Albany weekly herald. (Albany, Ga.) 1892-19??, August 25, 1900, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text. j VOL. 8. J&l&Sk ALBANY, GA.. SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 190a MOB RIOTS THE NEWS FROM CHINA IN AKRON, 0, State Militia Now on Scene, and More Trouble is Feared. THE CITY HALL DEiTROYED. Mob Woo Alter a Nejro Roplsf, Wbo Had Beta Taken to Cleveland—Many Were Killed Lail .NI|bt aad Today Hie Situation In Precarloua—Mayor and City Qllldala Quardel by Stain Soldiers. Akron, O , August 28.—In this oity, the heart of the boasted western reserve, a mob last night songht the life of a ne gro prisoner,'and in a qonfliot with the authorities much blood was shed. Louis Peek, a negro, was pnt in jail yesterday on the charge of. crimi nally assaulting the little six-year-old danghter of Ur. and Mrs. Theo dore Maas. The report that he had oonfesaed spread rapidly. and*last night a mob gathered. Not be lieving the statement of the sheriff that Peck had been sent ont of the city, the crowd sent committees through the city prison and the oouuty jail in search of the negro. After .earohlng the city prisons apd ' the jail the mob attaoked the. city hall about 1:45 o’clock and it wan destroyed by dynamite and fire. Biot reigned and the police were nnable to disperse the 'orowd. The militia was called out and rushed through the mob with fixed bay onets. Today the situation is preoarious. The Fourth regiment arrived this morning and marched through the streets with fixed bayonetB. The mob fled before the soldiers. The city hull is in ruins. The loss of that alone lsa-million dollars. The mob started to the home of the chief of police, but the troops hnrryied to dis perse the crowd Five were killed and two are dying. Two buildings were burned and one was partially wrecked. Property worth from one to two millions was destroyed " Two of the dead are babies, one of which was shot dead in its mother's arms. The mayor and oity officials were be sieged in the oity hall two hours before they'escaped through a rear window. STILL COKES IN DRIBLETS. TWENTY-SEVEN FOREION WARSHIPS OATHERED AT SHANQHAI AND WU SINO. Chinese Believe This Qreal Aieemblaie ot Cbioese Reported Reassenr)bliog Bebipd tbe Allies. Large Forces of Chinese Troops Now Believed to Be Between Tien Tsin 1 and Pekin-Some More Particulars of the Fighting on the 15th—Americans First to Enter - the Imperial City—Claim That Japanese Occupied Imperial Palace in Pekin on Aug. 12th is Repeated. • London, August 28.—A Shanghai dis- patoh says there are twenty-seven war ships of various nations there and at Wu Sing, their combined displacement being about 77,000 tons and carrying crews aggregating 7,000. Mare vessels are expeoted there today. It is believed at Shanghai that international jealousy is the oanse of this great nfival assent binge. Washington, August 22.—Admiral Remey cables ths navy depart ment from Taku, under date of the 20th: "Dickens’ command is laud ing today." THE TWO DAYS’ FIGHTING IN PEKIN Pekin, Angast 101— All except the Imperial Oity has been cleared of Chinese troops. The American troops were the first to enter the Impe rial Oity and have penetrated t J the gates of tlje place. On the morning of the 10th sixty oavalry and about four hundred English and Japanese dispersed about a thousand Boxers sight miles outolde of Tien. Tsin. About a hnudred Chinese were killed. Five Amerioens were wounded. Chaffee’s loss in the two days’ fighting was six killed and thirty wound ed. Captain Teilly, of the Sixtli artillery, was killed on the lBth. JAPANESE CLAIM REPEATED. London, August 22.—An offioial dispatch from Tien Tsin, Angast 20, received at Totio, repeats that the Japanese ooonputed the imperial palace In Pekin August I2h, end says that about August 12th tbe Em press D iwager, E nperor and ministers left Pekin with 2,000 troops, their supposed destination being Sian Fa. Pekin, being In great confusion, was divided into several districts. Half the Tartar oity was placed under ■ the control of Japanese. Committees of Japanese, Americans, British, Russian and French officers were appointed to njaintain order. A de tachment of Japaneso troops resened the foreign missionaries and Chi nese oonverts who had been imprisoned in the palaoe. Two hundred Japanese were killed and woUBtted. ' Tien Tsin, Aug. 17.—The Chinese nre reported to (be reassembling around Pietang, forty miles from here, in rear of the allied army now in Pekin. They may .try to out off the relief colntnn. Five tliousnnd Chinese troops h tve started from Sang La Ohing for Pietang. Two thonsand other Ohinesp are hurrying to Tang Ohow. It is believed that a large force of Chinese troops nre In the field between here and Pekin, and active preparations nre making to gnard the line of communication. CONGER TfflS. ■ New York, August 28.