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onreroiE ? - \ a - ? * c4 r 4 V * Vendetta Between Altmans and Duncans is Desperate. MORE BLOOD IS SHED ' * ? ?* ? ? -! -l. t~?I iwac act I n?f in nrsi OMrmien rvui k.>?w0 ~ Troops from Jacksonville Sent To Scene of the ^ Disturbance. As a resvrit of the long standing feud between the Altmans and the J i * m W - ; " * , <1 | ' Duncans, at Baxter, Fla., four persons have fcfeen-kilteU within the past wees, 'i and many others wounded, and it is i * " * likely that more blood will be shed un* less Wilson's battery, which arrived at Baxter from Jacksonville Friday afternoon, is able to control the situation. Those who have been killed are: Jackson 'Duncan, white; unknown negro; 'Deputy Sheriff Thrift, Ellis Dowling. A list of the wounded is imobtam able, but the~number exceeds half a V dozen, Lottie of who&T will die. * V \it V Origin of the Feud. The Duncans, who are large turpenN tine operators and the Altmans, who maintain a general store at Baxter, have been in a quarrel for months. 4 The majority of the people in the section took sides with the Altmans, as the Duncans had made many enemies i in their turpentine operaftons by al- i > leged trespassing on the property of others.?~? ~ Although, tjhe. quarrel was a bitter one, lo overt act occurred till Sun* day, September llth, when the Duncans, with a number of their negco ? employees boarded' an excursion train on the Georgia, Southern and Florida* The Altmans and several of their" friends were on board, and a quarrel soon arose. The Altmans stabbed a Duncan negro to death, apd when the Duncans interfered, -the Altmans ^killed James Duncan. At this point the fight be* came general. > v - < This riot occurred just over the Georgia line, and for that treason Sher* iff Hern don, of Baker, county, refused to arrest the alleged slayers of Duncan and the negro. Since .then Baxter and the surround-, ing country have been divided into two hostile camps. The Duncans and ; their negro employees have been under arms and so have the Altmans < and their fHends. The Duncans were beat on arresting the Altmans, and 1fid latter were resolved not to be arrested, shooting two members of the rested. Tuesday an^attetppt was made to arrest the Altmans, but the latter j resisted, shooting, two members of the ? posse. 'I'hn ranoTPal nf +Via fend wWch m. ' X UU ivuonui V& VMV i>vuu ?? uavm 4 V ' suited In the death of two more men and the ordering out of the troops oo> curred about 1 o'clock Friday mornc ing. At that hour there were a large .> number of the Duncan faction at the home of William Duncan, as there had been for several nights since the out> V break jof, lawlessness. In the number was Deputy Sheriff Thrift Suddenly and without warning there was a fusilade of shots from rifles and pistols fired at the house. The deputy called on his posse to | assist him in arresting the culprits, and as they" came from the ' &ouse ? there was another volley of shots. Thrift the deputy, was standing in $ front of the house. He was fatally ; > shot and lived but a few moments. . ? The others returned the flre, and kilfcd Dowlihg; a member of the Alt| man faction. More than a half dozen were wounded. J5y Those who killed Thrift, as well as v the other members of the mob, withdrew to the home of the Altmans, and AffAin nren&red to resist anv attemDt at arrest. * The Duncans are members of the Turpentine Operators' Association, and are being supported by that association. Sheriff Herndon is powerless against the reign of lawlessness, and, in response to an appeal by law-abiding I citizens, Wilson's battery of Jacksonville, was sent to the scene, arriving on a special train about 5 o'clock Friday afternoon, t Friars Offered Two Millions. The civil service commission at Manila is prepared to pay to the East Tndian Order of Friars $2,020,000 gold for ' the lands in the islands, held by the order. The native constabulary has been reduced to 1,200 men. MISS TATE IS SPONSER. Named by Governor Terrell to Christin Battleship Georgia. Miss Stella Tate, sister of Congressman Carter Tate, has been named by Governor Terrell as the sponsor for the state to break the bou*e of wine on the majestic battleship Georgia, when that vessel is launched and christened at Bath, Me., on October 11. ? LYNCHERS MURDERERS. So Dec!are Huntsville