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' J V V EIGHT SLAIN BY MOB All Prisoners Taken From Watkinsville Jail and Riddled With Bullets. > - A: MOST HORRIBLE AFFAIR ' ?C * Victims Were Eight Negroes and One * Wh;t? Man. Mainrhv of Wihom r Were Charged With the Murder cf the Holbrooks?Alleged Rapist Precipitated Trouble. * ?*? A mob entered the jail at Watkins- j ville, G&., at 2 o'clock Thursday morn- j ing and took therefrom nine prison- i ors, eight of whom were shot to death and the ninth escaped only by being thought dead by the mob. The pris- j a oners taken out and lynched were: I Loa J. Aycock, white, charged with the murder of F. M. Holbrook and ! wife, of Oconee county, and seven ne- \ groes?Rich Robinson, Lewis Robin- j son, Claude Elder, charged with the murder of the Holbrook couple; Sandy Price, a young negro, charged with ; attempted assault upon the person I of Mrs. Weldon Dooly; Rich Allen, | a negro convicted and under death ] sentence for the murder of Will Rob-1 ertson, another negTo; Gene Yerby, j another negro, charged with burglary j of a rifle from Mr. Marshal, and Bob j Harris, a negro charged with shooting ! another negro. rm 1. ?? J. :?i1_ xue rnuo WtJUl quiCLijr mill vv annuo- > Tille a little before 2 o'clock in the j morning. There were about fifty or j i seventy-five men in the crowd. All i were heavily masked and no one j knew whence them came or to what point they returned. They went at once to the house of Town Marshal L. H. Aiken and quietly called him to the door. As he put his head out r . of the door he was seized and told that he must deliver the jail key. He refused, and the men put pistols into his face and overpowered him, he being a rather small man. Aiken refused to dress, but some of the party Pressed him and carried him along. The mob next seized Courtney Elder, a blacksmith, and made him bring his tools along with him. On their way to the jail they were met by A. W. Ashford, a prominent citizen of Watkinsville, who had heard the noise a*. * the marshal's house, and came down town as soon as he could dress. Mr. - Ashford begged the men to desist and let the law take its course, especially pleading for Aycock, on the ground that the evidence had not been such -as to warrant his conviction. He also Jbegged them not to lyneh those not J; charged with capital crimes. They told Him that they were cooi, soDer , mid determined, and that he might ; ; as well go back home and go to "bed. The jail was then opened by the town marshal under the cover of several pistols, and inside the jail the mob held up Jailer Crow and demanded the keys to the cells. He refused at first, but surrendered them after being menaced with guns. Jailer; Crow begged hard for Aycock on the same ground that Mr. Ashford did, ^ and also for the two negroes who j were not charged with capital crimes. ! Members of the attacking party told j jMm io shut his mouth. They knew j 1 what to do, they said, and they were ( going to clear out the whole jail. The mob got every prisoner in the jail, except Ed Thrasher, a negro, charged with gambling, who was on the misdemeanor side of the prison, and was not noticed. The .prisoners were carried to a point some hundred j yards from ,the jail and tied to the ' fence posts by their necks. Aycock Protested Innocence. Aycock protested his innocence to the last. He said they were killing ' an innocent man. While the general i belief in Oconee county is that Ay- j cock was guilty, still there were i many who did not beli' re so. Rich Robinson said it was all right, , so far as he was concerned, but that : three more negroes were in the Hoi- , "brook murder. He named Sidney Nor ris, Jim Taylor and Wiley Durham as | < the three implicated. These negroes i had been in jail before on this charge, J hut were released on full investiga^ tion. The other prisoners did not open their mouths during their march to their doom. After the prisoners had been tied to the fence posts the mob lined up and fired five volleys into their bod- , ies. All died without a struggle,with ] the exception of Joe Patterson, who was 8hot several times in the body, but was alive after the mob left and ; will recover. j SHORTAGE GREATLY INCREASED. Cashier Conzman Got Away With ' Much of Bank's Money. A special from Terre Haute, Ind., says: Though the first official an- . nouncement that the Vigo County Na- ; tional Bank placed Conzman's short- : age at $16,000, it