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The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1903-01-01
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The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1903-01-01
New York Cotton Futures.

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$I2, ,O0O FIRE IN NETV BRITAIN.
stOckenette Factory Damaged-panic
 Among the Girls.

stockenetts Factory Damaged-panic
 Among the Girss.
 Bristol, Conn.,, Jan. Fire late this afternoon caused damage estimated at $12,000 to the stockenette factory of N. L. Bireeg Sons & Co. The origin of the fire is believed to have been spontan- eous combustion in the stock room of the factory.
 The blaze caused panic among the girls employed in the factory on the up- per floors. Five of the girls jumped two and half stories to the ground, but only one of them was injured. Win nie Buskey, nineteen years old, sustain ed broken leg and sprained ankle. A number of the employees were taken to the ground in safety by the firemen. The damage caused by the fire will throw one hundred and fifty persons out of employment for at least six weeks.
 The fire was discovered by one of the men in the factory. When an attempt was made to escape by the regular exit, however, it was found that the flames enveloped the stairs, and it was with difficulty that many of the girls were restrained from jumping from the win- dows to the ground. Five of them did so. but fortunately only one of them was injured. The others were helped to safety by the firemen and male en- ployes of the factory.
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WELCOME TO HAWAII.

First Island Possession Now in Cable
 Communication Rith U. $.
 San Francisco, Jan. 1.-The Associat- ed Press has received a message from Hawaii that the San Francisco end of the cable was picked up this afternoon and that the splicing will be completed before midnight, when communication with Honolulu will be opened.
 The final splice in the cable is ex- pected to be made soon, and that San Francisco hopes to be in communica- ton with Honolulu at about two o'clock 8. m. eastern standard time.
 San Francisco, Jan. 1.-San Francisco and Honolulu exchanged their first word by cable at 11:O5 tonight The sig nals were good.
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au~"sl EndIgnation.

La Guaira, Venezuela, Jan. 1.-The former Venezuelan gunboat Zumbador, now transformed into a British war ship, arrived here at noon to-day, and caused considerable indignation among the people ashore, who looked upon her arrival here under the British flag, especially on New Years day, as ada ing insult to injury. The Italian armored cruiser Carlos Alberto arrived here at i D. m. to-day.
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LEOPOLD,S CURIOUS WORDS.
Asks Blind Confidence of People,
 Things to be Achieved.

Asks Blind Confidence of People,
 Things to be Achieved.
 Brussels, Jan. 1.-Upon the occasion to-day of receiving the congratulations of parliament the diplomatic corps and Belgian officials, King Leopold made a curious response to the president of the chamber. His majesty alluded to the initiative he himself had taken upon many occasions, notably in China, and asked the chamber to continue to show the same blind confidence in him that it had always done. 'I shall not abuse it." King Leopold continued, "and thanks to the close union between the king and the legislative chambers. we shall be able to achieve things which cannot be explained at this moment, but of which the people will understand the bearing of only by the results
 His majesty's remarks created consid- erable comment. They are supposed to point to some new development of Bel gian interests in China and possibly in the Congo Free State
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INFORMATION FOR COMMISSION
Statistics Foryvs rdeti by tho Delaware.
 LackawRMnu Rond

Scranton, Pa, Jan. 1.-Statistics on hours and wages of employees for 1901 have been forwarded to the mine strike commission by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western company. Among the items of summary are these:
 Number of collieries, 19; number of employees, 11,292; average earnings of miners, $62S.93; average earnings of la borerS, $353.72; percentage of cars docked, 2; average number of ten hour days breakers worked, 203; aver ave number of days breakers started, 260; average number of hours break CTS worked per day, 6-10; average number of hours contract miners work ed per 10 hours, 6-35 number of com pany hands, 2996; average earnings of company hands, $514.93; average earn ings of boys, $20410; average earnings of all other employees, $432.63.
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o,BRIEN WHrPs WEINIG.
Bnfyaio Man Goes Down and Out In the
 Twelfth.

