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“SUMMON SAMPSON”
Sensational Episode Occnrs In
Inquiry Court Proceedings.
MEANING OF A LETTER AT ISSUE
Counsel Raynor and Judge Advocate
Lemly Differ as to a Sentence In
Communication of Samp¬
son to Schley.
In the Schley naval court ef Inquiry
Friday Mr. Raynor, chief of counsel
for Admiral Schley, asked Judge Ad¬
vocate Lemly to summon Admiral
Sampson as a witness in the case. The
request grew out of a difference in the
construction of a sentence in Admiral
Sampson’s letter to Commodore Schley
when the flying squadron lay off Cien-
fuegos. This is known as the “Dear
Schley” letter, and in it as printed in
the navy department documents sup¬
plied to the senate the admiral said,
after expressing his opinion that not¬
withstanding the report that the Span¬
ish squadron was in Santiago, it were
better to continue to blockade Cien-
tuegos and Havana. “We shall con¬
tinue to hold Havana and Santiago un¬
til we receive more positive informa¬
tion.”
During the examination of Com¬
mander Raymond P. Rodgers, this dis¬
patch was under consideration when
Mr. Raymond expressed the opinion
that the word Santiago had been inad¬
vertently used by the commander in
chief, assuming that he meant to use
the word Cienfuegos, as better corre¬
sponding with the context. As the
document was printed there was a pa¬
renthetical note, to which Admiral
Schley’s initiaT were attached, saying
that evidently the wrong city had been
mentioned. Mr. Raynor asked Judge
Advocate Lemly to make this conces¬
sion, but the latter declined to do so,
saying that he would produce the orig¬
inal of Admiral Sampson’s dispatch to
prove that he had said Santiago. Then
Mr. Raynor said: “I cannot take that
word Santiago to mean, anything but
Cienfuegos. It is an imputation upon
Commodore Schley, and I cannot per¬
mit it to rest without summoning the
author of that dispatch,” to which Cap¬
tain Lemly responded:
“I have told you once before you can
summon any one you please.”
“Then,” retorted Mr. Raynor, “sum¬
mon Admiral Sampson.”
This occurred only a short time be¬
fore the adjournment of the court for
the day, and was the subject of more
or less conversation of an animated
character after the day’s work was
concluded. Mr. Raynor would only say
that ne would insist upon the admiral
being summoned unless the correction
was conceded.
ANCIENT CUP REMAINS WITH US
Lipton Will Go Home Empty-Handed.
Columbia Wins Decisive Victory
In Yacht Races.
A New York dispatch dispatch says:
With victory flags flying from her tow¬
ering mastheads and the end of her
spreader in honor of her concluding
triumph in the cup races of 1901, the
gallant sloop Columbia returned to her
anchorage Friday night under the es¬
cort of the entire excursion fleet, hav¬
ing just completed her defense of the
honored trophy in another stirring
race with the Shamrock II over a lee¬
ward and windward race of thirty
miles, crossing the finish line two sec¬
onds behind her antagonist, but win¬
ning on the time allowance conceded
by Lipton’s boat by forty-one seconds.
The official time of the finish was:
Shamrock, 3:35:38; Columbia, 3:35:40.
It was a pretty sight and one seldom
witnessed when they crossed rail to
rail, the white yacht’s bowsprit just
lapping the golden boat’s mast.
The usual pandemonium that at¬
tends the final yankee victory in a cup
contest followed. Whistles, sirens,
bells, bands and cheers united in a
grand chorus of jubilation, and J. P.
Morgan’s steam yacht Corsair added to
the terrific din by firing a national sa¬
lute of twenty-one guns.
For the second time the Columbia
has now successfully foiled the at¬
tempt of the Irish knight to wrest from
our possession the cup that means the
yachting supremacy of the world. And
plucky Sir Thomas Lipton, standing on
the bridge of the Erin, led his guests in
three hearty huzzahs for the success¬
ful defender. “She is the better boat,”
he said, “and she deserves to be
cheered.”
The series of races just closed will
always be memorable as the closest
ever sailed for the cup and Sir Thom¬
as, although defeated, will go home
with the satisfaction of knowing that
his golden yacht is the ablest foreign
boat that ever crossed the western
ocean.
