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CZAR VIEWS BATTLE Gory Conflict Raged Near Palace of Russ Autocrat. IS PREPAREDTO "SKIDOO" Rebels Were Finally Subdijed, But Battle Caused Wild Panic Among Czar's Household?-Situation at Other Points< A St Petersburg special says: Foi oul i-ours w eaaesaay nignt, within s< sight of the czar's palace, wherein the czar was preparing to flee, there raged the most desperate battle of the revolution. The sailors of the twentieth and other equipages, together with the sappers and miners and other units, managed to escape the surveillance of the guard and other regiments which were stationed at the barracks and revolted. The rebels, however, were finally crushed. When the firing began there ensued ! a wild panic hi the imperial palace j at Peterhof, as the palace lies under j the guns of the fortress. All prepara- j tions had been made in advance lo ! flee to Tsarskoe-Seloe, but the report i ? afloat during the afternoon that the j emperor and his family actually had j fled in the middle of the night, was de- j nied later at the chancellory of tn? j imperial household. It was explained, however, that on j account of "dampness" at Peterhof ! arrangements had been made for the return of the imperial family to Tsarskoe-Selee. The cruiser Asia has revolted and the mutineers are sailing towards ! Sveaoorg. Mutinies have been planned at Hi* gan and Libau. Although mutinies at Sveaborg have been ended and the one at Cronstadt has been practically put down, the outlook is still black. The revolutionists, whose hands were suddenly forced by the premature rising at Sveaborg, aparently are undaunted at these initial reverses and intend to persist in their programme of calling , a general strike. ?ff . One of the leaders of the revolutionists with whom the Associated / wM-r^cnnndent sDent some time X'ICOO a boasted that the word had gone forth and that the fire of revolt would spread to the corners of the empire. His closing words to the corespon-1- j ent were "Now watch Reval, Riga 1 and Libau." In the Sveaborg mutiny seven companies of artilery were concerned, and oi the fortress steamers, the Vietroli, Puskar, Rabotschi, Imgemier and Mars were in the hands of the mutineers, while the Bomba Opit and . Sveaborg remained loyal. The Opit was furiously bombarded by the mutineers, and they threatend to sink the Bomba at the first opportunity, even if she hoisted the reu flag.-During the Skatudden island mu* tiny, only one, the Finn, of six vessels stationed in the north harbor fired on the marine barracks occupied by the mutineers. The others remained passive. Martial law has been proclaimed at Cronstadc and in the Donete basin, the center of the mining and smelting district NORTHERN NEGROES ADVISED. V _ Delegate from South Calls Down Race Problem Agitators. Before the Negro Young People's Educational Congress at Washington, Thursday, A. j. Cobb, of Barnesville, Ga., in an address said: " "You negroes in the north let the southern negro alone. He can take care of himself. He is a friend of the white man and the white man a friend of his. You discuss racial problems, never forgetting to bring the white man in. Let him alone. Stop antagonizing him and mind my words, he'll be your friend. Why, down south I have actually forgotten that I was a black man until I looked Into the looking-glass." BLOODSHED AT AN ELECTION. v ??_ Two Men Lose Lives in Row at Polls ea -U:_ * in mcrnpino. One man was killed, another fatally ^ wounded and a third injured in a duel in a polling place at Memphis, Tenn., within a few minutes after the polls ' closed Thursday afternoon. J. G. Wellington, a saloon keeper, was riddled with buckshot from a repeating shotgun and died almost instantly. W. J. Cooke, acting as judge of election, was shot in the side and will die. B. E. Conn, another judge of election, was slightly wounded. YOUNG MEN DETERIORATING. Cigarette Smoking and Other Bad Habits Unfit Them for Army# A dispatch to the Chicago RecordHerald from New -Orleans says: That an alarming percentage of the young men of the cities of the south are physically unfit to enter the army*, owing to cigarette smoking, lat hours and other bad habits, is the statement of Lieutenant Bennett, in charge of the local recruiting office. PITIFUL TALE IS TOLD By Alleged Lumber Camp "Slaves" Before United States Commissioner in