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1 MEXICO WILL SCRAP If Guatemala Executes Nineteen Diaz Subjects. TROOPS ARE MOBILIZED Eight Thousand Aro Massed on Guatemalan Frontier Awaiting Threatened Drastic Action of President Cabrera. Mexico has eight thousand men, fully equipped and ou a war footing, now 0:1 the Guatemalan frontier. Distributed at strategic points to the south of Mexico City are eight thou sand additional troops, which bodies of soldiers can be transported to the .border on twenty-four hours' notice. While there is a disposition in official circles to modify the height of the tension existing between President Cabrera and the Mexican government, it is admitted on all sides that should Cabrera carry out his intention of executing the nineteen men accused of complicity iu the alleged attempts to asassinate him, Mexico would be forced to intervene. A Washington special says: The .state department officials are watching with interest the developments in Guatemala, where great confusion exists as the result of the recent attack upon .the life of President t'abrera. A wild panic appears to have seized upon y the government of that country and arrests have been made by the wholesale by persons suspected of complicity in the attempted assassination. 3enor Canto, who was for some time Chilean consul general at Guatemala City, and who has just been transferred to a similar position in London, saw Secretary Root Monday, and described at length the deplorable con, <iition of affairs in Guatemala. Philip Grown, the American charge and 'secretary of the legation at the Guatemalan capital, has reported to * the state department ^by cable upon ihe events connected with President , Cabrera's effort3 to punish the instigators of the attack and also to crush the incipient rebellion, which threatens the country. Mr. Brown joined the other members oi" the diplomatic body in Guatemala City in a protest directed to Cabrera against the proposed execution of no less than nineteen persons, who had been arrested by the police in connection with the attempted assassination, and when he reported this fact to the state department lie was advised against interference in view of his statement that while a number of foreigners were included in the list' of condemned, none of them were Americans. However, Mr. Brown has again cabled' the department, asking if he anight use his personal influence in behalf of the prisoners, and Secretary -Root Monday cabled him the necessary permission. The department probably will be pleased if Brown can avert the execution oi the sentences, for it is probable that the execution of any of these foreigners upon the evidence against them will lead to forcible foreign intervention, which might result > in unpleasant complications. SNOW AND JACK FROST f Trying to Nose Out Summer in the North and Northwest. v. Snow was reported from all over i Michigan Monday with a veritable winter blizzard prevailing over the .Saginaw valley. Cadillac reports that five inches of snow fell Sunday night, and six inches have fallen at Petoskey. > Flakes of snow fell in the Schuylkill valley in Pennsylvania/ and residents of Berks county report that a .regular squall visited that section. Frost was general over Kansas Sunday night with the temperature in many places in the state reaching 30 degrees. Xorthwest Missouri was also visited by a damaging frost. HOST TO LOSE JOBS. .Railroads Will Economize by Cutting Down Their Payrolls. Between 50,000 and 100,000 men will be thrown out of employment by the tK/. /innntrv t h 4 Clil 1 uauo UL L1XC vuuu j V40. w -end of the first week in June, according to reports 111 Chicago. In addition to- the employees in the vregular service, many thousands of laborers will be discharged by the railroads which have abandoned new work and new extensions, owing to the difficulty of raising money. WORK OF CHINESE RIOTERS. % . ? IViob Destroys German Mission Station at Lienchow. According to dispatches received in Berlin from Shanghai and Hongkong, China, native rioters have destroyed tiie German mission station at Lienchow. near Pakhoi. The missionaries escaped. The German gunboat litis has Iel't Hongkong for the scene of the trouble. t 'WOULD SETTLE PROBLEM I ? I Georgia Member of Commerce Commission Suggests Penitentiary Terms for R. R. Magnates. i ? ! A Washington