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Atlanta Sfiwtaal.
VOL. V.
MOB STORMS JAIL
IN PENNSYLVANIA
Two Thousand infuriated
Citizens Clamored In
Vain at Jail Door
to Lynch Negro.
BUTLER. Pa., Sept IX—A mob of
drunken rowdies tonight wrecked the
front part of the Butler county jail, occu
pied by Sheriff Hoon. his wife, son and
daughter?
The direct cause of the attack on the
jail was the desire of a mob of 2,000 men.
maddened by the horrible crime of Jerry
Bennett to lynch him.
me bad whisky imbibed by the worst
wlement of the crowd aroused all the bru
tality and lawlessness in their nature and
led them to make a second attack on the
jail after those who were merely after
Bennett had retired from the scene.
About 3JO o’clock tonight the feeble cry
of "mamma." coming from beneath a
box car near the West Pennsylvania rail
road station led passers by to investigate.
Crime Was Fiendish.
They found the seven-year-old daugh
ter of John Wagner, a tailor, hep cloth
ing torn and body bleeding, a prisoner at
•the mercy of Bennett.
■While tender hands carried the child
away. Bennett was made captive. No
consideration was given the man. as sim
ilar attempts had been charged against
him. The rapidly augmented crowd bound
Bennet, s arms and |egs together and
dragged him like a log over the ties, cin
ders and rails of the railroad tracks un
mercifully as they went.
Near the railroad station Squire Gil
christ stopped the crowd, which was fast
increasing tn size and frenzy.
In the meantime all the police in the
town had been summoned and while
Squire Gilchrist argued with the mob.
the officers stealthily grabbed Bennett and
• hastened to a street car on which they
hustled him to the county jail half a
mile away.
“Lynch Him!” the Cry.
When the mob realized that Bennett
was out of their hands their anger knew
no bounds and. gathering recruits as they
went, they made a rush for the jail and
Hemanded an entrance, which Sheriff
Hoon refused.
Stones were showered against the struc
ture, doors and windows were smashed
and yells of "Lynch him.” were heard
from hundreds of throats above the ter
rible din.
Members of the mob went to the new
National bank building, secured large
planks, which they used as a battering
ram against the doors of the jail, which
gave way before the onslaught.
A rush was made into the hallway and
Stones and clubs were hurled at Sheriff
Hoon and bls family, who attempted to
block the passageway leading to the jail
corridor.
L • Bloody Battle Fought.
Deputy Sheriff Rainey Hoon seized a
part of the splintered door and began to
dub the mob back.
One of the latter, James Dougherty, was
probably fatally injured.
Sheriff Hoon and his deputies drew their
revolvers and a fuel lade of shots followed.
One of the mob was shot and badly hurt.
The shots bad a quieting effect and
the mob slowly withdrew, but returned
shortly, determined this time to lynch
both Bennett and Hoon. The burgess of
the town, realizing that affairs were be
yond his control, sent a hurried appeal to
the captain of company L, Sixteenth reg
iment, national guards.
The pastor of St. Peter’s Protestant
Episcopal church appealed to the crowd
to disband and was roughly handled. One
of the police who attempted to make an
arrest was dragged over the public
square.
Will Shoot to Kill.
A score of deputies and policemen stand
guard inside the shattered jail door and
are determined to shoot to kill should
another attempt be made to enter the
building in the basement of which Ben
nett is securely chained in a steel cell.
Th* mob haa not yet dispersed and more
trouble seems Imminent at any moment.
Bennett's little victim is in an extremely
aerious condition and her recovery is
doubtful.
Bennett is a veteran of the Spanish-
American war and bears a bad reputation,
being accused of several similar crimes
within the past six months.
Hoon called on a number of local militia
to assit him to protect the jail. The men
said they could not use arms without or
ders from the governor. The sheriff then
sent a telephone message to the governor,
asking for assistance. No reply had been
received at 2:4-5 a. m.
At 3 o’clock the mob has practically dis
persed and the officers consider all dan
ger over for the night.
ARE SWEPT BY FLAMES
CASSELS. Colo.. Sept. 13.—The largest
and most destructive forest fire in Colo
rado is raging between Chase and Shaw
nee. This la the opinion of A. J. Wells,
.state timber inspector, and United States
Government Agent Nicholson, who are
On the ground. Mr. Wells said:
“The fire is entirely beyond control and
the only hope of saving the forests
and towns of Platte Canyon from com
plete destruction Is that the wind does not
shift from the east. Should the wind
shift to the west nothing can prevent the
• fire sweeping the canyon from top to
bottom. Damage already done to the
Platte watersheds can not be estimated.’*
’‘BOSS’ 7 SHEPHERD
PASSES AWAY
IN MEXICO
HE WAS THE MAN WHO BEGAN
WORK OF BEAUTIFYING THE
CITY OF WASHINGTON
IN THE YEAR 1871.
