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| INDICTS PROMOTER Millionaire Fitzgerald Must Answer Fraud Charge. ACCOUNTING IS WANTED j Alleged That He Promoted Town of St. George, in Georgia, and Failed to Make Showing for $35,000 of the Profits. y* Philander H. Fitzgerald, milllionaire pension attorney, colonization organizer, publisher of the American Tribune, an old soldier paper, and real estate dealer, was indicted at Indianapolis, Thursday, by the federal _^__jgrand jury on the charge of using tEfe-atailato defraud. Two indictments, fcoth of the same general tenor, wrere returned against him, both in connection with a colonizing scheme in Georgia. Fitzgerald went to the fede^ ral building on heaung of the indictment and gave bond in the sum' of $4,000 to appear in answer to the charges. Fitzgerald began his career in Indianapolis as a pension attorney soon after the war, and has done an enormous business laying the foundation of his immense fortune out of the $10 fees chat he received for obtaining ? pensions. Soon after he began as a X-ension attorney, he-inaugurated The American Tribune, a monthly paper, which he sent free to former soldiers \ and in which he recorded the pensions granted and kept the veterans posted cn all matters relating to pensions and laws. jS . Several years ago he advertised a colonization scheme open only to veterans of the war of the rebellion. He n:irr?ha-?pri a larre tract of land in the state of Texas and organized a t company in which he asked the exsoldiers to take stock. The Texas project did not pan out well, and he organized the 1904 Colony Company and advertised it in his paf\ per. He professed to have purchased a large tract of land at a site which - V he called St. George, Ga.; and which was to be laid out in building and residence lots and farms from 5 to 365 acres. ' The payment of $10 entitled a person to one share of stock or a residence lot; $20 gave him a business lot, or two shares of stock; $50 would entitle a person to 5 acres, and so on ... for as much as any cared to take. It > is charged that Fitzgerald did not incorporate the company; that he got in about $70,000 cn his scheme and spent about $35,COO in platting the town, ^ building a postofhce and making other improvements; that he has not divided the surplus, as he promised; that he did not aiwoint a board of governors, T Ponce, Porto Rico, early in the day for Hjampton Roacls. . ?- . AWARD IS A MONTH OFF. -Adjudication of Machinists' Strike Not Due Before Last of December. * According to the procedure agreed upon bv the arbiters between the Ik Southern railway and the machinists .in its employ, it will be more than a month before the award can be made. P. J. Conlon. representing the ma. 4 chiuists, is to file a statement of the case by December 1st. Copies of this will go to Judge Gray, of Delaware, the umpire, and A. P. Thom. general counsel for the Southern. Mr. Thom lias been givsn until December 20 to make answer. Conlon is then to have until December 31 to make rejoinder. BOTH WERE GOOD SHOTS. Druggist and Farmer Engage in Pistol Duel and Both Are Dead. -> In a pistol duel following a minor disagreement between Joseph Hammond, a druggist of Boyle, Miss., and J. M. O'Bryant. a farmer of that vicinity, at the former's store, both of the principals were killed, and Hammond's brother was shot and slightly wounded. k ' * A HIGHER WAGES GRANTED To 30,000 Cotton Mill Operatives in Fall River?Threatened Strike and Demands Were Granted. The great army of cotton mill employees in Fall River, Mass., have won a tattle for an increase in wages, and o0,000 operatives will come under a scale giving them 10 per cent more than the present rate. The granting of the advance by the manufacturers prevented a strike, the i workmen having- voted to stop work - 11 2 11? f fl r? AiTf TlfOCJ ill ail inius n. tut* new sv.uv.uuit not accented. M. C. D. Borden, an independent cotton manufacturer, employing 5,000 operatives, Uok the lead in meeting the demands of the mill hands by announcing that the scale of wages in his mills would i>e raised 10 per cent. No demand had been made upon the proprietor of Fall River iron works mills, and his action practically forced the other mill manufacturers to grant the increase. The new pay scale affects seventy corporations operating ninety-two mills, besides the iron works plant. The manufacturers associations agreement to pay the increase is for a peried of six months, but provision is made for extending it. Between