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An advertisement that appeared
one day in the Morning Post, informed
an interested world that Mrs.
Mandeville-Jones required a governess
for her younger daughter, aged
thirteen, with the mention of a salary
identical with the wages that Mrs.
Mandeville-Jones paid her underhousemaid.
Reggie Fulwarton, who knows
everybody, spotted the advertisement
at once, and in the smoking room of
the Hookah Club, -called the attention
of one of his pals to its seductive
offers.
"What! You don't know Mrs.
' Mandeville-Jones? Why, old Jones
was proprietor of some patent medicine
or other. Regular old bounder.
And she too awful for words! But
he's safely planted underneath the
daisies, while she's got a house in
Berkeley square and plenty of the
needful! So there you are!"
Nevertheless, Mrs. MandevilleJones
had plenty of answers to her
advertisement from applicants to undertake
the education of Miss Irene
Mandeville-Jones at ?18 a year.
Among the rest was a dark girl of
about twenty, very simply dressed
in mourning, whose appearance attracted
the mamma of Miss Irene, be
cause sue luoaeu meets, auu suuubable,
and was neither too good looking
nor too well dressed for a "governess
person."
Mrs. Mandeville-Jones elicited the
fact that her name was Una Carew;
that her father, who had been rector
of a remote Cornish village, had lately
died, leaving her mother and herself
very badly off; and that she had
decided to take a situation as governess,
while her mother went to live
with her brother in the north of England;
who could not take both of
them in.
"And you have references?" inquired
Mrs. Mandeville-Jones. 1
"I have a letter from Lady Chedgrave,"
said Una, timidly, handing it
to the lady as she spoke.
"Lady Chedgrave!" said Mrs.
Mandeville-Jones, suspiciously. "I
thought" the present earl was a widower!"
"This is from the Dowager Lady <
Chedgrave," explained Una, hastily.
"She lives in our village and has '
known me all mv life!" i
The handwriting of a dowager '
countess did not fail to impress Mrs. '
Jones' mind, and she decided to <engage
Miss Carew as the instructress i
' of her beloved Irene, who was a fine- 1
y ly developed, specimen of the genus i
.--'spoiled child." :
Una Carew, who had always been 1
used to being petted and made much 1
of at home, found her life in the )
f Berkeley mansion anything but a bed '
or roses> The ostentation and vul- :
garity of the whole establishment and 1
Its occupants jarred upon her. ]
But unfortunately there was an- 1
other thing which preyed upon her ]
mind. Nearly a year before her father's
death, Lord Langley, the eld- 3
est son of the Earl of Chedgrave, 1
whom she had known ever since they <
were boy and girl together, had come <
i to her and asked her to marry him. i
But Una knew what a hot-tempV--*
pered and eccentric old man Lord j
I Chedgrave was; and though he had ]
always been extremely kind to her, \
and even made a sort of pet of her,
she knew he would never dream' of ^
accepting her as a daughter-in-law.
In fact, he had definitely said that *
> - his son must marry an heiress, and j
that if he disobeyed him and married
a pauper they might sweep a crossing,
for they would never get a penny
x>f allowance out of him. j
And so had told her ardent suiter ,
that she would never marry him. la ^
consequence he had gone off to the ^
Rockies in search of the grizzly.' But ]
nnnr TTna having- Fot rid of her lover.
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with feminine perversity longed for
him to come back; and when she saw
a paragraph stating that Lord Langley
was bringing home an American j
heiress as his bride she began to lie ^
awake at night wondering why the j
universe was not run on a totally different
plan.
One day, however, there appeared ?
a new misfortune. Irene announced
that her brother Bertie, aged twen- (
ty-two, was coming back from a pro- ]
tracted tour on the Continent. And
he proved to be very much the sort 1
of little bounder that she had ex- 1
pected. What Una- had not antici
pated, however, was that, finding a
'doosid pretty girl" established
under the maternal roof, he felt it
his duty to start "spooning."
"Now Una Carew was by no means
so deficient in spirit as Mrs. Jones
had imagined; and when Mr. Bertie
began paying her his somewhat exaggerated
attentions, she had no hesitation
in snubbing him heartily.
Bertie himself was surprised and 1
disgusted to find that a mere governess
was not prepared to accept
him quite at his own valuation; and
he took counsel with a bosom friend
at the club.
, "Fact, I assure you, dear boy!
Spend all my time makin' eyes at
her, don't you know; and don't get
a bit forrader!"
