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THE FORT MILL TIMES. ^ 7TH YEAR FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 0, 1908 NO 18 ' DROWNED BY FLOOD. HEAVY RAINS IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA CAUSE FLOOD. Two Children Have Boon Drowned and Traffic Is Tied Up on Fonr Lines of Railroads. j?A dispatch from Ralolgh. N. C., " nay's two children drowned, traffic tied up on at least four lines of railroad and most of the navigable rivers, crops badly damaged and in the large areas of lowlands entirely destroyed is the partial record of the effect in Eastern North Carolina of the West Indian storm that, raged on the Atlantic coast Thursday and moved inland Friday, accompanied by a rainfall that was a record breaker in some localities and amounted to 9.75 inches at Newbern, according to specials Friday night to the News and Observer from numerous points in that Bection. At Klnston, nine Inches of rain in four days is renorted ?nd in "I,u . ... v..c main streets are impassable to pedestrians. The Norfolk and Southera railway bridge over Southwest creek, between Kinston and Caswell, is submerged and traffic has been blocked all day. Traffic is tied up also on the Kinston Snow Hill Railroad, the track be- | ing washed away for some distance. TrainB on the Washington and ' Vandemere Railroad are tied up by ' washouts and river traffic and flshlug are at a standstill. The bridge of the Norfolk and Southern Railway, between Morehead ' City and Beaufort, recently built at u cost of millions of dollars, is reported unsafe, and no trains are crossing. At Roper two children are reported drowned on account of the tlood. The chief damage in inland sec- : tiens has been caused by the torren- 1 tial rains. Reports from Wilmington, More- 1 head City and Beaufort are that the * storm has passed, and but littlo real 1 damage has beeu affected. * ' KIDNAPPED AND DROWNED? < Authorities Unable to Account Other- \ wise for Young Rudy's Condition. * Late Friday night at Pittsburg, Pa, 1 Miss Clara Konter, 18 years of age, f who, it is. believed, was kidnapped i and detained for twenty-four hours t by persons unknown, had not regain- t ed consciousness. a The young woman left her home. < near Shousetown, about 15 miles s from Pittsburg, Monday afternoon, to \ make several purchasers. She failed i to return and while the entire com- ( munlty were searching for her, Mrs. Konter, the girl'B mother, found her * lying across the bed of her room at . home. Physicians have worked with the girl since Tuesday night in an endeavor to bring her back to consciousness without success. According to ' Dr. Kerr, of Shousetown. a powerful drug, the nature of which has not yet been ascertained, was administered. i Whether the girl was kidnapped i and mistreated is not definitely i known. * < COTTON CROP'S CONDITION. , Government Reports Note Improve- 1 ment Over l^ast Mont It. I The average condition of cotton , was 83 per cent on July 2 5, as | against 81.2 a month ago, and 75 a , v?"?r n?ro. according to the report of | the department of agriculture given ( out on the first. The condition on The condition of cotton on July 25 in 1906, 74.9 in 1905 and 81.4 for the past ten years. The condition fo cotton on July and the ten year averages respectively by States followa: Indiana, 90 and 93; North Oaro llna, 89 and 91; South Carolina, 84 and 80; Georgia. 85 and 81; Florida. 85 and 84; Alabama, 85 and 81: Mississippi, 86 and 80; Louisiana. 8" and 82; Texas, 82 and 82; Arkansas. 86 and 82; Tennesseo. 8 8 and 84: Missouri, 88 and 84; Oklnhoma, 66 and 65. THREE HOURS IN BALLOON*. Successful Trip Made from Baltimore to HAgerstown. Ernest Gill, a young man of Baltimore, accompanied by Lincoln and Hlllery Beachoy, professional aeronauts, made a successful balloon voyage from Baltimore to Hagerstown, Md., Thursday. The air craft ascend ed at 1.16 p. m. and 4.55 o'clock the party landed safely about four miles north of Hagerstown. Its passengers reported"* that the experience was pleasant, with no untoward Incidents. A man In Hagerstown. watching the baloon from the roof of his house, lost bis balance and fell to the ground and was killed. * KUlei by Train. Two men were killed and six more Injured, one of theru probably fatally. rn the Ontprlo and Western Road at Mayfleld. Pa.. Friday. The dead: Michael Duggon and Samuel Anderson. The men were repairing cars on a sldlo* when another train crashed to to them DROWNED OR MURDERED? Coroner's Jury Said Former But Woman Was in Shallow