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-IS The Bamberg Herald. i * .*<s9 ? J539 . n?| ?' ?mm?*? ?1 ' ??? * ~ - . - 1 ... .. ^ w - > ** 11 ^-|?*i _ - ? - :i ! ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 20.1902. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.v J ? ? s| .........J.J..-.4.4.4.4.++4.+'?' ! i r i f\rnr urn i uri ikT/1 I SOUTH CAROLINA I j| STATE NEWS ITEMS. | Missing Girl Located. It is stated that Miss Lela Turner, who suddenly disappeared from her home at Clifton, last week, has been located and that her attorney is aware of her whereabouts. C A. Turner, father of the girl, has told the atorney to say to the girl that if she will consent to enter school at any point she may choose that he, her father, will gladly bear all expenses. Several parties say that they saw the girl in Spartanburg. *% : i Robber Commits Murder. Samuel Williman, a white farmer, was shot and instantly killed by an unknown negro about two miles from Greenville a few days ago. The negro had robbed Williman's house early in the morning and had been tracked down by Williman and a negro. They were on the way to ijail with the prisoner when the negro wno assisted in the capture left Williman and the unknown negro together. The * prisoner snatched Williman's pistol from him and shot him, then making his escape. * * * Furman Wins Championship. In a hard fought game with South Carolina at Greenville Furman won the championship of the state in football. The final score was Furman 10; Carolina 0. The Furman lion ate the Carolina rooster, which had spurred the roaring Clemson tiger. The game was the finest exhibition of football ever witnessed in Greenville. The teams were evenly matched, and it was a strenuous contest from start to finish. The result was in doubt from the time the first kick was made until the last shrill whistle of the referee was heard. " + e exclement throughout the game was . intense, and at times the crowd of spectators went wild with enthusiasm. * * Mayor Attacks Attorney. In the Charleston city council Mayor Symth read a statement in which he bitterly attacked Corporation Counsel Legare for failing to prosecute blind tiger keepers. The matter was refer red "to a special committee, and Mr. Legare refused to allow this committee to sit in judgment on his official life.,/ '? * Friends of Legare claim that he will spring a sensation by naming ordinances which are flagrantly violated in Charleston. There is no friendship between Smyth and Legare and for this reason the fight is exciting all the more interest. Legare is preparing to resign, as he has been elected to congress from the Charleston district. Smyth is just entering upon his campaign for a third term as mayor. ? r Tragedy at Greenville. B. Fr Hush, a well-known merchant of Greenville and ex-alderman, shot and filled J. T. Stephens, freight conductor on the Southern. There were four shots fired by Rush, one penetrating Stephens' brain, another entering his neck, while two were landed in a wall near by. The shooting is said to have been the result of relations that existed between Stephens and Mrs. Rush. It, is also stated that owing to a culmination of domestic infelicity Mr. Rush * home two months ago and went to California. In the meantime Mrs. Rush left Greenville, and it is reported that she is now living with an uncle in Texas. Stephens remained in Greenville, continuing his work as conductor. Mr. Rush returned to Greenville three .weeks ago and resumed charge of his grocery store in North Main street. While returning from the Southern railway warehouse on the day of the killing, Stephens accosted Rush and said he wished to speak with him. Stephens then made some remark, to which Rush replied: "I don't want to hear anything more about that matter," and walked off, followed .by Stephens, who caught Rush's coat lapel, pulling him around. Stephens then attempted to pull his pistol, but Rush got the drop on him and fired. * * Must Specify Charges. Mayor Smith and other leading citizens of Charleston, who lodged complaint ' with President Roosevelt against the appointment of Dr. W. D. Crum, colored, as collector of customs, have been requested to specify the grounds on which the complaints are made. It is said that the answer of citizens stated that Crum was a negro, was not identified wy\h the business and commercial interests of the port, and that because of his color he would be obnoxious to the community. Just what effect this will have is problematic. President Roosevelt has practically put himsen on recora as favoring Dr. Crum, and he has intimated that the question of his color will not enter into the matter. While much oitter talk has beer heard, there is no indication that the appointment will be vigorously op posed oy mass meetings or other pub lie demonstrations. Crum :s backet by one of the leading factions in tin state republican organization. Th< newspapers of the city have atacke: the appointment. The