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ten cents cotton
Is Edict Sent Forth by the
Southern lAssocintion.
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UNION IS FOR ELEVEN
Committee in Session at Hnt Qnrirmc
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x Fixes Minimum Figure?Farmers'
Union "Stands Pat" for One
Cent More.
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The executive committee of the
Southern Cotton Association, at Friday's
session at Hot Springs, recommended
to its members and the cotton
growers of the south that no cotton
be sold during the present season
at less than 10 cents per pound.
In a resolution adopted by the committee,
it is stated that the crop is
in a state of deterioration and for
t that reason no estimate of the crop
was made. The resolution statos, however,
that the committee is satisfied
that the crop will not be as large
as the current estimate.
The placing of the minimum price
at IV ceuus was iu tut; nature ui a
victory for the conservative element
of the association. In the executive
session of the committee, which was
continued throughout the day, the
highest price named as a minimum
was 12 cents.
Itie resolution adopted by the com- '
mittee, .which is in the shape of an
address to the public, follows:
/'Inasmuch as we, the cotton growers
of the south, know that there has
been great deterioration in the cotton
crop since August 15, and,
"Whereas,, the consensus of opinion
of the members of this committee is
that the deterioration is still going
on, we deem it unwise to make an estimate
of the crop at this time. We
are satisfied that the crop will not
be as large as the current estimate.
"W/e, therefore, suggest and urge
upon all our members and producers
throughout the scuth not to sell their
cotton at a figure less than the cost
cf production. . ]
"Owing to the high price of the J
cost 6t firing and scarcity of labor, ((
we feel, in order for the fanner who
? raises cotton to live, feed and clothe '
himself and family set aside a small
pittance for the improvement of his '
* farm, it is necessary that cotton
should not be sold below the bread ]
and meat line, which is 10 cents.
"In fixing 10 cents per pound as (
the limit below which it should not '
be scld, we. have no. reference to the 1
crop ort any immediate condition.
"We call upon all southern inters
ests to aid. in maintaining for all time '
this price as a minimum. We urge
> the necessity of marketing the crop
slowly and ^nly on an advancing mar\
ket, and withdraw all cotton from
the market at every decline. ~
"We appreciate and thank the press
> for the vaf&ed service of the past-and '
urge those intorests of the south to 1
assist in every manner possible to '
-N maintain this minimum price. . \ j
> "We appreciate and thank the mer- !
chants and bankers for the noble man- j '
ner in which they have stood by the ! '
farmers in the past and urge a.continuation
of their co-operation and sup- ;
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FARMERS UNION WILL "STAND
"PAT" FOR ELEVEN CENTS.
Friday,, the third day of the convention
of the National Farmers' Educational
find Cooperative Union, in
session at Texarkana, Texas, was per- .
haps the busiest of the meeting. The j ;
morning session was taken up for j
the most part in hearing the report ;
of the national executive committee. [*
This report shows the affairs of the !
organization, financial and otherwise, |
to be excellent condition, also that j
. ~ the books and accounts of all officers i
were correct. |
, The afternoon was largely devoted !
to addresses and debates, including ;
^ the cotton warehouse proposition.
The report sent out Thursday night j
as to the fixing of the minimum price :
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ior coriun seeu ijuauuurawe. mu i
price was fixed at $15 per ton through- i
out the entire cotton belt, regardless
of ifeetton.- * ^Several
leading members of the organization
were' asked for an expres- j
sion of what they thought of the action
of the Southern Cotton Association
at Hot Springs in placing the j
minimum price of cotton at 10 cents. ;
and the verdict was unanimous that i
the National Farmers' TTnion will i ,
stand pat for 11 cents. President Duck- I i
worth said: t i <
"We will stick for 11 cents. The ! ]
deterioration of the-general condition '
of cotton during the last two weeks ! ]
is sufficient evidence to prove that i i
the union has not placed the price (11 '<
% cents) too high." J ]
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FORGERIES CROPPING OUT. j
Oyer Quarter Million of Hippie's Bo- '
gus Notes Are Found.
Forgeries for more than a quar- i
ter of a million dollars by Frank E. !
Hippie, the suicide president of the ; j
defunct R#al Estate company at Phil- j <
adelphia have been discovered by Re- j '
ceiver Earle, who stated that he had ! i
no idea where Hippie's irregularities 11
would end. j I
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CHEATHAM IS' CLEARED.
