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j. M. FREEMAN 4 DAUGHTERS, Proprietorial P A VVI 111/11 ■
J. M. FREEMAN, Editor.
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disasters Presented Many Scenes of Horror,
tiiis List °f * s Yet Incomplete.
Nearly fprty persona were killed by
an accident on the Stratford extension
of the Shelton Street Kail way Company
at Bridgeport, Conn., Sunday after
noon, when a loaded trolley car went
off the trestle over Peck’s millpond at
Oronoque, about six miles north of ;
the city,'and sank in the flats forty
feet below. Thua far thirty-one people
are known to be dead and several more
injured, •
Only two persons are known to have
escaped nbharmed.
It is believed that there were forty
three passengers on the ear, but the
Indicator was removed by a oonductor
of another oar and spirited away, so
that at present it is impossible to state
accurately the number aboard.
The scone of the accident is midway
f between Shelton and Bridgeport. The
car was north-bound, running toward
.Sheltou. It was in charge of Conduc
tor John Carroll, of Bridgeport, who
was among the killed, and Motormnn
Hamilton, of Bridgeport, who escaped
by jumping.
T Jo trestle 440 feet long, made of
irV.T, ’with stone foundations, and was |
not protected by guard rails. South
of tl?-*restlo is an incline down which j
tbt * \w at a high rate of speed.
After ran op ( tc the trestle for about
ten feet, the trucks left the rails atuf
then the car continued on the ties for
about seveufy-five feet, when it went j
off the trestle and dropped into the
pond below, overturning completely 1
and up-ending. When the car struck,
the four-ton motor and the heavy
trucks crushed into it, instantly kill
ing many of the passengers.
Three physicinns, who were passen
gers on a car a short distance behind,
arrived quickly on the scene and ren
dered all possible assistance to the in
jured. Word was sent to Bridgeport
and throe ambulanoes were hurried to
the soene.
The injured were taken to Bridge-!
port general hospital. A morgue was
Improved in the main room of the
town hall at Stratford and in a very
shot time twenty-three bodies were
laid out awaiting identification.
The accident was witnessed by Miss
Francis Peck, who resides about 400
feet from the bridge. Blio was up
atinrs at her home as the car was pass
ing, and she says it was running unu
sually fast. Frank Cramer, who was
bathing near the bridge, states that
the passengers were all singing and in
the most joyful mood uh they passed
kirn.
MAYOR WOODWARD IS ASKED TO RESIGN
Atlanta’s Chief Executive Is Charged With Breaking
Solemn Pledge—Council Takes Action.
The members of atlie Atlanta, On.,
city -council held a caucus Saturday
-nd adopted n resolution
Mr. Jno Councilman Maddox, de
in town resignation of Mayor J.
though ;wlV rd.
*h e l the caucus was ready for bus
. Mr. Maddox secured the floor
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W hf“ ld:
Some two or three weeks ago coun
‘ decided to investigate the conduct
.. the mayor. He was allowed oppor
tnnity to do better, but the reports in
tho press state that he has again been
guilty of belug druuk.”
After a few other remarks, Mr. Mad
dox declared that the mayor should be
asked to resign. He then offered the
following resolution:
“Whereas, Mayor James G. Wood
ward is again charged with neglecting
his official duties, and also it is not
believed he has kept faith with the
LIFE SENTENCE FOR NlfF.
••1* Survivor of the Dalton On( Con- '
vlutod et Hrntlereoit) Ttut.
The Jim Kite murder trial vu end
ed et Henderson, Texas, Saturday
night, by the jury returning e verdict
of guilty of murder in the first degree, |
assessing defendant's punishment at
life imprisonment. The state succeed
ed in proving that Kite ia Jim Jones,
■who assisted in robbing the Longview,
Texas, bank and killing and wound
ing several prominent oitiaens in the;
fight that followed. Kite is the only
surviving member of the notorious
Dalton gang, the others having been
killed while resisting arrest slnoe this
occurred.
CHILDREN Rl HXEIt TO CRISP.
Hearn, tVoioii. Lock* Her OfT.eiiti* In
lliit*e With (>.<URI Keiult.
M*ry Washington, a negress, living
two milae above Bogue Chitto and
about eight miles south of Brock
Haven, Miss., went out visiting, leav
ing her three children in the house
Hocked up. During her absence the
defitse was fired in some uuaecounta
tratfi iao? er 4n< * ou mother’s return
for iw C^^^ren were foun<J
At Bar Harbor, Maine, Sunday,
I while a crowd of excursionists were
jon the way to the warships, a slip
leading from the dock to the boat at
Mount Desert ferry broke, precipitat
ing more than 100 into the water.
