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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-07
THE PHILIPPINE TARIFF.
Government Evidently Expects TO BE
Sustained by Supreme Court


Sustained by Supreme Court
New York. Oct. IA special to the
Journal of Commerce and Commercial
Bulletin from Washington says:
The war department has just made
public the revised customs tariff of
the Philippine archipelago" as enacted
Sept. II by the United States Philip
pine commission. 1t takes effect on Nov
Is. Its PRONUNCIATION at this time may
be regarded as an indication of the be
lief entertained by the war department
that the Supreme Court will probably
take the same view in regard TO the
constitutionality of revenue relations
with the Philippines as it did in the
case of Porto Rico. The new tariff was
drafted for the purpose of producing a
revenue of $l,000.000 month.
That Is to say, says the Journal OF
Commences Washington correspond
ent, so long as the Philippines are un-
der the control of the War Department,
and in the absence of the specific ac-
ton to the contrary by Congress, they
are for customs purposes regarded as
foreign territory.
The new tariff was drafted for the
purpose of producing about $1,000, 000
revenue month, Its formulation has
been entirely by new methods. 1t hos
been published and republishei and ex-
porters and importers. have been in
Vited to- examine it and suggest chang
es or amendments.
Merchandise in transit Nov. Is and
that which arrives in the Philippines
within sixty days after that date shall
be dutiable under the provisions of the
present law.
1t Will be noted under section Is that
export duties are imposed on certain
products of the islands including,
among others, 81 per hundred kilos for
rice, cents per 100 kilos for sugar,
Sl.50 per hundred kilos for manufac-
tured tobacco of all kinds and what
ever origin, and also for raw tobacco
grown in the provinces of Cagayan,
Isabella and New Biscay Guzon ISL
and) Raw tobacco grown in other
provinces of the archipelago is subject
to an export duty of but rs cents.
Section Is, which is mentioned as
having been changed in important re-
spects, is as follows:
On the following products of the
Philippine Islands, when exported
therefroms there shall be levied and
collected on the gross weight thereof
export duties as follows
"Abaca, raw or wrought hemp. 10c
kilos, cents; indigo. 100 kilos, 25
cents: indigo, employed for dyeing Gin
tarron), 100 kilos. 25 cents; rice, 10C
kilos,. 81; sugar, 100 kilos, cents; CO.
coanuts, fresh and dried (copra), Ice
kilos, 10 cents; tobacco, manufactured
of all kinds and whatever origin, 100
kilos. $3.50; tobacco, raw, grown in the
provinces of Cagayan, Isabella and
New Biscay (Luzon Islands). 100 kilos
$3.50; tobacco. raw, grown in the vi
sayas and Mindanao Island, 100 kilos
81; tobacco, raw, grown in other prov
inces of the archipelago, 100 kilos. 81;
tobacco, raw, grown in other provinces
of the archipelago 100 kilos, rs cents.
Certificates of origin, of raw to-
bacco, may be required by the customs
authorities when proof of the place OF
production is necessary"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-07
THE RICE-kITCHEN.
1t Is One of the Great Successes OF
the Pan-American.

Buffalo, N. Y, Oct. Sitting in
the spacious, drawing room of the fam
GUS old hotel in Montreal, where the
Prince of Wales was entertained when
he was in this country, I heard the
remark:
"I wanted to dine at the Louisiana
and Texas Rice Kitchen while I was
at the Pan-American Exposition, but
1 could not get anything more than a
view of the outside walls. 1t is damned
every moment while it is open, and
while l know very little about rice as
food. 1 want to learn. The expert
ment the Louisiana rice planters tried
at the exposition should have been
made on a larger scale. 1t would
have paid them handsomely" The
speaker was a Massachusetts, lumber
man who speaks of going South in the
near future to prospect. His son ex-
poets as soon as he gets his diploma
to go into the cotton business in Au-
gusta, Ga. Both desire to attend the
coming Charleston Fair.
In the same conversation, crowd of
Pan-American visitors agreed that
there were four things at the Pam
American Exposition alone worth the
price of the trip. These were the Hum
ination, Bostock's, the Indians and Je-
rusalem the Golden. A lady who trav-
eled all over Europe, said this magnif1-
cent painting was one of the finest she
had ever seen: that it was too refined
and elegant to be grouped with ordi-
nary Midway attractions. and that it
was worth a thousand sermons. This
cyclorama ought to be secured for
Charleston. and it ought to be placed
in beautiful part of the grounds
entirely to itself-and surrounded by
flowers, palms. statuary and fountains.
Properly advertised it would attract
great crowds.
Mr.. d. A. Tompkins made fine i'm
preston by his practical speech before
the New England Cotton Manufacture
ers' Association. He has the push and
the brains to make a success of what
ever he undertakes. The Cotton Pal
ace under his SUPPLEMENTARY, will be
a tremendous factor in the exploitation
of that Southern rr0diirt
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-07
JAPAN MOURNED FOR HIM.
Foreigners and Natives Alike La
mented McKinIey's Death.
Correspondence of the Associated