WASHINGTON. Sept. lE—News has
been received here from Batopolis. Mex..
announcing the death of Alexander R.
Shepherd, at the age of <7. His death was
caused by peritonitis. Governor Shepherd
was vice-president of the board of public
works of the District of Columbia in 1871
and later became the governor of the dis
trict. It was he who began the beautify
ing of Washington by parks and public
improvements. i
FRANCE JEERS
IF VERDICT
OF COURT
COLONEL SAINT REMY’S SEN-
TENCE OF ONE DAY’S IMPRIS
ONMENT IS SCOFFED BY GOV
ERNMENT.
PARIS, Sept. 13.—The week has been
passed by the newspapers in a heated dis
cussion of the Incident created by Colo
nel Saint Remy, who refused to employ
a squadron of cavalry under his command
in aiding in the expulsion of Breton teach
ing sisters who had not applied for a
government permit.
Brought before a court martial at
Vantes. Colonel Saint Remy. was sentenc
ed to one day's imprisonment on the pre
text that he had refused to obey, not his
general property so called, but a requisi
tion of the prefect of the department
transmitted to him by the general. The
pretext was not a valid one, for in the
military hierarchy, requisitions sent to
commanding officers by the civil authori
ties become military orders issued by
those commanding officers to their subor
dinates.
For that matter the code provides for
such an offense and prescribes a mini
mum penalty of a month's imprisonment.
Therefore, by sentencing the colonel to
one day's imprisonment, which sentence
he will not serve, as the period he was un
der arrest counts, the officers of court
martial sought to shield one of their class
from the consequences of refusing to obey
their civil authority in the execution of
unpleasant duty. ,
As a consequence, the audience at the
courtmartial received the sentence with
jeers, and the nationalist press proclaims
that the verdict was a slap in the face
for the government. To this the ministry
responded by depriving the colonel of his
command, and this will be followed by his
retirement from active service.
This officer has 30 years of service with
the colors. In the judgment of those who
take a cool view of affairs this is the
most serious blow at French military in
stitutions since lfC9. It Is noteworthy that
this blow has been struck by military offi
cers thomaelves. amid the unanimous
applause of the nationalists, people who
made a profession and business of exalt
ing the army.
It is altogether probable that this deplor
able incident will bring about a searching
reform of the system of court martial for
it emphasises what the absurd verdict giv
en at Rennes in the Dreyfus case had al
ready revealed, that court martials are
based upon the very negative of justice,
for their foundation is the absolute in
fallibility of military authority. They are
a medieval Institution. The campaign be
gun by the government to enforce the as
sociation law has given rise to the most
extraordinary incidents.
Thus, byway of rejoinder to the rell-
POLItfMOOKIIC
FOR SAFE BLOWERS
NO STONE WILL BE LEFT UN-
TURNED IN EFFORT TO AR-
REST BIRMINGHAM POST
OFFICE ROBBERS.
BIRMINGHAM. Ala., Sept. 13,-The po
lice are working hard to catch the man
who broke into and robbed the postoffice
at North Birmingham Wednesday night
and stole from tne safe therein $245. A
white man giving his name as G. W.
Clark, and claiming to be a ’’phony’’ jew
elry peddler, was arrested and $162.30
found on his person. The safe was blown
open In a professional manner and be
cause of the killing of policemeh by safe
blowers two years ago, extra efforts are
made always when any safe is tackled
In this district now. The police depart
ments of Birmingham. Pratt City, Ens
ley and Bessemer are all working togetn
er and not only the North Birmingham
postoffice robbery is to be unrevealed but
the murder of Policeman blowers at Bes
semer two weeks ago. The policeman was
killed by an unknown tramp in a box
car in the railroad yards.
BATTLESHIP IWOA IS
RUN HARD ASHORE
NEW YORK. Sept 11.-The United
States battleship lewa has run aground
near Cape Nossa Senhora Do Desterro and
the Island of MUo, cables The Herald cor
respondent at Rto Janeiro, Brazil.
The lowa had just finished target prac
tice and was returning to Friars Island.
The Brazilian minister of marine has or
dered a warship to go to the aid of the
lowa.
