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LOBBYING IS PROVEN
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Georgia Legislative Investigation
Grows Interesting.
MEMBER OFFERED BRIBE
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War of Words Between Representative
Overstreet and Lawyer Feldor
and a Scrap in Committee
Room Narrowly Averted.
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The investigation of charges of lobbying
held before a committee of the
Georgia legislature grows inure iuw?.
esting.
Representative W. D. Mills, of Cherokee
county, was offered $500 for his
vote on the child labor bill, the sensational
war of words and almost fight
between Thomas B. Felder, Jr., of Atlanta,
and Representative Overstreet,
of Screven, and the testimony of Representative
J. P. Knight, of Berrien,
that he had seen whisky in the speaker's
room were the main features
which came out at the session of the
lobbying investigating committee
at Atlanta Thursday morning,
f No end of excitement was created
when Representative Mills told of having
been offered the sum of $500 to
c^ote against the child labor bill, greater
excitement wa^ created when T. B.
Felder, Jr., and Representative Oversctreet
faced and glared at each other
4ur ing the session of the committee
over statements which were made, and
" jg*eat interest was aroused again when j
J, P. Knight, representative from Berrien,
told of being approached by Martin
Amorous about his vote on the bill
^ t? cause the Southern railway to in? i
corporate under the laws of Georgia.
Mr. Mills, in his testimony, laid he
had seen people on the floor of the
hoese and senate not members. "During
the pending of the child bill," said
iUl. lUlXld) x ua\i inv J
ents to make'personal appeals to me i
to vote against the child labor bill.
They were stockholders in the mill at
my home, and said they thought it
best for the county that the bill
should not pass. At home I heard
from friends of mine that these parties
had said if I voted for the child
labor bill I would be defeated for the
senate if I ran. Yesterday I heard
again that those parties had said they
would defeat me because I did not
vote against the bill."
Mr. Mills said he was improperly approached
once about the child labor
biU.
"This was last year just out of the
house. A young man came to me and
asked me how I stood on the bill at
present I told him I was for it. He
- then said that the men who were fighting
the measure would make it to my
financial interest to vote against the
bill and that I would be given $500 to
vote for the bill."
T. B. Felder, of Atlanta, when the
cpjomittee met said ho had been named
as a lobbyist and wanted to be
hbard. He was allowed to testify. He
b|gan by saying he had read with
s^me surprise that Mr. Overstreet had
v named him as one of the lobbyists.
Mr. Overstreet interrupted, saying he
hfd not termed anybody lobbyists, but
h|d furnished names to the commit
te|B to allow tnem to araw any conclusions
they might desire.
^Mr. Felder continued, saying he
Jiled at the Kimball in the winter and
af the Sweetwater Park hotel at Lithia
in? the summer. These were the only
hdnses he had. He had not thought it
wrong to take members as his gueststo
his house, especially in view of the
faqjptfiw^ SPr. Overstreet had been entertained
at the Piedmont Driving
Clijb by a member of the Atlanta bar
anj at the Capital City Club by another
lawyer.
fFhen Mr. Felder stated that Mr.
O^rstreet had been wined and dined
by^a member of the Atlanta bar in
cofipany with other legislators, Mr.
0\^rstreet straightened up in his
chftlr and pointing his finger directly
at^lr. Felder, who was about three
feet away, said:
won know d?n well that I was not
wijfed and any man who says that I
w? is a d?n liar."
*1 say it is true," said Mr. Felder.
Sr. Felder rose in his seat and Mr.
Owstreet did likewise. The two men
gifted at each other. Then Mr. Overstreet
started toward Mr. Felder. He
wag held back by Ferris Cann, a member
of the committee, who was sitting
directly behind him.
"I want the gentleman to understand
1 mean what 1 say," said Mr.
FAer.
^ want the gentleman to under
st^d I mean exactly what I say, and
furthermore we can settle it right
here," replied Mr. Overstreet. Chairman
Hopkins rapped loudly for orde?
Other members of the committer
interfered and declared that no
figjfting should tak place in the committee
room
i KEPT CASH IN SUSTLE.
Wffrnan Who Feared to Risk Banks
n Loses Sum of $7,300.
Mrs. Augusta Van Clerke, of Shaw
nee, Jts.ans., reported to ci. ram aetedtjves
that she had lost a bustle containing
$7,300 while on the way to St.
Paal on a Rock Island train. Mrs.'
Vast Clerke, who is well advanced in
yenrs, said she feared to leave her
money in a bank and that it would be
safe if she put it in her bustle.
TORNADO STRIKES PITTSBURG
Two Killed, Sixty Injured and Great
fiSmage Done to Mining Property.
}tornado pass-ed through the thiekipulated
mining district north and
of Pittsburg, Pa., early Saturday
moafeing, destroying hundreds ot
houses, mine tipples and buildings ot
every description and converting into
ruin a strip of thickly populated territory
eight miles long and two mi'ts
wide: At least two persons were killed
and fully sixty were injured in tiie
storm.
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i"Cream of News.?
