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GENERAL SOUTHERN NEWS,

Fredericksburg. Va, Sept. 2S.-The
committee on light of the city council
presented to that body last night an
elaborate report recommending the
building of an electric light plant, to be
owned and operated by the city. The
report will be published and bids asked
for, when the whole matter will be laid
before the people to be voted on at a
special election.
Richmond. Va, Sept. 21.-The Rich
mond chapter, Daughters of the Con-
federacy, have resolved to inauguratc
a movement to erect a monument over
the grave of Winnie Davis, the
daughter of the Confederacy." and ere
quests that all who desire to join them
in this work of love will send in their
names at once, as it is the intention of
the chapter to have the monument
during the recent maneuvers.
Galveston. Sept 24.-The Mallory
steamship line labor troubles broke out
afresh here Thursday night by the
striking negro longshoremen, masked
and armed with pistols. making an at
tack upon the guard at the wharf. The
police repealed the attack with pistols.
One of the attacking negroes was killed
and one of the negroes employed on the
wharf got a scalp wound. The police
captured one of the mobbers.
Charleston, W. V, Sept. 23.-Sam
Mays. sonand two daughters, who were
put on trial yesterday on charge of
having murdered the Mullins children
three weeks ago on Elk. were acquitted
today. and the alleged detective, man
named Null, who claims to have been
a Pinkerton detective, failed TO show
up at the hearing this morning. He
made a demonstration at the hearing
last evening which came near result
ing in his being taken out and seri-
ously dealt with. The sheriff had to
protect him.
Charlottesville, Va. Sept. 23.-At 1911
this morning James Terrell, colored.
was hanged in the yard of the jail of
this city. The execution was witnessed
by very few in addition to the officers
of the law, physicians and ministers.
Terrell did not show the least sign of
nervousness. He listened quietly TO the
prayer of Rev. Henry Quarles. col
ored preacher and when asked if he
desired to say anything expressed in
a single sentence his conviction that
he had a home to go to, and was going
to it. His neck was broken and action
of the heart ceased in II minutes. a
few minutes before he left his cell for
the scaffold the condemned man de-
clared that he had never been arrested
before he had gotten into this trouble
and that his present predicament was
due solely to an uncomfortable temper
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Death Of Funny Dovenport.

Duxbury. Mass. Sept. 27.-Fanny
Davenport (Mrs. Melbourne McDowelD,
the actress, died at her summer home,
Melbourne Hall, last night. Of enlarge
ment of the heart. Miss Davenport
had never fully recovered from her Sc
we're illness early in the summer, but
up to a week ago it was thought she
would in time enjoy good health again.
A few days ago, however, change was
noticed. Since then she has been
gradually sinking. Her three sisters
had already been notified, and with her
husband were at her bedside when she
peacefully passed away.
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Killed by n Like W1re.

Malone, n. Y. Sept. 27.-Gordon
Williams, Of Saranac Lake, was in
stantly killed in tie basement of his
fathers store Saturday night by COM
Ing in contact with a live wire. His
brother Roy went to his assistance fol-
lowed by Bert Mumm and Will John
ston. Each in turn tried 10 pull the
others from the wire, but all were
transfxed in deadly grasp. The father,
bearing their crie:, rushed into the eel
lar, and by superhuman efforts sue
ceeded in pulling three of the men from
the wire The current was quickly
turned off. but bis son was already
dead. Roy Williams is badly burned,
but will recover.
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CALCULATING PORTO RICO.
Our Troops Now Occupy Four-Fifths
of the Island.

Ponce, Porto Rico. Sept. 27.-The
Americans now hold four-ffths Of the
island. The Spanish are retiring upon
San Juan from all directions. and the
American troops are moving up. Some
slight disturbances have occurred at
Barros and Fajardo, but their serious
ness has been exaggerated.
Captain Hammers company Of the
Third Wisconsin regiment entered Cay
ey Sunday General Ernst has moved
his headquarters to Aiboneto, but it is
doubtful if his brigade will follow.
The percentage of sick in his brigade
is 40, and there are on the sick list
in the entire command 1900 men, 400
of whom are suffering from typhoid
fever.
The transport OLDHAM sailed today
with 24O convalescents and the Relief
will leave Arroyo with go. The medi-
cal officers generally believe the troops
should be sent north, but few think
their condition will improve when they
cross the mountains and get into quar-
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soo.,,1.o0 rnn ,IondI,s Jeod

