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The Jones County News
VOL. IX.
CHILDREN MANGLED
Train Crashes Into Trolley Car
Crowded With Little Ones.
A DISASTER MOST FRIGHTFUL
Happy and Light-Hearted Victims of
Horror Were on Their Way from
School When Icy Rails
Caused Their Doom.
A fast express train on the Dela¬
ware, Lackawanna and Western rail¬
road Thursday cut through a trolley
car crowded with school children at
Clifton avenue crossing, in Newark, N.
J., killing eight of the children and in¬
juring a score of them. The motorman
of the car, who stuck to his post, will
die. and the engineer of the express
train was so severely hurt that there'
is little hope of his recovery.
Both the express and the trolley
were on steep grades going at right
angles. The train w.-s signalled and
the crossing gates were lowered, while
the trolley ear was only half way down
the hill. The motorman shut off the
power and applied the brakes, but al¬
most immediately the car began to
slip along the icy rails. It gained tre¬
mendous momentum, and at tne bot¬
tom of the hill crashed through the
gates direetely in the track of the on¬
coming train.
The locomotive plowed its way
througii the ear, scattering the chil¬
dren in all directions.
hose killed were Viola Hill,
Maud Baker, Ernestine P. Mueller, Ma¬
■ bel K. Karschner, Tiffin, Ohio; Alma
Loehnberg, Rosebud Kolin, Ella Wer-
puph, Evan L. Eastwood, Jr.
Nearly Hundred Pupils.
The accident happened within thred
blocks of the high school build.ng and
in the car at the time were nearly one
hundred pupils. As many as thirty
others had managed to throw them¬
selves from the car before the crash
came. The trolley was one of the
specials which every day took the chil¬
dren to school. It had more than its
ordinary load, owing to the cold. It
contained every child that eould
squeeze platform. inside and others this stood on had t^he
rear Because car
been so crowded many who were
awaiting it before it was reached coiihl
not get on, although some climbed on
tho platform with the motorman.
A score or more of children followed
the car afoot. They say that when the
ear was still less than half way down
the hill, the railroad gates began to
drop. Peter Brady, the motorman,
promptly shut off the power and ap¬
plied the brakes. The speed of the car
was checked, but it continued to de¬
scend. There was no thought of dan¬
ger. When it began to move faster,
the ice covered rails afforded no hold
for the wheels, and although Brady
jammed his brakes harder and tnen
swung on the reverse, the momentum
of the car grew at every yard and the
car shot down toward the railroad.
When it was right at the gates, the ex¬
press thundered .into view. Warned
by cries of those afoot and by their
own sense of danger, those on the
platform began to throw themselves
off into the snow, and as the car
sped along the few remaining feet to
the rails perhaps one-third escaped
death or injury in this way, but there
was no time for those within the car
to do more than rush toward the rear.
Cries of Maimed Children.
The gates were snapped like twigs
and the car was struck by the locomo¬
tive, which had slowed down* The air
was filled with the cries of the help-
less children.
The wreck of the trolley car was
complete. The locomotive turned it
partly around and then cut it in two.
The children were hurled in every di¬
rection. One-half of the car was
thrown to one side and lay on the
tracks. The other section was liurleu
some distance away, In every direc-
tion lay the injured and dead, The
engine was brought to a standstill,
and from the train and from near-by
houses men rushed to the rescue.
Within five minutes as many dead
bodies had been laid side by side in the
snow along the track.
G. A. R. BANQUETS GORDON.
General Warmly Received by the Peo¬
ple of Toledo, Ohio.
General John B. Gordon, of Atlanta,
was banqueted at Toledo, O., by the
G. A. R- post of that city, and the af¬
fair was a very enjoyable one. Gen-
eral Gordon was in Toledo for the pur¬
pose of delivering his famous lecture,
.“The First Days of the Confederacy.”
He was warmly received by the peo-
pie of Toledo and was greeted by a
large audience. After the lecture a
public reception was held, and then
the banquet by the G. A. R. was given,
JUSTICE SHIRAS RESIGNS.
