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HONOR HIS HOBBY Millionaire Gourdain Seeks r to Break Into Joliet Pen. APPEALS TO HIGH COURT I Declares That if He Fails in Endeavor, He Will Build a Private Penitentiary of His Own?Case is a Most Unique Orw. Usually men fight hard to keep out of the penitentiary, but Charles A. Qourdain, member of a well known Louisiana family, is fighting with all the means at his command to get in the peniteniary at Joliet, Ills. He is busy seeking a United jStates judge who will sign a mandamus that will opem the gates of the pen. f uuucu uaiu u^Liai c; ^ iuai, uv n ? pledged his whole energy and large private fortune to the cause of his honor, which he staked in court when he was on trial for fraudulent use of the mails that he would not appeal should he be found guilty. lie hopes to be able to reach one of the supreme court justice with his plea, or else find some other plan - to get back into the Joliet penitentiary. If he fails, he says, he will buiid a private penitentiary at Joliet, and serve out his sentence in his own penitentiary under exactly the same conditions as if he were a prisoner in the government penal institution. Gourdain estimates his own fortune at $50,000,000. "Some men worship money. Some men worship God. Others worship .other things. I worship honor." This is the motto of Gourdain that has brought about the most remarkable appeal that ever was called to the attention of the supreme court of the United States. Eearly last year the United States authorities got after Gourdain on account of a land scheme he was conducting from Chicago, involving lands near the oil fields of Jefferson, La. The case came to trial in May last - J /-I ;?% n/v in umeago, ana uouruam pui. ill uvs defense. He said he would make no appeal, but would serve his sentence and at the conclusion of that sen^ tence would turn over his entire fortune to the postoffice authorities to pay back every person in full all that they had subscribed toward the land scheme and the entire Gourdain family would then quit the United States forever. The jury was out fifteen minutes and returned with a verdict of guilty. Gourdain said that he was satisfied, and asked for immediate sentence, and demanded that the sentence be all that the law provided ror in his offense. Judge Landis said he would comply with the demand, and sentenced Gourdain to four and a half years in Joliet, and the ?ext day, June 8, he entered the penitentiary. Although Gourdain is of slight build and weighs only 130 pounds, he picked out the job of shoveling coal for himself, and told the keeper he would shovel more coal than any other prisoner, and lived up to the agreement. While he was cheerfully serving time, his ktwjwr, as he claims, wife-, out hia knowledge or consent, was . working for his release, and through a writ of supersedeas before Judge Grosscup had Geurdain transferred from Joliet to Ohieago, 01 July 8, and lodged in the county jail. Gourdain was very angry and declared that this proceeding was against his agreement with himself, and demanded that he be taken back to Joliet The only way he could obtain selease from the county jail was to sign a bail bond, and he took this course and was let out on bail. Gourdain immediately returned to Joliet and demanded to be received again as a prisoner, but the warden would not admit him. Defeated at all points in his effort to get back into the penitentiary, Gourdan conceived the idea of appealing to the supreme court of the United States for a writ of mandamus committting him to the Joliet peniteniary. A FATAL MINE HORROR. Five Men Lose Life From Gas Expio. sion in West Virginia Pit. As a result of a gas explosion in the Dixon Mine at Huger, W. Va., Wallace Mitchell and four miners, Ernest Jones, Palmer Harris and Robert Harris, brothers, and John Gilmere are dead, and Bill Grouse and -Langdon Whiteside will die from burns and shock. The explosion was caused by the men having a gasoline lamp in the bucket, while descending, the light igniting an accumulation of gas. WAR ON TRADING STAMPS. Merchants of Missouri Want $5,000 License Imposed. The Missouri Retail Merchants' Association, at its annual convention in Jefferson, adopted resolutions instruct, ing its legislative committee to bring before the legislature a bill to tax trading stamp concerns $5,000 a year, ctiid asking the enactment of a pure food law. \ 'peace treaty is signed, i j Representatives of Warring