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A WELCOMED FROST i Brings Joy and Hope to Fever Stricken States % FELL IN MANY SECTIONS * Temperature Varies from Snow in ; Pennsylvania to 43 Degrees in Georgia?Quarantine May Be Lifted at Many Points. V The weather bureau at Washington ^ issued the following bulletin Thursday morning: "The frost line ex: ends this morning into the northern portions of the *;?ulf states, while heavy and some ..killing frosts occurred in the Ohio valey and in the Mississippi valley as ^iar north as Memphis." Sncw in Pennsylvania, i ;The first snow of the season was reported Thursday from various parts of western Pennsylvania. An inch cf , snow fell in the mountains and ai .'Greenville, Pa. Snow fell for five hours, causing hundreds of trees to v, * s ' break. Train Inspection Curtailed. Heavy frosts have prevailed in Tennessee. North Mississippi and Arkansas. Dr. Albright cf the state board of health said that he would immediately issue orders curtailing the train inspection service in the more northerly parts of Tennessee. Earliest Frost at Jackson. A good sized frost was visible in Jackson, Miss., and surrounding country Thursday morning. This is the earliest date on which frost has appeared in several years, and it means 4 an early lifting of the quarantines. The Mobile, Ala., weather bureau )?. has received reports of light frost from places in Mississippi and Alabama as far south as Jackson, Ala., and Waynesboro, Miss, and Thomas vine, orcu ? lie laiuci piavc w? heavy deposit with a temperature of 43. Lake, Miss, repo.ts a killing frost with a temperature of 36. Last year the first frost to occur as far south as Waynesboro occurred on October 21. Will Lift Quarantines. A Birmingham dispatch says: There was a heavy frost all over north Alabama Thursday night. Cool weather continues, and it is expected that quarantines will be raised at once. Because Chattanooga had a heavy frost the board of health has withdrawn all inspectors and guards from trains entering the city. Joy Reigns in New Orleans. A New Orleans special sa\\s: Still colder weather, the mercury going to 58 <at New Orleans and under 40 in many ethers parts cf the si ate, with frost in the middle section of the state, Thursday increased the probability of , the early extinction of yellow fever throughout Louisiana and Mississippi, the two states which, have been infected since August last. In both states conditions are considered to be of the brightest and with fear practically passed and people generally utterly tired of the restrictions put upon travel, it is anticipated that the era of quarantine will soon be - over. YE PURSE-POOR EDITORS. i _ : Burlesque Demonstration as to How Immigrants Are Admitted. Members of the Chicago Press Club * visited Ellis Island New York, on Thursday, where they were given a realistic demonstration of how immi1 gr?.nfs are inspected before being allowed to enter this country. Each guest was labeled with a tag like a real immigrant just arrived from Europe .and was subjects to the regular examination for admission. Two St the newspaper men were declared Ineligible to land and become American citizens. They did not have enough mony to assure the inspectors that they would not become public charges. PROMINENT NEGRO A CONVICT. Ex Congressman Murray of South Car. olina Must Serve Term. * George W. Murray, colored, a former member of congress, was sentenced at Columbia, S. C., Wednesday. to serve three years in the penitentiary for forgery. Murray, who i3 reported to be quite wealthy, was charged with forging the name of an old negro on certain notes for land. At the time of his arrest Murray was released on $3,000 bond, which it is thought will be forfeited. * pensacola fever situation. Eleven Cases Reported for Saturday and Only One Death. The yellow fever summary for ?enCo?iifr!!iv Tvnc: ?s follows: NOW oavv:'L ,:i ?. u ? ? cases 11. total oases .194. deaths 1. total deaths 53. "cases discharged 161, cases uncle;- treatment 181. The decrease in the number of oases has caused much satisfaction in the city and .'State Health Officer Porter stated that he felt much encouraged, 4 9 'EVANGELIST DENOUNCED ! i I Rev. Stuart Defames Methodist Divines and is Called Down Hard l and Heavy by Bishop Hoss. ! j A stormy session of the Holston i conference of the Methodist Episcocal cnurch, south, in session at Bristol, Tenn., was brought to an abrupt endI