Quits Supreme Court Bench, and Day
is Ntimed as His Successor.
A Washington special says: Justice
of the United States supre 3 e
court, presented to the president W « ’-
nesday his resignation as a member of
that tribunal to take effect February
24
Former Secretary of State William
R. Day, of Ohio, has been selected as
the successor of Mr. Shiras.
BAIL ls uhjieii human,
Slayer of Editor Gonzales Must Re-
main in Prison, so Decides Jus¬
tice Pope at Columbia.
The application for bail made by
former Lieutenant Governor James H.
Tillman was refused by Chief Justice
Y. J. Pope at Columbia, S. C., Thurs¬
day.
Mr. Tillman was not present, but
"as represented by liis counsel, Con-
I gressman-elect George \V. Croft and
P. Nelson, a leading criminal lawyer
-of Columbia.
The reading of the affidavits, pre-
sented by both sides of the defense and
the proseuution, occupied the morning
session of the court.
Many affidavits were submitted, cov¬
ering the different phases of the events
before tho tragedy, which are said to
have led up to the killing.
Thirty-six affidavits were presented
by the prosecution, in answer to the
swo,n statements introduced by the
defense at the previous hearing in
Newberry, S. C., a week ago. The
statements of (he prosecution covered
voluminous detail. At the conclusion
of Solicitor Thurmond's argument for
the commonwealth, Chief Justice Pope
adjourned the hearing until 2:30
o’clock. Upon the resumption of
court, Colonel Croft began the closing
argument for the defense.
Judge Pope had announced that he
would render his decision immediately
upon the termination of Mr. Croft's
speech.
The affidavits introduced at this
hearing by the defense all tended to
show that Tillman acted in self-do-
.'ense, declaring that he had received
messages and information that Editor
Gonzales intended to take the defend¬
ant’s life. '
in his own sworn declaration Mr.
-Tillman stated that he had been re¬
peatedly warned to look out for his
safety. He wished to avoid any alter¬
cation, his statement says. As he was
about to retire from the office of lieu¬
tenant governor, liis term expiring two
days after the tragedy, Mr, Tillman
was removing from tus office his per¬
sonal effects, including two revolvers.
While carrying these up the street, he
met Gonzales, who, he stated, pushed
his hand into his pocket. Believing
his life to be in danger Tillman hur¬
riedly said:
“I got your message” and fired, fir¬
ing the affidavit declares to save the
defendant’s life.
Affidavits introduced by the defense
supported Tillman’s statement in many
details.
DIED WITH HER SECRET.
Mrs. Hocks, Once Tried, for Murder
of Husband, Goes to Grave.
A dispatch from New Orleans an¬
nounces the death in t'uat city of Mrs.
Georgia Emma Hooks, of Memphis,
Tenn. after an operation for appendi-
citis.
Mrs. Hooks was one of the wealtni-
est women in Memphis and her death
recalls probably the most famous mur¬
der trial in local history.
Ill October, 1901, Cerro Gordo Hooks
died under wliat was claimed to be
suspicious circumstances, A month
after the interment the body was ex¬
humed and an autopsy was conducted
by a well-known chemist, who reported
that he found arsenic and ground glass
in the stomach in quantities sufficient
to kill the deceased. In November,
1901, an indictment was found against
Mrs. Hooks charging lier with the mur¬
der of her husband, The case was
brought to trial late last .spring. The
best legal talent in the community was
employed on both sides of the case
was stubbornly contested on both
sides, the trial lasting several weeks.
The jury after being out two days, re¬
ported that it was impossible to agree
on a verdict.
Mrs. Hooks sold her palatial resi¬
dence in Memphis a short lime ago,
and it was understood she would visit
Florida and Cuba.
Richards Succeeds Day.
President Roosevelt announces the
appointment of Solicitor General John
k. Richards to the vacancy on theyeir-
cu t bench of the sixth circuit, conse-
QUO nt on the appointment of Judge
Day to the supreme court.
CORTELYOU SWORN IN.
