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BLEW UP BUILDINGS AID OF M'NAHABAS IWNS UP TO HIS DEVILMENT TELLS OF THEIB PLANS Union Iron Worker Arrested in New York Samo as (ioorgo O'Donnell, Who Figured in Kyun's Trial?llis Confession Loads to Arrest of Some Others. Dynamite outrages that rivallod the exploits of tlio MeNamara brothers and Ortio McManigal Thursday were confessed by (Jeorge E. Davis, a union Iron worker. Davis, who was arrested at New York Thursday, was the Gcorgo O'Donnell who iigurod in the trial at Indianapolis that resulted In the conviction of Frank M. llyan, president of tho International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, and thirty-sovon of hia associates. Ilia arrest and its consoqucncea wound up the work tho Foleral government atartsd mora than two yoara ago, whon the dynamiting of bridges and steel frama buildings all orer tho country becamo a national scandal. All tho explosions that Davis says ho caused wore touched on and testified to at tho dynamiters' trial in Indianapolis, but the fact that Davis caused them remained unrevcaled until ho himself told of it. Davis* confession resulted in the arrest in Indianapolis of Harry Jones, secretary-treasurer of the Iron Workers' Union. His confession supplements the evidence presented at the Indianapolis trial and constitutes fresh charges against some of tho men now in prison. Some of his revelations concern President Ryan, who now is out on bail pending appeal from a prison sentence of seven years. Davis says bo was tho man chosen to kill Walter Drew, attorney for tho National Erectors' Association, in December, 1911, after Drew was charged with kidnapping John J. McXamara. It also was suggested that he try to "got" William J. Burns, (ho detective employed to unearth the dynamite conspiracy. The price 011 Drew's head at that time, Davis said, was $.">,000. Davis consented to return to Indianapolis without extradition. His bail was fixed at $10,000. Tho conspiracy thought to have been broken up by tho conviction of It,van and nthnrn cstill ovloto ing to Davis' confession. With the exception of Harry Jones, the men he mentions in connection with his various dynamite jobs already have been arrested. The apprehension of Davis was due to Robert Foster, a Louisville detective. Several weeks ago, when Davis was displeased with his treatment by the union, Foster persuaded him to make a full confession. This was on September 16. For ? week Davis had been working in Pittsburg for the Thompson-Starrett Company. Then the local delegate of the Iron Workers' Union told him he must pay a $2 6 initiation fee to the local union or quit work. Davis quit. The detective told him lie knew all about his deeds anyway and Davis, feeling that the union had doserted him, accompanied Foster to New York# Here, in the presence of representatives of the Federal district attorney and the National Erectors' Association, he dictated and swore to the detailed confession given out by the district attorney's office. Davis said ho had been an iron worker since 1 000. In the early day# ho was a member of the entertainA t 0/\ tW H t ^ U 1- ? ' ' ' linill, tulllllUHC?, W IIUBl! lllllj, lit! Sillll, was to assault non-union workers. ITo began his eareeras a dynamiter at Trenton. NT. J. The confession desoribos how Davis blew up, or tried to blow up, buildings and bridges in various cities and towns of the Feast. It was during his preparation of plans to destroy a new building at Fall Ttiver, April 2G, 190S, that Davis first came into communication with Harry Jones. lie says he got Jones at Indianapolis on the telephono and asked him for money, Jones , he adds, sent $.r>0. Davis asserts that Jones was familiar with the work he was doing. t'nder the name of O'Donnell, Davis was arrested for tho Fall IUver job and served two years in prison. After he left prison officers of the union gave him money and he went to his home in Coffeyville, Kan. The arrest, or me MCNamaras followed soon and on advice of President Ryan, Davis claims ho returned East. One of his latest exploits was dynamiting a bridge at Mount Vernon under the direction of Frank C. Webb, a New York member of the executive committee of the union, now serving six years in prison. A feature of Davis' statement was a story of a gigantic scheme to set off simultaneously explosions In Omaha, San Francisco, St. Louis and New York city, while the McNamaras were in Jail. This was to create the impression that