Correspondence of the Associated
Press.)
Yokohama, Sept. p. THE tidings of
the death of President Mckinley came
as a great shock to the foreign coun-
ton. and tho day of the funeral was
one of general mourning. business be-
ing almost entirely suspended. The
event has called forth whatever still
remained of the latent feeling of
friendliness for the United States, the
native papers vieing with each other
in expressions of grief and sympathy.
A subject, upon which all the leading
journals are now falling in line, is the
movement in favor of foreign land ow-
nership. 1t begins to be clearly seen
that the privilege is an essentiol prere-
quisite to- the greatly desired introduc-
ton of foreign capital and the pressure
being brought to bear about the
change will doubtless result in favora-
BILE legislation at the coming session of
the Diet. Then Japan at last will be
thrown fully open to the world and the
final remnant of the influence of the
old regime will have disappeared
A reassuring sign of the breadth of
public sentiment in favor of CONNER
cldi honesty AZ thS ateieuuS VI aiiiooI
the entire native press in denouncing
the attempt of one of the national
banks to evade it's liabilities, by plead
ing that its manager, though regularly
appointed by the board of directors,
had not been properly registered
A very serious disturbance took place
on Thursday last, at Yokohama, the
seat of one of the Japanese naval
yards, the troops being called out to
suppress a riot. Some 300 blue jack
cts from various ships attacked a
house in the Yoshiwarm district, where
one of their number was alleged to
have suffered some grievance. The po-
lice being summoned, the sailors drew
knives and pistols. The arrival Of
the troops, however, soon quelled the
disturbance but not until after severe
injuries were inflicted upon half a
dozan of the comhatants
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-07
A WOMAN'S STORY
CHARGES NEWSPAPER MEN WITH
KIDNAPPING HER.
WAS HELD FOR FOUR DAYS.
COMPELLED TO SIGN CHECKS AND
ROBBED OF JEwELRY.

Woman Tells Philadelphia Police a
Most Remarkable story--A Society
Editor. an Unemployed Reporter,
Newspaper Stenographer and a
Barber Arrested on Her Charges.
Was Taken Out to Drive in Her
Best Clothes and Diamonds and
Then Made n Prisoner.
Philadelphia. Oct. 6.-Charged with
kidnapping woman and holding her
prisoner for four days, robbing her of
jewels worth more than $4,000, and
compelling her to sign bank checks
for large sums of money. is the story
which the police unfolded here to-day
when they announced the arrest of
two newspaper men, a stenographer
in another newspaper Office and bar
Der, all of whom are charged with
completely in the crime.
The men who are locked up at the
central police station are Howard X.
Sloan, an unemployed reporter; Henry
Wallace, society editor of one of the
morning newspapers; ]. Knight Find
AoJ Va w dS Ac, iiSil HOlS, StSuOStdptlSt
in the business Office of another morn.
ing paper. and Oscar s. DunIay, bar.
Der employed in one of the most
prominent shops in the city. The vic
tim is Mrs. Mabel Goodrich, the pro.
prietress of an establishment on North
Tenth street. The four men were ar
rested last night and will be given a
hearing tomorrow.
Last Monday Mrs. Goodrich went to
police headquarters and told how a
young man who represented himself as
a resident of Germantown. had been a
frequent visitor at her establishment
and had proposed drive through Fair
mount Park, and asked her to dress in
her best clothes and to wear all her
diamonds and other jewelry, because
on the return from the drive he in
tended to take her to the finest din
ing room in the city and he wanted her
to shine" with the other women In
the place. When out, the carriage was
stopped; others entered and she was
kidnapped. One of the men has con-
fessed.
The penalty for kidnapping in this
state is life Imprisonment for the
principals in the crime, and the pun
ishment for accessories is left to the
discretion of the court.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-07

Balance to Credit of Each shown by
Treasurer's Report.

