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I THE VORJiISG NEWS, i
• ESTABLISHED 1850. INCORPORATED 1888 V
I J. H. ESTILL. President. j
SWUNG I'P AND RIDDLED.
The Last of Dave Goosby, Rapist and
Murderer.
A Mob at Valdosta Smashes the Jail !
Doors With Sledge Hammers, Takas
the Black Fiend to a Fine Thicket, ;
Where. He is Hung: and Riddled
With Bullets From Winchesters.
The Negroes Wanted a Chance to
Lynch Him. •
Valdosta, Ga.. Sept. 19.—The ravisher
and murderer of little Susie Butler in
Thomas county, which crimes were com
mitted last Saturday, paid the penalty of |
liis crimes between the hours of 1 and 2
oclock this morning. The story of his !
fearful crime, the diabolical outrage upon
a frail and weak little white girl, who
was sent by her mother to the spring,
then the murder to shield his lirst crime,
has been told and retold upon the streets
here by people from that section, but not
until the trembling wretch gave the de
tails of the dastardly deed from his own
lips to visitors to the jail yesterday did
any one contemplate the awful details of
the terrible tragedy. As was said in a
dispatch to the Morning NEwslastnight,
his confession was not only complete, but
in telling of the tragedy he supplemented
published reports by bringing out details
heretofore unknown. From his lips it
was learned that the knife with which
the deadly wound was inflicted belonged
to the father of the little girl, he having
borrowed it on the previous day.
As soon as it was discovered that Judge
Ilansell had sent him to this city for safe
keeping low whispering among groups of
men told the story that bad blood was
boiling in the veins of brave and deter
mined men. By 8 o'clock last night there
were groups standing in nearly every
part of the city discussing the crime in
all of its aspects, some advocating sum
mary punishment, while the more con
servative made attempts to disperse the
crowds and dispel all ideas of violence.
By 10.30 o'clock the streets began
to get clear, and those who
had favored leaving the criminal in the
hands of the law went to their homes
fully convinced that they had been suc
cessful in preventing a swift trial before
Judge Lynch.
When the train from Thorrasville ar
rived, at nearly 12 o’clock, the peaceful
scene of an hour before began to change.
A crowd of men sprung up near the cross
ing of the Georgia Southern and Florida
road. The train stopped there, and it is
said that a crowd from down toward
Thomasville dismounted and began to
march toward tlie county jail. They were
probably supplemented on the way by
men from here, and when the jail was
reached at least fifty men were in the
crowd. Entrance was made into
Booker's blacksmith shop and sev
eral sledge hammers were gotten
to use in forcing entrance. The door to
the jail corridor was knocked in by the
mob and the heavy locks to the iron cage
were broken like pipe stems under the
blows of the hammer. Four negroes were
confined in the cage at the time, but when
a call was made for Goosby he stepped
from his cell with a light tread and went
with the crowd without flinching.
People living in the neighborhood of the
jail were aroused by the heavy blows
upon the door, and several people along
the route to the scene of the last chapter
in the tragedy, saw the mob but could
not recognize anyone in it. The negro
was evidently well known to members of
the mob, as the conversation heard by
residents indicated. Someone was heard
to say to Goosby, 'Dave, I always
thought you had too much sense for such
a thing,” but the answer could not be
heard.
The negro was carried to a little pine
grove at the north end of Patterson street,
and there the tinale was witnessed. After
being allowed to pray, someone climbed
a little piDe tree and fastened a rope to a
limb about fifteen feet from' the ground.
A scantling was held up by members of
the mob, and the negro stood on that
while the rope was tied about his neck.
The crowd then fell back and riddled his
body with bullets. Those who heard the
firing say there was between 100 and 500
shots fired.
Pol. Varnadoe of the Fourth Georgia
regiment this morning received
a telegram from Gov. Northen requesting
him to protect the negro. Col. Varna
doe says that if the telegram had reached
him last night, he would have taken
every possible step to have prevented it.
The bodv of the negro has swung from
the limb all day to-day and hundreds of
people have visited the scene of the
lynching. While every one here agrees
tb it swift punishment should have been
n eted the brute, there is general regret
that the people of Thomas county did
dot I jnch him there. The white people
arid negroes of this county live peaceably
together and the negroes would have
lynched Goosby themselves if they had
been given a chance.
A SUPPOSED LYNCHING.
An Englishman Assaults a Young
Girl—A Posse Guarding Him.
Ropers City, Mich., Sept. 10.—At noon
yesterday while tho 9-year-old daughter
°f Thomas Mayeski of tho township of
Rost n, near here, was walking along the
highway with a youngor brother, she was
assaulted by a young Englishman, a
nephew of ,1. O. Nichols of the township
of < rape, adjoining.
At :i o’clock the assaulter was caught
sod brought before Justice Vincent of
I ’"sen, w here he was fully identified by
~lf' girl and ber brother. To prevent a
lynching on the spot, a strong |>osse took
possession of the. prisoner and started at
'< o clock last night for the jail here, t’p
in 10 o’clock the posse had failed to reach
h* re and it is believed has been attacked
“y a mob and tho prisoner lynched.
THE ROPE IN FLORIDA.
A Wife Killer Swung Off at Marianna.
First For Many Years.
