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J 4c e ALBANY, GA.. SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1901.
NO 17
FOOL MURDER.
THREE NEdROES KILLED BY BLACK DES
PERADO IN BAKER COUNTY.
ID BY
ANOTHER NEORO BRUTE OOES OUT BY
THE SAM HOSE ROUTE.
Mother and Daughter Killed and Son Mortally Mob Near Dexter, Tex., Swung Their Victim
Wounded—Murderer Used a Winchester to the Limb of a Tree, Kindled a Coal Oil
Rifle—He Is Still at Large—Posse of
Officers la Pursuit.
Newton, Ga., Aug. 21.—(Special to
the Herald.)—One of the worst triple
murders that have ever occured in Geor
Fire Under
Death.
Him and Roasted Him to
Dallas, Tex., Ang. 21.—A dispatch
received here last night from Whites*
boro. Tex., is to the effect that the
gia was one which occurred on .the negro Abe Wilder, charged with the
Fleming plantation, five miles from this ( murder of Mrs. Caldwell, wife of a
place, last night. Grayson county farmer, at her home on
Bill Miller shot and killed Emelige Saturday last, wa9 captured by a mob
Ragan, her daughter, Lula Ragan, and ttU( j burned at Nelson’s Ranch, two
mortally wounded her son, Anthony and a half miles east of Red Ranch.
Ragan, all of whom are negroes The burning occurred last uight. The
Bill has a reputation of being a very ni ob was composed of 800 men.
bad negro. He is matried, an«i last | The negro was taken to a tree and
night called at the little cabin where swung up in the air. Wood was piled
the Ragan negroes lived aud tried to ( beneath hts body ond a hot fire made
induce the daughter to go off with him. j Then it wa* suggested that the man
This she refused to do, and it so angered on ght not to be permitted to die too
the desfierate negro that he decided to quickly, and he was let down to the
kill the entire family. I ground while u party went to Dexter,
He had a Winchester rifle, and he | about two miles distant, to procure coal
proceeded to empty the contents of the j oil This wa8 thrown on the fire and
magazine into the mother, daughter and the work completed.
sou. He shot the mother several times
through the body, killing her instantly.
The daughter was shot once through
the head and again through the heart,
she, too, being instantly killed. The
son was (-hot twice in the arm and once
in the side. He is mortally wounded '
aud will die iu a few hours.
As soon as Bill had completed his
fiendish work he took to the woods and
has not been seen since. A posse of offi
cers is now in search of him.
It is hoped that he will be caught and
turned over to the hands of the law.
His murderous work was the fouldest
that has ever been done in this county.
Wilder was captured near Dexter iu
the afternoou about 2 o'clock. He had
been seen the day before by a negro who
knew him, and who had informed tl e
citizens of the fact. A posse was at
once organized and the work of beating
the Red river bottoms began. It is said
that it was the Intention of the mob to
take him back to the scene of his crime
aud there lynch him, bnt messages by
telegraph aud telephone gave warning
that the authorities were hastily repair
ing to the scene with a considerable
force aud the work of execution was ex
pedited.
At Whitesboro a great crowd had
gathered in anticipation of a chance to
participate in the lynching, and when
He l» Net For (mertercnce With Lyocher. I* '« WBS learued that the work had been
i doue they expressed great disappoint-
* ment.
| Mrs. Caldwell was a bride of but six
months.
Dexter is far removed from railroads,
I there are no telegraph facilities, and it
I will be some time before all the details
NATIONAL GUAROSfflAN'S QUEER TALK.
Kansas City. Mo , Aug. 22.—A local |
paper prints the following remarkable!
interview with Col. Emmet Newton, of
Springfield. Quartermaster General of i
the National Gu«Td of the state:
“The case referring to the Pierce City j '
_ . . , ^ . ... of the lynching can be made known,
affair was nght. If we had taken that. J "
fellow Lark hack to Tulson, he would I
have been lynched. I have been ro- j
WOULD RESORT
TO INCENDIARISM.
Attempt Made to Burn
Huge Tin Plant at
Manangahela—Is Sup
posed to Have Been
Work of the Strikers or
Their Sympathizers-At-
I
tempt Frustrated.
