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VOL. IX.
FLOODS IN TEXAS
City of Gainesville Under
Four Feet of Water.
LIVES ARE REPORTED LOST
Cloudburst Visits Southern Section of
State, Doing Enormous Damage
and Probable Loss of Life
at Various Places.
A special from San Antonio says: A
cloudburst visited the southwestern
section of Texas Thursday entailing a
heavy property loss.
The flood, which was the result of
tremendous rains that had been falling
continually in southwestern Texas for
three days, swept down Medio creek
valley, submerging land and i ail way
tracks to a depth of six feet The
towns of Normanna and Pettns were
completely inundated. Many thousand
acres of corn and cotton land were
swept by the torrent, and it is report¬
ed that the crops will be a total loss.
The tracks of the Southern Pacific and
the San Antonia and Aransas Pass
railroads are washed out at many
points and several bridges were de¬
stroyed.
Early reports of great loss of life
at Beeville are known to be untrue,
crrefill inquiry showing that not more
than one fatality occurred. A portion
of the town was submerged by the rap¬
id overflow' of I’ocsta creek and a num¬
ber of houses, mainly small Mexican
jacals, were washed aw’ay. The prop¬
erty damage in Beeville is placed at
$50,000.
Eleven Reported Drowned.
A dispatch from Dallas says: A
cloudburst and tornado swept over the
country between San Antonio and Cor¬
pus Christ! Thursday and news was le-
eeived late during the night that elev¬
en persons are known to have lost
their lives near Pettus.
Gainesville Inundated.
At one o’clock Friday morning, the
city of Gainesville was under four feet
of water. Thousands of people took
refuge on the housetops. There aro
rumors of loss of life, but it was im¬
possible to confirm the story, as the
city was in total darkness.
The damage will reach from $150,000
to $2.00,000. Twd creeks, which flow
by the town, one through the center
and one west, are a mile wide.
It started raining in Gainesville
about 10:30 Sunday morning iu a slow
drizzle, which lasted until about 6:30
p. m., and then started to pour down.
It was the greatest flood known in
many years; in fact, many old settlers
say they never saw its equal. No ac¬
curate estimate can as yet be learned
as to the damage done by the waters.
Jecan creek, which flows through
the city, and also Elm creek went far
past their highest mark.
MOTHER’S INSANE DEED.
Hangs Herself and Two Young Chi I-
dreni to Rafters in Attic.
A terrible tragedy occurred Thurs¬
day night in the village of Leroy, N.
Y., when Mrs. William Baxter hanged
herself and two children, Goodson,
aged 8 years, and Gladys, aged 3.
When her husband returned to the
house at 6 o’clock he could not get in.
He waited for some time, then broke
in a window and searched t tie hou se.
In an unfinished attic over the kitch¬
en, reached by a ladder, he saw hang¬
ing, side by side, from the rafters his
wife and two children.
From indications the woman must
have carried the children up the lad¬
der one at a time. The room was so
low that the boy’s feet nearly touched
the floor.
SNOW STORM IN JULY.
Flurries Reported Throughout Moun-
tana and Heavy Fall on the Divide.
Snow was general in Montana Thurs¬
day, slight flurries being reported from
all over tse state. The fall was heavy
on the continental divide. The tem¬
perature dropped to 45. The snow al¬
ternated with cold rains and great
damage to crops is feared.
STRIKE ON IN BIRMINGHAM.
Alabama Miners and Operators Fr.i 1
to Agree on Wage Sea's.
At a meeting in Birmingham. Ala.,
Tuesday afternoon, the miners and op-
erators failed to agree, and a strike is
on.
The miners, who had held elections,
offered to accept the operators’ propo¬
sition of 2 1-2 cents per ton advance,
provided, however, the operators sub¬
mit the miners’ demand of an addi
tional 2 1-2 cents, eight hours and a
semi-monthly pay day to arbitration.
The operators refused to concede to
additional demands.