dispatch says: The j interstate commerce commission has | decided on a more radical policy in the | treatment of corporations which per! sist in violating the law. Possessed ot 1 authority to investigate every phase of j railroad business and having the pow; or to bring about the punishment of . individuals ;>s well as eornorations. | in? commission is pushing its work 1 with determination. Commissioner j Judson C. Clements, of Georgia, who l has had fifteen years' service, in an interview, Monday, said; "One of the most wholesome things that could happen would be the putling in jail -oi' some men of prom- , inece in the railroad world. It would do more than anything else to bring about better feeling. It would not be necessary to put in jail all the men who ought to be there. Just let one or two who hold high positions in the social and business world be put behind the bars. This would act as a | powerful deterrent for men who would hesitate to jeopardize their -positions and safety." Questions of criminal proceedure by the commission have been delegated to Franklin K. Lane of California, one of the most energetic and conservative members. When Mr. Lane was asked: "Are you going to send somebody in the railroad world to jail?" he replied: "1 hope thai will not be necessary if the railroads will comply with the f law. we will get on most harmoni | ously, but if the law is broken they | will have, trouble." I "Do you intend to have Edward j H. Harriman prosecuted?" "The whole subject is under consideration by the commission. If Air. Harriman has been guilty of any infraction of the act. to roguUue commerce he will, as a matter of course, be prosecuted?not at all because he .is Harriman, but because he is an offender against the law. "We shall use every power granted us?the power to investigate under oath* the power of examination of accounts and the power of calling upon the district attorneys for indictments. And in enforcement of the law we shal lask and expect the co-operation of the railroad men of the country who declare they are prepared to conform to the law, whether they believe in it or not. "We do not intend to combine our energies to railroad men, but will extend them to shippers whom the law , reaches, for underbilling and false weighing and by other devices and means securing less than the regular rates. Very recently two mills in XorfJi Carolina were convicted of j turning in false weights and were | compelled to pay fines aggregating j $15,000." __________ L STRIKERS MAY USE TORCH. j ? J Situation in Santiago, Cuba, is on Verge of Anarchy. ! The strike situation in Santiago, Cuba, became very much aggravated Monday. There was considerable \ shooting throughout the day, and at one time a serious outbreak was threatened. Open threats to burn property are j being made, and with this approach to anarchy, many citizens are arming themselves. They declare the situation to be unbearable. APPEAL TO ALL SOUTHERNERS I To Stop All Business at Moment of k Unveiling of Davis Statue. ' An apepal to all southerners briefly to stop business and ail moving wheels at 2 p. m., June 3, the moment of the unveiling of the Jefferson Davis statue at the Richmond reunion of confederate veterans, was issued at New Orleans by General Lee, commani ding the veterans. FOR AIDING LYNCHERS Widow of Victim Brings Suit Against Railroad for $100,000. The widow and minor children .of Robert T. Rogers, a white man, who was lynched iast May at Tallulah, La., tiled suit Monday against the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific railroad I iOl" $>i.Ul?,UUO. The declaration charges thai the defendant, conspiring with a 1110b, i'nr-nished a special train which carried from -Monroe, La., to Talhiiah a body of men who took. Rogers out of jail j and hung him. I ! COTTON ACREAGE DECREASED. i j Crop is Twenty Days Late and Vitality of Pi ant Low. j Reports from correcpondents in all j the cotton-producing states, with the j exception of Florida and Virginia, > show a decrease in the totai acreage, i as compared with last year, or sixI tenths of 1 per cent. The crop is I twenty days later than last year, and | the general vitality and condition of j th'2 plant is low. STATUTE HELD VOID Farm Labor Contracts in South Carolina are Null. IS DECISION OF BRAWLEY Breach of Contract Was Made a Mis-i ? ~n~.~i~-.