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A QUEER MOVE
BY VARDAMAN
Governor's Support :rs Attempt to
* Pry Into Ballot Boxes.
ARE CAUGHT IN THE ACT
Justice and lawyers in Natchez
Sought to Count Ballots Cast in Pre
|, cincts in Adams County.
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U| J(x peculiar move in the Mississippi
V primary election for the nomination
I of democratic candidates for United
" States senator and state officers was
Bnade late Monday afternoon when
|Hon. Ernest E. Drown, Police Justice
I Marion Reilly and J. H.'Beard, lawyers
I and followers of Governor Vardanian,
| attempted to count the ballots cast in
? the several precincts of Adams coun
* ty, in Natchez.
r They were counting the ballots when
the chairman of- the Adams county
democratic executive committee, auc
Judge Will C. Martin, county attor
ney, both of whom had been apprised
of the move, appeared before them
and protested against their action.
The protestants were reinforced by
Circuit Clerk Bowie, who is the reg
istrar of the county. Mr. Brown ad
vanced the claim that the ballots are
public property, but was informed that
the returns had not been received by
the state executive committee, where
upon the trio retired frem the office.
A Jackson special says: Chairman
B. H. Wells, learning Monday night
of the attempt on the part of several
supporters of Governor Vardanian to
count the Adams county vo;e; sent
the following message to all election
managers in Mississippi.
“Williams Headquarters, Jackson, Au
gust 5. —Do not let the ballots or orig
inai tally sheets go out of the hands
of the lection officers. We have won
this election and do not propose to be
counted out.
“B. H. WELLS, Chairman.”
Hon. John Sharp Williams gave the
following to the press before leaving
for his home at Yazoo City Monday af
ternoon;
‘‘l am going home for a day at least
to rest. 1 have certainly been elected,
why the opposition does not concede I
cannot understand. If there be any
honest reason for holding back returns
I cannot conceive it.”
Chairman Wells received a message
from J. M. Thomas of Tupelo that
he had been requested to send the
ballot boxes and tally she ts to the
chairman of the state executive com
mittee and declined to comply. Mr.
Wells indorsed this position.
CHICAGO HAS A CRIME WAVE.
One Day’s Casualties Was Four Men Killed
and One Fatally Wounded.
Scattering mysterious assaults in
which four men were killed and an
other fatally wounded aroused the
entire Chicago police fcrce to ener
getic action early Monday. The tic
thus in the affair were:
Fusario Rocco, body found on 'he
doorstep of his home, with two stiletto
wounds.
Edward Smith, a policeman, was
shot and killed by an unknown man
while walking a short distance from
his house.
John L. Barbour was found dead
on the Illinois Central tracks. The
head had been cut off by a passing
train It is believed Barbour commit
ted suicide, but there are circumstanc
es that make this doubtful.
John Naughion died in the hospital
after being asaulted l>y thiee stran
° William Donovan is dying in the
county hospital from a bul et wound ,
in the abdomen. Dc -^ a ” “ 1 " |
in a basement and sail hj i
robbed by three men.
RANK FRAUD IS RAMESES.
Ancient Egyptian King Didn't Do Mighty
Egyp?oßts At cl l aim they have dis
covered that Rameses II was a fraud
and that he is not entitled to the ap ,
pellation of “great’ which MjtorUn,
have given him. Recent explorations
Ze developed the fact that the many
temples and monuments nean ,
name, and therefore supposed .0 beb
work, existed a thousand > ear s '
him. The explorers believe ,he king
was vain and caused his name to
cut everywhere.
ATLANTA HAS HALTED.
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Extension of City Limits Postponed to
19C8 in Final Action on Matter
By Ccuncil.
The extension of the city limits o
Atlanta and the purchase of anew
pump for the waterworks department
came up before the city council Mon
day afternoon.
The Greater Atlanta scheme was
postponed until the year 1908.
I'he purchase of a pump was indefi.
nitely postponed until anew special
investigating committee could make a
report on the waterworks system.
So, after many months of hard work
and much talking about an extensior
of the city limits, and an equal amount
of time and speechmaking wasted about
anew pump, both these important
measures were pigeon-holed for a
while.
The matter of extension came up in
a committee of the whole.
Councilman Terrell, who had been
an earnest advocate of extension,
moved that the matter be postponed
until the next council came in. He
said that lie did this because it was
now too late to get a charter amend
ment passed by the legislature.
