The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, June 22, 1905, Image 2
AS IT EVER WAS.
Each man on his neighbor
Contemptuous looks down,
The crown upon the crosier,
The crosier on the crown. I
Each man reviles his brother
And calls him knave and fool.
The schoolman ilouts the layman,
The layman scorns the school.
Yet each man casts in secret
On each an envious look;
The king would hold the crosier,
The dullard know a hook.
?-The Philosopher, in Town Topics.
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THP TA171TA
11IL. 1 HrVIVH
TABLETS.
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3AVE found the very thing
J " \ to suit you!'' cried Philip
9 T g Dunton, impetuously. "No
{tf -* )? more of this abominable
mechanical work for you?
i 3pui it away, Madge!"
He laid violent hands upon the manuscript
lying beside the typewriter at
which Madge Margetson was employed
scad flung the offending document into
<tfee grate, whence the girl retrieved it
ifeeffore answering.
"For shame, rhilip!" she exclaimed,
prith indignation not wholly simulated.
"It belongs to one of my best clients?
. St is his last novel, indeed?and I have
Jto end of trouble to make out his writ,
' 3ng at any time. Now you have made
5t more difficult than ever for me."
She smoothed the crumpled sheets,
^tenderly, while the young man, somewhat
abashed, watched her closely.
"I'm awfully sorry, dear," he apolo"hut
T wn<s rpolH- sn ftoliorhtofl of
the idea tbat you may get rid of this
horrid work for something more congenial
that I did not stop to think.
|pf. 3F?rgive me, won't you ?"
He had come very near to her, but
r. she moved away.
"I'll pardon you upon two conditions,"
she returned, maintaining her
p % ?erefity. "One is that you sit down?
the other, that you tel! me coherently
Sltitat this wonderful plan of yours is!"
He seated himself as she bid, and she
resumed her place at the machine, but
H'. ^toeing him.
"You know," he began, "that in two
Mays' time I leave, along with my unp
?le, Professor Kruse, to whom I am
to act as secretary and assistant while
fee explores the mounds of Tarku, in
jpK . Asia Minor."
The listener nodded.
""That," she commented, curtly, "is
fiddlers' news; we have discussed it for
R&- greeks past."
"Pray note," he retorted, mischiev miy,
"that I am making up for my
^ . precipitation just now by putting everyr
Airing plainly. Therefore, permit me
fe add that we two are engaged, but I
feave nothing to marry upon except
lerhat I get from my uncle, who disapproved
of marriage on principle, and,
1 Terily believe, of all women, s'ave
Miss Miriam Morgan.
"This Miss Morgan wants a companion
who understands cuneiform writing;
and has sought vainly for one possessing
such an unusual accomplishment.
I told her of you, and of how,
to assist your late father in his Assyrian
researches you had learned something
of it She deputed me to ask
Whether you wouia come to lier, ana
offers ten pounds monthly by way of
g|. alary."
; v . Madge's strong, handsome face
Sighted up.
*Tt would suit me, certainly," she admitted;
"but what kind of a woman is
1H? Morgan, and what reason has she
:Ser such an extraordinary requiremeat?"
"She is very rich, good natured,
- stout and nearer fifty than forty."
lantern summarized in reply, "and
since she has known my uncle has developed
a craze for his special line of
study, about which, however^ she is
extremely stupid. You are sure to like
W\ *er"
This prophecy proved correct. Madge
did take to Miss Morgan, and that lady
reciprocated the feeling; in fact, the
foUowing afternoon, when Professor
Jwrtrse, along with his nephew, called
to bid her farewell, they found her full
off praise of the new companion, with
. whom she had arranged that morning.
^Such a dear girl," she gushed, "and
if-\. ^ so pretty?not at all like one who knew
v \ anything about that wonderful cruci*
?*" form writing."
"Cuneiform," corrected the professes-?a
spare, ascetic man. "It is cer?
lainly unusual for a woman to understand
it. But what better occupation
eonld she have than its studv?" he dov.;
Banded, with that enthusiasm for his
hobby which characterized him.
"What better?" reiterated Miss Morgan,
her rubicund color flushing to
. uaimson. "Why, she could marry, of
. ?rorse?uiai wouiu ue a nigner occupa'
~ ikm."
f "1 don't agree with you," the professor
retorted bluntly. "No woman with
srientifie taleuts should marry?it is a
. sacrifice of her genius at the shrine of
'? mere man?a moral suicide?an utter
iniquity.
