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Sought Through Application
of Habzas Corpus Writ,
DOCUMENT IS SIGNED
First Step Taken to Get Slayer of
: Sanford White Out of New
; York State Insane Asylum
at Matteawan.
The first step in proceedings look
ing to the realease of Harry K. Thaw
from the state asylum for the insane
at Matteawan, N. Y., was taken Mon
day. James @G. Graham of Newburg
appeared as Tiaw’s counsel before
Justice Morschauser of the New York
&tate supreme court at White Plains,
and applied for an order directing the
superintendent of the asylum to per
mit Thaw to sign an application for a
writ of habeas corpus. The order
‘Wwas promptly issued.
According to the usual procedure
in such cases Thaw will sign the ap
plication for a writ of haheas corpus,
which will then be submitted to a jus
tice of the supreme court, probably
Justice Morschauser. Such writs are
always granted and the date when the
writ is returnable iz fixed to sult the
convenience of the parties concerned.
Then Thaw will appear before a jus
tice of the supreme court for a hear
ing to determine whether he should be
released from the asylum as sane.
Probably the hearing will be held be
fore Justice Morschauser at Pough
keepsie.
This method of obtaining the release
of a prisoner at the state asylum is
usually taken when the state lunacy
commission is unwilling to declare that
the prisoner is sane.
MEMPHIS WOMAN USED GUN.
Quarrel About Children Leads to a
Tragedy in Tennessee Metropolis.
At Memphis, Tenn., Mrs. James
"Wright shot and instantly killed Lel
lia Gordon, a negro woman, Monday
morning. Mrs. Wright used a single
barreiled shotgun and one shot tore
an arm completely from the negro wo
man’s body.
Rushing into her home immediately
following the killing of tae Gordon wo
man, Mrs. Wright reloaded the shot-.
gun and started in pursuit of Mary Da
vis, another negro woman. She shot
at her once, after a desperate chase
of nearly a block, but the shot was
wild.
~ Police officers arrested Mrs. Wright
a few minutes later and she was lock
€d up on a caarge of murder. The
homicide followed a desperate battle
between white and negro women in
which Mrs. John Wright, a sister-in
law of Mrs. James Wright, who lives
with her, received a bad beating at
the hands of the Davis and Gordom
women. A quarrel over the children
of the white woman being stopped
fronf playing with some negro children
living in the vicinity led to the battle,
BORAH DEFENDS PRESIDENT.
idaho Senator Tackles the Brownsville
Case in Maiden Speech.
Senator Borah of Idaho, one of the
younger members of the senate, who
has not yet won his spurs in congress,
but who has achieved a reputation in
his own part of the country as a train
€d lawyer and a speaker of force and
ability, came to the defense of the
president in the debate on the Browns
vilwle case Monday.
Senator Borah raised a square issue
with Senator Foraker of Ohio,; made
light of the attempt to make the evi
dence support the contention that the
soldiers of the twenty-fifth infantry
did rot do the shooting and struck
some sledge hammer blows In the de
fense of the administration’s course.
"He characterized the rioting at Browns
ville as treason and said any form
of compromise with it would be an
Qutrage.
TWO LINEMEN MET DEATH.
One Electrocuted and the Other’s Skull
Fractured in Fall from Pole.
Two linemen, employed by a tele
phone company, were kiiled at Meo-
Kee's Rocks, a suburb, of Pittsburg,
Tuesday, one being electrocuted and
the other sustaining a fracture of his
skull when he was knocked from the
top of a pole.
A crowd of excited people stood help
less in the street around the bottom of
the pole while Nevin’'s body, clinging
to the heavily charged wire, smoked
and burned for fifteen minuies before
it could be lowered with ropes.
EXPRESS FRANKS PROHIBITED.
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Injunctions Issued Against Five Com
. Ppanies by Federal Judge. "~
Judge Kchlsaat, in the L'niled’S,mt_és
eircutt ccurt at Chicago Wednesday,
issued an injunction against five ex-~
“+ press,companies réstrainicg thegm from
“"ss g - -express franjgs- and from
'tfanéfi'.fiucf property: dn interstate
commerce in_eMeSangesfor franks.
MUST BE REVISED,
! Only Chance for Appalachian Forestry
Legisiation Lay in Drafting En.
tirely New Measure.
A Washington special says: That it
is constitutional for the national gov
ernment to acquire land in the states
for forest reserves when it ean be
shown that such acquisiticn is an aid
to navigation was declared Wednesday
by the house committee on judiciary,
The adoption of a resolution to this
effect followed a vote holding unconsti
tutional the bill providing for tle cre
ation of the White Mountain and Appa
lachian reservation in the absence of
requisite information concerning the
effect of the proposed reservation oun
the mavigability of the streams which
are fed by the waters, within its boun
daries.
