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THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR.
VOL. XVIII.
MISS MORRISON'S STATEMENT
ACTRESS TELLS THE JURY OF BAD TREAT
fIENT AT THE HANDS OF LEIDEN.
soi Dll* m w
Elicited la Examintion of State’s Wit
nesses—Sensational Scenes In Court.
The second day’s trial at Ohnttn
nooga of Miss Jnlia Morrison for the
Murder of Frank Leidenlieitner was
repele with dramatic situations.
’Flic state introduced witness after
witness who painted a black picture
of the woman who trembled at their
words.
The trend of the testimony showed
that ahe laid in wait for Actor Frank
Leidenheimer and when the opportu
nity came she pulled the pistol she
carried concealed in the folds of her
dress and fired into his face. After
lie had failed she stooped over him
and deliberately fired a ball into his
writhing body.
The examination of witnesses for
the state occupied the morning session
and the court adjourned until the af
ternoon.
STATEMENT OP DEFENDANT.
Immediately on reassembling at 2
o’clock, the court ordered the exami
nation of witnesses to proceed and
Miss Morrison was called to the
stand. The accused woman was quite
fiustrated at first and seemed to be
very much excited, but she soon be
came calmer and proceeded to give
her testimony in an emphatic and
clear, though rather dramatic manner.
She stated that she had been subjected
to all kinds of insults by Leiden; that
when Leiden found that sbo was mar
ried ho had subjected her to syste
tematic insult and abuse and bad con
tinued it until it became unbearable.
The first witness called was W. J.
Patterson, the stage manager of the
Chattanooga opera house, who testi
fied as follows:
“Liondenheimer said nothing to
Miss Morrison or made any effort to
nssault her when she fired the shot.
She shot him before he could speak.
The shot was fired the second she saiv
him.”
Mis story was very damaging to Miss
Morrison. On questioning him on
Liedeubeimer’s actions, he swore that
he acted the gentleman and tried to
ovoid any trouble with Miss Morrison,
who seemed to bo ill-tempered and in
sulting.
Leon H. Joseph, electrician at the
opera house, was next called and his
evidence was the most damaging of all
for the defense. The attorneys en
deavored to make him say he had dis
cussed the case with the prosecutor
and fixed up the testimony, but he de
nied it bitterly.
Hero the attorneys on both sides
got into an argument, and it looked as
if it would be a personal difficulty, un
til the sheriff made all sit down and
the judge ordered the first attorney
under arrest who agaiu made a dis
turbance.
Attorney Latimore asked W't less
Joseph if Leidenheimer, the murdered
man, was not a Jew. lie replied he
did not know. At this instant, Mrs.
Antz, sister of Leidenheimer, who was
present, jumped up and said:
“You lie if you say he was a Jew.
Y'ou are trying to prejudice the jury.”
Judge Estell announced that all
demonstrations must stop.
Rogers Eyley, of New York, who
was assistant manager of the “Mr.
Plaster of Paris” company, was the
next witness. His testimony caused
a great sensation. When he com
menced to testify Miss Morrison be
gan to cry and hide her face. He
swore he heard her say to Leidenhei
mer the morning before the murder:
“I’ll put a ball through you yet very
soon.” He swore that he saw her the
night of the murder and that she had
her street dress on and was not made
up for the stage, and did not have her
stage dress on or her stage make-up.
The attorneys for Miss Morrison at
tempted to prevent Mr. Riley from
telling what the duties of Leiden
heimer, as the stage manager, were.
Here a dispute arose between the
attorneys. Judge Estell became en
raged and left the stand. He got be
tween the lawyers, took a paper from
their hands, and said:
“This farce must stop. I’ll decide
this controversy. Mr. Ililey, you tell
all you kuow r . We are goiugto get at
the bottom of this case, and are not
going to have anything covered up.”
Mr. Riley was then turned over to
the defense to be cross examined.
While all this was going on Miss
Morrison was spending her time in
the courtroom crying and making
demonstrations.
