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She -isife Wital : INDEPENDENCE IN AZL TJBUTGS.J rOL. VM. COLUMBUS, iN. C, TflUKSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1903. NO. 46. ; i I 4v A" . -t O ConibinatiGH Prices. Giarantic to Control PLANS IFOR MERGER COMPLETE Expects t? e Ready for business by ApriJ ij- NViil-Have Ahoul ),ooo,ooo. a Ccpit:.! of Oh enf-o. Special. The Post says: PIiit ii practically completed for the TvrpiiV-; of the interest of the firiuM ri'.iit comprise tho so-called becf truiM IJr.l-'s something unforeseen. :irij5?s Apr1'! 1 .will see the phicial an iour?rcirilnt of the incorporation of a securjties;Uc:ldins. companv, which evennially may control the meat LiarU- of .th world. Unlike the popular jder- r-i tile packers merger; however, for f " lime !einj? it is not to embrace every. hing. in sight, nor is it to be cap-italiat-d at SGon.OGO.iMO. as announced for ihv Ifuited States Packing Coin )arrtv Further, the ilans contemplate no friction with -the Federal Courts l;ec4i"?e of the recent decision by .ludg Gros.-cup against the packing housr combination. The nucleus of the great combination of world-wide in terests is to be the merger of the sES&ecr independ'ent plants bought last year by the big packers, prepara tory ir (he general merger planned at -that time. , ! "The securities held by the. new cor poration are those of the Gi H. Ham mom Packing Company, the Omaha Packing-Company, the Anglo-Ameri-ran-Flower Company, the St. Louis Heei Company; and the 'United Dressed Hoof Company, and possibly several of the outside -stock yards now controlled by Chicago interests. Chicago will 'be teh headquarters of the combination, but 5 far as the public is concerned fnv v-rill 1r rr lmmorllnto olnn era in iter TOT. k-fcsi"w75cr?jsi fir if "TT t.tiT?;i)ritviaiiai .r.mms under ti e new . regime. It is planned to Ic&.d the new securities company witi ne present officials of the in dividaal companies, instead of the big packers themselves, or those imme diately associated with them in the 'Big Six' companies. j "The slate of officials for the securi ties -company has been prepared and is said to contain the names of J. C. Mel vin and J. P. Lyman, of the Hammond Company ; Frederick Cowan, of the Anglo-American, and F. F. Robbins, of the Omaha Packing Company. Prob ably the last named will be chairman of the board of directors. It is not Icnown definitely what will be the capi tal of the securities-holding company, "but It -is thought the figure will be in excess of the purchase price of the coiupanies to be combined, j probably something like $50,000,000.' Vj NEWS Oj3 THE DAY. s - " 1 1 Pointed Paragraphs and Brief News ' Items. ' T),c jubilee of Pope Leo was cele- orated. at Rome with, brilliant ceremo- nUkr rile Pope appearing to be in fine thf&Mh and spirits. i - "i 1? the Austrian Reit-hsrath Herri Sasftzyriski openly charged that Prince PhiJip of Saxe-Cobnrg and Gotha is a N-.rirr ir.al. I Or,i has been found in Dublin, and tarf; are hopes that the boglands of Ire land T.-ill produce considerable petro iomr. " i iiinperor William, in his letter on Christianity, declares his belief in two 1 kinds of revelation. ! Venezuelan papers complain of the tardiness of the allies in returning . ships seized during the blockade. Mayor Hayes was the principal speaker at the annual banquet of the Maryland. Society of New York last might. ; Ten persons were burned to death in a fire that destroyed a hotel at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. i New Orleans police "smoked out" and shot a .negro desperado vho was barricaded in a boarding house. The Cedric. the largest, steamship in the world, reached New York, j I Justice "W, W. Goodrich made a reiied criticsm of Judge Altoi B. Par-' kers candidacy for President at a din ner in, Brooklyn, N. Y. . j .. Georsre H. Pell was senteiiced to three years and six "months' imprison ment for grand larceny in New York. The coroner's jury in 'the Reading tail road wreck at Graceland, N. J., -nodso.1 oin '"paa Bid put? ?.iodo.i s;t epum sihility on the dead engineer, Davis, of. the" Reading express. John S. Wise says Tie believes the State will be allowed to regulate -suffrage, but those which restrict the ne- gro must nave less rtJiJieuiitanvi i CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS -Senators Honor Washington Speech By Tillman. ; Washington, Special. large crowd was attracted to the Senate Monday, most of them visitiing Daughters of the American Revolution.' Washing-' ton's farewell address was read by Mr. Dubois, of Idaho. The omnibus public building bill was passed and the pest office appropriation bill was consider ed without final action. Mr. Tillman spoke for nearly two hours, principal ly in, reply to Mr. Spooner, on the In diauola; Miss...postoffice case. He said that if the. policy of the administraticji in regard to the equality of the negro was carried on and Booker Washington should be appointed to the cabinet, he would vote for his confirmation. H; did not conclude his remarks. During, the reading of the Washington ad dress, Reed Smoot. Senator-elect from Utah, entered the chamber and took a seat beside Mr. Kerns. The Rawlins resolution calling on the Secretary of War for information concerning court martial cases in the Philippines was favorably reported by Mr. Lodge and adopted with an amendment limiting the reply to summaries of the records and testimony. Among amendment which was adopted excludes the case of Maj. L. W. T. Waller. Mr. Kerns, of Utah, presented the credentials of Senator-elect Reed Smoot. of Utah, which were read. Mr. Smoot was sitting in the rear of the chamber when the doc ument was read. Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, stated that a protest had been filed with his committee against Mr .Smoot's admission. A House reso lution was agreed to for the erection in Washington of the bronze eques trian statues of Count Pulaski and Baron Steuben, of the contental army, and a appropriating $50,000 for Mr. Mason then called up the post- bill. Its formal - v: ri : reading was dispensed with and the bill was read ofr amendment. The statehood amendment was passed over for the time being. Mr. Mason yielded to Mr. Fairbanks, who presented an omnibus public building bill. Messrs. Daniel and Martin, of Vir ginia, made an earnest plea for an in creased appropriation for a building at Portsmouth. Va. Mr. Martin ex plained that the amendment was di icctly in line with the purpose of the bill and asked Mr. Fairbanks why he objected to it. Mr. Fairbanks declared that his reason was that the committee had inofrmation that there was a real estate deal or combination to run up the price. Mr. Martin emphatically de nied this, on a year and no vote the amendment was lost, 20 to 34. All other amendments were' voted down and the bill was passed. Consideration of the post office ap propriation bill was then resumed. The President pro tern, appointed Messrs. Alger and Bacon visitors to the Mili tary Academy. He also appointed Messrs. McComas and Daniel visitors to the Naval Academy. Mr. Tillman, who had been standing in the aisle endeavoring to get recog nition to spak regarding the Indiano la, Miss., postoffice case, inquired what was up, if tlte postoinc? appropriation bill went over. Injecting some humor into the proceedings, the President pro tern, replied that he understood "the Senator from South Carolina was coming-tip on his feet," at which th Sen ate was convulsed. Mr. Tillman then said he proposed to surprise his friends and astonish his enemies, if he had ?ny, by ueing very mild and temperate in wnat he would say. "If we had known at the begin ning of the civil war," said he, "what we know now there would have been no war." He asked why the large ma-; jority of, law-abiding people of India nola should be punished because there was a small lawless and brutal ele ment. It was contrary, he said, to the fundamental principles of Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence. Replying to some re marks made by Mr. Spconer in his speech, Mr. Tillman said: "It is not in the dream of the wildest ass that roams over the Southern States with a wrax skin on him, that the Federal government-is not supreme," but he said there were some cognate propositions which have been ignored. He said that in the South the people have a con stant reminder that their ancestors, 35 years ago, were conquered. "We are perpetually reminded," he said, accen tuating his words, "that we are in the Union, but not of it, except to pay taxes." ' The poison in race conditions in the South, he declared, lay in the referee system which had been adopted. The balance of power, he said, "in national Republican conventions was held by the machine of the' South and that ma chine was compossd. of negroes. When the people of the South, said he, lose patience and do "cruel, bitter, fearful fiendish and savage" things, there is a hov7l from men who know nothing and who have never been South of the Potomac, but who have theorized." Continuing, and addressing the Ite publican side, he said that if this pol icy of negro equality is carried out and .if some of them could be given places in the cabinet, he would vote for them: "I will vote to confirm Booker Wash ington as Secretary of anything. Let us have a negro, a genuine jiegro, not a mulatto or hybrid. Then let us make them officers in the army and the navy. Let us give them pro-rata share of all the good jobs wherever they exist without regard to local conditions." He added that nothing of the sort would he done. After speaking for nearly two hours and not concluding, he yielded for an executive session. The postcfiice appropriation bill is still before the Senate. Agreed on Suicide. New Orleans, Special, Ella Atkins and Folger Green are in the hospital with three wounds as the result of a compact they entered into to end their lives. The woman died of, morphine poisoning. The man stabhed himself twice in the neck and then slashed his wristsr The tragedy occurred in a room in the Victor Hotel, on Bourbon street, where the couple passed as man and wife. The following note was found: "Good bye to all and forgive. Am my worst enemy and go hence to the great beyond through force of cir cumstances. Notify Miss Atkins, Box 