the McNamara brothers were hv no means responsible for all the dynamiting in the country. The consummation of the plot was nipped by the confession of the McNamaras. NEW COTTON GINNED CKXSL'S BHPOBT SHOW* TOTAL OF .1,837,851 BALKS. (iiuuiua Statistics Prior to September 85, by States With Compartsou of Last Tsar's Condition. Tho second cotton ginning report of tho census bureau, Issued at teu o'clock Thursday, announced that 3.237,85 1 bales of cotton of ike growth of 1913 had been ginned pi ior to September 25, counting round as half bales. To that date last year 3,005,934 bales, or 22.3 per cent, of t.he entire crop, bad boen ginned; In 1911, to that date, 3,376,594 bales, or 2 3.6 per cent, had boon ginned; in 19U8, to that date, 2,5 90,63 9 bales, or 19.3 per cent, of the entire crop had beon ginned, aiul In 1906, to that date, 2,057,283 bales, or 15.8 per cent, of the crop had been ginned. Included In the total ginulngs were 27,3 2 4 round bales, compared with 1 9,57 4 round bales ginned to Sopbales in 191 1, 38,028 round bales la 19 10 and 48,070 round bales In 1 909. Tho number of bales of sea Island cotton Included was 10,555 bales, compared with 8,051 bale# last year, 11,807 bales In 1911, 13,882 bales in 19 0 9 and 1 1,457 bales In 1 903. C5innings prior to September 2 5, by tates, wcomputations for last year and other big crop yearn, and with the percentage of tho entlro crop ginned to that dato in previous years, follow: Alabama. ( innings. Per Cent. 1 913 3 2 2,6 02 1 4.5 19 12 190,310 11.5 1 911 3*10,2 4 4 2 1.2 1 9 0S 310,349 23.7 1 906 . . 221,85 I 1 7.9 Arkansas. 1 9 13 69,603 .... 1 912 4 1,4 3 8 5.4 1 911 4 3,626 4.8,. 1 908 80,4 65 8.1 1906 35,837 4.0 Florida. 19 13 16,21 6 .... 1 9 1 2 9,7 7 0 16.6 1 91 1 21,510 22.8 1 908 16,657 23.6 1 906 10,179 1 7.0 < ieergia. 191 3 491,093 .... 1 91 2 272,335 15.0 1 911 765,697 27.4 1 908 514,898 26.0 1906 281,585 1 7.2 Louisiana. 1 9 13 7 7.3 4 9 .... 1 912 73,992 1 9.7 . 1 911 89,069 23.4 1 908 79,04 2 1 6.9 1 906 139,5 11 14.6 Mississippi. 19 13 12 0,015 .... 1 912 5 6,056 5.6 19 11 nr. Q'?o e > 1 90S 100,001 12.0 1 006 1 f> 0,5 7 3 1 0.G North ('nrolina. 1013 4 9,5 2 5 1 012 101,083 11.2 1011 150,390 13.0 1 008 80,003 13.0 1 006 14,877 7.0 Oklahoma. 1 013 14 8,550 .... 1 012 77,394 7.7 1011 116.32S 11.4 1 008 5,705 0.8 1006 17,570 2.0 South Carolina. 10 13 1 0 2,304 .... 1 012 1 74,251 1 4.2 1 011 338,000 20.0 1 908 289.060 23.8 1 006 131,262 1 4.4 Tennessee. 1013 18,34 1 1 012 900 -0.4 1011 15,541 3.6 1 008 28,100 8.4 1006 7,3 04 2.5 Texas. 1 01 3 1,726,630 1 012 2,002,97 5 4 3.1 1 011 1,667,875 4 0.6 1 0 0 8 96 6,607 26.6 1 006 1,008,856 25.5 All Other Stales. 1013 5,617 1 01 2 2,7 4 0 3.0 1 011 5,305 3.9 1 008 4,774 6.5 1 006 1,488 2.2 Tho ginning of sea island cotton prior to September 2.", by states, follows: Florida, Cleorgia. S. C. 1012 4,058 6,41 0 78 1 01 2 1,600 1,258 1 08 1 01 1 4,281 7,405 21 1000 6,122 7,64 9 50 I 008 5,082 5,024 450 ? Negro Sin in by Mob. A mob of citizens visited the Jail at. Litchfield, Ky., about one o'clock Friday morning, overpowered the jailer, took Joe Richardson, a negro, from his cell and hanged him to a tree in the public square. Richardson was charged with assaulting an eleven-year-old girl as she was on her way to a school in the country near Litchfield Tuesday morning. ? ? neat 11iin to Drnth. Blows dealt Karl ITolst, of Paxton, 111., an Insane patient, seventy-eight years old, so that ho suffered six broken ribs and later died, were the means employed to keep Hoist In bed at the Kankakee, 111., State hospital for the Insane, according to a confession made Wednesday by William Wolfe, a former hospital attendant.* TARIFF BILL BEADY ? ? HAS ADVANCED TO LAST CONGRESSIONAL STAGE N8W UP TO THE SENATE ? House Approves livery tiling Fxcept < CoUoti Kniiun's Tux, Itul SmithLevor Auiendinent Is Addotl As a ' Conipromise After h Warm Fight i a*<1 a (T(ts? Vote. The Democratic tariff revision bill, first on tho program of reforms mapped out vrhon President Wilson came 1 Into office has advanced to its last : congressional stage and has been 1 sent back to the Senate from tho House. The Democratic tariff revision bill left the House of Representatives Tuesday night on what the party leaders hoped would be Its last journey to tho Senate. After many hours of debate the House adopted the main conference agreement on the bill, 25A to 10.1, almost a strict party vote, and by this action gave its endorsement to everything In the measure except the cotton futures tax. Leaders in both Houses of congress were confident Monday night that the bill, now practically complete, would bo signed by President Wilson before tho end of this week. It scarcely will leave the cent.ro of the stage before tho currency bill will he forced to the front, and coincident with its pnnyidurnlinii ? i 1 1 tim.ln ?.? ... 