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| ? -V' L . ! NO STUMPING TOUR * * Forjudge Parker, Who Obi. ? jects to Spellbinding. [ h K BELIEVES IT IS IMPROPER I i _ Hia Views on the Matter Set Forth by One of His Closest Friends. p. ; Will Not Speak at Any Time or Anywhere. I * ? A special from Esopus, N. Y., says: It was made plain at Rosemount Monday that there is no certainty of Judge Parker making any speeches in the : * west in connection with his St. Louis tripe or at any other time or place. The pincipie on which Judge Parker \ will act in the matter was learned from an intimate associate of the judge, who said: * "Judge Parker has no faith in the utility of speechmaking for its own I sake, and will make no speeches anyi where for the mere purpose of ap^ pearing in any given locality. He believes a, stumping tour by a political candidate to be improper and he will undertake no such tour. The only condition upon which he will make any speech anywhere will be the fact that he has ,sQme definite thing to say, and that he is convinced by his own rea son that some given time and place best suits the saying of it there and \ then. You may say witty the utmost confidence that under no other condi tlons will Judge Parker make any speech anywhere." TEXAS COTTON DAMAGED. Incessant Rains, Drought and Boll Weevills Cause Deterioration. Galveston-Dallas News publishes repoits from 522 cosrespondents in Texas, Oklahoma and Indian Territory -J J qjjf 9 \ on the cotton crop. These reports are of uniform date, August 17. * Comparison is made with the crop of 1903 at the corsesponding period The summary shows that the average condition in Texas is 3.25 per cent higher than last year; Indian Territory 25; Oklahoma 42 higher. The figures at the time of The News' last preceding report were 9:5 per cent, 16 and 33 1-3 respectively. There has been a marked deterioration of the crop in the southern half of Texas during the past month. , In somp localities of this region this has been due chiefly _to tyrouth, but in others to boll weevils and boll worms. / Elsewhere in this section almost incessant rains have damaged the crop by rot and rust and the weevils and worms " have wrought great havoc. Picking has been retarded. In many counties the insects are preventing the plant from fruiting. Some reports from extreme h ' south Texas say that picking is prac^ tically over, while predictions are reported from many places that all the cotton will be gathered by September i 9 15 to October 1. Boll "worms seem to be distributed all over the cotton growing territory, being found even upon the staked . ? plains and in Oklahoma and Indian Territory. In northern Texas, however, they*do not seem to be doing any seri ous damage except in a few counties. The boll weevil has apparently widened the 2one of its operations, being < reported as far northa as Pais, but is not menacingly numerous there. The crop generally is doing well. In northeast and northwest Texas there has been some appreciation above the July condition due to favorable weather. Picking will become 'general in that division about September 1. * * Conditions in Oklahoma and the InJi m !.i~. aiitu x-wntwj" are s^uciau/ eyicuuiu and, an enormous rcrop is expected. The News figures that the present. t conditions indicates production as follows : Texas, 2,787,129 bales; Indian Territory, 488,812; Oklahoma. 363,798 bales. MRS. BOTKIN GOES TO PEN. . . 'Woman Is Again Sentenced for Life for Murder of Mrs. Cunning. At San Fsancisco Monday Mrs. Cor/ t * delia Botkin was sentenced by superior Judge Carroll Cook to life imprisonment in the state prison at San Quentin for the murder of Mrs. John P. Sj Dunning, in Dover. Del., by means of poisoned candy, mailed from San Francisco. In passing sentence Judge Cook expsessed i egret that he could not im.4 pose the death penalty, as the jury's verdict had fixed the punishment. 