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WILL COERCE CUBANS
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Administraton Insists on Uncon=
dilional Action on Amendment.
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v CABINET DISCUSSES MATTER
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Until Our Terms Are Fully Complied
With, Soldiers Will Stand
Guard?A Breach of
Confidence.
A Washington special says: The
cabinet was in session over two hours
Friday discussing the Cuban and Philippine
situations. A communication
has been received from Governor General
Wood regarding the prospect for
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Piatt amendment, but its contents are
not made public. It can be stated,
however, that there is a hopeful feelins
i& administration circles that af^ter
the first soreness wears off the
convention will see the wisdom of
adopting the terms of the amendment
The answer to General Wood is to be
sent and the language of that communication
was under discussion at the
meeting. Meantime, the existing statv
us in Cuba is to be maintained. No action
looking to the calling of another
convention is in contemplation, if the
present convention should decline to
accede to our terms.
While no new propositions have yet
been submitted, it is probable that the
convention will not accept the Piatt
amendment outright until another
proposition has been mace to this gov.
% eminent. The administration is fully
determined that the Cubans must accept
the Piatt amendment without
qualification before there can be any
change in the status of Cuba.
Confidence Betrayed.
During the conference between Secretary
Root and the Cuban commis-"
lion some weeks ago, the secretary
wrote a letter to Senator Piatt, of
Connecticut who introduced the Piatt
amendment, asking for his views relative
to intervention as mentioned in
the third clause of the amendment
Senator Piatt replied and his letter
was furnished the commission confidentially
by the secretary of war, and
it was incorporated into and made a
r.... part of the acceptance of the Piatt
- amendment by the constitutional convention.
The letter, however, to the
surprise of Washington officials, appeared
in a Havana paper and Friday
was made public by the war departv;
v ment
Cuban Navai Station Selected,
The naval surveys which have been
I* ^ in progress for some time along the
coast of Cuba have disclosed the most
available harbors for coaling and naval
stations, in case these are established
in accordance with the Piatt
amendment _Rrob'abzly the most impg/
poriant points are Cape tan Antonio,
at the extreme western extremity of
Cuba, and Cape Maysi, at the extreme
eastern end.
Force Radicals to Accept.
A special from Havana says: The
Cuban constitutional convention will
hold a meeting next Monday to discuss
the instructions received mursaay
from Washington regarding the Piatt
amendment The fifteen delegates who
voted in favor of the amendment have
held several meetings, and are unani
' - mous in thinking that the amendment
must be accepted in a manner satisfacV
tory to the United States government;
and they are determined to force the
radical element to accept the amendment
under a threat of dissolving the
convention
ONLY ONE LEFT.
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With Long Sentence Before Him Bank
Robber Leaps to Hi* Doom.
dispatch from Toronto, Ont, says:
Of the three men, Fred Lee Rich,
Thomas Jones and Frank Rutledge,
extradited from Chicago to stand trial
for the robbery of a bank in Aurora,
:> . Ontario, Rice is the only living survivr.
or of the trio to serve out the twentyone
years ^imprisonment to which he
was sentenced Friday morning. Two
tragedies have put Jones and Rutledge
m. beyond reach of the law. Jones died
?from bullet wounds received several
days ago in a desperate attempt to escape
from the officers, who were transferring
the prisoners from the court
- "" house to the jail, and Rutledge committed
suicide Friday by jumping from
the gallery in the jail to the stone
court thirty feet below.
STUDENTS AND POLICE CLASH.
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- Incipient Riot at Knoxville Caused By
-* Unruly University Boys.
Stndents of the University of Tennessee
and five city policemen engaged
in a fight at Knoxville, Tenn., Friday
night, in which numerous shots were
v? exchanged, but no one was shot The
riot grew out of an attempt of the
police to quell recent student disturbances.
Volunteers Homeward Bound.
mr- A cablegram was received at the
war .department Friday from General
ifa/tArthnr lit Manila announcing that
all the volunteers have left the Philippines
en route for the United States.
Taft Will Be Governor.
When Judge - aft, of the Philippine
commission, becomes the head of the
civil government in the Philippine Islands,
he will have the title of governor.
NEAL GETS APPOINTMENT.
North Carolina Governor Names Last.
> of Superior Court Judges.
Governor Charles B. Aycock, of
North Carolina, has appointed the last
of the judges of the superior court,
w^ich was directed by the last legislature,
recently adjourned. The last appointment,
which has just been made
for the eighth judicial district, is Hon.
Walter H. Neal. The counties in
which he will hold court will be Chat
; ham, Moore, Scotland. Anson, Union
and Richmond,
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TILLMAN GIVEN A BARD BIFF.
Governor McSweeney Indites a Red*
Hot Communication to South
Carolina Senior Senator.
A Columbia special says: Decidedly
the most sensational development in
the senatorial tangle In South Carolina
is a letter which Governor McSweeney
sent to Senator Tillman Wednesday.
