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2 BIG STRIKE HIS CUNEO STRENGTH MAJORITY OF FREIGHT HAN ‘ OLERS DECLARE TO CONTIN UE STRIKE WHETHER THEY • GET ASSISTANCE OR NOT. CHICAGO, July k large percentage of the striking: freight handlers this morn ing voted to refuse th* railroad’s terms presented last night a*d to continue the strike despite official refusal of the Chi cago Federation of Labor to help them. • This action was taken by Polk Local union, consisting of men employed by the Rock Island. Baltimore and Ohio, Lake Shore, Nickel Plate. Great Western and Terminal and the Western local, compris ing men tn the warehouses of the Burling ton. Chicago and Northwestern. St. Paul. Fort Wayne and Chicago and Alton roads. One thousand members were present at the meeting. » Meetings of the other two locals, to which I elong men of the railroads were scheduled for 9JO a. m. President Curran, of the freight handlers' union, advocated accepting the terms offered by the mil roads and returning to work to await an opportunity to retaliate upon the team sters union and the Chicago Federation of Labor. His proposition was entirely lost In the excitement that followed, and by a standing vote, the strikers not only de cided to stay out. but to fight to the last ditch without seeking co-operation or support Following the meeting of Polk and west ern locals, a delegation of thirty strikers visited the Burlington yards and persuad ed all the teamsters delivering or receiv ing freight, except those of Marshall. Feld * Company, to drive away with their work uncompleted. The delegation then started for the Rock tatand yards. The action of the teamsters is contrary to the orders of the officials of their union. Healy Local Union, to which belong Erie. Grand Trunk, Wabash and Chicago and Eastern Illinois ware house men. have also voted to continue the strike. Five striking freight handlers were ar rested today to connection with the al leged murder of John Landers, also a striker. Landers Is said to have been kill ed last night during an exciting argument over the strike, in which he declared his intention to return to work today. It is claimed that as soon as he made the dec laration the group of freight handlers to whom he had been talking began to abuse him and a short time afterward he was found to a hall way with his throat cut. Ho was taken to a hospital where he died. Daniel Grogan, another freight handler, was arrested last night upon suspicion of having been implicated to Lander’s mur der. At 10:30 the northwest local, comprising men from the St. Paul, the Panhandle and Galena and Wisconsin divisions of the Northwestern and Central local, embrac ing the Illinois Central. Wisconsin Cen tral and Michigan Central, voted to con tinue the strike. W. C. Brown, vice president of the Lake Shore road, upon hearing of the action of the strikers. Issued an ultimatum declar ing that If the men were not back at work by tonight the Doo-anion men <ho have been hired to their places, would be rec ognised as "old employes.” President Curran, at the meeting of the Central lo cal. declared his intention of making an other attempt to secure the official aid of the Chicago Federation of Labor and of the Teamsters’ union. PRAY DRIVERS ALL REFUSE TO TAKE OUT LOADS CHICAGO. July 12. Members of the truck drivers’ union, as individuals, in sympathy with the striking freight hand lers, refused to haul freight this morning and every freight house to the city was closed up. The men took out their wagons as usual in many Instances, only to drive them to the warehouses and block the entrances and exits. Fully 100 drivers went in this way to the freight house of the Illinois Central this morning. They backed their teams up along side the other platforms and proceeded to wait. They chatted and smoked, but would handle no freight. Moot of the truckmen who visited the depots were from South Water street, where vegeta bles. fruit, butter, eggs, poultry snd the like are dealt tn by wholesalers. The other truckmen, it is said, in many distances refused to take out their trucks st all, or having done so, drove to the headquarters of their union and begged permission to refrain from work. They pleaded as an excuse that they feared per sonal violence at the hands of freight handlers on picket duty, such as befell a number of teamsters yesterday. J. Thompson, secretary of the urion, told the men that it was their duty to work as long as work was possible, but his arguments were not successful. If the freight strike is settled the teamsters will •t once resume work. If a settlement is got reached it is said commission mer- Miants on South Water street will lose through the destruction of perish able goods today. The freight handlers held a number of meetings today, at which committees were appointed to visit the railroad managers in accordance with the plan proposed by the board of arbitration., Canal street, which leads to the ware house of the Burlington road was again Mocked this morning, a double line of trucks extending from Adams to Polk streets. a distance of five blocks. Sev eral big firms, after listening to the ex pressions of fear from their drivers, de cided not to send their trucks out at all today. Police guards at all of the depots were reinforced this morning by the bringing to more men from the outlying districts! The policemen stand to pairs to increase their efficiency and to order to protect •ach other against sudden assault. The talk of the drivers was all on one mat- - ter: ’’Woifid the freight handlers* strike be settled by noon?