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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. ■n }nk| 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. - 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.