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H ESTABLISHED 1891. 4 BAMBERG. S. C.. THURSDAY. JULY 16, 1903. ONE DOLLAR PEll YEAR.
ON RACE HARMONY
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Booker Washington Speaks
Before Atlanta Audience.
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MANY WHITES PRESENT
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Occasion Was a Church Anniversary
Celebration?Governor
Terrell, cf
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> Georgia, Sends Message cf
: Welcome.
Booker . T. Washington, head of
Tuskegee Institute, spoke in Atlanta,
_ Ga., Monday night to a large audience
f ?mostly white?on "Harmony L>etweenrvtb^
Races."
' H<| was the guost of the First Con
greg?tional church, coiorea, wmcn ceiebrapbcP
to thirty-sixth anniversary.
Washington's address was delivered
at burner's Tabernacle on Yonge
tin $s every utterance there was an
't appeal for the black men to recognize
the feet that their best friends and
thei||best interests were in the southlanctgand
that it was fer them to improve
these opportunities in such a
w&y||hat the white men would recog^
nize-jjheir ability as laborers and admit
the fact that they could not get
alon^without them.
'"Vfcbrk, work with your hands and
put Che best that is in your nead into
the *ork of your hands. Do it better
than'any one else can do it. But your
i, own 'booses. Buy land. Have a, bank
account. Don't spend seven days at a
camp meeting when you ought to be
Improving your fari^. Learn how to
use your hands in such a way that no
one else can take your place. Be tax
payers. Ana when you are tax layers
you will h^ve.the best interests of the
rftmmnnitv?t vfrnr "h^rf airl this
much mootifed race Question "will ha7e
been settled?'
So preached Booker Washington, interspersing
his remarks with telling
and pertinent stories, sometimes pathetic,
more often humorous, but with
a homeljF trath so strongly borne out
that no one could mistake the purport
and the mission of the experience or
anecdote.
"While I will not attempt to deny
the injustice of slavery, we of my race
must " ever remember that we owe
i mucftrto our masters. It was between
I the 8&?ee of the older generations ana
theiMppfcers that seeds of friendship
were sown that must not be forgotten
and all see to it that these ties
are ^^nghened rather than torn
dowlas they have so often been
don^"We Wtist remember, too, that
slavery put us in touch with skilled
labor and we came here out of Africa
without a language and without means
of using our hands and v j have come
out American citizens, carrying Bibles
and for education. 1
tha^k God for ihe fact that Georgia
did mot yield .to the temptation of dividing
the colored school fund, and
thisgshows Ifrmes pur friends, our real
frieids, %reto he found.j
Governor Terrell's Welcome.
T|e first message of the evening
was-' from Governor Terrell, who was
una&le to be present He sont the followfcg:
"*ev. H. H. Proctor and Membeas of
the|First Congregational Church, Colored:
I desire to congratulate you and
youi church on this its anniversary
and;: in this connection, to note the
fact- that .evidence of peace and good
willjamoijgr your flock Is showii in its
Deiqg the ninth anniversary or your
1 , pas* >rate.
"I hear that you are doing a go>d
workmen the lines of racial peace, and
so long as you and others continue to
employ their good offices in a way that
will ajkeer your people arounu the evils
of zjppial antagonism, all will be well.
"Hooker T. Washington, who comes.
I upBerstand, to join your church in
this|knniversary -celebration, is a ecogn&ed
leader of the negro race, on
whaiHi a great responsibility rests, as
the ^result of his special endowment.
He &an accomplish mucn by leading
his people in paths of righteous and
peaceful endeavor, and in directing
theifi, against foolish and useless agitation.
His ellorts on this line will receive
the encouragement of the best
whi$| sentiment of the south. In this
lies jjhe hope of the negro race.
""$hth a sincere wish that your congregation
will grow in grace, and that
lawejbiding effort may yet become the
standard of excellence among your
people, I take pleasure in subscribing
myself their friend,
"J. M. TERRBLU
3^ "Governor of Georela "
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Alleged Murderers Out on Bond.
Chaamcey Dewey, Clyde Wilson and
W. FjvMcBride left the Shawnee county
jaff at Topeka. Kans., Monday, under
aifbond of $15,000 each, to appear
for trfel -pr the murder of the Berry
family^
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DASHED INTO EXCURSION TRAIN.
Wreck in Which Three Tramps Were
Killed and Fifty Negroes Injured.
The fast miil from St. Louis on the
Missouri Pacific, due in Kansas City
Sunday morning, crashed into an excursion
train that had broke down at
"Dead Man's Curve," three miles from
Lees Summit. Three tramps were
killed and fifty negroes injured. One
engine was ditched and several cars
were wrecked.
niRL COFFINED WHILE ALIVE.
Her Cries Heard Just as Interment
Was About to Take Place.
A terrible case of a persott being
placed in a coffin alive has occurred
at Altona, Germany. In a coffin, con
taining the supposed remains of a 14year-old
girl being delivered at thn
cemetery, the attendants heard criec
emanating from the coffin. The lie*
was removed and the girl was found
to be still alive. She died, however
two liours later. M
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IICream of News.|
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Brief Summary of Most
Important Events
of Each Bay.