New Cabinet Officer Takes Oath cf
Office Before Chief Justice Fuller.
At Washington Wednesday morning
George B. Cortelyou took oath as sec-
retary of the department of commeicr
and labor. At the same time William
Loeb, Jr., was sworn in as secretary
to the president
Died the Death cf a Heroine.
The residence of C. A. Robinson at
Eaps Texas, was burned Tuesday
, daughter and two
n i g bt, his 18-ycar old
young sons perishing. Miss Robinson
j iac j an opportunity to escape, but tried
£o gave her brothers.
FOUR KILLED IN EXPLOSION.
Disastrous and Fatal Accident in
Workroom cf Naval Magazine.
Three men were killed outright, one
man so injured that ho died later, two
other men fatally and at. least seven
seriously hurt in a powder explosion in
the work room of the naval storago-
magazine at Fort Lafayette, in New
York bay, about 2 o’clock Thursday af-
ternoon. A1I the dead and injured
were workmen at the fort.
GRAY. .TONES €0.. GA.. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 26. 100.!.
quay turns upon enemies.
Makes Statement in Senate Charging
New Englanders With Bitter Ha¬
tred of the South.
A Washington special says: A sen¬
sational attack by Senator Quay upon
tho New England states, and New Eng¬
land republican senators, was the spe¬
cial feature of Friday’s long executive
session of tho senate. Addressing
himself to the senators representing
the southern states, Senator Quay de¬
clared that the whole history of New
England, like the New England charac¬
ter, was permyated with hatred toward
the south. “They care nothing for you.
They never cared for you,” declared
he, referring to the New England lead¬
ers. “They were determined to put a
force bill on you. When they tried
that you came to Pennsylvania and
were saved.”
This reference to the part he himself
had played in preventing the passage
of the force bill was not the only pur¬
pose of the Pennsylvania senator’s
speech. His design was to draw the
attention of senators again to the fact,
so well understood, that the real ani¬
mus inspiring the New England sena¬
tors in their opposition to the state¬
hood bill is a determination to punish
him.
When Mr. Quay was returned to the
senate, after bis temporary eclipse,
Messrs. Lodge, Aldridge, Hale, Platt
and others determined that the Penn¬
sylvanian should take a back seat.
When they found they could not con¬
trol his action in this statehood matter,
and especially when he became active
in his opposition to their “no state¬
hood” program, they determined to
break him.
The senate spent, the entire day in
executive session, it being still the leg¬
islative day of Thursday, and at 5:30
p. m. took a recess until Saturday at
11 o’clock. The time was taken up in
the consideration of the Colombian ca¬
nal treaty. No vote was taken upon
any of the amendments which have
been prepared by Senator Morgan.
Another interesting event of the day
transpired when Senator Quay rose to
a question of personal privilege. He
sent to the desk and had read an ar¬
ticle from a New York paper accusing
him of violating a pledge which tht
paper stated he had made in the repub¬
lican caucus to support the treaty to
the exclusion of every other subject.
He said such was not the case, but
that, on the contrary, he had protested
against any action looking to the dis¬
placement of the statehood bill. He
called upon other senators to testify to
this effect and several did so.
JOB PRINTERS IN TRUST.
Unique .State of Affairs Brought to
Light in Atlanta.
A disturbance of more than ordi¬
nary proportions is brewing among the
printing trade in Atlanta, owing to a
virtual trust which exists among the
employing printers and a compact be-
twen the working printers and the em¬
ploying printers which is likely to be
broken.
The fact has developed that all save
two of the local printing offices are
members of the Employing Printers’
Club, which controls the prices of all
business in Atlanta, and allowing no
underbidding on jobs by any of its
members.
The Employing Printers’ club has a
contract with the local printers’ union,
whereby all its offices were to employ
union men only, on the condition that
union men were not allowed to work
in any local printing office which was
not a member of the Employing Print-
ers’ club. In this maimer tnis print¬
ers’ trust is enabled to hold a standard
of prices and allow no competition in
union offices.
