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I The Bamberg Herald. | " . -r s-' ^s8 IMH - - ' - - .,.? I 111 HI - p . Established is9i. bamberg. s.c.. Thursday. September n;-i903. one dollar per year. --m :'-im I * * 1 LLU t f REVEALS GRAFTERS - - '% Names of Alleged Robbers of Uncle Sam Made Public. BOODLE FLOWED FREELY & v : &, i ~ =:y < 3 Beavers, Machen and Their Willing Pais Have Again Been Indicted. Formation of an Extensive s-- ' Conspiracy Is Alleged. ?\v-- ?;i A Washington special says: United States Attorney Beach Friday announced that the persons named in the seven indictments returned hy the grand Jury last Tuesday were: H mri.fcrrk \X; Doaroro farm or- rhiflf at e?t ,T. -"V? - ? ? ? the division of salaries and allowances, postoffice, August W. Machen, former general superintendent of the free delivery System, postoffice department. |r " James W: Erwin, former postoffice ifcspbttbr with headquarters in dan Francfoco. Gfeorge H. Huntington and isdac S: MtGeihan, both .of New York city; owners of the Columbia Supply. Company, of that city. Eugene B. Scheble, of ToiedO; Oh'di ? dentist, and interested in thb flrrii of M^berry & Ellis, of Detroit, Midi., letter T>ox manufacturers. Beavers, Machen and Erwin are ftamed jointly in one indictment for conspiracy to defraud the United Statef. Another indictment is against McGelhan, Huntington and Machen for | conspiracy ? to. ,defraud, the United ?t&te4 and still another is against tad Safiae three conspiracies to commit bribery, both under section 5441. .H; SdtiSbi? and McGelhan afe indicted jointly for conspiracy against the United States and again for conspiracy ? = 2?<1 i?,i i?A ? \o com mi i enuery. aiiuiuw iuuicuuvui. Is against McGeihan for bribery and the list lb against Machen singly for accepting bribery Under section 501, fSvisid statute. Ailvthe ibdictments are based on transactions relating to the supply of tettef'boxes and package boxes and derii^a: Some sensational charges af? made. The indictment again3t BeavSrs, Machen and ?rwin alleges tikat the postal device and improvetnent Company of San Francisco formerly the Montague Indicator and Letter? Boot Company, was.composed almost entirely of western postal em' ployes; that in 1889 it set aside 1,000 shares of stock for forwarding its interests, and that armed with this nn? thofrity its president, Daniel S. Richardson, and Inspector Krwin came to / Wellington, saw Beavbrs, Macheu, Hap.tU hnd others and got ah order for equipping 2,084 letter boxes with their detice. The indictment says the company wag systematically relieved of its obligations in the way of paying freight, crating, painting and printing caius for the devices it was furnisning. The Indictment charges that Beavers and Machen owned stock gmder assumed names. Most of the thousand shares of stock set aside, the indictment says, went to different postoffice officials and again President Richardson came to Washington and following an increase in the contract price he got for the company dividends were paid on the stock. McGHehan, principal owner of the Columbia Supply Company, of New York, ?3 charged with agreeing to pay Machen 50 cents for each $1.25 pajd on the package box contract by the government. Specific payments to Machen are cited in consideration of increased compensation and under the package box contract, ostensibly ior attaching a different support to the boxes. Schelne became interested 'n the-flrm, of which Mayor May berry, of Detroit, Mich., is a member and which furbished letter' boxes to the government, and Schebel. and Machen in a joifcjt indictment are alleged to have schemed to defraud the government by the supply of excessive quantities of boxes. The indictment says tnat Maybufv and Ellis Daid Schebel to the <x V I t.ent of the latter's interest in the | company and that he in turn paid lai*e sums to Maehen. In seventem coants the indictments- cite specific payments to Machen by Schebel. GEORGIA STATE HEALTH BOARD Organized at n Meeting in Atlanta and Officers Elected. Organization of the Georgia state boa- d of health was perfected at a meeting In Atlanta by the election of' Dr. Willis F. Westmoreland, of Atlanta, president and Dr. H. F. Harris, also of that city, secretary. The permanent organization of the bo??rd was perfected in a brief executive session, which was presided over by Dr. A. P. Taylor, of Thomasville; Dr R. M. Harbin, of Rome, acting as secretary. The session of the board was beld in the senate chamber at the capitol. DEMANDS REMOVAL OF VALI. Minister Leischman Registers Kick Against Turkish Governor. Advices of Thursday from Constantinople state that United States Minister Leischman has presented a demand to the Turkish government for the dismissal of Reshid Pasha, vali of Beirdt, on the ground that so long as he is retained in office the lives and property or Americans in Beirut are ins scure. TAGGERT SLATED FOR LEADER. ! Believed that Indiana Man Will Be in Charge of Democratic Campaign. As a result of a number of confer- I ences at Chicago between leading members of the democratic national i committee from the east, middle west 