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* 4 u uu \ u Convicted Murderers of the Hodges Family Die in Horrible Agony. MILITIA POWERLESS Reed and Cato Forcibly Taken From Jail by a Mob, Lashed to a Tree and Cre~ mated. At Statesboro Ga. Tuesday after will Cato aa.1 Paul Reel, two ike principals in the horrible murder and burning of Henry Hodges, wife and three of their children, six miles from Statesboro, three weeks ago, were burned at the stake. With their clothing saturated with kerosene, writhing and twisting in their agony, screaming to heaven for | mercy that the mob would not show, j the two victims died within a few min-j ntes after the flames started. ; Shortly after the noon hour a deter mined mob charged upon the court j house, overpowered the military mob, I secured Cato and Reed, who had been j found guilty after a legal trial, and sentenced to he hanged, took them two miles from Statesboro, and there exe cuted the fearful penalty. The forenoon passed quietly, the trial of Paul Reid, the ring leader in (he murder, being concluded and a ver dict of guilty rendered. Sentence was Imposed upon both him and Will Caro, sentenced the day before, and Septem ber 9 was fixed as the date for the execution txtcuuon. Vp to the hour of noon there was no intimation that so soon was to be enacted the terrible climax. In the trial of Reid, little delay was caused, and upon its conclusion the prisoners, as before, were hustled into the wit ness room, where a strong guard of military was placed over them. In the corridors. the agitation be gan. The spectators left the court room, and from the lawn outside many ent entered ere ;1 the me hallwavs uau\>a.>s. Phortlv -uumj before 10 o’clock the crowd was addressed by a tall man, who seemed to inflame it greatly. He called on those about him to follow him. With fixed bayonets, but unloaded rifles, the guards stood. The mob IUUU surged toward them, but were repuls ed several times. Before the mob could be prevented, they had caught two of the guards, wrested their weapons from them and thrown open the breech blocks. The weapons were empty. That was what the crowd wanted to ascertain, The troops had been given orders not to load their rifles. The captured soldiers w-ere held pnsoners. The same policy was fol lowed with others of the soldiers. Alan after man, caught isolated was re lieved of his rifle after a struggle. After the mob had overpowered the soldiers, the jail was entered and the negroes secured. , The crowd numbered 500. Tliev dragged the men along, shouting and cheertng , . along , the , roadway . leading to the Hodges homestead, where the fr-p members of the family had been dered and burned. That was their destination, but the heat was so in tense that the crowd wearied when two miles of the six-mile ... route , , had , been traversed. Going a short ilis tance into the woods the crowd halted, The two negroes were made to seat themselves on a log. They were told That they had but a short time to live and that they should confess. Reid was the first to speak. He confessed, implicating other negroes, as he had In the court room. He de nied, however, that he had taken an active part in the murder. Cato begged to be shot or hanged, MYSTERY OF MISSING MEN CLEARED. Skeletons of Horse and Mule Indicate Tragic Deaths in Colorado. The mysterious disappearance of f^ederick Smith, of New Orleans, and Jackson Wilson, of Nashville, Tenn.. • who suddenly dropped out of sight in the vicinity of Divide, Colo., four years , ago, is believed to have been explain-' ed by the finding on a hill near Fort Clyde, of the, skeletons of a horse and ; mule tied to a tree with briddles and saddles clinging to them. It is now ! believed that the two men met death t>y falling over some high cliff in the vicinity. saying that he was innocent; that he . i ad had no part in the erime. Some of the more humane wanted to grant j his request, but they were in the mi nority. The rest wanted to visit the same death upon the negroes that they had visited upon the Hodges fain iiy To a large stump twelve feet high j ! trie men were lashed , , , with ... ropes and . trace chains. Then a wagon load of pine wood was hauled to the spot. It 1 was piled „ , around the men and , ten gallons of-kerosene was thrown over thorn. A photographer was present and the crowd was cleared back that ho might <- et several views <3f the men bound to the stake and ready for the burning, The scene which followed beggars description. Just as the match was applied to the pyre, one of those in | front asked Reid didn't he want to | | tell the truth before he died: I “Yes, sir; I killed Mr. and Mrs. | Hodges,” he replied. “Who killed the children?” he wa3 asked, I “Hapriy Bell,” came the response as the flames leaped upwards and further questioning was impossible in the wild tumult. The spectacle was | frightful, | As the flames touched Reid’s naked »il-s«aked skin. he twisted his head around in an endeavor to choke him •self and avoid the fearful torture. Only once did he complain. He s.vd: “r „Y ord have pifri-v j 1 ” Cato screamed m . agony and , . begged , that he