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April 7.400
May 7.856
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GLUME XIII., NO. 174.
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CHICAGO. —Adam P. Thompson,
v. ho calls himself “The Pilgrim"
was I charged yesterday with responsi
bility for the death of his wife, Mrs.
Laura Bell Thompson, who died in
Zion City after forty days of fasting,
his prescription for the cure of a
cancer.
Following him through tlie succes
sive stages of his mania during the
lust twelve years which he spent in
wandering around this country, his
v. it;- obeyed his compands he spent
in wandering around this country,
Kts v.-if. obeyed his commands at
ever • s ep, and the last of then, that
she slnaia go without nourishment
for ! ln greatest length of time at
'■ ashed to such privation in Biblical
u.story, caused her death.
Physicians said that had surgical
skill hern caiicd o her aid during the
two years, bad medicine lent its
•i~ c.r.3; and had nature not been
robbed !iv the lack of food, the wo
re an night have 'ivcrl much longer
ban she did. thoo?h her malady it
■ Ml was not curable.
Ti ! us';:i:id, knowing he had car
'■ ■! h doctrines too fir, hastened
• r burial, attempted to keep her
lr! secret, and. wbpn ho save his
r:vt w?s neat, fled from the homo.
TIE BOSS” BULLS
M BILL TO
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OYSTER BAY. —Having put the
exacJive officers over Moore's gro
cery Istcre, in running order, Secre
tary I.oeb and his corps of assistants
tsi'Tr V in earnest today to attend to
he affairs cf the United States gov
ernment. Early ihis morning Mr.
Lof.ii rode out to Sagamore Hill, and
for a couple of hours he and Presi
dent Roosevelt were busy over a
large heap of correspondence in a
shudy corner of the veranda. When
liie secretary returned to the execu
tive offices he hung tip his coat and
went ro work, remarking that after
all, it looked like a busy summer.
One ol the first acts of Mr. LoeO
was to send a telegram to Mr. Taft
inviting him to come to Sagamore
Hill and spend a week. There are
many important matters concerning
the campaign which the president
wants to discuss with his probable
successor.
The fact that the president had
waited only a little over a day since
coming her to send for Mr. Taft,
seemed to dispose pi' the theory thai
Mr. Roosevelt was to take little part
in the coming campaign.
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TO DEFEAT IITI
RACETDACK Bill
BATON ROUGE, I.a.— The an- ‘
nouncement late last night by J. J.
McLaughlin, chairman of 4ke New
gleans anti-race track league put an
unusual phase on illness es Senator
Smart, whose absence was one of ex- '
ouse for the Loke bill’s failure to
pasa. Senator Smart was taken vio-'
lantly ill immediately after dinner
laat night and McLaughlin's state- 1
ment said that attending physician;
thought the attack might be due to I
"some foreign substance" which re
eemblas polsan very much."
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BItTBN BY RATTLEBNAKE.
LYNHURST, S. C.—While playing
in the yard on Friday little Alleen,
the two year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J C. Fowlte, was bitten by a rat
tlesnake Mr. Powke as soon as pos
sible sacked a* much of the poison
out as he could, and heart stimulants
were applied. At this writing she,
is doing fairly well, though still in a
critical condition. The snake was
killed It had three rattles and a
button.
LABOR INJUNCTION.
DBTROIT, Mich.—The usual order,
of things in labor .Injunction cases
was reversed yesteW u - In the Wayne
oireult court wheo tffe medal polish-!
ers. buffers and platers Union No. 1,
lecured a temporary injunction from |
ludge Hosn er restraining the pa'Ace
department frem Interfering with}
them to the street Jn their peaceful
lOllcHHion of employes of the Art
I tore fccaspsny to join the union, sei
ne if) that It threatened the ruin l
If the union Judge Hosmer warned
he muo that be was not authorizing
my picketing that was contrary to 1
aw.
BIG GUN PRACTICE AT FORT HAMILTON,
ONE OF NEW YORK’S MAIN DEFENCES
At the top is shown artillery men
at Fort Hamilton, New York, loadintj
one of the big 12-inch guss which de
fended the harbor of that city, dur
ing the maneuvers, which arc now
going on. "she picture below, tho
great gun is shown Just as a shot is
about to be fired. Below this, is a
snapshot taken just after a ten-inch
gun had been fired showing the gun
ner jumping back as tho gun recoi's.
