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THE NEWS AND FARMER.
J. W. WHITE, Editor and Proprietor.
VOLUME XXVI.
POWERS AND HOWARD
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Freed at Last—Were Accused of
Murdering William Gobel.
END OF THEJMiBOS CASE
Great Excitement Prevails When News
is Announced—Ex-Governor Taylor
t Makes Statement.
F Lexington, Ky.—Caleb Powers and
James Howard, charged with forming
and carrying out a plot which result
ed in the assassination o£ Senator
Wi iam Goebel in 1900, were given full
and free pardons by Governor Will
son and will be immediately released.
They have been confined in prison
for more than eight years,
Powers is now in jail in Georgetown,
while Howard is in the penitentiary at
Frankfort, serving a life . sentence.
Powers will go back to his old home
in Knox county, where his mother has
fitted up the old place for his coming.
This home was mortgaged eany dur
ing Powers fight for freedom by hie
mother, who did all she could to help
her son.
Howard will go to Louisville and
join his family, and will become an
evangelist in prison work. Governor
Willson aflixed his official signature to
the pardons after an exhaustive study
of the cases and a review of the testi
mony. He tvas aided by arguments of
attorneys both for and against Pow
ers and Howard, as well as by reading
the entire transcripts of the testi
mony, covering four trials of Powers
and one of Howard.
Mlcfs of the most important testi-
Brony with him to Washington when
he wont to attend the conference of
governors, in order to discuss various
points with other governors. He has
been steadily working on the records
since he returned.
Remarkable scenes were witnessed
here, at Frankfort, Georgetown, Bar
bourville and other points when news
of the pardons came. Men grasped
each other's hands and wrung them
fervently a* thc-y almost sobbed out
the news.
Women wept opently on the streets
when news of the pardons was flashed
through the country. In Frankfort
and Georgetown, where the men are
confined, crowds of friends were
standing in the corridors of the jail
and penitentiary waiting for even one
hand-clasp or look from the men who
have suffered so long.
Both men were almost too overcome
with emotion to talk. Powers said: "I
am glad to have my freedom, but
bvould rather have an acquittal by
■he courts. I am not guilty and 1
moped that I' would be vindicated.”
This marks the end of one of the
most noted cases over tried in Am
erica.
MIDGETS ARE WEDDED.
Couple, Eludes Girl’s Mother who Bit
terly Opposed Match.
Richmond, Va. —James Burnett, of
*-{&iStol, the smallest Odd Fellow in
AmericaTa.ul thS 1 --smallest man in the
employ of the federkf government, re
cently eloped from Baldwin, ,Ml:i,
with Lou Nabors, said to be the small;
est female midget in the south, weigh
ing less than sixty pounds. The cou
ple were married in Marietta, Miss.,
after eluding the girl’s mother, who
was bitterly opposed to the match.
There is a pretty element of ro
mance attached to the marriage, the
little people having formed an ac
quaintance growing trdm a correspou
dtnce -suggested hy" the picture of her
future husband-failing into the girl’s
hands.
is one of a trio of midgets,
being a brother and sister oven
smaller than himself. The boys are
Evell Vaown business men in their cont
■nunities, having amased a small for-
Btne each.
NO CUT Ini SALARIES.
fcient Finally Reached on the
Hlippine Appropriation Bill.
P. I. —After many extended
latently hopeless conferences
and the Philip
)l y have finally arrive and at
jjipAto upon tile general appro
|H|Kvhich, it is believed, both
and the assembly will
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concession of nearly
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LATE NEWS NOTES.
General.
Herman Billik, the Bohemian for
tune teller of Chicago condemned to
death for the murder of five members
of the Vzral family, was granted a
stay of execution until he has been af
forded an opportunity to appeal his
case to the supreme court of the Unit
ed States.
New York Central and Hudson rail
road company declared the regular
puarterly dividend of 1 1-4 per cent.
The directors of the Western Union
Telegraph company declared a quar
terly dividend of 1-2 of 1 per cent,
payable in cash. The dividend for the
last quarter was at the rate of 5 per
cent per annum, payable in stock.
