THAT CAIRO MOB
"Northward the 'Criminal Negro' Problem
Makes Its Way."
CONTEMPT FOR THE LAW
The Only Novelty Was the Active
Participation of Women in the
Affair, a Thing That Has Never
Yet Occuito<1 iu the South and
Never Will.
In discussing that Cairo lynching
!n its editorial columns the Augusta
i.'hronicle says apart from one novelhereafter
to be mentioned, the
r cent eNullition of mob violence
ia Illinois was the same old typical
American lynching. Same getting
;aad all together; same rush for the
; risoner; same slaughter of the
shrieking wretch by hanging, shooting
and burning; same theatrical
hurrying to the spot of troops, who
never get there in time, and if by
some miracle they ever do so, take
a vote not to shoot, as they did the
other day.
The only novelty was the active
participation of womeu in the affair
?a thing that has never yet occurred
in the South and never will.
TKa ovniiafl fnr tlia lvnrhi'.lZ itSClf
!s the same old excuse?distrust of
the law. But the real underlying
cause Is?contempt for the law. The
mob Itself Is, for the time being,
a lawless aggregation of madmen;
no matter hew much each member
of It Indivi lu.iliy may, in his calmer
moments, pretend to respect the iaw,
he Is an outlaw, pure and simple,
when he takes the law Into his own
hands as was done in Cairo. And
this Is true whether it occurs in
In Illinois or in Georgia or Mississippi.
And, yet, it would not. be entirely
fair to say that the courts, as a
whole, administer justice a6 certainly
and with as even a hand as they
Tf Kdd Kaon pnntpndod more
DUU Li 1VI. AC uuu vvvu _ _
than once, that In matters between
man and man, as the ownership of
property for istauce, our courts, generally
are trustworthy, but that when
It comes to crime, they are not altogether
effective instruments for th?
protection of the community. This
la true only in a sense; and it is,
generally speaking, true only in the
sence that juries sometimes fail to j
do their duty.
We have seen something of this
In this very community within the
past few weeks, where more than
one prisoner, charged with a heinous
crime?and as guilty as any that ever
faced a court?were summarily turned
loose by the trial jury, but,
surely, this fault can not be laid at
the door of the court itself, when
It Is seen that it is with the people,
after all, that lies the right and
power to enforce the law as it should
be enforced. Perhaps it is, in a
measure, true that If they would
administer justice In the jury box
more often than they do. they would
not find it necessary, or, rather, possible,
to administer It as members
of a wild, savage mob.
There Is still another thought,
however, (!n connection with this
Cairo lynching. It has again been
proved?as it was in the Springfield
riots?that human nature is pretty
much the same there as in Georgia
or South Carolina or Mississippi.
It only needs sufficient provocation
to assert itself. The Influx of a certain
class of negroes into the North?
we say a "certain class of negroes,"
because we refuse to place all negroes
in the category of criminals?
Is furnishing this provocation in
Illinois as it has furnished it in
thfl South since the war.
For some years past the negro
problem has been moving northward.
Springfield and Cairo furnished
unmistakable mile-stonea of its
progress. Unfortunately the "negro
problem" carries with it the problem
of coping with certain forms ot
crime, such as murder and rape.
And it iB inevitable, perhaps?however
inexcusable it may be?that the
method of dealing with such crim??
is the same in the North as in the
South.
Yet, we would sympathize with,
rather than condemn, the North fo:
the problem which confornts it. Ii
is a problem not of its own making;
any more than the same problem wa
TKarofnPD
01 ?>0UII1 S iiicltvxiig. x uciciv* ui i
we refrain from referring to thisCairo
affair as "another Northern
outrage;" oven though we have, so
often, seen similar affairs in th*
South referred to as "another Southern
outrage." Perhaps our kindred
troubles are rapidly bringing us al!
? Kn+fof unrloratflTnlinfir on this
IU CL UCUWi
point; certainly, neither section has
any cause to throw stones at the
other in connection with it. They
are both, now, simply confronted
with a similar problem, or problems;
the "criminal negro" problem?and
the problem of putting down mob
violence, without respect to provocation
or persons?and at any price.
Killed About Lynching.
