The Weather To-day: FAIR; WARMER.
The News and Observer.
VOL. XLVI. NO. CG.
LEADS ILL NORTH CAROLINA DAILIES IN NEWS 111 CIRCOIHION.
NEW YORK'S ORGIE
OF FIRE AND LOOT
The Bowery Swept by Flames
and Thieves.
A MILLION DOLLAR LOSS
POPULATION OF 3,.j00 WERE MAI.'K
HOMELESS.
CROOKS STOLE tVtRYIHING PORTABLE
A Piano Being Amorg The Booty. ( hies of the
Dis'rict Firemen Says the Fire Was cf
Incendiary Origin. Only
Four People Irjured.
New York, May 20.—Coney Island
property to the value of nearly sl,-
000,000 was destroyed l>y tire early to
day, twenty acres in the heart < f the
summer resort section, the district
known sis “The Bowery” bein'? reduc
ed to ashes.
The two hundred buildinys burned
were located between the Bowery and
the Ocean, Tilyou’s walk on the west
and the old iron pier on the east.
These buildings ranged in si/.e and im
portance from a wabbly bathing “pa
vilion” to the handsome five-storv
Jlygea Hotel, including theatres, con
cert halls, dancing pavilions, stores of
various kinds, restaurants and hotels
of every grade. The fire made shel
terless for a time a native and tran
sient population of about 3,500, includ
ing five hundred men and women,
classed as comedians and soubrettes,
employed in the district, and silenced
no less than one hundred pianos which
have for years assisted in merry-mak
ing at Coney Island.
Jt. was nearly 3 a. ni. when a police
man discovered a blaze in a cottage
near the iron pier. A prompt response
of the fire department in answer to
the alarm had this trouble disposed of
before 3:30 and the engines were go
ing away when the same policeman
discovered another fire in Shetfei s
Balm Pavilion at the Tilvon's walk
end of the district.
In ten minutes after the second lire
started the whole Bowery district was
in wild alarm. The thousands of in
mates rushed out attired as they slept.
They were quickly joined by ill* en
tire native and over-night population,
some 10,000, whose eager interest
hampered the firemen. It was seen
that the firemen had determined to
make the Bowery the fighting line,
and then, the last hope of those south
of the Bowery that any of their houses
might be saved being gone, a pell tr.ell
rush for salvage or plunder took
place. Scores of thieves broke thn ugh
the fire lines or entered the district
from the ocean side and their work
of looting - was wholesale. A crowd
carrying off a piano was one sight
which taught the police what kind of
crooks they had to deal with.
So far as known only four persons
were injured or burned, and all will
recover. Deputy Battalion Chief Kirk
patrick says he" is convinced that the
fire is of incendiary origin. He ar
rives at this conclusion owing to the
fact that the flames broke out in two
different parts of the island at about
the same time, both places being diffi
cult of access so far as fire engines
are concerned, and from the fact that
upon his arrival he found traces of
kerosene oil along the board walk and
around both houses when* tin* tires
originated.
“THE AMERICAN WOMAN.”
Address of Mrs. W. J. Bryan to Grad
uating Class of Girls.
Jacksonville. Ills., May 26. —Mrs. \\.
J. Bryan, herself a graduate of the
academy for young women in this
city, made theVhiet address to a grad
uating class today. Mrs. Bryan spoke
on “The American Woman.” She said
among other tilings:
“The public find the American wo
man an interesting subject. This in
terest follows from the unique posi
tion in which the American women
stand today. The American woman
should be sufficiently independent to
study her own surroundings, choose
her own course and live the life which
is best for herself and those nearest
her, without regard to the opinion of
the outer world.
“While we hear a great deal these
days about equality, the real perma
nent advancement of women depend
on her individual development. When
man finds in woman a thorough ap
preciation of his work and aims; when
the mind of woman becomes the per
fect supplement and complement ol
t lie mind of the man in which Hie
Creator intended it to be, then will
all the discussions as to the rights
and privileges cease.”
