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CONVICTS IN MUTINY
Inmates of Leavenworth Prison
Battle With the Guards.
DESPERATE RUSH FOR LIBERTY
Two of the Prisoners Had Revolvers
which Were Freeiy Used?Twenty-Six
Succeed In Breaking
From Stockade.
A special from Leavenworth, Kans.:
6ays: One man was killed, three others
dangerously wounded and twentysix
desperate convicts are at large as
a result of a mutiny late Thursday afternoon
at the site of the new United
States prison, two miles southeast of
the city, where 400 prisoners from the
federal prison, in charge of thirty
armed guards, were at work.
When the trouble began the rebellious
prisoners had only two revolvers.
These had been secreted in one of the
walls of the building by some unknown
person. Gus Parker, of Ardmore, Ind.
T., one of the ring leaders of the mutiny,
under pretense of a necessity,
walked to the corner of the stockade,
where the revolvers wereconceaied and
under the cover of some weeds secured
them without being detected. He returned
to the gang and passed one of
the revolvers to Frank Thompson, a
negro, who secreted it about his person.
When T. E. Hinds, superintendent
of construction, and three unarmed
guards prepared to round up the
men at the end of the day's work, the
two armed convicts covered them with
rpvnlvArs anH pnrrmrao'r .1 hv tha r?fh
er mutinous convicts, forced the men
to walk before them to the northwestern
corner of the hign wooden stockade,
where they expected to make a
rush through an opening. On the outside
of the stockade was an armed
guard, and the convicts were met at
the opening by C. E. Burrows, who
fought them back, but who received
two shots in the neck. The convicts
then rushed over to the south wall to
another opening and were met by Arthur
Treelford, an armed guard, who
is in charge of all the convicts. Treelford
resisted the convicts and was shot
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twice, but not dangerousjy wounded.
Defeated ^n their attempt to escape
at this point, the men rushed to the
guard house, a temporary frame structure,
where the arms were kept. The
guards from the outside rushed in at
this point and drove the convicts away
from the guard house. J. P. Waldrupe,
a guard, shot and killed Ford Quinn,
from Ryan, Ind. T. The prisoners then
made a grand rush for the main entrance
and twenty-six of them succeeded
in escaping.
? ac tuuvit ta, ILL IUCU LLI&UL, LUUIpelled
F. E. Hinds, superintendent of
construction, to go with them and he
was not allowed to return until they
had gone almost two miles into a forest
W. F. Peaslee, one of the fugitives,
who has only fifteen months
more to serve, deserted the band a few
moments after Superintendent Hinds
was released. The two men reachd
Leavenworth almost at the same time.
They reported that the fugitives, after
holding a consultation, decided they
would form into several parties, so
that some might escape, though others
should be captured.
Twenty-four members of the Fourth
cavalry hastened to the scene of the
trouble, but when they arrived the convicts
had escaped* and the soldiers
could not participate in the chase wLtout
orders from their superiors.
However, forty armed guards from
ho forlorn 1 nricnr ctapfarl in mipjrit
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of the fugitives.
The wounded men are in the prison
hospital. - J. B. Waldrupe, who was
shot in the head and neck, is in a precarious
condition.
Smallpox Patients Rescued.
Tracy Home, a hospital at Des
Moines in which fifteen smallpox patients
were quarantined, was badly
damaged by fire Thursday. The inmates
were rescued, the firemen and
police risking exposure to the contagion.
MARY MAY LOSE PENSION.
Old Woman of the Bifurcated Attire
Talked Too Much.
Pension Commissioner Evans is investigating
utterances attributed to
Dr. Mary Walker, the ex-army nurse,
who has worn masculine attire in recent
years, and who is alleged to have
called the execution of Czolgosz, the
Ifltp President. McKinlev's assassin, a
murder and the late president himself
a murdered on account of his policy
in the Philippines. The commissioner
explains that he has no authority to
revoke the woman's pension, but that
congress could do so if it desired.
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ATLANTA THEATRE BURNS.
Took Fire While Play Was In Progress
and Reduced to Ashes.
While a matinee was in progress
at the Lyceum theatre in Atlanta Wednesday
afternoon, the building was destroyed
by fire and only the brick
walls and a score of orchestra circle
seats that escaped the fury of the
flames remain to mark the place of the
once popular play homse. There were
no casualties.
Carter Case Advanced.
The United States supreme court
Monday advanced the habeas corpus
case of Captain Oberlin M. Carter on
its docket, and announced that it
would be beard of the 2d of December
next.
Death Sentence For Robbery.
Will Dorsey, a negro, has been sentenced
in Birmingham. Ala., to hang i
for the offense of robbery. This is the j
first time the death sentence has ever j
been passed in the state for this crime, 1
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?aid Fire Department For Greenville.
Greenville has at last decided to establish
a paid fire department in place
>f the volunteer department which has
jerved the city for a number of years.
