headway in the work of rescue they reached the first party in less than an hour, but they met greater difficulties after that time. It was then that telegrams were sent to other towns for physicians, nurses and caskets, but during the greater part of the day there was use only for the caskets. All work was stopped in the surrounding mines of the district and the people within a radius of many miles assembled on the grounds of the Red Ash company. Had the accident occurred an hour later many more would have been entombed in the mines. The estimates on the number in the mines when the explosion occurred are based on the number who went in at 7 o'clock. The manager stated that by 8 o'clock there would have been twice as many men in the mines. As victims were brought to the surface and carried away upon the hastily constructed stretchers, it was frequently noticed that many met their husbands, fathers, brothers and sons among the rescuers when they thought these men were in the mines. These meetings were very affecting. The population of the mining village is only 500. All are miners and very many of them are related and they all know each other. There was great distress all day among those who could not find their friends or hear from any one that they had seen them since the explosion. CHINN SUES FOR DAMAGES. Wife of Frankfort Merchant Says She Saw Him Shoot Goebel. Colonel Jack Chinn, the turfman and politician, who was with the Democratic governor, William Goebel, when the latter was assassinated, has filed a suit for libel against Mrs. Kate M. Banta, wife of a merchant at Frankfort. The first paragraph charges that defendant, in the presence of various people, declared that she saw Chinn "shoot Goebel from behind," and that by this libelous declaration he has been damaged in the sum of $25,000. NOT YET WHIPPED Filipino Insurgents Determined to Carry On the Struggle. AMERICAN OFFICIALS ARE SUSPICIOUS Many Supposedly Loyal Natives Sympathize With Rebels and Prove to Be Traitors. Reports reach the Associated Press from various sources, including army officers and the heads of commercial houses with agents throughout the islands, of continued activity among the insurgents who are endeavoring to keep alive the armed opposition to the United States and are planning to continue the insurrection with guerrilla warfare on a larger scale when the rainy season begins. A person holding a position second only to that of the governor general tells the Associated Press he is convinced that the insurgent organization has been remarkably rehabilitated during the past month, particularly in the northern provinces. He says the insurgents have a secret organization patterned after the Katipunan methods, even in the strongest garrisoned towns, affording perfect means of communication, and that the machinery is managed from Mauila, some of the leaders being Filipinos pretending to be supporters of the American administration, and many of the municipal governments installed by the army forming part of the machinery. Two correspondents of leading American weeklies who have traveled for a month in Benguel and Ilocos with letters to insurgent chiefs, going alone fifty miles from garrisons and being everywhere hospitably received, say the people make no secret of their sympathy with the insurrection. Although a lmitting that the Filipino soldiers abuse them, they still protect these soldiers from the American scouting parties. They claim to have communication with aguinaldo. Paterno, in the northern mountains of Manila, is full of civil and military officials of all ranks of Aguinaldo's government who were captured or surrendered and who were brought here and released on promises to refrain from agitation. While many of the insurgent municipal officers were continued in office on taking the oath of allegiance, residents who are acquainted with them have little faith in their adherence to their promises. All the civil officials of Tarlac, capital of the province of that rame, numbering eleven persons have been arrested and charged with plotting, and two insurgents have been captured at Malabon with incriminating papers and $4,000 collected from the natives. Some of the municipal governments appear loyal and efficient. On the other hand, one American general declares that he believes the majority in his province are agents of the insurrection. A fresh issue of inarugent pamphlets is being circulated, asserting that the American promises of good government are merely a mask for commercial exploitation of the Philippines, quoting Senator Beveridge's speech and an editorial from a Washington newspaper headed "Let Us Be Honest." The trial of the guerrilla charged with murder is finished and it is believed the commission's verdict will be guilty. Indictments against others have been prepared. No report has been received from General Bates's expedition. He has probably moved inland, where communication with him is impracticable. The army throughout the island of Luzon is working, scouring the country for insurgents and killing a few daily. The section from Manila to Dagupan has been thoroughly cleared, the scouting parties being unable to find any insurgents. General Funston and Colonel Kennan took 200 men through the mountains to Baler, on the eastern coast, without meeting an insurgent. But, they are active along the northern coast from Dagupan to Aparri. Occasional reports come of an American soldier being killed or disappearing. In the southern provinces the insurgents continue to harrass the American garrisons by night demonstrations. Argument in Clark Case. The senate committee on elections decided that argument in the Clark case shall begin on the 20th instant. Former Senator Edmunds and Mr. Birney will make the arguments for the memorialists, and former Senator Faulkner and Mr. Roger Foster will speak for Mr. Clark. Will Not Succeed Ludlow. It is said at the war department that there is no immediate intention of making any changes in the military commands of Cuba. A specific denial was made of the story that General Fitzhugh Lee is to succeed General Ludlow as military governor of the city of Hayana. SAVANNAH. GA.. SATURDAY. MARCH 10. 1900. WARNS REPUBLICANS Editor Kohlsaat of Chicago Times Herald Speaks Out. SAYS THAT THE PRESIDENT IS WRONG "Party's Action On Porto Rican Tariff Bill In the House Will Prove a Boomerang." The Chicago Times-Herald, whose proprietor is as close to President McKinley as any man in the country, Senator Hanna not excepted, prints an editorial headed, "Under the Great Wrong to Porto Rico," warning the president and the Republican party that defeat awaits them in November if a change is not made in the policy towards Porto Rico. After saying that the bill only passed the lower house of congress because the president personally urged several representatives to vote for it, the editorial proceeds: Thus was the grievous blunder committed. How grievous and fraught with what dire possibilities, not only to the Republican party but to the country neither congress nor the president could have foreseen. But they must realize now that the tariff section in the Porto Rico bill has aroused a storm throughout the country that will not down. "If congress and the president persist in their present course nothing can save the Republican party from