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TILLHAN flUST STAY
IN COLUMBIA JAIL
Chief Justice Pope Refuses to Grant Bail to the
Killer of Editor Gonzales—Evidence to Indicate
That Tillman Had Fixed his Pistols for the En
counter.
MACON, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 20, 1903
DAILY-BT.OO A YEAR
COLUMBIA, S. C., Feb. 19.—Chief
Justice Pope has refused the applica
tion for bail of James H. Tillman. It
n-as the rule of the court, he tali,
In such enses to make no explanation
of the reasons governing the decision.
Murder was the taking of human Ilf©
with malice aforethought. With the
oath of office sc recent upon his lips,
he must do his duty and decline the
application without prejudice to the
c:: se of the defendant,
A multitude of affidavits covering
the case with an Infinity of detail waa
presented by the state and a large num
ber In reply were read for the defend
ant. The state presented a number of
affidavits from the Edgefield people
Impeaching the testimony of the affiant
Holtsbake. and also declaring thnt the
affiant White was, a paralytic, past M
year* old. the result of paralysis.being
.to weaken the will power and- moral
nature. The defense replied with affi
davits sustaining the reputation of
Holtzbake and the competency of
White. The state presented affidavits
from Representative Lancaster of Spar
tanburg that he saw a pistol In Till
man's pocket on the day preceding the
shootlnr. and another from a Colum
bia gunsmith that F. II. Dominick of
Kewherry previous to the shooting
brought him a magazine pistol and that
he repaired It.
E. X Watson of the State swore to
* " ith Tillman last sum-
to tel? r hlC V he la . tteir requested him
"JS“°° nzal ?* substantially that a
would kl nc J ° f 'he newspaper attacks
to°oonv»t, a ,wi * per11 ' Watson declined
to convey the message.
nmltevi. B .L ac . k 'J?, ratlr0! >d man, made
twin ena ,hal , T11,man 'old him on a
“ " a * 1 **»'"'» Au f“«'a that he was
I 1 k 1 ^ooxales. exhibiting the
S?*?*. 1 "* pl * to1 ' Robert Lathan. Mr.
Gonzales stenographer, swore to a
„2:i m s n V of , Mr ' Gontales taken by him
when he had death tn view and relnt-
ng the story of the shooting. Mr.
itoniales declared he had sent Tillman
no message and considered the matter
ended.
. S< ?’ eraI T v< ' ,, known citizens of Co-
!! 4 « * ho 8aw thP "hooting testified
tlon a ° n,aie8 marte no threatening ino-
W. H. Hall of Camden and M. C. Lo
ne!* made affidavits corroborating the
etory told by Holtzbake and Tillman.
Tillman made another affidavit saying I ear 1 *' ratlflc^tlqn Is reg:
that Gonzales had been persecuting him
for ten years. He denied the story
of a threat told- by Watson and of
other threats.
In the argument the state stressed
the point among many others that the
language ns to the white feather did
not constitute a threat when coupled
with the fact that at no time before
had Mr. Gonzales employed any vio
lence towards Col. Tillman.
PRESIDENT
AN
TO ORDER
EXTRA SESSION
Will not Permit the Failure of the Treaties—Quay
Comes to Morgan’s Aid in Holding the Floor on
the Panama Canal Proposition in Order to Force
a Vote on the Statehood Bill—The Senate in a
Remarkable Tangle—House Passes the Naval Ap
propriation Bill.
M ASHINGTON, Feb. 19.*—President
Roosevelt will call an extraordinary
session of the senate of the Fifty-eighth
congress unless both the Panama canal
and the Cuban reciprocity treaties nre
ratified at the preseht session. The
president made this declaration of his
Intention to several senators today, and adopted pr.
Urtlfiu
he made It as emphatic and unequivo
cally as he was capable of making It.
It is deemed likely by officials of the
administration and by many senators the use of d<
that both treaties will be ratified be- i terlols In tin
fore March 4. but the necessity for their
tod by the
or contract for submarine torpedo boa's
after investigation of their merits, and
appropriating $500,000 for that purpose.
The amendment was In the language
of a bill Introduced by Mr. Hill of Con
necticut, and it was stated on the floor
that It had the support of all the mem
bers of the naval committee. It was
Ically without debate. The
ovds authorizing the construction of
the new ships "by contract” were
stricken out.
