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# . FAMlLY~MORDERED i Sale of Crop Causes Quarrel and Blocdy Butchery. FIEND BEHIND THE BARS i , 1 Children Saw Father and Mother Murdered When They, in Turn, Were Clubbed to Death?Bodies ( Dumped in Creok. Barney Parsons, a farmer, his wife and three children were murdered Fri day near Lickinton, iVIo. A farmer j 1 named Hamilton has been arrested, i ' charged with the murder, and is said j ' to have confessed. | ( Parsons had sold his farm and crops j ; to Hamilton, and it is alleged that tlie men quarreled over the terms of the sale. Parsons and family set j ( out from their former home in a covered wagon, bound for northern Missouri. The body of Parsons was found perforated by shot, and the mother and three children had been clubbed to death. Joda Hamilton, tee alleged murderer. is in the Houston, Mo., jail, strongly guarded to prevent lynching. He is said to have made a complete confession, of which the following is a summary: At a timber-bordered place in the road, as Parsons and his family were driving along, they were confronted by Hamilton, armed with a shotgun. Deliberately aiming at Parsons, Hamilton discharged both barrels of the gun and Parsons fell to the 1 ground. Hamilton then advanced upon him and clubbed him over the ' head with the butt of the gun several times." He then beat the head of the mother almost to a pulp, and 1 after killing her clubbed the three ' children to death. ] The bodies of all five were then ' loaded into the wagon and taken to 5 Big Piney Creek, about one mile dis- 1 tant from the scene of the murder, 1 ' and dumped into the creek. The body of one of the children has not yet ; been found. A party of fishermen from ; ' Houston discovered the bodies of the two children Saturday about nocm 1 A further search brought to light the 1 bodies of both parents, and word was . sent to Houston. ' Shortly after the news had been 1 received there, Hamilton rode into ? town on a mule that was recognized J as one that belonged to Parsons. He 1 was arrested and locked up in jail. 1 Parsons was a quiet, industrious J fanner, and never had trouble of any ] sort. Hamilton has also been fa- i vorably known over the entire coun- : try. i I The murdered children were aged 11, 4 and 1 year. Twenty deputy sher- i iffs guarded the prisoner while in ] the county jail, but following threats r of lynching the sheriff hurried him away to a safe place in tne uzaru ] mountains. Hamilton is only twenty t years eld. ? c NEGRO COLLEGE DYNAMITED. t C President of Institution Made Himself T Offensive to South Carolinians. j |Iarrell College, a negro institution \ at * Seneca, S. C., was blown up by j dynamite about midnight Friday night t Rev. J. F. Williams, colore^, pre- ] sided over the college, and it was sup- < ported by northern white people. He went to Seneca from Abbeville sev- t eral years ago, and it is said has i made himself very objectionable to i; the white people since his arrival. He < has preached incendiary doctrines, it t is alleged, and has advised the ne- r groes not to work for the white peo- ^ pie. . g On account of all this, a letter was sent him revera^ weeks ago advising 2 hint to leave Seneca, but it seems he f ,pafd no attention to it. r Dynamite cartridges were placed un- j der each corner of the negro col - v..u.a<no, Kw enmo nartles un- f lege uiuiuiufi ijj "v-? known and when the clock struct i midnight the dynamite was ignited, c which partially wrecked the building, j > NEGRO CONVICTS GAIN LIBERTY. Fifteen Overpowered Camp Guard and Made Their Escape. * Officers at South McAlester, I. T., were notified -Saturday ot the escape of fifteen negroes, inmates of the a Arkansas state penitentiary, from a c camp in the Boston Mountains. The c convicts are thought to be headed for 2 the southwest ? The men were working in a gang j ^ and at a preconcerted signal overpowered their guard, and set out in their r convict garb. Several members of the . gang are thought to be armed. g MRS. JEFFERSON DAVIS ILL. Has a Distressing Cold, But Nothing Serious is Apprehended. Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of the president of the Confederate States, is ill with a cold at the Hotel Majes- ? tic, New York. Her illness is not be- c lievc-d to be serious. Her daughter, c 1 Mrs. J. A. Hayes of Colorado Springs, ^ Col., is en her way to New York s LABOR UNIONS ATTACKED! President of American Bottlers' Association Says Unionism, as Now Conducted, Must Ee Destroyed. The American Bottlers' Protective Association began its eighteenth annual session Tuesday morning. The initial meeting did not attempt anv; business, and the session was given :ver to addresses of welcome by Governor Terrell, -Mayor Woodward and responses by members of the association. Following these, President Geo. B. Hugo delivered the annual address, i in which he clearly outlined the policy of the association. One section of his address bordered on the sensational, attacking, as he did, trades-unions in the most withering fashion, and declaring that they are a menace to society as they are now conducted. Fully one thousand delegates from various parts of the country were in attendance. Many* of tliem were accompanied by their wives and daughters. President Hugo's opposition to unions was based upon his charge that the unicn cannot determine the value uf an employee, that every business must have a responsible head and that when his authority is divided with that of a "walking delegate" it is no longer authority. In this conuection Mr. Hugo said: "The logical sequence of labor unionism is socialism, and socialism as commonly understood means stagnation and commercial death to any country. This propaganda is being preached until it has created a feeling of hatred between employer and employe, in place of that feeling of good will so necessary for the success of any business. The labor union with its devilish weapons of coercion, intimidation and cruelty, coupled with the selfishness, greed and cowardice cf the employers, has first brought the independent workman to his knees md now has assumed the dictatorial attitude of a tyrant, demanding the control and management of our busiaess. "How long will it be before we realize that the trade-unions are giving as a lesson of which we are badly in need, showing that individuals defeated separately, are invincible when inited. "Every business must have a re? <-!- i?...i TTiV.n nMiot hn VP an r:ponsiDie nt^u ?uu mu^i, .? ? Lhority. Divide this authority with i walking delegate and it is no longer lulhority. Who is to determine the ralue of an employe? How can the value of an employe be determined? [f he is a member of a labor union le cannot serve two masters, he canlot be ldyal to you and his union, md a man without a soul has no value. "Unionism as at present conducted nust be destroyed, must be killed. As ?lbert Hubbard says in his preachnent on the Law of Pivotal Points: " 'Where labor unions go beyond the 3ivotaI Point and attempt to dictate ;he amount of the output?forbidding my many to earn more than so much; iecide on the proportion oi apprenices to workmen?that is, who shall idvance and who not; tear our work hat has been done by non-union meu md require that it shall be done over jy union men; insist that you must bin a union, or else be deprived of he right to work; then the union has massed the Pivotal Point, and has leased to give an equitable return. " 'When your childdren do not go o school for fear of the cry of 'scab;' vben your wife dare not hang out he washing in the back yard for fear nf ?c?nh-' when vou hesi- I )L Cll*5 V^l %T , ? ate to go to your work knowing you nay be carried home on a shutter ; vhen brickbats take the place of rea>on, and the walking delegate says : Carry a unuion card or take out an iccident policy,' then things have gone o far in self-protection the union nust be temporarily laid low with a ink-pin. ""Ihe people of America cannot aford to let any combination of men >ecome an engine for the destruction >f liberty, be It labor union, Molly daguires or Ku-Klux." BOOZE LICENSES RAISED, Jives in Caddo Parish, La., Must pay $2,500 Per Year. Specials from Shreveport say that is a result of the determined work >f ministers of that city, saloon li:enses have been increased by the DoricVt from $1 . ( l!IlilUl Ultra ui ^auuu x ui >wiu Yx, > 00 to $2,500 a year. About 100 saloons are affected. The iew law will be effective January 1907, and is intended primarily to itamp out disreputable dives. WITNESS ASSASSINATED. * Yivate Detective Killed After Testifying Against tTexans. At Grcveton, Texas, Tuesday night, \ n. Nyer, a private detective, wa3 hot as he stood on the steps of the ourt house after testifying against ertain Trinity county, Texas, people. To died Wednesday morning. He iad been brought to the town by the lu'riff as an attached witness. * LONGSTAYINCUBA j ?