1 x w . . w ? ? . Ill IVI1 ?> ??? l/v III*.* (IM 111 111 tration work on tho anti-trust and railroad control programs which arc to bo brought forward when tho Decent bor season opens. President Wilson is satisfied that with the tariff bill out of the way, congress will take up the currency question, prepared to dispose of it .before adjournment. Tho course to he followed ill the Senate has tiol. been mapped out, but there is a growing belit f among supporters of the administration bill that the Senate will take up the currency question at an early date, even though its hanking and currency committee has not settled the details of the bill. The tariff conference report went to the House .Monday soon after that body convened at noon. During the morning the full conference committee, convened by Chairman Simmons, had given the reports its formal ap! proval. Senators Simmons, Williams. Johnson and Shivcly and Representatives i'nderwood, Kitehin, Dixon and Uainey, tlie Democrats who have adjusted all differences between tho Senate and House excepting only tlie cotton futures tax proposition, signed tho final report, while the Itepubli- ' can and Progressive members decllu- < ed to sign. Tho cotton future tax bill is In dist\ 1 1 I I l/\UOO Ii.ll II rr t ' ? v 4 1 mv; i iuuou i i;i unillfj LU iHXt* [J I 11?o so-called Clarke amendment adopted by the Senate. Uxpressions from the White Houso, and from cungresslonal leaders Monday, however, indicated that in the tlnal conference over this feature the whole plan might be dropped from the tariff bill and taken up as a separate measure next* winter. However when the House convened tho measure was introduced as an amendment to tho tariff bill. At tho end of a short but hitter fight, that followed tho adoption of tho report, Representative Underwood, the Democratic leader, succeeded in carrying through tho Smith-Lever cotton futures tax amendment by a voto of 17 1 to 161. Democrats and Republicans alike voted on this without regard to party ond a large portion of the Democratic membership from Southern States joined in the vigorous demand that the whole subjec t be carried over to another session of congress. Tho cotton futures tax question now rests entirely with the Senate. The House concurred with the Clarko amendment put into the tariff bill by the Senate, hut added the Smith-Lever-Underwood plan as another amendment. Unless the Senate will accept this change, which has the endorsement of the President, the whole cotton futures plan again will have to ho considered in the joint conference committee and again reported to both houses for action. The cotton futures tax dominated the day's fight in the House, although hut littlo lima was actually given to its consideration The history of the compromise amendment became a matter of record before the day onded. Representative Underwood said President Wilson had given i,t to him. Representative Lever added that the basis of the plan was a bill introduced repeatedly in the Senate by Senator Ellison D. Smith, of South Carolina; that he had asked the agrlcul mrai aepan.men i 10 put tuo matter into shape for the tariff bill, and that Postmaster Ceneral Burleson had perfected the amendment and given it to the President. . Aviator Killed. Another French military aviator was killed when Lieut. Auguste Souleilland of the Thirteenth rifle regiment fell 150 feet when endeavoring to glido to the ground with his monoplane at Oujda, Morocco on Wednesday. GIVES CREDIT TO SMITH ? FOH OKKHXATING TIIK (X>TTOX FI TI KI: A>11: XI >M KX T. Representative I<ever (icnerouMy Acknowledges That I'Vnturcs of McHvSbio Came Front Junior Scu?t??r. South Carolina figured conspicuously in tho llvoly struggle in the House of Representatives Tuesday night over tho Clarke cotton futures amendment (o the tariff bill, for which tho lower chamber substituted tho Smith-Lover proposition. Tho Democratic floor leader, Mr. ITidorwood, in ado a statement declaring that the first ho had over heard of tho principles embodied in the substitute was when Senator Smtlh, of South Carolina, introduced last year a bill of