When Miss Morrison was called she
arose and walked with a confident air
toward the witness stand. Every eye
was eagerly upon the occupant of the
witness box. The seal upon her lips
was about to be broken and a tale of
THE USUAL HAPPENED.
Workmen Thaw Dynamite; One Dead
and Others Injured.
Four quarrymen on tbe Tennessee
Central railroad near Rockwood,
Tenn., attempted to thraw out a stick
of dynamite which had been frozen up
in a box. The dynamite, of eonrse, ex
ploded, and one man, a negro, was
killed and three others fatally injur
ed, two of them dying two hours after
the accident,
romance, cruelty, persecution, insult
nnd tragedy, all ol which reads like a
work of fiction, was about to be un
raveled. Colonel Joe Clift, for the
defense, took the stand through
the story of her wrongs and her wan
derings. She begau her story as fol
lows:
“My name is Jnlia Morrison James.
My stage name is Julia Morrison. I
nm in the theatrical profession. I was
born in Kansas, as well a3 I know. I
had some foster parents. I can’t state
exactly how long after I was born be
fore my moher died. Ido not know
whether my father lived nfter my real
mother’s death. I was married before
I was fourteen years of age. I didn’t
know until after my marriage that
they were not my real parents. Their
treatment was most severe. They
would put me up in a corner and take
my ears and hold them against the
wall and beat my head.
“My husband and myself went from
LaFayette, La ,to Paterson, X. J. I
then clerked a short time in New York.
For a while we boarded on West For
tieth street, then East Fortieth street.
I then went with the ‘Mr. Plaster of
Paris’ company.
“After I was employed by Harris, I
stayed in New York awhile and re
hearsed—went to rehearsals every day
and worked hard. Leilen was with
the company at that time. Upon the
first few occasions he was very gen
tlemanly. He found no fault what
ever. He told me I was great and ex
cellent. I exhibited to Mr. Leiden
my costomes which Iliad to wear.
“In Peekskiil, New York,” the wit
ness continued, “Leiden came lip to my
room. The door was open and I was
lying on the bed with my head toward
the door. I supposed it was my hus
band who came in. The next I knew
there was a pair of arms around me,
and be made an indecent proposal.
It beenme necessary for the witness
to tell what Leiden had called her,
and she said, “Can’t I write these
horrible things?” When told she mirst
use the language, she proceeded.
“I heard Leiden say to his assistant
not to send out a lithograph of myself,
as he expected to get rid of the ”
Here the witness used words unfit for
print. •
“Ho frequently called mo a bitch.”
Here the witness used language unfit
to print.
Referring to the incidents before
the tragedy at the Chattanooga opera
house, just previous to the tragedy,
she said:
“I arrived at the opera house a
minute or two before 12. I heard Mr.
Leiden say to somebody, ‘What must
Ido with her?’ He looked so angry
that I started toward the steps. He
came and shook his fist in my face.
He said: ‘I didn’t call the rehearsal
because the piece noods rehearsing,
but to see if you would come.’ He
said, ‘I would address you as a lady
if I thought you were a lady, you
bitch.’ He said that I wasn’t fit to be
in a dog show-, lie kicked me in the
abdomen and slapped me with his
hand. He started to slap me again,
nut Mr. Breeding interfered. He
wouldn’t let him hit me again. He
atked me why in the hell I didn’t send
that damned pimp of mine up, and
he’d break his neck.
“I made no threat that I remember
of to put a ball through Leiden. I al
ways carried a pistol in my bosom.
My husband gave it to me in LaFay
ette, La. I made no statement that I
would see Leiden before tbe curtain
went up that night. There is no truth
in that.
“That night I went to the opera
house with a maid. Mr. Breeding j
showed me my dressing room. I had
on a street costume. The time I was
to appear on the stage in the play was
fifteen or twenty minutes off from the
time tbe curtain went up. My part !
did not require me to absolutely clress
at all. The very dress I have on Mr.
Leiden told me I looked beautiful in
and I had worn it in the play.
“After reaching my dressing room
I took off my hat, opened my grip and
took out my keys to open my trunk."
