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0H1BITION j CANDIDATE | r.ci $ National Convention is " Swallow, cl Pennsylvania. . „ i PLACE : PPOLl FOR THE iti'orffl is Broad and Touches Upon Various Subjects Outside the Liquor Question. W Swallow, of Harrisburg, !ib s by acclamation for ! I * as b ominated ident by . t ] ie prohibition conven « B ', t Indianapolis Thursday. General Miles it the last moment j Lraphed John G. Woolley asking I his name be not presented. t Carroll, of Texas, was i Mre w. inated for vice president. I platform was adopted without Tie long deadlock in the nment after a :olUt!Qn s committee. It was <le Lj 1 by I. H. committee, Amos, of Oregon, the broad- see of the as lary placed before the platform ever Ie by the party. In addition to pie tho liquor question, it de ^ [re? plank on to be in favor of inter the party law tional arbitration, a suffrage on mental and moral qualiflca ins, uniform laws of the count i> and pendencies, popular election of sen irs, civil service extension, and the Native and referendum. 1 The trust questipn was recognized j ■ demand for a rigid application of e principles and justice to all or- - nizations of capital and labor, A reform of divorce laws is demand ant! polygamy denounced. Over sixteen thousand dollars was i s ed by subscription, pledged from with j e floor of the convention, which the treasury, will be the tut ms of the campaign fund. National [airman Stewart and National Sec- j Lary Tate were re-elected. I Swallow May Decline. Thursday evening, in response to a ngratulatory telegram, Dr. Swallow | nt the following to Chairman Stew- “Harrisburg, Pa., June 30.—Hon. ; liver W. Stewart, prohibitionist Na Convention, Indianapolis.—If referred to in your dispatch ini- i duties requiring my absence from j while I highly appreciate any or duty the grandest party of j age can give me, yet unless Mrs. j health greatly improves, I be compelled to decline. “S. C. SWALLOW.” CHAMPION BICYCLIST BADLY HURT. tbiie Racing in Atlanta “3obby 11 WaS thour Ncf/owly Escapes Being Killed. During a bicycle race in Atlanta Tmrsday night “Bobby” Walthour, be champion pace follower of the orld, was the victim of a most se- i sous accident. Whithorn- had darted to the front in ^ It was a bat- i Huffman pacing Munroe, saw that the j Mlantan would gain the lap, and to ’ tave him off rushed to the very top ■ the track. There was a hare foot the flying Tennessee rider 8n d his motorman and the top track. 8ee ing that there was no earthly : fiance to squeez ehimself through rs opening, Lawson, Walthour’s pace j ® a ^ er . slackened his speed a little j aat * Walthour, unable to stop and not e -pecting the move, plunged into his |dotor Ji'own and into the next moment. was the stand. and fingers of right hand bauly bruised and torn, both hips and legs hrui-s^d and cut, in several places, ^b.’le abdomen. one large wound was made over EIGHT MORE GEORGIA COUNTIES. f) "■Dsent Number if Legis to Be Increased lative Enactment Goes Through Eight ^ new counties may be estab ^hed 5 wendment in Georgia, if the constitutional bill passed by the house Of representatives gets safely through. ffue bill provides for a paragraph in !J state constitution to read as fob lows ‘ here shall not be more than one I f Hundred and forty-five counties in this 3t ate.” The amendment, of course, strikes ; )j ‘ the present paragraph the sub on to limiting the number of counties 137, imoRTAmpEdsioN Rendered by Judge Speer Which Affects Recorder's Courts--Appeal to Be Made. At Macon, Ga., Tuesday morning, Judge Emery Speer, of the federal court, delivered his decision regarding the habeas corpus proceedings instil ed by Henry Jamison, colored, who was sentenced to serve seven mouths upon the county chaingang at hard labor. In his decision Judge Speer or dered the negro to be liberated on ac count of the evidence which was sub mitted showing that the negro had been sentenced, in the opinion of the court, without due process of law, and that he had been deprived of his lib erty unlawfully. The decision is wide sweeping in ns version, and declares that Jamison had no opportunity whatever to se cure a fair trial, according to the methods used at his hearing before the recorder of the police court in Macon. The decision of Judge Speer is held l by lawyers to involve tho authority of municipal courts all ever the country to sentence violators cf municipal or dinances to local chain-gangs. This power is denied in the opinion render ed by Judge Speer. The question immediately at issue was whether cr not the recorder at Macon could, without criminal plead ing or trial by jury, convict a man twice for a minor violation of a muni cipal ordinance and sentence him to seven months of hard labor in the Bibb county chaingang. The punish ment would thus be inflicted in a branch of the state penitentiary, The opinion denies the right of any police magistrate of any