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UNDER MARTIAL LAW
Race Trouble Brings on Crisis la
Two Alabama Towns.
STATE TROOPS ARE CALLED OUT
Twenty-Five Negroes Incarcerated In
Jail at Andalusia, Under Charge
of Murder, Object of
Mob’s Wrath.
A Montgomery, Ala., special says:
Sheriff Bradshaw, of Covington county,
Friday afternoon wired Governor Jelks
that he had .positive information that
& mob from Opp would attack the jail
at Andalusia for the purpose of lynch¬
ing the twenty-five negroes implicated
in the killing of the town marshal and
a merchant at Opp.
The sheriff asked that soldiers be
sent to Andalusia without delay. Im¬
mediately upon receipt of this telegram
the governor ordered the military com¬
pany at Greenville to proceed by train
to Andalusia, and arranged with the
railroad company for a special. Cap¬
tain Gamble, of the Greenville com-
pany, replied In twenty minutes that
his company would leave for Andalu-
sia at 5 o clock Friday afternoon. The
distance from Greenville to Andalusia
is about sixty miles.
Military Were Sent.
About 3 o’clock Friday afternoon
Governor Jelks received a second mes¬
sage from Sheriff Bradshaw, stating
that he had the situation in hand, and
would not need the Greenville com¬
pany, which had been under arms.
Twenty minutes later he received an¬
other message from the sheriff that the
mob was already formed at or near
Opp, and would certainly attack the
jail. The military were at once order¬
ed to the scene.
Under Martial Law.
A special to The Montgomery Adver¬
tiser from Andalusia, Ala., says:
“Tho governor sent troops tonight to
aid Sheriff Bradshaw in protecting
the negro rioters in jail here, and the
town is now under martial law. The
sheriff is fearing an attack at any mo¬
ment by a mob from Opp, and is pre¬
pared to protect his prisoners at all
hazards.
“Three negroes, names unknown,
were caught and killed by a posse of
citizens near Opp Friday for alleged
complication in the riot, and the whole
country is in arms against the ne¬
groes.”
BABY BREAKS A WILL.
Novel Suit Is Decided In Fulton Su¬
perior Court In Atlanta.
A dispatch from Atlanta, Ga., says:
The Alexander will contest came to
an end Friday morning in the superior
court with a victory for Mrs. Minnie B.
Alexander, widow of the late W. H. Al¬
exander, over which a legal fight has
been waged, is now revoked by the
verdict of the jury, and as a result
Mrs. Alexander comes into possession
of an estate valued at $45,000. The
fact of the birth of a posthumous
child to Mrs. Alexander during the
present year broke the will, the law
providing that the birth of a child sub¬
sequent to the making of a will, in
which such an event is not contem
plated, shall be a revocation of the
will.
WILSON DIED HARD.
After Execution His Body Wriggled In
Coffin and Eyes Opened.
Bud Wilson, a convict who killed
R. H. Naylor, a guard of the Yell coun¬
ty Convict camp, last September, was
hanged Friday at Danville, Ark. The
trap was sprung at 9:45 o’clock and
at 10:05 the body was lowered into a
coffin.
Before the lid was placed upon the
coffin the body began moving about.
Wilson opened his eyes and his whole
frame shook with tremors. He was ta-
ken from the coffin by deputies and
carried up the steps to the scaffold for
the purpose of hanging him again.
When the platform was reached the
body became rigid, remaining so for a
moment aqd then became limp.
YOUNG FOOTPADS SQUELCHED.
Three Boys Get Ten Years In Peniten-
tiary For Robbing Old Man.
At Montgomery. Ala.. Saturday
Charlie Hartman, W. J. Bell and Frank
Smith, three white boys, the oldest
scarcely 19 years of age, were convict-
«d of highway robbery and given ten
years each in the penitentiary.
The trio caught a drunken country¬
man in an alley one night and relieved
him of about $S.
Bell is from Mobile. Hartman from
Georgia and Smith from Louisiana. All
were birds of passage in Montgomery
and happened to get together on a
lark.
CANAL ROUTE IS LEASED.