That evoning, she stated, Leiden had
gone to the toilet room where she
wa|, while she was sick, and bad of
fered an indigntty, which she told to
the court, and which is.unfit for the
prints.
•“I pushed him away and pushed
him out of the toilet. He slapped me
violently. A colored girl came after
me. The colored girl followed mo up
the steps. There was no one in front.
I fouud the steps very narrow. I was
just in the act of stepping up the steps
when Mr. Leiden leaned over and said
in a low voice, ‘What in the hell do
you mean, you ; I’ll kill you!’ I
lost consciousness here. I believed be
was going to carry out his threats. I
have no recollection of firing one, two
or three shots. I remember nothing
else until the officer came up and said,
‘Come, lady!”’
At this juncture the court adjourned
until Saturday.
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WILL PAY DEPOSITORS.
The Produce Exchange at New York
to Resume Business.
The trustees of the New York Pro
duce Exchange Trust Company have
made all arrangements for the resump
tion of business.
General Samuel Thomas, vice presi
dent of the reorganized company, au
thorized the statement that when the
door* open again every depositor who
may desire his money will be f>aid in
full.
For Our Town, Our County and Our state.
DANIEI.SVII.LE. GA.. FRIDAY. JANUARY 12, 1900.
BRYAN SPEAKS
At Banquet In Chicago On Occa
sion of “Jackson Day” Cele
bration By Democrats.
Six hundred Democrat* gathered in
the banquet hall of the Tremont house
at Chicago Saturday evening to ob
serve “Jackson Day” in an appropri
ate manner. William Jeuuiugs Bryan
was the honored guest and chief orator
of the occasion.
It was nearly midnight when the
orators were in full swing, and Mr.
Bryan’s address was last on the list.
Mayor Harriaon, of Chicago, acted as
toastmaster.
Mr. Bryan, in opening his address,
recounted the political situation as it
find existed at each successive “Jack
sou Day” banquet which he had at
tended in Chicago, and tlieu coming
down to later issues he discussed the
currency bill, of which he said:
“The currency bill fastens us to the
financial systems of the old world and
subjects us to the disturbances which
affect them, while it places the control
of the volume of paper money in the
hands of a bank trust, which will be
as merciless to the people of this
country as Weyler was to the reeou
centrados. The fight for bimetallism,
at the ratio ot 1(5 to 1, has not been
lost. The increased production of
gold has shown the advantage of rnoro
money, and lias answered thG argu
ments so often made that the purity
could not bo maintained because of
the overproduction of silver.”
Mr. Bryan declared that the Repub
lican pnrty is unublo to enact and en
force anti-trust laws, and that the
Democratic party when in power will
meet the issue with a plnin and posi
tive remedy. On the subjeot of “im
perialism,” he said:
“Tho question of imperialism will
occupy a prominent place in the next
campaign. It matters not whether the
war in tho Philippines ends in the near
future or continues until election. The
people must determiuo tho policy to
be pursued in regard to the Philip
pines. That policy must contemplate
the ultimate independence of the Fil
ipinos or their permanent retention
under American sovereignty. If tho
islands nre to be retained permanently
the inhabitants must be given the
hope of full citizenship or they must
be condemned to tho lot of subjects.
Who desires to admit them to sharo
and share ulike with us the destiny of
this republic?”
The entire policy of the administra
tion in relation to tho Philippines, lie
declared to be utterly wrong. His
speech was received with great en
thusiasm.
Other speakers of the evening were
General Joseph B. Doe, of Wisconsin;
Thomas F. Barkworth, of Michigan;
James H. Milligan, of Kentucky, snd
Howard 8. Taylor, of Illinois.
OENERAL (IREELY HURT.
Drunken Han Throws Him Out of Ills
Own House.
A Washington dispatch saya: Gen
eral A. W. Greely, tbe chief signal
officer of the army, and the well-known
Artie explorer, lies in a serious condi
tion at his home, No. 1914 G street,
northwest, as the result of an assuult
committed on him about half-past 8
o’clock Sunday night by Joseph C.
