Atlanta Constitution, The (Newspaper) - February 16, 1898, Atlanta, Georgia HOUSE I RES ous Turkish easy in and cottage ear V3 ERS t Metal for cu. Broad Sfc of All ird 13th.' DEPART TO 530am acon 5 80 am oon t TO mm am 8 30 am aot 220 put 3 pm 40Spm 750 pm 900am TO 815 3 39 r 800oi pltt 2 30 our t 4 25 put 5 35pBB 20 pm 1125pm WT bint 00 am ap at TO 310 pm 8 15 pm 1........1135] 7 es for Press your tl 1898. SHIP MAI IE S -T- Tin mm Kills and Cripples Oner One Hundred Men Who Weie Enlisted Under the Doited States Anchored in Waters at FAR UNKNOWN Spanish Cruiser Kill in Rescuing JILL THE SHIP WERE ASLEEP Entire City Was Shaken by Force of the but So Par ITo Cause Can Be Assigned for the Terrible Accident to the February a quarter to 1O o'clock this evening a took place on board the States battleship Maine in Havana Many are killed or All the boats of the Spanish cruiser Alfonso TTTT are As yet the cause of. the explosion is not i i The wounded sailors of the are unable to explain it. It is be- the cruiser is totally The explosion the whole The windows were broken in all the correspondent of the Associated he has conversed with eral of the wounded sailors and under- stands from them that the explosion took place were asleep so they can give no particulars as to the i Excitement Is Tha consternation prevails in The wharves are crowded with thousands of It is believed the occurred In a email powder At a quarter of 11 o'clock what remains oc the Maine Is still Captain and other officers have been Is estimated that over 100 of the crew were tout It is sible as yat to give exact Admiral Manterola has ordered that boats ot all kinds should go to the assistance of Maine and her The Havana firemen are giving tending to the wounded as they are brought on It is a terrible General Solano and the other generals have ordered by Captain General Blanco to take steps to help the Maine's crew in every way The correspondent of the Associated Press has been near the Maine In one of the boats of the cruiser Alphonso XIII and seen others of the who orate the statement of those first Inter- that they were already asleep when the explosion Captain Sigsbee says the curred in the bow of the Me re- a wound in the Orders wero elven to the other officers to eave selves as best they The who were literally thrown from their bunks 5n their night gave the necessary orders with great self-possession and At the Maine continues The first theory was that there had been Preliminary explosion to the Santa with powder or dynamite the Admiral Manterola Relieves the first of a grenade shell that was hurled over the navy SENDS A wounded doubtless and Wounded on board Spanish man Ward line Sen killed and others and a lighthouse tenders from Key West for crew few pieces of equipment Ho one had other those upon opinion should till further All suspended officers be- to be Jenk ns and ri tt not yet accounted i Spanish 1' tives of General i ow me and express The officers to in aboVe dis- patch Lieutenant d Jenkins and Assistant Engineer in R. from the of the dispatch the navy department thinks it ii that at t me of the received an- t at the same were louse tenders West in plain delay that use of secretary of the nav other dispatch from Key We time with the j but its dot made orders the at once sent to Key thus avoiding t have arisen from ti still above clothes than THE OFFICE Sears from Com- Who Asks February secretary 01 navy received the following m blown up in. Havana harbor o'clock and Many Battleship of the Secord Class Re- gardei as One of Best in February 13.- Maine is a battleship of the second c ass is re- garded as one the ships in the new She was built at the lyn navy yard and Is 318 feet feet b 21.6 mean draught and tons She carries four 10-inch six 6-inch breech loading guns in her main battery and seven and eii ht rapid fire guns and four f in her battery and fcur The officers of the Maine besides Com- mander Lieutenant Commander Richard I lieutenant George F. Lieutenant John Lieutenant Carl W. THE Lieutenant Junior Grade John T. Friend W. Naval Cadets Jonas H. Wat Amon Jr. Surgeon G. Paymaster Charles W. Chief Engineer Charles P. Passed Assistant Engineer Frederick Assistant Engineers John R. Morris Darwin R. Naval Cadets Arthur f Chaplain John P. First Lieutenant Marines Albertus Boatswain Francis B. Gunner Joseph Carpenter George SEC. RECEIVES THE Navy Department Declines To Discuss the February Long received Captain Sigsbee's but a few minutes before the Associated Press dispatches from Havana were hi ad- ed i He received the news with apparent cs C. and W. 1m, his first act was comply with Cap- request that assistance bo sent Key He immediately wired Captain at Key West to proceed with the naval tender Fern to vana Secretary Long then sent for Cap and the two discussed Cap ain Sigsbee's brief No other naval officers were present and besides the secretary and Captain the naval colony hero is Ignorant ot this greatest which has befallen the navy the Apia many years The secretary is inclined to believe hat of the officers of the Maine wen on was the secretary nor Captain Dickens are Incl to discuss the probable cause of the suggestions were ventured They believe that it may have caused by a fire in the bunkers the bulkhead near a or that an cident may have occurred while Inspecting high explosives for Of co irse this is mere speculation and thp secre is anxiously waiting a more detailed port from Captain Later the secretary sent another shore at tho time of the as it still early in the While neither gram to Key directing that the dcr Mangrove also be sent j alist Executive Committee Signs an Means Complete Co-Operation of the Silver UNITED ACTION IS Enemies Criticise the but Approve HARMONY SORE SUCCESS Gold Standard Forces Are To Swept Control of the House Next Clear That Silver Will Hold February and men have since 388fi, been engaged In an effort to stir up strife in democratic ranks are now endeavoring to make