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Lawyers Now Speaking, and Trial Expected, to End This Week. Savanah, Ga., April 9. — The argu ments in the Greene and Gaynor case were continued today. They attracted a large crowd to the United States court room and there were many ladies In the audience. Mr t W. W. Osborne continued his argument for the de fense and occupied the attention of the court for some time. He was fol lowed by Marlon Erwin, United States District Attorney, who was / speaking when the court adjourned for the day. It Is possibld that {here will be a night session tonight. If so, the argument will end on Wednesday morning and Judge Speer will then deliver his charge to the jury. Col. P. W. Meldrlm will deliver the laBt speech for the defense. He will not speak as long as the other attor neys, as Mr. Osborne encroached somewhat on his time. It is expected that Judge Adams’ speech for the gov- emnAent will be® an able effort. He has watched the trial very closely and It Is thought he will make one of the finest speeches of his career In this caad Judge Speer'B charge will he an able effort also. In the United States court the judge, in charging a jury, can give his opinion on the evidence as well as on. the law, and Judge Speer will prob ably do this. Ifjhe public Is advised as to the time that,Judge Speer de livers his charge the court room will be crowded to the doors when he does so. . 3 \ There Is much speculation as to what the verdict win probably be and how long the jury will be In reaching its conclusion. Some look for a mis trial. Those who have kept well up with the trial say that the defense has made ! a most excellent Bhowlng except as to the distribution of the funds ac cruing from the work at Savannah and In Cumberland Sound. Capt. B. D. Greene when on the stand gave a very off-hand explanation of this. He told of distributing hundred thousand dol lars shares of profits with but little formality and without giving or taking receipts. The Jury has borne Up well under the strain of the trial. There has been but one day’s recess because of the lllneis of a Juror. Yesterday they enjoyed a walk In the country and this morning they appeared with their faces bright with hope at the outlook of a short concluilon of the eaBe.' The prisoners look careworn. Writes the Governor that He is Tired of Living and Wants to Hang. , But, at the 8ame Time, He, Was Busy With Some Fellow Criminals In the Lowndes County Jail Trying to Ef fect an Escape. Albany i Machinery ' Co. Make a specialty • • of • • H eavy M aclimery Southern Engine and Boiler Works. Higk Grade Atlanta, Ga., April 9.—Consistency seems not to'be a part of 3. G. Raw lings, under sentence of death along with two of his sons for the assassina tion of the two Carter 'children near Valdosta. Rawlings was convicted last year of hatching a plot which ended in the murder of the boy and girl of an enemy. Appeals have been taken in the case and it is now before the su preme court of the United States, counsel for the Rawlings having done everything that an energetic lawyer can do to save the necks of his clients. On Saturday the governor received a letter from the elder .Rawlings, who is, ‘an 1 inmate of the prison at Valdosta awaiting the result of his attorney’s efforts in his behalf. In this letter the condemned man said he was tired of the various stays, respites and delays which have been a part of his case. He intimated that he preferred death to life, and seemed willing to dance at the end of a hangman’s rope at the earliest possible moment. In fact, it appeared that the sooner the better would just suit him. But now comes a report from Vai dosta to the effect that Rawlings lost no time to effect his escape from prison when the chance presented itself, as it did Saturday. All that prevented a jail delivery was a dream which Jailor Passmore had the other night, and which made a strong' impression upon him. So vidid was this dream that Passmore made a' thorough investiga tion of the prison and found that the Rawlings and some alleged pickpockets who were also inmates of the prison had secured saws from some unknown source and filed the bars ready for flight. In a short time they would have been able to gain the freedom of the jail corridor and the rest would have been easy. They had severed ten bars and only eight more remained be fore the job would have been perfect. It seems that while the governor was reading Rawlings’ remarkable letter, the prisoner, was busy trying to do just the opposite from what he had given expression to. EVER BEFORE Boscotrecase Has Experienced the Same Fate that Overtook Pompeii. The Panic Caused by the Qreat Rivers pf Molten Lava and the Deep Detonations Which Cause the Earth to Quake Has Reached Naples. Naples, April 9,—Streams of lava which have been threatening Terre Anmmziate, a town of twenty-eight thousand population twelve miles from Naples, have remained stationary since last evening. The danger to the place apppers past.. The action of Vesuvius has percepti bly diminished. The shower of ashes ceased falling over Naples for a time this morning, but began later again. One hundred and fifty thousand refugees have gathered in this city. When the last train was leaving Boscotrecase, a fresh crater opened near that station, and refugees from Ottajano say that ten houses and five churches' there collapsed front a wave of ashes. King Victor Emanuel and Queen Helena arrived this morning from Rome and started for the towns in the path of jug lava stream. “If the place is in danger, it is my duty to’be there,” Said the King. Aprils.