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mSB n I |l ;§§ ' J§ «u: Sm- ; *’ v ' ■ J 1 ■? » ’.'•■a Commls w „ , y a^-er B r '*■*> " ' i 4 -’ • § ky the com ■ > ' }A . sA B I . 870,000 ■ ./'."'i'V n*’ ?:;■ (Bk ■ ' B B B B ■ B B 1 B 1 B ■ In Texas no B I H I urgi«& the ■ V • ; 1 Mi 11.1 & ■ 11' «""# - it. I • , Ik two years ago, was lie, pleaded guilty and implicated two’ white men, Ruben Dozier and Stnrlinjj: Chapman, as accessories. The arand jury failed to return a true Dozier and Chapman. No one believes they assisted Johnson. H:s honor. Judge 11. (1. Lewis, who is presiding for Judge H. M. Holden, sen tenced Johnson to a term of fifteen in the 'penitentiary. •T\t after sentence was passed ,Toh:is«n made a leap through a win do;t fdCfci upper storv of the court liopse. '*fe hit the ground running, but soiovertaken by thejpwn mar shal. v.hajanded him in iail. i TILLNUN EVDS THE LONG STORY. I'' ■ JSlayer ol Gonzales on Stand live Hours it His Own Ceh lf. ; James H. Tillman was. on the stand t at Lexington, S. C., Friday over four hours, a witness in his own behalf. For one full hour he was subjected to the fire of cross examination by counsel for the state. But one other witness was placed on the stand by the defense, after which the defense re&ted. Witnesses in re- LlftUtal placed on the stand by the state fcrf-re heard during the closing hours, splendid progress was made tit? conclusion of the triaft. NEW YORK FLOOD-SWEPT. Torrential Rain Storm Inundates Large Area of City and Surrounding Territory. Torrential rain, commencing early Thursday morning and continuing with scarcely any intermission until late Friday afternoon, during which the unprecedented precipitation of 10.04 inches was recorded at the local weather bureau laid New York city and all the surrounding country under a flood Friday, causing damage that will amount to many hundred thou sands of dollars. , fhe rain ceased Fri day night, but a coast storm was re ported to be approaching and a threatened hurricane rendered it un safe for vessels of any class to leave port. Along all the river front and in many sections of Brooklyn cellars were flooded and an enormous amount of damage done. A great portion of the subway was badly flooded. Suburban steam and trolley lines, with hardly an exception, were crip pled by floods and washouts, and in the early morning ru3h hours thou sands of suburban re&idents were una ble to reach their offices in the city. Those who were fortunate enough to cross the ferries found further prog ress blocked by the submerged condi tion of the water front streets, across which they were ferried in trucks and wagons. Reports of extensive floods and se rious damage to property and interrup tions of traffic came Ironj almost all sections of New Jersey and Long Is land. In Newark, Passaic and other large manufacturing centers many fac tories were closed down, owing to the flooding of engine rooms. In many places electric light and power plants were shut down for the same reason. A dam on the Ramapo river at Pomp ton broke, flooding the valley for ten miles, but causing no loss of life. Paterson was one of the w’orst suf ferers and for a time Friday afternoon there was gravo danger of a repetition of the terrible disaster of last Febru ary. A great pafy of the city was laid under water, and scores of great plants, including those of the Rogers locomotive works and the Passaic Steel Company, were fldeded and shut down, involving % loss estimated at fully $1,000,000. Only one life was reported lost, that of a girl drowned by the carrying away of a bridge. Thousaffts of New Jersey commuters slept in New York Friday night, being unable to return to their homes. Except for the running of the ferry boats, the Erie trains were run on the main lines west of Passaic. RUSSIA’S GRIP NOT RELAXED. i vor Old China Waits in Vain for Promised Evacuation of Manchuria. [Htdvices from Now Cliwang, Manchu- state the Russians are taking no to restore the government of to the Chinose. On the SEHu;y. they are hastening the orer- government bui'.dir..:-! ■■at 1 ie i another gunLw m Mi 1 ' 'ftt'feyhity. Re;v,r tr.e. ; Brift, '■jamk.ina ft irate Vet that 11 : it: : tile perm \ tlie points now as !e, 1 policy. fHp'y. \dm 1 Ale;.