At the last meeting of the city council
preliminary arrangements for the esablishment
of a paid department were
made, and Riley J. Rowley was electd
chief.
Some time ago Chief W. R. Joyner,
f 'Atlanta, Ga., was In Greenville on
he invitation of the city council, and
vhile there he offered to instruct the
-hief if a paid department was put in.
This invitation was received b\ the
ireenville council with great appre.iation,
and it is largely on this account
that the measure providing for
\ Daid department met with success.
For some time there has been great
iissatisfaction with the fire situation
it Greenville. While the volunteer
lepartment rendered valiant service,
itill they were not always on hand
vhen most needed, and the town has
suffered from some large and destruc.ive
conflagrations. The fire insurance
ompanies have particularly uiged the
stab-lishment of a paid department.
Many of them have withdrawn from
he town and rates have been raised to
a high degree pending the putting in of
the paid department.
The excellent record of Atlanta's fire
department caused the council of
Greenville to invite Chief Joyner to a
conference, and as a result of his advice
they have voted to establish the
paid department.
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New Company Organized.
The Anderson Phosphate and Oil
Company has been organized with a
capital of $600,000, which ma. be increased
to $800,000. Some Richmond,
V'a., capital is in the venture, but it is
practically owned by Anderson men.
Its purpose is to manuacture and sell
fertilizers and cotton seed products
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una Will IU tilt; CAlCUl <Ji iw auuiv;
fight the Virginia-Carolina Company.
The company acquires control of and
-A-ill immediately take possession of
the Anderson Fertilizer Company and
eight or ten cotton seed oil mills in
that section cf the state. Frederick G.
Brown, one of the richest men in that
part of the state will be the president
cf this new concern. He is experienced
in this line.
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A Train On Fire.
The following is from The Columbia
State:
There was a very unusual call for
the Columbia fire department last evening
about 7 o'clock. Indeed, it was
the first time such a call had ever been
made. The Seaboard's fast mail train
from Savannah came in with the mail
and baggage cars on fire. It seems that
a lamp exploded in the mail car as the
train was coming into Columbia. At
firr* rtronr thfllltrhl t V> OV f>rml r? f>nn.
trol the fire, but it rapidly got beyond
their control, and when the Gervais
street crossing was reached the interior
of both the mail and baggage cars
was blazing. A stop was made at the
crossing and alarm of fire was sent in
from the box near by. One of the engines
from the fire department was
quickly on hand and extinguished the
flames. The train then went on to the
depot The damage was very slight.
The passengers were frightened, but,
of course, none of them were hurt in
any way.
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Opinion In Lamson Case.
In an opinion handed down by the
United States circuit court of appeals
at Richmond the decision of District
Judge Brawley, dismissing the libel in
the celebrated case of Daniel H. Lamson,
late master of the schooner Fanny
Brown, against the schooner Margaret
B. Roper, Is affirmed. With this decision
one of the most important cases
ever heard in the admirality court in
Charleston is finally settled. The Fannie
Brown was sunk in a collision
with the Margaret B. Roper, 25 miles
northwest of Cape Hateras, on the
night of December 26, 1899. The
Brown and cargo, valued at $26,000,
was a total loss, and the crew was sav
ed by the Roper.
Action for damages was filed in
the district court in Charleston and
litigation extended over a period of
months. A mass of testimony was presented
to the court and this was about
as contradictory as it was possible to
have.
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Dr. Woodrow Vindicated.
A Charleston dispatch says: The
election of Dr. James Woodrow. formerly
president of the South Carolina
college, as moderator of the Presbyterian
synod of South Carolina, was perhaps
the most noteworthy event in the
history of that organization. Because
of his belief in evolution some years
ago. Dr. Woodrow, who was then a
professor in the Theological seminary
in Columbia, was called before the
board of trustees, and after a series of
religious wrangles the trouble ran the
gamut of all Presbyterian bodies, final
ly reaching the general assembly,
where there was a compromise and
the matter seemed to have quieted
down.
When Dr. Woodrow's name was presented
to the synod in Charleston, it
met with his unanimous election. In
accepting the office he said that he
looked upon the incident as a vindication
of his orthodoxy, and his election
will do more than anything else to settle
a wrangle which has long disturbed
the Presbyterian faith. While Dr.
Wood row did not preach evolution, he
said theat there was a strong possibility
that the Darwin theory was correct.
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Local Company Gets Privilege.
Charles F. Levy & Co. a local syndicate,
has been granted the exclusive I
racing privileges at the exposition
grounds at Charleston, and arrange- '
raents are now being made whereby
high-class sport may be provided. The j
syndicate paid $47,500 for the privllege,
and has signed a $10,000 bond. !