"1 trust to be able to send you from
Turk*," be went on, as though lie were
id the lecture room, "the clay tablets
bearing the records of the hopes and
Tears, tbe ambitions and the disappointments
of 4000 years ago. With
your young friend's help you will be
able to decipher these writings, which
n-o mortal eye has read for that period.
"Wimt commonplace, present-day marriage
can equal such an experience?"
"You mentioned that before," responded
the lady, evading the direct
issue, "and that was what gave me the
idea of getting a companion who could
A, s;
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read them to me. But you will -writ?
to me yourself, professor?"
"My work will so engross me," he returned,
still in the same vein of awk- j
ward gallantry, "that I fear 1 must ask
you to accept the sentiments of the
tablets as mine. I shall select suitable
ones, and am sure you will be interested."
Miss Morgan sighed again, and did
so still more deeply when shortly after
the visitors took their leave.
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Philip's letters to Madge, after his
arrival at Tarka. reflected the state of
his mind, which was much distressed, j
lie did not see a chance for them, he
wrote, for his uncle's antipathy to marriage
appeared to increase. But, the
young man added by postscript, the
professor had forwarded to Miss Morgan
a case full of curious tablets they
had discovered, bearing in cuneiform
characters much ancient correspondence.
When the package thus advised duly
arrived, Miss Morgan opened it "svitli
enthusiasm.
"Can you really read this?" she
asked Madge, as she picked out a cake
of baked clay. "It looks like badly
made chocolate, with the marks of
hens' feet 011 it."
It took the girl the greater part of a
day to fully decipher the hieroglyphics;
but toward evening she brought the result
of her labors to her employer.
"I think I have made out most of
it," she reported, hesitatingly, "but I
hardly like to tell you what it is."
"Read it at once," the other ordered,
eagerly. "I am old enough to judge
for myself." .
"It is addressed in your name,"
Madge, thus instructed, proceeded,
with a blush. " 'To Miriam, the wellbeloved,
the searcher, sendetk greeting.'
"
"Go on!" cried Miss Morgan.
" 'My heart panteth as does a Syrian
ass under burdens. Name the nuptial
day. Then shall the teacher fly to the
taught, and the searcher seek his beloved.'
"
Miss Morgan's face was a study of j
smiles in color.
"How poetical!" she exclaimed. |
"How characteristic. What a dear
man to express it in such an uncommon
way. I shall answer him at once."
Whereat Madge was discreetly silent,
but at the same time that she seut
awav a letter from Miss Morgan to
Professor Kruse she posted one to Dunton
from herself.
The result was startling. Some weeks
later came a cable from the professor
to say that he was returning, and,
shortly after, he arrived, accompanied
by his nephew. His first call was upon
Miss Morgan, who received him alone.
"I had your letter," he began awkwardly,
as soon as the first greetings
were over; "and to clear up the obvious
misunderstanding, came home at once
?acting, I may say, partly on my
nephew's advice."
"Misunderstanding!" repeated the
lady, sharply.
"It is plain that I had?ah?no intention
in?ah?sending you a tablet bearing
a proposal of?ah?marriage 400C
years old?of?ah?adopting its sent*
inents."
Miss Morgan drew herself erect.
"In Mr. Dunton's presence, before
you left, you told me exactly the reverse,"
she retorted, with acerbity,
"and your attentions otherwise, Professor
Kruse, have been extremely
marked. You have placed me in a very
false position."
"The error may not be irremediable."'
he stammered, clumsily. "I have alirnvc
Miss Mnrcnn?Miriam that
no woman has ever interested me as J
you do, and that none had taken such
concern in my researches."
"And in you," murmured the lady,
encouragingly.
"Then suppose we let the tablet
stand as expressive of my feelings. Its
language is florid, but "
"You can try to keep it up," she suggested
boldly. "I have lov?liked you
all along. Professor, and^ now my
money, as well as myself, will be able
to assist your investigations."
The door opened to admit Madge
Margetson and Philip Dunton. who
paused as they saw the attitude of the
others. But the professor called them
in.
"Let me introduce you," he said,
blithely, "to the future Mrs. Kruse."
"Congratulations," returned Philip.
"You said that when you married I
might do so!"
His uncle trowned?the contingency
had not.occurred to him.
"Who is the lady?" he demanded
evasively.
"Here she is?the translator of thr
Tarka tablet."?New York News.