SEMINARY OF THEOLOGY
To Be Built in Atlanta by Congrega-
tional Society of Boston.
The Congregational Educational So-
(ji#ty. of Boston, announced Tuesday
night that it has voted to purchase, at
a cost of $6,000 -acres, nine acres of
land just outside of tbe city limits of
Atlanta, Ga., far the site of a while
theological seminary, The land is
known as the Sherman estate and is
said to be finely situated
“LYNCHING IS NATIONAL"
Booker Washington Admits, In Ad¬
dress, that Mcb Law Is Not Wholly
Confined to the South.
In Loulsviilo, Ky., Thursday night,
before an audience which crowded Ms-
cauley's theater to tho doors, Booker
T. Washington, head of the Tuskegoe
Normal school, delivered an address
In which he said that recent regretta¬
ble events In connection with the race
question only went to show that lynch
law was not confined to any section of
the country. These events, he said,
tended 'to simplify the problem by
making It national. He admitted that
the race was now passing a very se¬
rious and trying period of develop¬
ment, and appealed to the negro to be
calm and exercise self control.
Among the other speakers was W.
H. Lewis, assistant attorney of Massa¬
chusetts, who was appointed several
months ago by President Roosevelt.
Booker Washington said in part:
“In the midst of the present deep In¬
terest growing out of matters connect¬
ed with our race, It can be stated that
recent events, as regrettable as they
are, have tended to simplify the prob¬
lem in one direction at least. The
events to which I refer show that the
questions pertaining to our race are
each day, more and more, becoming
national, rather than local and section¬
al ones. When we can carry the ques¬
tion up into the atmosphere where
men of all races, north and south,
will discuss .t. with calmness, with ab¬
sence of passion and sectional feeling.
I believe we shall have made a distinct
advance.
"In the present season of anxiety,
and almost of despair, which possesses
an element of the raco, there are two
things which I wish to say as strongly
as I may.
“First, let no man of the race be¬
come discouraged or hopeless. Though
their voices may not. be often or loudly
lifted, there are in this country, north
and south, men who mean to help to
seo that justice is moted out to the
race in all the avenues of life. Such
a man is Judge Thomas C. Jones, of
Alabama, to whom more credit should
be given for blotting out the infamous
system of peonage than to any other.
Judge Jones represents the very high¬
est type of southern manhood, and
there are hosts of others like him.
“Second, let us keep before us the
fact that, almost without exception, ev¬
ery race or nation that has ever got
upon its feet, has done so through
struggle, and trial and persecution,
and that out of this very resistance to
wrong, out of the struggle against
odds, they have gained strength, self-
confidence and
“No one should seek to close his
eyes to the truth, that (he race is pass¬
ing through a very serious and trying
period of its development, a period
that calls for the use of our ripest
thought, our most sober Judgment and
frequent calls to Him who has prom¬
ised strength to the weak.
"During the season thtough which
we are now passing I am going to ask
with all the emphasis that I am able
to command that each individual of
the race keep a calm mind, and exer¬
cise the greatest degree of self-con¬
trol, and that we all keep a brave
heart. Let nothing lead us to extremes
of utterances or action. By this meth¬
od of procedure we shall be able to
justify the faith of our friends, and
confound our enemies.
TREATIES SIGNED AT LAST.
-
Cubans Sign Documents Relating to
Naval and Coaling Bases.
A special from Havana says: The
treaty covering the naval and coaling
station bases and the treaty placing
the Isle of Pines wholly under Cuban
sovereignty were signed Thursday at
noon.
The two treaties, which are the last
of -the six between the United Stales
and Cuba, were subscribed In dupli¬
cate at the secretary of state’s office.
The Isle of Pines treaty was signed
last. While turning over the sovor-
cignty of t.ie island to the absolute
sovereignty of Cuba, the treaty safe-
guards the rights and privileges of the
American residents on the Island as
though they were on American terri-
tory.