London, Sept. 27.-The Daily Tele-
graphs Cairo correspondent says: 1t is
reported that Major Macdonald has
reached Lado, where was located the
mahdi's tomb. and that the body was
destroyed An enthusiast, it IS said, Sc
cured the mahdis head. and is sending
it to the Royal College of Surgeons in
London The correspondent adds that
Major Marchand's position is absurd,
and that rhe natives ignore him.
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Accused Banker ON rrIal.

Buffalo, Sept. 27.-Luke Usher, for
mer president of the defunct First Ma
tional bank at Potsdam. n Y, was
placed on trial in the United States
court before Judge Coke yesterday on
charges of misapplication of the bank S
funds amounting, it is said. to about
100000, and of misrepresenting as to
the banks affairs on his reports to the
state banking department. Usher was
an acknowledged leader in the bust
ness and social affairs Of st. Lawrence
count,
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Confessed TO Arson.

Norristown. Pa. Sept. 26.-John Pier
man. held at the county Jail FOR orig
mating several incendiary fires in
Pottstown and vicinity. was given a
final hearing at the county Jail Satur-
day by Squire Leniiart. whea he broke
down and confessed to having started
is fires since April. 1897. The prisoner,
who is % years old. was committed
without bail for court.
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A N1ammoth brewery Syndicat,

Columbus, O.. Sept. 27.-Papers will
be filed here in a day or two incorpor-
ating a brewery syndicate with cap
ital of s25, 600 600. 1t is asserted on re-
liable authority that Jay Cooke. of
Philadelphia, is at the head of the
syndicate, which proposes to buy up
all the large breweries of the country.
1t is said the interests finally involved
will aggregate $50 OOO. 900.
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An Ared Couplc.s Mcc.

Johnstown. Pa. Sept. 2G.-Nrs.
George Shaffer of Wilmore, caused the
arrest of ner husband before Alderman
Lambert. on charge of desertion. He
is aged 81 ard she is 76. They have
been married only rine months. She
claims that her husband said. Hustle
for yourself. for you are old enough to
earn your own living.
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Mr.. Beys rd Gradually sinking.

Dedham, Mass, Sept 27.-Thomas f.
Bayard sank gradually all day yes
terday, and today his pulse is very
weak giving every indication that the
end is only a matter of few hours.
He remains in senni-conscious condi-
tiols
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Our pcucc commits !onel:s ln l,nris.

Our Peace Commits toners In Paris.
Paris. Sept. 27.-The peace commits
sion OF The United States arrived here
yesterday .fom London. and was met
at the railroad station by the United
States embassy. number of Ameri-
cans and many reporters. A consider
able crowd outside the depot witnessed
the departure of the commissioners for
their hotel. The journey from England
to this city was uneventful.
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chinn,s Emncror Rcported Dead.

London. Sept 26.-The Daily Tele-
graphs Hong Kong correspondent.
wiring Sunday, says: Although there
is no positive confirmation, all the evil
dence tends to the conviction that the
emperor is dead. A private dispatch
says he died on Sept. 81, directly he
issued the edict giving the dowager the
regency. Nobody doubts that Yang
and Chang Yen Hoon. who was min
lister at Washington in 1895, are both
innocent of the charge of poisoning the
emperor
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THE WAR INVESTIGATORS.
TO Thoroughly Investigate Charges
of MismnnagcMcnt.

