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SAMMIN GANG
IS DOOMED
Tie Pursuing Posses Continue
Work of Extermination.
LIST OF VICTIMS REACHES FIVE.
Additional Particulars cl Lynch¬
ing of Sammin—Great Ex¬
citement Prevails.
A state of terror reigns in Decatur
and Early counties, Georgia, as the
result of the outrage upon the Ogle
trees at Safford; the lynching of some
of the perpetrators and the exciting
chase of others of the gang.
The officers of the law are power¬
less to check the fury of the people,
even if they were so disposed, as the
feeling that the criminals have com¬
mitted a diabolical crime and are de¬
serving of no sympathy, is general.
Five members of the gang so far
have been made way with, while an
exciting chase is yet going on for the
associates of those who have been dis¬
posed of.
It is said that no mistakes have
been made by those who have taken
the law in their own hands, for in
each instance it was known beyond
all doubt that the victim of the mob
was guilty of the crime for which he
was executed.
One of the captives was- Charles
Mack, the companion of Sammin. It
was Sammin and Mack who outraged
Mrs. Ogletree in the presence of her
husband at Saffold, one holding a pis¬
tol at the head of the husband to pre¬
vent his interference.
Mack was captured at Iron City by
& white man named Cardell. Cardell
tried to get his prisoner through to
jail, hence secreted him. A mob of
*several hundred country people met
Cardell and asked the whereabouts of
his prisoner. He declined to say. A
rope was quickly put about his neck
and he was given ten minutes in
which to give up the rapist or his life.
He thep told where the negro was. In
a short while the crowd had Mack,
who confessed, corroborating Sam
min’s statement. The men, he said,
were banded together for murder, rob¬
bery and rape.
Sammin’* Kxecution Dramatic.
The scene presented at the execu¬
tion of Sammin was a dramatic one.
Sammin had been completely identi¬
fied by both Ogletree and Mrs. Ogle
tree and had not opened his mouth in
denial of the charges. He was being
led to a place of execution and those
about him were discussing how they
would put him to death. Suddenly
Sammin turned to one of his captors
aad asked to be allowed to have a
word. He was given permission to
talk, and then in an off-hand way he
told how he and his comrades had en¬
tered the store, robbed Ogletree,made
him lead the way to Mrs. Ogletree
and how one had held the gun against
Ogletree’s breast while his wife was at
the mercy of his associate.
Sammin begged for his life, promis¬
ing to take the authorities to where he
could find six other members of the
gang.
The mob, numbering some two hun¬
dred men, were too highly incensed,
and nothing but justice on the spot
would quench their thirst for revenge.
They at once chained him to a tree
and after mutilating parts of his body
he was riddled with bullets.
Two Dead Near Balnbrldge.
Early Sunday morning the bodies of
two unknown negroes were found on
the Plant System railroad embank¬
ment near Bainbridge. A big crowd
congregated at the place and examined
the bodies. It was believed by some
that the men had been accidentally
killed by a train, but others asserted
that the negroes had been hanged by
a mob and their bodies placed on the
track to be run over by a train to make
it appear that that was the means of
their death.
So divided was the opinion that the
coroner was summoned, and he em
panneled a jury which, after several
hours of deliberation, returned a ver¬
dict that the negroes came to their
death aecidentaly.
DEWEY ARR1YES AT SUEZ.
Admiral’* Health I* Good. But Most of
Hi* Men Suffered From Malaria.
According to a cable dispatch the
United States cruiser Olympia, from
Colombo, Ceylon, Jun§ 28tk, arrived
at Admiral Suez Wednesday. Dewey said
on his arrival
he was in very good health. He ap¬
peared to be in excellent condition,
which was also the case with his offi¬
cers and men. Most of them have
suffered from malarial fever, but have
now quite recovered.
The Olympia has been quarantined,
no direct communication with the
shore being s’lewed.
EPWORTH LEAGUERS
CoBMntion at Indianapolis Finish
Work —Resolutions Adopted.
The work of the Epworth League
convention at Indianapolis practically
ended Saturday.