Secretary of Cotton Association Found
"Not Guilty" of Speculating by
Executive Committee.
At Fri.lay night's session of the
executive committee of the Southern
Cotton Association at Hot Springs,
Ark., Richard Cheatham, secretary ot
the association, was exonerated of the
charge of dealing in futures while
an official of the association. Idcorporated
in the resolution clearing Cheatham
was an expression providing that
it shall constitute an offense in the
future for any official or member of
the executive committee or member
ot any state committee to deal in
futures.
The resolution exonerating Cheatham
declares:
"That while all form of speculation
is disapproved of, yet the committee
finds that ilfr. Cheatham was
acting only for other parties and in
view of the fact that there is noth
ing in the constitu\ion which makes
a person incompetent to hold office
because he deals in futures, and because
of Mr. Cheatham's efficiency
and of the fact that we believe the
assaults on Cheatham came from the
enemies cf this association we dismiss
the charges as unworthy of further
consideration, and denounce all
charges made against Mr. Cheatham
except what is hereinbefore 'stated,
as false.
"That in the future it shall constitute
an offense against this association
for any officer or member of the
executive committee or state officer
to in ; any way deal in futures, and
any one violating this shall be expelled'
from office."
The report, which is signed by a
committee composed of L. B. Irvin, E.
W. Smith and L. E. Love, wa9 adopted
by a vote of 11 to. 5.
. SULLIVAN HURLS THE LIE.
Illinois Committeeman Comeo Back at
Bryan with Hot Bhot.
Roger C. Sullivan, member from Illinois
of the democratic national committee,
has issued a lengthy statement
in which he replies to the recent
atacks made upon him by Bryan,
rhe following is an extract of Mr.v
Sullivan's remarks:
"In his " Jefferson Club banquet
speech e.t Chicago Tuesday evening
William J. Bryan again saw fit to
make' the excuse for exploiting his
uew - ambition to convert the democratic
party of the United States into
in autocracy with himself on the dictator's
throne. I regret that he has
ione so, as I would regret any incident
or circumstance tending toward
Jiscord in the democratic party.
"If portions of Mr. Bryai's speech
mean anything, they mean that he
would rather have his own way than
have the democrats elected to congress
or any other office. He has
invited all Illinois democrats who
agree with him in his opposition to
me to bolt their ticket. If there are
any democrats in Illinois who are dts-'
posed to act on this typically Bryantstlc
advice, many of them Unfortunslelv
will he found in congressional
districts which are close, but in which,
with united effort, we have a good
chance to elect democratic congressmen.
If these districts send republicans
to the next national house of
representatives, the democratic party
of the nation.will have Mr. Bryan to
thank.
"Mr. Bryan has said by Inuendo
that I, as an official of the Ogden
Gag company of Chicago, have secured
government favor and profit by alleged
illegal or corrupt means.
"He harps on my connection with
the Ogden Gas company as if that
connection were disreputable. The
public press will show that the only
offense this corporation ever committed"
was to reduce the price of gas.
"The very first paragraph in Mr.
Bryan's speech on me and on the
Illinois situation contains a deliberate
untruth. Practically every succeeding
paragraph contains either a deliberate
untruth or an equivocation of the
kind that we expect only from the
shifty, word-Juggling pettifogger."
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NEW RAILROAD.
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Sayannah and Statesboro Line to Be
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CAicnucu iw Mviniuai
Within the next few days an ap%
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plication for charter for the Savan
nah, Statosboro and Western Railway
company will be filed with the
secretary of stale of Georgia. It will
be an extension of the Savannah and
Statesboro and the extension will
reach Atlanta. ?
The road will be about 210 miles
long. The counties through which it
ft'ill run are Bulloch, Emanuel, Johnson,
Washington, Baldwin, Jones, Fut2am,
Newton, Rockdale, DeKalb and
Pulton.
DIDN'T LIKE THE CITY.
Young Woman Suidide^ Because De
barred from Return to Country.
Because she was going to be left
in the city and could not go to the
country with her mother, Mrs. May
Bell Hawes, aged 22 years, of Atlanta,
Ga., took an overdose of laudanum
and died from the effects some
hours later.
