The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1901-1982, February 19, 1902, PAGES 3 TO 6., Image 2
HAD RIFLE BATLEt
ti Deadly Fight in tha Streets of
Chicago.
ONE WAiCIMAN FATALLY fiIJT.
Another Clash Over' the flade Land
Along the Aristocraic Lake Store
Drive.
Chicago, Snecial.-During a ight
with Winchester rifles between the fol
iowers of rival claims to property
along the Lake Shore drive, the most
aristocratic boulevard in Chicago,
Frank Kirk, a watchman for one of
the claimants, was shot through the
head, sustaining a mortal wound.
The property in dispute onsists of
znade land lying east of the Lake Shore
drive and betwcen it and Lake Michi
gan. Captain Ceorge W. Streeter, who
has for many years been a thorn In the
side of North Side property owners,
because of his propensity to settic on
vacant ground and then claim in the
courts the rights of a squatter, has
erected several small shanties upon
this ground. He el-ims that the offi
Cials of the city of Lhicago or the S:ate
of Illinois have no right upon it. To
night Henry Cooper, a lawyer who has
been active in his opposition to Strart
er, accompanied by Policeman O'Mal
ley, went upon the ground and was at
tacked by Strecter. who knocked him
- down with the butt of a revo.ver. Eev
era! of Streeter's followers zovcred
O'Malley with their weapons and he
was ordered to leave or be shot.
Shortly after Cooper and O'Ma1leY
had left the ground a pitched ba:tle
broke out between three of Streeter's
followers, William McMannera, 7il
liam Block and John Hoeldtke. and
two watchmen employed by Cooper,
Frank Kirk and Sampel Portorous. Cne
of the first shots fired struck Kirk in
the top of the head. Portorous returned
the fire of the Streeter men with a
Winchester. A riot call was hastily
sent to the Chicago avenue police sta
tion and a wagon filled with officers
under the command of Captain Revere
was sent on the run toward the place.
When the pfficers arrived Kirk's body
lay In the snow outside the shanty,
while from the window, Portorous kept
a steady fire upon the tfree men in the
other house who were rgturning bis
'fre with all the speed with which they
could work their rifles..
cesdas the police appeared an
cordon of officers was at once thrown
around the shanty in which McMan
ners, Block and Hceldtke were. Th'-ee
men and Mrs. McManners were placed
under arrest and taken to the pol.ce
station.
Return~ng to the building in a short
time the off'ecrs found that Streeter
had barricadled the horso once more.
He was summeoned to surrender and at
ter some parley gave himself up. When
he came out of the house he carrie I a
rifle and four revolvers. All persons iv
ing on the "District of Lake Michigan"
were placed under arrest pending the
death or recovery of Frank Kirk. A:
the hosnital to which he was taken be
died without regaining consciousless.
330 rie" D-nwned
Viotoria, B. C.. Sp.ecial.-All hope ioi
the missing British sloop of war Cca
dor which ist here December 2. jutst
before the b~g storm which wrecked thl
Collier Matthews off Cape Flattery wai
abandoned with the arrival of the sl:it
Egeria from a trip along the west co::si
of Vancouver. The EBgerla's offiei
found wreekage from the Coodat
which shows that: she must have gcnt
down or was smashed to pieces by thi
heavy seas. The crew of the Condoi
numbered 130) omeio-o and men.
Roanoke, Va.. Specal.-Charles Foy
the negro who narrowly escaped bci a
lynched after he had murdered Daytox
H. Miller, troasurer of a coal companl
at Tom's Creek. V'a.. on December 20th
last, was tried at Wise Court HousE
and sentenced to be hanged on Maret
14. Foy's case was heard in the same
court ten days ago. at which time th.
jury failed to agree.
A Move A'ral't Rues-a.
London. Special.-The ministers sc.
well kept the secret that the paper is
sued after Parllament had adjourned
for the night announeing the first Im
portant alliance between a Western
and yellow er AsIan race, comes as a
startling surprihs to the public and al
though the idea ,jf an alliance with:
Japan Is 111-r'ly to meet with general
approval, the outcome of this sensa
tIonal departure will be anticipated
with no little anxiety. It is regardd' as
a move against I'ussia and to explain
the abandoenment of the colony c'
Wei-Hai-Wei
T"'e [ry (ion's Market.
