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DEPUTY SHERIFF KILLED IN DISCHARGE OF HIS DUTY
Hundreds of Armed Negroes Massed In a Swamp and
Ready For An Attack.
The first blood ol the Darien, Ga.,
riot was spilled Thursday night, when
Joseph Townsend, one of Mclntosh’s
best and most influential citizens lost
his life from the effect of a shot from a
gun in the hands of a brother of the
negro Delagel.
Mr. Jos. Townsend and Mr.Ootavius
Hopkins went ont near Eulonia to the
home of Henry Delagel,the negro now
in jail at Savannah, to arrest his two
sous. Both of these negroes had taken
an active part in the Darien riot. Mr.
Townsend remained outside the house
while Mr. Hopkins went in. The lat
ter found John Delagel and told him
he had cotne to arrest him and he had
best give up The negro seemed in
clined to do this for a moment, but
changed his mind when he saw Mr.
Townsend outside iu the moonlight.
A gun wan handed him by a women
and he immediately opened fire on the
two officers. Mr. Hopkins was struck
in the shoulder and Mr. Townsend in
the abdomen. Mr. Hopkins, though
painfully wounded, was not complete
ly disabled, so he took Mr. Townsend
in the buggy and hurried away for
medical aid.
Mr. Townsend expired iu Mr. llop
kin’s arms before they reached any
p ace where they could find a bed.
Nffroei Mhm lit Swamp.
The negroes have practically de
serted Darien proper and taken to the
swamp. They are now massed about
twelve miles from Darien and have
thrown out pickets to guard against
the whites. Word lias been sent to
Darien that the negroes will not sub-
luit to arrest.
Several white families were sent
anuy from Darien Friday to allow the
men time to fight. A detachment of
soldiers were dispatched to the Ridge,
Darien’s swell suburb, to guard the
residences there. Soldiers patroled
the streets in Darien.
Khiiovikl to Savannah.
The towboat “Iris” left Darien Fri
day morning for Savumnah with the
riot prisoners on board. It was
thought best to take them there for
safe keeping in order to avoid any
possible attempt to escape and for the
further reason that the jail in Darien
was getting uncomfortably full.
While pussing through a negro set
tlement en route live miles from Darien
BKRTILLON CREATED MKRKIMKNT.
The Nolvd IlnmlwrilliiK K*p*rt a Wltnnsn
In the Dreyfus Case.
At Friday’s session of the Dreyfus
oourtmartial M. llertillon, the noted
handwriting expert, who was at the
head of the anthroopometric depart
ment of the prefecture of police of
Paris, was called as a witness.
When Bertillon had concluded the
first installment of his so-called dem
onstration of the guilt of Captain
Dreyfus, a promineut Droyfusard re
ferred to him as “the tin de siccle
■Cagliostro.”
A remarkable feature of M. Bertil
lon’s deposition was the heat and ex
citement he put into what was expect
ed to be a calm, dispassionate exposi
tion of his theories. Ho thundered,
shouted and waved his arms, as though
engaged in some terrible dispute.
The Dreyfusards refuse to
him as anything but a ime.-cte.
COMB INK UK tJ MilUi UMI N KS.
fectml In New York.
A Birmingham, Ala., dispatoli says:
A new southern iron combination is
being formed in New York by a con
solidation of the Cherokee Iron com
pany and the Western Mining com
pany, the former operating in Chero
kee oounty, Alabama, and the latter at
Cedartown, Qa. The concern will he
known as the Georgia and Alnbame
Iron company, and will be capitalized
■at $1,300,000.
COTTON FIRMS COMBINE.
Fourtffn Mill* Acquired By the Continent*
h! Trust Comp Any of Baltimore.
A Baltimore special says: The cot
ton consolidation, which is one of the
most important industrial oombina
tions of the south, has been completed
and the fourteen mills acquired are
now in the hands of the Continental
Trust Company of Baltimore, the syn
dicate manager awaiting their transfer
to the Mt. Vernon-Woodhury Cotton
Duck Company, which has been in
corporated under the laws of the state
of Delaware, the permanent organiza
tion of which will be completed within
the next few days when the properties
-will be taken over by that company.
TO EXTF.NI> BOYCOTT.
Chattanooga Union Labor Calls On Bir
mingham. Ala.. For Help.
