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VOL. X. NO. 23.
haired is revealed
Sampson’s RighMland Man Tes=
tifies Before Inquiry Court.
TRUE ANIMUS BROUGHT OUT
Reluctantly Admits That Secret Sig
nal Code Was Not Made
Known to Commodore
Schley.
Captain F. E. Chadwick, who was in
command of Admiral Sampson’s flag
ship, the New York, and who was also
chief of the admiral’s staff during the
war with Spain, testified before the
Schley naval court for a short time
Friday afternoon. He was the last
witness called, and when the court ad
journed was still under cross-examina
tion by Mr. Raynor, who stated that
he hhd only a few more questions to
ask him. There was considerable in
terest in Captain Chadwick’s appear
anc because of his close relationship to
the commander-in-chief of the north
Atlantic squadron.
Captain Chadwick’s testimony re
lated very largely to dispatches sent
by Admiral Sampson to Commodore
Schley while the latter lay off Cien
fuegos in May, 1898, and to the code
of signals agreed upon by Captain Mc-
Calla, of the Marblehead, and the Cu
ban forces operating near Cienfuegos.
He said this code had not been sent to
Commodore Schley by dispatch be
cause Captain McCalla had expected
to join the commodore immediately
and communicate the code to him.
Captain Chadwick said he had not ap
proved Admiral Sampson’s dispatch of
May 28 congratulating Commodore
Schley on his accomplishments to that
date.
Five other new witnesses were heard
during the day, two of them being offi
cers of the New York. One of these
was Lieutenant C. C. Marsh, the flag
secretary of Admiral Sampson, who
testified concerning dispatches to Com
modore Schley, and the other was the
ship's flag lieutenant, E. L. Bennett.
Lieutenant Theodore G. Dewey, neph
ed of Admiral Dewey, who served on
the Massachusetts; Lieutenant Adel
bert Althouse, also of the Massachu
setts, and Lieutenant Francis Bought
er, who served on the Marblehead,
were the other new witnesses of the
day. ’
ACTRESS’ BAGGAGE RIFLED.
Car Inspector Arrested on Charge of
Stealing Bonds and Jewelry.
Charles Norris, car Inspector for
the Lehigh Valley railroad, was ar
rested at Ithica, N. Y., Friday charged
with the theft of bonds, jewelry and
other property, valued at $70,000, be
longing to Mrs. Denman Thompson and
Mrs. Franklin Thompson, of “The Old
Homestead’’ company. The arrest was
made while Norris was acting as an
inspector in an election booth.
Most of the property, including $60,-
000 worth of bonds, has been recover
ed. The theft w-as reported to the po
lice a week ago. The property was
missing from the company’s baggage
car, in which were trunks belonging
to Mrs. Thompson and her daughter-in
law, and is said to have been taken
while the company was playing at the
Lyceum theatre. Locks of the trunks
were picked and the articles selected
at leisure. Norris, in his capacity as
car inspector, had access to the car,
but the robbery was not discovered un
til the company reached Albany.
Detectives in New York, as well as
the local police, were notified, and
some of the jewelry w r as traced to the
place where an attempt to sell it had
been made. Further evidence led to
the arrest of Norris.
blaze in cotton warehouse.
Two Hundred Bales Burned With a
Loss of About $6,000.
The large cotton iron warehouse at
Syiacauga, Ala., owned by Lane Broth
ers, containing upward of 200 bales of
cotton, was destroyed by fire Friday
morning. The loss is estimated at $6,-
000, with $3,000 insurance. Many farm
ers had stored cotton in the warehouse
without insurance.
TOWN FLAME SWEPT.
Los Gatos, California, Almost Wiped
Off the Earth.
The entire business section of Los
Gatos, Cal., was wiped out by Are
Sunday. The area covered by the fire
Is estimated at about four acres, and
Property worth from SIOO,OOO to $160,-
000 was destroyed. A dozen or more
business blocks, several manufacto
ries, a livery stable and a church and
many dwellings were burned. The
fire department was powerless to cope
with the flames owing to a strong
breeze.
STATE OF DADE NEWS.
CoLoi< LINE i\oi CONSIDERED
President Roosevelt Will not Consider
“Complexion” In Making Fed
eral Appointments.
A Washington special says: At the
cabinet meeting Friday the question
of southern appointments generally
again came up and the president reit
erated his policy of appointing repub
licans, if suitable applicants could be
found, and, if not, of appointing gold
democrats. His policy in this respect
meets the approval of the cabinet.
