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i. Tfl COUNT BALLOTS Gov. Vardaman's Adherents t. i Make Move in Mississippi. A PECULIAR PROCEEDING .Results in Several Precincts in Adams County Attempted to Be Probed by Police Justice and Lawyers of Natchez. A peculiar move in the Mississippi primary election for the nomination of democratic candidates for United States senator and state officers was made late Monday afternoon when Hon. Ernest E. Brown, Police Justice Marion Reilly and J. H. Beard, lawyers and followers of Governor Vardaman, attempted to count the ballots cast in the several precincts of Adams coun* , ty, in Natchez. They were counting the ballots when s 1 the chairman of the Adams county democratic executive committee, anc Judge Will C. Martin, county attorney, both of whom had been apprised of the move, appeared before them and protested against their action. The protestants were reinforced by | Circuit Clerk Bowie, who is the reg- j - - ~ *3 I istrar of tne county. .vir, jdi-uwu au- i vanced the claim that the ballo:s are ' public property, but was informed that j the returns had not been received by i tile state executive committee, where- I ? ' upon the trio retired from the office. A Jackson special says: Chairman j B. H. Wells, learning Monday night , of the attempt on the part of several supporters of Governor Vardaman to S count the Adams county ivote, sent the following message to all election managers in Mississippi. "Williams Headquarters, Jackson, Au- | gust 5.?Do not let the ballots or orig inal tally sheets go out of the hands of the lection officers. We have won this election and do not propose to be counted out. j "B. H WELLS, Chairman." Hon. John Sharp Williams gave the ! following to the press before leavini for his home at Yazoo City Morday afx leruwu; "I am going.home for a day at least to rest. I have certainly been elected, why the opposition does not concede I cannot understand. If there be any hoaest reason for holding back return^ ; I cannot conceive it." * Chairman Wells received a message from J. M. Thomas of Tupelo that J he had been requested to send the ballot boxes and tally she:ts to the chairman of the state executive committee and declined to comply. Mr. Wells indorsed this position. - CRIME WAVE IN CHICAGO. Ono Day's List Was Four Men Kiliei and One Mortally Wounded. Scattering mysterious assaults in which four men were killed and an ether fatally wounded arjusea tne entire Chicago police force to enev Setic action early Monday. The victims in the affair were:* v Fusario Rocco, body found on the dooretep of his home, wi.h two stiletto wo&nds. Edward ' Smith, a policeman, was shot and killed by an unknown man "I* while walking a short distance from "his house. John L. Barbour was found dead i cn the Illinois Central tracks. The head had been cut off by a passing train. It is believed Barbour committed suicide, but there are circumstances that make this doubtful. \ John Naughton died in the hospital .after being asaulted by three strani ge T3. William Donovan is dying in the county hospital from a bullet wound in the abdomen. Donovan was found in a basement and said he had been robbed by three men. THOUGHT WIFE A BURGLAR. ^ Atlanta Turkish Bath Proprietor Fired Fatal Shot at Helpmeet. H. B. Krumholz, proprietor of a Turkish bath house and barber shop at 10 Decatur street, opposite the Kimball house, iu Atlanta, Monday night, * shot and killed his wife, Rosalie Krumholz, a: their home, 136 South Forsyth street, shortly before midnight. Krumholz declared th? shooting to be accidental, as he mistook his wife for a burglar. * JUDGE THROTTLES ARKANSAS. State is Restrained from Forfeiting Rights of a Kauroaa. . Judge Vandeventer, in the federa circuit court, at St. Paul Monday, issued a temporary restraining crd r prohibiting the secretary of state oi Arkansas from forfeiting the right c; the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacifia railroad to do business in the elate. , - * :. >- . y V I NO GREATER ATLANTA,~1 Plan for Extension of City Limits j Postponed to 1908 by Action of Municipal Council. j The txtensfon of the city limits o j Atlanta and the purchase of a new j pump for the waterworks department j came up before the city council Mon- j day afternoon. I The Greater Atlanta scheme wa< j postponed until the year 1908. The purchase of a pump was inded- ' nitely postponed until a new special | investigating committee could make a j report on the waterworks system. So, after many months of hard work and much talking about an extension of the city limits, and an equal amount of time and speethmaking wasted ab-u: a new pump, both these important measures were pig?on-holed for a while. The matter of extension came up in a committee of the whole. Councilman Terrell, who had been an earnest advocate of extension, moved that the matter be postponed until the next council came in. He said that he did this because it was - - * ? O TV) /-?T") /I _ I10W 100 13.16 10 I a. K^na.1 lci ment passed by the legislature. Councilman Pomeroy was against a postponement. He said that to take a backstep now might cause the city to be unjustly criticised in the face of the reduced income from the cutting off of the liquor licenses next year. Councilman Martin coincided with Council Pomeroy. Alderman Holland got the floor and he said that he was tired of so much "hot air." He called fcr the previous question, and a vote was taken. The vote to postpone action until the ytar 1908 was 13 to 8. And Greater Atlanta was bidden farewell for a while.