The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, February 07, 1908, Image 3
KING LAID LOW BY ASSASSINS Crown Prince Aso Murdered in Streets of Portufal Capital. A SHOCKING TRAGEDY Carlos and His Family Were Out Riding in Carriage When Deadly Volley Was Fired from Ambush. King Carlos of Portugal and the crown prince, Luiz Philippe, were .as sassinated in Lisbon Saturday after noon at 5 o'clock. The king’s second 6on, the infant Manual, was slightly wounded, but Queen Amelie, who strove to save the crown prince’s life, by throwing herself upon him, was unhurt. A band of men waiting, at the corner tf the Prado dy Commercio and the Rua do Arsenal, suddenly sprang to ward the open carriage in which the royal family were driving to the pal ace, and, leveling carbines which they concealed upon them, fired. The king and crown prince, upon whom the at tack was directed, were each shot three times and they Jived only long enough, to be carried to the marine arsenal, near by, where they expired. Almost at the first shot the king fell back on the cushions, dying, and at the same moment the crown prince was seen to half rise and sink back on the seat. Queen Amelie jumped up and threw herself toward the crown prince in an apparent effort to sav® liis life at the cost of her own, but the prince already had received his death wound. The royal family were returning from Villa Vicos, where they had been sojourning, and were on their way from the railroad station to • the pal ace. A strong guard was in attend ance, because of tire recent uprisings in the city, but the band of marauders had selected the most advantageous spot for the commission of their crime, for they were concealed from the eyes of the police until the carriage had wheeled into a large square. Before any of the guards were aware of what was happening, the assassins leaped to the carriage and instantly a fusilade of shots rang out. In a mo ment all was terrible confusion, the king and crown prince being shot down without the slightest chance to save themselves. Police guards sprang upon the regicides, the number of whom is uncertain, and killed three of them and captured three others. One of these committed suicide after being placed in prison. The news of the assassination swept through the city like fire, half the populace is panic-stricken. An examination of the wounds of the king, who was already dead when he reached the arsenal, showed that three bullets had found their mark. One wound was situated at the nape of the neck, a second in the shoulder, and the third, which was the fatal wound, severed the carotid artery. The crown prince, who was still breathing, but who died almost imme diately after admission to the arsenal, had suffered three wounds in the head and chest. Two bullets had struck Prince Manuel, one on the lower jaw and the other in the arm. The cold-blooded murder has set a thrill of horror throughout the coun try, even among those who have been working politically for , the establish ment of a republic. Though torn by internal dissensions, the past few months, terrorized by acts of crime and bloodshed, uprisings in the streets, outrages with knife and bomb, and always tearful lest these signs of revolution would culminate in some dreadful outburst of passion, Portugal was not prepared for the blow that fell so suddenly. to later dispatches, a boy king, wno henceforth will be known as Manuel 11., is now the ruler of the kingdom of Portugal, and the revolu tion into which the instigators of the bloody events of Saturday had hoped to plunge the country has not yet, at least, engulfed the nation. Portugal is rated among the smaller states of Europe, occupying most of the western part of the Pyrenean pe ninsula, on which Spain is located, having Spain at the north and west beyond natural boundaries of rivers and mountains and having the Atlantic ocean on all other sides. Its area is slightly larger than that of the state of Maine. Its colonial possessions in Africa and Asia are nearly twenty-two times as large as the kingdom. Bad CORTELYOU IS CRITICISED For Manner in Which He Sent Reply to Senate Inquiry. The long delayed reply of Secretary Cort'elyou to a senate resolution call ing ifor information concerning the operations of the treasury department in connection with the recent financial crisis, was laid before the senate on Wednesday by the v ice president. The document was not read, but a printed copy of it was on the desk of each senator, and nearly all of them at once gave it his attention. Mr. Culberson Inquired of the vice president whether the pamphlet con tained all of the secretary’s communi cation. The vice president said he had not examined the report. “I do