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ANARCHIST AFTER KING.
Bomb ig Thrown at Alfonso While
on a Visit to Barceiona—No Ma
, terial Damage Done. 1
An official telegram received in Mad
rid, from Barcelona, states that as
King Alfonso was leaving the exhib:-
tion Thursday a “potard” exploded
injuring two peasants. One arrest was
made. {
King Alfonso arrived at Barcelona
Wednesday for a fortnight’s visit to
Catalonia. He was accompanied by
Premier Maura and Min'ster Linares
ardl a numerous suite. The visit of
the king to Barcelona, the hot bed of
republicanism, caused the greatest dis
quiet in Spanish official quarters, as
it was feared the republicans and so
cialists would vent on the king their
hatred of the premier, whose strong
measures dealing with the strike riot
ers had made him very unpopular. As
& preventive measure large numbers
of anarchists and other suspects were
arrested last week and a cruiser, threo
gunboats and a large force of gen
darmes were sent to Barcelona.
The Spanish king was accorded a
respectful reception at Barcelona.
The streets were decorated with flags
and lined by enormous crowds of peo
ple.
It was estimated that there were
200,000 persons in the streets, and the
pressure was so great that the cordons
of troops were repeatedly broken by
the people who were anxious to ses
their monarch, and the king was thus
separated from his attendants.
THE YALU IS CROSSED.
Jap Invasion of Manchuria Beging in
Earnest and River is Passed With
out the Least Opposition.
~ An Associated Press dispatch of
Thursday from Tokio states that the
Japanese invasion of Manchuria has
begun. The fighting men of the mik
ado are swarming across the Yalu at
many points and are establishng them
selves in strong positions.
The advance of the Japanese into
Manchuria began Wednesday when a
portion of the imperial guard crossed
the river at Wiju.
The passage of the Yalu was unop
posed, although a detachment of Cos
sacks was on the hills to the north of
the river. The Cossacks retired as the
Japanese advanced. :
At other points the passage of the
river was effected by the Japanese,‘
and a strong body of troops is now in
Manchuria, L
Although the authorities in Tokio
are reticent, it is believed that they
expect early news of an important
land battle in Manchuria.
Towns Occupied by Russians.
Telegrams have been received in
Seoul, Korea, saying that the Russians
are occuying six large border towns
on the Tumen river in northeastern
Korea.
KANSAS DEMOCRATS ACT.
Majority of Delegates Anti-Hearst, But
no Instructions Given.
A special from Wichita, Kansas,
says: The democratic state conven
tion Thursday elected twenty unin
structed delegates to the national con
vention. The delegation, according to
the personal preferences, will stand
five for Hearst and fifteen against him,
it is said.
The platform, which was unanimous
ly adopted, indorsed the Kansas City
platform of 1900 and the Chicago
platform of 1896, expressed confidence
in William J. Bryan and declared for
the nomination of men for president
and vice president who supported the
tickets of 1896 and 1900, and who were,
in sympathy with the platform on
which they ran. It commended W. A '
Harris for his record in the Unitad
States senate and charged the actions
of United States Senator Burton to
the republicans.' It indorsed William
Randolph Hearst and h's victory
over the coal trust as an example for
democrats to follow, but did not refer
to him as a candidate for president.
Hearst men took it as an indorsement
of their candidate.
ESCAPED JAIL AND SUICIDED.
Held Under Charge of Criminal As
sault, Mill’kin Balks Officers.
Captain W. W. Milliken, who was
placed in jail at Abbev:lle, Ala., cn the
charge of assaulting Miss Snyder, of
Dothan, broke jail at 4 o'clock Sunday
afterncon. He was closely pursued
and fired several shots at the parties
who were trying to overtake him. He
was fired at in return, and finding he
could not escape, he shot h!mself
through the heart.
GAMMONS SAFELY IN JAIL.
Young Man Who Slew Sweetheart and
Her Father Surrenders.
