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ed by conspiracy
liUV v ia uious poscoflice
shortly alter $ o'clock Friday
anting at the same time that
tllC verdict as to ail lour tie
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superin lenient oi Lie rural
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'ce jury , had been out nine hours,
lougn the verdict was reached m
tours and twenty-five m.nutes.
it the jury
bjth impressive dignity,
Le man arose, and as the words fore
lilty as indicted'’ tell from the
L lips, e defendants and their
Lei seemed appalled. They had
Lexpression L to the belie! ^scussing that each the
the jury spent in
[‘ brought them nearer general to an ae
Tnere was very as
isfcment that the jury had included
Jo conviction Samuel A. Groff, the
Islington policeman and inventor ox
k (j ro if fastener, as to whom
lines Conrad, special counsel for tne
Lranent ,had previously informed
i he did not expect a conviction,
d that ha personally did not believe
1 Lis guilt.
five baliot s in all were taken. On
ft first ballot the vote stood 7 to 5
ccsriciion, on the second 8 to 4,
[ the third 9 to 3, on the fourth 10
Unb cn the fifth the vote was unan
tons.
Immediately aTcer tne verdict was
leered, Attorney Douglass, in behalf
Ell four defendants, filed motions for
htw trial, or an arrest of judgment
H also for an appeal for the purpose
having the defendants admitted to
ii Bail was then fixed at $20,000
:i. the bend of Lorenz and the two
[offs being increased from $ 10,000
that sum. Bonds were furnished
Id the defendants released from cus
FMGHTEUL FIRE LOSS.
lafkgration Visits Rochester, N. Y ♦>
Damage Amount-
ing to Millions.
Tie worst conflagration in the his
fy of Rochester, N. Y., broke out
lorlly before 5 o’clock Friday morn
gin ihe basement of the Rochester
r Goods Company’s store in Main
test east.
The fire, according to the night
atchman in the store', was discovered
Me alter it started, but it spread with
sdi rapidity that by The time the
farm was turned in the enure depart
ment store was in flames.
The fire department responded
romptly but within an hour after be
^ discovered the fire had spread to
lie big Granite building occupied by
hbley, Lindsay & Curr, and by hun
tads of business and professional
ten.
The flames also spread to the build
p in the rear of the Granite block,
pe lifficuit extreme cold made fire fighting ladders
and hazarddous as the
pe I Tne coated fire is with ice. started
reported to have
P basement of the Rochester Dry
poods Company. A fuse connected
the electrical motor that runs the
Stator blew out. and the next mo
the flames were rushing up the
Elevator wall. In a few moments
. h
; weafter wrapped in
the building was
BSDlfcg _
The fire started so earlv in the mom
,
lB g that very few people were on tne
tree i hut by 6 o’clock there were
j crowds around the blazing build
dynamite was used to check
tl of the flames and was followed
the thunderous falling of walls.
plan was soon abandoned,
Th budding occupied bv fhe Roeh
Ster Dry Goods Company, just, east oi
the ^ ran ffe building, totally de
Su was
k'ed and the walls fell.
Gr-vt ^ Bprea(i the rear of the
Ti: ® Cox e building on Division street.
Paul building, which fronts St
str-ff ree '"’ on corner °T Division
hr„f his ,;Ir!nce Wa§ S00n ( T°°med.
035 men estimate the loss
?4,000,000 to $o,000,0T>0.
ONLY fOR IHE COURrS.
cn^rdss Not to Tamper V/ith South’s
Suffrage Laws--A Case in
Point Decided.
A special to The Atlanta Constitu
tion from Washington says: In pass
lag upon the contest case of Dantzler
V3, Lever > Involving representation
from the Columbia, £outh Carolina
district, house elections committee
NO. I refused to take into considera
. the
1 Uon constitutional questions which
the attorneys for the contestant raised.
This means that other contests
which have no other basis than the
claim that the election' laws or con
stitutions of southern states contra
vene the constitution of the United
States,* will result in favor of the sit
ting member. Certainly this will be
the case if the present precedent is
followed, until the supreme court of
the United States passes upon these
constitutional questions and puts a
quietus upon agitation.
