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m: " ' h NATIONAL GREED ] Urged for Farmers' Union by i Thomas E. Watson, j ! I nr-r?Ai i o ni r* ni ATrnDH.lO > fitbhlld ulu tlm i run mo ; i V. Suggestion is Made in Campground I Speech Before Large Gathering. Union Must Have a National Purpose. ft, ? | "The Farmers' Union is going to declare the same principles ana make % the same fight attempted by the old Farmers' Alliance, and in that fight I am going to help," said Hen. Thomas i E. Watson, addressing an* audience of | * some 1,000 or 1,200 people in the main tent at the Whiteoak campground, seven miles from Thomson, Ga., Wc-df nesday. The audience included people ef five counties, McDuffie, Lincoln, Wilkes, Columbia and Warren. Tiny had met under the auspices cf the Farmers' Educational and Cc-Operai tive Union, and Mr. Watson was the principal speaker of the day. The whole burden of Mr. Watson's address was that the Farmers' Union X must have a national purpose. He is convinced that the time has come or will scon come, when this organization, embracing in its membership 1,200,000 farmers, cannot be held together by the restricted plans and narrow purposes which now prevail. He wishc-s the organization to broaden out, to take a more comprehensive -"V view of things and to support with their united influence a national campaign, or a campaign for national officers, having in view the repeal of ail laws granting special privileges, X and especially those which operate against the farmer. This program he will actively urge in his periodicals. He finds this platform already fram*. ed and these principles already enun* ciated in the Ocaia platform, which was adopted by the Farmers' Alliance * at Ocala, Fla. That platform contains the following declarations: The income tax. ^ The removal of tariff taxes from all the necessaries of life. ? Direct election of United States senators by the people. Abolition of national banks and governmeut loans to the pecple on good security at 2 per cent interest. No favoritism or class legislation. Mr. Watson repeatedly drew comparfisons between the Farmers' Union of * today and the Farmers' Alliance of yesterday, and insisted that their pur {poses were the same. "Tne warmers Alliance was the grea:est educational factor this country ever knew/' he said. Taking up the warnings and admonitions against plunging the Farmers' Union into the maelstrom of politics in which the old Farmers' Alliance ?had gone to wreck, Mr. Watson said: "Politics, meaning indorsing this ;.r . man for this particular office, should be avoided. But politics in its last and loftiest definition means the relationship that exists or should exist between the government and the peo1 * pie. Even the churches are not too | . good to take an occasional hand in | i practical politics. "The Farmers' Union will not reach the point of its greatest usefulness (and achieve the hope it entertains 4 until the organization brings pressure to bear upon the politician and the statesman and tells them certain laws are oppressive and must be repealed. ? Certain other laws are needed and must be enacted." Mr. Watson paid his respects to the politicians in no very ccmplimen* tary way. He assured his hearers that when their united voice was raised for / reforms the politicians would fall over themselves to give hsed, as they did in ^ the case of the immigration discussion. TOADSTOOLS KILL EIGHT. B6? / Victims Thought They Were Feasting on Toothsome Mushrooms. Dr. C. P. Dinamore died Thursday p and four others of his family are flying from eating toadstools for mushrooms at Deep Water, W. Va. Dr. Dinsmore gathered what he thought were mushrooms and the family partook heartily of them. They became sick shortly afterwards, the doctor being the first to die. BLIND NEGRO; BLIND TIGER. A $ Peculiar Combination Exploited by Colored Baptist ttder. I Elder Croom, a preacher of the negro Baptist church at Bainbridge, Ga? i and Bill Bishop, a blind negro, wer? both arrested by a city detective a few days ago and locked up on the charge of running a "blind tiger." It's 9 a case of blind negro running blind tiger. These two "tigers" will ssrve the state and county twelve months on the chaingang. "race riot in vTrgInTa" Negroes Fire Upon White Men and Latter Burn Buildings to Get at Assailants?Principals Escape Garland