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VOL. 19 NO 349
$1000.00.
A reward of one thousand dollars will
be paid for the arrest and conviction
of any person or persons guilty of cut-
ting pulling or tearing down or mis-
placing our telephone wires posts on
machinery of wilfully obstructing 01
Interferring with the transmission of
messages along our telephone wires in
violation of art. 784 (677) Texas Penal
Code it. 8..
The SOUTHWESTERN TELEGRAPH
& TELEPHONE COMPANY.
by E. K. BAKER General Manager.
W. W. WALLING
Lawyer.
Practice in ail the State and Federal
Courts. Office Beze building opposite
Southern Hotel.
FOR CITY RECORDER.
The Light is authorized to announce
C. N. HUGHES. as a candidate for the
office of City Recorder at the election
in Felfruary 1901. 11-18-tf
TELEGRAPH BREVITIES.
f .
/ Yellow fiver commission is interviewing ।
mosquitos in Cuba.
Kirk Armour nephew of the late Phil
J). Armour is seriously ill with pneu-
monia.
Van Buelow's s>eech in the German
diet is passed without comment.
Germany and Great Britain consider
the I intuit States' proposition to consid-
er Chinese matters at Washington.
Germany has not defined her posi-
tion oil the American proposition.
Eight bodies if not more found on
Pelican island. Result of the late
storm. •
French mail steamer Russie wrecked
and none of Ini' hundred souls rescued
at Inst accounts.
Gale is subsiding al last accounts and
there is some hope of reaching the wreck-
ed Hussie.
German chancellor advocates the pro-
tection of agriculture by legal enact-
ments.
Government troops force back the guer-
rillas at Panama.
Suit of the Lindon bric-a-brac seller
against "the t'astellanes is being heard
in Paris.
German steamer Frisia is turned back
and is hcauing for Queenstown dis-
abled.
Second Canadian contingent reaches
home from South Africa.
Ja|Mtnese government is to <i|a-n nego-
tiations with the United States for set-
tlement of Honolulu claims.
Canadian authorities undertake to re-
cruit I.iHM) men for Baden-Powell's con-
stabulary in Africa.
The Venezuela rebels surrender their
lust stronghold.
jNo nuportanca attache* to reports of
so called Boer peace committees and Lord
■Kitchener in council.
Recruits for German ships in Chinese
waters arc ordered to join their ships
at once.
One death from bubonic plague is of-
ficinlly reported at Constantinople.
Waldorf-Astor gives t'l.ooo to the
Prince of Wales hospital fund.
I.i Hung Chang is lictter and visits
the German legation.
Habeas Corpus proceedings started in
Ilie Nation Inn -breaking ease at Wiehita
Kan..
Bryan is to orate at Columbus. Ohio
on the 14th of February.
Sleet is covering the whole face of
Missouri and Kansas ami breaking tele-
phone wires and telegraph.
New 5 ork coffee exchange will put
on the list.
Texas house of representatives is not
' yet organized.
Sjieaker Prince is trying to lick his
committees into shape for announce-
ment.
There will lie a fighj against the fur-
ther maintainance of the state rangers
in Texas.
Rcapportionment of the state is likely
to Is- committed to an extra session of
the legislature.
Senate is fully organized and all its
minor offices tilled.
F. M. Simmons will succeed Butler as
senator from South Carolina.
St.. Louis < leetric workers vote $2000
to aid the telephone strikers in San’An-
tonin.
Six Memphis lines are foatse the little
depot at Main and Callioun streets in
the future.
Number of Victims of In grippe In Tn-
diannpidis is placed at from 40.000 to
75.000. I
Senate follow - the lead of the house
on the army bill and knocks out the
canteen.
Semite receives the
bill passed by the house.
House is considering the river ami har-
bor measure.
Argument before the Supreme court
in the Puerto Rico cases continues.
Captain King charged with bribery
nt Mobile is reNevel as quartemaster
there.
Engineer Lewis arrested in Mexico for
running over a native is released.
The murderer of Father Biegel. of
Philadelphia makes a partial confession
implicating others.
Four dead and 20 wounded as the re-
sult of a mine explosion in Cohnila.
Chicago catches the storm and finds
it tile worst of the season for severity.
Eight people kille-’ in a collision on
the Baltimore and Ohio.
Six street car conductors in the City
of Mexico arrested for fighting a trian-
gular duel.
HURT IN HOUSTON.
