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'Atlanta Semi-Week I y 3on run I.
VOL. IV.
BLOOD FLOWED IN THE
CHICAGO STREET RIOTS
Terrific Fighting Occurs
For Hours Between Mob
and Police, Revolvers,
Clubs Being Used.
I CHICAGO. June 4.—The strike of the
drivers for the ten State street depart
ment stores was settled at a confer
ence held this afternoon and their men,
1,300 In all, returned to work.
The terms were not given out.
Behind closed doors away from the tur
moil or excitement of the day representa
tives of the big local packing houses are
holding a conference down town, it Is
said, which la to determine the settle
ment or continuance of the strike. The
conference tfi to decide upon what terms
the packers will agree to a settlement of
the strike and their conditions of arbi
tration. It is the first definite movement
in the direction of effective settlement of
the strike and within 24 hours the packers
expect to be ready to issue their state
ment.
CHICAGO. June 4—Disturbances due to
the teamsters* strike increased in ferocity
and frequency today.
Policemen in a number of instances
have had to draw their revolvers to pro
tect themselves, several of them had their
clubs not only taken from them, but used
against them
The hospitals began to feel the effect
of the battling by the increased number
of patients and the police stations were
scarcely able to hold the rioters arrested.
One of the most serious riots broke out
at Congress and State and Harrison
streets. By some maneuver the
strikers succeeded In divldng the 38 wag
on caravan (the second one to leave the
yards today) so that the front of It Uy
at Congress street on State, and the rear
of it at Harrison. While the vanguard
battled with a crowd which hurled brok
en bottles, stale eggs and other missiles,
including spools of thread thrown by wo
men sympathisers in the crowd, the rear
gnard was called upon to defend itself
against a more serious attack.
At this place the mob made a desperate
assault on the drivers, but was compelled
to turn its attention to the police who
came upon the run.
Twice the blue coats hurled themselves
against the infuriated men and twice they
were rebuffed and crowded back. It was
the most desperate cUsh the police had
had with citizens in years. In several
instances the strikers and their sympa
thisers wrenched the clubs from the po
licemen and used them against their
owners.
Meanwhile several men had gained a
position of advantage on the elevated
loop from which they fired missiles at
the officials. In this way officer John
McGuire was hit in the head with a horse
>hoe and so seriously injured that ho bad
to be taken to a hospital.
offlicer John Ltaencurjal was less se
riously hurt.
Ous JHllngs. one of the crowd, was
clubbed Into insensibility by the police and
he. too. was taken to a hospital in a seri
ous condition.
After two ineffectual rushes at the
crowd the police managed to disperse the
mob. A number of heads were hit, but it
was Impossible to obtain anything like a
complete list of the injured. *
The caravan, after 30 minutes delay, be
gan to move, but not in peace, for the
crowd followed closely.
The police, however, walked by the
wagons and confined their-efforts to pull
ing from the wagons men who tr|ed to
climo into tnem.
Perfect Hail of Missiles.
The decision of the ponce to confine their
attention strictly to keeping invaders from
climbing on the wagons did not long en
dure. From windows along the route mis
siles were flung at them. At every street
corner, teamsters in sympathy with' the
strikers, so managed their wagons as to
bring about a biockadTe. With the con
tinued opposition, the bombardment, the
blockading and the jeers all stirring them,
the police lost their temper and clubbed
with apparent indiscrimination. It is said
that several women and boys and one
helpless cripple received blows from the
batons of the police.
The streets through which the cavalcade
passed by noon had become a perfect
maelstrom of surging, exci.ed humanity.
The slowly persistent progress of the meat
wagons was a goad -o the temper of the
crowd.
Patrol wagons were kept busy rushing
to the various lock ups with prisoners,
ambulances hurried to the nearest hos
pitals where heads could be sewed up.
but never did the strikers and their sym
pathisers lessen their resistance. The sight
of new arrests and newly cracked skulls
wheted their appetites for more. They
took the presence of the Immense cara
van (a difficult thing to move under any
circumstances through down-town dis
tricts) as a challenge.
An Incident of the fight was the smash
ing of an automobile in which were seat
ed Charles Gates and a companion. The
machine was caught in one of the block
ades and smashed to splinters. Another
machine. In which were two women, was
caught in a similar predicament. The oc
cupants were so frightened by the riot
about them that they were at the point of
fainting when policemen rescued them.