Cooking by Electricity
If you live in a flat or an apartment
house, you live just where electricity |
can be used to its best advantage. The
janitor's tires in the basement supply
your hot water. All you require is occasional
heat for the preparation of
meals, and when you want it, you
want it in the quickest, cleanest, and
least troublesome form. Here the elec- j
trie cooker just fits the situation to a j
dot. As you never have overmuch j
room in an apartment house, the compactness
of the electric scheme is a
delight. Some of the latest N'ew York
flats are furnished with electrical outfits
so light and tidy that after meals
they can be stowed out of sight in
the closet. The ordinary and larger
flats have electric ranges, all tiled and
hooded, so clean and free from smell
that you could almost run one on the
parlor carpet without "littering up"
any. To be able thus to cook with
something that doesn't turn your whole
fiat into a furnace, makes electricity in
summer a joy forever.?Warren Har- '
per, in the Pilgrim. !
A young man charged at Kingston, i
England, with assaulting his father,
pleaded as a reason for the act that it
was the first time he had seen his
father sober.
BUTCHERY PLANNED
Children Thwarted the Extermination
ofWhole Family.
CONFESSION OF PRISONER
Alf Moore, Colored, Tells Graphic Story
of Assassination of Carters and
Diabolical Scheme of the
Alleged Murderers.
The confession of Alf Moore, the
negro arrested Saturday for complicity
in the Carter assassinations, has
added to the excitement in Valdosta,
Ga., and the Hahira district, over the
murders. He has told the full story
of the plot from its incipiency, detailing
the conversations he alleges
to have had with the Rawlings, the
deal made with him for his participation
in the affair and the acts of
himself and the Rawlings boys on
the night of the tragedy.
He says that Rawlings hired him
I
to come from Ivey's crosstie camp,
where he was working, to kill or help
kill, the entire Carter family. That
when he reached Rawlings' home he
was taken to a small vacant house
nearby and kept there until the night
of the assassination, his meals being
carried to him.
He says that Rawlings and his boys
joined him at this house on the evening
of the tragedy and that Rawlings
told them to go and kill Carter and
his wife, then the grown daughter and
3'ounger children, to throw their bodies
in the house and to set the place
on fire after taking all the money they
could find.
The premature appearance of-. Willie
Carter and his sister in the yard,
where they went to doctor a sick
calf, thwarted the original plan to
Mil Mr. and Mrs. Carter first.
After the boy and girl were shot
down Carter began firing on the assassin
anc. Moore states that he then
became frightened and ran away,
making his way back to the croBstie
camp where he was arrested.
The officers are working on other
important evidence and while a disclosure
of tbe nature of this evidence
would tend to defeat the ends of justice
and needlessly increase the public
feeling over the crimes, they intimate
that other important developments
are likely to be made in a few
days. One or two other arrests will
probably be made soon.
None of the prisoners are allowed
to see or communicate with any persons
except their attorney.
WAR PARTY IS OBDURATE.
Backed by Military Element, It Endeavors
to Hamper Peace Move.
A St. Petersburg special, under date
of June 19, is as follows: The war
party has by no means surrendered.
On the contrary, backed by the military
element, is it making a concerteh
effort to dissuade the emperor from
concluding peace. Even with the two
armies already clinching members of
the war party are filling St. Petersburg
and Peterholf with optimistic
views and Lieutenant General I,inevitch
and his lieutenants are reinforcing
their arguments with roseate
reports of the strategic situation.
Many Russian correspondents at the
front, evidently inspired from St
Petersburg, are flooding their papers
with dispatches in the same strain.
The Novoe Vremya's correspondent,
in his zeal against the conclusion of
a humiliating peac?, points to the
hazards for the government in disbanding
an army of half a million
men without giving them a taste of
success, and expresses the fear of dangerous
consequences. The same correspondent.
however, chronicles the
'fict that the rank and file are indifferent
and concludes:
"If peace can be obtained without
the cession of Russian territory, or j
blood money, then peace by all j
means."
POLICE CHASE ROOSEVELT.
Mleged That Automobile Was Ex*
ceeding Lawful Speed Limit.
President Roosevelt's chauffeur was
overhauled for speeding in Washington
Sunday afternoon while carrying
the president, his son and two of the
latter's friends along the conduit roads i
to Great Falls. Two policemen, con- i
sidering that the chauffeur was going
at a speed greater than that allowed
by law, gave chase and overhauled
the automobile. When they learned
who the occupants were, they withdrew,
after the president cautioned the
chauffeur to slow up a little.
TQ SAVE WOMAN'S NECK.
