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HANGED FOR ASSAULT.
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Penalty Imposed by Lnw Was Visit
ed Upon Williams.
Wheeling:, W. Va., Sept. 9.—George
Williams, the Jefferson county negro,
who waylaid and criminally assaulted
Laura Knade, near Harper’s Ferry,
several weeks ago, was hanged at the
state prison in Moundsville this even
ing at S:IS o'clock. Eleven minutes
later life was pronounced extinct and
the body w*as cut down and prepared
for burial in the prison cemetery.
Williams never lost his nerve and
went to the scaffold without a whimper,
declaring to the last his innocence. The
crime was perhaps the most revolting
in the criminal annals of the state.
Laura Kifade, a white girl, whose
family is one of the most prominent
of the Eastern Panhandle, left her
home on a bright July morning, driv
ing to Harper’s Ferry to board a train
for the World’s Fair. On the way.
Williams waylaid the girl and commit
ed the assault.
The crime aroused the countryside to
a man, and when the negro was cap
tured public excitement became so
great that the prisoner was taken over
the border into Maryland. The ex
citement was allayed, seemingly, and
Willfams was taken to Charlestown
Jail, but again mobs formed and the
prisoner was hurriedly taken to
Moundsville penitentiary to await trial.
Gov. White called out the National
Guard and under its protection Wil
liams was taken back to Charlestown
and the trial held under military pro
tection. The night before the trial the
excitement culminated in the forma
tion of the largest mob of all, and as
saults were made on the jail/ but the
military, under Col. Simms, succeeded
in overaweing the mob, and then came
the trial, which speedily resulted in a
verdict of guilty and the sentence to
hang at Moundsville, Sept. 9.
WHO WILL WEAR THE LOST
LAURELS OF TRAVIS?
Egan and Herreshoff Are tlie Candi
dates for Them.
Short Hills, N. J„ Sept. 9.—With
Walter "J. Travis dethroned as the
champion of American golfers, the
honors of succeeding is to be decided
to-morrow on the Baltusrol Club’s
links. Either H. Chandler Egan, of
the Exmoor Country Club, of Chicago,
or Frederick Herreshoff, of the Ell
wanok Country Club, of Manchester,
Vt„ will be the new champion, as these
two are the survivors of a field of 133
men who started in the annual tourna
ment last Tuesday.
In to-day's play, Herreshoff beat
George A. Ormiston, of Pittsburg, and
W. T. West, of Camden. Egtin beat
Arthur Havemeyer and Dr. D. P.
Fredericks, of Oil City.
CONTESTS* AT SEAGIRT.
Results In Some of tlie Trials ot
Skill With the Rifle.
Sea Girt, N. J., Sept. 19.—Four con
tests were concluded to-day at the
joint international shooting tournament
of the National Rifle Association, of
America and the New Jersey State
Rifle Association, and firing was con
tinued in all the individual matches.
The skirmish team match was won
by the United States Marine Corps,
Second team, with a total of 412.
The Seabury long range military rifle
match was won by Lieut. Tewes of
New Jersey and the Tyro Company
team match went to the First team of
the Second Troop of New Jersey, whose
total was 129 out of a possible 150
Lieut. K. K. V. Casey was awarded
first prize in the Spencer match.
Visitors nt Uofiemonnt.
Esopus, N. Y., Sept. 9.—The only
visitors at Rosemount to-day were
Judge Dennis O’Brien, of the New
York State Court of Appeals: Jus
tice Edward E. McCall, of the New
York Supreme Court; Col. William
Gorham Rice, of Albany, former Unit
ed States civil service commissioner,
and William G. Buckley, of New York.
Justice McCall is a brother of John
A. McCall, president of the large New
York insurance company, who recent
ly came out in support of Theodore
Roosevelt for President.
Mr. Buckley is one of the counsel for
the same company, but the visit was
said to have nothing to do with Pres
ident McCall's attitude.
Judge Parker has completed his let
ter of acceptance, but it has not been
sent to the printer and probably will
not be for several days. William P.
Sheehan, chairman of the National
Executive Committee is expected here
to-morrow to remain over Sunday.
hnvlK In Baltimore.
