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VOL. XIX. NO. 16
VIENNA GA.. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER, 6, 1900
PREPARE TO ATTACK PEKINQ,
Chlncso Will Attempt to Drive the A1-"
lies Out i f 'lie City.
Peking, Aug. ail, via SHANGHAI 1 ,' Sept.
8.—According to numerous reports flic
many thousnuds of Boxers who' wor .
scattered on the arrival of the alllei are
again massing to attack Poking. These
rumors .create great unousiuess.
The Japanese have captured 5,000,000
bushels of rice and silver ballon to the
amount of 91,000,000.
At Tieu Tsin the Amorlciuis have cap
tured bullion to the vuluo of 1500,000.
RUSSIANS GIVE NO QUARTER
Gzur’s Troops Meet. With strong Op.
position In M'inuliurin.
Portland, Or., Sopt. 8 The steam
ship Monmouthshire has arrived 14 days
from Yokohama.
The Kobo Herald of Aug. 14 saysi
•‘Russia is pouring tons of thousands
of Oossaoks from tho north into the
Manchuria and repofts say no human
soul is being spared and a wldo open
ttaok is being mado as the troops press
forward. They are nevertheless meet
ing some opposition enroute, ns the en
tire Chinese population oomo out against
them.
Executed By liiiporlal Order.
Peking, Aug. 80, via Shanghai, Sept.
8.—Three moro members of tho tsung U
yamon havo been oxeoutod by the em
press. Thoy are Hon Tun, a member of
tho imperial seoretariato; Li Shan, a
Tend of the foreigners, and Li. Yion
ng. Thoy were put jo death just bo
KNIFE BLADE IN HIS BRAIN.
An Unusual Case Comes to Light In
Ware County.
Waioross, Ga., Aug. 81 —Two r >
groe$ Nelson and Thomas, got into a
dispute and in the row Thomas out Nel
son with an old rusty pooketknife, in-
flloting soveral ugly gashes, principally
about the head aud face.
Tho wounded negro was taken to
a physlolon and his wounds oxamiued
and pressed.
Later the negro began aoting strange-
ly,. appeared to be partially paralyzed
and in ten days from the day he was cat
he died.
An autopsy was hold, aud to the as
tonishment of the doctor ho found a
piCce of tho old rusty knife blade meas
uring lh> inohes in length imhodded in
tno man's.brain. It had broken off and
Entered the man’s head at a place whoro
appeared a little soratoh too insignifi
cant to demand attention from the
It is a mystery how the man could
live ten days with that piece of knife
blade inside of hla brain.
FATHER’S FEARFUL- CRIME.
ire tho arrival of tho alllod forces,
British Dofout tho Chlnosc.
Peking, Aim. 81, ‘via Shanghai,
Sept. 8.—Tho British forcos met, 5 miles
to the westward of Peking, 800 Boxers
a l 8,000 rogular Chinese troops. The
or fled without a shot aud the Boxers
owed suit after losing 70 mou.
Ho Is Charged With Assuultlug Ills
Own Daughter. '
Dublin, Ga., Aug, 81.—Parties Jiving
4n the east side of tho river bring to the
city details of an assault by Jordan A.
Outlaw on his own daughter. He de-
Blstod only when assailed by his wife.
Outlaw threatened to kill his wife aud
LUghterif they spoke of the oconrrehce.
’t a close watoh upon their move-
fbr sovoral days, but his wife
id away and swore out awarrnnt
,st her husband. Outlaw was or-
ited under the warrant by Constable
.orson. He submitted very quietly
soQmed perfeotly willing n accom
pany the officer and stand a commit
ment trial. Seeing an opportunity to
escape, Outlaw made a-dash for freedom
nn'd is still at large.
Legations Undermined.
Peking Aug. 80, via Shanghai,
Sppt.'8.— It has boen ascertained that
the positions held by tho legatloners
duping their Bioge wore undermined by
tpe Boxers aud in a few days more the
mine Would have been sprung.
SOUTHERN DEVELOPMENT.
