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NEGRO KILLED SUNDAY BELIEVED TO BE ONE OF SLAYERS OF JIM HEARD John Anderson Kills One and Wounds Another. Aa the result of a row Sunday night ■hortly after 6 o’clock at the home of John D. Anderson, a negro, 49 Wal lace street, Anderson shot and killed Arthur Aabury, a negro, and danger* otisly wounded his-brother, Ernest As- bury. The Asbury brothers were regarded by the police as bad characters, and, after his arrest, Anderson declared they had both boasted to him of having been in the crowd of negroes! that shot and killed County Policeman James Heard, Kn Browhsvllle, during the riot. John Asbnry, another brother, ‘who 1 thought to be in Memphis, was ac cused of assassinating Policeman Carl Mills, In Whitehall street,, in August, 1898, but was acquitted. Anderson says the Asbury negroes had also* boasted that John really did kill Of ficer Mills, but that it could not be proven. Anderson protests that he acted Sunday night purely, In self-defense. Anderson’s wife and the Asbury broth ers are related, and Anderson found them at his home Sunday night, both Intoxicated, ho says. He states that the negroes started a disturbance and that when he Inter fered Arthur Asbury attacked him with a knife, slashing his coat Just over the left breaNt. Anderson then seised a revolver, he says, and pushed Asbury away from him. Anderson says An bury made a second advance, and that he then shot him. He says that Ernest Asbury also made a movement as though to attack him, at which he shot him. y Arthur Asbury was shot in the lower rum of the neck, the bullet cutting the jugular vein. He bled to death within a short time. Ernest Asbury was shot twice In the abdomen and once In the left arm. He Is In the Grady hospital and denies the sfory told by Anderson. After shooting the two brothers An derson summoned both the police and the hospital ambulance. He said he thought he was cut himself until after his arrest. He was taken Into custody by Bicycle Policemen Brannan, Norris, looker and Doyle. ■ Anderson Is a porter at the shop of *>>' the waterworks near the Tech school. MAJOR WALTZ GOES TO WAR. COLLEGE Major Millard P. Walts, formerly with the Department of the Gulf In Atlanta, and who was assigned to the general staff, has been appointed secretary of t be war college In Washington. General 1 Barry, who was formerly head of the Department of the Gulf here, Is president of the war college. Oooooooooooooooooooooooooo a CONFISCATES COAL; DEFIES RAILROAD8. O O Topeka, Kans., Dec.' 8.—One -0 O hundred Kansas towns face a cold O O winter with not more than one O 0 day’s coal supply on hand. Peo- 0 0 pie In central and western Kan* O 0 aa* say the situation Is serious. 0 O The rallrodds say they can't get 0 0 cars, und aults are being Instl- 0 0 luted to compel them to furnish O O coal. - Ellis Gorlin, mayor, undo O editor of The Cimarron Jackso- 0 O nlan. confiscated a car of coal and 0 0 distributed ft to the people. He 0 0 has defied the Santa Fe railroad 0 0 people to sue him. O O O 0000000000000000000.0000000 APPOINTMENTS READ III S, GAJ1FEIENCE Continued from Page One. Oakfleld, C. J. Malleth. Columbus District. J. O. A. Cook, presiding elder. Columbus. St. Duke church, John P. McFemn. St. Paul, Guyton Fisher. Rosehlll, J. M. Foster. East Highland. L. O. Lewis. • North Highlands, Broad Htreet and mission, W. T. Lamber, supply, and H. S. Allen. Cataula, YV. W. Stewart. Midland, C. A. Norton. Hamilton. J. P. Dickinson. Waverly Hall, J. R. Jordan. Geneva, G. W. Thomas. Talbotton, F. McCullough. Talbot circuit, J. G. Harrison. Butler, A. H. Bazetnore. Reynolds, E. E. Gardner. Bethel, C. B. Johnson, supply. Buena Vista, J. J. Ansley. Marlon, C. M. Weeks. Cusseta, H. L. Pearson. Americus District. J. B. Johnstone, presiding elder. Americus, J. P. Warwlaw. Bummer