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" * I ????? ?? ? A REVIEW BV TAFT . Of "Shooting Up" of Brownsville by Negro Troops. WAS DOUBLE CONSPIRACY One to Murder, the Other Silence ae \ to Perpetrators ? War Secretary Makes Strong Arraignment in Annual Report. The annual report of Secretary of War Taft, made public at Washington, ' Wednesday, reviews the events leadino (ft ''chftftt i T> o- 11 n" ftf (So fftn-n r\t i Brownsville, Texas, on August 14, last, by unidentified negro soldiers of companies B, C, and D of the twenty-fifth infantry, the crime proper, the investigation and subsequent discharge,without honor, of the members of the battalion. The report establishes the existf ?ence of a conspiracy for the perpetration of the crime, and, unequivocally, a later conspiracy of silence on the ' part of the battalion, whereby the \ criminals were permitted to escape. | The secretary justifies the govern- | iVmeat's course, and answers criticisms j ? :directed at it The report shows that the battalion ! was sent to Brownsville, July 2S, over ; Of" s the protest of the townspeople, the department alleging the past good be;<,/ tiavior of negro troops as reason for not changing its decision. Prom the first, it appears, there was ! friction between the troops and the people Off the town, sufficiently fre)' fluent to be the constant topic of j discussion in the barracks. Many of j the saloon compelled the soldiers to drink at separate bars, a discrimi^ v nation they resented bitterly. The secretary says: "On the 12th of August It was reported in Brownsville that a white woman was seized by the hair by a r/ , -colored soldier and dragged on the ground. This report among the townspeople caused great bitterness and n. -excitement of feeling, which gave luch concern to the officers of the battalion that on the night of the same d^y they sent patrols into the town to" bring back their soldiers to the ?? fort. A few minutes after 12 o'clock midnight of the next day, August 13, t. e, on the morning of August 14, ?7 . shots were fired in the fort toward |>?. the town from the neighborhood of r 7 each barracks of the three companies. ?^-7 The fort is really in the town, and uV' only separated from the houses by a ;'7v\ -wall The first shots seem to have 7v been fired in the air. Immediately af ? ?-J? ? nomhav nf TTlOn V9riniislv Wl'Wai Ui <% UUUIU^l V4 mvu, *M* ^ ^estimated from nine to twenty, climbed over the wall between the fort and the town. There was much direct ?:> evidence that these men were colored soldiers !n khaki and blue shirts, carryini? the new service rifle. From -seTenty-five to one hundred cartridge shells and used clips and some un. tfischarged cartridges were found upon the streets of the town the next morn: > "tag. and Major Penrose, commanding the battalian identified them as ammunition for the new service rifle, and reluctantly admitted their con' #, <;lu3ive weight as evidence that the shooting was done by some of hi3 v me?. The secretary describes how these men fired into the room of a house in which there were two women and Ave children. The raiders next en['-conntered the chief of police. Before turning to escape, he estimated their I: number at fifteen. They fired upon / him, wounding him in the arm and killing his horse. They also fired upon two policemen, a bullet piercing the hat of one of them. The raiders then fired into Miller's hotel, six bullets being found in the building the next day. The party divided, one squad eroins: to a salcon, the keeper of which . ?T.ad insisted on maintaining a sepa? Tate bar. The barkeeper attempted to close the door, but was shot and killed. A competent surgeon with army experience testified the fatal wound , came from a service bullet. ATLANTA'S POPULATION. . Current City Directory Shows Gain of 8,000 the Past Year. The new city directory of Atlanta shows that the city and its environs "has 8,000 more population than it had one year ago. Accoiding to the last " -directory, Atlanta had a population of 108,00 persons. The new directory shows a population of 116,000. According to the figures given Atlanta, with the addition of the surrounding towns, reachable by street car. including Decatur, College Park, >?/> nnmnirijr station and other noints. lias a population of 352,000. MEAT AND DAIRY RODUCTS Exported for the Year Will Amount to Quarter Billion. According to a statement issued Friday by the bureau of statistics of the department of commerce and labor, more than $250,000,000 worth of meat and dairy products will have passed out of the United States into the markets of other parts cf the world in the year ending with the present month. ? '. J ' ' . 