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The Jones News
M, C. GREENE, Editor and Proprietor.
RIOT IN NEW YORK
Fierce Battle Raged Between
Whites and Blacks,
USED GUNS AND BRICKS
Force of Two Hundred and Fifty Po¬
licemen Required to Quell Con¬
flict—Scores of the Combat¬
ants More or Less Injured. .
“San Juan Hill,” the district bound-
ed by Amsterdam and West End avo-
nues and Sixty-first and Sixty-third
streets, in New York city, so called
beoause of its notoriety as a battle-
ground, was the scene Friday night
of a furious race riot which required
250 policemen to quell after many
shots had been fired and several per-
sons had been seriously injuned.
The trouble b.egan shortly after 9
o'clock when a policeman arrested Ed¬
ward Connelly, white, for attacking
Henry Williams, a negro, and was
pursued to the station house with
his prisoner by a mob of Connolly’s
friends, hurling showers of stones and
other missiles. When the station
house reserves turmed out the whole
neighborhood was in an uproar, and
blacks and whites engaged in des-
perate struggles In the streets. Tor-
rents of missiles were hurled from
roofs and windows. Within ten min-
utes not less than a thousand men
boys and women, black and white,
were engaged In a furious combat.
The small part, of police were pow-
erless and reinforcements were sum-
moned.
On their arival a cordon was drawn
around the whole district, and strong
patrols made repeated charges down
the streets in a vain effort to pestore
order. They succeeded In making a
few ^prisoners, and were forced to re¬
treat, fighting every inch of the way
and pursued to the station house
by a howling mob.
The worst fighting was m Sixty-
second street, where from every win¬
dow and roof rained missiles, while
hundreds of shots were fired.
Inspector McLaughlin arrived short-
]y before 9 o’clock and, realizing how
wide-spread was the. danger, sent hur-
ry calls for reserves from as far north
as One Hundred and Twenty-fUta
street from the east side, aod from
the west side. In all there were more
than 250 men under command of the
inspector within twenty minutes.
^qftads of men were sent, along
roofs of the houses in Sixty-second
street, where the fighting seemed
heaviest. They walked from West
End avenue to Amsterdam, clearing
the roofs, and found that many chim¬
neys had been torn to pieces to fur¬
nish ammunition to the rioters, and
in the corners of roofs were mounds
of bricks, pottery and bottles. More
arres’s were made, and several whites
and negroes were rescued from gangs
of assailants, but a desultory combat
continued.
The rioting spread down town to
Fifty-seventh street and up to Sixty-
eighth street, although the hardest
battles were fought between Sixty-
first and Sixty-third streets, For
more than half an hour cars on the
Amsterdam line were blocked. Color¬
ed men pursued by whites took rep
uge on cars as they passed, and were
followed by showers of bricks and
stones as they fled. Every window
in many cars were broken, and pas¬
sengers took shelter In neighboring
houses. Conductors and fnotormen
hid under seats, leaving their oars
to the mercy of the mob. Several
passengers were slightly hurt by
stones and broken glasses.
Commissioner McAdoo arrived at 11
o’clock, and made a tpur of the bat¬
tle field, the fighting by that tlmeh&v-
Ing ceased. He said the riot could
not have taken place had not the
rougher element been permitted to
carry arms. They appeared to have
a regular arsenal of w r eapons, as the
police found when they searched the
prisoners.
REPORT ON GEORGIA SCHOOLS.
Advance Sheets Submitted to Legis¬
lature by Commissioner Merritt,
State School Comlssloner W. B.
Meritt of Georgia has submitted some
advance sheets of his report to the
general assembly.
The school statistics for 1904 show
that the school population was 712,-
0C0. The number of pupils attending
school 490,103. Of these 200,238 ^98,865 were
white children and were ne-
groes. The number of teachers was
10,360. Of these 6,951 were white and ,
3,400 negroes. The number of school
houses in the state was 7,786
ON EMBEZZELEMENT CHARGE.
Augusta Broker Accused of Selling His
Cotton and Pocketing Cash.
Sensational charges have been made
by B. F. Holley and Wes Johnson,
Aiken, S. C. farmers, against the
Planters’ Cotton Factorage company
at Augusta, ua„ charging that over
100 bales of cotton shipper! to the
concern have been sold and r.o ac*
counting made.
presid
And Demands That Cotton
Leak Be Probed—Attorney Gen¬
eral Has Papers In the Case.
