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s* ?;es: , ijv,.- wisfe'A" -:"'v """ '' Jlsl5aBSg5s8 I The Bamberg Herald. 1 _ ? ? ESTABLISHED 1801 " ~ m -----W ' - s BAMBERG. S. C.. 1HURSDA Y. AUGUST 13.-] 903. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR ~ . " .-^m ' ' . ] " LOBBYING IS PROVEN Sj Georgia Legislative Investigation Grows Interesting. MEMBER OFFERED BRIBE _____ War of Words Between Representative Overstreet and Lawyer Feldor and a Scrap in Committee Room Narrowly Averted. & The investigation of charges of lobbying held before a committee of the Georgia legislature grows inure iuw?. esting. Representative W. D. Mills, of Cherokee county, was offered $500 for his vote on the child labor bill, the sensational war of words and almost fight between Thomas B. Felder, Jr., of Atlanta, and Representative Overstreet, of Screven, and the testimony of Representative J. P. Knight, of Berrien, that he had seen whisky in the speaker's room were the main features which came out at the session of the lobbying investigating committee at Atlanta Thursday morning, f No end of excitement was created when Representative Mills told of having been offered the sum of $500 to c^ote against the child labor bill, greater excitement wa^ created when T. B. Felder, Jr., and Representative Oversctreet faced and glared at each other 4ur ing the session of the committee over statements which were made, and " jg*eat interest was aroused again when j J, P. Knight, representative from Berrien, told of being approached by Martin Amorous about his vote on the bill ^ t? cause the Southern railway to in? i corporate under the laws of Georgia. Mr. Mills, in his testimony, laid he had seen people on the floor of the hoese and senate not members. "During the pending of the child bill," said iUl. lUlXld) x ua\i inv J ents to make'personal appeals to me i to vote against the child labor bill. They were stockholders in the mill at my home, and said they thought it best for the county that the bill should not pass. At home I heard from friends of mine that these parties had said if I voted for the child labor bill I would be defeated for the senate if I ran. Yesterday I heard again that those parties had said they would defeat me because I did not vote against the bill." Mr. Mills said he was improperly approached once about the child labor biU. "This was last year just out of the house. A young man came to me and asked me how I stood on the bill at present I told him I was for it. He - then said that the men who were fighting the measure would make it to my financial interest to vote against the bill and that I would be given $500 to vote for the bill." T. B. Felder, of Atlanta, when the cpjomittee met said ho had been named as a lobbyist and wanted to be hbard. He was allowed to testify. He b|gan by saying he had read with s^me surprise that Mr. Overstreet had v named him as one of the lobbyists. Mr. Overstreet interrupted, saying he hfd not termed anybody lobbyists, but h|d furnished names to the commit te|B to allow tnem to araw any conclusions they might desire. ^Mr. Felder continued, saying he Jiled at the Kimball in the winter and af the Sweetwater Park hotel at Lithia in? the summer. These were the only hdnses he had. He had not thought it wrong to take members as his gueststo his house, especially in view of the faqjptfiw^ SPr. Overstreet had been entertained at the Piedmont Driving Clijb by a member of the Atlanta bar anj at the Capital City Club by another lawyer. fFhen Mr. Felder stated that Mr. O^rstreet had been wined and dined by^a member of the Atlanta bar in cofipany with other legislators, Mr. 0\^rstreet straightened up in his chftlr and pointing his finger directly at^lr. Felder, who was about three feet away, said: won know d?n well that I was not wijfed and any man who says that I w? is a d?n liar." *1 say it is true," said Mr. Felder. Sr. Felder rose in his seat and Mr. Owstreet did likewise. The two men gifted at each other. Then Mr. Overstreet started toward Mr. Felder. He wag held back by Ferris Cann, a member of the committee, who was sitting directly behind him. "I want the gentleman to understand 1 mean what 1 say," said Mr. FAer. ^ want the gentleman to under st^d I mean exactly what I say, and furthermore we can settle it right here," replied Mr. Overstreet. Chairman Hopkins rapped loudly for orde? Other members of the committer interfered and declared that no figjfting should tak place in the committee room i KEPT CASH IN SUSTLE. Wffrnan Who Feared to Risk Banks n Loses Sum of $7,300. Mrs. Augusta Van Clerke, of Shaw nee, Jts.ans., reported to ci. ram aetedtjves that she had lost a bustle containing $7,300 while on the way to St. Paal on a Rock Island train. Mrs.' Vast Clerke, who is well advanced in yenrs, said she feared to leave her money in a bank and that it would be safe if she put it in her bustle. TORNADO STRIKES PITTSBURG Two Killed, Sixty Injured and Great fiSmage Done to Mining Property. }tornado pass-ed through the thiekipulated mining district north and of Pittsburg, Pa., early Saturday moafeing, destroying hundreds ot houses, mine tipples and buildings ot every