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Van Cleave Says Most of
Them Should Be Hoeing,
TAFT DUBBED STRADLER
Head of Manufacturers’ Association
_Delivers Address Before Large
Gathering of Chattanooga
: Business Men.
That Secretary Taft has straddled
the question of crganized labor, and
has, therefore, lost the nomination for
Dresident, is the opinion of James
W. Van Cleave of St. Louis, expre.s
ed in his invective agalnst some of
methods employed by the American
Federation of Labor in_his speech on
“The Industrial South,” before a rep
osentative gathering of Chattanooga’s
manufacturers Wednesday night.
in his address, Mr. Van Cleave told
of the wonderful growth of the south
since the- civil war, telling of the suc
cosses of the day, and of the dan
gers which were besetting manufac.
turers and which should be guarded
against. Among the problems which
he said had to be solved was that of
labor. He also paid his respects to
the average legislatures in the south
ern giates, declaring that manufac
turers should pay closer attention to
political fquestion's, and see that the
vight Kind of representatives : were
sent to pass the right kind of laws.
_ His reference to what he conaider
ed the probable defeat of Secretary
Taft followed a quotation from a presg
dispatch to the effect that Samuel Gom
vers intended to enter the political
field and organize a party composed of
members of the American Federation
of Labor. He said he would be only
too glad if the party was organized, ag
it would prevent such men as Taft
from being afraid of the chimera of
organized labor.
Among other warnings given manu
facturers by Mr. Van Cleave was one to
protect their interests against the pas
sage of unjust laws. He said that thig
cotld be done by sending the best kind
of men to the legisla,-ture7 He advised
them to pay more attention to poiitical
subjects and to elections,
"L was in a‘legisltive hall recently,”
said Mr. Van Cleave, “and I saw fifty:
men whom I would not pay S4O a week
to sell stoves for me, and yet they
were sunt to the legislature. Many of
those who are making our laws for us
should be working in the mill or hoe
tng corn.” : st
B T e b s s
PAROLE GRANTED “BILLIE” BATES
Girl Was Dressed as a Boy and Doing
the Regular Tramp Act.
“Billie” Bates, the girl who dressed
a 8 a boy and was ‘sent from Houston
county, -Alabama, to the mines after
coiviction of riding on trains unlaw
fully, has been paroled by Governor
Comer, along with Joseph Bates, her
brother‘;
When the two were tried at Dothan
it was thought that both were men,
as both wore trousers, but on arrival
at Flat Top mines it was found that
“Billie” was a girl, and not a bad
looking’ one at that. Many citizens in
different parts of the state interested
themselves in the case and urged the
govermor to release the girl. They
were tramping from Jacksonvills, Fla.,
to Terre Haute, Ind. '
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STA;RCH MIXER® EXPLODES.
Five People Kiiled and Plant a Com
e plete Wreck.
Five persons are believed to have
been killed by the explosion of a mix
er in the starch factory of C. S. Tan
uer at Prcvidence, R. I, Wednesday
afternoon. Three other persons were
injured. The building was wrecked
by the explosion and fire following,
ctompletely destroyed the plant.
~ BAILEY MAY LOSE SPOUSE.
Another Chapter to Cowhiding Epi
sode in Canon, Ga,
% Canou, Ga., looms up with another
chapter to the whipping of Dr. Bailey.
His wife has filed a petition for di
vorce in Franklin superior court, the
ground being cruel treatment, it be
ing alleged that he would chastise her
and that his treatment was very cruel.
It is said that Dr. Bailey has made
matrimonial ventures prior to the pres
ent which did not result happily.
.
FLEET PASSES VALPARAISO.
Chileans Given Opportunity to View
Some Real Fighting Machines.
The great American fleet of sixteen
battleships, under the command of
Rear Admiral Evans, passed Valparai
go, Chile, Friday afternoon, and con
tir;ued on its voyage northward for
Callad, Peru, the next stopping place.
All Valparaiso and_thousands of pe
sons from every city in Chile wit
nessed the passing of ihe fleet.
