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y OL. 12
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LOOKS DUBIOUS
SAYS CONGER
Ci M«e Problem Seems
Far From
Being Solved.
the station an ominous one
Foreigners * n the Empire Appre-
hend Tb at Seas of Blood
Will
blow Before the End.
Pekin ^to of
narvVTV “ 6 7 8tated Yet that been the P re,imi '
It8 , ™! S presented.
thp-fi are Dot con *pleted and
Th?f foreign Pr0bablybe have a further delay.
- envoys reopened the
princes'!! t° f be cleatlj Penalty for the
°* +| her hi S h officials. It is
evident iZ L hat the miai&t
« , bave ^»re weaken-
al fmm ey re( luceil their propos-
ishmpi)t eXeCU -"i° U to 8everest pon¬
ged geuing rr that ded princes by Chine8e lie beyond law ’ for the -
reach of Chinese law.
iZ *ster r \ h C ad r* t h e e \ following th0 Uuited to State* min-
at ihc reBult will pay .
V t toretoll. be it in im-
> ? ° r Events
j nlfti Iace Ll China have
F in a very critical
I osition. Whether she will be able to
preserve her integrity and save her
trade relations the rest of tho
1 Wlb .... depend upon what the pow-
Ton * eman< willingness ^ the final settlement and
ier to accept prompt¬
ly the conditions proposed.
Sanitary conditions in Pekin are be¬
coming serious. Since the foreign occu¬
pation many Chinese have died of
smallpox and other infectious diseases.
Tearing that their fuucrals would be
interfered with, they have kept most
ot tueir coffins containing their deid
).u their houses and courtyards.
As the natives are forbidden to de¬
posit refuse in the streets, there is
now an enormous accumulation in
♦ heir dwellings and yards, which
threatens a serious epidemic. In
view of the large number of troops in
and near the capital, the consequences
of such an outbreak would be fright¬
ful.
MOKE TROUBLE IS PREDICTED.
An Associated Press correspondent
mt Shanghai says: From Pekin to
^Shanghai it is next to impossible
to meet a European or American
who has resided any length of
time in China but who believes the
real trouble has not really commenced.
They bitterly reproach the powers for
not being more severe in their meas-
tires, partiularly for not absolutely de¬
stroying the Forbidden City at Pekin.
Old residents at Tieu Tsin, Che Foo
and Shanghai say it was a grave blun¬
der that will in the near future cause
the loss of thousands of lives and
the destruction of much property.
It is a well authenticated fact that
hardly a Chinaman outside the prov¬
ince of Chi Li believes that the allies
have had any success at all. Papers
aro sold in Shanghai, giving graphic
details of tho alleged capture of Ad¬
miral Seymour, General Chaffee and
others, as did many of the wonderful
stories that emanated fiom Shanghai a
few mouths ago describing the butch¬
ery of the ministers and their fami¬
lies, which were so freely published in
all the European and American papers
Not ouly are tlie details given at
full length, but pictures are published
showing the admiral aud several gen¬
erals with carques around their necks
being tried before the native judges.
Two Chinamen were beheaded recent¬
ly iu Shanghai for publishing “willful
slanders and malicious falsehoods” iu
stating that Pekin had fallen into the
hands of the allies aud that the em¬
press dowager and the emperor had
fled. The most serious part of the
whole affair is considered to be the
fact that the Chinese judges them-
selves believed the men were really
lying people in'that part of
The white is
China say that Chi Li but a very
small part of the country, only one
province of eighteen, and but of
jnedinm size in population, and that if
jt took as many men as it did to sub-
due Chi Li, what will it take when the
whole country rises as it i§ ripe to do.
LUMBER MEN to COMBINE.
Mammoth Consolidation Scheme I* Under
Way With Promise of Suecese.