be shot. His heavy hair, which was oil-soaked, was almost the d rsT G'-mg the flames fastened on. and sc * iming with agony, while Hie hemp became a collar of fire around his rteca a thrill of horror ran through the frames of the more timid. Before the flames had quenched Cato s life the rope was burned in two and hts head swung from side to side, as he endeavored to avoid the fiery tongue, ■ Reid was the first to exhibit uncou | sciousness. and was perhaps the first dead. Before the flames had progress- 1 ® e d very tar up hts . body his head sank f or ward, and many believed that the FOt into his lungs and killed him. As Cato's head swung to and fro some °f the more excited members of the i party commenced throwing & light wood ! knots at it. As soon as it was seen that ihe men were dead .the crowd commenced dispersing. A large number remained behind, however, piling more fuel on, until both bodies were burned .all ex cept the trunks, Others employed themselves in threshing out the fire, j vhich commenced spreading along the j dry streaks of pine needtes. , Late in the afternoon, after the last member of the mob had left the scene, j hundreds of citizens who navi tn no wise participated in the execution, re paired to the scene and many remain p d until long after nightfall, picking up whatever souvenirs they could find. r’msniniinne conspicuous among amraip the .ne crowd* crowds wan was a number of small boys in knee pants, j Murder „f,*u of th Hodgeu \j A R--.rv.iiv, Family. j e n r >~. j The murder of the Hodges family j was probablv the most horrible ever committed Georgia. . The family m consisted of Henry R. Hodges, his j wife and three little children. . All , , butchered , the _ night .... of | were on July 29th, at their home six miles from Statesboro, and their home burn ed. The remains were found in the I ruins of the home, There were blood stains outside the building, and inves tigation showed that Hodges, his wife and one child had their skulls broken apparently with an ax. There were no signs of an assault upon the young : er children, but they were too young I to protect themselves from the flames. WILL MARCH SEVEN HUNDRED MILES. Artillery Company in Vermont to “foot It All the Way to Manassas. Orders haA'e been issued at the war department for the thirty-third and twenty-seventh batteries of field artiK lery and two squadrons of the fifteenth cavalry, stationed at Fort Ethan AI len. Vermont, to march , from . that , point to Manassas, Ya., to take part in the maneuvers in September, a distance of 700 miles. It is calculated that the trip will occupy about five ' weeks’ time. This probably is the long est march of United States troop* to recent times. A SERMON FOR SUNDAY AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE*ENTITLED, ‘ WHO ARE SONS OF COD? n ih? Rev. Rofiert A. MacFadilen Declares That the Four Sources of Success Are riood, Will ot the Flesh, Will of Man ami Goa. r’KOOKr.v.x. X. Y. The Rev. Robert A. V I 1C Fadden, of Danvers, Mass., preached iav i tne Lafayette Avenue Presby teriau t 'hi ch. In the morning his subject - "Who Are the Sons of God?” He .My subject is “Who Are the Sons of God and my test John i: 13: "Which j i ere born not of blood, or of the will of ho flesh or or the will of man but of God. ■ } •'ere are four sources of success set in contrast—blood, God. will of the flesh, will of man and At first sight they are coua : but a second sight reveals the war tiiat ever goes on between heredity nnu environment on the one hand and faith in God on the other, This contrast implies, though does not state, that the one true cess is spiritual success, and ■or this a secret power is to be furnished. 'o t-ne final, m | ife a victory ».' ean ? «il over the difficulties, way through and difficulties cannot be ultimately overcome except ' through hfe this secret power. lA lived and every work done has somewhere its sufficient explanation. God has never yet permitted an accident in H:s world. Every deed lias its pedigree, S j s no such thing as luck. - Every life has hl pedigree. Young men are so apt to [: so "jV' tUcy hance wait f P>«y® lor their the chance. Part Ihey in life, see some one do easily the thing he under* takes, and they leap to the belief that there is some thick about it. If they only had the trick they could do it, also. Such young men need to be informed. The man who succeeds to-day in business, scholar ship or politics succeeds because he knows how, and he knows how because he has learned how. He who does not know how is foreordained to failure. There is no more ask important himself question i lie young • man can than how he can prepare lor life as not to be a castaway; “not lost in the next world, but shipwrecked in 1 in Cor the ratio between what a man is and what be can do is a constant ratio. E very man will have all the power he earns, and the power that he has will tell, not because people like it or like him, but because it is power, and as such can keep elf erect without bcins: propped up by a labor union or held in its place because it is somebody's son. It follows, then, that the most import ant inspiration thing a boy can do is to get ready, it rs to know iLat cverv ounce of enemy put irto work in the early vears is S() lmK q, distinct guarantee of usefulness in the adult years. And next to getting !' eaiiy ’ the >Mouul le 1 ‘ !lls Hv that be must get ready lor rough , weather. The boy must learn to handle the boat of his own experience if he is not to be driven ) l i ,on Gte shallow.