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ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. 8. C.. THURSDAY. AUGUST 29.1901. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR/ S
BOERS ARE DEFIANT
Steyn and Botha Scorn to Heed
Kitchener's Proclamation.
KRUGER ALSO STILL HOPEFUL
Determination of Burghers Is Soon
Emphasized By a Victory.
Consul Stowe Talks of
the Situation.
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A aispaicn receivyu m uwuuuu
from Lord Kitchener, dated from Pretoria
Monday, says:
"Three officers and sixty-five men,
who were sent north of Lady brand.
Orange River Colony, on the right of
Elliott's columns, were surrounded on
unfavorable grounds and captured by
a superior force August 2,'i. One man
was killed and four wounded. The
prisoners were released. Am holding
an Inquiry.
"Have received a long letter from
Steyn containing an argumentative
statement of the Boer case, and he
says he will continue to fight; also a
short letter from Dewet to the same
% effect
"Botha writes acknowledging the receipt
of my proclamation and protesting
against it, and stating that the
Boers intend to go on fighting. On the
other hand, the surrenders lately have
increased considerably."
Consul Stowe Talks.
<* Mr. Stowe. consul of. the United
States at Cape Town, wbo is just now
in London, said to a representative of
the Associated Press Monday:
"I find myself marooned in London.
Apparently every berth on steamers
bound for America is taken till the
end of September, and I am anxious to
get home, where I can do away with
official cares and talk as a private citizen.
You know pa ore in London about
the military conditions of South Africa
than it is possible for any one te
know at Cape Town.
"While I have resigned from the consular
service, my resignation does not
take effect till I reach Washington,
hence it is impossible for me to say
anything. The South African problem
hnwpVT?r~^*-undoubtedlv difficult
and complicated."
Kruger Is Undaunted.
The London Daily Telegraph publishes
a long interview with Mr. Kruger
at Hilversum on Lord Kitchener's
latest proclamation. The correspond.
" ent say 8:
"Mr. Kruger, who seemed greatly
improved in health, spoke vehemently
and*with intense feeling, rejecting
the idea that anything had been changed
except the attitude of the British
government. He insisted that the tactics
of the Boers were still as regular
as at the beginning of the war. Their
forces, he said, were smaller and were
split up into small parties because the
British had split their forces into innumerable
small columns. He declared
that ever skice the capture of
Bloemfonteln the British had trampled
upon the code of international
law. ,
"He contended that Lord Kitchener's
proclamation itself recognized
that the Boers had a regular administration
and an army. The proclamation
could have but one effect?to embitter
and intensify resistance. He
said, the question whether any protest
against it would be issued and was
still under consideration, but this mat
Aer was of little import to the burghers,
who did not look to Europe for approval,
blame or Instructions.
"-Having characterised the proclamation
as the blackest crime com~
' mitted against the Boers,' Mr. Kruger
closed the interview by solemnly calling
heaven to witness that the story
of a Dutch conspiracy against the British
was 'an abominable lie, the most
mischievous and diabolical lie ever
coined since man first appeared in the
world.'
"He said, however, that peace was
still possible on the basis of give and
take, and that the Boers were ready to
make reasonable sacrifices and to give
satisfactory guarantees on the basis of
independence and free pardon to colonial
Afrikanderi."
PRINCE CHUN HALTED.
Chinese Apologetic Ambassador Receives
Orders to Delay.
The illness of Prince Chun, a brother
of the emperor of China, who, with
a chinoae mmmlssinn has arrived at
Basel, Switzerland, on his way to Berlin
to apologize for the assassination
of Baron von Kettler, the German
minister at Pekin, is, acocrding to a
dispatch received from Basel, a pretext
fo rdelay. Prince Chun having received
orders from Pekin not to proceed,
as fresh complications have arisen
with reference to the settlement
protocol.
Four Miners Fall to Death.
Four miners were instantly killed
Monday morning at a mine in Chenoa,
111., by the snapping of a cable support
from the cage. The men fell 240
feet
Conflagration In Tennessee Town.
Tiptonville. Tenn., county seat of
Lake county, was almost destroyed
by fire late Sunday afternoon. The
loss is not Known.
NEGRO REPULSES MOB.
Armed With Scythe Blade He Held
His Ground Valiantly.
With a scythe blade Enoch Henderson.
a negro farmer of Moulton
Heights-, Ala.. Sunday night stood off
a mob of twenty-five masked white
men and probably fatally wounded one
of the mob which had sworn to kill
the negro. The mob wanted Henderson's
life because of a difficulty between
Henderson and one Noel Graham
several days ago wherein Graham
was badly hurt.
CREAn OF NEWS
% Summary of the Most
j Important Daily
J Happenings Tersely Told. ?
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?Directors of the Georgia Central
railroad held a meeting Monday at
Savannah and declared a 5 per cent
dividend on first preferred income
bonds.
?Enoch Henderson, a negro of
Moulton Heights. Ala., with a scythe
blade, met a mob leader at his home
and mowed him down. His act awed
the rest of the mob and they fled.