A Baltimore dispatch says: A mam-
moth consolidation of lumber cornpa-
■ ill probably be announced with-
V le s w days. Fourteen com-
111 ee h or ten included in
’• a t least are to be
combination if the plans do not
and several others, making,
a total of twenty, are expect-
e added. that all the capital
un derstood the consolidation
r y to secure and that the Bel-
forthcoming the deal, the total
will i finance being about $23,-
the plants
EN it» ARS na FOR EVANS.
,Y °M”«»i#a* Man Convicted of
e , r, “' bt * r
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■i«“7 y in the C flSfl 0 f ’Will Evans,
ritb the m o{ Ed Merck
Fills, Ga.,, ^ tbfl n j g ijt of
Ap rl, r d a V erdict
K » , . Sandler after being
ymaQ Judge * sen-
tonrs. yearn in tbe
L n8 J,° T b0 Be P Jri8oner i took pUMtd his
“ seemed ?LaiL.
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THE ADEL NEWS
bill arp’s Utter
Discourses Upon Politics'? and
Throws In Some Timely Advice,
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SOUTH MUST UPHOLD PRINCIPI i fiinvu LLO FS
Southerners Should Be More Careful Tn
Selecting School Books For
Their Children.
Let us move right straight along and
keep in the middle of the road. All
is not lost save honor, nor will the
north dare to cut down our represen¬
tation in congress—snch a move would
alienate their new southern converts,
for southern Republicans are at heart
all lily whites aud have no use for the
negro in politics. Southern Republi¬
cans have been under the ban socially
ever since the war, and they realize
that it is because they are alligned
with the negro. Captain Liwry is
right when he says, “but for the negro
iu politics the Republican party would
have a good chance to capture aud
hold the south.
The captain is a Republican^—a
Tennesseean, a Georgian, a banker,
and has traveled much, and his partj
Up north ought to give weight to his
opinions, tie is a gentleman, a man
of integrity, and stands high in finan¬
cial circles all over the country.
Financially he is a success and liberal
with his money, but will not take
Carnegie’s advice and give it all away
before he dies. Yes, the nigger is
still in the wood pib-, and the joke of
it is tbe nigger don’t know it. There
aro not a dozen negroes in this coun¬
try who care a straw about voting. If
the white office-seekers would let them
alone they wonldeut go about the polls
oil elction
What is wanted is to purify the can¬
didates. If this can bo done in At¬
lanta why not elsewhere? We all re¬
joiced over the election of Major Mims,
for he ran for mayor as a gentleman
and had no heelers, nor would he ask
any man for his vote or allow auy cor¬
rupt electioneering by his friends. He
stubbornly refused to promise any¬
thing to nnybody, and, strange to say,
w as elected. But the Republican par¬
ty is growing very fast in this section,
and will grow into respectability if
they will let tbo negro alone. Mr.
Lowry is right.
Some years ago when we had suffer¬
ed a similar defeat my friend Newt
Tumliu was greatly distressed and
toid me in a whisper that there was
only one way to get even with them
and that was to jine ’em. Well, there
are lots of folks jining ’em around in
these parts, aud it is hard to tell who
is a Democrat and who is not. They
tell mo that a Democratic officeholder
anil two of the executive committee of
this county voted for McKinley and
our neighboring county of Polk went
for him by 500 majority. Maybe that
is an evolution that will stop the
threatened reduction of our repre¬
sentation, for our Republican friends
don’t want that to happen auy more
than we do, and they will file a protest
and fight it.
What we want at the south is to pre¬
serve our good name, our historic
honor and our traditions. A section
that has produced Washington, Jeffer¬
son, Madison, Monroe, Jackson and
Polk, as presidents, Clay and Calhoun
and Lee and Stonewall Jackson and
President Davis must hold up her
proud head and vindicate her honor,
AVho are we? We import no foreign¬
ers to do our work, and hire no Hes¬
sians to do our fighting. How did our
hearts burn within us as we read the
brave words of General Evans to the
confederate veterans at Augusta: “Do
not let the history we have made be
perverted by partisan pens or pollated
by sectional slime. Our schools must
be cleared of northern rubbish dumped
into the minds of our children. We
■want a literature that will not con¬
tinue divisions, but will contain the
bones* relation of facts, that will
unify the youth of this country in
common appreciation of the truths of
history.”