Buffalo, Jan. 1.It took Jack O'Brien twelve rounds to dispose of Al Weinig before the International A. c. at Fort Erie this afternoon. The Buffalo man went down and out in the middle of the twelfth after receiving terrific right hand upper-cut and shove which banged his head against the floor and made his arising within the ten seconds an impossibility. The contest was one sided all through, and Weinig was made a veritable chopping block by the clev-8 CT Philadelphian. Weinig did not land a score of clean blows throughout the twelve rounds, while O'Brien, with stinging jabs, cutting swings and stun ming counters, played on the Buffalo man wherever and whenever he pleas ed. But Weinigs vitality and we'll known powers of reeuperation and abil- ity to stand punishment enabled him to stand on his feet and take all the gruelling without going down until the finishing punch.
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PROHIBITION IN MAINE.
New sheriTs Begtn Work by Orders Co
 Enforee Law.

Portland, Me. Jan. 1.-The sheriffs of the sixteen counties of the state of Maine. elected three months ago, as stunned their duties to-day. Each will serve two-years' term. As in most cases the election issue was the ques- tion of prohibition it is believed that the law will be enforced in most sec tions as strictly as it was in Cumber- land county for two years by Rev. Sam uel F. Pearson, now deceased. and his successor, Charles Dunn. jr.
 Sheriff Pennell and his deputies of Cumberland county were busy to-day The would-be liquor dealers were re- garded as waiting for some signs as to Sheriff Pennells policy.
 In Kennebec county Frank J. Ham assumed the office of high sheriff. He promptly instructed his twenty depu- ties that the prohibitory liquor law must be enforced. "I want every dep uty," he said. ''to notify all the dealers that between now and next Monday they must dispose of their goods and paraphernalia, or suffer the conse- quences."
 In Androscoggin county Sheriff Cum mings, clergyman, who took the oath of office on Wednesday, assumed office. In anticipation of the beginning of Sheriff Cummings term the saloons of Lewiston. the largest city in the coun- ty, had been closed. The liquor busi- ness was at a standstill to-day.
 Martin Lawlis, sheriff of Aroostook county, on assuming his duties to-day notified all liquor dealers that they would be given until the 10th of this month to close up.
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UP TO THE ALLIED POWERS.
Castro Declares Settlement Now De. pends on Them.

. Caracas, Jan. 1.-There have been persistent rumors in official circles and generally throughout this city since yesterday that President Castro had refused to agree to the proposals of the allies to refer the Venezuelan issues to The Hague. The correspondent of the Associated Press saw the president of Venezuela for half an hour at five o'clock this afternoon. It is not true that the president has declined the pro- posals of the powers; the chief execu- tive declares he wants only fair treat ment, It was clear from what Presi- dent Castro said at the interview that he believes 1t would be very easy to reach a full settlement of the entire controversy.
 President Castro said to the corre- spondent: "If settlement is not reached 1t will be because a, settlement forms no part of the plan of the al- lies: in this case the prolongation of the present situation would be disas- t;-ous for all concerned. The solution of the present difficulty depends more on the allied powers than on Vene- zuela."
 The president was questioned as to whether or not he would renounce the presidency, and if it was his purpose to make a change in the present cabinet. He replied: People are at liberty to talk whatever nonsense they want to, I will make change in the cabinet when the present serious question is ended"
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PROF SEYMOUR PRESIDED.
Yestertiny's Session of the ArchaeoIogI.
 caI Institute of merIcn.

AeHteFuHy's session 0h Sho ArchaoofOgts
 cal Institute of America.
 Princeton. N. J., Jan. 1.-Professor T. D. Seymour, of Yale, presided over to- days sessions of the Archaeological h. stitute of America. At the morning session topics relating to Greek sculp- ture, views on the date of the older Parthenon Dionoysiac sculptures from Corinth. and archaeological notes on Asia Minor and Syria were discussed.
 The lectures in the afternoon were illustrated with stereoptican views. Among the subjects talked over were Heracles Alexioacus, the rule of Sim metry in Oriental art, Venus de Milo, and recent discoveries in Palestine. The annual address was delivered to- night by Prof. William W. Goodwin, of Harvard, on the subject "A Recent Visit to Greek Lands" The Nassau club gave the members of the institute a New Years tea at six o'clock, and Prof. A, L.. Nottingham gave them smoker at his residence at the close of the evening session. The institute will hold it's closing meeting tomorrow morning.
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CANS THE WINNER.
Gus Gardiner Loses Match After Being Repeatedly Warned.

