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Uflanfet Mtwl vol; iv. GREAT BATTLESHIP MISSOURI LAUNCHED Sister Ship of Ohio and Maine Slipped From Her Ways at New port News. NEWPORT NBWB. Ya.. D« »- Launched here today at 11:15 o'clock was the battleship Missouri, one of the most powerful of Uncle Bam • men of war. haftdaotnaly decorated with national col ors. WRMssed by thousands of people and greeted with the screaming of many steam wMetlea Fully U,O« people.- It is estimated, saw the big defender go over board. The launching passed off without a hitch and nsaa prettier or more successful was ever accomplished here. Miss Marion Cockrell, • BBtfkter of Senator F. M. Cockrell, of Mtosowi. eras sponsor for the ship and she performed the duty assigned her with ■ the traditional bottle of champagne, using a bettie of Missouri product for the purpose The number of distinguished . guests gathered around the sponsor on th* christening platform was larger than ever seen here. • Ammw them were Secretary of the Mwry «—r Beeretary of the Interior HMcbeoak; Bear Admiral Melville. U. 8. N„ «NM art bureau of steam engineering; Bear >dmWa! O'NeiU. U. 8. N.. chief of aettasmee: Judge Advocate Lemly, U. 8. X.; Lieutenant Governor J. A. Lee. of Missouri, acting for Governor Dockery; Governor Tyler, of Virginia; Corwin H. Spencer, of St. Louis, representing the Louisiana Purchase Exposition company; < Congressman Rixey. Senator Cockrell and a number of army and navy officers. Mrs. Booeovelt. wife <>f President Roose velt. came up from Old Point on the United States dispatch boat Dolphin, with her guest a. and viewed the launching from the steamer’s deck. When the big ship had glided off the ways into the water the crowd on the guest platform gave three cheers for Miss Cockrell. three tor the army and the navy, three far Secretary Long, then three for the shipyard. THE SHIP’S CONSTRUCTION! VESSEL COST $2,855,000 The construction of the Missouri was au thorised by congress on May 4, 1898. when the Spanish war developed the need or a much greater navy. The contract price at the vessel is B.W6.MX'. Her complement is * officers and 511 men. Bhe is a sister ship of the new Maine now building at the works of the William Cramp A Sons Ship ahd Engine Building company, Philadel phia. and of the Ohio, building at the yard of the Union Iron Works. San Francisco. The Missouri should be completed and ready for commissioning by the end of next year. The bull of the Missouri is built of steel and is unsheathed It is 388 feet long on the load-water line, is 72 feet 2 1-2 inches extreme breadth, and at a mean draft of 3 feet 6 inches displace* 12.380 tons. The hall is protected abreast the boilers and engines bydhn armor belt having a thick . nees of 11 inehes. Aside from th" armor tbw ship is protected with a protective deck. On the protected deck cofferdams are built, all of which are Ailed with corn pith cellulase, a substance which ex pands when it tames In contact with water, so that water rushing through a hole will be stopped by the swelling. BATTERY OF MISSOURI MAKES TERRIFIC FIGHTER The main battery of the ship consists of four 13-tnch breech loading rifles, placed tn two balanced turrets, fore and aft, and sixteen 4-inch rapid Are guns. The armor of both the turrets ts 12 inches thick. The turrets are turned by electricity, the mo tors used for the purpose being powerful enough to revolve one of these great tur rets 388 degrees in one minute. The ship's secondary battery consists of six 3-lnch rapid Are guns, eight 6-pounder rapid fires, two Colts and two 3-lnch rapid fire field guns. Altogether a very formidable bat tery. A new feature introduced in the of fensive power of this ship is the sub merged torpedo tube. The Missouri and her elass are the first ships of the United States navy to be equipped with these tubes, although prior to the building of these many vessels were fitted with tor pedo tubes above the ’water line. The magazine and shell rooms of the ship can stow 240 rounds of U-inch am unitton, 3.280 rounds of 6-lnch amunltton. 