~~i tu:? aemcctnur diiu ouuyc uc^icticu una Feature of Law to Be Revolting?Prisoners Released. In the United States district court at Charleston, S. C., Thursday, Judge YV. H. Brawlev rendered his decision in the case brought in behalf o? Enoch and Elijah Drayton, colored, on habeas corpus proceedings, declaring the act of the legislature making the breach of a farm contract a misdemeanor, to be unconstitutional, null and void, and the two negroes are ordered to be released from custody. Judge Brawley's decision deals almost entirely with the law on tne subject. The case is, however, briefly reviewed, showing that the two negroes were arrested in January, 1907, upon a warrant for failure to perform their contract under section 357 of the acts of 1^04, and at that time they were still under contract for a task of the year, not yet performed. The act provides that a conviction shall not operate for the release or discharge of the violator, and when the negroes were arrested, in January it was the second time that they had been hauled up, and put on the chaingang for the same offenses. "The only criminal act," in the words of tiie decision,' was tne ianure to work." While admitting that the legislation is a part of the local administration in matters of grelt convenience #to the industrial life of the state, Judge Brawley says: "The remedy is not found in statutes which chain the laborer to the soil and force him to labor whether he will or not. It is by improving his condition and not by still degrading it, that the remedy may be found." Jjidge Brawley concludes by declaring the state act to be in conflict with the thirteenth and fourteenth amendments of the constitution of the United States, and orders the release of the prisoners. INSULT WOMEN AND CHILDREN. Strikers in San Francisco Acting the Part of Bullies and Thugs. ' Ten special policemen in plain clothes have begun a careful investigation at Sau Francisco into the treatment accorded women and children who ride on the street cars, with a view to protect them from violence and insult from strikers and reporting regular policemen who are derelict in their duty. Twenty attorneys have also been appointed by the bar association to watch the administration of justice in the police courts and endeavor to secure adequate punishment for the men who haVe attacked street cars and created disorder. CRAZY MAN CLAIMS ALICE. Sav? He Is Husband of Mrs. Long worth and Nick is an Interloper. James Frieze, who is confined in a sanitarium at Columbus, Ohio, has applied to the criminal court for his release on the ground that his mind is all right. He declares that he is the rightful husband of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, and that Nicholas Longworth is an interloper, and ought to be shot. He threatens to kill Mayor Bagder and the city authorities when he gets out. GIRL SUES FOR A DIPLOMA. Barred from Graduation Because She Attended a Dance. Because she was not permitted to graduate on account of having attended a dance contrary to the school rules, Miss Sadie McGinnis of Danville, Ky., has brought suit against the Campbell Hagerman Female college for $12,000 damages. COURT OUSTS OFFICIALS. Democrats in City of Louisville and County of Jefferson Lose Out. The Kentucky court of appeals on Monday handed down its opinion in the contested election cases from the city of Louisville and Jefferson county, upholding the contentions of the fusionists and declaring the election void.' The court rules that Governor Beckham has the power to till the vacancies by appointment and an election f.Mv a!! <- irami nonnl v officials is ordered for next November. The decision of the court is unanimous. JAPS ADMIRE GEN. WRIGHT. ! His Resignation as American Ambassador Deeply Deplored. i A special from Tokio, Japan, says: { The resignation of Consul General Luke Wright, the American ainbas* sador to Japan, is widely known, and ihe Asahi in its issue of Friday referred to public feeling in the matter, expressing deep regret at his short tenure in office. [FOR PROTECTING HONOR' I / ' Mrs. Sa!lie Freeney is Placed on Trial j at Eastman?Charged With the ! Murder of W. T. Harrell. The .trial of Mrs. Sullie Freeney, J who is charged with the murder of j \V. T. Harrell, a prominent citizen, | who, it is claimed, she shot and kill- ^ cd, began at Eastman, Ga., Thurs- i . . i day morning. i