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The Bamberg Herald. 1 i i. ~ - ?? * ^ ^? ?? ESTABLISHED 1S91. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 31.1901. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. ||| - - ASSASSIN CZOLGC Current Sends ]M Soul Before ASSASSiN At 7:12:20 Tuesday morning, Leon j F. Czolgosz, the murderer of President j McKinley, paid the life penalty for his j crime in the electric chair at the Au-| burn, N. Y., state prison. The prisoner made a brief speech in jtc. the chair. He said he "was not sorry for what he had done, but expressed regret that he had not seen his father, j The prisoner was given three con- j Lac is 01 electricity ueiur? ne was uu<uly pronounced dead. He died unconfessed and unrepentant, spurning the offices of the priests and cursing them. He maintained his stolidity to the s. last, and there were no signs of physical collapse. His action was not that of bravado, noi .hat which springs from physical courage; it was simply the stolidity which is born of indifference. Of all the men who have sat in the death chair its terrors seemed to have had the least effect on Czolgosz. Half an hour before execution the prisoner sent for the superintendent and warden and said: "I want to make a statement before you kill me." "What do you wish to say, Czolgosz?" asked the warden. "I want to make it when there are a lot of people present I want them ^ * to hear me," saiu. the prisoner. "Well, you cannot," said the superintendent "Then I won*t talk at all," said the prisoner sullenly. SCHLEY CROSS-EXAMINED. rV " ' Under Mot Fire of Court Hero of Santiago Remains Proverbially Cooi and Calm. The cross-examination of Admiral Schley began Monday before the court of inquiry, and hardly more than a third of the ground was covered when j the court adjourned at 4 o'clock. After Admiral Schley concludes two other witnesses will be called in his behalf, Admiral Barker and Captain Thomas Borden. The latter was an ; officer of the marine corps aboard the Brooklyn. The judge advocate then will call his witnesses in rebuttal, of whom there are understood to be more j than fifteen, and it is probable that j Admiral Schley's counsel will call witnesses in surrebuttal. The crowd present Monday, while btfrdly so large as on Friday last when | Admiral Schley told the story of the battle of Santiago, showed unabated interest in the proceedings. Nothing sensational developed, and the only, > ~ outburst in the court occurred when Mr. Raynor, Admiral Schley's counsel,1 objected to a line of inquiry of the Judge advocate designed to criticise Admiral Schley's alleged failure to formulate a plan of battle, with the declaration that as Admiral Sampson i was in command his junior had no rieht to Dlan an order of battle. Admiral Schley concluded his direct examination, which continued only about ten minutes after the court convened for the day, with a statement of the effect of the fire of the respective fleets at Santiago, showing that 86 per cent of the hits suffered by the enemy were scored by the Brooklyn's five-inch guns, while his ship received 70 per cent of the hits from the Spantab ships. * ' NEW KIND OF FERTILIZER. Company Formed to Extract Phosphate From Slag Refuse. The Standard Fertilizer Manufacturing Company, with a capital of $1,000,000. was organized at Birmingham, Ala., Monday. The company's purpose is to manufacture commercial fertilizer from the slag refuse of the furnaces of the district by a process recently invented, it is stated that an excellent phosphate can be made from slag at a cost that will allow a fine margin of profit. ALL ENGLAND IS WORRIED. Rumors Regarding Health of King Edward Are Disquieting. A London special says: ine pertinacity with which society discusses the rumors regarding the health of King Edward has had a serious effect on the court dressmakers, who expected. ere now, to have been busily engaged on the coronation robes, etc. They are keeping large staffs in almost complot* idleness. t ia MEETS DOOM [urderer's Guilty Its Maker. ^OLGOSZ.^ He changed his resolution, however, and did break the rule of silence in the death chamber. Czolgosz rested exceedingly well for a man in the shadow of death. It was 4:45 o'clock before he finally waked up and left his cot His sleep was almost unbroken throughout the night and was restful and refreshing. He did not break his silence when he awoke, nor did he show any indication of falling courage. At a few minutes before 7 the Witnesses were told to quickly follow the warden and state superintendent of prisons, and after walking through the long corridor, took their places silently beside the death chair in the execution room. The iron door leading to the condemned cells were closed, but behind it the warden's assistants were preparing Czolgosz for death. The warden waited uptil the witnesses ^ Tvi n ^ A tho 1VA. were