Fulwarton looked up. "Oh, the
Balmv Bounder' relating his con
quests! Rough on the girl, anyhow!"
he said to himself.
"Why didn't you try her with
gloves? '
"Just what I did! Hanged if she
didn't tell me she had plenty of her
own. and didn't want any of mine!"
"And what did you say to that?"
"Told her I should never have
guessed it from personal observation.
Ha-ha-ha!"
"Infernal little cad! He wants
kicking!" murmured Reggie to his
cigar
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"Gad! You should have seen the j
way she blazed up! Thought she was
going to hit me over the head with
her parasol! Hang it all, she needn't
give herself such airs, if her name is
Una Carew! She's only a governess,
after all!"
A telegram that Fulwarton wrote
was addressed to Lord Langley at a
hotel in Paris, and contained only
two words: "Wanted?Run."
The fact that Lord Langley had
been Fulwarton s fag at Eton may
possibly account for the curious wording
of the message. As soon as Langley
arrived in London he went
straight to Fulwarton!s chambers to
r?k him what he meant by dragging
him away from the Gay City with
such a peremptory wire.
"First of all, old chap, about that
American heiress whom we have seen
darkly hinted at in various papers?"
"A mere figment of the fertile
journalistic imagination! I hope to
heaven you haven't dragged me all
this way merely to hear me deny
such an obvious 'duck' as that!"
"Not exactly! The next question
is?what about Una Carew?"
"My dear Reggie, after her father's
death she went away somewhere as
a governess. But all my efforts to
trace her have failed!"
"And you are still??"
"You infernal ^diot! Of course, I
am still?as you gracefully put it.
Only, as you know, she refused me!"
"All right. Supposing I could tell
you where she is?"
"You don't really mean it, Reggie!'
"Well, look here. You know the
Mandeville-Jones lot?"
"I've heard of them."
"Very well. That's where Una
Carew is doing the 'Jane Eyre' turn!
And the 'Balmy Bounder' himself is
trying to introduce a little sunshine
into her existence!" <
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The next day when Lord Langley
called in Berkeley square and asked
to see Miss Carew, the pompous butler
informed him that she was walk- <
Ing in Hyde Park with Miss Irene. (
He jumped into a hansom and
dashed off to see if he could find
her there, but not before his card had ^
been secured by the butler, who in
due course laid it before Mrs. Jones.
Now it so happened that a friend of 1
the latter lady caught sight of Irene
In the park, and bore her off to tea,
leaving Una Carew with the afternoon
to herself.
By a singular coincidence Mr. 1
Eertie Jones happened to come upon 1
tier in a solitary portion of the park, <
and seized the opportunity of being <
more than usually pressing in his at- {
tentions. Things had actually got to j
the stage when Una had begun to *
raise her voice in alarm, when Mr. ~
Bertie Jones suddenly found himself J
seated in a freshly watered flower
bed, while a particularly athleticlooking
young gentleman tucked
Una's trembling arm in his and
marched her off in another direction.
The next morning, however, Lord ^
Langley, in spite of the protests of i
:he butler, insisted on seeing Miss r
3arew. He then proceeded, as elo- (
juently as he knew how, to plead his t
suit. g
But Una was still firm in her re- i
'usal, being convinced that it would j
:uin his prospects in the eyes of his
!ather.
Lord Langley was just beginning j.
:o wonder whether by any chance ^
she cared for some one else, when the c
ioor was thrown open and the but- ^
ler announced:
"The Earl of Chedgrave!"
"Una, my dear," he began, "how
i'ye do? Come and kiss me! Langey,
you infernal young soundrel,
svhat are you doing here, sir? What's C
;hat? Do I understand you to say 1;
:hat you are making an offer of mar- 5
*iage to Miss Carew? You dare to 1
all ma that to mv verv race?" "y
"But, father, she has refused me!" 3
"Refused you? Then, by gad, sir,
she is a sensible girl! She evidently
fcnows you are a worthless young
fool, or you would have proposed to 41
tier a year ago!" 5
"But I did, sir; and she refused
me then, too!" r
"Better and better! Hanged if I ;t
ion't marry the girl myself! Una, 1
my dear, will you marry me?"
Poor Una was thoroughly puzzled
by this new aspect of the old man,
but he went briskly on:
"Now, look here, my dear, you i
have got to choose between the*)ld c
fool and the young fool. Which will c
you have? Don't mind saying that r
you prefer to have me as a father-inlaw,
if that's how you feel about it.