New Yc~k. Sp'ecin.-There was at
material eba~ r ir the market for dra
goods at first hana . Loa1 jo'i e s
generally reer.cted quite a marked im.
pr-ovent in the volume of business
A large ntutier of buye-'s were hbr
and jobbers felt the bene~t. Narr'v
print cluths were 'iu!et. but firm. witt
a better den-and for w:de goods at fulI
prices Piece silks were In good de
.and anid the market was strong3
IN CONGRESS.
Detailed DoIngs of Our National Law
makers.
HOUSE.
Forty-first Day-G:eneral debate in
thq Hous.., ca the oleomargarine bill
have deelded to offcr an amendment to
make the 10-cent tax on oleomargarine
in imitation of butter "of any shade of
)ellow." The amendment is designed
to meet the charge of the opponents to
the bill that without this amendment
the language of the bill might be con
strued to absolutely prohibit the sale of
oleomargarine.
The speakers wece: Haugen and
Thoms. of lowa; Shallenberger, of
Nebraska; Dahli, of Wisconsin; Gaines,
of Tennessee. and Lamb, of Virginia,
for the bill, and Messrs. Feeley, of 11
linois; Slayden. of Texas; Mondell, of
Wyoming; Berkley, of Georgia, and
Wooten, of Texas, in opposition.
The House adopted the conference
report on the urgent deficiency bill and
it was again sent to conference.
Fcety-third Day-The House passed
the oleomargarine bill, which has been
under consideration in that body dur
ing the last ten days. There was no
ivision on the final passage, the real
test of strength having been made up
on the motion to re-commit, which was
defce: ed by a majority of 34. the vote
standing 102 to 11S. The provis!on to
require the inspection and brauding of
-en ovated butter which was adopted in
committee of the whole yesterday was
retained today on an aye and nay vote.
As finally passed the bill is somewhat
modificd from the form in which it was
reported from the committee on agri
eultu: e. It makes oleomargarine or
imitation butter or cheese transported
into any State or Territory for use,
sale or consumption therein. subject to
the laws of such States or Territories,
nciwithstanding that it may be intro
duced in ceiginal packages. Penalties
for violat:on of the act are a fine or not
!css than $50 nor more than $500 and
imprisonment for not less than 30 days
nor more than 6 months.
War e.aims occupied th0 -:tt-nt;f
of the House after the passage of the
oleomargarine bill and the day was
made notable by the passage of the
first bill for the payments of claims of
Uinited States citizens arising out Of
the Spanish var. It carried something
ovce $55.000 for the payment' of 202
claims for property taken within the
ITnited States for the use of the army
An omnibus bill carrying claims aggre
gating $2,114.552 for stores and sup
plies taken from loyal citi during
the civil war was also pas . These
claims were allowed und e provis
ions of -the Bowman d the bill
was identical with on 'passed by the
House at the last ses ion. Two other
bills which have been before Congress
[cc 2. years to refer certain cl s for
addi.ional compensation by tl .build
ers oi certain monitors during the civil
war to the Court of Claims were like
wse passed. %
Forty-fourth Day-The War Deart
ment's bill for the reorganizatio of
the army staff branches and the ctea
tion of a general staff corps was trans
mited to C~~n~ ull, of the H
ii c twnd b in
divislo
an o cer -anking as major general,
with l'rigadier generals in charge of
the br ad'es of supplies, commissar.7
inance and transportation. The "gen
eral staff corps" Is to consider the
"military policy of the country and
prepare comprehensive plans for the
national defense and for the mobiliza
tion of the military forces in time of
war."
It also haschargeo f all questions af
fecting the army and the co-operation
of the army and navy, equipment, etc.
A lieutenant genccal is at the head of
this board, with one major general, one
brigadier general, four colonels and
numerous officers of lower rank.
T1'ere is a proviso that General Mile3
shall be chief of the general staff while
he continues in active service.
Forty-fifth Day-The House hold a
short session, and did practically noth
ing. It adjourned at 3:35 p. m.
SENATE.
Forty-first Day-Throughout the
early sessIon of the Senate, the Philip.
pine tariff bill was under consideration.
Mr. Turner. of Washington, concluded
his speech begun last Friday. He de
voted his argument es on the previous
day, to a discussion of the legal and
costitutioral phases of the Philippine
question, holding in the main, that as
the Filipinos had established an inde
pendent government In tne islands
rrior to the fall of Manila, the United
S'a'es. under the principles of interna
ti-:d law had no right to the islands.