While passing under the elevated rail
road loop, the caravan was endangered
by trolley wires which had been cut from
their fastening and hung down to the
pavement. No one was hurt, however,
from this cause.
Business on State street was in a state
of barricade several hours. Pickets for
the strikers persuaded sympathetic driv
ers to drive into the thoroughfare In order
to check the advance of meat wagons. At
Madison and State streets the volley of
eggs, bricks, etc., became so thick and
the street so congested that the police
were forced to charge upon the crowd.
Sympathizers in wagon loads tried* to
drive into the squads of police, and many
people were slightly Injured tn the fracas.
Clubs Freely Used.
One old man had his arm broken by a
blow from a policeman’s club. Women and
children were panic-stricken and fled cry
ing into side streets.
At Randolph and Clark streets the mob,
which was preceding and following the
meat caravan, grew riotous again. From
standing produce wagons, etc., the crowd
threw missiles and pelted the drivers of
packing house wagons. Here the police
charged the crowd again and again, driv
ing them into side streets.
At Fifth avenue, near Madison, three
coal Wagons attempted to blockade the
streets again. One teamster drew a re
volver and threatened to shoot any one
who touched his horses. The police pulled
his team aside, however, and the driver
was not arrested.
MAD STRIKERS RIOT
IN CHICAGO STREETS
CHICAGO. June X— Rioting broke out
again in the streets of Chicago today as
RHODE ISLAND
TROLLEYS
TIE DP
GREATEST STRIKE IN HISTORY
OF LITTLE STATE IS NOW ON
ANO EVERYBODY IS WALKING
TODAY. '
NEW YORK. June 4.—Every street car
line in Rhode Island, barring those in
Newport, in Woodsocket, in the Scituates
and ip Foster, which are independent com
panies, was tied up at midnight, says a
Providence special to The Herald. Thia
was the resint of a decision reached by
division No. 300, of the Amalgamated As
sociation of Street Railway Employes at
a special meeting. ' *
A ten hour bill for street railway em
ployees was unanimously adopted by the
general assembly last fall. It was to go
into effect last Sunday. On Saturday the
United Traction company posted notices to
the effect that the ten-hour act was un
constitutional and that it was the inten
tion to teat it in he supreme cour.
Division No. 300 yesterday afternoon sent
an ultimatum to the Knifed Traction com
pany, which is about to be controlled by a
Philadelphia syndicate.
The demand included a specific observ
ance of the ten-hour law; that all em
ployes now receiving more than $2 25 a
day shall continue to have the same
wages for ten hours work; that all others
shall be paid 20 cents an hour for 10
consecutive hours the first year and 221-2
cents an hour thereafter. That all em
ployes other than gripmen, motormen or
conductors, whether in the car houses, re
pair shops or power houses, shall be em
ployed not exceeding nine hours a day
and have the same pay given them, and
that all work more than ten hours shall be
at the rate of ft cents an hour. .
If these concessions were not agreed to,
it was declared, the entire system of the
United Traction company will be tied up,
beginning at midnight.
The company refused to grant these de
mands.
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
IS HELD FOR ROBBERY.
NEW YORK. Jens 4 —Jacob 81 mon, a jus
tice of the peace In Paterson. N. J., has been
arrested on a charge of receiving stolen prop
erty. Frederick Kreyer. a silk manufacturer,
was arrested later as an alleged accomplice.
Numerous el Ik robberies recently from Pater
son mills have pussled the police and the ar
rests just made are the first move in an at
tempt to clear up the affair.
Simon Is a barber, whose shop has been the
rendezvous of many of the prominent politi
cians In Paterson. It is alleged that Simon
was the receiver for the thieves and that he
bought the goods, shipped them to Lyndhurst,
N. U.. whence they were sent to a mill In an
other place and from there forwarded to New
York as the product of that mill. He was re
leased in 41,000 ball.
the result of the teamsters’ strike, an at
tempt to move 24 wagons under police
protection from the yards starting the
troubles.
The rioting took place in South Clark
street in front of two stores using meats
from the big packing houses.
The wagons were being loaded when a
crowd of spectators and strike sympa
thizers began hooting and interfering with
the non-union drivers.
The disturbance drew a mob of nearly
2000 people. The police tried to preserve
order but were not successful.
The two Irwin brothers, of the firm of
Irwin Brothers, seized. ax handles, and
in company with tae police, beat the
crowd back.
Isaac Bean was thrown down a stair
way and had his back broken.