?State Treasurer Stowers, or Mississippi,
will not resign on account of
the shortage discovered in the treasury,
and it is probable that the governor
will suspend Lim.
?In the Virginia constitutional convention
Monday a delegate showed
the advantages of the single court system
of Georgia and North Carolina.
?Three cotton mills at Columbia,
S. C., have shut out their operatives,
owners declaring they will not employ
union members.
""^-Four men were killed by the fall
of steel girders which were being
placed on the Southern's new bridge
across the Congaree river, near Columbia,
S. C.. Monday.
?A gusher came in unexpectedly
and with tremendous force at Beaumont,
Texas, Monday. Two men were
killed in a vain attempt to control it.
?The whites of the Indian Territory
towns are driving the negroes from
their homes. United States officials
have Interfered and threaten to call
for troops.
?President Shaffer declares that the
efforts of the civic federation to settle
the strike are without his authority.
?Three members of the Chicago detective
department were placed on
trial Monday for alleged crookedness.
?By resolution the Texas leglsla-.
ture denounces the steel trust and extends
sympathy to strikers.
?Latest advices from the isthmus
of Panama state that the liberals of
Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia and Nicaragua
are backing the revolution,
hoping to organize a great federation.
?Lord Kitchener has received letters
from Steyn and Botha in which
they declare their purpose to continue
fighting.
?Turkey will have to pay France
1,300,000 francs as indemnity for the
alleged wrongs done French concessionaires.
?In spite of deaths of volunteer
subjects, the yellow fever experts at
Havana will continue their experiments.
?Chief Westall, of the Havana
money order office, states that he has
been robbed of $4,000 belonging to the
office.
?Henry Noles, the negro who assaulted
and killed Mrs. Charles Williams,
near Winchester, Tenn., was taken
from prison by a mob Sunday and
burned at the stake.
?Two negro criminals in jail at
Greenville, Tenn., got into a fight in
their cell and one stabbed the other to
death.
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VjUllDJ IU1 X ALTO J , U1 ilvgHlVD) m ami
denies that he ever had anything to do
with smuggling Chinese across the
border.
?Commenderies of Knights Templars
from all over the country gather
at Louisville for their triennial conclave.
?Fireman killed and several persons
injured in wreck on the Seaboard
Air Line in South Carolina.
?Word has been received at Manila
that Colonel Loreel and seventeen officers
and men surrendered to the
Americans Saturday.
?Londoners think that France has
achieved only a paper victory when
Turkey decided that the purchase of
the quays would not be a profitable
investment.
?The wedding of Henry M. Flagler,
the multi-millionaire, and Miss Mary
Lily Kenan took place at Kenansville,
N. C., Saturday.
?Hurricanes and floods sweep sections
of New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania. Over Jersey City two
storms met and destruction resulted.
?At Nogales, Ariz., Collector Hoey
and Inspector Jossey were placed under
arrest Saturday charged with accepting
bribes to admit Chinamen into
the United States.
?It is believed at Pittsburg that negotiations
are in progress to settle
the steel strike. It is thought that
represenatives of the trust and strikers
are in secret conference.
?The threatened war between
France and Turkey has been finally
averted by the latter's granting the
demands of the French government.
?The czar of Russia will meet the
kaiser of Germany on the yacht Hohenzollern.
Important questions will
be discussed by the two rulers.
?Miss Clara Maas, a hospital nurse
employed in Cuba, wishing to become
immune, alowed herself to be bittten
by a yellow fever infected mosquito.
Death resulted within seven days.
?The grand jury of Elmore county,
Alabama, has indicted ten white men
for participation in the lynching of a
negro named White.
?It is reported that the VirginiaCarolina
Chemical Company has
bought a large oil and fertilizer mill at
Charlotte. N. C.
?Benjamin Higgins, of Jacksonville,
Fla., enters suit against that
city for $10,000 damages. He alleged
that his wife died of lockjaw brought
on by compulsory vaccination.
?Read Admiral Schley has replied
to the navy department in regard to
the Howison matter. The admiral
makes it clear that the department
lias refused to aid in an effort to secure
an unbiased judge.
?Prince Chun, brother of the emperor
of China, who is on his way to
Berlin to apologize for the murder of I
Baron von Kettier, arrived at Basel, ?
Switzerland, Sunday.
CONFER OVER STRIKE
Leaders Meet Io Pittsburg Bat
Object Is Kept a Secret.
STATUS OF THE FIGHT TO DATE
Both Sides Claim to Be Satisfield Over
the Outlook?Overtures, However,
Are Expected to
Be Made Soon.
A Pittsburg special says: A summary
of the steel strike situation up to
Friday night shows about the following
conditions:
In Pittsburg?Star mill: Two mills
running; strikers say five more men
left the plant and joined their ranks,
but management positively deny the
statement.
Painter mill?Four mills running;
fires lighted in bar mill furnaces, but
failed to start as expected.