In the corner is a photograph of
Lieut. Col. H. H. Ludlow, taken at
Fort Hamilton.
ARRANGING FOR
DEMOCRATIC
CONVENTION
■
| DENVER. —I'rev Woodson, secre
i tary of the democratic national com-
J mittee. and Roger C. Sullivan, com
mitteeman from Illinois, and also
chairman of the general committee
on arrangements, arrived here today
to set in motion :h% work of arrang
ing the immediate preliminaries of
the national convention which will
begin July 7. Sergeanftat-A/mB Jo*:'i
1. Martin, of £»>. Louis, v.ho has been
here looking after the general plan
of arrangements up to his time, was
the first so greet there at the union
station. Together they visited the
new euditerium where the coaven
; tion will be held and watrtmd the
j decorators at work o» the final
i touches, alto making a general in
spection of the massive structure.
! They pronounced it all that could bp
j desired for the purpose intended.
COMMISSIONS tSSUEC
COLUMHJA, 8. C. —Tie secretary
of state today issued the following
commissions:
Hotaie Mutual Life Insurance com
pany, Orangeburg; no capital stock;
corporators, C. B. Langston, of
Orangeburg, and F. M. Pettit, of Char
leston .
, Gospel Aid society of Cool Spring
Bapiia- ehnreh, three miles norih of
Camden; tn eleemosynary corpora
tion; petitioners. Judith Wi'liania,
Charles Hollis. Lea R. Berry, Albert
1 Williams, E. Derry.
Darlington Mutual Life Insurance,
company, of Darlington; no capital
stock; corporators, .Tames Robertson,
of Charleston, and 11. H. Avlnger, of
Darlington.
GAVE HIM THE
DEAD KING’S SWPRD 1
LISBON—The sword which King
Carlos was wearing when he was as
sassinated has been presented to
Lieut. Francesco Flguera, who is an
ex-orderly officer to King Carlos The,
weapon is still stained with blood.
Lieut. Flguera at the time of the;
assassination was badly wounded In
pursuing the assailants. He has
since been appointed governor of!
Maceo by the Portuguese govern-j
ment,
RIOTING IN TEHERAN.
TEHERAN.—A serious clash be
tween Cossacks and members of po
litical clubs occurred her* today,
when a force of Cossacks and sol
dlers surrounded the parliament build
lugs and asked parliament to give tin j
some of thk persons whose arrest the |
Shah had ordered. Parliament r«-;
fused to do this and members of the j
poltticsl clubs fired on the Cossacks ,
killing several. Reinforcements en- j
tered the city and firing continued j
until 10 o'clock. j
LOCAL FORECAST-—Showers tonight; Wednesday fair.
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ILLNESS OF JAMES S. SOLDI N
MAT IIIIG TO HIS FINDS
WASHINGTON—The illness of
Representative James S. Sherman at
Cleveland has lets to all sorts of ru
mors concerning the physical condi
tion of the vice-presidential candi
date
Twice within the last two years
Mr. Sherman has been quite ill, and
each time from the same trouble,
diagnosed by a New Y'ork specialist,
as catarrh of the gall duct. He was
attacked while attending the last, ses
sion of congress, and went to Gar
field Hospital March, where he re
mained until April 3. His attending:
physicians at that time was Dr. John
van Rensselaer, of this city. No op-J
erktlon was performed aad the pat-.
lent recuperated rapidly after being j
THE GEORGIA STATE DEMOCRATIC
CONVENTIIII IN SESSION TODAY
ATLANTA, Ga.—The Georgia state
democratic convention wgs called to
order at 10 oclock this morning by
Col. C. R. Pendleton, editor of the
Macon Telegraph, the temporary
chairman.
Hewletta Hall, of Coweta county,
was elected permanent chairman.
The convention will confirm the
nominations of state officers chosen
at the recent primaries, including Jo
seph M. Baown for governor, and
Hon. A. 8. Clay to succeed himself as
United States sefigtor.
This afternoon the state delegates
at large to the Denver convention will
GEORGIA DELEGATION LIKELY TO
CIS! ITS VOTE AGAINST BRYAN
The Georgia democracy li solid
against Bryan. The delegation to the
Denver convention organised today
after the adjustment of the *tat*
convention, adopted a unit rule and
will go itnlnstrncted. It will probably
vote fbr Johnaon. fltatc Senator W.
