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ALBANY, GA.. 'SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1901.
NO 15
FATAL SHOOTING,
E. B. SANDERS KILLED BY E. N. HUTCH
INSON A1 POULAN YESTERDAY.
Shooting Resulted From a Business Dispute.
Hutchinson Claims That He Shot Sanders
In Sell Delense—He Has (liven Hlmsell
up to the Officers and Is Now in Jail.
Ponlan, Ga., Mny 20.—(Special to the
Herald.)—Afalal shooting affray oo.
■oared about 1. o'clock yesterday in the
store of Mr. E N. Hutohinson In this
~plaoe. Mr. Hutohinson shot and fatally
■wounded Mr. E. B. Sanders.
There were no eye witnesses.
Hutohinson and Sanders got into a dis
pute over some business transaction.
Both men were drinking and the dis
pute resulted in eaoh of them drawing
his revolver and shooting at the other.
It is not known who fired the first shot.
Hutohinson shot five times and San
ders shot twice. Heither of Sanders's
shots struck Hutohinson, but twobul-
lets from the latter’s pistol took effeot
in his opponent. One ball struok the
lleft hand and another entered the abdo-
men, making a fatal wound, from
whloh Sanders died shortly after noon
today.
Hutchinson gave himself up to the
■officers immediately after the affray and
1b now in jail. He Bays that he
waB afraid of Sanders, who had a bad
reputation, and that he shot him in
.self-defense.
BRYAN’S OPINION
Of itbe 'South Carolina Senatorial Mix-up.
"An Honorable Cauee."
Lincoln, Neb., May 28—William Jen
nings Bryan has given out a statement
on the resignations of Senators
MoLaurin and Tillman, which he says
he regards as the political event of last
■week.
iMr. Bryan said: "It is an honorable
bourse for the senators to pursue and be-
nefiqial to the Btate. At present
■South Carolina virtually has no voioe
in the settlement of public questions,
uis the vote of one senator kills the vote
of the other. Senator Tillman has just
been re-elected and thus rlskB the loss
of the longer term, but Senator Mc-
Xiaurin sacrifices more, because he has
less ohanoe to win in the primary.”
Mr. Bryan added that it was hardly
■■necessary to say that he hoped and ex
pected to see Senator Tillman win a
■sweeping viotory, "beoause he repre
sents the man,'while Senator MoLaurin
represents the dollar. The vote will
show whether the plutocraoy idea 1b
.making any headway in the South."
WITH KNIFE AND BILLIARD CUE.
81oody Fight Between Two Negroes on Broad
Street This Morning.
From Wednesday’s Herald.
Loman Face and Moreton Frenoh, two
negroes well known about town, en-
gaged in a bloody fight this morning,
and both are now considerably the
worse for wear.
Face, it seems, was engaged in a game
of pool in Mooney’s saloon on Broad
street. Frenoh was an onlooker, but by
some means he and Paoe became in.
yolved in a dispute, whloh Resulted in
French striking Pace on the head with
a billiard one. The blow was a hard
one, and Pace’s head was laid open to
the skull.
French went out the front door of the
saloon, and was met in the middle of
BrSad street a few minutes later by
Paoe, who drew his knife and proceeded
to play for even. French was out
through the left hand, and a gash fully
four inches long on his head laid bare
the skull. When the fight ended both
the combatants were ns bloody as blood
could make them, and their appearance,
together with the furious fight in which
th"y engaged, created a good deal of ex
citement. Both darkies were carried, to
the office of Dr. J. W. Gillespie, who
dressed their wounds, They were
placed under arrest by Officer Raley, but
will probably be able to give bond for
their appearance at the next term of
court. ,
The first ripe psaohes of the BeaBon
have been offered for sale in Albany
during the last few days. As yet, the
fruit is very insipid, and reminds us
very little of the peaohes we are aocus-
tomed to seeing later in the season.
MID AT STAKE.
MRS.
