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VOLUME XIII., No. 197.
BEAUMONT.TEX.,
11l IDE HANDS
OF A MOB
Enraged Men Bent on Securing
Negro Who Brutally As
saulted Little Girl
BEAUMONT, Tex—Beaumont is
wild with excitement, and the city is
filled with hundreds of armed men,
due to the belief that the negro who
brutally assaulted little Ada Belle
Hopkins is in the hands of the offi
cers. About 6 O'clock last evening
Acting Marshal N. N. Smith and other
officers caught a negro, said to be
named Henry Goldman, sleeping in a
barn or out house of another negro
living in the vicinity of the power
plant.
This negro' was given up, it is said,
by the negro who harbored him.
There was talk of storming the coun
ty jail, where a number of negroes
arrested as suspects are confined, but
Sheriff Landry solemnly assured lead
ing citiens that the negro was not in*
jail.
A crowd of hundreds of men gath
ered at the Texas and New Orleans
passenger depot last night and held
up passenger train No. 9, west-bound,
for about 15 minutes, while a thor
ough but unavailing search for the
negro was made. Passenger train No.
g, east-bound, was also stopped this
side of the Neches river and searched
for the negro. Sheriff Landry was
joined here by Rangers Wright and
Hmaer.
Negroes are keeping close, and re
sorts in the north end are closed up
tight.
TOWN M6BBOND
MURDERS II
MINISTER
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METCHUEN, N. J.—Metchuen is in
mourning today for the Rev. Samuel
B. D. Prickett, who was shot down
and killed in cold blood by Archibald
Herron, a worthless character, whom
Mr. Prickett, when recorder of the
town, had twice sentenced to jail for
wife beating. The dead man was for
merly pastor of the Methodist church
here, and editor of the local paper.
Herron shot the minister on the lat
ter's door step.
Herron was captured after being
besieged in his home by a posse of
more than two hundred, and then
only upon being threatened with suf
focation by sulphur fumes.
He was immediately taken to the
county jail at New Bruns .vick in an
automobile driven by Dr, Alfred Ellis,
the mayor of Metchuen, as it was be
lieved that the local lock-up was not
sufficiently safe in view of the atti
tude of the citizens of the town.
TUFT UNO VORYS
OVERLOOK 01
SITUATION
HOT SPRINGS. Va.—" This is the
time when the democrats always car
ry Ohio in a presidential campaign.
Ohio republicans have their own
troubles, and they always Inspire a
democratic hope of an internal split
and bolt. This is the time when these
troubles are settled and over. If it
required anything to do it the claims
that the democrats will carry Ohio
this fall have completely settled all
our troubles and cemented all repub
licans in a determination to elect *.ae
national, state and legislative ticket
by 100,000 at least."
For four hours yesterday afternoon
Judge Taft and A. I. Vorys, his Ohio
manager, discussed the situation with
incidental reference to the speech of
acceptance upon which the candidate
is at work.
At the conclusion of the confer
ence Mr. Vorys gave out the state
ment quoted above. •
Mr Vorys will return to Ohio with
full instructions from the candidate
concerning the management of the
state campaign; but In order not to
Interfere with the speech of accept
ance, he will remain here two or
three days for other conferences with
Judge Taft.
REACH HONOLULU TODAY.
HOJ’JLULU —The American fleet
is dijh, to arrive at Honolu'u about
1 o’clwjk this afternoon according to
a wireless messages which came in
during the night. At the time the
message was sent the ships were 105
nJlee distant from thta port.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
MR. ROOSEVELT SAYS THEY
ARE FEEBLESNARLING MEN
in a Letter To His Backwoods Friends He Says He Wants To
Follow Washington and Lincoln
BANGOR, Maine.—President Roosevelt has confided to his friend
“Bill" Sewall, a guide to the Maine woods, that he has no regard for
the little, feeble, snarling men who yell about executive usurpation.
"I had a letter last week,” s?id Sewell, when found busy in a hay
field, "and I judge the president is mighty glad to have the combina
tion settled and the stress of hts own official work so near over."
Reading directly from the president’s letter, Mr. Sewall quoted:
"I hope Mrs. Roosevelt will be better now that the strain of the
presidential nomination is off. For me, I thoroughly enjoy the job, and
never felt more vigorous as far as the work of the office is concerned.
But it’s some different from the work in th e backwoods and plains that
you and I have done together in the past.
“I said I would not. accept another term and I believe the people
think my word is good. I would be mighty sorry to have them
think anything else. I believe in being a strong president, and making
the most of the office and using it without regard to the little, feeble,
snarling men who yell about executive usurpation.
