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'$tC - * - ; : ;* -: - ~':~<&W73%S2sm - \( % ' "" ; '* '; BBHfR. * r, g?^ ' ! The Bamberg Herald. ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. MARCH 27.1902. OXE DOLL All PEH YEAK. * ~ ' r * W .B^BWiHUH W I I BIB1IIH ! !?HpWBMMSWPBBI?WBp?^Bl I'M III? ??? J WM?J?11 ???CAau.I ! ! MB. WHil LIVES LOST IN FIRE Burning of Uoboken Pier Causes Probknutical Fatalities. BOER AMMUNITION DESTROYED Marty Boxes of Cartridges Intended for Struggling Burghers Exploded While Angry Flames Roared. There was a rumor current in NewYork Wednesday that a number of cartridges were cn the pier at the time cf the fire cn Hoboken docks Tuesday night, and that they were destined for the use cf the Boers in South Africa. According to the report, the cartridges were to have been ship yeu to Auiwtrj? uuu iium mcic a< their destination. A member of the Hoboken fire department stated | that he saw the boxes of cartridges on - the pier and that he heard a number of explosions. These are said to have occurred after the fire was under control about midnight. Sanderson & Son, the New York agents of the Phoenix line steamer, British Queen, reported that they had no knowledge that there were any cartridges on the dock, and that they did not believe there were any there. They further said that they never carry explosives as freight. The British consul agent said that he bad no information that any such munitions for Boers were on the ship. He regaided the report as improbable because tho British Queen was to sail for Antwerp, not South Africa. Supposed Victim Alive. Chief Engineer Scott, who it was supposed perished in the fire, walked into a Hoboken hotel Wednesday morning. He was badly burned about the face and said he had a dreadful experience. zrw;T>e^ Smtt said that a "hort while after going to his room Tuesday night he smelled smoke, and on investigation saw the ship was on fire. Scott, who is a sufferer from rheumatism, groped his way along the deck and took refuge in a large cattle pen on the ship deck. Here he was joined by one of the firemen of the ship. The smoke and flames soon drove them from the pen. Scott then fastened a wire rope to a stanchion and threw one overboard. He then slid down the rope to a lighter lying alongside the big steamer, where he remained until rescued. Scott said he did not see the fireman after he, Scott, made his escape ,and does not know what became of him. No estimate can yet be made of the loss of life in the fire; the number cf dead may never be known. Patrick Hussey, a longshoreman, who was burned while trying to escape from the Phenix pier, died soon from the effects of his injuries. Besides Hussey four longshoremen were taken to St. Mary's hospital and are now under treatment there. All were more or less burned. Some of the longshoremen who saved themselves by swimming ashore say they saw twenty or thirty men leap into the liver. Many Were Drowned. Although some of thoae who jumped , into the water were picked up by tugs, it is feared that a number sank before they could be reached by the rescuers. Many of the longshoremen are single men and have no relatives who could report them in the event o'i their being missing or having perished in the fire. The British Queen has been beached off Communipaw in the upper bay. Superintendent Mason, of the Phen:x line, said that it would be impossible to definitely state the loss by the fire in less than two weeks. He was asked if he thought $1,250,000 would cover it, and he replied that he did not think it would. The British Queen was worth $S00,000 and there was a great quantity of valuable merchandise on that vessel, on the pier and on lighters that were destroyed. This included cotton, hides, oils, grains and a quantity of harvest machinery. DEMOCRATS ARE PRO-BOER. House Members Declare Congress | Should Express Sympathy. A Washington special says: The democratic members cf the caucus held Wednesday night unanimously adopted resolutions declaring that the congress should express the sympathy cf the American people for the struggling Boer republics, and pledging themselves to use their utmost endeavors to "force" the committees to report - resolutions expressive of such sympathy in order that congress might have an opportunity to act DUMONT IS COMING. Wizzard Aeronaut Promises to Take in St. Louis Exposition. A Paris special says: Santos Dumont has accepted an invitation from the officials of the St. Louis exposi tion to go to St. Louis, there to assist the authorities in the organization of the proposed balloon contests and select a site cn which to erect a baboon shed for himself. The aeronaut will sail for New York or. the steamer ] Beutccnland cn April 4. He will not take a balloon with him. SPECIAL TERM OF COURT. Called to Try Stover and tN*kle, Alleged Murderers of Mrs. Blake. A dispatch from Gainesville. Ga., says: Judge J. B. Estes has issued an order for a special term of Hall superior court on the first Monday in April to try Harvey Stover and Charley Pirkle for the crime of killing Mrs. Christina Biake. whose tragic end occurred near