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CARNESVILLE ADVANCE. <• C c- m 50 CX5 Soldiers Literally Swarm Affected Strike Regions. MORE CLASHES HAVE OCCURED West Virginia Governor Orders Out Troops to Suppress Disorder, But Not to Break Strike. Hot Times Expected. A special from Tamaqua, Pa., says; The first clash between the striking miners and the 'troops occurred Thurs¬ day morning and five prisoners are in the guard house at the Twelfth regi¬ ment camp, and Captaih J. B. Gear¬ hart, of company F, Twelfth regiment, is suffering from a wound on his shoulder, made by a stone thrown by a striker. Man Killed by Strikers. Advices from Bluefleld, \V. Va,. state that there is considerable excitement on Crane creek and Simmons creek over Thursday’s Ehooting by strikers. John Ruble, a blacksmith employed' by the Sagamore Coal and Coke Com¬ pany, was shot by striking miners and killed. Reports were current during the day that a number of guards had been killed and wounded by the strik¬ ers but investigation proves that Ru¬ ble was the only man killed. Sheritf Appeals to Governor. Governor White, of West Virginia, has ordered the Second regiment of the West Virginia national guard to the New River district, not. as he says, ■to settle the strike, but to protect life and property. Colonel Morrison, at Parkersburg, was given orders early Thursday morning to call out his regi¬ ment and proceed by special train to Thurmond, which will be the head¬ quarters. The cause for this action by the governor is the appeal of Sher¬ iff Daniel, of Fayette county, for as¬ sistance on the ground that the citi¬ zens refuse to respond to his sum¬ mons to act as deputies to enable him ■to execute the orders of the court, and on his declaration that he is power¬ less to protect life and property. He communicated with the governor Wed¬ nesday when his deputies were fired on in the vicinity of Red Ash, where they were evicting miners who are strikers and who are in arrears for rent. Statement by Governor, Regarding his action in sending mil¬ itia to the New river district, Gover¬ nor White gave out the following statement: “I ordered the troops sent because the sheriff of Fayette county made a formal demand in writing upon me and came in person to see me, stat¬ ing that he was powerless, with a posse comitatus, to control the situa¬ tion and keep the peace and preserve persons and property in Fayette county from violence and destruction; because repeated attempts at assas¬ sination had been made, several men had been assaulted and wounded and conditions exist, owing to the topo¬ graphy of the country and the numer¬ ous operations, which made it impos¬ sible for him to effectively repress dis¬ order. He demanded aid to keep the peace and order, and from Investiga¬ tion made by me and the outbreak' yesterday at Red Ash, I felt it my duty to respond to the call. “I have instructed my private secre¬ tary. who accompanies the troops to the New river coal fields, to explicitly state to all concerned that the militia is sent only to suppress lawlessness and to protect life and property and not for the purpose of breaking the strike, nor to act in any sense as guards or policemen for any coal op¬ erator. My purpose is to enforce the laws of the state.” Held for Murder of His Brother. Mack D. Paulk, accused of the mur¬ der of bis brother, William Paulk, was committed in trial before Justice Chestnut at Tifton, Ga., Wednesday, and was carried to Nashville jail. He refuses to talk about the murder. UNCLE RUS 3 IN NEW ROLE. Champions Cause of Labor and Roasts the Greedy Coal Barons. Russell Sage, man of millions and 5-cent lunches, Is appearing in a new rolo, that of a friend to labor. Nobody ever thought it was in Uncle Russell until Thursday, when he an¬ nounced that the coal presidents are entirely too greedy in their dealings with the miners and that their greed is responsible for the strike. Mr. Sage announces that lie has a syndicate ready to purchase the coal fields and carry on the business without endan¬ gering the industries of the nation PRESIDENT “WINGS” A BOAR. ............... Making to Take a Hunt. President Roosevelt was entertained in New Hampshire Friday in a manner to his liking. Instead of making nu¬ merous addresses and indulging in hanhihaking, he plunged into the