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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-28
REBELLION IN CHINA.
Five Hundred Soldiers Caught In
Ambush and Killed.

Pekin, Feb. 27.-Advices received
here to-day show that 500 imperial
troops were caught Feb. Is in an am
bush in the Yang Uing pass by the
rebels of the province of Kwang 81,
South China.
All the soldiers were killed, and the
rebels captured large supplies of
arms, which the troops were taking to
the besieged garrison of Chi-Kuen. The
official reports admit that the rebellion
in Kwang ST is increasing and has
spread over the border into the prov
ince of HUI Nan. The viceroy of Hu
Nan has sent troops to the boundary
to check the rebels advance.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-28
ADMIRAL sCHLEY ILL.
He Could Not Receive Visitors mt
San Antonio.

San Antonio, Tex, Feb. 27.-Rear
Antonio this morning, and when, at
II o'clock, a. delegation of citizens call
ed at the hotel to pay their respects
they were informed that the Admiral
was confined to his bed and was too
i'll to receive any one. Later a physi-
clan was summoned to attend him, and
by night he was sufficiently improved
to resume his journey to the west.
Admiral Schley contracted a severe
cold en- route from New Orleans that
developed symptoms of pneumonia, but
it was announced this evening that he
was in no danger.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-28
OBITUARY..
Mrs. Mary Ehrlicher.

Mrs. Mary Ehrlicher died at Z
o'clock last night at her home, No. 20
Thirty-second street, east, after a
short illness from the grip. She was
IA years of age and a native of Ger
many, but was a resident of Savannah
for twenty-five years. Mrs. Ehrlicher
leaves two daughters, Mrs. John
Baumgartner of Brunswick, and Mrs.
j. c. Main of Savannah. and two
sons, ]. F. and Howard Ehrlicher,
both of this city. The funeral arrange
ments will be made to-day and the in
torment will be in Laurel Grove Gem
etery.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-28

Print CIoth Mnrket.

Fall River, Mass, Feb. 27.-TradinR
has been light in the print cloth mar
ket this week, the sales amounting to
about 125,0O0 pieces. and prices con-
tinuing unchanged on a basis of 81
for regulars. The continued upward
tendency of the cotton market is
causing some anxiety. The mills are
all running to their utmost capacity
and are booked with orders for a few
months ahead. Manufacturers de-
clare that if they are compelled to pay
10 cents per pound for cotton they
must raise the price of their product
in order to operate their mills at a
profit.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-28
0TTERCAPS Is LOST

Brest, France, Feb. 27.-The steam
collier Ottercaps, from Newcastle-on-
Tyne, was driven on the rocks at
Feuntenot last night and broke up and
sank Immediately. 1t is believed that
the crew and passengers, numbering
thirty persons, persisted. Up to the
present seven bodies have been washed
ashore.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-28
San Antonio RecedinR.

San Antonio, Tex, Feb. 27.-The San
Antonio river is within its banks to-
night and all danger is over. Not a
life so far as reported was lost; but
the loss in property is very heavy, es-
pecially below the city, where the large
truck gardens in the valley have al
ready been planted. The loss to live
stock on the river range has also been
quite heavy.
The whole country in this part of
the state suffered from high water.
most of the streams leaving their
banks and flooding the valleys!aarown-
ing out early crops and sweeping away
herds of cattle.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-28
HOOKING VALLEY DEAL.

Expected That the Plan VIII Be An
nOunced Tuesday.
New York, Feb. 27.-It was reported
in Wall street to-day that the long ex-
pected plan for change of control of the
Hooking Valley road will be announced
next Tuesday. The plan agreed to by
the Thomas F. Ryan interest with J.
p Morgan & Co., as managers of the
blind pool syndicate, is said to be a
guarantee of stock to take over the
common stock of the road, and to re-
tire the preferred. This. guaranteed is
sue, will, it is said, be of a new COM
pany, and is to be taken by the Penn
sylvania and Lake Shore roads jointly.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-28
John A. bearing, Athens.

