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- .y " ' - * . * i vi ' / ' ' ' ' " ( FIXING THE GUILT' Government Witnesses Tell of Brownsville Affair, THEIR EVIDENCE DIRECT I Negro Soldiers Were Seen With Guns | and Were Seen in Act of Shooting?Foraker Fails to Shake Testimony. The examination of witnesses on behalf of the government began Wednesday in the Brownsville investigation before the senate committee on military affairs at Washington. George W. Kendall of Brownsville, Texas, the first witness, testified that on the night of August 13, when the , affray occurred in Brownsville, he saw men whom he declared to be negro soldiers, climb over the brick wall from Fort Brown and enter the town. He said that he also saw a group oi from three to five men inside the .garrison gate and saw the flash of two or three shots fired by men in this group. At Thursday's session two other witnesses testified that they saw negro soldiers shoot up the T.exas town* on the night of August 13. One of these witnesses was Lieutenant Dominguez, of the Brownsville - i police, wno receivea a uui:cu imuu&u > the arm, and had his horse shot from I under him while trying to warn citizens of the approach of the armed men, whom he declared positively to be negro soldiers from the garrison, and another was Policeman Padron, who described a busy quarter of an itlve that the men doing the shooting hour dodging bullets. He also was poswere negro soldiers. Dr. Charles H. Thorn, a dentist, testified that he heard a group of men firing at the rear of his house and shouting commands to each other. He gave as his judgment that the voices were those of negroes. F. A. H. Sanborn, manager of the Western Union Telegraph company, who occupied a room opposite the garrison, testified to seeing the negro soldiers enter the post at about the time the firing I? ceased! , 8k'.? Policeman Senaro Padron testified | that he was at the corner of Washington and Fourteenth streets shortly be!', lore midnight and that he saw soldiers in the alley half a block away, sand that they were shooting. He said he could distinguish their uniforms when the guns flashed. He told of the meeting with the lieutenant of police; but contradicted me statement ot Dominguez that he had said the men had just finished "shooting up" the Cgwan house. / According to Padron's story he accompanied Dominguez back to Thirteenth stret and part of the way to an alley near the Miller hotel. He said he went no further because Dominguez would^iot heed his warning t not to cross the alley. He told of r'i ' seeing negro soldiers rush out and Are at Dominguez and follow him abme distance down Fourteenth street. He did not see Dominguez when his k, f horse was shot from under him, as the men saw him (Padron) and started firing at him. Padron told of the run/ ning from place to place to escape danger and finally of taking refuge in an obscure doorway. The witness was cross-examined by1 Senator Foraker at some length without affecting his story. Dominguez also was cross-examined by Senator Foraker, but his story was not changed in the least. | MAY OUST MAYOR SCHMIT2. v. i;v. ? Rumor in San Francisco of impending ^ ' Municipal Change. - It is rumored in San Francisco that A movement is on foot to bring about A change in the municipal administration by forcing the resignat'ion of snd choosing: in his iUOJ VI - w ? stead Frederick W% Dohrmann, a prominent wholesale merchant, as mayor. The report lacks official confirmation. PASSENGER TRAIN WRECKED. Accident on Central of Georgia Shakes Up Odd Fellow Delegates. The southbound Central passenger train from Athens, Ga., due to arrive in Macon at 11 o'clock Monday morning} was wrecked three miles south of Hillsboro, and twenty-three persons were injured and three cars were badly torn up. >.'<> one was killed, < and the engine did not leave the trie?.. Among the passengers were many delegates to the state convention of Odd Fellows in Columbus, and several of these * were severely in"in?* 0 V* ft N. U* VANQUISHED BY BOOZE. J Nineteen Drinks Kiil a Boastful Ne- J gro Cab Driver. To prove his capacity for wbisnej Thomas Taylor, a negro cab driver in St. Louis, boasting!