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VOL. X. IN RAGING FLOODS Cities of Georgia and Alabama Are Closely Grasped. LIVES AND PROPERTY LOST Greatest Damage Done at West Point, Ga. —Trains Plunge Into Wash outs —Many Deaths Prom Drowning. i u£ nie ana terrime destruction to property has occurred as a result of the heavy rains in Georgia and Ala bama between Atlanta and Montgom ery. Four deaths are known to have re sulted from the flood near West Point, Ga., while the destruction of property was extensive there and all along the lines of the Atlanta and West Point and the Western Railway of Alabama. A telephone message to The Atlanta Constitution from West Point stated that the river had risen twenty-five feet above normal height, and three or four bridges and culverts had been washed away. The streets of West Point were flooded and many people had to move into second stories for comfort and safety. At 2 o’clock Sunday morning freight train No. 21, with fifteen cars, on the Western Railway of Alabama, went into a. washed out culvert at Notasulga, 30 miles from West Point. The engine turned completely over and Engineer Thomas Russell was killed, while Cy Lee, the negro fireman, was fatally in jured, and two trainmen were badly hurt. Train No. 209 started to the scene of the wreck, but went through an open culvert 5 miles out of West Point. No one was injured in this accident, however. Four men attempted to cross the Chattahoochee river near West Point shortly after noon, with the result that three of the party, two white men and one negro, were drowned. The dead are George W. Callaway, H. 13. Jones and one negro, name unknown. The fourth member of the party, a negro, escaped unhurt. On the Louisville and Nashville rail road, southerp system, the train due at Montogmery was derailed and is under water at Dyas. On the Geneva branch of the Louisville and Nashville 300 feet of track have been swept away near Rocky Creek . Numerous washouts are reported along the line between West Point and Montgomery. Only one train attempted to go from Atlanta Sunday over the Atlanta and West Point —the LaGrange special, leaving the city at 8:10 in the morning. It was stopped at. Hogansville on ac count of a severe washout and had to turn back. All of the through trains to New Or leans, via the Atlanta and West Point, had to be annulled Sunday, arid pas sengers going in that direction had to go around by the Southern. In West Point the water was up in the streets and the situation, it is said, was desperate. People can get about with difficulty, and as the river was still rising, fears are expressed as to the results. BIG BATTLESHIP LAUNCHED. With Appropriate Ceremonies the Mis souri Glides Into the Water. The battleship Missouri was launch ed at the ship yard fit Newport News Saturday at 11:12 o’clock. Fully 15,000 people, it is estimated, saw the big de fender go overboard. The launching passed off without a hitch and none prettier or more successful was ever accomplished. Miss Marion Cockrell, daughter of Senator F. M. Cockrell, of Miisouri, was sponsor for the ship and she performed the duty assigned her with the traditional bottle of cham pagne, using a bottle of Missouri pro duct for the purpose. The number of distinguished guests gathered around fhe sponsor on the christening plat form was larger than ever seen at the yards. MILITIA GOES FOR OUTLAW. Alabama Governor Asked to Assist In Capturing Uriah Porter. The reign of terror which has exist ed ;n the Crawford community in Ala bama since the killing of Joseph Fin (her by Uriah Porter came to a climax Saturday afternoon when the situation became so acute that the governor of Alabama was appealed to for aid. Gov ernor Jelks ordered the Twin City (,l| ard to proceed to the scene and cap ture Porter, who has been at large in ihe community heavily armed and threatening death to any who dared to try to arrest him. POWDER MILL WRECKED. Concussion Was Felt Fourteen Miles Away—Four Men Injured. A dispatch from Scranton, Pa„ says: w D ex Pl°sion of the barrel mill of the oosic Powder Company, at the Jer ru> n works Friday blew the mill and fc °nie adjoining buildings to pieces. H he shock wsb plainly felt in Scran ton a distance of 14 miles. Four work m,a Injured by flying debris* DADE COUNTY SENTINEL. SOUTHERN PROGRESS. The New Industries Reported In the South During the Past Week. Among the more important of the new industries reported for the past week are agricultural implement works at Harrison, Ark.; bottling works at Chattanooga, Tenn.; a box factory at Tuscaloosa, Ala.; a $30,000 building and