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TWENTY HELD FOR EUTCHERY Score of Negroes Arrested in Con nection With Foul Murders* LOOKS SERIOUS FOR TWO Strong Evidence Brought Out During Investigation ot Bloody Tragedy by Coroner's Jury. The coroner’s jury investigating the killing of the H ?S family near Statesboro, Ga., met Saturday evening and adjourned over until Tuesday. Twenty negroes have been arrested and are now in jail, but the evidence in hand at this time only implicates two of them. Paul Reed and Will C-ito # The wife of Paul Reed has made a statement in which she says her hus band an 1 Will Cato are the guilty par ties and that early last Thursday even ing, just after dark, they went over to Henry R. Hodges' house and killed the entire family to get money that Mr. H -ages was supposed to have and that they then came back and got some matches and returned and set the house on fire after putting Hodges body in the house so that the entire family could be burned, She has made this confession freely and vol untarily. Acting on the request of the sheriff and ordinary of Bulloch county, Gov ernor '1 errel at an early hour Sai.ir day night ordered out company A, First regiment, at Statesboro, for ihe purpose of protecting the prisoners. Shortly after the troops were in pos- , session of the prison, the governor was ncCfed that everything was quiet and us more trouble expected. Later the situation changed. The sheriff of Bulloch county stated over the long distance phone tha; he did not think it possible for the two negroes to re main in Statesboro over night without danger of mob violence, in spite of the assurances of prominent citizens that no trouble need be feared. Acting on this inffirmation and deeming the . :t uation exceedingly grave, Governor Terrell authorized the county authori ties to charter a special tram and con vey the two men to Savannah for safe j keeping. : In Savannah Jail. A 'Savannah special says: With Cato and Paul Reese, alleged murderers of the Hodges family near Statesboro, in his custody. Sheriff J. Z. Kendricks, of Bulloch county, arrived in Savannah Sunday morning and lodged his prison er!-: in Chatham county jail for safe keeping He slipped the prisoners out of the Statesboro jail at 2 o'clock Sunday morning without even the military that was guarding the jail knowing of it. j Lieutenant Henry Briner. in command of the Volunteer Guards, withdrew his men 'rum the rear of the jail for a few minutes at the sheriff’s request, though lie did riot then know the object of :he movement. Kendricks slipped out alone with his prisoners aafl walked 1 them for half a mile, then took a fug t-. • • y an 1 drove to Brooklet, ten miles' irom Statesboro, where the train vas caught. Both negroes admit that they know Die Time was going to be commiHed before It, took place, but neither of them acknowledges that he took part in it. Reese admits starting to Hodges' home with two other negroes, John Mall and Sank Tolbert, for tne purpose of robbery, but claims he was frightened when Hodges appeared end ran. Asked which one of ihe men killed Hodges, lie revtlied at once that Kail did. When asked how he knew this, if he had run away as claimed, he g ’IV suilen f.r.d refused to talk further. I There are stains on Reese's pa'its which ieok like blood stains, but. Hie man Jellies that they are. Cato dentes having been in the party at all. He says Reese asked him to go. ti ll ing him they could get money, though they might have some trouble. Reese corroborates Cato’s statement, Cato admitted going to Reese’s house eaHv on the night of the crime, but claims to have gone back home early. Sheriff Kendtick says Cato's wife does not eorroo.irate this. The sheriff, h >w ever. believes that both Cato and Reese were there, and he does not think Hall and Tolbert were, though he states he has not yet gotten 10 the bottom of the case. He ht’.s eighteen prisoners in jail at ! Statesboro in connection with the case, besides two in Savannah. Robb rv was undoubtedly the motive of the murder. Sheriff Kendricks' position in the case is a peculiar one. His brother married a sister of Hodges and he and Hodges were the closest of friends. 