^ ' | MARCH OF SOUTH'S PROGRESS. Set Forth in the Georgia and Alabama Industrial Index. Tile Georgia and Alabama Indus rial index says in its regular weekly issue: "Twenty-one new industrial and manufacturing plants to be established, two new railroads projected, sixtytwo" buildings of substantial character t.o be constructed, proposed municipal improvements to cost over $300.UC and twenty new corporations wi.h total minimum capital s:ock of $676,750 are consolidated items of advance reports to The Index, for the past week, that illustrate the steady development and upbuilding in progress in Georgia and Alabama. The figuras, though large, are not unusual. The Index reports such figures week after week. They explain why the 37 Georgia counties that so far have sent 1 tax digests to. the state comptrollers j office^how a net gain in property valI ues of $5,653,677 over las; year. They j explain, too, why the eyes of the Amer-1 ican business world are upon Gorgia and Alabama as never before in their history and why more and more capital is being placed with that which demonstrates profitable investment in the two states. v "Coincident with the general upbuilding is an increasing demand for lands of all kinds and a steady upward | tendency of prices." ASSASSIN AFTER BUSH. j Bullet Grazed Head of Atlanta Man Recently Acquitted in Court. A mysterious attempt was made at 11-on I Atlanta Monday mgu l auuu. a.x.w o'clock to assassinate Fred Bush, the man who was charged with sending a dynamite bomb to Miss Katherine McCarthy, and after a trial in court was promptly acquitted. Bush was sitting on the bed in his room on Ivy street reading a book,when suddenly some one from the outside fired a shot through the window, the bullet grazing his head and splattering pieces of glass over him. LIQUOR BARRED FROM TRAINS. First Arrest and Conviction Under Newly Enacted Texas Law. The first arrest and conviction under the law making it a misdemeanor to drink liquor on a train in Texas was made in Palestine when a white man was fined $16 for committing the offense. The man was coming in on a train, and when a short way out of Pales* - V? tine took a drink out 01 a uuu:e uc had in his pocket. While he was drinking a state ranger, who happened to be on the same car, arrested him. MOVING FOR A DISPENSARY. I Citizens of August, Ga., Scheming to Keep Up Booze Business. It is generally reported in Augusta, Ga., that secret arrangements are being made to establish a dispensary in North Augusta, just acros sthe river, in South Carolina, from the city of Augusta, which will be "dry" when prohibition goes into effect on Jan. 1. ' ... - . ? ~~ * ' -i ' ' " ?". ':. y WILL BAR NEGROES' | i ! Disfranchisement Bill Passed in Georgia Senate. ONLY SIX VOTES AGAiNST II r~ i.__J i_ ^ _i - ncuos 15 ty yunuui tsnu mcds! urc Wili Later Go to People for Ratification?Summary of Its Provisions. The Felder-Williams disfranchisement bill was passed by the Georgia state senate Wednesday morning by a vo;e o: 37 to 6. This being more than a two-thirds vote, required to amend the constitution, the bill will be ? *it - T- ? ~ J T*rU /\? Vv Tr 10 me IlUUStr, duu vvucu yasscu uj them will be submitted to the people for their ratification. All of the senators were present when the votes were cast. The six who voted against the measure were Senators Crittenden of the eleventh, Hawes of the thirtieth, Lashley- of the fortieth, Mattox of the fourth, Sikes of the tenth and Weaver of the forty-firs;. All others voted for the bill. Several amendments were introduc ed in reference to the property clause by Senator Hardman, to striking our, the good character clause, and the educational qualification by Senator Taylor, and to strike out the time limit by Senator Boyd. All these were lost, and on point of order by Sena:o> Felder the amendment introduced by Senator Dobbs, in reference to white male citizens, was ruled "not germain," and declared out of order by the pres ident. The measure was passed practically as it came fjom the senate committer, and none of its important provisions were eliminated by amendments tyionv tt-pra offered Presi 111V>U?U mcmj ^ ? dent Akin, who favors the bill, did not vote. Patterned after the suffrage plank of the Alabama constitution, the bill Is designed to disfranchise the venal, ignorant, illiterate and vicious negro, preserving to the white man the right of suffrage, regardless of educational or property qualifications. It conforms to the suffrage plank of the Macon platform, and meets squarely the demands of the people as indicated in the recent gubernatorial campaign. The pasage