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a " i. . TT : _T VOL. XII. A HOB CONFERENCE Unique Gathering Discusses a Live Question of the Day DEFENCE OF LYNCHING FOR RAFF: John Temple Graves Speaks on "The Hnh Snirit in this South" and He fends His Section. Chautauqua. N. Y.. Special.?Unique amonj? ai! summer gatherings is the "mob conference" now in progress here. The increase of mob spirit shown by feuds, lynchings, riots, assassinations and other lawless happenings gives great importance to this conference. Among Tuesday's speakers was John Temple Graves, of Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Graves spoke on "The Mob Spirit , of the South." He defended lynch law ! as a remedy for the crime of rape. | holding that though lynching is a I t crime, it is justified by the crime which provokes it and will never be discontinued until that crorae is eliminated. The remedy for lyinching must be the elimination of the crime of rape and this, he maintains, could be done only by the separation of the two races in . - the United States. "The problem of the hour is not how to prevent lynching in the South, but the larger question. 'How shall we destroy the crime which, always has and always w;ll provoke lynching?' The answer which the mob returns to this vital question is already known. The mob answers it with the rope, the bul- I let and sometimes, God save us. with j the torch. And the mob is practical: its : theory is effective to a large degree; i the mob is today the sternest, the j strongest and the most effective restraint that the age holds for ?'ie con- i trol of rape." The lyncher docs not exterminate i the rapist. Mr. Graves contended, but he holds him mightily in check. As a sheer, cold, patent fact, he said, the i mob stands today as the most potential 1 . 1 . .. ~ 1. U iUA 1 uiituui iirintcii mu wuiiiru in me South and such a carnival of crime us would infuriate the world and precipitate the annihilation of the negro race. The masses of the negro, he held, are not afraid of deaUh coming in a regular way. They love display and the spectacular element of n trial and execution repeal to their imaginations. Expediting the processes of the law would not lie adequate to eliminate lynching. The repeal of the amendments end the establishment of the negroes' inferiority in society, declared ; Mr. Graves, though desirable, are not sufficient, "for die negro." ho added, i "is a thing of the senses, and with this 1 race and with nil similar races the desire of the senses must he restrained by the terror of the senses, if possible, under the law." No influence of suppression so j mighty and effective could he brought to hear as a law making amputation i the penally lor the crime of rape. Hut j this, like curfew edicts, separate laws lor whit0 and black, or the treatment of the* crime of rape as separate and outside of all other codes are but expedients. he maintained; there is 110 real remedy but one. No statute will permanently solve this problem. Religion dors not solve it. Education complicates it. Politics complicates it. "The truth which lies beyond and above all those temporizing expedients," he concluded, "is that senara t'on is tho logical. the inevitable, the ! only solution of this great problem of the races." Discussing the subject of "Mental and Moral Contagion," Dr. J. M. Buckley, of New York, after speaking at some length of the various transient and permanent changes that take place under different physical and mental Influences, in human personality, took up the question of prime and argued that all crime implied the existence of society and its attritions, that 3in and vice could be committed by a person alone in the world, but not so crime. He showed the operation of this and how far through their natural causes epidemics might spread. In conclusion, he declared that as laws of association bring on such g"neral and feverish criminal tendencies, so the laws of association must be employed to antagonize them. One Hundred Killed. Paris, By Cable.?Eighty-four bodies have been recovered and the death list probably will exceed 100, in the underground railway disaster which occurred here Monday night. Tho accident. which occurred on tho Mctronnlitnn VlnMpt/> Pnlliunn ?.i .i._ (?