Flowery Branch several days ago. CLOSES THE SCHLEY MATTER.1 i I House Committee Concurs In Presi- : dent Roosevelt's Findings, and Turns Down Santiago Hero. A Washington dispatch says: The house committee on naval affairs by a vote of 7 to 4 adopted a resolution . Friday concurring in the conclusions | cf President Roosevelt as to terminating the agitation of the Schley controversy and indefinitely postponing all bills and resolutions on the subject. The report of the sub-committee as adopted gives all the various resolutions which have been introduced and says: "Your sub-ccmmittee to whom the several bills and resolutions introduced in the house in relation to Rear < Admiral Winfield Scott Schley has 1 had the same under consideration and j presents the following report tnerej VJU. ] "The unfortunate controversy in connection with the Santiago campaign has attracted wide public at- j tention and has been the subject of ( four official investigations, viz: "By President McKinley; by the 1 j United States court of claims; by the * ' naval court of inquiry, asked for by J j President Roosevelt, .011 appeal from J | the finding of the naval court of in- 1 ! quiry. 1 j "President Roosevelt concludes his * findings in the following words: "In concluding their report the mem- ( bers of the court of inquiry. Admi- I rals Dewey, Benham and Ramsey, 2 united in stating that they recommend- 1 ed that no further action be had in 1 the matter. With this recoramenda * tion I most heartily concur. There is ' no excuse whatever from either, side 1 for any further agitation of this unhappy controversy. To keep it alive * would merely do damage to the navy I and to the country." ^ "Your sub-committee having in 1 view the interest of the American : navy and of all concerned fully con- 2 curs in the conclusion expressed in the words of President Roosevelt above I quoted. ^ "We therefore recommend that fur- 1 tlier consideration of said bills and ? resolutions be indefinitely postponed * on/1 tViot nr? further ertinn bp taken thereon." The vote was on party lines, except that Mr. Mudd, of Maryland, voted with the democrats, against adopting the report. In detail the vote was as follows: Yeas?Foss, Dayton, Loudenslafer, Butler, Watson, Cousin, Roberts, republicans. Nays?Mudd, republican; Rixey of Virginia; Kitchen, Wheeler, democrats. Prior to the disposition of the subject Mr. Mudd moved a favorable report on the resolution giving the thanks of congress to Admiral Schley and the officers and men who served with him in the battle of Santiago. This was lost by a vote of 7 to 4. LED DUAL EXISTENCE. Chicago Charity Dispenser May Prove to Be Notorious Robber. A Chicago dispatch says: As a result of the shooting Thursday, the police have become suddenly active and V>,of>/Ifnor +T-iQ.Ir- onerwicc nnnnPft' aic U^UUlUg U'.v 14 ^UVI^IVW VVT vvum^vv Joseph Hopkins, the injured man with the $76,000 postoffice robbery of last summer. \ Hopkins was shot by an ex-detective named Kipley, in a flat occupied by Lillie Arlington, otherwise known as 1 "Diamond Lil." Kipley, who, with the ? woman, is under arrest, claims self-de- ^ fense. At St. Luke hospital Friday c Hopkins' condition was said to be critical * Following the shooting it developed ( that Hopkins had been leading a ' \Jekyl-Hyde" existence. He was iden- i tified, according to the police, as a c bank robber and burglar of national ' notoriety, but in Pales park, where 1 he had a cosy little home in a secluded 5 spot, sheltered by trees, it was found ^ that he had a reputation as a dispenser of charities, a giver to the church and a man of standing in society. His wife's standing was also of the best, '< but when she was brought into the police station policemen claim to have 1 recognized her as a woman they had * had known as "Blonde Marie." * Kipley, while in his cell, told a. ? friend that Hopkins was a man for < whom the police had been searching in connection with the postoffice robber,*. What the connection is has net been t made plain, but it is pointed out that 1 Hopkins is an electrician, and that the ' holes drilled in the bottom of the ( safes in the postoffice were by tools 1 rtx'tu v xug puwex h uiju wiut- xv;ax device < A search of the Hopkins house < brought to light a kit of burglar's 1 tools, but nothing was discovered '< showing that Hopkins had anything ? to do with the postoffice robbery. Papers giving directions for blowing safes and some dynamite and nitroglycerine were also found on the prem- < ises. Hopkins claims the explosives j were used in clearing land. i To Keep Separate Accounts. Secretary Shaw has issued a circu lar to customs officers directing them to keep separate accounts of collections made under the Phiiippine tarifi the Potomac river just above Washing- , to be returned to Philippine govern- , ment. ?Russia has announced that, despite the Anglo Japanese agreement ( she will insist on completing the Manc-hurian railway to a port free from lee. "HE" WAS OF EVE'S SEX. Remarkable Instance cf Woman Masquerading as a Man. After living for thirty five years as a husband and head of a family, the j death