for¬ est ot theOerhin preseve in the Cory- bon mountiin region and hunted big game and just before dark succeeded in shootin; a boar. CRITICAL iN STRIKE REGION. More Soldiers Dispatched to Quell Dis¬ turbances—Several Clashes Oc¬ cur and Others Expected. A special from Tamaqua, Pa., says: The situation In the Panther creek district is serious. At 8 o'clock Wed¬ nesday the streets of Hansford and Summit Hill were thronged with strik¬ ers. Early in the evening two com¬ panies of the Twelfth regiment were sent through the va Icy on trolley cars. All along the soldiers were hooted and Jorred and it was not deem¬ ed prudent to take them off the cars. While Mary Markley was carrying supper to her brother, who is employ¬ ed at a colliery near I.ansford, sho was set upon and severely beaten by a crowd of women. Hate during the night the crowds cn the streets dwin- d ed down considerably and order has been partially restored. The civil au¬ thorities express the belief that there will he no serious disturbance. They are fearful, however, that a serious clash will occur between the troops and the strikers later on The fact that the Hehlgh Coal and Navigation Company is hoisting coal at its No. 4 co liery has greatly incensed the mine workers, especially the foreigners, and they are determined not to allow non¬ union men to go to work. The governor's troops and the first battalion of the Twelfth regiment will go to Lansford and Summit Hill. If the strikers continue to interfere with the non union men It is probable that both the towns will be p aced under martial law. The Governor’s Troop, under com¬ mand of Captain. Ott, left Shenandoah Wednesday night on a special train over the Philadelphia and Reading railway for the Panther Creek valley. The Second City Troop, of Philadel pbia, under Captain Schermerhorn, has been tendered by Governor Stone to report to Colonel Clement, who is in command at Shenandoah during the absence of General Gobin. Great excitement existed in the vi¬ cinity of Red Ash and Beury, W. Va., Wednesday caused by the constables removing the striking miners from tils company’s houses, About forty families, who were notified to leave the houses of the Red Ash Coal Com¬ pany, refused to vacate and when the constables began to remove their household goods a volley of shots was fired at the officers from the opposite side of the river. They returned the fire, using winchesters, and it is esti¬ mated that 800 shots were fired. The shooting was all at long range and no one on the Red Ash side was hurt BOATING PARTY DROWNED. Five Employes of Batle Creek Sanlta- tarium Find Watery Graves. Five employes of Battle Creek, Mleh4 sanitarium, nurses, probation¬ ers and stenographers, were drowned at Lake Goguac Wednesday night as a result of a collision between the steamer Welcome and a row boat con- taining a party of young people. Five girls had been out for a row about the lake with a young man named Ben¬ nett and were returning to the sanita¬ rium villa. The We'come was- start¬ ing for her lest trip. Bennett was at the oars and he became bewildered and the steamer struck the boat broad- side on. Carrie Fyock, of Johnstown, Pa, clung to the boat and was the only one saved. Two girls were evidently struck by the steamer and killed, for they were found floating. The others sank in twenty feet of water. A SOUTHERN BOOK PLANT. Charter Asked for Big Publishing Concern at Atlanta, Ga. A big book publishing house, in which representatives, of several south- ern states are Interested, is to be lo- cated in Atlanta. Ga The concern is to be known as the Southern Book Publishing Company and is capitalized at $250,000. A pet!- tion for a charter has been filed. This is the culmination of the move- nient to secure text hooks that will deal in an impartial way with the south during the war period. KNOX EXPRESSES AFPROVAL. Attorney General is in Accord President on Trust Question. Before sailing for Europe Wednes- day Attorney General Knox expressed, himself as follows regarding the presi- dent’s speeches on the trust question: “In regard to tho president’s recent speeches on the trust qustlon I can only say that I am heartily in accord with everything he has said. I think after what the president has said that something in regard to the trusts wi l be forthcoming at the next meeting of congress.” QUAKE IN THE PHILIPPINES. --£■£“ cn ceived a cab egram from General Ch f fee, at Manila, reporting the occur- rence of a series of earthquakes on tie island of Mindanoa. Twenty persons were killed by falling walls, the vie- tims ____all being Moros The American soldiers in the vicinity escaped any in- jury. CARNESVILLE. GA.. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 5, 11)02. THIRTY ARE KILLED Appallingly Fatal Accident Occurs on the Southern Raihv y. AN EXCURSION TRAIN WRECKED Densely Crowded Cars Smashed to Kindling Wood—Nearly All the Dead are Negroes—Eighty is the List of Injured, A special from Birmingham, Ala., says: While rounding a curve on a high embankment near Berry, Ala., at 9:30 o’clock Monday morning the en- gine and four cars of an excursion train on the Southern railway leaped from the track and rolled over and ovor, smashing the coaches into kind¬ ling wood and causing the instant death of thirty persons and the injury of eighty-one others. Physicians say at least twenty-nine of the injured can¬ not live. With the exception of It. M. Dudley, trainmaster of the Southern railway living at Birmingham; J. W. Cook, en¬ gineer, and Roscoe Shelby, of Colum¬ bus, Miss., and Mrs. Marie Cox, all the dead and injured are negroes who had taken advantage of excursion rates from points in Mississippi to Birming¬ ham. The dead whites are: II. M. Dud¬ ley, trainmaster of the Southern rail¬ way, Birmingham, Ala.; J. W. Crook, engineer; Roescoe Shelby, Columbus, Miss. The dead negroes are; Jim Smith Isola; Hillie Martin and child, Colum¬ bus, Miss.; Charley Carp, Columbus, Miss.; Ezel Patterson, West Point, Miss.; Ed Clarke, Columbus, Miss.: Nute Green, Columbus, Miss.; Willie Thompson, Columbus, Miss ; twenty dead whose bodies have not been iden tilled. Crushed Like Egg Shells. When the wreck occurred the train was running at a rate of 30 miles an hour, and just started around a curve on top of a GO-foot embankment. With¬ out warning the tender of the engine suddenly left the track, jerking the engine and the first four cars with it. There were ten cars to the excursion train, but the fourth broke loose from the fifth and with the heavy engine plunged down the steep incline. The cars, which were packed with passen¬ gers, turned completely over several times and were crushed like egg¬ shells', killing and crippling the in¬ mates. Persons who have returned from the scene of the wreck say it is indescribable. The dead bodies of the negroes were scattered in every direc¬ tion and the moans and appeals for help from the wounded were heart¬ rending. As soon as the accident was report- cd to the officials of the road, wreclc- ing tr ains, carrying physicians, were hurried from Columbus, Miss., and Birmingham, and everything possible done ,. 0 a neviate the sufferings of the injured, DEADLY WORK OF VOLCANO. Mont Pelee Eruption Destroys Another Town—Two Hundred Dead. The British steamer Korona arrived at Castries, Island of St. Lucia, Dan- ish West Indies, Sunday evening from Fort de France, Island of Martinque. She reports that a terrible eruption of Mont Pelee occurred at 9 o’clock Saturday night, and that people who arrived at Fort de France from the northern part of the island reported that the village of Morne Rouge had been entirely destroyed at the time of the great eruption had been swept by a tidal wave. About 200 persons lost their lives. A sloop from the Island of St. Vincent, reports that Mont Pe- lee’s crater is now quiet, hut that the detonations during Saturday night were the loudest heard up to that time and the inhabitants were terribly alarmed, Five Killed in Freight Wreck. Five men are reported killed in a freight wreck on die Rock Island rail¬ road at Randolph, Kansas. ALLEGED WRECKER CAUGHT. Alfred Cohan, Colored, Held by Offi¬ cers of South Carolina. Alfred Cohan, colored, who, it is thought, was implicated in wrecking the Southern train at Harbin’s last week, was arrested Monday near Ma- rietta, S. C., about 12 miles north of Greenville, by Sheriff Moss, of Oconee, and Railroad Detective Haynie. Cohan was arrested and convicted at Greenville last year on a charge of forgery, for which he served one year on the chaingang. He has also served a term for killing a negro wo¬ man near Greers. Sheriff Moss has taken the prisoner to Walljalla jail. NEGRO TO BE EXTRADITED. - 3 .