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ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. AUGUST 28.1902. ONE DOLLAlt PER YEAR.
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' PRIM ARY IN ALABAMA
Jslks Forces Claim Decisive Viclory
Oyer Johnston Cohorts.
MAJORITY PLACED AT 25,01)0
Contest an interesting One Owing to
New Franchise Restrictions
Only Six Counties Conceded
i to Johnston.
A Birmingham, Ala., special says:
Jelks is undoubtedly nominated for
governor by a safe majority. His
friends estimate his majority at from
twelve to twenty-five thousand, but
the most conservative nonpartisans
who understand what beat returns
mean declare that the latter is more
nearly the correct figure.
Johnston's strength is believed to be
In the county precincts, and a number
of these have not been heard from.
The horse mails will undoubtedly add
to his showing, but not enough to affect
the general result.
The reports make very little reference
to the lieutenant governor.
Craig Smith has been renominated
for treasurer, as has Thomas L. Sowell
for auditor and Robert R. Pool for
commissioner of agriculture. None of
these gentlemen were opposed.
Gives Jelks 25,000 Majority.
The Montgomery Advertiser had received
sufficient returns up to midnight
to indicate a landslide for Governor
Jelks in all portions of the state.
The most conservative estimate, says
the Advertiser, will put the majority in
the state for Jelks near 25,000. The
contest for governor has overshadowed
everything else, and minor state
officers are sti.l in doubt. Thompson
wins easily over Brewer in the fifth
aistrct for congress. That is the only
congressional contest in the state, all
the other present congressmen being
renominated without opposition.
Jelks No.t Surprised.
The following dispatch was sent by
Gov. Jelks to the Atlanta Constitution:
"The returns, although gratifying to
me, are not surprising. I anticipated
the result and was prepared for it.
One thing which I was not prepared
for when the campaign was begun was
the manner in which jt was conducted
by my opponents: It was smaller and
filthier than I expected. In this respect
it will stand unique, and, I hope,
a'cne, in the history of the state.
"WM. D. JELKS."
PRESIDENT IN BOSTON.
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His Real Work Begins in Earnest on
New England Tour.
The week's work for President
Roosevelt in his trip through NewEngland
began in earnest Monday af.ternoon,
when he departed from the
summer home of the junior senator of
Massachusetts, Cabot Lodge, of Nahant,
and amid the enthusiasm of the
greatest number of people he has
faced since the Pittsburg visit on
July 4, rode into line under cavalry
escort and spoke from a platform at
the city hall. Then he was taken to
T3nctr?? snpoifll train and on ar
rival went to Symphony ha'.l, there addressing
a great gathering of Boston
business men. His speech . was devoted
almost entirely to consideration
of the trust question.
COMMERCE OF CUBA.
Final Summary of War Department
Shows Value of Imports.
The insular division, of the war department
has just published its last
summary of the commerce of the island
of Cuba. The summary shows
that the total value of imports into
f Cuba during the military occupation
was $225,437,135 and the exports were
$45,000,000 less than the imports, a
fact attributed to the destruction of
property and damage to agriculture
caused by the war.
The United States furnished 43 per
cent of the imports, and took 75 per
cent of the exports.
GEORGIA COTTON IS POOR.
Conditions Worse Than Bad Outlook
at This Time Last Year.
Georgia crop conditions just now
are somewhat worse than they were
last year at this time, according to the
- crop report issued Monday by the de
partment of agriculture, and last year
the crop conditions were considerably
below the average.
The average condition of cotton
throughout the state at the present
time, according to the report, is 70 per
cent as against 75 per cent last year,
and that was considered rather a poor
showing.
GREAT VICTORY FOR REBELS.
Commander Potter Tells of Seizure of
the Warship Boyaca.
The navy department is in receipt
of the following cablegram:
"Panama, August 21.?Secretary
Navy, Washington: Boyaca, with 300
men, was captured by rtvolutionists
on July 30.
(Signed) "POTTER.
''Commander Ranger."
HIS "JOB-LOTS" IS DELIGHTED.
Duke Boris, of Russia, Drinks Wine J
From Slippers of Chorus Maids.
A Chicago dispatch says: Drinking
wine from the s ippers of the chorus
girls after theatre parties and poker
games has so charmed the Grand Duke
Boris of Russia that he has decided to
remain in Chicago the rest of the
week.
After accepting the hospitality of
the city for several days, the duke
himself ha* assumed the role of host.
| DESPERATE CONVICTS MUTINY, i
Guard# of Kentucky State Pen Held
at Bay?Three of the Mutineers
Shot.
The officials of the Kentucky state
penitentiary and the citizens of Frankfort
were thrown into a state of wild
excitement Wednesday morning by a
mutiny in the prison, started by an attempt
to gain their liberty on the part
of three desperate murderers, Lafayette
Brooks, Wal'edo Bishop and T.