1 PORT ARTHUR NOT TAKEN. R. port That Fassain Stronghold is Cap tured by Japs is Officially Denied. A special from Tokio says: The ru mored tall ol Port Arthur is officially pronoun to be untrue. An Associated Press dispatch savs: iunk which left Port Arthur n , last at midnight reports ler rfk figming on land and sea whRffi had then been going on for three da; VS. The highest Japanese authority at Che Foo says that the army and naval commanders of the beseiging forces had planned to begin their final assault on Tuesday last and expected to effect the capture by July 29, but that no offi cial reports were expected from tie aurnay or from Admiral Togo until ihc present attack results in success ci failure. Japanese correspondents st Che Foo are now sending junks to the Miao Tac Islands, ready to enter the harbor r>t Port Arthur immediately at ter the fall of the fortress. The Associated Press correspondent learns from the same reliable authori ty that the movements of tie Rus-fian ^ ladivostok squadron hastened t he present attack upon Port Arthur, He Japanese authorities realizing that if these vessels were allowed to proceed unhampered any longer it meant the division of Admiral Togo’s fleet wiih the oufcoming of the Russian ships now cooped up by him at Port Arthur. The most intense interest in the Port Arthur situation- is taken not only at Che Foo. but in Shanghai and Tien Tsin. Many commercial concerns in these 'places are continually wiring ior news. Many wagers are being made at odds cf two to one, in pounds ster ling, that Port Arthur will not fall within -he next ten months, German residents offering and Englishmen cc cepting the bets. The general staff at Tokio announc Saturday evening that, five Jap.-.n ese officers had been killed and forty l,ne wo ' m ded i E the fighting which las * )een on around Port Arthur ihe last few days The losses in men are not given. This is the first announcement of its kind since the beginning of the siege of the fortress, and it indicates that there has been serious fighting. The reports of the storming of Port Arthur were received in St. Petersburg wdth smiles of incredulity. The war office contradicts the rumored fall of the fortress. CHURCH AND STATE DIVORCED. Representatives of Vatican in France Vir tually Ordered to Leave the Republic. A Parts special says: Foreign M>n ister Delcasse Saturday afternoon ad drdss *d ft note to the papal nuncio that in consequence of the rupture of Hie relations between France and the Vati can. his mission in Paris no longer had any object. The pope's lengthy reply to the ! French note, though most courteously worded, merely amount -3 to a polite 1 statement that ... he <loes not „ lnten . , 1 : t0 | infringe , . stipulations . of the coneor- ! dat and will not withdraw the letters I caihng -s, :he Ki„s, bishops of Dijon and - Laval , , | to Rome. I It is not expected t hat tne nip? tre j will have immediate I any consequencesj beyond the mutual withdrawal of tre representatives of France ,nd the ” iti can an 1 the suppression of the ,,E ' ] - bassv and nunciature, as the denun: ia- j tion of th econcordat requires pamia 1 mentaiy sanction. I Pile rupture of relations between 1 France and the Vatican does iy>t cause I surprise. It has been generally fare- | seen that Premier Combes was do w- I mined to bring it about, despite the op- j P° s Kion which doubtless he met from I certain members of the cabinet. The imp res..'on prevails that the govern men * ,v 1 11 be satisfied with having g’v en the Vatican a lesson, and that it will not seek to repeal the concorfat when parliament reassembles. The fact that the Vatican’s reply tr the French note was drawn up in Pal fan. which is the official language nei ther of the church nor of French diplo macy, causes some irritation. CHINESE DIPLOMAT RESIGNS POST. Wu Ting Fang, for Many Years Represen tative at Washington, Quits Politics. Wu Ting Fang, for many years the ! Chinese minister at Washington, ac- ! carding to his son, Wu Chao Chu, I ' v, i° j has bae*i attending school at Atlan ic City, dency N J.. has resigned the vice presi- j of the foreign board at Pekin , and is said to have permanently re tired from politics. Wu Chao Chu said that his father has determined to lead a quiet life, a:id lias unit him a country home li'vir Shanghai. A SERMON FOR SUNDAY AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE GY Ei3HO c E. C. ANDREW;. Subject: Christianity an<l T.ove"—Ctiureli Ministrations Should He DireeteU , Toward Freeing Hie Human son ol That Selfishness Which is Inherent. Brooklyx, X. Y.