main reason that Cmm's ap pointmen* has been favored by th< president is due to the fact that h< is supposed to control the South Car olina vote in the republican nominat ing convention. In the event of hi: defeat, the state vote will not be eas for President Roosevelt, and the ad ministration, which has tnis in mind is merely playing a game of politics The attempt to build up h whit republican organization has been signal failure and it appears that th eld line republicans will be recognized, and Crum naturally stands in the front rank. * * * "King of Cupids" Reigns Again. Judge Tom D. Green has been sent mack to Ten Mile Hill. Ordinarily this fact would not be worth recording. but when Green went there before every trap kpown to the wild negroes lrom the phosphate fields was set to kill him. Ten Mile is the most notorious negro settlement in the southk and it was Green who first reformed it. He did not accomplish this, however, until six of Xis constables had been killed. On several occasions the vicious negroes organized death committees to put Green out of business, and as he walked along in the moonlight buckshot and slugs whistled by his head. One morning a coffin was put on his door step with a crude note ordering him to leave the section. To show how much he cared ?? *u ~ 4 Crofln crr-nshfid the iur lut; iiii caio coffin and cooked his breakfast with it. That night he was fired on again, but a charm seemed to be hanging over his life and he lived to make Ten Mile habitable by white people. Green is called the King of the Cupids because he promulgated a law that all men and women living together had to accept the rites of matrimony. Among the wild negroes the marriage laws are unknown. Green concluded that a man would not fight as quickly for Ills wife as he would for his woman, so he decided to make everything in ragged petticoats a wife. They tried to assassinate him for this ruling, but it failed to work, and in the first few months the judge united 1,000 couples in the holy bonds of wedlock. He bad constables to go out and chase the negroes into court, and without much ado ho tied the knots. REPUBLICANS CARRY HAWAII. Prince Cupid Snows Under Present Delegate Wilccx for Congress. Complete election returns from the Hawaiian Islands show that Prince Cupid, the republican candidate, has beaten Delegate Wilcox for congress by 1,920. NEW GUSHER IN LOUISIANA. Spouts High in Air and Defies Attempts cf Workers to Cap It At \7elsh. La., well No. 4 came in as a gas aid oil gusher Sunday afternoon, and was so strong that it was found impossible to cap it. Bankers Name Hardy for President. The American Bankers' Association in session at New Orleans, selected for : president Caldwell Hardy, president of the Norfolk national bank, of Norfolk Va. Vice presidents representing eack state In the convention also were nominated. | Wages Increased Ten Per Cent. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company Thursday announced an increase of 10 per cent of all the employes of the company east of Pittsburg and Erie and now earning less than $200 a month. The advance became operative November 1. BANKERS IN CONVENTION. Annual Meeting Held in New Orleant With Host of Delegates Present. The twenty-eighth annual convention of the American Bankers' Association assembled in Tulane hall, New "Orleans, Wednesday, beginning a three days' session. It was the largest meeting of the association ever held and consequently the largest aggregation cf financiers evel gathered a'c one time in the history of the country. Over 1,500 delegates were registered. ana neany nuu vistors h.ju muie*. AN EXECUTION POSTPONED. Supreme Court of Georgia to Pass Upon the Case of Henry Bryant. John Henry Bryant, the negro sentenced to hang in Moultrie. Ga., did not pay the penalty on the gallows Friday. His case was carried to the supreme court by his attorneys in Moultrie, and will be given a hearing some time within the next thirty days. For this reason the execution will not take place until passed upon by the supreme court. COUNCIL OVERRIDES MAYOR. Probable Illegal Ordinance Adopted by Atlanta City Council. By a vote of 12 to 6 the Atlanta,' Ga., city council Monday afternoon overrode the mayor's veto of the ordinance which prohibits the use of convict labor or convict made material in the public work of the city. During the discussion City Attorney Mayson, when called upon for an opinion, stated that the ordinance was probably illegal, but there was ^ possibility that it might be sustained. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE VICTIM. Young Woman In Charge of "Faith Healer" Succumbs to Typhoid. Miss Louie Hoge, of Evanston. Ills., . who has been 111 in Washington for almost a month, and who has been unL der treatment of a Christian Science , healer, died Wednesday night from ty . phoid fever. Miss Hoge Is the daugh ter of Holmes Hoge, the assistant 1 cashier of the First National bank, ol ? Chicago. % 1 BOND BILL PASSED. Borgia Solons Adopt Measure Asket 5 by Atlanta Officials. ? The bill which provides for an elec " tion looking to the issuing of $500,00' * of bonds by Atlanta for the improve s ment of the sewer and water work * systems of the city was passed by th< Georgia house of representative l- Thursday by a vote of 104 to 0. ' This measure was introduced b e Messrs. Slaton, Houston and Blaci a j burn, cf Fulton, at the request of tt e city council of Atlanta. BARONS HATFUWON ! Will Never Recognize Miners' Or= , ganization in Any Form. THEIR ANSWERS MADE PUBLIC Will Resist to the Utmost Every Effort of Arbitrators to Make Recognition of Union an Issue. That the anthracite coal mine owners will resist to tne utmost every effort to make the recognition of United Mine workers of America an issue in the arbitration which is now in progress is made evident by the replies to the statement of President John Mitchell of the miners orgou.- , zation which have been filed with t.n'e ] the strike commission. Ihere are six of these answers and all dwell with especial emphasis and marked unanimity* on this point. They also agree in resisting the demands of the miners for increase of pay for piece work, a reduction of hours for time work, and for the weighing rather than the measurement of coal. Recorder Wright left WasningflTn for the anthracite regions Wednesday taking these replies with Lim. In addition to the statement made for the I Reading company by President Baer the list comprises the replies of the Delaware and Hudson company; the Delaware and Lackawanna, the Lehigh Valley, the Pennsylvania and Scranton coal company. The reply of the Delaware and Lackawanna railroad company to President Mitchell's statement to Lie anthracite coal strike commission was made public Wednesday morning. It was signed by W. H. Truesdale, president of the company, who says that tne company owns 25 anthracte collieries and employs 12,000 workmen in this branch of its business. Mr. Truesdale, like Mr. Baer, objects to making the recognition of the union one of the issues to he considered by the commission, saying that in the proposition made by the company for arbitration one of the express conditions was that "the findings of the commission should find the condition of employment between it and its employes." He adds: "This company unequivocally asserts that it' will under* no condition recognize or enter into any agreement with L*e association known as the United Mine Workers of America or any branch thereof. Nor will it permit said association or its officers to dictate the terms and conditions under which it shall conduct its business." Referring to the recent strike, Mr. Truesdale says that he is reliably in formed that 80 per cent of its employes were opposed to the stride, but were forced to enter upon it by a majority vote of the mine workers in other fields. Mr. Truesdale follows closely the lines 01 Mr. Baer's argument as to the dissimilarity in the work of the anthracite mines and that in bituminous mines. He declares i that it is impossible to adopt a uniform rate to be paid to tne miner for a unit of coal mined at all mines. He says: "Prior to the introduction of agita- . tors and mischief makers the anthracite workers were on an average as prosperous, comfortable and contented as any body 01 workers in similar employment in this country." The wages, it is added, are such that frugal employes have saved a substantial amount every year. Mr. Truesdale resists the demand for a reduction of 20 per cent in hours of labor, saying that no such branch of business employing thousands of men can hope to compete successfully in the markets of the world if its hours of labor are restricted. He declares' that there is no unjust discrimination in the weighing of coal, as it is measured rather than weighed, and he asserts that the demand is out of all reason, and its effect, so far as this cnmnanv is concerned is a demand for additional increase in the wages now paid miners of from 5 to 40 per cent SPECIAL AGENT OUT. Bill Passed to Abolish Office of State Railroad Attorney. The Georgia house of representatives Thursday passed the bill by Mr. Akin, of Bartow, repealing the bill which created the office of special attorney of the Western and Atlantic railroad. There was quite a warm debate on the measure, but the vote was most decisive. American Federation of Labor. The twenty-second, annual convention of the American Federation of Labor met in New Orleans Thursday with 400 delegates present. TWENTY YEARS FOR ASSAULT. Negro Gets Limit of Law for Ravishing One of His Own Color. Ware superior court adjourned at ( Waycross, Ga., Thursday night after a two weeks' session. Elbert Davis, a a young mulatto, was tried and con' victed of assault. Judge Dart sentenced him to twenty years in the penitentiary, mis being the extreme limit of the law. Davis' victim was a 4-yearold negro girl. j ALL QUIET ON ISTHMUS. Casey Wires Department That He Will