8. West decltn edto serve on the
committee on notification because,
he oayd, Bryan would undoubtedly
forced to rest and remain quietly in
bed.
CLEVELAND, O—Mr. Sherman is
at the Lakeside hospital. His Ill
ness is diagonised as caused by gall
stones.
Governor »*errick gave out a state
meat in which he said. "We hope
the condition of Mr. Sherman is not
critical. Ho has had such attacks
nefore, and has recovered. He Is be
ing removed to the hospital, so that
If an operation Is necessary he will
be in the best place for it.
UTICA, N. Y.—Mrs. Sherman and
her sons have gone hurriedly to
Clevelaid.
be chosen, and most likely will go un-
Instructed.
However, the sentiment of the del
egation will be strongly in favor of
W. J. Bryan.
Any attempt to weaken the prohibi
tion bill by the democratic conven
tion will fail.
This was determined definitely
whe.n a poll of mor<. than two-thirds
of the delegates showed that they
were almost unanimously opposed to
a weakening of the bill by the con
vention.
The selection of. delegates to the
national convention probably will not
I be reached until late this afternoon.
be nominated. Lindsay Johnson of
Floyd county was elected In place of
West. Peter W. Meldrlui of Chat
ham was elected chairman of the
Georgia delegation.
The state democratic convention
today declined by an ulinoa' unani
mous vote to endorse Hon. Thomas
C. Watson for second place on the
national ticket. „
TWELVE DIE US A
RESULT OF RACE
RIOT I TEXAS
HOUSTON, Tpxhb.—Reports from
Hemphill. the poene of Sun
day nights lynching in which
live negroes were hanged to one limb
of a tree, and the sixth was shot to
death while trying io escape from
the mob, are that all is quiet today
and no further trouble is anticipated
unless the negroes undertake to re
taliate.
At midnight Sunday IB armed men
marched to the jail at Hemphill, and,
after overpowering the jailer and
guards, took out six negroes. Five
were immediately strung up to near
by trees, and the sixth, attempting
to escape in flight, was shot down.
These negroes were Ned Williams,
Jerry Evans, Will Johnson, Moso
Spellman, Cleve Williams and \VIII
Manuel.
The oldest was 27 and the young
est 22. Thify hnd been jailed charged
with complicity in the murder of
Hugh A. Dean, a young white farmer.
Yesterday afternoon Burgha Single
ton, Hardie Evans and Henry Thom
as, negroes, were found dead on the
roadside between Hemphill and Ge
neva, their bodies riddled with bul
lets. They, too, were alleged to have
had a hand in the plot to kill Deem
Following disclosures, the farmers
of the vicinity yesterday armed
themselves with rifles and shotguns
and pistols and started on a sys
tematic hunt alter every negro of
known bad tendencies. At the same
time pistols and other weapons be
gan to be saen in the hands of ne
groes, and the county peace officers
found they were powerless to cope
with the situation. Hurried appeals
were made to the governor, and a
squad of rangers was ordered im
mediately to (lie scene. The Houston
Light Guards left last night.
SECOND MURDER
PRECIPITATED
MORE TROUBLE.
This was the condition when the
news went broadcast that Aaron
Johnson, another white farmer, had
been shot down while slti.tn® on his
gallery with his wife and baby. His
brains and blood spattered over them.
His wife, crazed at the desperate art
of the sdgro fiends, gave chase,
screaming with all her might. White
men, raiding the country side for ne
groes, heard her. When they reached
her she was sitting beside the body
of her husband, insane. It was then
that the white avengers went forth
and soon the crack of their pistols
portended that death had been visited
-n pome one Later the bodies of
•Ungleton, Evans and Thomas were
mnd. Already charged with having
i hand in the death of Dean, tho
three negroes met summary venge
ance when they encountered tli«
vdiite' men.
Johnson’s death increased the ten
sity of the situation. The three dead
negroes were known to be palH of a
fourth. This fourth was searched for
and not found. The sheriff's officer
had beaten the avengers to him.
Captured in a corn field, the negro
Perry Price, was spirited to Ban Au
gustine after making a confession
that Robert Wright, Johnson’s broth
er-in-law, had given him $5 to kill
Johnson. Wright was then arrested
and is now in Jail at Conter Tex. A
movement Is on foot to lynch Wright.