Forty-third Day-With the exception~
of a sharp clash between Mr. Lodge
nd Mr. Patterson over the admission
of r opresentatives of the press to the
investiration which the Philippinea
conimittee is conducting, the discussion
of the Phiiippine tariff bill in the Sen
ate was quiet, The Colorado Senat>r
dsred that all newspaper men be ad
mitted to the comnmittee hearings, de
claring that as now conducted they
wre of a S:ar Chamber character. HeI
said hIs recollection was that Mr.
Ledge suggested that the hearings De
eniely secret. This dr-ew the fire of
the Massachusetts Senator, who in
dignantly denied that he had suggested
anything of the kind. He inassted that
the repatts mode of the hearings by
the "three press associations were ac
curate and fair to both sides of the con
troversy. The communication from the
Secretary of War, transmitting a me
moral of the Federal party of the Phil
ippine Islands in support of American
xule in the islanzIs Cew ?from Mr. Pat
terson the statement that the Federal
party had obtained its control in the
Philippines by promiises to the Fili
pi's that th'ey m:ould be admitted ilt:
maey to statehood in the United
Stats. Mr. Tole~r occupied tne time
of the Senate diu:ing the grc'ter part of
todays sess~on and has not yet son
ciuded hissech
Jo response to scme statements made
durrg the debate Mr. Teller asserted
that the promnin.et commanders of the
Ar:c iratn army rii no: .agrce with the
rinrsions rea-:hed by the m.embers of
e:- Phjiinp):n comissi55on a.3 to the
reC'neliton of the people of the
Phi!pinc. He mnertcnerl among oth
ers the nar-e of General Chaffee.
Twenteth Day: When the house
met there were a number of
vacant seats, A great many new bills
were presented. The senate sent
oer word that it insisted on its
amendment to the chicken bill. The
house appointe to the committee on
'%Mr. DominliC and Mr. Brown.
where was a lot of discussion but
notiag of general interest was done.
Twedijcth Day-The senate was in
session binth rImir;-and night,- !e
yond the raiification of actsIthe pro
ceedings of neither session were of in
terest.
The new code was adopted at night
and Is now the statutory law of the
State. The new jury law was also rati
field. The governor was in waiting in
his office and as soon as these two acts
were ratified they were sent down to
the chief executive and received his
tignature and the seal of the State.
"urors will probably he drawn in aev
eral counties this week under the new
jury law.
Forty-fourth Day-A little flurry was
created in the Senate over the employ
ment, since the beginning of the ses
sion, of a score or more of extra clerks
and messengers. The charges of extra
vagance made induced the reference of
the whole subject of clerical employ
ment to a committee for in;-stigation
and report. The matter was brought
up by Mr. Clay. of -Gorgia, who made
a vigorous protest against a report
from the committee on contingent ex
penses authorizing additional employ
es. He pointed out that during the
past 30 days more than 20 extra mes
sengers and clerks and been employed
at a salary of $1.440 each per year. He
had been informed, he said, that 9 c:
these employes were for committccs
that had not had a meeting in 8 or 1.0
years. The bill creating a permanent
census office was under epnsderaton
for a time, but was not disposed of
finally. An effo-t to cut down the sal
ary of the Director of the Census was
defeated.
After the passage of a I number
of private pension bills. enate en
logized the life and cha r of the
late Representative Brosias, of Penn
sylvania.
Forty-fifth Day- en
tire session the se- under
consideration the bill ishing a
permanent census bureau. was not
completed but an agreement was reach
ed to take it up again immediately after
the executive sesson that M held
on Monday next for the c Ion
of the Danish treaty.
The great contest ..of ' e ay, of
course, was over the "ransfer to the
classified service of the employes of the
census office who are to be retained in
the permanent establishment. It involv
ed the entire civil service question and"
the debate covered mueh of the ground
that heretofore has gone over in
congressonal'
Cha th Forgery.
Macon, G ial.-Dr. D. M. Mel
toh alas Smith at Clay,. who is held
here under charges of wholesale for
gery, says he has made $37,000 since
October and that he is good for all his
obligations. He says his mother is
worth $100,000 and resides in Seattle,
is., and sends him money frequently.
A officer from Sanfor , a., arrived
is wanted on several of for
gery.
Killed on the S ge.
Newport News, Speci 1.-Eva Gil
bert, a trapeze performe at the Pow
hattan Theatre, br-oke h neck Tues
day night during the performance. In
her aerial act she swung om a trapez!
catching her foot in a op about 3i
feet from the floor. Hel foot slipped
from the loop and she fel head-long tc
the floor almost amon he horrified
audience. She died in ~n minutes.
