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The Jones News.
M. C. GREENE, PUBLISHER.
LIMIT TO TAX RATE
Urged by New Chief Executive of
Georgia.
GOV.TERREIL’S FIRST MESSAGE
Document Is Brief and Strictly to the
Point—Subjects of Vital Inter¬
est to Georgians Given
Attention.
Governor Terrell’s first message to
the Georgia legislature was read in the
house and senate last Saturday and
printed copies of It were distributed
for the use of the members.
The message is brief, but strong,
and calls attention to a number of
subjects on which the people express¬
ed themselves in the last election,
principles^ for which Governor Ter¬
rell stands and which he emphasized
during his campaign throughout the
state.
Governor Terrell urges a constitu¬
tional limitation of the tax rate, bills
for which are now pending in both
houses. He suggests legislation look¬
ing to the taxation of franchises of
public utility corporations, a matter
ifhich the legislature will also give
consideration at this session, Im-
portant suggestions are offered look¬
ing to the prompt payment of the
school teachers of the state, and these
suggestions have been embodied in a
bill by Mr. Howell, of Meriwether,
which is now before the house.
Important legislation looking to lo¬
cal taxation for the purpose of build¬
ing school houses is recommended,
and the exemption of all college en¬
dowments is strongly urged.
An important feature of the mes¬
sage is the recommendations looking
to the establishment of agricultural
colleges in each cogressional district,
and ultimately connecting with them
experimental stations and farmers' in¬
s'itutes.
Another recommendation Is that
urging a compilation and preservation
cf I he records of the colonial period
of the state’s history lor use in the
schools.
In regard to the taxation of fran¬
chises, which is something new in the
line of gubernatorial reeommenda-
-t-iofrs, Governor Terrell says in part:
“Closly allied to a limitation on the
rate of taxation is the duty of provid¬
ing a method by which all property
shall be made to bear its fair share of
the public burden. With a few ex¬
ceptions, the constitution provides that
all property shall be taxed. In the
main, this provision is carried into ef¬
fect—though no system has ever been
devised which is perfect in its applica¬
tion, and in spite of the most careful¬
ly drafted tax acts, there are unavoid¬
able omissions and a want of that per¬
fect equality and uniformity toward
which the lawmaking power constant¬
ly aims. But there is a class of fran¬
chises held by certain quasi-public
corporations which, though valuable in
themselves and adding value to the
capital stock, have in the past es¬
caped taxation because of a want of a
provision in the statutes requiring
these franchises to be returned or as¬
sessed. Being property these fran-
franchises are as subject to taxation
as any other property under the con¬
stitution, and in view of the fact that
they generally represent privileges
which are more or less exclusive and
which have been given to the corpora¬
tions without money and without
price, there is a peculiar justice in
subjecting them to the tax laws.”
YEAR’S CASUALTIES IN ARMY.
Shown in Annual Report of Adjutant
General Corbin.
The annual report of Major General
Corbin, adjutant general of the army,
shows that during the fiscal year there
were 35 officers killed in action or died
of wounds and disease, 21 resigned and
68 retired. Of the enlisted men, 1,227
were killed or died ox wounds or dis-
ease; 35,806 were discharged on the
expiration of service, 5,698 were dis¬
charged for disability or dismissed by
order of courtmartial, 4,667 deserted, 2
were missing and 203 retired.
TEACHERS TO JOIN UNION.
Chicago is on the Eve of Facing An¬
other Complex Situation.
By almost unanimous vote Chicago
teachers have decided to join the Fed¬
eration of Labor, and the city is facing
another complex situation. The ques¬
tion is now being asked if a child
will get fair treatment in the schools
unless he or she can show a union
card. The teachers expect to secure
the tremendous support of the affili-
ated bodies in various reforms they
an- demanding, which include better
pay, less crowding in the school rooms,
the doing away with political favor in
appointments.
COAL FAMINE IN GOTHAM.
City is Only Receiving Half the
Amount of Anthracite Coal.
Although coal company and railroad-
officials say every effort is being made
to supply New York with anthracite,
ii is stated that only half enough is
reaching the city to supply the de¬
mand—that is New York is receiving 5
per cent of the output against theoret¬
ical requirements of 10 per cent.
ALAN MASON IDENTIFIED
Negro Who Pawned Watches Points
Out Suspect as Party Who Fur¬
nished the Property.