description and converting into ruin a strip of thickly populated territory eight miles long and two mi'ts wide: At least two persons were killed and fully sixty were injured in tiie storm. f T I i"Cream of News.? M X I'f'I >M"l I T I H I T l"f Brief Summary of Moit Important Events of Each Day. ?The Georgia legislature and Gov- * ernor Terrell take up the whipping of Mamie DeCris, a young woman convict j at the state prison farm, and order investigation. ?Experts declare that the will < f the late G. W. Collier, of Atlanta, Ga., 1 is an iihpressien copy and other startling testimony is given. i j ?Central of Georgia railroad direc: tors order 5 per cent dividend on first i preferred income bonds. ; ?Train strikes wagon at a crossing in Terrell county, Ga., and two negroes killed. J ?Chafles Johnson is sent to chaingang at Americus, Ga., for defrauding I negroes on the ex-slave pension fraud. I ?The amount due state of Alabama | by Tax Collector Booker, of Lee coonj ty, who failed to make returns is now sr.'.d to he $7,425. ?Southbound train No. 35, of Southern, was wrecked by some miscreant near Vastonia, N. C., ^onday night. ' Nobody killed. Engineer and two postal clerks injured. ?Two negroes attacked five white men in Greenville county, South Carolina. One of the white men is dying and the other four were slightly wounded. ?Board of arbitration to adjust deference between Alabama miners and operators met at Birmingham Monday. A large number of witnesses will be examined. ?Postmaster ueneral Payne has decided to try baggage men as mail clerks on certain trains. ?The bustle iost by Mrs. Van Clerke, in which she had hid $7,300, has besn found. The moeny was still | in the bustle. ?Governor Durbin, of Indiana, has written to President Roosevelt, stating j that the latter s letter on lynching has | sounded a keynote, j ?The trial of tne Humberts continues at Paris. Mme. Humbert is the star of the trial, freauently denouncing the judge and the witnesses as liars. ?The murder of the rvussian consul at Monastir has complicated the Balkan situation. The czar has demanded the exemplary punishment of lue murderer and also of all civil and military officers at Monastir. ?Dr. J. W. Lee, Methodist minister and pastor of a St. Louis church; ridicules high church views of Episcopalians. ?The Atlanta board of health will hear the dairymen, anent the milk muddle, if they wish to talk, but will probably not order an investigation unless specific charges are made. ?Augusta, Ga., will probably follow Atlanta's example and order an inspiration of milk. ?Charleston, S. C., was visitel by a terrific electrical storm Sunday.. Three persons killed by lightning in and around the city. ?A report w*as current that Dewey, the absconding cashier of the bank at Newbern, N. C., had committed suicide | in New York. It proved untrue. ?South Carolina negro woman decapitates her two children and throws their heads into the fire. ?President Roosevelt has written a letter on the lynching evil to Governor Durbin, of Indiana. The president thinks that speedy action by the courts in criminal cases would lessen lyncliIng. ?A large meteor fefi in Indian Ter^ ritory Sunday night, which illuminatedc* wide section of country. i ?The color line in the navy is wor* rying the administration. There are only 500 negroes in the navy, Dut the officers want to get rid of them. j ?Boiler of the saw mill of the Minnesota Lumber Company, at Cutting, Ga., exploded, killing one negro and injuring nine oher employes. ?It is thought Cashier Dewey's stealing from the Farmers and Merchants' bank, at Newberne, N. C., w'll exceed $120,000. ?Returns from the primary election in Mississippi verify former reports that Money won the senatorship and Vardaman the governorship. ?Twenty-three employes of Wallace Bros.' circus were killed and many others injured in railroad wreck in Michigan. ?What purports to be the will of the late king of Yap reached Savannah, Ga., Wednesday. By the terms of this document, the Savannah widow gets nothing from the estate. ?Baron Speck Von Sternberg, whom Roosovelt greets as "Speckie, old boy," Was received by the president at Oyster Bay Friday. Baron Speck appeared in full court costume. ?The Georgia Dairymen's Association adjourned at Athens Wednesday to meet at Tallulah Falls next year. ?Two negroes, convicted of highway robbery, wore executed at Birmingham, Ala., Friday. ?A fight between Croatan inaians and negroes is reported from North Carolina. Several of the combatants wounded. ?It is reported in Wall street that the Standard Oil Company has acquired control of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company. ?Simon Banker and wife, who lived in the mountains near Winchester, Tenn., were murdered and torch applied to their house Friday night. Illicit distillers had accused them of informing revenue officers. ?Two failures occurred in New York Wednesday owing to the slump in stocks. New low records were made in several instances. ?The plant of Tuscaloosa, AlaLight and Power company, was destroyed Wednesday by the explosion of a boiler. Two lives w*re lost and great damage done property. TWENTY-TWO DEAD In Frightful