seciieu, auu mcu mauc ual formal declaration that those present in the room were merely there as witnesses to a legal execution of a murderer, and that under no circumstances, no matter what the provocation, no one was to leave his seat or make any disturbance. Electrician Davis then put upon the arms of the chair a bank of twenty-two incandescent electric lamps, and, attaching the electrical wires, passed the current through them so that the lights glowed out brightly. An assistant, in the meantime, put the two electrodes, which were lined with sponges, into pails of salt water, so as to get them wet enough to prevent the current from burning the victim's flesh. SOUTHERN PROGRESS. The New Industries Reported in the South During the Past Week. Among the more important of the new industries reported by the Tradesman for the week ended October 26, are $200,000 boiler works at Louisville, Ky.; a buggy and carriage factory at Henderson, Tenn.; a ?za,uuu canai company at Bay City, Tex.; a $50,000 company at Houston. Texas; a canning factory at Decatur, Ga.; a chair factory at Decatur, Ga.; a church factory at Bowling Green, Ky.; a $500,000 coal mining company atHartford, Ark.; coal mines at Salem, Va.; a $42,000 cotton compress company in Atlanta, Ga.; a cotton gin at Sayersville, Tex.; an electric light and power plant at Rosebud, Texas; a plant for the manufacture of emery wheels at Gaffney, S. C.; a feed and fuel company at Dallas, Texas; flouring mills at Bardwell, Ky.; Manchester, Tenn., and Culpepper, Va.; a $40,000 flour and grist mill company at Memphis, Tenn.; a $50,000 flour spar mining and manufacturing company at Smithland, Ky.; a $25,000 gin and machine works at Memphis, Tenn.; a $50,000 glass factory at Huntington, W. Va.; a grist mill at Edenton, N. C.; a $30,000 ice and cold storage plant at Cameron, Texas; a $100,000 iron, phosphate and railroad company at Louisville, Ky.; a $50,000 kaolin company at Aiken, S. C.; a $100, I uuu land ana came company at f ori j Worth, Texas; a $30,000 lumber com|pany at Boonoville, Ark.; a $10,000 ! planing mill at Neptune, Fla.; a stave and heading factory at Memphis, ;Tenn.: a $10,000 telephone company at Piedmont, W. Va.; a $10,000 telephone | and telegraph company at Nashville, >Tenu.; a wagon factory at Waverly, j Ala., and a $20,000 wagon factory at , Ridgeland, Miss.?Tradesman (Chatta| nooga, Tenn. , | FATHER AND DAUGHTER SHOT i Lawyer Called to Serve a Writ and Was Greeted With Bullets. A dispatch from Meridian, Miss., rej ports the shooting of A. A. Crenshaw, :a Newton county farmer, and his 18| year-old daughter by a lawyer named i Foy, who had called to serve a writ [ j of attachment. The farmer and his j daughter opened fire on the lawyer, and he returned the fire. Crenshaw is | thought to be fatally hurt, but the girl will recover. Foy escaped injury. ^ AUTOMATIC GUN EXPLODES. ^ Six Members cf Artillery Company Are Injured at Fort Leavenworth. i Bv an exnlcsion of Colt's automatic ! 'firing gun at Fort Leavenworth Mon! day Captain Charles T. Menoher and I five men of the Twenty-eighth battery j of artillery were injured. The gun, a ! new one. was being tested and was alI lowed to become too hot, and when a I shell cams into the breech after firing | the sheil exploded. KtNjirvjfsjrsjrsHMfMtNijj l SOUTH CAROLINA I $ STATE NEWS ITEMS. \ CNHNJCNHSirslfSlCNKSlJ New Bludgeon to Be Used. Acting, it is said, on instructions from Senator Tillman, the political opponents of Senator McLaurin are using the Booker Washington dinner at the white house as a means of defeating the growth of the commercial democracy, otherwise known as the white republican movement in South Carolina. The incident has been accepted as a fine morsel by the anti-McLaurin faction, and the campaign from this time on will ring with the charge that the commercial democracy will stand for social equality of the races. * * * Baltimore Company Secures Options. Tire Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company of Baltimore has secured options on the Charleston Water^rks Company and several thousand acres of land at Ten Mile Hill, and will undertake to finance a scheme by which the city will be supplied with a new water system. Negotiations have been pending for several weeks, and a day or two ago the principal owners of the waterworks signed an option good for ninety days. The water sources at Ten Mile Hill have been examined very carefully, and the most thorough investigation will be had before the Baltimore company takes actual control of the property. ? * * Accusers Sued For Damage. J. T. Fuller, formerly a paymaster at the Bradley fertilizer works, who was acquitted at the last term of the general sessions court on a charge of having misappropriated funds belonging to the company, has entered suit against the Bradleys and C. C. Clark, their agent, for $40,000 damages, alleged to be due