4 BULLET FOR EX-SENATOR 1 Discarded Woman Shoots Lawyer in a Washington Hotel?Both Hail from Salt Lake City, Utah. Former United States Senator Arthur Brown, of Salt Lake City, lies in j a critical condition in Emergency j hospital at Washington from a pis- j tol shot wound in the abdomen in- f flicted by Mrs. Anna M. Bradley, of Salt Lake, who arrived at the capitol Saturday front that city. The shooting occurred in Senator Brown's apartments in the Raleigh hotel, where Mrs. Bradley also had registered under the name of "A. B. Brown." She was arrested. Senator Brown was dcnveyed to the hospital, where he was immediately put upon the operating table. Two shots were fired, o.ie grazing his left hand and the other entering the abdomen and lodging in the pelvic cavity. Mrs. Bradley arrived shortly after noon. After being assigned a room, she immediately went to Senator Brown's apartment. There were no witnesses to the shooting, but a floor maid heard the shots and at once no1 lifted the management. In a statement at the police barracks Mrs. Bradley said she came to Washington to demand that Senator Brown marry her. She said their relations were well known in Salt Lake. "I asked him if he was going to do the right thing by me," she said, maintaining a remarkable composure. "His reply was to put on his coat and start to leave the room, and I shot him. I abhor acts of this character, but in this case it was fully justified." She said she urged Senator Brown to marry her, that he had been instrumental in the dhorce between her husband and herself, and that as his wife was dead, he now could "do thft riorVit thfncr" hv IiAp TMc VUAAAJj A*V-A A paid, he positively refused to do. Mrs. Bradley Is about 38 years old. Her first act after being taken to the police station was to send for Senator Sutherland, of Utah, who called and had a long talk with her. Senator 'Sutherland regretted being brought into the case, but said that Mrs. Bralley had sent for him because he was the only man in Washington she knew. To him she unbosomed herself and told the story cf her relations with Senator Brown. She alleged that two cf her children owe their parentage to Senator Brown, and she had named one of them after him. Mrs. Bradley was reluctant to speak of her former husband, but questioning brought out the fact that he was living in Nevada with a second wife. /Further questioning disclosed the fact that Mrs. Bradley for two years, 3 90(0 and 1902, had served in the capacity of secretary to the state republican committee, and was also at one time editor of the official organ of the State Federation of Women's Clubs. According to a dispatch from Salt T.oVc PItv "Rmurn Ipft thpra fr?r Wflth. JL4?*a^ V*V ?jrt VTTU *v*v vwv? V *v* Tf WV? ington several days ago to argue, a case before the United States supreme court. Mrs. Eradley left the city two days after Brown's departure. Her friend3 announced that she had gone to San Francisco. About three years ago a charge involving immoral conduct waa filed against Senator Brcwn and the Bradley woman by Senator Brown's wife. Before the case came to trial Mrs. Brown withdrew her charge and Brown was released. Mrs. Bradley pleaded guilty. Before sentence was imposed, however, she was permitted to withdraw her plea and the charge against her was dismissed. The wife of Senator Brown died about two years ago. LONE ROBBER RAIDS BANK But Failed to Make Good and Was Forced to Surrender. 'After a daring attempt to rob the J. V. Brinkrcan Company bank at Great Bend, Kas., a man who gave his name as George A. Lewis, of Kansas City, was surrounded and captured. Eud Westfall, a driver for the Wells-Fargo Express Company, was killed by a shot fired by one of the pursuers. VALE SIMPLIFIED SPELLING. Its Death Blow Given by House Committee on Appropriations. Simplified spelling received a hard blow Friday in the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill for 1901$, reported to the house of repre- , &CUUILIV^?> UV tiiC ULFJIILUILC^L? UU CLy propriations, which tays: "Hereafter, in printing documents, authorized by law or ordered by congress, or either branch thereof, the government printing office shall fob , low the rules of orthography establish- j ed by Webster's, or other generally accepted dictionaries of the English lan- | suage." FOR ALABAMA COMPANY Virginia Judge Appoints Receiver at 1 Request of Policy Holders. Judge Scott of the law and equity } court at Richmond, Thursday, appoint- ; ed a receiver for the Prudential Fire ( Insurance company of West Virginia and the Birmingham Fire Insurance company. E. A. Catlin was named j as receiver. J BAR CONVICT GOODS Each State is Given Prerogative by the