ing Saturday afternoon by a well ! known minister of the conference i openly denouncing as false certain j statements made by Evangelist George J R. Stuart, in an animated speech in j which he scathingly arraigned a prom! met bishop of the church and his cabj inet. ! Rev. Mr. Stuart w*s expressing his ! sentiment of ministers who are addicted to the tobacco habit, and referred to ihe bishop and his cabinet having occupied a room at a home j where they were recently entertained, and the lady of the house, 'showing him the room after they had gone, which, he said, ''was in such a bad condition from the use of tobacco that it was necessary to take the carpets up and repaper the room. "The room looked as though it had been occupied by hogs rather than men and I tell you. brethren, this is a disgrace to the church and your calling. This lady told me she would I onrtthor hishftn and ! litfVCI cuici Laia auv-'.v.. r his conference, and I don't blame her." He threw hot shot into the use of the leading stimulant at soda fountains as a beverage, which, he says, is a curse to our young men and is debauching their mental and moral natures, besides undermining their health and rendering them unfit for the responsible positions of life. He then offered a resolution recommending the prohibition party in Tennessee for temperance legislation, which was finally passed by a majority of three votes. The address of Rev. Stuart provoked a heated reply from Bishop Hoss, of Nashville, who was presiding. Rising to his feet in a passionate speech, the bishop resented the remarks of Rev. Stuart on a bishop of the church, and he said he was ciean himself and a gentleman and knew his colleagues were also clean and up to a high standard of morals. He declared the clause of the resolution referring to political parties was improper and also the one referring to the soda fountain beverage, as he didn't believe tbey could be established by cold facts. The assembly became confused and numbers were trying to speak when a hurried motion was made and carried to adjourn. NEW ORLEANS FEVER REPORT. Nineteen Cases Saturday's Record. Quarantines to Be Lifted. The official report in New Orleans Saturday was as follows: New cases 19, total cases to date 3,305, deaths 5, total deaths to date 428, cases under treatment 156, cases discharged 2,721. The remarkable feature of the report is that only seven of the new cases are celow Canal street and eight above, which is the first time since the fever started that the preponderance has been uptown. Sunday's report showed only nine new cases and three deaths. Many of the parishes have agreed to raise the quarantines immediately. Ten positive answers have been received. The opening up of Baton Rouge has resulted in a rush to that town. Reports from the country were very I light. The reporfs from Mississippi were: Vicksburg, one new case; Natchez, rhree new cases; Port Gibson, three new cases, one death; Gulfport, one new case. PORTLAND FAIR CLOSES. Attendance During the Exposition Showed Grand Total of 2,545,509. When the gates of the Lewis and Clark exposition closed at Portland, Oregon, at 1 o'clock Sunday morning, a total attendance of 56,960 for the day had been registered, making the gran.-] total for the entire fair period 2.345.509. ESTABLISH "JIM CROW" SCHOOL. Race Row Over Drawing of Color Line in the Quaker State.. The board of education of McMahon borough, a suburb of Monessen, Pa., has stirred up much ill feeling beI tween the white and colored citizens by establishing a jim crow school. The Afro-American republican league went into the county court at Greensburg and secured a writ of mandamus against the school board, compelling u to show cause why negro children should not be permilfctd to attend the public schools. TWO SLAIN IN A FEUD. ! Long Standing Family Quarrel Terml'nates in a Deadly Duel. George and Edward Carter were killed and several others were injured Friday night at Moultrie, Fla., after a dance, as a result of a feud between the Os'eens and Carters. The feud began several weeks ago with a fist fight between members of the two families. KILLED IN MUTINY | Five Officers of a Schooner Killed by i hree Negroes, ! MURDERERS IN CHAINS i Vessel Put in at Southport, N. C., in Charge of Prize Crew?Deadly Quarrel Arose Over Breakfast Coffee. The schooner Blanche II. King, CapI ~ | tain J. W. Taylor, Brunswick, Ga., I September 23 for Philadelphia, put