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V- : ^Bl m The Bamberg Herald. j 'M mi - = z=: 1 , - - 1 " ESTABLISHED 1801. BAMBERG. S. C,. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 25.1902. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. In OVER A HUNDR Horror Follows St; Convention at RESULT OF A TRIVIAL ROW! Two Delegates Started to Fight and Cry of Fire Was Raised?Whole Audience Rushed Pell Mtll for the Door and Victims Were Crushed or Smothered to Death?Sickening Scenes Witnessed. In an awful crash of humanity caused by a stampede in the Shiloh negro Baptist church at Birmingham, j Ala., Friday night one hundred and j flva nprsnna werp killed and about i ninety seriously injured. The calamity occurred at 9 o'clock, just as Booker T. Washington had concluded his address to the national convention of Baptists, and for three hours the scenes around the church were indescribable. Dead bodies were strewn in every - direction and the ambulance service of the city was utterly incapacitated ^ . to move them until after 1 o'clock a. m. The injured were first looked after J and dozens of dead bodies were ar-: - ranged in rows on the ground outside the house of worship awaiting removal ! to the various undertaking establishments, while more than a score were ! laid out on the benches inside. The church is the largest house of worship for negroes in Birmingham, j and the pastor says there were at least 2,000 persons in the edifice when j the stampede began. Instructions had been issued to allow no one else to - - entej, but the negroes forced their way Inside the building, and were standing in every aisle. The entrance was literally packed. Origin of Horror. Just as Booker Washington concluded his address. Judge BIllou, a negro lawyer from Baltimore, engaged in an altercation with the choir leader con-1 cerning an unoccupied seat, and it is said a blow was struck. Some one in the choir cried, "They are fighting." Mistaking the world "fighting" for "lire," the congregation rose en masse i and started for the door. One of the | ministers quickly mounted the rostrym and admonished the people to ! keep quiet. He repeated the word "quiet** several times and motioned to his hearers to be seated. Again the excited congregation mistook the word "quiet" for fire, and rushed pell mell for the door. Men and women crawled over benches, fought rheir way into the aisles and those who had fallen were trampled upon -like cattle. The ministers tried again to stop the stampede, but no power on earth could Stay the struggling, fighting mass of humanity. The screams of women, and children added to the hor- j ror of the scene and through mere fright many persons fainted, and as they fell to the floor were crushed to death. .y The level of the floor is about 15 feet from the ground and long steps lead to the sidewalk from the lobby Just outside the main auditorium. Brick walls extend on each side of these steps for six or seven feet and this nroved a veritable death trap. Ne groes who had reached the top of the | steps were pushed violently forward j and many felh Before -they could move others fell upon them and in fif- ; teen minutes persons were piled ui>on ; each other to a height of 10 feet. This i wall of struggling humanity blocked ; the entrance and the weight of fifteen j hundred persons was pushed against i H. More than twenty persons lying j on the steps underneatn the heaps of j bodies died from suffocation. Two white men who were in the rear of the church when the rush began escaped, and. realizing the seriousness j of the situation, rushed to the corner near by and turned in a fire alarm. ! OWENS AGAIN FOUND GUILTY. For Fourth Time Verdict Has Heen Rendered in Mississippi. "We. the jury, find the defendant guilty as charged in the indictment." was the verdict rendered in the case of the state against Whit Owens at Oxford, Miss., Friday afternoon. Four ; times has a jury returned a verdict i against the accused, convicting him ! ~M -1 ^ Ak/vftinnr +V?n fol/in c /"\f ! UI iUUlilg dUU ttuawus mv lumut, VI human life. Forty-eight men as grand jurors j have unanimously indicted Owens in ! the cases and forty-eight men as petit i jurors have unanimously sustained the j indictment j . FOUR LOST IN MINE. ; _____ Cave-In of Stack Mines at Covington, ! Va., Claims Victims. A Covington, Va., special says: By j a cave-in at the Stack mines Friday j four men, all colored, lost their lives, i The body of one was recovered soon i after, and it is thought the force of j men now at work will be able to take j out the other three within a short j time. BELGIAN QUEEN DEAD. I While Eating a Light Repast Death j Suddenly Intervened. Marie Henriette. queen of the Bel- I gians, died suddenly at Spa Friday j night. Neither her husband, members : of her family nor her majesty's doc- j tors were prestnt at the time of her . death. She was seated at a table eating a light dinner, when she was seized with an attack of syncope. % ' EDARE DEAD! ampede in Baptist