With a positiveness almost convinc
ing, it is stated that the president has
definitely decided to appoint Dr. V. P.
Clayton, of Columbia, collector of in
ternal revenue for South Carolina, as
already indicated in the Associated
Press dispatches. The turning down
of Mr. Blalock was so unexpected that
cautious persons are disposed to wait
until the president puts his official
signature to the commission before
proceeding to gossip on the subject.
President Roosevelt is experiencing
considerable political impatience and
personal discomfiture in trying to ad
just his policy in dealing out federal
patronage in the south on a strictly
meritorious basis. He does not hesi
tate to state to his personal friends,
and make it perfectly plain, that with
in the past week he has been deceived
by misrepresentations made in behalf
of certain aspirants for office and their
friends.
He is perfectly sincere in his desire
to emphasize the merit system in mak
ing appointments in the south as well
as in the north, the east and the west.
He has remarked to more than one
southern delegation within the last
few days that a man’s complexion, be
it black or white, shall not operate to
his advantage or disadvantage in the
distribution of federal patronage. The
president has endeavored to impress
upon all of his political callers the fact
that he proposes to exercise his best
judgment in selecting the best availa
ble man for every appointment he may
Le called upon to make. He does not
hesitate to state that this is a republi
can administration, and, all things be
ing equal, the preference will be given
to a meritorious member of the party
in power. It was with the best inten
tions and witn an honeet endeavor to
benefit the public service generally
that he stated at the very outset of
his administration that it is impossible
for him to become personally familiar
with the qualificaions and personal
habits of every individual who may be
suggested for a federal office. Under
the circumstances, he announced that
he would cheerfully receive advice ana 1
suggestions on the subject from men
of influence and standing in all sec
tions of the country, without regard to
party. To this end he has freely con
sulted democratic senators and repre
sentatives about public affairs in their
respective states with pleasure and
profit.
CURTRIGHT NOT THE MAN.
Negro Assailant of Mrs. Sims Un
known and at Liberty.
So far the negro who criminally as
saulted Mrs. Sims at her home in
Barnesville, Ga., is at large. Will
Curtright, who was thought to be the
guilty party, was caught at Thomas
ville, returned to Barnesville under
heavy guard, carried before Mrs. Sims
for identification. He was promptly
declared not to be the man. A mob of
a thousand men were on hand await
ing the result of the identification
meeting.
ADIVCES not assuring.
Our Consul at Constantinople Wires
Progress In Case of Miss Stone.
The state department has heard
again by cable from Uuited States
Consul General Dickinson and Secre
tary of Legation Spencer Eddy touch
ing the progress of the negotiations
looking to the release of Miss Stone.
None of the details were made public,
however, and all that can be gathered
as to the status of the case is that the
conditions arc by no means as reassur
ing as has been expected.
Buffalo Customs Receipts Stolen.
It has just transpired that a month
ago the sum of $5,200 receipts of the
Buffalo customs house had been stolen
evidently while in transit from Buffald
to the sub-treasury in New York.
ANGRY MOB IN PURSUIT.
Negro Attemps Assault Upon Wife of
Prominent Barnesville Citizen.
Mrs. Sims, wife of John Sims, a
well known citizen of Barnesville, G&.,
who lives immediately outside the in
corporate limits of the tow#, had a
desperate struggle with a negro who
is now being pursued by officers and
men bent upon his capture and may
be quick death.
From a description given by Mrs.
Sims her assailant proved to be Frank
Cartright, a negro well known in
Barnesville and portions of Pike coun
ty.
TRENTON. GA. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 18.1901.
WHELMED BY WATER
Barsting of a Reservoir Greatly
Damages Town In Ohio.
HUNDREDS NARROWLY ESCAPE
Little Ones Were Playing Nearby and
Were Caught in Raging Flood.
Damage Will Aggregate
$150,000.
At East Liverpool, Ohio, Sunday a
large reservoir, containing 10,000,000
gallons of water, burst and caused
great damage. No lives were lost, but
a score of people had narrow escapes.
The money loss will reach probably
$150,000.
The reservoir, which is owned by
the city and which was completed
only a few days ago, was filled Sunday
morning for the first time. It was
taxed to its utmost capacity when the
break occurred. A gang of laborers
were laying pipes near the wall which
gave way. They miraculously escaped
death.