In his communication the governor informed
Senator Tillman that if he
"still wishes to resign and will send
to this office an unconditional resignation,
I will exercise the authority and
power vested in me by the people."
The letter reads as follows:
"Sir?Your letter of June 1st has
been received. I have careruny notea
its contents, and the most charitable
view which I can take of it is that it'
was written in the heat of passion and
without due consideration. I note that
you say that I have 'transcended my
authority,' and that the governor cannot
compel a member of the United
States to hold his commission and exercise
the runctions of that office if he
chooses to surrender it.' And that you
'decline for the present to withdraw'
your resignation.
"Had you read carefully my letter
addressed to you and to Senator McLaurin,
you must have seen that I did
not express any desire to compel a
member of the United States senate
to hold his commission and exercise
the functions of that office if he chose
to surrender it. My sole purpose in
returning the resignation was to ask
you gentlemen to consider calmly and
thoughtfully the consequences to the
people of what x judged to be a hasty
act, ana what you admit to have been
? Jioctv oanH T mn?t rnnfpss that I
am somewhat surprised at the tone of
your answer to my request I considered
the course which I took in this
matter to be for the best interest of
the people of South Carolina, and I am
responsible to them alone for my action,
and, furthermore, I still believe
that my course has met the approval
of a majority of the citizens of the
state; nor do I consider them unthinking
citizens, but men who know and
recognize as fully as any people on
earth the rights and duties and responsibilities
of citizenship and who
do not need the services of any one to
tell them their duty.
"Your insinuation that I have been
importuned to 'await the convenience'
of any present or would-be aspirants
who 'are not just yet ready, for various
reasons, to enter the contest
orought on so unexpectedly, and that
for this reason my action has taken
the direction it has," is unworthy of a
man holding the high commission
which has been given you by the people
of South Carolina and deserves no
notice in this connection. However,
I may say for your benefit that I alone
am responsible for my reply, and will
give accoui t for the course I have
takento the people who have honored
me, and not to any one individual.
"In this matter I have done what I
thought best calculated to promote the
present prosperijty-afid contentment of ine
people" "of my state, and shall concontinue
to do so, regardless of what
any one may say or think of my
course. I did not think that a political
campaign this summer could do any
good, and acted .according to my belief.
However, had the resignations
been unconditional and unrestricted,
my action might have been otherwise.
With due respect for your opinion, I
think I have as high conception of the
office of senator and its powers as you
or any other citizen of this state, and
you must have known that the brief
interview to which you refer meant
that I would simply meet the responsibility
and perform my duty under the
conditions. If you still wish to resign
your commission and will send to this,
office an unconditional resignation, I
will exercise the authority and power
vested in my be the people.
"Respectfully,
"M. D. McSWEENEY, Governor."
McLaurin Not Satisfied.
With the governor's "last word" at
Senator Tillman and the withdrawal of
the senator's resignation, all would
seem to be over; but Wednesday night
Senator McLaurin, after speaking very
bitterly of the senior senator, made
the declaration that if Tillman will
now tender to the governor the unconditional
surrender of his office, he
(McLaurin) would consider this a direct
challenge to him and would likewise
resign and enter the contest for
Tillman's place.
DR. KERFOOT SERIOUSLY ILL.
Well Known Baptist Divine In Critical
Condition at His Home In Atlanta.
Rev. Dr. F. H. Kerfoot, corresponding
secretary of the Baptist Home
Mission Board, is critically ill at his
home in Atlanta, Ga. His attending
physicians gave out the following
statement Thursday night:
"Dr. Kerfoot returned from New Orleans
in a very exhausted condition
with high fever associated with acute
gastritis and incessant nausea and
vomiting. He is now suffering from
uremic poisoning in consequence of
Bright's disease, and his condition is
extremely critical."
SUNDAY LAW OBSOLETE.
Golfist Acquitted In Court on Charge
of Desecrating the Lord's Day.
A verdict of not guilty was return
ed by the jury at Yonkers, N. Y., that
tried Benjamin Adams, a member of
the board of education of that place,
on the charge of violating the law in
| playing golf on Sunday. There was no
dispuie as to the lacts, but counsel for
Adams argued that the arrest was
made under an obsolete law.
FLORIDA QUARANTINE STATIONS
Will Be Leased to Government In Pursuance
of Legislative Act.
A special meeting of the Florida
state board of health was held in Tallahassee
Tuesday for the purpose of
considering a proposal submitted to
the board from the United States treasury
department through the marine
hospital service to turn over the maritime
quarantine service to the state
and lease all quarantine stations to
the government as authority through
a joint resolution of the legislature.
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MOB STORMED JAIL'
Three Men Bold Crowd of Five
Hundred Angry People at Bay.
EXCITEMENT AT CARROLLTON
One Member of Mob Killed and Another
Wounded By Sheriff's
Possee In Protecting
Negro Prisoner.
