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Jr% Soutlpnet ©eorninn. 1 A. K. SWIFT, Editor. VOL. IV. DIRECTED TO SOUTH Civic Federation Would Send Immigrants to Dixie, THE SCHEME DISCUSSED A Million Newcomers Arrived During Present Year and Eastern States Received Nearly All of Them. The United States immigration ques tion was taken up for discussion oil Wednesday by the National Givic Fed eration in session in New York city. August Belmont, president of the Na tional Civic Federation, opened the session. The statement that over 1,000,000 immigrants have come to tbe United States during the past year, and that the south and west, the sections of the country which needed and wished for these new citizens, did not get them, was made by Frank P. Sar gent, United States commissioner gen eral of immigration. Mr. Sargent pro posed that the Unted States hereaf ter distribute immigrants according to the needs of the country. “I have just received a few figures, he said, “showing where this immi gration goes to. Of the 1,026,491 im migrants who arrived last year; New York received 315,511; Pennsylvania 201,708; Massachusetts 72,150; Illi nois 72,750; six states of the union received 777,748 or 75 per cent of the whole, which gives some Idea of how popular those states are abroad and how rapidly they gained last year. “The beautiful and prosperous south, entering upon a season of great commercial activity, received 45,343, divided as follows: Maryland, West Virginia and Virginia, 9,000 each; . Louisiana, 5,000; Texas, 4^000; Ke» tueky, 8,018wTennesseo tVIL POLICY EXPOSED. Compare Shows Bad Effects * White Children at Wot* While Negro Children Attend School. Samuel Compere, president of the American Federation of Labor, was the chief speaker at Saturday’s ses sion of the annual meeting of the child laor committee in Washington. Mr. Gompers refuted the charge fre quently made that the federation is not sincere in its opposition to child labor and acts through selfish motives. Mr. Gompers mentioned the at tacks which have been made upon labor organisations in the south for their advocacy of laws protecting children and discussed the conditions in southern factories, where negro children are excluded and white chil dren are employed exclusively. The result is the negro children are in school, while the whites work, Mr Gompers declared, and the very men who disfranchised the negroes are now working great injustice to the whites of the laboring classes. Eldridge T. Gerry of New York, the leader in the movement to protect children, was quoted by Mr. Gompers as saying that the hope for anti child labor laws lies with organized labor, which has been behind all the legisla tion so far obtained. Felix Adler of Columbia University, chairman of the committee, opened the session with a plea for a con stant effort to better the condition of child labor. The general subject for the day was legislation for the District of Co lumbia. Charles P. ‘Neill, United States labor commissioner, said there is less child labor in the national capital than' elsewhere, but declared that the evil exists there in worse form than in most cities. Nothing in the district’s laws prevents the employment of chil dren, and consequently they frequent ly are Required to aiork from ten to thirteen* hours “GO FORWARD.” WOODBINE. GA , FRIDAY. DECEMBER 15. 1905. PROBE OF TILLMAN Run Into Insurance Scandals, Wields Pitchfork, ASKS POINTED QUESTIONS Calls on Secretary Shaw to Know if National Banks Contributed to Campaign Funds. The subject of campaign contribu tions by insurance companies occu pied the major portion of tbe time of tbe senate Thursday. It came up in connection with Mr. Tillman’s res olution calling for an investigation of national bank aid in politics, and was exploited by the South Carolina sen ator in a speech of some length. It was couched iu characteristic lan guage and attracted considerable at tention. The resolution, directing the secretary of the treasury to re port whether the reports of the na tional bank examiners show that the banks have made campaign contribu tions in recent years, was adopted at the close of Mr. Tillman’s remarks. Outlining his reasons for the in quiry, Mr. Tillman called attention to tbe recommendation made by the president in his annual messages of 1904 and 1905 for the enactment of a law for protection against bribery and corruption in connection with elec tions. He quoted with especial em phasis the president’s remarks con cerning campaign contributions by cor porations. “Our chief executive has