Nicaragua Minister and Representa¬
tive of United States Sign
Important Treaty.
A special from Managua, Nicaragua,
via Galveston, says: Dr. Fernandon
Sanchez, Nicaraguan minister of for-
eign affairs, and William L. Merry,
United States minister to Nicaragua,
Salvador and Costa Rica, signed a trea¬
ty Monday by which Nicaragua agrees
to lease a section of Nicaraguan terri¬
tory six miles wide, which includes the
route of the Nicaragua canal, to the
United States perpetually.
A Washington dispatch says: Sena¬
tor Lodge presented to the senate in
executive session, Monday, the report
of the committee on foreign relatl>-is
recommending favorable action upon
the Hay-Pauncefote isthmian canal
treaty, and gave notice that he would
ask the senate to go into executive ses¬
sion Tuesday for the consideration of
the treaty, repeating the request each
day until the senate should act upon it.
A PECULIAR DOUBLE TRAGEDY.
Trolley Kills Man and Is Ditched—Re¬
lief Car Sent Repeats the Horror.
A peculiar and remarkable double
tragedy occurred Monday night on the
East Point line of the Atlanta, Ga.,
Railway and Power Company.
A farmer, W. J. Smith, was killed
between East Point and Fort McPher¬
son about 6:30 o’clock, and the car
that was sent out to relieve the car
that killed him, killed a second man
whose name could not be learned, and
his horse on the return trip to Atlanta.
The first man killed was W. J.
Smith, of Palmetto, a well-to-do farm¬
er. He transacted some business in
Atlanta and started back home on
foot. He was about fifty years of age
and leaves a wife and children. The
car cut his body half in two and then
jumped the track and plowed through
the earth for nearly one hundred
yards.
Smith was killed instantly, hardly
knowing what struck him. The pas¬
sengers in the car were greatly fright¬
ened and shaken up.
The accident occurred between East
Point and Fort McPherson. Smitu
was walking along the car track, prob¬
ably having left the road to avoid the
damp chert. He was not seen until the
car was too close upon him to be stop¬
ped. It was at a point where pedes-
trims are never known to go and there
was no reason to suspeef that a per¬
son should be walking along that part
of rhe track at such an hour.
When the news of the killing of
Smith reached the city and it was re-
ported that the ear that -caused the ac¬
cident had been ditched, another ear
was sent out to take its place. The
second car when cetofcing into the city
about 11 o’clock, ran into a buggy at
a crossing between West End and Oak¬
land City. The buggy was smashetTinto
kindling, the horse was killed and the
man crushed to^leath.
Both bodies ware e.,brought to the city
and turned over to an undertaker.
JOINS RANKS OF EMBEZZLERS.
Cashier of Los Angeles Bank Lines
Pockets With Some $100,000.
H. J. Fleishman, cashier of the
Farmers and Merchants’ bank, of Los
Angeles, has disappeared with a sum
of the bank’s money which Vice Presi¬
dent H. W. Heilman estimates at
$100,00Q.
Fleishmman has been cashier and as¬
sistant cashier of the bank for many
years. He began work for the insti¬
tution when a boy, in 1875. He was
under bond with a surely company for
$30,000. In addition to this he has
real estate and personal property in
the city sufficient, in the opinion of
Mr. Heilman, to protect the bank from
the loss of a dollar.
Falling Tree Kills three.
Manager Johnson, of the Postal Tele-
graph Company, his son and a negro
driver were killed near Newton, Miss.,
Monday by a falling tree. They had
gone to repair a telegraph line when
a tree fell across the road crushing
them to death.
ANTI-CHINESE BILL INTRODUCED.
Measure to Keep Out Unwelcome “Pig
tails” Is Before the nouse.
Representative Kahn, who repre¬
sents the San Francisco district con-
taining the Chinese quarters, in which
some 30,000 Chinese reside, introduced
a Chinese exclusion law in the house
Friday. It defines strictly the status
of those who by treaty have a right
t0 enter the country, erpluding all ex¬
cept Chinese officials, teachers, stu
dents, merchants, travelers and return
ing laborers. In each of these except
ed cases a section is devoted to the
rigid identification and specification ol
the excepted parties.