Marianna, Ela.. Sept. 10—Jerry Olive,
colored, the wife murderer, ton vie ted in
the spring term of the circuit court, wus
I‘snged to day with an immense crowd
Present. He made the usual statement
II >t be was sure of heaven. This is the
JlT* l Ranging in Jackson county since
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NAVAL BATTLE.
Disasters on Both Sides—Coustema* j
tion is Great at Fekin.
I/jndon, Sept. 19.— I The Central News'
Shanghai correspondent telegraphs that
advices from Chinese sources report a se
vere naval engagement at the mouth of
the \ alu river between theChinesenorth
ern squadron and Japanese fleet. The bat
tle lasted six hours. During the tight the
Chinese warships Yang Wei and Cha Yun
caught lire and were burned and run
ashore, and the Chin Yuen and King Yuen
were sunk. Four of the Japanese vessels
were sunk and the remainder of the fleet
retreated. The Chinese then succeeded
in landing the troops which they had on
board. Admiral Ting, who was in com
mand of the Chinese squadron, was se
verely wounded. After the battle
the Chinese vessels proceeded to j
Wei Hai W r ai, which place they !
reached in safety. It is sup- i
posod that some of the troop ships which |
were being convoyed by the squadron
were sunk.
Great consternation prevails in Pekin.
The emperor has determined to take the
management of affairs into his own hands,
hut this step is not looked upon with fa
vor bv government officials, who consider
such a course as beneath the diguity of
his majesty.
PROTECTION TO FOREIGNERS.
The Times’ Berlin correspond
ent says: "The Imperial Gazette
prints the full text of the circular
sent to the German minister at Pekin by
the Chinese government, advising him
that effectual steps for the protection of
the subjects of neutral powers would be
taken. Gorman traders and missionaries,
the circular says, need feel no fear and
may attend to their duties in perfect
safety.
The correspondent adds that German
iron and steel manufacturers and mer
chants feel sure that whatever the result
of the war Germany’s trade with China
will be improved. It is not believed, how
ever, that the present trouble will bene
fit trade between Germany and Japan.
ARRIVAL OF THE SURVIVORS.
A dispatch to the Central Nows from
Shanghai dated Sept. 19. midnight, says:
“A number of officers who wore engaged
in the naval battle on the Yalu river have
arrived at Port Arthur with half a dozen
warships badl.v damaged and filled with
wounded men.”
The dispatch says: “The Chinese Ad
miral Ting's fleet left port on Friday
evening to convoy seven steam transports,
conveying a large force of troops. A num
ber ol Europeans in the service of tho
Chinese admiralty accompanied the
troops, which were to be landed near
W'ipi, from which point they were to be
sent to the front. These troops com
prised some artillery, but were mostly
composed of infantry. Nothing was
seen of the enemy until the
Chiuese fleet reached the mouth of the
Yalu river, when a fleet of Japanese war
ships was sighted. Thereupon transports
were hurried forward and the warships
were cleared for action. The efforts of
the transports to land the troops were
successful and most of them were gotten
ashore before the naval battle began.
PARTICULARS OF THE FIGHT.
The Chen-Yuen was the lirst vessel to
open fire and was soon engaged with two
Japanese warships of about the same
size, one of which is supposed to have
been the cruiser Chiyoda. Soon all of
the vessels of both fleets were engaged
with the Chinese cruisers Chiu-Yuen and
Kiug-Yuen which were sunk and 600
officers and men on board of them were
drowned. Oniy a few of the men strug
gling in the water were picked up.
The Caho Yung and Yang Wei, in ma
neuvering tor more advantageous posi
tions, got into shallow water and ran
aground. The stranded vessels were
helpless under the fire of the big guns of
the Japanese ships, and were finally se.t
on fire by the enemy’s shells and became
wrecks.
China’s naval strength crippled.
it is feared that some of the transport
ships were sunk, including one whose
troops had not yet been landed. The
Chinese loss is estimated at 1,500 killed
and wounded and the Japanese loss is
supposed to be 1,000, but none of the
Chinese officers giving accounts of the
battle knows the names or size of the
four vessels of the enemy which are al
leged to have been destroyed.
Taking the best Chinese view’ of the
battle it is plain that the encounter has
resulted in seriously crippling the naval
strength of China.
Dispatches from Shanghai say that de
spite the previous dispatch stating that
the Chinese warship Chen Yuen was sunk
in the engagement off the mouth of the
Yulu river, it seems certain that she was
not sunk, though she is badl.V damaged.
At the same time it seems certain that
the Chi-Yuen and the other Chinese ships
mentioned were sent. to the bottom as
stated.
IMPORTANT ACTION TAKEN.
Cotton Sate Agreed on-Iron and Coal
Men Urge Their Views.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 19.—Traffic man
agers and general freight agents of all
the southern railroads in convention here
to adjust cotton rates and to fix tho ap
portionment of the cotton crop in division
among themselves for the coming season,
have agreed upon the percentage’of the
crop each of the roads shall have at all
points except Montgomery, Ala., and At
lanta and Home. < ia.
Delegations from the pig iron manu
facturers of Pennsylvania and Alabama
were before the convention to-day to ap
peal against the action of the Pennsyl
vania and Heading lines in raising freights
on iron pipe *1 per tou.