Pennsylvania tube works?Mill idle,
machinists say they will quit.
All Carnegie mills running full.
McKeesport?Demmler plant idle
and no attempt will be made to start
it before next week. Everything is
closed down.
Irondale?Mill running with same
force, making two turns and assurance
from the manager that more
men will be added at once.
Wellsville?Situation unchanged,
twelve mills running.
Lisbon?Fires started in tin plate
plant. Manager Evans says everything
in readiness for start soon with
plenty "of men. Strikers voted to remain
out and mill is strongly picketed.
Wheeling?Everything tied up and
no apparent indication of an attempt
to start any of the mills.
Bellair?The National Steel Company's
idle plant will, it is said, be started
early next week by a full force of
men.
Labor Leaders Confer.
The conference of the labor leaders
at the office of the Amalgamated association
in Pittsburg Friday was the
leading feature of the strike during
the day. The officials of the organization
seemed pleased with the way
things were moving and one of them
said somewhat mysteriously:
"In another six days wou will see a
decided change in the strike that will
tell with great effect on the trust and
aid in hurrying the final outcome of
this struggle."
Just what this change is to be was
not said, but it was inferred strongly
that the coming event hinged upon
the conference that was taking place.
President Shaffer said In reference
to the meeting that it was not a preconcerted
one, but "Just happened."
Nothing of importance was accomplished.
Mr. Snaffer said no arrangement
had been made to submit a new
peace proposition to the corporation
or a further proposal for arbitration,
adding, however, that he did not know
what Individual action the conferences
might take in the future. No mention
was made of the miners or other
trades taking sympathetic action. It
is believed that as a result of the
meeting another effort will be made to
induce the United States Steel Corporation
to tender another conference.
The strikers make the claim that
very little actual work has been done
by the combine in any of its plants
since the strike began, and that what
product has been turned out has been
of an Inferior character. Notwithstanding
this the steel officials declare
themselves well pleased with the condition
of affairs and say all the mills
started are working satisfactorily and
turning out good product.
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BLACK BRUTE KILLS WOMAN.
Mr*. Williams, Wife of Prominent
Farmer, Victim of Ravisher.
Mrs. Charles Williams, wife of a
prominent farmer of Franklin county,
Tennessee, was shot and killed Friday
by Henry Noles, a negro, who attempted
to criminally assault her. After
shooting Mrs. Williams, the negro
fired upon her little son, grazing his
head. The negro fled, with the sheriff
and a posse with two bloodhounds -:n
pursuit
COAL STRIKE IS ENDED.
All Minos In Matewan District Are
Again In Operation.
A dispatch from Matewan, W. Va...
says: The Logan and Red Jacket coal
mines started work Friday morning
with a full force of non-union men. All
of the mines which were compelled to
-quit work more than two months ago
by the strike of all union labor, are
now in operation. Almost half of the
strikers have left the fields, but the
most intense excitement reigns among
the others over the importation of
more than a hundred men from Virginia
to take their places.
ANOTHER ITALIAN KILLED.
Mob's Work In Texas May Cause Further
International Complications.
An Italian named Gingotti was killed
near Ashdown, Texas, Thursday,
and the killing is likely to develop into
an international affair. For some time
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had a large force of Italian laborers
at work on Its line near Ashdown. The
murder resulted from a row with
American workmen.
NEW TOWN WIND-WRECKED.
Cyclone Sweeps Anadarko, Killing
Three and Doing Great Damage.
Three persons were killed, two seriously
and a number slightly injured
in a heavy wind and rain storm which
visited Anadarko, the new town in Oklahoma.
Wednesday evening. Twenty
buildings were almost wrecked, hundreds
of tents occupied by homesteaders
were town to pieces and great
quantities of merchandise was strewn
far and wide o\*er the prairie.
WAR CLOUD GROWS OMINOUS.
France and Turkey Seem to Be Drifting
Toward Conflict?Russia
Makes Significant Move.
The French ambassador ot Constantinople,
M. Constans, sent a letter to
the sultan Friday morning personally
Informing him that he would leave
Constantinople with the entire staff
of the embassy If the matters In dispute
wero r.ot settled Immediately. It
accords the sultan the briefest delay
within which to comply with the demands.
A dispatch to The Petit Bleu (Brussels)
from Vienna says:
"According to advices from Qalatz,
twpntv Russian tornedo boats and sev
eral dispatch boats have arrived at the
Dniesta delta, and Russian troops aro
commencing to mobilize along the
Turkish frontier."
French Officials Reticent.
A Paris special says: While the officials
of the French foreign office decline
to confirm or deny the dispatch
of the Associated Press from Constantinople
announcing that the French
ambassador has sent the sultan a letter
which is in the nature of an ultimatum,
they admit having received a
telegram from M. Constans, which has
been laid before the council now sitting
at the Elysee palace.
The correspondent learns that M.
Constans has been given a free hand.
Any step he finds proper to take will
be fully indorsed.