of George Green at-Ectricks. ! Chesterfield county, Va.. Friday morn I ing revealed the fact that the supposed ' man was a woman. Had not strangers prepared the body for the grave, the strange secret would never hvae been known. THEREBUKE OF MILES Nay Cause Tilt Between Con= gress and the President. GENERAL THREATENS TO RESIGN I Declares if Hawiey Army Bill Becomes a Law, He Will Decline to Longer Hold His Commission. A "Washington special says: General Miles' second rebuff at the white louse and the recent publication of | :he incident may be followed by the -etirement of the old warrior by Roosevelt. It is said that both the president md the secretary of war are highly inlignant that the story leaked out. and n consequence the president may ex Brcise the law which allows him to re:ire an officer over the age of sixty. Vliles reached that age last August, )ul unless sooner retired by Roosevelt, vill continue his present office until August, 1903. It was nearly a month ago that Miles jailed on the president, laid bare his ilan to stop the war in the Philippines md received the second presidential ebuke for his pains. There was an inderstanding between the soldier and he president that the matter should 3e kept secret. Perhaps it would iave been kept secret had not Henry Patterson, in a general newspaper aricle last Saturday, referred to it in a )aragraph. Then newspaper men at rVashington dug out the entire story, low the Kentuckian got the fact that Vliles had been rebuked again is still i secret. In view of the fact that the original mblication represented that General Uiles had been snubbed, or severely ebuked by the president, it is not regarded as a reasonable supposition hat the information was made public >y him, but rather by some person >r persons inimical to his interests. Neither the secretary of war nor General Miles, nor, in fact, any of the eading officials of the war department, vill say anything for publication in regard to the matter. It was learned from other sources, lowever, that the president had called or all the papers in the case and is onsidering the advisability of making hem public, with a view to showing he facts and preventing further misinderstanding of the matter. Congressional notice of General files' rebuff by Roosevelt, when asked o be sent to the Philippines to bring he war to a close, without further oss of life on either side, came Thurslay, when Representative Burleson, of Texas, introduced a resolution calling sn the president to furnish the house >f representatives with all the papers >earing on the matter. By this means >oth sides of the affair which now has ill Washington talking, will be made >ublic. Only scant information has eached the public so far, and there s a public demand for the full particuars. The following? was the resolution ofered by Representative Murleson, of Texas: "Resolved, that the president be. and s hereby respectfully requested, if the iame is not incompatible with the pubic interests, to transmit to the house . opies of all correspondence relating :o and papers bearing upon the mat;er of the recent request of Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles to be assigned ;o duty in the Philippines and to be Ulowed to put into effect there a plan >utliued by him having for its purpose md being calculated to bring about in immediate cessation of hostilities n said Philippines without further oss of life on cither side." Miles Threatens to Resign. General Nelson A. Miles told the sen. ite committee on military affairs Thursday that if the bill introduced 3y Senator Hawley, at the instance of ;he war department, for the organiza:ion of a general staff for the army should become a law. he would define to longer hold his commission. The reason lie gave foi< the statement s that the bill is utterly subversive of he interests of the military establishment, and he said that he would not 3e a party to such a proceeding to the extent even of continuing to hold his place. The statement was made in the %ourse of a prolonged hearing by the committee which was conducted belind closed doors and in which Generil Miles touched upon a variety of subjects connected with the army. Palma Cff For Cuba. Thomas Estrada Palma, presidentelect of Cuba, who will assume office April 1. left Middletown, N. Y., Sab trday. with his family for the islands. 