Amendments were adopted requiring
nestle machinery and im-
shlpH and authorizing the
secretary of the navy to construct the
rhlpc* In government y
BEARS ATTACK
A BIG COMPANY
Raid on Obligations of the
Metropolitan Street R’y.
SENSATIONAL RUMORS
They Affect the Financial Policy—
A Defalcation diarized Involving
Million* and Alio Grow Irregular-
irlfH on the Part of Outsider*—Of
ficial* State that the Humors are
MsUlclous.
NEW YORK. Feb. 19.—Rumors af
fecting the financial policy of the
tropolitan Street Railway Companv.
which have been current in the finan
cial district for several
minated today In what appeared to be a
SHELL EXPLODES
QU AY-MOHGAX COMIIIXATIOX.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 19.-Ther*> is
movement on among some of the fr
IN STORAGE MAGAZINE of thP ln th
Four Men Killed and Ollier* In
jured—TerVIble Spectacle Present*
eil by the Dead.
► NEW YORK. Feb. 19.-Three men
were killed outright, one man so In
jured that he died later, two other men
fatally, and at least seven seriously
hurt In an explosion In the wdrk room
of the naval storage magazine at Fort
Lafayette, In New York bay, about
o'clock this afternoon. The dead:
George Rot ham. Brooklyn.
Gustave Dozier, Bay Ridge.
John Mason, Brooklyn.
Unknown man, thought to be Mar
tin Thargensen of Brooklyn.
iThf Injured, so far as known, are:
W. H. Van Gurp, Brooklyn.
Charles John Muller. Brooklyn.
E. B. Muller. Manhattan.
Frank Munden. address unknown.
All the dead and injured were work
men at the fort.
The explosion could be henrd for
the shai
bear attack
tropollt___ _ „
Securities, the holding company of tic-
operating line. The shares of both
companies suffered severely, while the
raid was on, the traction stocks making
a maximum decline of over three points
and the Securities stock selling off
even more. Partial recovery was made
by both Issues before the close.
The attack on Metropolitan began
loon after the opening of the market
and gained ln force shortly after noon,
when rumors of many sorts were cir
culated. One of these rumors reported
a defalcation of several million dollars,
while another rumor hinted at gro^z
irregularities by Insiders. To add to
the feeling of distrust there were heavy
selling orders of Metropolitan for Phi! -
adelphla account.
Officials of the Metropolitan company
nude prompt denial of any trouble
and characterized all such rumors us
malicious and inspired for stock Jod-
blng purposes. This view was accepted
by the conservative element ln the
"itreet” ,
One of the partners In a leading banK-
Iftg house which has close relations
with Metropolitan Interests, stated that
he had made an investigation into tne
reports circulated recently and a* *»
result of this investigation felt con
vinced that they were without founda
tion. . '
of the Me- miles around. Accounts as to how the
... .. combination of bidders,
president as so urgent that In the event * Mr. Gaines (I>em.) of Tennei
of the failure of either one or both at : raised a point of order against the
the present session he will Issue lin- , proprtntlon of $10,non,oon for ''domes11
nfedlately hls qall for an extra session
It Is said that there are grave reasons
of state why both treaties should be
ratified um soon as possible. These have
Induced the president to make the an
nouncement to senators of hls declara
tion.
armor, but it was overruled. "This l
said Mr .Galne*. commenting on t
ruling of the chair and addressing I
Republican side, "the foulest trust y
ever pressed to your bosom.” (laugh
ter on the Republican side.)
As passed the bill provides for three
new battleships, one armored cruiser,
two steel training ships and one wooden
brig for training purposes, in addition
couple the fortunes of thnt
with those of the Tanama can
and maty* the ratification of
l tr
nmlng hls speech
vc session began
■d the chfllr
thlrietn-lnch shell, while another
that the men were removing a powder
charge from a shell and undertook to
unwind a fuse connecting the powdei
chamber with the percussion cap. This
Nffl lent friction to set off the
cap and explode the shell.
Major Powell, chief surgeon of Fort
Hamilton, was among the first to reach
the scene of the catastrophe, and with
fort troops, removed the dead and in
jured from the wrecked magazine. Am
bulances and surgeons also were sum*
moned from Brooklyn.
The work of Identifying the dead and
injured was difficult, because of the
distorted features, blackened by pow
der burns. Fort Lafayette Is an old
fort in the narrows.