BIG TRUST IN TROUBLE.
Receivers Will Be Appointed for Uni-
ted States Shipbuilding Company.
At Newark, N. J., Tuesday, Judge
Kirkpatrick announced , to counse , r «P-
resen ing the United States Shlpbuild-
ing Company hat he had read all the
papers in the case and had decided
ha the corporation ls insolvent and
tha s directors had failed to * a3 ' e
proper steps to protec the bondhold-
ers and seemed to be without ability
to raise funds Therefore, In.the inter-
est o tl e bondholders, he said, I shall
appoint receivers. I will hear counse
as o whom they may desire to name.’’
HORROR NOT EXAGGERATED.
Two Hundred and Thirty-Five Were
Killed in Wyoming Coal Mine.
A later dispatch from Hanna, Wyo-
ming, says: Of tne 382 men who went
i nto ,3ie Union Pacific Coal Company's
No- 1 mine, 235 were killed by the ex
plosion of black damp that occurred at
10:30 a. m. last Tuesday. Most of the
dead are Finlanders and negroes. *
Members of the rescuing parties tel!
of pitiful scenes about the mine.
GRAY. JONES CO.GA., THURSDAY. JULY 9. 1903.
TWO HUNDRED DEAD
In Most Frightful Mine Hor¬
ror in State of Wyoming.
PIT CHOKED BY CORPSES
Scene of Catastrophe in Mine No, 1
of Union Pacific Coal Company
at Little Town of Hanna.
Heartrending Sight.
The little town of Hanna, Wyoming,
was the scene of a terrible disaster at
10:30 a. m„ Tuesday when an explo-
sion of fire damp In mine No. 1 of tho
Union Pacific Coal Company snuffed
out the lives of 234 men, injured scores
of others and caused the destruction
of a vast amount of property.
The mine was not fired, but the ex¬
plosion was terrific and completely
shattered the timbers of the malu
shaft and numerous entrances, filling
the works with debris, and those ol
the miners that were not killed out¬
right by the explosion were buried
alive. The explosion was heard for
many miles around and attracted poo-
Die , * from adjoining ., , . settlements. Hugo
timbers . . and j railroad ii i _____ iron were hurled
300 feet from the mouth of the shaft.
The mine superintendent and a large
force of men began the work ot re-
moving the debris from the shaft that,
they might reach the entombed min-
ers. Their progress into the miue
was blocked by tho foul gas and sev¬
eral times they were forced to return
to the surface.
All day the rescuing party worked,
tho force being increased from time to
time by the arrival of ranchmen and
others from nearby settlements and
by those of a relief train sent out from
Rawlins, which arrived at 2 o’clock In
the afternoon. About 1 o’clock in tho
afternoon four men were taken out
alive and a half hour later they were
followed by 42 others. Many wero un¬
conscious and had to be carried from
the workings. Several are in a serious
condition, but it is believed all will
recover.
Two hundred and oighty-iwo men
went down in the mine at 7 o’clock in
the morning, and up to a late hour
Monday night only 48 had been ac¬
counted for. It was some time after
the explosion occurred that the first
man was brought to the surface. Ho
was followed by others until 1 o’clock,
when the last of the 48 was brought
out. The rescuers were unable to pen¬
etrate farther into the mine, ns it was
necessary to make another opening
to permit fresh air to reach the lower
levels.
Horses and scrapers were put at
work hauling debris away from the
shaft.
Some of the miners who escaped
said they saw twenty dead bodies
in entry No. 17. They reported that
many of the men were crazed by the
explosion and ran hither and thither
in the mine. Many of these could have
escaped, but they iaty down, buried
their faces in their hands and gave up
the fight. Of the 234 dead about 175
were married and leave large families.
About 100 were Finlanders, 50 were
colored and the rest were Americans.