“I also believe it is not a good thing for any man to hold it too
long. My ambition is, no matter in however humble a manner and no
matter however far off, to travel in the footsteps of Washington and
Lincoln.”
The president promises to visit Sewall in Maine when his term is
concluded.
HEAD OF CZAR’S SECRET
SERVICE DEPARTMENT FLEES
NEW YORK—The head official of
the czar’s secret service bureau at
St. Petersburg has deserted his post
and fled to Paris with all the books
containing data as to government,
spies and other secret information,
where he has joined the Russian rev
olutionists.
Word to this effect was received by
Dr. Paul S. Kaplan, chairman of the
Russian revolutionists in this city,
at his office, No. 230 East Broadway.
Dr. Kaplan said: "The acquisition
Having Lived Under the Name of Man He
Murdered Three Years Ago, Man Is
Betrayed By Jealous Wife
lived for . three
years under the assumed name of the
man he is alleged to have murdered,
Martin Green, of Mobile, Ala., was ar
rested by the police of Stanton ave
nue station and returned to the au
thorities of Mobile last night.
Green, who had posed as Moses
MRS. HORNER SIRS
SELF-DEFENSE
IS HER RLE!
i in i— r
NEW YORK.— Mrs. Bartley T. Hor
ner, who is held pending the result of
the bullet wound which she inflicted
on her son-in-law, Dr. James W: Simp
son, said today that she was fully pre
pared to go to court at any time and
prove that she fired upon the dentist
in self-defense. .
Despite his remarkable vitality, the
surgeons at Roosevelt hospitffl have
not yet been-able to probe in the doc
tor's abdomen for the bullet which
lodged In a lung and hig condition con
tinues precarious. Moi. Horner is
held on a charge of felonious assault,
but it is believed that Dr. gtmpson
is near his death and that the allega
tion will eventually be changed to one
of murder. Temporarily her ball of
$5,000, which was given on the day
of, the shooting, has been continued.
The aged woman denied herself to ail
callers today, but through her lawyer,
Rowland Miles, said she did not fear
the outcome of the case.
"I have lived in constant fear of
my son-in-law ever since he killed my
husband," she said through the law
yer. "He has pursued me with threat
ening letters and called at my house
three times. I only shot him because
I feared he would kill me or my
daughter.”
APPLICATION FOR CHARTER
ATLANTA, Oa.—Application for a
charter for the George E. Johnson
Candy company was made Wednesday
in the superior court by George E.
Johnson, G. rs. Sims and R. T. Mark
ley. The company will have a capi
tal stock oi $12,000, with the privil
ege of Increasing it to $50,000. It
proposes to manufacture candy and
deal In it, both in a retail and whole
sale way.
KILLED DEFENDING WOMAN.
CHlCAGO.—Raymond N. Gourley,
41 years old, a cattle buyer employed
in the stock yards, was shot and in
stantly killed while making a chival
rous attempt to take the part of a wo
man In a quarrel early today.
Charles Pretschold, an awning man
ufacturer, waa the assailant.
WEATHER FORECAST—Fair tonight and Friday; not so warm tonight.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 16, 1908.
of the head of the secret service
bureau is one of the most important
victories we ever have achieved, as
it provides us information concern
ing all the Russian spies both In this
country and abroad. The entire se
cret service force of the czar was
employed by this man personally.
Hence he knows them all and is able
to keep us posted as to their move
ments.
The actions of the Russian govern
ment through its secret service will
henceforth be an open book to us.”
Brown, the name of his supposed vic
tim, only had been in Chicago a week,
and was arrested at 3728 State street,
where he had engaged a room.
The Information which led to
Green’s arrest was given by his wife,
Mrs. Anna Green, who said his atten
tions to another woman caused her
to disclose his identity.
TRACTION ENGINE
CRUSHES TROLLEY
PASSENGERS
JOHNSTOWN, Pa.—One man was
killed and thirty injured last night
when a trolley car on the Johnstown
passenger railway, after striking a
traction engine at a crossing a mile
from here, started backward and
dashed over a steep embankment,
crushing its load of humanity.
George Kannette, aged 30 years,
was killed outright.
Immediately after the news of the
acident reached this city ambulances
and automobiles with a corps a; sur
geons were rushed to the scene and
the injured were removed to the Mem
morial hospital.
PDPREISTiTiONRE
COMMITTEE FRIES
TOJPPEIR
ST. LOUIS, Mo.—Where are the
populists? That is the question puz
zling politicians around St. Louis.