Wreck of Circus Trains of Wallace Bros. DISASTER WAS APPALLING List of injured Reaches Thirty?Victims Horribly Mangled?Engineer cf Second Section is Blamed for Wreck. Wallace Brothers' circus was wrecked in the Grand Trunk yards at Durand, Michigan, at 4 o'clock Friday morning and twenty-two men, mostly employes of the circus, including a few of the performers, were killed outright. Thirty more were injured, some fatally. The show was traveling in two sec tions over the Grand Trunk tracks from Lansing to Lapere and the a:cident, it is said, was caused by the failure of the second section of the train to stop on time. The two sections were traveling near each other, and the second ran into the first at full speed. The engine of the second section and four cars of the first section were completely demolished. Much valuable property was destroyed and the loss to the circus people will be heavy. Some of those killed and a few of those injured were railroad people attached to the train. These include Trainmaster J. McCarthy, of the Grand Trunk. Some of the animals were killed, the scene in the Grand Trunk yards after the collision being appalling. The wreckage of the engine and four cars were strewn about and piled higii, while the shrieks of the injured and the bellowing of the frightened animals could be heard above the hiss cf escaping steam and the excited shouts of the rescuers. It was some hours before all the injured were rescued from the wrecked cars. Some of them were in terrible agony, and it is feared that many will die. Fifteen of the injured were placed aboard special train and taken to a hospital in Detriot for treatment. The wreck, according to the statement of the engineer of the second section, was caused by the failure of the airbrakes to work. It was 3:45 o'clock when the first section pulled into the West end of the Grand Trunk yards. A red light was hung on the rear car to stop the second section. Engineer Probst, of Battle Creek, i who was running the engine of the rear train, says he saw this light and applied the brakes. To his horror, it refused to work. He reversed his engine, but the momentum of the train b .hind was too great, and with a crash that aroused all of the town near the yards, the two trains met Three cars of the stationary first section wrere telescoped and the eugine and five cars of the moving train were demolished. The rear car of the first section was a caboose in which the trainmen were sleeping and the next two were filled with sleeping circus employes. The greatest loss of life was in the caboose. One of fhe wrecked cars of the second section was occupied by five elephants and several camels. One of the elephancs and two camels were killed outright, while the other animals and tneir trainer escaped. With the exception of this car, none or tne menagerie was wrecKea, tau other demolished cars containing canvas or wagons, and ^ere was comparatively little excitement among the wild animals. As soon as i.ney recovered from the first shock, the trainers rusned among the cages quieting the few beasts that were excited. The elephants in the wrecked car behaved with surprising calmness, and were led out of the wreck without trouble. The escaping steam and screams and cries of those pinned in the wreck made a horrifying spectacle. Coroner Farrar Friday afternoon impanelled a jury, which viewed the remains and adjourned until August 14, when the inquest will be held. LASH USED ON MAMIE. ''Diamond Queen" Flogged Into Submission a* Georgia Prison Farm. Mamie DeCris, a convict, has been put under the lash at the state prison farm at Milledgeville, Ga., and beaten into submission. This took place last June, but the matter has been kent a secret until I the present. Mamie, it will be remembered, was the young woman who last winter gained considerable notoriety as a much-wanted diamond thief?her ad ventures gaining her the nickname "Diamond Queen." i ERRING SKY r iLOT. ' " ' - V -' ' Boston Preacher Admits Embezzlement of FJgi'ty Thousand Dollars. In a letter written from Montreai, Canada, to the pastor oi his church in East Boston, Rev. Wiliard S. Allen, treasurer of the Preachers' Aid Soc-ie ty of the New England conference of the Methodist Episcopai church, confessed that he was a defaulter to the amount of more than $80,000 of the society's funds. 8ERENADERS DISAPPOINTED. Colored Band Made Futile Attempt t< Serenade President Roosevelt. In a driving rain storm Wednesday , afternoon a brass band composed of colored boys from the Jenkins orphanage at Charleston. S. C., marched from the village of Oyster Bay t> Sag-, amore Hill, about three miles, to serenade the president and his family. The band did not reach the president's residence, being turned back to Oyster Bay by the secret service oiiicor on duty. CONVICTS FOR COUNTIES. Roads In Georgia Will be Worked Free of Charge if Senate Amendments to Convict Bill are Approved. Georgia counties will get convicts on the public roads after all, and those counties which desire to work them will not have to pay $120 per year as provided by the Knight-Howell substitute which passed the house several days ago. The state