EX-QUEEN LIL’S GIRLIE
To Be Feted by the Citizens of La-
portc, Indiana.
Great preparations are being made
at Laporte, Ind., to receive a daiighto-.'
of former Queen “Lil,” of Hawaii. The
representative of ex-royalty will spend
several weeks as the guest of Mrs.
Lyman, formerly Miss Nettie Ham-
mond, of Laporte.
Mrs. Lyman has been in Honolulu
for several years and became intimate
with tho members of the ex-queen’s
family.
MENACE TO CANAL TREATY.
Its Fate May Depend on Disposition of
Statehood Bill.
A Washington special says: There
is a movement on among some of the
friends of the statehood Dill in tho
senate to couple the fortunes of that
measure with those of the Panama ca¬
nal treaty and make the ratification of
the one depend upon tho passage ot
the other. Tho details of the plan
have not come to light fully, but it is
understood that the scheme is to me-
nace the treaty by delay until ail
agreement to vote on the statehood bill
can be secured.
INDIAN CHIEF SEES MILES.
Red Man Calls at War Department and
“Shakes” With His Captor.
One of the most unique meetings
Washington has witnessed in years oc¬
curred at the headquarters of the com-
manding general of the army in the
war department Friday, when Chie;
Joseph, of the Nez Perces Indians,
grasped the hands of the “great, white
chief” Mii 1 the cam
paign which led to his capture.
AFTER BEEF COMBINE
Trust Loses Out on First Round
in Chicago Court.
TEMPORARY INJUNCTION ISSUED
Demurrer of Packers Overruled by
Federal Judge Grosscup—Illegal
Restraint of Trade is the
*•
Averment.
At Chicago Wednesday, the so-called
“beef trust” case was disposed of by
Judge Grosscup in the United States
circuit court, the demurrer of the pack¬
ers being overruled, and a temporary
injunction granted. The attorneys for
the packers made no announcement of
their future intentions. They have un¬
til March 4 to discuss the matter
with their principals. 11 they deny the
facts upon which Judge Grosscup
based his decision, the matter will go
before a master in chancery, who will
her the evidence, and the case again
will be argued before Judge Grosscup.
An appeal may be taken, in order to
hasten the final adjudication of the
case. It is not believed likely (hat,
the packers will let the matter go by
default, thus making the injunction
permanent.
In Restraint of Trade.
After reviewing the averments in the
petition asking for the injunction,
Judge Grosscup said: “No one can
doubt that these averments state a
case of combination. Whether tho com¬
bination be unlawful or not depends on
whether it is in restraint of trade. The
general meaning of that term is no
longer open to inquiry. It lias been
passed upon carefully by the supreme
court in the freight association of rea¬
sonableness or unreasonableness in
the combination averred; nor is it to
he tested by the prices that result
from the combination. Whatever com¬
bination has the direct and necessary
effect of restricting competition, is,
within the meaning of tho Sherman
act as now interpreted, restraint of
trade.”
The defendants against whom the
injunction is issued are: Swift and
Company, Cudahy Packing Company,
Hammond Packing Company, Armour
and Company, Armour Packing Com¬
pany, G. H. Hammond Company,
Schwarzschild and Sulzberger Compa¬
ny, Nelson Morris and Company (part¬
nership); J. Ogden Armour. P. A. val¬
entine, Calvin M. Favorite, Arthur
Meeker, Thomas J-. Connors, Charles
S. Langdon, Michael Cudaliy, Edward
A. Cudaliy, Patrick Cudahy, Albert F.
Boscherdt, Gustavus F. Swift, Lewis F.
Swift, Lawrence A. Carton, Wm. J.
Russell, Albert H. Veeder, Henry
Veeder, Edward C. Swift, Ferdinand
Sulzberger and W. H. Noyes.
BONDS ARE QUICKLY SOLD.
For Purpose of Raising Money to Build
Costly Depot in Atlanta.