The forfeit money has already been j
filed. It is said that some of the j
sporting people who had been associated
with Brooks Harley, whose contract
was not carried out, will assist
Levy & Co., and the horses heretofore
booked for Charleston will be on hand
according to promise. Big purses will
be offered. The exposition company
has agreed to erect all suitable buildings
and grandstands, and work on
this part of the track is being pushed
forward very rapidly. It is the intention
of the company to make the races
one of the good daily features at the
grounds.
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Heroic Statue Withdrawn.
On account of the bitter opposition
raised by negroes of Charleston it has
been decided to withdraw Sculptor Lo
pez's heroic sized group 01 ngures typifying
negro life in the south. The contention
of the negroes was that the
group represented their race in menial
guise and disregarded the more progressive
and enlightened elements of
the race.
The group was placed in front of the
negro building at the exposition several
weeks ago. It had only been in
position a few days when objections
were raised and complaints were at
once lodged with the commissioners
by the negroes of Charleston. Fault
was found with the face of-the negro
boy picking a banjo and the face of the
negro plowman.
The negro commissioners wro-:e to
Chairman Booker T. Washington, and
he immediately took the matter up
with the board of directors, asking
that the group be taken away because
of the serious objections to the figures.
It may be used upon the grounds, but
this has not been determined upon as
yet
Field Agent T. J. Jackson, for the
negro department, said, in speaking
about the group, that it did not represent
the race, as it was characteristic
only of the very lowest types of negroes.
He said if the figures had represented
progress in his race no objections
would have been raised in the
matter.
"The exhibits to be displayed in the
negro building," he said, "will show
the advancement of the colored race
and, this being the case, it is perfectly
natural that the colored people should
want a group, if any at all, in keeping
with the exhibits in the building."
It is not known If another group j
will be made to take the place of the
present one.
RECEIVER HAS PROPERTY.
Possessions of Convict Carter Being
Turned Over Pending Settlement.
Another step to further proceedings
by the government against the property
of Oberlin M. Carter was taken
in the United States circuit court at
Chicago Monday. Attorney Horace G.
Stone representing the convicted army
officer and his relatites, carried out
part of the agreement recently signed
by turning over about $71,000 worth
o! property to Receiver Max Whitney,
pending a settlement. This makes the
$i0\000. Another portion is still to
be transferred to the receiver, and this
will bring the total to almost $500,000.
GORE SPILLED IN KENTUCKY.
Two Men Killed and Two Fatally
Wounded in Election Brawls.
Election brawls caused two deaths
and two probably fatal woundings at.
Moorehead, Ky. Tuesday William Mornig
shot and killed David Jones who
had himself been acquitted of murder
only three days before. John Shumate
and Tilden Hogge became involved
in a difficulty with George
Unctrp ami his three sons. Ray. Tilden
and Charley. George and Tilden Hogge
are badly wounded; Charley Hogge Is
dead and Ray Hogge and John Shumate
are reported dying.
FORMER FOES FRATERNIZE.
Officials of Rival Street Railways In
Atlanta Dine Together.
The magnates of Atlanta's erstwhile
rival street railway companies met
around the board Thursday night at1
an elegant dinner tendered them by
President Ernest Woodruff, of the Atlanta
Railway and Power Company.
This is the first time these gentlemen
have ever met at a social function,
and the occasion was one of interesting
significance, showing the friendly
relation now existing between those
who only a short while ago were the
bitterest of financial foes.
SIX SOLDIERS DROWNED.
Disastrous Attempt to Cross Babyon
River In Samar Island.
A dispatch frcm Catbalogan, Samar,
says: The insurgents are becoming
more active in the i3land of Leyte,
Wednesday the town of Matalon was
attacked. At Inopacan the insurgents
cut the telegraph lines. While a detachment
of American troops were repairing
it they were fired upon by a
band of insurgents. After a brief
skirmish the rebels were dispersed.
First Lieutenant Robert T. Crawford,
of the First infantry, a sergeant and
five men, v/hile attempting to cross the
Babyon river in Samar, were drowned.
WOMAN SHOOTS BANKER.
A Sensational Scene Enacted In
Streets O'f Asheville, North Carolina.
At Asheville, N. C., Wednesday Miss
Mary Slagl? shot and dangerously
wounded Houston Merriam, assistant
cashier of the Blue Ridge National
bank.
As Mr. Jvierriman got off a street car
to enter the bank, the woman opened
fire, one shot entering the back and
penetrating a lung. Another shot shattered
an arm. The two additional
shots flrec". by the woman missed their
mark. The shooting caused much excitement.
The cause is not given.
FRANCE TRIUMPHANT
Turk Yields Unconditionally To ,
Every Demand Made.
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Terms of Settlement and Concessions 1
Made Are of Far-Reaching Character
ar.d of Great Importance.