Water. A sinister aspect was given to the case of the drowning of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Raisbeck, of New York, Monday night at Lake Sylvia, three miles from Annandale, Minn., when it bechme know Wednesday that Mrs. Kaisbeck's bobdy had been fouud in abou* throe feet of water in kneeling position, and that she had a long bruise on he side of her face, which cut her upper lip, and one extending down on her throat under the ear. It was alBo learned that there was no water in her lungs. Dr. Ridgeway, who examiued the woman's body, Buid he believed that her death was not caused by drowning. The body of Dr. Raisbeck was found farther out in the lake iu about, twenty feet of waer. The Bupposl-j tion is that the woman was stunned by blows and dragged or thrown into the lake. The boat in wheih the couple had gone shing was found right side up and fishing tackle in it in good order, thus indicating that the boat had noi ueen accldently overturned. Notwithstanding this the coroner's verdict was that death had been caused by drowning. There were no witnesses. One farmer living near the Raisbecks said he had frequently heard them quarreling. but others say that their relations were always harmonious. The rouple were last seen about their :ottnge Monda ynlght. TELLS REMARKABLE STORV. Voting Woman Assaulted and Thrown From Boat is Rescued. A young woman, bruised, limp and well-nigh exhausted, wus found early Monday clinging to the side of a touting pile driver at the foot of Fiftieth street, Brooklyn, N. Y When rescued her account of how the cume so near death was of a remarkable outrage. She is Miss \raelia Stechel, of Buy Ridge, and the is at her home in a serious conlitlon. Miss Stechel spent Saturday with t friend. On her way home In Ike jvening, she says two men, whom the thinks were Italians, suddenly telzed her and threatened to murder lor if she screamed. She was dragted to a dock and there she lost contciousneBS. When she came too, she tays she found herself In a boat with he two men; that she struggled so violently that the pair threw her iverboard and thut she tried to twim to the shore. Her strength vas then so spent that she could ony cling to the pile driver in hopes >f rescue. , A doctor who attended her says .l.A ""J l- " * "" .11*3 nao UUUUUUIHUiy UBSUUII ? !. 1 UL' police are looking for her assailants. IN DANGER FOR DAYS. Captain ami Crew Rescued from Sinking Ships. Oapt. Foster and his crew of six men were taken Monday from the ll-fated schooner Jose Oloverri. drandert ou null's Island beach near Charleston Thursday night. For iearly four days the captain and his men were unable to leave the vessel md were in constant danger of being thrown into the sea from the breaking of the pounding ship in a boiling surf. The loss of their small boats prevented the seamen from leaving the ship. Capt. Stevensen of the Bull's Island lighthouse succeeded in reaching the schooner, the sea ind wind having calmed down sufll lently to allow him to approach her. The schooner, valued at about $2.r?,100, and the cargo of cement, valued at about $8,,000. seem to lie r 'otal loss. MILI.S TO SHIT DOWN. 100,000 Spindles in Spartanburg fe ho Idle fur Two Weeks or l>oi?ger. Practically all the large cotton mills In the Spartanburg section will close August 8 for two weeks, some of them for a longer period. The mills that will close down are Tticapau, Enoree. Pacolet, Spartan Mills. Arkwright and Whitney, of that county, and Clinton and Wats Mills. The Pacolet Mills will close for an indefinite period, ahd will pay the operatives half time and give them free house rents while opration is suspended. The other mills will furnish house rent free. The closing down of the mills, August 8. will he the second time this summer the mills haye shut down, and will probably be the last. As a result of the shut down, more than three hundred thousand spindles in the county will be idle. NEGRO BRUTE TO DIE. Execution of John Finney Will Be Virginia's First Electrocution. A dispatch from Roanoke. Va.. says Johu Finney, the negro, who two weeks ago beat eieven-year-old *'nrv Tamtscn almost to death in Franklin County. In an attempt to |criminally assault her. was Friday convicted in Court at Rocky Mount. The Jury was out five minutes Finnev is the criminal sentenced to be electrocuted In Virginia LYNCHED BY MOB. NBGKO WHO ASSAULTED LAD1 LYNCHED BY CITIZENS. Execution Only Accomplished Aftei Eleven Men Had Boon Shot Iknvi by the Sheriff. A dispatch from Penuacola, Fla. says two men