*’ From their words it was evident they were eager to strike officially to sympathy. President Hugh McGee and other officials of the truckmen's organisation were im portuned ceaselessly to call a strike, but they steadfastly refused. The calling of a •trike, however, would merely make the present actions of the drivers authorita tive. and would change the practical situ ation but little. The freight house superintendents were bringing in men from other cities and towns to take the places of striking freight handlers, and clerks had a suffi cient force on hand to handle the usual quantity of freight. But the action of the truckmen left them with no freight to handle. The truckmen stationed at In tervals along every street a teamster, with his truck drawn up to the curb Ms • picket. Whenever a truck approached the driver was stopped and informed that the men were not working today. In this way a cessation of work was brought about al most as quickly as it would have been had the officials called a strike officially. At the headquarters of the Teamsters' Union it was said that 8.00 teamsters were out. This, ft was said, left lees than 300 men at work and these, it was stated, would drop their reins as son as word could be gotten to them. The adltion of the teamsters brings the total of men on strike to about M.OOO men. To Call Switchmen. CHICAGO, July 11—Conferences be tween the striking freight handlers and the managers of the railroads did not produce any definite result today. The freight handlers who are now fully assured of the aid of the teamsters, whether a strike shall be sanctioned by that organisation or not, announced to night that they will make an effort to call out the railroad switchmen by ap pealing to them not to handle cars of freight that are loaded by non-union men. It was announced at the headquarters of the freight handlers’ union that this had been done, but Grandmaster Hawley of the Switchmen’s union, who is in the city on business having no connection with the strike of the freight handlers, said that he had received no such request, and that under the rules of his organisa tion it would be out of the question for him to call a strike, and he did not be lieve that there was any prospect of the men going out to aid the freight handlers. The national convention of the long shoremen is now in session here and Grandmaster Keefe of that body said to night that he had not been approached in the matter of a sympathetic strike, but that the freight handlers could pre sent their request to the convention on Monday if they should desire to d<J so. What action would be probable in such an event, Mr. Keefe declared, he could not guess. ftDMI DETERNEVS MEMORY IS ' HONORED SITE IS CHOSEN FOR A SHAFT TO BE ERECTED TO COMMEMORATE DEEDS OF THE GALLANT FRENCHMAN. NEWPORT. R. 1., July 12.-Dr. H. H. Kane, president of the Cerele Litteratrs Franco-Americaine of New York, and oth er representative Frenchmen arrived here recently to locate the site of a proposed monument to honor of Admiral de Temey, who commanded the French allies, which came to this country during the American revolution. A site was selected on the Harbor park, or esplanade, which was formerly an old pier on which the French landed In 1781, and here a triangular stone with the date, July 11. 1902, was placed in position, and upon this the monument will be erected. The stone was taken from a granite quarry on the estate of Lorillard Spencer, from which the stone for the old pier and the old fort during the revolution was taken. The exercises consisted of addresses by Mayor Boyle, Lieutenant Governor Shep lay, John Austin Stevena and Rev. A. E. Favre, a French Protestant clergyman from Paris. Prayer by Rev. Wm. B. Mee nan. of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic church of this city closed the exercises. YOUNG SEA SERPENT NOW IN AQUARIUM NEW YORK, July 12.—What is supposed to be the nearest relative to a sea serpent if not one itself is now in the aquarium at the battery. L. B. Spencer, who has charge of the aquarium, actually calls it a sea serpent, to lieu of a better name. The serpent is more than six feet to length and is one of 28 varieties of tropi cal fishes just received from the Bermudas. It is from four to six Inches in diameter, with a dark mottled brown color, with whitish bands an Inch or two in width occuring every two or three inches the length of the body. The specimen looks more like a snake than it does like a fish. Professor Charles L. Bristom, of the New York, university, who sent it north, said that the species was entirely un known to him and that it had never, as far as it is known, been seen in Bermuda waters before. DISCHARGED EMPLOYE WANTED TO GET REVENGE BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. July 12.-In re sponse to a telephone message three dep uty sheriffs were sent to Coalburg today to arrest Fred Hudson, a young man re cently discharged from the mines for aji alleged attempt on the lives of the opera tor and station agent of the Southern Railway company at Coalburg. When the officers arrived Hudson had disappeared. 