A passing street car overturned a patrol
wagon on the way to the riots and dump
ed the police into the streets.
In other sections of the city attempts
were made to move meat, but because of
the large gatherings of people wagons
were put back to warehouses and unload
ed. The ten big State street department
stores were seriously handicapped by the
strike of 1,300 drivers and conductors of
delivery wagons, members of the National
Teamsters’ union, the same union that is
conducting the meat drivers’ strike.
Following are the stores affected:
Marshal Field & Co.
Carson. Plrie, Scott & Co.
C. A. Stephens snd brothers.
Mandell Bros. \
Schlesinger & Mayer.
Hillman’s Boston Store.
The Fair.
A. M. Rothschilds.
A. C. & H. Engel & Co.
The reason for the strike Is a difficulty
over the wage scale of the stores and an
attempt today to relieve "The Fair,"
whose men were already on a strike, by
sending two wagons from each of the
other stores to carry goods. All the man
agers of the department atores held a con
ference and sent out a joint ultimatum
against the union and its methods.
< »♦♦♦♦♦»«»<
♦ HUNDREDS IN A RIOTj ♦
♦ ‘ FIVE MEN ARE SHOT. ♦
+ EDWARDSVILLE. 111., June 4.*- +
♦ A riot broke out today between ♦
♦ several hundred striking molders +
♦ and non-union employes of the ♦
♦ Amerocan Steel and Foundry com- ♦
+ pany-and as a result five men, two ♦
♦ negroes, non-union worker’s, and ♦
+ three white strikers were shot, two 4*
+ of the latter fatally. As far as can ♦
♦ be learned the names of the wound- +
+ ed are: +
♦ John Buffington, aged 24, shot In ♦
♦ the back, bullet lodged in the kid- 4*
+ neys. condition serious. +
♦ 8. B. Mefford, aged 35, shot In the 4>
♦ right arm.
♦ Alexander Matthews, aged 30, shot ♦
+ in the left leg. 4
+ The trouble broke out when a ♦
+ train load of employes of the com- ♦
♦ pany who had not struck reached 4>
+ Granite City. As the men were 4»
♦ proceeding through a narrow lane ♦
4» to their work in the mills they were 4>
♦ first threatened by the strikers and 4»
♦ then assailed with stones. Revol- 4>
♦ vers were then brought into play +
4 1 and several shots were fired by both 4>
+ parties. Two non-union men, ne- ♦
♦ groes. and three white strikers re- ♦
+ ceived wounds. 4
CAMPAIGN FOR GOVERNOR OVER;
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY ON TODAY
Terrell, Guerry and Estill
Are Confident of Election.
All Candidates Say
They Will Win. .
EVERY COUNTY IS READY
FOR BALLOTS TO FALL
Many Interesting Races for House and
Senate Are On—Gubernatorial Men
Speak For Last Time
Today.
Today closes the campaign for governor
in Georgia—a campaign that has been a
remarkable one in many respects and one
which will go down In history as one of
the hardest fought and most bitterly con
tested struggles ever known.
The voters are ready to cast their bal
lots, and the managers are ready to count
them. Every county has made suitable
provision for the election and everything
is in perfect working order. Chairman
Ed T. Brown, of the state democratic
committee has received reports from the
chairman of all the committees in the
various counties telling him of the ar
rangements that have been perfected and
he will probably receive the consolidated
returns early next week some time.
Today all the people who have reg
istered during the year 1901 and until with
in ten days of the primary will be allowed
to vote. The primary will settle the gu
bernatorial race, the race for state school
commissioner, the race for commissioner,
of agriculture and the onfe for prlsqn com
missioner. *
Several of the state house officers have
no oppositnon and will, of course, be re
elected. In addition to.the state house
officers many counties in the state will
hold the primary for county offices to
morrow and there are many warm races
on. Considerable feeling is being mani
fested on some of the struggles and in
some places it would not be a surprise if
there was trouble, a repetition of the
acenes which occurred in Savannah seve
ral days ago. It is hoped, however, that
everything will pass off smoothly as possi
ble and that no trouble will occur.
Terrell, Estill and Guerry have arranged
with their workers for the final work.
All three men will be represented at nearly
every voting precinct in the state with
active workers and supporters and every
effort will be made to capture the floating
vote.