—Bishop K. G. An drews, of the Methodist Episcopal the Church, Central preached Sunday morning in Congregational Church. His ;ect was: “Christianity and Love.” The text was from I Timothy i:o: 'Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a and pure heart, and of a good conscience, .said: o; faith unfeigned.” Bishop Andrews Every careful reader of the English the Bible takes knowledge of the fact that English language, like every other living language, is in process of change, JR knows the significance of words, as well as their form, and occasionally their order changes. Psalms: He reads, for instance, Cod, iit the heart “My heart and is fixed, remembers oh that rny is fixed,” “fixed” he that word at tlie time our version was made had the meaning, which we still retain in our colloquial he speech, “to be fixed up,” and so reads: “My heart is prepared, oh Cod. my heart is prepared.'' lie reads in the Epistle to the I'he-salon ians that they which are alive at the sec ond coming of Christ shall not prevent them that are asleep, and he remembers that the word “prevent” originally meant to precede simply, arid came to have its present meaning because he that precedes another is likely to get in the way of that one and obstruct another who follows, and so he reads that at the second coming of Christ they that are alive shall not precede, or shall not have the advantage over them that sleep in Christ, for both alike shall be called to meet their Lord m the air. So in this text we have the word “char ity,” a word which to-day signifies either almsgiving but in or kindly judgment Oj had other.-, the time of our version it the meaning to which “love.” the new revisers have returned, viz., or “benevolence.” and in this passage we read this statement;: The aim of the commandment is benevo lence, good will, effective love, even as we speak of the love of man to God, then also to his fellow men. Another Bible criticism is worth out while. The word "commandment.” like the word “Taw,” may have either a narrow or a broad significance. The narrow sig nificance of that is “particular precept” ai tended by “particular sanction.” A broad er stitution meaning is that of a “holy ordained in and system." and that broader meaning evidently should be here used be cause of the context. We come then io the entire statement: “The end. or aim, of the whole Christian institution is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned.' 5 It originated in a heart of boundless love toward man in an act of love unparalleled, we may suppose in all the ages of eternity —even the gift of God's only Son. All its precepts turn in this direction. Church or ganizations and ministrations of every kind, if they he rightly directed, have sim ply this purpose to discharge the human soul of that selfishness that belongs to it by nature, and to enter into it all the love of God. Now all familiar with the New Testa ment know that this is no solitary utter ance—it is but one of many broad and comprehensive statements. One came to the Mastei saying: "Which is the first and great commandment?’’ And He answered: “Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with ail thy strength; the this is the first commandment, and second is like unto it: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” tells In another passage St. Haul us that “Love is the fulfilling of the law.” If there be any other command ment, it is briefly comprehended in tins i. • saying: thyself.” “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as St. James calls this the “royal law.” St. Paul tells us: “Above all things, have fervent charity one toward another.” And St. John, in a memorable passage, in one of his epistle*, tells us that God k love, and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him.” Christ told the story of a man who went down _ from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among robbei as one may nowadays do on that road. They robbed him. stripped him of his raiment, wounded him. and left him half dead. Then came one of the chief representatives of the current religion, a priest, a*fd passed by on the other side. Alien there came down a subordinate rep re .sentative of the current religion, a Le vite, and be came and looked and passed by on the other side. Then came a heretic in religion, an alien in race, and, looking upon the wounded man, he was moved with compassion and dismounted and bound up his wounfi set the wounded