NO SUCCESSOR
FOR DR. J. L. M. CURRY
depend upon the passage of th
The details of the plan have n
to light fully, but It Is understood that j
the scheme Is to menace the treaty by
delay until an ngreement to vote on the |
statehood, bill can be secured. Many of
the statehood advocates on both sides
of the chamber say they will not allow
Senator Morgan to be forced by a test
of physlcnl endurance to complete hls
speech In opposition to the treaty be
fore he is willing to conclude of hls ow n
accord.
The rumor of such n purpose was cur
rent about the senate before the exec
utive session began nt 2:20 today, and.
though merely a rumor.those who heard
It w . .f»% it ! th.it It WHS not with
out foundation In fi
Senator Morgan's t
soon after the excutlvr
tnd.iy.Sei.atnr Q" •> odd
and sent.up some documents to be re
among which whs the constitution
Colombia. He made no explanation
yond saying that the documents wo
throw light on the subject and that
thought that, especially at this til
the senate should be informed as /o
provisions of the constitution of
country with which the United Htn
is doing business.
Mr. Quay took the t
lombtan constitution. 1
to have read from quit
documents which lay on h
when he asked to hnve It r
publican senators sitting n
mediately reached the conclusion inm
he had united forces with Senator Mor
gan and that the step was intended to
force the acceptance of the statehood
bill. Without giving voice to such h
supposition. Senator Aldrich objected
to the reading of the document by th*
clerk, saying that evidently the pro
ceedings were intended merely for the
purpose of delay.
the subr
' authorized The lucre?
sonnet of the navy wem
ported by the committee
bv Mr. Kttchln of No
limit the Increase to t
! fo
die
tlo.
In the
drily
SCHOOL CHILDREN
KILLED BY A TRAIN
Appalling Catastrophe in Newark: N. J.-r-An Express
Cuts Through a Trolley Car Having a Hundred
Boys and Girls Aboard—Eight Killed and Many
Injured.
NEWARK,
expresc on th
cut through a
school chlldrer
crossing today
N. J., Feb. 19.—A fast
e Lackawanna railroad
trolley car crowded with
i at tho Clifton avenue
. Eight of the "children
th.
period between now and 1911 bav-
iu been voted down.
The house adjourned until tomoriow.
TRAIN ROBBERS
WHO KNEW HOW
Held np a Car and Got
Everybody’s Valuables.
killed and « score or more of them
injured. The motormnn of the car,
who stuck to bis post, will die, and the
engineer of tho express was so badly-
hurt thnt there is little hope of hls re
covery.
Both the express and the trolley were
on steep grades, going nt right angles.
The express was signalled, and the
crossing gates were lowered while the
trolley car was yet half-way down the
hill. The mbtormdn shut off the power
and applied tho brakes but almost Im
mediately the car began to slip along
tin* Icy rnlls. It gained tremendous
momentum at the bottom of the hill
uud crashed through (he gates directly
In the track of the oncoming train.
The locomotive plunged Its way through
the trolley, throwing the children in
every direction.
The dead nre:
Viola Ill, 17 years old.
Maude Raker, lfi years old.
Ernestine P. Muller, 1ft years old.
Mabel E. Knrshncr, 17 years old,
Tiffin, O.
Alma Loehnherg, 16 years old.
Rosebud Kohn.
Ella Werpupp, 19 years old.
Evan L. Eastwood, Jr., 16 years old.
Injured:
Peter Brady, motormnn of the trol
ley car. skull crushed: will die.
car Bnckllff. engineer of train, head
crushed: probably fatnlly.
Jennie McClelland, 16 years. tkull
nctured and other injuries; probably
fatally hurt.
Florence Doll, ankle broken and bad
ly hurt about head and shoulders.
Mabel Smith, 14 years old, head in
jured.
ederlck Allsop, Injured nbout head
nnd body.
George Smith colored, leg fractured.
Curl Raquet, cut about face nnd
bruised about body.
Maude Van Alien, 17 years old,
bruised nbout bead.
Walter Itanermann, 17 yenrs old, ribs ous
KEPT THEM TERRORIZED
opy of the Co-
vhlch he asked
n large pile of
n his desk, and
him Im-
CHINESE ARE KIND
TO THE METHODISTS
Governor of m Provlnc** Contrlbnt*
$3,000 40 Mission Work *t th
Soorliow University.