Furnace, a messenger in tho employ
tho Adams Express company.
Furnace was drunk at the time, and
having lost his way ou the street, dis
turbed the Greely household by trying
to gain admission. General Greely
appeared at the door and began to re
monstrate when Furnace 6eized him
and threw him out bodily.
“FOR BREACH OF PRO/TISE.”
Niece of General Wheeler Brings Suit
Against Chicago Man.
Miss Etta Thomas, a nieoe of Gen
eral “Joe” Wheeler, began suit in the
superior court at Chicago Saturday
j against William H. Fahrney, a promi
nent west sido society mail, asking
SIOO,OOO damages for alleged breach
| of promise to marry.
Widow Jackson Invited.
The North Carolina delegation in
congress sent a telegram to Mrs. Stone
wall Jackson, inviting her to partici
pate in the banquet to lie given in
Washington January 12, to aid tho
orection of a monument to General
Robert E. Lee.
DEPRIVED OF HEDICINE,
Little Children of Christian Scientists
Die of Diphtheria.
The Pittsburg, (Pa.,) Dispatch says:
Diphtheria and Christian Science have
had a hitter battle in a New Brighton
family for the past two weeks. Diph
theria has won so far. Two children
are dead, while a third child and the
father are dangerously ill with the
same disease.
Not until forced to do so hv the lo
cal authorities would tho parents per
mit a physician in the house, and even
| then the father refnsed to give the
; medicine prescribed, arid the health
officials were compelled to take the
family in charge.
TOBACCO SHIPMENTS HEAVY.
Manufacturers of North Carolina Tran
sacted Big Business Last Year.
Tobacco manufacturers at Winston,
X. C., shipped 18,292,741 pounds of
tobacco during 2899, an increase of
nearly 2,000,000 over 1898. The 1899
revenue stamp sales aggregated 52,-
327,079.94. Durham, N'. C., tobacce
manufacturers paid for revenue stamps
31,915,698.57 during 1899, a large in
erep3 over the prertoe* year,
BRITISH SORTIE
THAT FAILED
Veldt Was Thickly Dotted With Bod
ies of the Dead.
BOERS WERE INVINCIBLE
Red Cross Flags Were Interposed
to Stop Hostilities.
Tho London Times publishes the
following dispatch from Mafeking,
dated December 28th:
“At dawn today Colonel Badeu-
Fowcll organized an unsuccessful at
tack upon a strong position of the
enemy at Gametree, two miles from
Mafeking, from which the liocrs have
been maintaining a desultory but an
noying shell and rifle tire for several
weeks. The railway has recently been
reconstructed between the town and
Gametree, where tho Boers had de
stroyed it, the final repairs being
made in preparation for the sortie.
During the night the armored train,
with Maxim and Hotchkiss guns, un
der Captniu Williams and troops, tool
up positions for attack from two sides.
Captain Lord Charles Bentinck nnd n
squadron were in reserve upon tho
left, while the extreme left wing was
occupied by artillery under Major
Panzern and a galloping Maxim of the
cape police, tbe whole being under
Colonel Hore.
“Emplacements were thrown up
during the night, the order being to
attack at dawn and the artillery fire to
desist upon prolonged tooting of the
armored train. At daybreak the guns
opened fire and rapidly drew tho re
ply of tho enemy, our shells bursting
within effective range. Captain Ver
non gave tho signal to cease firing and
to advance, his squadron leading off.
“As our men engaged the position
with their rifle fire it was soon found
that tho strength of the foit was great
er than we had supposed. The enemy
concentrated suoh an exceedingly hot
fire that tho advance of Captain Ver
non was almost impossible, but with
remarkable heroism a few men actu
ally reached the sand bags of the fort
within 300 yards of thearea of the fort.