?A Philadelphia man has just
reached Savannah in search of treasure
said to have been buried on Warsaw
island by a confederate blockade
runner.
?The Augusta, Ga., council is in a
quandary over tho city printing, The
Chronicle having refused to do the
work for the price contracted for by
the city printer.
?Three were drowned Monday at
Poncoffil# TTln hv tho xi*rork of the
schooner Amelia Lyons.
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?The case of Ernest Haywood, of
Raleigh, N. C., charged with the murder
of Ludlow Skinner, has been postponed
until September.
?Tue jury in .the case of Fletcher
Turner, charged with peonage at
Montgomery, failed to bring in a verdict
and was discharged by Judge
Jones with a sharp charge.
?James H. Tillman, charged with
the murder of N. G. Gonzales at Columbia.
S. C., was taken to Lexington
Monday. He was accompanied by .lis
uncle. Senator B. R. Tillman. ;
?Many deaths of boys are reported
from lockjaw due to the use of toy
pistols on July 4th?
?Assistant Secretary of War Sanger
has resigned. William Shaw Oliver,
of Albany, N. Y., will be appointed
to the position. _ -.*?
?Associate Justice Brewer, of the
United States supreme court, declares
that every participant in a lynching
is a murderer, pure and simple.
?During services in the Christian
Endeavor tent at Denver > Monday j
night it "was struck by a storm and .
"" Tib tho olo-ht thousand nrciroaats !
Injured.
?The prince of Wales visited the
United States squadron at Portsmouth
Monday, and took breakfast on board
the Kearsarge.
?Owing to a conflict between the
president and legislators of Haiti, a |
state of siege has been proclaimed at j
the capital.
?Dr. M. L. Perry, of Milledgeville,
Ga., has been appointed superintendent
of tne new state asylum for the insane
at Parsons, Kans.
?After bidding his wife and children-good
by, J. T. Cato, of Fort Valley,
Ga., rode off with a negro and
when a short distance from his home
blew out his. own brains with a revolver.
?A neern created some excitement
in Spartanburg, S. C., Saturday by an- j
nouncing that ho would organize a local
chapter of negro Elks.
?For eight years laiss Willie Ray.
of Prentiss county, Miss., disguised
herself as a man and worked as a
farm hand. She both smoked and
chewed. ; < .
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?It Is rumored that Judge Thoma3
G. Jones, of the Alabama federal court,
may be given a place in the circuit
court of appeals on account of his
stand in the peonage cases.
?Storm at Baltimore Sunday injured
about twenty persons and did $100,000
damage to buildings.
?Negro leaders at Indianapolis are
taking steps to avert a race war by
running worthless members of tho
race out of the city. v
?Secretary of War Root arrived at
Oyster Bay Sunday and was the guest
of the president. They conferred on
the Alaskan boundary and other questions.
?Several engagements have taken I
place between Turkish and Burgarian
troops on the frontier.
?Funds are being subscribed in
England to send a British rifle team to
the United States next year to contest
for the Palma trophy.
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?The condition of Popo Leo contin-.
uee to show improvement, and the doctors
are greatly cheered over the progress
of their patient.
?The Georgia Southern and Floriia
railroad refuses to let he Atlantic and
Birmingham crops its tracks at Tifton,
Ga., and the matter will probabiy
be carried into the courts.
?Owing to the continued rocking of
cars armed guards are still kept on
the street cars in Richmond, Va.
?The street car strikers at Beaumont,
Texas, have won tneir demands
and have gone back to work.
?Intense heat still prevails in the
gxeat cities. Deaths and prostrations
were numerous Saturday.
?Near St. Louis a crowded train
was wrecked by spreading rails. One
person was killed, -four seriously and
twenty slightly injured.
?Trustees of Mercer university at
Macon, Ga., met Thursday morning to
prepare formal protest against enactment
of measure requiring two years'
o/vmkoa in lovxr e/^hrinlc
LV/Ui SJU 1U iUff
?At Lincoln. Nebr., James Rhea
was hurried to the gallows in order
to get ahead of a court injunction to
prevent the execution.
?The officers of the United States
European squadron were received by
the lord mayor of London. From
speeches made recently it seems that
Great Britain favors the expansion of
the Monroe doctrine by the United
States.
?By the overturning of a skiff in
Mobile river four men were drowned.
?There was no disorder at Richmond,
Va., Tuesday. The cars are getting
a good passenger traffic again.
?The Southern Educational Association.
in session at A6heville, elected as
president Francis P. Venable, of the
University of North Carolina.
?By an explosion of gas in a coal
mine at Hanna, Wyo., Tuesday, prob
ably 175 men were killed.
?Governor Jelks, of Alabama, has
called a special term of court to try
five members of the mob that lynched
a negro and wounded Sheriff Austin j
at Scottsboro.
'CHAPMAN AGAIN ELECTED!
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For Thirteenth Time President B. Y.
P. U. Is Installed?Other Officers
Named at Atlanta Convention.