George Bennette, who led a mob of
500 on the jail at Carrollton, Ga., in an
attempt to lynch Ike Williams, colored,
the convicted murderer of young Otis
Word, is dead as the result of a pistol
wound inflicted by one of the sheriff's
meager posse, and Tom Smith, another
member of the mob, is severely
wounded in the shoulder.
Sheriff Joseph L. Merrill, Senator W.
D. Hamrick, of the district, and L. Z.
Fletcher, the sheriff's brother in law,
are the herot^ of the day. Alone these
three withstood the mob of 500 infuriated
men who were intent upon having
Williams's life.
Which one of them fired the fatal
shot is unknown, for they all fired
upon the mob, and as they did so the
mob, while returning the fire, fell back.
The crowd remained around the jail
ail the afternoon, but fearing to make
another effort to get at the prisoner,
gradi^ally dispersed with the quiet
threat that ii, would return at nightfall.
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The arrival of the troops ordered out
by the governor, it is believed, is the
only thing that prevented an attack
on the jail Friday night. They reached
the city at 7 o'clock and after a
short conference between Major W.
W. Barker and Judge Sam Harris, the
latter signed an order for the removal
of the negro to Atlanta. The militia
went up to the jail, formed a cordon
around the prisoner, who was accompanied
by Sheriff Merrill and his deputy,
C. W. Worley, and with these in
the center of a square they marched
back to the depot and at 8 o'clock took
their special train to return to Atlanta.
Such is the brief story of one of
the most exciting days in the annals
of Carrollton. The trouble came up
wholly unexpectedly, the sheriff hav
ing been assured a short time beforehand
that there would be no disturbance,
and he was unprepared for it
But the crowd had gathered in the
city expecting a hanging. When it did
not take place many of them were
mad and this doubtless led to the attempt
upon the jail.
The attack on the jail was wholly
Cause of the Trouble.
The negro, Ike Williams, whom the
mob wanted to lynch, had been convicted
of the murder of young Otis
Word, the fourteen year old son of
Charles^ WM^who lives at Victory,
about temjkiiles s<T&tk~^j?arrollton.
Young Word was killed onJantrary.
1st, and his body was not found until
January 23rd. Ike Williams was the
last man seen with him, and it was
known that the boy had some money
at the time. The body was found finally
in a pond some distance from
young Word's home, was necessary
to drain the pond o-. before the body
was found.
The case against Williams was called
for trial in March, but the state
asked for a continuance, because some
witnesses were lacking. The case
came up again about the middle of
April. Williams was tried, convicted
and sentenced to death.
The hanging was to have taken
place Friday under the sentence of
the court and the people from all sections
of Carroll county gathered
to see it. The majority of the crowd
was composed of people from around
Victory, south of Carrollton, where
Word lives.
Judge warns naa gmuiea a supersedeas
some days ago, but ha:d not
passed on the motion for a new trial
Friday he passed on the motion,
refusing a new trial. Of course, the
supersedeas still held good until Williams's
case could be taken to the supreme
court
The people who had gathered were
unfamiliar with court proceedings, and
thinking, erroneously, of course, that
something had been done to favor Williams,
the plan to lynch him was
started.
NEW TRIAL WANTED.
Noted Camp Creek Damage Cases to
Come Up Again In Atlanta.
A motion for a new trial in the case
of Mrs. Rosa H. Lawrence against the
Southern Railway Company, the famous
Camp creek damage suit has
been filed with Judgfe William T. Newman
in the United States court in Atlanta
by Attorneys Hoke Smith and H.
C. Peeples.
In sounding the docket of the court
Judge Newman stated in reference to
the Camp Creek cases that he would
not try any more of them this term.
1 his means that they go over until the
October term of the court.
KILLED WOMAN FOR MONEY.
Would-Be Swindlers of Insurance Companies
Get Their Just Deserts.
At Chicago Monday Dr. August M.
Unger and F. Wayland Brown, on. trial
for conspiracy to defraud insurance
companies through the death of Miss
Marie -jefenbach, were found guilty
and sentenced to the penitentiary under
the intermediate act. Frank H.
Smiley, indicted with Unger and
Brown, pleaded guilty and turned
state's evidence.
KITCHENER'S WAR STATISTICS.
British General In South Africa Reports
Results of Month's Work.
Lord Kitchener in a dispatch from
Pretoria, under Monday's date, says
the number of Boers killed, imprisoned
or surrendered during the last
month totalled 2,640. From June 1 to
June 9, 26 Boors were killed, 4 were
wounded. 409 were made prisoners and
33 surrendered, and 651 rifles, 115,500
rounds of ammunition. 120 wagons and
4,000 horses were captured.
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Receiver Qualifies.
William D. Melton qualified as receiver
for the Southbound railroad.