Habeas Corpus Granted in Mrs. Rogers'
Case in Vermont.
A writ of habeas corpus in behalf ;
of Mrs. Mary M. Rogers, whose exe- j
j ctuion for the murder of her lrusbana |
j fixed for Friday, was granted late
1 j
| Monday night a: Brattleboro, Ver- I
mont, by Judge Wheeler of the United
States district court. ]
FRANCE FINALLY YIELDS.
Agrees to the Proposition of Germany
for a Conference to Straighten
Out the Moroccan Tangle.
A Paris special says: An international
conference for the consideration
of the affairs of Morocco is now
practically assured, as the result of
the conversation between Premier
Rouvier and Prince Radolin, the German
ambassador, and attention is now
directed to defining the scope of the
conference. Details are being rapidly
arranged and the officials expect
to be able to announce the plans for
the conference in the course of four
or five days.
This result, after the severe strain
which tested the diplomatic resources
of both governments, has the effect
of relieving the tension, the officials
of the foreign office and the diplomats
of the German embassy agreeing that
an amicable adjustment is near at
hand. Although the acceptance of the
conference gives a certain measure of
success to German diplomacy, yet M.
Rouvier emerges from the controversy
with the advantages of having brought
Germany to define exactly the scope
of the conference and so to rid it of
the objection of being a mence ?
French interests.
Although the basis of the conference
has not yet been settled, it is understood
that the two governments
substanially agree on some of the
main features involved.
Germany has suspected that France
had designs on the sovereignty of
Morocco, but the negotiations disclosed
that France had not questioned this
sovereignty. similarly, it was disclosed
that France had not designed to
interrupt the present territorial status
quo of Morocco. This appears to
have been one of Germany's chief apprehensions
as any change in Morocco's
status quo might involve an ultimate
French protectorate similar to
that over Tunis.
With both governments favorable to
the sovereignty of Morocco and to her
territorial 'and political status quo it j
remains for the conference to adjust
the equality of commercial rights, as
Germany desires this assurance from
an international conference, instead
of through the operation of the AngloFrench
agreement. Therefore, the conference
is not likely to consider changes
in the political status of Morocco,
but rather international reforms and
commercial privileges.
A Berlin dispatch says: No adequate
view of the German feeling over the
1V1U1 nUA 11 lau UC yiCDCllttJU W1LJUL- |
out making note of the general belief
in naval circles that Great Britain
is seeking an excuse to check
the great progress which is. making
in thex German sea armament. This
belief'"is widely expressed among naval
officers of all classes. It is their
view that Great Britain would be willing
that France should suffer on land
if Britain thereby was given a chance
to destroy the German navy.
As a result of this feeling there is
great activity in the German navy,
and it has never been so alert or
so perfectly ready for defense as now. |
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WALLACE QUITS PANAMA JOB? i
Such is Rumor from Colon Anent the !
Departure of Chief Engineer.
A dispatch from Colon says: It was j
publicly announced that J. F. Wallace,
chief engineer for the canal zone, who
sailed for the United States June 16,
was going home by order of Secretary
Taft, for the purpose of a consultation
on important matters prior to the
sailing of the secretary for the Philippines,
and that he was not likely [
to return to the isthmus until his
annual report had been written and
he had secured a rest.
Since the departure of Mr. Wallace,
however, it has been said in influential
circles that he does not intend to return
to the isthmus to resume his
position of chief engineer, but that j
he has gone home to confer with Sec
retary Taft on the subject of his res- :
Ignation. The fact that Mr. Wallace j
went home, accompanied by his wife '
ami two secretaries, seems in some j
quarters to lend credence to the rumor
that he does not intend to return.
GAYNOR AND GREENE CASE.
Writ of Habeas Corpus Is Granted by
Montreal Judge.
At Montreal, Monday, Justice Ouimet
ordered the issue of a writ of j
habeas corpus in the case of Gaynor j
and Greene on a pet'tion presented '
on behalf of the accused. The j
grounds were as usual, that there >
was a lack of jurisdiction on the part ;
of Judge Lafontaine to deal with the :
case, and that the offense is not ;
included in the extradition.
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SECRETARY HAY RETURNS.
Back in Washington for Brief Stay? !
Calls Upon President.
Secretary Hay arrived in Washington
from New York at 6:30 o'clock
Monday evening. Two hours later
he called at the white house, and j
spent the greater part of the evening j
with the president. The secretary is j
expected to remain in Washington but i
a few days, and will spend the sum- J
mer at his home on Lake Sunapee, !