The foreign minister, M. Delcasse,
if be deems it necessary, will withdraw
the French embassy from Constantinople,
and Munir Bey, the Turkish
ambassador, who is now in Switzerland,
will be notified not to return
to Paris, in which case Munir Bey will
probably withdraw the legation to
Berne, as he is also accredited as min
ister to Switzerland.
No naval demonstration is yet contemplated,
but the sultan will probably
be seriously inconvenienced by
the closure of the Turkish embassy in
Paris, which is the center of the espionage
maintained to watch the numerous
young Turks and other disaf
fected Ottoman subjects and voluntary
exiles who make their headquarters
in Paris, and will have a free hand
if diplomatic relations between France
and Turkey are completely broken off.
It has been suggested that the
French government issue orders for
the bourse to cease dealing in Turkish
securities, but it is not likely that
this step will be taken, as it would
only injure the French bondholders.
The entire Turkish group fell on thq
bourse Friday, in some cases going
10 to 15 franc?
ON SWINDLING CHARGE.
Mental Science Healers In Florida Are
Placed Under Arrest.
Mrs. Helen Post, her husband, Colo?
nel C. C. Post, and her son-in-law, C.
F. Burgman, were arrested at Daytona,
Fla., Friday on information sworn
to by Post Office Inspector Fred D.
Peer charging them with using the
mails for fraudulent purposes. The
three were taken to Jacksonville for
a preliminary hearing before United
States Commissioner William Archibald.
The offense alleged consisted in
sending through the mails circulars
professing to cure patients at a distance
by means of mental science.
The instructions that were sent to
patients tcrtd them to go alone for fifteen
minules each day and hold themselves
receptive to the thought of the
healer, she agreeing r.o think of tbem
at the sanv? time.
Mrs. Post fhilms to be able to heal
all kinds of dfreases, even restoring
the blind to sight, holding that no disease
was iaemMe by her method of
treat??rt.
Trolley Cars In Collision.
An Atlanta dispatch 6ays: As the
result of a head-on collision between
cars 103 and 104 on the Rapid Transit
river line Friday afternoon, one per?
son, Harry Williams, of 170 Mills
street, is dead and sixteen other persons
are more or less seriously injured.
"PUMPING" ESTRADA PALMA.
Cubans Anxious to Know Views of
Prospective Presidential Candidate.
The committee recently appointed
by prominent revolutionary leaders
in Cuba to address a letter to Senor
Estrada Palma asking for a more specific
statement from him regarding the
program he would follow if elected
president of the Cuban republic, designated
Juan Gualberto Gomez to
draft the communication. 'He says the
letter is In the nature of advice to
Senor Palma, suggesting that he
should make declarations on certain
points of policy.
CLOUDBURST WHELMS TOWN.
Little Village of Collintville, Ala., Almost
Obliterated.
News comes from Collinsville, Ala.,
that the town was visited by a cloud
burst late Thursday afternoon iasc
and propertly greatly damaged. Several
stores are reported to have been
completely Inundated and many residences
washed from their foundations.
FOURTEEN TANKS BURNED.
Oil Fire at Point Breeze Cost $500,000,
While Three Lives Were Lost.
The fire which started at the works
of the Atlantic Refining Company, at
Point Breeze, on the Schuylkill river
front in the southwestern section of
Philadelphia, burned itself out Thursday.
Vice President Lloyd, of the company,
estimates the loss at about $500,000.
Fourteen tanks, containing about
j 200.000 barrels of oil, wore destroyed.
The death list has been reduced to
three.
VICTIM OF THE STAKE
Negro Who Brutally Murdered
Mrs. Williams Cremated.
CONFESSED TO HEINOUS CRIME
Culprit Saturated With Oil and Match
Quickly Applied?Six Thousand
People Witnessed
the Awful Sight.
A special to The Chattanooga Tiroes
from Winchester, Tenn., says Henry
Noles, the negro who criminally assaulted
and shot to death Mrs. Charles
Williams, wife of a prominent farmer
near Winchester, Tenn., last Friday,
was captured early Sunday morning at
Water Tank, near Codan, Tenn. He
was carried to Winchester by his
captors and placed in the county jail.
"Sheriff Stewart made haste to try to
barricade the jail and protect the prisoner.
Soon an angry mob of several
hundred citizens gathered about the
jail. Assistant Attorney General Mats
N. Whittaker appeared and made a
speech to the infuriated citizens. He
appealed to the citizens to assist him
in allaying excitement and upholding
the majesty of the law.
He promised to reconvene the grand
jury Monday to promptly indict the
negro and have him speedily tried at
the present term of court, assuring the
crowd that his conviction and legal
execution was a foregone conclusion.
This appeal was supplemented by
Judge J. J. Lynch, Captain W. P. Tol
ley, Jesse M. Littleton. Foster Ram- 4
sey and others.
No sooner had their appeals been
made than several hundred citizens
from the neighborhood where the
crime was committed came up and
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augmented the crowd to thousands.