killed aud ulne wound ed, some of them fatally, is the re cord of the clash between the mol bent on lynching Leander Shaw, c negro, aud the sheriff and his forces In which the mob finally overpowered the authorities of that place Thursday. The lynching was carried oul In the most prominent part of the city. Shaw Wedne3doy assaulted Mtb Lillian Davis, a highly respected lady of that city, during the absence of her Irusband. and after cutting her thrnot t ' " HIIUUPI 1IUII1 CUI iu eur, ciuubed her over the head with a revolver, which he had taken from the house. During the afternoon when It became known that the negro had been arrested, crowds began forming upon the streets and early in the night they were reinforced by large numbers of men from the country. The mob formed about eight o'clock that night and made an attack upon the county Jail, where the negro was confined. The Jail gate was broken down by the mob, and the sheriff and his deputies opened tire. Three men dropped from the first volley of the sheriffs fire. Volley after volley was then tired by the sheriff's force, but the mob was repulsed. About midnight another attack was made, the mob having increased to one thousand determined men. The second attack was successful, for the reason that, it was made upon all sides o f the jail. One party forced its way through to the rear, overpowering the officers and securing the trembling negro. A noose was slipped about his neck and after being dragged for two blocks he was struak up to an electric light pole in the centre of the park, where fully 2,(too bullets completely riddled his hody. The dead are: Henry C. Kelluiu. street car motorman; Bud Nicholas, a planter. The wounded are: Charlie Turner, probably fatally; Jos. Brewton. probably fatally; Jailer J. H. Beaton, probably fatally; "Bud" Knowles, probably fatally; Sheriff Jus C. Van Belt. John Van Pelt, a brother; Fred Humphreys, W. P. Urownson and W. P. Bayllss. . I.I.. u nr ninrn ntliprs were slightly wounded. The body of Shaw was cut down next morning by orders of the authorities. The baby, who was struck by the negro at the time lie tried to kill the mother, it is said will recover. The fearful coHt at which Shaw was secured and made to answer the penalty of outraged people is greatly deplored, and citizens are In a unit in great sorrow over the results of storming the county jail. Mrs. Lillian Davis, Shaw's victim, is in a desperate condition and her life is despaired of. The wounded men In Wednesday night's battle ure receiving every attention. The coroner's jury investigating the riot found that Leander Shaw, came to his death at the hands of men unknown to them. The jury is also to investigate the death of Kellum. who was shot and killed In the scuffle at the Jail. * DEEII I1FI.I) IP TKAFN. Doe And Fawns Scattered Hut Buck Charged Fnginc And Was Killed. A passenger train which left New Haven Thursday night for Middleton. was held up near Durham,Conn., in a most unusual manner. Four doer, a doe, two fawns and a hark stood on the tracks as the train approached. When the engineer blew his whistle, all of the deer, with the exception of the buck leaped aside. The buck was run down and kill od as he stood challenging the loco motive. STRIKE RIOT AT BOMBAY. ?????? Twenty Thousand >|en Out?Brit is! Troops Disperse Them. At Bombay, Twenty thousand mil hands who struck Thursday hecann riotous Friday and a detachment o British Infantry was called out They fired, killing one native ant wounding six. Several European and natives of the police force sus tained injuries. The rioters were dispersed. Th strikers are out in sympathy fo Tilak, the nationalist leader an< editor who was sentenced to trans portation for six years on a charge of sedition. Victims of the I'ndertow. Two deaths by drowning occurrei in Florida Monday, one at Amelii Beach, near Fernandina. and th other at Dayton Beach. Willie Beck ham. of Windsor, Fla. while in bath ing with a number of friends a Amelia Beach, was caught in th undertow, and at. Daytono J. ? i Bunch lost his l,if? in a ejmllar man nor Both bodies are still oai&tlhg HOLD YOUR OOTTOX. President Harris Issues Letter to the Farmers. L Remember Farmers that it all depends on you to make the spot cotton that is now in your hands brine the minimum price?fifteen cents. 