Mulligan.
Before the riot, which began at C
o'clock and lasted until after 10, was
quelled, and the mutinous convicts
captured, Bishop was fatally wounded,
Mulligan was shot in the shoulder, and
a negro named Ransome, who joined
the trio, was hit by a rifle ball.
The mutiny started while Brooks,
Mulligan and Bishop, one of whom
had a pistol concealed about his person,
were coming out of the dining
room at 6 o'clock to answer hospital
call. Suddenly one of the convicts
drew a weapon and compelled Guard
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Guard F. F. Hurst, who rushed to |
Gill's assistance, was also captured by
the convicts. Captain Mat Madman,
acting warden, then rushed forward
with six guards, and fired on the
bunch, but no one was hit. The convict*
then ran across the yard, and at
the entrance to the reed department
of the chair factory, captured Willis,
a foreman.
They covered him with their pistols
and, placing him between them and
th# guards, retreated to the rocker de
partment from where they could com- |
mand a good view of the entire yard.
At the window they stationed Willis,
while Brooks, with a revolver in
hia hand, took a position just beside
the captive, resting the muzzle of the i
weapon on the foreman's left side.
The convicts then defied Warden Lillard
to attempt to capture them, shouting
that they would kill the foreman
at the first move made against them.
By this time several hundred citizens,
many of whom were heavily
armed, had gathered at the prison
gates, but the warden denied admission
to all. He issued orders for all
the shops to close and ior all the prisoners
to be returned at once to their
cells. He then placed a guard of GO i
men around the building in which the
desperadoes had barricaded themselves
and called on them to surrender.
The oonvicts' reply was a taunt .
After putting on a bold front for
some time, the convicts promised to
surrender and asked that Captain Liilard
and Captain Madigan come in person
to escort them, but it was .believed j
that was merely a ruse to kill the ofiicert
Later a letter from the desperadoes
was brought by Frank Brooks. The
note stated that if the warden would
come to the head of the steps leading
to the reed department, the convicts |
would surrender, first sending their
weapons by Brooks.
WoTvlori T.illinrri nrpnqrcd to arcent i
the terms and as a matter of precaution
a half dozen guards were p'aced
in the hospital overlooking the reed
department. Warden Liiliard, accompanied
by eight men, then proceeded
to the foot of the stairway of the department.
Suddenly the crack of a Winchester
was heard, showing that the note was
but a ruse.
"We got Bishop,'' shouted a guard.
"He's dead."
The prisoners had emerged from
the reed room as they had promised,
with hands up, but as they proceeded
down. the stairs, Bishop dropped his
hands to his side as if to draw a weapon.
He had hardly made the motion
when one of the warden's party fired,
the bullet striking Bishop m the
breast, inflicting a fatal wound.
When Bishop fell Mulligan and
Brooks sank to their knees begging
nior^on C9V0 th PIT* HvPK.
developments showed that Ran- J
some, the negro who was shot, was not
press-ed Into service by the desperadoes,
as was first thought, but had
joined them after they entered the
rocker department. A bowie knife
was found on him when he was captured.
WOMEN RAID A SALOON.
Wreck "Blind Pig" and Force the Proprietor
to Hastily Decamp.
Belmont, Tenn., a small town six
miles west of Nashville, was the scene
of much excitement, when a mob composed
of women made a raid on a saloon
and completely demolished it.
The saloon, or "blind pig." has been
running for some days. Women organized
and marched in a body to the
saloon.
They began by throwing rocks
through the windows and then proceeded
to enter and finish the work,
breaking bottles and completely wrecking
the place. The proprietor fled.
CAPE PARLIAMENT OPENS.
Governor Announces in Speech that
Martial Law Will Cease.
A special from Cape Town, South
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Ainca, ftcl) S . 111U pai iiuiiivax v
assembled Wednesday. Sir Walter F.
Hely-Hutchlnson. governor of the colony,
announced in a speech that martial
law would be removed on. the pas:
sage of a bill indemnifying the governor
and all persons concerned for acts
committed under martial law
CUBANS ARE SUSPICIOUS.
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Want to Know Why Soldiers Weret
Landed at Santiago.
A resolution was adopted in the Cuban
house of representatives Friday
asking the executive for information
in regard to the landing of 100 Aineri
can soldiers at Santiago de Cuba
Thursday.
The soldiers in question were sent
to relieve the American troops quartered
in th? fortresses- at Santiago,
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I SOUTH CAROLINA I
| k STATE NEWS ITEMS. |
fcr\jfNicNifNJff\icMrsirsi'
Monument is Unveiled.