»d th>
nding
Prof. Glenn will Perforin Doties of
General Agent Until Xezt October
—Office to be Abolished.
ATLANTA. 0»., Feb. !».—It li prob
able that no general agent of th* Pea-
body educational tund will b« appoint*
ed to aucc«*d the late Dr. Jabex L. M.
Curry. Win. A. Courtenay of Newber
ry, a C.. and Former Secretary of the . .......
Interior Hoke Smith, member* of the tilted >t.ig tojn
board of truatee* of the fund, were In b „ , hat act
consultation here today with reference | f;pr th~
t0 Jl”Smith made the following atatt-
“'■Of court* i cannot un4 * r “ k, _!?. ?„ y
successor to Dr. Curry. Professor O.
It. Glenn, who was hls
perform the limited amount of work
which will be needed
ent time »nd the first of October.
thi nians formulated in January by
{&& t*52« for the establishment
ofa teachers’ college are £
penator Quay replied that such was
I.oi i - Ir •• I II n. and thnt he would nsk
to have nothing read which would not
throw light upon the subject under con
sideration. Senator Morgan
that eo far as he was »oncer
waa no collusion. It was thi
that "for the present, and
should become evident that th
was for delay,”'It should continue, too
antl-stntehood Republican senators
made no concealment of their surprise
it Mt Qiny'** pro. • • ding, and .-ill of
them who would expr-ss an opinion nt
all said that the move would not result
In the paaonge of tin- statehood bin.
whatever might be its effect upon the
treaty. They did not believe that It
would prevent ratification of tho treaty
Before Mr. Quay took the floor. Sen
ator Morgan made a brief *p?<rh In
support of the treaty, saying that »lr.c«*
the Spooner act h
Pockot-boaks, Cota ssi Watches
GalOrv Proved They were ta Kars-
*afi Vftym Resisted—Made Ho DIs*
Vlsrtls* * "* rA
fAOo In
Helpless—W
snle Stricken.
broken. .« . ‘. i
Susan De Camp, arm fractured.
Edith Fox, Pauline Rich. Mary Lyttie*
Margaret Commerford, Francis Kev
ins, Helen McCord, Altno Corsen, Mlnai
Bull, Lillian Gernrty, Marlon Price,
Frederick Ltndsley, Emily Knight, Ar
thur Luland and Jacob wnltnck.
The accident happened; within threo
hlocks of the high school*building, and
In the car at the time were nearly one
hundred people. As many-as thirty oth
ers had managed to throw themselves
from the ear before the crltah came.
The trolley wan one of the special*
which every day bring the children' to
school. It hnd more than Its ordinary
load today, owing to the cold. Because
this car had been so crowded, many
who were waiting for :t before the hill
waa reached could not get on. although
some climbed on the front platform-
with the motormnn. A score Or more nt
chi Liven were compelled to walk, and
they followed the car afoot. They say
that when the car was still less than
half-way down the hill the. railroad
gates began to drop.
Petpr Brady, the motorman., prompt
ly shut off tho power and applied ths
brakes. The speed of the car was
checked, but It continued to move slow
ly down the Incline. There was no
thought of danger. Then It. began to
move faster and faster. The ice cov
ered rails afforded no hold for the
wheels, and. although Rrady Jammed
his brake harder nnd then swrang on
the reverse, the momentum of the car
grew at every ynrd, and the car shot
down toward the railroad. When it
was right at the gates the express thun
dered into view. Warned hy tlie cries
of those afoot and hy their own sense
of danger, those on the platforms be
gan to throw themselves off Into the
snow, and ns the car aped along the few
remaining feet toward the rails, per-
hapn one-third escaped death or Injury
In this way, but there was no time for
those within the car to do more than
crush tow-nrd the rear door. The gat#*
■were swept aside like toothpicks, and
before the cracking of the gafees died
out came the crash. For thirty seconds
before the air was filled with frantlo
cries of these who saw death dashing
down upon them.
The wreck of the trolley car was
complete. The pilot of the engtn#
struck it almost amidships nnd turned
it partly around, and then the ponder-
nglne cut It in two. The upper
NEW YORK NEGROES
ARE MAKING TROUBLE
They Hold a Mas* Meeting in Cooper Union and In-
Cirk-Mitfea Men In Car
velgh Against Southern Laws as to the Franchise.
