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The Jones County News.
YOU. X.
FOR BETTER ROADS
Special Committee Holds
Sessions at Washington.
CALLS ON THE PRESIDENT
Brief Prepared for Presentation to the
House and Senate Committee on
Agriculture—Invitation to
National Association.
The special committee of the Na¬
tional £Jood Hoads Association re¬
sumed its session at Washington
Thursday. Mr. Jefferson Meyers, pres¬
ident of the Lewis and Clarke exposi¬
tion, of Oregon, presented a resolution
eadorsing that project, which was read
and adopted. The chairman appointed
Messrs. Stewart, of W"est Virgnia;
Tiliebrew, of Tennessee, and Cooley,
of Minnesota, a special committee to
prepare a brief for submission to the
house and senate committee on agri¬
culture. An invitation was extended
to the National Good Roads Associa¬
tion to hold its annual meeting at
Portland, Oregon, in,'1905, which was
laid over to ho presented at the na¬
tional meeting in St. Louis this year.
The special committee appointed
earlier in the week to arrange a visit
to the white house, reported that they
had called upon the president, and he
had informed them that he would be
glad to receive the representatives of
the Good Roads Association. It was
agreed that all present would call -in
a body on the president.
The meeting then adojurned and
proceeded to the capltol, where they
were given a hearing before the sen¬
ate committee on agriculture. Chair¬
man Harper opened the discussion and
stated to the committee that he and
his colleagues appeared before them at
this time by the direction of the Na¬
tional Good Roads .Association, to pre¬
sent the resolutions unan’mausly
adopted by the association at its last
meeting. He explained that neither
the committee nor the association as
a whole, had any desire to promote or
advocate either the Brownlpw, Lati¬
mer, Gallinger or- ai>y other particular
bill now' pending before congress, but
that their purpose was to impress
upon the minds of the committee the
growing demand for national aid for
good roads as a general, proposition.
He said they were all in favor of any
bill that congress might enact which
would afford to the toiling farmers of
this country some relief from the enor¬
mous burdens of “mud tax” which they
are now daily paying.
CRUM DRAWING NO PAY.
Status of Charleston’s Colcrrd. Collec¬
tor Explained by Shaw.
In response to j-jenatpr Tillman's
resolution adopted by the senate call¬
ing for the record of William D.
Crum’s appointment and his service as
collector at the port of, Charleston, S.
S. C., Secretary of the Treasury Shaw
Thursday sent to ^President Pr o Ten }-
Frye the following letter:
"William D. Crum was appointed
collector at th eport of Charleston, S.
C.', March 20, 1903, and a temporary
commission issuue. Crum qualified -by
execution of bond for $59,000 and took
oath of office March 30, 1803. Crum
was again appointed December 7,
1903, and has given, bond in the sum
of $50,000 and .took the oath of office
on January 9,. 1,904, Thebe' has been
n# third appointment and no fourth
appointment. The . same information
is contained in z letter to Hon. B. R.
Tillman, under date of January 8,
1904, and which appears in the Con-
gress’onal Record of January 27, 1904
“The. resolution also asks, ‘Is Crum
now in office, and if so, under what
authority of law?’ William D. Crum
is de facto collector at the port of
Charleston, S. C. Whether he holds
his position under tlio authority of
law is determinable, not by the execu¬
tive department of the government,
but by the judiciary, and by that only.
He is not receiving pay, because of the
provisions of section 1761.”
KENTUCKY CAPITAL SAFE.
Legislature Vote s that $eat of Gov-
ernment Remain at Frankfort.
The passage through the ‘Kentucky
senate Thursday by unanimous vote
of the house bill appropriating a mil¬
lion dollars for a new capitol at Frank¬
fort, marked the end of a fight which
had been waged for the removal of the
seat of government since the days
when Henry Clay, as a representative
from Lexington, started a fight which
has been the cherished ambition of
that city since, till the present ses¬
sion, when Lexington, Louisville and
other towns joined in and aided Frank¬
fort for the present bill.