The Central Labor Union at Chatta
nooga has requested the union labor
ers at Birmingham, Ala., to institute
a boycott against the electric railroad
of that city. This action is taken to
attempt to bring the Cliattonooga
Electric railroad to terms in the con
troversy over employment of union
laborers.
the Darien and Western train was
fired upon. This is the second time
the train has been firad on, but fortu
nately no one has yet been hurt.
Judge Heabrook has been generally
commended for his promptness on
calling a special term of court. Solie
itor Kenan has also been quite active
in getting the special term and other
wise assisting the citizens.
Colonel Lnwtou la Command.
Governor Handler was bnsy all day
Friday receiving and sending tele
grams in regard to the rioters at Da
rien, where the situation has assumed
a much graver aspect than was at first
thought.
Governor Candler was determined
at all hazards to prevent the rioters
from doing any further damage and
used every precaution toward that
end.
During the day ho offered a reward
of 3-100 for the capture of the negro
John Delegal, who murdered Deputy
Sheriff Joseph Townsend Thursday
night.
Early in the morning Governor Can
dler received a telegram from Sheriff
T. B. Blonnt, of Darien, as follows:
Please order Liberty Independent troop
to report to me, mounted, at once. Hituu
tlon critical. One deputy killed; another
wounded. T. B. Blount, Sheriff.
Following close on the lieels of this
message came a dispatch from Colonel
Lawton asking that carbines and am
munition be shipped. The guns were
sent by the Southern Express and the
ammunition, 1,000 rounds, was sent
later by a special messenger.
Colonel Lawton has been vested
with plenary power to act in any way
be may see fit aud is in full command
of the situation.
All this is the outcome of the riot
ous situation that has prevailed in Da
rien for several days following the ar
rest of one Henry Delegal for alleged
assault on a white woman. The ne
groes erroneously conceived the idea
that Delegal was to be lynched and
dropped everything to go to his sup.
posed rescue when the sheriff started
to remove him to Savannah for safe
keeping.
They surrounded the juil and two
hundred military came from Savunnah
to quell them. The day following,
arrests of rioters began and forty were
jailed.
FORECAST OF CARTER VERDICT.
It Is Stated In Wn*hlii|gton That The
Captain Will Go Kroo.
Tt is stated in Washington, on what
is regarded authentic information,that
an agrooment has been reached where
by Captain Oberlin Carter is not to be
punished for his gigantic government
steal, according to the verdict of the
conrtmartial, but is merely to be dis
missed from the army aud a nominal
fine imposed. The fine will not bo
over 310,000. It will be remembered
that Carter stole, according to the evi
dence on which he was convicted, not
less than 31,500,000.
He will not be advertised in the
papers of bis town as ordered in
the verdict.
The statement that the Carter case
“will be settled on its merits” finds
pbauaible and ready explanation iu
Washington. It is accepted there as
meaning a mitigation of the sentence
pronounced by the court martial against
Captain Carter as stated.
It will be recalled that the verdict
of the courtmartial was that Carter “is
guilty as charged" of conspiring with
Green aud Gaynor and other contract
ors to defraud the government of on
amount which the evidence adduced
showed to he not less than one and
one-half railliou dollars. The sentence
was dismissal from the service of the
United States, a fine of SIO,OOO, a term
of five years in the penitentiary and
that he be advertised in his native
town by public prints as a thief aud a
scoundrel.
NEGROES FOR PHILIPPINES.
Colored llegluu'iit to Be KnlUted to Fight
the Filipinos
Asa result of the recent consulta
tion between the president and Secre
tary Root, orders were ismed Friday
providing for the establishment of an
additional regiment of volunteers, to
be composed of colored recruits. The
colonel, field and regimeutal officers
will be white men.
The headquarters of the regiment
will be McPherson barracks, Atlauta,
Ga., and the work of recruiting will
begin at once. The regiment is to be
organized for duty in the Philippines.
POSTMASTER ROBBED MAILS.
Inspectors Visit Office at MlUrlew, Fla.,
and Take Bailey la Chars*.
Zack Bailey,postmaster at Millview,
Fla., ten mile* west of Pensacola, has
been jailed by Postoffioe Inspectors
Rossor and Fuller, on a charge of rob
bing the mails.
It appears that for some mouths
past people who got their mail at Mill
view have been missing letters, packa
ges aud espexially registered letters.
Happenings In the State of Inter
esting Import.