THE SCHLEY INQUIRY.
ACTIVE PREPARATIONS BEING MADE BY
THE ADMIRAL’S COUNSEL
Per Pretesting HI* SMe of the Caatroversy to
(he Court—Howison to B« Called oo to
Explalu the Remark* He la Reported to
Have Mode.
Pittsburg, August 21.—The local strike
situation is dull today with one great
exception.
John Schuster, the general labor boas
of the Monougahela plant of the Ameri-1
can Tin Plate Co , reports that late yes
terday afternoon an attempt waa made
to bnrn the great plant. The strong
odor of escaping gas filled the plant. It
was finally discovered that the pressure
gauge had been knocked from an eight
inch gas pipe just outside the bnildinga
aud gas was escaping by the thousands
of feet.
Schuster hastily put a wooden plug
in the leak aud went to get a now
gauge. When he returned some one
had throw'll a lighted piece of paper near
where the leak was. His putting the
wooden plug in the place is the only
thing that saved the plant.
HOWISON ALL RIGHT,
THINKS THE NAVY DEPARTMENT,
SCHLEY IS SO INFORMED.
AND
The Asalataat Secretary of the Navy Write*
Interesting Letter to Rear Admiral
Schley—Howlaen “An Officer of Un
blemished Reputation and Excellent
Character.” •
NEARLY DESTOYS THE TOWN OF COL
LINSVILLE, ALA.
A CARRIE NATION
quested to order the return ot the stolen Appears In the State of Maine aud Is Burning
rifles, but I did not do so. We know
who we are dealing with down there.
Saloons.
Bncksport, Maine,August 22.—Several
The man responsible for the crime has fialoonBtWhich wftre ruI1 «« Q instthe law,
not yet been taken to Pierce City, but, - a8 the ^ is dry har€ beeu bnrned
when he is, no appeal will be taken. j ate j y an< j a woman imitator of Carrie
He will die before he can do such a. jj a fl on has been appieheuried as the
thing’'’ | guilty party. The police refuse to di-
i vulge her name.
VISIT THt LIBRARY.
FOUR WERE KILLED
Many New Books Received far Benefit of Mem- .
hers and Visitors. In faffing Farm House Wrecked by a Severe
One of the most attractive places iu Tornado,
the city to those who are at all in- Auadarko. Okla., Aug 22 — Late re
el 5 ned to be literary is the Albany Pub- ports indicate that the tornado which
lie Library. swept this section last night has caused
The Albany Library is keeping right rteath and frightful property los-». The
up with the current literature of the -itorm was most severe in this neighbor-
day, aud all the new books may W ’mod. Four persons were killed in one
foaod there. The members of the H-, * ullin * fBrm ho ° He -
brary may take these hooks to their MURDER MYSTERY CLEARED
homes and keep them nut for a week ,
or more But anybody may ro to By „, t . Co „ tes8 |as of Youn, Uthura That He
the library and enjoy reading any of
the books during the library hours,
which are from 8 to 10 in the mornings
and fiom 4 to H in the afternoons.
Visitors to the library will find all the
best monthly magazines aud u number
of the leading newspapers of the country
at the library for their use and pleasure.!
It is a good evidence of the culture
and refinement of the citizens of Albany j
Killed His Uncle.
Buchanan, Ga., August 21.—The
murder of Thos. S. Latham has been
cleared up by the confession of his
! nephew. A. B. Latham, that he fired
j the fatal shot. Both men had been to
j dinner at the home of J. T. Latham, a
brother of the younger man, and were
returning home
The young fellow went home and told
that a public library should be supported b ( g mother that he had doue the killing
and kept up so well as is the Albany j Fie had been ill aud the family aud phy-
Pablio Library. Visitors to the city sicians knew he was insane, but kept it
. , ... ... , i from the public. His father turned him
will be impressed with this when they ; .... TT . ,
over to the officers. He is 28 years old
and unmarried.
Two Thirds of Business Houses Washed
Away—Engineer Wades Five Miles In
Front of His Engine Examining the Inun
dated Track.
