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The commissioners United States, Colone Bingham. Assistant Sec H. H. D. Pierce and Kodgers, embarked on Dolphin, commanded by The commissioners of Admiral Hig Signal.

The Signal and th I'nite? The THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION. ATLA2TTA. OA. THURSDAY. MAT 22 1902 PAGES.

PRICE: TV VOX. XXX TWAIW CENTS LASH IS UUD ON CCN. MILES Ill BEAUTY 10 TEMPTED MEN I i I I I Initial Ceremonies Take Place at Annapolis in Honor of Rociiambeau Mission, tndjanft, Alabama, Kearsarge and Olympla Thunder Salutes as the French Vessel Comes Up the Message from the President. light house. 5 mllei iw Annapolis.

The Oaulols anchored the Dolphin appeared upon the sc Indiana Gives First Sign. The Indiana, which lay between. ship 1 Frenchmen Welcomed. tant Secretary Pierce spoke on be the government of the I'nlted tJien returned to the Dolphin. In meantime having paid forma' calls the Olympla and Alabama, ater in afternoon the French commlasio made a return call 1 upon the, Amer after which the Dolphin returned to Annapol Is.

CREED REVISION UP TODAY. Northern Presbyterians Will Consider Report of Committeejv sembTy of the the united BUtH gavjJT early part of today, session conaldera McLeod. of wSbtaK D' field and for of many victim, of that cruel and Wgbtlng system of doctrine Time no action 8ab" bath church i i I MBS. JEFFERSON DAVIS. Widow of Confederate President SUngingly Attacks General A.

Miles. BAN IS PLACED ON M'LAURIN Democrats of South Carolina in Convention at Columbia. EW PLEDGE IS ADOPTED FOR THE SENATORIAL RACE hmpathy Expressed for Cotton Mill Employees and Mill Owners Are Condemned Kansas City Platform, Imperialism, Reaffirmed. olunYbm. a May The state dem objects ef the gathering the framing of rules to govern the pfi les In accordance with which candl no Senator Tillman Sympathy for Strikers.

thesolutton expressing sympathy for qui them to stand on the pan welcoming Cuba 1 unkf she applied of her frpe i By standing vote resolutions. im presly read by Senator Tillman, spear, of Wade Hampton's services late ir Senator Tillman wi uponi addressed the The Trust Flank, plank containj the Cam in convention "1. we reaffirm and indorse of principles enunciated by the especstress upon the following sec republican party exercising over legislation and natlo politics, and ability to life regard to the law of supply and end. We condemn the hypocritical ude of the republican leaders who trusts and combines while they (he money obtained from them and eted from the people to debauch the lint voters of the try. reamrm and indorse the corela sections of the Kansas City platfojpon the subject of trusts and stern Gas Men Meet.

Neweana. May XL The twenty Annual convention or the Western association was convened here Thomas Miller, of In bis annual address president said that the associations pledged to state supervision petty ayanefcs of petty, politicians i cdy over. Indianapolis will get NEW MARKETS FOR THE SOUTH McLaurin and Pritchard Tell Asiatic Association They Are Urgently Needed. THIS SECTION IS LOOKING TO MARTS OF THE ORIENT McLaurin Says That if Those Markets Are Closed the South Will Be Explains His Vote on the Exclusion Bill. New Jerk.

May 1 to the toast. "The Open Door to tTc re present, nearly all of whom are ested directly or Indirectly tnAsls Pritchard Praises Roosevelt. Philippines it'contemplate the idea of relinquish our Jurisdiction over those Islands." McLaurin on New Markets. tters affecting light. Wc all see tlonal do nothing but si and Calhoun.

TotheK banquets and hold block. The "rnlted States has learned panding market and The Asiatic market has come Into the field as one of the most prominent factors In the modern commercial problem, and I feel quite sure It has come to etAfter aivlng his opinion that the pas ltv the speaker Continued: conversion of our Chinese trade Importance try ftthe world, and tpis industry In i we had etgh BO.OOO.OOft. and almost all. or at goes directly to cnina. McLaurin on Just before Senator McLaurin concluded his speech he said: "Now that the newspapers have all I care to say publicly.

I haw this explanation to make among ourselves. The reason some southern senators voted as they did on this Chinese question was bees use theyfelt eomew the eouth In some matters we had pending regarding tbe race question. They, therefore, felt It their duty to vote with the coast senators for that reason. I have ft good of the Soldier, DAVIS SHE DENOUNCES MILES AS VULGARIAN AND BOOR Mrs. Davis Says That the Badeau Letter Is ft orgery ana intimates That It Was Bcught by General Miles.

of Badeau, in which a bitter attax lies, luch an expression ised Jo write In those days I tnts only, for I kr I don't of my II Davis nf General Miles, afteir having seen catalogue I did 1 to General Grant at the end or sr. but in person, and my request ot granted. I also Interceded with federal President Johnson, treated me with Jfcnilar dlscour He replied by md's rested 1 I remember when Gen He delighted In teachers and boarding abide his underbreedlng. lntelllgencf was his li He cried niggled for republic. nnd 1 widow) said of vulgarian, id plebe.