1 and the west, it is now believed that j Thomas Taggart, committeeman for J Indiana, will be tne new chairman of ! the national committee and the manager of the next national c~mpaign, sue- j ceeding former Senator James K. Jones, of Arkansas; 'EXTRASESSION DELAYED. At Suggestion of Leaders; President Changes Date Of Meeting cf Codgross to November 9th. After mature consideration and consultation in person and by mail with membfers of Loth the senate and the house of representatives; President Roosdvelt has abandoned the suggestion tliat congress be called into extraordinary session, which h$ announced many months ago would be held this fall, will be called, according to present plans, to meet on November 3, which was the date tentatively fixed some time ago. It is not expected that the formal call tor V?a efAQAiAn will ha locniA^ linfll j lilC 0V901VU TV 111 l/v lOCUVU uuvtt M>. vv? I the president shall have returned to Washington. Notwithstanding the fact that the suggestion of ah October session A congress came froih proniinedt senators who warmly advocated its adaption, the proposition was not feceived with fafor by members at congress generally. the idea of a session in October was opposed particularly because fte would oblige senators and representatives to leave their states and districts ih the midst 6t a campaign whicii to iriaiiy Of thein and their party Was of vitai importance. No definite agreement y?t has been reached as to the character of the financial legislation ^rhicb may be enacted at the approaching session of congress. Indeed, it is not certain that an agreement can be reached l>e tween the two branches of congress j whereby any special legislation can be j i enacted. It may be that a solution j of the problem, which is alike complex and perplexing, will be reached I before the convening of the extraorj dinafy sCseion, but Oven that is by ' no means assured:I COLOMBIA'S NEW TERMS. [ *. a*. Draft of Measure Recently Drawn at Bogota Furnished State Depart. m?nt by Minister eaupre. President Roosevelt received a ca? ' v blegram Saturday from Minister Beau. pre, dated Bogota, September 5, *V? r\ r\r/\vlolAr>C fkf the yunimai iMpm vu^ pivTimvuw bill reported to the Colombian congress by the committee recently appointed to study the condition upon which the construction of the Panama canal could be authorized. The main provisions recommended by the committee are: 1. Approval of the action of the senate in rejecting the Hay-Herran treaty. 2. Authority to be given to the president to conclude treaties for a canal, or to contract fbr a canal with private parties, subjects to the "rights of the companies; 3. The Panama Railroad Company is permitted tp transfer its property, all existing obligations to be assumed by the purchaser,including the annual payment of $250,000 ?nd the surrender of the property to Colombia in 1967. 4. The canal company-to be permitted to transfer its right find property on payment of $10,000,000 to the govrnment of Columbia. 5. Authority to be given for the president of Columbia to make the following concessions and conditions: Lease of the canal zone for 100 ve*rs inrliirtlmr therein the cities of Panama and Colon. Annual rental therefor until 1-967 to be $10,000. Lease reenwable every hundred years, with Increase of 25 per centum in the rental for each succeeding 100-year period. Neutrality of the canal and recognition of the Colombian sovereignty over the whole territory and the inhabitants thereof. Fixed tribunals only in the caanl zone. Police and sanitary committee to be exclusively Colombian. A time limit to be fixed for the completion of the canal and works. 6. Colombia to receive from the contracting government $20,000,000 on the exchange of ratification of the treaty. 7. Regulations to be made fixing condition? of purchase of private company (property). Mr. Beaupre adds that the debates upon the reported bill were to begin on Monday, September 7. HEAVY SNOW. IN NORTH DAKOTA Storm Reached Proportions of Blizzard?Minnesota Also Reports. A special from Dickinson, N. Dak., under Saturday's date, says: "Snow has been falling ever since last night and the ground is covered six inches deep. The storm assumed the proportions of a blizzard, blowing down trees and telegrams-lines and delaying traffic." A heavy wet snow is also reported. from Staples, Minn. This was preceded by an all-night rain and the outlook is gloomy for saving the crops. THRASHED TURKISH MINISTER. Though of Unpronouncable Name Victor Was Invincible. At Vienna, Monaay, Djveb Abdullah Bey, physician to the Turkish embassy, attacked and thras-hed the Turkish ambassador, Nedim Bey. whom he accused of sending unfavorable reports concerning him to the porte, thereby preventing Djved from securing a better position. FERDINAND IS CAUTIOUS. Bulgarian Ruler Has Secret Tunnel by Which to Escape. An extraordinary letter, purporting | to have been written by a Bulgarian ' statesman, appears in The Elsine Journal Berlin). The writer asserts that a subterranean passage leads from the j < ! castle ol Euxinograd, where Prince j Ferdinand lives, as though besieged, j