Birmingham. The department came quickly and the arrival of the wagons served to scatter the crowd, which had gathered around the front of the church. A squad of police was also hastened to the church, and with the firemen finally succeeded in relieving the negroes from rheir pinioned position in the en- j trance. The dead bodies were quickly moved and the crowd inside, find j ing an outlet, came pouring out. Scores of them lost th* ir footing and rolled down the long steps to the pavement. sustaining broken limbs and internal injuries. A Sickening Sight. In an hour the church had been practically cleared and the sight *Vi a tVi AC a Yt* }"> A VVUll'U gl Iv'll LUC CO U1 V11UCC II IK/ I had come to aid the injured was sick- j ening. Down the aisles and along the outside of the pews the head bodies of | men and women were strewed and the | cries of the maimed and crippie was heartrending. In a few minutes the work of removing the bodies was be gun and the wails of the relatives of the dead who had waited on the out side could be heard for several blocks. The Shiloh church is located just in the edge of the South Highlands, the" fashionable residence section of the city, and all the physicians living in that part of town went to the assistance of the injured. As many of the suffering as could be moved by the ambulances were taken to hospitals and the rest were laid out on the ground, and there the physicians attended to them. At least fifteen of those brought out injured died before they could be moved from the ground. During the stampede many prominent negro leaders were on the stage and were unwilling witnesses to the frightful catastrophe. None of those in the choir or in the pulpit were injured in the least. For a few minutes ! they attempted to restore order, but seeing their efforts were futile, waited until the struggling crowd had advanced far enough for them to pick up the dead and injured. Most of the dead are women, and ! the physicians say in many cases they fainted and died from suffocation. A remarkable feature of the cafamity is that no blood was seen on any of the victims. They were either crushed or died from suffocation. Washington Explains Disaster. Prof. Booker T. Washington, when seen shortly after the accident said: "I had just finished delivering my lecture on 'Industry,' and the singing had commenced, when some woman back of me was heard to scream. Some member of the choir yelled quiet.,' wmcn tne gauery uuueiswuu to be 'fire.' This "was repeated and started the stamped?. "I found on investigation that a Birmingham man had stepped on the toes of a delegate from Baltimore named Ballou. "Ballou resented it and made a motion as if to draw a gun. This caused the woman to scream. "There was little excitement in the center and front of the church. The rear of the church was congested and some of the men tried to walk out on the heads of the crowd. At the time of the alarm there were probably 3,000 people in the church and fully that | number without. The crowd on the sidewalk surged in and this in a meassure accounted for the large loss of life. "The majority of those killed were smothered to death, very few having broken bones. "When I saw that a stampede was imminent I started the choir singing and part of the audience jcined them. 1 remained until the excitement had subsided for fully thirty minutes. One good sister.whose name I did not learn, caught me firmly by the waist and held me throughout the excitement, saying 'Keep still.' "So far as is known, about ten delegates were among those killed, two from Texas and two from New Orleans being among that number." SET-BACK FOR DEVERY. Tammany Elects Charles F. Murphy as Single nead Leader. A New York dispatch says: Charles F. Murphy was Friday night elected leader of Tammany HaU at the meeting of the executive committee. A protest was made against William S. Devery becoming the accrediated representative of the district on the ground of fraud. r4ie matter was referred to the comcitree on elections. After the meeting Devery made a formal demand for his credentials, but was unable to get any satisfaction. DOSE FOR COAL BARONS. Bill Drafted to Put Anthracite Mines in Hands of Receivers. Daniel H. McCarthy, lawyer of Hazleton. Pa., visited Senator Quay at republican state headquarters in Philadelphia Friday and submitted to the pfnator the draft of a bill making provision for the appointment of a receiver to assume control of the anthracite cr-al mines under certain contingencies. RACIAL OSCULATION. Ohio School Teacrer corcca wnne Girls to Kiss Colored Students. The board of education at Bellatre. O.. has demanded and received the resignation of J. F. Defenbauch. principal of one of the schools, because he compelled several white girls in the school to kiss the colored girls, with whera the former had quarreled. The ac-ion of the principal caused great in iignation among the parents of fh< , wLi'e pupils. 