Attulla. Ala , Aug. 22—Collinsville,
a town of one thonaand inhabitants
twenty miles above hereon the Alabama
Great Southern railroad, was visited
early last night by a cloudburst which
nearly destroyed the place. Two thirds
of the business houses there were wash
ed away. The A. G 8. track was inun
dated for miles. The Pan-American
flyer, due here at 8 :80 last night, arrived
here at 8 :8<> this morning. The engineer
had to wade for five miles in front of
his engine to see that the tYack was Hafe.
LIVES LOST IN FLAMES.
Five Dead and Four Missing al Oreal Point
Near Philadelphia.
Philadelphia. Pa., August 20 —The
fire 1 at Great Point is still burning furi
ously. It will be several days before it
can be extingui-hed. The latest esti
mates placed the number of dr-ad at five,
the injured at twenty-one and the miss
ing at, four, who are supposed to be un
der the ruins All the dead are era*
pU*yes of the American Refining Com
pany.
The lire started at 12:80 o'clock tins
morning by the explosion of a benr.ine
tank at the American R -fining Com
pany's plant.
PARDON REFUSED.
go to the well appointed library room in
the Chautauqua Auditorium.
The public should remember that
every one is invited to go to the library
and read such books or magazines as! Prc8,dcDl D,d Not Grflnt Pardon For ,hc
they may desire, and those who are nqf j Georgian, T. S. McMillan,
members of the Association will receive | Washington, August 21.—President
jnst as cordial a welcome and jnst as McKinley has refused tc grant the par-
courteous attention from Miss Brosnan,
the popular librarian, as one of the
don for T. S McMillan, who was sen
tenced to one year from April 9th, from
the southern district of Georgia, for
charter members. You have an in vita- j gtealin -. a valaable letter from a postal
tion to enjoy the p)easnres and the j ar The sentence is considered a mild
profits of this excellent library. one.
AFTER EXCITINC CHASE
Officer Raley Arrested a Bad Negro This
Morning.
For some time past the officers here
have been on the lookout for a negro
named Charlie Bigsbee, who is wanted
by the authorities of Colquitt county.
A boat two weeks ago Charlie was
mixed up in a bad shooting affray in
Doerun. and since that tune he has been
hiding oat about Albany. Day before
yesterday Officer Raley chased him but
he escaped, and again yesterday an un
successful attempt to land him behind
the bars was made.
Officer Raley happened to see him on
Monroe street near the home of Mr. W.
E. Gannaway today. The negro ran
when he saw the officer and was chased
to Society street, where Officer Raley
got the drop on him and effected his
capture.
The Colquitt county authorities have
been notified.
Never have farmers in this section of
the state more earnestly desired fair
weather than now.
Washington, Aug. 19.—The navy de
partment has decided that the Schley
court of inquiry shall be held iu the
gunners’ work shops at the navy yard.
The workshop is a large, new building
and well adapted to meet the require
ments of the court.
Judge .lere Wilson aud Hon. Isadora
Rayner, counsel for Rear Admiral
Schley in the oomlng court of inquiry,
called on Aoting Secretary of the Navy
Hackett today and made inquiries re
garding the department’s list of witness
es. They were Informed that the de
partment had no prepared list, aud that
the preparation of a list is in the hands
of Capt Lemley, the judge advocate of
the court, who is now in Canada and is
expected to return to Washington next
Monday They also were informed that
counsel for Admiral Schley could write
a letter to Capt. Lemley asking for the
list, which letter would be forwarded to
the judge advocate, or they could await
his return aud then make application to
him. Admiral Schley did not accom
pany his advisers. It is understood that
a letter will be addressed to the depart
ment by Admiral Schley's counsel, ask
ing for a list of the witnesses. It is
stated that the call on Secretary Hackett
was informal.
While the request of the counsel of
Admiral Schley for a list of witnesses
will be submitted to Judge Advocate
General Lemley as a matter of form, it
has already been determined at the de
partment that the request will be com
plied and the list furnished Admiral
Schley’s lawyers. Possibly this will not
be done until after the return of Capt.
Lemley to Washington.