“But nothing living could exist
there, since the ground was swept by
Mauser and Martini bullets. The men
who charged through this zone of fire
suffered terribly, and in following
their officers to oapturethe fort twenty
men lost thoir lives. Captain Sandford
was the first to fall, and Captain Ver
non, already twice wounded, and Lieu
tenant Paton were killed at the foot of
the fort. These two officers, climbing
a ditch which surrounded tho fort,
thrust their revolvers through tho eu
emy’s loopholes only to be shot them
selves the next moment.
“Gainetree is surrounded with scrub
which concealed many sharpshooters,
and their accuracy of fire still further
confussed the men who had followed
Captain Vernon and who saw him and
his brother officers killed. Being
without commauders, they were driven
off at one point, but they endeavored
to scale the fort at others. They found
the position of tho Boers, however,
almost impregnable.
“When we retired under oorer of
tho armored train so many men had
been wounded that a suspension of
hostilities occurred under the auspices
of tho Red Cross. Tho veldt around
the Boer position was at once dotted
with flags of mercy and it was seen
that our wounded were scattered
within but n short radius of the fort.
Wo had almost completely surrounded
it; and, had it not been so extraordi
narily well protected, we should have
been in possession.”
PAY WAS TOO SLOW.
K. of L. Members Quit Their Jobs at
Caryville, Fla.
Members of tho Knights of Labor
employed at the Sanford Lumber Com
pany's mill at Caryville, Fla., de
manded a few days ago that they be
paid weekly instead of monthly. Tho
demand was refused, and Friday after
noon the hands struck. All work at
the mill then ceased.
Bribery Charges Up.
The senate committee on privileges
and elections began its investigation
Friday of the charges of bribery made
in connection with the election of
Senator Clark, of Montana.
FOURTH DAY OF TRIAL.
Julia norrlson Murder Case at Chat
tanooga Proceeds Slowly.
The fourth day in the sensational
trial of Actress Julia Morrison began
at Chattanooga Monday morning at 9
o’clock in the superior court room,
before Judge Estell and two thousand
spectators.
The prisoner, pale and distressed
looking, entered the court room, de
claring with an attempt at a smile that
she was feeling some better than she
had on Saturday.
The trial Monday was without any
sensational features, and the grind of
testimony has been steady and monot
onous.
CAPERS DEPRECATES WAR.
South Carolina Bishop Strongly Criti
cises Government’s Policy.
Bishop Ellison Capers, formerly a
confederate general, in his annual
visit to Trinity Episcopal church at
Columbia, B. C., Sunday criticised the
national government in the prosecu
tion of war in the Philippines. He
lamented the fact that a Christian
nation was using shot and shell to re
move a less fortunate people from the
way of its march of progress.
BILL IS FILED
AGAINST ROADS
Temporary Injunction Is~
sued Against Ga. & Ala.
TO PREVENT A COMBINE
Object Is to Prevent Consolidation With
the Florida Central and Peninsular.
Bitter Contest Inaugurated.
The fight that. Thomas R. ltynn nnd
his associates are waging against the
Seaboard Air-Line syndicate and John
Skelton Williams, who is at the head
of the syndicate, shows no sign of
abating. Instead it is more bitterly
contested each day. A long drawn
and closely contested legal fight is
imminent. In fnot it has begun.
Tbe latest move in what will prob
ably prove to be one of the most bit
terly fought railway battles of recent
years was made at. Macon, Ga., Mon
day when Judge Emory Speer, of the
United Slates circuit court of tho
southern district of Georgia, granted
a temporary injunction restraining the
officers of tho Georgia and Alabama
railway from consolidating it with,the
Florida Central and Peninsular rail
road or any other corporations on a
bill filed by Michael J. Dady, a mi
nority stockholder.
It is alleged in the hill that J. Skel
ton Williams is at the head of what is
called a “voting trust” that controls
practically all tho stock of the Georgia
and Alabama railway and is proposing
to consolidate that, road with the Flor
ida Central and Peninsular, of which
he is also president, aud that the pro
posed consolidation with the latter
road is in his interest as well as in the
interest of other persons associated
with him in the “voting trust” and
contrary to the interest of the road
and its stockholders.