Sunday was a great day for Woodcraft
in upper South Carolina. Several
hundred Woodmen from Piedmont.
Pelzer, Fork Shoals, Belton and
Anderson assembled at Honeapath, on
the Columbia and Greenville road, to
assist in unveiling a monument to the
memory of Sovereign Luther S. Bigby.
Walnut camp. No. 14, Pelzer.
j The veil was drawn by Misses Bessie
Sullivan and Eu'a Donald, and J.
J. McSwain, a prominent Greenville
attorney, delivered the address of the
occasion.
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Wreck on the C. N. and L. Read.
Thn nnrthhonnd freieht on the Co
Iumbia, Newberry and Laurens railroad
was wrecked last Monday morning
near Slighs, a small station about
12 miles from Newberry. Fireman
H- nry Burts, white, of Honea Path,
was killed, and Engineer Oscar Land
and two negro tramps seriously in-1
jured.
It. is supposed that the rail spread
at this point, causing the engine and
cars to leave the track. The track [
was torn up for a distance of about j
loO yards. The engine and six box
cars were completely wrecked.
The injured were conveyed to Little
Mountain,where they received medical
attention.
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Two Orphan Boys Drowned.
Leon Phinizy, 13 years of age, and
Van Veronee, 12 years, inmates of the
Charleston orphan home, were drowned
in the surf at the Isle of Palms.
Benjamin Harrington, 13 years, was
with Phinizy and Veronee, and was
saved from the same fate by Rudolph
Claus, who was bathing with the boys.
The tide was at the full when the
party entered the water, and, with the
strong east wind, there was considerable
undertow.
Veronee could swim, while his companions
could not, a fact which added
to Veronee's confidence, and seemed
also 1:o make the other boys believe
that they could care for themslves.
The boys were out of their full height
in the water when sudden'y they lost
their footing and W6re carried too far
out.
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Great Battle of Ballots.
The primary election was held
throughout the state Tuesday. Senator
McLaurin's successor was nominated
as well as a state ticket. There
were six candidates for the senate,
Congressman Elliott and Latimer, former
Congressmen Hemphill and John
stone, D. S. Henderson, state senator,
and ex-Governor John Gary Evans.
The candidates for governor were
M. F. Ansel, former circuit solicitor;
Dr. W. H. Timmerman, former state
treasurer; W. J. Talbert, member of
congress; D. C. Hey ward and James
Ii. Tillman, lieutenant governor. The
campaign has been featureless except
for the terrible arraignment of Tillman's
personal character and public
career. The candidates have spoken
in each of the forty-one counties in the
state.
Captain Heyward is a farmer and
has never held political office, yet it
is conceded that he will get a plurality
on the first ballot, and will probably
run it over with either Colonel Talbert
or Tillman. There will be a second
ballot for nearly every other office.
The campaign for United States senator
has also been featureless, except
for the attacks on Congressman Latimer
by ex-Governor Evans and Colonel
Johnstone. It is impossible to forecast
this race.
In each county there was a primary
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ior ocnciais oi unnui imjjui wuv.v.
fight against child labor in cotton
mills has been the issue among legislative
candidates, and the result is
doubtful. The official count only will'
decide who the victors are.
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Temporary Force Asked For.
With a View of expediting the work
at the Charleston yard, Admiral Eridicott
has asked permisson of the secretary
of the navy to employ a temporary
force to assist the civil engineer
in charge of the work. It is understood
that the buildings and supply
shop at Charleston are to be built
upon plans similar to those to be constructed
at the Mare island navy yard,
in California. The plans and specifications
of the latter building are nearly
completed and they have given
so much satisfaction that the proposition
to duplicate them at Charleston
meets with general approval.
Captain Edwin Longnecker, who has
been assigned to duty as commandant
of the Charleston yard, in addition to
giving his attention to the naval station
at Port Royal, is regarded as one
of the ablest and best executive offi- [
cers- in the navy. He is very anxious
to make progress in the work assigned
him at Charleston, and he is displaying
his usual energy and efficiency
in his new station. It is quite likely
that he will be given full command
of the Charleston yard until it is time
for him to go to sea again. While he
is in charge of the work there will be
nn holding back or delays if he can
prevent them, for he is a progressive,
aggressive and at the same time courteous
officer. He was stationed at the
Washington yard several years ago,
and he has a host of friends at the nation's
capital who will watch with interest
his administration of the
Charleston navy yard.
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* fCharleston's
Big Dry Dock.
A Washington dispatch says: Rear
Admiral Endicott, chief of bureau of
yards and docks, has advertised for
bids for the construction of a s'en'
and granite dry dock fo: the naval station
at CharlejUQP, ^pscifleatjoas for
the work will be sent out In a few
days, and the bids are to be opened at
the navy department on October 11th.
