University of South Carolina Libraries
' ' !?? ; -. N ^:*r-* - ; . - _ r. - : REPORT ANENT RIOT Made Public By Comreittee of Atlanta Citizens. FACTS ARE SET FORTH ? - ? -I T...- \*fu:*n Man , I cn ncgrucs di-u i wu uiiiie Were Killed, While Sixty Negroes j and Ten Whites Were Wounded?Name of City Crucified. The committee appointed in Atlanta some weeks ago to disburse funds for the relief of the victims of the September riot has finished its labors and submitted a report. The findings of the committee contain some very sensational features, and words are not minced in speaking of the lawless mob that "crucified Atlanta in the eves of the world." The committee found that twelve persons were killed and seventy wounded during the riot. Of the wounded, ten were white and sixty negroes. Among the victims there was not a single vagrant, but all were working and supporting families. To the murders, states the committee, robberies were added, and "men and women were treated with unspeakable brutality." The declaration is made that several hundred /murderers and v.iould-be murderers are now at large in the city. The contributions amounted to $4,423. The report states in detail how this sum was disbursed, and continues: "In connection with this statement of disbursements we think it our duty to call attention to some of the facts which have come to light during our investigations. "Leaving out the* Brownsville cases, where a number of persons charged with complicity in the killing of Po" IT"n-"3 ->rnt+ rm thoir flWTl ? IlCCiiitUl ncai u, cm? vuv ...w.. - ? "bonds, the following facts are true beyond question: "1. Among the victims of the mob there was not a single vagrant. "2. They were earning wages in useful work up to the time of the riot. "3. They were supporting themselves and their families or dependent relatives. 4;4. Most of the dead left small children and widows, mothers or sisters, with practically no means and very small earning capacity. "5. The wounded lost from one to : eight weeks' time at 50 cents to $4 a j day each. "C. About seventy persons were j wounded, and among those* there was an immense amount of suffering. In some cases it was prolonged and excruciating pain. "7. Many of the wounded are disfigured, and several are permanently disabled. "8. Most of them were .in humble circumstances, but they were honest, Industrious and law-abiding citizens and useful members of society. "9. These statements are true of j both white and colored. "tA tho wminriori ton nro white ! and sixty are colored. Of the dead two are white and ten are colored, two female and tea male. This in- ( eludes throe killed at Brownsville. "11. Wild rumors of a larger number killed have no foundation that we can discover. As the city was paying the funeral expenses of victims, and relief was given their families, they had ever motive to make known their loss. "12. Two persons reported as victims of the rict had no connection with it. I "13. As twelve persons were killed and seventy were murderously assaulted and as by all accounts a number took part in each assault, it is clear that several hundred murderers or would-be murderers are at large in this community. "14. Although less than three months have passed since the riot, events have already demonstrated that the slaughter of the innocent does not deter the criminal class from com mittine more crime. RaDe and robbe IT have been committed in the city j and suburbs during that time. "In conclusion, we call attention to the fact that up to this time Atlanta has been a law-abiding city and criminals of all kinds, with a single exception, had been punished by legal methods. "Considering tMs record of a lawabiding community, it is amazing that the things we have recited could have happened in Atlanta, and that the small minority which constitutes the tough element was allowed to crucify this community in the eyes of the world, and shock the moral sense of our own people." GOBBLERS WERE WARY. President's First Day's Hunt for Tur? keys Was Fruitless. President Roosevelt's hunt Friday . across the Hardware river, a halfdoen miles from the Roosevelt Hurting Lodge in Virginia, was fruitless of results, as far as wild turkey was concerned, the only trophies being a few birds which were bagged on the veturn trip. ' j ' . j . ' .. * ^ . - ; . - .V* /*' ' ~y^f. " .:iv, v'' ; IMMIGRATION SOCIETY Of State of Georgia is Now Ready for Business?Will Co-Operate With Commissioner Hudson. At an important meeting of the dii rectors of the Georgia Immigration Association, held Friday