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I'f'I >M"l I T I H I T l"f
Brief Summary of Moit
Important Events
of Each Day.
?The Georgia legislature and Gov- *
ernor Terrell take up the whipping of
Mamie DeCris, a young woman convict
j at the state prison farm, and order investigation.
?Experts declare that the will < f
the late G. W. Collier, of Atlanta, Ga.,
1 is an iihpressien copy and other startling
testimony is given.
i
j ?Central of Georgia railroad direc:
tors order 5 per cent dividend on first
i preferred income bonds.
; ?Train strikes wagon at a crossing
in Terrell county, Ga., and two negroes
killed.
J ?Chafles Johnson is sent to chaingang
at Americus, Ga., for defrauding
I negroes on the ex-slave pension fraud.
I ?The amount due state of Alabama
| by Tax Collector Booker, of Lee coonj
ty, who failed to make returns is now
sr.'.d to he $7,425.
?Southbound train No. 35, of Southern,
was wrecked by some miscreant
near Vastonia, N. C., ^onday night.
' Nobody killed. Engineer and two postal
clerks injured.
?Two negroes attacked five white
men in Greenville county, South Carolina.
One of the white men is dying
and the other four were slightly
wounded.
?Board of arbitration to adjust deference
between Alabama miners and
operators met at Birmingham Monday.
A large number of witnesses will be
examined.
?Postmaster ueneral Payne has decided
to try baggage men as mail
clerks on certain trains.
?The bustle iost by Mrs. Van
Clerke, in which she had hid $7,300,
has besn found. The moeny was still
| in the bustle.
?Governor Durbin, of Indiana, has
written to President Roosevelt, stating
j that the latter s letter on lynching has
| sounded a keynote,
j ?The trial of tne Humberts continues
at Paris. Mme. Humbert is the
star of the trial, freauently denouncing
the judge and the witnesses as liars.
?The murder of the rvussian consul
at Monastir has complicated the Balkan
situation. The czar has demanded
the exemplary punishment of lue
murderer and also of all civil and military
officers at Monastir.
?Dr. J. W. Lee, Methodist minister
and pastor of a St. Louis church; ridicules
high church views of Episcopalians.
?The Atlanta board of health will
hear the dairymen, anent the milk
muddle, if they wish to talk, but will
probably not order an investigation unless
specific charges are made.
?Augusta, Ga., will probably follow
Atlanta's example and order an inspiration
of milk.
?Charleston, S. C., was visitel by a
terrific electrical storm Sunday.. Three
persons killed by lightning in and
around the city.
?A report w*as current that Dewey,
the absconding cashier of the bank at
Newbern, N. C., had committed suicide |
in New York. It proved untrue.
?South Carolina negro woman decapitates
her two children and throws
their heads into the fire.
?President Roosevelt has written a
letter on the lynching evil to Governor
Durbin, of Indiana. The president
thinks that speedy action by the courts
in criminal cases would lessen lyncliIng.
?A large meteor fefi in Indian Ter^
ritory Sunday night, which illuminatedc*
wide section of country.
i ?The color line in the navy is wor*
rying the administration. There are
only 500 negroes in the navy, Dut the
officers want to get rid of them.
j ?Boiler of the saw mill of the Minnesota
Lumber Company, at Cutting,
Ga., exploded, killing one negro and
injuring nine oher employes.
?It is thought Cashier Dewey's
stealing from the Farmers and Merchants'
bank, at Newberne, N. C., w'll
exceed $120,000.
?Returns from the primary election
in Mississippi verify former reports
that Money won the senatorship and
Vardaman the governorship.
?Twenty-three employes of Wallace
Bros.' circus were killed and many
others injured in railroad wreck in
Michigan.
?What purports to be the will of
the late king of Yap reached Savannah,
Ga., Wednesday. By the terms
of this document, the Savannah widow
gets nothing from the estate.
?Baron Speck Von Sternberg, whom
Roosovelt greets as "Speckie, old boy,"
Was received by the president at Oyster
Bay Friday. Baron Speck appeared
in full court costume.
?The Georgia Dairymen's Association
adjourned at Athens Wednesday
to meet at Tallulah Falls next year.
?Two negroes, convicted of highway
robbery, wore executed at Birmingham,
Ala., Friday.
?A fight between Croatan inaians
and negroes is reported from North
Carolina. Several of the combatants
wounded.
?It is reported in Wall street that
the Standard Oil Company has acquired
control of the Virginia-Carolina
Chemical Company.
?Simon Banker and wife, who lived
in the mountains near Winchester,
Tenn., were murdered and torch applied
to their house Friday night. Illicit
distillers had accused them of informing
revenue officers.
?Two failures occurred in New
York Wednesday owing to the slump
in stocks. New low records were made
in several instances.
?The plant of Tuscaloosa, AlaLight
and Power company, was destroyed
Wednesday by the explosion
of a boiler. Two lives w*re lost and
great damage done property.
TWENTY-TWO DEAD
In Frightful Wreck of Circus
Trains of Wallace Bros.
