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VO I,. XXV.
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KING HUMBERT
ASSASSINATED
Aoarchist Fires Ballet Through
Heart H Of t I* Italy 1 > S D Kulcr. t
MURDERER WAS QUICKLY SEIZED
King Had Just Entered His Car¬
riage at Monza When Three
Revolver Shots Were Fir¬
ed In Quick Succession.
According to dispatches, King Hum¬
bert of Italy has been assassinated.
He was shot at Monza Sunday even¬
ing at 10:45 o’clock by a man named
Angelo Bressi, and died in a few min
utes.
The king had been attending a dis¬
tribution of prizes in connection
with a gymnastic competition which
took place about 10 o’clock.
He had just entered his carriage
with his aide-de-camp, amid tho cheers
of tho crowd, when ho was strnck by
throe revolver shots fired iu quick suc
cession. One pierced the heart of his
majesty, who fell back and expired in
slew minutes.
The assassin was immediately ar
rested and was with some difficulty
saved fiom the fury of the populace.
He gave his name as Angelo Bressi,
describing himself as of Prato, in Tus
cany.
Humbert was the eldest son of Vic
tor Emanuel and on the death of his
father, in 1878, succeeded to the
throne. He was liked by his subjects
and was very popular.
CABINET SUMMONED.
News of the terrible event was not
received in Rome until midnight.
Signor Saraco, the premier, immedi¬
ately summoned a meeting of tho cab¬
inet and the ministers will start at the
earliest possible moment for Monza.
BEESSI AN ANARCHIST.
Angelo Bressi, tbe assassin of King
Humbert, according to a special from
Home, is an anarchist.
ISLANDS WERE LEFT OUT.
United States Arranges to Buy Omlttod
Fart of Philippines.
Arrangements have practically been
completed for the purchase from Spain
by the United States of the islands of
Cibitu and Cagayen, w hich were left
in Spanish possession by the treaty of
Paris although part of the Philippines
archipelago. said The purchase price is
to be 8100,000.
Had the peace commissioners at
Paris, in arranging for the relinquish¬
ment ippines to the United States of the Phil¬
contented themselves with the
phraseology, lago, ” “The Philippine Archipe¬
he ceded as descriptive of the territory to
to the United States by Spain,
no qnestion, perhaps, would have
arises over the possession of Cibitu
and Cagayen islands. But to avoid
the least chance of loose definition,the
Peace commissioners drew a geograph¬
ical boundary line around the islands
*° be transferred. The bounds were
fixed by meridians of longitude and
Parallels of latitude, and in this way
the two small islands wero uninten¬
tionally left out.
LIVELY IN NORTH STATE.
Heels Relegate Everything In the
Excitement of Heated Campaign.
A special from Raleigh, N. C., says:
Ffom one end of the state to the other
one theme of conversation with
to ® n > women and children is the cam
P a ign just closing. It has been the
hjeliest, iae history the of most the heated old North campaign State, in
ec hpsing by far the struggle of 1898;
as the day of election draws near,
“ e interest has reached tho fever
Point.
The Charlotte Observer prints vpecial
^ Patches from in North
p ttolina every county
ate election, forecasting the result «f the
ir** d constitutional showing that the pro
amendment and
“e Democratic ticket ■will have over
“OOO majority.
The Rockdale Banner.
PEACE IN NEW ORLEANS, j
Mayor Takes Charge of Affairs
With His Special Force and
Works Wonders.
Peace aud order reigus in Now Or¬
leans, only one disturbance being re
p° rted throughout Saturday. This
"-as an °* d ne S r0 woman being pelted
by a gang of boys for making incen¬
diary speeches. The courage and con
°ke !eS™ hZgulhZ
by two rauses—the vigorous and ener¬
getic action of Mayor Capdeville and
the killing of the negro desperado,
Robert Charles, who caused all the
trouble.
The mayor increased the number of
his special police to ] ,500. This was
composed almost entirely of the very
best elements in the city—merchants,
bankers, business men of all kinds.
The special police, with the militia,
furnished a force of 3,000 men, all
armed with rifles and so distributed iu
squads and companies throughout the
city as to prevent auy forming of mobs
or rioting.
The barrooms were required to close
at 2 p, in. Saturday and remain closed
until Monday. No liquor was sold
Sunday for the first time in mauy days.
