The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, August 08, 1907, Image 3
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Tfl COUNT BALLOTS
Gov. Vardaman's Adherents
t. i Make Move in Mississippi.
A PECULIAR PROCEEDING
.Results in Several Precincts in Adams
County Attempted to Be Probed
by Police Justice and Lawyers
of Natchez.
A peculiar move in the Mississippi
primary election for the nomination
of democratic candidates for United
States senator and state officers was
made late Monday afternoon when
Hon. Ernest E. Brown, Police Justice
Marion Reilly and J. H. Beard, lawyers
and followers of Governor Vardaman,
attempted to count the ballots cast in
the several precincts of Adams coun*
, ty, in Natchez.
They were counting the ballots when
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the chairman of the Adams county
democratic executive committee, anc
Judge Will C. Martin, county attorney,
both of whom had been apprised
of the move, appeared before them
and protested against their action.
The protestants were reinforced by |
Circuit Clerk Bowie, who is the reg- j
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istrar of tne county. .vir, jdi-uwu au- i
vanced the claim that the ballo:s are '
public property, but was informed that j
the returns had not been received by
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tile state executive committee, where- I
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upon the trio retired from the office.
A Jackson special says: Chairman j
B. H. Wells, learning Monday night
, of the attempt on the part of several
supporters of Governor Vardaman to
S count the Adams county ivote, sent
the following message to all election
managers in Mississippi.
"Williams Headquarters, Jackson, Au- |
gust 5.?Do not let the ballots or orig
inal tally sheets go out of the hands
of the lection officers. We have won
this election and do not propose to be
counted out. j
"B. H WELLS, Chairman."
Hon. John Sharp Williams gave the !
following to the press before leavini
for his home at Yazoo City Morday afx
leruwu;
"I am going.home for a day at least
to rest. I have certainly been elected,
why the opposition does not concede I
cannot understand. If there be any
hoaest reason for holding back return^
; I cannot conceive it."
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Chairman Wells received a message
from J. M. Thomas of Tupelo that
J he had been requested to send the
ballot boxes and tally she:ts to the
chairman of the state executive committee
and declined to comply. Mr.
Wells indorsed this position.
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CRIME WAVE IN CHICAGO.
Ono
Day's List Was Four Men Kiliei
and One Mortally Wounded.
Scattering mysterious assaults in
which four men were killed and an
ether fatally wounded arjusea tne
entire Chicago police force to enev
Setic action early Monday. The victims
in the affair were:*
v Fusario Rocco, body found on the
dooretep of his home, wi.h two stiletto
wo&nds.
Edward ' Smith, a policeman, was
shot and killed by an unknown man
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while walking a short distance from
"his house.
John L. Barbour was found dead
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cn the Illinois Central tracks. The
head had been cut off by a passing
train. It is believed Barbour committed
suicide, but there are circumstances
that make this doubtful.
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John Naughton died in the hospital
.after being asaulted by three strani
ge T3.
William Donovan is dying in the
county hospital from a bullet wound
in the abdomen. Donovan was found
in a basement and said he had been
robbed by three men.
THOUGHT WIFE A BURGLAR.
^ Atlanta Turkish Bath Proprietor Fired
Fatal Shot at Helpmeet.
H. B. Krumholz, proprietor of a
Turkish bath house and barber shop
at 10 Decatur street, opposite the Kimball
house, iu Atlanta, Monday night,
* shot and killed his wife, Rosalie Krumholz,
a: their home, 136 South Forsyth
street, shortly before midnight.
Krumholz declared th? shooting to be
accidental, as he mistook his wife for
a burglar.
* JUDGE THROTTLES ARKANSAS.
State is Restrained from Forfeiting
Rights of a Kauroaa.
. Judge Vandeventer, in the federa
circuit court, at St. Paul Monday, issued
a temporary restraining crd r
prohibiting the secretary of state oi
Arkansas from forfeiting the right c;
the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacifia
railroad to do business in the elate.