DISASTER WAS APPALLING
List of injured Reaches Thirty?Victims
Horribly Mangled?Engineer
cf Second Section is Blamed
for Wreck.
Wallace Brothers' circus was wrecked
in the Grand Trunk yards at Durand,
Michigan, at 4 o'clock Friday
morning and twenty-two men, mostly
employes of the circus, including a
few of the performers, were killed outright.
Thirty more were injured,
some fatally.
The show was traveling in two sec
tions over the Grand Trunk tracks
from Lansing to Lapere and the a:cident,
it is said, was caused by the failure
of the second section of the train
to stop on time. The two sections
were traveling near each other, and
the second ran into the first at full
speed.
The engine of the second section
and four cars of the first section were
completely demolished. Much valuable
property was destroyed and the
loss to the circus people will be heavy.
Some of those killed and a few of
those injured were railroad people attached
to the train. These include
Trainmaster J. McCarthy, of the Grand
Trunk.
Some of the animals were killed, the
scene in the Grand Trunk yards after
the collision being appalling. The
wreckage of the engine and four cars
were strewn about and piled higii,
while the shrieks of the injured and
the bellowing of the frightened animals
could be heard above the hiss cf
escaping steam and the excited shouts
of the rescuers.
It was some hours before all the injured
were rescued from the wrecked
cars. Some of them were in terrible
agony, and it is feared that many will
die. Fifteen of the injured were
placed aboard special train and taken
to a hospital in Detriot for treatment.
The wreck, according to the statement
of the engineer of the second section,
was caused by the failure of the
airbrakes to work.
It was 3:45 o'clock when the first
section pulled into the West end of
the Grand Trunk yards. A red light
was hung on the rear car to stop the
second section.
Engineer Probst, of Battle Creek, i
who was running the engine of the
rear train, says he saw this light and
applied the brakes. To his horror, it
refused to work. He reversed his engine,
but the momentum of the train
b .hind was too great, and with a
crash that aroused all of the town
near the yards, the two trains met
Three cars of the stationary first
section wrere telescoped and the eugine
and five cars of the moving train
were demolished. The rear car of the
first section was a caboose in which
the trainmen were sleeping and the
next two were filled with sleeping circus
employes. The greatest loss of
life was in the caboose. One of fhe
wrecked cars of the second section
was occupied by five elephants and
several camels. One of the elephancs
and two camels were killed outright,
while the other animals and tneir
trainer escaped.
With the exception of this car, none
or tne menagerie was wrecKea, tau
other demolished cars containing canvas
or wagons, and ^ere was comparatively
little excitement among the
wild animals.
As soon as i.ney recovered from the
first shock, the trainers rusned among
the cages quieting the few beasts that
were excited. The elephants in the
wrecked car behaved with surprising
calmness, and were led out of the
wreck without trouble.
The escaping steam and screams and
cries of those pinned in the wreck
made a horrifying spectacle.
Coroner Farrar Friday afternoon impanelled
a jury, which viewed the remains
and adjourned until August 14,
when the inquest will be held.
LASH USED ON MAMIE.
''Diamond Queen" Flogged Into Submission
a* Georgia Prison Farm.
Mamie DeCris, a convict, has been
put under the lash at the state prison
farm at Milledgeville, Ga., and beaten
into submission.
This took place last June, but the
matter has been kent a secret until I
the present.
Mamie, it will be remembered, was
the young woman who last winter
gained considerable notoriety as a
much-wanted diamond thief?her ad
ventures gaining her the nickname
"Diamond Queen."
i ERRING SKY r iLOT.
' " ' - V -' ' Boston
Preacher Admits Embezzlement
of FJgi'ty Thousand Dollars.
In a letter written from Montreai,
Canada, to the pastor oi his church in
East Boston, Rev. Wiliard S. Allen,
treasurer of the Preachers' Aid Soc-ie
ty of the New England conference of
the Methodist Episcopai church, confessed
that he was a defaulter to the
amount of more than $80,000 of the society's
funds.
8ERENADERS DISAPPOINTED.
Colored Band Made Futile Attempt t<
Serenade President Roosevelt.
In a driving rain storm Wednesday
, afternoon a brass band composed of
colored boys from the Jenkins orphanage
at Charleston. S. C., marched
from the village of Oyster Bay t> Sag-,
amore Hill, about three miles, to serenade
the president and his family.
The band did not reach the president's
residence, being turned back to Oyster
Bay by the secret service oiiicor
on duty.
CONVICTS FOR COUNTIES.
Roads In Georgia Will be Worked Free
of Charge if Senate Amendments
to Convict Bill are Approved.
Georgia counties will get convicts on
the public roads after all, and those
counties which desire to work them
will not have to pay $120 per year as
provided by the Knight-Howell substitute
which passed the house several
days ago.
The state senate, at Monday's session,
passed the convict bill by a vote
of 36 to 2, with amendments which
I provide that counties wanting convicts
can get them without any cost other
than the maintaining of them. The
counties which work them, however,
cannot get any money derived from
the hire of the convicts as is now the
case.