List of the Now Industries' Reported
During tho Past Week.
Chattanooga, Sept. 8.—Among the
more Important of tho new industries
reported by The Tradesman during the
week ended Sept. 1, aro the following;
A 8800,000 brewery at Charlotte, N. O, j.
brick works in Kontuoky; cotton mills
in Georgia and Kentucky; coal mines in
Alabama, Kentuoky and West Virginia;
cottonseed oil mills in North Carolina
ahd Virginia; a 850,000 eleotrio power
jjlant in West Virginia; foundry and
maohine shops in North Carolina: flour
ing mills in Alabama aud West Virginia;
gold mines in Georgia; a six-ton ioe fac
tory at Charleston, S. O.; iron works In
South Carolina aud Teuuessee; lumber
mills In Alabama, Florida and Tennes
see; a mattress and spring bed factory
in Mississippi; pulp and paper mills in
North Carolina and West Virginia; s
pearl button faotory in middle Tenner
Bee; a peanut faotory iu North Carolina
quarries in Arkansas aud North Caro
lint,; a stave faotory iu Florida; telephone
systems in Kentucky. South Carolina,
Texas and West Virginia; a table faO'
tory In North Carolina; a 825,000 woolen
mill at Winchester, Va., waterworks at
Southern Fines, N. 0>, and Aikou, S. O.
LINEMAN IS ELECTROCUTED.
Traglo
William DeLoach Meets
. Death In Augusta,
Augusta, Ga., Sept. 1.—William R.
DeLoaoh, a telephono lineman, climbed
a polo on Broad street to straighten out
somo difficulties among the wires con
tering there. To steady this giant pole
which is probably 80 feet high, guy
wires run to other poles In the vioinity.
'One of theso goes straight across Broad
street and. above the wires of the eleo
trio railway In the center of the street.
The insulation booame disarranged
and the guy wire sagged down on the
? leotrio roilway’s live wires. When
JeLoach reaobed the guy wire in as-
pending the pole ho'threw his leg over
it. In an Instant a deep gash was
burned in bis leg and he tumbled head
long to the asphalt, 80 or 40 feet below,
NEGRO WOMAN SHOT DOWN
AMERICAN WOMEN
SUBJECTED TO MOST
HORRIBLE TORTURE
led Through Country Naked
ahd Repeatedly Outraged
by the Chinese.
DIE IN FEARFUL AGONY
RESCUED
Terrible Puulslimoiit Meted Out to
Missionaries—The Dowager Kmpross
Made Wm'on the FprOlgnors Against
the Emperor's Protest—Europeans
Demand Destruction of Poking,
'Shanghai, Sept. 4.—Dispatches an-
nounoiug that the Ainerloan govern-
eminent refnsoB to agreo to tho with
drawal of tho troops from Peklug boforo
satisfaction -for the, outrages and the
lossos of its subjects is givon have boon
secoived hero and are applauded by tho
entire foreign colony In Bhaughai. Any
other polioy, according to business men
and missionaries, Will bo a fatal blow to
tho prestige of the foreigners, and would
Weaken their status In China.
Thelooal Buglish papers florooly de
nounce the proposals to evaouato Peklug,
and say that the Ohlneso Interpret evac
uation as dofeat. The massos of China
men now believe that the Chinese arms
aro 'viotorlons.
The Chinese papers printed in Shan
ghai contain long, olroumstantial ac
counts of aUeged Ohlneso viotorios at
Tien Tsin and Lung Chao Si rthd tho
shops and nativo quarter display for
salo lurid photographs of tho oolostial
army driving the European soldiers into
the sea at Taku and tearing them to
f s at Tien Tsin. They also show
res of the foreign, admirals bc-iug
rod in tho presence of tho viceroys.
Admiral Soyihour Js roproseuted
his arms piuloued'knooling boforo
hrono. > The people accept tlioso re
ports and pioturoB as. oorreotly repre
senting the foots ahd anything con,
trary as merely foreign lies.
Domiiud Destruction of Poking.
