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The Bamberg Herald. j! ESTABLISHED ISO!. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 14. 1001. <> DOLLAR PER YEAR. Jg||f CONVICTS IN MUTINY Inmates of Leavenworth Prison Battle With the Guards. DESPERATE RUSH FOR LIBERTY Two of the Prisoners Had Revolvers which Were Freeiy Used?Twenty-Six Succeed In Breaking From Stockade. A special from Leavenworth, Kans.: 6ays: One man was killed, three others dangerously wounded and twentysix desperate convicts are at large as a result of a mutiny late Thursday afternoon at the site of the new United States prison, two miles southeast of the city, where 400 prisoners from the federal prison, in charge of thirty armed guards, were at work. When the trouble began the rebellious prisoners had only two revolvers. These had been secreted in one of the walls of the building by some unknown person. Gus Parker, of Ardmore, Ind. T., one of the ring leaders of the mutiny, under pretense of a necessity, walked to the corner of the stockade, where the revolvers wereconceaied and under the cover of some weeds secured them without being detected. He returned to the gang and passed one of the revolvers to Frank Thompson, a negro, who secreted it about his person. When T. E. Hinds, superintendent of construction, and three unarmed guards prepared to round up the men at the end of the day's work, the two armed convicts covered them with rpvnlvArs anH pnrrmrao'r .1 hv tha r?fh er mutinous convicts, forced the men to walk before them to the northwestern corner of the hign wooden stockade, where they expected to make a rush through an opening. On the outside of the stockade was an armed guard, and the convicts were met at the opening by C. E. Burrows, who fought them back, but who received two shots in the neck. The convicts then rushed over to the south wall to another opening and were met by Arthur Treelford, an armed guard, who is in charge of all the convicts. Treelford resisted the convicts and was shot * twice, but not dangerousjy wounded. Defeated ^n their attempt to escape at this point, the men rushed to the guard house, a temporary frame structure, where the arms were kept. The guards from the outside rushed in at this point and drove the convicts away from the guard house. J. P. Waldrupe, a guard, shot and killed Ford Quinn, from Ryan, Ind. T. The prisoners then made a grand rush for the main entrance and twenty-six of them succeeded in escaping. ? ac tuuvit ta, ILL IUCU LLI&UL, LUUIpelled F. E. Hinds, superintendent of construction, to go with them and he was not allowed to return until they had gone almost two miles into a forest W. F. Peaslee, one of the fugitives, who has only fifteen months more to serve, deserted the band a few moments after Superintendent Hinds was released. The two men reachd Leavenworth almost at the same time. They reported that the fugitives, after holding a consultation, decided they would form into several parties, so that some might escape, though others should be captured. Twenty-four members of the Fourth cavalry hastened to the scene of the trouble, but when they arrived the convicts had escaped* and the soldiers could not participate in the chase wLtout orders from their superiors. However, forty armed guards from ho forlorn 1 nricnr ctapfarl in mipjrit &VUVi 1*4 J/A 4WVU t?' VM1 kvu iU W U4 -J U* V of the fugitives. The wounded men are in the prison hospital. - J. B. Waldrupe, who was shot in the head and neck, is in a precarious condition. Smallpox Patients Rescued. Tracy Home, a hospital at Des Moines in which fifteen smallpox patients were quarantined, was badly damaged by fire Thursday. The inmates were rescued, the firemen and police risking exposure to the contagion. MARY MAY LOSE PENSION. Old Woman of the Bifurcated Attire Talked Too Much. Pension Commissioner Evans is investigating utterances attributed to Dr. Mary Walker, the ex-army nurse, who has worn masculine attire in recent years, and who is alleged to have called the execution of Czolgosz, the Ifltp President. McKinlev's assassin, a murder and the late president himself a murdered on account of his policy in the Philippines. The commissioner explains that he has no authority to revoke the woman's pension, but that congress could do so if it desired. a* ATLANTA THEATRE BURNS. Took Fire While Play Was In Progress and Reduced to Ashes. While a matinee was in progress at the Lyceum theatre in Atlanta Wednesday afternoon, the building was destroyed by fire and only the brick walls and a score of orchestra circle seats that escaped the fury of the flames remain to mark the place of the once popular play homse. There were no casualties. Carter Case Advanced. The United States supreme court Monday advanced the habeas corpus case of Captain Oberlin M. Carter on its docket, and announced that it would be beard of the 2d of December next. Death Sentence For Robbery. Will Dorsey, a negro, has been sentenced in Birmingham. Ala., to hang i for the offense of robbery. This is the j first time the death sentence has