Baltimore. Sept. 9.—The Democratic
candidate for the vice presidency, for
r"T r . Senator Henry G. Davis, stopped
off in Baltimore to-day. He met and
had a conference with United States
senator A. P. Gorman at Hotel Ren
nert during the early afternoon and
later visited some of his personal
mends in the city. Senator Davis de
clined to discuss politics, his only ref
erence to the coming campaign being
. i think we shall win.” Mr. Davis
intends to leave for New York city
to-morrow to have a conference with
National Chairman Taggart and other
JJfcmoeratlc leaders.
tlolmmioii WfiM Ifaniteri.
Birmingham, Ala.. Sept. 9.—Larkin
Johnston, colored, was hanged at Co
lumbiana to-day for the confessed mur
er of John Hawley, an old Confederate
soldier.
PINKIUI, IXVITATIOX9.
BEVILL.—The relatives and friends
of Mrs. Margaret Bevlll are Invited to
attend her funeral from the residence
of her daughter, Mrs. H. H. Wnndell,
1 "1 West Broad street, this afternoon
at 4 o’clock. Interment Laurel Grove
'emetery.
OBITUARY.
.1. S. Spencer. Charlotte, X, C.
Charlotte, N. C., Kept. 9. -J. 8.
eponcer, president of the Commercial
■Motional Bank, vice president of th"
Highland Park Manufacturing Oom
l;,ny. president of the Henrietta Mills,
'he Florence Mills, at Forest City,
1 and int-rested tn a number of other
I'oportant business enterprises, died to.
ouy. '
Mrs. I. I. Mints.
News has been received in Bs vannah
'V the death In New York a few days
‘go of Mrs. I. |, Mints, a slater of
Mrs h M Gwrfunkel of ibis r)t> Mrs.
Mints was. before hr marriage, a Mias
> oUeky oi Ms v anna to. the lived for
number of yeare in ctoarlesfoti and
letar moved t New York, flu u
**ll known here
MANY KILLED OR
MAIMED IN WRECK.
Continued from First Page.
Chapman and Engineer E. Y. Barks
dale, which train was passed by No.
41, a short distance east of the point
where the accident occurred, ran into
the damaged trestle and on top of the
passenger train, resulting in the death
of the engineer of No. 19, the fireman
of the passenger train, and of Mrs.
Black and an unknown lady passenger.
“Two Pullman employes, six railway
employes, one mail clerk, one Southern
Express Company employe and twenty
three passengers were injured.”
Hanning nt High .Speed.
The wrecked train was running about
forty miles an hour when the trestle,
which Is about 300 feet long, spanning
a meadow near the Catawba river.gave
way. The engine and first car passed
over, but were drawn backward into
the abyss and upon the other cars, a
light engine and caboose piling in on
top of the train of wreckage before it
could be flagged.
Gaston Meares, the engineer of the
passenger train, escaped with some
bruises and a painful scalp wound.
How he escaped death is beyond his
own or any one else’s comprehension.
He said that he was driving at the
rate of forty miles an hour as he
crossed the bridge. Just before the
engine had swept entirely clear of the
structure, he felt it sinking, but the
impetus carried the engine and all the
cars, except the first class passenger
car and the Pullman, clear of the
yawning gulf which was left when half
the bridge collapsed, but the engine
and cars were swerved from their
course to the right, tearing the rail
loose from its fastenings and hurling
the entire train upside down over an
embankment to the meadow, about
thirty feet below.
Horrible Scene Ginned.
A scone, horrible beyond description,
ensued. The accounts of the surviv
ors are terrible. When the train went
crashing over the embankment, every
light went out, passengers were thrown
heads over heels, against the sides of
the coaches, bleeding and bruised. A
natural panic took them; some were
rendered unconscious for a moment.
Mrs. Black, sitting with her husband,
gave a short cry and when he man
aged to strike a match and find her
body, he discovered that she was dead,
her neck having been broken. She
was the only passenger killed, or even
hurt seriously.
As the scrambling and shouting went
on in the dark, above the noises a
brakeman, with his head half way out
a window, was heard to shout: “My
God, the freight train is coming upon
us.”
In less than a minute, the. freight,
which had left Monroe fifteen minutes
behind the passenger came whizzing
along the tracks, struck the open space
where the bridge had fallen and plowed
its way through the passenger cars.
The woman, whose identity could not
be discovered, then met her death, the
freight engine having crashed through
the side of that passenger car in which
she was. and crushing her body into a
shapeless mass.