A Washington special says:
Attorney General Hoyt received
Secretary Wilson Tuesday the
I placed in the hands of United
| District Attorney Morgan
Branch, who will probe into
whole subject and make a
j I inquiry embracing every detail
nected with the compilation of
statistics involved.
Mr. Beach declined to say
on the subject, but It is
that the investigation which ho
! conduct will be begun at once,
will cover both the legal and
: istrative feature of the incident.
j District Attorney Beach has
ready examined the report, and
now take active direction of the
proceedings looking to the
of the guilty parties.
Mr. Hoyt stated that he had
urged by Secretary Wilson to
the matter to the bottom, and to
any moans at his command to get at
the true condition and to bring
guilty persons to trial.
It Is felt at the department that
1 withstanding the opinion of the United
: States district attorney that on
j ! facts presented In the secret
reports he did not think a
, ion would lie, a re-examination of
testimony would tend to alter
■ opinion.
II is now known that
Roosevelt lias taken a hand In the
t6 " and directed that nothing be
ur.doi^ to punish the offenders If a
way can be found to do It.
Mr. Hoyt and Mr. Beach have al-
j w| ready U be been determined in communication, whether there and Is
statute under which a criminal pros-
ecution may be directed against
"’In s - Holmes, the former assistant
statistician of the department of
culture, who was dismissed,
1 f t is alleged he “juggled" figures in
the government crop estimates and
furnished advance information to
York brokers, and against others that
| may he found Implicated. In case
criminal prosecution is not
some other way to reach the guilty
parties Is to be sought.
The new system of preparing the
monthly crop report, devised since .Ve
cotton investigation began, was put
> n force Tuesday. The report was
made public late in the afternoon and
the secretary believes that the steps
taken to safeguard the figures were
well pigh perfect. Early In the day
Assistant Secretary Hays, Chief Sta¬
tistician Hyde and" several experts
of the department were placed in a
room under lock and key, and they
were not to be permitted to come
out until four o’clock in the afternoon.
The telephones in the room were dis¬
connected, and a careful scrutiny was
kept of the windows to avoid the
possYfllity of a leak through private
signals. ,
CONVICT FAILED TO REACH PEN.
Negro Prisoner Shot to Death While
In Charge of Officer.
Dave Colins, a negro, who was con¬
victed of attempted criminal assault
on Miss Hogg, at a special term of
the Copiah county, Mississippi, court,
Tuesday, was sentenced to ten years
in the penitentiary, was killed by Mr.
Dickey, a brother-in-law of Miss Hog?*
op his way to prison.
The killing occurred on a train at.
Cystal Springs. Dickey walked calm¬
ly into the coach where an officer was
sitting with the prisoner, and, draw¬
ing his pistol, fired three shots Into
the negro’s body. Death was instan¬
taneous.
Dickey surrendered, expressing sat-
irfaction for what he had done.
MINE CAVE-IN DEALS DEATH.
Three Men Crushed Under Rock and
Five Receive Injuries,
Three men were killed and five in-
jr.red by the caving In of rock at
Sayreton mines, north of Birmingham,
Alabama, Tuesday afternoon, The
mines belong to the Alabama Consol-
idated Coal and Iron company.
BAND1T8 RIDDLED BY POSSE.
Murderers of Railway Detective in
Kansas Soon Come to Grief.
q. c. Calhoon, an Atchison, To-
p€ka and Santa Fe ra n way detective,
was Bhot end instantly killed at Cedar-
vale, Kansas, early Wednesday by tv ,
outlaws, who were shot down latei
by a posse of citizens,
One of the outlaws, Ed Madigan of
Ponca, Oklahoma, was killed instantly
by the posse. The other, William
Chadburn of Winfield, Kansas, was
fatally wounded. The outlaws ex-
changed many shots with the posse.
ALEXANDER SERIOUSLY ILL.
Former President of Equitable in Se¬
clusion on Long Island.
James W. Alexander, former pres
ident of the Equitable Life Assurance
Society, is very ill. He is undergo
ing treatment in a secluded place on
Long Island, and it is said that he
Is In such a condition that all knowl¬
edge of the recent developments in
the society have been kept from him.
GRAY. JONES CO.. GA.. THURSDAY. -JULY 20. 1005.