LEFT H03T OF OFFSPRINGS.
Texas Woman Goes Hence Possessed
of an Even 259 Descendants.
Mrs. N. C. Hargis, who died at Den¬
ison, Texas, a few days ago, at tbs
age of 86, was the mother of seven¬
teen children, sixty-eight grandchil
dren and 105 great grandchildren.
She was well known in many parts
of Texas.
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Cream of News.* t
Brief Summary of Most
Important Events
of Each Day.
—Sanford Jacobi, serving a twenty-
yoars sentence in the Alabama peni¬
tentiary for assaulting a young white
woman, has been pardoned by the gov¬
ernor. Jacobi has served throe years
of his sentence.
—John B. Lipscomb, who was re¬
cently ordered to leave Hall county,
Ga., by the Law and Order League,
for running a “blind tiger,” was arrest¬
ed at Greenville, S. C-, on request of
his bondsmen, carried back to Gaines¬
ville, tried and fined $1,000.
—Bishop Galloway, of the Methodist
Episcopal church, south, has accepted
the invitation of Booker T. Washing¬
ton to preach the commencement ser¬
mon at the Tuskegee institute on May
22 .
—On account of the high price of
cotton and the low price of goods, Pa-
colet mills at New Holland, Ga., will
shut down for an indefinite period.
—The senate proceedings Wednes¬
day included a speech by Mr. Sim¬
mons, of North Carolina, in support
of the Panama canal treaty. Mr. Sim¬
mons was the first democratic senator
to favor the measure on the floor of
the senate.
—General debate in the house on
the urgent deficiency bill digressed to
a discussion of political topics, the
race question and aerial navigation.,
Mr. Hardwick, of Georgia, made an
extended address on the race problem.
—President Roosevelt has given up
the fight in behalf of Minnie Cox, col¬
ored, who had charge of the post,-
office at Indianoia, Miss., and named
Dr. Mart n, a democrat, for the posi¬
tion.
—A white man, giving his name as
Harry Behr, has been arrested in
Louisville on suspicion of having mur¬
dered Miss Schaefer at Now Bedford,
Ind. Baker’s home is in Memphis.
—United States Consul General Ma¬
son, at Berlin, has written the state
department, stating that there is a
general revolt in Europe against Amer¬
ican cotton.
—The bodies of the 184 men killed
in the Hanvick mine, near Pittsburg,
Pa., are being rapidly recovered. Every
corpse Is fearfully mangled.
—The Far East situation remains
warlike. Thero is growing irritation
a* Tokio over Ruussia's delay in an¬
swering Japan’s last note. The Japan¬
ese government is being urged to de¬
clare war at oBce.
—Professor Prince Tarkhanov, the
Russian scientist, says the problem
of determining the sex of children will
be solved by aid of radium.
—A post mortem examination shows
that Whittaker Wright, the London
promoter, killed himself by taking
chloride of potassium.
—By the decision of Judge Fergu¬
son in New Hanover, N. C., superior
court in a murder trial, only freehold¬
ers can occupy the jury box in North
Carolina in capital cases.
—The supreme court of Mississippi
has declared 'against the sale of the
Southern's It.ta Bena branch to ihe
Yazoo and Mississippi Valley.
—A vagrancy law modeled after the
Calvin law of Georgia has been pass¬
ed by the Mississippi house.
—Monday the senate- heard further
discussion on the question of appoint¬
ments to office made during congres¬
sional recess, listened to a speech on
the isthmian canal question by Mr.
Morgan and passed a number of bills
of a semi-public character.
-The grand jury at Chicago in¬
vestigating the Iroquois theatre ca¬
lamity has made its report, holding
Mayor Harrison, the owners, manager
■and employes of the theatre’ for action
of the grand jury.