Following is the resolution which
was unanimously adopted by the com
mittee for the guidance of the house:
“Resolved, That the committee is of
the opinion that the federal govern
ment has no power to acquire lands
within a state, solely for forest re
serves; but under its constitutional
power ever navigation, the federal gov
ernment may appropriate money for
the purchase of lands and forest re
serves in a state, provided it is made
clearly to appear that‘such lands and
forest reserves have a direct and sub
stantial connection with the conserva
tion and improvement ‘of the naviga
bility of a river actually navigable in
whole or im part; and provided that
any appropriation made therefor is
limited to that purpose.
“Resolved, That the bills referred to
in the resolutions of the house are
not confined to such last-mentioned
purposes, and are taerefore unconstitu
tional.”
This action of the judiciary commit
tee obens the way for the friends of
the Appalachian project to frame a new
bill within the constitutional limita
tions outlined.
PRIMARY RULES UNCHANGED.
Georgia State Democratic Executive
Committee sloids Meeting.
The candidate who ig nominated for
governor of Georgia on June 4 will
have a convention named from among
his friends who favor his state poli
cies. It will be a “one man” con
vention, as no changes were made in
the rules governing the coming pri
mary.
After being in session for over six
hours in Atlanta Friday, the Georgia
state demccratic executive committee
adjourned with a bare quorum present.
Thry decided the Gilmer county con
test case; declared it illegal for a
candidate to pay up back taxes, in or
der to have a citizen vote, and set
tled the delegation question, so far as
the national convention at Denver is
concerned, by declaring the delegates
to the state convention should be chos
en by the county executive committees
from among the friends of the successe
ful candidate for governor, and favor.
ing his “state” policies.
No mention wag made of the change
of the primary date.
Nothing was said in regard to any
proposed change of the method of elec
ting a governor by the “majority plan.”
Neither Governor Smith nor Hon.
Joseph M. Brown were called by name
during the entire proceedings.
The Gilmer county contest consumed
five and a quarter hours of the time
used up by the committee. It showed
a contest between former Speaker
Newt Morris and Representative J,
Z. Foster, of Cobb county, hoth candi
dates for the judgship of the Blue
Ridge judicial circuit. !They were
preé(‘nt, in person, as members of the
state committee,
The committee of which James L.
Parks is chairman and favored by
Hon. Newtt Morris was roccgnized
by the committees ag being the true
democratic executive commitiee of the
county. 53
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JORDAN TURNED ON THE GAS,
Atianta Baptist Minister Loses Life
by Asphyxiation.
Lying unconscious on his bed in a
room filled with gas, at his residence,
20 East avenue, Atlanta, Dr. John D,
Jordan, pastor of the Jackson Hill Bap
tist church, was found in a dying con:
dition Thursday afternoon.
Physicians were summoned to the
scene, and did heroic work, but were
unable to relieve Dr, Jordan, who died
shortly afterwards from asphxiation,
For maay monthsg he had been labor
ing under dlfllcultlgs,:gg health having
AP ot T o
been very poor. - S,
MURDERER NO., ,2,;‘6‘9:NVICTED.
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Second .of Slayers of Atlanta Pa:’g,bro
" ker Given Life Sentence;
" Barmett Booker, anothgnof the ne.
groas, charged ,wigg?@'e'?xnurdel' ‘of Ja
cob wdy{%;@fltlanta, was tried
in, the qg’pem_’x;?r;‘.- court, criminal diviz
ion, Menday morning, convicted and
?Qn:tfiffifed to prison for life.
~+*Will Smith, who also shot Hirsswitz,
was sentenced last week for a life
term. The third negro implicated is
awaiting trial.
NEBRASKA CY JLONE
J
Takes Several Lives and Des
troys Much Property.
BODIES CARRIED A MILE
Wires Were Blown Down in All Direc
tions, and Much of Territory
Bwept by Tornado Yet to
Be Heard From,
A cyclone swept through Cumming
county and into Thurston county, Ne
braska, at nosn Thursday, and three
people are known to have been killed,
a number injured and a number of
houses destroyed. Telegraph and tele
phone wires are down, and reports are
slow in arriving.
The tornado struck the house of
John Mangleson, near Pender, Neb.,
and then swcoped up into the air, tak
ing the wreckage of the house, and
both Mr. and Mrs. Mangleson were
killed, their bodies being carried a
mile.
George Waacker and family were at
lunch when the twister struck their
house. Three of the family were geri
ously injured.