A special from Boston, Mass., say3:
After having given out Saturday night
the confession made by the young ne¬
gro George L. O. Perry, with refer¬
ence to the selling of the watches
taken from the murdered women, Mi3S
Clara A. Morton and Miss Agnes Me-
Pheo, the police admitted Sunday that
Perry declares that Alan G. Mason is
the man from whom he received these
articles.
The admission to the police was
made just before young Perry was
taken to the jail in East Cambridge,
whore Mason, the prominent Boston
man under arrest on the charge of
killing Miss Morton, is confined pend¬
ing a hearing in the Cambridge court.
In one of the jail corridors Perry pos¬
itively Identified Mason ns the man
who had given him the two watches.
Mason, by neither look nor wood, be¬
trayed any knowledge of having seen
Perry before. When questioned by
Sheriff Fairbairn, Mason merely said:
“I do not know this man; I never
saw him before.”
During the day Chief Ryan and C Ul¬
cer Argy, of Belmont, talked with
Perry, and later State Officers Newt
Dunham, Dexter and others took Perry
to the jail. The callers were shown
into the room where Mason and six
others were in line, Perry walked
straight up to Mason, who was sec¬
ond in position, and pointing his fin-
ger at him, said;
“This is the man who gave me the
watches to pawn.”
He was about to leave the room
when Sheriff Fairbairn asked him if
he would not like to talk to Mason in
order that he might make sure' that
Mason was the man.
Perry replied that there was no
need of that, as he knew who the man
is and had known him for a long
time.
On being returned to his cell in
the police station Perry was confront¬
ed by three newsboys and they identi¬
fied him as another newsboy.
Clement G. Morgan, a Cambridge
lawyer, called at police headquarters
and said he had been retained by the
boy’s mother as counsel.
PRESIDENT AVERSE TO SCHEME
Not in Favor of Reduction of Repre¬
sentation in the South, and so
Expresses Himself.
*
“There is no authority for coupling
the name of the president with the
published statement that the adminis¬
tration is in favor of a change in the
basis of and a reduction in the repre¬
sentation of the southern states in re¬
publican national conventions and in
the house of representatives.”
Postmaster General Payne made
this statement Saturday as he left the
executive office, after a conference
with the president.
“My position on the question of
the basis of representation in repub¬
lican national conventions,” contin¬
ued Mr. Payne, “is well understood.
For many years I have believed that
the present basis is unfair and an
improper one. I believe so now, and
expect always to believe so, and I
hope to see that basis changed by the
next national convention, There is
no power to change the basis of repre¬
sentation except by action of tbe con¬
vention itself.”
EMPEROR BILL IN ENGLAND.
Britons Cheer and Salute Monarch of
German Empire.
A London cable dispatch says: The
German imperial yacht Hohenzollern,
with Emperor William on board, ac¬
companied by the escorting German
cruisers and a flotilla of Britisu tor¬
pedo boats, reached Port Victoria at
8 o'clock Saturday morning.
The arrival of the German emperor
was made the occasion of an impos-
ing naval display.
After breakfast Emperor William
landed, the British war ships firing an¬
other salute as the emperor boarded
a train for Dover on his way to Shorn-
cliffe camp.
GIRL FALLS FROM BALLOON.
Inexperienced, She Attempted Daring
Feat and Met Death.
At Anna, Ill., Tuesday, Dora Morri¬
son, 19 years old, an inexperienced
aeronaut of Galesburg, fell from a bal¬
loon and was instantly killed. She
had ascended to a height of 2,000
feet, hanging by her arms as she
started.
Professor Schwartz, who regularly
makes ascensions for a carnival com¬
pany, which is exhibiting in Anna, en¬
deavored to persuade the girl not to
go up, although she had made two
successful ascensions previously.
FATHER AND DAUGHTER KILLED.
Struck by L. and N. Train on Crossing
Near Franklin, Tennessee,
A special from Franklin, Tenn.,
says that Charles P. Owens and daugh-
ter were struck and instantly killed
by the Louisville and Nashville fast
mail while trying to cross the track
south of Mallory Thursday morning.
The body of the girl was carried about
500 yards on the pilot, and her head
was crushed into a pulp.
GRAY. JONES CO.. GA.. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 13. 1902.
THE TOILS TIGHTEN
Damaging Evidence Accumulates
Against Alan Mason.