senate, at Monday's session, passed the convict bill by a vote of 36 to 2, with amendments which I provide that counties wanting convicts can get them without any cost other than the maintaining of them. The counties which work them, however, cannot get any money derived from the hire of the convicts as is now the case. The amendment limits the felony convicts to those serving five-year terms and under. Several other minor amendments were passed. IMPRESSION COPY ALLEGED. More Sensational Testimony in Fight Over comer win at Mtianui. The most sensational testimony yet heard in the caveated Collier will case was given in the court of ordinary *t Atlanta, Ga., Monday morning by George W. Collier, Jr., when among other things he declared that Judge J. N. Bateman had proposed to him that they "lock arms" in the matter of the control of the Collier estate, and in that way leave out Henry Collier, who is the third executor and to whom young Collier was at the time objecting. A. Montgomery, formerly with the Southern Express Company, as a writing expert, was next placed upon the stand by the counsel for the Collier heirs. The witness testified that he had examined the document filed in the ordinary's office as the will of George W. Collier, and that he believed that it was an impression copy. W. A. Healey, accountant and auditor for the Atlanta and West Point railway, stated when placed upon the stand that it was his opinion that the alleged will is an impression copy and he thought it would be impossible ^o write such in a neat manner upon similar paper, especially the signature. SOUTHERN TRAIN WRECKED. Switch Turned by Some Miscreant. None of the Passengers Hurt Train No. 35, the Southern railway's fast southbound train, was wrecked one mile north of Gastonia, N. C., at 11 o'clock Monday night, resulting in serious injury to Engineer Black and the colored fireman, and to Postal Clerks Birchfield and Sharpe. Southern railway officials declare that the train ran into an open switch, but passengers on the train say that the boiler exploded. The train was crowded, but no passenger was seriously hurt, though- a number of people were bruised by the violence of the explosion. Later telephone messages from Gastonia indicate that No. 35 was deliberately wrecked, though the boiler of the engine had gone on the side track of the Ozark cotton mill. The switcn had been turned and the red light that it always presents after being turned had been extinguished. Engineer Zeb Black, of Spartanburg, saw no light at me swucn, ana supposing mac me track was safe, went ahead at full speed. DURBIN REPLIES TO ROOSEVELT. Indiana Governor Says President Has Struck Keynote on Lynchings. Governor Durban, of Indana, Monday, sent a formal reply to the letter he feceived Sunday from President Roosevelt, concerning the recent mob at Evansville. Governor Durbin savs,. in part: "I feel that you have struck the keynote of a national necessaitv when you say all public men, all writers (or the press, all clergymen, all teachers, all who in any way have a right to address the people, should with every energy unite to denounce such crimes and to support those engaged in putting tnem down, and declare the correlated doctrine that 'we must show that the law is adequate to deal with crime by freeing it from every vestige of technicality and delay.' TAX COLLECTOR RETURNS HOME. Owen Decides to Settle His Account With State of Alabama. J. E. Owen, tax collector of Russell county, Alabama, who it was alleged had fled the country, arrived in Montgomery Saturday morning, accompanied by Judge H. T. Benton and his attorney, both of Seale, en route to Ins - home in Russell county. Several days ago the governor instructed the attorney general to bring suit against Tax Collector Owem f. r his failure or refusal to settle with the state, his indebtedness, it was alleged, being over three thousand dollars. CENTRAL ENJOYS PROSPERITY. Board of Directors Declare Handsome Dividend of Five Per Cent. The annual statement of the Central of Georgia railroad, which was presented to the directors at a special meeting in Savannah, Monday, snows an increase in earnings of $1,416,000, the largest increase by 18 per cent, which the road has enjoyed. The directors declared a dividend of 5 per cent on the first income bonds NINE BLEACHERITES DEAD. List of Fatalities in< Philadelphia Grows Apace. Five additional deaths have occurj red at Philadelphia as the result of j the horrible accident at the Philajelj phia National League Ba?eball park, i making a total of nine fatalities. Two ! hundred victims were treated at the j various hospitals and it is believed j that fully 100 more received attention : at various drug stores in the vicinity of the baseball grounds. RULE OF LYNCHEES Deplored by President Roosevelt in Letter to Durbin, A REMEDY IS SUGGESTED Speedy Trial and Punishment for Heinous Crimes Would Stay Mob Justice?Growth of Lynching Cause of Great Alarm. In a letter, the publication of which tvas authorized Sunday, President Roosevelt commends Governor Durbiu, of Indiana, for the attitude he assumed recently respecting lynching. The president also" embraces