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Are you making it “pay”— this occupation of keeping boarders? Perhaps a better way to put the question would be: “Are you advertising the fact THAT YOU keep boarders?" VOLUME XIII., No. 229. Tragedies in Many American Cities Follow Race Rioting in Springfield NEGROIS STABBED II EVANSVILLE BY WHITES EVANSVILLE, Ind.—George Mon die, a negro of this city, was probably fatally cut last midnight by two un known wnue men, who made their es cape and for whom the police are searching. The two men were dis cussing the race riot at Springfield, Ills., and one of them had just re marked that “all negroes ought to be run into the river” when Mondie came along down the street. The men assaulted Mondie with bricks and one of them stabbed him in the back and they made a hurried retreat down the street. Mondie was removed to St. Mary’s hospital, and is now in a critl acl condition. OLD WHITE MAN ASSAULTS GIRL SUMMERVILLE, Ga.—Late yester day afternoon R. L. Williams, 50, white, was arrested charged with fel oniously assaulting the 9-year-old daughter ot Mrs. Hamson, his next door neighbor. The crime is alleged to have been committed on the pub lic road between Summerville and Trion, when Williams was bringing the child home from the country in a buggy. Williams says he knows nothing about it, claiming he was under the influence of liquor. He has been removed to Rome for safe keeping. Williams has borne a fair reputation, is a married man, and has grown daughters. The child is said to be isl a serious condition. ONE OF LYNCHERS 3 LOSES SANITY PEORIA, Ills.—-“ 1 am one of those who helped to lynch William Donne gan at Springfield, and I believe I am going insane," was the statement ot Charles Gadwin, at the office of the superintendent of the Bartonville asy lum yesterday. "We stamped him in the fa ,e, we cut his throat and then put a ropo around his neck. That’s what it took to kill him." Gadwin said that ne formerly was a member of the Thirty-second United States volunteers i;} the r uuiDplnes, and had a sister at the asylum. He was placed under guard. HE WAR IS ON IN OKLAHOMA TOWN McALISTER, Okla.—ln a fight be tween white men and negroes at Adamson, a mining town near here, last night, Harry Mineson, white, was killed, a number of negroes were in jured. and Deputy Sheriff Wilcox was badly beaten. According to the late reports from Adamson a serious clash is thought probable, a sheriff’* posse has been sent to the scene. SON HITS FATHER WITH HEAVY STONE ALTOONA, Pa—During an alterca tion a few mlleg from this city, R. \V. Reed, aged 27, is alleged to have struck his father, Samuel Reed, aged 05, on the head with a atone, render ing him unconscious. Believing he had killed his father, Reed, it is said, d. ~ged the body down an embank ment, covered it with sand and brush, 9b ii fled. Sunday morning, Reed, recovering ■onsciousness, burst his crude tomb ttnd summoned assistance. He is serl. ously Injured, and may not recover. The police are looking for young Reed. The father told the police he ana his toe were visiting friends and that he Ntlte carrying the younger man’s two year old ehlld. Tiring, he requested the son to take the bur den. A fight followed. THE AUGUSTA HERALD II NEW YORK STATE FEELING RUNS TO VIOLENCE HUNTINGTON, N. Y.—A negro, wtio late yesterday attacked a while woman resident of this place, Is under heavy guard In the local lock-up, after having been recued by deputies from a crowd of angry citizens. Threats of violence were frequent dur ing the evening, as the news of the as sult spread, and shortly after a mob ot BO men buttered in the front door of the jail with a railroad tie and attempted to rescue the prisoner. The attacking party found itself confronted by two deputies with guns, and after a parley' withdrew. The attack was made upon Mrs. Isoulse Gerdeslne, wife of an employe at the Hotel Chauteaux deg Beaux Arts. The negro sprang upon the woman in a lone ly section just outside the village, H< took to the woods when several men ran toward the spot attracted by the wo man’s screams, but was caught and with difficulty' taken from his citizen captors and lodged in jail. OUTBREAK DROVE CHICAGO NEGRO CHICAGO.