Tes, we have been shamefully care-
less in the selection of our school
books. The poison has already crept
in and must bo ejected. There should
be a school commission in every soutli-
ern state, for it is a well-knowu fact
that there are teachers who are secret-
)y paid by northern publishers to get
their books into onr schools. We ean-
not control their literature, but we can
their school books. A few weeks ago
an artful canvasser visited our town
with au attractive history of the world
j u vo ] ume8> JJ e was the out-talk-
j U gj s t book agent I have ever met, and
],j g scheme W as to give away five or six
8e t s j n every town to influential men of
culture. He called it giving away, but
j required the cost of the binding,which sale ppice
he said was $14. The was
I was selected by him as one of the
favored six, and he fed me liberally ou
flattery and assured me that there was
not a line in all the volumes that any
southern man would object to nor
could any reader tell whether the au¬
thors lived north or south. He had
one volume as a sample, and I noted
that the authors were distinguished
professors in some northern colleges.
The volume was well written and I was
pleased with it and with the price and
the flfttter y» f ’° 1 P ut m J name
down with the condition that ou exam-
iuation of tho other volumes I might
accept or reject. In due time they
came, and I took np the ninth volume
that contained the history of ottr civil
wer.
The book was opened it random
and there tfao an engraving ofWilllem
EC. Seward and tbe gret paragraph
read! kwdly get inataiied
ADEL BERRIEN COUNTY, GA.. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 23. 1900.
into office when he was. cftofTd fated by
three audcdoUi eohimissiofiers from
the fShel stlites.” Audacious! Just
think of it. I was mad and got up
an< * wa,ke<i about aud then played on
1 the piano a little and then opened the
i I book again at Mr. cvhoun’s picture
fthd read another paragraph, which
I said that there was but little difference
between Calhoun and John Brown,
for they were bo(h fanatics and wonld
go down in history on the same plane.
Of course the books Wore rejected,
but the ageht has toy influence as a
forentes Cultured dora.’* genieman. ‘jBeware “Timeo DaDavs Gre-
' of the
Cians when they come with gifts,” and
beware of histories published by north¬
ern houses unless they are written by
southern authors.
Sometimes when I ruminate about
all their slauders and lies aud bragga¬
docio I get sad and then mad and dis¬
couraged for fear they will drive us
into another war and we will have to
whip ’em again. When a country dog
comes to town lie hides underneath
the wagon as long as he can, but the
town dogs drive him out and he runs
off and backs up in the corner of the
fence and whips the whole gang an d
all they dare to do is to stand off and
hark at him. Those yanks are barking
at us now. Let ’em bark. Those who
come down here to live with ns are
good people atid soon fall in love with
tis.
I never knew an exception except
that .Mrs. Canfiell, who wrote that
imalignant aud fool letter back to her
oiks aud said she louged to see the
time come when black heels should
tread on white necks. Those who
come down here to stay soon harmo¬
nize with our folks and their sons
marry onr daughters and onr sons
marry their daughters. Old Dr. Kirk
says it’s a mixture of blue blood and
greenbacks and makes a fair average.
So it’s all right, and no Iobs on ottr
side.
P, S. There are two Mormon elders
in town and I’ve got no dog.—Binn
Abp, in Atlanta Constitution.
GEORGIA DISPENSARY BILL.
Measure Gets Favorable Report From
Temperance Committee of Legislature.
The temperance committee of the
Georgia house of representatives by
an overwhelming vote reported favor¬
ably the Wright dispensary bill.
This measure gives to the voters of
those counties having cities of 5,000
population or over the right to vote
for or against a dispensary, the same
as for or against prohibition as is now
law in the local option act.
The bill of Mr. Wright changes the
local option law only in that it gives
to those counties above mentioned the
right to vote on the dispensary ques¬
tion.
FIGHT WITH BOLD MEN.
Fierce Battle In Which Three Americans
and One Hnndred Filipinos Are Killed.