manufacturing company at Vicks burg, Miss.; a company at Frog Level, N. C., to manufacture builders’ sup plies, coffins, furniture, etc.; a $150,000 canning factory at Pascagoula, Miss., a $25,000 coal company at Madison ville, Ky.; a $25,000 coal company at HunUusion, vv. Va.; a $300,000 coal company at Wheeling, W. Va.; a $60,- 000 coal and coke company at Charles ton, W. Va.; coal mines at Fairmont, W. Va.; a cold storage plant at New Orleans, La.; a $50,000 cotton bagging and tie factory at Norfolk, a.; a cot ton gin at Boyce, La.; an excelsior fac tory at Vigor, Va.; a $200,000 fertilizer factory at Atlanta, Ga.; a $40,000 fer tilizer factory at Nashviile, Tenn.; $lO,- 000 fence works at Knoxville, Tenn.; flouring mills at High Point and Lytch, N. C., Pomaria, S. C., and Bentonville, Va.; a $35,000 flouring mill at Blue field, W. Va.; a foundry at Henderson, Ky.; a gas plant at Raleigh, N. C.; a grist, mill at Danville, Va.; a slo,uoo hardware company at Columbus, Miss.; a hardware company at Weston, W. Va.; a $25,000 ice factory at Jack sonville, Fla.; a knitting mill at Gads den, Ala.; a $50,000 land company at Appalachia, N. C.; a lumber company at Cordele, Ga.; a $30,000 lumber 'com pany at Columbia, Miss.; a $20,000 lumber company at Dallas, Texas; i SIOO,OOO lumber company at Houston, Texas; a $25,000 lumber company at Richmond, Va.; a $25,000 mining com pany at Princeton, Ky.; a $150,000 oil company at Beaumont, Texas; an oil mill at Cleveland, Tenn.; a $50,000 planing mill and lumber company at Charleston, W. Va.; a $3,000,000 rail way and electric company at Atlanta, Ga.; a $25,000 roofing and supply com pany at Wheeling, W. Va.; a sash and blind factory at Bagdad, Fla.; a saw mill at Jimps, Ga.; a shoe ans harness factory at Birmingham, Ala.; a $24,- 000 tar and turpentine company at Pensacola, Fla.; a tobacco factory at Bedford City, Va., and a zinc mining company at Chattanooga to develop zinc mines in Tennessee.—Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.) ARMY JOURNALS PROTEST. Roosevelt and Root Are Scored For Brutal Treatment of Miles. The service papers, the Army and Navy Journal and the Army and Navy Register, are strongly of the opinion that the president and the secretary of war went too far in rebuking Gen eral Miles for his Cincinnati interview The Journal says In part: “We greatly regret to learn that there is a substance of truth in the statement appearing in the dispatches from Washington to the effect that the president openly rebuked the lieu tenant general commander in the pres ence of others during the visit of Gen eral Miles to the white house. The army regulations forbid such a show ing of disrespect toward even a non commissioned officer by his superior in rank.” The Army and Navy Register says: “The impression prevails that the toife of the Root letter is unnecessarily se vere —out of all proportion to the of fense. There are even those who think the language employed is brutal and that the publicity given the corre spondence was a cruel advertisement of the president's displeasure. The at tempt has been made to publicly dis grace Miles, an effect which may not have been fully realized in view of the opinion on the matter entertained by the majority of the people. However much people may differ in opinion on the justice or necessity of a fierce re buke of Miles and its publication in semi-official form, there can be no doubt on that other incident, said to have occurred at the white house, where General Miles was personally cilticised by the president in the pres ence of other visitors. If this Is so, General Miles’ friends may very well find their patience exhausted.” FUNERAL OF NELLIE CROPSEY. Great Throng Attend Services In Church at Elizabeth City. Funeral services over the body of Miss Nellie Cropsey, whose remains were discovered in the Pasquotank riv er after a search lasting several weeks, was held in the Methodist church at Elizabeth City, N. C., Sunday, of which the girl became a member only a month before her disappearance. The church was crowded to suffocation and the street leading to it was lined with people who uncovered as the hearse drove past. MINE CAGE DROPS. Six Out of its Eight Occupants Meet Instant Death. At shaft No. 1 of the McAlester Coal Company, at Hartshorn, I. TANARUS., Satur day, while the cage was ascending with eight men It jumped its guidings about 100 feet fro mthe bottom of the shaft. Six of the eight men were killed. They were caught between the cage and the bunting* and their bodl dropped to the bettom ef the shaft TItENTON. GA. FRIDAY. JANUARY 3.1903, CAPTURED