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M. C. GREENE, Editor and Proprietor.
CHURCH BATTERED
Opposition to New French
Law Precipitates Trouble.
GUARDSMEN CALLED OUT
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Government Starting Out to Make In¬
ventories of Church Property la
Met by Resistence from the
k Catholics.
A Paris special says: A socialist
deputy, M. Allard, interpellated by
the government In the chamber Fri¬
day afternoon relative to the meas¬
ures which it was intended to take
to protect the government commis¬
sioners In carrying out their Instruc¬
tions to make Inventories of the prop¬
erty of the churches.
Premier Rouvier replied that the
authorities had orders to use tact
' a^d moderation during the operations,
but the government was determined
to do it! duty at any cost, even em¬
ploying armed force if necessary.
'in the meantime the opposition of
the clergy to the taking of invento¬
ries is becoming more formidable.
While the minister was being inter¬
pellated in the chamber, scenes of
extreme violence were transpiring at
the Church of St. Clothilde, near the
chamber of deputies.
The church had been tilled since
early morning. Before the govern¬
ment commissioner appeared, a police
official attempted to induce the clergy
to permit an inventory to be taken,
received severe maltreatment, while
outside the policeman and mounted
municipal guards were compelled to
adopt the sternest measures in order
to disperse the turbulent crowds.
Repeated charges occurred, leading
to fifty arrests. Among those taken
into custody were two priests. The
crowd eventually became so violent
in the Rue de Grenelle that the police
drew their- swords, which, however,
they did not use. Many persons, in¬
cluding some policemen, were Injured
during the fighting. The prefect of
police, Mr.. Leplne, personally super¬
intended the maintenance of order,
but, despite the fact that he repeat¬
edly counselled calmness, was unable
to restore quiet.
Eventually the fire engines were or¬
dered to take up a position near the
church so as to he able if necessary
te drench the crowd, which obstinate¬
ly refused to move, the women show¬
ing the greatest determination, open¬
ing .umbrellas for their protection and
in the meanwhile chanting psalms.
M. Lepine ordered the municipal
guards and police to enter the church.
Under a Shower of broken chairs
the officers broke down the railings
in front of the entrance, while the
cfowd rained heavy blows on them.
The firemen burst in the doors anl
the police arid municipal guards en
tered the buildings. One of the prin¬
cipal officers was severely wounded.
Inside the church the congregation
had, erected a barricade whieh had
to be taken fcy' assault while men
and women fainted. -After the church
had been cleared the commissioner
proceeded to take an inventory, the
Catholics outside singing canticles.
The prefect of the department of
the Seine has issued instructions to
the clergy to give up the keys of the
churches, and added that in cases of
(refusal the. commissioners are .in¬
structed to call on the armed forces
for assistance.
HOME DISPOILER IS SLAIN.
Doctor Finds Another Man With His
Wife and Uses Revolver.
Dr. R. e. Lindsey prominent phy¬
sician of ^Moultrie, Ga., returned to
his home Thursday night at S o’clock
and found P. J. ..Williams with Mrs.
Lindsey. Dr. Lindsey promptly drew
a revolver and opened fire upon Wil¬
liams, killing him Instantly.
IMMIGRANT AGENT JAILED.
Colored Labor Procurer Gets Into the
Toils at Austell, Ga. ‘
Mayor Shelverton of Austell, Ga,
Friday caused the arrest of Charles
Laban, a negro immigrant agent, who
had six negroes at the depot, on their
way to Birmingham.
The technical charge against the ne¬
gro was- a violation of the labor laws
of the state, which prohibits the ship¬
ment of laborers In a body for work
outside the state.
FOR LIGHTSHIP AT BRUNSWICK.
Lighthouse .Board Wants Estimate
Raised: to $ 120 , 000 .
The lighthouse ‘board’ Has sent .to
congress Its recommendation lor- in¬
crease in the estimate for a lightship
at Brunswick, Ga., from $90,000 to
$120,000. This is made hecessary by
the inability, to, secure bids, from -re
sponsible bidders within the original
estimate.
FIGHT WON BY FARMERS.
House Demands That Census Director
Produce Figures of Ginners—Rate
Bill Debated at Length.
A Washington special says: The
house at Friday’s session called for
the estimate of cqtton yet to, be gin¬
ned, which the i^gector of census
has compiled, but' which he has no
authority to make public until March.
