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VOL. X. nine men roasted On Top of Flaming Furnace They Meet Horrible Death. WHELMED BY AN EXPLOSION Heavy Shower of White-Hot Metal Rained Down Upon the Unfor tunates —Accident Was of Unus ual and Unique Nature. Ten men were burned to death and four injured by an explosion of gas at the Soho furnace of Jones and Laugh lin at Pittsburg, Pa., Thursday. The explosion was caused by a slip in the furnace, the gas and flames belchinf upward through the bell. There were nineteen men on the fur nace when the explosion occurred. Fifteen of them were caught in the flames. Two of them escaped with slight injuries. The other four were the regular men employed as top fill ers and escaped without injury. Cause of the Horror. The explosion was caused by the gas becoming encased in a crust of cin der forming at the bottom of the fur nace. A wheelbarrow containing ore had been sent up to the men to dump into the bell of the furnace. They pushed it over too far and it rolled into the hopper. The barrow weighed 900 pounds and was too heavy for the four men to raise. The fifteen labor ers, all Hungarians, were then sent up to assist them. Had it not been for the barrow accident no one would have been hurt, as the regular men know how to protect themselves at such times as similar explosions are of frequent occurrence. The explosion occurred in one of the big blast furnaces. The men were at work at the top of the furnace, over 420 feet from the ground. Gas, which had accumulated in the furnace, ex ploded and tons of molten metal and slag were thrown over the unfortun ate men on the top of the structure. Ail the men made a rush for the eleva tor, but it had gone down and there was no escape. The jump meant cer tain death and to remain on the plat form was just as certain doom. Tons of moiten metal and flames fell upon the men and burned nine of them to death. Their bodits fell to the roof of th mill, So feet uelow. ev ery bone broken and an unrecogniza ble mass of human flesh. A Horrible Sight. Bye witnesses say that it was the most horrible sight tney ever wit nessed. They say that when the eplo -sicn took place there was one great loud report and the heavens were il luminated with a sheet of flame, show ing the men on top of the furnace run ning about gesticulating wildly. The flames and hot metal looked like a volcano in action. Five of the men were blown oil the top of the furnace, and, strange as it may seem, these men are the ones that .are still living. The others hung on the railing, some on the outside, others on the inside, until their clothing was burned off. Two of the victims hanging on the out fid? held on and remained tenaciously clinging to the rails until their fingers burned off. They then fell to the roof of the mill, dead. Seven of the victims were found dead on the platform of the cupola. These were completely denuded of clothes by the flames and their bodies were burned almost to a crisp. governor visits highwayman. McM illin Has Talk With Harvey Lo gan In Knoxville Jail. Governor Benton McMillin, of Ten nessee, was among the caaers at the Knox county jail Thursday to see Har '(y Logan, the celebrated Montana tta.n robber, who is now confined there. Governor McMillin had a long , alk " itfl the desperado, entertaining ; lm with a recital of how George Par ' an °ther member of the gang, es caped the Nashville police some weeks 1 starling his trip in an ide wag- YOUNG LADY ROUTS ROBBER. Wlth Greatest Nerve She Seizes Re volver and Saves Employer’s Cash. tice \\ebt, at Youngstown, Ohio, Wed ..es ay m °rning, and finding his clerk, • lSs Clementine Hamilton, alone, de landed that she open the safe, which n ained J 2.000. Upon her refusal, he empted to strangle her, saying: y { you d °h’t open the safe I’ll kill ing' -Hamilton succeeded In break fireaa"ay' and securing a revolver, ran tdank at the fellow', who oj t of the office and escaped. Th REE DIE IN CRAiiH. Tra '" 8 . on Southern Pacific Go To- N'orth 61 " disastrous Results. eific an ' ! sout hbound Southern Pa- C< l ast ,: ®ited trains, running be came t" an 1 rancis co <md Los Angeles, Gplan ' f ' n a kea d-on collision at i ng s ’ early Thursday morn- Prec= „ re man, baggageman and ex ty-five eSSenger were k Gled and twen jured 1 assense L® wore more or less in HADE COUNTY SENTINEL. CREAH OF NEWS I Summary of the Moat ; Important Daily < Happenings Tersely Told. Governor Crane of Massachusetts, has been offered treasury portfolio to succeed Treasurer Gage. “Historian” Maciay has been fired by orders of President Roosevelt. The twelfth census bulletin just Issued, indicates that Georgia has a total of $89,789,656 invested in indus tries, with a gross value of products of $106,654,527. —General Maso, candidate for Cu ban president, and his supporters, have withdrawn and will take no part in elections on the 31st inst. They claim a fair election cannot be held. It is stated upon good authority in Berlin that the German government is preparing for military action against Venezuela in order to compel a settle ment of German claims against that country. A disatrous fire visited the business portion of Huntsville, Ala., Sunday. Two firemen were buried under a fall ing wall, one being killed. The dam age to property is estimated at $40,- 000. —lndorsement of the majority ver dict in the Schley court of inquiry, the dismissal of Historian Maclay, the re fusal to reopen the case at the ffehest of either Schley or Sampson, indicates that the administration is weary of the entire controversy and desires that it be ended at once. —The negotiations looking to the consolidation of the Atlanta, Ga.. Rap id Transit Company, the Georgia Elec tric Light Company and the street rail way, electric light and steam heating systems of the Atlanta Railway and Power company were declared off. —The Atlanta, Ga., depot commis sion will meet early in January to or ganize and communicate with the sev eral railroads entering the city. —Arthur Price, sentenced to death for the murder of Mrs. Rowland, in South Macon, says the confession he made to his captors was true, and that he denied making it while on the stand in order to lighten his sentence. —A deal has been arranged with a large party of Germans to colonize in sou'h Georgia. , —Friday two negroes, Will Redding and Will Winston, were executed at Birmingham, Ala. They both killed women. Cicero Harris, another negro, was hanged at Bristol, Va., for the murder of Samuel V, arc. —George W. Morgan, charged with the embezzlement of $25,000 in cash and checks to same amount, has been bound over, at Birmingham, Ala., for trial. —Charles Keller, of Chattanooga, claims he has an invention by which vessels can communicate with each other by wireless telephone. His in vention will also tell the distance be tween vessels. —Secretary Lyman Gage has an nounced to President Roosevelt that he intends to relinquish the treasury portfolio as soon as the president se lects his successor. —The attorneys for Rear Admiral Sampson have filed a protest with Sec retary Long against the opinion of Ad miral Dewey that ,,was in com mand at Lemly and attf. v - <- /V'-rianha . made a report urging that the verdict against Schley be allowed to stand. —By the simultaneous explosion of four boilers in steel works at Pitts burg, Pa., three men were killed out right and twelve were injured. —ln the presense of a distinguished gathering ground was broken at St. Louis Friday on the site of the world's fair. Congressman Tawney, of Min nesota, made the chief address. —Negroes attempted to drive the whites out of the stores at Davy, W. Va., but were routed by 18-year-old Wayne Demon, w’ho killed three of them. —ln the Italian senate Baron Fava raised the question of the lynching of Italians at Erwin,Miss. Foreign Min ister Pinetti stated that the United States had been unable to punish the lynchers, but offered indemnity. —Governor Taft has left the Philip pines for the United States. Before leaving Manila he made an optimistic address regarding the situation in the island. —Ann O’Deiia Diss do Bar and her husband have been convicted in Lon don of infamous conduct. The woman w y as sentenced to seven and her hus band to fifteen years in prison. —An unexpected hitch in the agree ment between the Atlanta, Ga., council committee and H. M. Atkinson delays the consolidation of the public utility properties of the city. —Governor Candler disapproved a number of measures passed by the Georgia general assembly. —lt is reliably reported that Deputy Collector W. E. Crockett, of Gaines ville, Ga., will be appointed to succeed H. A. Rucker as collector of internal revenue for Georgia. —Arthur Price, the negro murderer of Mrs. R. J. Rowland in Macon, was convicted in the Bibb superior court Thursday and