83, Hawesville, ' Ky., that her sister has at last gone home. (Signed) "Folger Green and Ella Atkins." Corner Stone Laid. Galveston. Special The corner-stone of the $1,500,000 sea wall was laid Mon day, with imposing ceremonies, and a parade of. citizens and marines and of ficers from the United States battle ships at anchor in the harbor. The work on the sea wall has progressed niGst satisfactorily Vjiiice last October. It will be three miles,, in length and give absolute protection to the city even irom a stage or .water equai to the destructive tidal wave of 1900." Supreme Court Decisions. Washington, Specia. In the United States Supreme Court, Justice Holmes delivered an opinion in the case of the United States against the crew and of ficers of the war vessel Mangrove. The case involved the prizze money for the capture of the Spanish steamer Pana ma, during the Spanish war. The New York, the Indiana and the Wilmington claimed a part of the prize money, but the court" held they were not within signalling distance at the time of the capture and therefore were entitled to nothing. Col. Andrews a Director. Mobile, Ala., Special. The annual meeting of the directors of the Mobile & Ohio Railroad here, resulted in the election of A.-B. Andrews, C. C. Cuy ler, C.'-W. Butler Duncan, W. .W: Fin ley, Adrian Iselin, Jr.;' Thomas E. Jevons. A. W. Mcintosh, James.H, Ma son, W. E. Emlen Roosevelt; E. L. Russell, C. Sidney Shepard, Samuel Spencer and A. H. Stevens as direc tors. The purchase of the Mobile & Bay Shore Railroad vas ratified. Findings of Court flartial. Manila, By Cable.General Davis has approved the finding of the court martial in the case of Major Edwin F. Glenn, of the" Fifth Infantry, who was acquitted January 29, of the charge of unlawfully killing prisoner of war, with the qualification that he disap proves of the orders issued by Major Glenn. The general says he recognizes the principle' that guides may be im pressed and that treacherous guides may be executed, but he adds that Major Glenn's orders show a reck less disregard for human life, which the general condemns and reproves. Hon. William J. Bryan, interviewed in New York, said he was not a can didate for the Presidency. , Former President Kimball, of the Seventh National Bank, was sentenced in New York to pay a fine, and sen tence in the case, of Teller Rose was suspended, both having been convict ed of the overcertification of checkri. Joseph L. J. Liddy, of H'agerstown, Md.. was blown to fragments by a dy namite explosion near York, where he was foreman of a railway construction 'gang. The steamer .Germanic arrived in New York after the roughest voyage in her history. J John -Alslmrywho once ran against Lincoln for the -Legislature, died at a coor farm in Illinois. WERE ALL SURPRISED Officers of the Army Get Something Unexpected. I THE RETIREMENT OF BRECKINRIDGE The Enactment of the General Staff Law and His Connection With It- Saved His Corps. Washington, Special. The following nominations were sent to the Senate Wednesday: Brigadier General j. C. Breckinridge, inspector general to be major general, April 11, vice j Major General Hughes; Brigadier General M. I. Ludington, quartermaster general, to major general, vice Breckinridge to be retired; Brigadies General James F. Wade, to be major .general, vice Lud ington, to be retired. These nbminaj tions came as a genuine surprise to army officers except those directly con cerned. There is an impression Wn well-informed military circles that the enact ment of the general staff law and Gen eral Breckinridge's connection Willi that legislation were potent factors ih bringing aboutjiis retirement. General Breckinridge wxmld not have retired under ordinary conditions until Januj ary, 1906. General Ludington, j how ever, is three years older than the inf spector general and would have retired July 4 next. It was generally supposed that both of those staff officers I would retire in their present grade of briga dier generals. In' recognition ot their long and honorable service, however, the Secretary of War, with the appro val of the President, concluded to ad vance them both to the grade of mai jor general, on the condition that they would retire at once. This was ccepf table to both Generals Breckikridge and Ludington. In advocating the crea tion of the general staff, Secretary Root insisted on the abolishment of the inspector general's Department of the army as no longer necessary, as its duties would be performed by the general staff. This particular feature of the bill drawn by the War Depart ment, was vigorously resisted by Gen eral Breckinridge, with the result that the inspector general's depart ment was I not disturbed by the; bill, as it became a law. It therefore appears that" while General Breckin ridge saved his corps, he will no lon ger have the direction of its affairs. Negro Conference. j Tuskeegee, Ala., Special. The twelfth annual Tuskeegee Negrb Con-! ference began its sessions at! Tuskee gee Normal and Industrial Institute Wednesday. The conference was or ganized by Principal Booker T Wash ington. President Washington, in his opening address, said in