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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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Terrible Losses of Both Life and Prop- j
erty Entailed by Volcano Santa
Maria in Guatemala.
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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
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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:
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In Unfortunates Guatemala Reach j
Thousands in Number.
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A GREAT AREA DESOLATED .!
People Fled In Vain to Escape Fiery
Ashes and Molten Lava Flowing
Down Mountain Side.
Towns Destroyed.
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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
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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.
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| Cream of News.|
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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
$15,000,000.
?Senator Mark Hanna announces
that he intends to retire from political
life.
?Advices from Guatemala state
that 1.000 persons were killed by the
recent outbreak of the volcano of
Santa Maria.
?Mascagni has appealed to the Italian
government to protect him while in
Amerita, and the prime minister has
taken up the case.
?The famous Chateau d'Eu, seat
" At-- J? J'rti.ioonc {n TiYnnrp with
01 lilt! U UU u uiKauo, iu ? . _ ,
all its priceless treasures, has been
totally destroyed by fire.
?Daughters of the American Revolution
begun their state conference in
Savannah Thursday.
?Rich coal mine has been discovered
near Huntsville, Ala., and is of the
best bituminous quality.
?American Federation of Labor
opened session in New Orleans Thursday
and President Gompen, delivered
5 a strong address.
?Daughters of the Confederacy
. open meeting in New Orleans, and
great work is shown.
?Mob of 500 unmasked men lynch
I negro in courthouse yard in Tennessee.
a
r ?At Lebanon. Pa., a boiler in a pud.
die furnace exploded Thursday, kill
ing four men and injuring forty others
?President Roosevelt reached
Smedes, Miss., Thursday and immedi
ately went to the hunting camp whicr
- has been established in a dens'*
swamp.
?William J. Bryan, in The Com
3 moner, makes a bitter attack on Da
- vid B. Hill, saying that the latter ii
r not a democrat. f
f ?Caldwell Hardy, of Norfolk, Va.
has been elected president of th<
3 J American Bankers' Association,
f 1 ?The volcano on the island o:
3 I Stromboli. off the north coast of Sicily
is in violent eruption -and much de
struetion hat been wrought.
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LtAUEKb W KAINULIPIU
.v
Old Qnarrel Between Gompers
and Shaffer Starts Afresh.
AIRED IN LABOR CONVENTION . |
Sensational Feature at Meeting of
Federation in New Orleans?Fight
Between the Two Men Will
be to a Finish.
A New Orleans dispatch states that
either Theodore Shatter, president of
the Amalgamated Association of Iron <*?$
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.
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| 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.