1 r know the speculators will try to i scare you and endeavor to get you to sell. Now let us see if this 1b true. I met a farmer to day who told me that a buyer drove out to see him and tried to get him to Bell his cot" ton, stating to this farmer that in ' an adjoining county he had bought > 4 00 bales from the farmers. The 1 buyer told him that he hud better sell as it was going lower; that new ' cotton was coming in and that it wuuiu seen be selling at elgbt cents. Now, furiM'is. do not be "bluffed" h> 1 such falsehoods. The trouble with that buyer Is just this?he is buying ; 'or some broker who has contracts, , on which deliveries are due and he is being called on to fill them. Gentlemen, make him pay your price before he gets your cotton; it is yours and you have a right to demand its value and your demands are not too much. Fifteen cents is the price and if the old crop is held by the farmers, it will come. They might try to scare you with the new crop, but let us see if it not wisdom to hold it. The new cotton crop cannot be spun by itself until after sixty days after it is ginned and packed and there Is not enough old cotton for the mills' consumption, so the mills have to mix two bales of the old cotton with one bale of the new cotton, be, fore they can spin it to advantage. | Why did this drop in price occur in the last fifteen days? Has the I price of the manufactured goods fallen off and ure trade conditions in I a worse shape? No; some weakkneed farmers got scared, and when the price went up to 12 cents, they just turned loose enough to feed Lhe spinners for twenty duys, and the speculators said, "we will drop it down and scare them with the new crop." Now don't be frightened. Remember last year there was a premium paid for old cotton in September. Why was this? Because the consumers had to have it to mix with the new crop before it could be spun. Now as to the condition of the growing crop. Our national president, Hon. C. S. Barrett, called a meeting of the state presidents to meet him and the national executive cuinmmee in mempnis, lenn., on the 16th inst., and all of the cotton growing states were represented there, with two exxceptions North Carolina and Florida. We got a true and correct report of the conditions existing in all of the states. The complaint was that there had been too much rain and the cotton crop had not been well worked and was very uneven. The plant was growing too much to weed and was not fruiting well. The above Is a true statement of the facts concerning the growing crop. The next forty days is the most critical period for the crop. The weather will have to be perfect, for the balance of the season if we duplicate our 1907 crop. 1 saw a statement in today's paper that Texas had sold all of her old crop, that was being held. This is only another bluff to scare you. Just remember that "futures" cannot be spun into goods and our last year's crop was 4,000.000 bales short, so take a firmer grip on your spots and victory is yours. 11. Harris, President, South Carolina State Union. PEACE MOVEMENT GAINING. Congress Now ill Session in l.<ondoii Much Encouraged. "Many signs of the increasing im portance of the peace movement have ? developed during the progress of the Universal Peace Congress," said Hen. Jamtn F. Trucblood. of Boston, president of the American Peace Society - and head of the American delegation now in I.ondon, in an interview. "First, we have seen the number of delegates grow until every civilized nut Inn n f t Wo nrnrl/l nnn? la rnrvrnonn t _ ed at the Confess, and by men of standing in their own countries. The meeting of the Congress have been exceedingly well attended, and the i greatest interest has been displayed, the most important of which was that on the subject of armaments. I "Make it clear," paid Mr. Trueblood, "that we are not urging lmj mediate disarmament, hut a scheme by which the increased expenditure j for armaments can be stopped. "Another incident showing the growing importance of the Congress was the recognition of the delegatef p by King Edward, a precedent which doubtless will be followed in the fu^ ture. The British Government hat ably seconed his Majesty by inviting p the delegates to the congress to t banquet Friday evening, there will h< speeches which will advance th< cause which we have so much a' heart. These and other attention! ^ w?? are receiving from the officii n heads of JJreat Britain insure th< success of the Congress in the future "The discussions in the Congress while thee are doing muwh good f have not had so murh effect as th< * impressions we have received fron ' rulers and political leaders of coun '* tries so vitally interested m the main tenant? of peac?. ' BAFFLES POLICE TWO MEN CONCERNED IN THE MURDER OF WOMAN. Laborer Tells of Seeing Them Trying , to Burn Mattress Which Contained Her Body. That at leaBt two men were concerned in the murder of the unidenti- ; fled woman whose half-charred ' ad acld-scarrod body was found ou the Oreen Pntnt nv........ <? ? uuuii?ug grouna | in Willinnisburg, Brooklyn, N. Y., early Wednesday morning, was es- | tablished Thursday night. , Philip O'Brien, a laborer of Green , Point, saw a covered wagon driven , to the dump at dawn Wednesday. , Two men got out and lifted from the , wagon what the witness supposed to | be only an old mattress. He saw j the men pile a heop of brush on the mattress, pour oil over it and set , fire to it. Bleieving the mattress was , being destroyed because It was dis- . ease-infected, the man avoided the , spot. There can be no donbt but that the mattress was the one in , which the body of the murdered wo- . man was concealed. ' This important development led to j the discovery that the wagon was , seen by several other persons and the police now have a minute de- . scription of the two men who were In it. They were foreigners. Another startling feature of the i case was disclosed when Coroner's Physician Wurst made a second an- j topsy on the corpse. His first autop- , sy revealed a deep cut across the , woman's throat. The second autopsy shows that this cut was made by a person who is expert in surgery, j The incision, says the coroner's ^ physician, is such as Is made in des- ( perate cases of diphtheria, where 11 is necessary to pierce the windpipe to prevent strangulation. Whether this wound caused death or not Dr. Wurst is unprepared to say. , Dr. Wurst will make a careful 5 analysis of the stomach to discover whether a drug was administered to the woman. Besides tho incision in the woman's throat hot* skull was fractured and the police believe that poison nmy have been used to make , thrice sure of her death. Failure to identify the victim is the greatest obstacle the police have to overcome in solving the mystery. A general alarm has been sent out for Mrs. Mamie Muskovitch and her husband, Stanley, who have disappeared. There is a possibility that the murdered woman may be Mrs. Muskovitch. Muskovitch and his wife left Green Point last Monday, supposedly for Stamford, Conn., and Mrs. Muskovitch has not been seen since. Her husband returned to Green Point on Tuesday alone, it is said. * TESTED TORPEDO NETS. Steel Mesh Withstand* Shock of Torpedoes. A dispatch from Newport, R. I., says important secret tests were made at Coddington Cove and in Buzzard's Bay Thursday with the new torpedo nets, a steel mesh, which is supposed to be able to withstand the shock of torpedoes fired at close range. In Coddington Cove#the torpedo boats Morris and Gwynn fired tor- I pedoes at different ranges and different speedes at the nets, placed above the water, while at Buzzard's Bay the tests were made by firing orved- ; oes under water, thTi second subnia- , marine flotilla being engaged in the ( experiments. It was said unofficially ( that the tests were satisfactory. I The nets are designed to be placed ( abord armored cruisers and torpedo , boats for protection in time of was , against torpedo attacks. * ( MKT HOKHIRL.F. DEATH. , Young Man Fastened Beneath Engine | and Fatally Scalded. Mr. n. W. Dunlap, a young man, son c* Mr. Charles L. Dunlap, of Fort Lawn, met with a horrible death i Friday night says a news dispatch from Lancaster. He was acting as i engineer on the railroad between Fort Lawn and Great Falls, and while running what is known as a dinkey engine yesterday afternoon, the engine collided with a box car and ov. erturned. Mr. Dunlap being pinioned , under his machine and fatally scald, ed. his death ensuing several hours , later. The unfortunate young man was fastened beneath his engine an , hour and a half before he could he , removed, being conscious all thp , while. * I FOUND MOTH Kit MURDERED. i . Woman, Sixty Years of Age, Shot Six Times by Unknown Party. s A dispatch from Tampa. Fla, says I Mrs. J. W. Piatt, sixty years old. w-as s? murdered by unknown persons Moo1 day at noon at her home near Gila christ Institute. Discovery of the crime was made by her son. Walter . Piatt, who. going home for dinner, . fonnd his mother's body on the * kitchen floor with bIx bullet wounds 1 In her head. Her daughter. Miss - Mattle Piatt, a teache.