The dry dock structure proper and thj
entrance to the same are to be built
cf concrete, with a granite facing and
coping, with a continuous waterproof
course to be laid in asphalt, unless
during the progress of the work it is
found preferabie to use piles under the
entire bottom of the dry dock proper
and entrance. The dimensions of the
dock are 043 by 144 in length and
breadth, with a greatest depth of 42
feet. Tho limit of the cost for the entire
work, including a pumping plant
and other apparatus, is $1,200,000. The
amount of appropriation available for
the work under the specifications
about to be issued is $S50,000.
Rear Admiral Endicott has been
somewhat hampered in the work of
getting ready for the machine and supply
shops to be built at the Charleston
yard by the lack of clerical assistance
and draftsmen. The admiral is anx'
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ious to put to worn a. iuite ?i
draftsmen and field men at Charleston
to make up for the delays which
have occurred from time to time in
other directions.
The class of employees he needs,
according to law, must be supplied
through the channels of the civil service
commission. For instance, he now
has work for several first-class draftsmen.
but they must be obtained from
the civil service commission. It frequently
happens that the men on the
eligible list may reside way out in California,
Oregon and other far distant
parts of the country. They have to
be notified by the commission that an
appointment awaits them. Sometimes
they decline to accept, on the ground
that they have other employment. It
someimes happens that there are no
eligibles on a certain list, and a new
examination has to be held. All this
takes time and delays important work.
HENRY JUMPS "FDL'R HUNDRED"
Editor Waterson Swoops Down Upon
Newport "Sassiety" With a Sizzling
and Trenchant Pen.
In an editorial in the Louisville
Courier-Journal, entitled "A Flock of
Unclean Birds" Henry Watterson
says:
"The four hundred contrive to keep
themselves constantly before the public.
Yet, somehow, it is their scandals,
not their benefactions, that advertise
them.
"But yesterday it was the Fair tragedy
in France that recalled the infe
llcities and vulgarities of a family
which, except for its millions, would
have decorated the criminal instead of
the social annals of its time.
"Today's sensation relates to the
Van Alens, an off-shoot of the Astors.
"It will be remembered that one J.
J. Van Alen, an ambitious donkey with
dollars, thought in advance to be the
representative of Grover Cleveland?
in case he was elected?to the Italian
mission, subscribed, it was said, fifty
thousand of the Astor shekels to the
campaign fund.
"The story got out, and, characteristically,
Mr. Cleveland, having had the
usufruct of the money, repudiated the
deal. This is the same Van Alen
whose daughter defied his wishes and
married the man of her own selection
a few weeks ago.
"Now comes the Remington suicide,
and we learn that it was all on account
of another of the Van Allen
girls, and so it goes. We never hear
of the four hundred except it be a
murc.er, a suicide or a divorce. A shot
fired into a flock of these unclean
birds cannot miss hitting an injured
husband, a recreant and disgraced
j wife or at the least a gilded nincompoop
lik? Van Alen, Sr."
ONLY EIGHTY WERE LEFT.
Major Porter Tells of a Disastrous
Battle With Moros.
Major Ralph S. Porter, burgeon of
the United States volunteers, has rei
Mtrnod tn hie hrvmo in ChieafiTO On Sick
leave of three months. Major Porter
was severely wounded at the storming
j of Bayan in Mindanao on May 2, beI
ing shot through the hip.
'.'The Moros," said Major Porter,
j "numbering between 400 and 500,
were intrenched in a strong fortification,
with walls 12 feet high surroundj
ed by three trenches.
"Our expedition numbered 370. We
charged the works, and then ensued
| the fiercest fight that has taken place
in the island of Mindanao.
"The fight commenced at 3 o'clock
I in the afternoon, and it was not until
| 2 o'clock in the morning that the Moros
surrendered. When we entered
the fort there were but 80 out of the
500 left."
WOULD-BE ANGEL FLOGGED.
Citizens of Texarkana Roughly Handle
a Fanatical Fool.
A special from Texarkana, Ark.,
says:
"Divine Healer and Prophet Perkins,
who has been posing as an angel of
Christ in this city the past ten days,
claiming he was waiting fdr Christ,
who would appear In a few days, was
taken out of town by whitecappers,
flogged and his hair cut short, ana
then given thirty minutes to leave
town. A notice left on Perkins' door
read: 'Stune fate to sympathizers.'"
EOTHA TO SUCCEED KRUGER.
Result of Conference of Boer Leaders
Held in Brussels.
Cabling from Brussels, the correspondent
of the London Daily Telegraph
says he hears that, as a result
of the conference between former
President Kruger and the Boer generals.
