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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-12-23

Guitars, mandolins and banjos make
q nice Xmas present, but get the best,
and they are the Washburn. Walter ID.
Moses AZ CO., 1908 Main street.
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The Times is always indebted 10 fI'enuS
who favor IL with society items anu PEI
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sent over the signature Of the senGet.
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AETERMA TH.

DR.. A. Conan Doyle the novelist so well
known In England and America, u re-
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ported TO have volunteered lot sei'''S "
South Africa.
DR.. Rudolph Friese. Of Omaha Neo''
has been sued for divorce and his "ile'
Ida, brings the most extraordinary cha'se
OF crulety as the basis for her suit lhsF
ten-year-old child was forced TO pose a.
dead while a photograph Of her was made'
which the husband afterward sent To lnc
wife as proof OF their childs sudden u'a'n.
The wife alleges that the husoahu "I'
this I'm order TO lacerate her feelings
As a reward for their good behavior
sheriff Wharton. Of Dover. Del will give
a "possum bake" with the sweet potato
and gravy adjuncts. and cake-watk to
the prisoners in Kent County JAN on New
Years eve. on Sunday they viii have
turkey dinner, including cranberry sauce
and mince pie.
The Rev. Marco Mazzuca, former
Roman Catholic priest stationed at 81.
Michaers Italian Catholic church in New
Haven. has been ordained into the BAPTIST
ministry. Father Alazzuca lett 81.
Mlchaels church about a year ago here.
lie Is about forty years old. His reasons
for leaving ST. Aichaels church were that
he had changed his mind about his creed
at ST. Michaers To-day it was officially
stated hat he left of his own free viii.
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You can dns nothing better TO give a
young friend than years memtcrship
in the Rosemary Library. Cost. only 50.
Further information at the library.
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GOOD FOR A CHRISTMAS GIFT.

The Hartman plano improves with use.
Everyone wishes them. Walter ID.
Moses < Co.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-12-23

The popular Standard piano. See
them before you purchase. Walter ID.
Moses * Co.
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MANCHESTER BUREAU. 1921 HULL
STREET.
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PETERSBURG AGENT,
MRS. s. c. HUTCHINSON, DOMbAhD
STREET.
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ported to have volunteered for service In
South Africa.
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roLCANIC EHuPrION

Richmond. Va, Dec. p. 1898,
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The Tennessee Copper Company, at
Docktown. has increased the wages Of
it's employees 10 per cent. and has reduced
the hours OF labor from ten to eight.
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SOUTHERN NOTES.

A company has been organized with
capital stock Of $4,000 TO build a hotel
in the city Of Augusta, on the site of the
Old Planters Hotel. which was recently
destroyed by fire.
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a negro painter named John Mahood fell
from a scaffold yesterday afternoon, at
The times., 1899-10-03

excite applause from the same quarter
1t has already become evident that the
speculative" influences which covered the
country with scandals during the Spanish
war are actively at work in the Philip
pines, and are rendering the Otis govern
ment at Manila reproach to our nationaI
honor. Whatever may be the academic
theory in the Presidents mind Of a free
and benign colonial administration, in
practice most of those who surround. him
do not have any conception of American
control in the Pacific or the West Indies
other than as something designed by Prov
idence to give them and their friends a
chance to loot and swindle both Govern
ment and natives. II the Administration
were morally capable of accepting the les
sons taught by British colonial experience.
and of honestly applying them in the hill
ippines and Porto Rico. the greatest good
to all concerned would speedily follow.
But who is there that could look for such
a system-equitable, honorable, and nom
poitical--to grow from the deadly upas
tree Of Republican hypocrisy and chicanery
planted, watered, and seasonably pruned
and topped by Marcus Alonzo Hanna?
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PROF. sCHURMAN HERE.
He Calls on the President and VIII
Remain indefinitely.