Thirty-six deaths and eighty-three
prostrations in and around New York
and Brooklyn tell the story of Friday's
heat. It was the hottest July 10th in
the history of the local weather Du- reau,
the highest previous record being
91 degrees, recorded July 10, 1880.
The ?arly threat of temperature
j that would break all records, however,
i was not fulfilled. Thursday's record of
94 degrees at 4 o'clock, the high weather
mark of the year, was reached Friday
at twenty minutes past 1, without
sign of relief. But by 2 o'clock the
temperature had fallen two degrees,
where it remained during the next two
hours. At 8 o'clock Friday night the
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temperature nau xuxieu tu oo uc#icc?,
6 degrees lower than at the same hour
Thursday.
During the two or three hours, about
noon, when the heat was the most intense,
the wind averaged about nine
miles an hour. About 5 o'clock the
watchers at the weather bureau discovered
that a thunderstorm was In progress
in th^southeast.Meanwhile
the wind shifted and in
creased in velocity to 32 miles an hour,
at 6 o'clock. The storm, which scarcely
touched the city, had given the dosired
relief. Between 5 and 7 o'clock
the temperature fell 4 degrees. The
city had been sweltering so long in hot
wave, however, that it was hours before
the benefits began to reach tho
tenements. In the streets, where the
cooHng process was more immediate,
men, women and children crowded Into
the doorways and walks to recover
from the wearing effects of the day. As
on the night before, many slept on
the park benches, and, where the poj
lice would permit, on the grass,
j Daniel Lewis, a heat-crazed negro,
attacked with a club two girls who
j wore carrying a piece cf icc. A mob
quickly gathered and shouted: "Lynch
him!" Lewis was rescued by detect
tlv&S and sent to the hospital.
Two Deaths at Pittsburg.
Two deaths and two prostrations
from the heat were reported in Pittsburg,
Pa., up to 10 o'clock Friday
night. The mercury at that hour was
87 degrees.
PURSUING GR?ENE AND GAYNOR.
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United States Has Not Abandoned Legal
Chase After Fugitives.
Advices from Quebec, Canada, state
that the United States has not abandoned
its endeavors to get Gaynor and
Greene, the two lugitives from justice,
across the line for trial before its
court. A cablegram received says the
petition has been presented to the
privy council in England for leave to
appeal to that body from the decision
, rendered by Judge Caron last fall,
whi^Ji gave the two men their liberty
in the Dominion.
The argument on the appeal will bo
heard in the latter part of July, and
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Mr. xascnerau, council*iur crurcue ?uu
Gaynor, will sail at once for London.
A big fight will be made against possible
extradition. Mr. McMaster, of
Montreal, is now in England representing
the interests of the United States.
Greene and Gaynor are wanted in the
United States in connection with the
alleged stealing of millions in the federal
improvements in Savannah harbor.
Captain Carter is now in a military
prison for his connection with the
case.
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NEGRO PETITION TURNED DOWN.
Russian Ambassador in London Refuses
to Receive Document.
The Russian ambassador in London,
according to report, has refused to receive
a petition relative to the treatment
of negroes in the United States.
The petition draws attention to the increasing'
outrages on negroes, accompanied
by appalling brutality, and
"urges the Russian government to
make representations to Washington
asking the authorities to tnere take
steps in Lae interests of civilization
and Humanity to suppress me gruwiug
evil."
The ambassador says the matter is
outside his purview and that he cannot,
therefore, move therein.
MONUMENT TO 3AGLEY.
Shaft Erected Over Grave of Ensign
Killed in Spanish-American War.
In Oakwood cemetery, at Raleigh, N.
C.t at the grave of Ensign Worth Bagley,
United States navy, a monument
to his memory is now being erected.
It is of Quincy granite of handsome
design. On one side is a bronze tablet
bearing the inscription, "Worth Bagley.
1874-1898." Another tablet nearly
five feet high, and s-iso of bronze,
bears an inscription which is a quotation
from the book of the Maccabees,
beginning, "And thus this man
died," etc.
pontiff lingers on brink.
Passes First Week of Illness and Is
Thankful for Strength to Pray.
It is reported from Rome that when,
shortly after sunrise Thursday morning,
Dr. Lapponi went to see the pope,
he found him in the attitude of prayer.
On the doctor's inquiring whether
he required anything. Pope Leo replied:
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""Today finishes a week since I was
taken sick. I am thanking God for
having given me strength still to pray
to him."
DR. BIGHAM RESIGNS.
Head of Methodist Publishing House
at Nashville Tires of Job.
Rev. R. J. Bigham, book agent of
the Methodist Episcopal church, south,
publishing house, Nashville, Tenn., ha3
resigned.
While Dr. Bigham gives no reason
for his resignation, it is presumed
that he took this step on account of
delicate health. When asked why he
had resigned, he said that he did not
care to state his reasons just now.
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i ;THE NEWS OF A WEEK f
j| IN SOUTH CAROLINA, i
Assaulted and Robbed by Negroes.