New Hampshire.
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12 SOliTH CAROLINA j
j \ STATE NEWS ITEMS, jj
New Cashier Elected.
Edwin A. Carlisle has been elected
i cashier of the Newberry National
bank to succeed J. W. M. Symraons,
deceased. For the past few years Mr.
Carlisle has been the southeastern
representative of the Springfield Metallic
Casket company of Springfield,
Ohio T-Tp is fl srm nf Prpsiripnf \f
A. Carlisle.
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Attends Trap-Shooting Tournament.
Several members of the Charlestoni
Palmetto Gun Club went to Warm
| Springs, Ga., to attend the Southern
I Interstate Trap Shooting tournament.
The Charleston-Palmetto Club is one
of the best known organizations of
the kind in the south, and its members
have frequently captured valued
trophies in competition with some of
the best shots in the United States.
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New Industries.
The Chattanooga Tradesman reports
the following new industries established
in this state the past week:
Columbia?$30,000 investment con:
pany.
Orangeburg?$6,000 warehouse company.
Camden?Power plant.
Charleston?$10,000 building company;
$10,000 bottling works.
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Expending $40,000 on the Streets.
At present Union is engaged in
spending $40,000 in street paving,
having purchased a plant and implements
at a. rost of $30,000. When the
present work is complete, which is
under United States supervision, the
city will be supplied with about ten
miles of paved streets, including sidewalks,
over which electric cars will
be operated as soon as the rails can
be laid, the work of grading and putting
in the ties to begin some time
this month, as provided in the franchise
already granted.
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Sought to Stay Hanging.
A Columbia dispatch says: An
eleventh hour petition in behalf of
Willie Johnson, the negro sentenced
to be hanged at Orangeburg for criminally'
assaulting a little white girl,
was presented to the governor by a
negro preacher and was refused. The
petition was signed by a dozen negro
preachers, doctors and professors.
The paper asked "a .stay of execution
until material evidence in favor
of the culprit, which it c^n be shown
was withheld at the trial, can be exommofi
r-O Qtllr Q nnmmilt!i;;ATl t n
Vi 1* V ucrv U - - n L.m^??1 11 IV
life imprisonment."
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Prohibitionists Begin Campaign.
The first gun of the prohibition
campaign was fired at a meeting held
in the Washington Street Methodist
church, in Columbia, the call for
which was signed by some fifty prominent
prohibitionists from various
parts of the state.
The call was signed by Joel E. Brunson,
the state leader; J. A. HOyt,
Lou's J. Brystow, J. P. Gibson, Rev.
Vernon I. Anson, Rev. Walter I. Herbert,
R. A. Lancaster, T. J. Lamctte
and others identified with the State
Law and Order League.
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College in Excellent Condition.
At a meeting of the board of trustees
of Newberry college, the report
of Dr. Joseph E. E. Scherer, president
of the institution, was read and
routine business transacted.
The president's report was very
creditable and showed the college to
be in excellent condition, the session
iust closed proving itself one of the
most successful in the history of the
institution.
It was decided at this meeting to
add a department of technology to the
courses already offered by Newberry
College, George H. Kicklighter cf Atlanta,
being elected head of the department.
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New Road Seeks Chartfer.
The Anderson and Tidewater railroad
and the Ohio, Knoxville and Port
Royal railroad have filed articles cf
incorporation as the Chattanooga and
Atlantic railway, the papers being
signed by Frederick A. Johnson o:
Chicago, first vice president, and J.
E. Breazeale, secretary, of Anderson,
s r
Three hundred thousand dollars is
the stated capital of the company and
the directors are Albert A. Martin,
president; F. A. Johnson and J. R.
Lea of Chicago; N. B. Neeley of Milwaukee;
J. E, Breazale, P. K. McCulley,
B. F. Whitner, J. J. Bretwell of
Anderson, S. C., and R. E. Hambly
of Clayton, Ga.
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Doctors Fight Over Patient.
At Columbia, Dr. Francis D. Kendall,
division surgeon for the Southern
railway, was placed under a two
thousand dollar bond by Recorder
Stanley to wait the results cf two
stab wounds Dr. Kendall inflicted in
the lungs of Dr. J. J. Watson, whcse
condition is regarded as extremely
dangerous.
Dr. Kendall, it is claimed, was attacked
on Plain street, in front of
his sanitarium when he left his office
to see after a patient who had
been hurt in a trolley smash-up at a.