'THE MAN ON HORSEBACK." Henry Wsttcrson Makes a Fling At Rocsevclt in Banquet Speech. In a banquet speech at Washington Monday night Henry Watterson made the following lling at President Roosevelt: "Once again in the white house we have the man on horseback. Affecting the simplicity nf the cowboy, he conceals beneath the self-ccnlidence .uid queer manners of the broncho busier the sentiment and emotions, if not the talents, of a Diaz." TWELVE YEARS CAPTIVE. Bushmen of Australia Held Brooklyn Man Long Prisoner. After twelve years' imprisonment among the bushmen in Australia. Josept J. Gill, a son cf the late Thomas Gill, a well known Brooklyn manufacturer. has been heard from by bis family, who mourned him as dead. Giil lt-rt home in laiG. and in his wife. believing him dead, married again. CHAMBERLAIN BRANDED LIAR. Mr. Dillon, I rich Member, Emphasizes Remarks With Strong'Expletive and Is Suspended. A London special says: One of the liveliest scenes witnessed in the house cf commons since the palmiest days of the Irish nationalists, ended Thursday afternoon with the suspension of John Dilicn. During the discussion of the South African affairs, the liberal leader, Sii Henry Campbell Bannerman, vigorously protested against the government's - - * i. J t conduct in using mangnam sianuer iu calling the liberals pro-Boers. These slanders. Sir Henry said, were used for party purposes. The colonial secretary, Mr. Chamberlain, in the course of an equally incisive reply, said he desired to deliberately accuse Sir Henry CampbellBannerman of losing no opportunity for slandering his countrymen, the soldiers and the government. Consequently, the "malignant slanders had come from the opposition side." The speaker. Sir William Court Guilv, here intervened and declared that the term, "malignant slander," was unparliamentary. Both Sir Henry Campbcll-Bannerman and Mr. Chamberlain thereupon withdrew the words amid cheers. Mr. Chamberlain, proceeding, referred to the Boers who are fighting on the British side, when John Dillon, Irish nationalist, interjected, "They are traitors!" upon which Mr. Chamberlain retorted, "The honorable gentleman is a good judge of traitors.' A scene of great confusion ensued. When, order was partially restored Mr. Dillon demanded a ruling on Mr. Chamberlain's words. The speaker said: "An honorable member spoke of soldiers fighting under the British flag as traitors. I deprpp.ofArt the interruDtion and I depre cated the retort of the other member." Mr. Dillon then said: "I will tell the right honorable member that he is a d?d liar." A dead silence followed this remark. Such unparliamentary language seemed vto stun the house. The speaker in[ vited Mr. Dillon to withdraw the exi pression, but the latter said: "I will not withdraw." 7 A motion was made and carried to suspend Mr. Dillon. The suspension, under the present rules, cannot exceed a week. MILES EPISODE INTERESTING. Question as to Whether General Will Receive Disciplinary Treatment. The news of General Miles' statements before the military committee cf the senate excited great interest at i the war department Thursday when it became known there late in the day. There was inquiry as to whether, by passing criticisms upon various officials General Miles had not exposed himself to disciplinary treatment. The answer to this might be based on the exact amount of privilege which at taclies to testimony given Deiore a committee of congress. UNION DEMANDS REFUSED. Street Railway Officials at New Or- J leans Reply Tartly to Labor Leaders. J A New Orleans dispatch says: The reply of the presidents to the street j railway employees' union Thursday J was short and sharp. It referred to the impertinence of the demands, which assumed to take ! over the business of the companies | to manage and to the implied threat of stopping the business in case the demands were not complied with. The roads have announced that , neither now nor at any other time will the question of unionism be considered. SOUTH CAROLINA DAY GREAT. ! i Elaborate Ceremonies Were Carried Out and Attendance Was Largq, South Carolina day at the Charleston exposition was one of the most successful of the special days at the j big show. In spite of poor crops and a very recent cold snap in middle and J upper South Carolina all the trains ( were crowded. The attendance was ( very large, a conservative csuuiaic making It 20,000. CHOLERA SCARE IN MANILA. Troops Coming Home Will Be Hurried Off Ahead of Time. There have been four new case, of | chojera at Manila and more deaths from the p'ague are reported. The health authorities believe that their | rigid precautions have averted an epij demic. As General Chaffee di-d not | want the men of the Third Infantry to I run the risk of cholera, as a result of contact with the city, that regiment already has been taken aboard the United States transport Grant, which will sail for San Francisco one week ahead of her schedule time. BOY DROWNED WITH FATHER. Son of Richard Albretch Found Dead Near Brunswick, Ga. The bc-dy of the boy who was with Richard Albrecht. the New Brunswick, N. J., hotel proprietor, who was found diowned on the Seaboard Air Line near Brunswick. Ga. Saturday, by W. D. Rooney, the agent at Everett City, who went cut with a searching party early Sunday marni'ig. The boy's body was for.ml w.'.hin ten feet of the spot W ere his father's was found. PREPARING FOR VETERANS. Dallas People Will Entertain Old Herces on Elaborate Scale. Dalias. Texas, is making the most elaborate preparations for entertaining the Confederate veterans and other visitors to the national Confederate reunion to he held April 22. 