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'SENSATIONAL MURDER AND SUICIDE AT
DOTHAN, ALA.
From Tuesday's Dally Herald.
The 01 ty Oounoil held its n gular semi
monthly meeting lpat night and trans
acted the aconmulated bnslness of the
two weeks. Mayor Brown pre-
‘he fall board of aldermen,
with tht>^'ft C|rl j- of Mr. Rawlins, was
SHORT BUSINESS SESSION OP THE CITY
COUNCIL LAST NIOIIT.
TO ORGANIZE FOR WHITE DEMOCRATIC
CITY PRIMARIES.
■Atlanta Norn Special.
Dothan, Ala., .Tone 17.—At 7:80 this
morning Professor W. A. Rankin shot
and killed Dr. O R. NaNeiil, the prin
cipal of the Dothan High School, and
then turned the pistol on himself and
sent a ball through his Tight temple,
causing Instant death.
Dr. MoNeiil lived about half an hour
and stated that Professor Rankin shot
him three times and then shot himself.
The killing took plaoe at; the sohool
building and is the ontcome of the fail-
ure of Rankin to be re-elected asteaoher
for the next term,
Dr. MoN.eill was seen to go in the
‘sohool building at an early hour thiB
miming, and Professor Rankin was
seen to.enter at the Bame door immedi
ately after. Then almost instantly four
shots were heard in quiok succession.
Dit. Paine, who lives near, rushed to
the scene and found Dr MoNeiil lying
in the hall, wallowing in his life's blood,
and Professor Rankin laying in the
room dead, with a pistol hall in his right
temple, and the pistol still gripped In
his hand. Four chambers had been
fired, three balls entering Dr. McNeill,
one in his nook, one iu the breast and
one in the abdomen.
Rahktn left n written statement, ud-
dressed to the Siftings and the Home
Journal, tho two home papers here, but
the editors withhold their contents until
they make further inquiries. It is said,
though, that ha aoonsee Dr. MoNeiil of
unfair treatment towards himself and
says that he feels that he has been dis
graced and that Dr. MoNeiil should suf
fer for it.
He spoke of some little debts he owed
around town, and referred to a (8,500
insurance policy in hiB trunk, and tho
whole tone of the letter goes to show
that he had fully made bp his mind to
take the life of Dr. McNeill and then
end his own. Dr. MoNolli was a well
known eduuator, who moved here from
LaFayette last year to take an his duty
as principal of the sohool at this place.
'He was 1 a man of family.
Professor Rankin oame here from
P msaoola last year. He is a young un
married man, and his people Uve in Bell
Buokle, Tenn.
The sohool board of trustees met on
Saturday night for the purpose of eleot-
ing teaohers for the next term. Rankin
was not eleoted for some oause, and it is
believed that he blamed Dr. MoNeiil for
it. He was said to have aoted strangely
all day yesterdav, bnt no one thought
that he contemplated snob a horrible
deed.
Bnrial arrangements have not beon
completed yet for either of the' unfor
tunates.
The citizens of Dotban were' thrown
into the highest excitement when a tele,
phone message was sent down town
carlg this morning andonnoing the sad
occurrence, and the people are eager to
learn the contents of the statement left
by Rankin.
Dr. Paine, who was one among the
drst to arrive on the scene, stated that
Dr. MoNeiil was mortally wounded, and
could not live. He was removed to his
residence and died a few minutes after
reaoliing home.
Jr.
mn-’
present.
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The meeting waAv . of the shortest
Oounoil has ever held, and little was
done that is of apodal Interest. .Numer-
ous small accounts against the city were
approved and ordered paid, and the re
ports of varionB municipal otlioers wore
accepted.
The clerk read a petition from tho
Postal Telegraph Oo„ through its local
agent, asking privilege to extend, its
lines of wire along certain streets of the
oity, placing its poles at the edgo.of the
pavomonts wherevor necessary. The
privilege was granted, Oounoil reserv-
ing the right to withdraw samo at its
pleasure.
, The matter of draining certain local!
ties within the clty'limlts whore water
accumulates und stands after heavy
rains was brought up by Alderman Tar
ver, who directed ospeolal attention to
the old Government Pond Bite and the
low lot immediately in the rear of the
Albany Aoademy. The Government
Pond was drained about ten yoars ago
by the oity, a woll being dug for the'
purpose of opening u passage-way to a
subterranean passage. Since that, time
no water has aconmulated on the lot un
til recently. Alderman Tarver had in
vestigated the matter, he stated, and
found that the drainage well had be
come dogged with sawdust or other
material, and would have to be reopened.
