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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-24

London, Nov. 24.--The alarming re-
port from Toxic that Japanese war YES
sells have been dispatched to prevent
two Russian warships reaching Port
Arthur to join the squadron there can
not be confirmed here.
1t is possible that this report is con-
nected with the statement of the Jap
anese Journal the Nagasaki Shimpo,
which as announced in these dis
patches, was to the effect that a Jap
anese squadron of twelve vessels had
left Jasebo for an unknown destina-
ton.
The fact that such a statement should
be issued by a Russian semi official
agency is, however, regarded as signi-
ficant. Curiously enough, the Russian
newspaper, Svet, few days ago ex-
pressed the belief that communications
between Port Arthur and Japan had
been already interrupted.
In Cardiff yesterday renewed activity
was reported on the part of the Rus
sian and Japanese agents with a view
to securing further shipments of coal.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-24
COMMITTEE TO TAKE
EVIDENCE IN CUBA.
Wood Charges Are to BE Investi-
gated in the Island.

Washington, Nov. 23.-The Senate
Committee on Military Affairs will
designate a subcommittee to go to
Cuba to take testimony regarding the
conduct of Gen. Wood. The personnel
of the committee has not yet been
agreed upon. nor the number of mem
bers.
1t is asserted that so much has al
ready been said about the conduct of
Gen. Wood, in Cuba, that it will be
necessary to examine witnesses in that
island, who cannot come to the United
States.
The committee held a brief session
to-day. Capt. w. j. Barden of the
Artillery Corps, U. S. A., who was en-
gineer officer in charge of street i'm
provements at Havana during Gen.
Woods administration as governor
general of Cuba, was the only witness
heard. The committee adjourned to
meet again Friday at IL o'clock.
Capt. Barden's testimony had no i'm
portant bearing on the charges against
Gen. Wood. He was summoned at the
request of Senator Foraker, and is I'M
derstood to be one of the officers Gen.
Wood is said to have asked to have
called to repute certain charges, which
Maj. Rathbone had indicated he would
bring before the committee.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-24
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CAST UP BY THE SEA.
Mate and Three Sailors Were
Washed Ashore.


San Francisco, Nov. pa raft con-
tanning the first mate and three sail
ors of the wrecked bark Francois
Cope came ashore in Tomales bay
this afternoon. According to their
narrative the Cope had been sailing
in a fog for three days on a dead
reckoning, and Capt. Arneye Friday
night believed that he was on the
San Francisco side of the Farallone Is
lands, when, as the disaster proved,
he was near the coast line.
The four men have a very vague idea
as to the place where the ship struck
on the rocks in Tomales bay. They
say that the night was very dark and
stormy, and huge waves were dash
ing violently against the ship after
she struck. 1t was deemed advisable
to launch two small boats first. These
were lost in the angry seas, but for
tunately they had no occupants. Then
the big lifeboat was provisioned and
successfully launched and held fast
with a rope, but when nine men had
been lowered into it the rope broke.
The lifeboat was then in danger of
being dashed to pieces, and there was
no way of getting back to the ship,
and for self preservation the nine men
were compelled to pull away. They
were later picked up by the Scotia.
The two men who came to San Fran
cisco then constructed raft and took
the chance of being washed ashore.
What became of the captain and
eight sailors yet unaccounted for the
first mate could not say.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-24
BUT FEW WENT OUT
WHEN WAGES WERE CUT.
Reduction at Fall River Did Not
Stop the Mills.


Boston, Nov. 29.-The first of the
numerous reductions in wages an
nounced in the cotton mills of South
ern New England and at half a dozen
points outside of that territory went
into effect in all but one Fall River
corporation to-day, and at a number
of outside mills.
Although about $4,000 operatives had
their pay cut down, no general strike
occurred in any mill. To-day's cut av-
erages 10 per cent. and places the pay
schedules on a basis with those paid
previous to the advance of March, 1902
The reduction affected seventy-eight
mills in Fall River, employing nearly
$4,000 hands. and about a score of cor
porations elsewhere in New England
employing about 1000 operatives.
The Fall River Iron Works, operat-
ing four print cloth mills, will cut
down wages next Monday, and on that
day also nearly all Rhode Island and
Connecticut manufacturers will adopt
the lower schedule. A cut in New
Bedford will go into effect in two
weeks.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-24
CALLED CARDINALS DOWN.
GOtti Told Them to stop Giving Out
News.


