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TRIBUNE.
THERE 15 NO PAPER LIKE THE HOME PAPER TO HOME PEOPLE.
VOL. V.
CLAYTON, RABUN COUNTY. GA.. THURSDAY. JULY 34. 1902.
NO. 37.
THROUGH FLOODS
Vast Areas in Missouri
Covered by Waters.
ENORMOUS DAMAGE TO CROPS
From Reliable Authority of Grain
Men Aggregate Loss Will be
Four Million Dollars.
A special from Keokuk, Iowa, says:
Heavy rains in central Iowa Thursday
and Friday are sending a flood down
upon prosperous > Missouri farmers
which will ruin many, of them and
cause losses aggregating at a conserv
ative estimate two and a half million
dollars. There se^&s to be no hope
„at present for tjje^ountry between the
Mlsslsslp^ppm.tie Missouri bluffs be
tween Keokuk and - ' Hannibal, 300
' equarqrynlles. The Des Moines river
began to rise 3 inches an hour at Its
mouth at Keokuk Friday, continuing
until hope of safety was abandoned
late in the day,
A rise of 1 1-2 feet in a short time
at Ottumwa and a further rise through
out Its length below the capital city
was prevented from running out freely
by a jjlse of a foot and a half at Dqven-
pdst* Thursday night. Increasing and
’framing down rapidly. The observer of
,.fSfew..vf ea ther bureau at Keokuk sent
’l^tefegfcaphlc way^Ihg to all points south
yto prepare for Anger.
J, The E&rpUia- ’p v 'W,
flood just receding'after strenuous ef
forts to i hold It, is only slightly above
the water now. and the coming flood In
• Des Moiues^Kill top It certainly. This
lets the water into hundreds of square
miles, including the town of Alexan
dria; Mo. The Inhabitants there are
prefacing for an oxverflow of the en
tire town to a depth of several feet.
This Is the town which Mark-Twain In
his “Life on the Mississippi” said:
“Sometme8 comes up to blow.”
Loss Will Be Four Millions.
‘The worst feature is the ttnte of the
•yefcr. The corn crop Is all made, and
wheat.Is in the shock, entailing a total
loss of the year’s work. Grain men put
the figures of the loss from the over
flow nearer four millions between Keo
kuk and Hannibal. It Is believed the
Illinois’ levees willrhold, and the dam
age there is likely to be only $20,000
to $30,000 between Keokuk and
Quincy.
Heavy rains were reported In south-
tern Iowa. Lowland farmers, river
' i men and the weather bureau observer
* alike P redlct the geatest damage ever
knowft from flood on the upper river.
' Late reports 'show half the country
for a distance of 30 miles between Le-
grange and Hannibal was already un
der witter long before the crest; of the
flood arrived. ,
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WOMAN’S CUMMKNDABLF. ACT.
Attacked By Draaken Husband She
Fills HI* With Cold Lead.
The Jaubert brothers, who operate a
small coal mine near , Oravllte, Ill.,
-were both shot to death at thdlr homo
early Friday morning by the wife of
one of. the then. They had returned
About 11 o’clock Intoxicated and the
husband demanded his dinner.
Mrs. Jaubert began Its-preparation
and her husband began breaking the
dishes and at last attacked her. Mrs.
• Jaubert and stated fled -to a back rdota
end locked the door. Her husband'fol-
lowed, broke' in the door and renewed
..the assault, whereupon the infuriated
three shots Into his body,
through his heart, causing
snt death.
ire, who was a‘ witness to
— , brother's quai^
His
A Mammary of Events Boring
Mouth African Campaign.
Took the field Jan. 10, 1900, as Rob
erts’ chief of staff.
Fought at Paardeburg, where Cronje
surrendered with 4,000 men, Feb. 27,
1900.
Was at occupation of Bloemfontein,
March 13, 1900.
Barely escaped capture by De Wet
June 14, 1900.
Assumed supreme command of army
of 25,000 Nov. 30, 1900.
Built iron blockhouses every 3,000
yards along railways and In chains
through country, connected by barbed-
wire fences charged with electricity.
Started peaco negotiations Feb. 22,
1901. through General Botha’s wife.
Gave Botha leave May 10, 1901, to
send envoys to tell Kruger the situa
tion.
Established concentration camps.
Issued August 6, 1901, banishment
proclamation ordered by Chamberlain.
Pursued steady policy of "wearing
down Boer resistance by now scat
tered bodies.”