- - v.... ??.vv v .V. Ituunn/, UOOUUICU lilt" j proportions of an awful catastrophe during the early hours when more than four-score bodies of the burned anil suffocated victims were removed from the subterranean passage. The work continues and indications are that the death list will perhaps exceed flvc-scorcs. Will I5j Convicted. Wilmington, Special.?Testimony in the Register murder trial was completed Tuesday and argument by counsel to the jury has commenced. The general opinion prevails that a verdict of murder in the first degree will be returned as to the younger Register, and that his father wiii be convicted of accessory bef'?i the fact. THE PRIZE FIGHT. Jeffries Whips Corbett Easily at San Francisco. Mechanics* Pavilion. San Francisco, Special.?James J. Jeffries, champion heavyweight of the world, played with Jim Corbett for nine rounds and a half, and then Corbett's seconds motioned to Referee Graney to stop the fight in order to save their man from needless punishment. The end came shortly after the beginning of the ninth round when Jeffries planted one of his terrific left swings on Jim's stomach. The man who conquered John L. Sullivan dropped to the floor in agony, and the memorable scene at carson vjity was again enacted, when Bob Fitzsimmons landed his solar plexus blow. This time, however, Corbctt struggled to his feet and again faced his giant adversary. With hardly a moment's hesitation Jeffries swung his right and again landed on Corbeft's stomaer. He dropped to the floor, and thrn it was that Tommy Uyan, seciug that It was all over, motioned to the referee to stop the punishment. The Typographical Union. Washington. Special.?An important proposition coming from the committee on laws, which was adopted by the International Typographical Union, was that which permits subordinate unions to incorporate in exceptional cases. The union took up the I^os Angeles Times case and voted for a referendum on the question of an assessment for funds to unionism Tnc Times office. A statement was read from General Otis, of The Times, saying that the office was by choice a fraternal office, that high wages were paid and no surrender would ho made. Delegate Hayh, u Los Angeles, told of the union's course and expressed hope of ultimate success. In the Spokane and Seattle cases, in which President Lynch is charged by Commissioner Drlscoll with a violation 3f the arbitration agreement, the committee on arbitration ronnrfoil ;.n fti doraemont of I'residi nt Lynch and the executive council .and accused toe pubushers of precipitating the trouble by a display of bad faith. The report says lie union constitution cannot be arbitrated. but asserts a belief iu arbitration where the parties approach the question in a fair and conciliatory manner. The woman's auxiliary elected Mrs. Prank L. Kennedy, of Omaha, president and Mrs. C\ Houston, of Atlanta. one of the vice presidents. The convention adopted a spot iai organizer to visit several towns in the South to organize new unions an 1 to visit established unions for *he purpose of strengthening the sans'. The conventic-i adopted the proposition to organize newspaper writers and authorize expenditures of the necessary funds therefore. The death benefit was .increased to $70. Jett and White Convicted. Cynthiana, Ky., Special. ?The jury in the ca30 of Curtis Jett and Thomas White, charged with the assnssinaton of James IJ. Marcum at Jackson, Ky.. returned a verdict of guilty, fixing tire punishment of each at life imprisonment. Tire verdict was returned at a time when there were but f< w persons in the court room. The only attorney present was County Attorney Webster. Jett received the verdict with comparative indifference and calmness. White who has beenapparently under n severe strain duringthe trial, (lushed up and his eyes filled with tears. The verdict occasioned little surprise. The only question which caused the delay, it is said, was whether to make the punishment death or life imprisonment. Yellow Fever. I !1 rOfln Tfiv Gn/./drtl TA ? tf T ..... 1 VA., ^|/VTV IU1. 1 Jl . H. tl . Hamilton, United States hospital surgeon, has completed his investigation of the reported cases of yellow fever at Monterey, Mrx., and has notified the Washington authorities that there is not h case of yellow fever there or in surrouuding towns. riayflower Ashore. Norfolk, Special.?Reports from Elizabeth City, X. C., are to the effect that the steamer Mayflower is ashore in North Carolina waters end will probably prove a total loss. The Mayflower struck on a bar at Wade's Point, in Albemarle Sound, about 1S miles south of Elizabeth City. The Mayflower is a small river craft and was lumber ladon. Right Killed. Chattanooga. Special?The death list resulting from the hrad-end collision between two freight trains on the Cincinnati Southern Railroad Saturday night near Cumberland Falls, has giown