November, 1903, and July, 1004, the Fall River operatives suffered reductions aggregating 22 1-2 per cent. Last spring a part of the cut was restored, and in view of the continued prosperous business condition, | the operatives demanded a complete resumption of the 1903 scale. It is considered probable that other cotton mills ultimately will be benefit- J ed by the determined stand taken by ! "but did unlawfully and feloniously convert all of said profits to his own use." The alleged plat of land on which St George is situated is on the Geor? gia. Southern and Florida railway, between Valdosta and Jacksonville, Fla. Mr. Fitzgerald charges the suits are the result of spite work. ?erco ui iKinopn VFAPft nr i bn iivh^ivmv ? ...v ? 8ody of Wilson is Taken Up and ReBuried at Philadelphia. < At Philadelphia Thursday, in the presence of a distinguished company, -which included a member of President Roosevelt's cabinet, justice of the supreme court of the United States, the governor of Pensylvania and other citizens, the body of James Wilson, one of'the great figures in the American revolution, which lay in a North Carolina grave for one hundred and eight > years, was placed by the side of that of his wife in the burial ground of x historic Christ church. PRESIDENT LEAVES PORTO RICO * ' Departs from Ponce on Louisiana for Hampton Roads. The navy department was advised Thursday that the battleship Louisiana, with President Roosevelt aboard, - atkd convoyed by the battleships Wash->n/j TpnAessee. sailed from owners to the creation of a mortgage on all the property of the company, amounting to $1,880,01)0. One of the chief purposes of the company will be to get the line under one obligation of indebtedness instead of many. KILLED BY HIGHWAYMEN. Night Clerk and Actor shot In HoldUp Raid Made on Hotel. At Arkansas City, Kars., early Friday morning, two masked men, in an attempt to hold up the St. Charles hotel, shot and instantly killed William Goff, the night clerk; wounded S. A. Ilalpin, an actor, so badly that he died in a few hours afterwards. The robbers made their escape. the Fall River unions. RAWLINGS SHOWS DREAD. i t Old Man Says Conference Knocked i Out His Last Ray of Hope. As the day for the execution of j J. G. Rawlings at Valdosta, Ga., ap- i proaches. the old man shows nnmis- j takable signs of dread, though he has i professed all along to be anxious for J that day to arrive. The announcement ! that his attorney would not make any j further effort in his behalf threw a | damper over his hopes, and Friday j evening he sent an urgent message j to Rev M. A. Morgan, local Method- j ist minister, asking him to come to j the jail. Mr. Morgan, responded very promptly, supposing that Rawlings wanted some spiritual advice or com-1 fort. "I just want to tell you," said Rawlings to the minister, when the latter reached the cell in which the condemned man was confined, "that the way things are going now my blood will be upon the hands of the South Georgia Conference, which is to meet l-ere. If the preachers hadn't petitioned the governor to respite Alf Moore and me so that both would be hanged on the same day after the conference, the chances are that the nigger would have said something on the gallows that would have saved me. As it is, the members of the conference have wiped away every ray of hope I had." MERGER OF THREE COMPANIES Effected by Stockholders at Meeting Held in Norfolk, Va. The Norfolk and Southern Railway company is to be the title of the various eastern North Carolina and Vir " ? taimilnata in ginia rsliWitj nuya mui wiuuuutK Norfolk, Va. This was decided Friday when the stockholders of the Norfolk and Southern Railroad company, the Virginia Coast Railroad company and the John L. Roper Lumber company met and effected the merger of the three companies. GUILTY IN PEONAGE CASES. Verdict of Jury at Pcnsacola, After Five Hours' Deliberation. The jury at Pensacola, Fla., in the famous peonage cases, at 11 o'clock, Friday niglit, returned a verdict of guilty against W. S. Harlan, manager of the Jackson Lumber company, C. C. Hilton and S. F. Huggins, who were charged with conspiracy to commit peonage. * The jury deliberated Ave hours beore reaching a verdict. WANT TO ISSUE MORTGAGE. Stockholders of Macon, Dublin and Sa? vannah Called to Meet in Macon. An official call for a meeting of jhe stockholders of the Macon, Dublin and Savannah railway in Macon on December 2 was made Thursday by Secretary G. C. Smith of the company for the numose of