The grand jury at San Francisco is
considering 250 charges of rebating
brought against the Southern Pacific
by the interstate commerce commis
sion. The charges are based on re
cent shipments, and there is much un
easiness lest the shippers be indicted
with the road. The government is
preparing a vigorous camjaign against
rebaters.
In a spectacular fire which destroy
ed the great grain elevator at Ham
mond, Ind., 250,000 bushels of corn
were destroyed and property valued at
$200,000, including the corn, was
burned.
It Is claimed that President Walk
er, of the California Safe and Trust
company of Los Angeles, which fail
ed some time ago, was a firm believer
in spiritualism and before investing
any of the banks funds he would con
sult a medium, whom had been pre
viously posted by Walker J. Bartnett.
In this way Bartnett secured large
amounts of the bank’s money.
The crops of 1908 will be worth
nearly $8,000,000,000, according to fig
ures prepared by the department of
agriculture officials.
The North Carolina Cotton Manu
facturers' association closed its sec
ond annual meeting at Wrightsville
Beach, N. C., after having adopted a
resolution to the effect that the pres
ent policlies of curtailment of produc
tive by closing down of mills will con
tATaa to September Ist.
Hurt in a bargain sale crush in the
store of F. W. Woolworth & Cos., Miss
Helen E. Crosby sued and has been
awarded $2,000 damages. The defend
ant agreed to the amount before the
verdict was rendered. Mies Crosby
in the holiday season of 1906 was
crowded against a window at the en
trance to the store and cut by glass.
A prize of $4,000 has been offered
by M. Armengaud of Paris for the first
aeroplanist who remains in the air for
thirty minutes.
Because Mrs. Dan Sully, wife of the
former cotton king, returned to her
country home unexpectedly she saved
the house from being robbed of jewel
ry and silverware worth almost SIOO,-
600 by a servant whom she discovered
packing up the valuables • . The wo
man was arrseted.
The announcement is made that the
United States Steel Corporation has
decided to start all its mills in tho
Pittsburg district July 1. Ordei-3
now on the books or about to be clos
ed make it necessary to start at that
time to keep up with the demand.
This will mean the employment of
many thousands of men who have
been idle nearly all winter and spring.
While digging fish bait at Dunlap,
Term., Anderson McWilliams, a small
boy, dug up a box containing $540 in
Silver. From appearances it must
have been buried many years.
Governor Johnson of Minnesota, in
a written statement, which he gave
out for publication, says that he will
not .be a candidate for renomination
for governor of Minnesota for a third
term. He also says that if nominated
he will not accept, as he is opposed to
the third term idea.
Appealed to late at night by a
young woman whom he did not know,
for protection from Harry Hannon, a
well known young man of South Nor
folk, Va., Joe Rosa, an ex-con federate
soldier, emptied both barrels of a shot
into Harmon’s breast, killing him in
stantly.
It is not considrred likely here that
motions of the Standard Oil Company
for a now trial, when argued on July
7, will be granted, but that sentence
will be Imposed. Standard Oil faces
a possible SBOO,OOO fine for rebating.
Washington.
Representative A. A. Wiley of Ala
bama, who has been ill for twelve
weeks -with inflammatory rheumatism,
and who is now at Hot Springs, Va.,
is reported to have suffered a relapse
and the change has caused consider
able anxiety.
Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, has
arrived in New York from Washing
ton.. He was accompanied by his
daughter. He will leave for Lake Mo
honk, where he will stay several
weeks. Admiral Evans still walks on
crutches, but said he hoped lo be en
tirely well in a short time.
The government plans to construct
a fleet of swift cutters for a campaign
against smuggling in the Philippine
Islands where an extensive illicit traf
fic in opium and various dutiable
goods is carried on. Hundreds of craft
are engaged in the trade, which has
been carried on for ages practically
unchecked.
Congressman Charles E . Dun well,
aged 46, of the Third New York dis
trict died at his Brooklyn home.