in i I at Southport. X. C., "Wednesday afteri noon, bringing in irons three negroes, | all that remained of the crew of the ! four-masied schooner Harrv A. Beri j wind, Captain. Rumill, from Mobile, j September 23, to Philadelphia. The ; captain, mate, cook and an engineer | who did the hoisting aboard having | been murdered in a mutiny at sea and j their bodies thrown overboard. ! | The body of a fourth negro of the j crew was iounu jymg uu uixk, ucit I he. too, had evidently been murdered. | Captain Taylor of the schooner I King sighted the Berwind early Wedi nesday morning, about 30 miles off I Cape Fear bar and was attracted to I her by the manner in which she was ; being steered, having several times { come close to running down the King, j A near approach 10 the Berwind showj ed that' she had been practically aban: dcned. Captain Taylor and crew ! boarded the vessel and placed the ; three negroes in irons, bringing the | two vessels off the b3r, when one of | them was towed in by Wilmington ! tugs, which later went out after ; other schooner, a gale prevailing on 1 the outside. j The Berwind being from a territory ; against wmcn soumpori js> iiuaiaui.u. ; ed for yellow fever, the three negroes in irons are held at quarantine until arrangements can be made for theft detention by the federal authorities. It develops from the stories of the negroes brought in irons by the King i that the mutiny arose as the result of I a quarrel aboard ship early Tuesday morning, about some coffee that was I being brewed for breakfast.. The i King was signaled by the Berwind 30 i miles east of Frying Pan lightship, ; and in response to a signal Captain ! Taylor sent his mate, the engineer 1 and others to board the Berwind. The I decks of the schooner were crimson | with blood, giving evidence of a fierce j encounter. The berth of the mate was j spotted with blood, indicating that j he was butchered in bed. After the boarding party from the j King handcuffed the mutineers on the , ship cne of the negroes complained J that the irons were too tight and : hurt him. When one of the boarding i crew loosened the bracelet on the ne' gro's arm. the captive whipped out j a pistol and shot one of his crew, the ; presumption being that the man killed 1 ? ? -? " - >- - trt naa sjgnaiea me xvms a^aiuai ut i wishes of the three others.' The total list of hilled is four whites and one negro, the names of none of whom can be learned. The King left a prize crew aboard the Berwind, which is still off the bar, and United States Commissioner P. Collier and Deputy Marshal C. 0. Cox will take charge of the captives. ! NEGRO VETERAN PASSES AWAY. j Amos Rucker Yields to Grim Reap, er at His Home in Atlanta. | Amos Rucker, a faithful and patrij otic old antebellum colored man, died I in Atlanta Wednesday. Possibly no j negro was more widely known and ! more warmly esteemed, especially by j the remaining few of the old confedj erafe veteran heroes. He did service during the civil war j in the Thirty-third Georgia regiment, | and since the war h..s been living in j Atlanta. There has never been a con! federate reunion to which he did not I go, no matter how far the distance. | ODD COUNTS AGAINST PACKERS. I , Judge Humphrey of Federal Court Forecast His Decision. ; The hearing of the arguments on | the demurrers to the indictment returned by the federal grand jury at I Chicago against five of the big pack1 ing concerns and seventeen of their j employees was closed Wednesday afj ternocn, and if Judge Humphrey, rei tains his present impression of the | ease half of the indictments, charging the packers with conspiracy in re I straint of trade, will be sustained ! and the remaining counts overruled. j j SAD FATE OF POOR DUKE. j | Nicholas Punishes Cyril for Marrying Divorced Woman. The Official Messenger at St. Petersj burg Monday published an imperial ! ukase dated Oc tober 15th, dismissing j Grand Duke Cyril from the service j because of his recent marriage to the ! Princess Victoria, the divorced wife of i the grand duke of Hesse. The decree also deprives the grand duke of his decorations. | RAWLINGS CONFESSES. ! : Says He Hired Aif Moore to Kill the | Carters and Attempts to Clear Sons of All Biarr.e. II A considerable sensation was crcar- : | ed in Valdosta, Georgia. Monday, | by the confess.on of J. G. Rawiiugs, in which he acknowledged thai he hired the condemned accomplice, a if Vioore. to kili