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SOLDIERS TO AlflM
The Bainbridge, Ga., Jail is
Determined Mob. 13H
GOVERNOR CANDLER APPEALED TO FOR AS
Charles flack Lynched Upon the Same Sp®
Sammins Met His Fate.
Telegraphic orders were received at
Savannah, Ga., Tuesday night from
Governor Candler, addressed to Cap
tain Middleton, of the state militia at
Valdosta, and Captain Smith of Thom
asville, to “report to Sheriff Patter
son, at Bainbridge, with all your avail
able men, at once,” and to “act
strictly under his orders.” The gov
ernor’s message was mandatory. It
said “go at once.”
The commercial wireshaving closed,
these messages were transmitted over
railroad wires from Savannah, and ar
rangements were immediately made
for special cars on the Plant system
to take the troops. The train arrived
in Bainbridge at 3 o’clock a. m.
The troops were wanted to protect
the sheriff and the jail against the at
tack of a mob that was after John
Williams, a negro who is charged with
assault and attempt to rape two white
girls three weeks ago. Williams en
tered their room while they were
asleep and had seized one of the girls
By the foot when he was frightened
away.
CHARLES MACK LYNCHED.
Charles Mack, the second of the
Ogletree rapists, was lynched Tues
day morning at Saffold. His crime
was committed in Early county, and
citizens of Decatur county refused to
let the mob carry the man into Bain
bridge, since it was desired that an
innocent county should not suffer the
odium of a lynching committed by cit
izens of another county.
Mack was. threfore, taken to Saf
fold, the scene of his crime, in Early
FUNERAL OF INQERSOLL.
No Minister or Pallbearers Were
In Attendance Upon Sim
ple Ceremony.
The funeral the late Robert G. In
gersoll took place Tuesday afternoon
from Walston, Dobbs Ferry, where he
died on Friday last.
No clergyman was present to conduct
the services; there was no music, and
there were no pallbearers.
The services were held at 4 o’clock.
Mrs. Ingersoll sat beside her dead
husband and beside her was her
daughters, Airs. Walston H. Brown,
and Miss Alaud Ingersoll. They
were very much agitated, and wept
almost continuously. Charles Broad
way Eouss, Colonel lugersoll’s oldest
friend, occupied a chair by the side of
the bier. There were some forty oth
ers present, and they remained stand
ing t ughont.
Ala} : O. J. Smythe, who resides in
Dobbs Ferry and who was a close per
sonal friend of Colonel Ingersoll, then,
without preliminary words, read an
other extract from Colonel Ingersoll’s
writings entitled “Aly Religion.”
Dr. John Elliott, of New York, read
the funeral oration delivered by Colo
nel Ingersoll over his brother’s dead
body.
This concluded the short and sim
ple services. Nearly all present then
took a parting look at the dead and
passed out. Air. Rouss arose from his
chair, and, as he is totally blind, pass
ed his hand over the face of his de
parted friend and said:
“Perhaps he is better now. No one
can understand it.”
Airs. Ingersoll said to him:
“The colonel wanted you to put
your hand upon his heart,” and suit
ing the action to the word, she direct
ed his hand to the left breast of the
deceased. * •
Air. Rouss asked what she was go
ing to do with the remains.
“I can’t give him up,” she said. “I
can’t put him in the ground. I can’t
bear to think of it. We’re going to
bring him back Lome. ”
DROWNED IN SATILLA RIVER.
Mrs. Mock, Her Son and a Little Girl
Lose Life While Bathing.
A dispatch from Waycross, Ga.,
says: Three persons were drowned in
Satilla river Tuesday about noon while
a pleasure party were bathing at a
point known as “Bulls’ Bluff.” The
parties were Airs. M. J. Alock, wife of
ex-Sheriff Alock, her son, Joe Alock,
aged twenty-two, and a little orphan
girl, Cora Smith.
L. B. Henderson, ex-deputy sheriff,
and Barney AlcDonald, nephew of
Hon. John C. AlcDonald came near
drowning in their efforts to rescue
those who went down. The bodies
were recovered.