A special frcm Paris says: France
has scored a complete triumph in the
Turkish dispute. The foreign office
Friday morning received advices announcing
that the sultan has yielded
to the entire demands formulated ty
the French government, and only the
question of form regarding the execution
of this agreement remains to be
setJed. This may be done within the
next twenty-four hours, or it is expected,
at the latest, in two or three days.
Then Admiral Caillard will relinquish
his occupation of the island of Mitylene.
The Temps prints a dispatch from
Constantinople under Friday'* dat*
which says that the sultan, in accepting
the French demands, firstly, authorizes
the working of the French
schools, hitherto unrecognized; secondly,
he recognizes, officially, the existence
of the religious and hospitable
institutions already founder and accords
them customs immunity and ex
emption frdm certain taxes, and third
ly, he authorizes the reconstruction of
the schools and hospitable institutions
destroyed at the time of the Armenian
troubles, of which a detailed list is attached
to the French note.
Tewflk Pasha, the Turkish foreign
minister, has announced that the recognition
of the Chaldean patriarch, demanded
by Fiance, has been already
accorded.
MAY SUCCEED RUCKER.
Report that Atlanta Man Is Slated For
Georgia Collectorship.
A Washir.gton special says: From
an almost authoritative source the
statement was made Friday that T. H.
Martin, of Atlanta, Ga., will be appointed
collector of internal revenues
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er, the Incumbent.
The announcement that Rucker, the
negro collector, Is to be removed is no
surprise, since there has been a persistent
rumor to that effect since President
Roosevelt held his firet eonferences
with prominent Georgia white
republicans at the capital. When it
was learned that Mr. Martin had resigned
two important positions in Atlanta,
it was an open secret that he
had done sc in order to accept the collectorship.
The official appointment,
though it may not be made for some
vime, is believed to be only a question
of time.
The appointment, if it is made, is
one that will doubtless meet with the
approval of the white republicans of
Georgia. Mr. Martin is well known as
one of the mo?;t prominent as well as
one of the most active republicans in
the state. In 1896 he organized the
McKinley Clut of Fulton county and ;
made a strong fight in the interest of
the gold standard.
GEN. WHEKLER INTERESTED.
Army Officers Plan to Establish Gun
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factory in rruiaucipniei.
A company, of which General Joseph
Wheeler is a director, ii contemplating
the establishment of a plant
in Philadelphia for the manufacture of
a new firearm. The general purposes
making Philadelphia his home. The
chief merits claimed for the new weapon
are freedom from recoil and i? the
j rifle automatic action in loading and
S firing.
The United States board of ordnance
and fortification, it is said, has had
tests made and given appropriations
in order to conduct the tests and to apI
ply the device to artillery. Army offl!
cers are interested in the company.
ITINERARY '"GOOD ROADS TRAIN."
Stop of Four Days Made at Greenville,
Tenn., and Convention Held.
The special "good roads train" of
the National Good Roads Association
and the Southern railway stopped at
Greenville, Tenn., Saturday for four
days in the interest of good roads.
This is the special train which s tour
Ing the Southern railway on that account.
A section of sample road is being
constructed at Greenville, and a
convention is part of the program.
The good roads train will go from
Greenville to Chattanooga, where another
conventirn win be held.
VOTE FELL FAR SHORT.
Ohio Returns Show Decrease of 100,000
compared With 1899.
With almost half the official returns
from the eighty-eight counties' in Ohio
received it js estimated that the total
vote may be 100,(h>0 less than for governor
two years ago. when 920,$72
votes were cast, and almost a quarter
of a million less than for president
last year, when the total vote of Ohio
was 1,049,121.
INSIST ON INVESTIGATION.
Differences Between Two Houses of
Georgia Legislature Not Settled.
Although the lower house of the
Georgia legislature Thursday morning
sent to the senate a resolution asking
the withdrawal of the resolution for information
regarding the passage of the
corporation franchise tax bill, the resolution
was not withdrawn and the incident
is not closed. The matter is now
in the hands of the general judiciary
CHARGE OF CRIMINAL LIBEL
A County Schoc! Of. cial i.as Warrant
Issued For Georgia State School
Commissioner Glenn.
An Atlanta special siays: When
State School Commissioner G. R. J
Glenn appeared at his office at the cap- j
itol Monday morning he was placed undGr
arrest by the sheriff of Washington
county on the charge of criminal
libel made by John N. Rogers, county I
school commissioner of Washington
county.
Commissioner Glenn was surprised
to hear that he was charged with criminal
libel, but did not seem in "the least
disconcerted over the matter. When
asked for a statement, he said:
"I cannot see that I have been guilty
of criminal libel. For some time Rog- |
ers has been circulating injurious reports
about me, and I merely wrote
him a letter telling him just what I
thought of him. I also sent copies of
the letter to the members of the board
cf education ,cf Wabsing>ion county, as
I thought it proper for them to know
the true state of affairs, and I thought
it my duty to inform them in the matter.