—-Clayton N. Williams, a negro porter, in a fit of temporary in sanity, caused by brooding over the Springfield outrages, locked Lucy Briggs, 67 years old, into a room at her house, 2312 Dearborn street, at noon, and battered her brains out with a rocking chair. Williams’ insanity took form in the belief that he was the messiah, come to regenerate the fallen ones of his race, and that the woman was pos sessed of devils which he must cast out. The woman was preparing the man’s dinner when she was attack ed. Williams was the only boarder in the house. He spent yesterday morning in his room alternately read, ing the Scriptures and accounts ot the Springfield rioting. At noon he left his room, seized the Briggs wom an, dragged her into his room, and attacked her with a rocking chair, which he swung about his shoulders like a scythe. The woman screamed until she was uonconscious. Policeman McGov ern heard her cries, turned in a riot call, and made for the house. Williams swung the chair at the policemen when they hurst open the door, but was overimweted. By this time a crowd had gathered. Excite ment bordered on the lawless. Cries of "Lynch him!” and "String him up!” strengthened into a roar. The murderer was hurried to the Cottage Grove avenue station in a patrol wagon, followed by the mad dened crowd. mob grew in numbers until it jammed Cottage Grove avenue in front of the station clamoring with ugly threats for lynen law. fiue pris oner was rushed from Cottage Grove station to the Harrison street station and saved from the Infuriated mo!>. The murder was the second to lake place in the negro quarter during me day. Both of them raised excitement in the district to a fever heat. JOHN J. RYAN’S AUTO RUNS OVER DEAF MUTE CINCINNATI, O—lgnatz Wandrack a Polish deaf mute of this city, was run down and killed yesterday after noon by John .1. Ryan, the turf plun ger,ln his racing automobile. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦«♦«< 4 BABY BORN IN RUNAWAY. WASHINGTON, Pa 'When da < buggay loopa da loop, we wus < fur of us riding. As we land < on da ground dare was five.” < This was Pietro Carnlno’s < tense account of a runaway Sun- < day afternoon that resulted In an < unexpected addition to his fam- ■ lly. Gamine engaged a horse and < buggy to take a drive. Going 1 down a steep hllV the horse < stumbled, fell and broke its nerk. The buggy described a semi < circle in the air, while the oc- ■ cupan'.i made a living leap - through space. When men who - witnessed the accident hurried 1 to the spot they found Mrs. Carnlno bad given birth to a < son. Forecast for Augusta aud Vicinity—Fair tonight and Tuesday. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 17, 1908. NEGROES ATTACK POLICEINII CHICAGO CHICAGO—WaIter Allen, 2t years old, colored, living at 1910 Dcarbon street, was shot in the back and seri ,on sly wounded late last night by Policeman John Teeling. of the Har rison street station, after Alien and ; five others had attacked the officer, . when the latter attempted to arrest them at Fourteenth and State streets on a charge of disordely i onduct. The men wore jeering at a white I man who was passing and Policeman ! Teeling requested the negroes to move on and keep quiet, as the hour was late, and they were disturbing the peace. Instead of obeying his i command, the negroes advanced in a body aud attacked him. i Teeling struggled away from them, j drawing his revolver. The negroes then ran, and when they refused to halt at his command, the policeman Gred one shot, which struck Allen. He was taken to the county hospital The others escaped. 11l GROKED BY NEGRO BRUTE WASHINGTON. —As a result of be ing choken into insensibility and brutally beaten by a negro who en tered her home early yesterday morn ing and robbed her of $95, Mrs. Mary J. Cole, of St. Elmo, Va., is lying dan gerously near death. Although the police of this city and Alexandria have been notified of the affair, and are searching for the fu gitive, the residents of St. Elmo and the neighboring country are highly excited over the assault, and openly express their intention of summarily dealing with the negro if he falls into their hands. Rumors as to the capture ot the negro were rife in the vicinity Just across the long bridge yesterday, and late last night it was said the assailant had been captured and was being held in a box car at (he Poto mac railroad yards by employes. ELECTION To"fILL VACANCY. HARLEM, Ga. —Judge G. E. Gray, one of the town councilmen of Har lem, has resigned from that position anu an election has been called on August 24th, to fill the vacancy. His Wife’s Ruin Will Be Plea In Defense of Captain Hains WHAT BOTH SAY. NEW YORK.