1 It is said the young man is mentally unbalanced, and smarting under the cha grin of being discharged, fired four shots at the railway employes. No one was in jured, and the officers returned. DEMOCRATS NAME PAGE FOR CONGRESS THOUGH HE VOTED FOR M KINLEY CHARLOTTE, N. C.. July 12.-The Democrats of the seventh congressional district did a very surprising thing yes terday in naming for congress a man who without concealment or evasion voted for William McKinley, the Republican nomi nee for president, in preference to Wil liam J. Bryan, the Democratic standard bearer. Page has not recanted so far as the record goes, and his selection over sev eral other men of known party loyalty in a district where regularity would be supposed to count for a great deal is almost a revelation to some Democrats. Page is a brother of Walter H. Page, editor of The World's Work, and also of Henry A. Page, the president of the Aberdeen and Asheboro railroad, a North Carolina corporation, and is himself an able business man of an independent po litical disposition. He is, however, one to whom the people of his section have implicit confidence. To make his nomina tion more surprising it is to be noted that his county had two candidates, who went into the convention with about the same number of votes pledged to each. Page, however, was a few In the lead and fin ally won out after the number of caAdi dates had been thinned to three. His nomination was first secured on the 1,210th ballot, but on a protest being made the convention was prolonged some hours and be was finally declared the nominee with 179 votes, four more than necessary to a choice. Aside from the fact that his political record was not straight as partisan poli tics go, Page can be said to have car ried another handicap in North Carolina politics at present, for he is a large stock holder in a railroad and is supposed to belong to that class known in political circles as the •’corporatlonlsts,’’ against whom there is more or less hostility among a certain element of voters. About a year ago. when his county went to select a candidate for the legislature, the delegates held a caucus before going into open meeting and decided that they would call Page in to explain some re ports that had been circulated concerning his record. Although not a candidate for the nomination. Page went to the -meeting. Telling the chairman of the - «|r M .1 -'.VI I 1.1. Y I h>IAL. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, AlONbAf, JULY 14, 1902. LATIMER AND EVANS MAY FIGHT - FORMER GOVERNOR OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND CONGRESS MAN MAY MEET ON FIELD OF HONOR. CHARLESTON, S. C*. July 12.—At the campaign meeting of the six candidates for the United States senate at St. George, Colleton, today, there was a war of words which reny lead to a duel between Con gressman A. C. Latimer and ex-Governor John Gary Evans, two rival candidates. Mr. Latimer, in his speech said that Mr. Evans had once been his friend.* He was interrupted by Mr. Evans who said that Latimer “betrayed me like a dog.” Latimer to retaliation brought up the 315,000 bond deal, a scandal against Mr. Evans when he was governor. Evans said in reply: "I denounce the man who repeats that rumor as a liar!” The men started toward each other and there would have been an ugly fight had not Sheriff Owens rushed in between then), insisting that the court room was no place for duels. To this Mr. Latimer agreed and Mr. Evans remarked there was plenty of room outside and plenty of time In the future. NEELY NOW DEMANDS . RETURN OF HIS MONEY HAVANA. July 12.—Charles W. Neely, convicted of embezzling post office funds and released by the new Cuban govern ment. today made a demand through Uni ted States Minister Squires and the Cu ban secretary of state for the money taken from him (Neely) when he was originally put under arrest. The secre tary directed the supreme court to make an investigation at once into the facts of the case, which owing to its connection with the late American administration of the island, is liable to result In grave complications, and especially as Neely charges that the effects are Illegally with held and that thousands of dollars were tauten and kept frotn him. Fine inter national questions, without precedent to guide a decision are called up by Nee ly’s action. TEN THOUSAND MEN HAVE BLOODY FIGHT EDINBURGH, July 12—A tumult oc curred here this afternon as the result of the celebration by Orangemen which was more serious than any reported from Ireland, where belligerency was generally held in check. Ten thousand Orangemen, who were re turning home after attending exercises at Holyrood park, while passing through Canon gate, a thoroughfare occupied chiefly by Catholics, clashed with the in habitants and many personal encounters took plaoe. The foot police were unable to quell the disturbances and more than an hour had elapsed before all the dis putants wer® separated by charges of mounted police. A number of persons were hurt and a few arrests were made. MISSOURI ASSEMBLYMAN IS KILLED IN STREET DUEL MEXICO, Mo., July 11.