which they they wore the feature. Mr. Underwood announced that ho would give all of his time in the debate over the Smlth-Ti?vor amendment to Representative A. F. Lever. The chairman of the committee on agriculture madfl a clcnr and strong speech In behalf of the substitute and took occasion to ear that while the measure Just Introduced by Mr. I'ndarwood, and directly approved by President Wilson, was drawn at his (Mr. Lever's! suggestion, after conferences with experts and consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture and the Postmaster General, a hill embodying the fundamental principles of the House substitute for the Clarke amendment was introduced last year in the Senate by "a man who has given not one day or one year, but twenty years to the study of this subject, the junior Senator from South Carolina, Senator Smith", The South Carolina delegation voted en masse for the Smith-Lever amendment. All were present, except Mr. Kin ley, who was paired. The Republicans throw their strongth almost solidly on the side of the Clarke amendment, hoping to embarrass the Democrats, and came near succeeding. It is the opinion of the shrewdest observers that the day was saved by the authoritative announcement that President Wilson was in favor of the Smith-Lever amendment. Now the whole cotton futnres subject will very likely go over to the next session. -JAPAN TO LIGHT KIKSI.A. It Seems That Mongolia Will l>e Their Next Battle (hound. A special London dispatch says: "Japan is preparing to make. China a battle ground. Her rivalry with Russia ns as not settled by the late war. No Russo-Japanese agreement wuaievor exists covering Mongolia. Tho Japanese policy has been devoted to preserving tho status c|iio in Manchuria, thus leaving her free to take any necessary contervaillng steps. Tho Japanese policy in China, summed up, means the planting cf garrisons without territorial leases, thereby guaranteeing the Integrity of China by forestalling others. "At Hankow tho garrison of 2,000 men will he retained. Another probably v. ill he planted at the great Tayeh iron mines nearby. Special Japanese concessions under police control will be demanded at Nanking. This policy #\vill be repealed elsewhere. in case of trouble, the railways in which it was hoped that British capital will he Interested, also will he demanded. The Japanese naval interests in Chinese waters will he increased. There will he no danger to British Interests If Croat Britain displays her usual flexibility. "Peking Is no longer the Capital in tbe old sense. The loss of Mongolia and tho absence of tbe usual Intercourse have rendered it impotent and have transferred tho power to the South. Japan, with practically the whole Chinese revolutionary party under lock and key in Tokio, holds out her hand to England, knowing that tho alliance is more important and necessary than ever " FfjOODS IN I/Ol ISI W\\. Section /\roa11< 1 (.nke Charles Inundated and Crops DanuiKcd. Floods ii\ southwest Liuistana reached serious proportions Monday. Lake (!liarles Monday night was in darkness as the electric powor plant was closed because of high water; no street cars aro running, many houses in the lower sections of the city are flooded and rain still is falling. Tho Southern Pacific Railroad has annulled all trains bound for VJ \wt Orlnonu on/I 1? . -~n . ... v/> iv.iiua mill IIIIUU IHUllCIl I" 111 1 road lines running Into hake Charles have suspended operations The Calcasieu Hirer was reported higher than ever before. Various estimates of damage to the rice crop havo been made. Conservative calculations are that unless the rain ceased within a day not more than half a crop will be gathered. A largo percentage of the crop is in the fields because of previous lack of labor. Coleman Convicted. ITarry Coleman was found guilty of the murder of his father, Robert D. Coleman, by a jury at Union Thursday. He received a sentence of life imprisonment. CRAZED WITH DRUGS TW0 MULATTO BOYS SHOOT UP HARRISON, MISS. KILL SEVERAL PEOPLE ? Three NTIiito Men, Threo Colored Men nn<! One Colored Woman i* Sled l>nvrn by the Drug ( la/nl FiemlH lleforo Tliey Are Cornered in u Mouse and Killed. Two drug-crazed mulatto boys, brothers, began a reign of murder at Harrison, Miss., early Sunday morning that ended only after three white men, three negro nu'vi and a negro woman had been shot to death, several wounded and the two boys lynched. 