Young Quentin Roosevelt tagged ail
visitors to the white house because it
was “Tag Day” in Washington for the
benefit of the Children's Play Ground
association. He tagged 198 persons,
Including the members o the different
fcg-eign embassies and -father’s
cabinet. , "
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Hill, chairman of the board
ojXSreat Northern railroad, conferred
with the president and stated that he
was going on his vacation, and had
taken his leave of Mr. Roosevelt. He
did not care to discuss either politics
or finance, hut when the president’s
policy toward corporations was made
l subject of inquiry as bearing on the
future of the railroads, he disavowed
any special knowledge, hut vigorously
nsisted that any corporation found
delating the law should be prosecuted
o the utmost.
,A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MATERIAL AND INTELLECTUAL ADVANCEMENT OF THE COUNTY.
ON ROOFS OF HOMES
Score 8 are Camping— Flood is
Cause of Fearful Suffering.
2,300 PERSONS DESTITUTE
Privation and Exposure Make Sufferers
Easy Victims cf the Swamp Fever-
Levees Brake at Marksville, La.
New Orleans, La. —Scores of persons
are camping on the roofs of their
houses, and descriptions of improvised
floating barnyards were among the
striking features of a disastrous flood
of the Black river in northeastern Lou
isiana. About 2,300 have been either
driven from their homes or else coop
ed up to them by an overflow which
started weeks ago and has been re
lentlessly rising ever since.
Around Jonesville, in this district,
there are miles of land where there
is from G to 10 feet of water on the
fields. In these sections people are
living in the second stories of their
houses. In several cases they are
camping on the roofs of cottages. Only
the top s of corn crops are seen above
the floods.
Hoping that there would be a fall,
people built rafts of drift logs, planked
them on the upper surface, and are
keeping their stock penned on these.
The animals are kept alive with brush
and willow leaves, brought to them
by their owners.
There are fully 2,300 men, women
and children who are suffering and
fully half that number are in abso
luttly destitute circumstances. They
have not even food to eat to last them
a week. The poorer white and colored
families are in a pitiable condition.
The swamp fever, which is common in 1
that section, aided by privation and ex
posure, has begun one of its most act
ive campaigns.
Marksville, La.—Red river levees
broke in two places below Moncla on-
Monday. The worst break is about 800-
feet wide, with the water flowing!
through at depths ranging from 16 to'
20 feet. Both breaks are on the left,
descending bank. The Moncla break.;!
are within about 30 miles of the Mis
sissippi river, into which the Red emp
ties.
$1,009,000 INVOLVED.
Tract 20 Miles in Length and Eight
Miles Wide in Dispute.
Asheville, N. C. —Claiming title to a
tract of land containing 78,000 acres in
Swain county, for which tney obtained
a deed on a bid of SIOO at an execution
sale conducted by Deputy United
States Marshal Ramsey, at Bryson
City, E. C. Coffin of Bryson City and
Samuel White of Maysville, Ky., are
now resisting an injunction suit filed
against them in the United States cir
cuit court here by the Harris-Wood
bury Lumber company.
Some idea of the area of this tract
of land, claimed in return for the in
significant sum of SIOO, may be ob
tained from the statement in the bill!
filed by the plaintiffs, which states
that tire tract is twenty miles in length
and from eight to fifteen miles in
width, and an idea of the true value
of this land may be gotten from the
allegation that at a forced sale on
September 1, 1906, the tract wtas pur
chased by the Harris-Wotodbury
Lumber company for $449*024.05,
and it is now estimated to be worth
over a million dollars.
UNCLE SAM LOSES SIOO,OOO.
Registered Mail Pouch From Los An
geles to New York Missing.
Los Angeles, Cal.—-Reluctant admis
sions made by postal officers of three
cities, confirm to some extent the be
lief that the disappearance of a regis
tered mail pouch somewhere within
the jurisdiction of the Kansas City
postoffice, will prove to he one of the
largest losses in the history of the
postoffice department. J?rom private
sources it was learned that a package
of at least $50,000 in currency was
among the contents of the pouch,
which carried, in addition, an unusual
large number of letters and packages
containing money and other valuables.
The amount may reach a total of
SIOO,OOO.
There is reason to believe that the
$50,000 package of currency was a
shipment made by a Los Angeles
hank to its New York correspondent.