—Rhodes Clay, representative in the Missouri assembly and recently nominated for a second term, is dead the result of a pistol shot wound inflicted by C. A. Barnes, a young attor ney. Five shots were fired during the fight, which took place in front of the postoffice. Clay being shot through the breast and Barnes having his wrist shat tered by a ball from his opponent’s re volver. The shooting grew out of business transactions. Watson Gets Ovation. AUGUSTA, Ga„ July 12.—Hon. Thomas E. Watson delivered his lecture on “The South” at the opera housb last night to a large audience. Many of the audience heard him for the first time, but all joined In the ova tion that was tendered him after the elo quent peroration. It was a triumph for Watson and • though worn out he appeared happy as the great crowd pressed arouund him on the stage to shake his hand. caucus that he heard that he was wanted, Page was told that he was. “Some of the delegates here,” said the chairman, “have heard that you voted for McKinley at the last election, and as they have been thinking of placing you tn nomination for the legislature, thty would like for you to tell them whether these statements are true.” “They are.” said Page, “to the extent that I voted for McKinley in preference to Bryan. I believed it to be for the best interest of the country for McKinley to be elected and backed up my judgment with my vote, and I do not want any man to misunderstand me, and if he votes for me in the convention he does so with the full knowledge of my action.” Page also gave them to understand that he would do the same thing again under similar circumstances, and then withdrew from the caucus. A vote was taken and of the 54 delegates present 52 cast their votes for Page. The delegates then went into,open convention and the same vote was repeated. At the following election Page led his ticket by some 50 votes. Page’s nomination is regarded by many Democrats as a protest against the selec tion of Judge Walter Clark for chief jus tice of the supreme court, in an indirect way. A fight against the judge in the shape of serious charges against his in tegrity as a judge have been printed, and Henry A. Page, a brother of the man nominated, was the leader of this move ment against Clark. The latter, however, is not opposed by any candidate and his nomination is assured. But as the Pages are understood to belong to the same political faction, it is not unlikely that some feeling was displayed on the Clark question. The seventh district as now laid out consists of a shoe-string affair extend ing from Scotland on the south to Yadkin on the north of the state, and Senator Cameron Morrison, one of Page’s strong est opponents for the congressional nml natlon, is supposed to have used his in fluence to make his own nomination as easy of accomplishment as possible. As to this, of course, there can be only sur mise, but it is among the things one hears in a contest which is remarkable on ac count of its unlooked for termination. ARCHBISHOP FEENAN I S DEAD IN CHICAGO CHICAGO, July 12— Archbishop Patrick A. Feehan, for 22 years supreme head of the Catholic arch diocese of Chicago, died shortly after 3 o’clock this afternoon. Acute congestion of the brain was the immediate cause. Ailing for more than a year. Hie venerable, prelate insisted, de spite his ill health, upon administering the affairs of his large charge to the end. He spent part of the morning tn the study of local problems. His health, never too robust since the awful summer of 1865, when he went through the Nashville cholera plague, failed altogether last summer. He inherited from his father a serious character and a great love for books. At the age of 16 he was entered as an ecclesiastical student in Castle Kneck college, where he studied for two years, going thence to Maynooth, where he spent five years studying philosophy and the ology. His scholarship and piety drew the attention of the great Archbishop Ken drick. of St. Louis, who had visited the seminary many times, and it was at the earnest solicitation of this prelate that Feehan accepted a mission In the west ern world. He arrived in St. Louis in 1852, proceding immediately to Carondelet sem inary, where November Ist of that year he entered Holy orders. He was appointed assistant at St. Johns church, St. Louis, in July. 1853. He was was conspicuous for his sacrifice in ministering to the afflicted during the cholera scourge that ravaged St. Louis in 1853. In 1854 Father Feehan was assigned to the presidency of the Theological semi nary at Carondelet,, which position he oc cupied for three years. Father Feehan was appointed pastor of St. Michael s church, St. Louis, in July, 1857. In August, 1868, the dread cholera made its appearance in Nashville. During the ravages of this terrible epidemic Bish up Feehan labored unceasingly to con sole the sick and dying. BY SWfHTONGUE MILLIONS WERE BORROWED BANK DIRECTORS ACKNOWLEDGE THEY WERE HOPELESSLY DE- CEIVED AND ROBBED BY SCHMIDT. BERLIN. July 12.