"The letter was a severe one, the
severest letter I have ever written. It
was a letter which u<j true man would
have deserved and no brave man would
have taken. It wasj written about six
weeks ago.
"I am not surprised to hear that
something of this nature will be attempted.
It is all a matter of politics.
The affair began from political motives
and this last step is only another move
of the political cabal of which Rogers
is a member.
"I am fully acquainted with the law
in the case, but as the warrant was
issued in Washington county, I suppose
that I shall have to go there to
answer the preliminary hearing. If
this is the case, 1 shall certainly make
no effort to avoid going to Washington
county for the hearing."
PAYMASTER MINIS HIS CASH.
Major Stevens, U. S. A., Mysteriously
Relieved of Over Four i thousand
Dollars Contained In Valise.
A mysterious robbery, in which over
$4,000 was lost, was reported Sunday
night to the Atlanta city detectives,
the result of which was that a negro
employee of the United States government,
who has held his position for
seventeen years, was arrested and
locked up at the police barracks.
Major P. C. Stevens, a government
paymaster on hig way to rensacola,
Fla., to pay off the artillerymen at
oFrt Barancas and MsRea, was the
vicrtim.
The negro under arrest, J. H. Alexander,
denies that he has the money,
and the detectives have been unable to
ascertain who has the ?rtolen money.
Alexander made the following statement:
"I took the valise to the depot. I
have been working for the government
for seventeen years. I knew there
was money in the valise. It was very
heavy and felt like there was silver in
It I missed the major and his friends.
I think they went into a saloon to get
a drink. I waited at the depot and
when they came up the train was pulling
out. We ran to catch the train and
could not overtake it. I carried the
valise back to the office. I did not
open it and did not know that it had
been robbed until I was arrested today."
Major Stevens states that he gave
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that the robbery was not discovered
until he had reaehed Pensacola, Fla.
Last Friday evening Major Stevens
started to leave Atlanta, and he placed
$4 ,700 in a valise and gave the valise
to Alexander to carry to the union depot.
By some misunderstanding the
negro did not meet the major at the depot
in time to eatoh the train and the
valise was carried back to the office
in the Empire building. Major Stevens
could not leave without the money and
his next train was cheduled to leave
Saturday. He took this train.
Sunday morning t^e valise was opened
in Pensacola, Fia., and the major
found the money was missing. The
silver currency, amounting to some
$400 or $500, was found intact, but the
bills, amounting to *.,200, were missing.
TRANS-APPALACHIAN ROAD.
New Line Across Blue Ridge Will Cut
Off One Hundred Miles.The
survey of the Trans-Appalach'
ian railway is completed, and so are
the estimates for grading it. Starting
at Lincolntcn, N. C., on the Seaboard
Air Line, the road will pass Morgan ton
and get over the Blue Ridge at Coffee's
I G-ap, about 4.SCO ieet above sea level,
j and then go on to Butler, Tenn. It will
I eu-t 100 miles from the land haul of
coal from the Tennessee min^s to
North Carolina aim South Carolina
coasts and win reduce the priee mafte|
rially.
PIONEER ATLANTIAN DEAD.
Captain W. D. Grant, Leading Financier,
Victim of Heart Disease.
Captain William Daniel Grant, one
of the leading financiers of Atlanta,
Ga., died at his home on Peachtree
[ street Thursday morning of heart failI
ure.
Captain Grant was 63 years of age,
having been born on August 16, 1837.
! In 1871 he located in Ab.anta, where
he has resided ever since.
GEORGIAN DIES IN MANILA.
Captain Robert Anderson, of Ninth
Infantry, Victim of Pneumonia.
A cablegram received at the war
I department Thursday from General
| Chaffee, at Manila, announces the
death of Captain Robert H. Anderson,
of the Ninth infantry.
Captain Anderson was appointed to
the army in 1SS-1 from civil life, being
accredited to Georgia.
TWO OFFICERS BELD
Escaped Convicts Tarn Tables
On Their Pursuers.
UNIQUE COUP IS PERPETRATED
Sheriff and His Deputy Compelled to
Promise Immunity In Order
to Gain Their Ov/n
Liberty.
A Topeka, Kans, special saysi: Sheriff
Cook and deputy Sheriff Williams
were captured by two convicts from
the Fort Leavenworth military prison
Sunday afternoon at Pauline, five miles
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on ihe farm of a man named Wooster
for several hours. They finally escaped
between a line of police sent from
Topeka to reinforce the sheriff and are
now at large. Both were slightly
wounded. Wooster was badly wounded
by one of the conviols when he
tried to fire on them. Mrs. Wooster
and Sneriff Cook were held oefore the
convicts as a shield by the prisoners in
making their escape.