W. L. Carter. , - * } Rawlings attempts to ciear his sons of complicity in the assassination ot' the Carter children last June, and J while he r dmits hiring Alt' Moore to put old in jr. Carter out of the way, lie still contends that neither one of his sons was present or had anything to do with the tragedy. It has been rumored for several days that the elder Rawlings content plated confessing his part in the crime, j and once or twice in conversation with j | visitors to the jail he was trapped j into alleged incriminating admissions. His action Monday, however, was en j tirely voluntary, unless it be that he J was persuaded to the course by his wife, who, it has been freely stated, came to sen him- for the purpose oc trying to ?et him to shoulder the responsibility for the assassinations and try to save his sons from the gallows. Rawlings sent word to Sheriff Passmore that he wanted to make a statement. and asked the officer to come r.p to the tail and- bring two or three c-pr.rlemen wirJi him. The sheriff?did | so. and ihe confess'on was made in the presence of that officer. Orrin Register. Tube Swindle and a newspaper | reporter. The condemned man. talked j for more than half an hou!\ and start- i ed cut with a history of his trouble with Carter. He said that the deal with Alf Moore to kill Carter was made j through Joe Bently, a negro, who was ! trlej for complicity In the affair, but who came clear. He stated that Moore was given positive instructions not to h2rm the children of the Carter home; the?, murder was not a part of the program, and came about, so Rawlings says Alf Moore told Bentley, because the little Carter boy ran inbo the yard with his rifle, Moore claiming that he shot him in self derense. Rawlings stated that the negro, Moore, went to Carter's home on the afternoon before the children were assassinated that night, with the intontinn nf killing him. but Carter re- j fused to come out of the honse when Moore hailed at the gate. Moore went to the little house in the field, as stated in the recent trial, where he stayed until night, and where Rawlings carried him dinner and supper. A dramatic scene was presented in the jail as the elder Rawlings proceeded with his story. He wept bitterly as he detailed the story of the : crime. "Now, gentlemen," said Rawlings, j "if I have not told you the truth j hope I may never >ive to get out of j this chair." "Who helped Mcore to do the kill- ' ing?" he was asked. "Nobody: he was by himself, and [ he never thought of bringing my boys j into it until after they were arrest- ' ed." Rawlings is an adroit talker and | his statement was delivered wrh j much feeling. It left many things coil \ neeted with the crime unexplained, j During the recital the older son, Milton. who was in the adjoining cell, never uttered a word. BALL PLAYERS WELL REWARDED Philadelphia Athletics Wi" Share in Handsome Amount. As a reward for winning the American League baseball championship pennant the eighteen players of the j Philadelphia club have been presented ' by President Shibe of that club with I ! S-9.131.49. to be divided equally among j j the men. This is the amount of the I Philadelphia club's portion tof the re{ ceipts for the first four games of the j world's championship series with the j New York 'National League club. The Philadelphia players also received $(>,S49.4G as their portion of the receipts cf the world's series allotted to th?m bv the national commission NEW YORKERS CHAMPIONS. World's Professional Baseball Belt Taken in Easy Fashion. Amid the frenziecr plaudits of more than 24,000 baseball enthusiasts, the New York National League champions won the world's professional baseball championship on the Polo grounds in New York city Saturday by defeating the Philadelphia American League team in the fifrh g--.me cf the postseason series by t.h<-? score of 2 to 0. Of the four previous games New York had won three and Philadelphia one. JUDGE MUST VACATE 3ENCH. Forced Citizens of Town in Arizona to Give Him a Heme. Associate Justice Tucker cf the teri r.tanal supreme court of Arizona, has J been requested to resign. Several months ago charges were preferred against him involving his personal conduct as a member of the territorial judiciary. These different charges were presented to the president, and were referred by him to th depart* meat of justice for investigation. SPEEfToMlJLED | i By Decision of High Court in . Noted Chain-Gang Case. . 