Withdraw Marines. ; The navy department has received the following cablegram trom Admiral Casey dated Panama, November 1G: "Colombian government has today about 5,000 men on line of railroad. t General Perdamo expressed to me his ability to maintain a free trans.t. I f nave ordered withdrawal from Isth mu3 of Panama and embarkation cu marines Tuesday next," ROOSEVELT N1MROD Arrives at Hooting Camp in Mississippi Caoebrake. PREPARED TO VANQUISH BRUIN Equipped Like Pioneer Western Indian Slayers, He Engages in Pleasurable Pastime With Deadly Winchester. President Roosevelt and his party arrived at Smedes, Miss., shortly before 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon and in their hunting tog3 started for the camp on Little Sunflower river. As the distance was about fifteen miles and the trail rough and bad, it was after dark when they reached the camp. a * IV A Smedes Is simply a siaing uu. mc Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railway, where cotton is loaded from tho big Smede plantations. A plantation store and the residence of one of the managers are the only structures except negro cabins within sight. Work on the neighboring plantations was suspended during the afternoon, and several hundred negroes were at the siding when the train stopped. Most of the men sat on cotton bales, but the black mammies and the pickaninnies stood along the track. When the president stepped from the train he was clad in hunting costume?khaki riding trousers, heavy leather leggings, blue flannel shirt, cor-, duroy coat and wore on his head a brown slouch hat. Around his waist was buckled his cartridge belt and at his side hung his ivory handled hunting knife. The other members of the party also wore bunting suits. While the guns, blankets and other small baggage were being loaded into a fourmule waggon, the president chatted with the manager of the Smede estate and two ladies, who were great admirers of him and who had come especially to greet him. When all was in readiness the members of the party, except Mr. Fish and Mr. Dickinson, mounted small, wiry, tough-looking horses and dashed away for the woods at a breakneck canter. The president's mount was a black horse. He did not look spirited, but it was explained that he was .just the sort of animal needed to force a way through the dense undergrowth. Mr. Fish and Mr. Dickinson were too heavy to ride horseback and followed the others in a blackboard drawn by two mules. MILLARD LEE DOOMED. Georgia Supreme Court Decides Against Slayer of Miss Suttles. Millard Lee. the slayer ot Miss Lila May Suttles, v/ill be hanged for his crime. The Georgia supreme court Thursday affirmed the decision of the lower court, which decision was that Lee must hang. Lee will be resentenced by Judge L. S. Roan as soon as the remittur is sent * ?- ? v r.Anrt tTfP down irom lue supiciuc ivu>?. iv ...... superior court. 'Lee killed Miss Suttles in a church at Ben Hill, near Atlanta, on a Sunday afternoon early in the spring, because she had refused to marry him. The killing created great excitement at the time. DOCK REACHES PENSACOLA. Largest of Its Kind in the World. Was Bought of Spain. The biggest floating dry dock in the world is now permanently stationed at Pensacola, Fla., navy yard, it having arrived last Wednesday in tow of the ocean steamers Orion and Underwriter, of the Boston Transportation Company, which corporation was awarded the contract for safely delivering the massive structure at the Pensacola naval station from Key West. Married Negre36; Now in Jail. D. C. Scruggs, a white man of Texarkana, Texas, was lodged * jail Thursday without bail for marrying a mulatto woman. The charge against I him is "violating the Texas laws I ?rwiVnoo-QnaHnT) " MORE EVIDENCE AGAINST PERRY. Negro's Sweetheart Had Watch Chain Which Belonged to Murdered Girl. The Cambridge, Mass., police spent Wednesday investigating the past life and movements of George L. 0. Perry, the negro who, upon the release of Alan G. Mason, was charged with the murder of Miss Clara A. Morton. Perry's sweetheart was located, and after persuasion, the police got her to exhibit whatever jewelry she had received from Perry. Among the trinkets was a gold chain which was immediately recognized as having belonged to Miss McPhee. SPECIAL ELECTION CALLED. ! By Governor of Georgia tn ri?