10 IhOfOu9n!N .NEc-tl@'ite NHtl @eS
of Mismanagcucnt.
Washington. Sept 26.-The commits
sion appointed by President Mckinley
to investigate the administration of the
war department iii relation To its con-
duct of the Hispano-American war be-
gan its labors formally today. The
commission effected an organization on
Saturday by electing General Grenville
NJ. Dodge president. Mr.. Richard
Weightman secretary and Major Ste
phen c. Mills, of the regular army.
recorder.
The full commission is as follows:
Major General Grenviile NJ. Dodge, OF
Iowa: Colonel ]. y. Sexton. of Illinois;
Captain e. p. Howell. of Georgia; Ma
jor General J. W. Wilson. chief of en-
gineers OF the United States army
Charles DENLY, of Indiana, late min
lister TO China; Ex-Governor Urban y.
Woodbury., of Vermont: Ex-Governor
James A. Beaver, of Pennsylvania;
Major General a. Med. McCook. U. S.
A. (retireG): Dr. Phineas S. Conner. OF
Cincinnati.
That it is the presidents desire that
the inquiry SHCu!u pS us u anu ''''' VI
ing was indicated ny his statement to
the commission VIXEN it assembled at
the White House for a conference with
him on Saturday. No limit is placed
by the president upon the scope of the
investigation 1t is to include every
department of the army, and the presi-
dent assures the commission in ad-
vance that he will afford every ia
ci!ity in his power for the prosecution
of the most searching inquiry into
into every part Of the administration
of the war.
The sessions of The investigators will
be secret until the report is ready for
r,,hlicatior
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1Irhtcr Tonndcred. rive Drowned

IIrnCrT OIIIItItTVU- t ~ 2 III U w fIe7tE1
Sault Ste Marie Mich, Sept. &c.
Five men were drowned in st. Mary S
river yesterday by the laundering OF
the lighter Monitor. They are Joseph
Prior. William Corber, John Robaire
Emanuel Robaire. all of this city. and
John Foley, of West Bay City. Mich
The Monitor was in tow OF the tug
Bruce. and was loaded with oron ore
Captain Smith, manager of the wreck
ing company owning the Monitor. was
on board the boat. He made heroic
efforts to save his men, and his eX-
ertions nearly cost him his life. He
finally caught line thrown to him
from the tug, sand was taken aboard ex'
nausted.
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sS$t""NuLE Or rHE---=-z='-' =s

s e::~'uLE OF rHE----
Baltimore, Chesapeake 4 Atlantic
Railway company.
Until further notice, will run their
steamers as follows, weather per
hitting, leaving South ST. Wharf at
500 o'clock p. NJ.
STEAMER PoCOMOKE.
Capt Howard.
Tuesdays and Fridays for Cristeld,
Tangier Island, Finney's, Oman
cock, Shelltown, Pitts Wharf, Ce-
dar Hall, Rehoboth, Powell's, POGO
moke City, Mattaponi. and Snow
Hill. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and
Thursdays, leave Snow Hill, 8 a, m,
Mattaponi $50, Pocomoke City 8,
Powell's $50, Rehoboth 8, Cedar
Hall 9:3O, Pitts wharf 10, Shelltown,
1915, Onancock $3.50 p. H.. Finney's
3, Tangier Island 4:30, Crisfeld E.
STEAMER EASTERN SHORE.
Capt. Il. H. Kaynor.
Wednesdays and Sundays for Girls
field, Barborton, Evans, Boggs,
Cedar View. Nandua, Concord,
Reads, Davis. Shields and Rue's
RETURNING leaves Rue's
Tuesdays and Fridays s, Shields
$40. Davis 1000, Reads 1920, Con
cord Ii, Nandua 1870, Cedar View
12.45, Boggs 2:45, Evans 3, Harbor'
ton 3:15, Crisfield 6.
STEAMER TANGIER.
Mondays and Thursdays for Fords.
CrisGeld, Finney's, Qnancock,
Coulbourns, Hunting Creek and Mes
sopgo. RETURNING-leave Wed
nesdays and Saturdays, Messongo 8,
Hunting Creek, 9 30, Onancock, $50
Fiprey's, 3, Crisfield, 6, Ford's 7.3O
All Steamers leave Crisileld for Balti
more on arrival of last down train
Freight and passengers received
for all points on the N. Y, Phila. ano
Norfolk. Wicomico and Pocomoke K
r. daily, Delaware, Maryland and
Virginia Railroads.
Positively no freight received after
4:3O D. N. and must be prepaid to al
points, except on the N. I
Phila. and Norfolk Railroad.
Willard Thompson, T: Murdoch
Gent. Manager. Gent Pass. Ag't.
J. Sawyer Wilson, Jr.,
GenI. Freight Agent
III f. Baltimore st.
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General '

GeneraI wheeler Leaves Camp W1kon
New York, Sept. 27.-General Wheeler
took his final departure from Camp
Wikoff yesterday. Today the general
will inspect the cadets at West Point,
after which he will so to Washing
ton. From that city he will start for
Huntsville to assume command of the
cavalry.
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NEW YORK, PHlLA. & MORT ok R.R.