BRYAN SPEAKS TO 10,000.
Danville, Ills., May 26. —W. ,1. Bryan
spoke to ten thousand people this af
ternoon and evening at the armory.
He followed his usual lines of argu
ment, discussing the money question
at length, condemning the adminis
tration’s Philippine policy, also trusts,
and advocating an income tax. lie
was given an enthusiastic reception.
Alexandria. Egypt. May 20.—Four
more eases of the plague have been
reported here.
TO PAY CUBANS TO-DAY.
Serious Strike on Among Lightermen
at the Port of Havana.
Havana, May 26. — The distribution of
the S3.<KMMMM> which the United States
Government has oered as a gratiuity to
llu* Cuban troops on disbanding and
surrendering their arms will begin at lit
o’clock to-morrow morning at the foot
of the Prado. Under the swollen muster
rolls prepared by the late Cuban mili
tary assembly, the Americans, who have
closely followed the subject, are curious
to see what pro|H»|’tion of the number
listed will actually npjiear.
At a meeting of the Veterans of Inde
pendence last night a resolution declar
ing against cither giving up arms or ac
cepting money from the United States,
was carried unanimously.
The strike of the lightermen, in the
opinion of Admiral Cromwell, captain of
the port, and the principal shippers, is
fast assuming serious proportion*, ti.
Lawton Childs, agent of the Plant Line,
was notified to-day that the stevedores
in his company’s employ Had joined the
strike, giving as their reason their sym
pathy with the others am! the orders of
the Trade Union.
The general opinion is that the strike
is absolutely without justification. The
men have been earning good wages,
from, SSO to SBO a month. The difficulty
involves also the importation of.men
from Florida, as happened five years
ago. Trouble lias been brewing for some
time, but no one could explain the cause,
as the lightermen have all along been
the best paid body of men engaged in
manual labor in Havana.
(iovemor General Brooke has a de
cree ready to be issued, making editors
and publishers responsible for libel.
The Spanish law made the writer of an
article alone responsible; and. therefore,
every Havana editor has a hired sub
stitute paid to sign articles of a defa
matory character. This substitute is
usually a "long time jail bird." who, for
money enough to make imprisonment
easy, will sign anything.
THE FINANCI AL QUESTION.
Aldrich Calls a Meeting 1 of Senate Fi
nance Committee.
Washington, May 26.—Senator Al
drich, chairman of the Senate Com
mittee on Finance, has issued a call
for a meeting of that committee to be
held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New-
New York, on the t)th of June. It is
now considered probable that the
committee will authorize a sub-com
mittee consisting of the Republican
members to take up the financial
question with the view of recommend
ing a bill to the next session of Con
gress.
AN AUTOMOBILE'S RECORD.
New York, May 26. —The automo
bile which left Cleveland at 7 o’clock
Monday morning to establish an auto
mobile record between Cleveland and
New York, arrived in front of the As
tor House at 5:45 o’clock this after
noon. The record made was 707.4
miles in 40 hours and 4 minutes of
actual running, an average of 17.6
miles an hour.
SEVENTEEN FACE FLAG
THE HORSES THAT WILL RUM IN BROOK
LYN TO-DAY.
Opening cf Jockey C'ub’s Spring Meeting
Fi igranethe Favorite. The r rack Fast
and Horses Well Ma'ch d.
New r York, May 26.—The Brooklyn
Joeky Club’s spring meeting will open
tomorrow, and unless all signs fail,
the attendance should be record
breaking. The track is as fast as at
any time since it was built and the
field in the Brooklyn handicap is well
matched at the weight.
Seventeen horses are named 1o
start, and from present appen*am cs
all but one will go to the post.