to the river, through which the prince j can escape by water when convinced that his position is no louger tenable. I ftffi NEWS OFTWEEKI | IN SOUTH CAROLINA.? Columbia's Locs $92,000; The total loss of the recent fire in Columbia is $02,000, insurance $33,500. The heaviest loser is J. L. Mimnaugh whose stock of clothing valued at $50,000, was insured for but $17,o0Q< Ho will at once btiild a very handsome block of stores where' the other Was destroyed. * Merchant Killed by a Boy. Miller McKinney, a prominent country merchant of the firm of McKinney & Sloan, near Tucapau, Spartanburg county, was shot and instantly killed on the public road near his place of business by Harry Dean, an 18-year-old boy, son of a prominent farmer and nephew of Chief of Police Dean, of Spartanburg, w * * Body &f Curtis Recovered. The body of J; B. Ciirfis, traveling agent for the SImondes manufacturing Company, of Fitchburg, Mass., who was drowned a few days ago while on a yacht sail in Ashley river, was rec&'vered. ?weiv? boats were engaged Ifl dredging fbr tile bddy for tWo days, but withbtii success. If trad found off ChishbinTs mill by some sailors. It had drifted against a schOonef; * * ^ Negro Killed by Brother. Two negroes named Swinton, living in the same house at Syracuse, Darlington county, had a dispute over a bale of cotton. The elder of the two cut his brother with a knife and was hit In return with a weight.. The matter was supposed to be setued, but later oh the younger hrother drew a pistol, fired five times and killed thdi elder bfdther iiistaiitiy{ A Cbttort Mills store Sumed. The store of the Laurens cotton mills, including general merchandise stock worth $20,000, and building, worth $10,000, was totally destroyed MAnl Art!. Uw A flra af UJUU 1115111 liir paoi ITCCA tf/ ? A***? VI supposed accidental ofigiti, Tlie 16ss is fully covered b? insurance in mill mutual companies; The mill Office builditig; said to be the handsomest in the south, across the street, was saved without injury, as werd ali the cottages. Plans for a new store building wllf be prepared at once. The mill itself, 2C0 yards distant, was not endangered. * Sheriff Protects Prisoner. In West Greenville last Saturday evening, Robert Gunnels, white, criminally assaulted a 4-year-old negro girl. Guhneis Was drunk and while passing the yard, Where the girl Was playing, Under the pretense of giving the child some fruit, took her to a nearby body of woods, where he accomplished his object. The child was found later in an unconscious condition and suffering; The police and the sheriff were notb bed add a search for the guilty party began. He was found about 11 o'clock iyiiig asleep in an old mill building 200 yards from where the deed was committed; Gunnels Was arrested and placed in the county jaii. The negroes learned of the affair Sunday* and there Was great excitement amorlg theiii; To avoid a lynching the sheriff, Sun^ov nltrKf enmAvnrl nriaAn^r t r* UlgUty 1 V1UVI pi lOVUVl IV Spartanburg for safety. * c u Estimate# for Navy Yard Work. A Washington dispatch says: Estimates have been submitted to Rear Admiral Endicott, chief of the bureau of yards and docks, for the improvements and expenditures at various navy yar\1s for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904. Those relating to South Carolina are as follows: Charleston, total, $3,640,000, which includes: Extension of storehouse, $120,000; yard powerhouse and equipments, $135,000; quay wall, $"400,000; pier Nq. 312, $100,000; coaling pier and plant, $250,000; dredging for piers, entrance to dock, $180,000; floating crane, $100,000; drydock No. 1, $350,000; ship fitters' shop, $15,000; smithery, $150,000; boat shop, *110,000. Port Royal, total, $4,869,246, which includes: Two stone and concrete drydocks $2,200,000; quay wall, $1,147,000; dredging basin and widening channel, $500,000; railroad from Burton Hill to station, $258,000. * * * Move for a New Judge. The attorneys representing the state In the Tillman case have informed Chief Justice Pope that Judge Townsend is objectionable to them, as the presiding officer at the trial, and that they desire to move for a revocation of the order appointing Judge Townsend and move the appointment of some one else. Judge Townsend was appointed by the chief justice to preside at the Lexington term of court at which J. H. Tillman will be tried, because of the incapacity of the regular judge to preside on account of illness. When Judge Pope was informed that such a motion was desired to be made he was at his summer home at Flat Rock. N. C. Such hearings have j to occur in the state, and he named | Spartanburg as the place for the hearing. On his arrival the motion was formally entered. The objections were based on technicalities. Justice Pope will announce his decision later. The term of court during which Tillman will be tried will be convened September 21. * * * South Carolina Postal Changes. The following changes have been ordered in the postal service in South Carolina: Rural free delivery, with additional service will begin October 1 at Pickens, Pickens county. The postofflce at