President Samuel Spencer, of the
Southern Railway company, lias sold
$1,500,000 worth of bonds of the Atlan¬
ta Terminal company and the money
which was realized from tho sale will
be used in tho construction of the de¬
pot.
This announcement was made at the
meeting held in Atlanta Wednesday
morning between President Spencer,
of the Southern; President John M.
Egan, of the Central; J. J. Thompson,
of the Southern; Major J. F. Hanson,
of the Central; A. R. Lawton, of the
Central, and James W. English, presi¬
dent of the i Atlanta Terminal com-
pany.
The bonds wer sold to a trust com¬
pany in New York, and the money is
now ready for use. It. is understood
that at the meeting which was for ihe
purpose of preparing for the erection
of the new depot, it was decided that
each railroad desiring to enter tho
new station should purchase $25,000
worth of stock in the terminal com¬
pany, pay its prorata share for the ex-
pense of maintaining the station and
for paying the interest on the bonds.
President English said, after the
meeting, that actual work on the con-
struction of the new station would
begin within thirty to sixty days.
POPE’S SILVER JUBILEE.
Ca tholics Celebrate Twenty Fifth Year
of His Ascension to Pontificate.
Friday was the twenty-h.th year of
the pontifical reign of Pope Leo, and
Catholics throughout the world
lirated at their altars the notable
event,
Elkins’ Rebate Bill Signed.
The president Friday signed the El-
kins rebate bill. With the signing
of this measure the administration’s
anti-trust program for this session ot
congress is completed.
CHILD LABOR BILL A LAV/.
Measure Passed in South Carolina Leg
islature Signed by Governor.
A Columbia, S .C., dispatch says:
The child labor bill has been signed by
the governor. It is not so sweeping
as was asked for, but the compromise
seems satisfactory, from May 1, Oih:
year, no child under the age of eleven
shall be employed in any factory o.’
textile establishment.
NEGROES IN MASS MEETING
Pass Resolutions Condemning Disfran¬
chisement in .the South .and
Charging Up Many Wrongs.
Spirited and earnest speeches were
made at a negro mass meeting held
Thursday niglii at the Cooper Union,
New York city. The meeting, which
was for the purpose of protesting
against the disfranchisement of the ne¬
gro in the south, was hold under tho
auspices of the 100,000 colored voters
in New York state and to raise money
for the legal contest of the new con¬
stitution of Virginia before the su¬
preme court of tho United States.
Among the speakers were Bishops Der¬
rick nnd Walters, M. D. Conway and
John E. Mulholland. Resolutions wore'
passed and a letter from Susan B. An¬
thony was read. In her letter Miss
Anthony said:
“To refuse to qualified women and
colored men the right to suffrage and
still count them In the basis of repre¬
sentation is to add insult to injury, and
is as unjust as it is unreasonable.
“The trouble, however, is further
back and deeper than disfranchise¬
ment of the negro. When men deliber¬
ately refuse to include women ill the
and fiftenth amendments to
th national constitution they leave the
way open for all forms of injustice to
other and weaker men and peoples.
When men fail to be just to their moth¬
ers they cannot be expected to be just
to each other.
“The whole evil comes from the fail¬
ure to apply equal justice to all man¬
kind male and female, alike; there¬
fore, I am glad to join with those who
are like sufferers with my sex in a pro¬
test against counting in the basis of
representation in the congress of the
United States or in the state legisla¬
ture any class or sex who are .disfran¬
chised.”
The resolutions in their preamble
recited that the south lias halted at
no crime to strip from the negro the
privileges gained as a result of the
civil war, shooting 25,000 black men
from 1868 to 1880, and from 1880 to
1890 perpetrating ballot trauds to dis¬
franchise negroes. It further recited
that the south, after 1890, sought to
disfranchise colored men in various
states by constitutional amendment,
administered so that illiterate white
men are allowed to vote, while the ed¬
ucated negroes are excluded from the
polls. The resolutions in part were as
follows:
Resolved, That we, the negro citi¬
zens of New York and vicinity, in
mass meeting at Cooper Union, Feb¬
ruary 19, 1903, do hereby commend I lie
Negroes of Virginia for rendering the
nation a patriotic service in contesting
before the supreme court of Uio United
States the revolutionary constitution
of Virginia, recently proclaimed a law
without having been submitted to the
people for ratification; that we pledge
them our very proper support and call
upon colored men everywhere to con¬
tribute liberally to this cause.