Athens, Ca, Feb. 27.-John A Dear
ing, a member of prominent Athens
family, and a brother of w. d. Dear
ing of Savannah, died this morning
in Louisville, KY, where he was at
tending the medical college. His re-
mains will be inferred in this city to-
morrow
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-28
J. G. M. Edwards, Athens.

Athens, Ca, Feb. 27.-J. G. NJ. Ed
wards, aged "a years, died this MORN
ing at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
E. E. Jones of this city. He was a
cousin of j. NJ. Edwards, the we'll
known railroad man, who for years
has been associated with Richard t.
Wilson of New York.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-28
SMATHERS PAYS HIGH
TO GET M'CHESNEY

New Orleans. Feb. PIE. E.
Smathers. the Brooklyn trotting horse
man, has bought McChesney for 5000
He will race him in the West. and
probably at Saratoga, and is willing to
make a match with Hermis.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-28

James Kerr. an artist whose paint
ings have been prominently hung in
the Paris salon. was found crippled
and nearly frozen to death near De-
troit. Mimi. recently. and, being out
OF his mind. was sent TO the insane
asylum at Fergus Falls. He was once
wealthy and his work was in demand
al high prices.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-28
James McCreery, New York.

New York, Feb. 27.-A dispatch re-
ceived here to-day from Aiken, S. c.,
announces the death of James Nc
Creery, who was the head of the dry
goods firm of James McCreery &. Co.
age.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-28
Miss Mary J. Moore. Augusta.

Augusta, Feb. 27.-Miss Mary Jane
Moore. one of the old citizens of Au-
gusta, and member of one of the
Oldest families in the community, died
tonight at her home on Greene street,
after a long Illness.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-28
Destruction I'm Haytf.

Cape Haytien. Hayti, Feb. 27.-A dis
patch received here from Grosmorne to-
day announces the complete destruc-
ton of Porte de Paix, Hayti, by fire
last night. Only the vessels belonging
to the Haytien Company were saved.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-28

Lou Jane tells me that her
fance is worth a hundred thousand
dollars. Do you believe it?" Ella
"He must be worth more than that.
Why, he paid taxes on twenty-five
thousand without a murmur, Judge.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-28
Mrs. Mary jackson, High shoals.

Athens. Ca. Feb. 27.-Mrs. Mary
jackson. aunt OF the late Bishop Atti-
Gus G.. Haygood. died to-day at her
home near High Shoals.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-03-14
4 6lino-PiR Law.

The blind pig is not likely to be a
very fat and prosperous porker if that
Shepard bill becomes law. This bill
makes the owner or agent of any
building shelteripg blind pig as H.
able as the person who actually sells
the liquor. Why not?-Minneapolis
Journal.
In 3 great many cases they are
owned by the brewing companies or
would-be licensed saloonkeepers who
have an interest in propagating blind
pigs. The legislature is about as like
ly to pass that law as they are any
other effective temperance Legislation.
On the other hand the Temperance"
committee tappointed mostly from
whiskey members) has recommended
the bill to pass, which is suspicious
circumstance. Probably it would re.
peal what law we have now on the SUBJ
ject.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-03-14
Careless Legislators.

But legislators in the mass go on
just the same. They draw seven day s
wages q week from the people and
give in return about energy enough to
stir the small end of q baby humming
birds feather, while the gray matter
expended would not last an incurably
insane microbe more than ten seconds.
st. Paul Daily News.
After reading the above one might
feel inclined ts believe that the spirit
of 1gI atius Donnelly had lodged in
the body of the editor of the News.
But the exaggerated figure OF speech
conveys thought that is forcing it.
self on every citizen of the state. The
present legislature has up to the pres
ent time shown more than ordinary
ability in doing nothing. The result
must be the usual one-important bills
rushed through without careful con.
siderati0n towards the close of the
session and many meritorious meas
ures neglected for want of time,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-03-14
Taking Risks.