the opportunity to express his own views in reference to lynching and mob violence, I generally, pointing out that mob vio lence is merely one form of anarchy and that anarchy is the forerunner of tyranny. The president vigorously urges that the penalty for crimes that Induce a resort to lynching shall be applied swiftly and surely, but by due process of the courts, so that it may be demonstrated "that the law is adequate to deal with crime by ireeing *t from every vestige of technicality and delay." President Roosevelt's letter in part to Governor Durbin follows: "Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 6, 1903, Mr. Dear Governor Durbin: Permit me to thank you as an American citizen for the admirable way in which you have vindicated the majesty of ilie law by your recent action in reference to lynching. I feel, my dear sir, that you have made all men your debtors who believe, as all far-seeing men must, that the well-being, indeed tne very existence, of the republic depends upon that spirit of orderly liberty under the law which is as incompatible with mob violence as with any form of despotism. Of course mob violence is simply one form ?f an-, archy; and anarchy is now, as it always has been, the handmaiden and forerunner of tyranny. "All thoughtful men must feel the gravest alarm over the growth of lynching in this country, and especially over the peculiarly hideous forms so often taken by mob violence wnen colored men are the victims; on which occasions the mob seems to lay most weight, not on the crime, but on the color of the criminal. In a certain proportion of these cases the man lynched has been guilty of a crime horrible beyond description; a crime so horrible that as far as he himself is concerned, he has forfeited the right to any kind of sympatny whatsoever. No Sympathy for Criminal. "The feeling of all "good citizens that such a hideous crime shall not be hideously punished by mob violence is due not in the least to sympathy for the criminal, but to a very lively sense of the train of dreadful consequences which follow the coqrse taken by the mob in exacting inhuman venI geance for an inhuman wroi^g. In such cases, moreover, it is well to reI member that the criminal not merej ly sins against humanity in inexpiable I and unpardonable fashion, but si.is j particularly against his own race, and does them a wrong far greater than ' nnv white man can nossiblv do them. Therefore, in sucn cases the colored people throughout the land should in every possible "way show their belief that they, more than all others in the community, are horrified at the commission of such a crime and are oeculiarly concerned in taking every possible measure to prevent its recurrence and to bring the criminal to immediate justice. The slightest lack of vigor, either in denunciation of ihe crime, or in bringing the criminal to justice is itself unpardonable. "Moreover, every effort should he made under the law to expedite the proceedings of justice in the case of such an awful crime. But it cannot be necessary in order to accomplish this to deprive any citizen of those fundamental rights to be heard in his own defense, which are so dear to us all and 'wTiich lie at the root of our liberty. It certainly ought to be possible by the proper administration of the laws to secure swift vengeance upon the criminal; and the best and immediate efforts of all legislators, judges and citizens should be aduressed to securing such reforms, in our legal pro cedure a to leave no vestige or excuse for those who undertake to wreak vengeance through violent methods. "The nation, like, the individual, cannot commit a crime with impunity. If we are guilty of lawlessness md brutal violence, whether our guilt consists in active participation therein or in mere connivance and encouragement, we shall assuredly suffer later on because of what, we have done. "Sincerely .yours, "THEODORE ROOSEVELT." WAR IN BALKANS BEGINS. Turkish Troops, Supported by Artillery, Route Force of Bulgarians. Advices from Salonica state that four battalions of Turkish troops, supported by artillery, met and routed a body of 1,700 Bulgarians near Sorovitch Frida3r. The Macedonian central revolution ary -committee had fixed August 21 as the date for the general rising, and had appevnted Boris Sarafoff, commander of the revolutionary forces. WEALTHY, BUT HOMELESS. ?? Suffering With Cancer, Man* Is Forced j to Lodge in Poor House. Fossessed of property Raid to bo ' worth thousands, and denied admis- j sion to hotels and hospitals because I he is suffering from cancer, Andrew j Murray, of Brooklyn, has been admit- [ ted to the county poor house at Bins- j hampton, N. Y. His pockets were ! Hned with bills when he entered the ! institution. A STANDARD Oil GRAB. .1 Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company j Under Control of Rockefeller Through Purchase of Stock. A New York special says: By the purchase, Friday, of $12,000,000 par j value in stocks and bonds of the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company, Shandard Oil interests. It is reported, secured control of the great fertilizer and sulphuric acid concern of