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__ ... THE MORNING NEWS. I Established 1550. - Incorporated IS3B r J. H. ESTILLi. President. ’ PUTTING IRON IN LIFE PRESERVERS TO MAKE CORK WEIGH MORE. FOUR MEN WERE ARRESTED FOR CONSPIRACY. They Wct* Indicted by the I'nited States Grand Jnry in New Jersey. Charred With Conspiring to De frand the Government—Scheme Might Cost Lives. Bnt Was Count ed Upon as a Money Maker, Iron Being Cheaper Than Cork. Washington, Oct. I.—A conspiracy, which has been developed by officials of the Department of Commerce and Labor and of the Department of Jus tice, to-day resulted in the arrest at Camden, N J., of J. H. Stone, H. C. Quintard. Charles W. Russ and James Russ, officers of the Nonpareil Cork Works. They were apprehended by the Unit ed States marshal for the district of New Jersey, under an indictment found on Sept. 29 by the United States grand jury at Trenton, charging them under Section 5440 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, with conspiring to defraud the government and prejudice the administration of the steamboat laws by putting upon the markll-compressed cork blocks for use in making life preservers, each of which blocks contained in its center a piece of bar iron about six inches long and weighing eight ounces. The iron bar was inserted and concealed in the biock for the purpose of increasing the weight to the legal requirement of six pounds of good cork for each life pre server. The men arrested will be arraigned probably early next week before the United States District Court of New Jersey to plead to the indictment. How Discovery Was Maile. Early in August David Khanweiler's Sons, manufacturers of life preservers in New York city, ordered from the Nonpareil CArk Works of Camden, N. J., blocks of compressed corks for 1,750 life preservers. Eight of these blocks are used in each preserver and the United States law requires that the eight blocks shall contain six pounds of cork. When the cork blocks were delivered to Khanweiler's Sons, Lewis Khan weiler, a member of the firm, who is an expert in the handling of bare cork, suspected that they were under weight. Putting them on the scales, he discov ered that eight of the blocks, which, according to legal requirements should weigh six pounds, weighed only live and a half pounds. Khanweiler’s Sons thereupon wrote the Nonpareil Cork Works calling the officers attention to the under-weight of the cork blocks and inquiring whether the blocks could not be made of serviceable weight. The Nonpareil Company replied that it would adjust the matter by sending to Khanweiler's Sons some extra heavy blocks, one of which could be used in each life preserver, thus increasing its weight to the legal requirement. In due time the blocks arrived. They were so heavy as to arouse instant suspicion. While Mr. Khanweiler was examinging one of th§m he broke it by accident and found imbedded in its center an iron bar, six inches long, one inch wide and a quarter of an inch thick, weighing eight ounces. Sold They Were Foolish. The Khanweilers again wrote the officers of the Nonpareil Cork Works, demanding to know what they ineanL by putting iron in the cork blocks and informing them that as Khanweiler’s Sons were obliged to put their rfarnes on each preserver, such a fraud would ruin their business. According to the Indictment, a letter was received in reply, suggesting that the Khanweilers were foolish to malft so much trouble about a small affair of that kind. Further examination of the extra hdavy blocks disclosed the fact that each of them contained an iron br.r similar to that which was found in tne first one. In all, £6l of the extra heavy blocks were received by Khanweiler's Sons. Khanweiler's Sons communicated, with Supervising Inspector Rodie, of New York, and an investigation was begun by federal officials, leading to the arrests to-day. REQUISITION GRANTED" FOR FRANK DUNCAN. Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 1. —A tele gram to William Weir, chief of police of Birmingham, from Tallahassee, Fla., •ays that Gov. Jennings has honored n requisition for Frank Duncan, the notorious outlaw who escaped from Birmingham jail two years ago, while under death sentence for the murder of a policeman. Duncan was arrested In Florida for safe-blowing. MAGAZINES REPORTED” AS BEING ON FIRE. London, Oct. I.