1 PACKERS STANDING FIRM. .Declare That They Will Never Enter * Agreement With Strikers. The packers at Chicago have issued * an official statement defining their position in the stock yards controversy and declaring that they will not enter into any agreement with the striking butchers' workmen. The packers point out that they offered to submit the entire matter to arbitration and that t -their offer was refused. .. - - V.' - - ., WILL NOT INTERFERE. Jncle Sam's Warships at Shanghai Have Such Orders?Cnsuls of Powers Hold Conferences. A Washington special says: Consul General Goodnow cabled the state de| partmcfi Monday that ti e conference of foreign consuls at Shanghai, which adjourned during the morning, was resumed in the afternoon. After a I good deal of discussion no solution | was offer ad for the present condition of affairs, and it was suggested that each consul report directly to his own government, asking what should be done, if anything. Mr. Goodnow had no suggestions to offer to the state department: He has been given instructions which, it is believed, will prevent 1 the United States from being entangled in the settlement of the question of China's neutrality at Shanghai. A dispatch direct from Shanghai saysy: John Goodnow, the AmericayD consul general, who is dean of the consular corps, presided at the meeting or the foreign consuls Monday. All foreign countries, with consulates in the city were represented. M. Odagiri, the Japanese consul and M. Kleinmenoff psotested against the I presence of the Russia cruiser Askold { and the torpedo boat destroyer Grozovoi in Shanghai harbor, and declared | that China had failed in his duties as j a neutral power. He asserted that the Japanese had the right to enter the harbor and seize two vessels. The attitude of M. Odagari was warlike and uncompromising. M. Kleinmenoff protested against the entering of the harbor Sunday by a Japanese torpedo boat destroyer and insisted upon the right of the tvarehins: in rmSstion tO re A V n %** n main and repair damages. A sngscstion made by the British consul to refer the entire matter to Pekin was adapted. In the meantime the work on the Askold is to cease for fortyeight hours and no further steps are to be taken by the consuls who will await instructions from their respective governments. It was unanimously decided by the consuls that China cannot shirk her responsibility as a neutral state by handling this matter over to the consuls for adjustment. Neither Rear Admiral Stirling. U. S. N.. nor Consul Goodnow has been instructed by Washington as to the course to pulque. Consul Goodncw has done his utmost to bring about a peaceful settlement and he has the full confidence of^the foreign residents in the matter of .'protecting the settlements in case the Japanese should attack the Askold s and Grozovoi. ' The British fleet is expected every day. The Amesican men of war in the harbor, while retaining the outward appearance of inaction, has for several days been practically cleared for action with gun sights in position and steam up. i riddled and cremattd. Ravishc Shot Almost to Pieces and Body Cremated. The orgy of lynching was enacted in Cedartown, Ga., Monday night with all of its revolting features. Jim Gloves, a negro who outraged little Levia Reeves .Monday morning, paid every penalty for his crime known to revenge -or torture. He was tied to a tree and shot almost to pieces and his riddled body dragged ?. mile from town to the cen| tes of the city and burned to ashes j on the most conspicuous spot of Main | street, in the very heart of the city. Fully ? 500 people witnessed his death in the bright moonlight and a mob of crazed participants whooped and sang as the body crisped and fried. The negro's victim was Levia, the; 13-year-ol 1 daughter of Abner Reeves, a prominent farmer, whd ives about one and a half miles from Cedartown. The crime was committed about \ \ o'clock Monday morning as the little girl was carrying a cow to a pasture about a quarter of a mile, from her home. DEATH CLAIMS COLONEL MACHEN Builder of B. & B. Railway Passes Away Near Baunswick, Ga. Colonel E. C. Machen, well known as a railroad builder, his latest work being the erection of the' Brunswick and Birmingham, which was only a few day3 ago sold to the Atlantic and Birmingham, died at his country home, a trru AVOca Vina, turctr mixes nuui jdi uubwick, Ga.,'Monday afternoon. Colonel Machen has been ill for several months with a complication of diseases, his nervous system being entirely ou: of order. GALVESTONITES ARE JUBILANT. Great Sea Wall for Protection of City Has Been Completed. The completion of the Galveston sea wall, the greatest structure of the kind in the world, was celebrated Monday by running excursion^ from different parts of the state to Galveston. Governor Lanham made an eulogistic address, commenting on the remarkable work accomplished. FOR CAMPAIGN USE The Republicans Will Collate Facts of Statesboro