TWO BANK OFFICERS LEVANT.
Their Absence Cause* One of Montreal’s
Oldest Financial Institutions to Close.
A Eensation was caused at Alontreal,
Out., Tuesday by the announcement
that the Villa Alarie bank, one of the
oldest institutions in the city, has sus
pended payment.
The cause assigned is defalcations
on the part of the cashier, F. Lemeuix,
and J. H. Herbert, the paying teller,
both of whom have disappeared. The
amount of the shortage is $58,000.
Wh-s. tli.i! place
the li:..b f1 the 1 e
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eii'ht h.mrs ■ . -til: s
the limb et; which it had
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tree She • him atdHHS^B
did also her husband.
made >: 11 e-io:i e\,-ry fadBHH
holding a pistol to Oglctre^^HH
Sammin committed his assault.
Mack was then taken to a
that oil which hungthe body of
and strung up. As he was
the ground his body was iuddla<H|f|H
bullets.
A story that two negroes were IySH
ed and scalped in the lower part offlfi
county Sunday is denied by the suml
iff. la
One Captured In Alabama. B
A special from Montgomery, AlaS
states that Sheriff Beeves, of PilJ|
county, reached that city Tuesday]
night over the Plant system fronf <
Troy, Ala., having in custody Albert
Wright, a negro who has been posi
tively identified by Mr. Ogletree as
one of his assailants.
Wright was arrested near Troy on
Monday and Mr. Ogletree went to
Troy Tuesday and promptly pro
nounced him to be one of the fiends.
Mr. Ogletree returned home with
the undarstanding that the negro
would be sent at once to Bainbridge.
The Alabama sheriff, however, slip
ped his prisoner on the Plant train
and carried him to Montgomery.
The negro stoutly maintains his in
nocence of the horrible crime attrib
uted to him, but will not state his de
fense. He appears very uneasy.
DELEGATES AGREE.
Results of the International Peace Con
ference At The Ilague.
Advices from The Hague state that
the final act embodying the results of
the international peace conference, af
ter enumerating the names and quali
fications of all the delegates, says:
“In a series of meetings in which
the above delegates participated, in
spired throughout by the desire to
realize in the highest possible meas
ure, the generous views of its august
initiator, the conference has drawn up
for the approval of the respective gov
ernments the series of conventions and
declarations appended:
“Convention for the pacific settle
ment of international disputes.
“Convention concerning the laws
and customs of war on land.
“Convention for the adoption of
laws against the use of asphyxiating
or deleterious gases from balloon pro-*
jectiles and for the prohibition of the
use of bullets that easily expand in the
human body.”
The final act contains five expres
sions of opinion, as follows:
“The conference considers that lim
itations of the military charges which
at present oppress the world are great
ly to be desired for the increase of the
material and moral welfare of man
kind.
“The conference expressed the
opinion that the question of the rights
of neutrals should be inscribed on the
programme of a conference to be held
at an early date.
“The conference expresses the opin
ion that questions relative to the type
and caliber of rifles and naval artillery
as examined by it, should be the sub
ject of study by the differents govern
ments with a view to arriving at a un
iform solution by a future conference.
“The conference expresses the wish
that an early convention be called to
review the Geneva convention.
“The conference has resolved that
questions relating to the inviolability
of private property in war on land and
the bombardment of towns or vilages
in naval war, be reserved for future
conferences.”
I'HILPOTS WERE DISMISSED.
Preliminary Trial Occur* at Manchester
Without Any More Bloodshed.
A preliminary trial of George and
Peter Philpot for the murder of Alor
ris and the Griffins was held at Alan
chester, Ky., Alonday, by Judge
Wright, but none of the Griffins ap
peared. After hearing half a dozen or
more witnesses the court dismissed
; the defendants.
The Philpots then asked that Green
Gibbs be summoned to answer for kill
ing Ed Fisher, but the judge said
Gibbs was not able to come into court.