They swept forward upon the jail,
overpowering the sheriff and his deputies,
secured the prisoner and started
foi the scene of the crime, twelve
miles distant, at 10:15 a. m.
It seemed that the whole population
for miles around had turned out
to see the fate of the wretch. A procession
three miles fn length followed
the mob to the Williams home. Arrived
at a point in sigtt of the scene
of the crime the negro was placed
upon a stump and given a chance to
make a statement.
He mounted the stump stolidly and
laughed as he began his statement
He said:
"Tell all my sisters and brothers to
meet me in glory. I am going to make
that my home. Tell my mother to
meet me where parting will be no |
more."
He was then asked a number of
questions. Interrogated as to whether
or not anyone else was implicated in
the crime, Noles stated emphatically
there was no one Implicated but himself.
"Why did you kill Mrs. Williams?''
was asked.
"I Just done that because I had
nothing else to do."
Saturated With Oil.
He finished his statement at 1:35 p.
m. He was taken from the stump,
carried to a tree near by, bound to it
by chains and his body saturated with
oil.
At 1:40 p. m. a match was applied,
and instantly the quivering body was
enveloped in flames. Ralls were pitched
about the burning body and soon
life was extinct. The negro made no
outcry at any time, and died stoically.
At least 6,000 people witnessed the
horrible fate of the negro. Many remained
until nightfall, augmenting the
blaze until the body was entirely consumed.
They then departed for their
homes quietly.
History of Nobles' Crime.
Lying on the floor of the family
room, with her face splashed with
blood, Charles Williams found his
young wife Friday afternoon when he
returned from marketing his wheat in
the little town of Maxwell.
A heavy bullet had crashed through
her head. Life was completely extinct,
and her two baby children were
crying aloud their grief and fear a<
what had transpired before the arrival
of the father. The oldest boy,
aged 5, told what had occurred.
Tb? young mother had been shot
and killed by Henry Noles, a negro
hand upon Williams' place. As the
mortally wounded woman sank to the
floor, Noles shot at the boy, the bullet
grazing the child's head.
It Is reported that the motive was
robbery, and $20 was obtained by the
murderer.
Four Million Mark Passed.
A A Tin Ai.(y>on ovrvoctHnn the
Al IUC X au'nutiivuii
four million mark In attendance was
passed Sunday and the average attendance
for August has been 50 per cent
greater than any previous month.
BRITONS SIDE WITH SCHLEY.
Depew Says Naval Controversy Incites
Ridicule Across the Big Pond.
Senator Chauncey M. Depew arrived
at New York from Europe Saturday.
Of the Schley-Sampson controversy,
he said:
"A great deal of interest is taken In
it. The fact that Admiral Schley's
daughter Is married to Mr. Worley,
an Englishman, makes favorable feeling
for him over there.
WASHOUT CAUSED WKfc^l\.
Accident on Seaboard Air Line?Fireman
Killed and Several Are Injured.
The Florida and Metropolitan limited
train of the Seaboard Atr Line
was totally wrecked Saturday night
seven miles south of Cheraw, S. C..
due to a sand back washed out.
Fireman Rosemond was crushed to
death, while two engineers, a postal
clerk and messenger were more or
less injured. The passengers escaped
with a severe shaking trp. Neither of
the conductors were hurt.
RIOT OCCURS IN COURT ROOM.
At Trial of Negro Rapist Guns Are
Brought Into Play?One Killed
And Two Wounded.
A special to the The Birmingham
Age-Herald from Ashville, Ala., says
that one man was killed and another
probably fatally wounded In a battlo
in Jthati town Thursday to save the negro,
Jim Brown, from the vengeance of
a mob, after he had been tried and
sentenced to be hanged on Septembei
20th for the most heinous crime known
in the criminal law of any state.
Walter Blankenship was killed,
while Arthur Blankenship and a small
boy, the son of James Hanley, were
wo*nded in the melee.
The Blankenships were brothers,
and it is said had been in town since
Monday trying to stir up the trouble.
Walter died within two hours after
being shot, and Arthur is in a precarious
condition.
The attempt of the mob to gain possession
of the negro followed one of
the swiftest and fairest trials ever
held. It was a battle of witnesses
with the Judge and court officials on j
the defensive to suppress the fast rising
anger of the crowd, as detail after
detail of the fiend's work was told by
the witnesses for the state. There was
no evidence for the defense. As the '
brute said afterwards in his confes- !
sion there was nothing the witnesses
he had summoned could say In his behalf.
The clash came in half an hour af- I
ter Judge Pelham had pronounced the j
sentence. By a ruse the court room
was cleared of half of its angry occupants.
The remaining half was
surly and seemed bent on mischief.
k At the request of Judge Pelham, J.
L. Garrett, father of the girl outraged
by Brown, mounted a table and spoke,
counselling peace. He had hardly adthe
assembly as his friends
and neighbors before he broke down
in tears. In concluding his appeal, he
said:
"If you have any respect for my
feelings, If I can have any weight In
your hearts, let me urge you as good
citizens to go home and obey the law {
and I will never cease to thank you
from the bottom of my heart from this
day to the day of my death."