1 h/a nnmiT 10 011CT A I M CH i inu ruiiMi 10 ouoittinLLT! Had Court Sustained Jurist Every Chain Gang Prisoner in State of j Georgia Could Have Secured Liberty. A Wasaington dispatch says: The j well known Wimbish-Jamison case, ; I from Macon, Ga., was decided in the [ supreme court Monday. The action of j Judge Emmy Speer of the southern ; federal district of Georgia, was re versed an i the case remanded. The effect of this is to uphoid me record ers court (.1 Macon. E. A. Wimo.su ;s superintendent cf the Bibb county cnaingaug. Tms is the case in whicn United Staies Judge cpeor interfered with the sentence of a prisoner, Jamison, a colored man, by a recorder's court of Macon, to worK on the streets. The opinion of the court, rendered I one week from the day of argument, was the occasion of some surprise, it was contained in a few words only, nnrj nftntMrv tn t'np UClial niSmm. WjiS UiiU \s\SliLi U1 tv IUV , not even reduced to writing. Henry Jamison was arrested 0:1 March 13, 1904, on a charge of being drunk and disorderly, and being tried befor e the recorder of the city of Macon, plead guilty and on two counts was senteiced to pay a fine of $60 or be committed to the county chaingang for 1*10- days. Four days later the prisoner, instead of taking advantage of the usual remedies under the state laws, presented a petition for a writ of habeas corpus cum causa to Judge Speer of the federal court, alleging that his arrest and punishment were illegal, because they were "Without due process of law," and because he was subject "to infamous punishment in violation of the constitution of the United States." The case was finally argued in June, 1904, and Judge Speer, after having it under advisement for a week, ordered the discharge of Jamison, holding, among other things, that "Jamison was detained of his liberty and subjected to infamous punishment without due process of law." "Besides," the judge ruled, "the sentence against him is void, void for want of due process of law and void because one man cannot adjudge in- j famy.'' The contentions of Wimbish, the respondent in the lower court, were in part *as follows. "That Jamison should be remanded I to nis custody as superintendent or the chaingang, and should not be discharged upon a writ of habeas corpus, for the reason that he held him under a sentence from a police court of summary powers, with jurisdiction over the oerson and the offense, as provided' by the law of the state. "That the case did not imperatively demand Jamison's release by writ of habeas corpus." The case involving the determination of a i:'ght claimed under the constitution of the United States, it was appealed to th^ federal supreme court, with the result already stated. The decision quashes the writ of habeas corpus and dismisses the petition. Had Judge Speer been upheld, a federal district judge would have been given the iower to release every person confined at hard labor under the processes of state courts, and the rule that punishment by hard labor is infamous punishment, contrary ^o the fifth amendment to the constitution, would have been established. COWHfDING AT THE TRIAL, Sensation Grows Out of Murder%Case J at St. Augustine, F!a. The preliminary trials of the four OiSteen brothers, accused of the murder of Ge>rge and Edward Carter, at Moultrie, Fla., was held in St. Augustine Monday.' Judge Mackay decided to hold all .he defendants under $1,000 bond each to answ- such indictments as may be found r the November term of the circuit court. The fifth brother, James Osteen, has not yet been captured. A sensational affair grew out of the trial shortly after the court adjourned at noon. Louis Miccler of Diego at tacked and severely cowhided Perry Greene of Moultrie Defore the affair was stopped by outsiders. It was said that Mickler had been bitter against Green for years on account of an. insuiting letter Green is alleged to have ' written to his wife. The two attended I the trial and the cowhiding followed, j I SWEDEN LOSES NORWAY. Act Dissolving the Union is Passed ! , at Stockholm. j , The unicn between Norway and i < Sweden, existing since 1S14, has been j j dissolved, both houses of ihe riksdag j f at Stockholm having passed the government bill repealing the act of unio.i ! ; and recognizing Norway as a state, j t "separate fiom the union with Swe- j ; den." j; A MONOPOLY MUZZLED. Amount is Shown in Indictments j D?