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THE SITUATION DESPERATE
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Both Taylor and Beckham Have Armed Forces
and Complications Reach Critical Stage.
POWERS AND DAVIS ESCAPE
They Arc Intercepted, However, At
Lexington By Sheriff and
Police and Jailed.
Almost without warning the storm
center of excitement in tho Kentucky
gubernatorial struggle shifted to Lex
ington Saturday night.
Secretary of State Caleb Powers and
Captain Davis, for whom warrants
were issued charging complicity in the
murder of Governor Goebel, after
spendiug the day iu the statehouse at
Frankfort, to which the civil officers
bearing the warrants were refused ad
mittance by the soldiers on duty, left
town in disguise. Powers and Davis
were slipped aboard a Ohesapeak and
Ohio train at 8 o’clock Saturday uight
and speeded toward Lexington. A
squad of soldiers, coming from the
governor’s mansiou at double quick,
caught the train just before it pulled
out.
The plan of escape was ao neatly
laid and executed that it took the
police and big force of deputy sheriffs
appointed to guard the entrance to
the capitol grounds and prevent their
escape, off their feet when they real
ized what had occurred. It was sev
eral minutes before the truth of tho
escape of the men was definitely
known.
Chief of Police Williams immedi
ately sent telegrams to Lexington,
Midway and all stations along the
road, notifying officers of tho escape
and ordering them to be on the look
out.
On the arrival of the train in Lex
idgton at 8:40 Secretary of State Pow
ers and Capitol Policeman Davis and
Lieutenant Peak were arrested by the
Lexiugtou police aud the sheriff and
deputies. There was a large force of
officers awaiting thefugitives. Powers
and Davis still wore the uniforms of
soldiers and Davis had on false whisk
ers.
There was a wild scene when the
officers broke into the car and revol
vers woro drawn by all, but the small
squad of soldiers were greatly out
numbered by the police force of Lex
ington nnd'the largo force of deputies
with the sheriff, and tho arrest was ef
fected without difficulty.
A local attorney recognized Powers
and also pointed out Davis. They
wore seized and hurried to the jail. As
the procession s-/ept toward the jail
some people started tho report that
there was to be a lynching, aud soon
tho streets were packed with people,
an enormous crowd gathering about
the jail. Davis, Powers aud Peake
were hurried to the upper cells, but
Peake was later released on bond on a
common wan a t charge of resisting
arrest.
Davis hail $125 in money on his
person and a revolver.
There was found on Powers $1,300.
In the inside pocket of each man was
found a pardon from Governor W. S.
Taylor, duly signed and sealed. Pow
ers made the statement to an* Asso
ciated Press representative that he was
not fleeing from arrest. He was sim
ply getting away from Frankfort to
avoid Ding in jail as Whitaker had
been forced to do; that he had nothing
to fear from arrest, as ho was not
guilty of the charge.
Sheriff Bos worth applied at once to
the armory for a special detail of sol
diers under Captain Longmire and
they responded, arriving at the jail a
few moments later, prepared to resist
the rumored prospective attack. The
sheriff then designated a posse to sup
plement a squad of soldiers provided
trouble might come and declared that
any attempt to take either of the
prisoners from the jail would bo re
sisted to a finish.
The Sabbath day brought a hopeful
and encouraging culm to the storm.
Judge George Denny, a prominent Re
publican attorney, called on the pris
oners during the day aud was closeted
with them several hours. He will rep
resent them in whatever legal steps
are taken.
ALABAMIANS ASSIGNED.
Speaker Homleroon, of the House, Makes
Several Committee Chunges.
Several important committee chauges
affecting Alabama were announced by
Speaker Henderson in the house Tues
day afternoon. Because of his recent
appointment to the always coveted
place ou the ways and meaus commit
tee, Mr. (Jnderwood resigned from
the place he has held on the judiciary
committee and Mr. Olaytou was ap
pointed to this committee in his place.
Mr. Clayton in turn rosigned from the
committee on insular affairs and Mr.
Brewer was giveu this important as
signment.
BOTH SIDES ARE FIRM.
Report Is Given Out That Taylor
Would Attempt to Arrest
Beckham.
Sunday morning the Democrats and
the Republicans in Kentucky were for
the first time since the present politi
cal complications assumed acute form,
divided into two armed and organized
factions.
Surrounding the capitol and tho
state executive building and camped
in the grounds around Governor Tay
lor’s home were nearly 200 state mili
tia, well provided with ammunition,
while in the corridors of the hotel in
which the Democratic state executive
officers aro located, and in the streets
adjacent to that quilding were sixty
special officers and tho men and boys
of a militia company that was organ
ized iu Frankfort during the day, as
the nucleus of Governor Beckham’s
state guard, besides scores or more of
heavily armed citizens, partisans of
the Democratic element.