The Hanna mines are among tbe
best on the Union Pacific system, be¬
ing established in 1878. The town was
named for Senator Mark Hanna when
he was a member of the Union Pacific
Coal Company. Mine No. 1 is practi-
cally a new property. It has twenty-
six entries fifteen miles of workings
and a main Incline shaft of one and
one-half miles in length. Tho mine
has been recognized as a dangerous
property for some time on aceount of
the large amount of gas, but tho sys¬
tem of ventilation has been so good
that an accident was not anticipated,
WOMAN ROBBED ON TRAIN.
Claims to Have Been Sandbagged and
Relieved of $18,500.
A Chicago woman, Mrs. F. F. Adams,
Jr-, reported to the Milwaukee police
Tuesday that she had been sandbagged
and robbed of $18,600 while on a train
on route to Milwaukee from Chicago
Monday night.
BUGOLOGIST coming south.
Prt)fes80r Morse Will Study Haunts of
the Festive Locust.
Professor Albert P Morse, of Welles-
, ley college, at Wellesley, Mass., recent-
ly appointed field curater for the Car-
negie institute, started south Wednes-
q ay t0 s tudy the geographical dlstrlbu-
t)on o£ Iocuats .
He will visit, in North Carolina, Rai-
eigh, Durham, -Morgantown, Roan
Mountain and Asheville, thence going
to nort hem Georgia and down the gulf
coast to Pensacola. J. H. Emerson,
the a , Jt hority on spiders, will accotu-
pany hitn .
A "WHOPPING” SEA EEL.
Largest Conger on Record Caught Cfl
the Florida Coast.
A Pensacola dispatch says: What
is acknowledged to be the largest con- j
ger or sea eel ever caught in gulf wa
ters has been captured. |
The eel measures seven feet ten |
inches in length, seven inches in diam
eter, twenty-one Inches in circumfer
once and tipped the beam at half a
hundred pounds. It will be placed o’!
exhibition in Chicago. •’
SHERIFF SHOT BY MOB.
Sensational Lynching Occurs In Seotts-
boro, Alabama—Governor Jelks
Takes Prompt Action.
At Scottsboro, Ala., Monday night
Andrew Dinuus, a negro, was
taken from I ho Jail and hanged by a
mob. Dlmms was arrested Sunday for
an attempt to criminally assault Alma,
the 19-year-old daughter of Dr. B. B.
Smith, and the first, that Sheriff Aus-
tin know of tho mob was when It
put iu an appearance in the hallway
of tho Jail.
The sheriff seized two pistols and,
mounting tho stairs, said he would
kill any one that attempted to conic up.
The threat was met with a volley and
the sheriff emptied his revolver in re-
piy. Before he could reload he was
shot down. One shot took effect in his
ri S ht le B m><l ,h *' oth ^ r in llis plsto1
arm, thereby disabling him.
Tho daughter of the sheriff ran to
her father and was at once covered by
a pistol in the hands of a member of
the mot) and made to deliver the keys
to tho cell In which the negro was
confined. Tho cell was quickly un-
locked and the trembling victim was
led out with a halter. He was march¬
ed to a place in the west end of town.
where the other end of the rope was
thrown across the arm of a telegraph “
pole 1 and the negro “ was quickly , . , drawn
“P- Th0 tel . °P h ° ne v>res . were cut . so
Ils *° the callin S tor aid.
Governor’3 Prompt Action.
A Montgomery special says: Gov-
ernor Jelks Tuesday requested Judge.
J. A. Bilbro to call a special term of
the circuit court to immediately try
five members of the mob who lynched
Andrew Dlmms, a negro, and seriously
shot Sheriff Austin In the attempt to
got the negro at Scottsboro, Ala., Mon¬
day night. These five men were rec¬
ognized by the sheriff.
The governor, on receiving word of
the lynching, immediately wired Judge
Bilbro to call a special term of the
court. It is said the governor Intends
to insist that the guilty parties be pun¬
ished'.
Under tho law, it will be thirty days
before the court can bo held, as notice
will have to be given for that length
of time. -
CRUM APPROVES LYNCHINGS.