Tax Hill I>rutted.
The Georgia legislative tax commis
sion, which has been in session at the
state capitol during the past week, ad
journed after completing the outline of
the tax bill to be presented to the leg
islature.
The real work of the commission
was concluded in the latter part of
July and an adjournment taken-to a
time when the members would reas
semble with a better understanding
of some phases of the tax question.
During the past week the new tax bill
was gone over carefully and amended
in some respects and it is understood
that the members of the commission
are unanimous as to the changes to be
proposed in the tax laws of the state.
The commission has adjourned un
til the first Monday in October, when
the rough draft of the tax measure
will be re-read and formally adopted
by the commission.
As to the changes in the tax system,
it is the impression among the officials
at the capitol that the bill will provide
for a number of them and that all will
be acceptable to the members of the
legislature.
For the first time the tax commis
sion disregarded its established rule
on the subject and listened for several
hours to representatives of different
roads in the state. It is expected by
many that a change of great impor
tance is to be suggested as to the re
turns of railroad property.
The commission will probably be in
session after the first Monday in Oc
tober until the legislature meets the
latter part of the month. Nothing
will be left undone in order to com
plete the bill and have it ready to be
taken up by the house of representa
tives the first day of the session.
♦ • *
Will Accept Franchise*.
H. M. Atkinson and the Collins Park
and Belt Railroad Company will ac
cept the franchises recently granted
by the Atlanta city council.
Ever since the council gave the Col
lins Park line authority to build its
lines on certain streets in the Gate
City there has been much speculation
as to whether Mr. Atkinson and the
members of his company would accept
the grants with the conditions imposed
upon them.
The most important of these condi
tions is that within twenty years the
company must give the city 5 per cent
of its gross income; that it mutt give
a bond of 340,000 that the lines grant
ed will be built; and that in case the
Collins Park company makes any deal
combining its interests with another
company its franchises are to become
null and void.
• * *
To Build “Missing Link."
Colonel W. S. Albright, of Ottoway,
Putnam county, Ohio, announces that
he will build a railroad from Chatta
nooga to Walhalla, S. C. This road
will pass through Catoosa, Whitfield,
Murray, Fannin, Union, Towns anil
Rabun counties, Georgia.
It will be 150 miles long and will be
known as the Missing Link railroad,
this name being given it for the reason
that it will connect up some of the
biggest railway systems in the United
States.
A charter has been applied for by
those interested in the state of Geor
gia.
* * *
Succeeds Walter B. Hill.
William H. Felton, Jr., of the 31a
oom superior cootV circuit, has been
elected a member of the law faculty of
*Merce,T university to succeed Walter
B. Hill, who rosigued when electsd
chancellor of the state university.
The selection of Judge Felton was
made by the prudential committee
of the board of trustees of Mercer,
consisting ofjj. D. Stetson, chairman;
E. Y. Mallory secretary; C. B. Wil
lingham and J. W. Cabiness, all local
trustees. Judge Felton will fill the
chair of “the principles of evidence,
criminal law aud practice, the criminal
code. ”
• * *
Dr. Itogf?!* Goes To Miasouri.
The many friends of ex-Chancellor
William E. Boggs will be glad to learn
that he has been called to the pastorate
of the Presbyterian church at St. Jo
seph, Mo. Dr. Boggs has accepted
the call and will move from Athens to
St. Joseph with his family at an early
date. The new charge to which Dr.
Boggs has been called, is a lnrge and
influential one. The acceptance by
Dr. Boggs of this position, of course,
stops the movement that was being
made by his friends to have him elect
ed as professor of metaphysics and
ethios in the University of Georgia.
• * •
Who a Brilliant Sucoeuft.
Elberton’s great carnival came to a
dose last Saturday. For five days it
was in session, the crowds were large,
and the interest great. The various
attractions were, good aud well pat
ronized. Much disappointment was
experienced in the absence of the gov
ernor, Mr. Livingston and Mr. du-
Bignou. The speakers who did attend
did well and made many new friends.
From all parts of this and the adjoining
states came large numbers of visitors.
The people of Elberton threw open
their doors, and gave all comers a
hearty welcome. Altogether the car
nival was a tremendous success.
* * *
w Jefferson Cotton Mills.