- <>- into tne breakers. As beset him getting out of the harbor of the high school or the college, he is equipping himself for the enemies that will assail on the high seas, John. then."here points out the pg-sime wavs of getting ready. He asserts that i Idoo’^AviH ofThe flesh, not or will depend of upon man, ] )ut solely upon <;od. Let me translate thG into t he four i"s: Family, force, am lllhllin g- K - ' a! 1 '' I , ■ John says favst a mau s success does not depend upon hi- family. Dr. Eyman Ab bott has developed thi.- thought rational ly: I hat no peojtle are great or good sim ply because of their ancestry. "The great ness of -America doc- not depend pritnari ly upon its Pilgrim history." No one would f° r » moment dispute tnisnith Imn. But J desire to emphasize this from the domes tic viewpoint. A maws spiritual "success, says John, does not depend upon his fam ily. Then it makes no difference what the ! i family, the Bible lays no stress upon hert dity. He who says this does not know the Bible. The Biblevlays great stress upon heredity. When it writes the life of a great man it begins -with his parents. The foundations of one generation are in all I respects laid in the antecedent generation. Jh-e^Wen’h'iL^ IK?" 1 The child is the parent continued down into a new generation. This is science, and it is : good science. But this is Scripture, and it is good Scripture. Scripture emphasized heredity long before• science was born. Hannah, the mother of Moses; Elizabeth, Mary, Lois and Eunice are all magnificent monuments. The Christian women who would dun licate these glorious sons must «i-st duplicate their matchless mothers. believers m the Bible we have an m tprest jn hereciUy j t is the Gospel expec tation that the children grow up bearing the physical features of tneii- parents, so ’ emplify n t ’ me they will come to embrace and ex the parents’ faith. That’s what Timothy did. in whom the great apostle ! y ’°‘ L ' ed «« mucli. Heiedity is mighty, but I . let us not think it almighty. Heredity is gives us tendency, hut it gives us noth mg else. The children of good parents take in goodness more easily than the chil dren of bad parents. The children of edu cated parents acquire ideas more easily I than those of ignorant parents. The fath er - wl, o for five and twenty years has been i raying: " I wo times two are four, I guess ' I II make it five, gives to his baby child : the tendency to make the same niultipli cat ion, but the child must make the choice j before it becomes to him a sin. How I ''.F-i. Ward Y Beeecher at 8 reat "Heredity sermon Influence” of Henrv on cwli - d be printed as a supplement to our courses m ethics. ’1 hat sermon makes : men tremble at what they may bequeath to their children. But after all, the grace • nes/^defnV^re Vo-/’ 01 * ** stronger than the sin of Weak- man. choice is made by the handed individual down,' but The j I Your spiritual himself, ! depend success, young man, does not upon your ancestry, your her i eddy, your fathers habits, or your tamny. John says no man is safe simply because | of his family. I But it does not depend upon your per j sonal force, which is a free translation for ' the New Testament word “flesh It stands for the animal man. not necessarily bud animal man. It means a strong, vigorous force in the man himself, Now, John say.-; this strong, vigorous force wi.l .. his spiritual never give a man supremacy. **•' " u ; non-uute. rathes-^than debate, the umj/lgm him again,-t Wm drunkenness. wdll! ’lint 1 i’^did'^not 2 p!/p Samson had a !ou,s\areci°i,i ly ‘i'I overclirnffig' 11 /\ " as no obstacle--!^hat . match for the vigor! What power* But in the presence victchtiii. f'//i Inc io Rev. J e ho Artlirr Y as DinunerJdlc* T v eak , a V d in that greatest American novel. "The Scarlet Letter,’’ had a mighty will, but he was lost in the presence of Hester Pryntie. That great Irishman, greater than any other, who ruled with a rod of iron; who rook the miserably misunderstood prob lem of home rule and lifted it into a cen tral place in the world's thought; who t lira shed the London Times; who wrought miracies in the House of Commons, and who lifted William E. Gladstone into the ofliec of Prime Minister for the fourth time; that man, at the zenith of his pow er, ; discovered to have invaded another rua home and The was peonle living in Great a hidden Britain and •it way of vore him Rom his throne, trampled his name m the Uust . and within three months he was laid away in his grave with a brok tn heart As the traveler to-day walks by in unmarked "rave in the Mt. Joy Ceme Pan tery of Dublin, he says: "Xo, Mr. nen. a mighty i does not make every great man sail What shall fathers tell their boys That a weak will is the better