Resolved, That we urge the republi¬
can senate in the name of 100,000 ne¬
groes in I he sl ate of New York to con¬
firm the nomination of Dr. Crum, a
man of ability, good education and ir¬
reproachable character, whose appoint¬
ment is opposed solely on the ground
of the color of his skin. It would be
an unheard-of thing for the party of
Lincoln to ratify the position of thq
south on this question and thus side
with the extremist form of southern
prejudices and formally consent that,
the door of iiope, of opportunity, is to
be shut on a man, no matter how wor¬
thy, purely upon the grounds of race
or color.
TROLLEY CAR HELD UP.
Highwaymen Do Bold Piece of Work
in Los Angeles, California.
The daring deeds of highwaymen
who seem to have invaded Los An¬
geles, Cal., in force, reached a climax
Wednesday night, when (wo unmask¬
ed men held up and robbed a carload
of passengers on the Los Angeles-Pas-
sadena electric line.
Thirty-two passengers, one-half of
whom wore women were forced at
points of revolvers to surender cash
and jewelry to the amount of between
$500 and $700. The robbers perform¬
ed their work quickly but effectively.
The ear was held for ten minutes. Tho
men then left it and disappeared in
the darkness.
FOR PRESIDENT’S PROTECTION.
Senate Accepts House Amendments to
Original Bill.
The conferees on the bill for the pro¬
tection of the president have agreed
and their report has been submitted In
the house. The senate accepts tlu
house amendment, to the original bill,
with some changes in the wording.
The death penalty is provided for
any one who shall wilfully or mali-
eiously kill the president or vice pros!-
dent, or any government official,
An attempt to murder is made pun
ishablo by death or imprisonment for
not less than ten years.
PRESIDENT HAS COLD.
j 00 y. Rid e in snow Storm and Has
Throat Trouble in Consequence.
President Roosevelt's insisting upon
leading the strenuous life has put him
again in the doctors’ hands, says u
Washington dispatch. This time the
trouble is with his throat. A couple
of days ago he and Baron Speck von
Sternberg, the German envoy, wen,
for a four hours’ horseback ride in n
blinding snow storm,
BURNED MOORING FOR FUEL.
Result of Scarcity of Coal In St. Louis.
Frightful Frigidity Throughout
the Northwest.
Owing to tho scarcity of coat at the
“Four Courts,” which contains tho
Jail, police headquarters, criminal
court, etc., at St. Louts, tho building
was closed Wednesday.
Not a pound of coal could be found
In tho engine room, and old floors were
torn up to keep the 250 prisoners in
the jail warm.
The grand jury investigation into In¬
vestment companies was suspended,
and the two branches of the criminal
court and the court of crlnTTaal cor¬
rection adjourned for the day.
This condition is the result of negli¬
gence on tho part of the contractor,
who failed to deliver the coal already
contracted for. Other city institutions
are also short of fuel, and an investi-
gation will be held to ascertain who
is to blame.
Ten Below In Chicago.
A Chicago special says: A “rein-
forcement” of the cold wave, which,
according to the official forecastor,
“precludes any moderation in tempera¬
ture” in (he immediate future, gave
Chicago a temperature Wednesday
which promised to beat the record for
Ihe winter, reached early Tuesday, 10
degrees below. A biting wind that
sprang up during the night increased
in keenness and reached noarly the
velocity of a gale as the day advanced.
There was much suffering among Ihe
destitute, notwithstanding the best ef¬
forts of all charitable organizations.
Through trains continued to arrive
hours behind schedule, vvftile surbur-
ban and traction lines operated with
more or less irregularity.
A Tumble in Quaker State.
