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The Bamberg Herald: f ? 11 ??ii 1 1 - ? ? . i i ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. MARCH 19.1903. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. m' twk - -* dS ? ? . M 2 SOCIO CAROLINA I I STATE NEWS ITEMS. j ? rslCMCMC\KM?SK N?fSl i Wanted to Lynch Town Marshal. The town marshal at Monk's Corner arrested a white man a few days ago, and the man's friends threatened to lynch the marshal. A company of militia was ordered out by the governor and the matter was adjusted and I quiet restored. * ? r V Constable Badly Gored by Bull. Charles L. Cureton, chief constable cf the dispensary force, was recently attacked by a young Jersey bull at Pickens and had Lis knee badly injured. Before Mr. Cureton could make his escape the beas-t gored him on the hnee, dislocating the knee-cap. ft Columbia's New Cotton Mill. J. C. Carey, of Spartanburg, president of the Lockhart cotton mills, returned recently from Boston, where he had been in thevinterest of his mill. The capital stock of the plant has been increased to $1,300,000 and an ad ditional 50.000 spindles will at once be erected. While in the north Mr. Carey completed all arrangements for the machinery to equip tne new mill. Verdict for $10,000 Given. The largest verdict ever rendered in Spartanburg county for damages from a corporation was that awarded in the court of common plels recently in the case of Mrs. M. A. Koone. administratrix of N. A. Koone, deceased, vs. the Southern railway. The jury returned a verdict of $10,000 for the plaintiff The case grew out of the death of M. A. Koone, in 1900, while in tne employ of the Southern. One of the machines used in building a new bridge over Little Thickety creek got out of order and a negro was looking after the broken part, when it seems, lie became frightened and let go, allowing a heavy weight to fall upon Mr. Koone, resulting in his death. P** Woman Agent in the Toils. At Greenwood, last Saturday, Milly Ann Bush, a negro immigration agent, was arrested. For some time crowds of negro women have been leaving that section for New York, and as a result there has been a great scarcity of cooks and house servants. The Bush woman was arrested and ? bound over to the circuit court on a bond of $500. She is a native of that # county and has been soliciting negro women to go to New York. This sort of thing has been very common throughout the south of late. It is claimed #that the negro women taken to New York are wanted for servants, but in nearly every instance special effort is made to secure the young and comely women, and when they reaclu the metropolis they are usually induced to go into an employment that is not honorable, to say the least. ft ft ' Prioleau Stands Lndcr Indictment. Further testimony has been taken in Charleston in the election contest filed by a. P. Prioleau, colored, against George S. Legare, who was elected to congress from the first district in November. Prioleau got less than one hundred votes, although this was sufficient ground for him on which to protest. a number of negroes nave been examined, all of whom claimed that they were denied the rignt to vote. Counsel for Congressman Legare got an affidavit, however, which will undoubtedly throw Prioleau down. The negro candidate is under indictment in the United States court for taking a letter from the mails. He was a mail cierk, and evidence was adduced to show that he had connscated this letter, addressed to the magistrate at a snjall town near Charleston. When the case was given out the grand jury re turned a true bill, but counsel for Prio leau succeeded in having the trial postponed. ft ft ft Charleston Depot Company Enjoined. Acting on the bill of complaint filed by Mrs. Ann Riley and John F. Riley, circuit Judge Watts has issued an injunction restraining the Charleston Union Station Company from beginning condemnation proceedings to acquire the Riley property for a union depot site. Notice of condemnation was recently filed by the company. The right to take possession of their land is denied by the Rileys, who alleged that the act under which the company was incorporated. so far as it gives power of condemnation is unconstitutional. It is furthermore claimed that the roads are not forced to take the property of the complainants, and they would bo injured financially by such a transaction. The Union Station Company was organized some weeks ago witu the election of President R. G. Erwin, of the Atlantic Coast Line, as chairman; J. S. B. Thompson, of Atlanta, is one of the directors, representing the Southern railway. President Erwin, on his last trip to tViot tVir\ roilrnnHo VjIUli 1CSIU1I, ucnaitu uiai. uiv iuuiuuuu were anxious to build a union passen ger station, but said it was necessary to get possession of the Riley property before the work could be started. Judge Watts temporarily restrained the company from beginning work. * * Girl Acquitted by Jury. In Columbia, at 2:30 o'clock Sunday morning, after being out an hour and a half the jury in the case of Miss Josephine Burns, a young white woman.1 who was charged with the murder of JDustip II. Sarvis. a telegraph