circuit, J. H. Allen. Ellavllle circuit, C. M. Ledbetter. Smlthvllle circuit, N. H. Olmstead. Bronwood circuit, M. F. Beach. Parrott mission, A. L. Evans. Richland circuit, J. N. Jones. Stewart circuit. J. W. Connon, Sprlngvale and Georgetown, J. T. Lane. Fort Gaines circuit, C. T. Clark. Dawson, O. B. Chester. Cuthbert. Homer Bush. Plains circuit, T. R. McMlchael. Shellman and Graves, W. K. Dennis. Shellman circuit, A. G. Brew ton. Student to Vanderbilt University. I. E. McKellar. President Andrew Female College. J. W. Malone. Luthpkln, W. D. McGregor. * ; Edison, A. J. Hutchinson. Thomasville District. A. M. Williams, presiding elder. Thomasville, J. M. Outler. Blakely, W. Langston. Albany. T. H. Thomson. Balnbridge, J. A. Smith. Cairo, J. C. Parker. Pelham, C. W. Curry. Camilla, W. F. Hlxon. Arlington, W. E. Arnold. Whlgham and Cltmax, H. p. Stubbs. Jakln and Donatsonvllle, C. K. Cook. Colquitt and Damascus, E. M. Over* Crowds of Satisfied Customers Daily Throng “THE STORE THAT SAVES THEM MONEY” . Our generous credit system relieves the .strain of heavy Chriatm'i* expense*. You are in vited to make use of it—select as much or os little from this magnificent stock as yon wish and have the payments divided to suit your conveniens?. The cost is no more. Every article is marked in plain figures and at one price. The stock is now at (its best, holiday buying has begun in earnest and it’s the wise /ones who make selections early. Purchases stored and delivered when wanted. : Special features are seen-at this season in the great array of LADIES’ DESKS, COMBINATION GASES, MUSIC CABINETS, CHINA CASES, MORRIS CHAIRS, FANCY ROCKERS AND PARLOR ‘TABLES, PARLOR CABINETS, SHAVING STANDS, CELLARETTES, ETC. 1 t ( It will be to your advantage to look through this stock and have terms explained be fore buying. We will show you with pleasure. CARMICHAEL-TALMAN FURNITURE CO., 74-76 Whitehall Street. L ASTRAY OF HOPE FOR RAWLINS DIES WITH GOVERNOR’S REFUSAL Crime One of Most Terrible in History of Georgia. S. B. TURMAN & CO. YOUII ^ATTENTION TO, AND INIU'EU- property •lofliiltely derided to soil, nml will not stand on any axed price, but Is willing to at least hoping always to uiako It up on sows other Jnvrstujpur. . j THE • FOLLOWING PKOI-KItflEH WILL r>r yon to 1 of them i EIGHT-ROOM 2-8TOUY HOUSE. nil modern eoiivenlences, on Canl nue near Georgia menu**: east ffi.000; enu lie imught for $4,330; *4 Is ' ri**s Investment, mice easy. in tor u n iirpi- TerniH $1,250 cash, bal- I(ne«; nenr provemerits; can Ih» liougUt for very ttinrii Dus than It. Is really worth. Terms $1*50) •■ash. balance easy. SUBURBAN HOME-FIVE ROOM COT • Ity. nml only Jen minutes’ walk from ear line;- only nml one-bnlf miles from city Uiult*. Price $2,«50, ami the land nloue Is worth this money. Terms ensy. pnlendlri neighbors, churvhe* nml public school. Call fur our rent and sale bulletin. S. B. TURMAN & CO. FOR RENT.. NIX-BOOM HOUSES. 13 MORRISON AVK.-TIIIH 3-KTOUY ruuin house, on lot 60x190, which lie* level In front. Is on the south side of Morrison avenue between the Boftievitrd and Arnold street. Has gs*. hot and cold water, porce lain lmtb. closet. stationary wn*h*tmid. sink In tbe kitchen: In n go**! uelghltnrhood nnd In splendid repair; I* now wenideil by the owner, Mrs. K C. MetSuritv. who will take pleasure In showing you thronghaund will te when rented; Bottler* rtf®* r* bait * away. Kent 129 per numtiT watt block 24 E. BAKER MT.—THIS A ROOM POT* tage.