The amendment limits the felony
convicts to those serving five-year
terms and under. Several other minor
amendments were passed.
IMPRESSION COPY ALLEGED.
More Sensational Testimony in Fight
Over comer win at Mtianui.
The most sensational testimony yet
heard in the caveated Collier will case
was given in the court of ordinary *t
Atlanta, Ga., Monday morning by
George W. Collier, Jr., when among
other things he declared that Judge J.
N. Bateman had proposed to him that
they "lock arms" in the matter of the
control of the Collier estate, and in
that way leave out Henry Collier, who
is the third executor and to whom
young Collier was at the time objecting.
A. Montgomery, formerly with the
Southern Express Company, as a writing
expert, was next placed upon the
stand by the counsel for the Collier
heirs. The witness testified that he
had examined the document filed in
the ordinary's office as the will of
George W. Collier, and that he believed
that it was an impression copy.
W. A. Healey, accountant and auditor
for the Atlanta and West Point
railway, stated when placed upon the
stand that it was his opinion that the
alleged will is an impression copy and
he thought it would be impossible ^o
write such in a neat manner upon similar
paper, especially the signature.
SOUTHERN TRAIN WRECKED.
Switch Turned by Some Miscreant.
None of the Passengers Hurt
Train No. 35, the Southern railway's
fast southbound train, was wrecked
one mile north of Gastonia, N. C., at
11 o'clock Monday night, resulting in
serious injury to Engineer Black and
the colored fireman, and to Postal
Clerks Birchfield and Sharpe.
Southern railway officials declare
that the train ran into an open switch,
but passengers on the train say that
the boiler exploded.
The train was crowded, but no passenger
was seriously hurt, though- a
number of people were bruised by the
violence of the explosion.
Later telephone messages from Gastonia
indicate that No. 35 was deliberately
wrecked, though the boiler of
the engine had gone on the side track
of the Ozark cotton mill. The switcn
had been turned and the red light that
it always presents after being turned
had been extinguished. Engineer Zeb
Black, of Spartanburg, saw no light at
me swucn, ana supposing mac me
track was safe, went ahead at full
speed.
DURBIN REPLIES TO ROOSEVELT.
Indiana Governor Says President Has
Struck Keynote on Lynchings.
Governor Durban, of Indana, Monday,
sent a formal reply to the letter
he feceived Sunday from President
Roosevelt, concerning the recent mob
at Evansville. Governor Durbin savs,.
in part:
"I feel that you have struck the keynote
of a national necessaitv when
you say all public men, all writers (or
the press, all clergymen, all teachers,
all who in any way have a right to address
the people, should with every energy
unite to denounce such crimes
and to support those engaged in putting
tnem down, and declare the correlated
doctrine that 'we must show that
the law is adequate to deal with crime
by freeing it from every vestige of
technicality and delay.'
TAX COLLECTOR RETURNS HOME.
Owen Decides to Settle His Account
With State of Alabama.
J. E. Owen, tax collector of Russell
county, Alabama, who it was alleged
had fled the country, arrived in Montgomery
Saturday morning, accompanied
by Judge H. T. Benton and his
attorney, both of Seale, en route to Ins
- home in Russell county.
Several days ago the governor instructed
the attorney general to bring
suit against Tax Collector Owem f. r
his failure or refusal to settle with
the state, his indebtedness, it was alleged,
being over three thousand dollars.
CENTRAL ENJOYS PROSPERITY.
Board of Directors Declare Handsome
Dividend of Five Per Cent.
The annual statement of the Central
of Georgia railroad, which was presented
to the directors at a special
meeting in Savannah, Monday, snows
an increase in earnings of $1,416,000,
the largest increase by 18 per cent,
which the road has enjoyed.
The directors declared a dividend of
5 per cent on the first income bonds
NINE BLEACHERITES DEAD.
List of Fatalities in< Philadelphia
Grows Apace.
Five additional deaths have occurj
red at Philadelphia as the result of
j the horrible accident at the Philajelj
phia National League Ba?eball park,
i making a total of nine fatalities. Two
! hundred victims were treated at the
j various hospitals and it is believed
j that fully 100 more received attention
: at various drug stores in the vicinity
of the baseball grounds.
RULE OF LYNCHEES
Deplored by President Roosevelt
in Letter to Durbin,
A REMEDY IS SUGGESTED
Speedy Trial and Punishment for
Heinous Crimes Would Stay Mob
Justice?Growth of Lynching
Cause of Great Alarm.
In a letter, the publication of which
tvas authorized Sunday, President
Roosevelt commends Governor Durbiu,
of Indiana, for the attitude he assumed
recently respecting lynching. The
president also" embraces the opportunity
to express his own views in reference
to lynching and mob violence,
I generally, pointing out that mob vio
lence is merely one form of anarchy
and that anarchy is the forerunner of
tyranny. The president vigorously
urges that the penalty for crimes that
Induce a resort to lynching shall be
applied swiftly and surely, but by due
process of the courts, so that it may
be demonstrated "that the law is adequate
to deal with crime by ireeing *t
from every vestige of technicality and
delay."