The engineer of the freight train
must have met his death instantly. He
was found in the cab of the overturned
engine with his head crushed, but few
bruises upon his body. When his body
was dug out of the debris this morning,
his watch was still running on time.
His fireman escaped with a few minor
injuries.
An Operator Hero.
The wreck developed at least one
hero. Mr. Black, whose wife was kill
ed beside him, was the last man to
leave the coaches, and what he did
the very first thing was to walk, with
all his bruised condition, to Catawba
Junction, two miles away, get into
the telegraph office and send to Mon
roe for help. He is a telegraph opera
tor in the service of the Norfolk and
Western Railroad, and was going to
Atlanta with his wife to testify there
in a railroad suit. He hardly realises
the blow he has sustained, and sat
all day on the bank nearby with
mournful eyes and muttering to him
self: ‘‘My God, what an ordeal for
a man to bear.”
The mass of wreckage of the two
trains is like a huge heap of junk.
Railroad men said to-day that they
had never seen such a complete de
molishment of engines and coaches.
They are lying heaped, and crushed to
gether. Looking at the conglomera
tion, people wonder that any one es
caped.
The wrecking crew from the Sea
board shops at Abbeville, S. C., ar
rived about 10 o’clock this morning
and began to clear away the debris.
It will take days to get the line In
passable condition. The trains are
scattered to the side of the tracks,
and in the ravine into which the bridge
fell.
Fltxvvaier Finds lilrtr Work.
George S. Fitzwater, chief detective
of the Seaboard Air Line, arrived on
the scene early in the morning, and
took charge of the situation, until or
ganized help arrived. He said this aft
ernoon that he had found some spikes
and bolts and two angle bars which
had been removed from the track with
claw bars, and he said he w-as confi
dent that dirty work had been done.
Mr. Fitzwater sent a telegram to Supt.
E. Berkeley at Atlanta, telling him
that he had discovered evidence of
malice in this work and expressed his
belief that someone had disconnected
the Joints in the lower half of the
bridge.
The stretch of track in that vicinity
is a clear, straight and apparently well
built one. The timbers of the bridge
appear io have been wrenched from
their fastenings and those that are
splintered are of sound wood. There
was nothing to suggest that the foun
dations of the structure was under
mined by a washout, although the
ground w somewhat marshy yester
4*v.
Head Bodies Removed,
The dead bodies were all taker,
from the wreck about 10 M o’rl*k
The woman, who was so badly muti
lated wore simple gold ring. wlh
me loseilpiioß ‘ From Tom to Asns,
ICaotolMi >, MM." loeidm Wte waa
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 10. 1904.
A few years ago every one was
talking about “DODO" speaking
of E. F. Benson's New Novel,
THECHALLONERS
The X. Y. Globe says:
It is a satisfaction to find upon a
close acquaintance with this new
novel that it shows a strength of
conception and a fineness of exe
cution that will lead critics in the
future to refer to Mr. Benson as
author of “The Challoners” instead
of the author of "Dodo.”
There is a Large Demand for
E. li. Voynich's X’ew Novel,
OLIVE LATHAM.
A STORY OF RUSSIA.
Mrs. Voynich is the author of the
two famous books. “Jack Ray
mond” and “The Gadfly.”
J. B. LIPPINCOTT CO.,
Publishers, Philadelphia.
CHARLES H. SPAIIR.
Mr. C. B. Spahr, of Kingsbridge, N.
Y., editor of two magazines of New
York, who either fell or jumped over
board from the steamship Prince Al
bert midway between Ostend and
Dover.
probably 32 years old, medium sized,
with dark auburn hair. She had a
purse containing $2.45, a return trip
ticket from Wilmington, N. C., to At
lanta, and a baggage check No. 603,-
598.
C. S. Coleman, of Bon Air, Va., said
he was the only man in the smoking
t*ar when the train was hurled over
the embankment, and he heard much
shouting from the other coaches. In
a very few minutes. he said, the
freight train crashed into them, and
then silence settled over the scene
for several minutes, when the groans
of the wounded, as they began to
regain consciousness, pieced the night
air.
BROWNS VICTORS
OVER THE BLUES.
Continued from First Page.
suit would have been in ac
tual warfare, it is impossible to
say. The Blue right was badly shat
tered, hut Price’s brigade was still
infiact and immediately available for
support. Reinforcements could have
been drawn from the brigade of Frost.