* on l«>t about tjVxIDO. which lies level. Is mi the north side orBaker street diet ween I’eachtren and Ivy streets; the turner of thin property Is preparing to par this In the very best repair; It is close in nml lu n good uHghlmrbootl; will Ite ready for oc cupancy nlsmt iNctnhtf tf. Kent |W per month. JOHN J. WOODSIDE, THE RENTING AGENT, 12 Auburn- Avenue, Both Phones $18. Meigs and Ochlocknee, G. A. Davis. Baconton circuit. C. \V. Jordan. Boston circuit, N. T. Pafford. Attapulgus circuit, M. YV. Carmi chael. Pavo Circuit—Reese, Griffin. Brinson nnd Mission, E. E. Rose and Elijah Morris supply. Hlllton circuit, D. B. Merritt. Metcalf circuit, W. C. Embry, supply. Bold Spring circuit, J. W. Hines, sup ply. Grady circuit, J. L. Funderbuck, sup ply. Falrcjoth circuit. 8. E. Grenfell. Faceville circuit, J. W. Wells, sup ply. Thomasville mission, O. 8, Smith. Secretary of the Young People’s De partment, of the board of missions, Ed. F. Cook. j Field secretary of the conference Sunday school board. H. C. Jones. McRae District. E. F. Morgan, presiding elder. McRae, J. \V. Domingos. „ Helena and Sumter City, J. TV. Wes ton. Jacksonville, K. A. Sanders. AbbPvJHe and Mission, YV. T. Stew art. * Eastman, B. S. Sentell. Alamo, H. C. Fentress. Mt. Vernon, W. C. Glenn. Hailehurst and Mission, S. A. Hearn. Springfield. C. C. Hines. Rhine, J. B. Stewart, supply. Baxter, J. B. Orlner. Baxley circuit, H. C. Erwlng. Surrency, J. YV. H. Hunter, supply. Rledsvllle and Shiloh, J. S. Jordhn. Hagan und Ctaxton. W, M. Blftch. GlenvIUe, Guy D. Moses. Altatnaha, F. A. Ratcliff. Lyons and Collin/, 8. W. Brown. Ohoopee, c. E. Pharr. Belleville. P. H. Crumpler. Cobbtown, C. T. Bockley, supply. Chauncey, T. D. Strong. Valdosta District. H. M. Morrison, presiding elder. Valdosta Station. M. A. Morgan. Remerton Mission, W. S. Heath. Lake Park circuit, R. P. Fain. Quitman, T. M. Christian. Morven»clrcult, Paul Kendall. Hahlra circuit, J. F. Yancey. Mllltown circuit. J. C. G. Broox. Moultrie. J. H. Mathea. Moultrie Mission, supplied by Walter Williams. Norman Park circuit, J. D. Mathews. Norman Park Mission, to be sup plied. 1 * Sparks and Nashville, J. T. Ryder. Sparks Mission, J. F. Yancey. Adel circuit. YV. O. Atlabln. Tlfton, E. M. Whiting. Sumner, G. P. Hendry'. Sylvester, YV. L. YY’rlght. Doerun, H. O. Graves, Parkersvllle, D. L. Lastlnger. Ashburn, R. K. Bailey. Asbburn Mission, to be supplied. Sycamore Mission, L. B. McMlchael. Alapaha circuit, J. C. Griner. Homervllle circuit, A. B. YVall. Sparks College Institute, i YY'oodward. Waycross District. J. B. McGhee, presiding elder. ‘ YVaycross First church, J. A. Har mon. YY’aycross, Trinity, B. E. Whittington. City Mission, J. YV. Lilly. Slchols circuit, L. R. Kelly. Douglas, I*. A. Hill, ' Broxton, Thomas F. Drake. Ambrose Mission, R. F. Owens, sup ply. Jesup. H. O. Brewton. Offerman YHssIon, L. 17. Peeples. Blackshcar. G. G. K. MacDonell. Atkinson Mission, R. B. Roe*. Whiteoak and Woodbine, E. L. Pat rick. St. Mary 's and Klngstand, J. E. Sum mer. _ * Folkston and mission, YY'. T. Clark. Hlnesvllie. J. N. Tlpper.s. WUIacoochee. George R Riviere. Pearson Mission, M. Booth. Waresboro, B. C. Prlckett. Guysfe and mission, D. F. Allies and one to be supplied. Darien and Ludowfcl, R. R. Norman. Brunswick, First church, Robert Kerr. Brunswick, McKendree, J. YY*. Sim mons. Brunswick Mission, M. <\ Austin, supply. Student to Y'anderWit, t). K. Hop kins. \ Dublin District. Dublin. W. F. Smith. George C. Thompson, supernumerary. TWO SONS MAY FOLLOW OLD FATHER TO SCAFFOLD Unless the prison commission Interferes in its special meeting Thurs day, Milton and Jesse Rawlins will follow’ their father to the gallon's on Friday. Apparently the commission has awaited until the eleventh hour to de cide In order that an opportunity may be given for any* confession Tues day by J. G. Rawlins or the negro, Alf Moore. Old Mun Rawlins has steadfastly contended that his boys played no part In the tragedy. Alf Moore has as firmly contended ail the time that Milton and Jesse were present and aided In the butchery’ of the Car ter children. Nothing has moved him from that position. YV1U the shadow’ of death wring words from him that mgy mean life to the joys? > OLD MANRA WLINS PREACHES SERMON FROM JAIL WINDOWS; OLD MOTHER WON’T COME JOHN R. COOPER, ttorney who has fc hard for J. G. Rawlins' By PAUL E. WILKES. Valdosta, Ga., Dec. 3.