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About The Cordele sentinel. (Cordele, Ga.) 1894-???? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1901)
BK BACKS DOWN; HELDS TO IRANCE hat Bluff Ultimatum ,tfas.Desired Effect. EATENED clash .averted Lunch Papers Mail 'Action As Great Triumph; British Say It Was Only Paper Victory. ,Advices - Of Sunday from Constanti iple slate that the Quay Company estiem has been settled 1 In accord with the desire of France. An ce Issued order ipe rial Trade has been h t the company shall be allow * „ t a freely -all .the right* t0 exercise anted:,by the concession. K. Constans, the French ;ambassa sent, a note to the porte Thurs r, that he would leave y to tbe effect Dustantinople August 26th unless the reach claims were settled. There TewTik Pacha, the Turkish min ,on, foreign affairs, called at the ter of Con re nch ambassy and informed M. ans that ,the porte had abandoned ie Idea Of-.jmrchasing the quays, first, ■cause convinced that the purchase ouid be a! bad speculation .for Tur jy, and, second, on account rof the iancial difficulty involved., as hope the that Ot man gover.ument had no re Paris market would take up a loan 1 cover the i purchase. M. Constans ien gave theOttoman government un- 1 Monday feo tissue an irade granting ie Quays company full rights and in ■mnity for two years during which re company ‘had been deprived of iose rights. Turkey Yielded to Pressure. A dispatch from Paris says: Tur :y has yielded to French pressure, 1 was inevitably, and a full rupture the relations between the two coup les has been averted. The official, immunique, announcing the grant ed the French demands is follows: [ “In consequence tof the declaration Lade kssador to the porte 3by the French am that he atets under insiruo jons from ifcnperial the minister trade of has foreign been af- is Etirs. an oed declaring that .no obstacle shall e opposed to the free exercise of the htay company of the rights resulting com their concession’.” A ftrman tor the settlement of the ther matters in question will, It is be eved, 'he issued shortly. Only a “Paper” 'Victory. A London special says: Although he French papers hail Turkey’s yield ig as a great triumph lor France— lore especially as it was largely be leved that the sodtan'-s obduracy was ue to the supposed friendship be iveen Germany and Turkey—it is felt 1 London, despite considerable satis iction over the (outcome, that there ) grave doubts as to whether France as achieved more than a paper vie iry. The British theory is that M. Con rans really wished to force Turkey to urchase quays which are notoriously firemunerative. The sultan has avoided this., thus pturing the practical results, while paving M. Constans the empty .con rasalations. CRIB A DEATH TRAP, foroner’s Jury Places Blame For Dis aster at Cleveland, 0. I At Cleveland, O., Saturday Coroner) limon rendered his verdict on the dis inter to Crib No. 2, at which occurred pe loss of a dozen lives ten days ago. P e the city of Cleveland, the sub patractors pmtly and the ^crib engineer responsible, the former because r 8 °fflcials knew of the absence of pinary precautions for saving life; r e su b-contractors because they failed r provide protection; the engineer, pause he permitted the smokestack P become overheated. Minneapolis Minneapolis Storm Stricken. ain experienced a fierce - wind and hail ____storm about 9 , Cock Sunday evening, which did lu ch damage in the city and vicinity. favorable to trust. itfike Situation So Far (Joes Against Amalgamated People. The developments in the steel strike bursday morning were all favorable 0 { be masters. Early In the day the l ®«ican Tin Plate Company suc ee ed in getting about one hundred ! ea saf ely inside the gates of the Star ant ’ in Pittsburg, while preparations . e -e made to start up two more mills, bother crew was put on at Lindsay -cCutcheon works in Allegheny, M the Jinney mill started, and 250 J® ter were reported at work in . the - Q plant, on the south side. police officers INDICTED. (1 ' I ork Grand Jury Votes to Bind Der Guardians of the Peace. T ne New York grand jury voted tur sday to indict Police Sergeant hiels a nd Wardmen Glennon and *yer. it was given out that the in Shieig. o.^ ents Glennon charge neglect of duty. “bsequently and Dwyer were T arraigned before Record and Friday afternoon was set lhe time for them to plead RIOT IN COURT ROOM. IS!<nd!is She(!