The committee in its report virtual
ly says that the issues attempted to
be made before it belong properly to
the supreme court. It holds:
“If the house should unseat the con
tastee on the ground that no valid
election was held, or could be held in
the district under the present constitu
tion and election laws oi South Caro
lina, a similar construction would re
quire the house, in case ot contest, to
unseat all the members from South
Carolina and from most of the other
southern states, and that new elec
tions could not be held to fill the va
cancies until the respective constitu
tions of these states had been chang
ed so as to comply with the recon
struction acts. The question, there
fore, is one of far-reaching impor
tance. It involves in its outcome the
right of a very large number of mem
bers of the house to their seats. But
the decision would have no binding
effect upon South Carolina except in
this particular case.
ti A legislative body is not the ideal
body to pass judicially upon enact
ments of other bodies. We have in
this country a proper form for the de
cision of constitution and other legal
questions. Any citizens of South
Carolina deprived ol‘ his right to vote
can apply for redresse to the proper
court and on up to the supreme court
of the United States. A decision ot
that, court would be binding, but a
sision of the house would not be
sidered binding or in any way
lishing a precedent.”
Dismissing the constitutional
tion as belonging to anotner
the committee decides that
“There is nothing in the record or
the case to sustain any part of a
claim that the contestant, Dantzler,
was elected. It is indisputable that
an election were held at all in this
trict, the contestee, Lever, was fairly
elected.”
The decision of the committee was
unanimous.
Mr. Lever’s republican opponent was
A. D. Dantzler, a wealthy old negro,
an ex-slavc, unable to read or write
more than his own name. At the elec
tion Dantzler only received 167 vot«<»
against 4,229 cast for Lever. Dantzler
alleged, however, that upward of 7,000
negroes appeared at the polls and of
fered to vote for him, but were pre
vented from doing so. The evidence
showed that there Was no real basis
for this claim—that, in fact, it was for
the most part imaginary.
TWO POSTAL CLERKS SHOT.
One Killed Outright and Another Fatally
Wounded by Allefed C razy Negro.
A negro supposed to be crazy board
ed the Alabama Great Southern south
bound express at Meridian, Miss.,
Monday morning at 1:30 o’clock and
after forcing his way into the mail
car shot Postal Clerk Stockton dead
and fatally wounded Postal Clerk Bass.
The negro made his escape, the train
returning to Meridian to get new pos
tai clerks, There a posse was at once
organized and sent in pursuit of the
murderer, Bloodhounds were also put
on his trail.
It was at first thought that a hold
up was planned, but not attempt was
made to rob the mails, the express car
or any of the passengers.
CAVE-IN CAUSES GREAT DAMAGE.
|j, Pennsylvania Coal Region Forty Acres of
Land Sink Into fxtenslve Mine.
One of the most extensive cave-ms
that the northern anthracite coal re
gion has ever experienced occurred in
West Scranton, Pa., Saturday. It was
caus ed by the settling of the surface
over a Vein of the Bellevue colliery.
The cave-in- affects an area of
forty acres, About 200 houses
been wrecked and many families
narrow escapes from death.
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RUSSIAN HATE j
FOR AMERICANS
Friend!/ Ties Appear Be Near ibe
Df caking Point.
CZAR REMAINS SILENT
Alleged Pa-Japanese Reeling Expressed
by People oi Unit d S: ites Threatens
a Serious Aupture.
A St. Petersburg special says: The
news that the United States had as
sented to the extension of the Pacific
cable to Japan with the reas«ns there
for assigned in dispatches from Wash
ington, still further aggravated by the
popular belief that the United States
is siding with Japan against Russia.
The few Americans in St. Petersburg
have all remarked on the changed de
meanor of their Russian friends. For
merly they were treated with the
greatest cordiality, but now the Rus
sians greet them with the question:
“Is America our secret enemy and
shall we have to fight her also before
the war comes to an end ”
How deeply the Russians are wound
ed by the belief, which is destined un
less checked, soon to become a convic
tion that America has scored her old
friend and is now playing a hostile
part, is shown by the severance of
personal ties. The Russians feel ag
grieved at all Americans since the re
ported action of the commander of
the United States gunboat Vicksburg
at Chemulpo, in refusing to rescue or
take aboard Russian mariens from
sinking battleships.
The attitude of the bnited States
is a subject of constant discussion,
even in the highest cimes in St. Pe
tersburg .where, with the greatest re
gret, the fear is expressed that
two countries, w.thout excuse, so
as Russia is concerned, seem to be
drifting apart. The recently reported
cancellation of American contracts
Russia indicates how resentment
America’s supposed hostility has
vaded business affairs. Popular feel
ing is to be attributed largely to Rus
sian newspapers which have suddenly
turned their attacks from Great Brit
ain to the United States and haVe seiz
ed every rumor to give the worst pos
sible interpretation of it.