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NO GREATER ATLANTA,~1
Plan for Extension of City Limits
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Postponed to 1908 by Action of
Municipal Council. j
The txtensfon of the city limits o j
Atlanta and the purchase of a new j
pump for the waterworks department j
came up before the city council Mon- j
day afternoon. I
The Greater Atlanta scheme wa< j
postponed until the year 1908.
The purchase of a pump was inded- '
nitely postponed until a new special |
investigating committee could make a j
report on the waterworks system.
So, after many months of hard work
and much talking about an extension
of the city limits, and an equal amount
of time and speethmaking wasted ab-u:
a new pump, both these important
measures were pig?on-holed for a
while.
The matter of extension came up in
a committee of the whole.
Councilman Terrell, who had been
an earnest advocate of extension,
moved that the matter be postponed
until the next council came in. He
said that he did this because it was
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ment passed by the legislature.
Councilman Pomeroy was against a
postponement. He said that to take a
backstep now might cause the city to
be unjustly criticised in the face of
the reduced income from the cutting
off of the liquor licenses next year.
Councilman Martin coincided with
Council Pomeroy.
Alderman Holland got the floor and
he said that he was tired of so much
"hot air." He called fcr the previous
question, and a vote was taken.
The vote to postpone action until
the ytar 1908 was 13 to 8.
And Greater Atlanta was bidden
farewell for a while.^
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| MARCH OF SOUTH'S PROGRESS.
Set Forth in the Georgia and Alabama
Industrial Index.
Tile Georgia and Alabama Indus rial
index says in its regular weekly issue:
"Twenty-one new industrial and
manufacturing plants to be established,
two new railroads projected, sixtytwo"
buildings of substantial character
t.o be constructed, proposed municipal
improvements to cost over $300.UC
and twenty new corporations wi.h
total minimum capital s:ock of $676,750
are consolidated items of advance
reports to The Index, for the past
week, that illustrate the steady development
and upbuilding in progress
in Georgia and Alabama. The figuras,
though large, are not unusual. The
Index reports such figures week after
week. They explain why the 37
Georgia counties that so far have sent
1 tax digests to. the state comptrollers
j office^how a net gain in property valI
ues of $5,653,677 over las; year. They j
explain, too, why the eyes of the Amer-1
ican business world are upon Gorgia
and Alabama as never before in their
history and why more and more capital
is being placed with that which demonstrates
profitable investment in the
two states. v
"Coincident with the general upbuilding
is an increasing demand for
lands of all kinds and a steady upward |
tendency of prices."
ASSASSIN AFTER BUSH. j
Bullet Grazed Head of Atlanta Man
Recently Acquitted in Court.
A mysterious attempt was made at
11-on
I Atlanta Monday mgu l auuu. a.x.w
o'clock to assassinate Fred Bush, the
man who was charged with sending
a dynamite bomb to Miss Katherine
McCarthy, and after a trial in court
was promptly acquitted.
Bush was sitting on the bed in his
room on Ivy street reading a book,when
suddenly some one from the outside
fired a shot through the window, the
bullet grazing his head and splattering
pieces of glass over him.
LIQUOR BARRED FROM TRAINS.
First Arrest and Conviction Under
Newly Enacted Texas Law.
The first arrest and conviction under
the law making it a misdemeanor to
drink liquor on a train in Texas was
made in Palestine when a white man
was fined $16 for committing the offense.
The man was coming in on a train,
and when a short way out of Pales*
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tine took a drink out 01 a uuu:e uc
had in his pocket. While he was drinking
a state ranger, who happened to
be on the same car, arrested him.
MOVING FOR A DISPENSARY.
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Citizens of August, Ga., Scheming to
Keep Up Booze Business.
It is generally reported in Augusta,
Ga., that secret arrangements are being
made to establish a dispensary in
North Augusta, just acros sthe river,
in South Carolina, from the city of
Augusta, which will be "dry" when
prohibition goes into effect on Jan. 1.
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WILL BAR NEGROES'
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! Disfranchisement Bill Passed
in Georgia Senate.
