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y ' V'' -, F< VOL. X. ~ ^1 i ^ 13 c T-UThis wants " ir*"' the kinc JU ^ GREAT I |f GRO( J&&, Our line T; want y< Thomps ^jjL^. somethi 4^4* If ' P 4?<?> 4? S t|V ^y t^y y NEGRO BURNED AT bTAKE Mob in Alabama Saturates Him With Oil and Applies Torch. Mnnv eojorcit l'*npl? Helped White* to Mete Out Venice unco ? The Vleitrn Gonfeftseil. e Birmingham. Ala. ? John Wesley Pennington, n, negro. was (turned at the stake near Enterprise. Ala . before a crowd of TtOO citizens of Coffee Coun ty. The assemblage was composed of both white and colored people, and though the wreteli pleaded for mercy end endeavored to break the chains t fin I hound him. not a trace of sympathy. if is shid. was shown on the faces ?f the onlookers. Pennington had committed a brutal assault upon Mrs. J. (\ Darin the wife of a fanner, and he had eon esfted his guilt. The crime waa committed while Mrs. Davis was gathering vegetables in her garden. Pennington choked her into insensibility. Afterward lie fled to the woods. As soon s site regained her senses Mrs, Davis' crawled to the house and told her husband what had happened. A large poise wrs oulekly organized, anil with b oodhounds they chased tiie negro un, r" early In the morning when lie was Rvoturod in a swamp. Pennington l, ? bound hand and foot nn(j taken hat to the Davis home for identification. News of the assault o* Mrs. Davis lin^ lieen sent by runners for miles art and Enterprise, and every farmer i: the neighborhood ha 1 left his nlow Join In the search. When io posse arrived with Pennington f.iere wore nt least .100 per pons gartered near the Davis residence. At n signal the moil withdrew to the wiiorts and nuletly awaited the result of the meeting of Pennington and Mrs, Davis. Mrs. Davis immediately W coifnlzril liiiri and the negro broke do vn and wept. lie admitted having committed the assault and pleaded tor mercy, but was dragged from the house and in.o the woods where he, was burned to death. Kvldenk.v expecting a confession several r t teens had already driven a stake into the ground, and as the men anproarlmrt with Pennington both white and colored people were piling bushwood saturated with oil around it. The negro saw his doom anil screamed in terror, while the crowd stood silently by. The frightened brute was limp and had to he supported while tile chains were fastened nround his neck and body. *When all was ready the cry was given aud the crowd stood hack. A match was then placed to the pile. The terrified negro again pleaded for mercy In the most agonizing tone'., and prayed that those around '.on might perlsb. He then called p;,on his Maker for fpr^lteoose, and a& U>e , I 1 t :)RT ? ^ > Yot hot weather a i pants" like thos 1 of "pants" you ICE LI 1EDUCTI0N IN SUMI ;ehies cot 3 of Dry Goods i Dur money's wc ion and Robert I ng to surprise y A AH wni 0lifJIff P$ / 9 8 n I I ^ ri { Uiil Mluli Mi *wwub ii? ? i t-*-, jmmmmmmmtmnmitm i ! tw???? j llnntes ,ea|ie<l tin anil encircled h's ! iii't-U :in unearthly shrink was heard j ami tin- in.Mil's eye; almost out of tin* sockets. When lie luul been burned to cli'atli the ci'owil dispersed. CUNBOAT ORDERED TO COLON." fioc* to I'rotect Atiifi'lrHn I utermtn In Colombia. Washington, 1>. ? A number of complications have arisen In connection with the recent disturbances in Venezuela ami Colombia. The infor- | i mntlon received indieates wry strong i ly tin* existence of plans for a concerted niovcmciit by tin* insurrection* ! ists of both Venezuela and Colombia. I The absence of any late positive infor* I ination from the United States representatives in those countries has caused some uneasiness, and it was decided to send tile gunboat Maehias without delay to Colon for the purpose of protcctintt American interests. j KILLED HER BABY BROTHER. .title Girl fut ltullet In Urnln White I'luylug With 11 lMstol. Toms Iiiver, N. J. ? Ethel Handy, the nine-yenr-old daughter of H. K. Handy, of Tuckerton. shot and killed her tlvc-year-old brother Elmer. The children were alone in the house and found a pistol. They had seen a pigeon shooting match a