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WEEKLV EDITION OF THE
Kldapcross Evening Hera Id.
OFFICIAL ORGAN LF WAYCPOSS AND WARE COUNTY.
VOLUME XXVIII.
BRYAN SPENT
WAYCR08B. OA. SATURDAY, SEP. 1, 1906.
* TROUBLE AGAIN.
RESTFUL N!8HTL'^2.
AND 18 GETTING READY F.OR THE
TRYING ORDEAL.*
He is In Good 8pirits f *And From 4
O’clock This Afternoon Until He
Leaves Tomorrow For New Hav
en Will Be Busy.
New York, Aug. 29.—William J.
Bryan is'resting this morning aboard
the yacht ‘’Mini” husbanding his
strength for the trying ordeal through
which he Is to pass this afternoon and
all night He was in good spirits
this morning. He said he spent a
restful night after his return from
the Lewis Nixon home, end may pos-
ribly return there this morning for a
conference.
From the time Bryan lands at the
battery at 4 o’clock this afternoon
until he leaves for New Haven tomor
row he will not have but a short time
to himself for sleep.
The time has been filled up by the
reception committee with a parade,
The Scavenger
Been Suspended
Foe Beating Negroes For Not
v .tying Back Money That He
Lends Them.
AT HER OLD TRICKS.
That “Industrial School’’ Fake. Still
Being Worked By Woman Evan-
According to an article in the Char-
j iotte Observer from Elizabeth City
Savannah, Ga„ Aug. 28.—J. J. Gar- N. C., a woman evangelist who visited
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ment of the city who lait spring plead | industrial school she claimed to be
guilty in the United Stated Court, to | establishing in Waycross. This same
making false affidavits relative to the j woman, who was going under the
rights of certain Greeks to become j name of Mrs. M. V. K. Wick's, so the
citizens is in trouble again. This ] correspondent related, told of a greet
SHEPPARD HAS HARD TIME. MORE POLICEMEN IMPLICATED
Tabb And Ruth Are In Jail They Are
Confessing And Implicating Many
Others—Case Will Go To Grand
Jury 8oon.
Savannah, Aug. 28—No man who
ever had a fight tor tho delegates to savannah, Ga., Aug. 28.—Policeman
any convention whipped as thorough- K ichardson. of the Ocean Steamship
to
Naming Delegates To Congressional^
Convention, Although He Carried
The County.
rlty. Sup!, of the Scavenger Depart-, that place look up a collection for an ly befor8 the peopl ° as Walter W- Company Is the last of that force
Sheppard has that for Congress from HuCfer because of the great number
the First District, has ever had a hard G f thefts that have been going on on
a time trying to get his delegates as the wharf during the past two or three
has Mr. Sheppard. years. Ho was suspended from duty
Mr. Sheppard carried Chatham late yesterday afternoon after a heavy
time he hss been suspended from Ills I fortune that had been left her by her j count> ' an<l lbougbt nad “ r,gbt search with tho detectives of the oity.
duties with the city because of his uncle, the late Cecil Rhodes,
tendency to beat up the negroes in From the nVticle in the Observer It
| to appoint his delegates. He named There are to he further development*
some friends and they were turned i 9 the case. Policeman McKenzie
money lending a profitable business 1 with the womian’s earnestness and
and in May 1905 he got so mad with contributed liberally to lier "Inti*
a negro for not paying him back that 1 trial School” ft Waycross. Later,
be shot at him and hit him with a! however, a man evangelist, who start-
billy. At that time he was warned ' ed a meeting at another place near
be can possibly eat.
Bryan will be at New Haven and
Bridgeport tomorrow, Jersey City’on
Saturday, and Possibly Newark, re
turning to New Yotk for dinper with
the newspaper men Saturday even
ing. Sunday he will rest, and Mon
day he expects to leave for Chicago.
New York, Aug. 29.—William J
Bryan will sound the battle cry of
the Democratic Party this evening in
a speech at the “Big Welcome” in
Madi.-on Square Garden.
The big Nebraskan will foreqast
his department for not paying back seems that the people of'Elazabetii d< ” ,n by the ,cUn * chairman ° r tb " and Higgins of the same force were
money he lends them. Garrlty found City were at first greatly Impressed ' DemocraUc Executive Committee. He with the detectives for a couple of
appealed to the committee and every hours yesterday but they were not
one of kis suggestions were turned longer detained,
down. It waa announced that tho Alex. B. LaRoche a clerk who waa
Committee wanted People’s League once arrested has been arrestew agin
men only On tho delegation. Friend- but waa permitted to go after giving
ship for a candidate In a tied election an additional bond of $600. Sergeant
gregatlon that he would have to have { W *“ “ secondary consideration for, Powell has been released on bond.
the committee. It wanted somebody Patrolmen Tabb and Ruth are still In
who would stick to the committee In j jail. They are doing all the confes-
forming up the new Congressional^slug and are Implicating many others.
