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PLEA OF GUILT
MADE BY
Attorney and Ex-Sheriff Admit
Gross Practice of Peonage.
A SENSATION IN COURT
Attorneys for Defendants. Who Op¬
posed the Plea, Become Incensed
and Withdraw From Case.
W. F. Crawley, a lawyer of Way
cross, and T. McMillan, former sher
Ifl of Ware county, Wednesday plead¬
ed guilty before Judge Speer in tha
l ulled States court at Savannah on
a charge of peonage and were fined
$1,000 each, which was afterwards re¬
duced to $500 on condition there
should be no further violation of the
law.
In passing sentence the judge re¬
marked tha this want, the last time
there will be such a light sentence for
this crime in his court. He says that
there can be no more peonage for debt
in his district.
Messrs. Osborne and Lawrence, who
were among the attorneys for the ac¬
cused, stood out to the last during the
consultation of the lawyers as to the
advisability of pleading guilty. They
wanted the case fought to the end.
Just before the plea was entered Mr.
Osborne asked the court to have his
firm’s name stricken from the list of
attorney's representing the defense.
Tills was done.
’J ho defendants were charged in
four indictments with selling a color¬
ed woman against whom no warrant
was issued to McRae Brothers for a
consideration of $3o. The woman, it
was alleged, was advised by the sher¬
iff and attorney that she had been
convicted and fined, and served nine
months ju the McRae convict camp.
her charge is that the defendants
took from jail two boys convicted of
stealing a watermelon, who had been
sentenced without a fine alternative,
and sold them to MlcRaes for $05. The
McRaes pleaded guilty at the last term
and were fined $1,000 each.
Ckorttt_P. Hart 4
~9s of peonage. Both injgpl guilty, I
whereupon they were sentenced by
J udge Emory Speer to pay a tine of
,
$1,000 each, $700 of which is remitted
during good behavior. Cobb paid
Ills fine and Hart went to jail.
It was shown that they had pro j
cured the arrest of a negro girl upon
claims for professional services ren¬
dered and had sold her into a condi¬
tion of practical servitude. The judge
told the defendants that it was bad i
enough when white men act toward
negroes as the defendants were shown
to have acted toward the girl, but that j
.It is worse when negroes are guilty j
of such injustice toward members of j
their race. Ho said he was afraid
that had the two doctors remained In |
Africa they would have been hi tue
slave business, stealing blacks from
one village and selling them else¬
where as slaves.
COLORED SOUiliR PROMOTED,
President Names Negro Lieutenant for
Statt ot Philippine Scouts.
A Washington dispatch says: The
president has appointed Sergeant Geo.
S. Thompson of the twenty-fifth in¬
fantry, to be second lieutenant in the
Philippine scouts, thus adding one
more negro to the commissioned force
of the army.
Lieutenant Thompson was appoint¬
ed on his merit, having received high
commendation for heroism and effi¬
ciency during the insurrection in the
Philippines. He is one of the crack
shots in the army, and has received
several medals for ritlo and pistol
6h< •ting.
lie is now stationed with his regi¬
ment at Fort Niobrara, Nebraska.
GIRL BAlkS JAIL BRI AktRS.
I
Daughter of Sherill forces Prisoners to
Hand Over a Dozen Steel Sows.
A daring attempt at a jail delivery
was frustrated at Scottsboro, Ala.,
by Miss Lula Austin, the young daugh¬
ter of Sheriff Austin.
After three of the steel bars lead¬
ing Into the main corridor, which
would have practically admitted them
to their liberty, had been cut, Miss
Austin discovered the condition of af¬
fairs and herself forced the prisoners
to turn over to her the saws which
had been used in the operation, six in
number.
‘BUFFALO BILL LOSES. tt
Wyoming Court Refuses to Grant Di¬
vorce to Colonel Cody--Sarcastic
Comment by Judge.
The district court at Sheridan, Wyo
ming, Thursday, refused the petition
of Colonel William F. Cody (Buffalo
Bill) for a divorce.