House. A STRENUOUS SESSION Democrats Oppose Porto Rican Franchise?Three-Cornered Appropriation Bill Introduced and Made Special Order. A Washington special says: By a practically unanimous vote the house Friday passed the bill limiting the regulation of interstate commerce between the several states in articles manufactured by convict labor or in any prison or reformatory. The bill was introduced by Mr. Hunt of Missouri, a practical stone-mason. Under the Wilson bill, which became a law in 1890, convict labor made goods may enter into active competition with goods manufactured by "free labor," and under this federal law a state could not pass a law that would prevent the shipping into the state prison made goods of other states. The law passed abrogates the interstate commerce law, as at present applied to convict made goods, thereby affording to the different states and territories the right to inhibit the shipping of convict made goods within the confines of any state or territory. Mr. Hunt asked for its passage not only for the interest of the free labor, but in the interest of the manufacturers. He said it was an attempt to curb the criminal competition of the f U 4 ! ? f?A/\ 1 oKrvw Af A pcun-trutiai ^ wim iuc ucv iouui vi tuo country. "It is cruel," he said, "to ask the free labor of this country to maintain its dignity and its self-respect, if it has to wait until the product of the state prison is sold before the employer can get a reasonable price for his honestly manufactured products." Other speeches were made by Sherley of Kentucky, Gaines of Tennessee, Henry of Texas and Grosvenor of Ohio. The democrats in the house opposed the consideration of the bill conferring .United States citizenship on the inhabitants of Porto Rico. Chairman Cooper of \V5sconsin, under the call of the committees, called the attention of the house to the erroneous position of the bill on the union calendar, insisting that its proper place was on the house calendar. Mr. Clark of Missouri, leading the minority, objected to its transfer, but Speaker Cannon decided with Mr. Cooper that it properly belongs on the house calendar, which would give it a different status than on the union calendar. The chairman of the committee on insular affairs attempted to have it called up for consideration. Again Mr. Clark protested, insisting that the house had a ngnt 10 nave notice of the possible consideration of the measure. The speaker sustained the protest, and the bill went over. The discussion disclosed a determination of the democrats to fight the measure whenever possible. With an appropriation of $20,000,000 and provisions barring "simplified spelling" in documents authorized by law or ordered by congress, the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill for 1906 was reported to the house by the appropriations committee. which was made a special order for Monday. The amount carried by the bill is $685,842 less than the estimates. The appropriation for the current fiscal year aggregated $30,168,4485. The entire number of salaries carried in the bill is 14,727, or 220 less than included in the estimates therefor, and 29 more than provided for the current year. An increase from $1,200 to $1,400 is made in the allowance to members of the house for clerk hire, and the requirement that members certify tliev have spent this amount is omitted. The appropriation for miscellaneous expenses for the y^ar Is cut from $100,000 to $50,000. The salary of the secretary to the speaker is increased from $3,000 to $4,000. GEORGIA REFORMATORY OPENED Fact is Announced in Proclamation by the Governor. The Georgia state reformatory in Balldwin county is now open for the reception of inmates, and all persons under sixteen years of age, convicted of crime, will be sent there by the courts in accordance with the terms of the law under which this institution was eestablished. Governor Terrell, in accordance with the provisions of the law, has issued his proclamation directed to the judges over the state, calling their attention :o this fact. INFORMATION FORTHCOMING. Secretary Taft Will Comply With Penrose's Request. The resolution of Senator Penrose, passed Thursday, calling on the president for facts regarding the discharge of the negro troops belonging to the twenty-fifth Infantry, was received at the white house Friday, and at once turned over by tne president to Secretary Taft, who will furnish the information desired. I FINLEY MADE PRESIDENT i Of the Southern Railway to Succeed Lamented Sam Spencer?Directors Hold Meeting in New Ycrk. The directors of- the Southern railway, in session at New York, Wednesday, elected W. W. Finlev of Washington, president