the j south. Rockefeller interests already control i the American Agricultural Chemical j Company and the American Cofton Oil Company. They also control rho American Linseed Company. The?e various chemical and vegetable cil companies give to the Rockefellers practically a monopoly of the phos phate and cotton oil business. It is believed that the raid in Wall street which terminated Thursday just before the close of the market, and which was begun on Tuesday by the remarkable offer of the Consolidated Gas Company to sell- $9,000,000 worth of new stock when stockholders confidently expected that a dividend much larger than that would be paid, was for the purpose of unsettling the market and securing this chemical stock. After the whole market had been thrown into a state of demoralization under heavy selling" of Consolidated Gas and United States Steel shares, the chemical stock was attacked and false rumors of trouble in strong houses were circulated. This brought thousands of shares of the chemical stock into the market, and they were eagerly seized by Rockefeller brokers. BATTLE OVER COLLIER WILL. Sensational Testimony Brought Out in Ordinary's Court in Atlanta. An Atlanta dispatch says: The hearing in the case of the caveatod Collier will, which disposes of over $1,000,000 worth of property, was begun before Ordinary John R. Wilkinson Friday morning. The hearing of the testimony of the three witnesses to the execution ot cae will and the testimony of Judge J. N. Bateman, one of the executors, occupied the entiie morning session. Miller, O Connor and White, who were constables in the court of Judge Bateman at the time of the execution of the alleged will and who, it is alleged, witnessed the signing of the document, all swore when placed upon the stand that they had witnessed the signature of Mr. Collier to a document, which Judge Bateman at the time informed them was the will of Mr. Collier. Otherwise their memory upon the subject was somewhat defective and each became considerably mixed when cross-examined. The testimony of Judge J. N. Baseman alone consumed more than an hour. The only excitement of the -liorning occurred during his stalement, when Attorney Charles Hopkins, for the caveators, who was*questioning the witness at the time, asked: n "Judge Bateman, why are certain signatures upon this will blurred? Hasn't it been wet at one time?" Judge Bateman half way sprang from his chair upon the witness s^and, as he flushed* and replied: "No sir, it has not been wet, and you have no right to state that it has.' Attorney Hopkins quickly turned around and faced him as he replied: "I have a right to state what I please, and furthermore I may prove that it has been wet." At this juncture several of tne lawyers arose hastily and helped restore order. "SPECKY" OFFICIALLY RECEIVED. German Ambassador Visits Roosevelt and Presents Credentials. Sagamore Hill, President Roosevelt's country home at Oyster Bay, was the scene Friday of an interesting ceremony. Baron Speck Von Sternberg, who has been minister plenipotentiary of Germany to the United States since Ambassador Von Holle ben returned to Europe and who re cently/on retirement of Mr. Von Holleben, was elevated, to the rank of ambassador, presented to the president his credentials as ambassador, and was received formally in his new 'diplomatic rank by President ROs>sevelt. "WILL TELL OLD MAR8TER." Two Negroes Hanged In Birmingham, Alabama, for Highway Robbery. At Birmingham, Ala., Friday, vv^ill Hudson and Will Jones, negroes, having been convicted on charges of highway robbery,'were oxecuted Jones was hanged first and died in fifteen minutes after the drop fell. An hour later Hudson ascended the stairs to the gallows, but denied that he was guilty of the crime of which he had Jbeen convicted. He said that he had been a famous crook. Asked if he had ever killed anbody, he replied: "I will tell Old Marster about that" TEXT-BOOKS MEASURE Adopted in Georgia Senate With a Few Minor Amendments The Georgia state senate, by a vote +n i TVmrsrtav nassed the house i bill providing for state uniformity of text-books. Several minor amendments were reported, some of them suggested by the authors of the house bill, and these were adopted. There is but little difference between the senate and the house upon the measure. ARBITRATION BOARD CONVENES. Will Settle Trouble Between Miners and Operators In Alabama. The board of arbitration recently selected to consider and adjust the difference existing between the coal ' miners and the operators of Alabama, began its sittings at Birmingham, Monday. The convention met In the council chamber of the city hall at 10 o'clock, Judge George Gray, of Delaware, presiding. 