—The ruin of the Lelpslger bank that failed about a year ago for nearly 200,000,000 marks was wrought by the fascinating personally of Adolf Schmidt, according to the testi mony given at the three weeks’ trial of the bank directors, now nearing its end at Leipsig. Schmidt, who was managing director of the Trebortrocknung (grain drying) company of Cassel, a concern exploiting on an enormous scale a process of dry ing beer dregs and cattle feed, persuad ed the bank to advance during a number of years sums of money aggregating 80,000,000 marks. The accused directors, who were suc cessively examined before the jury, were unable to give a lucid explanation of their reasons for consenting to make these extraordinary loans. Every mem ber of the apparently well meaning board admitted that this colossal business mis take was indefensible upon sound com mercial principles. Nevertheless they consented because Schmidt made them believe in the amazing possibilities and profits of the prQCesz. Schmidt also had an Invention for dis tilling wood alcohol by which he repre sented that he would obtain the monop oly of the wood alcohol of the world. His eyes were upon the American field as well as the European and he opened negotiations with American companies for the formation of a world trust and established sub-companies in every con tinental country. The alcohol invention continued to dazzle the Leipsig di rectors, who made it clear that they did not know how much the bank really loaned to Schmidt. The bank's manager, Exner, kept se cret accounts. Why Exner acted in this manner is equally a mystery. Schmidt Is described as having a quiet manner and simple way of expressing himself in unornate language. He talks with a calm air of conviction and seems to have believed completely In himself. He is now in jail awaiting examination. Exner’s testimony showed that he was led on step by step, hoping to save the bank’s millions, as the cutting off of Schmidt’s credit would wreck the Tre bortzocknung company and result in a total loss to the bank of the sums loaned. NEW LOCOMOTIVE BOUGHT FOR VILLA RICA BRANCH VILLA RICA, Ga., July 12.—Mr. Sam Sheets, the englner, left for Birmingham thia morning to get an engine to be used on the Villa Rica branch railroad. Mr. Sheets, who has been on the South ern railroad, has been employed by the Branch road as a safe engineer. F VERMONT TaDY’S Desperate Fight For Lfie. I Hrs. Nathan Beal says: Paine’s Celery Compound Sayed Me from the Insdnc Hospi. tai as Well as Cured fly Rheumatism. There never was a remedy so highly recommended as Paine's Celery Com pound. There never was a remedy to such universal demand. It is popular and prized in tens of thousands of homes, be cause it makes sick people well. Paine’s Celery Compound has saved thousands from nervous prostration and collapse; it has effected wonderful cures in kidney and liver complaints; its victo ries over rheumatism and neuralgia have commanded the attention and admiration of our best physicians. It has cured dis ease when everything else has failed. Mrs. Nathan Beal, a well known lady of Gallup’s Mills, Vt., writes as follows: “For ten months before I commenced tak ing Paine’s Celery Compound, I could not put my foot on the first round of my’ ch»ir, only five Inches from the floor. I had nearly lost the use of my left side, and I coufd not lift a pound weight with the left hand without danger of dropping it. Many times I would lift something at the table, only to drop it. I had a press ure in the top of my h£ad and a pain at the base of my brain, which would leave rhe so nervous that I used to tell my hus band I would surely go crasy. I could not keep still at night, and Sundays were just awful to me. I found my whole system prostrated, and it took a long time to build up my poor, wornout nerves. I think that Paine’s Celery Compound saved me from the Insane Hospital, as well as cured my rheumatism*** PLANS FOR II TOURDFTHE WEST CONGRESSMAN GRIGGS, CHAIR MAN OF DEMOCRATIC CAM PAIGN COMMITTEE, TO JOUR NEY THROUGH ENTIRE WEST. WASHINGTON, July 12.-Chalrman Griggs, of the Democratic congressional national committee will make a tour of the A. Ipl - & Pl \ HON. JAMES M. GRIGGS. west during the coming campaign and ex pects to go as far west as the Pacific coast. Before making this general trip he will go to Chicago to confer with party lead ers and especially with Hon. Ben T. Ca ble, who will have charge of the Demo cratic campaign for the entire country west of the Alleghanies. Mr. Cable is now in Europe but is expeteted to return soon. THESE SMALL GUNBOATS ARE OUT OF COMMISSION WASHINGTON, July 12.—Secretary Moody today cabled to Rear Admiral glides, the ranking admiral in Philippine waters, instructing him to place the gun boats Arayat, Easco, Calamaines, Mari veles, Panay and Paragua out of commis sion. These vessels are small gunboats which have been engaged in patrol duty in the lower islands of the Philippine archipela go. This action is part of the movement recently decided upon to reduce the active naval force on the Asiatic station. It will furnish a considerable number of officers and men to reinforce the present quota on the station. Orders have also been sent forward for the withdrawal of the supply ship Arthu sa now at Cavite, from the station. It is probable that gunboat Princeton also will be withdrawn. WAR APPROPRIATES $660,250 FOR BARRACKS WASHINGTON, July 12.