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IN A STEEL CASE; Body of Russell Sa^e Goes Down into Grave. GHOULS ARE DEFIED Fear of Grave Robbers Leads Wife of Dead Financier to Take Extra Precautions?Coffin and Case Cost $23,000. Y v* Encased in a hermetically sealed copper envelope placed within a solid mahogany coffin, the body of Russell Sage was Wednesday placed in a chilled steel case, four inches thick, riveted with steel bolts, locked with a lock which can only be opened from the inside and lowered into a grave at Troy, 'N. Y. The grave was carpeted and lined with evergreens on which the clods were heaped and the mound built The steel case weighs three tons. Immediately after the steel box and contents were lowered into the grave, electrical connections were made and immediate warning will be given if any attempt is made to tamper with the remains. Extraordinary efforts to thwart pes sible grave robbers was sanctioned oy Mrs. Sage and her closest friends. Expenditures in this direction will be greater than ever known in the burial of a private individual. The coflin alone of solid mahogany with its copper inside envelope, trimmings and handles, cost approximately $1,000. The steel case and its patent unpickable leek cost $22,000. It is called the burglar prccf coffin and it 2s ascertained that even without the added precaution of electrical protection or guards, it weuld be impossible for the most expert grave robber to get at the body. Mrs. Sage, It is said, bas had a dread of the violation of the sepulchre ever since the stealing of the body of A. T. Stewart, and she readily consented to the proposal for safeguarding the grave of her husband. The steel case Is of such hardness that It would take two expert safeblowers to break the outer shell and then only by the employment of specially constructed tools. There is no visible lock to be attacked. Once the lid is closed down, a self-locking mechanism clamps it inside at twenty points and not the slightest opening is left for the insertion of a wedge. The corners are all rounded. The body of Russell Sage was buried in Oak wood cemetery beside the body of his first wife. The body arrived in Troy in a private car attached to a regular train from New York. The words which are to be engraved on the Sage monument are: "I have done the best that I could by the light of the day." The funeral services proper over thp hodv of Mr. Sage were held in the First Presbyterian-church at Far Rockawajr Tuesday afternoon. A number of prominent citizens were among those who were present to pay a last tribute t^ the memory of the aged financier. After the services in Far Rockaway the body was placed in a special car and sent to New York city, where it was taken to the Sage home in Fifth avenue. The casket was placed in the front parlor and so arranged that the friends of the family who called might have a last iook at tb<* face of the dead financier. BIG DAMAGE SUIT FILED. Memphis Firm Seeks to Recover $600,000 from New Orleans Brokers. A suit for $600,000 was filed in the United States circuit court at New Orleans Wednesday against Gibert & Clay, a brokerage and commission house, who do a cotton business there with connections in several southern cities. Armstrong & Co., brokers and commission merchants of Memphis, Tenn., brought the suit, claiming damage* *? kraonli nf (vmtrart. 1<JI U1W4V- ~ RECORD-BREAKING DOCTOR FEE. Physician Who Attended Millionaire Field Demands $25,000. At Chicago Dr. Frank Billings has filed in the probate court a sworn claim for $25,000 against the Marshall Field estate. The bill is for seven days' professional attendance on Mr. Field in a New York hotel when ho was suffering from an attack of pneu mrmio thoi- rinsed his death. The fee Is believed to be one of the largest ever charged by a physician in the United States for services that did not include the performance of a surgical operation. RUSSIA BORROWS MILLIONS. Loan is Presumably for Purpose of Carrying on Civil War. A St. Petersburg special says: Presumably for the purpose of carrying on probable v.*ar against revolutionists, Russia Wednesday borrowed $250,000,000. The loan was negotiated from the Mendelssohns. As a result prices on the bourse recovered somewhat. 