The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, December 24, 1908, Image 1
As to Who Did ReaHy Shoot Up
Brownsville, Tex.
SHOOTER CONFESSES
To a Negro 1 >«■(«■<•(ivo, who Had IVm-ii
J*hii|>loy<>d to Work the Pa-ne I’p
by the War Department—A Dis-
< Negro Soldier Tells All
About It. : . i
Q
Washington, Dec. 15.—President.
Roosevelt sent to the Senate Tues
day a special messTige in reference
to the shootitrgr up of Brownsville,
Texas, by a batallion of ne.gro sol
diers in the sum me r c7f~ i y o 6. ttr
eluded in the message is the general
report of inspection by Herbert I.
Brown, a colored detective, who was
"employed by the war -department in
conjunction with Capt. W. O, Bald
win to probe the occurrence at
Brownsville. Brown submitted the
following to the detectives agency,
which he says Is the confession of
Boyd Conyers, one of the discharge i
negro .soldiers, who now lives a:
TheB audits Were Getting Ready to
Rob the Ranks of the Town and
Showed Fight. i
•GreenwichrO., D»c. lf>.-*-ln a run-
ning midnight encounter between a
gang of safe-cracKers and the police
of this village. Night Marshal Wood
was hurt, and one of the burglar,
slain. „ ‘ v .
The other burglar escaped, carr
ing one of their number.
Mnrstnrt Wood—neco.Oed—-a—m-ui
standing near the. postofTice ap'd itet^
iiig in a suspicious manhor. In reply
rfo questions, the unknown mau sai l
he was a stranger, in the town, but
desired to leave on a freight train."""’
The marshal escorted him to the
raiilroad and Just as they reachrl M'titnuii, PopullsH
the tracks four other men suddenly
jumped from behind a car and or
dered the ofTcer to throw up his
l-.ands. .'
•He complif'd, but intone hand
had an autoiratie revolver which he
fired, one l*»uMet piercing the heart
of one' of the quartet. The firing
was reterhed by the other men an t
the marshal w as struck in* the back.
As he fen, the* melt heat him iino
Monroe, tia., and wlto helped shoot . . „ ... .
—*■— — , , mV, I trsl!)|,|lv :ltu l th 'U eseapref.
T. xas town in August., |'.idi,. i
• 9
confession Uo Brown Con-
up th
In hi>
• vers says:
y -Th*
immors of trouUle^jover th»
assigiunent ■ of colored tr<*ops te
Brownsville were circulated befon
the- troops left Fort Niobrara, am
preparations were made 1 among th
nie'it to -ge; even with tin 1 crack’ rs.
. so .the whites were called. Som
cartridges were held out at rang
* pi'aetice, but more en route' !•
Bretwnsville. Pretenc was mad
that they we re given away at sta i
tions a lev n't; the -reeael. Sevme w.er**^ 1
hut a large nnnVIver were s ereled.
*•. At inspection in Brownsville’_
Lie'iit. Lawrence. Company B. threat
Vneel punishment to .the men • wh >
w re ,-heirt e>f ammunition, lent hevth-
Ing was' ejetiie' about tL^-aiid thq eie -
flcie'ucy was supplied'.,
I tie frte’llon
The firing arouse'ej mr jmt
the 1 w-vumted marshal was found .in
• he ra il road yarels, A posse 1 s<'a rch-
ed the' surrounding territory fe>r the 4
men. The ejead man was about 3.
years of ag<' and wa 11 dre’ss< d.
CAVT SCARF .lOSFIMf.
I'ulit/er Says Re Will F.elit His
I’ajH'r From Jail.
•Tevseph
\< W Ye'rk. Dele. 1
“!*uMt7«'r; of ''ThruAVofri. in replying-
*e» the tirade’ of President Roosevelt
says:
‘.Sev far as I am personally con-
t:
UITTi rTrrZe'PS ■ n
Brownsville' ...feegan at evnre\ It
Boyd Conye rs' language', ‘ Whiskeq
made all the* ^troiibb’.. If we hadn't
bee n'eiririking we* wouleln't have had
tiie^nerve to shoot u]> the' town.";
It was agrebelT as a gathering •»!
a fe’W im'ii In th saloon of Allison
the- cevlore'd e'x-solelier, on the* after
noon of August 13, Ih'tfi, that th«
rjiiel shetnbl take* place' that night a
T3 o'clock. It see'ins to have be i
eb layeei a fe'w minute’s to b •
Tamayo, the' Me xican scavenge'r, ge
away ffom tbi' B barracks.