Mike Garvey Injured While Visiting His
Mother. Who Is Quite HI.
Mike i.arvey passenger brakeman on
the Southern' Pacific is able to lie up
and about again from injuries received
in Houston a few days ago. Ue was
called to Houston last week by the ill-
ness of his mother who is in her sev-
enty-third year and while playing with
the'children in the yard of her resilience
who were riding on what is known ns a
-Flying Dutchman." arranged on the or-
tlcr of a merry-go-round lie fell ami was
severely injured alsmt the Ixxly. ll**
expects to be able to go back on his
run in a few days.
Inf mno. flails A
REV. POTTER CONTINUES
IMPRESSION THAT ALL AMERI
CANS ARE PURCHASABLE.
The Bishop has had a Little Experience
in That Line Himself—Organized
Forces Ar e Too Many for the Indi-
vidual—No Real Remedy Suggested.
|
Philadelphia dan. 10.—Bishop Potter
in his address nt the Academy of Mu-
sic last night said:
who lies followed tlie history
of this republic can lie insensible io the
enormous change in the relation i f the
|>opiilation of this land to its great
business centem. Two leadiug cities of
inferior size in the state hl which I
live during the last decade have a -tual-
ly lost iu po|>ulation and the c- umuni
tics surrounding them have lost still
more largely. The growth on flic other
hand of two or more large centers of
|M>pulatioi< of America is en nitons.
These are startling facts in our history
In oilier words tin* drift of flu most ne
five men and of the youth of tin* land
for edueatiomil oi*other im*|s*s<-> is iu
creasing to those centers. Mure titan
ever they strike the note more than
ever they set the pace *
"1 want to speak to you übaut II:** re
lotions of such a factor as this to eo:.*-
muuities in our municipal and national
life which ought to be remembered. One
of these I believe to be the curious de
■cay in that life whether it is nati ini
or municipal an influence and power of
the individual. The great political revo-
lution which began j/i France ami had
for its masters Rousseau and Hie rest
stood for emancipation of tint older
world for the freedom of the individ-
ual life ami mind.
•Tillie has been at work during the
last twenty-five years in the I nited
states prominently I think islain ten-
dencies toward centralization of |n»w
er. You see it in the domination of cap-
ital in honest aggregations of money
which make it possible for three or firn.*
individuals in tin* back office of some
hank to create in half :•* hour a convtil
sion in the financial markets of the
world.
“You see it in the concentratmn and
organization of the great industrial co-
fluprises which have girdled the wan I*l.
not alone with their enterprises but
with their genius and ability.
“The difficulty in modern life is with
the organized forces that touch the. in-
dividual life. They arc so great and
so rich mid so-many funded that for
till 1 individual to stand up against them
is something more than ordinary em.vhgc
will dare to attempt. The whole ten-
dency of our imslern life is that the re-
sult of it is that a conviction has tome
to pass which exists widely not only m
such communities as yours ami mini*
but all over tlte land that there does not
exist a man who is not a purehasciible
man.
“About a year ago there came into
my study in New York some one whom
I had never seen u stranger whose name
upou his card 1 did not recogtiize m:d
whose errand I could not divine.
"'Sir.' he said. ‘1 am from such and
such a part of the country. In that
part of the country it fierce political
campaign is in progress one of year
clergy (it was in a territory ami not
a city) is attacking from the pulpit the
moral character and moral standards of
a gentlemen n candidate there for. a
very high office whom 1 represent.’
“J said: ‘I have not any clergymen
out in that part of the world. 1 hate
no more jurisdiction there than you
have.'
“He said: ’Perhaps not in the sense
yop mean but it is one of your me
" 'What do you want me to do!’ said
I.
“'I want you to stop it.' said lie: and
1 am authorized by the distinguished
gentleman whom I represent to say that
if you will stop it he will make it worth
vonr while.'
"I felt like saying: 'lt will eoi ie
high.' I got up and walked to the door.
1 opened it and stood there. He looked
a moment in some perplexity. 1 said:
’Does it not occur to you. sir that this
interview is at an ond!' He went out.
"I mention that incident as a proof of
the statement 1 have made here. Here
was a person in a distant part of the
country a candidate for a very high po-
sition. who had not the smallest h- d:'
lion in sending an emissary to me with
an intimation that if I would he pre
pared to a preacher who was sat
ing disagreeable things that money
would lie put up to make it worth ■o>
while.