Tallahassee, Fla. Oct. 6.-The report
OF ]. B. Whitfield, state treasurer,
filed with the Governor, shows balances
to the credit of the several state and
educational funds at the close of bust
ness on Sept. 80, 1901, as follows:
General revenue fund. $10S. 310.9e; one
mill school tax fund, $3S .235.SO; state
Beard of Health s1,33S.5s pension tax,
$94,64550; principal of state school, $3.-
S43 .73; station incidental, s322.34; ex-
pertinent station, s264.27: white college
Morrill,, $6,027 80; colored college Nor
rill, $12, HOP; principal of seminary,
$69S 10; state appropriation agricultural
college. $17,472.71; college incidental,
$50; Agricultural College. $5.41; inter-
est of state school, $12,3 .04; college
mess hall. 1928. AZ; bonds of 1878, sink
ing fund.- $533.02; bonds of 1871, sinking
fund, s3S. II. Total 1926, 3403S.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-07
MIND WAS FAILING.
So Wrote Young MeIIard OF the CO.
Iumbia Express Office.

Columbia. S. c., Oct. 6.-Last Thurs
day night Claude D. Mellard, clerk in
the Southern Express Office here, dis
appeared and all efforts to trace him
have failed.
Mr.. Mellard's books and accounts are
found to be perfectly straight. He was
a young man of exemplary habits and
a general favorite. A note was left for
the manager saying that he found his
mind failing him and would therefore
leave. Other things were said in this
letter that have not been made public,
but which satisfy the Express officials
that Mr.. Mellard's mind was unbal-
anced. The change must have come
suddenly or been well concealed by
him, for 1t was observed by none of his
friends. The Express officials and the
police have been unable to find a clue.
His friends entertain grave fears.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-07
ALACHUA is DIVIDED.
Commissioners stood Two and Two
on Question of License.

ON 4ueBthOh Oh LICENSE
Gainesville, Fla, Oct. 6.-The Board
of County Commissioners met yester-
day for the purpose of taking action
in answer to the mandamus issued by
Judge Bullock. ordering them to issue
licenses to the saloon men or show
cause why said permits should not be
granted. Those present were, T. F..
Thomas, chairman; Commissioners J.
G.%Dampier, P. G.. Ramsey and T. C..
Bryant. E. S. Johnson was absent on
account of sickness.
Commissioner Bryant caused a rip
pie of excitement by asking who had
asked Col. Matheson to prepare an
answer for the board. Commissioner
Ramsey also desired information on
that subject. Chairman Thorn
as stated that he had requested
Col. Matheson to draw the answer.
This was agreeable to Commissioner
Dampier, but Commissioners Bryant
and Ramsey were of the opinion that
counsel should not have been employed
without consent of full board.
Commissioner Ramsey then moved
that licenses or permits be granted to
all petitioners except Easterlin, Brown
and Rogers. Bryant and Ramsey vot-
ed yea, and Thomas and Dampier nay.
The motion was lost on account of the
vote. The board then went into exec
utive session. taking Col. Matheson in
with them. After an hour or more
discussion the Board announced that
Commissioners Thomas and Dampier
had signed the answer prepared by
Col. Matheson, while Commissioners
Bryant and Ramsey had refused to do
so. and thus the matter will go before
Judge Bullock on Monday. Judge Bull
dock will decide whether or not the
answer from the two commissioners is
sufficient for the entire Board.
And u helo5 will decide wheth-
err ...o or -, not the saloons
shall be opened in the near future or
whether the question shall be still fur
Their carried In the courts. There is
considerable interest worked up over
the matter, and there is a probability
that the case will be fought vigorous
ly from both sides.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-07
MAKES ASSAULTS ON WOMEN.
Colorado Has a Good Subject for a
LynchinE.

Pueblo COL. Oct. 6.-This city is in
great excitement over series of muir
derous assaults upon women and girls,
seemingly committed by the same per-
son, a negro or a very dark white man
with his face blackened. Last night
Mrs. James P. Henderson was VIC
tim, being half-killed with a club while
alone in her home. Later girl in a
family named Hamilton, was terribly
choked by a man who had forced his
way in. Mrs. Hickey. who was struck
down while riding bicycle two nights
ago, is still at the point of death. Sew
eral' other women have recently been
assaulted.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-07
INJUSTICE TO JEWS
rurIR EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES
REDUCED.
RussIA's HARD RULING
,x LIMITED NUMBERS ALLOWED
TO ATTEND.