23, 24 and 2f>. Arrangements for housing many thousands have been made. P.uildings at the state fair grounds are in a state of forward preparation. I SOUTH CAROLINA j STATE NEWS ITEMS. ^ In Trousers and Top Boots. Recently a luncheon was served by Mrs. Richard Stevens to a number of the most prominent visitors, men and women, at Aiken. Something of a stir was created by the appearance of Lady Constance McKer.zie dressed in trousers, with a riding coat and top boots. * * * Daughters Want Column. The Spartanburg chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy have petitioned the authorities for one of r.he massive stone columns which was in the state capitol arcade before the reconstruction. This column, if secured .will be used in erecting a Confederate monument at Spartanburg. * * * Cotton Mill For Honea Path. A news item from Anderson. S .C.. says: "Honea Path, in this county, is to have a $200,000 cotton mill. Some time ago a proposition was made to the citizens of that town that if they would raise $50,000. outside capitalists would subscribe $150,000. and a $200,000 mill would be built. The citizens of Honea Path have done their part and the mill is a certainty. Col. James L. Orr will be the controlling spirit. * ? ? Aiken Is Booming. There is considerable building going on in Aiken now. Mr. William Grosvenor, of Providence, R. I., has purchased the Fowler house for $14,000. Plans arp being prepared for alterations and additions to this building which will cost $10,000. Senator-elect Draydon, of New Jersey, has purchased a lot on the Whisky road, near the golf links, for $20,000, on which he will erect a mansion to cost $40,000. * * * More Special Days. At Easter, which was designated educational week of the exposition, commencing March 27, the railroad fare to the Charleston exposition and return from all points in Virginia and North Carolina, was only 80 per cent of one fare, one of the lowest rates ever adopted. Governor Montague has appointed April 16 as Virginia day at the exposition. His staff, a large number of ladies and civilians, as well as several companies of military, will accompany him. The railroad fare at that time will be the same as at Easter, namely. 80 per cent of one fare for the round trip. This is less than $10 from Richmond to Charleston and return. It is also expected that the Virginia legislature, when it adjourns, about April 1st, will visit the exposition on special trains. * * * A Corker Will Me Atlanta Day. There is every reason to believe that the capital city of Georgia will be we;i represented at the Charleston exposition April 4, which is Atlanta day. The railroads announced that a rate of $3.50 for the round trip from Atlanta to Charleston and return would be in force from April 3 to 6, inclusive, and this practically insures the attendance 1 of a large number of citizens. A special train, composed of several: sections, will leave Atlanta on the morning of April 3 .carrying the At ! lanta party. Practically all arrange | ments have been made for the attend I ance of the mayor, members of coun-! cil and heads of the city departments, j It is proposed to take twenty-four of ? * 1 1-1 r.f +hO 1 Uie lllltrdl IUU1MU5 Iiiciuc'^io \jl buv police force, and the transportation of these has already been provided. A fund is now being raised to pay ' the expenses of members of at least. two military companies and the po-' licemen. * * * Charleston Day Was Great. South Carolina day was one of the most successful of the special days at the exposition. In spite of poor crops ' and a very recent cold snap in middle and upper South Carolina all the trains wer ecrowded. The attendance | was very large, a conservative estimate making it over 20,000. There were notable formal ceremonies at the auditorium, in which Gov-1 ernor McSweeney and the exposition i officials participated . Governor McSweeney officially announced the counties of the state that , had won prizes for the best exhibits, j Spartanburg won first, $1,000; Chester! second, $500; Darlington and Georgetown tied for third. This concluded t the exercises and the visitors dispersed. Among the distinguished visitors . were Congressman Latimer and John- j son, of South Carolina; Salmon, of j New Jersey; Hongen, of Nebraska; I Littlefield, of Maine, and Driscoll. of j New York. They came on a special; car from Washington and several were accompanied by their wives. * * * Roosevelt Comes April 9th. President's day at the South Carolina exnosition will be April 9. and the feature of the day will be the presentation to Major Jenkins, by his former chief of the Rough Riders, of a beautiful sword from South Carolinians who honor Jenkins, the son of a Confederate general who died in battle, and j who also honor the president. It is probable tiiat because of this feature several thousand people will j visit the exposition that day who would not otherwise have gone. A state committee will have charge of the presentation ceremonies and i Hugh S. Thompson, cf New York, for-. mer governor cf South Carolina, has j been invited and has consented to be j the head of the committee and speak ' for South Carolina on that day. Gov- j ernor Thompson has for years been an j admirer and friend cf Roosevelt. The sword to be given Major Jen- j kins will cost $50u or $75U. It will by j be purchased with the voluntary, spon taneous