on account of his humiliation and disgrace. The suit is one of the heaviest of the kind ever filed in Charleston. The fact of Fuller's arrest, his effort to secure bail and his subsequent acquittal of the charge, which all along be had declared was false, were given in the bill of complaint. Fuller was charged with "having feloniously and fraudulently appropriated ana misplaced for his own use certain funds" alleged to have been the property of the Bradieys. The case was tried at the June term of court and the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. * * Judge Benet to Retire. The formal announcement a lay or two ago that Judge W. C. Benet, of the first judicial circuit, would retire from the bench at the end of his term, has caused" talk and speculation in political circles. Several candidates had entered the field and the election in January was expected to have been hotly contested, as long as Judge Benet remained in the race. His withdrawal, however, will change the situation. Judge Benet has informed his friends that he will give his time hereafter to the practice of his profession. There is a feeling, however, that he will be put on the supreme bench or else be made president of one of the state colleges. On the bench he was considered one of the most, if not the most, learned judge in the state, and his fine talents will be the means of sending * ' - ? ? ?AnoMi'An A k 5 nrVt mm 10 a posiutm wmcu camco a uiftiier honor and more distinction. * * * Back Taxes Held Up. The temporary injunction recently issued in the United States circuit court restraining the state of Soutu Carolina from collecting back taxes from the Cheraw and Darlington railroad. now the property of the Atlantic Coast Line, has been delayed by the inability of Circuit Judge Simonton to hear the case. In some of the former litigation involving the same question the firm with which Judge Simonton was associated figured in the proceedings. and because of this fact he has ordered the case transferred to another judge. There is about $30,000 involved, and the Atlantic Coast Line railroad company alleges that the attempt of the state to collect the taxes is in violation of the mandate of the United States supreme court, which held that the Cheraw and Darlington company was exempt from all taxes under a special statute. ? ? 0 Rights of Constables Defined. The right of state liquor constables to search a man's business establishment for contraband goods will be determined in the court of common pleas at Charleston in the suit brought by E. T. Heriot against four members of the state constabulary. Some time ago a warrant was issued by Magistrate Lew allowing the constables the right to search Mr. Heriot's store. They | seized a keg of wine valued at $7.50, which Heriot claimed was for his own personal use. As a result of this raid Heriot filed suit for $500 damages, claiming that his business was injured by reason of the false advertising. The answer to the suit which has been filed by Attorney General Bellinger states that the raid was made in accordance with a warrant issued by a Charleston magistrate. * * * Causes Political Stir. The appointment of George R. Koester as collector of internal revenue for the district of South Carolina has stirred up a veritable political hornet's nest here. Republican leaders are jgrought up over the matter, and they areawyearing all kinds of vengeance Senator McLaurin and the ad ministrative influences which accomplished the humiliation of their party and some of its most worthy members. They declare that they had accepted in good faith President Roosevelt's assertion that he would only resort to the ranks of gold democracy for appointees when the republican timber presented was not available. Their contention in the present Instance is that he bag turned down, men of his own party who have the regard and confidence cf democrats as well as republicans In order to prefer a man who has changed his principles a lia ? ccore of times within the decade, and >vho is without serious consideration in any faction or following. ? * Clear Field For Sports. W. Brooks Harley, who has secured the racing and sporting privileges for , the Charleston exposition, has return- J ed from a trip through the west to get horses for the exposition races. Harley says he met with wonderful success, and he will have' more horses than room at the track. Already his J books show 400 runners and trotters entered. The aggregate amount of the J purse money is $185,000. Harley and his associates have iue exclusive privi ? leges, ana every game wm uc ?ec iui ui for those who wish to seek big fortunes on small investments. There will be no fear of trouble from the authorities, as the privilege granted the syndicate by the exposition company carries with it the right to sell pools and operate the tables. *> * ? Battleship Wanted For Exhibit. The