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tVAS TRIED FOR MURDER OF
M'K IN LEY’S BROTHER-IN-LAW.
JURY WAS OUT A LONG TIME.
Congratulations Four In Upon the Erst
while Defendant on the Announce
ment of the Verdict.
A special from Canton, O., says:
The jury in the George case returned
fl verdict of not guilty at 10:27 o’clock
Friday morning.
Before the verdict was read the
court cautioned the audience that
there must be no demonstration. In
spite of that, there were loud cheers
as the clerk read the verdict of “not
guilty.”
A score of women rushed to Mrs.
George and shook her hand. Con
gratulations were also extended to her
attorneys.
She worked her way to the jury box,
took each j uror by the hand and gave
them a word and a nod of thanks.
Then the court said she was discharged
and released the jury.
Receive Congratulations.
Mrs George remained in the court- ,
room for some time after the verdict
was announced, acknowledging the
congratulations of her friends. She
then went to the Hotel Conrad, a
bbek frmn the courthouse iu com
pany with Mr and Mrs. McElheny,
her cousins who had been with her
during much of the hearing.
The jury was out more than twenty
three hours, during which time twen
ty-two ballots were cast. The inter
val between l these ballots was spent in
reviewing the case and discussing its
various phases. After the jury
ported, it was said the first or prelim
iuary ballot was taken at 12:30 o’clock
Thursday afternoon or a half hour af
ter they had been closeted in the jury
room. This ballot showed four jury
men favoring a verdict of not guilty or
acquittal.
The East Ballots.
The sixteenth ballot was not taken
until 6:15 o’clock Friday morning,
wken , the vote , stood eight for not ,
guilty, three for manslaughter, and
one for assault and battery. At 8:45
Friday morning the seventeenth bal
lot was taken, standing eight for not
guilty and four for manslaughter.
Forty-five minutes later the eighteenth
ballot stood ten for not guilty and two
for manslaughter. The nineteenth at
9:25 a. m. resulted in nine for not ;
guilty and three for manslaughter. I
At 10 a. m. the twentieth ballot
showed eleven for not guilty and one ;
for first degree murder. I
The same result was obtained in the
twenty-first ballot. The twenty-sec- !
ond and last ballot was taken at 10:22 I
o’clock with a unanimous vote of the
twelve men being that of “not guilty. ”
A number of women friends and
acquaintances called on Mrs. George
in the parlor of the Conrad hotel.
A number of congratulatory tele
grams were delivered to Mrs. George. ;
To a reporter of the Associated Press j
she said she would go to her old home
to Hanoverton and visit her mother,
Mrs. Lucy Ehrhart, for a few days.
Then she would return to Canton to
gather up her belongings and arrange
for the future. As to the future she
said she had no definite plans as yet.
She had been invited to go to the sea
side for an extended vacation during
the summer and she said she would
probably accept the invitation.
Mrs. George, continuing,said to the
Associated Press reporter:
“The verdict was what I had ex
pected from the start. I am very
grateful to the court and other officials
for the consideration they have shown
me. I am also very thankful to the
gentlemen who represented the press.
They have all been very kind and
sympathetic and treated me most fair
ly. I cannot find words to express
my feelings towards my attorneys.
Their work was beyond all praise.
They left nothing undone in my be
half and I shall remember them and
appreciate them as long as I live.”
• She added that her titfo boys would
remain with her.
JAPAN’S DELEGATES UNDECIDED.
That Country May Oppose Establishment
of Universal Peace.
A dispatch from Vancouver, B. C.*
states that Colonel Uyehara, Captain
Sakamo and N. Ariga, delegates on
behalf of Japan to the peace confer
ence at The Hague, were interviewed
there Wednesday.
“It is by no moans a foregone con
clusion that we will advocate universal
peace,” said Ariga. “It seems that
we are living in martial times. Great
issues are at stake, particularly in the
•orient and the Japanese emperor will
not at this critical stage wish to give
voice to any sentiment thereon which
might afterwards embarrass him. ”
TRANSPORTS OFF FOR MANILA.