This actlen precipitated a lively dis¬
cussion la which petulance was ex¬
pressed that the house should par
ticlpate la furnishing Information lor
the benefit of the speculators.
On the other hand there were nu¬
merous members, who stated that the
substantial Interests of grower, spin¬
ner and merchant made it imperative
that such Information should not be
allowed to be bottled up. There was
no opposition to the resolution on Its
passage.
The discussion of the railroad rate
bill was taken up and prosecuted with
vigor throughout the day. So many
speakers have come to the front on
this measure that the house agreed <o
meet at 11 o'clock hereafter until
the debate is ended. The feature of
the ’ debate was the lengthy speech
of Mr. Sibley of Pennsylvania, who
arraigned the legislation with argu¬
ments of varied character, all of
which tended to give his reasons for
being unalterably opposed to the
bill.
When he charged that the legisla¬
tion was socialistic in Its nature, and
was a step towards government own¬
ership and the dream of Bryan and
Hearst, Mr. James of Kentucky asked
what the reason was for the right¬
about face of the republican party
in the direction of the Bryan leader
ship.
“I will gracefully place the respon¬
sibility on my colleagues of broader
shoulders,” retorted Mr. Sibley, and
when Mr. James, who Is quite bald,
sat down shaking hts head. Mr. Sib¬
ley remarked to the great amusement
of the house: “Don’t shake your gory-
locks at me.”
“Oh, ths gentleman’s hair is nearly
as absent as my own,” responded Mr.
James.
Mr. Sibley said he would advocate
larger salaries for the members of
the interstate commerce commission,
and would content himself with voting
against the bill.
A speech by Mr. Heflin of Alabama
also favoring the bill concluded the
day’s debate.
Director of the Census North was
promptly notified of the passage by
the house of the resolution of Repre¬
sentative Sims of Tennessee, calling
for statistics of the census bureau on
the amount of cotton remaining urn
ginned on January 16. In anticipa¬
tion of such action, he had already
begun preparing the figures.
COURT ORDER REMOVES GRAVES
Injunction Deprives Editor of Atlanta
News of His Job.
At Atlanta Thursday night Colonel
John Temple Graves was removed
from the position of editor-In chief of
The News by a petition of Charles
Daniel, granted temporarily by Judge
Pendletoa, Mr. Graves was com-
manded to appear before the court
Febraury 12, to show cause why he
shall not be attached for contempt of
court.
This startling development in The
Atlanta News embroglio followed the
suppression by injunction of an edi¬
torial written Thursday afternoon by
Mr. Graves, then editor of The News.
EXPLOSION whelms miners.
Many Victims Supposed to Be En¬
tombed in West Virginia Pit.
A terrible explosion occurred about
'5 o’clock Thursday afternoon in what
is known as the “Ball Knob” mines
No. i, one of the operations of the
Red Jacket Coal and Coke company,
near Delorme, Mingo county, West
Virginia.
A force of men were at work in
the mines at the time of the explo¬
sion, and it is feared that many other
victims will be found when the work
of rescue can begin.
INAUGURATION OF SWANSON.
Virginia’s New Governor Takes Oath
. of Office at Richmond.
Claude A. Swanson for several terms
a member of congress, representing
the Fifth Virginia district, was in¬
augurated as governor of the state at
Richmond Thursday, succeeding An¬
drew Jackson Montague. The oath of
office was administered by Judge Staf¬
ford G. Whittle, of the supreme court,
after prayer by Rev. Sidney Peters.
The oath of office was then admin¬
istered to Lieutenant Governor-elect
J. Taylor Ellison, which ended the
official ceremonies.
NEGRO STUDENTS RETURNING.
Strikers at Talladega Colored School
Are Giving Up the Fight.
The Talladega (negro) school strike
has about run its course, and, accord¬
ing to a statement from President B.
M* Kyce, fully 90 per cent of the
strikers have returned. L. O. Parks,
the southern white man whose em¬
ployment caused the strike, Is re
tained and is performing his duties.
GRAY. JONES CO., GA.. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 8. 1906.
NORTH 18 RATTLED
Director of Census Bureau
Tires of Criticisms,
WANTS TO QUIT HIS JOB
Hopes That Congress Will See Fit to
Relieve Him of Task—Southern
Cotton Men Have Driven Him
to Desperation.