A BAD CARGO.
*
Four Tons of Snakes Shipped From
Texas Farm.
Austin, Texas, —Four tons of livo
rattlesnakes, with their poisonous
fangs extracted!* have been shipped
from the snake farm of F. B. Arm
strong, near here, for nautral muse
ums, circuses, menageries and side
shows in the east and north.
A LONG SENTENCE.
Thirty Years Sentence—The Maximum
for Black Hand.
New Orleans, La. —In the first city
criminal court here Alberta Pumelia,
an Italian, was sentenced to serve
thirty years time at hard labor
in the state penitentiary. Pumelia sent
"Black Hand” letters to A. Griffignadi,
an Italian merchant, and when his de
mands for money met with no reply
he threw a dynamite bomb against
Griffignadi’s hqjisg. which was partial- j
h--''wrecked. lfi passing sentence,
Judge Baker told Pumelia that he re
gretted the fact he could not make the
punishment more severe.
TO MAKE PEOPLE HAPPY.
Man to Give Away $10,000,000, Which
He Inherited.
Los Angeles, Cal—C. W. Averill of
this city who recently inherited $lO,-
000,000 from an aunt in Massachusetts,
declares he is going to make 20,000 or
more people happy.
After a visit to his old home in Far
mington, Maine, he will establish head
quarters in a big city, perhaps Chica
go, where he says all who need help,
and deserve it, can find it.
LOUISVILLE, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 18. 1908.
CONSUMERS’ LICENSE.
New Solution of the Liquor Troblem in
State of Washington.
Spokane, Wash.—Compel every man
and woman who drinks intoxicating li
quors to pay a license fee. exempt sa
loonmen and permit any one who de
sires to engage in the traffic, the sole
restriction being to sell only to li
cense-holders. This is the solution
Mr. E. E. Hall will offer the state leg
islature if elected to 'that body. Out
ling his plan Mr. Hall says: "My plan
would be to abolisfi all saloon licenses,
permitting any man desiring to do so
to sell liquor. If a man wants to drink
he should be compelled to take out a
license to do so, and it should be a
misdemeanor for any person to sell to
a man who does not have such a li
cense. Such licenses should be issued
by county and city, a. reasonable fee
being about $5 a yefer for county li
censes, and from $1 to $3 a year for
city. This would biing in a larger
revenue than under the present license
system, and would but the burden
where it belongs.
‘“Each license thus issued should
have attached thereto: a photograph of
the person taking it oat, so there could
be no using of the license except by
this man. It should also contain a pro
vision that a convicflon for drunken
ness at any time wdulU be punished by
a revocation of the license tor a peri
od of six months o ra year. This ap
pears to be the logical solution of the
liquor question in districts where sa
loons are not barred by local option.”
withstood The test.
Big Whitehead Toiupedo Fails to Sink
the Monitor Florida.
Norfolk, Va. —Braying the dangers
of possible injury, h score of naval
official remained opr board no monii.or
Florida when that -vessel was torpe
doed off Sewall’s Point, in Hampton
Roads.
Sending an immense column of wa
ter 5u feet in the air, the torpedo care
fully aimed by Lieutenant John V.
Babcock, commanding the torpedo
boat Morris, exploded with terrific
foice against the Florida's side. The
Florida, although her bulkheads were
not pj.-rccd, settled gradually.
Sue was towed back to the Norfolk
navy yard, where she will be placed in
dry dock. It is expected she will be
pumped dry immediately. A careful
inspection will then be made to deter
mine the exact extent of the damage
idone.
Never has a more spectacular sight
'been seen in Hampton Roads,
i With cool heroism - the party on
board the Florida gos under cover in
the rear cabin and awaited the shot.
There was a moment of appalling sc
ience w r hen the Florlde wigwag signal
led all ready. 1
- One second of suspension, then
iChief Gunner’s Mate Charles T. Bald
,win pulled the trigger. With a bub
bling wake of white that showed
clearly Us progress, the torpedo sped
(Straight to the Florida’s hull. There
Iwas a deep intonation and a cloud of
water, mist and smoke rose skyward.
