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MEXICO TOWNS
ARE LEVELED
By Heaviest Earthquake Shock
Felt in Many Years.
HUNDREDS OF VICTIMS
Two Cities are Known to Be Destroyed
While a Third is Yet to Be Heard From.
Details Difficult to Secure.
The city of Chilpaxcingo, Mexico,
Jias been completely destroyed by one
■of the heaviest -earthquakes that has
ever visited that section. The known
dead so far number eleven and the
badly injured twenty-seven. The ut
most panic prevails everywhere and
people are fleeing to the open coun
try. Many minor shocks completed
the work of destruction of the first
earthquake.
All telegraph communication with
the outside world ceased shortly af
ter 11:30 o’clock Sunday night, when
the- first shock was felt. The tele
graph operators have installed tem
porary quarters on an open square
and are working with the sky for a
roof.
Word has reached Chilpancingo
that the town of Chilapa has also
been destroyed. As yet no details
have been received as to the number
of dead and -wounded, but it is fear
ed that the number will be large.
Chilpancingo is the capital of the
state of Guerrero and four years ago
was visited by an earthquake which'
killed and wounded many of its in
habitants and destroyed a large part
of the town. The population of the
town is 7,495, and until the panic
Into which the citizens have been
thrown abates some it will be impos
sible to state just what extent the
recent earthquake has decreased it.
The population of the city of Chilapa
is 15,000.
Midway between the cities of Chil
pancingo and Chilapa is located the
city of Tixtla. This is a prosperous
and progressive community and as
no word has been received from that
place it is feared that it also has
been destroyed. According to the
| movements of the earthquake Tixtia
would be in its direct line, and if
the city has escaped it has been
only by a miracle.
The National Bank of Mexico re
ceived a telegram saving that 500
lives were lost in tlfe -destruction of
Chilpancingo. The telegram adds that
both cities were completely destroy
ed. In governmental circles the re
port is not credited. The federal
telegraph office in Mexico City de
clares that the first and last report
received was that contained in the
dispatch received about noon Mon
day. It is admitted that both cities
were leveled to the ground, but it is
not thought that the death list will
even approrimate 500, owing to the
fact that the houses are massive af
fairs, built of stone and adobe in or
der to resist earthquake shocks.
The federal authorities at the cap
ital have been appealed to by the gov
ernors of the districts of Bravos and
Chilpapa for tents as the inhabi
tants in the stricken cities are now
living in the open, having consteucted
dwellings out of palm leaves and
branches.
The governor of the state of Guer
rero has dispatched military engineers
and troops to the destroyed district
and the work of rescue and sanitation
is being carried on in a systematic
manner. Both cities are so far remov
ed from the railway that it is im
possible to obtain rapid intellgence
of the disaster.
COMMISSIONER YERKES QUITS.
Resigns from Revenue Department to Take
Up Practice of Law.
Jum W. Yerkes, commissioner of
internal revenue, has resigned, and
his resignation has been accepted by
the president. He leaves the service
of the government to enter the prac
tice of law.
BIG HAUL BY LONE BANDIT.
Stag# Coac \ Held Up in Montana and $28,-
000 in Cash Secured.
The stage running between Malta
and Zortman, Mont., was held up Sun
day night by a lone bandit, according
to a telephone message received in
Great Falls, and a sum estimated at
i 528,000 is said to have been secured.
I The robbery occurred just north of
I Zortman, as the stage •*** entering
l the Little Rockies, ' consign
Irnent of money jtes of
Ithe mine# 7^2^21
NORTHEN PITCHFORKED
Senator Tillman Rakes Ex-Governor Fcra
and Aft for Widely-Published
Disparaging Criticisms.
Senator B. R. Tillman, of South
Carolina, spoke at the Sandersville,
Ga., auditorium under the auspices
of the Lyceum Association, and in
the course of his speech replied to
the charges made by ex-Governor
Northen and defended himself, ex
plaining the connection in which the
utterances were used.