Councilman Pomeroy was against a
postponement. He said that to take a
backstep now' might cause the city to
he unjustly criticised in the face of
the reduced income from the cutting
off of the liquor licenses next year.
Councilman Martin coincided with
Council Pomeroy.
Alderman Holland got the floor and
he said that he was tired of so much
“hot air.” He called fer the previous
question, and a vole w r as taken.
The vote to postpone action until
the year 1908 was 13 to 8.
And Greater Atlanta was bidden
farewell for a while.
SOUTH’S FORWARD MARCH
Set Forth in the Georgia and Alabama
Industrial Index.
The Georgia and Alabama Indus rial
Index says in Us regular weekly is
sue;
‘‘Twenty-one new industrial and
manufacturing 'plants to be estab.ish
ed, two new railroads projected, sixty
two buildings of substantial character
to be constructed, proposed municipal
improvements to cost over $300,6-
and twenty new corporations wi h
total minimum capital s.ock of $676,-
750 are consolidated items of advance
reports to The Index, for the past
week, that illustrate the steady de
velopment and upbuilding in progress
in Georgia and Alabama. The figures,
though large, are not unusual. The
Index reports such figures week after
week. Tli y explain why the 37
Georgia counties that so far have sent
tax digests to the state comp!rollers
office show- a net gain in property val
ues of $5,653,677 over las. year. They
explain, too, why the eyes of the Amer
ican business world are upon Gorgiu
and Alabama as never before in their
history and why more and more capital
is being placed with that which dem
onstrates profitable investment in the
two states.
"Coincident with the genera! up
building is an increasing demand for
lands of all kinds and a steady upward
tendency of prices.”
BULLET BARELY MISSED BUSH.
Assassin After Atlanta Man Who Was
Recently Acquitted in Court.
A mysterious attempt was made at
Atlanta Monday night abou. 11:30
o'clock to assassinate Fred Bush, the
man wh 0 was charged with sending
a dynamite bomb to Miss Katherine
McCarthy, and after a trial in court
was promptly acquitted.
Bush was sitting on the bed in his
room on Ivy stre treading a hi ok, when
suddenly someone from the outside
fired a shot through the window, the
bullet grazing his head and splattering
pieces of glass over him,
NO DRINKING ON TRAINS.
First Arrest and Conviction Under Newly
Enacted Law in Texas.
The first arrest and conviction under
the law making it a misdemeanor to
! dr ink liquor on a train in Texas was
i ma de in Palestine when a white man
was fined sl6 for committing the of
feDT;ee man wag coming in on a train,
and when a short way cut of Pales
tine took a drink our of a bottle be
had in his pocket. While he was drink
ing a state ranger, who happened to
be on the same car. arrested him.
COTTON LOOKS BETTER.
General Average Shown to Be Very Good
in Government Report of
July 25th.
The crop repotting board of the bu-.
reau of statistics of the cepartuunt
of agriculture at. Washington findb
from the reports o.' the comspond
ents and agents of the bureau that the
average condition of co ten cu July
25 was 75.0 as ccmpaiej wuh 72.0
on June 25, 1907; 82 9 on July 25,
1908; 74.9 on July 25, 1905, and a ttn
ytar average of 82.0.
The following table shows the con
dition on July 25 in each state:
Virginia 85
North Carolina 75
South Carolina 81
Georgia 81
Florida 84
Alabama 72
Missisippi 71
Louisiana 71
Texas 73
Arkansas 88
Tennessee 75
Missouri 88
Oklahoma 74
Indian Territory 74
United States 75
When the report was posted in the
New Orleans exchange at 11 o’clcck
Friday morning, there was an advance
in values. The October option, which
stood at 12.22 just before the report
was made, jumped to 12.48 on the first
bid and then advanced to 12.50. There
were similar advances on the other
options. It was generally expected that
the report would be bullish in its na
ture, but it was ntver anticipated that
it would he lower than 77, and wh u
75 was posted as the condition, even
the most sanguine of the bulls were
thoroughly surprsed.
At New York the report was con
sidered bullish, and there was con
siderable excitement in the local fu
tures market. The immediate effect
was an advance of 25 to 3o points
from the low point of the morning,
CHINESE CLAN RUN AMUCK.
New Yorkers Swoop Down Upon a Colony
in Boston and Kill Three.
