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WEEKLY HERALD
VOL. 9.
ALBANY. GA.. SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1901.
NO 4
DEATH CLAIMS HIM.
EX-PRESIDENT BENJAMIN
PASSES AWAY.
The Murderer Hid Been Given ■ Preliminary
Trial and Ball Waa Refilled—Officers an
Their Way to Cnlhbert Jail Overtaken by
■ Mob—Oreat Excitement Prevalla.
HARRISON
SHERMAN HARRIS HAD MURDERED MR.
SID KINO.
Alter a Brave Strnytte With Disease, the End
Came at 4:45 O'clock Yeaterday Afternoon
—Scene In the Death Chamber—Faaeral
Will Take Place Sunday Afternoon.
SheUman, Ga., March 18.—Shermdn
Harris, the negro who killed Mr. Bid
King at Knighton, a country postoffloo
ten miles below this place, on Monday
afternoon, wan lynohed last night.
The partionlare, as your correspond
ent oan learn them, are that Mr. King
had a quarrel with the negro abont a
week prior to tho killing. Since that
time Harris has been going armed, and
making threats as to what he intended
to do to King. On learning of tbdbe
threats, Mr. King went to the planta
tion pf Mr.T. Barfield where Harris was
employed, to see him. When asked
abont the reports Harris replied that,
••yes he had made them and wonld do
what he said,” whereupon he ran into
his house near by, got his shat
gun, returned and when near Mr. King
fired, the entire load entering King's
leg just above the knee, producing death
In about fifteen minutes, from loss of
1 blood.
Harris was arrested and given trial
before a magistrate Tuesday afternoon
and bODd denied. Last night, as the
officers were en route to Outhbort with
him, they were overtaken by a mob of
masked citizens, who took their prisoner
from them; a rope was placed oround
his neok and ho was suspended from
the limb of a tree nearby, after whioh
he was was completely riddled with
bullets.
Great exoitement prevails and further
trouble is feared. Mr. King was a
prosperous farmer and merohant and
stood high in his section. He leaves a
wife and several small ohildren. The
body of Harris at this hour is still hang
ing to the limb.
GREAT BRITAIN IS NETTLED.
Her Reply Invites Farther Proposals from
the Washington Government.
London, Maroh 18.—The foreign office
officials are nettled at, the statement
cabled here that no opening is left for
further notion in' the oase of Great Brit
ain’s reply to the United States’ notifi
cation of the senate's amendment to the
Hay-Pannoefote treaty. It is pointed
ont that Great BHtain's reply invites
farther proposals from the United
States. Moreover, the foreign offlae un
derstands that something of this sort is
already contemplated In Washington.
A representative of the Associated
Press has been officially informed that
there is no desire on the part of the
British government that the matter
should be dropped. They confidently
expeot farther negotiations, and hope
tor a satisfactory conclusion, though
this does not lessen their insisteuee on
the integrity of the Ulayton-Bulwer
treaty until both signatories consent to
its abrogation.
Lord Oranberne, the under secretory
for foreign affairs, in the House of Com
mons yesterday, referring to Great
Britain’s reply to the senate’s amend
ments to tho Hay-Pannoefote treaty,
added that the British government was
not engaged in negotiations with any
other Power on this subject.
TO HONOR HARRISON.
President McKinley Issued a Proclamation on
Death of the Ex-President.
Washington, Maroh 14.—President
McKinley has issued a proclamation eulo
gizing ex-President Harrison and order
ing the Hags displayed at half-mast for
thirty days at the executive mansion
, and department bnildings, also ordering
that suitable honors be conferred by
the military and naval departments.
Indianapolis, Ind., Maroh 14.—Ex-
President HarriBon is dead. He passed
away peacefully at 4:48 o'clook yea ter
day afternoon without regaining con.
aeionsneas.
The gradual falling of the remarkable
strength shown by the patient became
more noticeable in the afternoon, and
a w moments before the end there
was nn apparent break-down oh the
part of the snfferer, as he surrendered
to the disease against whioh he had
been so bravely battling for so many
hoars.
News of the death spread qntokly
through the olty, and several of the
more Intimate friends at onoe hurried
to the Harrison residence. The word
was flashed from ihe bulletins of all the
newspapers and thus commanioated to
the people on their way home In the
evening. The announcement produced
the greatest sorrow.