"A 1E[EE
 New Britain, Conn, Jan. 1.--After re- peatedly warning Gus Gardener of Philadelphia Referee John Willis gave Joe Cans of Baltimore the decision in the eleventh round of bout scheduled for twenty rounds before the National Athletic club this afternoon.
 Cans was on the offensive from the start of the bout, but Gardener danced around the ring from his opponent for, five rounds and showed no inclination to mix up. Tn the fifth round Cans succeeded in landing several good blows on Gardener with telling effect. Tn the sixth round Gardener came back with the tactics which characterized the first few rounds of the bout and relied on his foot work to escape Cans. The referee repeatedly warned Gardener, who clinched at every opportunity, but with little effect. Tn the eleventh round Gardener caught Cans about the waist and threw him heavily to the floor. Referee Willis immediately stopped the bout and gave the decision to Cans.
 Three first preliminaries proved to be the principal attraction Of the after noon. Young Ryan and Tony Sponge, both of Hartford, met in q bout sched- uled to go four rounds, but Sponge was knocked out in the second round.
 In six round go Jimmy Madden of Hartford got the decision over Young Brennan of South Manchester.
 The best fight of the afternoon was that between Jerry Maher of Hart ford and ''Kid" Gleason of New Britain. Gleason had Maher almost out in the fourth round and the Hartford man saved himself by fouling. The bout was awarded to Gleason by Referee Pollock. Fifteen hundred persons witnessed the matches .,
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Announcement.
AMERICAN MILITARISM.
Regretted by Max Nordan in Review
 of the World.

or the world. P.
 Vienna, Jan. 1.-In the course of an exhaustive review of the history of the world, contributed to the Neue Freie Presse by Max Nordau, the writer deep ly deplores the growth of military im- perialism in the United States and says that by the admission of the spirit of militarisn, which was formerly regor- ously excluded, America is raising ob- stacles to the entrance of immigrants whose only capital is their strong working arms. a &
 Speaking of the future of the new world M. Nordau says the opening of the Panama canal under American ownership will mark the beginning of new epoch. The tragic stage of the worlds history, which, in ancient times centered in the Mediterranean, and which moved in the naval ages to the Atlantic will then be transferred to the Pacific ocean. At first the Anglo-Sax on element will seek to drive out the German and French flags floating over single points in the Pacific ocean; then the struggle will be carried further to the Asiattc coast, where Anglo-Saxons and Russians will have to decide the momentous world question of whether eastern or southern Asia shall remain British or Russian. To this forecast M
 Nordau adds: "One can only imagine with horror what such a gigantic strug- gle of nations and races will signify"
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tanrtforti N. M. c. 4. tho yy,nner.

Ansonia, Conn, Jan. 1.-The Hart ford Y. M. c. A. Bowling club carried off all the honors at the annual tourna- ment of the State Y. M. c. A. Bowling league held here to-day, winning 8 total of five games. The New Haven R. R. Y M. c. A. team was second with a total of four games. Middle town and Bridgeport won two each and Waterbury and Ansonia each captured a game. The high score of the tourna- ment was made by R. L. Peard. of the Hartford team. He made total of 9O4
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Favor Philippine Independence.

Lincoln. Neb., Jan. 1.-Jacob Gould schurman, president of Cornell univer- sity, spoke tonight to thirteen hun dred members of Nebraska Teachers association on the subject. Our Philip pines Policy" His address in part was a reiteration of his views hereto fore expressed, but he probably was more outspoken in his declaration for the ultimate independence of the isl- ands At his request the teachers by rising vote expressed their opinions, a majority endorsing his views.
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AT THE GATES OF FEE.
PreteDder to Moroccan Throne Pushing
 om With Ms Forces.

London Jan. "A dispatch to the Times from Tangier says a courier from Fez has arrived there bringing letter dated December 26 saying that the pre-. tender was then four hours from Fez All available troops had left the capita to defend the approaches to the city The Christians in Fez are all reported tc be safe.
 London, Jan. 1.-News has been re- ceived from Tangier. Morocco, that the chiefs of the northern tribes are not obeying the order of the sultan to send irregular troops to Fez to aid in the de- fence of the capital.
 Toulon, France, Jan. 1.-French iron clads are said to be preparing to sail for Morocco.
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FLEEING FROM PLAGUE.
MaZatiau, Mexico, Stricken Pan ic
 Caused in Interior.