Eliza Fowler, an aged citizen of
Enoree, Spartanburg county, was
murderously assaulted by two negro
desperadoes a few days ago and robbed
of about $20. The negroes ??oopetk
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Comptroller Pursuing Wild Cats.
The comptroller general of South
Carolina has issued a very strong iiroular
in regard to the eniorcement of
the law of the state in regard to
"wild cat" insurance companies. The
law in this respect is very stringent,
and it having been reported officially
to the comptroller that a number of
siirh rnmnanies are doine business in
the state, he proposes to see that the
law Is enforced 10 the letter, through
the proper channels.
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White and Black Lawyers Fight
B. H. Matthews, a member of the
Charleston bar, and Alonzo E. Twine,
a negro lawyer, came to blows in the
judiciary court room in that city a day
or two ago. The encounter was the
outcome of a law suit involving the
ownership of a horse. Twine represented
one side. Mr. Matthews the
other.
During the trial Twine, it is said, denied
the statements made by Mr.
Mathews and when court adjourned
the two lawyers met. Mr. Mathews
used his umbrella on Twine's head.
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Langley Killed by Coward.
Purly Langley was shot and killed
by John W. Coward near McLeod's
mill, 10 miles north of Bennettsville,
The men met in the road and had
some words. A difficulty ensued, in
which Coward emptied a shotgun into
Langley, killing him almost instantly.
Coward surrendered himself and is
now in jail.
It is said the shooting was the result
of an attack on Coward's son by Langley.
Coward is a farmer and merchant
and a man of considerable prominence.
Tillman Taken to Lexington.
irpnmnaniod hv Viia nn/>lo fionntnr
Tillman, and a deputy sheriff, James
H. Tillman, left the jail at Columbia
last Monday for Lexington, where his
case will be called the third Monday
in September.
Senator Tillman went with his nephew
to the Lexington jail, the sheriff
there being a personal friend.
The order of Judge Townsend . regarding
the trial stipulates that Tillman
must be removed to Lexington by
two weeks In advance of the trial, and
so under the order, the prisoner could
go at any time. .
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Tragedy Near Laurens.
A dispatch from Laurens says:
John Wham shot and killed Fayette
Ramage this morning two miles from
Clinto, this county. Wham is a wealthy
planter.
Report says Wham wrote a letter
to Ramage's niece, inviting her to
spend the day at his house in absence
of his wife. Ramage and his relatives
surrounded Wham's hoifse. Wham
then fired killing Ramage.
Wham has disappeared. A sheriffs's
posse and bloodhounds left Laurens
for the ^cene.
Both young men are about 35 years
old. Ramage was unmarried. Wham
has a wife and four children.
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Wanted to Organize Black Elks.
A negro appeared on the streets of
Spartanburg a few days ago and attracted
considerable attention because
of a large Elk pin fastened in the left
lapel of his coat. .
Soon after his arrival he ' began
talking to a number of colored people,
stating that he was an organizer lor
the colored Elks, and that the only difference
in the white and colored orders
was that the names were not exactly
alike.
Some of the members of the Spartanburg
lodge Brotherhood Protective
Order of Elks held a brief ronferer.ee
with the negro, at the conclusion of ;
which he decided that he would not
further attempt to organize a colored-'
lodge of Elks.
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Two Convicts Killed.
A Columbia dispatch says: Several
convicts escaped from a state farm
last Friday night and guards went in
pursuit. Saturday morning in tracking
the men through a plantation one
of the guards got B. L. Swigert, a 16year-old
son of the owner of the place,
to join him.
Young Swigert carried his fathers
double-barrelled gun. After following'
tracks several miles the pursuers
came on two convicts in the woods.
The escapes started to run, refusing
to obey the guard's order to halt. The
guard's rifle refused to work, when
young Swigert fired, killing one man
with each barrel.
"Do you think there are any moro
around?" he asked the guard.
A coroner's jury exonerated the"
oiaj ti.
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Firemen Rescue Imperiled Women.
At a recent fire in Charleston four
women were rescued by the firemen.
They were dragged from their beds
and carried down a narrow stairway,
through smoke and flame. It was a
narrow escape for the ladies and but
for the heroism displayed by the firemen
they would have perished in their
rooms.
At 1 o'clock in the morning a threestory
brick building at. the corner of
King and Tradds streets, was discovered
to be on fire. "While the firemen
were busy stretching hose, some one
cried out that ladies were in the third
story.
Several firemen rushed into the |
building, fough': their way through
dense columns of smoke to the rooms
occupied by the ladies nnd brought i
them out safely while the flames lick- ,
ed their feet. j
CHILD LABOfi BILL KILLED
Georgia House of Representatives Goes
on Record Against the Measure
by a vote of 8D to 75. I
The muchly-discussed child labor i
bill was defeated In the Georgia house '
of representatives Wednesday at the
conclusion of a debate which lasted for
six hours.
Opponents of the bill asserted confidently
on Tuesday night that they had
90 votes. The result of the roll call
in the house at noon Wednesday dis- j
closed the fact that they had lost only |
one of these, while the vote for the (
measure was about what had been con- ,
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i.'VUfU uy luciii, na lanuic uciug i cvui ued
by 89 to 75.
