Georgia Historic Newspapers

    Atlanta
vol. iv;
GEN. WADE HAMPTON,
“BEAU SABREUR,” DEAD
- South Carolina’s Chief
tain in War and Peace
Died At Columbia
Friday.
COLUMBIA. 8. C.. April IL-The "Beau
•Abreu r of the Confederacy to no more.
The grand old- oak that has weathered
many a storm has fallen at last. General
Wade Hampton died this morning at 9
o'clock. No sudden stroke felled him. His
Iron constitution succumbed at last to
such a series of strains as few men were
ever called upon to endure; as no man ever
•attained with more splendid fortitude or
more unfaltering heart.
The soldier who told his men
when be led them forth that he
would never order them to go
where he would not go at their head,
the most notable figure of the Confeder
acy, breathed his last at lua home in this
city.
The general s health has been steadily
failing for some months. Hts last public
appearance was in Charleston at the re
union of the South Carolina college alum
ni in December last, when he made two
brilliant speeches. The general's death
has been expected for several days, but
none thought It so near.
When the announcement of death was
made this morning the state flag was
Immediately run to half mast on the cap
ital building and the building was soon
draped with black streamers.
The city hall displayed flags at half
mast from each of the towers and the
big city, bell was solemnly tolled for* half
an hour
One tribute today is the placing of the
flag on the United States government
building at half mast by order of the
secretary of the treasury in honor of
Oenera! Hampton as a United States sen
ator.
It is a coincidence worthy of mention
that Oenera! Hampton died on the anni
versary of the day that Chamberlain
turned the statehouse over to him upon
the reclamation of the state radical
rule* ending the dark days of reconstruc-
Wade Hampton was the moat distin
guished man South Carolina has produced
during the lam century. He was pre
eminent as a warrior, statesman and citl
■en. and the people of the entire south
loved him.
Hampton as a Soldier.
One of the grandest, most honored and
respected men In South Carolina was
Wade Hampton .
He was born in Columbia. 8. C., in ISIS
He graduated from tne University of
South Carolina, and took up the study of
law but with no Idea of practicing. In hts
early life he served In the South Carolina
iagtalatnre. but the greater portion of his
time was devoted to his plantation inter
ests tn South Carolina and Mississippi.
When the civil war opened, ho entered
r the service of his naUve state as a pri-
laatfy. cavalry and artillery, which was
known as Hampton's legion, and which
achieved great distinction. At Bull Run.
«N of his Infantry held for some time the
Warrenton road against Key’s whole
corps, and were sustaining Lee, when
Jackson came to their aid.
In the peninsular campaign they were
again distinguished, and at Seven Pines
lest one-half of their number. Hampton
ktmself receiving a painful wound in the
foot.
Boon after he was made a brigadier
general of cavalry, and assigned to Gen.
J. E. B. Stuart s command. In the Mary
land and Pennsylvania campaigns of 18C
and IM he took a very active part, and
at Gettysburg was thrice wounded. It is
stated that a out of 3 field officers and
snore than half the men of Hampton’s
command were killed or wounded in this
' battle.
On August J, 1863. Hampton was made
majcr general In ISB4. after several days
he gave Sheridan a check at Trevillian's
station, that broke up a plan of campaign
which included a junction with Hunter,
and the capture of Lynchburg. In twen
ty-three days he captured over 3.000 pris
oners and large quantities of war mater
ial. with a loss of nineteen men. He was
made commander of Lee s cavalry in Au
gust, with the rank of lieutenant general,
.and in September, struck the rear of the
Federal army at City Point. bringing
•way 400 prisoners and 2.l’d beeves. Soon
utter In another action he captured 500
prisoners. In one of these attacks ho lost
his son. ,
Hampton was then placed in command
of General Joseph E. Johnston's cavalry,
•nd did good service in retarding the ad
vance of Sherman.
After the close of the war he engaged
tn farming. In 1876 be was nominated for
governor against Daniel H. Chamberlain,
and was re-elected in 1878.
He lost bis leg by accident, and while
hi* life was despaired of he was elected to
the United States sena*e as a Democrat.
General Hampton married, early in life,
gmrgaret Preston, daughter of Gen. Fran
cis Preston, and on her death, took a
dscond wife, a daughter of Senator Me-
Duffle »
j-je was elected to the United States
•enate in 1879 and was succeeded by Irby
’ IB MM.
He was commissioner of Pacific rail
roads during President Cleveland’s sec
ond term. The last years of his life he
<j tri d-d between his farm in Mississippi
and his home in Columbia, which a few
years since was destroyed by fire.’
Hampton as a Statesman.
Few figures that arose in the civil war
period to take a large part in that strug
gle and to act an even more difficult part
in the rettoration of home rule in the
sooth challenged and won so completely
the confidence and love of the people of
the south as did Wade Hamoton.