ever j been passed in the state for this crime, 1 f f | ?rv>?siCN>>rsi<MCNJiMCMj 1 l SOUTH CAROLINA l ? STATE NEWS ITEMS. \ ?CM?MC\HMrslCMCS>CNJ# ?aid Fire Department For Greenville. Greenville has at last decided to establish a paid fire department in place >f the volunteer department which has jerved the city for a number of years. At the last meeting of the city council preliminary arrangements for the esablishment of a paid department were made, and Riley J. Rowley was electd chief. Some time ago Chief W. R. Joyner, f 'Atlanta, Ga., was In Greenville on he invitation of the city council, and vhile there he offered to instruct the -hief if a paid department was put in. This invitation was received b\ the ireenville council with great appre.iation, and it is largely on this account that the measure providing for \ Daid department met with success. For some time there has been great iissatisfaction with the fire situation it Greenville. While the volunteer lepartment rendered valiant service, itill they were not always on hand vhen most needed, and the town has suffered from some large and destruc.ive conflagrations. The fire insurance ompanies have particularly uiged the stab-lishment of a paid department. Many of them have withdrawn from he town and rates have been raised to a high degree pending the putting in of the paid department. The excellent record of Atlanta's fire department caused the council of Greenville to invite Chief Joyner to a conference, and as a result of his advice they have voted to establish the paid department. a New Company Organized. The Anderson Phosphate and Oil Company has been organized with a capital of $600,000, which ma. be increased to $800,000. Some Richmond, V'a., capital is in the venture, but it is practically owned by Anderson men. Its purpose is to manuacture and sell fertilizers and cotton seed products 111 .1.. nhlllfv una Will IU tilt; CAlCUl <Ji iw auuiv; fight the Virginia-Carolina Company. The company acquires control of and -A-ill immediately take possession of the Anderson Fertilizer Company and eight or ten cotton seed oil mills in that section cf the state. Frederick G. Brown, one of the richest men in that part of the state will be the president cf this new concern. He is experienced in this line. ft * * A Train On Fire. The following is from The Columbia State: There was a very unusual call for the Columbia fire department last evening about 7 o'clock. Indeed, it was the first time such a call had ever been made. The Seaboard's fast mail train from Savannah came in with the mail and baggage cars on fire. It seems that a lamp exploded in the mail car as the train was coming into Columbia. At firr* rtronr thfllltrhl t V> OV f>rml r? f>nn. trol the fire, but it rapidly got beyond their control, and when the Gervais street crossing was reached the interior of both the mail and baggage cars was blazing. A stop was made at the crossing and alarm of fire was sent in from the box near by. One of the engines from the fire department was quickly on hand and extinguished the flames. The train then went on to the depot The damage was very slight. The passengers were frightened, but, of course, none of them were hurt in any way. * * * Opinion In Lamson Case. In an opinion handed down by the United States circuit court of appeals at Richmond the decision of District Judge Brawley, dismissing the libel in the celebrated case of Daniel H. Lamson, late master of the schooner Fanny Brown, against the schooner Margaret B. Roper, Is affirmed. With this decision one of the most important cases ever heard in the admirality court in Charleston is finally settled. The Fannie Brown was sunk in a collision with the Margaret B. Roper, 25 miles northwest of Cape Hateras, on the night of December 26, 1899. The Brown and cargo, valued at $26,000, was a total loss, and the crew was sav ed by the Roper. Action for damages was filed in the district court in Charleston and litigation extended over a period of months. A mass of testimony was presented to the court and this was about as contradictory as it was possible to have. * * * Dr. Woodrow Vindicated. A Charleston dispatch says: The election of Dr. James Woodrow. formerly president of the South Carolina college, as moderator of the Presbyterian synod of South Carolina, was perhaps the most noteworthy event in the history of that organization. Because of his belief in evolution some years ago. Dr. Woodrow, who was then a professor in the Theological seminary in Columbia, was called before the board of trustees, and after a series of religious wrangles the trouble ran the gamut of all Presbyterian bodies, final ly reaching the general assembly, where there was a compromise and the matter seemed to have quieted down. When Dr. Woodrow's name was presented to the synod in Charleston, it met with his unanimous election. In accepting the office he said that he looked upon the incident as a vindication of his orthodoxy, and his election will do more than anything else to settle a wrangle which has long disturbed the Presbyterian