“The appalling fact is that from flic
ton to the Isittom of onr sistial struc-
ture the judge from the bench the l**g-
islatiTre in the halls the magistrates in
the law cmirle. and the policeman on his
beat ure all believed by the great ma
jority of the people to Im* pureh i . bl.*
men. That such a ousmeion should ex-
ist is itself a dishonor so deep and
damning that no community might to
tie willing til rest in it for an hour."
A JAP AT OUR SCHOOLS.
Studving the American School System
For Use in Japan.
New York. Jan. 10. The board <>f edit
cation at its meeting last night was ad-
dressisl by Torajiro Wataso. of tokio
Japiin. a memliei of the high imperial in-
diitsrinl council editor of tin* Japan Ag-
riculturist and a mcmlH*r of th** lok io
City council. He has come to this city
at the command of his government to
study school systems.
Mr. Watnso was iutreduced by a Mr.
O'Brien anil made a little siieceh in
which he Isdieved the cause of this ~mut-
ry’s greatness tOhs its system of edu-
cation a**d that he was much impress-
ed by our liberality in khat direetena
' PUBLISHED AT BAN ANTONIO BKXAR COUNTY TBXAB AND ENTERED AT THE POET OFFICE AS SECOND CLASS MAIL MATTER
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FACTS ABOUT BROS
u
Very Near the Earth and Only Twenty
Mile in Diameter.
New York Jan. 10.—A special to the
Journal and Advertiser from Cambridge
Mass. says: Professors Pickering and*
Wendell of the iMrvard observatonr
have just made *ime very inqiortant dis-
eoreries with regard to the new planet
Erna. From the recent discoveries it
is found that the Harvard observatory
took the phot<igraph of this planet as
early ns HMI3. These photographs when
compared with the ones that were taken
last nigkt. made it possible to tell ac-
curately the size. |>ath and distance of
the planet from the earth. The astron-
omers have determined that the planet
is probably not more than twenty mill's
in diameter and Comea nearer the earth
than any other planet.
It belongs to a group of planets that
come lietween Mars and- Jupiter but
Eros breaks away and often comes this
side of Mars thus lielng nearer the earth
than any celestial body except the
moon.
These observations will continue at
Hie observatory until alxuit the first of
March when it is intended to continue
the observations from the station in
Smith America where it is believed the
planet will be visible a month longer
than in any other part of the world.
NEW YORK'S VICE COMMITTEE.
President Baldwin Says it is Getting
Down to Business.
New York. Jan. 10. President Bald-
win. Jr. of the commit{<*e of fifteen
gave out a significant interview after
tin* committee hail been in executive ses-
sion fur two hours in their office in the
United Charities building. Mr. Baldwin
determined not to get into details in re-
gard to the meeting but said: "Y'ou
may rest assured that our hired investi-
gators will get all the et idenee there
is and that when Ismis Nixon ot the
committee of five gets through we will
he abb* to take-up their work and carry
it to a finish. The Tammany commit
tee is all right and is doing good work.
It will actsimplish its purposes.
"Matters of such magnitude and im
|x>rtance and so far reaching were dis-
cussed by our commiHee that it is ab-
solutely impossible for me to say another
word."
PROTECTING JOHANNESBURG.
Boers Dispprove the Raid and Fur-
nish Horses to the British.
Cape Town Jan 10.—The refugees
are approaching the military authori-
ties to obtain permission to form a
corps for the protection of Jobnnnee
burg and the mines only as they wish
to/be on the Rand to assist in the de-
fense of their own property. Tlje
chamber of mioes has adopted a sint
ilar attitude. On the Piciuietberg
road the Boers occupying Celvinla and
Sutherland consist of two columns
one advancing iu the direc'tion of Clan
William and the other toward
Worcester or In this direction. All
passes in front of Worcester have been
occupied by seasoned troops which
are gathering at strategic points. The
tranquil Dutch openly disapprove of
the raid many even sending morses to
the British camp.
(X»NDU( TOR STRAUSS SICK.
He is Confined to His Bed in Albuquer-
que N. M.
Chicago. Jan. 10.—A special to the
Tribune from Albuquerque N. M.. Mays:
Eduard Strauss the musician who is
at a hotel here suffering severely from
biliary calculus is worse.
The company went on by the night
train to Denver mid Mr. Straus thought
he would be able to follow next morning
but lie is unable to leave his lied.
MOUNTED TROOPS NEEDFD.
Newspapers Second th<* Appeals of South
African Correspondents.