is now reported all i the way from $50,000 to $100,000. La- i ter reports increase the amount of . worthless paper held by the bank. ! REBELLION ON IN RUSSIA. More Marines in Mutiny and Deadly Shells Continue to Reign Upon Flaming Town of Odessa. Dispatches from Odessa, under date of Thursday stated that the mutineers of the battleship Kniaz Potemkine still held the ship. A great fire is destroying the shipping in the harbor, and the buildings along the shore and in the streets a continuous rattle of small arms is heard. The military everywhere are shooting into the crowds, which are panic-stricken and madly rushing hither and thither for shelter. The number of victims is ' -5 1 large, a siace 01 siege uas ueeu uc clared in the city. The conflagration is sweeping along the harbor, the sailors and strikers refusing to permit attempts to extinguish the flames. Three unisured ships of the Pan-Russian company have been destroyed. A St. Petersburg special says: The emperor has issued the following ukase addressed to the ruling senate: "In order to guarantee public safety and to terminate the disorders at Odessa and neighboring localities, we have found it necessary to declare a state of war in Odessa and district and to invest the commander of the troops of the military district of Odessa with the rights of military authority and special rights of civil administration for the defense of order and public tranquility . The crew of government transport, which arrived during the day from Nicolief, mutinied, seized the officers and joined the crew of the Kniaz Po- temkine, to whom they turned over the captain and other officers of the transport. It is reported that the foreign consuls have applied to their respective governments to send war ships to Odessa. It is reported that the volunteer cruiser Saratoff has been burned at Odessa. Admiral Kruger's squadron is expected to arrive at Odessa every hour. His orders are to summon the Knias Potemkine to surrender, and upon her refusal to sink her, aftel* which he is to assist in restoring order in the town. The Russion government, although it has been almost paralyzed by the terrible events at Odessa and the news that the sailors at Libau also have mutinied, is making desperate and even frantic efforts to meet the situation, and to stamp the flames of revolution before they can spread to the army, which is now the last bulwark of the autocracy. With Poland red with the spirit of revolt, the Caucasus already almost in a state of civil war, the whole country profoundly stirred and the intelligent classes solidly arrayed against the government, all conditions seem ripe for the long-predicted revoIntinn Mob's Action Condemned. The people of Watkinsville stand in dumb horror at the mob's action, and on all sides expressions of condemnation are heard, especia-ly rel garding three of the negroes, who were charged with offenses less than the capital crime. Not a man in the mob was recognized as they all wore! masks, and it is believed very firmly that all were from other counties. So quietly was the whole affair carried out that very few people of Watkinsville knew anything about it until it was all over, and the few that did know about it were powerless to prevent it. Sheriff Overby, who had been out in the country Thursday afternoon, and who did not come from his home to the jail during the night, did not know of the occurrence until daylight. The immediate cause of the lynching was undoubtedly the attempt by Sandy Price (colored), to assault Mrs. Weldon Dooley Tuesday afternoon, at her home in the suburbs of Watkinsville. There was some little doubt as to the negro's intention, but many believed that when he went into the home of Mrs. Dooley he was bent on that kind of mischief. j He was shot at by several of the crowd that captured him, but was ' not hit. He was then brought to jail and lodged in safe keeping. Then the trouble beean to brew. The people of the other nearby counties evidently took the matter up, for Thursday afternoon A. N. Bostwick of Morgan county rode fourteen miles to give notice of the danger of a lynching occurring. He.arrived at Watkinsville at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and went to the store of J. B. Poulnott. He did not go to the sheriff's house, for that official was on his farm, and the ordinary, Judge Calvin Johnson, was in Atlanta. So many rumors of this kind had reached Watkinsville that