Affair. DEMOCRATS DEPLORE ACT Work cf Mob Causes Annoyance at National Democratic Headquarters?Considered as a Se rious Handicap. A New York special says: The mob tragedy at Statesboro, Ga., has caused some annoyance at national democratic headquarters. Chairman Taggart and his lieutenants fear that the Georgia mob has furnished the republican campaigners with material which can be used with great effect in certain parts of the country during the coming campaign. The democratic managers, acting on the advice of southern leaders, had prepared to meet the rate issue in states where the republicans have been held in power by the negro vote by presenting as counter arguments the facts concerning race clashes in the border states like Indiana, Illinois and Delaware. With the attention of the country fccussed upon this Georgia affair, however, the democrat j ic managers fear that all their efforts j in that direction will be in vain. ! They incline to the belief that the Statesboro affair will not only insure the united negro vote to the republican candidates, but that it can be used as a powerful argument by the republican campaigners to support their contention that the republican j party stands for law and order, while the democratic party represents the ; direct opposite. j The republican committee is prej paring to make full use of this GeorI gia-made material. Senator Scott, of j West Virginia, is quoted as saying j that this one act will insure the elec| toral vote of West Virginia to Presi] dent Roosevelt. He says there was serious danger of the democrats get- J ting a big portion of the negro vote because of Senator Davis' uniformly fair treatment of the large number who have been in his employ, but that now no appeals could avail against an object lesson like that furnished at Statesboro. Chairman Cortelyou has his assistants busy compiling the most lurid accounts of the affair that have appeared in the various newspas* pers, with the comment of the presf of Che country, which is, of course, uniformly condemnatory, and this is to be spread throughout the country r for campaign effect. AN ERRATIC CYCLONE. $ Queer Storm Hits Section of St. Louis, Causing Death and Damage. -> A tornado of small proportions, but of extreme fury, swept down upon the residence portion of North St. Louis Friday, resulting in the death of one person, injury to probably fifty frt nrnnprtv estimated at ! au.u ~r- ? j $100,000. A shower passed over St. Louis ear-; 1 y in the day, but there had been no rain in North St. Louis. The sky had cleared and the atmosphere had become very murky and hot when citl- i zens in North St. Louis noticed a dark cloud approaching from the southeast I Suddenly, without the slightest premonition, an arm seemed to shoot to the ground like a gigantic cable, twisting and turning. The end touched the ground at Nineteenth and Aagelrodt streets, and with incredible swiftness r.nd force swept east along Angelrodt for ten blocks, then turned north and swept three^ blocks along Broadway, when it jumped eight blocks northeast to the foot of Bremen street and the river, where considerable property along the river front was destroyed. The tornado them jumped to about the middle of the rivrr and encountered a ferry boat, which was turned and tossed about, but wras not sunk. Leaving the ferry the capricious tornado once more jumped and struck the Illinois shore, near Madison, where it demolished several buildings. "A COWARD AND A LIAR." Both of Thsse is Atlanta Councilman If Charges are Not Proven. Captain J. W. English, who has for twenty-three years been an Atlanta police commissioner, and who is one of the most prominent and progressive men in the city, declares that Coun cilman Amorous made false state ments when the resolution tending to break up factions on the police board was introduced and passed in the city council recently. Captain English challenges Amorous to prove his statements, failing to do which he is branded as a "coward and . a liar." TRAIN SMASHES TROLLEY CAR. Four People Killed and Over Twenty Hurt in Accident at Chicago. A Chicago dispatch says: Four people were killed, apother fatally hurt and twenty-three severely injured in a collision late Wednesday afternoon between an express train on the Chicago Great Western railroad and a train of three trolley cars bound for the HawtUorae race track. - ' ' V..