Reports received in Philadelphia
Wednesday from up the state are to
the effect that Tuesday night was a
record breaker for low temperature.
At Pittsville early Wednesday morn¬
ing it was 14 below ;at Tamaqua, 6 be¬
low; Reading, 10 below, and at many
other places the thermometer regis¬
tered from 1 (o 3 below.
Blizzard in Wyoming.
According to a Cheyenne ilispatcn
tlio blizzard that has been raging in
tho southern part of Wyoming for a
week continues fiercer than ever and
tlio blockade on all railroads is practi¬
cally complete. ,
Tho storm on Sherman Hill has been
very severe and every cut is filled
willi snow. The average deptli of tlio
snow on the Union Pacific track over
the Dill is four feet and in places the
telegraph poles and wires are com¬
pletely buried by drifts.
Frigid Throughout Northwest.
A dispatch from St. Paulfl Minn.,
says: Tho northewost is slill in the
grasp of the ice king, the lowest official
temperature in the city Tuesday night,
being 18 below, while intense cold
weather was reported from all weath¬
er stations in the northwest. A biliug
wind intensifies (lie cold.
TO BRING SETTLERS SOUTH.
Is Object of New Association Formed
by Railroad Industrial Agents.
For the purpose of formulating plans '
that will result ic an influx of desirable
settlers from the north and northwest
inio this section, a number of the land
and industrial agents of the railroads
of the southeast met in Atlanta last ! I
Tuesday. I
As a result of (hat meeting the
Southeastern and Mississippi Valley
Railway and Industrial Association lias j
been organized, and its object is the
furtherance of the plans which were
discussed at the meeting which took :
place In the rooms of the Southeastern
Passenger Association at the Equitable
building.
The meeting began about 10 o’clock
in the morning and lasted until 1
o’clock. During that time immigration
methods that are now in force and
I hose that have been in operation In i
years past, were thoroughly discussed.
Ideas were exchanged and out of the ,
mass ot evidence submitted it now |
seems certain that great good to this
section will result.
This is really the first time the rail¬
road land and industrial men have got- ;
ten together for concerted action rela¬
tive to tho question of immigration j
and the enthusiasm with which they j
went at the subject would indicate that
they propose doing all in their power .
to turn the tide in this direction.
The following were the officers ot .
the company elected at the meeting: j |
President, M. V. Richards, of Wash-
ington, 1). C-, land and industrial agent
of the Southern railway; first vice
i
president, G. A. Park, of Louisville,
Ky., land and industrial agent of the
Louisville and Nashville; second vice j
president, J. E. Ingraham, of bt. An- 1
gustine, Fla., vice president of the
Florida East Coast railroad; secretary,
W. L. Glessner, of Macon, Ga., com-
niissioner of immigration of the Geor-
gia, Southern and Florida railway.
Two meetings of the association will
be held each year. r l he next confer-
once will bo held at Miami, Fla., on
March 6, at which time various plans
will be given consideration,
PERRY IS INDICTED.
Negro Charged With Series of Murders
in Boston and Vicinity.
An indictment charging tho murder
of Miss Agnes McPhee in Somerville,
in October last, was reported at Cam
bridge. Mass,, Saturday, against Geo.
Perry, the young negro who was ar¬
rested in connection with the series o(
murderous assaults which occurred (p
Boston and vicinity in the fall,
NO. 14.
HOLOCAUST IN HOTEL
Guests Engulfed in Flames of a
Veritable Death Trap.
TEN KNOWN TO BE CREMATED
Escaped Death Were ‘
Those Who
Forced to Jump From Windows.
Forty-Two Were Thus
Injured.
Fire early Friday morning destroy¬
ed the Clifton hotel, at Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, cremated ten of the guests, and
caused injuries to forty-two persons,
who were scorched or forced to jump
to the frozen street from second and
third story windows. The loss is $60,-
000 .
The dead ore: W. A. Mowery, What
Cheer, Iowa; E. C. Young, Minneapo¬
lis. Minn.; two unidentified men,
bodies recovered; five bodies still in
debris.