Several members of Council urged the
importance of having all snob places in
the city drained without delay, for the
sake of the health of the oity. The
whole matter was finally referred ,tp the
health committee with power to apt,
and the committee was requested to
give it that early consideration whloh
its importance imperatively demands.
It was decided to ereot several extra
fire plugs In the business section of the
oity, one at. the month of the alleyway
on Jaoksou street in front of Tarver’s
blacksmith shop, one at the alley in
front of Mr. M. D. Gortatoweky’s resi
dence and one or two others in other
places.
At the request of the ohief of fire de
partment, the fire oommittee was in-
stTuoted to prepare an ordinanoe regu
lating the sale and storage of gasoline
or other highly Inflammable fluids in
the fire limits, there being no provision
of suoh oharaoter on the city statutes.
There was no farther Doziness of im
portance on hand, and the meeting then
adjourned.
THE (WARDS LEFT THIS AFTERNOON ON
SPECIAL TRAIN.
City Democratic Executive Committee
Elected—Powers sod Duties the Same In
City Politics ss Those Exercised by
County Committees la County Politics.
Ill TWO LANGUAGES.
MELONS AND CANTALOUPES.
The Fleet Shipment From Voldoets—What
Melon Men Suy of Crop.
Macon Telegraph Special.
Valdosta, Ga., June lt)*-The first can
taloupe shipment haB been made from
this city by Paine & Smith, prominent
farmers and melon growers near here.
The shipment was of thirty crates and
was to parties in Boston. The canta
loupes wore of inferior grade, owing to
the heavy rains recently, but were prob"-
ably as good as will be marketed soon.
The.melon men complain that the crop
has been damaged 50 per cent, by the
rains. Other crops have also been great
ly damaged, and one farmer told yonr
correspondent this morning that he was
flowing up fifteen acres of cotton to
.plant peas.
Ide’s Amendment to Philippine Jsdldal Code
Adopted.
Manila, Jnne 80.—Upon reassembling
this morning, the Philippine Oommis
sion resumed consideration of the
amendments to the judloiul code bill
proposed by Messrs. Taft, Ide and oth
ers, and the commission voted to adopt
that 6f Mr. Ide, This is in the nature
of a compromise permitting the optional
nse of both Spanish and English in the
conrt of pleadings, and it requires the
conrt records and briefs printed in both
languages.
WITH PERMISSION OF FOREIGNERS
Chinese Troops Occupy Smsll Pluces Near
Tien Tslo.
Through a Drawn Bridge.
Nyack, N. Y., June 80.—Irving
Abrams, a young man 18 years old, rode
a bioyole through an open draw bridge
{ind was drowned today.
Tien Tsieu, June 80.—Chinese troops,
with the permission of the allied forces,
are now occupying several small placeB
in the neighborhood of Yang Tsun re
cently vacated by foreign troops.
DESTRUCTIVE RAINSTORM.
One Man Killed, Nine Injured and Large Dam
age to Property at Boonevllle, Mo.
Booneville, Mo., June 80.—The most
severe rain storm iu the history of this
oity ooonrred today, blowing the roofs
off Sombart’s saw mill, the Commercial
bank and many residences. A large
foundry was completely destroyed.
Toby Fisher was killed and nine others
injured.
From Wednesday’s Herald.
Iu response to the oall that had beep
issned by the Miyor and OouneU in
oomplianoe with a numerously signed
petition, a meeting was held at the oity
hall yesterday afternoon for the purpose
of eleoting an exequtiVe committee and
effecting an organization for the in
auguration of a system of white prh
maries in city polities. A largo number
of citizens assembled nt the hour
named, 0:15 o’clock, and tho meeting
was a representative one,
Mayor Brown called the meeting to
order and was afterwards unanimously
eleoted as ohairman. H M. Molntosh
was requested to not as secretary.
After the object of the meeting had
been stated, Mr. R. L. Jones moved
that a oommittee to be known as the
Democratic Eiceontive Oommittee of the
Oity of Albany; to be composed of Severn
including a chairman, be eleoted. This
motion met with no opposition and was
adopted.
On motion of Mr. J. O. Onssidy a oom
mittee of five was appointed by the
chair to confer and seleotthe ohairmail
and six committeemen provided for by
the motion ol Mr. Jones, tobeiubmitted
to the meeting for eleotion. The chair
appointed as this oommittee Messrs. J,
O. Cassidy, R. L. Jones, H. A, Tarvety
A. W. Muap ( andS. W--Smith,
The committee retired into the coun
cil chamber for deliberation, and while
it was out the njeetlng, proceeded with
othor bnsiuess.