to eight, five men having died since Sunday r.ir.ht. Among the dead is Engineer T. 3. DUkc, of Salisbury. Convict Rill Parsed. Atlanta On.. Special.? The House of Represents lives of tho State Legislature parsed the convict bill, as amended by tho Senate, providing for the employment of all five-year felony convicts on the public road3. Each, county may work Its pro-rata number of convicts. ifc FORT MILL, S. C? WE THE SEABOARD SOLD Reported That it Becomes Allied With Other Roads WILL ABANDON ALL RATE CUTTING Indication* Point to the Removal of A!l Competition From the Field of Southern Railroading. New York. Special.?The long-expeoted announcement that the Sea I'lHlIU ;\IY nail JInflMHl, ill. IUM. practically into now hands, was made Wednesday by Ladenburg. Thalnian & Co.. who issued a statement showing that interests representing the Rock Island and St. Louis & San Francisco had secured representation in the Seahoard directorate and board of voting trustees. The oflloial statement was as follows: "Ladenburg, Thalnian &. Company announce that they have completed negotiations whereby new and important Interests have become identified with the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company. B. F. Yoakum and II. Clay Pierce and P. F. Guinness, of I^aden!u:rg. Thalnian & Company, and Okleiph Thorne, president of the North American Tiust Company, have been'jj elected voting trustees of the Seaboard Air Line Railway." President John Skelton Williams also announces that u. Y. Yoakum. II. Clay Pierce, Okleigh Thorne and S. it. Vnn VnPK* hivo hnnn #?! ?: dlrprtors or the Seaboard Air Lino Hallway. Mr. Yoakum is president of tJie St. Louis it San Francisco Hail road. for which company J. P. Mo-gun & Co.. arc fiscal ! ar? nts. The official announcement of tho ileal also said: "The change of personnel of voting trustees of the stock of the Seaboard Air Line Company docs not mean the purchase of that company by Rock Island or 'Frisco interests. nHhough th<> 'Frisco lines extend into Birmingham, and are a part of the Southern situation. it does, however, emphasize the tact that all the great railway systems are cat vying out the policy of more closely cementing the railway transportation interests of the country, which will greatly retard and it is hoped entirely prevent demoralization of the rate situation, or the unnecessary construction and duplication of property. Attention is called to the fact that with the discontinuance of any further construction by the Feeboard Air Line the value of the properties are greatly enhanced, and another gratifying fact at this time and which is further evidence of the fu n?n /\f tKft fftllwfiVC /A?* f ilo .n....... v.! .... ............. ... .... i'liiied States is that this ii -ti 1 dot s not call to?* any financing or supplying of new money." One of the voting trustees when asked to state the real significance of the deal said that it meant a "hotter unfit istanfilng among inb-i?ests tli.it have at various times conflicted." Severe Tropical Storm. j Kingston. Jamaica. By Cable.?The I West Indian hurricane struck the I island of Jamaica with full force j Tuesday, inflic ting groat damage. Port j Antonio, on the north coast, was comj pletcly overwhelmed. Only six houses | were loft standing, through the United Fruit Company's wharves, offices, hotel and plantations wore utterly demolished. Five of the company's steamers, including the Simon Dumois. Alfred Dumois and Brighton. : wire e.riven asuure, uui are lying in easy imsitions. Port Maria, another town on the north eoa?t, also suffered similarly. The coast is strewn with the wreckage of local sailing boats. The southeastern portion of the island has been completely denuded of its crops, the rivers are flooded, an.1 many men were carried out to sea and drowned. Considering the damage to property during the hurricane, the loss of life is comparatively small, though the present estimate is that the death list will reach 50. Hundreds of persons were injured, and there were numerous hairbreadth escapes. The DroDerty loss is estimated at $10,000,000. The entire eastern end of the island has been devastated. Villages have been wiped out, and public buildings and churches demolished. Thousands of the peasantry, rendered homeress and destitute, are wandering about seeking food and shelter. The destruction of the banana plantations lias been complete, and the fruit trade is paralyzed for the next 12 months. Hundreds of prosperous fruit growers hava Kami --j ^ WVVU .MWUpllL IU UtVlllll UJIH-Jf UUU ruin. Sentenced to Hnng. Wilmington. Special.?.laebcl Register and liis father, H. B. Register, were convicted at Whiteville, Columbus county, of the murder of Jesse Sales and Jim Stally last March, and burning the house down upon their bodies, after robbing the premises of sonicthing over ?1,000. The younger Register \va3 sentenced to lie hanged on October 9. and his father was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. Cross 1Mmondson. whose confession implicated the Registers, and secured their conviction, was sentenced to six years. The Registers' counsel gave notice o: appeal to the Supreme Court. 