—A dispatch to a news agency here from Sevastopol, says that the artillery and ammunition mag azines there are in flames, and it is feared there has been considerable loss of life. Detachments of troops and seamen •re succeeding in controlling the flames. LONG GOT A YEAR FOR KILLING CLEATON. Norfolk. Va., Oct. I.—Henry A. Long was sentenced to a year in Jail ■ t Porthsmouth to-day for shooting to death Howell Cleaton, who had ap plied a vile epithet to him. .pabatmab ißofiting Ifeto^. NUMBER 17.799. WAR OFFICE ADMITS SOMETHING IS DOING. Important Operations Said to Be On Near Mukden. St. Petersburg, Oct. 1.—5:02 p. un important developments on the eastern flank of the Manchurian army ai - e ad mitted by the War Office to be pro ceeding. The details, however, arc withheld for strategic reasons, and au thorities departing from silence only to the extent of saying that the Rus sian cavalry is executing important movements, leaving it to be surmised tlfat it is trying to cut the Japanese line of communications and thus defeat the flank advance. An absolute denial is given to the Shanghai telegram, reporting that a general engagement at Mukden has been won by the Japanese. The Wat- Office even declares that nothing is known of serious lighting there. It is pointed out that the reports of the Russian retirement from Mukden are disproved by yesterday's telegram "from Gen. Sakharoff, showing that Gen. Kuropatkin's outposts are as far south as Yentai. The news from the front is extreme ly meagre, and many confusing state ments are made. It seems question able whether Field Marshal Oyama is ready to assume the offensive. No late news is obtainable of the wide Japanese turning movement east, which is regarded 'as the chief feature of the Japanese operations. Should Oyama be compelled to abandon the idea of an advance, it is stated ill a Mukden dispatch that it is possible, with fresh troops constantly arriving, that Gen. Kuropatkin may attempt some offensive operations. RECORD OF EVENTS UP TO SEPT. 30 GIVEN. Gossip of the War as It Reaches St, Petersburg. St. Petersburg, Oct. 2. 1:35 a. m.—A dispatch from Gen. Sakharoff received by the general staff late to-night brings the record of events up to Sept. 30. It shows that the Japanese ad vance on the eastern side in the re gion of Mentsiaputz has been checked. This movement Still appeals to be an outpost affair, not accompanied with serious lighting, no advance of the Japanese in force having occurred up to the date mentioned. The operations to the west of Muk den have extended twenty-six miles down the Hun river, where the Japa nese were temporarily driven out from Tschantan and seventeen supply boats were burned. It is possible that this raid is identical with the one reported by the Associated Press fi m Mukden, though in the latter it is stated to have occurred upon the Liao river. In any case it shows that the Japanese are using the river to bring up sup plies, and that their operations are be ing opposed, they not having succeed ed in approaching nearer * than Tschantan along the line of the Hun river. The forthcoming changes in the naval commands, announced by the Associated Press, have become the subject of widespread discussion. The necessity for the changes is generally admitted, but whether Emperor Nicholas will give immediate effect to the reorgani sation is uncertain. Meanwhile, Ad miral Vellan requests that a formal denial of the news of his retirement from the Ministry of Marine be made public. The numerous friends and supporters of Gen. Kuropatkin declare that events justify their prediction that he, after all, will be appointed chief in command of the armies in the Far East, and the Emperor has reconsid ered his intention of sending out Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholatevitch as commander-in-chief. According to their version, the first army will be placed under command of Gen. Lubo vitski, now commanding the Ninth Army Corps at Kieff, and the third army under Lieut. Gen. Linevitch. Quarters are being prepared at the winter palace for Viceroy Alexieff, upon whom the Emperor intends to be stow a mark of signal 4ronor to prove that his return in no wise is in the nature of a disgrace. RUSSIAN CAVALRY BURNED JUNKS. Cavalry Also Ilnd An Enron nter With Japanese. St. Petersburg, Oct. I.—Lieut. Gen. Sakharoff reports that the Russian cavalry on Sept. 29 stopped a Japanese offensive movement in the direction of Yangslngtung and Fengtiapu. On Sept. 30 a detachment of Russian cavalry drove the Japanese from the village of Changtan and burned seventeen Junks, which were transporting ammu nition on the Hun river. The cav alry retired upon the approach of Jap anese reinforcements. Mukden, Oct. I.