} , wagered that he could drink a large quantity of liquor. He 'consumed nineteen drinks without a according u tiic and died a few hours later. \ 1 - \ , t LION FRIGHTENS ATLANTANS. j Ices pes Curing Theatrical Perform- j ance and Creates Pandemonium. Many Atiantans were treated to a genuine, hair-niisifig fright Saturday light, when a large, firce-looking lion oaniei at will up and down the streets in the center oi' the city for j ialf an hour, Fondemoniuni reign- j Jd supreme, people climbed telegraph j >oies and exc.te.uem was intense. A horse was bitten by rhe animal. I jut the beast was finally captured by seven men in the Eikin-Watson drug J store, without having killed any one, | -uid wirhcut being injured itself. ! At 10:15 o'clock, just at the conclu 1 siou of the last act of the performance given by "The Great Laiayette" shows at the Bijou Theater, a iurge lion, fully four and one-half feet in height and weighing fourteen j hundred pounds, broke one of the j steel stays oi his cage, and set him- | . self free. But for the quick work of one of the theater managers in closing the ' door leading into the main auditorium, i the wild beast would have walked . out into the'pit and created a panic among the large audience. Instead he was forced through a rear door 1 into the street. 1 When the animal reached the sidewalk in front of the theater a police- ( man drew his revolver and attempted ] to shoot, but Lafayette, the owner j of the shows, who was following in hot pursuit, jumped in between the po- ( liceman and the lion, thus prevent- . ing the policeman from shooting the ( beast. , Lafayette had a pistol, with blank j cartridges, and by shooting them at . the lion, succeeded in guiding him, , and preventing him from doing great damage. The animal ran from in front of the Bijou, up Marietta to Forsyth, up Forsyth into Broad, up Broad to'Walton, , across Walton to Peachtree, and down Peachtree into Elkin-Watson's drug j store, at the corner of Peachtree andfl< ^arietta. z Just as the lion reached Peachtree, ] a hackman came driving down the ! hack No. 89, came driving down the . street. The beast made a wild dash for the horse, biting a large piece ( of flesh from his front fore leg. When the beast entered the drug store, he went at once behind the counter, and was in complete control of the store, l'or the clerks had climb- . | ecT upon the showcases, and one had gotlen up on top of the soda fountain. Considerable damage was done in the store by the breaking of the glass j covering the showcases. Once he had been -quartered in the store, the doors were quickly closed, and his capture ' effected. Lafayette, the owner of the shows, t was taken into custody and carried j to the police barracks, where he was j placed under a $200 bond, lie put up a cash bond. NINE MEN CHASTISED. < ( Sensational Whipping-Post Exercises t in Wilmington, Delaware. c \ The mosi sensational whipping in j ' the history of the state of Delaware took place at the work house in Wilmington Saturday. Nine ?nen . were stripped to the waist and given from five to forty lashes. Adam Ward, aged 19, accused of highway . robbery, received forty lashes. During the lashes Ward loosed one hand and cried: "Oh, God, I will , be good. Please stop." His plead- ! ing was not heeded, however. . CONTRACT FOR HEADSTONES ! For Confederate Graves Soon to Be Awarded by War Department. , The war department will award ( within a few days the contract for * 20,000 white marble headstones to mark the graves of confederate sol- 1 diers and sailors who died in federal prisons and -military hospitals in the north during the civil yvar, ana c who were buried near the place of their confinement. * This will be the first step toward ' action by the government to mark ^ f these graves. "WILD BILL" IN LIMBO. ~ ~ 1 Noted eGorgia Illicit Distiller Flushed by Officers. Charles T. Williams, the man who , has tramp3d the state of Georgia, as . an illicit distiller for many years un- . der the assumed name of "Wild Bill" ( ?Hmvn timv 1-lastman Williams, w?*a ? ? Tuesday night by United States Dep- , uty Marshal R. L. DeLoach. The offi- 1 cer had company when he found "Wild Bill," but there was no resistance. < Three indictments await \\ illiams. ^ He was placed in the Macon jail in j default of a bond fixed at $1,000. STEPHENSON SUCCEEDS SPOONEh The Wisconsin Senatorial Deadlock is * Finally Broken. The Wisconsin senatorial deadlock ? was broken at Madison Thursday 1 night by the nomination on the first ? ballot of the republican caucus of for- c mer Congressman Isaac Stephenson of i Marinette, to succeed Senator John ^ C. Spooner. resigned. ' - ^ V- " FERTILIZER TRUST Will Once More Be Target for Your Uncle Sam. TO