Ministers in j Special Sermons Preached on Subject of "Outraged Law." No incident or rumor disturbed the tranquility of the military standing guard around the jail at Huntsville, j Ala., Sunday. No further arrests ha*'e been made in connection with the Maples lynching. It is positively known that several of the indicted parties have left the | country. One of them has beenxj heard from in Salt Lake City, and two j were last heard from in Texas, mak- j ing their way to Mexico. Three oth- I ers have left no trace behind. - United States secret service men j have been engaged to collect evi- | dence against the mob' that attacked ! the; jail. ; The members of the Ministers' Union, practically every Protestant pastor in the city, preached a special sermon on outraged law and unusually large congregations heard them. Rev. George E. Boyd, presiding elder of the Methodist district conference, took the text, "The powers that be are. ordained of God," and said tnat those who participated in that disgraceful mob and lynched that brutal negro are individually guilty of murder before Alm.ghty God^Mob" violence; what are we jgoing ; to - do about it?'* was tie subject of j a sermon oy Kev. a. u. iuucaen, ui , the First Cumberland Church, who I condemned lynching as a punish- j ment for any crime. Rev. Frank P. Culver,, a member of the grand jury that is investigating the lynching, took as his text: "The land is full of bloody crimes, and the city full of violence." He held that tne carnival of .gambling that has exited, in Huntsville is responsible for outraged law, *s; well .as the failure of officers to enforce the vagrancy laws. Mr. Culver charged that every member of the mob lo a murderer, and should be convicted of that crime. He saidftbe mob should hare been repulsed in its attack on the jail, even if it had resulted in the loss of life. ReyvFrancls Tapprl, pastor of the ; First Presbyterian church, said pub- j lie sentiment needs arousing in opposition to mob violence, if the officers of the law continue to be powerless on an'occasion like this. DEATH TAKES YOUNG BISMARCK. S * AJ *21 i A - m ? If * " *' ' \2 > 7 f 2 i Son of the Iron Ch?neellor Dies Without Realizing Life'-s Ambition. At FWedshrichruhe Sunday morning Prince Herbert Bismarck died. The end was painless. Since he ceased 1 to ho foreign minister, on the retirement of his father in 1890, Prince Herbert Bismarck had taken part in public affairs only an a member of the relohstag. -Prince Bismarck's father trained him for his successor \as chancellor of the German empire, hut this ambition was never realized. CHIEF JOYNER RE-ELECfED. * Atlar.li Fire Chief Again Heads'International Association. W. R. Joyner, chief of the Atlanta, 5a., fire department, was unanimously reelected president of the International Association of Fire Engineers at the convention, in Chattanooga., Chief Joyner was first elected to this position at a meeting of the association held a year ago in Atlantic City. His work as president of the association won him numerius friends among the members and he was unopposed-in his race for reelection. JUDGE IS KEPT BUS^C . Democratic Nominee Will Make Frequent Visits to Headquarters. It is ,said ' at democratic national headquarters in New York that Judge Parker will make another visit to the city within a week or before the publication of his letter of acceptance, and that the personal conferences between the nominee and his managers will be repeated as often as necessary. HIGH WAGES CL08ES PLANT. Pullman Car Works in Ohio 8hut Down and Thousands are Idle. The Pullman Car works, at Pullman, O., are shut down and practically every one of the company's 7,000 employes are idle. The closing of the big works at the "Model City" came when the 1,500 workers in the repair department were laid off. That had been the only branch of the plant in operation for some time. It is said high wages brought about the closing of the works. JAPS SHELLING MUKDEN. London Paper Hears That a General Advance is Under Way. It is asserted in a dispatch from Tokio to The London Express that the Japanese are vigorously shelling the Russian positions at Mukden, preparatory to a general advance and endeavoring, by a wide turning move ment, t ocut off General Kuropatkin'i retreat. t . - - / .h . FEUDISTS IN JAILjl i Twelve Men Voluntarily Sur- T render at