8.200 rounds of 4-pounder and 4.W rounds of 1-poundar. There are two military masts fitted with the usual signal yards, tops and topmasts. The Missouri carries fourteen boats, of which one to a 48 foot steam ctftter and another a M foot steam cutter of the usual navy type. The normal coal supply of the vessel ts 1.000 tons, while the full ca pacity of her bunkers is 2,000 tons. TWO SCREW PROPELLERS . ANO VERTICAL ENGINES The ship is driven by two screw propel lers. and the two engines which drive them are of the vertical cylinder, direct aetlng, triple expansion type having four cylinders. The collective indicated horse power of the main engines with their sir sad eircelatlng is about 14,000, when the vessel to making a speed of 13 knot® Very little wood is used In the construc tion of th4 ship, only such as was deemed absolutely necessary, and all of this. ex-, copt the armor baching, to thoroughly fire proofed. While the Missouri and class are the heaviest ships in the navy upon which the work at construction has commenced, an other class of vessels designed after them, one of which to <.ue Georgia, are larger and speedier The displacement of the Georgia and class is 16.000 tons. They are designed to make 13 knots an hour. Other vessels building here for the Unl teil States navy are the battleship Vir ginia, the powerful armored cruisers Ma ryland and West Virginia, the protected cruiser Charleston and the monitor Ar kansas. The Shipyard here to by far the largest In the United States. BOY LOSfS"EYESIGHT PLAYING WITH SAND WATXEBBORO Dec. 28.—Alfred Green, the seventeen-year-old son of Mr. E. P. Green was playing with some associates a week ago when they all got into a tussal and they put sand in his eyes. Ophthalmic ootoon set in and he has tost one of his eyes, and the attending phyrician thinks he has only a slight chance of saving the .Other. TUSCALOOSA. Dec. 28.-The stock of goods tn the store room now occupied by Perry A Walter to being moved to make room for the stock of whisky that is ar riving dally for the dispensary. PANAMA CANAL 0.000.00(1 IS FOR SALE AGENTS OF COMPANY EN ROUTE TO UNITED STATES TO INSIST ON ITS PURCHASE BY UNCLE SAM. • PARIS, Dec. 38.—M. Lamprey, secretary general of the Panama Canal company, sailed for New York today, on the French line tseamer L’Aquitaine. from Havre. He will confer on his arrival in the Uni ted States with a number of the Panama company’s American representatives and overtures for the sale of the canal prop erty to the United States will then be renewed. In view of the doubts existing In the United States aS the price the Panama Ca nal company representatives Intend to ask for the property, the correspondent of the Associated Press made inquiries from the beet sources of information on that sub ject and to enabled to say that the price will be approximately >40,000,(XW. This fig ure cannot yet be given as the exact one. because the company has not yet come to a definite decision, but It will rfbt be ap preciably higher. The isthmian commission report to now in possession of the Panama company and its valuation will be studied tn detail. The report of the directors of the Panama com pany. cabled to the Associated Press, De cember 21st, said: "We offer to accept as the basis and point of departure for fresh negotiations the figures and declarations maintained tn the isthmian commission definitive re port.” The estimates come to by such eminent men are not thought to be open to ques tion. though possibly a few items are susceptible to reconsideration and a few matters may remain to be decided such as a valuation of the company’s stocks of supplies; but none of these is calculated to modify the gross figure to any extent. The company does not Intend to give the slightest ground for any further misun derstanding and believes the price put forward will now be acceptable. With M. Lamprey in America It will not be neces sary for the mandatory powers to submit the definitive price to depart from France until later when th# negotiations are un der way. SCHLEY IS CHEERED TO ECHO IN THEATRE REAR ADMIRAL WAS GIVEN AN OVATION IN WASHINGTON FRIDAY NIGHT. WASHINGTON, Dec. 33.-Rear Admiral Schley went to the National theater tost night as the guest of Molly Elliot Sea well. the novelist. The party occupied the box and when the audience noticed the rear admiral's presence there was hand clapping and cheering which continued until the curtain ascended. Rear Admiral Schley bowed modestly and after the per formance be was given another ovation as he went to his carriage. On New Year's day Admiral Dewey, Lieutenant General Miles and Rear Ad miral Schley must, under the regulations, call on the president if they are in town. It to not presumed that any one of these officers will deliberately absent himself from Washington to avoid greeting Presi dent Roosevelt, ao matter how great the temptation to do so. STATE MAY WIN CASE BROUGHT BY MR. PARK There will be no decision of the supreme court regarding the Howell resolution un til January 10. No consultation about the case that would warrant the writing of an opinion has yet been held, and when the justices meet again on Monday, January 6, the case will be immediately taken up. , Reports as to the attitude of the court on the matter are very conflicting, but it to the general opinion at the capitol that the decision of the justices will be fa vorable to the state. From what capitol officials are saying just now the justices are somewhat divided