LAWSON VAPORINCS
Frenzied Finance Apostle
Crusading in Minnesota.
DOING UP PEOPLE
! Says Ho
Ha3 Several Millions Wrong,
fully Wrung from the People and
Facetiously Promises to Pay
It All Back.
Thomas W, Lawson of Boston was
tho guest of the Minneapolis Commer¬
cial Club Thursday. Mr. Lawson
spoke before 300 piembers of the
club. He seemed full of energy and
the utmost respect was paid to him
by his hearers. He said In part:
"I am not afraid of personal vio¬
lence. I came out here unguarded,
paying my own expenses, and I am
going to make a life work of this. I
have several millions myself, and 1
wronged tho American people in get¬
ting It, but, I did not know it at the
time. When the time comes I will
give that money back to them. If
I live I am going to make the Amer¬
ican people sell every dollar's worth
of stock they have, and by that time
they will know better than to buy
back.”
Mr. Lawson scored the Equitable
Life Assurance Society.
“I have several millions,” he said,
“but I haven’t any more than I am
entitled to, the way the game is play¬
ed, for I know the game, and I have
lived up to the rules of It.
“I’m going to kill the ‘system’ not
by law or anything they can delay by
red tape, but by arousing the anger
of 50,000,000 people.
Lawson also spoke In St. Paul to a
large audience. In part lie said: “I
have no political ambitions. I could
not accept political office were it ten¬
dered me. I have work cut out which,
even if I devote 18 hours per day to
It, will last me until I am over 90
years old—too old to think of political
honors.”
Mr. Lawson did not deliver a set
speech; he talked informally In a con¬
versational tone, devoting his time to
answering a series of questions pro¬
pounded to him by a local newspa¬
per. Ho declared that should his so-
cftlied remedy be put into effect there
would be no political revolution; the
various parties would go on battling
for t.hetr principles as heretofore. But
a great financial revolution there
would be; there would be no more
stock inflation; the money stolen from,
the people by the "system” would ho
returned to the people, and, bccauso
railroads and industrial corporations
would have only to earn a fair por-
centage on the true value of their
Investments, the cost of living would
be reduced and wage earners would
be able to enjoy greater luxuries and
to lay by a greater portion of their
earnings. As to when he would pro¬
pound this remedy he said that it
would be foolish to make it known
until the people were ready for It;
otherswise the “system” would find
means to render it non-effective. The
people must first get rid of
their stocks and bonds; sell them
to the "system” at the present
Inflated prices and then when the
“system” was forced to let them go,
the people should buy them back
cheaply a nd forever keep the control
In their own hands.
When th's had been accomplished,
his remedy, which he declared to ho
a simple business proposition, could
be put into force, and there would
never again be inflation of capital
stocks.
MAN AND BABY KILLED.
Assassin Shoots Victims Through a
Window While They Slept.
While sleeping In his home at
Bland, near Galnesvile, Fla., William
West was fired upon through a win¬
dow. The top of his head was blown
off, the baby who was by him was
also killed and his wife seriously
wounded.
Four shots wore fired, but the first
shot extinguished the lamp and others
went wild.
Cub Jackson has been arrested for
the crime and committed to the cir¬
cuit court.
CZAR WILL TRAVEL TO MOSCOW.
Goes to Summon Representatives of
People to Meet in Islinsky Palace.
The Slovo (St. Petersburg) positive¬
ly announces that the emperor wilf
travel to Moscow, where he will fs-
sue a proclamation summoning the
representatives of the people to the
Islinsky palace, Kremlin.
Some of the officials of the court
already have gone to Moscow to make
pi ep-arations for the event.
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a HORRIBLE BUTCHERY.
Negro Bandit, Bent on Robbery, Slays
Twelve People with Winchester
Aboard a Small Schooner.
One of fhe most shocking stories of
murder with robbery as the motive in
the annals of crime was brought to
New Orleans Wednesday by Captain
Hans Holm of the Norwegian fruiter
Bratten, which plies between New
Orleans and Honduran ports. It was
subsequently confirmed by the officers
of the fruit steamer Hoslna, which
came In later in the evening with
additional details.
The little island of Utllla, lying
off the Honduran coast, and whose
population Is. an Indiscriminate mix¬
ture of whites, Caymanltes and Oar-
ibs, was the scene of the tragedy In
which twelve lives were sacrificed.