—Never before* In the history of Lowndes county were the people so stirred to a high pitch of fury as when news reached Valdos ta on the morning ot June 13, 180$, tiiat on the night befote assassins had surrounded the house of YV. L. Carter, some ten miles In the country, and had shot dow*n In cold blood his two children, YVIHIe and Carrie. And when more details of the crime became known this fury* increased. The people of Lowndes demanded that the murder of these children be avenged. They wanted the guilty parties caught, and they were In a state of feeling to deal swift Justice to them when they were caught. Evidence as to who committed the crime was soon forthcoming. YY\ Carter, father of the children whose lives were snuffed out by assassins’ bullets, came to town and tbe story he told led to the arrest of three sons of Carter’s neighbor and bitterest enemy- together with-a negro, Alf Moore. The story of the feud which led up to the killing Is a long one und ex tends back to a time when J. G. Raw lins and his family lived In Coffee count)’. He had for his neighbor there YV. L. Carter, and a series of Inci dents led to g bitter feeling between the two. Then Rawlins moved to Lowndes county, near Valdosta, and It was not long before he was doing well. He owned his farm, had a good house and w’eil kept stock and was prosperous. Friends In the county he had by tlje hundred, and many a time parties of these friends would visit his place and partake of his generous hospitality. One day Rawlins found he had a new* neighbor, and further investigation Special to The Georgian. Valdosta, Ga., Dec. 3.—J. G. Rawlins, Lowndes county’s most noted prisoner, delivered a regular sermon Sunday to a large crow’d of people who assembled around the Jail. His cell overlooks tbs street and he can see and easily con verse with people standing on the side, walk-and In the street. The burden of his remarks was a warning to young men. In which he stressed the point that mere goodness or morality would not save them from the tortures of the damned, that they must Join the church and be baptized. He spoke of the un certainty of life, and said: "I have only forty-eight hours to Jive, but some'ot yon standing out there may not live even as long as that. But If you live forty-eight years, or a hun dred years, what does that amount to compared with eternity? I ask you young people, where do you expect to spend eternity? That Is tbe Question of all questions, nnd you had better be giving it your serious thought." A number of ministers who have been, attending the South Georgia confer ence w’ent to the Jail yesterday after noon, accompanied by several ladles, and a *few of the brethren undertook to minister spiritually to the con demned men, but with absolutely no success. One brother asked him: "Don’t you believe that God is merciful and will save you If you put your trust In Him?" M Yes," returned Rawlins, *i know God Is merciful, but He will not save me unless 1 get rid of the malice in my heart and forgive those who have wronged me, and I can’t do that. "I Just want to ask you a few ques tions, minister," he continued, and then launched out into a recital of the al- 1 leged wrongs done him by YV. L. Car ter, the prosecuting attorney and other officials connected with his trial, ahd wound up by saying: "Now, If you had gone through this, could you for give and forget?” Knows the Bible. Rawlins knows, the Bible almost by heart, and was quick to combat the pleas of the preachers with some pas sage of Scripture which he contended doomed him to eternal punishment. One minister finally