TWO PAWNED WATCHES FIGURE
Time-Pieces of Victims of “Jack the
Slugger” Located in Boston
Pawnshop—Negro is Also
Implicated in the Affair.
A Boston dispatch says: Thurs¬
day’s developments In the case of ' ’
lan C. Mason, who is under arrest,
charged with the nturuer ci -------
Morton, a laundress at the McLean
asylum in Waveriy, have been of a
strati ing nature.
It was announced, first, that the
watch of the victim had been found in
a Cambridge street pawn shop, where
it had been pawned for $4 by a young
colored man, and this discovery at
once led to a general search for this
man by the entire police force, but
without avail. But later developments
wero far more sensational.
When the pawnbroker’s memory had
benn jogged to some extent and he had
had time to think over the matter, he
remembered that the watch had been
brought to his office on Saturday night,
between the hours of 11 and 11:30, by
a white man, and offered in pawn.
Owing to the fact that it was after
business hours, he had refused to re¬
ceive it, and after expressing disap¬
pointment the man departed, taking
the watch with him.
On Monday morning the same watch
was brought in by a colored man about
twenty-one years of age, of whom, the
pawnbroker bought it for $4. A burly
colored man, evidently a companion
of the other, had been waiting outside
the shop while the trade was being
made, and as soon as it was completed
he entered and took the money which
the proprietor passed over. Both
men then departed.
Continuing their investigations, the
officers made a startling discovery,
which will have an important bearing
on the case, to the effect that the
watch of Miss Agnes McPhee, of Som¬
erville, another “Jack-lhe-Slugger” vic¬
tim, had been pawned at the same
Cambridge street shop on October 3,
the day after her murder, by. a white
man whose description tailied exactly
with that of the man who brought the
Morton watch to the pawn shop Sat¬
urday night. /
The descriptions of these men is
said by the police to agree to a strik¬
ing extent with that of the suspect,
Mason, and the pawnbroker will oe
given a chance to identify him, if pas¬
sible, as his visitor.
The unexpected developments have
been most unfavorable to the prisoner,
although his friends still claim that he
can fully establish an alibi.
CUBAN PROCRASTINATION.
Islanders Hold Back Our Treaty and
Cause Much Speculation.
Contrary to the common understand¬
ing ftl Washington, it appears that the
draft of the Cuban reciprocity treaty
has not yet left Havana on its return
to Washington, hut instead is now
resting in a pigeonhole in the desk of
President Palma.
The misunderstanding as to the lo ¬
cation of the treaty arose from a
statement to the state department
from Minister Squiers at Havana to
the effect that he expected the treaty
dispatches to Washington the day fol¬
lowing the sending of his message.
However, it did not start then, and has
not yet started. Cuban habits of pro¬
crastination rather than any disposi¬
tion to actually refrain from entering
into treaty relations with the United
States are supposed to be the reasons
for delay.
Republicans After Teller’s Scalp.
The republican leaders in Colorado
frankly announce that they intend to
prevent the return of Mr. Teller to the
United States senate. They will make
their fight on the ground of gross
frauds in the election in Arapahoe
county.
STOLE FAMILY JEWELRY.
Robbers Get Eight Thousand Dollars
Worth of Gems.
Emanuel Jacobs, a New York law¬
yer, reported to the police Friday that
his residence in Madison avenue, was
entered by thieves last evening, while
the family was at dinner, and that $8,-
000 worth of jewelry and a quantity of
valuable clothing was stolen.
Bryan’s State Republican.
P/xturns received at republican state
headquarters show that the republi¬
cans have elected five of the six con¬
gressmen in Neoraska.
CUBAN KIDS FOR BUDDHA.
Quesada Says Children Were Sent by
Permission of Parents.
Sonor Quesada, the Cuban minister
at Washington, has received informa¬
tion regarding the Cuban children who
recently arrived at New York destined
for a school at Point Loma, Cal, and
who were detained by the immigration
officials.
This was to the effect that the de¬
parture of the children was properly
authorized by their parents and tutors.
ROUSEVtLT ON RECIIMS.
President Says Tuesday’s Victories
are Intended as Chance for Re¬
publican Party to Make Good.
"The people have given the republi¬
can party a chance to make good,” said
President Roosevelt to a western visi¬
tor at Washington Friday morning.