WHO THE CANDIDATES ARE
FOR TODAY’S ELECTION
The candidates whose names appear on
the ballets today fpr state house offi
jcera are? ►£■ ~., * ''■■■* 1 “
FOR GOVERNOR:
Joseph M. Terrell, of .Meriwether.
J. H. Estill, of Chatham.
Dupont Guerry, of Bibb.
FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL:
John C. Hart.
FOR COMPTROLLER GENERAL:
William A;. Wright.
FOR STATE SCHOOL COMMISSIONER.
G. R. Glenn.
Mark Johnston.
W. B. Merritt.
FOR PRISON COMMISSIONER.
Thomas Eason.
Wiley Williams.
FOR COMMISSIONER OF AGRICUL
TURE:
O. B. Stevens.
R. T. Nisbet.
FOR SECRETARY OF STATE:
Phil Cook.
FOR STATE TREASURER.
Robert E. Park.
Comptroller General Wright, Secretary
of State Cook and State Treasurer Robert
E. Park have no opponents in the race
and will succeed themselves for the next
twe and possibly the next four years,
GLENN, MERRITT AND JOHNSTON
ARE CONFIDENT OF ELECTION
The three candidates for state school
commissioner feel sure that they will be
elected. Glenn's friends claim that he will
go in the convention with 240 votes. Com
missioner Glenn himself will make no es
timate of his strength, but says he is sure
to succeed himself as state school com
missioner. Mark Johnston is counting on
73 counties, which will give him 180 votes
in the convention. Mr. Johnston says he
would carry more if he had announced
for the place sooner. Merritt states that
he thinks he will carry 88 or 90 counties,
which would be sure to elect him as state
school commissioner. ,
In the race for this office several Issues
have been made. Commissioner Glenn is
opposed to state uniformity; Mark John
ston is a string advocate of state unifor-
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RON. JOSEPH M. TERRELL.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1902.
ONLY FEW AMERICANS
CAN SEE CORONATION
NEW YORK. Jufie 4,—Many erroneous
rumors have been lurrent respecting the
number of Americdhs who have been in
vited to t|ie coronation at the abbey, ca
bles the LondonAcorrespondent of the
Tribune. Cdurt officials have emphasized
the fact from the futset that only those
foreigners having official relations with
the government caffi expect to attend the
ceremonies, which Annot be witnessed by
more than six thousand persons apart
PRINCE HENRY OF PRUSSIA
ACCEPTS GIFT FROM TAR
BERLIN, June 4.-»Admlral Prince Hen
ry, of Prussia, has Exchanged presents
with an ordinary fifeman of his squad
ron.
When Prince H nry’s grandmother.
Queen Louise, was 1 selng from Napoleon
in 1806 she took sh< Iter one night In the
dwelling of a peaffi it. The next morn
ing the queen gave her peasant host a
beautiful watch, together with certain
documents which w ire preserved in this
peasant family aa heirlooms.
This watch came Eventually to be car
ried by a sailor on a vessel of Prince
Henry’s squadron. " hrlnce Henry noticed
the sailor’s tlme-plede. examined and ad
mired it, whereupon the owner presented
mity In the matter >f textbooks, while
Merritt is opposed t the present system
of schools. Mr. Gleni says that state uni
formity will never o, and that if the
school system Is not latisfactory, the leg
islature and not h naelf is responsible
for it. Johnston stat« i that state uniform
ity will make a big i ifference to the peo
ple of the state, and ‘lahns that the legis
lature should pass a >tarte uniformity bill.
Merritt says the present system is not
what it should be, nd if he is elected,
pledges himself to ai list in changing it.
WILLIAMS AND SASON
PRISON BO) RD CANDIDATES
Wiley Williams am Thomas Eason are
running a close rac< for the position of
prison commissioner. The term of office
is six years. There arte but few issues that
can be made in the race for this position
and each man is thrown more on his own
merits than anytnlnff else. Wiley Will
iams for years was the popular chief of
police of Columbus, Ga„ and Mr. Eason
for numbers of tertgß was solicitor gen
eral of his county. Besides he has been
identified with the political struggles in
..Georgia far.' ma«y aad has aJiways*
been successful. John D. Little, former
speaker of the house, who l is managing
Mr. Williams’ campaign, predicts that
Williams will be the winner. Tom Eason
who knows politics pretty well, says he
will be elected.
