The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, March 15, 1906, Image 3
OKLAHOMA STATE
Calls for a New Star to Be. i
Placed bn the Flag.
SFNATE VOTES ADMISSION
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Oklahoma and Indian Territories Obliterated?Arizona
and New Mex
1 ico Will Vote on the Question
of Statehood.
At 5:35 o'clock Friday afternoon the j
senate passed a bill for the admission
of a new state to be called Oklahoma,
and to be composed of the |
territory of Oklahoma and Indian Tor- |
ritorv. It was the house joint state- i
hood bill with all the provisions re- |
latins to Arizona and New Mexico j
stricken out The motion to strike j
out was made by Mr. Burrows, and
it was carried by the close vote of |
37 to 35, after having been lost in j
. committee of the whole by the still !
closer vote of 35 to 30.
The final vote on Mr. Burrows' motion
was as follows:
Yeas ? Alger, Bacon, Blackburn, I
Bulkey, Burrows, Carfer, Clark of
Montana, Clay, Culberson, Daniel, Du
Boise, Flint, Foraker, Fester, Frazier,
Gallinger, Gearin, Hansborougli, Hepburn,
Latimer, McCreary, Mallory,
Martin, Morgan, Newlands, Overman,
Patterson, Perkins, Pettus, Rainey,
Scctt. Simmons, Spooner, Stone, Taliaferro,
Teller, Tillman?37.
Nays?Allee, Allison, Ankeny, Bev.
eridge, Brandegee, Burnham, Clafcp,
* Cmrk of Wyoming, Crane, Collum,
Dick, Dillingham, \Dolliver, iDryden,
Fulton, Gamble, &ale, Hemenway,
f Hopkins, Kean, Knox, LaFollette,
Lodge, Long, McCumber, Millard, Nelson,
Nixon, Penrose, Pile, Proctor,
Smoot, Sutherland, Warner, Wetmore
?35.
The test point upon which the opponents
of joint statehood showed
their greatest strength was on the
Foraker amendment, which provided
that Arizona and New Mjexico should
have an opportunity to vote separately
on the proposition of joint statehood.
This was carried by 42 to 29.
Provisions of the Bill.
As amended by the senate, the bill
provides for the creation of the state
of Oklahoma, out of Oklahoma and
Indian Territory. The state is allowed
the usual quota of executive, judicial
and legislative officers, two United
States senators and five members or
the national house of representatives.
A constitutional convention, with 110
members, 55 cf which are to be chosen
by each cf the territories compris>
ing the state, is provided for, and all
male citizens, cr male Indians, 21
years of age, are made eligible for
membership in it. There is an especial
provision protecting the Indians
in their rights and continues
the prerogative of the national government
to control their affairs.
^ The sale cf intoxicating liquors in
what is now Indian,Territory is prohibited
for twenty-one years and
longer, unless the constitution is
changed. Sections 16 and 36 of each
township of land in Oklahoma are set
aside for the benefit of the common
school system, as is also five per cent
of the proceeds of the sale of public
lands. There is an appropriation of
$5,000,000 from the national treasury
"* for the benefit of the schools.
Provision is made for the support
of diigher education and charitable institutions.
Two district or United
States courts, cne in Oklahoma and
the other in Indian Territory, are provided
for. Guthrie is made the temporary
seat of government, but the
house provision, continuing it in that
capacity until 1913, was eliminated.
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INSURANCE OFICIALS HEARD.
Give Their Views on Bills Now Before
New York Legislature.
For many hours Friday until nearly
midnight the joint special legislative
insurance investigating committee
at Albany, N. Y., listened to arguments
of insurance presidents, actuaries
and agents, against some of
the provisions of the bills amending
the state insurance law.
FARMERS. TO POOL CROPS.
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Kentucky Legislature Passes Bill to
Aid Tobacco Growers.