Having taken notice of the criti¬
cisms upon his office by President
Jordan of the Southern Cotton Grow¬
ers' Association, and others, Director
North, of the census bureau, at Wash¬
ington, r declared Wednesday that he
hoped congress would relieve him of
all further work In connection with
cotton statistics.
“It is the most disagreeable and
annoying work I have ever known,”
said Mr. North. "These reports nra
gotten up> for the benefit of the south¬
ern people, but they seem to be do
voting all their energies toward dis¬
crediting them.”
In answer to the allegations made
by President Jordan, Director North
said:
“These cotton ginning reports were
established by law for the benefit of
the cotton growers and I had believed
they were effective to that end, but
the reports of the growers, like Mr.
Jordan and J. A. Taylor, of the Cot¬
ton Ginners’ Association, seem to do
everything in their power to discredit
the reports and thus destroy their
value, and under these oircumstances
I do not believe it worth while for
congress to continue to appropriate
$260,000 a year for the collection of
reports in the interests of the cotton
growers when those men are dissat¬
isfied with the results. No effort to
show that the reports are inaccurate,
misleading or manipulated has been
successful. There has never been a
leak from the census office since the
system was established.
“Mr. Jordan now attacks the direc¬
tor because he refuses to deviate from
the regular methods of promulgating
these statistics at the demand of pri¬
vate parties.
"I have therefore declined to accede
to these requests unless directed by
congress to do so.
“The estimates of cotton remaining
to be ginned, whose publication Mr.
Jordan demands, are obtained by the
census offloe at its mid-January can¬
vass for the purpose of enabling It
to determine what counties need not
be canvassed when the final canvass
takes place in March. Whenever the
estimates show that there is no more
cotton to be ginned in a county or
that the amount is insignificant no
final canvass is necessary. Posses-
sio'h of this information enables the
bureau to save from $8,000 to $12,000
in the.cost of the final canvass and
that is the only purpose for which
these estimates have ever been used.
They are only approximate and there¬
fore possess no statistical value.
“With regard to the publication of
the cpnsus bale weights, to which Mr.
■
Jordan also alludes, I can only say
that the computations necessary to
secure correct average weights from
these returns are enormous in
amount and delicate in character.
With our utmost energy we shall not
be able to complete these computa¬
tions before the last of February and
yet I am dally in receipt of telegrams
from the south stating that by keep¬
ing back the weight of bales I am
enabling speculators to rob the south.”
Director North concluded with the
remark that “all these circumstances
have caused me to pray that congress
might relieve me of this work.”
DAVE HILL COMES SOUTH.
Former New York Senator Taking a
Rest in South Carolina.
A New Yqrk dispatch says: Former
Senator David B. Hill, who has been
ordered south for a prolonged rest by
hi; physicians left Wednesday night
for Camden, S. C. He said that he
would remain in the milder climate
at least until April 1.
JATE FOR WHEELER MEMORIAL.
Blu« and Gray Vets to Gather in At¬
lanta on February 28.
The Wheeler memorial, an event
contemplated by the members of Camp
A, Wheeler's confederate cavalry, in
Atlanta, a week ago, has been fixed
for Wednesday, February 28, and the
Indications are that the occasion will
be one which will attract not only
the attention of "a reunited country,
but will draw to Atlanta more Grand
Army of the Republic men and Uni¬
ted confederate veteran men than have
ever mingled since the day* of Appo¬
mattox.
•ALLEGED EMPTY BLUFF.
President Accused of Backdown Anent
Railroad Rate Bill.
A Washington dispatch says: Pres¬
ident Roosevelt’s announcement that
he is not fighting the senate on the
railroad question Is construed as a dis
tinct backdown from the president’s
avowed attitude as represented by
men who have been claiming to have
his authority for their statements.
MOURNING WAS BRIEF,
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Widow of Millionaire Yerkea Becomes
Bride Again Within Little Over
Month of Husband’s Demise.
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.A .New .Ylcfifdispatch says: Throe
days lefts'tlfan five weeks from the
deatH of Charles T. Yerkes, the trac¬
tion ’king,' who died on December 29,
his widow was Wednesday night mar-
ried to’Wilson Mizner, of San Fran¬
cisco. The ceremony was performed
by Rev. Andrew Gillies, pastor of
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St. Andrew Episcopal church.