4 j GIVEN DAILY RESPITES. I Peculiar Legal Tangles Ward Oft Noose from Neck of Convicted Murderer in Alabama. ! j Members of the legal profession oi j Jefferson county, Alabama, are in a ' quandary over the most novel action j in a criminal case ever taken in the ! state. Thursday night Judge Samuel ; L. Weaver of the criminal court in ! Birmingham, granted a writ of habeas | corpus in the case of John Williams | of Cullman, Ala., just twelve hours bei fore the time set for the execution | of the prisoner for the murder of i State Senator R. B. 'Hipp. The writ j was made returnable Friday. The pris- < j oner was convicted in the circuit ' court of Cullman county, and the supreme court of Alabama affirmed the . sentence. Williams was removed to ! the Birmingham jail for safekeeping, j The petition for the writ of habeas ! corpus was made on an insanity plea, and the question which was argued by oounsel all day Friday in the criminal court was whether a Jefferj son county official has jurisdiction | and authority to issue the writ Meanj time the hour for the legal execution ' had expired, and it was thought a i new date for the hanging will have ! to be set in case of failure to sustain ; the insanity plea. \ The governor, however, came to the j rescue and granted the prisoner a : respite until Saturday. He will grant . respites from day to day until the i question is settled. ! Sentiment in north Alabama, where the crime was committed, has not ! been so thoroughly aroused since the ! famous Hawe3' not in ! It has developed that Friday night ! Sheriff O'Rear of Cullman county, ao! companied by several deputies, en[ tered the Birmingham jail to secure | Williams. The prisoner seized a sec' tion of iron pipe which he had torn i loose from the sewer connections in his cell, and with it threatened to kill | the first man who attempted to enter I his cell. | He said that he realized that re! moval from the Birmingham jail ' meant his death, and as he had to die : he would as soon die there as elsewhere. Not one of the officers dared enter the cell. Finally after a coni ference a quantity of ammonia was | secured and dashed on the prisoner i through the bars. The fumes of the j drug overcame him and the officers i were able tc handcuff him. However, ' his resistance caused such a delay | i that the officers missed the train on ! which they expected to take Williams to Cullman. j PROPHET DOWIE LOSES OUT. j Neither Fake Elijah or Manager Voliva Get Zion Properties. Neither John Alexander Dowie, the i founder, nor Wilbur Glenn Voliva, the | i present general overseer, is owner of ! the properties of the Christian Cathi olic Church in Zion, including Zion j City, 111., and said to be worth from j $12,000,000 to $21,000,000, according i to a decision handed down in Chicago ! Friday by Judge K. H. Landis of the j United States district court Judge ! Landis declared the property of Zion j t City to be a trust estate, and named 1 John G. Hately of Chicago a member of the board of trade, receiver of the | church's property, and ordered the i election on September 18 of an over! seer (trustee of the church's propj erty) by members of the church at 1 Zion City. Judge Landis will decide ; later what compensation Dowie will I ha allowed for his past services to ' the church. i The court ruled that the capital of i ZIon properties, contributions of prop' erty and money from various persons, j was given to Dowie in trust for the . church. Judge Landis declared void the conveyance of the Zion City property to Alexander Granger by%Voliva under power of attorney from Dowie. The adjudication in the bankruptcy proceedings against Dowie was also set aside so that pending litigation j against Dowie may automatically be ! restrained until the entire litigation | is ended. j Receiver H&tely's bond of $25,000 was approved late in the afternoon by the oourt, and Hately went to Zion City at once and assumed charge of the property. BLOOMERS ARE THE THING. Dean of College for Women suggests Elimination of Petticoats. In a lecture at the Wisconsin state university, Miss Abby S. Mayhew, the dean of women at the university, condemned peek-a-boo waists, tight lacing and petticoats. Large shoes, low necks and round garters were favored. She said: "We are never going to be free so long as we wear petticoats. Woman will never have perfect freedom uni less she wears a gymnasium-like cosj tume." j SOUNDS DOOM OF GUILLOTINE. Salary of Public Executive Cut From French Budget. A Paris dispatch .ays: The government budget committee, in taking up the estimates for 1907, Saturday struck out the salary of M. Diebler, Jr., the public executioner, thus foreshadowing the disappearance of the