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VOLUME XVI.
DALLAS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, im.
AUSTRIAN IMPRESS IS SLAIN.
Without Warning, an Anarchist
Stabs Her With Stiletto.
MURDERER CltPIURED AND SINGS ON THE WAY ID JAIL.
Anarchist Intended to Kill the Dnc d’Orlnans, Bnt the Latter
Could Not Be Found—Crime Occurred In Swltierland,
Where Capital Punishment Is Prohibited.
The empress of Austria was assin-
ated in Geneva, Switzerland, Saturday
afternoon by an anarchist, who was
arrested. He stabbed her majesty
with a stiletto.
Her majesty was walking from her
hotel, the Beanrivage, to the landing
place of the steamer abont 1 o’clock,
when an Italian anarchist suddenly
approached and stabbed her in the
heart.
The empress fell, got up and walk
ed on board the steamer, where she
fell, fainting. The captain did not
wish to put off from the quay, but did
so at the request of the empress and
her suite,.there being no apprehen
sion that she was seriously hurt. The
steapier was turned back before reach
ing the open lake and the impress,
unconscious, was carried back to the
Hotel Beanrivage on a stretcher.
Doctors were immediately summon
ed and a telegram was seut to Emperor
Francis Joseph. All efforts to revive
her majesty were unavailing and she
expired at 3 o’olock. The medicfl ex
amination showed that.the assassin
must have used a small triangular
file.
The wound was just over the left
breast. There was hardly any bleed
ing.
After striking the blow the assassin
ran along the Bne des Alps, but was
seized by two cabmen, who had wit
nessed the crime. They handed him
over to a boatman and a gendarmo,
who conveyed him to the polioe sta
tion.
Prisoner Admits the Crime.
* The prisoner' made no resistance.
He even sang as he walked along, say
ing:
“I did it,” and “She must be
dead.”
At the police station he declared
that he was a “starving anarchist, with
no hatred for the poor, but only for the
rich.”
The assassin, while being interroga
ted by the magistrate, said he visited
Geneva with the intention of killing
the Due d’Orleans, bnt the latter had
already" left.
Lucessi, or Laoeheni, followed the
duke of Evian about, twenty-five miles
northeast of Geneva, where he was
again unsuccessful. He then return
ed to Geneva, and learned from tho
papers of the presence of the Austrian
empress. All day Friday he dogged
her footsteps, bnt found no opportu
nity to carry out his purpose, though
he watched, the hotel Beaurivage all
day.
Saturday afternoon about 1:30, he
■ said, he saw the valet of the empress
leaving the hotel and going toward
the landing. He inferred from this
that the empress wns going to take
the steamboat, and he hid himself
behind a tree on the quay, with the
file concealed in his right sleeve. In
a few minutes the empress, accom
panied by her lady of .honor, appeared
and the assassin struck the file home.
Lycessi confessed that he has been
an anarchist since he was thirteen
years old.
“If all anarchists did their duty as
I have done mine,” he said, “Bour
geois society would soon disappear.”
He admitted that he knew the crime
was useless, but said he committed it
for the “sake of example.”
In spite of minute searching, the
weapon of the murderer has not been
found.
THE NEWS IN VIENNA*
Austrian. Canid Mot at First Heller, tb.
Startling Information.
The news of the assassination became
known in Vienna, Austria, shortly be
fore 6 o’clock Saturday afternoon. It
spread like lightning. The Btreets
were suddenly filled with multitudes
of people, many beooming impassable
for vehicles. Extra editions were is
sued by all the papers. Many Vien
nese considered the report incredible
until the semi-official Wiener Abend
Post appeared, confirming the state
ments of the other papers.
All the papers accompanied the an
nouncement with warm tributes to the
empress. They were eagerly snatched
from the hands of the sellers and were
read aloud to groups of citizens.
When the news had been fully veri
fied an indescribable grief overpowerod
the people. The performances of the
court, theaters and jubilee exhibition
were canceled. Emperor Francis Jo
seph received tho news pt Schoen-
brunn.
ASSASSIN’S LIFE SAFE.
Th« Uwa of Switzerland Forbid Capital
l'unlnhim*ut.