Manila, November 17.—Two hun¬
dred Bolo men, with fifty rifles, attack¬
ed Buazon, island of Panay, October
30th. Tbe Americans lost three men
killed—Lieutenant H. M. Koontz, Ser¬
geant Kitch and Corporal Burns—all
of cempauy F, Forty-fourth infantry.
The enemy lost 100 killed, twenty
wounded aud twenty prisoners.
Treasurer of Loan Company Skips.
Robert J. Stell, secretary-treasurer
of the Monadnoek Loan and Invest¬
ment Company at Chicago, has disap¬
peared. It is said his books show a
shortage of $25,000.
fchreiber (lone For Good.
The authories of the Elizabethport,
N. J., Banking Company have about
given up hope of capturing William
Schreiber, the young clerk who is al¬
leged to have stolen $100,000 from the
institution. They now admit that de¬
spite the fact that several detectives
have been working on the case, abso¬
lutely no trace has been found of
Schreiber since he decamped.
Four Men Cremated.
At Oswayo, Pa., Sunday four men
were burned to death in a fire which
destroyed the McGonigal house, a
three-story framed building, the hotel
barn and the opera house.
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ALASKA INDIANS STARTING.
Department, of Interior Will Be Officially
Apprised of Their Condition.
“Unless government aid is extended
the Alaskan Indians the death rate
this winter will be appallingly large.”
This is the statement of G. B. Swine-
hart, of Nome, Alaska, who is on his
way* to Washington, where he will
bring the matter before the notice of
the department of the interior.
CALL StJES TALIAFERRO.
Ex-Senator Has Grievance Against Flor-
Ida’s Present Senator.
A Jacksonville, Fla., dispatch says:
Ex-United States Senator Wilkinson
Call has filed a suit for $50,000 against
United States Senator J. P. Talia¬
ferro.
No specifications are cited, but the
suit is understood to be an outcome of
the old Holland beef case.
Neither party to the suit will make
a statement.
CHINESE TO OPPOSE ALLIES.
One Hundred Thousand Troops, It Ig
Reported, Are Being Raised.
It is rumored that a rebellion has
broken out in tbo province of Kan Su.
Chang Cb ; Tung, the Wu Chang vice¬
roy, is said to be raisirg 100,000 troops
and to have proposed to tho Nankin
viceroy that they should combine
t'orocs to oppose tbe allies, making the
Yaug Tse their base for operations
agaifist &hsn Si,
ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM.
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Bill Is Constitutional.
Attorney General Terrell, the the legal
advisor of Georgia, says that tn de,*ot
bill is constitutional. a Writteu
bpinion sbnt to the legislature he de¬
clares there :s no legal objection to the
depot measure as it is contemplated.
The opinion was sent to Governor
Candler and later transmitted to the
house in the form of a special messags
from the governor. It is brief but to
the poiut, and is in line with an opin¬
ion rendered by Attorney General
Terrell last March, in which he held
that the interest on tbe public debt is a
part of the public debt and therefore
auy money provided by the constitu¬ debt
tion for paying the public can
also be applied to the payment of in¬
terest thereon or “to any other cons¬
titutional purpose,” says the attorney
general in concluding his opinion.
Will Require Waivers.
The state will require waivers of
damages from adjacent properly own¬
ers in the event it builds a new union
depot on the Western and Atlantic
property.
The appointment of a joint commit¬
tee to require and secure such waivers
was authorized by the house.
The resolution was by Mr. Hamby,
of Rabun, and calls for a joint com¬
mittee of three from the house and two
from the senate, who are charged with
the dudy of immediately securing
these waivers before any action is
taken on the depot measure.
These waivers are to be filed with
the comptroller general and kept on
record iu his office* aud are to become
the property of the state as a bar to
any claim for damages in building the
depot.