THE Percentage of Attendance Al
lowed Them at All the Leading
,-,,xersities and Higher fnstttu-
dams of Learning Cut Down--At ST.
patersburg and Moscow Only Two
nos Cent of the students May Be
Jews-A Jewish Deputation Re-
nreed by the Minister of Educa-
4.oRussia's Trade with the
rnited states Decreasing.
,,-o,.resnondence of the Associated
Press.)
c. petersburg, Oct. 6.-The univer-
sities have resumed work quietly.
There are no present indications of fer
,,,ontation, though the more stringent
.,,torcenent of the exceptional restric-
ion If the attendance of Jewish
,,o,,tbs in the intermediate schools, the
Universities and other higher educa-
+ional institutions is causing much
heart burning. There are two univer-
cities within the Jewish PALE" as the
district where Jews may live without
snecial permission is called. AT these
;ae+itutions at odessa and Warsaw.
1an,ish students were formerly allowed
nm to 10 per cent. of the total attend
once This has been reduced, temper
arily, at least, to z per cent
outside the pale, the jewish
attendance was formerly limited to
ner cent; it is now not exceeding
three. At the two capital universities,
e. petersburg and Moscow, the jew
ist attendance allowed was still fur
Their limited to per cent. Now not ex-
ceeding ? per cent. of the students IN
these universities may be jews. In GER
tain special institutions, as the teen
meal colleges, no rule seems to be foi-
lowed. At the chronological institute at
St Petersburg no Jewish students were
received this year.
The Minister'S Rude Rebuff.
It is said that Gen. Vannoffsky, min
ister of education, recently received a
Jewish deputation which came to beg
for less unequal treatment. He replied
IN substance that he was appointed by
the Emperor to look after the educa-
tion of Christian youths, not of Jews.
The minister of the interior, who
through the ST. Petersburg project of
notice, closed the St. Petersburg So
cIety of Authors last spring, has now
ordered the disarmament of the Mos
COW Society for Mutual Assistance,
whose members were practitioners of
liberal professions. The society has
appealed to the imperial Senate.
Comparative statistics of Russian
foreign trade during the first six
months of the last three years have ap-
peared The total movement was
$4,000 900 roubles, compared to sos, 000,-
900 in 1900, and $50, 000 900 in 1899. The
export was 318 or 54.5 per cent; the
import 265 or 45 5 per cent.
Trade With Us Decreasing.
The export has grown to all coun-
tries, except the United States, Sweden
end Belgium.
The export tc the United States
amounted to 1,643,000 roubles in 1901 !;
Z1OS,10O in 1900, and 1897 900 in 1899.
Imports from the United States were
2o7S900 in 1901; 26,257 900 in 1900, and
AS57 900 in 1899.
The falling off in American exports
to Russia is therefore in percentages
almost precisely the same as the fall
ing off in Russian exports in America.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-07
GREExEsBoRo's POSTMASTER.
Joel L. Thornton to Succeed Post
master Branch Soon.

master branCn soon
Washington, Oct. 6.-Postmaster
Branch of Greensboro, Ga, will con-
tinue in his Office until President
Roosevelt appoints his successor.
This Office took rank as a presidential
Office of the third class the first of
this month. Mr.. Branch, however, who
was appointed while the Office was
fourth class. will continue to officiate
under his old bond until his successor
is chosen. The salary of the post
master under the new ruling is fixed
at $1,000, but Mr.. Branch will only
draw the salary which the Office yield
ed him as fourth class office.
Just prior to his death President Nc
Kinley had decided to appoint Joel l..
Thornton as postmaster to take effect
on Oct. / when the Office became eff
fective as presidential. His DEATH
however, has delayed this appoint
merit. Mr.. Thornton has the indorse-
ment of the Republican machine of the
state of Georgia and is in every way
qualified to fill the position. / have
it on excellent authority that he will
be chosen by President Roosevelt,
and it is expected his appointment
will be announced in d few days. The
officials of the Postoffice Department,
however, say they have no idea as to
who will be appointed.
An order was issued to-day for the
establishment of an additional rural
free delivery route at Hoschton, Jack
son county, Georgia on Dec. 2. The
route will be 25% miles in length, cover
an area of Is square miles, and serve
a population of 525. G. H. DeLaper-
riere has been appointed carrier. The
postoffice at Algerbon in Gwinnett
county will be discontinued when the
route becomes effective.
A postoffice has been established at
Usry, Jefferson county, Georgia, and
William v. Usry commissioned post
master. "stt
The following postmasters have been
appointed for Georgia: Thomas B. Bo-
mar at Campbellton. Campbell county;
Elijah Boyd at Hill, Berrien county;
Robert C. Middleton at Hortense.
Wayne county; James M. Guilford at
Kipling, Quitman county; Ratliff Pal
mour at Landrum. Dawson county;
Jesse P. Glass at Noble, Walker coun-
ty: Mile B. Avant at Oswald, Tel
fair county: Charles H. F'ite at Prior,
Polk county; William G.. Holloway at
Winchester, Macon county; Thomas B.
Simmons at Yonah, Banks county; Mrs.
A. c.. Sanford at Della, HARRISON
county, and S. A. Youmans at Nunez,
Emanuel county,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-07
Husband and wife Both Died.