But for his wonderfully cool courage, hts
admirable judgment and his absolute de
termination during the complications
which occurred during the contest over
the presidency and the political rule of
South Carolina ensuing upon the presiden
tial e.ectlon of 1876 mere would surely
hnw> been a very serious trouble, if not
armed conflict between the people who
felt that they had a right to contrdi the
domestic concerns of the southern states
•nd bad resolved to do so. Great as are
the claims of Wade Hampton to fame as
ea soldier he is surely entitled to a still
loftier place as a practical statesman and
• preserver of national peade.
Because of his career during the politi
cal storms of 187$ and 1877 he became a
recognised leader of the United States
senate the very moment that he entered
that body. ' -
DEAD SOLDIER’S FUNERAL
IN COLUMBIA YESTERDAY.
COLUMBIA. 8. C.. April 13—While the
burial of John C. Calhoun was a state
funeral, for which preparations were
made days before, that of the late General
Wade Hampton thio afternoon far
surpassed in the magnitude of the demon
k st rat ion any such occasion in the history
of the state.
It to estimated 6.M0 persons passed by
the coffin, many of them negroes. The
leave taking at the coffin by General
SHIPS HI ’FRISCO
CARRY MUNITIONS
TD BEBELS
-
COLLECTOR AT PORT, HOWEVER,
IS INSTRUCTED BY WASHING-
TON TO STOP ALL
SHIPMENTS.
SAN FRANCISCO. April 11—Twenty
five cases of munitions of war were ship
ped to the Colombian rebels from this port
on the City of Sydney last Tuesday. The
consul for Colombia received word from
New Orleans that the arms and ammuni
tion were on the way from, that city, but
did not prevent the suipment on the
steamer. He appealed to the collector of
the port In the matter. The collector wired
to Washington for Instructions and today
received answer that he should prevent
any violation of the neutrality laws. Fur
ther shipments are expected, and In view
of the fact that the authorises of the
United States at this port have been ad
vised to take a part »n the matter some
trouble may be experienced in getting the
arms on any outgoing steamer.
GEORGIA GETS MORE
MONEY IN REPORT
WASHINGTON. D. C.. April 10—The
senate committee on commerce has deci
ded to report unanimously the following
increases in the appropriations for Geor
gia rivers and harbors:
For the Coosa in Georgia and Alabama.
8309.000, making a total of 334,000 for this
For the Oconee, an increase of 115.000,
making a total of 830.000 for this stream.
For Brunswick river and outer harbor,
an increase of 835,000, making J 105.000 total
for the harbor.
Fifteen thousand dollars is the appropri
ation recommended for an inside water (
route from Savannah to Fernandina.
It is believed these figures will be final
ly adopted by this congress as Georgia's
river and harbor appropriations.
NEWSPAPER MAN
GETS A FINE OFFICE
WASHINGTON. April 11.-Robert J.
Wvnne, the Washington correspondent of
the New York Press, has been offered ard
has accepted the office of first assistant
postmaster general.
The b* sub-
mitted to the senate immediately after
the president's return from Charleston.
The change will take effect May 1 or
earlier as Mr. William N. Johnson, of
New Jersey, whom he succeeds, is anxious
to retire as soon as possible.
HIRAM MAXIM OFFERS
$250,000 FOR A FLYER
NEW YORK. April 11.—In renewing his
offer for a successful machine to navigate
the air. Sir Hiram Maxim has. says a
Herald dispatch from London, made this
statement:
“If any one will bring me a successful
flying machine, not a balloon, which will
travel at a satisfactory speed, of a make
suitable for military purposes, and pro
tected by patents, I will pay over the sum
of $230,000. I do not believe that the air
ever will be successfully navigated by bal
loons. although I think we ought to give
Santos-Dumont great credit for the ad*
mirable work he has accomplished. In the
development of the motor, lies the secret
of the flying machine.**
Hampton's old cook and coachman was
the most pathetic scene of the day.
At 4 o'clock the procession moved from
the house. There were only four carriages
permitted, these being occupied by the
family. Hundreds of women, who made
shirts for Confederate soldiers and were
tottering with age, walked three-quarters
of a mile behind the coffin. Some men and
women who followed had to be supported
on each side by friends. One veteran from
Ker Shaw has been bedridden three years.
He had himself placed on the train,
brought to General Hampton's house and
taken bodily to the coffin.
The procession, marching closely, was
two miles in length and passed through a
wall of humanity to Trinity church.
Here there was a mass of humanity fill
ing the hundred foot wide street for
blocks, overflowlng/on the state house
grounds. Twelve hundred persons were
given seats in the church, but that was
but a fraction of the throng, estimated
between twenty and twenty-five thou
sand.
The honorary escort and pallbearers
were:
Senior—General Bradley T. Johnson,
Baltimore; Dr. B. W. Taylor, Rawlins
Lowndes, Colonel Thomas Taylor, Judge
C. H. Simonton. Colonel T. J. Lipscomb,
Judge A. C. Haskell. Major W. H. Gibbes,
C. S. McColl. Colonel E. C. Mclver, ex-
Governor Hugh S. Thompson. General L.