Langley, you idiot, why don't you '
kiss the girl, while I do the heavy
father in the background?"
When this had been duly carried 1
out, Langley, who was still lost in *
astonishment, remarked, "But I j i
thought, sir, you always said I must c
marry an heiress?" J
"So I did. Because I knew what c
an infernally obstinate young fool \
you were! But I meant you all along ?
to marry Una! So now it is all settled!"
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At this point the door was again
thro~n open, and this time Mte. 1
Mandeville-Jones stalked in and at '
once began: f
"Mr. dear Lord Chedgrave?"
"Pardon me, madam, for interrupt- 1
ing you!" said his lordship, who was (
now fairly bubbling over with ex- '
citement. "You were good enough 1
to write me about my son's move- s
ments. Allow me to say that my son 1
is quite capable of taking care of ]
himself. And in the future he will
have the assistance ol the lady to
whom hitherto you have entrusted
the education of your doubtless
charming daughter!"?Modern So- (
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Machinists Out at Charleston.
Machinists of the 'Southern railway
shops at Charleston struck Mom
day on orders from the headquarters
of the union. Between fifty and a
hundred men are out.
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No "Clansman" for Columbia.
Manager F. L. Brown of the Colum
bia Theatre received a telegram from
Kiaw and Erlanger, which was as
follows:
"Mr. Erennan writes that owing to
the race riots in the south he is com
pelled to cancel dates with you for
'The Clansman.'"
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Will Petition for a Pardon.
Ubi Mullican of Spartanburg, who
shot and killed P. L. Cannon, his
stepfather, last May, and who was
convicted on the charge of manslaughter
and' sentenced to two years' imprisonment.
through his attorney,
Stanyarne Wilson, will petition the
pardon board for a pardon.
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Spartanburg Exchange Suspends.
J. C. Ferguson & Co., cotton and
stock exchange at Spartanburg, have
suspended business. The cause assigned
by the manager is bad wire service
occasioned by continued rains.
While no statement is forthcoming
regarding losses it was stated authoritatively
that they may be able to pay
rjollar for dollar. Mr. Ferguson says
the business will be resumed.
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Charged With Robbing Employer.
Clyde Faison, alias L. C. Jones,
was arrested in Columbia on the
charge of robbing an official of the
Allen Roofing company in Raleigh,
N. C. Faison was employed by the
Phoenix Bridge company. It is chargJd
that he took $3,600 from his former
employers.
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Heavy Damage from Rains.
The continuous rains which have
)cen prevailing in the section about
dewberry for the past month, did
mormcus damage * ~.mers. As a result,
the farmers are blue over their
srospects for even a fair cotton crop,
tfanv of the fields are white, but the
uapie could not be picked because
>f the rains. Much of the cotton is
jeginning to rot in the fields.
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May Not Use Law of Georgia.
The garnishment law of Georgia,
rhich has been availed of by parties
~ fafniinn mflv no lonser be
II IJUUIU V^Wl ? w_
ised, if the case now pending in the
Charleston courts are settled against
he defendants in the case of Blanch
igainst the Southern railway, who is
rying to recover wages from this cor(oration
which had been paid in Geor;ia.
Justice of Peace 0. H. Puckett and
lis constable, J. M. Paine, testified
u the pending case and the decision
if the court will be rendered in a
ew days.
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Woman Sues Husband's Parents.
A Charleston news item says: Pearl
Messervey is suing her parents-inaw,
J. C. and Adeline Messervey, for
;25,000 damages, alleging that they
tave deprived her of the aid, comfort
tnd society of her husband, John .E.
Jesservey. The couple recently sepa-1
ated on their wedding trip in Savanlah,
a fact which the complainant
it tributes to the influence of the
roung man's parents.
It is said that young Messervey is
lot of age, but there is no question
hat the couple were married and are
iow separated.
Tillman Suggests Passports.
Senator Tillman, in a speech on the
ace problem at Augusta, <3a., de lared
the south to be on the verge
?f events which will lead to a terrible
ace war unless a peaceable solution
>f tlie situation is not found and
icted on immediately. He suggested
he adoption of the European passoprt
ystem, compelling every person to
lave certificates of good character betare
thev could cither leave their resdences
or homes, or could be receiv:d
m another section of the country,
dp declared the - Atlanta riots had
caused him to select the race probem
.is the subject of his speech, and
.aid:
"Tv. i or three weeks ago tonight
ve had what was called the Atlanta
;ot, with the details of which most
. nlihrmirh the full
A you in t; ittj'juiui, . u__
tory has never got into the papers,
md it is because of the riot, and
lie illuminating character of the oe urrenees,
that I have felt almost
compelled to take this my first oppurunity
to lecture in the south to present
to you the views that have come
:o me illumined by thoseb loody and
;ornble transactions."