Pensacola, Florida. The investigation of peonage and slavery conditions at the Jackson Lumber company camps at Lockhart, Ala., by the United States court commissioner was begun at Pensacola, Fla., Friday, and concluded Friday night, and resulted in the unearthing of a terrible state of affairs, if the statements of the witnesses, told upon the stand are true. Three of the men are held to the United States court for trial under heavy bond. They are Robert Gallagher, Superintendent; W. N. Grace and Oscar S. Dander, the two latter also employees of the company. Many witnesses were examined and all testified directly or indirectly as to how mon hqfl hppn beaten and ill treated at the camps. The climax came when Manuel Jardemsi, a foreigner, who had been brought frcm New York, with others, was placed on the stand. So weak and exhausted that he could scarcely hold himself in a seat, suffering from bruises over the body and burning up with fever, he told his story. H$ had been beaten with whips, struck in the face with clenched fists and kicked in the abdomen and lower portions of the body. He could not speak English, but pointed out Gallagher in the court room as the man who had inflicted most of the pun- ! ishment. His story was told through an interpreter and so pitiable was his condition that when he concluded and could hardly leave the court room, a purse was taken up to place him in a hospital, and give him proper treatment. Frequently during the time he was on the stand he would place his hands upon his stomach and through his interpreter signify that he was in pain from the kicks he had received. Mrs. Mary Paul Jones and Mrs. j Gibson, ladies living near Laurel Hill, I saw the men overtake a foreigner near their houses with hounds and * while one held him under cover with a revolver, another beat him unmerciful} with a whip. PRINT SHOP SHAKE UP. Two Foremen Dismissed from the Government Printing Office. W. A. Miller, assistant foreman of bindery of the government printing office at Washington, who was suspended by the public printer on July 21 for insubordination and insolence, was dismissed from the government service Friday. Miller's former suspension in 1903 was the cause of President Roosevelt's order declaring the government printing office and all ! offices where workmen are employed by the government to be "open shops." The public printer also dismissed Milo Shanks, foreman of the second typesetting division. The case of Shanks furnished the president another opportunity to again express himself regarding the conduct of the government printery. Shanks had complained to the president that he had not received fair treatment, secretary Loeb wrote Mr. Stillings that inasmuch as lie is charged with the administrative details of the office, the president would not interfere with him in his efforts to put the government printing office on an economical and efficient basis, or in securing proper discipline among the employees. "What the president expects," says Secretary Loeb, "is results and he will hold you responsible therefor. In the obtaining of results you will not be interfered with." CONDITION OF FLEECY STAPLE. Average on July 25 Was 82-9 According to Government Report. The crop reporting board of the department of agriculture at Washington in a bulletin issued at noon Friday finds from the reports of the agents of the bureau, that the average condition of cotton on July 25 was 82.9, as compared with 83.3 on July 25, 1906; 74.9 on July 25, 1905; f?l I 91*6 at ?ne corrCkjyuiiuiug .? 1904, and a ten-year average of 82.4. The following table shows the condition by states on July 25: Virginia 83 North Carolina . .75 South Carolina . .72 Georgia . . . .74 Florida 72 Alabama ... .83 Mississippi ... .86 Louisiana . . . .88 Texas 86 Arkansas ... .89 Tennessee 88 Missouri . . . .95 Oklahoma ... .92 Indian Territory . 