Within a few moments the flags on
oil the pnblio bnildings and most of the
down-town business blocks were hoisted
at half-mast, and other outward mani
festations of mourning were made.
None of General Harrison's children
were present at bis death. Neither Ool.
Russell Harrison nor Mrs. MoKee had
/ •
reaohed the city, although both were
hnrrying on their way to the bedside of
their dying parent as fast as steam eould
oqrry them.
The group at the bedside included
Mrs. Harrison, William H. H. Miller,
Samuel Miller (his son). Rev. Ur. M. L.
Haines (pastor of the First Presbyterian
church, which Gen. Harrison had at
tended for so many years), Secretary
Tibbitts, Drs. Jameson and Dorsey, Ool.
Daniel M. Ransdell, sergeant-at-arms
of the United States senate, and a olose
personal friend of the dead ex-president,
Clifford Arrick and the two nursos who
have been 11 constant attendance,
Gen. Harrison’s two sisters and an
annt were also presont.\ Mrs. Harrison
kneeled at the right-hand [side of the
bed, her husband's right hand grasped
in hers, while Dr. Jameson held the
left hand of the dying man, oonntlng
the pulse beats. In a few moments af
ter the friends bad beon summoned to
the room the end came, Dr. Jameson
announcing the sad foot. The great
silenoe that fell on the sorrowing
watohers by the bedside was broken by
the voloe of Dr. Haines, raised in prayer.
One of the most pathetio Incidents of
the whole illness of the general ocoorred
Tuesday before he became nnconscions.
The general's little daughter, Elizabeth,
was broogbt into the siok room for a
few moments to see her father, and of
fered him a small apple pie whioh she
herself had made. Gen. Harrison'
•■railed his recognition of the ohild and
her gift, but the effort to speak was too
much and he could do nothing more to
express bis appreciation.
The fnneral of ex-President Harrison
will take plaoe next Sunday afternoon
at 2 o'olook. The services will be held
in the First Presbyterian churoh, of
whioh Gen. Harrison was a member for
nearly fifty years. Rev. Dr. M. Haynes,
pastor of the ohnrch, will have charge
of the services.
The body of Gen. Harrison will lie in
state in the rotnnda of the state capitol
all day Saturday. The highest honors
which it is in the power of the state
to bestow will be rendered to tho remains.
Since the announcement of Ex-Presi
dent Harrison’s death the residence has
been thronged with friends calling to
pay their respects. Not until a late
hour last evening did the stream of vis
itors cease. Many brought flowers and
the darkened room where tho body lay
was transformed into a veritable garden.
Assuming a Critical Turn.
Madrid, Maroh 14 The disturbances
at Catalonia, where unruly tSxtile
strikers have been making demonBtra-
-'tions during the pub week,* are reported
at an aente stage today. The manu
facturers haye telegraphed the govern
ment for assistance. It la stated that
the
AT HIS POST.
RAILWAY SIGNAL MAN MET DE1TII UNDER*
PECULIAR CIRCUMSTANCES.
W. W. Blackford, a Ltklgh Vslley Employs
Found Dead In Hit Sl(atl Towar—Had
Accidentally Shot aad Killed Himself—
Fortunate That No Wreck Retailed.
Park View, N. J., Maroh 14.—W. W.
Blackford, signal man for the Lehigh
VaUoy railroad, was found dead in hla
tower early thii morning. He had
been shot to death. The tragedy la anr-
rounded with considerable mystery.
The belief is that the man killed him
self aooidentally, but not nntll the ooro-
norand polloe make an investigation
will It be settled just how he died. He
went on duty at 10 o’olook last night.
At midnight one of the traok walker*
stopped in «t the tower and found
Blackford at his post, and apparently all
was well. A 3 o'olook he went book,
entering the lower floor, and stumbled
over Blaokford’s body. By Blaokford’s
side lay a pistol.
That no aooident happened is fortu
nate, as no man was at the signals.
The ooroner, after an investigation,'
expressed the opinion that Blaokford
shot himself aooidentally.
IN CONDENSED FORM.
Short Nows Herat from Various Soarces
Received by Wire Today.