operator at Nicholas, Marion county. November last, returned a verdict of not guilty as to the charge of murder, and guilty as to carrying concealed weapons, a tine of 320 was Imposed, wnich was promt' ly paid, and tho young woman was im- j I mediately set at liberty. Notwithstanding the lateness of the hour the court room was filled with spectators and the verdict was greet- j ed with applause. The trial was the! most sensational held in Marion county for years. At the time of the killing it was 1 stated by the accused that she had been secretly married to Sarvis sever- j al months before and that she had j gone to see him at the depot to insist upon the announcement of their marriage; that he refused to do so, became angry, shot her in the head with a pistol an-d then shot himself, dying instantly. COTTON BEARS ARE TRAPPED. Wild Scenes on Floor of New York ! Exchange?Hundreds of Shorts Lose All in Upward Rush. Wild panic reigned among tho bears j of the cotton market at New York Sat- j urday for half an hour and scenes were j enacted in the pit that had never been J I seen there before even by the oldest trader. Hundreds of speculators who ' had walked into the trap laid by bull J leader, Daniel J. SuHy, Friday after- i noon were ruined. Theodore H. Price , and his followers went down in confusion. During this panic the price of active options fluctuated from a dollar to a dollar and forty-five cents a bale. After the bears had covered their contracts at a loss, pnces eased off from twenty-five to seventy cents ,, a bale in two minutes. Plans for this "killing" were laid Fri- , day afternoon when Mr. Sully got irn- J patient at the slurs cast at him by I several speculators who had tried to i follow his lead. He was asked at noon j ' Friday whether cotton would go higher. and refused to answer. At once it was reported that he had turned bear, and there was a raid on the market.- ' Prices closed at the bottom, 41 points, or $2.20 a bale below the highest for . the week. Every trader in the pit and one big cotton house went short on futures. The short interesc was sc I great that a crash or a bear panic was inevitable; it all depending on Mr. Sully's strength which it should be. ' It is rumored that Iv r. Sully cabled to his friends in Egypt telling of the huge short interest. The Egyptians were therefore up early in the day booming cotton on the Liverpool mar- j ket. By the time the New York mar- ] ket opened the Liverpool cables were ( from 6 to 7 points above tne local closing of Friday. Added to tnis rains in the south were reported to have do- I laycd planting the new crop, and the world's visible supply was reported to be G50,000 bales smaller than last year. The pit was surrounded by a throng of brokers long before me opening, each struggling to get to the center ready for quick action the moment the gong sounded. The openinig cf the battle was like the loosening of a pack of hungry hounds in sight of their prey, and men grew pale shrieking for cotton. There was absolutely none ior sale. The bull brokers stood calmly looking on at the frantic bears, Waiting until their leader gave the signal to se^. Mr. ! Sully stood aside like the master of ' ceremonies at an Indian torture. Sud- , denly he nodded to a broker, and the , long cotton bought at the bottom Fridav was sold back to the sellers 01 Sati urday at staggering prices. COTTON FACTORS ACQUITTED. Tried on Charge of Selling Staple for More Than Client Received. The trial of Henry Newman and < Harris Hyman for embezzlement end ed at New Orleans in acquittal. They were at one time about the wealthiest 1 and most prominent cotton lirm in the city, and are still doing a large busi- 1 ness. A year ago Colonel Buckner, a leading cotton planter of north Louisiana, accidentally discovered that some cot^* ton which he had consigned to the firm and which their return to him showed that it had been sold at 9 1-4 cents a pound, had really brought 9 1-2 cents. He came to the city posthaste .and asked a settlement to cover all his dealings for some years. The firm paid him $25,000. Other claims were also made and the cotton exchange expelled them, and endeavored to keep the matter quiet. But it got out and then the grand jury indicted tnem. This was the trial of the first case and attracted great interest, besides giving employment to an array of lawyers. The defense was that the money was paid to avoid litigation, as the firm had $1,000,t 00 outstanding among cotton planters, and not to cover any wrongdoings. The firm also claimed that when cotton was sold in bulk at a uniform price it was averageu, the cotton worth more getting above the sale price. 