man on his own beast, brought him to an inn and took care of him for the night and paid the charges, leaving money for addi lioT,al charges, raying to the inn keeper: “H it costs more E will repay when I come again.” And that alien in race, that here tic in religion, ihe Lord Jesus presents be iore ,iH as the oue 8 ieat example of our , this ‘"xow^rpfeared to "notice two facts in natural love. In the first place, much of it is simply instinctive, a divine im plantation for high purposes, but because not founded in moral reason, divine reason, therefore without moral worth. It is hut l >art °t‘that endowment of human nature by which the propagation and the educa tion of the ra.ee is made possible, but it does not imply of necessity any high moral quality. the The bear will rush on the point of spear in the defense oi its cubs. The wildcat will die for its young. The eagle, with unwearied patience, will teach the young "Behold, eaglet to fly. Will you. therefore, say: what paragons of moral ex cellence? Would you not say of them if they lacked parental and filial love: “Be hold what monsters?” In the second place, this natural love is marked by great limitations in its extent. It is laid upon one’s family and one s friends, upon one’s neighbors and country, upon those who are of the 'same race, or it may be of the same religious faith, or of the same political persuasion, and it is hemmed in hv these limitations, llow a man goes to the market place and to the exchange with perfect indifference to the prosperity anil happiness of his fel low man and wrestles with them in busi nessi 1°. his ,e family furn to all his his home ill-gotten to lavish gladly upon There gains ire many generous men in all onr communities, but they may be also men de sirous of having their generosity duly ac kuowledged the and trumpeted abroad through out knowledgment world, and if they fail ot that ; tc somehow their charity that seems to sour upon them, and they feel they are not recognized as they ex fiected inently to brave be. Benedict ant! skillful Arnold soldier, was an em far know and *0 spendthrift, as we and a true when patriot, Congress but he was 1 censured 11 m m various TT; ne at lent. i became Benedict Arnold the tre The troth is iia t it is very easy u over.oac all the and timbers of o soul with these leieets, and we may notice in pa ng t t i great deal that passe for ci a:'itv is oi .cutimes a. thin veneer over mint red ses ci sj Rashness. and we nav tner 10 Lice that sometimes we have credited , jurselves with very great tenderness and (] wi jj toward men. oeeausc. tor m -tancc, ire wept over the griefs and woes s of the heroes and heroines of fiction, an d vet find ourselves (such is the inertia ot our nature) never to much a - lifting up our hands to relieve the unutterable woes that crowd in human SOU is all around Us Another defect of the natura. love is that it is simply an unrighteous love; T mean it lacks the quality of righteousness in that it is a mere kindly affection and desire to do kind things while to those who are objects of our love, at the same time there is no recognition of that foundation which up holds the whole process of human life, that fundamental truth which only can confer any large and permanent well being. ungodly. Finally, That this natural love it is is the oftentimes is to say, recoani tion in man (the children of God) of this or that scintillation of the infinite good ness, while it withholds from Him wno gathers unto Himself all conceivable ex cellences, all truth, patience, generosity, all tenderness, temperance long suffering purity—while heart's true loyalty. it withholds So that from this Hun native the or natural love of which we speak is indeed oftentimes a very faint reflection and im age of that perfect love toward which Christianity'calls us. And so we turn back to the text, and hear the words that !St. Paul said: “The aim of the command ment, the whole aim of the Christian in stitution, is love out of a pure heart, an ,1 out of a stood conscience and out of faith unfeigned.” hirst—in tins matter ot Christianity .. we have to do with such divine forces in their operation upon human nature as yield hopes of even tin- treat rest,it. It is not that we expect ourselves to attain any such who goodness. but is it not possible that He made this thine we call the human .soul With all its varied powers of observe