The closing day was the most im¬
portant of the convention, 14,000 vis¬
itors thronging the city. The follow¬
ing resolutions were adopted by the
convention:
the “Resolved, That we congratulate
country on the passage of the anti¬
canteen act, which so accurately repre¬
sents the will of the American people.
Its nullification by Attorney General
Griggs is viewed with painful solici¬
tude and ever-increasing indignation,
and we hereby pledge congress our
hearty support in maintaining it
against the untenable opinion of a
subordinate executive officer, We
heartily indorse the union of the tem¬
perance forces sought by the American
Anti-Saloon League.
“We regard the election of a polyg¬
amist to congress by the state of Utah
as ican an citizen indignity offered to every Amer¬
and an insult to the sanc¬
tity and purity of the Christian home.
“We protest against the election of
Mr. Roberts to the house of repre¬
sentatives and demand that one whose
life is so repugnant to Christian prin¬
ciples shall be expelled from that gveat
law-making body.
“We favor a federation with other
young people’s societies both locally
and nationally through suitable execu¬
tive committees for the promotion of
Christian citizenship.”
CROWDED CAR WRECKED.
Striker* Do Dastardly Work In Cleveland.
Six Person* Badly Hurt.
At Cleveland, O., Sunday night, a
trolly car, loaded with passengers, was
wrecked by an explosion of nitro¬
glycerin or gun cotton. Six persons
were badly hurt, half of them being
women.
The explosion tore out the front end
of the car, smashed all the windows
and destroyed the brake. After con¬
siderable difficulty the car was stop¬
ped and a call for an ambulance was
sent out. The motorman was dazed
by the shock, but the conductor esoap
ed injury.
The force of the explosion was so
great that it shook all the houses in
the neighborhood and was heard for a
distance of two or three miles.
There is no clew to the identity of
the person who placed the explosive
on the track. Persons living in the
neighborhood say they saw a man in
the buggy stop at the corner of Ken¬
sington street where the explosion oc¬
curred, and get out by the railroad
track. He remained there a short time
and then drove rapidly away.
Within a few minutes after the ex¬
plosion a crowd of a thousand people
assembled and the injured, who were
suffering from shock, were cared for
until the ambulance arrived. None of
them were dangerously injured, their
hurts being confined to bruises about
the feet and legs.
PRIEST CAUSING TROUBLE,
Calls Upon Filipino Insurgents to Force
Independence of Church.
A Manilla dispatch says: A Filipino
priest named Gregorie Agripay, with
tie insurgents, is trying to lead a
noveraent for the independence of the
clurch in the Philippines from the
Spanish priesthood. proclamation de
He has issued a
caring himself the vicar general of all
tie Filipino priests in the districts
oitside of American oontrol on the
island of Luzon, and is inciting the
priests to disobey the regulations of
tie church and brotherhoods. The
aichbishop of the district has issued a
bill excommunicating Agripay, and
tHs action has increased the feeling
bftween the Filipinos and the church.
OTIS AMENDS DISPATCHES.
i«cent Fight Was Bigger American Vic¬
tory Than First Reported.
Sunday the war department received
f:om General Otis another dispatch
giving additional particulars of the
fght between Captain B. A. Byrne,
vith seventy men of the Sixth infan
t y, and robber bands in the islands of
Jegros.
It shows that the victory of the
ders was greater than that reported
ii General Otis’ dispatch of July 21st
aid that the loss suffered by the rob¬
bers was considerably larger than be¬
fore stated.
DISCUSSED THE LYNCHING.
Iiilian Count Vinchi Again Call* at the
State Department.
The Italian charge d’affaira, Count
Yiuchi, called at the state department
Nonday and had a talk with Mr. Hill,
assistant secretary of state, concerning
tie Louisiana Iynchings.
Count Vinchi submitted nothing
farther from the Italian authorities
aid evinced satisfaction with what had
bien already done by the officials in
Vashington. Thus far there had been
10 suggestion that indemnity or other
firm of reparation would be expected,
Ike representation having been con
ined to securing full information on
the subject.
KENTUCKY DEMOCRATS DECIDE TO
ORGANIZE A “BOLT.”