M’KINLEY STOOD THE TRIP WELL AWFUL
AND IS IMPROVING.
Presidential Train Reached Washington oo
Schedule Time This Morolog—The In
valid Wile Borne From Car by the Presi
dent and Dr. Rlxey—Cabinet Meeting To
morrow.
CRIME OF A NEORO FIEND AT
BARTOW, FLA.
Washington. May 80.—The traiu bear
ing President and Mrs. MoKinley ar
rived here on schedule time at 7:30 this
morning. Mrs. MoKinley was immedi-
Fred Rochelle Assaulted and Murdered Mrs.
Rena Taggart—lie Was Captured by Ne
groes and Delivered to Officers—A Mob
Quickly Ootbered and Took Speedy sod
Awful Vengeance.
Bartow, Fla., May 38.—FredRoobelle,
a black negro, thirty-five years of age,
who at noou yesterday criminally as
saulted and then murdered Mrs. Rena
ately removed to the White House in a Taggart, a well known and respeotable
oarriage. She looked pale and worn, as
a natural result of the grave ordeal
through whiob Bhe has passed. Seoretary
Oortelyou stated that she was bearing
up wed and gradually improving.
The President vfrill today attend the
memorial day exercises at the National
oemetery at Arlington if there is no
change for the worse in his wife’s con
dition.
No demonstrations marked the early
morning ran of the Presidential train to
Washington. A few people gathered at
points along the way, but greetings
were inacoord with the spirit whloh has
prevailed sinco the start homeward last
Saturday.
In Washington several hundred people
lined the sidewalks, end a polioe oordon
was stationed at intervals along both
sides of the track reserved for the train.
Among those present were Second As
sistant Postmaster General Sohallenber-
ger, Major Prnnden, assistant seoretary
to the President, President MoFarland,
of the board of district commissioners,
and Oolonel Bingham, superintendent
of ho ldings and grounds.
The President was on the platform
when the train rolled in and bowed to a
few who lifted their hats in salute.
Mrs. MoKinley was removed from the
private oar Olympia in a chair borne by
the President and Dr. Rixy, assisted by
several others.
A meeting of the cabinet will be held
tomorrow.
MRS. M’KINLEY’S CONDITION.
Although the Immedisie Crisis Has Passed,
She Is Not Out ot Danger.
New York, May 80 —The Eveniug
Post has a Washington special saying
that Mrs. McKinley, although the im
mediate crisis has passed, is by no means
out of danger, and is still the objeot of
very deep solicitude to her husband and
friends.
It is hoped that the oity authorities
will continue the work of parking the
streets, so happily began several years
ago. The expense of this work is not
great, and every tree and blade of grass
planted insures the greater beauty of
onr city in years to come.
If a woman is physically miserable
and mentally unhappy, the child she
bears will, in face and form, as well as
in disposition, reflect her own condi
tion. Every woman who anticipates
motherhood ought to' think of this and
be a fairy godmother to her own child,
endowing it with health, beauty, and a
happy disposition.
The mental misery of the prospective
mother is in general the result of her
physical condition. She is nervous, her
appetite fails, she
cannot sleep. Re
store her appetite,
quiet her nerves
and give her sleep
and she becomes a
new woman.
n It has made a
new woman of me,"
is the constant tes
timony of women
who have used Dr.
Pierce’s Favorite
Prescription. It
tranquilizes the
nerves, Encourages
the appetite and
induces refreshing
sleep. It estab
lishes regularity,,
dries weakening!/*
drains, heals in- rv
flammation and ulceration and cures
female weakness.