in the offices of the chamber of commerce at Atlanta, it v/as decided that Georgia : has every necessary authority, under j the recent decision of Commissioner j t Strauss of the department of com-1 | merce and labor to proceed with the j work of bringing a desirable class ; of immigrants to Georgia. Following this conclusion, active ! steps were taken to co-operate with ' ? - * a : t i. ^ rp /~i Commissioner 01 Agrituuuie x. v*. . Hudson, who is an ex-officio commis-1 sioner of immigration for Georgia, in pushing the work. I The recent decision of Commission| er Srtauss of the department of commerce and labor in the South Carolina case was read and its legal beari ing was considered. It was resolved by the directors to tender to the governor and commissioner of agriculture the services of J the association in co-operating with j the state authorities in every legal j I way possible in furthering the work j migi-ants fo xGerogia taoi nnaua.. ! I migrants for Georgia. Bfy appointment, following this j meeting, the directors of the associa-1 j tion called on Governor Terrell and Commissioner Hudson at the state j j capitol, and both of these expressed ; themselves in hearty favor of desir- j I able immigration. Tliey gladly accept-1 j ed the offer of co-ope ration from the j association and Mr. Hudson stated to j 1? ! j1. - ! ID6 directors uiai lit", us wmuuooiuii- : er of immigration, would himself j take full charge and direction of the , movement, would devote his every ef; fort and energy to securing for the | state the very best class of immi- j grants to be had, ?.nd said his efforts would be directed especially to England, Scotland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden and Germany. Mr. Hudson said he .would expect the associat5on to cooperate with him in locating the immigrants when they arrived in such manner as would be for the best interests of the state and the immigrants themselves. James A. Strachan of Atlanta, w?o is now in Scotland, under the direction of Mr. Mr. Hudson, has an immigration movement well organized, and it is hoped he will be able within the next sixty days to bring over a large number of Scottish farmers. The immigrants which Mr. Strachan secures will be brought to Savannah, and all immigrants which the state may hereafter bring over will be brought through that port. Mr. Hudson, who attended the meeting from Rome, and who has already ^cured a number of immigrants for wj/Ia ?i /lAnnf xr (LiCLL V/lLj; win uc mauc; a missioner and sent to Norway and Sweden push the work there. In addition a man will' be chosen within the next few days to go to Germany on a similar errand, and he likewise will be armed with a commission from Commissioner Hudson. A state immigration convention will be held some time in the near future, arrangements for which will be made at a called meeting of the directors. SUDDEN DEATH FOR CASSATT. Head of Pennsylvania Railroad, and Multi-Millionaire, Goes Hence. Alexander Johnson Cassatt, v president of the Pennsylvania railroad, and one of the foremost railroad men and financiers in the country, died suddenly at his residence in Philadelphia Friday. Mr. Cassatt, who was a little more than sixty-seven years old, was stricken with heart disease shortly before 1 o'clock and died before assistance could be given. Aside from being the head of the Pennsylvania railroad Mr. Cassatt was nrPsiMorit' nf clr ntVifiT pnmnanioo ond "W4VIVV V*. VI-UV* VV/Ul^/MU4VO U?>1U a director in twenty-three concerns principally transportation companies, banks and trust companies. His wealth is estimated at between $50,000,000 and $75,000,000. ANNA MUST PAY BILLS. Liable for Part of Claim for Jewels Bought by Boni. It was decided by the court in Paris Wednesday that Mme. Gould, formerly Countess de Castellane, is liable fnr? fV?-?? nf Afllp "Mam id off. in j the sum of $24,000 for jewels, which j were brought by Count Boni, and I which, he said, were given to the countess. The delivery of certain jewels by M. Hartig was proved, and Mine. Gould is held liable for half the amount, Count Boni to pay the other half. TOOK FIREMAN FROM ENGINE Masked Men Kidnap Non-Union Employee of Southern Pacific. John Goldereaux, a Southern Pacific locomotive fireman, walked into Opelousas, La., Wednesday, after having been taken from his engine by masked men 22 miles outside of the town. Four masked and armed men boarded the engine during a stop, and dragged Goldereaux off the engine. V , i ' S ' - - ..