Dunug their conference with Acting
Secretary Hackett today Messrs. Ray
nor and Wiho t advised him that a com
munication would be sent him this af
ternoon relative to certain statements
reported to have bieu made by Rear Ad
miral Howison, a member of the court
of iuquiry, in regard to the Schley-
Sampson controversy The letter to
Secretary Huckett will include copies of
interviews purporting to have come
from Admiral Howison, stating among
other things, that the battle of Santiago
was won by Sampson, that the latter’s
presence was unnecessary at the fight,
that Schley deserved no credit for the
fight and between the two offioers Samp
sou was the better one.
Secretary Hackett is requested to for
ward this communication to Admiral
Howison tor his consideration, and p
copy of that officer's rep.y to tho depart
ment, is asked tor.
Lieutenant Wells, who was flag sec
retary for Admiral Schley during the
West Indiau campaign, has been de
tached from the Kearsage and ordered
to Washington to assist Admiral Schley
in the preparation of his case. This ac
tion was taken at the request of the ad
miral, who said ho desired the assistance
of Lieutenant Wells because of lys fa
miliarity with all the correspondence
during the time he (Schley) was in com
mand of the “flying squadron.”
Washington, August, 22.—The Navy
Department has made public the cor
respondence with Rear Admiral Schley
relative to fitness of Rear Admiral
Howison to serve on the court of In
quiry. The following letter, which
probably finally disposes of the matter,
was indited to Schley by Assistant Sec
retary Hackett:
Washington, August 21.—Sir: In re
ply to your letter of the 19th inst., en
closing a newspaper clipping and re
questing the department to send it to
Rear Admiral Howl on, together with a
copy of your letter, yon are informed
that the appointment of Rear Admiral
Howison aR a third member of the court
of inquiry was accomplished only after
takiug great pains to insure absolute
impartiality in the officer selected. To
question unofficially put as to his
availability in case the department
should require his services, Rear Ad
miral Howison replied : “I know of no
reason why I should not be available for
such duty should the department so de
sire. 1 have made ne public utterances
relating to the subject, and I have seen
none of the official reports aud papers
hearing upon the questions to be de
cided by the coart.”
Your counsel, Oapt,. Parker, before
the appointment had been announced,
mentioned to the acting secretary the
names of certain rear admirals, any one
of whom, he said, would be perfectly
satisfactory to Rear Admiral Schley.
One of the names so mentioned Mas
that of Rear Admiral Howison. It may
be added that o( four officers consulted
by the department, the names of three
were upon the list t hus mentioned by
your counsel.
This much has been detailed iu order
to remind you of the fuct that a fair-
minded officer of excellent reputation
and of unblemished character had been
found in the person of Rear Admiral
Howison, who, at the date o» his ap
pointment, appears to have enjoyed tho
confidence of both the department and
yourself.
Your request, is based upon a news
paper clipping that purports to contain
statements, in regard to the truth of
which you do not yourself express an
opinion.
You ask the department to lay before
Rear Admiral Howison a statement,
wholly unsubstantiated, that appears to
have been made by some person un
known at a time and place likewise un
known.
The department is unable to
fire! fire!!
When that cry aounds how people
rush to help and aytnpathiae! And
when aoane fireman rescues a woman
from the flames, the
atroeta echo with ap
plauding about*.
And yet if that
woman hod perished
in the flame* It ia pas
sible that she would
have suffered lees
then she suffers al
most daily from the
inflammation which
disease has lighted in
the delicate womanly
organism.
That fire of inflam
mation can be pvt
out. The gnawing
ulcer cau be cured.
Dr. Pierce'* Favorite
Prescription not only
establishes womanly
regularity and drie*
enfeebling drains, bnt
it heals inflammation
and ulcerations and
cures female weak
ness. It makes weak
women strong and
sick women well.
"I suffered for four with what four phy-
pronounced ulceration and pmlapaua of
th* otfruM." writes Mrs. Ada brooks, of Kirby-
rrillr, Tntiey Co.. Muteonri "Also Inflammation
mf bladder and urethra. My cnae was chronic
and complicated. Mad several good physicians,
but kept uetting worse. Had I wen confined to
my bed five months when I wrote to you. I
received your replv very soon aud then dis
missed my physician and began takiug I)r,
Pierce's iii«-niciiu*H. I took eight bottles of hU
' Favorite Prescription ' and * Golden Medical
Discovery,' and began to get tiettcr at once. Iu
two months I could sit up in n chnir. and kept
vetting better Iii four months could do all my
house work, including washing and sewing."
Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical
Advisor, paper covers, is sent free on
receipt ot ai one-cent stamps to pay
expense of mailing only. Address Dr.
R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
• FLAGLER TO YYEI).
EN ROUTE TO KENANSVILLB TO MARRY
MISS KENAN, ’TIS SAID.
IMMEDIATE TROUBLE
Wedding Will Occur Saturday— Wedding Prep
arations Elaborate But Secret—Florida
Millionaire Has Just Been Divorced From
His Insane Wife.
Jacksonville, Fla . August 22. —Henry
M. Flagler, the Florida millionaire, left
here last night to go to Wilmington, N.
C.. where, it, is said, he will marry his
fiance, Miss Kenan.
Wilmington, N O., Aug 22. —Henry
Flagler will, it is rumored here, go to
Kenansville, where on Saturday he will
marry Miss Mary Lilly Kenan. Mar
riage preparation! have been made
elab r rately, but are kept secret. There
is little doubt that it happens Satur
day.
fir
EEN
CLAIMED WITHIN A WEEK BY CLEVE
LAND’S FATAL WATER TUNNEL.
Cleveland, O . August 21.—-Five more
unfortunate crib laborers have been
strangled in crib number three as the
result of the exploaiou last night. Two
others were blown out of the shaft, aud
twenty-five others spent the whole night
trying to signal the shore This makes
j jifreeu live* that Cleveland's fatal water
view j tunnel has claimed this week. The
1 c
that of a preliminary challenge of the ' few days ago.
fitness of Rear Admiral Howison to! A gun..' of nearly forty men at, tho
serve as a member of the court. Ir, will 1 crib went ut Tuesday night A shaft
be treated as is usual in cases of courts had cu rank to the tunnel level, and
Is Not Feared by France and Prench Fleet Is
Not Sent to Turkey.
Paris, August 22.—There is nothing
new in the Tnrkey-France controversy,
save that tho French fleet has not been
ordered to Turkey, which means that
France does not fear trouble, that is,
imTnediately.
The cotton crop through this section
is suffering from the excessive rains
now. A telephone message from New-
tou yesterday stated that the cotton crop
in Baker county had been greatly dam
aged by the rains.
of inquiry.
The established practice in th**, mili
tary as well »i“ iu rhe naval service has
fixed the method in which the right
of challenge before court martials and
courts of inquiry shall be exercised.
The department, haring constituted
the court, should not at this stage of
the proceedings, undertake to hear and
determine questions that may arise
respecting the competency of its mem
bers. Snch a proceeding won Id bo
irregular, all questions of this nature
being left to the determination of the
court itself.
This correspondence will ho tranr-
minted to the president of the court for
information. Respectfully,
F. W. Hackett,
Acting Secretary,
To Rear Admiral W. S. Schley, U. 8. N.
STRIKERS CUARDED PLANT,
Buf no Efforl Was Made to Start the Tin
Plate Plant at Demmler.
McKeesport, Pa., August 22.—All
night long several hundred strikers
stood guard around the Tin Plate plant
at Demmler to thwart an alleged at
tempt to start up, but no effort was
made.
work on the tunnel had just starter g
The sbi'trt were to chinge at 8 p m .
but the ri ght gtug was a few minutes
lute ii: smarting down. Four men had
gone into the lower steel abaft, sixty-
five feet below the water, three were ou
the staging in the second air-tight lock,
about half way up, while ten others
were preparing to go down.
Two explosions occurred almost simul
taneously. Ail the men in the lower
lock were drowned. One man on the
staging was thrown of)’ and drowned,
making five dead. The men uninjured
were horror stricken, and spout the
night vainly trying to signal the shore.
Onlv at daylight did a pausing steamer
hear them.
LASTING FAME
Is What Ben Tillman Claims for Himself la a
Public Speech.
Mt. Gretna, Pa., August 22 —Ben
Tillman, of South Carolina, in a .jpeech
here yesterday said, among ocher things .
“My name will not disappear from the
annals of South Carolina and my actions
and sayings will forever live there.”
The river continues to rise, and it
never has been any redder than it iB
now.