South Carolina congressional delegation has applied to Secretary Long for the detail of one or more battleships or other naval vessels to Charleston during the progress of the coming exposition in that city. It is probable-that the request will be complied with by the selection of some vessels from the North Atlantic squadron. * Colored Paper Criticises Roosevelt. A sensation was created among the negroes in Charleston by the publication of an editorial in The Charleston Messenger, the leading negro newspaper of the state, in which Booker T. Washington was severely criticised and blamed for having accepted an invitation to dine with President Roosevelt. The Messenger admits t-hflf tho inridpnt was Droductive of harm. The editorial is significant, representing, as it does, the advanced thought of the negroes of Charleston, although to a very large army of blacks it has been displeasing. Among other things, The Messenger says: "The harm that has been accomplished springs from the race prejudice and political animosities which have been excited. The public feeling of the south toward the negro was never better than it has been wuhin the last two or three years, and it may be remarked in passing that Washington himself has been a conspicuous instrument in the development of this condition of things. He had been accepted by the white people, no less than oy the negroes, as the chief exponent of the relationship which should exist between the two races at the present time. It Is questionable wnetner xne Injury done his influence with the whites of the south by the white house dinner will not overbalance any credit that he may have acquired from it for himself and with his own people. ! "We honor President Roosevelt for the personal liberality of thought and high sense of public duty which actuated him in issuing the invitation to Washington. Had Washington declined to accept it, because of the strife the acceptance of it would arouse; because of his willingness to accept the hospitality which might prove Injurious to his host; because a self-respecting negro man, as any other gentleman, should be willing cO go where he is admitted purely upon sufferance?if, we say, Washington had declined to accept the president's invitation because of these things, he would have achieved for himself sud for his race a victory in public opinion beside which the present notoriety being given him would have been but a small and inconsiderable thing. "In the face; of the bitter animosity with which the white people, north and south, east and west, regard the question of social intercourse, it is degrading to the negro to insist upon it. It would be the better part if we, too, would stand aloof until time and our own achievements shall have rectified the conditions of which we are the victims. This is a part of men and gentlemen. and we wish to see the negro prove himself to be both." TROOPS FOR PHILIPPINES. Plan Is Formulated For Replacing Soldiers Whose Enlistment Expires. The war department has formulated a plan to replace troops now in the Philippines with others to he sent from the United States. The Seventh, Thirteenth, Seventeenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first. Twenty-second and Twenty-third infantry will be withdrawn from the islands and replaced by the Eieventh, Twelfth and Fifteenth cavalry and Twenty-seventh, Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth in * 1 J. - J A- IV fantry, all Deing recruuaa mj kumi maximum strength. FOOTBALL GAME ENDS IN RIOT. Five Men Severely Beaten and Fourteen Receive Painful Bruises. Fourteen men painfuly bruised and five seriously beaten Is the score of a football game in McKinney, Texas. Friday. Two of the players got into a dispute that developc-d into a fight. Others joined In the affair and the fight became general. Twenty-two men were soon involved in a fist fight. Bystandin affair with clubs, and CIO JV1UVU .. , several men were frightfully beaten. Police and deputies rushed in and after Bomo time succeeded in quelling the riot. Both teams were arrested. Captors Get Munificent Sum. Jim Morgan, for whose apprehension there is a reward of $3,500 offered, was arrested at Tusla, Indian Territory, Friday. He is an escaped convict from the Texas penitentiary. Carnegie's Offer to Porto Rico. Andrew Carnegie has written to Martin G. Brumbaugh, commissioner of education of Porto Rico, offering $100,000 for the erection of a public library at San Juan, EXPRESS MESSENGER UNAFRAID Despite Guns and Dynamite He Successfully Holds at Bay a Robber Gang. The northbound Southern Pacific overland express, due at Eugene, Oregon, at 3:42 a. ra. Wednesday, was held up by robbers near Walker's station, 15 miles south of Eugene, at 3 o'clock, and the express car badly damaged, but the robbers secured little booty. Two men boarded the train at Cottage Grove as the train pulled out. After