^ p-?cessor to Senator SullTVart. Since the funeral of Senator Sullivan, at Augusta, Ga., Tuesday, the question of his successor has been actively discussed, the fact that the legislature is in session and the district i without representation requiring 1 prompt action. { A special election has been ordered | by the governor for December 6. MITCHELL STILL UNDER FIRE. i Rapid-Fire Cross Questions Kept Up by Baron's Attorneys. The coal strike commission resumi ed its session at Scranton Saturday morning. After a few preliminaries President Mitchell, who was on the i stand all day Friday, again went into j the witness box. and the cross-examii nation was .continued. The miners 1 have a large number of witnesses to be i heard. After they have closed their ' (?se the companies will also present a long line of persons to testify. THE HALF NOT TOLD. ______________ - I Terrible Losses of Both Life and Prop- j erty Entailed by Volcano Santa Maria in Guatemala. I Astonishing revelations of great loss of life and property caused by the eruption of the Santa Maria volcano are being made daily, says a cable- j gram to The New York Herald from Gautemala city, transmitted by way of San Salvador. Eruptions continue. Many hundreds of human beings perished and the destruction of property is considered greater than that in j the island of Martinique by the eruptions of Mont Pelee. All of the estates in the neighborhood of the volcano are buried under volcanic ashes, which reach to the tops of houses. The richest coffee estates are completely ruined. The principal losers are the large coffee planters, mostly United States citizens and Germans, whose properties are ruined. Two or three new craters have been * miAn r\f f-Vio vnlrano. IUI UL1CU UU IUC Ciu\y Vi. VMV * There were no eruptions from the summit.. Pumice and ashes were carried chiefly in the southern and eastern directions. The sea has a coating of volcanic material extending for many miles. The loss of the coffee crop, which is Guatemala's principal export, has completely demoralized cotnmerce and the? government finances generally. The national paper currency, which is the only circulating medium, has fallen to 7 cents gold for one dollar iiaper. Prices for all necessaries have risen io a prohibitive figure for many persons. The authorities are trying to force the dealers to sell goods at the usual prices, but the condition of affairs is such that business is entirely paralyzed. Violently worded hand bills and posters are being circulated. PRESIDENT MUNCHES 'POSSUM. How Sunday Was Spent by Hunting Party?Partiality to the "Colonel." Sunday was a quiet day at the president's camp on the little Sunflower, says a dispatch from Smedes, Miss. There was no hunt, the president, and several members of the party spent a couple of hours in the morning rambling over the forest trains on their horses. Dinner was the chief event of the day. The menu included roast bear paws and 'postum and sweet potatoes. Dinner was served in camp style, on a rough pine board table set up in the open air. Tin plates and tin cups were used. There was not enough knives and forks to go around, and the colored cook announced to the amusement of everybody as the party sat down, that on account of the scarcitp of the articles he had distributed them only to the "colonel," as the president is invariably called in -camp, and the foreign gentlemen. WILL APPEAL TO PRESIDENT. Cigar Makers of Tampa to Lay Grievances Before Roosevelt. A New York dispatch says: After the thorough discussion of the kidnaping of fourteen leaders of the union cigar makers' strike in Tampa about a year ago and more recent abduction of the mayor of that city, because of his alleged sympathies with the strikers, the Central Federation of Labor, at a meetinf Sunday unanimously decided to lay the matter before President Roosevelt and request him to call tor a report of the commission which he some time ago appointed to investigate the matter first mentioned. It was also voted that the question be placed before the national Federation of Labor, in session in Now Orleans. TEDDY HAS SORE EYES. Youna Son of President to Spend a Week of Rest in Washington. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., sorTof the president, is to spend a week in Washington that his eyes may be given a rest. Mrs. Roosevelt received a mes! sage from the master of the school at | Groton, Ma6s., where the boy is at| tending, announcing that his eyes were troubling him and suggested a rest. PRESIDENT IS CRITICISED. Tar Heel Republicans Sore Over Hit Seeming Throw-Down. A Washington dispatch says: Nortt Carolina republicans are awfully sort over President Roosevelt's throw-dowr of Senator Pritchard. WhMe the sena tor himself is careful to say nothing ir criticism of the president, his lieuten ants do not hesitate to use the strong est kind of language in their discus sion of what they term the presides tial "repudiation" of the practical plar to build up a white party in the south with which the North Carolina sena tor has identified himself.. "LILY WHITES" AROUSED. ? Donor ir Will Start a RepuDiican uany r~r~. .. Greensboro, North Carolina. It is learned from reliable author ity that a company composed of busi ness men is now being organized fo the purpose of establishing a republi ran morning paper at Greensboro, N C., which will champion the "lil; white" movement in North Carolin' and incidentally boom Mark Hanna fo i next president. GEORGIA O. A. R. CONVENTION. Fourth Annual Session Called to Oi der in Savannah. | The fourth annual state conferenc ; of the Georgia Society, Daughters c I the American Revolution, was calle ! to order Thursday morning for a thre j days' session in the Lawton Menu i rial at Savannah by Mrs. Robert En ; ory park, of Atlanta, t.ie state regent a he first session of the conlerenc v.