IN ALDRICH BiLL
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| Hidden Danger is Alleged to Lurk and
‘ Defects Are Pointed Out in the
! " Senate.
i e
| A Washington special says: Senator
i Tillman Thursday presented a petition
i to the senate from Alfred O. Crozier,
‘a manufacturer of Wilmington, Del,,
i protesting against the passage of the
{ Aldrich currency bill. It was read
!and will be printed in the Congres
isiona.l Record. The petition strongly
lobjects to that feature of the bill
| Which removes the restrictions of the
i exising law against the retirement of
the present bank notes and the con
lfemp}ated emergency currency,
, “Such a law,” says Mr. Crozier,
“would start agitation that might take
! from national bankg the right under
{ which they now profitably issue and
loan to the people nearly $700,000,000
of bank note currency and perhaps
jeopardize the gold standard itself.
“Bank note currency is not a legal
' tender. Its acceptance as money can
[ not be compelled. Few know this.
Prominent Tawyers, business men and
‘,eveu members of congress disputed
this fact until shown the law. The
} peopie generally are deceievd by the
‘ government’s endorement into believ
ing it to be real money. It looks like
money, but it is mot. Any one can
refuse to accept it. Then actual mon
ey, gold or treasury notes, must be
found and tendered. This demand at
the last moment may work great loss
and wrong. Do we want $3500,000,000
more currency that is not lawful
’ maney ?”
| The panic, Mr. Crozier says, appear
ed, “providentially just before thig ses
sion of congress when it was planned
to seek currency legislation.”
_ Referring to the demand for an
emergency currency he says:
“They did mot explain why the coun
try has ‘g7t on so well for a dozen
years Without panic or change in the
currency laws, Many believe the pan
ic was caused by such promoters to
pinch the country to hurry congress
to hastily pass the currency legisla
tion they desire, to punish the admin
fstration for enforcing the laws with
out fear or favor, to advance interest
rates and to reduce wages of labor
and prices of securities and property
for their lawless purposes and profit.
~ “The failure of the Knickerbocker
- Trust company precipitated the runs
~on banks and caused the panic. Sud
~den refusal by one Wall street bank,
- further to clear for that trust com
pany and wild exploitation of that
(fact in the newspapers wrecked the
‘trust company. The powerful master
of Wall street, who is said to domi
nate the bank, sat in the gallery of
the United States senate and nodded
approval -as the distinguished author
of the Aldrich bill spoke in advocacy
of the measure., -
“The biggest ‘joker’ in the Aldrich
bill,” gays Mr. Crozier, “is the fact that
the restriction on contraction of bank
note issues is wiped out entirely. It
makes it possible suddenly to contract
and destroy in one day the entire $7,-
000,000,090 bank note currency and also
the $500.000,000 emergency currency,
or a total of $1,200,000,000 of currency
used by the people as money. Sudden
contraction of but $50,000,000 availa
ble money by bank depositors recently
caused a fearful panic and alarmed the
whole country, What would happen to
¢he countty when the strangling con
traction of more than $1,000,000,000,
about half ¢he available money supply
of the Unifed States, the most active
and convenient half, was begun?
NEW FOUNDRY COMPANY
Organized at Norfo!k and Will Operate
in Anniston, Alabama.
The Woodstock Iron Works of Nor
folk, incorporated by the Virginia
state corporation commission for the
conduct of a general foundry business,
was organized at Norfolk Thursday
with & capital of $500,000. The com
pany will operate in Anniston, Ala., as
an auxiliary to the present Woodstock
Foundry and Iron Works.
BANDITS GET BIG SUM,
Five Men Dynamite Bank and Make
Way With $23,000,
Securing $23,000 in cash after dy
namiting and totally wrecking the $9,-
000 building of the Farmers’ and Man
- ufacturers’ - Bank in Rich Hill, Mo,
five bandits, heavily armed, terorized
the citizens there early Wednesday,
~and after exchanging shotg with the
sheriff's posse, escaped. No one was
. injured either by the shots or the ex
| plosion
f BONI FINED IN COURT.
| Cousin, Whom He Thrashed, is Award-.
‘ ed Twenty Cents Damages. .
{ Count Boni de Castzllane, the di
| vorced hushand of Madam Gould, who
was Misz Anna Could, was fined
S2O in the correctional court at Paris
Tuesday for his recent attack upon
his cousin, Prince Helie de Sagan.