Advices from Berne state that the pres
ident of Switzerland and other mem
bers of the government were stunned
with horror and grief when the news
reached the palace that the empress,
so beloved by all Europeans, had
fallen a victim to an assassin within
the borders of their country.
They immediately arranged to hold
an extraordinary federal council in or
der to consider the measures to take
against the assassin. The latter nftist
be tried according to the statutes of
the canton in which the orima was
committed, which forbids capital pun
ishment and make life imprisonment
the most severe penalty that can be
imposed.
PRESIDENT SEMIS CONDOLENCE.
McKinley Wires Miumnge of Nmpsthy to
Emperor Frnncls Joseph.
The state department received a con
firmation of the reported assassination
of the empress of Austria, from Con
sul Ridgely late Sntnrday afternoon.
. Upon receipt of Colonel Ridgely’s
notification of the death of the em
press, President McKinley sent the
following message of condolence:
“Executive Mansion, Washington,
September 10.—To His Majesty, the
Emperor of Austria, Vienna: I have
henrd with profound regret of tho as
sassination of her majesty, the em
press of Austria, while at Geuova, and
tender to your majesty the deep sym
pathy of the government,and people of
the United States.
“William MoKimlui.”
ASSASSIN KNOWN IN FRANCE.
Anarchists Met and Agreed to Exterminate
, Leading European Sovereigns.
President Faure of France sont a
telegram of condolence to Emperor
Francis Joseph immediately upon re
ceipt of nows of tho assassination.
The Paris police believe the murder
the result of a plot of Italian anar
chists, and thnt the assassin is identi
cal with ono Lucccssi, who is wanted
by the Bologna police as a dangerous
anarchist. Tho man known asLuccessi
was implicated in the recent troubles
at Milan, after which ho fled to Zu
rich.
FATAL GASOLINE EXPLOSION.
Four Killed Outright aftd a Dozen More
Will Probably Die.
By the explosion of forty gallons of
gasoline in the cellar of a grocery
Btore in Philadelphia Saturday night
four and possibly a dozen more lives
were lost.
As an immediate consequence of the
explosion, the building where it oc
curred and those adjoining it on either
side collapsed.
Shortly after the occurrence, four
bodies had been recovered from the
rains and three of these identified.
The fourth was that of a girl about ten
years old. The cause of the explosion
is unknown.
WAR COMMISSION NAMED.
General Gordon Declines to Serve Owing
to Bad lfoalth.
The president urged the following
named gentlemen, among others, to
accept places on the committee re
quested by Secretary Alger to investi
gate the conduct of the war:
Generals John W. Schofield, John
B. Gordon and Cranfleld M. Dodge;
President D. C. Gilman, Charles F.
Manderson, Hon. Robert T. Lincoln,
Hon. Daniel 8. Lamont, Dr. W. W.
Keen and Colonel James A. Sexton.
General John B. Gordon has wired
the president that he cannot, on ac
count of unstable health, accept a po
sition on the committee.
GOLD ADVOCATES MEET. .
Distinguished Adherents or Slngls Stand
ard la Session .t Omaha Exposition.
One of the most distinguished gath
erings of financial students that over
assembled opened a three days’ session
of the monetary conference in the
Nebraska building, exposition grounds,
at Omaha, Tuesday, Hon. J. Sterling
Morton presiding.
Horaoo White, of New York; Edward
Atkinson,Congressman Fowler, of New
Jersey; Editor P. H. Robinson, of The
Railway Age; Lonis R. Ehrich, of Col
orado Spriugs; former Senator Carey,
of Wyoming, and Governor Leslie H.
Shaw, of Iowa, take part in the pro
gramme.
Messrs. Warner, Towne, Bartiue,
Weaver, Reynolds and other leaders
of the silver and paper money Bides,
took part in the joint debate during
the day.
Shortly after 10 o’clock Mr. Morton
called the convention to order without
any unusual formality beyond a few
words of explanation and weloome.
Editor Ho'ace White, of The New
York Evening Tost, opened the con
ference proper with a paper on "The
History of the Gold Standard."
AUSTRIANS WROUGHT UP.
Italians Are ItonglUy Treated By Cm-
press' Infuriated Suhjeots.