Court then adjourned and the threat
ened trouble between the factions was
averted.
BROWN IS WILLING.
Former Governor of Kentucky Will Op
pose Goebel If Nominated.
; The announcement is made by the
Louisville, Ky., Evening Post that
John Young Brown, former governor
of Kentucky, will accept the nomina
tion for governor in case it is offered
to him by the convention to be held
| at Lexington August 2d by democrats
who are opposed to the ticket headed
by William Goebel, which was nomi
nated by the Louisville convention.
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a vMilant search of the premises and
tbeMe going to the large dwelling im
medmtely behind the shop, which was
ownMl by the Defattas, found Joe hid
und® the chimney. He was promptly
take*ont and the sheriff’ started to the
jail with Charles and Joe.
When he got to the courthouse
square a crowd of about 250 citizens
citizens overpowered the sheriff and
after a severe struggle took Joe and
Charles Defatta down in the field to
the slaughter pen and hanged them to
'the gallows used for slaughtering
beeves.
Joe denied the shooting and said
Charles did it. Charles said Joe did
the shooting, which half a dozen saw
and know he did. Charles said he
jumped on Dr. Hodge and was sorry
of it, that Frank Defattn and Sy Defor
roch were the cause of the trouble.
The crowd then adjourned to the
jail, overpowered the jailer and depu
ties, taking the keys, went in and
brought out Sy Deferroch, Frank
Defatta and Joe Cereno and hanged
them to an oak tree in the jail yard.
Not a shot was fired and the crowd
was orderly and quiet, but very de
termined. A good many citizensplead
ed for the lives of the Sicilians, but of
no avail, as this was the third outrage
committed by this same class.
CLASH OF AUTHORITY.
Texas) Objects to Receiver Obeying United
States Judge.
A dispatch from Austin says: Tho
Texas state officials will probably
clash -with the federal courts. Friday
they received information that the
headquarters of the Texarkana and Ft.
Smith railway, which is a part of the
Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf,
which is now in the hands of a re
ceiver, had been ordered moved from
Texarkana to Kansas City. The
Texas law requires that general offices
of all Texas lines shall be maintained
in the state.
Protest From Western Union.
A Columbia S. C., dispatch says:
The Pullman Palace Car Company,
the Southern Express Company, the
Bell Telephone Company acquiesced
in the valuation for taxation fixed on
their property by the railroad board
of equalization, being $83,000, $94,000
and $25,000 respectively. The West
ern Union,taxed for $1,000,000, enter
ed a protest.
Country About Manila Flooded.
Advices from Manila state that the
unprecedented :ains of last week have
convinced observers that military oper
ations on a large scale or advances
covering many miles will be impossi
ble for a long time. Many miles of
the country are flooded to a depth or
three or four feet.
Italian Papers Wrought Up.
According to the Rome correspond
ent of The Loudon Daily Mail, the
United States government has inform
ed the Italian authorities that it is im
possible to discover the Tallulah
lynchers. The newspapers, the cor
respondent adds, are indignant, and
vigorously denounce what they call
“sham American civilization.”
Fatal Cyclone tn Indiana.
A cyclone struck the eastern portion
of Laporte, Ind., Monday night and
wrecked several buildings. It is
feared that the families of Jacob
Morton and William Steele, who live
on the Kankakee marsh, have been
killed.
SINE PERSONS KILLED
By Kxploxlon Which Occurred on Board
Kngll.h Torpedo Boat Ileetroyer.
A dispatch from London says: An
explosion on board the torpedo boat
destroyer Bullfinch on the Solent, dur
ing her trial Friday, killed nine and
injured four on board. It was the
worst naval accident of this nature
that has occqred in the British navy
in twenty years. The victims were
terribly injured, steam and boiling
water filling the engine room.
S.Hcrch
SfP? prresideiit McKinley
ALGER SHAMEFULLY”
The Assertion Is Hade That War
Secretary Repeatedly Offered
to Vacate.