This chaotic condition came as the
result, of the shooting of a white man
by negroes a week ago. At a negro
dance Saturday a week ago, William
Stlmson, a white man, was involved
in a row ending in his being killed
with a razor. Two negroes were ar
rested foe the crime. Last Saturday
night Hugh Dean, on* of the best
known young white farmers, was also
shot at a negro dance. It was proved
that he was merely riding by when
drunken negroes set on him aitf stab
bed him to death. Six negroes were
arrested and put in tho Hemphill Jail.
These were the six lynched first; a
seventh is still at. large, and a reward
of SBS is out for fira.
NEW SECRETARY TO
CONFER WITH
“i]r
MEMPHIS, Tenn. General Luke
E. Wright will leave on Thursday
for Washington. He expects to hold
a conference with Secretary Tap be
fore taking up Igs duties as secretary
of war, to which he was recently ap
pointed by President Roosevelt. Gen
eral Wright had little to say regaid
ing his plans after his assumption of
the secretaryship but said existing
arrangements In the war department
would be disturbed little. He said: !
"I am going In for a few months -
—until next March.”
Don’t you expect, then, to be re
tained In Mr. Taft’s cabinet if no
should he elected?" he was asked.
“I don’t anticipate anything," was I
the reply, with a smile. I
DAILY AND SUNDAY, $6.00 PER YEAR.
MILITIA IS
ORDERED OUT
INMANTH
ATLANTA, Ga.—Company E, Fifth
regiment, Georgia National Guard,
has been ordered to Aragon cotton
mills, near Rockniart, where two ne
groes, supposedly from Atlanta, who
refuse to give their names, are being
held for attempted assault on the two
daughters of a farmer named Stud
detli, near the Aragon mills. The
girls, who are 14 nml 16 years old
respectively, screamed, and neighbors
came to their assistance In time to
capture the negroes.
The company probably broke all
records in getting under arms and
starling for tho scene. Twenty-five
minutes after the telephone message
from Governor Smith, the company
in full equipment had entrained on
a special ordered out for their trans
portation.
TRUSTIaGNATES
HANDED YALE
DEGREES
NEW HAVEN, Conn. William
Tafl Is right in the midst of an
ull-trust Yale commencement. Among
those who will receive Yale honorary
degrees tomorrow, will be J. Plerpont
Morgan, financier; John H. Stevens,
vice-president, of the New Haven
road, and formerly engineer of the
Panama eanal, and Otto Bannard
general distributing agent of the
Standard Oil company for the east.
This is the biggest trust combination
ever honored by Yale representing
doubly the railroad trusts and the
! Standard Oil.
President Hadley believes that
■ lerpont Morgan was a national hero
In relieving the financial situation
last full aid he will be eulogized In
a neat speech tomorrow when tho
degree is eocnferred.
resident Hadley has long had an
admiration for the presonl administra
tion of the New Haven Itond. Two
yeurs ago he gave President Mellen,
oi the road a degree. 1 niß year Mel
ien’s first vice president, Stevens,
will got one. Mr. Morgan and Mr.
Taft will dine together tonight at
president Hadley’s.
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SCATTERED OVER
TWO HAILES .
NEW YORK—Slain and then
placed on the trolley tracks on the
Williamsburg bridge In such a man
ner ihat the featirres of the face
and even the body itself would be
mutilated beyond recognition, 1h tho
theory of the detectives of this city
and of ltrooklyn over the finding of
the body of a powerfully built man,
scaUwed In sections over two miles
of the Grand street line of (ho Thl.d
Avenue railway.
The esse has no parallel In tho
criminal annals of the city. A thor
ough Investigation and scrutiny of the
course taker, by the car give no ro mi
for doubt that parts of the body were
carried four miles arid through some
of she most densely populated sec
tions tff the city, resting o> the axles'
of the car. A hand found In the
Pluza at the Williamsburg »rid of the |
bridge started the search. The bds
were found at (he Desbrorneg street :
ferry In Manhattan, almost at the,
same time.
When policeman He mis Kennedy,
of the bridge squad, picked Up u j
right hand In the Piaza, lie nt once j
reported the fact to tho Medford Ave
nue station, nml the search which
Immediately was Instituted, brought
the mystery to a partial solution.