A decision was not expected before
Friday at the earliest, but the court¬
room was filled with residents of Sher¬
idan and the surrounding county when
it was given. After the reading of
the depositions was finished, the law¬
yers for both sides announced that
they would submit the case without
argument.
Judge Scott asked the attorneys for
the defendants to amend their an¬
swer iu the case by striking out those
sections which dealt with charges
against Bessie Isbell, Cody’s conduct
in Chicago, and his early excesses at
Fort McPherson. When this was done
the court found entirely in favor of
the defendant, Mrs. Louisa Cody.
Judge Scott delivered an opinion of
considerable length, reviewing the al¬
legations and evidence, and giving his
conclusions.
“The law of the state does not make
incompatibility a ground for divorce,
hut tt does read that extreme cruelty
rendering the condition of either par¬
ty to the marriage contract intolerable
is sufficient grounds to allow the
granting of a divorce,” said Judge
Scott.
“The first cause of action in this
case la the charge - of poisoning on De¬
cember 26, 1900, or some tim© prior
thereto. The evidence wholly fails to
support this issue, but shows the de¬
fendant was trying to rescue the plain¬
tiff from a state of intoxication, and
administered not poison, but remedies
which she deemed beneficial. His in¬
ability to speak on this occasion did
I not come from these remedies, but
j came from his excessive use of intox¬
icating Jiquors at the banquet board,
and was as humiliating to defendant
as to the plaintiff.
“The unhappiness caused by the ae
| tions of the plaintiff is shown by the
| letter of their daughter, Arta Thorpe,
whose beautiful character shone out
from her unhappy home, and the
j words of her letter, written just be¬
fore her death: ‘Oh, papa, why did he
do it? My heart is just broken over
it. Oh, why did he do it?’”
Judge Scott also found that the
charge of unbecoming actions on the
. part of the defendant toward the colo¬
nel’**— uel ’ffil wrr tlyagp
'tatmm uei Hiisoafld’s life, and that
when when attending t the funeral of her
daughter J Ara at Rochester, N. Y.. in
February, 1904, she offered a perma¬
nent reconciliation and no answer
ever came to this.
“Sho was an over-indulgent mother
and wife who always took pride in
hi 3 success and always looked for
ward to his home-coming and made
great preparations to receive him."
said Judge Scott.
“In return for this wifely devotion
the plaintiff has been cruel to her
and heaped indignities upon her. Even
if it were true that the defendant had
at times been impatient with him and
such impatience lias been considered
as indignities, it is also true that
she had much to contend with.
"Thor© are some allegations in the
answer that are not sustained by the
evidence. From the evidence it does
not appear that the plaintiff was so
addicted to gambling as to impair his
business abilities or trustworthiness.
II e did not use intoxicating liquors in
such quantities as to interfere with
transaction of his business. ’
the
A TRESILE U N MILES L0N( |
Is Feature of a New Railroad Which Will
Parallel the Mississippi River.
W. J. Oliver, a Knoxville, Tenn..
railroad contractor, has been award¬
ed the contract to build the New Or¬
leans Great Northern road, running
north from New Orleans along the
Mississippi river a distance of 350
miles. He Is to begin work at once
at Slidell, and the road is to be com¬
pleted within one year.
A trestle ten miles long will be one
of the features of the road. It will
cross Lake Ponchatrain.
MANY SMALL FARMtRS UNPLEDGED.
State Association of Cotton Growers in
North Carolina Now Guessing.
A Raleigh. N. C., dispatch says:
It is regarded by the cotton growers
that this is a very critical time in
their affairs.
The agents of the state association
are going in every direction urging
the farmers to stand together, and
getting every pledge possible for unity
of action as to holding crop and re¬
ducing acreage.
Some of the smaller farmers, who
raise only a few bales, have not given
any pledges.
i Effe** «rf*»o»perlty.
Tn the six of the country’s
greatest nri.-e«'f prosprjf^' breads f rom tuffs advanced 1903.
a von "e cenL;V
65 per eat8 ' 231 per CGnt ’ :
dairy and ga|en 24.1. products. Ail these 50.1 were per
cent., and clotiipe farmer and stockman,
products of t other class
who profited m nn - v
of the comrmjly b * these advances.