Whether the frontal attack across Bull
Run would, have been sufficient to
hold these two brigades in check, or
whether the brigades in question would
themselves have been carried away in
the general rush, it is idle to specu
late.”
Will Pay Off Militia.
In relinquishing command of the
maneuver force, Gen. Corbin issued
a general order to-night expressing his
approval of the work done by each
commander and the force under him.
The militia will- he paid to-morrow
after the review which is to be held at
Wellington at 1 o’clock. After the
review 8,000 of the Eastern militia will
be entrained and started for home.
The Southern Railway will run as many
rpecial trains as necessary from Wash
ington to Wellington to-morrow, as
great crowds are expected to witness
the review of both Blue and Brown
forces.
PLAN TO MERGE* THREE
BIG TOBACCO CONCERNS.
One Rig t oriiofiiiion Will He tlie
American Tobacco ('oinpany.
New York, Sept. 9.—By action of
directors of the American Tobacco
Company, the Consolidated Tobacco
Company and the Continental Tobac
co Company meetings of the stockhold
ers of the three concerns have been
called for Sept. 30, at which plans will
be put to the stockholders for a con
solidation of the three big concerns
into one corporation, to be known as
the American Tobacco Company.
The earnings of the three companies
It is proposed to merge amounted to
something over $22,000,000 In 1903.
REFUSED THEOFFER
OF THE ADDICKS MEN.
Wilmington. Del., Sept. 9.—The reg
ular Republican State Committee held
a meeting here to-day and authorized
United States Senator Ball, state chair
man. to send a reply to United States
Senator Alice, chairman of the Union
Kepuhilcun Htate Committee, virtually
refusing the proffer of the Addlcks far.
tlon for harmony and the consequent
selection of one Republican state ticket.
The pnqwisltlon of Alice was that the
Union Republicans would accord to the
regulars all of the nomination*, except
Governor, state treasurer and Insurance
commissioner.
Was Shat s*4 Killed.
Richmond, Va., Kept. 9. A Tazewell,
Va.. *pec|Hl says: Ebb Henkle, white,
shout twenty years of age, was shot
snd killed here last night In front of
the Presbyterian Church by an un
known man. He never spoke after be
ing shot, except to say that be did not
know the man who had fired on him.
Hervle Henkle, a cousin of the de
ceased. ran lha murderer about a bun
dled tarda into a coiiiAuM, where be
|ut tbs trail.
BOTH ARMIES DRENCHED
BY GREAT DOWNPOURS.
Continued from First Page.
weather if they can snatch much-need
ed rest.
One advantage is that the rain has
entirely checked the movements of the
Japanese eastern and southern armies—
in fact, quiet reigns over the whole
front.
The Chinese population of Mukden is
so far fairly orderly. The Chinese are
suffering greatly and in the villages all
around crops, cattle and poultry have
been trodden down and killed. The
Russians are endeavoring to pay for all
damage, though this is often difficult,
owing to the rapid shifting of the
troops.
THIS IS A DIFFERENT
VIEW OF SITUATION.
Say* Russians are Divided Into Five
Columns.
London, Sept. 10.—The Daily Ex
press claims to have trustworthy infor
mation that the Russian army is di
vided into five columns. The first has
reached Tie Pass (forty miles north of
Mukden), and is preparing to defend
that place against the Japanese. The
second is midway between Mukden and
Tie Pass. The third is at Mukden. The
fourth, consisting of 40,000 men, under
Gen. Meyendorff, is holding Gen. Ku
roki in check by hard fighting twelve
miles south of Mukden. The fifth, of
about 12,000 men. is further south, ex
hausted by incessant fighting, and is
surrounded on three sides by the Jap
anese, its position being one of extreme
danger from which it can hardly hope
to escape,
“Everything now depends,” says the
paper, “on Meyendorff’s ability to hold
Kuroki In check, which he so far, has
been successfully doing.”
BOTH SIDES WERE
COMPLETELY FAGGED.
London, Sept. 10.—The Times has re
ceived a dispatch, dated at Pekin,
from a correspondent lately with Gen.