Vessels Go By Way of Honolulu and Bear
Recruits For Philippines. !
The United States transport sailed from steam- San j
ers Senator and Ohio ,
Francisco Friday for the Philippines
via Honolulu. The vessels bear the
Thirteenth United States infantry and
several hundred recruits for service in
the Philippines, besides carrying hun
dreds of tons of machinery and sup
plies for the army and navy in the far
Pacific.
THIRD DAY’S SESSION
Of the International Sunday School Con
vention In Atlanta, Ga.
Sunday Friday s sessii n of the Iternational
Scliool convention in Atlanta,
On., was remarkable for the harmony
that prevailed, the unanimity of ex
pression and work and the vast amount
of hard work and business that was
transacted and given attention to.
More than a widow’s mite was given
to the cause of Christianity a 1 : the
morning session, and within lets than
two hours $24,000 was secured.
The money was subscribed by state
associations and individual contribu
tions.
The controversy Thursday growing
out of the question of negro represen
tation in the convention was amica
bly settled. The executive commit
tee rendered a report allowing the ne
groes an extra vice president, a mem
bership at large on the executive and
nominating committees,
CRIME CHARGED TO HOLT.
Negro L.yjiched Said to Have Previously
Murdered Old Couple,
A dispatch from Newnan, Ga., says:
From tli# recent crimes and capture
of Tom Wilkes, alias Sam Holt, some
things have dropped out that may pos
sibly throw some light on a former
crime which has heretofore remained
as mysterious as it was revolting. It
will be remembered that three or four
yeara ag0 an aged COU pi 0 living near
Creswell, or Vaughn’s Station, in
Spalding county, were found dead one
morning with unmistakable evidences
of having B been murdered. The nephew
of the l , e wa8 arrested the
eha and –iter au exc iting trial waa
acou ' itted
Soon after Tom Wilkes, or Holt,fled
from hjg crime8 near PaImetto> t he
stateme nt was made by Lige Strick
, and with whom Wi ( ke8 worke d in
t]l0 1897 thftt Wilke8 had told
him that he had killed this aged
]e> ^ b 0 told Strickland
£ or mor e ag0 , but he said bo
m no believe it and did not te n any
oneaboutit unt il Wilkes had killed
Alfre d Cranford and fled.
VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY
-
Quickly Rendered in the Famous McCor
mick, s. c„ conspiracy Case.
The trial of the famous McCormick
conspiracy case, growing out of the
Phoenix election riot and lynching
in Greenwood county last November,
ended in the federal court at Green
viI!e > S - C -> Frida Y with a verdic ‘ °*
not guilty. b J The jury, composed of
white men ; balf of them Greenwood
conI1 ty men, was out less than fifteen
m i n utes.
T be defendants were prominent
Greenwood county men who, at the
ti me of the Phoenix riot, served reso
l u ti 0 ns upon James W. Tolbert, the
re pu.Dliea,n assistant postmaster at Me
Cormick, requesting him to leave and
informing Dim tbiey wonld not be re
sponsible for his life, though they
woub l protect him for thirty-six hours,
g ix hours after he had left a mob rode
into McCormick to kill him.
DEATH LIST GROWS.
Further News of the Fearful Cyclone
IVliicn Struck Kirksville, Mo.
The latest details of a terrific tor
nado tbat passed over the town of
Kirksville, Mo., Thursday night, show
tbat tbe bst ot - kn own dead reaches
f or ty. n i n e in the city alone.
Tbe game scenes of death and deso
lation could be told of Newton, in
s u ui van county, whiek shared a like
fftte at the bands 0 f the tornado,
Dayg mngt pasg be f ore a complete list
of casiaa lties can be secured, and be
forQ tbe real extent of the damage to
proper ty can be known.