The miner advance] bejDtcfi the avera ^ P er cenb P rice of
that S e
metals. The 'A. J decrease in the aver-
3^0 jjricoK of < ^Dinioditios in tluit p#?*
riod was in rak ray freight rates, which
decreased froJ ™ l )er lon-mile in
1807 to .7(53 if *t 003. of a the loss of Interstate 4.4 per
cent. The
Commerce Coil ission shows that the
average increq I™ ft W of railroad
employes in P eriod was a trifle
above 8.3 per
THE YV f THEY SEE IT.
Edna—WhS did Dr. Dix mean
when he spoe of that “vast waste of
humanity?” ^ of dear.
Maud—Bate iors, course,
Life,
... - - -
t ID GUESS.
“Now,” s: Lhe cooking school
teacher, “ca; I / young lady tell me
what the pi<j ut is?”
“I suppose^ .’s just another name
for pumpkin' : id the bright girl.—
Philadelphia ; s.
XS I Ae rod- Nofitsornnrvous
of Dr. Kline's Great
KSffi 1 albottle aml treatise free
A„ tS ... Phil,., r,.
schools Compulsory! of W nllne83 en b revails in the
Guar.-. CopMp 1 Cure For File*.
A Protruding
Itching, Bli ceding refund or if Paso
Piles. Druggi. ] money
Ointment fails! re in 6 to 14 days. 50c.
Frog I assumed large propor¬
tions in Cana 8
V»n m’« Foot-Rave.
it is the o' et re for Swollen, Smarting,
Tired, AchinHotj , Sweating Feet,Corns and
]{unions. Asbr. lien’s Foot-Ease, apowder
to be shakento ho shoes. Cures while you
walk. Atall-ugj rist» and Shoe Stores, 25c.
Don’t aocep.ny] substitute. Sample sent
Free. Addres Uif gpn S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N.Y.
It costs 0 tj hree francs to cremate a
human beirm ■’ranee. -
IT. IT. Grei: on s, >f Atlanta, On., are
the only sued 7 Droosy Specialists in the
.
world. See tiu Uiberal offer in advertise
meat in anoth-j ilumn of this paper.
The average ; >r of births in London
a month is 11
Mrs. Winalc lgSyrup reduces for inflamma- children
teething, soft nd s, colic,25c.abottle.
tion,allays pa jj
a# r> -•* e cents Japanese
acn.
Burning » ierrlble Itching Ec
zema— Speedily Cnrel by Cuticura.
"Cuticura curld me cf a terrible eczema
from which I hai suffered agony and pain
for eight years, leing unable to obtain any
help from tiie blst doctors. My scalp was
covered with scads and my face was like a
piece of raw beaf, my eyebrows and lashes
were falliug out!, and I felt as if burning
up from the terrible itching and pain. Cu
ticura gave me relief the very first day,
and made a com fiete cure in a short time.
My head and fa e are now clear and well.
(Signed) Miss M ry M. Fay, 75 West Main
St., Westboro, JV
Knew VVhHt 1 le Was Talking About.
A reader asks where the characteri¬
zation of Washington as “first in war,
first in peace and first in the hearts of
Ills eountrymeiji” comes from. It ap¬
pears in the oration delivered by Majpr
Henry Lee at ijhe request of Congress
in 1799.—Springfield Republican.
*100 Reward. SIOO.
The readers of this paper will be pleasedto
learn arn that that there there i^ i at least one dreaded dis
ease that science as beau, able to cure iu all
itsstages, and tin., Catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh
Cure is the ouly pi tlve cure now known to
the medical frater, y. Catarrh being a eon
stitutioual treatment. diseas Hall’s 1, AtarrhCure oquires a constitutional is taken inier
ually, acting direai r upon the blood and mu
coussurfaees ingthefouudationlof of thbsystem, thereby destroy
tne disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the con¬
stitution and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors havesomuchfaithin
itseurativepoweralthat drvdDoHarsforanJ they offer One Hun
case that it fails to cure.