Osteopathy Bill,
The first gun of the fight that is to
be made over the osteopathy bill in
the general assembly was fired when
the general judiciary committee of the
senate took up the bill by Senator
Harrell regulating the practice of os¬
teopathy in the state. It will be re¬
membered that a similar bill allowing
osteopaths to practice in the state was
passed at the last session of the gen¬
eral assembly, but the governor vetoed
it, and the bill now before the commit¬
tee is practically the same as the one
introduced last year. It seeks to give
all the osteopathic doctors who aro
graduates of recognized colleges of
osteopathy the right to practice in
the state, while uuder the present
law they are required to stand the reg¬
ular medical examination.
State to Own Institutes.
Mr. Jordan of Jasper wants the state
to take in charge the establishment
aud maintenance of farmer’s institutes
in this state. The president of the
State Dairymen’s Association, and the
president of the State Agricultural So¬
ciety are to be constituted a board of
control.
They will meet semi-annually and
servo without salary, except actual ex-
peuses in attending snch meetiug.
They are to report annually to the
commissioner of agriculture aud em¬
ploy a superintendent of institutes and
pay him a reasonable salary, he to have
entire charge of the institute work.
Under the bill the commissioner of
agriculture will be required to set
aside annually $5,000 from the pro¬
ceeds of fertilizer tags for the purpose
of carrying ou the institute work.
Pensions For Aged Widows.
Mr. Blalock has introduced a bill in
the house to carry into effect the
amendment to constitutional amend¬
ment giving annual pensions to the
widows of all ex-Confederate soldiers
who by reason of old age and infirmity
are unable to support themselves.
Money For Teachers.
Mr. Blalock, of Fayette, has intro¬
duced a bill in the house authorizing
the treasurer to draw on any funds in
the state treasury to the amount of
$600,000, to be used in paying school
teachers monthly as provided in the
act of 1898.
I he ticasurer is diiected by the bill
to draw on the first of March.S300,000,
and on the first day of April a like
sum, or as much as may be necessary,
and the treasurer is authorized to pay
O tho same to bo
© fund when the
same shall be paid into the treasury.
State to Make Exhibit.
In the senate President Howell
offered a resolution providing for tho
appointment of a commission to make
a display of the state’s resources at
both the Buffalo exposition and the
exposition to be held later in Charles-
ton.
The resolution provides for a com¬
mittee of three, to consist of the com-
missioner of agriculture, the state
geologist and a third person to be
selected by the governor. The com-
missioners are to serve without salary
and to incur no expense save such as
shall be expressly authorized by the
general assembly.
the child- abor bills before the com-
mittee on labor and abor statistics oc-
curred Monday afternoon anil the
meeting resulted m one of the liveliest
discussions that has so far developed
in any committee room.
commrnL o7 flv! meVh^ L! '
the two Child-labor bills and report
one of them back to the committee in
the form in which it is to be returned
to the ilotlse.
To Visit Penitentiary.
At a meeting of the penitentiary
committee of the house Monday after¬
noon, Chairman Toomer appointed a
with a subcommittee from the sen¬
ate. The house members appointed
were Representatives BFock, Harrell,
Bruce, 'burner and Lawrence. The
members of the party left Atlanta
Monday night on their mission, They
will go first to Camp Lookout iu Walk¬
er county, orio of the penitentiary
camps recently established.
MAY FORCE
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Dattlesnip ■j-, i . vr Kpntuckv , i Ordered i to
Touch at a Turkish Port,
SUL ^ I AN STILL „ OWES UNCLE SAM
Guns of Battleship May Be Uscti ns Means
Of a Mil.l Dim ami of Hurrying
The Old Mini Up.
A Washington special says: The
first-c'ass battleship Kentucky, now
in Mediterranean waters, has been or-
dered to touch at Smyrna, Turkey, on
her way to the Philippines. The Ken¬
tucky has been in the Mediterranean
waters for some time, has made a stop
at Algierifin ports anil is now at Na¬
ples, Paly. She is going to Manila
via the Su< z canal route and is iu com¬
mand of Captain olby Chester.