NISBET AND O. B. STEVENS
WILL BE VOTED FOR TODAY
O. B. Stevens is opposed in the primary
today by R. T. Nisbet, of Cobb boun
ty. Mr. Stevens defeated R. T. Nisbet
several years ago for commissioner of ag
riculture, carrying 101 counties to Nisbet’s
36. Mr. Nisbet has been making a vigor
ous campaign since early in January and
announces now that he will be elected
without much trouble. Mr. Stevens is se
renely confident that he will carry even
more than 101 counties today, and If
this is the case, he will be elected again.
TRIAL
WILL BEA LONG ONE
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 4.-The indi
cations are that the trial of D. Coff
man, the Brookside justice of the peace
who is on trial on the charge of killing
Rev. J. W. Bradford, pastor of the Brook
side Methodist church, will last through
out the week. More than 150 witnesses are
to be examined and every inch of ground
Is being contested by the opposing attor
neys. The claim of Coffman is that Rev.
Mr. Bradford sent for him to call at the
parsonage and that when he got there he
was assaulted by the minister. In the
fight which followed he alleges that a re
volver dropped from the pocket of Mr.
Bradford and that he picked it up before
the minister could get it. and this was
the weapon with which the fatal shot was
fired. The state seeks to show that Coff
man was not sent for but that he went to
the parsonage for the purpose of demand
ing satisfaction from the minister for a
remark alleged to have been made by Rev.
Mr. Bradford concerning Coffman.
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from the special and regular ambassadors
and their wives. It is not probable that
rnpre than a half dozen Americans will be
among the privileged spectators. Henry
White and John R. Carter naturally will
attend the coronation, owing to their offi
cial positions, and also J. Pierpont Mor
gan, Jr., for the same reason, but there
is no foundation for the foolish talk about
American millionaires buying their way
to the best seats.
it to the prince. The gift was accepted
by Prince Henry with courteous expres
sions of his thanks. Later the prince
made Inquiries concerning the sailor’s as
pirations, and as a result he secured his
entrance to the school of navigation at
Hamburg and gave him money with which
to pay all the expenses of a course there.
Princess Henry will accompany Prince
Henry to the coronation of Kings Edward
on board the battleship Kaiser Frlederich
111.
Prince Henry is building a second "sil
ver chamber,” in Kiel castle to accommo
date a large and rare collection of sil
verware which he has inherited from the
late Prince George, of Prussia.
BndmotheH
CHARGED WITH
KIDNAPING
OHIO WOMAN STOPPED BY POLICE
BECAUSE HER SON-IN-LAW
WANTED HIS BABY
BACK.
WASHINGTON. June 3.—Mrs. Catherine
Lemmon, 54 years old, wife of George
Lemmon, of ZanesvMie, Ohio, has been
arvaated here upon iw)r from Phil
adelphia, on the request of the superin
tendent of police of that city, who asked
that she be held on the charge of kldr
naping.
Mrs. Lemmon had with her two grand
children, Bessie Dougherty and Violet
Colievan, the latter three years old. She
was alleged to have kidnaped Violet. She
says her daughter, who was the wife of
George Collevan, the proprietor of a ho
tel in Philadelphia, died a little more
than a year ago. The child was given her
by her daughter on her death bed. with
the request that'she care for and keep
her. The husband, she added, made no
objections and she took the baby«-with her
to Ohio. Since the mother’s death, she
has divided her time between Zanesville
and Philadelphia in order that the little
girl might be with her father a part of
the time. Her plan was to return to Ohio
about this time and when she left Phil
adelphia she says she thought it strange
that Collevan did not appear to say goody
bye. She did not see him and was not
aware that any trouble awlated her until
the officers approached her at the train.
While loath to give up the little girl, Mrs.
Lemmon said she wished to abide by the
law. She returned to Philadelphia with
two officers.
german’ship glade
SUPPOSED TO BE LOST
SAN FRANCISCO, June 4 —The rate of re
insurance on the German ahlp H. F. Glade has
advanced to 95 per cent. The Glade is now
out *227 days from this port for Queenstown.
She has not been heard of since the tug boat
cast her off outside the port. f
Seventy-four Lives Lost by Shock.
NEW YORK, June 4.—A dispatch from
LaPaz, Bolivia, dated Monday, says ac
cording to the Valparaiso, Chili, corre
spondent of the Herald that two villages
have been destroyed and seventy-four
persons killed by the eruption of a volca
no in the territory of Choico. The serious
eruption of the volcano continues.