F. Youmans, Hon. Joseph Daniel Pope,
Major Benjamin Sloan. Colonel William
Elliott, John Taylor and Captain Joseph
C. Haskell.
Junior—W. H. Gibbes, Jr., Walter
Green, Thomas Taylor, Jr., Ben Abney,
Bright Williamson. Wilmot Davis, Tuck
er Fisher, Julius H. Walker, C. Fitzsim
mons. N. G. Gonzales, M. C. Robertson
and Preston Darby.
Each of the 100 Daughters of the Con
federacy carried a floral offering. Be
sides, there were wagon loads of magnifi
cent flowers, several handsome designs
coming from other states.
The funeral car was driven by John
Johnson, 85 years old, a full blooded negro
with long white hair. He and General
Hampton playmates as children.
Later he was the general's body servant.
Bishop Ellison Capers, of the South
Carolina diocese, a brigadier general in the
Confederate army, conducted the services,
assisted by Reverends 'Batterlee, Witsell,
Thomas and Joyner, the latter also being
a Confederate veteran. Bishop Capers was
deeply affected.
The grave was under a huge live oak tn
Trinity churchyard. Veterans cast tn the
sod. Then literally hundreds of floral
tributes, many from abroad, were piled
upon and about the grave. Several men
who fought on the Union side four years
and are now living in the north, telegraph
ed instructions to put wreaths on General
Hampton’s coffin.
A squad of twenty survivors of the
original Hampton Legion, bearing the
first flag of that famous command and
the revolutionary war Eutaw flag which
they also used in the civil war. had the
position of honor. They held the flags
over the grave during the cir— — g,
BRUSSELS MOB
FBQM CONS
RETREAT
NUMBER OF WOUNDED IS ESTI
MATED FROM FORTY TO ONE
HUNDRED PERSONS - PEACE
PREVAILS AGAIN.
BRUSSELS, April 11.—A semblance of
order was restored among the rioters in
the Rue St. Stevens early this morning.
The police, who had borne the brunt
of the fighting, were strongly re-inforced
by gendarmes and civio guards with load
ed rifles. Orders were issued to use all
the force necessary to drive the mob out
of the Madison du Peupel.
Just as the order was about to be exe
cuted, the chiefs of the socialists offered
to evacuate the building quietly. Esti
mates of the number wounded during the
riots vary from forty to one hundred, but
scores of injured were carried off and hid
den by friends.
A large number of rioters were arrest
ed and are still detained. The burgomas
ters of Brussels and suburban municipali
ties have proclaimed that meetings of
more than ten persons are prohibited and
that any dfie found carrying a revolver
shall be liable to six months' imprison
ment.
All centers of agitation are bristling to
day with bayonets. Squads of cavalry
are continually patrolling the streets and
guarding shops which were threatened
with plundering by the rioters.
A manifesto signed by the general coun
sel of the labor party has been widely
posted.* It demands a revision of the con
stitution and universal suffrage. The
terms of the county districts indicate the
widespread character of the movement
which threatens to culminate in a grand
coup next week, during the reform de
bate in parliament.
A thousand demonstrators caused great
disturbances at St. Nicholas last night
until routed by repeated charges of the
gendarmes.
At LaLouvelr, 6.000 men ceased work,
forcing the workers in the large Industrial
establishments at LaCroyere and Halne
St. Pierre to join them. The strikers
threaten to burn all factories where the
workers refuse to quit.
Strong detachments of cavalry are now
patrolling the district in order to protect
the factories. 8
A telegram from Mons says work still
continues in the Borinage district but a
strike and disorders are threatening.
Troops have been sent to the district to
cope with possible rioting.
Riot Break* Out Again.
Sharp fighting between strikers and gen
darmes occurred this morning at Brac
quennlss, near Charleroi. Several thou
■awd ■tailr w mttactee* atoned a body
of gendarmes which retaliated by firing
their revolvers. A sharp fusillade follow
ed and the gendarmes were compelled to
retreat. A squadron of lancers, however,
galloped up and dispersed the mob.
Rioters Wait for Strike Alarm.
BRUSSELS, April 12.-The rioters have
been temporarily awed by the overpower
ing display of armed force. Up to noon
today no further disturbances had oc
curred here. The number of police, gend
armes and soldiers at the disposal of the
authorities appears sufficient to cope with
disturbances so long as the troops remain
loyal.
The strike continues to spread In the
central coal districts. The Socialist lead
ers are trying to keep the-men at work
until Monday or Tuesday, when they con
template an Important movement.
Perhaps the most significant event of
yesterday was the open rupture of the
chamber of deputies between the Social
ists and the Liberal faction, heretofore
associated with the former with the object
of forcing the government to grant uni
versal suffrage. This spilt notably
strengthens the government hands In the
present crisis, as the coalition of the
moderate parties promises to last as long
as the incipient revolution continues.