not recall an instance,” said Mr. Culberson, "in which a head of a department of the government has an swered a senate resolution in printed form.” “I will ask the senator from Massa chusetts,” broke in Senator Tillman, turning to Senator Lodge, ‘‘who is such a stickler for senatorial dignity and senatorial rights, to reply to this in quiry.” "I don’t know,” responded Mr. Lodge, ‘‘whether a cabinet officer ever sent in a printed report of this kind as a convenience, and I do not think it is a matter of importance. The entire reply will be printed tomorrow.” Mr. Tillman retorted by declaring: “The secretary of the treasury is as suming the airs of a president beforo he is elected to that office. The pres* ident sends his message in this printed form, but I have never known a cabinof officer to assume to do this before.” Mr. Culberson said that the fact of which he complained was that the sec retary of the treasury had printed his argument and had it laid on the desks of senators and had left the statement of facts which accompanies it to be printed afterward. PRAYER OF CHAPLAIN APPLAUDED. Wording Caused Handclapping and Laugh ter on Floor of House. The most unusual incident of ap plauding the prayer of the chaplain occurred in the house of representa tives Wednesday. The chaplain bare ly had concluded when handclapping and laughter were heard from various directions. The prayer ran: “Good Lord, deliver us, we beseech Thee, from the jingo, the demagogue, the bigot and all other undesirable cit izens, and give us instead the patriot, the statesman, the broad-minded, gen erous-hearted, manly man, that Thy kingdom come and Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven, for Christ’s sake. Amen.” GLOVER GOE 3 TO GALLOWS. Murderer of Young Woman Pays Death Penalty at Augusta. At Augusta, Ga., Friday morning, Arthur P. Glover was hanged for the murder of his sweetheart, Maude Dean. He professed to forgive all those who had anything to do with his conviction, but said up to the last that he never knew when he killed the girl. Though the execution w r as private, by order of the court there were about 100 people in the jail yard, wearing badges of “special deputy.” Twenty minutes after the drop fell Glover was cut down. SECOND MORSE BANK COLLAPSES New Amsterdam National at New York in Hands of Receiver. The New Amsterdam National bank, at New York, capitalized at $1,000,000, was closed by the order of the comp troller of the currency Wednesday night, and National Bank Examiner Charles A. Hanna was placed in charge. The institution’s liabilities are placed at $1,482,016, of which $2,- 065,272.49 are due depositors. The New Amsterdam National was formerly one of the chief institutes in the chain of banks established by Charles W, Morse. Irregularity is bad in every department of life, in meals, in sleeping hours, but especially when it is a question of womanly habit. Not only is it a sign of female disease, but, unless cured, it will cause dangerous troubles, because of the poisons thus allowed to remain in the system. If you suffer in this way, get a bottle of Mrs. Lucinda Johnson, of Fish Creek. Wis., writes: '*l suffered for fourteen (14) years with hregu. larity, causing great pain. At last 1 tried Cardui, and now lam cured.” At all druggists, in $1 bottles. liTfblTC IIC A I CTITn Write today for « free copy of valuable 64-page Illustrated Book for Women. If you need Medical Wnl I I* R \ .1 S 3 I I r" K Advice, describe your symptoms, stating age. and reply will be sent In plain sealed envelope. II Imß ■ (6 !_L. I I Kill Ajj reS s: Ladies Advisory Dept., The Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga,Tenn. FIGURES OF GROSVENOR Election “Statistician” Issues His Quad rennial Prognostication Anent Coming Campaign. A Washington dispatch says: Gaa eral Charles H. Grosvenor, ex-con gressman, has recently given new proof of his claim to the title “Old Diggers.” He is the recognized sta tistician of the republican party. Though he is now out of congress, he is still furnishing "statistics” to show that the republican party will be successful this year, and that Mr. Bryan is facing hopeless and comfort less defeat. If it proves true Mr. Bry an can expect no sympathy from th® general; he will be able to say “I told you so.” He has allowed Mr. Bryan 166 electo ral votes. As the electoral college will consists of 483 electors it will require 242 to secure the presidency. This means that Mr. Bryan will need to win 76 from the states put down by the general as solidly republican. He says that Bryan cannot possibly do it. The states conceded to Mr. Bryan and their 166 electoral votes are as follows: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Geor