little attention was paid to his warning. BOY SUE8 FOR DAMAGES. Was Whlpperi by Muscular Man Who Wilded Leather Strap. Because he had been whipped with a leather strap, two feet long and two inches broad, wielded by a muscular man, an employee of the Georgia Iron and Coal company, Thomas Burress, through attorneys, has filed suit in Atlanta against that corporation for 55,000. OIL KING GENEROUS ; Rockefeller Gives Ten Mil-! lions For Education. I ALL SCHOOLS TO SHARE 1 I j Announcement of Most Munificent Donation is Made Public by the General Education Board.j Ten million dollars as an endow- I meat for higlher education vin the United States has been given to the general education board by John D. Rockefeller. The announcement was \ made by Dr. Wallace Buttrick of the j board at a meeting in New York Frl- j day. The following letter to the secretaries and executive offices of the board from F. E. Gates, Mr. Rockefeller's representative, was given out: i "26 Broadway, New York, June 30, j 1905.?To Messrs. Wallace, Buttrick \ and Starr J. Murphy, Secretary and I Executive Officers, General Education Board, New York?Dear Sirs: I am authorized by John D. Rockefeller to say that he will contribute to the general education board the sum of >10,000,000 to be paid October 1 next in cash, or at his option, in income producing securities at their market value, the principal to be held in perpetuity as a foundation for education, the income above expenses and administration to be distributed * I/-,.. + V> ^ honoft* r\t cn/?Vi LU U1 USCU 1U1 uuv uvuvuc VJ. WMV?. institutions of learning at such times, in such amounts for such purposes and under such conditions or employed in such other way as the board may deem best adapted to promote a (Jompprehensive system of higher education in the United States. Yours very truly, F. T. GATES. Statement by Board. With the- letter the following statement is given out: John D. Rockefeller, Jr., with other gentlemen of this city, was instrumental in forming the general education board in February, 1902. A very broad and admirable charter was secured from congress and signed by President Roosevelt on January 12, 1903. A gift of $1,000,000 from John D. Rockefeller was immediately passed over to the board, especially designated for educational work in the south. Other funds have been added b7 other philanthropists since that time and the board has confined its w6rk hitherto mainly to educational work in the southern states. The present gift differs from Mr. Rockefeller's first gift to the board in the following places: The principal sum of the gift of $1,000,000 made on the organization of the board could be distributed. The present gift of $10,000,000 is held as an endowment, the income only being available for distribution. For Use Everywhere. The first gift was designed to be used exclusively in the southern states. The present gift is for use not only in the southern states, but throughout the United States without distinction of section. The first gift could be used for common schools and secondary education. The second gift is confined to ' higher education and is designed specially for colleges as distinguished from the universities, although there is no prohibition in the letter of gift against making contributions to universities. n.it i:i-- * tJOLQ guis are aunts avauauie lur denominational schools, as well as for those which are non-sectarian. In distributing the funds the board will aim especially to favor those institutions which are well located and which have a local constituency sufficiently strong and able to insure permanence and power. No attempt will be made fc) resuscitate moribund schools or to assist institutions which are so located that they cannot promise to be permanently useful. SOLONS CONDEMN LYNCHING. Resolution Requests Governor to Ferret Out Members of Mob. The Georgia house of representa-' tives Friday morning unanimously passed a resolution by Hon. Eoykin Wright of Richmond county, condemning the wholesale lynching at Watkinsville, Oconee county. In addition to scoring the mob for its work, the resolution earnestly requests the governor to at once offer ample rewards for the detection and arrest of the criminals who participated in the murders, as they are characterized. i GEORGIA CAMPAIGN OPENED. | J Hon. Hoke Smith Speaks at Madison j and Roasts the Railroads. Hoke Smith of Fulton county opened his campaign for governor