—A detachment of sixty members of the Kubensky cav alry, with two officers, has returned here after a successful raid upon a flotilla of Japanese supply boats on the Liao river. They brought back two Japanese prisoners. The raiders succeeded in boarding and setting fire to nine Junks and barges, several of which were laden with ammunition, and these were blown up with terrific explosions. The cavalrymen reached shore In safety. They met a Japanese patrol, two members of which they killed and toko two prisoners, whom they brought here. The inactivity here continues and is becoming monotonous. It is generally believed, however, that operations will be begun with renewed force next week. JAPANESE POURING" ACROSS THE RIVER. St. Petersburg, Oct. I.—Gen. Sakha roff reports that the Japanese are still pouring across the Taitse river at Ben alhu, thirty miles northeast of Liao ■tang. He adds that numbers of Chi nese bandits are with the Japanese on the Liao side of the railroad. WHITE MAN WAS LYNCHED BY MOB TRAGEDY AT KERSHAW* S. C. MORRISON WAS MOBBED FOR KILLING FLOYD. Troops Were Ordered to Kershaw From Camden On a Speeinl Trains But Before They Arrived Morri son Hud Been Taken From Jail and Lynched—Hud Killed a Popu lar Young Man in n quarrel Over lO Cents. Charleston, S. C., Oct. I.—John Mor rison shot and killed Willie Floyd at Jvershaw this afternoon after a few words over the loan of 10 cents. Both were white. Floyd being very popular great in dignation is felt in the county. The slayer is in jail and it was said there might be an attempt at lynch ing. Charleston, S. * C., Oct. 1. —Capt. Zemp of the Kershaw Guards, with about thirty members of his company, went to Kershaw from Camden on a special train in response to Gov. Hey ward's orders, but before he arrived on the scene Morrison had been taken from jail and lynched. Columbia, S. C.. Oct. I.—Gov. Hey ward gave out a statement to-night in regard to the lynching of Johnson Morrison at Kershaw. He appreciates very much the promptness of Sheriff Hunter in going to Kershaw as he did on a special train, and he also appre ciates the readiness w-ith which Capt. Zemp and his company responded to his call. After the order to call out his company was given, it was not thirty minutes before Capt. Zemp re ported that he was ready to start for Kershaw. Gov. Heyward feels sure that could Sheriff Hunter and the Kershaw Guards have arrived on the scene no lynching would have occurred. Gov. Heyward was severe in his con demnation of the lynching, as he is of all lynchings. He said to-night that he wants the people of Smith Caro lina to know that he condemns lynch ing, a blot upon our civilization, and that no crime committed makes mob law excusable. Even in cases of crim inal assault, punishment by death can and will he meted out by the courts and the record of recent years proved that lynching for this crime leads to lynching for other crimes. The time has come, he feels, when the good peo ple of the state, the law-abiding peo ple, should rise up and call a halt. A MUTINY QUELLED AMONG DAHLONEGA BOYS. Cadets Did Not Approve the Change in Hours for Quarters. Dahlonega, Ga„ Oct. 1. —Twenty or thirty cadets of the N. G. A. College undertook to lead a rebellion against an order of their commandant, Maj. J. C. F. Tillson. It appears that the hour for quarters had been 7:30 p. m., and Maj. Tillson changed the time for going in quarters to 5:30 p. m. When the college bell rang for that purpose the cadets all went in and seemed quiet enough, but between 6 and 7 o’clock a squad form ed about the club house and marched down town. After the boys had marched down the street once, giving some sort of a yell. Maj. Tillson met them, took charge of the squad and marched it back to quarters. It is understood that every cadet offi cer in the squad will be reduced to ranks, besides other punishment that may be imposed on all who were con nected with the attempt to defy au thority. ONE FARMER^cijT THROAT OF ANOTHER. Motes Died u Kew Minutes After Jugular Was Severed. Athens, Ga„ Oct. 1. —To-night about 7 o’clock on the streets of Maysville, Speck Edwards stabbed and killed Henry Motes. Both were well-known farmers in that section. They were drinking at the time. Motes' jugular vein was severed, and he died in a few min utes. CASE AGAINST^M’BEE WAS NOLLE PROSSED. Raleigh, N. C.. Oct. I.