At Cairo, 111., Wednesday Henry
Small, a negro shot and killed William
Popo, one of the negro soldiers
discharged from the United Slates
army after the ^shooting up' of
Brownsville, Texas. The shooting
followed an argument over the lynching
thfre last weeK o? Will James,
the negro accused of the murder of
Miss Annl? PHIev.
Cotton Ginned.
The regular monthly report of
the National Ginners' Association
showing that 8,095.000 bales of cotton
have been ginned during the
present season up to November 11.
was Issued Thursday irom Memphis.
Amount ginned U South Carolina,
?>18,000.
;! TWO LIVES ARE LOST
TRAIN WRECKERS REMOVE
RAILS AND WRECK TRAIN
Near Denmark, Killing a Colored
Fireman and a White Tramp, Who
Was Stealing a Ride.
A special dispatch to The News
and Courier from Denmark say6
' train wreckers are responsible for
the derailment of the south bound
mail train on the Seaboard Air Line
Railway, which passed Denmark at
1:43 o'clock Thursday morning, the
death of two men, a negro fireman
and a white tramp, the injuries sustained
by Engineer Poteat. the shaking
up of the passengers and the
destruction of the engine.
The tran was in charge of Conductor
Harry Butler and Engineer
jfoteat. w Que going aowa gram;
just before reaching a curve, two
miles south of this place, Thursday
morning, the engineer Baw just
ahead the end of a rail turned in
toward the middle of the track.
Scarcely had he blown for "down
brakes" when the engine reached
the dislocated rail and left the track,
plowing its way along the ties until
it was completely wrecked.
The engineer was hurled through
the top of his cab for quite a distance.
In his fall he sustained a
broken nose and several bruises, but
was not Beriously hurt. The negro
fireman and a white tramp, who is
supposed to have been riding on the
cow catcher, were instantly killed,
the body of the fireman being burned
to a crisp when removed from the
wreckage, and that of the tramp
badly scalded. The baggage master
and express messenger were bruised
up, but were not seriously Injured.
None of the passengers were hurt.
Besides the engine, the mail, baggage
and one passenger coach left
the rails and were thrown across
the track. The other coaches were
loose from the trucks but did not
leave the rails. After the wreck
investigation revealed the fact that
two rails had been removed, a crowbar,
a large wrench and a bottle of
kerosene oil, which had been used
to loosen the nuts where the rails
are joined, being found at the side
of the track.
The accident occurred not far
from the camp of the Bamberg County
chain gang, where bloodhounds
are kept, and the dogs were soon on
the scene. They immediately took
up the scent and followed the trail
into the corporate limits of Denmark,
where it was lost. Detectives
arrived on the scene Thursday and
are scouring the region for clews
that will lead to the detection of
the guilty parties. ^
It is believed that the wreckers
are the same ones that caused the
wreck of the same train at Otside,
just a few miles further south only
! a few months ago. The wreck Thursj
day morning was more disastrous
in that two lives were lost and the
! damage was greater. Conductor Butler
was also in charge of the train
that was wrecked on the previous
occasion.
The detectives who are working
on the case claim to have their suspicions,
but they refuse to say anything
for publication. It is Intimated,
however, that very probably
Ttm a noneroonnfl Q Q anTTlA
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of the officials of the road were on
the train.
Engineer Potest was in the wreck
I between Swansea and Sweden bIx or
! seven years ago, when two passenger
engines collided.
SIX KILLED EX EARTH SLIDE.
Without Warning Hill Caves in
Upon Gang of Workmen.
A dispatch from Winston-Salem, N.
C., says six men were almost Instantly
killed and one was seriously Injured
there Tuesday morning shortly
before 10 o'clock by a landsl'de
of tons of dirt from the side of an
abutment being constructed for the
600-foot bridge across the Salem
creek valley, on the first section of
the Southbound Railroad. The dead,
all white men, are:
Lesso Friesland of Iredell county
Carnel Bullin or stones county.
Carl Dortschmidt, a German.
Carl Erner, a German.
Franz Lledman, a German.
Alfred Lippner, a German.
The Injured man Is Oscar Mise of
N'orfolk, Va., badly crushed but will
recover.
Three others were Injured very
slightly.