"During the first month, when I looked for
ward to maternity. I could not keep anything
on my stomueh.” writes Mrs. H. C. Anderson, of
South Britain. New Haven Co., Conn. "Was so
weak that I went to bed on the aSth of June and
never got up till the first of August. I tried
different doctors, but with little benefit. I read
about many being helped by using your medi*
cine, so 1 thought I would give it a trial. I be
gan to take your 1 Favorite Prescription ’ in No
vember, ana I had a nice little haby girl in
February following. My baby weighed over
eight pounds. I was only ill for about one hour,
— j ■ -. ■ —■’■-ring confinement. Was
I never had
and got along nicely during confit
up and dressed on the eighth day.
the doctor with me at all; just the nurse and one
nr two friends. My friends thought I was sick a
very short time. This makes my second child.
With the first one I did not take ‘ Favorite Pre
scription.* The little one lived lust about two
months, and she was sick all the time. This
last baby is as plump and healthy as any mother
could wrsh.”
Dr. Pierce’s Pellets cure constipation.
“Johnston's Sarsaparilla is the most powerful
blood purifier known. Use it, sad keep your
jSSpSr Quart Bottles.”
white woman of this oity, was burned
at the stake here early this evening in
the presenae of a throng pf people. The
bnrning was on the scene of the negro’s
orime within 100 yards of the prinoipal
thoroughfare ot this oity.
The assault and murder was one of
the boldest and ooldest-blooded crimes
ever committed in Florida. At 10
o’clock yesterday morning Mrs. Tag
gart, who was born and reared in this
place, and was a woman of good family
and reputation, went fishing alone in a
small roifr boat that she kept at the oity
bridge over Piaco creek. This is In full
view of the pnbllo thoroughfare. A few
minutes before noon Mrs. Taggart, de
siring to return to her home, rowed her
boat to the bridge and made it fast. A
negro man was fishing from the bridge
at the time.
Mrs. Taggart started home and had
prooeeded only a few steps in the
swamp toward the open prairie and
thence to the street when she was np-
proaohed by Rochelle, who had been
hiding in the swamp. He seized her
and she broke loose and' soreaming ran
from the swamp into the prairie, where
he overtook her, overpowered her and
asBanlted her.
After the assault, while she was pros
trate, he held her with his hands and
knees and, taking his knife from his
pocket, ont her throat from ear to ear,
cansing instant death. He then walked
to the negro who had been fishing on
the bridge and who was thoronghly
frightened, and asked him what he
should do with the body. He was told
to leave it where It was, but nnheedful
of this request he took the bleeding
form in his arms and oarried it book
to the swamp, threw it down and
escaped into the interior of the swamp.
A few minutes afterwards the crime
had been reported and in less than an
hour praotioally the entire oity was in
arms and well armed posseeB were mov
ing in every direction in searoh of the
oriminal. Bloodhounds were seonred
and all night a fruitless search was
continued.
This morning no traoe of the negro
had been seonred and the people were
beooming more desperate in their de
termination to apprehend him, as the
chanoeB for his final escape seemed to
grow. About noon a courier arrived,
announcing that the ' negro had been
captured by two other negroes, three
miles south of the oity. Possoes were
immediately ou the trail, but the cap
tors succeeded in getting their prisoner
quiokly into the city and in turning him
over to the sheriff ot Polk county.
In less than ten minutes after the
transfer had been made, as if the news
had been flashed volnnta; ily through
out the city and ( neighborhood, the
streets became congested with people
and ’ the crowd, augmenting as it
marched, moved upon the jail. In spite
of the sheriff and a strong guard of extra
deputies, who made every effort to pro
tect him from mob violence, they se
cured the prisoner and took up the
march to the scene of the crime.
He was half carried, half dragged to
the bridge, enveloped by a great throng
of people of all ages, who were resolute
and determined, but quiet and orderly.
Soream after scream broke from the
wretch’s quivering lips, followed by
groans and prayers for mercy. At the
bridge the mob turned toward the
prairie and then into the swamp to the
scene of the negro's terrible crime.
By common consent bnrning was to be
the penalty. There were no ropes, no
plans for lynohing by hanging.
