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THE STARKVILLE NEWS.
VOLUME I.
IMJM lit
Mr. Bowen Will Not Entertain
Proposals for Division Made
by the Powers.
THE DIFFERENCES ARE GROWING WIDER.
Venezuela Willing to Submit Ques
tion of Freferentlal Treatment to
The Huxnr Tribunal, with the Un
derstanding: the Blockade Must
Be Raised Fending Settlement.
Washington, Feb. 3. —Herbert W.
Bowen, Venezuela's representative in
the negotiations at Washington for
a settlement of the claims against
that country, has sent through the
British ambassador here what
amounts practically to an ultimatum
to the allied powers of Great Britain,
Germany and Italy regarding their in
sistence for preferential treatment in
the settlement of their claims against
Venezuela. This note, which the
British ambassador received shortly
before nine o’clock Monday night,
was cabled at once to London, copies
of it being transmitted to the Italian
and German embassies for transmis
sion to Rome and Berlin. It is in re
ply to the proposition submitted at
,a joint conference of the negotiators
Monday afternoon by the British am
bassador urging that the allied pow
ers be allowed two-thirds of 30 per
cent, of the customs receipts of the
ports of La Guayra and Porto Cabel
lo, and that the United States and
the other claimant nations. France,
Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Spain
and Norway and Sweden, content
themselves with the remaining one
third of this per centage, that is ten
per cent, of the receipts of these
ports.
A Point Blank Refusal.
In the note received by the British
ambassador from Mr. Bowen, Monday
night, the latter refuses point blank
the proposition for a 20 and 10 per
cent, division, on the ground that to
recognize the principle it embodies
would be absolutely offensive to mod
ern civilization. In view of the fad
that the negotiators are agreed on
all save the question of preferential
treatment, the ambassador is in
formed that Venezuela has decided to
submit that question to The Hague
arbitration tribunal. The acceptance
of this proposition, Venezuela con
tends, carries with it a raising of the
blockade,, the general understanding
being that the blockade would end
when the negotiators at Washington
had reached an agreement.
A Xow Doctrine.
It is understood that in refusing
this last proposition submitted by the
British ambassador on behalf of the
allies, Mr. Bowen takes the ground
that he can not accept in principle
the contention that blockades and
bombardment of forts, and the con
sequent killing of helpless women
and children, entitles any power or
alliance of powers to preferential
treatment at the ha T ’ds of a civilized
nation. It is claimed that should the
peace powers and the blockading
powers agree to such a principle they
would incorporate in the law of na
tions a doctrine in conflict with the
“tenets of all modern day ethics.
Bo>vn'.s Position Indorsed.
Whether the allies will accept as
final what Mr. Bowen has had to say
or will assume a conciliatory attitude
and ask, as has been suggested both
by Mr. Bowen and by the representa
tives of the allies ir. this city, for a
preferential treatment for a limited
period, no one in Washington feels
•competent to predict. The position
taken by Mr. Bowen, it is stated, has
received the indorsement of all the
nnallied , claimant nations, in Which
number is included the United States.
DEFEAT OF THE PRETENDER.
It Was Brought About By the De
fection of the Beni Onreina
Tribe—A Stubborn Fight.
4
Tangier. Morocco, Feb. 3.-f The de
tails of the sultan’s victory, Thurs
day, over the forces of the pretender
show that the battle was stubbornly
contested, and that the former’s suc
cess was largely due to the co-opera
tion, at a critical moment, of the
Beni Oureins tribe, w r hose defection
from the rebels the sultan had pre
viously purchased. The sultan’s ar
tillery, which was commanded by the i
minister of y/^r t £1
STARKVILLE, MISS., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1903.
ed of eight Maxims and four Krupps.
The sultan's troops opened the at
tack early in the morning and shortly
after the pretender’s camp was as
sailed in the rear by the Beni
Oureins. In spite of the surprise and
disadvantages of position the rebels
stubbornly maintained their ground
and desperate fighting continued for
three hours. The slaughter was very
great. The remnants of the rebel
army then .broke, abandoned the
camp and fled in the direction of
Ta/a. The imperial troops are pur
suing.
MANY PERISH IN A FIRE.
Eleven Women anil Children of a
|finnhh Colony on Muleolm Isl
and Burned to Death.
Seattle, Wash., Feb. 3. —A special to
the Times from Vancouver, B. C.,
says: Thursday evening witnessed a
grim tragedy with dire results to the
Finnish settlers on Malcolm island,
some distance up the coast from Van
couver. Fire broke out while the men
were at a meeting, in a common liv
ing house in which 24 families lived.
Eleven women and children were
burned to death and 17 injured.