*as marked by brilliant addresses t 1 a number of Savannah's represent live women and visitors oa distinctio; VOLCANO'S VICTIMS: * I In Unfortunates Guatemala Reach j Thousands in Number. I A GREAT AREA DESOLATED .! People Fled In Vain to Escape Fiery Ashes and Molten Lava Flowing Down Mountain Side. Towns Destroyed. i The Pacific steamer Newport, which j arrived at San Francisco Wednesday j from Central America brought detans of the eruption of the volcano Santa Maria, which spread ruin over a section of northern Gautemala on OctoI os Advices brought by the NewI UVi MVI ? port show that Gautemala Is using every effort to suppress tne facts concerning the eruption and to minimize the amount of damage. At Champerico, however, the conditions were such that the news could not be suppressed. The whole town and the long pier that juts into the sea were covered during the Newport's visit by a heavy cloak of white ashes that still continued and covered the | steamer's decks and made breathing difficult. Americans in Champerico said the town of Palmar, San Felipe, Colombia and Coatepec had been destroyed, witn probably great loss of life. The ashes thrown from the volcano still lay over the plantations and towns to a depth of six or seven feet and houses nad been crushed by the weight of mud, ; stones and debris. The towns of ReI talhuleu, Mazatonago and Quazaitenango are reported to have suffered very little. Details of the real situation were, however, just beginning to be received at Champerico in intelligent form. The news brought by the Newport amounts to almost a positive proof that many lives ^ere lost as a result of the fall of ashes from the volcano; that thousands of horses, cattle and other animals were killed and that ..ue rich coffee districts of the republic are ruined. It is reported that the ioss of the new crop of coffee will Amount to 15,000 tons. Some of the finest and most expensive plantations in Gautemala are en-, tirely ruined and rate of exchange nas risen to 1200 per cent. Roads anu bridges leading inland from Champerico were ruined by the weight cf ashes, mud and stones, falling from great heights. . Some of those on the Newport said I that fnllv a thousand Dersons perished in the upheaval. The destruction of crops and live stock in the interior makes famine imminent. One firm, with headquarters at Champerico, offered $2,000 to any one who would go to their plantation, near the volcano, and secure definite information of conditions, Dut no one would take the risk. TRIAL pOST HALF MILLION. Molineux Case Most Expensive Judicial Proceeding Ever Known. A New York special says: It has been estimated the trial of Roland B. Molineux has cost more than any other for a capital offense In any country where the English system of jurisprudence is in vogue. The cost to the county of New York in the first trial amounted to $250,000. Tuis was expended in various directions, largely In fees for handwriting experts, who -were brought from distant states, anu frtr riotAf>tivpje whrt pnripavorerl to trace Molineux's movements from his fifteenth birthday to the time of his arrest The defense expended about $75,000 in the first trial, and it is estimated that the total on both sides for the two hearings will fo<3t up nearly $500,000. Much Ado About Nothing.' According to The Tribuna (Rome), Italy purposes to make an international matter of the arrest in Boston, Mass., of Mascagni. "I'VE BEEN MARTYRED." 1 With This Declaration Molineux's Spouse Seeks a Divorce. 1 Mrs. Roland B. Molineux has taken ; apartments of three rooms in the Cat1 aract hotel in Sioux Falls, Iowa, and will make her home there during the six months that it will be necessary - for her to remain in order to establish a residence before she can file her * divorce suit. The grounds upon which 1 the suit will be based cannot be ascer? tained, her only answer to inquiries * being: "I have been martyred, and I am justified in seeking my freedom." WILSON AGAIN ON TRIAL. 1 Alleged Slayer of Nellie Cropsey Has Another Chance for Life. James Wilcox, the alleged murder r er of Nellie Cropsey, who was convict * ed of that crime some months ago and sentenced to be hanged, and late: f granted a new trial by the suprem( 3 court, was arraigned in the supeiio: r court at Elizabeth City, N. C.. Monday afternoon for a second triaL SANK IN BOSTON FAILS. p. Comptroller of Currency Orders Doors of Institution Closed. e The Central National Bank, of Bos >f ton. Mass., did not open for busines; d Friday, the comptroller of the curren :e cy having ordered the bank examine o- to close its doors and take charge o a- its business. The closing of the bank is said t< e' be due to excess loans and a lack o iy quick assets. An appeal for aid wai a- made to the Boston Clearing House as a sociation, but help was refused. 