85 ADMIRAL TRAIN DEAD. Commander of United States Asiatic Fleet Passes Away in Chefoo. Hear Admiral Charles J. Train, the commander-in-chief of the United / States Asiatic fleet, died at Chefoo J Friday morning of uraemia. As commander-in-chief of the Asiatic station, the important duty of maintaining strict neutrality in Philippine waters during the Russian-Japanesre war devolved upon Admiral Train ' LABOR LAW BIFFED! I I Mew York Child-Woman ! Statute Declared illegal. AN INVASION OF RIGHTS j i - - . I so Declares Judge Olmstead in Court Decision?The Right to Hire and Work is Termed a Property Right. Tlie state law of New York restrict ing the labor of women and children to ten hours a day and sixty hours a week in a factory, was declared Friday by Justice Olmstead in a decis- ! ion handed down in the court of spe- j cial sessions in New York city to be i "an unwarranted invasion of consti- I tutional rights." The ruling was concurred In by Jsfce McKean and Justice DeueL Judge Olmstead declared that the law was class legislation. Justice Olmstead said in his decis- j ion: "To labor and employ labor ari I inherent and inalienable rights of oia citizens, and cannot be taken away in whole or in part unless upon th j broad ground of public good, which j must be apparent, and cannot be pred- j icated upon legislative dictum. 'It may be stated as a well settled ! legal proposition that the. right to i labor and contract tor that labor i3 both a liberty and a property right; when therefore the legislature enacts a statute such as that under consideration it must be admitted that it has infringed in the enactment the rights which are very clearly accorded by the constitution to the individ- I ual citizen. j "The people, - therefore, are called i upon to justify' this invasion, and j there is but one plea in justification; that the statute was enacted to protect the comfort, welfare and safety of the whole people, and the individual must suffer this curtailment of his | granted rights in the interest of the | common good. "In the case under consideration the right of the employed and the right of the employer are equally involved. Nothing to the contrary appearing it must be assumed that the woman was a willing worker for a willing employer and that the result was mutually satisfactory and profitable. "The present constitution of the i state of New York was adopted in ! 1S94, and became effective January 1, ! 1895. All of the rights which adult I women possessed at that time were j nArfivinpH hv ihnt document. One of : those rights certainly was the right to contract for her labor and to work when and where she pleased without reference to the position of the hands of the dial of the clock. "It was not until four years after j that the lawmaking power sought to J place the limitation under considera- j tion upo nthem. What was the leg- 1 islative intent in doing this? The at- i torney general finds and urges no other reason than that the general welfare of the state demands that the progeny of women of the factories have mothers with healthy bodiees to the end that the state may have sturdy citizens. Does the state look merely to the children of the factory women for Its future good citizens? Why should not the housewife, the woman who toils at home, in mercantile houses, in offices, or she who toils not at all?the society woman? be exempt from legislative interference, injunctive or mandatory, for the same reason? Some of them may be mothers of future citizens, and it should be of great interest to the state that their progeny should have birth and breeding to conserve it3 welfare." Coal Miners Gain Every Point. " nnaroMrc nf fhfl UOai liliuei a auu v/^vntiuiu . Coshocton, Ohio, field completed * I settlement of the wage controversy Friday, the miners winning out on I ?very point. The new scale adopted is exactly that of 1903. TWO IMPORTANT MEASURES Passed by the Georgia State Senate at Thursday's Session. The Georgia senate Thursday pass- ' ed bills for the election of railroad commissioners by the people and for the lease of the Western and Atlantic railroad for sixty years at $60,000 per month. The bill for the election of railroad nommfasirmers bv the oeopl? was passed by a vote of 31 to 7. Tie | senate immediately transmitted the bill to the house. ESCAPING CONVICT KILLED. Negroes Make Desperate Attempt to Vacate Chaingang Camp. In a mad rush of desperate prisoners to escape from the convict camp of the Palmer Brick company in Atlanta at about 12 o'clock Friday night, one of the convicts, a negro named Hargrove, was shot and killed by Guard O. B. Jones, and another, Willis Harris also a negro, made his escape. WITNESSES ARE JAILED Parties Wanted to Testify in Lumber Camp Peonage Case Are Detained by Order of Court at Pensaccla. Because of the fact that one of the most important witnesses has suddenly disappeared from