An effort is being made before the con
vention to schedule steam coal and do
mestic coal at the same rate, there baviug
necu as cents per ton more on domestic
coal tiujn on steam coal heretofore.
FOURTH VIRGINIA DISTRICT.
One of Old Dominion's Most Dis
tinguished Sons for Congress.
Petersburg. Va., Sept. 111. —The demo
crats of the Fourth congressional dis
trict held their convention at Petersburg
to-day, ayul nominated Hon. \V. K.
Me Kenney by acclamation.
Ev-liov. McKinney's name was not pre
sented to the convention. The nominoo
is one of the most distinguished lawyers
in the slate, and a resident of Petersburg.
VIKOIKIA HItPVBMCANS.
Richmond. Va.. Sept. 19. J. W. South
ward was nominated for congressman to
day bv the republican convention called
by himself and John Mitchell, a minority
of the committee of this district.
Strike Nearly Over.
Concord. N. H., Sept. 19. Evidently
the Sun <look mill strike is near its end.
The operatives have begun returning to
work and to-day in tho Webster and I ’em
brose mills all of the rooms are in opera
tion.
SAVANNAH, GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20,1894.
BRICE IN THE BREACH.
Desperate Attack on Ohio’s Junior
Senator in the Convention,
He Remains Cool and Impassive
Under the Bitter Assaults of His
Enemies —A. Scene of Unprece
dented Turmoil and Confusion.
Other Proceedings of tho Demo
cratic Convention.
Columbus, 0., Sept. 19.—8 y a largo
majority the democracy of Ohio, in
state convention assembled, to-day
reversed the pronunciumentos of
all previous state as well as na
tional gatherings of the party in de
claring unequivocally in favor of free sil
ver. By a vote almost as large, indorse
ment was given through the medium of
an indirect resolution to the attitude
taken by Senator Calvin S. Brice
in the recent* tariff reform
contest. The debate on these
two issues occupied nearly four hours
of the continuous session. In twelve min
utes more the entire ticket had been
nominated and the convention had ad
journed sine die. Probably no more
dramatic scene has ever been witnessed
in any state or national convention than
that which occurred during the debate on
the amendment to the platform providing
for full nominations of United States
senators by vote of the state conventions.
Up to the calling of the convention to or
der it had been understood by all hut a
few of the uninitiated that the opposi
tion to Brice had been abandoned
and that the majority report of the com
mittee on resolutions would be allowed to
go through without amendment or pro
test. This much at least was the under
standing of the senator and his immedi
ate circle, and it was with a self-satisfied
air and the bearing of a victor that Brico
entered the wings and allowed himself to
be escorted by Chairman Crites to a seat
on the right of tho chair in full view of
the audience.
His appearance was recognized with a
faint applause, and tho convention hav
ing been called to order, everything went
as merry as a marriage bell until the
report of the committee on reso
lutions had been presented. Then the
storm clouds begun to gather, and
tlie glare of footlights seemed to
bring the form of the junior senator in
bold relief from his seat in the second
row of tho parquet. Congressman Tom L.
Johnson arose, and ignoring tlie vocifer
ous demands that lie should take the
stage, submitted the minority resolution
instructing the incoming state committee
to Include in the business of the next
convention tho nomination of a United
States senator.
This was the formal announcement of
hostilities. All eyes seemed to turn in
stinetivelv towards the junior senator.
For a moment his face flushed, aud he
chewed nervously at the toothpick be
tween his teeth. Then he straightened
himself up, and his demeanor indicated
self-possession and the utmost determina
tion aud resolution. The representative
from the Cleveland district, however, had
little to say in addition to the formal
presentation of the minority report save
the suggestion that election of senators by
the people would bring the constituents
and their representatives in tho upper
bouse more closely together, and that this
was a cousumnialion necessary and very
much to be desired, it was the seconding
speech of John H. Clark of Youngstown,
one of the best orators in the state and a
bitter opponent of the Brice regime, that
sent the excitement to fever notch.
Standing just beneath the platform, his
silvery hair shining in the glare of the
footlights, with outstretched arms and
index finrer quivering, hurling invective
after invective, while less than fifteen
feet away, with face pale and expression
less, sat tlie object of his wrath and de
nunciation. The scene was well worthy
the brush and canvas of the painter.
“Who has a claim on the linited States
Senate for life?” he demanded, and the
audience shouted ic response, “No one.”
“No longer is it the question,” contin
ued the speaker in impassioned tones,
“when a senator is to be elected, what
are his talents? what service lias he done
the state? The only issue is. how much
is he worth? In this republic is a man’s
head to be measured by the length of his
purse? Is it not true that this
question rises above men ami above
party? Do you not know that the United
States Senate has become a rich man’s
club, that it is the resting place of trusts
and understandings and combiues; that
in it the sugar trust lias raised its hydra
head, and, in the name of the community
of trusts, has seized the democracy by
the throat and compelled it to stand and
deliver?”
And so, to the accompaniment of cheers,
hisses, cat calls, yelis and opprobious
epithets, the impassioned orator went on,
protected by the chairman, until he had
•concluded of his own free will.