Damages to the amount of twenty
cents were awarded the prince, who
had been attacked and beaten by Boni,
‘MORE WAR CLAIMS
| T £
| For the South are Brought
| Before Congress. ,
Bill is Reported by Claims Commits
tee and Southerners Will Get
an Immense Sum |lf
It Passes. j
A Washington special dispatch
says: About $10,000,000 may be seour
'ed from the government by the people
(of the south if a bill reported unani
'mously by the house committee om
' war claims becomes a law. The bill
%give. to the.court of claims jurisdic
‘i tion of the claimg for abandoned lands
'and property which was sold during
| the civil war, and the proceeds turned
|intc the United States treasury,
During the progress of the civil war
| the government authorized the seizure
|and sale of abandoned land and the
' met proceeds placed in the United
| States treasury. There was a provis
| ion that if any one should begin suit
iwithln two years after the close of
the war and prove that the property
sold belonged to him, the money re
| celved for it should be paid over, but
| to this the citizen bringing the suilt
' had to submit loyally to the union.
! This disqualified most southerners
| until the amnesty proclamation was de
| clared in 1866, which came toe late to
| take the claims to court, the two
| years limit having expired. The ob
| ject of this bill is to enable the orig
| inal’ owners of the confiscated prop
| erty to get the money it brought when
sold.
| TRUSTY IMPLICATES JAILER, -
iMa.kes Confessicn Regarding Escape
g of Harper and Barton. 5
| Joe Williams, ons of the Atlanta
| tower trusties, indicted bv the grand
| jury for aiding in the recent escape
‘ of John Harper and John Barton, has
| made & confession, in which he im
{plicates very strongly Jailer James
| Brown, who was also indicted.
i According to his statement, he and
| Brown had all to do with the delivery,
' and John Groves, the other trusty
" against whom a true bill was returned,
‘,lg innocent of any crime, . . e
§ He says that he makes this clean
| breast of it because his consclence
| hurts him, and to admit his guilt re
| Hleves the torture. Now he throws
. himself on the mercy of the court,
| Williams made his confession on
| oath, and declares he will swear in
| court, that Brown was a party to the
crime, that he first mentioned it and
told the two trusties to see Harperi
and ascertain what they ecuia get out
of the -job. y |
The sum of $75 was paid Williams
by Harper, and this was to be divided
with Brown, but before the two could
got together for the division, Brown
| left the tower, and Williams, knowing
| that he would be searched, went to a
toilet room and thréw the currency
away. :
PRIMARY IN FLORIDA
' Fixed by Demccratic Executive Com
mittee For May 10.
| . The Florida democratic state exec
| utive committee met in Jacksonville
% Tuesday and fixed May 10 as date for
‘iprlmary elections to nominate a Uni
ihed States senator, congressmen in
| each of the three districts and all state
| and county officers. A gecond primary
Ewill be held June 16 for all officers
i where candidates do not secure a ma
| Jority at the first primary,
| Arthur Williams was elected chalr
| man of the committes, vice Duncan U,
| Flétcher, who is a candidate for Uni
ted States senator.
| ST
| TO WOULD-BE BACHELORS
| Aged Mexican War Veteran Gives Ad
vice on Tombstone,
7 Hugh Dewitt, a Mexican war veteran, |
| at the Indiana state soldlers’ home,
who died Wednesday night, aged 931:
years, was buried Thursday beneath a ‘
| tombstone on which he himself had}
| carved this epitaph: 1
s |
. "A bachelor lies beneath this sod,
: Who disobeyed the laws of God, \
i Advice to others here I glve—
-5 Don’t live a batch, ag I did live.”
| REFERRED BACK TO THE STATES
Immigration Question is Thus Disposed
! of at Tampa Conference.
After adopting resolutions referring
the immigration question back to the
| several states and expressing prefer
. ence for securing settlers from other
' states rather than from foreign coun
| trles, the immigration convention ad
| journed at Tampa, Fla, Friday, sine
| die.
TEN MEN COWHIDED
By Bold Band of Night Riders
i 4
- in Kentucky Town, .