contributions from every part j of South Carolina. There was no general contribution to the fund gotten up j by Colonel Tillman because of the sur- j rounding circumstances. APRIL NINTH THE DATE. President's Day at Charleston Expo- ! sition Is Agreed Upon?Jenkins | Will Get Sword. A Columbia dispatch says: President's day at the South Carolina exposition will be April 9. and the feature of the day will be the presentation to Major Jenkins, by his former chief of the Rough Riders, of a beauOiful sword from South Carolinians who honor Jenkins, the son of a confederate geneial who died in batt!e, and who also honor the president. wnen i-aeucenaai uovernor liiiniau sent his telegram to President Roosevelt withdrawing the invitation to him to present a $65 sword to Jenkins, the president was asked by those who claimed to represent ail that was worthy and honorable in Soutti Carolina, if he would present a swo:-d of honor to Major Jenkins. * Before deciding to go to Charleston the president replied that it would give him pleasure to participate in such a ceremony, anA again expressed his high admiration for the gallant bearing of the South Carolinian who was his fellow-officer in the Rough Riders. It has now been decided that President Roosevelt will attend the exposition April 9, and the management has arranged on the program for the sword presentation. A state committee will have charge of the presentation ceremonies and Hugh S. Thompson, cf the New York Life, former governor of South Carolina. has consented to be the head of the committee and speak for South Carolina on that day. Governor Thompson has for years been an admirer and friend of Roosevelt. The sword to be given Major Jenkins will cost $500 or $750. It will be purchased with contributions from every part of South Carolina. PETTICOAT EMBEZZLER CAUGHT. Swiped $15,000 In Philadelphia and Falls Into Hands of Atlanta Officers. Charged with embezzling $15,000 from a Philadelphia firm, Mrs. Julia K. Birdsall, alias Miss Wharton, was arres-ied in Atlanta, Ga., Sunday afternoon. The arrest was made cm a telegram from Philadelphia, and the detectives discovered the woman they wanted by a little dog which followed her?a small canine which hats played a conspicuous part in the remarkable story of the embezzlement In making a confession to the otficer, Mrs. Birdsall gave a strange account of hypnotic influences which she says swayed her during the time she pilfered the thousands of dollars from he remployers. There seems to have been a man and another woman in the case. FLORENCE GIVEN FREEDOM. Young Brooklyn Woman Not Guilty of Murdering Walter Brooks. Florence Burns, the young Brooklyn, N. Y., woman who has been in the custody of the police of New York since February 15, under suspicion of knowing how Wal'ter Brooks met his death, was discharged from custody by Justice Mayo Saturday night Brooks, who was a young commis--. dm mpr^hant had been keening com pany with Florence Burns. He was found dead the night of February 14 in a room at the Glen Island hotel. The gas in the room was turned on and there was a bullet wound in the head. The district attorney tried to show that Florence Burns was likely to have killed Brooks because he was trying to break off his association with her. PHILANTHROPIST FRENCH DEAD. Staunch Friend of Georgia Technological School is No More. Aaron French , aged 79 years, died at his home in Pi'ttsburg, Pa.. Sunday night shortly after midnight, of paralysis. Mr. French was president of the American Steel Spring Company, and elected president of the steel spring combine formed in New York recently. Among the mcs't signal of the benefactions that marked his life was his generosity to the Georgia School of Technology in Atlanta. Ga. This school held a place near to the heart of the dead philanthropist, and be watched the success of the institution with pride. UNDER FLAG OF TRUCE Boer Generals Visit Headquarters of Kitchener and Hold Conference. . A special from Pretoria, South Africa, says: Acting President Schalkburger, F. W. Reiztz, ex secretary of state of the Transvaal, and Command j tt? ants Lucas, Meyers an-u n-iugu, their secretaries and attendants, aril ved March 21, at 2:04 p. m. on a special train from Balmoral, about 50 mites east. They came under a flag of truce. The object of the conference was not known. Upon arriving Mr. Schaik-Buvger and his party drove immediately to Lord Kitchener's headquarters, where he had an interview with the British general. The Boers afterwards proceeded to the railroad station and took a train for Kroonstadt. whence they went out under a safe conduct. GOODYEAR WINS OUT. Item in River and Harbor Bill Allows Him Sum of $45,000. The river and harbor bill, passed in congress Friday, contains an item of $45,000 for Colonel C. P. Goodyear, of ! Brunswick. Ga.. in payment for valua- 1 ble resuits obtained by bis operations on the outer bar. There was some fear that when this item got before the'house it would be objected to. as some enemies of Colonel Goodyear out aide of congress have been doing their utmost to enlist the assistance of d.fferent representatives