jeihn Holloman, the money bb 1
em of Comitaitv B. was the edib f co e
spirator ami le ader in the raid an.
e’lisroeliaiv and ~ disi rtlnHor mf tji
cartrielge's, but bis plans e'evutel no
have iieo 7 !! carrie'd out had not’Serg’
(b'eirge .lack'oh, etf ('eMupany' B. it
e hari: ■ of Urn ke'ys to the gun rack
in B barraeks. and Sorut. Ri'Td, ir
ewmmane] of the.' gueirds. co-ope'rate.
bofh before-,ane\ afte-r the raid.
Thee four nii'n who led the rah
we're JoTfn Hrrtloman, John Brown
Boyd Cony rs ami ^ Carolina' el
Saussure, all of Corbpany B (a.>
probably R. L. Collier, of Compan
C. 1 Holloman w as in Jvarraek -
Brown in the. bake shop-. Cnnycr
and de Saussure' in the’ guard house-
The* twe> latte-r wire- in the sam
detail, and had been redieved a
about 11 o'clock, de Saussure on the
post at the guard house, and Con
vers on No. 2. around the barrack;
and facing the* town. Holloman go
the parky together. Conyers and d
Saussure slept on th° same bunk it
the g|Uafet house. oi.Hmlng that the
wanted to get umle r- the mosqui't
net, and they had the' trrrk of kikuu
the i/ guns into the bunk instead o
placing them in the- open rack, m
the excuse that they didn’t rust s-
badly under coyer, but really so th
absence of the* guns from The op ’
guard house'• rae’k would nevt attrae
attemtieen, ami their ow-n— abseuic
would lie’ aseribe-d tee a visit to th”
closet, w hie h. w as back (*f the* guar
house.' These two men sli|>i>ed ou
the, remr door of the' guard house’s
passed through the' sally port, am
joined Holloman and Brown.
Thp party -e-reis: tel the* wall. q
. the'Lfffit down ne-ar they enel of
barraeks^ we-nt up th" roadway -t’
the entrance to the* Ceiwen alfev
where tji<' signal -shots were* fm d
The’se ^shote we-ro imnie'diatelv tal
lied onto by the' alarm shots o'
Joseph B. Howard,,guard on No. fl
an el formed the series testified to b'
Mrs. Katie- E Leahy, of BroWt^villo
now| all this |ierfe’c(l\v He knows
aura chronic invalid and mostly
briieel, I ^a.as ttL a during tip ‘
vvnote'Hf Oc\ob'r ami, in fact, pra-
“leaHy for- fw^ years I have been
-Vtichting on account of my h' 3 alth.
T never reaet* a word ?TT s’- l.aide p'
this Panama, story, was nevt in con
'lection with the pape'r and had Doth
rng to elo with it. Mr. Reiosev'!•
know
I ,
ihroad yae'.ititlgi on acemunt evf my
health. I think his anger, is simp'y
'lie to the sharp attacks made by
The* W'oijef on him political.t'y. For
hat perliaps. 1 am ri'sjfonsitd''': thiv
is for the political rritiedsfn of Koosev-
velt on public and polft-ical groune 1,
'.<’»hdy. 1 am really sorry dp’ sboul 1
'n' so' very angry, fun "The Wort i
will continue toe-rite ise hiiq wit hoe*
i shadow of fear, if <h slioulel sue
'e’e’il hi compelling nie*t.Jt> -<'elit t!i
‘la^n- from jail.
Ile-arst's Imh'peiHlence Party Polled
Ix*s.s Than One Hundred Thousand
Votes in Wh«>le Country.
New York, Dec. "157—The total
popular Vote of th<* various presi
dential candidates at ttfe last
election was made known today in
an official fprni by fhe filing of the
last of the official vote,-that of Mich
igan. fhe total shows the* follow-
fng yote.s raM': j»’’ -
Taft, ( Republlcar.) 7,637,670
Bryan, ( Democratic^. ... 6,393,1^2
Debs, Socialist)’ .. 44-7,651
Chafin' 4 ( Prohibitionist) -.■'’£41.25£
Hisgen, I Indepemlenfj'" . . 83,186
33,871
■ J5,421
Gilhaus, (So^atist Daivor).