Senator Tillman said he would
meet Governor Northen in cebate at
any time he might designate and
would let a Georgia jury try the is
sues between them. He said:
“You have had iu the past a man
whom you honored with the office
of governor, who of late has sought
some notoriety, and pushed himself
to ihe trout in the matter which looks
to the adjustment of this momentous
question, as to what shall be done
and how it shall be done to safe
guard Anglo-Saxon civilization, and
this man going up and down Geor
gia, a self-appointed apostle or some
thing, I don’t know what and I don’t
care, I don’t meddle with Georgia’s
affairs. I am glad of the chance to
allow some Georgians hear and see
me for myself, and nothing would
delight my soul more than to meet
this doubty warrior on some dung
hill in Georgia and see whether he
was the game chicken or whether I
was.” Senator Tillman here read an
extract from the Atlanta Constitution,
and continued:
“Now the purpose in reading this
extract is, to bring to your attention
the character of the charges that this
man is making in public against me,
and as I never did take kindly to
abuse or slander, I hope you will par
don just a few comments on this ex
traordinary and remarkable produc
tion from an ex-governor of Georgia,
about a senator, not ex-senator, of
South Carolina. I do not care to in
dulge in personalities, I simply call
attention to a charge he makes there
“that with the oath of office fresh
on my lips, 1 said so and so.” What
1 did say, what I have said, what
I may say now, and repeat, what
I have said in the senate and I am
not ashamed of and stand by, was
this: “That with the oath of office
fresh on my lips to enforce the law,
1 would lead a mob to lynch any man,
black or white, who ravished a wo
man, black or white.”
He leaves out everything except
what he wanted. Now that has been
termed by Shakespeare “a lie by indi
rection, or a lie by om.\3ion.' ne
goes further to say that in a public
utterance of mine, which had the ten
dency to break down respect for the
law and to paralyze the sheriffs of
Georgia, that I said, “To heil with
the law.” What did i say and where?
It was at Chicago. The papers gave
wide circulation to the effort of tue
negroes there to silence me and to
prevent my speaking. The speech I
made was in the presence of a pack
ed audience of 3,500 people, with lots
of people outside trying to get in,
and not able to do so, they were
as wild as any men in the south ever
can be on the subject of white su
premacy, but what 1 did say in com
menting on this thing was this: i al
luded to the handcuffs that had been
placed upon us by the 15th amend
ment, and went on to illustrate and
tell just how we had overthrown and
paralyzed or nulliried both the 14th
and 15th amendment, and when 1 was
discussing that phase of the subject
some fellow in the audience, taking
exception to my method of treating it,
exclaimed, or asked me, “What about
the law?” My reply was just like a
pistol shot, “To hell with such a law!”
I meant “to hell with the 15th amend
ment,” because it nad attempted to
put the white man’s neck under the
negro’s heel and hold it there, and it
there is anybody in Georgia or any
where else who objects to my say
ing that, “To hell with that law, ’ l
don’t care what he thinks: he can
have his own views, and 1 can have
mine.”
TO OUST BOOZE Ilf KANSAS.
Attorney General Makes Move Against
Breweries and Whisky Jobbers.
Application was made to the su
preme court at Topeka, Kans., Thurs
day by Attorney General Jackson for
writs of quo warranto and injunctions
against eight brewery companies,
mostly Missouri and Wisconsin con
cerns, and against a number of whis
key jobbers. It is sought to compel
the defendants to cease doing busi
ness in Kansas through their agents.
This action is considered the most
drastic ever taken to enforce prohibi
tion laws in Kansas.
FIFTEEN DEAD
IN THIS WRECK
Men, Women and Children Crema
ted in Burning Coaches.
CANADIAN RAIL HORROR
Many Only Saved Lives by Fighting Theii
Way Through Raging Flames—'W reck
Caused by Broken kail.
The worst wreck in the history of
the Canadian Pacific occurred Wed
nesday near Chapleau, Out., 300 miles
east of Fort William. Fifteen per
sons are missing aud are believed io
nave been burned to deutu in the
coaches. The wreck was caused by a
broken rail, which ditched the train,
tiie two tourist cars rolling down an
embankment into a small lake below.
Passengers fought their way througa
the flames, and a number of people
iu the coaches were pulled out badly
burned but still alive. Most ot tae
passengers received more or less se
rious injuries.
The following official statement was
issued at Montreal Thursday by Mr.
McNicoll, vice president ot ihe Cana
dian Pacific railway;
"About 22 miles west of Chapleau,
Out., yesterday, the westbound trans
continental train, which left Montreal
on Tuesday morning, was partly de
railed, caused by a broken rail. Five
cars ran down an embankment aud
caught fire, said to have been from
the cooking stove. Nine adults and
six children are missing.
“The following are the names given:
“William Dah, London, England.
“Winnifred aud Susan Horton, Char
ing Heath, Kent.
“C. H. Golding, with brother and
his brother s wife and two children,
of Palistow,' Essex, England.
“Mrs. August Djorklund and two
children, of Worcester, Mass.
“Mrs. R. B. Hampion and Mrs. R.
Davidson aud baby.”
CAUSE OF SOLDIERS ESPOUSED.
Noted “Skating Kiak” Decision to Be
Fought by War Department.