Dwight, l#ancaster county, and Philson. Laureate eounty, was discontinued September 14, mail to be sent to Wildest and Clinton, respectively, the service at Philson to be superseded by rural free delivery. Star service has been discontinued from Union to Etta Jane. Star service bas been established from Edisto Island to Kdisto Island Landing, six times n wefelt. Star service with box delivery and collection beginning September 14, has been ordered from Saratt, via Sunnyside to Etta Jane, six and one-half miles and back, six times a week, James P. Proctof, of Saratt, contractor. at $150: from Mount Jvy t? Keb ten, two and cne half mnes and back, six timos a week, William L. Inman. of Mount Joy. contractor, at $149.50, and from Union to Faucett, three and three fourth miles and back, three times a week. L D. Smith, of l/iifoh, contractor at $107. i~? M} t ? 4 ROBBER RUN TO EARTH. UD? " in fim In of nsfi Wlliigvii, VVIV1VH, .1. VI>r Law fop Stealing $15,000 from Women Who Aid?d Him, The $16,000 robbery, in which Misses Battle, of Bafnett, Warren county, Ga., lost a fortune they had hoarded up four years, had a sensational sequel in Atlanta, Ga., about noon Friday, says Tne Atlanta Constitution, when two city detectives and a bicycle call officer arrested Rev. Samuel Johnson, a negro preacher, and-found $3,000 of the stolen goods secreted in his house. Johnson had been living high Jil the city, owning two residences and a store. In his arrest not only has a fortune been recovered, but the old fable about the warming of a serpent has been retold, as the Rev. Johnson was well raised and well cared for by the two old maiden ladies whom he attacked and robbed. By his treachery to his benefactresses and his cowardly attack on them when they looked to him for pro; tection, Johnson secured $8,000 in cash and $7,000 in mill and railroad bonds and stock. The officers have now in their possession $3,000; the property he bought with a part of the money will amount to about $2,000; this nnn in naeh nnftr?rmint9d I fd|VVV iu VMrUU. UMWWV. for, and $7,000 in bonds and stock. The prisoner has not so far told where the balance of the money and tb? stocks and bonds have been hidden. Miss Amelia and Miss Mary C. Bat* tie, two old maiden ladies, who lived quietly and peaceably by themselves at Barnett, Ga., a small town 113 miles from Atlanta on the Georgia railroad, were attacked on the inght of December 22, 1901. While they slept, a negro entered their ~ome by breaking open a door. One of them fainted. The other tried to give an outcry for the purpose of calling 3am Johnson id th.eir assistance?the negro who was then in the very act of robbing her. The room was dark and the old ladles could not see who the burglar was. When the attempt at outcry .was made, the negro choked Miss Battle into insensibility, and proceeded to get Lhe fortune, which he must have known was hidaen in the room. In a chest, under the bed, the otd women had secreted $8,000 In gold and greenbacks and stock in the Georgia railroad and bonds in an Augusta cotton mill to the amount of $7,000. The money had been carefully saved for many years, the time running back before the war. "Some of the gold was dated in the forties. Many of the coins w^re not only old, but very rare. The Misses Battle had been importuned several times to rut their money in a bank, but they refused to do oO. "Sam Johnson was on the place," they often said, "and would protect them from any thieves*." When the robbery occurred a great sensation was created and three or four arrests were made on suspicion. Among those taken in custody were two white men, but they were subsequently released. For nearly two -ears the robbery remained a mystery and ail hope of recovering the stolen fortune had about been given up. Johnson had, in the meantime, decided to remove to Atlanta. He came here last November and was here omy a short while when he purchased two corner lots on Murray street in South Atlanta. On one of the lots he had a dwelling erected on the installment plan. Later he had another dwelling and store built, all on the installment plan. That was a part of Johnson's j scheme to get everything on credit in order to create the impression that he did not have much money. He opened up a store and claimed that ail the cash he was spending was made by selling groceries. A search was made of the store and home of Johnson, and hidden behind a rafter of the negro's house was the little tin box which had been taken With the money from the Misses Battle. It contained $3,000 In gold and greenbacks, and the gold coin was readily identified. JJohnson made a confession to a representative of The Constitution. He admitted that he had kept all the $8 ,000 in cash which was stolen, but held out that two other negroes wore the leaders in the robbery. He doas not explain why his pals did not get some of the money. His< story about having had help is not believed. TRIPLE TRAGEDY IN TEXAS. Prisoner Kills Sheriff and Deputy and is Himself Slain. Three men were shot and killed at the city jail in Edna, Texas, Sunday afternoon. Sheriff George F. Wharton and Deputy