Tho European community continues
to demand tho dostruotiou of Poking
nn.1 ' ikn nvnmnlnsir tin III dl III Ml f. rtf
‘Timely Arrival of the Omnors Proba
bly Provontocl a Lynohtuff.
Atlanta, Sept. 8.—A uogro fleeing
for life and 60 othnr uogratw, armed
with knives and pistols, oloso on his
heels, caused tho greatest oxoltomont
Sunday afternoon on Oalu streo.
There wore cries of “kill him!" "lynch
himl" "lmnglilml"
The fugitive hold an open knifo in his
hand and whenever any of his pursuers
got too near ho would turn, brandish
the knife aud get a'fresh start.
It was uogroos after a uogro, nud It
seomod evident that if the' man lining
ehasod was caught thoro might hn a
Suuday lynching in the vory heart of
the oil
It May Bo tho Moans of Securing Sirs.
Maybrlok’s Pardon.
London, Sopt. I,—A tangible resnlt of
the recent visit to Mrs. Florence May-
briok at Aylesbury prison of Dr. Clark
Boll was the discovery of a hitherto un
known letter from the Into Bnron Rub-
soil of Killoween, lord chief justice of
England, to Mrs. Mnybriok reaffirming
his belief in Ills client's innocoiioo aud
vigorously declaring his oonvlotion that
she had beon unfairly condemned. This
lottor has slneo beon mado the basis for a
now memorial praying for Mrs. May
brlok’s roloaBo, and so strong is Mr.
Boll's beltof iu the force of this docu
ment that a copy of it has boen sont per
sonally to Sir Matthow White Ridley,
soorotary of stato for tho homo dopart-
-ty- - ■■■I ... w „ HUB.
All that could be asoortaiuod along tho ; ment, at Ills sumraor homo In Narthum,
lino of battlo was that fifty angry ne
groes,^sqmo of whom had boon p'artnk-
blind tiger liquor, wero bent on
__ ug another negro who had also boen
imbibing whisky froni a Suuday blind
tiger. .
The polloo arrived on the soone In
time to prevent sorious trouble. Tho
negro, whoso name Is Clemons, stated
borland, nooompanlod by tho 'request
that ho glvo his oarllost consideration.
Dr. Bell started for the continent to
day moro than satisfied with tho olfoats
of his visit to England. Ho has not only
snoooodedln seeing his aliont for tho
first thno slnoo hor lncarooratiou, hat
has since soourod for Mrs. Maybriok an
audienoo with hor mother (Baroness Do-
when rosouod by the poUoe, that tho ‘ Roques). The discovery of tho Russoll
row resulted from his rofusal to pay for
a drink of .whisky at a blind tiger.
DIVIDEND OF 3 1-4 PER CENT.
Holders of First Proforred Income
Bonds to Get $180,000.
Savannah, Aug. 80.—Tho directors of
the Control of Goorgla Railway com
pany havo deolarod a dividond of 8
per cent on the first preferred inoome
bonds, payable Oot. 1,
lottor is regarded as important, not bo-
canso many pooplo doubted his sluoorlty,
but booanso It is conohod iu suoh terms
as to proolndo any question of his belief
that Bho was unfairly tried. Mrs. May-,
briok’s frlouds say Dr. Clark Bell feels
the mysterious influence of- opposition
somowhoro which hinders a successful
result. Tho Into Mr. Bayard ovldoutly
felt this whou ho deolarod tho oaso had
reaohod tho ond of diplomacy, aud sub
sequent ambassadors also met It. Bat
many recent evidences of louiouoy to-
mm«.»».«»4h* •
and tho amount of this dividond is 9189,- j
000, to be paid out of the earnings of tho '
Central for the past flsoal year. :
A resolution was passed confirming
the notion of tho finanoial board to with
draw 980,000 of the consolidated 5 por
cent bonds of the Central railway to pay ;
certain oharges against the oapital ac
count for lmprovomonts and better-
bo prolonged.
Valuable Coal Lands PurohiiBcd.