much of a letter written by Mr. Bryan In last Sunday's New York and the meaning of which for the purpose in greatly The letter is 'a sensible statement of the efforts that will be made to take the next congress away from the party which stands for the gold There is nothing more it than but the fellows who keep barking at the heels of. democracy have taken up cry that Bryan to form a and with thait as their are contending against the man who in all human be the nominee for the dency In the campaign as in tha i Tho Fight pn It alj looks a and parcel of the effort started some time ago to discount the influence of Bryan with his The source of that has been fully In The Constitution as was its and there is abundant evidence that this effort the same source just as it has the same he c of the meaning of Mr. Bryan's latest letter began In the paper wherein it first The Journal's headlines over the article plans a new party to control the ho To be composed of iome republicans and all of congees a A rat acknow would i But a the den He does propose icr it must be containing statements that be startling if reading of the article that leader does nothing of the any new he does not in his calculations exclude any What he does say is that the same forces which worked together in the great of 1896 ought work together perfect mony In the effort to capture the and he argued that it Is the wisdom for those who are battle of silver who Go that or be part o Ing pose the retirement of the who oppose giving the control of the ment currency into the of a great national banking who oppose the Issuance of interest bearing bonds in times of who are opposed to who are to government by who favor arbitration as means tling d sputes between capital a r d and favor an Income the parties which each of demanding the reforms herein outlined should act together In the as they dtl In struggle in the of McKinley and an whose prime purpose Is to the gold standard this country A To go into the any other idea than h silver f Platform Is the Test. The beadlin eluding tlon of Men Will Be To the whole He shows the one side the gold forces will mal he fullest artiest co-operation between the would mean inevitable headlines wouk con elusion that Mr. Bryan In stating proscribes the com- the so-called new the artist puts it some republicans and all AH that can be made out of thit enemies of democracy Is Wen ing and who will not vote for candidates nominated on the party may consider t in. this Mr. Bryan nc thing that can be cousin ed as it is the head does and his cue Is being vigorously followed by others who belong to that class of who are themselves as expressions ot Grover pure from the lips Clevela can haa dlr be expected to agree who cling to tie stuffed of Princeton for their democracy with he for the success of the the Silver forces lead to Iner cates tff the control of con- gress Jrom the bands of men who are with j It Is Being Pnt men f who are true democrats and who voted for the their party last or will lor them this year on the party indorse the plan led by Mr. and It may be stated right here this suggestion ia already being in before it was The election of Senator as chairman of democrat c con- gressional committee meant just such a it tion of the silver forces to secure of- the next the Iocs of the house not to be made possible by internal And the announcement came that tie ulist committee Is headed by r of those who are working for harmony for they that ator Harria to one of the best men in either branch of congress and that he big enough and broad enough to work in mony with the democratic and the silver republican Ana for the latter valiant which Is doing so able work for the either Senator or Congressman of will be at the head of their and In either case the harmony be A Broad The goM forces are To the silver forces act In just as. they are doing through their congressional committees and Mr. Bryan The necessary reforms for which all -are contending and on which all agree form a sufficiently large and I broad basis for perfect The men who fought shoulder to st in the last campaign will to in There is only one for deflection and that is not That comes from the few populist leaders of the have shown a. tendency to sacrifice principle to It Is ble that the only southern populists who have a possibility setting into tiie tional councils through the next elections are acting in harmony with the plan which is set forth I mean of North In most of tjie other southern states the leaders are wandering off in the of the by They are lonesome now and will be infinitely more eo when they the re- sults of this fall's for they will then to realize that they are leaders without The populist masses all They are contending for principle and wilt be found voting tha j forces best to bring about those re- just as their western now Harmony Makes Bright Mr. Bryan has principles make full and complete That co-operation beinig not through through sensible TherA Is no in it. It is union the united forces of the gold and in such co-operation does the cause of the people find The outlook for there are no Internal discords to weaken the PRICE FIVE MILLMEN ARE COMING SOUTH Tbe Amory Has 1 Made the SIM NEW MILL IN ALA. The Head of the Corporation Talks Freely About the SEES IN IT EVERY POSSIBILITY FOR SUCCESS The Conditions of Have So That the South Is Now Making Chairmen of Three Parties Appeal to Voters of the OF ACTION IS ASKED ICE. MEH Party of Fishermen May Be at the of February dumber of estimated between twenty who were fishing I through ica on Lake Efrie several miles the are believed to have lost their lives pr adrift on the ice on A heavy wind from the east caused the ice to break away from the shore and nothing can now be sejen or from the A large rescue party are on way through a blinding snowstorm ur the lake but will not return COMMANDER SIGSBEE is a of the Maine Stands in the Naval February der of the Captain favorite in