Baxter, Fla. MAKES TOTAL. OF TWENTY J Vendetta Between Duncans and Alt- F mans Considered at an End. Prisoners Carried to Jacksonville. . Twelve of the men accused of being implicated in the killing of Deputy' ^ Sheriff Thrift at Baxter, Fla., Thursday night came into town Saturday j morning and surrendered to Sheriff;*1 Herndon. The men had sent word jCi during the night that they would sur-. P render at 8 o'clock a. m., but all were ; c on hand at 7:45 o'clock. Those sur- j11 rendering, in 'addition to the eight ar- & rested Friday, were Charles Altman and Hilliary Altman, who are charged ; e ?Ta/<trann WiinpflTl , d Willi. IliC JLUU1 U^l VI V UVikkJVU a/umvmm I , and the negro, Jim Riley, on the it train; Jesse Altman, who shot W. N. h Duncan, father of Jackson IBuncan, in front of the Baxter postofflce; Andrew h Harvey and Ivey Harvey, charged i with being members of the mob with tl Jesse Altman; Aaron Dowling, Wil- v liam Dowling, Alonzo Dowling, Wil- e liam Dowling, Jr., W. H. Johns, George fi Johns and Cauloy Johns. tl All of the men were taken on board a special train and left at once for 8 Jacksonville under guard of Wilson e battery, of that city. n Jesse Altman had been hiding out a alone and came in by himself. The others came in together, with a few ^ friends. . Hilliary Altman has a bad gunshot ^ wound in the right shouder, which was dressed by a surgeon attached to the troops. He was evidently shot at the time the mob attacked Deputy a Sheriff Thrift, who killed Riley Dowl- ? ing. None oi! the others were wounded. Both companies of troops left on the special. W. N. Duncan and son, 0 Marshal 'Duncan, will remain at Bax-t ' ter. Their wounds are not considered r fatal, but they can not be moved. c Sheriff Herndon and deputies have t the situation well in hand and no more E trouble is anticipated. Sheriff Mattox, of Charlton county, * Ga., who arrived in Baxter Saturday c morning, said that while he was per- i' fectly willing for the prisoners to be i: locked up in the Duval county jail, at Jacksonville, for safe keeping, he r intended to try and secure the men I charged with committing the crime in his county and have them tried in j that county. When asked what steps g he intended to take, Sheriff Mattox j stated that he intended to telegraph z Goyernor Terrell and ask him to make f a requisition on the governor of Flor ida for the delivery to the Charlton ^ county authorities of Charles and Hil- f liary Altman, the men charged with _ the killing of Jackson Duncan and the t negro, Jim Riley, on the train, which t was then in Charlton county. Until the governors agree in regard to the c proper custody of the prisoners, Sher- ? iff Mattox is perfectly willing t oallow g the prisoners to remain in the Duval j county jail. The Florida authorities will proba- j bly claim Hilliary Altman, because e when he gave himself- up Saturday j morning he had the military surgeon t dress three gunshot wounds, which c are> considered as showing that ht t was in the mob that killed Deputy g Sheriff Thrift. j : i INVESTIGATE WOOD'S ACTION. Cubans Want to Know Why Mayor of Havana Was Deposed. j A special from Havana says: The house of representatives has resolved to request President Palma, for the ( reasons for the removal by Governor < General Wood, of Miguel Gener, from r the mayoraiity of Havana, and the ap- j pointment of Sendr O'Farrill, the pres t ent incumbent. j NEW DA0O HEIR IS BORN. King and Queen of Italy Finally B* I come Possessed of a Boy. At Racconigi, Italy, Queen Helena was safely delivered of a son Thurs* c day night at the royal palace. Both a mother and child are doing well. The 1 infant has received the name of Hum- 3 bert and the title of prince of Pied mont J This is the first son born to the * queen of Italy and its birth dashes the j hopes of Duchess Helene, of Aosta, v who until now was mother of the heir apparent to Italy's throne. | | MINE WHELMS BLOCKADER. British Vessel Strikes Explosive at j ' Port Arthur and Goes Down. c A dispatch from Nagasaki, Japan,, t says: A British sailing vessel, sup- i posed to be the British bark Lucia, struck a mine recently off Port Arthur j Only one person on board of her was j I rescued. t It is considered probable that the 1 vessel was running the blockade. ! V 6 iROOPS ARE CALLED] I i o Assist in Arrest of Alleged I Lynchers in