>ln An Attempt to Lynctia -Gonvicted Negro Rapist In Alabama. A .special to the The Birmingham Age-Herald from Ashville, Ala., say* that one man was killed and another probably fatally wounded in a battle in .that town Thursday to save the ne gro, Jim Brown, from the vengeance of a moh, after he had been tried and sentenoed to be hanged on September 20tl: for the mostdieinous crime known in the criminal law of any state. Walter Blankenship was killed, whale Arthur Blankenship and a small boy., the .son of .James Hanley, were wounded in ithe melee. The Blankenships were brothers, and it Is said hau been in town since Monday trying to: stir up the trouble. Walter :died Within two hours after being shat, and Arthur is in a preca rious condition. The attempt of the mob to gain pos session of the negro followed one of the swiftest and fairest trials ever held. It was a battle of witnesses with the kludge and court officials on the defensive to -suppress the fast ris ing anger of the crowd, as detail after detail of the :fiend ! s 'work was told by the witnesses for the-state. There was no evidence for the defense. As the brute said afterwards in his confes sion there was nothing the witnesses he had summoned could say in his be half. The clash came in 'half an hour af ter Judge Pelham had pronounced the sentence. By a ruse the court room was cleared <of half of its angry oc cupants. The remaining half was surly and seemed bent on mischief. At the request of Judge Pelham, J. L. Garrett, father of the girl outraged bj’’ Brown, mounted a table,and spoke, counselling peace. He had hardly ad dressed the assembly as his friends and neighbors before he broke down in tears. In concluding his appeal, he said: “If you have any respect for my feelings, if I can ha-v® any weight in your hearts, let me urge you as good citizens to go home and obey the law and I will never cease to thank you from the bottom of my heart from this ■day to the day of my death.” Fired into Windows. The first sign of an outbreak -came ■when one man from the outside with a pistol in his hand started to mount the stairway. He was followed by two or three others. Several shots were exchanged and the mob leaders re treated to the outside when two mem bers began firing into the windows. Arthur Blankenship was hit first and Ms brother was sho-t while emptying Ms revolver in the direction, ot the windows above. A hard rain was falling. The bodies of the wounded were removed and the crowd scattered about in front of the stores across the street. The officers took advantage of this lull and spirited the negro away in charge of two spe cial deputies. He was gotten safely aboard a fraight train for Birmingham. The Negro’s Crime. The crime for which Brown will hang was committed on May 7th, near Springville, within a quarter of a m'.io of the home of the Garretts. He was working in a field near where Miss Garrett, who is a school teacher, had to pass in returning home late in the afternoon. He followed her for some distance and finally assaulted her near a creek. He dragged the girl into the water, threatening to drown her. Abandoning this last thought of ending his heinous crime by murder, he pulled off his clothes and put on another suit in the presence of the young woman, throwing his shoes into the water. He was with her for three-quarters of an hour. Miss Garrett remained uncon scious for some time, and then made her way to the house and gave the alarm. Brown left the vicinity at once, first going to Birmingham, then to Annis ton, Atlanta, and finally to Charleston, S. C., where he was captured. In the meantime another negro had been shot to death because he was mistaken for Brown. The real Brown attempted suicide by cutting his thoat with a piece of glass shortly after his cap ture. BIB COAL STRIKE ENDS. All Mines In the Matawan District Are In Operation. A dispatch from Matewan, W. Va., says: The Logan and Red Jacket coal mines started work Friday morning with a full force of non-union men. All of the mines which were compelled tc quit work more than two months ago by the strike of all union labor, are now in operation. Almost half of the strikers have left the fields, but the most intense excitement reigns among the others over the importation of more than a hundred men from Vir ginia to take their places. BRITONS FAYOR SCHLEY. Depew Says Great Interest Is Shown In England Over Controversy. Senator Chauncey M. Depew arriv versy he said: “A great deal of interest is taken in it. The fact that Admiral Schley’s daughter is married to Mr. Worley, an Englishman, makes