IMMIGRATION BILL IN HOUSE. Underwood, of Alabama, in Favor of Educational Test. Washington, May The house began He troduced through Canada and by Canadian railway and steamship Mr. Underwood, of Alabama, gave notice of an amendment to provide an educational test and m.ich ot the discussion during the day was upon 'his subject. tfT.

Vnderword of the growing i citizenship and re of Europe to immigrate until Mi ieclared a grave and thieal tion waa presented. Underwood stating Charles R. The mas from third North Carcllna district; also seat Kmmett Tonpkirs from the twe'fth seat was contest ty John J. 'Lents; also confirming the right of Mr. itnea Virginia Bradbury Piano Factory Burned.

New York. May The Bradbury pl ino factory, in Brooklyn, was destroyed ftre late tonignn iw deal of sj mpathy for i and rather the have voted with them. I would rather plow in a ditch with a one eyed mult down south than to have been the cause of ulai'liie such eaegir oeiore toe western senators. But I couldn't see that such a danger existed, so I voted aa I did with the Aetatic Bodevy." I I GENERAL NELSON A. MILES, Who Is Denounced as Boor, Vulgarian and Flebe by Mrs.

Jefferson Da vis. PEACE COMES ON WAR CLAIM Methodists Settle Question According to Forecast of The Constitution, PREPRATIONS ARE MADE FOR ELECTION OF BISHOPS Only Two Will Be Chosen Today. Some Important Changes Are To Be Made in the Conduct of the Missionary Work. Dallas, Tex May a. The issue which has been regarded the paramount contention in the sessions of the general confersnoe of the Methodist Episcopal Church South since the assembling of that body in Dalh iplrlt.

The principal rt ot the publishing 1 conference, and toil as the McMurray an amended form. which created debate last night and du ing this mornings session. Very few i the delegates seemed perfectly with the wording of the Jordan amen McMurray paper, as a whole, had adopted today, a special committee by vote of the general conference was a thorised to appointed by the blshi presiding, whose duty It shall 'be to was slated 1 sity of the cepttble of day, Bishop pected the i No radical change In the spirit of paiper adopted today Is expected, but tended debate may be precipi tated in tomorrow's consideration of the Debate on War Claim. Both delegates and visitors were stow in assembling today and there were many vacant seats In the auditorium when Dr. Kenny, of the Pacific conference, opened the morning devotional exercises.

After singing, prayer and the approval of the A motion to adopt the McMurray sub etitute was marie. Professor Jordan, whose compromise amendment was adopted last night, rose with new resolutions. They changed slightly the verbiage and the meaning of the matter adopted last night. They were read, tout not offered A motion to lay the whole of the Mutt majority. mbstltute, the Jordan resolution the stole waa defeated toy a big adopt the McMurray reso lution waa made and It waa read again.

The nsndlnc Question was ordered and carried toy a large majority. There were from all parts worded grammatically. Dr. Godbey then moved that a committee of Ave to correct grammatical errors, etc, be appointed and the motion was carried. personal privilege.

loyal Methodist be bowed to the will of to the wffl of the majority. Birmingham. May A violent wind storm followed by a heavy downpour of rain and hail passed over Birmingham at 2:46 o'clock this afternoon, doing considerable damage and causing the death of one boy, the serious Injury of another and the slight Injury of an old GEOBGE BW ANTON, aged li years. Injured: Henry Duncan, aged 10 yeara M. 8.

Cook, ground keeper at ball park. The greatest damage was done at the park, where an entire section ot tho rrand stand was blown away. A crowd he fence Just back of the grand stand 5 substitute jftiS A motion to reconswer we vote oy i JET' th. substitute was adopted was laid 1 BOY IS KILLED AT BALL PARK A Man and Another Youth Are Seriously Injured at Birmingham Grounds. THE FATALITY IS CAUSED BY A VIOLENT WIND STORM Entire Section of the Grand Stand Blown Boys Were Standing Outside the Fence and Were Caught in the Wreckage.

1 7. 7 General General is caught In the to death. Hen. of timber, but his Injuries are not fetal. The other boys escaped without Injury.