*awn by Government ? Checks and Telegrams Exhibited as Evidence. * ' In the Fulton county superior court ,, at Atlanta. Friday, Judge John T. Pendleton made it emphatically and pronouncedly plain to the parties at interest and to those who were with in the court room at the time ne delivered his decision, that a competition in the baggage and transfer business at the Atlanta Terminal station was not within legal bounds, but that it was part of the common property of the general traveling public. It was in rendering his decision in the injunction case brought by the American Baggage and Transfer company against the Atlanta Terminal station and the Atlanta Baggage and Cab company, th-it Judge Pendleton so expressed his judicial views. But immediately after Judge Pendle- % ton's decree, a decree which was within itself a decided and pronounced victory for the people against what has been termed a monopoly, attorneys for the defendants, the At- - ^ lanta Terminal company and the Atlanta Baggage and Cab company, were Jg ^ranted a supersedeas, and it is now up to the state supreme court to give iji a final legal construction to the controversy between the plaintiff and the -Jm defendants. The controversy arose over a con- 3S9M tract between the Atlanta Terminal Station company and the Atlanta Ba^ ^ gage and Cab company, whioh gave ||| the latter corporation the exclusive Jjj privilege of checking baggage within ..||| the terminal station for its patrons, -jgfl which the Atlanta Baggage and C^b >1gg| company could, to the exclusion of any ether company or in-dividual, j&: claim baggage coming into the city. fjjffl Under the contract the vehicles of the Atlanta Baggage and Cab companv had a right to "stands" or "po- | sition" denied vehicles owned byoth er companies or individuals whether the "stands" were occupied or not . by one of the Atlanta Baggage and ; J8| Cab company's vehicles. It was upon these alleged wrongs that the American Baggage and Trans* -4|3 fer company, a corporation claiming ||ffl to be fully and completely equipped to receive, and to deliver baggage and people, either at the Terminal station or at any*point in the city, went into court seeking equal rights with its * 3 competitor, the Atlanta Baggage and j|g Cab company. SIR HENRY IRVING DEAD. Sudden Demise of World Renowned .v||h Actor Occurs in London. A London special i*iys: The English speaking v.Torld has suffered an irre-v ^ parable loss by the sudden death Fri- " day night of Sir Henry Irving, who : was universally regarded as the most ' representative English actor of con- M temporary times. > Sir Henry died literally in harness, j|8 as death came to him but a few hours after giving a performance at Brad- ^9: TWENTY-NINE NEW CASE$, --'JS Yellow Scourge Continues on the In- i crease at Pensacola. The summary of pillow fever cases New cases 29, total cases 383, deaths in Pensacola Friday was as follows: Friday 5. total deaths to date 58, under treatment 186, discharged 145. . . While the day showed an increase .. in the number of new cases, and also ids the death rate was increased, the au* thorities remain hopeful. BANKERS FINISH THEIR WORK. ||8 Adjourned at Washington With ths Election of Annual Officers. ; The thirty-first annual convention of the American Bankers' Association ended at Washington Friday with th? election of officers. It stands on record as having been the largest attended and most successful from a business st?ndpoint in the history of the h association. * WRIGHT TO RESIGN POST. % Teanesseean Dissatisfied With His Job i'M in the Philippines. A Washington special says: By rea- fpfl son of what appears to be dissatisfaction with the situation in the Philipnina? t .nvp r. Wrieht governor een- ^?0 eral of the Philippines and president -^jpM of the Philippine commission, will retire from that position about the | 1st of December. President Roosevelt and Secretary '^0 Taft, it is believed, have practically decided upon his successor. FOOD CONTRACT ANNULLED. Panama Canal Commission Tumi v|| Down Markel & Co. The last action of the Panama canal commission, before sailing from Coion to New York, Wednesday, was ,tr|S ihe annulment of the contract awarded to J. E. Markel of Omaha, Neb., "or feeding and caring for the em- ' ?loyees of the canal. The reason for this action is that J&M ?hief Engineer Stevens is 'handling v|| he commissaries successfully, render- Jgj ng unnecessary the arrangement with ^ vlr. Markel. ' i'