==:,:-; ernQr Q rane has honored the requisi- ^ for Ju ij an a. Osier, the negro waRted by tbe authorities of South Carolina( c h ar ged with the murder ^ j^jg white, another negro at Newmarket; Gre enwood county, S. C., ^ Governor McSweeney has been notified. andjtesrihc gale Sweep Coast at Cape Town and Corpses are Strewn Along Beach. Many Vessels Wrecked. Advices from Cape Town, South Af¬ rica, state that a terrific galo which began about midnight Sunday night has caused great loss of life and wrought much damage to shipping at Pont Elizabeth. The stonn was ac¬ companied by a deluge of rain and brilliant lightning. Tile night was vcrjfc dark. Several tugs went o n to ihe assistance of the endangered ves- sets in the harbor, but nothing was vis¬ ible from the shore at Port Elizabeth except the continual flashes of rockets as signals of distress. Daylight found the beach at the end of Algoa bay strewn with bodies lying high and dry, while others were in the surf and being swept ashore by the hugo breakers. Eighteen vessels, mostly sailing craft, were driven ashore. Five of them were dashed to piecer and all the members of their crews were Tost. A scorc of lighters are ashore. With the exception of four vessels which foundered with all hands, every sailing vessel in the roadsted was ashore by midday. Many steamers, af¬ ter weathering the storm all night, steamed out to sea at daybreak. Fifty bodies have already he n n washed ashore. The British steamer Scott, belong¬ ing to the Union Steamship Company, of Southampton, left Pert Elizabeth Saturday for Cape Town. She was due there early Sunday, but failed to arrive; great anxiety is felt regarding her fate. Sir John Gordon Sprigg, the pre¬ mier, said in the house assembly Mon¬ day that he feared the 1< .ss of life from the gale would be enormous. BOLD BANDITS HOLD UP TRAIN. Express Messenger on L. and N. Road Forced to Yield Up Valuables at Point of a Pistol. - Early Monday night between Nash- ville and Franklin, Tenn. the local safe on the express car of the Louis¬ ville and Nashville through train No. 2 .northbound,was rifled of its contents by two masked mm, while Messenger A. B. Battle, covered by a revolver, stood in the corner of the ear with his hands above his head. The robbery occurred just after dark and according to his own an- nouncement, one of the principals was Gus Hyatt, who made a sensational escape from the Tennessee peniten- tiary at Nashville on August 4 last, where he was serving a fifteen-year term for train robbery. Express offi- cials estimate the loss at about $500, it being in packages taken in since leaving Montgomery, Ala. The two big through safes were not molested. The men forced the messenger to ring the train down just before it was entering the South Nashville yards, and quietly took their departure, no clew to the direction they went in having yet been discovered, though the police are hard at work on the case. NAVY WINS A VICTORY. In Mimic Warfare Wood’s Hole is Taken by Higginson's Fleet. The United States cruiser Olympia dashed into Wood’s Hole, Mass., Mon¬ day forenoon, landed a force and seized a „ teIegraph telephone and cable s-ta- Uong thereby cutting oft a ll rommunl- cation Martha . s vineyard and Blizabeth J Island Qf cour the gefzure and the dc . of tele graphi C and cable fa- oi]Kleg wer0 flgurat i ve , and it rc- . e( , thg decision of an umpire to mal . c plain whether or not the point attempted by Admiral IUgginson had been won. As the landing was made, telegraph and telephone offices were entered by sufficient force to have de¬ stroyed the property, or at least tho instruments and at the same time a boat’s crew had located the cables with grappling hooks and had held them a sufficient period to have al¬ lowed for tho cutting of them. WILL BE A FLYING TRIP. President Will Make a Hasty Run South and a Quick Return. It was- made known Thursday that president Roosevelt, almost immedi- ate i y after his return to Oyster Bay on September 3, will make a flying trip to Tennessee and Nortn Carolina. He will leave on the 5th for Chatta¬ nooga, where he will attend the con¬ ference of the Locomotive Firemen. Sunday, the 7th, will be spent in look¬ ing over the battlefield of Cbicka- manga. On