The Kentucky’s presence in Turkish
waters will be coincident with renew¬
ed efforts on the part of the adminis¬
tration to collect from tho Turkish gov¬
ernment payment of the indemnity
claimed by tho United States for the
destruction of missionary property in
that country some years ago. These
claims have been pending for a long
time. The payment of the indemnity
was urged iu turn by Ministers Augell
unil Strauss and Mr. Griscom, the
American charge now at Constantino¬
ple, has been persistent in his de¬
mands for a settlement, but thus far
w ithout any definite assurance that the
claims will be paid. The claims ap¬
proximate in amount $100,000.
Smyrna lies at the head of the gulf
of that name, has a large population
and for centuries has been the most
important center of trade ip the Le¬
vant. The city lies out of the ordinary
line of travel to the Suez canal. Naval
officials are proud of the cplendid bat-
tleship Kentucky, which ouly recently
has been launched. She has a ilis-
placement of 11,325 tons, with an
indicated horse power of 10,000 and
has twenty-two guns iu her main
battery.
Much admiration has been expressed
for her appearance at the places she
has stopped anil the detonr to Smyrna
is said in official quarters to be for the
purpose of showing her off.
MAY JOIN DEMOCRATS.
Silver Republican National Committee
Holds an Important Conference.
Members of the silver Republican
national committee have been in con¬
ference at Minneapolis over the ques-
tion of the party’s future. Among
those participating were Charles A.
Towne, chairman of the committee;
George H. Shiblev, of Illinois, and E.
S. Corser, treasurer of the committee.
It is understood they have decided to
Issue an address in which they will
express the belief that the time has
come for the giving up of the party
organization. All silver and Liucoln
Republicans will be urged, it is un-
derstood, to become Democrats.
GEORGIA YETS ADJOURN.
Their Reunion at Aujjusta Closed Wilh a
Mammoth Parade.
The reunion and convention of the
Georgia Division of United Confeder-
ate Veterans at Augusta, came to a
dose Friday when the great parade of
veterans and the local military was
dismissed by General Evans, who
commanded the march.
The parade was the largest of its
kind ever held in the state, owing to
the fact that the South Carolina di-
vision bad been invited to participate,
and Augusta being very accessible to
the veterans of that state, thousands
of them attended.
Aldrich Goes Out, Too,
Prof. M. A. Aldrich, an assistant in
the department of economics in San¬
ford University, tendered his resigna-
tion Monday as the result of the con-
troversy over the dismissal of Prof,
Ross, head of the economics depart-
ment.
Remains Ordered Home For Burial.
Instructions have been sent to the
consul general at Yokohama to have
the remains of R. A. Moseley, Jr., late
United States consul general at Smga-
pore, forwarded to his home in Ala-
bama for interment,
BOTH DUELISTS KILLED,
Florida Turpentine Workers Fight to the
Death Over a Woman.
th f r c near Bart F1 over a
woman to whom both were j b at .
teution Th d to fight it out
^ ^ and# deliberately simultaneously! planning
for duel> fired
^ hl9n the smoke cleared it was found
the aim of both men bad bean
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CASHIER LOOTS BANK
Institution at Nswport, Kentucky.
Forced to Close Up.
»«I EXAMINER TAKES FEU CHARGE
Women, Wine and Gambling Caused
Frank M. Brown to Swipe Over
Two Hundred Thousand.
A Cincinnati special says: United
States Bank Examiner Tucker took
remain closed pending an examination.
Examiner Tneker also announced
unofficially that Frank M. Brown, the
individual bookkeeper and assistant
cashier, was missing and that a par-
tial investigation showed that Brown
v as short about $201,000. Brown
had been *itb the bank eighteen
years, was one of the most trusted
men ever connected with the old bank,
and it is stated by the experts that his
operations extend back as far as ten
years.