1 The Kentucky house has passed the
senate bill allowing farmers to pool
their crops and hold them for higher
prices. The main purpose for which
the hill was introduced was to allow
Kentucky tobaicco growers to combine
and secure satisfactory prices for leaf
tobacco, something they allege they
are at present unable to do on account
cf the workings of the so-called
"tobacco trust."
BRITONS WANT GEORGIA LANDS.
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English Syndicate May Secure Dodge
Holdings.
A gentleman in position to know,
who has for several years been connected
with the land interests of Norman
W. Dodge in Laurens, Montgomery
and Dodge counties, Georgia,
* states that a large syndicate of Englishmen
is now negotiating with Mr.
lodge for the purchase of about 150,000
acres of land in that section of
Gesrgia. ' The syndicate represents
English cotton mill men.
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WOMAN SLAYS HER SISTER
Effectively Breaks Up Sinful Alliance
Between Husband snd Her Victim
With Six Revolver Bullets.
Maddened with uncontrollable jealousy,
Mrs. Willie Standifer, wife of
Edward Marion. Standifer, Gf 203 West
Alexander stieet, Atlanta, shot to
death Miss Chapell Whisenant, her
youngest sister, at the home of D. P.
Durham, her brother-in-law, 261 South
Boulevard Friday morning.
The two sisters were alone in a
bedroom. The wife had been pleading
with the girl to remain away
from the husband. The girl was scornful.
The infuriated woman drew a
pistol and fired six shots. The firsl
crashed into the mirror of the dresser
the second struck the girl in the facs
ort/1 ehd thrPTu hftrsplf iinnn ft InnnftC
and tried to shield herself with a pillow.
Determined that only deatS
could satisfy her, the woman lifted the
girl's arm and fired four shots into hei
breast.
Two hours after the tragedy Mrs,
Standifer went with her husband to
the police barracks and told of the
killing. Both she and her husband
were held as prisoners.
The affair is one of the most
shocking that has occurred in the
city in many years. Mrs. Standifer
is 24 years of age and the mother of
a little boy 20 months old. The dead
girl was only 17. Standifer and his
wife were married three years ago in
Alabama. He became infatuated with
his pretty young sister-in-law. The
wife suspected the couple, and a few
months ago her suspicions became so
st'ong that she went to her young
sister and upbraided her.
Thursday evening about 6 o'clock
Standifer hired a carriage and he and
Miss Whisenant took a ride. They
were together until nearly midnight.
Mrs. Standifer, always suspicious, ascertained
by telephoning that her husband
was net at work. She went to
Durham's home and waited until nearly
midnight for the couple. She had
been gone only fifteen minutes when
they drove up in a carriage and the
girl got out. Mrs. Standifer had a
pistol at that time, and it is believed
she meant to kill both sister and
husband.
About 1 o'clock Friday morning
Mrs. Standifer, who had reached her
own home, called up Mr. Durham over
the telephone and asked if her sister
had returned. When told that the
girl was there she said: "Let me
speak to her."
The girl held a conversation over
the phone with Mrs. Standifer and
the former was asked to go at once
to the Standifer heme, but it was too
late. Mrs. Standifer closed the conversation
with the remark: "Well, 1
will see you in the morning."
And she saw her. She went to the
Durham home with a pistol holding
six bullets and she used every one oi
them.
The dead girl was to have beer
married within a week to J. E. Sitton
of Seneca, S. C-, to whom she had
been engaged for some months.
Marion Standifer brazenly admitted
that he had loved Miss Whisenant,
but swore that his affection for hei
was platonic; that he loved her, but
that it was a pure love.
AN ADMINISTRATION DEFEAT
Results from Final Disposition of th?
Statehood Bill in Senate.
The first open clash between President
Roosevelt and the senate resulted
in a distinct defeat for the administration.
(Not only did the sen
ate adopt the Foraker referendum
amendment to the statehood bill
against *the strenuous opposition oJ
the administration forces led by Sen
ator Beveridge, and in the face oi
what Senator McCurnber pronounceO
the most vigorous lashing of whicb
he had ever known, but on top of this
defeat the senate proceeded to administer
another by adopting the Burrows
amendment striking from the
bill all mention of Arizona and New
Mexico.