defeat next November. "It will surely cost them the house of representatives, and it may cost them the presidency. Worse than any of these possibilities, it may involve the election of Bryan, with all that implies. "But one course is open to the Republican party. Let it face the situation with the only spirit that can compel respect in the presence of a stupendous and humiliating wrong. "Let it acknowledge the mistake and make haste to regain popular confidence by undoing the contemplated wrong to Porto Rico. "There is no shame in retreating from the verge of a precipie before taking the last irretrievable step. The only salvation for the Republican party is through the gate that gives free trade to Porto Rico. The country looks to President McKinley to rise to the full stature of a statesman who dares to acknowledge a mistake and undo a wrong." COLONIALS ENGAGE BOERS. A Flerce Sunday Battle In Which Britons Were Victors. Advices from Dordrecht, Cape Colony, under date of Sunday, March 4, stated that General Brabant's colonial division, after a night's march, attacked the Boers in a strong position at La Buschagne's Nek, on the road from Dordrecht to Jamestown. The engagement proceeded with great vigor and the Boers gradually retired before the British shell fire from three positions. A heavy rifle fire was exchanged where the British were engaging Boers on the right flank. By evening General Brabant's advance had been most satisfactory. After marching and bivouacing over night the force reached the strong entrenched positions which they occupied and now hold, the Boers being on the opposite hill. The British remained in the captured positions, although the Boers brought two guns into action and made determined efforts to retake them. The British losses are six killed and eighteen wounded. JUDGE HAS CONTEST CASE. Court Takes the Kentucky Gubernatorial Matter and Reserves Decision. Argument in the suits to determine the rights of the rival claminters for the office of governor was concluded at Louisville Saturday before Judge Field, who took the case under advisement. A decision is not expected for several days. When it is announced an appeal will be taken to the state court of appeals. This, the Democrat's claim, is the court of last resort. The Republicans, however, will try to get the case before the United States supreme court if the decision is against them. BOGUS "CAPTAIN" COMMITTED. Moyes Bound Over to Federal Court for Imprisonment Government Officer. Julius Moyse, who married Miss Bertha Warken, at New Orleans, under the name of "Captain" Clark, was tried before Commissioner Craig, of the United States court, on the charge of impersonating a government officer. He was committed to the higher court under a bond of $1,000. Moyse says his father will sign his bond. Boer Prisoners Numbered 4,660. Boer prisoners Numbered 1,000. The Boer prisoners surrendered at Paardeberg total up 4,660 men. About 3,000 of them were sent to Cape Town. Tribune. COTTON JUMPS TO TEN CENTS Product Brings Highest Price Known In Years. DEALERS BUYING UP THE CROP They are Paying a Good Price For Delivery Next Fall--How the Work Is Done. Monday at the closing of the cotton market in New York middling spots were selling in that city at 9 13-16 for uplands and 10 1-16 for gulf. May closed Saturday at 9.38-9 and Monday rose to 9.54. Atlanta spot cotton jumped up to 9½, at which point the staple was worth about $47 per bale, which is more than it has brought in some years. Cotton is worth about $10 per bale and the crop is worth about $90,000,000 more than it was on New Year's day. The cotton market is excited and speculation as usual is heavy, but the most remarkable and significant feature of the present situation is that cotton houses are buying next fall's crop, seven to ten months ahead of time. This is not a purchase of futures in the ordinary sense, but a contract to take actual cotton when it matures and is ready for market. Prominent cotton firms are offering to take next fall's crop at 71 to 8 cents, and a great deal of cotton has been sold to them already. It is reported on what appears to be good authority that the fertilizer companies, who will receive an immense amount of cotton in payment for fertilizers, have already sold their contracts at 71 cents to cotton houses. The Virginia Carolina Chemical company supplies a large part of the fertilizers sold in Georgia and other southern states, and is reported to have sold an immense quantity at 850 pounds of cotton per ton. This would make the Virginia Carolina Chemical company long on fall cotton, and it is reported that they sold or agreed to sell their cotton contracts to a prominent cotton house for 74 cents. This would net them $27.12 per ton for fertilizers which sold last year below $20. Thus a large part of the cotton crop of this section has been bought with fertilizers at a boom price and sold for cash against the market. The question naturally arises, how can the cotton houses afford to buy next fall's crop? The answer is that they can sell it as they buy it, ahead of time, and they do so. The speculative market is such that fall cotton can be sold in New York at a fraction over 8 cents, and when a cotton firm buys cotton for actual delivery next fall, it protects itself from the hazard of the market by buying futures to the same extent. The question arises again, how does it profit them to buy and sell at the same figures, paying commissions and other expenses? They contract ahead of time for the handling of so much cotton, on every bale of which they make the ordinary profits of the business. In other words, they are securing business ahead of time and ahead of their competitors. Other motives have been attributed to the cotton men. It has been suggested that they wish to handle a big crop because their profits figure at so much a bale, and knowing the effect of such an offer on the acreage, are publishing it broadcast in the planting season. Whether the have any such motive or not, there can be no doubt that the offer of 7 to 8 cents for the fall crop will induce the farmers to plant very heavily. The trouble about it, so far as the farmers are concerned, is that it will induce many to plant beyond their means who will not be careful to make themselves safe in doing so. The publication of these advance offers for next fall's crop will affect the action of hundreds of thousands of planters, who will be in no wise protected. PROGBAM CHANGED. Shipping of Guns From Frankfort to London, Ky., Suddenly Stopped. The orders for the shipment of guns and ammunition from the state arsenal at Frankfort to London, Ky., by the Republican state authorities, was revoked Monday afternoon and a car loaded with munitions of war consigned to London was unloaded and its contents returned to the arsenal. The state officials give no reason for the change of program. The soldiers worked all forenoon loading the car. There is a report that the war department at Washington interfered and requested the guns and ammunition already taken to London be returned. Subscription: $1.25 Per Annum; 75c. for Six Months, 50c. for Three Months; Single Copies 5c. In Advance. FOR FREE TRADE. Senator Davis, of Minnesota, Offers Amendment to the Porto Rican Tariff Bill. Senator Davis, of Minnesota, offered an amendment to the