Massachusetts democrats
Assemble In Convention at Boston,
Name a Full State Ticket and
Aaopt Platform.
The democrats of Massachusetts met
in state convention at Boston Thurs¬
day and named the following ticket:
Governor, Josiah Quincy, Boston;
lieutenant governor, John W. Coughlin,
Fall River; secretary of state, Well-
more B. Stone, Springfield; treasurer,
Joseph I. Chalifoux, Lowell; auditor,
James F. Dean, Salem; attorney gener¬
al, A. A. Putnam, Uxbridge.
For the first time in six years the
democracy was united and, with one
exception, nominated the entire ticket
by acclamation.
The platform laments the assassina¬
tion of President McKinley, whose dis¬
tinguished public ana private virtues
and the eminent place which he had
won among American statesmen are
recognized. “Un-aer our democratic in¬
stitutions,” the platform adds, “the
hand which is raised against tne presi¬
dent is in reality directed against pub¬
lic sovereignty itself. Freedom of
speech does not include the right to
advocate assassination.”
The platform extends good wishes to
President Roosevelt “without preju¬
dice to the right to criticise his acts
or oppose his policies as future occa¬
sion may require.”
The platform v-eclares that commun¬
ism of capital must be met by state
control; that every branch of state
government should be a department;
the head of every department should
represent it upon the floor of the legis¬
lature, and that United States senators
should be nominated and elected by
direct vote of the people.
On federal affairs the platform says:
“We are not only absolutely opposed
to colonial imperialism abroad and to
the commercialism reckless of every¬
thing, but its own profit which sup¬
ports it, but to every manifestation of
the same reactionary and anti-demo¬
cratic spirit at home.
“We demand that the efforts of our
government shall be directed toward
preparing the people of the Philippine
islands for the speediest and largest
measure of self-government and for
ultimate independence under the pro¬
tection of this country.
“We favor freer trade by means of
genuine reciprocity or otherwise. We
heartily indorse the broad statesman¬
ship of President McKinley’s speech
at Buffalo.”
The shipping subsidy bill is denounc¬
ed as a raid on the public treasury in
the interest of a few shipbuilders and.
ship owners.
YANKEE BOAT INVINCIBLE.
In Exciting Race Columbia Snatches
Second Victory From Shamrock.
A New York special says: The
Yankee Cup Defender, Columbia,
snatched her second victory from the
Shamrock II Thursday after following
in the wake of the foreigner for more
than two-thirds of the course.
The finish was pyrotechnical, the
eyes of thousands being trained upon
the contesting racers.
The Shamrock got away first by a
few seconds and maintained the lead
until after the second mark had been
turned, when the Columbia, pinching
her way inch by inch, caught up the
distance, passed her competitor and
sailed home the winner by three min¬
utes and thirty-five seconds, the fastest
race ever sailed in a cup contest. It
was not only a royal struggle from a
spectacular point of view, but it was
absolutely decisive as to the merits
of the two raching machines. There
is not a yachting sharp who witnessed
the race but who is not firmly con¬
vinced that the “defender” is the abler
boat, blow high or blow low, beating,
reaching or running, and that Sir
Thomas and his merry British tars are
doomed to return home empty handed.
CAR COMPANY WINNING.
Street Railway Strike In Nashville
Will Soon Collapse.
The street car strike, or lockout, at
Nashville, Tenn., is in a fair way to
collapse. The company Is moving
more cars daily. Thirty new men. for¬
mer employes of the company were
put on Thursday morning. There is no
thought of violence on the part of the
discharged union men.
HONOR FOR EX-GOVERNOR JONES.
Report That President Roosevelt Will
Appoint Him District Judge.
The Chicago Record-nerald prints
the following from Walter Wellman,
under a Washington date:
“President Roosevelt has decided to
appoint to the vacant judge ship in
Alabama former Governor Thomas
Goode Jones. Governor Jones is a
democrat in good standing. He served
as governor of Alabama from 1S90 to
1894 and his administration was a dis¬
tinguished one. Governor Jones is a
lawyer of fine attainments and is well
qualified for the post for which he has
been selected.”
FOR A WOMAN’S LIFE
Heroic Efforts Being Made to
Raise Amount of Ransom.