DeWei. Botha and Dclarcy, Mr
Kruger is tc resign the leadership cf
the Boer people.
General Bo.ha, adds th~- correspondent,
was unanimously designated ai
: tho futuru leader of th<> Roeri,
TROLLEY CARS CRASH
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Three Die Instantly and Fifteen!
Others Seriously Injured.
MOTORMAN DISOBEYED ORDERS
Cars Were Crowded With Sunday Excursionists
and Were Completely
Telescoped in Frightful
Impact.
A special from Norfolk, Va., says:
In a head-on collision between two
cars on the Bay Shore Terminal line
late Sunday three people were killed
and many others badly injured. The
dead are: W. S. Yandall, motorman;
C. B. Colden, motorman; Linwood Fentress-,
aged 10. Fifteen of the passen
bers were seriously injured.
The accident occurred about 3 1-2
miles from Norfolk. One car was coming
from Ocean View and the other going
out. The orders were that the
Shorebound car should wait at the siding
for the other. Motorman W. S.
Yandall endeavored to jump, but was
crushed in the telescoped cars. Motorman
C. D. Colden, of the other car,
applied his airbrakes as soon as he
saw the danger, but the collision occurred
on a curve and then tried to
jump, as did Linwood Fentress, son of
R B. Fentress, president of the Norfolk
Cold Storage and Ice Company.
Both Colden and young Fentress were
caught under the platform of the
shorebound car, which piled up on the
other, and were killed outright.
Both cars were full of Sunday excursionists
and few escaped injury.
Help was phoned to Norfolk for and
physicians and ambulances were hurried
to the scene. In the meantime a
large number of the injured were taken
to the city in private conveyances.
There is no complete list of the injured.
A coroner's jury viewed the dead
and took some testimony, but adjourned
until Wednesday.
A SUNDAY RACE RIOT.
Whites and Blacks Mix on Ball Field
at Indianapolis.
A race riot broke out at Haughville,
a suburb of Indianapolis, Sunday afternoon
between two hundred negroes
and whites employed by the National
Malleable Castings Company. There
had been bitter race feeling between
them for several years and trouble has
frequently broken out. Two people
have already been killed at different
times.
A ball gamt Sunday morning between
the two factions caused the excitement.
As the crowd left the field
hostilities broke out. Stones, bricks,
clubs and other missiles were used.
Two hundred persons were immediately
crushed together in a fighting mass.
Twelve or fifteen shots were fired,
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ana it is reported one ucgru was juui,
but he was slipped from the field before
the police arrived. The whites
were victorious, driving the blacks
from the field and wounding a number
of them. Several white people
were bad'y injured.
Ten arrests have been made and
others will be made as lapidly as the
persons are found. The police responded
to a riot call, hut on account
of the distance did not arrive till the
fight had been fought to a finish. Officers
of the company fear other outbreaks
will follow.
AS TO GREENE-GAYNOR CASE.
Attorney General Knox Will Make a
New Move in a Few Days.
As to the Greene-Gaynor case, Attorney
General Knox states that within
a day or two he will formulate instructions
to the government consul in
Quebec as to the next steps to be taken
to extradite the men. The govern?
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Ill^nl, I1C SillQ, iitlU IlU UIUU511 l ul auau*
doning its case and every possible
means would be exhausted to secure
the return of Greene and Gaynor te
the United States .
THEORETICAL NAVAL TIGHT.
In Mimic Battle Array Fleets are Pitted
Against Each Other.
The unique war game in which the
rival fleets of Admiral Francis J. Higginson
and Commander John A. Pilsbury
are pitted against each other began
at Rock Port, Mass., Wednes-day.
The north Atlantic coast is now
threatened by a theoretically powerful
squadron of hostile ships from the attack
of which an equally able fleet will
attempt to defend. This is the first
series of maneuvers in which the ships
will participate, and it will be under
the direction of the navy department
MILES GOES TO PHILIPPINES.
With Permission of President, General
Will Make Inspection.
With reference to the statement
that Lieutenant General Miles is goine
to the Philippine islands, Secre-1
i tary Cortelyou said Monday night:
"General Miles Is going to the Philippine
islands, with the permission of
the president, to inspect army conditions
there."
CHINESE SAILORS BARRED.
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j Celestials to Man Big Steamer Cannot
Land at Frisco.
The steamship Gaelic, with 350 Chinese
on board, is soon due at San
Francisco. These Chinese, it is ah
leged, are being brought to San Francisco
to man the new steamship Korea.
The Sailors' Union recently protested
against this to Collector Stratton,
declaring that a vio ation of the
immigration law was contemplated
Th? protect has been effective.
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I Cream of News.::i
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Brief Summary of Most
Important Events
of Each "Day.