Porto Rican bill in the senate at Monday's session. Its effect is to have the tariff laws of the United States applied to Porto Rico upon foreign imports, and allow absolute free trade between the United States and Porto Rico. He also proposes a new section as follows: For the purpose of this act the following provisions of the constitution of the United States are hereby extended and made applicable to Porto Rico: The congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imports and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties imports and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken. No tax or duty shall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue to the ports of one state over those of another; nor shall vessels bound to or from one state be obliged to enter, clear or pay duties in another. GOOD ROADS CONVENTION. Will Meet In Orlando, Florida, On March 22d—A Call Issued. The committee recently appointed to perfect arrangements for holding a state good roads convention in Orlando, Fla., consisting of representatives from the city council, board of trade, county commissioners, Democratic committee, have issued the following call: Believing that every citizen and every industry within the state of Florida are vitally interested in public highways, and being fully convinced of the benefits to be derived from discussion and conference over this important question, a state good roads convention is hereby called to be held in Orlando on March 22 and 23, 1900. The county commissioners of each of the several counties have been requested to appoint one or more delegates. Cities, towns, boards of trade, bicycle clubs and other organizations will send delegates. Arrangements are being made for practical expert discussion of good highways generally and the following topics will form interesting topics for discussion: Best plans and methods of construction. How shall funds be raised for road building. Bicycle paths, their construction with public highways. Improvements of streets in towns and villages. What is the best material for this purpose available in the state? An effort is being made to secure the presence of General Roy Stone, Hon. W. L. Wilson, of the United States department of agriculture, and other men of national reputation to attend. SOUTHERN PROGRESS. The Various New Industries Established the Past week. ON MISSION OF PEACE. Commander-In-Chief Shaw of G. A. R. Preaches Fraternity. General Shaw, commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, addressed a large audience at Norfolk, Va., Tuesday night. There were many Union and Confederate veterans present, and he was cheered to the echo as he announced that he was just starting on a tour of twelve southern states, and that his mission was one of peace and concord, equal to the present and reaching to the future. He pleaded eloquently for unity and fraternity and made a profound impression. NO. 22. SAYS CUBANS WILL REVOLT Tennessee Just From Island Predicts Trouble TO BEGIN WITH ELECTION DAY On the Other Hand General Wilson Declares That Islanders Are Satisfied and Serene. A Nashville dispatch says: Colonel Frank M. Gardenshire, a prominent citizen of Chattanooga, well known over the state, has just returned from a trip to Havana. Gardenshire, in an interview, predicts an uprising on the day of the Havana municipal election this month. He says: "In my opinion there will be serious trouble in Havana on the day of election. I have several personal friends in Havana, and this seems to be the impression among them. "According to a late regulation, promulgated by General Wood and other authorities, 60 per cent of the voters will be disfranchised. Under the recent order the qualifications of a voter were that he must be able to read and write and own $250 worth of property. This rule was advocated by the Spaniards and the more intelligent classes in Havana. The regulation almost shuts out the average run of natives, and many of them declare that if they are not permitted to vote in the election there will be some throat cutting on election day. "The people from the outside country are now moving into Havana, and all want offices. Some of them are fighting for places on the police force, while there are just twelve candidates in the race for mayor." "The natives seem to hate our soldiers worse than the Spaniards, but the impression prevails among the officials at Havana that the Cubans would in engage in rows among themselves the minute the troops are withdrawn. In fact, so far as I could see, the gardening and farm work is being done by Chinamen." SAYS CUBANS ARE SATISFIED. Generel James H. Wilson, military governor of the department of Matanzas-Santa Clara, in the course of an interview regarding Cuban affairs, said to the correspondent of the Associated Press, now in Matanzas: "Trouble is absolutely out of the question. The future depends largely upon agricultural prosperity, and where work is plentiful, wages are good and a country is prosperous, no sensible man wishes to alter conditions. If sugar goes to the United States free or nearly so, there will be such an infux of capital and of immigration as would render Cuba ere long one of the richest and most prosperous countries in the world. "The cattle industry yields enormous profits, particularly as respects working cattle, which can never be replaced by mules, because the peculiar conditions are better adapted to cattle. Coffee, timber and fruit also offer great inducements to capitalists, and tobacco planting yields almost immediate returns. "I don't consider that the immediate future of Cuba depends chiefly upon schools, roadmaking, improved sanitation or judiciary reform, although, of course, these things are of very great importance. The best thing the United States can do for Cuba and the Cubans is to give every opportunity for improving the value of the land by putting it to the best uses. In this way capital could do an immense amount of good here, as well as get large returns. I suggest supplying cattle for working purposes on a time basis, accepting regular rates of interest, which should be about 1 per cent per month. Cattle can be landed here at a cost of $70 a yoke, which, once here, would bring more than $150. "Large numbers of working cattle are required by reliable and hard-woking men who are anxious to obtain them. Were I a man of twenty-five, with energy and some capital, I should certainly look upon Cuba as one of the best places to accumulate wealth." McMILLIN ENTERS RACE. Present Governor of Tennessee Will Try United States Senatorhip. The senatorial race in Tennessee now has three entries. Governor Benton McMillin is an assured starter, the contest thus becoming three-cornered. For sometime Congressman E. W. Camack, at the tenth district, and David L. Snodgrass, chief justice of the supreme court of Tennessee, have been candidates while, with no expression from the governor, his friends have been actively at work in his interest. The matter was settled Monday by a speech delivered by Governor McMillin to a large gathering at Pulaski in Giles county. 