—At Nashua, N. H., Treasurer Gog-
gin, of the trust company, is under ar-
rest, accused of embezzling between
$80,000 and $100,000. He says he
took the money to aid a friend.
^President Roosevelt has appoint¬
ed H. Smith Wooiey, a former bishop
of the Mormon church, to be assay er
of the mint at Boise City, Idaho.
—J. R. Sartain. of Chickamauga,
Ga., has been instrumental in expos¬
ing a land company, with headquar¬
ters at Minneapolis, Minn., which is
advertising “homes for our poor in
South America.”
—The house, Monday, passed the
army appropriation bill, carrying ap-
proximately $75,000,000, after adopting
a number of amendments.
—Six blocks of frame houses at
Sour Lake, Texas, destroyed by the
flames Sunday. Fire also burns five
brick buildings at Texarkana.
—Mayor Castleman, of Greensboro,
Ala., has issued a call for aid of the
storm sufferers at Moundsville. All
contributions should be sent to him.
—Literary circles of Boston are get¬
ting up a fund to be devoted to caring
for the grave of Bill Nye at metcher,
N. C.
—The mercury at St. Paul, Minn.,
Sunday registered 27 degrees below
zero establishing a new record.
-The national secretary of agricul-
ture has approved the plans for the
cotton boll weevil investigation in the
southwest, for which a special
priaiion of $250,000 has been made
available.
GRAY. JONES CO. GA.. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 4, 11)04.
GIGANTIC COLLAPSE
Baxter Co,, Brokers, Forced
to Make Assignment,
GO BROKE ON COTTON
“King” Sully Cleared $600,000 In Phe¬
nomenal Rise of Staple, and to
His Operations, Failure of
Big Firm is Accredited.
A. B, Baxter & Co., brokers, of New
York, with 138 offices in the United
States, 38 of which are in the south,
failed Saturday. It is said that the
failure will amount approximately to
$3,000,000, thought the exact figures
will not be known for several days.
A Now York special says: Daniel
.1. Sully, the cotton king, cleared $600
000 Saturday morning in the spectacu¬
lar rise of July cotton, which touched
16.88. Ho bought 200,000 bales Friday
morning at 16 and sold out Saturday at
an advance of from 60 to 80 points.
Directly charged to the operation of
Sully in the market was the assign¬
ment of A. B. Baxter & Co., dealers
in stocks, bonds and cotton, at No. 61
Broadway, with offices in all the prin¬
cipal cities of the United States, most¬
ly in the south and southwest. The
failure involved $200,000. The firm as¬
signed for the benefits of creditors to
George J. Vestner.
The officers are A. B. Baxter, presi¬
dent; W. W. Vensel, treasurer, and
Fel'x p. Lipp, secretary. The com¬
pany was incorporated in 1902, with a
capital of $300,000. The concern is
the largest of its kind on this conti¬
nent and its operations have been
on a mammoth scale.
The assignment was not filed in
New York 1:30 o'clock Saturday after¬
noon, and there was no hint of it be¬
fore the close of trading on the cot¬
ton market at noon. At the office of
Baxter & Co. it was said that it would
take several days to estimate the lia¬
bilities and assets which could no*-,
it was said, be estimated now.
George J. Vestner, the Baxter firm's
assignee, is a lawyer in the office of
McIntyre, Cantor & Adams. John F.
McIntyre said for tne assignee of the
company:
“The company has a large number
of branch offices, one in nearly every
principal city of the south and west,
it has 30,000 miles of leased wires,
and pays $30,000 a month tolls to the
telegraph companies. As soon as wo
assigned we wired a.] our branch of¬
fices not to accept another cent from
customers.
“What caused the suspension was
the continued rise in cotton. Most of
our customers in the south and west,
who had been long on cotton, went,
short recently, thinking the high water
mark had passed, but when Sully con¬
tinued to send cotton up we called on
our customers for more margins.