Huntsvilie, j " t ROUBLE IS EXPECTED I riends of Indicted Men Threaten to Forcibly Release Them if They are Incarcerated in the County Jail. Madison county jail, at Huntsville, ia., was guarded Thursday night oy ampanies G and K, Third Alabama lfantry, Captain Lucien Brown. Beause threats have been made that arties indicted by the grand jury on barges of lynching Horace Maples ad placed in jail would be taken out y their friends and set at liberty. Ben Hill, one of the alleged lynchrs, was captured and lodged in jail pring the day and the officers are >oking for nine others who have been idicted. Judge Speake, of the circuit court," eard rumors of impending trouble, nd wired Governor Cunningham for be militia. Tne troops reacnea nun isille shortly after 5 o'clock, and pickts guard all approaches to the jail. To trouble is anticipated, so long as be jail is guarded in this manner. Captain Brown has orders to preerve the peace of the community yen if the city must be placed under lartial law. He has camp equipment nd is 3xe<i for a long stay. Solicitor Peters denies the rumor hat Sheriff Rogers and Mayor Smith ave been indirted. The only founda>* Ion for this report is the fact that ive grand jurymen have asked intractions on how to proceed to bring bout the impeachment of these offlers if such action is deemed advisale. v Dispersing the Crowds. The sheriff and deputies are after ther parties indicted. Captain Brown las. patrols on the street, armed with ifles and ball cartridges, dispersing rowds that have gathered more hrough curiosity than for any violent urposes. Until the parties are arrested it rill not be known what character of iharges are made against them, but t is believed that it will be murder n the first degree and arson. After the report for the jury was ead Wednesday, Juror Charles P. jane addressed the court as follows: 'If your honor please, if the grand ury in their wisdom and discretion :ee fit to impeach the high sheriff of dadison county and his honor, the nayor of the city of Huntsville, lor ailure to discharge their duty in exicuting the law, we desire to do it legally, therefore we ask your honor for ull and complete instructions in ill formalities and specifications so hat we may avoid errors, irregulariies or technicalities." This speech created a sensation in :ourt. Judge Speake charged tfie ,Tand jury along the lines requested t:ad further developments are anxiousy awaited. A Birmingham dispatch says: It has >een learned that the governor orderid troops to Huntsville for the double jurpose of assisting in the arrest of he persons indicted for the lynching >f the negro Maples and to prevent he rescue of the accused after they ihall have been arrested. It is sup>osed that the Madison county authorties requested such assistance. WHITE BROTHERS CONVICTED. fury's Verdict in Sensational Case Wait Murder in Second Degree. A verdict of murder in the second iegree was rendered in the White :ase at Salisbury, N. C., Thursday, rhomas and Chalmers White, the defendants, who killed Russell Sherrlll, he alleged betrayer of their niece, spooled to the supreme court. Trt CN/iiftC IM r A KJ A I WORK" *arty of Engineers Leave New Orleans for Isthmus. Patrick Galvin, former roadmaster )l the Illinois Central and now assistint to Chief Engineer John F. Walace, of the Panama canal commission, accompanied hy seven assistant engines, recently appointed by him, left sew Orleans Friday on the United h-uit Company's steamer Ellis, for lolon, in connection with the canal /ork in progress on the isthmus. PORT ARTHUR WEAKENING. Heroic Garrison Reported to Be Suffering Severe Privations. A St. Petersburg dispatch says: rhe Japanese are now expected to relouble their efforts before Port Ar ,hur, whence the news is received is lot encouraging. In spite of the success which hitherto has attended the defense, the lussian line3 are being drawn closer, he garrison is undergoing severe pri-ations and its resisting power is weakening under the strain. ' t - " 7 " r. LENA STAYS WITH US. Order Is Sent from Washington Which Settles Disposition of the Russian Transport at 'Frisco. A Washington special say3: Acting Secretary of State Adee Thursday afternoon gave out the following statement regarding the Russian ship | Lena, now at San Francisco: - ..s I The president nas iais uay issucu , i an order through