for them? Xav. veruv. Great force is to the boy what momentum is to the rifle ball. A boy without will cannot live. He needs every ounce he can acquire, but this alone will not make him morally safe or spiritually strong. The hope of a man is not in his family, not in his force, nor vet is it in his lurnishmgs, which I use as the equivalent for the will of man. John says will neither the individual nor the world be saved by its furnishings. When Jonah went to Xineveh, one of the reasons for his going was tliat 120,000 people needed education "they could.not tell their right hand from their left. J - ,mt same cry goeE up to-day. , Only educate , and tram; tnat is sufficient. Your section is not so white uashed with this system of ethical culture a s ne others I know. But we never can emphasize too often or too positively the axial tenet of Christ's creed that what a man needs primarily is not accession of lu.dn. but a fresh heart; not illumination, but reconstruction, the establishment m him by grace or something that is not in him by nature. Illumination of the brain is never clarification of the heart. There Mas a man in our American life who was born of ihe best family, with a captivated personal force t that commanded men and women, whose furnishings could scarcely he surpassed, and vet there has not walked across the pages of American history a blacker hearted vidian than Aaron Burr. I am as far as possible from saying that knowledge makes a man worse; my only contention is that it has not in itself the power of making men better. Ideas, edu- the cation alone, can neither reconstruct lim nor recreate ti c heart. This is a thouginrul age; men are brainy; all about us there is a passion necessity for new ideas; but our most urgent What is not of idea but, of power. but bap- we need most of all is not schooling tism. and that is to come through faith. What is this faith that is to give us the supreme victory insure our safety? It is at this distinct point that we begin to learn the tea meaning and purpose of faith. Evert little while I am told by one and another that he would like to have faith in this particular matter in regi : I'd to the Bible, or in regard to Christ in the fu ture life as though if his mind could only be brought intellectually to consent to it, the consummation would be reached and a great result achieved. particular Being prepared to assent to this or that statement in regard to Christ, for example, is a very ammet i • thing from faith, Faith is per sonal attitude, personal relationship, . Faith is such a personal yielding of ourselves to another as brings us into living recipient contact with that other and so makes us ■ - what it lies in that other to confer. The child becomes like his father by faith in his father, because his faith is that inward surrender that makes him susceptible his to every impression that goes forth from bather. A child's faith toward his mother i, ,„h tu.h Uu,t f i-ue; it is faitli in his himself in the one life that enwraps them both, so that he lives in the sweep of her inspiration and grows up toward manhood by the appropriation ot personal made vigor, him. wis dom and sweetness hourly mold over Gos And that is vast in the same as i pm faith which is as a cord by which the living ( hmt holds the believer to Him- • -.elf. Faith is not a condition wherein we bold to something or somebody, as that in which we are held by something or some bod'-. It is not holding a doctrine, but be ing'held by a person. The "I know whom stick to I have believed.” iron filings the magnet, not because they uy so haul to stick, bur because they are mastered by Faith, the magnet. then, for has 1 its very essence a personal worth self-commitment, whole one of intellectual ounce of which is a ton j affirmation. It is this sense of being held by God that makes a man safe and secure, I do not know how the grace of God can lake a man like Saul of Tarsus and make him Paul the Apostle; but no man will question his knowledge when he says: "I live, yet not I. but Christ liveth in me.” Thai: is exactly what John B. Gough cried r-.s he went like a flaming torch blazing the way for a multitude of hopeless drunk ards. The hope, and the only hope, loi ns all is in the grace of God. If I were to strike a tuning fork on this desk and hold it to my ear not one in this room could hear the sound thereof, but I could hear it and tune my violin. Strike it again and instead of holding it to my ear, set it up on this desk. Instantly the sound would be heard everywhere. But what do you hear? Not the tuning fork, for the tuning fork makes no louder sound the second tune than it did the first. What do you hear? You hear this hard wood desk. which has no music in itself, but just as | soon as it conies in contact with a musical • instrument it itself becomes musical and delights every one that has music in his i j soul. ! The individual life may be insignificant good j «lone by itself: it may come from a j family or a bad; it may have great force j ir little; it may have choice furnishings will or j jot; but the safety and security of all depend upon the