We thought we saw hope when cot¬
ton fell off 50 points Friday, but, when
it rose 75 points Saturday and the
majority of customers failed to re¬
spond to requests for more margins,
we had to assign.”
TO REIMBURSE COLOMBIA.
Democratic Senators Favor Paying
Her Ten Millions in Cash.
For three hours Saturday the demo¬
crats of the senate discussed plans for
united party action in support of the
Bacon resolution for paying Colombia
$10,000,000 in cash for the loss of Pan¬
ama. During the discussion it devel¬
oped that if the senate will take action
on the lines of this resolution demo¬
cratic opposition to the ratification of
the Panama treaty will be withdrawn.
No final action was taken, however, as
there is to be another caucus on the
subject.
The republican attitudv on the ques¬
tion of paying Colombia the sum stated
for a quit claim deed to her interest
in the canal zone was made known lo
the senators in the caucus. The re¬
publicans, it is understood, have al¬
ready agreed to satisfy Colombia in
this matter, but they propose to have
the canal treaty ratified before they
make the deal public.
THIRD BLAZE AT ELBERTON.
Plucky Georgia Town Suffers Heavily
from Conflagration.
The third disastrous fire which has
visited Elberton, Ga., within a few
years and in the same place, occur
red Thursday morning.
About 4 o’clock Mathew’s drug store
was discovered on fire, and before the
people could be aroused the flames
had spread to Gaines Bros., Thornton
Bros., and then enveloped Duncan
Bros., all of whom suffered losses es-
timated at. $30,066 Across the street
the buddings of T. M. Swift were
damaged about $2,000.
SOLONS OPPOSED TO BRYAN.
Nebrsekan . s platform Not Favored by
Mississippi legislators.
A poll made of the leading members
of the Mississippi legislature Thurs-
day to ascertain their views regarding
the democratic platform shows that a
large majority of them are in favor of
repudiating Hon. W. J Bryan and . mak- .
ln S a thorough revision of the plat
form ’
MRS. MAYBRICK FREE?
Report Comes from London that Par¬
don Has Been Granted Unfortu¬
nate American Woman.
Lloyd's Weekly Nswspaper (Lon¬
don) says that Mrs. Florence May-
brick, the American woman who was
serving a life sentence on the charge
of having poisoned her husband, was
released from the Aylsbury female con¬
vict prison at 6:45 o’clock on tlie
morning of January 26, on special li¬
cense.
Tho Daily Mail says that Mrs. May-
brick is now in Liverpool and that the
following conditions attach to her re¬
lease from prison: That she will not
appear on the public stage or write a
book of her experience and shall in
no way endeavor to attract attention
to herself.
An Associated Press dispatch says:
In spite of the mystery with which
officials shroud the action in connec¬
tion with the reported release of Mrs.
Florence Maybrick, it can be definitely
said that she has been removed from
Aylesbury prison. At the United
States embassy it was most emphati¬
cally declared that she had not been
pardoned, and that she was still a
prisoner.
Mrs. Maybrick, the paper concludes,
during the last few months in prison,
was employed in the lightest work as
a reward for good conduct.
Mrs. Florence Elizabeth • Chandler
Maybrick is a native of Mobile, Ala.,
where she still enjoys a reputation for
beauty and refinement of character.
In 1881 she met. James Maybrick, a
fashionable Englishman at Liverpool,
and after a brief courtship they were
married. The first years of their wed¬
ded life seemed happy. Two children,
a boy and a girl, were born to them.
Shadows began tOf fall over the family
in 1889. There were hints of heavy
drinking and abuse on the part of tho
hitsband. Ojie spring day in that year
he attended the Wirral races in
heavy rain and contracted a severe
cold. Returning home, alter eating
aud drinking, he took to his bed. Grow¬
ing worse, he insisted that his wife
give him a certain white powder,
which she did, following his instruc¬
tions as where to find it. Thirteen
days later MaybrivS died' and his wid¬
ow suffered a severe collapse.