A Detroit, Mich., special says: Gov
ernor Pingree handed to the Associ
ted Press Friday a prepared,and signed
interview, giving what the governor
asserts are to be “facts which are ab
solutely reliable, bearing upon the re
lations between General Alger and
President McKinley with which the
public are not familiar.” At the out
set the governor said:
“I have no hesitation in saying that
the course pursued by the president
in this matter is little less than cow
ardly. It is, to say the least, very
unmanly.”
Governor Pingree said his informa
tion did not come from General Alger,
but from one whose knowledge of the
facts cannot he disputed.
Proceeding, he says that repeatedly
since the eastern newspapers began
their attacks upon Secretary Alger,
the secretary informed the president
that if those press dispatches embar
rassed the administration in the
slightest degree, he would resign nt
once, but the president as often pro
tested emphatically that he had the
utmost confidence in Secretary Alger
and his conduct of the war depart
ment, and that the country could not
afford to lose his services.
The governor says that at the time
“his alleged alliance with General Al
ger was announced, and before his dis
avowal of interviews criticising the
president had reached Washington,
General Alger told the president that
upon the president’s slightest intima
tion he would resign, but the presi
dent refused to entertain the idea for
a moment.
“As to the ‘alleged alliance’ being
any reason for asking for General Al
ger’s resignation, Governor Pingree
says, ‘Long before my announcement
that I would support General Alger
for the senate, Secretary of State Hay,
on June 2d last, requested Vice Presi
dent Hobart to intimate to General
Alger that his resignation would be
acceptable to the president and would
relieve bim from the embarrassing at
tacks of the press upon the conduct of
the war.
Mr. Hobart very properly declined
to be a party to such unmanly, not to
say cowardly, proceeding and express
bis opinion in terms decidedly vigor
ous.
“After that General Alger, entirely
ignorant of this miserable conspiracy,
several times offe red to end the attacks
by submitting his resignation, but
still the president did not have the
courage to express himself to his sec
retary. General Alger finally did
hand his resignation to tho president
to take effect January 2d.
“The president dared not face the
general in a 'manly way and ask him
to retire and give his reasons for mak
ing the request. He finally accom
plished by indirection wliat be dared
not do in an open and frank manner
himself.”
Governor Pingree states that Mr.
Hobart was finally prevailed upon E>y
Attorney General Griggs to convey to
the secretary that his resignation was
desired and gave my alleged alliance
with the secretary as a pretext.
Commenting on the whole matter,
the governor says that General Alger’s
sacrifice was compelled by demands of
New York politicians, backed by the
“unscrupulous and heartless press.”
He predicts that it will be learned
“that the president himself will be
responsible for whatever mistakes have
been made in conducting the war.”
“I am told on the very best author
ity that General Alger made very few
appointments of officers during the
war, and that the commissions were
issued almost entirely upon the order
of the president.”
OFFICIAL REPORT FROM OTIS
On the Deperate and Close-Quarter Fight
On Island of Negros.
The war department has received
the following cablegram:
“Manila, July 21.—Adjutant Gen
eral, Washington: Captain B. A.
Byrne, Sixth infantry, with seventy
men, surprised united robber bands
of Negros, numbering 450. Killed
115; wounded many; captured a few
rifles and revolvers, many baud
weapons, large quautily of stock; fight
ing at close distance. Byrne’s loss
one killed, one wounded, names not
given. This action very beneficial for
quiet of Negros. Otis.”
FOUR GIRLS DROWNED.
Daughter* of Prominent Kansan* I.one
Their Lire* Bathing.
Edna Curtis, Millie Detrick, Inez
and Babel Neal, daughters of promi
nent Caldwell, Kas., citizens were
drowned at Drury, a fishing and bath
ing resort, six miles east of the city,
Monday afternoon. The girls were in
bathing, when one of them went in be
yond ber depth. In an attempt to res
cue her the four were drowned.
DEMOCRATS INoBRjBW
Members of National Executive üBSN3B|
Hold Meeting In Chicago.