The republican party has adopted
the policy of appealing to the peoples
stomachs, and these appeals have
been very successful; but the republic
can party having adopted that policy
connot abandon it, and the people
who vote the republican ticket on the
stomach proposition will, in due time,
abandon the republican party on the
same proposition If that party shall
fail in keeping the stomach full.
And when we remember that no po-
liticsl party provides food for the
peoples stomachs any more than it
sends the showers and the sunshine,
we may better appreciate the great
risks the republican leaders have
taken in persuading the people to
support their party on the theory that
it has the power to bring good crops
and to supply the people with the
necessities and the luxuries of life
Omaha World-Herald.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-03-14
4 humilisting Confession.

Editor Joubert of the Ledger in it's
lastissue gives the Republican rail.
way commissioners a bouquet as fol-
lows: - -
The Railroad and Warehouse COM
EMISSION has reported to- the legisla.
F9Yre that y sees no: just grounds for
reaacing the he-passengert tart e of this
state from three to two and one hall
cents per mile. Well, from the siren
uous activity evinced by that body
since its election, that is about what
the people might have expected. The
good book says that there are none
so blind as those who will not see.
Had the Ledger and other republi-
can papers of the state two years ago
not been so party tied but that it
could have repudiated the two objec-
tionable members on it's party ticket
and helped encompass their defeat
and the election in their place of
Ringdal and Owen, it would not have
been compelled to humiliate itself now
with this confession.-Litchfi Inde.
pendent.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-03-14
A SOWER OF EVIL.
Beauties Of Bank System.

Through our national banking sys-
tenn our good Lincoln greenbacks
have been destroyed at the bankers
command and interest bearing bonds
issued In their place for them to in.
vest their money in, thus deprivipg
the people OF the use of the money
and compelling them to pay interest.
And in addition to the above the
banker receives the face value of the
bonds back in bank notes.-the bonds
drawing interest from the government
and the bank notes loaned to the
people at interest, and both exempt
from taxation, the people paying all
the interest and all the taxes.
When the banker is in need of more
ready cash the secretary of the treas
ury buys back the bonds at prem
ium as high as 374 per cent, and pays
In gold. In addition to this the secre-
tary's report for October shows he
has made free loan or deposit OF
@l32, 900, 900, without interest North
east (Minneapolis) Argus.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-03-14


The acts of congress forbido ing con-
spiracies in restraint of trade may be,
and generally are innocuous as far as
plutocratic combines are concerned,
but they ccme in handy to restrain Ia
Dor organizations. About week ago
the employees of the Wabash were vot-
ing on the question OF going on q
strike in order to force the company
to accede to their demands for in
creased wages. Before the strike
could be ordered the company obtained
from Judge Adams Of the United
States district court an junction for
bidding the officers of the trainmen's
and fremen's union from bordering,
coercing, persuading, inducing or
otherwise causing, directly or indi-
rectly, the employees of the Wabash
railroad to strike or quite the com.
papy." If any of the officials of the
unions so enjoined should order
strike before that injunction is dis
solved they would be arrested for con-
tempt of court and be sentenced
without trial by jury, in spite of the
fact that the constitution of the United
States expressly guarantees to every
person accused of crime the right of
jury trial. The plutocrats are de.
termined to crush organized labor,
and they have found in this Injunction
business the most powerful meaus for
accomplishing their purpose. If the
laborers want to 60 on strike now
they will have to do so as individuals,
and the company will treat with each
individual separately. Under such a
system q strike would be practical i'm
possibility, and the laborers would
lose their only means of protesting in
an effective way against any injustice
done to them.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-03-14
what Does Ne Foar7

We were led to believe that it mat
tered little how much money tn ere was,
just so it was ''sound." What is this
calamity howler yawping about?
"Next fall" said Senator Aldrich,
in the open senate lat week, "if what
fear may result shall RI suit, the peo-
pie of this country, whose business has
been injured and whose prosperity
has been destroyed, will be able to
place the responsibility squarely up
on the men, the small knot of men in
this chamber, who have deliberately,
with malice aforethought, murdered
this BILL" He referred OF course t.,
the financial measure bearing his
name which failed of passage.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-03-14
Why It Will Not Pass.