ONLY SIX VOTES AGAiNST
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urc Wili Later Go to People for
Ratification?Summary of Its
Provisions.
The Felder-Williams disfranchisement
bill was passed by the Georgia
state senate Wednesday morning by a
vo;e o: 37 to 6. This being more than
a two-thirds vote, required to amend
the constitution, the bill will be ? *it
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them will be submitted to the people
for their ratification.
All of the senators were present
when the votes were cast. The six
who voted against the measure were
Senators Crittenden of the eleventh,
Hawes of the thirtieth, Lashley- of
the fortieth, Mattox of the fourth,
Sikes of the tenth and Weaver of the
forty-firs;. All others voted for the
bill.
Several amendments were introduc
ed in reference to the property clause
by Senator Hardman, to striking our,
the good character clause, and the
educational qualification by Senator
Taylor, and to strike out the time
limit by Senator Boyd. All these were
lost, and on point of order by Sena:o>
Felder the amendment introduced by
Senator Dobbs, in reference to white
male citizens, was ruled "not germain,"
and declared out of order by the pres
ident.
The measure was passed practically
as it came fjom the senate committer,
and none of its important provisions
were eliminated by amendments
tyionv tt-pra offered Presi
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dent Akin, who favors the bill, did
not vote.
Patterned after the suffrage plank
of the Alabama constitution, the bill
Is designed to disfranchise the venal,
ignorant, illiterate and vicious negro,
preserving to the white man the
right of suffrage, regardless of educational
or property qualifications. It
conforms to the suffrage plank of
the Macon platform, and meets
squarely the demands of the people
as indicated in the recent gubernatorial
campaign.
The pasage of the bill indicates
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the prevailing scuumcut ?. ~~
jority of the present legislature to
make good their promises to the people.
It presages the ultimate success
of practically all of'the reform legislarequired
by the platform and
demanded by the people, and show3
that the upper house of the general
assembly is in thorough sympathy
with the present administration.
The bill fixes as a prerequisite to
the right to vote certain requirements
or qualifications, which it is
known every white man in the stata
can meet, but which few of the negroes
will be able to comply with.
As its name indicates, it is a disfranchisement
measure, and will disfranchise
the negroes or a very large
j per cent of them.
In order to vote a man must own
or pay tax on $500 worth of property,
or be able to read and write a
paragraph of the constitution of the
stare or the nation.
If he canont comply with these
provisions ? and few negroes can ? |
he is entirled to register and vote if
he is descended from any man who
fought in any of the wars in which j
the United States or the Confederate
States have participated. '
Lastly, he is entitled to register and
vote if he has a proper conception of
his duty to his state and the nation.
Under the last named provision,
every while man in Georgia will register,
and once registered he will
have a life certificate, and will th-n
have only to pay his taxes to enjoy
the right of suffrage.
AWAITING LEGAL ACTION.
License Revocation Case in Alabama
Against Southern in Statu Quo.
Things are in statu quo so far as
the situation between Alabama and
the Scutehrn railway is concerned.
The railway is doing business in
ototo without license and the
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state is quietly waiting for some officer
of the law, as he has a right
to do under the act, to effect an arrest.
This may happen at any time, as
the violation took place on July 30.
ALABAMA TO REMAIN WET.
Prohis Seem Satisfied to Rely on Laws
Already Enacted.
A Montgomery dispatch s'ys: While
the prohibition bill has bein taken from
an adverse report in the house, it is
well understood that it is not to be
passed this session. The anti-liquor
forces have gotten local option by
counties that they think will put the
saloons out of business gradualiy
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AROUSE LYNCHING SPIRIT.
New Yorkers Horrified at Many Murders
of Women and Little Girls.
Three Suspects Badly Beaten.
Another murderous assault w.^s added
Sunday to the police record of recent
crimes against defenseless women
and girls in Xsw York. The vie
tim was Miss Ellen Bulger, a woman
of middle age, who W2s attacked in
her apar;ments in the Bronx, cruelly
beaten, and left in a helpless state.