HON. W. J. BRYAN SPEAKS AT THE Al'BlTf^i
Conference Results In a Few Changes In the
Both Factions In Chicago Satisfied. J
The National Democratic executive
committee convened in Chicago at
noon Thursday. Its first work was j
the removal of P. J. Devlin, the press
representative.
When the national committee came
to order in the clubroom of the Sher
man house at 12 o’clock all the states
were represented either by proxy or
by their regular committeemen with
the exception of North Dakota, Ore
gon, Texas, Utah, Vermont, West Vir
ginia and Arizona. Mr. Bryan held
proxies for Michigan and South Da
kota, and was present throughout the
meetings of the committee, although
he did not take any active part in the
proceedings. Ex-Governor Altgeld j
was offered the proxy of Committee
man White, of Washington, but de
clined it, and Willis ,T. Abbott, of
New Jersey, acted for that state.
Mayor Harrison held the proxy for
Alaska, but did not attend either ses
sion of the committee.
No friction developed at the meet
ing and the silver men who had made
such beligerent assertions failed to
make them good. Not a single war
like note was sounded and no de
fiances were uttered, either by the
men who demand that “16 to 1” shall
be the rallying cry in the next cam
paign or those who oppose its adop
tion.
The only move made by the silver
men looking toward recognition by the
national committee was during the af
ternoon when the Ohio Valley, Bi
metalic League was admitted to the
committee room and James P. Tarvin,
of Kentucky acting as spokesman,read
the resolutions adopted by the com
mittee at their meeting earlier in the
day at the Palmer house. These reso
lutions demanded that planks be in
serted in the uext democratic national
platform opposing trusts, imperialism
and adhering to the silver ratio of
16 to 1.
“And along these lines we offer you
our aid,” said Mr. Tarvin.
There was a defiant accent upon the
word “these,” that seemed to imply
that the support of the bimetallists
could be secured along no other lines
than those marked out, but of this the
committee took no notice. The Ohio
Valley Bimetallic League was cour
teously thanked for its proffer of
assistance and assured that it would
be called upon at such times as the
national committee felt in need of its
assistance.
That was the beginning and end of
the silver episode.
The fight against P. J. Devlin, edi
tor of the press bureau of the national
committee, was brought to a finish,the
Harrison faction of Illinois securing
his deposition for the part taken by
him as an officer of the national com
mittee in the last mayoralty election
in Chicago.
Beyond making several changes in
the rules governing the committee
nothing else was done during the day.
Bryan Make* Speech.
Four thousand people crowded into
the auditorium Thursday night, de
spite the sweltering heat, to attend
the political meeting given under the
spices of the Chicago platform demo
crats.
It was from first to last a silver
meeting, an Altgeld meeting, an anti
trust and anti-expansion meeting. All
of the speakers, save ex-Governor
Stone, of Missouri, who was ill and
talked for less than two minutes, de
clared in favor of 16 to 1 and against
the war in the Philippine islands.
The speech of Air. Bryan evoked
great enthusiasm among his hearers,
especially when he declared that the
American government should pursue
in Luzon the same policy as was pur
sued in Cuba. The Philippines, he
said, by accident of war, and being so
acquired, they should have been treat
ed on American principles, and not on
those practiced by European govern
ments. The policy of the United
States, be claimed, should have been .
to create a republic in the Philippines
and say to all the world, “hands off
and let that republic live.” His au-;
dience was in sympathy with his sug
gestions regarding the Philippines
and punctuated his speech with cheers. !
The meeting was largely made up of
the local adhcrenls of the Chicago
platform and personal followers of ex-
Governor Altgeld. The meeting,there
fore, partook somewhat of the nature ;
of a personal tribute to him. Many
of the speakers alluded to him in laud
atory terms and at, every mention of
his name the audience shouted ap
v.oval.
RAILROAD LOSES FIGHT.
Tho A. & W* P. Cannot Construct
Line to Connect With Another Koa'l.
The Atlanta and West Point Kail
road company has met vith defeat in
its effort to build a belt line i m its
main line near Oakland City to the
Georgia railroad.