5 Savannah Tribune, Boe PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY Tat [BUNF PUBLISHIN. & ST, JULIAN STREET, | N. EB, CORNER MARKET SQUARE. | subscription Rates. Ome ear cee ce aes 2 oeeeee Bh | SEX WOathsreccseeersceees --seeere + ahd Taree Moatys veces ceveeene 60 Remittances wnat be made ty Postal ~ete Maes Order Registered Letter Oo: Nroreas| Official Cryso of che Masonte Grand, Lodge af the State of Georgis OE SEGIATEKED ar SEVOND-CLA hy WATIRA at Tum SAVAKKAE Post OFFICE. elena Manas re SaTunvay, MaKcH 10, 1900. Certain men can run certain things but they surely can not run the republican party of Georgis. -Dipy’r Tus Triponx tell you so. Always listen to our prediction and you will ever be on the band wagon. By the passage of the separate car Taw in Virginia, the entire territory of atates south of Washington com pels the race to be separated. Tue edacation of the heart, head and bands do‘not hurt our boys and girls, but would make them citizens that would be honored im any coun- try. Wa have two ministers in this county who take part in politica, but they.do not go wround dividing the peuple and otherwige creating strife. Witt we stick to our college, or continue in poiitics? Will the com- miasion allow this state of affairs to continue to the detriment of this useful institution ? Tue true republicans of this dis- trict have great cause to rejoice over the triumph of justice and the over- throw of men who adds nothing to the purty’s interest. ‘Tz anniversary issue of the Pro- gressive Era of Athens waa well il- Justrated with “cuts” of some of the leading men of Athens and of the atute. ‘Lue THIBUNE congratulates the Era. Iv Christ was on earth would He act as vertam of the ministers who are said to be His followers, in that they mix in politics and adopt any m-thod matters not how quéstion- able to carry a point. Tue Republicans of the atale are proud of the fact that President Me- Kinley will spend a few days within its borders. He will be here about the 15th of the month and will pass through Savannah for Thomasviile. Iv the legislature of Mississippi ‘on Momlay, an anti-mob law was paserd. It places a penalty on the sheriff for allowing any prisoner to be taken from his custody and lynched. {1 is a goud law if eufurce ed. ‘Tire state convention 18-over and at is huped that the contentious ones ure satisfied. ‘The cohvention was attended by a more represen'at Te body of men than ever, and the pro- ceedings were more dignitied and in keeping with the body. Wouxp the white citizens tolerate Chancellur Hill if he mixed up in politics aud at the sume time endtay- or todivide the people? The presi dent of the dolored college doin; such a thing should not be tolerated @ particle mure. A BILL has been introduced in Congress to appropriate the sum of eight dollars per month to the wid- ow of the murdered postmaster Ba- ker of Lake City, SG. ‘This ia a mall amount to offer a widow with several children whose main support was murdered in the service of his country. It is hoped that when the bill is pluced on its paesage, the amotnt will be increased. Tue Darien Spectator has recent- ly celebrated its anuiversary. The Spectator is one of our sprightly and most pugetual state exchanges and is doing yoeman service for the race. ‘Ihis can not he helped when it has auch an excellent race man at its helm as Editor J. L. Grant. Bro. Grant 1s forcing himself to the front and if he continues. will be the lead- er of his county, and in him the peo- ple would hyve a safe une. We returned from South Georgia a fewdaygago Thecolored man that visits Savannah and other places in Sonth Georgia will come away eaying ae Negro has friends in Geor- gia.2Savannah is the freest spot in the South forthe Negro, There you find the white-man standing for the Negro,and the Negro standing for thegwhitémnan. We urge thecolored pecile of Suyaunah and that section to keep in-touch with their white friends. Think of it, two hundred and more Negroes in thé city stock- ado,of Athinta, and. the whi-e people of Sayanoah fornishing work br the Negroes, 80 that there can be no loaf- sing, and-not twenty-fiycin the stock- “Sep Great people—these white peo- Paigatan Age: s * ye ws . Wier * . RF A Pertinent Thought. Are our churches measuring up ‘o their full duties? Are they fally assidnons in leading the people to those things that would benefit them more and the churches in compari- gon? Whatisneded more by our people especially, is more practica- bility in their church relation. The city is dotted all over with ghurches, and a large per cent. of ‘the citizens are regurded as being ‘true members; if they were such, it seems as if the results would be otherwise. If the churches were carrying out fully their functions we would have a larger and_ better class of citizens. We would not dare say that we have not a large class of the best citizens as can be found elsewhere, but the class ie small tol what it should be in com- parison to the large number that has publicly declared at « sacred shrine tw become better in every reapect, and to live more in accordance with the divine commands. ‘There are exceptions, but mainly the churches are to be blamed for the carelessness of members." : « It is to be blamed for having such a large number of hot-chureli ener in our midst; it ia to be blamed for not reaching out and save the young boys and girls on our streets who are daily going to perdition. What ie the use of sending hundreds of dol: lars to foreign fields when there i go much need for the eame right here in our midst. Every person who is observant would declare this ‘The large per cent. of our real pong boys who are prcticing the whiskey habit issppalling. Of course the parents to a great extent are respon. sible for this, but if the church had a better grasp on the parents anc had better facilities for rraching the young, much of this degredatior would be obviated. : We hare in this city a well organ ized ministers union, whére interest: ing topics are discussed. Some o! these ministers are alive to thea questions and would aid in ‘an movement to better the condition o! the people. One of the main things for'them to do is to teach the people to live their religion, thereby caus. “ing the non-church members to fol. low auit, and by doing this they wil have better homes and be better abl to train their children, and lessening the number of boys and girls that are daily going to ruin, muking bet. ter citizens of all, hating homes that would compare with the best, and secure an enviable reputation us z rate that would luat through agea. More serious thought should be given along these linese, aud action m commensuration taken. A LARGE number of thrifty farm. ers among our people are leaving the state bound fur various places, They are determined to do this on account of the lawleas element in the state and the manner in which a large number of them hare been deult with ; not oply inhumanly but minch advantage has been taken of them in business tranesctions whiclt they have been powerless to resent. On account of this ill-treatment and undue advantage the atate is losing a large per cent of the necessary ad- junct to its agriculioral pespentty and will be the means undoubtedly, of causing some farmers to raise short crops and otherwise hurting the stare: The colored citizens of the rural districts will’continue leaving the state until they are treated in a becoming manner. “Like priest, like people,” is pecu- liary true of the Negroes of America —what they are to-day is almost wholly the result of the life and re ligious teaching of their ministers. And the masses of these beaple will never rise beyond the moral, intel- lectual and spiritual lerel of their preachers. For this, and muny other Teasong, those who have the induct- ing of men into the ministry ought to be exceedingly careful to see tu it that none but men who hare been properly trained, and who are gound- ly converted are set apart to the all important work of preaching the gospel. The perzon who knowingly assists in placing an immoral man in the ministry commits a henious crime and “becomes a partaker of other men’s sins.