tion, reason, imagination, fancy and mem ory, conscience and will. He who made this strange, subtle, intangible thing wo call the human sou), may not He remake the soul, enter into its profOumlest uepHis, that so reconstruct, leorder and inspire it it may shine in all the likeness of God? Is it not said, “He will do for us far more ex ceedingly than we can ask or think?” And that is (he warrant in this Christian church, and in all these Christian churches for the high aspiration toward which Christianity points us. be said this, And the other tiling to is that however true it is that most of us who profess and call ourselves Christ! ms come far very far. short of this high ideal of character; however true it is that with manv of us our Christianity is simply, as it were, an attempt to secure seif-well-be ing in the long reaching future—alas! that it is such a narrow form of Christianity as that—however true that may be, ueverthe less I take it for granted that perhaps every one present has during some time in his rxiierknce come in contact with some soul, has become intimate perhaps with some life, upon whom the divine truth, the divine providence and the divine inspira tion lias so operated in transforming have power that the soul seems to entered into the very fellowship or God. even ; ia ^ i, r - come radiant with divine life, the features have been eni.-eied by the soul within, the eye has looked tenderly out toward all men whom il has met, and now and then the very habitation and Habit ot such a person becomes unspeakably endearing. •*; cause ot tins dwelling oi the Lord Christ within. Second—’The aim of Christianity is love not only out of a pure heart, but also out of a good conscience. That is lo say, its aim is not a mere sentimental overflow of tears and pity: it shall be a living and mighty engine within, under the guidance of God. ns to method, and as to measures, of a widely instructed moral sen«e. Chris tianity i« something beside mere happiness, the It aims at the great soul of life under guidance and shaping oi an instructed moral nature. And finally the love at which Christian itv aims is a love out of faith unfeigned. Bible. Let faith return. Bring back your Behold one living and eternal God. He is love, and He has loved this poor world so that He has effected redemption for man kind and lifted them across the heavens. Has thrown His arms around man, in or der that He might lift him up by His Holy Spirit. Prayer, sufferer so that desolate the broken-hearted and the and may go apart from the eyes of man and pour out their hearts to God, whose ear can catch their faintest sigh, and whose eye beholds the falling tear. Providence. No sparrow falls io the ground without Tflis knowledge, and ; the very hairs of your head are numbered. Death; transformation. Life here: intro- j Auction lo the life eternal. Let these truths enter and live within human souls, and somehow ttoe 1 niman race has become transformed by these facts. I cannot meet a man. woman or child, but at once I know 1 here is one whom God loves. Why should I not love that one? And so it comes to pass love that where wherever Christianity is there is still it was not. Two inferences are interesting. There may seem to you to be various defects in the historical parts of the Bible, but it vou i will only tell me where there is a system whose breath is love, whose inspiration is love, which makes this earth a paradise and a very heaven oi love. It vou tell me where that comes from T am sure I shall know how God comes down to our world in ^d Second. Spel TT°V How le?US much w-f'• ( hnstinnitv r 1 i nave you? Not how much religion. The Bvali- ; min, the Mahoromedan have religion: that r\vkH^iL l al i n>ti ,°. n but h ° W mudl l hristianity Un have vou? T, I here is one an swer. So much Christianity as we have self-forgetfulness, se ’ Hcrifice. charity; so much and no more, -'tav God help us. ’('here is infinite ] csoiiicc* loi us. Lee us look io heaven, and let us look to earth. and do the little thi? ivs at hand in order that when the onDoramiL^ma.v^ome^we. may nourish within ions forces of helpfulness until at length, if it please God. we shall be like our Lord Jesus Christ, who was the very fulness of love toward man. What to 1*reach. Dr. Theodore Cuyler tells us that he never preached a sermon in defense of the Scriptures. He preached the Scriptures themselves: and they proved to he “the