municipality to sen fence men, women and children to .the chaingang for the commission of such trivial offenses as come within his jurisdiction, It is understood that the city will from the decision and fight the matter to the supreme court of the United Slates. Henry Jamison is an aged and re spectable negro of Macon, who was ar rested on a charge of disorderly con duct, and while in the police barracks under arrest had a s-scond charge of disorderly conduct entered against him The aggregate fine imposed for both cases was $60 or, as an alterna tive, seven months in the chaingang. In reviewing the case, and before discharging the petitioner, Judge Speer remarked; “The material averments of the pe tition are that the petitioner was ar raigned in the recorder’s court, with out any indictment, accusation or written charge of any kind having been preferred against him and with out. any form or semblance of a ju'di cial trial, he was sentenced to pay a fine which he was wholly unable to pay, and then to serve a .term of two hundred and ten days on the county chaingang of Bibb county. The peti tion further avers that the trial, sen tence and commitment were illegal and void, and that he was thereby de prived of his liberty and subjected to infamous punishment without due process of law. Copies of what pur guilt or innocence by the recorder, no finding of fact, ft is a sentence and GRFAT RUSH FOR FREE LANDS. * ^a S t opening of Public Domain by the Gov ernment is Made in Nebraska. ^ special from Omaha says: Nine millions of acres of government land j n Nebraska were opened for home stead entry Tuesday under the pro visions of the Kinkaid law, which per m it.s homesteaders to file on 640 acres 0 f i am l. The land is known as semi arM an( ] j S mostly adapted to grazing. It is the last great opening of gov The greatest excitement was at Broken Bow, in Custer county, where ov er 2,000,000 acres of the best land included in the provisions of the law are to be thrown open. HELEN G-TS HER DIPLOMA. wonderful Deaf, Dumb and Blind Young Woman Given College Degree. ^ dispatch from Cambridge , Mass., j S; Helen Kellar, the wonderful aa y blind student at Rad- ^ j dea f > ( ] um l> and from lus cliffG college, who comes | cum bia, Ala., received her diploma j Wednesday with the honoi un * 1 L»ude. nsational hush that I There was a se £ the great audience when came ove r irl led remarkable southern J3 i r was this diploma, and tho , f orW ard to take her i that broke out a moment a p P a use 1 later was 5 tremendous. JAPS MENACING PORT ARTHUR Forts on Three Hills Are Cleared of Russians. A STUBBORN RESISTANCE Conflict Listed a Whole Day--Rus sian Submarine Boat Sinks and Twenty-One are Drowned. A special of Thursday from Tokio states that in fierce fighting which took place at the rear of Port Ar thur, Sunday, June 2G, the attack was eimultaneous by the Japanese troops on three hills which were strongly fortified. After an overwhelming bombard ment the mikado’s men advanced and drove out the Russians. Fort So-Cho-Shan, it is added, was first captured and the other torts fell soon afterward. The Russians re treated west, leaving forty dead or wounded. The Tokio correspondent of The London Daily Telegraph says that se vere fighting took place at Kin Sbau on June 25, which resulted in the cap ture of that place on ihe morning of tho 2 cth. The Tokio correspondent of The London Morning Post says that the Japanese second army has effected a junction with the first army and that the whole force now has a flghtin front of 120 miles. Twenty-One Russians Drowned. The submarine boat Delfin sank at. her moorings in the Neva, off the Bal- j tic shipbuilding yard, Wednesday morning, with the loss of an officer and twenty men. I The accident was mie partly to the excessive number of the crew, mostly I j inexperienced men, and chiefly to the unfortunate attempt of a man to es cape while his comrades were screw ing down the manhole. The Delfin’s nominal capacity is ten men, instead of which thirty-two en tered the boat, bringing her man hole in dangerous proximity to the river level. Just then a tug passed, sending a heavy wash against the boat. the As subma- soon j as the water splashed into rine boat’s interior -. created a panic among the novices and one of them tried to get out of the manhole, which | me older hands were screwing down ’ preparatory to the descent, the sub merging compartment having already opened. The water rushed in and with e manhole open, the subfnerged ves sel sank like a stone. The officers and some of the men were saved by being blown up through the manhole by the rush of escaping air. Tbe Delfin shortly afterwards was vaised. MINISTER GETS HEAVY COURT FINE. Mulcted in Sum of $250 for Aggravated Assault on a Brother Preacher. ^At Jacksonville, Fla., Rev. J. B. Hol ly, a prominent Baptist divine of the state and one of the editors of the Southern Baptist, and Baptist W it