For a moment the Florida wa3 hidden.
Pieces of her hull, chips and bits of
torpedo rained down for several min
utes covering an area.'of 1,000 yards.
The Floida settled slowly. The water
was discolored and the air had an am
monitea smell. In a few minutes the
test was over and the official party
scattered.
CHARGED WITH FORGERY.
Alleged that Florida Man Forged
Southern Railway Pass.
Washington, D. C.—John C. Dalton,
said to be captain in the Florida state
mu itia, was arrested here upon com
plaint of Southern railway officials,
who charge that Captain Dalton forg
ed a pass and used it on the railway.
Dalton was employed as a clerk by the
Jacksonville Terminal company, and
it is cnarged obtamed possession of a
blank pass; after inserting the name of
J. B. Smith and wife, forged the nama
of an official of the road to the pass.
Dalton and wife were arrested as they
got off a Southern train here from
Jacksonville. Both are detained at
the police station. In addition to the
charge of forgery, it is alleged by rail
way officials that Dalton has violated
the interstate commerce law.
SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS.
Labor Paper Editor Gets Queer Ruling
on Libel.
San Juan, P. R. —Julian Ay bar, the
editor of a labor paper here, was
sentenced to two years’ penal servi
tude on two counts of liboi consisting
of an attack made upon a judge. The
article-did not mention the judge by
name, file town in which he lived or
the court over which he presided.
The judge, however, identified himself
as the person against whom the attack
was intended and his contention was
upheld by the supreme court.
CADETS REINSTATED.
Students Expelled from Ciemson Col
lege for April Fool Pranks Heard.
Ciemson College, S. C.—lt has be
come generally known, though not of
ficially announced, that the discipline
committee of the faculty of Ciemson
College which dismissed about three
hundred cadets of the junior, sopho
more, freshman and preparatory class
es hps .been during the past two or
three weeks- considering the applica
tions of many of the dismissed ca
dets for reinstatment, and that some
of these iriaking application are being
re-admitted under certain conditions.
So far about one hundred have applied
for ’ re-a.dmisslon and many" of them
have had t,heir applicatlops granted.
AIDING REVOLUTIONISTS.
Guns for Cubans Seized By United
States Officials
New York City.—Special agents of the
treasury department are searching for
persons in New York who have been
co-operating with the Cuban revolu
tionary party and who shipped to San
tiago the 10,000 rounds of ammuni
tion seized by secret service men on
the Ward liner Seguranca as the ship
was preparing to sail.
STRINGENT LAW PASSED
Regulating Saloons in Louisiana.
Prohibition Loses Fight.
LAW IS FOR A HiiiH LICENSE
Ur.der tile Law Dives Will lie Forced
Out of Existence and the State and
City Revenue increased.
Baton Rouge, La.—-Louisiana will
not become a prohibition state during
the term of ihe present assembly.
This was decided by the home of
representatives, when that body, by
a vote of 58 to 47, indefinitely post
poned consideration of the Doussan
bill providing for a referendum vote
on state-wide -prohibition.
The action of .tie house means com
plete defeat for the Doussan hill in
both branches of the assembly.
The Shattuck high license bill, mak
ing the minimum local license SSOO
and the minimum state license S2OO,
was passed by the house, 82 to 25. The
effect of this bill will be to increase
the state revenues between $250,000
and $300,000 annually.
The Shattuck bill is practically cer
tain to be passed by the senate. Among
its most stringent provisions arc the
following:
No license shall be issued to a
woman.
No woman, girl or mirrors shall be
permitted to drink in saloons, -not even
to special rooms set apart for them.
Women are not permitted to serve
as barmaids.
Liquor shall not be sold to whites
and blacks in tile same building.
No brewer or distiller engaged in
the wholesale distribution of liquor
shall be interested financially in any
saloon for retailing liquor.
Planes and -musical instruments of
all descriptions and all gambling
games are barred.
City councils are given power to
revoke any license i-n uieir discretion.
A license cannot be obtained for a
saloon within 300 feet of a church or
schools.
