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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 2, 1907)
GLENN IS FIRM ON NEW LAW North Carolina Chief Executive Continues to Buck Pritchard. A BACK-OUT IMPOSSIBLE Determined That Rate Statute Shall Be Enforced Until Matter is Legally Lettled. Nothing came from the conference at Raloigh, N. C., Thursday between Assistant United States Attorney Gen •ral Edward T. Sanford and Governor Glenn concerning a basis of settle ment of the pending railway rate liti gatiou between the state and the Southern railway, involving the Juris diction of state and federal courts. Governor Glenn emphasized the state ment that it would be useless for the railroads to inal:e any proposition that did not first provide that the state rate law should go into effect pend ing the result of the litigation, und that if the railroads refused hie offer the state would, In a perfectly legal way, continue to execute the law' as be sees fit. If necessary, he' announced, he will call an extra session of the general assembly that it might act as It saw fit on ail matters affecting the pending litigation; that as he gets his authority and power through it, that body alone, by way of eminent domain, etc., can control and regulaie railroads acting in defiance of both the law and the proceedings of legally •onstituted state courts. An extra •ession seems inevitable as a basis of settlement. The governor suggested to Mr. San- 1 tofd the following, which he has wired to State Solicitor Brown at Asheville: i “That the 2 1-4 cent rate be put into effect at once by the railroads until a final lugal settlement; the state to ap peal from the order of Judge Pritchard discharge from custody the Southern railway ticket agents in Asheville; the Southern railway to apcpal to the supreme court of Nor.h Carolina in the Wake county case, in which the com pany was fined $30,000, and if decided against it to go by writ of error to the supreme court of the United States; each side to co-operate to have both cases advanced, argued together and speedily determined; the state at its option to indict the Atlantic Coast Line in one case for violation of the rat, law; all other indictments to be stopped pending a final determina tion of the case; the governor to ad vise all people against bringing penal ty suits pending final determination, and to ask the people as a whole to *.cqulesce in these arrangements; the Injunction suit pending before Judge Pritchard to be diligently prosecuted without the state waiving any Ques tion of jurisdiction. ’ SECOND MOB MEMBER ACQUITTED. Judge Urges Removal of Remaining Cases to Some Other County. The efforts of the state of North Carolina to bring to justice the twen ty odd citizens of Anson county who took J. V. Johnson from Wadesburo jail the night of May 28, 1906, and lynched him, came to an abiupt ter mination in court at Monroe Thurs day afternoon when the jury in the case of Zeke Lewis, the second of the alleged lynchers to be tried, returned a verdict of not guilty. The jury was out an hour and three quarters, and when the verdict was an nounced Judge Peeples, who has been presiding at Union county superior court, formally it, and ■lated that he wouldn’t go into the trial of another one of the men Indicted, there being too much feeling in both Union and Anson counties in favor of the defendants to hope for a convic tion. He urged Solicitor Robinson to move for a removal of the other cases to some other county. The other eigh teen defendants were required to give bonds of $5,000 for their appearance at the January term of Union county oourt. Johnson, the victim of the mob’* vengeance, was under indictment for the murder of a relative, Guln John eon, and wag awaiting trial at a spe cial term of Anson county court when lynched Twenty-three men were in dicted for the crime, and three fled from the state and have never been Apprehended. FLAMES DEAL DEATH. Fourteen People, Mostly Women and Chil- Dren, Die in Tenement House Fire In New York. An explosion, accompanied by fire, shattered an east side tenement in New York city late Sunday night, and with the crumbling walla fourteen peo ple went down to while twice as many were probably fatally injured The horror was a repetition of the periodical blaze that sweeps through the densely populated foreign section of the city, and is almost invariably attended with panic and death. The wrecked building was at 222 Christie street, where a six-story tenement rose above the grocery store basement. An explosion, as yet unaccounted for, tore out the front of the building, and the fire that followed caught the twenty families numbering about one hundred