faith. While Dr. Wood row did not preach evolution, he said theat there was a strong possibility that the Darwin theory was correct. * * Local Company Gets Privilege. Charles F. Levy & Co. a local syndicate, has been granted the exclusive I racing privileges at the exposition grounds at Charleston, and arrange- ' raents are now being made whereby high-class sport may be provided. The j syndicate paid $47,500 for the privllege, and has signed a $10,000 bond. ! The forfeit money has already been j filed. It is said that some of the j sporting people who had been associated with Brooks Harley, whose contract was not carried out, will assist Levy & Co., and the horses heretofore booked for Charleston will be on hand according to promise. Big purses will be offered. The exposition company has agreed to erect all suitable buildings and grandstands, and work on this part of the track is being pushed forward very rapidly. It is the intention of the company to make the races one of the good daily features at the grounds. * > Heroic Statue Withdrawn. On account of the bitter opposition raised by negroes of Charleston it has been decided to withdraw Sculptor Lo pez's heroic sized group 01 ngures typifying negro life in the south. The contention of the negroes was that the group represented their race in menial guise and disregarded the more progressive and enlightened elements of the race. The group was placed in front of the negro building at the exposition several weeks ago. It had only been in position a few days when objections were raised and complaints were at once lodged with the commissioners by the negroes of Charleston. Fault was found with the face of-the negro boy picking a banjo and the face of the negro plowman. The negro commissioners wro-:e to Chairman Booker T. Washington, and he immediately took the matter up with the board of directors, asking that the group be taken away because of the serious objections to the figures. It may be used upon the grounds, but this has not been determined upon as yet Field Agent T. J. Jackson, for the negro department, said, in speaking about the group, that it did not represent the race, as it was characteristic only of the very lowest types of negroes. He said if the figures had represented progress in his race no objections would have been raised in the matter. "The exhibits to be displayed in the negro building," he said, "will show the advancement of the colored race and, this being the case, it is perfectly natural that the colored people should want a group, if any at all, in keeping with the exhibits in the building." It is not known If another group j will be made to take the place of the present one. RECEIVER HAS PROPERTY. Possessions of Convict Carter Being Turned Over Pending Settlement. Another step to further proceedings by the government against the property of Oberlin M. Carter was taken in the United States circuit court at Chicago Monday. Attorney Horace G. Stone representing the convicted army officer and his relatites, carried out part of the agreement recently signed by turning over about $71,000 worth o! property to Receiver Max Whitney, pending a settlement. This makes the $i0\000. Another portion is still to be transferred to the receiver, and this will bring the total to almost $500,000. GORE SPILLED IN KENTUCKY. Two Men Killed and Two Fatally Wounded in Election Brawls. Election brawls caused two deaths and two probably fatal woundings at. Moorehead, Ky. Tuesday William Mornig shot and killed David Jones who had himself been acquitted of murder only three days before. John Shumate and Tilden Hogge became involved in a difficulty with George Unctrp ami his three sons. Ray. Tilden and Charley. George and Tilden Hogge are badly wounded; Charley Hogge Is dead and Ray Hogge and John Shumate are reported dying. FORMER FOES FRATERNIZE. Officials of Rival Street Railways In Atlanta Dine Together. The magnates of Atlanta's erstwhile rival street railway companies met around the board Thursday night at1 an elegant dinner tendered them by President Ernest Woodruff, of the Atlanta Railway and Power Company. This is the first time these gentlemen have ever met at a social function, and the occasion was one of interesting significance, showing the friendly relation now existing between those who only a short while ago were the bitterest of financial foes. SIX SOLDIERS DROWNED. Disastrous Attempt to Cross Babyon River In Samar Island. A dispatch frcm Catbalogan, Samar, says: The insurgents are becoming more active in the i3land of Leyte, Wednesday the town of Matalon was attacked. At Inopacan the insurgents cut the telegraph lines. While a detachment of American troops were repairing it they were fired upon by a band of insurgents. After a brief skirmish the rebels were dispersed. First Lieutenant Robert T. Crawford, of the First infantry, a sergeant and five men, v/hile attempting to cross the Babyon river in Samar, were drowned. WOMAN SHOOTS BANKER. A Sensational Scene Enacted In Streets O'f Asheville, North Carolina. At Asheville, N. C., Wednesday