Fired Into Windows.
The first sign of an outbreak came i
when one man from the outside with I
a pistol in his hand started to mount
the stairway. He was followed by two
or three others. Several shots were 1
exchanged and the mob leaders retreated
to the outside when two members
began firing into the windows.
Arthur Blankenship was hit first and
his brother was shot while emptying
his revolver in the direction of the
windows above.
A hard rain was falling. The bodies
of the wounded were removed and the i
crowd scattered about in front of the
stores across the street. The officers
took advantage of this lull aad spirited
the negro away in charge of two special
deputies. He was gotten safely
aboard a freight train for Birmingham.
The Negro's Crime.
The crime for which Brown will
hang was committed on May 7th, near
Springville, within a quarter of a m'.lo
of the home of the Garretts. He was
working in a field near where Miss
Garrett, who is a school teacher, had
fn noes hi rptnrnine home late in tbo
afternoon. He followed her for some
distance and finally assaulted her near
a creek. He dragged the girt into the
water, threatening to drown her.
Abandoning this last thought of ending
his heinous crime by murder, he pulled
ofT his clothes and put on another suit
in the presence of the young woman,
throwing his shoes into the water. He
was with her for three-quarters of an
hour. Miss Garrett remained unconscious
for some time, and then made
her way to the house and gave the
alarm.
Brown left the vicinity at once, first
going to Birmingham, then to Anniston,
Atlanta, and finally to Charleston.
S. C.. where he was captured. In the
meantime another negro had been shot
to death because he was mistaken for
Brown. The real Brown attempted
suicide by cutting his thoat with a
piece of glass shortly after his capture.
TRUST WINS A ROUND.
One Big Plant Is 8tarted Up and Others
Prepared to Resume.
The developments in the steel strike
Thursday morning were all favorable
to the masters. Early in the day the
American Tin Plate Company succeeded
in getting about one hundred
men safely inside the gates of the Star
plant, in Pittsburg, while preparations
were made to start up two more mills.
Another crew was put on at Lindsay
& McCutcheon works* in Allegheny,
and the Jinney mill started, and 250
men were reported at work in the
Painter plant, on the south side.
OFFICERS MUST FACE JURY.
? a- A ^
Three New York Policemen xo
swer For Alleged Misdoings.
The New York grand jury voted
Thursday to Indict Police Sergeant
Shiels and Wardmen Glennon and
Dwyer. It was given out that the indictments
charge neglect of duty.
Shiels, Glennon and Dwyer were
subsequently arraigned before Recorder
Goff and Friday afternoon was set
as the time for them to plead
WHITE RAPIST SWUNG UP.
Mercer Goes to His Doom at Tampa,
Fla., Protesting Innocence.
J. M. Mercer, a white man convicted
last May of assaulting Jessie Taylor,
a little girl, was hanged at Tampa.
Fla.. Friday. His neck was broken by
the fall. He died declaring his innocence.
His last words were a request
that his wife be taken care of.
Mercer is the first white man evei
legally executed in Hlllsboro county.
I SOUTH CAROLINA I
j STATE NEWS ITEMS. |
Tragedy at Whisky Factory. 1
W. D. Freeman shot and killed Holland
Durham In the government dis!
tillery of the latter's half brother, M.
IC. Durham, at Landrum. Holland
Durham had started out of the door,
carrying some liquor when he was ordered
to stop by Freeman, the jugger.
Durham refused to give up the liquor
and started for Freeman with an
open knife. Freeman then shot him in
the neck, killing him instantly. Free
man went at once to Spartanburg and
surrendered to the sheriff.
?
Must Have Licensed Man.
W. B. Chisholm, manager of the Virginia-Carolina
Chemical Company, was
formally notified by the collector of
port at Charleston to show cause why
tie should not be fined for allowing a
steamer under his direction to be oprated
by an unlicensed pilot Charges
vere lodged against the pilot by Capain
Mitchell, of the revenue cutter
"orward, and an investigation is in
progress. Chisolm said that the steamer.
the Dove, had been used for his
vorkmen and for himself and he considered
McLaughlin, the pilot, a capa>!e
man. He had neglected, however,
.o secure a license.
Keegan Will Apply For Bail.
Application for bail for Michael Keegan.
who shot and killed James M.
Vard, the young cotton buyer of
Charleston, will be made before Chief
Justice Mclver at Glenn Springs. Keegan
is stil in jail. An Inquest into the
cause of the killing has not been held
on account of the sudden death of
Coroner Vaughan and the inability to
have a successor tike charge before
:his. The killing occurred while a
party of young men were returning
from a sail. Keegan claims that the
young men were drunk and noisy and
when he, as night watchman at Chisolm's
mill, remonstrated, they attacked
him and Ward, he says, had him
down by the throat when he drew a
pistol and fired. Numerous witnesses
have been summoned for the inquest,
which will be held as soon as the new
I coroner is sworn in, and all the facts
will be forthcoming.