Cape Lossa Senhoro Do Desterro Is on
the Island of Santa Catharina, 460 miles
southwest of Rio Janeiro. The island is
about half way between Montevideo, Uru
guay. and Rio Janeiro.
'The lowa is the flagship of the South
Atlantic squadron. Rear Admiral George
W. Sumner is in command of the South
Atlantic station. Captain Thomas Perry
commands the lowa. The cruiser Atlanta
is the only other warship in the South At
lantic squadron.
HEAVY'raTnsTn ENGLAND
GREATLY DAMAGE CROPS
NEW YORK, Sept. 12 —According to reports
from all parts of England the heavy rains of
the last three days, coming on top of an ex
ceptionally wet summer, have seriously dam
aged the crops, cables the London correspon
dent of The Herald.
Grain has suffered severely. Owing to the
weather it Is of such poor quality that early
samples failed to get a bid on the market.
With a continuance of the prevailing weather
It may be days and weeks before any consid
erable quantity of wheat can be put on the
market.
One of the largest agriculturists in Lincoln
shire states that with wheat in its present
damaged condition the season would prove one
of the most disastrous that has been ex
perienced during the last twenty year*.
ATLANTA. GEORGIA; MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1902.
FOUR HUNDRED BRYAN WANTS
GIVEN VOLLEY MORE JOHNSON
Henry Watterson Writes
Scorching, Sarcastic
Criticism of the
Selected Few.
NEW YORK. Sept. 13.-Returning to
the attack upon the “Four Hundred,’
wnich he recently arraigned severely in
his newspaper, the Louisville Courier-
Journal, Mr. nenry Watterson will pub
lish tomorrow another article on the same
subject, which the Herald reproduces in
full.
At the same time Miss Caroline Deur,
of this city, presents, in response to the
Herald’s request, her answer to Mr. Wat
terson’s first attack.
Mr. Watterson's article in part follows:
"When Henry Ward McAllister, a
rather absurd, but yet a well-born gen
tleman, invented the Four Hundred, it
was his purpose—two parts flunky and
one part flam—to pay a kind of obeisance
to certain families supposed to be rich
enough to form a court circle In the
great and growing city of New York.
'That was five and twenty years ago.
There were many who laughed both at
him and his conceit. There were some
who seriously accepted the homage in
tended to be conveyed. Perhaps very few
thought that the imaginary lines thus es
tablished In the mind’s eye of a rather
solemn bon vlvant, who lived high and
died poor, would come to be the boundar
ies of an actual territory, a newly dis
covered country as fantastic as Wonder
land, with laws of its own, inhabited by
a people marked, quoted and signed for
deeds of strenuous frivolity, an aristo
cracy without a pedigree, a coterie de
rambouillet without wit or humor.
"Mr. Devery leads the four hundred of
the slums. Who leads the four hundred
of the upper crust? It matters little, but
wherein shall we seek for any moral
difference in point of immoral influence
that does not lead to the side of Devery?
Wealth Was Bugle Call.
"It was all on account of moving up
town. It began with the sudden wealth
of which war is the progenitor. As long
as the average New Yorker had to work
for his living and got his riches by the
sweat of h.s brow’, money had both a
character and a value. In the early sev
enties Ask stood for the horrid example
just as Devery stands now. The show
was the thing—the ’’Turnout” as they
called it. The four hundred had come
neither to their patrimony nor their pa
tronlstic. But they existed in a crude,
coarse way, empressing themselves in
bangtails and shirt fronts and shiners, a
trifle too brazen anu noisy perhaps, but
unaeniably rich. The men had not yet
learned the stony stare and the beautiful
swagger of the bucks of the Jardin mo
bille and the title bruisers of the Argyle
rooms. The women were still women—
God bless them—a little vulgarized by so
much money, but ignorant of the pinch
brigade and graces of the demimondaln®
and the unspeakable dirt *of London and
Faris. •
“Yet, then, as now, the best people, no
matter how rich, turned silently aside
and gave them the middle of the road.
The tragic end of Fisk was for a time an
object lesson. It let in a flood of light
and gave a moment's checks to the orgy
of license which was exceeding its natur
al bounds and beginning to make its in
fluence felt in dangerous proximity to
those regions where wealth was recogniz
ed as paramount. It was this which se
cured the modification of the Stokes ver
dict from death to a short term of im
prisonment.
"The noxious weed, however, has taken
root, the bucketshop was to become an
institution, the stock gambler a power,
the market as familiar to women as to
men. Mr. Carnegie may give all of his
millions to the noblest works. The Messrs.