The war department is determin
ed to pursue to the end of its legal
resources the effort to remove the slur
cast upon the uniform of the Ameri
can soldier by the decision last Jan
uary of a local magistrate at Platts
burg, N. Y., that Sergeant Higgins and
the soldiers who accompanied him
when they were refused admission to
a public skating rink in that town
had no case warranting the imposi
tion of a penalty upon the proprietors
of the place.
Thursday Acting Secretary Oliver
wrote a letter to the attorney general
asking his help in the prosecution
of this case. The attorney general
is requested to give an opinion on the
point whether or not the local magis
trate, having declared that the keep
ers of the rink were not subject to
penal punishment, they still can be
reached by a suit for monetary dam
ages. In case of an affirmative an
swer the department of justice is re
quested to authorize the proper attor
ney for the United States to appear
for the soldiers in the prosecution of
the case.
ON CHARGE OF TRIPLE MURDER
New York Man is Arrested in Los Angeles
Cal., After a Long Search.
News of me arrest m ims Angeles
Cal., of Chai.et lionry Rogers, chaig
ed with the mftrder of Willis Olney
Frederick Olney and Alice lugericK at
Middletown, N. Y., on October 5, 1906,
was received in New York Wednesday.
Rogers admits his identity.
Rogers is also charged with assault
ing with intent to kill Mrs. Georga
Ingerick.
CAMPBELL HOLDS LEGISLATORS.
Texas Assembly Reconvenes Ten Minutes
< After Adjournment.
With rather decided friction evi
dent between Governor Campbell and
the members of the Texas legislature,
that body adjourned sine die at Aus
tin Friday, after a four-months’ ses
sion, and were reconvened in extra
session withiD ten minutes by Gov
ernor Campbell.
Governor Campbell demands legis
lation upon the taxation of corporate
interests along lines that he will sug
gest in a special message.
FAVROT IS SET FREE
The “Unwritten Law” Saves Louisiana
Congressrfan-Elect Who Slew His
Alleged Lifelong Friend.
Democratic Congressman George K
Favrot was set free at Baton Rouge.
La.. Thursday night, after having
been in jail continuously for about
five months, unuer arrest on a charge
of murder, and awaiting action of a
grand jury. Thursday morning, by ail
unanimous vote, the second gruud jury,
which has considered his case, re
fused to indict the congressman.
Favrot, last November, shot and
killed Dr. R. 11. Alcirick, of Baton
Rouge, who had been his lifelong
friend. The congressman declared that
the physician had madev disparaging
remarks about Mrs. Favrot. The
shooting occurred after an exciting
election, iu which Favrot had demon
strated great popularity, aud while
Favrot was still judge of the Baton
Rouge court, which has just set him
free. He resigned, and was indicted
by a split vote by a grand jury, which
had been selected under liis jurisdic
tion before the shooting. Becauso one
of the jurymen, who indicted him, was
an illiterate Italian, unable to read
the English language, the finding was
quashed, the supreme court of Louis
iana sustaining the quashing only a
few days ago.
FEW OWN HALF THE WEALTH.
One-Tenth of Total is Possessed by Not
More Than $200,000 Families.
At Thursday night’s- session of the
American Church Congress of the
Protestaut Episcopal Church, iu New
Orleans, there was a discussion on
“The Moral Strain in Social and Com
mercial Life.”
Rev. H. C. Garrett of St. Louis
said that the question of regulating
corporate wealth was the first source
of strained conditions, and the sec
ond “the widespread departure from
the simple to the artificial mode of
living.”
Speaking on corporate wealth, he
said: “It is a remarkable fact that
nearly eight millions of families in
this country average in holdings a
little less than SSOO each, while not
over 200,000 families possess one-half
the entire wealth of the country. Out
of the total annual income, one-half
goes to one-tenth of the people. The
other half is divided among the re
maining nine-tenths.”
HOSTLERS OF CENTRAL STRIKE.
Some Two Hundred Quit to Enforce De
mand for Higher Wages.
Engine hostlers employed by the
Central of Georgia railroad went on
strike at Atlanta Thursday, as the
result of a refusal on the part of the
railroad to grant an increase in wages,
and to do away with switching duties.
The strike was general all over the
system and probably 200 men in all,
including helpers, walked out.
The strikers, who were making
$2.09 a day, made a demand of $2.75
a day. This demand is based on the
statement that a hostler must have
a thorough knowledge of firing and be
a practical engineer, which equipment
calls for a good deal of experience.
ROOSEVELT SHOULD STEP ASIDE
To Make Way for W. J. Bryan Say Leg
islators of Missouri.