The killing of Charles had a marked
effect in restoring quiet. Had he es¬
caped the riots and attacks on the
Degroes could have been prevented
only with difficulty, even by a large
forco of military.
With a record of having killed eight
white men in four days, a hater of the
whits race and preaching the doctrine
of resistance to the alleged oppression
by the whites, Charles would hove
been indeed dangerous to the peace
and order of the community aud would
have instigated and stirred up race
troubles. He was of a roving disposi¬
tion, had been a railroad hand, waiter,
newspaper carrier, immigration agent,
etc., and always a hater of the whites.
The police find that he had three or
more rooms in the city; that he was an
uctive prosolyter among the negroes,
endeavoring to persuade them to go to
Liberia to escape white oppression.
In all of his rooms were found incen¬
diary literature, books and pamphlets
on the negro quostion, all taking a
radical pro-African view of the ques¬
tion. In the Saratoga street house he
bad a large quantity of lead for the
manufacture of bullets.
The police have entered charges
against all the negroes in the Jackson
bouse as accessories to the murder of
Officers Porteous and Lally. These
include Silas Jackson, who rented the
house aud subleased rooms to the
other negroes; Martha Jackson, his
wife, who hid Charles in the closet of
the house; George Ford, who was found
wounded under a bed; John Willis,
who was found masquerading in wo¬
man’s clothing, and John Madison,
who was found between two mattresses.
The police believe that some of the
other negroes took part in the defense
of the house against the attacking par¬
ty and say that one man could not
have fired all the shojts. This story,
however, received little credence, for
all the dead aud wounded show that
they were shot by Charles’s winches¬
ter. He fired about fifty shots, kill¬
ing four, fatally wounding two, seri¬
ously wounding seven and slightly
wounding about twelve—more than
half his shots taking effect, white oth¬
ers whizzed by the heads of the attack¬
ing party—wonderful marksmanship
for a man with two severe wounds.
The grand jury will thoroughly in¬
vestigate the riots.
The negroes take the burning of
the Thorny Lafon school very bard. It
was set fire to by the mob on the
ground that the negroes had guns aud
ammunition stored in it. There was
no insurance on it, but the school will
probably be rebuilt.
The city will have to make good the
loss. It will also have to pay for stores
broken into and robbed by the mob,
and for the buildings destroyed or in¬
jured in burning Charles out of his
citadel. On the other hand, the sup¬
pression of the riots and the restora¬
tion of order will cost it nothing, as
the special police are giving their ser¬
vices free and the arms and ammuni¬
tion are furnished free by the dealers.
The Geronimo Story Denied.
A special has been received at Fort
Worth, Texas, denying that Geronimo,
star^mad He is
is living with his squaw on the Port
Sill reservation.
CONYERS. G-A„ AUGUST 1, 1900.
MORE EDICTS ISSUED
Latest Crop Engenders a More
Hopeful View Among Skeptics.
MR. WU VOLUNTEERS EXPLANATION
Rockhill Has Final Conference With
Minister Hay and Departs For
San Francisco.
A Washington special says: Satur¬
day brought forth the usual crop of
edicts and reports from various quar¬
ters, and the usual visit from Minister
Wu to the state department, all bear,
ing directly upon the welfare of tho
foreign ministers in Pekin.
This constantly growing mass of
assertion is beginning to have a cumu¬
lative effect upon the skeptics, and
there was a noticeably more hopeful
view taken of the state of affairs.
Beyond the fact that it is scarcely
conceivable that the Chinese authori¬
ties should persist in repeating and
strengthening these stories up to the
rapidly njiproaching moment when the
whole truth must be disclosed by oth¬
er agencies, it appeared upon careful
consideration of the reports that there
was really little more ground for hopes
as to the safety of Mr. Conger and his
colleagues at Pekin.
Tho depressing fact is always in
mind that the Chinese authorities, by
their own statements, able to oommu
nicate with the legationers, for some
mysterious reason do not permit these
unfortunates to communicate with their
own governments. Mr. Wu’s expla¬
nation of this, namely, that the Chi¬
nese methods are different from our
own, is scarcely sufficient for the offi¬
cials here. The minister, however, is
houestly trying to get a further com¬
munication through from Mr. Conger,
and it may be that success in this un¬
dertaking will afford h>m a brilliant
vindication.