The capital stock of the bank is only
$100,000. Brown’s alleged shortage
is double that amount, aud more than
the reserve aud all tne assets, includ¬
ing the real estnte. While Alvord got
away with $700,000 in New York, he
did it in a large bank, but Brown did
uot have so much to go ou, and seems
to have gone the full limit for a small
bank iu a city of less than 30,000 in¬
habitants. The First National bauk
of Newport wfis Wrecked two years ago
by Cashier Youtsey, and now, with the
German National closed, Newport has
only one bauk left. For two weeks
there have been rumors that Brown
was short and some depositors with¬
drew their accounts.
Three weeks ago the bank examiners
made a good statement for the bank
an <* tbe officers and directors allayed
suspicion by referring to the report of
this examination and to their last
statement. Last Wednesday Brown
left, and it was announced that he had
gone hunting on a vacation. He did
get a ticket for Odin, Ills., but it is
learned that he did not go there, and
it is generally believed that he is out
of this country with plenty of money
in his possession.
The alleged shortage cansed a panic
in Newport Sunday, so that the bank
bad to be taken in charge by the cx-
urniner.
Brown, it is allegid, wms living a
fast life with wine, women and gam-
bling. II is career was notent short
b y any discovery at the bank till a
jealous woman gave him away,
Tbe only farewell letter that Brown
ia known to have left was to this
woman, whose apartments are on
Ninth street, in Cincinnati, and in
this letter be admits that he had se-
cur ed about all that he could get and
fbat the time had coine to say farewell,
Brown was a great poker player, with
,h e limit, it is said, never too high aud
be had been a plunger on horse races
for years. His bets on the horses, it
is alleged, were frequently too high
for the poolrooms in Covington, Ky.,
and he had brokers in both Chicago
and New York.
*The office3s of the bank are all
wealthy »nd responsible men, and they
will be able to make the losses good.
There are about 1,600 depositors in
the institution, among them being nine
building associations that have the
savings of many people.
Brown wrote to the Cincinnati wo-
ma n that bo was bound for South
America, but Tho Enquirer says that
^ h «s good authority that Brown sail-
e< ^ f rotu New York Saturday aud that
bis destination is China.
GOVEItNOR HAS BILLS.
Alabama Ueeislature Fasses «3overn*lilp
••Succcssian'’ Measures.
The Alabama senate, Saturday, pass¬
ed house bills Nos. 1 aud 2, which
provided respectively that the presi¬
dent of the senate should succeed in
tbe event Q f t b e deat h D f the governor-
and that the governor-elect
might take the oath of office otherwise
than in the presence of the general as-
8em bly. As soon as these bills passed
t he senate they were enrolled and
gjnmgfl by the presiding officers of the
t wo houses after wnich they were sent
to thG office of the governor to await
his signature,
TO LIMIT TAXING POWER.
The Georgia State Senate Panel an Im¬
portant New Measure.
In the Georgia senate, Thursday
morning, Mr. Chappell’s bill to limit
the taxing power of the legislature to
one-half of one per cent was taken np
& n d pnt upon its passage,
4 The bill involves a constitutional
amendment, which, if adopted will be
effective in 1905. No speeches were
made in opposition and the bill went
through with a rush. The vote was
36 to 1.
The amendment will be submitted
to the people for ratification at the
next general election.
FIRST UNCENSORED DISPATCHES.
Great Activity Witnessed the Fast Week
In the Philippines.
The first uncensored news from the
Philippines shows that last week wit¬
nessed considerable r increase in rebel
and American activity in the field.
„ sklT .. “" occurred and several
sma! i eD 8 a **? in north and south-
i termination of the
MUisptiett 6t thi bp*
*
NO. 39.
A BLACK FIEND S5«S
DIES IN FLA
Colorado Citizens Avenge Ontrage
and Murder of Little Girl.
ANGRY MOB SHOWED NO MERCY
Burning Culprit Begged Repeat¬
edly to Be Shot—Crime Was
Most Horrible One.
A special from Limon, Col., says:
Chained to a railroad rail, set firmly
in the ground, on the exact spot where
his fiendish crime was committed,
Preston Porter, Jr., colored, or, as
he was familiarly known, John Porter,
Friday evening paid a terrible penalty
for his deed.