-vSr ' XS -i ... ' < 1 BE OF 0000 CHEER Is Message to Country From Secretary Shaw, PROSPERITY UNBOUNDED ?lead of Treasury Says Money Shortage, Car Shortage and Other Subjects of Complaint Is Due to Good Times. 'There is no occasion for alarm. r>nr nnlv anxietv need be lest we'fail of facilities to properly garner, store, transport and market our multiplied blessings. Let every ma- be of good cheer and try to be cons-ei vative in everything except thankfulfiess." Secretary of ,the Treasury Shaw thus concluded a resume of the year's financial resources which he says has been prepared in response to multiplied requests. In round numbers he places 'the receipts for the calendar year 19% at $t;23,COO,CCO and the expenditures at $560,000,000, or. an excess of receipts over expenditures of $59,000,000. As there has been no change J- r /v- ^ in %y in in? uum jaws 01 ia?o iwiuwiuQ to internal revenue, Secretary Shaw says the large increase in receipts is due solely to the extraordinary trade activity. The total expenditures, however, for 190J, as compared with 1905, he says, shows a decrease of but I $5,000,000. \ i Discussing the finances cf the gov| era men t fQr the six months of the | present fiscal year just closed the sec| retary says that the books of the ! treasury show surplus receipts over j expenditures of $25,000,000 as comparj ed with a deficit of $8,000,000 for ! the corresponding months of the previous fiscal year. The cash in the treasury is $190,000,000 as compared with $171,000,000 a year ago, an increase of $19,000,000. The cash in national bank depositories is $159,000,000 as compared with $65,000,000 a year ! ago. an increase of $04,000,000 and I the total cash in *he general fund is ! $356,000,000 as against $242,000,000 a year ago. Against this there are liabilities at the present time $13,000,000 greater than at the same time last year. The available cash balance has incresed during the year $101,000,000. With the general fund at $237,000,j 000, Secretary Shaw remarks that the bonds maturing July 1, 1907, can be paid, if it shall be deemed wise, and l still leave a working balance of more j than $120,000,000. During the last twelve months, the secretary continues, the money in actual circulation, exclusive of the amount in the treasury vaults, has increased over $200,000,000. Of this increase $145,000,000 is available for bank reserve and $60,000,000 is in national bank circulation. "This," he says, "seems to be a complete answer to the official repeated and ill-advised criticism that the treasury system necessarily results in contraction when money is most needed." He maintains, therefore, that the existing money stringency, world wid2 in its extent, is traceable in no respect and in no degree to the independent treasury system of the United States. He says the manifest shortago has been caused by the unprecedented prosperity in this country and reasonable prosperity everywhere. JAP FLEET MAY NOT COME. ! n?n,?innc to Prooosed Visit VJfJfJVOI bIWII vvvv>vrw ? - - to Jamestown Exposition. Advices have been received from Yokohama, that considerable opposition is being developed as a result of an anti-American feeling in Japan, over the proposed visit of a Japanese fleet to the Jamestown exposition and United States ports. An influential member of the house of peers is quoted as stating that the proposed outlay of $400,000 to send the fleet and Admiral Togo to the United States must not be approved. GUGGENHEIM FOR SENATE. Colorado Republicans Endorse Him B> a Vote of 68 to 1. Simon /Guggenheim's election as United States senator to succeed Thomas M. Patterson is assured by the action of the Colorado Republican members of the general assembly In caucus at Denver Monday afternoon, Mr. Guggenheim's candidacy was en dorsed by a vote of 68 to 1. Seventy of the 100 members of the legislature are Republicans and all bul cne of them participated in the cau cus. INTEREST RATE IS RAISED. Seven Atlanta Banks Will Pay Deposi tors Four Per Cent. By the decision of seven hanks in the cfcy of Atlanta, which are eithei exclusively savings banks or have sav ings ba^- departments, to raise the rate of interest on deposits from Z 1-1 to 4 per cent per annum. $15,000 will be saved tQ the small depositors ol the city. \~ J - "TEDDY MAKES A MESS' Everry Time He Touches the Negro, Says Tillman?Snator Expre. :ss Himself Tersely in Lectures. "Roosevelt floes not know anything about the negro, and every time he I touches him he makes a mess of it. He had no business discharging the negro troops at Brownsville before making a careful investigation. I doubt very much whether cr not he is vested with the authority to take such matters in his own hands anyway." Thus spoke .Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, of South Carolina, as he stepped from a Louisville and Nashville train in tnrmiugncim, ma., c>atiuua> i afternoon. Senator Tillman addressed a large Birmingham audience at the theater Saturday night, which enthusiastically cheered the vigorous sentiments_he expressed. The senator talked on the regro question" largely, and said that the white man owed all his good qualities to the women of the race. The negroes have not the women possessing qualities which will make tliem high-minded, and this has teen their greatest drawback. Speaking of lynching, which he said would contiuue as long as the crime of rape continued, the senator exclaimed: _ "With the oath on my lips to upI tha. law r would lead a mob any liVAU b?tg ? tinue to lynch a man, black or whits, who had ravished a woman." Thursday night Senator Tillman delivered his lecture, "The Race Question in the South," in the court room at Tit ton, Ga. The audience was a la#ge one, made up of the best people of the city. Mr. Tillman preiixed his address with a lemark that he had been intentionally and otherwise so persistently misquoted and misrepresented that he was always pleased to come before a new audience and iet them see what sort of an animal he was. He then called attention to the fact that negroes outnumbered whites in South Carolina ' and Mississippi and that in several other states the whites scarcely equalled the negro numerically. He sounded a note of warning ! against social equality and amalgamation, and declared that all the iongnosed Yankees between Cape Cod and j hell would never be able to saddle I negro rule upon the south; that the grandparents of the present people of the north had traded ruui and glass : beads for negro slaves and had then bartered them to our grandparents, ' and that, so far as the original question of slavery was concerned, they were as deep in the mud as we are in the mire. I He paid a high tribute to southern I womanhood and declared that it stood as the one gr<?at bar 10 racial amalgamtion, the one strong defence and protection against a "ginger-cake race." Taking up the history of Home, he declared that the dark ckinned decadent Dago of today was the result of , the mingling of the blood of Koman | masters and negro slaves. Senator Tillman paid his respects to the African race, tracing its history and commenting on the poverty of its achievements. Declared that it was designed by God as a race of burden i h\- nature for anv DCctreis auu u^ukwu -*j w other duty. "Had I the absolute power today," said Senator Tillman, "to frame such legislation a? conditions demand, I do not know that 1 would , be able to save this negro people from final butchery?and I am not bloodthirsty either." Mr. Tillman says that he likes to "sass" the Yankees and that they have shown their appreciation of his abili| ties as a truth teller, by engaging all of his spare time during the coming i year. Mr. Tillman stated that the present system of educating the negro was a farce, and that the only result of it was to make him a candidate for one of the three P's?Politics, Preaching or the Penitentiary. exchange under fire. Congressman Livingston Files Complaint Against New York Concern. i A Washington dispatch says: RepI resentative Livingston, of ' Georgia. who is most active in the proposed proceedings against the New 1 York cotton exchange, made formal 1 complaint to Postmaster General Cor telyou Saturday that the New York cotton exchange is guilty of fraud perpetrated through the CJnited States 1 mails. : Mr. Livingston says that the New ' York cotton exchange costs the south $10,000,000 by its fraudulent manipu. latio:?s. RACE FEELING IS HIGH. Negro Soldier Assaults White Woman t at EI Reno, Oklahoma. Race feeling at El Reno, Oklahoma, is at white heat and threats of lynch5 ing are heard on every hand as a re' suit cf an assault committed on Mrs. [ T. Clifford, wife of a prominent physi cian Thursday afternoon by a negro soldier of the twenty-fifth infantry. i . v Vv > / V-i:: .. .... MEXICANS SLAIN ! I By a Band of Bloodthirsty Yaqui Indians in Sonora. BURN RAILROAD STATION All the Victims Were Workmen on Branch of the Southern Pacific. Details of Outrage Are Very Meagre. The details of the Yaqui Indian out rage at Lencho station, on the Cananea, Yaqtii river and Pacific railroad, a branch of the 'Southern Pacific, in Sonora, Mexico, on Saturday night, in which eight Mexicans