The dead body of a little baby was
picked up in the public road 10 miles
from Bancroft. The child has not been
identified, but undoubtedly was brought
by the ecyclone from some residence
which was wrecked.
A heavy downpour of rain and hail
followed the cyclone, which swept
northeastwardly towards the Winne
bago Indian reservation, where much
damage s supposed to have been
wrought, the houses being of the most
flimsy character, The storm passed
within a quarter c¢f a mile of Pender
and caused consternation in that town,
MONEY IS FORTHCOMING.
To Build Two Warships, as Result of
President’s Threat.
A Washington special says: As the
senate was about to conc¢lude consider
tion of the naval appropriation bill
Thursday, Senator Piles, of Washing
ton, proposed an amendment increas
ing from two to four the mumber of
new battleships to be authorized. As
several senators desired to speak on
the amendment, the further considera
tion of the bill was postponed until
Friday. .
An amendment to the naval bill was
adopted appropriating s7,oo@,fi“‘4fio“‘*;
gin construction on the two battle
ships authorized by the bill as it was
passed by the house. This amendment
was in response to the threat of Pres
ident Roosevelt to veto the bill if it
was sent to him with a provisicn for
warships, but without an appropriation
to begin work on them.
A spirited debate occurred on the
amendment for the restriction of the
purchase of materials for the construc
ticn of the battleships, submarine
boats, etc., to those of domestic manu
facture,
Amendments to remove the restrie
tion from the bill were defeated, Mr.
Hale stating that since the investiga
tion of the steel trust some years ago
the price of steel armor had been re
duced from $550 and S6OO per ton to
$4.16 per ton, and Mr. Beveridge de
clared that the United States pays less
for its armor plate than any other na
tion, except Jdpan.
REMOVAL OF DAVIS' NAME
From “Cabin John Bridge” to Be In
vestigated by Hcuse Committee.
Representative Carlin is preparing
to introduce a resolution in the house
calling upon the secretary of war so
make an investigation into the removal
of the name of Jefferson Davis from
“Cabin John Bridge.” Mr. Carlin's
resoiution is the fcrerunner of a seec
ond resolution directing that the name
be restored to its former place on the
bridge.
MORE SALOONS KNOCKED OUT
In Local Option Election Held in State
‘ of lllinois Tuesday.
The saloon fcrces were generally
successful in the forty or more towns
and villages of Illinois which voted:
on the local option question Teusday.
Definite figures are lacking in many
cases, hut it seems certain that not
more than 100 saloons were voted out
of business, the larger communitiés
almost without exception voting to re
tain their licensed dram shops. Cairo,
the largest city in which the question
was an issu2, gave the saloons a ma
jority of 3,352.
TAFT TO VISIT PANAMA, ;
Will Investigate and Settie a Number
of Questions at Issue. |
As the result of deliberations at the
cahinet session Friday it was deter-%
mined that Secretary Taft should go |
to Panama., He will sail April 30 on
the eruiser Prairie. A detachment of
marines also will be sent on the
Prairie,
]RESULT OF TORNADOES
WHICH SWEPT OVER
THE SOUTH.
Details of Work of Devasta
tion and Death Wrought,
Far Exceed First Incom
| plete Reports.
Tornadoes sweeping over the south
eastern gstates, inchufing Louisiana,
Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia and
southern Tennessee, Friday night and
Saturday morning, left in their wake
greater destruction of life and prop
erty than nas ever been experienced in
this territory from the same cause.
The totalg of death, misery and ruin
weére compiled Sunday in approximate
ly correct form. Briefly stated, they
are: ¢
Killed, about 350; injured, painfully
or seriously, 1,200; homeless, several
th'busand; towns = reporting serious
wreckage, 46; habitations and business
houseg practically complete ruins in
these towns, about 2,500.
The above figures do not include the
wreckage of plantations and farms.
The total number of dead will never
be known accurafely, for the reason
that about 300 of tham were negroes,
aud they’were buried in many com
munities without careful records be
ing made of their numbers.
By follcwing the wreckage of towns,
the general direction of the tornadoes
can be traced closely, Apparently the
storm struck in three separate cur
rents, each describing the arc of a cir
cle and traveling toward the nortacast.
The first of these struck through north
ern Louisiana, Mississippi and into
Tennessee before daylight Friday
morning. The second appeared further
south about breakfast time in central
Louisiana and Mississippi. This appar
ently was the portion of the storm
which swept on through Alabama and
Georgia on Friday night and Saturday
amomlng, The third portion of the
storm appezred during Friday after
noon, further south than either of its
predecessors, This was the storm which
demolished Amite, La., and Purvis,
il\'ss.,, the two towns in which the
5'!%3&:0 ~was worst.