WILL ADVANCE WAGES.
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Com
pany Issues Notice to that Effect.
The Tennessee Coal, Iron aDd Rail
road , lias issued . , notices ,. , o
company 1st the
the effect that on May sa aries
of all employees, exclusive of the coal
miners, will be advanced on the msis
of 10 per cent, some getting more than j
that advance. The raise a ec s a
employees, from superintendents of
mines and furnaces and office forces
down to the mine drivers and mine
and furnace labor.
The advance affeots about 5,000 peo
ple employed by this great company
which has iron furnaces or coal mines
at Birmingham, Tracy City and Co
man, Tenn., South Pittsburg, Tenn.,
and Whitwell, Tenn.
JPKINLEY BOARDS RALEIGH.
CHief Executive Make* VUit to Famous
Cruifter from Manila.
At Philadelphia, Friday morning,
President McKinley 1 and hiR party
made a visit to the cruiser Raleigh,
which lay at anchor in the Deleware.
Mrs. McKinley and the other ladies
who came from Washington rode in
carriages with the president and niem
bers of his cabinet. The president
expressed his delight at the prospect
of inspecting the ship that fired the
first gun at Manila.
After spending an hour or two on
the famous cruiser, the president lunch, re
turned to his apartments for
and then left for New York.
PROSPECT^ new ROAD.
Illinois Central May Buy T.ir.e N»« In I* e
ceiver s “ m *
dispatch to Eke . ...
A special i as
Banner from i _ew • Cen
It is reported that B ms f
t the ral Peoria, is negotiating;for Decatur th«» and PW*a»e E a , jf
now in the hands ol a rc
ceiver and that before the end of the
!nr this system will be Evansville, running trains In
from Chicago 8 through I
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CONFERENCE WITH FILIPINOS SO
FAR FRUITLESS.
AMNESTY ONLY WILL BE GIVEN.
General Otis Informs the Envoys That
Filipino Government Will Not
lie Recognized.
A second conference was held Satur
day at Manila between General Otis
and Colonel Manuel Arguelesses and
Lieutenant Jose Bernal, who came
from General Luna under a flag of
truce Friday to ask for a cessation of
hostilities. The meeting was fruitless.
It is understood that the Filipino com
missioners were given terms upon
which the Americans will consent to
negotiate. !
The Filipinos admit that they have
been defeated, and it is expected that
they will return with fresh proposals
from General Luna.
The envoys from General Luna
were hospitably treated by General
Otis, who provided them with a house
and with a guard and permitted them
to visit their friends. Returning to
the palace Saturday morning the envoys
saw an illustration of American re
sources. A long train of wagons and
pack mules was just starting with pro
visions for General Lawton, who has
reached Marnnco.
Tho conference at the palace lasted
three hours Jacob G Schurmau, of
the United States Phi ippme commis
) sum, attending and Admiral Dewey
dropping m for an hour.
The discussion was mostly between
o General Otis and Colonel Argueleses,
who had been selected for the mission
*>7 General Luna because he had
known General Otis.
Colonel Argueleses had served on
the Filipino commission which met the
the American authorities before
W ar in an endeavor to smooth over
the impending troubles. Mr. Schur
man emerged from the palace between
the two shock-haired, savage-looking
natives and drove unattended to the
office of the United States Philippine
commission, where they talked infor
| mally for about an hour.
Manila is divided between two opin
ions-the majority believing that the
Filipinos desire peace, while others
think they are sparring for time in
which to rehabilitate their demoralized
army. gained color
The latter opinion
from the fact that re-enforcements
, ’ have been sent to the south, opposite
the American lines.
Colonel Argueleses, who is a lawyer,
splendidly illustrated the Malay sub
tlety at words. While he declared
with apparent frankness that the Fili
j pino leader wanted a chance to give
! up the struggle gracefully, through
the congress, instead of surrendering
ignominiously, he asked for a fort
, night’s armistice so that the congress
might be summoned on May 1st, and
endeavored to commit the Americans
to greater concessions and wanted
terms guaranteed by treaty.