personal self surrendei o the Son of God, who alone has the pow- i ;v to make them Sons of God. which are born not of a family or of force or of fur- | tnsnmgs. but ot faith. Power of an Ideal. A beautiful statue once stood i.i the market, place of an Italian city. It avus the I statue of a Greek slave girl, it represented tha slave as tidy, well dressed and hand some. A ragged unkempt, forlorn street rhild, Coming across the statue in her play, stopped and gazed at it in admira ion . She was entranced and captivated by it. She gazed sudden long and admiringly. she Moved by a impulse, event home and evashed her face and combed her liair. fore the Another day sin* stopped admired again be same statue and it, and received now inspiration. Next and mended. day her tattered clothes were washed Each time she looked at the statue she c und something in its beauties until she «yas ligious a transformed Thought. child.—Treasury of Re The help of God is the only bop* «f man. MORE MOB VICTIMS. suspects Implicated by Reed - ^ Cato Shot by Marauding Bands Ar Statesboro. cuna "We shall have trouble with groes here just as Ion? lhe se s a tv. in . , „ the cant citizen _nave, of was Statesboro, remark of a i^adi; L'. Ga \\ "fcdoesday ls he commented on the Jerribi, of . _ Tuesday when P Cato were burned teed and at the stake. That he wag nQ j shown , , by ,, the developments , , wa3 S of nesday—®one negro found by the roadside, five miles east of town - ,. lls body . , pierced , . by two winchester bullets; two negroes, one of the ' • old- ' tlme darkies” and hi s son u a- 1 years - - 0if i. shot In their cabin during the late hours of Tuesday night v known marauders; ’ half a dozen cases hogging, which are of ni nightly occur, reiice, too frequent to excite niore than passing noXce—such w as the h;s tor/ ot the day. The scene of excitement agricultJ ha s from the town to the rich ti.tnral i * . rounding it. re gions bui , Men are reported as roaming the county at large whipping 6 J wherever . found , who thought , are to be in any way Implicated by deed or wor 1 of m outh i n the Before'Day ■ Cmh u ' Negroes- are now reported sleeping in the woods, while along the line of ra j] roarts come reports of many hmrf • , J n ^ trains , , .or other .. points. . The dan gor to the whites of Bulloch countv ' now ]ies more in the large deporiaf j on labor and consequent effect on the cotton picking season than from any 0 , j )p ,. eause One negro, said to be Hsndv Et;!, whom Reed charged with the murder 0 f pjj e Hodges ~ Children, wa- reported stl0t . , to , P , C S " " In explaining why Handy Bell and {p e other prisoners were released rf ter Reed and Cato- implicated them ia the Hodges murder, Sheriff Kendrick saui: “I got my orders from the judge and turned them loose, as he stated that their testimony was not sufficient to hold the witnesses.” Sheriff Kendrick denies a report generally circulated that one of his deputies assisted in overpowering the guards. Captain Hitch and ethers of the soldiers maintain its truth in offi cial reports. GEORGIA FARMERS l\ CQNUftTtOft. Die State Agricultural . Sociefv . Holds . forlli in liawkinsville. The convention of the Georgia State Agricultural Society begsn at Haw kinsville Wednesday, and the opening «» made ly Pop, Brown, president of the Farme Club of Pulaski county. Mr. Brown praised the legislature for the passage of the bill authorizing the expenditure oi money With which to figth the bell _ n , Ceorgia ° , in protection 1 of the Georgia farmer, and also paid his high respects to that body for The recom mendation of industrial education saying be hoped to see -a state agn cultural college before long, at which no j. on j v farmers’ sons, but any man? • . son who wanted to make a first-class farmer, could be educated in an indus trial way. Mr. Brown’s addres-s elicited much applause in his assurance of welcome to the state society and in his genera: remarks. Colonel Tom Taylor followed Mr Brown in an address of welcome on the part of the city. Immigration wras the theme of tlt( first day's session. PLOT TO WRECK PENITENTIARY. Dynamite and Nitro-Glycerine Found •* Uncle Sam's Prison at Columbus A special from Columbus. O.. says, A plot was discovered Wednesday 1'? Foreman Griever to blow , up the h P™ ,, pn j tentiavy. He found a stick of dynamite and 3 half pint of nitroglycerine mixed with paint hidden in one of the shops. Dispensarv Law Declared Void At Uniorttown. Wednesday. in Ehe casp of gtate of Alabama versus Jo seph Green and city ., of , t-r, l inn town versus Joseph Green. Judge Parti'Mi declared the dispensary law passed M the last legislature void. BLOODY HEADS FOR STRIKERS Fierce Riot Precipitated io Vic’mitv o? Stock Yards At Chicago. The fiiercest riot of the stock Y 1 " strike at Chicago occurred Thurso? evening when hungry dwellers () - packing house district sought to cap ture and kill eight steers which had escaped from the yards, The mob numbered four thousand persons and the streets were cleared only after ^ policemen, in five squads, had the rioters four sides. Shots v on club fired and scores of rioters were bod.