J. Skelton Williams, John W. Mid
dendorf and C. Sidney Shepard are
also parties defendant and the injunc
tion operates against them. The bill
was presented to Judge Speer by
Marion Erwin and Joseph M. Terrell,
ns counsel for tho complainant, Dady.
Dady’s hill, in addition to the allega
tions tliat the proposed consolidation
is prejudical to the rights of the stock
holders and the road nnd for the per
sonal interests of tho “voting trust”
headed by Skelton Williams, claims
that the Georgia and Alabama railway
and tho tho Florida Central are paral
lel nnd competing railroads, and un
der the constitution of the state of
Georgia their cousolidatio i is pro
hibited.
Colonel Joseph M. Terrell, of coun
sel for the complainant, as attorney
general of tho state of Georgia, is now
officially engaged in prosecuting two
suits in the name of tho state of Geor
gia and by the direction of Governor
Candler to prevent other railroad con
solidations claimed to he contrary to
the same clause of tho constitution of
the state which is claimed in this suit
before Judge Hpeer is about to bo
violated by the proposed consolidation
of tho Georgia and Alabama and tho
Florida Centra! and Peninsular rail
roads.
The bill prays that Messrs. Williams,
Middendorf and thoir associates un
der the “voting trust” agreement, he
enjoined from voting the stock they
hold under tho agreement in favor of
tho proposed consolidation, and that
these railroads ho enjoined from re
ceiving any vote nnder that agree
ment. The allegation is made in the
hill that tho Williams syndicate is
proposing to get several million of
dollars for personal services in carry
ing out the consolidation scheme.
After considering tho hill Judge Speer
granted the following order:
"Read and considered. Let the
defendants named be temporarily en
j(ned as prayed until Saturday, tho
13th instant, at which time they uro
directed to show cause before me at
Macon, Ga., at 10 o’clock a. in., why
the injunction prayed for should not
be granted.
“Ordered further, that a copy of
this order be served on each of the
defendants named or on their coun
sel.”
Pilcher Evacuates Douglass.
Advices from Belmont, Cape Colony,
state that Colonel Pilcher, it is offi
cially announced, being on a raiding
expedition and for military reasons
being unable to occupy Douglass per
manently, has evacuated the town,
bringing off all of the loyalists.
General French’s Casualties.
The casualties in General French’s
forces at Itensburg up to the afternoon
of January 3d were five men killed
and twenty-four wounded. Coleskop
is now the principal scene of tho figlit
| ing. The destruction of tho wrecked
train included 22,000 rations and a
supply of rum.
REPORT AGAINST QUAY.
Committee Is Adverse to Seating the
Senator From Pennsylvania.
The senate committee on privileges
and elections, Friday, decided by a
vote of 4 to 3 to make an adverse re
port upon the resolution to seat Sena
tor Quuy. The resolution thus turned
down was as follows:
“Resolved, That Matthew S. Quay
j be admitted as senator from the slate
of Pennsylvania in accordance with
his appointment, made on April 21,
1 1899, by tho governor of eaid state.’
“VOTE RESTRICTION”
Strongly Handled Subject In a
Senate Speech By H organ,
of Alabama.
The feature of Monday's session of
the senate was the speech of Senator
Morgan, of Alabama, upon the geueral
subject of ballot restriction in the
south. Tho Bonntor from Alabama
took as tho text for his speech tho res
olution introduced several days ngo
by Senator Pritchard, of North Caro
lina, or rather the substitute which
that senator has since submitted in
place of his former resolution. The
substitute reads as follows:
Resolved, Thntnn enactment by
constitution or otherwise by any
state which confers the right to
vote upon any of its citizens be
cause of their descent from certain
persons or elnsses of persons nnd
excludes other citizens because
they are not descended from such
persons or classes of persons, hav
ing nil other qualifications pre
scribed by law, in the opinion of
tho senate is in violation of the
fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments to the constitution of the
United States, and of a fundamen
tal principle of our republican
form of government.