Charleston’s Colored Collector Takes
Unexpected Ground on Mob Law.
Collector W. D. Crum, of Charleston,
S. C., has shocked Ills fellow negroes
by advocating lynching. At a meeting
in Chicago Tuesday night he said:
“Lynchings savor of the barbarism
of the dark ages, hut we must think
of tho crimes that provoke them.
These crimes are so atrocious that no
punishment is too severe for them.
“Lynching is not a race problem,”
said Dr. Crum. “There is no north or
south, blit the form of unlawful pun¬
ishment is general all over tho coun¬
try. Tho most horrible lynching which
ever took place in (his country occur
red in Delaware only a few days ago.
Such punishments savor of the barbar¬
isms of the dark ages, but we must
consider tho crimes I hat provoke
them. They are so atrocious that no
punishment Is too severe.
"Too many persons denounce lynch-
Ings wihout considering their cause.
If tho law was quick and decisive there
would he fewer lynchings.
“The remedy Is to exterminate the
horrible wretches that commit the
the cripao«'—not by killing them, but
by teaching them better.’’
CUT ALMOST IN TWAIN.
Crime of Horrible Atrocity Reported
From New Braunfels, Texas.
A special from New Braunfels, Tex.,
says: Many posses of armed men are
pursuing with bloodhounds a negro
man who attempted to assault and
mortally wounded Mrs. Emil Gronle,
wife of a farmer who lives five miles
from town.
! The negro appeared at tho Gronle
homo and demanded money. Before
' could reply he
| woman seized her
aml threw her to the floor and with a
razor piaahod his victim across the ab
domen, almost severing her body. Tho
dogs about the yard set up a barking
and frightened the negio away.
ATLANTANS WELCOME PARKER.
Prospective Democratic Presidential
Nominee at Georgia Capital.
,Bulge Alton Ji. Parker, chief judge
,>f the court of appeals of New York
and possibly the next democratic Hom¬
jnee for tho presidency, reached Atlan-
ta Wednesday, and at a public recep-
lion tendered him in the supreme
court rooms at the state capitol, he
nhook hands with several hundred per-
sons, among them some of the most
distinguished men of the state. For
a solid half hour Judge Parker shook
han „ B and chatted with judges, sena-
tors> representatives, executive officers
and private citizens galore.
FOR MAIL BOX SWINDLE.
Albany, New York, Man is Arrested on
Charge of Complicity.
W. B. Hacket lias been arrested at
Albany ^ail N. Y., for complicity in a post-
offlce box swindle, and it is
charged that he is one of several per-
sons who have been operating exten-
sively in various cities of the country,
ma king their headquarters in Wash-
j n gt on .
CZAR ACAIN WARNS
Nicholas Repeats That He
Wants No Intermeddling.
GROWL NOTTO BE HEEDED
That Appeal in Behalf of Jews in Rua-
sla Will Go Forward Just the
Same, When It is Ready,
Say Officials.
A Washington spocinl says: Tho
Associated Press is authorized to state
that the Russian government most pos¬
itively and absolutely denied tho re¬
port that it has offered any official ex¬
planation to the American government,
either through tho Russian embassy at
Washington or the American embassy
at 8t. Petersburg regarding 'the Kishi-
nef incident and declares that It has
never been addressed by the Ameri¬
can government upon tho subject.
The Russian government must cate¬
gorically refuse to receive from any
power any petitions, representations or
communications relative to it3 internal
affairs.
Attitude of State Department.