, Total for all candidate's.! 4,852,239
This grand total exceeds by 1,341,-
j31 the total number of votes cast
in the presidential election of 1 904,
when the grand total was 13,510,-
708. _
-Compared. with that Ide-ct ion the
candidates of the Republican, Dem
ocratic ami Socialist parties incre-as-
"■ti their vote' this year. The reverse
hibition. Populist and Socialist
Labor parti-s. The Independent
party did not figure in the presiden
tial election of four years ago.
The* lijfggest .difference in a party
is shown in an increase for Bryan
i>8. 1.315.21 1. over the, t Total
’■ast in 1904 for Alton. B. Parker, the
Democratic candidate. Taft receiv-
SAYS PULITZER LIES
Aluvut and Slanders the Nation
When He Charges a Deal in the
Ituying of the Panama C'unul
and Suit Will be Brought Against
'* *
Him Says the President. _ > '
> Washington, D^c. 15.—President
Roosevelt today sent toothe Senat*
a statemenL^ncerning Abe purchase
of the Panama canal property by the
United States, denouncing In strong
language the chirgea that there was
anything wrong In the acquisition
by the United States of the canal
• - vfr
property. **
"These stories," . he continues,
"were first brought to my attention
as published in a paper In India
napolis calletf* The News, edited by
Mr.Deiavan Smith. The stories we e
scurrilous and libelous in character,
and false In every essential particu-
lar."
elters himself behind the
excuse that he mendy acceple'
statements which had appeared in
a paper published in New York —
The World'—owned by
PniR^er." • ■
SummarlZfng the charges made in
this connection the President says
in part: ‘'These-'statements some
times appeared In editorials, sonu-
tlines-in the shape of contributions
Accidents Are Excessive, Says Bu
reau ‘of I<abor, and Record C’ouTI
' ■ ■ J
be Much Ih'tter.
- W«sblng4v*n, Ife-v 16.—Betwiu.1'
30,000 and 35,000 deaths and 2,-
000,000 injured is the accident rec
ord in the United'States during the
past year among workingmen, ac
cording to a bulletin on accidents
issued by the bureau of labor.
Of those employed In the factories
and workshops it Is stated that prob
ably the most exposed class are t* e
workers In iron and steel. Fatal
accidents among electricians anJ
electric .-linemen and cola "miners
are declared to be excessive, while
railiVav trainmen were killed in th»
proportkm of 7.46 deaths per 1.000
employees. 7
The bulletin declares .that much
that could be done for the protec
tion, of the workingmen is neglected
though many and far reaching im
provements have been lutroducted in
factory practice during the last de
cade. It is pointed out that the pos
sibilities for successful accident pre
vention have been clearly demon
strated In the experience of foreign
countries. _
d 14,190 \Totes more |than were
' '' 1 f " r 1 F '‘ si 'l , ' n * Roos veil in |-jY( )ni individuals, either unknown or
lyet. and Debs ran 45.368 ahead | known to he of had character
f his predecqssor on the Socialist
’I he heavist, loss is shown by the
Populist,, who, with the same can
didate, registered 83,312 less this
year Shan in''1904, when their total
was' 117.183. The Prohibitionist
•amlidnfe, rhafiti, ran 1 7.284 votes
: -Tilml t hi- itmi mark --f tpurt 1 ’,
and Gilhaus, -the Socialist Labor
candidate’, received only about 5n
Mer eent^of’-the vote given to Cor
ri"an. which was 31,249, in the pre
vious pra-RTdeut+HLract*.
The folfowing is the vote received
by Bryan and Taft in each of the
Southern States: * ..
“They are false in every partic
ular frOm beginning to end. The
wickednefik of these slanders is only
surpassed by their, fatuity. So ut-
"that Hie underlying conditions in
European countries are often quite
different and that m^ny of our in-
Joseph | (juKtrial accidents may he the result
of Ignorance, reckless indifference^
or carelessness, the fact remains that
an Immense amount of human Ilf.*
is wasted and a vast amount of in
jury Is done to health and strength,
with resulting physical Impairment,
which has a very considerable ecu
nomic value to the nation as a
*
whole.’
*
It is insisted th-tt it should net
* ,
he Impossible to save at least one-
thlYd and perhaps one-half by, in
Friends Wrecked.
—Carachs, Venezuela, Dec. 16.
people of Caracas' arose today
against President Castro. An infu
riated mob, unhindered by the po
lice, swipt thniiT^h the city* w reck
ing the property of his henchmen
and (’losests frivmls.