favorable feel ing for him over there. MURDERER BURNED AT FLAMING STAKE Negro’s Heinous Crime Avenged By Had Mob. FARMER’S WIFE WAS HIS VICTIM :[} r tite Laughingly Confessed to -Dastardly Deed—Six Thousand People Witness Cremation. A special to The Chattanooga Times from Winchester, Tenn., says Henry Noles > the ne S ro who criminally as vaulted and shot to death Mrs. Charles Williams, wife of a prominent farmer near Winchester, Tenn., last Friday, was captured early Sunday morning at Water Tank, near Codan, Tenn. He was carried to Winchester by his captors! and placed In the county jail. Sheriff Stewart made haste to try to barricade the jail and protect the pris oner. Soon an angry moh of several hundred citizens gathered about the jail. Assistant Attorney General Matt N. Whittaker appeared and made a speech to the infuriated citizens. He appealed to the citizens to assist him in allaying excitement and upholding the majesty of the law. He promised to reconvene the grand jury Monday to promptly indict the negro and have him speedily tried at the present term of court, assuring the crowd that his conviction and legal execration was a foregone conclusion. This appeal was supplemented by Judge J. J. Lynch, Captain W. P. Tol ley, Jesse M. Littleton, Foster Ram sey and others. No sooner had their appeals been made than several hundred citizens from the neighborhood where the crime was committed came up and augmented the crowd’ to thousands. They swept forward upon the jail, overpowering the sheriff and his dep uties, secured the prisoner and start ed for the scene of the crime, twelve miles distant, at 10:15 a. m. It seemed that the whole popula tion for miles around had turned out to see the fate of the wretch. A pro cession three miles in length followed the mob to the Williams home. Ar rived at a point in sight of the scene of the crime the negro was placed upon a stump and given a chance to ma ke a statement, He mounted the stump stolidly and laughed as he began his statement He said: "Tell all my sisters and brothers to meet me in glory. I am going to make that my home. Tell my mother to meet me where parting will be no more.” He was then asked a number of questions. Interrogated as to whether or not anyone else was implicated in the crime, Noles stated emphatically there was no one implicated but him self. “Why did you kill Mrs. Williams?” was asked. “I just done that because I had | nothing else to do.” Saturated With Oil. He finished his statement at 1:35 p. m. He was taken from the stump, carried to a tree near by, bound to it by chains and his body saturated with oil. At 1:40 p. m. a match was applied, and instantly the quivering body was enveloped in flames. Rails were pitch etI about the burning body and soon llfe was extinct. The negro made no outcry at any time, and died stoically. At least 6,000 people witnessed the horrible fate of the negro. Many re mained until nightfall, augmenting the blaze until the body was entirely con sumed. They then departed for their homes quietly. History of Nobles’ Crime. Lying on the floor of the family room, with her face splashed with blood, Charles Williams found his young wife Friday afternoon when he returned from marketing his wheat in the little town of Maxwell. A heavy bullet had crashed througli her head. Life was completely ex tinct, and her two baby children were crying aloud their grief and fear a* what had transpired before the ar rival of the father. The oldest boy, aged 5, told what had occurred. The young mother had been shot and killed by Henry Noles, a negro hand upon Williams’ place. As the mo rtaily wounded woman sank to the floor, Noles shot at the boy, the bullet grazing the child’s head, It is reported that the motive was lobbery, and $20 was obtained by the murderer. Passes the Tonr Million Mark. At the Pan-American exposition the four million mark in attendance was passed Sunday and the average attend ance for August has been 50 per cent greater than any previous month. WHITE ASSAULTER HANGED. For Outraging Little Girl, J. M. Mer cer (Joes to Gallows In Tampa, Fla. J. M. Mercer, a white man convicted Fla., Friday. His neck was broken by the fall. He died declaring his inno cence. His last words were a request that his wife be taken care of. Mercer is the first white man ever legally executed in Hillsboro county. ANOTHER ULTIMATUn. French Minister at Constantino ple Threatens to Pull Up Stakes. War Talk Rampant. The French ambassador at Constan tinople, M. Constans, sent a