Penalties are provided for breaking
these laws, ranging from permanent
loss of license to heavy fines and im
prisonment.
The prohibition fight in Louisiana
has been devoid of the popular cru
sade features participated ia by wom
en and children, which have occurred
recently in other states.
SUMMARY OF COTTON CROP.
Much Cotton Destroyed by Floods in
Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas.
Memphis, Tenn. —The. . Commejgial-
Appeal’s crop summary is as follows:
The rainfall for the past ten days
in the central and western states of
the cotton belt has been above the nor
mal, but nevertheless, with exceptions
hereinafter nottd, the cotton plant has
made rapid growth and is now thrifty
and in a fair state of cultivation. In
the eastern states the rainfall has been
light to moderate, the cultivation is
well advanced, and the crop is very
promising. It is not large as a rule,
but seems very healthy.
In Oklahoma, western Arkansas and
the northern tier of Texts, counties
only the rainfall has been excessive
and prolonged. The crop there is bad
ly in need of cultivation, is not well
grown, and the bottom lands have
been inundated, and much of the cot
ton destroyed. The water in many bot
toms Is sti4l on the lands and they
will be lost to cotton. Where they
have receded at this date the farmers
are rushing work of replanting.
Otherwise stands are everywhere
good, in marked contrast with last
year. The crop in southern Texas is
well advanced, and the plants arc
heavily fruited. The fields district in
Tennessee, northern Mississippi and
northern Alabama are in many places
grassy.
AUTO RUNS WILD.
Four Drowned by Machine Bounding
Into North River.
New York City.—Four persons were
drowned when an automobile carrying
a pleasure party of six became unman
ageable, shot' at wild speed down
West Fifty-sixth street, and bounded
from an open pier into the North riv
er. The machine turned over in its
plunge from the pier, holding the four
victims fast in their seats. The dead
are: Adeline Berdon, aged 19 years.
Mrs. Rose Coleman, aged 23 years.
John Coleman, aged 27 years. Vir
ginia Knight, aged 8 years.
John Bauer, the chauffeur, was car
ried into the river with the machine,
but managed to free himself and swim
to safety. John Nolan, one of the
party, jumped from the runaway ma
chine as it neared the end of the
dock. Bauer was taken into custody
by the police.
SHOTS AT EDITOI dOSTLY.
Ex-Police Inspector of New Orleans
Gets Three Months and SIOO Fine.
New la. —In the first city
criminal court former Police Inspec
tor Edward S. Whitaker was sen
tenced to three months in the parish
prison and fined one hundred dollars,
or two months’ addition imprisonment,
for murderous assault. Resenting at
tacks of bin in the editorial columns
of a newspaper, Whitaker, while in
spector of police, entered a newspaper
building several months ago with de
tectives and fired two shots at the ed
itor, Joseph Leque. Whitaker re
signed his office shortly after the
shooting.
A DIFFICULT OPERATION.
With Heart Sewed Up, Negress May
Get Well.
New York City.—Susan Grace, a ne
gro woman, is in Roosevelt hospital
with her heart beating in good time, in
spite of the fact that the surgeons
have sewed it up. The hospital doc
tors say she has a good chance to re
cover. The woman was brought into
the hospital last night with three bad
stab wound3 which she had received
in a fight with another woman.
HUGHES WINS HIS FIGHT.
Succeeds in Making Betting on Race* a
Crime in New York.
Albany, N. Y.—After a struggle, the
precise like of which no man in or
about the legislature has ever seen,
the famous Agnes-Hart race track
gambling hills are now laws of the
state of Now York. Governor Hugh s,
by his signature affixed to each of the
bills crowned a legislative victory, the
brilliancy of which, equaled only by its
unexpectedness, is conceded even by
those who fought him in the matter to
the last ditch.
The decisive votes, which passed the
bills, were cast by Senator >l.to G.
Foelker, of the fourth senatorial dis
trict of Brooklyn, who crawled from
i a sick bed' and made a 60-mile rail
■ road journey to do it, so'weak and dis
j iressed in mind and body that he
! seemed on the verge of utter collapse,
-and by anew senator, William C. Wal
lace of Niagara Falls, who was elect
ed in a special campaign preceding
which the governor himself toured tho
district, speaking in behalf of his elec
tion.