« The people rounded up all the
statues and pictures of President
CUstro from the chibs and otHer
semi-public buildings and burned
them with rejoicing on the Plaza
Bolivar, Castro’s rule in Venezuela
probably is ended; -
In spite of Holland’s warlike ac
tivity on the coast there have bee!)
erlajids; they all have b-en directed
against President Castro and acting
President Tlomez.
An enormous crowd of inhabPanti
of the capital swelled by the people
from the outlying country,-gathered
in the streets soon after daybreak,
and it was good for President Cas
tro that he was in Eurpoe and not
at home, or. he m'ght have feared
badly at the hands of the mob.
The first building to be attacked
. wan 'ihs-t^of - t-ht'—Loftorye-I'bt'clal .muaaago. to—vnyngress■ of*
Says He Is (he Higgi-st Liar and
Meanest Demagogue That Has Kv*
or lh*en Elevated to High Position
by the Americans, Hut He Can’t
Silence the World.
New York, Dec. 15.—The ^’or Id
in the course of lUnkbawer to Res
ident Roosevelt’s reference to th. t
paper In his special message, to
congress today says:
"Mr. Roosevelt Is mistaken. He
can not muzzle-The World.
“While no amount of billingsgate
on his part can alter our determi
nation to treat him with judicial
Impartiality and scrupulous fairness,
ive repeat what we have” already
said, that the congress of the United
States should make a^Jiorough in
vestigation; that the fulltruTli may
be known to the American people.
"The,World fully appreciates the
eompl+ment paid to It by Mr.-Roose
velt in making It the subject of a
Monopoly. The officers, of the Stat *
enterprise tbit has ejulchci jtselt
at the .expense of the pepolo were
ransack* d and pillaged. Furnltiir-
was broken amj thrown Into th;
streets and thousands of lottery-]
tickfts were dstroyed.
The crowd UVfi, iiiived to th'
printing otfic» of 'El Constitucioal
!he United States.
"The World likewise appreciates
the importance of Mr. Roosevelt's
Matement when he declares to con
gress that the proprietor of The
World shoyild be prosecuted for llb*d
by the governmental authorities and
that the attorney general'has under
consideration the form, under which
th*' org.-ifl of RresidFnt Castro, of ,h ‘‘ proceeding against Mr. Pulltz r
w hich Gumersindo- Rivas is editor. * s 1 ,a,, brought.
terly baseless are the stpries that t p||| KPnt an( j rational method8|Of
apparently t])ey* reixsesent In part 1^^ ins^cHdn.-leglslation And
merely the material collected for I r>r\r* t r r\ 1 ♦
canijiaign purposes and In part sto
rl>-> 0rigtnaHy.*i»onnf clod wiltm -view j-— -<—'AdtDFT A DOC
of piossihle-blackmail.’’ , » I *
The President adds
and pillaged it crmpletelv, A steam
laundry holonglng to Senor Rlvar
also was wrecked.
, The statues and pictures of Presl
h-nt Castro were made Into a nugc
bonfire on the Plaza Bolivar. Th*
crowd cheered as the flames com
pleted the destruction of these ef
flgies of the dictator.
of One Man and
Wounding Another.
in*': to e
WHITE MEND IA ACHED.
Stat**.
Taft.
Bryan.
\ la bama .. ;.
. . 25.308 ’
74.374
Arkansas . . '. .
i>i067
87.043
Florida . . . ... .
.. 10,654
31.HM
Georgia ... . .
. . 11,6 92
72.350
Kentucky ...
.. 2Trm 1
244.092
Louisiana . . . .
9,58.9"
63.568
Maryland . .
..111,253
111,117
Mississippi . . .
. .. 4.463
64.250
Missouri . .
. . .3 4 6.91 5
345.884
North Carolina
. . 1 1 4,887
136.928
Oklahoma . . . .
. . . 110.550
123.907
South Carolina
. . * 3,847
62,289
Teiun ss***' . . 7
...11 8.'287
135.63*0
My a Mob at .Montircllo, Ky., for | Texas
rfginia
Hi 1 - .Ci’in:**.
69.229
5 2.5 7 3
227.26 !