in opposition to the appropriation. . - - -t: ? T - ';> ATLANTA PEN'S FIRST ESCAPE Desperate Criminal Squeezes Through Bars of Window and Silently Vanishes In the Dark. R. E. East, known as convict No. 82, escaped from the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga., Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock, and, wearing the prison clothes in which he worked as a barber, disappeared in the darkness of the surrounding woods as though he had been swallowed up in the earth. East escaped from the finest prison building in the world. In spite of the most rigid rules; in spite of thorough watchfulness and regardless of steel bars that seemed to defy the ingenuity cf man. he made his break for liberty, and was gone before the alarm could be given. The escape of convict No. 82 is the first to go on the record of the Atlanta federal prison. East was a fifteen-year man, sent up for burglary from the northern district of the Indian Territory, and has a bad record. He had been taken to the basement under the prison to act as a barber. He had shaved a number of fellow convicts and was getting ready to return to his cell for the night. A guard was with him. For a few minutes the guard stepped into an adjoining room, and when he returned East was gone. The doors were all securely locked and the windows were barred. There was apparently no place through which a man could get out. Yet there was one place?a window in which one of the lower bars was a trifle too high. No one had ever noticed this defect, except East. When the chance came, he squeezed through i tsilently and quickly. The escape created a sensation at the the federal prison. The building had been open for only a few weeks, and to have & convict escape so soon was not a thing to be relished by the officers in charge. The warden was notified, and he hastened to the prison and took active measures to capture the fugitive. GIGANTIC STRIKE PROBABLE. Anthracite Coal Diggers Get No Satisfaction From Operators. The miners' convention at Shamokin, Pa., Wednesday heard the report of the special committee appointed to seek a conference with the operators. After adjournment this evening President Mitchell, speaking for the press tMc cfatamenf' t_UU!!.ll i I LCC, 1U?UE wid uwvv~.>.-.. "The committee reported the refusal of E. B. Thomas, chairman of directors of the Erie railroad, to receive the committee and the consequent failure of their efforts to make the necessary arrangement with him. The same committee reported the result of interviews with the railroad presidents and presented letters from the raih road companies. The letters are all ot the same purport?a positive refusal to confer with the representatives ol their employes upcn the wages to be paid and the conditions of employment which should obtain. It is needless to say the delegates expressed keen disappointment and the opposition to continuing work un der the present low wages and unfaii conditions was unanimous apd em phatic." DECAPITATED BY ROPE. Horrible Incident at Hanging of Mur derer Will Lanier. Will Lanier, murderer of two broth ers, met death on the gallows at Aber deen, Miss., Wednesday. He was firm to the last and made an address in which he stated that the cause of his downfall was gambling and illicit whisky making. When the rope stretched, the spec tators were horrified to see his head leap from his body, severed as com pletely as though cut with an ax. A iarge crowd witnessed the execution For Attending Martyr President. The bills of the physicians who attended the late President McKinlej have been received in Washington and will be transmitted to congress at ar early date. Puppet King Goes Hence. Achilles I, known as the "king ol Patagonia and Araauchina," died Tr Paris Wednesday of pneumonia. PUBLISHERS IN TROUBLE. Charge of Fraudulent Use of Maiii Against Philadelphia Concern. At Philadelphia Thursday, Charles L. Graham, president of the People's Publishing Company; William L. Hoi Ioway, former manager of the com pany, and George Y. Clements, formei assistant manager, were held in $2,00( bail each for trial on the charge oi using the mails to cheat and defraud The charge was preferred by Post office Inspector Holden, who testified that the company had for a long time past been making a practice of securing agents for the sale of alleged worthless books. METHODISTS IN CONFERENCE. Northern and Southern Branches Plar For Mutual Basis of Work. The first session of a joint commis sion representing the Methodist Epis copal church and the Methodist Epis copal church, south, began at Baltimore Friday The conference w.