—Evangelist. Cart. M..J. Doris knows now that he can not win by having cer- iain men to lead his cause. ‘ Locals. Dr. E-D. Bulkley, brother of Pro Bulkley, of the state college, arrived in the city on Saturday last from New York. Dr Bulkley is a den- tist and is reputed to be an excellent one. He will locate here and prac- tick his profession. His office will be at the old atand of the late Dr. Lambert, on Oglethorpe avenue and Houston street, The doctor is young and affable, and with his knowledge of hie profession, will build up quite 8 practice. On Monday last a farmer’s con- ference was held at the state college. A anmber of farmers in this vicini- ty were present and the proceedings Were interesting. The advice given was good and will prove beneficial to them. The holding-of thées confer- ences is indorsed. . WRIGHT AND LOVE DEFEATED. _ REPUDIATED BY THESTATE. Strife Breeders and Convention Split - tersAreFrowned Upon. ~ - “WRIGHT'S NAME HISSED” ‘LOUDLY | -BY THE CONVENTION. «| | Enthuaslastic Mecting of The State Republicans In Adianta. a Sane See Nearer Swen mnaTee, met in Atlanta on Wednesday. ‘T'lte delegation was Jurge and very enthu- siastic. It was a representative gath- ering and the key-note of republican success at the polls in Nurember, was sounded. The day ,before the convention, the State Central Committee met. Much important business was trans- acted. Oneof the most important transactions was the settling of the contesta in the State. The most-important of these was that of Chatham county. There were really ‘no:grounds for a legal contest but the committee patiently gave the contestants time to state their grievances. > The contestants were the Wright- Love-Duyle element, as against the regular organization, hey made no point by which the cummitree could give them uny hape and the verdict wag rendered against them. | This same element caused contests to be presented from every county mt ‘the First district aginst the regu- Nar organization. ‘The committer aecing through their game, decided againgt them in every county in this dietrict where they had a contest. ‘The committee endorsed the ac- tion of Sceretary Deveaux in his enrullinent, The committee were almost uvanigmous in the choice of Jotinson, Lyons, Rucker and John- non as delegates. . THE CONVENTION. Promptly at noon on Wednesday the State convention was called to order by Chairman Walter I. John- son. in the capitol. Cards ot adinis- sion were ismied to the regular dele- gates only, thus obviating the ecene enacted oy the Wright-Luve coum gent in our county convention. Hon. H P Farrow, of Gainesville, was elected temporary chairman, The committee on credentials was appointed and during the interim speeches were made by prominent men. Bishop Turner was present and spoke on African emigration, and Capt. Judson W. Lyons also made a ringing address ridiculing the idea, The committee on credentials was out quite a while and it finally re- ported, which report gave entire sat- isfaction ‘The contest in the First district was'decided in favor of the regular organization, which was a complete Deveaux victory. Alter the report ofthis committee the temporary organization was made permanent, and according ta the prediction fade some weeks age. Col. W. A. Pledger was made perma- nent chairman. ‘he business was then carried through minutely. | WRIGHT HISSED. Col. Johnson, Capt. Lyons, Mr. Rocker and Lawyer,Juhnson, were nominuted as delegates-at-large. Some one moved to substitute Prof, R. R. Wright in plact of I. L. John- gon ; at the mere mention of Wright’s name, it was vigorously hizeed by the convention. ‘The original four names were elected amid thunderuns applange, and the convention resoly- ed itself into a veritable love-feast. To add to the discomfort of the Wright contingent, there was not even a second to their chief’s nomi- nation, : Col. W. H. Johnson was elected chairman, and Col. John H. Deveaux re-elected secretary of the State Cen- tral Committee. The convention recognized the national delegates elected from the First district in the persons of Col. Joho H. Deveanx and Hon. W. R.| Leaken. | Col. Deveaux has received a great | many telegrams congratulating him on hia great victory. . | _ The plutform udopted was a ring- | ing one, endoraing the udminigtra-. tion and the state leaders. The following are the delegates from the eleven districts: First District—J. H. Deveaux and W R. Leaken, Savannah. P | Second District—J. L. Reddick, Dawson, W. F. Satterwhite, Albany. Third-Distriet—J. 'T. Nobles, Per- ry, BL. G? Hull, Cordele, Fourth Distriet—S. — Lovejuy, Greenville, E. H. Clements, Colum aces = ¥ . Ae wie = SV alt Ss fm STALWARTS ON GUARD. Fifth District—E. F. Bludgettand C.G. Winbish, Atanas. | Sixth Distriet-—R PD. Locke, Ma- con, I. W. Wood, Forsyth. | "Seventh Distriet—J. J. Hamilton and M.G. Parker, Rome. ig | Eighth Districi—W, A. Pledger rand M. B. Morton, Athens. | Ninth District—IL. S. Ingersoll, Dahlonega, J. It. Allen, Jusper. Penth Disiret—E. A. Williams, Warrenton, PIL Crarg, Augusta, Eleventh District —W, Hl. Mat- thews Brunswick, R.G Grier, Dub- Ns Rambler and Gabe. | HALCYON DAYS OF THE FUTURE. ‘This is a queer country in which we live—that is, some of the people ure very, very queer. Instance: a certain paper which, by its influence, intimations wud teachings, bave caused more Negroes to be lynched than probably any other one agency ; that has dethroned the reason ol many whites aud canseil bloodshed, disorder and sJf-feeling to spring up between the 1aces in the South, has the effiontery to Clanh in one breath that itas in favor of law and order while m the next it says: ~The existence of a law merely on paper, without the moral backniy of j the people, is destructive of the faw- abiding ‘instinct whith is hkely to i govern men. Its an easy thing to ‘place upon the statutes a require- -menct which vanpot find enlorcement, ,but itis uot au eny thing, when ‘people have been taught to look up- on such luwsas dead fetters, to bring them back aga toa coutcptiun ot What is due to them.” When peuple are taught to disre- gard the statutory laws aud to 1msti- tute Judge Lyneh, as this paper has been duing for years, the peuple can not be easily brought to a concep- ton of woat they due the consuin- ted law ‘The paper from which the wbhove excerpt Wis Laken ts accessory cbefure the fast tu the death of hundreds of nnecent: Negives with- Un the past few years by arousing une fury of white men to 2 jnteh beyoud selt-control. In this condition ‘they hive constituted themselves judge, and jury and without 2 court of ree- ord bave meted eut iustant, termble und uninerted turtire dnd death to many, And yet this same paper speaks depreatingly