short time ago and were playing that the little boy was the pigeon and the sister the dinner j The pistol went olY. mid the bullet | ' entered his skull above the light eye, 1 coming out itt the hack of the heed. I Coroner Johnson and Prosecutor Brown were summoned from Toms Hiver. and a verdict of accidental shooting was returned. BIG PAY FOR CRICKETER. Rrown, of Yorkshire, Crtn (t'JO.OOO, tlin (int. of it Thrcc-Doy Match. I/oeds. England.?The annual cricket match between Yorkshire and Lancashire, which lias just been completed, lasted three days and attracted a daily crowd of over 10,000. According t?l clNtnm I 41 - *' . iMumi, nH- loritsnire j professional, pot the proceeds for pood .1 I service. lie received S'JO.Imjo. which | ' breaks the record. The normal pay or a professional cricketer Is under a week during the season. fusion Agnln to NobmnKn. Fusion is .-"Tain an nceonipli hed : fact in Nebraska. The three St.- *? eonimittees of Democrats and I'opu \ j lists met at l.ineoln and agreed to eall i tlrdr eonvejilions for the same dry. ! September 17. Speeches were mad ndvoentinp the ehisest harmony :i:mo,i ; the parties. 'J'lm Free Silver K<*p;;l iicans, after nillrming their allegianec to their parly principles, disbanded. Stful Trust's I'lwi of flijlitlmj. The Steel Trust's plan for lighting the Amalgamated strikers is to open its mills from time to time with nonunion labor. The Clark mill at Pittsburg has been started. | mm 3p f? i jT'. : r , Mil OUT MILL, S. C? WEI T T T i We man "pants" foi e on our counte want.with whic E OF CLOTH MER AND FALL GOO IHTRY PRO] s complete and Drth, go to the Harris will meet ou. We hope 1 IIPII V "V "4' ?4* "H- O" PLANT TO BE DISSANTLED Steel Trus1: Will Remove Dewees Wocd Mill From McKeesport. AN AGGRESSIVE MOVE IN STRIKE I l Kpinavnl of MrK?Aipart I'luiit i? ."'Ac. *?, ltcpri*nl For I nlon ^.vmpRtliy ? Tl?? ]><M'l?lon ( A?crll>c?l It) llio HoMillli of tlir People of Tlimt Clt y?Federation of I.nlior 15ucU? Fp Striker*. Pittsburg.?The United Suites Stool Corporation made a decisive move in the strike campaign by Issuing a peremptory order directing that the great Dewees Wood plant at McKeosport be dismantled and removed to the Klskiniinetns Valley. IVrsifer P. Smith. district manager for the American Sheet Steel Company, made the announcement in the following brief statement: "I have orders from President Sic Murtry, of the American Sheet Steel Company, to tear down nt once the Dewees Wood plant, nt McKeesport. I and remove the same to Kiskimlnetns Valley. This I shall proceed to do Immediately." The publication of the order was a great surprise, auil McKeesport nt first received It with doubt. Actual preparations were made later in the day to dismantle the mill. The strik-I ers hoard the order in a spirit of do- I fiance. They said tiint It showed that j the steel corporation was convinced that it could not reopen the plant in the face of the opposition of the Amalgamated Association. Strike leaders said the 04 lor was a bluff, which had boon unsuccessful lwforr. and declined to take it seriously. President Simffrr. after re .id ins the order, declined to talk about it. "'I have nothing to i say about the order to dismantle tbo ' Dpwcf s Wood plant." mm a nil he would ray. The slrol officials drclinrd to give any n a* on for tbo order. hut It 1; op oily i'd 1: to ih; :h s.roi: ' rym- ; 1 >111)y of ihr citizens and city official'! of McKcoport with the strikers Is responsible for It. If is nl-o said that tbo plant of the National Tube Company, at MeKeesporl. will bo abandoned and the eld Carnegie rdan for a *ube plant a) Couneattt. i >hio. revived. The 1 lowers Wood plant was founded about forty years ago, and Is one of the lest known works In Pennsylvania. lis yards and building- cover between twelve and fourteen acres. It has employed 120O men at Its busiest times, and the cost of the works Is placed at So.OOO.ODO by officials of the Ste<;l Corporation. Pjysldcnt (Joni; JL 1 )NES1)AY, AITGUS7 I - cooling strearr sr. We have jus h to cover you I, SHOES A! , ** iir- . HIV" w e ouor 0111 eutire lot lUOi BELOW COST. Also DUCE On Han our