- at the Tnstl tute, had left home thirty minutes ' [before. * MATTERS POLITICAL. Editor Xornmn Mack to Run l>emocratic Campaign. Matters are still moving smoothly in national democratic affairs. Norman E. Mack of Buffalo, un editor and a man who has the confidence of the party, and who Is a hard worker, has been made chairman of the national committee, which means that an efTort Is to be made to capture New York and lae New York politicians thiuk that the efTort will be successful. The choice of Mr. Mack seems to give general satisfaction. There is every evidence of the fact tlmt Mm ?> ...v uvuiukmiiv committee Is leaving no stone unturned to get he votes of the people and they ure making progress. They will try to capture Ohio by bagging the Foraksr support, which seems probable. :hey will sacrifice no principle, make 10 promises that will bind the party to anything objectionable in doing t. Gov. Johnson will Fet out soon to make some speeches for the ticket which he aspired to lead, and is ;reat enough to help though he was llsappointed. The republicans are also very busy hoy are trying now to make terms, ind this information comes from the Mew York World, which is not very 'avorable to the democratic party, hat the administration lias surreniered to the Wall street capitalists ind rapid pool and will permit the allroads in the west to raise their ates. and will make It convenient to liave the employes of the road conduced that their object in so doing s to increase their wages, or prevent heir reduction, and that their hope s in the republcan party, the party >f the full diner pail. The collections for the campaign 'unds are growing very slowly, the armors do not respond as rapidly ;o the appeal as was thought when hey realized that the election de~ tended on them and that it was dainly up to them now, if they want?d such government, as they had been 'or years demanding, they had tc. upport the workers in the field, sup>ly the amunition for the batteries ind pay the bill. CONVICT AGAINST CONVICT. ilore Georgia Horrors and Irregularities Disclosed. At Atlanta, Ga., Geo. F. Hurt, tesifying before the legislative comnitteo investigating the conduct of he State prison board last week told he committee of an incident in which ?no convict armed with a pick was let upon another convict similarly irmed in an effort to capture and ittbdue him. During the encounter his convict drove his pick into the nsurgent's face hp to the hilt, tl.. mint of it penetrating the man s ung. lie afterwards died of pneu Lessees of convicts called to the itand swore that members of the Jeorgia prison commission knew that hey were paying extra salaries to he State's officers.. Wardens acknowledged ignoring Miles in reference to making out reports of their camps and submitting hem under oath. They stated they .vere never reprimanded by the prism commission for these lapses. .* QUICK JUSTICE IX JEUSKV. Blacksmith who Killed Preacher July 15 Sentenced to Die. A dispatch from New Brunswick, X. J., says Another example of luick .Tesrey justice was given TuesJay when Archie Herron, the former blacksmith, who shot and killed he Itev. S. V. B. Prickett, a Metho11st minister, on July 15, was conflcted of murder in the first degree ind was sentenced to be electrocuted at Trenton on September 7. Herron's trial began Monday and the case was given to the jury Tueslay. It took but forty-five minutes For the jurymen to bring in a ver:1 ict of guilty. Herron shot the Rev. Mr. Prickett while bis victim was walking in the street. Ills motive is believed to have been to revenge himself upon the minister, who, when recorder of the Metuchon Court, sentenced Herron to serve ten days in jn.il for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. SLIPPED OFF HER ROOF. N>w York Woman liost llalance, Fell Six Stories and Was Killed. In a moment of forgetfulness, while sitting on the edge of the roof of her home. Miss Annie McNultv, 1ft years old. of 23 9 East 122nd street. New York stretcehd out her arms in exercise, and losing her balance, fell to the street, sis stories below. She died shortly aftei reaching the hospital. BAGGAGEMAN HELD UP. Two Men Rob Train of Mail Pouch Watch and Money. Two men held up a baggagnmai late Thursday night on the TTlste and Delaware passenger train be tween South fJilhea and Stamford. N Y. They helped themselves to th? mail pouch, the baggageman's gol< watch and $1S in cash. They dis appeared from the train ab It slowrdew-n at Stamford ? WANT FINE RESTORED GOVERNMENT TO ASK RKHKARJNG OF STANDARD OIL CASE. % I The Cose Ik Going to Be Carried to the United States Supreme Court. Other Cases to Be Pressed. At Lenox. Mass., Wednesday after nu all-day