on their views, but after a more complete consultation and investigation takes place tne justices, so the capitol folks say, will be in a better position to make up their minds. According to Governor Candler and At torney General Terrell, the state has a much stronger case than when the first mandamus suit was brought up, despite the fact that the public property fund was only wanted then for a short time. Now It is wanted for all the time, but. AMERICANS ARE OFF TO FIND MISS STONE NEW YORK. Dec 28 —According to the Salonica correspondent of The World the first dragoman of the American legation, Gordiulo. and Mr. Peet, representing the American mission board, have started for Djourma. very close to the Bulgarian frontier, in search of news of Miss Stone, the missionary held in captive by the brigands. ALL AID 18 PROMISED TO SEARCHERS FOR WOMAN CONSTANTINOPLE. Dec.' 28.—W. W. Peat treasurer of the missionary society ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY. DECEMBER 30, 1901. NUM LOSE f OFFICERS. SO MEN ROUTE OF RED COATS BY DE WET’S COLUMN WAS COMPLETE AND DISASTROUS TO ENGLAND. LONDON, Dec. 28.—The war office this afternoon Issued a list of the British cas ualties at Zeefontein, December 2, when Colonel Forman's force, consisting of three companies of yeomanry and two guns, was successfully rushed by a Boer force under the command of General DeWet. The length of the list demonstrates the entire success of Dewet's attack. , Six officers and 50 men were killed, eight officers were wounded and four are miss* Ing. It to presumed the missing officers were tatotn along with the captured guns.' The numbers of the non-commissioned officers and men wounded and missing have pot yet been received, but the ag gregate promises to make the Zeefontein affair a memorable disaster to the Brit ish. Simultaneously with the above the war office gave out a dispatch from Lord Kitchener chronicling a minor success of the South African constabulary, who raided Bothavllie and captured 36 Boers. In a subsequent message Lord Kitche ner sends a stirring account of the fight ing at Zeefontein, showing that the wounded and prisoners must slumber about 150. He says that Major Williams, who was killed, was in command. The column was encamped bn the slope of a kopje, the southern side of which was precipitous. The northern slope on which the camp was pitched was gentle. The outposts were well pushed out and the position naturally strong, had been entrenched. It was a moonlight night. The Boers appear to have climbed the precipiece and mustering near the top, at 2 a. m., suddenly attacked the picket on the summit. Before the men could get clear of their tents the Boers swooped (through them, shooting the soldiers down as they came out. Most of the British officers were shot while trying to stem the rush. Lieutenant Hare .himself opened fire with the pom-poms and was shot through the heart while firing. Lieutenant Wattney was killed while leading a charge. All engaged did their best. But once the picket was over whelmed the superior force of the Boers had all the advantage. Including the killed and wounded, about, half the column is now at Elands river bridge. The rejnainder are prisoners. A fifteen pounder, after two rounds, be came Jammed. The men composing the detachment stood by the gun and were shot down around ft. Lieutenant Scarlett, who was wounded, was overlooked by the Boers and left behind. He saw two wagon loads of dead and wounded Boers carried off. The Beers who apparently numbered about 1,200 under General Dewet, behaved writ, leaving men to look after the woun ded. The Imperii! light horse was four miles distant. They heard of the fight at 4:30 and arrived on the scene at 6:30. After breathing their horses they gal loped after the Boers who reached bro ken country where the Light Horse were useless. KILimSSOI CHARGED TO FATHER (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) JACKSON, Miss.. Dec. 28,-Harty Fife, a prominent farmer of Claborne county, has been arrested by the authorities of that county upon the charge of killing his own son. Young Fife was found lying In the road a little way from Port Gibson, cold anu dead, with his skull broken, and his father is now charged with taking his life. according to the contention of Attorney General Terrell, it is for the purpose Os paying uie bonded debt of the state, the main point in the case being that the in terest on the bonded debt is a part of the debt. ' Treasurer Park, although fighting the case under direction of the legislature, is very anxious for the court to decide that the money is available. Otherwise there will be a tremendous deficit in the treas ury and the state will have to take ex traordinary steps to get enough money to meet expenses. An extra session