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VOLUME XIII., No. 196.
MOYER QUESTIONS
thc money of
LABOR FLANK
Declares Courts May Not Inter
pret It As Favorable
To Unions
THINKS MITCHELL
MAY BE MISTAKEN
Does Not Want To Hurt
Democratic Party, But
Believes the Platform In
sufficient.
DENVER, Col. —President Moyer,
ot the Western Federation o£ Miners,
at the opening of the convention of
that organization yesterday question
ed that the judiciary would interpret
the inti-injunction plank adopted by
the democrats at Denver if enacted
into law, in the interest of labor.
In concluding his annual report Mr.
Moyer declared: "There has just ad
journed in this city a national con
vention of one of the old political
parties. Before the committees of
this convention there appeared labor's
representatives praying there may be
inserted in the democratic platform
an anti-injunction plank. Their pray
er, as I am informed, was granted
and it is now for the voters of the
United States to decide whether this
party should be placed In power. Far
be it from me to say anything or dc
anything that might frustrate labor's
efforts to better its condition, but
have we any assurance or reason to
expect an Interpretation of these laws
favorable to labor if they be en
acted?
“Mr. Mitchell is quoted as being
particularly gratified at having in
cluded in this plank the right of the
workers to organize. When we re
member that federal judges, by their
interpretation of the laws, have vest
ed supreme power in the executiv of
a state and that no court would in
quire into his actions, and when, as
Mr. Mitchell says, the supreme court
of the land has so construed the laws
as to make It a crime for labor to or
ganize, what have we to hope for by
placing further laws on the statutes?’’
TO ASK CONGRESS
FOR FLEET OF
AIRSHIPS
WASHINGTON—According to plans
being discussed by the signal corps
office and the board of ordnance of
the army one million dollars will be
asked of the next congress for fleets
of dirigible airships similar to that
of Count Zeppelin, for coast defens
es, Rapid progress in aeronautics
among foreign nations makes it im
perative, they believe, that the United
States should begin plans for aerial
fleets.
Should congress make this appro
priation, and some signal officers urge
the necessity of asking congress for
an appropriation of $10,000,000 in or
der to keep up with foreign countries
In military aeronautics, stations on
the Atlantic will probably be estab
lished at Boston, New York, some
point on the New Jersey coast, Nor
folk, Charleston and Mobile. On the
Pacific coast stations will be estab-,
Halted at Bremerton, San Francisco
and San Diego.
STRIKERS CLASH
WITH DEPUTIES
IN ALABAMA
BIRMINGHAM, Ala,—ln a clash be
tween armed striking miners and dep.
uty sheriffs, near Sayerton this morn
ing, two men were shot and thirteen
miners arrested. The friends of the
miners later swore out warrants
against the deputies, Including C. T.
Huggins, who bad charge of the strik
ers under arrest.
Additional deputies are being sworn
in and the strike seems to be grow
ing to alarm'ug proportions, A depu
tatlon of headed by the local
United Mine Workers officials called
upon the sheriff today and demanded
protection from arrest and attack by
deputies T„e sheriff told them that
he would enforce the law at all haz
arda.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
COUNT LEO TOLSTOI, IN DESPERATION,
APPEALS TO TOE WORLD TO ENO MURDER
Famous Russian Driven To Dis
pair By the Suffering of
His Fellows
HE WOULD RATHER DIE
THAN LIVE LONGER SO
LONDON.—Count Leo Tolstoi, the
eminent Russian author and humani
tarian, driven to anger by the awful
executions of peasants now sweeping
over Russia, has written a powerful
appeal to the world under the cap
tion:
"I cannot be silent.” It was ne
cessary for Count Tolstoi to send the
manuscript secretly out of Russia to
his agents in London and it has been
forwarded from there to the Hearst
News Service in the United States.
The impassioned words of the author
form a terrible arraignment of the
Czar and the landed proprietors form
ing the aristocracy.
(By Leo Tolstoi.)