Coming out of this, she was con¬
fronted with a charge of murder. Af¬
ter a sensational trial, during which
evidence in favor of the woman suffi¬
cient to have set her free by any
American jury, was brought to light,
she was convicted and sentenced to
death. It was shown that her hus¬
band had been a confirmed arsenic
eater for years.
Immediately following her convic¬
tion, petitions began to pour in from
the United States and other civilized
countries, protesting against the ver¬
dict and praying the release of the
prisoner. For years diplomatic corre¬
spondence has passed between Wash¬
ington and London concerning the
case. Every administration of recent
date has taken up the Maybrick case
with resolution.
The first favorable step was tho
commutation of the death sentence to
life imprisonment, by Queen Victoria.
Then came the reduction to twenty-
five years, which was again shortened
by allowances for good behavior. The
south is tremendously interested in
tho case, not alone from tho fact that
Mrs. Maybrick is of the south, and a
woman, but because her testimony Is
necessary in the settlement of a case
involving thousands of dollars.
COLOMBIANS ARE MISINFORMED.
Cannot Land Troops in Panama Even
Outside the Canal Zone.
It is stated at the state department
at Washington that General Reyes
must have misunderstood the position
of the authorities here if ne, as repre¬
sentative from Bogota, Informed the
Colombian government that the United
States has limited its objection to
the landing of Colombian troops in
Panama to the canai zone itself. The
department has not in any sense
changed its position when it was ex¬
pressly stated that no troops with hos¬
tile intent could be landed in any par:
of Panama.
WASHINGTON HEARS NOTHING.
No News of Mrs. Maybrick’s Release
Comes to State Department.
Regarding tho case of Mrs. May¬
brick, interest in which has been re¬
vived by reports that she has been re¬
leased from prison in England, state
department officials at Washington say
there hag been no recent communica¬
tion between them and the English
government In the matter. The last
information tho department had re¬
garding the case, and this Is now
some months old, was that Mrs. May¬
brick probably would be released late
in the coming summer.
MANY TEXANS DISFRANCHISED.
Failed to Pay Poll Tax and are Barred
from Voting in November.
The registration of Texas voters for
next November’s election closed Sat¬
urday night at midnight, and while all
the returns will not be in for a couple
of days, it is estimated that out of
some seven hundred thousand voters
in Texas, only 550,000 of them have
saved their voting privileges by paying
their poll tax of $1.75,
A BREAK IN COTTON
The Long Expected Reaction
Comes and Prices Tumble.
THE BULLS ROUT BEARS
Excitement on New Orleans Exchange.
Country Longs Make a Wild Rush
to Liquidate—Break Also at
Nf»W Vo» l<
Tho long expected reaction in the
cotton market occurred at New Or¬
leans Friday and country longs went
wild in their efforts to liquidate. The
offerings swamped the market for a
while and prices went down from 45
to 86 points. Tho prominent bulls
were heavy buyers at the decline and
even at the lowest buying offers of a
few hundred would send the market
up 10 points. The alarm was sounded
Tlntrsray when the brokers com¬
menced to ask $10 a bale margin.
It is generally conceded that the
false reports concerning the situation
in the Far East, spread about Thurs¬
day night, were responsible for the
liquidation by the weak long interest.
All futures remained bullish. Tho
movement was light and the weekly
(in sight) figures wore smaller than
were expected by the most enthusias¬
tic bulls. At one time the May op¬
tions were 80 points under the high¬
est level of Ihe morning, but a quick
recovery brought them up until they
were only 41 points below the highest
level, and only 21 points lower than
the close of Thursday. The leading
hulls said the drastic iquidatlon had
loft the market in a healthier condi¬
tion than ever and more open to fur¬
ther advances than for several days
past.
Weak Interests Closed Out.