Time Table in Effect Nov. 30, 1897.
Quickest and only daily line between
Boston, New York, Phila., Nor
folk ard Old Point Comfort.
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"fn stops for passengers on sigma
to conductor. 2Daily, except Sunday
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-04-10

species of abnormalty which sends wo-
men with offerings Of flowers to the
cell of the condemned fend. or with a
proposal of marriage to the most no.
torious criminals. Some of these wo-
men who are seeking to take the place
Of Dora Clay are sisters and daughters
of repute, of youthful age. and Of good
social standing, with opportunities or
chances for suitable martial alliances.
1t is not because Clay in his day was
a diplomat and statesman, nor that he
is rich now. 1t is, evidently, of the
notoriety he gained in the episode of
espousing his girl-wife and her subse-
quent escapades. 1t is not Clay. his
fame home or wealth, but his notorie-
ty Murderers, incendiaries. bigamists
and thieves, when not lacking in noto-
riety never fail of female attention nor
of proffers Of hearts and hands of wo-
men. There seems dithyrambic
twist, a fanaticaI infatuation upon the
part of womankind for the notorious,
an instructive and hereditary if not an
desire for the brute that is in
the man, or why are so many women
found defending the vicious, and reject
ing good men to consort with the no
torious recreant?
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RAILWAY MILEAGE.

Kansas in railway mileage stood sec
onh in the. eighties, led only by Illinois
This was a hard matter for the resi-
dents of other states to understand. 1t
seemed incomprehensible. But Texas
and Pennsylvania have gone on
building for eight years while Kansas
has been at a standstill, and these two
states now also lead her in mileage
The last report Of the interstate COM
mission contains some interesting facts
in connection with railway mileage.
Illinois leads all Of the forty-five states
with 10,6S9 miles: Pennsylvania is next
with s.SSS miles; Texas is third with
g. 404 miles: Kansas fourth with s.s47
miles; Ohio follows with S722 miles,
Iowa is sixth with S5l5 miles: New
York seventh with S116 miles. and
Michigan eighth with 1857 miles. The
lowest state in the Union in point of
mileage is the smallest, namely Rhode
Island. She has but 221 miles. Della
ware. the next smallest state has but
81 miles. The state that leads ali
others in the number Of its miles OF
track for every one hundred miles Of
area is New Jersey Massachusetts IS
next and Ohio third. The figures for
the three states are respectively 2s,7s.
$3.50 and 2l.4L
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COWARDLY WHELPS