power of God unto salvation.” We have j Sony new books upon “The Changing ;y, h f rc ; l'j e " eed a hundred upon Jesus Christ, the Same Yesterday, To-day. and Forever.” The apostle told ii>. many centuries ago. that, there would be lls main. 7 .” Whoever devotes his attention to the shaken instead of to the firm ha s nus taken his call if he remains in the min istry. "What the world needs,” said Dr. Van Dyke, "is not a new Gospel, but more Gospel.” That hits the nail on the head. I TAGGART j IS CHAlRa j J i Indiana Man Chosen by hem I National Committ ee to Ji I A New York Campaign. special save mon y was the watchw °rd at I day’s meeting of th< democra* tional committee. Thoms ! as -j-. of Indiana, was unanimously to the chairmanship, u ry \y Kentucky, was elected ^ j , ! ... '^ , hington ’ as Was j assistant secretary, and Colonel L Martin, of Missoni i. i was ! &eant , at . j re-e - v , j arms, and Colony! j Donaldson, of Tennessee * aw- '• ‘-An {reant at arms j The organization of the card j will be completed by the select! I vice chairmen, not to ] exceed u i executive committee of fom g, : seven and a finance e 0Inr ,j tf - from thr€e to five, ’ all 1 Ul of ,w mese . I named later by Chairman Ta '■■r j | The treasurer will be named 1 chairman and till- executive eo ; tee. The executive and finance rnittee will be made »P of fni j democrats who are for the most I at least not members of the - na! j committee, The main headquarters “ Chai Taggart, _ announces, will be in York, but the Chicago headou* from which the west ern eampaigi . he managed, .... will be of practl eoual importance. Chairman Ta will divide his time between u the lu 6 i MEDICINE PROVISION CUT Oil, Georgia Senate Committee Some features of General !«*[} Two important amendments It general tax act were adopted p finance committee of the Geo S‘0| ate Tuesday morning, the first t the reduction of the tax on them facture of coca-cola to $400 ar,<j second being the elimination of part of the bill imposing special t on dealers in certain specified i cines and extracts. The committee decided that thi on coca-cola should be the same is oil other patent drinks, sever which are called by name in the! The taxes on these latter are and the committee decided to r mend that a similar tax be pi upon the manufacture of coca col The part of the bill dealing wit medicines reads as follows: “Upon every dealer in Pcrttm lute tincture, extract or essenc ginger, ° or any other medicinal p: f ration which can be used as a erage which contains an amou alcohol equal to or in excess of amount recognized by the 1 States pharmacopoeia as necessar a good wine for medicinal pur] the sum of $200; provided that tax shall not be required of those ers who have paid the ]iquor t a provided in this act.” This was stricken entirely. TO CURTAIL COTTON GOODS. Southern ,, Manufacturers . . Hold u .. Weelmi Agree to Work on Short lime. At %a meeting of cotton mill front North Carolina, South Caro Georgia and Alabama, held in Gi ville, S. C., Tuesday, it was dec to curtail the production to a basi 75 per cent during the months oi gust and September. coruktj Because of the unsettled of the market and the poor God for finished goods, the spinners lieved that this step was imperal and they acted accordingly, the 1 showing that more than 2 , 000,000 a dies were represented. The ac was almost unanimous, d Mills not represented at the . were urged , to agree to , tne . n]]V cu'l \ ment while the production will M duced 25 per cent for six ty days, 1 hls will be accomplished em > running all niachinerv 75 pet ceI1 the time, or by stopping all mad ery one-fourth of the tune. . Rep submitted by a special investigs committee showed that in the states named the curtailment hal 1 fore had run anywhere from one .q Uar t er time. A rate sche the month 01 t Ana was adopted for * and spinners obligated themseh^ stipulated to seJ1 below the price UNCLE SAM DRAWN INTO MUDDLE Protest is Filed at the State Depa ftl Against Action of Russian Sguadro' The state department at Washing has finally received a formal P lC against the action of the Russ» an 1 in seizing American goods and «s result of the preliminary study of v -„o-the ,aw . anfi , precedents governing ject It, is prepared to act. energy i( " the n<1 seizure of ™»s"*" an American 0 K cans Z board the Hamburg-American port' steamer Arabia bound from Oregon, for a Hongkong, Cfiin ;1 >