Within an hour after the democratic
leaders heard a rumor that an attempt
was to he made by the state militia to
take Gov. Beckam into custody a pe
tition had been circulated and signed
by the requisite number of men neces
sary to form a militia company.
The men guarded the Capitol hotel
all night against any possible attempt
to arrest Governor Beckham.
The Democratic partisans say that
should the militia attempt to interfere
with the session of the legislature, per
sistent rumors of which had been in
circulation all day, it would be next to
impossible to avert bloodshed.
The republican officials, however,
deny that such action has been ever
contemplated, and that the legislature
would not be molested in any way.
The formation of the state guard in
Frankfort to support Governor Beck
ham was undertaken by City Clerk
Ben Marshall, who circulated a paper
and enlisted the requisite number of
men who are to compose the new com
pany. The guns for this company
have been provided by citizens, most
of them being either needle guns or
winchesters.
Sunday afternoon a report gained
currency that Governor Taylor had
given his soldiers orders to arrest
Governor Beckham and other offioers
of the Democratic state government.
On account of this report the men
enlisted by Captain Marshall were
assembled at the city hall, armed and
sworn iu as special police for the pur
pose of protecting the Democrrtio offi
cers who are still quartered at the
Capitol hotel. A large number of cit
izens also volunteered and were as
signed to various posts iu the vicinity
of the hotel to offer a resistance in
case the tulked-of arrests were at
tempted.
Governor Beckham Sunday after
noon appointed Colonel David B. Mur
ry, of Clover Point, assistant adjutant
general, with the rank of colonel, and
he was sworn in.
The official announcement was made
that this appointment is only tempor
ary. This was regarded as significant,
it being understood that Colonel Mur
ray accepted the appointment on ac
count of the gravity of the present
situation, and with the understanding
that ho could resign when the condi
tions iu the state become more quiet.
According to a statement made by
Governor Taylor to a representative of
the Louisville Commercial, he has
granted a pardon to each of the per
sons for whom warrants have boen is
sued charging them with being acces
sories to the assassination of Governor
Goebel, including Secretary of State
Caleb Powers and ex-Secretcry of State
Charles Finley. In his statement Gov
ernor Taylor reoites tho conditions
under which he claims to have been
elected, and charges the Democratic
contestants for state offices with con
spiracy to secure control of the gov
ernment.
EX-SENATOR CALL A CANDIDATE.
Announce* That He Will Make the Fight
For Governorship of Florida.
A Jacksonville special says: Ex-
Senator Call will make the race for
governor of Florida. He has finally
decided upon this course, aud in an
interview given out Tuesday says he
will make the fight for governorship.
Hobson Offers War Relics.
Governor Johnston of Alabama is in
receipt of a letter from Richmond
Pearson Hobson, at Hong Kong, in
which the young hero expresses the
desire to present his native state with
a Spauish-American war relic, a flag
and flag pole.
FOURTEEN LOSE LIFE
Fearful Holocaust In a Newark,
N. J, Tenement House.
WAS THE WORK OF AN INCENDIARY
Nearly All of the Victim* Were Helpless
Children —House Was a Ver
itable Death Trap.
Fourteen persons lost their lives,
tifo persons were seriously injured
and many others slightly burned in a
fire in Newark, N. J., at 5 o’clock
Monday morning. The firemen, after
the flames had been subdued, took
thirteen bodies from the ruins aud
while they were thus engaged another
victim of the fire died iu the city hos
pital. One family was wiped out com
pletely and of another only the father
lives and he is in the city hospital,
where it is believed he will die.
The building in which the fire broke
out was a veritable fire trap. It was of
frame construction and extended two
stories above the ground floor. Until
three or four years ago the structure
had been used as a church, but it was
converted into a tenement. The lower
floor, fronting on 50, 52 and 54 Four
teenth avenue, was occupied by three
Btores and the upper portion of the
building was divided into twenty
living rooms.
As nearly as can be learned, the
structure was occupied by ten families,
all Italians. Two of the occupants,
Yito Gredanza and one other family
kept boarders, and though the total
population of the rookery could not
bo definitely ascertained during the
excitement attending the firethere were
said to be forty or fifty persons of
both sexes and all ages iu the building
when the fire started.
The police are confident that the
fire was of incendiary origin and they
have arrested Vito Credanza on sus
picion. There was a disorderly card
game in one of the rooms that lasted
well into tho morning. Credanza was
a participant and is said to have made
violent tliarats against his fellow play
ers. A few minutes before 5 o’clock
every one in the building was awaken
ed by the flames.