The police, gendarmes and civic guards
who are all regarded as thoroughly trust
worthy, are being utilized so far as possi
ble in dealing with those who take part
in demonstrations, but not in riots. These
demonstrations are mostly composed of
earnest Socialists, while the riotefs are
more closely allied with anarchism.
Regarding the troops, there is no doubt
that they are leavened with socialism.
Many men in the ranks do not hesitate
to expound subversive doctrines and there
is some apprehension as to their loyalty
when the acute stage of agitation is
reached, with the beginning of the general
strike next week. The government has
taken the most comprehensive measures
not to be taken by surprise and is firmly
resolved not to yield to the revolutionary
movement, holding that In order to deal
properly with the questions of the revis
ion of taxation and universal stjffrage, It
is essential that parliament be able to de
liberate uninfluenced by the mob.
In consequence of the receipt of a let
ter threatening to blow up with dynamite
the Faience works at LaLouviere, unless
work is .stopped, the manager has shut
down the factory and has ordered 1,200
employes, who Include 500 women, to Im
mediately leave the premises.
A dispatch announces that, preparatory
to a general strike at the Borlnague coal
mines April 14, the men from several of
the pits have already brought their tools
to the surface.
INll-loW
- MEN ARE NJMEO
JACKSON, Miss., April 12.—The Repub
licans in Mississippi have begun to stir.
The state executive committee, which was
so thoroughly snubbed by President
Roosevelt in his dishing out of the nice,
fat federal jobs in this stats, have got it
in for the president. There were two va
cancies on the committee, and there were
four candidates for these honors, two
were ardent followers of Roosevelt and
two were known not to favor the
president. The latter were cnosen in the
persons of Sam P. Hurst and A. C. Ed
wards.
Big Warships are Rushed to Nlngpo. •
LONDON, April 10.—A dlspatc.* to a
news agency from Shanghai published
here today, says that allegations of cru
elty against Catholic missionaries have
caused an anti-foreign outbreak at Ning-
Po, a city in the province of Che-Klang,
where a statement was circulated that
some of the missionaries gouged out a
boy’s eyes.
Two British and two German warships
have been despatched to Ning-Po,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1902.
TWEE DIED
SITUBDM
NIGHT
END TO GREAT CAREER IN PUL
PIT CAME AFTER ILLNESS OF
ONE MONTH’S DURATION “A
SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.
WASHINGTON, April IL—The Rev. T.
DeWitt Talmage died at 9 o’clock Satur
day night at his home in this city. He had
been ill for some time and only a few
weeks ago had experienced a change for
the better, which gave hope for his re
covery. Several days ago, however, his
condition grew worse, caused by conges
tion of the brain, with catarrhal compli
cations, and since t».en the family had
been daily expecting his death.
Sketch of His Life.
T. DeWitt Talmage was one of the re
markable men of his time. His success
flnancialy was phenomenal for a clergy
man.
Born In Bound Rock. Tflew Jersey, on
January 7, 1832, educated,in New York
city for the law, which Be quit at his
parents' desire to take a theological course
at New Brunswick, the young Talmage
did his first preaching at Belleville, N. J.,
and went from there to Syracuse, N. Y.,
to get a better place in ' he Dutch Re
format church there. In Bpracuse he be
gan to develop those pecu iarlties which,
further exaggerated, were in later years
to make him talked about.
He drew large Sunday ev< nlng audiences
partly because he amused he people and
when the crowds got so la: ge that people
were pushed down the a! des, Mr. Tal
mage would ask the people to come to the
platform and said that he didn’t care if
they came up and sat on he pulpit with
their legs hanging over.
Pulpit Gymnai les.
In his Brooklyn pulpit, i bare he began
preaching in 1869. he resort 1 to the tricks
of manner and speech wh >h caused him
to be caricatured from a e end of the
country to the other. Oi one occasion
■when it wrfs time for him t begin his ser
mon, he went to one edge c the platform,
buttoned his coat, raised is arms, and
wheeling suddenly about t ighed in run
ning Jumps across the plat »rm, his arms
waving like the sails of i windmill, his
cqpt-talls flying behind him and his trous
ers working up above hts aloe tops.
He had not spoken a wort, and some of
his congregation were readw to shriek, not
knowing what to make oi It, when Mr.
Talmage stopped short, turagd and walked
back to the center of the platform, and
exclaimed, as the beginning o£ his sermon;
“Youg man, you’re nujhing to destruc
tion!”
Then he preached of the aingers of city
life to young men who ytagkd to tempta-
By such methods he drew thousands of
persons to the church, and, as It was said,
the church treasurer complained that
there there were thousands of cents in
the contribution plates.
Mr. Talmage’s comment on his style of
preaching was: “My positive mode of
preaching seems to stir the hostilities of
all earth and hell.”