New York Jan. 10.—A dispatch to the
Tribune from Lindon says:
Day after day the newspapers continue
tosecond the appeals of the coni'sixuul
cuts in Cape Town for more troops for
South Africa. The necessity for fresh
drafts of mounted men is growing urgent
to augment the strength of the fone.
Meanwhile the recruiting for the South
African army will continue.
ANOTHER HAZING VICTIM
WILLIAM PHILLIPS OF COLBY
COLLEGE CRITICALLY ILL.
Fever and Hemorrhages of the Kid
nes Result from Blows at a Society
Initiation —Hia Parents Will Seek
to Have an Investigation.
Bangor Me.. Jan. 10. —Wm. Phillips
a student at Colby college Is critical
ly ill at his home in Bangor from fever
and hemorrhages of tlfe kidneys cam
ed he says by blows received in the
course of hazing by sophomores lant
fall. Phillips entered Colby college in
September aud It was during his inlt
iation in the fraternity of Delta Upsi
lon that he received the blows com-
plained of. He says he was blindfold
ed when “sophs" came up behind and
struck him two fearful blows in the
small of the back remarking “that was
the goal."
Phillips says that the blows almost
killed him. He lost his temper ami
went in a rage. After the game he
was lame in the leg and when he came
home it was observed by hfs naronts
that he was not well and physicians
were called. He steadily failed since
coming nome. and now suffers nightly
from convulsions. Phillips’ parents
will have an investigation made.
SAN ANTONIO TEXAS THURSDAY JANBAKY 10 1901.
NORFOLK’S HORNET’S NEST
THE GREAT ENGLISH DUKE FAV-
ORB TEMPORAL POWER.
His Utterances Likely to Stir Italy
Against English Visitor* —Italians
Are Sore on That Subject—The
Temporal Power of the Pope a Dog-
ma.
New York. dan. It).—The Rev. A. Fas-
sonettl 1). D„ Bow a resident of New
York but formerly chaplain to the Duke
of Norfolk in Emilaml speaking of the
duke and the xoeiie in Rome attendant
upon his address to the pope in which
he expressed the hope that the tempo-
ral piwr be retm ned to the Holy See
doling the new century said: "1 am
afraid that the duke has stirred up a
hornet's nest. lam an Italian myself
having residi'd ill Home for a lung time.
I know well the -useoptibilities of the
Italians in regard to any utterance which
might advocate or imply the destruction
o( United Italy. The s|H-eeh of theduke
at the reception of the English pilgrims
at the \ atican. loming as it does from
a prominent meuilsT of the British nris-
tix-racy. can not but excite their fi+l
ings and 1 should not lx* surprised if
violence was to be offered the English
visitors to tin- Fternal City on this oc-
casion as was furnished the« French pil
grims iu IHHI.
"I pto the pr nt time the Italians
have always considered the English peo-
ple- mid their government In synqxithy
with the efforts they have made toward
the independence atui unification of their
.country which could not possibly have
been attained without the disappearance
of tlie trtuporal power of the pope.
"Just now" said the sprakqr. “the
|xi|x* has insisted that foreign prelates
and prominent Catholics should take up
the adMxatiiig ami defending of his
rights of temporal |x>wer and I lie recent
utterances of Archbishop Ireland and
Cardinal Vaughan amply t stify to this
fact.
“Personalty the duke is not concern-
ed if the |xi|x* has lost his temporal
power. Ho has always lu*en an curli-
est admirer of the I'talian jx*ople and of
their efforts at unity ami |ndeix*m|en<.*e.
His present visit to Rome at the head
of tile English pilgrimage is a kind of
reparation for his and the English Cath
olios negleet during the Holy Year in
the whole courxe of which not mi Eng
lish representation *»J the Catholic chiireh
visited Rome ami the pope.
“As to the effect of any assertion of
the rights of the |«qs* to temporal pow-
er. it is hard to make any prediction.
Perhaps the po|x* wishes that some sort
of foreign pressure lx' exorcisml on the
Italian government to make it relinquish
the dominion of at least the city of
Rome to the Holy Seo. It is persist-
etitly rumored in Home and abnmd that
the ’ outcome of the present agitation
will be fhc definition of the. necessity
of the temporal power of th** po]** as
a dogma of the Ronynn Catholic faith
ami in that case all Catholics will lx*
sibligcd to admit the doctrine and do
their utmost for the return to the pope
as a temporal sovi reignty.