sentenced by Judge Fel ton to hang on January 10th. —President Roosevelt has elected J R. A. Crossland, a negro republican of Missouri, for minister to Lioeria. TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 27.1901. LONG WITH MAJORITY I ! Naval Secretary Acts Arbitrarily In Disposing of Scliiey Case. REQUESTS TO REOPEN REFUSED i Dewey’s Report Is Entirely Ignored And Only Majorty Findings. Are Considered by Navy Department. A Washington special says: Secre tary Long has disposed finally of the Schley case, so far as the navy de partment is concerned, by acting upon the findings and conclusions of the court of inquiry. He approves the findings of fact and the opinion of the full court; he ap proves the majority opinion where •there is a difference in the court; he holds that the court co-uld not have en tered into a consideration of the ques tion of command at the battle of San tiago. and finally he accepts the recom mendation that no further proceedings shall be had. The secretary also has declined the application of Admiral Sampson’s counsel to enter upon an inquiry into the question of command and has noti fied Admiral Schley’s counsel of that fact as a reason for declining to hear them on that point. Secretary Long’s approval of the majority report was as follows: “The department has read the testi mony in this case, the arguments of counsel at trial; the court’s findings of fact, opinion and recommendation; the individual memorandum of the pre siding member; the statement of ex ceptions to the said findings and opin ion by the applicant; the reply to said statement by the judge advocate of ■the court and his assistant, and the brief this day submittel by counsel for Rear Admiral Sampson traversing the presiding member’s view as to who was in command at the battle of San tiago. And, after careful consideration, the findings of fact and the opinion of the full court are approved. f “As to the points on which the pre siding member differs from the opin ion of the majority of the court, the opinion of the majority Is approved. “As to the further expression of his views b> the same member with re gard to the questions of command o', the morning of July 3, 1898, and of the title to credit for the ensuing victory, the conduct of the court in making no finding and rendering no opinion on those questions is approved—indeed it could with propriety take no other course, evidenceon these questions, during the inquiry, having been ex cluded by the court. “The department approves the re commendation of the court that no fur ther proceedings be had in the prem ises. “The department records its appre ciation of the arduous labors of the whole court. JOHN D. LONG, “Secretary of the Navy.” Order Dissolving Court. Secretary Long Saturday afternoon issued the formal order dissolving the Schley court of inquiry. The order was communicated at once to Admiral -rif-.w-ey, president of the court, who ac --a said that in conformity wftu L ue o. _ sec retary he had announced the dissolu tion of the court. Following is the text of the letter sent by Secretary Long to Admiral Dewey: “The court of inquiry of v ’' you are the presirt<--' „„avene by departm'crn. s order July ‘,, 1901, for the purpose of in' fir ing into the conduct of Rer Ad miral (the commodore) ' s. Schley, U. S. N., retired, ring the recent war with Spp' the events connected tb - J vMi, is this day dissolved. will inform the other mem- s of the court and the judgv-advocate accord ingly. Very respectfully, ‘'JOHN D. LONG, “Secretary.” “To the Admiral of the Navy.” FANIE BRYANT PARDONED. Two Fearful Tragedies In Birmingham, Alabama, Are Recalled. On recommendation of the pardoning board the governor of Alabama has pardoned Fannie Bryant, the mulatto woman serving a life sentence as the accomplice of Dick Hawes, the engi neer who was hung at Birmingham in 1889 for the murder of his wife and two little daughters. In resisting the mob which under took to storm the jail and lynch Hawes nine men were killed by the sheriff and his deputies. Fannie Bryant was washer womau to the Hawes family. RAYNOR HIGHLY INDIGNANT. Characterizes Ruling of Secretary Long as “Arbitrary and Tyrannical.” A Baltimore dispatch says: Isidor Raynor, attorney general of Maryland, and counsel for Admiral Schley, when shown the decision of Secretary Long Saturday, declared that “the whole proceeding is arbitrary and 'tyranni cal” and manifested great surprise and indignation. Official Organ of Dado County- BASE TREACHERY OF FILIPINOS. While Passing as “Loyal” Upholders of American Authority, - They Secretly Scheme to do Murder. General Chaffee, military governor of the Philippines, In a review of one of a number of courtmartial cashs ill the islands the records of Which have been received at the war department, makes the following statement: "History affords .parallel of a whole people thus p ..