davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Chipley banner. (Chipley, Washington County, Fla.) 1893-1943, 1899-06-10
BANKS WILL ECONOMIZE.
Several Institutions In Savannah, Ga. 4
Reduce Capital Stock.


Several Institutions In Savannah, Ga. to
Reduce Capital Stock.
Several OF the banks OF Savannah,
Ga, are preparing to reduce their cap.
ital stock as a step in the direction OF
economy. In a few days the Savan.
nah Bank and Trust company will hold
a meeting for that purpose. Applica.
ton will be made to the secretary OF
state for o charter amendment which
will permit this reduction. It's pres.
ent capital is $3.50, 900, and the proba.
bility is it will be reduced TO 5000, 900.
The Southern Bank and the National
Bank Of Savannah have already taken
this step and the Merchants National
Bank is contemplating doing the same
thing at an early date.
The cause OF the desire for reduced
capital stocks seems to be the in
creased taxation a large stock entails
upon bank. A bank with q small
capital stock can do as much business
almost as one with larger stock and
do it cheaper. A bank with q small
stock can borrow from the east all the
currency required to tide it over GER
tain periods and does not have to pay
such heavy taxes for its use.
A bank official, in speaking OF the
matter, said that he knew Of one
banking house in Savannah where the
taxes for 1899 were but $500 below the
salary list. This is a clear indication
that the taxes, both city and state, are
too high, he stated, and there should
be relief from some point.
The Chipley banner. (Chipley, Washington County, Fla.) 1893-1943, 1899-06-10
NEGRO BRIDE JAILED
While Her White Husband IL Hiding
From OHicers.

While Her White Husband IL Hiding
From Onicers.
A Columbia, s. O., special says:
The colored bride and the preacher
that married her to Geo. Hamilton,
white, have been arrested in GREEN
Vile. Hamilton was a member OF the
Fourth New Jersey regiment, stationed
at Greenville. After going home he
came back to Greenville and made his
headquarters at the home of Marion
Love, q negro. He then married Me-
LISA Love, daughter Of his host,
against the laws Of South Carolina.
The negroes in the neighborhood were
iubilant. A warrant was issued for all
the parties. Hamilton has hidden
away, but the bride is in Jail and Rev.
Thomas Minus, the preacher, has
given bond for appearance at trial.
The Chipley banner. (Chipley, Washington County, Fla.) 1893-1943, 1899-06-10
A CANNON "BOOM."

Honest Uncle Joe" To BE Itepupioan
Candidate For speaksrship.
Information has been received In
Washington by we'll known western
congressman to the effect that the LII
nois republican delegation may have
70 abandon Mr.. Hopkins and take
Honest Uncle Joe" Cannon as its
candidate for the speakership: The
unexpected strength shown by General
henderson in Wisconsin has had
very depressing effect upon some Oh
the Hopkins boomers.
The reasons assigned for the bring
ing out Of Cannon are supposed to Dc
national In their character.
The Chipley banner. (Chipley, Washington County, Fla.) 1893-1943, 1899-06-10
MEMORIAL DAY AT MANILA.

MANNED American Troopers Pay Tribute
To Dead Comrades.
A special from Manila says: Memo.
rial day was celebrated tuesday AZ
battery Knoll, where Scotts guns
ware planted against the Filipino
trenches in the frst days fighting at
Manila. 80. -, ,,u.
Nearly 800 soldiers lie buried there
m q bleak mount. =,
The few soldiers who could De
spared from the trenches came TO Bat
tsry Knoll dusty and bronzsd, bear
inc flowers with which TO strew their
comrades graves. 49,,
mound.
The Chipley banner. (Chipley, Washington County, Fla.) 1893-1943, 1899-06-10
DIED OF YELLOW FEVER.

A Young Girl Contracts the Disease In
New Orleans.
The Louisiana state board Of health
Monday night gave notice TO the sew.
eral other boards Of health in accord.
ance with an agreement made this
spring that An sutopfJ showed Miss
johanna Grille, who died in New Or.
leans Sunday, to have died Of yellow
fever. The case was regarded Is q
suspicious one, but not until after the
autopsy on Monday morning could the
character Of the disease be determined
with certainty.
The board OF health declares that
there 10 no other case ip New Orleans.
The Chipley banner. (Chipley, Washington County, Fla.) 1893-1943, 1899-06-10
STATE CAPITAL BILL KILLED.