The Jefferson cotton mills was or
ganizod a few days ago with a sub
scribed capital of $60,000. The largest
stockholders are J. C. Turner. $lO,-
000; P. J. Roberts, $4,000; H. W. Bell,
| S3,000; J. N. Hollis, SI,OOO, and Frank
anccllorWvTlH
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NEGROES WANT PEAC!^
Situation In Mclntosh County
Well In Hand and Quiet Is*
Being Restored.
Barring arrest* of eight negroes,two
of them ringleaders in last week’s
riots in Darien, Monday . developed
but little excitement. The two ring
leaders surrendered to the military
authorities as a result of a conference
between negro preachers and politi
cians and Colonel Lawton, the latter
of whom suggested a plan of proce
dure. Following Colonel Lawton’s
suggestions the negro committees sent
for ringleaders and ia'er issued a cir
cular of some length.
This circular advises all negroes to
exert themselves in favor of restoring
peace and avoid all fear of excitement
on account of the soldiers’ presence.
One seetion in reference to the negro
women who are at the bottom of all
this trouble, reads:
“Let every woman abstain from all
words that may incite rashness or may
be abusive. Let them stay at home
and by all means let every man see to
it that no colored woman shall show
her face at the courthouse or on the
streets adjacent thereto during the
coming session of the court. We em
phasize this aud earnestly beseech all
our men to heed it. The respectable
women of our race always remain
away from the courthouse and others
must now be made to do so.”
When interviewed Monday night,
Colonel Lawton said:
“I apprehend no further trouble,
but will keep the military here until
after court merely as a precautionary
measure. The negroes are now
peaceable and after a conference with
the leading negroes they issued their
circular calling upon all negroes to
keep quiet. lam satisfied the sur
render of the two ringleaders was the
result of that conference and am posi
tive that the county is now practically
quiet and there will be no further
trouble.”
It is the concensus of opinion that
the situation has simmered down to a
tedious wait for the special term of
Mclntosh court. So far there are
sixty negroes to be tried with indica
tions of more arrests and surrenders
to be made.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
Lilt of New Industries Established tne
Past Week.
The more important of the new in
dustries reported during the past week
include a bridge and machine works
in West Virginia; coal mines in Ken
tucky; copper mines in North Carolina;
cotton mills in Georgia, Louisiana and
Texas; a cotton and woolen mill and a
crate and barrel factory in North Car
olina; electrical industries in Florida,
Mississippi and Tennessee; flouring
mills in Alabama, Tennessee. Texas
aud West Virginia; furniture factories
iu Alabama and Georgia - goVi mines
in c. 1 5,0,000-bushel grain
elevator in Texas; n 3100,000 hard
ware oompany in West Virginia; a
harness and saddlery works in Ken
tucky; an ice factory in Alabama; iron
ore mines in Virginia; a knitting mill
in Tennessee; lumber mills in Louisi
ana and North Carolina; phosphate
mines in Tennessee; a planing mill in
Louisiana; a telephone system in Ken
tucky; tobacco stemmeries in North
Carolina; a woolen mill in West Vir
ginia. Tradesman (Chattanooga,
Tenn.)
GOVERNOR CANDLER ELATED
Thiit Impending Race War In Mclntosh
County Has Been Averted.
An Atlauta, Ga., dispatch says: The
news from Darien is of a very satisfac
tory nature at the state capitol, and
the governor was gratified to hear
Monday morning that order was being
rapidly restored and Hie danger of a
race war was rapidly fading away.
Inspector General Obear returned
from the seat of excitement, where he
was with the state troops. His report
to the governor was highly gratifying,
and the governor feels that all danger
has been passed, for the present; at
least.
THREE THOUSAND BALLOTS
Required To Elect a Chief of Police In
Selma, Ala.
After balloting for four months, at
regular and special meetings, the Sel
ma, Ala., city council Monday night
elected D. P. Uptegraft, a printer,
sixty years old, chief of police.
A total of nearly 3,000 ballots were
taken befoie any result was reached.
THREAD MILL AGAIN SOLD.
The First Purchase By Captain White
Was Set Aside By Court.
An Athens, Ga., dispatch says:
Commissioner H. S. West has again
sold the Star Thread Mill. The for
mer sale to Captain James White for
336,200 was set aside by Judge Rus
sell and an upset price of 365,000 set
on the property. Commissioner West
has again sold the property to Captain
James White for 365,000 and will
present the papers to Judge Russell,
who will no doubt confirm the sale.
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