Oku’s army, which says:
“Liao Yang at sunrise on Sept. 4
presented a dismal aspect. The Rus
sian settlement was burning and over
hung with a pall of smoke. The scared
Chinese were in hiding and the dead
beat Japanese bivouacking in the sub
urbs. Not a shot was fired inside the
barricade that day and not a Russian
left except a few deserters disguised
as Chinese.
“The town was not greatly dam
aged by the shell fire, but all the Eu
ropean shops and the wealthy Chinese
residences had been sacked by the
Tenth Siberian Rifles. Over fifty
MR. DURHAM WHITE .‘7TEIVFNS |f|||
UiMmml ■ ■■■■.■■.l-..—* —mirU
American Who Will Advise Korean Emperor.
Chinese were killed by the Japanese
shell tiro.
“The Japanese spoils of war were
insigmiflcant. They got no locomo
tives, which they urgently need and
which would have been more valu
able to them than artillery.
"The Japanese divisional commander
attempted to pursue the Russians and
managed to secure a bridge, but his
troops were too fatigued to accept
anything. 1 cannot give details of the
fighting north of Liao Yang because
I have to leave Immediately for China
to send an account of the great bat
tle."
RECEIVES A REPORT
OF RUSSIAN ATROCITIES.
Toklo, Sept. 9.-3 p. m.—A private
telegram received here says that a
small Russian expedition from Kam
chatka visited Senchu Island, north
of thp Island of Hoknldo, and In the
absence of the men, killed the women
and children and burned the houses.
Official confirmation is lacking In re
gard to this report, which is Incredi
ble.
RUSSIANS EVACUATING
THE CITY OF MUKDEN.
Berlin, Sept. 9.—A dispatch to the
Lokal Anzelger from Mukden, timed
11:40 a. m., to-day, says the evacuation
of Mukden is now in progress, and
adds that the Japanese have not yet
crossed the river Hun which flow* u
few miles south of Mukden.
COMMUNICATIONS ARE
NOT BROKEN AS YET.
St. Petersburg. Kept. 9.—A dispatch
has been received from Viceroy Alex-
Irff announcing that the railroad snd
telegraph line between Harbin and
Mukden are both uninterrupted.
No 11* In Ins Dpi, *l.
St. Petersburg. Kept. 9.— Lieut. Gen.
SakharofT telegraphs that there waa
no fighting during Sept I.
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ARE SEEKING TO INCITE
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION.
Inflammatory Proclamation* .Are
Being Disseminated.
St. Petersburg. Sept. 10, 3:55 a. m.—
Intense activity is being displayed by
some anti-Russian revolutionary organ
izations abroad. It seems that they
have united in an effort to appeal to
all the discontented classes of the Rus
sian population. Incendiary proclama
tions have been smuggled across the
border and distributed broadcast in the
towns and cities, especially in Polish
and Jewish centers, calling upon the
population to take advantage of the
government's preoccupation, owing to
the war to rise against the authorities
and overthrow the autocracy.
Many of the proclamations have been
seized, and it is proved that they have
been printed in London. Until now
they have met with little response in
Russia proper, but there have been sev
eral manifestations in various places
in Poland ami Southwestern Russia,
where the population is largely Jewish.
The largest demonstration, it is un
derstood, took place at Grodno, Poland,
where 500 persons participated.
The Ministry of the Interior seem
ingly does not attach great importance
to the proclamations, and the reports
which have been received indicate that
the people have not been stirred up by
them. The demonstrations, according
to the Ministry of the Interior, have
been small affairs, and easily sup
pressed without violence. Nevertheless,
the attempts to inflame the people when
the country is being seriously tried by
reverses in the theater of war, are nat
urally more or less disquieting.
SAYS THE RUSSIANS
ARE DEMORALIZED.
Shanghai, Sept. 9.—Night—A special
messenger of the Tartar general at
Mukden, who escaped from that city
through the cordon of Russian out
posts, reports, according to advices re
ceived here, that the Russian army
is utterly confused and demoralized,
especially the remains of the two Rus
sian army corps, which recently join
ed Gen. Kuropatkin’s forces.
Rank at Mukden Close*.
Mukden, Sept. 7. (Delayed in trans
mission) —The Russo-Chtnese Bank at
Mukden has been closed and the civil
authorities are preparing to leave.
Eeliii*e nt duayuitnll.