Miss Mary Slagl? shot and dangerously wounded Houston Merriam, assistant cashier of the Blue Ridge National bank. As Mr. Jvierriman got off a street car to enter the bank, the woman opened fire, one shot entering the back and penetrating a lung. Another shot shattered an arm. The two additional shots flrec". by the woman missed their mark. The shooting caused much excitement. The cause is not given. FRANCE TRIUMPHANT Turk Yields Unconditionally To , Every Demand Made. I SPILLING OF GORE OBVIATED j i Terms of Settlement and Concessions 1 Made Are of Far-Reaching Character ar.d of Great Importance. A special frcm Paris says: France has scored a complete triumph in the Turkish dispute. The foreign office Friday morning received advices announcing that the sultan has yielded to the entire demands formulated ty the French government, and only the question of form regarding the execution of this agreement remains to be setJed. This may be done within the next twenty-four hours, or it is expected, at the latest, in two or three days. Then Admiral Caillard will relinquish his occupation of the island of Mitylene. The Temps prints a dispatch from Constantinople under Friday'* dat* which says that the sultan, in accepting the French demands, firstly, authorizes the working of the French schools, hitherto unrecognized; secondly, he recognizes, officially, the existence of the religious and hospitable institutions already founder and accords them customs immunity and ex emption frdm certain taxes, and third ly, he authorizes the reconstruction of the schools and hospitable institutions destroyed at the time of the Armenian troubles, of which a detailed list is attached to the French note. Tewflk Pasha, the Turkish foreign minister, has announced that the recognition of the Chaldean patriarch, demanded by Fiance, has been already accorded. MAY SUCCEED RUCKER. Report that Atlanta Man Is Slated For Georgia Collectorship. A Washir.gton special says: From an almost authoritative source the statement was made Friday that T. H. Martin, of Atlanta, Ga., will be appointed collector of internal revenues ?^ - *-*> Uanrtr A Plir-lf uj. vjreui&LW tuwtcvu ix^ui; ?UV? er, the Incumbent. The announcement that Rucker, the negro collector, Is to be removed is no surprise, since there has been a persistent rumor to that effect since President Roosevelt held his firet eonferences with prominent Georgia white republicans at the capital. When it was learned that Mr. Martin had resigned two important positions in Atlanta, it was an open secret that he had done sc in order to accept the collectorship. The official appointment, though it may not be made for some vime, is believed to be only a question of time. The appointment, if it is made, is one that will doubtless meet with the approval of the white republicans of Georgia. Mr. Martin is well known as one of the mo?;t prominent as well as one of the most active republicans in the state. In 1896 he organized the McKinley Clut of Fulton county and ; made a strong fight in the interest of the gold standard. GEN. WHEKLER INTERESTED. Army Officers Plan to Establish Gun ? . 1 ?U!I I ? ! l_ : _ factory in rruiaucipniei. A company, of which General Joseph Wheeler is a director, ii contemplating the establishment of a plant in Philadelphia for the manufacture of a new firearm. The general purposes making Philadelphia his home. The chief merits claimed for the new weapon are freedom from recoil and i? the j rifle automatic action in loading and S firing. The United States board of ordnance and fortification, it is said, has had tests made and given appropriations in order to conduct the tests and to apI ply the device to artillery. Army offl! cers are interested in the company. ITINERARY '"GOOD ROADS TRAIN." Stop of Four Days Made at Greenville, Tenn., and Convention Held. The special "good roads train" of the National Good Roads Association and the Southern railway stopped at Greenville, Tenn., Saturday for four days in the interest of good roads. This is the special train which s tour Ing the Southern railway on that account. A section of sample road is being constructed at Greenville, and a convention is part of the program. The good roads train will go from Greenville to Chattanooga, where another conventirn win be held. VOTE FELL FAR SHORT. Ohio Returns Show Decrease of 100,000 compared With 1899. With almost half the official returns from the eighty-eight counties' in Ohio received it js estimated that the total vote may be 100,(h>0 less than for governor two years ago. when 920,$72 votes were cast, and almost a quarter of a million less than for president last year, when the total vote of Ohio was 1,049,121. INSIST ON INVESTIGATION. Differences Between Two Houses of Georgia Legislature Not Settled. Although the lower house of the Georgia legislature Thursday morning sent to the senate a resolution asking the withdrawal of the resolution for information regarding the passage of the corporation franchise tax bill, the resolution was not withdrawn and the incident is