The people's party gentleman are 24
hours overdue now The politicians
are asking if it is possible the party
has abandoned its campaign.
The populist national committee
was scheduled to open headquarters
here on Tuesday, but none of the
committee officials has appeared.
Twenty-two rooms were engaged at
the Madison hotel, but no one has
come to occupy them.
About July 1, R. H. Mallet.t of Clay,
borne, Texas, national chairman of
the populists, passed through St.
r,ouls on ms way to Denver to at
tend the democratic national eonven
tlon, While here he engaged the
rooms and said he would open politi
cal headquarters July 14. Since then
the hotel people have beard nothing
from him.
The 'Daughters of Roosevelt and
Dryan At the Deriber Contention
This photograph of Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Long
worth, on the left, and Mrs. Ruth Bryan Leavitt, on
the right, was taken in the Convention hall at Den
ver.
GIUSEPPE AEI, SNARLING AND
FIGHTING, PAYS THE PENALTY
FOR THE MURDER OF A PRIEST
CANYON CITY, Colo.-Snarling,
fighting and shouting down maledic
tions on the Roman priesthood, Giu
seppe Ali went to his death for mur
dering Father l,eon Heinrich, at the
altar, of St. Elizabeth’s church, Den
ver, February 23, last. It was the
most thrilling scene ever beheld In
the state at an execution, .and In view
of the stolid Indifference of the mur
derer within a short time of his be
ing summoned to expiate his crime,
was wholly unexpected.
At 7 o’clock, when notified he would
be hanged within an hour, he calmly
assented, and declared he felt no re
morse for killing Father Leon.
He said he had worked for the
priest in Portugal and was sure he
had killed the right man after Bearch
WHITE MOUNTAIN EXPRESS
WRECKED AT GREENWICH
GREENWICH, Conn.—The Whit.:
Mountain express on the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad,
which left New York at 8.02 a. m.
today, Jumped the track while cross
ing a grade bridge over Steamboat
road, 100 yards east of the station
here, and one woman was killed and
eight were badly hurt.
The train was crowded with •/»//-
sengers from New York. It parted
just back of the second coach as the
three middle cars were seen to sway
on the bridge. Then the three cars,
as they tore along the rails, toppled
over and crashed upon their sides at
the very edge of the bridge struc
ture.
MEN MEET DEATH
IN A TANK OF
ROILING Oil
LOS ANGELES, Cal. Frank Cur
tis and John Williamson lost their
lives by dropping into boiling oil, and
L. L. Stevens was fatally injured In
a great fire that broke out at Orcutt,
a shipping station In the Santa Marla
oil fields at 1 o’clock yesterday morn
ing, and which last night was still
raging with undlmlnlshed fury.
Four great tanks of oil had been
consumed. A mile of railroad ties
had burned and the rails on them
warped beyond further usefulness.
total loss aproxlmately $400,000,
and probably will exceed half a mil
lion
The two men who lost their llvet
were fighting the flames on a wooden
runaway, endeavoring to stay the Are
with a Use of hose.
ing for him for many months, and
that he knew hint by a sear on the
side of the face.
”1 do not blame the law," he said.
"But. there is no God or I would not
be here now. The priest did wrong
in breaking up my family.”
The condemned man was still quiet
at. 8.30, w..en he was led to the execu
tion house, but during the adjustment
of the black cap and noose, lie be
came frantic and shouted.
He was forcibly carried to the ttap
and placed In position, Chaplain Blake
uttered a short prayer, the dripping
water of the automatic mechanism
released the great weight, and the
body was Jerked Into tho air at 8.31.
Owing to the slipping of the rope
All’s neck was not broken, but hq
died in 19 minutes, of strangulation.
Passengers in the three overturned
ars were hurled from their seats and
upon one another in heaps. Some ol
the seats became loosened from their
fastenings and fell upon the passim
gers on the floors of the cars.
A fearful panic occurred in the
three overturned coaches: Men and
women, as soon a they recovered
irom the shock of being flung against
the sides of the cars, tried desperate
ly to make their way out. through
windows and doors. The woman who
was killed was dashed agalust the
side of the car and waa left where
she lay as the others tried to get
out.
Volunteers crowded about the wreck
from all the atreeta near the Green
wich station. They helped the peo
ple frotr: the overturned coaches and
carried the injured buck to beyond
the bridge and laid them near the
tracks until physicians arrived.