Beloate, a white man, was shot and seriously wounded Saturday | night at Onancock, Va., by a negro | named Uzzle, editor of a paper Pubj lished at that place, and caused a i -.mnll-sizpd riot. Larse numbers of ; negroes prepared themselves tor riot! ing and went into ambush. Four white men leaving Onancock I in a hack were made targets by ne: groes from a grocery store in the j suburbs. i Their baggage was riddled with buli lets. The identity of the men could I not be learned. j The printing office of the paper j which belonged to Uzzel, and the store house of Samuel Burton, also a lead j er of the rioting, were burnt d to the j ground by the whites early Sunday | morning. i Several negro dwellings were rid' dkd with bullets, but no one was j seriously injured excepting cue negro, j who was shot in the shoulder. The j negroes, Burton and Uzztl, were j though to be in hiding piaces in the | store which was burned. This caused the burning of the buildings, which j was done in a very quick time by j using oil and gasoline. The buildj ing was surrounded to make sure that j if the two negroes were there they would have no cnance 10 escape, .uauy whites who, toward midnight, filled the streets of the town had come j from neighboring towns and county i surrounding, lost no time in a search for the men who were especially wanted, being the oms that began the shooting Saturday evening. Bin this ! search was in vain in every respect. It is now supposed that both ne; grces made their escape from town, j as the negro village was thoroughly | searched Sunday morning, and no | clue could be found cf them. A j and cursed Keliam, then calling for ! to look after the situation, as it is the | mass meeting was held Sunday afterj noon by the town council for the puri pose of taking the following action: j First, to request the governor oi Virginia to rush arms rcr the citizens of the town. Second, to ask an injunction to prevent the negroes from holding their agricultural fair at Teasley, Va., on | the ground that Uzzel and Bunon are | officeholders in the fair and both outj laws. They also appointed five extra policemen. Later advices s*ate that the J trouble began over a bill which Conj stable Kellam tried to collect from a | man by the name of Conquest, whe was in Burton's store a: the time. Conquest refused with seme words and cursed Kellam, then calling for assistance. At the same time Uzzej appeared on the scene and fired a shot, which missed its aim, and struck Gar| land Belcate, a citizen of the town, j in the hip, on the opposite side ol the street, but net seriously injuring j him. I PROGRESS OF THE SOUTH. Set Forth in Current Issue Georgia and Alabama Industrial Index. The Georgia and Alabama Industrial Index says in its issue the past week: "The steady increase in the number of manufacturing planis, the substantial and unceasing expansion ol Cllies IUWU5 ClUU IUC I.VJU uvuw of more steani and electric railroads in Georgia and Alabama, to a degree unprecedented in the history of the two statas, have made lands more valuable and caused them to be in greater demand. This is true alike of suburban, timber mineral and farm I lands. The existence of a new indus' j trial era, the permanency of Avhich j is guaranteed by large and increasing investments of capital, both local and J from other sections, is imparting net\ j values to lands, thereby giving more nearly commensurate importance tc property that in a large measure is nol only a barometer of business prosper ity, but a basis of commercial worth "Among land transactions reported to The Indt-x for the week are the sale of a large number of suburban real dence lots at Washington, Ga? the sale of 150 lots in South Highlands a Besemer, Ala., purchase of 50 acre: of land at Waycross, Ga., to be divid ed into building lots, and the sale o a large tract of mineral and timbe j land in tne uaasaen, ajo., wikui.t to be developed by the purchaser. Ii a Georgia county, a 2,000-acre tract o farm land has been sold for a prici that a few years ago would hardl; have been considered. EVE IN DECOLLETTE GOWN Satisfied Recruiting Officers and Ap plicant Was Accepted. Frank Riclitie, aged 21, was rejecte* by the Uniced States army recruitim station because of a figure of Eve i) Paradise tattooed on his arm near th wrist. Later the young man appearei with a decollette