—The hope that Mt. | The work of succor Is hampered, Vesuvius was becoming calm was dls- owing to delays to the railway service, slpated today when the volcano be- which Is Interrupted by red-hot stones came more active than ever. | throwp to a height of 3,000 feet, fall- The panic has spread to Naples, ing on the tracks. Two strong earthquake shocks, which! Craters Too Many to Count, shattered windows and cracked the' . As yet It is impossible to count the wills of buildings, were experienced craters that have openedand -from today. The population'rushed to the which streams of lava have flooded ^he streets In terror, many persons crying beautiful,’ prosperous and happy land "The Madonna has forsaken us; the lying on the southeast shores of the end of the world has come.” joulf of Naples. The atmosphere is Boscotrecase Shares Fate of Pompeii, heavily charger with electricity and No trace remains of oBscotrecase, a now and then the flashes of lightning commune on the southern declivity are blinding, while the detonations of the mountain, where np to forty- from the volcano resemble those of eight hours ago ten thousand per- terrible explosions, sons lived; and Torre Annunzlata, on! The churches of the city were open the shores of the Gulf of Naples, -one all Saturday night and were crowded mile to the southward, is almost sur- with panic-stricken people. Members rounded by the Invading lava and has of the clergy are doing their utmost been evacuated by Its thirty thousand to calm their fears, hut the offeets of inhabitants. Tfce people'Were brought' their arguments go almost for naught to Naples by. ttalns, .streetvOArs, mlllytWheu.:reihew6ai earthquake .shocks-are tary carts redd steamship^.' Similar experienced. • - ■> means of transportation are being eW-1 Mountain of Fire, ployed to bring away the people from with the Janger and horror of the Torre Bel Grec.o, The police and cpr- situation aside, Vesuvius presents one blneers are guarding the abandoned of the most splended sights Imagine- houses and several members of the ble. The mountain of fire, whose government are also there. speech Is by detonation and whose A telegram received from the mayor of San Sebastlttno, a village near the observatory, on the northwest decliv ity of Vesuvius, says the lava Is ap proaching rapidly and that the people are terror-stricken. They have been for nights without sleep, he says, are destitute, and begs that assistance be given them. acts are destruction, seems like an enraged giant determined to make the pigmies of earth feel the might of his wrath:; Here and there on the moun tain side stand the blasted trunks of pine trees; their bare branches out stretched as though in protest against the devastation the volcano has wrought General Stephen D. Lee and Mrs. Braxton Bragg tq; Lead the Dance of Veterans. 1 NEW ORLEANS, April 9.—The entertainment of the U. C. V. reunion j to be held in New Orleans April, 2®, 20 and 27, has issued a eail to vet- orans from other cities to arrange'their "sets" for an old-time Southern . cotillion and Virginia reel, which will be led by General Stephen D. tee ■ and Mrs. General Braxton Bragg, on the night of Thursday, April 28th. ' It is desired that each locality moke up its own set so as to be prepared to participate in the biggest single dance ever given in the South. The old St. Louis Hotel, whloh Is Immediately opposite the reunion hall, has been fitted up with 3,000 oots, with electric lights and other con veniences, all of which will be free to the veterans. The railroads have made reduced rates to New Orleans for the occasion and fronythe present outlook the indications are that the attendance will exceed even that of the big reunion held here In 1904: , 1 A FIERCE RIOT Police Interfered with Out- Will be Engaged for Prac- door Meeting Held to Ex- jtrpsf Sympathy for pfolP prisoned Mine Officers. 1 San Francisco, April 9.