Meanwhile Senator Brice sal immova
ble. Tho accuser was quivering, the
accused might he likeuod to a block of
marble. No direct reference to him had
been made up to this time. It remained
for his first spokesman, Jessie M I-eads
of i’rbaua, to make a personal reference
to the senator that had been assaulted,
and to plead that the demo racy of Ohio
ought not to execute a man first and try
him afterwards.
••Won’t you defer judgment for a year?”
he asked, but the answer came in a
mighty snout, “No!" Then Gen. Finlay
of Bucyrus, chairman of the committee
on resolutions, secured the lloor to dra
matically declare that tho resolution was
an indirect slap in the face of the man of
all men who, in the Senate of the United
States, Pad made tariff reform a possibil
ity, and who had stood between the poo
pie and the McKinley law.
Facing Congressman 'Johnson, he de
raanded: “Do you indorse all that your
associate, Mr. Clark, has said? Put
yourself on record. Del it be yes or no;
here and uow.”
There was no response except from tho
audience, which yelled “rats” and other
choice expressions, and hooted to its
heart's content.
Judge K. D. Marshall of Dayton made a
witty plea for peace, and the |>ostpone
ment of the controversy to a more con
venient season, and then Congressman
Johnson was permitted to close tho de
bate. “I have no ill feeling toward or
suspicion of Col Brice,” he declared.
“He is my friend and 1 ain counted in his
circle He visits my house and I visit
his, and I hope he will long continuo to do
so. I don't lielieve that he bought his
scat in the United States, and 1 have said
so lime and again. Nor do 1 believe that
the tariff bill lust passed was the best bill
for tho country, but at the same time I
believe that Col. Brice thought so, and
that lie voted for it honestly.”
This was pouring oil on the troubled
waters, and the friends of tho senator
cheered again and again. The previous
question was demanded, but just at this
juncture it was developed that the bi
metallist element had a minority report
with which to oppose the free silver
plank, and another war of words was in
order.
Allen W. Thurman, son of the “Old
Ifoman,” denounced the opposition as
gold bugs, who lacked the courage of
their convictions, and. without response,
challenged them to defend their position.
Lew May of Cincinnati heatedly de
clared that if tho convention placed itself
on record tn. favor of the free and un
limited coinage of silver the party would
be buried under an avalanche that would
more than equal the national campaign.
By this time the convention was clam
orous lor a vote.
Bimetallism was burled and free silver
proclaimed victorious by 468 to 819.
On the senatorial issue a motion to sim
ply declare in favor of the election of tlie
United States senators by a direct voto
of the people was carried by 467 to tl'is
the Brice opposition polling <JS votes
more than the one third of the convention
conceded to It last night.
With tho announcement of tho vote
Senator Brice without a change of coun
tenance, arose from the chair ho had oc
cupied for four hours, and looking nei
ther to tho right or the left, stalkod
across the stage and through the wings
to the outer air.
Meanwhile Chairman Hurd had called
for nominations for the state ticket.
Speeches wore barred.
in twelve minutes the ticket had been
completed and the musical accompani
ment of “The Campbells are Coming,"
perhaps inimical in the face of the fact
that the ex-governor's friends uro
charged with tho responsibility of the at
tack upon the senator, the convention ad
journed.
Following are tho nominations:
Secretary of State—Milton Turner of
Guernsey.
Supreme Judge—James D. Ermston of
Hamilton.
State School Commissioner -Jas. A.
Beech of Franklin.
Member Board Public Works—Henry
15. Kofi'er of Tuscarawas.
That part of the platform dealing
with national issues is as follows:
KEATt RES OF THE PLATFORM.
The democracy of Ohio, in convention as
semtiled. hereby expresses its hearty lomnien
dation of the efficient, economical and honest
administration of President Cleveland.
We adhere to tho declarations of the I leino
cratic party in its national platform that
protection is a fraud, and we recognize the
henoikml reduction of duties on imports just
made by congress. We favor sui h further
reductions as can be made, holding in view
the revenue necessary to be raised for the
sup; ort of the government to the end that the
injustice of purely protective duties he abol
ished.
We congratulate the country upon the re
peal of the McKinley tariff and the enact
meut of a tariff law in lis stead under the op
eration of which trade and business are re
viving and the country again becoming pros
perous. The McKinley tariff went intoopw
atlon less than four years ago. yet in that
short period the country changed from pros
perity to a condition of financial and jndus
trial depression mpiralleleii In our history
as a nation. Under its operation the revenues
derived from duties on imports decreased to
a sum insufficient to meet the expenses of
the government, thereby nece.-s tating tho
salt! of bonds and a c msequent In rouse of in
terest-bearlmt debt of the government. Under
it more business failures occurred than
ever before in the history of the country in
the same period of time. While it was in
operation there were more people out ot em
ployment. more labor strikes, more bread
riots, less employment for labor and lower
wages paid than was ever before known. Un
der Ira operation the produce of the farmer,
especially wheat and wool, reached the
lowest point.sime the war.
While it was in force there were harder
times, more companies and more business
houses bankrupted, more foicd sales and
more distress and destitution than was ever
k(jown in the country In the same length of
time. '1 he republic an pretense that these re
sults were caused by change of ad
ministration is so unsupported by facts
that a denial seems unnecessary, for
it must not Le overlooked that until within
tho last thirty days every commodity bought
or sold. Including t very bushel of grain and
every pound of wool In the market, was
bought and sold under the McKinley tariff,
which was in full operation, doing its perf< cl
work, and that since its repeal business has
revived and the market Improved, which Is a
comp etc answer to the charge.