The following betting on the Brook
lyn handicap was announced tonight:
Filigrane, 3 to 1 and 6 to 5; George
Keene, 5 to 1 and 2 to 1; Ben llolla
day, 7 to 1 and 5 to 2; Don Do Oro,
8 to 1 and 3 to 1; Banaster, 10 to 1 and
4 to 1; Previous, 12 to 1 and 5 to 3:
Box, 12 to 1 and 5 to 1; Imp, 15 to 1
and 6 to 1; Jefferson, 20 to 1 and 8 to
1; Lanky Bob, 25 to 1 and 10 to 1;
Thomas Cat, 50 to 1 and 20 to 1; War
renton, 60 to 1 and 25 to 1; Fie lr de
Lis, 50 to 1 and 20 to 1; Pink Coat. 60
to 1 and 25 to 1; Algol, 50 to 1 and 20
to 1; Bangle, 30 to 1 and 10 to 1;
George Boyd. 100 to 1 and 40 to 1;
Jeannot, 500 to 1 and 200 to l.
Ben Holladay, Pink Coat and Fleur
de Lis are the only ones on which no
line cttn.be got. but in spite of this,
Ben Holladay is likely to be one of the
best backed horses in the race.
It is more than likely that Filigrane
will be the favorite on account of his
easy victory in the Metropolitan ban
dieiip. Another popular favorite is
Banastar. who broke records at Mor
ris Park, and who has shown some
fast time at a distance this we k.
Don de Oro, too, will surely carry a
lot of public money. Jefferson’s race
on Thursday at Morris Park was the
best kind of work for the Brooklyn,
and be will take a good deal of beat
ing according to the “rail birds.” In
fact, if search is made it will be found
that any horse sent out as a likely
starter lias a host of friends, and not
one will go unbacked.
ROSA BONHEUB DEAD.
Fontainebleau. France, May 26. Rosa
Bonhcur. tin* famous animal painter,
died at 11 o’clock last night.
Energy sometimes brings success, but
success always brings energy.
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 27, 1899.
FRESH GRAVES FILL
THEIR CEMETERIES
Horror of the War as Toldj
by Foreign Refugees.
SHARP FIGHT YESTERDAY
FUXSTOX AND TIIE DAKOTANS
ROUT THE FILIPINOS.
A LARGER ARMY ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY
Insurgents Reoccupy Ihe Territory Americans
had Swept and Harrass the Scou ing
Parties. An Ambush Laid
for Wagon Trains.
Manila, May 26—11:20 a. m.-A
scouting patty of American troops en
countered a body of insurgents at Santa
Rita and the Americans being rein
forced by Brigadier General Funston,
with the South Dakota regiment, a
warm tight ensued.
A lieutenant and five men of the
American force were wounded and ten
of the insurgents were killed and several
captured.
General Hughes, who has been ap
pointed to relieve Colonel Smith as
Governor of the Yisayan district, will
be succeeded as provost marshal by
Brigadier General Williston, who re
cently arrived here in command of the
troops of the Sixth artillery.
MORE MEN NEEDED.
Manila, May 26. —7:40 p. m. —The
events of the past week have empha
sized the need of a much larger army
here, without which, according to the
best authorities in Manila, it would be
attempting the impossible to expect to
establish American supremacy in the
Philippine Islands. The inadequacy of
the American forces is said to be re
sponsible for the large total loss in the
number of small encounters, without
material results as a compensath if*
Most of the lighting has been in terri
tory which the Americans had swept,
but have been compelled to abandon be
cause they could not spare* troops to
hold it.
The forces commanded by Generals
MacArthur and Lawton hold two im
portant line's of communication and
commerce, the railroad to San Fernan
do and the Rio Grande river. But much
of the country they have swept, incliub
ing scores of the smaller towns and
some of the larger ones have* been left
uncovered, simply for want of men to
hold them, and tin* insurgents have re
turned and are occupying the towns the
Americans abandoned, and arc camping
in the jungles and woods outside of
others, on watch for chances to harrass
the garrisons and attack scouting part
ies or detached companies with greater
forces. This is the kind of warfare they
prefer to regular battles.