The captain of the little trading
schooner Olympia was Rbout to make
a trip to Ruatan, Truxlllo and Belize.
He had about $1,000 and was to buy
cattle at Truxilllo to sell at Belize.
The vessel carried a crew of four and
quife a number of passengers, making
the - total list of people Rboard num¬
ber thirteen. Among those were two
women and two children.
The vessel left the harbor of Utllla
at 11 o’clock Friday night, June 30,
and after she had been under w»J
less than an hour everybody was
aroused by a shot and, rushtag on
deck, found a negro armed with a
winchester shooting down the men
one after another. This negro was
Robert McGill and, as it afterwards
developed, he had stowed lilmself
away aboard with the Intention of
robbing the captain and then swim¬
ming ashore. After he had killed all
but one of the men bo ordered the
last survivor to go below and scuttle
the ship. When tho unfortunate re¬
appeared on deck and reported the
negro shot him dead. He then put
the two women, Miss Elsie Morgan
and her sister, Mrs. Walter Rose, In
the dory with Mrs. Rose’s slx-woeka,
old infant, and left the boat, steering
fo;- the mainland.
He changed his mind about allowing
the women to live, and killed Mrs.
Rose and her infant.
Then ho began shooting at Miss
Morgan and wounded her in the arm.
She jumped overboard and started to
swim back to the island He fired
at her Ineffectually, but his ammuni¬
tion evidently gave out, for he prom¬
ised her immunity from harm, if she
would come back to the dory. Stic
started back and, when within an
oar’s length, he struck her on the
head with an oar, stunning her. Be¬
lieving she was dead, he rowed away
toward the mainland.
M'iss Morgan swam back to the
island, where she was thrown on the
beach by the waves in an exhausted
condition. She feared that the negro
would follow her, so she hid In tho
bushes, and for two days suffered
from the heat and exposure, until
found by a woman from her neigh¬
borhood and rescued from starvation.
In the meantime the dory had been
washed ashore, and there was excite¬
ment in the island, as It was believed
the Olympia had gone down with all
hands. When Miss Morgan told her
story an Immediate search was In-
stituted for McGill, and the authori¬
ties on the mainland were notified.
They caught him at El Portvlnir, a
little town on the road to Celha, and
there was quite a demonstration, hut
ho was protected. prohibit the
The laws of Honduras
Infliction of capital punishment, but
the people probably will take the case
Into their own hands.
Miss Morgan, the only survivor of
the terrible experience, visited New
Orleans three years ago, and is a
well-educated, refined young woman of
23 years.
PHILADELPHIA HEAT FATALITIES
Besides More Than Score of Prostra¬
tions Recorded fqr a Day.
Six deaths and more than a score
of prostrations due to the high tem¬
perature were reported in Philadelphia
Wednesday by the police. The aver-
age maximum temperature has been a
fraction more then KB degrees, The
thermometer Wednesday registered
an.
WANTED TO SEE A WRECK.
Two Boys Under Arrest for Attempt
to Derail Fast Train.
Albert Herfer, 14, and Charles Fee,
11, sons of prominent farmers, two
miles, cast of Lima, Ohio, were arrest¬
ed Friday by Pennsylvania railroad
detectives charged with an attempt
to wreck passenger train No. 35. An-
gle irons were placed on the track,
and when the obstruction was hit a
brake rod on the engine and two
under the coaches were broken, but
the train kept on the rails.
“We wanted to see a wreck," was
the only explanation given.
INDIAN GIRLS AS SERVANTS.
A Problem Being Solved by People
of Appleton, Wisconsin.
The servant girl problem In the
Appleton, Wisconsin, district has been
partially solved by the employment
of Indian girls who have graduated
from the government school, Several
are now In the kitchens of various
families, receiving the same wages
ab white girls.
HUBBARD AROUSED
President of New York Cot¬
ton Exchange After Wilson.
WRITES TO ROOSEVELT
Members of Exchange Greatly Shock¬
ed by Disclosures of Venality In
Agricultural Department—New
Phase is Added to Scandal.