1 SOUTH CAROLINA l\ I STATE NEWS ITEMS. JI CMCMrslfNJrslCMCslCNJ d j ?? f Verdict Against the Southern. J In^ the court of common pleas at j Spartanburg, in the case cf Laura Moore vs. the Southern railway, the jury returned a verdict of $500 for the j plaintiff. Messrs. Nichols, Jones and i Sims appeared for the plaintiff and C. j P. Sanders, Esq., for the railroad company. * * * Death of Rev. Albert Stuart. A special from Washington. D. C.. says: Rev. Albert Rhett Stuart. D.D., rector of Christ Episcopal church. Georgetown, District of Columbia, died of acute nephritis Sunday night, aged 56 years. Dr. Stuart was born in I Charleston, s. u., ana came ircm ais- | tinguished ancestry. He had served ! Christ church fc-r more than a quarter of a century. * Standard Oil Company Sues. A Spartanburg dispatch says: During the next week an interesting case will be beard before Judge Buchannan. The Standard Oil Company will enter suit against the city of Spartanburg to reaver $250, which sum was paid by the corporation into the municipal treasury for the license to do business, in accordance with an ordinance providing for such cases. The attorney for the Standard people will claim that the action on the part of the defendant is contrary to the constitution. Master in Equity J. J. Burnett, has been engaged in the taking of testimony relative to the matter, and it is very probable that everything will be in readiness when the case is called. Hon. John A. McCullough, of Greenville, is attorney for the plaintiff and S. J. Simpson, of Spartanburg, will argue the claims of the city. * Professor of Agriculture. Prof. C M. Conner, who takes the chair of agriculture in the Florida State Agricultural College, has arrived. He came here from Clemson college, South Carolina. Professor Conner is a native of Mis- , souri, and is a graduate of the university of that state. He is a post-graduate of the Michigan Agricultural College, from which he went back to the University of Missouri as assistant in agriculture. Afterwards he was chosen assistant professor of agriculture lr. Clemson College. In addition to agriculture, Professor Conner has made a special study of cattle feeding for dairy purposes. He ranks high among his brethren of the experiment stations, and we are fortunate indeed in securing such a valuable addition to our citizenship. Professor Conner is married, and his wife came with hi'm.?Lake City (Fla.) Index. c Two Swindlers at Work. Two well-dressed men of gentlemanly bearing, representing themselves as agents of a well-known Chicago supply house, have been swindling farmers in several counties in this state. Their latest operations have been in Richland. Lexington and Laurens counties. They traveled by private conveyance and collected sums > of money ranging from $10 to $50 oil articles to be shipped in periods of from ten to fifteen days, considerably under the listed prices in the catalogues, which they exhibited. H. M. Smith, of High Point, Laurens county, holds a receipt for $40 signed by B. F. Jones, one of the two men, in payment of a high-grade buggy which was to be shipped in twelve days. At the expiration of the twelve days no buggy having arrived, Mr. Smith telegraphed the alleged Chicago house, which informed him that they employed no traveling agents and the men were imposters and frauds. In meantime information was received from a point in Georgia that two men answering the description of Jones and his companion had been operating the same scheme there and were badly wanted by the authorities in that state. Warrants have been sworn out by farmers in several counties for the arrest of the swindlers. * * * Woods Declines Honor. Hon. C. A. Woods, of Marion, has declined to accept the presidency of the. South Carolina college, which was recently tendered him. This announcement will be received with regret by the friends of the institution throughout the state. A committee from the board of trustees, consisting of Messrs. McMahan and MacFarland, went to Marion and waited upon Mr. Woods. Mr. McMahan returned to Columbia with a copy of Mr. Woods' declination. In his letter of declination to the governor, Mr. Woods says in part: "To the right man, there is no station in the state of greater opportunity for usefulness, and none where successful effort could bring more jcy. I have tried to think you are right in regarding me equa>l to this opportunity, but then, after the most careful consideration of the earnest and strong presentation of your views by ycur distinguished committee. I cannot bring myself to the conviction that I could reasonably expect to win success. I am untrained in educational matteis. and without that insight and acquaintance with the science of cdu cation requisite for the position. The labor of my life has beer, in another field, and I am unable to resist the conclusion that to make this change new would be too great a peril to the college." It is thought likely that. Professor Sloan, who is now acting president v,T.l be asked to continue in that oa paeity throughout the collegiate year. Jfr * A Lynching Averted. Last Saut. du.. .. :n.e-.