—Mayor Yonng, of Akron, was uallednpover the telephone this morning at 10 o’olook. . He said: "Tbe situation seems more satisfac tory today. The militia responded promptly so my request last night, and with fixed' bayonets, they dispersed the mob. The chief Of police Is now at my house. He escaped from his house, which was surrounded by a mob. 1 have the oity officials at my Iioobo with tlje officers of the mititia. We arenoyv in conference drawing plans for the protection of the otty. "I fear serions trouble tonight. My self and other oity officials are protected by militia, whioh entirely surround my honss at the present moment?. A de tachment of militia is also in camp at the oity hall, which was destroyed by dynamite and fire. • "The situation it precarious. Wohope, however, with the aid of the state sol diers, to prevent farther violenoe. Bus iness was resumed this morning and all the banks and stores are open.” . Chief of Polios Harrison Bream was deranged by-last night’s work and an other has been appointed in his place. DECLARES THE HOSTILE MOVEMENT WAS ENTIRELY A GOVERNMENTAL ONE. Boxers Had No Guns — Contldsntlal Adviser sf the Doweger Led the Imperial Troops Be sieging the Legetlosers—2,000 Shell! Fell Ineide Legetloo In Eleven Dnye. Chinese Treechery Shown Up. .THE COTTON CROP. Vessels Is Due lo Jealousy Among Ihe Powera—Reported Thet Foreigner! In /forth Chinn Have Been Bxtcrmlnilcd. Shanghai, Ang, 28.—Delayed.—A Chinese report says that the Pekin allies demand the exeonttou of Prince Tnnn, ring-leader of the anti-foreign move ments, Tnan’s laea having been to im prison Yang La and to make him the scapegoat. It is learned that the gov ernor ot the finnan provinoe has Issued plaeards announcing the extermination of foreigners in North China and urging Hunan to do likewise, It is reported that several ladles in the Pekin legations have (lied from the effeots of the hard ships af the siego. FIRE IN.THE COUNTRY. Negrp Pises Fsmlly oi ths Duacss-Btll , Buried Out. From Tuesday’s Daily Herald. Alex.Billlngslea, the well known col ored merehant and fanner who lives six miles sonth of town on the Newton road, was in the Herald office this morning and reported the destruction o/ a house on the Dnnoan-Ball place by fire on Snnday night. The house was occupied by Porry Johnson and family, colored. The two-room house and kitchen were burned to the ground, and very little of the household furniture -md wearing apparel of the family was saved. The fire was discovered' at#bout 10 o’clock at night. Perry Johnson, the father of tho family, and the two young est children were asleep, in the house, and the other members of the family, inolndiug two grown sons, were at ohnrolt. The family lost In fnrnltnre, wearing apparel, etc , about $IB0, and the father and tw6 sons together had (04.60 in money, which was also lost. It 4s an exceptional family o( colored people, the old man and his two sons being in dnstrlons and thrifty. The’origin of the fire is supposed'to have been incendiary. The honses belonged to Mrs. 8. M, Ball, of Thomasv lie. DISHEARTENING REPORTS COMING FROM THB COUNTRY DISTRICTS. WRECK IN VIRGINIA. Cleveland, Aug. 28. —Peck, the negro whom the Akron mob searched for last night, is in jail here. Another negro named Howard was also brought here, as it was feared the mob might attaok him. Pekin, Ang. 21—Minister Conger is authority for the statement that the entire hostile movement is pilrely a governmental one; that the Boxers are used merely as a pretext. "For the Boxers have no gnns and can do little,” he says. “The imperial troops here were led by a confidential adviser of the Empress. They tried to annihilate ns the day before tho relief column reached ns. Tho Tsung Li Ya- men bent us word that orders had been issned to its officers to stop firing nnde^ pain of death! bat despite this the Chi nese'opened fire and continued it all day. We should probably have buc- onmhed had hot the relieving column arrived when it did. More than two thousand shells fell among us in eleven days." ’ "FORBIDDEN CITY” HAS FALLEN. London, Ang. 21.