The woman came here about six weeks
ago. Her home is in New York. She
was a widow.
Postal Bill Completed.
Washington. Special.-The postoffice
appropriation bill has been practically
completed by the House committee on
postoffices and post roads and will be
reported in a few days. It carries
$137,916,598. an inacease of $14,133,910
over the ecurrent appropria3tion and of
$3,185,022 over the estimates. The larg
est Item Is $41,250.000 for mailway
transportation of mails. The rural free
delivery service gets an appropriation
ol' $7,529.000, an increase of $1.525,000
and provision is to be made to place
the rural carriers under a contract sys
tem. instead of salaries as at present.
Three Kiiled in Wreck.
Altoona, Pa.. Special.-Three men
killed, four probably fatally woundedi
and two seriously Injured, one freight
train a complete wreck, and another
narly so. are the results of an accident
this morning on the Pennsylvan':'
Railroad on the steep grade, a few
miles above the Horse Shoe curve.
Control of the second section of :u
east-boand freight train was lost soon
after emerging from Gallitzin tunnel
and two miles west of Allegrippus it
crashed into the c-ear of the first sec
tion. Ten cars, the caboose and two
engines were completely wrecked.
Wants to Fight to a Finish.
New York. Speclai.-Robert Fitzsim
mons said that he would accept a pro
position made by James J. Jeffiries for
a finish conteset between them, the win
ner to take 60 per cent., and the loser
40 per cent. of the purse. Fitzsim
mons said he was willing to sign arti
ces at any time and the only stipula
tion he wished to make was that the
winner shoul have all of the picture
proceeds. He thought the fight should
take place before the club offering the
largest purse.
WVomi- Suffratists in Session.
Washington. Snecal.-The first In
enrntional Woman's Suffrage Confer
Dfnce and the thirty-fourth annual con
vntion of the No'iorsal Amneric'.n
Woman's Suifferage A ssociation was be
emn here with an unusually large nunm
ier of delegates in attendance. The
onvention was presided over by Mrs.
'rrie Chapman Catt. its president.
The delerates were welcomed to the
city by Hon. Henry B. F. McFarlan't.
,r'sident of the board of District com
issioners.
A rich man's foolish sayings pass to?
&RP FEELS BETTER.
Writes About dis Experience As a
Grip Patient.
RE IIAD CIIEERFUI COMPANY.
arandchildren to Watch the Clock
for Time to lake the Medicine
Reads the Papers.
This is a bright and blessed morning
feel better-a good deal better. Think
I will write a verse or two of poetry.
If a sick man has good surroundinP
it beats medicine. Good cheerful coal
any to call and not stay long-good
children to sympathize Pad watch the
clock for medicine time, good grand
children to come and kiss you and gu
to and from and talk and make a
noise ; a good wife to scold you and
tcll how imprudent ycu have been. and
a good doctor to look at your tongue
and choke you with a spoon handle S1
as to see away down the esophagus.
But nature has the best of medicins
stowed away in the blessed sunshina
that gives life and vigor to everything
animal and vegetable.and revives the
drooping spirits of the sick. It has been
a long and hard winter-the coldest
and most disagreeable ona hundrcd
consecutive (lays that we have had fr
years. How I enviey the good people
of Florida while I read Tom Sawyer's
rhapsodies in the Clear Water paper
over the advent of spring with its
peach trees and yellow jessamine per
fuming the balmy air with their fra
grant blossoms. But it Is coming
gentle spring is not far away now and
a day like this is its harbinger. If it
were not for the daily catalogue of hor
rible things 'that headline the daily pa
pers even a sick man could 1e calm and
serene on such a day as this. An aged
country friend told me that he had quit
taking the daily papers for it distress
ed him to read such things. "I haven't
long to live." said he, "and I don't
wish to cloud my mind with a daly re
cord of human misery." But most all
people have to mix up with the affairs
of nations and of men and keep posted
about everything that happens. We
can't skip the bad and read the good
only. There Is a fascination about hor
rible things that we cannot resist. They
are the first things we look for. They
Rxcite our pity or our Indignation or
our wonder. Our childhood began that
way for we never tired of Jack the
Giant Killer and Rawhead and Bloody
Bones and Robinson Crusoe. And now
the editor of the press dispatches care
lessly looks over the little slips that
are laid upon his desk and reads "An
other explosion in the mines-one hun
dred killed;" "Another railroad wreck
-thirteen killed," and then resumes
the little anecdote he was narrating to
a friend. We are all growing case
hardened to pain and grief and suffer
ing for the ame reason that the sur
.cs .hardened to the
pain of his atient.