Mazatlan, Mexico, Jan. 1.-There is no longer the slightest doubt that the disease now affecting this city is gen. ufne Asiatic plague, for microscopic in- vestigation proves that bubonic pest bacilli are in the blood of those afflicted with the disease. The plague has grown virulent within the last forty-eight hours, and the alarm which had begun in some measure to abate has returned with increased strength. The people are fleeing from the city at the rate of three hundred per day, and some five thousand persons have gone already, More than fifty per cent of the persons attacked are women.
 The news of the recrudesence Of the plague at this port has reached the in- terior towns of the state and is causing panic. Sanitary cordons of armed men have been placed around the towns to prevent the entrance of any one from this place.
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Not Practising What ue Breaches, T. t. tcmhRm Furniture Men Say.

London, Jan. 1-Lord Curzon has brought down on himself the wrath of the furniture dealers of Great Britain by disparaging allusion in his speech at the opening of the Art exhibition at Delhi, December 30, to "Tottenham Court Road furniture, it's cheap Italian mosaics and flaming Brussels carpets" and appealing to the maharajahs to furnish their palaces with Indian work rather than these British products.
 Sir John Blundell Maple, M. F., who is governor of Messrs. Maple & Co, fur niture dealers of the Tottenham Court Road, leads the attack on the viceroy. and clinches his indictment by showing letter dated from the yiceregal lodge at Calcutta ordering carpets for Lord Curzon himself, and requesting that the order be duplicated yearly. Other docu- ments show that Lord Curzon quite re- gently received consignment of Tot tenham Court Road chairs, and that the whole of the viceregal lodge at Simla is furnished from the same source.
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SCIENTISTS ELECT OFFICERS.
s. E. Baldwin Chosen to Lead Social
 Science Section.

5. E. Baldwin Chosen to Lead Social Science Section. Washington. Jan. 1.-The American Society for the Advancement of Science tonight elected the following officers for the ensuing year:
 President-Carroll D. Wright, Wash ington, D. c.
 General secretary-C. W. Styles, United States Marine hospital service, Washington.
 Secretary of council-C. S. Howe, Cleveland.
 Officers of the various sections were elected as follows:
 Mathematics and astronomy-Vice president, o. H. Tittman, Washington, D. C.; secretary, l.. G. Weld, Iowa City, Iowa. >.-ti..
 Physies-Vice president, E. H. Hall, Cambridge, Mass; secretary. D. c. Mill Ter. Cleveland.
 Chemistry-Vice president. w. D. Bancroft, Ithaca. N. Y; secretary, A. H. Gill. Boston.
 Mechantcal science, engineering Vice president. c. M. Woodward, St. Louis; no secretary elected.
 Geology and geography-Vice presi- dent, I. c. Russell, Ann Arbor, Mich; f; secretary, c. B. Shat tuck, Baltimore.
 Zoology-Vice president. E. L. Mark, Cambridge, Mass; secretary, c. J. Her rick, Granville, Ohio.
 Botany-vice president, T. H. Mo- Bride, Iowa City, Iowa; secretary, F. E. Lloyd, New York.
 Social science--vice president. S. E. Baldwin. New Haven, Conn.,; secretary, J. F. Crowell, Washington.
 Physiology--Vice president, H. P. Bowditcb, Cambridge. Mass; secretary, F. S. Lee. New York.
 St. Louis was selected as the next place of meeting, December 2S to Jan- uary ?.
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ed by the delegates from foreign powers and the Indian princes. Lord Kitchener after the ceremonies was driven to Del hi.
 The Maharajah of Jaipur has given a lakh of rupees (about s50.OOO to the h. dian peoples famine fund, in commence ration of the Durbar.
 The bestowal of the Kaiser-i-Hind on the vicereine is very popular. and is re- garded as fitting reward for her splen- did exertions in behalf of the women of India.
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EDITOR MURDERS EDITOR.
Prominent Rival Politicians in santi- ago Have Fatal Row.