RENEW THE ATTACK New Indictments Are Ordered and This Time Individuals Will Be Tried in States in Which They Reside. I A Washington special says: The government has decided to renew the cases against the so-called fertilizer trust before the United States district court at Richmond. Va. About a year ago the government secured ihe indictment and arrest of a large number of persons residing in different parts of the country on a charge I of evading the Sherman anti-trust law turd sought to secure the removal to N'ashviile, where suit was being begun, of such defendants as resided outside of the state of. Tennessee. The Virginia defendants, however, contended that, before they could be removed from the state, tney snouid be given preliminary hearings to determine the sufficiency- of tap evidence on which their removal was asked. Tne court sustained the government on this point, but on an appeal taken before tne United States supreme court about two months ago found against the government, but without prejudice to its case, and ordered mat the defendants be discharged. The department of justice has now decided to try the individual defendants in the states in which they reside, and will almost immediately proceed to secure the indictment and rearrest of the Virginia parties to the alleged combination. Otner cases and arrests will, it is said, be made in Tennessee and other states. It is said here are thirty-one fertilizer companies in the alleged combination, and .hat originally twenty-four individuals were indicte'd and arrested. FURNITURE COMBINE HIT. l Eleven Companies Assessed Hea\Af Fines for Violation of Law. In court at Chicago Monday, Judge Landis fined F. A. Holbrook, of the American Seating company and the V H. Andrews company $5,000 each, ind nine other furniture companies unounts ranging'from $500 to $2,00o, or vilolation ef the anti-trust laws in 'orming a conspiracy' in restraint of .rade. The defendants pleaded guilty. * j - v. Judge Landis preceeaea tne ueuvny of sentence by scathing denunciation of the methods adopted by lie church and school furniture trust, leclaring that the punishment fixed jy law is inadequate to fit the crime. "When I reflect upon the methods esorted to," said Judge Landis, "1 vonder wyy men engage in such lusiness to get money. Almost any nan, I should think, would prefer to ,vork in a ditch at $1.30 a day. That s unquestionably a more dignified nethod." Judge Landis said that Hoibrook icted as a sort of clearing house for he combine, which called itseif the Prudential Club. Hoibrook apportioned the contracts and by means of dummy'' bids, members of the cornfine avoided competition. Judge Landis said the comparative >overty of the smaller firms of the eombine made it his duty not to iniict the maximum punishment, as hey might be forced into bankuptcy. "To keep them in independent operation," said Judge Landis,. "is the mly hope consumers have agaiust he big concerns. If we were to put hem out of business the Andrews ? j ? Onotino- fnmnani<J? LULU AUICi ik.au vould liave no difficulty in taking ull control." FATAL FIGHT HIGH IN AIR. Workman on Tall Building Knocks the Foreman Through Scaffolding. Seventy feet above the ground imong the steel beams of the new [ederal building in Macon, Ga., Thomas Battle, a man more than fifty years Df age, during a quarrel, assailed D. M. Berry, a foreman 35 years of age, rhursday afternoon, knocking the vic.im through the scaffolding to the 'round, killing him instantly. At thu ^nvnnof'c inv&cTiiTQf 5r>ri u harge of murder was made against Battle and he was locked up at police station. SUNDAY SCHOOLS OF WORLD Represented at Internationa! Convention in Rome, Italy. The fifth international Sunday School Convention was opened at tome, Italy, Saturday night in the iresence of 700 delegates, representiig nearly 30,000,000 , arsons throughmt the world. All the countries of ilurope, as well as America, China, uistralia, Japan, the West Indies, In,:a and Africa, were represented. . i rr ! jPalmelloState News j i r-*y Election Ordered in Spartanburg. 