not closed. The matter is now in the hands of the general judiciary CHARGE OF CRIMINAL LIBEL A County Schoc! Of. cial i.as Warrant Issued For Georgia State School Commissioner Glenn. An Atlanta special siays: When State School Commissioner G. R. J Glenn appeared at his office at the cap- j itol Monday morning he was placed undGr arrest by the sheriff of Washington county on the charge of criminal libel made by John N. Rogers, county I school commissioner of Washington county. Commissioner Glenn was surprised to hear that he was charged with criminal libel, but did not seem in "the least disconcerted over the matter. When asked for a statement, he said: "I cannot see that I have been guilty of criminal libel. For some time Rog- | ers has been circulating injurious reports about me, and I merely wrote him a letter telling him just what I thought of him. I also sent copies of the letter to the members of the board cf education ,cf Wabsing>ion county, as I thought it proper for them to know the true state of affairs, and I thought it my duty to inform them in the matter. "The letter was a severe one, the severest letter I have ever written. It was a letter which u<j true man would have deserved and no brave man would have taken. It wasj written about six weeks ago. "I am not surprised to hear that something of this nature will be attempted. It is all a matter of politics. The affair began from political motives and this last step is only another move of the political cabal of which Rogers is a member. "I am fully acquainted with the law in the case, but as the warrant was issued in Washington county, I suppose that I shall have to go there to answer the preliminary hearing. If this is the case, 1 shall certainly make no effort to avoid going to Washington county for the hearing." PAYMASTER MINIS HIS CASH. Major Stevens, U. S. A., Mysteriously Relieved of Over Four i thousand Dollars Contained In Valise. A mysterious robbery, in which over $4,000 was lost, was reported Sunday night to the Atlanta city detectives, the result of which was that a negro employee of the United States government, who has held his position for seventeen years, was arrested and locked up at the police barracks. Major P. C. Stevens, a government paymaster on hig way to rensacola, Fla., to pay off the artillerymen at oFrt Barancas and MsRea, was the vicrtim. The negro under arrest, J. H. Alexander, denies that he has the money, and the detectives have been unable to ascertain who has the ?rtolen money. Alexander made the following statement: "I took the valise to the depot. I have been working for the government for seventeen years. I knew there was money in the valise. It was very heavy and felt like there was silver in It I missed the major and his friends. I think they went into a saloon to get a drink. I waited at the depot and when they came up the train was pulling out. We ran to catch the train and could not overtake it. I carried the valise back to the office. I did not open it and did not know that it had been robbed until I was arrested today." Major Stevens states that he gave + V./V mnnoTT tn iha naorn in N VAl i?P And liiu uiuavj ivy imj uvg* v *** v ? ??-ww ?? ? that the robbery was not discovered until he had reaehed Pensacola, Fla. Last Friday evening Major Stevens started to leave Atlanta, and he placed $4 ,700 in a valise and gave the valise to Alexander to carry to the union depot. By some misunderstanding the negro did not meet the major at the depot in time to eatoh the train and the valise was carried back to the office in the Empire building. Major Stevens could not leave without the money and his next train was cheduled to leave Saturday. He took this train. Sunday morning t^e valise was opened in Pensacola, Fia., and the major found the money was missing. The silver currency, amounting to some $400 or $500, was found intact, but the bills, amounting to *.,200, were missing. TRANS-APPALACHIAN ROAD. New Line Across Blue Ridge Will Cut Off One Hundred Miles.The survey of the Trans-Appalach' ian railway is completed, and so are the estimates for grading it. Starting at Lincolntcn, N. C., on the Seaboard Air Line, the road will pass Morgan ton and get over the Blue Ridge at Coffee's I G-ap, about 4.SCO ieet above sea level, j and then go on to Butler, Tenn. It will I eu-t 100 miles from the land haul of coal from the Tennessee min^s to North Carolina aim South Carolina coasts and win reduce the priee mafte| rially. PIONEER ATLANTIAN DEAD. Captain W. D. Grant, Leading Financier, Victim of Heart Disease. Captain William Daniel Grant, one of the leading financiers of Atlanta, Ga., died at his home on Peachtree [ street Thursday morning of heart failI ure. Captain Grant was 63 years of age, having been born on August 16, 1837. ! In 1871 he located in Ab.anta, where he has resided ever since. GEORGIAN DIES IN MANILA. Captain Robert Anderson, of Ninth Infantry, Victim of Pneumonia. A cablegram received at the war I department Thursday from General | Chaffee, at Manila, announces the death of Captain Robert