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PLAN CORPORATION
Cotton Association to Aid
"Distressed" Staple.
MANY MILLIONS CAPITAL
Cotton Will Ee Stored ar.d Held Until
Price Advances?Commodity Will
Thus Be Kept Out of the
Hands of the Exporters.
The executive committee of the
Southern Cotton. Association concluded
its session at Hot Springs Saturday
afternoon, and adjourned sub?
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jeci lw uiy can ui lhv; inesiueiii. ul
the association. The principal business
transacted at the last day's resolution
looking to the formation of a corporation
with a capitalization of $100,000,000
for the purpose of takfng care
of the "distressed" cotton in the south.
The resolution follows:
"Whereas, after two years, experience
in attempting to maintain a fair
price for cotton and realinzing that
we are in our present status an advisory
board; in order to put ourselves
in position to enforce our minimum;
be it
"Resolved, That we organize the
Southern Cotton Association into a
chartered corporation ror the purpose
of buying, selling and warehousing
cotton, and that we open book3
of subscription for a capital stock of
$100,000,000, the shares to be $5 each.
"That a president and board of directors
be appointed, and that each
state, county and precinct president
be furnished blank certificates ana
books of subscription, and that we
immediately begin a campaign to raise
this capital stock."
This resolution was passed over as
unfinished business, and a committee
of five, consisting of John P. Allison
of North Carolina, E. O. Smith of
South Carolina and J. C. Hickey of
Texas, was appointed to prepare definite
and detailed plans for the purpose
of incorporating the association as
outlined in the ^resolution, and report
at the next meeting of the executive
committed >
President Harvie Jordan gave the
following explanation of the resolution:
"It fs for the purpose of taking
care of distressed cotton, and by distressed
cotton I mean that which is
forced on the market by people who
are unable to finance cotton and are
unable to liquidate maturing obligations.
The corporation proposes to go
into the markets and buy up this
class of cotton when it is being offered
at prices below the minimum fixed
by the association, to be held by the
corporation until the market advances
to the minimum price. The cotton will
VQPIIMIC wnrphnnsps
ue muicu in (hwvuu .. _
throughout the cotton belt.
"Later in the season, the association
will gather full and complete data
with reference to the probable yield
of the crop and issue it for the benefit
of ihe members of the association,
the only thing that the committee is
thoroughly agreed on at the present
is that no cotton, basis middling,
should be placed on the market and
sold for less than 10 cents per pound."
In order that the people may be
reached and the resolution fixing the
minimum price at 10 cent* may be
thoroughly canvassed and that an appeal
may be made directly to the cotton
growers, the committee decided to
hold meetings in the different cotton
raising state at which President Harvie
Jordan, Field Agent Smith and
Executive Committeeman Witherspoon
of Mississippi will speak. The
itinerary arranged for the speakers
follows:
Jackson, Tenn., September 20; Mont?
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gcmery, Ala., Septemuer ?nrewport,
La., September 27; Palestine,
Texas, September 28; Taylor, Texas,
September 29; Waco, Texas, October
1; Dallas, Jexas, October 2; Sherman,
Texas, Oct-her 3; Oklahoma
City, October 4; Fort Smith, Ark., October
5; Pine Bluff, Ark., October 6;
Orangeburg, S. C., October 3; Raleigh,
N. October 9.
TO CHOKE OFF HEARST.
Bryan Followers Form Alliance With
Forces of Jerome.
An event of importance took place
in Albany, N. Y., Wednesday, and
-the city is buzzing with political interest.
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i ni? wcs mc v;uuicicii^;c ui ucjxiitcrat.s
from many counties of the state
called to discuss the situation in the
party, the central figure of which was
District Attorney Jerome. It is conceded
that this meeting was aimed
to prevent the nomination or indorsement
by the state convention at Buffalo
of William Randolph Hearst.
TIED UP BY RATE LAW.
Cotton Belt Road is Out to Extent of
Several Thousand Dollars.
A special from Sherman, Texas,
says that the Cotton Belt railroad is
one of the sufferers -s a result of the
new rate law to the extent of several
thousand dollars. Fifty cars of coal
are tied uj^in the Denison yards of
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad,
as the Cotton Belt refuses to
receive the.n at the advanced rate.