Burning with hatred for tlv ir dead
ly enemies belonging to tin 1 rival ou
Long Tong Society, a band of New
York Chinamen, numb ring a dozen
or more, and said to be members of
the notorious Hip Sing Tong organi
zation, entered a narrow alley in Chi
natown at Boston, Mass., Fiiday night
and, drawing revolvers, fired upon
half a hundred Chinamen, killing three
and injuring seven. At the first vol
ley the Chinamen rushed for their
quarters, stumbling over one another
in their haste to reach shelter. The
Hip Sing Tong men chased th ir vic
tims into their own doorways and
shot them down as they rushed up
stairs or into side rooms. Then cast
ing away their guns, the strange vis
itors ran away from the Chinese quar
ters, most of them escaping the police.
Immediately after the shooting, one
of the Hip Sing Tong men front New
York was captured by a policeman
as he was running away. Tha man
gave the name of Nlm Sing. He was
dressed in American cloth> s. Later
an officer at the south station took in
to custody Hong Woon, aged 34, of
New York, whose hands were powder
stained. Both prisoners are charged
with manslaughter.
The police placed under arrest on
suspicion seven other Chinese who
are strangers in the local colony.
The shooting occurred in Oxford
place, in the center of Chinatown,
where about fifty Chinamen were smo
king in th“ open air. Fully fifty shots
were fired. That the visitors shot with
careful accuracy was apparent from
the fact that each of the three killed j
was shot through the hi art.
The trouble has been anticipate j
for more than a week. About ten days
ago nearly a dozen Chinamen who j
were all strangers, came to Boston !
and rented rooms near Chinatown.
MISTOOK WIFE FOR BURGLAR.
Atlanta Turkish Bath Proprietor Fires
Fatal Shot at Spouse.
H. B. Krumholz, proprietor of a
Turkish bath house and barb r shop
at 10 Decatur street, opposite the Kim
ball house, in Atlanta, Monday night,
shot and killed his wife, Rosalie Krum
holz, a: their home, 136 £ou;h For
syth street, shortly before midnight.
Krumholz declared the shooting to be
accidental, as he mistook his wife for
a burglar.
HORROR IN GOTHAM
Over Mysterious Murder of Two Young
Women and Little Girl By Un
known “Strangler.”
j The “Graveyard,” as the foreign pop
j ulated neighborhoed on First avenue
1 between Thirteenth and Fourteenth
streets, is known in New York, gave
up Thursday a fresh crime, rivaling
the notorious and mysterious butcher
ies of lust week. The latest discov
ered victim, Katie Pritchler, eight
year-old girl, and, like the two young
women, she had been shockingly mis
treated before death and badly muti
lated when life was extinct.
The three murders are strikingly
similar. Thurdsay night a week ago, a
woman was strangled in a boarding
house; the next morning the body of
another unidentified woman who had
been choked to death, was found In an
arc away. Katie Pritchler, daughter of
a restaurant waiter, was killed that
night. A ribbon placed about the throat
and drawn so tightly that it cut the
flesh, shows how she died.
The girl left home at 340 East Thir
teenth street Thursday night to play
in the street. When she failed to re
turn the father notified the police and
a general alarm was sent out. The
body was discovered just a week later
within a block of her home and scare
ly a hundred yards from the location
of a placard placed by her father
calling attention to the fact that the
child was lost. How the body could
have remained undiscovered for a
week is not explained.
The girl’s body was stumbled upon
by a woman who visited the base
ment of the house at 203 First ave
nue. it lay upon a berry crate, with
seemingly so effort at concealment.
If the brutalities of the murders can
be qualified, that of the Pritchler girl
ranks firs:. She was assaulted, mur
dered and her lifeless form was hor
ribly mutilated.
LODZ AGAIN IN TURMOIL.
Bloodshed, Violence and Disorder Rampant
in Russian Poland City.
Lodz, Russian Poland, is again thi>
scene of a strike movement, accompa
nied by violence, disorder and death.
The troops encountered the strikers
in the center of the town Thursday
night and thirty men were kllhd or
wounded. Business is a. a standstill.
The strike would appear to be the
beginning of a big labor war, and the
workmen’s unions are prepar'd for a
long stiuggle. The immediate cause
of Thursday’s outbreak was the course
pursued by the police during the last
eight days in making a large number
of amsts in attempts to break up
the unions. The principal socialist
leaders have been thrown into Jail.
A general strike has been declared,
and the social democrats and the Po
lish socialists have called out 32,000
men.
JOHNSTON NAMED IN CAUCUS.
Alabama Legislature Will Elect Him as
Successor to Senator Pettus.