guillotine. RUSSIA IS REELING! - I Troops Revolt and Peasants Engage in Outbreaks. MUTINEERS SEIZE GUNS Government is Enforcing Rigid Censorship to Prevent News of Upheavals Reaching the AAiiaril Dlihlic A grave outbreak occurred Saturday' In the Sevski regiment, at Poltava, Russia, following the arrest of a private of the first battalion, who was discovered with some other soldiers in a shed, where the revolutionists are in the habit of holding meetings. After the arrest the entire first battalion accompanied by a large crowd# paraded the streets in defiance of thd military authorities. The soldiers proceeded to the artillery barracks, where they seized; several guns and marched with them to the prison where the political prisoners are confined. At this garrioners^ are confined. At this stage all the remainder of the Poltava garrison was called out ' The loyal troops fired on the mutineers with macrnne guns as they were engaged in breaking down the gates of the prison. Sev. eral men were killed or wounded. The outbreak was not suppressed until 2 o'clock Sunday morning. Dispatches of the occurrence have been suppressed at St. Petersburg, and only scanty details are obtainable by the foreign press correspondents through the regular telegraphic channels. The situation at Shusha had become so tense that the governor divided the quarters inhabited by the two race.3 by a "dead line," which neither faction was permitted to cross. The Tartars violated the order not to cross and commenced a battle. The garrison interferred when the combat, became general and bombarded without partiality both camps with twentyone guns. The town is said to have I been, to a large extent, destroyed. Rebels Force Printing of Manifesto. A party of men armed with revolvers forced their way Saturday into Boussel printing establishment in St Petersburg. They made the foreman a | prisoner and prevented the compositors from leaving the building. They then had printed 150,000 copfes of the Viborg manifesto of the outlawed low er house or parliament, strangers calling at the establishment . while this work was being done were detained to prevent their giving alarm. A rumor was current in St. Petersburg at a late hour Sunday night that General Trepoff had been killed. It could not be confirmed. Death Sentence For Mutinous Sailors. At Sebastopol Saturday morning a naval court-maitial passed sentences upon the seamen who were arrested for complicity in the mutiny of the Black Sea fleet of November, 1905. Four men were condemned to death, one to life servitude, thirty-two to v^ rying terms of penal servitude, and fifty, to imprisonment. Six were acquitted. Big Sum of Money Taken By Russia* Robbers. The postal car robbed on the Warsaw-Vienna railroad near Warsaw Sat urday night contained a package or $60,000 in cash from abroad, and at least $50,000 additional funds. The actual amount taken by the robbers cannot as yet be definitely stated, as the documents attached to the money parcels are missing. CHAMPION FAT BOY DEAD. Wat Nineteen Years Old and Tipped the Scales at 406 Pounds. Provie-Henry, of Arcala, 111., knoe*u throughout that section as the "Atwood fat boy," is dead. He was 19 years old and weighed 406 pounds. His waist measurement was 73 Inches. His parents are under the usual size, as bis father weighs but 140' pounds. His death was due to fatty degeneration of the heart. A KNOTTY LEGAL POINT. Chinaman Draws Color Line and * Sues Street Railway Company. Alleging that while a passenger on a street car July 14, he was ordered twice by tlie conductor to vacate his seat in the center of the car and move back into the section reserved for negroes and upon the refusal was forcibly ejected from the car by the conductor, Hong Kon, an Atlanta Chinaman, wants $5,000 damages from the Georgia Railway and Electric com- j pany. Hong Kon alleges that he is no negro and is entitled to all the courtesies and considerations of a whito man. 