Prof J. G. Schurman, of the Philippine
Commission, arrived in Washington yester-
day AM made short call on President
McKiniev. His stay in Washington is in
definite. Though he stated that he would
remain unriI after the celebration in honor
of Admiral Dewey.
II was stated yesterday that while here
a conference in regard TO the situation IN
the Philippines, and the future policy of
the United States regarding the islands
would be held at the White House before
the President starts on his Western trip.
It is we'll known that the views of Prof
Schurman and Admiral Dewey on all ques-
tions relating to the Philippines are about
the same and for this reason ii is thought
that Mr.. Mckinley after hearing their
opinions on the subject, will decide upon
some definite policy in our Eastern possess
sions.
The number of visitors at the White
House yesterday was estimated to be larg-
er than at any previous time during the
present Administration. Very little Of
fetal business was transacted and the re-
cefving hours of the President were occu-
pied almost entirely In shaking hands with
visiting delegations. The calls were an
nounced as being Of d purely social nature.
Among the callers who came as individuals
was Henry c. Payne, Republican national
committeeman from Wisconsin
No significance is attached to the visit
as he only remained with Mr. Mckinley a
few moments and stated, after seeing him,
that he simply called to pay his respects
Senator Chandler and Rear Admiral Far
quhar invited the President to attend the
uuyeiling of the monument to Daniel Web
ster on January Is, 1900. The President
accepted the invitation.
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DRIVEN ON THE ROCKS.
The Steamer Prodano Goes Ashore In
St. Mary,s Bay.

ST. JOHNS, n. F., Oct. 2-The British
steamer Prodano, Captain Scroggie, ten
days from Baltimore for Leith, with a full
general cargo, went ashore last night at
Wild Cove st. Mary's Bay, a region no.
toricus for the frequency of wrecks.
Heavy currents prevail there, and with the
dense fog the steamers lose their reckon
ing and go on the rocks before they can
avert disaster.
The Prodano struck at midnight and ell
tered a cleft in the steep sea front, where
she battered her stem against the cliff and
impaled herself on the jagged rocks which
tore out her bottom. Half the crew were
asleep below and the bulwarks being beat
en- down by the impact, one seaman S
head was split and another was severely
wounded by splinters of wood. A third
had his ribs broken and others sustained
less injuries. Two boats were broken to
pieces in the surf and ten men plunged into
the sea, but all were saved and the other
boats were successfully launched, the crew
staying by the wreck till daylight, when
they landed. The injured men were hoist
ed to the hilltop The injured men were
taken to nearby hut and the others
walked eleven miles over trackless waste
to ST. Mary's, whence they reported the
disaster. The ship is total loss, but
much of the cargo will be saved
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gen. Joe wheeler.

IffuI1 tHe 1IIaHId JUuIHdI-I
Whenever Joe Wheeler is in the neighborhood
of fighting he IS sure to get into it as duck
is to dip into pond that lies before it. Every
body remembers how be ehafed under Shafter's
dilly.dallying at Santiago and how he finally in
dueed a quicIssning Of operations there result
which hronghts the war to an earlier close than
IT would otherwise have had, and probably saved
the lives ef many American soldiers.
Wheeler In the Philippines is Just like Wheeler
was in Cdba, ever ready and eager 10 raggres-
sive action. n
Now we hear of him in the very front of the
Rghting there
General Wheeler has never yet been placed in
any command sr position where he did not dis
tinguish himself lie has won abundant honGrs
in two wars. and is now winning more in a
third war1
The times., 1899-10-03
THE TEXAS QUARANTINE.
Suit Instituted in the United
States Supreme Court

AUSTIN, Tex, Oct 2.-Despatches
reached here today stating that the Board
OF Trade of New Orleans is the instigator
OF the injunction proceedings that are to
be Instituted in the Supreme Court of the
united States. to break the Texas yellow
fever quarantine against that city. The
suit is now in course of preparation. and
will probably be filed on October TO- at
Washington. State Health officer W. f.
Blunt today received copy of the follow
ing telegram sent by General Manager Van
Wick, OF the Southern Pacific Company,
to T. Fay, of New OIleans
Il notice a special telegram from New
Orleans to the effect that New Orleans
will go before the United States Supreme
Court in an effort to break the Texas quar-
antine. We will have nothing to do with
the proposition for the following reasons:
If the Texas health officer is enjoined
Orange or Beaumont viii unguestionably
put en- local quarantine and tie US up COM
pletely. If they should get the injunction
we would, as matter of self protection
appeal to the Governor. They cannot en-
join him. We cannot afford, by reason oi
any action taken by New Orleans, to run
the risk of having our track torn up and
! bridges destroyed, and l would ask that
you decline to furnish any information un-
less it be under legal process
The times., 1899-10-03
TIE Yacht Races.