?Citizens of Buford, Ga., pass resolutions
condemning Latham R. Winn
for attack on Rev. C. C. Cary, made Localise
of statements about house party.
?Hillman Paulk was found dead by
the roadside near Tifton, Ga., Sunday
with four bullet holes in body,
either of which would have proved
fatal.
?Rev. Ansell Tucker is arrested on
warrant sworn out by Mrs. George Alexander,
in Berrien county, Ga., charging
assault.
?In collision of street cars between
Norfolk and Ocean View, Va., Sunday
three persons were killed and twenty
injured.
?in a race riot at Indianapolis, Ind.,
Sunday the whites came out victorious.
No one was killed, but several persons
were injured.
?In the naval maneuvers the white
squadron was defeated by the blue
squadron Sunday.
?Senator Hanna has given up all
hope of the coal strike terminating.
Says he has exhausted all his powers
in efforts to bring about peace.
?Turkey has conceded to all the demands
of the United States and friendly
relations between the two countries
have been restored.
?By a majority of about 400, Sumter
county, Georgia, goes wet.
?Five negroes are injured by house
wrecked by storm at Covington, Ga.,
and two will pr&bably die. Crops suffered
severely.
?Three negroes are reported dead
and three white men and three blacks
are known to be wounded in battle
near Tupelo, Miss., tut no race riot
is anticipated.
?Plans for the pooling of southern
roads are practically completed by J.
Pierpont Morgan.
?Edward Remjngtcn, brother of the
late Robert Remington, who suicided
at Newport, is said to hold to the opinion
that his brother met death by fottl
play.
?Russell Sage, in statement made
to the Associated Press, declares that
the trust propaganda will be the financial
ruin of the country.
?French feeling against Germany
ran high at a recent anniversary celebration
attended by the people of Lor
raine.
?At reunion of confederate veterans
at Greensboro, N. C., act of congress
granting pensions to deserters
from southern army is denounced.
?Hon. John S. Wise says new constitution
of Virginia is not and never
has been constitution of that state.
?The fleet under Admiral Higginson
and Commander Pilsbury are arrayed
off the Massachusetts coast In
mimic warfare.
?President Hill, of the Northern Securities
Company, attacks the plan for
an Isthmian canal.
?Duke Boris, while entertaining a
party of chorus girls in Chicago with
the members of his staff, drinks wine
from the slipper of his partner.
?Nine men were killed in a paper
mill explosion at Wilmington, Del.,
Wednesday.
?The interview between Kruger
and the three Boer generals at Utrecht
is reported stormy. Kruger upbraids
them for surrendering.
?The parliament at Cape Town
meets and proposes that martial law
be raised.
?Indications are that the larger Cuban
loan of $33,000,000 will be dropped.
?Convict Guy Shelton, who escaped
from the Atlanta federal prison, was
captured after an exciting chase for j
thirty miles.
?James Hunter, a Savannah broker, (
threatens to proceed by mandamus to
compel Central railroad to pay usual 3
per cent dividend.
?A storm strucK nome, ua., luesday,
wrecking a church and three residences,
unroofing other houses,
breaking windows and ruining shad?
trees,
?At a campaign meeting near
Greenville, S. C., Tuesday Walter McCarrell
was shot to death and Ernest
McCarrell and Emmett Styles wounded
by Carey Styles.
?Seaboard Air Line conductor Is attacked
by negroes near Raleigh and
Fred Stevers and negro porter who
went to his rescue are shot, former
killed and latter fatally wounded.
?The publishing houses in China of
the two Methodist churches are to be
united at Shanghai.
?Guy Shelton convict No. 251,
makes his escape frim federal prison
at Atlanta while he was thought to be
taking exercise.
?Charges that club rolls have been
padded at Charleston causes committee
to investigate.
?President Charles M. Schwab of
the United Steel Corporation is expected
to retire soon, on account of ill
health.
?Giant fraud is uncovered in the
business of the Tripler J iquid Air
Company.
?The shah of Persia arrives in London
and takes up his quarters at the
Marlborough house.
?Statements made in a sermon at
Lawrenceville. Ga., by Rev. C. C. Cary,
reflecting on ladies of a house party
result in attack upon him by Latham
R. Winn, at whose mother's home the
party was given.
?Five women were burned to death
in a New York tenement house Tuesday
as a resu t of explosion.
?Tax returns of Fulton county, Ga.,
show an increase of $527.fi00 over
these of last year.
?Judge Speer renders decision up!
holding Georgia law on building and J
loan MS5>ciat[oa# ?&? Ift&W kafiftg.
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BOY KIDNAPS GIRLj
Forced Her to fio With Him at
Point of Pistol.
DARING DEED OF A LUNATIC
Father Was Absent from Home at the
time, and Girl Was Easy Mark.