For the second time during the 1907
session the Alabama legislature nom
inated for election to the United
States senate, Thursday, a man to
succeed a dead senator, that honor
failing to Joseph F. Johnsion, who will
follow for the long and short terms of
Senator Pettus, covering the time’ to
1915. Though the nomination was by
democratic caucus it amounts to elec
tion, as there are only two other than
democrats in the entire assmibly.
Governor Johnston made a speech,
in which he pointed out that he is in
!in<e with Governor Glenn of North
Carolina and Governor Corner of Ala
bama, in the belief that the states
should control without regard to the
federal courts.
FLOGGING FOR WIFE BEATER.
City Alderman of Hazleton, Pa., Applied
the Lash Vigoroutly.
I Louis Samboll, accused of wife
j beating, was publicly fiogg and in Ha
zleton, Pa., by Alderman D. A. Me
Kelvey, before whom he had been
brought for a heating.
After the testimony had been given
Alderman McK‘!vey seized the man
by the collar, dragged him into the
street, pulled the coat from his back
and then handcuffed him to a post.
Ail during the flogging the wife stood
by and seemed to tnjoy it.
[S DOMESTIC
OR TRESPASSER
Supreme Court cf South Carolina.
Decides a States Rights Ca,e.
PRITCHARD REVERSED
Justice Gary Renders Decision Keeping a
Damage Case Against Coast Line
From Federal Court.
Justice Ernest Gary of the South
Carolina supreme court, at Columbia,
Thursday, delivered an opinion in a
states rights case. It was in the suit
of W. G. Geraty against the Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad company. Judge
Gary’s ruling is of more than ordi
nary interest, for it is in direct oppo
sition to a recent opinion handed down
in the federal court by Judge J. C.
Pritchard in a similar case.
This is a case for damages against
the Atlantic Coast Line for a sum
exceeding $2,000. Relying upon the de
cision of Judge Pritchard in the case
of Leo vs. the Atlantic Coast Line
Railroad company, in which it was
held that the defendant corporation
was not to be considered a domestia
corporation of the state of South Car
olina, but a Virginia corporation, and
property within the jurisdiction of the
United States court, in such cases al
leging damages, the defendant com
pany made a motion before Judge
Gary, which was argu and before him
at chambers, in Columbia, last week,
to set asido the service of summons
in this case on the ground that the
defendant is not a corporation organ
ized under the laws of South Caro
lina, as alleged In the complaint.
Judge Gary dismissed the motion,
holding that this railroad company is
a South Carolina •orpor.itlon. If It
Is not a domestic corporation, then
ho holds “the operation of its rail
roads in this state is unlawful."
The opinion was filed Thursday
night with the clerk of the court
of common pleas for Charleston coun
ty. It is not known what will be the
next step to be taken by counsel for
the defendant company.
Judge Gary's decision is that the
Atlantic Coast Line company was
formed by merger enactment of the
constitution of 1905. 'i h rt-forc the
Coast Line is ope rating in South Car
olina under a charter given by the
state. And if It Is not, then it is a
trespasser and lias no right within
the state, under Judge Gary’s ruiicg.
Ho declares a "domestic corporation"
to be a foreign corpora Aon, and In
sists that the laws of the slate apply
to one just as to the o’her.
MISSISSIPPI’S STATE ELECTION.
First Returns Indicate Victory of Williams
Over Vardamm.
Mississippians hold their state elec
tion Thursday. The returns first re
ceived from more than one-half of
the countba showed a maintained ma
jority in favor of Williams of about
three to one, but tills majority, it Is
claimed at the headquarters of Gov
ernor Vardaman, will be counterbal
anced by the vote In the rural pre
cincts, many of which tiad not been
heard from. At Williams’ headquar
ters ilia election is claimed by a ma
jority of 20,000.
in the contest for governor Charles
Scott was leading. His nearest com
petitor being E. F, Neel, and a sec
ond primary will doubtless be necis
sary to decide.
A comple e state ticket was voted
for as well as county officers in every
county.
A WINDFALL FOR EMPLOYEES.
Ob Dying Bed, a Wealthy Manufacturer
Leaves His Business to Them.
Dying in St. Vincent's Hospital,!
New York, from the wound Inflicted by
Frank H. Warner, who just before ha',
killed his former cashier, Miss Norl
ing, John C. Wilson, a hat manufac
turer, left his business and persona
estate valued at more than $190,C0
to six of his employees and Uernar
J. McCann, an old friend, to shax
and share alike. Mr. Wilson had b
near relatives.