the return trip, Asheville and perhaps one other place in North Carolina will be visited. CHOLERA SLAYING THOUSANDS. alarming proportions on the other side of the Pacific, the outbreak extending further and having more victims than ever before reported. It extends from Java to Japan and almost every city on the coast and many in the interior are affected. CAROLINA’S PRIMARY Returns from Tuesday’s Battle of Ballots Come Slowly. MANY ARE TO TRY IT AGAIN Latimer Leads for the Senate, With Evans Second—Heyward Ahead in Gubernatorial Contest, While Tillman is Fourth. A Charleston special says: At mld- night Wednesday night the results for several nominations in Tuesday's democratic primary were still doubt- ful. From News and Courier's figures, it seems that Congressman Uatimer and ex-Governor John Gary Evans will be in the second race for Senator McLau- r i„. g piace . Tiure were g. lx couteg t- ants and a nomination was. impossible on the first ballot as a majority is nec¬ essary. Both Uatimer and Evans are adherents of the old "Tlllmanite” or re¬ form” faction. The other four candi- dates are former “antl-Tillmanltes,” viz: Congressman Elliott, Slate Sen- ator Henderson, ex-Congressman Hemphill and tx-Congressman John¬ stone. The vote stands: Elliott ... 10,021 Evans .... 13,587 Hemphill , 11,730 Henderson 11,247 Johnstone 11.925 Latimer . 19,988 In the gubernatorial race D. C. Hey- ward, who has never been in politics before, has a good lead for the nomi¬ nation, and tliu second race wil be be¬ tween Heyward and either Ansel or Congressman W. J. Talbert. Lieuten¬ ant Governor “Jim” Tillman, a nephew of the senator, is fourth iri the race, an d ex-State Treasurer Timmerman a had fifth. The vote stands: Ansel................... 15,381 Heyward 34,921 Talbert 13,813 Tillman 13,724 Timmerman 4,787 As ansel’s strongest counties have reported, Talbert may pull ahead ot him, there being 10,000 votes yet to bo heard from. John T. Sloan and Frank B. Gary are in the secoud race for lieutenant governor; Jesse T. Gantt and J. Har- vey Wilson will run over for secre- tary of state; A. W. Jones and G. L. Walker, for comptroller general; John G. Moberly and W. Boyd Evans, for railroad commissioner; U. X. Gunter, j r ., is named for attorney general over W F. Stevenson, and R. H. Jen- niugs is renominated for state treas- urer without opposition, Nomination was secured in each of fi ve congressional districts and there will he a second primary in only the second and third districts. In the flrgt (Charleston) district, George 3. Legare, a young lawyer, is nominated over Thomas W. Bacot, an older law- yer and politician; in the fourth, Con- grCgsman Joe Johnston is renominated QVer ex-Co ngrnssman Stanyarn Wil- son, whom Johnston defeated two years ago; in the fifth, Congressmen Finley is renominated over ex-Con- gressman Strait, Adjutant General Floyd and ex-Stato Senator W. B. Wil- son; in the sixth, Congressman Scar- trough had no opposition, and in the seventh, Congressman Lever, “the baby of the house,” is reomiuated over J p - McLauchlin. In the third, to succeed Congressman Latimer, there will be a second race between George E. Prince and D. Wyatt Aiken. In the second, a second race between Attorney General Bellinger and George W. Croft WORK OF STRIKERS? Chief of Police Founing at Cooper, W. Va., Mysteriously Murdered. It developed Wednesday that the shooting to death of Chief of Police Founing at the little mining town of Cooper, W. Va., Tuesday night, as re- ported in an Associated Press dis- patch, may have been the work of striking miners. CANDLER WATCHING MORGAN. If Need B e Georgia Governor Will Fight Proposed Merger Scheme, If the rumored merging of tho South- ern, Seaboard Air Line and Louisville and Nashville reaches a stage where a f„ifln m ent seems probable, Governor Candler will take a hand in the mat¬ ter and use such measures as may be in the power of the state to prevent it so far as Georgia is concerned. He stated that he had read the ac¬ counts of the merger, and considered it clearly illegal and opposed to the constitutiona! law of the state. MESSENGER GIRLS A FTXTURE. ■ hh—hl: pany has definitely decided that it will, in Chicago, employ no more unruly boys as messengers. GiLs will he used to carry messages in the busi- ness and residence districts. For the n j g ht work, men w|il be used and men a j go w j d j h e kept'in the day time for the tougb sections of the city. ' f H"H"H"H"H“H'M'H"H"H't H +;; , , , | Cream of News.