- in:; on a gr-'\u r^Ci!f 4< ' Inity of I ' ort Art!iur tllo Vast Russian war res- Reis of adF , *pl asses were engage!. A Washington dispatch says: Sir Chen Tung Liang-Cheng. the Chinese minister, had a long conference with Secretary Hay Friday regarding the situation in Manchuria. The minister received information some time ago that there was no apparent movement on the part cf Russia indicating that the country would begin the evacua tion of Manchuria on October S, as agreed, and as stipulated in a treaty made with China. The Chinese minis ter naturally feels keenly the condi tions which exist, as it is everywhere known that China is in no position to enforce the treaty and compel Russia to evacuate. At present the conce r n of the United States is to see that the agreements made with China for open ports in Manchuria are carried out, Oil TRUST RAISES PRICES. The Highest Figure Recorded “in Three Vears”--Production Curtailed. A special from Pittsburg, Pa., says: For the third time within ten days the Standard Oil Company advanced the price of oil Thursday, making Penn sylvania $1.65. the highest “in three years.” The net advance is due to the fact that very little new producing ter ritory is being found. There was also an advance of 2 cents in the price of western crude oil and an advance of 3 cents in the east ern product. TRUST PLANS ARE EXPOSED How Magnates Raked in Many Millions of Dollars. DRESSLER LETS IN LIGHT His Testimony at Hearing on Col lapsed Shipbuilding Company Quite Sensational. One of the most interesting stata ments in connection with the forma tion of the ill-fated United States Ship Building Company, told by Leßoy Dresser, In legal proceedings at New York Wednesday, was that after a pool of 200,000 preferred and 250,000 com mon stock had been placed in the hands of Harris, Gates & Co., it was agreed that none of this stock should be marketed until 25,000 preferred and 25,000 common owned by J. P. Morgan & Co., and 75,000, each kind, owned by C. M. Schwab, had first been sold. Mr. Dresser told also of his original agreement as president of the Trust Company of the Republic, to outain the underwriting of $3,000,000 of Uni ted States Ship Building Company stock; how this was increased to $4,- 750,000 by tha failure of the French subscribers to pay up; how Mr. Schwab came to offer his Bethlehem works to the ship building company, and how J. P. Morgan & Co. then came into the transaction. Mr. Dresser, who took the stand at the opening of the hearing, testified that he had no written statement as to the values of the plants of the compa ny of which he undertook the under writing, but that Lewis Nixon and John W. Young had made oral repre sentations. The Mercantile Trust Company, he was told by Colonel McCook, secured the underwriting principally in France. The purchase of the Bethlehem Steel Works for the ship building com pany was then discussed, Mr. Dresser stating that the overtures for the. sale of the steel company had been made by Charles M. Schwab, who said he owned nearly all the stock of the Beth lehem Steel Company and that be cause of its armor making capacity, he believed the company would do better with the ship building company than with the United States Steel Corpora tion. Mr. Schwab, according to Mr. Dres ser, said he wanted $9,000,000 cash for his stock, and submitted reports which showed that it cost him more than $7,000,000 and was earning $1,450,000 a year. “We told him we could not trade on a caah basis,” said Mr. Dresser, “be cause we had no cash, and he said he would take $10,000,000 in bonds at 90 for the $9,000,000.” This was agreed to. the arrange ment also providing that he was to re ceive with the bonds a stock bonus of $9,000,000 each of the common and preferred stock of the United States Ship Building Company, Mr. Sahwab stating that $2,000,000 of the stock was to go to J. P. Morgan & Co. For the stock of the Bethlehem Company, Mr. Dresser said, there was really given $10,000,000 in bonds, $9,- 000,000 in common stock and $9,000,- 000 in preferred stock. There was some talk of pooling the stock of the ship building company, he said. Mr. Schwab insisting that all the srock be held until his and Mr. Morgan's had been put on the market. “I AM TREE, CUT PENNILESS.” So Bewails Judge Randolph in Ceble Dis patch to His Friends in Alabama. Judge Francis Randolph, recently re leased from prison in Colombia, af ter being condemned to death for an alleged murder, ha 3 sent a cablegram to friends in Montgomery, Ala., as fol lows: “Free, but destitute. Cable me mon ey. I can draw on Park bank,' New York.” About SSOO was at once raised and he was promptly eroded of the fact. Randolph is expected to return to Montgomery, when, it is believed, all cases pending against him for embez zlement, will not be pressed. TILLMAN ON THE WITNESS STAND. Tells Jury Why He Killed Fd tor Gonzales, tils Storv « Long One. At Lexington. S. C.. Thursday James H. Tillman went upon the stand as a witness in his own behalf. It was just one hour before adjournment that his counsel asked that the defendant be called. With perfect self-composure he