This action was unexpected. The order
of Judge G. W. Gage appointing
Mr. Melton receiver was issued June
1st. Mr. Melton at once took out a
bond for $25,000 and later appeared before
the clerk of court and assumed
the duties of the receivership.
The attorneys for the Southbound
had made an appeal from Judge Gage's
former ruling in which he ordered that
a receiver should be appointed. The
appeal could not work a stay unless
the court below agrees to the stay of
the order.
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order in which he takes charge of the
entire Southbound road between Camden
and the Georgia line. This order
was dispatched to all agents along the
line as well as to the general offices
of the Southbound and Seaboard systems.
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May Get Government Exhibit.
A Washington dispatch says: Senator
McLaurin, 01 South Carolina, who
has been in the city for several days,
called at the white house Monday, and
later at the treasury department, in
the interest of the government exhibit
at the Charleston exposition. No appropriation
was made by congress for
the exposition, but the government
will furnish an exhibit if the exposition
managers will provide a building.
The exhibit will be taken from the exposition
at Buffalo after the latter
close*- - Senator McLaurin is trying to
arrange some means by which the foreign
exhibits at Buffalo brought into
the United States under a special act
of congress can be removed to Charleston.
But as yet no way has been found
by which this can be accomplished.
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New Enterprise For Bennettsville.
P. A. Hodges is preparing to establish
a large tannery at Bennettsville.
All kinds of hides will be tanned by
the new chemical process, requiring
only from ten to twenty days to prepare
for use the oldest and most stubborn
hide. In connection with the tannery
will be operated a large shoe and
harness manufacturing establishment,
the combined industry employing some
fifty or more hands.
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Blue Ridge Road to Be Sold.
i A decree signed by United States
Circuit Judge Goff was filed at Charleston
the past week for the sale of the
Blue Ridge railroad, which extends
from Anderson to Walhalla, in tnis
state, a distance 01 thirty-four miles.
Judgments amounting to more than
$2,000,000 are held by the Columbia
and Greenville railroad, a Southern
property, ana the Southern
will get the road offered. The sale is
made to give the Southern a deed to
the Blue Ridge. The upset price is
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railroad will be includea all the proposed
lines extending from Walhalla
and across the mountains to Knoxviile,
Tenn. There is seventeen miles of
graded road beyond Walhalla.
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Prizes For County Exhibits.
The commissioners having in charge
the state exhibit at the Cnarleston exposition
have offered three prizes?
$1,000, $500 and $250?for county exhibits.
They have also set aside $1,000
for a mineral and forestry exhibit.
Clemson college and the South Carolina
college were voted $500 each and
the Citadel academy $250 to supplement
the funds already appropriated
for exhibits by these institutions
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Bellinger Scores Governor.
Attorney General Bellinger, of South
Carolina, who may be a canaidate next
year for McLaurin's seat in the United
States senate, touching on the Tillman-McLaurin
situation said that Governor
McSweeney had acted without
advice in refusing to accept the resignation
of the two senators and in doing
so had transcended his power. The
resignations, he said, were self operative,
and there was nothing for McSweeney
to do but accept them. He
declared that the governor had overstepped
the bounds of his authority
in his action. The impression nas guiie
forth that the governor acted on the
advice of the attorney general when
he declined the resignations, but according
to Mr. Bellinger this is by no
moans the case. The attorney general
was not consulted, and if he had been
the conditions might have been otherwise
provided, of course, that his legal
advice had been followed.
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Two Mysterious Deaths.
Two rather mysterious deaths occurred
in the artillery garrison at Fort
Fremont, near Beaufort, recently. W.
E. Wright, of Indiana, who was connected
with the hospital corps, died
very suddenly and the next morning
Emmet W. Easterling, who served as J
clerk at the post headquarters, was j
suddenly struck down and died in con- j
vulsions almost immediately after- j
wards.
Both men had imbibed very freely of I
the miserable liquor sold in the vicinity
of the post, and there are rumors
of foul play which will be thoroughly
investigated by the authorities at the
fort
WILHELMINA PLEADS FOR PEACE.
Holland's Queen Seeks Good Offices of
Emperor William to Stop Boer War.
The Kleeines Journal (Berlin) prints
a dispatch from The Hague saying
that Queen Wilhelmina's recent visit
to Berlin was meant to obtain Emperor
William's consent to end the South
African war. both the zweibund and
the dreibund being, willing to do so
through The Hague arbitrament court,
and that the emperor consented and
the court began work thereon. The
dispatch has created a sensation
STORM IN OKLAHOMA
Worst Disaster Ever Experienced
In the New Territory.
MANY LIVES REPORTED LOST
Thirteen Are Known to Be Dead,
While the List of Injured Is
Heavy?Great Property Damage
Entailed.