While Admiral Dewey is receiving his
sword of honor today, Sir Thomas Upton
will be beginning a heroic effort to regain
the Americas Cup. by winning the first
of the International yacht races between
the challenger Shamrock and the defend
er Columbia off Sandy Hook.
We most heartily hope that the Eng
lishman will be foiied in his first and all
other attempts; but it must be admitted
that he stands chance to win. The
eontesting boats are regarded as nearly
match for each other, and it may be only
question Of wind and seamanship be-
tween them In any case Sir Thomas is
true sportsman. and whether he gains
| victory or suffers a defeat, his enter
prise in coming over here after the old
silver pitcher, and his happy, warm
hearted manner and confidence in the fair
play of his hosts, will not fail to improve
the already friendly feeling between the
people of the two countries Whether he
shall go home a victor with a big broom
on his topmast, or yanquished he will
have stories to tell of his share in the
Dewey celebration, worth dozen cups.
Good luck to him, however the nautical
cat may jump
The times., 1899-10-03
MIR. Hanna and Indeeencv,

Has anything happened TO disrupt the
pleasant and even intimate relations that
formerly were wont to subsist between the
Clover Building and the White House? II
not, how are We TO account for the venom
Gus and scarcely yeiled assault upon Mr..
Mckinley contained in Senator Hanna S
Pittsburg interview, as published in the
Post" OF that city yesterday?
Why the chairman OF the Republican
National Committee should go out OF his
way 70 cast siur upon the President OF
the United States is hard 10 understand.
II the Dromio Of Cleveland has not had a
falling out with the Dromio Of Canton.
Uniess Mr.. Hanna has BEEN misquotsd,
something Of the kind mast have occurred.
According 10 the Post the Senator de-
eiared IL as his opinion that TO speak o;
Admiral Dewey as a Presidential possIbil-
1ty gas Indecent" Why we do not ex-
actiy see, except thai probably anything
The times., 1899-10-03

At any minute the news of fighting on
the Natal border may arrive. Yesterday nc
dispatches were received in London from
Pretoria. Whether the wires had been cut
or the sending office censored by the Boer
authorities, could not be ascertained. A
general condition of panic extends through
out South Africa. AS We have are1, evil
denees ale strong that the British Govern
merit has been negligent in pushing re-en-
forcements to Cape Town and Durham. an1
there seems to be deplorabla prospect
that, if hostilities are forced within the
next two weeks, there viii be English re-
verses. Probably war may be declared by
the Transyaal Government today.
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THE FEVER CONDITIONS.
The Cooler Weather Expected to
Break the Epidemic.

the tSDfuenafc.
JACKSON, Miss. Oct. 2-There have
been two new cases of yellow fever since
! Saturday and one death, an infant of D.
w. Evans. There were no new cases to-
day. Surgeon Carter OF the Marine Hos
pital Service, is here conferring with the
State board of health as to the establish
ment OF detention camp by the Govern
ment. He does not look for bad epi-
demic, the weather being too cooE45 de-
grees this morning.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Oct "A partial
report from Key West gives forty-nine
new cases Of yellow fever and one death
there today. The detention camp at Dry
Tortugas is to be closed, as the people re-
fuse to go there.
infected points tonight are very favorable
The State board Of health of Louisiana re-
ports two new cases and no deaths in New
Orleans, and Jackson reports no new cases
and no deaths. DR.. Carter, of the Marine
Hospital Service, is in Jackson, Miss, to-
day, and finds conditions there very salts
factory. Frosts are common now and frost
is the sign for the disappearance of the dis
ease.
The Louisiana board held a quarterly
meeting here today. and discussed a State
quarantine. None has been established by
Louisiana against New Orleans and after
examining into city conditions the State
board decided not to quarantine.
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The Rioting ON the scotsman.
Hrom the Chicago Journal.l