Without waiting for an explanation,
which, it is apparent from the latest
dispatches received from Washington,
may put another complexion on the
Vicksburg incident, the columns of the
press for days past have been full of
excited comment based on the original
version of the affair. In spite of the
state of popular opinion, the govern
ment, ft can be asserted, places the
highest value on American friendship,
and, although the course of American
diplomacy is at times privately view
ed askance, officially, the czar assumes
that the American altitude has been
strictly correct. The slightest disposi
tion Co question its acts is not mani
fested.
At the foreign office Friday, the As
sociated Press was informed that the
government knew nothing officially of
the Vicksburg incident, and that it had
not instructed Count CassiiN, ambassa
dor at Washington, to ask for an ex
planation. It was, however, said to
be possible that the ambassador hid
courteously inquired as to the truth of
the Vicksburg reports without having
had specific .instructions.
Regarding the reports of the cable
to Japan, the government is also with
out official advices and the impression
left with the representative of the As
sociated Press, after speaking of the
affair, was that even were these re
ports true, Russia wouuld not necessa
rily regard the running of this cable
as a breach of neutrality.
Sewed Nine flits in Ten Minutes.
At Manila the battle ship Wisconsin
has beaten the world’s record with 13
inch guns, its expert gunners having
made nine bull’s eyes out of ten shots
fired within ten minutes.
POPULISTS P^»C51 UP SCHISM.
Two Fcctions Acree to Hold Joint (onven
to m SpimcjlieM, III., on July 4.
At BL Lou ; s, after two days and
two nights of animated debate and
discussion by national committees
representing the fusion and the mid
dle of-the-road wings of the popuhsi
party, in an endeavor to agree upon a
plaoe and date for holding the nation
al convention, schisms were finally
healed and differences smoothed over,
and the two factions finally agreed to
hold in joint convention the people’s
party national convention in Spring
field. Ills... on July 4th.
jAjQJJr ATORS
IN ATLANTA
Superintendence Department of N.
A. E. Association Githers.
A HOST Or DELEGATES
Thirteenth Annual Session ot Impor
tant Body Begins With Great
Enthusiasm.
Fully 1,000 delegates from all parts
of the Union assembled at the Grand
Opera house in Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday
morning at the opening session ct the
convention of the National Educational
Association, department ot superiu
tendeuce. Iv was a representative au
dience of American culture that filled
ihe lower floor, the balcony and the
boxes ot the opera house.
in the aud.ence were representa
tives ot colleges, noted schoolnook au
thors, euucauuuai authorities, super
intendents of complicated school sys
tems and experts m all lines of edu
cational effort.
The session was opened with prayer
by Dr. Therein Rice, of Atlanta, wao
asked the divine blessing on the as
semblage of educators. President Heu
ry P. Emerson, of Buffalo, who presid
ed, then introduced Governor Joseph
M Terrell, who welcomed me edu^a
tors. He alluded to the fact tnat Geor
gia, even as far back as the colonial
period, had planned a system or public
education, and he traced the growth
of the original plan up to tne present
when wild its system of locai taxation,
coupled with state aid, every county
and town in the state had its publi'J
school system. He hoped to to see the
time, he said, when tne children in ev
ery county attend school the entire
scholastic year.
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SWOXD HELD OVER CHINA.
Russia Threatens Dire Things to the j
Flowery Kingdom if Czar’s Troops
are Not Aided.
Advices from Yinkow state that
Viceroy Alexieff has caused a procla
mation to be issued throughout Man
churia, notifying the Chinese that Rus- j
sia i 3 at war with Japan on account
of Japan’s treacherous attack on the
Russian fleet.
This proclamation is under six head
ings.
The first warns the inhamtants that
they must prevent the encroachment
of Chinese on Russian territory.
S.cond—Russian and Chinese inter- 1
ests are deelarea to be identical; that
as China says she wishes to maintain
neutrality, therefore, all officials in
Manchuria, instead of hindering, must j
assist the Russian army.
Third-The people shall continue
their occupations, and snail treat the
Russian troops with confidence.
Fourth—The railroad and telegraphs
are left to the protection of the people,
who will be held responsible in case
they are injured.
The fifth heading warns the people
not to obey the threats of the Chun
Chus (bandits), who are the curse of
Manchuria, but to assist the troops to
exterminate them; if tney don’t assist
in this they also will be treated as
robbers.
Sixth—If the people antagonize the
troops or show them hatred, they will
be exterminated without mercy. The
government is taking all steps, in any
event, to protect its interests.
Th*e proclamaion makes an earnest
appeal for the sympathy of fne people
in the present crisis when it says:
“Russia must put her bacn to the
wall.”
H. B. Miller, United States consul at
New Chwang, is increasingly active in
his endeavors to protect Japanese re
iugees and has made further demands
for information as to the whereabouts
of the refugees. He has made strong
representations in the matter of right
of search and inspection.