HOUSE IS FOR TWO STATES.
Senate's Elimination of Arizona and
New Mexico Cannot Stand.
The statehood question will not be
taken up by the house until the return
of the members of the river and harbors
committee who are making a trip
of inspection throughout the south.
House leaders who represent the administration
view of the statehood
problem are positive that the houic
will not concur in the amendment of
the senate eliminating Arizona and
New Mexico from the bill.
RIOTERS FOUND GUILTY.
Eight Men to Be Punished for Hanging
Negroes in Ohio.
The jury in the riot cases at
Springfield, umo, iouna eigm young
men guilty of rioting as follows: Harry
Garber, John Plerpont, George Epprecht,
Carl Kloehfer, Glen Johnson.
Frank Young, Carl Wise and Kemp
Reeder.
Leniency was recommended, and
the court was asked not to impose
a work house sentence. None of these
found guilty is over 25 years of age.
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MORO HOST SLAIN!
,
Six Hundred Killed in Battle
with Philippine Troops.
FIFTEEN SOLDIERS KILLED
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Besides the Dead, Thirty-Six Americans
Are Wounded?Fight Occurred
on Mountain Top and Was
Desperate Encounter.A
Manila dispatch says: An important
action between American forces
and hostile Moros has taken place
L near Jolo. Fifteen enlisted men were
- killed, four commissioned officers and
. thirty enlisted men were wounded and
, a naval contingent operating with the
military sustained thirty-two casualties.
The Moros lost 600 men killed.
The attack was made under the
i most hazardous circumstances. Start.
inly early in the afternoon of "March
6, the assailants climbed for a distance
of 2.100 feet up a lava cone,
the thickly wooded ridges of which
furnished the only foothold. The last
i 500 feet of the ascent was at an angle
: of 60 degrees, and the last fifty feet
almost perpendicular. At the top
were 600 fanatical Moros armed
with rifles and knives and supporti
ed by native artillery. The fortified
crater was almost invisible and seem!
ingly inaccessible. At the word of
command the troops rushed into the
crater and a hand to hand encounter
followed.
Major General Leonard Wood, commander
of the division of the Philippines,
reports as follows from Jolo,
capital of the Sulu Islands:
"A severe action between troops, a
naval detachment and constabulary
and hostile Moros has taken place
at Mount Dajo, near Jolo. The engagement
opened during the afternoon
of March 6 and ended in the
morning of March 8. The action involved
the capture of Mount Dajo, a
lava cone, 2,100 feetvhigh, with a crater
at its summit and extremely steep.
The last 400 feet were at an angle of
60 degrees and there were fifty per>
nendicular ridges covered with a
, growth of timber and strongly fortified
and defended by an invisible force
of Moros.
"The army casualties were fifteen
: delisted men killed, four commission'
ed officers and thirty enlisted men
wounded.
"Colonel Joseph W. Duncan of the
sixth infantry directed the operations,
s All the defenders of the Moro strongholds
were killed. Six hundred bod'
ies were found on the field.
I "The action resulted in the extermi
nation of a band of outlaws, who, reci
ognizing no chief, had been raiding
friendly Moros and owing to their de[
fiance of the American authorities
had stirred up a dangerous condition
; of affairs.
; "The artillery was lifted by block
! and tackle a distance of 300 feet into
a position on the lip of the crater,
i "Brigadier General Bliss and my
self were present throughout the ac1
tion.
"The officers and men engaged highly
commend the Moro constabulary,
who did excellent work, their casualties
numbering seventeen out of the
force of forty-five engaged.
"It is impossible to conceive a
stronger natural position than that attacked."