taken a very progressive stand to se jure purity in elections,” he said, and added: “Every good American will say ‘well done,’ and look for progress along thajr line.” He concluded that the secretary migh k. e the facts wanted, but ougy * i MRS. ROGERS HUNC Vermont Murderess Pays the Penalty on Gallows. DIED WITHOUT A TREMOR Was Married at Sixteen, Murdered Her Husband at Nineteen and Was Executed at Age of Twenty-Two Years. At Windsor, Vermont, without a tre mor and without a word, Mrs. Mary Mabel Rogers, Friday, marched to her death, and paid the penalty of mur dering her husband, Marcus Rogers, at Bennington, on August 13, 1902. To aH appearances Mrs. Rogers was the calmest person in the chamber of death. She faced her end with the same social indifference that ha3 marked her demeanor ever since her arrest more than three years ago. Greatly to the relief of those offi cials who were assisting in executing the sentence, Mary Rogers’ last hour was remarkably free from barrowing incidents. It had been feared that the woman’s wonderful courage would de sert her at the last moment, and she would be carried to the scaffold in a state of collapse. Instead, however, Mrs, Rogers met death bravely. There were no sensational incidents in connection with the hanging. Al though the woman was not officially pronounced dead until ] 4 minutes and 3f> second after the trap was sprung, sue evidently suffered no pain. Her neck was broken at the second cervi cal vertebra and she lost conscious ness immediately after the drop fell. A few feeble convulsive movements of her pinioned hands was the only evidence that vitality had survived the fijgfyshock. The drop fell at 1:13 p. .lid Ma Terms: $1.00 Per Annum in Advance., ASSASSINATED BY WOMAN General Bakharoff Shot Down by Fe male Warrior Belonging to Flying Column—Death Instantaneous. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Daily Telegraph (London), in a dispatch dated December 6, sent by way of JSydtuhnen, says: “Lieutent General Sakharoff, former minister of war, was assassinated Wednesday. “Tbe government had deputed Gen eral Sakharoff to visit the province of Saratoff for the purpose of quell ing the agrarian riots there. “A woman belonging to the so-called ‘flying column’ of the revolutionary movement called at the house of the governor at Saratoff at noon Wednes day and asked to see General Sakba roff. She fired three shots at the general, killing him on the spot. ‘.‘The tidings reached St. Peters bury Wednesday night. Count Witt*» charged Lieutenant General Rudiger, minister of war, with the task of breaking the news to Madame Sakha roff. “The event has created a profound impression in St. Petersburg, owing to fears that the revolutionists here will follow the example thus set. “I am personally convinced that Count Witte’s faith in the good sense and political tact of the Russian think- j ing classes, which recently was as firm as a rock, is gradually weaken ing, and with it his hopes for the carrying out of the liberties promised iu the emperor’s manifesto.” COST OF POLICY FATAL. “Victims” of Insurance Companies Under Investigation. 4, George Eldredge, first vice jresi dent and actuary of the MatuaJ Re serve Life Insurance company, who hJ^|||g||||^on ^investkju! the witness ng CJ and on NO. 5. RUSSIA IS REELINC Financial and Dynastic Ruin Stares Empire in Face. CATACLYSM APPROACHES Soldiers in Revolt and Banks Are Be ing Looted by Depositors—The Power of Count Witte to Be Waning. According to St. Petersburg advices public confidence in the government’s ability to weather the growing storm is waning fast. Premier Witte seems powerless to cope with tbe new ele ments of danger which the revolution is raising on every hand. New mu tinies among the troops are constant ly reported and the lawlessness in the country is increasing. • The immediate danger confronting the government is a concerted attack on the country's credit. flie public fear that the government can be forced to suspend gold payment in creases daily, This woul– be the ci"wning work of the revolutionists who are satisfied that the at tending financial crash the whoie house would come tumbling down. The chances of driving the govern ment into bankruptcy they profess to believe would be materially In creased if the confidence of the pol icy holders of Russian obligations wks undermined, and the news that the French investors who have for eign indebtedness, were unloading, was received with jubilation by the ; revolutionists. At the same t ime, it created a veri table panic rse, imperial 4s the mg