_ i By Uncle Sam Necessitated According to the Outlook. I i HAS TEDIOUS JOB ON HAND I Secretary Taft Says Question of Withdrawal is One i'or Future Consideration ? Important Conference Held in Havana. A special from Havana says: The j United States, through its peace coin- j iiiissioners, is not ready to announce when it will withdraw from the island ci Cuba and surrender the reins or government to the Cubans, but this action cannot be taken until the time arrives when i'a.ir elections are assured. This statement was maae by Governor Taft Friday as a sort of a valedictory address to the revolutionists committee with which the American commissioners dealt with in inducing the rebels to cease hostilities and negotiate peace. The committee had a conference lasting an hour with Governor Taft, Assistant Secretary of State Bacon and Charles E. Magoon, who is to succeed Mr. Taft as provisional governor, and at its conclusion expressed satisfaction with the position taken by the provisional government. Headed by Alfredo Zayas, the committee visited Governor Taft for the avowed purpose of requesting him to declare the policy of the United States toward Cuba and the policy of the provisional, governor concerning appointments to public offices. The Americans listened carefully to all the representations of the commission, and then Governor Taft replied pointedly that he could not out line the policy of the United States _ . I more clearly than was done in his nrcclamation establishing a provisional government for the island. He added that as the representative of the United States, he was just as anxious to surrender governmental affairs to the pubans as the Cubans were to regain them, but the peace commissioners were under the responsibility to build up conditions which would make the Cub&n government a stable one. Governor Taft would not predict when such a satisfactory condition would be reached, but he said the Cubans themselves could hasten that time if they were disposed to do so. A fair and honest election by the results of which the Cuban people were willing to abide, 'Secretary Taft declared, was necessary before the United States would feel justified in withdrawing from the island. .Senor Zayas, Carolos Garcia and Jose Miguel Gomez hastened to show Governor Taft that it was not their personal ambition to obtain public offices. They declared, however, that the interests of their party demanijed that the government should not be continued (in the form against which they had revolted. Assurances were* onVcm ih? rnmn ittee bv Mr. Taft that w-~ Mr. Magoon v ould . consider complaints against any official, investigate 1 them and remove persons found unfit to hold positions of responsibility or trust, but that capable men with good records would be retained. The committee informed Governor Taft that they intended to dissolve at once. Friday evening a committee represented many Americans in Cuba presented Messrs. Taft and Bacon with 1 an address expressing appreciation for the great services they had done for all residents of the island. MICROBES IN THEIR WHISKERS. ?- I Dairymen in Los Angeles, California, j : May Be Forced to Shave. The Southern California Veterinary j j Association has declared war on be- j < whiskered dairymen. If it has its 1' way, care-takers, milkers and milk* de- < liverers in Los Angeles will have to go clean shaven. In a paper read before the association, whiskers were J ! denounced as the favorite rendezvous i and .abiding place of germs. POSITIONS GO BEGGING. * I Georgians Too /Prosperous to Hanker j < After Postoffice Jobs. Civil Service Commissioner A. W. Cooley of Washington, D. C., is au- < thority for the statement that times < have become so prosperous in Geor- 3 . _ -it_ . 1 --A J.fl ( gia mar it 15 wmi me uunusi unficulty that Postmaster Blodgett at 1 Atlanta can secure enough eligibles ' for he civil service list to fill vacan- 1 cies in the positions of postal clerks J and letter carriers in the Atlanta postoffice. 1 i COST OF POSTAL SERVICE. Cortelyou Gives Advance Statement of Receipts and Disbursements. Postmaster General Cortelyou has ' given out an advance statement of 1 the receipts and expenditures of the postal service for the fiscal year end- ' ed June 30, 1906. It shows a reduction of the annual deficit from $14.