The remark was in reply to the ef¬
fusive declaration that Mr. Roosevelt’s
own individuality was responsible for
the victory on Tuesday. Continuing,
ho said he did not delude himself with
the impression that the result of the
election meant that he would he ro-
elected two years from now, or that at
that time there would be another vote
of confidence in the republican party.
Ho said that the result o4' the next elec¬
tion depended entirely upon what was
done at Washington between now and
that time, and not what has been
promised before the red< at election.
The president vigorously stated
that he was convinced there would be
reaction against the republican party
if the country was disappointed in the
legislation and administration of the
next year. He mentioned the fact that
the prices of commodities had risen
more rapidly than the pi tee of labor,
and it would be the business of the
government to reduce the first without
lowering tho second. He said that it
did not make so much political differ-
enc.e what kind of laws were passed or
what was attempted, as it did whether
results were secured.
FOR CHURCH EXTENSION.
Appointment of Building Fund Among
Methodist Conferences.
The committee on church extension
of the Methodist Episcopal church, in
session at Philadelphia Friday contin¬
ued the apportionment of the church
building fund among the 126 confer-
ences. Among the apportionments
made were:
Colorado, $4,000; Arizona mission,
$500; Arkansas, $550; Atlanta, $300;
Atlantic mission, $1,000; Austin, $750;
Baltimore, $3,500; Blue Ridge, $675;
Central Alabama, $600; Central Mis¬
souri, $700, and Central ^Tennessee,
$800.
HURRAH FOR WA^E!
Georgia County Is Determined to Have
Genrt Roads at Any >C. 0 gt.
The coiumissioncrs_of Wkrpcou
Ga., have closed a contract for the pur¬
chase of a complete and up-to-date out¬
fit for the working of the public roads
in the county. Ar ‘improved grading
machine has been purchased, and <’»
at work, and an improved traction en¬
gine and four clay and gravel cars
have been contracted for. The engine
and cars will cost about $3,700.
FOR DENNIS MURDER
Richard Cole, Negro Porter, it Arrest-
ed and Jailed in Washington.
Richard Cole, a colored porter, 20
years old, was arrested in Washington,
D. C., Friday and committed to jail to
await the action of the grand jury on
the charge of committing the assault.
on Mrs. Ada Gilbert Dennis, a dress¬
maker, over ten months ago. Mrs.
Dennis died from her injuries about a
fortnight ago without recovering suf¬
ficient to talk rationally.
KEARSARGE SOUTHBOUND.
First Move in Organization of Fleet
for Maneuvers In Carribean Sea.
The battleship Kearsargo, flagship
of the north Atlantic squadron, start¬
ed south Friday from the New York
Navy yard, with Rear Admiral Higgin-
son aboard, to begin organizing the
great fleet which is to go through war
maneuvers in the Carribean sea during
the winter.
TUSKEGEE INVITES PRESIDENT.
He Is Asked to Visit Alabama City
During Southern Tour.
Congressman C. W. Thompson, of
Tsukegee, Ala., has sent a telegram to
President Roosevelt urging him to vis¬
it Tuskegee on his forthcoming south¬
ern tour and assuring him of a cordial
welcome.
Tuskegee is tho seat of the great ne
gro school of Booker T. Washington.
TO RELEASE AGENT BAIZ.
United States Gunboat Arrives at Bar¬
celona, Venezuela.
The U. &■ S. gunboat Marietta ar¬
rived Thursday at Barcelona, Vene¬
zuela, in order to compel tho revolu¬
tionists there to release the United
States consular agent, Ignacio H. Baiz,
who was arrested for refusing to sub¬
scribe to a forced loan. Mr. Baiz is
the richest man in Barcelona, and a
man of high position. The treatment
which he has been sunjected to is only
an incident similar to many others
which have occurred in every part of
Venezuela.
LARGE DEAL IN LEAF TOBACCO.
Continental Company Buys 2,300 Hogs¬
heads at Louisville.
The largest transaction in the his¬
tory of the leaf tobacco market of
Louisville, Ky., has just been closed.
It is the purchase by the Continental
Tobacco Company of 2,330 hogsheads
of redried Green river Pryors from the
Pickett warehouse. The aggregate
cost was in tbe neighborhood of $250,-
000 .
BOXERS WIi'ED OUT
Every Leader of Fanatics in China
Put to the Sword.