of the bill indicates ? nf o ma the prevailing scuumcut ?. ~~ jority of the present legislature to make good their promises to the people. It presages the ultimate success of practically all of'the reform legislarequired by the platform and demanded by the people, and show3 that the upper house of the general assembly is in thorough sympathy with the present administration. The bill fixes as a prerequisite to the right to vote certain requirements or qualifications, which it is known every white man in the stata can meet, but which few of the negroes will be able to comply with. As its name indicates, it is a disfranchisement measure, and will disfranchise the negroes or a very large j per cent of them. In order to vote a man must own or pay tax on $500 worth of property, or be able to read and write a paragraph of the constitution of the stare or the nation. If he canont comply with these provisions ? and few negroes can ? | he is entirled to register and vote if he is descended from any man who fought in any of the wars in which j the United States or the Confederate States have participated. ' Lastly, he is entitled to register and vote if he has a proper conception of his duty to his state and the nation. Under the last named provision, every while man in Georgia will register, and once registered he will have a life certificate, and will th-n have only to pay his taxes to enjoy the right of suffrage. AWAITING LEGAL ACTION. License Revocation Case in Alabama Against Southern in Statu Quo. Things are in statu quo so far as the situation between Alabama and the Scutehrn railway is concerned. The railway is doing business in ototo without license and the C11C o iuiv " * v.* - . T state is quietly waiting for some officer of the law, as he has a right to do under the act, to effect an arrest. This may happen at any time, as the violation took place on July 30. ALABAMA TO REMAIN WET. Prohis Seem Satisfied to Rely on Laws Already Enacted. A Montgomery dispatch s'ys: While the prohibition bill has bein taken from an adverse report in the house, it is well understood that it is not to be passed this session. The anti-liquor forces have gotten local option by counties that they think will put the saloons out of business gradualiy i AROUSE LYNCHING SPIRIT. New Yorkers Horrified at Many Murders of Women and Little Girls. Three Suspects Badly Beaten. Another murderous assault w.^s added Sunday to the police record of recent crimes against defenseless women and girls in Xsw York. The vie tim was Miss Ellen Bulger, a woman of middle age, who W2s attacked in her apar;ments in the Bronx, cruelly beaten, and left in a helpless state. The woman was removed to a hospital,where it was found that her skull had apparently been fractured, her face and hands lacerated, and her body otherwise bruised. There was evidence that the woman had made a courageous fight. From what the police were able to learn from her, she was surprised by a smooth-faced stranger, perhaps forty years of age. He was coatless and were an outing shirt and dark trousers. He escaped. The dangerous temper of the people, particularly in the foreign quarters, who had ben aroused by ths reports of attacks upon women and girls was exhibited Sunday night in repeated instances. A cry that a stranger had approached a child with familiar-t,~, atar? a mob 1 iv was cuaugii ~ _ . Sadie Hamberger, aged eight years, playing in the hallway of her tenement home in East Fifty-ninth street, late in the evening, cried out that a man had seized her. The child s father seized George Keshner a Russian bookbinder, by the throat. Tho excitement attracted 500 men and women, who fought with each other to get a chance at the Russian. Thirty policemen rescued Keshner, bleeding from a score of wounds, when all hi3 clothing but his shoes had been torn from him. The police wrapped the prisoner in a blanket and hurried him away, Sadie's sister corroborated the story of the attack, and the father says that he saw his daughter in the grasp of the Russian. About the same time Hyle Saloda, nearly lost his scalp in Thirty-fcurth strce;. He was accused of having offered pennies to a girl of 12 years. rm--> n-owfoH tn know whv. and 1UC xaiuci w w Saloda showed fight. He slashed about him with a penknife, and then knocked down a policeman. A crowd of perhaps a thousand persons attempted to reach Saloda, but police reserves beat them back and took Saloda to the station. Louis Concalia was the victim of vircumstances. A man and wife quarreled in One Hundred and Seventh street, and their youthful daughter went out to the sidewalk and wept. A passing boy slapped her, and ran away. The girl's cries and the running boy aroused the neighbors, who chased the lad. The boy escaped and Concolia, who had outfooted other pursuers, was mistaken by the mob for the giri's assailant. , Overtaken at last Concclia wa3 set upon and knocked down and kicked until he was nearly dead. The police rescued him after he was dang.rcusly injured. This wave of crimes against women and children has reached a stage V j where severe measures