The storm which passed over eastern
Oklahoma Friday night was one
of the most severe since me opening
of the Strip. A feature of the storm
was the extent of territory covered,
sweeping down from the Kansas state
line and covering about fifty miles in
width, the rain, wind and nail swept
over the country as far south as old
Oklahoma. The rain simply fell in
torrents from early in the evening until
midnight.
The fury of the storm centered in a
tornado at about 6:30 p. m., which
formed at a' point near the Kansas
state line and just on the county lines
of Kentucky and Grant, Oklahoma.
The twister took a southeasterly
course and was most disastrous on a
belt ten miles square in eastern Kay
county, and the little town of Eddy
was struck and of the twelve or fifteen
buildings in the place all were
leveled to the ground except the railroad
station and elevator. Flying lumber
was scattered for miles.
At Eddy three persons were killed
and seven more or less seriously hurt
It is reported that two persons were
killed at Billings, but this cannot be
verified.
Five farm houses with barns and
out-buildings were blown away, but
the occupants all escaped without injury.
Fine fields c. wheat in the midst
of harvest were laid waste. The tail
end of the tornado fell with a terrible
force upon Tonkawa. Thirty dwellings
and business houses were scattered
like so much loose lumber. The
citizens of the town had been watching
the advance of the tornado and
had sought shelter in caves and cellars.
No fatalities are reported at
this point
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received even a scratch. A few miles
from this point the tornado seemed
to go up in the air and the country below
did not suffer much from the
storm except by washouts, a stiff
wind and the hail which damaged
wheat and fruit.
The financial loss by the storm is
about $100,000.
Two big church buildings and about
twelve residences were damaged at
Tonkawa. Twelve houses were blown
away, leaving absolutely nothing.
Seven Persons Killed.
The storm was particularly severe
in Noble and Kay counties. The gale
I commenced at 10 p. m. and by 1 a. m.
was blowing at tornado speeu, carrying
everything before it. At Billings,
Noble county, much damage was done.
! S^ven people were killed and many severely
injured. A cloudburst occurred
| near Hennessey, King Fisher county,
and King Fisher city suffered severely.
A^ Black well three persons were
killed and much damage to property
done. J. H. Crawley, a prominent contractor,
was killed by lightning. Eddy,
a town twelve miles southwest of
Blackwell, was blown away. At that
place several persons were killed and
others injured.
GREAT ANGLO-AMERICAN BANK.
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| Rumor that Millionaire Morgan Will
! Organize Big Institution in London.
According to the London correspondent
of The New York World, it is reported
that J. P. Morgan is engaged
in arranging for the establishment of
a great anglo-American bank with a
[ capital of $luo,uou,uuu. 11 is sam iuai
j it is proposed to abolish all of the prin*
! ciDal financial agencies and banks alj
ready engaged ir-^glo-American bust'
ness.
The proposed institution, it is said,
will be the largest of its kind in the
world and is intended to be the principal
agency for the already vast and
; rapidly growing banking transactions
j between Europe and America.
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Philippine Tariff Not Abolished.
A dispatch received at Manila saying
the Philippine tariff stands until
! the new tariff is put in force, dissipates
the excitement occasioned by
1 Colonel Edwards's Washington disi
patch indicating the abolition of the
I Philippine tariff.
Prominent Physician Suicides.
Dr. Ablecht is dead at Denver, Col.,
j from a dose of cyanide of potassium,
j taken with suicidal intent. He was
j formerly one of the most prominent
physicians and surgeons in New Orleans
and for several years was demonstrator
of Tulane Meuical college
in that city.
CONSOLIDATED TOBACCO CO.
Big Corporation Is Formally Chartered
at Trenton, New Jersey.
The Consolidated Tobacco Company,
with an authorized capital of $30,000,000,
was incorporated at Trenton, N.
J., Wednesday afternoon. The com"
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pany is authorized 10 cure lem wuo^i.?
and to manufacture and deal in tobacco
in all its forms. The capital stock
is all common, with shares of the par
value of $100.
PATRICK DECLARES INOCENCE.
Alleged Murderer of Millionaire Rice
Arraigned and Pleads Not Guilty.
Albert T. Patrick pleaded not guilty
of the murder of William Marsh Rice
the Texas millionaire, when arraigned
before Judge Cowing, in the court ol
general sessions at New York Monday
With him were arraigned David L
Short and Morris Meyers, charged
with forgery in connection with the
case. They pleaded not guilty also
All three were remanded back to the
Tomb?.
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GIRL'S BODY FOUND
Little Berta Jackson Murdered
To Hide Heinous Crime.
DEED IS SHROUDED IN MYSTERY
Victim Was an Orphan and Wat
Thought to Have Run Away
From Adopted Home.?Remains
Found in Branch.
The dead body of Berta Jackson, an
orphan and adopted daughter of R. S.
Flowers, a dairyman, was found Monday
morning in a small stream of water
atfout a quarter of a mile from
Flower's home, between Decatur and
Poplar Spring, Ga., and about six miles
from Atlanta. The child had been assaulted
and murdered.