%
Union Men Shut Out
A Columbia dispatch says: fare
hundred operatives at the Olympia,
Gran by, Richland and Capital City,
cotton mills, who refused to make up
the time that will be lost on Labor
day by working six hours over time,
were denied admission to the mills
and were notified of their suspension
for a week.
The operatives fell in line and paraded
through the village with much
cheering.
Union No. 211 is meeting to take action
and is receiving hundreds of new
members. Since the strength of the
union has been divulged. President
Smith Whaley said:
"We do not propose to have any
unionism in our business. The mills
in South Carolina have agreed to employ
no union labor whatsoever. I
will close down every mill before I
employ a union man. All of my operatives
will be required to sign an
agreement that they will belong to no
union."
The union strength is estimated at
900 odd members and has been increased
by several hundred recently.
Warren Still In Evidence.
News of a shooting affray at
Branchville in. which Thomas Wat
son was shot four times and perhaps
mortally wounded by Bartow Warren,
Al- ? ? ? Vii- trrno frl<-w7
me young wmce uiau ?uu n<u uicu
at the last term of the Orangebujg
court for train robbery. Watson was
a witness for the prosecution. It was
stated that Watson said that some of
the boys had been lying on him and
that he meant to get even.
There was a mistrial at the last
court, but Watson's evidence was particularly
strong against Warren. This
led to much bitter feeling.
The shooting occurred In front of
a drug store. A telephone ^message
'^brought the news that Watson could
not live. Warren was charged with
having held up an express messenger
on the Southern railway train, from
whom he is alleged to have secured
nearly $200.
Exposition Grounds Inspected.
A committee of fourteen of the executive
commissioners' association of
the Pan-American exposition arrived
at Charleston a day or two ago from
Buffalo. They were met by the officials
of the South Carolina Interstate
and West Indian exposition and boarded
a steamer for the Isle of Palms,
where they were entertained during
their stay. They visited the exposition
grounds and made a full report
to the exhibitors at Buffalo as to the
conditions. The personnel of the party
was as follows:
Colonel H. E. Dosch, Portland, Oregon;
A. C. Jackson, Seattle; B. H.
? ? /~t_l ?1 Cn.frln
Lee, New ixjnaon f V/UIUilCI OCigiu |
Lusky, Honduras; James McMullan,
Minnesota; F. N. Speller, Toronto;
C. L. Swain, Cincinnati; Robert M.
Yost, St. Louis; P. J. Pierson, Guatemala;
C. W. Matthewson, of the Manufacturers'
Club; Dr. A. L. Benedict
superintendent ethnology, Pan-American;
Mr. J. V. Noel and L. S. Allen.
*
Between Charleston and Honduras.
Colonel Sergio Lusky, an army commander
of Honduras, and commissioner
from Honduras to the Pan-American
exposition, was in Charleston a few
days ago with the Pan-American commissioners
from Buffalo to look at
the South Carolina exposition. Colonel
Lusky has a scheme for the establishment
of a direct line of steamers
between Charleston and Honduras
and he said that such an undertaking
I'OUici oe carnea luruugu as uie icouu -;vi?a|
of the exposition. He will endeavor
to have capitalists interested, and with'
the fine Honduras exhibit which will
be a feature of the exposition, he will . **
be able to point out the advantages to
be derived from such a project CoU> -|>S
nel Lusky says the people of hit ?
country are more Interested in Ameri'
can manufactured goods than in good*(H|n
from England, and he is of the opln- ion
that trade conditions can be greatly
Improved by the establishment of
the direct line of steamers. -d
The fruit business, which is a big -da
item in Honduras, would produce traffic
for the steamers and on the return ^
trips there would be heavy cargoes of
cotton goods and other manufactured
articles, particularly from the sooth*
Will 8e Warm Contest.
Charleston Politlcans are aireaoy, , ya
figuring on a race for congress next
summer when Congressman WHllam ./ ?
Elliott will be called upon again to
defend his position. A number of lead* ,.M
ing men are known to be candidates Jand
the fight will be warm and intePi.^^ ^
esting, because it will take on a flavors
of McLaurin's commercial democracy.
