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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
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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. , •