The stake was the only suggestion as
the proper expiation of the crime, and
without organized effort and yet' with
1 apparently unanimous consent a barrel
was in readiness and was plaoed by the
stake on the very spot where Mrs. Tag
gart was assaulted and murdered. On
this the negro was plaoed and ohained
to the Btake. \
Loader and lender and more desper
ate grew his pleadings to God and man
for meroy, but in the great orowd
aronnd him silenoe was the only re
sponse. There w l ore no jeers, no swear
ing, no disorder. Before the chains ar
rived and his body had been made fast,
cans df kerosene oil from many sources
were passed to the oentre, and one of
the leaders stepped to the body and
slowly bnt deliberately poured it upon
him and his olothing until ti e clothing
and barrel were saturated.
It was then 0 o'clock. The orowd was
growing, business in the oity had prac-
tioally been suspended and all eyes were
turned toward the scene. In an instant
the matoh was applied. As if by explos
ion, the blaze quickly leaped okywyd
in volnme. The burning body oooid be
seen only as a dark object in the circle
of a maddened, roaring flame.
Then the fire lessened in speed and
the writhing body oame back in fall
view, bat already the groans had oeased
and the only evidenoe of life was in the
Contortions of the mnsoles of the limbs.
For fifteen minntes the body burned,
and in half an honr from the minnte of
the applloatlon ot the matoh only the
oharred bones were left as a reminder of
the negro’s horrible onme and of his
fate.
The orowd dispersed as orderly as it
had gathered, and at 8 SO tonight the
oity is quiet.
Royal
y 4WSOMJTC 2V T>uiiF
Baking
Powder
^RSOunEEirtentE
Makes the fmn| more delicious and wholesome
*ovkl amenta wwc«w oo., w«w voen.
GEN. JOHN B. GORDON
MADE A CHARACTERISTIC ADDRESS
VETERANS AT MEMPHIS*
TO
He Spake Id Happy Vela, end His khaerks
Were Cheered te Ike Echo—Stsetneei
Deer le Southern Heerie—Meoy Usd
Words Per Meapkle.
TIFTON NEWS KOIES.
Surprise Weddloj at Chsrek Sunday
Nlgiit—Personal Mention.
Tifton,Ga.,May 28.—(Special).—These
who attended preaohing at the .Metho
dist church here Sunday night were sur
prised to find that they were to also wit
ness a wedding at the Bame,.time. Just
after the preaohing servioe was oon-
oluded Mr. Alex Kemp and Miss Eliza
beth Mitchell advanoed to the altar and
were made one, Rev. J. M. Foster offi
ciating. Mr. Kemp recently moved to
Tif ton from Albany and 1b in the employ
of the Plant System here. Mrs. Kemp is
one of Tifton’s best yonng ladies. Many
friends wish them well.
Rev. 0. G. Dll worth, pastor of the
Baptist chnroh here, has been invited to
preaoh the oommonoement sermon at
Roohelle next Snnday, and we nnder-
stand the invitation was acoepted.
Mr. D. B. Jay, of Fitzgerald, will de
liver an address at Obe next Thursday
to the students of Norman Institute.
Mr. F. G. Boatright, trafflo manager
ot the T. & N. E. R. R., is in Savannah
this week in the interest of that popular
line.
INSANE SOLDIER SPRANG OVERBOARD
As Transport Sedgwick Neared New York Thlo
Morning—He Wee Rescued.
New York, May 28.—When the trans
port Sedgwiok was off Hoffman Island
today, Matthew O. Campbell, of the
hospital corps of the army, esoaped from
confinement and jumped overboard.
He had been under treatment for insan
ity sinoe the transport left Havana on
Friday. A boat waB promptly lowered,
and Campbell was resoned.
7TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
On
International Arbitration—Prominent
Americans Are Attending.
LakeMohonk, N. Y., May 27.—The
seventh annnal conference on interna
tional arbitration began hero this morn
ing. Two hundred delegates are at
tending. Albert E. Smiley, founder of
the movement, welcomed the' delegates.