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 a fertilizing plant PITIFUL STORIES TOLD By Fleeing Men Who Allege They Were Held in B.ndage at Lumber Camp?Chased by Bloodhounds. With big welts and bruises all ovei their arms and bodies, some of them as large as a finger, and with clothing torn by the fierce attacks of bloodhounds, which had trailed and caught them, three more men arrived In Pensacola, Fla., Thursday from the camps of the Jackson Lumber company at Lcckhart, Ala., and asked for protection. The men are John Cook and Harry Lyman, Amerir?is, and Vendal Kclvershult, a German. "We tried to escape last Saturday night," said the men, Vbut they put the bloodhounds on us, and we were i J 1 *1?3 MAnfimA/f on/7 1 LTSJlbU UUW H fliiu ^Aptiu VU|- auu m back-to the camps." "What did they do with us?" , replied Lyman, In answer to a question, "Well look at my arms and back. "They answer the question," he said, as he bared his' arms, showing welts as large as a finger and terri; ble bruises. "We were given forty lashes each and taken back. The bloodhounds would have torn me to pieces, but i fought for my Mfe, and saved myself by a hard fight Here, look at my coat, you can see where the fangs of the animal sunk as he made a jump for my throat and missed me. Our second attempt to escape was more successful, and we came on to Pensacola to report the matter." The Jackson Lumber company, replying-to an article in the Pensacola Journal, giving an account of the affair, demanded of the paper that it send a .representative to investigate conditions and that it retract the reports concerning itIn reply the paper wired that the beat manner to conduct an invest!ration of the affair would be for the company to surrender three of their employees who, It is alleged, recently followed a Polander who had escaped into" Walton county, where they kidnapped him and took him back to the camps. NEGRO TROOPS BARRED. Will Not Be Allowed to Take Part in Texas Maneuvers. Adjutant General Hulen of the Texas state militia has given notice that no negro troops have been or will be ordered to take part in maneuvers at Camp Mabry until after the militia leaves, if at all. It has been* the understanding In Texas that the negro regular troops are not to be sent to Camp Miabry at Austin during the time that militiamen are in the camp, and that they wohld be kept on the border until such time as only the regulars remained in camp. Adjutant General Hulen - represented to the war department that this would be the 11 fVjof WlS0St course, tia it waa ivai vuu? trouble would arisee if negroes were in camp with white militiamen from Texas, Louisiana or the teritories. TOOl^ GALLOWS ALONG. Maryland Sheriff Outwits Threatening Mob in Novel Manner. William Lee, the negro who was sentenced to death in Baltimore three weeks ago for assaulting two women in Somerset county, was hanged on Thursday on Smith's Island in the presence of deputies and a few witnesses. A mob that had threatened to burn Lee at the stake was outwitted by the sheriff, who went aboard a vessel and took with him a gallows, which had been borrowed from Baltimore county, and also a coffin, and was prepared to hang Lee on the deck after reaching the waters of Somerset county, should there be any signs of a mob on shore. hNS TWO THOUSANDTH COUPLE. Tennessee "Marrying Parson" Has a Great Record in Tying ttnoxs. A. H. Burroughs of Bristol, Tenn., widely known as the "marrying parson," married his two thousandth couple of runaways on Thursday. He made this record in sixteen years. --4 GOOD SHOTS ARE WANTED. ! New Qualification For Positions in* Internal Revenue Service. Marksmanship and calmness in time of danger are qualities which the civil service commission holds at a premium. In examinations to be held at Asheville,- Charlr'te, Statesville, Salisbury and Louiston, <N. C., on August 29, for positions in the internal I revenue service the militant qualities ; enumerated above will count as much i as spelling, arithmetic and report writing. Ex-soldiers and scouts of the regular army are desired. FLIES SPREAD CHOLERA. Disease Laid to Hordes of Winged Pests in the Philippines. The outbreak of cholera in the Philippines is due to the unusual number of flies in the islands, according to advices received by the bureau of insular affairs at Washington. Dr. Heiser head of the bureau or healtn in the islands, says the flies are chiefly, if not wholly, responsible , I CHEATHAM ADMITS' I Aiding a Friend to "Buck" the Atlanta Bucket Shops. * PLACED SEVERAL ORDERS I d Secretary of Southern Cotton Association Acknowledge Acting As j. Agent.?Slated Investigatidn i is Postponedi * - Secretary Richard Cheathap, of the Southern Cotton Association, admits t that he acted as agent of one Mike n O'Gxady in placing the orders for cot- * ton futures, stating that he was mere- , ly serving a personal friend that he had no pecuniary interest in the deals, and that when the orders were placed with W. R. Fagan, the Atlanta representative of the New