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NEW CONSTITUTION
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Adopted by Farmers' Union and Important
Resolutions Passed at the
Closing Session in Texarkana.
The National Farmers' Educational
and Co-Operative Union, in session at
Texarkana, Texas, completed its la- !
bors and adjourned Saturday.
| Among the resolutions passed were
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the following:
To memorialize congress to give to
the rural school districts of the south
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the coltcn tax of $60,000,000 collected
in 1861-65.
Urging members to purchase only
union made goods bearing the union
la eel and declaring m tavor or a par'
ceis post.
A practically new constitution was
adopted and will be submitted for approval
of all the members of the union
at a referendum vote to be taken
between the hours of 1 o'clock and
12 p. .m, November 4.
By this new constitution the name
of the organization is changed to the
Fanners' National Union, and the qualifications
for membership are fixeu.
White persons and Indians of both
sexes over 16 years of age are eligible
to membership, but negroes will
not be admitted. Merchants, lawyers,
bankers and members of trusts and
combines are barred.
The officers elected for the ensuing
yvai aic as lunuwo,
President?C. S. Barrett, Atwater,
Ga.
Vice President-^J. E. Montgomery,
Gleeson, Tenn.
'Secretary-Treasurer?iR. H, McCullough,
Beebee, Ark.
Board of Directors?W, A. Morris,
W. iS. Miller, J. N. McCallester, Campbell
Russell, James Butler.
MACHINE GUNS ARE USED.
In Attack by Government Troops, Lea
by American, on Cuban Rebels.
Government, military and railroad
officials and the newspaper correspondents
at Havana were thrown into
a state of excitement Sunday evening
by men who arrived from Paso Real
with stories that the armored train
which left Havana Friday had met
with various obstacles beyond Herradura,
had been thrown from the tracks
and its 300 men, machine guns, horses
and equipment captured.
The real facts are that Col. Avalos,
who was believed to be surrounded
in Pinar del Rio City, and the armored
train made a junction east of Consolacion
Del Sur, and the government
forces to tnat extent are improved.
This news caused mu<?h relief in official
circles.
The train proceeded Saturday evening
from Paso Real to two and onet:
ird miles east of Consolacion Del
Sur, where the rails had been removed,
and replaced a* locomotive and
three cars which had been thrown
from the track. The insurgents attacked,
but were driven off by the
Imc machine guns handled by the
American Captain Webster.
li. is believed that many insurgents
were killed, but number is not'known.
Sunday night 215 men and four machine
guns, commanded by Lieutenant
Colonel Clews started from Havana
for Paso Real, with horses, supplies
of provisions and quantities of
rapid fire gun ammunition.
Captain Ravenna, one lieutenant and
four privates wounded are the only
casualties reported in the Consolacion
Del Sur operations.
LEGISLATOR FATALLY STABBED.
Justice of the Peace Makes Good Use
of Knife on Home Wrecker.
At Pittsburg, Pa., Lawrence B.
Cook, a member of the Pennsylavnia
legislature from the fourth district,
who was renominated by the republican
party Saturday, was perhaps fatally
stabbed Sunday by Andrew MacMillan,
a justice of the peace, and
one of the wealthy residents of Carnegie.
Cook met Mrs. McMillan, and the
two went to a house in Lawn Street.
While th^y were in a 100m, MacMillan
burst open the door and engaged
in a struggle with Cook, with the result
above stated.
SECRET WATCH ON CUBA.
Policy of Silence Maintained by State
Department.
If the state department has advices
from Havana regarding the
movement of troops in Cuba frorp
Mr. Sleeper it has determined on a
policy of silence.
It is stated that intervention has
not'been asked nor has its possibility
been considered, yet orders have been
issued through the war and state departments
for a close observation and |
report of all conflicts between tne
opposing forces in the island.
WOMAN DECAPITATES CHILDREN.
Chopped Off Heads of Little Ores and
Cooly Reported the Deed.
. Mrs. Henry Knippin, the young wife
of a farmer living in Putnam county,
!ohio, decapitated her two children,
a boy aged three and a girl aged one
and a half years, and then went to I
the home of a neighbor and told what
she had done. The woman was discharged
recently from the Toledo start,
hospital for the insane.
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COMER WINS EASY
In Initial Strength Test Before
Alabama Convention.