“English Catholi** however do not at
present «*oncern themselves very muck
alxmt such matters unless what I hard-
ly think possible the utterances 4f the
duke of Norfolk in Rome might begin to
stir up English puFilie'opinion. One
thin" is certain however and that is
that la*o XIII will be much pleased that
his wishes have found an echo in the
words of Hie most prominent member
of tin* English nobJTfty.”
RIVAL TO THE ASPHALT TRUST.
Enters the Field With Good South
American Properties.
New York Jan. 10.—The Interna-
tional Asphalt company has ben organ
tzed to fight the National Asphalt com
pany known as the “Asphalt Trust."
R. F. Conway J. F. Reed and J. J.
McCarty are the incorporators. It is
said that -asphalt beds in South Amer-
ica will pass Into control of the new
company which will engage in the im
portation of raw material. The capi
tai stock Is s2oo.iioo.
"Tlie International Asphalt compa-
ny" said Mr. Reed “has been organized
as a rival to the trust. The company
controls a large supply of asphalt in
South America and will engage in the
business of Importing It Such con
tractors as can* to patronize an anti-
trust empany will be supplied with the
raw materia*!. We hope to place as
phalt on the market at a lower figure
than the trust company hs been do-
ing.’>
SOUTHERN b.u4:ball LEAGUE.
('hattanooga. Tenn. Jan. 10. —Presi-
dent R. W. Kent of the Southern Asso-
ciation of B.i*-Kill clubs today appoint-
ed the followTtlg schedule conunitiee:
George RimmL Sbrevepd4 La. chairman;
Samuel .Mills liirmingham. Ala. and
Newt. Fisher. Nashville lenn. Thev
will draft tin* siludule and lx* the sub
je<*L of a called meeting that will lx'
held in Memphis at some future date.
The svhedule will include the following
cities; Atlanta. Biriuingham ('hatta
nooga. Naslnille. New Orleans Shreve-
port. Little Bock and Memphis.
TEIjKIBLE RESULT GF A PANIC.
VauisHivcr. H. tL Jan. 10. —At th** on
nual popular fete of Toshi-no ishi in
Kanda. *listri<4 of Fokio. recently great
crowds attended tho festival and when
the affair was at its height a heavy
rain began. A pani** ensued and t wen
ti persons were crushed to dea-th and
312 injured. Some buildings were burn-
ed by the upsetting of lamps.
COTTON MffllKET.
New York. Jan. it) - The cotton mar-
ket o|x*ned steady with prices 3 points
higher to 2 points lower and speculation
was sluggish beyond anything of late.
‘ LEGISLATIX E DOINOB
Mal tors at Austin of lxx*ul Interest to
San Atonio.
At Austin yesterday aftqrnoon the
honsc elected Mrs. S. M. Franklin of
Bexar county postmistress.
Iu drawing tor seats the San Antonio
delegation in the house were so fortu-
nate as to get scots close to each other.
Hon. Chris Callag and Hon. John L. Lit
th* sit side by side immediately to the
right of the speaker while Hon. Thomas
A. Rodriguez sits just In front of them.
While they do not directly face the
sjx*aker their pomtions are considered
nboyt as desirable as there are in the
house.
In the senate Hon. Theo. Harris se-
cured a seat in the front row .on the
left side of the main aisle.
Hon. Chris Callan of San Antonio
will probably take the lead on all lalxir
legislation in the house. He is be-
ing urged uy many of his friends for ap-
|xdntniv!it as chairman of committee on
lalxir and if Speaker Prince gives any
thing Io Bexar county It is likely that
Mr. Callan will get that chairmanship.
BOERS BEATEN.
Attacked Jiitehener's Men in Two Places
Recently.
London Jan. lo.— Kitchener semis
news of a serious simultaneous attack
on the nigtit of January 7th by the Re-
publicans ou the British position between
points sixty miles apart -along the line
of the Pretoria ami I.orenzo Marquez
railway. Ilie losses on Ixith .sides were
heavy. According to the reports the
B*x*rs were beaten off after prohmgeil
lighting.
NEWSPAPER MAN DEAD.
New Oili-ans La„ Jan. 10. Major Nat
Burlsink. of the Picayune widely known
as a dramatic entie ami the author of
lh>* humorous column of that pu|ier.
died sikMciiK in a street cur today.
He came here with the United States
army during the civil war ami has been
associated with the Picayune many'
years.