—The fiercest riot in many years in San Francisco oc curred last night at an outdoor meet ing held to express sympathy for Pres ident Moyer and t Secretary Haywood; of,the-Western Federation Miners, who are imprisoned on the charge of cation in the murder of former Gover nor Steunenburg. The police attempt ed io interrupt socialist speeches, and a riot followed in which several police men were seyerely injured and fifteen rioters were arrested, three chargetl with attempt to murder. tically the Whole WeeK on Criminal Business of the Term. CHILD ATE POTASH. Three-year-old, Son of Mr,, and-'Mre. The. Indications are that practically the entire week; will he consumed in- clearing the criminal docket Of Dough erty superior court. / ( ‘ The civil business of the April 1 term was, disposed of in a few hours ,last Monday, but when jiidge Spence called the criminal docket this morn- ng, it was with the -expectation, ! iased on the number of- oasos which; were awaiting trial, that close appli cation would be necessary .to clean up 'the business of the term by the end. 9f’the week, . '*;!The grand jury was exceedingly , , " usy last week, and returned a matt er of bills of Indictment, Ther- dozen or more Jail prisoners i 7 _g" trial, and the defendants 1 tpdrous bonded cases will be called 1 the bar before the term bee " > c. Hi’WSodair HaeTrfiffawiMffipkr a .matter ;of history. ..None Of’ the eases to : be ti tried are of' Engines, Boilers, Saw Mills, Wood • Working Machinery, Shingles and Lath Mills. Marsh Ste am Pumps NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN An Organization to,Be on the Llnoa the Y. M. C. A. New York, April 9.—A plan to es tablish in the United States a nation al association for Catholic youag men on the lines of the Young Men’s Chris tian Association’ has already taken definite shape, according to the Tri bune. It has the approval of Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop Ireland, Arch bishop Farley and leading Catho lic laymen. - Berlin, April 9.—The Associated Press is officially informed that Germany has suggested the postponement of the second Hague con ference in order not to interfere with 'the' Red Cross conference at Berne, Switzerland. Germany is endeavoring to postpone the as sembling of the conference to permit .the North, Central and South American states to send delegates without interfering with the Pan- American conference at Rio’janiero. Yesterday afternoon, Chas. 0. Woptl- all, the three-year-old son of Mr, and Mrs. C. H. Woodall, ate some potash, and it was only through prompt and heroic work by Dr. W. L. Davis, who was called to minister to the little suf ferer, that its life was spared. As It was, the child’s face, hands and arms were badly blistered, and'the little fel low suffered agonies for several hours. The child had been' brought into the city by the negro nurse from the Wood- all home on the southern outskirts of town. While in town with the nurse the little fellow ate the potash. As soon as it was discovered, Dr. Davis was summoned, and it washiB prompt and efficient work only that saved the life of the unfortunate little one. Word from the Woodall home today is to the effect that the child is resting comfortably, and is not considered to be -in a dangerous condition. special Interest. - WILL BE SOMETHING CHICAGO, April' 9,—A report received at Zion City today says that John Alexander Dowle, on arrival there, will cause the immediate arrest pf Overseer Vollva and the members of his coqnsel pn the charge of con spiracy. The rumor has caused the greatest excitement In Zion City, where the statement is made that such action will be followed by the im mediate arrest of Dowie on a charge more seriouB than any ybt made public. Preparations have been made to counteract, any move made by Dowle. Bonds have been prepared by officers of Zion City so that in case there are arrests It will not be necessary to leave Zion City to se cure liberty. Dowle Is coming on a train which Ip expected to reach St. Louis abotu midnight He will be at Zion City not later than Tuesday night U... Passover Services. Rabbi Landau announces services for--tfio Passover at 8:30 this evening, and at 11 In the morning. Fresh shipment Strawberries today, 20' cents quart Phone 73. Every effort U to be made this year to secure the largest Chautauqua cho rus ever heard In the new auditorium. It Is sincerely hoped that those in the community Who can sing will be prompt to respond to the appeal which Cash Grocery Co., will be made to them In the name of Chautauqua. RUNAWAY NEARLY HAD SERIOUS RESULTS. There was a lively runaway yester day afternoon about 5 o’clock on Jack- son street, and serious results were narrowly averted. Mr. Chovine Walters and Mr. How ard Rawlins were driving in the lat ter’s buggy, and the animal took fright just before reaching North street, go ing south. Mr. Rawlins jumped out, and escaped with a good shaking up. Mr. Walters remained in the buggy un til it collided with a freight car stand ing on a North street side track. He was thrown out and considerably bruised, while the buggy was almost demolished. ‘ The friends of both young gentlemen congratulate them that they escaped without more derious injuries. A Lively Tussle •tth that old enemy of the race. Con* itfpatlon, often, ends In AppendlcK avoid all- serious trouble Stomach, Liver and Bowels, take Dp. ln«r> blew .Life Pills. They perfect- y regulate these brganB, without pain or discomfort 2Eo at Albany Drug CO. If you use any other brand of paint, it is proof conclusive that., you do not know all the; • virtues of Unquestionably' t h e, ; best paint for this cli-. mate. 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