At 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon
some farmer boys near Pauline learned
that the convicts were in the
neighborhood. Hastily forming a
posse, armed with target rifles, pistols
and clubsw they gave chase. Neither
of the convicts was armed .and they
were unable to make a stand. Later
Sheriff Cook and Deputy Williams arrived.
Coming upon the convicts^ bo.a
of the officers fired, wounding the men,
but not disabling them.
The convicts then fled -through a
small opening in the timber and ran
into the houze of Parmer Wooster.
Sheriff Cook telephoned to Topeka for
assistance and then took up 'the chase.
Thinking the convicts had run around
the house, Cook darte- through the
open door, intending to surprise them
S't the rear door, but instead of this
the convicts had gone into the house
and the officer almost fell into tneir
arms.
Sheriff Cook was ordered to give
up his gun, which he did. Deputy
Williams by this time had reached the
house and entered without knowing
what had happened inside, and he, too,
was made captive by the convicts. In
the meantime Chief S^anl, cf Topeka,
with eight officers, were on their way.
They arrived at the Wooster house
about an hour after the officers had
been imprisoned. Chief Stahl immediately
began negotiations with the
convicts to give up their prisoners and
to surrender themselves, but the convicts
only laughed. Farmer Wooster
then managed to get a .gun and was
aboiat to make an attack on the convicts,
when one of them lain him low
with a blow from the butt of a revolver
takcu from one of their captives*
One of the convicts told Sheriff Cook
1 * ' * * * ?- - ~ A ^
tnat ne wouia oe Kiue^i u uc mauc
slightest move looking toward tneir
capture. In the meantime the police
officers on tho outside surroiindeu the
building, but were afraid to make a
move for fear that Cook and Williams
would suffer.
Mrs. Woo&ter had fainted during the
excitement. She finally revived end
at 7 o'clock the convicts) pxaced the woman
and Sheriff Cook in front of them
as shields and maae for the door. Then,
after an exacting promise from the
sheriff that he would not permit any
of the officers outside to fire on them,
they started for the open. As they left
the house, the frightened farmer's wife
and submissive sheriff before them,
the convicts passed between a cordon
of police, who could easily have captured
them, and started for the railroad
track. The sheriff had in turn
! exacted a promise from the police that
they would not molest the convicte,
and they did not.
After covering themselves a considerable
distance down the tracK the con
victs suddenly disappeared uirougn a
hedge fence bidding the officers a
mocking farewell.
The convicts had secured a good
1 start before the officers had recovered
j from their surprise. Then some of the
! policemen wanted to pursue but Sher!
Iff Cook would not permit it as he had
j promised the convicts immunity from
arrest
RATHBUN MAk&6 CONFESSION.
Prisoner Reveals Attempted Scheme
to Rob Insurance Companies.
Newell C. Rathbun. who was supposed
to have been found dead in a
Jeffersonville, Ind., hotel last Thursday,
was arrested in Louisville, Ky.,
Monday. According to Rathbun, the
corpse which was shipped to Little
Rock for burial as the body of Rathbun
was the body of W. L. Ten Eykc-.
The police say Rathbun has confessed
to desertion from the United States
? * x ~ 1 5? ? a nlnn fA
army ana 10 navmg iuiujcu a. pmu ?.?
fraudulently collect $4,000 insurance
on his life.
CONSIDERING THE EVIDENCE.
Three Members of the Inquiry Court
Meet Behind Closed Doors.
Admiral George Dewey and Rear Admirals
Henham and Ramsay, 'composing
the Schley court of inquiry, met
at their quarters in the McLean building,
Washington, Monday behind closed
doors and began the discussion and
consideration of the evidence brought
forward in the investigation concluded
laSrTveek.
SCHLEY ACCEPTS INVITATIONS.
Will Visit Memphis and Nashville,
Tenn, In January.
Rear Admira&s^chley has agreed to
visit Memphis, Tenn., some time in
January, the exact date to be settled
later. He goes there to receive a silver
service bought -or him by contributions
through The Commercial-Appeal.
A delegation from Nashville
j called on him Friday and he accepted
i an invitation to visit that city. He
' may go to Knoxvi'lle on the trip.
CREAn OF NEWS
J Summary of the Moat %
+ Important Daily f
i Happenings Tersely Told. +
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?Sheriff English, of Washington
county, arrived in Atlanta Sunday
| night, armed with a warrant for the
arrest of State School Commissioner
G. R. Glenn on a charge of criminal
libel preferred by County School Commissioner
John N. Rogers, of Sandersville.
?Major P. C. Stevens, paymaster
United States army, is relieved of $4,000
in currency, probably at the union
depot in Atlanta. His clerk, a negro,
is under arrest.
?At Greensboro, Ga., the fair by the
colored people in support of the Georgia
Normai and Industrial institute is
a decided success.