prices will i Company Stor you with a bro :o have a share j Srn(, n rinnin i mi I, UTi!HJ0!VY j iiUMi tins I. 4r 4/ sir sir s<> 4s I pcrs, of ih American Federalion <>, Labor. after a two days' conference with President Shaffer and liis aelates. issued a formal stateineni s'lreilieally pledging the Federation to ilio moral and linaucial support of the A nalgamated. NEW YORK POLICE ACC'JoED. II In All?sril That Tlntr 1'rntfct Place* Wlilrh Arc I'ulawfill. Now York City. -- Physical oonneetIon. intiiuaio and instantaneous, between tho Police department of this | city and tho syndicate which runs tho pool room arid aer gambling places | lit: s been disclosed by the Park hurst society. Almost incredible corruption is laid open to tho gaze of tho world. Tho allegations of blackmail and of protecting places, the existence of i which is forbidden by law, are proved, ! not against no tsiiinmn n-a, |/??t 1FII1KI1I ill" I an unfaithful roundsman or sergeant, luit against the body as a whole. | Tin* whole department has been ran ! as an intelligence bureau to advise the | pool rooms and other unlawful resorts I when they were in danger, and now the whole force is on the defensive, j The Society for the Suppression of Crime captured the go-between. I In a single stroke the connection between the police force of New York ; City and the pool rooms was exposed. The Society for the Prevention 01* Crime got inside the police system I and untitled the pool rooms through Police Headquarters that raids wore to be made. I Through the operators at Headquarters, who are pal ice sergeants, the word of the pretended raid was sent throughout thg city, and from a dozen precincts the ward men tumbled out, 1 to carry the warning to the places where the law was being violated. At each of these places stood agents ' of the society?not to raid, but to mark the springing of the trap, the j workings of the scheme by which the ) corrupt police ollielals were made the I agents of their own utifoing. DROUGHT RAIS-ZS COST OF FOOD. I Snppllc* in C'lilcaco lump From I'orly li? 1OO l>r Cent. Chicago. III. The (Ifought has sent food supplies in Chicago soaring. Hoarding house proprietors are ra'.siu:: tli" prices of meal tick' *s and trurantours are lessening the quantity of foial givi n <11 j?atrolls. Vegetniih s. fruits and almost ail food products are higher than ever before. In the produce marketr. not only have tho priees become prohibitive to many, but those who can pay the advance llrul great dlflieiilty in getting fo.nl stuffs which compare favornhly In quality with those n.' former years. Pens, beans, lettuce and tomatoes are tip loo per rent. Potato; ; have doubled. Kggs and butter atv up forty per cent, over a year ago. Sunk by tlie Oceanic. The Oceanic sunk the coasting steamer Kilt corn in the Irish Channel, drowning seven persons. # riME 14, 1901. is and breezes, st received a ful r legs. Call and ID HATS. of Percales, Lawns, atul other a full line of Staple and Fancy.. Ld at ALL Til interest you. W1 e, where Messi ad smile and sh of your patrona L ? V ? mHi'I Mill v5 P roil luli], u. u 444" $44 lniNOR eventsoftheweek] TrASIT I NfiTON IT KM S. Tito Tron-utry Dt'p.irlincnt rulrs that tl:o 1 ?cm:irii M itt of Asjrirulluro tuny oxporinu'itt with vnlc of Aiiirrirnu fruit in foreign markets'. tieneral MaeArthttr's llnal report on ti.e Philippines declared licit present policy wonhl eventunlly conciliate the natives. hut tlcit a strong force was still needed in the islands. Tlie Navy 1 >c. it' ordered the hattleshin Wh oi?>:'1m to San l'ranI eisen, to lie ready to 'to to the Isthmus of Panama. The boatswain who steered the P.rooklvn during lier "loon" at San- I fia:ro. lias been ordered from the Philinpines to Wash I in; i oil to testify at j tin* Sehiey eonrt of inquiry. Within a few weeks the War Department expects to send 400 more teachers to the Phili'ipine Islands Ahont this number will he needed to entnnle'o the 1000 teachers originally determined upon. Acting Assistant Snrireon Hodgson, of the Marin** Hospital Serviee. has nnnonneed the discovery of a cure for yellow fever. . ? nru Anoi*Ti:i? ist.ands. '"Iir? Cnv:t <; of Hawaii has twice pra*?os"il tli" i- !!