passing Walkers, which is four miles from Cottage Grove, they climbed over the tender and covered Engineer Jack Nichols and the fire man and his helper with revolvers. The robbers ordered the train stopped, after which the fireman and helpers were compelled to uncouple the train between the express car and the first coach. Engineer Nichols was then ordered to pull ahead, the fireman and helper being left behind. After going a short distance the train was stopped and the rolbbers proceeded to the express car, taking with them the engineer.. The express car was blown open with dynamite and Express Messenger C. Charles was ordered out, but refused to go, and with his shotgun commanded the situation inside the car. The robbers told him to come out or he would be blown up with the car, but he replied, "Blow ahead." A fusilade of bullets followed, riddling the car, but the messenger, who was uninjured, kept up a continuous firing inside which held the robbers at bay. A charge of dynamite was then thrown into the car with a burning ruse. Charles grabbed it and threw it outside, where it exploded. Next the robbers compelled the engineer to crawl up to the opening inside the car, hoping to use him as a protection from the messenger's shots, but the messenger kept up a steady fire over the engineer's head and still held the robbers at bay. The robbers then gave up their efforts to secure the express treasure and went for the mail. They secured the registered mail, then cut the engine from the rest of the train and ordered Engineer Nichols to pull ahead. They ran to Judkins Point, in the outskirts of Eugene, where they disembarked and ordered the engineer to return and get his train. The train arrived at Eugene about four hours late. The news was wired from Saginaw and officers were at once sent out in search of the robbers. WHIRLWIND OF APPLAUSh Breaks Loose In Court Room Over Testimony of Photographer Hill. During the session of the Schley inquiry court Wednesday a mighty shout of applause swept the room as the courage and wisdom of Admiral Schley was portrayed in the testimony of Witness Hill, a photographer on the Brooklyn. Admiral Dewey's gavel fell again and again in vain attempts to silence the shouting audience. A n/? Hmo Hiirirur thp SPSRion 3 X*. O^WUU v*MA v..v ~ ? ? burst oi! applause greeted the witness' testimony. "Stop! Stop!" shouted Admiral Dewey to the cheering spectators. "Just give the tacts," he cautioned the witness. "What I am swearing is the truth,'* the witness replied. PREJUDICE DONT COUNT. Members of American Missionary Association Still Rapping the South. At Wednesday's meeting of the American Missionary Association, Rev, Frank S. Fitch, of Buffaio, made the report upon the southern missionary work. He declared that the church in the south labored under great difficulties because of political disturbances In that section. Rev. Woodbury made reference tc the invitation extended to Booker T Washing,'ton. He said: "The association is independent In reference to southern prejudces. First last, all the time, it has stood for free dom and equal rights." Britain Buying Our Flour. Almcst 75,000 bags of flour has jus1 been shipped to South Africa by pro duce exchange brokers of New Yorfe for the British army. POLITICS JUMBLED IN OHIO. Democrats Say Republicans Are Tak ing Refuge Behind McKinley Tomb. Thp. npouliar situation is presented in Ohio of the two parties not only dif feriug on issues, but also as to whal are the issues. At the republican open ing at Delaware last Saturday none oi the five speakers referred to state is sues. At the democratic opening ol the campaign at Eucyrus Wednesday state issues were paramount in all the speeches of the afternoon and at the night meeting. Nearly all the speak ers denounced what they called "firinf from behind the tomb of McKinley." IRISHMEN ARE EN ROUTE. Nationalist Members of Parliament Be gin Trip to the United States. Messrs. John E. Redmond, Patrick A. McHugh and Thomas O'Donnell, the nationalist members of parliament who are to visit the United States in behalf of the Irish cause, sailed from Queensown for New York Thursday morning on the steamer Majestic, They were given a great send-off. FEARFUL TRAGEDY IN JVIINE. Five T/lcn Killed and Nine Hurt By an Explosion of Gas. A special from Wilkesbarre, Pa., says: A terrific explosion of gas in the Buttonwood mines Friday after noon caused the death of five men and the injury of nine others. The killed are: Ebenezer Wiliiams first assistant foreman; Comer Wil liams, second assistant foreman; Thomas Gust, company hand; Thoma? Price, track layer; W. 9. Phillips, in Rpector. ? 11 A BLOODY RACE RIOT i r Nine Negroes and Three White Men Die in Fierce Battle. 