It appears that the* Filipinos who at
tacked the Third regiment between San
Miguel and Balinag were part of Gen
eral Pio del Pilar’s army. They came
from the south across the* mountains,
presumably to meet a wagon train
which General Lawton expected along
the road. They also planned to capture
several large* detachments and were
placed in ambush at different points.
They fired from the jungle, at a dis
tance of 200 yards, and gave the Ameri
cans one of the hardest lights ex
perienced in the campaign.
The Filipinos lost more* heavily than
the* Americans in all the recent encount
ers. The insurgent generals take the*
loss of arms more to heart than they do
the loss of men.
Foreigners who have arrived here
from the insurgents country, under the
recent order of expulsion, say the
cemeteries in all tin* towns are tilled with
fresh graves. A majority of the Fili
pinos’ wounded die, because the insur
gents’ hospitals are inadequate, medi
cines are scarce, and they have few sur
geons. except Spanish captives who have
been impressed.
TO WELCOME THE MERCEDES.
Norfolk, Ya., May 26. —The Board of
Health, other city officials, the quaran
tine officer of the jnirt and his assistants
and many prominent citizens, held a con
ference to-day and reached a satisfac
tory understanding with reference to On
coming of the Reina Mercedes to the
Norfolk Navy Yard. All opposition has
disappeared and a licet, with officials
and citizens of Norfolk and Portsmouth
will go to Hampton Roads in the m tru
ing to escort the cruiser to the yard.
CHARGED WITH SEDITION.
Wardner, Idaho, May 26.—AH sa
loons in Mullan, Gem and Burke Lave
been closed, the publication of the
Mullan Mirror stopped and its editor,
W. H. Stewart, arrested on ’lie « barge
of publishing seditious mutter, ’there
are now 325 men under a. res’ accused
of rioting.
BIDS FOR REPAIR SHOP.
Washington, May 26.—The Navy De
partment today asked for bids for the
repair shop fur steam engineering at
the United States Naval Station at
Port Royal. S. (’. The building is to be
250 feet long, with boiler room sft feet
long, and an administration building
47 by 38 feet.
\Y 11EX I>EWEY WILL ('< >M E.
Announces That lit* Will Arrive on
October Ist.
Washington, May 26.—Admiral
Dewey telegraphs tlie Navy Depart
ment that lie will stop at various
places on his way to the United States
and will reach New York about Oc
tober 1.
Admiral Dewey’s dispatch did not
enumerate the points where the Olym
pia will touch en route to New York.
It may be that an effort will be made
to ascertain these for the benefit-of
the officials of some of the towns, es
pecially along the Mediterranean, who
may desire to take official notice of
the visit to their ports of th<* dis
tinguished naval officer and his fa
mous flagship.
Some of Dewey's friends in the
Navy Department suspect that the
Admiral is purposely evading a state
ment of bis itinerary, desiring to avoid
as far as possible all demonstrations,
His friends here intimate that, hav
ing been obliged by his health to de
cline to attend the dinner at Hong
Kong in honor of the Queen’s birth
day, a very unusual declination. Ad
miral Dewey will find it impossible to
depart from the rule he there estab
lished and attend any banquets or
popular demonstrations in this coun
try.
RATES TO SOUTHERN PORTS.
Washington. May 26.—The Inter-State
Commerce Commission will give hear
ings on the question of rates upon ex
port and domestic traffic in grain and
grain products in Chicago on June 12th,
and in St. Louis' on June 15th. It is
proposed to secure evidence showing all
important changes which have taken
place in rates to the Atlantic and Gulf
of Mexico ports of shipments of grtiu
and grain products, and the reasons
why such changes were made.
PARIS STILL STICKS.
Coverack, May 26. —A supreme ef
fort was made today to float the Am
erican Liner Paris, which is on the
rocks off Lowlands Point.
The attempt resulted in another
failure. The Paris is in the same po
sition which is now regarded as very
critical.
Coverack, May 26.—12 Midnight.' —
The wind has veered to the eastward
tonight. There is ti heavy sea and the
Paris is rolling heavily.
