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Jones, of the United States court of the northern district of Alabama, charged the newly organized jury at Huntsvilse Tuesday in a deliverance which has been received in the nature of a sen sation. : His charge occupied the attention of the jury for nearly two hours and deals largely with the question of congressional legislation for the pro tection of prisoners against . state mobs. : Judge Jones instructed the jury to invéstigate the recent Maples lynch ing with the view of asgeriaiming if any. offenses had béen committed against the laws of the United States by the mob that lynched Horace Ma ples. It is understood that the grand jury, composed of citizens of north Ala bama, will take up the matter vigor ously. ' - Among other things Judge Jones said: | : ~ Lately, as the court knows from common knowledge, as well as from reuorts of its officers, a mob gathered in a stone’s throw of this room, and in insolent defiance of the judges and laws of our state, and with studied insult and contempt for its civil and military power which sought to pro tect the Huntsville jail, asszulted the assembled forces of the law at their post of duty there. It broke down the doors of the jail, set it on fire, re sisted efforts to put out the flames, and obstructed officers of the United States in their endeavors to remove United States prisoners from their cells to a place of safety. This fren zied and savage work was done that Horace Maples, a negro, a citizen Alabama and the United States, who was there confined to be safely kept to answer the laws of the state of Ala bama upon a charge of murder, should not be so kept and disposed of according to law, but instead, should be delivered to the mob und lawless ly put to death. * * * The question comes unbidden to your lips, have you any duty to per form with reference to-these offenses? The answer involves inquiry wheth er congress has power to punish such an offense, and if so, has it exercised that power by appropriate legislation? The great importance of the prinei ples. involved and the value of a right understanding of them demand that the court should give at length the reason o° the law as well by the law itself, that you may the better un derstand how to apply it. If congress has the power now to punish the offense in any phase of it, that power must be found in the thir- LEESBURG. GA.. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21. 1904 teenth and fourteeath amendments to the constitution of the United States.‘l Is it contained in either or both? The thirteenth amendment prool vides: 1. Neither slavery nor invel untary servitude, except as a punish ment for crime whereof the party shall ! have been duly convicted, shall exist in the United States, or .amy place subject to their jurisdiction, ' The fourteenth amendment pro vides: All persons born or natural ized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are Cciti zens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which ‘shall abridge the privileges or im munities of citizens of the TUnited States, nor shall any state deprive any ‘person of life, liberty or property _without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Congress is empowered “‘to enforce” each of these articles by appropriate legislation. - SEIZURE OF MAILS BY RUSSIANS. Calchas Affair Brought Up for Dis cussion in the Cabinet.- A Washington digpatch says: One of the subjects brought before the gcaflbinet meeting Tuesday was a pro itest agairst the ceizure of American ' mail on the British steamer Calchas by the Russian Vladivostok squadron, from Dodwell and Company, of Taco ma, representing the steamship line. The papers in the case will be trans mitted to the American embassy at St. Petersburg for submission to the Russian government as part of the whole relating to prize seizures. LOW WATER STOPS MILLS. Plants in Spartanburg District Forcec to Run on Half Time. - . The cotton mills of Spartanburg county, S. C., and section, located on streams from which they derive theis power, are now facing a crisis on ac count of the exceedingly low waten There are spme mills that are run ning three days in the week on ae ' count of the lack of water power. WHEELER OFF TO WAR. I[Little “Fighting Joe” Goes to Study | the Russo-Japanese Scrap. General “Joe” Wheeler, veterar of ‘the war between the states and the ‘Spanish-American war, will leave at a nearly date for Manchuria to study the Jap-Russian war. General Wheeler says the Japanese are now facing their first serious ecri sis, and that their true metal is to be tried. RULER OF SAXONY DEAD. King George Passes to the Great Un known at 'Dresden. A special from Dresden says: King George, of Saxony, is dead. Crown Prince Frederick, whose wife, Louise, startled Eurcpe by eloping with the Frenchman, Giron, will sue ceed to the throne. . : King George was greatly hurt by the elopement and the greater part of his last days was spent in trying to bring Frederick and his wayward princess together. : BIG BATTLE RAGES | AULY ’ 1 . ' Crisis is Reached in Blocdy . Conflict in Far East, - . ‘ QUTCOME IS AWAITED Kurcpatkin' and Oyama Move Against Each Other for What is Consid. ered the Crucial Test of Supremacy. : : : A Tokio dispatch of Thursday mora ilng States that general activity has been resumed in the theatre of war. Field Marshal Oyama ‘has met Gen eral Kuropatkin's advance with @ general advance of the gen:iral strength of his force alcng a broad front. : The opposing forces were in touch Wednesday, and it is believed a great battle south of the Hun river is in evitable. A Besides this direct movement, the Russiang are attempting to strike the Japanese right at two pgints widely separated. . ' et © A previous dispatch contained the information that a battle isouth of ‘Mukden raged uninterruptedly all of i’l‘uesday and into the night. It was continued Wednesday. The results ihave not been decisive. The Russians ‘have a heavy force on the Japanese right 10 the Taitse river, but it is } believed ‘that the Japanese have check 'ed the Russian turning movement. . Field Marshal Oyama repor:s that ithe(re was fighting along almost the ientire line since October 10, and that the Japanese are gaining ground and ‘that the Russian attack on Sien-Chang on the Hun river, 35 miles southwest of Mukden, was repulsed. A general Japanese advance along a broad front towards Mukden is pro lgressin’g. A brigade of Russian infantry, lwith 2,000 cavalry and two guns, hav ing the object .of striking General iKuroki’s flank, crossed the Taitse riv er October 9. The Japanese cut off ‘the retreat of this force and possi: bly will capture it. i Apprehension in Bt. Petershurg. A St. Petersurg special of Thurs day says: The failure to receive news that the Russians achieved de !clsive results in Wednesday’s fight north of Yentai, coupled with the To lkio report that Field Marshal Oyama is gaining ground, causes increased l apprehension. ~ The dispatch of the Associated %Press from Tokio was the first posi ‘tive information that Russian troops in any force were already across the Taitse river, although it was already known that some g¢avalry had passed over the river, but the report that an other column was attempting to cut the Japanese line of communication with the Yalu river did not come as a surprise, as it was known-—although not revealed for strategic reasons— that wide turning operations weme proceeding on the Russian extreme Jeft, screened by the column operat- ing cgainst Shanpintaidze, : General Sakharoff, telegraphing Wed nesday evening, confirms the reports of desperate fighting north of Yentai, where the heights -were alternately hewl by the Russians and Japanese. ~ As is natural, the absence of official news is pessimistically interpreted m many quarters, but the general staff, though reticent, counsels patience, pointing that the offensive movement was planned upon a lerge scale and has not yet reached a stage where a de®wsive result conld have been at tained. The f{yrontal attack on the Yentai mines Jeveloped a desperate battle, in which probably 100,000 men are efi gaged; but though the dispatches so far deal almost exclusively with this feature of the battle, it is pointed out that there is a much wider field in volved, ' A fight on the Russian left flark has not developed and possibly here General Kuropatkin intends to deliver ‘his main blow, ‘ MULES COLLIDE WITH MOODY. Attorney General Comes in Contact With a Runaway Team. At Washington Friday, Attorney General Wiliam H. Moody, who re turned early in the day from a cam paign trip, met with what might have been a serious accident not long after his arrival. 'While he was taking an early morning horseback ride, a team ~of runaway mules ‘collided with his horse near the department, The collision was of such- force that the attorney general was thrown to the pavement. Fortunately, he alighted in such a manner as to sus tain no injury beyond a shaking up. MAMMOTH DEAL IN TIMBER, ity [ e b Chicago Partie% Buy 600,000 Acres of - Mississippi Pine Lands. The Edward Hines Lumber Compa ny, of Chicago, has closed a deal in Jackson, Miss., for the purchase of 600,000 acres of pine timber lands in Harrison and Pearl River -counties, the price paid being about two and one-half million dollarss Thig is the largest timber deal made in the state for many years. : BURN THE COTTON STALKS. Agricultural Department Sends Foarth a Warning to Growers, The department of agricultiire in Washington, in a circular issued Wed nesday, warns planters throughcut the cotton belt that in their efforts {o.pro cure an early crop of cotton to avoid damag> tv poll weevils, they must not over'mgk the great prime factor in the coif ol of the pest, the destrue tion of the stalke in Ehe early autumn, ‘ AFTER ALABAIX!A SHERIFF. Attorney General Seeks to Have Coun . ty Officer Impeached. - ; Attorney General Massey Wilson, of ' Alabama, has filed impeachment pro ceedings with the supreme court l against Sheriff A. D. Rogers, of Madi i son county. . : ' He js charged with neglect of dnty lin not protecting the nezro murderer, lMaples, who was killed on tbe nigit of September Bth in Huntsville. The hearing has been set for November 24 . NQJ2.