1'lie trouble started at about two o'clock Sunday morning and continued intermittently until ten oYAoek Sunday, when Walter Jones, tbe elder of the two boys, who started the firing, was lyncl.o 1 ju t after the soldiers arrived. Ills brother, Will, had been shot by citizens earlier in tbe day. Soon afterwards persons is ho had barricaded themselves in their honn s began to emerge cautiously from their hiding places, and by noon the town was (juiet. No more trouble is feared. Tito dead: Sheriff G. It. Hammett, of Jefferson County, shot as ho was loading a posse to where tie- negroes were hiding; former Constable Frank Keinstly, shot at bis home after being called to a door; Claude Freeman, white, of Fayette, shot at railway station while waiting fv>r a train; Johanna Aiken, Tom Weeks, Jesse Thompson and The,ad Clrayson, negroes, killed during promiscuous shooting; Walter and Will Jones, noi roes, lynched. Wounded: Orrin Cillls, former sheriff, shot in shoulder and may die, 10. It. Appleby, conductor of the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railroad, shot in breast, log and arm, dangerous; William McCalob, shot in leg and thigh; William Keinstly, son of Frank, shot in hand; William Dennis, shot in leg; W. C. Bond, shot in log. After it was assumed the death list was six the body of Teller Warren, a negro, was found in a hut in the negro quarter where Walter Jones IIrat began firing. lOviden'ly Warren was one of the first victims but just when he was shot it is not known. Twenty persons were injur ed, sixteen of them being negroes None of the negroes were dangerous ly hurt. The shooting was started by Walter Jones in the negro quarter, where the negro woman and Thead Cray son were shot and killed. Walter then went to the lininn of lily mnllinr oi,,i aroused his brother, a boy eighteen years old. Together they went through the main street of the little town firing at every one in sight. Citizens aroused from their slumber by the shots peered out of the windows and then hastened to cover. The two boys, soon after leaving their home, went to the home of former Constable Frank Keinstly, who, when lie replied to their call, was shot through the bead by Walter Jones. Death was instantaneous. Keinstly's son, William, grabbed for a gun when he saw his father fall. Before he could fire he received a bullet in one of bis hands. The Yazoo and Mississippi Valley depot is near the Keinstly home and the two negroes walked in that direction. A train bad arrived from Natchez just a few moments before | and E. B. Appleby, the conductor, was standing tit the station talking to W. C. Bond, the flagmara Without warning the two negroes fired on them and both fell. The boys then directed their fire at Claude Freeman, who was waiting for a train to take him to his home at Fayette, Miss. lie was killed. The negroes turned to the train, firing. into the cars. Passengers became pa . ic-str icken. A sleeping ear from rhoz left standing at the star until the through train from Memphis to New Orleans arrived, was a target for the fire of the negroes. muij> wiuuowb wore Dronen but no one In the car was hurt. The two slayers made their way to a cotton seed house nearby. It Is believed they then realised the wholesale killing could not long continue without opposition, and determined to make their luf t stand at the seed house. Frightened citizens by this time had telephoned for Sheriff Hamhiett at Fayette. Summoning former Sheriff flills to accompany him, TIammett Clf fl rt 41/1 for t I n - ? - - 1 * * .,i?. i.;? ivn 11<i11 innii on nurseoaoK, ; arriving about five o'clo; k. A small crowd of men were firing into the seed house, but no one had ventured 1 to lead the posso to the plaoo. Taking a few men with him Sheriff Ham! mett started toward the building. Seeing this move, It is believed, Walter Jones crept to tall grass nearby, and as Hammett appeared the negro fired, killing him iristantlv. \ shot from the seed house brought down Gillis. By this time the countryside had been aroused and farmers csme pouring in from every direction. Every one opened fire on the seed house. A 1 j call was sent to Governor Brewer for troops. Finding his hiding placa too i COTTQN CROP CONDITION I IHtOl'S i : POINTS DIKING THK I MONTH OF Al'GPST. 1 Willi an Average Date ??f September fl lit Journal of Commerce Figures. jj|! Show Condition to be 07.1. H The condition of cotton, an compll- nj cd from nearly 1.900 replies of spe- is] clal correspondents of the Journal nfl if Commerce of New York, bearing I an average date of Heptemb r 23, la I 1 I per cent., compared with 7 1.4 I per cent, a month ago, or a decline of* I l 3 points. This compares with 70.3: I per cent. a year ar<>. 