Special dispatobes reaching London
from Vienna say the entire Austrian-
H tngarian empire is unfurintod
against the Italians as a result of the
assassination of the Empress Eliza
beth and that violent anti-Italiau
demonstrations have taken plaoe at
Trieste, where Italians and natives
have been fighting in the streets with
stick and stones, sometimes using re
volvers. Six deaths are reported to
have occurred there, and the troops
wore called out to suppress the dis
turbances.
At Gratz an Italian peddler has been
lynched, and at Vienna fully fifteen
hundred Italians employed on the
municipal works have been summarily
dismissed in oFder to avert a popular
revolt. The Italian embassy at Vienna
is guarded by a strong bpdy of infan
try.
DEPUTIES ADOPT" PROPOSITION
And the Peace Protocol In Now an Accom
plished Fact.
A Madrid special says: The peace
protocol with the United States is now
an accomplished fact.
Having adopted the protocol Mon
day, the chamber of deputies com
pleted the work Tuesday by giving
that measure nn affirmative voto of
151, with 48 against.
During the session of the seuate
Tuesday Count Almenas, referring to
his previons statement giving tho
names of the generals who, he recent
ly said, ought to have their sashes tied
around their necks instead of around
their waists, naming Weyler, Blauco
and I’rimo de Rivera, after which he
also included Admiral Cervera in the
Oitegory, said General Linares was
also incompetent and ought to be ar
raigned.
EXTORTS AND IMPORTS
For the Month of August Show Decrease
From I.sat Year.
The mouthly statement of the im
ports and exports of the United States
for August shows the imports of mer
chandise to have aggregated $49,178,-
444, a doorcase compared with August,
1897, of ahqut 89,500,000.
The August exports of domestic mer
chandise amounted to $83,202,478, an
increase of nearly $4,000,000. Th”o
imports of gold amounted to $6,822,-
027, and the exports, $1,055,908. Tho
silver imports were $3,845,010 and
the exports $4,898,478.
THE MAINE ELECTION.
ilepublicnn Plurality I» Itailucnil— Ilend’H
Plurality About 4,000.
Full returns from Tuesday’s election
in Maine are not yet in, but the indi
cations nro that the republican major
ity is reduced 33 per cent, and that the
democrats have gained considerably.
Governor Powers’ plurality will be
about 25,000, wherens two years ago
his plurality was 48,000.
Speaker Reed iH ro-electod for con
gress in the First district, but it is be
lieved that his plurality will fall 2,000
below that given him two years ago.
His plurality then was 6,000.
UNITED AMERICAN MECHANICS
Hold Their Fifty-Third Annual Convention
In the City of Cleveland.
The fifty-third annual convention of
the Order of United American Mechan
ics was called to order at Cleveland,
O., Tuesdny morning with National
Councillor Ora D. Goff, .of Rbodo
Island, presiding. Mayor Robert E.
McKisson, of Cleveland, delivered nn
address of welcome, to which National
Councillor Goff responded. The con
vention then went into executive ses
sion.
SMOKELESS POWDER CONTRACT
Awarded Dy Government to California
and Dupont Powder Companies.
The contract for supplying the navy
department with smokeless powder has
been awarded to the California Pow
der company and the Dupont Powder
company, each to supply 500,000
pounds. The contract price is 80
cents per pound. I
SUA CABINET MED.
SENOR CAN ALE JAN MAKES SOME
SENSATIONAL CHARGES.
SAYS PREMIER IS ONLY FOR SELF.
Oama, Hlaltlw of Woo, and Aonon,
Mlnl.ter of Mortoo, Merell.i.ly As
tochoil For Tholr liwgoctty.
A Madrid special says: In the cham
ber of deputies Friday Senor Canale*
jas, in the couree of a long speech of
violent and unmeasured abuse, de
nouncing the government collectively
and individually for its conduct dar
ing the war and now in the peace ne
gotiations.
He produced a sensation by assert
ing that when Admiral Cervera aaked
for instructions of war, the minister
for the oolonies replied to him: “May
God help you. ”
Benor Canalejas accused Senor Sa-
gasta of continuing himself dictator
merely to ( satisfylng hi* personal am
bitions; and he attache 1 Lieutenant
General Correa, minister of war, and
Captain Aunon, minister ef marine,
mercilessly for their incapacity.