Colonel Elliott has represented the
Charleston district in Washington ||
since 1887, and he has managed to go - .d
in time after time with little opposi^^^S
tlon. In the next race, however, he
will have the fight of his life, and hi* ;||j
refusal to work for Charleston in tfcar^Hg/
naval station matter has cut him
almost entirely from the CharlestpiMg m
vote. In the naval station fight Colo-,. ~ rM
nel Elliott was placed in rather an e?- |
barrasslng position. He saw that aH-j
signs showed that the station wotdd^
be moved to Charleston, but Port Roy- ' iM
al was by his home and that town had
the first call. The incident will be ii?
made much of in the campaign. '3gM
Major J. Adger Smyth is hesitating - \'jj?
between entering the field for oon.-^
gress or standing for a third term can-;'
didacy for hiayor. This Is his secondlaB k
term>and while his friends say he Utr7-> ^
anxious to represent the first
in congress, he believes he has a good
chance to win for mayor in the thlrd^^B
Both Landed In Jail. -J
Jerome Blowers, formerly aaalataat^J^p
manager of the Bell telephone ex- vj
change at Spartanburg, and Miss
ne v^jary, wuu uy iu a ion jow* ?p~ rM?-was
a popular society woman off
same town, were arrested in CharIe*J| f:".\
ton on a warrant charging them with J
adultery. The warrant was issued by ; x gg
a Spartanburg magistrate at the
stance of J. W. Garrett, the father of ^ ^
Blowers' wife. Blowers has a wif<^|
and two children living at his former | M
SOUTHERN PROGRESS. v JaM
The New Industries Reported In the^ .. >
8outh During the Past Week.
Among the more important of the|H |
new industries reported for the past >^||1
week are brick works at Blrmingham^*?^'
Ala., and Lexington, Va.; a canning/^
factory at Ocala, Fla.; a carriage fao fj
tory at Valdosta, Ga.; a chair fac^SjBv^l
tory t Athens, Ga.; a $40,000 chemical
company at Paris, Texas; a $500,000.^8 j
cigar factory at Richmond, Va.; two ^
cold storage plants at Blrminghair^
Ala., one to cost $25,000; a $5,000,006 J/"
cotton compress company to do bust f
ness at Montgomery, Ala; a $50,006320
cotton gin at Nash, Texas; cotton gfoftll
at Denison and Itasca, Texas; an ^
000 cotton mill at Middleton, Ga* aad|j.v *j
Itasca, Texas; a cotton mill at Gaines- I
vllle, Te^as; a $25,000 drnjL.mannfa*^
turing company at Paris, Texss^ eleo^^';^
trie light plants at Sebree,
rinburg, N. C., and Winnsboro, S. - J
an electric power plant at Er Camp<V|S ;
Texas; a 50-barrebflouring mill at-Mt.j| %
Carmel, S. C., and flouring mills at Da*- ^
vldson and Macon, Ahu, and Dunlaftji
Tenn.; a furniture factory at Norfbflc^
Va., and $25,000 furniture factories at 11
Hickory, N. C., and Norfolk, Va.; a |
glnners' machinery company at Dsl? 31
las, Texas; a glass factory at J;:
mond, Va.; gold mines at Llano, ^
a $50,000 ice factory at Paragould,
Ark.; a knitting mill at Fort WM&
Ark.; a $20,000 laundry at Palestfajigj^W
Tejc.; lead mines at Midway, Ky.;
$20,000 lumber company at Taylois^B vllle,
Miss.; a lumber company at ^
Greenwood, S. C.; a $30,000 lumber .jf
mill at Tampa, Fla.; a $25,000 lumber - i
mill at Asheboro, N. C.; a $1,000,000 J|
mining company at Condor, N. C.; a
$20,000 mining company at Comstodfc3j9fl
Ky.; a $26,000 oil company at Scott9?J| 3
vllle, Ky.; a $26,000 oil company at?
West Nashville, Tenn.; a $500,000 oil .
company at Fort Worth, Texas; f/l
$300,000 oil company at Grand Falls, v
Texas; a $50,000 oil company at Mar* rr
shall, Texas; a planing mill at Shnqis?:^|a :
lak, Miss.; a $50,000 saddle and har>"'; g|
ness manufacturing plant at
Worth, Texas; saw and planing mills flj
at.Claxton, Ga., and near Ruston, La.j3j| ^
a $15,000 telephone company at Oxari^ ?
Ark., and telephone companies at Car
mflla, Ga.. and Emory, Texas.?Trades' 3
man (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
COMPANY 8UE8 EX-FOREMAN. MS*
Novelty In Chicago Labor TrouWos la
Sprung Upon tRe Public. ;~<||9
Suelng a former employee for $26,- -31
000 damages on the charge that fcfgS
spread dissatisfaction among the oth g:f 3
workmen and was thereby largely
strumental in causing a strike is the vj
nnvoltr In fhA TllflJlV labor troe^H
lai^OV UV ? VI \*J ?* VMW W .
bles in and near Chicago. The plaliK JS
tiff in the suit is the W. B. Gonkejr
Company, of Hammond, and ifce de- "3J
fendant Is James A. Russell, formerly
employed by the company as fotemalL *j|
POLICE OFFICERS ON TRIAL. |
Thief Chasers at Chicago Charged 'ja|
With Defrauding the ^ity. 3|
The three officers of the detective 3
bureau of the Chicago police depart- ^
ment who are charged with defrauding
the city by means of fictitious expense *1
accounts were put on trial Monday before
the civil service commission. Th#
accused officers are Lieutenant Peter'
J. Joyce, Detective Sergeant John C.
i Cramer and Detective John J. Tracer.. 41|