Opening prices in the cotton mar¬
ket at New York were higher than
Thursday night’s close. Trading was
hettve and excited. The initial ad¬
vance was on better cables than had
been looked for and reports that cot¬
ton was selling all through the inte¬
rior Thursday at 15 3-4 cents for mid¬
dling. It became evident, however,
soon after the opening that, enormous
profit taking was going on and prices
were depressed several points from
the best, after which they were rallied
by the firmness in New Orleans and
aggressive bull support.
The rally did not hold, and shortly
after noon there was a rapid break of
from 55 to 65 points.
The break was supposed to be due
to selling by two large commission
houses with out-oftown connections,
which held long cotton for southern
and western interests. It is said the
sales were made becaue of failure of
correspondents to forward necessary
margins. The decline attracted a
fresh demand from scattered sources
and with the weaker long interest
shaken out, the market rallied several
points The close was sensaiilonal.
just at. tho last moment a local specu¬
lator went into the ring and bid for
all the July cotton in sight, running
that month up to 16.18, while the
points if last night's prices, while tho
other crop positions were not 13 to 15
points low*.r and the new crop months
from 10 to 38 points below Thursday
night’s final figures. Friday’s sales
were estimated at 1,200,000 hales.
COAST LINE GIVES PENSIONS.
All Employes Seventy Years Old to Be
Retired on Regular Pay.
The Atlantic Coast Line has estab¬
lished it s pension department, with
headquarters at Wimlington, N. C. The
board of pensions will conduct it.
All officers and employes 70 years
old will be retired. Those who have
been ton years iri service will be pen¬
sioned. Engineers, firemen, conduc¬
tors, brakemen, yard masters, switch¬
men, bridge foremen, section foremen
and supervisors 65 years old may re¬
tire with pensions where they have
been ten years In service.
GREEN CONTIN0t8 AS AGENT.
No Change Made by Truotees of Pea¬
body Educational Fund.
A notable body of representative men
attended a special meeting in Washing¬
ton of the trustees of the Peabody
educational fund. It was announced
after the session closed that full con¬
sideration had been given to the ques¬
tion of a general agent to succeed Dr.
Samuel A. Green and to the proposed
enlargement and maintenance of the
Peabody normal college, at. Nashville,
but that it was concluded to postpone
action in both matters until the meet¬
ing of the trustees, to he held in New
York next October.
COURT FORESTALLS BAXTER.
Company Is Retrained from Changing
Statu* of Business in Georgia.
A. B. Baxter & Co. has been re¬
strained from changing the status of
itg business in Georgia, the Lowry Na¬
tional bank and the Fourth National
bank at Atlanta, have been restrained
from paying out any money belonging
to Baxter & Co., In application for a
receiver that, has been made,
DEMANDS QUICK ANSWER
Japan is Tired of Waiting for Russia
to Reply—A Summary of the
Points of Difference.
A special from Tokio says: The
Japanese government has diplomati¬
cally Ini imiited to Baron Do Rosen, the
Russian minister, that an early re¬
sponse is desired to Japan's recent
note to Russia.
It Is calculated that the Japan¬
ese note reached the Russia cabinet on
the afternoon of January 16, and it is
felt that sufficient lime has elapsed
for its consideration and the prepara¬
tion pt a response.
Tho Japanese government is con¬
scious of the possible necessities of
the military and naval situation and
is unwilling to permit evasions and
delays which are designed to gain
time.
The future course of the Japanese
government is a carefully guarded se¬
cret. The length of time that Japan is
prepared to await the pleasure of Rus¬
sia is unknown. It seems probable
that it has been determined to act de¬
cisively within a few days. The popu¬
lar temper has long opposed further
delay.
A special Tuesday from Paris says:
The Russian answer has not yet been
sent to Japan and it now develops that
the points of difference threaten the
possibility of a deadlock in the nego¬
tiations. These points are:
First. In Manchuria Russia declines
to concede such unrestricted admis¬
sion of Japanese as will permit the es¬
tablishment. of Japanese settlements.