They found them burning at the
foot of the stairs leading from the first
to the second stories. The hallway
and the stairs were burning fiercely,
cutting off the only egress from the
upper floor on which six families lived.
It also cut off the escape by tho door
for those who lived in the rear
part of the first floor. Those who
could made for the windows. From
these they leaped or dropped.
The whole neighborhood was aw r ake
in at instant and from the burning
building came agonizing screams and
calls for help. From the basement
and.ground floor the inmates of the
building poured naked, or almost so.
From the upper story men and wo
men leaped to the sidewalk. By the
time the firemen reached the scene
the building was wrapped in flames
and those who bad not escaped were
dead or doomed. They must have
died within a few minutes for the fire
rushed through every room iu the
building within ten minutes.
There was fearful excitement about
the burniug building. Men, women
and children who escaped rushed
about almost naked, looking for tlieir
relatives. For a time it was thought
there w r ere many more lost than the
events later proved, because several
naked were picked up by neighbors
and carried iudoors. Thus fathers and
mothers missed their children and
rushed screaming about.
The fire lasted only a few minutes.
The search for the dead began within
twenty minutes after the alarm was
sounded, so quickly was the fire con
quered.
VAGRANT ACT READ.
Would-Be Negro ".Emigrants” Forced to
Disperse at Athens.
A special from Athens, Ga., says:
The 300 negroes who have been en
camped at the Seaboard Air Line de
pot since last Saturday -waiting for a
train to carry them to Mississippi,
were dispersed Monday morning and
quiet has been restored again.
The vagrant act was read to the
“emigrants” Monday morning, and at
noon there was not a negro to be seen
at the depot.
LOANS IN GOOD DEMAND.
English War Loan Is Largely Oversub
scribed By the People.
The rush of applicants for the war
loan commenced at the Bank of Eng
land and the various other banks
where prospectuses were obtainable,
immediately after they were opened
Saturday and a steady stream of peo
ple continued throughout the day.
All sorts and conditions of persons
were present, silk hatted financiers,
fine ladies, farmers, clerks, gover
nesses and thrifty representatives of
all classes. They appeared anxious to
stuff their money into Brittania’s
pockets, aud it is estimated that the
loan was oversubscribed.
BOBS CHECKED
IN HIS ADVANCE
English Meet Strong Resistance
Near Bloemfontein.
A STUBBORN FIGHT IS GIVEN
Battle Raged All Day and Boers
Were Always Ready—Britons
Finally Win Out.
Advices from Driefonfein, Oranga
Free State, under date of March 11,
state that Broadwood’s cavalry bri
gade, advancing on Bloemfontein, un
expectedly found the Boers in a strong
position iu the Driefontein kopjes on
Saturday. General Kelly-Kenny’s di
vision arriving, severe fighting ensued.
The Boers resisted stubbornly, but
were driven from their center position,
leaving a number of dead and forty
prisoners.
During the fighting, in which five
regiments took part, xvith artillery, the
Boers, though forced from their center
position, clung tenaciously to the
other kopjes, shelling the British
fiercely with three guns and two Vick
ers-Maxims.
The British cavalry began to turn
the Boer position, but night fell be
fore the movement was completed.
The Boers retired during the night.
All of the day was occupied in fight
ing. The Boers maintained a stub
born rear guard action along a run
ning front of twelve miles on a very
difficult ground. The British were
advancing iu three columns. General
Tucker, to the southward, occupied
Petrusberg unopposed; General Kelly-
Kenny after following the river bank
moved in the direction of Abraham’s
kraal.
At Driefontein, about eight miles
south of Abraham’s kraal, the Boers
were found posted in considerable
strength on the ridges connecting sev
eral kopjes where they bad mounted
guns.
The action began at 8 in the morn
ing with an artillery duel. General
French’s cavalry and Major Porter’s
brigade supported our guns. The
Boer artillery was accurately handled
and the British cavalry fouud the task
harder than they had expected. Gen
eral Broad wood, -with dogged perse
verance, moved altogether six miles
southward trying to find a means to
get around, but the Boers followed
behind ground and even attempted to
outflank him.
Meanwhile, the Sixth division of in
fantry, advancing on the Boer left
slowly, forced the enemy to retire.
Had tho infantry been able to move
faster, the Boers w-ould have been en
veloDed.
The last shot wits fired at 7:30 p. m.
Sunday morning not a Boer was to be
seen. The prisoners belonged to
President Kruger’s own commando.