—The con spiracy case against V. E. Mcßee and K. S. Finch was to-day nolle pressed. This was done after application to the Governor by Judge F. I. Osborne of Charlotte, their counsel, and by re quest of the Governor and consent of the defendants the solicitor will not further prosecute the case. The conspiracy charged was the obtaining a receivership for the Atlan tic and North Carolina Railroad. The state has leased the read and all liti gation about it is over. OFFERS REWARD FOR "h IS RUNAWAY YOUNGSTER. Macon, Oct. I.—For the apprehension of his 12-year-old son, Raymond, J. A. Newcomb, proprietor of the Hotel La nier. has offered a reward of *25. His father thinks he ran away this even ing, as he has frequently shown a ten dency to do so. He ls*a boy well de veloped for his age, with dark brown hair, brown eyes and wears a dark blue sweater. Lad r Carson’s Condition. Walmor Castle, Kent, Oct. I.—A bul letin Issuedat 10 o’clock to-night says: “Lady -i >,,) a q U j,q a nd made some pio^^s.” SAVANNAH. GA.. SUNDAY. OCTOBER 2. 1904. LETTER TO YOUNG LADY GOT HUNT IN TROUBLE. Arrested niul Fined |UOO 1> the At lanta Recorder. Atlanta, Oct. I.—E. T. Hunt, a mid dle-aged traveling ma*i of Griffin, who has a wife and family living there, was fined SIOO and costs or thirty days in the stockade by Recorder Broyles to-day for insulting a young lady. Friday morning Mis* Emma Orr, whose home is at Hampton, on the Central road, thirty miles from At lanta, received the following note through the mail: "Miss Emma: Can't you go to Atlanta Saturday morning on the first train. 6:30, and spend the day? I will meet you at the train. I will expect you. (Signed) Confidential Admirer. Drummer. P. s. Come alone.” Miss Orr was surprised and puzzled, but decided to see the matter out. She came to Atlanta with her brother as an escort aud was accosted by Hunt, who was afterward arrested as he stood talking to her at the depot. The brother had slipped away and secured the policeman. Hunt claimed he meant nothing dis honorable and could see no harm in requesting her to spend the day in At lanta. LIFE OF PAYnTnOW HANGS IN BALANCE. Postmaster General Seems to Re Growing Worse. Washington, Oct. I.—Postmaster General Payne's life to-night hangs in the balance. He has been unable to maintain the improvement over last night noted in the early morning bul letin. Late in the afternoon he had a sinking spell, and failed to rally as quickly as heretofore from the stimu lants administered. At 8 o’clock, though he was reported as not so well, he began to respond to treatment, and an hour later he was said to he resting quietly. Small hope, however, is held out for his re covery, and the members of the fam ily have been summoned to the bed side and have been made to realize his true condition. At one time to day his pulse was barely perceptible. It developed to-night that several times during the day Mr. Payne lost consciousness, and he was unconscious when the 9 o'clock bulletin was is sued. At 8 o’clock to-night the following bulletin was Issued: "Mr. Payne has boen very restless this afternoon. He Is not as well as this morning, but has continued to take nourishment during Ihe entire day. He responds well to the reme dies employed. Condition stili very se rious. "Magruder. “Grayson.” Another bulletin was issued at 9:15 o’clock to-night as follows: "The Postmaster General has been resting quietly for the past hour, which gives encouragement. He seems slight ly better. “Magruder. “Grayson. h ep burn Tap PRECIATES THE WONDER OF IT. Junketing Parij to Panama Wilt Pay Its Own Expenses. Washington, Oct. 1. —Representative W. P. Hepburn of lowa to-day talked with the President about the trip to the Panama canal strip to be made by a party of congressmen early in November. It is the purpose of mem bers of the House Committee on Inter state and Foreign Commerce, together with members of the Interoceanic Ca nal Committee of the Senate, to visit the canal strip to gather information that will be value to them in the framing of such legislation as may be necessary to apply to the American zone in Panama. Mr. Hepburn said the President has promised to place at the disposal of the committee a transport in which to make the trip. The voyage will be made from some Gulf port—probably New Orleans—as a starting point. “This is an age of novelties and ail era of reform," said Mr. Hepburn, “so each member of the party will pay Ids individual expenses on the trip.” It is expected the party will leave this country some time between Nov. 8 and Nov. 15. WILL CRUSADE*AGAINST CRIMPING AND SHANGHAIING. New York, Oct. 1.