"Seven death sentences; two in
Petersburg, one in Moscow, two in
Penza, and two in Riga. Four execu
tions; two in Khorson, one in Vilna,
one in Odessa.
"This daily repeated in every news
paper and continued, not for weeks,
not months, not for one year, but for
years. And this in Russia, and the
same Russia where the people regard
every criminal as a man to be pittied,
and until quite recently capital pun
ishment was not recognized by law.
"1 take up today’s paper.
"Today, the 9th of May.
, “The paper contains these few words: Today in Khorson on the
Strelbitzsky Held twelve peasants were hanged for an attack made with
intent to rob on a landed proprietor’s estate in the Elizabetgrad dis
trict.”
STRIKING DESCRIPTION OF MANNER
IN WHICH PEASANTS ARE STRANGLED.
“Twelve of those by whose labor we live, the very men we have
depraved and are still depraving by every means in our power—from
the poison of vodka to the terrible falsehood of a creed we do not our
selves believe in, but impose on them with all our might—twelve of
these men, strangled with cords by those whom they feed and clothe and
house, and who have depraved and continue to deprave them. 12 hus
bands, fathers, sons, from among those on whose kindness, industry and
simplicity alone rests the whole Russian life, were seized imprisoned
and shackled. Then their hands were tied behind their backs, lest they
should seize the ropes by which they were to be bruged, and they were
led to the gallowß. Several peasants similar to those who are about to
be hanged, but armed, dressed in clean soldier's uniforms, with good
hoots on their feet, and with guns in their hands, accompany the con
demned men. Beside them walks a long-haired man, wearing a stole
and vestments of gold or silver cloth, and bearing a cross. The proces
sion stops. The manager of the whole business says something; the
secretary reads a paper, and when the paper has been read, the long
haired man addressing those whom other people are about to strangle
with cords, says something about God and Christ.
“Immediately after these words the hangmen dissolve some soap,
and having soaped the loops In the cords that they may tighten bet
ter, seize the shackled men, put shrouds on them, lead them to a scaf
fold, and place the well-soaped nooses around their necks.
“And then, living men are pushed of benches which are drawn from
under their feet, and by their own weight, suddenly tighten the nooses
around their necks, and are painfully strangled. Men, alive a minute
before, become corpses dangling from a rope; at first slowly swinging
and then resting motionless.
MEN’S MINDS DULLED BY MURDER
AND CHILDREN PLAY AT HANGING.
“The thinffs is awful.
“Of executions, hangings, murders and bombs, people now write and
speak as they used to speak about the weather. Children play at
hangings.
“Lads from the high schools, almost children, go out on exploring
expeditions, ready to kill, just as they used to go hunting.
"You say countries commit all these horrors to restore peace and
order?
“By what means do you restore them?
“By the fact that you, representatives of a Christian authority, leaders
and teachers, approved and encouraged by the servants of the church,
destroy the last vestige of faith in morality in men by committing the
greatest crimes—lies, perfidy, torture of all sorts, and the last, most
awful of crimes, the one most abhorrent, to every human heart not ut
terly depraved—not Just a murder, a single murder, but murders in
numerable which you think to justify by stupid references to such and
such statutes, written hv yourselves in those stupid and lying books
of yours which j’ou blasphemously call “The Laws.”
“It Is Impossible to live so. 1, at any rale, cannot, and will not live
so. That Is why I write this, and will circulate it by all means in my
power, both in Russia and abroad, that one of two things may happen
—either that these inhuman deeds may be stopped or that, my connec
tion with them may be snapped and I put in prison, where | may be
clearly conscious that these horrorß are not committed on my behalf;
or, jstill better, (so good that I dare not even dream of such happiness)
that they may put on me, as on those twenty or twelve peasants, a
shroud and a cap and may push me also off a bench, so that by my
own weight I may tighten the well-soaped noose around my old throat.
REVOLTING INDIANS
WILL BE GOOD
So the Chief of a Reltel
Band of Utea Has Prom
ised the Great White
Chief Roosevelt. •
RAPID CITY, S. D— Five hundred
Ute Indians, who revolted and terror
ised the country after fleeing from
their reservation in Utah, will have
a 900 mile trek back from here Fri
day.