Berta Jackson, who was eleven years
of age, had been missing since last
Wednesday, and Flowers had been
searching for her.
Monday morning at 5 o'clock Judas
H. Parker, a gatherer of ferns and water
cress, discovered the body. It lay
in a shallow pool of water, a portion of
a creek that empties into East .Lake.
Parker, having heard of the disappearance
of Berta Jackson, hurried to
Flower's place and told what he had
aoan T^nwers unH a rrowd of neieh
bors went to the creek and drew the
child's body fro mthe water. The authorities
at Decatur were notified and
an inquest was ordered by Ordinary
Ragsdaie.
A double crime had been committed.
The child had been assaulted and murdered.
There were evidences of the
girl having been beaten and choked.
On one side of her throat was a cut
made by a knife, but whether before
or after her death is not known.
According to the evidence that came
out before the coroner's jury, the girl
was last seen alive at her aaopted father's
home Wednesday afternoon about
4 o'clock. She was seen by a negro
field hand, a negro who was employed
on the adjoining place, and by Flowers.
The negro on the adjoining lot saw
her walking away from the flelu where
she had been talking with the negro.
The negro employed by Flowers saw
her walking from the oarn to the
house. Flowers saw her go into the
house. And that was the last time she
was ever seen alive.
The terrible crimes were committed
not far from where Edward Flanagan
slew his victims, and that memorable
"-fmo wo a r??<->aiipH hv manv Monday
by a woman named Sallie Smith. The
latter was shortly afterward arrested
and jailed and when she was released
the child was refused her because of
her bad reputation."
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CHAFFEE AT MANILA. '
Transport Sumner Arrives at Philip*
pine Capital With Troops.
Major General Chaffee and staff and
two companies of the Ninth infantry
arrived at Manila on the United States
transport Sumner. The general was
received with a major general salute.
General Chaffee will be General MacArthur's
guest at the Malcanang palace.
NAVAL BAND UNRESTRICTED.
Members Thereof Not Compelled to
Assist In Divine Worship.
Assistant Secretary Hackett has de,
clined to require the commandant of
1 | the Norfolk navy yara to order mem'
bers of the naval band at that place to
assist in dfvine service aboard the receiving
ship Franklin, as was request1
ed by Captain Yv. C. Wise, of that vess
' sel. Secretary Haekett finds that this
. ( had best be left to tl*e voluntary deter1
mlnation of the members of the band
themselves*
; - ' l '
When the murder of Berta Jackson was
being investigated.
Robert Flowers, the man wno adopted
the child, is a young man who at
one time taught school in DeKalb
county. He later moved to Griffin and
while there went to Jackson to take
the child. Flowers is a man of delicate
build and seemingly of a nervous
temperament. He held his lower lip
between the first finger and the thun^b
of the right hand while talking to the
coroner's jury.
The inquest was held under the supervision
of Ordinary W. M. Ragsdale.
Dr. J. H. Green was the first
witness examined. With the assist,
.ance of Dr. W. J. Houston, he had
made a post mortem examination of
the body sifter it was carried from the
branch to the house. He stated that
it was his opinion that the girl's death
was caused by several heavy blows
upon the nead and bjr suffocation by
choking. The knife wound in the right
of the neck severed the carotid artery
and there had been some hemorrhage.
Flowers on Witness Stand.
R. F. Flowers, the foster father of
the deceased, was called, and his story
in part was as ionows:
"Roberta Jackson is the name we
gave her upon adoption?we called her
Berta. We never knew her exact age
or her parentage. She seemed to be
about nine years old when we adopted
her and we set apart as her birthday
November 26th, the day of her
adoption. We adopted the girl about
two and a half years ago. My wife and
I were living in Griffin at the time. We
had a baby boy less than six months
old, but my wife wanted to adopt a little
girl who could look after the baby
and be a companion to it. Judge Carmichael
knew 01 this and through his
influence the child was placed in our
care by the ordinary of Butts county.
I was made her guardian. The child
was at that time in the care of an
old negro woman to whom she had
been turned over by the county authorities
temporarily.
"All that was known of the child's
previous history was that she was
hrnmrM tn Jackson from Chattanooga
U in AMI It VEfflVLUUtt lAAin
Engine Crashes Into Carload of Ex*
plosives and Five Men Are
Blown to Fragments.
While a freight train on the Lackawana
was taking water at Vestal, ten
miles west of Binghampton, N. Y., at
9:45 Saturday night, it was run into
from behind by a double-header wild
cat freight In the second car from
the caboose of the stationary train
was a large quantity of dynamite,
which was exploded by the impact
Six men are known to have been
killed and three others fatally hurt
Both trains were blown to atoms,
but the remainder of the crews escaped
with slight injuries.