11 neia inai some couon soia with Buckner's at 9 1-2 cents was paid for at the rate of 9 3-4, while Buckner's was worth only 9 1-4 cents and was so credited. INJUNCTION PUT ON STRIKERS. Court Takes Hand in Trolley Troubles in Waterbury, Connecticut. An important move in relation to the trolley strike, which has been in progress at Waterbury, Conn., since January 11, was taken Saturday when papers were issued in the temporary injunction granted by Judge Elmer, of the superior court, restraining the trolley men's union and most, if not ail. of the unions in the city trom acts calculated to interfered with the company's business, or its employees. WILL STA\ UNTIL APRIL. Battle Ships Will Remain in Pensacola Two Months Longer. Admiral Higginson. commander in chief of the north Atlantic squadron, has announced that the battle ships composing the squadron will now remain in Pensacola, Fla., harbor for nearly two months longer, leaving during tfea?r?t pojtJoa 9* May, AN EXTRA CONGRESS; i I Said to bs Under Consideration by President Roosevelt. I WANT CUBAN MATTER FINISHED I ! Enactment of Some Kind of Money , Bill is Also Wanted?No Definite Conclusion, However, is Reached. According to a Washington special President Roosevelt has under serious consideration the summoning of congress in extra session early this fall. Apparently no determination has been reached, and there is no official an- i nouncement of such purpose, but ad- . ministration leaders acknowledge an extra session is highly probable. The necessity for the formal approv- j al by congress of the Cuban reciproc- j itv treaty will be given as the chief reason for such extra session, but it is | believed that the strongest miiuence [ tending to bring it about is the desire J in financial circles for the early pass- j nge of some currency measure like I the Aldrich bill with the idea of fur- j nishing a means to relieve the proba- i bility of money stringency in Novem- i ber and December. The conferences j which have been held by J. Pierpont ! Morgan with President Roosevelt, j Senator Aldrich and Senator Hanna , are understood to have related princi- : pally to this contingency. President Roosevelt has been strong- : ly imbued with the idea that unless ; Cuban reciprocity legislation is made j effective at once there will be suffer- , ing in Cuba. It is said that Mr. Mor- j gan disabused his mind of this idea, j Mr. Morgan reported conditions in the j island at present most favorable, and said the outlook for the future was j bright. He saw no reason for imme- j diate action by congress in line with i the treaty. Cubans Need Help. The president has teen so strongly J of the opinion that the Cubans need : help that he thinks congress should j act early this fall, rather than to wait j for the regular session, which con- I !? na^onitiflr ThA riPXt CfOD of ! > ^JLIVJO iU . ? Cuban sugar will be marKeied in December and January, and it is his desire that the Cuban planters and American importers be given the benefit of the reductions set forth in the treaty on the coming crop. It is almost certain If this Cuban matter were allowed to go over to the regular session there would be no action upon it before January, which would mean the postponement of relief for another year. The desire to put through Cuban legislation and also to put through some currency bill will, i it is now confidently expected, bring a 1 call for an extra session to meet probably in October. Friday was one of conferences in the senate. The republican steering com mittee decided that all republicans should vote against the proposed amendments to the Panama canal treaty. The proceedings of the senate will now be taken stenographicaliy for publication in the Record in accordance with the agreement reached Thursday. The democrats will strongly support their amendments designed to secure absolute American sovereignty over the canal strip with recog nition of the right of this government to defend its property in any way it desires, including the right to fortify. It is positively certain none of these amendments will be adopted. After they fail, it is expected a number of democrats will vote to ratify the treaty as it stands. A good many republicans would like to vote for some of the democratic amendments, but they will follow the direction of their steering committee. Republicans Doubtful. Some senators who talked with the ! president Friday believe it to be un- j ln-^ly that an extraordinary session j will be called next autumn. They say many reasons might be cited why such a session should not Le held, the principal one being that some important state elections are to be held in November and members or congress will be busy with political affairs in their own states <;ONV!ICTS IN GREAT DEMAND. All Available Help Hurried to Work on Mississippi Levees. Governor Longino, of Mississippi, J received scores of cClegrams from j the levee district Thursday morning, j all of an apprehensive nature. The I levee board at Clarksdale believes that the levees in Isaquena county are in j great danger and has asked for more convicts at once, free labor being scarce. Warden Henry was ordered to rush all convicts possible from the state farms on special trains. They will be distributed at weak points along the line. PRESIDENT'S WESTERN TOUR. Itinerary is Practically Completed and in Hands cf the Railroaus. Several senators and members of the house of representatives from western states had conferences with President Roosevelt Monday concerning his approaching tour of tlie west and northwest. The itinerary of the | trip practically nas been completed . and now is in the hands of the railroads for exact determination of the running time