Wc dissent from the President's views, con
struction and treatment of the silver ques lon,
and therefore believe silver should c e re
stored to the position It occupied as money
prior toils demonetization by the Ituputdi
can party, anil 10 that end we favor the un
limited free coinage or silver at the legal la'lo
ol 16 to I, and with equal legal tender power
The Democratic party has always been
thechampiou of eqtiul rights and religious
liberty, it has over been hostile to political
proscuption on account of religious opin
ion We therefore denounce the American
Protective Association, and all organizations
whi h mike religious belief a test of politic il
preferment.
Wo favor liberal pensions to iwarthy
soldiers, sailors and marines, the'r widows
and orphans.
The other portions of the platform deal
with state polities, some space being
given to denouncing the McKinley ad
ministration and the recent republican
legislation of the stuto.
Till UMAX THE NEW CHAIRMAN.
Alien W. Thurman, son of tho “Old
Homan,” will be ehuirmun of the new
democratic state* executive committee arid
manage the campaign. This is in recog
nition of his leadership in securing the
adoption of tho free silver resolution,
fie is not a member of the Brice
faction. He was chosen b,y the
new state central committee to-night.
The other members of the executive com
mittee arc the following: Judge lands
Brecker, Richland county ; W. K. Decker,
Paulding; N. H. Milligan, Belmont: \V.
C. Gear. Kaudolph: F. M. Hagan,Clarke:
M. D. Beach, Coshocton; L. G. Bernard,
Hamilton; W. H. Kvan, Cuyahoga; Henry
Apthorp, Ashtabula, and VV. J. Mason,
Muskingum. The other oil tiers of the
committee will be elected next week.
UNITED TYPOTHETJE.
Their Annual Convenlion Transacts
Business at Philadelphia.
. Philadelphia, Sept, in. Tin: (Jolted
Typothet c of America, which is in an
nual convention in this city to-day,
adopted a recommendation that the. oid
time-honored system of measurement of
typo by ems he displaced by anew method
of measuring the uctual letters in tho
matter composed.
The greater part of tho morning seas ion
was devoted to consideration of the above
topic, and also to the question of govern
ment printing of envelopes and the mat
ter of insurance of either property while
in possession of tho printer. President
Mob ettidge appointed Joseph J. Little of
New York. Amos Pettibone of Chicago,
and Harry P. Pears of Pittsburg a a
committee on government printing, part
of the reimrt of the committee on trade
usages whs presented by William Fnriis
Jones of Richmond, Va. it recommended
that the rulesof the New York Typothe
tuo be adopted for the government of the
national organization, and also that tho
various loeal T.vpothctM revise prices
in accordance with the New York stan
dard.
A CUT AND DRIED AFFAIR.
The Tillman Ticket Nominated With
out Opposition.
•
The Convention Swallows Both the
Chicago and Ocala Platforms at a
Gulp -A Denunciation of Cleveland
hilled Butler Men Will at Once
Nominate an Opposition Ticket—An
Address by Chairman Carson.
Columbia. S C.. Sept. 10. Tho state
democratic convention was called to or
der at 12 o'clock to-day b.\ Senator Irby,
chairman of the executive committee.
Over 1560 delegates were present, every
comity being represented. A large ma
jority are Tillmanltes, only one delega
tion. that from Charleston, being con
servative. Anew constitution of the
party was adopted, which provide® for a
direct primary for everv candidate for
any office from coroner up.
The platform indorses the Ocala plat
form, as well as tho Chicago platform:
demands tho free eoinago of silver at a
ratio of 10 to 1, and indorses the dispen
sary law as the host solution of the dis
pensary question.
One section of the platform, as at first
drawn, which denounced President Cleve
land for failing to carry out tho pledges
of the party and for prostituting eongress
by patronage to carry out his policy, was
finally killed and no mention of the Presi
dent or national administration was
made. The Charleston delegation tried
hard to get tho convention to
come squarely on the democratic platform
and denounce populism, but their efforts
were defeated by an overwhelming voto.
Tho convention then nominated John
Gary Evans for governor; W. H. Timmer
man, licutentant governor; W. T. C.
Bates, treasurer; O. W. Buchanan, at
torney general, and took a recess until
8:00.
The nominees are all Tillmanltes and
had no opposition. Tho Charleston dele
gates announced in the convention they
would not support tho nominees because
they were noton a true democratic plat
form. They were hissed and jeered, and
started to leaie the hall, but for somo
reason did not do so.
On the convention reassembling ballot
ing for other state officers was commenced
and resulted:
For secretary of stato. 1). H. Tliornp
kins, at present Tillman's private secre
tary : for controller general. James Nor
ton, now chief clerk in that office; for ad
jutant and inspector general. John Gary
Watts: for superintendent of education,
W. D. Mayfield, incumbent.
The convention was harmonious, but
the balloting took some time, owing to the
fact that there were several candidates
for each of these offices.
The convention concluded its labors by
nominating W. D. Evans, H. It. Thomas
and J. C. Wilborn as railroad commis
sioners.