of the legislature might be necessary as a last resort. Prominent lawyers who havd heard Attorney Gener al Terrell's argument, and who have read his brief in the case do not hesitate to say that he is exactly right In the ques tion, and they also state that in their opinion the supreme court will decide that the money known as the public property fund can be used for the payment of the Interest, in Constantinople, and M. Gordiulo, drag oman of the United States legation, who left here December 17 to meet the brig ands who hold Miss Stone captive, have started from Salonica for the Interior. No news of their movements is to be expected for some days. The government on pre sentations made by the legation has sent Instructions to the provincial authorities to render the United States negotiators for the release of Miss Stone all assist ance In their power. Spencer Eddy, United States charge d’affaires, attended a Salamllk Thursday. He was cordially received by the sultan. ml™ FOB CHIME 81 IM AS GOVERNOR SIGNED ORDER FOR HIS TRIAL FIEND PAID PENALTY AT ROPE EHD. ' a RALEIGH.- N. C., Dec. 28.-While Gov ernor Aycock was signing an order for a special court at Northampton to try Peter Mitchell, a negro, for assaulting Mrs. Lu cinda Hill, a white woman 70 years old, of excellent family, A telegram came say ing that citizens took Mitchell from jail at Jackson lapt night and lynched him. The crime was- oatanfitted while Mrs. Hill was going to her home, half a mile distant, Christmas day. Her condition ts critical. ' WENT TO STEAL BRIDeT FATHER OPENED FIRE BIRMINGHAM. Ahu, Dec. 38.—An at tempt on the part of James Glaze to elope with the beautiful young daughter of T. B. Hood, of fcocust Park, resulted in a shooting scrape at that place, in which Tom Snow was shot; twice through the head and Jake Hood had one leg almost amputated by buckshot. Glase, accompanied by Jake Hood, Tom Snow and several other friends, went to the Hood home, expecting to find the old man absent, but he had learned of the contemplated elopement and met the par ty at the door with a Ihotgun, which he used with terrible effect. One of the yoting men returned the fire with a revolver, but the old man was not Iniured. George Glover, Jake Hood and HeSsey Vines have been placed under .afreet. Snow will probably dje. Hood will lose one leg. TITIIM MISSI NG MYSTERIOUSLY ■■■ < YOUNG MAN LEAVES ALPHABET TA TO COME TO ATLANTA AND THEN DISAPPEARS COM With >4OO in his pocket G. A. Tatum, of Alpharetta, left his home to come to At lanta last Monday evening and has mys teriously disappeared,' leaving no clue to his present whereabouts. Tatum stated that he Intended returning 'to his home early in the week, and when he did not do ao his people became alarm ed about him and J. B. Parts, his brother in-law, came to Atlanta yesterday in an effort to locate the missing man. He could find no trace of him, however, and report ed the matter to the police, requesting their aid in the search. On account of the money he was known to have had and his sudden disappearance the police believe that there has been foul play. Tatum was a man of quiet and or derly habits, and his relatives do not think that his disappearance was of his own accord. He was a school teacher at Alpha retta, but during his vacation had been employed by C. C. Foster & Bros., dry goods merchants, of that place. He was married three months ago. Ta tum was known to have reached Atlanta at 12 o’clock Monday night, but after leav ing the depot there is no place which has yet been found that he visited. If his dis appearance to not due to foul play hto relatives are at a loss what to suspect. He was happy in hto home life and no reason of any kind can be assigned as a motive for willfully absconding. The matter has been taken up by the police and will be thoroughly investigated. There is little or nothing, however, for the detectives to work on except a good de scription of his personal appearance. Tatum was about 25 years of age. He was clean Shaven, which made prominent the thinness of his face. He had light hair and eyes and probably weighs 140 pounds carhTgieconverts HIS BONDS TO CASH BONDS HE OFFERED GOVERN MENT AT PAR SELL AT PRE MIUM OF 13 7-8. NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—1 tis reported on Wall street that at an auction sale by Adrian H. Muller & Co. 5 per cent bonds of the Carnegie Steel company sold at 113 7-8, says The Journal and Ameri can. | Andrew Carnegie tendered >10,000,000 in these bonds to the government for the Washington Memorial university for orig inal research. A difficulty—the fact that the proposed gift was in the bonds of a corporation—prevented an immediate ac ceptance of the magnificent endowment, and the sale is believed by some to indi cate that Mr. Carnegie has begun to con vert the bonds into money in order that the government should be relieved from this embarrassment. At the price realise the ten millions in bonds would be equivalent to >11,387,500, a substantial increase of the promised en dowment. / Practically all of the Carnegie Steel company bonds are held by Mr. Carnegie, and this is one reason why financiers are concluding that Mr. Carr.egie is interest ed in the transaction. WASHINGTON, Dec. 38.