of the president's train. REBECCA LOSES COURT CASE. Mandamus to Compel Her Reinstate- ! ment in War Department Dismissed. | At Washington Monday, the district j supreme court dismissed the petition I of Miss Rebecca J. Taylor, lor a man- j damus to compel the secretary of j war to restore her to a clerical posi- j tion in the war department. She gave notice of appeal to the court of ap- i penis. She was dismissed for publish- i c-d criticisms of the administration's Philippine policy, 4f "f f Cream of News.? ? * | Brief Summary of Most important Events of Each Day. ?The cut in prices at the Athens, Ga., dispensary has only caused an increase in the profits of the institution. ?Seventeen negroes have been arrested at McRae, Ga., charged with robberies from the Southern railway's freight depot. ?Pastor Williams, of Trinity Methodist church, at Savannan, Ga., Sunday night reiterated his cha.ges that the Savannah courts arc to blame for the prevalence of gambling. ?A Mississippi man convicted of manslaughter has asked for a new trial on the ground that a member of the convicting jury is not an American citizen. ?Mayor of Evansvillc, Ind., member of labor union, was compelled to shut off the gas from his house during the boycott. ?Colonel Cody (Bul'faio Bill) writes to the president, appealing for the protection of underbrush on western mountains from the ravages of sheep. That, unless this is done settlors will have to move. ?Count de Bostari had a joyous time while circulating $250,000 in forged checks in England. ?During a storm in Havana harbor Sunday, the crew of the Dolphin, Secretary Moody's vessel, rescued five Cubans from drowning. ?King Edward had a conierence with Colonial Secretary Chamberlain Sunday and taked about Chamberlain's tour to South Africa. ?The Ocean Steamship Company has contracted for two large steamships which will ply between Savannah and New York. ?At New Market. Ala., Joe Powers, a white man, tried to exterminate an entire famny. ?President Roosevelt is considering the advisability of calling an extra session of congress to meet in the fall to consider financial legislation and the Cuban treaty. ?Secretary Wilson is Interested in silk culturo in Georgia, and he will send Dr. Howard ,of the agricultural department, to Tallulah Fails to inspect the Magid plantations. ?Highwaymen held up a stage in Arizona, murdered six passengers, two of whom were women, and rifled the bodies. ? ' ?It is alleged that Standard Oil men are planning to secure control of + A r\ o T-1 t m r] fk lut; AU1CI iiau twnvu >.? ?The blockade of the Orinoco river, declared by President Castro, of Venezuela, on March 7, has been raised. ?The situation in Honduras has become so grave that a squadron of American warships has been ordered thither. ?Secretary of the Navy W. H. Moody sailed from Charleston, S. C. Wednesday, with a party of congressmen for a cruise of the West Indies. ?C. L. Watson, in Chattanooga, thrashed a man who he claims spoke disparagingly of a lady friend. He rode 500 miles to do the work. ?The strike of the transfer drivers at Kansas City, Mo., has resulted in violence. ?It is said that James R Keene, the Wall street speculator, is attempting to get control of the Southern Pacific. ?Mrs. Pennell, injured in the automobile accident by which her husband war instantly killed, died Wednesday night. ?The flood situation along the lower Mississippi is still extremely threatening. If the levees break incalculable damage will result. ?Miss Gonzales, a native of Porto Rico, is held at Ellis Island on the ground that she is an alien and has no right to enter the United States. ?The indications are that democratic amendments to the canal treaty will be accepted and that a vote will be taken without delay. ?The Cuban-American reciprocity treaty has been approved by the Cuban senate. ?Secretary Shaw is in New Yark investigating the Wall street situation. For several days tne street has been urging the secretary to relieve the stringency. ?Captain Abenlieimer, who commanded the Irene at Manila, and who had trouble with Admiral Dewey, has been retired by the Kaiser. ?After appearing against the Seaboard in a Halifax, N. C., court Tuesday, Conductor Miller was crushed under a train. ?The steamship Karamania has reached New YorK from Marseilles and Palermo with a disease resembling cholera aboard. Six persons died during the voyage. ?Four men charged with safecracking were bound over to the United States district court at Charlotte, N. C., Tuesday. ?North Queensland has been swept by a cyclone. Scores of people were killed. ?At a meeting of stave manufacturers in Chattanooga Tuesday it was decided to advance all prices 5 per cent. ?Hon. James H. lilount, former congressman, statesman and soldier, died at Macon, Ga., Sunday. ?The situation in the lower Missis sippi valley was very gloomy Tuesday. Thousands of acres are already under water. ?President Castro, of Venezuela, has revived the blockade of the Orin oco river and it is feared further inter national trouble will follow. ?George Gould paid $1,500 for p special train from Jacksonville to Wei don. N. C., over the Atlantic Coast Line. A lad1-' in his party nad an