In the Missouri legislature Thurs
day a resolution, endorsing President
Roosevelt on his stand on “unprinci
pled use of wealth,” was adopted and
tabled after bdng so amended as to
read that it was the sense of the Re
publican members that Roosevelt
should run for president again.
A resolution lauding Bryan, and de
daring that /President Roosevtlt
should retire to make way for Bryan,
was adopted.
LET ROOSEVELT NAME BRYAN
la Counter Proposition of Hendricks Club
to Graves’ Suggestion.
The Hendricks Club, the largest
Democratic organization in Indiana,
adopted the following resolution ana
telegraphed same to John Temple
Graves, of Atlanta:
“The Hendricks Club, of Evansville,
Ind., believes tnat, in the interest of
‘a square deal,’ Roosevelt should nom
inate Bryan for president in 19ba, as
there is now no doubt that Bryan was
beaten in 1896 by the coutrioution
of money from insurance companies,
railroad compan.es and tans protect
td monopolies.’*
JURY FLUKED 1
IN THAW CASE
Failed to Agree on Any Verdict
and a mistrial is Declared*
RESULT IS DEPLORABLE
Rotten Details of Tragedy Must bo Re
hearsed-Seven Jurors for Conviction
and Five for Acquittal.
A New York special says: Hope
lessly divided —seven for a verdict of
guilty of murder in the first degree
and five for acquittal on the ground
of Insanity—the jury which since
January 23 has been trying Ha try
K. Thaw reported Friday afternoon
after forty-seven hours and eight
minutes of deliberation that it could
4
not possibly agree, The twelve men
were promptly discharged by Justice
Fitzgerald, who declared that he, too
believed their task hopeless. Thaw
was remanded to the Tombs with
out ball to await a second trial on
the charge of having murdered Stan
ford White.
When this new trial will take place
no one connected with the case could
express au opinion. District Attor
ney Jerome declared that there were
many other persons accused of homi
cide awaiting trial and that Thaw
would have to take ‘his turn.
As to a possible change of venue
both the district attorney and counsel
for Thaw declared they would make
no such move. Thaw’s attorneys
will have a conference with the
prisoner to decide upon their next
step. They may make an early appli
cation for bail. Mr. Jerome said
that he will strenuously oppose it.
He added that as seven of the jurors
had voted for “guilty,” his opposition
probably would be successful. In
that event, Thaw has another long
summer before him in the city pris
on, for his case on (he already crowd
ed criminal calendar cannot possi
bly be reached until fall.
The scenes attending the announce
ment by the jury of Its Inability to
agree were robbed of thoatricalism by
the general belief that after their
long deliberation anu the reports of
a wide division of sentiment, the Jur
ors could make no other report.
Thaw, surrounded by the members
of his family—the devoted aged
mother, the pale yeving wife, the ti
tled sister —the countess of Yarmouth
—Mrs. George Carnegie and Edward
and Josiah Thaw, the brothers, re
ceived the news in absolute silence.
Thaw’s wife gripped her husband’s
hands tightly as the jury foreman
spoke, and then when he sank down
by her side, she tried to cheer nim
as best she could by saying that she
believed he would now be admitted
to bail, and that a second jury would
surely set him free.
The mother, the sisters and the
brothers, pale and well-nigh exhaust
ed by their tedious, nerve-rucking
wait for a verdict, smiled weakly at
Thaw as he was Jed away ? agafn to
the Tombs. They were permitted to
speak with him for a few moments
to bid him be of good cheer before
he crossed the “bridge of sighs'’ to
the ceil, which until a few minutes
before ho had hoped he was about to
quit forever.
Outside the big square criminal
couris building only a few hundred
persons were gathered. Thousands
had been there earlier in the day,
but the police had instructions to
keep every one moving, aud this
soon tired the idly curious.
I haw, when he had returned to
the Tombs, gave out the following
statement;
“I believed that every man in the
jury possessing average intelligence,
excepting possibly Mr. Bolton, com
prehended the weight of evidence and
balanced it for acquittal. All of my
family bid me goodby with courage.
1 trust (D. V.j we may all keep
well.’’
LIABILITIES REACH SIX FIGURES
While Assets are Nothing, in Bankruptcy
Petition of Alien.
A petition in involuntary bankrupt
cy was filed in Macon, Ua., a few
days ago by C. L. Allen. The liabili
ties are given as $270,227 27 and as
sets as nothing. Mr. Allen resided in
Vineville until a few weeks ago, when
he moved to Buford. He had been
engaged in the tanning business at
Macon, and held ihe position of sec
retary and manager of the Ocmulgee
Tanning Company.