8-2,946
MonMei’llo, Ky., Ijec. 17 Elnei
Hill, a white man. w.ist ak<‘n frehT
ail here this morning by an armed
nob of about thirtv nu n and bang-
1 to a tre** j i'st-outside of 'he chy
Hill was inc .ri’i'ratt'd on't'ie’M'haua
>f n'PiHUiJtjiie V i.ni* Womack ag 1
'3 Venrs.".■indDmin'eriiU' her.
Hill, when taken from the pi 1 .,
latly d 1 ’rili'd th
he rope had be
icck and he apparently saw no way
f .escape he toll tiie story of- the
•rime.
He said the gii JJ.as coming hbnn
rom ,s* hool >vh* n* he atta* k.'it h**r
ving a haukt rciiii'f around her-eer+r
■ilJ str'ingling V. -r 'When -the uii'
■.a •. iincons; ions he look hiT-irto the
eoOd;: and killed her. , >
The i-inctaTKt—|K)ll»'d 15,398 votes
! n North Carolina. 21.752 in Okla-
loma, 8.524 in Texas. Jn no other
Southern State did they poll over
In South Carolina they
polled 101 votes.
CONVHT PROVED INNOCENT.
i—
cha but ••ajien
n olaced around h : -
llas Alri'ndy Served Ten Years of American j>cople."
The President says^
His Sentence.
"Now these I a ^
stores as a matter of fact, need no4 Om**’*! Killing
investigation* whatever; no shadow
of proof has' been or can be produced
in behalf of alny of thenr; they ^con- Goldsboro. N. C., Dec. if:—-New
sist sirnply of a string oFdhfarnous reached here today from Dudley, In
libels. In form they are In pair thTs'fcounty, that Ira Hatch, a prom-
libels upon Individuals, upon M* inent* resident of that place, trad
Taft and Mr. Robinson, for instance; I fs'en shot and killed hy Badger J
hut they are In fact wholly and in | Bowden, mayor of Dudley,
form -partly, libel upon the United Bowden is in lied from wounds re
States government. I do not believe celved immediately after the shoot-
iye should concern ourselves with ing from a shot gun in the hands
the particular individuals who wrote of the dead man's son.
the b'iuK anf 1 libelous editorial*. About 1 o'clock thrift morning
articles from correspondents or ar- some one passed Hatch's house and
tides In the news columns. shot his dog. Hatch and his son
"The real offender Is Mr. Joseph took shotguns and ^ent out to
Pulitzer, editor and proprietor of recqnnolter and some distance on
The World.’ While the criminal the streets met Bowden, whom the
offense* of which Pulitzer has been *>ld: r Hatch Immediately accused of
guilty is in the form of libel upon shooting his dog.
individuals, the great injury done Hot words ensued and Bowden
is in blackening the good name of shot Hatc\ through the heart with
th* American people. Ukkhould not a pistol and thereupon' th** youngrir
he left to a private citizen to sue Hatch shot Bodwen with his,, shot
Poll tier for libel. He should be gun, but inflicting only fl«*>h
prosecuted for libel by the govern-1 wounds,
mental authorities."
"The president cojilljUkwL. “It Is
i-fherefore a high national duty to
tWing to Justice this vjljifler of the
forth..the' virtues of Castro and e<
tolling bis powers next attracted th*
etallntlon of the mob. and-cv* r<
inscription bearing Castro’" ~ n*m*
was hacked out and erased. Som*
f thesis legends were carved on th
public'buildings of the city.
It was after 1 o'clock before th*
crowd had gotten thus far In It*
epredatlons. It liieked leader*hii
nd paused !n .default, of othei
elds for Its destructive cnergla*
t was then that a detachment of
roops was rallr'd out for duty or
he etty streets, and ^'acting PresL
ent Gomez l:su*'d n manifesto pro
ihlticg further manifestvlons.
These measur-s nnd the J^sl^*•* ,
ffect, for the mob quieted dowe
and then dlsper-ed, after bavinf-
burned many offices and stores o'
be friends of President Castro
Several people were*killed and th*
indications are that Vene/.iilea is ot
he verge of revolution. If Is no*
known when President Castro, whr
s now In Berlin, will return, bn*
when he dors he will not be recog
ntzed as President any longer.
FIEND CAUGHT.
3,- .
f.il
Seven Men Drown.