?The convicts who escaped from
Leavenworth prison are causing great
excitement in Kansas. Sunday they
t nr. .-.fflrwu-e Trnn wero niirKlllTIC
j VlilVViO if **V f! V* v r-.? ?-?o
them.
?The sultan o. Turkey has signed
an irade declaring the settlement of
the trouble with France, yielding to
all of the demands made.
?Evidence against Gibson Easton,
charged with furnishing food to the
insurgents in the Philippines, is accumulating.
Lukban's commissary general
says he had a contract with Easton.
?Havana has awarded a $10,000,000
contract for sewers and paving in the
city.
?It Is feared the brigands will kill
Mies Stone after the ransom has been
paid on account of the troops being
called on to pursue thera.
?Information was received in Atlanta,
Ga., Friday from Washington, D.
C., to the effect that Rucker, the negro
collector erf internal revenues, will
be succeeded by T. H. Martin.
?The sheriff of Sevier county,
Tenn., accepts bond for Robert L. Catlett,
charged wiht having a han4 in a
murder committed in 1S96, as a condition
upon which the fugitive surrenders.
?The state of Texas makes a demand
upon the interior department for
$88,699, money expended by "the Lone
Star State upon Greer county, which
is now a part of Oklahoma.
?In Madison, Fla., Friday will Jones,
the negro who killed three men a few
weeks aeo. was hanged by the sheriff
in the presense of a large crowd.
?Helen Hutton, a leader of her social
set in Decaturr Ala., blows her
brains out because the young man to
whom she was engaged did not appear
at the wedding hour.
?Three of the convicts who escaped
from the federal prison at Leavenworth,
Kans., were killed by their pursuers
Friday.
?Rumor has it that General Wheeler
will move to Philadelphia, where he
will be at the head of an arms company.
?Senator Hanna dined with President
Roosevelt Friday night His object
in visiting the white house was to
talk about the proposed Mckinley memorial
with Mr. Roosevelt.
?Evidence against Jane Toppan, alleged
poisoner, is accumulating and
prosecution says she will be convicted.
?Turkey has yielded to the demands
of France, agreeing to all the terms.
?The duke of Cornwall has been
created the prince of Wales.
?General Stephen D. Lee. of Mississippi,
and representatives of the St
Louis exposition addressed the Georgia
general asembly in joint session
Thursday.
?Members of the board of control
of the Atlanta union depot were served
with summonses to appear before tLe
recorder Thursday to answer to the
charge of maintaining a nuisance in
the shape of a germ-infested car shed.
?Koester's part in the South Carolina
lynching a few years ago has been
fully explained to President Roosevelt,
who announces that the appointment
to the internal revenue collectorship
will stand.
?Southern railway machinists, who
have been on a strike since May, again
assert the railway will give in as soon
as the weather becomes cold enough
to have an effect on iron, making It
brittle, etc.
?Convict Oberlin Carter says that
in his new hearing he will introduce
testimony that was excluded by courtmartial.
?Charles Smith, a negro who hails
from Atlanta, Ga., kissed a white girl
on the streets of New York Thursday.
The girl screamed and a mob collected
and tried to lynch the negro.
?Twenty-six convicts in Leavenworth
federal prison made their escape
Thursday after a desperate struggle
with the guards. Two of the guards
were badly wounded.
?The Greek minister at Constantinople
telegraphs his government that
Turkey accepts all the terms of
France.
SEIZED AMERICAN SCHOONER.
Stoppe By Portugueses Gun Boat For
Smuggling Emigrants.
The Exchange Telegraph Company,!
at London had received a dispatch !
from Lisbon announcing that a Portuguese
gunboat has seized tne Ameri-!
can schooner Nettie and Lottie at j
Horta, island of Fayal, in the Azores, i
for clandestinely conveying twenty-six J
emigrants, who were trying <to avoid I
military service.
BOER LOSSES IN BATTLE.
Kitchener Reports Forty-Four Burghers
Left Dead on Field.
Lord Kitchener cabling from Pretoria
under Wednesday's date, supplementary
details of the. recent fight near
Drakcnlaagte. Eastern Transvaal,
says:
"The Boer fttss was forty-four killed,
including C.eneral Opperman and 100
wounded. The Boers got nothing beyond
tli cguns. The Boer attack was
essily repulsed until the arriva. of
Lculs Botha with GOO men.
TEN DIE IN FLAMES |
Vaodeville Theatre at flnrley,
Wisconsin, Destroyed By Fire.
ALL VICTIMS WERE ACTORS M
Unfortunates Were In Sleeping Apartments
in Top Story and Rapid %?
Spread of Flames Cut Off
All Escape.
Ten lives wore lost and four build- .
ings destroyed by a fire which started
in the Klondike theater at Hurleys
Wis., Wednesday. The dead are: '
W. Cleveland, H. P. Clifford, Thomas . ;-.-i
Le Claire, George Benert, H. D. Bm- V'|jjj8
ory, Timothy Ryan, F. L. Gay, 8t.