Rome, Nov. 23.-When the cardinals
composing the Congregation of the
Propaganda met to-day they received
sharp reminder that they have at
their head in the person of the project
OF the Propaganda, Cardinal Gotti a
churchman of clearly defined and
strong opinions.
The cardinal project, in his opening
address, dwelt most earnestly on the
bad impression made on both the Pom
tiff and himself by the receipt of
remonstrances from apostolic deIega-
lions and from cardinals abroad
against the publication of the decisions
OF the Propaganda before they had
been officially informed of these deci-
sions, and even before the decisions
had been ratified by the Pontiff. This
matter had gone so far, said Cardinal
Gotti, that the results of the meetings
of the Propaganda were known in the
United States even before the meet
ings of the cardinals had been actually
concluded.
Several cardinals greeted the speech
of the cardinal project by saying,
Good, Good" while others consider
ed the speech inopportune.
Some Of the cardinals expressed the
opinion that it would be assuming too
much in these days of wireless teleg-
raphy to hold that the announcements
of appointments made by the congre-
cation could be leisurely given by mail
after going through so many hands.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-24
NO HOUSE QUORUM.
Members Find 1t More Convenient
to BE Elsewhere.

Members Find 1t More Convenient
to BE Elsewhere.
Washington, Nov. 23.-While no
proposition has been transmitted to
the House of Representatives from the
Senate looking to an early adjourn
ment of the extra session of Congress,
this matter was the subject of several
conferences to-day between the lead
ers of the House and Speaker Cannon.
There was but one sentiment express
ed, and that was that adjournment
ought not to be taken until the Cuban
measure was finally disposed of, or the
extra session lapsed into the regular
session.
With this view of the case, the ten
tative programme of the House Will be
to adjourn for three days at a time. 1t
is well known that there is not a quo
rum of the House at present in Wash
ington, and should the point of mo
quorum be raised at any of the ses-
sions of the House, adjournment could
only be made for a single day under
the rules.
Should the Senate transmit to the
House a resolution for adjournment of
the special session, the present dispo-
sition win be to ignore the resolution
on the ground that there is not a quo
rum present to consider it.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-24
REYES ON HIS WAY.
Colombian Commissioner Hopes for
Success At Washington.

Success At Washington.
washington, Nov 23-Rear Admiral
Coghlan, commander of the Caribbean
squadron, cabled the Navy Department
from Colon, under date of Nov. Il, that
Gen. Reyes, the special commissioner
of the Bogota government, tenders his
sincere thanks to President Roosevelt
and Secretary of the Navy Moody for
his gracious treat ment at Colon by
our naval force.
Admiral Coghlan confirms the press
dispatches that Gen. Reyes has depart
ed for Washington, via Port Limon,
Costa RIGA, for a conference with DR..
Amador a member of the Panama COM
mission, and others in the United
States. Before his departure he in
formed Admiral Coghlan that the Pam
anna government had cabled DR.. Anna
dor to await his (Reyes) arrival. Ad-
miral Coghlan further states that Gen.
Reyes expects to make amicable rela-
lions with the special commissioners
from Panama now in Washington.
1t is believed here that aside from
the proposition for Panama to assume
part of the Colombian debt, General
Reeves Ventured to advance the Sug-
gestion that the capital of Colombia
he transferred to the city of Panama.
nexation of Colombia by Panama. The
opinion in official circles here is that,
though fiattering, the proposition will
be rejected by the Panama commits
sioners, if for no other reason than
because through sheer weight or num-
hers the Colombians soon would con-
troll the administration of the reunited
republic, and the situation as to Pan
anna would be as it was before the
revolution and separation.
Mr.. Beaupre's status remains UNI
changed, so far as the officials know,
and Notwithstanding the menacing
tone of the notes addressed to him by
fine Colombian Minister for Foreign At
fairs. as set out in the press dis
matches from Bogota, the State De-
partment does not consider that there
has been a breach in the relations be-
tween the United States and Colombia.
THE fact that the Colombian legation
here is still open for business under in
structions from Bogota is confirmatory
evidence of the fact that there has
been no rupture of relations. Minis
ter Beaupre has informed the Minis
ter for Foreign Affairs that the United
States has recognized Panama and has
extended the good offices of our gov
eminent to patch up peace. The Co
lornbia answer to this last proposition
has not yet been received.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-24