part: "From the first it has been the main work of this conference to confine itself to a simple and informal consideration of tho methods and means of securing homes,, the freeing ourselves ' from debts, the saving of money, the en couragement of intelligent producers, the payment of taxes and the cultiva tion of habits1 of thrift, honesty and virtue, the building of school houses and' churches the securing of educa Christian character and tion and high friendship between the races. Through- out the entire ! race we must keepj alive a feeling of hope and encouragement. We have seen' darker days than 'those through which we now seem to be passing." The conference adopted resolutions setting forth . various methods by which the conditions of the colored agriculturist can be im proved and concluding with the de claration that ."property and peace are dependent upon good relations be tween the races.'' Shiras Resigns. Washington Special. Justice 'Shir as, of the United States Supreme Court, Wednesday presented to- the President his resignation as a mem ber of that tribunal to take effect February 24. Former. Secretary ;. of State Wm. R. Day, of Ohio, has been selected as the successor of Mr. Shiras. LIVE ITEMS OF NEWS. Many Matters of General Interest la Short Paragraphs. The Sunny South. The rial of Arthur L. Bishop, who killed Thos. J. Wilson, of Charlotte, N. C, on December 9th, was begun in the court at that place last week. Bishop's plea is self defence. A lot of sensa tional testimony has been given. The cruiser Maryland may be launched at Newport News the same day as the West Virginia, in April. Cleveland Craig was shot and killed while trying to stop an affray in Browntown, Va. At The National Capital. Canned goods manufacturers opened their annual convention in Washing ton. Minister Bowen refuses to sign in its present form the German protocol for settlement of the Venezuelan dis pute. The bill, appropriating $1,500,000 for a new Department of Agriculture building was signed by the Presi dent. - It is understood the General Board of the navy recommends , four first class battleships and two armored cruisers as the basis of the annual naval increase. . V The loss to the Philippine Treasury through the depreciation in the - value of silver since January 1, 1902, is placed at $1,277,941. r: - The Washington Government does not regard the question of the cession of the Danish West Indies as closed. In the Senate Mr. E. W. Carmack (Dem., Tenn.) spoke of alleged cruel ty of American soldiers in the Philip pines,' and polygamy was discussed during the Statehood debate. The House defeated ja bill authoriz ing the Government to advance $6, 000,000 to the District of- Columbia, and sent back to cdnference another regarding, the proposed union station. Speaker Henderson was overruled on his decision that1 Sunday was a legislative day. Senator N. W. Aldrich (Rep., R, 1. introduced a bill Intended to give greater elasticity to the currency. The Senate agreed to the Hous amendments to the Elkins Rebate and Discrimination bill, and the measure now goes to the President. The House passed the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill and then broke all former records for private pension leg islation, passin&325 bills. It is hinted an effort will he made to pass the Ship Subsidy hill through the House during the closing days of the session. V Representative Charles Dick offered a bill aimed to prevent and to punish hazing at Annapolis. It is said Secretary Root, Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, and Senator Turner, of Washington, will constitute the United States Alaskan Boundary Commission. t President Roosevelt-signed the De partment of Commerce and Labor and the Army General Staff bills. The -new Chinese Minister's suite will consist of 17 expectant or titled officials, and the party-will include 12 students. At The North. Joseph Battell, a millionaire land owner of Middleburg, Vt., has offered to rebuild the business portion of that town, which was recently destroyed by fire. The proposition of Mr. Battell is to buy the sites of all the buildings burned and to erect on each a fire proof building. New York, Special. Robert Gould Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Mary Converse, widow of the lat C. H. Converse, of Newton, Mass., were married at the North Baptist church .this city, by Rev. Chas. E. Nash. Mr.' Shaw's first wife, .who Was Miss Langhorne, was granted a divorce inVirginia a few days ago. From Across The Sea. Widespread floods are causing dam age in Scotland. Pope Leo XIII completed a. poem on the means of prolonging life. The Duke of Tetuan, formerly Span ish minister of Foreign Affairs, is dead. 1 M. Pelletan, French Minister of Ma rine, says there is a -spirit of caste in the French Navy, and he is trying to suppress it. - The lawyer of farmer Crown Prin cess Louise of Saxony says Mr. Giron has "broken off all relatioins" with the Princess. " Angry protests against the exclusive use of German Words of. command in the Austro-Hungarfan Army were made in Parliament as Budapest. .X
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