—The secretary of war today made an appropriation of >450.260 for the construction of barracks and quarters tor troops out of appropriations made by the last congress, amounting in all to 33,250.000. The apportionment is divided among the follow ing posts: For necessary buildings and accommodations at Vancouver barracks, Washington, and for buildings and headquarters at Fort Lawton, Washington; for one battalion of infantry. $106,600; for one battalion at Fort Wright, Washington, ITT,000; for buildings at Madison barracks and Fort OnttfHo, New York, to pro vide for one regiment of infantry, Madison barracks being already prepared to accommo date headquarters, band and two battalions of infantry, >180.750; to establish a cantonment for a depot of recruit instructions at Pan Fran cisco, the understanding that most construction work will be done by the troops, >75,000; to carry on the work of rehabilitating the post at Whipple barracks, Arizona, >120,000. MOSIfiLK. ON BROOKLYN BRIDGE STARTLING SCHEME PROPOSED TO LESSEN THE CRUSH ON ELEVATED CARS ON GREAT BRIDGE. • ■ NEW YORK, July 12.—1 t is learned, says The Herald, that behind the plan to equip the Brooklyn bridge with moving side walks are men of great prominence in the railroad and financial world. They have, it is stated, perfected a preliminary or ganization, and ft their proposition is viewed favorably by the officials of the city who have power to act they* will or ganise a corporation under the laws of this state and become practically a cor poration under the laws of this state and practically a local concern. It has been agreed by the representa tives of these men that they will within one year equip the bridge with moving sidewalks at their own expense, and will pay the city >150,000 a year for the privil ege of operating them. They have agreed to charge no more than 1 cent a person for each crossing. There will be no total suspension of traffic at any time during the progress of the work, they promise, and the public will not even be Inconven iei»ced for more than four days, or cer tainly a week, while the terminals are being put in place. According to the plans drawn by the company’s consulting engineer, there will be four speeds in the sidewalks. The out er rim on which the passenger will first step will move at the rate of two and one-half miles an hour, the second at five miles, the third at seven. and one-half miles and the fourth and main belt at ten miles an hour. One of the company’s chief arguments is that the present conditions can be more certainly and quickly remedied by its plan than any other that has been sug gested. In less than a year they promise more than 70,000 persons will be able to cross the bridge every hour without crowding and with a seat for every pas senger; more than that, they declared, if the time saved by each person in cross ing were multiplied by the number of persons who make the trip every day, the total would be so astonishing as to stag ger any one who has not made the com putation. It is proposed to operate the moving sidewalk for about ten out of 24 hours during the times of the greatest crush of passengers, and to operate the trolley cars as at present the remainder of the time, thus giving opportunity to inspect the sidewalk and keep it in perfect ope rating condition. CROPS ARE BENEFITED BY NEEDED RAINFALL APPLING, Ga., July 12.—After some months of baffling weather propitious sea sons are with us again. Local showers have practically broken the drouth in this section, and everything appears to be somewhat revived. In some localities the showers have reached the proportions of torrential rains, and in some instances hail accom panied the rain. Where such was the case much damage has been done. Crops were blown and beaten about to such an extent as to cause Irreparable damage. The corn crop was most too far gone to undergo any marked improvement, but much young corn will derive benefit from the showers, and peas will be greatly helped. ■ Cotton had stopped growing, but will, in all probability, get a new start and a fair crop may yet be made. Watermelons, gardens and fruit have, to a measure, failed on account of the dry weather, but late stuff will be boom ing soon and many turnips will be planted. The county "census takers” are going over the county getting a list of names of those who are subject to public road du ty. Those who have not paid the commu tation tax will have to pay now or go to work. A good deal of talk has been heard about establishing a telephone line from Grove town to Appling, but so far the line has only been built to Koger, Ga. Let the work continue, and after it is built to here, then connect with Price’s mills, and the county will be well netted with wires, if also connected with Luke’s store. cmrnw- is CRUSHED IN MACHINE CHATTANOOGA GIRL HAS HAND AND ARM MANGLED BY BEING CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO ROLLERS. t CHATTANOOGA, July 12.—Miss Fannie Turney, an employe of the Chickamauga Knitting Mills, had her hand caught be tween two hot rollers yesterday after noon, resulting to her hand being crushed and several bones broken, besides being severely burned. The machine was stopped as soon as possible, but the injuries received were severe and intensely painful. after"experts left CRATER BREAKS LOOSE KINGSTON, St. Viscount, Thursday, July 7.