70.8 In 1911* I C>5.7 in 1910 and 69.5 in 1909. The* I year is t; v:: p.-r cent., whilo the average decline for tho i'y Biimo period is 5.3 points. ,k Deterioration occurred in all states, but was most severe In Louis- ? lana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Misaourk and Oklahoma, aT7 of which lost 10? ! points and over. Texas nearly held ' its own, losing only 0.5 point. DetaiIs by states follow: C Oct. Sept. 10 12. 1911 I N'. Carolina .74.3 SO.2 70.8 77.0> S. Carolina 74.0 77.5 f?f?.7 73.4 (lootpia 7 0.x 70.0 (5.7. S 77.."> I Florida 77.9 79.4 66.7 70.7 I Alahati i (5 2 72 '5 (10.0 73.L I Mi i i ppi 1 (5(5.7 0 7. 1 I 1 .on i ia na . .(5 2 t 7 2 i (50. I ?5 1.2- I Tex a . (5 I ; ;; . r. 7 0.2 I A: . '? ?5 7 10 (5 7. S I Tennessee. .68.0 S1.0 70.2 75.S Missouri . . 52.8 0(5.8 7 2.0 X3 <fc I \ \ i .! (I.I 7 L'.: 7 U. 8 j id\ i: stock flans. ? (rullnuay Ivsplahis Scheme to llel|> Sunt 11 ( ; I ( ! i ca. Congressman A. F. Lover is in re? i 1 >t of a lot t r from A -bat ant Seerotary (lalloway outlining the plan. I'oi op.( oni n ; livo . or U . rotiuetion in Sout h Carolina. Tho plan ? ontfitnplates tho selection of about fifteen \ ' oil II t l< V. to To tllo : roa I 1 ill t ol'OHt is being manitested in live stock, audi the loci ion of two good live stock, men " it h to eight counties each I to handle tho work in co-operation wit h Clenisnn college an! tho present farm demonstration work in the> St i o 't'! i" ! i:" 'i \< i i: m i/o live I > < < k ;i * i i ..o various I countios and then elect a ulhclent I number <-i live stock demon trators I to her vii it< d by State experts when- I ? . r pract ica hie. .1 ust as soon as t he I two experts can he procured work I will begin In earnest. ; Mr. Lover expresses himself as being highly gratified with the beginning of the undertaking and feels satisfied that the plan agreed upon is the best arrangement possible to be had undue the circumstances Announcement was made at Washington Thursday that some one from tho department of agriculture will be detailed to deliver an address in connection with tho exhibit of the South Carolina poultry association at the State fair. Mr. Lever took this matter tip with the department, at tho request of Mr. Thompson, president of tiie poultry association. precarious Will Jones started to ruft towards a coal shute nearby, but had gone only a few steps when a bullet, ended his life. A rope was placed around the body, it was strung up to a telegraph pole near the scene am! became a target for every one not shooting at tho seed house. Soon after Will was killed WaLter, with deadly aim, picked Tom Weeks, a negro, off tho coal chute. Kither the bullet wound or tho fall would have killed him. Not long after Weeks was killed tin' special train bearing the Natchez. Guardsmen arrived and this seemed to have cowed the desperado. Asthey were detraining the crowd rushed the. seed house. Not a shot grooted them, and as tlie leaders went into the place with dra r weapons they saw Jones completely unnerved but not injured. They quickly placed a. rope around his neck and rushed him to tho coal chute. Tho rope was too smnll and as tho negro was drawn up the rope broko and ho fell heavily to the ground. Not a word or act of protest came from Jones as a larger rope was drawn around his neck and again ho was pulled up and tho crowd looked on as the drug-saturated body writhed until life was extinct. The crowd then went to the home* of the negroes, where they found two negro men, and were about to lyncli them, but were dissuaded by olllcers. It seems certain that the Jones negroes had planned details of their* murderous night, as they were well arme l and had plenty of ammunition. Their mother said one of them hartremarked that he #as going to "shoot, up" the town, but she thought hewas joking. Whether the two nocrm?L found there and who were arrested know of any plans, is not known. As there was no evidence that there would bo more trouble afterWalter Jones was lynched the? Natchez Guardsmen returned home. Generally the negro population was as much incensed at the Jones brothers as wore the whites. They felt noindignation at the lynching. The two bodies still were hanging in the* coal chute and probably will swing there all night. Authorities have decided not to hold a coroner's inquest.