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Salvation Army Citadel.
With appropriate ceremonies, the
corner stone for the First Salvation
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Army citadel in the south was laid
at Greenville. Work on the building
has begun and will be rushed to completion.
The building is to cost $8,000,
not including the site. Most of the
money was raised in Greenville. Several
thousand people witnessed the
cornerstone ceremonies. Colonel Holtz
of Cincinnati was master of ceremonies.
He was assisted by Major Berliman
of Atlanta, Ensign Widgery
and Captain Hanna of Greenville.
President Poteat of Furrnan university
also made an address, with other
ministers in the city.
With the exception of a small building
in Birmingham, Ala., the Greenville
citadel is the first building erect
ed by the Salvation Army in tne
south.
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Victim of Negro's Pistol Dies.
J. E. Gailard, one of the three white
men shot by Henry Adams, alias Sam
Small, at Manning, died later from his
wound.
Adams was an employe of Cole
Brothers' circus and became involved
in a difficulty just as the train was
departing from Snmpter. At Sumpter
a mob was iormed for the purpose of
lynching the negro, but Sheriff Muldrow
evaded the mob by taking the
prisoner from the train and driving
across the country to Bethune, a sta- .
tion on the Seaboard Air Line, where
he boarded the train for Columbia.
Adams was placed in-the penitentiary
for safe-keeping.
George Spiven, master of transportation;
Ed Tilton, and W. H. Moore,
also employes of the circus, will also
be placed in the penitentiary as witnesses
to the shooting.
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New Line for Westminster.
The Southern railway has just finished
a survey of a projected road
from Westminster, near Seneca, to
Rosamond; near Brevard, N. C., by
which the system will greatly shorten
the mrmntninR frrtm At
i UC lumi; wv tuw
lanta and other southern points, eliminating
the run by way of Spartanburg.
The proposed new route has been
under consideration for some time,
but the survey of the line, which has
been kept quiet, has just been completed,.
and it is expected that an
announcement cf the plans of the company
will soon be made. Immense
quantities of coal are brought over the
Spartanburg line from the Tennessee
I mines, adding to the congested traffic
of the road, and the new route
from the southwest to the mountain
country will be in the interest of
economy to the road as well as the
public.
RUSSELL, POWELL, HILL
Are the Three Winners for Georgia
Appellate Court Eench According
to Official Primary Returns.
The business of the new Georgia
court of appeals will be considered
by Judge Richard B. Russell of Win?
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dor, Judge a. ut. row bU \JL U iajw a j |
and Judge B. H. Hil! of Atlanta, these
three having received a plurality over
the other Thirteen candidates in the
state election.
The amendment for the court of appeals
was ratified by a majority of
at least 25.G00 in the state.
The official consolidated returns reported
give Russell 30,705, Powell
22,382, Hill 21,054 and Peeples 20,461.
Hill's plurality ever his nearest competitor
is 603 votes.
There are three counties unreported,
but the returns from these will
net materially affect the result in all
probability. Those from which reports
have not been received are Baker,
Union and Warren. Newton, the county
site of Baker, and Blairsville, the
county site of Union, are both remote
from railway and telegraph connec
tion.
SIXTY NEGROES ARE INDICTED
By Fulton County Grand Jury Charged
with Murder of Policeman.
at auauia riiuaj an liiuiuujj.cut
returned, by the Fulton county grand
jury against sixty negroes, charging
them with the murder of County Officer
Heard, who was fired upon and
killed by a large party of negroes on
the night of September 24, in Brownsville
near Clark University. All of the
sixty negroes were presented in one
indictment.
Officer Heard was shot and killed
while he and a posse, consisting of
eight county officers and three citizens,
under the leadership of Lieutenant
Poole, of the county police,
were patrolling the streets of Brownsville.
The posse had arrested eight
negroes and disarmed them; and was
proceeding up one of the back streets
of the village when a large party of
negroes was descried standing together,
nearly all of them having shotguns.
Tho nnaca JiHvanroH anH r?allAr nnnri
the negroes to surrender, but, without
a word in reply, the negroes opened
up a murderous fusillade ot shots
upon the officers, and immediately
guns were fired at them from houses
which flanked the street on both sides.