Albert Gammons, the young man
who killed his sweetheart, Miss Fannie
Kimsey, and her father, Jacob Kimsey,
near Wataer Valley, Miss.,, Thursday
morning, and who was being pursued
by sheriffs and posses from three coun
ties, surrendered to the officers at
Fords Wells Saturday morn'ng and
ras been hurried to Jackson to pre
vent lynching.
PENNSYLVANIA REPUBLICANS
Hold State Convention, Elect Judge
and Instruct for Roosevelt.
Former Attorney General George Y.
Elkin was nominated unanimously for
suyoreme court justice Wednesday by
the Pennsylvania republican conven
tion at Harrisburg.
Governor Pennypacker, James Elver
son, O. D. Blakely and Francis L. Rob
bins were elected delegates at large to
the national convention and instructed
to vote for the nomination of Presidant
Roosevelt.
QUACKENBOSSB FORCED OUT.
Mlssissippi Officer, Under Embezzie
ment Charge, Has Resligned.
Governor Vardaman and Adjutant
General Fridge have succeeded in their
endeavor to force the resignation ot
Colonel L. W. Quackenboss, of Vicka
burg, as commander of the Third regi
ment of Mississippi National Guards,
who is under trial at Vicksburg on the
charges of embezzling about $7,000
from the Searles Brokerage Company.
RUSSIAN EXHIBIT BEING SOLD.
Disposed of at Auction for Benefit of
the Red Cross Society.
A St. Petersburg special says: The
Russian volunteer fleet steamer
Kasan, damaged during the first bom
bardment of Port Arthur, has been
converted into a hospital ship.
The peasant imdustrieg exhibit for
merly intended for St. Louis is being
sold at auction for the benefit of the
Red Cross Society,
NO PRECEDENTS TO GUIDE,
Burton is First Senator Ever Convict
ed of a Felonious Crime.
To Joseph Ralph Burton, of Kansas,
belongs the unenviable distinction of
being the first member of the United
States senate to be convicted by tte
courts of a crime which is punishanie
as a felony. Because there have been
no precedents to guide the senate in
its treatment of this case, there is
much speculation concerning the kind
of notice which that body will take
of the maotter.
Cause Frightful Loss Among
Russians in Manchuria.
CHOLERA AND TYPHOID
Diseases Said to Be Killing Soldiers
by the Score in Harbin—Fcrces
Arrive in Terribly Emaciated
Cond.tion,
A St. Petersburg special says: The
Japanese are not the only enemies the
Russians have to fight. They have
cholera and typhoid fever to contend
with, as well as the armies of Japan.
Advices received from Harbin state
that the two diseases named are epi
demic there and that hundreds of
troops have been stricken.
The new levies are the greatest suf
ferers. These men reach Harbin af
ter a five-thousand-mile journey in a
terribly emaciated condition and fall
easy victims to cholera and typhoid.
Hundreds of the troops who are
arriving at Harbin from European
Russia are suffering from frost-bitten
noses, feet and hands. It is no uncom
mon thing to meet soldiers on the
streets of Harb:n whose noses have
dropped off ag a result of frost bite.
Of course the cholera and typhoid,
which is raging, finds easy marks In
soldiers whose strength has been sap
ped by the trials they had to undergo
on the journey to Harbin.
Cholera’s Fearful Ravages.
The mortality, according to advices
received In St. Petérsburg, is very
great, and is said to be increasing
daily. Enti{'e regiments are reported
unfit for service,
The military authorities express
much concern over the reports from
Harbin, . They fear that unless the
cholera is cnecked it will render the
Russian armies unabie to meet the
Japanese in the field.
The cause of the epidemic is ascrib
ed to the filthy conditions which exist
at Harbin. The streets are fall of
offal and refuse, and the soldiers have
to use the water of the Sungari river,
which is as foul as any sewer.
Harbin is the Russian bhase in Man
churia. From Harbin ai]l troops arriv
ing for the front are distributed. Thus
it is apparent that an epidemic of chol
era at Harbin threatens the entire Rus
s:an army in the east.