The men were excavating at the
side of a great hill, working with
picks and shovels nearly fifty feet
below the top of the embankment
when tons of earth broke en masse
from the mainland and covered tnem.
A few, by dint of terrific struggles,
managed to extrtcte their arms from
the mass, and the four-score laborers
near by rushed to their assistance.
But at once a second crumb-1
ling of thousands of cubic feet of
earth abo^ swept the rescurers
iside in the twinkling of an eye, and
buried the seven victims hopelessly.
It was nearly an nour Deiore mu i
first dead body wa6 recov?"*d, ko
deep was the mass of eartn wnich
had crumbled down the embankment.
The last ! ody was taken out at 1
o'clock. Each was easily recosnizable;
the earth had crushed the
breath from their bodies without
b-merln* them
battering them.
The awful mine horror at Cherry,
m., 1e only one of a long list of
such tragedies, which seems to have<
been caused by the carelessness of,
some one. In this enlightened age
such accldeotg should be made Im-j
poatfbi* I
CLAIMS SCALED
The Dispensary Winding Up Commisoion
Makes Its Final Report
STATE SAVED BIG MONEY
Redactions in Amounts Claimed by
the Whiskey Houses, and the
j Counter Claims if Collected, Will
Save the State Nearly Five Hundred
Thousand Dollars.
Nearly a half million dollars represents
the saving to the State of
South Carolina by scalings from dispensary
claims and over-judgments
against firms doing business with
the old State dispensary, according
to the report of the winding up commission,
which practically concluded
its work Wednesday night.
A history of the old State dispensary
system, with that tale of graft,
now a matter of general knowledge,
is Included in the commission's final
report. That the whiskey firms failed
to comply with the laws of the
State in regard to the sale of whiskey,
that various devices were used
to prevent competition; that the
board of directors of the dispensary
failed to advertise for bids; that
prices were exorbitant, commissions
and rebates were paid, are a few of
the many charges brought and substantiated
by the commission's findings.
The firms that fought the State
in the litigation in the Federal
Courts are taxed costs amounting to
$21,526. The net amount of claims
considered at this sitting of the
commission was $430,000. This does
not include the over-judgments and
the decrees formerly rendered. The
original fund was $630,000. Of considerable
local interest, and of much
interest also throughout the State
is the claim of the Carolina Glass
Company's, a Columbia concern.
The amount claimed to be owed
this firm by the State was $23,013.75,
which is completely wiped out
by the commission's findings, and an
over-udgment rendered for $28,419,24.
The over-charges found against
the concern are $51,432.99, and it
was by deducting the original claim
from this amount that the overjudgment
is found. The commission
issues a separate decree against the
Carolina Glass Company, and goes
into the details o f what was alleged
to be a monopoly of the sale of glass
to the old State dispensary. The total
sales of the Carolina Glass Company
to the State aggregating ol4I329.90
before the year 1906.
A lor nmnnnf rAnrenentfM! in
the list of over-judgments and members
of the commission and Its attorneys
that the rffrms will be proceeded
against in the Courts to recover
the various amounts charged
against them.
"Conscience Fund" Over $30,000.
Col Felder stated that the socalled
conscience fund had already
reached the $50,000 mark. This is
the money paid back by firms not
represented in the list of claimants,
but who were charged with overcharging
the State. One of the largest
claimants and one that came in
for some scorching when the original
commission met are the Anchor
Distilling Company and Ullman &
Co., two firms classed by the commission
as one concern. An overjudgment
of $30,621.55 is found
against this combination, this including
a proportionate share, $4.500
of the costs in the courts. William
Lanalian & Sons are charged
up with $23,563.46, although their
claims against the State was only
$5,916.54. The commission went
back of the dates represented ny tHie
Arm's accounts in tho claims agaiuat
the State, as did the commission in
a number of other cases.
Fleischmann & Co. and OerBon,
Seligman Company are treated as
one concern, and the $70,000 claim
Is reduced to $45,645.30. This company
admitted overcharges in afldavits.
Clark Brothers & Co., another
large claimant, are. given $53,780.96
on a claim of $66-,383.71.
Carolina Glnsa Claim.