securing consent of the > ADMITS HIS GUILT Old Joe Smith, Head of Mormon Church, Fined $300. IS TOO MUCHLY MARRIED Addresses the Court and Pleads for Leniency?Case Was Made on Advent of His Forty-Third on List of Progeny. At Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday, Joseph F. Smith, president of the Mormon church, appeared in the district court before Judge Ritchie, pleaded guilty to a charge of having too many wives, and a fine of $300 was imposed. The charge under which the Mormon prophet was arrested and fined was based the^recent birth of President Smith's forty-third child, born to his fifth wife. Earlier in the day counsel for Smith secured a transfer of the case from the criminal division of that court, where Judge Armstrong presided, to Judge Ritchie's division. After the non recess, when the courtloom was practically deserted, Smith went before Judge Ritchie,' offered his plea and the fine was imposed. The old man addressed the court. He slated that his last marriage was in ISS4. All his marriages, he said, were entered into with the sanction of the church, and, as tney believed, with the approval of the Lord. According to his faith, and the law ef the church, they were eternal in duration. He continued: . .. , . "In the- tacit'general understanding that was had in IS90 and the years subsequent thereto, legarding what were classed as the old cases of polyg .amy, I have appreciated the magnanimity of the American people in not enforcing a policy thai lu their minds was unnecessarily harsh, but which assigned the settlement of this difficult problem to the onward progress of time. '"Since 1S90 a very large percentage of the polygamous families have ceased to exist, until new the number within the jurisdiction of this court is very small, and marriages in violation of j the iaw hawe been and now are prohibited. In view of this situation, which has fixed with certainty a rej suit that cannot be easily measured | up, the family relations in the oid j cases of that time have been generally I left undisturbed. So far as my own i case is concerned, I, like others who I had entered into solemn religious ob ligations, sought, to the best of my ; ability, to comply with all requirej ments pertaining to the trying position j in which we were placed. I have felt j secure in the protection of' that mag! nanimous sentiment which was extend| ed as an olive branch in 1890 and subsequent years to those old cases of plural family relationships which j came within its purview, as did mine. "When I acepted the manifesto issued by President W'ilford Woodruff, j I did not understand that I would be I expected to .abandon and discard my wives. Knowing the sacred covenants and obligations which I had assumed by reason of these marriages, I have conscientiously tried to discharge the responsibilities attending them without being offensive to any one. I have never flaunted my family relations before the public, nor have I felt a spirit of defiance against the law, but, on the contrary, I have always desired to be a law-abiding. citizen. In considering the trying position in which I have been placed, I trust that your honor will exercise such leniency, in your sentence, as the law and justice will permit." Judge Ritchie imposed the maximum fine, but omitted the jail sentence of from one day to six months, which he might have imposed under the Utah statute. j SCHOOLBOY SHOOTS TEACHERS. ! I Because his teacher refused him perI mission to go hunting, James Dougherty, Jr., 16 years old, shot and sej riously wounded "Professor J. F. Koh; ler, principal, and Meade Snyder, his j assistant, in a school at Punxsutawnev, ! Pa. Professor Snyder's condition is ! critical. BOGUS SECURITY GIVEN BANK. Official of Chicago Concern Held For Uttering Fictitious Paper. Chaunccy L. Graham, vice president I of the Steei r>an company, was ar! rested Saturday night at his residence in Evanston, 111., on a bench warrant issued by Judge Kersten, the charge being uttering fictitious paper. The accusation grows out of the Milwaukee state bank failure. The Steel Ball concern owes Ihe bank approximately >270,000 and most of the notes it gave as security are considered worthless. STEEL WORKERS GET RAISE. Common Laborers of Giant Corporation Have Wages Advanced. E. H. Gary, chairman of the board of directors cf the United States St.eol Corporation, announced at New York Friday that the wages of the common labor in the plants of the subsidiary companies of the United States Steel