\ : negro Sam Williams, was removed by depu :ie? from the Aiken jail and lodged in the penitentiary at Columbia for safe keeping by order of the governor, who had been advised by the sheriff of the miminent danger of lynching. Some time ago a negro broke into ;he kitchen of a house occupied oy a diss Clark, in Vaueluse, and assaulted her. She furnished an accurate deception of tile man. and he was identified by many as Sam Williams, a trange negio, who had been loafing around the town for some tin>?. A pcsse was organized and the search kept up for some days, but in vain. About two weeks after this crime 'hree negroes again broke into Miss Clark's home and demanded supper. She was terrified, especially as she thought she recognized her assailant as one of the party. On the pretext of obtaining some sugar, she slipped into another room, and out to a neighbor:ng house and gave the alarm. No irace of the negrccs was, however, ever discovered until some days later when Williams, the man answering the description given by Miss Clark, was found in an unoccupied house, which he had broken into, n^ar Vauclus?. He was taken by surprise and captured : without effort. When captured ho was dressed in blue overalls, a red shirt and a pair of odd shoes, the same costume he was described as wearing when the crime was committed. The odd shoes were particularly noticed, as these peculiar tracks were found outside of Miss Clark's house the morning after. The people were wrought up and had he remained in Aiken he would almost certainly have been lynched. * * <i Trains in Collision." An excursion train from Wilmington to Columbia, on the Atlantic Coast Line, was wrecked at the passenger depot at Florence last Saturday night and a number of people, estimated at from twenty to sixty, were more or less Injured. Engineer Bowser, of the excursion train, and Engineer Tom Bissett, of the freight, were slightly bruised and cut IN BEHALF OF JEWS Secretary Bay Appeals to Powers in Strong State Paper. BLOW IS AIMED AT ROUMANIA Anainct Inhuman Treatment IWt.W.. of Hebrews in the Balkan States Couched in Strongest Terms. A Washington special says: With the double purpose of protecting the long-suffering Jews of the Balkan states, and of averting the very present peril of the immigration into the United States, of a horde of paupers, Secretary Hay has adopted the unusual course of appealing to the powers of Europe to force one of their children to observe the obligations of humanity in the case of the Jews. The appeal takes the form of a state paper, remarkable in several respects, which has been dispatched in identical form to every ambassador and minister of the United States residing in one of the courts of countries, which were parties to the famous Berlin treaty of 1878, namely, Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Italy, /ystria and Turkey, marking the termination of the Turko-Russian war, and th*; creation by the direct act of the powers of the independent Balkan states. Because the powers are thus responsible for the existence of Roumania, the culprit in this case, tho secretary of state has direcled tho note to them in the hope that they will bring his government to a sonse of its duties toward civilization at large, as well as to cause it to ameliorate the frightful condition of 'the Roumanian Jews. In a measure, this action by the department of state may be traced to numerous petitions from Jewish societies and humanitarians generally, as well as to the warnings 01 puoncists respecting uic ;,1 dangers of the Immigration of degenerates. The document, which Is dated August 11, says In part: "The United States welcomes now, as it has welcomed from the foundation of its government, the voluntary immigration of all aliens coming hither under conditions fitting them to become merged into the trodv politic of this land. Our laws provide the means for them to become incorporated Indistinguishable* in the mass of clti a-ens, and prescribe their absolute equality with the native-born, guaranteeing to them equal civil rights at h<*me and equal protection abroad. The voluntary character of their coming is essential; hence, we shut out ail immigration assisted or constrained by foreign agencies. The purpose of our generous treatment of the alien immigrant is to benefit us and him alike?not to afford to another state a field upon which to cast its own objectionable elements. It behooves the state to scrutinize most jealously the character of the immigration from a foreign land, and, if it be obnoxious to objection, to examine the causes which render it so. "With "the lapse of time these just prescriptions have been rendered nugatory in great part, as regards the native Jews, by the legislation and municipal regulations of Roumania. Starting from the arbitrary and controvertible premise that -the native Jews of Roumania, domiciled the;-., for centuries, are 'aliens now subject to foreign protection,' the ability of the Jew to earn even the