Gainesville. Fla, Oct. 6.--News has
just reached this city of a sad occur
renee at Newberry. Mr.. and Mrs. G.
NJ. Moore had been Ill for some time
when, on the afternoon OF the 4th
Mrs. Moore died. and the following
morning at o'clock Mr.. Moore passed
away. Mr.. and Mrs. Moore were young
people and had been married but a
FAINT. They were both buried In the
same grave.
r. and c. II. Neil and F. p. Thomas
were breaking corn, when they came
upon three huge rattlesnakes In lhG
field. They succeeded In killing the
snakes. two OF which measures seven
and eight feet. respectively and had
twelve rattles each.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-07
THE NEWS OF DUBLIN.
A Small Boy KiIled-New Steamer
Ready for Business.

Dublin. Ga, Oct. 6.-Yesterday after
noon about two miles from the city on
the plantation Of Mr.. A. j. Hilbun,
little negro named George Stuckey,
aged s, was shot and killed by his 10
year-old brother, Zollie. 1t is believed
that the killing was accidental.
The new steamer Gypsy of the Forest
and Stream Club, is now complete and
ready for business. On Thursday last
the boat was inspected by Messrs. Lee
and Fitzgerald of Savannah. and pro-
nounced first-class. The boat was de-
signed by Col. NJ. Stubs of this city
and was constructed by Mr.. w. w.
Ward, who learned the boat business
under Capt. j NJ. Graham of this
city, the veteran boat constructor OF
this state. Within few weeks the boat
will be put to work between Dublin
and the Seaboard Air Line Railroad,
Mr.. Ward will be master of the boat,
hen having leased II from the Forest
and Stream Club. ads
The people OF Dublin are looking for
ward with much pleasure to the lec-
ture Monday night of Rev. Thomas
Dixon. Jr., OF New York Mr.. Dixon
opens the course OF the Dublin Lyceuu
Association. The course includes some
OF the best attractions that could be
secured, including Miss Lilly Selig OF
Savannah.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-07
HAzING WITH A VENGEANCE.
Wisconsin Students Give Pointers in
Brutality to Other Institutions.

Beloit, Wis, Oct. 6.-George B.
Stockwell, a student in the preparatory
department of Beloit College, was en-
ticed from his room at the house of
President Elton at an early hour to-day
by members of the middle preparatory
class. He was overpowered, Invested
of every article of clothing and COM
PEELED to walk ahead of a score of
bowling students, aided by the appli
cation of switches in the hands of his
tormentors. His clothing was fastened
to the top of a fiagpole and after he
had been sufficiently disciplined" he
was allowed to go home to plan re-
venge. The outrage is the climax of a
number of class fights this year in
which the worst punishment inflicted
heretofore was compelling students to
walk into town after having been driv-
en- into the country.
The faculty will probably take no ac-
ton on the occurrence, owing to the
fact that the perpetrators of the deed
are unknown and the member of
Stockwell's class have taken matters
in their own hands.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-07
SAD STORY FROM SALT LAKE.
Heir to "A Fortune Dies Pennilcss in
Hospital.

Salt Lake. Utah, Oct. ga stranger
who died at a hospital in this city last
Monday from pneumonia has been
identified as C. o. DeForest, an as
sayer OF national reputation, a mechan-
zeal and mining engineer, chemist, a
student and heir to a large fortune. His
father. who was a New York business
man, had always been liberal regard
ing money matters with his only son.
The father died, and the young mans
mother placed him on an allowance
when she died swo years ago, putting
her sons share Of a $500, 900 estate in
trust. The will provided that he was
to receive only the interest for two
years. At the end Of that time the
entire fortune was to be at his dis
posal. However, his last extremity
found him almost penniless. Had he
lived thirty days more he would have
been a rich man. and his widow would
have come into possession of his
wealth without question or contro-
versy.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-07
FAIRMoNT COTTON MILLS.
Plant to He Sold, and Upset Price
Fixed at $4,000.

price Of the Fairmont cotton mill in
Spartanburg county has been fixed at
$4,000, and it will be sold the first
Monday in December. According to
the evidence taken by the master the
mill is making in these dull times ST.
500 per month, or $4,000 year. The
mill began operation as a yarn mill
ten years ago and afterwards made
cloth. A failure to pay debts caused
an application to be made for a re-
ceiver, and the son of the president
was made receiver. The debts are
SIPS 900. It is now making very
handsome interest on its capital Of
100000.