persons, while most of them were asleep. Not until the ashes have cooled will it be possible to recover the bodies of the dead. Of the injured many jumped from the windows, oth ers were caught by falling timbers, many suffocated by smoke, being drag ged from the hallways, while others received the'.r wounds during the pan ic and mad fight for an exit. The tenement was occupied chiefly by Italians. A passerby was attracted by the explosion, which apparently oc curred on the basement floor. As he turned toward the building the whole front, with its flimsy fire escapes fell into ths street, and from the sagging floors a score of half-awakened per sons dropped into the streets. Many of these were badly hurt, but they proved to be the more fortunate of the tenants, for in ano.her moment the building was wrapped in flumes, and the cries of persons burning to death rent the air. In the wild panic that followed many received mortal injuries. The police and firemen, who early reached the scene, attempted to take the imperiled tenants from the side and rear window’s, but few who were free to act did not wait for as sistance, but jumped into the street. Several who sought escape by a rear stairway were driven back by' chok ing smoke. Some of these made their way through the fire to o:her exits, but more fell overcome in the hallways to be dragged out insensible. Of the dead and dying, a majority were wo men and children. In the scramble for an exit and safety, the stronger in most cases survived. PREACHER KILLS SECOND NEGRO. Parson in Chattanooga is Extra Handy With His Trusty Gun. For the second time within a peri od of three months, Rev. S. L. Crouch, a Methodist preacher at Chattanooga, Sunday afternoon, shot and instantly killed Bud Wiley, a negro. The shoot ing in the first case was done in de fense of his wife, while the killing of Wiley was in defence of his own life. Crouch, though a preacher, is also employed as watchman at a large lumber mill, and had arrested \\ iiey on the premises. The negro struck his captor in the face and then attempted to break loose when the latter fired, the bullet striking the negro in the head, killing him instantly. CONFEDERATE VETS MADE HAPPY By Gift of Thomas F. Ryan in Shape of Monthly Pensions. Thomas F. Ryan, who still claims Oak ridge, Va., as his home, has just given further proof of his affection for his birthplace by offering to pension 200 confederate veterans who reside in Nelson county. Mr. Ryan proposes to pay each of these old men $5 a mouth. This would mean a yearly ex penditure of $12,000. Mr. Ryan has already donated SIO,OOO to the fund now being raised to erect a monu ment to the confederate dead in Ar lington cemetery. LITTLE VENEZUELA DEFIANT. Government Refuses Absolutely to Arbi trate Five American Claims. The foreign office at Caracas has handed over to the American minis ter, W. W. Russell, the answer of the Venezuelan government to the second note of Secretary Root regarding the arbitration of five American claims. The government persists in its refusal to arbitrate the claims in question. The anrwer may lead to the sev r ing of diplomatic relations between Venezuela and the United States. HAYWOOD FREE; JURY ACQUITS Accused Union Labor Chief Wins Alter Lon* Fight. VERDICT WAS SURPRISE Orchard’s Bloody Story Gees For Naught. Eight Jurors Were for Kayweod From tho First Ballot. In the bright sunlight of a beau tiful Sabbath morning, William D. Haywood, secretary and treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners, walked from the court room at Boise, Idaho, a free man, acquitted of the murder of former Governor Steunen berg. Probability of acquittal was freely predicted after Judge Fremont Wood read his charge Saturday, which was regarded as favorable to the defense in its interpretation of the laws of conspiracy, circumstantial evidence and the corroboration of a confessed accomplice. Lt was also freely predicted that, in the event of Haywood’s acquittal, the state would abandon the prosecution of his associates, Charles H. Moyer, president of the federation, and Geo. A. Pettibone of Denver. Statements from counsel and from Governor Gooding, issued Sunday, dispel this view of the situation. Governor Good ing said: “The verdict is a great surprise to me, and I believe to all citizens of Idaho, who have heard or read the evidence in the case. I have done my duty. 1 have no regret as to any ac tion I have taken, and my conscience is clear. As long as God gives me strength, I shall continue my efforts for government by law and for organ ized society. “The state will continue a vigorous prosecution of Moyer and Pettibone and Adams and of Simpkins when apprehended. There wil be neither hesitation nor retreat.” Application will be made to Judge Wood to admit Moyer and Pettibone to baiL Not the Last interesting of the com ments made on the outcome was that of Harry Orchard, the confessed murderer of Steunenberg, and the wit ness on whom the slate chiefiy rtlied to prove its charge of a conspiracy among certain members of the West ern Federation of Miners. When told at the state p niteiitiary that Hay wood had been acquitted Orchard said: “Well, I have done my duty. I have told the truth. 