The commission in its special report
In the claim of the Carolina
Glass Company finds that "the officers
of this concern entered into a
conspiracy to defraud the State of
South Carolina by defeating all competition
in the sale of glassware
needed." The commission refers to
a bid of the company in September,
1902, to furnish 50 cars of glass
bottles at prices ranging about 10
per cent Ln excess of the prices paid
to Flaccus & Co., notwithstanding
the fact that other bids were filed.
That also the Flaccus contract, when
purchased, waB for the purpose of
stifiling competition, as all moulds
of the Flaccus Company were turned
over to the Carolina Glass Company
and the former had no facilities for
filling orders.
It is also charged that at several
quarterly purchases other competitive
bids were suppressed, and the Carolina
Glass Company was awarded
contracts that after Deecraber, 1902,
and until 1906, when the contract
existing between tho State dispensary
board and this company was
cancelled this firm maintained a complete
monopoly of all business for
glass and raised prices from time to
time much above trie rair marxet
prices for the goods sold. Also that at
the time of the pa68age of the concurrent
resolution cancelling the unfilled
portions of th? contract there
were outstanding contracts at exhorbitant
prices for more than 200
cars of glass bottles at an approximate
value of $200,000. The commission
states that, according to the
testimony of one of the officers of
the Glass Company, the State saved
mor? than $50,000 when comparison
| Is mado with prlOM paid for goods
' > ^ i > V-' .
subsequently purchased. 1
It 1b also charged against this firm' I
that goods were sold of the same '
quality, size and character as that
sold the State dispensary In other
States and In other parts of this J
State from 20 to 2G per cent lower
than the price paid by the State dispensary.
Finding in GIxum Claim.
The finding is as follows in the n
case of the Carolina Glass Company: J
"We therefore, find that the contracts
made between the Carolina
Glass Company and the board of j
directors of the State dispensary are
contrary to the laws of the State
and against public policy, and for
those reasons null and void, and that
the Carolina Glass Company should
not as a matter of strict law, be
entitled to recover any Bum of money
from the State of South Carolina on
account of said contract, even if
the State had no offsets against them, A
whatsoever, but the commission fur- e
ther finds that it should determine
the matter on equitable principles
and fix the matter of liability on a ''
'quantum meruit' basis and that the ?
prices at which the Carolina Glass a
Company sold to the State dispensary 0
the glassware manufactured by It .
ranged throughout the entire period
of their transactions with the State a
dispensary except for the years 1906 S'
and 1907, at about 10 per cent above n
the fair and reasonable market price
for said goods.
Prices Were Reduced.
"The commission finds that beginning
early in the year 1906, aa the
result of a legislative investigation
made by a committee appointed by ^
the General Assembly of the State p
of South Carolina, and tne resoiu- ?
a
tlon adopted by the General Assem- b
bly relating especially to the con- A
tracts with the Carolina Glass Company
hereinbefore referred to, the I(
Carolina Glass Company was forced
to and did lower Its bids to prlceB e
which during the year and the short 3(
period of 1907, during which the
[ dispensary was operated, were g
substantially in accord with the fair j
and reasonable market price of the
goods sold during that period; but g
the commission finds that during the tj
years preceding 1906 the overcharges
made In excess of the fair and rea- ^
sonable market prices for the goods
sold was $51,432.99, which should ?
be and is hereby offset against the
claim in favor of the said Carolina
SI
Glass Company to wit: Its claim
of $23,013.75, which being deducted
from this amount of said overcharges w
the commission finds said Carolina
Glass Company to be indebted to
the State of South Carolina in the
sum of $28,419.24."
In more than half the claims there
were over judgments rendered In fa- 8<
vor of the State by the commission. 61
As stated these may be collected j?
- ? a
through the Courts. TQi. commie- ~
aion states In its findings, that the *
members have made a careful investigation
of the business of the
old State dispensary and also all of
the evidenco taken before the legle- e<
lative investigation committee.
handemn2 shrdshrdlhrdluhrdluuuuu
"Due and formal notice,states
the decree, " was given to all creditors
to produce before the commission
their books of account and other
records and correspondence dis- ij
closing the transactions between the
creditors and the State dispensary, ^
and in a few instances some of the
creditors complied with this demand iE
and produced their books and rec- 64
ords in part at least, for the Inspec- 01
tion of the commission.