-Gen. Peter C. Hains says: “Captain Hailin' defense will be justification. The written confession of his wife, in which she admitted her relations with Annis, will be his chief ar gument." Mrs. P. C. Hains, Jr., said: “I do not care what is done to my husband or his brother, but I hope that tlie law will hang them both. “I have the deepest feeling of sympathy for Mr. Annis' family. "I never gave my husband oc casion to be jealous. "I never made any confession, having nothing to confess. "He forced me Into signing a paper after he had drugged me. "I want my children and shall take steps to get them.” NEW YORK. —Captain Peter Con over Mains, Jr., IT. 8. A., who shot and killed William K. Annis, advertising manager of a magazine on the float of the Bayside Yacht Club, with his brother, T Jenkins Mains, who, with a pistol, kept back the crowd, was arraigned today In the police court in St. Mary’s Lyceum building, Long Is land City, before Magistrate Smith. Both are charged with homicide. They were held without bail and sent back to their cells. While the two brothers apparently unconcerned were being arraigned in court, Mrs. Annis was prostrated at her home, No. 47 Claremont avenue, where her husband's body awaited burls) tomorrow She was unable to add any word of explanation or de fense on her dead husband's behaif. This was left to a friend, Mrs, Ben nett who attended her. "The whole terrible tragedy," said Mrs. Bennett, "lies at the door of Captain Mains' brother, Jenkins. It was h>- who filled the raptaln's ears with all the gossip he heard. That was what caused Captain Mains to be glri the divorce proceedings It Is bas ed on gossip and nothing more.'' It is now known that the basts of the defense of the two brother*—be tween which the law makes no dis- LIVERMORE , THE PLUNGER QQQQQDQQ ANOTHER COUP IN COTTON ~ V A- J J Jessie L. Livermore, the young cotton plunger, who has Just pulled over another coup In his favorite market. Having pushed the price of cotton up to as high a point as he thought it would stand, he then be gan profit-taking while the bears on the market thought he was desper ately trying to maintain his corner. tinction in the degree of crime—will be an alleged confession signed by Mrs. Peter (!. Mains, in which wrong doing with Annis Is said to have been admitted. Justification under the no called unwritten law is the super structure to be bullded by the broth ers on this document, WIFE REPUDIATES CONFESSION. The confession la repudiated by Mr*. Mains, who declares (hat she was forced to sign It under duress, and that she had no knowledge oft what It contained. Letters have been furnished to Dis trict Attorney Ira O. D. Darrin, of Queens county, by Harvey Rockwell, Annis' friend, which were found in the pockets of the dead man. In them Annis was warned thut his death was Impending. Me was urged to remain away from the Bayside Club. By whom the letters were signed has not been made public. Mrs. Peter C. Mains has reached Mils city, coining from her home In Wlnthrop Highlands, Mass., In an ef fort. to gain possession of her chil dren. They were placed with Captain Mains' mother when the officer brought a ault for divorce against the wife, and she had not been permitted to see them since. As she was leaving her home to come to 'bis city, Mrs, Claudia Libby Mains said: "There Is no confession In exist ence I bad nothing to confess I did sign a document, the contents of which I knew nothing but I did It because I was forced to. I had been kept, without food for two days and In this weakened con dition whiskey was forced upon me. Then they brought me a document and made me sign It Thl* mum be the conftsslon that they speak of. "Jenkins aided my husband In the scheme, and I do not care what , a done to either of them, but f hope that the law will hang them both "AH I want. Is my children and I will take steps to get them I will carry this fight to the courts. The killing of Mr Annis Is proof enough (hat my husband is no fit custodian lor ray loved ones. "I never gave my husband any cause for Jealousy. I have done nothing ror which a wife might be ashamed. All my thoughts have been and are for my children. It was when my husband beat me, yes beat me black and blue, Inst May, that my mother came and took me away from him. "I have (he deepest sympathy for the family ot Mr. Annis. I know that they, too, are suffering the hu miliation which 1 also am suffering at (his time.'' T. JENKINS HAINS KILLED BEST FRIEND. The killing ol Annis brings to light I hut T. Jenkins Mains is the Thorn ton J. Mains who killed a man who | bad been his best frlehd after a • quarrel In a boat in 1891. Thl* man was Edward Manncgnn, grandson of Col. Thomas Nelson, of Indiana The two had gone out in a canoe and Mains emptied ills companion's revolver, signalling to a yacht. Then he quarrelled with him supposedly over a young woman to whom both were paying attention lie shot Man negan is he sat facing him, unarmed Hear Adimrai Jiobley I). Evans, then captain, was a witness against Mains, but the young man was ac quitted on self defense plea after a bitter battle. Captain l’etcr C. Mains, who shot William E. Annis, sat