The woman was removed to a hospital,where
it was found that her skull
had apparently been fractured, her
face and hands lacerated, and her
body otherwise bruised. There was evidence
that the woman had made a
courageous fight. From what the police
were able to learn from her, she
was surprised by a smooth-faced stranger,
perhaps forty years of age. He
was coatless and were an outing shirt
and dark trousers. He escaped.
The dangerous temper of the people,
particularly in the foreign quarters,
who had ben aroused by ths reports
of attacks upon women and girls
was exhibited Sunday night in repeated
instances. A cry that a stranger
had approached a child with familiar-t,~,
atar? a mob
1 iv was cuaugii ~ _ .
Sadie Hamberger, aged eight years,
playing in the hallway of her tenement
home in East Fifty-ninth street,
late in the evening, cried out that a
man had seized her. The child s father
seized George Keshner a Russian
bookbinder, by the throat. Tho
excitement attracted 500 men and women,
who fought with each other to
get a chance at the Russian. Thirty
policemen rescued Keshner, bleeding
from a score of wounds, when all hi3
clothing but his shoes had been torn
from him. The police wrapped the
prisoner in a blanket and hurried him
away, Sadie's sister corroborated the
story of the attack, and the father
says that he saw his daughter in the
grasp of the Russian.
About the same time Hyle Saloda,
nearly lost his scalp in Thirty-fcurth
strce;. He was accused of having offered
pennies to a girl of 12 years.
rm--> n-owfoH tn know whv. and
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Saloda showed fight.
He slashed about him with a penknife,
and then knocked down a policeman.
A crowd of perhaps a thousand
persons attempted to reach Saloda,
but police reserves beat them
back and took Saloda to the station.
Louis Concalia was the victim of
vircumstances. A man and wife quarreled
in One Hundred and Seventh
street, and their youthful daughter
went out to the sidewalk and wept.
A passing boy slapped her, and ran
away. The girl's cries and the running
boy aroused the neighbors, who chased
the lad. The boy escaped and Concolia,
who had outfooted other pursuers,
was mistaken by the mob for
the giri's assailant. ,
Overtaken at last Concclia wa3 set
upon and knocked down and kicked
until he was nearly dead. The police
rescued him after he was dang.rcusly
injured.
This wave of crimes against women
and children has reached a stage
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j where severe measures are called for.
Acting Police Commissioner O'Keefe
I late Sunday issued orders directing
that every plain clothes officer on the
force lay aside all other work and
devote himself entirely to an attempt
to bring to justice the perpeiratora
HORROR ON FRENCH RAILWAY.
Train Plunges Into River and Forty
Pasengers Are Drowned.
Forty passengers in a third class
railroad car and the engineer of the
train were drowned Sunday afternoon
in a ailroad accident, near Angiers,
Fance.
The locomotive jumped th? track
when entering the bridge over the
river Loire. The stone railing gave
w.iv and the engine piungjd into the
river fifty feet below, dragging with
it the baggage and third class cars.
ROADS AGREE TO YIELD.
State of Virginia a Winner, So Far, in
Reduced Rate Fight.
Shortly before midnight Saturday
nignt tne scare omciais m wmcreuuc
at the governor's office in Richmond,
Va., received a communication from
the attorneys of the Virginia railways
to the effect that the two cent rats
would be in effect on or before October
first, with the condition that the matter
should be taken to the courts for
a final decision as to its ltga'.ity.
JOY IN LITTLE MAINE
Over Georgia Prohibition Bill ? Tern*
perance Folk Jubilate.
During the second dry's session
Wednesday of the Maine Temperance
Society at Old Orchard, a telegram
was received conveying the announcement
of the passage by the Georgia
legislature of a prohibitory liquor law.
A prayer and praise service, which
was in progress at the time, was
changed into meeting^of general congratulations.
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TRUST IS BRANDED!
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| Standard Folk Worse Than j
Counterfeiters Says Lanais. j
PLACES $29,240,000 FINE;
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In Notorious Rebate Cass. Rockefel
ler's Corporation is Given Maximum
Penalty?Immense Crowd
Cheers the Verdict.
| Judge Kennesaw M. Landis, ia the
i United Slates district court at Chi-!