1 | THE NEWS OF A WEEK | J IN SOUTH CM0LINA,| Beheaded Her Two Children. Lizzie Aiken, a negro woman 40 years old. was committed to jail Sunday for beheading her two daughters. The crime was committed in Colleton county. The heads were severed with an ax, then she threw them into a fire. The children were 3 and 5 years old. When first arrested, the woman admitted the crime, saying she got a message from God, through a dog, that she must sacrifice her children to save the world. She has been attending revivals recently. * * Children Cremated. At Welford, a small township near Spartanburg, Sunday night, four negro children were burned to death in a burning building. Charley Hines aad his wife, well known colored people, len ineir nomes eariy in me evening in charge of their five children, and went to the colored church, about a mile away, to attend services. While away the house caught on fire and burned down on the heads of four of the children. The oldest child, a boy about 10 years of age, jumped from a window and was saved. The others were burned to a crisp in the conflagration. The coroner will investigate. * 0 Some News of Senator Tillman. A dispatch from Milwaukee, Wis., says: Senator Tillman arrived at Fifleld Monday morning as the guest of Rublee A. Cole, a Milwaukee lawyer, and went at once to the homestead at Pike and Round lakes, in the nor hwest part of Price county, where Mrs. Tillman and Miss Hill, of Georgia, ber niece, have been for the last two weeks, as guests of Mrs. Cole. A Kansas City dispatch says: Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, now has his name enrolled in the lost pass record of the Burlington Railroad Company. Notice was posted at the union station that Senator Tillman's annual rvfl<CQ hn/1 hopn lnaf TLf> Ttllmon'd UMU wvu iUl A 1J AAUUtU H pocket was picked on his recent lecture tour with Senator Burton. Wrong Man Elected to Office. The defective eyesight of one of the members of the Aiken county board of control is responsible for the election of the wrong man as dispenser in the town of Aiken. At the meeting at which the dispenser was to be elected it was announced that the incumbent, G. T. Holley, had received two votes against one for his opponent, A. 0. Barnett. Holley was declared elected. There had been a long fight against Holley, and his re-election created much surprise. Two of the members of the board declared to each other that they had voted for Barnett. Each was surprised at the other's statement, and the mistake is accounted for by the fact that the writing 'n the ballot was not very plain and that the chairman of the board, who voted against Holley, is a very near-sighted man and declared the vote against his own candidate because of the fact that he had not read the ballots correctly. * io csiaDiisn a Hennery. B. Raman, representing the Carolina and Western Sugar Refining Company, arrived in Charleston from New Orleans a few days ago. Mr. Raman was in consultation with leading capitalists and business men of Charleston, and later he stated that the object of his visit was to establish a large sugar rC: finery in the city. He said that ae did not care to go into the details of his enterprise until his plans had been formally laid before the local commercial bodies. He declared that the Carolina and Western Sugar Refimng Company .would, if given proper support, have a large plant in operation within a few months. Leading Charleston merchants and business men are understood to be interested in the enterprise. * * * Fraud Charged In Voting Contest. Charges of iraud in a popular voting contest is the latest sensation in Columbia. The contest,/Whidh a few months ago looked like an innocent one, has now taken on more serious proportions and will finally be decided by the courts. The prize was a piano offered "by a wt rtvtn fnnVnrlrt rr n r\ m Ti O T\ V fnr thcx pianu illdi-L UIQV IU1 xug V^V/UAjyOU/ AVI vuv most popular lodge or society in Columbia. At first there was little interest taken in the voting, but later the contest grew more interesting, and finally narrowed down to two societies?the Knights of Columbus and the Clerks' Union. Each was determined to win and the voting continued un-ii the opposing sides had many thousands of votes to their credit. When the end came ?.ue returns showed that the Knights of Columbus had a majority of something over 48,000. This large majority was a surprise to the ^Jerks' Union, and they at once started an investigation, claiming that 190,000 votes more than the original number authorized had been cast. The knights denied all charges of fraud and claimed the piano on the face ot the returns. The Clerks' Union instituted claim and delivery proceedings, and Sheriff Coleman took charge ef the piano until the court decides which of the two organizations is entitled to its possession. '"V. - no?n <<- on unnCltal Alio SIlH f n P Alio tftOC io au uuuuuu-i V44v proceedings will no dcrubt be most interesting. * i Negro Deputized to Arrest His Wife. Atlanta Constitution: A unique and very remarkable legal procedure developed in police circles yesterday when a negro, acting in the capacity of ;;n officer, arrived in the city to arrant his own wife who had run away from him. Bill Adaitfs, a negro laborer, who lives In Greenville, S. C- came to Atlanta with a warrant for Rosa Adams. big wj?e, charging her with mortgaging 1 furniture which UU not Deiung w ' Policeman Cooper assisted Adams in % making the arrest and the woman was found and locked up. Adams -0 stated that he had been deputized as gs an officer to serve the warrant and make the arrest. The woman stated that she had run i?s? away from her husband because he -11| had treated her In a cruel manner and f-js she was afraid he would kill her. She denied that she had mortgaged furniture not her own. It was decided not to let the negro -ill take the woman. The warrant was regular, but the fact that the prison- ' cr's husband was the officer was, in the officers' opinion, sufficient reason not t to turn over the prisoner. -1 The woman will be held until the an* OiahUIas of Croanrlllo /??n ha lUV/UUCO aw yiWUTitiv v?