told him that It he be lieved as he said he did (the preacher) thought, too, that he was eternally lost. Sheriff PAssmore received a letter yesterday from J. G. Rawilns’ nged mother, who lives at Jacksonville. In* Telfair county. In reply to one he had written at Rawlins' request. The Uulh- er was acquainted with the day and hour set for the execution of her son, and wan asked If she had any wishes as to the disposition ot Ms body, or desired to attend the execution. She wrote that she was so old and so feeble and heart-broken that she would not make the trip here. She in structed the sheriff that If Rawlins' wife did not carry the body to Coffee county for interment for the sheriff to see that It was given n decent burial In the cemetery here. Rawlins' mother is more than 80 years old. Sheriff J. F. Passmore received a message from Hahlra t»*\y Informing him of the sudden death his brother, D. YV. Passmore, one of the leading citi zens of the county. No dealla were given, the message stating that while he was walking In his yard he had fallen and riigd. The deceased .was a prominent farmer, and luid served a number of terms on the board of coun- ty commissioners of thja county. Is a brother-in-law of Sheriff Pass-/ more, of Lowndes county’, and this made the case al! the more sensational. The arrest of Milton., Jesse and Leonard Rawlins followed Immediately and these arrests were followed by that of Alf Moore, the negro. Old man J. G. Rawlins was In Valdosta the night of the killing and remarked to Sheriff Passmore while In towm that if Carter and his family drere burned to death that night he would be charged with the crime. He was very careful, too, to see several persons and have the time noted In order to prove alibi. Alf Moore's Confession. After his arrest, the negro. Alf Moore, made a full confession nnd de clared old man Rawlins bad hired him to kill the Carter family and had sent his three sons with him to assist In the Job. The negro said Rawilns told him to kill Carter and hin wife, set lire to the house and as the children ran out of the house to deal death to them. According to his confession, neither he nor Leonard tired a shot, but It showed that the bloody work was done by Mil ton and Jesse. Except for the statement made i»y Carter that Tim McDonald and his eon were with the assassins. Alf Moore’ confession tallied wtlh • what Carter swore on the witness stand. The Mc Donalds, however, were never Indicted, although Carter's statement and that of his family Implicated them. When all these bloody* details became known the people demanded a speedy trial and for a time It was feared that the entire crowd would be lynched. They were Indicted and tried at a special term of Lowndes superior court In July, 190E and convicted. Old man J. G. Rawlins and his sons. Milton and Jesse, and Alf Moore were sentenced to liang. Leonard was recommended to mercy by the Jury and got a life term In the pen. Then It was that Attorney John R. Cooper, who has made such a'strenu ous fight for the lives of lit" clients, began his hard work to save them from the noose. He appealed the casee of the father and three eons to the su preme court of Georgia, and In Novem ber, 1805. that tribunal affirmed the de cision of the Lowndes superior court. Attorney Cooper then sued out a writ! of error and carried the cases to the cumin IS RUNG UP ONSESSHCONGRESS Continued from "Page One. Dublin Mission, J* L. Scruggs, sun- cut out of the list* Ply. * Brewton, F. L Stokes. YViightsvHle circuit, \V. M. Causey, supply. '• Rlddlevllle, to be supplied. Davlsboro, YV. A. Brooks. Bartow, J. P. Dell. \VadIey% J. N. Pencock. ljouisvllle, YV. W. Seal.