Pensacola, and that overtures by unknown parties to others to leave for New York and not apear in the now famous Jackson Lumber company cases, every witness who is not a resident of Florida and well known to the United States commi&ioner has been placed in the local jail in default of bond, where all will be held until the caie comes up fo; trial at the next term of thd United States court. Harry Lambert, who testified a ie\> days ago that he had twice been horsewhipped, after being caught with bloodhounds, and who. exhibited welts and scars, which, he claimed, - had hppn infliotpd hv the bosses, has dis apeared. When wanted to again testify he could not *:e found and a search revealed the fact that he wa3 not in Pensacola. Other witnesses stated that they had been approached by unknown parties speaking foreign tongues with proposidcns not to stop at Pensacola and testify, bat to go on to NIew York, and if they would do so money for their fare would be given them. A Birmingham dispatch says: Emil Lesser, president'of the German Immigration Society of Alabama, has returned from Lcckhart, where he has been for several days investigating the charges of peonage in the camp of the Jackson Lumber company at that place. Mr. Lesser has prepared a report, which will be submitted to Governor Jelks, in which he says that there is no trace of peonage at the camp. His report says in part: "I have interviewed nearly a hundred laborers and have not found a single person who could or would make any complaint about peonage or cruel treatment. All the men I spoke to stated they could leave if they wished. If peonage has existed at Lockhart, then all traces of it had been removed before my coming. The German vice cousul at Pensacola authorizes m? to say officially and positively that the statements as to complaints being made to him by Germans escaping from these camps are absolutely false." TROOPS TO PROTECT NEGROES. Governor Beckham Calls Out Two Companies of Kentucky Guards. The Frankfort and Barbourville (Kentucky) companies of the state guard were ordered by Governor Beckham to go on duty at Barbourville to protect during their trial the negro man and woman charged with the murder of Mrs. Broughton. The negroes are now in jail at Stanford, and troops will proceed to that place and accompany them to the scene of the crime and trial. This is owing to fears that an attempt to lynch the negroes who committed the crime to secure $40 will be made. ARRESTED THE WRONG MAN. English Lord Now Demands Apology from Portland Officers. Instead of having. in custody an American bigamist known as "Lord Douglass," wanted by the authorities of many states, as was at first supposed, the police at Portland, Maine, have detained Lcrd Sholto Douglass, ? Wot?riiiia f\t imra sou ui tut? iai.c ifim v* Queensberry. Lord Douglass says he wants to avoid further notoriety and will be satisfied with verbal apologies from the sheriff and police. The consular authorities await the apologies and the matter may become a subject of international inquiry. COMMERCIAL CONGRESS. Is Called to Meet in Kansas City No. vember 20-23, Next. The official call for the seventeenth annual session of the trans-Mississippi Commercial congress, to meet in Kansas City, Mo., November 20, 21, 22 and 23 next, has been issued. TWELVE YEARS FOR EX-MAYOR. William Belcher Given Long Prison Term for Embezzlement William H. Belcher, who, while mayor of Paterson, N. J., absconded a year ago and who surrendered him - self several aaxs ago, was scuicuucu on Friday to twelve years' imprisonment in the state prison at Trenton on a charge of embezzlement. Belcher was alleged to have embezzled from $100,000 to $150,000 from personal friends and from the Manchester Building and Loan Association, which was forced to suspend business. SPEED LIMIT FOR AUTOS. Georgia House Passes Bill to Regulate Their Running on Highways. By an overwhelming vote of 119 to 2, the Georgia house of representative Thursday passed a bill to regulate the running of all automobiles and other similarly propelled vehicles upon the public highways of tEe~sta>e. The measure conforms to the law of most of the northern states. # % MOB STOPS TRIAL Three Negroes Taken From Jail, Hanged and Riddled. MILITARY IS INEFFECTIVE Victims Had Just Been Arraigned at Salisbury, N. Cm Charged With Murder of Lyerly Family. Other Suspects Unmolested. A