The position of the administration
regarding the proposed transmission of
the petition of the Jewish citizens of
the United States to the Russian gov¬
ernment was made clear and- positive
by a statement authorized by the stnto
department at Washington Wednesday
night. This statement was Inspired by
newspaper publications reflecting the
attitude of the Russian government
In the event of the presentation of
such a petition through the medium of
the United States embassy n.t St. Pe¬
tersburg, which had been brought to
the attention of high officers of I he
government. It was given careful con¬
sideration both in Washington and at
Oyster Bay before a decision was
reached to make any declaration re¬
garding the matter. The statement is
as follows:
“At the state department it was
stated by a high official, in the absence
of Secretary Hay, thal the delay In for¬
warding the petition of the American
citizens of the Jewish faith as to the
ill treatment of their co-religionists In
Russia was solely due to the delay In
furnishing the address to the state de
partment by tho petitioners. The
state department would, of course, pay
no heed to any statement purportlntg
to emanate from tho Russian govern¬
ment unless such statement was made
officially In some form or other to our
own government. The state depart¬
ment has been especially careful to act
only in accordance with all require¬
ments of official propriety, but within
the limits Ihus laid down it will most
certainly not hesitate to give expres¬
sion to tho deep sympathy felt not only
by the administration, but by all the
American people, for the unfortunate
Jews who have been the victims In
their recent appalling massacres and
outragos.”
GORY WORK OF WHITECAP3.
Aged Negro Man Killed and Women
Flogged Near Piedmont, 8. C.
Reuben Elrod, a respectable old ne¬
gro living near Piedmont, Anderson
county, &. C., for some unknown rea¬
son, was shot to death In hts home
Tuesday night and three nogro women,
occupants of the same house, were ta¬
ken out and given severe whippings.
The women, who testified at the in¬
quest Wednesday, said that fifty white
men came to the house and after kill¬
ing Elrod, flogged them, warning them
to leave the state.
IOWA REPUBLICANS MEET.
Hold State Convention in Des Moines,
Name Ticket and Adopt Platform.
The republican state convention of
Iowa, In session Wodnesday at Des
Moines, nominated a state ticket head¬
ed by A. B. Cummins for governor,
and adopted a platform of principles.
Harmony marked the proceedings of
tho convention, but speeches were
made which indicated that the republi¬
can leaders of the state were not en¬
tirely agroed as to the details of the
tariff policy.
COLLIER WILL PROBATED.
Property Left by Atlanta Pioneer Goes
to His Five Children.
As a result of the will of the late
George Washington Collier, of Atlanta,
Ga., which was probated in common
form Monday morning, the greater
part of the vast real estate holdings
on Peachtree road will be sold. The
proceeds will be used for paying debts
and Improving the city property.
The will is simple and brief, cover-
lug less than one entire sheet of legal
cap paper. All the property, both real
and personal, Is left to his five chil
dren, share and share alike.
ALL IS CALM IN RICHMOND.
Presence of Soldiers Puts Decided
Quietus on Strike Disorders.
Monday was the most peaceful day
in Richmond since the street railway
strike began. Absolutely no disorder
was reported from any quarter. Cars
were run regularly on all the city
lines. The number of militia guards on
the cars are being diminished and the
qasseriger travel Is decidedly greater.
PRISON officials fired.
Warden, Deputy Warden and Others,
of Atlanta Federal Penitentiary
Unexpectedly Lose Jobs.
Warden S. A. Hawk, who has been In
charge of the federal prison at Atlanta,
Ga., since Its construction; Deputy
Warden Bradford I. Dawson and As¬
sistant Deputy Warden and Captain of
tho Day Watch Moses L. Potty, have
been removed from their positions at
the United States penitentiary by At¬
torney General Knox, of the depart¬
ment of justice.
William H. Moyer, of Washington, a
special examiner of tne departnient of
Justice, has been appointed warden to
succeed Hawk. C. C. McClaughry, of
Chicago, son of Warden McClaughry,
of the United States penitentiary nj.
Fort Leavenworth, Kans., has been
appointed deputy warden. F. A. Chap¬
pell, a guard, has been named as tem¬
porary captain of tho day watch. Tho
regular appointment for this position
will be made in a few days by Attorney
General Knox.