Twenty bodies had been recovered
up to 5 o’clock Sunday afternoon, and
it is (stimated that the dead will num
ber thirty or more. Seventeen -were
drowned and three died from the ter
rible experience of immersion in the
water and injuries while struggling for
life.
The Maine Central railroad ran ex
cursions to Bar Harbor from all sec
tions of its line in Maine, the attrac
tion being the warships which were'
expected during the day.
All the morning long trains packed
with excursionists were rushing to Bar
Harbor. The train which left Bangor
at 8:25 consisted of twelve cars jammed
with people. At Mount Desert ferry,
the terminus of the line, the passen
gers have to leave the train and take
the boat for an sail to Bar
Harbor.
From the wharf a slip or gang-plank
forty feet long and ten foot wide led
up to the boat. The slip was hinged
at" the inner end, the outer end being
supported by chains by which it was
raised or lowed to suit the tide. It is
said that there was no support for the
plank between the hinges and the
outer end.
When the excursion train from
Bangor arrived at the ferry there was
a rush for the steamer Sappho. The
first few passengers had crossed the
gang plank safely, and it is estimated
that 200 people were massed upon the
plank. Suddenly they felt the plank
give way beneath them.
The long timbers supporting the
plank broke in the middle. The hinges
held up one end and the chain the
other, while the broken ends of tho
plank dropped, and a struggling,
1 screaming mass of humanity was
plunged into the water fifteen feet be
low tlie wharf. A few olung to the
inclined sides of the plank, but at
j least 150 were struggling in the water.
After tbe first moment of stupefac
i tion, the work of rescue began. Ropes
and life preservers were thrown to the
; crowd, but in the panic the people in
tho water clutched one another and
j many eauk thus in groups in a death
•grapple.
Many taken from the water were
unconscious and were revived with
i difficulty.
general counoil touching his promise
to abstain from excessive use of whis
ky, thereby destroying liis influence
and reflecting upon tho fair name of
the oit.y; tlioiefore,
“Be it resolved by this general
council, That Mayor ,lames G. Wood
ward be and is hereby requested to
tender to this body his resignation of
the position of mayor of Atlauta by
Monday morning*”
The resolution was passed with
three dissenting votes.
There was a spirited discussion over
toe matter and some red-hot speeches
were made. The three dissenting
eounoilmen opposed the resolution on
the gronnd that no evidence was pro
duced.
One suggestive statement was that
made by Councilman Parks, who said
that the air was full or rnmove to the
effect that the mayor's downfall was
due to a prominent stockholder in one
of the street railway oompanies.
GOLD CERTIFICATES ORDERED.
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Demand Is Made Upon Printing Depart*
ment For More Paper Currency.
The treasury department Saturday
made requisition upon the bureau of
engraving and printing for the print
ing of $10,000,000 gold certificates in
denominations of twenty dollars each.
The treasurer now holds a large unis
sued supply of certificates of the larger
denominations. It is the evident in
tention of the treasury department to
be in a position to issue gold certifi
cates freely for gold coin, should the
fall movement or currency lead to a
demand at the teasury for gold certifi
cates in exchange for gold coin.
APPEAL FOR ASSISTANCE.
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People of Currabetle, Flo , Are Without
Homos. Food or Clothing-.
A Jacksonville, Fla., dispatch says:
J The citizens of Cnrrabelle are without
houses, food and clothing, owing to
the recent cyclone that laid flat the
town.
At a mass meeting of the citizens,an
appeal was issued for aid, and asks
that contributions be sent to T. S. An
! derson, SI. D., chairman of the relief
committee at Carrabelle.
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DESIGN FOR SOLDIERS’ AND SAILORS’ MONUMENT.
The monument to be erected on Riverside Drive, New York City, to the
memory of the soldiers and sailors who fell in the Civil War, is in the form
of a temple of fame, and will be eighty feet in height, built of pure white
marble. It will cost $250,000.
Mount Tom, the site for the new monument, is a round-topped rock at
the foot of West Eighty-third street. It is the most elevated point on the
New York side of the Hudson for many miles, and when the monument’s
height of eighty feet is added to this landmark the effect will be magnificent.
There has never been a monument erected in New York in honor of the
soldiers and sailors of the Civil War, despite the fact that the members of the
Grand Army of the Republic were unremitting in their endeavors to secure a
fitting memorial; but finally the Legislature was induced to authorize the
city to issue bonds to secure a fund for the building of the monument.
International Athletic Sports
to Bo Belli Annually.
The great international athletic tour
ney is over and England is the win
ner. It was held at the Queen’s Club
and the Americans made a game tight,
but were beaten, sto 4. The Harvard
and Yale boys will have a chance to
retrieve themselves next year if the
Englishmen decide to come to this
country for a return contest.