** held in private. A plan is sought by which mission work may be unified and an economic basis of operations may bo established, and the result of the conference will undoubtedly be far-reaching REFORM SCHOOL ON FIRE. Nearly Three Hundred Children Mt< naced By Early Morning Blaze. Early Thursday morning the Lexington. Ky., fire department was not! tied that the state school of reform, six miles frcm the city, and in which 2S7 children are confined, was in fiames. The inmates are thought tc have all gotten our. safely. A fire en gine was scut from the city. SIXTY MILES AN HOUR ? ' Train Pianos From the Rails to Fearfgl Destruction. SIXTY TONS OF MAIL BURNED Great Pile of Wreckage Takes Fire and Only Pullmans Were Left. Two Men Killed and j Many Hurt. . ^, :%A The northbound limited maril and .... vestibule passenger train, No. 38, on 4 | the Virginia Midland railway, of the I Southern system, was wrecked near I Covesvjlle, Va., 12 miles south of f Charlottesville, at 4 o'clock Sunday vi morning, by running into a rock slide in a deep cut The train was late, and was running at a rate of sixty miles an hour. Two mail cars and a bag- v*g gage car were piled up on the engine. ^ and fire sleepers and a club car were JM The wreck took fire from the engine. ^ and all but the Pullman -cars were ^ completely destroyed. A colored porter, named Nicholas Law, of Washing- | ton, and an unknown tramp were . 'igj killed. The porter's body was burned r * to a crisp in the fire. ' 'S None of the passengers were hurt, but nearly all lost their baggage and WjsL a great deal of their clothing. In the J^D two mail cars were nine postal clerks. ^j?| and, although the cars were broken to kindMng wood, all the clerks escaped - ~%d without serious injury. Million Pieces of Mail Burned. ' The mail was entirely destroyed by J the fire, and the loss in this reepect was the greatest in the history of southern railroad disasters. The clerks had just finished assorting more than a million pieces, composing fully five tons of matter and including several thousand registered pieces ot great value. The loss cannot be estimated at the presen" time, but will amount-to many thousand dollars, A greater part of the mail was on its way to Washington and New York. Very lifct'e foreign matter was included. Lees than a dozen pieces were %?j found lying about after the cars were destroyed. A hospital train waa madeJfllL4*i^ijM Charlottesville and the injured mail clerks were sent on to Washington, where they were taken to a hospital. MAD STRIKERS CAPTURE CARS, jf They Beat Crewe, Run Out Passenger* i I and Take Full Charge?Ar. I reete Are Made. ; A special from Norfolk, Va., says: ' Strike sympathisers owned the street 1 car line after 11:30 o'clock Saturday I night ? At Atlantic City car No. 40, with vbgH fourteen passengers aboard, was being run out several pistol shuts were , /Sm fired, one of them going through the , fired, one of the mgoing through the front of the car witbin a foot of the? motorman's head. As the motor-man shut off the current and stopped the car, eight men <|&h[ jumped aboard. They beat the ran the passengers from the car and ^ took it to the end cf the Tfnte, where it . was found after midnight with the* trolley pole broken. j Second Attack Is Made. ;^S? . J Car No. 50 was on Church street i just as the strikers adjourned from a i meeting. The strikers jumped &boa?4: ^ i the car, beat the mo to rm an and con- j* ductor, can-sing them to take refuge under seats, chased the only passes. gers out of the car and took possesI sion. They ran it several blocks down 1 . the street, took off the trolley pole and . - ^ L left the car in a dismantled condition. ^ Another car was later missing and ! no trace of it could be found. The police arrested two persons in connec- ^ . ticn with the Atlantic Cdty affair. ^|lf I Line It Reported Sold. I It is reported that the Old Dominion. ?oj , street railway has been sold for $450,-'. 000. William L. Elkins and P. A. B. Widener, owners of the Philadelphia. Traction Company and of street railI way interests in New York and St. , Louis, are mentioned a6 the pur- -^b chasers. PAID EIGHTEEN MILLIONS. 1 i That it Sum Given By Syndicate For San Francisco Street Railways. i T*.e Baltimore syndicate which pur- , ^ i chased the principal street car lines - ^ . of San Francisco, has paid over the - 2|s . sum of $18,617,000. A certified cheok . on the Union Trust Company of Sany- ;/'j ) Francisco was given and $5,000,000 of I the purchase price will be paid to stockholders in New York. The final step took place Tuesday 1 when the stockholders of the Market , Street railway met and ratified the . action of the directors. The new com[ pany will be known as the United Railroads of San Francisco. ALL WANT A RAISE. Textile Operators Make Demand Fof > Ten Per Cent Increase. The mill agents at Lowell, Mass., ' Friday considered the demand of tex' tile operatives for an advance of 10 ( per cent A letter was sent to the tex- * tile council, but its contents were r*J|g 1 secret. The several unions of cotton mill .>[':ig operatives at Lewiston. Main-,, have . ^||| also made a demand for a 10 per cent . | increase in wages similar to that de- r mandel in o^ber p'acesFRANCE A GOOD CUSTOMER. ? W? Stand Second In Lift of Nation's . Trading With Her, The United States stood second on the^ list of nations from which France ; .;i% purchased her supplies last year-and ^ fourth in the list of purchasers of prot ducts of French origin, according to a i report from United States Consul i Tbackara at Havre, dated February. 20 and made public at the state tiej.artment Thursday.