Searching Parties
at Work.
With a drawn pistol in his hand,
James I. Tindall, said to be an escaped
lunatic from the sanitarium at
Milledgeville, Ga., entered the home
of L. A. Roach, in Wilkinson county,
Thursday afternoon, and carried off
Agnes Roach, a 15-year-old girl. The
kidnaping was accomplished while
Roach was away from tome. The oniy
persons in the house at the time were
the younger brothers and sisters of
Agnes.
Holding his pistol in the young girl's
| face, Tindall ordered her to don a
clean dress and come with him.
The distracted father of Agnes went
to Macon Friday to notify the police
and to secure the aid of detectives.
Tindall is described as a young
j man of 19 years of age, low of stature,
stout and fair of complexion, and at
the time last seen wore a white hat.
He was sent to the asylum some time
ago and recently escaped.
Roach, in telling of the affair, says
he was absent from home Thursday
afternoon and no one was there but
his daughter Agnes and two of the
younf/er children. Suddenly Tindall
appeared on the scene, with a drawn
pistol in his hand, so the younger
children tell him, and by threats of
killing her, made her put on a clean
dress and leave with him.
Tindall- Hired a Buggy.*
1 The couple walked abou two miles,
when Tindall stopped at the house of
a negro man whom he knew and hired
a mule and buggy from him, saying he
would take a little drive, and when he
returned would pay him for the use
of the vehicle. At last accounts Tindall
had not returned. He drove off
with the girl, going in the direction of
Macon.
When Roach arrived at his home
Thursday evening about dusk his children
informed him of .what Tindall
had done. Roach, with a number of
his neighbors, searched on the highways
and in the woods for Tindall and
the girl Thursday night, but without
success.
Roach says that inasmuch as Tindall
is a lunatic and had a pistol, he is
apprehensive that Tindall may have
murdered Agnes.
TAFT RECEIVES OVATION.
Civil Governor Given Big "Blow-Out"
On Arrival at Manila.
Civil Governor Taft reached Manila
"r""' J? ^ n irl iorVi f /in hnnrfl
| r nutty mui umg ai, uuj 115^, wu ~ _
the United States gunboat General
Alva from Singapore straits settlement.
He was welcomed with r.n enthusiastic
demonstration.
The day had been made a holiday,
and the city was decorated.
Twenty thousand natives from adjoining
provinces participated in the demonstrations
in honor of the governor's
arrival.
IN MEMORY OF M'KINLEY.
Buffalo Citizens Will Observe Anniversary
of Assassination.
Mayor Knight, of Buffalo, N. Y., has
issued a proclamation suggesting that
on Sunday, September 14, the first anniversary
of the death, of President
McKinley, memorial services be held
in all the churches in Buffalo and that
the city be draped with the flag of our
country. He has appointed a committee
to arrange for other special observances
fitting to the occasion.
Kansas Populists Take Action.
The middle-of-the-road populist convention
adjourned at Topeka, Kans.,
Friday, after deciding to put a state
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ticket in me ntuu
NOTHING BUT STRIFE AHEAD.
Mitchell Sees No Hope for Early Set
tlement of Strike.
A fight "to the bitter end" is the
way President John Mitchell, of the
United Mine Workers of America, put
the situation in the anthracite coal
I strike in an interview at Chicago WedI
nesday.
He 6ald he saw nothing for him to
do in the strike but to hold his men
firm. Even an appeal to the American
people for intercession he thought
would be of no avail. "I see nothing
ahead but strife," he said.
GIRL MESSENGER "BOYS."
Telegraph Companies at Chicago uo
Away With Unruly Youngsters.
For the fourth time in as many
weeks the messengers employed by
the telegraph companies at Chicago
are on a strike, and this has resulted
in a queer condition of affairs. The
managers have employed girte and
young women in place of the unruly1
boys and the scheme works well.
GEORGIA PEACH IN ENGLAND
Shipment Arrived in Good Shape and
Brought Fancy Prices.
Reports from the Hale Orchard Company
at Fort Valley, Ga., are to the
effect that the recent exiperimentai
shipment of a coup e of car loads or
Georgia peaches to England was high
ly successful. The fruit arrived in
fine shape and brought handsome profits.
Those who expect the European
market* to be opened to Georgia fruit
?r??ht?d. i
A MIMIC II I O IS HIQGINSON.
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Pillabury's Fleet is Theoretically
Smashed to Smitherines Off New
England Coast.
A special from Rockport, Mass.,
says: The naval search problem on
the New England coast was termiifat- ; v|
ed at 5:40 Sunday morning by the
signal, "Surrender; demand an unconditional,"
from Rear Admiral Higginson's
flagship, and the reply, "Accept
surrender," from the fore truck
of the 'Praliit, Commander Pillabury's
flagship. The battle between
the blue, or defending squadron, and
the white, or attacking squadron, was
thus quickly ended 8 miles south of ^
Thatcfcer's island.