Central American Republics Reach Agreement on Board Cruiser. j i A special from San Jose, Guatemala, i says: A treaty of peace between Guatemala, Salvador and Honduras was signed Friday on board the United States cruiser Marblehead on the high seas, j Guatemala was represented by Juan j Barries, minister for foreign affairs, Jose Pinto, chief justice of the supreme court, and Manuel Cabrall, assistant justice of the supreme court. Tho rnnfprenPA agreed ur>on terms j cn which the grievances of the two I countries are to be" settled at another ; conference to be held in the near future. The peace commissioners of Gua*temala were landed at San Jose Frij day night The commissioners of Salvador and Honduras were landed at Acajutla early Saturday morning. The j members of the American legations j landed at the respective points where j they were accredited. There was a strenuous discussion,; and some difficulty in reaching ac- j ceptable conditions. The Mexican min- i j ister, Senor Gamboa, was active in j J assisting in bringing about an argee! ment. The peace commissioners adopted j J resolutions thanking the presidents of i ! the Tlnited States and Mexico, respec-! j tively for their intervention. Guatemala's territory is now free ! : r,f invnriers The family of General j Regalado, commander of the Salva-; : doran forces, who was killed during ' I an engagement at Jicaro, July 11, have j asked for his body. J The state department at Washing-1 j ton was advised of the signing of i j the treaty of peace by the represeh- j ! tatives of the belligerent republics i aboard the Marblehead. A cablegram j j was received Friday night from Mr. j Merry, the American minister to SalI vador, Costa Rica and Nicaragua, anj nouncing that a treaty of peace had ! - been signed on board the American j I warship. Jn his message Mr. Merry 1 j referred to a joint message sent by j himself and Mr. Combs, the American j minister to Guatemala and "Honduras, j which message had not reached the j state department. A CONFERENCE IS REFUSED. ' United Typothetae Won't" Listen to J International Typographical Union. i The United Typothetae of America, I in session at Buffalo, N. Y., has flatly ! declined to confer with oflicials of the International Typographical Union in regard to the strike inaugurated nearly a year ago for an eight-nour * 3 cB/nn aay ana mt: ciuscu cuvy. President Ellis* of the Typothetae j rtceiveu a letter signed by James J M. Lynch, president, and J. Wt Hays, vice president, representing the executive council of the International Typographical Union, stating that j they were ready for a conference with j a view to adjusting the differences that now exist "Failing in obtaining this conference," the letter read, "the temper of the members of the Typographical Union will demand a continuance of the present struggle." After this letter had been read to the convention of the Typothetae, the following resolution was unanimously adopted: "Resolved, by the Typothetae of America, in convention assembled, That they have no wish to confer with representaatives of the International Typographical Union, and that Mr. Lynch and Mr. Hays be so informed." The convention adopted a resolution approving the techincal school work of the last year and commendtn establish an inn iuc .? ? ? eastern, central and a western school in addition to those already in existence. The following officers were elected j by acclamation: President, George PI. I Ellis, Boston; vice president, William | D. Greene, New York; treasurer, Thomas E. Donnelly, Chicago. F. I. Ellis of Dallas, W. O. Foote of Atlanta and Frank C. Nunemacher of Louisville were chosen members of the executive committee. CHILDREN DIE IN FLAMES. ! Cut Off from Escape While Asleep in Burning Home. Two children of Mr. and Mrs. R. J "W. Wimbish of Savannah lost their j lives in a fire which destroyed the | home of their grandfather, Mir. W. G. j Jordan, at Fort Valley, Wednesday | night. * " " ^ * il. All tne inmates 01 me uuumc wcio i asleep and before the fire was discovered it had made such headway that it was impossible to get into ! the bed room where the two children i were sleeping. GERMANS RENOUNCE DOWIE. | Zionists in Kaiser Bill's Realm Gt? Against Fake Prophet. j A cable dispatch from Berlin to the New York American says: 'At a meeting of the members of the Christian communion founded by john Alexander Bowie on his visit to Berlin, it was decided unanimously to throw off allegiance