He was told that recognition of the
Filipino government was impossible,
and he was given to understand that
a written guarantee of amnesty for all
insurgents was the utmost that could
be given.
Otu Will Be Cautious.
A Manila dispatch of Sunday states
while it is generally expected among
Americans that the Filipino emissaries
will return with f-evised proposals
from General Antonio Luna, General
Otis is not letting this prospect inter
fere with his preparations for pushing
the war. He has ordered Major Gen
erol Lawton to return to ADgat, a few
m j| eg northwest of Norzogaray, and
nofc to advauce aggressively while the
tintionH are pen diug.
General MacArthur is apparently
acting Qn th(J game policy> but be is
repairing the bridges and strengthen
. the line8 of his forc0) whiob ia
stretched out with a f our -mile front,
aad w qj.j 1 j n a q Uar ter of a mile of the
enemy.
The possibilities of peace are grati
fying to a great majority of the army
who have regarded the war as an un
pleasant duty that must be performed
according to American traditions.
LABOR CONTENTION HELD.
Storcla State Federation Hold* First
Meeting In Atlanta,
The first convention of the Georgia
State Federation of Trades was called
together at Atlanta Thursday morning
in the council chamber of the city hall
at 10:30 o’clock.
The business of tbe convention was
disposed of with dispatch and har
mony. In all there were 110 delegates
and alternates present at the conven
tion.
The feature of the convention was
the vigorous attack made on child
labor and the general advocacy of an
eight-hour working day.
THREE KILLED IN WRECK.
Excursion Train Lethe Track With
Coaches Ilensely Crowded.
Three persons were killed, more
than a dozen seriously injured and
fifty leas seriously hurt, as the result
of a wreck Sunday afternoon on the
Rochester and Lake Ontario railroad,
about one-half mile north of Roches
ter, N. Y., when two cars on an excur
sipn traiD, filled with passengers, left
the track while rounding a curve at
ful1 8peea ’ and Were wrecked -
THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION
ASSEMBLES AT ATLANTA, GA.
THE WHOLE WORLD REPRESENTED.
Lesson Committee, Field Workers and
the Georgia Slate Sunday School
Convention Hold Sessions.
The ninth International (fourteenth
national) Sunday School Convention
met iu Atlanta, Ga., Wednesday.
Attending the convention were
many of the most prominent Sunday
school workers in the United States
and the old world, and while there
were only about 1,500 authorized
delegates, there were thousands of
visitors in the city.
The first session of the convention
was held iu the Grand opera house
Wednesday night and was one of the
most notable gatherings in the history
of the south. The magnificent audi
torium was packed from pit to domo
with probably the largest audience
that ever filled it.
The exercises were of an unusually
interesting and impressive character.
The first session was given over to the
addresses of welcome and responses,
all,of which were eloquent and appro
priate.
Governor Allen D. Candler wel
comed the delegates on the part of the
state, and ex-Govornor Northen in be
half the churches and Sunday schools
of Atlanta.
Dr. A. E. Dunning made a happy
response for the north for R. A. Beard,
of Massachusetts, who was unable to
attend; Rev. Elsin I. Rexford, of Mon
treal, responded for Hon. S. H.
Blake, of Ontario, who was also ab
sent; S. H. Atwater responded for the
west; Dr. James I. Vance, of Tennes
see, echoed the sentiments of the
south, and Professor N. W. Collier, of
Florida, spoke for the colored people.
All the speeches were enthusiastically
received, and the large audionce man
ifested much interest in the proceed
ings from beginning to end.
The music was one of the most en
joyable features of the session.
The Lesson Committee.