Guayaquil, Ecuador. Sept. 9.—Guaya
quil was almost in complete darkness
from 4 to 5 o’clock this afternoon on
account of a solar eclipse, which was
preceded by a slight earthquake shock.
At a few minutes before 5 o’clock the
sun re-appeared.
KgbßO WAS INSISTENT.
Officer* Got On Hl* Truck nnd Soon
Arre*tcil Him.
Live Oak, Fla., Sept. 9.—This morn
ing an unknown negro appeared at the
home of Mr. J. L. Edwards, who lives
;n the western part of town, near the
Methodist Church, and asked to see
Mrs. Edwards. The colored cook In
formed him that Mrs. Edwards was
not at home. The negro said that Mr.
Edwards had sent him to the house for
$6 and that he intended having it, and
so saving be forced his way Into the
house. The cook being alarmed, ran
over to a neighbor’s house and tele
phoned to Mr. Edwards, who nt once
went to his home, hut the negro, proba
bly sustecthig trouble, got out of the
way. and It Is presumed, he Is In hid
ing In a negro suburb of this town,
known as Cypress City.
This is supposed to be a negro for
whom there Is a reward of SIOO offered,
and who has sent word to City Mar
shal W. H. Lyle that he Intended kill
ing him before he left this town. This
occurred between 10 and 11 o'clock this
morning, and at 2 this afternoon the
officers captured him nt Jasper, sixteen
miles from here.
found Thotspring
THAT STOPPED WORK.
Rome, Bpt. #.~Wnrk on the Himp
lon tunnel, which It wus expected
would be completed bv the beginning
of next month, was suddenly stopped
to-day owing to the exposure of a hot
spring flowing 1.600 gallons per min
ute, while the temperature In th* tun
nel reached 113 degrees. Refrigerator*
will be Instolhd. and the work re
sumed 4 month from date.
The Klmplon tunnel, whb h Is being
rut through Hlnipliui mountain, will
be 21,874 yard* long, arid It ha* al
ready been pierced for a distance of
21.142 yard*
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On Account of Holiday.
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CH >RLES F. STEWART, Asst. G. P. A., Savannah. Ga.
GREAT FOREST FIRES ARE
RAGING IN CALIFORNIA.
San Francisco, Sept. 9.—Forest fires
are doing great damage in several
sections of California. In Alameda
and Contra Costa counties thousands
of acres of land have been swept by
flames and many houses have been de
stroyed, the loss reaching SIOO,OOO. In
Marin county flros have burned over
the slopes of Mount Tamalpals and
now threaten the Mount. Tamalpals
Scenic Railroad and timber In the ad
jacent canyons. The Big Basin Park
in Santa Cruz and Santa Clara coun
ties, which contains some of the larg
est and finest red wood trees In the
state, seemed doomed to destruction,
though hundreds of men are fighting
the fires.
WAB A S HPAI [TTI*2,OOO,OOO
FOR THE PROPERTY.
Pittsburg. Sept. 9.—One of the most
important railroad deals ever consum
mated affecting Pittsburg was closed
to-day in New York, when the Wa
bash Interests, for the sum of $12,000,-
000, purchased the Pittsburg Terminal
Railroad and Coal Company, the West
Side Belt road and its branches. In
cluding all the associated companies
of the coal company. The deal gives
the Wabash the advantage of an Im
mense tonnage for Immediate haul and
entrance Into all the iron tonnage
producing miiis of Pittsburg.
COFFIN CONTAINING BONES
CAST UP BY THE SEA.
Newport News. Va., Sept. 9.—A cof
fin containing the dry bones of a
human skeleton was cast up by the
se*a near Salters Creek, In Hampton
Roads, to-day. The casket was de
livered to the Elizabeth City county po
lite by J. H. Harries, a fisherman. An
investigation Is being made by the
county authorities. Circumstances and
the condition of the casket indicate
that It was thrown overboard from a
vessel outside the Virginia capes a
week ago or more.
Kerim ml Inn Ktwv Xotes.
Fernandlna, Fla.. Sept 9.—Hon. J.
L. Baltell has been elected member
of the Congressional Committee from
Nassau oountv.
Company B returned from Its en
campment at St. Augustine In good
shape, with the exception of one of
its members. ”Doc" Livingston, whose
head was badly Injured as a result
of the affray between several of the
soldiers and colored people of that
citv.