HIS FOLLOWERS CONTROL
All Nominations Unanimous?Jelk's
Administration and Hon. W. J.
Bryan indorsed?Concise Platform
Adopted.
The followers of B. B. Comer wiped
out all opposition in the Alabama state
democratic convention in session at
Montgomery Monday, and are now in
complete control of the democracy 01
the state.
The contest came on the proposition
to increase the state executive committee
from 36 to 45 and elect them
by the vote of the state instead of
by districts as now. The Comer men
voted for the election by the whole
state and won out on a vote of 2 to 1.
The administration of Governor
Jelks was Indorsed, as was Mt. Bryan.
A contest occurred early in the
evening on a proposition to adopt a
plan to reduce the representation of
the black belt in the state convention
by allowing representation only on
white population. It was lost.
John R. Tyson and S. D. Weakly
were nominated for chief justice and
Tyson declared nominated on the primary
vote of 322.56 to 291.44. On motion
of E. K. Campbell, of Jefferson,
the nominations were made unanimous.
All other candidates withdrawing, J.
R. Dowdell and T. C. McClellan were
nominated for associate judges of the
supreme court
H. S. D. Mallcry, of Selma, present
chairman, was elected chairman
of the executive committee. An executive
committee, submitted by the
Comer followers, was then selected.
The'platform adopted makes the
following reference do W. J. Bryan:
"We indorse all essential principles
and policies advocated by democracy's
great leader, W. J. Bryan, especially
his arraignment of trusts, private monopolies
and abuses of public service
corporations. We proclaim him the
greatest democrat of our time, and
believe in nis overwhelming election
as president of the United States.
We indorse him as the standard bearer
of our party in 1908.
"In line with the policies of our
leader., we favor the complete control
and regulation of all corporations,
and the annihilation of trusts by the,
national and state governments acting
within their respective spheres,
and demand the absolute divorcement
oi rauroaa aiia trusi muuences iram
national and state affairs."
"Regarding the plan of nominating
alternates to succeed United States
Senators Morgan and Pettus in case
of their death, the platform says:
"Wo disapprove the action of the
lato democratic executive committee
fp this state in requiring candidates
for-governor to pledge themselves in
advance of election to make appointments
to fill anticipated vacancies in
the-office of United States senators,
otherwise than under the obligation of
their oath's of office as required by
law.
"We recommend that the governor,
who shall he elected in November,
1906, fill any vacancies xoccurring in
the office of United States senator
from this state, after his induction
into office by appointing to fill the firs:
vacancy thus occurring the person
who received in the late democratic
primary the highest number of votes
for alternate senator, and by appointment
to All the next vacancy thus occurring
the person who received in
said primary the next highest number
of votes for alternate senator?said appointment
or appointments to continue
and be effective only until the meeting
of the next regular or extraordinary
session of the legislature.
"We favor an amendment to the
constitution of the United States requiring
United States senators to be
elected by a direct vote of the people."
entire township obliterated
Over Two Hundred People Lose Life
in Gigantic Landslide.
Practically without warning, the
side of a mountain rising above the
township of Kwareli, in the Caucasus,
broke away, and in a' sea of semiliquid
mud, sand and stones swept
down oh the township and overwhelmed
and obliterated it. Some 255 persons
were buried alive. In addition
to the lives lust, countless head of cat+
r.orlennH on/1 iVio orf\r%<2 worn Ho.
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stroyed.
Similar disasters are of common occurrence
in Caucasian valleys.
HANGING DRAWS THOUSANDS.
Confessed Negro Assailant of White
Girl Executed Before Big Crowd.
Dave Moore, colored, who assaulted
the 3-year-old daughter of Jim Hood,
of White county, Ga., some weeks
ago, and who was convicted at a si)ecial
term of White superior court ten
days ago, was h'anged at Cleveland
Monday in the presence of two thousand
people. ^The scaffold was erected
about one mile from town.
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MARTfAL LAW IN CUBA. :
Palma Gives Up Hope of Peace and
. Issues Decree Calling For Arrest
of Prominent Liberals.