gia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. The following states, with 250 elec toral votes, are placed by General Grosvenor in the republican column: California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, lowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Washington, West Vir ginia, Wyoming, Connecticut, Minne sota, New Jersey, Ohio, Rhode Island, Wisconsin. While not admitting that the follow ing states are in any sense doubtful, General Grosvenor declares that any gains in the democratic electroal vote must be secured from these: Connecti cut, Delaware, Indiana, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota. Ohio, Rhode Isl and and Wisconsin. These states have 137 electoral votes and out of this number the democrats must secure the required 76 to have a majority in th® electoral college. While contending that Mr. Bryan cannot win the necessary 76 votes, this statistician says: “The long career cf Mr. Bryan as a successful candidate has seemed t® make it impossible to consider the claims of anybody else. He is a vigor ous candidate; he is an attractive can didate; he is a tremendously successful candidate in every way except getting electoral votes.” General Grosvenor kindly suggests Judge George Gray of Delaware to the consideration of the democratic party as a man who can carry Minnesota, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Ohio and Wisconsin if any democrat can. In making up election predictions, interesting note may be made of the prediction of Justus L. Johnson, pres ident of the Swedish-American Repub lican League of Illinois, who was in Waslxington. Thursday. Mr. Johnson, although a republican, declares it as his belief that Governor John A. John son of Minnesota can carry enough states to give him forty-nine more electoral votes than Bryan. COMMISSION BEGINS WORK. Probing of South Carolina Dispensary Af fairs Begins in Columbia. The commission to close out th® affairs of the defunct South Carolina dispensary met in Columbia Thurs day to inspect books of creditors whose claims aggregate $660,000. Th® commission, sitting as a court, had announced previously that some claims were believed to be fraudulent, and they would pay no claims until all claimants presented books showing narative of all transactions with th® state, MESSAGE IS CHAMPIONED And Roosevelt Lauded By Three Leaders in House of Representatives. A Washington special says: Three of the giants of the house of represen tatives had their innings Monday. Technically, the Indian appropriation bill was under discussion, but legis lation was relegated to the background while national politics occupied the stage. The political debate was opened by Mr. Townsend of Michigan, who, In a prepared speech, claimed for the re publican party credit for all national legislation in the last fifty years of vital Interest to the public. In this he was vigorously disputed by Mr. Cockran of New York, who, afterward, launched into a discussion of the president’s message of a few days ago, his remarks frequently evok ing applause on both sides of the chamber. The president’s utterances in that document, he declared, ware such that neither party could Ignore, for he had named the conditions for which both must contend. He char acterized President Roosvelt as the only “crusader” in the republican par ty, and said that he could not, in view of his statements, with honor, again accept the nomination for the presi dency. Mr. Bryan also was a crusader and he believed that with the presi dent’s message as a guide, Mr. Bryan would become the foreordained cham pion of Iaw r and order. Mr. Hepburn also defended the pres ident’s message, and said that con demnation of it had come only from the great malefactors of the age “and the gentleman from Ohio,” meaning Foraker. While the debate was on almost ev ery seat on the floor and In the gal leries were occupied. JEROME LAMBASTS HARRY THRAW. Likewise District Attorney Severely Scores White in Summing Up. A New York special says: William Travers Jerome, representative of the people, made a masterly plea Thurs day that justice bo done in the case of Harry Kendall Thaw. Vindictiveness, sneers, insinuations all were lacking; logic, analysis and a calm consideration of the facts were their substitutes. It was no blind appeal for the ven geance of the law that Mr. Jerome ad dressed to the jury, but ever and al ways there was the note of fairness, even at times of mercy. The year that has elapsed since the first trial had wrought a wonderful and startling change in the prosecutor. No longer attempting, to shield the name of Stanford White, he accepted the story told by Evelyn Nesbit Thaw as true —all but the