Louis; Tomas Ozanne, Harry Ray- ^|s|
mon-d, Clare Bonne.
ininred: Jennie Bender. -'.v/.rJSl
Annie Scott, Laura Russell, "Billy"
The Klondike was a vaudeville the- ~M
atre and an of the dead and injured ^
were connected with the theatre aa - -/.|5
performers. Most of them lived at M
Hurley, and Thomas Le Claire was a g
brother of the proprietor of the thea- p
The fire started on the stage and in ^
a few minutes the entire structure was .v
a mass of flames. The top story was -,-J
used as sleeping quarters and the rapid
spread of the fire cut oft the escape
of the occupants. 'M
The theatre building was quickly
consumed and the flames sptead to ad- - 'M
joining structures. The Ironwood, Mich.,
lire department, the nearest vMj j
within reach, was called to the asaisb ?
auce of the Hurley firemen and only
by the hardest work was the town 'A
saved from being wiped out
The losses follow: he Claire's Kfon- ^
dike theatre, $7,000; Cumming*? sa-^
Icon, $4,000; Harrigan & McPhereon'k
saloon, $6,000; D. P. McNeil, of Chi- %
cago, $1,000; Constantlne Erspaner,
The charred remains of six of the->|?
victims were soon recovered
search was in progress for the other*.
The Klondike theatre burned ones . ^
before?in July, 1887?when elersscJjsB
women lost their lives
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CARTER GETS NEW TRIAL.
Convict Will Testify Before JudgeKahisaat
In Chicago Court
Oberlin M. Carter, now a convict in . $
4-1 T
uie guvti uuicui piiouu * VJ ? /-v?.worth,
Kansas, and formerly a captain
in the United States engineer corps, is
to have a rehearing of his case in a - M
civ^ tribunal. He now'has the assnrance
of the government authorities y#
that all the evidence is to be reviewed Js9
bfore Juakc Kohlsaat, in the j
States circuit court in Chicago, tho^adK
hearing to take place probably within 1
a few months. Carter will be called ^
on as a witness In his own behalf, and ^
for the purpose of testifying in eonrt .. ;?lp
he will be released temporarily from
his place of confinement. TMs
is the result of the suits
brought by tne government some C3H
I months ago in several federal courts
I for the purpose of recovering $722,582,
which, it is alleged at the court mar tial,
Carter had embezzled from the "
United otates.
GOVERNOR OPENS FAIR.
State House Officials and Georgia Leg- ! S
islature Guests of Savannah. r.
Governor Cand4er, fifteen member# of
his staff, several state house officers
and about 150 members of the house
and senate left Atlanta Tuesday night ^;Jj|
at 9:30 o'clock in a special train orer ^50}
the Centsal of Georgia railway for Sa^
vannah to attend the opening day of
the state fair.
The party reached Savannah Wed' ^
nesday morning at 8 o'clock. At noon
Governor Candler opened the fair. He ?
reviewed the military and raised the M
state flag over the grand stand. He
made a short speech, saying the first : ;;
state fair of the 29th century hadv-^9
opened. Wednesday afternoon was
spent at Tybee .where an oyster roast
was in progress.
The party returned to Atlanta Wednesday
night.
SHORTAGE IS SIXTY THOUSAND. I
Finance Keeper of Knights of Maccabees
Took Large Sum. I
The board of trustees and the su- ' *
nreme officers of the supreme tent,
Knights of the Maccabees, held,
ecutive session in Port Huron, Mich.,
with representatives of National Pk,~ - .
nance Keeper Thompson, who is short
in his accounts.
It was announced that the shortage . ' '4|3
was $60,000 instead of $57,uw/.
New Prince of Wales.
A London special says: The duke - jjijg
of Cornwall and York has been created
prince of Wales and earl of Chester. ^f|0j
"PAUNCY" HOB-NOB8 WITH HAY.
Subject of Confab Was Preparation of , *
the New Treaty.
Lord Pauncefote, the British ambaasador.
had a half hour's talk Friday -?jk
with Secretary Hay in regard to the
preparation of the new Hay-Pauncefote
treaty. It is expected that in view ia
of the progress that has been: made,
! the convention may b? concluded,
far as the executive branch of thhrg^fl^H
crnment is conoerned within a w^9H^9|
SIX KILLED IN WRECK. J
Report of Fearful Disaster on the IroflL^
Mountain Railroad. V^^9
A special to The Little Rock Gazette g9r|
! from Texarkana says that trainmen arj
riving there Monday night on the Iron vj|j
j Mountain railroad state that a work ; ?1
i train was- wrecked at Prescott, near J&y|
| Texarkana, killing six negroes and ih?^^9|
; juring fifteen otters. The names of 99
I the dead men ai^aot obtainable.
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