1 j The Spartanburg city council has, | ordered an election to be held June 4. for the purpose of voting on the question of municipal ownership of the waterworks plants. ; Three Men Held for Murder. The coroner's jury, which was reconvened at Columbia to further investigate the murder of R. T. Wescott, a merchant, about ten days ago, i ' j recommended that James Gardner, Jr., ' I li Ur>\- onrl T .InnpvJ VOliniT ! while men. be held for the crime. i . i _ Charges Against Teachers. j The South Carolina Military Acad-! ! eniy board of visitors met in Charles- i i I ton Tuesday to consider charges; against Professor Pond and Profes- [ j sor Moore of the Citadel faculty ior j-publishing against the rules certain j j matter in the Alumni magazine. I - Mistrial in Wash Hunter Case. j After remaining out for twenty, hours, the jury at Xewberrv in the Wash Hunter case, charged with the murder of Elbert Copeland a year ago, I reported to the court that it v as im- i possible for them to reach a verdict, I and a mistrial was ordered. ^ / s * Negro Dead at Age of 127. Adam Frost, aged 127 years, died a few days ago at his home at Cedar Springs, four miles from Spartanburg. Frost was perhaps the oldest man in rho niiiipd Sraies. certainly the old-1 I est man in South Carolina. According to a record written in an old, worn and faded book by a man named Hunter, the old negro was boin on Sullivan's Island, at Charleston, in j the year 1780. Adam was formerly owned by the Darytons of Charleston ^ and later by the Frost family. * u * Grand Juryman a Gambler. In general sessionsj court at Greenville Judge Gage sent three witnesses | in a gambling case to jail on a charge ! of perjury. Grand Juryman Belcher was excus-! ed from the grand jury and the judge dismissed him. Other jurymen pre| ferred charges of gambling against j him. The action of the jury in asking j for Belcher's release from duty creat- j ed something of a sensation. It was alleged that Belcher was found playing craps with a lot of negroes on Sunday in an open field near the.city, j - * ? * * No Interest on Stolen Bonds. State Treasurer Jennings publishes an official notice that interest will not be paid 'on July 1 next on the ! bonds purloined from the state treasurer's office through the operations of j j Clerk Daniel Zimmerman. This notice j covers five $1,000 bonds and six $ouo r bonds, eleven bonds in all of a total : face value of $3,000. But there "were j J nineteen bonds stolen from the state i j treasurer office by Zimmerman; 13 j $500 bonds and six $1,000 bonds, so ! that there are not. represented in this { statement seven $500 bonds and one j $1,000 bond, making a total of $4,! 500. The explanation is / that these I eight bonds not included in the no| lice have been exchanged for certifiI cares of stock during the last few I years, since the theft by Zimmerman ! and sold in the market. I ' ' * * * Woman Prevents Negro's Escape. j Ulysses Mayes, a negro prisoner j held for the killing of Shelly Paul, | about three weeks ago, at Bamberg, broke jail one night the past week, and "Doc" Xelson, also colored, who is under sentence of death, pending an appeal, was prevented from escaping only bv the bravery of the wife of Sheriff Hunter. Mayes, who was chained to the floor | of the jail, made a false key, which -u? tVion cau'on uiiiociieci a i aie im:iv. xic mvU a hole through the grated window, let I ting himself to the ground by means ! of a rope made of bed clothing. Mrs. } Hunter, the wife of the sheriff, saw | Mayes and fired three shots at him, j but without effect. Just at this time. "Doc" Nelson poked his head through the newly made hole. Mrs. Hunter firea at hint, .and he ducked back and remained quiet until" assistance arrived. * * * / Anderson-Athens Road Planned. For several weeks the people in Ueurgia and the people in the -Anderson section of this state have been j talking about building a railroad from " * A 3 A fATir H Q VC i Alliens, ua? 10 auuci &UU. XX UUJW . j ago Mr. W. L. Hodges, a lawyer of ' Hartwell. who has been spending conI siderable time in working up the propj osition, conferred with a number of 1 business men of Anderson. He has ! f < I | conferred with representatives of | Athens, Royston, Hartwell and sev-, t eral other towns in Georgia, and he | feels sure that the proposition will be completed. Charters have been asked of South Carolina and also of Georgia, and as I t 7 ? . f < . * , r \( ? f soon as ?hey are issued, the boohs j 01 subscription will be open. The j road will be 67 miles in length. For Anderson to have a road to i Athens, da., means that Anderson will i be connected directly with the great j i west and also the city of Atlanta. * - 1 s* * Death Claims Captain Pifer. Captain A. P .Pifer, one of the few surviving mepibers of General Lee's personal bodyguards, died