They Pass Resolutions to Assist the Virginia
Negroes.
JACKSON. Ml?*.. Feb. 19,-Blaliop j ent time ■ , , d , n j, n „ary by the
tharles B. Gollovay of the Method* I ,he ... .k. —.hll.hment
church today received a letter from Dr., #f a leacD „.
t>avld L. Anderson, who is ln charge of ef f,cL ^ ‘ .»rJ^n"*^ thf
Methodist mission work at Soqchovv for » *«>er»l •«*»*
Vnlveratty, China, stating that the gov- trustee .
ernor of the province of Soachow had rs.ct/n
donated 13.000 to the university. Bishop g^JQ^jOLOGIST NbKt
miss Ion work
of 8oocbow
* Chuan, and
he donatio* 1
r-rial govern*
Galloway declares that th *
v *ry Important bearing on i
Jn China, as the governor
»a near relative of Print ’
not have made t
^Ithout consulting the imp
inent.
IS NOT ALARMED
Ila» Be
, Think the Fruit
n Helped hy th#
Crop
Cold
WRECK IX TEXAS.
«e | *TUNTi^“"‘.^
19,-The , co ,d roa. *»•££ B* tH.ok.thaMf
Sko Men Hiding on Blind
Billed On trlglit-
rORT WORTH, Tex., Fet
unbound Texas Pacific passenger train ' „ op ,ban to w- •- later, fruit
*** wreck.,, half a mile east of A'aJo the „ . .on.lderablt ex-
Ul * morning. Spreading of the raila I - *“ Te ‘
*»««d the wreck.
j- o. Matthews Of Athens. Tenn.. and
J-H. Riley of Harmony. W. Va. were
*'-ed outrignt. They were riding <*
f H' ■ ~ R. Moody o'
slightly injur-d.
11—The P“<*
safe. y*t ?*
®* 1 nmStTex aE w ;
JF.W roMPASIY 1ST ST tTFSBORO.
®* Va NXAH Oa Feb 1» An • " nrt u
>'• S a,..boro ,o ersa-dze a «*
™ yr company. The „r .n. — W»*
SJ'y to Malar tV. K i:-.r. • of tW»
• 1n ' 1 !|1 ‘ "'iTbeea
: a - furnished There ntMgg
Whlrh n * n, “ secured f-r membership.
S2?, Br - " o'gant^
pec* Ti*** 1 "me«
KCr.thj WSI * d la La i
cishtera
3U ld have
tent.
ROBERTA.
crop hrr# ••“^L.^Tipfdal
Vnd bV”^ - tm for food
peach croo. grow-
MARIETTA. that "f SSf
_ , .wu fertlon h#l. .k, cold
Ui^ilUhtlr toJ0 25.ST.iy
py'rtnot
ATLANTA. Feb. »»• J“
5R2LS for p*'***-
i<! to '
vlded
adIng of th** v*olomb
ad i.'en concluded 9
continued hi* npe<
onatltutl'
ator Morgai
dlacunring v>
dlacrfpancy
Fpconer act
treaty. He c
clauie provb
canal zone r
guage of the F'-cond section aulli
the president to ncqulrr* perpetu
trol of n strip of land six ml
wjdth. nnd charged that the t«
utterly inconalftent. Senator* R
Bacon nnd D.anlela supported M
gan. while several Republican s
nnd the terms
noted from the tr<
ling for lhe lease
n.l from the act i
LOS ANGELES. Cnl, Feb. 19.—Two
unmasked men held tip and robbed f
car IqnJ of passengers on the Los An
gcloH-Pasadctm train last night. Thlr
ty-two passengers, one-hnlf of whom
were women, were forced at points of
revolvers to surrender cash and J<v
ry to the amount of between $500 nnd
$700. The robbers performed their work
quickly but not effectually.The car
h*-Id for ten minute# then the men left
It and disappeared In the durk. The
holp-up was carried out In a way that
marked 'the two outlaws as being old
hands at the business.
With revolvers in thtlr hands they
stood in th© doors and in foul language
ordered everybody to "dig up the coin
and Jewelry without monkey business.”
The robber at the car door stepped up
on a box and from this commanding
poult!'.n covered the startled passen
gers with Ills revolver. The other one
passed down the aisle, taking pocket-
books. coin and watches and thrusting
them carelessly into hls coat pockets.