Signed peace treaty with Boer lead
ers May 31, 1902.
Made a viscount by the king June 4,
1902.
Parliament voted him $250,000 June
5, at the king's request.
Turned over control of-affairs June
17, 1902, to civil authorities!
Sailed from Cape Town June 23,
1902, for England.
BILL ARP’S LETTER
Bartow Man Convinced that
Nancy Hart Was No Myth.
HE KNOWS SOME OF HER RELATIVES
KING GOES ABOAKB YACHT.
As Help to Convalescence He Takes a
Short Voyage.
A London dispatch says: King Ed
ward left Victoria station at 11:35
o'clock' Tuesday morning for Ports
mouth, Where he will board the royal
ytWrt VfcHbrta avid Albei|.
The king was conveyed from Buck
ingham palace to the railway station
in an ambulance drawn by two horses.
The only other occupant of the am
bulance was Queen Alexandra. The
vehicle was driven at A walking pace.
Although there was a small crowd
at the station there was no demonstra
tion In complinnnce with the expressed
wish of the king.
The doctors and nurBes awaited the
arrival of the ambulance and a party
of blue jackets removed his majesty
from the vehicle to a royal salcn-car,
formerly used by the late Queen Vic
toria.
The removal of his majesty from the
train to the royal yacht was safely ac
complished by blue jackets and the
king’s couch was placed In a reception
room which had been specially con
structed on the upper deck.
The warships In the harbor" fired a
salute as the king embarked and all
the vessel dressed ship and manned
yards or decks. The royal yacht
steamed off almost Immediately after
the transfer was completed.
\
JUDGE REAGAN KLTIKES.
Veierobl" Tixas statesman EuPglsed
In >t«1e Democratic Convention.
The Texas democratic -state conven
tion met In Galveston Tuesday and or
ganized with George Pendleton, of
Bell county, as temporary chairman.
The usual committee!, were appointed
and adjournment was taken until Wed
nesday.
Ono of the features of the session
was an ovation to Judge John H. Rea
gan, who voluntarily retires from the
-position of railroad commissioner. The
convention passed a resolution eulo
gising him as a patriot, for half a cen
tury conspicuous as one of the. boldest.
Wisest and most faithful champions of
democracy. He Is the only survivor
of either of the civil war cabinets.
TESTING THE NEW MAINE.
Speed Trial of Vessel Which Replaces
One Destroyed at Havana.
The new battleship Maine, built at
Cramp’s ship yard at Philadelphia
replaae the veesel destroyed
vans harbor, started Tuesda
noon on the builders’ trial trip off the
Delaware
Brave Woman Did^1kiil r Tortaji During
Revolutionary .War and Evidence
of the Fact Cannot be Suc
cessfully Combatted!
A few months ago some Idoubting
correspondent hinted that tie story
of Nancy Hart was probably an exag
gerated romance or a handed down
tradition-or maybe a myth. It Is for
tunate that the doubt was published,
for it awakened and aroused the good
old people of Elbert and Hart counties
and brought to light facts and records
concerning the old lady that might
have passed Into oblivion. That the
story of her heroism Is true Is now es
tablished as clearly as It were when
Hart county was cut off from Elbert
and named for her, the only county in
Georgia that, was named for a woman.
While this newspaper controversy was
going on down in Georgia there was a
great strapping Virginian named Tom
Lee, 6 1-2 feet high and large In pro
portion, operating the passenger de
partment of the Lackawanna railroad:
He is the great-grandson of Nancy
Hart, desceff<je4frpip'her in a bee line
irkrough hdnorakTej.Vlt-glnla ancestors.
H'e knew- nothin jp-tof"* 4 * *
controversy
acestor and
lAg, of her
his jltfe that-
iudu ted with
fbrfte afnong
' ry recently
Work and spaed
concerning, ptaf::
said recently.
•that It was
he was notjjjeraQl
her. jSj® 5 *
„ .Talfij-Itad.:;..
the railroad*$
he wished ^to try
of a new monster' locomotive and in
vited the presidents pad superintend
ents of several railroads and forty-
three editors and newspaper men to go
with him on a special to Pocona moun
tain and back agala. On the northern
roads the superintendents now hava
an Indicator .or Dutch block In their
private car that registers the speed.
“What do you want?” said Tom Lee.
“Well, about 70 miles, said the editor.