Rockefeller may endow a thousand
schools and charities, whilst a dozen bil
lionaires may show’ by their wise and
lavish use of money, how ill they think of
it except as the means of doing good; but,
as the poor are always with us, so are
the vulgarians, who, given money enough,
set up a voluptuous principality, call it
the four hundred, and having made sure
of its boundaries and their isolation, pro
ceed to make their own moral code, hard
ly deigning even to ask the rest of the
community, ’What are you going to do
about it?’
All the Pleasure Made.
“The sea-going palace, the modern au
to. the struggle for equivocal notoriety,
the strife for titles, for eating from the
tree of forbidden knowledge, the aping
of the manners of the foreign swell and
the fancied great, the marriage as an ex
periment and the marriage of convenience,
the hot pursuit of pleasure at home and
abroad, the constant striving after the
ostentatious display of wealth inevitable
to the sun worship of money—these are
among the features that distinguish the
four hundred /rom other rich people, who
do not need to affect anything, who heart
ily despise such proceedings, who with
fortunes secure and social positions fixed,
live without scandal and travel without
adventure, but whom the wantons of the
smart set describe as the ‘Bourgeoise.’ In
separating the sheep from the goats, and
properly ticketing the goats, shall one
be accused of blasphemy?”
Mr. Watterson here quotes extracts
from various newspapers, and then com
ments upon them:
“There need be no mistaking the lines
that fence in the Four Hundred. Nobody
can deny, nor. in truth, through all the
expressions called out by our writing, do
we find any denial of the fidelity of the
picture drawn by us. It is the truth, not
the scurrilous, that hurts. At the same
time, it is a fact that even in the better
realms of luxury and wealth there is a
growing toleration of the unclean. Good
people are not so shocked as they once
were by moral infractions. There is not a
conscientious man nor a thoughtful wo
man in the society of our great centers
of population who does not mark with
serious apprehension the lowering ten
dencies of the time, the multiplication of
frivolous marriages, the desecration of
the marriage tie, the increasing number
of scandalous divorces, directly traceable
to the spirit of lawlessness in excessive
wealth and the bad example of the infa
mous but prosperous rich. Yet, if we read
our critics aright, we must not speak of
these things except in decorous, half-ex
cusing whispers.
Not Know That We Know.
“We must not call a spade a spade. If
we do we at once become ‘indiscreet’ and
•sensational.’ getting our information at
‘second hand,' or else the subject of some
•pique’ or ’resentment,’ or, at the very
least, ‘ignorant’ and ‘underbred.’
"In certain circles, where money rules,
and the presence of quality is indicated
by the absence of all else, the one un
pardonable sin is conviction. Whatever
else you are, or are not, you must eschew
enthusiasm. You may deal In vulgar
double entendre; you may backbite or lie
outright; you may make love to your
friend's wife or Inveigle his daughter, but
FOREST FIRES
STILL RAGE
111 WEST
GREAT LOSS OF LIFEAND PROP
ERTY IS REPORTED FROM
THE FLAMING [WOODS IN ORE
GON.
PORTLAND, Ore., ®pt. 13.—The smoke
from the forest fires v becoming thicker
In this city, though fires in this vicin
ity have practically bjrned out.
Hundreds of people A this and adjacent
counties have been nAde homeless, and
the loss in timber anl farm houses will
be many hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The smoke hangs so tzlck over the rivers
f »■»♦♦♦♦ MH H 4
* +
* MANY HUMAN LIVES +
* ARE LOST IN THE FIRES +
4> PORTLAND. Orq., Sept. 13.-A •>
4» special from kalamg. Ore., says: 4»
4> The forest fires on the Lewis river 4>
4» have destroyed . five logging camps 4*
4. and the homes of mbre than a score 4.
4> of settlers. D. L. ■Vtallace, wife and 4»
children, Charles Manley, 12 years +
4» old, and Mrs. Gravis are known to 4»
4* have perished and rdnny campers are 4.
* missing.
4> The whole country* above Elma has 4»
4» been wiped out. I 4*
*»»♦♦♦♦♦« 1I 8 »’»♦»»** ! ♦♦♦♦»♦
that navigation is hazardous, and all
boats are behind time.
There is no prospect of rain, and unless
It shall come, conditions will not improve.
SMOKE FROM GREAT FIRES
EXTENDS FORTY MILES AT SEA
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash.. Sept. 13.-
The tug Tacoma, returning today from
Cape Flattery, reports that the smoke
from forest fires extends forty miles out
to sea. So far no marine accidents have
been reported.