*. Adrian, C, G. Earnest. » Adrian circuit, W. C. Davis. Swalnsboro, H. P. Myers. Swalnsboro circuit, I. K. Chambers. Rock ledge, J. A. ffconyers, supply. Yidalla circuit, A. YY*. Rees. Htillmore, YV. Snow. Bulloch Mission, R S. Stewart, clraymont and Monte. V. P. Scoville. R. M. Wesley, supernumerary. Garfield, E. C. YY'HIIs, supply. Empire, A. P. Segars. Dexter, J. P. Bros*. Cochran, J. P. Chelfielif. cedar Grove, C*. C. Lowe, supply. " Mldvllle, T, B. Kemp. Nannie Lou Wart hen institute, YV. F. Quilltan, president. FRENCH~TRAINING SHIP VI8ITING ORLEANS PORT. Special to Tbe Gcurxisu. New Orleans. Dec. 3.—Tile French training ship Duguay Troufn has ar rived in port on a visit, coming from Santiago de Cub*. The Trouin In tended visiting Havana, but the yellow fever there brought about a change In the plans and the Cuban capital w.ie showed him that this new neighbor was his old Coffee county enemy, YY*. L. Carter. Old Fsud Renewed. It was not long before they began having trouble. The first clash came when people to whom Rawlins leased part of his land for turpentine pur poses encroached on Carter's land. This was followed by other things which caused the bitter feeling to Increase and both men were constantly in court with their disputes. Both Rawllnk and Carter were preachers—Rawlins being connected with the Baptist church and Carter with the Methodist church. But ft was Rawilns w’hn had the friends and the Influence. His sons, Leonard. Milton ami Jesse, knew this, and in taking up their father’s fight with neighbor Oar- To protect himself Carter had Rawilns placed under a peace bond. This hap pened a few* days before the tragedy for which Rawilns paid the death pen alty and for which Milton and Jesse are under death sentence and Leonard to a life term In the pen. Night of ths Tragedy. Ho this w’as the condition of things when on the night of June 12 Carter’s house was attacked. On that night ho heard a noise In his yard and the two children who were killed went out »o ascertain the cause. As they went Into the yard a shot rang out In the still night and Willie Carter fell to the ground with a groan. HI* sister, Car rie, ran to his side with a cry and a* she bent over her w’ounded brother there v ere two more flashes, two more tei\ they depended on him to jet them | , hot , f , he mt „ glrl r< „ ov , r d . ad out of scrapes they might get Into. And he generally did. Rut there came a time when Rawilns' friends began asking themselves If he was always right in his contentions with his neighbor. Carter began to gain ground In public sy inpathy. Their differences Increased and a series of squabbles, in which both Rawilns and his boys participated, resulted In war rants being sworn out for the old man and his sons. This was the state of affairs when. In the spring of 1905. ! Carter was *hot at from ambush and badly wounded In the leg. He drooped when shot and Rawlins told It about that he hud at last killed Carter. He said further that Carter had been look ing for him with u gun, but he shot him flrst. * Carter was found where* he fell, but no gun was there. He told bis side of the story*, which showed he had been shot from ambush, nnd this caused more of the friend# of Rawlins to de sert him. The** began to believe now that he was determined to kill Ids en emy. As a result of this attempt on Carter’s llfc*. a warrant was sworn out against Rawlins charging him with as sault with Intent to murder. This only Increase*! Rawlins’ anger and he made Aa these two shots were flred Carter opened the door to call his children and saw them. He saw assassins were at tacking his family and its barricaded the house. Home time later the wound ed lad crawled to the door, begged ad mittance and was dragged through. He lingered through the night and died ttu next morning. It was a night of terror that Carter und his family spent. Every now and then a shot would ring out and a bullet would bury itself In the side of the house. Another daughter Inside