Send for list of teJliraoniais. CjfcxEY Address
F. J. & Co., Toledo, 0.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
China)* Coal Fields.
China’s resources of coal and iron
ably are among situated the largest (the world. and most The extent favor¬
in
of the great coal fields has been put at
400,000 square miles—more than sev¬
enty times the aggregate extent of all
the coal fields of Britain.
The New Circuses.
It is given out that there are to be
no more circus street parades, that
the band chariots and gilded cages
are to be left at home, and that the
money and efforts of the circus men
are to be concentrated on the show
that will be given inside the tent.
Let ns see how that will work.—
Harper's Weekly.
A GOOD PLACE.
“I got a hair cut today.”
“What! In cold weather like
“Yes,”
“Well, I wouldn’t tell anybody.”
“No. I'm keeping it under the hat ”
—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
commissione r carfie lo's report
It is Fouad to Be Favorable to tlie Great
1 ’acker*.
The report of Commissioner of Cor¬
porations Garfield on the beef indus¬
try, after about eight months’ inves¬
tigation in Chicago and elsewhere,
shows that there has been an enormous
amount of exaggeration in the state¬
ments that have appeared for some
time past in regard to the beef busi¬
ness. This investigation was set oil
foot by a resolution of the House of
Representatives adopted March 7,1904,
and the ascertained facts after a most
rigid examination of the methods and
general conduct of the business are
contained in a report covering 308
pages. Its figures and tables conclu¬
sively show that the popular belief in
enormous profits made by the large
packers, such as Armour & Co., Swift
& Co. and Nelson Morris & Co., and
in the exclusive control of the busi¬
ness which many think they enjoy, is
really without foundation.
The report made to President Roose
velt by Commissioner Garfield is real¬
ly the first official statement of the ac¬
tual conditions of the beef business
that has been made, and as -all the con¬
clusions arrived at are based, as shown
by him, upon data officially obtained,
there seems to be no reason why they
should not be regarded as reliable and
in all respects trustworthy.
This report shows why the price of
j both highest cattle level and beef advanced to the
ever known after the
short corn crop of 1901, and states that
because of the decrease in number of
cattle and also in decreased, weight,
“the high prices of beef which caused,
so much complaint among consumers
at this time were attributable wholly
to these abnormal cattle prices.”
All the figures of the live weight and
live cost of all dressed beef cattle were
obtained from actual killing records,
and all information of every kind ob¬
tained by the Commissioner was volun¬
tarily and fretly offered by the pack¬
ers, all books of record and papers
connected witli the business having
been placed at his disposal.
To make certain that the results of
the investigation should be absolutely
accurate, the Commissioner states that
a double method of ascertaining profits
was adopted, and, without going into
detail hero, it is found that the conclu¬
sion arrived at shows an average profit
of 99 cents per head. The Commis¬
sioner says “the close parallelism in
the results of the two methods of as¬
certaining the profits confirms com¬
pletely the correctness of the general
conclusions.” It is clearly established
that “Western packers do not control
more than half of the beef supply of
the United States,” the conclusion of
JaguylL £|g |
tne country.
The whole report is extremely inter¬
esting and well worthy of careful pe¬
rusal. As an official report it may be
regarded as worthy of confidence, and
it certainly leads the reader to the
conclusion arrived at by the Comnus
sioner when he states that “the capi¬
talization of none of these concerns is
excessive as compared with its actual
investment,” and that from thorough
and rigid examination of original en¬
tiles in books and papers to which he
had access there was also “indirect evi¬
dence that the profits of the packers
in their beef business are less than is
frequently supposed,” as shown by
comparison between the total profits
and the total amount of sales.
ONE-SIDED.
The Actor—Look here, old man, I
wish you’d lend me $5 in advance,
and take it out of my first week’s
salary.
The Manager—But, my dear fellow,
just supposing, for the sake of argu¬
ment, that I couldn’t pay you your
first week’s salary—where would I
be?
THE WAY SHE PUT IT.
Edith—Papa won’t refuse you.
He’s generous to a fault.
Tom—Yes; but I’m no fault.
troit Free Press.