1 RESULT OF BURNING OF RAPIST 1 1 Collision Occurred at Balltown, Louis- , iana, Near Locality Where Bill Morris Was Cremated ( Some Uays Ago. a A New Orleans special says: Se- 1 rious trouble oetween whites and ne- , groes occurred at a negro camp meet- ( ing at Live Oak church, near Balltown, '< La., Sunday, in which nine negroes ' were burned or shot to death and three | white men killed. The scene of the riot was very near the place where Bill Morris, a negro, was burned to death by a mob several days ago. Considerable race bitterness bas existed there in consequence and it probabl} played a prominent part in the day's trouble. At 3 o'clock Monday morning a posse left Franklinton for the scene in charge of Sheriff Simmons and from all over the country armed men were hurrying to the same place. Tne origin of the trouble, as near as can be ascertained, was as follows: Crea Lott, a negro, was running a refreshment stand, and a constable, a white man, went to him and asked for his license. He had none and became impudent cursed the constable and defied him. The constable withdrew and obtained assistance. He returned with several white men when the negro Lott rushed out and fired point blank into the crowd .killing Joe Seals and Charles Elliott. The whites returned the fire and killed Lott The a negro preacher, named Connelly, rushed out of a house, gun in hand and attempted to shoot, when he was killed. His daughter also was killed, it is said, accidentally. In the shooting which followed another white man was killed and E. H. Thompson wounded and seven or eight negroes killed. Many claim that the shooting .had no direct connection with the burning of Morris, but it is understood to ho a spnnel to that traeic event. Since that time it is reported that the negroes have been holding nightly meetings, preparing to attack the whites. On the other hand, it is alleged that ^the negroes gathered in the church had held a meeting there at which they denounced the members of their race who touched off the pile of fagots that burned Bill Morris to death and had sworn to have revenge on him. This letter story is probably the correct one, for when the constable and the posse rode up the negroes who were congregated in and around the church opened fire on them from ambush and from two or three different directions. Balltown is about 20 miles from Frankliriton, in a sparsely settled section. It is isolated and almost entirely cut off from the outside world. Frank-" linton is 27 miles east of Amite City and there are no telegraph or telephone lines. GEN. MILES MAKES REPORT. Present Strength of Army 84,513. Avers Canteen Law is Beneficial. Lieutenant General Miles, in his annual report 'ust made public, gives , the total strength of the army at the present time at 84,513, of which num, ber 33,874 are in the United States, 43,239 in the Philippines, 4,914 in Cuba and the remainder in small detachments, being in Porto Rico, Hawaii, China and Alaska. He says it is expected that the force in Cuba will be , very much reduced and hopes that the force in the Philippines can also be re duced. General Miles does not approve of the present organization of the artil| lery corps, saying that it establishes another bureau in Washington. H6 believes in the former regimental organization. Speaking of the army . canteen, which is abolished by the army reorganization law, he says that no injury has resulted, and in the main the law has been beneficial. PARSON FIRED FOR ARSON. Tennessee Methodist Conference Expels Brother For Alleged Crime. The Tennessee conference in sesI sion at Pulaski has expelled Rev. B. I A. Cherry from the ministry and mem t bership of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Rev. Cherry was charg ed with fraudulently collecting insur' ance on personal property in the de' struction of which he is alleged to ' have been a co-incendiary. The report * was signed by all the members of the ! trial committee. Counsel for Rev. " Cherry immediately gave notice of an ' appeal to the general conference. FOUR SUFFOCATED IN MINE. Fresh Air Pumping Machinery Failed to Do Its Work. Three men lost their lives in the Holy Terror mine at Keystone, South , Dakota, Tuesday night from foul air. , The dead are Lew Crouther, Andrew i Miller and Peter ponian. wuu lwu | i other miners ttey had been lowered | to the 1,200 foot level and the machinery failed to work. PREHISTORIC QUADRUPED HOUND Giant Remains of Brontasauer Discov< ered In Southern Wyoming. C. W. Oddmore, in the employ of i the Carnegie museum of Pittsburg. ' has discovered near Medicine Bow, SO i { j miles west of Laramie, Wyoming, the | almost complete fossil remains or an 1 [ j immense brontosauer, a very rare spe : eimen and one of the largest ever ! ' found in the southern Wyoming field. The remains will be unearthed and sent to Pittsburg. * " * * IAVISHER GREASED AND FIRED. [ /lob at Balltown, Louisiana, Bums at the Stake the Black Assailant of a White Woman. J A Columbia, Miss., dispatch says: The negro, Bill Morris, who commited the outrage on Mrs. John Ball at Salltown, La., was burned at the stake S Thursday. After being captured he nade an effort to implicate others, but hey soon proved their innocence. ^ He was carried to the scene of his Time and there tied to a pine sapling vith chains and his hands and feet chained to his body. Pine knots and sine straw were piled about the body ind saturated with coal oil and the .vhole set on fire. The negro made no lutcry when the flames reached him a md only when partially consumed did fi the spectators notice any movement on D [lis part. He made no resistance when being bound to the stake and said that be deserved his fate. * Mrs. Ball, who conducts a store, was ?