- .....v. ~r. -. vk-STORM DEALS DEATH Terrific Tornado Swoops Down Upon Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis?Destruction Great. Death to ton persons and destruction to property, both private ami public, estimated in round numbers af $1,000,000, are the result of a terrific gale which tore down the Mississippi valley about 9 o'clock Saturday night. at, a point somewhere near the confluence of the Minnesota and Missouri rivers, near Fort Snelling. At about that point the fury of the elements seemingly divided, and with a roar descended on the Twin Cities?SiPaul and Minneapolis?and their environs. Those whose injuries are of importance number thirty and. of these four may die. Scores of other persons in all districts of the city are reported to have sustained bruises and cuts by falling timbers and glass. Both the Tivoii concert hall and Empire theatre were fairly crowded with men watching the performance.. Both theatres stood on the edge of the bluff overlooking the river, with the sides of the buildings open, and were wrecked. The full force of the tornado struck them. The buildings began to sway and rock and the audience became panic-stricken. Men and boys rushed over each other for the exits. , The lights went out and the sheet lightning flashes, one following another with gunfire rapidity, illuminated a scene of pandemonium which/ was intensified by the crash of glass - ' " i.??L-. 4-X. and tne rearing 01 nmntrs as me frame structure gave way before the tornado. Sections of the roof were blown through the air and landed cast inThird street, a block distant. Underneath the debris of the Tivolr were found, when the storm had passed, the mangled bodies of Lorin F. Hokanson, one of the employees in the concert hall, and George Kweton, one of the audience. The tornado cut a pathway in St. Paul about a half mile in width and 8 miles in length through the business and resident districts, leaving ruin and devastation in its track. The downtown business district was hit hard, many of the big offices and business blocks being completely riddled, and the stocks of wholesale houses seriously damaged by the floods of rain that accompanied the wind. The property damage at Minneapolis is said to have been nearly as great at St. Paul. The storm was of short duration, lasting not more than fifteen minutes. The devastation it wrought was terrific. The wind, according to the government weather observer, blew thirty miles an hour, coming from the south-1 west. Buildings were unroofed and fronts blown in, the interiors being flooded by the rain, which came in great waves along with the wind. Electric wires were, prostrated and many persons injured by contact with the current from electric light and trolley wires. William 'Eondlson & Co.'s big de partment store in Minneapolis was I badly damaged by the storm. The J loss is said to be $300,000. Practically every building on the north side of East street is wrecked. The Habighorst block, Seventh and Wacouta streets, was unroofed, and the Economy department store is reported to have been damaged to the extent of $20,000. The front wall of the building occupied by Lindeke- Warner & Son, wholesale furriers, was shattered and stock and fixtures damaged to the extent of thousands of dollars. ALABAMA BANK ROBBED. Vault Looted by Thieves While Cashier Was at Dinner. The Bank of Stevenson, Ala.,, was robbed between the hours of noon and I o'clock Saturday, of between $900 Ind $1,010. The cashier went to dinner. and upon his return discovered that some persons had entered the place and relieved the cash drawer. Bloodhounds followed the trail for a toila. but lost it at a water tank. flashlight powder explodes Experiments of Amateur Chemist at Chicago Results Disastrously. At Chicago, Friday afternoon, Geo. L. Englis, an amateur chemist, while endeavoring to make a photographic flash light, powder, brought about ap explosion that fatally injured iim, severely hurt his wife and destroyed his f<iaM<sn.pp> which he had lately erect ed at a cost of $12,00.0. The explosion forced the floors and roof upward so that the house' resembled a dome. The detonation was heard for a mile. THIRTY PRISONERS GET AWAY. Successful Jail Delivery Occurs at Camden, New Jersey. In an attempted general jail delivery in the Camden county jail, at Camden, N. J., Friday thirty prisonersescaped from the institution and are still at large. The bars in the front window were, filed off and all the prisoners would have