FOURWHITES; SIX BLACKS
Mob, Three Hundred Strong, Raids the
- Town of Eddyville and Creates
. Reign of Terror — Judge
.y Warned Not to Prosecute.
- Night riders, three hundred strong,
visited Eddyville, Ky., at 1 o'clock Sun
‘day merning and whipped ten men,
four “of them white and six negroes.
‘The white men, who are suffering from
Bore backs as the result of a severe
chastisement with the switches, are:
Police Judge C. W. Rucker, Leslie
‘Woods, former city marshal: Press
‘Fralick, who occasionally acted” as
deputy city marshal, and Grace Rob
ertson, a saloon porter.
' The connection between the whip-
Ding of the white men and the negroeg
and the tobacoc war in western Ken
tucky is not apparent and no one has
been able to offer any explanation,
None of the victims was known either
active or influential in opposition to
the farmers’ pooling movement, No
‘attempt was made at destroying stored
tobacco. . ;
. The riders were will drilled and well
armed. About 50 entered the town
from the direction of Trigg county,
and the remainder from the opposite
direction.
Over a thousand shots were fired
during the course of their stay, but
the only casualty reported is that of a
young woman, whose face 1s said to
have been grazed by a stray bullet.
The home of Judge Rucker was badly
damaged before the riders were able
to get hold of him, the walls being
riddled with bullets, doors and shut
‘ters torn, off, etc. After taking each
‘of the men to the edge of town and
~whipping them, they were allowed to
return home.
After the whippings had been ad
ministered, the mob awakened County
Judge W. L. Crumbaugh and warned
“him that his immunity from similar
‘punishment hereafter depended entire
1y on the friendship he was expectad to
show the tobacco growers' organiza
tion. He wis told that his gray hairs,
alone were responsible for his being
Bpared thig time,
~ The only tobacco man vigited was J.
Mr. Bradshaw was ordered to cloge up
for one of the growers' associations.
Mr. Bradsha was ordered to close up
a billiard hall, which he owns.
Before leaving the town the riders
announced that they had not finished
their work and that they would return
before many days.
- DETECTIVES NAB MORSE,
indicted Promoter Held Prisoner Be
. fore Landing in New York.
_Charles W. Morse, financier and pro
moter of many large combinations, in
cluding the so-call ice trast, and a
merger of nearly all of the coastwise
steamphip lines, returned to New York
Saturday from his trip to Europe. He
was arrested in his state room when
the steamer, Wtruria, reached quar
antine in the lower bay, held in custo
dy until the ship was docked and then
was whirled away in an automobile
to the home of Justice Victor Dowl
ing of the supreme court, where he
gave bond in the sum of $20,000 to
answer to two indictments charging
grand larceny and involving the sum
of SIOO,OOO, :
Mr. Morse was released apd went
immediately to his Fifth Avenue home,
where he later gave out a statement
asserting his innocence, and asking
the public to suspend judgment until
he hag the opportunity of facing hig
‘accusers in court.
RORESTRY BiILL SHELVED
8o Far as Action at Present Session
of Congress is Concerned.
- All hope for the passage of the bill
creating forests reserves in the Appa
lachian and White mountaing, is dead.
A “delegation of goutherners and New
Englanders visited Speaker Cannonon
Baturday, and were informed that the
bill cannot be passed,
The speaker has been opposed to
the measure ever since it was intro
duced. He is particularly opposed to
it now becauge the republican admia
istration faces a defcit in the treasury
and the program of the houge leaders
is not to spend a cent that is not ab
golutely necessary.
EX-GOVERNOR INDICTED.
Perjury Laid to Former Chief Execu
tive of New Jersey.
Indictments alleging perjury were
returned at New York Thursday
againgt former Governor of New Jer
¢ey Foster M. Voorhees and Frank H.
Combes, following a grand jury in
quiry ilnto the acts of these two men
wiile they were officials of the Bank
ers’ Life Insurance company.