Southern railway crossing. U:. Watson
had ccrne with his two brothers
to remove the patients and this had
been consented to. When Dr. Kendall
called out from his office to make
less noise, Dr. Watson, it is claimed,
took this as a personal affront, anu,
when Dr. Kendall came out, he attempted
to slap his face. One of
Watson's brothers separated the two
men.
Dr. Kendall then told Dr. Watson,
it is said, to take his patient out and
never to speak to him again. Immediately
Watson, it is charged, applied
a vile epithet and sprang forward and
struck him and continued fighting him.
Er. Kendall had a penknife in his
hand and while warding off Dr. Watson's
blows struck him twice with ?he
knife, the blade parting from the
handle at the second blow. The lung
was punctured once from the. front
and once from the rear.
STRIKE DEVELOPS A SCANDAL.
Driscoll
Tells of Illegal Contracts Between
Drivers and Business Men.
The greatest scandal Chicago has
ever seen, according to State's Attor- v 5
ney Healy, is to follow the disclo*
ures made Thursday before the grand
jury by John C. Driscoll, when the f
former secretary of the Associated
Building Trades and Coal Team Owners'
Association, revealed the entire ,-}
history of the dealings between em-i
ployers and union labor leaders, particularly
that branch of union labor
represented by the Chicago Teams- N;'
tern' Union. .
Driscoll took before the jury sev- v
eral check books, which ,tojgether with .
the cancelled checks, ?re expected to
prove many of the charges made by
him against business men and labor
leaders.
It was learned later that one of >
\ the statements made by Driscoll to
* the jury was that President Shea of :<
tho tPftmRfprs' nnion. accented S8.000
at the time of the stock yards strike 1
last summer.
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MURDERS LAID TO RAWLINQ8.
Negro, Under Arrest, Tells of AstsssL ; J
nation of Two Carter Children. ^
A startling climax came Saturday "Jg
afternoon in the Rawlings-Carter traf- /J
edy at Hahira with the arrest of Alf SI
Moore, a negro, at Lennox, Ga. He J3
is one of the negroes connected with
I the killing, and, he immediately gave
the whole story away, declaring that '3
he was employed by Rawlings to aid
in the bloody work. . I Vj
He says that before leaving for VaJdosta
that afternoon, Rawlings carried S
his sapper to him in the woods it* T*?|
order to keep him from going home. J
He also said the program was to kffi tj
the whole family and burn the honse. ri
He says that Milton Rawlings shot ^
Carrie Carter and that Jesse Raw)- : *J
ings killed Willie Carter. The gun v|
with which one of them was killed \
was also found.
DAMAGES FROM COMBINE.
Rui-ned by Brick Trust, Hlnckllff It ?
Awarded Sum of $15,000. The
appellate court at Chicago hand-. 4
ed down a decision ordering payment 7
of $15,000 to George Hinchliff, whose '
business as a brick manufacturer was
ruined, it is declared, by certain Chi- 'M
cago manufacturers, who agreed to undersell
the plaintiff in the price of
bricks. Builders and union laborers M
were a party ta the "combination," it Aj
is alleged.
TROOPS ACCOMPANIED NEGROES*/ j|
Three Condemned Alabama Murderers' ^
Sent from Birmingham to Decatur. J
Governor Jeiks of Alabama ordered ;
Captain C. S. Price and a cavalry -;f|
troop from Birmingham to accompany
Will Jackson, John C. Ccliier<and Harvey
Smith, negroes, to Decatur, where }
they were hanged Friday. Jackson ;Jj
killed Officer E. S. Steele and Collier J
and Smith killed and assaulted Miss
Belle Blood worth. -. cs
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STRIPES FOR ARMY OFFICER.
Aftermath of Rotten Scandal Which
Caused Suicide of a Woman.
The president has approved the findings
in two trials of Captain Joe Kirk- "i;
man of the tjventy-flfth infantry, sentencing
him to dismissal from the
army and confinement in the periitentiary
of Fort Leavenworth for; i/v;
three years. Kirkman was connected' *'' :
with the sensational case resulting j
In the suicide of the wife of another
army officer at Omaha.
MINE HORROR IN RUSSIA.
Explosion in colliery Results in Loss
of Five Hundred Lives."
Advices from Ekaterinsolav, Southern
Russia, under date of June 18.
state that five hundred persons were
killed in the explosion which occurred
at the Ivan colliery at Khartslsk, belonging
to the Russian Donelz com- <
pany. Hardly a man in thr colliery / ^