c:: gagement for dinner in New York and he wanted to catch a tram several hours ahead p? htm, j BLOODY WORK OF BANDITS. ' Stage Coach Held Up and All of Its Six Occupants Killed and Then Robbed. A dispatch from Tucson, Arizona, says: Mexican bandits held uii the stage coach which runs between Potam and Torin, on the Yaqui river, in Soiora, killing all of the six passen- j gcrs. Among them was Filiberto Al- ; | varado, a wealthy Mexican, who owns | a number of ranches along the Yaqui j river. j Alvarado and his wife had taken the j stage from Potam to Torin, and the : ! men no doubt thought they carried a j large sum of money with them. The j ; stage carried very little mail and j . scarcely any money or valuables. The hold-up took place about half : way between the tw<y towns. Just how i the stage was attacked will never be j known, as all the passengers and driver were killed. They were picked up j the same afternoon of the tragedy and j the circumstances give evidence that j they put up a fight, else they would not | have been killed. Their bodies were j rifled of everything of value on them. | The traces had been cut and the ; i?ir<;o? hiti hern allowed to run wild. I , _ ? The cover and body of the stage were i shot full of holes. It is thought by the Guayamas authorities that the perpetrators were I some of the bandits who have taken refuge in the mountains back of Yaqui river and were watching for Alvarado. Friends of the murdered rancher say that he i:ad little money with j him*at the time. Alvarado had been ; married only two months. With him j w^re Senorita Julia Berido and Sen{ orita De Gonzales, both of prominent j families in that country and both of ! whom were murdered. TRUST SEEKS COTTON CROP. Alleged that Standard OH People are { Planning to Control Staple. A special from Boston, Aiass., says: Back of the present movement in cotton and the coming consolidation of various cotton product companies, are Standard Oil men, whose representatives are backing both sides of the market and seeking to carry out plans which the Standard Oil Company has had for years under consideration of controlling the cotton crop of the country through the improved baling process. Sully, the big cotton bull, is a protege of General S. W. Weld, of Boston, father of the Planters' Compress Company, and Sully's broker in cotton exchange transactions. Price's backer is A. C. Burragc, of Boston, a Standard nn mnn who has iust been elected a directors in Planters' Compress. Burrage backed Price in cotton last year and profited $1,000,000 by the deal. Mr. Burrage is a personal friend of H. H. Rogers, another standard Oil magnate, who has an interest in Planters' Compress, and they aro working to secure control of the American cotton trade. NOTHING FOR THE WIFE. Murdered Millionaire Burdick Cut Better Half from His Will. The will of the late Edwin T. Burdick, murdered in his home at Buffalo, N. Y., February 27, was made public Friday. Burdick cuts off his wife, who he was suing for divorce, without a cent He leaves $2,500 to relatives and the rest of his property to his three children, share and share alike. The will was made December 8, 1902. Mr. Burdick names as executors of his estate Augustus B. Kellogg, George H. Dunston and George C. Miller. He names Charles Parke and Risey Tucker, his business associates, as guardians of his three children. Frederick B. Hartzell, attorney for Mrs. Burdick, was asked if there would be any objections to the will so far as he and his client are concerned. "I can't tell yet," he said. "There may be." Ten Miners Indicted by Grand Jury. Indictments were returned at Charleston, W. Va., by the federal grand jury against ten miners for resisting officers of the government while trying to serve process at Atkinsville, prior to the battle at Stanford city. TROLLEY LINE ASSURED Will Connect South Carolina Capital With Aiken and Augusta. The building of the much-talked-of electric railway line from Columbia to Aiken, S. C., now seems assured, i The proposed line will connect at Aiken with the Augusta-Aiken line, link- j ing Columbia and Augusta. The initial j step toward the building of this line was taken Tuesday when the application for a charter was made to the secretary of state, and a commission j was secured. The line- will pass through the coun- j ties of Richland, Lexington and Aiken, I and will be 50 miles In length. j THE CITY OF MACCN LAUNCHED.! New Vessel of Ocean Steamship Company Slides from Her Ways. The steamer City of Macon, which ; is being built at Roach's ship yard, at | Chester, Pa., for the Ocean Steamship ! Company, was launched at 1 o'clock { Saturday. Miss Rheta Ethcridge, of Macon, | Ga., christened the vessel. Many rep- ! resentatives of the Ocean Steamship Company were present INQUEST INTO BURDICK CASE, j Murder of Buffalo Millionaire Being Probed by Authorities. The inquest into the murder ot Ed- j win L. Burdick was begun in the po- i lice court at Buffalo, N. Y., Saturday before Judge Murphy. The court room j is small and only a limited number of persons were admitted. Among the first witnesses to appear were Mrs. Scth T. Paine, Miss Barrett, the stenographer who be irds with Mrs. Paine and A. Carlson, another boarder at the Pain$ residence, CANAL TREATY SAFE Ratification of Convention Has Been Made a Certainty. - CUBAN TREATY fS HELD UP Goes Over to New Congress, in Order that House May Act Upon It. Contention of Demo. & crats Upheld. 