York cotton ^ brokerage firms, he stated to him 0 that these transactions were for O'Grady. ? The investigation of the charges of Representative Anderson were postponed twice Monday, the latter time to Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. J When the time for the slated in- j vestigation in Atlanta arrived Hon. W. * L. Peek of Conyers was the only one | of the committee present. State President M. L. Johnson wired from Cartersville that he would arrive later in the day, and the hearing was post- r poned till 3 o'clock in the afternoon. T President Johnson missed his train at Cass station and so notified Presi- i dent Jordan. The latter then got a a definite statement over the telephone s from the former that he could be on t hand Wednesday morning. President Jordan stated these facts to the assembled parties and press j representatives at the afternoon sea* t sion and the meeting dispersed. j The presence of Mike O'Grady, of ^ Chattanooga at the association rooms t added considerable interest to this all* \ absorbing topic in cotton circles anent the recent Anderson charges. J O'Grady was one of those referred to I through whom an officer of the South* em Cotton Association was alleged T to have dealt with the bucket shops. 1 At the association rooms O'Grady 2 stated to a Constitution reporter that ^ he had requested Secretary Cheatham, his personal friend, to make certain deals for him through the exchange in Atlanta, as for business reasons * he did not wish to make them him- t self in Chattanooga, that for these ^ reasons he wished to keep these ^ transactions secret and entrusted fhem to Cheatham, but not until he j had to urge him to do so, ana xmat t Cheatham consented finally very re- l luctantly. O'Grady regretted all this i publicity and bringing his private af- t fairs into such notoriety, and he stat- i ed to the Constitution that he would 2 seek a.well known Atlanta attorney, naming him. and see if there was not some redress at law against the New York and New Orleans houses making public his private affairs. The houses througfi which these I deals were made are Gibert & CTay of New York and New Orleans, and Charles D. Freeman & Co.. of New (. York. Secretary Cheatham, acting ^ for O'Grady, at* tie latter's urgent i solicitation, O'Grady says*,' had made j these deals with W. R. Fagan, the s Atlanta representative of these houses. "Cheatham had not a dollar's interest t .in the transactions," O'Grady said, t "and was acting solely as my agent." y He came down here of his own voli- 1 tion, he said, to set this matter right r when he saw the publicity his pri- * vate deals had been given, and he was going to take the matter up with * - - ? 1? 1.1, y the Wew York nouses ior exposing name., P. A. Lee, the other man referred to by Representative Anderson, did not materialize, but it was said that he would be on hand. O'G-rady is connected with the Wakeman Distilling Company of Chattanooga, Tenn., and said the amount of his dealings with the bucket shop firms was $2,000. He had brought along statements from these firms to show that the transactions were his own. and not Cheatham's. . alleged slaves testify. Men Charged With Peonage on Trial at Pensacola, Fla. The preliminary trial of Robert Gallagher, wood superintendent, and J. Porter, bookkeeper tor the Jackson Lumber Company at Lockhart, Ala., on the charge of pe*-iage, was begun at Pensacola, Fia., r.ionaay munnu.j ? before United States Commissioner t Marh, the men having surrendered. <3 themselves to the federal officers in ? accordance with promises. Six wit- * nesses were heard, all of whom testi- * fled to the cruel and inhuman treatment according those who incurred the displeasure of the camp bosses. | - , p CALLS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, "t : X Directors of Southern Cotton Associa. 1 I 2 tion to Meet in Hot Springs. i President Harvie Jordan has sent out a notification tc- the executive . i committee of the So^rnern Coton As- s sociation to meet in Hot Springs, Ark., ^ September 6, 7- and 8, at which meet- * ing there will be discussed many sub- t jects that affect the cotton interests. J . . . - - *<g "t*&WzWG~S I 1 Reindeer are mare numerous in Norway than horses. The modern telephone, the invenion of Alexander G. Bell, is said to .