PRESIDENT TAKES AN INTEREST
Brigands In Turkey Remain Obdurate
In Holding Miss Stone, and Ur¬
gency of the Case Grows as
Time Limit Approaches.
A Washington special says: All the
machinery of the department or state
is now at work to save from death or
prolonged captivity Miss Meien Stone,
the missionary w r ho w r as kidnaped in
Turkey. The president himself lias be¬
come actively interested in the matter.
Saturday Dr. Samuel H. Capen, presi¬
dent of the American board of mis¬
sions, and Dr. Judson Smith, the for¬
eign secretary of the board, arrived in
Washington from Boston ana went di¬
rectly to the state department. After
an hour'* conference with Acting Sec¬
retary Adee and Solicitor Penfield,
they were escorted to the white house.
President Roosevelt gave close atten¬
tion to their statement.
Although the department of state
already had taken up the matter,-Pres¬
ident Roosevelt laid fresh Injunctions
upon Mr. Adee to spare no effort to
accomplish the purpose he had in view
of releasing Miss Stone.
Owing to the pecuLar condition of
this case, none of the parties to Sat¬
urday’s conference were at liberty to
make a statement for publication re¬
specting the measures to be adopted.
It is gathered that whatever may be
done in the future in a punitive way,
Mies Stone must be ransomed to begin
with. Probably the ransom money
must come from the mission board or
from private contributions, for che
state department has no funds which
may be used to pay the ransom.
Action Taken at Boston.
The urgency of the case of Miss
Stone brought together the members
of the prudential committee of the
American board at Boston for two
hours Sunday. Later the committee is¬
sued a statement based upon the views
of President Samuel B. capen. of the
board, and the secretary. Rev. Dr. Jud-
son Smith, as the result of their visit
to Washington.
It was made plain to them, they told
the prudential committee, that the
only certain -way to secure the release
of Miss Stone and save her life would
be the payment of the ransom. The
committee was informed that the gov¬
ernment, by reason of constitutional
restriction, is unable to pay the ran¬
som. The comihittee was also made
aware of the fact that the American
board has no money with wmch to
save Miss Stone. The only practical
way, therefore, was shown a> be a
popular subscription, which already
had been started. The committee hear¬
tily approved this and began sending
telegrams to many parts of the country
urging subscriptions.
The committee says that in view of
the spirit with which the appeal is re¬
ceived. there is strong grounds for the
hope that the amount will be obtained
speedily. In every possible way the
American board will co-operate botu
by gift and by solicitation.
President Capen says that uie gov¬
ernment at Washington, both the pres¬
ident and the state department, have
done, are doing and will continue to do
all that is in their power to procure
the release of Miss Stone.
The firm of Kidder, Peabody & Co.,
at Boston, which is handling the fund,
kept its office open Sunday. Late in
the afternoon a statement of the day’s
receipts was made, the total being $4,-
325.75, with $640 additional in pledges.
MEMBERS FAGGED OUT.
Only One Session of Inquiry Court
Was Held Saturday.
Only one session of the Schley court
of inquiry was held Saturday. An ad¬
journment until Monday was taken at
1 o’clock in older to allow the court
and counsel to recuperate after an ar¬
duous week’s abor. Practically the
only witness of the day was Lieutenant
Commander Abion C. Hodgson, who
was navigator of the flagship Brook¬
lyn during the campaign of 1898, and
almost his entie time was taken up
with the readini of correspondence be¬
tween himself aid Admiral Schley con¬
cerning an allayed colloquy between
them during th? battle of Santiago,
which the witless was reported to
have detailed t> a newspaper corre¬
spondent. The correspondence has
been published aid this fact rendered
the proceeding «f comparatively little
popular interest.
Judgeship ForMcLeary of Texas.
President Roosevelt has appointed
James H. McLery, of Texas, asso¬
ciate justice of he supreme court of
Porto Rico.
SUSPECTED OF MANY MURDERS.
Widow Witmer, of Dayton, Is Charged
With Poisoning Fourteen Peo¬
ple at Various Times.
Mrs. A. J. Witwer, a widow residing
in Dayton, Ohio, has been arrested by
the police at the instigation of the
coroner, and is held a prisoner at cen¬
tral station pending an investigation
into very serious charges.