GATHERING EXTREMELY LIVELY.
Sy*t«ma*tlc Fight Is to Be Winged Again*!
Nominee of Louisville Convention.
Resolution* Adopted.
The anti-Goebel meeting at Bowling
Green, Ky., Monday afternoon ended
in the greatest disorder. Personal
violence was resorted to several times
before the convention was adjourned.
One man was struck with brass
knucks and several others received
blows. For a time it looked as if the
meeting would end in a general riot.
Pistols and knives were drawn, and
but for a temporary adjournment,
more bloodshed would surely have
followed.
It was county court day and an un¬
usually large crowd was in the city.
The meeting bad been widely adver¬
tised and was largely attended. A num¬
ber of prominent speakers from a dis¬
tance, among the number being Har¬
vey Myers and Theodore Hallman, of
Covington; Hon. Thomas H. Hays, of
Louisville, the defeated candidate for
the nomination of lieutenant governor;
William H. Smith; ex-United States
District Attorney Jim Williams, of
Louisville; J. C. Flournoy, attorney,
of Fulton; J. J. Constantine, of Sparta,
and others were present.
J. McKenzie Moss, a gold democrat
of Bowling Green, called the meeting
to order. An effort was made to elect
a secretary from the local newspaper
ranks, but each one suggested refused
to serve.
Trouble Is Precipitated.
Mr. Moss was continued as perma¬
nent chairman. Harvey Myers, of
Covington, an oldtime enemy of Goe¬
bel, attempted to address the conven¬
tion, but he had scarcely begun the
address when he was interrupted by
some one in the hall with the ques¬
tion:
“Did you betray Hon. Will T. Cox,
whose picture you now face, in the
race for the speakership of the Ken¬
tucky house of representatives?”
Mr. Cox was a resident of Bowling
Green and was a very popular man.
He was defeated by Myers, his per¬
sonal friend, by a few votes for
speaker. set^the
This remark convention in
an uproar. A great howl went up
and in a minute there was the great¬
est confusion ever witnessed at a po¬
litical gathering in Kentucky.
During the disturbance the commit¬
tee on resolutions reported. The res¬
olution was declared carried. Fearing
more serious trouble, a motion to ad¬
journ was declared carried and half
the crowd left the room, when several
personal altercations occurred on the
outside.
When part of the crowd had left the
hall something like order was again
restored and many persons were in
“——■ —<■« -
The resolutions deny that the ticket
is entitled to or should receive the
support of the party in the state.
The convention repudiated ~r the so
called ,, . nommee, . and , in order to . pre
serve the integrity of the party and to
secure the election of democrats, re
quested a provisional executive com
mittee of twelve to meet at Lexing
ton, August 2d, and meanwhile to
take steps to secure a full represent
tion at that meeting of democrats
throughout the state who are in sym
patby with the movement.
Owens Sends Letter.
Ex-Congressman W. C. Owens sent
the letter condemning the movement
inaugurated by so-called democrats
and eastern states to abandon the
principles of the Chicago platform and
indorsing William Jennings Bryan for
president, and charging that the state
convention in Louisville which nomi¬
nated Goebel ‘was perverted from its
true parpose by corruption, fraud and
force; by intrigue and treachery; by
infamous rulings of the acting chair¬
man, thereby setting at naught the
time-honored principles of democracy
that the will of the majority of the
people shall be the governing power.”
MILITARY IN CLEVELAND.
Four Companies Located In Ohio Town
Are Called to Preserve Order.
Orders were issued at Cleveland,
O., Saturday for the assembling of
four companies of the Fifth regiment,
located at Cleveland, to do strike duty
in the streets of the city during the
present street railway trouble.
Decision to call out the Fifth was
made after a long conference between
Mayor Farley and Director of Police
Barrett. It was decided that it was
absolutely necessary not only for the
safety of the property of the street
railway companies and lives of its em¬
ployes, but for the protection of the
lives and property of citizens.
WHAT POS TERITY I S TO MISS.
f peculations by tlie Pale HathetnatlclM
That Bored the Buddy Business Man.