WAS LONG AND HARD CONTEST
Imperial Troops, Under Direction of
Emperor, Finally Succeed in
Ridding Empire of Its
• X Worst Foes.
Mall advices received at Victoria,
B. C., Friday, from the Orient include
official report from Kwei-Chun, former
viceroy of Sze Schuan, detailing the
recent boxer outbreak there. After re¬
lating the incidents leading up to the
destruction of the churches in the two
districts and the murder of many na¬
tive converts, the report says:
“Several regiments of troops wero
sent to the disturbed places and be¬
sides slaying 200 or 300 of the insur¬
gents, the troops succeeded in cap-
turing several who wore brought to
Chon Tu and decapitated.
"Between five and six thousand box¬
ers had assembled in Hwaiang Hsein,
Chintang Hsion and Chein Tow, where
they occupied the market towns and
killed as many captains of the train
band as they could get hold of.
"A small force was sent to the
boxers to exhort them to disperse. I
didn’t take stringent measures on this
occasion because I feared (hat among
the boxers there might be many fam¬
ine-stricken inhabitants who were not,
disposed to do evil, but were simply
misled by the boxers. A fight followed
and 200 boxers were ldlled-and the oth¬
ers driven back. The force sent was
obliged to return."
Tho report describing the attack on
Ochengtu, where three regiments and
600 banitermen had been assembled
for defense, says:
“The boxers attacked the imperial
troops in the outskirts of Cheng Tu
and a hot battle followed, which lasted
for a whole night, wit* the result that
between four and five hundred of the
rebels were slain, about 1,000 were dis¬
persed and the rest retreated to Ching
Taugsin, where they burned the
churches and put many native converts
to death When the imperial troops
were dispatched to Ching Tangsien
the iiuxei’? proceeded to Husano Ching
Ping, where-filey joined forces with
other insurgents, -^ battle was fought
there and 300 boxers were put to the
sword. Defeated tuere, the boxers fled
to the hills at Suchiawan, whore they
found refuge for the time being, but
reinforcements of imperial troops ar¬
rived and marched against the rebels
in Suchiawan in three different sec¬
tions, slaying about 1,400 of them and
capturing thirteen alive, who were be¬
headed on the spot after undergoing
a formal trial.”
Concluding, the report says although
there still exists an element of disor¬
der, there is not much to lie feared
from the boxers because all tho rebel
chiefs have been exterminated.
ELECTION BETS PAID.
Possibility of Contest in New York
Seems to Have Vanished.
Election bets amounting to nearly
$400,000 were paid in New York Fri¬
day. The democratic talk of contest¬
ing caused the delay in settling the
wagers.
Chairman Dunn, of the republican
state committee, said that, although
the republicans had conceded the elec¬
tion of Judge Gray to the court of ap¬
peals, they would wait for the official
count before giving up tho attorney
generalship.
Elliott Danforth, of the democratic
state committee, said that Cunnoen,
the democratic nominee for attorney
general, would have a plurality of 12,-
000 to 20,000.
President In New Quarters.
Thursday President, Roosevelt be-
gan t.he transaction of business in the
new executive offices adjoining the
white house, The interior is com-
pleted and the office force has been in¬
stalled.
PRAYED ALL DAY.
Novel Side Issue of the Election In¬
jected by Citizens of Topeka.
All day Tuesday tbe men and wo¬
men of Topeka, Kansas, who were
fighting the republican candidates for
county attorney and sheriff, because
they were supported by the liquor ele¬
ment, prayed for their defeat in tho
First Methodist church.
Beginning at 8 o'clock in the morn¬
ing prayers were offered without inter¬
mission until the polls closed. Men
relieved each other as it became neces¬
sary to go out and vote.
COAL SITUATION SERIOUS.
Knoxville Chamber of Commerce to
Investigate the Matter.
So acute has become the coal situa-
tion in Knoxville, Term , and so threat-
ening is an extreme shortage of coal,
that the chamber of commerce has be-
gun an investigation to locate, if possi-
bio .the cause of the scarcity of coal
and the high prices of the same, and
to find a remedy for the difficulties.
VOL. VIII. NO. 51-
LAW HAS 6RH’ UN MASON.
Alleged “Jack the Slugger" I* Remand¬
ed to Jail at Cambridge, Mass.,
Without Bail.