- 1 572,5S4 fcr 1905 to $10,516,996 for j 190C. over four millions of dollars. r \ BRAND OF "COWARDS" I Put Upon His Opponents by Head of Bottlers' Association?Row Ensues Over Sitter Attack on Unions. A sensational debate as to whether the American Bottlers' Protective Association should repudiate or endorse the attack made by its president, Geo. B. Hugo, upon labor unions, was precipitated at the final business session of the association in Atlanta Wednesday morning. For half an hour worda flew thick and hot* and for part of the time directly between the president and Walter Stapleton, a dejegate irom Bridgeport, who opposed the expression of Mr. Hugo's emphatic views. As an outcome of the situa lion, it was voted that President Hugo's address should not be published by the association in pamphlet form. The dispute began when George W. Tucker of Philadelphia moved a reconsideration of a motion made Tuesday that President Hugo's address be printed in pamphlet form and sent to every bottler in the United States. Mr. Tucker alleged expense as his objection to carrying cut the orders of this motion. After a few speeches on the motion to reconsider Walter 'Stapleton of Bridgeport sprang to his feet and j said: "Gentlemen, we are not here to butt into other organizations. We don't sell our goods to Vanderbilt and Rockefeller. We sell to the working man and if such ideas as were expressed here yesterday go out over the country approved by this association you'll see mighty soon what our customers among laboring classes will do. Let's strike from our minutes every word about anti-unionism. Don't let us endorse any man who holds to such opinions as the president uttered." There was applause from parts of the hall, but the cheering ceased as President Hugo, leaving the chair, advanced a few paces from the rostrum, and said: "You come here under the pretense of opposing the publication of my address on the ground that it would cost too much. I was prepared to meet that, for I was going to bear the expense of publication myself. But. that isn't ycur reason. You're afraid, and you know it." At this juncture Mr. Stapleton interrupted with: "You're act the whole association." "I'm a part of it though," rejoined the president, "and I'll stick to my statements." Then followed a denunciation of unions mere bitter even than his Tuesday's addiess. "Any man." he said, "who willingly signs an agreement to employ only uuion men is a traitor to his country aud free institutions. Any man who signs it unwillingly is a coward and whether he signs it willingly or unwillingly he's a fool." President Hugo then took a lunge if camnei fJomnprs. Drerident of the American Federation of Labor, and declared: "When Jompers goes to the government and says that what he demands must be granted, when he enters politics and seeks to defeat honest men because they don't uphold his socialistic views, then the time has come for self-respecting business men to call a halt on him. Such institutions as he represents must bt? killed. ! "And it can be," cried President Hugo. "It's the biggest game of bluff ever put up. It's simply a foreflusher's game foisted upon the people and you can call it if you'll only be men enough not to lie down like a lot of whipped curs." "Out of twenty-eight millions of working people in this country only two millions belong to the union. That makes about one man out of every 14 who is in the union. I say that if you can't make your living out of those 14 honest men, you ought to go out of business. And if you don't indorse these sentiments, I'll brand Hie majority of this association as cowards." Fpur cities contested for the next meeting place of the association? Denver. Colo., Philadelphia, St Louis and Rock Island, 111. Denver was selected. FUNSTON NOT TO STAY IN CUBA. I Governor Magoon and General Bell I to Take Charge of Affairs. General Frederick Funston will not continue in command cf the American forces in Cuba. Governor Taft an. aounced Wednesday that he and General Funston will leave Havana for the United States Saturday on the jattleship Louisiana. With them will 10 Assistant Secretary of State Bacon and the affairs of Cuba will be eft in the hands of Governor Maroon and General J. Franklin Bell. GUILTY CONSCIENCE SMOTE HIM. Navy Deserter Turns Preacher and Sees Error of His Ways. Conscience - stricken, Rev. James Clayton, Jr., presented himself to the assistant secretary of the navy at Washington Friday and asked that j tie be arrested for deserting the navy j five years ago. Slayton said that his i conversion to religion and service as a minister of the gospel caused him to s^e the wrong he had done. * \ V, . - , ..r. I CANAL BY GO NT RACT j I Invitation for Bids is Sent Forth by Uncle Sam. * A MONOPOLY IS GIVEN Only Men or Corporations With Millions of Cash Will Be Considered. Control of Engineering Work to Be Retained. I - J Invitations for proposals to complete the Panama canal were jssuea at Washington Tuesday the canal commission and the l'oim of contract undar which the work