~ IF THEY'LL BE GOOD
Locker Clubs Can Keep Out of Clutch
es of Uncle Sam, Says Reve
nue Commissioner Capers,
A Washington dispatch says: The
United States government, through
John G. Capers, commissioner of in
ternal revenue, in a letter to an anx
fous inquirer in Savannah, Ga., writes
that there is hope for the “locker
clubs.”. If members will be real care
ful, he-assures the gentleman, whose
name he is kind enough to withhold,
there will be no interference on the
part of Uncle Sam. But members
must -be very careful or else they may
be pounced upon and viewed through
the eyes of the law as retail liquor
merehants. As long, however, as the
members keep their own “private
steck” in their lockers and refuse to
sell to a member who, through lack
~of providence, unusual thirst or other
~reason hag suffered his stock to be
depleted, there will be no trouble. But
beware the wrath of the internal rev
enu inspector sheuld it become known
that a member transferred a drink or
drinks to a fellow member for a con
sideration. In his opinion, Mr, Capers
says:
“If an incorporated club has lockers
In which the member places the liquor
he desires to drink, the liquors not
having been purchased from the club
and no sale is made by the club,
but each member uses his own Hines
then no special tax liability is In.
curred.
‘I may say that these unincorporated
clubstin which the members have their
locke}-s for the storage of their liquorg
will of necessity have to be extreme-
Iy careful that they do mnot render
themselves liable in some manner to
the special tax of a retail liquor dealer,
but there will be no unusual or gpecial
construction of phe law to (it the
state of Georgia. What is unlawful
elsewhere will be held unlawful there,
and what is lawful elsewhere will be
permitted there, so far as the adminis
tration of the internal revenue laws is
concerned.”
TWO NEGROES PAY PENALTY.
Father and Son Hanged for Murder
of Farmer Jethro Jones.
Charfes and Wes Summerlin, two
negroes, father and gon, were hung
Friday in the county jail at Carrollton,
Ga., for the murder of Hon. ‘Jethro
Jones, a wealthy planter of Carroll
county, on November 29, of last year,
A large crowd was in the eity, but
the execution wag private, those who
were permitted to witness the exbeu
~tion being only two attending physi
clans, two ministers, newspaper report
ers, the court officials and the five song
of the murdered man, ‘
Wes Summerlin was placed on the
.gallows first. He made no statement;
except to proclaim hig innocence. The
drop fell at 10:27 o’clock, and he was
pronounced dead in twenty minutes,
Charlég Summerlin was then placed
upon the gallows, He also denied his
guilt and declared that Lonzo Chad
ler, another negro, fired the ghot. The
drop fell for him at 11:20 o’clock, ana
death resulted in fourteen minutes,
The crime was coldblooded and un
provoked. A bale of cotton had been
stolen from Mr. Jones’ ginhouse and
carried into the woods. The cotton
was discovered by a young wkite boy
while hunting and he informed Mr.
Jones, Late in the afternoon Mr.
Jomes went into the woods to where
the bale wag lying. When he reached
the eottem he was killed by the Sum
merlin negroes, according to the evi
dence, He was one of the most prom
inent men of Carroll county, and his
murder ereated great indignation.
BIG LUMBER PLANT BURNS.
Blaze Near Morganton, Ga., Entails a
Loss Aggregating SIOO,OOO.
The lumber plant of Beebe & Son,
of Bostom, Massg., three miles south
of Moigamton, Ga., was destroyed by
fire Thursday night, entailing a loss
of between $75,000 and SIOO,OOO, with
no insurance. It is thoughf that the
fire is of incendiary origin.
FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER.
Former New ‘Orieans Police Chief is
Held—Assistants Discharged.
Former Inspector of Police E(lwa‘d
Whitaker, charged with shooting at
Joseph Leveque, a local newspaper
man, with intent to kill, was held un
der two thousand dollars’ bond for the
action of the criminal district court
when the preliminary hearing in the
case was concluded in New Orleans
Wednesday afternoon, é
The five datectives who accompanied
Whitaker when he went to Leveque’s
office were discharged.
PROBING THE PAFER TRUST.
Investigation by Uncle Sam is Vigor
ously Under Way.