made their escape had it not been for a "trusty" who gave the? alarm. THE NERVE OFTAPS Forces of Mikado Demand Surrender of Port Arthur, GEN. STOESSEL DEFIANT China is Warned as to Observance cf Neutrality?Torpedo Beat R /& shitelni Will Not Be Returned by Japs. An Associated Press dispatch cf Wednesday from Tokio says: The commander of the army besieging Port Arthur reports that Major Yamoka, a member of his sta.T, was dispatched under a flag of truce to the outposts of the Russians, where he delivered to a Russian staff officer the offer of the emperor of Japan granting the removal of non-combatants. He also demanded the surrender of Port Arthur. Stoessel Will Not Yield. The announcement of the mikado's offer to ailow non-combatants to leave Port Arthur; coupled with ue demand for the surrender of the garrison causes a revulsion of feeling in St. Petersburg, according to the Associated 'Press. The war office is without official confirmation of the summons served on General Stoessel, but not the slightest idea exists in military circles that he will yield so long as food and ammunition hold out without a fight, even to protect defeaseless women and other non-combatants from the horrors of bombardment. Japan Scores China. The Associated Press at London" learned Wednesday afternoon that Japan has made a demand on China in the nature 01 an ultimatum teat sue force her neutrality in the case of the cruiser Askold and the torpedo boat destroyer Grosovoi, now at Shanghai. Japan pointed out that the time limit, twenty-four hours, permitted by international law, had expired and that Japan therefore was at liberty to take such action as may seem to her expedient. At the Japanese legation in London it was expressly stated that the Tokio government had no intention of remaining quiescent if Russia attempts to compel China to give asylum to her men of war and authorize repairs at her ports which would enable them to resume belligerent operations. Should China fail to comply immediacy with Japan's demand the division of Japanese warships now in the vicinity of Shanghai will, the legation declares, be instructed tp enter the port and capture the Askold and Grosovoi, as was done in the case of the Ryeshltelni. Japan has made no secret of her intention, but has not consulted the powers, believing that the matter is one which concerns herself alone. Japan is prepared, the legation further asserts, to recognize Chinese neutrality only so long as it is respected by Russia. With regard to the Ryeshitelni, Japan, it is asserted, is determined not to comply with the Chinese demand submitted in compliance with the Russian note, that the vesel be returned to Chefoo. Japan insists that to all intent3 and purposes Cbefoo has been a Russian base during the war, Chinese junks having been fitted out there and sent through the Japanese blockading vessels to Port Arthur. No answer has yet been given by Japan to the Russian protest in the case of the Ryeshitelni. but when it is made it will be communicated to all the powers. Closing in on Port Arthur. According to news received at Che Foo Wednesday, th-e Japanese line has been drawn still closer around beleaguered Port Arthur. Passengers on board the steamer Eecima, which anchored off Port Arthur Tuesday night, witnessed the bombardment from Pigeon Bay. The Japanese shells were visible during their whole course. They coursed comet-like to the town and the explosions were marked by great splashes of Qre, which shot up into the sky. LOST POSITION AND SUICIDED. W. J. Montgomery, Prominent Atlanta Business Man, Takes Own Life. William J. Montgomery, vice president of the Georgia Cotton Oil Company, at Atlanta, shot himself to death late Friday afternoon. The universal opinion Is that he killed himself in a sudden fit of despondency following the request for his resignation from the office of vice president of the company with which he had been connected for the last twenty-three years. The news of the tragedy created a profound sensation on the streets. SURVIVORS OF THE RURIK. Many Russians Were Saved by Japs from Sinking Battleship. A Tokio dispatch says: The following is a revised list of the survivors of the Russian cruiser Rurik, which was sunk August 14th by Vice Admiral Kamimura: Twenty officers, four of whom were wounded; 67 noncommissioned officers, 16 of whom were wounded; 525 sailors, 150 of whom were wounded. A. . C?r*r~' - . y , \ SAW SHERIFF OPEN DOOA^ ^ ' ? jS Sargea'nt, Under Hitch, Mattes AfF.d*^ ^ vit Anent Lynching Affair. , Captah R. M. Hitch, sent to Atlanta : Monday afternoon further affidavitsfrom members of the company that , .