The courtroom was crowded with a dense throng of peopie when Mrs. \ Freeney took her seat. She did not i annear thp least bit nervous or excit- ! A " ~ " 1 ed as she entered the courtroom. She j bowed to the judge and attorneys and j calmly sat down. Almost the entire morning was : spent in drawing the jury, and the case was hardly gone into before ad- j journment was taken for dinner. The I introduction of evidence occupied the ' afternoon session. Mrs. Freeney, since the alleged < murder of Harrell, has been a prison- j er in the Bibb county jail at Macon, j She was carried to Eastman for trial ! Thursday morning. The state is represented by Solicitor Ed Graham, D. M. Roberts & Son, C. VV. Griffin and W. M. Morrison, while Mrs. Freeney is represented by John R. Cooper, Delacy & Bishop and C. VV. Atwill. The state rested its case in the af- j ternoon about 6 o'clock, having be* gun to submit evidence about 2:30 | o'clock. The defense immediately had Mrs. j Freeney make a statement to the j jury, and rested without submitting ; any further evidence. Mr3. Freeney j made to the jury a very dramatic j statement. She claimed that Harrell declared j that he would sleep with her that night or kill her; that he was intoxioomH it time and that he attemm IVMbCU UV buv v. ed to put his threat into execution, ! and that she only shot him when she was forced to protect herself. She further stated that he grabbed her and struck her. Mrs. Freeney went into details as to the manner in which she had been supporting herself. She told the jury that she had been doing the best she could, and that she was going to keep, on doing so. She stated that it looked as if everybody was against her, but that Goa was for her; that God never let one of His children suffer, and that He was not going to do so now. She expressed herself as not being the least J afraid that the jury would convict her. Witnesses for the state declare that Mrs. Freeney made statements immediately after the shooting to the effect that Harrell did not put his hand on her, and that she shot him because of insulting language that he used to her. BOTH HAD ACCIDENT POLICY. Man and Wife Who Were Drowned j Leave Comfortable Sum to Heirs. The laws of chance* are strangely exploited in the case of Mr. and Mrs. Harold T. Anderson, who were drowned by the capsizing of a steam launch while at a picnic at the Locks near ctf\ Chi\r i. I Augusta, LrU., a lew u?.> s atjw. uuviv ly after their marriage, a few months ago, each took out an insurance policy for the other in the sum of ten thousand dollars. The agent tried to get them to take out a regular policy, but both insisted on taking out an accident policy, so that the heirs of each are now to be in possession of a comfortable fortune. ? JUDGE HARGIS IS ACQUITTED. / Another Chapter of Feud Case in Kentucky is Closed. The jury at Lexington, Ky., in the case of James Hargis of Breathitt county for the assassination of Jas. J Cockrill, town marshal at Jackson, returned a verdict of acquittal on Thursday morning. As soon as the verdict was announced, every democratic city and county official in the court room ui tered shouts of applause. Judge Parker rapped for order and reprimanded Sheriff McEIroy for permitting such action in the court room. CALHOUN AS A PUGILIST. President of 'Frisco Railways Resents Being Cailed a Liar. ^ At a meeting in San Francisco FrI-j day of the public utilities committee, of the board of supervisors to con- 4 sider a resolution declaring forfeited ( the franchises of the United railways. President Patrick Calhoun of that corporation was virtually called a liar by E. P. Troy, a municipal ownership advocate. Mr. Calhoun's reply was a blow i:i the face that nearly knocked Troy down. Further trouble was prevented by bystanders. COTTON CHOPPERS STRIKE. ? Negro Farm Laborers in Texas Demand Straight $2 Per Day. The cotton planters of Texas are coucerned with a strike among the negro farm laborers, who are quitliug work iu the various territories, demanding $2 per day for chopping cotton. The customary wages in the past has been ?1.25. I * STATUE OF CORDON!' I j Unveiled at Georgia Capital j With Imposing Ceremony. j # i f GREAT THRONG IN CITY ! i i Thousands of Georgians and Many Visitors from Other States Gath ered to Pay Homage to Great Confederate Leader. j Many thousands of Georgians and j visitors from other states gathered in ! Atlanta Saturday to participate in and 1 11 witness the exercises incident to the j unveiling of the heroic bronze eques* 'n trian statue of General John B. Gor- j i don, which stands majestically in re- j viewing attitude on the northwest cor- t J 11 ner of the state capitol grounds. i. Elaborate preparations for the ! event were made by the commission, j < which, more recently, has had charge i of the work under legislative resolu- |! tion, and the occasion in every detail was so arranged that it was one long ; to be remembered. 