A TRAIN Four Men Play the Hold-Up Act Without the Trimmings. BRUTALLY SLAY A PASSENGER Engineer Is Covered With Guns and Forced to Do Bidding of Would- Be Bandits —All Are Arrested. Four white men killed J. M. Rhea, an inoffensive passenger on train No. 6 of the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley branch of the Iliinois Central railroad, at an early hour Monday morning, near Leland, Miss., cut the locomotive from the train and forced the engineer to run to Cleveland. All four men were arrested, one beir. in jail at Leland and three are locked up at Shelby. The four men are: Ashley Cocke, a prominent business man of Cleveland; A. M. Phipps, post master at Shelby; Thomas Lauderdale, said to be a relative of Phipps, and a man named Blackman, residence un known. The men went from Shelby to Le land early Sunday night. At Leland it is said they spent several hours drinking and carousing. At 3 a. m. the men boarded the northbound train to return to Shelby. J. M. Rhea, an engineer, was on his way to Tutwiler, under orders to take out a locomotive near there. He was sleeping on a seat in the sleeper when the passen ger train pulled out from Leland. At that point Cocke and his friends board ed the car. Cocke had a revolver and Lauderdale and Blackman had win chester rifles. Phipps was not armed. Walking up the aisle Phipps was in advance of the party, when he came in contact with Rhea’s legs, which ivere extended out into the aisle as he slept. Rhea was awakened and in quired what was the matter. The members of the party stood there and discussed the situation angrily for awhile and then the quartet the end of the car and out platform. Very soon they returned ~.nd going up to Rhea told him that r they could not all stay in the same car, and that he would have to get out. Rhea remarked that in order to pre vent trouble he would have to do as they told him. Thereupon he started out of the car. He had just reached the door when it is claimed the men opened fire upon him. He fell where he stood. Conductor George McLaughlin order ed the train back to Leland, there to leave the corpse. As soon as Leland was reached the conductor went in search of the sheriff and peace offi cers. In the meantime the quartet had not been idle. They had driven everybody out of the smoker and the adjacent car during the run back to Leland. and when they arrived at that place they went to the engine, aboard of which was Engineer Delaney. They covered him with guns and told him if he did not obey their commands they wuld kill him. He was compelled to uncouple his engine and when the men mounted into the cab he was ordered to open the throttle a^ J :j-*vAMg,.£ngine down the track toward "TTnlpfr citement of the moment Phipps be came separated from his companions and did not get away from Leland, When the sheriff arrived at the rgjffi road he arrested Phipps. were carried on to Shelhj^. j .-vT there, they to ijfijfreal themselves, "But, still their weapons,they waited for jwe next train, on which they yjpveled to ■Cleveland, where they vjtfe arrested without trouble. Thewjpere taken to Shelby and placed iu'^ail. Cocke, the man \<mo seemed to be the leader of the quartet, has, it is said, killed a number of men. He is charged with the killing of a negro last Friday night In Shelby. There is jnuch excitement and indignation among the people of the Leland and Shelby neighborhoods over Monday’s tragedy, but no violence Is anticipated. WILCOX IS RETICENT. Excitement Over Nellie Cropsey Trag edy ts Gradually Subsiding. The excitement over the Cropsey case it Elisabeth City, N. C., is dying put, and business is being resumed. The talk of lynching James Wilcox is heard no longer, the people having decided to permit the law to take its course. The citizens’ committee are collecting evidence against Wilcox to present to the grand jury when It meets in March next. Wikox is still in jail and refuses ab solutely to make any statement re garding his conduct on the night of Miss Cropsey’s disappearance. “PEG LEG” PAYS FINE. Negro Exodus Promoter Arrested By Tarheel Authorities. “Peg Leg” Williams, so well known as the promoter of the great negro ex odus here in 1890 and 1891, was ar rested at Maxton, N. C„ Monday for having no license. He paid the SSO for license and was discharged. Ha Is not this time having much success la la (Using negroes to luvo tht UM| Official Organ of DadLo County- WAS DISASTROUS TO BRITONS. London War Office Issues List of Cas ualties at Zeefontein Battle on Christmas Eve. The London Avar office Saturday af ternoon Issued a list of the British cas