Corporation would be increased 10 cents a day, beginning May 1 next. The wages of day and turn labor would be adjusted accordingly. BIG SHIPS IN COLLISION. % Thirteen Steerage Passengers and Sailors Lose Life in Crash?Vessels Were Wilhelm and Orinoco. A special from Cherbourg, France, says: The big liners, the -Yaiser Wil- I helm dor Grosse and the Orinoco, collided In the English channel Wednesday night at 9 o'clock. As a result 13 steerage passengers and sailors were hilled, each vessel was seriously damaged, and the two steamers have returned to port for repairs. The Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse be- j longs to the North German Lloyd Steamship company. She carried 258 first class passengers, 289 in the second cabin and 697 in the steerage. She left Southampton and Cherbourg Wednesday for New York. The Orinoco, which belongs to the Eritish Royal Mail Steamship company, had cleared from Southampton for West Indian ports and New York. The passengers of the German vessel will be transshipped and leave France for New York Saturday. The Orinoco's passengers will be sent forward from Southampton on November 28. The shock of the collision was terrific and created a panic on board each ship. Order, however, was quickly restored, but not before a small boat lowered from the Orinoco had been swamped by the effort of the fearstricken passengers to crowd into it. As soon as the accident occurred a number of small boats from Cherbourg put out to the scene and succeeded in rescuing some of the sailors j and passengers who were struggling in the waves. The responsibility for the accident has not been fixed, but it is charged, that the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse did not respond to signals from the English ship. LIVES AND VESSELS LOST. I Twe.ity-Three Sailors and 11 Ships Record of Gale on Great Lakes. The gale of Wednesday night, and Thursday on the Great Lakes caused a heavy loss to vessel property and twenty-three lives. The barge Resolute Sank off Toronto and six men were drowned. The barge Athens is probably lost off Sandusky, Ohio, with eight men. All hope for the Athens, however, has not been abandoned and tugs are scouring Lake Erie for her. Following is the list of losses: The Hurlbut, stranded on Lfake Erie; the 0. B. Hill, beached on Lake Erie; the Athens, missing on Lake Erie; the Puritan, aground on Lake Huron; the Comfort, sunk in St. Claire river; the Conemaugh, stranded on Lake Erie; the Pratt, damaged by storm. Lake Erie: The Resolute, foundered off Toronto; the Pere Marquette, No. 16, stranded, Lake Michigan ; the schooner Paige, ashore, Lake Michigan; steamer Taylor, missing, Lake Michigan. * PEONAGE TESTIMONY CLOSED. Arguments Begun in Pensacola in the Case Against Lumber Company. tfhe taking of testimony in the United States court at Pensacola, Fla., in the famous case of conspiracy to commit peonage, charged against Manager W, S. Harlan and others or tne jacason Lumber company, ceased Thursday afternoon, consuming more than a week. The testimony of Thursday was in rebuttal and the government brought out in some of its strongest witnesses, who gave additional, information on the line of mistreatment and beating of foreigners, while the defense also made a strong showing in rebuttal. ' TWO-CENT RATE DECLARED VOID Court Holds It is Contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment. In the Virginia supreme court ot appeals at Richmond, Thursday, Juclge Cardwell handed down a decision affirming the decision of the state corporation commission declaring the twocent passenger rate act passed by the Virginia legislature contrary to the fourteenth amendment of the constitution of the United States.' The case v/as a test involving the requirement that the railroads place on sale five hundred mile two-cent rate books. PEARY ARRIVES AT SYDNEY. Disembarks from the Weather-Beaten Roosevelt and Joins Wife. Flying the flag of the United States, which had been placed nearer the pole than any other national-standard, and weather-beaten and disabled, the ? ?"? , > Peary Arctic steamer nuuscven ailived at Sydney, C. B., Friday, under sail and steam. after sixteen months vain effort.to reach the pole. Feary went ashore almost immedi? ately after the steamer came to anchor and joined Mrs. Peary, who has been in Sydney for two weeks, waiting for her husbaDd's return. A MAJORITY OF FIFTY-EIGHT For Republicans in House cf Represer tatives, is Official Report. The first official printed report 01 the membership of the house of repre sentatives of the sixtieth congress ha just been issued by the clerk of th< house The republicans are shewn to hav a majority of 5$. The republican mem bership is 222 and the democrats membership is 164. |?