There was nothing of interest from
China respecting the military or naval
forces there. The war department
officials now calculate that General
Chaffee with bis troops on the Grant
has arrived at Taku, though it may be
several days before his leport of the
fact can reach the department.
The Chinese minister visited the
state department early to deliver an
edict received by him to Secretary
Hay. It is similar in form to the edict
publishod in London. The minister
says that the only differences are those
involved in separate translations. Mr.
Wu’s translation of Sbeug’s dispatch
is as follows:
“Edict of 28th of tho sixth moon
(corresponding to July 24th) states
that fortunately all ministers, except
Baron von Ketteler, are alive and un¬
harmed. They are now being sup¬
plied with vegetables, fruit aud pro¬
visions by the government to show’ its
sympathy for them.”
Special Commissioner Rockhill call¬
ed at the state department Saturday
morniug and had a final conference
with Secretary Hay respecting his
mission to China. It was not deemed
proper to make public the exact in¬
structions given to Mr. Rockhill, but
it is stated generally that he is being
sent out to ascertain the condition in
China for the guidance of the state de¬
partment and to serve as its direct
representative in that country in case
it should be necessary hereafter to con¬
duct negotiations there instead of in
Washington. Washington Satur¬
Mr. Rockhill left
day afternoon for the Pacific coast.
The secretary of state has received a
dispatch fiom Mr. Fowler, the Amer
iban consul at Che Foo, dated at mid¬
night on the 2Cth. It follows:
“This morning by request of the
allied admirals I wired to the gover
nor (supposed to be governor of Shan
Tung) their wish to get news from
them.elves. TLe g o,e„„r
now it l ^P“ e8 rece . ve(] toJ edict from
emperor saving that the provisions ministers are j
welh They are sending to
the legations. Am confident ministers
out of distress and request you (Fow
ler) transmit this preliminary an
nouncement DO to admirals.
* 4 ( Yuan Governor’”
Secretary Hay alao received a cable
from United States Consul Me
flt Canton> 8ta ting that the
^Sswtre ri XTandXeU on
12th , 01 , JU T , y
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EPWORTH LEAGUERS
Assemble In Convention at Atlan¬
ta With Large Attendance.
GREAT MEETING OPENED AUSPICIOUSLY
Agricultural Building at Piedmont Park
Taxed To Its Capacity With the
Great Throngs.
The first annual southern conference
of the Epworth League opened its five
days’ session in tho auditorium at Ex¬
position park, Atlanta, Go., at 8
o’clock Thursday night.
The 3ceno presented in the vast
building, with its innumerable electric
lights gleaming upon the attractive
decorations of white and yellow on
pillar, rafter and wall, and illumining
the expectant faces of the great assem¬
blage, was beautiful aud inspiring.
Half of the audience wore the ribbon
and monogram badge of the southern
leaguers, and the majority of those in
attendance were young people.
The addresses which followed the de¬
votional service wero notable, and twro
of the speakers wore among tho most
distinguished men of the south—
Bishop Warren A. Candler, ef Geor¬
gia and Governor-elect W, J. Samford,
of Alabama. Both of the gentlemen
spoke in their happiest vein, and they
made a fine impression on their audi¬
tors. A good many Atlantians wont
expressly to hoar tho next governor
of Alabama, attracted by his reputa¬
tion as a leader and orator.
Bishop Candler extended the wel¬
come of the Empire State of the South
to the leaguers, and Governor-elect
Samford responded on behalf of the
visiting delegates to all of the ad¬
dresses of welcome. James L. May
sou of the Atlanta city council spoke
for the municipality, welcoming tho
conference to tho Gate City in an ap¬
propriate aud pleasing manner. Rev.
J. E. Dickey, pastor of Grace church,
voiced the welcome of Atlanta Meth¬
odism and the local Epworth Leaguers.
After tho speech-making, a half hour
was spent in making the delegates ac¬
quainted with each other and social
intercourse.
TELEGRAPHERS AT OUTS.
President Powell and Secretary
Perham Indulge In Some
Salty Correspondence.
A serious dissension has arisen in
the ranks of the Order of Railway
Telegraphers growing out of the late
strike on the Southern railway. H.
B. Perham, secretary and treasurer of
the grand division, with headquarters
at St. Louis, is engaged in a contro¬
versy with President W. Y. Powell.