is to be" done # was made public by Chairman Shonts* who also gave out a letter written to the secretary of war, giving the commissions' reasons tor contracting the work. The contract provides that each bidder must undertake the entire work of construction. No bar will be ottered to corporations associating in t.te undertaking, but they must be legally organized into a Single body with which the government can deal. Bidders will not be considered who do net have capital of $5,000,000. A bond of $200,000 is required with each proposal anu bond of $3,000,000 will j be required from the successful bid* der. The bidding is not limited to I American contractors. All proposals ! are to be in before neon of December j 12, when they will be opened. Proposals are to be expressed in' terms 6f percentage upon the estimated cost of construction, which is to be fixed by a board of five engi- , neers. , The chief engineer of the canal com * ? ? ? __ ? ~ V-k? nVinii<mon Af +K A ATI. I'l IbbiUIl lb LU uc tutuiuiau ui buc bu- | gineering board. The engineering board will also es- j timate a reasonable time for the completion of the canal and will agree upon a system of premiums and penalties to be handed to the contractor according as the work is completed within or beyond the estimated cost or time. The contract specifies that the commission is to retain control of all engineering work in connection with the taxation of the canal, also municipal engineering, the police, sanitary, hospital and commissary departments, mess houses, quarters, construction and maintenance of buildings,' operation of the Panama railway. Sixty days after signing the contract actual work is to begin on the isthmus. No American employee is to work i?ore than eight hours. Ckairman Shonts defends the percentage system of payment in his letter to Secretary Taft as follows: "This plan is being employed increasingly by the oldest, largest and most successful corporations in the country. "The government will get the benefit of the combined efforts of the best and most experienced contractors in the world, each in charge of a depart ment in which he is a specialist ana co-operating with other specialists. "The government will secure the co-operation of these contractors in keeping mechanics of all classes. "By retaining control of the work and exercising strict supervision through its engineering force, the government will protect itself against cheap or faulty work. "The contract will be more flexible. Finally a termination of the contract, should it become necessary, will be less disastrous to the contractors, while a resumption of work would be easier to the government on account of its close relations thereto." The canal, under the contract, can be constructed with bettor results than it can be done by the government, Secretary Shonts says. It would take the commission years to get | men and build up departments equal to those now controlled by the leading contractors, according to the letter. EMBRACED WOMAN BY ACCIDENT j And Macon Man Contributed $50.75 to j the City Treasury. J. W. Cooper, a resident of South Macon, was >ned $50 in police court Tuesday morning, after two po- i - - - j liceraen declared that he had Doiaiy \ hugged a young lady on the bridge I at the fair Midway. Cooper declared that he had thrown confetti and was j running from some other ladies when he struck the bridge rail and was thrown against the young lady, who charged him with hugging her. Cooper said he acted with no purpose of I touching her. A SKIDOO OF GAMBLERS Occurs at Hot Springs Under Fire cf ; Law and Order League. Forty years of gambling came to a i spectacular end in Hot Springs, Ark., j Monday, when the City Improvement Union, of five hi^dred citizens, clos- J ed thirty gambling rooms and gave a battalion of gamesters a few hours | to leave the city. Five hundred gamblers, cappers and omen, left Tuesday. - . ..... Nature's Fireworks. Ail occuirence that has taken place at Amiens shows that where there exists an electrical establishment of any size nothing more than a good robust thunderstorm is needed for providing a display cf natural fireworks on a scale that leaves nothing to he desired in the way of largeness. . Aroused by unusual noises in the factory during a storm the other night, the manager of the electrical works at the station was met by a wonderful spectacle cn entoring the place. No artificial display ever presented a scene so fairylike. Tremendous showers of sparks were being given. off from every machine in the jlace, while there -was a deafening crackling as if from a hundred sputtering fires, a machine man had seen his food burned to a cider as he ate it. all the electric bells were sounding, and the telephene had been wrenched from the wall. The current had to be shut off before order was restored. Next day everything worked as smoothly as if there had been no disturbance.? London. Globe. ' PARLOR TALK. "Good morning!" said the ,piano etool. "By the way, I observed thai you started to smoke last night when 'Miss Yerner was entertaining Mr. Sloman." "Yes," replied the parlor lamp. "I saw she ij'as waiting for an excuse to turn me down."