Col. Quinn, United States Engineers,
is In the city.
Mrs. Emma Williams and niece,
Emma, have returned from their visit
to Suwanee.
Mr. and Mrs. Kydol left for the
North last week.
Judge Baker and family have re
turned from their trip.
Mrs. Fannie Williams sailed from
England on the 7th, bound for New
York eltv.
Cotton Statistics.
Liverpool, Sept. 10.—Following are
the weekly cotton statistics:
Toftil sub-s of alt kinds. Iti.OOO hales;
total sales, American. 35.000. English
spinners takings. 53,000; total export,
2.000; imports of all kinds. tj.OflO. im
ports, American. 5,000 stock of all
kinds, 147,000; slock American. lj,00u;
quantity afloat, all kinds. 55,000; quan
tity afloat American, 13,000.
Total sales on speculation, 1.100.
Total sales to exporters, 900.
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l*t*4 that tti* iiaft fonvantion
will he ofan un4 that th* nomination
for Oovornor to • fumlni ©nt#* H*
any* III* volition Will Of In ffooton
two 4ay*
VESSEL WAS SUNK
OFF HIGHLAND LIGHT.
Highland Light, Mass., Sept. 10.—A
large vessel has been sunk off High
land Light. The crew left the vessel
in boats. It Is not known whether
the wreck was that of a freighter o*
passenger boat.
Pres talent’s Congratulations.
White River Junction, Vt., Sept. 9.—•
The following communication from
President Roosevelt W'as received by
mall to-day by Secretary Alfred E.
Watson, of the State Republican Com
mittee:
‘‘Oyster Bay, N. Y., Sept. 9.—My
Dear Mr. Watson: I he'artily con
gratulate you and your fellow Repub
licans In Vermont. The result is ad
mirable in every way.
"Theodore Roosevelt.”
The letter is in answer to a message
from Watson advising the President
of the result of Tuesday’s election in
Vermont.
Trades I'iiion Congress Protests.
Leeds, Sept. 9.—The Trades Union
Congress at its session to-day adopt
ed a resolution emphatically protest
ing against the government’s action
in sanctioning the South African labor
ordinance, as opposed to the best in
terests of British workmen at home
and abroad, as sanctioning conditions
of labor unfit for human beings and
as contrary to the anti-slavery tradi
tions of the British empire.
Can’t Strike for Three Years.
New York. Sept. 9.—A written con
tract covering the conditions agreed
to last Saturday by officials of the In
ter-borough Rapid Transit Company,
and representatives of the unions of all
classes of employes on the Elevated
roud. was signed to-day. The main
point in the agreement is that it pro
hibits the motormen from striking In
the next three years.
Kalns Caused Postponement.
Hartford, Conn.. Kept. 9.—A very
heavy track after last night's storm
compelled the postponement of to-day's
card of the Grand Circuit meeting at
Charter Oak Park, and the races
scheduled for tha two days will ba
made the programme for to-morrow
afternoon.
Cowherd in Wsulilnston.
Washington, Sept. 9.—Chairman Cow
herd. of the Democratic Congressional
Committee, returned to Washington to
day. He said there Is no present pros
pect of removing congressional head
quarters to New York, and he thought
they would remain here during the
campaign.
Volina Trust Dissolved.
Philadelphia, Sept. 9.—With the pay
ment to-day of the recently declared
semi-annual dividend of 2 per cent, on
the first preferred stock of the Reading
Company, the voting trust of the cor
poration was dissolved. The affairs of
the company will in future be in tha
hands of the shareholders.
—Just about a week ago a young
Russian nobleman arrived in New
York under an assumed name. He
was not allowed to land On the way
over he became somewhat hilarious In
the smoking room one evening. While
in this happy frame or mind his dis
cretion broke away from its moorings
and he confidentially informed a cou
ple of his fellow passengers that he
was coming to ibis country to study
American fortifications, and to pick up
what Information be could regarding
military affairs. He also told them bis
real name. All of which decided the
authorities that he was not a desir
able visitor, so he returned by the
seme vessel without having eet foot
on American soli.
- 1 '*i
- Mlse Gertrude Vo ti Petsold, M A.,
who has accepted charge of e Uni
tarian church In Ixheeter, it eatd to
tie the tire t woman spp.Mi.te4 U
pastorate in KosclaoC
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