the bouse came to her father’s help—for lie was still crippled from the wound ho had received when shot by Rawlins from ambush—and tearing a board from the kitchen, poked a gun through for her father to ttse. He flred a shot and this caused the attacking party to leave shortly afterwards. This was about midnight, but until daylight the family remained behind barricaded doors watching the life of young Willie Carter pass away, wMIe the body >f tbe little girl stiffened In death In the yard. In telling his story Carter declared that he saw the sons of his enemy the attacking party, and he also named open threats to take the life of Carter, Tim McDonald and his son. McDonald United States supreme court In YY’ash ington. That court affirmed the de cision of the Georgia supreme court In April, 1900, and once again the old man and his sons heard the sentence of death passed upon them. A Fight for Life. But even then Attorney Cooper did not give up hope. It was old *man Kuujtns himself who came to hie at torney's rescue this time. He made a confession. He admitted that he had hired Alf Moore to kill Carter, but he denied that the negro received Instruc tions to kill any other member of the family’, and he denied, too, that hi * boys knew anything about the crime. So Attorney Cooper ingdo an extra ordinary motion for a new trial on the grounds of newlydlscovered evidence, but Judge Mitchell, of the Lowndes su perior court, refused this motion, and once again the supreme court of Geor gia all limed the decision of the lower! court. The next step In the lega) battle was when Attorney Cooper asked Judge Emory Speer In the United States court In Macon for a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that preachers had been excluded from the Jury list when Raw lins was tried and it wus declared that this was class legislation and uncon stitutional. Judge Speer refused the writ and an appeal was taken to the supreme court In Washington. This court affirmed Judge Speer’s decision in November of this year. In the meantime Attorney Cooper had made an appeal to the pris on commission asking clemency for Milton and Jesse nnd to liuve their sen tences commuted to life imprisonment while for Leonard he asked a pardon. A final step In the fight was taken when at the November term of the Lowndes superior court Attorney Coop er ikked Judge Mitchell for a new’ trial on the grounds tlmt the record* of the court did not show that either Rawlins. or hi* counsel were present when sen- j tenee v.as passed. This was refused and Judge Mitchell refused to sign the bill of exceptions which Attorney Coop- j er took to his rulings^ Attorney Coop er then Asked the Tieorgiu supreme court to compel Judge Mitchell to do] this and this was refused. In one of the! columns to ait Inquiry Into the probi most Important decisions ever render- 1 bllitles of a Japaneee-American war, •J*? * h « "" Inter*," «hlch I, Inl^.ilns court had to consider the lives of rourt., men on the one side and on the other wholly convincing. th« Mifui-L—ramt of tbs law snd tbe I The writer encountered » man whom ending of litigation. The court took the; he described as a compatriot of Presi- latter side. I dent Roosevelt, as a well-informed dip. Ths Last Card. i lomat, accredited to a neighboring pow . The last card was played Saturday’ {er. This diplomat, according to when Attorney Cooper asked Govenmr Presse, explained that the situation Terrell to respite Rawlins In order that I wad us important to France as to his sanity might be tested and at the! America. He said that Japan had same time he iietttloned the prison menaced b ranee before, but gave pref- commission for element y. erence to Hussia. J.»