WARSAW IN TURMOIL.
Bomb-Throwers Get in More Work and
Seriously Wound Chief of Police
and Seven of His Aids.
A bomb was thrown into the car¬
riage of Baron von Xolken, chief of
policy of Warsaw, Russian Poland, at
8 o’clock Sunday evening. It was re¬
ported that the baron was severely
wounded.
According to the latest information
the attack on the baron w r as the re¬
sult of an elaborate conspiracy of the
revolutionary party.
Shortly before 8 o’clock an elegantly
dressed man went to the police station
at Praga, a large suburb of Warsaw
on the other side of the Vistula, and
threw a bomb into the courtyard of
the station, wounding seven parsons,
two of them dangerously. The man
started to run away, but was caught
by the captain of the station. He was
found to be a Jew, but his identity has
not yet been discovered.
A telephone message was immedi¬
ately sent to Baron von Nolken at the
city hall informing him of the out
rage. Baron von Nolken, accompa
nied by a police official, took a car¬
riage and started immediately for Pra
ga. When passing the castle where
the governor general resides, a man
standing on the pavement threw a
bomb at the carriage.
Baron von Nolken, who was sitting
on the side nearest the assailant., re¬
ceived the full charge of the bomb,
while his companion escaped unhurt.
The coachman was thrown from the
box and the carriage smashed.
Baron von Nolken was removed to
the city hall and doctors were sum¬
moned, who found he bad received in¬
juries on the head, neck, arm and leg,
which are believed to be serious.
Meanwhile the police official accom¬
panying Baron von Nolken saw the
bomb thrower fleeing and pursued and
caught up with him, but the criminal
proved stronger and tore himself
away.
Another policeman fired twice after
him without result. Half an hour
later a man was found dead in Sowia
street, whom the police believed to be
the bomb thrower.
According to later information the
bomb which exploded at the Praga
police station was not thrown into the
courtyard, but into a room of the sta
tion where the men assembled were
going on duty. Six policemen were
•wounded, and all the furniture, as well
as one wall, was destroyed. The
r in trying to es
the stomach. !i®P ’*rne
the officer in e stomac
oner himself was wounded, and has
been placed in the hospital.
The man found dead in Sowia street
proves to be a plain clothes police
man who w was seen pursuing * b Baron i
von Nolkei s assailant. The police
believe that the latter turned on the
policeman and shot him dead.
A few days ago the Warsaw police
discovered eighty bombs hidden in a
brick grave in the Powonski ceme¬
tery.
great steamships in collision.
Lives of Eighteen Hundred Passengers
Miracuously Saved bv Heroic Work.
* Two great trans-Atlantic liners, the
Parisian of the Allan line and the
Alabano, a H-amburg-American boat,
both bound in. heavily loaded with pas¬
sengers. collided off the harbor en¬
trance at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Sat¬
urday night. Both were seriously dam¬
aged, but reached their docks and
ianded their passengers safely.
The Parisian’s stern touched bottom
as she reached her wharf, while hard
pumping kept the Alabno free.
Both steamers were from European
ports, the Parisian from Liverpool and
the Albano from Hamburg. The Pa¬
risian had on board 1,000 passengers,
many of whom were The hound Albano for Haii- J !
fax and other ports. car
ried about eight hundred passengers. |
nearly all for Philadelphia,»to which
port she was to have proceeded.
Library Donation Offered by Carnegie.
Carson and Lewman college, a Bap¬
tist institution at Jefferson City,
Tenn., has been offered $10,000 from
Andrew Carnegie for a library pro¬
vided it raises a similar sum.
is valid only within the state.
Maryland’s “Jim Crow” Law is Passed
Upon by Court of Appeals.
In an opinion delivered Wednesday
the court of appeals at Annapolis,
Md., held that the act passed at the
last session of the legislature, com¬
monly known as the “jim crow” law
and requiring steam railways in the
state of Maryland to furnish separate
compartments for white and colored
passengers, is valid so far as it af¬
fects commerce within the state, but
invalid as to interstate passengers and
must be construed as not applying to
them.
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