were killed and all houses burned, have been received in El Paso, Texas. No Americans were killed, although it is certain but for the timely arrival of a work train with a large crew of laborers, Foreman Thompson and his wife would have been killed. Reports from the same vicinity tell of murders and outrages perpetrated by the Yaquis on Thursday and Friday nights. The victims were all Mexicans, and were taken by surprise on their lonely ranches. Details of the outrages are extremely meagre, but show that the situation is serious For several weeks past, restlessness has been observed among the in dians, but an outbreak was hardly anticipated. No unusal preparation had beon made for a Yaqui outbreak and most of those killed were shot down before any effort at defense could be made. The band of outlaw Indians is said to number about 100. Rumors of their depredations were Tlfe on Saturday when many ranchers fled to towns for safety and reported a number of murders in the district southeast of Guayamas. It was not believed; however, that the Yaquis would dare to attack a railroad station. Lencho is one of the smallest station on the Cananea, Yaqui river and Pacific road. About 25 men under Foreman Thompson are employed there, engaged in well boring. No sentries had been posted and the first intimation of the attack was a.volley of fifle shots into the tent houses. Immediately after the houses were set on fire and by the light of the flames the Yaquis shot at the frightened Mexicans who were trying to escape. The reports received say that in addition to the eight men killed at the station a number of Mex icans were wounded. Colonel H. B. Maxson, vice president of the National Irrigation Congress and secretary of the board of education of Reno,* Nev., who has been spending the past few weeks in the state of Sonora, Mexico, arrived in Los Angeles Thursday and confirmed the story of the massacre. VARDAMAN MEANS BUSINESS. Will Use Treasury as Well as Military to Capture Murderers. Governor Vardaman of Mississippi, accompanied by all the troops except twenty-five of the Jackson company, returned to Meridian Thursday afternoon, and expressed himself emphatically conceVning the action of the white people of the vicinity of Scooba, and announced that he would use the treasury of the state as well as the etire military organizations in running down the alleged murderers of the Nicholson negro. ' > The governor ha3 ofh#;ed rewards for the arrest of three prominent men of the vicinity, it being alleged that they killed the negro 1 while Deputy Alexander looked on helpless. Durand Says Goodbye. Sir Mortimer Durand, the British ambassador, called on Secretaries Koot and Taft and the members of the diplomatic corps at Washington Thursday and bade them farewell. The ambassador sailed Saturday afternoon from New York on the Umbria. PLEDGE TO BACK BRITAIN. United States Will Aid '4n Ameliorating Conditions in the Conqo. It was said at the state department that the United States government, through its ambassador in London, had pledged to Great Britain its support in any steps taken by the British government toward ameliorating conditions of affairs in the Congo. This is the first time that any official announcement has been made, and sets at rest all questions as to the stand the United States will take in the matter. I 1 PRESIDENT TAKES AN OUTING. I Whole Family Goes to Mrs. Roosevelt's Country Home in Virginia. President Roosevelt and his entire family, together with several friends, left Washington Thursday morning for Pine Knot, Albemarle county, Virginia, Mrs. Roosevelt's country home, for ah oliday outing. The party was equipped for several days' sport in the woods. PRECAUTIONS. .u ^ "Oh, mother," sobbed the yogoy/y.^| bride, "I've discovered that John.' Jjl doesn't trust me." - ^p|8| "Why, my child, what has he done?" "Well, you know, I cooked my first - '.Js dinner for him today." "Yes?and he showed how he relied' on your cooking by inviting a friend ; to dine." "So I thought. But, oh, mother"? the sobs broke out afresh?"the maa< he invited was a doctor."?Exchanges '.jM England's Unparalleled" Prosperity, J|g Though it militates so strongly against its demand for a protective; tariff as necessary to "preserve British trade and commerce, we note that> r-,|?a the Daily Mail has the candor to ad- :-5j|| mit that the condition of the home traae is at tue present, muiu^ui uv??ishing. In an article which is give* ?