Florida Legislature Rejects "e"'"'
Abandoning Tallahassee.
The event Of the day in the Florida
legislature Tuesday was the over,
wSelming defeat in the house OF Q,
Clark's bin to move the state capital
from Tallahassee. The measure re.
ouired three-ffths vote Of the whole
Sonse for its passage, but received the
dsc;ded minority Of 26 TO ~. AN
amsnSmept to the constitution with
The same end in view was defeated AZ
a previous session. This ends the !, re- :.
mpval agitation and the Legislature naa !
now proposes to spend soo'ooo I'M
proving the present state house.
The Chipley banner. (Chipley, Washington County, Fla.) 1893-1943, 1899-06-10
TO HONOR VOLUNTEERS.

Those Returning From Philippines VIII
He Reviewed BY President.
A Washington dispatch says: All
the volunteers now in the Philippines,
IL mustered out at San Francisco,
are to be invited to mobilize at Mime.
apolis and st. Paul. They are to be
rendered rousing welcome, made the
more notable by the presence Of Presi-
dent Mckinley.
The president has been anxious to
meet all the troops who served In the
Philippines, il this were practicable,
and he agreed to 60 to Minneapolis
and st. Paul 10 greet the Minnesota
volunteers.
The Chipley banner. (Chipley, Washington County, Fla.) 1893-1943, 1899-06-10
TO STAND SECOND TRIAL.
Mrs. Hughes Will Again be Arraigned fos
Murder of Husband.

Murder of Husband.
Mrs. Matte A. Hughes, the young
woman who killed her husband at
Greers, s. c., last fall, will be again
arraigned on the charge of murder at
Green ville next week. At the last
term Of court she was tried and O
mistrial resulted. The case will be
called this session on motion made by
defence. The allegation was that ow-
ing to Judge Townsend ordering
mistrial and dismissing the jury in the
absence Of the defendant amounted TO
a practical acquittal. The new con-
stitution forbids twice placingin leop'
ardy a citizen on the same charge
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-22
PESSIMISM.
From the New York Sun,

1t is very remarkable that at this time
when there is so much pride i'm American
university development there are appar-
ent no evidences of coir rCidCnt and CORE
spending progress in any department Of
intellectual effort, more especially in cur
rent literary discussion. In science clever
men are turned out, ard they begin TN ,ir
careers with some paper which is fun of
promise. but almost invariably they stop
there. We should make an exception in
the field of medicine and surgery, for in
1t original and progressive minds are
giving diStil ctlOn to this country; but
nowhere else do we find them. The pre-
vailing indications are of smartness and
shallowness: and in literature no sue
Cessors ranKirg with the more notable
writer's who had won right 20 serious
literary consideration Il generation ago
are making their appearance. In both
form and substance the new writers are
wanting. They do not seem tn have
reached the stage of mature intellectual
development If in this younger genera
tion Of literary aspirantS there has an
pearod "a mind of distinction we have
failed to discover it. Never since there
began 10 be Il. considerable American lit
erature has it seemed at SO low an ebb
as il is now, never u time when raw and
unframed minds were so impudent in
putting themselves forward as leaders in
thought and masters in art.
Our Journalism, tCo, has never before
made so deplorable an exhibition of shall
lowness, insincerity, intellectual feeble
ness and moral debasement as it is max
ing now, and among the examples Ct
greatest degradation are newspapers of
the greatest pretenSonS to superiority.
They seem to be incapable of understand
ing the difference between evidence and
assertion, proof and surmise, and keep up
senselesS cries on the theory that the pub
lie also is incapable of reasoning.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-22
Tho Beef Inquiry.

The testimony thus far adduced be-
fore the army beef court of jnquiry
indicates unfttness ir the meat supply
but discioses no fraud. General Miles
explicit disclaimer of any intention to
nnpute fraudulent practices is credit
ahle to his sense of fairness ana pleas
ing to the country. which had no desire
to lose confidence in the integrity of it's
war executive servants.
But the evidence as to the untitness
of much of the meat supplied to the
army warrants the investigation which
Miles has forced. 1t makes little differ
ence to the starving soldier on the
fighting line whether the meat ration
which his stomach cannot hold and
which would not nourish him if it
could be digested is inediblc on ac-
count of fraud or on account of ignor-
anco at headquarters. AS a servant Of
his country ready to fight his country's
battles and willing if necessary to die
in his COuntry's behalf at the hands Of
the enemy the soldier is entitled to
food that he can eat if human enter
prise can supply it to him. This great
and rich nation owes it to him. to give
him tlt food if there is any way under
heaven TO provide il and forward it.
The investigation shoUld establish
whether th"r" was lemissness or not on
the governments part, even though
there may moi have been fraud or will
ful Culpablity. The establishment of
this fact is necessary t. a pI,oper man
aSemcnt of army matters in future
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-22
Condolences.