ness, was fined $250 in the criminal court- He was charged with assaulting Rev. w. A. Hobson, pastor of the First Baptist church of Jacksonville, and also an editor of the same pa per. charged, struck the Rev. Holly, it is Jacksonville divine in the face about ten times and bruised him severely. The trouble is said to have arose from a dispute as to the management of the Southern Baptist Witness, The paper in question is the creature of John B. Stetson and Rev. Holly is his personal representative in the busi ness. Fell Down on Physical Fxominaiion. Out of twenty-five youths who had passed their mental examination for admission into the naval academy and were examined physically at Annapo lis Wednesday, only eleven were suc cessful. BOGUS “ELIJAH” BACK IN ZION. I Bowie, the Sprinter, Again With lbs flock, After Encircling the Globa. After a trip that encircled the earth, John Alexander "Bowie arrived in Chi eago Thursday. When the train pulled m a e LaSalle street station, howeier, m^e were no cheering followers to mee him. He had sent word ahead that he wo aid not soil his feet with the dust of Chicago. H- e remained in his pri vate car while it was being attac le to a train scheduled to leave for the “Dciwieite Settlement, ’ Zion Cit>, Ids. COMBAT WAS TERRIFIC. Great Battle Was That Fought at Fen Sbui Pass--Front and Flank Attacked by Japs. a special sent'out from Tokio says; reports of the capture of Feu ghui Pass on June 27 show that the were driven from an exceed ingiy strong position dominating the Shi-Mucheng road. In this engage meat the Russian losses were again heavier than those of the Japanese, The Japanee outmaneuven/i the Rus siaus by working around the enemy’s right flank and attacking him in the rear. The Japanese advanced in three col umns. One was assigned to deliver a frontal attack and the others to strike the enemy on the flanks. The column whiph advanced upon the Russian right flank fought a separate action. It encountered three battalions of in fantry, six guns and two machine guns on Sunday morning. This engagement lasted until sunset of Sunday, At this hour the Japanese bivouacked and re newed the assault at midnight, when they succeeded in defeating the Rus sians. On Monday morning, the 27th, the Russians were reinforced^ with three battalions and sixteen guns, They as saulted the Japanese viciously and en deavored to retake the position they had lost. They were repulsed arid the Japan ese flankers worked’their way to the rear of the main Russian position at ' PROHIS IN CONVENTION. Party's Delegates Meet in Indianapolis j to N:me National Ticket tor Coming Campaign. Tho tenth national prohibition con- i vention opened at Indianapolis Wed nesdav morning with four thousand delegates, alternates and visitors present. Tomlinson hall was profus ly decorated with the national colors. On ihe platform hung pictures of Abraham Lincoln, Clinton B. Fiske and Francis Willard. j The convention was called to order by National Chairman Stewart, ; Chicago, who said the convention just j assembled was the only one that had j a real i^sue to present to the Ameri can people. j Mr. Stewart introduced Homer L. Castle, of Pittsburg, temporary chair- i man of the convention, Following Mr. Castle’s address, W. G. Calderwood, of Minneapolis, took charge of the records as temporary secretary, and the committees select ed at the state meetings and the names of the new national commit tee w r ere read and adopted. Free admission was offered, and a j i recess taken until 2 o'clock. The committee on permanent organ- I ization held a brief meeting, and se- j j lected A. G. Wolfenberger, of Lincoln, j Neb., for permanent chairman, and W. G. Calderwood, of Minneapolis, for permanent secretary. i The report of the committee on ere j dentials was followed by the report of ! the committee on permanent organiza- j tion, both of which were adopted. INVESTIGAIORS SEVERELY CRITICISED. Committee of Georgia Solons Charged With Irregularities in I heir Work. Georgia capitol officials, who were criticized by the report of the legis lative committee and some members of the legislature are doing a little criticizing in retaliation. The committee in its report point ed out every irregularity that could be found in every department of the state, but it did not say anything about the extra expert accountant employed by the committee nor the stenogra pher it employed. There are many legislators an< * i state house officers who contend that | the committee violated the law when the extra men were employed and one member of the house went so far as to state that he would fight any measure to pay for the extra help. The resolution creating the commit tee and outlining the work did not ap propriate money for the work of the committee further than four dol- j lars per day for each member. The stated that the committee ! should employ only one expert ac countant or bookkeeper, The commit- . tee