No Consuls to Manchuria,
A Washington special says: The
state department has decided to find
temporary employment for the persons
recently appointed to consular offices
in Manchuria and wil make no effort
to place them at their designated posts
pending the issue of the war between
Russia and Japan. Mr. Cheshire, who
was nominally United States consul
to Mukden, will be attached to the
United States legation at Pekin. Mr.
Davidson, who wag named as consul
to Antung, on the Yalu river, will be
sent instead to Niuchwang to serve
as assistant to Mr, Miller, the consul
at that point.
Edwin Morgan, who was to have
been consul to Dalny, will be sent o
Shanghai as assistant consul.
TROUTMAN SHORTAGE PAID.
Bonding Company Hands Georgia
Treasurer Check for $22,885.
The American Bonding Company,
through its attorney in Atlanta, paid
Treasurer Park $22,885 Friday, the
amount due the state because of the
shortage of Cashier C. H. Troutman,
of the bank at Milledgeville, Ga. Trout
man recently” committed suicide be
cause of the shortage. He was treas
urer of the state sanitarium and had
been speculating with the state's
funds, .
The bonding company which was on
his bond made an investigation of the
books and as soon as the exact amount
of the d:screpancy was discovered ten
dered the check to the state. The
check was accepted, and the state re
lieved The company from any fdartrer
ilability.
SENATE EULOGIZES HANNA.
Many Speakers Review Life and Pub
lic Career of Departed Statesman.
The senate Thursday listened to eu
logles of the late Senator Hanna. The
galleries were well filled and the
speakers given close attention. Those
who spoke were: \
Messrs. Foraker, Scott, Cockrell,
Platt of Connecticut, Cullom, Black
burn, Elkins, Fairbanks, Daniel, Per
kins, Depew, Beveridge, Dolliver,
Kearns and Dick. ‘
Mr. Foraker’'s address was a candid
review of the public career and a frank
analysis of the character of his late
colleague.
COLLIER PROPERTY SOLD.
Part of Estate of Former Atlanta Pion
eer Citizen Goes on Block.
Real estate to the value of nearly
a half million dollars was sold at the
courthouse door in Atlanta Tuesday at
noon. The Peachtree property of the
late George Washington Colller was
=old to the Southern Real Estate and
Improvement Co. for $BOO,OOO. A
store on Whitehall street, with a front
age of 21 feet and five Inches,
sold to Walker P. Inman for flx
per front foot, the price for the house
end lot being $55,900 A number Of
fmaller transactions were also recerd
ed fer the day. :
MANY HOUNDING HARDEN.,
Alleged Swindler Having a Strenuous
Time Wlith Officers of the Law.
After being the principal Wednes
day morning in a habeas corpus trial
before Judge Calhoun in the Atlanta
city criminal court, which resulted in
the writ being denied and which was
followed by highly sensational devel
opments, then beng served successive
ly with a state and United States war
rant, and afterwards kept in hiding for
several hours, Leroy C. Harden, the
prisoner arrested in Tampa, Ma., on &
warrant from Cincinnati, was finally
hustled into a United States mail car
that léft Atlanta Wednesday night
FIVE LOST LIFE IN FIRE.
Building Burns at AMount Vernon, N.
Y., and Fatalities Resuit,
Five persons are dead and another
is dying as the result of a fire that oc
curred Wednesday in the Columbia
hall building, a metal sheathed three
story structure at Mount Vernon, N, Y.
The dead are: Nathan Frey, 66
years old; Isador Frey, 12 years; Hen
ry Frey, 3 years old; Gussie Dohringz,
10 years old, a cousin of Mrs. Rebecza
Frey,
THIRTY-TWO MILLS CLOSE.
Falli River Operatives Now Work Only
Four Days in the Week.
Thursday’s developments in the
movement at Fall Rilver, Mass., look
ing toward a widespread curtailment,
shows that at least thirty-two cotton
mills owned by foreign corporations
will be shut down for two days of
each week.
The curtailment movement affects
about thirteen thousand operatives.
Employes of the New York Stock
¥xchange have been prohibited from
epeculation in the markets. The broks
ers are determined that the losses
shall be confined to other people’s
money.