While taking the property of passen
gers the bandit kept up a flow of
Abuse.
John W, Gay, agent of the Raymond-
Whitcomb excursion, narrowly escaped
being shot by the robbers. Ho resisted
being searched, pushing the robber
back. Instantly the man shovel hls re
volver towards Gay’* face. Tho latter
struck the weapon upwards Just as tho
tr-ggor was pulled, and tho bullet pann
ed through the roof of tho car. Another
passenger showed some inclination to
resist. "Get your head* out of the way
there,” ordered the mnn at the rear
door, "until I get that man.” With that
1 ‘J, he turned the revolver upon tho ui
# w filing passenger who quickly gave i
,r , th,> hls valuables. The woman pnssenge
*V r ~ W#T# * terrorized, many of them screan
jrumg j ni?i Xo distinction of sox w.*i» mat
of the
id th#
n gave
*. h hout
show
their
d n:
Shortly befo
ken until «,
mod sp- ikir
e took a re
orrowr. .
clock
dd to keep their hands s
■ads. The robbers forgo
Conductor Dayhoff and <•
missed atwnit fifty dollars
MINHOUIU XF.filtOi:*
NEW YORK, Feh. 19—Spirited and
earnest speeches were made at s negro
mass-meeting, held tonight at Cooper
Union. The meeting, which wns for the
purpose of protesting aga|n«t the 'dis
franchisement of the negro in the South
was held under the auspices of tho
100,000 colored voter* ln New York »tate
and to raise money for the legal contest
of the nsw constitution of Virginia be
fore tho supreme court of the United
Stntes.
'Among the speakers were Bishops
Derrick and Walters. M. D. Conwuy and
John K. Mulholiand. When reference
was made to President Roo*evelt by
several of the speakers, the wildest en
thusiasm prevailed and the cheers were
deafening. Resolutions were pne**^ nnd
a letter from Hunan R. Anthony read.
In her letter Miss Anthony said:
"To refuse to qualified women and
colored men the right to suffrage And
to still count them In the Imsls of rep-
rcHentatlon. Is to add Insult to Injury,
and Is as unjust us it Is unreasonable.
"The trouble, however, Is further
back and deeper than the disfranchise
rnent of the negio. When men
deliberately refuse to Include women in
the Fourteenth nnd Fifteenth ujnend-
ments to the national constitution, they
leave the way open for all forms of In
justice to other and weaker men and
peoples. When men fall to be Just to
their mothers, they cannot b»* expected
to be Just to epch other.
"The whole evil comes from the fail
ure to apply equal Justice to all man
kind, male and female alike; therefore,
I am glad to Join with those who are
like sufferers with my sex, in a protest
against counting the buslH of represen
tation In the congress of th< United
Htates, or In th** state legislature, nny
class or s**x who are disfranchised."
The resolutions. In their preamble,
I recited that the South has halted nt no
1 crime to strip from the negro the prlvt-
! leges gained HH a r**ult of the civil wnt.
ting 25,000 black m**n from 1 C 6S to
and from 1580 to 1890 perpefrating
>t frauds to disfranchise negroer*.
irther recited that the youth, after
eoughf to disenfranchise colored
In various states by constitutional
ndrnent. administered so that llllt-
e white men are allowed to yote,
e educated negro.” are excluded
i the polls The conclusion of th-
utjons follow:
the legislature, provlillr * for Hop-
Inrate ears for negroes, resolutions Were
adopted calling on Ur»-id'nt Roo*»ev.-lt
and congress to prevent giving to the
Ft. IrOUis World s Fair r»,000,0<>0 hH prv
P° 1 1 in case the Jim crow bill shsM
• me a law. prominent negroes In the
state say they will send an Influential
delegation to Washington to. use every
means possible to secure the with
drawal of the World's Fair appropria
tion.
the ho
id
tod IV
the naval appropriation MM A
T.any amendments were offe'ed
provisions relating *n rh •
- f the personnel and the auth *r-
Of r“»- ships to M- built. t”he
v portant amendmen* adopted
e t-» authorize the serretary of
> .:i hit 'ilscretlon to purchase
REWARD BY riOVKnuon.
ATLANTA. Feb. 19,- Govornor Ter
re today Issued an order offering .*,
regard of $100 for tho arrest of J^r.