—The sacred or for- hiddeD city, the residence of the Em peror of China, has fallen. Admiral Bruoe cables the admiralty nnder date of Taku, the 19 th, saying the allies en tered the saored oity on the 17th. Camtnlssleser Stevens Flfnres It Short of Last Year’s Crop. Hon. 6. B. Steveas, Georgia's effiolent Commissioner of Agriculture, who is practioal and painstaking in all that he dqes, has compiled and published reports and statistics indicating that the ootton crop of Georgia for 1000 will be from 60,000 to 300,000 bales short of the crop ’ Two M K|1(td md § of 1890. -• The figures prepared by the depart ment show that in Georgia an average oropforths last five years is 1,295.800 bales. The reports from tho counties of Georgia are that 74 per oent. of an average crop will be realized. T a enty- six per oent. off the average crop gives 958,892 bales for the yoar, against an estimated crop for 1899 1 of between Number si Others Injured. Tazewell, Va , Ang. 22.—A wreck at Naxwell, on the Norfolk & Western, re sulted in the death ot two men and the injury of othors. The dead are oil glneer Allen and Fireman Marshall The in jnred are Fireman Binsaoh, En gineer Geo. Smith, Fireman Keith, Flagmen Nash, Waller Glenn and 1,000,000 and 1,200,000 bales. It Is fnrthsr estimated from the re ports In the hands of the commissioner that the ootton ooreage is 8 percent, less than in 1899. Commissioner Stevens, who, as presi dent of the Cotton States Commission ers’ Association, reoeivee reports from commissioners of the different states, says they are to the effeottbat the south, as a whole, is short. Indications on August 1, were that every state in the ootton belt would be behind on the staple, with exoeption ofTToxas, reported to be 2 peroent. ahead of the average crop of the last five yearl. A celebrated Chinese dancing master, Hang Foo Ohoo, announces in a Chinese paper that he is to hold a religions ser vices to whioh he invites everybody, in honor of the one thousandth anni versary of the .death of his ancestor, who was the first of the family to take np the profession. Don’t ask every man yon meet if he thinks this is the warmest spell of the season. Folks will think yon are daffy. Everybody knows thiB is the record- breaking period of the summer, and most people have troubles enough of their own without. answering idiotic questions. If yon are nncertain wheth er it is hot endngb for yoar perspiring neighbor, ‘for the love of mercy give him the benefit of the doubt. HUNTINGTON’S WILL Henry Johnson. Bfekiltcf Powder Absolutely Pure Makes hot breakfast-bceads wholesome—no iyeast germs, no alum. Makes cake, biscuit' and pastry of superior fineness, flavor and deli cacy. Makes food that will keep moist and •sweet. Is most economical, because it is the 'purest and greatest in leavening strength. In the easy, expeditious preparation of the finer "cakes and, pastries, Royal is indispensable, Care must be talcen to avoid baking powdera made « i * * Y cheap, because Ing j Such powderH nre sola c.._ K , they cost but a few cents per pound. Not only will they spoil the cake, but alum Is a corro sive add, which taken lu food means injury to health# ROYAL BAKING POWDER 00., 100 WILLIAM ST., NEW YORK. ITTON BURNING UP. IN HOT? WELL RATHER! Leek ot Rsla sod Buralaf Heat ot Ike Feet Pew Days Have Conspired to Work Ir reparable Injury lo Ike Crop-Estimates ol Extent ot Dampfe. Within the last few days the distress ing foot has forced Itself bpon this Im mediate section that the ootton crop i« in a fair way to be praottoally rained from the combined offsets ot heat and drought. In many districts of the territory ini- mediately cohtlgaons to Albany un rein has fallen in about three weeks, and on every farm the ory for rain is going up. Added to this distressing drought, the terrific, scorching Heat of the last four or five days has fairly burned oat the Vitality of tho ootton plants, und every field looks as though It might have been swept by the withering breath of a great fire. The plants are drnnptug end dying, and their leaves look as thongh they wonld barn like pine shit rings it touched with a flame. Farmers are very blue over the out look, and all agree that unless tbe seo- tion Is visited by good rains and oontlh- MOU cooler temperntnre within a few days Xbe KIs, Sol Wss la Hto Record Smaiblcg Business Yesterday - Today's Tern pert lore; From Tuesday's Bet aid. Has the fact impressed Itself with- stnnnljig force upon the teat of your In- telleetflallty that the.last two days have, been August totsters of the sizzling, - soorohlng, consuming and aitogether- demorallzlng variety?, Do yon realize ■ that yesterday and today have boen the season's record breakers and that the temperature hat been up in tbe neigh borhood of the danger point? Yesterday wns unquestionably the hottest day of the yoar, and last night- smashed all the season'll roppjrds for Jhe , hoars 'between anus. At 2,80 and 8' the orop will be praottoally ruined, little showers of yesterday afternoon To Be Filed Tomorrow—No Change da the Millionaire’s Scbemei. Now York, Ang. 28.