Nearly nil those injured were Iowa
people. While tlieir injuries are se¬
vere in many cases, no one was fatally
hurt.
The fire’started at 2:30 o’clock, and
at 10 o’clock the smouldering debris
furnished so fierce a heat that search
for bodies was impossible. The list
of (lead may prove larger than tlio
number given, but it is hoped that tho
information which accounts for all but
this number is correct.
Hotel a Fire Trap.
The hotel, a three-story brick veneer
structure, is said to have been a verita¬
ble fire trap. The flames started in a
pile of rubbish in the basement, pre¬
sumably ignited by defective electric
light wires. The night clerk was on
the third floor when the cry of fire,
raised by a bell boy, startled him. Ho
took up tho cry and in an instant tho
hallways were choked with frightened
guests. A rush was made for the stair¬
ways. It was then that, the crowd, al¬
ready collected in the street, heard
heartrending cries of anguish and des¬
peration, for the fire, feeding raven¬
ously on tlio tinder-like material of the
lower floor, had completely cut off es-
capo. There followed a stampede for
the windows, the only means of exit
left. The street, below was now tilled
With a crowd scarcely less frantic than
the despairing ones in tho fast burning
building. It was like a Dore picture of
“Inferno sprung to life,” said one spec¬
tator in describing tho scene, ‘•The
flames, looking blood-red from reflec¬
tion against the snow, lit up the pale,
drawn faces of the people in the win-
I (lows with the glow that was un¬
earthly.”
Forced to Leap.
The victims were literally driven by
the flames to jump. Nearly every one
of them lingered to the last moment,
urged by the people below to wait as
long as possible in the hope of assist-
ance. Then a cry would tell that th?
fire had reached them, or ihe smoke
had made it impossible to breathe, and
one after another jumped, some to the
street and some, more fortunate, to
the roofs of i )U iidin S s adjoining. In
a Bh( , rl Hpa( , e o£ time the street was
wRh mGn an(1 women bruised,
battered, broken-llmbcd and half-craz-
cd. All were in their night garments.
in an hour St. Luke s hospital contain¬
ed fifteen injured, while many more,
(tJjlefl (hogo who hart escaped with
conu)ata tlvely slight Injuries, were be-
, { . am , for ia buildings near the
8{ . ene of , he tragedy. Some who jump-
C( , owe their lives to the fact that their
fall was broken by telegraph wires
which interposed in their downward
flight.
AGREEMENTS NOT EXECUTED.
Newspapers Say Allies are lg-
nor| * Terrtl8 of protocols,
Car ca8 papers publish a pro-
dlrected to Venezuela, the United
r „„„ the Ellrope an nations, as
follows:
“In order that the public may know
how Germany, Great Britain and Italy
execute their agreements, wo call at¬
tention to the grave fact that up to to¬
day, February 20, tho ships taken by
the three powers have not been de¬
livered to the goverment of Venezuela,
as stipulated in the protocols.”
BIG BLAZE IN LAVONIA.
Nearly Whole Section of the Publio
Square in Georgia Town Destroyed.
Nearly all the west side of the pub-
llc sqllare 0 f Ea vonia, Ga., went up in
K m 0 ]te Wednesday night about 2
o’clock burning the Lavonia hotel, the
standard Gauge newspaper office, tho
postoffice, store rooms, barber shops,
doctor shops and others,
The fire started in the Standard
Gauge ofljee and coming in contact
witR p apers am j other inflammable rai-
£ !» r [ a i was soon a. large blaze,
GEORGIA BAPTISTS CONVENE.
Annual Meeting Opens at Macon With
Large Attendance of Delegates.
The Georgia Baptists opened their
con f crcn ce in Macon, Ga., Tuesday
n j g j l£ There were delegates from all
socRons 0 f the state, from Alabama,
jriorida Tennessee, the Caroiinas,
Eu g a porlo Rico, Honduras, Mexico
and South Africa.
Methods of promoting spiritual life
and knowledge of the Bible were the
theme for discussion during the initial
session,