There is a marked similarity be-
tween the cases Of stephens, the man
who burned Pardec hall, and Hom-
bauGh, who twice burned Elm Park
church in this city. Both men cnUcr-
tanned delusions more on less real tn
them Of grievances for which they
sought revenge. In neither case did
the alleged injury bear the remptest
logical reference to their crimes In
the church destruction. Hombaugh
clung to the fancy that previous own
ers Of the land on which the costly
ediico was built had wronged him and
his family. stephens held a gvudga
against the college professors, which
was his only excuse for the hideou;
crime. At the trials which followed
the prisoners both We're critically exam
ined with a view To establishing evi-
denCes of insanity. In both cases The
penalty was imprisonment Fom-
haugh receiving the full sentence I'll
ten years ana stephens nine.
Oddly enough no special evilcnc .
was brought out at the stephens trial
regarding the streak of insanity ran
ming through his family. The mar
liaee of a grandfather with his own
niece and "a progency mentally larec-
live, besides several near relatives
thus affected. afford reasonable su-
:picion that while the man is .. dam
gcrOus crank and should be guarded
FOR more than nine years he is stlll
mentally irresponsible for the herodi-
larry trait. Again the points of simil-
arity are noted in the two cases un-
der question, as the man Hompaugh,
who was so successful in destroying
Elm Park church, comes from a family
in which insanity was noted in several
generations
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-22

fill the vacancy created i'm the lower
ent member OF the staff at any time
The vacancy In the line Is to be filed
by appointment to the lower grades
As the present staff officers retire the
staff positions will be filled by line
officers, who will serve simply by de-"
tail Senator Proctor's amendment
will i'm time consolidate the Adjutant
Generals and Inspector Generals de-
partmenta; also the Quartermaster
Generals and Commssary Generals
departments. The Medica, and Pay
departments will not be affected by
the amendment Senator Proctor be-
lieves that the system of permanent
STAFF in our army is an antiquated one.
and was responsible for many of the
dclinquencies in the last war. His
proposition is in line with the bill Of
Representative Mcclellan, of the house,
and the suggestions of General Miles
in the bill presented TO the senate.
looking to Il steady transfer of officers
from line to staff and their return to
regiments after being trained in staff
duties.
II is possible that in the brief time
remaining 10 the present congress
necessary study of details in army re-
organization cannot be secured. But
the experience of Senator Proctor, who
WAS secretary of war under Harrison,
nj 10,
soldiers in the army commands should
so far toward inclining the senate in
favor Of the Proctor amendment.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-22

merchant marine that is not dependent
on foreign shipyards. That policy was
successful for seventy years. our tonnage
In 1861 having risen to the great total of
5539,SlS tons. Then came the civil war,
with the raids of Anglo-Confederate
cruisers, which nearly ruined our foreign
carrying trade. Nevertheless congress,
against appeals to resort to free ships
for recovering lost ground, clung to the
registry laws, and on June 80, 1891 our
total documented tonnage had reached
i769,O2O tons, or about one-eghth short
of the high mark of 1851.
What protection for the American ship
yard can do has also been shown by the
working of the law passed about n dozen
years ago, which required that all war
ships should thereafter be made wholly
of American material. For a time the
price OF our war vcssls was high, but II
has since been steadily falling. and sew
cral years ago Secretary Herbert was
able to declare that the price per ton
for the gunboats Nashville, Helena and
Wilmington, built at Newport News,
seemed fully as low a. is paid for SINH
lar work in France and England" The
reduction on the cost of battleships I'm the
last eight years has been no less remark
able, while recently we have seen Amcri-
can ship armor underbidding the foreign
fi'iN'l iOi uSt III EUROPE anu CTUlSGlS
and battleshps ordered in Philadelphia
and in San Francisco for the navies of
Russia and Japan. Our transatlantic
shipment of American steel rails is one
of the great industrial wonders of the
hour. and it would be hard to set a limit
to the prospects of the steel industry.
The commissioner of navigation believes
"the time is not many years distant when
We shall build ships of iron or steel bet
ter and moro Chcaply than they can be
built anywhere in the world" and Ger
tainly the tendency is that way. The free
ship proposition, then, is out of the ducs-
ttoE. Instead of being a movement of
progress it would be one of rctrOgradc.
Whatever other policy may commend it.
self to congress, IL deserves no considcra
tion. The law Of May TO- 1892. admitting
foreign built ships on the construction of
like amount of tonnage here, has been
of benefit, and an extension of it is one
feature of the Payne Hanna bill. But in
no case should any free ship bill, in the
full sense of that term, be passed.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-22