Oapt. T. N. Woolfolk moved that the
Exeontive Oommittee elected Ijy this
meeting aerve for two years, their suc
cessor* ta be. eleoted at a oitlsena' meet
ing to be oalled by the retiring chair
man. This motion was adopted by the
meeting without a dissenting voice.
Another motion made by .Oapt. Woo!
folk and seconded by Mr. J. D. Pope,
who suggested some amendment to .the
motion bb mads, whloh Gapt. Woolfollf
aooepted, was—
That this meeting pledge its loyal
support to the Exeontive Oommittee for.
the pnrpoee of, having white Demooratio
primary eieotibnu in the oity in future,
and that the oommittee be authorized
and empowered to adopt and enforoe
rules and regulations under whloh oity
primary eleotlons shall be held, appoint
managers and disoharge snob other du-
ties in oity politios as are discharged by
county Demooratio exeontive commit
tees iu county politios. This motion
was adopted.
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE;
The committee appointed to nominate
a ohairman and six committeemen to
compose the exeontive committee sub
mitted tho following:
R. H. Warren, ohairman.
H. M. McIntosh.
I. J.- Hofmayer.
W. W. Pace.
T. N. Woolfolk.
John Kook.
A. W. Muse.
Mr, B, J. Jones moved that the Exeo.
utivo Oommittee as above named and
submitted by the oommittee of five he
eleoted as a whole. There were a num
ber of seconds to the motion and it was
promptly adopted without a dissenting
voice.
H. M. Molntosh moved that the Exec
utive Oommittee be respectfully re
quested not to call the primary for the
next oity eleotion before the first of
October. Mr. J. G. LaRoque moved
to amend by making it not earlier
than the fifteenth of Ootober. Mr. J
W. Walters hero oalled attention to the
fact |that the registration of voters
should out some figure in the primaries,
and he moved as a substitute that the
primary not be held until the books for
the annual registration of voters have
beet) olosed,' and that only registered
voters be allowed to vote. Mr. Mein
tosh withdrew his motion in favor of
the Bnhatitnte of Mr. Walters, and the
substitute was unanimously adopted
The meeting transacted its . bnslness
without any wrangling, and what was
done seemed to have the approval of all
present,
From Tuesday's Dally Herald.
The Albany Guards, oompany G, un
der onmmand of Seoond Lieutenant D.
Fleming, left this afternoon a few min
utes after 8 o'olock for Balnbridgo. They
traveled In a private oar whloh was at
tached to a special train, the route of
whioh was over the Central of Georgia
railway to Arlington, thence over the
Georgia Pine to Balnbridge.
The speolal oarried several other com
panies of the Fourth Georgia regiment,
411 on ronte to Balnbridge to parttoipate
in tho annnal enoampment of the regl-
niont. The Columbus Guards, Dawson
Guards and Amerlous Light Infantry,
companies O, H and L, respectively, ar
rived on a special train over the Central
few minutes before 8 o'olook. The
Albany Quotas' ooaoh was qulokly
oouplcd onto the military speolal, whioh
made only a short stop In.the oity.
The companies will reach Balnbridge
about 4:80 o’oiook this afternoon, and
will {immediately go into,camp, The
oqmp site js a beautiful oiio, being situ
ated on a high bluff covered with largo
oak trees and overlooking the waters of
Flint river. It has been prepared by
the city ot Bainbrldgp for the rooeptlou
of the military, and the soldier hoys will
have little work to .do, prior to,t)ie for
mal opening of the enoampment, whioh
will take plaoe tomorrow morning.
' It is a matter pf general regret that
two of tho companies of the regiment,
the Onthbert Rifles and the Fort Gaines
Guards, will not attend tho enoamp
ment. Col. Wooten has been notified
that a sufficient number of men oonld
not be Beonred to enable either of these
oompar.ies to make tho trip.
The, Albany-Guards will have nearly
ihirty men in ranks daring the enoamp
ment. All were in high spirits this
aftornoon When they left, and are look
ing forward to a delightful stay at Baln
bridge. • - ■ ■ •
Royal lkvam
Powder
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
A
WHAT
MR. JOHN W. FORRESTER SAYS
ABOUT THE CROPS.
No Decision lo Hlu Cum Until Pull Session ol
Court.
Buffalo, N.’Y:, Juno 80.—Thero wlUJbe
no decision in the Molineux oase before
the Ootober torn of the court of appeals.