gown tattooed ove the nude figure and was accepted wi.fc out question. lBYAd03E MARGIN j 1 ? ! Williams Won Out in Mis- | I sissippi Senatorial Fight, 'j I i VARDAMAN GIVES IT UP f I | i Governor Issues Statement Conceding ! i j Nomination?Returns Canvassed by Committee Give Williams I 648 Majority. The Missisippi democratic state j committee met in Jackson at noon ' ! j : Thursday, and declared Congresman ! John Sharp Williams as the party | j nominee for the United States senate j J on the canvass of the returns, which j S showed a majority of G4S votes for j i j j Williams, the totals being as follows: j j Williams, 59,496; Vardaman, 58,848. There will be no contest over the < result. After a shcrt caucus between J the two factious, it was finally agreed j ! to abide by semi-official returns as i furnished Secretary of State Powers j . from the various counties, and which j i show that Mr. Williams has a ma- j jority of 648 votes. The motion to de- j | clare Mr. Williams the nominee was j seconded by the friends of Governor | Vardaman. i The committee then formally declared Mr. Williams nominated as . United States senator, ana this is the i ' ? * 111 J- - ^ ^ rv Tt O/l 1 I filiai SSulIGHitillc Oi LilU iiuvv tcicuiawu l j contest. j Governor Var.laman conceded the nomination of Mr. Williams bv sendj ing the following note to the commlt| tee: j "The democratic party, through its executive committee, has declared Mr. | Williams the nominee, and I accept the arbitration of ?h?.t tribunal with- ; : out a tinge of resentment or regret i for anything done or said by my j i friends or me during the campaign, j "I am for the nominee, and hope i ! tha: he will make the people of Misj sissippi a great United States senator, j I have made the campaign upon living, J important and pertinent principles, | and, while I have lost the nomination, j I am thoroughly convinced that the J large majority of the - rdte demccj racy of this state agree with my views i nnhHo nnpstions. and I shall con- j j u puu vjv.^ 7 j tinue to fight for these principles as i earnestly in the future as I contended for them in the past. "I want to thank my friends for their loyalty, their earnestness and j their zeal in behalf of the principles | I represent, and for my "political interest. "Xo man was ever blessed by more ; loyal and faithful friends than those j who favored my fortunes in this con, test. I want them to feel as I do, ! that we have not been defeated, but i that the victory is enly postponed for i a season. I have been a candidate ! several times in my life, and lost the ! fight, but never have I felt the sting J of defeat, and I am not defeated to! day. I acn sure that I am stronger wi:h the people of Mississippi today than ever before, and, God being my helper, I hope to so live that the pop< ularity, confidence and strength with the people may grow. The only life worth living is a life of service, and to serve Mississippi and Mississippi ans is my chief ambition. In the gubernatoral contest, E. F. Noel and Eral Brewer were declared | as the candidates receiving the highj est vote and will contest in the sec! ond primary to be held August 22. For 1 j lieutenant governor Luther Manship ! | and Wiley N. Nash will enter the sec1 ond primary and for insurance commis?j sioners T. M. Henry and W. J. Mili j ler. Other candidates declared ncmi: j nated for the more impcr:ant state ofi J fices are: Auditor, E. J. Smith; treas;: urer, George R. Edwards, Jr.; superinI j tendent public education, J. R. Powers. ' j Mr. Williams must wait four years !( before being elected by the legislature >1 and assuming his duties as United :! States senator. I ROOSEVELT PARDONS WOMAN. I i Had Served Six Years of Ten for the Murder of Neighbor Over a Gosling. ; President Roosevelt has pardoned f Nancy Miller, who was convicted about six years ago in Indian Territory of f manslaughter for killing Alice Brake r | in a dispute over a gosling. The woman was sentenced to pay a fine of | $500 and to serve ten years in the g Ohio penitentiaary. She, has been imf prisoned for about six years. She is | the mother of six or eight children. I ! ATE POISONED WATERMELON, j Alabama Farmer Victim of His Own - Thief Trap. = Reuben Buchanan, a farmer near c Union Springs, Ala., put poison in a i some of his melons to catch a thief. - I i . Forgetting