—Chief Wilkie, of the secret service, has Issued a circular stating that a counterfeit >2O gold certifi cate is in circulation. He says it is an untinted photograph and would not de ceive any one who is accustomed to hand ling money. SHIPS AT SEA AT MERCY OF GALE NINE VESSELS, CAUGHT IN TER RIFIC STORM, ARE BELIEVED TO HAVE GONE TO THE . BOTTOM. SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 28.—The grim mest story of marine disaster in all the history of the North Pacific is expected by local marine men from Clallam Bay. The fate of nine vessels, caught by the Christmas storm in that body of water is not known. Old mariners fear that one or all may be lost. Sound tugs have gone on the lookout for these craft. These vessels are: American ship Wil liam H. Macy; American ship Bangalore; British ship Oweenee; British shlp-Ivema; American barkentlne Katy Flackinger; American bark Carleton; three American schooners, names unknown. AU were seen at anchor in Clallam bay Christmas day and nona of them is known to have left before the breaking of the storm. That no vessel caught in the bay during the storm could have escaped is the opinion of marine men. SOME SHIPS ASHOREt OTHERS ARE MISSING PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., Dec. 28. Reports of havoc wrought by the storm down the straits ate bring brought in by boats and confirm the first reports of dis aster to shipping, with the exception of the ship Packard, which, according to re ports brought here by the steamer North Pacific, is not ashore on Trial island, but after dragging from her anchorage in Royal roads brought up near the entrance to Victoria harbor. She is not in immi nent danger, unless another storm should come up. The schooner Minnie A. Caine, is high and dry on the north side of Smith is land. The British bark Banakburn to reported mtoring. She wax anchored In the Royal roads and her captain who was ashore when the storm came up, was unable to get aboard. During the might the bark broke from her anchorage and nothing has been heard of her since. BRITISH BARK MERSEY WRECKED ON THE REEF LONDON, Dec. 28.—The British bark Mersey, Captain Olsen, from Rosario, Oc tober 14, for Falmouth, was wrecked upon the Goodwins rock last night. She began 1? break up soon and the crew was taken off. ADVICES FROM STdRM SHOW GREAT DISASTER NEW WHATCOM. W’ash., Dec. 28- Ine storm of Thursday wrought great damage to property along the water front here. J. B. Leonard was drowned while at tempting to take a sailboat to Shelton. A large portion of the grade of the great Northern’s new water front cut off south of this city was destroyed by the action of the waves. baptWlme FAVOR A DISPENSARY ROME, Dec. 28.—A resolution favoring a dispensary for Floyd county In prefer ence to open barrooms was adopted this morning by the Floyd county Baptist as sociation at its regular quarterly meet ing. A number of routine matters of in terest were discussed this morning and others will be taken up this afternoon. The meeting will come to an end tomor row night. Hon. John C. Foster is pre siding and Hon. Jake C. Moore is lead ing the singing. The sentiment favoring a dispensary for this city seems to be rapidly gaining ground. The Methodists of the city met this week and passed a resolution similar to that adopted by the Baptists this morn ing. Rome now has thirteen barrooms. NG L! CLAY IS FOR SCHLEY AND WILL DEFEND HIM That Schley-Sampson controversy has not ended yet, and It will not end very soon. A Georgian ts going to take a hand in the affair on the floor of the United States senate, and that Georgian is Hon. A. S. Clay. Senator Clay says congress is with Schley, and that if he is not mistaken something is going to happen when that body meets next month. Senator Clay, for one, will not be muzzled by the president, and is going to make his speech in the senate. It Is not often that the junior sen ator from Georgia has much to say, but when he does say anything he never fails to attract attention, and never faits to command the attention of the house. And his speeches always mean something. ”1 think,” said Senator Clay yesterday afternoon, "that the verdict of tha Schley court of inquiry was an outrage. The as- NEGROES AND WHITES RIOT IN NEW YORK CITY NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—A sharp skir mish