The commission also heard oral n
testimony and received affidavits 9
from members of whiskey concerns.
Conspiracy Alleged.
The commission states that sev
eral of the creditors entered into a j
conspiracy with members of the p
boards of directors to cheat and defrand
the Stato, with the assistance
of some of the members of the
boards, and goods were sold at a
price largely in excess of the market
value, the officers or agents of ^
thn rnncarna and members of the
board making use of tho funds In ^
corruption and bribery.
It ie also stated that many of j
the claimants did not comply with
the law in that: gl
1. They resorted to various devices
to destroy competition.
2. The law a? to advertising for
bids was so worded as to prevent
competition instead of promoting it. ^
3. That bids submitted upon ^
which awards were made, were ex- jj
horbitant as to prices, with the
knowledge and consent of the board. .
4. That the claimants violated the
law in maintaining agents and so- ~
licitors in the State to obtain contracts
for the purchase of their
m n
goods.
5. That in many cases no bonds
were furnished on awards given. .
6. None of the claimants filed at .
the time of making bids an analysis j
of the liquors for sale.
Only Real Values to be Paid. ^
The commission rule9 that ihe q
claimants have all violated the law,
but thinks that it should deal with t]
petitioners upon equitable principles g,
and makes such settlement as will t(
be fair and Just. It therefore find?
that it should compensate each clal- w
mant for goods actually sold and de- g
llvered to the State dispensary dor- g
lng the whole course of dealings by g
, paying the real value of the good< ^
after deducting from the clatmB of t,
Her Wandering Boy. 1,
Where Is Luke Hlgginbotbam? c
If any one has Information which f(
will lead to the location or condi- U
' IIOQ OI tne laa, lua ueu.i l ui au ciu.*- | a
ious mother at Somerset, Ky., will tl
! bo made glad. The boy was last n
heard from at Charleston more than p
four months ago and since that time
the mother has waited In vain for
her boy to return home. *
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Many Were Hurt. s
Ninety persons were Injured but f<
none fatally, when Southbound pas- f
;s?enger train No. 11, on the St. Louis li
and San Francisco railroad was o
wrecked at Rogers, Mo., Wednesday, t'
[Spreading rails caused the accident.
BAY MEAN WAR
wo Americans Captured and Executed
by the Nicaraguans.
rwo WAR SHIPS ARE SENT
President Taft Greatly Incensed on
Hearing the News, and Declines
to Have Any Communication With
the New Nlcaraguan Minister, Who
Just Reached Washington.
A Washington dispatch says two
imerican war ships have been orderd
to proceed to Nlcaraguan waters,
nd President Taft has postponed
ndefinltely his meeting of Isidore
[aiera, the new minister from Nioragua
to this country, aa the result
f news received here to the effect
hat two Americans, Leonard Grace
nd LeRoy Cannon, captured while
ervlng with the revolutionists' arly
in Nicaragua, have been sontencd
to death by President Zelaya'a
rders, and it is believed that senence
has already been carried out.
Orders have been issued for the
ruiser Vicksburg to proceed in all
aste to Corlnto, and the gunboat
esMoines will proceed at onoe to
tort Limon to observe events there
nd report the situation at that point
y wireieaB. me ut> wu u? to tu? iwu
.mericans reached the State departlent
Thursday night from the Amer:an
Consul at Managna, who stated
lat their capture had been followd
almost Immediately by a death
sntence.
A dispatch received Friday at the
tate department is to the effect
iat the men have undoubtedly been
secuted. Upon this information the
ecretary of State aslcM the Sec. of
le Navy to order the^Wcksburg to
roceed in all haste tor Oorinto for
le purpose of protecting Americans
nd American Interests. The DeB[oines
was also ordered to proceed
) Fort Limon at top speed for the
ame purpose. These vessels will
e In constant communication by
ireless with the State department.
The brutality of the Nicaraugan
overnment in ordering the execuon
of these two Americans, who
appened to be found in the revoluoniets
army without trial of any
art, la likely to result-in this Govrnment
taking drastic measures to
revent a repetition of it, and Presient
Zelaya will be held to a strict
ccountabillty Jjfr his action. At
le Nicaraguan legation It was stat1
that no news of the execution of
10 two Americans had been recelvi.