Not in many years have Britishers
taken such an interest in track and
field sports. What were • said to be
the cream of Uncle Sam’s amateur
athletes were sent over to do battle
with the pick of the country, and
royalty and commoners were alike
deeply interested in the outcome.
Many thousands witnessed the con
tests, and fabulous prices were paid
for seats. Several hundred Americans
were late in securing boxes and as
high as SSO a seat was offered, but the
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THOMAS E. BURKE.
(Harvard’s star performer, who was in such
hail form that ho lost the half mile race,
the English athletes thereby being en
abled to win.)
supply had long been exhausted and
the money didn’t tempt the holders.
The crowd which assembled was a
notable one. Two hours before the
first event was called the spectators
begau to arrive, and by four o’clock
every seat on the field was taken and
spectators were lined up four deep
around the eutire track. In all eight
thousand persons were present.
To an American the appearance of
the field was a revelation. Brilliantly
decorated stands, with colored awniugs
and innumerable flags gave the event
quite a carnival-like appearance, such
as is seldom seen at an American col
lege meeting. This was, however,
THE QUEEN'3 CLUB, LONDON.
(Where the contests between the American and British athletes took place.)
quite in accordance with the ordinary
custom in .Englau 1.
A pleasant featire of the day was
the presence oi tne London Victoria
Military Band, which throughout the
afternoon enlivened the occasion with
popular airs.
The Harvard and Yale supporters
filled two sections in the stand oppo
site the finishes, but with the excep
tion of a single cheer on the occasion
of Fox’s win in the hurdle race there
was none of the organized shouting
that is a feature of tho Harvard-Yale
contests.
Judging from announcements made
by several speakers at the dinner
given to the athletes after the games,
were over, it is evident that the two
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL. °
English universities contemplate a
return visit to America next year.
The members of both teams were in
excellent health and spirits, and made
the dinner the liveliest ever given in
London. They joined in all the
popular airs which the band played,
and when American national tunes
were played, all stood in their chairs
singing and cheering.
The Americans came in for great
applause from both the Englishmen
and Americans present. Fox, Rice and
Palmer being especially honored,
while Davidson, as the victor in an
event which all Englishmen feared
would go to America, was greatly ac
claimed as the saviour of the day.
Then came brief speeches from the
captains of the teams, Vassal saying
he Hoped to go to America and give
them revenge, and, despite the assur
ance which his neighbor, Roche, had
given him all during the dinner that
the climate had nothing to do with to-
day’s results, he was very much afraid
that the tables would be turned on
them in America.
Captains Boche and Fisher, respec
tively of Harvard and Yale, who fol-
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ert G. Ingersoll w4WMP>nel of the
Eleventh Illinois cßlfry in the Civil
War, and made an Bxcieedingly good
record as a sokußfj He was cap
tured by a force ilWl3onfederate cav
alry, but he was paroled and he re
turned to his command. He was
Attorney-General of Illinois in 1866.
Colonel IngeVsoll’s first attempt at
oratory was a failure, but when he
again essayed to speak he was suc
cesful, and finally developed into one
of America’s greatest orators. His
speeches were marked by an extraor
dinary facility of phrasing and an un
, usual power of graphic portrayal.
The speech which he delivered at the
National Republican Convention in
1876, nominating James G. Blaine
and giving him the title of Plumed
Knight, attained for him national
fame.
His chief notoriety, however, rests
upon his attacks upon the Christian
religion. He wrote a number of books
and minor works, and several volumes
of lectures. He participated in several
theological discussions with men of
national and international reputations,
the most notable one being with Mr.
Gladstone. He delivered lectures on the
subjects which made him well known
in all parts of the country and they
drew overflowing audiences. Colonel
Ingersoll was sincere in his convic
tions and it was due to them that in
1877 he refused the post of Minister
to Germany.
Colonel Ingersoll hasqnriched Eng
lish literature by the eulogies which
he delivered at the graves of his
friends and by the patriotic addresses
which he made on national occasions.
The eulogy which he delivered at his
brother’s funeral is ' considered his
finest effort, and his address spoken
in New York City on Memorial Day in
1888 has become a classic. One of his
finest compositions is a prose poem
entitled “Life.”
Colonel Ingersoll was a man of large
sympathy. He was naturally a phil
antrophist and had many plans for the
improvement of the conditions of the
poor. He earned great sums of money,
both as a lecturer and as a lawyer, but
he let them go like water. It was his
habit to keep money in an open
drawer, to which every member of the
family was free to go at any time and
take what was wanted.* His home life
was one of remarkable happiness, and
he was never so happy as when sur
rounded by his devoted family and by
his friends who thronged his house
from all the walks of life. He was a
constant student of Shakespeare,
whose works occupied the place in his
home where in most homes in this
country the Bible rests. He was never
more eloqent or earnest or impressive
than when talking of the master play
wright. He never tired of delving in
Shakespeare’s works and finding and
displaying beauties hidden from the
careless reader. Wagner was another
object of his ceaseless admiration.