the acting secretary of state directing that the Russian I armed transport Lena, now at San | Francisco, be taken in custody by the naval authorities of the United States and disarmed. J The main features of the conditions prescribed are that the Lena can De 1 taken to the Mare Island navy yard ' and there disarmed by the navy of ; small guns, breech locks of large 1 guns, small arms, ammunition and ord; nance stores and such other dismanI j tlement as may be prescribed by the | commandant of the navy yard; that | the captain give a written guarantee I that the Lena shall not leave San ; Francisco until peace shall have been j concluded; that the officers and crew i shall be paroled not to leave San | Francisco until some other under, standing as to their disposal may be i reached between the United States | government and both the belligerents; j that after disarmament the vessel may be removed to a private dock for such reasonable repairs as will make her seaworthy and preserve her in good ; condition during her detension, may I be bo repaired at the naval yard, u i the Russian commander should -o ! elect; that while at a private dock the the commandant and that, when so repaired, if peace shall not then have commandant of the navy yard at Mare Island shall have custody of the ship and the repairs shall be overseen by ' an engineer officer to be detailed by ! been concluded, the vessel shall be ta! ken back to-the Mare Island navy yard and be there held. in custody until the end of the war. RACE QUESTION SPRUNG. ' At Convention of American Bankers' Association in New York. The southern bankers had a chance to speak Thursday at the seoond day a ! session of the annual convention of the American Bankers' Association, j held in the Waldorf Astoria, at New i York, ancf they not only produced | some genuine orators, but broke away from the dnr tonics of dollars, cents. legislation and kindred topics. R. F. Maddox, vice president of the Maddox-Rucker Banking Company, of Atlanta, Ga., established a new precei dent in thd history of the association j by introducing the race question, saying: "Georgia is as loyal to the flag as is New York. As evidence of this we point to the fact that during the Spanish-American war she sent a greater ! number of troops to the front in proportion to her population than any other state in the union. "Georgia, moreover, sent me to tell you that she is as much opposed to mob rule as you are. The race problem is a serious one, but we believe that there is a middle ground between social equality and lynching. The one is contrary to nature, and the other is contrary to law, and both tend to elevate the negro above his sphere and separate him from his friends." GEN. McGLASHAN RE-ELECTED. Savannah Man Gets Another Term as Commander of Georgia Veterans. The election of commander was the feature of Thursday morning's session of the Georgia Confederate Veteran's reunion in Rome. General P. A. S. McGlashan was placed in nomination for reelection, and General A. J. West, of Atlanta, was also named. Both nominations were seconded by eloquent speakers, but the ballot disclosed the McGlashan man to be in the majority and he was accordingly elected for another term. CONDEMN IR0QUI03 THEATRE. Strong Protest is Made Against Renpentng of the Play House. An appeal to the clergy* of Chicago to arouse a feeling of condemnation for the re-opening of the Iroquois theatre has been issued by the Iroquois Memorial Association. The organization had a special meeting at which an open letter of protest was prepared. This recounts the fire horror in the theatre last DecernI ber and urges the ministers to oppose the further use of the building as a place of amusement. , SKIRMISHING IS CONSTANT. Russian Outposts at Mukden Being Prodded by the Japs. A special from Mukden, under Saturday's date, says: The Japanese are reported to be advancing on both flanks, from' the east, southeast and southwest. The outposts are actively engaged twenty miles southeastward, there being almost constant skirmishing. ( : . I Cream of News.| JB H'fi'HHf,fI''I'fifT,,I''Hilll'lll"t ft * -'JM Brief Summary of Most Important Events, of Each "Day. r?The Japs began to shell Mukden ./:f| Sunday preparatory to a general onslaught upon the town. ?Prince Herbert Bismarck ,son of . the "Iron Chancellor," died Sunday morning at Friedsrichruhe, after a long illness. 