suddenly of heart failure at "his home in Newberry las: Sunday, aged dS \eurs. Captain Pifer was a native of VP- i ginia, coming to Newberry shortly j before the outbreak of the war to accept a chair at Newberry College. In 1S6.1 he was appointed by' Genera'. R. E. Lee commander of his body guara, wnn tne rank ot captain. He served in this capacity throughout the struggle. After the war Captain Pifer was given a professorship in Newberry College. He afterward conduct-j ed a female academy in the city. In ! alter years he devoted his time to. | the study of insurance, beiiig ccn[ nected with ail insurance company j | as state agent. Captain Pifer leaves 1 a wife and one son. 6 i * o * Cashier Fully Exonerated. Last September John W. Pairey, ? cashier of the Edisto bank of Orange- j burg, left town mysteriously, and a j few days later a letter from him, mailed in Chicago, told the president ' of the bank that he had found his accounts hopelessly involved and could not tell what was the matter. He declared that he had not taken a cent of the bank's "money. ! Fairey has now returned to Orangeburg, and his assertions have oeen proven true. He went 'to New York, then .to Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Honolulu, back to California and- then to El Paso, Texas. He was recognized by Samuel M. Deal ofColumbia, who is in El Paso for his It'll I? o i r Air Ti o rl iitaiui. ucai auu r axicj iiuu oci in the Spanish-American war together and knew each other well. Deal wrote back to Orangeburg and started the effort to get Fairey back. Fai rev's family had searched for him in vain. He was assured that his integrity was admitted on all sides 'in his( home town and he would be welcomed home. He came and began work on his old accounts. It has turned out that in handling large cottdn business during the early fall, one large draft was incorrectly entered and caused the discrepancy. v. r? WOMAN PROTECTS HER HONOR ________ V But Must Stand Trial for Slaying Would-Be Libertine. Languishing and sobbing, in her cell in the Bibl> county jail in Macon ana wondering whether the great state of Georgia will condemn her to death at the end of a hangman's rope, Mrs.4 Saliie Freeney sits day by day waiting for her trial to take place in Dodge county. And while she waits and wonders, her attorneys are preparing to make . one of the most strenuous tattles for a woman's life ever waged in tne courts of Georgia. ' On March 9, last, the crime for t wnicn Mrs. r reeney musi siauu mai before a Dodge superior court jury was committed. At least, the state of Oeorgia says it was/ a crime. Mrs. Freeney, through her sobs and tears, graphically tells how she dealt out death to protect her honor. On the date in question, W. P. Harrell, one of the most prominent and wealthiest citizens of Dodge county, visited Mrs. Freeney's house. The next known was that Harrell was dead, and Mrs. Freeney, crying and rfy: iterical, admitted that she fired the | fatal shot, and was arrested and lodged in jail. The dead man had many friends, Mrs. Freeney was poor and her friends were numbered among those of her own circumstances. The killing created a great sensation, and the many friends of Harrell were incensed. Mrs. Freeney was placed in jail, indicted, and later transferred to the Bibb county jail. The trial promises to be bitterly fought and sensational. The story that this accused woman tells is one which, if true, shows that she killed Harrell for that reason, for Which Harry Thaw says he killed Stanford White. Mrs. Freeney declares that she shot to protect herself from Harrell. At the time of her arrest. Mrs. Freeney, who is 32 years old, was attractive, but the three months behind prison bars, with the.worry and the thought that she may go to the gallows has told upon her. TheTe are rine? under her eyes and her cheeks are marked by a sickly pallor. STRIKERS KICK TO GOVERNOR. Cigar Makers In Havana Present Grievances to Magoon. The striking cigar makers in Havaua called on Governor Magoon on Thursday and said that the blame for the men remaining out lay with the manufacturers, who had declared a lockout against them. The men desired to return to work if the employers desired them to do so. Women, it is said, will be put in the place of the striking men. ? ' FARMERS OPPOSED ' \ To the Immigration Movement in State of Georgia. 1 | UNION GOES ON RECORD ?