When the storm struck the ball grounds a large crowd was en route to the park to witness a game between Birmingham and New Orleans and a serious disaster was averted by the park not being opened to the public before 3 o'clock. Several houses were unroofed. TO ATTACK HER Corporal O'Brien Gives Derails of Maltreatment of Spanish Wo Ing opened yesterday at Fort Monroe. AUOress I Letters were found yesterday written as fa man by Of THE WOMAN VOUCHES FOB THE STOW Four Officers Said To Have Been Involved in the Bitter Words Pass Between Senators Patterson and Dietrich. Washington, May Corporal O'Brien, formerly of the Twenty slath volunteer infantry, was before the senate committee on the Philippines today and produced the alleged "dumdum," or explosive bullets.

He said they were not like the ordinary cartridges, because they did not have the letters 8." on them. General Crosier, chief of ordnance, ssss called and testified that the cartridges produced by Mr. O'Brien were not different from the ordinary regulation cartridges. Asked If they were "dumdum." or explosive bullets, the witness replied in the negative. "They are perfectly nor Krag Jorgensen bullet.

ne saia. or ten nas practically the same effect as a "dumdum." or explosive bullet. He related instances of laceration which had come under his own observation. attributed the effect to the pushing out of the blood and tissue by the bullet. He explained that bullets could be made by tiling through the steel covering of the lead of an ordinary cartridge, thus permitting the lead to be exposed.

He also said that no explosive bullets had been issued since the St. Petersburg convention Of 1868. Outrage on Spanish Woman. Replying to questions by Senator Bev eridge respecting the charge that a number of American officers had violated person of a Spanish woman at the Mint the town of Igneharaa waa burned, O'Brien said that in addition to her husband there were several servants residing in the house with this wbsasftL O'Brien said that she lived In. a Douse opposite the convent, where Me troops were stationed; that he had first heard ot the woman in the case because of the talk of her exceptional beauty, hut that he could not remember whether the hug.

band, when he told him of the crime that had been committed, had given the name of any officers connected with It The man had stated, however, that there were four of them engaged In the affair. Questions by the senator brought out the fact that there were then Just four officers In the town of Igabarac. "Consequently," said the senator, "If the statements made by the woman's husband are true these four men are guilty of the crime charged." The witness assented to this inference. He related that of the privates had told him of their relations with the woman. He did not remember the names of these men, but MSjht Senator Patterson protested that to compel tne witness to mention names under the circumstances was a grave injustice to the men whose names had thus been dragged in.

Patterson and Dietrich Clash. Senator Dodge retorted that he believed that Instead of doing an injustice, the SUMMARY OF THE NEWS FORECAST. Generally fair Thursday and Frid ay; Thursday in northeast por Hlghest temperature 92 Precipitation for past 24 hours .00 Lowest temperature 09 tTxcess since 1st of month Mean temperature 80 Deficiency since January 1.... 0.J2 Normal temperature 68 LOCAL, In official report on the riotous scenes at Pittsburg, Sheriff Kelms warmly praises the conduct of the Atlanta police. In a hot campaign statement Hon.

Warner Hill attacks the public record of Candidate Ouerry. The semi annual convention of southern furniture manufacturers met yesterday at the Kimball. Blgmund Pappenhelmer, of Atlanta, waa elected president. Hon. Fred C.

Foster, of Madison, was yesterday appointed Judge of the Ocmulgee circuit to succeed Judge John C. Hart, resigned. GEOROI John Dixon, at Taylor county, after serving six years as a murderer, is pardoned on the ground of hie probable Innocence. R. C.

Gully, who married In.Ashburn. while he had wife in Lemay, N. was convicted yesterday of bigamy. Before adjournment In Valdosta yesterday of the grand lodge of Knights a people of Mae on oeevelt to visit the Congress of planning an elaborate programme. SOUTHERN It is said interesting developments may come at the June meeting of Clemson cofege trusted.

The presi dent and four professors may retire. The conference called by Secretary Murphy, of the Southern Education Board, for May 29. In Montgomery, means the beginning of crusade for learning throughout the south. The twenty first annual session of the Southeastern Tariff Association DOMESTIC. Mrs.

Jefferson Davis stinglngly reviews the career of General Kelson Miles, styling him "vulgarian, boor a nd plebe." i Before the senate Philippine com mittee Corporal O'Brien gave further details of the maltreatment of a beautl ful Spanish woman by American officers. The Initial leocptlon of the Bocha mbemu mission occurred at Annapolis The French cruiser Oaulols waa welcomed by an imposing array of Amer Senators McLaurin and Pritchard were guests of soclation in New Tork. Both senators stressed the markets to the sovtB. a single headed leader. Curry, Mrs.

Curry and her people ef the Leaser Antilles. Mrs. curry ana oer niece Flrmin Is marching on 1 of Oriental Hereafter the affairs of Tammany Hall wfU.be managed oy a inumvirawj.