; cago fined the Standard Oil company
of Indiana $29,240,000 for violations of
' the law against accepting rebates
| from railroads. The fine is the larg!
est ever assessed against any individ!
uals or any corporation in the history
i of American criminal jurisprudence,
| and is slightly more than 131 times
j as great as the amount received by
i the company through its rabating op|
erations. The case will be carried to
| the higher courts by the defendant
, company.
The penalty imposed upon the com'
pany is the maximum permitted un;
der the law, and it was announced at
; the end of a long opinion in which
1 the methods and practices of the S:an
! dard Oil company were mercilessly
i scored. The judge, in fact, declared,
! in his opinion, that the officials of the'
' Standard Oil company who were responsible
for the practices of which
the corporation was found guilty, were
no better than counterfeiters and
thives, his exact language being:
"We may as well look at this situation
squarely. The men who thus
deliberately violate this law, wound
society more deeply than does he who
counterfeits the coin or steals letters
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Judge Landis commenced reading
i his decision at 10 o'clock and occu|
pied about one hour in its delivery.
| He reviewed the facls in the case,
I took up the arguments of attorneys
! for the defense, and answered them
J and then passed judgment on the comj
pany, which he declared violated the
j law for the sole purpose of swelling
| its dividends.
j The court held that the roads have
! no more right to make a secret rate
j for a shipper than a board of assess!
ors would have to make a secret asJ
sessment of any particular piece of
| property.
I The court expressed regret that the
; law failed to provide mere serious pun!
ishment than a fine, out insisted that
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! the nenaltv should be sufficiently large
. to act as a deterrent arid not of such
a size as to encourage the defender
to persist I* lawlessness.
! At the conclusion of his opinion and
; after announcing the amount of the
fine, Judge Landis directed . that a spe
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cial grand jury be called/for the pur!
pose cf inquiry into the facts in the
! Chicago and Alton Railroad company,
i it having been proved in the case just
! closed that the oil company accepted
j rebates from that corporation. This
j jury is summoned for August 14.
; This decision of Judge Landis arous
ed almost as much public interest as
I did the prssence of John D. Rocke|
feller and the other officials of the
, Standard Oil company in the court
! room on Jul^ 6. The crush was so
great that a large force of deputy
i marshals had much difficulty in con;
trolling the crowd that was anxious
to rorce its wsy iuiu tuc tjumouui. I
| The case will be appealed and it ic I
' expected that it will be heard during |
I the January term of the United States i
j court of appeals.
Under the seven indictments still
; pending against the Standard Oil com.
i pany an additional fine amounting to
j $88,440,000 may be levied against the
j company if it is found guii'y on trial.
! There are in these seven indictments
i a total of 4,422 counts, and the maxiI
mum fine in each suit would be $20,j
000.
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WILL
BE GRAND BLOWOUT.
; U. S. Grant the Third to Wed Daughter
of Secretary Root.
j The announcement- of the engagej
ment of Miss Edith Root, daughter of
i Secretary Root, to U. S. Grant III,
thrills Washington ^\ith the expectancy
of a grand wedding in th? fall.
However, no plans for the event have
j been allowed to leak oat as yet.
Miss Root is a girl of high intellectual
attainments, and has never cared
a gr?at deal for society. ?.
ALABAMA PROHIS HOPEFUL.
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! Encouraged by Georgia's Action Thsy
Will Push Their Bill.
I A Montgomery dispatch says: Repi
resentative Henley, author cf the Ala|
bama prohibition bill, encouraged by
, the Georgia outcome, says that he will
j make a fight for the measure. It has
been adversed by the temperance com"MLtee.
but he will try to get it \r
NEW YORKERS IN TERROR. |
City Shocked Over Mysterious Murder
of Two Women and Little Girl.
Ail Were Strangled to Death.