Second. In Korea Russia insists that
Japan’s privileged position should not
permit herj to establish control of the
egress and ingress of the sea of Japan
by fortifying the straits of Korea.
Concerning these points and the gen¬
eral status of tho negotiations, the fol¬
lowing semi-official statement, emanat¬
ing from tho highest sources, is made:
"The question is undergoing alter¬
nate phaoes of depression and encour¬
agement. For three or four days it
was believed that a final agreement
was very near at, nand, but Monday
the situation becamo a little les3 hope-
ful.
"Concerning Korea, Japan is show¬
ing great caution in accepting Russia’s
assurances of Japanese paramount au¬
thority in Korea. Therefore. Japan
feels that her safety requires the right
to fortify the coast, southeast of Korea,
particularly Pusan, the point opposite
the Japanese Island of Tsu-Shina, blit
Russia is unwilling to concede this,
believing the effect will he to make
the sea of Japan a closed sea.
"Concerning Manchuria, the chid
difficulty still open is the right to es¬
tablish Japaacso settlements. Russia
does not appear to object to the full
liberty of Japanese coming or going
individually for purposes of trade or
concere tho rights permit'ting Japanese
settlements in villages, similar to the
settlements at Shanghai.
"Thero are still strong hopes that
the parties may find means of adjust¬
ing those points, but for the present
they constitute the main issues re¬
maining open.”
WHITAKER WRIGHT FALLS DEAD.
Expired Suddenly in London Court
Wh-en Sentenced for Fraud.
A London special says: Whitaker
Wright, millionaire promoter and In
ternationa) character, dropped dead
Tuesday morning immediately after lie
ing found guilty of fraud and sen¬
tenced to seven years at -penal servi¬
tude.
The verdict, of guilty came like a
thunderclap to the terrified defendant
who had believed ho would bo acquit¬
ted. His face was bloodless and he
stared In wonder and amazement, at
tho judge and Jury, then looked pitiful¬
ly around him into the faces and eyes
that were centered upon him in his
misery.
The sentence of the court then fol¬
lowed. The prisoner was given seven
years at hard labor.
Wright, trembled violently, then ;
reeled, throwing Ills hand quickly to j
his heart. Court attendants and friends
rushed cians to his hurriedly assistance. summoned, Two physl- who; j
were
accom court pa riled tho dying man from tho j
room.
Mr. Wright was suffering from a fa- j
tal attack of heart disease and al- j
though every remedy was resorted to
that was possible to save his life, the j
prisoner died in the arms of [716 doc-
tors, never being able tr> utter a word.
He evidently died In. great, pain, as
! -
his face was distorted and the lines
about his mouth and eyes showed
great agony. j
His recent trial had consumed i
twelve days in the king bench division
of the high court of justice and he was I
found guilty of fraud on all tho counts.,
Justice Bigham, in passing sentence,
said he could see nothing to excuse:
the crime of which Wright had been
convicted, and lie cmld not conceive a
worse case, i
LETT HOST OF OFFSPRINGS,
Texas Woman Goes Hence Possessed
of an Even 250 Descendants.
Mrs. N. C. Hargts, who died at Den¬ i •]
ison, Texas, a few days ago, at the
age of 86, was the mother of seven¬
teen children, sixty-eight grandchil¬ i
dren and 165 great-grandchildren. j
Sho was well known In many parts ,
of Texas, .
NO. 11.
BRYAN IS DEFIANT
Says Kansas City Platform
“Must Be” Reaffirmed.
RALLYING HIS COHORTS
In Speech on “Moral Issues” in Madi¬
son Square Concert Hall, Nobras.
kan Sends Forth Another “Ul¬
timatum” to Democrats,
Every seat in the Madison Square
Concert hall in New York was taken
Tuesday night when William J. Bry¬
an began his speech on “Moral Issues.”