“Hare you noticed,” said the pale
mathematician, “how much easier it
is going to be, after this year, to write
the number of the year in Roman
numerals?”
“What do I want to write the yeai
in Roman numerals for?” said the
ruddy business man.
“Maybe you don’t,” the pale
mathematician answered, “but notice
the difference. In Arabic figures rt
has taken just four figures to write the
number of the year ever since the year
1000, and it will take no more till the
year 999S. But in Roman numerals
the year 1000 was written with a single
‘H.’ We shall never get back to one
letter again. Now for this year it
takes nine letters, ‘MDCCCXCIX.*
And think of 1888, which we can
easily remember. Then it took thir
teen letters, ‘MDCCCLXXXVIII.’
That was the hardest year to write of
the whole Christian era thus far.
“But next near, 1900, it will drop
light down to three figures, ‘MCM.’
And a hundred and one yeats hence
it will goto two letters, ‘MM.’ And
how long do you think it will be be¬
fore another year comes as hard to
write as 1888?”
“I don’t know,” said the ruddy
business man, absently. He was
wondering whether h*e could turn the
crank of the messenger call to the
word “Police” without being noticed.
“Not till the year 2388,” said the
pale mathematician. “That will be
written in Romans ‘MMCCCLXXX
VIII’—thirteen letters again.’*
The ruddy business man was get¬
ting more and more uneasy. “And
what—what of it?” he said.
“Why, only think,” said the pale
mathematiciau, “how many genera¬
tions of our descendants will never see
a year so short to write as 1900, and
bow many and many more will never
see a year so long to write as 1888.”
“And what of—what of that?” said
the ruddy business man.
“Nothing, I suppose,” said the pale
mathematiciau, “only those things al¬
ways impress me.”
A Syrian Village Funeral.
The gatherings of villagers at fu¬
nerals in a Syrian village are very
large. The entire population of the,
village above the *age of fifteen is ex¬
pected to attend. At such gatherings
men and women do not mingle togeth¬
er., There are always two places pro¬
vided, one for each sex. The women
surround the corpse, and do most of
the mourning and wailing, and the
men spend the time discussing sub¬
jects pertaining to life and death. As
soon as a person dies the news is com¬
municated to the villagers with all
swiftness. Women hurry first to the
bereaved home, and men come in large
companies a little later. When the
relatives see a number of men coming
they stand in line to receive them.
It is not good manners to say “good
morning” to the bereaved before ex
pressing one’s sympathy to them. So
when people come they stand in line
facing the relatives of the dead, and
all together say: “Our mind is with
you in this bereavement; may you be
kept safe; may the dead be a sacri¬
fice for the prolongation of your lives;
it is extremely grievous to us, but it
is the will of God.” This is the short¬
est form of expressing sympathy at a
, , . ... . „
“ d ba ” t ia ,‘ luiok
answered m . the 1 same manner by the
relatives of the dead. After tins they
aay “Good morning all together and
exchange f “How are you? ' etc. Un
dertak( rs are not fo ud in s J ia ex .
J ti * in tbe large cifcie Th«
ghb ra with the nearest relative!
ch of the Whe^a and ther<
is a0 embalming. person diet
a carpenter is called to take the meas
ure of the e and make a .< taboot .
_ a kin(J of caaket . The law requirea
that the dead be baried after twe nty
four^hours from the time of death, and
not sooner, but this law is seldom
obeyed.—New York Times. 4
Fricing a Pair of Trousers.
Lord Brampton was on one occa¬
sion presiding over a case in which
the plaintiff was giving evidence
against a man who had stolen a paii
of trousers from his shop.
“How much were the trousers?''
querried Hawkins.
“Well,” replied the plaintiff', “it
depends who wants to buy them. I
sell them to one man for thirty shil¬
lings, to another for twenty-five, but
you can have them for twenty-three
and six.”
“Sir!” cried Hawkins, angrily, “J
want you to tell me how much those
trousers are worth.”
“Well,” replied the plaintiff, “shall
we say twenty-two shillings for yon?”
“Look here,” thundered Hawkins,
“if you do not instantly tell me what
those trousers are worth, I’ll send
you to jail for fourteen days for con¬
tempt of court.”