President Roosevelt's letter in part
to Governor Durbin follows:
"Oyster Bay, N. Y., August 6, 1903,
Mr. Dear Governor Durbin: Permit
me to thank you as an American citizen
for the admirable way in which
you have vindicated the majesty of ilie
law by your recent action in reference
to lynching. I feel, my dear sir, that
you have made all men your debtors
who believe, as all far-seeing men
must, that the well-being, indeed tne
very existence, of the republic depends
upon that spirit of orderly liberty
under the law which is as incompatible
with mob violence as with any
form of despotism. Of course mob
violence is simply one form ?f an-,
archy; and anarchy is now, as it always
has been, the handmaiden and
forerunner of tyranny.
"All thoughtful men must feel the
gravest alarm over the growth of
lynching in this country, and especially
over the peculiarly hideous forms
so often taken by mob violence wnen
colored men are the victims; on which
occasions the mob seems to lay most
weight, not on the crime, but on the
color of the criminal. In a certain
proportion of these cases the man
lynched has been guilty of a crime
horrible beyond description; a crime
so horrible that as far as he himself
is concerned, he has forfeited the right
to any kind of sympatny whatsoever.
No Sympathy for Criminal.
"The feeling of all "good citizens
that such a hideous crime shall not be
hideously punished by mob violence is
due not in the least to sympathy for
the criminal, but to a very lively
sense of the train of dreadful consequences
which follow the coqrse taken
by the mob in exacting inhuman venI
geance for an inhuman wroi^g. In
such cases, moreover, it is well to reI
member that the criminal not merej
ly sins against humanity in inexpiable
I and unpardonable fashion, but si.is
j particularly against his own race, and
does them a wrong far greater than
' nnv white man can nossiblv do them.
Therefore, in sucn cases the colored
people throughout the land should in
every possible "way show their belief
that they, more than all others in the
community, are horrified at the commission
of such a crime and are oeculiarly
concerned in taking every possible
measure to prevent its recurrence
and to bring the criminal to immediate
justice. The slightest lack of
vigor, either in denunciation of ihe
crime, or in bringing the criminal to
justice is itself unpardonable.
"Moreover, every effort should he
made under the law to expedite the
proceedings of justice in the case of
such an awful crime. But it cannot be
necessary in order to accomplish this
to deprive any citizen of those fundamental
rights to be heard in his own
defense, which are so dear to us all
and 'wTiich lie at the root of our liberty.
It certainly ought to be possible
by the proper administration of the
laws to secure swift vengeance upon
the criminal; and the best and immediate
efforts of all legislators, judges
and citizens should be aduressed to securing
such reforms, in our legal pro
cedure a to leave no vestige or excuse
for those who undertake to wreak vengeance
through violent methods.
"The nation, like, the individual,
cannot commit a crime with impunity.
If we are guilty of lawlessness md
brutal violence, whether our guilt consists
in active participation therein or
in mere connivance and encouragement,
we shall assuredly suffer later
on because of what, we have done.
"Sincerely .yours,
"THEODORE ROOSEVELT."
WAR IN BALKANS BEGINS.
Turkish Troops, Supported by Artillery,
Route Force of Bulgarians.
Advices from Salonica state that
four battalions of Turkish troops,
supported by artillery, met and routed
a body of 1,700 Bulgarians near Sorovitch
Frida3r.
The Macedonian central revolution
ary -committee had fixed August 21 as
the date for the general rising, and
had appevnted Boris Sarafoff, commander
of the revolutionary forces.
WEALTHY, BUT HOMELESS.
??
Suffering With Cancer, Man* Is Forced j
to Lodge in Poor House.
Fossessed of property Raid to bo '
worth thousands, and denied admis- j
sion to hotels and hospitals because I
he is suffering from cancer, Andrew j
Murray, of Brooklyn, has been admit- [
ted to the county poor house at Bins- j
hampton, N. Y. His pockets were !
Hned with bills when he entered the !
institution.
A STANDARD Oil GRAB. .1
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company j
Under Control of Rockefeller
Through Purchase of Stock.
A New York special says: By the
purchase, Friday, of $12,000,000 par j
value in stocks and bonds of the Virginia-Carolina
Chemical Company,
Shandard Oil interests. It is reported,
secured control of the great fertilizer
and sulphuric acid concern of the j
south.
Rockefeller interests already control i
the American Agricultural Chemical j
Company and the American Cofton Oil
Company. They also control rho
American Linseed Company. The?e
various chemical and vegetable cil
companies give to the Rockefellers
practically a monopoly of the phos
phate and cotton oil business.
It is believed that the raid in Wall
street which terminated Thursday
just before the close of the market,
and which was begun on Tuesday by
the remarkable offer of the Consolidated
Gas Company to sell- $9,000,000
worth of new stock when stockholders
confidently expected that a dividend
much larger than that would be
paid, was for the purpose of unsettling
the market and securing this chemical
stock.