Talmage’s Own Story.
Tn telling the story of his Ufa he once
said:
“Feeling called upon fifteen years ago
to explore underground New York city
life, that I might report the evils to be
combated, I took -with me two elders of
my church and a New York police com
missioner and a policeman, and I explored
and reported the horrors that needed re
moval and the allurements that endan
gered our young men. There came upon
me an outburst of assumed indignation
that frightened almost everybody but my
self. That exploration put into my church
thirty or forty newspaper correspondents,
from north, south, east and west; which
opened for me new avenues in which to
preach the Gospel that otherwise would
never have been opened. Years passed on
and I preached a series of sermons on
amusements, and a false report of what I
did say roused a violence that threatened
me with poison and dirk and pistol and
other forms of extinguishment, until the
chief of the Brooklyn police, without any
suggestion front me, took possession of
the church with twenty-four policemen
to see that no harm was done."
Newspaper Notoriety.
When Mr. Talmage syndicated his ser
mons he prepared them a week or two In
advance, as he had to do to supply the
presses in time. And when he went to
Europe and the Holy Land he sold his
sermons before he left New York. They
were printed as having come by cable.
One was printed on a Monday morning as
having been delivered at Queenstown,
whence Mr. Talmage sailed on the pre
ceding Saturday, and after Mr. Talmage
gorhere he acknowledged that it had nev
er been delivered at all.
The Holy Land had to yield him a sen
sation and the story was sent over here
that an American had met him there
had asked the preacher to baptize him
in the Jordan, which Mr. Talmage, accord
ing to his own story, did do. But in Brook
lyn Mr. Talmage’s enemies said that he
had caught a tramp on the river bank
and ducked him.
In Russia Mr. Talmage was received by
the czar. In his story of that’meeting he
said: “I asked the czar as many ques
tions as he asked me.”
The most serious attack made upon him
in England was*by the Rev. Joseph Par
ker, who said that after delivering a tem
perance lecture, Mr. Talmage drank wine
with his meal.
Made SI,OOO Per Day.
Mr. Talmage once boasted that he could
make 31,000 a day. It was at one time es
timated that he was worth $1,000,000, but
his friends said that his wealth was only
a quarter 6f that sum. Much of his
money he invested in Brooklyn mortga
ges.
Twenty-five years ago Mr. Talmage was
tried by an ecclesiastical court in Brook
lyn on charges of falsehood “and deceit.”
He was not found guilty but the vote of
the court was a close one.
Just before Mr. Talmage left Brooklyn
a call had been made upon his congrega
tion to furnish money which the church
needed to take care of its pressing debts
and the response had not been what was
expected. Then one of the influential
trustees wanted Mr. Talmage to consent
to a plan for charging 10 cents admission
to the services, believing that that would
bring in S6OO or so each Sunday, but Mr.
Talmage replied that he was not a 10-cent
man and presently he resigned.
While Mr. Talmage was at Philadelphia
where he preached for seven years before
going to Brooklyn his first wife was
drowned In the Schuylkill river.
Firebug Followed. ,
Mr. Talmage's success in building up
the membership of the Brooklyn church
was such that the church building in
| Schermerhorn street was outgrown and
| the first Brooklyn TabergaCjle, a wood and
DEMAND MADE
FOB FM
OF H
SENATE COMMITTEE ON THE
PHILIPPINES CALLS FOR ALL
SECRETS OF CAMPAIGN IN
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.
WASHINGTON. April 12.—The senate
committee on the Philippines began Its
proceedings today by adoption of a reso
lution offered by Senator Carmack, calling
upon the secretary of war for all the ord
ers, circulars and official papers and re
ports received from commanders and their
subordinates in the provinces of Tayabaa,
Batangas, Samar and Laguna.
General MacArthur was again the only
witness before the committee and his ex
amination was begun by Senator Culber
son. His question related to the relation
ship between the native forces and the
American troops, when the latter first
landed at Manila.
Senator Culberson called attention to
the fact that there is testimony on file
to the effect that General Anderson had
written to Agulnaldo inviting his co-oper
ation at Manila and that the latter had
accepted, ahd that it also Is stated that
General Merritt had himself sent an aide
to General Greene, suggesting that ar
rangements be made with the Filipinos
for a common undertstajiaing in the occu
pation of the trenches. He then asked
if in view of these facts the inference
was not authorized that friendly co-oper
ation was not desired by the American
officials with the Filipinos In the attack
upon the Spaniards.
"Assuming the facts to be az stated,”
the witness replied, "if that were all
there is in the promises it might be ad
mitted that inference was to be drawn
as indicated. But there are other facts
which form a part of the case and which
show the co-operation in the attack on
Manila was not a voluntary one on our
part.”
Rebels Seize American Launch.