H. Anderson, of the Ninth infantry. Captain Anderson was appointed to the army in 1SS-1 from civil life, being accredited to Georgia. TWO OFFICERS BELD Escaped Convicts Tarn Tables On Their Pursuers. UNIQUE COUP IS PERPETRATED Sheriff and His Deputy Compelled to Promise Immunity In Order to Gain Their Ov/n Liberty. A Topeka, Kans, special saysi: Sheriff Cook and deputy Sheriff Williams were captured by two convicts from the Fort Leavenworth military prison Sunday afternoon at Pauline, five miles I nt T/~v1*n onH hol/t nriennPrS! ouutu ui x i\a. auu uuiu |/n>/vuv.. on ihe farm of a man named Wooster for several hours. They finally escaped between a line of police sent from Topeka to reinforce the sheriff and are now at large. Both were slightly wounded. Wooster was badly wounded by one of the conviols when he tried to fire on them. Mrs. Wooster and Sneriff Cook were held oefore the convicts as a shield by the prisoners in making their escape. At 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon some farmer boys near Pauline learned that the convicts were in the neighborhood. Hastily forming a posse, armed with target rifles, pistols and clubsw they gave chase. Neither of the convicts was armed .and they were unable to make a stand. Later Sheriff Cook and Deputy Williams arrived. Coming upon the convicts^ bo.a of the officers fired, wounding the men, but not disabling them. The convicts then fled -through a small opening in the timber and ran into the houze of Parmer Wooster. Sheriff Cook telephoned to Topeka for assistance and then took up 'the chase. Thinking the convicts had run around the house, Cook darte- through the open door, intending to surprise them S't the rear door, but instead of this the convicts had gone into the house and the officer almost fell into tneir arms. Sheriff Cook was ordered to give up his gun, which he did. Deputy Williams by this time had reached the house and entered without knowing what had happened inside, and he, too, was made captive by the convicts. In the meantime Chief S^anl, cf Topeka, with eight officers, were on their way. They arrived at the Wooster house about an hour after the officers had been imprisoned. Chief Stahl immediately began negotiations with the convicts to give up their prisoners and to surrender themselves, but the convicts only laughed. Farmer Wooster then managed to get a .gun and was aboiat to make an attack on the convicts, when one of them lain him low with a blow from the butt of a revolver takcu from one of their captives* One of the convicts told Sheriff Cook 1 * ' * * * ?- - ~ A ^ tnat ne wouia oe Kiue^i u uc mauc slightest move looking toward tneir capture. In the meantime the police officers on tho outside surroiindeu the building, but were afraid to make a move for fear that Cook and Williams would suffer. Mrs. Woo&ter had fainted during the excitement. She finally revived end at 7 o'clock the convicts) pxaced the woman and Sheriff Cook in front of them as shields and maae for the door. Then, after an exacting promise from the sheriff that he would not permit any of the officers outside to fire on them, they started for the open. As they left the house, the frightened farmer's wife and submissive sheriff before them, the convicts passed between a cordon of police, who could easily have captured them, and started for the railroad track. The sheriff had in turn ! exacted a promise from the police that they would not molest the convicte, and they did not. After covering themselves a considerable distance down the tracK the con victs suddenly disappeared uirougn a hedge fence bidding the officers a mocking farewell. The convicts had secured a good 1 start before the officers had recovered j from their surprise. Then some of the ! policemen wanted to pursue but Sher! Iff Cook would not permit it as he had j promised the convicts immunity from arrest RATHBUN MAk&6 CONFESSION. Prisoner Reveals Attempted Scheme to Rob Insurance Companies. Newell C. Rathbun. who was supposed to have been found dead in a Jeffersonville, Ind., hotel last Thursday, was arrested in Louisville, Ky., Monday. According to Rathbun, the corpse which was shipped to Little Rock for burial as the body of Rathbun was the body of W. L. Ten Eykc-. The police say Rathbun has confessed to desertion from the United States ? * x ~ 1 5? ? a nlnn fA army ana 10 navmg iuiujcu a. pmu ?.? fraudulently collect $4,000 insurance on his life. CONSIDERING THE EVIDENCE. Three Members of the Inquiry Court Meet Behind Closed Doors. Admiral George Dewey and Rear Admirals Henham and Ramsay, 'composing the Schley court of inquiry, met at their quarters in the McLean building, Washington, Monday behind closed doors and began the discussion and consideration of the evidence brought forward in the investigation concluded laSrTveek. SCHLEY ACCEPTS INVITATIONS. Will Visit Memphis and Nashville, Tenn, In January. Rear Admira&s^chley has agreed to visit Memphis, Tenn., some time in January, the exact date to be settled later. He goes there to receive a silver service bought -or him by