ualties at Zeefontein December 24, when Colonel Firman’s camp, consist ing of three companies of yeomanry and two guns was successfully rushed by a Boer force under the command of General DeWet. The length of the list demonstrates the entire success of De- Wet’s attack. Six officers and fifty men were killed, fjlght officers were wounded and four are missing. It is presumed that the missing officer* were taken along with the captured guns. The Boers, who apparently number ed about 1,200, under General DeWet, behaved well, leaving men to look af ter the younded. The Imperial light horse were 14 miles away. They heard of the fight at 4:30 and arrived on the scene at 6:30. After breathing thefr horses, they galloped after the Boers, who, however, succeeded in reaching the broken country, where the light horse was useless against superior numbers. Simultaneously with the above the war office gave out a dispatch from Lord Kitchener chronicling a minor success of the South African constabu lary, who raided Bothaville and cap tured thirty-six Boers. OVER TWELVE THOUSAND WORDS Written on Ordinary Postal Card—All Records Smashed. T. F. Glenn, credit man for the At lanta, Ga., branch S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Company, has just bro ken the world’s record for the greatest number of words written on a postal card. Mr. Glenn, after seventy hours of la bor and the wearing out of two dozen pens has written the immense number of 12,097 words on a postal. The rec ord before this feat of Mr. Glenn was 5,200 words, aDd when it was made it was considered to be one that w'ould never be broken. W. T. Hicks, .winner of the second prize, also smashed the cjjpfccord, though he was behind Mr Tuenn. The contest that caused Mr. Glenn to make this record >yas inaugurated by the of At lanta, office supply dealers. This firm offered a number of prizes for the con testants. The interest that it created w y as surprising even to the promoters. Mr. Glenn is a well known and r/rpu lar young Atlanta man and his feat is one that will doubtless make his name knowm throughout the civilized world. The contest consisted in writing on an ordinary postal card (3 1-4 by 5 1-2 inches) the greatest number of times the sentence, "Waterman’s Ideal Foun tain Pens, sold by Mower-Hobart Cos„ 61 Peachtree St.” The rules stipulated that the writing must he in ink. only blank side of pos tal card can be used, No lines must cross each other. Sentences must be written on postal as printed above. Every postal must contain senders’ name and address. The first prize was Waterman’s very finest Ideal “Pen American” Fountain Pen, with new spoon feed, elegantly and heavily mounted with so]Jl silver, value $lO. Second prize, a -M Water man’s Ideal F-4fin Pen; tjfrd prize, a $4 Ideal Pen; fo,lth prize, a !•*"• -gf .-Jin Fountain Pen' i— . V £#IVE CAPTAIN LEA-Y DEAD. ■ ’Jjts First Governor of Gram and Once jr Bluffed Germans. The navy department has received a telegram from Admiral Mortimer L. Johnson, commanding the Boston navy yard, stating that Caniain Richard P. Leary, United died j morning at Marine hi ifpltal, CheiSesnj&l Captain wajyhe first .if Guam ffi'-r i). ye land ramify * the poiAiessiofl OTV-jj United JStj, gard by his fei(*Ygra:iors of the nerve he shtSwecT In thF"presence of two German war ship? in the harbor of Samoa,'doping the stirring times which wound up in the tremen dous hurricane that wiped out the German and American navies in these waters in 1899. ANARCHIST UNDER ARREST. Wife of Grossman Gives Him Away to the Authorities. Rudolph Grossman, editor of The Austro-Hungarian Gazette, in New York, was arrested Friday, charged with assaulting his wife with a knife. Mrs. Grossman declared her husband to be an anarchist and said that he re peatedly told her he would consider himself highly honored if he could but do to Prpsident Roosevelt what Czol gosz did to President McKinley. She alleged that her husband on December 9 last addressed a meeting of i v 'Vrchists in the city, where he was introduced by Emma Goldman. CHILDREN VICTIMS OF FIRE. Three Little Ones Lose Life In the Burning of Their Home. At Buffalo, N. Y., early Friday morn- Tng three children of Madara Grizella were burned to death in a fire that de stroyed a two-story frame building In Lombard street. They were aged ten, seven and three. The mother and a baby two days old were carried from the build ing on a mattress* FLOATING IN RIVER Body of Long Missing Nellie Cropsey Found By Fisherman. DEEP MYSTERY FINALLY SOLVED James Wilcox, a Former Lover of the Girl, Is Held By Authorities Un der Suspicion of