It was found that while a score of
people were injured, only eight were
In s serious condition. They were at
tended where they lay, alongside the
tracks, by physicians who came from
their homes In Greenwich. One of
the Injured waa so badly hurt, how
ever, that he was hurried to the
Greenwich hospital, it was said that,
the man's Injuries were not fatal.
DEEN’S BANKING BILL.
SAVANNAH, Ga Mr. .1. Ferris
Cann, vice president of the Mer
chants National bank, who has re
turned from Atlanta, where he went
to appeal before the senate commit
tee on banks and banking in opposi
tion to the bill of Senator Deen pro
viding for the depositing of all banks
of a percentage of their deposits wlih
the state to prevent the loss to de
positors has returned home, lie says
his Information Is that the bill has
no chance to pass ihe senate and that
It will be reported upon adversely
by the committee. All the Savannah
bankers are opposed to the measure
and ths Clearing association lias gone
en record as opposed to 1L
DAILY AND SUNDAY, $6.00 PER YEAR.
FIRMER EDITOR IS
BADLY STUBBED
BYJWER
Congressman Favrot’s Private
Secretary Attacked in the
Ottice ot Daily States
BATON ROUGE, La. A. 11. Faust,
private secretary to Congressman G.
K. Favrot, and formerly editor of the
Raton Rouge Times, was assaulted
and dangerously stabbed .asi night
by Ed. George, a linotype operator
who, until a lew days ag> was em
ployed on the Daily States. Miss
Claire Bates, book-keeper for the
Slates, who was present when the
trouble occurred, received several
ettis across the face an/1 arms while
attempting to separate the two men.
Mr. Faust, vho was a warm friend
of Miss Hales, having known her dur
ing the publication of the Baton
Rouge Times, two years ago. was In
the city preparatory to accompanying
Congressman Eavrot on a tour of the
dlsl'iet in advocacy of the la'tcr’s
re-election, and had etc led »t the of
fice to have a friendly chat.
George, who, It is slated, had for
the past weeks attempted to pay the
young lady attenilon, resented Ihls
manifestation of friendship, and, hav
ing seen Mr. Faust go up to the of
fice several times during the past
few days, telephoned Miss Bates from
another part of the building, saying
ilint he wanted her to .choose be
tween the two friends—himself and
Faust. Miss Bates gave him some
evasive answer, and, turning to Faust,
who was sitting near her desk, told
him ol’ the conversation.
A lew minutes later George en
tered the room and passing some re
mark to the young lady, assaulted
Mr. Faust.
PEEPING TOM IS
KICKED OUT OF
A THEATRE
NEW YORK. —They kicked the
shins of Peeping Tom after the Coun
tess Rossi had tweaked his noße, and,
In fact, they kicked him elsewhere
when they found him hiding behind
the arras In a dressing-room of the
stage women In Hammerstetn's Vic
toria theatre.
He had climbed unsteadily from an
adjoining restaurant by a ladder and
had worked himself slowly through
a window. When he heard a swish
of skirts he concealed himself.
The Countess Rossi, vnudevlllalu
ess. entered, began to change her cos
tume, had reached a most Interesting
stage when there came a hiccough.
The stage woman screamed. Mr.
P. Tom lurched forward, and the
Countess Rossi seized him by the
nose. The stage hands came In and
kicked him elswherc to the street.
CRUBHED**BY TRAIN.
NEW YORK—The body of a young
girl about 21 was found early today
near the Columbus avenue station on
the New Haven railroad, between Per
ham and Mount Vernon, with the
face crushed in and both feet sever
ed Juiist above the ankles. The glr!
had apparently been walking toward
the station and was run down by one
of the New Haven west-bound electric
trains.
TAFT w'ILL RE'IT.
HOT SPRINGS, Vn Mr. Taft will
forego his usual exercise until ho
concludes his speech of acceptance.
Ho has gone over th'- documents no
desired to study hefor/ dictating his
speech and his his subject weil In
hand.
ROGERB WTi LL AGAIN.
NEW YORK. -H H. Rogers came
to town from Falrhaven, Mass., to
preside nt the meeting of the diroe
tors of the Amalgamated Copper com
pany. Mr. Rogers hns apparently re
covered his health, and Is taking an
active Interest In business affairs. 11/
Joked with the reporters and said he
felt, as lively us a erlckat.
Personal, Lost and Pound Instructions.
If your ad. Is addressed to the people of this city we suggest that
you place It In The Herald. For you can "try” to reach the people
of this city with ever so much patience and persistence—yet If you
do not use this newspaper you will noi hav» done so. YOU DOUBT*
LESS KNOW THE CITY WELL ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT.