to the prophet and form a distinct mission. SEABOARD HORROR Fast Passenger and Freight in Frightful Crash. OVER SCORE ARE DEAD \ Report Gives List of Killed As Tweiv ty-Nine and Injured Twenty-Five. Majority of Victims Were Colored Passengers. Twenty-nine persons were killed and twenty-five injured in a Head-on collision between a Seaboard Air Line passenger train and an extra freight train one mile from Hamlet, N. C., Saturday night. Nearly all those killed were colored passengers. The known dead are: Engineer F. B. Lewis, of the passenger train; Fireman Tom Hill, colored, of the passenger train; negro fireman, name unknown, of the freight; H. <S. iByrd, baggage master. Probably twentyfive others unidentified. Kailroad men, citizens and the passengers who escaped injury began wonting heroically to recover the dead and injured imprisoned in the wreckage. Both the second and first-class coaches were overturned, and it is feared that the death list will be sadly augmented before the work of the rescuers is completed. The blame for the wreck has not been placed. The passenger train, it is said, had no orders to meet the freight, and it is the presumption that the freight overlooked its orders. One report ascribes the cause of the wreck to have been a lap order, stating that the passenger train had orders to meet the freight at Hamlet, while the freight's orders were to meet the passenger train at Rockingham. The persons injured in the wreck were sent to Charlotte on a special train. There are five white and eighteen colored, and these were distributed among the Charlotte hospitals. A dispatch received at the Seaboard Air Line general offices stated that 19 bodies and 23 injured persons had been taken from the wreck. The first news of the disaster that reached the headquarters of the road was a brief message about midnight reporting that a wreck had occurred on the Seaboard at Hamlet and that up to the time of the filing of the report the dead extricated from the wreck numbered 19, and the injured as then known reached 23. Train No. 44 is a through train, north bound from Florida to New York, passing through Hamlet, which is a Junction joint. LABOR HOSTS ENTER ARENA. "Campaign Program" Issued By Officers of American Federation. The executive council of the American Federation cf Labor, Sunday, made good its declaration of several months ago to enter the field of polltics in the interest of the trade union movement and to exhort all members and friends of organized labor to work for the election to political offices of men known to be favorable to labor's cause. From the headquarters of the federation at Wjashlngton the council has issued its "campaign program" addressed *to all organized labor and friends in the United States." BIG STRIKE CALLED OFF. Southern Bell Telephone and Em. ployes Settle Differences. Officials of the Southern Bell Telephone Company announce that the strike of the linemen and wire workera that has been in existence for some weeks, has been calied oft as a result of a conference held in Atlanta. The strikers were contending for recognition of the union, which Manager Peter Nix states has not been granted by the company. All of the strikers who have not been signally active against the interests of the company during the strike will be reinstated. GO-CART SAVED THE BABY. While Father, Mother and Little Sister Found Watery Grave. By the capsizing of a sailing skiff at Portsmouth, R. I., Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Anthony and their daugh- j ter, aged four years, were drowned, while their baby, aged one year, who was the only other occupant of the boat, was saved. The baby was strapped in a small go-cart, and when the boat capsized the baby floated securely in its go-cart, drifting to the Pru- J dence lighthouse, where the keeper and his wife rescued it. PUBLISHERS' PRESS CHANGE. Milton McCrae is Elected President of the Association. At a meeting of the directors of the Publishers' Press Association in New York City Friday it was announced that E. W. Scripps and M. A MoRae had purchased a controlling interest in the institution, Mr. Shale, the president, retiring. The Publishers' Press will continue as an independent organization. r SLAVS THROTTLED Czar Dissolves Russ Congress With Stroke of Pen. MAILED HAND IS SHOWN Autocrat Has Elected to Fight Rather Than Grant Reforms.?Declares Martial Law and Depends On Bayonets. A St. Petersburg dispatch says:Russia's first