But ever and anon some new horror
ome along that shocks humanity and
astounds the world. I read three long
columns last night about the horrors
of adulterated food in Paris and how
18600 infants died the last year from
poisoned milk. How the great Incorpo
rated dairy companies In the suburban
towns have to deliver 800.000 quarts
every night. It Is skimmed before it
is canned and then is watered 20 per
cent before It is put on the cars. On
arrival at their depots It Is delivered
in cans to 800 milk boys (garcons) who
get $1.40 a night and as much more as
they can make by watering the milk
from the hydrants that'are supplied
from the river Seine, the filthiest river
in all France. One hundred detectives
are employed to watch these boys, but
the boys have detectives, too, and are
seldom caught or arrested. The super
intendent of police says It is impossible
for one hundred men to follow and
watch eight hundred boys and he now
asks for two thousand. This watered
milk quickly sours and by the time It
Is delivered to the retailer at day break
It has to be watered again with a solu
tion of bicarbonate of soda. This ia
the milk that supplies all Paris, and
Is daily fed to infant children and in a
brief time they take cholera inantum
or diarrhea and die. The medical facul
ty all testifled that this milk caused
the death of over 18.000 infants in
Paris in one year and the mortality
was on the increase. and this does not
include the deaths of children over one
year old. These eight hundred boys
a-re organized Into a powerf'ul syndi
cate for protection and defense. Each
pays into their treasury $4 a week,
making a total of $14,000 a month with
which to pay lawyers' fees and fines
and the wages of those In jail and to
bribe the city detectives not to catch
them when watering the milk. They
water It while the wagons are on the
go-pumping in behind with cans of
vater. The mIlk suspected is turned
over to the city chemists, who analyze
and report that If the boys are arrest
ed most of them escape punishment in
some corrupt way, but none are dIs
charged. They go back at once Into th"
ompany's service. But Paris is arous
ed as It never has been and declaies
the death-dealing business shall be
broken up If It takes two thousand de
eotives to pursue the eight hundred
boys. "Our children are ted on mIe-rob
es from the river Seine," is now on ev
ery tongue. Other cities have taken
up the cry and Bouen and Dunkirk
show larger death rate of Infants than
Paris, and now thew say no wonder
the population of France is decreasing.
instead of increasing. We arc poison
ng three fourths of all the children
before they are a year old and half the
remainder soon after. Seine water, mi
robes and bicarbonate of sodJa
This exposure comes froem late o%
eal sources and is no doubt the truth
> very near it. Just think of it an-.I
shddr-8.000 innocent. bci!pless ba
b's murdered in one yere in on'e cit-,.
Tom Hood wro e a song about the poor
sewing women that arousel all Lcn
don. If he were alive in Paris n-ow
hat a pitiful subjiect he would havo
for another song. What a shame upom
our sex. for it is not women who d.,
these things, but men and boys. Th
"thers suffer in giving them birth
They nurse arnd cherish and clasp the
little things to their bosoms and lov*
ad hope and pray, but the destroyer
gr'eve and weep. England slaubmer
ing the Boers and France her innoceti
chi!dren. What next?
A graphic writer in The New York
Press describes a different kind of hor
ror that we know not of, but is a liv
ing, breathing, seething thing that is
not new but has come to stay and
grows bigger and more horrible as the
years more on. He says: "It would
have been unnecessary for Gustav Dore
to follow Dante for a text in order to
picture the horrors of hell." The gov
ernment has established free baths at
Hot Springs. where thousands of tho
most miserable of all God's creatures
cungregate and bathe for relief and a
enre from their loathsome diseases.
These wretches leave their rags upo
the cemented floors which are an inch
deep In water, then stagger or reel o;
crawl naked as the fiends in the cham
bers of hell. From thence they crowc
into a third room where the water anc b
the air is up to 110, and the stench o:
foul odors is horrible. In this room art
two large pools like vats in a tan yard,
and the victims tumble into them li'a
hogs into a mud puddle. No doctor, no v
soap, no towels, no attendants and they q
are soon hurried out to make room for
more, for seven hundred a day is thr
maximum. Ten, fifteen or twenty at a i
time soak their loathsome infirmitie .