Frank iBrugh arreste^l a man known a& McCagle, of Philadelphia, on a charge of attempting swindling. McCagle was conveyed to jail without trouble, but when the officers attempted to search him the prisoner drew a revolver and opened fire on the two officers. The first bullet 6truck Sheriff Wharton and the second mortally wounded the deputy. The sheriff, while falling, drew his i revolver and fired point blank at the , prisoner, killing him instantly. Wharton, when picked up, "was dead '^ and Brugh died an hour later. MUDDLES AFFAIRS Our Warships In Turkish Waters Causes Talk. APPROVE AND CONDEMN Germany Would Do Just What Uncle Sam Has Done In the Matter, However?Admiral Cotton Awaits Further1 Developments, A delayed dispatch from Constantinople to The Lokal Anzeiger (Berlin newspaper) Which sometimes prints official news, &ays: "Telegraphic consular reports cclvcd here say that the murder of I .' ? /HP?AwQnt nnrfe Af Roifllf Oil! K^HUlia tu UlUCUUt {lung KJM. continues, Disorder prevails and traffic is destroyed. ' The consuls called on Rear Admiral Cotton for eventual protection! of the foreign consulates, which he agreed to furnish. It is considered that the Americans could land 500 meii. gome Americans, it is believed, have already landed, The American ships are cleared Jor action- Other war ships are expected. "The German foreign office approves of Admiral Cotton's intention to land a guard to protect the United States consulate at Beirut, if necessary, and of his holding a landing party in readiness to protect the foreigners there. The officials in Berlin say this would be just what the Germans would do under the same circumstances. Nevertheless, tne feeling in official quarters over the American ships off Beirut seems to be that it complicates the Turkish situation, "because," it is asserted, "a new element has been brought in which acts independently of the power more or less co-ordlnatea, and the porte may know what to expect. But the American action is not, easily calculated and will tend to excite the Turkish government and add to the perplexities." Several of the German newspapers-, while rather restrained in their language, look with distrust on the presen.ce of the American warships at Beirut as likely to disturb the Mussulmans. FORTUNE FOR MRS. MAYBRIICK. That is, if Her Attorney# are Successful In Their Efforts. ' A New York dispatch says: Fighting to secure a fortune for Mrs. Florence Eli2abeth Maybrick, whose release from an English prison is expected next July, counsel will at once begin proceedings to recover more than $40,000. That is all that is left of the immense fortune of Darius Blake Holbrook, grandfather of the American woman now spending the last months of a fifteen-year term in an English prison. Attorneys for Mrs. Maybrick will appear before a referee and ask an accounting from Hamilton B. Bradshaw and William H. Gardiner, of New York.. They were executors of the will of Mr. Holbrook, who left his vast estate to his daughter, now the Baroness von Roques, and a resident of Rouen, France, with a revisionary-interest to her daughter, Mrs. Maybrick. Tens of thousands of that fortune went to save Mrs. Maiybrick from the gallows, when she was sentenced to death in 1889 for poisoning her husband. Darius Holbrook also owned 3.500 acres of coal and iron lands in Virginia and West Virginia, and suits to recover them have been instituted. Should they be successful, Mrs. Maybrick may become one of the wealthiest women in the United States. Mr. Holbrook was a capitalist of Mobile, Ala. He was associated with Cyrus Field In the laying of the first transatlantic cable. He founded the town of Cairo, Ills., and was one of the promoters of the Illinois' Central. When he died in 1868 he was considered one of the wealthiest men in the south. Tennessee Bank Suspends. The Stewart county bank at Dover. Tenn., has made a general assignment and assignees appointed. The liabilities are placed at $27,306.05 and the assets at $11,534.40. ? WOMEN WAR ON 8M00T. 8trong Fight to bo Made Against the Mormon Senator from Utah. The National Woman's Christian Temperance Union has begun a campaign for the expulsion of Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah, from the United States senate. Ten thousand letters are being sent from the national headquarters at Evanston to local branches all over the country with blank forms for petitions to the senate. The form of the petition to bo signed asks that the senate investigate the charges made and filed against Smoot.' TO VACATE SAGAMORE. President and Family Wrll Return to Washington September 28. Arrangements have been made at Oyster Bay for the return of President Roosevelt and family to Washington on Monday, September 28. Prior to that time the president will make one more trip, attending the dedication of the New Jersey monument on tne battle field of Antietam. ! WALKING PAPERS FOR HELME. Chief Quartermaster Repair Departmont of Navy Yard is Fired. Chief Quartermaster William H. Helme, of the construction and repair depar!Vent at the New York navy yard, was handed his discharge from the service