The body, the 'police say, must
have been placed on tho trucks near
the Manhattan end of tho Williams
burg bridge. The theory that life
was extinct is supported by the fact
that no blood wns found at this point
or other points on the line. The fore'
wheels ground off tho front of tho
face mid cut up tho body, but the
gruesome freight was carried on the
axles, across the bridge and around
the loop ami back over the bridge,
dropping sections of the body as It!
went.
wlien the first excavation was
reached, Ihe torso fell and at the nex:
excavation where repairs are tu pro
gross under the tracks, the back part
of the head wan dropped The legs
caught In the fore axles, worn not
released so long ns the car wheels
continued to run fn the same direc
tion. In this way they were carried
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NEWSIN^BRIEF
CHINESE MUST GO.
LONDON—Tho English govern
ment has Interested Itself In the
movement to decrease the number of
Chinese on board English ships. Mr.
Winston Churchill has Issued a for
mal statement In which he says he
intends to do his utmost t.o prevent
the further increase among Chinese
on English ships. This meanace to
the English shipping has been get
ting more serious year after year for
a long time.
steam*’yacht.
SAVANNAH, Ga.—The Constance,
the handsome new steam yacht of Mr.
J. J. ONelll, which is coming down
the coast will probably arrive to
ward the end of the week. She will
be the handsomest craft of the kind
In Savannah waters.
ENCAMPMENT.
SAVANNAH, Ga.—The Savannah
military companies are getting ready
for I heir trip to the National en
campment. at Chlckamagua next,
month. The Georgia Hussars be
ginning drilling last night for this
event. Tho companies in the First
regiment have boon at work for the
past two weeks. The Savannah Vol
unteer Guards will not go as they
have already done their tour of duty
ut Fort Screven.
WOMAN ON RAMPAGE.
NEW YORK—Six hundred wom
en held a mass meeting last night In
Brownsville, Brooklyn, and declared
their Intention to light against In
creased prices of meat and fowls.
They alßo paraded and several mast
stores were stoned.
ON JULY FOURTH.
NEW YORK—The marriage of
Mine Anna Gould and Prince Hell*
do Sagan will take place Saturday,
July 4, In a small parish lu the south
of England according to an announoe*
ment received by cable to an Intimate
friend in New York.
WM. B. LEEDS DEAD.
PARlS—William B. Leeds, former
president of the Chicago, Reck Is
land and Pacific railway, died here
today.
FOR NOMINATION
JOHNSON WILL
nCHT
CHICAGO. —Governor John John
son’s managers have packed,up their
belongings at their Grand Pacific ho
tel headquarters to go to Denver to
make a lust stand against Ihme nomi
nation of W. J. liryan for president.
They admit that Mr. Bryan has "with
lin thirty or 1 forty" of the necessary
two-thirds of the delegates Instruct
ed for him. Nevertheless, the Min
nesota candidate will be represented
at Denver by a fighting organization.
While the Johnson managers claim
that Mr. Bryan has not yet got the
necessary two-thirds, a table which
Is generally regarded as correct, gives
him to date 727 delegatee, either In
structed or known to favor him.
Governor Johnson will not allow his
name to be used as the vlce-preslden-
Hal candidate. This announcement
was made authoritatively at the John
son headquarters.
SHAH OF PERSIA LED
ARMY AGAINST
ASSEMBLY
TEHERAN, Persia. —While stormy
scenes were being enacted in the as
sembly at 6 o'clock this morning, the
Hhah, supported by a strong force of
irootis, appeared and attacked tho
building lu which the assembly Is
sitting. Fighting still ccnt'.nues and
the building Is being bombarded.
Members of the assembly assailed
the cabinet, charging It with Inconipe
tency to handle the affairs of the na
tion and with tack of faith In dealing
with the asscmblq. The assembly
Intended calling upon the Hhah to dis
band the army gathered at Baglishah
without, the sanction of the war Min
ister and failure upon the par. of the
Hhah to obey the ultimatum within
twenty-four hours will be fol'owed by
the assembly Informing tho nation
that. Is It at liberty to act as It Hoes
fit.
to ...e end of the line at the De*-
broases street ferry, where there <a
no loop. The cars ran on a spur,
was reversed and the legs released.
I noy were found by Policeman Col
lins, of the Leonard street station.
Ho completely had the mutilation
of the face and body been, that the
detectives could not but ’lean to the
murder theory. When they found
that tlie remains were bloodless and
that there were no signs of blood
along the route taken, their suspic
ions were practically confirmed.
There Is not the slightest clue to
the man's identity, save that he had
black hair, swarthy skin, and M
of aiUeU* towttfc