St. Pierre, M< q , Dee. T5 Seven
iembers of tb<‘ crew of the I'reneb
varship Admiral Aube, who startel
'or the shore last night are missing
rid it is thought aM were dro.wned
icks is unknown, ^lint p*'rliap:
wenty men were involv *1. A simd!
r numtier went to the ground an
• ollowed th* 1 b'aders up the alley
| will It- remembered that one of
he " witnesses te-i-lfth’d to heariii-
>ome one of the group of Hcjldjers
'xetaim, ".There Mie.y go!" .aAVh’ fri
ipon these_nw'n leaped ^jvev the vva'l
uni ran -up the alley.
Boy<‘d C *ny rs is tie* man w hos
’Tun jjunnjed at the' exit of the alb ;
Raleigh. N. l)*'r. 17. Judge
'horn.is H. Sutton, of Fayetteville
nas a'ffidavits that go to prove th*
nnocenee-of-A. It. Norton, who ha*
ten years of a thirty years
iiteiiee for murder:
Affidavits signed tty men who were
ssoriated with Thomas Whijte,, who
eceiitIy di*’d at the .Northampton
'date farm set forth that White con
fessed that he was guilty of the
nnrder for which Norton is impris-
ped.
The erio^rTMn qir stion was com
"ThW Attor
ney General has unller considera
tion the form In which the proceed
ings against Mr. Pulitzer shall b<
hroii^?h-t.”
mitti'd in 18*98. in Robeson county.
when Je.'se Kr T.dar. a w hite tenant.! Cromwell on December 11.
‘of White’s, was shot and killed \frhile
'acoahly entering the door of
White's home. White and "Norton.
mother tenanf each cHargod theJ^j,!,,,. | n His Seat for the
uh< r with the killing, and Judge
Who Attempted Criminal Assault on
- jl. Woman.
Raleigh, N. C., Dec. 15.—The us
ually quiet county of Stanly Is In a
State of Intense excitement tonight
The president th*n explains th? I over the first case In the history of
mo'hnd of concluding the purchase, the county of criminal assault of a
saying .the transaction was carried white woman hy a negro, and It is
through by the then Attorney Kipp- feared that-there may be mob vlq
oral Knox- and not hy Mr. Hay'or lenre before tomorrow at Alber
Mr Root. The President accepts marie, where Henry Young, rolor
all the responsibility for carrying od, is in Jail, having been beaten in
out the will of Congress. He says to unconsciousness at the home o F
that his -government had nothing John R. Moss, near Whitney, lat
to do with the distribution of th**' tpday by Moss and George Leffer
$40,000,000. He also includes a who. attracted to the home of Sfor.s
copy of the statement made by I hy the screams of Mrs Moss, foun*
her In the clutches of the negro
SENATOR TILLMAN.
Sutton sentenc’d both to the peni
tentiary for T hirdy -years.
.>
First Time.
Washington, Dec. 15.—Senator
making desperate efforts to reach
the telephone to call for help.
When the negro attacked Mrs
Moss, she ran Into the 'house ant
lor Med the doors.^ Wiling brick
down a door and entered, and se<z
Ing the woman, a desperate strug
gTe ensued. Upon the' arrrlval of
PI T HI SRAND IN JAIL*
Xml
Tillman was for the first time during hMt>ss and Lefler. they had a strug
this session in his seat when the I gle and fist fight with the negro t)
*w | senate opened up yesterday morn- fore they, subdued him. Sheriff
Then Ran Away \\ ith Yi Male | ^ havlnR rear hed here .this morn J Green was called and took the pris
Roanli'r.
Bristol, Tenrir.” Dec. 17.—William
by tliA Cowon house, tostifii’d fo li
Herbert Elkins, and it was take
Her testimony-*is further borne out I from hj ni py do Saussure and tixo'i
by the statement that not over Thin' in the street wri^ie th<’ liglyt from
seconds elapsed' before a number oi I h** streef ^mn at the corner o
men of Company R-swarmed Out ot Elizabeth street shun on them
the upper galjery and opened a fus Less than five minutes elapsed
Blade on the town. ; - i'^rfrohi (lie time the 1 'first shot wa;
It is an alisplute certauiby. that .U .tir«'d until these n.i n were all bact?
would have been •impossible*, foi inside the fort. .