drugging—and he made frank confession to the jury that the velvet swings and mirrored rooms of the studio houses described by the girl were indeed a miserable reality. No longer attacking Evelyn Thaw as a skilled adventuress, Mr. Jerome pleaded for the girl, because she never had had a chance for any of the higher, cleaner, sweeter things of life. The climax came, however, when Mr. Jerome denounced both Thaw and White in one breath and classed them as “two degenerates quarreling over a woman.” And the woman, the pros ecutor declared, knew no more—had been taught no more by the world— than to play one against the other until In jealous rage, in blindest rage, in vengeance of “an undeniably gross wrong done to his wife,” Harry Thaw 6hot and killed the architect. SENATORIAL DEADLOCK UNBROKEN. «* Allen Gains Four Votes on Ballot in Ken tucky Legislature. John R. Allen of Lexington, Ky., gained four more votes in the joint ses sion of th Kentucky legislature at Frankfort for United States senator Wednesday. The ballot resulted: Beck ham 57, B'ddley 57, Allen 7, J. J. C. Mayor 1. hus th deadlock remains unbroken. THAW IS ACQUITTED. Freed of Murder Charge But Ordered to Insane Asylum by Judge-Curtain Falls on Ma!cd rus Case. A New York special says: Adjudged not guilty of the murder of Stanford White by reason of insanity, at the time the fatal shots were fired, Harry Kendall Thaw Saturday was held by the court to be a dangerous lunatic and was whirled away to the state hospi tal for the criminal insane at Mattea wan. It was quick transition from the din gy little cell in the Tombs, which had been the young man’s home for more than eighteen months, to the white-bedded wards of the big asylum tucked away on the snow-covered slop ing banks of the Hudson river, 50 miles above the city. The verdict came after twenty-five hours of waiting and when every one connected with the case had abandon ed all hope of an agreement ever being reached in this or any other trial. Four hours after the foreman’s lips had frarped the words “not uilty” with an accompanying insanity clause, Thaw protesting he was sane, was on his way to Matteawan. A little after night fall lie had be r n received in the in stitution under commitment papers, which directed his detention “until dis charged by due course of law.” Scarcely an hour later the members of the Thaw family were in conference with their lawyers as to the advisabil ity of applying for a writ of habeas corpus. Thaw was greatly enraged over being committed to the asylum and argued strenuously for the appli cation to be made. It was finally de cided to defer this action at least a week. After deliberating twenty-five hours, the jury brought in a verdict of “not guilty” at 12:45 Saturday afternoon. The verdict was arrived at on th® ground that Thaw was insane at the time the deed was committed. Although practically cleared of tho charge of murder, Thaw is not yet a free man. On the recommendation of Justice lowling he was taken to the insane sylum at Matteawan as a dangerous •orson and one whose malady is likely > recur at any moment. This noted case may be summed up :ronologically as follows: Harry Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit were carried in Pittsburg on April 23, 1905. )n June 25, 1906, Thaw killed Stan ord White on the Madison Square roof arden, and on June 28 he was indict d. In January following the first rial began. Ten days were required br the jury to return a disagreement. The trial cost the county of New York J 100,000. The cost to the Thaw fam ly is estimated to have been $400,000. The testimony of alienists brought the igure to this great total. The enitre second trial occupied but seventeen days, five of which were tak en up with the selection of a jury. The prosecution had but few witnesses and made out its case in four and a half hours. The defense brought witnesses from several European centers, from the Pacific coast of America and from a number of other cities. The cost to the county will hardly exceed $25,000, while the cost to the Thaw family will ba equally as much as that of the first trial. The case may justly be referred to as the “million dollar mur der trial.” FIVE VICTIMS OF HOLOCAUST. Burning of Rooming House in Kansas City Rcs alts in Fatalities. Five persons were burned to death and twelve others Injured in a fire in a three story rooming house in Kan sas City Saturday morning. The fire started from an explosion of natural gas in the basement. The flames and dense smoke spread quick ly throughout the building and before an alarm cou d be given all means of escape by the ordinary exits had been shut off. The five persons who lost their lives were asleep on the third floor.