Knoxville, Sopt. 1.—Tho Virginia
Iron, Coal nud Ooko comp/my has just
dosed a deal with tho Dunn Coat Laud
company for 8,500 aoros of ooal lauds near
Ooeburu, Va. TUo prloo paid is 825,000,
. , . .i . , . of which amount 810,000 is oash. Tho
*2S®K*,XS! 1 * ? hla i y»‘5 e 5 Ooeburu property is Bald to bo one of
8200,000 of the 82,000,000 sot aside fqr ^ho most vnluablo coal deposits in south
bettermeutB that has boon withdrawn. — ■
A sale of 8100,000 worth of first pre
ferred bonds of the Ooutral is roporto-
from New York. Thoy wero sold to a
Savannah account at from 42>£ to 44.
ROUSE HELD FOR ASSAULT.
COLONEL GIRARD ANNOYED.
Anderson Young Kills Ida Carter aud
Wounds IIls Wife.
Savannah,Sept. 1.—And orson Young,
a negro, has been arrested for the mur
der of Ida Carter and for an assault
with intent to murder his wife, who
was shot during the%ielee. The. quar
rel started over some root medioine,
which Young’s wife purohased from a
herb dootor.
Ho took the medioine from her, and
when she tried to recover it, ho fired at
her. She ran down stairs into the Car-
tor woman’s room, Young following,
still firing his pistol. Tho Oartor. wo
man was killed and his wife was shot
twice.
t
He Claims That Captain Crenshaw
Was Given Every Attention.
San Francisco, Aug. 80. — Colonel
Girard, commanding officer of the gen
eral hospital, is much annoyed at the re-1
ports published regarding the accusa
tions of Captain Crenshaw, who died at
Atlanta last Tuesday. Crenshaw made
ah ante-mortem statement, saying that
bp had reoeivod Uut little treatment at
the general hospital while suffering
from a serious gnu shot wouud.
Colonel Girard said:
“I am at a Joss to understand why
Captain Crenshaw should mnkp suoh a
statement. He hud a female and male
nurse in attendance all the time nud re
ceived every attention possible.”
haymans burned to death
One Man Perished Whllo Another Had
a Nurrow Escape.
Savannah, Aug. 81.—A dispatch from
Ways Station gives on account of the
burning of tho store of W. G. Sutton
yesterday morning aud the cremation of
his clerk. D. L Haymans.
Haymans slept over the store with the
telegraph operator, and could not escape
whou the store was found to he on fire.
Tho telegraph oporator barely oscapod.
Will Be Investigated.
Washington, Aug. 80.—Surgeon Gen
eral Sternberg, to whom all complaints
of ill treatment of wounded soldiers ore
made, states that no complaint^ has
reaohed the department as to the al^ed
iU treatment of Captain F. D. Oreni
which is said to havo caused his death,
If any complaint is made he promises
that it will receive tho careful consider
ation of the war department.
Negro Murderer Hangt-
MrB. Mayes Suicides.
Valdosta, Ga., Sept. 1.—Mrs. Anue
Day Mayes of Atlanta committed sui-
oip’e here. Despondenoy from the fail
ure of her play, “Bibi,’’ is assigned!®
the reason of her act. r J
tho cause of her death,
and''the oxomplary punishment of
tho officials, deeming indemnity nud
inhor promlsos of new treaties iuado-
luato. Undoubtedly the Information of
.ne massacre of foreigners reoontly re
ceived inflames this sentiment.
Missionaries Put to Douth.
The dowager empress is living iu the
yamen at Tai Yuan Fu, in Shan SL prov-
luco. Fifty missionaries havo been
slaughtered in that, yaraou under ordors,
practically in tho presemjo of tho vice
roy. Three wore boheiidod in the inner
ooiirt and others wero killed barbarously
in the yards. The bodies wore thrown
to theaogs.
It is learned from official sources that
several Amorlcan women missionaries
have boon killed.
At the request of the mission board
the details were withheld out of regard
for tho feelings of the velativos of the
murdered women.