The Indians will return under es
cort of a captain and ten United
States cavalrymen.
The agreement to return la the out
come of a conference between the
chief and President Roosevelt. The
chief promised the president that the
Indians would be good.
WEATHER FORECAST—Fair tonight and Thursday.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 15, 1908.
COUNT LEO TOLSTOI AND HIS WIFE
HORRIBLE SUICIDES
SHOCK BUDAPEST
Scions of Rich and Aristo
cratic Families Shoot
Themselves in Dramatic
Manner.
BUDAPEST.—One sensational kul
-1 cide and an attempted one almost!
simultaneously among scions of the
i richest, and most aristocratic families
I S’artled this city today.
Baron Joson Banhidy shot himself
dead in his father’s presence, because
the latter had upbraided him for his
dissipation.
Count Carlsey shot himself while
begging his mother for more money
with which to carry on his disslpa
tions. He is dying Carlsey threat
ened to shoot himself if his request
was not granted in five minutes, but
the mother did not think him in earn
est, When the flve minutes were up
' he shot himself.
I
' TO PRESERVE HOME
OF “UNCLE REMUS”
1 ATLANTA.—If the planß of
■ the sub-executive committee of
■ the Uncle Remus Memorial asso
■ ciation are adopted at this after
• noon's session of the full execu
■ five committee “Snap Bean
■ Farm,” the beautiful West End
• home of Uncle Remus, whore
• the noted author communed with
■ his friends, Br’r Fox and Br'r
Rabbit, will be purchased from
• the estate and preserved as a
■ memorial museum to the mem
-1 ory of Mr. Harris.
It is understood that the chil
-1 dren of Uncle Remus have made
■ a verbal agreement to this, and
1 that this form of memorial meets
■ with their entire approval.
STRYCHNINE GIVEN
BY MRS. GUINNES
Physician Concludes His
Analysis of the Stomach
of the Dead Ranchman,
Andrew Helgein.
LA PORTE, ind.—Andrew Helgein
of Aberdeen, the victim of Mrs. Bello
Guinness, was given a dose of strych
nine by the woman, according to Dr.
Walter W Haines of Chicago. He
yesterday handed In his formal re
port of his analysis of the stomach
of the ranchman. He concludes his
report by saying: “I conclude that
there was one and a half grains of
the poison in the entire stomach, a
quantity several times over the
amount which would have produced
death. The amount of arsenic pres
ent also was considerable."
Coroner Mack, after reviewing the
evidence in the Helgein ease, render
ed the following verdict: "It is my
verdict that the body viewed Is that
of Andrew K. Helgein, and that, he
came to his death through felonous
homicide, and that the perpetrator
is to me unknown."
MYSTERY SOLVED.
NEW YORK -The mystery of the
disappearance of Mrs. Clifford W
Hartrldge, wife of one of Harry K.
Thaw's lawyers, in October last, was
solved today, when It was learned
that she had died In the homeopathic
hospital in Pittsburg, where she had
been a secret patient of cerebro spi
nal meningitis.
BIGGEST BARBECUE ON RECORD
GIN Of TRE ELKS IT DALLAS
National Convention Elects Otticers and Enjoys One ot the
Greatest Feasts in History ot the Order
DALLAS, Tex. —The national convention of the Benevolent and Pro
tective Order of Elks yesterday eleeted officers' and chose Los Angeles
as the 1909 convention city. The officers chosen are as follows:
Grand exalted ruler, Rush L. Holland, Colorado Springs.
Grand esteemed leading knight, John G. Shea, Hartford, Conn.
Grand esteemed loyal knight, A. M. McElwee, Fort Worth, Tex.
Grand esteemed lecturing knight, Warren G. Sayre, Wabash, Ind.
Grand treasurer, Edward Leach, New York.
Grand tyler, Charles E. Decker, Minnesota.
Grand trustee, Alfred Holly, Hackensack, N. J.