A legitimate PERSONAL ad.— and no other kind can be printed In
The Herald—will be reid by a majority of peonte who read and
answer want ade. in th's city. They read the "Personals'*
at first through curiosity—then they come to look for
many good business propositions this classification.
and Found ads. are read by almost a« many people as
read any adc at ail —and In the ease of The Herald that means
AN INCREASKING NUMBER FROM DAY TO DAY.
Ads. offering Instruction find Interested readers here —usually
at once. We are rather proud of the fuel thai this paper Is a gm-4
medium for ali educational ads A great many private teachers do
not need to use any other medium.
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HON. JOE SUMMER DEAD.
POULAN, la.—Hon. Joe L. Sum
mer, sixty-five years of age, a former
member of both the house and sen
ate, died at. his home here'yesterday.
PROHIBITIONISTS CONVENE
COLUMBUS, O.—The program of
the prohibitionists national conven
tion as outlined for today include!
ihe selection ol permanent chairman,
the adoption of a platform and the
nomination of a presidential ticket.
BAD WRECK* REPORTED
NEW YORK—It is reported here
that the Pittsfield Express on the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
railroad Jumped the (rack At. Green
wich, Conn., and several were killed
and a number injured.
KILLED HIMSELF.
HOUSTON, Tex.—John C. Witte,
for 15 years manager of the local
Postal Telegraph office, committed
sulel/le this morning by shooting.
Witte had been In poor health for
years and became despondent,
HON. HUGH McCURDY DEAD.
OWOSSO, Mich—Hon. Hugh Mc-
Curdy, past grand commander of the
Knight Templars and past grand mas
ter of Masons of the United States,
died at. his home in McCurdy Park,
near Corruna today.
SHERMAN WILL RESIGN.
WASHINGTON.—After holding the
matter In abeyance since his nomina
tion for th,. vice presidency, Candi
date James Schoolcroft Sherman has
definitely decided to resign the chair
manship of the republican national
campaign committee.
THREE KILLED.
BOSTON, Mass.—Two men were
killed today and several Injured In an
explosion nt Mystle wharf. United
States Appraiser’s Examiner C. F. At
wood. who wns taken to the hospital
died a little Inter. The two killed
outright, were laborers.
MURDERED AND HUNG.
DOVER, Del.—lnvestigation by the
coroner shows that William Williams,
the aged and wealthy farmer found
hanging to a tree, was killed and then
strung up by his murderer. He was
killed by a blow on the head, struck
evidently by a board that had a nail
In It.
MRS. EDDYmT’bIRTHDAY.
BOSTON, Mass. —Mary Baker O.
Eddy la 87 years old today. There
was no nfflciul observance of the
event by Christian Scientists, because
Mrs. Eddy Is said to Have no faith
In birthdays nor their cumulative ef
fects.
TOWN BURNING.
COLUMBUS, o.—Baltic, a town of
500 Inhabitants, was threatened this
morning by a fire that started late
last night. Forty homes have al
ready been destroyed and the loss
will be over SIOO,OOO. Aid was sum
moned from Coshocton and other
towns.
HITCHCOCK BEGINS WORK.
WASHINGTON. —Chairman Frank
H. Hitchcock, of the republican na
tional committee, will leave Wash
ington for Chicago and CofSrado
Springs, Col., this afternoon, where
he will begin tho actual work of sol
idifying the party machine In the all
important west and middle west.
STRIKERS Tn RIOT.
CLEVELAND, O. A riot in which
six men received Injuries, more or
less serious took place at the corner
of Lakeside Avenue and West Sixth
street today. The rioters were union
and non union cap makers. The
union inen have been on strike for
several weeks.
TO BREAK HORT WILL.
NEW YORK—Donald Harper, an
American attorney practicing In
Paris,arrived here today on the White
Star liner Majestic and went lmme
dately to his New York office. No. 20
Broad Street, to make preparations
to break the will of Benjamlne Hart.,
the Amei.can millionaire, who died
last May in Paris, disinheriting his
adopted daughter anil his alleged di
vorced wife Hnd leaving his $2,000,-
000 to a French woman, Mine, de Ble,
BHE FILES BILL.
PITTSBURG, Pa—Mrs Mary Scott
Hartje, through her atorneys, late
yesterday filed a hill of particulars
ask/d for by her husband, Augustus
Hurtle, the millionaire’ puper manu
facturer, whom she Is suing for ali
mony.
In her libel Mrs. Hartje charges In
fidelity and the respondent petitioned
the court for a more specific bill of
particulars.