which ones were infected, i- he sot one by mistake, ate it and died soon afterward. ON INCOME OF UTILITIES In State of Georgia Will Ee Subject to Taxation if Legislative Action is Finally Approved. All public utilities in Georgia, except telephone arul telegraph companies, less than 100 miles in iength, and water powers, were tax-.d 1 per cent on their gross receipts, by the house of representatives, Friday, which completed its labors on the general tax act, alter rive ciays continuous work. All steam railroads, street car lines, Pullman car, dining car, parlor car, express companies, long distance tclphone and telegrah comi-anies, equipment companies, manufacturers of pat ent medicines, carbonated drinks, sirups for soda fountain use bearing a trade or copyright mark, and sewing machine corporations come under this general tax levy of 1 per cent on their gross receipts, as applied by the house during Friday's double session The house refused on Thursday to levy a general tax cf 1 per cent on aii public utilities. Frid.ty morning an amendment was offered by Mr. Alexander of DeKa'.b, which placed this tax only upon the gross receipts of" steam and ekctric street railroad companies. All the morning the debate waged, and finally the previous question was called and the vote taken. Upon the final count the supporters of the income tax were found to be victorious by the vote of 98 to 68. This placed the house on record as being in favor of an income tax. It opened up the way for an avalanche of amendments for ths afternoon session. The first of these was by Mr. Way >f Pulaski, which proposed an income tax of 1 per cent upon the gross income of manufacturers of patent medicines, carbonated drinks, sirups for soda fountain use which bear a trade or copyright mark. The house on Thursday voted down a similar amendment by Mr. Persons of Monroe. It now faced the proposition again, after going on record to favor an income tax. The aye and nay vote was causa, and those who had voted for the railroad tax, almost to a man( voted for the Way amendment. This fixes a tax on the manufactutors cf coca-cola, kola ade, red rock and rainbow ginger aie, kcca nola and similar soft drinks and any number of patent medicines. Afcer this amendment was adopted another was sen: to the clerk's desk by Mr. Hill of Monroe, whereby it was propesed to tax tlie manufacturers of sewing machines 1 per cent of their gross income. The vote on this amendment was the largest of them all, as many who opposed the single-shotting of railroads took the position that if one was taxed all should be. Mr. Perry of Hali sent up to the clerk's desk another and still longer 3 *" " V. Vn P AO 1-1 i n or P.lprk axiieiH.ii.ueni, ?n_iz n/utv JH.VHU1U3 ^ McClatchey fully five minutes to read. This took in nearly all cf the neglected corporations. Only the short distance telephone and telegraph companies and water power companies were left out. It was passed. The state's revenue was seen to be increasing by leaps and bounds. According to the mathematicians of the house the first amendment taxing railroads will, if accepted by the senate, and collected, bring into the state treasury from this source alone a half million dollars. The patent medicines, carbonated drinks and soda fountain sirups are expected to net fully $25,000 the sewing machine companies are expected to contribute another $10,000, and those otner corporauous are expected to yield $50,000. This brings the total of expected revenue up to nearly three-quarters of a million dollars, if enacted into law. GRIEF WHELMED DELAMATER. V/ell Known Penrsylvanian Goes the Revolver Route. George W. DelarnaUr, once candidate for governor of Pennsylvania, and who sewed as srate senator from 1887 to 1890, committed suicide with a re volver Wednesday in his office in Philadelphia. Grief over the death of his father, at Meadville, Pa., on May 6. and the | sudden death of his son, James, in June, at Connc-llsville, Pa., is believ| ed to have been the cause of his su!i cide. I BAILEY BUYS OIL LANDS. Texas Senator Salts Down Sum of $165,000 for Few Acres. Senator Joseph W. Bailey of Texas and John H. Kirby of Houston have purchased the Hammett and ill.spie | farm in the Glenn Poo!, paying $165,a/\/\ ii. rr?u^ onmnvicPc- CPVPTIlV | UUU IUI' ll# 1 ilti lUi ill Luiupiic"- o ? ^ ~ I two and a half acres ~and has five j wells on it producing 2,500 barrels oi I oil daily. 