Hong Kong, Maroh 14.—A detatoh-
meut of Forty-fonrth Welsh FuBlleera
sailed today for Tien Tsln, in ‘order to
relieve Australian troops returning
home. ,
Hazleton, Pa., Maroh 14.—Today's
proceedings of tho Mine Workers’ con
vention was taken np with the report of
tho -wages committee. This commit
tee's duties fix a uniform wage soale.
The miners are believed to be in favor
of insisting upon this scale.
THROWS HER SON PROM FIFTH ktftST
OP BURNING BUILDING
And Then Leapt to Death Herself—The Boy
Dead and Mother Will Die—Horrible
Panic of Twenty Pnmlllei In a Brooklyn
Tenement—Nameo of Dead and Injured.
New York, Maroh 14.—Penned In a
blaming tenement in Brooklyn thin
morning, a mother threw her twelve-
year-old son from a fifth itory window
and then leaped to death herself. The
•on was Instantly killed, and the mother
will die. Her name la Mrs. Mary Rontlo.
Mr*. Mary Madden, seventy yean old,
was burned to death. The injured are
Mis* May Bear, Farrell Mnrpxy and
Mb. Imtira Marshall. The tenement
was in Atlantlo avenue. There waa a
frightful panto among twenty families.
BOLD ROBBERY ATTEMPTED.
Robber Attempt! to Held Up Station Afoot
•f New York Blcveted Roid.
New York, Maroh 13.— A daring
attempt was made by a robber thia
morning to bold np the station agent of
the elevated road at Booth avenue and
Eighteenth street. He knocked down
the agent, Joseph Lawless, and broke
la nose. Boverol teeth were alto
knooked out. He was knooked down
with the tioket chopper. The employes
fonght gamely, however. Lawless
managed to shut and look‘the door of
the tioket office. The robber, seeing
his plans had failed, made hit esoape
before help oonld arrive.
A POULTRY SHOW
Washington, Marc l 14.—Senators
Platt and Depew went to the White
HonBe early this morning to talk over
the nomination of Sanger to be assistant
secretary of war. The senators are un
derstood to have yielded.
Now York, Maroh 14.—Marooni, In-
V
ventor of wireless telegraphy, arrived
here this morning to set up a plant.
A HEAVY BLOW DEALT.
Over Three Hundred Filipino Illicit Tndlof
Crntl Destroyed.
Manila, Maroh 14.—Insurgent trading
operations in Vioayan Island have been
effectually .broken np. Lieutenant
Payne, commanding the United Staten
gnnboat Pampango.oelzed and destroyed
800 vessels of various sizes, mostly native
eraft, constructed to assist the natives.
Among them were a number of coasting
craft loading by Manila firms and pi
rates, who occasionally raided the oppo
site shore. Negros Island has been sap-
pressed and the boats all horned.
PATRICK ARRAIGNED.
! r i
Murderer of Millionaire Rice to Oo on Trial
March 20.
New York, Maroh 14.—Alfred -T. Pat-
rich was arraigned this morning for the
murder of Millionaire Rice. The state
unent till March 30th to
la Albany Would Brief Exhtbliors Prom Par
and Near.
Several weeks ugo a poultry fanciers'
assooiatun was organized in Albany
with, a large' membership. The an
nouncement' was made at the timo that
a poultry show would be hold in this
olty next fall, anlthat a strong effort
wonld bo made to capture the annual
meeting of the State Poultry Associa
tion.
The announcement, though made in
a modest way by the local association,
has attraoted a good deal of attention
thronghont the state, and there is ample
assaranoe that a poultry show in Al
bany would be a snooess. Several of
onrlooalfanoiersown some of the very
finest birds in the state, and It Is rea
sonable to expeat that they wonld cap-
tore a generous share of bine and pink
ribbon in competition with representa
tive birds from other portions o( the
state.
The looal poultry association* is In
earnest in its efforts to work np a’show
next fall With a little encourage
ment from the pnblio the enterprise will
be made to snooeed, and Albany will
stlok another feather in her cap.,
THIRTY HOUSES
-Losses
Sparta, Teoo, Has a Disastrous Fire-
Fifty Thousand Dollars.
Chattanooga, Maroh 14.—Thirty
houses were bnrned at Sparta, Tenn.,
last night. The loss is $00,000; insur
ance $20,000. The fire started in the
store of Fleuor & Sperr from the explo
sion of a lamp. The losses comprise the
principal business houses of the town
and many private residences. Mrs.