between whites and blacks in Har kmAVednesday developed serious propor tions and kept the police busy for a time. The negroes, 100 strong, were armed with revolvers and clubs, while equally as many whites used atones as weapons. The negroes had the advantage, but were driven back Into their tenements by the police after they had charged on the whites with pistols and razors. Four whites, including a policeman, were badly shot or cut. The rioting began when some white boys stoned two colored girls, whereupon a dozen negroes seized the white boys LIVES AND PROPERTY SACRIFICED BY FLOOD DEATH LURKED IN COLLISION OF TRAINS TWO INSTANTLY KILLED, ONE IS MISSING AND MANY ARE HURT. WRECK THEN CATCHES FIRE. Stlß NASHUA. N. H., Dec. 38.-A dense fog and a misplaced switch in the north yards of the Bostfm and Maine railroad in this city today caused the wrecking of the Cannon Ball express Sound from Montreal for Boston. Two men were kill ed instantly and about half a doaen per sons were injured. The dead: EDWARD QUIMBY, Concord, engi neer. i B. E. MARSHALL, fireman. , The injured: Frank Crowson, Boston, conductor of afi extra freight, had scalp wounds. Robert Morrow. Concord, newsboy* in juries to right leg. Several of the passengers of the Can non Ball were bruised, but in no case was it necessary to send any of them to a hospital. The wreckage caught fire but the blase was extinguished without further dam age. The express collided with an extra freight train running from Concord to Boston. The engine of the passenger train struck the rear of the freight train, as the latter had hauled onto a siding to permit of the passage of the express. KILLS HIMSELF BY ACCIDENT HUNTING MAT ROBINSON, OF WAYCROSS, 17 YEARS OLD, MEETS TRAGIC FATE IN THE FIELD. WAYCROSS, Ga., Dec. 38.—News reach ed the city yesterday that Mat Robinson, the 17-year-old son of Mr. Matthew Rob inson, a farmer who Ilves near Nahunta, was killed In the woods hunting last Sat* urday. It seems that young Robinson left home Saturday morning to go hunting. He never returned that day and searching parties were sent out, but did not find him until Tuesday afternoon. Hto body was discov ered near a stump with hto arm shot off and hts breast and throat mutilated. The theory 1s that he was standing on the stump looking for a squirrel when hto gun slipped out of his hand, striking the hammer against the stump causing it to shoot. The entire load of No. 2 shot went into his body. accidentallykTlled HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW M’RAE, Ga.. Dec. 28.—0 n Christmas day at Alamo, a little town ten miles east of here, Roe Purvis was accidently knled by his brother-in-law. Tom Bouyer. They, with several others, had just fin ished a shooting match and started off when Bouyer’s gun was discharged, kill ing' Purvis, who was walking behind him. fair is by no means over. I propose to read the evidence through when I return to Washington, and furthermore, I am going to have something to say about it on the floor of the senate. Congress, in my opinion, though I have made no poll, is In favor of Schley, and I think a ma jority of the members think that the ver dict was very unjust. The navy depart ment, in my opinion, has been against Schley from the first.” The senate meets again on January 6th and it is very likely that the question will come up right away. Senator Clay be lieves in fair play and he is going to make an effort to get it for Admiral Schley. It is understood that Senator Bacon has the same views abou£ the matter as those of Senator Clay, and if the two Georgia sen ators get in the wake of the navy de partment officials it Is safe so say that some fur will fly in various directions. and beat them. The boys, when released, told their story to white men in the vicinity and an or ganized attack was made on the negroes, who were driven back to their tenements under a shower of stones. The confusion Increased when ths w’hite men began to bombard the tenements with stones and other missiles, and the negroes fired from their windows into the crowd. The whites, surprised by the shooting and seeing men fall wounded, turned'and ran, followed by the negroes, who used knives and clubs freely. At this point a squad of policemen arrived and with drawn clubs stopped the rioting, chasing the negroes back into their houses. West Point Is Under Wa ter —Much Damage At Col um bus—Many Washouts. Much property and several lives havs been lost as the result of Saturday’s heavy rains in western Georgia and east- ■ ern Alabama. ( The Chattahoochee river at Bolton 18 out of its ban'.is, having risen 35 feet since the heavy rain of Saturday began and the stream to now in 2 feet of the danger line. , I No trains left Atlanta yesterday ovee the Atlanta and West Point railroad >or • Montgomery and New Orleans on account of washouts. Yesterday’ morning freight ■train No. 1, with fifteen cars, on the Weft era of Alabama, went into a washed out culvert at Notasulga, 30 miles from West Point. The engine turned completely over and Engineer Russell was killed, while Cy Lee, the negro fireman, was fatally Injured, and two trainmen were badly hurt. Train No. 209 started to the scene of the wreck, but went through an open cel vert 5 mues out Os West Point. No ope was injured in this accident. At West Point, four men attempted to . cross the Chattahoochee river near this point shortly after noon, with the result that three of the party, two white men and one negro, were drowned. The dead are George w. Callaway, H. B. Jones and one negro, name unknown. The fourth member of the party, a negro, escaped unhurt. On the Louisville and Nashville railroad. Southern system, the train due at Mont- 1 gomery was derailed and is under water at Dyas. On the Geneva branch of the Louisville and Nashville 300 feet of track have been swept away near Rocky creek. Numerous washouts are reported along the line between West Point and Mont gomery. At Columbus the river to over 30 faet high and to still rising six inches an hour at the Columbus wharf. The stream was within three feet of the famous flood of February, 1900, which broke the record for many years. Ths river swept away part of the mammoth dam of the Columbus Power company on North Highlands, and Columbus is with out lights. The water is running through the rope room of the Eagle and Phenix mills to night and the machinery and belting to being removed. The lower floor of the company's electric light plant is also flooded. DEPEWAND BRIDE ; BOW BEFORE ALTAR OFFICIAL CEREMONY PRONOUNC ED AT NICE LAST SATURDAY. HIGH MASS NICE, Dec. 28.—The official formal wed ding of Mws Palmer to Senator Chauncey Depew was performed today. The wedding party first attended a low mass at Notre Dame, celebrated by the cure, Father ’ Crepaud, formerly an officer. in the French army. Shortly before noon the party proceeded ; to the American church which was crowd ed to excess and beautifully decorated. The Rev. Dr. Adamson, officiated. A guard of honor of ten blue jackets from the United States cruiser ' stood at the entrance of the church. After the ceremony the wedding break fast was served at the villa of the Coun tess de Sers. The wedding was quite uhds- I tentatious and the service at the Amerta can church was very simple. By special request the vocal music con- J sis ted only of one contralto song, “Oh» | Fair, oh Sweet and Holy,” rendered by 1 Miss Tucker. There were no bridesmaids. Only those officially connected with the I wedding attended the ceremony at the ( Catholic church. The party then drove to the American < church, where the principal American and { English residents had assembled. Opt side , was an awning decorated with American and English flags. Officers from the Uni ted States squadron occupied the second j and third pews. The wedding march from "Lohengrin” was played as the couple walked up the aisle. They are almost the ( same height. The bride, a tall, slender • brunette, was attired in a simple gown es j satin trimmed with orange blossoms. Sen ator Depew, who was radiantly wore a white flower at hto button hole. FRAffIATOHOER ' TO BE DISSOLVED 1 JACKSON. Miss., Dec. 28.—The Pro tected Knights of America, a fraternal insurance organisation, launched about four years ago in Jackson, and which had transacted a large business of Mis sissippi and other southern states, is no more. This annnouncement is authentic, as it comes from the supreme officers of the order who are in the city making arrangements for the final windup of. busi ness. On account of financial straits, the officers some time ago decided to dis band the organisation, and in order to protect the policy holders arrangements have been made to reinsure them in the American Guild, a mutual protective or ganization with headquarters in Rich mond. Va. , SHOOTING^SCRAPE AT ~ FAIRFAX, NEAR WAYCROSS WAYCROSS, Ga., Dec. 28.—News reach ed ihe city late yesterday afternoon that there was a shooting scrape at Fairfax, a small place 16 miles west of here, on the B. and W. railroad. It was said that one negro was killed in the melee and another seriously wounded. Coroner Grimes went to the scene of the conflict on the train yesterday. fingerTcutoff IN A SAUSAGE MILL AUGUSTA, Ga., Dec. 28. Mr. C. W. Rawls, x young white man employed at Rosel’s meat house, met with a serious az> cident yesterday afternoon. He was feed ing a large sausage mill operated by an electric motor, when his hand was caught I between the knives, and before the tna- J chine could be stopped all the fingers werg cut off and the whole arm injured. " j NO. 31.