Some of the army officers in Wash
i ington, who have served In the Jolo
group, aay that Mount Dajo, the
scene of the action, is located about
14 miles from Jolo, the capital of the
island. Moro Goto is on the very
' top of the mountain. Once before the
garrison of natives was induced to
vacate the place by the exercise of
[ diplomacy, but heretofore no force
; has been able to capture it. The sixth
. infantry, which seems to have borne
> the brunt of the fighting,- was from
I Fort Leavenworth, and has been in
l the -Philippines about a year. The
. officers of the general staff fully ac.
quainted with the habits of the Mo.
ros say they have not the slightest
i fear 'that the Moros will try to re.
taliate for the crushing defeat administered
to them.
ITALIAN WOMAN ESCAPES NOOSE
I Sentence of Mrs. Tolla Commuted to
Term of Imprisonment.
. The sentence of death upon Mrs.
Antoinette Tolla, the Bergen county,
N. J., murderess, for the killing of
, Joseph Sonta, has been commuted to
seven and one-half years' imprisonment
by the court of pardons at TrenI
ton. The vote stood six to two. Mrs.
: Tolla was tc have been hanged in
; Hackensack on Monday, March 12.
I This is the first time the court of
pardons has commuted death sentences
to other than life imprisonment.
SLEW WIFE AND SUICIDED.
Double Tragedy Enacted in Albany,
Ga., by M. L. Cohen.
j M. L. Cohen, a Hebrew, at an early
uou; XliUiOUdV lliUl lllliij, Cll LCI 1CIUing
with his wife at a house on Mar,
ket street, Augusta, Ga., secured a
gun, shot his wife and (then himself.
He died instantly. The woman never
regained consciousness, and died a
short while afterwards. They were
married only six weeks ago.
| HELD IN NEGRO DIVES. "
' A A4A..miJ r> 4. ^ ^ A/ f??J
i-vi IU u i IU 111y oitiic u[ /Aiicud ncvcoiN
in New Yorks Tenderloin
District.
A New York dispatch says: Representatives
of the district attorney's
office went into the tenderloin Friday
night and raided a flat in West Thirtieth
street, as a preliminary step, it
was said, in a campaign against a
band of negroes whom the district attorney
has been investigating for four
months.
Important, information about them
came finally from the arrest and trial
of Berthe Claiche, who killed a man
toward whose support she alleged she
had been compelled to contribute. The
raid followed an indictment by the
grand jury on three counts against
Robert H. Spriggs, a tenderloin negro,
who was arrested immediately.
The police claim that there exists
a syndicate of resorts patronized by
negro men, an dwhere white women
are forcibly detained.
One case, it is said, has beerbrought
to light of an unusually attractive
girl being kept in one of these
places for more than three years. Assistant
District Attorney Garven intimated
that the ruid would be followed
by others.
"This is only the beginning of this
mess," He said. "facts wnicn nave
been given to this office show an appalling
condition of affairs."
It is astounding; Mr. Jerome has
the facts upon which to base sweeping
action, and he is going to move
quickly and effectively. He will
stamp out this in a hurry."
RACE RIOT IN ALABAMA.
Trouble Breaks Out at Wilmer, a
Small Lumber Town.
Sheriff Powers at Mobile, Ala., re
ceived a telegram Saturday stating
that there was a race war in progress
at Wilmer, a small lumber town, 24
miles west of Mobile, and that several
whites and blacks had been killed.
The trouble commenced through an
unknown negro shooting into houses'
of white employees of A. V. Pringle,
the largest turpentine operator at
Wilmer.
Sheriff Powers and four deputies
left at once for the scene of the trouble,
and returned Sunday night with
four negroes, who are charged with
being implicated in the attack.
kill jews and hang witte
Is Advice Given by Reactionist Leaders
in Russia.
A St. Petersburg dispatch says:
? Arfrom*7ot:rmc
some 01 cue reacuuuaiVI gauiLuuvMw
are pushing the agitation against the
radical elements to a dangerous point
Sunday a "league of the Russian people"
held services *to celebrate the
' manifesto of March 8, as a victory of
the old regime.