MOURNING FOR CASTELAR.
Madrid, May 26. —The Democratic
J papers appear today in mourning, on
account of the death, of Senor Don
Emilio Castelar. who passed away yes
terday at Murcia. The body will :ie
in state during Sunday and tin* funer
al will take place on Monday.
NEWSPAPERS JUBI LATIN
Berlin, May 26. —The newspapers
here are jubilating over what they
term Admiral Kaute’s “recall.”
The Lokal Anzeiger says:
“This shows anew the American
Government's good will to remove til!
obstacles to a peaceful understand
ing.”
CIVIL SERVICE JUGGLERS
CABINET APPROVES THE FINAL ORDER
SOON TO BE MADE.
Cuban Frarking Privileges Abused. A Special
Agent to Visit Lake Ci*y and Fxam
ine the Situation.
Washington, May 26. —At the Cabinet
meeting today tmal changes In the civil
service order were approved and the
order will be ready for the President’s
signature as soon as the changes arc in*
corporated in the final draft of the docu
ment. All the members of the Cabinet
expressed themselves as satisfied with
it. It is said the order will exempt
about 4,00 ft of the 65,0110 positions in
the classified service. The question
of Cuban shipping was again brought
up by Secretary Gage, who also furn
ished some data showing that the amount
of shipping tied up because It has no
Hag to sail under has ben greatly exag
gerated. The question, with the data,
furnished by the Treasury Department,
was turned over to Attorney General
and Secretary Hay for examination and
report.
Postmaster General Smith brought
up the question of the franking privJege
in Cuba anil Porto Rico. The Postmas
ter General read a letter from Major
Rathbom*. who is at the head of the
postal affairs in Cuba, saying that
the number of persons exercising this
privilege now was excessive and the
question arose as to whether it woidd
not be wise to cut tlie privilege of al
together. No decision was reached.
The Postmaster General has decided
to send a special agent to Lake City.
S. for the purpose of examining the
situation there with a view to determin
ing whether or not a post office shall
lu> re-established there.
SCHOONER HILDA DISABLED.
Savannah. Ga., May 26. —The
schooner Hilda, hence for Baltimore,
May 23d. was towed into Tybee Is
land this evening in distress.
She sprung a leak one day out and
was forced to put back, with five feet
of water in her hold. She is lumber
laden.
PLOW PLANT BURNED.
Richmond, Ya., May 26. —The plant
of the Watt Plow Company on lower
Franklin street, was partly destroyed
bv fire tonight, several departments
being consumed. The main building
was but slightly damaged and the
stock escaped injury. The loss of $12,-
000 is fully covered by insurance.
PEACE CONFERENCE
FOR ARBITRATION
Sir Julian Pauncefote Sprang
the Question.
IF WAS SQUARELY MET
COMMITTEES TO CONSIDER VA
RIOUS MATTERS APPOINTED.
TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO POW. RJ
Outcime of the Conkrerce Will be Much Vvh&t
Andrew D. White, Minuter lo Ge-tin
ny, Fortcas'ed Seme
Weeks Ago.
The Hague, May 26. —It can now be
stated with some degree of confidence
that the delegates to the Peace ( on
ference are gradually arriving at the
belief that its outcome will be very
much what Andrew 1). Whit**, United
States Ambassador at Berlin, and head
of the American delegation here, fore
casted to the correspondent of tlie
Associated Press in the interview
cabled to tlie United States last Mon
day.
So far as armaments are concerned
the utmost that it is expected, to ac
complish is some slight recommenda
tions to the governments participat
ing.
The various committees have now
settled to work and the delegates haw*
begun a formal exchange of views.
The Arbitration Committee niel this
afternoon, under the presidency of rlie
chief of the French delegation, Leon
Bourgeois, who was flanked by the
honorary presidents of the committee,
Sir Julian Pauncefote, chief of the
British delegation, and t mint Nigra,
chief of the Italian delegation. M.