There was no water supply and the
crowd gathered around the blazing
building could do little but watch the
women and children burn to death.
Several children were thrown from
the house at their feet, and a num
ber of women leaped from the second
story of the doomed hotel, receiving
severe injuries.
, Killed by Jealous Lover.
Eckrnan, W. Va., Feb. 3.—Mary. Will
iams was shot and killed here by
James Whitcomb, a miner. They had
been lovers for months, and Whit
comb, becoming Jealous of her, while
returning home from church Sunday
night, shot her dead. He escaped to
the woods and has not yet been cap
tured.
Killed by a Policeman,
Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb. 3.—While
endeavoring to arrest thr <i e men sus
pected of attempting to hold up the
store of J. S. Morrison, early Monday
evening. Policeman Heath, shortly
before midnight, shot and instantly
killed an unidentified man and,.was
himself severely wounded in the leg.
For the Loyal Croek*.
Washington, Feb. 3, —The senate
committee on Indian affairs has
agreed to favorably report an amend
ment to the Indian appropriation bill.
1 providing for the payment of $1,200,-
000 to the ('reek Indians who served
loyally in the union army during Ike
civil war.
Castro's Troops Defeated,
New York. Feb. 3. —A dispatch from
Willemstad, island of Curacao, says
that President Castro’s troops have
met with a defeat at the hands of
J the Venezuelan revolutionists
Well-Known Illinoisan Dead.
Chicago, Feb. 3. —Warren L. Wheat
on, aged 91, founder of the town in
Illinois bearing his name, died in his
home at Wheaton, on Sunday night.
Mr. Wheaton was a trustee of Wheat
on college, a former member of the
I Illinois legislature and widely •known
i throughout the state.
Illness of Ex-Senutor Dawes.
Pittsfield, Mass., Feb.' 3. —Ex-Sena-
tor Henry L. Dawes is critically ill as
the result of a cold which has devel
oped into grip.
A Present for Gen. Gordon.
New Orleans, Feb. 3. —At the ex
confederate reunion here in May,
(len. John B. Gordon, the veteran
j commander-in-chief, will be presented
j with a beautiful blood bay horse, 15%
hands high, six years old. without
blemish and perfectly trained and
gaited.
Hon. John D. Lons Improving.
Boston, Feb. 3. —The condition of
former Secretary of the Navy Long
showed continued improvement early
Monday and was in every way
factory to the physicians-
Presidential Nominations.
Washington, Feb. 3. —The president,
Monday, sent the following nomina
tions to the senate: Postmasters —
Illinois: Wm. McMeekin, Galva; Ed
ward D. Cook, Piper City. Missouri:
David B. Ormiston, Linneus; Thomas
Sharp, Weilsville.
Hubbard T. Smith Improving;.
Paris, Feb. Gow
dy has advices from Genoa saying
*that the illness of Hubbard T. Smith,
the vice and deputy consul-general at
Cairo, has taken a favorable turn and
that he continues tp iggrove,
STOCK TRAINS WRECKED.
Two Men Killed. Eleven Injured and
Five ('nrlonilM of Slock Con
sumed By Fire.
Chicago, Feb. 3. —Two men were
killed, five seriously injured and six
others slightly hurt in a rear-end col
lision of east-bound stock trains on
the Illinois Central at Cloverclale
Monday.
The dead: William Poston, Marcus,
la.; Jackson, fireman.
Seriously injured: Zeriek Scott,
Charles Bass, Frank Wint, all of Mar
cus, la.; George Billings, Louis Dun
can, Claighorn, la.
Slightly injured: R. D. Loncks, Lar
rabee, la.; flcorge Hooper, Marcus,
la.; James Thompson, Marcus, la.; J.
T. Mahan, Lemars, ia.; M. T. Wells,
Marclis, la.; Benedict McGoldrick,
conductor.
All but the conductor and fireman
were stockmen.
The collision occurred In a dense
fog, which'prevented the engineer of
the second train from seeing the
train ahead until almost upon it.
The wreckage caught fire and the
caboose and five cars of stock were
consumed.
A BOLD BRITISH FRAUD.
He Won a *ll**ourl <ilrl Without
“Sliouina” Her anti Sow She
lx Repeating.
St. Louis, Feb. T—“ Lieutenan
t the lion. F. Seymour Harring
ton” was ordered back to bis cell in
the Fourth district polled station at
Seventh and Carr streets Monday
morning.
“The prisoner will be granted the
privilege of cabling to King Edward,*’
remarked Judge Daniel O’Connell
Tracy, graciously, as The pretended
nobleman was led back to the station
cage. The announcement did not
seem to cheer his bogus lordship.