Santiago, Cuba, Jan. 1.-Congressman Corona, editor of the Cubano Libre, shot and killed Senor Insula, editor of the Republica, to-day. Both men were prominent politicians and leaders of rival parties. Senor Corona was drink ing in q cafe when Senor Insula and a party of friends entered the place and began a political discussion. Personali- ties and insults followed and quickly started a fight with canes, during which Senor Corona suddenly drew a revolver and shot Senor Insula three times. Senor Corona then walked quietly walked away and has not yet been arrested. The shooting has caus- ed great excitement here.
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Body of MIssing Man Found.

Bridgeport, Conn.,, Jan. 1.-The body of James +. Scudder, who has been missing since December 16, was found this afternoon in Moody's Pond. north- west of the city about forty feet from the shore. It is supposed that while walking along the bank of the pond he fell in. There is no suspicion of foul play, as $20, which he was known to have had when he disappeared, was sound in one of his pockets.
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ARTIC LIE EOT INSPIRED.
Recent German Military Experts At-
 tack on Monroe DoctLIne.

Berlin, Jan. 1.-The Tagliche Rund- schau denies that the recent article by General Won Boguslawski was inspired. The paper says that the general, being retired, does not have to get the per- mission of the government to express his views publicly. He is one of the editors of the Rundschau.
 General Won Boguslawski is consider ed one of the foremost military writers in Germany. He recently contributed an article to the Taglische Rundschau in which he advocated resistance to the Monroe doctrine. His remarks were re- garded in Washington as semi-official utterance of the German government upon that principle.
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Hartford Brak man Hsatmed

Hartford, Jan. Frank Carey, twen- ty-five years old, a freight brakeman, while coupling cars at the Canton street crossing tonight had his left hand and arm so badly mutilated that amputa- tion became necessary Carey was tak- en to the St. Francis hospital where the operation was performed.
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UNQUALIFIED ACCEPTANCE.
CASTRO'S REPLY TO POWERS
 SUBSTANTIALLY THIS.

United states Government Not Ot
 Great Consequence Nor Likely tOIn
 vOIve the Failure Of the Arbitration
 Project.
 Berlin, Jan. 1.-President Castro's re- ply to the powers, through Minister Bowen, is substantially an unqualified acceptance of their proposals to arbi- trate and the accompanying conditions. The foreign office here received his an- swer to-day and is satisfied with it's spirit. A further interchange of views, preparatory to signing the protocol, will take place in Washington. The only really important question to be settled is, What shall be done with the block ade? A continuance of the blockade is relied upon to hasten the conclusion of the arbitration preliminary, especially on the part of Venezuela.
 Rome, Jan. 1.-Foreign Minister Pri- netti this afternoon received through Ambassador Meyer, Secretary Hays AlOLC IISSlNSliG NoolAS D acceptance of TheHague arbitration in principle, but with an additional prop osition which the government at Wash ington does not support.
 While reserve is maintained at the foreign office with regard to the Vene- zuelan matter. it has been learned that the foreign minister considers the addi- tional proposal made by President Cas- tro as not likely of acceptance. Com munications on this subject are now be- ing exchanged with Germany and Great Britain.
 London, Jan. 1.--Mr. White, the Unit ed States charge d'affaires, delivered to the foreign office this afternoon the note of Secretary Hay announcing President Castro's acceptance of the arbitration proposal.
 Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 1.-The ar bitration propositions of the foreign powers and the propositions of Venezuela, exchanged through Minister Bowen yesterday, are said by high Venezuelan authority to be easily re- concilable.
 Washington, Jan. 1.-The rejoinders of the European foreign officers to President Castro's reply to their arbi- tration proposal have not reached Washington. The state department still declines to make public any in formation respecting the details of President Castro's reply, but inquiry confirms the Kss0ciated Press report from Rome to the effect that Castro attaches a condition to the acceptance of the arbitration proposal, which con- dition was not endorsed by the Wash ington government.
 However, it is pointed out that it has not been regarded necessary at the state department to either approve or disapprove any of the details of the propositions now in exchange between the principals. As to the condition at tached to the acceptance, it can be stated that it is not of great conse- ullenee nor likely to involve the failure of the arbitration project, for it is un- derstood to relate rather to the means of bringing the issue to arbitration than to arly substantial principle. 7 Brussels, Jan. Tt is said here that an arrangement has been concluded with Great Britain and Germany to submit the Belgian and Dutch claims against Venezuela to the international peace court at The Hague at the same time the Anglo German claims against the South American republic are taken to that tribunal.