contributions through The Commercial-Appeal. A delegation from Nashville j called on him Friday and he accepted i an invitation to visit that city. He ' may go to Knoxvi'lle on the trip. CREAn OF NEWS J Summary of the Moat % + Important Daily f i Happenings Tersely Told. + iljXl UtXXXXXAXAl y na y--w w * TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT ?Sheriff English, of Washington county, arrived in Atlanta Sunday | night, armed with a warrant for the arrest of State School Commissioner G. R. Glenn on a charge of criminal libel preferred by County School Commissioner John N. Rogers, of Sandersville. ?Major P. C. Stevens, paymaster United States army, is relieved of $4,000 in currency, probably at the union depot in Atlanta. His clerk, a negro, is under arrest. ?At Greensboro, Ga., the fair by the colored people in support of the Georgia Normai and Industrial institute is a decided success. ?The convicts who escaped from Leavenworth prison are causing great excitement in Kansas. Sunday they t nr. .-.fflrwu-e Trnn wero niirKlllTIC j VlilVViO if **V f! V* v r-.? ?-?o them. ?The sultan o. Turkey has signed an irade declaring the settlement of the trouble with France, yielding to all of the demands made. ?Evidence against Gibson Easton, charged with furnishing food to the insurgents in the Philippines, is accumulating. Lukban's commissary general says he had a contract with Easton. ?Havana has awarded a $10,000,000 contract for sewers and paving in the city. ?It Is feared the brigands will kill Mies Stone after the ransom has been paid on account of the troops being called on to pursue thera. ?Information was received in Atlanta, Ga., Friday from Washington, D. C., to the effect that Rucker, the negro collector erf internal revenues, will be succeeded by T. H. Martin. ?The sheriff of Sevier county, Tenn., accepts bond for Robert L. Catlett, charged wiht having a han4 in a murder committed in 1S96, as a condition upon which the fugitive surrenders. ?The state of Texas makes a demand upon the interior department for $88,699, money expended by "the Lone Star State upon Greer county, which is now a part of Oklahoma. ?In Madison, Fla., Friday will Jones, the negro who killed three men a few weeks aeo. was hanged by the sheriff in the presense of a large crowd. ?Helen Hutton, a leader of her social set in Decaturr Ala., blows her brains out because the young man to whom she was engaged did not appear at the wedding hour. ?Three of the convicts who escaped from the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kans., were killed by their pursuers Friday. ?Rumor has it that General Wheeler will move to Philadelphia, where he will be at the head of an arms company. ?Senator Hanna dined with President Roosevelt Friday night His object in visiting the white house was to talk about the proposed Mckinley memorial with Mr. Roosevelt. ?Evidence against Jane Toppan, alleged poisoner, is accumulating and prosecution says she will be convicted. ?Turkey has yielded to the demands of France, agreeing to all the terms. ?The duke of Cornwall has been created the prince of Wales. ?General Stephen D. Lee. of Mississippi, and representatives of the St Louis exposition addressed the Georgia general asembly in joint session Thursday. ?Members of the board of control of the Atlanta union depot were served with summonses to appear before tLe recorder Thursday to answer to the charge of maintaining a nuisance in the shape of a germ-infested car shed. ?Koester's part in the South Carolina lynching a few years ago has been fully explained to President Roosevelt, who announces that the appointment to the internal revenue collectorship will stand. ?Southern railway machinists, who have been on a strike since May, again assert the railway will give in as soon as the weather becomes cold enough to have an effect on iron, making It brittle, etc. ?Convict Oberlin Carter says that in his new hearing he will introduce testimony that was excluded by courtmartial. ?Charles Smith, a negro who hails from Atlanta, Ga., kissed a white girl on the streets of New York Thursday. The girl screamed and a mob collected and tried to lynch the negro. ?Twenty-six convicts in Leavenworth federal prison made their escape Thursday after a desperate struggle with the guards. Two of the guards were badly wounded. ?The Greek minister at Constantinople telegraphs his government that Turkey accepts all the terms of France. SEIZED AMERICAN SCHOONER. Stoppe By Portugueses Gun Boat For Smuggling Emigrants. The Exchange Telegraph Company,! at London had received a dispatch ! from Lisbon announcing that a Portuguese gunboat has seized tne Ameri-! can schooner Nettie and Lottie at j Horta, island of Fayal, in the Azores, i for clandestinely conveying twenty-six J emigrants, who were trying <to avoid I military service. BOER LOSSES IN BATTLE. Kitchener Reports Forty-Four Burghers Left Dead on Field. Lord Kitchener cabling from Pretoria under Wednesday's date, supplementary details of the. recent fight near Drakcnlaagte. Eastern Transvaal, says: "The Boer fttss was forty-four killed, including C.eneral Opperman and 100 wounded. The Boers got nothing beyond tli cguns. The Boer attack was essily repulsed until the arriva. of Lculs Botha with GOO men. TEN DIE IN FLAMES | Vaodeville Theatre at flnrley, Wisconsin, Destroyed By Fire. ALL VICTIMS WERE ACTORS M Unfortunates Were In Sleeping Apartments in Top Story and Rapid %? Spread of Flames Cut Off All Escape. Ten lives wore lost and four build- . ings destroyed by a fire which started in the Klondike theater at Hurleys Wis., Wednesday. The dead are: ' W. Cleveland, H. P. Clifford, Thomas . ;-.