Nothing is known at the State deartment
of the antecedents of Leonrd
Gra?e, who is reported to have
aen shot by order of President Zelya,
but the other American, LeRoy
annon, seems to have had an unsual
career in Central America,
ome years ago he went to Central
merlca and since then his name has
gured prominently in revolutions
i those countries. During his car
jr he has been arrested a number
f times and tried for heading raids
d on several occasions has nar>wly
escaped a death sentence, it
i alleged.
A dispatch from Panama Bays passngers
arriving there from Nicaigua
Thursday report that a reign
f terror exists throughout the poron
of that country controlled by
resident Zelaya. Government troopp
re rounding up every persons susE>cted
of sympathy with the revoluonists
and executing them without
ial. More than five hundred men
jspected of revolutionary sympalles
have been Bummarlly shot and
till the bloody work continues,
epidences are ransacked by Zelaya's
)ldier8 in search of incriminating
(ttere or evidence, and when resieince
is offered the houses aro deiroyed.
Women relatives of revolutionary
rmpathizers have been subjected to
ae most horrible indignatles and
>Jirnrn^iian refugees. ar
iVing on the Isthmus and in Costa
,ica declare It is time for the civized
powers to forcibly Intervene
ad put an end to such barbarities
d atrosities.
jme of the claimants certain fees
nd expenses incurred by the comlission
in defending recent suits.
It is also ruled by the commission
lat certain claimants who filed bills
1 the Federal Court asking for injnctlon
againBt the commission, lnlude
the firms of Garrett & Co.,
leischmann & Co., Wilson Distillery
ompany, Gallagher & Burton, Jack
Tanston Company.
The bills brought by Flelschman,
le Wilson Company, the Jack Cranron
Company and Gallagher & Burin,
were consolidated Into one aeon,
into which Garrett & Co. afterard
intervened, followed by the Big
?in j ? ? TT11 mon
pringB jjisumng uumiiou^, u
; Co., Anchor Distilling Company,
ielalr Distilling Oompany, Richards
: Co. and the New York and Kenicky
Company.
After reviewing the victory won
y the State of South Carolina, the
ommisslon calls atteutlon to the
ict that the fight carried to the
'nlted 8tates Court cost $21,526.17
nd considers the State damaged to
hat amount. The various oompales
mentioned above are assessed
roportloual thiB amount.
Naval Cadet Fired.
The Secretary of the Navy has
pprovod the recommendation of the
uperlntendent of the Naval Academy
Dr the dismissal of Cadet John P.
[yman, of South Carolina. General
naptltude, which has caused seven
ther cadets to leave the Academy
hit year, Is the cause of the dlamlsal
of Hymtn*
FINDING THE DEAD
4
FIRST BODIES BROUGHT UP FRIDAY
OUT OF THE MINES.
Gas Explosions Continue, Which
Alarm the Rescuers and Impede
Their Work of Lore.
A dispatch from Cherry, 111., Bays
the dark tomb of the Cherry mines
has been conquered. After an allnitvVif
Koffln in nlAQrlnff Vi /> aViofta
UiQUb k/aviiQ i" viv?? iuq buy Duatvo
of the burning mine, three bodies,
the first recovered through the main
shaft, were brought to the surface at
8 o'clock Saturday morning.
Inspectators and geological experts,
while penetrating the dismal
depths, fighting the smouldering fire
In the coal veins, caught Bight of <
piles of other charred bodies, but
their passage was hampered by Are. i
At 6 o'clock Saturday morning a <
group of miners and railroad men <
entered the mine, working without 1
oxygen helmets, but there was no <
suffering from noxious gas. Struggling
through the dark tomb, <
the firemen discovered In the second
vein a pile of bodies, from which
three were recovered.
The east portion of the- gallery,
where the fire originated, is badly
caved in. The west portion of the
gallery Lb etlll afiro, but firemen
with hose got within 50 feet of the
vein.
Fireman O'Connor and many other
firemen from Chicago, fighting tb< i
underground flames, emerged from
the main shaft declaring that they
believed that the fire would be extinguished
before many hours. They
saw many piles of human bodies
burled in the wreckage of the gallery
running from the main shaft
* - ^1- - -I- ? ?A?tT
10 lOje uir rem. Aiiujr aiou ?n uvuies
lying In heaps in the west vein
where the fire is still raging.