of the company, to succeed the late Samuel Spencer. Mr. Fir.ley has' been second vice president of the road since September 15, 1890. He has been in active railway service since 1875. Prior to <er/;ering the Southern's j service Mr. Fin ley was second vice president of the Great Northern railway; before that he was .third vice president of the Southern railway. For two years he was chairman of the Southeastern Passenger Association at Atlanta, Ga Mr. Finiey was at times associated with James J. Hill. The election of Mr. Finiey caused very general satisfaction in the Washington railroad world, and it is believed this feeling will extend among ! railroad men throughout the south. EGGS FILLED WITH ACIDS Used Against Strike-Breakers by the Strikers in Chicago. A startling exposure of the methods employed in the teamsters' strike of last spring was given in the trial of Cornelius P. Shea and his fellow labor leaders before Judge Ball, in the criminal court at Chicago Wednesday, when Joseph Schultz, alleged slugger. who, with Albert Young, turned state's evidence, was on the stand as witnesses for the state. Schultz declared that Shea had told him to break the legs and arms of the strike-breakers, and especfally to attack the ne b * o. When this means of bringing about desired results did not work satisfactorily. Schultz asserted that Shea ordered the hired pickets to throw eggs filled with acids at the horses being driven by non-union men. The acid throwers, according to Schultz, were responsible for many runaways, and were considered a great aid in the fight against the employers. "Myself and other pickets were called into the picket headquarters, and our captain gave us a number of eggs. The contents had been removed and the shells filled with acids. Shea was there, and told us that if we carried out the plan proposed it would create a stir among the strike-breakers. Shea said that if this scheme was not successful he had another In mind that he believed would do the work. He said he had seen a man squirt acid from a syringe at ft team of horses being driven by a non-union teamster, and that six policemen were unable to stop the runaway that resulted in State street, which was crowded with traffic at the time." TO PACIFY CALIFORNIA*^ I ? ; President Explains Expression in a Message Regarding Japs. A Washington special says: The California delegation in congress has received what they consider satisfactory assurance that the president did not desire to be understood as saying in the Japanese section of his message that he would use military force of the United States in forcing Japanese into the California schools, in which white children are taught. It is said to have been his purpose to convey the idea that he would use the military to protect Japanese v against mob violence. Californians take no offense at this interpretation of the message. Inquiry Wednesday disclosed the fact that the legal proceedings to be taken in San Francisco by the United States district attorney in the mat-\ ter of admission of Japanese to the public schools of that city without discrimination, were inspired by Secretary Root, who expressed the opinion. that it would be one way of effectively disposing of the controversy. That the president's views on the subject met with the hearty approval of the Japanese government was uade evident Wednesday when Viscount Aofi, the Japanese ambassador, thnf hp had nersonally thanked iplAlU V***-" ? ??? sr the president for what he had said. WOMAN NEARS GALLOWS. High Court Refuses Application of Mrs. Myers, of Kansas City, The supreme court of the Unite 1 States, through Justice Brewer, has denied the application of Mrs. Aggie Myers, of Kansas City, Mo., for a writ of error, which, if it Aad been allow- | ed, would have had the effect of bringing her cdse to that court. Mrs. Myers is under sentence of death in Missouri on the charge of murdering her husband in Kansas City a year or more ago. The effect of the decision will be to leave the matter in tv>r? hnnds nf thp state authorities. SENATOR MORGAN FACETIOUS. Says Panama Railroad is a "Legal Fiction or Artificial Entity." Senator Morgan Thursday addressed : the senate on his resolution looking to giving the Panama canal commisssion control of the Panama railway. Mr. Morgan spoke of the Panama , road as a "legal Action or an artificial entity to enable this country to avoid its responsibility as a common carrier." A PROD FOR STORER President Biffs Discharged Consul With Big Stick. MRS. STORER INVOLVED Roocevelt Strenuously Denies Alleg* tion That He Asked Pope to Give ^ Cardinal "Top Piece" to archbishop Ireland. The Chicago Tribune ia its Washington