5 ?A lynching occurred in Franklin vj| county, Ga.; Sunday. Negro shot white man, and on being captured was ta? - > ken from officers by mob, swung* to a limb and ^riddled with bullets. ?The civil service commission di ? the Philippines is prepared to pay to J| : the Bast Indian Order of Friars |2,? 020,000 ^old for the lands in the Islands, held by the order. The native constabulatry has been reduced to ^ 1,200 men. " || ' ?A tug boat supposed to be the Is rael W. Durham, of Philadeipma, ? \ sunk in the' Delaware river, off the ,-:J9 mouth of the Christiana creek. Vive ^-||M of the crew, including the captain, were drowned, together with three j| men employed with the American . Dredging Company. - ?The warehouse of the Fayette M Manufacturing Company at Chester, .vg Pa., has been burned, together with. r-:$m 60,000 bags of magnesite. Loss $300,- H4B 000; partially insured. .;f| ?The Pullman car works, at .Pull- S man, 111., are shut down and practlcally every one of the company's .0j8j 7,000 employees idle.- ^ ?Fire has destroyed the Sawyer & Jj Austin plant at Pine Bluff, Ark., one of the largest lumber mills in the /[M state. The loss is estimated at l> M tween $400,000 and $500,000, fully cov- ji ered by insurance. /;'M ?Seymour Clark, a farmer and hto son, were found cremated in their residence five miles north of Youngstown, Ohio. Mrs. Clark and other members of the family escaped. 11 ?Five children were burned to death and their parents, Mr. and Mrs. *ig Jesse Jessup,-fatally injured at Holla, '% - ^ Ky. All were asleep. It is believed the parents were Injured while trying to rescue the children. , ?A verdict of murder in the sec- /Jggff ond degree was rendered in the Whlte,43M case at Salisbury, N. C. Thomas and Chalmers White, the defendants, who killed Russell Sherrlll, the alleged be- v|8 trayer of their niece, appealed to the supreme court ?Silas Worley, a wagoner, andv|S^H Josh H. Mitchell, a peddler, are in jail at Huntsville, Ala., for alleged connection with the Maples lynching. War- :/jjj1 ley is charged with arson, and Mitch- - J ell with murder. # "M ?At a secret meeting of delegates -|| representing unions both in and out of the building trades alliance, at New . York, it has been determined to extend the strike now on. * ?An appeal to the clergy of Chicago to arouse a feeling of condemnstion for the re-opening of the Iroquois ' M '.'4 theatre has been Issued by the Iroquois Memorial Association. ?Statements that the Japanese army is concentrating upon the flanks /111 ^ of the Russian forces in the vicinity of Mukden are met at the Russian war office with expressions of ipcred- ,vj| | ^ ?The Breakers hotel, at Long W' - Beach, Wash., one of the finest summer hotels on the north Pacific coast, has been destroyed by fire. Loss, $57,000. There were no guests at the ho- \.|jg ?Chicago is to have a new packing ' jM house plant, capitalized at $2,500,000 and with a daily capacity of 1,100 cat- ;Jj tie, 5,000 hogk and 5,000 sheep. The company hag been Incorporated under -^| the laws of New York. ?Commander B. E. Peary, the Arctic Explorer, announces that a con- ~jM tract has been signed for a new Arctic ship, which he Is to use in another ^ attempt upon the North Pole. ?An unusual influx of Irish immigrants in the last two months is re- .tip r ported by the immigration authorities at New York. The records show that jrelB in the last seven days nearly 1,500 Irish immigrants "have arrived at El- 4ij| lis Island. Of these nearly 70 per cent were girls and only a smali per- f|S centage of the total were over 23 ^g| years old. ?Twelve of the Florida feudists vol- ' yfjg untarily surrendered to the sheriff at v Baxter Saturday mormng. im? iSM makes twenty men In all under arrest. They were taken at once to -33 Jacksonville and incarcerated in Duval county jail. ?The celebration of Red Men's day '3j?9 at the St. Louis exposition was ob- ?:jja served by a parade and exercises in the Temple of Fraternity. The most popular feature of the exercises was the dedication of the song "Hiawatha" to the Red Men and its acceptance by JaSj ?Huntsville, Ala., ministers preach- v|sB ed special sermons Sunday on "Outraged. Law" to unusually large congre- ' gations. Members of the mob wer? ;0l?j severely denounced and character!zed??||^a| as murderers. <