In opening Seuator Morgan said
that, this resolution reveals tho fact
that we havo reached a danger point
in the history of tho republic which we
cannot avoid or neglect. The next
apportionment of representation in the
house must bo mnde by this, or tho
fifty-seventh congress,said the senator,
and the principles ou which the ap
portionment will b made will ho a
question of the gravest importance in
this year’s election.
He believed the question ought to
he considered in advance of these
elections. The people should decide
tho great question involved in those
resolutions at the elections of this
year upon propositions submitted to
them in some form.
“I am convinced,” said the senator,
“that no other tribunal except tho
people voting in tho elections Ims tho
right or tho power to finally settle this
question here presented in the resolu
tion offered by the senator from North
Carolina.”
OH All A DEMOCRATS
Celebrate Jackson Day With Recep
tion to Bryan ami a Banquet.
"St Jackson’s Lay” was appropri
ately celebrated in Oninhn, Nob.,
Monday by the Jacksonian Club.
Three separate functions wero down
on the programme. The first was an
informal reception hold at the club
headquarters in tho afternoon, ut
which W. J. lirynti, Congressmen
Carmack, of Tennessee; Overmcyer,
of Kansas; W6aver, of lowa, and sev
eral other Demoorntic lights, wero tho
guests.
Mr. Brynu was the chief contro of
attraction, and during tho two hours
tho reception lasted several hundred
Democrats lind paid their respects. At
0 o’clock a dinner was tendered Mr.
Bryan and a few other notables at tho
Omaha Club.
At 9 o’clock occurred tho annual
banquet of the club in the parlors of
the Paxton hotel. Covers wero laid
for Hires hundred, and there were no
vacant places. An elaborate menu
was served, and it was near midnight
before the speaking began.
The speech of tho evening was mndo
by Mr. Jlryan in response to tho toast,
“Our Nation."
GROW 111 OF THE SOUTH.
The Various New Industries Reported
For the Past Week.
Tho more important of the now in
dustries reported for the past week
include coal mines in Alaliama and
West Virginia; copper mines in Texas;
cotton mills in Georgia, Mississippi,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Ten
nessee; a cremating furnace manufac
tory in Georgia; an electric light com
pany in Arkansas; an electrical supply
company in Texas; flouring mills in
j Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee,
Texas; gold mines and a handle fac
] tory in Alabama; a hardware company
!in Texas; ail ice factory in Arkansas;
| lumber mills in Kentucky,Mississippi,
South Caroliua, Tennessee, Texas; a
machine shop in West Virginia; a
planing mill in Georgia; a silk mill in
North Carolina; a steel roofing plant
in Tennessee; a telephone exchange
and a tent manufactory in Texas.—
Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
Strikers Return To Work.
C. C. Yonge, manager of the San
ford Lumber'company’s mills at Car
ryville, Fla., and Arthur McConnell,
lender of the Knights of Labor in
this district, have amicably adjusted
the differences between the strikers
and the mill owners, and the men go
back to work.
To “Observe” Hostilities.
General Otis lias cabled the war de
partment that in accordance with in
structions, Captain Reiclimanu, 17th
infantry, now in the Philippines, bus
boon ordered to South Africa to report
upon military operations in the Trans
vaal. •
THANKS RESOLUTION
Respecting Rear Admirals Schley and
Sampson Before the House.
Representative Bingham, of Penn
sylvania, introduced the following
resolutions in the house Thursday:
"Resolved, That the thanks of con
gress are hereby tendered to Real
Admiral William T. Sampson and
Commodore Winfield Scott Hohloy and
the officers and men under them for
the destruction of the Spanish fleet at
Santiago.”
NO. 50.
FAIR ACTRESS
BEFORE COURT
Miss Julia riorrison On
Trial For Her Life.
FOR KILLING LEADING MAN
Trial At Cliatla nooga, Tenn., the Subject
of Widespread Interest and the
Outcome Is Speculative.