The following statement hns been
made by an important Spanish official:
‘(Senor Silvela—tho leader of a sec
tion of the couaorvarivo party—refuses
the governmeut tho support of his
party, although he 1b fully aware of
the situation. He is doubtless prompt
ed by the desire to obtain powor. Wo
will do all in onr power to realize his
desire with short delay. The country
will then Bee how eoon the man, who
is now posing as a liborsl, will be
transformed into a despotic dictator.”
General Folavieja has handed a copy
of his manifesto to the newspaper
men, bnt the censor also forbids its
transmission by telegraph.
The Liberal (newspaper) again makes
the essertion that Premier Sagasta will
resign as soon as the chamber adopts
the peace bill. *
The government's severe measures
to prevent reports of tho secret ses
sions of the cortes are nullified by the
sensational deputies of the opposition,
who are eager to inform tho foreign
correspondents as to what goes on.
Thursday’s session of the chamber
ended with Senor Hilvela attacking
the government and exclaiming:
“The Sagasta ministry is a corpse,
and we do not discuss corpses. We
bury them.” ,
Senor Canalejas, who is e lieutenant
of Polavieja’a new party, urged an in
quiry into the sources of the charges
against the army and navy. The de
bate apparently weakened the govern
ment.
It is reported that et tho cabinet
council Seitor Sagasta told his col
leagues thnt they must be prepared
for the fall of the cabinet.
Genera) lllanoo haa appealed to tho
government for funds, ropresunting
that the situation in Cuba ia distress
ing.
Senor Romero Giro, minister for
the colonies, has asked the treasury
for 100,000,000 pesetas. . In roply ho
received 30,000,000.
The Bank of Spain nominally holds
1,000,000,000 pesetas in international
fours, but the sums supplied to the
government on this guarantee are al
ready exhausted.
The government recently forwarded
to M.Cambon, the French ambassador
at Washington, a long and strongly
worded statement respecting tho Phil
ippines, which he will communicate
verbally to the Washington govern
ment. ,
Spain protests against the capitula
tion of Manila because it was.effected
two days after the protocol was sign
ed. It says that the revenue from the
Manila customs may continue dovoted
to tho qorvice of tho Philippine loan of
1897, and finally, it insists upon tho
United States compelling Aguinaldo to
liberate a thousand Spaniards now in
his custody, most of whom wore placed
there, the note asBerts, by Admiral
Dewey.
The Philippine questiou came up,
but without final determination went
over to tho next cabinet meeting. At
that time tho American case will be
propared in the rough, and it is in
tended that thoro shall be a full at
tendance for a full discussion.
TO ESCAPE WHITECAPS.
Texarkana, Ark., is in a state of
alarm over the large number of idlo
negroes who.tbrong the town, and the
citizens are organizing vigilance com
mittees for the protection of their
property.
The unusual influx of the colored
people is due to the operations if
bands of whitecans in Titus, Cass, Red
River, Hopkins and other counties in
the cotton districts of North Texas,
whence thousands of negroes have
(led on account of notices being posted,
and iu some cases violence being used
to ran them out.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS
For Disposition of tho Body of Dead
Kmpress At# Published.
A oable dispatch from Vienna states
that the arrangemeute for the funeral
servioaa over the body of the Empress
Eliiabeth were published Tuesday
evening. The body will lie in state in
the Hof ban during Friday evening, and
the forenoou of Saturday, the inter
ment to taka plaoe at Cattn church at
4 o'olqpk Saturday afternoon.
Enfperor William notified the Ger
man embassy at Geneva that he would
attend the funeral.
The kings of Saxony, Servia and
Rouraanin, with an immense aud nota
ble assemblage, will attend the funeral.
The Empress, it is reported, left a
will bequeathing her jewels, valued at
$2,500,000 to charities. The coffin
has been dosed and nobody, not even
Emperor Frands Joseph, will see the
face again.
The body was finally enveloped in a
black faille dress, the hair arranged
with a diadem over the forehead and
the hands folded lightly together,
holding a cross and rosary. White
roses form a garland around tha whole
body, concealing the white satin lin
ing of the triple coffin.