During the debate there was considerable
feeling displayed by some of
the speakers, but It was all in good
nature, and the evidence was abundant
that every vote was the result of an
honest, straightforward opinion as to
the merits of the measure. One or two
of the numerous amendments offered
were adopted, and when the favorable
report of the committee on education
was agreed to by a vote of 91 to 38,
the advocates of the measure seemed
to think they would have things pretty
much their own way. It was very evident,
however, that some member^
voted in favor of the report of the
committee simply with " view to having
a final vote taken o* the bill, and
that on tbe final vote they recorded
against it.
As on the day before the gallery was
crowded with interested listeners, and
now and then Speaker- Morris had to
demand a cessation of applause.
Those voting for the bill were Messrs.
Alexander, Blackburn, Boy kin,
Brlnson. J&twn, Bruce, Buchan, Butts, '
Candlef,r Cann, Carswell, Cliatt Cromartle,
Dozier, Duggan, Dunbar, Evans,
Felder, Flanigan, Foster of Oco- j
nee, Franklin, Fussel, uaulden, Glenn, ;
Grenade, Hall, Harden, Hayes, Hendy,
Hicks, Houston, Howard of Baldwin, (
Hutcheson, Jones of Dougherty, Kelly.
Kendrick, Kent, Kilburn, Knight,
Knowles, Martin, Mayson, Miller of ,
Bullock, Miller of Muscogee, Mills,
Mitcham, Mitchell, Mizell, Morton,
Mulherin, McHenry, Newton, Nisbet,
Owen, Overstreet, O'Quinn, Pate of 1
Gwinnett, Preston, Proctor, Rainey, !
Rankin, Redwine, Reid, Richardson, ;
Slaton, Spence, Steed of Taylor, Sto- \
vail, Tigner, Underwood, Walker of
Pierce, Watson, Wellborn, Wise?75. ]
Those voting against the bill were |
Messrs. Adams, Alford, Almond, Arnold,
Ayres, Baldwin, Beall of Paulding,
Ecauchamp, Bell of Milton, Booth,
Bowen, Bower. Buchannon, Burton,
Bush, Carr, Carrington, Conner,* Cook, !
Crumbly, Daniel, Daves, Davis, Davi- '
son, Deal, Duckett, Edwards, Engnsn,
Fields, Flynt, Foster of Towns, George,
Grice, Griffin, Hardman, Hawes, Hen- '
ry, Hlxon of Laurens, Howell, Johnson
of Clinch, Johnson of Crawford, Jone3 J
of Pickens, Lane, Lanier. Lawrence,
Leigh, Little, Lowe, Maples, Moses, '
McBrlde, McCurry, McElmurray, Mc- '
Lain, McRae, Parker, Pate of Dooly,
Paulk of Coffee, Peyton. Phillips of
Jefferson, Phillips of Quitman, Rawls,
Rice, Ridley, Rogers of Hall, Rogers of
Mcintosh, Roper, Rountree. San<Jers, j
Shackelford, Shannon, Singletary,
Stanford, Steed of Carroll, Stewart,
luompson, Thurman, Tracy, Valentine,
Walker of Monroe, West, Whit- i
ley, Wilson, Womble, Wooten, Yates?
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GENERAL LONGSTREET ILL. '
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Will Undergo uanaerous uper?uon
for Cancerous Growth In Eye.
General James Longstreet, the veteran
confederate commander, who is at
present in Gainesville, Ga., will go under
the knife for a cancerous growth
which has destroyed his left eye. Physicians
will remove the destroyed eye.
Grave fears are entertained as to
General Longstreet's ability to with- t
stand the shock of the operation, owing
to his age, 81 years, and his extreme
weakness.
The general has been apprised of
the situation. He is fully conscious of ]
the danger of the operation, but is as
game as he was in his warfare days. 1
He has consented to the operation.
General Longstreet left "Washington '
for Gainosville about ten days ago. He
had been far from well for some time
and for three weeks before leaving j
Washington he had been under treatment
at the Garfield hospital.
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GAMBLING ON POPE'S SUCCESSOR j
Both Bets Being Registered in the j
Italian Provinces.
In the Italian provinces so firmly
rooted has become the conviction that
the pope will not recover that the discussion
concerning hig successor Is almost
superceding in interest to the de- 1
tails of the pontiff's illness. Betting j
goes on with great animation, each
cardinal having his fervent admirer* 1
and backers.
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GENERAL CLAY A LUNATIC.
Jury Passes Upon His Case and He
Will Be Sent to Asylum. 3
A special from Lexington, Ky., says: 1
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General Cassius M. Clay has been pronounced
by a Jury to be of unsound i
mind. He will be sent to an asylum. ,
this action being taken to protect (
property merely. The aged gentleman (
was not in court. Physicians testinea
as to his mental condition.
IRISHMEN ENGAGE IN RIOTS. 1
Uusual Aftermath of Yearly Celebra*
tion by the Orangemen. (
At Belfast, Ireland, Monday, the Orangemen
engaged in their annual celebration
of July 12, in their customary
way. About 100.000 men participated
in the celebration.