President had not seen fit to keep that
faith, 1t remained to be seen whether
the Senate would support him in that
position. The President had, he said
completed his campaign against the
Spooner act by having Mr. Hay sign
treaty with somebody from Panama"
who had no authority except that con-
Veyed in a cablegram from a junta at
Panama.
He read the correspondence bearing
upon the revolution to show, he said
that the President had known of the
uprising in the isthmus before it began
and stood ready with armed ships to
protect those engaged in it." The pre-
tense in Assistant Secretary LOOMS
dispatch that it was our desire to
maintain peace was, Mr.. Morgan de-
clared, the grimmest piece of irony
that had ever graced diplomatic an
nails.
Mr.. Morgan expressed the hope that
Mr.. Hay had been asleep when some
of the messages of his subordinates
had been flying over the wire. LAS for
the President" he said, "he never
sleeps on his post of duty or desire,
although he sometimes closes his eyes
to what is going on about him.
Colombia Had Rights.
He concluded that Colombia had a
P P orei69 right aa tho to ; suppress an
he declared that the United
States has failed utterly to observe
its treaty obligations in pursuing the
course it had taken. Indeed, he said,
our course there had been such that
it would bring down the censure of
future generations upon us, and he pre-
dicted that the immediate result would
be disastrous, causing the loss of both
men and trp9 Tho
would be such that the President would
have no time for dreams of diplomatic
triumphs.
He declared his opinion that Mr.. Hay
had not been a free agent in negotiat-
ing either of the canal treaties.
Mr.. Morgan said that the most siren
uous part of the career OF the Presi-
dent had been covered by his efforts
to secure a canal through Panama,
and that the President had resolved
when the Hay Herran treaty was I'M
der consideration to push the cGAal
through, and if authority did not exist,
he had made UP his mind to construct
it, anyway. With the understanding
that he should continue tomorrow, Mr..
Morgan yielded the floor, and Mr.. Gull
lom presented an agreement, fixing
Dec. Is as the date for taking a vote
on the Cuban reciprocity bill. The
agreement provides that the bill shall
be taken up on the converting of the
regular session of Congress, Dec. Z,
and remain the order of business each
day after the routine morning business
until Dec. 16, on which date a vote
shall be taken, the time on the 18th
and 18th to be equally divided between
the friends and opponents of the bill.
The agreement was accepted without
dissent.
The Senate adjourned until to-mor-
row.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-24
TILL THE CITY FALLS
INSURGENTS WILL lombard SAN
DOMINGO.
PEACE COMMISSION FAILED.
INSURGENTS WOULD NOT HEAR TO
WOS Y GIL'S PROPOSALS.

President of SantO Domingo Asked
Powell and other Ministers to Act
as COmmissiOners-The Did So,
but Could Accomplish Nothing.
Insurgents Demanded the surren-
der of the City-POweII's Resi-
dence Destroyed.
San Domingo, Republic Of Santo Do
mingo, Sunday, Nov. 22.-President
Wos y Gil, in his efforts to bring about
peaceful arrangement with the in
surgent forces which are besieging
this city, to-day commissioned United
States Minister Powell the Belgian
minister, the minister of Hayti, and
the Spanish consul to visit the insur-
gent camp
Consequently an armistice was
agreed upon, to expire at noon, and
the Peace Commission consulted with
the insurgent leaders. The latter,
however, refused to entertain the
peace proposals and demanded the
surrender of the city, but they pro-
longed the armistice until o'clock
this evening, after which the bonn
bardment of San Domingo will be re-
sumed and will continue until the city
falls.
The United States minister's resi-
dence was destroyed during the recent
bombardment. The inhabitants of this
city are in a state of manic
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-24
DISCOVERIES WRECKAGE
Found on the Coast of Alaska to
Tell the Story.

Washington, Nov. ga special to
the Post Intelligencer from Juneau.
Alaska, announces that ]. Bent pas
senger on the steamer Excelsior, which
arrived here to-day, reports that mass
of wreckage from the Nome steamer
Discovery has washed ashore at the
mouth of Seal river, thirty miles be-
low Yakutal.
Bent's information made it practi-
cally certain that the Discovery is
lost. and leaves little hope for either
passengers or crew. 1t is believed that
everybody on board persisted. The
wreckage found, Bent says, consists
of pieces of lifeboats, life preservers
and a large portion of her hull.
Bent states that a terrific storm pre-
vailed for a week prior to Nov. 16.
on which date he boarded the Excelsior
at Yakutal. The number of people
aboard the Discovery, passengers and
crew, is estimated at thirty.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-24
PRINCESS AND COACHMAN
Are Thought to Have EIoped from
Dresden.