1 could do no more. I am ready to take any punishment that may be meted out to me for my crime, and the sooner it comes the better." It was after being out for twenty one hours that the jury, which at first had beeu divided 8 to 4 for acquittal, and then seemed deadlock'd, at 10 to 2, finally came to an agreement. Events moved rapidly enough after this, and when at last the principal actors in the trial had been gathered into the court room, at a few mo •ments before 8 o’clock, Sunday morn ing, the envelope handed by the fore man to the judge was torn open and the verdict read. It came as an electric thrill to the prisoner, to his counsel, to the attor ! neys for, the state and the small group of newspaper reporters and court of ficers, who had been summoned from beds, but lately sought, or from of fices where sleepless waiting had marked the night. Tears welled to the eyes of the man, who, during the SO days of his trial, had sat with stolid indifference writ ! r ea on hio every feature. At last, the icy armor that ha had thrown about ' himself with the first qf jury s.lection ! had been pierced. Haywood’s attorneys were fairly lift ed from their seats, and Judge Wood ; made no effort to restrain them, as | they surrounded him to shake his hands and shout aloud their congratu lations. Senator Borah, who made the clos ing plea for conviction, was not pres ent. Of ths prisoner’s counsel, those In the court room were: Clarence Dar • row of Chi. ago, E. F. Richardson of Denv-r ani John F. Nugent of Boise. No member >f the prisoners' family, nor any of his friends among the so cialist writers and the “!abor jury” was in the court room when the ver dict was read. DRV TIES FIR CEWH House Passes Senate Prohibition Bill By Majority of One Hundred Votes. Effective January 1, 1908. The Georgia house of representa tives, Tuesday night, passed the Hard man-Covington-Neel state prohibition bill by a majority of an even one hun dred votes —the final count being 139 ayes to 39 nays. The bill was passed with the amendments of the temper ance committee of the house and two minor amendments introduced by Mr. Wright of Floyd and Mr. Wise c£ Fay ette, at 7:53 o c.ock, after a day which had been spent in consideration of the measure and the flood of amend ments and substitutes which had be_n introduced. The action of the house means the wiping out of the legalized liquor traf fic in a state' which has mver been free from it since Georgia was a state; a fight which came as an overwhelm ing surprise to the whiskey element and the anti-prohibition forces of the state, and was pushed forward with an amazing force and determination. Weeks ago the anti-prohibitionists of Georgia gave up the conflict as too un equal. They realized they were con tending against insuperable odds; that the sentiment of the slate was over whelmingly in favor of prohibition, and the best they could hope for was an extension of time in which the bill should go into effect or a modification of some of its more stringent provis ions. The prohibitionists, confident of their strength, conceded nothing would not admit that a of seine kind devolved upon them —and made the victory the most sweeping and complete of any state in the United States voting on a similar measure. On January Ist, 1908, there will not be a state in the United States with a prohibition measure, so complete as Georgia’s will be. The bill leaves no loopholes for selling whiskey in Georgia. If its provisions are com plied with, whiskey will be eliminated as a factor in the life of the state. It was 4:35 o'clock Wednesday af ternoon that debate cn the bid ceased and voting on the amendments and substitutes began. It had been a quiet day. The gal leries were empty. No visitors had been allowed on the floor of the house or in the cloak rooms. No ‘one but representatives, clerks and authorized newspaper men wers in the hall. The flood of impassioned oratory had not developed. True there had been speech es, but they were speeches in which forensic display had little part. Each speaker had been Linked in his re marks, and each one had something definite, some:hing important to. say, for the time limit