The International Sunday School
Lesson Committee met Tuesday after
noon in the parlors of the Aragon
hotel, and was in session nearly all
day Wednesday, making out the
schedule of lessons to be embodied in
the international literature for the
year 1902. ►
The committee is composed of the
following Sunday school workers of
national reputation:
Rev. John Potts, D. D., chairman,
Toronto, Out.
Rev. A. E. Dunning, D. D., secre
tary, Boston, Mass.
Rev. Warren Randolph, D. D.,New
port, R. I.
B. F. Jacobs, Chicago, III.
Prof. J. I. D. Hinds, Ph. D., Leb
anon, Tenn.
Rev. B. B. Tyler, D. D., Decatur, Ill.
Prof. J. R. Sarupey, D. D., Louis
ville, Ky.
Rev. J. S. Staur,I). D.,Lancaster, Pa.
Rev. A. E. Schaeffler, D. D., New
York City, N. Y.
Rev. E. B. Kephart, D. D., Balti
more, Md.
John R. Pepper, Memphis, Tenn.
Rev. Mosheim Rhodes, D. D., St.
Louis, Mo.
Rev. II. W. Warren, D. D., Denver,
Col.
Prof. W. W. Moore, D. D., Hamp
den-Sidney, Ya.
Principal E. I. Rexford, A. B., Mon
treal, Quebec.
The lessons which are arranged by
this committee are taught throughout
the world where Sunday schools have
been established, and in every school
on every Sabbath the same lesson is
read, the same questions, practically,
asked, and the same thoughts and
ideas are impressed upon youthful
minds.
It was decided that the next annual
meeting of the lesson committee will
be held in St. Louis, April 18, 1900.
Tlie Field Workers Meet.
The Field Workers’ conference open
ed Wednesday morning at the First
Methodist church, a large number of
the states and Canada being repre
sented.
E. M. Mayo, of Louisiana, led the
devotioual exercises.
State Convention Held.
The Georgia Sunday school conven
tion assembled in the basement of the
First Baptist church at 10 o'clock
Wednesday morning. Mr. W. S.
Witkara, president, called the conven
tion to order, And presided.
The meeting opened with devotional
exercises led by the Rev. Dr. Cofer.of
Elberton.
The enrollment of the delegates
present was effected through a com
mittee appointed to list the names.
Mr. C. G. Goodrich, of Augusta, was
chairman.
A committee was then appointed to
nominate delegates from the state
convention to the International con
vention opening at 8 o’clock Wednes
niglit at the Grand Opera house.
DECLINED PROMOTION.
Col. Colton Declares Nebraska Regiment
Is Retired From Firimc Cine.
A dispatch from Lincoln, Neb.,
says: Lieutenant Colonel Colton, who
was appointed colonel of the First Ne
braska regiment at Manila, cabled
Governor Poynter Wednesday declin
ing the appointment because he is in
charge of the customs service.
He says the First Nebraska has
probably been permanently retired
from the flt-iug line.
MILES IS CRITICISED.
Work of "Beef” Inquiry Hoard Ended and
Report Is Signed.
The Wade court of inquiry conclud
ed its work at Washington Saturday
iu connection with the allegation of
General Miles concerning the beef
supplied to tbe army during the war
with Spain. The report was signed at
2:30 o’clock p. m. by every member of
the board, and soon afterwards the
members of the court left the Lemon
building, where all the meetings in
Washington have been held.
Colonel Davis, the recorder of the
court, carried the official copy of the
findings to the war department, and,
in the absence of Secretary Alger, de
livered it to Acting Secretary Meikle
john. Mr. Meiklejobn immediately
deposited tbe document in an envelope
and forwarded it to the president iu
New York. The report is of about 30,
000 words, and goes fully into the
questions which have been raised in
connection with the army beef.
The text has not been made public,
aud will not be until after tbe presi
dent shall have read it. It will then
rest with iiim to say whether the re
port shall bo given to tho public.