Later the fighting society of the
same organization held a public meeting
and listened to inflammatory
speeches by two extremist leaders, at
which the orators openly summoned
their followers, the black hundreds, to
kill the Jews and hang Count Witte.
TRIED TO INFLUENCE JUDGES
Is Charge Brought Against Former
"Boss" Cox at Cincinnati.
At Cincinnati two Judges of the circuit
court in testimony before the
Drake investigating committee of the
state senate charged that George B.
Cox, formerly republican "leader in
Hamilton county, had tried to influence
the judgment of that court in a
suit involving a $200,000 bond, while
a third judge testified that Cox had
simply asked him that the case be
given a fair and impartial hearing
when ti came up on appeal.
FATAL QUARREL OVER MULE.
Shooting Bee Results From Dispute
and Two Men Are Dead.
A shooting affair occurred Saturday
afternoon at Scarboro, Ga., in
which two men were killed.
John Burke and Ed Aycock, botn
white, quarreled over a mule, and the
quarrel ended in a row, each killing
the other with a pistol.
Burke leaves a wife and five children.
Aycock was unmarried.
RAILROADS BECOMING SCARED.
Western Lines to Cut Rates \o ForeCrimmiecinn.
okan
Warned by the agitation of govern*
ment control of rates, western railroads,
according to the Chicago Record-Herald,
have decided to make voluntary
reductions in transportation
charges amounting In the aggregate
to many million dollars annually.
The proposed reductions are to be
made in all the rates of the six classes
into which freight is divided and will '
be effective in the entire territory j
tween the Atlantic seaboard and Mis- 1
souri river.
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AVALANCHE OF PENSION BILLS. |
Four Hundred and Eight Passed by !
the House Friday.
The house Friday passed 408 private !
pension bills and devoted three hours I
to the consideration of a biil provid- j
ing a uniform system of naturaliza- j
tion, the chief features of which require
an alien to write either his own
or the English language and to speak
and read the latter.
OFFICERS TRAPPED
j
I Three Killed in Indian Territnri/
hv Outlaw Sand.
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i WERE SHOT FROM AMBUSH
Posse, Attempting to Make Arrests,
Was Met With Volleys from
Barricaded House?Excitecitement
Intense.
A dispatch from Vlnita, Indian Territory,
says: I. L. Gilstrap, deputy
United States marshal of Vinita; Otis
Tuttle, posseman of Vinita, and Dick
Terry, posseman of Talequah, were
killed in a bloody battle with the
Wickliffe band of Cherokee Indian
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outlaws, in the Spavinaw hills, Sunday
afternoon.
I After the battle, the outlaws were
i ucsiegcu iu me uuu^t: ul mtu uucie,
! Jim Wickliffe, at the scene of the
j crime, 31 miles from Vinita. There i3
] no telephone or telegraphic communi
ication with the battleground, and no
j news has yet been received from a
I large party of deputies, who went to
; the Spavinaw hills to capture or kill
! the outlaws. It was not expected that
j they would yield without a fight.
The VVickliffes killed Deputy Mar!
shal Vier about a year and a half
| ago, ana the officers have been on
| their trail ever since. A posse of
; six officers, who were on the way to
I arrest the gang, were fired upon from
j ambush by the Indians, who shot and
! killed three of their pursuers and es|
eaped unhurt.
Flezz Mann, a pesseman, who surj
vived the attack of the outlaws, walkj
eel 28 miles to Tahlequah, and told
^ the story of the battle, which was tel[
egrapned to "United 'States Marshal
: Dnrrough, of Vinita, at 5:35 Monday
j morning. Thirty-five deputy marshals
' wore immediately sworn in and dis!
patched to the scene of the battle,
! and authority, has been granted Mar\
shal Darrough by the department of
I justice in Washington to increase the
number to one hundred. Marshal Darrough
announces that he will employ
this many men, if necessary, to round
un the desperadoes.