'i A Washington special says: * The senate by unanimous consent Thursday agreed to vote on the Colombian canal treaty Tuesday. The amendments to the treaty to be considered Monday. The request for unanimous agreement was made by Senator Frye. The agreement is in part as follows: "That, not later than Tuesday next, the vote upon the resolution for ratification shall be taken without further debate. That the injunction of secrecy shall.be removed from the speeches of Senator Morgan already printed and submitted to senators, including that to be made by him on the response to the senate resolution celling for infor raation as to tiic agreement uciwccu the Panama Canal Company and our government, and they shall be printed in The Record, and that the speech or speeches made for and against the ratification of the treaty during the hour of general debate allowed each side shall be printed in The Record in like manner as the speeches of Senator Morgan." On motion o* Senator Gorman the injunction of secrecy was removed from the agreement. Many republicans agree that the two amendments proposed by the democrats ought to be adopted, but they fear any changes will endanger the treaty. There is every reason, therefore, to believe that the amendments will be voted down and the treaty ratified as it stands. As to Cuban Treaty. During the day's session the democrats scored a distinct victory in the matter of the Cuban t^aty by forcing the republicans to accept their amendment providing that the treaty shall not go into effect until it is approved by the congress. This is the point for which the democrats have been making their strongest fight, the one which they have regarded as most important of all those under consideration. The republican leaders for their own political purposes have desired to avoid the adoption of such an amendment to the treaty, fearing it would lead to an embarrassing tariff fight inthe new congress, Dut they found that the best constitutional lawyers on their side agreed that the democratic contention was right, and they accord ingly surrendered and permitted a unanimous adoption of this amendment by the foreign relations committee. This, of course, brought a unanimous report for the treaty as amended. The amendment is in these words: "This treaty shall not take effect until the same shall nave been approved by the congress." This amendment removes from this treaty the grave question whether the president and ihe senate have the power to change the tariff laws by a treaty made with a foreign government. The original treaty assumed that the president and senate have this power and contained no provision recognizing that an act of congress would be necessary to make the treaty effective. The democratic senators have, from the beginning strenuously contended that the president and the senate do not have this power under the constitution, and have insisted that the Cuban treaty should be so amended that it should not be effective until made so bv act or Joint resolution of congress. This contention i3 based upon the constitutional pro iV A vision reposing in "tne congress luo i power "to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises." Sons of Vets to Meet in Chattanooga. Chattanooga has been chosen as the place for the annual meeting of the Alabama and Tennessee organizations of Sons of Union Veterans BRITAIN BLUFFS CASTRO. Venezuelan President Forced to Call Off His Little Blockade. A cablegram was received at the state department Friday from United States Charge D Affaires Russell, at Caracas, announcing that the blockade of the Orinoco river declared by President Castro, had been raised. The Venezuelan government was given to understand that if the blockade was persisted in Great Britain would recognize the belligerency of the rebels in Venezuela, and, moreover, applying to the laws of neutrality with strictness, would close all British ports to Venezuelan war ships. JUSTICE DAY IS ILL. Newly Appointed Member of Supreme Court Has Attack of Grip. *mnniota/i PrAQs 1q informed bv J. liU AOOVUlUtVU JL * WM w a member of the family of Justice Day, of the United States supreme court, that he is suffering from a severe attack of grip. His condition, it is admitted, is serious. Mrs. Day and two sons arrived in Washington Wednesday to attend him. COAL OPERATORS INNOCENT. Jury at Chicago Erought in Directed Verdict of "Not Guilty." At Chicago Friday Judge Chetlnin instructed the jury in the trial of the Indiana coal operators to bring in a verdict of "not guilty." The jury was ihen discharged. The court held that if there was any violation of law on I the part of the operators it wa3 a vio; lition of the interstate law and not of j the statutes of Illinois. Such being j the case the offense is one for trial by A federal Jury, GOULD LOOKS TO BRUNSWICK. Thriving Georgia Port May be Selected by Railroad Magnate for His Tidewater Terminus. A