-- 5 x- x~ wVinn Vi a n tn V) ? wailing ULL tilt: UC51U nu^u uv c her by the throat, dragged her off ^ down a hill and accomplished his pur- r pose. After that he beat her in the head with a pine knot and thought he * had killed her. Going back to the stcre, he collected all the change that was in the cash 1 drawer and had presence of mind enough to put coal oil on his feet when leaving the store. Mrs. Ball, however, recovered con- 1 sciousness and crawled to the nearby ' home of her father-in-law. He at once ' gave the alarm and the neighborhood ' gathered and commenced a search for the negro. He was found at his home about four miles from the scene of the tragedy and at once ran off, when he was shot at by one of the posse and wounded in the hip. Later on he wa6 captured in Mississippi. DEFENDED HOME AND HONOR. Wronged Husband Makes Quick Work With Wife's Illicit Lover. Jesse A. Wall, a switchman for the Southern railroad, was shot to death in Atlanta, Ga., Wednesday afternoon by Robert A. Keith, who runs a market at No. 94 Decatur street. The tragedy occurred at No. 26 Jones avenue, directly opposite the Jones avenue Baptist church, in the house where Wall was boarding. The killing was the result of an alleged intimacy between Wall and Mrs. Keith. Mrs. Schlapbach, the mnther nf Mrs. Keith, was present and identified Wall before the shooting took place, as Keith did not know Wall by sight. Immediately after the shooting Keith surrendered himself to the police and was locked up at the police barracks. An hour later Mrs. Schlapbach was locked up as an accessory to the killing. Attorney Burton Smith was retained to defend Keith, and he did so with the statement that he only took charge of a criminal case because he felt that Keith should have proper consideration, as he had struck a blow for the defense of his home and his honor. MACON ENTERTAINS VETS. Georgia Heroes Had the Right of Way in Central City. Macon, Ga., entertained more than 5,000 confederate veterans Wednesday and Thursday, the occasion being the annual reunion of the Georgia division. United Confederate Veterans. There were in the neighborhood of 10,000 visitors to the Elks' fair, in addition to the visiting soiaiers, out the old veterans had the right of way at all points and at all times. General Clement A. Evans delivered his annual address Thursday. The auditorium, or that which passed for an auditorium?the market house?was filled with 4,000 veterans. The streets were packed outside and many did not try to get about the place, knowing the incapacity of the building to hold them. General Evans had been unanimously and most enthusiastically re-elected commander of the division, and the compliment that had been paid him caused him to rise to a very high pitch of eloquence and to show deep feeling in his speech. He paid a glowing tribute to the south's cause, for which her soldiers fought so valiantly during the war. SPANISH TITLES KNOCKED OUT. Don, Senor, Senora and Senorita Blacklisted In Philippines. General Wade has issued a circular in southern Luzon, doing away with Spanish titles of "don, senor, senora and senorita" and gives for those appellations the American equivalent of Mr.. Mrs. and Miss. Chaffee Asks For Recruits. A cablegram has been received from General Chaffee at the war department asking that six hundred recruits be sent at once to Manila to fill vacancies in several regiments. LEGISLATOR DIES SUDDENLY. Hon. Porter King, of Atlanta, Succumbs to Stroke of Apoplexy. Hon. Porter King, one of the most prominent attorneys in Atlanta, Ga., and a member of the present general ( assembly of Georgia from Fulton county, died suddenly Thursday night of apoplexy at his home, 79 East Merrits avenue. UNIVERSAL MOURNING IN CUBA. I r..n.pai Wood Savs Islanders Deeply Fee! Death of President McKinley. General Wood, who arrived in Washington Wednesday, said he had never ! seen such universal mourning as was I shown in Cuba for the death of Mr. i McKinley, and that its extent and sincerity showed how deeply the Cubans felt It. General Wood states that important business with the secretary of war brought him here, and that he would probably return in about a weeU. WfcKS LUSfchAUAIN ary at Georgetown, Kentacky, jg Renders Verdict of Guilty. ^ 'if ECOND LIFE SENTENCE GIVEN || lot! >n For a New Trial Overruled and Ca^ Will Be Appealed?Prisoner Sat Unmoved When Verdict Was Read. At Georgetown, Ky., Saturday exlecretary of State Caleb Powers was gain convicted of being accessory beore the fact to the murder of Gover- ;*|| lor William Goebel in January, 1900, -?jg| ,nd for the second time has been sen- s'M enced to imprisonment for life. fT,t-- --??