Wednesday, signed by Assistant Secretary of the Navy Darling. He was afterwards offered a position as quartermaster's laborer, which he refused to accept, ~ . . jv. ' .K IN LAND OF THE LIVING | Though Reld Was Supposed to Havo i Been Burled Over Twenty Years Ago?Returns to Old Home. | OveT twenty years ago a young man named Jack Reld wa? thought to have died In a western city, and his remains were shipped to Griffin, CJa,, hi3 | childhood home, and buried in the fatally httrial ground. Last Thtffifclay night a man claiming to be Jack Reid fttiched Griffin, and pro1 ed beyond a shadow of a doubt that his claim was true. He ha# toil small incidents happening in his early life which no one but Reid could knew, and while at flr&t his story was scorned as tifltrue, those most competent to judge are emphatic in the assertion that the man 18 none other than what he claims, Reid belongs to one of the most prcifnlhent families in Georgia, and before the civil war his father was one of the wealthiest men in middle Georgia. Jack was a wild boy, and sowed his oats with a prodigality that shock <3d may of his friends; spent money With a lavish hand. At his father's death he Inherited a considerable fortune, and when he became of age it is said that his guardian gave him $50,000 in gold. He did not realize the value of money and looked upon it Z/imply as the means of gratifying nis appetite for pleasure, and even to this day tales are told of his reckless extravagance. He married a Miss Boston, of Savannah. but their married life was unhap* py and they were divorced. He again married, but soon after Ief; Georgia and went to the far west, after having squandered the prineely inheritance left by his father. Little is known of his life in the west. He says he made a fortune in California, which he lost by going security for a friend. Twenty years ago a telegram was received by his Griffin relatives from a small town In Texas, stating that Jack Held had died out there and the re mains were ordered shipped back to his old home. His second wife attended the funeral. The casket was opened at the grave and friends who knew him in hie younger days declared the . dp:id man was Reid. His family mourned his death and his wife shed bitter tears over his grave. Friends spoke softly of his follies and extolled his virtues, and soon Jack Reid was forgotten. Reid says he knew of the imposition which was practiced upon hi3 relatives, but declines to state why 'it was done. It may have been that v he thought he had caused his> family trouble enough and by taking that course he would forever drop out of their lives. Soon thereafter Reid left for Central America and later to South America, In which countries he has since lived. He says he left Lima, Peru, nine weeks ago and reached Griffin Thursday night. BRITI3HER3 ARE WORRIED. Over Seizure of Islands Off Coast of Borneo by American Gunboat. The British foreign office at London is said to have made representations to Washington anent the recent seizure of two or three islands off the northwest coast of British North Borneo by the United States gunboat Iroquois. These islands are not connected -nrifh thnso nff the mast of i^anda kau, capital ot British North Borneo, over which the American flag was recently hoisted. The Iroquois is stated to have-lately visited a portion of the northeast coast of Borneo and to have thence steamed to Darvel bay, an important center of Borneo, 150 miles southward. There the seizure Is said to have occurred. Th-j islands, which have been under British administration /for the last twenty-five years, were originally infested by pirates, who were driven out oy the chartered company, of Borneo. The action of the Iroquois was brought 10 the attention of the foreign office, which then toolj tne matter up. A communication has been received at the state department in Washington from Mr. Ralkes, the British charge d'affaires, now at Bar Harbor, and it I? thought thai it relates to islands recently visited by a United States gun boaf from the Asiatic station, but the state department officials would mate no st&temeni concerning it. HUNTER'S HORRIBLE MISTAKE. Shot Young Grandchild Whom He Took for a Squirrel in the Bushes. A dispatch from Lancaster, S. C., says: Thursday afternoon Major J. M. Riddle, one of the proprietors of ine L/ancaBier nevitm, a^^uui^ouivu by his son, J. M. Riddle, Jr., and his little grandson, Robert Mackorell, a la*d about eight years old, went over to Chester county on a squirrel hunt. While hunting on the riyer bank Friday morning Major Kiddle fired on what he supposed to be a squirrel In the bushes, but on approaching the object of his aim he discovered his grandson in the agony of death, OPENING GUNS IN OHIO. I Johnson, Clarke and George Launch the Democratic Campaign. The Ohio democratic state campaign opening meeting was held in Akron Wednesday night, addresses being delivered by Tom L. Johnson, can^Ida'e "immnr <->f ohin* John H Clarke. IV1 gUV WUl/l WJL VM.W, candidate for United States senator, and Henry George, Jr., of New York. The attendance at the meeting was estimated at'3,000. LONGSHOREMEN