The speed was then 55 miles an hour,
but quickly the clock registered 66, 67,
68, 60, 65, 70, where It' remained for
^several minutes while the engineer
was holdiag her down to an even,
steady pace. A glassful of water on
the floor would not have spilled a drop.
Tom Lee said: “I would'have given
you 80 If you had asked for It.” After
a while they stopped at the Swlftwater
house, where Washington and Lafay
ette played croquet after the war wa>
over and where JOe Jefferson spends
his summers. Tom Lee knows his line
age and that his parents were Virgin
ians and nearly related to the Harts
for whom Thomas Hart Benton was
named.
For the sake of her many children
who have never heard the story, I will
briefly relate that during the dark
days of the revolution five torles came
to her cabin and ordered her to get
dinner for them. She did so and while
they were eating and drinking and
their gunB were set up In the corner
of the room she quietly took them out
side, and standing at the door with one
in her hand she drew aim on the lead
er and ordered them to surrender or
die. One mnn started toward her and
she shot him dead and seised another
gun and shot another who had risen
from table. With another gun she kept
the others quiet until some neighbors
came and they were taken prisoners.
No doub( ^ta is a true story and a
man had better hot move to Elbert or
Hart county and express any doubts
about it I have been there and know.
Some years ago I lectured In Hart
well and from there journeyed to .El-
berton In a buggy with a preacher. We
got a late start and the preacher’s
horse wanted to slow up at "every
house where there was a woman in
sight, and when we got to the river the
ferryman was away and we had to wait
speed an hour for him to come. back. .Bo It
Maine was dark when we recked ElWrton.
1-1; The court house was lighted up and
inches, 'seemed-, full of-people end the boy#
were rapping and calling for “Arp/
•‘Bill Arp.” The preacher unleaded in
* W T‘ ■ ,; ‘r v-\ v. -
near by and told me to go up stairs
and open the ball while he went home
to put up his horse. As I hurried in
the door the doorkeeper stopped me
and said: “Hold on, my friend, you
haven’t paid.” I modestly told him
that I was the speaker. "Oh. yes,”
said he. “Maybe you are and maybe
you ain't. Several other men have
tried to pass on that schedule. I reck
on you had better pay.” So I paid a
half dollar to go in and hear myself
talk; but I got half of It back when we
divided the proceeds.
Now, I don’t know that Nancy could
read or write, but she could shoot, and
In war times that Is better. At any
rate Georgians are proud" of her and
her great-grandson, Tom Lee, has nev
er tarnished the name or fame of the
family. When John Randolph boasted
of his ancestral blood, Trlstam Bur
gess, of Rhode Island, his bitter enemy,
rose up to say that good conduct la
posterity Was of more consequence
than good blood in ancestors. “I have
great respect,” said he, "for the gen
tleman’s English blood and his Indian
blood, but he should remember that he
Is removed from them by several gen
erations and that only one-slxty-fourtb
part of Lord Rolfe or Pocahontas’
blood flows in his veins. That is not
much to boast of. The rest Is widely
i scattered, diluted and degenerated.”
Burgess and Randolph had many spats
like that, but they never came to
blows.
There never was a time In the south
land when so much eager interest was
manifested in tracing up ancestry—
lineage. I receive letters almost daily
from good people, from Carolina to
Texas, asking for help to trace up and
prove their claim to join the Sons or
Daughters of the Revolution or to ser
vice of their father or grandfather in
the civil war of fofty years ago. The
genealogical department of The Con
stitution and George Smith's weekly
contributions to Th# Journal are doing
valuable and interesting work on thesfe
lines. < *
, There is one other line that has been
shamefully neglected. From first to
last there were near 90,000 Georgia
soldiers in the confederate army, and
yet there is no record of them— neither ■
in the counties nor the stare nor at
Washingtop. I do not suppose there
are ten in a hu'ndred Of these soldiers'
whose 'Children or grand-children or
near relatives can prove themselves*
Colonel Avery did the best he could to
make up a roll of each regiment and
name the officers, but there Is no roll
of the men nor a record of who was
killed. Some companies changed their
captains from three to eight times, but
what became of those who dropped
out? ' Colonel Avery says: “The fol
lowing list Is painfully Imperfect. It
was taken from the confederate war
records at Washington, D. C., and from
the meager documents in the Georgia
archives and such personal Informa
tion as could be had. The war de
partment of the confederacy was most
loosely run. Regimental muster rolls
were mingled and contused; the con
stantly occurring changes were not-
noted.”