All of the changes wore made at the
federal prison Wednesday morning and
were entirely unexpected. Warden
Moyer was not notlflod of his appoint¬
ment until June 20th, three days pre¬
viously.. Warden Hawk was not noti¬
fied of his removal until the arrival iu
Atlanta Wednesday of the new war¬
den, nnd he know absolutely nothing
of tho contemplated change until War¬
den Moyer arrived at the prison and
presented his credentials.
Friction among the officials of .he
prison is given as the reason for tho
removal of the three officials, and the
appointment of the new ones.
Tho news of tho removal of Warden
Hawk, Deputy Warden Dawson and
Assistant Deputy Warden Petty crea¬
ted something of a sensation, as abso¬
lutely no Intimation had been given
that these officials were to be removed
from their positions.
Several other changes will be made
in the personnel of the officials at the
prison, though none of these are ex¬
pected to be of any great importance.
Warden Moyer announced that he ex¬
pected several other changes in the
prison, though all of tuem would come
from the attornoy general’s office, but
would be made on his recommenda¬
tion, as soon as he had time to get the
hearings of the prison.
Warden Hawk, in a statement said
that he did not know why he had been
removed. “But the federal authorities
don’t always give a very lucid reason
for romovang a man irom an offlce
such as I held,” he said. "Almost any
old reason imaginable will do most of
tho time.’’
BROWN STILL ON TOP.
Cotton King Demonstrates His Ability
to Control Cotton Market.
A New Orleans special says; W. I’.
Brown and Ills associates in 'tho cot-
ion bull campaign made good their
stopping of notices served on them
last Friday by paying for 140,000 halos
of cotton Wodnesday. It being July
1, it was the day on which notices is¬
sued on Friday expired and deliveries
were accepted.
Nobody but members of tho bull
clique ami the boars who sold tho cot¬
ton knew exactly what prices were
paid for all this cotton, hut it Is safe
to say that tho great hulk of It was
bought at much less than 10 cents a
pound. Now that very same cotton Is
worth 13 cents a pound and over. In
fact, many mills offered as high as
13 3-8 cents for various lots of 1,000
bales. Roughly speaking, tho amount
paid out by the bull clique Wodnesday
was $7,000,000.
Of this amout, little over 100,000
bales were paid for in New York, and
the balance In New Orleans. Up to
date the McFaddens have not yet
thrown their second 100,000 halos of
col/tori at the bull clique. It. Is well
known that they have not that amount
of cotton in control to carry out their
contracts.
In (he meantime, the hears aro assid¬
uously at work circulating reports to
tho effect that the cotton mills will not
pay the prevailing price for cotton, but
will close down in preference.
GEORGIA BAR ASSOCIATION.
Meets In Annual Session at Tallulah
Falls—New Members Admitted.
The Georgia Bar Association conven¬
ed at Talluluh Falls Thursday in an¬
nual session. After the routine organ!
zatlon business, Including the adoption
of the dally program, thirty-five new
members were admitted to the associa
tlon.
The presence of Judge Alton B
Parker, of New York, who delivered
the annual address, was an interesting
feature of the convention.
FRAUD ORDER IN POST CASE.
Uncle Sam Bars Use of the Mails to
Mental Science Healer.
News comes from Sea Breeze, Fla.,
that Mrs. Helen Post's troubles, like
Banquo’s ghost, refuse to rest. After
succeeding in getting her case post-
jiored till Decomber, she now has been
•erved with a fraud order from the
postofflee department forbidding her
the use of the mails.
Freedom, Mrs. Post’s special organ
and means of communicating with her
patients, Jq also denied the inails,
NO. 33.
ACCUSE AMERICANS
Of Attempt to Breed Revolt
in Colombia.
INFORMATION IS STRAIGHT
British Consul In Colombia Makes Sen-
sational Statement Regarding
Pressure and Intrigue Brought
to Bear by Opponents.