Ohilderess and Nat Orabtreo, a negro, it
is thought, may he bnried in the rains.
REFUSE TO SING.
Buffalo High School Boys oo a White
Rat Strike.
Buffalo, N. Y., March 14.—Two hun
dred Central High School boys have
struck a !a white rats and refuse to sing
because the teachers forbid them to
communicate with the girls in the halls
and class rooms.
Steel Trust to Build Ships?
Cologne, Germany, Maroh 18,—Silej
si an newspapers report that the Amer-
loan steel trust intends to build a fleet
ABSOiMsnrbuRE
Baking
Powder
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
RUSSIA JGGRESSIYE
IN CHINA, AND BRBAKS CONCERT OP THB
POWERS.
Ciar’a Representative Surprleea the Mlnlalera
by Oppoalnf Further Punishment nl Chi-
nn Leiden—In Tara, Chin Will Olv*
Rneal* What Sha Wanla in Northern
Pravlieaa.
Pekin, Maroh 18 —The mlnlaten held
a mooting today and dtsonssed the ques
tion ot punishmontjfor the provincial
offloers who are regarded aa responsible
primarily for the Boxer trouble, and
dlreotly implicated in the massacre of
missionaries and converts. To the sur
prise of everybody, tho .Russian repre
sentative appeared as the opponent of
any farther pnnlshment for Obinese
officers, no matter how guilty they may
have bopn. This is the first deolded
break in the concert of the Powers. The
Russian representative reoelVbd hla or
ders from Bt. Petersburg, and It is un
derstood that he was told to aid China
in every way in return for China's sig
nature to the agreement reoogntzlng
Russian predominance in the whole
northern part of tho empire.
The Chinese peaoe commissioners
have attempted to minimize the impor
tance of this agreement, whioh has been
the means of provoking discord among
the ministets.
DIAZ'S END IS NEAR.
Gotvus For Judges.
From tho Atlnntn Journnl. .
In several states judges of the supreme
court always Wear robes or. go'wds when
they appear on the bench!
Sonth Carolina Is the most punctilious
state in this matter. All her circuit, ns
well as her supremo. court judges, are
gowned.
A few days ago tho justices of tho
Massachusetts suprmn. court appeared
in robes for the first timo. It is an
nounced that this was done "in .defer
ence to the expressed wish of the mem
bers of the bar.”
Every one who has seen the supreme
oonrt of the United States in session
most have been impressed with the im
posing appearanoe of its jnatloos oiad in
their blaok gowns. The Massaotyietts
justices did well when they assumed
this offlolal garb. South Carolina has
even a better plan in requiring her otr-
onit, as well as her supreme oonrt
Judges to* wear stately robes.
Why do not oar Georgia judges fol
low snit? A man looks more like a
judge when olad in robes than when he
sits in a bobtailed “hand-me-down,”
parti-colored, jaybird aggregation of
trousers, ooat and vest.
By all mean) let ns have the judicial
gown.
IN SPAIN.
FIFTEEN THOUSAND FACTORY HANDS ARB
IDLE.
At Maallna the Strikers Attack Ihe Manufac
turin' Club and Wreck It* Interior^!
Attack Stvtnl Private Homaa and Ban
Ihe Mayar's House.
Baroolona, Spain, Maroh 13;—The
workmen in .the spinning and' textile . .
faotorioa at Manilen, La Rods and Yioh,
Spain, wont on a strike yeaterday, as a
protest against the proposed Introduc
tion of new maohinery. The masters
olosed all factories today and fifteen
thousand workmen are looked oat.
At Manllon the workmen made an at-
took on tl o Manufacturers' club. They
wreaked the interior of the building and
threw the fnrnitare out In the street
and bnrned lb They also attacked five
private houses and wounded their
owners. They afterward bnrned the
mayor's honse. The gondsarmes have
been oalled ont to suppress the troublo.
FOUR BEAUTIFUL MEDALS.
His Present Condition Critical, Notwithstand
ing Official Dental.
El Paso, Tex., Maroh 18.—Aooording
to reports received here and published
in both the Spanish and American pa
pers. the end of President Diaz Is ap
proaching. His present condition is re
garded as oritlcaL notwithstanding the
official denial.