After the whole market had been
thrown into a state of demoralization
under heavy selling" of Consolidated
Gas and United States Steel shares,
the chemical stock was attacked and
false rumors of trouble in strong
houses were circulated. This brought
thousands of shares of the chemical
stock into the market, and they were
eagerly seized by Rockefeller brokers.
BATTLE OVER COLLIER WILL.
Sensational Testimony Brought Out in
Ordinary's Court in Atlanta.
An Atlanta dispatch says: The
hearing in the case of the caveatod
Collier will, which disposes of over
$1,000,000 worth of property, was begun
before Ordinary John R. Wilkinson
Friday morning. The hearing of
the testimony of the three witnesses
to the execution ot cae will and the
testimony of Judge J. N. Bateman, one
of the executors, occupied the entiie
morning session.
Miller, O Connor and White, who
were constables in the court of Judge
Bateman at the time of the execution
of the alleged will and who, it is alleged,
witnessed the signing of the
document, all swore when placed upon
the stand that they had witnessed the
signature of Mr. Collier to a document,
which Judge Bateman at the time informed
them was the will of Mr. Collier.
Otherwise their memory upon
the subject was somewhat defective
and each became considerably mixed
when cross-examined.
The testimony of Judge J. N. Baseman
alone consumed more than an
hour. The only excitement of the
-liorning occurred during his stalement,
when Attorney Charles Hopkins,
for the caveators, who was*questioning
the witness at the time, asked: n
"Judge Bateman, why are certain
signatures upon this will blurred?
Hasn't it been wet at one time?"
Judge Bateman half way sprang
from his chair upon the witness s^and,
as he flushed* and replied:
"No sir, it has not been wet, and
you have no right to state that it has.'
Attorney Hopkins quickly turned
around and faced him as he replied:
"I have a right to state what I please,
and furthermore I may prove that it
has been wet."
At this juncture several of tne lawyers
arose hastily and helped restore
order.
"SPECKY" OFFICIALLY RECEIVED.
German Ambassador Visits Roosevelt
and Presents Credentials.
Sagamore Hill, President Roosevelt's
country home at Oyster Bay,
was the scene Friday of an interesting
ceremony. Baron Speck Von Sternberg,
who has been minister plenipotentiary
of Germany to the United
States since Ambassador Von Holle
ben returned to Europe and who re
cently/on retirement of Mr. Von Holleben,
was elevated, to the rank of ambassador,
presented to the president
his credentials as ambassador, and
was received formally in his new 'diplomatic
rank by President ROs>sevelt.
"WILL TELL OLD MAR8TER."
Two Negroes Hanged In Birmingham,
Alabama, for Highway Robbery.
At Birmingham, Ala., Friday, vv^ill
Hudson and Will Jones, negroes, having
been convicted on charges of
highway robbery,'were oxecuted
Jones was hanged first and died in
fifteen minutes after the drop fell.
An hour later Hudson ascended the
stairs to the gallows, but denied that
he was guilty of the crime of which
he had Jbeen convicted. He said that
he had been a famous crook. Asked
if he had ever killed anbody, he replied:
"I will tell Old Marster about
that"
TEXT-BOOKS MEASURE
Adopted in Georgia Senate With a
Few Minor Amendments
The Georgia state senate, by a vote
+n i TVmrsrtav nassed the house i
bill providing for state uniformity of
text-books. Several minor amendments
were reported, some of them
suggested by the authors of the house
bill, and these were adopted. There is
but little difference between the senate
and the house upon the measure.
ARBITRATION BOARD CONVENES.
Will Settle Trouble Between Miners
and Operators In Alabama.
The board of arbitration recently selected
to consider and adjust the difference
existing between the coal '
miners and the operators of Alabama,
began its sittings at Birmingham,
Monday.
The convention met In the council
chamber of the city hall at 10 o'clock,
Judge George Gray, of Delaware, presiding.
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| THE NEWS OF A WEEK |
J IN SOUTH CM0LINA,|
Beheaded Her Two Children.
Lizzie Aiken, a negro woman 40
years old. was committed to jail Sunday
for beheading her two daughters.
The crime was committed in Colleton
county. The heads were severed with
an ax, then she threw them into a fire.
The children were 3 and 5 years old.
When first arrested, the woman admitted
the crime, saying she got a
message from God, through a dog, that
she must sacrifice her children to save
the world. She has been attending revivals
recently.
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Children Cremated.
At Welford, a small township near
Spartanburg, Sunday night, four negro
children were burned to death in a
burning building. Charley Hines aad
his wife, well known colored people,
len ineir nomes eariy in me evening
in charge of their five children, and
went to the colored church, about a
mile away, to attend services.
While away the house caught on fire
and burned down on the heads of four
of the children. The oldest child, a
boy about 10 years of age, jumped
from a window and was saved. The
others were burned to a crisp in the
conflagration. The coroner will investigate.
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Some News of Senator Tillman.