The storming of Alexander kopje
by the Welsh was a particularly fine
piece of work. The mobility of the
Boers in moving their guns was very
remarkable. The New South Wales
mouuted iufantry made a gallant but
unsuccessful attempt to capture a gun.
A large number of Australians were
engaged - in Saturday’s fight. The
First Australian Horse Bridgade, with
the Scots Greys, advauced within 800
yards of the Boers under heavy fire.
The New South Wales mounted in
fantry joined in the pursuit of the
Boers northward.
IN LOUISVILLE JAIL.
Whittaker and Coulton Removed From
Frankfort Under Heavy Guard.
Harlan Whittaker and W. H. Coul
tou, who were confined in jail at
Frankfort, charged with complicity in
the assassination of Goebel, were re
moved from the jail at an early hour
Sunday morning and taken in a hack
to Skelbyville, where they were placed
on a train and sent to Louisville under
a heavy guard. It is understood they
will be kept in the Louisville jail till
the April term of the circuit court,
when they will be returned to Franfc
fort for trial.
CIGAR MAKERS STRIKE.
Over Two Thousand Employes of th#
Krebs liertbeim £ Schiller Cos. Quit.
About 2,309 cigar makers, of which
number nearly 800 are girls, employed
by the firm of Krebs, Bertheim &
Schifi'er at New York are on a strike.
Although the.strike was declared to b
the cause of au alleged shortage oi
stock, the strikers have asked for an
increase of wages running from 15 to
20 per cent and that the store go un
der the control of the union.
C’rusier to Ban Diego.
The Uuited States Crusier Philadel
phia lias sailed from San Francisco for
San Diego.
Md Him <;o 0 (i
Doctor —Ah, the liui
Pretty well; the J, ® CDe
yelped him. Ho.fc™ l *‘
Johuny? J°a take theia
Johnny-With my air rifU- T
sparrows with them, doctoj ’ sliot
Our Nation’* Weawi
Oold and silver are p our ei Jh
th® la P of the nation, but our U ( n4lßtlT la
and strength Is rather In iron "? terlll *altit
beiue u* 1 ?*' 3UHt 118 ll e Weahh S°“ “"ha
OTarw< rlL 1 " a U9<Mul Stomal n * ha ®M
overworked yours unttl n ?°u u av .
Hostetter g Stomach Bitters It dls * lj lf>d. lrj
tße clorged bowels, Improve o w 1 roller*
ts WIU ex l )| ain,
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Chill Tonic, it u simply iron A B i Ta?TI!U! *
a tasteless form. Xo cure-uo pa^PriJ^
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Spring ]
Medicine. |
There’s no season when goodmed- I
icine Is so much needed as In Spring
and there’s no medicine which does '
so much good in Spring as H 0 - 8 1
Sarsaparilla. In fact, Spring Medl
cine is another name for Hood’s Sar
saparilla. Do not delay tulclng (t
Don’t put it off till your health tone 1
gets too low to be lifted.
Hood’s
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Will give you a good appetite, purify
and enrich your blood, overcome
that tired feeling, give you mental
and digestive strength and steady
nerves. Be sure to ask for HOOD’S,
aud be sure that you get Hood’s, the
best medicine money can buy. Get
a bottle TO-DAY. All druggists.
Price sl.
The Big “I” in English.
Did it ever occur to you that it
might seem very egotistical for you to
write of yourself with a capital “I”
instead of using the small and less ob
trusive one? The English use of the
capital “I” isoneof the oddest features
of the language—to a foreigner. If a
Frenchman writes referring to himself
he makes “je” (the French equivalent
of “I”) with a small “j.” Sowiththe
German, who may use capitals to be
gin every noun; ho always uses the
small “i” in writing “ich.” The
Spaniard avoids, as far as practicable,
the use of the personal pronoun when
writing in the first person, but he al
ways whites it “yo,” taking paios,
however, to begin the Spanish equiva
lent of our “yon” with a capital. Iu
English it is Burely big “I” and little
“you,” as the old saying has it.
Howitzers.
Howitzers are steel breech-loading
weapons, weighing twenty-five hun
dredweight aud having a length of sii
feet ten inches. In loading a howitzer
the gun is swung horizontally on tlje
carriage, but for the firing position
the muzzle is pointed high in the air,
thus giving to the shell a long,
course. Four kinds of projectiles can
be used in a howitzer.
MY BEAUTIFUL BABY BOY
VVeak Women Made Happy r>y b
Pinkliam’s Vegetable Compounc
Tetters from Two Who Now
Children.
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Lane, Coytee, Tenn.