_FAR &W$&3jW -AN ; .JJ^S^ I ' *' The DiiTeronce in Cons. At the New Jersey station every I .'ow in the herd was tested carefully, j with records for a complete year. The result shows the great difference in cows fed on equal amounts of food. The best cow gave S203 pounds of I milk and the poorest cow only 4413 pounds. The best cow produced fat equal to 405 pounds of butter, and the poorest cow 202 pounds. Here is a statement which represents the value of milk that will interest all: At 1 cent At 3 cents Cost of per lb.' per qt. feed. Best cow .... $83.03 $114.26 $42.34 Poorest cow.. 44.13 60.74 42.34 Average cow. 63:14 86.89 42.34 What a margin between the best and the poorest! One paid a little profit, even with milk at two cents a quart; the other hardly paid for her food, to say nothing of other expenses. Here is a clear case of robber cow, and there are thousands like her. Some Convenient Hooks. Where there is more or less hauling of bags of grain or other bulky articles on the farm a number of hooks attached to handles will be found exceedingly useful. Several hooks may be formed by the local blacksmith at small cost and any one of them will earn all it costs in the labor saved in a single lesson. The illustration shows several of the hooks that will be found the most useful. The hook shown at Figure 1 is the one familiar to city people, used as it is by truckmen who handle heavy bags and boxes. Figure 2 represents a longer hook made of /' iron with a sharp hook and and a short handle of wood; a piece of hardwood" is listened around the middle of the bar of iron which permits one to get a firm grip with the other hand. Figure 3 represents the double IiOuk fastened to a handle of o, o, o. Figure 4 shows the details of construction of the hook 3, the manner of flattening the ends of the iron rods and fastening them to stout handle by rivets, if *o desired. A indicates a stout- wire run through small auger hole near end of handle and securely wrapped around rods to give strength and firmness to the fastening.?Indianapolis News. Root Dorers. Squash bugs that pass the winter - as adults remain in the field until nearly the end of July. The eggs upon the leaves are more abundant then than at ar.; other time, early in August the disappearance of the adults becoming noticeable, freshly laid eggs not being so numerous. During August,' however, the adults of the new generation become abundant, but do not lay eggs, hence there is but one brood of squash bugs each year. When autumn frosts appear, some of the bugs are still immature, and congregate upon the unripe fruit, where they such the juices, many thus being able tc become adults during the mild au1 tumn days. In winter they are con( cealed beneath fallen leaves, stones, logs, boards, etc., remaining dormant . until the warm days of spring, and fly to any squash plants that may be , up,- finding their food, as it seems , evident, by the sense of smell. A number of bugs will congregate on 2 leaf and cause it to dry up, and this dead portion may vary from a primrose gray to a dark brownish-black The bugs are generally present foi work as soon as the young plants ap pear. Later on in the stage ol growth of the squash plant the rooi borer and fungus appear. A sudder 1 wilting and drooping of the plant characterizes the attack of the rooi , I borer, which is believed to be th< i larva of the striped beetle. Th< plant may be thrifty in the morninc 1 and dead at night.. When attackec by fungus the leaves begin to dry ui . at the margins, the plant turns f ; dark green, dried-up blotches appeal on the leaves and the plant dies with out wilting. Many remedies hav< been resorted to. The squash bug like nearly all insects, is attacked b: parasitic flies. The squash bug se cretes an odor which repels toads t( a certain extent, hence the toad wil consume them only when very bun gry. The bug is also subject to som< fungus disease, which has not beei i. identified, but it has not been ver; seriously damaged through sucl 3 source. Feeding Silage to Sheep. s Some sheep-growers are enthusias 2 tic in their praises of corn silage as ; food for sheep; on the other hand e a large number do not think so we] - " -L' 1- ~ V. ~; l- Ot It. All lliuse WI1U uavc ti i^va j c have agreed with references to th wisdom of feeding a moderate quae . 