LOSE FIGHT. Gig Strike at New Orleans Ends and Men Resume Work. The strike of longshoremen at New Orleans has been settled, the long shoremen agreeing to waive the demand that eight men be put in a hatch and Monday morning they were all put to work on the eighteen shipswaiting for cargoes. The Southern Pacific Company has won its fight entirely with the union of its Xreigh; handlers. STORM IN FLORIDA Equinoctial Gale Sweeps Both East and West Coasts. MUCH DAMAGE IS DONE. Middle Florida Suffers Considerably from Fierce Blow?Wires Prostrated in Every Direction and Many Points Isolated. Beginning Friday morning on the east coast, and Saturday morning on the west, and lasting twenty-four hours at each, south Frolida was swept by the strongest cyclone ever Jtnown in the history of the section. The wires went down at the beginning, and railroad service was delayed. On that account, no details reached the outside until Sunday, and even then they were not complete, for many places that were In the center of the path of the storm were n?t heard from. At Miami the wind attained a velocity of 65 miles per hour. The car shed of the East Coast railroad was lifted from its foundations, clear of the cars that were under it and demolished, not even scratching the cars. ' The tin roofing of the Belcher block was torn off and blown across the street, completely demolishing the front of the building on that side. Great damage was done to plate glass windows. Large trees were uprooted and several small houses were blown down, but no one was hurt. Several small boats were sunk in the bay. Passengers on the East Coast train, which arrived in Jacksonville Sunday night, reported many wrecks along the shore between Miami and Hobe's sound. Among them is one four-mast-' ed and one three-masted schooner, and several smaller vessels*. One of the Standard Oil Company's large steamers, with two barges, is beached near Boynton. The brew of aei. ?- ? ? TVin hnriies UILtJ'cTU UUCU nuc ooi&u. A .v W?VM ? of two unkonwn whit? men drifted on the beach near Boynton. The storm did not extend as far south as Key West, and did no damage as far north as St Augustine. Trees and small houses were blown down at Cuttier. At Stuart fifteen acres of pineapple sheds were blown down, as well as the saw mill and sheda across the river and the building occupied by the postofflce at Wa Wa. The racing yacht No. 23 was blown up into the woods, where she now lies high and dry. The residence of Captain McNeil; was blown from its foundations at Stuart. ? At Jupiter the gale blew 75 miles per hour, with the rain falimg in torrents. Taking a day in crossing the pe ninsula, the storm struck Tampa Saturday morning, soon attaining s velocity of 70 miles an hour arid raged all day. The roofing of the Almeria J T\rv V? rvInT o nr/M?A Klnnrn tlUU LlltJ JL/C tjuiv uulvio neto uivnu Off. Several cigar factories were badly damaged at Ybor City and several buildings were unroofed. In Tampa the Hampton block was unroofed and six small buildings were blown down. No loss of life is reported. The streets are a tangle of wires. Street lines made no efforts to run cars. The wires leading from Tampa in all directions are down, and the city was left in total darkness. The orange and grape fruit crops have been greatly injured, the fruit being blown from the trees or cut up by the thorns. At 9 o'clock Sunday night the wires west of Madison went down, indicating that the cyclone was then raging in middle Florida. ? , - * Mrs. Gordon* Accepts Honor. A Chicago dispatch saya: Mrs. W. W. Gordon, of Savannah, Ga., granddaughter of the first settler in Chicago, accepts an invitation to-be the guest of honor at the centennial next week. TESTING NEW YORK STATE LAW. Tobacconist Defies a Statute Claimed i to be Unconstitutional. In order to test the constitutionality of the act passed by the New York legislature at its last session prohibiting the use of the American flag for advertising purposes on cigar boxes, cigarettes and tobacco, J. R. McPike, a cigar seller, submitted to arrest in New York city Wednesday. The warrant charged him with having exposed for sale and sold two boxes of cigars containing advertising matter in which the flag appeared. OBJECT TO JUDGE TOWN8END. South Carolina State Attorneys in Tillman Case Make New Move. The attorneys represetning th? state of South Carolina, in the Tillman case have informed Chief Justice Pope that Judge Townsend is objectionable to them, as the presiding officer at the trial, and that they desire to move for a revocation of the order appointing Judge Townsend and move the appointment of some one else. TRANSPORT LOAD OF DEAD. Bodies of Three Hundred Soldiers are En Route rrom Manila. Bearing the bodies of 300 soldiers, who sacrificed their lives in the Philippines, the transport Kilpatrick is expected in New York from Manila, Dy way of the Suez canal. The ship bears the largest number of dead men yet arrived from the islands. A complete list of the dead shows that le* than one-fifth died from wounds received in battle. i**"*" 4 ( "Cream of News.!! <1 M HI T HMT1111 yf y y | M ft f fr k Brief