The procession of Orangemen on
returning from their demonstration
were attacked by nationalists and a serious
riot ensued.
SOLD INTO SLAVERY
Peonage Case in Alabama
Has Sensational Features.
COP WAS A STAR WITNESS
Negroes Were Arrested, Tied With
Ropes and Carried Into the Counfry
and Sold to Farmer.
Transaction Told in "Detail.
The caso-?f he United State3 agaln9t
Fletcher Turner, charged "with holding
Grlennle Helms, a negro, In a condl
liUll uj. ycuuagc, nrao tuutiuuvu ut
Montgomery, Ala., Wednesday, and
some very sensational testimony wa3
brought out at. the aftornoon session,
telling how Helms was sold Into slav3ry.
At the morning session L. EL White,
a. retired merchant, of Columbus, Ga.,
testified that he was employed by
Helms' father to purchase Helms' release,
which he did for $48, which Turner
accepted.
Dave Johnson, one of the negroes
held by Turner, testified practically
the same as Helms did on Tuesday.
He stated he saw Helms whipped with
a stick as large aa a broom handle several
times.
Dave M. White, mayor of Goodwater,
AJa., and chairman of the Coosa
jounty democratic executive committee,
brought in records of his court,
showing fines of Helms paid with no
;ommitment papers issued.
The sensation of the day was the
testimony of J. F. Dunbar, formerly
alght marshal of Goodwater, but now
a policeman of Columbus, Ga. He testified
that he arrested the negroes after
the trial and carried them to Dadeville
tied with ropes, stating that he
thought he could sell them at a better
profit there. Ho met J. W. Pace, but
D-<->"i^ V>/v /lMn't vant thorn hilt
I acc oaiu uv uium v ?*??*? ? ? Furner
did. .
"I then saw Turner and Turner said.
What-.are they worth?'
"I said $50.
" 'I don't want tnem; too much,' said
rurner.
"Then I said $46. Hie again said,
No; too much," but said ha would
give $40. I accepted. He gave me a
check. (Check produced in court.)
He talked to the negroes, came back
and told me to make contracts with
them. I told him I would not sign nor
make contract. I had no commitment
papers. I returned to Gocdwater, paid
the fines ahd costs."
On cross-examination he was asked
-? v_ 6ai\ f/..
wnai ngnx una ut? cunrgt? iui
these negroes. He said he made $8
clear above expenses, which he acknowledged
he kept.
He carried a man named Durffof
with him. Puld his fare and charged
It against expenses. He Is indicted
for the sane offense, the ease having
never been set. *
District Attorney Rce3e brought out
accidentally the fact that he had made
a sworn, written and signed statement
before him about the case.
The attorneys for the defense Insisted
that the paper was be3t evidence,
rhe judge made the district attorney
give up the statement. The district f ttorney
acknowledged that he had slipped
up, but did not want to give up the
paper.
The statement whicn was read to
the jury contradicted nearly every
witness the government has on the
stand and contradicts Dunbar In several
instances. The attorneys for the
iefense offered the statement as evidence.
A' letter was attached to the
statement to the district attorney practically
offering his (Dunbar's) services
to the government. The attorneys for
the defense are jubilant over securing
tnis statement. Court adjourned to
meet Thursday.
oeiTlKlft AMCDir&M VFftftFl ft.
guifcinu
Venezuelan* Government Forces and
Revolutionists Take Five Ships.
It is reported from Ciudad Bolivar,
Venezuela, that the Venezuelan government
forces Wednesday captyred
three American steamers near Apure
and the revolutionists at Ciudad Boliear
have captured two American vessels.
ROOSEVELT THANK8 KING ED.
'resident Sends Cordial Response to
English Monarch's Message.
Saturday night President Roosevelt
sent the following cable in response to
he message sent to the president by
King Edward, of England, during the
linner to American naval officers at
Buckingham palace:
"Oyster Bay, July 11.?His Majesty,
:he King, London: I thank your majesty
most cordially for your kind message,
and sincerely and gratefully appreciate
the courtesies which the officers
of our navy have received at the
it..:ds of your majesty and the English
people.
GAMBLING ON POPE'S 8UCCE880R |
3oth Bets Befhg Registered In the i
Italian Provinces.
In the Italian provinces so firmly
rooted has become the conviction that
the pope will not recover that the dis- j
cussion concerning his successor is almost
superceding in interest to the details
of the pontiff's illness. Betting
goes on with great animation, each
cardinal having his fervent admirers
and backers.
TDirwn IC NOW TOWARD GORMAN
i nunv i v i w ?? - ? - -
Opinion of Democratic Leaders Points
to Marylander for President.
A Washington special says: I? the
opinions of democratic lenders from
riifferent parts of the country can be
aken as a fair indication of the trend
democratic sentiment, it may be
fid without fear of successful contraction
that conditions are shapin?
hemselves to make Senator Gorman,
f Maryland, the center of democratic
interest.