letter to the sultan Friday morning personally informing him that he would leave Constantinople with the entire staff of the embassy if the matters in dis pute were not settled immediately. It accords the sultan the briefest delay within which to comply with the de mands. A dispatch to The Petit Bleu (Brus sels) from Vienna says: “According to advices from Galatz, twenty Russian torpedo boats and sev eral dispatch boats have arrived at the Dniesta delta, and Russian troops aro commencing to mobilize along the Turkish frontier.” French Officials Reticent. A Paris special says: While the of ficials of the French foreign office de cline to confirm or deny the dispatch of the Associated Press from Constan tinople announcing that the French ambassador has sent the sultan a let ter which is in the nature of an ulti matum, they admit having received teiegram from M. Constans, which has been laid before the council now sit ting at the Elysee palace. The correspondent learns that Constans has been given a free hand. Any step he finds proper to take be fully indorsed. | The foreign minister, M. if he deems it necessary, will with draw the French embassy from Con stantinople, and Munir Bey, the ish ambassador, who is now in j enand, will be notified not to 1 to Paris, in which case Munir Bey probably withdraw the legation Berne, as he is also accredited as min ister to Switzerland. ! No naval demonstration is yet [ templated, but the sultan will bly be seriously inconvenienced the closure of the Turkish embassy Paris, which is the center of the pionage maintained to watch the merous young Turks and other disaf fected Ottoman subjects and tary exiles who make their ters in Paris, and will have a free if diplomatic relations between and Turkey are completely broken off. It has been suggested that French government issue orders the bourse to cease dealing in Turk ish securities, but it is not likely this step will be taken, as it would only injure the French The entire Turkish group fell on bourse Friday, in some cases 10 to 15 francs FAMILY UNDER ARREST. Mental Sefence Healers In Charged With Swindling. Mrs. Helen Post, her husband. Colo nel C. C. Post, and her son-in-law, C. F. Burgman, were arrested at Dayto na, Fla., Friday on information sworn to by Post Office Inspector Fred D. Peer charging them with using the mails for fraudulent purposes. The three were taken to Jacksonville for a preliminary hearing before United States Commissioner William Archi bald. The offense alleged consisted in sending through the mails circulars professing to cure patients at a dis tance by means of mental science. The instructions that were sent to patients told them to go alone for fif teen minutes each day and hold them selves receptive to the thought of the healer, she agreeing to think of them at the same time. * Mrs. Post claims to be able to heal all kinds of diseases, even restoring the blind to sight, holding that no dis ease was incurable by her method of treatment. Fatal Trolley Tar Smashup. An Atlanta dispatch says: As the result of a head-on collision between cars 103 and 104 on the Rapid Transit river line Friday afternoon, one per son, Harry Williams, of 170 Mills street, is dead and sixteen other per sons are more or less seriously in jured. TEN LYNCHERS INDICTED. An Alabama (Jrand Jury Is After the Murderers of a Negro. For the first time in the history of Alabama a grand jury has indicted white men for lynching a negro. About a month ago a negro named Bob White and J. W. Thomas, a white farmer near Tallassee, shot at each other in a quarrel, neither being hit. White was arrested and started to jail, but was taken from the guards and lynched by Thomas’ friends. Indictments have been returned by the Elmore grand jury against ten of the lynchers and the jury is seeking evidence against the other twenty. BELOW LEGAL AGE. Republican Nominee For Lieutenant* Governor Is Ineligible. There has been a deal of merriment by the republicans at Roanoke for lieu • tenant-governor, is ineligible to the position on account of his youth. He is 27 and the iaw re< 3 uires that tlie lieutenant-governor shall not be less than 30 years of age. “Thoti Shalt Not Covet.” PERFECT CONTENTMENT IS BORN IN THE KITCHEN. HEALTHFUL MEALS, DAINTILY SERVED, MAKE “A HEART TO MEET ITS FATE." Write for Catalogue of 100 different combinations of the best productions of the Twentieth Century, and, for a modest outlay, make life worth living. 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