~ . "1 Strong Resolutions Adopted at Meeting in Atlanta?Cotton School is Established and Warehouse Plans Are Projected. / J The Farmers'. Educational and Co J Operative Union of Georgia met in the .egislative hall at the state capital"' - j in Atlanta Wednesday. It was a call' : >. meeting, but practically every county in the state was represented. It was definitely decided to have a [ j. cotton school, the purpose of which, will be to teach interested parties how \to judge and price cbtton. The officers 0 of the association?President K. F. . Duckworth, Secretary J. L. Barron/*^?*? Organizer J. L. Lee, Business Agent . J. G. Eubanks and Lecturer G. M. Davis?were appointed as a board o? . managers to take charge of the school.^ IS All of these are from Barnesville, where the school will be in session. . A committee on the school, reypresenting the various congressional dis- T ( tricts was named. A warehouse com*, mittee "was also chosen. The purpose . . * of the warehouse committee is to report to the convention the result of / the effort to establish a uniform sys- ^ tem of warehouses over the state to ; be owned and controlled by the Farm- -sr0 ers' Union. The convention went on record as , opposing the immigration - movement by passing unanimously the following . ' M set of resolutions: "Whereas, steamship companies of most all nationalities,, for the sole -h motlno mnnPV havo their PU1|;USC Ul uaauig , ? . paid agents soliciting immigration to "fj this country regardless of morals, political consideration or religious faith* IsMM and, 'Whereas, said immigrants are now -MJg landing on Ellis Island, New York, at the rate of nearly half million a year ~ ' ^ and are only now limited :by me car pacity of the steamship companies, -MM aD(1, 1 "Whereas, the register shows that immigrants landing in this AQVQ^^flj since 'la80, as a rule, are nou-Ohristian and differ with the American in government, religious belief and moraiity, -and, v" "Whereas, as we find a disposition vjg on the part of some of our fellow citizens to 'increase, invite and ipduce said immigrants to this state,/- and> i j^4 "Whereas, history shows that "through the ages men, have often set | in motion events which once started ' 'they could not control, therefore be it "Resolved, That we, the Farmers' Educational and Co-operative Union ^j| of Georgia, assembled in convention at Atlanta, Ga., May 15, 1907, do oppose . the further introduction of immigrants to this good heritage of ours in any. r'Q rform or by any means by the state || of Georgia, believing it will be detri- r | ; mental to the general welfare of the people of our state. "Resolved, second, That we mqst-respectfully ask our legislature that ^ is to meet in June not to appropriate one cent of the state's money to encourage immigration to this state 7' without referring same to the people, 7'! "Resolved, third, That we most re- gs spectfully ask our members of the . j general assembly of Georgia and oar .senators and members in congress from this great state of Georgia to , . do all in their power to restrain the tide of immigration to these Uni- - . ted States as a primary step to the . - J perpetuation of a pure government. "Resolved, fourth, That we have ; an abiding faith in the great intelli- ; % gent white people of .Georgia and the ] south to so direct oux domestic affairs ^ with our present citizenship and our natural increase to manage our agricultural and industrial affairs to meet the legitimate demands of xour count - ^ try without the aid of immigration." v v NOT GEORGIA WATSON. "v Criticism of Gompers Aimed at South *?Carolina Commissioner. Through a misapprehension, which r he shared with the majority of those * who heard the address of Samuel , || Gompers, of the American Federation' of Labor, in Atlanta, Friday night; the representative of the Const!ta- .?% tion who reported the speech made ^ it appear that the labor leader attacked Thomas E. Watson, the well '$ ~?*? i known tieorgiau. It transpires that Mr. Gompers was referring to J. R. Watson, the South Carolina immigration commissioner. .sjj! CHILDREN BEING GIVEN AWAY. v*j& Fifty-Eight Charity Waifs Are Distributed in Louisiana. Fifty-eight babies and children under seven years of age, from New York charitable institutions, are be- ? ing distributed in New Orleans and Louisiana. The children are one o? several consignments to the state...A.< .'Jfc train load, carrying about one hundred ; ;v children, arrived in New Orleans two ' weeks ago. - v.;? Vr.*.' " re . / --V.' - V -