In 'he nasty. filthy, hot healing waterp.
and then recloth themselves with their
wet rags and go so-newhere to dry. Al;
are benefitted and 10 per cent are cur- C
ed. What a picture! Their lives. sue'..
as they have made them, are not worth
saving, but they cling to them and live
in hope and defy despair. One hundred
and seventy-eight thousand of these r
human beings passed through the firee
baths last year. One bath room is for
white men, one for white women, one
for negro men and one for ncgro wo
men.
Not far away is a magnificent hotel.
and there is a fashionable ball goirip
on. The rich. the gay, the elite are I
there. One moment a man is waltzin- c
with his wife, the next with some oth a
er man's wife, the next with som
body's mistress. Everything goes, and
all is hell. A famous physician took
his daughter there this season, but sent
her home quickly to keep her from the
company of wealthy and diseased par
sites Almost every one who goes there
registers under an assumed name and
plays incognito during his stay. A
southern judge was recently called up- 1
on for a toast at a hotel banquet anc I
said: "Here's to the names we left be- 1
hind us." But the half has not been
told-some of it is too bad to tell. Ev
ery night the poker rooms are in blas:
and thousands won and lost. The read
er ponders and wonders can suer
things be in this Christian land, and in
this God's country. Verily, the hum
ble and the poor who live around us or
the hills and In the valleys or down
In the piney woods should be thankful
for the health and morality that comes
from poverty. Burns never wrote a
truer verse than that which says:
"And I know by the smoke that so
gracefully curled
From among the dark elms that a
cottage was near,
And I said to myself If there's peace in
this world,
The heart that is humble might hope
--fedt-tere."
-Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution.
HAM'S H ORN BLASTS.
THE easy path leads,
nowhere.
A license is an in
,lorsement.
Results are the
best rewards.
Calmness is the
.mark of true cour
age.
Education is
. , greater than in
'struction. Salva
tion is not a mat
S ter of Shibboleth.
GodlIness is true and eternal great
ness.
A conspiracy of silence is usually one
of sin.
With God Egypt is preliminary to
Canaan.
Vice Is never so vicious as when ar
rayed as virtue.
Truth Is not made false because we
doubt her.
Dark days make a goodt background
for bright lives.
Only those whom the cap fits will
criticize its cut.
You cannot make a live church out
of dead people.
The source of lust is as low as that
of love is high.*
Daily Drdgery may be the door to di
vine delights.
Some people forgive by forgett!ng,
but the true way is to forget by for
giving.
When the heart is full of faith the
hands will be filled with good works.
When the heart of the church is
with her Lord her hands will be wilth
His lost.
The drunkard carries the disregarded
danger signal half way between his
lustful eyes and his devouring mouth.
The life of the saloon depends on the
death of souls.
God's forgiveness does not depend on
His forgetfulness.
A world struggling with its problems
needs more than pilgrim Christians.
Many take their business into the
house of God who are afraid to take
Him into their house of bu'siness.
As to the N'ext "SinltL"
Marmaduke writes in the London
Graphic: What will eventually be the
limit of individual wealth Half a
century back "ten thousand a year"~
was considered to be a vast fortune
Then "fifty thousand a year" was the
phrase commonly used to describe
the Income of fabulously rich men or
women. Later we took to speaking o~
""millionaires." In quite recent times
the "multi-millionaire" with twenty
mIllions had reached the limit of pri
rate wealth; then forty mil'lons; now
the limit has risen to a hundred mill
lions, and already the word "billion
aire" has come Into use in the Ur Itedj
States. Will the mul-b!llionaire evei
replac the multi..millIonaIre?
CONDUCTOR SHO
Tragedy Near Asheville, N. C.,
Last Wednesday.
II. SALISBURY BALLY WOUNDED.
he Shooting Occurred at the Glen
Rock Hotel-Salisbury Slapped the
Negro.
Asheville, N. C., Special.-Wednes
ay morning at 7 o'clock J. H. Salis
ury, one of the best koawn conductors
a the Southern between Salisbury and
noxville, was shot and seriously
rounded by Press Dillon, a colored
ater at the Glen Rock Hotel, where
alisbury was breakfasting. Salisbury
as taken to the Mission Hospital. He
as shot in the abdcmen, the bullet
dging near the spine. He was uncon
cous at night and his condition is re
a.rded as grave. Railroad men are
oming in and much Indignation Is
anfested.