J. L. Eristtand of San Francisco
confirmed the report of the marriago
of Mrs. Yerkes. Mr, Eastland was a
witness to the ceremony, which took
place at the Yerkes’ residence on
Fifth avenue. The other witnesses
were Emile Brugere, also of San
Francisco, arid Mrs. Goodsell, a wo-
man companion of Mrs. Yerkes.
For years'before the death of her
husband, Mrs. Yerkes and he had been
estranged, - and during his last illness
she sovei-lU times refused to go to his
bedside, but relented just In time to
be present at his death.
The main cause of the rupture in
the Yerkes family was supposed to be
the alleged relations of Mr. Yerkes
with several Young women, notably
Emile Grigsby, the Kentucky girl, on
whom he .is said to have lavished
thousands, but failed to remember In
his will. It Is now declared that she
is about to.bring suit against the es¬
tate for $2,000,000.
While it is known that Miss Grigs
by is in her Park avenue home, she
still refuses, to. be interviewed rela¬
tive to the linking of her name with
that of the dead financier. Although
she has been informed that the press
has knowledge of the proposed suit,
she positively refuses to say anything
about the matter, remaining as slio
did all through the Yerkes scandal,
in seclusion, denying herself to news¬
paper reporters.
NOT OBLIGED TO ANSWER.
New York Supreme Court Upholds
“Standard Oil" Rogers.
A decision that Henry H. Rogers,
vice president of the Standard Oil
company of New. Jersey, shall not be
compelled to answer the questions
which he recently refused to answer
in the case of the state of Missouri
against the Standard Oil company of
Indiana, and other oil companies was
handed down Wednesday by Justice
Gildersleeve in the 'New Pork supreme
court.
The application to compel Mr. Rog
ers to answer the questions was made
by Attorney General Hadley of Mis¬
souri. The companies affected In this
case are the Standard Oil company
of Indiana, the Waters-Plerce Oil com¬
pany and the Republic Oil company.
The state of Missouri seeks to oust
them from doing business In Mis¬
souri.
COTTON SLUMP UNWARRANTED.
President Jordan Issues Another
Statement to Holders of Staple.
President Jordan of the Southern
Cotton Association Wednesday issued
a strong statement to the holders' of
spot cotton throughout the south, go¬
ing to show that the present depres¬
sion Is wholly unwarranted.
The price of cotton, he states,
should be based oh its intrinsic value
and not made subject to’ the whims
of speculators. President Jordan also
again criticises the methods of Theo¬
dore Price and other cotton hears,
used for the purpose of depressing
the market for their individual gain.
SALE OF TAGS DECREASE.
But Little Fertilizer Being Sold In
Alabama This Year.
The sales of fertilizer tags by tho
Alabama department of agriculture for
the month of January numbers 782,-
165, which Is for 78, $16 tons, This
is compared to 79,566 tons In January
of last year and 90,989 tons tn the
same month of 1904. It. Is thus seen
that there Is less of this class of en¬
richment used this year than, last
and far lass than the year before.
8HERIFF KILLED BY NEGRO.
Officer Met Quick Death While Trying
to Make an Arreat.
Word reached the governor’s office
at, Jackson, Miss., Wednesday of the
killing of .1. A. Robertson, sheriff of
Covington county, his slayer being a
negro named Robinson, whom he was
trying to arrest.
The murderer escaped Immediately
after the shooting, and the governor
has offered a reward of $250 for his
capture, which will be supplemented
by a reward offered by citizens of
the county who are much excited over
the tragedy.
MEMORIAL TO GEN. WHEELER.
Big Meeting of Blue and Gray to Be
Held in Atlanta.
I In addition to a proposed monument
to be erected at Arlington, In mem¬
ory of General Joseph Wheeler, ad¬
vance arrangements have been made
for the holding of a great memorial
meeting of the blue and the gray In
honor of the noted confederate cav¬
alry leader at Atlanta, beginning Feb¬
ruary 25.
MANY BALES YETT0 COME
Speaker Cannon Hat Report of Cen¬
sus Director North Read in the
House Lobby—A Sharp Advance
Follows.
Speaker Cannon made public the
census bureau figures on unglnned cot¬
ton immediately after the house was
called to order Friday. The total
amount of unglnned cotton shown by
the report is 250,884 halos, with 1,643
ginneries unheard from.