scanty mean?' of existence that suffice for a frugal race has been constricted by degrees, until nearly every opportunity to win a livelihood is denied; and until the helpless poverty of the Jew has constrained an exodus of such proportions as to cause general concern." IPRESIDENT ON JAUNT Receives Royal Welcome by Citizens of Cincinnati. MAKES SPEECH ANENT TRUSTS Guest of Honor at Annual Festival. People of Detroit Also Extend Patriotic and Enthusiastic Welcome. Roosevelt day at the Cincinnati fall festival Saturday broke all records of attendance at these annual carnivals. President Roosevelt was the attraction as well as the guest of honor, and he served his hosts with untiring willingness continuously from 10 a. m. until 10 p. m., without consulting his own convenience or comfort. The directors of the fall festival had arranged an elaborate program for every- hour of the day and nignt anu the president was always ready, so that none of the events were behind time. Everywhere the chief executive was the recipient of the wildest enthusiasm. The president arrived to the minutes from his hotel and arrived at the exposition grounds at the scheduled hour. The same precision characterized the evening demonstrations. The president was kept on his feet and busy for over twelve hours, with the exception of the time at the noon luncheon and the evening banquet, j and even then he was engaged in discussing matters of public interest with the guests of honor at his table. Among the indulgencies of the day was an hour or more in the afternoon , in sightseeing at the fall festival, inj eluding a variety of "side shows." Af. ter this experience he was escorted I into the auditorium or music- hall, J which is on the exposition grounds, I and delivered an address to an im mense audience, over 1,000 business men and manufacturers being seated on the stage with him. After being welcomed officially byMayor Fleischman and introduced, he was again greeted with such a dej monstration that the bands broke in 1 and secured ordei. After thanking Mayj or Fleishchman and the officers of the j festival for their courtesies and the audience for its hearty greeting, the president especially requested attention, as he proposed, as the chief executive of all the people, without regard to party, to make an argument on a serious question. Silence prevailed until the first mention of the trusts, when the applause broke out and continued at frequent intervals. While speaking about holding corpo{ rations to the same responsibility as ! individuals, he was interruped by a I demonstration of approval. There v/as [ another demonstration when he adj vocated such a constitutional amendj ment as would give national control of such corporations as had outgrown the jurisdiction of the state. Detroit Extends Welcome. For the second time in its history Detroit entertained the chief execuj tive of the nation. President Roosevelt J arrived at 8 o'clock Sunday morning i over the Michigan Central railroad and | found Detroit awaiting his arrival in j gala attire. Flags were flying, the city ! was bright with bunting and pictures | of President Roosevelt greeted the eye i at every turn. Throughout the day crowds lined the streets about the Hotel Cadillac, anxious for a glimpse of the chief magistrate and his appearance was always the signal for enthusiastic cheering. FIVE DIE IN WRECK. Passenger Trains Crash in Pennsylvania With Frightful Results. Five trainmen were killed and two 1 1.. oc result of a senuusiy 111 jui u v..v _ , head-on collision between Buffa1 \ Rochester anc'l Pittsburg and Pittsburg and Western passenger trains at Witmer station. Pa.. Saturday. A number of passengers were cut and bruised by fli'ing splinters and broken glass, but none were seriously hurt. HENDERSON REMAINS FIRM. Urged to Reconsider, He Reiterates His Irrevocable Decision. David B. Henderson, speaker of the national house of representatives, passed through Chicago Sunday on his way to Atlantic City, where he will Join Mrs. Henderson. Before leaving for the east, Speaker Henderson reiterated his decision to retire from the congressional race in Iowa, denied any intention of abdicating his present position until his term of office shall have expired, and declared himself in perfect accord with the tariff views of President Roosevelt. OLD VETS AGAIN HAPPY. Transferred from Temporary Quarters to Their Mew Heme. The aged Georgia Confederate vet orfir.s, v.'ho for almost a year have be-' r living at Thompson's hotel on .Marietta su'fct, Atlanta, removed t.o the r :< enilv-complt-.cJ home Wednesday jc-rr-ing In all t!;cr?- w'r<i sixty ih. re. who < bai-' e?I lb' ir t-.mv-i.:-:c - * ::::? rs from. MvYtt.i stre.-i hot*. I In !:: homo. L a jo..'0!:.