It was Gi25 o’clock when the rather
of the mnrdered girl touched the
match to the fuel which had been piled
nround the negro, and twenty minutes
later a last convulsive shudder told
that life was extinct. What agony
the doomed boy suffered while the
flames shriveled up his flesh could on¬
ly be guessed from the terrible eon-
tortions of his face and the cries he
gave from time to time.
The executors, who numbered about
800 citizens of Lincoln county, had
not the least semblance of the ordina¬
ry tnob. Their every act was delib¬
erate, and during all the preparations,
as well as tbrongbont the sufferings
of the negro, hardiy an unnecessary
word was spoken. Grimly they stood
in a circle about the fire until the body
was entirely consumed, and then qui¬
etly they took their way back to Li¬
mon, whence they departed for their
homes shortly afterwards.
Preston Porter did not seem to real¬
ize the awful punishment that he was
destined to undergo. As he had ex¬
hibited indifference to the enormity of
his crime, so he seemed to lack all uu-
derstanding of its teiriblo conse-
quences. For more than an hour,
while preparations for his execution
.
were in progress, he stood mute and
sullen among the avengers.
"When everything was ready ho walk¬
ed to the stake with a firm step, paus¬
ing, as he reached tho circle of broken
boards, to kneel in prayer. He was
allowed to take his time. He arose
and placed his back to the iron stake
and half a dozen men wound chains
about his body and limbs.
victim’s father applies match.
Kerosene oil was applied to the
wood, and, after a brief pause, Rich-
aril \V. Frost, the father of little
Louise Frost, whose cruelly mutilated
body was found one week ago on that
very spot, applied a match. For a
moment a little flickering flame arose.
Then the oil blazed up, sparks flew
into the air aud the wood began to
crackle. Almost iusfantly the ne¬
gro’s trousers caught fire.
At first he did not ntter a sound.
The flames crept slowly upward on his
clothing, the sparks flew up in a cloud
of pale smoke. Porter turned his head
aud a frightful expression came over
his face. With a sudden convulsive
tugging he stretched his head as far
from the rapidly increasing flames as
possible and uttered a cry of pain,
“Oh, my God, let me go, men.”
The cries of the wretch were re-
doubled, and he begged repeatedly to
be shot. Some wanted to throw him
over into the fire; others tried to dash
oil on him. Boards were carried and
a large pile made of the prostrate body.
They syon were ignited, and the terri¬
ble heat aud lack of air quickly render¬
ed the victim unconscious, bringing
death a few moments later.
Throughout the entire affair but lit¬
tle was said. As they had calmly pre¬
pared for the avenging, so the people
of the eastern part of the state carried
out their plan coolly and deliberately.
Not a weapon was drawn, there was
no angry discussion. After the fire
had burned low they told each other
good night and then went home. They
did not stop to discuss the affair.
PORTER CONFESSED CRIME.
While in jail at Denver the negro
confessed every detail of the hideous
crime. The little girl was the daugh¬
ter of a ranchman living four miles
from Limon and attended school in
town, driving back and forth. On
Wednesday last, while on her way
home, she was waylaid, assaulted and
murdered, her body showing no less
than fourteen knife wounds.
Notices have been posted warning
Negroes of bad character to leave
Lincoln and Elbert counties, and de¬
claring that if they do not ill
be escorted across the border JH
of the Union Pacific
Island railroads hav&"&] 80 MH
tronedj«f»«u>xfr^bm q th|£a^* c Wted colored theseHB sectieinH
a
This ^ J” adopted was taken in pursuancS
resoln. at a mass mei
of citizens.
GOTHAM TO BE PURIFIED.
Croker Leaves For Europe—Talks of 1
many's Latest Move.
Richard Croker sailed from
York for England Saturday on bj
the steamer Lncania. At the D|
cratic club, before starting for
steamship pier, Mr. Croker said:
“This movement by Tammany
against vice means business,
havo taken up the fight to props] purlfj
oitf la earnest, and we
carry !* t8 S