MILLIONS OF LUMjyER
DESTROYED 1 •• -.nA
KALISPEL, Mont., Sept. 13.—Two of the
most disastrous fires that ever raged in
the forests of Montana are destroying
millions of feet of fine timber.
One fire is in the Dayton Creek country,
ami the other is south and west of Libby,
in a large cedar district.
COFER, INUEPENDENT,
EXPECTS VICTORY
IS OPPOSING BURNETT, DEMO
CRATIC NOMINEE FOR CON
GRESS FROM THE BIR-
. MINGHAM DISTRICT.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. 13.-Hon. W.
T. L. Cofer, of Cullmgn, who is an inde
pendent candidate for congress in the
Seventh district, announces that'he has a
good chance of winning. He asserts that
Hon. John r-. Burnett, the Democratic
nominee, and a fusion candidate of Re
publicans and Populists, will divide the
vote in the district and give him an op
portunity. O. R. Hood, of Gadsden, is
the chairman of the campaign committee
for Hon. John L. Burnett, Democrat, in
the Seventh district, and he is now select
ing a campaign committee in the coun
ties comprising the district. The vote
for Hon. John L. Burnett in the primaries
held last rhonth amounted to 5.454. or more
than'half of the votes wb.ch elected Bur
nett two years ago. Mr. Burnett, who
was here yesterday, states that he has
no fears as to the result of the election
in November, notwithstanding there will
be more than one candidate against him.
The Republicans and Populists in the
Seventh congressional district will hold
their convention in Attalla on the 23d
instant, and there is every likelihood of
a fusion between the two parties. Ala
bama Republicans claim that they will
elect two or three, if not more of the con
gressmen to go from this state.
you must not be loud. We do not need to
institute any historic parallels to take to
ourselves any lessons from ancient Greece
and Rome, or modern France, suggestive
as these may be.
“He is but a poor observer of contempo
rary life, and no prophet at all, who does
not see that the whole trend of public
affairs is set toward an ultimate conflict
between the forces of prerogative, on the
one hand and the forces of what the ex
clusive few delight to call ‘the great un
washed,’ on the other hand, 'between cap
ital too often avaricious, and grasping,
and labor, grimy and passionate, and,
left riderless, a monster w’ithout a head.
The difference of the guild of luxury and
wealth, not to mention the common cause,
which too many of the worthy rich from
a mistaken sense of association, make
with these is replete with evil auguries.
Human nature has not much changed
since man became acquainted with it.
“That we are yet upon the ascending
not the descending scale of national de
velopment, need not be denied. But, we
live in an accelerated age. electricity hav
ing annihilated time and space, and, the
Latin races doomed, Spain dead, Italy
dying, France down with an Incurable dis
ease, the causes before our very eyes,
shall we not seek to escape what seems
to have been the destiny, not so much
luxury and wealth, as the vicious as
sumption of class superiority and the in
justice of organized money percolating
what is called society for pleasure, cor
rupting the fountains of the national
credit and honor for profit. How long
shall it be. the press already defending
the Four Hundred, before our public men
shall become but a race of medicean prln- .
ces, without the learning or the arts of ’
Florence, and the presidential chair it
self a simple commodity to be knocked
down to the highest bidder?”
11l Ohio Campaign Speech
He Says If There Were
More of His Kind
Plutocracy Would die.
TOLEDO. 0.. Sept. 13.—William Jen
nings Bryan this evening addressed an
audience of 4,000 people in the tent in
which Mayor Johnson, of Cleveland, is
making his speeches during the fall (Cam
paign. Mr. Bryan came in this afternoon
and will make but one additional speech
during the campaign. He was brought
here through the efforts of Mr. Johnson.
Mr. Johnson, in his speech, spoke of
Mr. Bryan as "The distinguished orator
and peerless Democratic leader.”
Mr. Bryan was received with tumultu
ous applause when he was introduced by
the chairman. He made apologies for the
condition of his voice and said but
for the interest in the campaign in Ohio
and the fact that he would not be able
to return to the state at a later date in
the campaign, he would not have been
present. He said that in every heart
there is a sense of human justice, and he
believed the appeals of Mr. Bigelow and
Mr. Johnson who had preceded him
would be heeded. He said he wondered
if there was a laboring man in the city
and state who would not vote the Demo
cratic ticket on account of the tax re
forms promised in the platform of the
Democratic party. If the laboring man
refuses to give his vote to the party that
believed in the just taxation of the mil
li’i’naire he is not capable of protecting
the interests of his family. The working
man must protect his home and family
through his vote and his Influence.
Johnson a Blessing.