--Assistant District Attorney Hugh Gordon Miller of Nor folk, Va., appeared before United States Commissioner Shields to-day to make application for the removal to Norfolk for trial of Vance McCarthy, under indictment there for aiding and harboring deserters from 4he navy. The proceedings were continued until Wednesday. The authorities intend to conduct a crusade against “crimping and shang haiing” In Norfolk, where It Is said a gang has si*ressfully operated for some time. HONORABLE ARTILLERY GOING TO NORFOLK. Boston, Oct. I.—The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, Capt. James H. Usher, left by the Fall River Line to-night for Norfolk, Va., where it will celebrate its fall field day with a banquet tendered by prominent mil itary men and citizens on the evening of Oct. 4. The company, some 300 strong, is due to reach Norfolk at 9:30 o'clock Monday morning. PASSEDWRECKAGETHAT BORE THETA’S NAME. Charleston, S. C., Oct. I.—Capt. Chi chester of the steamer Iroquois, which arrived to-night from New York, re ported passing In latitude 36:56, longi tude 74:56, a piece of wreckage about alxty feet long and of considerable width, bearing the name “The Theta " The deck carried Iron bltts. such as are used on steamers. The wreckage is directly 1 a line of coasting vessels. SCORED ROOSEVELT AND THE TRUSTS ATTITUDE OF REPUBLICANISM JOHN SHARP WILLI A MS* FIERY Alt- RAIGNMEN'T OF MONOPOLIES. Opened I he Oentuernlle Campaign In Brooklyn Last Night With an Im penehmeut of the Hepnhilean Pol ley of Proteefion—The Trusts mid the Laboring (losses His Thetue. lloiv the Trusts Injure the AVork ing Men—The Remedy at llond. New York. Oct. I.—John Sharp Wil liams, of Mississippi, shared the honors with Edward M. Grout at the opening of the Democratic campaign in the Clermont Avenue rink. Brooklyn, to night. A big crowd attended the tal ly and Mr. Williams and Mr. Grout were enthusiastically cheered. Congressman Williams began with this reference to President Roosevelt: "The President, who is a candidate for re-election, has lately issued to the press a written stump speech, in the form of a letter of acceptance. It reads more like the message of one of God's anointed to his expectant subjects, one-half of whom are treated by him as his enemies, and therefore, accord ing to his logic—the logic of Louis XIV, that of ‘L’Etat e'est mol'—ene mies of the country and its welfare. "A distinguished barrister of Great Britain, replying once to an argument which had been made by opposing counsel more noted for hts impulsive ness than anything else, said: 'May it please your honor, the language and manner indulged In towards me by op posing counsel would be remarkable if it came from God Almighty to a beetle buE.' The Democrats of this country, constituting nearly a half of its total population, and, even in re cent elections, over half of Its total white population, may well remind Mr. Roosevelt of the fact that his manner and language are of that char acter. Kcpnhlieaiiinni'M Promise. "In this letter of acceptance, however, there Is one note—keynote we may call it—which is certain and unmistakable, to wit, that if the Republican party is kept in power. It will continue to ad minister the government without amendment just as it has been admin istered for the last three years, if so, then we are to have four more years of "standing pat” and of boasting of the part and of a party partnership with God. If so, then for four more years the tarifl is to remain, like the laws of the Medes and Persians, un changed and unchangeable. If so, for four more years, all reciprocal trade relations sought to be entered into by the other peoples of the world, even though in accordance with the recom mendations of such distinguished Re publicans as Blaine and McKinley, some based upon treaties approved by Mr. McKinley, are to be trampled or lauded as an incident of our alleged position as an arbiter of the world’s destiny! Four Year* of International Prr- Hilf. “For four more years, international perfidy is to be extenuated, because of the magnitude -of the benefit we have reaped, or which we hope to reap! For four more years, the Industrial and social peace of the South is to be menaced, If not by anything actually done or undertaken to be done, at least by Inconsiderate talk and