_..Lhe scene of the worst disaster was
at {Putfll.lflu, where eighty are re
perted dead and practically the entire
town wiped out.
At Chipley, Ga., eight were killed and
scores injured, and half of the busl
ness section swept away.
- At Cave Spring, Ga., nine were Kkill
ed, and it is believed the list of in
jured numbered more than fifty. There
was also great destruction of prop
erty.
At Griffin, Ga., three were killed and
seven seriously injured. The Rushton
cotton mills were destroyed together
with many cther buildings.
Columbus, Ga,, reports twelve dead
in that vicinity with scores of in
jured, ¢
In Georgia the storm also touched
McDonough, Harris City and ILocuet
Grove, each place reporting deaths
and a list of injured.
In Alabama the storm struck late
Friday afternoon at Albertville leav
ing thirty dead and fifty injured. At
High Mcund five are dead, at Harton
four, four at Leasburg and three dead
and twenty-one injured in a settlement
three mileg from Albertville.
At Amite City, La, 75 are dead and
many injured in the vicinity,
Reports from Ft. Deposit, Ala., show
that the town is practically wiped out.
At McCallum, Miss., twelve are dead,
with scores injured.
The list of dead in and around
Natchez, Miss., will reach seventy-ona
and the number of injured will go
cver two hundred,
HOUSE EULOGIZES SENATORS.
Memory of the Late Morgan and Pet
: tus of Alabama Honored.
The house was in legislative session
for about two hours Saturday during
wiich time it passed the bill reclassi
fying and increasing the pay of cer
tain officials and employees of the
customs service.
The remainder of the day was de
voted to eulogies on the life, character
and services of the late Senators Mor
gan and Pettus of Alabama, both of
whom died last summer,
CALL FOR COTTON REPORT.
House Asks for Findings of Bureau of
Corporations.
The house Saturday adopted, 217 to
18, the Burleson resolution requiring
the secretary of commerce and labor
to transmit to the house the report
to the commissioner of corporations on
the causes of fluctuations in the prica
of cotton,
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- MAIL POUCHES STOLEN,
| it
| Three Bags Sent from London to New
! York, Containing $500,000, Myste
riously Disappear, ;
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| The London postal authorities have
learned that two bags of mail from
New York, containing securities and
L other valuables worth $500,000, were
stolen in New York the latter part of
last month, According to the reports
! received in London, one of the bags
| was destined for St. Louis, and was
shipped by the Majestic, which arriv
'ed in New York March 26; the other,
destined for Brooklyn, was shipped
by the steamer Philadelphia, which ar
rived at New York on March 29. Both
! bags disappeared in transit between
| the steamers and the postoffice. It
;is stated that they were handed over
| to the mailboats and receipted for, Ef
| forts have been made to keep the theft
%a secret, while the investigation has
| been going cn.
i' New York postal authoritieg profess
ied to know little about the loss re
| ported. Postmaster Edward M, Mor
igan and Postal Inspector Walter S.
iMayer both stated that they thought
| 1t impossible for $500,000 worth of se
| curities or otner property to disappear
| without complaint being made. Postal
| Inspector Mayer said that it is true
| that a couple of mail bags are miss
| ing, but the authorities are inclined
| to beMeve that thd absence of the bags
| was due to an error.
|
- BRICE MAKES ADDRESS
| To Hosts of Methodist Laymen Gath.
| ered in Great Convention at
Chattanooga, Tennessee.
The first session of the Laymen’s
| Conference, Methodist Episcopal
| Church, South, was held at the audito
I rium in Chattanooga Tuesday night at
| 8 o'clock. The vast hall was crowded
| to its utmost capacity, fully 10,000 per
| sons being present. The meeting was
| opened with prayer.
| Following this an address of wel
| come was delivered by Mayor W. R.
iCrabtree, with response by General
fJullan S. Carr of North Carolina,
| Ambassador James Bryce of Great
| Britain, who delivered the principa}
| address of the evening, reached the
auditorium at a few minutes after §
o'clock, and remained in waiting in
an automobile at the front entrance.
| Ninth street was crowded with people.
Two policemen stocd guard at the au
tomobile until the moment arrived for
the distinguished British statesman to
enter the auditorium,
After the address of General Carr
| the audienge sang “America,” which
was the signal for the entrance of Mr.
IBryce. When he entered the audito
' rlum the vast-throng arose ag one man
apd cheered him from the time he
( entered the door and continuing long
, after he had taken his seat on the
| rostrum. Ambassador Bryce repeat
| edly bowed his ackrowledgments. He
| wag introduced by Bishop E. R. Hen
| drix of Kansag City. When Mr. Bryce
| arose to speak the applause was re
]’ newed and continued for several min
‘ utes.