dispatches Saturday stated that "I" 1 f v? llDrt K/\ATI O /"l au CAWiaviUiuai J uao u^u c?v*dressed by Bellamy Storer to President Roosevelt and the members of his cabinet in regard to his dismissal from the post cf ambassador of the United States to Austria-Hungary. Mr. Storer was dismissed because of his wife's supposed interference in affairs of the Roman Catholic church and her alleged misuse of letters from the president. It was also charged that Mrs. Storer had meddled with French politics by taking part in anti-republican intrigue to promote the marriage of Victor Bonaparte with a member of the Orleanist family. Both of these charges Mr. Storer denies and, on the other hand, declares that the president's interest in the selection of Archbishop Ireland as a cardinal was not due to Storer or to Storer's wife, but to the president alone. The text of Mr. Storer's letter waa printed aud transmitted not only to the president and his cabinet, but to members of the foreign relations committee of the senate. Mr. Storer says that his removal in so summary a manner, suddenly dismissing him from an office which he had been given reason to believe he nad filled to the satisfaction of both his own government and that to which he was accredited and being accompanied by no public explanation, exposed him to suspicious and injurious conjectures such as must, naturally arise when a man in public office is abruptly dismissed by his government. The correspondence shows the familiar relations of the president and the Storers from the lime Mr. Roosevelt was governor of New York until just after the Spanish war. Some of the Roosevelt letters to Store c were addressed "My dear Bellamy," and to his wife, "My dear Maria," and Mrs. Storer addressed the president as "Dear Theodore." President Wields Big Stick. A Washington special says: President Roosevelt Sunday night made oublic a long letter addressed to Sec retary Root, giving correspondence between the president and former Ambassador Bellamy Storer, at Vienna, Austria, and Mi's, .Storer, in whioh he says that Mr. Storer's refusal to answer his letters and the publication of various private letters justified the ambassador's removal; that Mr. Storer's publication of private correspondence was peculiarly ungentlemanly, and that he (the president) had stated with absolute clearness his position, the reason why it was out of the question for him as president to try to get any archbishop made car-, diual. He ;ays he thinks It well that the cabinet members should knew certain facts "which he (Storer) either suppressed or misstates." He says he did not resent the action of the Storers "until it became evident they were likely to damage American interests." He says Mrs. Storer urged him to give her husband a cabinet place and that she stated that Mr. Choate, at Loudon, and General Porter, at Paris., were not proper persons to be ambassadors, suggesting her husband in -. - that connection. 1 ne presiuunt incorporates a letter from Postmaster General Cortelyou contradicting tho statement that President McKinley ; had commissioned a gentleman to ask the pcpe, "as a personal favor to him," and as "an honor to the country," to appoint Archbishop Ireland as cardinal. Mr. Cortelyou says the late president never made any such request. The president declares that Mr. Storer's statement that he authorized any such message' to be delivered. to the pope is untrue. He says that he never received a letter from Ambassador Storer giving an account of his visit to the Vatican, and of the message he personally gave the pope on behalf of Mr. Roosevelt. Six-Day Bicycle Race On. Madison Square Garden at New York was packed from pit to dome when the international six-day bicy-! cle race was started at 12:07 o'clock Monday morning. 'Sixteen teams of Ihlrty-two riders got away. million for waterways. Congress is Urged to Appropriate Sum i of $50,000,000. The final session of the national rivers and harbors convention, at Washington, was marked by the unanimous adoption of a resolution urging congress to appropriate not loss than SnO,0-00,COO annually for the Improvement of the rivers and harbors and waterways of the country com- I meneing with the present session. j -X. . - - y_.- : ? THE RAWLINGS' CRIME. | Brief History of DastaVdlly Murder of Carter Children, the Last Chapter of Whijh Has Just Been Closed. * The commutation of the death sentence to life imprisonment of the Rawj lings boys for the murder of the little | Carter children, terminates one of the i most famous criminal cases in the court annals of Georgia. In brief the > . .4 history of that bloody crime is as follows: Old man Rawlings and Carter were >3 neighbors, living about twelve miles .