The "Graveyard," as the foreign pop*
ulated neighborhood on First aveiyie
between Thirteenth and Fourteenth
streets, is known in New York, gave
up Thursday a fresh crime, rivaling
the notorious and mysterious butcheries
of last week. The latest discovered
victim, Katie Pritchler, eightyear-old
girl, and, like the two ycung
women, she had been shockingly mistreated
before death and badly mutilated
when life was extinct.
The three murders are strikingly
similar. Thurdsay night a week ago, a
woman was strangled in a boarding
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house; the next morning the body of * r.i
another unidentified woman who had
been choked to death, was found in |ui
areaway. Katie Pritchler, daughter of
a restaurant waiter, was killed that
night. A ribbon placed about the throat
and drawn so tightly that it cut the ^
flesh, shows how she died.
The girl left home at 340 East Thir- ^
teenth street Thursday night to play . ;.,|f
in the street. When she failed to return
the father notified tfce police and #r *j|
a general alarm was sent out. The 3
body was discovered just a week later
within a block of her home and scarcely
a hundred yards from the location .
of a placard placed by her father .:. |jl
calling attention to the fact that the WM
child was lost. How the body could
have remained undiscovered for a ' |
week is not explained.
The girl's body was stumbled upon
by a woman who visited the base- ;TJl
ment of the house at 203 First avenue.
It lay upon a berry crate, with
seemingly no effort at concealment.
If the brutalities of the murders can
be qualified, that of the Pritchler girl I
ranks firs:. She was assaulted, murdered
and her lifeless form was hor- ?.|*
ribiy mutilated.
ANARCHY REIGNS IN LOW*. Russian
Poland City Again Scene of jll
Bloodshed and Disorder. A
Lodz, Russian Poland, is again the Jf
scene of a strike movement, accompanied
by violence, disorder and death. j i||
The troops encountered the strikers
in the center of the town Thursdays
night and thirty men were killed or . |g
wounded. Business is a: a standstill. ^
The strike would, appear to be the |1|
beginning of a big labor war, and the -|a
workmen's unions are prepared for a -M
long struggle. The Immediate cause |?
of Thursday's outbreak was the course
pursued ,bv the police during the last
eight days .in making a large number
of arrests in attempts] to break up . 3|j
the unions. The principal socialist 'Jj
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leaders nave uscU ~ ? ??
A general strike has been declared,
and the social democrats and the Po ' js}
!:sh socialists have calleg out 32,00d ;||
CAUCUS NAMES JOHNSTON.
I Alabama Legislature Will Elect Him
Successor to Pettus.
L For the second time during the 1907
session the Alabama legislature nom- %
j ina:ed for election to the United ' -3
States senate, Thursday, a man to
succeed a dead senator, that honor
falling to Joseph P. Johnston, who will
follow for the long and short terms of M
Senator Pettus, covering the time to
1913. Though the nomination was by .})
democratic caucus it amounts to ele?? ||
tion, as there are only two other than
democrats in the entire assembly.
Governor Johnston made a speech,
in which he pointed out that he is in ^
lino with Governor * Glenn of North
Carolina and Governor Comer of Alabama,
in the belief that the states
should control without regard to the federal
courts.
^uaxa/ uas NEW LAWYER.
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Former Tennesseean Will Defend Him
on Next Trial.
Martin W. Lit;leton, former president
of the borough of Brooklyn, a
lawyer and an orator of wide reputation,
and a native of Tennessee, will
be chief oounsel for Harry K. Thaw
Itirv tr> answer
wnen n ? iavto ? j v.. v. ~ v
to the charge of Rilling Stanford
White. Thaw announced the selection
of Mr. Littleton Thursday, after a
conference with his mother and his
wife. It is said that Mr. Littleton's
fee will be $25,000.
GOVERNOR COMER SIGNS BILLS
I One Appropriates $50,000 for Fight
Against the Railroads.
Governor Comer of Alabama has
signed the following bills: To allow
the Alabama Polytechnic institute to
us? $30,000 of the building fund as
an investment; to appropriate $50,000
.ltifrtv tho pxnenses incident to the
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fight being made on rate and regular
tion laws by the railroads _