There is no likelihood of the county
option bill passing. The liquo- in
terests have been generous in the dis
tribution of their products among the
members OF the legislature, for whom
nothing is too good. Besides, they
have way of making the election of
ambitious statesmen who incur their
dlspleasure q matter of some diff
Guilty. Liquor men are thoroughly.
organized from the distiller down to
the keeper of groe shop, and the in
fluence they WELD in the field of poll
tics is not small matter, and it is
lot easier to play into their hands
than to "buck" them. That is why
the county option bill will not pass
Grant Co. Herald.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-03-14
An AnarohiStic Governor.

"I1l have you shot, and I'll see
that anyone who shoots you gets q
quick ardon''-such are said to be
the words used by the governor OF
Illinois in threatening Chicago edi-
tor. Gov. Yates friends admit that
he invaded the EDITORS Office intend
ing to kill him. The EDITORS own re-
volver is said to have alone proven.
ted the intended tragedy.-St. Paul
Daily News.
Plutocratic sheets denounced the
late John r. Altgeld, four year gov
ernor of Illinois, as an anarchist, -
yet no words by far as anarchistic as
the above ever escaped his lips. Gov.
Yates was an anarchist when he ut
tered the above words.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-03-14
SAME In ALL AGES.
a Remarkable Utterance BY Doctor
Martin Luther, the Great Re-
IiRious Reformer.

A highly priced friend aud reader
of:the Mail has furnished us the fol-
lowing excerpt taken frcm the works
of DR.. Martin Luther, the eminent d.
vine:
"Everything of them is groundless
and bottomless with avarice and in
Justice. For who is so coarse that he
does not see how trade companies are
nothing else but pure monopolies,
which had been prohibited by secular
gentle laws as hurtful to all men? I
shall say nothing of them in regard to
the divine law and Christian rules
For they have all wares under their
hands do what pleases them to raise
and lower the prices according to their
own pleasur and oppress and crush
all little merchants, as pike swal
lows the little fishes, just as if they
were lords over Gods creatures and
free from laws.
"They have hit it to have secure
and perpetual profits. What of it, if
by their management the whole world
is sucked out, and all money is flood
ed in their bags? How could this
ever be right and Christianlike for q
man to grow so rich in short time
that he might buy out kings and EN-.
perors? Yet, they have worked up
their scheme to such conditions that,
while the world must trade in danger
and loss, they always win and cover
their losses by raised prices so there
would be no miracle in it, if they
possess soon the riches of the whole
world. They will be kings and we
beggars.
"Kings and rulers here should act
and prohibit these monopolies by Sc
we're laws. But I hear that they are
head and part of the business and it
is going according to the word by
Isaiah, Chap. l, q. Thy princes are
rebel)ious and companions of thieves
All the while they cause these thieves
to be hanged, which have stolen
gold piece or half, and participate
with them that rob the whole world
more than all others; so that the SEN
tence keeps true: The great thieves
hang the little thieves, or as the Ro-
man senator Cato said; Little thieves
lie in prison and in stocks, but the
great thieves 60 about IN gold and
and silk But what will God say at
last to this? he will do, as He pro-
phesied by Hezekiel, that rulers and
traders, one thief with other, shall be
like molten lead, and as burnt city,
so that neither rulers nor traders shall
be there any more. ."-Madison (Neb. }
Mail
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-03-14
DEFENDS JURY SYSTEM,
Veteran Editor Scores Those unthink-
ing Ones Who Say Grand Jur-
les arc Superfluous.