Officer Heard was instantly killed, and
four others of the county police received
minor wounds. The officers returned
the fire, killing three negroes
and wounding another.
MACHINISTS STRIKE'
Shops of the Southern Silent
in Many Cities.
ROAD REFUSED DEMANDS
Men Asked for an Increase of 25 Per
Cent In Wages and Ten Hours a
Day, But Were Turned Down,
Consequently They Strike.
The refusal of the 'Southern railway
to further treat with its machinists^
relative to wages has result
ed in a general strike throughout the
big system. One thousand machinists
in the employ of the road walked out
Monday morning at 11 o'clock. 1
Last August the machinists made
a demand for a 25 per cent increase
in wages and ten hours a day. The
matter was referred to a committee
of railroad officials composed of Superintendent
of Motive Power Stewart
and General Manager Spencer,
the latter a relative of President Spencer,
Frequent delays were asked for by
the officials, but finally an ultimatum
was issued, which stated in substance
that the Southern had decided
to refuse the demands of the machinists.
The busy hum of the machinery
in the various shops of the company
was soon supplanted by a death-like
stillness, and if the big corporation
is as stubborn and persistent in its
refusal of an increase in pay as the
machinists are determined the strike
will be of long duration.
James O'Cfonnell of Washington, D.
C., president of the international association,
ordered the strike immediately
after the first ultimatum of the
Southern railway was made known to
him. ' ^
The International Association of
Machinists, which is one of the
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strongest unions in mc wuu w j, utr
raanded a general increase throughout
the system of the Southern of 25
cents per day of ten hours. The demand
was made last August, and
since that time officials of the compaay
have had ,the matter under
consideration.
Pending the decision of the railroad,
the machinists continued at
work.
Finally, the railroad officials offered
an increase of 15 cents per day
to the machinists employed at the Atlanta
shops and an increase of five
cents per day to the rmployes at the
Spencer, N. C., Charleston and Knoxville
shops. This was declined, whereupon
the road refused to consider
the question further. Hence the strike.
The . following shops are affected
by the strike: Atlanta, Alexandria,
Va.; Manchester, Va.; Spencer, N.
C.; Asheville, N. C.; Columbia, S. C.;
Charleston, S. C.; Macon, Ga.; Bir
mingham, Selma, Ala.; Greenville,
Miss.; Knoxvjlle, Sheffield, Ala., and
Greenville, S. C.
At present the machinists receive
$3 per day for ten hours' work, while
the apprentices* scale of wages is
graduated from 75 cents to $1.25 per
day of ten hours.
The strike is the first in which the
machinists have engaged since 1901,
when they demanded a nine-hour day
and a general increase of 2>5 cents
per day. The 25 cents per day was
allowed and. the nine hours refused.
HEARST SCORES HIS CRITICS.
Says Derogatory Statements About
Himself Are a Batch of Lies.
William R. Hearst, candidate for
governor of New York on the Independence
League and democratic ticket.
began his week's campaigning
with four addresses in Manhattan on
Monday night He dwelt at length on
the attacks made upon him by the
newspapers of New York city, and denounced
as a batch. of lies most of
the statements affecting himself as
a candidate and in his private capacity.
AFTER SCALP OF CANNON.
Federation of Labor to Make Fight
Against Speaker cf the House.
It was reported in Washington that
the managers of the American Federation
of Labor campaign in poll- |
tics have under consideration a new
move, this time locking to the defeat
of Speaker Cannon for re-election to
ihe speakership in case the republicans
control the next house.
All congressional candidates who
will not give assurances that if reelected
they will vote for some other <
candidate than Cannon for speaker
will be marked.
LABOR DEARTH STOPS LOOMS.
Increase of Wages Failed to Relieve
Conditions in Rhode Island.
Cotton mill agents in Rhode Island
complain of a scarcity of help in some
departments and assert that in this
lespect the increase in wages granted
early last summer did not have the
beneficial result hoped for.
In some of the mills at the present
lime more looms are stopped than
has been the case heretofore
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TROOPS LANDED IN CUBA
Several Hundred Soldiers Boys Do^
barked at Havana and Sent to v >
Camp Columbia.