1'< The unveiling ceremonies which be- ! ' gan promptly at noon around the | monument, upon stands erected for \. the occasion, was preceded by a splendid military pageant. 'In it par- : ticipated state and federal troops, ' i and one of its divisions was com- j i manded by General W. S. Edgerly i of the United States army. The oc- j casion was indeed a significant one. | The troops assembled at the June- J tion of Peachtree and West Peachtree ' i streets, and included the Fifth .and j Second regiments infantry, national | guard of Georgia, four troopfc of Geor- i; gia cavalry, the Atlanta artillery bat-}, tery, federal troops from Fort McPherson, cadets from the state university at Athens, from Gordon institute at Barnesville, from the # Marist col- j lege of Atlanta, hundreds of Atlanta ' school children, confederate veterans ; and many civic bodies which united i in doing honor to Georgia's typical j soldier, statesman and patriot. The exercises took place upon a; specially erected grand stand, upon j which sat the many guests specially i invited for the occasion, including the J members of General Gordon's family, j ex-governors of Georgia and their j families, judges of the United States j courts, members of the John B. Gordon monument 'association, Sculptor Solon H. Borglum, the officers of the \ Ladies' Memorial Association of tne J United Daughters of the Confederacy j and many others. Platforms had been placed immediately in front of the monument, where seats were provided for those who took part in the chorus, and seats were also specially ar- J ranged for the 200 voices which | participated in singing the song, "The ! New South," especially written and i arranged lor this occasion. The invocation by Rev. William F. j Glenn and music by the band was- fol- j lowed by the reading of the history ! of the John B. Gordon Monument As- j sociation by its first president, Judge j W. L. Calhoun of Atlanta. Then followed the principal address i of the occasion by General Clement A. Evans, comrade and lifelong friend of General Gordon, who was with him on the famous 12th of May, 1S64, at [ Spottsylvania, when, by forcing Gen- J erai Robert E. Lee to the rear, the j gallant Gordon probably saved the in-1 trepid confederate leader's life. The statue was unveiled, following > General Evans' address, by Mrs. Frances Gordon Smith and Mrs. Caroline j Lewis Gordon Brown of Vermont, the j two daughters of General Gordon. j The dedication poem, following' "Dixie," by band, was read by its au-1 thor, Charles W. Hubner, of Atlanta, 1 and the exercises closed with the for- j mal delivery of the monument to the ' state by Captain X. E. Harris of Ma- j con on the part of the commission, j and its acceptance by Governor Terrell. HIGHER DUTIES HELD UP. . French Government Succeeds in Side- I tracking Cotton Seed Oil Bill. [ The French government has sue- j I ceeded in sidetracking the bill which j [ had 6een pending before parliament"! to increase the duties on American 1. eoltua seed oii. The action of tUe cabinet furnished fresh proof of the desire of the government to avoid tariff complications with the United States, > pending an attempt to arrange an j agreement through a joint commis- i sioii. i j CARS RUN IN EiR.t.NGHAM, ! j I I Complete Service Restored by Employmerit of No.