Speaking of Mr. Johnson, Mr. Bryan
said:
“How fortunate it is for this state to
have a man like Mr. Johnson, who is so
strong, so courageous, and who has the
ability to carry on this battle against the
organized wealth and who can challenge
them on every platform as he has tonight.
If we had such men as he in every state,
within five years plutocracy would be
! driven into the Atlantic ocean.”
| Mr. Bryan recalled the fight of Mr.
1 Johnson in congress ten years ago, when
he so courageously fought the representa
tives of the steel trust, when he himself
was a steel manufacturer and it would
have been to his own interest to have had
a tariff placed on steel which would have
permitted him to make a much greater
profit than he was making, yet Mn John
son stood by the people and by his constit
uents and fought the steel magnates
against his own interests. »
“If we had more men,” said Ur. Bryan,
“who would quit making money in middle
life and devote their time to the better
ment of their fellow men this country
would be considerably better off.
"They say you are incapable of home
rule herein "Ditto, ancTif yon have ff bit
of American manhood about you, you will
resent the Insult. He believed, he said,
that the cities should own and operate all
franchises, but if this is not possible he
favored short franchises and he thought
people should be permitted to express
themselves about these franchises. He
was sorry Mr. Hanna had advocated the
perpetual franchises for he thought he
had sins enough to account for.
Stripes for Millionaires.
In discussing national politics. Mr.
Bryan said that if he had been elected he
would have put stripes on the millionaires
who oppress the people, and that the
trusts could not have dictated the ap
pointment of an attorney-general and they
could not have run the attorney-general.
"The president should be prosecuting the
trusts instead of taking his speaking tours.
There was a time when Mr. Hanna said
there was no trusts, but now all admitted
that there were trusts. We have injunc
tions pending against one of them. But
if that was some man who had violated
the laws by selling whiskey, he declared
he would be brougnt to justice and locked
14 p if it would have been necessary to
send the entire militia after him. The
Republicans had amended the command
ment thus: ‘Thou shalt not steal on a
small scale.’ ”
The criminal provisions of the anti-trust
laws, would if enforced, break up the
meat trust. He thought the meat trust
might be a good thing, because it made
people think in their stomachs if they did
not in their heads.
"The Republican party is not in a po
sition to destroy, the trusts, notwithstand
ing the fact that Senator Lodge had de
clared that there were 95 bad trusts to
five good ones.”
Mr. Bryan discussed the tariff question
and took up the question of the dinner
pail in the coal mining districts of Penn
sylvania. He said that the full dinner
pail had been a very effective argument in
the campaign, but that it was not work
ing out very well with the miners. He
said they were actually working at re
duced wages in that that their living
expenses had advanced to such an extent
and their wages had not Deen advanced.
He said times would never be good until
the head of the family was making
enough money to ketep his boys and girls
In ichool. Mr. Bryan also touched on the
Philllpplne question lightly and demanded
that they be given the same liberty we
enjoy.
CITIZENS' 'OTTHIS
TOWN PH NO
TUXES
THE PEOPLE OF BRONWOOD, GA.,
ONLY PAY TAXES TO THE
STATE—A MARVEL-
OUS RECORD.
Bronwood, Ga„ in Terrell county, Is,
perhaps, one of the few towns in the Uni
ted States where Its citizens are required
to pay state tax only. No city or county
tax is levied, and the people of that city
seem to be rather proud of the fact.
Owing to the dispensary which is con
trolled by the county of Terrell the county
levied no tax this year, and the town of
Bronwood, which owns a share in the
uispensary reaped such enormous profits
from it that the mayor and council found
it was not necessary to require any tax
this year.
In writing to Comptroller General
Wright Mayor S. W. Denton says: “We
levy no tax. street or advalorem; neither
do we pay any county tax. You will see
that our city is the only one in the world
that pays only state tax.”
ROUGH RIDER GETS
NEW YORK IN LINE
KNOXRETURNS
WITH REPORT
ON CANAL
ATTORNEY GENERAL HAS NOT
REQUIRED AS MUCH TIME IN
PARIS AS THE DEPARTMENT
THOUGHT HE WOULD.
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Sept. 13.-Of
ficlals of the department of justice have
received nothing whatever from Attorney
General Knox regarding the canal nego
tiations in Parts, and all that is known
here today is that Mr. Knox has sailed for
home in company with Assistant Attor
ney General Russell.
Mr. Knox was expected to return the
last week in September and his sailing
today created no surprise at the depart
ment. The presumption in Washington is
that there has been no hitch in the ne
gotiations in Paris’ of a serious nature.