Mine Inspector Taylor, who Thursday
declared that he would enter
the mine or die in the attempt, spent
the night in the mine, and gave a
gruesome account of the piles of human
bodies sighted, but impossible
to reach. Inspector Taylor sent
workmen into the mine to repair
the east vein, the approach timbers
having burned. ' i
Another body of volunteers was
sent later today into the mines. Or
the second trip of the cage, four <
other bodies, one that of a boy,
were brought to the surface. An i
ambulance, guarded by militiamen, i
was followed by crowds to the town I
hall, a temporary morgue. I
Here scores of grief-stricken, sob- |
bing widows sought to identify the
bodies as their own husbands, but
the condition of the bodiee rendered
Identification difficult.
Crowds of grief-etricken men, women
and children formed a great
circle about the bodies brought from |
the mines. Many turned away, un- !
able to bear the cries of the bereaved
wives and mothers. Three bodiee
were identified: Richard Buckles, a
stable boy; Louis Gibbs, George Mc- .
Mullen. The condition of the bodies I
recovered Indicates that the men dted
from suffocation the first day of imprisonment.
MANY DESERTIONS Di ARMY.
Annual Report Shows That 4,998
Men Deserted Past Fiscal Year.
Continued extensive desertions in ,
the United States army during the
last fiscal year forms the leading
feature of the annual report of Ad
Jutant General Ainsworth. Aftei
showing that 4,993 men desertec (
from the enlisted force of the regu
lar army, General Ainsworth concludes
that only a strict enforcement of
severe penalties will diminish ma- ,
terially the practice of taking .
"French leave" of the soldiers. I
He regards as rather alarming the
fact that the number of desertions
during the last fiscal year was greater
than In the preceding 12 months
Of the whole number of enlisted men
4.97 per'cent deserted during the .
1 a 1 ? ?. I. J1 *Ua A innc
l&Bl DBCQl year, wunv iuu uvoviuvur
of the preceding year amounted tr
4.59 per cent. General Ainsworth
says the abolition of the canteen. .
the monotony of garrlsion life, the j
increasing amount of work and study c
demanded of a soldier, and the ease .
with which remunerative employment
can be obtained in civil life {
in these prosperous times are causes t
of the evils mentioned.
The percentage of desertions j
among the white troops is about ten j
times greater than among the col- c
ored men in the service. Of the men j
who deserted during the year, 1,- t
013 were apprehended and 315 sur- (
rendered. c
t
Roiuarkaole Murder Story. g
A remarkable murder story was v
revealed at Washington, D. C., Thursday
following the confession of t
Mary Batson Howard, a negress. \
that she killed her 8-year-old daugh- tor
because the man she loved threat- g
ened to leave her unless the child t
was sent away. Her description ui r
the crime iB gruesome. Under the }
pretense of taking the child to the \
woods for a romp, ehe lured her to i
a secluded spot, wher# she slashed '
her throat with a razor. \
i
Coald Not Deliver Cotton.
Shannon & Hope, of Sharon, In
York county, a large mercantile firm
of that place, It is stated that the i
Arm on the strength of buying con- j
tracts with neighboring farmers, sold ]
sevoral hundred bales of cotton for '
fall delivery and that the farmer? ]
with whom the contraots were mad-> i
refused to bring in the cotton, hence- i
the firm's loss and the present ao |
tion. i
Paid Damages.
J. H. Ellis, who sued J. N. Garth
for $10,000 damages for Injuries received
in an automobile accident, was
awarded $4,800 In Webstar City.
Ifl~
"T 1
A MANLYSPEECH
lohn Mitchell Says Dramatically That He '
Endorses Boycott.
0 i
AROUSES ENTHUSIASM
He Rightfully Declares That No
Concern Haa a Property Right to
His Patronage, and Charges That
, a '
Washington is Watching Proceedings
of the Convention.
Endorsing a report of the committee
on boycott, John Mitchell,
one of the three officers of the
American Federation" of Labor, who
are under sentence for contempt of
court, made a dramatic speech to the
convention of that organization now
In session at Toronto, at W'edneaday's
session. He declared that aa
Car as he was concerned, regardless of
consequences he intended, while
it liberty to declare for the rights
guaranteed him by the organic laws
}f his country.