<Pi a place of prominence in Friday's sue the Daily Mall -declares that "a -Js v great wave of industrial prosperity; unparalleled in some trades in the'-%y^8 last twenty or thirty years, is at <|f| present passing over England." Sheffield is busier than at any timeaince the Franco-German war, and trout |jj Sunderland, Nottingham and the Lanr 5 M cashire towns ccme reports of great * prosperity. At Coventry there art |J said to be 5,000 more male workera^B| at work than there were this last year. And yet Mr. Chamberlaiat:p| ^ and the tariff reformers, during the last three years have been beatia* their breasts and strewing aahes m their hair and swearing by all theifi^H gods that British industry was dylnfcll'iB and could never recover without pKK'.|. B tection from the unfair competition the foreigner!?London Spectator* A new electric fixture consists Jeweled, hand-wrought, polfehed^?^ brass band carrying a centre ' j with mother of pearl shades and threeMfell drop lights, with shades or the State cr Ohio, City of Toledo, i Feaxk J. Chikey makes oath that- h&jjjfflfjlfj senior partner of the firm of ?. J. Co., doing business in the City of -Toledfr^^Sg County and State aforesaid, and that - ^ firm will pay the sum of oke huxdbed 2Mfcj&| labs for each and every case of catajmN^- ^S that cannot be cored by the use of HAis?m| ?jjs Cataxbh Cubs. 1'baxk J. Che*x&. "fl^S Sworn to before me andsubscribed/ln i ?*?? presence, this 6th day of 3>ec?a.r^|Sffl| | seal. | Der, A.D., 1886. A.W.Gmuwaf^ - 7|| Hall's Catarrh Core is taken intern&Gy,ahie^3^ acts directly on the blood and mucous laces of the system. Send for testimonla^^;^| free. F. J. Chsxxyk Co., Toledo, Sold by all Druexists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. The German Emperor has mors;| servants in his employ than any oth^ociMlH monarch. Altogether they nnmb4l?M^ over 3000, about two-thirds of themia^ffl ?? 7 ,7'^Bw Muriel Had Never Heard Sfang^ "Teachers in the public schootaiflS receive many queer requestsfe(w|?H *1IA Mrontc A? nhlMren nnd^ruiei^'flOf U1C l/aivuw vii * ' TTOTM' AM charge," said the principal of a Weat&jB Philadelphia school yesterday, "btq^H one of our teachers got a note other day .from the mother of a m tie girl just admitted to her which about caps the climax. ^SSBH child's family had recently movel^M^E town from the country and the moio^a^ er was most solicitous that the bred manners of her little dau^h^K^B Muriel, should not be con,tamln^MB^9 by contact with iltj>red city childrti^|a| 'Always see that Muriel has attention,' wrote the mother, 'and 1m?BB very careful that she associates wfflSBH no child that uses slang, which <ftjj|B has never heard. Above all, do let her sit nekr-*haJ5??? cbtldreh?|^^p knew their father beTSca^he caartjjjpB to the city and (confldentiallyf a bum lot, the whole push of thaife^pj ?-Philadelphia Record. I NOT A CI RCUMST ANCK. ', -g "We were telling of harrowing *?.lan/ia! tVio Athor HflV flTlft ? ifuv vi.uvi v.?^ ? ? ? ?- - urrum bo we was -relating the trouble once had in getting away from a eating shark." tJ| "Humph! That's nothing to trouble I have in dodging my when she wants ready money for^jS^JH bargain shopping tour."?Baltlm^^iPl 'American. ' * CRIED EASILY. ' :W&' Nervous Woman Stopped Coffee aod^Jg - < Quit Other Things. M No better practical proof that cdf^;r/Jjj fee is a drug can be required than tajjlB note how the nerves become unstihi^^B in women who habitually drink it >| The stomach, too, rebels at bel8g:<f#|g continually drugged with coffee an4-^ ; tea?they both contain the drug? 'S4 caffeine. Ask your doctor. jjg An la. woman tells the old story^ "I had used coffee for six years and .if: was troubled with headaches, nevpjM vousness and dizziness. In the : ing upon rising I used to belch up a sour fluid regularly. -W& "Often I got so nervous and m$^|| ;;'j erable I would cry without the least. 'Jig reason, and I noticed my eyesight wa?';?|| getting poor. "After using Postum a while I ob- ~?M served the headaches left me andj;. J|? soon the belching of sour ' flui<ti stopped (water brash from dyspep- . T sia). I feel decidedly different now,, fjjjk and I am convinced that it is becansawjg| I stopped coffee and began to nswj Postum. I can see better now, my, 1 eyes are stronger. 9 "A friend of mine did not like Posturn, but when I told her to make it;:-i|jl like it said on the package, she like&t I it all right." Name given by Postunt ;T]J| Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Alwaysjfa!p|| " Posium well and it will surprise you. wJ Read the little book,."The Road to' ? Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a re^:'J|js|