The government's f{nvestigzatica of
the so-called paper trust is being car-,
ried on with vigor. A preliminary re
port has already been made to Attor
ney General Bonaparte. It is under
stood that several lines of fnquiry have
been pursued that are expected to lead
to some definite results ghortly, ;
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WINDS DEAL DEATH
Tornadoes Hit Sections of
, gt : Agh
Texas and Mississippi,
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MANY PEOPLE LOSE LIFE
Greatest Damage Wrought in Vicinity
of Tyler, Texas—Three Small =
Towns in Mississippi il
Are Obliterated. i
Severe wind and rain storms visited
the south and southwest Friday, caus
ing loss of life and much ‘damage to
property. N
Tyler, Texas, was swept by the most
disastrous tornado in its history Frl
day morning about four o'clock. Com
ing up from the ‘southwest the dtorns
swept over the main residence sectiom
of the ecity, leaving a trail, of death
and devastation, ; by
* The known dead in Tyler number
four—C. A, Francis, agent of the Dal
las News; kis wife and child, about '
one year old, and a negro named Mose
Lee, 80 years of age. R Th
Francis’ dead body was found 100
vards from his wrecked homé and the
body of his child was found in the
street. Mrs. Francls was in the
wreckage of the building. Six gerious
ly injured are reported. Twelva:bulld
ings were wrecked and in the confusion
it has been difficult to compile an ac
curate list of the casualties, v
Wires are down in all directions
from Tyler, and personal reports from
farmerg are to the effect that farm
houses all around Tyler were blown
down, It is known that the. torgado
swept everything clean for a distance
of five miles. e q :
Three sma!l Mississippi towns were
practically demolished. Reports ‘gt
the number killed ranged from six to
ten, with the gmaller number probably
correct,’ ' IR
Mossville, Service and Boge are the
towns destroyed. They are all in Jones™
county and are are very small, -beh‘fz
merely a handful of scatteved dwell
ings. The tornado struck them about
noon and in most instances is repor
ted to have carried the buildings irk
its path, completely off the lotg om
which they stood. Nearby frelds were
covered with wrockage and the branch
a3 of several trees were littered with
small_household articles, R
. The tornado was accompanied by &
torrent of rain, which caused a suds
den’ rise in the creeks and washed
away several bridges. Roads have be
come Impassable in the cyclone dis
trict and telegraph and telephone
.¥ires were put out of businegs. ;
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SEVENTY-TWO MEN INDICTED. .
Represéntatives of Labor at New Ore
: teans Under Charges.
Seventy-two men, representatives of
all the classes of labor employed, on
the New Orleang river front, and who
compose a union known as the Dock
I and Cotton Council, were indicted.by
i.the United States grand jury in that
city Friday on the charge of conspir
ing to restrain trade in violation of
the Sherman anti-trust law, y
The indictments follow the refusal
of the dock and cotton council to per
mit the coal wheelers’ union to coal
the steamer Habil, which cleared gev
eral days age for Puerto Cortez. The
agent of the Habil signed an agree
ment with the union, had his vessel
coaled and then placed the matter in
the hands of the United States dis
trict attorney. i
PROHIBITION MEASURE BLOG{K,ED
West Virginia Senate Turns Down the
Action of the House, :
The proposed constitutional amends
ment to prevent the manufacture and
gale of liquor in West Virginla, except
for sclentific and medicinal purposes,
which passed the house recenfly, was
defeated "in the state senate. Friday,
by a large rajority. oo
MORGAN SErxs GOTHAM BONDS.
Financier Bids for $50,000,000 of New
| York City Securities.
A syndicate composed of J. P.. Mor
gan & Co., the First National Bank,
the National City Bank and Harvey,
Fisk & Sons put in a bid for the 'en
tire $50,000,000 issue. of New York city
4 1-2 per <cui bonds, bids for which
were opened Friday. The syndicate
offered 103.377 for $47,000,000 and
100.8377 for the remaining $3,000,000.
Therc =ore 1,108 bids in all, many
of them for comparatively small
amounts, & ;
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FILIPINOS IN CONGRESS., i
Two Representatives from Our Island
Possessions Take Thelr Seats.
Representation in the house of rep
resentatives was increased by two
Wednesday, when Denito LeGarda and
Pablo Ocampe, resident Philippine
commissioners, took {heir seats. They:
were conducted to the capitol ‘by See
retary Taft. Their entry into the
chamber wag signalized by applauses