The report which drew forth
Mitchell's speech, and wh[ich was
adopted by the convention among
Dther things declared: - r;
"We say that when our cause is
just and every other remedy has
been employed wlthqut result, boycott;
we say that when the employer
has determined to exploit not only
xdult male labor, but our women and
children, and our resources and our
ippeal to his fairness, and his con- 1
science .will not sway him, boycott;
we say that when labor has been
oppressed, browbeaten and tryannlzad,
boycott; we say that when social
and political conditions become so
bad that ordinary remedial measures
are fruitless, boycott, and finally
we say, we have a right to boycott
and we propose to exercise that
right. In the application of this
right of boycott, to paraphrase the
president (Gompers)-, we propose to
strive on and on."
The convention bfoke into loud
cheering for Mitchell as he conclud
ad, and there were 'cries for "Morrision."
The secrecy did not respond.
President Gompers was absent.
Mr. Mitchell said he realized that
3very statement made by those on
:he convention floor, especially by
:hose who on next Monday will have
:o deliver themselves to the courts,
s being closely scrutinized.
"I want the Deonle of the United
States to know m* position," he
said. "I shall not speak defiantly;
jut be the consequences what they
*111, I shall not surrender any right
guaranteed to me by the constltu;lon
of our country. I am not iure
low much mental and physical sufering
will be necessary to make me
submit, but if I know myself, not
iny ^mount of suffering will persuade
me that I have not the right
;o spend my money where I please
)r thAt I have not the right to write
nd speak as I please, being responsible
under the law for my acts.
"Whether the boycott be a beneIt
or a detriment each man must
ecide where he will bestow his
atronage. I maintain that my pat onage
is my own and no merchant
las a property right to it.
"I understand that cognizance 16
jeing taken at Washington of the
ltterances of men on the floor of
.his convention, and I want clearly
o state my position. I propose in
.he future, as I have in- the past,
ro exercise the Tights secured to
ne by the fathers of my country,
>.nd I propose, if I am sent to jail,
o decalre again when I come out
;bat I iball not for myself purchase
iny product of the Buck's Stove &
Range Co.
"I repeat that so far as I am concerned,
and let the consequence be
vhat they will, I intend while at
.'iberty to d/eclare fo rthe rights
guaranteed to me by the organic laws
>f my country. I am proud of beng
an American."
Mr. Mitchell said he had grown
ip as an American with a stepmother
so poor that she could not buy
)read, and related how he had crept
>ut of bed at night to get his father's
soldier coat to keep him warm.
"But I want to see the word
American stand for all the sentiment
hat Is symbolized by the flag of our
:ountry," he continued. "I want
eal liberty. I don't believe in the
lberty enunciated by some of our
:ourts that men and women should
' * * ' 1 * - ? ?^AfMaAlvna
1&V6 ttlG rigflt TO worn, cucwotn
o death. I don't believe in the liberty
enunciated by Judge Tuthdll
>f Chicago, who declared unconstiutional
the 10-hour law for women,
md by that aot compelled them to
vork 14 hours a day."
Mr. Mitchell said he believed the
jresent proceedings would bring
lome to the people the necessity
?f working in concert. "Is the time
;oing to come on our continent when
he badge of faithfulness to labor
nuBt be the branl of Imprisonment?"
le 6aid in conclusion. "Surely I
lop? not. I hope that the governnent
may be bo conducted that no
citizen may feel that he has not
>een given justice and an equal right
vlth every other citizen."
The Woman In Black.
The mysterious "woman in black"
ivho commltte-1 suicide Wednesday
In the rest room of an Atlanta department
store was llentlfled as Miss
tVlllano Cotton, daughter of Mrs.
Rebecca D. Cotton. The yoong woman.
who died from an over-dose of
strychnine, was said to have been
In bad health for cewal monthf and
despondent.
Out In Omaha some one presented
Senntor Aldrlch a pair of leather
breechcs a fow days ago. They will
come in handy for him as the leader
of the "boleit band of buccaneers
that ?ver sot together."