A‘NEW ITEM FROM VICTORIA.
S|Hxdal to the Daily Light.
Victoria Tex.. Jan. 10.—A big land
ileal was consummated yesterday be-
tween J. A. ami A. M. M.'Faddin and T.
D. Wood in which tin* latter sold to the
fo. ier eleven hundred a* res of his Gun
dnhi|x* river pasture. All parties an*
prominent Vi<*t<>ria eockman.
“WORKING" INSURANCE.
New York. Jan. 10.-The Evening
Journal says that warrants have lieen
issmsl for the arrest of foyr persons
acnesed of swindling the Colonial Insur
a nee company of Jersey City by secur-
ing insurance oti the lives of |iersons
about to die and other methods.
COLD WEATHER PROMISED.
AVnsliington. D. C.. Jan. 10. —Weather
forecast for Eastern Texas;. Fair in
the north occasional rains in the south
portion tonight and Friday. Colder in
the northern and central |x>rtions except
the extreme northwest northerly winds
fresh to brisk on the coast.
CERA ERA MAY DIE.
Madrid. Jan. 10.—A dispatch from
Puerto Ileal near Cadiz where Admiral
Cervera is lying ill. says his condition
Ims grown worse and recovery js almost
hopeless.
S. P. EARNINGS.
San Francisco Cal. Jan. 10. —The An-
nual rejairt of the Southern Pacific for
the year ended June .'lotli last shows
that the nirplus for tbe year reached
57.253.420. For the year before the sur-
plus was $4477975. The gross earnings
were $H44(N1J125 net income f24470<V13.
PRESIDENT BETTER.
Washington. 1). C. Jan. 10. —The pres-
ident passed a good night and is distinct-
ly better. No complications of any kind
have developed and everything is pro-
gressing satisfactorily.
BILL ANENT KIDNAPPING
A RESUME OF THE GREAT CHAR-
LIE ROSS ABDUCTION.
Senator Plunkett Says He has Facts
in the Case Not Published —He Tells
of Mosher's Connection With It—
How Charlie Ross Was Drowned in
the Bay.
’Albany. N. Y. Jan. 10. —Senator
Plunkett of Manhattan last night in-
troduced in the senate a bill to punish
kidnapping of children under 16 years
of age .by fixing the limit of punish-
ment for such an offense at 25 years.
Senator Plunkett said he had tacts
in his possession concerning the ab
duction of Charlie Ross in 1874 which
had never been published.
The abductors of Charlie Ross wore
New York river thieves Mosher and
his companion. The wagon in whjch
Ross was carried away was hired’ in
New York by Mosher and driven to
Philadelphia so as to prevent any pos-
sible discovery of the offenders. >
The wagon was driven/about thirty
miles out of Philadelphia when Mosh
er and his companion accompanied
by their victim took passage on the
trains to New York. Fedr kept Charlie
Ross quiet. Ross was taken on one of
the Mosher craft and finally to prevent
detection Charlie was thrown over-
board In the bay after being tied to
Iron so as to sink and make coming to
the surface impossible.
Mosher never claimed his projerty
for fear of being charged with com-
plicity. When Mosher was shot w hile
attempting to rob the Van Brunt man
sion at Bay Ridge he attempted to ex-
plain the Charlie Rose affair but death
came as soon as the name pssed his
Ups.
SUBSCRIPTION f 5 A YEAR IN ADVAN<
CHINESE TROOPS ON DRILL
THERE ARE 85000 WITH MODERN
ARMS AT SIAN FU.
Feeling There is Intensely Anti-For-
eign—Chinese Think They Csn Meet
the Allies in the Field —Chins Makes
an Additional Grant to Russia.
Pekin Jan. 10. —A Chinaman from
Sian Fu where the court Is at present
says that within the city 85.000 Chi-
aud the majority of them are armed
with modern rifles. He says that the
feeling of the people here Is bitterly
anti-foreign and that they believe
that the can meet the allies in the
open fight and defeat them.
The ministers are considerably as-
tonished over the Chinese grant to
Russia of a concession north of the
Pei Ho st Tien Tsin. as compart'd with
British and French concessions com
bined. The grant according to tht
services in endeavoring to bring abou«
peace. The ministers think that the
concession constitutes good pay when
considered In addition to the annexa-
tion of all Manchrfa.
I.i Hung Chang believes that h<l
will receive a favorable reply regard-
ing the signing of the agreement to-
morrow. Senor Corogan the Spaw
ish minister thminks that negotiations
will commence at Pekin possibly end
ing in Europe.