mob of 3,000 determined men, shortly before 11 o'clook Monday night, forcibly entered Rowan county jail at Salisbury, N. C., removed therefrom three of the five negroes charged with the murder of the Lyerly family, at Barber Junction, July 13, an lynched them. The mob began gathering at sundown. Mayor Boyden promptly ordered the saloons closed and, with other prominent citizens, United States Senator Overman, Judge Long, who was holding the special term of court to try the negroees, and Solicitor Hammer, gathered on the jail steps and addressed the crowd, which at that time numbered 2,000. There were howls and cat calls from the mob, but for a time the:? was no move? the mob lacking a leader. While citizens were appealing to the mob, two men slipped through the crowd and were entering the jail with hammers. They were discovered and arested. The moh continued its yelling, but there was still no concerted move. About 9 o'clock, Mayor Boyden called upon the local military Company, the Rowan Rifles, for aid. They assembled quickly, but were supplied only with blank cartridges, having no orders to shoot to kill. Fireman McLendon of Charlotte, a Southern railway employee, was shot in the stomach by a bullet said to have been fired by a member of the mob. He was fatally wounded. Will Troutman, a negro drayman, was also seriously shot at about the same time. Both are said to have been accidents, occasioned by some of the few wild shots fired by members of the mob, with the evident intention of frightening citizens. At 10 0 CIOCK mere was a sui m the mob?it was augmented by fully five hundred men, who came, it is said, from Whitney, where the Whitney Reduction company % developing the Yadkin water power. It was but a few minutes after their arrival, when a crowd of fifty, forming a sort of flying wedge, made a break for the jail doors, overpowered the officers, and effected an entrance. The great crowd outside surged in behind the leaders, and in a few minutes more epierged from the door with their victims. The negroes were marched northward toward Spencer, but a halt was made at Henderson's ball grounds in the edge of town. There the negroes were given time to confess the crime. They refused to either deny or confess and were so thoroughly frightened as almost to have lost the power of speech. John Gilespie wept piteously and begged for his life. Tiring of its efforts to secure statements from the negroes, at midnight the ropes were quickly brought forward and adjusted and the three were strung up to the limbs of one tree and with howls and curses the crowd riddled the dangling bodies with bullets. nnvprnnr Clenn was at 11-10 nVnrk Monday night told of the moo by Judge Long over the telephone. He at once wired orders to the military companies at Charlotte. Greensboro and Statesville to flurry by special trains to Salisbury. Findiug these were too late he countermanded the orders. He states that some Ur.ie ago he offered the sheriff the service of the militia, but the offer was declined as unnecessary. He declares the lynching a blot on the state, and savs he will at once *teps to discover and bring to justice the guilty parties. PURE FOOD BILL PASSED. Georgia Solons Go On Record ar Against Adulterations. The Georgia house of representatives passed a pure food bill"' Monday, framed in accordapce with the act recently DassCd bv the national con gress. This bill provides for the prevention of the adulteration, misbranding and imitation of foods for man or beast, of beverages, candies and condiments, of medicines ,drugs and liquors or their manufacture and sal9 in the state of Georgia. GEORGIA AGRICULTURISTS. To Hold Forth in Sixtieth Annual Convention in Griffin The annual convention of the Georgia State Agricuiutral Society, now in the sixtieth year of its existence, will be held in Griffin, August 29-30. A very atractive program has been arranged, and the meeting promises to be one of the best held in years. There will be from 100 to 150 delegates present. '% HOT WAVE KILLS SCOF ES New York Hospital and Police Ambulances Filled With Dead and Dying?Other Cities Suffer. New York and its environments sweltered Monday far into the night, for it was the hottest day of the year so far. Upwards of twenty persons in the city alone died from the heat and hospital and police ambulances were kept more than busy, so numerous were