Pf.'-fraj in have -ftoen'dUAJxe j-- Cotuer's sthfed that R< id wai toM
gut! 1 1 acks-.-'fT ITfT' mfar to rave' 1A T !iarTbeT-vXT>r.’' -pnnTftTrr sboornrp ttr*-
semliled, secured their guns, loaded *own, and he had laughed and said . , . - hn . ,—h, arn
them, gone out to the gallery., and | ’Don't, go, out. ' .’h* r- and let ,h* | ^cked; nfi.^l ^arn
started firing, all after the first
was fired.'all around, as they
fled unanimously. from
slunHier, in less than tw'<Y>‘tnl
in the confusion of a dark barrack I bunks. Sergt. Reid came in and
Beyond the possibility of a swore at them, tint Conyers was so I er
hf
ing. The senator is looking well. I oner tef the Jail at Alhermarle.
He is Just in time to get Into the
great Panama scrap which threat-1 KILLED WHILE HINTING.
Hudson, who . pent last night in thi+ens to materialize if the senate and
city jail here as the- result of a
warrant. sworn out by his wife..who
barged that he had threatened^her
jiff, avok*' to the full meaning of his
Inearreration this morning when h*
learned that hi? wife had eloped with
Ed Hyatt,' a man wlto had be-n
ibome-and who-as
sisted Mrs. Hudson in having hof
With Accidental Death.
"This is the first time a presi
dent Hver assorted the doctrine of
leaa majeste or proposed, in - the
alisence of specific legislation, the
,, rlminal prosecution by the govern
ment of citizens who criticized the
conduct of the government or the
conduct of Individuals who may Kav j
had btislness dealings with the gov-
‘NTITIU"mis tn-rdiithnn nT tt'rir ,rnme P t - NXther the king of Great
VERV'-KAD DEATH.
I,ad Kllhd While Carrying letter
to Santa Claus.
Britain nor the Germain emperui'
would venture to arrogate such pow-.
"r to himself. John Adams’ attempt
'o enfocre the sedition law destroy
'd the Federalist party in America.
Yet Mr. Roosevelt, in the absence of
aw. proposes to use all the power
>f the greatest government on earth
o cripple the freedom of the press
m the pretext ’that the government
has been libeled—and he Is the gov
ernment.
"It Is true that The W'orld prlnt-
d the public report concerning the.
Panama canal affair whlrn r suited
from William Nelson Cromwell’s ap-
>«*al "to the district attorney’s oflV*
luring the recent campaign to pr**-
•ent the publication of.a story which
was said to be In the hands of th *
Democratic national committee. It
was Mr. Cromwell's own Set which
-alaed the Issue In the campaign.
"It Is true thgt when Mr. Roose
velt made attack, " upon Deiavan
-Smith The World called afentlon to
ertain statements which Mr. Rooee
velt must have known to he fabe
iri misleading and appealed to eon-
tress- to end all scandal hy a full
ind Impartial Investigation. If this
ie treason, let Mr. Roosevelt make
• he most of it.
"Mr. Roosevelt’s lamentable habit
' • *
if Inaccurate statements makes Is
impossible to accept either his Judg-
New York, D* *’. 17. Ttic body of | m ents or his conclusions. In his
nessage he does not state correctly
■yen so simple a matter as the pre
ended causes of his grievance. The
World has .nevei^said that Charles
P. Taft or Douglas Robinson made
a frail little fellow, apparently about
ten yitars old, li s in a police sta
lion here today last night under th*’
trucks of a trolley ear near th
branch postoffice in Third avenu*
near Fifty-second street, wh+le on I \ny profits whatever. Mr. Taft de-
hls way to mall a letter to Sant; Ged that he was concerned in the
Claus. ' ... transaction in any - wjiy, which d i-
As h** breathed tlis last under I Gal The World ptrbHshed and ac-
the wheels, his hand stretched forti' I -epted. It would have been equally
and the pitiful fi tter was seen b\ | Gad *° P r l n l M r - Robinson's denial
the crowd. A Bystander seized i'
and It was dropped in the postoffle*
tiefore the l>oy expired. He tan dl
rectly in front of th ; car, evident)*
ould it have succeeded in obtain
ing one from him as it frequently
attempted.