door omen? I went very carefully into all
tho trade statistics. | did not only take
the opinions of my cOuntrymen. l went
10 the American equally, and | shell
ever he grateful fer the way the Amer
lcan merchants received me in China
| ' went TO the Germans, ana l shall be
| equally grateful 30 the Germans; and ]
went very often to the Japanese. But
came to this conclusion, that the oppor-
tunltles of great trade In China are GER
talniy gathered by four cOuntries-thot
u.s. Great Britain-l should say Great Brit
ain last by courtesy-let me say America,
Germany, JaCan and Great Britain. My
suggestion was that there should be some
sort OF CONNER cial alliance or CONNER
cial understanding between these ccun-
tries. that own the trade, with regard
TO the future development Of that trade
and with regard to the security which
should exist in China for the trade that
there Is at present.
II may be said to me- why ain / not
courteous? Why do ! name these four
countries and leave out Russia and
France? I don't want to be discourtoous
to any nation, and | never am, but look
upon this from business point of view
and why, when Russia and France have
no trade--that is, import trade-into
China, are they TO he first considered?
That is the reason have suggested these
-FOUR countries in the nature of an alli-
ance. The two countries, Russia and
France, will naturally say they have
trade So they have. They have an cX-
port trade. Russia has "a very Iarge
amount of tea and France has a very
large amount of silk, but both of those
commodities are carried In British boz
toms. My point is the import trade.
The development Of trade in China must
he by import trade 10 begin with and the
four countries that have that import
trade should do something in order to
keep the door open for the future Now
these four countries also are the four
countries that do not wish to have any
territory whatever. What they want is
simply commercial frtedOm. I do not
want to say anything ungraCeful about
France and Russia, but i'm the past his
tory has shown MS that they are coun-
tries which like territory. | do not blame
France and Russia bit. But the point
is that the four countries ! name do not
want territory They want a commercial
freedom. and therefore in my opinion
they are the four countries that are to
talk out what Is best with regard to keep
ing the door open in China.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-22
NO FREE SHIP BILL.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
The minority of the house committee on
the merchant marine have submitted n
report against the Ianna-Paync shin
bounty bill, declaring that at $S, $50 900 a
year for the prescribed twenty years Il
would cost $lf50O0,0OO. But what substl-
tute for bountics do the minority pro-
pose? Free ships. In other words, they
would reverse policy which has sub
sisted almost from the foundation Of the
government, and Is embodied in registry
laws still on the statute book. The pur-
pose OF the law Of 1892 was to Give US
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-22
The Result for Mayor.

q aptain Moir's election is a natural
rest'lt Of the popular Dissatisfaction
with Democratic city rule. Mayor Bal
ley "A 'ected Moir and thus unntentian-
ally / epaid him for the help which
Molr a nd his hackers gave Bailey three
years a go.
Captn. in Moir has before him a splen-
did oppt lrtunty He will lose it if he
fails to recognize that he was chosen
by the vo tes Of men who have nc SYM
pathy VIII atever with the narrow pro-
scriptive action with which Moir has
i'm the uas been identified; mon who
are RcrubH cans from broad party prin-
ripIe and f. rln believers i'm fair play.
These men Imported Moir in the hope
and rxpectat ion that as mayor he will
rise to the IL igh plane Of efficient and
untrammced administration ard it is
for him to- dcatcrmine how wisely their
confidence has been placed. If he shall
cvincr the corr age necessary to enforce
clean methods in the departments un-
der his control and shall display the
will and inclination Of q man behOlden
TO no class. clan or faction. tEcN will
stand hy him to It man and help to
max. his admiuist:ra tion Il record
breaker for success.
ON the contrary, if he shall choose
&C. draw inspiration exclusively from
the small circle of ds'crcdited party
wrorkers of the Fellows scranton type
who have tried to appropriate him as a
political hoatrr to keep themselves
from sinking INTO desclVcd oblivion his
administration will out Bailey Baileys
Admiral Sch!eys defense is a strung
document which throws doubt upon the
justice of the structures recently passed
upon him. but. after all, his promotion
To the rank of rear admiral satisfies
the equities of the case aud he can
well 4 ford a. ne conn
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-22