—Mr. Tweed said today that the Huntington will would be filed for probate tomorrow. Tweed said he saw no reason Why there should be any change In the Huntington scheme to make Galveston the Gnlf Married This Morning. From Wednesday’s. Daily Herald. At the home of Mr. and Mrs. Seaborn Hood, on Broad street, Rev. B, Davis, pastor ot the Baptist church, officiating, Miss ltosa Newell, of this city, and Mr. Edward W. Book, of Au gusta, were united in marriage at 10 o’olook this morning. The wedding was a quiet one, thongh a nnmber of the friends of the contract ing parties were present to extend con gratulations and wish tho bride and groom God-speed. The bride is the daughter of Mr. O. Newell and a niece of Mrs. Seaborn Hood. / She has many friends in Albany who are interested in her marriage. Mr. Beok is a resident of Angnsta, and he left on ths noon Oen- tral train for that place, accompanied by his bride. were only local in their nature, and were not of snffiolent oonteqnence to materially affeot the situation. At best, the damage already done is tremendons. Farmers and ootton men estimate that within five days the pros pect for a yield has fallen off anywhere from 25 to 50 per cent. The situation Is, of coarse, growing worse dally, and a few more days of drought and heat will mean a half orop. Other vogota- tion Is also suffering. Reports from over tho country wonld seem to indloate that the eonditions,pre vailing here are general. The Putney warehouse is nearly com pleted, and will be ready for occupancy terminus of the Southern Pacific lines, in a few days,. Killed by a Train. The train which left Brnniwiok for Albany Thursday afternoon, reaching here at 4 :t0 this morning, ran over and killed an aged white man at Hoboken, a snlaU station this side of Brunssriok. Engineer Mahoney was in oharge of the train. He saw the man walking on the track ahead of the’ train, toward whioh his hack was tamed. Engineer Mahoney thought the man would certainly step aside before the train reached him, and when the train drew near and the pedestrian still re mained on the track the whistle was blown long and load. The old man did not move, however, and was killed by the engine, whioh conld not be stopped in time to prevent the unfortunate acci dent. It was found, on investigation, that the dead man was a white man named Stokes, 60 years old,' who lived at Hoboken. He was totally deaf, and could not hear the train as if approaohed. o'clock yesterday afternoon many ther- • m-imeters in tho city registered front- 192 to 104 degrees in the shade. Snob, Instruments, however, were probably not In spots where artificial heat conld not reach tliom, and their records should not he taken as nbsolnte y ocourato. The large thermometer In the Sale- Davis drug store Is probaply one of ths* inostaoonrato in the oity. There is al-j ways'a tree •circulation of air through- the plaoo, and no glare of artlflolal heat . can reaoh the iiistrainent, As there are - two large eleotsio faus lu the store, olr-' oftmstanoes rather favor a lower temper ature than actually prevails. At 2 (80 >. O’clock yesterday afternoon this ther- - mometer registered 100 degrees, ‘and at a late Itonr of the afternoon had not- fallen below 90 degrees. Lost night,was a "corker,” and all' persons agree that no night of the sum mer hss approached it In the intensity of heat. There was no breeze stirring,, and the atmosphere seemed to be fairly saturated with humidity. Hundreds oft persons were unable to sleep, and spent, the night, endeavoring, by artificial means, to keep partially cooled off, Electric fans were kept going in many homes, bnt the great majority of. per* sons were not fortnnato enough to pos sess these arilUbial wind makers. Tho Herald knows of one gentleman who went to sleep in. his -bath tnb, which, had previously boon filled with oold 1 water. Aocording to the registering thermom eter of Engineer O. W. Tift, at the waterworks station, the maximum tem perature yesterday was 100X degrees* and the minimum last night showed, the astonishingly high record of 87 do* TODAY’S RECORD. The temperature today has boen near ly as high as It was yesterday, ther mometers generally showing only about a half a degree floss. The Sale-Davjn. thermometer registered, at 1:46 thi» afternoon, 99K degrees. A breeze hs» been blowing from the west all day, and. the atmosphere has been thereby tem pered somewhat. This is, however, a, sweltering day at best, and nothlng; wohld be as weloome as a good rate and. a drop of ton to twenty degrees in tho temperature.

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Albany weekly herald. (Albany, Ga.) 1892-19??, August 25, 1900, Image 1