New York special says: George J. Gould plana to reach tidewater on the Atlantic coast at a more southerly port than Baltimore, as well as at that city. The second tidewater point will probably be Brunswick, Ga. Baltimore is to be the tidewater port for the Wabash connection with the West Virginia Central and Western Maryland. Gould's Texas Pacific and International and Great Northern roads are reaching over into the south and if present plans are carried out will be into Birmingham almost as quickly as the Rock Island will be through the purchase of the St. Louis and San Francisco. The Gould plan for effecting a southwestern consolidation, to be Known as the "Greater Missouri Pacific system," includes ports for export on the Atlantic coast as well as on the Gulf of Mexico. Both the International and Great Northern and the Texas and Pacific will afford splendid southwestern connections for a line in which the Goulds are interested. This line will, within ~ " 1-^nomr fhom fprvm KhrPVtf* ci. oiiui i umi/ vcmajt luvm ?> -? port, La., to Vicksburg, and on to Me* ridlan, in Mississippi, a ;ong step forward toward Birmingnam. The connection from Shreveport to Delta, on the Mississippi river, which the Goulds will secure, is the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific. The transportation across the Mississippi to Vicksburg will be by the railway ferry owned by the Mississippie and Louisiana Transportation Company. Once into Vicksburg a line could be very easily built as a distance 01 about 200 miles to Birmingham, or by absorbing the Alabama and Vicksourg, the Gould system would reach Meridian, leaving a gap of only about 60 miles into Birmingham. SLEW WIFE AND SIX BABES. Missouri Farmer Exterminates His Whole Family and Then Mortally Wounds Himself. Adolph Krauss, a farmer iiving near Bellefontaine, Missouri, killed his wife and six children with a sledge hammer Wednesday. He then knocked' himself unconscious with the hammer and was found in a dying condition. It is believed Krauss suddenly be ? I'r.cnr.rt un. Vio/? tho rpnntatirm CtliiiC lUO^UC. liu uuu among his neighbors of being a quiet, inoffensive, industrious farmer, and no other cause but insanity has been assigned. Early Wednesday night John Krauss/ a brother, went to Adolph's house. The lights were out, but the door was unlocked, and this aroused his suspicions. He entered the house, and upon striking a light found that there had been a tragedy. From all that can be learned, Adolph Krauss entered the house some time during the afternoon armed with a sledge hammer. Without warning^he struck his wife on the head, killing her instantly, then seizing his child, 12 years of age, he dealt her a fatal blow. The other five children were killed similarly, the youngest being a six months' old babe. Krauss then placed the seven bodies side by side on the floor in one room, seized the hammer and dealt himself a blow on the head. CRUM VOTE POSTPONED. Committee on Commerce Failed to Take Action on Negro's Nomination. A Washington dispatch says: Only eight members of the senate commerce committee were present at the meeting called Thursday morning to consider the Crum case. Had a roll call been ordered of those present th6 nomination would have been voted upon adversely, for a minority of those present were favorable to Crum's confirmation. Messrs. Clay, Berry, Martin and Mallory, democrats, and Perkins, republican, were on hand to vote against the negro aspirant for the collectorship at Charleston, while Frye, Hanna and Depew were the onlj members present to favor confirmation. The absentees were Elkins, Gallinger, Nelson and Penrose. There was a general disposition to let the matter rest desDite the president's expressed desire that the sziate act. TURPENTINE WORKERS FIGHT. Fatal Pitched Battle Between Rivals In Two Florida Camps. Assessor Bullard, of McMeekin, Fla., reports a desperate encounted between the hands of rival turpentine camps tear Orange Springs. A contention arose about a matter of little importance between some of the negro laborers of Meg's camp and those of Law's camp. This aroused the fury of the entire crowd and precipitated a fight, which ended in a general battle. The report is that eight men were killed and a large number of others wounded. MET DEATH FIRST TRIP. New Conductor on Atlantic and Birmingham Road Falls Between Cars. Edwin Young, conductor on the Atlantic and Birmingham railroad, was instantly killed near Cordele, Ga., early Friday morning by falling between two cars of a freight train. Young was only 19 years old, and had just been promoted to conductor. He was making his first trip when the accident occurred. LEE STATUE ASSURED. Virginia Governor Allows Bill to Be come Law Without His Signature. The bill passed in the Virginia legislature providing for a statue of General R. E. Lee in statuary hall of the capitol at Washington became a law Monday night without the governor's signature. His objection to approving the measure, it is understood, is that the legislation is "unnecessary, unwise and inexpedient." " -7;k . - MURDER SPECIALIST "'JUS I Ijf Negro "Yoodoo Doctor" Did Paying Business in Qnaker City. SETTLED DOMESTIC TROUBLES M Openly Advertised a "Better Method" -|j Than Divorce to Rid Wives of i 2aS|B Husbands and Husbans of Wives?Investigation On. * * A Philadelphia special says: Murder .