and disparuging- Jy ut our statutory laws enacted by mien in their most sober, sound and Jusiice-iovin, munds. Wesettan the power of this great? bar Urucle, the Lith and 13th amend- ments lu the cunstitunuu would be sepealed, the emaneipauon precluu- atiup nulitficd and the Neyrues re- manded back intu slavery. But tuank Gad, the power and influence Which at covets ig far beyund its grasp. ‘The Atro-Americaas® have some Whe trends who are sinndiog as chivids between them and oppres- ston und Ubey ure continually tule plying. Let us remam faituful to the Jaw and true to our citizenship; the future is big with hope and our aspirations will yet be suustied. Lhe time will come when race caste will be crushed out, discriminating laws, avulished, the brotherbuod of nian recognized, & common crtizenshiper- eiprocated, the nnilk of human kind- ness uveillow the breasts of the peo” ple and Eunopia stretch forth her baud unto Gud. In those hifeyon days uSman will be recognized“as “A man for ’u that,* MINOR MUSINGS, Ob, yes, “I told you so!” What some people call bravery is, to my miud nothing less than fool- hardiness ‘This is exactly what I think of the Boers in South Arica, ‘They pose ug marty pretend to love, fear und serve God, yet mete out the must barbarous cruelty upon the helpless blichs of that country. What a ridiculots anomaly of phar- asixcal hypocrisy to see a people’ striving to make the world b-heve they me so intensely christian by reading Useir bibles” and singing psalms and praying long prayers while shooting the lif ont of the Brush, and ughtening the bands of thralidum around the enslaved. blacks! ‘The latest retnrus, however, show that the British are shooting some humanny und ervibzatiun into them, . - Jb is expected henceforth that the congregation of the First African Bapust church will have the pure gospel of peace preached aunty them ur all its richness. farce and power, as. politics have, abous ,siminered down and the pastor will consequent- AED re eR Bs eee ee We desire to cull your attention to the _ —COMPLETE STOCK oF— / ... LAvTES OXFORDS.... : PINESL KIND “ so ANY SIZEOR WIDTH - ... FOR MEN'S FINE SHOES co LQOOK AT OUR ft INDOWS. cd | SEE OUR POPULAR PRICE GOODS. ng a ..,WORKINGMEN SHOES,A SPECIALTY... . GLOBE SHOE COMPANY, ~ . ‘ 22 BROUGHTON ST., WEST. 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Que, very attractive, lives on Waldburg street, easily suited, another bi? Duffy, west, any thing that looks like a man. I have other good matches to make as 300n as simtable men can be found. For further information apply enclosing 2e stamp for reply, care Tae Trt- BUSE, to Rawbeier anp Gase, MASOME “CLUMN, rox X GRAND LOPGR OFFICERS M W., WE. Terry, Grand Master, Co/ mbus, R. W.,F H. Crumbly, Deputy Grand Master, Atlanta R.W,T. M Deat, Grant Senior War- den, Kom, R. W.. J. HH. Covington, Grand Junio: Warden, Americus. R. W., GL. Bowen, Grand Treasurer. Savannah. R, W. Sol. C. Johnson, Grand Secretary avannsh One of the fundamental planks in the principle of masonry is temper- unce The lodg's throughout the state continue adding new timber to the building. No mason should d» aught that would detract from the granduer of the order. Past Master F. R. Jamés and Seo- retary F. D. James of Buck Creek, called on us on Monday. ‘They are among the loyal masons of the state. who are doing mueh to build up the order, We arealways glad to greet such brethren, . Illustrious G. W. Garvin. 33° Dep- uty for the State, for Scottish Rite, was in the city last week. Bro. Gar- Nin is an ardent worker and under: him the Scottish Rite is heing spread allover the stut.. While here he conferred the degrees on about ten brethren. ‘Cheae brethren will soon have their number augmented and organize a consistory. INustrious J. C. Beatie 33° and P. A. Kelly 33° are ut the head of the order in this city: ike - er fab, pee wee 2 igen pErEAr LEGON 7 FIRST-CLASS WORK, Prompt Delivery CAN BE OBTAINED . By Sending your Clothes to The Forest City Laundry, 05-210 Park Aree, Eat” C. H.SHEFTALL, Prop. FOR FINEST IMPORTED And Domestic Wines Brandies, Gins & Whiskies.. ELI VERUKL. Barnard oot Congress St. Lane EK, B, Knight. 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A Trave Mapne yp < Desens = _COmYRIGHTS &e, etter eur ‘opfa io fre greater at Hons strictly onsdeutfal; Handbook on Patauts suis ie tel ee “Scientific Ftierican, eh HEHECAR, Ahendsorsely iltustrated weekly. Largest fit fenee aera 2518radeny, Maye. il HUI §. Go 2etconers ey et Alabami's Coal Output. State Mine Inspector J. deB. Hooper has completed his final report on the output of coal in Alabama last year. The total output for the year amounted to 7,484,763 tons as against 8,227,763 tons for 1988, showing an increase of 916,995 tons. Our Increase of Insanity Much discussion has been aroused lately by the alarming increase of insanity. Our high rate of living is the cause astagned. In the rush for money, both men and women neglect their bodies until the breakdown comes. The best way to preserve health is by a faithful use of Hoistetter's Stomach Bitters. By curing all stomach acid this remedy prevents breakdown. It is also an excellent medicine for constipation, dyspepsia and biliosusness. On the Other Leg. Mr. Collbarbutonovich—Nelio; we depends on your honesty alright not to buy us twicte… N. Y. Town Topics. The Best Prescription for Chills and Fever is a bottle of GHOVY's TASTELESS CHILL TONIC. It is simply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. No cure—no pay. Price $60. Jack—T the roller car I came down on was full of women. It made me feel like Congressman Roberts. Mack—Had your seat contested, ch?—N. Y. Town Topics. Blood Humors Are Cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla "I was troubled with blotches on my face, and began taking Hood's Sarsparilla. After taking one bottle I was entirely cured." Miss EZHEL MIXXZ, Clarkshawn, Mass. It Purifies the Blood. "My brother had a humor in his blood which broke out in frightful sores. He began taking Hood's mansely cured him." H. L. ELLIZ, Mount Laurel, N.J. Cures All Eruptions. "My little boy had a large scrofa sore on his neck. I purchased a bottle of Hood's Sarsaparilla and it cured. I went to spring to toilel." Mrs. MINNIE YEAR, Parishville, N. Y. Eradicates Scrofula. Wrong Way to Advertise. Street boardings, covered with flashy posters, are as much a nuisance in the city as the rocks and trees defaced with hideous painted signs are on railroad lines. The place for advertisements is in a paper, not on a fence. I doubt whether the posters do advertisers any good; they seem more likely to repel than to attract business patronage. There should be a city ordinance to prohibit the disgustment of our streets. Look, for example, at the ugly sign-board fence that Mr. Elbridge T. Gerry has erected around the ruins of the Wind-sor hotel, thus adding another horror to those of the fatal fire. I hope that the Herald will continue its crusade against such unsightly and offensive attempts at publicity.—N. Y. Town Topics. It is estimated that New York burglar secured booty worth $3,500, 000 the past year. Working Women are Invited to write to Mrs. Pinkham for free advice about their health. Mrs. Pinkham is a woman. If you have painful perlods, baokaohes or any of the more serious lilis of women, write to Mrs. Pinkham; she has helped multitudes. Your letter will be sacredly confidential. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is known wherever the English language is spoken. Nothing also can possibly be so sure to help suffering women. No other medicine has helped so many. Remember this when something else is suggested. Mrs. Pinkham's address is Lynn, Mass. Her helping hand is always outstretched to suffering women. AGENTS| AGENTS| AGENTS| The grandest and finest selling book ever published DARKNESS DAYLIGHT or LIGHTS and SHADOWS OF NEW YORK LIFE BY REV. LYMAN ABBOTT. Splendidly illuminated with 520 super embroideries from fresh black photographs of real life. Ministers say: "God good it!" Everyone lives and cries over it, and Agents are so delighted all through the South-men and women. $100 to $200 month made. Send for Terms to Agents. Address HARTFORD PUBLISHING CO., Hartford, Conn. TYPEWRITERS. Write for our bargain list. Robbil machines good as new for work. Machines shipped for commutation. Largest, best and cheapest stock in the country. We rent typewriters. FLANAGANIS NO MORE Noted Georgia Murderer Cheats the Gallows at Last. DIES MISERABLY IN HIS PRISON CELL. People of DeKalb County Relieved of a Heavy Burden In His Edward C. Flanagan, the noted murderer, died early Tuesday morning in a cell of the DeKalb county jail at Decatur, Ga. The murderer of Mrs. Nancy Allen and Miss Ruth Slack had been slowly sinking for several days and the end was not entirely unexpected. He was alone in his cell when the invisible fingers of death closed about his life and severed the thread that bound him to earth, "Oh, God!" he cried out, and when his two nurses rushed into the room he was past all human aid. DeKalb county took a deep breath of relief when it was known that the little spark of life that lingered in the fifty pounds of skin and bone, known to the world as Edward C. Flanagan, was extinguished. The celebrated murderer was but a skeleton of his former self; wasted away by a malady that had attacked his feeble strength nearly two weeks ago, and suffering from a gunshot wound in his right thigh, received on the evening of January 19th last, when he, with other prisoners confined in the DeKalb county jail, made a desperate and almost successful attempt to escape. He had been shot by Sheriff C. H. Talley, who fired into the mob of prisoners as they rushed out into the jail corridor intent upon killing the sheriff and his assistants that they might gain freedom. Some days ago Flanagan secured kerosene and tincture of iron and poured both liquids into the wound, which inflamed it considerably. It is said that he also drank kerosene and tincture of iron, and Sheriff Talley asserts that this was what brought on the terrible malady which is thought to have been the direct cause of his death. Many of the citizens of Decatur went to the jail to view the body. No one was heard to express any regret at his death. Sheriff Talley mourned least of all. "I think the hand of Providence has intervened in behalf of DeKalb county," said the sheriff. "I believe there will be general rejoicing among our people. We have thought the county has been imposed upon by the way the case has been managed by his attorneys. They are blamed more than Flanagan was. The people became convinced some time ago that Flanagan was not crazy, but the ingenuity of the lawyers would probably have put the county to the expense of keeping Flanagan for two or three years more, if Providence had not come to our aid. "But, though we are not sorry that the burden has been taken off of us, still we had given him the best attention that anybody could in jail. I fitted up a nice room for him, paying the cost out of my own pocket, and showed him many special favors until his attempts to escape made such a course unwise. He attempted to escape several times." In cold cash Flanagan has cost the county of DeKalb in the neighborhood of ten thousand dollars. Needless to say the taxpayers of that unfortunate county have a lasting recollection of the irony of fate which caused the horrible deed to be perpetrated within their borders. A DEARTH OF INTEREST Manifested In. Vote On Financial Bill Conference Report. · Not probably in the history of the senate was there ever shown so little real interest in the final vote on a great measure as was manifested Tuesday in the vote on the conference report of the financial bill. The report was before the senate for nearly two weeks, yet only four speeches were delivered upon it. Bldr Loan Authorized The house of commons, in committee of the whole, Tuesday afternoon adopted a resolution to authorize a loan of £35;000,000 ($175,000,000). Tennessee's Democratic Governor Gives Two Places To Republicans. A Nashville dispatch says: Governor McMillin has announced that he has decided to appoint T. P. Marshall police commissioner and Clement Woodworth to the board of public works of Chattanooga. Both are Republicans and succeed retiring Republicans. Slot Machines Must Go. Chief Justice Nicholls, in the Louisiana supreme court, has handed down an opinion declaring the right of the city council of New Orleans to pass an ordinance prohibiting the operation of slot machines. GOEBEL LAW STILL STANDS. Bill to Repeal Kentucky Election Measure Lost On Party Vote. A Frankfort special says: The house, Tuesday, by a party vote killed the bill introduced by Representative Haswell, Republican, which proposes to repeal the Goebel election law and to substitute for it the law in force at the time of its passage and under which the election machinery was in the hands of the country indges. RECEIVERS' REPORT As to Status of Southern Mutual Building and Loan Association Affairs. Judge J. A. Anderson and Mr. M. A. O'Byrne, receivers of the Southern Mutual Building and Loan association, have filed in the office of the clerk of the superior court at Atlanta a statement of the receipts and disbursements from January 1 to February 28, 1900. The report shows the cash on hand to be $70,955.23. The receipts for the period covered were $10,226.17, and the disbursements were $1,219.99. The statement is as follows: Cash on hand January 1, 1900. Georgia receivership.....$40,726.20 Mississippi receivership.....6,344.16 Florida receivership.....14,878.69 Real estate loans in full set. tlement and on account 3,576.99 Bills receivable..... 45.20 Real estate—sale of property and rent..... 6,007.35 State Savings bank: Ten per cent dividend on reserve fund account.. 562.38 Sanders & Davis—money adv- anced by them to pay taxes on ass'n property in Cedartown, Gn..... 24.48 Interest, discount and ex- change—interest on loans..... 9.77 Total receipts..... $72,175.22 DISBURSEMENTS. Real estate loans, insurance, taxes etc..... $ 236.44 Real estate taxes, insurance and repairs..... 303.77 Sanders & Davis—refund amount advanced for taxes 24.48 Interest, discount and ex- change on deposits in Neal Loan and Banking Co..... 4.05 Postage..... 5.00 Legal expense;certified copy order of court appointing auditor, filed with court in Tennessee..... 2.25 Salary; receivers, account, compensation and office force..... 574.00 Incidental expense..... 66.00 Traveling expense..... 4.00 Total disbursements..... $ 1,219.99 Cash on hand February 28, 1900: Georgia receivership..... $49,732.38 Florida receivership..... 