The enemy had most signally failed
to make a harbor, having for Its objective
Salem. A preponderance of
fighting strength, relatively 64 points,
represented by the battleships. Kearsarge,
Alabama and Massachusetts,
Scorpion and a torpedo boat, had overwhelmed
the 45 points- represented by JJi
the auxiliary cruisers Prairie, Panther
and Supply. To apeak irom & mw
retlc standpoint, the white squadron }.%
wag entirely destroyed by the guns of
the defending battleships.
Thus, on the fourth night the game .
of naval strategy was brought to an /,3ggH
end, it having covered a period of unceasing
toil, sleepless nights, of anx- ious
and wearing vigil and of grave
uncertainty to its participants.
The destruction of Pillsbury's squadron
occurred at a point just within
the outer limit of Gloucester harbor; not
over 8 miles southerly from %
Thatchers island, off which had been
anchored Wednesday, when the war *
game was declared open, the* three powerful
battle ships of the blu*
The surrounding and "putting out of ,
action" of the squadron in command of
Commander Pillsbury was the culml- 'wjL
nating incident in one of the most ,-j^m
interesting chapers in the peace history
of the American navy. For the '
placing in operation of the maneuvers ^
of the war ships off the coast of New ^
England, the navy had long prepared 'Jjjjjfl
itself and had long looked forward %'xjM
with keen anticipation. JSa
LIE8 NAILED BY BOWEN.
Superintendent of Public Instruction , :'\
in Philippines Makes Report.
The bureau of insular affairs of the \$|8|
war department has made public a report
from Frank Bo wen, acting generai
superintendent of public instruction '
for the Philippine islands, upon
charges made in the United State#
against the school system of the Phil- . .
ippines, alleging that it was used as
a proselyting agency against Catholic*
fono.roiiv uspd tn the nreiudice of \
O.XAU
Catholicism." The report closes wfth %jjBt
the following:
"The venemous attack on the Philip*. '
pine commission, and, especially the :'l
Filipino members thereof, who ara M
termed traitors and rascals, serve to
show the degree of bitterness and '~'M
recklessness of statements which characterize
the whole article. The nego- .
tiations at present under way in Rome ^'Mjg
as related to the church lands in these
islands, is sufficient refutation of the ";l JjBfl
last wild statement of this extraordinary
production, in which not one
material statement is true."
TWO ROADS ARE SUED
For Failure to Obey Order of Georgia
Railroad Commission.
At a conference held in Atlanta, Ga., '
Saturday morning between Attorney
General Boykin Wright, Judge Spen- ^8
cer R. Atkinson, chairman of the railroad
commission, and Judge Sam At- r*|H
kinson, attorney for the Brunswick &
Birmingham railroad, it was decided ;-:|||
to bring two suits for $5,000 each
against the Plant system and the
Southern railway.
The suits will be trued on the re-- #||
fusal of these two roads to comply
with an order of the railroad ccmmission
which directed them to cease dls- crimination
against the Brunswick and , 5:
Birmingham in the matter of traffic arrangements
at Brunswick.
TRAINS TUMBLE INTO RAVINE. ||
Disastrous Freight wrecK in nmcn ^
Three are Killed and Three May Die.
In a disastrous freight wreck on the
Southern railway, near Georgetown,
10 miles west of New Albany, Ind.,
Sunday, Engineer "Red" Duval, Fireman
B. Cox and Brakeman Ross, of ,
one train, were killed outright, and Engineer
Harry Goodall and Fireman
George Myers, of the other train probably
fatally hurt. Fourteen box cars " J
loaded with wheat, together with two
locomotives were tumbled over a tres- ,
tie to a ravine forty feet below and de- T , |
molished.
MAY BE BARTHOLIN.
Man Held in San Francisco Thought
to Be Double Murderer,
A man giving the name of Thomas
j Kelly nas oeen arrcsteu m ?- '^-esMB
I Cisco and lodged in the city prison on
suspicion, it is alleged, of being William
Bartholin, wanted in Chicago,
to explain, if possible, the murder of
his mother and a girl named Minnie U
Mitcfiell.
MILLIONS PAID GUARDS.
! Large Number of Officers Employed at
Idle Collieries.
j A dispatch from Wilkesbarre, Pa.,
says: It is estimated that the coal
and iron policemen now guarding the
idle collieries in four counties of the. .
anthracite region number 5,000. The <
employment of so many special guards .
has necessitated an. expenditure bf
the companies dot# of 91,8W<009?