American Women Outrngod.
Two of these women were captnrod
while attempting to lcavo the stations
where thev were located, were led about
the country naked, repeatedly outraged,
and finally killed by a method too re
volting to bo described.
Two other American women wero
coming to the oeast with a party which
a number of Qhinamen followed and
Btoned. Tho women fell exhausted and
were taken by the Chinamen into tho
presence of the local officials. They
wore prostrated upon tho execution
blook and a feint was made of their bo-
ing beheaded. One of thorn became hys
terical and laughed, and, thinking her
insane, the Chinese escorted her to the
coast because of their superstition ro-.
gardiug the insane. On tho journey,
however, the woman was repeatedly
criminally assaulted by hor escort, the
other woman being exhibited naked for
some days, suffering assault by sovoral’
men and tortured to death by the same
shameful methods as wero pmotioe'd in
other cases.
Swrdl-l) Wombn Al-o Tortured.
Ho Is Arrostcd at Savannah For Out
raging a Whtto Girl.
Savannah, Sept. 8.—B. J. Ronse, a
white man from Sylvnuia, has beon ar
rested bore oharged with criminally as
saulting Bessie Lewis, a 17-year-old
whito girl from Oyolono, Screven coun
ty. The girl, who is tho dough tor of
poor hut rospootable parents, was sent
to Savannah iu chr-go of a negro wo
man, who was given 810 to pay for
board. Tho girl was sont here to re
ceive medical treatment. Tho negr<
woman betrayed her trust. Rouse took
tho girl out riding with him aud it is
stated that upon their return he as
saulted the girl.
Rouso and tho negro woman wore ar
rested. Rouso ndmtttod having at
tempted an assault.
west Virginia.
Plaguo Continues to Spread.
Glasgow, Sept. 8.—Tho area infooted
with bubonic plaguo has spread to Go-
van, ou tly> left hank of tho Clyde. A
boy died there Saturday ahd today tho
modioal authorities cortlflod that bo was
a viotlm of tho disease. Three addi
tional suspootod casos of tbo plaguo have
been reported iu the otty.
Firebugs Arrested.
Savannah, Sopt. 8.—City Dotootive
John Gnrrity of this olty has just re
turned from Estill, S. O., where he ar
rested two negroes who aro oharged
with having sot fire to that town. Both
men, Garrity states, havo confessed and
arerin jail at Estill.
Guld Ki-oiii Alaska.
Seattle,Wash., Sept. 8.—The steamer
Olty of Seattle has arrived from Skag-
way with 9700,000 In Alaskan gold.
extraordinary incident.
HE JUMPED FROM THE TRAIN.
To Kscapo Arrest a Negro Takes n
Frightful Leap—Neck Dislocated.
West Point, Go., Aug. 30. — Tom
Rawls, a uogro passenger on tho excur
sion' train from Montgomery to Atlanta,
happoned to a serious accident about !)
miles below hero, by jumping.from tin-
train ou tho'WoHteru of Alabama rail
road, whilo it was running about oi
miles an hour. Ho landed on his hum.
In mud 48 feet from the traok, dllocat
ing his ueok.
It was reported to Deputy Sheriff J
H. Pe te that Tom was running a pooki
blind tiger ou the train, and. before tit
deputy could make tho arrest Tom made
for the rear of tho train and leaped from
the platform.
Laudanum was
Killed by Lightning.
Douglas, Ga. Sept. 8.—The son of D.
W. Gaskins, clerk of the superior court,
was killed by lightning which struck
tho family residence. Considerable dam
age was done the building.
s$nm Robinson lluugcd
Marietta, Ga., Sopt. 1.—Sam Bobin-
Fort. Worth, 'Tex., Sept. 8.—Enoch I BQ1 ^ ttle neg ro who outraged Mrs. Inner
- Moss, a negro, was legally oxeouted at iu ^ 00 uuty, was hanged today at
Bastrop this morning. In July last noou There was no trouble of any
Moss killed Neal Lane, q white man. kind,
riddling his body with budlsshot. — ‘
Two Swedish missionary women ar- !
rived at Shanghai after similar experi
ences, except that their lives were spared.