-i-Union Wen. Practically complete service has been resumed uu the street railroad system i:i liirmingham, none but nonunion men being employed. Saloons have been allowed lo reopen. .Mayor Ward lias offered a reward. for the arrest oil those cutting the trolley wires, some instances having been rei ported. PAT CALHOUN INDICTED.J| Head of 'Frisco Street Railways Must ; | Answer Graft Charges Along With Ruef and Mayor Schmitz. The grand jury at San Francisco v->|m Friday evening returned bribery inrV'j;|^ liciments as follows: 1 Against President Patrick Calhoun 13 of the United Railroads, fourteen. Against assistant to the presidents Ihornwall Mullaly, fourteen. jj Against Attorneys Tierev L. j and W. M. Abbott of the legal de? "wgal partment, fourteen each. - *-iSM Against Mayor Eugene Schmitz, sixA fr r? 1 >1 r. f A Kro'nn tvi t? Anf f A!ll**AOn ?. rvgaiuoL nui anaui ivcui, luuiic^u. ,v35fB Against President Louis Glass the Pacific States Telephone and Tel-?|||M egraph company, two. 1 Against Theodore V. Halsey, merly an agent of that corporation^^? Reuf, Schmitz, Calhoun, Mulia^a Ford and Abbott are charged ^ bribing fourteen supervisors to graat^? |1 an overhead trolley franchise to .the-Jj United Railroads. Schmitz is furthe?|| charged with bribery in connectioa||w|j with the fixing of the gas company's^M^ rate, and with receiving $5,000 in United Railroad's franchise deal. The indictments against Glass additional to the eleven indictmentk||| :M already returned against him on tkejl charge of bribing supervisors to re? Vj! fuse a competitive telephone chise. The indictment against Halsdy^W?| is for the same offense. :4"|| Superior Judge Coffey fixed bail the sum of $10,000 on each of charges, and gave the accused unt?3ipi xM until Saturday morninz to furnisk5*fflii . THE PLEA OF OKLAHOMA; X ^1 Commissioners Consult With Roos?^H^ veit Anent State Constitution.; -gHpl President Roosevelt Friday gaveiiM:^ audience to Messrs. Ledbetter, and Hayes, democratic, menjbeis the Oklahoma constitutional conven^J ||| tion, who were appointed by the pi^jS|l ident of that body to go to Washtaj??||| ton to consult with the officials of tliefjt^ administration regarding its attitudel| il toward the constitution recewSm:'M The committee declined to statj^aBI what the president said to them, btflyB admitted that he had referred tnear^jgjj to the attorney general for anothet^ ^ conference. They pointed out tha?^?|a they were anxious that the president?!! should indicate the objectionable tures of the present constitution be^jfjpfl cause thep the convention could bottli reassembled and those features eor^sfilll (1 They did not want to have the^on^^ stltution submitted to the people fpr|jg ratification, to be followed by th^^^Sj president's disapproval o! the jnstrajiBag ment, which would delay the adixiis^m^ sion of the state until a later date. .|1 The committee said the people welfe^M^ anxious to have the constitution con^^Oj form to the provisions of the enablinapjaM OUSTER IS RECOMMENDED*,;?^ Oil Companies in Missouri May "$|j Forced to Leave State. ' Judge Robert A. Anthony, appoiatl|S||| ed by the supreme court of Missoojrt^ to take testimony in the suit insti- J '~Ih tuted by Attorney General / Hadley^ against the Standard Oil c<5mpahyr the:Ji 'M Waters-Pierce Oil company aijd' Republic Oil company, charging a M conspiracy, has made his report to f| the court. His findings hold that the oil com- v*9| panies entered into an agreement control prices. He recommends that^?|B their charters he revoked and that : % they be ousted from the state. FOR THE RELIEF OF FAMINE^ Russian Parliament Votes Nearly Millions of Dollars. /-3 ^ The lower house of the Russian par- wi liament Friday by 176 to 146 vote^I adopted the law providing foj* appropriation of $8,73*3,000 for famine fJgB relief purposes. The Poles and meatbers of the group of. toil abstained-:J|m from voting. " * GARNER CAUGHT AT L<AST.-. By Watching His Wife, Officers Lo? cated Embezzler. R. F. Garner, wanted in New Orleans, on the charge of embezzling tI|I J>3G,700 from the Southern Pacific road, '*s| was arested in Cartersville, Ga:, day afternoon at the Bell residence. Garner has been., living near Oartersville for about two months. Sev- J|| eral weeks ago his wife arrived in Cartersvilie, and stopped at the Bell home Since her arrival every move she made has been watched and final- ''M ly the detectives learned that her fiusband had entered the residence. ' -^8 LIGHTNING HIT CLOTHES LINE. >: \% As Result Boy Was Killed and Two Sisters Seriously Shocked. Johnny White, aged 12 years, a ^ son oi G. W. White, living near Flow-- || ery IJranch Ga., was struck and killed . & by lightning. His two sisters were' >|1 knocked unconscious and may not reThe children were taking clothes from a wire line, when a bolt of lightning struck it.