The publication was in accordance
with the Sims resolution passed by
the house requiring Director North of
the census bureau to furnish to con¬
gress all data on unglnned cotton
ot the crop of 1905, collected by Jan¬
uary 16.
An effort was made to have Speaker
Cannon order the report read In tho
house, but he flatly refused to do this,
saying the document must pass
through ordinary channels and an¬
nounced that he thought tho figures
were misinformation, rather than in¬
formation; that they were based on
partial returns and of little value.
The report had not arrived at the
house when the speaker rapped for
order. In response to inquiries from
the department of commerce and la¬
bor and to how the report should be
handled, he replied that he would
turn It over to the journal clerk and
have it made public through the pub
lie document room In case it arrived
before the house went into committee
of the whole. Otherwise he said it
must await u»til the house came out
of a committee of the whole, as he
did not purpose deviating in the least
from the ordinary procedure for the
purpose of publishing figures of In¬
terest chiefly to speculators.
Officials of the department of com¬
merce and labor hurried the report to
the capttol, as they dkl not wish to
be responsible for delay, and It ar¬
rived In time to be placed in the
speaker's charge before the house took
up the day's work. Under orders from
the speaker, a clerk in the public
document room read the figures for
a large group of the house and news¬
paper men who were eagerly awaiting
the total In the report.
(Southern members expressed much
dissatisfaction with the figures, and
said they were far frem the truth
Members from the northern mill dis¬
tricts were equally harsh In their
criticism of the totals and declared
the ginneries unheard from might
make a radical difference in the fig-
pres.
The report caused considerable ex¬
citement in tho cotton market in New
York. The market was very active
and Irregular before the report.
March sold at 10.80, or 6 points net
lower. The report was followed by
a sharp advance of 20 to 24 points,
with March selling at 11.04. There
was heavy realizing.
The estimate was read on the New
Orleans cotton exchange at 10:19
o’clock, after the report had hear,
sent by Director North to the speaker
of the house. It Bhowed that 250,Sift
hales wore yet to be ginned, which
added to the amount ginned to that
date 0,998,000 bales, means a total
crop of 10,248,846 bales.
March, which sold immediately be
fore the reading of the report at 11
cen{s, sold ten minutes afterwards at
11.18, and May, which previously sold
at 11.13, sold afterwards at, 11.32.
RELATIVES GIVEN CONTRACTS.
Work, However, Was Carried Out by
Messrs. Greene and Gaynor.
Contract after contract was taken
up in the federal court at Savannah,
Friday, by District Attorney Marion
Erwin, In the prosecution of Greeno
and Gaynor, and connection between
the contracts and the defendants was
established.
It was brought out that contracts
for important and expensive improve¬
ments were not Infrequently let by
Captain Carter, not to Greene an:l
Gaynor direct, but to relatives of tho
defendants. The actual work, more¬
over, witnesses declared, was done by
Greene and Gaynor.
THREW WIFE INTO HOG PEN.
Crazy Kentucky Stockman Maks*
Mincemeat of His Better Half.
Frank Leonard, a rich stockman,
became suddenly Insane at Danville,
Ky., Thursday afternoon, and, picking
up an axe, began chopping his wife
In the race, inflicting ten horrible
gashes. After she had fallen to the
floor, unconscious, he threw her into
an adjoining lot with the hogs.
She was rescued from the hungry
beasts, but will die of the wounds.
Leonard fastened himself Inside the
house and waged war with officers
and neighbors for two hours before
he was finally overpowered.
PUBLIC DEBT DECREASED.
Statement for Month Shows Obllgs*
tions Close to Billion.
Tho monthly statement of the publle
debt Issued at Washington Thursday
shows that the debt less cash In ths
treasury amounts to $991,524,646,which
Js a decrease for the month of $3, $4$
072.
Deducting the $150,000,005 gold re¬
serve leaves an available cash bal¬
ance on band of $143,885,082.
VOL. XII. NO. 13.
STATE PROHIBITION
Voted Affirmatively by South
Carolina Representatives.
QUESTION UP TO SENATE
Dispensaries May Be Abolished Alto¬
gether end a System of Local Op¬
tion Adopted by the
Legisltors.