'rtfi'VTYTTTI i. l * t t . . . . . I I | Cream of News.| s * Brief Summary of Most Important Events of Each "Day. ?Social wing of labor unions claim one-third of delegates to Americaji Federation of Labor and will ask for place in executive council. ?An epidemic of smallpox is threatened in Charlote, N. C., and compulsory vaccination is resorted to. ?Texas cotton crop is off 10 per cent according to latest statistics furnished Galveston-Dallas News. ?President Roosevelt had a quiet time at his camp Sunday. For dinner he ate 'possunJ and potatoes out of a tin plate. ?Dillon and Davitt, Irish envoys, spoke in Baltimore Sunday night to a large meeting. About two thousand dollars was raised for the Irish cause. ? At thp hurnine: of Armour's pack ing plant at Siuox City, Iowa, there were loud explosions, caused by the bursting of ammonia drums. Loss by the flames nearly a million dollars. ?The national horse show began in Now York Monday. ?Rubino,. who attempted to kill King Leopold, of Belgium, says it was his intention to also slay King Edward, but that he relented on seeing how the king was liked by his subjects. ?Murderers of Ed Griffin, colored, near Augusta, Ga., are found guilty and one is sentenced to hang and the other two given life sentences. ?Remains of General Greene and son are removed to vault in monument in Savannah with great ceremony. ?Ship subsidy scheme is roasted by the American Federation of Labor in session at New Orleans. Eighty-seven resolutions are submitted. ?Lily white republicans of North Carolina will establish big daily newspaper in Greensboro for the purpose of boosting Hanna for president. ?General Chaffee, in his report, assumes all responsibility iV>r the actions of officers in carrying out written instructions in Philippines. ?Jesse Grant, son of the late General U. S. Grant, returns to California from the Klondike regions, having succeeded in making a fortune. ?The volcano Stfomboli, off the northern coast of Sicily, is still, in eruption, throwing vast amounts of ashes out to sea, covering vessels. ?Rev. D. C. Lilly at session of Georgia synod, in Atlanta, vigorously attacks the utterance of Rev. Thomas Dixon on the negro. ?General judiciary committee of the Georgia house of representatives reports favorably the bill which will , compel the Southern railway to incori porate in the state. ?Execution for taxes amounting to $S,1G0, issued by the state, is levied by Sheriff Nelms on the freight offices and warehouses of the Central of Georgia Railway Company in Atlanta. ?Macon, Ga., shoe men form combine under name of Boot and Shoe Club, the object of which is social and business. ?Case against W. S. Witham in connection with the Barnesville, Ga., bank trouble is continued on request of state. ?Alabama republicans will start big TJli-mlrifftiam fln daily new&pttyci at January 1, with capital stock of $100,000. * ?Mayor Smyth, of Charleston, roasts Attorney Legare for not prosecuting blind tiger proprietors. ?Alabama veterans, 2,000 strong, hold great reunion at Montgomery, and select Birminghaln as next place of meeting. ?Bishop Duncan, in address at Methodist conference at Richmond, advised all, especially young ministers, to marry girls in their own church. ?Rockefeller, Gould and Harriman have been trying to drive John W. Gates out of Wall street. Their campaign has cost the western plunger $15,000,000. ?Senator Mark Hanna announces that he intends to retire from political life. ?Advices from Guatemala state that 1.000 persons were killed by the recent outbreak of the volcano of Santa Maria. ?Mascagni has appealed to the Italian government to protect him while in Amerita, and the prime minister has taken up the case. ?The famous Chateau d'Eu, seat " At-- J? J'rti.ioonc {n TiYnnrp with 01 lilt! U UU u uiKauo, iu ? . _ , all its priceless treasures, has been totally destroyed by fire. ?Daughters of the American Revolution begun their state conference in Savannah Thursday. ?Rich coal mine has been discovered near Huntsville, Ala., and is of the best bituminous quality. ?American Federation of Labor opened session in New Orleans Thursday and President Gompen, delivered 5 a strong address. ?Daughters of the Confederacy . open meeting in New Orleans, and great work is shown. ?Mob of 500 unmasked men lynch I negro in courthouse yard in Tennessee. a r ?At Lebanon. Pa., a boiler in a pud. die furnace exploded Thursday, kill ing four men and injuring forty others ?President Roosevelt reached Smedes, Miss., Thursday and immedi ately went to the hunting camp whicr - has been established in a dens'* swamp. ?William J. Bryan, in The Com 3 moner, makes a bitter attack on Da - vid B. Hill, saying that the latter ii r not a democrat. f f ?Caldwell Hardy, of Norfolk, Va. has been elected president of th< 3 J American Bankers' Association, f 1 ?The volcano on the island o: 3 I Stromboli. off the north coast of Sicily is in violent eruption -and much de struetion hat been wrought. * -rx-Ls . LtAUEKb W KAINULIPIU .v Old Qnarrel Between Gompers and Shaffer Starts Afresh. AIRED IN LABOR CONVENTION . | Sensational Feature at Meeting of Federation in New Orleans?Fight Between the Two Men Will be to a Finish. A New Orleans dispatch states that either Theodore Shatter, president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron <*?