are called for. Acting Police Commissioner O'Keefe I late Sunday issued orders directing that every plain clothes officer on the force lay aside all other work and devote himself entirely to an attempt to bring to justice the perpeiratora HORROR ON FRENCH RAILWAY. Train Plunges Into River and Forty Pasengers Are Drowned. Forty passengers in a third class railroad car and the engineer of the train were drowned Sunday afternoon in a ailroad accident, near Angiers, Fance. The locomotive jumped th? track when entering the bridge over the river Loire. The stone railing gave w.iv and the engine piungjd into the river fifty feet below, dragging with it the baggage and third class cars. ROADS AGREE TO YIELD. State of Virginia a Winner, So Far, in Reduced Rate Fight. Shortly before midnight Saturday nignt tne scare omciais m wmcreuuc at the governor's office in Richmond, Va., received a communication from the attorneys of the Virginia railways to the effect that the two cent rats would be in effect on or before October first, with the condition that the matter should be taken to the courts for a final decision as to its ltga'.ity. JOY IN LITTLE MAINE Over Georgia Prohibition Bill ? Tern* perance Folk Jubilate. During the second dry's session Wednesday of the Maine Temperance Society at Old Orchard, a telegram was received conveying the announcement of the passage by the Georgia legislature of a prohibitory liquor law. A prayer and praise service, which was in progress at the time, was changed into meeting^of general congratulations. . ... V . .' ^Z v i7~- . yrr'T. <: TRUST IS BRANDED! I I | Standard Folk Worse Than j Counterfeiters Says Lanais. j PLACES $29,240,000 FINE; ; In Notorious Rebate Cass. Rockefel ler's Corporation is Given Maximum Penalty?Immense Crowd Cheers the Verdict. | Judge Kennesaw M. Landis, ia the i United Slates district court at Chi-! ; cago fined the Standard Oil company of Indiana $29,240,000 for violations of ' the law against accepting rebates | from railroads. The fine is the larg! est ever assessed against any individ! uals or any corporation in the history i of American criminal jurisprudence, | and is slightly more than 131 times j as great as the amount received by i the company through its rabating op| erations. The case will be carried to | the higher courts by the defendant , company. The penalty imposed upon the com' pany is the maximum permitted un; der the law, and it was announced at ; the end of a long opinion in which 1 the methods and practices of the S:an ! dard Oil company were mercilessly i scored. The judge, in fact, declared, ! in his opinion, that the officials of the' ' Standard Oil company who were responsible for the practices of which the corporation was found guilty, were no better than counterfeiters and thives, his exact language being: "We may as well look at this situation squarely. The men who thus deliberately violate this law, wound society more deeply than does he who counterfeits the coin or steals letters i fi-nm tViQ milU " il ViU Lilt Judge Landis commenced reading i his decision at 10 o'clock and occu| pied about one hour in its delivery. | He reviewed the facls in the case, I took up the arguments of attorneys ! for the defense, and answered them J and then passed judgment on the comj pany, which he declared violated the j law for the sole purpose of swelling | its dividends. j The court held that the roads have ! no more right to make a secret rate j for a shipper than a board of assess! ors would have to make a secret asJ sessment of any particular piece of | property. I The court expressed regret that the ; law failed to provide mere serious pun! ishment than a fine, out insisted that I ! the nenaltv should be sufficiently large . to act as a deterrent arid not of such a size as to encourage the defender to persist I* lawlessness. ! At the conclusion of his opinion and ; after announcing the amount of the fine, Judge Landis directed . that a spe / cial grand jury be called/for the pur! pose cf inquiry into the facts in the ! Chicago and Alton Railroad company, i it having been proved in the case just ! closed that the oil company accepted j rebates from that corporation. This j jury is summoned for August 14. ; This decision of Judge Landis arous ed almost as much public interest as I did the prssence of John D. Rocke| feller and the other officials of the , Standard Oil company in the court ! room on Jul^ 6. The crush was so great that a large force of deputy i marshals had much difficulty in con; trolling the crowd that was anxious to rorce its wsy iuiu tuc tjumouui. I | The case will be appealed and it ic I ' expected that it will be heard during | I the January term of the United States i j court of appeals. Under the seven indictments still ; pending against the Standard Oil com. i pany an additional fine amounting to j $88,440,000 may be levied against the j company if it is found guii'y on trial. ! There are in these seven indictments i a total of 4,422 counts, and the maxiI mum fine in each suit would be $20,j 000. ] WILL BE GRAND BLOWOUT. ; U. S. Grant