The two grand officers are having a de¬
cidedly personal correspondence, cop¬
ies of which have been sent to all the
members of the brotherhood in the
United States.
A special session of the grand divis¬
ion of the order will be held in St. Louis
October 1st for the purpose of settling
these differences, and to enact such
legislation as may be required by the
growth and changes in the order since
its last convention.
Secretary Perham charges that the
Southern railway strike was badly
mismanaged and the order suffered
greatly in prestige because of the re¬
sult. He says that the president caused
to be withdrawn from the treasury
practically all the funds which it had,
and he says that the withdrawal was
contrary to the constitution of the or¬
der.
that S 35 “ 868 etary .fT (h « bars ed ,* .^ 7
-
the president s orders and that . the
protective fund, instead of having goO -
%£ Sn
Secretary Port am issued his first call
\ or tbe special aessionof the grand
°nly . *>66 h m . e 8 . tated tbat tba ord J °* ^f.
should have had $o0 ,000 at least,
Mr. Perham states that the relations
between bim8elf a “ d th « President are
very much strained and tho president
corroborates this statement The sec
retary accounts for it by the fact that
he declined to loan the president 81,-
100 of the order’s money in 1898, de¬
daring that things have been made
unpleasant for him ever since.
Official Organ of Rockdale Coun
ty. Has Largest Clrcalatfon in
The County.
FEARFUL CARNAfiE WROUGHT.
Dead Bodies Strewn In Heaps
Over Battlefield at Panama.
Peace Treaty Signed.
A dispatch to The Now York Herald
from Panama says:
A treaty of peace between the gov¬
ernment and the revolutionists has
been signed.
This action followed directly after
the most desperate battle of the entire
revolution, iu which the losses on each
side were very heavy. Owing, it Is
believed, to some misunderstanding as
to the armistice brought about by the
American, English and French con¬
suls, the insurgents suddenly renewed
thoir attacks on the suburbs of Pana¬
ma. The fighting lasted eleven hours
with the exception of only a few min¬
utes interval, and was very heavy
from start to finish.
The rebel troops made charge after
charge upon the trenches of the gov¬
ernment forces, pushing forward with
remarkable bravery and with a reck¬
lessness approaching closely to mad
mess.
Every nssault was repulsed with a
terrible loss of life, but. the rebels
were undaunted, and with extraordi¬
nary courage and renewed vigor re¬
peated the attacks agaiu aud again.
These desperate assaults wero kept up
all night long, and were met with
equally bravo resistance by tbe regu¬
lars.
It was G o’clock Thursday morning
when the revolutionists were finally
compelled to give up the attacks aud
forced to retreat to tho positions they
held when the armistice was declared.
The tide of battle was turned against
them by the arrival of an express train
from Colon with 800 fresh troops to
reinforce the government. These
gave the regulars tho advantage and
the rebels retired after eleven hours of
such fierce fighting as tho isthmus
never saw before.
The appearance of the battleground
after the cessation of hostilities can
better be imagined than described.
The dead and dying were lying all
along the Caledonia road, beyond the
railroad bridge, for half a mile, some¬
times scattered a few feet apart and
more often in heaps, packed closely
together.
How many were killed during tho
night is not yet known, but tbe num¬
ber will reach into the hundreds. The
exact loss may never be known for
many of the wounded men crawled
into out of tho way thickets and those
died in the bushes may not all be
found, being recorded simply as
“missing.”
NEGRO SCHOOL BURNED.
Mol) In Now Orleans Vent Their Fury
Against Blacks By Using Torch.
The splendid Thorny Lafon school,
on Sixth and Franklin streets, New
Orleans, was burned to the ground at
midnight Friday, having been set fire
to by the mob in the fury against the
negroes. The school was the finest
negro school in New Orleans, and was
erected with money left by tbe negro
philanthropist, Thorny Lafon, who be¬
queathed a fortuno of 8G00,000,divided
equally between charities for the whites
and negroes. The school was erected
by the city three years ago out of the
funds left by Lafon, aud a bust of the
negro was placed in the Louisiana
statehouse at Baton Rouge. The school
accommodated 800 colored children.
At an early hour Saturday morning
a mob set fire to thirty tenement
houses occupied by negroes at Tchoup
itoulas and Amelia streets. The flames
were extinguished before much damage
was done.