Bourgeois presented the questions of
mediation and arbitration, and sug
gested a program the committee
might follow, urging recourse to all
pacific means to settle international
questions before a recourse to war.
Sir Julian Pauncefote proposed that
the committee should immediately
proceed, before all else, to consider the
question of a permanent tribunal of
arbitration. He did not, however, sub
mit any plan, and eventually withdrew
his motion, in view of the suggestions
offered by i mint Nigra and others,
who urged the wisdom of the Presi
dent in which the question of a per
manent tribunal follows the genera!
subject of arbitration.
M. Bourgeois observed that the
committee, by not opposing it, gave
adhesion to the principle favoring a
peaceful solution of international
questions before a recourse to arms.
Recognizing that the committee was
too large to consider the Russian pro
posals. M. Bourgeois appointed the
following sub-committee:
Chevalier Descamps-David, of the
Belgium delegation; Professor Asset*.
Privy Councillor of the Netherlands
delegation; Baron Estournelles de
Constant, of the French delegation;
Frederick Holla, Secretary of the
1 nited States delegation: M. Lam
masseh, of the Austro-Hungarian
delegation: Professor Maartens. of
the Russian delegation; M. E. Oilier,
of the Swiss delegation, and Dr. Zorn,
of the University of Konigsberg, rep
resenting the German delegation.
Sir Julian Pauncefote and Count
Nigra were appointed honorary presi
dents of the sub-committee and M.
Bourgeois and 1). DeStael was empow
ered to attend its meetings.
Great importance is attached to the
meetings'held todav and to the unani
mous acceptance of tlie general prin
ciple of arbitration and mediation.
SIR JULIAN'S STROKE.
London, May 27. —The correspondent
of the Daily Telegraph at The Hague
says:
"Peace prospects touched high water
mark today when tin* conference
found itself face to face with arbitra
tion in a practicable and acceptable
form, and as a permanent interna
tional achievement. This honor is
mainly dm* to Sir Julian Pauncefote.
When the members of the Arbitration
section had finished reading tin* Rus
sian proposals on this subject. Sir
Julian expressed bis complete approv
al of them, lint said it would be a
great pity if the conference failed to
embody the principle of arbitration in
some permanent shape.
“‘1 now beg to propose,’ lie said,
‘the formal establishment of a per
manent arbitration tribunal, empow
ered to deal with all matters in dis
pute capable of reference to the judg
ment of an umpire. I do not intend
to trouble you with details as to its
mechanism today, nor until you ac
cept the principle of my proposal.
Tnerefore I ask you to accept the
principle now.’
“M. DeStael tit once declared: ‘Sir
Julian Pauncefote having presented
his proposal, we are prepared to sup
plement and to complete the printed
suggestions just distributed bv ot hers,
dealing with a permanent arbitration
board.’ *
"Thereupon the Russian President
of the Conference drew a- paper from
his pocket and laid it upon the table
then anil there. The paper contained
the foundation of a permanent tri
bunal, suggesting the substitution «>f
a new clause and referring to an ap
pendix not yet drawn up. The amaz
ed delegates crowded around Sir Jul-
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
ian. congr: c him upon having
played tin jjing card, which had
so quickly pi tail'd the Russian
alternative ~ieme. Some stood
aghast, as matter was not con
templated icir instructions. Fi
nally it w ided to refer the nat
ter to a s unit t ee.
“The Americans, it is bcMmcd. arc
elaborating an organic statute for tin*
erection of a permanent tribunal,
which will probably be laid before
tin* conference and be supported by
the British delegates when tin* prin
ciple embodied in Sir Julian's resolu
tion is accepted.”
FOUND IN A BOTTLE.
The Record of I low a Ship and Her
Crew IVrislte.il
Cape lleiiry, Ya., May 26.—A. L.
I tosher, weather bureau observer, Hat
tcrus, X. reports that a hot tie was
picked up on the beach to-dav near the
Chiconiicomico Life Saving Station,
thirty miles north of Hatterns, in which
was found the following letter:
“Stormy all day, both masts gone.
