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y OL. 12 . 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 - ■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. tly . * THE ADEL NEWS bill arp’s Utter Discourses Upon Politics'? and Throws In Some Timely Advice, ____ 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. -*- 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. • a / | LCglSlatlVC • | . 2 / I a <"S Brevities • . a l a o • • • 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 -- - — - 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 4h ‘ ! ” stl * 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