It is reported that the full-blooded
, Cherokee Indians in the vicinity of
the battleground, commonly known
! as the Xight Hawks, are joining the
i Wiekliffes and the authorities fear
j that they will barricade themselves
! in the rough country and a desperata
; battle ensue before the outlaws are
j captured, me wiCKimes are iaeniuers
! of the Night Hawk band of Indians,
| which has given the United States
officers so much trouble in the mati
tcr of taking allotments, and it i3
j said that many of these Night Hawks
j sympathize with them.
The home of the Wickliffes is in
the center of the Night Hawk settle|
ment, where the battle occurred. Many
| of the Indians have been sheltering
i the outlaws during their months of
i scouting, snd the officers have arrestj
ed many of the Indians for giving such
i protection to the Wickliffes. It is
i feared that the full bloods in that
j vicinity, which number several hundred.
may join the Wickliffes, and
! that it may be necessary to call cut
j the United States troops. The offij
cers at Vinitia, however, believe they
J will be able to cope with the situa!
tiou successfully.
Deputy Gilstrap was a fearless offij
cer appointed to succeed J. H. Vier,
who was killed by the Wickliffes. He
leaves a widow and several children
at Kansas, I. T. ' Tuttle and Terry
: were Cherokee full-bloods.
| Marshal Darrough has asked the department
of justice to authorize him
j to cffer $1,000 for the capture of the
; outlaws. Only meager details of the
i rffopiverl as vet. The
I IlgiJl iiavc
| battle occurred far from the railroad,
and it is hard to get tidings from
I there.
Outlaws Open Fire.
| Deputy Gilstrap, with Otis Tuttle,
Dick Terry, Plezz Mann, Thomas Wofj
ford and Andy Dick, possemen, Sunj
day afternoon at 4 o'clock rode up to
' the home of Jim Wickliffe, uncle of
the Wickliffe boys, and were intendj
ing to make a search of the place
j when the outlaws, concealed in the'
j house, opened fire on them. At the
j first shot Gilstrap, Tuttle and Terry
! v-ere killed, and at the next volley all
j of the horses were killed, besides two
1 bloodhounds. The survivors of Gil'
strap's party fired into the h3U.se, but
\ the firing from the outlaws was so
j sharp that they soon sought shelter
! behind trees and stones.
rm. _ enrvivnrs decided to send
1 lit? Lili CC ,
I Plez7 Mann to Taleqiiah for assistance
while the other two men would
shadow the house and if pQssible prevent
the escape of the Wickliffes.
LUCKY DOG; LUCKY HORSE.
Owner Left Fortune in His Will for
Their Maintenance.
In a will which was Sled for probate
in Chicago, Monday, George C.
Watts, a contractor, and board of
trade operator, left $20,000 to provide
a home for his fox terrier, "Bill," and
$300 a year for the care of his old
riding hcrse, "King."
jSUSAN ANTHONY DEAD.
j Noted Advocate of Woman Suffrage
Passes to the Beyond After Long
and Eventful Career.
.
The long and eventful life of SuI
?an B. Anthony ended at her "home
I in Rochester, N. Y., at 12:45 o'clock
Monday morning. The end came
peacefully. Miss Anthony had been
unconscious practically for twentyfour
hours, and her death had been
momentarily expected. Only her wonj
derfui constitution kept her aliye; her
! attending -physician said* Miss Ani
thony died of heart failure, induced
by double pneumonia. She had had
serious valvular heart trouble for the
last six or seven years. Her lungs
were practically clear, and the pneumonia
had yielded to treatment, but
the weakness of her heart prevented -*Jj|
her recovery.
In spite of her eighty-six years, her
mind to within a day of her death \h
had been clear and strong, and even
: in her last sickness she was actively $
j engaged in planning for the future. |
Since she retired from the presi- Sjj
dency of the suffrage party about - ^
three years ago, Miss Anthony has
traveled widely and -lectured more .^||b
than was wise for one of her age.
j This year she went to Baltimore, 'via
i and it was this journey that overtaxed .