—The English scientific commission headed by Messrs. Anderson and Flett, who after investigating the various phe nomena connected with the eruption of the Souffriere volcano here, left on the 4th for England byway of other West Indian ports, noticed that the crater was seem ingly quiet. Last night, however, three distinct de tonations were heard here and at Bar-' badoes and an Immense cloud of steam issued from the Souffnere. This phenome na was preceded by earthquakes during the past three days, which were felt all over the colony. The commissioners had a narrow es cape during one of their visits to the erater. They passed over a lava bed on the morning of June 14, in fair weather and ascended the mountain. Orvthe return journey, made during half a gale of wind and a downfall of rain, jets of steam and mud issued all around them from fissures In the mountain. Walking on a ridge they saw on either side to a depth of a thou sand feet masses of boiling mud throwing up jets to a height of 300 and 400 feet. On reaching a base of the mountain the scien tists found themselves in an awful predic ament. What was three hours previously a dry road over which they walked was then a stream of hot mud running with tremendous force. In order to cross this stream they constructed a bridge only a few Inches wide, laid from bank to bank, across the narrowest parts of the stream and eventually got over safely. Since the eruption, after every show of lava, the beds to windward and leeward of the volcano district eject mud and steam, some times hundreds of feet high, and oust some times falls heavily to and near the district. NEW.BATTLESHIP MAINE TO BE TESTED TUESDAY NEW YORK. July 12.—The battleship Maine, which has been under construc tion in Cramps’ shipyards since the spring of 1899, will leave for her builders’ test off the Delaware capes on Tuesday afternoon, says a Philadelphia dispatch to The Her ald. The trial will take place on Thurs day and it is expected the Maine will be again moored at the shipyard on Friday. Easily the most powerful battleship that the Cramp yard has turned out for the United States navy the Maine also is plan ned to be the fastest. She must attain eighteen knots’ speed, the same require ment as for the Russian battleship Ret vlzan, recently completed at the yard. In most respects the Maine and the Retvlzan are alike. The keel of the' new Maine was laid on February 15. 1899. the anniversary of the destruction of the old Maine In Ha, vana harbor. There was a delay in her construction, resulting from the contro versy over the question of armor plate. She was launched on July 27, 1901, Miss Mary Preble Anderson, of Portland, Me., a descendant of Commodore Preble, being her sponsor. The -Maine is 888 feet long on the load water line. Her beam extreme is 72 feet 2 1-2 inches, her draught 24 feet 101-4 inches and her displacement 12,500 tons. TWO KILLED IN WRECK AND OTHERS MAY DIE PEORIA, Hl.. July 12.—Two men killed, one fatally injured and several more or less seri ously injured Is the story of a wreck on the Toledo, Peoria and Western railway late to dav. The dead: Peter Icenozie. Washington, instantly killed. Taylor. El Paso, instantly killed. Ambrose Pierce, El Paso, skull fractured, St. Louis, collar bone broken and severe scalp wound. , Stewart Meyers. Louisville. Ky.. bruised about back and suffering from shock. Joseph W. Morgan, Eureka. 111., five ribs broken, collar bone fractured and bruised about neck, head and body. Several others whose names are not ob tainable. All the injured belonged to the construction crew except LePage and Meyers, who are traveling salesmen, x An extra engine and caboose were coming slowly toward Peoria, having received word to look out for the construction train, when the two met on a curse. The construction train was going at a high rate of speed. MOTH ER COULDN’T SAY FAREWELL TO SON NEW YORK,’ July 10.—Notwithstanding the woman was a stowaway and without means, the board of special inquiry at the immigrant station has given Mrs, Louise caaller her liberty and remitted her fine. Mrs. Challer, who found herself unable to support her 10-year-old son in Germany, toiled until she had saved up enough to send him to relatives in America. She accompanied him on board a steamer at Bremen, but was unable to bear the sepa ration when visitors were ordered ashore and secreted herself below. A relative promised to see that she will not become a public charge and one of the stringent emigrant rules was relaxed to her favor. JOHNSTON TO RUN FOR GOVERNOR HE PRACTICALLY SAYS IN AN INTERVIEW THAT WITHIN A WEEK HE WILL ANNOUNCE FOR THE OFFICE. ’ BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. July U.—Now that It has been definitely settled that the Democrats will select their nomlnesz for state offices by a primary election, it is expected that several candidates for gov ernor will announce themselves within the next few days and that the campaign ■ will soon be on with full force. At the present time the central figure in Alabama politics is Former Governor Joseph F. Johnston, and the entire stats is awaiting some announcement from him. There is no well informed politician who doubts the intention of the former gov ernor to enter the primary and it is be lieved that within a week he will declare himself. In fact, he indicates this him self. In an interview he Bays: “I expect in the course of a week to give some expression that may be of in terest to the people and politicians o£ , Alabama.” Former Governor Johnston was thought to have met his political doom when he was overwhelmingly defeated in his can didacy for the United States senate in op position to Senator Morgan, and many thought that he would not be heard of a. again in a prominent capacity, but ths fight over the adoption of the new const!