1 | "*f * "' 4 n k <L 1DNESDAY, AUGUST LIVE ITEMS CF NEWS. Aiany Matters of General Interest In Sliort Paragraphs. Down in D'xie. Kentucky distillers, it was reportel, will ship 20.000 barrels of whiskey to Europe shortly. 14. Siebert Cense, who was mysteri- | ously shot in Richmond, has been put ' under a peace bond. Captain Baylor and the Virginia Oyster Commission are measuring the barrens up James river. Judge George Gray, chairman of the coal arbitration board at Birmingham, stated the mono of tlic inquiry and the testimony was continued. Tin- charges of attempted bribery in the Gem-gin Legislature were not sustained according to the committee's rc port. Rock Island Internets have been admitted to representation in the Seaboard Air Line Railway, forming a close alliance of the two systems. Mrs. Daisy Brown Armcivtrout. wife of Rev. Dr. M. Armcntrout .of Kentucky, committed suicide in Prince Edward county, Virginia. \rio~ - Kim if viunion. iormeriy or .Mvirfreesboro, Trail,, who shot herself while at a hotel in Chicago, died brg#to see her mother, who was hasg to her, but did not arrive iu At The National Capital. Elaborate menouvers for troops ot the regular army an 1 National Guanf organizations have bewt r.rrangcd by the War Department. v l.i? ralW'ojtmj. will be in charge of $V.r Dertvttimut frpm August !i2. tjflftTl A8si:-^rct Aeeretary Oliver K.sirtbnrs the.dytf.':; of his poa!^' tioil on S6pte.'nifCf>fr '%stf v At Th* $ort!l. v% The n6w currency law for the I'lli 1 ip pines will so Into eiTc t on Septetnl or 1. 1). M. Parry denounced organized labor as niohorraey In an address at Chautauqua, New York. Frederick ?>'::< .Mennies. of New York, has been appointed to design the statue of (Ion. G. B. MeClcllnn to be erected in Washington. There were two additional deaths rs (be result of th< accident at Liie National League Hapchall Park, in Philadelphia, on Saturday. Archbishop John J. Farley was in' ested with the pallium by Mgr. Diornede Fahoni. Papal Delegate, iiefore a gn at throng in St. Peter's Cathedral. in New York. The Tli'niiM'Pitln ?,^?iJ.-.- ?? i 1:on county. Ohio, at Cincinnati. c hose , delegates to the State convention fa- ' voting the nomination of Zimmerman ; for Governor. 1 mm the Johnson delegates bolted unci held another meeting. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, with Che Maryland delegation to the Grand Army of the lt? public convention, was given a reception in Denver. From Across The Sea. King Edward started from London ere his way to Maricnbad, traveling incognito. In official circles at Sofia a massacre of Christians in Macedonia Is expected in a short time. it is estimated that ".0 lives were lo3t and $10,000,000 property damage caused by the Jamaica hurricane. lut-iiiuicaiioiis mnrKen me trial in ; Paris of mouthers of the* Ilnmbort family. accused of extensive frauds. Committees of the Lords and Commons will confer in an effort to reach an agreement on the Irish Land bill. V. Rosanquet, British vice-consul at Odesso, states, in an official report on the Kischeneff massacre, that the local authorities took no effective steps to stop the riots. The Senate Subcommittee on Fiance, which has been conferring with President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, will further test public sentiment in reference to a new currency bill. Mlscellrnrous natters. The International Typographical Union decided to hold its 1904 convention in St. Louis. Edward L. Dwyer. former husband of the Duchess de Castelluecia. filed a petition in bankruptcy in New York. A freight train ran away on a mountain near Asheville, N. C., and Engineer J. H. Averlll, Jr.. and Fireman Hair were killed in the wreck. The first bale of new cotton sold in Augusta. CJa., brought 20 cents a ' pound. The Irish Band Hill was finally ' o^Toerl to by the Iyjrds and Commons anil now awaits only Kin? Edward's ' signature to become law. I,.-vd George Hamilton, Secretary of Srnte fc.r India, said in the Hons" o' Commons that Britain must be ready at all times for possible Russian a?