The basin is located 600 feet above
the pumping station, on the highest
hill in the city. A number of houses
are located on the hillside between the
reservoir and the city proper. When
the wall gave way the water shot
down the incline with a mighty roar,
the noise warning the oenpantst of
the endangered houses, who rushes to
a place of safety in time to save them
selves.
A party of children were playing in
a road directly in the pathway of the
torrent, and though caught by a por
tion of the rushing water, were res
cued. Dozens of large trees were torn
from their roots and carried down the
hillside with lightning rapidity, being
jammed with terrfic force against the
walls of the Harker Pottery Company
plant.
The main building, with several
smaller structures, were badly wreck
ed. Two large kilns and sheds were
dashed to pieces ad $25,000 worth of
ware ruined. The tracks of the Cleve
land and Pittsburg railroad were cov
ered with thousands of tong, of wreck
age and traffic was blocked. The street
car line, running parallel with the
railroad, suffered severely and traffic
oq a half mile of the line has been
abandoned.
The pumping station was in the
pathway of the flood and filled with
wreckage, which so damaged the en
gines that they cannot be used. Sev
eral houses tvere moved from their
foundations, outbuildings carried
away and a number of freight cars on
a side track overturned. The loss is
estimated at from SIOO,OOO to $150,000.
SHARP WORDS EXCHANGED.
Raynor Characterizes a Statement By
Lemly as False.
The Schley court of inquiry held
but one session Saturday. Captain
Chadwick concluded his testimony and
Lieutenant Commander Sidney A.
Staunton, who served on the New York
as assistant to Captain Chadwick as
chief of staff for Admiral Sampson,
and Lieutenant Nathan C. Twining,
formerly of the lowa, were introduced
as new witnesses.
Near the close of the day’s session
Judge Advocate Lemly and Mr. Ray
nor became engaged in a controversy
over the admissibilit at that time of
a chart showing the speed of the ves
sels of the flying squadron, and when
Mr. Raynor made a statement concern
ing the matter to be introduced, the
judge advocate took exception to its
reception, saying Mr. Raynor’s sum
mary might be inaccurate, as other
statements made by him, referring es
pecially to the contents of documents
presented, had been. Mr. Raynor re
sented the expression and replied to
the effect that if uttered outside of
the court room he would say that it
was false. Before the court adjourned
both Mr. Raynor and Captain Lemly
made statements concerning the inci
dent to the court and Admiral Dewey
expressed the opinion that Captain
Lemly’s explanation should be satis
factory to Mr. Raynor.
DEATH IN BLACK DAMP.
Father and Two Sons Suffocated In
a Small Air Shaft.
Three lives went out in a little air
shaft, only 2 feet in diameter an?. 20
feet deep, but filled with deathly black
damp, at the mines of the Juniata
Coke Company, near Juniataville, Pa.,
Sunday. The dead are:
John Gilleland, a miner, aged 50,
and his two sons, James and Winfield,
aged 11 and 16, respectively.
All three bodies were rescued, but in
the effort John Nicholson, mine fore
man, and John Baker, fire boss, were
seriously overcome by black damp.
SAMPSON PLEADS FOR COUNSEL
Request It Again Refused —Another
Victory For Schley at Thurs
day’s Session of Inquiry Court.
A Washington special says: Just
before the Schley court of inquiry ad
journed Thursday Judge Advocate
Lemly introduced J. H.
Holden, formerly watch officer on the
Scorpion, as a witness. Lieutenant
Holden signed the entry in the Scor
pion’s log, giving the particulars of
the receipt of a message from Commo
dore Schley from the Eagle, which that
vessel had brought from Captain Mc-
Calla on May 19, 1898, when the flying
squadron, then bound for Cienfuegos,
fell in .with Captain McCalla’s sub
squadron, which had just left that port.
The government had sought to show
that by this message Commodore
Schley had been notified that the Span
ish fleet was not in the harbor of Cien
fuegos and Lieutenant Commander
Southerland, of the Eagle, had testified
that he had megaphoned to the Scor
pion that there were only a torpedo
boat and several cannonieros in that
harbor. Captain Lemly told the court
Thursday that the log of the Scorpion
did not show the receipt of fue mes
sage in this form and that there was
no evidence to show the delivery of
the message to Commodore Schley.
Sampson Again Turned Down.
William H. Stayton, the New York
attorney who some time ago asked to
be allowed to represent Rear Admiral
Sampson before the Schley court of In
quiry and whose request was denied
by the court, presented a letter to the
court Thursday in which it is alleged
that Sampson’s honor has, on several
occasions, been involved before the
court and asked the privilege of being
represented by counsel.