A dispatch from Milwaukee, Wis.,
says: Senator Tillman arrived at Fifleld
Monday morning as the guest of
Rublee A. Cole, a Milwaukee lawyer,
and went at once to the homestead at
Pike and Round lakes, in the nor hwest
part of Price county, where Mrs.
Tillman and Miss Hill, of Georgia, ber
niece, have been for the last two
weeks, as guests of Mrs. Cole.
A Kansas City dispatch says: Senator
Tillman, of South Carolina, now
has his name enrolled in the lost pass
record of the Burlington Railroad Company.
Notice was posted at the union
station that Senator Tillman's annual
rvfl<CQ hn/1 hopn lnaf TLf> Ttllmon'd
UMU wvu iUl A 1J AAUUtU H
pocket was picked on his recent lecture
tour with Senator Burton.
Wrong Man Elected to Office.
The defective eyesight of one of the
members of the Aiken county board of
control is responsible for the election
of the wrong man as dispenser in the
town of Aiken. At the meeting at
which the dispenser was to be elected
it was announced that the incumbent,
G. T. Holley, had received two votes
against one for his opponent, A. 0.
Barnett. Holley was declared elected.
There had been a long fight against
Holley, and his re-election created
much surprise. Two of the members
of the board declared to each other
that they had voted for Barnett. Each
was surprised at the other's statement,
and the mistake is accounted
for by the fact that the writing 'n
the ballot was not very plain and that
the chairman of the board, who voted
against Holley, is a very near-sighted
man and declared the vote against his
own candidate because of the fact that
he had not read the ballots correctly.
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io csiaDiisn a Hennery.
B. Raman, representing the Carolina
and Western Sugar Refining Company,
arrived in Charleston from New Orleans
a few days ago. Mr. Raman was
in consultation with leading capitalists
and business men of Charleston, and
later he stated that the object of his
visit was to establish a large sugar rC:
finery in the city. He said that ae did
not care to go into the details of his
enterprise until his plans had been
formally laid before the local commercial
bodies. He declared that the Carolina
and Western Sugar Refimng
Company .would, if given proper support,
have a large plant in operation
within a few months. Leading Charleston
merchants and business men are
understood to be interested in the enterprise.
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Fraud Charged In Voting Contest.
Charges of iraud in a popular voting
contest is the latest sensation in Columbia.
The contest,/Whidh a few
months ago looked like an innocent
one, has now taken on more serious
proportions and will finally be decided
by the courts.
The prize was a piano offered "by a
wt rtvtn fnnVnrlrt rr n r\ m Ti O T\ V fnr thcx
pianu illdi-L UIQV IU1 xug V^V/UAjyOU/ AVI vuv
most popular lodge or society in Columbia.
At first there was little interest
taken in the voting, but later the
contest grew more interesting, and
finally narrowed down to two societies?the
Knights of Columbus and the
Clerks' Union. Each was determined
to win and the voting continued un-ii
the opposing sides had many thousands
of votes to their credit. When
the end came ?.ue returns showed that
the Knights of Columbus had a majority
of something over 48,000. This
large majority was a surprise to the
^Jerks' Union, and they at once started
an investigation, claiming that 190,000
votes more than the original number
authorized had been cast. The
knights denied all charges of fraud
and claimed the piano on the face ot
the returns. The Clerks' Union instituted
claim and delivery proceedings,
and Sheriff Coleman took charge ef
the piano until the court decides which
of the two organizations is entitled to
its possession.
'"V. - no?n <<- on unnCltal Alio SIlH f n P
Alio tftOC io au uuuuuu-i V44v
proceedings will no dcrubt be most interesting.
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Negro Deputized to Arrest His Wife.
Atlanta Constitution: A unique and
very remarkable legal procedure developed
in police circles yesterday when
a negro, acting in the capacity of ;;n
officer, arrived in the city to arrant
his own wife who had run away from
him.
Bill Adaitfs, a negro laborer, who
lives In Greenville, S. C- came to Atlanta
with a warrant for Rosa Adams.
big wj?e, charging her with mortgaging
1 furniture which UU not Deiung w
' Policeman Cooper assisted Adams in %
making the arrest and the woman
was found and locked up. Adams -0
stated that he had been deputized as gs
an officer to serve the warrant and
make the arrest.
The woman stated that she had run i?s?
away from her husband because he -11|
had treated her In a cruel manner and f-js
she was afraid he would kill her. She denied
that she had mortgaged furniture
not her own.
It was decided not to let the negro -ill
take the woman. The warrant was
regular, but the fact that the prison- '
cr's husband was the officer was, in the
officers' opinion, sufficient reason not t
to turn over the prisoner. -1
The woman will be held until the an*
OiahUIas of Croanrlllo /??n ha
lUV/UUCO aw yiWUTitiv v?*M wv ??-?