1 her strength. She was attacked by :ij
! neuralgia, and had to take to her bed. ~i?
! She was obliged to cancel an obliga|
tion to attend a dinner given in her . j|
! honor in New York city, as symptoms
i of pneumonia were detected. It was 'i?
! difficult for her to give up, and she
! insisted on going to New York, e-en
; in the face of hei* doctor's warning.
j She became suddenly weaker, how- ,
| ever, and was forced to take to h3r '
| Miss Anthony was greatly beloved
> in Rochester, which had been her
| home since 1S45. -She lived to see a
I decided change in sentiment from the v
; time in the winter of 1861, when she
i was hissed and hooted when she at- .--ha
tempted to give a lecture on abolition
! in Corinthian hall. .$3
FRAUD ORDER IS ISSUED.
Postal Authorities Allege Preacher is J
Defrauding Ex-Slaves.
A Washington dispatch says: 'Post* .Jjl
1 moctor rjonpral Portelvou has issued ';J$I
; a fraud order against a certain Rev. ||j
j Isaac L. Walton of Savannah, Ga^
J charged with being head of a scheme :;>|j
to defraud credulous colored people of liSl
the southern states.
I Walton is, or was until recently, ||i
head of an organization which has
! headquarters in several parts of the
south, purporting to have for its ob'
ject the securing of pensions for ex- :
; slaves. At least, such is the report '
of the inspectors, who have caused
' several fraud orders to be issued in
; the past against the order, which is -JM
, known by various names, such as the Vg
; Independent Order of the National In- ':j|?
dustrial Council of America, Fraternal. 'rM
j Rev. Walton, say the inspectors, has /|1
1 - -I 1? ^fho mnTlAff .
j Q. uau Ll'dLUxi, KJL UIOIX luutiuv, vmv m -frv.-M..
he gets through the mail from appli- 3a|
| cants among a few of his close friends
; and himself. Most of it, however, ;'^j
j went into his own pccket.
j The head of this order promised the
authorities last December that he :.:M
j would have nothing more to do' with. -^ij
j the organization, and would not con- <v?j
j nect himself with any scheme for se- ' klj
! curing pensions for ex-slaves in use of '
j the mails, but it is reported that he . |f
has broken his word, and is dt it once
more.
The fraud order has now been is- $38
sued against all of his personal mail, 3
with the hope of putting a final stop ,|s
to the plan. 'IM
J RESCUE WORK IS STOPPED. ||
j Other Explosions Are Feared In Dead- |j
! Iv Coal Pits in France.
J
A Paris special says: All rescue
work has been suspended at the Cour- 'Vi~j
rieres pits, where over a thousand t
miners lest their lives on Saturday,
owing to the danger of gases and the ? ||
enianatings from decomposing bodies.
The engineers fear another explosion,
and therefore they ordered up '
the relief gangs Monday morning. The
engineers will attempt to ventilate the v
chambers before attempting further
rescues.
BAPTIST PREACHER CONVICTED.
Rev. Johns Given Sentence for Intl- .7^
macy With a Woman.
Rev. A. H. Johns, a Baptist minis- ^
,flp snrt fnrmer Dastor of a circuit
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of seven churches in Blue Ridge township,
N. C-, was convicted at Hen- * '3
dersonville of criminal relations with
Mrs. Angeline Cagle and sentenced to
Imprisonment for one year. The woman
was also convicted and fined $100 .-"i
and costs.
GREEKS ARE DENATURALIZED.
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Savannah Judge Revokes Papers That
Made Them American Citizens.
An order revoking and setting aside
the order admitting twenty-one Greeks
to citizenship was signed by Judge
Norwood, in the city court at Savannah,
Ga., Friday, upon the petition of
Alexander Akerman, assistant United
States attorney. The petition that . ^
the order in each case was secured
fhrough fraud was admitted by eacl
J applicant in a voluntary swora scare