For this condition of affairs the ships owners
have incurred grave responsibility, if the reports
are true The rioters were not regular seamen,
but @'scabs,' rats picked up anywhere along
the waterfront 10 take the places of those who
had Joined the seamen's strike the other side
If a yessel-owning corporation wishes to risk its
property in such hands, perhaps it is only the
corporations business and that of the under
writers. But it has moral right in this age
to send unarmed men and delicate women to sea
where they viii be at the mercy of gang of
drunken Liverpool dock rats, merely because it
doesn't wish TO pay the wages that trained and
disciplined seamon demand That IS what the
Dominion line appears TO have done. If these
the facts, it owes il to humanity to hunt
down these rlIfiaEg, wherever they reach land,
and have them properly punished Ard fhc sooner
that seamans strike in England is settled by the
vesseI-owuers the better it will be for their
Paris Exposition
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Hanna objects to is Indecent" But that
is a small matter. Note the perfectly
heartless reference to his friend and pro-
tege which foIlowsi
lie is represented as saying that 'to
force upon this brave and gallant sailor
the necessity of again declaring he will
not accept any political Office is. in my
opinion, contemplate. and p aces this man
Of integrity, stern purpose, ard cetermina-
tion in the ranks of the shifty aspirants
for political EoReFs who have not the stam-
ina TO resist the Establishments of po itical
sehemers.'
Could anything be more cold blooded?
"Shifty aspirants;" have lot the stam-
iaa!'' Who is Hanna's candidate, anys ay?
Does he, for some new purpose or other,
desire Mr.. Mckinley to show stamina
and resist his establishments" He is a
political schemer'' sure enough, ard the
Presidents name is not Dewey-Eot this
term. The dictionary men ought to net9
the fact that when they want a genuine,
up-to-date definition OF .'indecency'' they
should apply to Hanna-as a shining ez-
annie
The times., 1899-10-03
THE ANDRE BUOY OPENED.
Opinions Differ as to Importance of
the Recent Find

STOCKHOLM, Oct. Either Andre has
found the pole, or else his expedition met
with disaster soon after his balloon left the
coast of Spitzbergen. The opening of the
buoy marked Andre Polar Expedition"
renders any other theory impossible to
maintain. The buoy which was picked up
September 81 on the north coast of King
Charles Island by the Norwegian cutter
Martha Larsask was opened yesterday in
the presence of a number of scientists and
members of the Cabinet. Within was found
indubitable proof that the buoy was the
buoy that Andre promised to drop if he
found the POLE.
Opinions differ as to the Significance of
the find 1t seems improbable that if
Andres balloon had been wrecked in the
vicinity of Sptzbergen the buoy would
have been found where it was. Besides, it
is held, other wreckage would have been
found, even after the two years or more
which have elapsed since the start.
The hope is strong, therefore, that the
pole has been found. Andres last words
before the start were to his friends not
10 give him up for three years.
The times., 1899-10-03
Liauia Campaign Munitions,
From the Philadelphia Record.)

IttNUIU.J
The formal agreement OF the Berks county as
pirants for the nomination to succeed the late
Congressman ErmeEtrout net 10 issue orders for
liquors to voters during the campaign is an in
novation in the methods of practical politics
which might be emulafed in ether Pennsylvania
counties. The candidate who permits himself
to become the victim of his bibulous constitu-
ents-who, in fact, are most likely to vote for
the other man on election day-deseryes no praise
for his genero.ity. He INDUCES in the costly
and demoralizing practice because his opponents
resort to it in order to capture the corrupt vote.
If the Berks county contestants shall adhere to
their pace they will set good example for
other politicians to follow, and at the concIu-
sion OF the contest will find their self-respect
strengthened and their pocketbooks still rotund
ard rrranffnrnd
The times., 1899-10-03
THE STRIKE AT CRAMPS.
The Demand for Nine-Hour Day to
Be Enforced.