Mr. Knox’s short stay would seem to in
dicate this and encourage the belief that
a clear title to me holding of the Panama
company will be obtained. If on the
other hand, any obstacles have been
found, it is also believed that the French
government will do all in its power to
clear them away and facilitate proceed
ings.
The attorney general will make a report
to the president immediately upon his ar
rival and this will doubtless be given to
the public at once.
Shaw Says Bonds Can't Be Floated.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—Secretary
Shaw believes that it would be useless to
try. to float the $40,000,000 Panama bonds
authorized by the last congress. There
fore, the treasury department will take
no steps at this time to place the bonds
on the market.
In authorizing the bonds congress pro
vided that the secretary of the treasury
should not sell them below par and that
circulation against them should be sub
jected to a tax on one per cent per an
num. The'secretary believes that it would
be impossible to find buyers for the bonds
with thia provision.
Treasury officials say that subjecting the
Panama bonds to a tax of one per cent
was an oversight sad congr—s will in all
probability amend the act making the tax
one-half of one per cent, the same as
taken out against the 2 per cents of 1930.
McLane Named Senator.
REIDSVILLE, Ga., Sept. 13.—The Dem
ocratic primary held in Tatnall county
yesterday resulted in the nomination of
Dr. J. L. McLane, of Birdford, for sena
tor second senatorial district, and C. S.
T. Strickland, of Claxton, and Henry
Mann, of English Eddy, for representa
tive.
RINGGDLDPEOPLE
ARE NOT UNLAWFUL
DID NOT WISH TO LYNCH HORSE
THIEF, AS WAS ERRONE
OUSLY STATED IN
DISPn.Gri.
*
RINGGOLD, Ga., Sept. 13.-In behalf of
the many good citizens of Catoosa county,
the writer desires to correct the erroneous
statement that “Mob wanted to lynch
horse thief at Ringgold,” made in a
special to The* Journal dated September
11, from this place.
Some of the same good citizens who are
charged with wanting to lynch Bracket,
the horse thief, after several days’ hard
riding, arrested him in Murray county,
found the stolen horses in his possession,
after which they quietly delivered him to
the sheriff of this county, who was in
the neighborhood of Bracket’s home
when the arrest was made. They then
helped the sheriff to conduct the prisoner
to Dalton jail.
There was no armed mob of 100 men
present to meet the north bound train
when it arrived here Tuesday at noon.
Not exceeding fifty of the friends and rel
atives of the parties from whom the
horses were stolen came in from their
nearby homes, thinking that» Bracket
would be brought here that day for a pre
liminary hearing, and being interested,
they desired to hear the trial. The people
gathered In Ringgold that day were not
a mob, and they were not armed, but to
the contrary this gathering was composed
of Georgia's very best law-abiding citi
zerts, and all seemed especially anxious
that Bracket should be dealt with accord
ing to law.
BOER ARMYTACTICSARE
RELEGATED TO THE HEAR
BERLIN. Sept. 13.—Army officers re
turning from the brilliant Prussian ma
neuvres at Posen assert that the most
striking feature of the operations was the
failure of the so-called "Boer tactics.”
Neither the American nor the British
experts were convinced that the Burgher
plan of shooting indiscriminately from
cover, nor the extraordinarily wide de
ploying employed by the Boers, as in any
respect an improvement on the standard
systems of attack and defense.
“Boer tactics.’’ said a member of the
general staff, "seriously impair the en
ergy of forward movements on the part
of large masses of troops, cause disas
trous losses of time and also involve im
practicable changes in the recognized of
fensive usages of cavalry and artillery.
“The kaiser, however, does not seem
to have lost faith in them, principally,
perhaps, because they appeal to his sense
of the romantic and his fondness for in
novations.”
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Woman Shoots Self to Death.
LOUISVILLE. Ky., Sept. 12.-Mrs. C. A.
Sawyer, the wife of a prominent tobacco
man of Owensboro, committed suicide at
her sister's home in this city Wednesday,
shooting herself through the head. 11l
health is shown to have caused the
deed.
Party Leaders, Accom
panied By Senator
Piatt, Agree to En
dorse Roosevelt.
NEW YORK, Sept. 13.—After a three*
hour conference at the headquarters of
the Republican county committee, at No.
1 Madison avenue today, it was formally
decided by the Republican leaders of the
state, Senator Platt having been Induced -
to change his attitude, to declare in the
party platform to be adopted at the com
ing state convention, that Theodore
Roosevelt is the choice of the party in
this state for president in 1904.