Executive Committee. Mr. Shep- j i,aRocli,- used to drive n wagon for
the Southern Express Company and
It 1h said to have been through him
that much ol the stolen atoll was ship
ped out 1 of town. About two months
not to lend money again to the ne
groes. It developed on Saturday after
he had assaulted a couple of blacks
of the department and one had Jumped
out of a window of the city hall to
avoid hint that he waa up to his old
Elizabeth City, announced to his con-
help In the meeting and that he had
sent tor Mrs. Wicks to assist him.
The woman appeared on the scene,
but had not been there bat a short
receptions and as many dinners as .tricks and when the committee on j while before the pair acted In such a
Public Works found it out they bus- ‘ manner as do cause the citizens to
pended him. He Is to have a hearing 1 order Y em to leave at once. They
In the morning.
1 f ts unknown
pard spent the whole afternoon yes
terday trying to fix up a list that
• would suit the powere that be and up
„ , , , , , .. i' 11° this morning had not succeeded
promptly obeyed orders and left for |
though some progress wns made final-
and all are Invited to attend,
basket will be passed around, and
all who are willing to aid the circle
the iisuea that will be fought frossjoaa—ntribnte a piece of allver. There
THE KING’S DAUGHTERS.
i This ‘'IndustriarSchooriakeht.s been
I worked extensively in North Carolina
Golden Rule Circle. I nn.1 many Other states. Uueufdly tji*.
j woman, in talking of the school she
This circle will give a silver tea in mi,;, eho propores to establish in Way-
the park In front of the Phoenix I cross, tells of an Immense fortune
hotel, Wednesday afternoon from five left her by Cecil Rhodes, who the
to seven o’clock. Refreshments free,, claims was her uncle.
i ly managed to arrange It to suit them
cu .zt to coast in the next Presiden
tial campaign. The epeeech has been
prepared on the voyage from Gibral
tar, and Bryan consider* It the most
Important of hla career. It I* about
16,000 words In length and will take
about two hours to deliver.
While Bryen submitted to only one
Interview of length while on board
he frequently dropped remark! In,
short conversations which clearly in-i
dlT.lt hi* thoughts on the tuue* of
the d*y. The Nebraskan did make
It very clear that frea silver, became
of the tremenduou* gold productions,
was no longer as Issue.
Bryan, It Is laid, ftknrd* the gov
ernment ownership of railroads and
public utilities ** a necessity, and
will doubtless make these paramount
issues In the coming campaign.
Bryan told a friend aboard tli*
Princess Irene that people' must look
to the Democrat! tor s solution of th*
trust ltsua which, be said, weat head
la hand with tariff reduction.
,All these questions Mr. Bryan in
dicated he would touch upon in his
speech this evening. In order that
his views might have the fullest ex
position, Bryan refrained from talk*
Ing politics on hla arrival here, as,
he said, he did not care to destroy the
effects of bis speech.
COL DODY BACK PROM HAVANA.
New York, An*. 2!.—Among the ar
rivals on the Steamship Mom Castle
from Havana today was Col. Michael
J. Dody. He seld hie arrest In Ha
vana was ■ joke. He was on a gov
ernment boat with regular inspectors
looking over tLe work in the harbor
when the boat run aground. "We
were stuck for fourteen hours. Some
body told the crow of a gunboat that
we were ftlllbusterers. They came
off to us and learned their mistake. I
saw no trouble In Cuba. I traveled
by rail from ClenfuegXs across th*
Island, and everybody appeared to be
at work. Tbs trouble la all west of
Havana. I did not go that way-
are many demands upon the King’s
Daughters for assistance, and the
•tek and needy of our city are often
la want of the necessities of life. The
ladles will appreciate the smallest con
tribution.
Mrs. J. H. Redding.
Mrs. F. A. Bates.
Mrs. E. H. Reed.
Mr. L. L. Campbell.
Mrs. Tonng.
Mrs. J. R. May.
Mrs. T. W. Morrison.
Mre. T. J. Darling.
Mrs. George W. Deem
Mrs. Herbert Murphy.
Miss Savllla Monroe.
Miss Jessie May McCall.
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BY SOLDIERS OP POLISH CAPITAL
HAVE BEEN M|hDE.
Treata Mads Por Revenge For Th*
Killing of General Wenlarskl Who
Was Shot Down By Unknown
Man.