misleading conduct in high place! For four more years, the ‘big stick’ is to be <-ontinu ally held up as the national ideal In our relationship with the balance of the world, and especially with the peo ples of Central and South America! For four more years some of our man ufacturers, who sell habitually to the foreigner at a reasonable profit In his own market, notwithstanding his pau per labor, are still to tind extortionate tariff rates a shelter behind which to charge the American consumer an un reasonable profit at prices 25 to 38 per cent, higher than are charged to foreigners for the same goods, made In the same mill on the same day! For four more years the Northern Securi ties decision is to be held up as the be-all and end-all of trust-shackling, while other trusts are bidden God speed as necessary agencies of modern development! Trusts and Labor. “I shall discuss the attitude of the Republican party towards the trust question, and the evils of the trust system, especially as it bears upon the laboring men. "Is 'the Northern Securities case to be the be-all and end-all of Republi can Interference with the trusts? Is it to be the only effort to execute Mr. Roosevelt's boast of ‘shackling cun ning,' as civilization has, in the past, 'shackled force?' Why among the many railroad mergers of the United States was that particular one se lected to proceed against, and no other? Was it because It had done most harm? It had had no time to do any. It had the power to do harm, and the seeds of abuse and extortion within it, as all combines of like character have, but, as a matter of fact, it had ac tually done none. The seed hud not germinated up to the lime of Gov. Van Zant's procedure against It. I>o the Republican machine managers seri ously exi>eet the people to believe that it was and is the only trust, and the only railroad merger in the land? A Fw Other Trust*. "Where is the wood pulp trust of the President’s especial friend, Mr. White law Reid? Where is the agricultural Implement trust of his ambassador to St. Petersburg? Where is the water logged steel trust, engineered into ex istence by the legal Ingenuity of his ix- Attorney General Knox? Why did this official, while he was yet Attorney General, the morning after the Su preme Court had decided the North ern Securities case In favor of the government, and pointed out the reme dies under the law against all like trusts, hasten to reassure all other mergers and combines, by announcing that the government was 'not going to run amuck?’ What does the phrase mean In this connection, anyhow? How can executing the written law of the land, under one's sacred oath as an executive officers, be called ‘running amuck?' But If It can be so called, then why not, in the name of the God of Justice, run amuck? What right has an executive to suspend the operation of the law of the land? Was It not for this that Charles the First lost his head, and James the Second his throne? What has an executive to do Continued on Sixteenth Pag*. WILLIAMS OF MISSISSIPPI His Latest Arraignment of the Republican Party Is Aimed at Roosevelt and the Trusts. TRUST COMPANY DENIES ALLEGATIONS. An Answer Is Made In the Colton ltnelc Litigation. New York, Oct. I.—Answers were tiled in the United States Circuit. Court to-day by the Continental Trust Com pany of Baltimore iri actions recently brought against it by the Central Na tional Bank of New York, bow in liquidation, and‘the Merchants' Trust Company of New York. The complainants were subscribers to the underwriting syndicate which organized the United States Cotton Duck Company. According to the complaint, the de fendant company was the syndicate manager of the Mount Vernon-Wood bury Cotton Duck Company, a corpora tion which merged nearly a dozen of the leading cotton duck manufactur ing plants of the country, but which, as a company, the complainants al lege, proved a financial failure. The complainants further allege that they were induced lo subsrrllm *IOO,OOO each ito the new company through a circular which, they allege, was intentionally misleading. The answer filed to-day denies the various allegations, collectively and separately. WAS EMPTIED QUICKLY When There Was a Fire In the Great Northern llulldlng. Chicago, Oct. I.