The supreme court of Georgia
handed down a decision Thursday de
claring that the company had no au
thority to build any belt line from any
part of its main liue to another road.
About one-half of the members of
the national committee occupied seat*
on the platform, the balance failing to
put in an appearance.
Air. Bryan, when introduced, spoke
in part as follows:
“In speaking in Chicago I am em
barrassed by the fact that the advo
cates of the Chicago platform are di
vided into two camps. It is not my
business to establish a secret service
in order to ascertain what democrats
are most devoted to the principles set
forth in the last party creed. All Chi
cago platform democrats look alike to
me, and instead of trying to drive any
professed believer in that platform out
of the party, my aim is to so impress
upon all democrats the importance of
the triumph of democratic principles
that all local differences will be lost
sight of in the determination to restore
the government to the foundation laid
by the fathers.
“In the brief time that I shall speak
to you, I desire to condense what I
have to say upon three subjects into a
few brief propositions,
j “1. President AlcKinley, by send
ing a commission to Europe to seenre
international bimetallism, confessed
the gold standard to be unsatisfactory.
“2. The failure of the commission to
secure international bimetallism proves
that bimetallism can be restored only
through independent action.
“3. The gold standard is maintained
today not because the American people
desire it, but because a few English
financiers, by controlling the policy of
England, control, through the repub
lican party, the financial policy of the
United States.
"4. If the increased production of
gold in the Klondike and the impor
tation of gold from Europe have in
creased the volume of money and im
proved times, it is evident that more
money makes better times and times
could be stilljfnrtber improved and the
improvement made permanent by the
restoration of bimetallism, which would
make silver as well as gold available
for coinage.
“5. If it was more difficult to main
tain the parity between gold and sil
ver when the supply of silver was in
creasing, it, must now be easier to
maintain the pa/ity supply
of gold is increasing.
“On the trust question I suggest the
following propositions for your consid
eration:
“1. The trust is a menace to the
welfare of the people of the United
States because it creates u monopoly
and gives to the few in control of the
monopoly almost unlimited power
over the.lives anil happiness of con
sumers, employes and producers of
raw material.
“2. The president appoints tlie at
torney general, and can, if he desires,
secure an attorney general who will
enforce the anti-trust laws.
“3. Tho attorney general can recom
mend sufficient laws if present laws
are insufficient.
“5. The attorney general can re
commend amendments to the constitu
tion if the constitution makes it im
posible to extinguish trusts.
“5. The republican party is power
less to extinguish the trusts so long us
the trusts furnish the money to con
tinue the republican party in power.
“In the Philippine question certain
fundamental principles are involved.
“1. There are but two sources of
government, force and consent, mon
archies being founded on force, repub
lics upon consent.
“2. The declaration of independ-
I ence asserts that all governments de
! rive their just, powers from the con
sent of the governed.
“3. If the declaration of independ
ence Is sound we cannot rightfully ac
quire title to the Philippine islands by
conquest or by purchase from an
alien monarch to whose rebellious sub
jects w'e ourselves furnished arms.
“4. If the Filipinos are and of
right ought to be free, they should be
immediately assured of our nation’s
intention to give them independence
as soon as a stable government can be
established.
“5. TheFil piuos having fallen into
our hinds bj accident of war, they
should be dealt with according to-
American principles, and not be given
independence, but protected from out
side interference while they work out
their own destiuy.”
Previous to the appearance of the
Nebraska champion of silver the meet
ing was entertained by an address by
Judge James P. Tarvin, of Covington,
Ky., president of the Ohio Valley Bi
metallic League.
81-METALLISTS MEET.
The National Committee Elect* Alabama
Man Prenldent.
The national bi-metallic committee
met at Chicago Thursday and elected
John W. Tomlinson, cf Alabama to
succeed the late Senator Harris. A
committee of three, with the presi
dent as a member, was elected to ap
point men to till any vacancies which
may occur in the future. No other
business of importance was tranaoted.