A dispatch from Cambridge, Mass.,
says: Allan G. Mason, who was ar-
rested Tuesday on suspicion of being
“Jack the Slugger,” has been remand¬
ed to jail for further hearing in the
third district court for eastern Middle-
sex.
The suspect, who is the son of the
well known manufacturer living In
Boston, but doing business in Cam¬
bridge, is about thirty-five years of
age and thoroughly familiar with Lie
territory in which all the assaults
have occurred.
it has been erroneously published
that the senior Mason was the one im-
i licated. This mistake occurred owing
to the fact that father and son bore the
same name.
Here is a list of women attacked in
or near Boston, and in each case tho
culprit escaping. The mysterious
“Jack the Slugger,” who Is alleged to
be Alan Mason, Is blamed by tho po¬
lice for many of the assaults:
June 17—Kate O’Connell, assaulted,
corner of Walker and Cambridge
streets, Cambridge; severe scalp
wounds.
July 17—Selgvrled Gustafson, Chest¬
nut and Magazine streets, Cambridge;
severe gcalp wounds.
July 27—Ella Murphy, in Graigle
street, Cambridge; severe scalp
wounds.
August 3—Jeanette Marshal, in Cen¬
tre street, Brookline; fractured skull.
October 3—Agnos E. McPhee, in
Chester street, Brookline; fractured
skull; died three days later.
October 10—Susan O’Neill, knocked
down and strangled in Somerville.
October 16—Mrs. Byron Eldred,
threatened with a revolver In Brook¬
line.
October 19—Jane Ladell, knocked
down in Watertown by a well dressed
middle-aged man.
October 22—Bertha Smith, struck
in Boston.
October 24—Lulu Mixer, seized in
Cambridge.
October 28—Mrs. F. H. Stenlford, at¬
tacked in Somerville.
October 30—Mrs. W. H. Whitney,
struck with weapon in Somerville by
a middle-aged white man.
November 1—Clara Morton, struck
with iron bar in McLean asylum
grounds.
NEGRO’S ALLEGED CONFESSION.
Says White Man Hired Him to Com¬
mit Murder for paltry Sum.
Joe Miller, a negro arrested by the
Savannah, Ga., police Wednesday af¬
ternoon as an escape from the county
chalngang, sent for one of the detec¬
tives after being lodgod in the police
barracks and proceeded to unfold an
alleged story of crime that was aston¬
ishing.
“You got me,” he said, "and I Just
about as well toll you everything so
you can have me for all." Then he
confessed to having killed Gugio Bour-
quin, the white planter, and Fred Tay-
his old negro servant, Sunday,
November 2nd.
Miller said that he had been ac¬
costed by a man who gave him his
name as Sapp. Sapp, according to the
negro, was white, and he treasured a
grudge against Bourquln because tho
latter had killed his friend Farrell in
1892 and had shot some of Sapp’s dogs.
Sapp, Miller said, offered him $25 to
shoot Bourquln, and he accepted the
offer. Sapp then gave him a double-
barreled gun and five shells and point¬
ed Bourquln out as he drovo over a
hill. When the buggy, with the two
occupants approached near, Miller said
he stepped out and fired, killing Bour-
quin.
“You had better kill the nigger,
too,” Sapp told him, so ho shot Tay¬
lor as the latter was running. Miller
said that Sapp spurned the body of
Bourquln with his foot, and that then
the two left, leaving the body on the
ground.
The next day Miller said ho sought
Sapp at a store that he had named
as a rendezvous to get the promised
$25, but that the white man was not
there. The authorities think tho nor
gro is lying.
ARBITRATORS RETURN HOME.
Recorder Wright and Assistants Will
Continue Labors.
After a good night’s rest at Maho¬
ney City, Pa., members of the arbitra¬
tion commission left that place Thurs¬
day for their homes.
Recorder Wright, with Assistant Re¬
corders Mosely and Mills and the sten¬
ographers returned to Washington.
Colonel Wright will carry on tho
business of the commission. He will
there receive the statements of the an¬
thracite companies in reply to that of
President Mitchell, representing the
miners.
BAYONET8 SCATTER MOB.
Would-be Lynchers in Anniston, Ala.,
Foiled by Militia.
A mob of several hundred men was
organized and marched on the jail in
An , lfston Ala at 11;3 o o’clock Friday
nlght to i ync h the assailant of Mrs.