conference of the leading Government prosecuting officers and Frank 1). Kellogg, of Minnesota, one of the special counsel for the Government in certain civil suits, it was announced by Attorney General Bonaparte that every effort would be made to"secure a revision of the recent decision and opinion of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals lu the case of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, nnd that an application for a rearenmBiu n* ?? - o V v? VUt? case and a motion for a modification of the opinion would be submitted to that Court. Although no time is fixed, this action by the Government will be taken at the earliest possible moment, while the pending prosecutions against the Standard Oil Company and all other proseruttons in which the giving or receiving of rebates is charged will be pressed to trial.| The decision to take this action was unanimous. Attornoy General Bonaparte called to the conference Solicitor Geucral H. M. Hoyt, of Washington; Erwln M. Sims, of Chicago, United States district attorney for the Northern district of Illinois; .las. H. Wilkerson, of Chicago, Mr. Slms's first assistant, and Frank B. Kellogg, of Minnesota. Mr Hoyt, Mr Sims and Mr Wilkerson have arrived and had a conference in the afternoon with the Attorney General. Mr. Kellogg arrived also and participated in the two conferences which were held Wednesday, and which ended with the giving out of the following statement by Attorney General Bonaparte: "The Government will make every effort in its power to secure a revision of the recent decision and opinion of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the 7th circuit in the case of the Standard Oil Company, of Indiana, either by the Court of Appeals itself or if necessary by the Supreme Court of the United States. The gentlemen who have been in consultation with me all unite in my opinion that in the interest of the impartial and effective administration of our laws such action on the part of the Government is imperatively demanded by the circumstances of the case and the possible consequence if this opinion should stand as authority without question by the Government. To this end an application for a reargument of the cnse and a motion for a modification of the opinion will be submitted to the Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of the United States at the earliest possible moment. Other appropriate steps will be taken afterwards, their character to be determined by the Courts action on this application. The pending prosecutions, in which the giving or receiving of rebates or offences of like character are charged, will be pressed to trial and judgment by the Government, with all possible energy and as promptly as practicable In view of the Government's legal advisers the reversal of the judgment in the case recently decided in no way affects the merits of that controversy or the necessity and duty of bringing to punishment in possible In this and cases any Individual or corporation shown to have evaded or defied the laws." In discussing the various aspects of the case Attorney General Bonaparte took occasion to refer to the rcqiort published in certain newspapers to the effect that W. Parmeloe Prentlst, the son-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, had given, or was to give, a dinner to the Attorney General, Mr. Rockefeller and Judge Grosscup. Mr. Bonaparte said in this con nection: "The tale Is wholly free from any taint of truth." SEE NEGRO BURN. Alleged Assailant of White Girl Lynched by Citizens. "Tad" Smith, a negro boy 18 yeas old, charged with criminal assault on Miss Viola Delancey at Clayton, Hunt County, Texas., was captured by officers Tuesday He was taken before the young toman and , Identified. The prisoner was then 1 hurried to the Greenville jail. Be fore arriving there, however, a mob ^ of citizens overpowered the officers, t took the prisoner and burned hitn at : the stake. Fagots were piled up in : the public square at Greenville and * the negro was placed thereon, kerosene oil was poured on and a match applied. Smith slowly burned to death while a thousand people looke on. Negro Lynched in Georgia. Alfonso Williams, a negro, who is l alleged to have assaulted Miss Clare r Brown last Friday night near Ohoo pee, Ga , was Wednesday night tak. cn from the Tooms County Jail by a a mob. carried to the woods nearby j 1 and riddled with bullets. The sher- w i- iff was placed under guard 1 whit* the mob broke into the jail and took the nogro a** ay. |