CHICAGO, Aprill 12.—The Tribune's
New Orleans special says:
News reached here tonight of the con
fiscation of an American steam launch by
Colombian Insurgents nt Bocas del Toro,
north of Colon. ,
One of the American crew was killed and
his body thrown overboard. •
The insurgents escaped with the boat,
but a United States cruiser has gone to
recover it.
The steamer Taunton, of the United
Fruit company's line, reached port today
fr»m Bocas del Toro, bringing the news.
The revolutionists for a month have
been planning to seize the numerous steam
launches employed by the fruit shippers,
with Ir&ops, and, moye on
cas. This was what 400 Insurgents at
tempted and partially carried out on April
6th.
The men closed in around the plantation
where the steamer, owned by Krosman,
Braden & Co., an Amerlcaip firm, was
made fast, and in the afternoon made a
rush for the landing and captured the
boat.
The necessary information and affidavits
in regard to the capture of the American
craft were filed with the consular repre
sentative and when the cruiser stationed
In those waters for such occurrences ar
rives at Bocas, steps will be taken to force
the revolutionists to ,give up their prize,
if they have not before that date carried
out their plans and made things lively at
Bocas del Toro. •
LIMmBi 15
WRECKED IN
MEMPHIS
ONE KILLED, SEVERAL HURT AND
ENGINE SMASHED BY CARE
LESSNESS OF FREIGHT
ENGINEER.
MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 12.—At 7:08 this
morning the northbound New Orleans
limited train No. 2, on the Illinois Cen
tral, due here at 6:35 a. m., ran into a
switch engine in the Illinois Central
yards.
The passenger engine, two baggage cars,
mail and second-class coach were de
railed.
Fireman William Goodloe, colored, was
killed; Engineer Charles J. Barnett, bad
ly Injured about the body; Express Mes
senger William E. Pink, of Cairo, 111.,
sustained a fracture of the skull and se
vere bruises and an unknown man sup
posed to be a tramp, lost a hand and one
of his eyes. ’ j
Ine accident was due to the fact that
the passenger train was a half , hour late
and the engineer of the switch engine
thought it had already passed.
COUNTERFEITER SAID
TO BE UNBALANCED
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 12.—Judge
Jones, of the federal court, has ordered an
inquest to be made into the sanity of
Walter Shyrock, who ’several weeks ago
passed a lot of twenty-dollar bills on the
merchants of Birmingham and was arrest
ed In the act. Shyrock came from Mob
erly, Mo., to Talladega, Ala., where he
set up a photographic shop, in which he
made the spurious money by the hand
fulls. He had $20,000 wor«.h of it when ar
rested. His relatives in Moberly con
tend that he is of unsound mind.
iron structure, seating 3,000 persons, was
put up in 1870. It was enlarged in 1872, but
was destroyed by fire In December of that
year.
A new tabernacle, seating 5,000 persons
and containing standing room for 1,000
more, was at once begun. The new build
ing was dedicated In 1874. That too was
burned down, in 1889.
A third tabernacle was b— It at Clinton
and Greene avenues, and it also was de
stroyed by fire, in May 1894.
Two years after his first wife died Mr.
Talmage married Miss Susan Whittemore
of Brooklyn. His son, Frank Talmage,
by his first wife followed his father's
calling. Besides the Rev. Frank Talmage,
four daughters survive Mr. Talmage. All
of them are married except one. One
daughter, Mrs. Daniel D. Morgan, lives
at 41 Garden place, Brooklyn.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
SCOOPS IN THE L & N.
WALLER FREE
ON MURDER
CHARGE
UNITED STATES OFFICER IS AC
QUITTED BY COURTMARTIAL
FOR KILLING NATIVES WITH
OUT TRIAL
MANILA, April 14.—Maj. Lyttleton W.
T. Waller, of the marine corps, has been
acquitted. Hq was tried by a courtmar
tiai on the charge of killing natives of the
Island of Samar without a trial. The
court stood eleven to two for Waller’s
acquittal.
IN RAFFLE OF DEATH
VICTIMS WERE TAKEN.
MANILA, April 12.—The judge advocate.
Major Henry P. Kingsbury, replied today
to the summing up before the courtmartlal
yesterday of Captain Arthur T. Marix,
representing Major Littleton W. T. Wall
er, who Is being tried for executing na
tives of Samar without trial.
Major Kingsbury made an eloquent ad
dress. He contended that Major Waller
was under military and not martial law,
and that there was nothing in the con
duct es the men who were shot deserving
of such punishment.
The judge advocate blamed Major Wall
er himself for the disasters which befell
the marines, and accused him of abandon
ing ten helpless comrade \‘whose bones
were now bleaching on the banks of the
Lanang,” to die of hunger.
The judge advocate's denunciation of the
methods by which the prisoners who
were to be shot were chosen, was dra
matic.
“They were lined up,” he said, “for the
raffle of death at the sole will and pleasure
of Private Davis, a marine, who was Judge
and prosecutor.”