The negro, who was arrested imme
lately after the shooting, was given a
:reliminary trial by a police magistrate
and is still in the custody of the city
olice authirities. He is very uneasy
md the authorities hurried througgh
is trial in order to get the prisoner
ocked up.
Salisbury :ad slapped Dillon a few
inutes before going to breakfast be
ause the latter had taken the seat of
,n old gentleman and was slow about
iving it up. In the dining room the
vater said, "You dfan slapped me.
nt you?" Ie th . l1ed his pistol
d fired four shots, one taking effect.
Six Killed in Kentucky Fight.
Middlesboro, Ky., Special.-Six are
lead and as many more are dying as
he result of a battle between Middles
oro officers and mountaineers. The
yattle, one of the most desperate of its
ind in the history of mountain war
are. occurred between 4 and 6 o'clock
Wednesday afternoon at Lee Turner's
loon, 3% miles from Middlesboro.
Turner had some mules and other
oods levied on in payment of a debt
nd a few nights ago,'it is said he wfi
)thers .went to' Virginia, where the
roperty had been taken, secured what
was formerly his and returned to his
ouse. Deputy Sheriff William Thomp
on summoned a posse of 10 or 15 men
or the purpose of arresting Turner.
ailroad transportation was refused
he officers and they footed it through
he mountains. Turner had heard that
in attempt would be made to arrest
im and he and his men. 15 in number,
were prepared. The saloon is built of
huge logs and Is surrounded by a 30
root fence in which loop holes were
ut Turner's surrender was demanded.
~is reply was a round1 of shots. Charley
. Cecil. of Middlesbaro, was riding a
3athway in plain sigl-t Some one,.~e
leved to have been Mike Welch, Tur
ier's bar-tender, fired through a win
low killing Cecil. Instantly the mur
lerer fell bacd:, pierced by a halfdozenl
ullets. The offcers scattered and hid
ehind trees and rocks. Tn the shooting
that followed John Dryle was badly
ounded. nerhans fts11ly. and Simon
Bean, another ex-railroader, was shot
A.torch was aupliedi to an exposed side
of the building and in a few minutes
the building was in flames. Several of
he ountineers came to the windows
nd were shot down. Lee Turner and
aevera of his fr'en ds. however. escaped
and are reported to ha~ at Mingo mines,
eight miles from Middlesboro. Several
,f his men perished in the flames.
Fight Over Mls~s Stone.
Paris, Special.-Referr'ing to the ye
aorted engagement between Brigands
!or the possession of MIss Stone, the
i~onstannol~ecorresrnondent of the
cho de Paris. says: "The cantors of
been attacked by another hand,o? bri
ands seeking to secure the prisoners
In order to get the ransom. Twenty
tnen on both sides were kllied during
Lhe fight but the orilina.l captors of the
missionary were victorious. Miss Stone
was not hurt."
300'000 Bale' De'troyed.
Washington, Special.-In presenting
~.petition for congressional relief of
otton-grwers from the cotton weevil
n the Senate. Mr. Culberson. of Texas,
sid that the boll weevil h:td! destroyed
000 bales of cotton in Texas5 alone
uurIng the past year. and on account
f the ravares of the pest grave appre
hnsii is felt for the cultivationl of
otton in central and southern Texas.
A school Girl Rescued.
Mocksille, N. C.. Soecial.-Iste
Wednesday evening. near Beck station,
Bight miles north of MocksVille, Miss
Nimle Stafford. aged 14. while on her
ry home f-om school, was assaulted
by Luicoe Gray, a negro. but the
creams of the young lady attracted
he attention of near-by citizens who
uuckly went to her rs~scue, the negro
feing with a posse In pursu't. Gray
ras arrsted a few hours later and
brought to this piac'e by Deputy Sheriff
rotts and lodged inl jail. The young
layis the dan.!erP of T.ee Stafford,
f this county, and Is of splendid fami
Pric lle'ry D-sIes.
Bremerhaen.-By Cable.-Prevlonls
0 aIling Prince Henry. in convernl
in with a corresnondenit of the Asso
ated Press. referred to the report that
ee had written a letter to Admiral
ew apologizing for the conduct of
he erman squadron in Manila bay
lurng the war with Spain. "It is all
nnrue," said the prince. "I have near
...tte, to Admiral Dewey in may Ilfe."~