John Gary Evans and other nominees
addressed the convention, after which it
adjourned sine die.
The anti-Tillman committee, in view of
the fact that tho convention failed to un
equivocally denounce populism, lias called
their convention to re-assomblo in this
city on Kept. 26, for tho purpose of placing
a ticket in the field in opposition to the
ouo nominated to-day.
To-night the anti-Tillman executive
committee met and the following was
issued:
To the Members of the Democratic Conven
tion (asseni! led on Sept. 171—Gentlemen
Having carried out your instructions and
p:eiented democratic resolutions and an
enunciation of democra ic principles to the
slate . onvention. convening at Colombia on
Sept. IP. and having demanded the adoption of
the same by i bat body, and the said convention
having refused lo adopt the democratic dec
elerations therein contained. 1 hereby cull
upon you to again assemble in convention in
the city of Columbia. Tuesday night next, h
o clock (Sept. SR). This call ‘s made in strict
compliance with the instructions and resolu
tions adopted at the democratic convention
nsscmrJud on Sept. 17. I earnestly urge your
presence. J. L. Carbon,
Chairman Democratic Executive Commit
tee.
THE GAME BEAUTY, ALIX.
She Clips a Quarter Second From the
World’s Trotting Record.
Galesburg, 111., Kept. 19. The Gales
burg track now holds the world’s record
for trotting, Alix clipping a quarter of a
second off her record here this afternoon,
going the mile in 2 OH,. It was one
of the grandest achievements ever wit
nessed by man.
Tho day was all that could be desired,
the hot sun putting the track in perfect
order. To witness the trial of Alix and
the other events no less than 20,000 peo
pie were ou tho grounds. At 5:10o’cloik
the track was put In shape, and Mr. Wril
liams announced the special event of the
day was the attempt to beat the world's
record of 2:04.
When tho mare appeared on the track,
with McDowell behind her, she was
greeted with a mighty cheer. On the
second score. McDowell nodded, and with
the runner by her side, the little mare
was off on her journey. To the quarter
she went in JO', and sped on to the half
In ‘ 1 :Uljt,. As she neared the three
quarters the watchers marked her at
1 • rtx
I . • <*v 4 *
When the mare turned into the stretch
she fairly dew. and withuuta skip, chine
under the wire in ‘-LOU 1 ,. The crowd
went wild, and cheer after cheer went up
for Alix, McDowell, Morris and Wil
liams and his fast track. To-morrow
Robert J. will go to beat his record of
2:01 *4, Directly to heat his record of
2:10, Flying Jib to beat his record of
3:04. and Online to beat tho 4-year-old
record of 2:07.
A DUEL TO THE DEATH.
Georgiaßoyn Cut Each Other to Pieces
With Pocketknives.
Dublin, Ga., Sept. 19. Two young mon
named Robert Clemens and James Pullen
fought a duel to the death with pocket
knives last night in the woods near
Black ville without seconds, physicians or
witnesses. They were found at midnight
by a farmer. Kacn, was slabbed twenty
or thirty times, and are beyond recovery.
No cause is known for the duel.
A Gain pt Over 200 Looms.
Fall River. Mass., Kept. 19. Durfee
Mill No. 2 is to-day running 1.094 looms, a
gain of over 2UO since yesterday. The
card room is practically shut down, but
tile rest of the mill is running full. The
Seat onnet mill is still running full.
CLERKS TURNED DOWN.
Men Taking the Places of Women in
the High Salaried Grades.
Washington, Sept. 19.—Tho large num
ber of women clerks dismissed outright
in the treasury department during tho
past few days has attracted considerable
attention here. It Is said to mark anew
policy for treasury anpoiutmenls in the
future.' Of tho clerks so far discharged
fully five sixths have been women clerks
of the high salaried grades. Tho vaoan
ch s created by tho discharges of women
will tic filled by appointing or promoting
men to tho places.
Tho flood tide of women clerks in the
treasury lias been reached, and hence
forth. it is said that men will usually be
appointed to the higher places. Some
divisions are said to he seriously emptied
from tho heavy preponderance of women
clerks, and In some room* where the
ledgers are very heavy they have to bo
lifted into plaitt and shifted as occasion
requires by the men in the office. Asa
rule, it is said, tho women clerks aro
absent on account of sickness much more
than men clerks, which lias bad a potent
influence in causing the change of policy as
to appointments uow being inaugurated.
WORK OX THE DETROIT.
Orders have boon issued to hurry the
work on the Detroit at Norfolk so that
she may sail for China in compliance
with Secretary Herbert’s directions as
soon as.possible. She will go into the
dry dock to-day and receive anew coat of
paint. It will take at least ten days to
put in tlie necessary stores for the long
cruise. Secretary Herbert is deter
mined that the Detroit shall sail
from Norfolk for Gibraltar, her
first stopping placo, by Oct. F
Tfie Machias will probably not leave Now
York until several days later, and ns she
Is to stop a short time at Cadiz and Koine,
in order to return tlie Columbian relies,
tho Detroit will not wait for her, as was
at first intended, but will push ou witli
all possible speed through llie Mediter
ranean and tho Indian Ocean and make a
record voyage to China.
QUARANTINE AND MARINE HOSPITAL.