- . tutlon gave him an opportunity to come forward and he took advantage of it. He led the opposition to the new constitution and swelled his following considerably. It is admitted now by all that he will a strong fight for the government and some believe that he will receive the larg est vote in the primary election, but it is • believed by those who oppose him that in the final* primary, when the two lead ing candidates have it out, that Jelks and not Johnston will lead. The senatorial fight will cut a very Im portant figure to the coming election. There are several men in Alabama who would like to succeed Senator Pettus, and this list includes Former Governor John ston. Hon. John B. Knox, of Anniston, and General Oates are also understood to be working in that direction. A primary for the nomination of stats . officers is a new departure for Alabama . and the result will be watched with keenH Interest. The primary was ordered after one of the hardest fought battles ever en gaged in by the state Democratic execu tive committee, and some of the leaders opposed 4t to the last. CO U NTRY MA N~WASROBB ED OF BUTTER BY NEGRO J. A. Langford, who lives near Buck head, was Saturday robbed of 14 pounds of butter at the corner of Alexander and Spring streets. A negro man was the thief, and the police are looking for him, but have so far failed to locate the man. The negro went to the countryman and told him a lady at a house further up the street wanted to Huy some milk. The quantity wanted was measured out and the negro went off with it. In a few min utes he returned with the statement that the lady could not make the .change, and for the countryman to come up there. He went, but was unable to find any one who wanted to buy milk. When he returned'hls entire lot of butter had been taken. Police headquarters were notified, and Call Officer Covington made an. effort to find the man, but was unable to do so. negroeFlynchone~ OF THEIR QWN RACE HALCYONDALE, Ga., July 12.-The details of the lynching of Spencer Mob ley, a negro of this county, by a mob of ? negroes, have reached here. The mob, composed of a score or raorq ■ negroes, disguised by whitening their faces with flour, called at Mobley’s home, where he was asleep. The oply occupant of the house was Mobley’s mother, who is very aged. The mob beat down the doors and threw ■_ a ball of lighted oiled cotton on the bed - where Mobley was sleeping. As he awoke and sprang out of bed they shot him down, his body • being literally riddled with bullets. He died Instantly., The old woman claims she recognised several of the party and the authorities | are after the men she named. The mob slew Mobley on account of some trouble he had with a negro woman several months ago. He was tried at the time but came clear. HOSPITAL HURSTS ■ STRIKE IN AUGUSTA LEAVING 35 PATIENTS ENTIRE CORPS WALKS OUT IN ANGER AT MATRON, BUT RETURN.’ fa; AUGUSTA, Ga., July 12.—What must rank as one of the most novel of strikes has just been settled by the city hospital authorities. Though the strike was inau gurated Wednesday night, the story only; got out yesterday afternoon. On Wednesday night Irvin Alexander, chairman of the council hospital board, was startled by a telephone message from the matron, Miss Whitehead, at the city hospital, that all the nurses, interns and employes were in a state of rebellion. To gether with the mayor and Dr. J. B. Mor gan, he hurried down to the hospital to investigate. They found that all the nurses, Drs. Byrd. Turnbull and Adams and the negro porters had walked out to a body, re fusing to return unless the matron was dismissed. They alleged that she was so overbear ing in her conduct towards them that they had determined to endure it no long er, and they simply would not return U Miss Whitehead remained. There had been friction at the hospital for some time, and the trouble culmi nated on Wednesday by the arbitrary dis missal of one of the nurses. Miss Hall, by the matron. There were 85 patients in the hospital at the time, some of them in need of con stant attention, and as It was impossible to secure other nurses at the old nurses were Induced to go back by the reinstatement of Miss Hall and the assur ance of a prompt investigation and ad justment of the alleged grievances. The committee was called to meet last night for this purpose, but the trouble ad justed itself before the committee met by the resignation of Miss Whitehead, which was tendered by her and promptly ac cepted. Miss Whitehead came from New York, and was appointed to the place only last February. It seems that she tried to intro duce her ideas of discipline into the insti tution, and the others would not have them. Everything is working smoothly at the hospital today. , •