ENGLAND AND SPAIN 1
SEND NEW MINISTERS
OPEN SWITCH
TAKES TRAIN
TO DOOM
OREGON EXPRESS ON SOUTH
ERN PACIFIC GOES THROUGH
OPEN SWITCH AND IS DASH
ED TO PIECES.
REDDING. Cal., June 4.—The south
bound Oregon express on the Southern
Pacific road, which left Redding at 10:45
last'nifcht was wrecked about fifteen min
utes later near Clear creek, four miles
from this city.
The accident was caused by a half open
switch which had/ evidently been left in
that condition by some unknown person.
The train was a “double header” and was
running down grade at great speed. Both
engines were thrown into the ditch and
completely wrecked.
Engineer J. N. White and Fireman Fred
Tassel, of the forward engine, were thrown
under the wreckage and crushed to death,
their bodies being fearfully mangled. The
mail car was thrown across the track.
All of the passenger coaches were ditched.
A number of passengers were more or
less injured, but so far as can be learned
none were killed. The names of the in
jured passengers have not been ascer
tained.
RENDER HARD TO HOLD
BEHIND PRISON BARS
Will Render, the negro who escaped
from the police headquarters sixteen
months ago, and who was caught last
Saturday night, has been planning to get
out again. His plan w-ould have probably
succeeded had not Turnkey Bostick dis
covered it yesterday and taken precau
tionary measures.
Render had secured the handles from
the iron buckets from which the prisoners
drink and had fashioned them into such
a shape that they would open the locks
on the big iron cell doors. These were
taken from him and in future he will be
handed water and not allowed to get it
for himself. The plan for escape was
given to the turnkey by one of the pris
oners, who-feliwed hl»‘ a note. w
Render’s escape sixteen months ago was
sensational, he and two cellmates getting
away without it being discovered until
their cases were called in court next
morning. But for the discovery yesterday
morning there would probably have been
a repetition of the same thing.
WAS WORTH
BUT IS NOW A PAUPER
NEW YORK. June 4.—Without a cent in
the world. Edward Reynal de Saint Mi
chael, formerly one of the wealthiest and
most Influential men in St. Pierre, has ar
rived in this city. He was happy, des
pite his impoverished condition, for his
wife and son was with him. having es
caped tjie ravages of Mont Pelee by the
merest Occident.
Mme. de St. Michael, who is a native of
Fort de France, was spending the day
with her relatives at the time of the dis
aster. and her husband left St. Pierre to
join her an hour before the blast of flame
destroyed the city. He traveled in a tug
to Fort de France and when he reached
the Martinique capital the destruction of
his native city was announced.
WILL NOWECONOMfZE --
IN GOVERNMENT PRINTING
WASHINGTON, June 4.—The secretary ot
war has promulgated an order Intended to af
fect the large economy in government printing.
It provides that hereafter there shall be print
ed only the reports of superior officers in
command of military departments and In the
field chiefs of bureaus of the' departments. The
reports of the various branches agp not to be
printed hereafter. But the superior officers are
expected to include a resume of the reports In
their report.
Sweinhart Recovers.
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., June 4.—Major S.
F. Sweinhart, president of
Letter Carriers’ association and a popu
lar members of the local force, has en
tirely recovered from his critical illness
and will go back to his office in a few
days.
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HON. DUPONT GUERRY.
Hon. flichael Herbert Suc
ceeds the Late Lord
Pauncefote At
Washington.
WASHINGTON, June 4.—Two important
changes in the diplomatic representatives
in Washington were announced too ay.
The Hon. Michael Herbert succeeds ths
late Lord Pauncefote as British ambassa
dor and Senor de Ojeda succeeds the
Duke de Arcos as Spanish minister.
Notice of Mr. Herbert’s appointment
simply confirmed the judgment of officials
as to the succession and is welcomed by
them. At present Mr. Herbert is first
secretary* of the embassy at Paris, but
with the rank of minister plenipotentiary.
In very few instances does the British
government employ an official of such
high rank in the office of secretary of
embassy.
The change in the Spanish legation hero
came as a distinct surprise to all but the
intimate friends of the Duke d‘Arcos. He
came to the United States as the first
Spanish minister after the war and nat
urally his position was a very delicate
one, requiring the exhibition of infinite
tact to avoid unpleasant inciidents. He
was very’ successful in his mission, while <
socially his relations have been very pleas
ant. •* t' 4
It is understood the change is attribxt
able entirely to the retiring miniater’a
desire to secure the best possible treat
ment for his impaired vision, which has
caused him much and growing concern
Therefore he has secured a transfer to
the Spanish legation at Brussels. There
he will be as near as practicable to an
eye specialist who already has
his treatment at inconvenient Interrala.