?Philadelphia Presa THE MODERN VERSION. "Cholly Saphedd has married that -u elderly widow." "How folish of a mere boy to marry v;|| a woman of fifty." "Oh, I don't know. Better be an old girl's darling than a yoipig girl'# slave." It is estimated that nearly 4,000 acres of cedar trees are cut down annually to provide the material fox |j lead pencils ? . >3 INTERESTING CONTEST. Heavy Cost of Unpaid Postage. Otia nP Plia mnnf nurlmiQ rnnt9?t(t ; .4 VU^ V* bUV 1MVWW VUA AVUW WVMW r''M ever before the public was conducted by many thousand persons under, tb i || offer of the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd,, ,4| of Battle Creek, Mich., for prizes of -* 31 boxes of gold and 301 greenbacks to those making the most words-out M of the letters Y-J-O-Grape-Xuts. The contest was started in Febru- ^ ary, 1906, and it was arranged to have the prizes awarded on Apr. 30, 1906. When the public announcement M appeared many persons began to form the words from these letters, *" ^ sometimes the whole family being .-f occupied evenings, a combination of amusement and education. After a while the lists began to ^ | come in to the Postum Office, and be- ' ||| fore long the volume grew until it required wagons to carry the maiLv a Many of the contestants were .|S thoughtless enough to send their lists vfffl with insufficient postage and for a' J| period it cost the Company from *If twenty-five to fifty-eight and sixty -^8 dollars a day to pay the unpaid postage. Young ladies, generally those who J| had graduated from the high school, .fa were employed to eiamine these lists :;|1 and count the correct word3. }Vebster's Dictionary was the standard, "and each list was very carefully oor- ;-J! rected, except those which fell below .J 8000, for It soon became clear that ' nothing below that could win. Some M of the lists required the-work of ft young lady for a solid week on each js individual list. The work was done* very carefully and accurately, but the Company had no idea, at the time ?^ the offer was made, that the people ||1 would respond so generally, and they were compelled to fill every available || space iq the offices with these young lady examiners, and notwithstanding they worked steadily, it was impossi- '.M ble to complete the examination until % -Ji Sept. 29, over six months after the || prizes should have been awarded. This delay caused a great many inquiries and naturally created some '"'M dissatisfaction. It has been thought , |l best to make this report in practi- . fil cally all of the newspapers in the >!g United States and many of the maga- '3a zines in order to make clear to the people the conditions of the contest. Many li3ts contained enormous numbers of words which, under the rules, had to be eliminated. "Pegger" would count, "Peggers" would not. Some lists contained over 50,- ^ 000 words, the great majority of Jj which were cut out. The largest ||i lists were checked over two and in qorae cases three times to insure ac- :?j| curacy . ? The $100.00 gold prize was won by ;-J| L. D. Reese, 1227-15th St., Denver, Colo., with 99 41 enrrert words. The highest $10.00 goiu prize \\eiii to S. - /: K. Fraser, Lincoln, Pa., with 9921 correct words. A complete list of the 331 winners '^ji with their home addresses will be l||j sent to any contestant enquiring on |j| a postal card. 3 ?a O/lil rocfi J?e sure auu glV?: uaaic a,.Lin aumL? .r|? clearly. This contest has cost the Co. many Jgj thousand dollars, and probably has / -/|i not been a profitable advertisement, nevertheless, perhaps some who had 4| never before tried Grape-Nuts food have been interested in the contest, and from trial of the food have been shown its wonderful rebuilding powlt teaches in a practical manner that scientifically gathered food ele- 'j| ments can be selected from the field j|| grains which nature will use .for re- M building the nerve centres and brain ^ in a way that is unmistakable to users of Grape-Nuts. "There's a reason."