*M wv ??-? Has No Significance. ' W. B. Cbisholm, manager for the | state of South Carolina, of the Vlr- S ginia-Carolina Chemical Company, -igH/r. gave out a statement a few days ago -A ~ in regard to the various reports that ^ have been set afloat to the effect .that * - ^ p the mills of the company in Charges- . ton have shut down. Mr. Chisholm '::M said that owing to the large quantity JH ' of Manufactured fertilizer held by the v |$|? company that the shut-down of its Charleston mills might be more com* % % plete than it had been in former sum-$|j ? mer months, but he denied that there rm$m was anything unusual or slginficant in ^ the shut-down of the plants. He said jH . he knew of no reason for the heavy M ?J decline in the values of the company's -.J securities and he predicted a rapid recovery as soon as fall operations ? PJwere resumed. ;? r0 It was commonly reported th# three ? ; of the smaller local plants of thAjPlrginia-Carolina Chemical Company had'd J not shut down, but that they would i^jj % ^ be dismantled. It was claimed, however, by persons connected with the - M company, that this action had been , ^ contemplated for a year and that it -;~R consequently had no special sf&ti- * . ficance just at this time. > a . . >' LOST BUSTLE IS RECOVERED. And With It Mrs. Van Clerks Gets . 1 Back Her $7,300. ]' Word was received by union 'depot - 7'J*I officials at St. Paul, Monday,' that' the 'll| } missing bustle In which $7,300 had been sewed by Mrs. Van Clerke, of Shawnee, Kana., and which she posed she had dropped from a Rock Island train while en route to St PftuI, S*| "?? has been found. She, in the hurry of ^ leaving her old home, had forgotten the valuable article and returned - ' \ / home just in time to save it from be-'il ing burned as rubbish by new tenants : ' ^ SAW MILL BOILER EXPLODES/j| j One Killed, Seven Injured and Buiffd- | | ing Totally Wrecekd. ' An explosion , in which one man wad M killed and seven seriously wounded ?|| . occurred Friday morning at Cuttfu^^Hj _ /,. i, it, At it %5SaSfl ua., a email saw mm iuwu oa uie ai? - ^-awaaPBI lantic Coast ^LlffST Tfcejre were two boilers, one of which exploded with -m terrific force, completely wrecking 4$^i| -1 mill and blowing the other boiler, -3dS| 1 feet from its bed. * . ^ I DEWEY CLEANED OUT BANK.' >f| Absconding Cashier of North Carolina Institution Swiped $125,000. A' 3 , The shortage of Thomas W. DowOT, absconding cashier of the Farmer# J | and Merchants' bsnk, of. Newberfa, '^Ml A, C., proves to be $125,000, said'ibp^W-^S the largest embezzlement Jji tbeib|?*'^ tory of the state, l*.e reward, tor ; Dewey's capture has been Increased to $5,090. Dewey left only $1,500 "o the bank. Gambling in cotton Jfjuursi . ?|| is one way in wftltih the money went ^ MILES PRESIDENTIAL #001^* | Prominent Boston Republicans ?A<pc? iousto Honor Retired -Genessli^ >rjH r :: A Miles presidential boom fcas*befcii ' started by prominent republican's" In Boston, particularly the old soldier > element, who are of the belieLwthat President Roosevelt, in permitting Miles to retire from the army wttfreefc f even reference to bis dist3n#trtSW?i ; ;-Jjj service to his country, has pfacpil ; ' Miles as a presidential po?3iblUty.<?"V:^S , * ???PRINTERS IN SESSION* "/*! Forty-Ninth SesslotPff/Typographical ^ Union Convenes in Washington, /y* The forty-ninth session of the Inter- atlonal Typographical union began at the Columbia theatre, Wasbfngtow* O. .'^|8 C., Monday morning with a' large* ui& Jority of the 315 delegates present. ^ Chairman Whitehead, of the Jocal committee on arrangements,, presided, while by his side sat Secretary -Cor- J telyou, of the department of commj&rtb and labors Public Printer Palmed and a number of other prominent men. ? ? ?- ' : * ' *' { TEN STRIKERS SHOT DjtAD. i Trouble on rtUNian mum; dwtyiit ' to a Short Stop by Soldiers; - 'Ten striking workmen were killed and eighteen were wounded as the iesuit of a volley fired by troops at Mile haiiovo, Russia, on the TlUls-Batoum . | railway, July 28. The strikers at- ^ tempted to stop trains and a detachment of soldiers was summoned. Tne soldiers were greeted with a shower ; of stones and revolver shots. After q| repeated warnings, the troops were ordered to fire. GENERAL GORDON TO ATTEND. Georgian Will be Among Guests of New Hampshire Veterans. Among the famous men who are lo be guests of thd New ifam'p'fchire Vet- . erans' Association at its reunion1 at The Weirs Lake Winnepesaukce; thl3 month, are Lieutenant General' Miles, ^?S Baron Von Sternberg, German ambassador and a veteran of the Franco- ;^| Prussian war, and General John B. -Hill Gordon^ .-r--. I