The vote stood twenty-five to twen
ty-six in favor of the bill.
Notwithstanding the new law, be
tween 15,000 and 20,000 persons jour
neyed down to Gravesend race track
Friday to see the horses run and, if
possible, to make a wager on their
favorites. Hundreds of gaily dressed
women were in the crowds.
Six races were run, and six favorites
won. There was betting, too, on ev
ery side, though Judge Cavanaugh, the
master of the betting ring, announced
that no speculation should he indulged
j in. Nine persons were taken Into cus
j tody by the police authorities, who,
[ in uniforms and plain clothes, circulat-
I ed in large numbers among the crowd
| in the betting pavilion. The prisoners
! were charged with violating the new
| anti-gambling law and each man was
' held in SSOO bail for a hearing tomor
row.
LOWER LUMBER RATES.
Interstate Commerce Commission An
nounces Its Decision.
Washington, D. C. —The interstate
-commerce commission in an opinion
rendered by Commissioner Lane an
nounced its decision in the case of
! the J. W Thompson Lumber company
mid thirteen other complainants
against the Illinois Central Railroad
company, the Yazoo and Mississippi
Valley Railroad company and St.
Louis, Iro-n Mountain and Southern
railway.
It appeared that the rate on such
lumber between said points had been
for fifteen years prior to February 2,
1903, 10 cents per 100 pounds, but on
that date the rate was advanced 2
cents. The eem-mi-ston in its decision
holds that the 12-ceut rate is unrea
sonable and orders that a rate not ex
i ceeding 10 cents per 100 pounds be
1 put in effect.
WONDERFUL NEGRO DEAD.
“Old Black Tom"—Famous Negro Mu
sician—Dies in Hoboken.
New York City.—“ Blind Tom,” the
famous old Negro pianist, who was
known from the Atlantic to the Pacific
for his wonderful musical ability, was
buried from the home of the widow of
his old master, Mrs. Eliza B. Lerch,
Hoboken. '“Blind Tom” was a slave
before the war. When he was a lad
he was owned by General James Be
thunte, a Georgia planter. It was
while he was on the Bethume planta
tion that he first heard a piano. In
stinctively at the first opportunity he
played on the instrument. As he was
playing his favorite melody, “Down on
the Suwanee River,” he toppled from
the piano stool dead.
FEDERAL CAMP DESTROYED.
Seven Miles of Military Territory Torn
Up by Terrific Wind.
New York City—Pine Plains, the
concentration camp of the federal sol
diers and national guardsmen, was
torn up from one end to the other
of its seven miles of territory by the
most severe wind and rain storm that
has visited that section for years.
Three thousand tents were blown
down, mess shelters were leveled and
more than one hundred horses stam
peded and escaped from their corrals.
NEWSY PARAGRAPHS.
President Roosevelt has taken no
tice of the collapse of an apartment
house under construction in Washing
ton, and through Secretary Loeb has
requested District Attorney Baker to
investigate the accident and see who
was responsible for it.
Thieves smashed a plate glass window
in the jewelry store of Hyman, Berg
& Cos., at State and Washington
streets, Chicago, 111., and escaped with
sixty gold watches and miscellaneous
jewelry valued at $3,000.
Two laborers lost their lives, two
others were seriously injured, and
property loss estimated at between
$250,000 and $350,000 was caused by
two explosions followed by a fire in the
packing house of Morris & Cos., at the
riverside in Kansas City, Kas. The
fofee of the explosion which was felt
all over Kansas City, ruined the cold
storage building, and fire that follow
ed destroyed the smokehouse with its
contents.
The engine on Erie passenger train
No. 5 plunged over a dry bridge near
Binghampton, N. Y., station. The en
gineer is missing and the fireman per
haps fatally injured.
Unofficial estimates made by those
hi charge of the school census, indi
cate that Chicago now has a popula
tion of 2,140,000.