Grand secretary, Frd C. Robinson, Dubuque, la.
Grand inner guard, A. M. Taylor, S. Augustine, Fla.
Th Guthrie, (Okia.) lodge, through
John W. Kneesley, presented to the
grand lodge a beautiful American flag,
reference being made by the speaker
to the forty-sixth star, representing
Oklahoma.
The Elks have too much money In
their treasury, It worries them, and
Exalted Ruler John T. Tenor, Grand
Secretary Fred Robinson, and the
board of grand trustees, in their an
nual reports recommended that the
revenue of the grand lodge be re
duced. The order has $220,16S cash
on hand, there being over SIOO,OOO in
the general fund, $50,000 In the re
serve fund, and $50,000 In the emer
gency charity fund.
Another important recommendation
Is made by Grand Secretary Robin
HALF WITTED BOY MAY
TELL OF DREW MURDER
TROY, N. Y.—Frank Smith, tho
half-witted farm boy, and Rudolf
Gunderman, the charcoal peddler,
who met Hazel Drew, the victim of
the Teal pond mystery, on the lone
ly road below tho pond on the night
of the murder are under arrest to
day. They are being put through a
rigid sweating by the district attor
ney, having been brought in by de
tectives a reporter had learned
of a mysterious visit Smith had made
to the Averlll Park drug store on the
night of the tragedy.
Two prominent citizens of Sand
Lake fared young Smith this morn
ing when the district altorney charg
ed him with clumsily fabricating a
mass of lies in Ills story of Ids move
ments on last Tuesday night. Post
master George Srhrlner UDd ex-Stip
ervisor Carmen broke the mysterious
silence which lias blocked every step
of Ihe sleuth and told the reporter of
Smith’s wild actions on the night
pretty Hazel Drew Is thought to have
been slain. The corroborative state
ments of these two citizens put ac
tion squarely up to District Attorney
O'Brien.
“It was a few minutes after 11
o'clock,” said Schrlner, "when Car
mon, who sat op tho front porch of
BRITISH WARSHIP
IS REPORTED
INJURED
LONDON. It was reported this af
ternoon that the warship Indomitable,
bearing the prince of Wales and his
suite from Portsmouth to Canada, to
participate In the ter-centennary cele
bratlon, .ad run down a barge anil
severely crippled herself. The indom
itable Is Great Britain's newest, cruts
or-warshlp and was chosen to convey
the royal party on account of her
speed and modern improvements.
There was a distinguished gather
ing at. Waterloo statitTf) this morning
to bid adieu to the prince and the
members of Ills party. Home of those
present to wish the royal party a
happy voyage were Ambassador and
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid and Lord Strath
cona. The earl of Dudley and Sir.
Francis S. Ilopwood, representing the
colonial office, traveled with the
prince. The earl of Dudley is going
to take up the governor generalship
of the Australian commonwealth and
will represent, that nation at the Can
adian celebration at Quebec.
OLD SOLDIER DEAD
BRISTOL, Tenn—William K. Allen,
father of Walter E. Allen, general
passenger agent of the Virginia and
Southwestern railway, died here to
day In his 80th year. He was a cap
tain In the fi'.'th Tennessee regiment
of Confederal( „ and Ills diary shows
that, he was t member of the "Im
mortal Six Hundred, who were sub
jected to the fierce fire of their own
side of Johnson s Island.
WOmln STEAL HORBEB.
INDIANAPOLIS, ind—Mrs Mag
gle Spurrier and Miss Kiora Knox,
the latter 17 years old, were sen
fenced to the Indiana reformatory for
women yesterday for horse stealing
The two took a horse arid bug
gy In this city, drove to Jefferson
ville, and tried to sell the rig Their
uctlons excited suspicion, and they
were arrested.
DAILY AND SUNDAY, $6.00 PER YEAR.
son. He urges that the grand lodge
bo empowered to issue to tho subor
dinate lodges ladies cards. These
cards are (o admit them to the privi
leges of the club house and to aid and
identify them when they aro travel
ing.