Berlin, Nov. 23.-Die Morgen Post
prints a rumor from Dresden that the
Princess Alice, wife of Prince Frederic
of -Waldenburg, disappear
ed two weeks ago, and that her coach
man disappeared at the same time.
The people of Dresden, Die Morgen
Post says, believe that the Princess
and the coachman have eloped. In
quiries at the residence Of the Princess
elicit the answer that she is travelling,
and that her present whereabouts is
unknown.
The Princess is the youngest daugh-
ter of Don Carlos of Bourbon, pre-
tender to the Spanish throne.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-24
LIFE The PENALTY
A NEGRO BRUTE PAID TO LYNCH
ERS FOR HIS ATTEMPT
UPON A LITTLE WHITE GIRL.
CHESTERFIELD COUNTY HAD ITS
FIRST LYNCHING.

South Carolina Mob Took "A 19-Yenr-
Old Negro from His CaptOrs-SI-
lentIy They Strung Him Up-NOt n
Shot Was Fired, and NeighbOrs
Did Not Know of the Lynching
Until Next Day-BOdy Left Hang
ing for the Coroner.
Columbia. S. c., Nov. 23.-News
reached here late tonight of the lynch
ing of James Nelson, a negro, near
Jefferson, Chesterfield county, Saturday
night. Chesterfield county has hereto
fore been clear of lynching, and the
illegal hanging Saturday night is the
second execution to occur within her
borders in almost a half century.
On Saturday afternoon, Nov. Is, an
attempt was made to outrage the
7-year-old daughter of Miles w. Por-
ter, a prominent farmer of the upper
part of Chesterfield county, by Jim Nell
son, a negro laborer, employed on Mr..
Porter's farm.
The girl and some smaller children
were playing at a spring near the
house when the attempt was made.
alarm. The purpose of the brute was
not ACCOMPLISHED.
Pursuit Was Organized.
The negro took to the woods, and
early Monday morning a posse was or
ganized and for several days secured
the woods and nearby swamps in
| search of him, but without success.
The father and brothers of the child
continued to hunt, and Saturday aft
ernoon Mr.. Will Porter came upon
him at Maynard's sawmill. near Ca
tarrh. He carried him to Jefferson
and placed him in the guard house in
the afternoon, and about s o'clock Sat
urday night Mr.. Porter and Mr.. E. G.
Ingram started with the negro to Ches-
terfield to deliver him to the sheriff.
When about three miles from Jeffer-
son couple of men appeared from
out of the woods, presented revolvers
and ordered the men in the buggy
to hold up their hands, which command
was promptly obeyed. They were then
ordered to drive on for about 100
yards up the road. The negro was
dragged from the buggy and Ingram
and Porter were ordered to turn about
and drive away.
About twenty or thirty men on
horseback We're congregated about this
lonely spot and made quick work of
their victim. A rope was placed
around his neck, and he was swung
up and left hanging, while the knights
of the cord rode silently away into
the darkness.
Crowds Saw the Body.
Nelson's body was left hanging all
day Sunday, and hundreds of people
went to look upon it. He was black,
about 10 years old, with thick lips and
shaggy hair. Not a shot was fired,
and a family living within 200 yards
of the scene did not know until Sun
day morning the meaning of the pres
ence of the silent horsemen, who pass
ed and repassed in the moon light of
the night before.
The coroner went to the scene of
the lynching Sunday evening, and
empanelled a jury, and by the light of
dead body The verdict was that Jim
Nelson had met his death at the vio-
lent hands of parties unknown to the
jury.
The body was buried near the road,
no relatives having come to claim it.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-24
COTTON CAUSED NEAL
TO TAKE BANKS MONEY.

Oklahoma City, o. T., Nov. 23.-Presi-
dent r. e. Neal of the Bank of Ravia,
I. r., was arrested at Medill and taken
back to Ravia to-day, charged with
taking $1,000 of the banks money Sat-
urday night. He agreed to return all
he had taken and will probably not be
prosecuted. Meal said speculation in
cotton led him into the trouble.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-24
MORGAN TELLS ABOUT
THAT FAMOUS ESCAPE.