This announcement wan made this
morning. Tomorrow the conrt will ad
journ until fall. Until then, Molineux
mast remain in his aell (t Sing Bing. -
The Herald has been making fre
quent reference to the baokwardnesa
and unfavorable condition generally of
the arops in Santhwest Georgia, and we
are now glad to have a report from a
prominont farmer of this seotion, Mr.
John W. Forrostor, of Leo oonnty, has
written a lotter to Hbn. O.vB. Stevens,
Commissioner of Agrlonltnro, on the
condition of the orops in thiB seotion,
and the letter was given by Commis
sioner Stevens to the Atlanta Oonstltn-
tlon for publication.
Mr. Forrester's letter follows:
Albany, Ga., Jnne 14, 1001.—Hon O.
B. 'Stevens, Commissioner of Agricul
ture, Atlanta, Gh.—Dear Sir: From
reports and estimate* placed on the oot
ton orpP by different agricultural
bureaus as pnblUhed iu the papers, I am
of tho opinion that the departments are
reoeivlng errbneons reports ot the or6p*
and are not advised 1 as to the trne situa
tion. Now, I have lived in Lee oonnty
fifty-one years in Deoember, and I say
to you.ln all candor, after toU Investiga
tion, tnat I have never seen snoit pros-"
MOLINEUX MUST WORK.
OF WHITE MARBLE.
Contract Let Today For New York's New
Library Building.
New York, JnHO 80.—The board of
eat’mate today awarded the oonfraot
for building the now library to the firm
of Nororouo Broo., of Bouton. Their bid
wan (8,888,000. The building Into bo
constructed ot white marble.
JUDGE IS INDIGNANT
BscauM Testimony Wllch Hu Ruled Out la
the Barker Cum Is Publlsksd.
Jertey City, June SO.—The publica
tion of mnoh testimony whloh Judge
Blair ruled ont in the Barker trial has
aronsed the indignation of the jndge.
The adoption of this method of present
ing the matter to tfce jury is muoh con
demned. The jndge promises punish
ment for those oonoerned in its publica
tion. The oounBel denies connection
with the affair.
CAPT.
“Old John” Makes Nomination lo tbe Macon
Telegraph.
We find the following in this morn
ing’s Macon Telegraph, and the Herald
seconds the nomination:
Albany, Ga., Jane 19.—Hon. Jim
Griggs and others say South Georgia,
whloh inolndes Southwest Georgia,
entitled to a little governor pie. Many
of ns think so, How would Oapt. John
A. Davis, of Albany, do? If not, why
not? He is not at home jnst now, off
on bneines, bnt he is usually at Jiome
and up to business, and would be al
ways at home as governor.
Old John.
The Cup Defender.
Bristol, Jnne 80.—W. Butler Dunoan
and party, aboard the Constitution, ar
rived here at noon, ooming for new wire
rigging. The boat shoVed good speed
on the way from Newport. She left
hero for Newport this Afternoon..
WILL BB ALLOWED IN PEKIN BEFORE
THE LAST OP AUOUST. .
Pekin, Jnne 18.—The foreign minis- !
tors have deolined to assent to the re
quest to allow three thousand Chinese
soldiers to come to Pekin at this time,,
They consider it inadvisable to permit’i
suoh a sfobefore the latter part of Au
gust, when AU the-international troops, <
exoept the legation Guards will be'
withdrawn: . .
TWC! NEGROES LYNCHED.
peots for crops of every description as
prevail there now. ThiB means simply
to refer to my own neighborhood. In
the first plaoe, the inorease in acreage
does not exist as reported. In the
seoond plaoe, if it did exist the damage
to stands otihsed by the oold and tin-
natnral weather of the spring hits killed
out the stands, whioh would more than
offset, the inorease by 80 por oent. The
(rowth of what is left is folly three
weeks behind what it shonld be now at
this season of tho year. The exdeislve
rains mixed with stoYms of hail and
wind had s* packed the ground to within
the lqst two or three days as tq render It
:oo hard for tho plants' growth and so
as not to be rightly cultivated. For tho
last three or four days there has been a
steady dowfapour of rain, which has pnt
it on the other extreme, and without a
let up in a few more days the other per
oent of it will Inevitably ’b« lost in tho
grasa.
Most farmers in my neighborhood
who supposed they had flnanolal ar
rangements to run until the gathering
of orops, find themselves at' the present
time ont of money, and in our neighbor
hood hardly any negotiable paper oonld
be realized upon, and a large portion of
them will even now have to be aban
doned. lb some oases renters and orop-
pers have already 'done so.. Some few
white farmers have surrendered their
orops, bnt this is due to, rain and Wl
destroying them.