ai his brother's side all through his trial In bis nn val cadet uniform. Meetßig Com tnander Evans In the street after Evans hail testified against Thornton ho refused to salute him, on the ground that his superior oflieer was not in uniform, and was court-mar tialed for It, M< was dropped from the navy and obtained civil appoint ment to the army from President McKinley la 190(1. After ills acquittal Thornton J Mains wus sent to sea in the mer chant service by his father Ye;, la'cr, under the change of name to T, Jenkins Haiti*, he bobbed up as u writer of sea stories and his work began to appear In the magazines Later ho expanded to sea novels, and most of his tales have to do with ; bloodshed and violence. The arraignment of Captain Mains land bis brother today, and their ro j torn to the Jail without, examination, waa the fruit of a conference between j their couneel and District Attorney Ira 0 Darrin, of Que ens county. Tho 1 Mains' counsel pleaded for time and llt was decided to Ist the examina DAILY AND SUNDAY, $6.00 PER YEAR SPRINGFIELD PEOPLE SAY NEGROES MUST GET OUT The Known Dead SPRINGFIELD, Ills.—Situation in the city long ruled by mob: Known dead: BURTON, SCOTT, negro barber at Ninth and Jefferson streets, hanged by meb to tree at Telwth and Madi son streets. COLWELL, John, 1517 Mathony avenue, shot in stomach by negro, bul let striking spinal cord, died Satur day morning at St. John's hospital. DELMOHE. FRANK, Windsor hotel employe, struck in lung by stray bul let at 7th and Washington streets and died Sunday. DONECAN, WILLIAM, Colored. 118 Edwards street, hanged by mob at Spring and Edwurda streets Saturday night; died yesterday morning. JOHN, LOUIS, 1208 East Rey nolds street, killed by falling glass at Loper’s restaurant. Troops on Duty First infantry, Chicago, full regi ment, 700 men; Col. J. B. Sanborn. Second infantry, Chicago, full regi ment, 600 men; Col. J. J. Garrlty. Seventh Infantry. Chicago, full regi ment, 740 men; Col. Daniel Morlarity. First cavalry, Chicago, 250 men; Col. Milton J. Foreman. Fourth Infantry, nine companies; 450 men, Cel. Edward J. Lang. Fifth Infantry, 12 companies, 680 men; Col, F. S, Wood. Third Infantry, 2 companies, 100 men; Col. R. J. Shand. Gatling gun sections, first and fifth infantry; 40 men, In command of Ma jor General Edwin C. Young. SCARED BLACKS RUN FROM VIOLENCE TO SAFETY SPRINGFIELD, IIIh. A careful es timate place* the number of negroes who have left Springfield since the beginning or the race war si 2,000. or tills number nearly three fourths have gone out of the country on trains and Interurbazi cars. The rest have gone by wagon and on foul and are located In the rural districts. The great mass of the scurrying blacks are still wllbln the state. Homo are known to have gone as lur past the Mason and Dixon line us Louis iana. There are still many negroes left In Hpringi.eld. but of these there are many who are planning to go at the first opportunity. Since Friday the Wabash railroad lihh r.arrled ful ly 300 negro passengers out of Spring field. Most of tlieiti bought ticket a for Jacksonville, but others wont south and crossed the river to Mis souri. The Illinois Central and Chicago, Peoria and Bt. Louis railways sent between 300 amt 600 passengers of the black race oui of Springfield since the rioting started Most of them went south toward East HI. Louts, Litchfield and oth<r places. Chicago got a number of the departing ones. Fully 500 negroes used the Chica go and Alton as means of leaving. CHICAGO. —Between 150 and 200 negroes who tied from Springfield, arrived in Chicago yesterday. Those who had friends here south their homes, where they were warmly wel comed. Others crowded into col ored lodging houses or left on early afternoon trains for other places. Hon of the two prisoners go over for a week. As Captain Mains was led hack to his cell, he said: "I slept well, never felt better in my life, in spite of be ing In a cell. And that, was because my conscience Is clear.” Not Military Case. WASHINGTON The war depart ment will take no official cognizance of the killing of William It Annis by Captain Peter Conover Mains, Jr., In New York, Saturday, according to General George B. Davis, Judge advo cate general of tho army, who dis missed the sensational ease this morn Ing. The only way, General Davis says, In which the case may come before the department, Is In the event of a conviction of the army captain, In which event, presuming that u sen What Advertising Will Do. For That Business of Yours. , Advertising vitalizes business by giving the thoughts of your customers NEW DIRECTIONS- It halts the vagrant fancies i f the inert, and stimulates their Imagination