Columbus, o., Nov. 23.-R. G. Nor
gan, brother of Gen. John Morgan, the
famous Confederate raider, called upon
Gov. Nash to-day and later visited the
Ohio penitentiary, where in 1863 he was
confined as a prisoner of war.
During his visit to the prison he set
at rest reports that the party who es-
capped on the night of Nov. q, 1853,
had bribed their way out. He went
to the cell block and explained how
the escape was made. Mr.. Morgan
changed cells with his brother and not
with the escaping party. He, however,
furnished them the information which
enabled them to get over the walls in
safety.
To-day was his first visit to the pris-
on since his release.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-24
SPANISH WAR RANKLES.
CarIist Deputy Cannot Forget How
Spain Was Whipped.

Madrid, Nov. 23-In the Chamber Of
Deputies to-day a Carlist member in
terpellated the government in reference
to the sending of the cruiser Rio de la
Plata to New Orleans in connection
with the st. Louis Exposition, remind
ing the chamber of the wrongs which
Spain had suffered at the hands of the
United States"
Senior Cobain, replying to the inter
pellation, said that the conclusion of a
treaty OF peace and amity had re-es-
tablished the diplomatic relations of
the two countries and, as a friendly
nation, the United States had invited
Spain to participate in festival in
stituted in the cause of civilization.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-24
BECKER WILL DIRECT
COTTON GROWING.
Appointed Inspector by Germany
for African Provinces.


for African Provinces.
Berlin, Nov. 23.-J. B. G.. Becker OF
Hockey, Tex, has been appointed
government inspector of cotton on the
plantations of German East Africa.
His headquarters will be at Dar-Es-
Salaam. The official announcement OF
his appointment was accompanied by
the statement that Becker formerly
held the honorable Office of county
commissioner"
The German East Africa cotton crop
last season, produced under the direc-
ton of some of Booker T. Washing
tons pupils. totaled $50 bales. Sow
ings this year are expected to triple
this crop. Togoand, German West
Africa, also yields several hundred
bales.
The German chambers of commerce
are energetically supporting the de-
velopment of cotton growing, but 1t is
recognized that the growing of cotton
in the German colonies must remain
inconslderable until railroads into the
interior are built.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-24
CHINAMAN COLLECTS
FROM HIS COUNTRYMEN.
Shrewd Game Worked by a CeIes-
tiaI In Charleston.

Charleston, S. c., Nov. 23.-A sem
sation promises to develop among the
Chinese residents of Charleston.
1t was alleged in Magistrate Levy's
court this morning that one of their
number, named Williams, has been sys-
tematically collecting blackmail from
all the Others on the pretext that he
was providing them with protection
under the federal laws. He claimed
that in order for a Chinaman to reside
in America he had to pay the govern
ment a certain sum of money yearly.
This money he has been collecting from
a number of his ignorant fellow-coun-
try1nen.
The federal authorities have taken
the matter up and promise to make a
full Investigation.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-24
FIFTY FOOT STATUE
FOR ALABAMA.

New York, Nov. pa contract was
signed to-day for the execution of a
colossal statue of Vulcan, which is to
represent the Birmingham district Of
Alabama at the st. Louis Exposition.
The design is by G. Moretti. II rep
resents Vulcan with his right hand
while the left holds aloft an arrow
head. The hight of the figure is fifty
feet. 1t will be cast in iran IT Birm-
ingham. n
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-24

TWO HUNDRED DROWN
IN AN INDIAN FLOOD.

London. Nov. ga telegram has
been received at the Indian Office from
the viceroy of India, Lord Curzon, say
ing that according to reports received
at Madras, flood in the Palar river
Nov. IL destroyed half of the town of
vanizambadi, in the Salem district.
Two hundred persons were drowned.
The floods, the telegram says, have
now subsidized,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-24
SENATOR DIETRICH
WANTS SPEEDY TRIAL.
Says He Wishes the People to Know
the Facts.

Omaha, Neb., Nov. 23.-United States
Senator Charles H. Dietrich arrived in
Omaha to-day and went directly to the
office of his attorney, with whom he
had a conference. To a representative
of the Associated Press he said, with
regard to the indictment recently
brought against him: II am in Oma-
ha to secure immediate trial. want
all the evidence brought before the
court, which will show a complete vim
dlcation. l consider this not merely a
trial before a federal grand jury, but
also before the great tribunal--the
people of Nebraska, and of the whole
country. 1t is a case in which the
honor of the United States Senate is
involved, and / wish to have the people
of the country know all the facts"