4# vv i m B|ll? ? .-irr flrt/>v when rhp silaere has Clt%v IU LUauvu * MVM ^ been properly cured. On the other hand, quite a number have found trouble from feeding it in large - 5 quantities. On the whole, it is not to be considered as satisfactory food for sheep as field roots since more especially when there is much corn in the silage it has a tendency to produce a heated condition of the system, which with breeding ewes is noc desirable. It is not^well, perhaps, to feed corn silage to a breeding flock more than | once a day, and when so fed the aim should be to give them clover hay or alfalfa at least once a day in order"5 to produce a proper balance in the ration. In cold weather it is probably wiser .to feed the silage at noon than morning or night. When exposed to such weather for only a few minutes, the temperature as cool as J is frequently 'found in sheep sheds, it will freeze more or less, or if it does not freeze it becomes very cold. For this reason it is better to feed it in the middle of the day in cold weather for at that time the temperature is . usually many degrees warmer than in the morning or evening. * It is not common to feed more than two to four pounds of silage per - .- ^ head per day to sheep, but some farmers who grow winter iambs feed as much as that twice a day, more especially after the lambs ha\e bden born. A great advantage of silagh as a food for sheep consists in its . cheapness. It furnishes the cheapest v| food that may be fed to them, and when properly fed there should be i\p M fear of hurtful results from feeding \j> silage well made. Filling the Silo.. Ensilage in order to keep well, must be free from water. It is well,, therefore, for it to be cut and shocked a few days beforehand. Dry or half cured corn may be safely si- ..J loed if water is added to it to make * moisture enough to start the fer.mW- 'jjjjj tation. Sometimes half djied corn will make quite good ensilage with- ;fjl out any water. The stalks"usually contain sufficient water at this stage jf for the corn to cure itself, so that'an [ excess of water would tend to acidity. ^ The finer the corn is cut the better it - M will pack, and it is desirable to have' .1 it pack as closely as possible, as it is ^ carried in from the cutter by treading. It should be tread, not only at the sides, but in the middle, for mrlch more fodder can thus be got into the silo. The object is to get the ensilage in as solid as possible so as to- ;J eiclude the air. The best condition of it, including absence of sourness, ' J depends on thi3 solid packing. Formerly it was customary to sprinkle vji salt over the ensilage, as it was /:;3j packed down, but this is now known. ;$1 to be unnecessary, if not a detriment. . ijj Far more preferable it is to have two . M men in the silo as it is filled to see ;J| that the ensilage is spread evenly and tread down firmly. If tdie silo is square the corners should certainly be well tramped. When the receptacle has been filled to the^ lowest door this should be fitted into its place and perfectly sealed against the entrance of air. A strip of tarred roof- 3, inc uaDer tacked over the joints of . 1 the door helps to prevent the entrance of air there as well as the es1 cape of.the carbonic acid gas in the L silo; by no means should this have a 1 chance to leak out, for if it does air ?|j ! must of necessity get in, whereupon 1 a new fermentation will be started and a continuous mischief going on ' at each door, resulting in more or less damage to the entire contents of ' the silo.?Fred O. Sibley, Milford, ; N. Y. ~ r-m Carting of Baled Hay. So much baled hay is now carried, even in farming districts, that some device for fastening it to the . wagon so it will not shift will be ? ' welcomed. Farmers who are obliged ~ to cart baled hay over rough roads 1 often feel as if their load had been greased, it slips around so. Have l? several pieces of hard wood or iron, t sharpened at both ends, and after { putting on one layer of the baled t hay take a stout rope and tie one of t the sharpened stakes into it so that , it may be pressed down into the hay, * * * Al"k nni n f* ^ I62fV 111^ lilt? yiuci oucii {JCUW |/v?uv 7 ^ sticking up, on which the next layer I ? 1 i'.'^.' |- ? I I : J of hay will rest. A few ropes and a few sharpened stakes (have the ? * * ?' >- stakes abcmt eignieen muues a will secure a heavy load of baledJ^j^^^H I, so that it can not possibly 11 matter how much it is one catch