By a majority the Jiouse of repre¬
sentative of South Carolina Friday
passed the Morgan bill, which pro¬
vides for the abolishment of tho 'state
dispensary. Tho new measure
vides for local option in the
—that is, each county may have a
dispensary, under county control, or
prohibition. The high license feature
was eliminated in order to secure tho
passage of a bill which would remove
the dispensary as a stato institution.
The bill now goos to the senate,
but that body has .i bill of its own
which provides for the retention of
state dispensary uuder a new form
management.
The matter Is engaging more atten¬
than any other matter before tho
general assembly. To forecast the
action of the senate on the
Morgan bill would be the morest
work. As one senator stated, he
not attempt to forecast the ac¬
of the higher body until the vote
was taken.
It was rumored In the lobbies, how¬
ever, that the Morgan bill at this time
had a majority of six votes in the
senate. As the bill will hardly be
up in the senate for a week or ten
days It is impossible to say what tho
sentiment may be at that time.
The Morgan bill is lengthy in detail,
but the more Important features are
that the present dispensary restric¬
tions which provide that liquor shall
not be sold In less quantity than half
pints, no sales after sundown nor
drinking on the premises are retain¬
ed. Counties may Immediately vote
for “sale or* no salo" on petition of
one-third of the qualified voters, but
a vote cannot bo had oftoner than ov-
ory four ve&rs. No counties which
have vote l out the dispensai y -six¬
teen in timber-can vote tor
or no sate under two vqut/froni the
passage of the bill.
The chief reason for the change 1
the alleged corruption which has been
unearthed by the legislative Invest!
gating committee, which has just been
granted enlarged powers, and which
promises to bring out even more sen¬
sational evidences of graft.
USED HATCHETS ON DOORS-
French Officials Continue Taking In¬
ventories of Churoh Property.
A Paris special says: Tho church
of St. Pierre du Oros Cntllnu was the
only one where an inventory had been
ordered to be taken Friday In accord
ance with the law providing for the
heps ration of church and state. The
authorities adopted rigorous measures
to repress disturbances by Catholics
who gathered at the church.
The prefect, of police, M. l.eptne,
thrjee summoned tho congregation to
open the Inside gates, which the peo¬
ple refused to do. Firemen were
then ordered to f-rce an entrance,
using their hatchets.
WAS “DAFT” ION SHOPPING.
Unused Goods Plied to Celling in a
“House of Mystery" In Brooklyn.
More than $150,060 worth of goods
bought. In four years of shopping in
New York, piled unused in rooms, clos¬
ets and halls, nearly filling a largo
fonr-etory brown stone mansion In
Brooklyn, lay for nineteen years un¬
heeded.
This was the result of the search
of the “House of Mystery, *No. 17
State street, Brooklyn. It. tells of the
mania of Mrs. Cook King, who died
two weeks ago tn a Flushing sanlta-
rlum, and It explains what became of
a part of the $500,000 estate left bv
her husband twenty years ago.
MARINE MEETS STRANGE OEATH
Honorably Discharged from Navy His
Body is Found in Trunk.
The murdered body of Walter P.
Dolson, aged 26 years, discharged from
the United States marine corps Sat-
urday last after an honorable service
of five years, was found rhursday
packed in a trunk at Norfolk, Va.
Charles T. Taylor, aged 23 years,
with whom Dolson had been rooming
has fled, Dolson had upwards of $300
when he left the marine barracks, and
all of his money was gone
KILLING WA8 JUSTIFIABLE.
Coroner’s Jury Exonerates Doctor Who
Blew Home Deapoiler.
The verdict of the coroner’s Jury
at. Moultrie, Ga., was that the killing
of P. J. Williams by Dr. K. C. Lindsay
was Justifiable.
Dr. Lindsey has not been arrested
He found Williams with Mrs. Lind
cey upon his return home and Immeili-
ately shot him, killing him Instantly,
MINERSARETHREATENING
Half Million May Ws’k Out In April
Owing to Failure to Roach Agree¬
ment on Wage Scale.
With prospects pointing to a strike
of - 500,000 coal miners unless the
present deadlock is broken by some
unforeseen influence, the national con
vention of tho Unjted Mine Workers
of America adjourned at Indianapoll3
Friday afternoon after the dissolution
without reaching an agreement of a
wage scale of the Joint conference of
operators and miners of the central
and southwestern district.