ENVOYS IN TRANSIT.
Chinese Allege That Surviving IMploinats
Are Heins; Escorted to Tien T»ln.
Friday morning’s reports received
in London from Shanghai reiterate
the allegation that the surviving mem¬
bers of the diplomatic corps have al¬
ready left Pekin on their way to Tien
Tsin, and added that the foreigners
are being escorted by troops of Jung
Lu, commander-in-chief of the Chi¬
nese forces.
This move is stated to have been
taken in the hope of abating the wrath
of the powers and delaying the ad¬
vance of the allies toward Pekin.
A dispatch received from the same
sources state that half the foreigners
iu Pekin have been killed or wounded
or have died from the privations they
have undergone.
NO. 28.
WIFE HAS CONFESSED
Mrs. Dixon and Jerry Weldon Tell
Tlieir Ghastly Stories.
nUSBAND DELIBERATELY MURDERED
Prisoners Are Hurried to Uibb Couniy Jail
to Escape Probable Lynching
at AVriglitsville.
As a startling sequel to the mid¬
night murder of George Dickson, the
Crawford county, Ga., farmer, Jerry
Walden, the young white man com¬
mitted to jail in Wrightsville under
suspicion, made a confession Wednes¬
day. So did the wife of the murdered
man.
When it became known that such
was the case it was evident that both
would ho lynched, so John Anthony,
clerk of the superior court of Johnson
county, owing to tho illness of Sheriff
Rowland, removed the prisoners to
Tennillo and took a train for Macon.
The guilty parties are now in Bibb
county jail. She
Mrs. Dickson confessed first.
sent for Anthony, who with two re¬
sponsible gentlemen of Wrightsville,
wrote out her confession. It showed
her to be a woman of an abandoned
heart. While returning from the home
of a sick friend late Sunday night the
plot was made, she says, to kill the
husband. Walden had been intimate
with her. The husband had quarreled
about it. Waldou worked on the farm
for Dickson and all lived in one
house, which consisted of a large
room in which all slept.
The children slept in a bed next to
the one occupied by the father. He
was asleep when Walden stood over
and dealt him a blow on tho side of the
head with an ax. The groans of Dick¬
son aroused temporarily one of the
children, who soon fell asleep again.
Tho woman says she kept watch while
Walden struck her husband two other
blows—one on the forehead, which
paralyzed his brain; anothor one on
tho back of his head. While she wept
to her brother’s, who resides half'a
mile away, Walden washed the blood
from his hands, and going across the
road which leads from the house,
threw tho bloody hatchet into the
woods, where it was found by her
brother, who at once accused the pair
of the murder. Walden, however,
says she dealt the second blow; that
she suggested the murder, got the ax
and told him whore to hit her hus¬
band.
The woman is rough looking and
dissipated, to all appearance, and told
the story of the murder of the father
of her children in a most indifferent
manner. Walden is but a boy about
twenty-two years of age, a farm hand
without education or intelligence. His
father and two brothers went to Macon
with him.
KEMPFF SENDS REPORT.
American Admiral Explains Why HI*
Oddi Were Silent at Takn.
The navy department Wednesday
made public the mall report of Rear
Admiral Kempff explaining with bis rea¬
sons for refusing to join the ships
of the other powers in tho attack on
the Taku forts. Rear Admiral Kempff’a
explanation for refusing to participate
in the attack on the fortifications of a
power with which we were at peace is
warmly commended by Secretary Long.
Admiral Kempffi’s first report says:
“On Thursday, June 14th, Rear Ad¬
miral Bruce called and asked what I
thought of the matter, and I informed
him that I was not authorised to ini¬
tiate any act of war with a country
with whom my country was at peace;
that my limit was to protect American
interests, both ftty regulations and un¬
der recent instructions from both the
navy department and from the com¬
mander-in-chief of the United States
naval force on the Asiatic station.
“On the 15th, at a consultation of
the other foreign naval officers, it was
agreed that the railroad station at
Tong Kn should be taken (the railway
is under government control) and in
case any Chinese government force
acted against the force involved of any foreign
nation all should be and act
unitedly. Under my instructions I
could not join in taking possession of
of Chinese government property and
did not care to become a party to such
an agreement without speoial authori¬