>1 lave been developed from principles iscovered in 1864. "Friends of Germany in America" . j lave presented $25,000 for the sup>ort of the Germanic museum at 'im larvard, in honor of Emperor Willr.m's silver-wedding anniversary. ? m The only venomous bird known is he "death bird" of New Guinea. ' ['he bite of this bird is said to cause -A ntense pain in all parts of the body, %|| oss'of sight, convulsions and finally [eath. , In China women have some 'rights" they do not have with us.? ?hey have the privilege, for instance, if going to war, and in 1853, no ' ess than 500,000 women were marhailed as soldiers, under women ofIcers. ' It is stated that the best managers, 'Jj ?attern designers and dyers in the Lancashire cotton mills, tempted by ;jaB tigh wages, are going out to Indie i ^9 ind Japan to take charge of mills j- Jr here. Great quantities of textils nachinery are also being exported. JfaB If one were asked to' name the nost patient man on earth, the reply rpjg rould probably be?Paul Cinquealii. The famous feat of throwing 'gM in a Tion'fl pp-c and catehfnsr ft on . ;>&9 i plate without breaking ft neces- -*J| itated nine years of constant pracEuropean newspapers hare been >rintlng advertisements declaring it o be to the advantage of Count ^?3 ifontecucoll to make known his ^hereabouts. At last he was brought "jMt o light in Siberia, acting as a railray guard. Broken by wildness'and ixtravagance, he had had to quit the Austrian navy and flee. Going from. >ad to worse, he -had taken the low-. ?st rank on the Siberian railway. It ras now his lot to learn that his mcle, head of his house, had died ^9 ind left him enormous estates and ' ?1|H 11,000,000 a year. J| ^-cggjB An up-to-date dog Is one that an* iwers the telephone. The senior ^ >artner of an influential London firm las taught his dog not only to guard >|H| he office during his absence, but also fB 3 :o report "All's well" during the ime the premises are closed at week >nds. One of the old-fashioned tele)hones, which does not require that JgH he receiver should be taken off its lolder, is fixed up in the office, and . mder this the dog stands. His mas- Jj| i| ?9 A ? n/I stolid . -ST niigb 11 jJ tilt; UllltC auu tugu vaiAo ' mtil the attention of the' dog Is , iroused, when the canine caretaker yjg arks loudly to show that all is well ;v?J "ith him and with the office. WILD BOARS IN ENGLAND. -".J )nce Abundant?Attempts Made to \.'3 ^ Reintroduce Them. Among the exhibits at a meeting of he Zoological Society last evening y|B ^as the almost perfect skull of a wild ' -cjH loar which was recently dug up durng building operations in James y^S treet, Oxford street. <Jj Like the beaver, the wolf, the ear and the reindeer, the wild boar, hough long extinct in this country, ':?gj ras formerly very abundant in the "jB arge forest lands which once sur- *,jB"-'? ounded the site of London, and its emains are not infrequently un- <$j larthed in and around the metropois. It is not certain when the last vild boar was killed in England, bnt/^||B t was probably in the reign of v|9 lharles II. or soon afterward, for in he book of accounts kept on the ^hartley estate is the following JSB ntry, dated 1683: "Paid the cooper | or a paile for ye wild swii^e, 2-0." J&B| t*. nt rt/Mirao nnssihle that the XV 1D| \J X Wu* WV| did swine alluded to were merely \\Wt ndividuals preserved in Chartley j,; >ark, and that the boar had been exerminated as a really wild animal ong before, but whether the swine vere preserved at Chartley or not it ;'.<9 s certain that another species of vild animal?the white cattle? ound a sanctuary there, and it was tot until quite recently that the herd hat descended from the original tock preserved in the park, was distersed. Attempts have been made to reinroduce the wild bo_i into England, iut they have had to be abandoned, tartly because the forests which they * ? 4 ? ara nnw cnlti- ' taunted in past a&ca ^ ~.. ated lands and gardens, and partly >ecause the havoc these huge and lestructive beasts commit among -''vm ;rowing crops is not to be tolerated 'vJm )y our already oppressed agrlcul-* urists.?London Daily Graphic. Iiofty Post Offices. Among the Alps tffiere are several >ost offices at a height of 6,000 or _ |8 ',004 feet. One letter box, from yhici' the postman makes four col- fjm ections daily, is nearly 10,000 feet ''^JjS kbove the sea level. . Bridge, it would appear, is not tuite so modern a game as has been > f^ upposed. A writer in the London ^|| iaturday Review mentions a letter le has received in which it is stated - -f? hat the game was played as far back .s the seventies by the Greek colony -wj n Manchester. /