Has No Significance. '
W. B. Cbisholm, manager for the |
state of South Carolina, of the Vlr- S
ginia-Carolina Chemical Company, -igH/r.
gave out a statement a few days ago -A ~
in regard to the various reports that ^
have been set afloat to the effect .that * - ^ p
the mills of the company in Charges- .
ton have shut down. Mr. Chisholm '::M
said that owing to the large quantity JH '
of Manufactured fertilizer held by the v |$|?
company that the shut-down of its
Charleston mills might be more com* % %
plete than it had been in former sum-$|j ?
mer months, but he denied that there rm$m
was anything unusual or slginficant in ^
the shut-down of the plants. He said jH .
he knew of no reason for the heavy M ?J
decline in the values of the company's -.J
securities and he predicted a rapid
recovery as soon as fall operations ? PJwere
resumed. ;? r0
It was commonly reported th# three ? ;
of the smaller local plants of thAjPlrginia-Carolina
Chemical Company had'd J
not shut down, but that they would i^jj % ^
be dismantled. It was claimed, however,
by persons connected with the - M
company, that this action had been , ^
contemplated for a year and that it -;~R
consequently had no special sf&ti- * .
ficance just at this time.
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LOST BUSTLE IS RECOVERED.
And With It Mrs. Van Clerks Gets . 1
Back Her $7,300. ]'
Word was received by union 'depot - 7'J*I
officials at St. Paul, Monday,' that' the 'll| }
missing bustle In which $7,300 had
been sewed by Mrs. Van Clerke, of
Shawnee, Kana., and which she
posed she had dropped from a Rock
Island train while en route to St PftuI, S*| "??
has been found. She, in the hurry of ^
leaving her old home, had forgotten the
valuable article and returned - ' \ /
home just in time to save it from be-'il
ing burned as rubbish by new tenants : ' ^
SAW MILL BOILER EXPLODES/j| j
One Killed, Seven Injured and Buiffd- | |
ing Totally Wrecekd.
' An explosion , in which one man wad M
killed and seven seriously wounded ?||
. occurred Friday morning at Cuttfu^^Hj _
/,. i, it, At it %5SaSfl
ua., a email saw mm iuwu oa uie ai? - ^-awaaPBI
lantic Coast ^LlffST Tfcejre were two
boilers, one of which exploded with -m
terrific force, completely wrecking 4$^i| -1
mill and blowing the other boiler, -3dS| 1
feet from its bed. * . ^ I
DEWEY CLEANED OUT BANK.' >f|
Absconding Cashier of North Carolina
Institution Swiped $125,000. A' 3 ,
The shortage of Thomas W. DowOT,
absconding cashier of the Farmer# J |
and Merchants' bsnk, of. Newberfa, '^Ml A,
C., proves to be $125,000, said'ibp^W-^S
the largest embezzlement Jji tbeib|?*'^
tory of the state, l*.e reward, tor ;
Dewey's capture has been Increased
to $5,090. Dewey left only $1,500 "o
the bank. Gambling in cotton Jfjuursi . ?||
is one way in wftltih the money went ^
MILES PRESIDENTIAL #001^* |
Prominent Boston Republicans ?A<pc?
iousto Honor Retired -Genessli^ >rjH r
:: A Miles presidential boom fcas*befcii '
started by prominent republican's" In
Boston, particularly the old soldier >
element, who are of the belieLwthat
President Roosevelt, in permitting
Miles to retire from the army wttfreefc f even
reference to bis dist3n#trtSW?i ; ;-Jjj
service to his country, has pfacpil ; '
Miles as a presidential po?3iblUty.<?"V:^S
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IN SESSION* "/*!
Forty-Ninth SesslotPff/Typographical ^
Union Convenes in Washington, /y*
The forty-ninth session of the Inter- atlonal
Typographical union began at
the Columbia theatre, Wasbfngtow* O. .'^|8
C., Monday morning with a' large* ui&
Jority of the 315 delegates present. ^
Chairman Whitehead, of the Jocal
committee on arrangements,, presided,
while by his side sat Secretary -Cor- J
telyou, of the department of commj&rtb
and labors Public Printer Palmed and
a number of other prominent men. ?
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TEN STRIKERS SHOT DjtAD. i
Trouble on rtUNian mum; dwtyiit '
to a Short Stop by Soldiers; - 'Ten
striking workmen were killed
and eighteen were wounded as the iesuit
of a volley fired by troops at Mile
haiiovo, Russia, on the TlUls-Batoum . |
railway, July 28. The strikers at- ^
tempted to stop trains and a detachment
of soldiers was summoned. Tne
soldiers were greeted with a shower ;
of stones and revolver shots. After q|
repeated warnings, the troops were
ordered to fire.
GENERAL GORDON TO ATTEND.
Georgian Will be Among Guests of
New Hampshire Veterans.
Among the famous men who are lo
be guests of thd New ifam'p'fchire Vet- .
erans' Association at its reunion1 at
The Weirs Lake Winnepesaukce; thl3
month, are Lieutenant General' Miles, ^?S
Baron Von Sternberg, German ambassador
and a veteran of the Franco- ;^|
Prussian war, and General John B. -Hill
Gordon^ .-r--.
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