EDUCATIONAL MEASURES
Of Great Importance Passed in Georgia
House of Representatives
and Transmitted to Senate.
Measures affecting the educational
system and interest of Georgia engaged
the attention of the house of representatives
Thursday, two bills of importance
and interest to the people
throughout the state receiving favorable
consideration at the hands of the
members. In addition, the law-makers
refused to reconsider the child labor
measure, which was defeated Wednesday,
while an educational resolution
by Mr. Bower, of Decatur, providing
that the school fund of the state be
apportioned between the races according
to the amount of tax paid by
each, which was killed Monday, was
turned down once again at Thursday's
session.
After an interesting debate, the
house, by a vote of more than 2 to 1,
adopted the bill of Messrs. Steel and
Hixon, of Carroll, providing that the
various school commissioners in the
state shall, in the future, be elected by
the people, instead of the county
boards of education as heretofore.
The action of the house in this mab>
ter is regarded as one of the mosf
important that will come up at this
session, as the measure is one that
will affect every county In the state.
In fact, several members of the lower
branch made their race for a seat In
the house upon a platform embodying
this feature.
And little less importance attaches
to the above mentioned measure than
to a measure by Messrs. Hardman and
Holder, ol Jackson, providing for the
introduction of elementary principles
of agriculture and civil government
into the schools of the state.
An effort was made to amend the bill
in such a way as to make It apply
onlv to the schools in the country*and
; rural districts, but it was voted down,,
and, as the measure now reads, all of
the public schools in the cities of Geor-~
gla will be oompelled to teach the
books referred to in the foregoing,
paragraph.
The bill was adopted by an overwhelming
majority, but it la understood
an effort will be made to either
amend or defeat the measure In the
senate, as the cities are opposed to instituting
elementary principles in the
schools as one of the regular stodiee
of the pupils, it is understood. At any
rate, the representatives from all at
the counties in which are located
cities strongly favored the amenfr
meats.
Mr. Rankin, of Gordon, gained a signal
victory for his bill to elect the
railroad commissioners by the people,
when he succeeded in having the
house disagree to the adverse report
of the general judiciary committee on
the measure. A strong effort will be
made to pass it in the house.
DEATH OVERTAKES PICNICKERS.
Train Strikes Wagon ContainHng Nino
People and All are Killed or flurt
A westbound Pennsylvania railroad
train struck a wagon containing nine ;
people at a crossing eight miles east
of Cincinnati Thursday night, killing
five and seriously injuring four of the
occupants of the wagon.
Robert Copenhaven, with his wife
-1 l. o rrrtA Q 9 VPOffi
ailtl l?VU Cilliuicu, agcu u uuu id ^
respectively, were going from Redcomb
Junction to Madisonville, to a
picnic. A daughter of a neighbor and
four of their boarders accompanied
them. They did not observe the train,
which was coming at high speed.
When the engineer saw them he blew
his whistle, but it was too latevto stop
the train. The mules, on hearing the
whistle, stopped and could not be
moved. The animals were across the
track and escaped unhurt, while the
wagon was wrecked and all the occupants
either killed or injured.
TICKET SCALPERS ENJOINED.
Temporarily Forbidden to Soli or Buy
Certain Class of Railroad Tickets.
Two firms of ticket scalpers in Atlanta,
Ga., were temporarily enjoined
by Judge W. T. Newman, of the United
States court Thursday from buying
and selling what is known as iron
- - - __ti ;
clad signature tickets, issuea Dy n?ii*
roads for special occasions and sold by
them at reduced rates.
MONUMENT TO BAGLEY.
Shaft Erected Over Grave of Ensign <
Killed in Spanish-American War.
In Oakwood cemetery, at Raleigh, N.
C., at the grave of Ensign Worth Bag- 1
ley, United States navy, a monument i
to his memory is now being erected. <
It is of Quincy granite of handsome i
design. On one side is a bronze tablet
bearing the inscription, "Worth Bag
ley. 1874-1898." Another tablet near- i
ly five feet high, and also of bronze, i
bears an inscription which is a quo- ]
tation from the book of the Macca- i
bees, beginning, "And thus this man i
died," etc. i
JUDGE PARKER AT HOME.
Returns to New York, But Won't Die- |
cuss His Trip to the South.
A New York dispatch says: Chief
Justice Alton B. Parker, of the court \
of appeals, returned from his southern ^
trip Thursday. He was met by Demo- j
cratic National Committeemen N, E. j
Mack, and they had a long talk before (
- - - - - - * ' in
the judge leit ior 1113 summci UUiiiC AAA I |
Hudson. Judge Parker declined to dls- j
cuss his visit to Georgia. j
Alleged Train Wreckers Arrested.
Henry Ford, Arthur Steger, James
Lawter and Foster Smith, negroes, are
in jail at Huntsville, Ala., for attempting
to wreck a passenger train on the
Southern railway near Brownsboro. J \
Big Shoe Firm Goes to Wall.
The shoe and leather mercantile
agency of Boston has announced the
assignment of the large boot and shoe
manufacturing firm of Ira Cnshman
& Co.. of Boston and Auhurne, Me.