.- EULOGY OF BISHOP CAPERS.
! Official Notice of His Death lssued by
' Genera! Stephen D. Lce.
: The Confederate Veterans’' official
| eulegy of Bishop and Former Confed: |
| orate Brigadier General Ellison Capers,
. who died at Columbia, 8. C., Wednes
| day, was issued at New Orleang Thurs
| day by General Stephen D. Lee. It
' reads:
!, “Another leading figure of the great
| war of the sixtles has passed to his
trewnrd. His love for a mlilitary life
| came down to him from his grand
i father, who was a captain in the fa.
| moug command of Maricn, the ‘Swamp
| Fox of South Carolina.”
| After reciting Bishop Capers’ wlig
ilous and military career, the eulogy
| clozes:
| “He wag actuated by the loftiest
| {deals, and whether In the forefront of
| bhattle, or in the sacred office of his
$ church, he gave the bhest service t'yst
|he was capable of. His death has re
| moved a most conspicuous representa
| tive of the south, and his church, his
: people and the country at large have
| lost a most worthy representative.”
- NAVAL STORES PLANT BURNS,
'! Was Totally Destroyed on Easter Sun
i day a Year Ago.
| The plant of the Southern Naval
| Stores and Distilling company, near
| Valdosta, Ga., wag destroyed Monday
| afterncon by fire caused by sparks
' from a smokestack. Besides the plant
| 1,600 cords of wood and 2,000 gallons
| of turpentine were burned. The loss
| 13 $40,000 with insurance of $7,000. The ]
| plant wag burned on Easter Sunday
| last year and was just rebuilt.
Detective Kills Saloon Keeper,
| M. J. Shanley, a well kknown saloon
' keeper of Memphis, was shot and kill
ed by Detective Thomas Shea of the
| local detective department, ’l‘uesday'
| night, Shea, it ig stated, was endeav
| oring to place Shanley under ar‘resti
'om a charge of agsault and battery, i
W. M. OLLIFF,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, :
Folkston, Ga.
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AUSTRALIA RAIL HORROR,
Crowded t:cunlon Traing Crast: To
gether and Over One Hundred -
People Killed and Wounded.
Advices ryo,xgm Melbourne, Australia,
state that two excursion trains from
Balarat and Bendigo, respectively, col
lllded late Sunday night at Braybreok
junetion, about eight miles from Mel
bourne, forty-one persons being killed
and sixty injured.
The Bendigo train, with two heavy
engines, crashed into the rear of the
Ballarat train. Five carg of the lattee
traln were wrecked. The wretkage
took fire, and was almost completely
censumed. Many of the bodies were
unrecognizable when recovered.
The Bendigo train suffered but ljttle
damage, but the two engines Were
piled on top of the rear coaches of
the other train, Terrible scenes fol
lowed the accident, many of the In
jured being canght in the wreckage
and with difficulty rescued.
It was a long time before doctors
and nurses arrived on the scene, and
as a consequence intense suffering pre
vailled among the injured,
TO RECOVER FORFEITED LAND.
House Orders Attorney General to File
Suits—2,Boo,ooo Acres Involved,
By the overwhelming voteé of 2{{ to
8, the housge Thursday, after several
hours’ discussion, adopted, without
amendment, the senate joint resolution
authorizing the attorney general to file
suits agalnst the Oregon and Califor
nia Rallroad Company for the forfeit
ure of all or part of 2,800,000 acres of
land grants in the western part of Ore
gon. It I 8 claimed by the government
that by reascn of breaches and viola
tions of the acts making the grants,
the railroad company has forfeited all
ita rights to the land in question.
The resolution was introduced in the
senate by Senator Tillman, and has
paszed that body.
LIABILITY BILL A LAW,
Preeident Attaches His Signature to
Important Measure.
The prezident Wednezday signed the
employers’ liability bii¥
The bill makes rallrcads or other
common carriers while engaged in in
terstate commerce liable for tne in
jury or death cf employee if the
- or death i:suits in whole or in
part from the megligence of any of the
officers, agents or employees of such
carriers, or by reason of any defect
or ingufficiency in equipment.
MILLION AND HALF OF BONDS
Favored by Special Committee of At
lanta. Chamber of Commerce.
The committee of twenty-five of the
Atlanta chamber of commerce Tuesday
afternoon adopted a report calling for
the issuance of $1,500,000 in city bonds.
Hugh T. Inman was the only mem
ber who voted against the report.