Surgeon General Wyman of the marine
hospital service has appointed Fast As
sistant Surgeon J. A White, Lieut.
Robertson of tho revonue cutter survlco,
and Dr. G. G. Thomas of Wilmington, N.
0., a board to select a site for a quaran
tine and marine hospital station at or
near Southport. N. C. Congress made an
appropriation of $26,600 for this station,
and ns soon as the hoard selects the site
work on tlie building will begin. The
construction of the alt ip island gulf quar
antine station will soon be completed.
This station will take the place of the
( handeleur Island station which was do
stroyed by the hurricane of August., )8ti!l.
Tho new station is about ten or twelve
miles from Biloxi, Miss.
Supervising Architect of tho Treasury
O’Rourke to-day formally resigned his
office ami Secretary Carlisle will to-mor
row accopt the resignation.
THE DATE IN DISPUTE.
Solicitor Reeves of the treasury de
partment, In an elaborate opinion, decided
that the new tariff act becomes operative
from Aug. 28, notwithstanding that tho
enacting clause named Aug. Ins the date
upon which it took effect. The views of
Solicitor Reeves are concurred in by all
treasury officials and they liavo been act
ing under this construction of tne law
since Aug. 28 lust, (juite a number of ap-
I eais from this date, Aug. 28, have been
filed with the collector at New York, and
the question will doubtless be taken to
the courts for final settlement.
SOVEREIGN GRAND LODGE.
A Ball in Honor of the Odd Follows at
Lookout Inn.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 19.—At the
business session of the sovereign grand
lodge of Odd Fellows tills morning, the
reports of tho committee on appeals were
taken up.
Appeal of Peninsular lodgo No. 5 vs.
grand lodge of Michigan : The lodge ex
pelled one of its members after trial with
out giving him a copy of the report of tho
trial committee, as provided by law. It
also permitted a member who was a
sworn witness against the am used to bo
one of the trial committee. The grand
lodge of Michigan declared that, these two
features of tho case were fatal to tho
lodge and sustained the appeal. The sov
ereign grand lodge affirmed the action of
the grand lodge of Michigan.
Appeal of K. R. Shipley vs the grand
lodgo of Missouri: The grand lodge of
Missouri permitted tho election of grand
officers by the representatives present
after the past grands have once voted ou
the question. No election resulting, the ap
pellant asks that inherents rights of past
grands to vote for grand officers be con
sidered operative until an eloction oc
curs. The committee reports that past
grandß, having had one opportunity to
vote, are stopped from any further exer
cise of the right of suffrage. ,
Appeal of Cuyahoga Ikzdge No. 22 vs.
grand lodge of Ohio: The grandmaster
of Ohio decided that a lodge located
where there are two or more lodges and
the relief committee is organized under
local law. could uot refuse to pay an as
sessment legally made by the committees.
Further, that no lodge so located has a
right to refuse to pay this assessment, nor
has a right to withdraw from tho associa
tion, hut is bound by law to become a
member of the committee and pay all as
sessments made by them.
Appeal of S. <l. Kendall from tho grand
lodge of Nevada: In tills case a noble
grand sot aside a ballot for representa
tive where Kendall had received fourteen
and Lecper ten votes. In the second bal
lot Kendall received ten und l-eeper six
teen votes. ApiHjllant claims election on
first ballot. Appeal sustained.
Anneal of Dayton lodge. No. 278, vs.
grand lodge of Ohio: Tho lodge adopted a
by law which the grand lodgo refused to
approve on the ground that the same did
not provide that tho weeks of sickness
for which benefits were to bo paid should
be consecutive. The committee of this
body declares it to tie unquestioned that
a state grand lodge may regulate and con
trol the definite and particular amount of
benefits to be paid by its subordinates,
but to aei ompllsh this the law furnished
to subordinates must be definite and spe
cific as to tho amount to be paid. This is
predicated on the idea that, tho minlinum
benefit law will be observed.
Several other appeals of minor import
anee were heard and the meeting ad
journed.
To night the pleasures of tho meeting
aro being climaxed by largely attended
and brilliant ball in honoruf tho Odd
Fellows at Lookout inn.
WOODEN NUTMEG STATE.
Republicans Put Forth a Tioket—Oan
They Elect It P
Hartford, Conn., Sept. Ut.-'J'he repub
lican state convention nominated for gov
ernor ex-Senator O. Vincent Coffin of
Middletown : lieutenant governor, Lorin
A. Coke of Bai'klmlnslead ; secretary of
state, Col. William C. Mowryof Norwich ;
state treasurer, George \V. Hodge of
Windsor; controller, ex-Senator B. H.
Meade of New Canaan.
I DAILY, (10 A YEAR, I
■( S CENTS A COPY. >
I WEEKLY, 9 TIMES A WEEK. *1 A YEAR. J
MURDER AND ROBBERY.
Foster Crowley of Atlanta Murdered
tor His Money.
Details of a Foul Crime An Atlanta
Father Finds the Murdered Body of
His Son Lying Bruised'and Bleeding
Among Somo Weeds—Flight of the
Slayer and the Search for Him.