The verdict, however, is known to
be tliat tbe charges whioh General
Miles made before the war investiga
tion commission are not sustained in
reference to the refrigerated beef, al
though his contention that the canned
roast beef was not a suitable continu
ous ratiou is admitted. There is di
rect criticism of General Miles for
failing to promptly bring to the atten
tion of the war department the reports
made to him concerning bad beef, and
“several individuals” are censured for
failing to obserye the proprieties of
their position as commanding officers
in this and other respects.
The forecast of tho report as made
by the Associated Press on the 18th
instant was an accurate one. As was
then stated, the court takes tho posi
tion that the testimony is conclusive
that both the refrigerated beef and the
canned beef were in good condition
when delivered to the government,
and continued so until issued to the
troops, except iu especial instances
where the deterioration was due to ac
cidental conditions in transportation
or to the influence of the trepieal cli
mate.
OTIS’ ACTION ENDORSED,
Term# Given Filippino Representatives
Approved By IVaslilligton OtHcials.
A Washington special says: War
department officials are very much
gratified with the tone of the reply of
General Otis to the Filippino delega
tion. It is considered as comporting
with the dignity of the United States.
It would not be possible for the United
States to recognize tho existence of
the Filippino congress or a Filippino
government.
It is believed that when General
Otis’ reply is communicated to the
Filippino commanders they will ask
another conference with the expecta
tion of arranging favorable terms of
peace. that
It is said at tbe war department
it is not likely that any further con
cessions than that of general amnesty
will be made. Peace and freedom, it
is believed, will appeal more strongly
to the Filipino army than any argu
ment Aguinaldo and his officers may
make.
Meanwhile it is the belief of the offi
cials of the war department that any
further hostilities on a large scale are
not probable,
MOB WRECKS MILL.
Strikers Destroy Valuable Property By
Use of Giant Powder.
Wardner, Idaho, was the scene
Saturday of the worst riots since the
deadly labor war of 1892. One man
is dead, another is thought to be
mortally wounded and property valued
at $250,000 has been destroyed by
giant powder and fire. The damage
was done by union men and sympa
thizers on Canyon creek, two miles
from Wardner.
The strikers took possession of the
Bunker Hill and Sullivan mill, which
they found deserted, the manager hav
ing directed his employes not to risk
their lives by battling with the mob.
Powder was called for and placed under
the mill. Fuses leading to the charges
were lighted and the “mill blown to
fragments. The loss to the company
is estimated at from $250,000 to $300,
000 .
THE TOLBERTS TESTIFY.
Conspiracy Case In United States Court at
Greenville* S. C.
The trial of nine citizens of McCor
mick, 8. C.-, charged by James
W. Tolbert with conspiracy, was be
gun in the United States court in
Greenville Thursday afternoon. This
is the outcome of the Phoenix election
riots and the banishment of James W.
Tolbert from McCormick. Tolbert,
his brother and wife were placed on
the witness stand.
Tolbert said the paper notifying
hint to leave town within thirty-six
hours was served on him M.L.B.Stur
key, and was signed by the other men
iudicted.
VALUABLE FROFERTY SOLD.
Largest Transaction In History of City
Is Made In Atlanta.
The largest cash sale of property
ever made in Atlanta, Ga., was con
summated Thursday morning between
Colonel George W. Scott and John H.
James. The former bought from the
latter the northeast corner of White
hall and Alabama streets for $150,000
cash. Tbe property extends seventy
four feet on Whitehall street and 124
feet on Alabama street.
RAPIDLY RUSHING WIND SWEEPS
THROUGH MISSOURI TOWN.
MANY VICTIMS FOUND IN DEBRIS
tor m Strike! Other Place* and Leave#
a Death Lint In It# Wake—Ll»t of
Injured Is Enormous.
Tko sky emptied its fury in a gigan-,
tic cyclone upon Kirksville, Mo., the
town made famous by osteopathy, at
6:20 o’clock Thursday night, when the
east side of the town was eliminated
from the map. A broad, dean path,
nearly a quarter of a mile wide, was
made through the place.