experiment in parliamentary government came to an ignominious end Saturday night with the promulgation of two imperial ukases, the first dissolving the present parliament and providing for the convocation of its successor on Mlarch 5, 1907, and the second proclaiming the capital of Russia and the surrounding provinces to be in a state of extraordinary security, which is infinitesimally different fpom all martial law. This measure of safety is to provide for the outbursts which undoubtedly will be provoked by this daring measure. It is now but a step to dictatorship. The text of the two ukases, both of which are addressed in the stereotyped form to the ruling senate, are as follows: "According to paragraph 105 of the fundamental law we order the imperial parliament dissolved and fix the time for the convocation or tne newly elected parliament for March 5, 1907. "Regarding the time for the new election to the imperial parliament we will later issue special indications. "The ruling senate will not fail to take proper measures to place this into effect. (Signed). "NICHOLAS." The text of the second ukase follows: "In consideration of. a report of the council of ministers presented to us regarding the necessity in the future for the preservation of order and public safety in the city and province of St. Petersburg, we consider it necessary to declare in the above city and province, instead of the state of reinforced security which now prevails there, a state of extraordinary security. The prefect of the city and governor of the province are entrusted with the rights thereto appertaining. "The ruling senate will not fail to take proper measures to place this into effect (Signed). "NICHOLAS. With these pithy but momentous orders, Emperor Nicholas by a stroke of the pen set Russia back to where <-v.? t-arrv v#>ars asm in the full CUU Owwu V f( V ^ w _ grip of autocracy and irresponsible government, -wiping out for Ux months at least the whole structure of parliament, erected at such cost, 'No one doubts the severity of the storm which will rise in the country in response to the emperor's dispersal of the men whom he welcomed two months ago in the winter palace as the "best men in Russia;" but the die is cast. The government has elected to ' fight, and ?L Petersburg bears eloquent testimony of the preparation made to repress the masses by force. The city is packed with soldiers and resembles an armed camp. The parliament was constituted May 10, 1906, amid scenes of general rejoicings. The speech from the throne, read at the opening session, was conciliatory in tpne. The re-organized council of the empire was formally convened in the hall of nobles at the winter palace the following day. A striking feature of the lower house was the multiplicity of races represented, there being great Russians, little Russians, white Russians, Poles. Lithuanians, Letts, Germans, Tartars, Bashkirs, Kirghis, Circas sians, Mordvanians, vouaKs, jews, Bulgarians, Chuvas, Roumanians, Calmuks, Geo-gians, Armenians, Ossetines and x iats in attendance. During the ntire session the lower house had been at bitter odds with the ministry, and has demanded its resignation, and the formation of a cabinet from members of the majority. FOR BUTCHERING FAMILY. Four Negroes in North Carolina Will Be Tried at Special Term of Court. It is stated in Charlotte, N. C., that sufficient evidence has been gathered to convict Nease Gillespie, his sons, Henry and John, and Jack Dillingham, all colored, of killing Isaac Lyerly, his wife and two children at Barber Junction. A special term of Rowan superior court will meet August 6, when the four negroes named will be taken from Charlottb to Salisbury for trial. None of the negroes have uttered a word of confession. FROZE IN COLD STORAGE ROOM. Florence, Ala., Man Meets Death In Peculiar Manner. J. F. Inraan is dead at Florence, Ala., us the result of being locked in a cold storage room. Mr. Inman had entered the room to make some repairs when the door accidentally closed and locked him in. An examination of the body showed that the man's lungs and brain were frozen V- >-" \ SLAIN BY FILIPINOS. Rebellious Pulajanes Make Attack on American Troops, Killing Nineteen and Capturing Their Arms. A Manila special says: A detachment of constabulary, Lieutenant Williams commanding, encountered a band of 600 Pulajanes, near Burauen, on the island of Leyte, Sunday morning. Lieutenant Worwick, twelve privates and Civilian -Scout