$ Steel and Tin Workers, or Samuel ^ Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, is destined to pass under a cloud. The eclipse may ^|||j be temporary and the man who goes under way emerge at some other time, :~&38B but an eclipse there will be for one or the other. It is a fight to the finish, and at present the odds favor Go in- . The old dispute between the two men broke out afresh in the labor con- . vention Monday morning. The charges were originally made by President Shaffer, after the termi- : nation of the great steel strike of 1901. They were to the effect that President Gompers, of the American . Federation of Labor, and President John Mitchell, of the United Mine I Workers, had been guilty of un-unionlike conduct in refusing to support his *^^8 organization in its fight. Monday, on the other hand, Gompers asserted that the association over which President Shaffer presided was trying to violate its agreements and that his stand was untenable. Delegate Sheridan, of the Amalgamated association, a colleague of President Shaffer in the convention, threw a bomb by asking . unanimous consent to introduce a res- ' olution calling for an investigation of the charges. Both parties announced that they courted the investigation, and it will be referred to a special committee of five, two to be selected by President Gompers. two by 'President Shaffer, and the four to choose . the fifth. After aljournment Presi- -r|j dent Shaffer asserted with great em- , "The entire thing is a scheme to in jure me and to discredit me so that I cannot be re-ejected. I had no part ^ ; in the presentation of the resolution offered by Sheridan and I believe that > he and Gompers are in collusion regarding it" i When this statement was made to m Mr. Sheridan he denied that there ~ was any co-operation between himself and President Gompers. The latter "Mr. Shaffer may be entirely cor- ' ~yj| rect when he says he did not desire the introduction of the resolution, but it is utterly false to say mai 1 am m ?- - ywM league with Mr. Sheridan or anybody '^i|i -else in this matter." ' ifhsSM BEARS OUTWIT ROOSEVELT. * - g?J jjs Combine Seems to Have Eeen Effect* ed in the Bruin Family. The bears in the swamp country -jjgl around the president's camp on the vffiSl Little Sunflower seem to have effected ^ a successful combination to prevent J the president from having a single shot at one of them. The only one the dogs started Monday fled at tne first cry of alarm, and did not stop | running until he reached the cane* brake about nine miles from camp.. ' ^|K| There he was overtaken by Mr. Dongal, one of the managers of the Smede plantation, who killed him at 70 paces. rM The president, who had started in the rain with Holt Collier, did not hear v;'the dogs after they first struck the ||| "NOT GUILTY," PLEADS PERRY. Negro at Cambridge Asserts He- Did Not Murder Miss McPhee. To a charge of having murdered ^||?| Agnes McPhee in Somerville, Mass., ' on October 3, Oliver L. N. Perry, the Cambridge negro already charged with the murder of Clara A. Morton, at Waverly, November 1, pleaded not guilty Monday in the Somerville superior court. battle with robbers. Highwayman Has His Head Shot Off# -Z'lj and Marshal is Badly Hurt Marshal Henry Krohn was shot and an unknown burglar had his- head. olown off in a bloody battle in Elyria, Ohio, early Friday morning. The shooting occurred during the fight with four robbers, who completely ter- ' rorized the town. ' The gang stole horses and rigs, entered several houses and shot recklessly, in a wild charge down the main street of the town. A posse was at once formed and went in pursuit of the robbers. ; battleships are off. Big Fleet Leaves Hampton Roads to | Assemble In the Carribean. A special from Norfolk, Va., says: , The sailing from Hampton Roads Sat. urday of the battle ships, the fighting strength of the great fleet which is to be assembled in/?he Carribean under . the supreme cotnmand of the admiral of the navy ftefr the winter evolutions is an event cfi great significance. 1 / j . < *2'.?)r | ARMOUR PLANT BURNED. ' . ,/S Manmoth Concern at Sioux City, Valued at $900,000, Prey for Flames. " Armour Company's packing plant at * yf Sioux City, Iowa, which occupies four / acres of the stock yards, and valued J at $900,000, was totally destroyed ear2 ly Sunday morning by fire which started on the second floor of the fertilizer f building. The loss is partly covered ? ? by $721,500 insurance. v. - Six hundred men are thrown out at employment by the fire.