The reorganization of the vice regal
administration is now going forward
and is expected to take one month. In
the meanwhile there is considerable
complication and uncertainty in all in
ternational and domestic matters.
PROVIDES TEMPORARY GOVERNMENT,
Bill Introduced in Senate Looking to Pro
tection of Waterway Territory.
Senator Kittredge, of South Dakota,
a member of the interoceanic canal
committee, after the ratification of the
canal treaty, introduced a bill to pro
vide for the temporary government ot
the Panama canal territory and the
protection of the canal works and for
other purposes connected with the con
struction of the canal.
The first section creates “the Pana
ma board of governors,” consisting of
three citizens of the United States, not
all of whom sbail be of the same po
litical party, to be appointed by the
president and confirmed by tne senate.
The first step toward constructing
the ewnal is the naming of the canal
commission, This, it is provided, is
to consist of seven men to be named
by the president, by and with the con
sent of the senate, These members
shall serve until the completion of the
canal, unless sooner removed by the
president, and one of their number
shall be named as chairman. Of the
seven memoers, it is provided learned that at. j
least four shall be “persons .
and skilled in the science of engineer
ing and of the four at least one shall
be an officer of the United States army
and one an officer of the United States
navy, these being taken from either
the active or the retired list of their
respective branches of service.
JAPS LOAN FOUR TIMES COVERED.
Great Enthusiam Shown in Raising of Funds
to Prosecute Wer.
According to the reports of banks in
Tokio, Japan, the national loan of
nearly 100,000,000 yen ($49,800,000)
has been covered nearly four times,
The intense patriotism of all classes
is evidenced by the fact that even ser
vants and laborers are contributing
from their savings.
NO UNION LABEL ON BALLOTS.
Stamp of Allied Printing Trades Ruled Off
by Chicago Election Officials.
Under a decision of the board of
election commissioners of Cook coum
ty, at Chicago, primary election ballots
raarked with the union label or any
other device will hereafter, if cast, oe
treated as void aud not counted.
Attorney Wheelock, of the board,
had been asked to give an opinion as
to whether the Allied Printing Trades
Council or any similar device of label
should be allowed on the ballots. His
opinion was absolutely against the la
bel and this was adopted by the board
“We take pride,” said Governor Ter
rell, “in referring to the general in
terest throughout the state in educa
tional matters, The very air you
breathe here is charged with the sen
timent that the children of the state
shall be educated by the people
thereof.”
President Emerson rose, and after a
State School Commissioner William
B. Merritt was next introduced, and
addressed the audience. ITe expressed
his appreciation ot the visit of so many
distinguished educators to the city,
and spoke of the mutual benefit that
such visits always occasioned. He also
referred to the tremendous good tha
association nad accomplished in its
eighteen departments, and the benefit
that teachers all over the land had
derived from its exhaustive reports
and researches. Speaking ot education
itself. Commissioner Merritt said:
“The point that needs emphasis in
our work is educational research. Ii
literacy among the people is a point
too much stressed. It at least is not
our long suit, whatever it may be in
other sections. We need proficiency <n
manual training, child and nature
study and the like, In the fifties the
south led in education, and now it sur
prises mahv people to know how we
ac complish so much and pay so little.
The reason is evident. For small pay
our teachers find compensation in sun
shine and glorious atmosphere.”
In President Emerson’s response, he
gpoke of the g(5ocl mee tings of this
kjnd did both the nort h anu the south
ma tter o’ wiping out all ves
tiges of sectionalism. Said he:
"The members of this association ap
preciate the hearty welcome extended
them by the people of Atlanta and
none appreciate this more than the
northern delegates. It is good policy
for us to hold meetings in the south.
There is nothing like exchanging ideas
and methods. If there had been more
of this in the old days, the conflict,
of which your city was one of the
bloodiest battle grounds, would never
have occurred, Let us use this occa
S ion to still further blot out this mem
ory.”
The main body of tha program was
then taken up. the subject for discus
j R ion being "Education at the Universal
i Exposition. 1904.”
DIVERSIFICATION FARM NUMBER ONE.
u n iq. je Agricultural Educational Plan Inou
qurated by Government.
Professor W. J. Spillman, the agros
J tologist of agriculture, of the United has States arrived depart- Co
j ment m
j lumbia, S. C., for the purpose of estab
i lishing the first of the diversification
! farms in the south, determined upon
by the general government. This farm
is to be known as Diversification Farm
It is contemplated by this new de
; parture to teach the farmers in the
south how to combine business meth
ods with agriculture of various kinds,
j other than cotton, upon scientific lines.