Probably 400 homes, where an hour
before families were asking the divine
blessing upon the evening meal, are
now scattered as fragments somewhere
beyond the town in woodland and
prairie.
It is reported that a hundred people
were killed. The known list at 6 o’clock
Thursday night reached thirty-one. A
thousand or more were injured. the
In the heavy rain following,
balance of the people who escaped the
calamity turned out to rescue the in
jured and hunt out the bodies of tbe
slain, and the surgeons, professors,
operating staff and students, men and
women, of the American School of
Osteopathy, together with all the
drug doctors resident in the town,
formed rescue and hospital corps, and
in the darkness and rain began hunt
ing out the unfortunates to set frac
tured bones, bandage the lacerated
ami ease the pain of anguished hearts.
From every locality the cry went
up: “Send surgeons. There are men,
women and children in agony. Send
helpers.” lifted roofs and
Rescuing corps houses all
searched the basements of
along the edge of the death track, for
the forms of the bleeding, dying and
dead. Cabs, express wagons, private
conveyances and stretchers, were all
in service, yet the supply was wholly
Inadequate and many needy ones
limped out of the wreckage and made
their way as best they could to asy
lums.
Buildings Take Fire.
Half a dozen wrecked dwellings took
fire immediately after the cyclone had
passed. The fire bells rang out a call
of help to Kirksville’s needy, but there
were none with time to stop these
isolated fires. They were left to their
own resources, Lurid lights from
these bonfires illuminated death’s
wake, and helped the rescuers to carry
on their errand of mercy.
An undertaking establishment was
used as the charnel house and a score
of the dead are now there, some of
them unidentified.
The homes jnst outside of the death
path were opened to refugees.
On both sides of the storm path the
debris was piled high and when the
fire started it burned fiercely. In all
probability a number of bodies have
been incinerated. The storm first
struck the eastern partion of the city
near that part occupied by the board
ing houses of the students of the
American School of Osteopathy, State
Normal school and MoWard’s semi
nary. It was just supper tune for the
students, and it is thought very proba
ble the list of dead will be filled with
students, as a large number of these
boarding houses were demolished.
Storm Strikes Newton.
A special from Chillicothe, Mo.,
says: A tornado, probably the same
one that swept over Kirksville, struck
Newtown, in Sullivan county Thurs
day night and caused terrible destruc
tion. It is reported that fifteen peo
ple were killed in the city and that
many others wore killed in the coun
try near there. A great number of
buildings were blown down. Heavy
rain followed the tornado, adding
greatly to the damage.
Pauses Through Iowa.
A dispatch from Osawa, la., says:
A terrific windstorm, followed by rain
and hail, swept the Soldier valley
Thursday night, leaving death and
ruin in its path. Over an inch of ram
fell and a heavy hailstorm lasted
twelve minutes. Four people are re
ported killed.
A ITER THEIR FOREMAN.
Colored Quarrymen Make Unsuccessful
Attempt: At Lynching.
A dispatch from Chattanooga, Tenn.,
says: A crowd of forty negroes, em
ployed at the Citico furnace limestone
quarry, near tho Georgia state line, at
a late honr Saturday night attempted
to lynch their foreman.
The men went to the foreman’s
bonse, near the quarry, armed with
pistols and guns, and made an effort
to get in the house, fairly riddling it
with bullets.
Fortunately the house was located
near the woods at the foot of Lookout
mountain and the foreman and hia
family escaped from the rear door.
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CHOKER OFF FOR EUROPE.
Tammany Chief Leaven New York For
Bon Voyage Abroad.
Richard Croker sailed Wednesday
from New York for Europe.
When the Tammany chief reached
the pier half an hour before the big
liner pulled out of ber berth, he was
met .by a party of friends, who had
come down to say “bon voyage.” Mr.
Croker was all smiles, and he nodded,
pleasantly to as many as caught hia
eye.