.
^ .
JONES ROASTS JURY f
Sensational Charge by Jurist
In Federal Court. . fj|
DEMANDS A CONVICTION ||
Declares that Fletcher Turner - is
Guilty of Peonage Charge?Anr
Interesting Piece of Political '
Gossip on the Side.
Judge Thomas G. Jones, of the Unlted
States court In Montgomery. Ala.,
delivered a sensational charge to the
jury In the case of the United States
vs. Fletcher Turner, charged with . ^
holding one Glennie Helms, a negro, ijfjB
in a condition of peonage.
Although there were only a few persons
in the court room at the time, t
surprise was heard on every side. At
5 o'clock Saturday afternoon the Jury / ?
filed into the court room and informed \v|jHfl
the Judge that there was no chance or
prospect of their reaching a verdict is
Judge Jones then vehemently lect'ir- J8
ed them. He told them that if they
believed the evidence offered by the ' ^
government the defendant was guilty^
that If they believed the evidence of- ? -?
fered by the defendant the defendant
was guilty, and that if they believed 18
the undisputed fact in the case the ^
defendant was guilty.
He said he had no power to put the j
Jury in jail for contempt of court,
but that if they did not return a ver- <*f
diet of guilty they would perjure themselves
in the sight of Gcd and dishcfior
themselves in the eyes of man.
Congressman A. 0. Wiley, counsel
tor the defendant excepted to the. re- . }M
marks of the judge. The case is now \ :|
exciting more attention than ever be- '}&
fore. The jury was discharged until J
Monday at 11 o'clock. ' '
Judge Jones May be Promoted.
' Ap io^ereetlng piece of political gasain
la nrw antna fhfl rounds In Mont
gomery concerning Judge Jones. It is
in effect that, in ffew of the judge's
courage and determination to painlsh
those guilty of holding negroes in Slavery
in Alabama, and the great ability ^
be hae displayed on the bench, that 5jp|
he will be appointed* by President
Roosevelt member of the circuit, court
of appeals when a.vacancy occurs.
shortly, after the retirement of one of'
the Judges from that court who will
have reached the age limit on the'
bench. There is a general belief lo- r'|
cally that when the. vacancy oocura
the plum will fall to the distinguished
Alabaman.
Judge Jones Is a man of great abil- '
ity and great personal magnetism, and
it is understood that the president has . been
greatly pleased with the strong
position he has assumed In the punish* i
ment of those men .who have been engaged
in the practice of peonage.
It is pointed out that the speeches
of Judge Jones as a member of the
late constitutional .convention in Alabam
a, in which he took strong grounds [jj&Bk
against the grandfather clause in Uie - p
constitution and against the suffrage
provisions generally that looked to tne
disfranchisement of the negro, first at- JH
tracted the attention of the presideut
to him, and to these speeches and to
the strong and manly grounds taken in
defense of the political rights of the
colored man was largely due his appointment
to the district judgeship.
These peonage cases, though greatly . J
exaggerated, have again served tocall
the attention of the president and the
attention of the country to Judgp
Jones as a man of courage, and who is *
capable and worthy of a seat on the
court of appeals, or even on the bench
of the supreme court of the United . ||j
States.
ENTIRE TOWN BADLY FLOODED. '-<?19
Winchester, Virginia, Suffers Great
Damage from a Cloudburst /J"
Sunday afternoon the most serious ;
cloudburst ever experienced in Winchester,
Va., broke over the city, submerging
the entire town with from
three to six feet of water. The dam- V-:r*|fj?
age will reach thousands of dollars,
as every store, residence and building
In the center of the town was several
feet under water. * A
WILD GO9SE CHASE?
Opinion Prevails that Appeal of
Greene and Gaynor Will Fail.
A dispatch from Quebec says: Mr. J
Taschereau, counsel for Gaynor and
Greene, left Saturday evening for London,
where he will be assisted there
as counsel by Right Hon. H. Asqulth, 3s
K. C., one of the leading members of
the London bar. The general impres
sion among members of the bar tn ~
Quebec is that the privy council will
not grant Mr. MacMaster's petition to ""? "
appeal, on the ground that an appeal
should have been taken in this counTURMOIL
IN THE BALKANS.
Belief Prevails that-War Between Tun "
key and Bulgaria Is Imminent
In spite of the reassuring advices
!rom Constantinople the belief pre- ^
rails that was between Turkey and Buisaria
is Imminent. Bulgarian bands
n Macedonia are being organized unier
command of officers from Sofia for ^
ise as scouts and guerrillas and a ..
?nf t?rtnn? is taklne
Urge CViiu auuv/u v? v. ? w
j1 ? '^SSH
THREE KILLED IN EXPLOSION.
Deadly Accident Occurs at the Works
of Birmingham Powder Company.
Three men were instantly killed and ' ijiP^
another fatally injured by an explo- ^jgaj
sion in the coining mill of the Birmingham,
Ala., powder mills near Boyles, X-^j
five miles from the city, Saturday af- '
The building was totally wrecked by
the explosion, although it did not affect
any of the other eleven buildings