%a from Valdosta, Ga. Both had been preachers?Carter a Methodist and Rawlings a Baptist. They quarreled ^ over a land line and a feud began, ' ^ which was long drawn out Conflicts- % were of frequent occurrence, when Anally Rawlings concocted a plot to r y, | dispose of the whole Carter family. A negro preacher named Frank Tupner was building a chimney for Rawlings and to him was confided the /tg task of employing somebody to dis- .,yM pose of Carter. Aif Moore was found at Lenox and was brought to Raw- . lings' house and a conference between '^||| him and Rawlings occurred. Accord- i||l ing to the negro's story Rawlings told him what was wanted and outlined ||| the bloody scheme to him. It was for ^|? the negro, in company with the three 4|| Rawlings boys, to go to Carter's house, that night, kill him and his wife, their ;|JJ older children, then fire the house and kill the little children as they came J| out. Rawlings gave the negro a knife /||j with which to cut their throats. JjJjS The negro was also conducted to a little house in the field where he was to remain until night. His meals were --''i^ furnished him there, together with a- $jj| watermelon. The vessel in which the ^ meal was carried, the crocus sack ^ which held the melon and even tne rinds played important parte in the.CjB trial, all going to verify statements which the negro made. That night the elder R&wlings went .;B| to Valdosta, 12 miles away, in order | that he might divert suspicion from himself or be able to prove an alibi. The bloody massacre that had been >'-J| planned so well was carried out only 'Sm ' in part. That it was not entirely successful was due to the use which - m Carter made of the rifle and gun while JH barricaded' in his house. Just after the Carter family had their supper and while the mother and older daughter were clearing off > the supper table the assailants of tha;'5.^te | family approached from the rear of ^gg the home. The little dog was i tracted and began to bark. Carrie-^B i and Willie Carter had been looking j after a little sick calf during, th* | day and they ran to the yard to. see.^H j that nothing was bothering the As the two children neardd a crack in I the fence where they expected to go ! through, the assassins halted under.ji^B peach tree and fired. The first'shot was at the boy, who fell to the ground. ?3k His sister ran to .him, exclaiming, "Oh, jH Willie! are you hurt " when another "JB shot was fired. The evidence in court indicated that the two shots were fired ,| at once?one by Milton and one by j Jesse Rawlings. It was conceded at the ;-| trial that Milton shct both of theI children ?nd that Jessp also shot thO 72x9 W. L. Carter, who was crippled la .jig the ankle. In a previous fight with old man Rawlings, had ambled to the door ~~'M to call the children back into the house J and saw both of the shots. He then closed the door and barricaded his Jf j family on the inside. In a few minutes . the little wounded boy struggled to the door and his mother jerked him , in. He lingered during the night and ^ died early the next mprning. He told ?>Jj his parents that the Rawlings boys killed him. The assassins remained about the house until far after midnight trying , "v|| to get a shot at other members of the family. After several hours, accordlng to the evidence, Jesse Rawlings got an armful of shucks and threw them under the front steps for the pur- '-||| pose of firing the house. Carter's ! daughter, however, ripped . a board from the inside of the house, making %|i [ an opening through which Carter ; "*JS poked his gun and fired, the loa? of vjj shot barely missing one of the boys^ icg That frightened them and some time ^|| later they gave up the job. Alf Moore left the scene soon after Carter's shot was fired, declaring that the old man :*;f| was going to kill somebody. When he was arrested at Lenox he told the story of the night's doings, his story tallying with the statements that had been made by Carter and his family M almost to the letter. Even the conversation that passed between the ^ boys on the outside was told by him ^ Just as Carter and his family heard it A coroner's jury charged the boys and a negro with the crime. The boys' 'y tracks across the field toward home was one of the strong pieces of evidence against them. : M CLEMENCY FOR NEGROES. President commutes uc?n scnwiiw * to Life Imprisonment Tlio president has commuted to life Imprisonment the sentence of death imposed on Arthur Adams and Robert ?| Sawyer, negro members of the crew cf the schooner Henry A. Berwind, who were convicted of mutiny and murder aboard that vessel about a year ago.