Senor de Ojeda, who succeeds the Duke
d’Arcos, comes to Washington with ex
cellent credentials. He was secretary of
the Spanish peace commission at Paris
and is at present minister to Tangier. 1
WELLS WILLHANG ~ ‘ ;J
FOR PIERCE’S MURDER
The supreme court has affirmed the de
citsion of Judge John S. Candler in refus
ing to grant a new trial to W. R. Wells,
the condemned murderer of Frederic
Pierce, the blind man. Wells, at the time
the decision, was handed down,, was on
the fourth floor of the tower, in the cell
with Millard Lee, the slayer of Mias Lilin
Suttles, but the jail officials have trans
ferred him to the condemned cell on the
fifth floor.
Wells has eaten nothing since Tuesday
afternoon, when told of the decision. He
complains that his head pains him. Th lb <
morning he beat his hands wildly against
the sides of his cell until they were badly
bruised. County Physician Fisher saw him
this morning and gave him medicine to
control the action of bla heart- Several
times since he Mas been in the Tower Dr.
Fisher has found it necessary to do this.
Wells is a pathetic sight. With both
hands pressed against his head, he coin
plains bitterly. There is an indentation In
his head, caused from a blow, he says,
which he received when he was a boy.
This, he claims, causes him to have at
tacks that impair his reason.
Wells has professed conversion since he
killed Pierce. He says he is ready for any
thing that comes now. ,
When told that he was to be hanged he •
said: “I wish it was now. Oh, I wish they
would do it now! It would take me out
of my misery. Oh, my Lord, my Lord!” ;•
speAkeiTdf house
IN MISSISSIPPI I
• FOUND DEAD
DELIVERED ORATION YESTERDAY
AND DIED ALONE DURING NIGHT
OF HEART DISEASE.
MEMPHIS,. June 4.-<A Scimitar special /
from Oxford, Miss., says:
Hon. A. J. Russell, of Meridian, speaker
of the Mississippi house of representa
tives, who delivered the annual oration
at the University of Mississippi yester
day, was found dead in his room this
morning. His death was* caused by heart
failure.
INDIANS ON WARPATH;
MEXICAN TROOPS ROUTED -
SAN FRANCISCO, June 4.—A special
from Tucson, Arlz., says:
The uprising among the Yaqui Indians
is becoming general. A detachment of 73
men from the force of General
who is pursuing the Yaquis in the Mazat
lan. mountains, east of Hermosillo, was
ambushed and thirty of the number kill
ed. Captain Gomez and Lieutenant Jo
seph. Valjo, of the Twentieth battalion,
were among the slain. Only one escaped
unhurt. The Mexicans ran out of am
munition and engaged in a hand to hand
battle with the Yaquis. Fifty of the lat
ter were reported killed, but their great
number overwhelmed the Mexicans. The
survivors retreated to Hermosillo. Fif
teen of them were wounded.
General Torres has retreated and sent
out scouts loyal to the government. It is
'reported that everywhere the Yaquis have
taken the warpath. Three stations on the
Sonoro river have been abandoned and ■ i
the English operators have left with Gen
eral Torres in command of the Mexican
troops, has been reinforced by his brother ’
Lorenzo Torres with 200 mounted men.
It is estimated that there are 1,000 Ya
quis well armed, assembled in the foot
hills of the Mazatlan mountains.
The Mexican forces are short of ammu
nition and arms and through the authori
ties at Nogales all available arms and
ammunition at Tucson was ordered ship
ped Monday. The Yaquis captured 25
stands of ar ma. In the ambuscade Sunday.
Runners arriving at Hermosillo report '
fearful cruelties at the ambuscade,
which occurred Sunday near Agua Jito.
Aso soon as the expected reinforcements
arrive General Torres will attack the Ya
quis in the mountains and a decisive bat
tle Is expected then.
Cattle Thieves, at Work.
HUNTSVILLE. Ala., June 4.—During the
past two months over 30 head of cattle
have been stolen from various parties in
this and adjoining counties, but so far the
officers have not been successful in cap
turing the guilty ones; however, John
Robinson, a negro, has been placed in jail
here as a suspect.
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