(? of bonds to effort needed puh'.ie iinn-ovenniiis. and that the Secretary of the Interior on both occasions has declined to entertain the plan. A Cuban artillery corps Is to be formed. It will consist of lot) white Cubans. Quartermaster McKie, of the jrunboat Annapolis, was attacked near lloilo l>v :t shark, which bit off one of bis lejjs. Andrew Carnegie is to trive San Juan. Porto Jlico. a library. The city appropriates StidOO a year to support if. Ceneral Maximo Corner lias written a letter denyitur that he or S'Mior Pal- 1 ma are annexationists. In the Cuban 1 Coii-tituliotial CoMvcniiott Scnor fJi nerua. !i :?11 aehed tJ?<? ill.'Ill- t ory of Marti. who lieitan I lie last Cn- : han revolution. Poenanut plant incr prevents a most i attractive tiehl f >r isiv Imenf in the < Philippines. Cneoanut trees yrow i well in many parts of the nrchipelatro ; : "hud eomniene.. to bear after the fifth t J'ear. I t AdJulnnt-fSeimrnl Corbin, who lias return to Manila after an eleven-ilay Jour of the islands. ineluilintj a visit to the Sultan of .lolo, with whom ho i :ehan?o<l presents, says Taft ami ChatTee are accomplishing the vart- s < us changes in the islands most ably. DOMESTIC. < The number of naval apprentlees at 1 the training station at Newport. 11. 1., | 4 has increased from 700 to 1100 in a year. ^ % in. 1 ' rm :s. NO. 22. -sf- -ST' "nT TO He a,so JL 1 line of ^ see our <0^. Sjp*' wash fabrics ^ HES. ^ hen you A-f-s. Gary 0 ow you .ge. - ? #v/y, v3\ '<$444%k A 111?> :i:i i :? to Ameriean missionaries !;' 1! .I in t'lilua is to In* envied :;t t HieiTm. t >hio. Mi" thousand aeres of land for a. park ltnvo le i n given ('olorado Springs4. Col.. Iiy Ceiioral William J. l'almer. I Angry because his wife tried to prevent him from assaulting his dnughj lor. Clements I'tteliter, of l<otiisville. j Ky.. killed both the mother and datigh i ter. Mrs. Carrie Nation was released from the enmity jail at Tnpeka. her tine and eosts having been paid by I>r. Mva Harding, who took up a < :>! leefioti for that purpose. I.ieuteiiaut Coinniander .Tantes C. Cresap. C. S. N. of the Inspeetion Hoard at the Norfolk (Ya.i Navy Ysirtl. died at the naval hospital of hlood poisoning, en used by the dye of a storking ahsorhed in a slight abrasion fill his: <*/?.? l-eot *1 - ...wi oiii uiree Wl'l'lis ago. Kfforts are being made to introduce the Indian mango fruit into Florida. American shipyards on both coasts and the great lakes declared to have orders ahead for a year or more. It became known that Arbuckles had broken with the lirazII steamship pool, and had chartered four steamers : ? carry their coffee from Uraxilian ports. One hundred automobiles are expected to start in an endurance run from New York to Iluffaio. 'lite biggest tenement lie:-> in .lie world, which will follow all the provisions of the new law and have accommodations for ISi; families, will be built in New York City. One of the Apostle Islands in T.nlce Superior disappeared during the late storm, sinking below the surface of the water. Charles It. Skinner. Slate Superintendent of Public Instruction, New York. has condemned Miles M. O'ltrlen's Idea of employing Sisters of Charity as public school tea'hers. The chief of police, James Jones, of Shelby, was shot and instantly killed by "Jim" I.owery, a negro employed it the South Carolina mwi ..VUlglU stilt ion. Senator Tlllinnn. at :i Wiseons.ri r' 1:iitawpin. advocated l.vnohin^ lot' : - :m1i ami was loudly applaud,"!. J. M. l.i can, rational liank < :->tn : closed the First National Hank Austin, Texas. Allied evpesslvo . - are said to linve etlti .1 this i'-*' ,ii. The Slate of Texas is said ? ha . ?7.-> nee ,.T, deposit, and total i .ti?- :.!?! 1 a I e { -_<? \Ot)U. FOKKIRN. A d'e - ii i'?i,ij; Itotterdani says tin i ....- eonditli ii of rri-sidi tit Krnyi * .. .?u ? :,'H.s appreliensioa. A -]?i eialist in nervous diseases has heen itiiiiiuoaed l?y telegraph frotn Jlerliti. Til'* S\.i i h < lot eminent is c-oas'.d-1*iiiyr plans for the Installation of eV'frieity through tlie whole railway ijateni of Sweden. . _ ,,,* . .. v