employed an assistant bookkeeper, contrary to the law, and a stenogra pher besides. The committee states in its report that two accountants and one stenographer was employed. The report does not mention that only one accountant and no stenographer was j allowed the committee. Another question that the legist a tors are inquiring about and which some of the capitol officials who were criticised by the committee think should be looked into was the pay ment on the part of the governor of about $600 to one of the expert ac countants of the committee. The com mittee does not mention in its report that this was done. Governor Terrell when seen about the matter Wednes day, said; “Yes, I paid about $600 to one of the expert accountants on approval of the committee. There was no specific law for the payment, but T took the money out of my contingent fund upon the a fc* nrr eement that when the legislature met the committee would secure an appropriation and pay back the money. I had the authority, I am sure, to draw the money out, but there was no spe cial law authorizing me to do so.” The committee made no mention of that transaction, but laid particular stress on the fact that the state house officers were too lax in raising saia ries without authority. The official stenographer of the com mittee was employed at a fixed salary of $5 per day for taking testimony and $5 per day for writing it out. Tlv. stenographer, Mr. W. F. Blue, is m Mr. Hall's office in Macon. The as | sistant expert account, J. T. Duncan, Jr., was the nephew of Senator J. T. Duncan ,a member of the commit tee. Mr. Hall was chairman of the committee. The expert accountants were paid ten and five dollars a dr-’ each, so it c ] a j mG( j Dy some. No mention of pay is made in the report to the hougg. it is charged by some of the i capitol officials that the accountants were ar0 und the capitol several days , do j n g no v ,n 0r L ) waiting on instructions f rom the committee. At the same time they claim the accountants were i ,j raw j n their pay. g pass, This attack occurred 3 o’clock in the morning. In the meantime, the Japanese col which had been assigned to make frontal attack, met and routed tea infantry and cavalry posted Wenchnpantsu. This happened Sunday, the 26th. At dawn on Monday*.' the Japanese renewed the attack. The fighting this day was opene d with artillery. The Russians poured a deadly artillery fire, upon the attackers, and the Japanese artillery secured a new position and delivered a heavy cross-fire upon the Russian lines of defence. While this was proceeding, the Japanese infantry and engineers cleared the obstructions from tho R USS j an re ar and closed in on the enemy. The Russians broke and fled at 11:30 Monday morning. The Japanese gamed and retained possession of the heights. The Rus sians left ninety dead uehind them on the heights. This number of dead does not include those found in the valleys. The Japanese lost 270 men killed or wounded in the flanking and front a! attlcl ^. The RussIan troops, who defended Fen-Shui pass, consisted of eleven bat talions of infantry, seventeen squad rons of cavalry and three battalions of artillery. The enemy had spent three months in fortifying Fen-Shui pass. The barracks and other buildings cap tured by the Japanese had not been destroyed. But before retreating the Russians burned their warehouses at. Shan-Tasu. The Russians retreated in disorder toward Shi-Mucheng. The Japanese captured eighty-eight prisoners. AGED MAN KILLS DAUGHTER-IN-LAW. Quarrel Over Cabbage in Garden Leads to Fatal Domestic Traaedv. At Fayetteville, Ga., Thursday Steve Renfroe, a man 79 years of age, shot his daughter-in-law through the head with a pistol, killing her instantly. The bullet did its work in a remarka bly quick space of time, as it entered the brain and passed almost entirely through the woman’s head. She fell where she stood and death resulted before aid could be summoned. The trouble is said to have originated over a cabbage patch which the parties to the tragedy are said to have been usin 8 in common. The exact details of this part of the affair are not given ! out but it is thought that there was j a misunderstanding as to which should | have the use of certain of the vegeta bles contained in the little garden, and from this the dispute verged into an : acrimonious -wrangle that led to the : killing. | | RUSSIANS KNOCKED OUT AGAIN. j Takushao Division of Mikado Defeats Five Battalions of Muscovites. A special from Tokio, Japan,, says: After a hot fight, -tfhich lasted for six hours June .27 the Takushan division of the Japanese army completely de feated five battalions of Russian in fantry, which supported by two regi ments of cavalry and sixteen guns, occupied Fenshtiling, 27 miles north west of Sluyen. The Russians finally fell back in the direction of Shi-Mu-Cheng. The Japanese casualties aggregated about i one hundred killed and wounded.