In the audience there were many
women while the body of the hall was
more than half filled with clergymen.
There was no presiding officer, Mr.
Bryan being escorted to the platform,
where he was greeted with prolonged
applause. He said in part:
“Why have I flung away ambition?
Why have I rejected this proffered
greatness, and been deaf to the en¬
treaties of those who talk only of ’get¬
ting together.’ 1 want to know what
they are getting together lor, whether
to defend rights or to enter upon a
course of pillage.
“The trouble with our government
today is that it is too much Influeunc-
ed in its operations by men whose only
loyalty is loyalty to the money bags.
'Will it pay’ has been substituted for
‘Is it, right,’ and as a consequence our
legislative assemblies, city, state and
national, are become auction rooms in
which governmental privileges are
knocked down to tlfe highest bidder.
“An evidence that our city was hon¬
estly seeking to benefit the masses in
1896 and 1900 is to be fouund in the
fact that our campaign funds were in¬
significant in both campaigns. In 1892
the democratic, party collected a large
campaign fund from the corporations.
It spent more than $1,000,000 in the
two states of New York and Indiana
alone, and what was the result? The
most plutocratlcit administration this
country had ever known. We witness¬
ed a surrender to organized and preda¬
tory wealth so abject and so complete
that Sevan years of exile from power
havo not entirely removed the stain
from the party.
“You ask why I am opposed to tho
reorganization of the democratic par¬
ty? Because I want my party to de¬
fine the rights of the people; I want
It to bo the fearless champion of their
interests; I want, it to present the mor¬
al Issues involved in public questions
and to appeal to the public conscience.
“When the next democratic conven¬
tion undertakes to write a new plat¬
form, it will find tho last one a model
of clearness and conciseness and of
square dealing, and I hope that the
delegates to the convention will be in¬
structed by tho various states to in¬
dorse.
“And how about candidates? It does
not matter much what the name of
the presidential candidate is, but It
does matter what he stands for, and
in what direction he is going to lead
the party. Let tho republican party
be challenged to meet the moral issue
presented—this is democratic, this is
patriotic."
Mr. Bryan departed frequently from
the text of the address.
Alluding to open sale of votes which
he said existed in Delaware, Mr Bryan
said;
“It is this commercialism that. Is de¬
baucblng our nation and betraying our
country. I beg you to thunder out
against this vicious principle and not
try and stop it In some little way.”
In speaking of the corruption of vot-
ing, he said:
“You cannot stop corruption with
corruption. I believe that instead of
giving a man $5 to vote the ticket you
should take a branding iron and brand
h)m it should be done to the coun¬
,, 1Iman w h 0 8e n 3 a franchise that be¬
longs to the city; to the member of
u, 0 g ( a te legislature who betrays his
pu0D ) e f or the rights of gain; the eon-
gr( ,g sman and senator who allows cor-
ruption to wreck the laws of the land.”
FLORAL TRIBUTE TO McKINLEY.
-
Birthday of Martyred President Corn-
memorated by House Members.
A carnation adorned the lapel of the
coat of nearly every member of the
house Friday in commemoration of the
late Presidentl McKinley's birthday,
The chaplain referred to the late-pres-
ltlen L saying:
“We thank Thee, oh, Heavenly Fa-
ther . f °r the beautiful life and Char-
act er of our beloved McKinley, whom
we remember with grateful hearts to-
<la y f°r the things that he did in his
llfe and for the beautiful example of
Christian character and fortitude he
left to us in his death.”
BISHOP GALLOWAY ACCEPTS.
Methodist Divine Will Preach Sermon
at Booker Washington's School.
A dispatch from Tuskegee, -Ala.,
says: Bishop Charles B. Galloway, of
the Methodist Episcopal church, south,
Jackson, Miss., has accepted the invita-
tlon p> r £p C ip a j Booker T. Washing-
lon t0 p reac i! t be commencement ser-
a j th Q institute May 2?.