> ; ; it # Eleven Strikers Arrested. Eleven strikers were arrest'-.1 by Sheriff Reif!; and deputies at Williamson, Pa., Monday rliarged with disorderly conduct, and carried to Harrisburg. Strikers Will Never Yield. President Gr.ir.pers. of the American Federation of Labor, declares that the striking miners in the Pennsylvania coal fir-ids weie prepared to he'd out for months. x" " I Cream of News.:: + *' +*f "f-H-f'f-I-f 'f+'f *f ++4+*? Brief Summary of Most Important Events of Each Day. ?Mayor Myers, of Savannah, Ga., in interview, says trade interests should charter or buy two steamships, and that state should build railroad from Atlanta to Savannah to stop freight rate discrimination against that port. ?Hon. A. C. Woods declines presidency cf South Carolina college. ?North Carolina democrats claim that President Roosevelt suggested aotion of republicans in throwing negro out of party. ?Governor Longino refuses to call extra session of Mississippi legislature to repeal coinsurance clause of law. ?The itinerary of President Roosevelt's tour of the west has been an nouneed. ?Speaker Henderson announces that he will not resign the speakership at the coming session of congress. ?At Marshfield, Or eg., Thursday a negro guilty of assaulting a white woman was lynched. ?The serious illness of Lord Salisbury, for years prime minister of Great Britain, is announced in The London Times. ?Advices from China indicate that the boxers are rising throughout the empire and a repltition of the disorders of 1900 is feared. ?The Colombian government has protested against the action of the United States in placing marines on the trains which cross the Isthmus. ?Thousands of Hebrews are leaving Roumania because of persecution of the government. The protest of the United States is supported by Great Britain. ?Carpenters and Joiners in their convention at Atlanta, Ga., vote $10,000 to aid striking coal miners; movement begun to secure an eight-hour day. ?University of Georgia opens one hundred and second session at Athens with record-breaking attendance. ?Alabama republicans indorse Roosevelt by close vote on account of ! rtle-ais nf nffirA holders and nut out , ? , ? ? state ticket. ?First pension to Indian confederI ate is granted in North Carolina. | ?The action of Speaker Henderson in declining to accept renomination has caused a sensation throughout the country. Importuned by Roosevelt to reconsider, the speaker states his decision is final. ?Secretary Hay addressed a note to the powers protesting against the treatment of the Jews by Roumania. ?The Massachusetts democrats have nominated Colonel Gaston for governor and repudiated Bryan and the Kansas City platform. George Fred Williams fought in vain for the Nebraskan. ?The republicans of Connecticut and New Hampshire have indorsed i Roosevelt for the nomination in 1904. ?Carpenters and Joiners of America take steps looking to contributing $10,000 to fund of striking coal miners. ?Savannah cotton exchange claims that city is being discriminated against in freight rates. ?On application of minority stockholders a receiver is appointed for the Hucomuga cotton mills at Greensboro, N. C. ?Good Roads Association is formed at Sanford, N. C., and 150 miles of gravel road will be built. ?Speaker David B. Henderson has i withdrawn from the race for congress I in the Dubuque, Iowa, district because I his constituents favor revision of the | tariff as a means of checking the trusts. ?Former Chief W. S. Devery has been chosen Democratic leader for the 9th di&trict of New York city after i a most spectacular campaign. i ?The president sof the coal rail, roads were in conference in New j York Tuesday. After the conference it was announced that no concession of any sort would be made to the strikers. ?Piesident Roosevelt greeted the f people of Nassau county, N. Y., Monday. All of the men, women and babies and a few of the dogs were at Oyster Bay. ?Reports from the fire-swept diS' rricts of the northwest grow worse. The charred bodies of thirty-eight o:ople have already been found. ?Money is still tight in New Y'ork, -all loans going as high as 20 per cent iondav. Nearly all the money furlished was from the interior. ?Four hundred cigarmakers went . strike at Tampa. Fla.. Saturday. ?Republicans of Alabama throw the colored brother overboard. State ex J ecutive committee declares that hereJ after only white men can affiliate with them. ?During a scuffle between two negroes at Montgomery. Ala., Monday, they fell Into a ditch and both had their necks broken. ?In the second primary in Alabama, between Wilson and Garder, for the attorney generalship, a very light , vote was polled. ?The cotton in the Mississippi delta is shorter than it has been for j years. ! ?The Democrats of Delaware make j "Gas" Addicks the paramount issue in I their platform. They denounce him as I a criminal adventurer, j ?Twelfth biennial convention of I the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America began its j sessions in Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday. ! ?Hon. John B. Ross ,of Macon, anj nounces as a candidate for associate justice of the supreme court of Georgia. j ?Seventeen men were killed by a , gas explosion in a mire In West Vlr' ginia Monday morning. TALK OF AN EXTRA SESSION. Rumor