MoBride were killed. Five of the constabulary were killed June 19. The constabulary was driven back | in the Sunday engagement. The Pulajanes secured fourteen rifles and two revolvers. The bodies of Worwick, McBride and ten privates were recovered. Reinforcements of constabulary have been sent from tne nearest sta tion. Major Neville reports that there are from 400 to 1,000 Pulajanes in the field. Burauen, in the island of Leyte, was also the scene of a hard fight, between insurrectionists and the police and constabulary on June 19. Under the leadership of Caesario Pastor, a band of insurrectionists attacked the police in the town, and killed five Oi them. Five other policemen were also seriously injured in the fight, and the rebels managed to obtain the records of the town, which they burned in the street. Caesario Pastor was killed in the fight, and a number of other revolutionists met death, but their comrades carried the bodies ! away to prevent the policemen and \ constabulary from learning how many j natives were killed. At that time j Pastor was known to have 300 natives j in his party. Lieutenant Johnson and [ a detachment of the constabulary pursued the marauders, but did not catch tliem. NEGRO PLANS DISAPPROVED. Projects for Jamestown Exposition Turned Down by Government. Unfavorable consideration has beengiven by Secretary J. H. Edwards of the government board for the Jamestown exposition to several projects submitted by a committee from the negro development company organized in connection with the exposition. The committee, which was headed by Giles B. Jackson, a negro lawyer of Richmond, Va., outlined plans for the expenditure of the appropriation of $100,000 made in the closing days of the session of congress for an exhibit of negro development on the American continent. The committee asked that none but members of their race should participate in the design and construction of the building, which is to be erected for the exhibit at a cost of $25,000. In this way a special chance would be given to show what pegro architects, masons and bricklayers could do, they thought. The ruling on their proposal was that the government intends to make no discrimination of any of the work done out of its appropriation. The committee also proposed that $11,000 should be expended for ' ' 1!? ?:ii cringing a native viiiagc nvm heart of Africa to serve as a contrast to the state reached by the race in this country. Another portion of the appropriation amounting to $14,000, it was suggested, should be used for charts and text books for negro schools. For the position of disbursI ing agent of the fund, the committee urged the candidacy of R. T. Hill, negro cashier of the True Reform bank of Richmond. The government board found these projects unacceptable. DEFENDANTS "WAS" PARTIAL So Declares Colored Candidate for Admission to the Georgia Bar. ; Alec King, Joseph R. Lamar and J. A. Cronk, three prominent Georgia lawyers, composing the state board of examiners, were Monday made defendants in an action brought in the superior court at Atlanta by J. E. Sistrunk, a negro, who failed in a recent examination for admission to the bar. Sistrunk prays that the board be rnmnelled to turn over the examina tion papers and his answers to them to Judge Pendleton of the superior court for a review. Sistrunk alleges that the defendants, to use his own grammatical expression, "was partial," refusing to admit him to the bar because he was a black man. He avers that the examination papers "was" properly sealed and delivered to the judge. He says that the defendants "does" him great injury in not recommending him for a license to practice. Host of Girls Go On Strike. Twenty-five hundred girls employed in the shirt waist factory of Putei. man Bros. & Fagan, at Philadelphia, went on strike Monday because of a number of employees, distasteful to a majority of the girls. IMPURE MEATS CONDEMNED. Health Inspectors at Philadelphia "Clean Out" Cold Storage Plants. Inspectors of the bureau of* health at Philadelphia Wednesday concluded the condemnation and destruction of 33,000 pounds of impure meat3 found in the cold storage plants of the Delaware Freezing company. The stuff was carted away as fast as It was condemned, and turned over to J * fertilizing plaBt DOUMA IS DEFIANT J Outlawed Russ Parliament Re-Assembles in Finland. APPEAL FOR REVOLUTION if m Gathering Was Broken Up by Author* jfiS ities, But Not Before Adopting Proclamation Defying Czar and Calling for an Uprising. ' 1 A St. Petersburg special says: The result of the Russian government's '^4 action in ordering the dissolution of Li parliament has apparently restored all f'< the conditions of repression, wholesale . ^ arrests and reliance on a display of J| military* force that obtained before the people had their brief taste of representative government. In St. -:M Petersburg itself there was little sur-' % face indication Monday of trouble in the face of the strong force of troops, but there were many ?