Much damage was done by the concussion,
most of the windows in Ves
tal and Union, across the river from
I Vestal, being shattered. Binghampton's
plate glass fronts did not escape,
many of the largest glasses in the center
of the city being broken. The
shock was felt at a distance of thirty
miles.
A later report states that five men
were killed and seven injured in Saturday
night's wreck at Vestal. The
killed are:
John P. Kelly, head brakeman; S. R.
Polhamus, conductor; Elmer Polhamus,
trainman; John Coulter, fireman;
Fred Witherby, fireman.
AYCOCK IS ASKED FOR HELP.
Seaboard Officials Blame Strikers for
Dxnamite Explosion In Round*
house at Raleigh.
About twenty men arrived in Raleigh,
N. C., Friday night to take the
places "of striking machinists in the
Ceaboard Air Line repair shops there.
They were quartered in one of the
nnmnanr'q Hllilriinca Si* XVPTP at WOrk
wui|/au^ u WWI?v*?M0W* w?
Saturday morning, when some unknown*
person, said to be a sympathizer
with the strikers, as the latter denyany
violence themselves, ignited a
fuse and caused an explosion in
the old round house in which the men
were epployed.
Division Superintendent Turner at
once wrote Governor Aycock that certain
evil disposed persons were trespassing
in the company's premises despite
notices to keep off, and were attempting
td persuade employees to
quit; had caused an explosion, which
produced great alarm among the workmen.
Superintendent Turner asked
the governor to appoint four designated
men as railway police. The governor
declined to make the appointments,
saying he believed the appointments
would tend to a breach of the
perice rather than to the preservation
of law and order, as they would be
railway and not state police, and that
the striKers and their friends would
immediately recognize this. He says
that the state laws are ample for protection
and that the railway can, at
its own expense, employ as many
guards as may be necessary. He assured
Superintendent Turner that any
attempt to injure the railway's proportv
or mon will be met with the full
power of the state.
The governor declares plainly to
strike sympathizers that no violation
of the law will be tolerated, and the
utmost power of the state will be exerted.
The company has put guards
on duty.
ARBITRATION AGAIN SUGGESTED.
United States Anxious that Hague Tribunal
Settle Chinese Muddle.
The United States government has
again appealed to the powers to submit
the present issues at Pekin over
the indemnity propositions to the arbitration
of the Hague tribunal.
Mr. Rockhill, who has been watching
for an opportunity, cabled Secretary
Hay Friday night for permission
-to make application, and the secretary
Saturday morning cabled him authority
to do so.
It is beloved the ministers at Pekin
have become involved-h^ond extrication
in the present issnes and this
proposition may be the only way out Former
Surgeon General Suicides.
Major W. H. Daly, surgeon general
on the staff of Lieutenant General
Miles in Porto Rico, committed suicide
at his home in Pittsburg, Pa., Sunday
by shooting himself in the right temple.
INCORPORATED TOWNS CENSUS.
Bulletin Issued at Washington Shows
Large Increase In Urban Population.
The census office at Washington issued
a bulletin Saturday giving the
population of incorporated places in
Thp hllllptin shows that
there are 10,602 such places as compared
with 7,478 in 1890.
The incorporated places contain, in
the aggregate, 35,849,516 inhabitants,
as compared with 26,079,828 persons
Hying in incorporated places in 1890.
The combined population in the incorporated
towns and cities constitute 47
per cent of the population of the entire
country as against 41 per cent in
the towns of 1890.
CIGARETTE LAW HOLDS GOOD.
Iowa Judge Holds New Measure to Be
Constitutional.
In the district court at Marshalltown,
Iowa, the state anti-cigarette
law was held constitutional. The court,
through Judge Burnham, held that
the property of cigaratte dealers and
the owners of buildings where it shall
be proved that cigarattes are sold may
be attached for the payment of the tax
levied under the new Jaw.
PATRICK MUST STAND TRIAL.
Judge Foster Disallows Demurrers
Filed in Favor of Alleged Murderer.
Judge Foster in general sessions disallowed
the seven demurrers filed
against the seven indictments of Albert
T. Patrick, David Short and Morris
Meyers, charging Patrick with the
murder of Millionaire Rice and the
others, including Patrick, with forgery
and perjury. The defendants will be
called upon to plead to the indictments,
and arrangements will be made
for bailing Short and Meyers.
IVllUfl uuuk uuiji?
Takes Id and Will Operate Ser*
eral Mills In Georgia. ||
CAPITAL STOCK FIFTY MILLIONS
Hogansville and LaGrange Plants .
Bought Outright, and West Point
Mills Will Be Operated
Under a Contract.
A meeting for the organization ot
the United States Cotton Duck corpo
ration was held in New York city Wed- ^
nesday, at which the following were L^pjSM
elected uirectors: M
S. Davies Wargeld, Baltimore; B. A.
Brinkerhoff, New York; Spencer Tut- %
ner, New York; Sigmund Lehman,
New York: W^liam H. Wellington,
Boston; Richard Cromwell, Bal- 3
timore; James E. Hooper, Baltimore; - ?