-- Brief Summary of Most Important Events of Each Day. —Auditor R. ICber Brewton commit¬ ted suicide Sunday at Spartanburg, S. C., by cutting his throat with a razor. —Chc.rlcs Jones, white, and thirty negroes nre arrested at Redwood, Miss., charged with giving a white man a hundred lashes on lmro back. —Corn is so high In portions of North Carolina that stock raisers are ■forced to sell their cuttle. —The great maneuvers between the army and navy began Sunday by the sailing of the fleet of Admiral Higgin- ron to sea. i —President Roosevelt was given a ride up Lake Champlain Sunday. Mon¬ day he returned to Blrllngtou, Vt., and continued Ills journey. —The Central J,abor Union, at Ks meeting in Philadelphia Sunday, pass¬ ed resolutions calling on Governor Stone to revoke General Gobin’s com¬ mission on account of his “shoot to kill” order. —Mont Pelee is in a state of erup- (ion a S ala . anfi showers of dust are falling on neighboring islands. —Boer Generals Dowet, Botha and Delnrey arrived in London Sunday for a consultation with Colonial Secretary Chamberlain. —Governor Tnft, of the Philippines, spoke at a banquet at Manila. He said that the United States would hold the islands until the natives were ca- pablo of self government, —Two full blooded Filipinos arrived at Fort McPhevson, Atlanta, with the three companies of the Sixteenth in¬ fantry. —North Carolina republicans in state convention accept franchise amendment and rule out negro dele¬ gates. —South Carolina's official ballot gives Latimer big lead for United States senate and Heyward for gover¬ nor. —After concluding his tour of New England, President Roosevelt will come south. He will make speeches In Tennessee and North Carolina. —The strike situation in West Vir- ginia and Pennsylvania is growing mor 0 critical. Troops have been or- dered to the coal fields by the gover- r.or of West Virginia. —J. Pierpont Morgan and associates j, ave issued a circular to the stock- holders of the Southern railway urging a continuance of the voting trust, —Secretary Shaw is urging the na¬ tional banks to he prepared to increase their circulation in order to prevent a monetary stringency. —King Victor Emanuel, of Italy, was given an enthusiastic reception at Berlin. General Corbin, of the United States army, witnessed the reception. —President Roosevelt’s recent speech on Monroeism, lias stirred the European editors. The president, is described as shaking “his bony f.st at Europe. —Application for a charter for a $250,000 plant is filed by the Southern Book Publishing Company, with head quarters in Atlanta, Ga. —Five negroes have been arrested at Tifton, Ga., on charge of illegal sa i e 0 f whisky. Mack Paulk is held by magistrate on charge of killing his. brother. —In South Carolina Latimer leads jn race for united States senate, with Evans second, and Heyward for gover¬ nor, with Ansel second. —Robert N. Page, a democratic nom¬ inee for congress in North Carolina, is indorsed by republicans because of his fitness for the office. —Second attempt of train wreckers to wreck train on Southern was made Wednesday at Danville, Va., where the vestibule was ditched. —An increase of 25 per cent in fire insurance rates has been made at Jackson, Miss —President Roosevelt oontfniied his tour of Maine Wednesday and started on his return Thursday. - -Trouble expected in the anthra- cite regions. Troops are being hur- ried to the scene. Evictions of fami- ]jeg fr om houses caused strikers to tive on officers. —American Bar Association met in session at Saratoga Wednesday with a large attendance. —Severe earthquake “hocks occur red in Mindanao, Philippine islands, and twenty Moros lost their lives. —The remains of Mr. and Mrs. Fair, who lose their lives in an automobile accident at Paris, have bien prepared for shipment to America. —King Victor Emanuel, of Italy, ar¬ rived at Potsdam, Prussia, Wednes¬ day, and was met by Emperor William. —The state tax rate of Georgia is reduced from $5.44 to $5.30 on the $1,000, a decrease of 14 cents on the $ 1 , 000 . —Three men have been arrested by sheriff Moss, of South Carolina, who says he has