It ia asserted that Luoohoni, the as
sassin of the empress, being a foreigner
may be extradited to Anatria.
GENERAL SHAFTER’S REPORT
FEVER AT JACKSON.
Of the Santiago Campaign Submitted In
War Department.
General Shatter submitted to the
war department Tuesdny his report on
the Santiago campaign, covering not
only the battle of Santiago, but the
entire progress of tho military invasion
of Cuba."
The general, accompanied by his
aide, Captain Miley, visited thp de
partment during the afternoon and in
person handed the report to Adjutant
General Corbin. He had also with him
two Cuban matehetes to be presented
to Mrs. Alger as momentoea of the
campaign.
The report is a voluminous docu
ment, covering with the supplementa
ry report of division commanders
about 200 typewritten pages. Of this
General Shatter’s report forms about
half. After submitting the report
General Shatter conferred for some
time with Acting Secretary Meiklojohu
and General Corbin.
It was stated afterwards that the re
port would not be made pnblio for the
present; the desire hoing to plaoe it
first In the hands of the president and
Secretary Alger and allow sufficient
time for a mature oonsidoration of its
contents. After that there is little
doubt the material portions and per
haps the eutire report will be made
public. It ropeata a story pretty well
known, although there is much inter
est in the view whioh tho commanding
general takes of several features of the
campaign.
CRISIS IN FRENCH CABINET.
Ons Call) Appears la Mississippi Capital
and Caasss Kxclteinent.
Saturday ’ afternoon tho board of
health of Jackson, Miss., made the
official auhonnoemeut that one case of
genniuo yellow fevor existed in the
city.
Exoitement rose to fevor heat in the
town, aud large nnmhors of people
began leaving.
A telegram from Dr. Souohou, presi
dent of the Louisiana state board of
health, gives the following as the
status of the yollow fever epidemio of
this your:
Franklin—Total cases, 16; deaths,
2; under treatment, 14. All doing well.
“Taylors—Total cases, 23; deaths,2.
“Orwood—Total Cases,84 ;uo deaths.
"Waterford—Total cases, 1."
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Feu re's Ministers Cannot Agree Regard
ing the Drejfne Caee.
The Rappel and The Matin, Paris
newspapers, say that at Tuesday's cabi
net council the minister for war, Gen
eral Zurlinden, explained his reasons
for opposing a revision of the Dreyfus
case.
The premier, M. Brisson, and the
minister of education, M. Bourgeois,
these paporB add, urged Genera) Zur
linden to change bis determination,
hut President Fatire sided .with the
minister for war. An excited discus
sion followed aud the council was ad
journed until tho afternoon, when
calmness was restored. M. Bourgeois
then pointed out the consequences of
tho crisis aud further discussion of
the mntter was adjourned until Satur
day next.
The Paris newspapers are unanimous
in tho opinion that tho situation is
serious. They say that temporizing
will only delay the decision, which, if
favorable to a rovision of the case, will
cause the resignation of General
Zurlinden, and which, if hostile, will
lead to a withdrawal from the cabinet
of N. Brisson and result in a general
crisis. *
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ITALIANS LEAVING AUSTRIA.
Serious Demount rations Are Being Watch
ed Hy Humbert's Onvornmont.
The anti-Italian demonstrations iu
Austria have made a deep impression
at Home. The newspapers urge the
government to see that Italians are
protected from unjustifiable attacks.
Numbers of Italian workmen are re
turning to Italy, owing to threats of
tlio Austrians.
RAV MAKES PROMOTIONS.
A Khake-Up In Third Iteglment of Im
mune* In ftnntlMgo.
Colonel Ray, commander of the
Third Unitod States regiment of im-
munes,‘now garrisoned at Santiago,
uiiuotiuced a number of promotions
Tuesday. Tho new officers made are
all Atlantiaus, and are well known
there.
Captain Ed Wilson was made a ma
jor of the Third battalion; Lieutenant
Bruce McBride was made a captain;-
Sergeants Brooks, Clarke and Josh
Johnson were made lieutenants.
Tho promotions are made to fill va
cancies that have been caused by other
officers leaving the regiment.
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