Michael Jenkins, Baltimore; Charles
K. Oliver, Baltimore; David H. Cajroll, Baltimore;
Thomas M. Turner, New
York; Tneodore Hooper, baltimore*:^^S
Henry A. Parr, Baltimore; Trenor L. Jj|
Park, New York; James M. Barnard, '
LaGrange, Ga.; W. K. Cromwell, Baltimore;
Horace S. Sears, Boston; E. P.
Carpenter, Manchester, N. H.; G.' K. '
Sheridan, New York; Robert S. Grup, ;
Elizabeth, N. J. ^^11
The United estates Cotton Duck cor- .^
poration has an authorized capital of ||
$50,000,000 divided into $25,000,000 6 ]
per cent cumulative preferred stock,
$25,tOO,000 common stock. There wiR be
issued at this time, to meet all
present requirements, $16,100,000 preferred
and $10,000,000 common stock. Q
This company acquired, through .
ownership of stock or by direct pur- / ^
chase, the Mt Vernon-Wood berry Cot
ton Duck Company, which was a con- -22a
solldation of fourteen cotton '
mills located in various parts of thev-.-.^ \,i
country, the capitalization of which is
$23,500,000; the Stark mills, Manches- :'~-M
ter, N. H.; LaGrange mills, LaGrange, ||
Ga., and the Hogansville Manufacture - M
ing Company, HogansviUe, Ga. ;v$?
connection with these properties, thai! . ^
new corporation will operate iMderi/^ ' H
contract, with option to purchase, the _'**nSjJj
West Point Manufacturing Company, "S
Lanette Dye Works and Bleachery, ^
and the Riverdale Manufacturing Com- ; ^
pany, all of West Point Ga. 3
To Operate 400,000 Spindles.
The United States Cotton Duck coivlj ; vj|
poration will operate 400.0&0 spindles, .^0%
producing nearly all of the heavy X?|||
ducks, a large portion of the lighter, - I
ducks and nearly all of the high belt- |
ing and hose ducks manufactured ia"'^
this country. .. . .*|
OPERA BOUFFE, SAYS TILLMAN. I
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Senior South Carolina Senator Sick off&
Disgraceful Wrangle and <
Recalls Resignation.
A Columbia, S. C., special says: p
Replying to the scathing letter of Governor
McSweeney Senator Tillnuit^
. eunesday, decided to withdraw his . ^
resignation, in his letter to Governor ^ ||
McSweeney Senator Tillman says: 1|j :x
"I have Senator McLaurin's com?^ ^
municatlon in which he graciously conO^^?.j
sents. at your request, 'to hold on_to| .Ce
his commission as United States Auk- :
tor and continue to serve the state as ||
he has done in the past to the best ;
of his ability.' ||
"This leaves me one of three alter- ' |?
natives: To appeal to the democratic M
executive committee to take the mat? ||
ter up and determine what the best in-. ^ \
terest of the party requires to be doxft^B -
to appeal to the senate Itself to deter- ? ^
mine the question as to whether a resignation
from that body, to take effect
at some future time, is binding, or
withdraw my own resignation.
"There are no precedents on this i|| ;
subject, because in the 125 years of 'M
our .national life, with more than 200
resignations from the senate, no sens- ^
tor h^hitherto been willing to oceu^M^^iespicable
attitude now as- 9
sunM^B|ta|^LMcLaurin, and
thing: Thattheexwu^e of a
has no authority to decline a resigna- Je
tion that has been tendered, and I am :j|s|
equally certain that had your excel- igj
lency confined your action within legal J|
bounds that your appointees would be
seated in the senate when that bedy
meets in December, and hold their
seats until the legislature should act :3aB
in January. '
"My cnief regret is that I am forced ~
by your action to engage in what the
outside world will consider a game of '
opera bouffe, by withdrawing my own . ^
resignation after Senator McLaurin'a /-:||.
undignified and puerile action; but the
purpose for which it was tendered has %
been thwarted by Senator McLaurin'a precipitous
acceptance of executive ad- -3
vice. Bob Acres has been outdone |;
for once. I have already said 1 had
no motive or purpose in resigning ex
cept to force McLaurin's, and there is
nothing for me to do but accept the %
situation and withdraw my own resig- m
nation, if it be lawful to uo so."
M
Objected to the Foreman.
All drivers at Soddy coal mines, in
Tennessee, went on a strike Wednes^H^I
day afternoon as a protest against
appointment of a foreman obnoxi^H^^^H
to the men. The mines will
down temporarily.
Quakers at Charleston
Philadelphia city fathers
joint resolution appropriatb^^^^^^^^^l
for a prop?^^^^^H^H
Hnn tho flharlootnn
WWVH wuro?UUUi
TRAINMEN TO
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Believing
of
Brotherhood
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