of Georgia at Madison Thursday in a speech of an hour and thirty minutes, during the greater part of which he attacked the railroad corporations of the state and denounced their methods as well as the charges for services which they demand of the public. DEATH CLAIMS HAY Secretary of State Passes to the Great Beyond. HiS DEMISE WAS SUDDEN Shortly Before Dissolution Doctors Had Announced Condition of the Noted Patient as Highly Satisfactory and Cheering. I Secretary of State Join Hay died suddenly at his sujmmer home in Newberry, New Hampshire, at 12:25 Saturday morning. The signs immediately preceding his death were those of pulmonary embolism. Mr. j Hay's condition during alt of Friday had heen entirely satisfactory. The bulletin of Secretary iHay*s death was signed by Charles L. Scudder, M. D., and Fred T. Muri phy, M. D. | Mrs. Hay and Drs. Scudder and j Murphy were at the secretary's bedi side when the end -came. The secj retary bade good night to his wife ! and to his attending physicians about 110 o'clock Friday night at the close i of one of the best days he has had 1 since his illness. The lpcal trouble j was clearing up satisfactorily, accordj ing to Dr. Scudder. The secretary suffered none of the old pains in his ches-t, which characterized his earlier illness. He had I been perfectly comfortable all day i and happy in the anticipation of leav ing his bed for the greater freedom and comfort of a couch. At 11 o'clock he was sleeping quietly. A few minutes after 12 he called j the nurse, who at once summoned i Dr. Scudder. Both Dr. Scudder and Dr. Murphy hastened to the bedside. The secretary was breathing with difficulty and expired, almost immediately afterward, at 12:25. ! ; , ; : " -ITMUTINEERS SURRENDER. Capitulate to Black Sea Fleet at Odessa Without Firing Shot. A dispjich from Odessa, under Friday's date, says: Without firing a gun or making the slightest show of resistance, the mutineers on the I Kniaz Potemkine hauled down the ron floor anr? surrpnflprpd fho hflt.tle ship to Vice Admiral Kruger's squadron, which arrived at noon. It was fi anxious moment for Odessa, as the squadron of five battleships and seven torpedo boats, with their crews at quarters and their decks cleared for action, steamsd within range of the Kniaz Potemkine, the flagship flying signals'which read: "Yield or be sunk." The display of force was too overwhelming for the mutineers, and all thought of resistance was abandoned. Admiral Kruger ordered the EkaterI ina II to place a crew on board the Kniaz Potemkine, and the other vessels of the squadron immediately saildd away. , The mutineers will be transferred | to the Ekaterina II, which is now ! lying alongside the Kniaz Potemkine, and will be taken to Sebastopol. The crew of the Potemkine capitulated unconditionally. A dispatch to The London Daily Mail from Odessa, dated early Saturday morning, asserts that the Kniaz Potemkine has not surrendered. The dispatch says: "It was reported that the Kniaz Potemkine ha'd surrendered< unconditionally, but it is now confirmed that she was joined by the battleship Georgi Pobiedonoset, whose of-1 fleers were made prisoners. Both vessels are anchored in the roads and are using searchlights vigorously as if expecting an attack from the squadron, which is about fifteen miles distant. I hare information regarding this second mutiny on absolutely cm reliable authority." By order of Postmaster General Cortelyou rural carriers are granted a holiday on July 4, service on rural routes being suspended for the day. APPEAL FOR JUSTICE Made to Georgia Solons by Man Whc Suffered False Imprisonment. Bent with age, penniless and just out of a hospital after months of illness, Charles Franklin, the man who was sentenced for life to the penitentiary for murder by a Bibb county juiry, and .who served twenty-one years before his innocence became known when the real murderer confessed his guilt, reached Atlanta Friday to appeal to the legislature for recompense for his twenty-one years' false imprisonment. WARSAW JAILS CROWDED. Over Six Hundred People Arrested In Twenty-Four Hours. An Associated Press dispatch from Warsaw, Russian Poland, says: AJ1 the prisons are full to overflowing, no ' less than 672 persons, mostly Jews, having been arrested during the last 24 hours. It is expected that a state of siege will be proclaimed as great 1 riots are anticipated during the mob- 1 ilization of troops. BEEF PACKERS INDICTED' Federal Grand Jury at Chicago Returns Eighteen True Bills Charging Firms With Conspiracy. After an investigation which has ; lasted something over three months and during which more than one hun- j dred witnesses were examined, the ; P ^ ? /> 1 /vonn/1 lllrr 0+ P1 Vl f 3 fffltllT. icuvriai 5iauu juij ?