R ACE TROUBLE IMMINENT.
Indianapolis Jan. 10.- The sequel to
tin* attimint made by u mob of white
men to drive from Newburgh Warrick
county a negro whose wife is alleged
to lie n white woman may lie an attempt
to lynch the negro. Tlie negro moved
into the village n few days ago. The re-
port that his" wife was a white woman
aroused indignation hind he was ordered
to leave lb* ri'fnsi’d to obey the order
ami a crowd of thirty or forty whites
went to his house and Commanded him
to come out. The negro tired at the
whites and the shooting became general.
Sixty shots were tired but noboily was
wOunded. The mob finally retired. Tlie
sheriff of Warrick county went to th\
seem* of the trouble ami unsuoeessfully'
urged the negro to have the hitter de-
claring that he would stay in his house.
The negroes of Newburgh have congre-
gated nt the cabin heavily armed ex-
pecting an attack.
ANDRE'S WILL.
Vienna Jan. 9.—-Prof. Andre's wilt
which he gave instructions should lx'
olM'Ded at the end of 1900 in case he had
not returned from his balhxtn expedi-
tion to the north mile has been read.
It is accompanied by a series of letters
from prominent scientists encouraging
him in his dangerous enterprise and one
from MJh'fouvieHe. warning him against
it. On this letter Andre had written in
|x*iK'il “It is possible he may lie right
but now too late. 1 have made all my
preparations."
THE WEATHER.
San Antonio Texas. Jan. 10. —l/oezl
forecast for San Antonio and vicinity
till 8 p. m Friday: Colder and cloudy
with occasional rain.
Washington D. C„ Jan. 10. —General
forecast for Eastern Texas till 8 p. m.
Friday: Fair in north occasional rains
in south portion tonight and Friday.
Colder in north anil central portions ex-
cept extreme northwest.
CURRENT WEATHER CONDITIONS.
Except clear weather in Colorado
Oklahoma West and Northwest Texas
it is generally cloudy in the districts
comprising the region of reports with
rain in Mississipp and now in Minne-
sota.
In tlie Mississippi valley it is 2 degrees
to IS degrees warmer than it was at
the corresponding hour Wednesday. In
the other districts it is 2 to 26 degrees
colder freezing temwratures existing as
far south as north Texas. The extremes
are 66 degrees at New Orleans and —l4
at Bismarck. During the past twenty-
four hours precipitation occurred in por-
tions of Arkansas .Illinois. Kansas
I/ouiaiana. Mississippi Missouri. Minne-
sota Nebraska Oklahoma and Texas:
in excess of an inch in Arkansas East
Texas and Mississippi. The air pressure
is greatest over Hie region west of the
hikes and the Mississippi valley with de-
tarhed areas of low barometer over the
lower Rio Grande valley ami the lake
region.
ALLEN BUELL Observer.
RAILROAD RESERVE SUIT.
School Board Will Prosecute It to tlie
the Bitter End.
The schixil board had a six-eial meet-
ing this morniug at 111 o’cio«*k in the
office of Superintendent J. E. Smith in
the city hall for the jwrpoae of discuss-
ing ami taking nctiun on the railroad
reserve suit which was decided against
them in Judge Brookes' court yesterday.
After hearing the statement df Col.
R. B. the Ixiard's attorney and
carefully considering tin* matter the
mcniN'is of the Ixiard decided unani-
mously to proapeute the vase to the bit-
ter end ami take it into the highrst
court.
There were present at the meeting
Trustees Ogc. Cliujm Goggnn. Groox
and l’amsiast. Attorney Minor. Superin
teudiMt Smith miml Secretary' Cunning
ham.
EARLY MORNING FIRE.
New Two-Ston" Unoccupied Residence
Burned on Tobin Hill.
A telephone message to central lire
alarm station at 3:15 this morning call
ed the frt deimrtment to the corner
of Lewis and Poplar streeta Tobin Hill
where a new two story frame and brick
veneer residence wax on fire.
About the time the alarm from box
162 was sent in by tfie oper * • aatue*
laxly pulled box 38 for this sa c are.
The t'remen arrived in .ho* order
worked hard and soon hail tm* I met
under control but not before Ik* mtirn
second story in which the ilames or-
iginated. had liven destroyed.
The house hud not yet been occupied
ami the flames were of <:purse of in-
cendiary origin.