-. qresslon In India. Lord Salisbury, ex-Premier of Great P.rita'n, is seriounly 111, Cardinal Gibbons w'll assist at the consecration in Rome Saturday of Rev. J. .T. Harty as Archbishop of Manila. The latfst emotion of Vesuvius is causing intense alarm. 19,1903. Can r Nicholas appointed Admiral A!"\ ipff Viceroy of the Vmur district nnd K wan-Tung province in Eastern Asia. The hoard of naval officers which examined the battleship Massachusetts after the accident on Wednesday reports that the damage to the ship is s* rlous. Th? Commissioner of Ind'a Affairs advised that a number of Shawnee and Kickapoo Indians are preparing to go to Mexico. Russia has sent a "commercial and scientific expedition" to "Mongolia. It is thought in Washington tiiat this expedition foreshadows further aggression on China. Bishop Dougherty and five Catholic priests from Philadelphia will sail for Manila early in October. The battleship Maine will be sent on leva cruise to test the merits of the iaussc boiler. 'tale honors were p:?i?l t > victims of Paris tunnel disaster at their fun. . lis. Bryan In a Wreck. St. 1/ouis. Special.?Win. J. Bryan was severely shaken up. but escaped injury in a small wreck on the Soutnrrn Railway, near Mount Vernon. 111.. Sunday. While running at full speed the train ran into an open switch and v as delayed several hours. Beyond biutses no one was injured. Mr. Bryan arrived here from Louisville. Ky., and continued his journey to Sycamore. II. Seaboard's New Branches. Birmingham. Ala.. Special.?The Seaboard's branch from Coal City into ^Birmingham. 311 miles, lias been under fltemsiniction since early in the year end is n aring completion. Trains will bo running into this city not later than next January. The Seaboard's Georgia bin. < h, from Hockniart to At lanta, 4s miles, is under construction and. will be completed within seven or eight months. The distance letwe n Roekmart and Commercial City, 83 tniles, covered by the Seaboard's east t and west road, is now operated. Killed I5y iloiler I xplosion "^lEcnlosa, Ala.. Special. The boiler !' Tuscaloosa Light and Power Coni any exploded Wednesday evening, intantly killing Adolpli Johnston and N. iuhnston, negroes, severely bruising Manager McGhee and Engineer Craw"ord and wrecking the plant. The city s in darkness. The holler was carried wo blocks, on its way passing through brick walls and landing in a d"u.'irncnt store riOti feci away. Several were br.diy damaged. L?osu. ?r>0,? partial insurance Terrible Storm. Merldx Hy Cable.?The effects ??f the tropical cyclone here and in Progrcsso have been terrible. The wind comn.enced in tin early hoars of the night, and panic quickly seize 1 the community. The wind tor - up t reat t:? >s le the roots, blew roofs away, and 1 strove! houses and plantations. Great damage was done in a very short time. Great efforts were made to save small vessels. but about -<> of those in the port of Progresso were cast nnon the .shore. Two Frleghts Collide. Charlotte. N. C.. Special.?A collision between two freight trains on Southern and the Carolina & Northwestern Railways, at Gaston la, Saturday night at 12:15 o'clock resulted in the serious Injury of Fireman Sam drier, of the Carolina & Northwi stern. and painful injury of Engineer Walker, of the Southern. Half a dozen Southern freight car* are tori, up, the engine is damaged and off t.Su track and traffic will he blocked for several hours. The train of the smaller read also sustained material damage to the engine and several cars. Writ Denied. Montgomery, Special.?A writ of lu>1 C i'f\t'lill " "f /lr.?l/..t * - ,,'M" ...... . k.uo niH UIUHHI 10 w imam h. I^ytllo. brother of Mario Gordon, who is held by the police on instructions received from Chief of Police O'Neill, of Chicago, charging him with assault to murder a negro in that city. Chief Gerald received a telegram from Chief O'Neill, stating that he had secured a formal requisition for Lyttlo, and that an officer would be sett to take the prisoner to Chicago. Child Killed liy Train. Newborn, N. C? Special.?News reaches here Tuesday night of the killing of a small white child at Tiis carora by a mail train 011 the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad. It is said that the cars passed over the legs of the little ono and both were severed from its body. Owing to a cevere electric storm it was impossible to ascertain how the accident happened, as there is only telephone connection with the place. The King of Sorvia is deriving some comfort