“Barring! off” recently married,
after a brief courtship. Miss Wilhel
mina Cochrane, daughter of a Kan
sas City meat packer, who was visit
ing' her sister in St. Louis, who be
lieved all the fairy stories told her
about the position and great expecta
tions of the colonel. Her brother
smelled a rn'onse and proceeded to in
vestigate, and finding out the truth,
started in to castigate the gay de
eeiver, with the result of a ease in the
police court,
RIOTS AT SOUTH BEND, IND.
Citizens Take Sides with Strikers
and Cause a Street Car Company
to Suspend Operations.
South Bend, liul., Feb. 3. —Riots and
violence have followed as a result of
the strike of the inotonnen and con
ductors of the Indiana Railway Cos.
Between two and three thousand resi
dents of the west end gathered in
South Chapin street, Monday, and
forced the street car company to
cease operations, but not before one
car had been badly damaged. Big
car doors from the Lake Shore rail
road were spiked to the tracks and
all kinds of rubbish piled in the
street to impede traffic. Cars were
stoned on South Michigan street.
Portage and LaSalle avenues. A shot
was tired from a car on La Salle ave
nue. A cable was stretched across
the company’s track just this side of
Elkhart, and when an east-bound car
struck it every glass in the forward
vestibule was broken.
PREFER TO STAY IN JAIL.
Man ami Wife in Smith Center, Kas.,
Give Bond but Fear Lynching If
They Leave tbe Jail.
Topeka, Kas., Feb. 3.—A special to
the State Journal from Smith Center
says that Albert Jordan and wife, El
len Jordan, who are charged with the
murder of a • four-year-old nephew,
were given a preliminary hearing and
bound over to the district court.
In lieu of a bond the defendants de
posited SIB,OOO in cash. Although free
to go from the jail, Mr. and Mrs. Jor
dan remain, • for fear, it is said, of
lynching. It is. alleged that the de
fendants beat the child crlielly and
committed other acts toward it which
caused death.
Sadden Death.
Santiago, Chili, Feb. 3.—The Ger
man minister to Chili, Count \an
Stell-Rudenhauseu, died suddenly
Monday. *
Mill IIS.
Artistic Park Arrangement Around
the State Building Sites at
the World’s Fair.
A ___________
ORDER BEIN6 EVOLVED OUT OF CHAOS.
PlnnN for a TVnmhrr of Stnt& Ilnild-
Ihkn Have Already Bern Submit
ted and hm Fast ha They Are Ap
proved They Are Added to the
Ground Flat.
World's Fair Grounds, St. Louis,
Feb. 3.—Director-of-Works Taylor,
through his landscape -department,
has formulated an artistic park ar
rangement for the buildings to be
erected on the Plateau of States by
the state and territorial governments.
As the allotments were made daring
Allotment, week the sites of the
structures were located in what
seemed to be a helter-skelter man
ner, but the locations were made with
reference to the contours. The build
ings were always located on the high
ground, leaving the valleys and de
pressions in the ground unoccupied.
The problem which Mr. Taylor had
to adjust was to map out around
these buildings a system of walks
that would make an agreeable park
effect. The landscape department has
accomplished this end and has begun
driving stakes on the grounds to
mark the road lines.
The principal feature of the layout
is a plaza almost in the center of the
state group. This plaza, which will
be of considerable extent, will be
beautified with gardens, vases and
probably statuary. The axis of this
plaza runs parallel with the steel
picket fence along the eastern edge
of the grounds. The in
platting the roads took the center
axis of the government building as
the starting point. The Missouri
building stands on an elevation im
mediately back of the Government
building, which is reached by a ter
race so steep as to require steps.
The layout as devised by Director
of-AYorks Taylor utilizes the old park
roads which follow the contours log
ically. New roads are added to bal
ance the old roads. Jhe principal
problem solved by the director of
works was to make the layout artistic
without changing the allotment of
the states. The problem also consist
ed of supplying a fine frontage on
a main thoroughfare for every one
of the state buildings..
Plans for a number of the state
buildings have already been submit
ted to the director of works for ap
proval. In all of these cases the archi
tects have been requested to furnish
the ground plans of their buildings
drawn to the same scale as the ex
position map. The ground plan lines
are to be inserted on the Plateau of
States as fast as they are received.
The plat now contains Missouri, Illi
nois and -owa. . .
NEW FRENCH AMBASSADOR.
M. Jnsserand, Suceesnor to M. Cam
boa. Hat* Half Hoar’s Chat
With Secretary Hay.