With a logchain, to the end of which
was attached a cowbell, fastened by a
lock and secured around his neck and
the key purposely thrown away, Lou
is Barnes of Ponca City, Okla., with
his bride of an hour, Miss Mamie Da
vis, of Perry, Okla., was forced by
friends aboard a Pullman coach en
route to Chicago on their honeymoon
trip.
Because SI,OOO was refused them by
Joseph Sperio, members of a gang of
blackmailers dynamited his house in
New Orleans. Sperio said he knew
who did the job but was afraid to tell.
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THEATRE HAT
PROBLEM SOLVED.
There is always sonic wa> ---it of
a difficulty, and a lady has suddenly
discovered one solution of the il
atre lint problem which is oriainal,
even though it is n-ul ilkol-.v to be uni
versally ad opted. A g t -nth l, ; i sil
ting in a stall behind her groaned r.i
the presence of her headgear, other.:
who sympathized with him joined in
the protest and soon a chorus of
varied sounds went up around her,
much to the annoyance of the lady.
Suddenly she came to a determina
tion and deliberately taking off her
hat she placed the “picture filing"
on the groaner’s knees behind her.
His breath, il may be supposed, was
taken away by the lady’s deliberate
action, as he -groaned no more, and
attentively nursed the sacred trust
on his knees till the first act was over,
when the lady took back her hat with
thanks and put it on. At the open
ing ot the secon- 1 act she was lUaaf
to hand her headt-w to the iW||j
hill-1 her, as she id -!- -ji^Bk| Km
first, but he was cone. n nflH
been enough tor him.—LonßHugHi
graph.
Asia and the Golden
The western p.i'v.-rs !i;i
on equality for --- -- BfljßjfiSi
others win) mu,' go to < BE
they claim the right •. ha fIHHj
tals at pleasure. This atiW'''-
vail-s everywhere, it is illo'®R
fair and opposed to lnteniatioilMM||
and comity. It is up to trie tvesPH
nations to follow the golden rule in
their treatment of and attitude to-
ward Orientals. If they persist noth
ing but brute force can make their
position respected or respectable. And
if persisted in the inevitable war will
come. The theory of an interminable
conflict between the west and the
east savors of pessimism and the doc
trinaire. Tile inevitable increase in
ntercourse between the nations will
•use them to ’be more tolerant and
y will grow to realize that there
room enough in the world for evory
!y and that war produces ills in
finitely greater than those designed
• be cured.—Ex Secretary Olncy.
WOULDN'T SUIT HER.
iMrs. Spmdii a- ! wonder how you'd
like it i. ! ver got "now-womanish”
iind insist upon wearing men's
clot lies !
iMr. Fpcndi-.rs Oh. I hav.n't any
fear of you ever doing that. Men's
clothes are never very expensive.—■
Catholic Standard and Times.
FORTIFIED.
rrivs representative arose to make a
spend), and his fellow members be
gan lo file out.
"Cimth-nx h,” said he calmly, don’t
think for a minute you can (brow me
down. My ad,ln s is a'.ready in -ho
hands of the printer with ‘applause’
in the proper pl.uiis.”—Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
GENERAL M’GLASHAN DROWNED.
Aged Confederate Veteran Loses His
Life While Bathing.
Savannah, Ga. —General Peter A. S.
McGlashan lost his life iale while,
swimming at Isle of Hope, a suburb.
General McGlashin was born in Ed
inburgh, Scotland, May 19, 1830. In
1848 he emigrated to America, and
eight years later he joined General
Walker in his Nicaraguan filibuster.
He enlisted in tile confederate service,
rising in rank to brigadier general, his
commission in that rank being the last
signed by President Davis .before the
fall of Richmond.
General McGlashan was wounded In
the battle of Sharpshurg and Cedar
Creek. >
DELEGATES SELECTED.
Four Prominent Georgians to Go to
Democratic Convention at Denver.
Atlanta, Ga. —It lias definitely been
decided that Col. Albert H. Cox, Tho
mas W. Lioyless, editor of the Augusta
Chronicle, Peter VV. Meldrim of Savan
nah, and Col. W. S. West of Valdosta
former president of the state senate
will be the delegates to the democratic
oonvention at Denver.