Summary of Most ^ Important Events of Each Day. < iH i ' ?The Amerlcus, 0a.f heirs of the. * ^ big Ti8on estate, which is soon to he divided in Aastralia, have high hops* of receiving a substantial Share. ?Florida is swept by a storm. '&SB which strews wreckage on both east ^ and west coasts and cuts oft com* * munication with middle of state. '/ 'W3 ?The longshoremen's "Strike at New Orleans has been concluded and ' *J|| a three years' agreement reached. ?Attorneys for the state of Sonili Carolina in the J. H. Tillman case wlD^^BW ask for a new Judge to conduct the trial, being dissatisfied with Judge , Townsend. ?F. O. Simmons, father of Senator Simmons, of North Carolina, was murdered Saturday on his plantation, near Pollocksvllle, N. C. ?The Alabama legislature Is con* siderlng a law aimed at frnoney. sharks, who are said to practice great rjPB abuses In the state. ?Senator Canrack of Tennessee, />? is to introduce a bill in the senate for the repeal of fifteenth amendment to the constitution. ?Salvation Army corps left Ofilfellla land, Ohio, Sunday for the mountains of Tennessee and Kentucky to try and Christianize the people. - . T?i I ?An explosion of dynamite at Bay City, Mich., Sunday, killed two men ig and inujnred 'a number of others^ ^ ?Russia has presented the Chinese^ government a new scheme for " evacuation of Manchoria. Prince Chung, president of the foreign board, considers Russia's conditions to be ?The Turks are making a clean sweep of the Bulgarians at Monastir. The heads of twenty-two men were cut off in the presence of their fani?* L Ml I...J ji ?5^ ?Keima rasaa, iqe quuumou . ;^b?| of Beirut, has gone to Constantinople. ?While squirrel hunting Major Ri&?* die, of Lancaster, S. C., shot and* killed Ms grandson. - ?Paris Green placed In a waUr backet at Tuscaloosa; Ala., Friday, poisoned three white men and three negroes ?Three promient citizens of Tour, Ala., hare been bound over on peonage charges. ?Two "men were killed and live injured in a boiler explosion, near Asheville, N. C., Friday. ?August Machen and George' W. Beavers are the most prominent Of .J3j the Mix men indicted at Washington for ? complicity in the postal fronds. It is alleged that Machen, Bearers and their pals robbed the ^bverameat in the matter of postal supplies. ?At Pittsburg there is a clash, between the cfvH and military authoiitles. United States officers refuse to turn over to the civil authorities a 1 soldier aocused ol murder. ?A car load of powder running wild on theTrlsco in Kansas, col#dai?< r^^H with a train and exploded, Killing two men and injuring two others. V ?It is reported that Thomas Tag- -.'ffm. gart, of Indiana, will succeed Former Senator Jones as chairman of the democratic national committee. a* ?x urkey, at the retfuest of the United States, has removed the *tH of Beirut. * ?Japan announces that It is Rus- . sia's intention to hold Manchuria. / Japan expects the aid of tne United , f States hi resisting Russia's designs. ?The decisions in the big-claims against Venezuela are being, rendered. Venezuela has been ordered to. pay; ;* th Belgian company $2,000,600. ?It is stated that a squadron of British battle ships will pay a courtesy visit to United States waters. ?Fire that started in wholesale grocery house of Coleman, Tontt&fns ; '|jm f & Co., at Nashville, Tenn., resulted ? in the death of one person and the % I serious injury ui uve umuo. ?Wilford Roseboro,* negro, executed at Statesville, N. C., for criminally assaulting and murdering M*-?,* -0, Beavers a few wee ;s ago. I ?The cfcvern near Guntersvrile^ Ala., puzzles scientists. The Assure the earth was discovered just after the destruction of St. Pierre. ?W. E. Murphy, appointed from Georgia to a position in the office of the surveyor general of Arizona, baa . been" removed for receiving illegal fees.- Surveyor General Price was also removed. -7 ?The United States nas instituted 7^ I proceedings, to extradite Leopold Stern, the alleged postal grafter, who has fled to Canada. ?The yellow fever raging In Hexlean cities is very malignant. Out of 128 cases at Merlda in August fifty proved fatal. ?At Marseilles, France, many houses In which persons have died of bubonic plague have been put to the torch. ?The British foreign office is said to have protested to Washington against the seizure of several Islands off Borneo by the United States gun boat Iroquois. ?The Third United States artillery, / which has been stationed at Chatau J nooga, will march 800 miles across the I mnuntAina tn Fort Meyer, Va. UlVUUb%MMW ?? ? ?The annual report of Commission- >|jj er Ware places the total number of pensioners now cm the rolls at 996,545. jgm Mr. \Pare does not think the roll ?$ will again cross the million line. ^ ?Discussing the race problem in the south before the Essex Club, of ' \i Massachusetts, Senator Hoar said the / ? proposition to remove the negroes 1s ^ visionary. ?The flop of General Simon Bolivar Buckner to the republican pafrty in the effort to elect hir son in Ww, Cot '?m one! Morris Belknap, governor of Kentucky, Is the feature of the warm cam* palgn just launehef ia that state, ^