"The World has no evidence that
wraped Ln thought about his letter j he was associated with Mr. Crom
The niotorman
was held on a
tech lira! charge ' oFlmmlclde. Nr
on** in the neighborhood seemed to-
know who Mae child was, but h*
probably will be Identified, today. *
May
TILLMAN PRIMING UI^.
s-
Make Spe. < h That Will Stir Up
the Animals.
the^country does not let President ri ^ mlnen( ~' Y oun£ Lawyer Meet
Roosevelt bluff them th*^ of doing
anything. Whether the senator will 1 '
take part, depends, he say.*; upon
1 Blackshear. Gp., Dec. 1 * .^—h
Lawton Walker, newly elected so-
. Bettor general of the Brunswick rlr-t
Shot fn His Store. ~|cult, .this state, was almost instantly
Hampton. Ark , Dec. 17.—Charles killed in the hunting field this after
.holt, a,^merchant of this place noon, near Walkersville Mr 'Wa!
Washington, Dec. 17.—-Senator
Tillman is beginning to look in goo!
form again",^ His trip abroad .seem; 1 | OPS th j s president, who besmirches
well and would accept his word Jo
•hat effect, for Mr. Robiijson Is in
■stlmahte gcirHemp# of«4flgh char-j*”*'
acler, whose r^utatlon for veracl-
•y Is Infinitely better than that of
his distinguished brother-in-law.
"If The World has ^Ibeled any
body we hope it will be punished,
but we do not Intend to he intimi- * %
lated by Mr. Roosevelt’s threats, or
hy Mr. Roosevelt's" denunciations,
or by Mr. Roosevelt’s power.
"No other living man- ever so
grossely libeled the United'States as
whether he can find any rocks t>
throw.
room.
doubt, the racks had been opened I excited and out of breath that
and the inside, ronspirators wpr | could hardly stand, so Reid skatWtied
ready to pour out on the . signal | him at tho rear of the guard hour
shots, Th" testimony is ample tha
there were scarcely twenty second
between the last of the signal fhotr
and the first general vdlley from B
barracks.
The number firing from the bar-
Drugged and Robbed. «
Washington. Dec. 15.—John H.
in the dark, where he could not belSehelck, a prominent. Mason, of
scrutinized so-closely. j Charlotte. N C., was drugged and
Holloman rame around with extra robbed of $600 and 250 shares of
cartridges about daybreak and -Rei I Atlanta Milling and Mining stock
assed th m out. The guns were all l early Tuesday morning while rldins
cleaned'before daylight. ack with two strangers.
action Intense excitement prevails I right ear. He fell to the ground tin
and possrs are'^in pursuit of the ne-1 conscious and died within a few
minutes. The shooting was en
tirely accidental. *
groes.
President of Hayti.
Port au Prince, Hayth Dec. 17.— I
Gen. Simon, leader of the last revo-'
lution in Hayti. was unanimously]
Thirteen Men Killed.
Vienna, Dec. 17.—Thirteen men
were killed In an explosion cf fire
elected President of the republic by I damp Wednesday itnrning in a mine
the Haytien congress. • I near Roslcza, Hungary.
to„diave dope him good, but his-ebrse
friends sav he—is not yet in trim
There is a feeling prevailing around
th*' Senate that he will have some
thing interesting to -say in a few
days, and it may be about the Pan
ama-canal. As was said today, if
th** Senator does *1 ride to speak hi-
mind about the canal he will throw
rock or two that will dispiac"
large volumes of water No man in
the Senate can dntfv a larger crow 1
than the gentleman from South Car
ollria • ;* ’ • *
Awful Experience. r ^,
Sydney. N. 8.. Dec. I^.—ExbaiJSt-
e<rhy eight days-of toil at tfce pumps
and 13 hours In an open boat with
the thermometer hovering around
zero, s*ven men rowed ashore a*
Port Morien today and reported that
the French schooner Marceline had
foundered off the Cap? Breton coast
at midnight,on Tuesday.
ongress, bulldozes judges, ' assails
the integrity of courts, slanders pri
vate citizens and who has showrvo
himself the most reckless, unscrupu
lous demagogue whom the American
people ever trusted with great power -
ind authority.
-• We .’hay this not In anger but *'
in sincere sorrow. The World has
immeasurably more respect for the ^
offiri*^ of president..., of the Unite 1
States Than Theodore Roosevelt has.
ever shown during the years In whlcn^
Jie baa reign/of terror and-vIIHILhI ^
the.honor and honesty of both pub
lic officials and private citizens, who
opposed his policies or thwarted him
In his puropses.
"So far aa The World is concen
trated. its proprietors may go to~ -
jail, if Mr Roosevelt succeeds, aa
he 4hreatens; but even In jail The
World will not cease to be a fear-
leaa champion of fr«« press and a
free people/*
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