IfANAPIANS
UNFRIENDLY
Dominion Officials Tarn Down
Invitation From This Side.
THEY REFUSE TO VISIT CHICAGO
Were Asked to Be Present at
Laying of a Corner Stone
In Windy City.
Mr. F. W. Fitzpatrick, of the treas
ury department, has just .returned to
Washington from Ottawa, where he
went at the instance of the committee
of citizens of Chicago in charge of cer
emonies of the laying of the corner
stone of that city’s great postoffice
building next October by President
McKinley, to arrange for the formal
invitation and expected acceptance of
an invitation from Chicago’s citizens
to the governor general and cabinet of
Canada to participate in the festivities.
Mr. Fitzpatrick is the assistant United
States architect under Architect Henry
Ives Cobb for the Chicago building.
To an Associated Press representa
tive he admitted that his official recep
tion was slightly chilly, Sir Wilfrid Lau
iier very candidly told him that under
the present conditions it would be im
possible for him to qccept or even con
sider any social invitations to this side
of the border.
Mr. Fitzpatrick says that in sub
stance Sir Wilfrid’s voluntary state
ment and answer to queries was as
follows:
“as a friend in whom I am deeply in
terested I am very glad to see you, but
frankly as a representative of the federal
or ‘ any local government in the United
States, your visit could not have been more
untimely. When I received your first letter
I took up the matter with his excellency, the
governor general, and he expressed asincere
desire to visit Chicago and seemed as anxious
to accept the invitation as I was. He would
have been delighted to go and we were look
ing forward to the day with much anticipa
tion. But since then the.tono of your press
has become so harsh in dealing with the
Alaskan boundary question, such misrepre
sentations have been made about our gov
ernment, and particularly about me, that it
would he undignified for us to visit you and
I cannot advise his excellency to go.”
Mr. Fitzpatrick said that Sir Wilfrid
intimated that in the present state of
public feeling in the United States as
indicated in the press it would not be
entirely safe for the governor general
and himself to visit Chicago, as he
feared that they might, in a great gath
ering of such a character as the Chi
cago ceremony, be subjected to some
unpleasantness or indignity by
thoughtless persons.
Sir Wilfrid expressed himself in
favor of arbitrating the Alaskan bound
ary dispute and concluded the inter
view as follows:
“So, much as I regret, I could not
go to Chicago under present condi
tions and must, however a painful
duty it may be, advise his excellency
to decline the invitation that I know
and feel has been so kindly extended
to us by the city of Chicago.”
Mr. Fitzpatrick secured Sir Wil
frid’s promise, however, to consider
the matter.
UNDERWOOD CLAIMS DAMAGES.
Alleges That Publisher of “The Confeder
ate Veteran” Libeled Him.
At Nashville, Tenn., Friday General
John C. Underwood, of Covington, Ky.,
entered suit in the United States circuit
court against L. A. Cunningham, of
Nashville, and the publishing house of
the Methodist Episcopal church, south,
for $50,000 for libel.
The bill filed states that defendants
did falsely and maliciously publish of
and concerning the plaintiff, who is
the superintendent and secretary of
the Confederate Memorial Association,
in a newspaper periodical called The
Confederate Veteran, of which Cun
ningham is editor, and the publishing
house published certain false and de
famatory matter with intent to defame
the plaintiff.
GOVERNOR SAVED MULLENS.
presence of Georgia’s Chief Executive
Prevented a Lynching.
John Mullens, the negro who at
tempted a criminal assault in Coweta
county, Ga., Wednesday, and is now
safely in the Atlanta jail, owes his life
to Governor Candler.
While the mob was forming on the
outside of the Newnan jail Governor
Candler hurried to that city, where he
personally gave directions to the sher
iff and the military.
It is the first time on record where
a governor of the state has gone to the
trouble to prevent a lynching, and has
taken personal command of the mili
tary and posse.
WILL ENLARGE PLANT.
Richmond nosiery Cos., of Chattanooga,
Will Double Its Facilities.
According to a dispatch of Monday
the Richmond Hosiery company, of
Chattanooga, TeDn., employing 250
hands, in which New York capital is
interested, has made arrangements to
double its capacity at once and erect
an nnderwear knitting mill in addition
to the hosiery department. An addi
tional expenditure of SIOO,OOO will be
made.