A special from Havana says: President
Palma Monday night issued a decree
suspending all constitutional
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guarantees, with special reference to
articles 15, 16, 17, IS, 19, 22, 23, 24
and 21 in the provinces of Pinar del
Rio, Havana and Santa Clara. The
law enforcing public order, which is
equivalent to martial law, also is put
in immediate effect in the three provinces
named. A supplement decree
has been issued suspending the decree
of August 23, pardoning the repentant
rebels, and ordering that all rebels
be arrested Both decrees have been
communicated to all officers in the 3
fiolrl
'Coincident with the issuance of de- . crees
which followed a decision not
to yield to the peace demands the H
government ordered the arrest of prac?
tically every prominent liberal.
When the news of issuing of these
decrees reached the veterans' peace *
commission there was immediate and
almost unanimous denunciation of
President Palma and other members
of the government
The goveAment doe? not intend
that membership in congress shall
shield anybody from arrest. Senator
Morua Delgado was one of the first arrested.
and several representatives
were quickly - added to the list of
prisoners. Former congressmen and ' ?
veterans are being searched for by 3
the police. Senor Zayas and most t
of the leading liberals have* myste- ;'M
riously. disappeared.
rawlings boys sentenced. m
Notorious Case Brouaht Before Court
For Fourth Time.
At Valdosta, Ga., Monday, Milton, |
Jesse and Leonard Rawlings appeared -J
before Judge Mitchell, of the superior -/J
court for the fourth time, and had 'M
sentence passed upon them for their ?
alleged complicity in the murder of . *
the Carter children.
Milton and Jesse were sentenced to
be hanged on the second day of Octo- J3
her, and Leonard was again sentenced * J
to. life imprisonment
When asked by the judge whether ;
they had anything to say, why sen- |
tence should not be pronounced upon <J
them, Milton and Jesse declined to say 'M
anything. Leonard only said that he
was not guilty of the crime with which %
he was charged.
Alf. Moore, the ?negro, convicted of i
complicity in the murders, is already -M
under sentence of death, to be executed
on October 5.
T A ' ~D o vrrH t <yc< fo fTi ai* '
J. 1IC l/COC VJ1 o. VI. ivanivi5k), f t
of the hoys, is now before the United J
States suiireme court on an extraordl- v M
nary motion for a new trial, and it is . ^
likely that the boys' and the negro
Moore will be again respited in the "9
event that the old man's case is not i
decided befora the dates set for their
execution. It is stated that Leonard j
Rawlings will be taken to the penitentiary
again as soon as an order is rfj
received foi^his transfer.
RESULT OF MAINE BALLOTS.
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Republican Plurality Small?Gomperi 3
Failed to Down Littlefield.
Governor William T. Cobb, republican,
standing on a platform devoted
almost exclusively to a continuance of ^
the prohibition law of the state, was
re-elected in the state of Maine Mon- |
day by a plurality of less thin 8,OOOr %
with but few exceptions, the smallest >1
margin of >otes ever given a reDubli
can governor in the state.
Cyrus W. Dsvis, the democratic can. :
didate for governor, polled one of the
largest votes in the history of the
party in the state. His issue in the
campaign was the resubmission of the
liquor question, which was incorporai- 1
ed in the state legislature four years
ago. / . <J1
More interesting from a certain
standpoint was the re-election of Congressman
Littlefield, republican, by a
greatly reduced plurality.
Littlefleld's candidacy was the subject
of bitter opposition on the part
of Samuel Gcmpers, president of the ~'
American Federation of Labor, who ^
asked for his defeat on the grounds
that he had voted against certain labor
measures at the last session of
congress. 1 :sjj
EMBALMED BEEF POISONOUS.
Ten Persons Made Dangerously III -i
From Eating the Stuff. .
Ten persons in three different farn- A
ilies of Kalamazoo, Mich., have been
lying at the point of death, suffering
from the effects of eating dried beef.
A partial investigation has revealed ,
that ih/i ramp nrleinallv from
one of the large packing houses. .The
physicians are of the opinion that
some sort of embalming fluid was the
cause "of the poisoning.
POSTOFFICE INSPECTOR DROWNS
Went Fishing for Crabs and Got Into
Water Over His Depth. Inspector
Frank Voges of the postoflice
department was drowned at
Bayou Grande, Fla., Sunday, while
wading in the bayou with others catching
crabs.
He couid not swim and stepped into
one of the unnumerable deep holes
in the bayou and drowned before assistance
could reach him.
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