The news has’reaohed here that Pres
ident Diaz is dying from the effects of
slow poison, and the papers here give
fall credence to the report.
BRITISH CABINET NAMES TERMS!
WRITTEN FOR TUB HERALD.
MARGUERITE.
The Lours Clementine Dnvje and the Wallers
Chautauqua Medals. ■
Four of the handsomest gold
ever seen In Albany are on display i
tho show cas.oa at Phil Harris’s* jewe
store, on Washington street. They
have just been received, and ate being
very much adintrod.
The Walters medal, which will go to
the victorious deoloimor among t
who ooutest at the coming Chautaa
is a duplicate of tho otto offered last
year turd whioh was won by one of
Mitohell county’s representatives, young
Hill, of Pelham. It is a very handsome
medal, bearing appropriate inscriptions
on tile obverso and a portrait of Benja
min Harvey Hill on the reverse side.
There are throe of tbe'Laara Olomon- ,
tine.Davis medals One is offered to'
'young ladiea competing in instrumental
mnslo, one to contestants In vocal muslo
and the third to yoang lady elooation-
Ists. The two maslo medals are similar,
though not, identical, in design. They
represent that graoetnl stringed lnstr
mont, oelebrated in poetry and song, the
lyre, and are real "things of beauty."
The elooation medal Is designed to rep- ffl
resent a star, and Is appropriately in
scribed. It is not less beautiful than
the others.
The medals will be highly prized by
the fortunate girls and boys who win
them, and will inspire each one to do his
or her best.
BT I. 1C. HOWAZ.
On Which Kitchener May Receive Surrender
of den. Botha.
London, Maroh 18.—It is understood
that the British cabinet, at its meeting
today, considered, among other things,
the negotiations proceeding between
Lord Kitihener and Genteral Botha, and
formulated instructions for Kltohener
whioh defined, on broad lineB, the terms
on which a peace settlement may he
made.
5,000 BOER PRISONERS
May Be Transported ia ladle—Will beLecated
In Batches ai a Thousand.
Calcutta, Maroh 13.—The government
la preparing for the expeoted arrival of
s for cargo in order to oom-15,000 Boer i
) will bo 1
Beneath the maple shade
I first saw Marguerite,
The fairest, sweetest maid
'Twas e’er my lot to jpeet;
With dimpled cheek and chin.
And eyes of Heaven’s blue
She drew my heart within
A thraldom strange and new.
She held me as in trance;
’Mong many, she alone
Had with her witching glance
My reason overthrown.
New joys before me stood,
New beauties round me lay;
The earth, the sky, tho wood,
Seemed glorified that day.
TUI then my heart had lain
Unwakened by love’s call.
Nor knew, the joy, tho pain,
_ Of Onpid’s mystio thrall,
But as the morning suu
Begems t'ao dewy flow rs,
So life for me begun
With love’s first happy honrs.
The rosy light of mom
Seemed round about mo thrown
When first tho hope was born
To win her for my, own;
And when I caUod her mine,
My darling little girl,
Sbo seemed almost divine—
My Marguerite my pearl.
New Commission For Herre-
shoffs.
London, Maroh 18.—It was announced
this afternoon that the Herreshoffs had
seen commissioned by a ship, builder of
An Albany Boy’s Advancement.
The many friends of Mr.. Dan Carroll,
son of Mr. and.Mrs.' G. W. H. Carroll,
of this city, wlU be pleased to learn
that he has just reoeived a good promo
tion from the Southern Bell Telephone
Company, with whioh company he haa
held responsible positions for several'
years past. About a year ago Mr. Oar- ;
roll was made manager of the company's
Newnan exohango, and he has just been
ordered to go fromNownan to Bessimer,
Ala., to toko ohorge of the’ telephone
exohango in that prosperous Alabama
mining olty. This Is a good promotion
for Mr. Carroll with ft nioo Inorease In
salary.
Tho Herald congratulates Mr. Car-
roll on receiving a doserved promotion.
Minder (o Rang.
From Wednesday's Daily Herald.
Isador Minder, the German tailor who
lived in Albany several years ago or
who stabbod Andrew Mahoney to de
in Macon last October, was oonvio',
murder In the first degree in Bibb
superior court yesterday and r
to be hanged on April 80th r
der’s trial has 1
though his
fight for h