WRIGHT BILL VETOED
Dispensary Measure Knocked Oat
By Governor Candler.
“A DELUSION AND A SNARE”
Chief Executive of Georgia Differs
With Legislators and Gives
His Reasons In Char¬
acteristic Style.
Friday Governor Candler, of Georgia,
notified the house of representatives
that he had declined to approve the
W right dispensary bill. He communi¬
cated his reasons to the house in a
message, and in that message he char¬
acterized the bill as a delusion and a
snare, which would not tend to prohib¬
it, but would increase the sale of whis-
ky.
The following, in part, Is what the
governor said:
While it purports to be in the inter¬
est of temperance and for the restric¬
tion of the sale and use of intoxicating
liquors, it will, in my opinion, however
good the intent, have precisely the op¬
posite effect. It will open the flood¬
gates in the dry counties and over¬
whelm them, and at the same time set
back the cause of temperance in the
state at least a generation.
If the construction put on it by some
able lawyers is the true construction,
it is a delusion and a snare, not only
damaging to the cause it purports to
foster, but misleading in its language
and its details. No matter how the
election goes, whether for or against
dispensary, the result is the same—
the sale of liquors in the county, if not
in dispensaries then in barrooms. This
is the construction put upon the bill by
some good lawyers. If it is the correct
interpretation, the bill is unwj-e and
unfair to tils dry counties and ought
not to become a law. If not, then the
language is ambiguous, and it ought
not to go on the statute book, because
it would give rise to bickering and vex¬
atious and interminable litigation.
It is evident that it was drafted
wth special reference to the "wet”
counties in the state, and without re¬
gard to those, more than ninety per
cent of the whole, in which liquors can¬
not be lawfully sold at all. Its effect
would be to precipitate elections in all
of the counties which have, under the
local option law, prohibited the sale
of liquor vjJthin their borders, in or¬
der to give the wet counties a chance
to establish dispensaries; to lose those
counties which have been saved in or¬
der to save those which have been
lost; to damn the redeemed by an
awkward device to redeem the damned.
Instead of putting a quietus on the
agitation of the liquor traffic it will
inaugurate in almost if not quite ev¬
ery county in the state fierce contests
over it.
I have heard only three arguments
in favor of the bill. One is that it will
stop the agitation of the liquor ques¬
tion. This is not true. On the con¬
trary, it will probably precipitate fierce
contests over it in every county in the
state within twelve months. Another
is that it will stop the Illicit sale of liq¬
uor in the dry counties and provide for
its lawful sale by responsible bonded
officers who will not, as do the blind ti¬
gers, sell on the days forbidden by
law, nor to minors and drunken men.
There is some force in this argument,
but not so much as those who advance
it think.
The other argument which has been
advanced and chiefly relied on, is that
it will be a great source of revenue to
the counties and towns in which the
dispensaries are located, and will in
this way greatly reduce the burden of
taxation. It is even claimed that al¬
ready there has been found a county
in which no taxes are imposed for
county purposes, because the profits of
its dispensary amply support the coun¬
ty government Grant that this is true
and that the dispensary in every coun¬
ty will pay ail the expenses of tne
county and the people be wholly reliev¬
ed of local taxes, can Georgia, a glo¬
rious state, glorious in her history, her
traditions and the achievements of her
illustrious sons, and peopled by Chris¬
tian people, afford to sanction a law
making every county and town in the
state proprietor of a liquor shop to de¬
bauch the morals of the youth of the
country in order to escape the legiti¬
mate burden of local government? Can
she afford to put upon her statute book
a law to coin the tears and blood of the
wives and children of weak men into
dollars to fill the cofTers of county and
town treasuries that their tax payers
may be relieved from taxation?
I do not think she can, and for these
reasons, and others not necessary to
mention, I am obliged in the conscien¬
tious discharge of official duty to with¬
hold my approval ofrom this bill.
HilUlKS UlVtN IdilK LIBtKlV.
Employes of Hearst’s Chicago Ameri
can Given Their Liberty Under
Habeas Corpus Proceedings.