As I have stated before, this applies'
to my boms oonnty, where I have teen
tbe oondltions. My information' from
other oonntles is that they are equally
as bad, if not worse, than in my imme
diate neighborhood. I write this letter
from Albany, having left home this
morning disgusted by reason of the foot
it had'ralned to muoh I did not know
of any work that oould be aooompUshsd
by me on the farm. Sinoe my arrival
it has ruined about as hard at it did last
night and there seems now no prospects
of an early termination of this sppll of
weather. Yerr truly yoars,
John W. Forrester.
They Were Implicated In the Murderer John
Osry Poeter., . ' ...
Shroveport, ’ La., June 80—Frank, :
bettor known as "Prophot" Smith, and
F. D. MoLand, held nt Benton for com
plicity m tho murder of John "Grey -
Foster, were taken ont by a mob last
night and strong np to a tree. They
Were left dangling Bide by side. ,The,
lynching occurred on tho Arkansas road,
about one mile and a half from the jail.
Both negroes mode' statements before-
death, denying that they had anything
to do with the killiog. Smith, wild was .
the leader of thtf "Ohuroh.of God 1 ,’
movement in that seotion and was
blamed ns being responsible for tho
sentiment against th'o whites whloh led
to the death- of Foster, died praying.
MoLand was silent as he was being
uftmg-Bp....
As Smith was being led from the jail
prior to the execution ho was hoard to
say: "Lord, yon promised to bo with
mo now.”
Thore were about 800 armed men in
the mob and they ovorpowored tho
riff and jailer, taking tho Joys tiwav
ffom them. ' The lyuohers olaimod t
tho exooutiou of tlioso negroes
neocssary to the preservation of tho
lives of white men in this locality.
HISSED THE PREACHER
Jersey Oity, N. J„ Jnne 19.—Thomas
Barker, on trial oharged with shooting
the Rev. Keller, was roundly oheered
By orowds as he entered the conrt this
morning. The minister arrived a few
minutes latet and was hissed.
Patrolman Sinoox was tho first wit
ness. He testified to searching Barker
after the shooting and finding two car
tridges in his pockets. Barker hirasolf
took ont his pistol and handed it to the
policeman.
DISASTROUS HAIL STORM.
Plantations North and Wait
’ Devastated.
Tbe Amotions TImos-Reoordor of j
torjjay roporta a severe hailstorm In
Sohley oonnty on Tuesday. It says:
Farmers from Sohley county in Ainer.
ions yesterday brought fnrtlie
lars of the devastating hailstorm, tli
swept that seotion tho afternoon 1
Tho storm was particularly
the west of EUaville with great fnry
beating tho ootton plants into tho-groand
«nd stripping the young oorn. Many
orops were literally ruined, it is said,
while onthonses and fenoes were blown
down. It is just another chapter in tho
rain wrought In this seotion,
Keller Denies Everything.
Jersey Oity. Jane SO.-The Reverend
Keller today directly denied having bor
rowed money from Mre. Barker. He
also denied tho alleged intimacy and
everything else.
her life, and alter trying everything I c
think pr i mad* up my mind to try* part,.
’Preacrfpilon.' I scut to Chicago and got L
bottlea, which my wife took, a table-spoon fi
.MURDER AND SUICIDE.
Hew York, Jnne ID.—Accusing hi*
wife of unfaithf ulnees and being jealons,
James Aheam shot and killed her and
then smetdod early this morning. Their
home is at Gravesend, '
The old proverb: "Tu be at peace
prepare for war,” fe the secret of the
larger part of life’s successes, whether
of nations or individuals.
The difference between the healthy
happy mother who has healthy ch" *
to nurse and nourish, and the
nervous mother, with a weakling i ,
is mostly a difference of preparation.
Tlie great preparative for motherhood
is Dr. I’ierce's Favorite Prescription. It
tranquilizes the nerves, encourages the .
appetite and induces refreshing sleep.
It gives tbe mother strength to give her
child. It imparts elasticity and strength
to the organs of maternity so that the
baby’s advent is practically painless.
"I take pleasure In
know about
Mr. B. T
111., Box
her life,
three times a day, until the baby
taking the firat bottl
felt better after talcing the flrat bottle, Md w
baby waa born he weighed nine and a ,
pounds, To-day he is aix months old 1
weighs twenty-two pounds. He is ns izood a
child as any one could wish. The doctor says
he bi as healthy as any baby could be, and also
ny wife and myself. I hope yonwifi mention :
ihia to others whb may be la need of such help,
IfA>?“« I would ft
medicine 1 - 11 "* K00i * valuable
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