Senator Laybourne's bill to abolish
the grand jury system is meeting with
some favorable comment from many
editors in the state, whose only argu-
ments are the expense and the fact that
other states have abolished the system.
Editor Childs of the Waseca Herald
makes these excellent points in de-
tense of the system:
We are now told that the country
has outgrown the use of grand juries.
But is that true?
In almost every state in the Union,
within the past few years, some people
have been "rOused into hatred" and
''stimulated to cruelty" until men and
women have been burned at the stake,
and tortured and mutilated in the
most barbarOus manner. And it is
we'll known that we're it not for the
widespread and wholesome fear of
grand juries, these outbreaks would
be much more numerous, if not more
fendish.
Judge Story, in his admirable COM
mentary on the Constitution, says:
"t'rom this summary statement, it is
obvious, that the grand jury perform
most important public functions; and
are a great security to the citizens
against vindictive prosecutions, either
by the government, or by political
partisans, or by private enemies.''
In these days of vast combines and
powerful organizations, with their
"cynical contempt for law, who by
their sorcery can debase the most gift
ted men to the capacity of splendid
slaves" our main safety is in the jury
system; and our people will make a
sad mistake if they allow the corpora
tions to deprive them of this great
barrier against tyranny and injustice.
Take, for instance, the enforcement
OF our laws regarding the liquor traf-
6c-without the grand jury, it is safe
to say that such laws would be q dead
letter; for who is there in any com.
munity strong and courageous enough
to take upon himself the enforcement
OF the laws against the combined pow.
er, cruelty, wealth and influence of the
saloon traffic?
What is true of the liquor combine
Is equally true of the railroad, coal,
oil and other combinations which deny
and trsmple upon the laws of the
country, and whenever or wherever
one finds an enemy of our jury system,
it is safe to put him down as q dupe,
tool or hireling of monopoly or some
combine.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-03-14
Reservation To Be opsned.

The ceded part of the Indian reser :
vatiQns nspAanGhief River Falls, will be
opened for settlements this summer.
The lands will be disposed of at pub
lie auction, no land being sold fer
less than four dollars per acre. Ac-
tual occupancy of the land for five
years will be required, in order to
keep out speculators and leave the
land for actual settlers. This is a
good provision. As the population
increases while the area of arabic
left unsettled becomes less it becomes
imperative that the settlers be given
the right to buy such land direct from
the government instead of having to
pay high tribute to wealthy speculat-
Ors.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-03-14
TOO GOOD TO Be TRUE.
Wonderful and Hardly Credible Fidelity
Of Trust Senators to tho Cause
Of the Common People.

1t is amusing to read of the anti
trust legislation passed by congress
at it's last session Gin face of the
strenuous opposition of the trusts. "
This "strenuous opposition" wasn't
able to muster one, solitary vote in
it's interest It could not even find q
senator or congressman who would
introduce an amendment to any of the
measures, mitigating to some extent
their rigors as affecting corporate in
terests. This seems strange, in view
of the fact that less than two years
ago the beet sugar industry alone was
able to muster enough votes to pre-
vent any legislation considered harm
full to that in 1ustry; and, further.
more, held those votes to the end, in
spite of administrative pressure, and
in face of almost universal public
condemnation and censure.
Rockefeller vehemently and osten.
tatiously telegraphed orders to Wash
tngton that such legislation must be
stopped, bit with all his money and
influence he couldn't control even the
vote of his son in-law, who is con-
ceded to be the most potent senator in
Washington, and who heretofore has
been most tractable to trust Influences
For once, and at this most critical
stage, his vote and influence went to
the masses as against the classes.
More wonderful still, one of these
three measures which are destined to
curb and control trusts was intro
duced and fathered by Senator Steph-
en- B. Eikins Steve Elkins, who has
q record the odorous fumes of which
smell back to the administrations of
Grant, which he materially aided in
discrediting. he, too, has forsaken
his evil courses, and is a volunteer in
the cause of righteousness. 1t seems
almost too wonderous to be true, and
cOnstrains one to believe that the
millennium is now here.-St. James
Journal.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-03-14
Guessing About It.

Mr.. Gandrud's anti-merger bill
passed the house on Thursday with
no opposition worth mentioning, the
vote standing 50 for and no nays.
It looks suspicious that the railroads
made no fight and some fear that the
fight is to be made in the senate. It
may be that is she reason, but posi-
bly, the roads see no hope of defeating
it and will not 60 to the expense OF
making what they regard as useless
News.