the cases of prostration. V These numbered scores. The government thermometer registered 92 degrees at its highest during the after noon, which is a record for the year. But it was much hotter in the streets * and some thermometers recorded as ^ high as 102 degrees. The humidity was excessive. H Thousands of tenement house-dwellers could not endure to stay in their crowded homes and deserted them for the time being for the city parks and the seashore, where they slept Monday night in the open. The curb brokers in Broad street were obliged to suspend business because of the ... ;| fierceness of the sun's rays. At Washington up to 2 p. m., no diminution in the intensity of the * heat wave was noticeable. At that . v,J| hour the weather bureau reported the -Jm temperature as 92 and the humidity . ?|i as 53. On the street the temperature v yM at 2 o'clock was 103. Only two cases of heat prostration had been reportI ed at that time. ! At Philadelphia the extreme heat ! of Sunday and Monday has caused three deaths and a number of prostrations. The government thermometer on the postoffi.ce building at one o'clock p. m. registered 93. BIG CHICAGO BANK CLOSED. Officials Wrecked Institution?Shock Caused Death of Two Depositors; With a deficit in its accounts es-' timated to reach close to $1,000,000, and the whereabouts of two of its ^ highest officials unknown to the an- ~ ':$S thorities, the Milwaukee Avenue .-i? State Dank, one of the largest out- >j lying banks in the city of Chicago, ' was closed Monday by State Bank "dffl Examiner C. C. Jones. -v In the excitement following the announcement of the failure, J. G. Wis- /JS ser, an official of the Royal League, . who had on deposit in the bank the funds of that organization, fell dead, Jm of heart failure. Henry Koepke, a '31 smal grocer, and a regular depositor, 1 Jg| on hearing that the bank had suspended payment, went to the rear ;;JI of his store and shot himself. Riotous scenes attended tlfe an- -ijm nouncement of the failure, and a large 'force of poiice struggled all day.to ' l^J|| . avrti+orl rrnwrt of deDOSitOrS? . : ncep on wviwu v.~v? ? - ?? . _ nearly all of them foreigners and jaj many of them wonrrn?from rushing the doors 'of the Institution. The fact that the bank was on the verge of failure was first revealed by Pres- |jj ident Pauf O. Stensland, one of the absent officials. A letter to his son, Theodore, who is vice president, writ- 'jJ ten from St. Paul, and received Saturday, started tue investigation, which brought about the suspension. Another sensational feature of the J| affair was the disappearance of the cashier, Henry W. herring, and the issuing of a warrant for his arrest on a charge of embezzlement. , M Many persons burst into tears when they found that their savings were endangered or lost. CHINKS PROVE A FAILURE. While Willing Workers, Turpentine || Labor is Too Hard for Them. After having tried the experiment j' -4^ of substituting Chinamen for negroes in the naval stores, C.- W. Chase, millionaire phosphate miner and naval stores operator of Gainesville, Fla., has decided that it is ndt a success/ ! and has arranged to snip tne iortyeight Chinamen back to Portland, Ore, where he secured % them .three * f'S? months ago. It is said the experiment ; cost Mr. Chase $10,000. The China- 7Jj men were willing workers, but were | not physically able to stand the hard labor. vjjj SON OF SCHOFIELD SUICIDES. v * - :3m Was Sick and Thought He Would Be a Burden to His Wife. Major and Paymaster William B. Schofieid cf the regular army, son of the late Lieutenant General Schofieid, United States army, retired, shot and ? ? killed himself in San Francisco on Monday. Major Schofieid was on a, leave cf absence on account of ill neaith, and, it is* said, that he feared an attack of locomotor ataxia, and .1 t V? /-s tt'/miI/I K n l\iir/lon +/\ Vsl<<i !l#lt lie VV'JUIU MCV/UUi^ CL WUIUCU W lll<9 wife. ? till A VERDICT UNNECESSARY. Girl Kills Herself While Sanity Commission Was Considering Her Case. At Augusta, Ga., Monday night, , while a sanity commission was sitting in consideration of a case questioning her mental capacity, Miss Ida * , ' Calhoun escaped from McNaughton's sanitarium, stealing. Br.McNaughton's pistol. The girl, who is 18 years old, y walked a distance of two miles to Westyew cemetery, where she fired a bullet through her heart. * " . % . , . m