until they are alert to the good points of your merchandise and prices Rhetoric, whether It leaps, or frisks, or flashes, Is helpless to stir enthu siasm until It throbs with MEANING. If your Advertising pro claim* an authenticated truth, the wind cannot bear It fast or far enough. Mind responds to mind All are put Into quick communication, and tue electric thrill completes the circuit. Every step In ADVERTISING Is Intrinsically ns Important as til* reauit. The quality of the fruit depends upon the seed that Is planted, * USE THE HERALD FOR RESULTS. HERALD READERS ARE AO READER* People who live In furnished rooms come to "know the town” better than other people. They move when they see chances to better themselves. The ads. are IMPORTANT to THEM. Qtiiet Restored in Illinois Capital by Over 4,000 Troops Nefsroph o b e s are Still Rampant, How ever. SPRINGFIELD, Ills. With two more dead today as the resull of tho three days and nights of riot and bloodshed. Ihe 4,500 guardsmen who are patrolling the city have, tem porarily at least, put an end to the lynching and rioting, hut the antl negro element, although over awed by tho mill (fin's- bayonets and guns, awaits only the departure of the troops to wage another war against the blacks. Governor Deneen ordered State's Attorney Frank L. Hatch to convene « special grand Jury today to indict fifty rioters who are now prisoners in the county Jail, two of whom are alleged by the police to have madu complete confessions, tolling who the leaders were In the hangings and burning down of the negro homes. Negro fugitives from till* city are being attacked in neighboring coun ties mil at no place are they ba'ug permitted to stop, , Springfield was a closed city Sun day night. Services In churches woro suspended, and the buslnoas housea of all sorts were In darkness. The grand Jury Investigation will he as direct and forceful as a mill itiry court-martial. It is expected l rue hills will be voted with regular ity and precision. The governor In formed the city authorlt.es that tho ensuing prosecutions must he real and vigorous. Private Joseph B. Klein, of Com pany 11., First Infantry, who fatally stabbed Earl Nelson, a boy who at tempted to board the soldiers’ spe cial train, was acquitted by a mili tary tribunal, but later was demand ed by the Kankakee authorities ou warrant. ALL DRUG STORES ORDERED SHUT. (thlel of Police Morris has order ed all drug stores closed until the city has quieted down. This was done because many of them wore selling liquor. This was followed by the closing ot fruit stores and soda fountains. Fifteen saloon kespers wi re arrested for opening ;helr places of Imslnsss. There is not the least doubt in tho mind of any one who knows tho true conditions at this houT, It Is tho fixed determination of a goodly portion of llte white population of Springfield to banish the negro rrotit tho city for i ver. Every man and woman In Spring field who has said anything at all, has said that the negro will never fie again permitted to five In this city In peace. The prejudice against the race Is general and deop-rooted aud very one who has closely watched the progress of events, Is of tho fixed belief that withdrawal of the mill Ila at this time or at any tlnAj In tho near futtiro, will result In tho sliiying of every negro who may dare vonture back Into tho city. It. Is not because of general law lessness that RprN-gfield is now oc cupied by 4,500 soldiers —one soldier to every fifteen of the city’s Inhabi tants—and that more soldiers are on their wuy bare. The Into reason for tho presence of all these troops Is, as Governor Deneen has expressed it, that the aU tltude of the people toward the ne gro has not changed since that first night of horror, and it Is realised by the men in authority that the spirit of vengeance will flume anew juet as soon as the overpowering force ot military rule is lifted. Over awed by the presence of the great body of troops, Ihe largest that hits I teen assembled In an lllonls duty camp since the riots In Chicago In 1H94, the lawless element of the city, white and black, which In Its fury has been responsible for the deaths of live persons since the rioting be gan on Friday night, made no de monstration Hnnday. tenon of death or Imprtaonment was Inflicted, a our! martial would be on. derod and necessarily Captain Hntns being of no further use as a soldier, would pronanly be discharged. There was a feeling of general sym. pathy apparent in army circles this morning for General Peter Cooper Mains, the father of the inan who calmly shot down the nlleged despoil er of his home, at. Flushing. Gen eral Mains Is at, present, stationed at Fort Hancock, N. Y.