A Washington special says: A new
an ( ] interesting phase of the cotton
leak Investigation was developed on
Wednesday through (he publication of
the letter of Walter C. Hubbard, the
preslflent of the New York cotton ax-
change, addressed to President Roose¬
velt, In which the writer declared
that the members of the exchange)
had been ‘‘greatly shocked by the re¬
cent disclosures of venality In the de¬
partment of agriculture,” and request¬
ing a full Investigation of the meth¬
ods w'hich led to the corruption with
a view of preventing the posshtltty
of recurrence. That letter, it Is be¬
lieved Is the outcome of some recent
correspondence between Secretary
Wilson and Mr. Hubbard, In which
the latter called upon the secretary
to make him a public apology because
be had some years ago called tho sec¬
retary’s attention to alleged leaks,
and that no notice had been given
the suggestion.
The secretary wrote a tart reply,
In which he Informed Mr. Hubbard
that he owed no one an apology in
the light of having done Ills duty to
the best of his ability and that, when
he got anything that looked like facts,
promptly sent them to the secret ser¬
vice officers to hunt down.
The case to which Mr. Hubbard re¬
ferred in his recent letter to the sec¬
retary occurred In 1900. On Decem¬
ber 20 of that year Mr. Hubbard sent
the secretary certain papers showing
that a Mb. Steinberger wanted to soil
Information to a New York cotton
hiokerage firm, claiming thnt he got
It In advance of the department. Sec¬
retary Wilson Immedjatnly turned tho
matter over to tho secret service of¬
ficers, but In about a week Chief WU-
ldc reported that “It looks like an at¬
tempt of Steinberger to bunco the
New York firm.” After allowing twb
months to elapse and not hearing fur-
them, the secretary, on March 2(1, 1991,
called upon the secret, service for In¬
formation as to whether I hey had
made any discoveries. On Hie follow¬
ing day Secretary of the Treasury
age replied, as follows: “The action
of this man, who wanted to sell In¬
formation, was done with the hope
of being able to sell information, but,
as a matter of fact, Ills efforts to ob¬
tain the advance information failed,
as lie received no assistance from the
person In Washington upon whom he
depended for Information.”
Hubbard Complained Long Ago.
The report of Mr. Gage was trans¬
mitted to Mv Hubbard by Secretary
Wilson the next day, and the matter
was allowed to drop. But In Jan¬
uary, 1902, Mr. Hubbard complained
of having been advised that southern
glnners were sending to the depart¬
ment returns of their ginning opera¬
tions bearing date of December 22 or
23, “and,” said Mr. Hubbard, “I am
unable to understand why additional
returns from glnners should bo ob¬
tained, since tho result is to be pub¬
lished.” It seems, however, that the
department of agriculture had not call¬
ed for any gltuiers’ statistics at that
time, but that the circulars had been
issued from the census bureau.
In* the same month Mr. Hubbard
wrote the department of agriculture,
asking for certain Information on cot¬
ton, hut the secretary, In tho course
of a sharp letter, denying the request,
written under date of January 11, 1902,
said: “We take the ground here that
nothing goes out unless It goes to
the whole people. We have up favor¬
ites.” Secretary WMson, Wednesday,
permlttod the examination of tho cor¬
respondence, In order to show that as
far back as five years ago he bad
taken prompt action to discover any
leaks In his office.
AFTER MERIDIAN CRIMINALS.
Circuit Court Adjourns Aftsr Hav
ing Disposed of 218 Indictments.
Circuit court adjourned at Merid-
lan, Miss, Friday after one of the
most sensational sessions In the his-
tory of the county. The term be-
gan June 24 with a vehement charge
the grand , jury .
by Judge Cockran to
urging that body to do its duty in
breaking up vice and crime In the city
in the response there has been
218 indictments and seventy seii
tonees imposed ranging from fln.es of
$25 to life terms in the penlten
t i a ry.
RESIGNS AS PEACE ENVOY.
Muravieff, Chief Russian Plenipoten¬
tiary Throws Up Job.
A St. Petersburg special says: M.
Muravieff has resigned his position as
chief peace plenipotentiary. It may
bo regarded as practically certain that
he will he replaced by M. Witte, who,
ail along has been considered the Bus-
sian statesman pre-eminently qualified
to undertake the difficult task of ne-
gotl-ating peace with Japan.
VOL XL NO. 36.
TOBACCO LEAK ALLEGED
Attention of Agricultural Department
Called to Charges of Manipulating
Figures on “ Weed" Crop.