PHILADELPHIA, Oct. At is probable
that 700 boiler makers and iron workers
allied with them. employed at the ship
building yards of the Cramp Shipbuilding
Company, will strike tomorrow morning at
10 o'clock. The discharge of the repre-
sentative committee appointed by the iron
workers TO present their grievances to the
company, has convinced the men that the
company will not treat with them, and so
it has been determined that unless over
lures are made by the Cramps before to-
morrow morning, they will stop work.
This action on their part, 1T is thought,
viii precipitate general strike or else
the closing of the shops, for without the
iron workers work must be practically sus-
pended.
President James O'Connell, of the In
ternational Maehinists' Union, has not yet
attempted to have a conference with Presi-
dent Charles Fl. Cramp, and will not un-
til he is thoroughly familiar with the sit
uation, which will be at least day yet
He said today: Il propose to make the
Cramps this offer: II it can be shown that
the Cramps Company cannot successfully
compete with the European shipbuilders
il a nine-hour day is granted to the men,
then the strike will be called off. I make
this offer with due deiiberation and am
prepared to abide by it. The men are not
unreasonable. or. at least, do not mean to
be so. and Just as soon as the Cramps show
us that a nine-hour day for the American
mechanic means the destruction, or even
injury to the prestige of American ship
builders, so soon viii we acknowledge cur
selves to be in the wrong, and bring this
strike TO an end
President OConnell will go to Washing
ton this week to find out about the strike
clause in naval contracts relieving the
Cramps of responsibilities for strikes. 1t
is expected that President Samuel Com
pers, of the American Federation of Labor,
win be here the latter part of the week.
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Revising the Constitution.

fFrcIn The PmIadelphia Ledger.)
For many years thinking people have noted
the desirability and, indeed. the absolute neces-
sity, of a revision of the United States Consti-
tuition; but every year the difficulties in the
way of such actin have increased, until it now
seems almost impossible to effect IL The Nebras-
ka Republicans. however, have Incorporated in
their State platform plank calling the attention
of Republicans throughout the country to the
subject and proposing that a convention shall
be called for the purpose Of revising the Con-
stitatien- This may, possibly, start discussion
which shall end in the calling of such con-
vention by the necessary two thirds of the States
The work will take years Of time, but it must
be started some time, and why not now as well
aS Istere
The times., 1899-10-03
Teaching Language In Schools.
Rrom the Chicago Tribune.l

German Is the foreign tongue most spoken in
Chicago. Instruction in it in the public schools
i more iustifab!e than in the OF any other
foreign torgre- BRIT the business utility of a
knowledge OF German in the United States is de-
creasing- English is steadily supplanting Ger
man. The German boys will not learn it, and
the Older generation is passing from the stage
There is valid excuse for tlie fiiching of time
froIn English instruction in the public schools to
attempt TO teach any foreign language That is
not what the schools created for. They
exist to teach thor, uehly the language of the
American citizen. not the language spoken by
lafayette. Steuben. and Pulaski, but by WASH
fngton, Greene, and Wayne.
The times., 1899-10-03

And now having disposed of former Cap
tain Carter, the country looks to Griggs
to proceed against that gentleman's con-
federates. II were better that the CAM
paign begin at once. Railroading Carter
to Leavenworth will not bury the scandal.
There are several other persons who ought
to be breaking stone in the attractive
zebra uniform
The times., 1899-10-03
SENATOR HANNA IN TOWN.
He Calls on the President With
Colonel Herrick, of Ohio.

Senator Hanna and Colonel Herrick, OF
Ohio. were at the White House yesterday.
and had a long conference with the Presi-
dent. II is understood that the Ohio cam
paign was fully discussed.
It is we'll known that Senator Hanna is
ANYTHING but satisfied with the political
situation in Ohio, and the presence of the
Senator with Colonel Herrick has given
rise to the report that the President will
make his stay in the Buckeye State much
longer than at first intended.
The times., 1899-10-03
His ONLY Enen,ies.

(From the Detroit Free PFess.) }
Another speech of Booker Washington has won
him the warm commendation OF writers North
and South This is respected and admired
by the best white men and the best negroes every
where 1t IS only among the less reckless and
,rnss,bstantial members of his own race that lie
has enemies.
The times., 1899-10-03

Governor Roosevelt ought to feel proud
It is announced that regiment of mount
ed gentlemen is about to be organized III
England on the model of the Rough
Riders for service in South Africa. ''imi-
tation is the sincerest fatteryn'
The times., 1899-10-03

Prof Sehurnan is here also. The honest
men of the Philippine Peace Commission
being present and available for purposes OF
conference, it is to be expected that Presi-
dent Mckinley will not lose any more time
before considering what should be done at
Manila, and then do it.
The times., 1899-10-03
Mndern Advertising.

(From the Indianapolis News)
Merchants nowadays advertise with the same
skill that they purchase goods To read. the adj
vertissments is rs much part oi newspaper read
ing as to read the news columns. Merchants know
this, and act accordingly.