*v VM<VM0W , day afternoon handed in its report. | Seventeen men prominent in the pack- j ing industries of the country were in- ! dieted for violation of the Sherman j anti-trust law and four officials of the ! I Schwarzchild & Sulzberger company, ! were indicted for alleged illegal re- j bating with the railroads. Besides | these individual indictments, bills j were oted against five large cor- J porations, Armour & Co., Swift & | Co., Nelson, Morris & Co., Cudahy Packing company and the Fairbanks I Canning company. The indictment voted for alleged vl- j olation of the anti-trust law were identical in each instance. The indictments contained each eight counts, which were spread over sixty-three J typewritten pages. The first and second counts on the j indictments pertained only to beef I sold in the domestic market. The j ninth and tenth counts relate to beef sold in foreign trade. The third count charges a conspiracy in restraint of trade and commerce among the states and with foreign nations j in fresh, dried, smoked, cured, canned and pickled meats, and in certain by-products of the packing industry, ** '- - f on naiionnrA AOW + O 1 n _ Viz.; OttS/agt! uasmgo, oauoagc v.uuL(*iuers, oieo stock, stearine and oils and also in butter, eggs and poultry. This count charges that the trade which the defendants were carrying on in the above named commodities was to be restrained in several ways: First, competition in the buying of cattle at the stock yards in different cities was to be prevented and destroyed by the defendants, who required their purchasing agents to refrain from bidding against each other. ! ! Second, competition as to the sale of the above commodities in foreign and domestic markets was to be prevented and destroyed by the defendants fixing non-competitive and unreasonable prices for such commodities and requiring their representatives in' the different markets to fix prices by agreement from day to day according to what the market would stand. Third, the supply of the above commodities was to be curtailed and restricted whenever necessary to maintain the prices so fixed. Fourth, the United States was divided up into territories between the defendants and each was to keep its own territory without interference by the others. Fifth, there was a division as to the > volume of trade allowed to eaeh defendant in a given market; if one packer sold more than his percent age during a given ween ne was obliged to pay an "ante" of so mucn per hundredweight according to the territory in which the matter occurred, into a pool to cover the excess j of sales, * and this fund was divided among the packers who fell short in their sales. As soon as the indictments had been handed into court District Attorney Morrison suggested that each of the defendants be placed under bonds of $4,000, and, when the court asked if bench warrants were to be served, he was informed by the district attorney that the legal advisers for all the men included in the indictments had agreed to produce the men on Monday or as soon as possible after July 4th. Judge Bethea acquiesced in this arrangement. STEVENS SUCCEEDS WALLACE. Chicago Man Now Chief Engineer of Canal Commission. Secretary Taft has appointed John F. Stevens of Chicago chief engineer of the Panama canal commission with residence on the isthmus. Mr. Stevens succeeds John F. "Wiallace,whose resignation was accepted, and his appointment takes effect at one* FLOOD HORROR IN MEXICO. From One Hundred to a Thousand People Are Reported Drowned. Meager advices received in Mexico City indicate a flood has wrought a great horror at Guanajuato ,a mining city, now the important seat of activity for several large American and British companies. The reports indicate a death list of from 100 to 1,000, the latter estimate being given in a dispatch received Sy President Robinson of the Mexican Central railway. The raging water carried the dead through every street. NO DECISION REACHED. Executive Committee of Cotton Asso. ; ciation Discusses Warehouse Plans, j After discussions which consumed ; almost wholly the two sessions held in Memphis, the executive1 