The barbecue yesterday afternoon
was a record maker. Thirty-five
thousand persons were fed. There
were consumed ten tons of beef, two
tons of mutton, 20,000 loaves of livoad,
16,000 pounds of beans, 12 barrels of
pickles, 15,000 pounds of condensed
Mexican Chile, and 80,000 bottles of
beer. Four hundred waiters were em
ployed, and forty cords of wood were
used in the roasting of the boevos
and sheep.
Among the guests were John L. Sul
livan, Jake Kllraln, and Frank Gotch.
the postoffice with me, saw a lanky
wild-eyed boy acting frantically down
the Taborton rond. Ho was hatless
and excited and gasping for breath.
He rushed to the drug store ncross
the street and pounded vigorously
upon the counter. Finally he ran
across to us ami exclaimed: 'Where’s
the drug store man? Quick, I must
get in tho store at once. Hurry, tell
me! Oh, toll me! Help me get In
there!.’
"It was Frank Smith. Both of us
know him. We told him shortly that
the place was locked up. His eyes roll
ed In Ills heud, he turned and looked
again at the drug store and then
again at us and the next second was
gone back up the road like a flash.
"We watched him racing madly by
the Chris Grape hotel and there lost
him up the road toward Teal pond.
I have often seen him among the vil
lage loungers, but never saw him act
so strangely before. Ills advent and
departure were so strange that wo
were astonished, even for Smith,
whom we were used to see do things
strange or erratic. It was not until
today that I felt it my duty to speak.
Neither Mr. Carmen or myself can
bo mistaken in point of day, time of
day. Identity or incident.”
TAFT’S TAILOR TELLS
BIG MAN’S DIMENSIONS
WASHINGTON—WIIIiftm Howard
Taft’s tailor has been located and In
terviewed, and now the world as large
has a chance at the exact truth re
garding the dimensions of the reptile
Heart nominee for president. This
tailor knows all about presidents and
would-be presidents, for he has served
Harrison, Cleveland and McKinley,
and also Bryan.
Taft, he declares, is his biggest cus-i
tomer, and at the same time the shape
liest. He gives his measurements as
follows: Chest, 54 Inches; chest ex
panded, 00 inches; watst, 52 1-2; hips,
u„, inside scam of trousers, 22; out
side seam of sleeves, 22. This tailor
also authorizes the statement that
Taft, now weighs 290 pounds. He has
lost. 10 pounds since he was nomi
nated and 20 since ho returned from
the Philippines.
CRAZY MAN SUICIDES.
PUNXBUTAWNEY, Pa Crazed by
Jealousy, Stephen Joshua, a Slavish
storekeeper at, Wlsliaw, near here,
yesterday drove his family from home,
barred the doors and, after setting
tire to a kerosene soaked bed, shot
himself, dying almost Instantly
WHAT AUGUSTA NEEDS--
AND NEEDS BADLY
A centrally located neatly furnished, electric fan cooled, Ice-wat
ered renting and lunch room*, tor the Out-of-Augusta Whopper*.
Many of them haven’t frlands In the city with whom they can
*top for the day, or make headquarter*, In order to whop, and, too mut.y
of them find It Impossible* to come to the city without bringing one or
more children, and It is, of course, an Impossibility for them to be
drugged around, from at ore to rjforc, either In the heat of summer, or
cold weather of winter.
They need a place whi re the children can be left, If denired, *t least
for a part of the day. In competent hands a place where they ran
go themselves for « little rest during the day, a lounge for
resting on. with dressing room for re-arrangement of toilet
—a place where the lunch brought with them from home
cun be eaten In quietude and comfort.
If the e|ry of Augusta needs these shoppers, they should certainly
feel it nee.easary to do something to make shopping In Augusta pos
sible, for this vast, army of out-of-town shoppers.
It goes without saying that a vast majority of them feel the eg
p. ~#• of stopping at a hotel for the day, too great a luxury tor snap
ping purposes.
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A HALF MILLION LOSS.