A Washington special says:
through the receipt of numerous dom-
munlcations from the south and state¬
ments appearing In the press at va.
rlous times, that the statistics of the
department of agriculture on tobacco
were being manipulated In the inter¬
ests of the so-called tobacco trust,
Secretary Wilson has begun an In¬
quiry into the subject. Bending the
investigation the publication of the
tobacco statistics of the several dis¬
tricts will be held up, although the
regular monthly figures by slates will
bo given out as usual.
It. was stated at the department
Friday that special agents have been
sent to the dark tobacco districts ot
Tennessee and Kenucky to verify or
correct the department’s figures. This
action, Mr. Hyde, the chief statisti¬
cian, said, was In deference to the
sentiment which had been engendered
that the department's figures were
wholly incorrect.
Mr. Hyde has been given direct
charge of the Investigation, which,
jit Is believed, will bo conofwVed
within two or three weeks.
Statement by Hubbard.
President Waller C. Hubbard of the
New York cotton exchange made the
following statement Friday:
“Permit, me to ask you very kindly
to eorrect a misapprehension of the
press in regard tti my letter to Pres¬
ident Roosevelt concerning the dis¬
closures In the depr-'ment of agri¬
culture. I have never written to Sec-
rotary Wilson, and my letter was not
the sequel of any correspondence with
him conducted by my brother, Sam¬
uel T. Hubbard, when president of
tho New York cotton exchange. My
note was prompted simply by tho
recent revelations, and had for Its
purpose solely to mnko a clear state¬
ment of the attitude of our exchange.”
Memphis Acts on Scandal.
The Memphis, Tenn., cotton ex¬
change has forwarded a letter to
President Roosevelt, a copy of which
follows:
“Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Presi¬
dent of the United States, Washing-
ton, P. O.: Sir—The Memphis cot¬
ton exchange desires to enter its ear¬
nest protest against the system of
leakage in tho government cotton
report by employees of the bureau of
statistics of the agricultural depart¬
ment as recently exposed at Wash-
lngton, and to express the hope that
you will order a thorough investiga¬
tion of tho mattor and criminal pros¬
ecution of the party or parties who
have been guilty of this offenso.
“No man should he permitted to
occupy an office of the government
who makes public the secrets of the
office for his private gain or for the
benefit of others In collusion with him.
“We hope thnt you will order the
matter sifted to tho bottom and that
steps will be taken for the adequate
punishment, not alone of employees
of the government who ore found
guilty, but of all parlies whoso play
has made them the beneficiaries of
this corrupt and disgraceful system.
NEGROES TALK CONSUMPTION.
Great White Plague Among the Sub¬
jects at Hampton Conference.
Tho closing session of the Hamp-
ton negro conference was held Fri¬
day at the Hampton institute. In a
discussion of the ravages of coil-
sumption among negroes, Dr. Francis
of Portsmouth, Va., showed that the
death rate of the colored population
from that disease was twice as great
as the death rate of the whites from
the same diseases.
BILL MAKES VISIT TO OSCAR.
German Emperor and King of Sweden
Talk Over the Situation.
A special from Berlin says: No
dication of tho result of the meeting
between Emperor Wtllliam and King
Oscar at Gene, Sweden, Thursday, has
reached Berlin, nor Is any report, of
their conversation likely to be made
public, as It, is explained that this
was a strictly private visit of one
sovereign to another.
BONAPARTE TO PAY FARE.
New Secretary of Navy Returns Free
Railroad Pasr.ec With, Thanks.
It la stated at the navy deparment
that Ffecrctairy Bonaparte has out¬
lined liis position is reference to ac¬
cepting »n;r,es ‘.'or free transportation
on tho railroad* by returning passes
that bary asr.t to him with
thanks b»r U-ronrtsijy, but stating
that 5jy r-a^cn th* public position
which ho he feds uit.uh!*!
to HV*.', i/.r.u«;r d »t.u c«r.blds:t-
tic .1.
COLORIC WAVE IS GENERAL.
Hot Weather Prevail* Over Greater
Portion of United States.
A Washington special of Wtednes-
day Is as follows: Hot weather pro-
vails over the greater portion of the
United States, according to reports
received at the weather bureau.
Tbroughout the west the reports !n ;
dicate Increasing hot weather, TTTe
humidity Is high all along the Atlan-
tic coast, and te prospect 18 that It
will continuer so two or three days.”