The Pop papers have been making a
great to do over the verdict in the
Sheriff Martin strike case in Pennsyl-
vania- American citizens were ruth
lessly murdered by the money power
and for corporate interests, has been
the declaration Of these papers. The
truth is that the mobs of those mining
regions were constituted of foreigners
sylvania where the Hungarians and
Austrians mostly live, the coal and
coke regions, has alarmed these for
eigners. An exodus prevails in the
Northumberland, Schuylkill and Lee
high regions. Since March / it IS esti-
mated that 5000 English speaking peo-
pie have left, the majority going to
Europe with thousands of dollars, the
savings of from one to five years So
journ. One day this week fifty Hun
garians, Austrians and others left Mt.
Carmel for New York to sail for Eu-
rope, while another detachment left
for the western part of the United
States, stating that they did not want
to be impressed into the army in the
event of war with Spain. They imagine
that by leaving Pennsylvania they will
be safe from the recruiting officers.
While many leave on account of the
NOV eooro +La rnrr,o,e o.5 o+bax 800
uralized citizens, together with the
more sensible of the Hungarians, Aus
TRANS and Slavs. who have seen serv-
ice in the armies of the old country,
declare that they will go to war at the
first tap of the drum.
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its wisdom. Great Britain has grown
so great as to be in danger of going to
pieces of overweight in the absence OF
support, which support must not be
sui generis but a natural one and con-
slant. The strongest international tie
is a racial one. England's natural ally
is America. America, upon the other
hand, is the only country in a hundred
years that has had the courage to talk
back to the Britisher and to back her
talk with fight. The Muscovite has fig
ured for two centuries, patiently and
wisely. to get such a foothold on the
world as to defy England. Russia fears
no other power. Balfour, in his adj
dress delivered this week in the House
Of Commons, and Balfour speaks for
Great Britain in the absence of the
premier, which address was principally
confined to an explanation of the situa-
ton of affairs in the Orient, practically
admitted that Russias acquisition of
Port Arthur was against the wishes of
England and against her interests, and
therefore contrary to the policy of
Great Britain. France is with Russia
in that movement, and Germany be-
comes particeps criminus in stealing
like foothold in China Balfour ex-
planned that Great Britain took prompt
steps to offset Russian advantage by
securing the port of Wei Hai-Wei on
the Gulf Of Pi-Chi-Lir But Russia has
secured a foothold and takes a position
and commands an interest in all that
the Eastern problem contains. An
American alliance is the only thing
that can prevent a partition of China,
and in it England's only chance to
maintain her prestige and get her share
in case of a forced dissolution of that
empire. So it is not Spain and her
Cuban interests, nor any apprehension
Of an European alliance in Spain's be-
half and against the United States
which prompted the suggestion of a
an-Anglo-American alliance, but
British interests in the Orient, which is
but our near west
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SOUTHERN DEVELOPMENT.

The American Protective Tariff Lea
cue, having employed (. G. Pipp, edi-
tor Of the BurIingame, Kansas, Chroni-
Gle. to investigate the industrial con-
uitions Of the southern states under a
protective tariff, has written his first
letter from Augusta, Georgia, to the
American Economist, the organ of the
League. His letter is quite lengthy.
and deals with several southern inter-
ests in general way. In speaking of
the development of the south he SAYS
that the cotton mill industry had some
thing Of a foothold in the south before
the war between the states, but the
northern mills took about four bales
of cotton for home consumption to ev-
cry bale taken by southern mills. From
the time of the close of the war to 1870
the north doubled its use of cotton
while the south lost. In 1871 the north
used 1.072,O00 bales and the south but
$1,000 bales, ratio of more than eleven
10 one in favor of the north.
From that year to 1892 both the north
and the south made steady gains, the
consumption for that year being AIR.
GOO bales for the northern mills and 6S4.-
600 for the southern. The two follow
ing years showed losses for the north
ern mills. followed by a partial recov-
cry in 1895. in which year the north US
ed 2.O19,OOO bales
The record Of 1886 shows another loss
of about rs per cent for northern mills.
but q steady gain for those in the
south The figures are 1.6O5, ono bales
for the north and 900, 900 fer the south.
Comparing these with the amounts
used in 1871 shows a gain Of about 80
per cent for the north ard a gain os
about 900 per cent for the south. the in
crease of population was about so per
cent The north did net in crease with
the gain in poouI4tior; the south far
exceeded that gain.
Measured IL bllk l.. the twenty FIVE
years from 1871 to 1896 the south gain
ed $4,000 bales, while the north gained
bSS, o0e bales
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PROPOSES TO MARRY HIM.

What an enigma woman is She IS a
physiological and psychological prob
lem which time with its wisdom nor
progress with its development have
solved. The sex is a contradiction
mentally and spiritually and emotion
ally insane when confronted by motor
ious characters or questionable situa-
tions. Thirty-one women have asked
the old octogenarian. Casius NJ. Clay.
to marry them should he conclude to
divorce his child-wife who has been
running after a youthful lover and who
only returns TO Clay when in trouble.
These thirty-one other crazy women Go
not probably propose polygarny. but
doubtless a majority of them. II they
legally could, would marry the old man
in plurality. II cant be connuhial
bliss these women seek; probably few
OF them the comforts of his pa!atial
home. II is love OF notorety or that