Mrs. Witwer, the police say, is sus¬
pected of fourteen murders, the list
including four husbands, five children,
one sister and four members of differ¬
ent families in which she was em¬
ployed as housekeeper. In each In¬
stance death was somewhat sudden
and all were strangely alike.
The prisoner is 47 years of age and
formerly lived in Middletown, Ohio.
She has two sons in the Philippines
and a sister, it is stated, in a New York
asylum. No conceivable motive for
the suspected crimes has been dis;
closed. Drugs which were found in
the house last occupied by Mrs. Wit¬
wer are in possession of the police
and will be examined.
NOVEL KIDNAPING CASE.
Newspaper Men of Philadelphia Held
For Abduction and Robbery.
Charged with abducting and robbing
Mabel Goodrich, the proprietress of a
disreputable estaDlishment in Phila-
delphia, Howard K. Sloan, Henry E.
Wallace, D. Knight Finlay ana Oscar
S. Dunlap were arraigned before a
magistrate Monday and committed
without bail for a further hearing,
Sloan is an unemployed newspaper re-
porter, Wallace was a society reporter
of The Press, Finlay was employed
in the business department of The
North American as a stenographer,
and Dunlap is a barber. The quartet
was arrested on warrants sworn ou-.
by Mrs. Goodrich.
The woman was the first witness
against the prisoners, and identified
each of them. She told the story of
her abduction, confinement and rob-
bery. She concluded her testimony by
stating that she was robbed of her
jewelry, valued at $2,500, and casn
amounting to $70, and was forced to
sign checks for $500. After a check
for $155 had been cashed, she was re¬
leased, she said.
WORK OF WHITECAPPERS.
While Returning From Festival Four-
teen Negroes are Wounded.
Fifteen negroes were wounded, four
of . them fatally, by whitecaps near
Caney Springs, Tenn.. Saturday night.
Several of the wounded are women,
one of whom had her eyes shot out.
• Numerous thefts committed in the Ca¬
ney Springs vicinity recently have
greatly aroused tne community, and
the whitecap organization, it is said,
is the result.
Thirty-five negroes were returning
In a body from a festival and were
halted at the end of a bridge by men
wearing white masks and armed with
shotguns and pistols. The name of
each was demanded, and upon answer¬
ing several were allowed to pass. Fi¬
nally one, instead of giving his name,
fired on his' questioner. The w'hitecap-
per fell, and his comrades poured a
volley in on the negroes, who fled,
leaving the wounded benind.
OLD TREATY ABROGATED.
On Canal Question Great Britain Loses
While We Gain All Disputed Points.
The Washington correspondent of
The London Daily Chronicle gives the
alleged substance of a provisional ea¬
rn! treaty abrogating the C!ayton-Bul-
wer treaty. .Commenting editorially
upon these advices, The Daily Chroni¬
cle says:
“Englishmen will be startled to
learn that we have abandoned our
rights under the Claytcn-Bulwer treaty
and surrendered every disputed point
without any compensation. The new
treaty is apparently another instance
of Lord Salisbury's placid indifference
and Lord Lansdowne’s impulsive gen¬
erosity.
“It is said that President Roosevelt
will recommend its adoption to the
senate. Doubtless Great Britain will
agree to it. Although It gives us noth¬
ing at all, it will have the advantage
of getting rid of all our outstanding
grievances with the United States.”
“MURDERERS ” SAYS JUDGE.
Lynchers of Rapist Brady Denounced
From the Bench.
At Helena, Mont., Thursday a srand
jury was impaneled In Judge Smith’s
court to investigate the lynching of
James Edward Brady, eharged with
assault on a little girl. Jndge 9mKh,
in instructing them, said:
“I cannot believe that the mob was
composed of any but the lowest ele¬
ment of society. All persons who took
part In the killing of Brady are mur¬
derers, and If you find out who they
are, it is your duty to indict them.”
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become rather vacillating.”
“Yes,” was the answer, “it comes of
my having taken the weather prei j i(S
tions too seriously. I was compelled ' to
keep changing my mind until I got into
the habit of it.”— Washington Star.
Promotion for Bravery.
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who held at bay a large number of 1 * 1 *
for over two hours until assistance
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