He referred to Davis’ testimony in terms
of withering scorn, accused Major Waller
of listening to the dictates of ambition
and not to the dictates of duty; asserted
that the natives, according to the evi
dence, acted in many instances in a high
ly commendlble manner and declared that
their faithfulness and not their treachery
had been disclose I before the court.
• Captain Marix requested permf«eion to
make a
against criticism of she Waff Ih Wfllch Ma“
jor Waller had conducted the campaign,
which he said was outside the case, and
again insisted that martial law ruled by
the mere nature of the conditions.
The court deliberated less than toalf an
hour. No decision was announced.
DR. COTTER, OF BARNESVILLE,
IS KILLED BY ACCIDENT
BARNESVILLE. Ga.. April lA—Dr. R.
O. Cotter, a prominent specialist well
known in Georgia, died suddenly here this
morning at the Powell home, the victim of
an accident which produced sudden death.
Some time after breakfast, about 11
o’clock, Mrs. Cotter heard an uniisual
noise in' a room across the hall from her
room and immediately went to ascertain
what it was. She was shocked to find
her husband lying on the floor, face down,
in a pool of blood and his pistol lying by
his side. Dr. Cotter went to his dressing
room about 10:45 o'clock, and was evi
dently cleaning his pistol. There was a
chair in the middle of the small room near
a small table, on which were found oil
and chamois skin. How the accident oc
curred nobody will ever know. There was
no cause for suicide, as |he doctor was a
man of means and was in fairly good
health, much better than several years
ago.
Dr. Cotter was about 45 years old. He
was a son of Rev. W. J. Cotter, of New
nan, and Is survived by two brothers, J.
H. Cotter and W. B. Cotter, of LaGrange,
and three sisters, Mrs. J. H. Reeves, of
Athens; Mrs. Lovejoy and Miss Cotter, of
Newnan.
On November 2, 1887, he married Miss
Maybelle Powell, daughter of the late
Hon. R. J. Powell, a prominent banker
and financier of this place.
DEAF STUDENTS TO
MAKE FAIR EXHIBIT
ST. LOUIS, Mo.. April 10.—President D.
R. Francis, of the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition company, has received a visit
from Edward Prince Gallaudet, president
of the college for the aeaf, Kendall Green,
D. c.; Professor A. E. Pope, instructor
at the Nebraska state school for the deaf,
Omaha, and Rev. J. H. Cloud, principal
of the deaf school on Compton Hill, which
is a part of the public school system of
St. Louis. These gentlemen are members
of a committee which represents the con
vention of American instructors of the
deaf, a national association. The com
mittee was appointed several weeks ago
by the executive committee of the asso
ciation to arrange for an exhibit at the
St. Louis World’s Fair.
The committee laid their plans before
President Francis, and Professor Rogers,
chief of the department of education.
They stated that it was the desire of the
association they represented to conduct
a school for the deaf at the St. | Louis
World's Fair and to make the school an
exhibit of the newest methods of teach
ing the deaf.
Prof. Rogers, to whom the matter has
been referred, thinks favorably of, the
plans submitted by the committee. He
thinks that they can be carried out and
has assured the committee that they will
have his assistance in the matter.
WOMAN ROBS WOMAN
DISGUISED AS FRIEND
CHICAGO. April 10.—A special to the
Record-Herald from Butte, Mont., says:
Mrs. Minnie Grady, who is under arrest,
charged with robbing Mrs. Emma Proulx,
a rich widow, has confessed that she in
vited the latter out for a buggy ride, in
duced her to take a drug in the belief that
it was medicine for rheumatism and that
when Mrs. Proulx had convulsions she
took her diamonds, left her in an out-of
the-way place, expecting her to die, and
walked back to the city.
The authorities have decided to exhume
the bodies of Mrs. Grady’s husband and
15-year-old son, whose lives were insured
for $5,000. This money was paid to Mrs.
Grady.
NO. 61.
Louisville & Nashville De
clared to Be Too Pros
perous and Power
ful a Rival.
NEW YORK, April 12.—As a result of i
several conferences held today there iz a }
very general indication that control of the ,
Louisville and Nashville road has passed
or will pass into the Southern railway.
Representatives of the Louisville and
Nashville and Southern roads and a mem
ber of the Gates faction was in consulta
tion early in the day and later John W.
Gates was closeted for almost an hour
with George W. Perkins at the office of
J. P. Morgan and company. Neither Mr.
Perkins nor Mr. Gates would say what
passed between them, but It was admitted
that the Louisville and Nashville situa
tion was discussed in Its several phases. !