Very little hope, going to pieces rapidly;
almost gone. No hope, good-bye. Shi;.*
Vixen, crew eight men. Captain
Carter.”
The letter contained no date, no lati
tude or longitude, and nothing to indi
cate where the bottle was thrown over
hoard. It app»and to liav * been in tin
water a long i hiii*.
YACHT RACE RESULTS.
Savannah. Ga., May 26.- In the an
nual regatta, of the Savannah Yacht.
Club today over a 21-knot course, ilu*
results were as follows:
First class Cora won. Leader sec
ond. The new Yacht Dragoon was
disqualified on account of a foul,
though she beat the fleet over llu*
course by 20 minutes.
Second class—Catherine won: Sham
rock second.
Third class — Lilee won; Undine
second.
MORE TIMm ,** S - *U PHILIPPINES
Washington, May 26. —'Hie Secretary
of War lias ordered 2,(MM) recruits now
at San Francisco for regular regiments
in the Philippines to sail on the transport
Sheridan June 7tli for Manila. Tins
ship will be utilized to bring home vol
unteers now in, tlit* Philippines.
UNDERWRITERS ADJOURN.
Southeastern Tariff Association Com
mittees Ap| mi n ted.
Norfolk, Ya.. May 26.- The South
eastern Tariff Association, which bus
been in session at Old Point for Hirer
days past, has adjourned t ine die.
The election of the new executive
committee resulted as follows.;
J. S. Raines, \Y. L. Reynolds, AN'. A.
Witherspoon, G. J. Dexter, T. C. Col*
kins, Alilton Dorgan, John C. Ruccr
and J. S. Middleton.
Associate executive committee: J.
YY. Colkrane, A. M. Tra.crs. F. O.
Hawkins, Charles Phillips, F. X. Nel
son and J. S. Thomas.
To this committee will be left tin*
fixing of both the place and time T
the next annual meeting.
BRYAN ON ISSUES OF 1900
TRUSTS WILL BE ONE OF TIIE MOST
IMPORTANT.
Chicago Platform to be Reaffirmed Entire and
New Planks Added to Cover
Ntw Issues
St. Louis, Mu., May 26. —Colonel Wil
liam Jennings Bryan to-day expressed
himself as much pleased with the result
of last night's banquet.
In a signed statement furnished to the
Post-Disptcb, Colonel Bryan said:
“The sentiment of tin* meeting was in
line with the sentiment of the party gen
erally. Tin* Chicago platform will he re
affirmed, entire and new planks added
to cover new questions. The trust issue
will he one of the most important of
the issues.”
WHITE CAPS ARRESTED.
Culmination of Labor Troubles at
Griffin, Georgia.
Griffin, Ga., May 26.—Seven memliers
of the "Laborers Union Band” of al
leged white cappers were arrested at an
early hour this morning as follows:
C. V. Barnett, Tom Reynolds, Jet
Moore, William Thomas Lehrail, Paul
Ellis, Carl Fry and Clifford Thomas.
They have been lodged in jail.
This morning the doors of all the mills
anil factories and several stables and
stores were found placarded with tin*
following notice, written in i fairly good
and bold hand:
“To the negro and to whom it may
concern: The object of this is to put
you on notice that after next Saturday
night no negro will he allowed to ask
for employment at either of the follow
ing named places, to wit: The two cot
ton mills, the oil mill, the machine shops,
wood shops, wood yards or to do any
carjtMiter work or any public or private
building or to drive any public drays,
delivery wagons or bread wagons in ami
around Griffin. We trust the managers
and merchants will discharir • t)i - negro s
promptly anil fill their places with white
labor which can easily he done and save
us the trouble of going through the ne
gro, for we will certainly do so with
a deaf car to his groans and petitions.
This May 241 h, 185)9.”
The city, county anil State authorities
are co-operating to the end of detecting
and arresting the white cap “regulators.”
The adding pig and the spelling bee
are not in the same class.