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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.