-..tically turning war traitors and in the genius of no other people was ever found such mas terful powers of sccr'Vand dissimula tion; but it is lie- A say that HO powerful state „ erected or ever can be eret -ich Immoral and unenlightene. s .ions.” The case which forth this comment from Jeneifcl Chaffee was one wherein seven natives were tried jointly on the charge of murder. The accused were soldiers in the Insurgent army and after defeat by the Ameri can army in the field abandoned even the show of open opposition, such as half of the uniformed guerrilla bands make, and took up their residence at Tay Tay, in Luzon, s place protected by an American garrison. Then, following proclaimed pol icy of the insurgent chiefs, they pro ceeded to organize secretly a bolo band. When authorisation had Seen given to establish civil governmeht the band came forward under the leader ship of a resident and padre and were elected municipal officers of Tay Tay. In all lawful matters they served with the appearance of loyalty to the Ameri can government, while at the same time they labored secretly and dili gently in the interests of the Insurrec tion. This dual fornr of government, says General Chaffee, existed every where in strongly garrisoned cities like Manila, as well as the smallest barrio. The municipal officers of Tay Tay next entered upon a series of mur ders and continued their deadly work until the growing number of myste rious disappearances led to the discov ery of the perpetrators by the Ameri can authorities. “One undeniable truth,” says Gener al r ' -Tee, “stands out in this case in hundreds of like cases of murder —that the average native of these is lands has not more than the merest rudimentary of Lis individ ual rights and duties as a man; and no one knows this so.-veil as the wily chiefs who il£e him for their nefarious purposes.” Six of the seven natives were sen tenced to be hanged, but General Chaf fee commuted the sentence of three of them to imprisonment at hard labor for life. Priest Member of the Gang, The seventh native, Leonardo de Po soy, a regularly ordained priesf, asked for and was granted a separate trial. At this trial De Posoy, who was held to he the chief aggressor in the Tay Tay trouble, took advantage of the loophole which appeared to be afforded by his position as priest by contending that while the participators in the wholesale murders in Tay Tay would confess the same at confessional, he was compelled by his sacred office to keep silence. General Chaffee pro nounced this defense of no value, say ing that the “confessional does nt lay upon any priest or layman the <bliga tion of *ig knowledge of crimes being k'itted by thi 1 par ties the co r ..ation of whir could •"V” v vented without*’ gating tne stv of the confessios y- A' iNSON FAILED SIGN, A .last Moment Street RaAway Con solidation Agreement Fell 1 f hrough. An Atlanta dispatch At the eleventh hour a misundej anding be tween the specj" , -j'ftV ,s " se qf coun cil and H. M. J. jsed a hltcu in the terms looking to the consoll iperti of the .2* Pr / Company, th AT' Company ..ectric Light Company. It was Jlfnerally ur> fiood that the been a*' lo by all par ties concerned, bi£ eloped that Mr. Atkinson uclKv sign the .agreement. OPTIMISTIC IS TAFT. Governor of Philippines Makes Faje well Speech on Leaving Manila. A Manila special says: Over 4,000 members of the federal party called on Governor Taft Friday to bid him fare well and to wish him a safe return. The governor, reclining on a lounge, addressed 150 of the most prominent of his visitors, saying that he was touched and honored by their presence. The organization, he added, had done much tow'ard bringing about peace and it argued more for the success of Amer ican labors than anything else during the recent critical times. ASSISTANT WARDEN SELECTED. Two More Places Are Filled In Fed eral Prison at Atlanta. H. B. Anderson, of Covington, Ga., sheriff