—Since the Iroquois Theater tire disaster last December, when nearly 600 lives were lost, the Chicago theaters have been so thor oughly equipped with safeguards against fire that to-day when fire broke out in the roof of the Great Northern building, the Great Northern Theater was emptied in one minute and forty-five seconds. This was ac complished without the jeast semblance of a panic among the 1,500 persons who were in the playhouse at the time. As soon aa the manager of the the ater learned that the roof of the build ing in which the theater is situated was on tire he ordered the steel fire curtain lowered and signalled the or chestra to play a march. The audi ence, thinking that the matinee had abruptly ended, left the place rapidly, but in order. No one was injured and the theater crowd was in the streets before the fire department arrived. BEGAN” WORK IN OHIO. Dejnocrals Addressed Crowds In That Stala, Lima, 0.. Oct. 1. —The Democratic campaign was opened here to-day in the presence of a large and enthusiastic crowd from ull over the state. The principal speaker was Charles A. Towne of New York. Other speakers were James A. Kilbourne of Ohio and Edward MacGregor of Pittsburg. May or Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland, was among the notables present. Mr. Towne predicted Democratic victory in New York in November, and said he belleve.d West Virginia was also safely a Democratic atate. HAVANA CIGAffIVIEN ’ VIGOROUS IN PROTESTS. Want Cuba to Tube the Stamp Mat ter U| With the Called States. Havana, Oct. I.—The members of the Cigar Manufacturers’ Association vigorously urge the Cuban government to represent to the United States the alleged injustice in removing the dis tinctive stamp on Imported cigars. it in charged that Secretary Shaw's decision assists all the dishonesty prac ticed againHt the American consumer, in making the boxes containing mixed or otherwise Inferior products appear to contain pure Havanas. Knox Was the Speaker. Philadelphia, Oct. I.—Philander C. Knox, former Attorney General* of the United States to-night took the plat form for the first time since He suc ceeded to the United States senator ship from Pennsylvania and delivered a Speech that was considered Impor tant, because of his close relationship to President Roosevelt. He spoke un der the auspices of the Manufacturers’ Club of Philadelphia, which opened the Republican campaign here to-night with a mass meeting at the Academy of Music. Mr. Knox was followed by former Postmaster General Charles Emory Smith. 1 5 CENTS A COPY DAILY. A YEAR WEEKLY 2-TIMEB-A-WEEK.*I A YEAR MISTRIAL OF ONE ALL THEY GAINED ALLEGED LYNCHERS SET FREE WHILE BUT ONE SECURED A LE GAL DOG FALL. Courts Secured Very Little Sa.tlsfar tion at Huntsville From the Trial of the Men Charaed With Lynch ing the Negro Maples—Flee Were Acquitted—'Case of Armstrong Con tinued Recuuse of the Absence el Witnesses. Huntsville. Ala., Oct. I.—Tom Winkle, charged with arson, has been ac quitted, while a mistrial was the result in the case of James Mitchell, charged with murder In the lynching of ths negro Maples. Mitchell will be held for trial at ths February term of court. He 's the first alleged lyncher who has failed to be cleared by the Jury. Continuance of the arson case of James Armstrong because of absence of an important witness for the stats, disposes of the last lynching c?se for the present. Five alleged lynchers were acquitted, and one is held over because of a hung Jury. Armstrong will be given a hearing at the November term of court. Applica tion for ball* has been refused. ST. ANDREWS OFFICERS. Those Chosen by the New Connell of the Brotherhood. Philadelphia, Oct. I.—At a meeting of the newly appointed council of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, the fol lowing national officers were elected: President, Robert H. Gardiner, Gardi ner, Me.; vice president. Judge G. Barry Davis, Philadelphia; Becond vice president, Edmund G. Billings, Bos ton; treasurer, George H. Randall. Pittsburg; general secretary, Hubert Cprleton, Pittsburg; office secretary, Edgar P. Criswell, Pittsburg. Chicago was selected as the next meeting place. An Invitation from Washington asking the Brotherhood to meet in that city in 1907 was referred to the general council. Affltr much discussion a proposition to hold bien nial, instead of annual, sessions was laid on the table. A reception to-night brought the convention to a close. NEW YORkTeM OCR AC Y Not I fled Its Candidates for the State Offices. Albany, N. Y„ Oct. I.—ln the elite of an audience of cheerir^^jsjg dfl| jPI Mb A H I® . '.s. ■ b fl wl governor, Sm Ms - '■ -■ ' Jell p ro jH J •w lereal famjfl Watrous. fa Denver