Being Her Murderer. Five weeks of mystery and specula cion as to the fate of Miss Nell Crop- Bey terminated at Elizabeth City, N. C., Friday at 10 o’clock when the body of the missing girl was found floating in the river opposite her father’s home. The body was discovered by J. D. Stillman, a fisherman, who was return ing from his nighf’s fishing trip. Upon discovering that the floating object was the body of a young girl, he im mediately notified the committee and Coroner Fearing had the body brought to the shore. When the body was found it was face downward, All the wearing appa rel was intact with the exception of the rubber which Nell wore on the night of her disappearance, and that was missing. Body Little .Decomposed, With the exception of some slight discoloration of the face the body was in a good state of preservation and lit tle decomposed. The body was easily identified as that of Nell Cropsey by all who had knoevn hej in life. The spot where the body -was found had been dragged several times since her disap pearance, but with no result. Coroner Fearing summoned a Jury of prominent men from among the crowd that had assembled on the spot where the body had been brought ashore, and called in three of the best physicians of the city to make a thor ough and exhaustive autopsy to learn if there were any signs oLviolepce on the body. James Wilcox, a former lover, was last with her. He is under SI,OOO bail for investigation by the grand jury. He is suspected as the murderer of the girl. Naval Reserves Protect. Anticipating uiat trouble may be brewing for young Wilcox, the naval reserves have been ordered out to maintain order and peace and to see that no violence is offered Wilcox. By order of the mayor all barrooms in the city were closed. Wilcox has been re moved from the mayor’s office, where he had been since his arrest Friday af ternoon, to the county jail for his own protection, and a strong guard has placed around the jail. The family of the dead girl refuse to express an opinion as to the cause of the death of Nell Cropsey, but an uncle of the girl is reported as hav ing said: “I never have yet heard of a drowned person floating face downward.” The mother of the girl is completely prostrated, and little can be done on the part of relatives and friends to comfort her. She has watched daily, hoping for the return of her daughter alive, and the sad ending of the disap pearance has completely broken her down. Verdict of Coroner’s Jury. The verdict of the coroner’s jury was ! as follows: “We, the coroner’s jury, having been duly summoned and sworn by Dr. I. Fearing to inquire what caused the death of M. Cropsey, do hereby report thatJfcom the investigation made by* thro'. *\hyslcians of Elizabeth City, and opinion and also from our Ella M. .Gfropsey came to. death by being A-icken a blow on temple and ML being drowned in Pasquotank Cl er. W T e have not yli investigated fiat' heard any testimony as to who in flicted the blow and did Jhe drowning. We are informed that one James Wil cox is charged with same and is now in custody. We recommend" that investi gation as to his or arty'one else’s prob able guilt be had by one or more mag istrates in Elizabeth City township and that said Wilcox be held to await said investigation.’’ WILL NOT LEAVE CAROLINA. Senator McLaurin Denies Widely Pub lished Report. v In a dispatch to The Greenville (3. C.) News Senator John L. McLaurin denies that he will take up his resi dence in Washington and quit politick in South Carolina. He says he has formed a law part nership with F. L. Wells, of Washing ton, for the purpose of keeping in touch with his profession, and that his public duties demand he should have an office in Washington. FIRE STOPS FESTIVAL. Christmas Tree Starts Blaze Which Destroyed Big Building. At Chicago, Saturday night, a Christ mas tree loaded with inflammable or naments and candles caused a fire that destroyed the Alexander apartment building, a six-story structure corner of Bowen and Cottage Grove avenu\s-. The loss will exceed SIOO,OOO. Twenty families lived in the building and the flames spread so rapidly that a score Of periont barely neaped with their ilveti WHITE FRONT. THE UNION STORE, 23! Mumt Anil, CBATTAKOOGA, TEE __ T * * t. Vl ' ...... J- , ■ Wc arc Hie cheapest store in the city fn Dry Goods, Notions, Millinery, Ladies’ Ready-to-wear Shirt Waists, Skirts, Jackets, Gapes, Wrappers, Men’s and Hoys’ Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps. r ", M 'Vt • . f . *4 * Now is. the time to get fine Glasswaro- FREE. 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