the navy For four years he was chief of the graphic and by his energy the office up to a high He was lucky a ship j as ths considering his actual which Is that of but he justified the department's judgment in selection by hU ship straight Into a dock In New York harbor to avoid running down a packed was a display of quick .it nerve and pluck that pleaded the ment so highly that the captain iva a. complimentary February Cor- south bus before it such a future in cotton said Mr. Arthur the limit is only bounded by the energy of her This emphatic declaration from one of the leading cotton manufacturers in the union is full ot The name of Amory is one known throughout the manufacturing world and carries with it indorsement wherever it The Amory family has hitherto confined its business to the north and the never having catered to the southern Mr. Arthur interested his colleagues in the building of a cotton ml the Indian it meant the conversion of one of the strongest bulwarks of the manufacturing world of New England to the belief that the ise of the future pointed Mr. Amory was found at his office in 48 Franklin just preparing to make his fortnightly visit to the house of Brown in Now York How He Got Into the I have to said Mr. require any special The manufacturers of are suffering from a condition which admits of many but the fact re- that business is For several in keeping I have been studying the tions were presented by tho From hearing of one or two I began to hear of a great and at length the south became a factor to be considered in any ing over the field n. purely business I became Impressed trie Silver Republicans and Oppose the Cold WR AND JOIN Every American Who Desires the White Metal to Its Is Requested To Fight Under One Flag a Common possibilities of the trade that If the statements made true there was no reason why should not avail themselves of I became convinced that as as certain con- ditions existed would be profit in cotton milling in the Among the advantages which I found those of which made wages go farther than they would in The operative needs heat-producing less ment to guard against can get cheaper has more ground over which to spread and mills may bo better Then the ple who offer for are a desirable well disposed and the purpose ot the February Thp on of the populist and sliver tho ro- of the which in llv of at the for the past wero issued They seek to unite the of throe in elections upon issue us tlie question of para- mount and are to each tlie to ail the lines for this address to democrats is signed Senator K. of chairman of the democratic national and is by the democratic congressional that to the by Senator man of the national and the other of the senate and of the ver Chairman A ami the silver republicans in tiie and anil also by The democratic ip 0.3 the of 10 anu ul is present called power Hipon the solemn pledge ot the republican national convention at St. Louis to promote formulated and sent to congress a j pleased with an opportunity to make For this reason 1 interested my friends In the erection ot n. mill In at just where the hills of the Blue Ridge begin to break toward tbe level plains of This spot was selected be- cause it was the renter of a superior ton belt and because of itK proximity to tho coal Coal is a great and If it lasts it cannot fail build up immense ma Disadvantages while I. thus let me. say are which pass as business be- comes more The great j vantage is the of the railroads I ward the business enterprises started along their railroads are at present i in their especially j the manner in which haul freights are A railroad becomes the mate beneficiary of the business which j grows HP its freight Con- j In this the railroad i must reason a for tiie than the of on Second arable secretary of the treasury is commit tiie country more to the gold country has for twenty-four this partly by law and partly by the usurpations oi the branou of the that its and felt on every Lire work is hard to the weight of debt is value of and older property is or un- til the liver of the people HIV tcr with It Is certainly not in the interest of to have this condition of more thoroughly Tiie in value of which is thu the fali of fer the property of In creators of by brain or to those Iho and of only draw increase of 145 per cent in the value of caused by Its in- creasing from 18O9 to 1849, as admitted by leading advocates of the gold found expression at that time in extremely low conditions of unparalleled dis- ti discovery of In mrn brought in HH UU Hi condition if the been allowed to tin y rt: sufficient l silver in and of would con- had n as In. nearly volume SENATOR JAMES K. As of the National Executive Committee He f money in proportion the di of the fuir was done the of raising tho value of the rendering the supply of scarcer aa com- pared the the hour of consummation of kind han suffered commercial and social distress in almost In- creasing in lo the growth of arts and civilization and expansion of and in- the of the volume Of pold IK its is iis value of. and from a long of declining now and if will ly stifle An President of some years national debt on September 1805, was and three-quarter it could then havs been paid off eighteen million bales of or twenty-five million tons When it tad been reduced to a billion and a thirty million bales of cotton or million tons of iron would have been required to par it. In other while normal shrinkage of about 55 per cent htd taken place in the it as measured in of two actually been enlarged some 5p cent. more than half the principal of debt and every cent of accumulated interest had been paid by the the United the of the bonds hold a claim for morn of the labor of the people than they heM payments This cruel confiscation of the lives and liberty the laboring millions of this country la the most crime that in thp annals of less of by people arid for the has from thb surely the present avowed cot only to but NE