- * huran Actnhor ft xuo eotuuu uiu uv^uu vvwvw. ^ md has continued with three sessions .M tally, court adjourning late at night. ;:J9 rhe present term expired Saturday ,J|h light Arguments were limited so that 4% he case went to the jury at 2 o'clock n the afternoon and a verdiet of guilty stfe! joon followed. Powers sat pale and motionless ijp when the verdict was announced by "& the foreman, B. S. Valvert his old , schoolmate. Opposite Powers* on the other side of the court room with the attorneys, sat Arthur Goebel, brother of the late governor, with his eyes fixed on the prisoner. The attorneys-^w^ of Powers shook his hand, expressing aloud their belief of his innocence* ^ Women crowded around Powers, embracing and kissing him, and tears were shed. The defense having filed a motion for a new trial, Judge Cantrill, at 4:80 / p. m., heard arguments on the same. "v|| The jury was out only 50 minutes. '> Then a motion for a new trial was overruled, and the case will be ap- -y* pealed. The sentence was read and . judgment suspended pending the de- *|||j cislon of the higher tribunal. Powers -*M was taken to Frankfort ca an evening train and committed to jail without At 6 o'clock Friday morning a special train on the Kentucky Midland :M railroad took the Jury trying Powers to view the scene of the murder. The /*jury was accompanied by Caleb Pow- ; ers and two of his counsel, John JJOUgias ana r. oiucmu , %> uu^o w?w- - ' 33^b trill, Commonwealth's Attorney Frar^ lin and Messrs. Hendrick, Williams and Golden, representing the state, " .J and four deputy sheriffs. On their return Judge Cantrill charged the jury. Arguments were then begun. MINERS AMBUSH OFFICERS. Secret Service Man Foully Assassin* # ated Near Hopkinsvilie, Ky. The mining troubles which hare agitated Kentucky for months have culminated in a foul assassination. Early Saturday morning John Fields, a guard at the Empire mines, near Hopkinsvilie, was fired upon Dy eight or ten men in ambush. Fields lay flat on Jg the ground with bullets whistling over him and returned the fire. Other' * guards came up and beat the intruders off. A posse' started in pursit Rob- ' ert H. Coffey, a detective, was in charge of the party. When some distance from the mines he was fired on from behind, his body being riddled with bullets. He was dead when pick- \ ed up. The assassins escaped. ^g|S| GEN CASTRO'S FORCES ROUTED. ^ Bloody Battle Goes Against the Vend- v>J zuelan Government. ^ '*s A dispatch from San Juan, Porto Rico says: Munex Tebar, a Venezue- "-'j* lan revolutionary aspirant for the presidency, has received a cable dis- /~Js patch reporting the complete routing " /-% of General Castro's forces at Maturin, state of Bermundez, after a six hours' fight, with heavy losses on both sides. Castro's forces, according to this dis- /J# patch, withdrew, leaving the insurgents in possession of the city and vicinity. The revolutionists are said to t"'" the jreneral command ing the government forces, a number of other prisoners and a quantity of ammunition. NEW COMPRESS COMPANY. Petitions For Charter of Incorporation ^ at Atlanta, Georgia. A petition for a charter for the Capi< tal Compress Company has been filed ' in the office of the superior court at Atlanta. The incorporators of the ?- -gs concern are James Swann, Jbhn W. Sanders, Inman H. Sanders, Frank H, Inman and J. S. Akers, composing the ^Jjja firm of Sanders, Swann & Co., and W. H. Beatty. The capital stock is placed at $42,000, it being stated that _ * more than ten per cent has already been paid. The privilege is asked to increase the amount to not more than - i Jj $100,000. "HOP" ORDER RESCINDED. _ Fair Applicants For Postoffice Clerk* ships Get Concession. The civil service commission at Washington notified the postmaster general Friday that it had modified its regulations in accordance with his request to waive physical requirements of female applicants for positions as postoffice clerks, including that making them hop 1 foot for a distance of 12 feet. DRY DOCK IN STRETCH. Bulky Floater Is Well on the Way to Algiers, Louisiana. Rear Admiral Endicott, chief of the bureau of yards and docks at Washington, has been informed by the Maryland Steel Company that the big floating dry dock built by that company, which is now on its way down to the naval station at Algiers, La., was reported several hundred miles off Savannah, Ga., on the 21st instant lit good condition.