The Superior court has decided that
where individuals are injured by rea-
son Of defective pavements damages
are collectible not from the city or
borough but from the property owners
FILLING to keep the pavements in prop
ar repair. This is reversal of pre-
cedent and custom but it accords with
CDllplOn sense
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-22

The fact So studiously brought by
The investigating committee that Gem
eral Miles ate some of the embalmed
beef is nothing in its favor. Up in the
Klondike hunger has recently forced
prospectors to eat shoe strings and OF
ter skin coats.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-22

trations which pictures and describes
the industrial and commercial life Of
Troy with admirable thoroughness.
The Times in vigor, enterprise and
influence Is easily the leader in the in
terror journalism of the Empire state.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-22

Replying to a reporter who had quer-
led him as to reported quarrel be-
tween himself and Governor Roosevelt.
Senator Platt the other day said: II
have to smile some times at these
stories Of quarrcls between Governor
Roosevelt and myself, for the reason
that they are SO old-fashioned. If 1
were political writer for newspaper
| would forsalle that old style of politl-
cal journalism and try to get at the
facts. How can any man with an
ounce of common sense quarrel with
Governor Roosevelt? He is Thoroughly
upright and honorable in all his meth
DDS, political, social and business: he
isn't political bunco steerer lie diff
fers manfully and in straightforward
fashion and tells YOU so: then we all
get to work and try to find out what
is for the best interests of the Repub-
lican party or the state OF New York +"
What delightful contrast to Pennsyl-
vania.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-22

Agoncllos mission to Europe will at
least suffice to inform him of the fact
that no European nation is anxious
to tread on Uncle SANS corns.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-22

A prominent minister is delivering
lectures on Ananias at Honesdale, and
the citizens do not know whether TO
feel flattered or not.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-22
For an Interchangeable Staff and
Line.

Senator Proctors proposed amend
ment to the Hull army bill making
staff and line Interchangeable, as is
true i'm the navy, is favorably received
by army experts and has the merit
that IL would provide a corps of officers
familiar with all sides and phases OF
the military service
The amendment provides that when
a vacancy occurs in the staff depart
pent, line officer shall be detailed TO
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-22

Admiral SChley appears TO have KEEP
a little ammunition in reserve.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-22
TOLD BY THE STARS.
Daily Horoscope Drawn by Ajacchus,
The Tribune Astrologer.
Astrolabe Cast: 40S a. m., for Wedncs-
day, February %, 1899.
sr% A rr@S

A child born on this day viii notice that
several promising candidates of yesterday
now have numb feeling about the solar
pleXu".
Although 1t is not her birthday Martha
will be very much In evidence at tea par
ties and dinners today.
Speaking of W&shington's birthday,
hatchets, etc, we are reminded that sew
eral persons seeking Office in Scranton
got 1t where the chicken encountered the
CleaVcr.
There is curvature in the backbone of
winter
The political groundhogs exhibited con-
siderable timidty yesterday,
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-22
SAMUEL SLOAN.

From the Chicago Times Herald.
President at different times of seven
teen distinct railroads. but never a sub
ordinate transportation official This is
the extraordinary railroad career of Sam
ueI Sloan, who has just retired from the
presidency of the Delaware, LackaWannd
and Western, giving way to one of the
best transportation men Of the west, a
ChiCagOan. w. H. Truesdale. Office hoy,
clerk, merchant king, statesman. million
aire, railroad ruler. This is an epitome
of his activity. Sloan rose like a comet.
and during a business career Of half a
century tho star never waned. lie re
tired at the age of 50, commanding the re-
Spect of all, his brillancy and ability in
no way impaired. In energy ana physi-
cal endurance only is he impaired as com
pared with the Sloan men knew in his
prime.