Lake, wanted ; n Bullock county, to
answer the charge of murder.
nniXSWK K ITE4MBR Toro!A|)
FIUI-APELPH1A. Feb. 19 ^b
« me r M. F. Plant, from Brunswick
r this city, is aground In the I)e|v
are river at Marcus Hook.
nr. o.
-O VlXfJ, C.im,tMA4.
rtT WORTH. Tex Feb. It.—G*rrg
ovlng. who attempted tn form th
UM cattle trust, died on the «tj'-
today. He waa widely known.
"Re
i of Ne
ting a
id vl< I’llty, In
egro '•ltl-
t.'nlon
in
"Revolved. Tha
e national negr.
be hel l at I>»
all
che«
PI erne court of the
-evolutionary con-
i. recently pro.
out having been
[Me for ratification:
i our very proper
pnn colored men
rlbute iiljerally to
ve heartily indor a c
uffrage convention j
vllle. Ky.. July 7. t ”
our towns, ctt|** \
and societies to | fi',
Lincoln to ratify the poaltlon of tha
Bouth on this question, and thus ©Ida
with the extremist form of Southern
prejudlco and formally consent that tha
door of hopn, of opportunity, la to be
shut on a man, no matter how worthy,
purely upon the grounds of race or
color.
"Resolved, That a committee of
fifteen, consisting of Dr. C. T. Walker*
W. H. Brooks, Bishop Derrick. Bishop
Walters, Dr. C. B. Morris, Rev. J. H.
(Jordon, Rev. Granville Hunt, C. A.
Dorsey, H. R. Hcottsou, W. B. Bulk!*/,
C. W. Anderson, Rev. R. A. Motley,
Rev. T. W. Henderson. W. H. Bmtth
and Rev. Dr. J. 8. Cooper, be and ara
hereby created, known aa the New
York conference committee on negro
suffrage, fifily empowered to do all tha
nr is that In their Judgment seem best
calculated tn bring to the aid of tha
negroes of Virginia and the disfran
chise,! South the full political power,
prestige nnd assistance of the negroes
of th** state of New York.
"Resolved, Thnt we nppeal to the
great heart of the nation, to her cour
age, her conscience and her Christiani
ty. to her H**ris»* of fair play that has
again and again trampled upon nnd
truimphed over race prejudice, to lend
aid and sympathy through press, pul
pit and In every way In the negr**es. le
gal contest against the resurrection of
the ghost of slavery In the South In
form more dangerous nnd purpose tha
same as of yore, lo the end that 'states
rights, shall not again divide this coun
try, unsettle peaceful conditions, nulli
fy the constitution and menace tha
perpetuity of the Union.”
Rev. Dr. W. H. Brooks of St. Mark's
Methodist Episcopal church, presided.
James II. Hayes, of Virginia, a former
slave, told of tin* spread of tho dls-
fran< hlscmont movement.
Bishop Walters said the question
whether or not the negro shall he hI-
low«»d civil and equal rights is an Im
portant one \vhi*h the enemies of the
colored man took advantage of because
I of the silence on that subject during
j the administrating of the late President
McKinley. Re said however, that tha
1 great man now In the White House has
I taken hls stand against the ffifbilnatlon
of the negro from politics.
"Talk about negro suffrage,” said
) Bishop Walters "Had It not been for
: the negro these thirty years the Re-
ihlban party would not have be?n In
>wer. We Hkk for offpe because we
attributed to party succf**. We have
right lo hold office.
"Th*-y toll u?' to be quiet and we
-ased our agitation and when while
f w.-re silrj.t state after stata went
hiring the negro. Let us
i*l fo
-ights
Derrick.
mtll
who
get th*
from rerro tin
it h
fa I In
organize nnd **c-nd full representations J
to voice the sentiment of the raea upon
th* question of negro suffrage.
"Resolved. That we urge the Repub
lican senate Jn the name of MOftOfi n <
g'o/s in the state of New York to era
rtrrr^ the nomination of Dr Crum.
m-*n of ability, good education and i-».
proachsble character, whose appolt,
"ent is opposed solely on the ground ' l
of th.« cotor of hVs skin. It would n | taljed In full f"-
an umeatd-of thing lor the party cf I sld* th* cold blovdcd
is an s boll tlo
"Aa then- I
*zlfnt|on." M
r»ut in
nly
years pant stood
f politu
sk the Anw-r-
t our rights.
« worhy of
r lhed himself
otun'ry-