Now, ask any old soldier, Can you
prove your service by any undoubted
evidence? Is there any record that
you can go to? Two years ago Gov-
.ernor Candler alluded to this shame
ful neglect In his message and urged,
the appointment of some one to gathel
up and make a record of these Geor
gia soldiers before the witnesses werp:
all dead, but nothing was done. Why
do not the veterans demand It? It
would cost but little—perhaps the sal
ary of a good man for a year. The chil
dren and grandchildren of’ these sol
diers are Interested and have a right
to demand the -preservation and rec
ord of their father’s or grandfather’s
honorable service. Why qot^ Will
there be enough veterans or patriotism
In the nest legislature to spp to this
and have established a muster toll—
soine kind of a roll that the humblest
citizen can point to’ as’ his ha'll of i
tapie?—Bill-Arp, la Atlanta* CoifAtltu-
tlon. ••-xV 'i': r > utU !
EACH DAI BRINGS
FRIGHTFUL HORROR
Explosion in Utah Mines
Kills Thirty-Five Men.
CAR LOADS OF POWDER IGNITE
Deadly Disaster Caused by Care
less Miner With A Lighted Can
dle—Heartrending: Scenes.
Do Iron want an vp-t<nJ»to V
newspaper—#ri# ’that writ! koto'you
posted on affalrt at ftomo Mid abroad!
You wit I answer- the question afnnqg,
,1, II company lo MitynpiJUgqplin.
A special from Park City, Utah,
says: Thlrty-flve imlGers were killed
In the Daly-West and Ontario {nines
Tuesday night, twenty-nine In the
Daly-Weqt/and stx In the Ontario.
The disaster was the result of an ex
plosion occasioned by John Burgy, a
miner, going into one ol the magazines
of the Daly-West with a lighted candle.
His act cost him his life, and the lives
of many other miners besides. All of
the other victims are recognizable,
their faces being easily Identified by
relatives and friends. TJie explosion
occurred at ll.:20 o’clock at night and
In a twinkling deadly gas was gener
ated throughout the mines. It crept
through every funnel shaft and incline
In a very short space of time and
scores of miners found themselves fade
to face with death.
It la not known how much powder
was exploded, hut whatever amount
there was in it went off in a terrible
concussion'. The shock was something
terrific and was heard-far a long way,
(Httitmgh it was neatly 2.o'clock \\£ed-
esday morning before U w.se known In
Park City, a distance of three-miles.
When It was stated ■that a horse was’
killed at the mouth of the Ontario
tunnel, two miles away, sg*i|tl<^ea of
the force of the exploslonyn{|(jl.bb>had.
The animal was In use qt the gptrance
to this part of the mine and wal|jtto r l*
ed against the wall and machinery
with such violence as to be-killed out
right. Two other horses were also
killed, the latter In the Ontario, almost*
as great a distance away. That the
loss of life was not far gi*eater than
it is seems marvelous. \ ,
The work of rescuing the imperiled
and dead was quickly and heroically
undertaken: Men were broiight to the
surface 'Just as fast as the disabled
machinery would permit. The victims
had to be brought up the shaft In a
on“-compartment cage, one of the com
partments having been wrecked by the
explosion. ..
in the Ontario, which is connected
with the Daly-West, six men lost their
lives. Two of the dead were rescuei;-'
John McLaughlin and John,
Women and Childrep til
Ontario shaft house whU^ta mk
between Park City and thej6aly-V _ T ,_
Nearly all of them have hnsb&Jds or
fathers in tha mines and the!* grief
was pitiable, t All of the doctors in
town were quickly on the scene..doing
wh'dt thejr could’to restore the'jincon
scious men as they wer4 taken dot. A
relief party went Into the Qatar®'mine
shortly after the explosion.oqfurred.
James Smith, a member <?f tfee res
cuing party, died soon after’hobfe. Jack
Balton, a Sliver King mltferi who also
went down with the tcscnei*, to ex
pected, to die, ; ,j , DfKUMtoa
RICH MONO THl>r.r,fc?S NT(>l\
.4—
Virginia City Experiences Big
fitreet Hallway Strike. h
Richmond, Va'., Wedneqdgy, morning
experienced her frapt big street rail
way --strike. Prac totally' no are
running and aU kind# of, veMicl*k , hare
been put into use. ,
A committee, representing the local
street 'edr men’s'ttftfon/ttfter'lw'con
ferences With President Sitterdta’g, of
‘he t y)r*i!ito. t
and-quit work. The etriks affdoll the