*iresis. The most important development of Monday took place at Viborg, Fin- ; land, where the members of parlia- y|| ment had fled to continue their sea- ;-*?? sione formally dissolved at 'St Peters- '.Jj| burg. "T'lfl The members had been frantically * 'M at work on their manifesto to the peo- Jg pie. anticipating the possible arrival v|| of troops when the assemblage was . informed that the governor general of ^ Finland had ordejed the governor of Viborg to close the meetings of the ^ members of parliament, using military force if necessary. The governor gen- ;i|jS eral added that such meeting could Jjaj not be held in Finland. Previously dur- vj|S in the session the radicals had sup- 'hiS ported the group of toil who urged .-M that the members cf parliament should place themselves at the head of revolution. At the last the constitntional democrats joined the radicals ana the douma adopted a hastily pre- j-g pared proclamation protesting against the dissolution of parliament. Calls for Virtual Rebellion. Although Viborg is in a state of JB siege and the government ordered guns turned upon the members of the dissolved parliament, that body, before finally adjourning, adopted a proc- ..M laniation to the people, appealing to 30 them not to pay taxes, not to re-| M cruit the army, or recognize the gov ernment loan; virtually calling upon the masses to rise in rebellion against the "illegal dissolving of parliament." The people of Russia were' -^9 appealed to to "seize the liberty denied them by the government." Copies of the appeal to the people />|9 are in the hands of all ?t. petersburg newspapers, but it will scarcely llafl be printed for the reason that a. do- "d|9 tachment of police is posted at the -'ffifl doors of every newspaper printing offlee in the city with orders not to ^ permit any papers to leave the build- \ ing until authorized by the censor, ''ijjm The authorities hope by equally Ttev Jw orous measures to prevent the pubtt-"v^^| cation of the appeal in other cities and in the meantime' to nullify the fears of the people as to the possible -da effect of the appeal. Rioting' and wild disorders have . Jj9 heqn reported from Odessa, Kharkoff, Kislovdsk and Saratoff. Thoo? sands of arrests have taken places and the work of massing troops at important centers is being carried on with redoubled vigor. CASTE IN TBE CHURCHES. Is Assertion Made During Meeting of ^ Atlanta Ministers. " 1110r6 IS Si Spil'll opx au^- "-7- *gg| ing up In our churches," said Rev. v|a Frank Eakes at the Methodist. mln- ^jjw istwrs' meeting in Atlanta Monday ||| morning, amidst considerable excitement caused by this remark, which j|g was delivered with vehemence. He ^ continued: "There is apparently developing & feeiing in our church membership,* which is saying: "I am a little grain better than these?I cannot afford to mix and mingle with them. In fact v&H I cannot associate with them, for. ^ they are not my kind." PREPARING FOR THE CAMPAIGN. || Quartet of Republican Leaders Hold Conference With President. A quartet of republican leaders went ||1 to Sagamore Hill Monday to talk over the coming congressional campaign -r3g with the president. The visitors consisted of Speaker Cannon, Represen- - ^ ? DdnM. tative snerman 01 i^cw iwn, i?.?yiv- ? sentative McKinley of Ohio and Rep- ..-J? resentative Loudenslager of New Jersey. There was a general expres- [% sion of satisfaction by all the mem- . jS bers who attended the conference^ and a general disposition exists to , ^ begin an actice campaign at once. BURIED UNDER FALLING WALL, 'M Score cf Workmen Probably Killed In ^ Collapse of Building. At least eight and perhaps three times that number of masons, plumb- 'Jg ers and Italian laborers were crushed to death Monday in the sudden col- 'M lapse of a building in process of construction at South Framington, Mass., 2? while ten others were dragged or' dug out of the wreck, some seriously * injured. ""