The most authoritative ■ report dealing
with the recent course of the L. & N. is
substantially as follows:
“Some time ago Southern railway inter
ests, alarmed at the increasing strength
and prosperity of the Louisville and Nash
ville. made an offer for a majority Inter
est. The offer was declined, Bo report has
it, by foreign holders of Louisville and
Nashville, who hold the balance of power. >
“Recently when the L. & N. Increased
Its capital stock by $5,000,000 Mr. Gates and
his associates saw an opportunity t 6
'squeeze' the insiders by buying Louisville
in the market and creating a scarcity in
the stock. To what extent the Gates fac
tion succeeded is still a matter of conjec
ture, but ft is not doubted that they were
in a position to swing a large block pf
stock either way.
"Conditions seemed ripe for an attempt
to gain control of the L. & N. and South
ern railway interests, as represented by
Morgan & authorized the Moore ‘
brothers to acquire as much of the stock l
as possible in the open market, with the
understanding that this stock would be
taken over by the Southern railway.
SOUTHERN SECURITI-E3 CO.
IS NOW TO BE MADE;
NEW YORK, April 12.—Despite denials '
from J. P. Morgan & Co., the financial
agents, and Samuel Spencer, the presi
dent, of the Southern railway, and from
August Belmont, the chairman of the t
board of directors of the Louisville and .
Nashville railroad, insiders realise that the '
flurry in L. & N. stock is due to no skillful
“corner” engineered by John W, Gates
and his western boomers.
It simply means that the Southern rail
way, or tb speak more definitely, that the
J. Pierpont Morgan group of capitalists ,
has acquired contrel of the Louisvllle'and
Nashville railway. The- Southern and the
L. & N. had become real competitors, and
the recent purchase by the L. St N. of the
Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern furnish
ed the L. * N. a net her ‘weapon With
which to fight the Southern.
(Tart Merger Cowfffg
But this “community of interest" which
is evident now between the L. Sc N. and
the Southern is but a step in the direc
tion of a new railroad consolidatioiv'a gi
ant merger of roads in the southern states, •
a sort of southern securities company,
formed on the same lines and directed by
the same guiding hand that directs the
tremendous Northern Securities compa
ny—J. Pierrepont Morgan.
Another recent step which shows that
the end sought by the railroad magnates
is the creation of a mammoth railroad
merger, is the recent purchase of the
Plant system by the Atlantic Coast Line,
and the proviso in the contract sale that
the Southern shall perpetually use the
Plant system’s tracks into Jacksonville.
Three competing railroads for the Florida
-business were thus given “a community'
of Interest" and put in a position where
Mr. Morgan and his associates can easily
assimilate them in the proposed securi
ties company which is to control all of
the railroad lines south of the Potomac
and east ot the Mississippi, with possibly
one exception.
Greatest System in World.
Some idea of the vastness of the new
Southern Security company is shown by
the mileage herewith given of all the.
railroads, which will become a part of it,
exclusive of the Seaboard Air Line.
Here are the roads and their mileage:
Road. Mileage
Southern Railway (including the
Central of Georgia, the Alabama
Great Southern, the Cincinnati,
New Orleans and Texas Pacific
and the Mobile and 0hi010,627
Louisville and Nashville..< 5,188
Nashville. Chattanooga and St. *
Louis Rai1r0ad...935
Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern
Railroad 225; \
Atlantic Coast Line2.ll7
Plant System.... 2,207 ;
Total mileage3l,349 .
EFFECT ON STATE ROAD
DISCUSSED BY GOVERNOR
For several days past there have been
rumors that the Southern would acquire
the L. and N. and now it is thought that
the Southern has actually come in posses-’
slon cf the property. As this seems to
be true many prominent Georgians have
been inquiring as to the effect the ac
quirement on part of the Southern would
have on the Western and Atlantic, which
has long been the pride of the statee The'
Southern is already operating a line from
Atlanta to Chattanooga, and the Central
which it already controls has a line from
Griffin to Chattanooga. The effect of the
purchase of the L. and N. by the South
ern is said by some to mean that at the
expiration of the present lease on the
state road, the state road would be com*'
pletely bottled up by the corporations, and
would have no outlets, that it would sim-
Y>ly be a local line between Atlanta and
Chattanooga, and that it would have no
connections. The present connections of
the W. and A. are with the Central in
Atlanta and with the N., C. and St. L. ■
in Chattanooga.
When asked his opinion on the matter
this morning. Governor Candler said:
“I do not think there is any danger of
the roads bottling up the state road.
While railroad combinations are very
powerful, they cannot cope with the state
of Georgia, for if such attempts were
made the result wouls be such drastic
legislation In Georgia that the railroads
would have to pay out more money than
they could make on the transaction.
“The railroads may attempt to depre
ciate the value of the state road in order
to get the state to sell it ah a low price,
but such an effort would also fall. The
people of Georgia will protect their in
terests in the matter, and nobody need
have any fear on that score."
One of the planks in Dupont Guerrg’s
platform iff against the sale of the state
road. It is understood that Candidates
Terrell and Estill are also opposed to the
sale of the property.
A man In whom the elements are really
well mixed troubles very little about wo
men, in so far as physical charm is con
cerned.—The Art of jLlfa, x