NEW ORLEANS, La. —Probably one
of the mom valuable stocks of cof
fee, tea, molasses, sugar, rice and
kindred products ever accumulated
In a New Orleans manufactory or
warehouse. Is this morning a mass of
ruins in the shell of what was last
night the plant of the New Orleans
Coffee company, occupying the square
bounded by Howard avenue, South
Peters, Calliope and Front streets.
In a fire that burned something over
an hour and forty minutes, this stock
and building were literally wiped out
of existence at an early hour this
morning. The loss will range between
$250,000 and $500,000.
LEAPED TO HER DEATH.
NEW YORK.—Suffering from two
maladies, both incurable hnd either of
which, would cause hor death In a
few weeks, Mrs. Lena Richards, of
No. 102 Congress streot, Jersey City,
leaped from a fourth floor window in
.Bellevue hospital early this morning.
When picked up she was dead and
physicians said that scarcely a whole
bono remained unbroken In horbody.
MYSTIC SHRINERS MEET.
ST. PAUL, Miun.—The conclave of
the Imperial Council, Nobles of tho
Mystic Shrine, was opened yesterday.
Tho imperial council at. tho auditori
um was called to order by Noble
George C. Kulspel, chairman of the
executive committee.
ANTI-SALOON MAN ASSAULTED.
DAVENPORT, la.— The saloon
troubles agitating the citizens of Dav
enport so much ot late by the enforoe
ment. of the Mulct law, were renewed
yesterday when George Schoenig was
sot upon by a mob as he was leaving
tile court House and slugged. Schoe
nig barely escaped with Ills life, and
is confined in u hospital. This makes
the third person assailed this year
for prosecuting saloon keepers In l>av
onpodt.
CANT RACE HORSES.
LONDON.—The will of 8. F. P.
Stow, who died on May 17, disposes
of $1,751,700. It directs his son and
heir not to keep or run race horses
within twenty-one years of the testa
tor’s death. Otherwise his Interest
In the estate will cease, excepting an
annuity of $20,500.
VORYS AT HOT SPRINGS.
HOT SPRINGS, Va.—Arthur P.
Vnrys, of Ohio, whoso voluntary re
tirement from politics would bring
great relief to certain prominent cit
izens of this country, Is here to'con
fer with Mr. Taft. They will talk
over tho Ohio situation which seems
to become entangled the more it ia
tried to untangln it.
BOMB EXPLOBION.
NEW YORK. —A dynamite bomb,
exploding with terrific force In the
nreuway of a fashionable apartment
house in West 140th Streot today,
hurled sroreH of occupants from thoi
beds, shattered many windows and
threw the tenants Into panic.
FIGHTING BEGUN.
PUERTO CORTEZ, SPANISH
HONDURAS—via New Orleans—A
train which lias just arrived at San
Pedro brings the news that Gen.
Qultterrez has arrived at Cholutlca
and that fighting has begun between
the government soldiers and tho rev
el itionists.
TRANSPORTATION CAN’T
BE GIVEN FOR ADS
CHICAGO —"If It bn lawful to make
an exchange of railroad transporta
tion for advertising then It would be
lawful to do the numo In every trans
action, and the railroad business
might lawfully become one of barter
and Halo, limited only by demand.
In a declHlon handed down by Judge
KohlHaat In the United Statea Cir
cuit. Court from which the above Is
quoted, the Jurlßt enjoined the Issu
nnee of tranaportatlon by tjie Chicago
IndlanapollH and Louisville Railroad
to the publltiherH of Mun Keys Maga
zine In exchange for advertlalng.
The declHlon whh rendered In ft
tent. rnHc in which the federal author
ities brought milt to prevent, the car
rying out of a contract entered into
In January,l9o7 between the railroad
company and Frank A. Munsey and
the company providing for the Issu
ance of trip tickets er mileage to the
value of SSOO in consideration of a
certain advertising space in the pub
llcatlonH of the Magazine Company.
The contract was alleged to be a
violation of the Hepburn law.