|>an had her bat. The trial of old man Rawlins and |U« | ready to attack and take In-; - sons waa Intensely dramatic at times.! China. At one stage oMl Mrs J. G. Rawilns, J mown. w the mother of the condemned boys, j HUGO 18 8ET FREE; asked Sheriff Passmorq to bring her a* CONSPIRACY NOT PROVEN. hand satchel she carried with her and j ■ > -- ■ In this satchel the sheriff found a re- ] M|hi I*I to Tbe Geurgitio. .. volvcr. He entered court flourishing Norfolk. Vo.. Dec. 3.—George Uugo, Md'fnmMt'if 1 \n %a iX-« e nJSlnS 1 convicted by a Jury and given ten years nun ii« nad found ft In Mi*. Rawlins lin j ai . VIl . satchel. The owner explained, how- ,n the penitentiary undei the new Vii- ever. that she had come from her home j glnla law for conspiring to degrade his in the country alone, that her husband ; wife for divorce evidence, after she resign *later. The other new members succeeded to vacancies caused by il^atli. Two vacancies remain, those caused by the deaths of Representatives Ketch- am, of New York, and Hoar, of Massa chusetts. After appointing the usual commit tees, as ivas done In the senate, and adopting resolutions In memory of the lato Representative Hitt, of Illinois, and other members who died during the re* cess, the house adjourned until Tues day. To Read Message Tueaday. The flrst business to be transacted will be the reading of the president’s message. Before, during and aftef the brief session of. the house today, bills and resolutions in great number were poured Into the hopper, gobbled up by the clerks, run through the stamping machine and chucked away In pigeon holes, many of them to remain there. They Covered every variety of subject from simplified spelling and the dis missal of the negro troops, to the Tan- ama canal and the currency question. They do things differently in the sen ate. every bill and resolution being pre sented In open session by the member fathering It. As the rules ot the sen ate forbid any business of this charac ter until afteu the receipt of the presi dent’s message, the brain product of senators will not be revealed to the flubllc until Tuesday afternoon. Unfinished Business. The list of unfinished business which went over from the flret session of the present congress Is formidable. Here It Is: Immigration restriction (In confer- ence). Santo Domingo treaty. Isle of Pines treaty. Morocco treaty (upon which a vote will be taken on December 12). Decision In Senator Smoot's case. Campaign fund publicity. Prohibiting corporations to contrib ute to campaign fund. Ship subsidy. To make Porto Ricans United States c It! sen*. Reduction of tariff on product < *»f Philippines. United States to own Us embassbM and legations abroad. To build government powder factory. Appalachian snd Wnlte Mountain forest reserves. Copyright Revision.' Copyright revision. Modification of Chinese exclusion law. Prescribing punishments on high seas. Codification of revised statutes. Navy* to have biggest battleship afloat. Removal ct customs duty on work* of art. Swamp reclamation similar to Irri gation statute. i'able to Guantanamo and canal z >tt*-. Anti-injunction bill. Eight-hour laiv. Nominations of Isthmian canaf com missioners. Army and navy dental surgeon corps. Increase of artillery corps. To punish Improper use of Stars anil Stripes. Retirement of superannuated Federal elertts. To establish postal savings banks and parcels post. Limiting working hours of railway employees. frinceHs, “MENACED BY JAPAN Paris, Dec. 3.—La Presse devotes and nil her sons vvette prisoners und that she carried It tor her own protec tion. All during tbe trial Mrs. Rawlins yjeen devoted to her husband and boys and she has presented a pathetic pic ture all the way throuirb had married Hugo, to save him from serving ten years In the penitentiary, was today set free. Judge Hancket decided that the evi dence was Insufficient to warrant a conviction of conspiracy nml the stats bad !»• * new evidence.