1 [LEFT OH CALENDAR I j | Was Prevision for Morgan Statue by Alabama. !FAILED IN LEGISLATURE I j ' State Senate Made Every Effort to } Push Matter Through, Eut House Seemed Disinclined or Was Too Busy to Act. | Despite the efforts of the Alabama i senate to have the remaining niche I set apart in statuary hall in Washing. ton for Alabama taken up bv a statue I j of the late Senator Morgan, it will nc; be. The house was either too busy j or disinclined to take it up. and i: | went to the coasts of cbiivion, "left ; on the calendar," at adjournment of the legislature. There was opposition on the part of one member in the | sena;e to have the statue thus placed, j but the vote was unanimous for it. I It mr.y be that the next session will I complete the work. The other place ..... aaouea to me smte is tanen up uv I a statute of Dr. J. L. M. Curry, cnce ; minister to S;:ain, an educator, and j publicist, a man who devoted most of ! the productive years of his life to | Alabama and its best needs, i Friends of the movement, however, i are not altogether disappointed in the , outcome. They believe that w-ith a | short while to discuss the life and | work of Senator Morgan, the people i will more thoroughly appreciate his | life and services, and make it all the ! more a response to popular demand j than it is at this time. Senator Reese i cf Dallas was the leader in the passage of the senate bill, which carried I $15,000, and mado ?he daughter cf the i . I j dead statesman one of the ccmmisi sinner* fnv the selection of the tvne and design. / Members of the legislature and the citizens of Alabama as'a whole have been greatly pleased at the way Lieu;. Gov. Henry B. Gray tended to his position as president of the senate. He worked regularly, being cut of his place less perhaps than any man, filling a like position in any of the states. He took the work as seriously as he does the running of his bank, and gave to the state a constant service. Mr. Gray is th? only anuourccd candidate for governor. He has taken the'position in the place he holds that the state is just as much entitled to regular attention to its business as a commercial house or a manufacturing enterprise. He got out of th? chair a j very few times to work for special j measures, and those only when he de; sired to further bills that he regsrd{ ed as essential to th? welfare cf his own city. His first vote to oreaic a tie, resulting in the passage of a bill in the senate to provide indigent school children with becks; his last to pass the Greater Birmingham bill, upon which so great a fight was made pro and con. When will the legislature be back? is a question often asked. 1: can be said upon reliable information that it will not be long if the railroad question is not well settled. If the juries j indict, and there is a conflict with rej gard to the laws now restraintd, and things get mixed up, the word cf the ; governor is out that an extra session j will be called in a few weeks. If the j roads get an agreement with the state j to wait un:il litigation is disposal of 1 there will likely be no more of the i lawmakers until next. year. In any event, they may be lockecr for a year j or so hence. ! Vow rhnr the session is ever, the j distribution of the increased funds j for education will begin. It is going to be a hard job to get the most cu, i cf the moneyf however, as several acts i that ware very much desired were net ! passed. i 4 j ALMOST CAUSED A RIOT. Brownsville Negro Troops Create Disturbance in San Francisco. Members of the twenty-fifth infantry. colored organization, whef figured in the Brownsville riot, created a disturbance at San Francisco Friday night and at one time It was feared a :\ would result. The riot call was scniiued tor extra police and tighte-n of the negroes were arrested. The twenty-fifth, which had been stationed at the Presidio, left Satur-i day for the Philippines on the transport Crook. NEW YORK TICKERS CEASE. Strike of Telegraph Operators Effective in the Metropolis. The strike of the telegraph operators which has affected many cities throughout the country, was extended . to New* York Monday when the men . employed by both the Western Union > and Postal companies quit work. ; Ninety lev cent of the Postal and 50 per cent of the WesTern Union