DEADLY PIT HORROR
Mine Explosion in Wales
Snuffs Out 126 Lives.
MANY BODIES RECOVERED
Disaster Caused by Fire Damp and
Majority of Victims Were Suffo¬
cated In Clouds of Dust and
8moke—Rescuers at Work.
An Associated PreHs dispatch from
Cardiff, Wales, says; An explosion ot
fire damp In No. 2 pit of the United
rational Colliery company at Wntts-
town, In tip! Rhonda valley, the center
of the great Welch coal Reids, Tues¬
day morning, Is believed to have re¬
sulted In the loss of at least one hjir
died and twenty-six lives.
Tho explosion was followed Immedi¬
ately by the belching of clouds of
smoke and dust from the pit shaft,
In which 150 men were working. The
force of the explosion wrecks,1 ti,e
machinery at the mouth of the pH. All
communication with the doomed men
In this direction Is completely cut off.
No 1 shaft, adjoining, has ordinarily
afforded communication with No. 2.
The 800 men in No. 1 and the few
who escaped from No. 2 were drawn
up.
A rescue party descended, but Its
work was seriously Impeded by the
foul air and the falling masses of
earth dislodged by the explosion.
Altogelher, sixty-eight bodies have
been recovered.
Heroic efforts have been made by
rescuers to reach the *tj$itombed men,
hut late Tuesday night the absence
of all sound from the Interior of tho
pilno told the lale of the worst dis¬
aster that has taken place in South
Wales since 189-1.
The news of the explosion spread
rapidly nnd hundreds of women and
children and thousands of men throng¬
ed the head of tne pit seeking infor¬
mation.
ROUNDING UP GRAFTERS.
Grand Jury at Milwaukee Has Turned
In 105 True Bills.
Sixty-seven Indictments assist
twenty-five Individuals, most of whom
are former county officials, were hand¬
ed down by the grand jury at Milwau¬
kee, late Tuesday afternoon, and the
probing of the Jury sthl goes on, the
term not expiring until September 1.
Tuesday’s hatch of true bills added
to tho thirty-eight returned some ten
days ago, makes a total of 105 thus
far. The latest list, contains twenty
out of the twenty-one names returned
In tho last hatch, there being but
five new names before reported.
Nearly all of the Indictments charge
bribery in the sum of $00, the nmounls
It Is alleged having been paid to
present or former county officials, in
connection with the awarding of con¬
tracts for the erection of an addition
to the county hospital several years
ago. Many of the indictments are the
result of confessions of Otto Seidel,
Jr., and Edward F. Strauss, former
members of the county board.
RUSSIAN COUNT ASSASSINATED,
Prefect of Police In Moscow Slain
While Receiving Petitions.
Major General Count Shouvaloff,
prefect of police at Moscow, and for¬
merly attached to tho ministry of the
interior, was assassinated Tuesday
morning while receiving petitions. One
of the petitioners drew a revolver and
fired five times at tho prefect, who
fell dead. The assassin was arrest¬
ed. Ho was dressed as a peasant,
and has not hen identified. He wan
recently arrested, but escaped from
the police station before his exami¬
nation.
According to a St. Petersburg dis¬
patch, the assassination of count
Shouvaloff Is considered to be a purs-
ly political crime, as the count was
Hot yet forty yoars of ago, and was
regtrded as being of the Uest type of
tl»Y Russian official.
FUGITIVES ARE GUARDED.
Close Watch Ordered Kept on the
Messrs. Greene end Gaynor.
A Montreal dispatch says; Extraor¬
dinary precautions are being taken
by the authorities to guard Gaynor
and Greene, the American contractors,
who. It now appears certain, must re¬
turn to the United States, Orders
have been given Jailer Vallee by the
attorney general Instructing him to
carefully guard the prisoners, and
to engage extra guards If they are
needed.
TO qHVORCE CHURCH AND STATE
Measure to Eliminate Ecclesiasticlsm
le Before French Senate.
A Paris special says: The appoint¬
ment by the senate of a committee on
separation was another step toward
the final adoption of the bill dividing
church and state—already passed by
the chamber of deputies,
Interest In the question now cen-
ters in the action to be taken by
the senate, and fears are expressed
that the long and fierce fight which
characterized the debate in the lower
house will bo renewed.