That Pre?ld?nt Will Call Com . gres? Together In 8p?cial Set* sion After March 4th. From all that can be learned in Washington, the report that an extra session of congress will be called immediately after adjournment, March 4 next ,1a based on fact. That President Roosevelt has been considering such a move is known, and the rapid march of events since Speaker Henderson's withdrawal has made such action on the port of the republican party advisable, if not imperative. One of the plans suggested to the president la the appointment of a tariff revision commission during the recess of congress and report to that body next year. Chairman Griggs, erf the democratic campaign committee, says that Roosevelt is the strongest speaker in the field for the democrats. DRIVEN FROM MOTHER'S BIER. Belgian King Groeeiy Insults His Mourning Daughter. A special from Brussels, Belgium, says: The scandal arising from the revival of the family quarrel between King Leopold and his daughter, the Princess Stephanie (Countess of Lonyay), beside the bier of the late queen Marie Henrietta at Spa Sunday, Is agitating all classes. Popular sympathy on all sides Is expressed for the princess, who although deeply affected by the Incident, makes no complaint. The princess herself has given out a simple statement of the facts as follows: "The precise facts are these: I was praying at the bier of the queen when some one came about 4 o'clock to tell me the king would not receive me. I immediately left the death chamber. I had no Interview with his majesty." "I was at Cromer, England, when I learned of the death of the queen. Like a loving daughter and a patriot, I hurried to Spa, to render the last honors to my mother. "As the king has caused an intimation to be conveyed to me that he does not desire my presence, I am going to Calais where my husband will meet me. Thence I shall probably return to England. There was no scene between the king and myself at Spa." It was hoped by the public, who applauded Princess Stephanie with the Count L'onyay, that the death of the queen would lead to healing the rupture, but the incident at Spa is "taken to demonstrate that the king is irreconcilable to what has been openly designated as a misalliance, even fter the approval of the Austrian emperor, Francis Joseph. The princess will not be present at her mother's funeral. FOUR IN EXPLOSION DIE. Fata! Accident in Mine of Coal Company in West Virginia. By an explosion of gas in the Stafford mines of the new Central Coal company near Fairmont, W. Va., Monday, four men were killed, six badly wounded and several others were hurt. At the time of the accident there were only 25 men at work and al have been accounted for. Superintendent Stewart was at the mine when the explosion occurred and took charge of the rescued miners. 1116 most BtriUUS cases ncic ocuu uu the hospital. All the bodies were recovered NOOSE AWAITS TWO. Murderers of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis in Florida Found Guilty. At 1 o'clock Sunday morning, at Bronson, Fla., after being out seven hours, tlie jury returned a verdict of murder in the first degree against , Thomas Faircloth and Theodore Smith, two young white men who were charged with the murder of Mr. and Mrs. I. B. Lewis, three weeks ago, and Judge Bullock at once sentenced them both to hang as soon as the governor shall issue the death arrants. While the sheriff was placing handcuffs on the prisoners to take them from the court room they asked that the execution take place as soon as possible. YOUNG IN LAW'S GRASP. Alleged Murderer of Mrs. Pulitzer Arrested in Connecticut. William Hooper Young, for whom the police of New York have been searching in connection with the murder of Mrs. Antra Nelson Pulitzer, has been found and is also said to have made a confession regarding the killing of Mrs. Pulitzer. In the guise of a tramp he had been wandering about the country near Derby, Conn., for several days, when he was *arrest?d Monday evening by deputy police. FIRE ROUTS ROCEKFELLER. I Millionaire Oil Magnate's Summer Home Is Totally Destroyed. The residence of John D. Rockefeller, at Pocantico Hills, Westchester county, N. Y., was destroyed by fire Wednesday night. The building was burned to the ground. The fire is supposed to have started from crossed electric wires. Firemen and servants succeeded in getting out a great portion erf the valuable furniture. TO BUY QUEEN AND CRESCENT. Move of the Southern Railway to Get Into New Orleans. According to a New Orleans special the Southern Railway Company is ne- j gotiating for the purchase of the Queen and Crescent system. President Spencer, of the Southern, is now in England, and it is reliably stated that the direct object of his visit is to effect the purchase of the line, which will giro the system entrance into New Orleans over Its own rails. ' % ..w..f' . RIOTING IS RESUMED ? ??Mor Troops Sent to Coal Regiois of Pennsylvania by Governor. 