quit. DANCING RIFTS CHURCH. Jj Baptists in Valdosta, Ga., Havo Gensaticnal Split-Up Because of Diamissal of Erring Members. An unexpected split-up in the First Baptist church of Yaidosta, Ga.. has been the subject of much discussion /M At the conclusion of his 11 o'clock sermon, Sunday mormng, the pas.or. Rev. L. R. Christie, announced that ho had been requested to call a conference of the church, which lis pre ceedod to do. Rev. Graham Foirester acted as moderator. Rev. Christie then read his letter of resignation from the pastorate, giving as his principal reason that he believed the time had arrived for the establishment of an- y||| other church in the city, and chat much good could be accomplished by the v :M Fifty-three *other members, including ? some of the mcst influential and prom- * inent communicants, caliej for their letters and withdrew f:om the church. The entire board 01 deacons ana zn church clerk also followed the pastor. The First Baptist church is proba- '/-Ji bly the leading church of Valdosta. It ^jlj has a membership of about 700, and its church building is one of the handSGmest in southern Georgia. Rev. L. ; R. Christie has been the pastor for five or six years, and he is regarded . I as one of the leading, preachers of the denomination in the state. The split-up is ge-c rally belkved uW to have sprung from the dismissals from the church some months ago of a number of young members for dancing, though all had not been in har- ''gB mony before that time. It is understood tiir-.t the members withdrawing from the partnt church will begin wcrk at once on the plans for a new church, cf which Dr. Chris- i|g| tie will be pastor. He is known to favor the building of a new church on ';J| the tabernacle order, and it is believed will make a stronger effort to reach ',ijSHH the masses of non-church gcers. ^ BRUIN PAYS VISIT TO TEDDY. Real Live Bear Makes Home in the Woods of Sagamore Hill. A live bear, of whom no one claims ownership, ha3 taken up his home in .J* the woods cf Sagamore Hill, and in -j the early foggy, hours Monday morning he paid a visit to the residence of President Rcosevel;. The trampling -^| of the underbrush near the edge of the ^ cleared knoll on which the president's r]jjm summer home is situated, roused the secret service guard to activity. He ,v| hastily organized the household dogs and stablemen into a hunting party. For three hours the hunt lasted, but the bear got away. MOROCCO SULTAN GRIEVES. riM Ready to Accord Any Satisfaction for Assassination of Europeans. The sultan of Morcccu, through Ben Slimau, the Moroccan foreign minister, has transmitted t cthe French. consul at Fez an expression cf the grief with which he learned of ills assas/ination of the Europeans at Ca3a -j Blanca, saying that no one more than 'i^B he condemned "the act which cost five us| French lives." . > - . The sultan said he ready to aec$rd any satisfaction demanded, even, to the dismissal of the pasha of Cdsa Blanca and the punishment of the guilty persons. ~'3B UNCLE SAM AFTER HARRIMAN. Move Made to Force Railroad Magnata vzm to Answer Questions. United States District Attorney Stimson filed in the United States circuit court in New York Monday a petition that E. H. Harriman and Otto Kuhn of the firm of Kulin, Loeb & Co., be summoned in:o court to show cause why they should not answer certain question^ relating to the control of the Chicago and Alton railroad. Mr. Slimscn acted fcr Attorney Gene- .-.*8 ral Bonaparte ?u filing the petition. JUDGE ARRESTED IN COURT. p i Taken from Bench on JnaictTienr Charging Murder. I Judge S. B. Short was arrested at Center, Texas, while holding court, on an indictment charging him with the > v^H murder of Dr. Mike Paul last fall. The arrest caused a postponement of court until he could furnish bonds of ?10,000. Dr. Paul was one of a crowd pursuing a negro, Dick Garrett. Garrett took refuge in the home of Judge Short and fired on his pursuers, killing Dr. Paul. Garrett was hanged for 'he murder. barrett seriously ill. President of National Farmers Union Forced to Bed in Conway, Ark. I Griffin, secretary of the Arkansas Far - mers' Union in Conway, Aric. air* Barrett is in Conway attending the meeting of the state convention of farmers. % Charles S. Barrett, president of the National Farmers' Union of America, is critically ill at the home of Ben