Washington, Feb. 3.—M. Jusserand,
the new French ambassador, who ar
rived in Washington Saturday night,
called at the state department, Mon
day. accompanied by M. Boeufve, the
chancellor of the French embassy.
The ambassador speaks English per
fectly and had half an hour’s private
conversation with Secretary Hay. No
date has yet been fixed for his pre
sentation at the While House, but this
will not take place before the middle
of the week, according to the present
plan.
UNION VETERANS’ UNION.
The National Encampment of th
Order to Be Held at Spring
field, 0., February 10.
Springfield, 0., Feb. 3. —Two hun
dred veteran soldiers from all over
the United States will attend the na
tional encampment of the Union Vet
erans’ union, which will be held here
February 10. The purpose of the en
campment is the reorganization of
the union under the original consti
tution. James Hutchinson, ©f New
York, heads the movement, which
grew out of the disagreement at the
last national encampment at Wash
ington, D. C. v-
NUMBER 49.
FIFTY MIDDIES GRADUATE,
Another Batch of Officers Turned Out
From Uncle Mam’s Naval Acad
emy at AnnapolU.
Annapolis, Md., Feb. 3. —The 50 mid
shipmen of the class of 1903 received
their diplomas on Monday from the
hands of Secretary of the Navy
Moody, and became full-fledged offi
cers of the American navy. The cere
monies toMok place in the new armory.
The midshipment assembled in front
of the barracks and marched to the
armory, where a large crowd had as
sembled to witness the ceremonies.
On the stage wwre Superintendent
Brownsop, Commander Colahan, com
mandant of cadets; Commander Ben
son, Chaplain Clark, Rear-Admiral
Taylor, Secretary Moody, Assistant
Secretary Darling, the members of
the academic board and Vice-Admiral
Lord Charles Beresford, of the En
glish navy. Chaplain Clark opened
the ceremonies with prayer and was
followed by Superintendent Brown
son, who made a few remarks to the
midshipmen, in which he gave the
boys much wholesome advice, espe
cially about the handling of men un
der them, lie said to them to'be kind
and considerate, but firm to the en
listed men, as no man could be a
great leader unless there was a bond
of sympathy with the men he com
manded. He then introduced Secre
tary Moody, who made the gradua-,
tion address.
Mr. Moody's Remarks.
Mr. Moody spoke in part as follows:
“I regret the enforced absence of
your commander-in-chief. President
Roosevelt, but he charged me to de
liver to you his best wishes and his
hope and confidence in your stern de
votion to duty. You are now enter
ing upon another stage as officers of
the navy, in the most interesting
stage of its development. At this time
there is no war, no War is in sight,
and let us pray that there will be no
war. But our people have at least
Teamed the truth of the immortal
Washington’s advice, ‘The way to pre
set e peace is to prepare for war.’
“In the future you belong entirely
to your country. You have traditions
of those gone before, and herein yon
have a great advantage over your
forefathers who served in your coun
try’s service. These splendid tradi
tions,. from the days of John Paul
Jones to the recent past, echo down
the corridors of time, shedding a
glory upon the country’s history
which you are expected to uphold.
The splendid services on both sides
during the civil war are now* the
common heritage of all Americans.
The noble deed of Cushing and the
heroic action of the confederate sea
men in the improvised submarine
boat in the harbor of Charleston, be
long now as much to the nor til as to
the south."
Secretary Moody then presented the
diplomas to the graduates.
At night the exercises culminated
in the annual grand ball, which was a
brilliant social success.
WAS CORDIALLY RECEIVED.
Lieut.-Gen. Miles Talks Pleasantly
of His Visit to Ivinj; Edward
at Windsor Cnstte.
London, Feb. 3. —Lieut.-Geit. Miles,
who returned here from, Windsor,
Monday, said to a press representa
tive:
“The kiny received me most cor
dially, recalled pleasant memories of
our visit here at the time of the ju
bilee and spoke as friendly as ever
of America. He showed keen interest
in the far east, on which subject I
was able to give him information.
Altogether it was a most pleasant
visit.
“The king said he hoped the prince
and princess of Wales would be able
to visit America. Nothing, however, •
is definitely settled.’”
Gen. Miles declined to discuss either
the Venezuelan or the Philippine
questions.
OLD “SPY OAK” DOOMED.
The Larges* Tree in Biew York,
Which Has a History, Con
demned as Unsafe.
New York, Feb. 3. —“Spy Oak,” said
to be the largest tree in New York
state., standing on the Pelham road,
Westchester, has been condemned as
unsafe and will probably &oon be cut
down, it having become hollow and
in danger of falling.
It is said that many spies and de~
serters were hanged from Us
branches in