<$0 for money, murder for hate, murder r for illicit love, murder for social position, murder for revenge", perhaps thir- ;||| ty-four murders in all, ae revelations promised by the investigations now W ing made into the work of "Dr." George ! Hoossey, the gay-haired negro voodoo | man, who was, on Friday, held without ; bail for complicity in the reported murder of William D. Dansee. That Hoossey has sold very large'quantities of arsenic, the sort known to the trade . '-j&m as ratsbane, is an established fact. ; That he solicited, and actually entered into a contract to murder a woman for $100 is true beyond all question; that 5 he made no less than thirty-four similar contracts is believed by officers of a prominent insurance company who have called in a force'of private detec- "^15 , tives to assist the city police in their jjg investigations. " ijp In his advertisement Hoossey an- ?JaH nouneed a method that was "quicker, cheaper and- more satisfactory than di- J9H vorce for those tired of husbands or | wives." It is charged that he contracted to kill objectionable people by || "slow doses" for $100 each. To Open Many Graves. Well known physicians in all sectlons of the city have reported cases to the district attorney that will probably ' /.* lead to the opening of many graves, >;^gB and as many inquests by the coroner. In each of these cases the patient first . *<|| appeared with a minor complaint, which grew progressively .worse and ?? which just before death manifested what are now recalled as the usual 1 symptoms of arsenical poisoning. In M each of these reported cases there is a story of big insurance, disturbed do mesuc reiauuua ur <m auou w u?m *A clean sweep was made Saturday J|g| of all the physicians in the northeast section of the city who have signed death certificates within the past two years that specify heart lesions as the '-4 cause of death and seven of these practitioners were closeted with Assistant District Attorney Shoyer for several : hours, during which time they went ||S over their office records in the mortality cases and frankly stated their suspicions. In each of these cases a thorough Investigation was ordered and the local managers of all life insurance companies were asked for information con- VtJsg cerning the policies paid upon these risks. - It is net believed, however, '; %* that "Dr." Hoossey was knowingly a -'-'^gg party to any extensive plan to murder people for-insurance money. His specialty seemed to be the clearing up of disturbed domestic relations " by deliberate murder with the insurance feature as a secondary incident of his work. His price, according to ' the memorandums found in his shop, v was invariably $100. Some of his patrons are only referred to by numbers, others by hieroglyphics that nobody but himself will ever be able to solve, but there can be no mistake about the | entry of $100 that appears after each | of thirty-four entries made on the I same record with the $51 entry, which, ^ admittedly, applies to Mrs. Catharine :1?g Dansee and the $100 entry which iden- ^3 tifled the case of Detective Gavan, . J;j| who contracted to have his wife murdered by Hoossey for $100 as a ruse to catch him. , The recorder of the bureau of health shows that Hoossey issued .death cerI tificates over his own signature as * "George Hoossey, M. D.," and the authorities are doing their utmost to discover how and from whom Hoossey ^ obtained the blank forms. All of the '^i deaths so certified are to be invest!* gated by Acting Coroner Hammond. Rare are the stories told by the old ., residents of St. Marys street, where Hoossey once lived, concerning the . ;7-| phenomenal performances of "Old Voodoo Hoossey," who, they assert, is 'in league with the devil. In those days . he sord cure-alls, but later confined -Ji his work entirely to the complains of women. His colored patrons carried wonderful stories of his marvelous ^j|| cures into the kitchens of well-to-do white people, and after a time he refused to treat colored people. Thus, it is explained, he secured his long list of white patrons and white vie- , ^ ^ *7 * sSgn NEW WAY TO SUICIDE. Man Loaded Gun With Three-Cornered File, Which Went Througn Heart At Iowa City, Monday, Jacob Brum, a workingman, ended his life in a sensational manner. He loaded a gun with a three-cornered file and the trigger being broken, he placed the butt of the gun in the stove and the muzzle against his breast and waited " for the heat to fire the weapon. The file went through his heart. ___________ TOWN MENACED BY FLOOD. * * Old and Frail Levee Stands Between Caruthersvilte and Calamity. The town of Caruthersville, Mo., containing 2,300 inhabitants, is threat ened with destruction by the flood. An old levee, which is caving, alone stands between the city and the swollen . Mississippi. Government engineers regard It as the most critical flood point along the ? river. Four hundred men under En* '.^1 glneer Kilpatrick are working deeper* ateljr at building a new leree. y % . ,