admitted of no flow ers of speech. At 6:45 o’clock the last of the amendments and substi.utcs had been disposed of and Speaker Slaton rap ped for order. In a few words he expressed the hope that the would preserve that decorum and order which had been characteristic of the day, and re frain from any applause cr disorder. Immediately there was a brief inter val of intense quiet. The measure was about to be put on its passage. At 7:10 o’lock it was realized that the bill had received 92, votes enough to secure its passage. The news filter ed rapidly to the corridors and a mighty cheer went up — a cheer which was as but a whisper in a tempest to the storm that arose outside wh-.n the last vote had beeu cast at 7:53 o’clock and the official news was con veyed to the waiting crowd, many oi whom had been in waiting all day. At 8 o'clock Mr. Candler of DeKaib, after the annour.c ment of Speaker Slaton thai the bill had passed, asked unanimous consem that the N me.'..-ure be transmitted to the senate. At 8:05 o’clock, on motion of Mr. Hall of B.bb, the house adjourned. There was but little cheering among the members as the gavel of Speaker Slaton fell. A majority of these men realized they had been making his tory for Georgia. The victors in thGr hour of triumph shook hands with | their opponents. Each recognized the | other had been fighting for a cause he thought was right. A bitter fight was ended. Scarcely had the news reached the street than the church bells began to ring out in glad acclaim. Crowds surg ed through the strets, bearing Hon. Seaborn Wright on their shoulders. Crowds thronged the Grady monument. Crowds throng’d ;he hotel lobbies. Tel ephone beii3 in newspaper offices rang incessantly. Each ring meant a query about the bill. It was well on into the night when the excitement and noise subsided. The members who voted against the . passage of the measure are as foliows: Adams of Chatham, of Wilkin son, Allen, Anderson of Bulloch, Barks dale, Barrow’, BUI, Berry, Blackburn, Cannon, Chamlee Crumley, Dunbar, Estes, Fowler, Fraser, Geer, Glenn, l-lall, Heard, Hines, Howard, Hubbard, Huff, Lee, Lumsaen, McCarthy, Max weil, Moore, Perry, Powell, Russell, Slade, Stephens, Taylor of Sumter, Tift, Townsend, Trent, Tuggle. Total cast against, 39. Those members not present at the time of the voting were Dona Ison, Slater, Stewart and Wright of Richmond. SENATOR PtTTUS BURIED. Immense Thror.g Attend Funeral Serv ices in Selma and Great Honors Shown Dead Statesman. The funeral of the late Senator Ed mund W. Petus, who died suddenly at Hot Springs, N. C., took place in Sel ma, Ala., Wednesday afternoon, from his late residence. Interment was in Live Oak cemete ry, where less ihr.it two momhs ago his late colleague, Senator John T. Morgan, was laid to rest. Senator Pet tus’ funeral was attended by the greatest honor ever paid an Alabama citizen. The numbers of the legisla ture, Governor Comer and members of his staff, former Governor Joseph F. Johnston, who -will succeed Senator Fettus in the senate, and tho various stale officials attended the funeral. In addition thousands of citizens throng ed the city to pay their tribute of love to the dead senator. The funeral services at the home consisted of reading cf the old time Presbyterian ritual and were conduct, ed by Rev. S. G. Rawlings of the First Presbyterian church. They were very simple. The procession to the ceme tery in addition to the second infan try, included troop C, cavalry and C of artillery. The members of Camp Jones, United Confederate Veterans, acted as a special guard of honor. The procession was a long one, a delegation of colored citizens bring ing up the rear. The entire city was iudtxpked in mourning and all business houses .were closed during the funeral. ROADS KICK ON FINES. Western Lines Having Trouble Over Carrying of Mails. Western railroads are near an open break-with the postoffieffie department over the transportation of tho mails, because of the imposition of h.avy fines for delay in delivering the mails. To consider the situation, a number of railroad officials held an important conference in Chicago Wednesday. One cf them declares that the fines levied by the government against his road in one-quarter amounted to $40,- 000. PREACHER PREDICTS TROUBLE. Says That Prohibition in Savannah and Augusta Will Fail. Rev. Bascom Anthony of Savannah, cue of the bi :-,t known ministers of the south Georgia conference, on learn ing of the pas.‘.get of the prohibition bill, said that fur a short time after the law become operative it will not he posible to enforce lt In Savannah and Augusta. These two cities he singled out as the strongest in oppo sition to prohibition.