Among thoso present are Rev. Edward
E**erett Hale, Robert Treat Paine, Ever
ett P. Wheeler, and Dc. Josiah Strong,
Chief Justice St. Innea, of Rhode Island,
was elected chairman.
STRIKING MACHINISTS WIN.
Big Concerns In New York Stnte Signed
Today. .
Rochester, N. Y., May 28.—The Otis
Elevator Company, with fifteen estab
lishments throughout the oonntry,signed
today the new agreement with the strik
ing maohinlotn,' who will go book to
work on Monday..
Memphis, Tonn., May 2D.—Gen. John
B. Gordon, responding on behalf of the
United Confederate Veterans to the ad
dresses of welcome, said:
"Governor, Mr. Mayor, BiBhop G»2or
and representatives of Memphis: Jtas
the third time it is my duty and high,
privilege to respond to Tennessee's web-
come to the United Confederate vein*-
BDS.
‘ ’For the third time sinoo our organi
zation this great state embraoes with hn
maternal arms these immortal remnants
of'the south’s matoh less armies. Fino
she welcomed u! at Chattanooga,*them
at Nashville, now at Memphis. And
what plaoe could be more fitted for snob
a gathering than this oity, by the great
river whloh was onoe the highway for
iron olads, whose waters were chnrned
by torpedoes into a seething oanldron
and whose Mails were ramparts of de
fence for a struggling people.
"Fonr thousand years ago the anolent
Memphis bxdlt upon the banks of the Nile
was the home of the gods, the seat of
eastern learning and worship,the proud
est metropolis of the great Egyptian del
ta. Within her limits .were the temples
of Vulcan, Serapin, of Iris and of the
snn. There Alexander the Great was
wont to worship, and there stood the
marvelcuB pyramids to whose majesty
the great Napoleon appealed by remind
ing his noldiera that from those hoai7
heights forty centuries were looking
down upon them.
"Bnt grandly Impressive as is that
anolent oity, as it is revealed to ns
through the long vista of ages, it is mors
than rivalled by this modern Memphis
in all the elements of trae greatness and
human progress. Here It is true there
is no fertilizing Nile, spfeading its Vivi
fying floods over arid plains and con
verting them into gardens rioh and pro-
duotive; bnt we offer in its stead the
more majestio, the far nobler father of
waters, gathering from the slopes of
mountains and a thousand fertile hills
the rioh aUnvlas and spreading them
over far wider areas. In lien of the
great Egyptian delta whioh rivals It
in fertility and vastly exoels it in
expanse, in the variety and valne ot
its prodnots, in' the grandenr of its
forests and the bealthfnlness and oharm
of its climate. In this modern Memphis
are no temples dedicated to sacred bal e
and ohimerioal gods; bnt here are erect
ed the gloriona temples of the Groat
Jehovah himself wherein His spirit
dwells and His ransomed hosts bow to
the only King of Kings and Lord of
Lords. In this Memphis is no anolent
Beat of sceptered monarohs; bnt it was
for a long time the home of Jefferson
Davis, who even in his deepest hnmlli-
ation and woeful experience towered in
moral grandenr to far nobler statnre
than the ' Egyptian Modes or Persian
monarchs or Greek or Roman Invader
ever attained in ail their glitter of royal
equipage and ephemeral glory. Here
in this Memphis no, Alexander the
Great ever worshipned in life or la,id in
state when dead; bnt here lived, here
(ought, here died and here rests the
honored ashes of Nathan Bedford For*
rest, the wiliest horseman of modem
tides and the eqnal in native, untutored
genlns of the greatest oavalryman ot any
age
“We are glad therefore to meet in
Memphis. In the tallness of our I earts
we thank this generons people for their
Invitation and for this princely reoep
tion. I conclude as I began with the
declaration that no more appropriate
plaoe for snoh a gathering oonld have
been selected. It inappropriate for the
reasons already suggested. It is appro
priate because of its geographical posi
tion, and by the Bteadfast adherenoe of
its people to the immortal memories of
the past; it is in the very heart of the
lost but forever loved Confederacy. It
is appropriate beoanse it is bnilt upon
the hanks of the great river whloh binds
together with its liquid links the dis
tant sections of our great common
oonntry, for this oity of Memphis is one
of the fountain heads of that stream of
Amerioan brotherhood and unity whioh
flows with ever increasing volnme
A BRITISH COMMENT
ON THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT
DECISIONS.