proof that they were im- plicated in wrecking of Southern train a( . xoccoa, Ga. ey belonging to the people. NUMBER 43. CRY TO ROOSEVELT Sufferers from Coal Strike Lay Blame on “K : ng” Morgan. APPEAL OF A PUBLIC ALLIANCE Business Men of Anthracite Region Declare Morgan Has Placed Ban Upon Them Which Means Utter Ruin. The Public Alliance, of Wiikesbarr®, Pa., which has been endeavoring to bring about a settlement of the coal strike in the interests of the business men of the anthracite region, has sent Iho following appeal to President Roosevelt: “To the President of the United States—Since the inception of the bar¬ barous and senseltss struggle in the anthracite coal region, we, the non- combatants, who stand upon neutral ground, have suffered the Inevitable fate of such unfortunates. The tide of battle ebbs and flows over and above us. We have endured patiently. We have petitioned humbly. We had' hoped for much upon J. rierpont Mor¬ gan’s return. “But now, after a struggle of four months’ duration, a period of suffering and business paralysis, when it seem¬ ed to us that the time was propitious for a settlement of some kind, if not as a matter of concession to public opinion, yet as a plan business propo- sltion, Mr. Morgan has met with hi* henchmen and the edict has gon® forth: ‘There will be no settlement, no arbitration, no conciliation, no me¬ diation, no concessions. The fight must go on.’ “Mr. Morgan has placed a ban upoa ns which means universal ruin, desti¬ tution, riot and bloodshed. "Is J. P. Morgan greater than thef people? Is he mightier 'than the gov¬ ernment? Will ho be permitted to re¬ tain this menacing power? “It is time that the people should gpeak. It is time that their voice® ghou](1 bc heard. “Representing interests and sentl- ments of ninetenths of our people, w@ appeal to you to use your influence to stay the Juggernaut which erushe* UR Encouraged by your recent utter- an ces, relying upon your Judgment and patriotism, confident of your moral courage, we appeal from the king of trusts to the president of the people, “THE PUBLIC ALLIANCE, “T. F. Hart, Chairman.” A SUICIDE AT SEVENTY. ' ■ Pioner Citizen of Atlanta, Ga., Put* an End to His Troubles. James Craig, 7fi years old, one of Atlanta’s pioneer citizens, hanged, himself at his home, No. 110 South- Pryor street, Friday some time be- tween 9 o’clock in the morning and 5 o’clock in the afternoon. He was found at the later hour suspended by; the neck from a small hemp rope to the top of a door opening from hi® room into another room In the house. Craig was one of Atlanta’s oldest and best known citizens. He locate® , n AtIanta j n the early fifties', coming from Glasgow, Scotland. He was a patternmaker by trade, and for over f or ty-two years was employed at the western and Atlantic shops, where h® was considered one of Us most skilled employees. ------— 1*1, J BLOCKING EXTRADITION. ^ Writ of Habeas Corpus Issued in Casrf of Munroe Rogers. A Boston dispatch says: Judge Knowlton, of the supreme court, is- sued a writ of habeas corpus Friday, in the case of Munroe Rogers, the col- orod man who is wanted In North Car- olina for arson and for whose extradl- tion Governor Crane has signed pa- perB. Tho writ was made returnable forthwith. unlawfully, Rogers claims that he is restrained by R. W. Smith, keeper o« the lock-up in Brockton, and N. E. ueach, city marshal of that place. HI® contention is based on technicalities. - ---- WANT VOTING TRJST EXTENDED, -- Morgan, Lanier and Baker Addres® Southern Railway Stockholders. A circular to the stockholders of the Southern Railway Company was is¬ sued at New York Thursday by J. Pierpont Morgan, Charles Lanier an® George F. Baker, the voting trustees, recommending a continuation of the voting trust for five years. The corn- pany postponed a dividend declara¬ Mon recently in order that the share¬ holders might have an opportunity to record their wishes as to an extension, SOLDIERS BAYONET STRIKERS. Exciting Fracas Occurs in Little Town 0 f Lansford, Pa. j n an encoun ter between troops an® strikers at Lansford, Pa., Friday, Cap- tain W. H. Heim, of company K. Twelfth regiment, was slightly injured. A half dozen strikers were bayoneted by the soldiers as a result of the fracas. Major Gearhart, In command of the troops, states that he will 'an.