The 14 English missionaries, includ
ing six women aud four children, who
wero murdered nt Ohu-Uhau, in the
province of Che Kiaug, according to the
story of the Spanish priest who escaped,
were killed with hayforks aud anoienr
spears by the magistrate’s bodyguard,
an-' -heir nuked bodies wero hanged
from trees.
' Pine Lumber Shipments.
Savannah, Sept. 8.—Millions of feet
I of southorn pine timber is finding it-
1 way to foreign ports now, almost in th-
j rough state. Vast quantities of thi.
timber are boing brought to Savannah
in' regular tows built like rafts, and here
I it is loaded.. The tug Neptune has just.
! brought iu 1,000,000 feet of timber from
! Darion. The tow comprised seven raft
composed of 1,000 heavy stioks of timber.
Tramp stoamors take largo quantities o
suoh timber as deck loads, aud the in
dustry is rapidly growing.
Forty-SIxih Ohio Returns Hattie Flags
of tho Thirtieth Louisiana.
Oolumiius, O., Sept. 4.—Au incident
out of the ordinary ooourrod at tbo re-
imlon of tho Forty-sixth Ohio volunteer
infantry nt Washington, a suburb of
Oolnmbns, today. The colors of the
Thirtieth Louisiana regiment were re
turned to a commit too of the survivors
of that old organization. Tho flags were
captured nt Ezra courthouse, just out
side of Atlanta, during the war of the
rebellion and have been In the relio
room of tho state capitol here for inauy
years. \
Today, during the romiioti, Judge
David Pugh made au address and turned
tho flags over to a committee composed
of Shepherd D. Harris, John A. Landry
anti James H. Browu of New Orleans..
Governor Nush wits present and partici
pated iu the exercises.
NEW LAW IS NOW EFFECTIVE.
Govei-iiiiinnt.ls Restrained.
Non-Members or tho Cotton Exchange
Musi Pay Commissions.
New York, Sopt. 4.—The new cotton
commission law recently adopted by the
Cotton Exchange went into practical
offoct today. Tho law was to' become
opomtivo on Sept. 1, but as that day
was made nn extra -holiday and yester
day was labor day, tho new rule is really
In force from today.
The law, iu substauoe, makes it oblig-
ViNtiA, I. T., Sopt. 4.—In tho Unlto'd a tory on tho part of brokers and com-
States court tho jtidgo rendered a dooi- mission houses charging those not mem-
sion in *0 pns° of W. O Rogers against bers ofjlm exchange
George Wnghfc, and others, officers in roull( j turn iu the purchase aud salo of
the interior department, restraining the ooutrauts of 100 bales each,
secretary of the interior eroni enforcing
Thc-e incidents make a lenient polioy the'coHection of tho n-ib.,1 tax iu tHu
uni-opultir i.. Shanghai, whore all tbo 1 Chcx.ol.-ee wit-jon- W- O. Rogers is n
victims hml friends. merchant and lias largo stores at throo •
Piccards were posted to-lay in public places in tho Cherokee nation. The
pin.- -it exhorting forei::- era to oppose a tribe! law provides t\mt onch citizen of
cor-pr,-mis- with the ::.-vr«imoi:t and tite'Cherokee nation selling morohan-
attiicUiug Li Hung Ui.inig. quoting the l dise shall pay a tax of one-fourth of I ------ ■ - . „ .
remark to Consul Gouduow credited to 1 pel - oen t of all invoices of goods received trial of tho negro rapist who is oounuea
Earl Li that "the foreigners in Peking, by him for salo in tho Cherokee nation, in jail at this fclace
except the ministers, were of no. go-
Nogroos Demand Trial.
Leesburg, Ga., Aug. 80.—A commit
tee of negro citizens of this county
waited on Justlco McBride nud Sheriff
Martin and demanded the immodiato