The case of the state of Tennessee
vs. Julia Morrison James, the actress,
charged with the murder of Frank
Leidonheimer, stage master of the
“Mr. Plaster of Paris” Dramatio Com
pany, on the stage of the opera house
in Chattanooga September 23, 1899,
was called in circuit court in that city
Thursday afternoon for trial.
Great interest has been manifested,
not only locally in this proceeding, but
all over the United States. As au in
dication of this widespread interest,
it may bo stated that all the news
papers of the country have ordered
special stories of the trial, bits of evi
dence and gossip bearing on the case,
pictures, etc.
Mrs. James appeared in the court
room in a very neat fitting dress and
made a very great impression on the
spectators present. Her drosH wns of
black cloth and was presented to her
by friends in the city. She was vory
pale and slightly nervous, and when
she answered questions of tho court
thero was a noticeable quiver about
the mouth and a quaver in the voice,
so delicate, yet so perceptible that the
judge and lawyers were at once in
sympathy with her. She was accom
panied by her husband and remained
for only a short time.
At 2 o’clock tho court was called to
order and the prisoner was brought
before the liar. Both sides announced
ready and a call of the witnesses was
begun. Few of tho witnesses aswered
to their names, but all that have been
summoned are in the city and officers
were detailed at once to notify them
to appear at tho bar of the court.
George J. Anlz, of New Orleans,
brothor-in-law of Eoideuheiiner, was
present and seated with bis counsel.
Miss Morrison was accompanied to
the courtroom by the sheriff and Mrs.
E. E. Geese, the latter one of the well
known ladies of the city.
Tho judge ordered tho sheriff to
summon a panel of one hundred jury
men from which to select the trial
jury. Tho entire time of the court
during tho afternoon was taken up in
hearing motions in other cases, wait
ing tho appearance of the panel.
Twenty-seven veniremen were exam
ined before tho jury was completed.
Colonel James Clift appeared as load
ing counsel for the defense, assisted
by Lattimore A Williams. The pros
ecutor is George J. Autz, of New Or
leans, brothor-iu-law of the murdered
mun.
Miss Morrison pleaded “not guilty."
Judge Estolljtho trial judge,announced
bis purpose to hasten the trial, nnd
said that ho would not admit of any
dilatory tactics. Tie ordered the first
witness called and tho state put T. E.
Patterson, the stage manager for the
local opera houso company, on the
stand.
Mr. Patterson testified that he had
seen Miss Morrison shoot Leideuhei
mor twice while ho wns standing and
oueo after he fell, just os she emerged
onto the stnge through a stairway; that
Leidenheimer was standing at the
right of tho stago where ho conld di
rect the lights and that no words pass
ed between him and Miss Morrison;
that Miss Morrison had on her street
dress, although she wns to liavo ap
peared in tho play, “Mr. Plaster of
Paris.”
Ho stated that at the time of the
shooting only a few minutes remained
before tho curtain was to have been
mug up, nnd that all the actors and
actresses in the company wore ready
for the play except Miss Morrison.
At this juncture, and before the
state hud got through the primary ex
amination tho court announced the
hour of adjournment and the further
examination of tho witnesses went
over until Friday.
MORE TERRITORY SECURED.
Watson Announces That We Have
Captured the Island of Slbutu.
The United States navy has taken
possession of another island in the
east. The news of the seizure was
contained in the following dispatoh:
“Cavite, January 5, 1900.—0n De
cember 21st, Wentsbaugh, command
ing the Albay.a little gunboat, hoisted
tlie flag on Sibutu island aud the chief
dato provided and raised the pole.
Natives aud north Borneo authorities
pleased. Watson.”
The island lies at the southwestern
angle of the boundary line of the
quadrangle inclosing the Philippine
group.
A BANKRUPT IS BECK.
Philadelphia Court Gives Georgian His
Final Discharge.
In the United States district court
at Philadelphia Thursday Albert L.
Beck, until recently a prosperous citi
zen of Atlanta, Ga., received his Anal
discharge as a bankrupt. Mr. Beck
was one of the largest real estate ope
rators in Georgia. In his application
1 ha placed his liabilities at 380,000 and
his assets at nothing.