The Morning Advertiser (London)
publishes on authority a statement by
the consul general at Colombia con-
ceruing tho situation between the Uni-
ted States and Colombia with regard
to the Panama canal. Tho statement
Is as follows;
“The signing of the Hay Herran
treaty by the Colombian minister in
Washington has been the object of
American pressure and intrigue for
many months. Every effort has been
made to prevent the opposition parly
headed by General Reyes gaining suffl-
ciefct power to defeat tho passage of
the bill, but General Reyes ls^ln pos¬
session of sufficient arms and men to
proclaim a revolution and unseat Pres¬
ident Marroquin. He does not deslro
that tho United States should con¬
struct a canal, hut he (loos desire fair
treatment. General Reyes considers
that tho terms of payment are Insuffi¬
cient, and as a protest he Is prepared
to fight to the end.
“As another means of gaining their
end. for many months American agents
have been inculcating a spirit of revolt
agaiiiHt Colombian control into tho
minds of the people of Panama, and
today (he people are ready to rise
when called to do so by the America 1
agitators nml proclaim their independ¬
ence. This will he done If General
Reyes, tho vice president of the repub¬
lic, is successful in inducing Colombia
to refuse to sell. Panama will rise
and proclaim its independence with
American guns and American ammuni¬
tion purchased with American money.
America once again will step In and in¬
sert. the Independence of a downtrod¬
den people, as she has done in the past
—to her own increased nnd lasting
benefit. Then the American govern¬
ment will build the canal, enforcing its
own terms on tho helpless people.”
BECKHAM FLAYS CRITICS.
Kentucky Governor Explains His Posi¬
tion In the Breathitt County Matter.
Governor Beckham, in response lo
many requests, has given out a lengthy
statement in reference to Ills position
In tho Breathitt comity matter. He
said tha it was not within Ills consti¬
tutional power to declare martial law
and try the accused by court martial.
He denounced the yellow Journals of
llie north and east, and asserted ho
had done everything possible to sup¬
press tho lawlessness In Breathitt
county.
Governor Beckham severely arraign¬
ed those whom bo alleged to have been
trying to make political capital out of
tho Breathitt county murddrers, saying
tlmt had tho republican party shown
the same eagerness to punish Goebel's
assassins as the democrats have shown
in ihoir desire to see Marcum’ assasins
punished then that atrocious crime of
over Ihree years ago would now bo
avenged. Governor Beckham denies
having pardoned twenty-seven crimi¬
nals from Breathitt county.
JAIL OFFICIALS ROASTED.
1
Action in Allowing Train Robber Lo¬
gan to Escape Looks Suspicious.
A special from Knoxville, Tenn.,
says: Through United States Marshal
Austin the department of justice, Mon¬
day, added one hundred dollars to the
reward offered for Harvey Logan's
capture. This brings the total up to
$1,100 la addition to the five thousand
outstanding for his arrest.
The government officials, by order
of Judge Clark, began an investiga¬
tion into the escape Monday morning,
Tho officials would give out no de¬
tails of the investigation, but United
States Marshal Austin does not nesi-
tate to openly condemn the jail author¬
ities!.
SUSPECTED MURDERER LYNCHED
Mob in Norway, South Carolina, Takes
Law Into Their Own Hands.
News from Norway, Orangeburg
county, South Carolina, states that
Charles Evans, colored, suspected of
■the murder of John T. Phillips, was ta¬
ken from the guard house at Norway
and lynched by a mob of unknown
men.
Four other negroes suspected of
complicity In the crime, who were con¬
fined In the jail, were beaten into in-
sepslbllity.
JUDGE ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY-
Associate Justice Fish, of Georgia Su¬
preme Court, Wants Another Term.
Associate Justice William H. Fish, c?
the Georgia supreme court, has an
nounced his candidacy for re-election
to the position he now holds, and is
now sending out letters to, his friends
in the state containing a copy of hia
announcement.
The letter was brought forth by the
candidacy of Judge Beverly Evans,
who has announced for Judge Fish’ij
position,