-3 was at Sratesborojn reference to the /' "' S^ attitude of Sheriff Kendrick towardthe prisoners, Reed and Cato. That of ^ fScrnrodnt T? P Qnliivnn nf Mmn.inv L_ says: - sXM "I saw Sheriff Kendrick down at the jail in Siatesboro after the prisoners had been lynched. I asked him why he _ opened the door to the prisoners'. ^ room. He replied: 'Well, they were go _ *? ing in there anyhow; what was the -<^39 use of letting them break up state ^v:^|8 property?' He was referring to the n. . || fact that they would have broken down the door." " ^ TIME CF WORKMEN REDUCED. . %% Pennsylvania Railsoad Announces a Sweeping Cut to Half Wages. 'jIMBThe Pennsylvania Railroad Company Monday made the most sweeping re- vy duction in the time. of the men em-: ployed that has taken place since the panic of 1893. The employees of the .jtga machine 5 hops were notified that commencing with Tuesday morning they ^|3| would be divided into shifts, each shift ^8 to work every other day, eight hours . to constitute a day's work. , % TO CARRY DISPATCHES. ^ Was Object of the Chaunccy'a TripInto Shanghai Harbor. " / ->?58! Rear Admiral Sterling says the trip of the American torpedo boat destroyer 'yafe Chauncey, from Woo Sung to Shanghai, Sunday, was to carry dispatches. Her movements had no connection whatever with the arrival of the Jap- sjffl;! anese torpedo boat destroyer. - NEW MOSQUITO IS FOUND. | Disseminator of Malarial Fever Die- ' covered at Key West i;| Passed Assistant Surgeon Gardiner 'M reports to the public health and ma- vffflp rine hospital service the discovery at Key West of mosquitoes of the genus anopheles. He regards the disfovery wJ*M as an impostant one in view of the 'isBl fact that for years Key West has enjoyed immunity from malarial fevers p and systematic search of the island heretofore had failed to Onmonstrate "Jw % the presence of this mosquito. ||j DOCTORS HAVE DISAGREED. f J|if| Bad Blood Between Brunner and West } moreland May Lead to Row. ' v The friends in Savannah of Dr. W. F. Brunner, city health officer, who ' have heard of the extremely salty, card printed about him by Dr. Willis F. . -yJdHl Westmoreland, in Atlanta, confidently \ expect that there will be trouble between th? two principals to/this quarrel before the matter is ended. . The trouble between Dr. Brunner fgEki and Dr. Westmoreland arose over a *-jS?| smallpox paper which Dr. Brunner reaid before the League of Georgia Munici* palities on the smallpox situation DOCTOR SLAYS HIS WIFE. . Also Attacks Her Attorney Because' i 111 of Divorce Proceedings. Dr.L. J. Jones, a physician and stock man, who is one of the oldest, citizens of Benjamin, Texas, attacked his wife with a knife while she slept Monday morning and stabbed her to^^SH He then proceeded to the residence of County Attorney Brookson and jjjreffij attacked the latter with the same TjH&j knife. Brookson threw the doctor dowq and broke his hip and had him place^H^aB-^ under arrest. MrS. Jones was sufn^3^^P^ for a divorce and Brookson was hef WARSHIPS AT SMYRNA. Turk May Ask Advice of Kaiser Bill \||B Regarding the Situation. The American squadron, consisting of the Olympia, Baltimore and Cleveland, anchored aft Smyrna, Asiatic Turkey, Friday.- ' Official circle in Berlin think \i -;:j probable that Turkey will ask for Germany's advice regarding the situ- :'l at ion created by the American nava) demonstration on Smyrna. demand exoneration. 8tatesboro Guards Await Result of Expected Investigation. ' ' C-iSJ A meeting of the Statesboro Guards - ' |jj was held Thursday night, and it was determined to ask for the disband- -yjjB raent of the company, unless jt should 3e exonerated by the investigation the vtJH. governor is expected to order. The " company holds that it was not respon- o.|| giole fr the succeaa of the mob. --4 CALL TO ALL UNION MEN. Benefit Fund is Wanted to Aid Army - of Striking Meat Cutters. Every union workingman and woman in the country, about 3,000,000,. . i according to leaders of organized labor, is to be asked to contribute to the support of the packing house strikers. . % President Donnelly, of the butcher workmen, said that an appeal had been sent to all the labor unions in the United States asking them tovhelp 4 provide fnnds. c|