Williams.
Major J. L. Daniel, of the Third Ala¬
bama, selected twenty men and charg-
cd on th(J mob w jt b fl xe( j bayonets,
and they scattered In every direction.
CHARGES OF FRAUD
Contest May Result Over Elec¬
tion in New York.
COLER MAKES NO CONCESSION
Allegatlon Made by Democrats that
Money Was Used In Securing
Votes for Governor Odell in
the Up State.
A New York special of Wednesday
says: Official on the vote for gover¬
nor vary but little from the unofficial
reports. According to returns made to
the executive at Albany by the several
county clerks, the plurality for Odell,
republican, is 12,887. Only three coun¬
ties above the Bronx were carried by
the democratic nominee, the aggregate
plurality for Coler in these counties be¬
ing 1,011. This and the Greater New
York plurality of 122,074 given to Coler
was met and overcome by an up-state
republican plurality of 135,972, the dif¬
ference being a net plurality of 12,887
against 111,126 plurality for Odell in
1900. ,
Returns of ffie vote for other state
officers are so meagre that it is impos¬
sible to say if the democrats have
been more successful as regards the
minor offices as in tho case of gover¬
nor.
The New York delegation in the low¬
er house of the fifty eighth congress
will number 37, instead of 34 in the
present congress. It will contain 20
republicans and 17 democrats, where- •
as the present delegation stood 22 re¬
publicans and 12 democrats. AH of the
more noted members of me delegation
have been returned, including Sere.no
Payne, chairman of the ways and
means committee.
Statement by Coler.
Mr. Coler has given out the follow¬
ing statement:
“I think personally it would be a
good thing to watch the official count
up the state closely. Why don’t they
distribute McCullagh men up there as
well as here in Greater New York?
Suppose the democratic ticket had re¬
ceived, say, in the neighborhood of
150,000 majority in Greater New York,
there was nothing to have stopped Lie
republicans from claiming the upper
section of the state by at least 200,000.
What the democratic party needs up
the state Is tried and true material,
who will look carefully after the par¬
ty's interests. I don’t mean by any¬
thing I have said, either last night or
this morning, that I in any manner
concede the election of my opponent.
I want to wait, for the official count,
for my latest advices are that the vote
is very close. 1 am hopeful of receiv¬
ing today news that will put a new
complexion on affairs in this state.”
John A. Mason, secretary of the
democratic state committee, speaking
for the committee, issued the following
statement:
“We concede nothing. Odell’s elec¬
tion is simply a claim. We will not
admit his election until every defective
ballot has been scrutinized and every
vote that of right belongs to our party
is counted. The alleged defective bal¬
lots uncounted for the democratic
ticket by republican inspectors are
more than enough to elect Coler. We
have evidence of wholesale debauchery
and corruption in Orange, Oneida and
Albany and Erie counties, and in the
cities along tho New York Central
railroad.
“The defective ballots and the chi¬
canery practiced on the three judicial
districts where tho republican state
machine bent every energy to elect At¬
torney General Davis is alone sufficient
to change the result, We shall contest
every foot of ground.”
Colonel Dunn, the chairman of the
state republican ccfmmlttee, when in¬
formed of the report that the demo¬
crats threatened to contest the elec¬
tion, said:
“If they start anything of that kind,
we will give them oil the contest they
want right here in New York county,
and they will wish they had never
heard of contests.”
WHOLE TOWN AT AUCTION.
Property of a Developing Syndicate
8old In South Carolina.
Practically the entire town of Cal¬
houn Falls, in Abbeville county, S. C.,
at the crossing of the Seaboard Air
Line and Charleston and Western Car¬
olina railroads, was sold at auction
Tuesday to Judge W. F. Cox, of An¬
derson, for $14,000, 700 acres at the
rate of $20 an acre.
The property belonged to a syndi¬
cate of Anderson, Charleston and At¬
lanta capitalists, known as The West-
era Carolina Land and Improvement
Company.
CAR MEN TO GET RAISE.
Street Railway Company of Atlanta to
Advance Wages.
Announcement was made in Atlanta
Tuesday afternoon to the conductors
and motornien of the Georgia Railway
and Electric company that beginning
December 1st next, an increased scale
of wages will go into effect, requiring
an additional expense to the company
annually of between $30,000 and $40,-
000 .