of Newton county, has been ap pointed by the department of Justice at Washington, assistant warden of the Atlanta federal prison. At the same t’me announcement was made of the selection of Dr. J. C. Swann, of We dow'ee, Ala., for the position Of peni tentiary physician. SAMPSON CLAIMS ALL Insists that He was the “Whole Thing 1 ’ at Santiago Battle. WILL FIGHT DEWEY’S OPINION Lemly and Hanna File Report Uphold ing Majority Finding and Claim ing That Same Vvas Just and Proper. A Washington special says: The ob jection of Admiral W. T. Sampson to the portion of Admiral Dewey’s report of the Schley court of inquiry, in which he says Admiral Schley was in com mand Ist the battle off Santiago and Entitled to the credit for the victory, was filed with Secretary Long Friday by E. S. Theall, of counsel for Admiral Sampson. It is signed by Stayton and Campbell and E. S. Theall, counsel for Admiral Sampson, and is addressed to Secretary Long. In part it is as fol lows : “Sirs: As counsel for Rear Admiral Sampson wO have the honor to request that the department, for the reasons below stated, strike out or specifically disapprove that portion of Admiral Dewey’s opinion filed in connection with the proceedings of the Schley court of inquiry, in which he stated his view to be that Commodore Schley was In absolute command at 'the naval bat tle of Santiago. “1. Commodore Schley was not in command at that battle. “The disposition of the forces at the beginning of the battle according to Commodore Schley’s own statement, places Admiral Sampson In command. “2. The president of the United States and the navy department had decided that Admiral Sampson was in command at that battle and Commo dore Schley second In command. “This fact was before the court; for the secretary’s letter to the senate (dated February 6 1899) states that the Spanish squadron was destroyed “by our fleet under his (Sampson’s) command,” and “the advancement of Commodore Schley w-as proposed in recognition of his services as next in rank at the victory of Santiago. “3. The question as to who com manded at Santiago was not. referred to the court for consideration. Evi dence on the point was excluded. “If Schley whs in command, Admi ral Sampson was not ,and if the ques tion as to which was in command was to be considered by the court, surely Admiral Sampson became an interest ed party and under the precept was entitled to the hearing which was re peatedly refused him. Lemly and Hanna Claim Majority Re port Is Just, During the day Judgo Advocate Lem ly and Solicitor Hanna also submitted to Secretary Long their report upon the bill of objections filed by Admiral Schley, through his counsel, to the findings of the Schley court of inquiry. In substance this report is an argu ment supplementary to the argument made by the writers before the court of inquiry. The principal points are an insistence upon their contention that their first report is the unanimous report of the court of inquiry; that the court was justified in rejecting Admi ral Schley’s evidence by the numbef of witnesses who took issue With him, and that there is no sufficient reason for a reopening of the case as request ed by Admiral Schley. If adopted, the report will be forwaraeu to Admiral Schley. The report, i appears from its text, is solely that Oi "'udge Advocate Gen eral Lemly and 'icltor Hanna, and as such was laid -efore Secretary Long. The secretary Rated he would withhold action on th other matters ng connected wit. this issue, he event that Seif *?ry Long s the recommendat 1 of Cap y and Mr. Hanna, it is stated -a'ptH. -'liable authority that the sug gestion will be made to the president by— .m-ral .Schley’s counsel that he appoint a board of three eminent law yers, one to be selected by himself, and one each to be selected by Admiral Schley and Admiral Sampson, this board to weigh the evidence and report to the president CARNEGIE NOT "PHAZED" Philanthropist Declares Bond Gift Will Bea Go. Andrew Carnegie was in Washing ton Wednesday and, with Secretary Root, lunched with the president at the white house. It is understood that the proposed gift of $10,000,000 by Mr. Carnegie to the government was dis cussed. Mr. Carnegie left the city late in the afternoon. He was quoted as saying that there would be no doubt about the gift—that the matter would come out all right. 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