fcnpertallim Mny Lead America as Far ss It
Has Led Ejifland—Colonies Call For
Navies sad Coaling Stations Throughout
the Whole WorM.
London, May 29.—The Westminster
Gazette, dlBonssing the Amerioan Su
preme Court decisions, says:
"The relation ot- the Amerioans to
Bhrepe and the world is profoundly
medtfled by the new departure. The
colonies mean a navy, and a navy means
naval bases and ooaling stations. Naval
bases are insecure unless they are booked
up by presession of the hinterland. This
ktflte-. Imperialism may lead the
Amerioans as far as it has led ns.”
FASTED FORTY DAYS.
Htfste Method ol a Pat Woauo to Reduce Her
Flesh.
Toledo* O., May 80.—Mrs. Almeda
Gordanler, of 3140 Vermont avenue, has
' jnst completed a forty-day fast for the
purpose of rednoing her oorpnlettcy.
Site weighed 360 pounds when she be
gan the fast on April 17, and today she
tipped the soules at 170 pounds, and says
she never felt better in her life. She
says she started the fast of her own ac
cord and made no "splurge” abont It.
Bhe claims to have lived without par-
tailing of a mouthful ot solid food dur
ing #» the time. The only snbstanae
she took was water. The only object
she had in the test was the rednotion of
flesh and.bettering her health, and both
objects were fnljy accomplished. Mrs.
Gordanler is 41 years old. Her feeling
of hunger was something fearful np to
the fourteenth day, bnt after that It did
not bother her. She claims that almost
any person in good health and with a
fair supply of flesh oan fast from 20 ( to
80 days.
A SHOCKING FIND.
Tbs Bodies ol Thlrty-Ons Infants Is «
tar.
Birmingham, England, May 80.—
Thirty-one bodies of infants were dis
covered today in a oellar beneath an un
dertaker's establishment. The bodies
were in varions stages of decomposition
and hnddled np together in soapboxes.
A widow oondnoted the shop and she
has been arrested, charged with mur
der.
AN OFFICIAL ORDER
-V
Cel-.
Stops Armenians Who Have Become Natural
ised Americans Prom Enterlsi Turkey.
Constantinople, May 30.—An official
order jnst leaned prohibit!' Armeniank
who have become naturalized .Ameri
cans from entering Turkey.
In Memory of Mrs. Johnnunh Wesso- ■
loTTBky.
There have reoently been plaoed
within the Temple B'nal Yisroel, in
this oity, two beantifnl memorials, ded
icated to a beloved wife and mother,
who departed this life some months ago.
The memorials are in the shape ol pul
pit lamps, the two being identioal in
pattern and finish. They are bnilt of
bronze, the metal being of best quality
and highly polished. Eaoh lamp is fire
and a half feet in height, independent
of its pedestal, and is symmetrically per
fect. The ornamentation is not prof use,
bnt is noh in every detail. Eaoh lamp
is topped by an Immense white glass
globe, and the general effeot is very
pleasing to the eye.
The two lamps have been plaoed on
the rostrum in the Temple, one on
either side of the pnlpit, and they add a
great deal to the appeuranoe of the in
terior. The lamps.were made in Fhila-
mm
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dolphin on the;order of Mr. Charles
Wessolowsky, and near the base of eaoh
is a plate on whloh the following in-
throngh all liberty loving Amerioan I scriptlon is engraved:
hearts.”. " —.u*, ’