At Chicago Saturday Andrew M.
.e-awrence, managing editor of Hearst’s
Chicago American, and H. S. Canfield,
a reporter, who were sentenced recent¬
ly by Judge Henecy to forty and thirty
days respectively in the county jail
for contempt of court, were discharged
from custody by Judge Dunne.
Judge Dunne admitted that the arti¬
cles and cartoon which Judge Hanecy
objected to were clearly calculated to
intimidate and coerce the court, had
the court not already rendered its de¬
cision. Judge Dunne admitted that
the cartoon in evidence was probably
libelous and the articles probably so.
Harsh criticism, Judge Dunne re¬
marked, is one of the incidents and
burdens of public life.
“I see no reason,” he said, “why a
judge should be offered a different
remedy for attacks in the public print
than a president or a governor or a
congressman. Criticism of a public
official, if just, will do no good; if un¬
just, will do no harm.”
Following is Judge Hanecy’s com¬
ment on Judge Dunne’s decision:
“Judge Dunne had the power so to
decide, but he did not have the right.
Any judge has the power to let every
prisoner out of the penitentiary, bac
they have not the right, nor does any-
body expect that they will.”
The contempt case and the habeas
corpus hearing which followed grew
out of an effort made by The Chicago
American to secure an order for the
quo warranto proceedings to compel
the People’s Gas Light and Coke Com¬
pany to show by what right they oper¬
ated in Chicago. Judge Hanecy refus¬
ed to allow the quo warranto proceed¬
ings, and following this refusal The
American printed articles and a cor-
toon strongly intimating that the judge
had been unduly influenced and that
wheD he again came up for election he
would discover that the people had no
confidence in him. Judge Hanecy
cited Lawrence and Canfield, with
others of the paper, for contempt and
found Lawrence and Canfield guilty.
W. R. Hearst, owner of the paper,
Clare Briggs and Homer Davenport,
cartoonists, have not been within the
jurisdiction of the court, and the con¬
tempt charge still pends against
them.
PECULIAR WRECK ON CENTRAL.
Cars Fall Through Culvert, Killing
Two and Injuring Forty-Eight.
Two dead, one fatally injured, seven
seriously injured, and about forty
painfully so, is the sum total of a
wreck on the Central of Georgia rail-
way at the Southern railway culvert,
near Ocmulgee river bridge, in the
city limits of Macon at 3:30 Sunday
morning. The wreck was caused by a
defective switch, a portion or the train
going on one track and another part
on a different track.
Two negro women whose names can¬
not be learned are the dead. One was
killed instantly, the other died short¬
ly afterward. Another negro woman
was fatally injured.
About twenty-five members of the
Walter Main circus were badly bruis¬
ed and cut, but they were taken
through on a special train sent out by
the Central railroai to make their con¬
nections for the north. The members
of the Berger Carnival Company were
also slightly injured, but none of them
so seriously as to cause them to stop
here.
The place where the wreck occurred
is just on the Macon side of the Oc¬
mulgee river, where there is an em¬
bankment fully 25 feet high. Under
this run the tracks of the Southern
railway. The second-class coach, in
which were the negro women, fell
through this culvert and onto the
Southern tracks below. The front
trucks of the other coach remained on
the bank, but the other portion of the
car was crushed into kindling wood.
So small were the parts that the South¬
ern track was cleared by men carrying
away portions of the wreck in their
arms. No engine was necessary to
pull the wreck out of the way.
The train was the regular passenger
from Savannah and was due to arrive
in Macon at 3:45 o’clock.
HOWARD’S FRIENDS BALKED.
Attempt Made to Rescue Goebel Sus¬
pect From Hands of Officers.
Friends of Berry Howard, the moun¬
tain feud leader, made an attempt to
rescue him as he was being taken to
Frankfort, Ky., to answer an indict¬
ment charging him with complicity in
the murder of William Goebel, for
which he had been arrested by Sheriff
Broughton and his deputy, who got
the drop on Howard and his body
guard after luring them into Pineville.
Quick action by the engineer of the
train in pulling the throttle wide open,
saved Broughton and his prisoner.
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