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The first la. di.ig cf American scT
tiiers in the present occupation ot *
Cuba was accompanied Sunday with
marvelous promptness and the seccnd
and third brtal.o .s cf the fifth TTni- >
ted S:ates infantry are now settled
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first a..d fourth baitalio-s of the same ?
regiment which ariived at Havana
Sunday afternoon also were seat one
to the camp promptly. General Fan*
ston established h.s headquarters at
Mariaaao, convenle.-t to his commandColonel
Waller, commit:ding the marine.-,
has "ce.n crde.ed to report toGeneral
Funstoi and the entire force
of regulars and marines will be under
Funston's .command until the- arrival
of Ge. eral B.-ll, who will direct
lh9 distributon of the forcestnroughout
the island.
"Within an hour from the time that
the transport Sumner came alongside f
the railroad wharf in Havana, the disembarking
ha> been completed and
ihe t50 men composing the second
anl third battalions of the .fifth had
been transported on street cars direct
to the camp. The troops are in good %
condition. V *
The disarmicg of former insurgents
progresses better. Reports from memIters
of the ci armament commission
in various provin.es indicate tha$
trouble which was threatened may be.
avoided, although ex-iebels ard volnnteers
in a few towns iT Santa Clam
province are still disinclined to be thn
first to disarm and it is ita.ed t hat v;; '
American soldiers miy have to be
sent to back up the demands of tho - ^
disarmament commission. Havana* *
Santiago, Pinar del Rio, Matanzas. --;- i
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Ul>U ruoiiu i :i ivi^c (iiuiiuv?a cuy /
practically ;cl ar of reb-ls and sho^; ;
no sims of trouble.
Governor Taft, Assistant Secretary'
Bacon and General Funs ton are girat-, ||j|
ifled at the situation and believe thafc^-^st
the difficulties in Santa Clara proviuce
will be overcome In a few day*. fl||
So confident are they that Govevno*
Taft and Mr. Bacon ray that they he- 5$
lieve they will be able to start for,
home within a week.
TWO LYNCHED .IN ALABAMA.
Negroes Swung t Up by Mob for A?*. ,
aaufts on White Women. i-ll
A special from Mobile, Ala., sayet
The crimes committed upon Edoa.
May Fowler, Lillian May Savell, Rutii ,
Sossaman, and attempted on others
whoso nanus aie not given, were ^
avenged by a party of forty-five mem %'*
Saturday afternoon in a lonely place, v, -J
just cff the Holt road, in the neighborhood
of Pricnards station.
leaders ordered the men, who wer4 J
all armed with revolvers, shot
and Winchester rifleb, not to lire aur '
shot, and the orders were carried out.
Robinson, who committed the first
crimes that startled the people of Mo* M*|
bile, and worked tbem up into a fury/
bordering on madness, culminating iti
the attack on the jail, was first strung
olAirlir itMlE.- / '
Up. Jtl'6 SaiU iiUUllllg^ a JU OiVIT4^ OI4 mmmm.
gled to dea'h after being strung up.
The other negro, named Thompson,
was very sullen from the time that: ?
l:e was taken by the mob until there
pe was placed arouud his neck. in.
fact, neither of the men -showed any
signs of fear.
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WOULQ HAVE BEEN WISER. v \, v
.
Judge Tells Culprit He Made Mistake- J,
in Stealing Small Plunder.
"If I had wanted to be a thief 1
would never have taken a package
of tin tobacco tags when I have hun- - ^
dreds of thousands of dollars entrusted
to my care all*tho time/* dramab
ically declared George Lyle of Atlanta.
Ga., before Judge Mullowy, in.
Washington, D. C., after being found
guilty of stealing 3,499 such tags, valued
at 1 cent each, from the Southern '
Express company, by whom he Is em*
ployed as a messenger.
"Maybe it would have been wiser," ''/>./
the court agreed, "for then you would
have * been showered with bouquets."
BOLL WEEVIL IN ARKANSA8.
Pest Appears in Three Counties Borf-- .
| dering on Louisiana.
\V. G. Vincecheller, director of theArkansas
agricultural experiment star ,
tion, announces on the authority ot , Dr.
Hunter, the United States government
expert, that the boll weevil v,
has appeared in Arkansas in Miller,. - ...
Lafayette and Columbia counties, bordering
on Louisiana.
Director Vincenheller adds that - .
there is a strong probability that the. ^
interested territory will be increased
considerably by December. / .
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"AUNT" BETTY GOES HENCE. ^
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Alabama Woman Passes Away at the
Age cf 105 Years. r
A Montgomery dispatch says: "Aunt
Betty' Allen of Larkin, Jackson couh- c'
ty. Ala., is dead after having closed
her 105th birthday. Her family record
shows that she was born in North ' ^
Carolina in 1SOO. Her youngest son in
J 75 years old. ^
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