411 SHERIFF UNABLE TO CONTROL p Many Non-Union Men are Mobbed^ Train is Held Up and a Railway. : yi| Bridge Destroyed by Det- ? ' perate Strikers. , A special from Harrisburg, Pa., sayiJ! 4.4 The Thirteenth regiment has been OP> dered out. The headquarters of til? regiment is Scranton. This regiment consists of eleven companies, and its strength is about seven hundred. The authorities apprehend serious yj trouble, and if there should be another outbreak in the Ninth regiment, with headquarters at Wilkesbarre, will 4fj probably be ordered out. f Strikers Again Troublesome. Advices from Wilkesbarre, Pa., stated ' rg; scores 01 cases 01 violence ana lnumidation of an aggravated character oocurred Monday In the entire length of the 150 miles of the strike region, and as a result two men are reported dying, dozens injured, and more under arrest. A bridge was attacked for the - : jgH third time in four days, and again destroyed and an express train was held f?||| up and searched by a committee at At 3 o'clock Monday morning the Philadelphia and Reading Buffalo ex- ..- fM press was held up at the station in Ma- $ honey City and twelve or fifteen crtrlkera went through the train. They . J made every man who looked like ? workman explain his mission, where be was going and in some cases show ' papers to prove this, caused mnch excitement and when some of the men v J|f looked into the Pullman to see if any were hiding, three or four women were badly frightened and screamed . for help. The train was allowed to proceed after a thorough inspection. ~ The bridge at Silver creek, which '.0 was dynamited Thursday night, burn- %J ed Friday night and has since then 70?: been under repair, was found Monday ,1^ morning to have two of its spans sawed through so that had a train been run on it it would have broken under the weight. The timbers erect- . ?^0 ed had to be replaced. Sheriff Asks for Troops. A Scranton, Pa., special says: Sheriff Schadt, of Lackawanna county, at ; 7:30 o'clock Monday telegraphed Qorernor Stone to send troops to his so- . M sistasce The sheriff had just given to the newspaper men a proclamation an- y/jM nouncing he would call troops If the lawlessness did not cease when he re- >2| ceived a series of telephone calls to ,V.^p quell disturbances up the valley. He found on investigation that the situar tion was such that he could not cope with it, and sent a call for troops. Adjutant General Stewart called the sher- < iff by telephone at 9 o'clock and had : a long conference with him. The adjutant general suggested that a posse of members of the citizens' alliance be called upon for assistance. While the 1 sheriff was preparing to act cm this suggestion, he received more reports of violence up and down the valley/ \ and at once sent another urgent telegram to the governor, calling for iwmediate assistance. The worst of the outbreaks oe? , curred at Archibald. A crowd of two hundred strikers, mostly foreigners, ransacked the quarters occupied by the /ijg forty men cny.loyed at the Raymon<T ;?|g washery of the Ontario and Western Company while the men were at work, "-/l&g and then, meeting with the men as they were returning, drove them back " to the refuge of the washery. The mob then returned to the colliery proper, drove out the engineers, firemen, pumpmen and guards and took C KwioVop TTio nliuit * PUSSCS&IUU U1 IUC uivoavi, .?V r : 3HE of the Crescent Electric Light Com- ^ pany, which is supplied by steam from vjj the breaker, had to shut down, and the whole region around was left in total darkness. In the attack on the break- n? er two men were shot, one a striker and the other a workman. Their names ^ or condition could not be learned. ROW IN ENCAMPMENT. .1^ Sensational Outbreak at Meeting of Spanish-American War Veterans. The differences that have existed between high officers of the SpanishAmerican war veterans culminated at the second session of the encampment at Indianapolis Monday afternoon In a sensational incident. During the course of a discussion In. validity of certain records of the last encampment, Adjutant General Liller, who was removed from office Sunday ~ night, gave Colonel Russell B. Harrison the lie direct. The latter made a dash for the deposed official, but tmm restrained. ' BIG STEAMSHIP ON FIRE. Heroic Work of Crew of 8t. Paul /:>-^<j|| Saved Many Lives. j The American liner St. Paul, which ! arrived at New York Saturday, reported that a desperate fight had been made against a fire which raged for v.: twelve hours in th eclothes room. ^ The fact that the ship was afire was kept from the women passengers, al, though the men of the first cabin were aware of the possible danger. j . KICK ON OUR BLUE JACKET8. Colombian Government Lodges Protest With Consul Malmros. United States blue jackets, with A small quick-firing gun from the cruiser Cincinnati, continue to accompany each passenger and freight train across the isthmus of Panama, not- . withstanding the prorests against such measures which the Colombian gov'ernment has lodged with Oscar Malm- ^ ros, the United states consul at Colon,