the Third to Wed Daughter of Secretary Root. j The announcement- of the engagej ment of Miss Edith Root, daughter of i Secretary Root, to U. S. Grant III, thrills Washington ^\ith the expectancy of a grand wedding in th? fall. However, no plans for the event have j been allowed to leak oat as yet. Miss Root is a girl of high intellectual attainments, and has never cared a gr?at deal for society. ?. ALABAMA PROHIS HOPEFUL. I ! Encouraged by Georgia's Action Thsy Will Push Their Bill. I A Montgomery dispatch says: Repi resentative Henley, author cf the Ala| bama prohibition bill, encouraged by , the Georgia outcome, says that he will j make a fight for the measure. It has been adversed by the temperance com"MLtee. but he will try to get it \r NEW YORKERS IN TERROR. | City Shocked Over Mysterious Murder of Two Women and Little Girl. Ail Were Strangled to Death. The "Graveyard," as the foreign pop* ulated neighborhood on First aveiyie between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, is known in New York, gave up Thursday a fresh crime, rivaling the notorious and mysterious butcheries of last week. The latest discovered victim, Katie Pritchler, eightyear-old girl, and, like the two ycung women, she had been shockingly mistreated before death and badly mutilated when life was extinct. The three murders are strikingly similar. Thurdsay night a week ago, a woman was strangled in a boarding -35 house; the next morning the body of * r.i another unidentified woman who had been choked to death, was found in |ui areaway. Katie Pritchler, daughter of a restaurant waiter, was killed that night. A ribbon placed about the throat and drawn so tightly that it cut the ^ flesh, shows how she died. The girl left home at 340 East Thir- ^ teenth street Thursday night to play . ;.,|f in the street. When she failed to return the father notified tfce police and #r *j| a general alarm was sent out. The 3 body was discovered just a week later within a block of her home and scarcely a hundred yards from the location . of a placard placed by her father .:. |jl calling attention to the fact that the WM child was lost. How the body could have remained undiscovered for a ' | week is not explained. The girl's body was stumbled upon by a woman who visited the base- ;TJl ment of the house at 203 First avenue. It lay upon a berry crate, with seemingly no effort at concealment. If the brutalities of the murders can be qualified, that of the Pritchler girl I ranks firs:. She was assaulted, murdered and her lifeless form was hor- ?.|* ribiy mutilated. ANARCHY REIGNS IN LOW*. Russian Poland City Again Scene of jll Bloodshed and Disorder. A Lodz, Russian Poland, is again the Jf scene of a strike movement, accompanied by violence, disorder and death. j i|| The troops encountered the strikers in the center of the town Thursdays night and thirty men were killed or . |g wounded. Business is a: a standstill. ^ The strike would, appear to be the |1| beginning of a big labor war, and the -|a workmen's unions are prepared for a -M long struggle. The Immediate cause |? of Thursday's outbreak was the course pursued ,bv the police during the last eight days .in making a large number of arrests in attempts] to break up . 3|j the unions. The principal socialist 'Jj * *? Knnwn infrt lail. leaders nave uscU ~ ? ?? A general strike has been declared, and the social democrats and the Po ' js} !:sh socialists have calleg out 32,00d ;|| CAUCUS NAMES JOHNSTON. I Alabama Legislature Will Elect Him Successor to Pettus. L For the second time during the 1907 session the Alabama legislature nom- % j ina:ed for election to the United ' -3 States senate, Thursday, a man to succeed a dead senator, that honor falling to Joseph P. Johnston, who will follow for the long and short terms of M Senator Pettus, covering the time to 1913. Though the nomination was by .}) democratic caucus it amounts to ele?? || tion, as there are only two other than democrats in the entire assembly. Governor Johnston made a speech, in which he pointed out that he is in ^ lino with Governor * Glenn of North Carolina and Governor Comer of Alabama, in the belief that the states should control without regard to the federal courts. ^uaxa/ uas NEW LAWYER. I nn tv ir-%w ? Former Tennesseean Will Defend Him on Next Trial. Martin W. Lit;leton, former president of the borough of Brooklyn, a lawyer and an orator of wide reputation, and a native of Tennessee, will be chief oounsel for Harry K. Thaw Itirv tr> answer wnen n ? iavto ? j v.. v. ~ v to the charge of Rilling Stanford White. Thaw announced the selection of Mr. Littleton Thursday, after a conference with his mother and his wife. It is said that Mr. Littleton's fee will be $25,000. GOVERNOR COMER SIGNS BILLS I One Appropriates $50,000 for Fight Against the Railroads. Governor Comer of Alabama has signed the following bills: To allow the Alabama Polytechnic institute to us? $30,000 of the building fund as an investment; to appropriate $50,000 .ltifrtv tho pxnenses incident to the tU *iVii x fight being made on rate and regular tion laws by the railroads _