The woman above referred to Is
none other than one Mrs. Baker,
whose huBband was killed or bo badly
Injured In a runaway near Waye.’fa*
several years ago that he died. Boon
after her husband’s death she start
ed out as a traveling evangelist and
told many remarkable tales about
how abe discovered that Cecil Rhodes
waa her uncle’ and at his death had
left her a great fortune, which she
proposed to use In establishing and
maintaining an Industrial school In
Waycross.
HAS BECOME THEATRICAL CEN
TER.
Savannah, 0a, Aug. 2*.—Savannah
has become a theatrical center. Three
companies of professionals are being
rehearsed here to be sent on the
road. Two of them are rehearsing In
the parlors of the Screven House.
John B. Wills, of the Wills Comedy
(■*- s', crag hem out One
company will play “Sweet Sixteen"
the others “Two old Cronies” and the
third ‘‘What Happened to Jaw Smith."
SL Petersburg, Aug. 28.—Threats
to exterminate the Jews of Warsaw CONSIDERABLE INTEREST HERE.
have been made by the soldlers.of the
Polish Capitol In ravengs for the hil
ling yesterday of General Wonlaraki,
who waa Shot down in hla carriage
by^u^ unknown man, supposed to
have’been a Jew.*
As a result of thus* threats the
Jew* aro In a panic, and many are
fleeing from (he city. This I* th*
Information contained In disp*tehee
received early this morning. There
seems to be plenty of authority for
th* reports that a massacre of th*
Jews la probable, and further news
from th* city la eagerly awaited In
Jewish quarters. Th* greatest alarm
prevails, and those who remained In
Warsaw are arming themselves and
preparing to sell their lives dearly.
Mrs. J. C. Langston and little eon,
John, are visiting at the home of Mr.
end Mrm W. A. Milton la Bkckghear
sad will aot return to Wayeroee mill
the latter pert of September.
Savannah, Ga, Aug. 28.—The elec
tion of Mr. B. B. Comer, a* Governor
of Alabama was of considerable later
eet her* because this .waa the home
for many yean before hit death of
Mr. H. M. Comer, tad Mr. J. W. Com
er brother* of th* nominee. Th*
Corners were highly thought of in
Savannah.
KILLED ONE WOMAN AND FATAL
LY INJURED ANOTHER.
Martin Wlnderttein Wreaks Ven
geance On Women Because He
Wee Rejdcted—Wee Arretted
land Jaded After Desperate Strug-
gle.
New York, Aug. 28.—Martin Win-
dersteln, a steamship fireman, recent
ly returned from Manila, today went
to the home of Mrs. Larson, in Brook
lyn, and shot and killed her. The
murderer then ran to the room occu
pied by his cousin, Mrs. Fannie Bur-
pree and shot her tone times, Th*
letter le at a hospital and la la a dy
ing condition.
Windersteln was arrested after a
desperate struggle in which he tried
to kill himself. It te alleged that
Windersteln sought vengeance for be
ing rejected by Mrs. Larson.
NO CAUSE TO FEAR
YELLOW FEVER
SAYS 8URGE0N WHITE, OF THE
MARINE HOSPITAL SERVICE.
He 8ays the Quarantine Idea Must
Be Abandoned Just as Quaran
tine for Small Poa Was Aban
doned.
Jackson, Miss, Aug. 30.—Surgeon
J. H. White, ot the Marine Hospital
service, who diagnosed the auspicious
cases yesterday at N&tches, as yellow
feve.’, said today that the South no
longer had cause to fear the yellow
fever. Quarantine Idea muat bo aban
doned just as we abandoned quaran
tine for small pox more than a decade
ago. In hla opinion there will be no
trouble with the disease In the South
this year.
ago he got his place as a clerk on the
wlmrf. I.altoche protests his Inno-
cence as lo the others with th*; ex
ception of Table and Ruth.
The cnee will be given to the Grand
Jury soon.
Paper Pram Cotton Stalks.
The manufacture of paper from the
fiber of toe cotton stalk Is one of to*
latest and mote lotstreptlng inven
tions and It ha* been unquestionably
demonstrated that *11 grade* of paper
from toe best form of linen gpide to
the lowest, can be manufactured, that
trill prove to* entering wedge' of
checking th* present Increasing cost
of paper.
ACQUITTED A NEQRO POR GAM
BLING,
Judge Norwood Wee Wrought up at
Th* Finding That He Discharged
Th* Jury And Told Them They
Could Not Try Cases In Hie Court
Any More.
Bevennah, Ga, Aug. 88.—A Jury In
the city Court acquitted a negro on a
charge of gambling yeaterday after
noon and Judge Norwood wet so
wrought up at the perfect folly of toe
finding that he discharged the jury
end told the members of It that they
could not try cases In bis court again.