-i Le Claire, George Benert, H. D. Bm- V'|jjj8 ory, Timothy Ryan, F. L. Gay, 8t. Louis; Tomas Ozanne, Harry Ray- ^|s| mon-d, Clare Bonne. ininred: Jennie Bender. -'.v/.rJSl Annie Scott, Laura Russell, "Billy" The Klondike was a vaudeville the- ~M atre and an of the dead and injured ^ were connected with the theatre aa - -/.|5 performers. Most of them lived at M Hurley, and Thomas Le Claire was a g brother of the proprietor of the thea- p The fire started on the stage and in ^ a few minutes the entire structure was .v a mass of flames. The top story was -,-J used as sleeping quarters and the rapid spread of the fire cut oft the escape of the occupants. 'M The theatre building was quickly consumed and the flames sptead to ad- - 'M joining structures. The Ironwood, Mich., lire department, the nearest vMj j within reach, was called to the asaisb ? auce of the Hurley firemen and only by the hardest work was the town 'A saved from being wiped out The losses follow: he Claire's Kfon- ^ dike theatre, $7,000; Cumming*? sa-^ Icon, $4,000; Harrigan & McPhereon'k saloon, $6,000; D. P. McNeil, of Chi- % cago, $1,000; Constantlne Erspaner, The charred remains of six of the->|? victims were soon recovered search was in progress for the other*. The Klondike theatre burned ones . ^ before?in July, 1887?when elersscJjsB women lost their lives ; . CARTER GETS NEW TRIAL. Convict Will Testify Before JudgeKahisaat In Chicago Court Oberlin M. Carter, now a convict in . $ 4-1 T uie guvti uuicui piiouu * VJ ? /-v?.worth, Kansas, and formerly a captain in the United States engineer corps, is to have a rehearing of his case in a - M civ^ tribunal. He now'has the assnrance of the government authorities y# that all the evidence is to be reviewed Js9 bfore Juakc Kohlsaat, in the j States circuit court in Chicago, tho^adK hearing to take place probably within 1 a few months. Carter will be called ^ on as a witness In his own behalf, and ^ for the purpose of testifying in eonrt .. ;?lp he will be released temporarily from his place of confinement. TMs is the result of the suits brought by tne government some C3H I months ago in several federal courts I for the purpose of recovering $722,582, which, it is alleged at the court mar tial, Carter had embezzled from the " United otates. GOVERNOR OPENS FAIR. State House Officials and Georgia Leg- ! S islature Guests of Savannah. r. Governor Cand4er, fifteen member# of his staff, several state house officers and about 150 members of the house and senate left Atlanta Tuesday night ^;Jj| at 9:30 o'clock in a special train orer ^50} the Centsal of Georgia railway for Sa^ vannah to attend the opening day of the state fair. The party reached Savannah Wed' ^ nesday morning at 8 o'clock. At noon Governor Candler opened the fair. He ? reviewed the military and raised the M state flag over the grand stand. He made a short speech, saying the first : ;; state fair of the 29th century hadv-^9 opened. Wednesday afternoon was spent at Tybee .where an oyster roast was in progress. The party returned to Atlanta Wednesday night. SHORTAGE IS SIXTY THOUSAND. I Finance Keeper of Knights of Maccabees Took Large Sum. I The board of trustees and the su- ' * nreme officers of the supreme tent, Knights of the Maccabees, held, ecutive session in Port Huron, Mich., with representatives of National Pk,~ - . nance Keeper Thompson, who is short in his accounts. It was announced that the shortage . ' '4|3 was $60,000 instead of $57,uw/. New Prince of Wales. A London special says: The duke - jjijg of Cornwall and York has been created prince of Wales and earl of Chester. ^f|0j "PAUNCY" HOB-NOB8 WITH HAY. Subject of Confab Was Preparation of , * the New Treaty. Lord Pauncefote, the British ambaasador. had a half hour's talk Friday -?jk with Secretary Hay in regard to the preparation of the new Hay-Pauncefote treaty. It is expected that in view ia of the progress that has been: made, ! the convention may b? concluded, far as the executive branch of thhrg^fl^H crnment is conoerned within a w^9H^9| SIX KILLED IN WRECK. J Report of Fearful Disaster on the IroflL^ Mountain Railroad. V^^9 A special to The Little Rock Gazette g9r| ! from Texarkana says that trainmen arj riving there Monday night on the Iron vj|j j Mountain railroad state that a work ; ?1 i train was- wrecked at Prescott, near J&y| | Texarkana, killing six negroes and ih?^^9| ; juring fifteen otters. The names of 99 I the dead men ai^aot obtainable. '-v..'-^jit^9B