President John Mitchell of the Min¬
ers Union advised tho delegates to go
home and look to the securing of a
defense fund In view of ft possible
industrial strife between miners and
operators, the miners having refused
to reuefr the present wage scale and
the operators having refused to grant
an increase in wages.
The apparent determination of both
operators and miners Indicates that
neither will make overtures to the
other for further negotiations, and, as
indicated by the speeches of both the
radicals and conservatives of both or¬
ganizations of the Joint conference, it
is probable that the 500,000 men con¬
trolled by the United Mine Workers
will walk out of the mines In everv
part of the United States on April 1.
There have been intimations, but no
assertions that the president of ths
United States and the National Civic
Federation may be asked to set In mo¬
tion negotiations looking to a reha¬
bilitation of the Joint agreement or
at least a discussion of some possible
means of bringing the operators and
the miners together for further nego¬
tiations.
President Mltcholi estimated that
four persons are dependent on eaeu
minor and a national strike, such as
is planned; will effect nearly 3,000,-
000 persons dependent on mining for
bread.
With assessments from now to April
1, the miners, with nearly $3,000,000
on hand, would be in possossion of
something like $6,000,000 by April 1.
ALLEGED LYNCHERS ARRESTED
Seven Prominent South Carolina Men
Must Face Murder Charge.
W. J. 'tyrlok, Wade Sanders, C. W.
Hogg and Torn iluzglns, all prominent
£ of P; . unty , Postmaster Jo-
yimer and Constable,
W. J. Hartrir’and Mllledge l.ee were
lodged In Jail at Barnwell, S. C., Fri¬
day, charged with having assisted In
the lynching of Frank Deloach, col¬
ored, and John Deloach, colored, fath¬
er and son, at Ulmer, December 22.
The young negro was accused of hav¬
ing killed Hayne S. Criddock, a prom¬
inent farmer, having done so at the
command of his father. State offi¬
cials, assisted by detectives, have been
working on ihe matter since that
time.
TO BUILD FERTILIZER PLANT
i Is Decision of Gsorgla Farmers’ Co-
Operative and Educational Union.
It was definitely decided In a meet
ing of the business and purchasing
agents of the Farmers’ Co-Operative
and Educational ynlon, Georgia divis¬
ion, hold In Atltinta Thursday, to
build a fertilizer factory in Georg!*
and a committee was appointed to
look into the matter and make report
to the general meeting of the state
1 union, to bn 'held ™' a y 2.
OVER SEA HABIT
FMfTxrenrn on ThU Bide th« Water,
The persistent effect upon the heart
„f caffeine In coffee cannot but result
in the gravest conditions, In time.
Each attack of the drug (tint! that
means each cup of coffee) weakens the
organs a little more, and the end Is
almost a matter of mathematical dem¬
onstration. A lady writes from a
Western State:
“I am of German deaccnt and It was
natural that I should learn at a v*rr
olirly (lf , p 1(! j^nk coffee. Until I was
twenty-three years old I drank scarcely
anything else at my meals,
“A few years ago I began to be af-
feeted O.v a steadily Increasing oervous-
ness, which eventually developed luto
a distressing heart trouble that made
roe very weak and miserable. Then,
some three years ago, vat added
asthma In Its worst form. My suffer¬
ings from these things can be better
imagined than described.
“During all this time my husband
realized more fully than I did that
coffee was injurious to me, and made
every effort to make me stop.
"Finally It tvas decided a few months
n j, 0j t0 q U |{ the use of coffee absolute¬
ly, and to adopt Postum Food Coffee ns
on r hot table drink. T had but little
idea that It would help me, but con-
seated to try It to pleaae my husband,
I prepared it very carefully, exactly ac¬
cording to directions, and was delight¬
ed wilb its delicious flavor and refresti-
lug qualities.
“Just so soon as the poison from the
coffee had limb to get out of my system
Hie nutritive properties of the Postum
began to build me up, and I am now
fuily recovered from all my nerrouj-
n e„, heart trouble aud asthma. I glad-
ly acknowledge that now, for the first
time in years, I enjoy perfect health,
r.nd that I owe it all to Fostum.”
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
(.reek, Mich.
there's a reason. Bead the little
book, "The Boad to Wellville,” in pkgs.
post urn Food Coffee contains no
drugs of anv description whatsoever.