Atlanta, Ga., Se pt. 19.—After lying ia
the woods a dny anil a night, the body of
Foster Crowley, son of Seaborn Crowley,
president of tho Roswell Manufacturing
Company, was found by Detective Cason
of tho city department and the fathor of
the murdered young man about 8 o’clock
this morning.
A more atrocious murder has never
been committed in Fulton county, and a
more affecting scene than when the dis
tracted father came upon tlie doad and
mangled body of his son lying among the
weeds with tho head and face so bruised
and bloody as to bo almost unrecognizable,
has never been witnessed hereaoouts.
Foster Crow ley was about 26 years of
age, his father is wealthy, and the
young man hau for some years been en
trusted with largo responsibilities in con
nection with the matiaguiueut of his in
terests. He was sober and steady, with
an exceptionally bright future boforo him.
Several wcoks ago young Crowley be
came acquainted with Will Meyers,
a 19 year old hoy, tho son of W.
M. Meyers, proprietor of a Broad
street barber shop. Young Meyers,
who dressed well and made considerable
pretentious, although dependent u| on his
father’s bounty entirely, was on a fishing
excursion when lie mot Crowley. They
became quite well acquainted, and when,
last Monday, Moyers went up to Roswell
unit offered to buy a couple of teams of
mules from Crowley, tho latter agreed to
trndu with him. Hu scut tho
lmiles on to Atlanta yesterday morn
ing, coming himself with his father on
the train. Crowlpy had S6OO or S6OO
in his pocket, which he was going to uso
in making somo purchases here Meyer
met him on his arrival and securing a
buggy drove him out to West View ceme
tery. That was tho lust ever seen of
Crowley alive When he was found this
morning lie had been shot in the back of
the head and brutally beaten. There
were signs of a desperate struggle where
the killing took place. In Crowley's
pockets $126 were found. It had evi
dently been overlooked in tlie robbery
that followed the murder.
Yesterday afternoon Movers left the
city after buying anew suit of clothes
and ordering his old one sent to his home
from the store He lias not yet been
heard from, although the police have tel
egraphed his description all over tho
country.
Crowley's fathor met Meyers twice on
the streets yesterday before lie left. The
first time when asked whore the young
man was, Meyers told tho father that he
had left him ou Alabama street a short
time before. The next time lie
replied that he had gone to
the country in a buggy. These
contradictory statements aroused
the elder < irowley’s suspicious, and when
he saw young Meyers take a hack and
drive towurd tho depot he followed, but
did not see upon which train he left. The
police were then notified and a thorough
search made on the suspicion of foul play,
but tho truth of the horrible murder was
left to be discovered by the victim’s
father. Meyers is known to have come
back to the city alone in the buggy in
which ho and Crowley loft, aud later he
tried to soli the mules, but did not suc
ceed. This afternoon Charlie Jones,
a nephew of Rev. Sam Jones, was ar
rested fop complicity. 'The deteetives
thought that Meyers had been preceded
to the plueeof the murder by accomplices,
who assisted in tlie crime after he had
brought the victim to the ambush
Meyers’ father, who was a Pinkerton
detective in Cincinnati boforo coming to
Atlanta three years ago, was under ar
rest for a sliort time during the day, but
released. He said ho hoped his son would
be brought to justice if guilty of such a
horrible crime.
Charlie Jones, who is now under ar
rest. has figured in several sensational
escapades, and sotno confidence opera
tions are laid to his account. His father
is Rev. W. 11. Jones, a methodist preacher.
The detectives believe that Jones and
some other man were lying in wait for
Crowley, when ho should arrivo with
Meyers, but have not made any other ar
rests.
RECORD-BREAKING PRICES.
January Cotton Option Selling Lower
Than Ever Known on ’Change.
New York, Sept. 19. The January cob
ton option on tho cotton exchange to-day
was soiling at tho - lowest price on rocord
for the future options. The market
opened somewhat firmer on rains in the
south and reports of crop damage, with
an improvement shown by the Liverpool
market. Tho January option sold up to
d.tiH cents per pound. A selllnstmove
ment engineered by the bears, however,
broke the- price, and sales were maua
down to 0.55, and points below the lowest
yesterday.
The price not only breaks the records
for January made so far this season, but
breaks ail records for the option. It does
not. however, break the lowest price on
record in the cotton market O.UK cents—
made on March fb, lbOd, for the March
option.
These declines in cotton prices recently
have been due to the expectation of an
other such great cotton crop as that of
IM'.il-’irj, which aggregated over 9,000,000
bales, the largest crop in history to date.
Tho bears are in tho control of the local
market, with no outside interests. It did
not take particularly, however, selling to
knock prices down to-day.
Cases In East Prussia.
Berlin, Kept. 19. For the week ending
Sept. 17, in East Prussia, there were
twenty-eight new cases of cholera and
nine deaths from that disease. In the
Elbe district one new cusu of cholera wus
reported, and one case of that disease was
announced at Scsso-Nassau. In the lihino
district’d now cases of cholera and 9
deaths were reported, and in Silesia
there wero 54 new cases and 28 deaths.
Police and Miners Fight.
Edinburgh. Kept. 19.—1n a fight which
took place yesterday evening between 100
police constables aud a picket of 5,000
men about Logan Pit, near Motherwell,
tli miners used catapults freely. The
police defended themselves with their
ratons, and the picket was ultimately
driven back with many casualties.