from the adage that lightning does not strike twice in the same place. "S NO. 22. A TF.RSIBLE STORY Cf Murders, Burnings and General Outrages Comes From Turkey BULGARIA ARRAIGNS THE TURKS In a riemorandum Presented to the Powers the Bulgarian (iovernmrnt 5cts Horth the Condition of Affairs in Hacedonia. Sofia. By Cable. The Bulgarian kovernmont has presented a memorandum to the powers, setting out at great length tl><> condition of affairs during the iwist three months iti Macedonia since the Turkish government undertook to inaugurate the promised itforms. The most preeljo- details, dates, places and nanus of persons are given In the memorandum, the whole constituting a terrible category of murder, torture, incendiarism, pillage and general oppression committed by Ottoman soldiers and oflleials. These particulars were obtained entirely from oflicial sources, such as the reports of the Bulgarian consuls and agents of the Bulgarian government, and in many instances, the reports made by Turkish authorities. The Bulgarian government guarantees the absolute tiuth of every statement and challenges the Porte to disprove a Single charge made in the memorandum, whiech begins by stating that during the past three months the Ottoman government has taken a series of measures with the alleged intention of inaugurating the era of promise I reIrrm ami of assuring peace ami trau?11:i!ity to the Bulgarian population of European Turkey, but which have hud the contrary off'a t of further exasperating this population ami n viving the revolutionary inoveinont. Instead <if ])!?); < (a!inn solely 'against pers 113 guiltv of breaches of the public order, the military and civil authorities have sought every possible pretext to persecute. term ize and ruin the Bulgarian inhabitants, alike in the largo cities and in the small villages. Numerous assassinations, burnings and other outrages arc charged. Healing with other acts of oppression, there the in* mornndnin states that the Bulgarian merchants and artisans living in Constantinople and Snlonica were ordon i to tliejr native villages and were not allowed any time or opportunity to dispose of tit ir business or property. Some of these Bulgarians who, with their families. had In*- u established for 20 years or more, were utterly ruined. As the order applied equally to pro{< ssors and schoolmasters, the Bulgarian schools were closed before tho end of tlie school year. The authorities rigorously enforce.1 the same order against the Bulgarian priests, making < very effort to paralyze the* development of religious and educational work, and deprive the Bulgarian exarch of all his privileges and force the people* to come under the authority of the Or. ek patriarch. Encouraged hv tin* Ottoman authorities, the Oroek bishops and archimandrites forced their way into the. Bulgarian ( hurt lies and burned the prayer-hooks and menaced the pcople. The archimnndratc of Salonica declared in a recent gorninn that the Sultan did in.I want Bulgarian exaches in his empire; if they remained they would he exterminated. n lis Takt V.cation. Bui linatcn. Vt.. Special. The Burlington, Winsooki and ('oh hcati r Mills of the American Wollen Company will pot resume operations soon, orders having been received for a two weeks' suspension. In addition to the Washington Mills at Lawrence, Mass., and the Assahet Mills at Maynnfd, Mass., tin company ha.-? also decided to close the Lebanon and Maseoma Mills and L'alerie Mills of ISnllcld in the Mascoma Valley, N. li., for a similar pe nod. I licse mills employ a total of al>out 10,000 hands. The shut-down, the company announces, is for the purpose of giving the employes .1 vacation and repairs and improvements at the several plants. Attention Called. Constantinople, By Cahle.?The British ambassador has called the atten tion of the Porte to the serious situation in Macedonia. lie pointed out that grave consequences may attend fresh murders of consuls or foreign subjects. The ambassador bad an audience with the Sultan on Friday. Spoke to Catholic*. Oyster Pay. Special.?President Roosevelt delivered the principal address at the quarterly meeting of the Society of the Holy Name, of Brooklyn and Pong Inland, held here Sunday. Decently of speech and conduct constituted the theme of his address. which was enthusiastically applauded by an audience of more than 2.000 persons, chiefly men. Father Powers, rector of St. Dorainick's. introduced the President in a fclicltious speech in which he spoke of the esteem in which Mr. Roosevelt is held by the Catholics of tills country.