The firemen could not learn the nanio
of the owner.
. THE CARNEGIE LIBRARY. *
*
Public Improvement Committee Dis.
cussed Plans Today.
The city council public Improvement
licommlttze held a meeting at 10 o'clock
this morning and discussed tbe fire
proof features of the new Carnegie Li-
brary building with Architect Wahren-
berger and Sontractor Clemens. A.
Mr. Franklin representing a flreproof-
ing company was before the committee
and explained his system.
JACKSONIANSIRRECULAR
*
JUDGE LEWY'S COMMITTEE IB
HELD TO BE REGULAR.
■ * -a
This by State Chairman Wells But Ha
Doubts His Right to Decide the
Question.
In reply to a letter of City Democrat-
ic Chairman A. ae to whether
his or the Jackson club committee is
the regular city Qeinocratic commit-
tee state Chairman J. B. Wells says:
Brownsville Tex. Jan. 6. —Hon. A.
Jai'wy Chairmat . etc. San Antonio
Tex.—My dear sir: Your letter of thq
28th ult which was received by me
on the 3rd Inst. has received my very
careful consideration. In it you en-
close me what purports to be a copy
of the proceedings of the organization
of the Democratic party for the City of
San Antonio in mass meeting held at
Hie old convention hall on the even-
ing of Noy. 26 1900 and request my
’“l'iling" based upon said proceedings
upik the following two propositions:
“174 s this committe (that elected at
said of Nov. 26 1900)
the duly eleKkg'd city Democratic com-
mittee the l>f
"2. Is any other committee author-
ized to act and call Democratic pri-
maries under the law?"
Upon your statement of the mattery
at issue and the said mass meeting
proceedings of Nov. 26 1900. there iJ
no doubt but that under well estab-
lished parliamentary rules:
1. The executive commitee elected
at sajd mass meeting was duly elec-
ted. and is the Democratic executive
committee for the city of San Antonio.
. 2. No other executive committee is
authorized to act and call Democratic
primaries for the Democracy of said
city. ■*
And such should unquestiom blj be
and is my ruling and deci.' *>n; pro-
vided always that as chairtr of tho
Democratic executive * *inmit»
tee I have any jurisdiction in la. mat-
ter tq make tmeh ruling or decision.
But this I very seriously doubt as I
know of no precedent for such a rul-
ing. and in addition 1 have never
known of an instance where sucn
“city" Democratic organization organ-
ized etc. solely for the purpose of cre-
ating so to speak a party organlza.
tion etc. for such city has ever been
recognized or permitted representa-
tion in any Democratic district or
state convention. In other words it is
purely local and not a part of or con-
nected with any such precinct count
or district organization as under long
established usage forms part of the .
party organization throughout the
state of which I am now chairman.
Under our established Democratic sys-
tem of organization there are county
executive committees and a chairman
of such committee chosen at regulat
intervals by duly called county Dem-
ocratic conventions or mass meetings
composed of delegates duly chosen for
such purpose by each of the Democrat-
ic precinct conventions or organiza-
tion of any such county and all dele-
gates to any state congressional ju-
dicial. senatorial or representative
conventions aro chosen or elected at
county conventions and this so
far as I know or am Informed is the
full extent of our Democratic state or-
ganization in its different subdivisions
or branches.
I regret exceedingly that any such
question has arisen among the Denin-
crats of your city and have made my-
self thus plain in the hope that yourself
and committee will be able to heal all
such dissensions as exist and that
there will henceforth lie a Democrats
party and but one true Democrats
party in your city.
Let me add that I have received
from the Hon. Frank H. Bushick mem*
ber of the state executive committed
and Democratic chairman of the Twen-
ty-fourth senatorial district a state-
ment of the facts of the case coinrid jjj
ing fully with those given by you. ■■
reply to which I have malb*d to hltnflH
copy of this my communication to yjm.
Believe me very truly your*.
JAMES B. WEMA
Chairman State Democratic ExecqHvq
Committe.
Mr. I*Wy will rail hi- committe*-' to-
grther at one: »ml a plun ot a* non f-T
the coining city campaign will be * i h*l
on. A full city ticket to he *ii >te l
at a mas.* me I ing will very like’. Is»
the result with Mayor Hick* at it* head
and Mr. J#w» s» on*' of the raiafMatra
for aldermetrat large.
J. C. Houston and H. 11. King "i Flo-
rrmille are in the city and arn g*w-t4
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