arose from his seat among his attor neys and placed himself at the clerk’s desk to take the oath. Although he was on the stand an hour, he only fairly begun his testi mony when court adjourned. Thirteen mere witnesses were heard POTTS PLACED ON TRIAL At Rome, Ga., Charged With the Mur der of Thedford--A Most Secsational Case. Tha case of the state vs. J. D. Potts, charged with the murder of Dr. M. A. Thedford, was called Wednesday morn ing in the superior court at Rome, Ga. The prosecution took up all the morning and some of the afternoon with the evidence of Dr. L. P. Ham mond, who was the attending surgeon when Thedford died, as well as a wit ness to the shooting. By him it was shown that Thedford was not on the c*ar when shot and that he was shot in the back while begging Potts not to kill him. On cross-examintrtion it was shown that Thedford was in disguise with his face blackened and his long, flowing beard tied back behind bis ears. For the defense a great array of wit nesses were summoned. Motorman Fowler, who ran on the electric car, of which Potts was the conductor, testified that Thedford bad threatened four times to kill Pott9 and had re quested him (Fowler) to advise Potts to either give up his wife or “quit this country,” as he (Thedford) and Potts could not live in the same coun try while Mrs. Potts and her hus band lived together. Thedford employed Potts’ wife be fore she was married in his medicine house, and after she was married, he attempted to call at the Potts home several times, but was denied admis sion and ordered’ away. It was after this that Potts began to get letters threatening his. life. These letters, which Potts alleges Thedford wrote, are the keys to the whole situation. Thedford denied writing them, but the defense will have several writing ex perts to testify about this point. The defense will show that Potts and his wife were both outraged at Thedford’s persistent attentions after Mrs. Potts’ marriage, but every peace ful means to stop them was resorted to before actual violence. They claim that Thedford resented this treatment and, besides openly threatening Potts, also wrote him the letters in question. They will show that Thedford was in disguise as a negro just before the shooting and was in such disguise, and apparently approaching Potts, when shot and killed. The testimony of Mr. Fowler also showed that Thed ford was seen standing near the car brack, along which Potts passed, a few night 3 before the shooting in this same disguise. Thedford was shot by young Potts In the latter part of August, the kill ing creating a tremendous sensation throughout the union, where Thedford is known through his patent medicine. After the shooting and before he died, Thedford declared that 1 he in tended Potts no harm, but going about in disguise to find out what threats Potts had made. The entire story is most sensational and some points are somewhat ob scure, if not mysterious. \ The evidence at Thursday’s session of the court was mostly in letters, al leged to have been written by (Dr. Thedford to Pott’s wife. No nams is signed to the letters and the defense is trying to prove the hand-writing ,as being Dr. Thedford's. The dying state ment of Dr. Thedford will net be in troduced as evidence. « Potts made his statement, and -e --cited in detail the cause which led up to the killing. NOW AWAITS l M ’IRES’ DECISION. Arguments in Alaskan Boundary Arbitra tion Matter Closed in London. The arguments in the Alaskan bound ary arbitration were finished at Lon s don Thursday afternoon. Mr. Dickin son concluded with an eloquent pero ration. dealing with the bonds of amity between the United States and Great Britain. The wives and familes of the com missioners and of counsel were pres ent. John W. Foster, the agent of the United States, thanked the British gov ernment in the name of the American government for its courtesy, Lord Chief Justice Alverstone paid a tribute* to Mr. Dickinson, and the session'; broke up. 1 The matter is now with the um pires for decision. - 1 -W ■ i ■ KANSAS SWEPT BV TORNADO. Pew Lives Reported Lost While Property Damage is Enormous. Three persons killed outright, two fatally injured and fourteen ethers more or less seriously hurt, with enor mous property loss, is the net result of tornadoes that prevailed near Ham ilton, Greenwood county, and near Alicevills, Coffer county, Kans., Tues day night. The town of Aliceville, which has 203 inhabitants, was prac tically demolished. Wires were pros trated and the extent of the stetrm was not learned until late Wednesday. The list of • casualties may yet be incom plete. B, E. a SENT FREE. 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