commita# QaiiIKoihi A connio. Ley Ui VVbkUU XlOOVWtU tion adjourned without having decirv 9d upon any definite plan regarding the proposed system of bonded warehouses for storing the staple. CHARGE BLACKMAIL Chicago Labor Unions Used by Unscrupulous Men. SCATHING ARRAIGNMENT The Federal Grand Jury at Chicago Returns Thirty-Nine Indictments Against Labor Leaders and Business Firms. A Chicago dispatch says: The Cook county grand jury, which for a mopth has been investigating the causes and conditions of the present teamsters' strike, returned its report Saturday night, and with it forty-nine indict* ments against men connected in various ways with recent labor troubles in Chicago. The following are the indicted: George C. Prussing, president of the Illinois Brick company; Charles Hank, president of the Brick, Stone and Terra Cotta Workers' Union; John Gray, general purchasing agent and distrib^ . uting agent of the Illinois Brick Company. These four indictments are- based on charges of conspiracy to injure the business of independent brick concerns, whose interests lie in directions opposed to that of the Illinois Brick company, the so-called "brick trust.' A number of officers of independent brick companies testified that money had been spent for expenses in connection with calling strikes against their plants. The following were indicted for conspiracy to injure the business of Montgomery Ward & Co.: Cornelius P. Shea, president Inter-. n&iona\ Brotherhood of Teamsters, two counts; Jeremiah ifcCarty, busf- > ness agent of the Truck Drivers' Union; John Smyth, president Coal Teamsters' Union; George F.. Holden, business agent of the Packing House Teamsters' Union; M. F. Kelly, er" business agent of the Market and Grocery Teamsters' Union; W. J. Kelly, secretary of the Coal Team* * sters' Union; James B. Barry, business agent Express Wagon Drivers' Union; Hugh McGee, president Truck Drivers' Union; Harry Lap^ presi| dent of Baggage" and Parcel Delivery Drivers' Union; Steven Sumner, business agent of the Milk Wagon Drivers'* Union; Joseph -W. Young, business agent 01 tre jsaggage ana rarcei u<y livery Drivers' Union; W. J. Gibbons, president Teamsters' Joint Council; Albert Young, ex-president of the International Brotherhood cf Teamsters. In addition to the indictments against the above, true bills charging intent to commit bodily injury and assault with intent to kill were returned against thirty-two members of the teamsters' union and sympathizers with that organization, who have at different times participated in the f rioting incident to the teamsters' strike. The jury also submitted a long and scathing /eport dealing with * the labor conditions in Chicago. Fbl- . lowing are extracts from the report: "That the city of Chicago for years past has been infested with moral lepers who have preyed upon its financial and social strength is known to most informed citisens. That reputable business men and reputable citizens employed in all fields of labor have been subjects of blackmail, and the greed of these vampires is also a well known fact. "The present grand jury has had laid before it facts and conditions so convincine and nositive alone these lines that it feels in duty bound to report to the court and -public the situation as it has been given them . by witnesses, some of whom at least -were brazen enough to flaunt not only flagrant acts of the moral turpitude of others in the faces of this / body, but who, with an air of great gless, told of their own debauches and criminal acts and methods." china will stop boycott. Agreement Reached to Amicably Adjust Serious Situation. The Chinese government has taken steps to stop the anti-American agitation and boycott against American goods. Minister Rockhill at Pekin cabled the state department at Washington Saturday that after repeated and urgent representations from the American legation orders have been issued from the Chinese foreign office to all viceroys and governors in the empire to cease anti-American agitation and attempted boycott against American goods. resorting to martial law. Russian Government Trying Hard to Quell Blcody Disorders. A St. Petersburg special of Friday says: Martial law has been proclaimed in the governments of Sebastopol, Nicholaieff and Erivan. An imperial order confers on the viceroy of the Caucasus the rights of a military commander of the Black sea fleet in the districts of Sebastcv pol and Nicholaieff.