The Spectators taugied whdta ft*
verdict we* rendered eo palpable bad
been the evidence ot gullL The negro
who was an petty-oflloer la a justice
court bad pulled off hie coat to join
In a gam* of skin When the officers ap
peared. He was In eucb a hurry to
aklddo that be left hit eoat with sev
eral warrant* In toe pocket and tout
was Identified. -
WRECK ON THE NEW YORK CEN
TRAL.
New York, Aug. 29.—The Brewster
Express on toe New York Central,
with eight coaches, crashed Into the
wreck of a freight In the Bark Ave
nue cut this morning, killing Charles
Mahoney, n brakeman, and fatally In
juring John Leonard, another brake-
mar.. The paaseagera were thrown
from their Beats and many were cat
by broken glass.
A freight ran Into a stalled freight
end toe l-rnkemen were caught In toe
wreckage. The flagman failed to
get back in time to warn the ap
proaching express.
SAVANNAH CINCHED PENNANT.
8aanaab, Ga, Ang. 28—By winning
both fames of a double header In
baseball yesterday afternoon Savan
nah practically di
It Is not.belleved now that
can ever catch np with th* Colt* again
tola
WHAT JORDAN SAYS.
Harvle Jordan, d-estdent of toe
Southern Cotton Association, Is a
sentinel on the watchtower overlook
ing to* entire cotton situation In toe
Interest of toe producer, and be la In
addition a cotton grower blmeelf on
a large ecale with a selfish Interest
In getting a good price. Hence whet
lie says as to marketing toe coming
crop ought to he of aom* value. In
toe last Issue of toe Cotton Journal
he Issues the following address to
toe cotton growers of tbq South which
we give our readers for whst It ts
worth:
"Baer speculators ere hammering
down to* price; spinners will there
for* buy sparingly.
"If you want a profit oa tots crop
you must markst sparingly- Eevery
bat* you rush on to* market la the
strongest posslbl* hear argument.
"Market your cotton only so rapid
ly as to* spinners demand It, or you
will pay dearly for your burry.
IS STYLED AS A "JACK THE RIP
PER" MURDER.
Annie Moore, 48 Years Old, The Vic
tim—Her Brother-In-Law, James
Moore, Arrested On Suspicion of
Having Committed The Crime,
New York, Aug. 28.—A "Jack the
Ripper" murder waa committed In tho
Bowery district early this morning.
Tho only clue lo the murderer la a
bloody thumb print on a sheet. The
victim of "Ripper’s" knife la Annie
Moore, aged 48, who for many years
hns lived In Illicit relationship with
her brother-in law, James, Moore. Tho
body of tbe murdered' woman was
slasbed and gashed to a bloody mutil
ation. It was found lying across toe
bed folly dressed. Moore’s wits Is
said to be living. He was arrested
on suspicion.
PITH AND POINT.
It Is foolish for a man to kick him
self when he’s down.
Gossips might be appropriately
termed misfortune tellers.)
The school of experteoc* la open
twenty-four hours each day.
Some people pray at If they thought
toe Lord needed their advice.
Don't expect to tower above your
neighbors by standing on your dig
nity.
When a mao combines business
with pleasure business usually gets
toe short cud of It—Chicago ..aw*.
WILL NOT STOP ISSUING PASSES
Savannah, Ga., Aug. 88—The Cen
tral of Georgia Railway will not atop
issuing passes because of toe passeg*
of toe rale bill until January let as
acting president Lawton says to* bill
the peoasut. | don ^ contemplate tost to* entl-
pass feature ehall take effect until
January 1st next
Corns to think oC It, South Georgia
is still here.
RATE LAW IN EFFECT.
Washington, Aug. 28—Th* railroad
rat* law became In effect today. The
event was signalised by a public con
ference of representatives of many
of toe railroads, with those member*
of toe Interstate Commerce Com Dila
tion now In toe city.,
It was to* first skirmish In toe bat
tle ot wtt* which is to ensue. Th*
Commissioners are determined that
to* railroads shall Interpret to* taw
according to their own lights, comply
with as much of It ts thsy desire and
take toe consequence* If mistakes ere
made.
The rallrotd representative* want
Interpretation of toe various ques
tions by the Commission, so ns to bo
guided and protected by It If differ
ences should ensue.
Tbs Herald 1* satisfied with to*
show down. Tab* to* coon and go
TWO MEN DROWNED.
New York, Ang. 88.—Two- men
were drowned this morning when toe
Jersey Central ferry boat "Red Bank"
crashed Into toe “Nata" • launch oa
tot Hudson. Tb* Uttl* boat was
splintered against to* bulk-head* or
to* Jersey City pier. Fears ere ex
pressed that there may have been
other* aboard to* launch, which- tank
Immediately after to* coUbtam.
It hegtas to look as If old maa Noah
Webeten work was til to be indue.