14,878.69 Mississippi receivership..... 6,344.16 Total disbursements..... $70,955.23 Judge Anderson stated that he thought the basis of settlement with the shareholders of the association would be determined at the present term of the superior court. Mr. T. A. Hammond, the auditor to whom the various points in the case were re- ferred several months ago, has very nearly completed the hearing of evidence and argument. If an appeal should be made from the ruling of the auditor Judge Anderson thinks a decision of the supreme court could be secured within a few months. The money hitherto collected has been from creditors who settled voluntarily, and until a judgment is pronounced as to the rights of the various parties, the receivers will not be in a position to enforce collections and to distribute the assets. DAY FOR TAX RETURNS. February 1st Is Named by Georgia Officials as the Date. At a conference between Governor Candler, Comptroller General Wright and Treasurer Speer at the statehouse last Monday the agreement was reached to fix February 1, 1900, as the day for making tax returns all over the state. Under the act of the last legislature the three officials named are required to name the day between January 1st and April 1st, but are not permitted to agree upon it until after March 1st. This requirement is made in order to prevent irregular returns and to give no opportunity for evasion of taxes. The following is the order issued by the comptroller general fixing February 1st as the day for the return of taxes: ATLANTA, GA., March 5, 1900. Whereas, the general tax act, approved December 22, 1898, requires the governor, the comptroller general and the state treasurer to fix a day between January 1st and April 1st of each of the years 1899 and 1900 as a day for making returns of taxes, which day shall not be fixed until March 1st of each of the years mentioned (as provided by the act approved December 20, 1898): It is, therefore, ordered. That the first day of February, 1900, be, and the same is, hereby fixed and designated as the day for making returns of taxes for the year 1900, hereby requiring the values of all property owned and possessed on that day to be the basis of said tax returns. Witness our official signatures this the 5th day of March, 1900. A. D. CANDLER, Governor. Wx. A. WRIGHT, Comp. Gen. W. J. PEER, State Treasurer. LUNATIC USED CLUB. Kills a Fellow Prisoner, Wounds Sheriff and Temporarily Escapes. J. B. Campbell, a crazy man in jail at Canton, Ala., brained a fellow prisoner and probably fatally wounded Sheriff J. T. Cooley Saturday morning and escaped. He was recaptured shortly afterward and returned to jail. Much excitement prevails and the jail is guarded to prevent the murderer's friends and relatives from rescuing him. KILLED BY NEGROES Young Farmer and His Babe the Viotims of Two Assassins. MOTHER AND WIFE LEFT FOR DEAD. Negro Boys Nore Hired to Do Farm Work But Took the Life of Their New Employer. A double murder was committed about ten miles from Hazlehurst, Ga., Monday night about dark by two young negroes named Butler Goosby, aged 18, and his brother, Numan Goosby, aged 15. They called at the residence of Mr. Dan Mims and stopped and hired to him to chop cotton, he having agreed to give them employment. They both had axe handles with them, and as soon as it was dark Mr. Mims went outside and one of the negroes knocked him down. They cut his throat and stabbed him in the eyes. Mrs. Mims, who was in the house, on hearing the disturbance rushed out to her husband, and she too was knocked down. The negroes thinking they had killed her, turned their attention to Mr. Mims, thereby giving Mrs. Mims time to escape. Mrs. Mims had her baby in her arms at the time she was knocked down and the shock caused by her fall injured the baby so it has since died, while Mrs. Mims is seriously hurt and the chances for her recovery are exceedingly poor. The coroner held an inquest and the deputy sheriff with his blood-hounds and a large posse of men began scouring the woods in every direction hunting for the murders. The motive of the crime is supposed to have been robbery and criminal assault. Mims was a young man, the son of John T. Mims, one of the most substantial and highly respected farmers in Appling county. Mims had been married a little over one year. M'KINLEY TO CONTROL. This Bill Gives President Full Power Over Philippine Islands. The senate committee on Philippines decided to report the bill introduced by Senator Spooner, of Wisconsin, for control of the Philippines. Senator Lodge, chairman of the committee, made the report to the senate. The bill is as follows: "That when all insurrection against the sovereignty and authority of the United States in the Philippine islands acquired from Spain by the treaty concluded at Paris on the tenth day of December, 1898, shall have been completely suppressed by the military and naval force of the United States, all military, civil and judicial power necessary to govern the said islands shall, until otherwise provided by congress, be vested in such person and persons, and shall be exercised in such manner as the president of the United States, shall direct for maintaining and protecting the inhabitants of said islands in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and religion." Declare That Mardi Gras Festivities Are Indecent and Immoral. The following was adopted by the Protestant Pastors' Association of Memphis, Tenn., at their regular meeting: "Whereas, we, the members of the Protestant Pastors' Association of Memphis, believe that the carnival, commonly known as Mardi Gras, is immoral, indecent, corrupting and injurious to the public good of our city and surrounding country; therefore, be it "Resolved, That we hereby express our disapproval of said carnival and that we earnestly entreat the people of Memphis, as Christians and citizens, to discourage by every legitimate means its observance in the future in our city." Capital Stock Increased. The Seaboard Investment Company, organized some weeks ago to develop terminal property of the Chattanooga, Augusta and Charleston Air Lina Railway, at a meeting in Charleston Tuesday decided to increase the capital stock from $30,000 to $500,000. CORBIN'S MILITARY RECORD Senator Pettigrew Asks For Courtmartial Documents of 1864. When the senate convened Saturday Mr. Pettigrew introduced and the senate passed a resolution instructing the secretary of war to send to the senate the proceedings in the courtmartial documents of 1864 against the then Lieutenant Colonel Corbin, now adjutant general of the army. Coaling Station Near Newport. The United States government has purchased a site in Portsmouth, six miles from Newport, R. I., as a coaling station. The site consists of 100 acres with a shore frontage of nearly a mile. TELLER CRITICISED REPORT. Senate Adjourned Early On Account of the Death of Representative Epes. The senate held a brief session Saturday, adjourning early on account of the death of Representative Epes, of Virginia. During the session Mr. Ross, of Vermont, spoke in opposition to the seating of Hon. M. S. Quay, and Mr. Teller spoke in criticism of the conference report upon the currency bill. A number of private pension bills were passed during the day. 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