“Well, well,’’replied the frightened
plaintiff, conciliatingly, “you 'may
have them for a guinea. I’m giving
them away; still, you may have them
at that price.”
Even the stern aspect of Justice
Hawkins could not stop the roar of
laughter which broke out on hearing
the reply, a roar in which Hawkins,
after a few minutes, joined hixnselL—
Weekly Telegram.
NEW YORK MAN IS SELECTED AS
SUCCESSOR TO ALGER.
HE ACCEPTS THE PORTFOLIO.
General Alger Send* Congratulations—A
Brief Sketch of the New Head
of War Department.
A Washington special says: Elihtt
Root, of New York, has accepted the
war portfolio in President McKinley’s
cabinet. The telegram of acceptance
was reoeived shortly after noon Satur¬
day, while Secretary Long was with
the president. Secretary Alger had
left.
The tender of the war portfolio was
made to Mr. Root Friday night after
the conference at the white house.
Secretary Alger had confidently ex¬
pected the appointment of Mr. Root,
and was very much pleased at the
president’s choice. This was evidenc¬
ed in the following letter which Secre¬
tary Alger addressed to his successor:
My Deat, Mr. Root: All I kaow is what the
say, that you are to succoed me
as secretary of war. Should it oome to you
most earnestly urge you to make the
and accept the position. With
your great knowledge of law and your ex¬
cellent health, you can serve the country in
a way given to few men. Sincerely yours,
R. A Aloeb.
‘‘To Hon. Elihu Root, New York.”
Who the New Secretary I*.
Elihu Root was born February 15,
1845, at Clinton, Oneida county, N.
Y. He graduated from Hamilton col¬
lege in the class of 1804 and entered
the New York university law school.
He was admitted to the bar in 1867,
since which time be has been in the
active practice of his profession in
New York city. He was United States
attorney for the southern district of
New York from March, 1888, to July,
1885. He was vice president of the
association of the bar of the city of
New York for a number of years; vice
president of the New York Grant
Monument Association; at one time
president of the republican club, and
is the present president of the Union
League Club.
He has been a trustee of Hamilton
college since 1883 and has served as
president of the New England Society
in the city of New York. He was on©
of the most prominent members of the
last New York state constitutional con¬
vention, where he served as chairman
of the judiciary committee.
MAY DEMAND SATISFACTION.
Italian Government Seeking In¬
formation About Lynching In
Tallulah, La.
A Washington special says: The
lynching of five Italians in Louisiana
last Friday promises to assume an in¬
ternational aspect through the action
of the Italian government. Count
Vincbi, the Italian charge d’affaires,
called at the state department at an
early hour Saturday morning and made
representations to the officials son
cerning the atrocity in Louisiana.
In order to get full information as a
basis for action by this government,
Secretary Hay thereupon telegraphed
the governor of Louisiana requesting
all the facts in the case. Count Vin
chi’s action was predicated on reports
from the Italian consular officials in
Louisiana, and by the press reports.
There is reason to believe also that
the Italian foreign office is already
fully informed on the occurrence. It
is probable, however, that the repre¬
sentations of the present are only pre¬
liminary with the view to calling at¬
tention to the facts reported and to
pave the way for any protest or de¬
mand of reparation which may follow.
Count Vinchi’s representations to
the state department were based upon
a brief dispatch from the acting con¬
sul at New Orleans, Pabini.
Count Vinchi at once directed that
all the particulars in the case be se¬
cured and that special inquiry be made
as to whether the victims of the lynch¬
ing were Italian citizens who had not
yet become naturalized.
Success comes alwajs to those who
believe in printer’s ink judiciously
used. Let us have your advertise*
French Judge Suspended.
The oonrt of cassation at Paris has
suspended M. Crosjean, the Versailles
judge, for two months, for communi¬
cating to newspapers documents con¬
cerning the Dreyfus case.
Refrigerator Plant For Manila.
Secretary Alger has approved plans
for a building for the refrigerator
plant at Manila. The building will
cost $230,000 and the plant and ma¬
chinery $400,000.