The big guns of the party assembled at
the Fifth Avenue early, and after giving
their followers the slip, went over to
Madison avenue to discuss the party pol
icy without fear of intrusion or interrup
tion.
The corridors of the hotel had been
crowded with Republican leaders and
their followers, who eagerly awaitqd the
result ’of the conference. Nearly two
score leaders met Senator Platt in his
rooms.
It has been reported that Mr. Quigg has
presented to the conference a plank cov
ering the indorsement and recommenda
tion in the Roosevelt matter, which had
been accepted. A similar plank proposed
for the state platform, which indorsed
the administration of Governor Odell, was
also adopted. The state convention will
universally and strongly, not only in
dorse President Roosevelt’s administra
tion, but will recommend his nomination
in 1904.
This cannot be taken as a pledge that
the delegates to the national convention
two years hence will be instructed for
Roosevelt. Such an idea is out of the
question, inasmuch as those delegates
will not be elected by the coming state
convention.
But the Roosevelt plank in the plat
form now about to be adopted will act
practically the same as a pledge and this
is taken to mean a big victory for the
I president and his friends In the matter.
In fact it is said that the real object in
calling the conference was for the purpose
of formally recognizing the president's
demand that his home state indorse his
candidacy for 1904, and that fearing an
old-time Roosevelt stampede, Senator
Platt has been forced tq agree to a
strong Roosevelt plank.
This state of affairs was made plain by
Senator Timothy E. Ellsworth, of Niag
ara, leader of the Republican forces in
the state senate, and Chairman George
W. Dunn, of the state comjnittee, both
of whom declared that there was a gener
al demand tn this state for a strong
Roosevelt indorsement, and that the reso
lutions to be introduced at the state con
vention would clearly place the Republi
can organization side by side with the
psaßldexU. fuA-Lhe*uop»lnfttlan ia 1904. ■
farmerFquarrel ends
. IN A FATAL SHOOTING
FAIRBURN, Ga„ Sept. 13.—Will Whaley
was shot and Instantly killed by Beaure
gard Russell at his (Russell’s) home about
seven miles from this place In Fayette
county yesterday. There had been bad
blood between the two men for some
time and their friends have been expect
ing trouble. Yesterday morning they met
at two different places and quarreled, but
the fatal difficulty was averted till later
in the day. Russell went to his home and
was preparing to go to Fayetteville, when
Whaley drove up armed with a pistol
and shotgun. Some ladies present asked
him to leave to prevent trouble, when
he is said to have remarked that he didn’t
expect to make another track until he had
killed Russell, at the same time drawing
his gun. Russell Immediately raised hie
gun and fired, killing Whaley instantly.
The coroner held an Inquest and the
jury rendered a verdict of Justifiable hom
icide. Both parties Were prominent young
men and had many friends wherever they
were known. The affair is deeply regretted
by the friends of both parties here.
GIN HOUsFAND GRIST
MILL DESTROYED BY FIRE
AUGUSTA, Ga., Sept 13.—Word has
Been received in the city that the gin
house and grist mill of Mrs. E. A. il
cox, on Big Spirit creek, near Allen Sta
tion, were burned Wednesday afternoon.
The gin was being operated and caught on
fire, which was communicated to the ad
joining mill. Both were entirely consum
ed. The Bin house had just been repaired
and was doing custom work. I
BILL ARP’S CONDITION
IS NOT SO FAVORABLE
CARTERSVILLE. Ga., Sept. 13.—8i1l
Arp passed one of the most restless nights
he has passed in several nights, coughed
almost the entire night and rested but
little.
Today he is not considered so well, al
though he takes a little nourishment at
times.
WOMAN CLAIMS TO
BE GUHEO 61
MIHACLE
ATTRIBUTES CURE OF INTERNAk
CANCER TO THE AGENCY OF
BLESSED VIRGIN—CRE-
ATES SENSATION. ,
LONDON. Sept. 13.—The Dally Chron
icle this morning says that a Mrs. Not
terman has returned to her home in Lon
don from a pilgrimage to Lourdes,
France, where, to all appearances, ’ she
was miraculously cured of an Internal
cancerous tumor.
Mrs. Notterman was unavailingly treat
ed for cancer before going to France by
experts in the London hospitals. On en
tering the waters at Lourdes she expe
rienced a fainting sensation, accompanied
by pain. In a few minutes .this passed
away and with it the swelling of the tu
mor. Bou. at Lourdes and since her re
turn to London Mrs. Notterman has been
examined by doctors who pronounce her
absolutely cured. She attributes her cure
to the agency of the Blessed Virgin. Her
case created a great sensation among the
English pilgrims.
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