A reply was sent Mr. Stayton to the
effect that Admiral Sampson was not a
party to the inquiry, and that he would
be notified when the court considered
him as interested.
GEN. BOTHA EVADES THE TRAP
Intrepid Boer Leader Breaks Through
Kitchener's Cordon Formed By
Over 200,000 Men.
A London special says: The wholly
unsatisfactory situation in South Af
rica continues to call out the' most se
vere criticism. Lord Kitchener wired
Thursday that General Botha had
crossed the Pivaau river, 20 miles
north of Vryheid, which means that he
has again escaped the British cordon.
General Buller, in a speech Thurs
day afternoon, complained of the gen
eral criticisms, especially in the news
papers, of himself. He admitted he
had advised General Sir George White
that it would be necessary possibly to
surrender Ladysmith, but bearing in
mind all the circumstances of the
case, he was quite prepared to let the
public judge of the justiflabilily of the
newspaper attacks.
The secretary of war, Mr. Brodrick,
replying to Sir Charles Howard Vin
cent’s offer to raise fresh troops or do
anything to assist the government, de
clines the proposal, and in doing so
lengthily reviews the British position
in South Africa, obviously in answer to
the persistent and searching criticisms
of the ministerial journals and mem
bers of parliament, that the govern
ment is languidly content to let the
war drag on.
Mr. Brodrick says, to begin with,
that nothing Lord Kitchener has ask
ed for has not been promptly met. He
adds: **
“We have, roughly, 200,000 men and
456 guns in South Africa, and over
100,000 men are under training at
home. We have no difficulty, there
fore, in keeping the field firmly up to
its requisite strength by drafts, and
if a further call be made we are in a
position to meet it with the utmost
promptitude. Notwithstanding this,
there seems to be an impression
abroad that the close of the war is re
tarded by a scarcity of troops, or the
want of mobility of eur columns.”
This impression Mr. Brodrick com-
Dats by reciting what the war office is
doing, providing supplies for 314,000
persons, directly or indirectly connect
ed with the war, feeding 248,000
horses and mules, and maintaining
four months’ reserves of food for men
and animals. Sixty-nine mobile col
umns, perfectly equipped, are now in
the field, and 10,000 remounts are be
ing landed monthly, besides those cap
tured.
Mr. Brodrick says the anxiety can
be set at rest at home. The govern
ment has never interfered with Lord
Kitchener, in whose vigorous prosecu
tion of the war they have entire con
fidence.
“When Lord Kitchener asked for
9,000 more men,” says the war secre
tary, “the government sent out to him
61,000 fresh troops during the first six
months of 1901, besides arms for 20,-
000 local levies.”
IS. T. [SHOC K, Editor and Proprietor.
A KNOCK OUT BLOW
Given Admiral Schley’s Enemies
By Captain Francis Cook.
HE ORDERED THE FAMOUS LOOP
Entire Campaign Is Reviewed and
Every Accusation Against
Schley Is Wholly Demol
ished By Witness.
Captain Francis A. Cook, of the
Brooklyn, was the first new witness
called before the Schley court of in
quiry Monday. He was called by the
navy department, but as he also As on
Admiral Schley’s list of witnesses, ne
will be considered, like Lieutenant
Commander Hodgson and Lieutenant
Doyle, as a witness for both sides of
the controversy.
During the war with Spain Captain
Cook was commander of the flagship
Brooklyn, and also Admiral Schley's
chief of staff, thus occupying the same
relative position to Admiral Schley
that Captain Chadwick occupied to Ad
miral Sampson. His appearance on
the stand, therefore, created considera
ble interest, and his testimony was lis
tened to attentively.
Captain Cook’s testimony was a re
view of the entire campaign after Cer
vera’s fleet beginning with the depart
ure of the flying squadron from Key
West on May 19 and concluding with
the battle off Santiago July 3. He said
that at first it had been believed by
both Sampson and Schley that the
Spanish fleet was in the harbor of
Cienfuegos and that no information to
the contrary had been conveyed to
Commodore Schley until the arrival of
Captain McCalla on May 24; that it
was Commodore Schley’s expectation
to meet the Spaniards in the open sea
and his constant care was to have coal
enough for such emergency.
He gave particulars concerning the
retrograde movement and explained
the Brooklyn’s loop in connection with
a graphic account of the engagement
of July 3. Asked for an opinion as to
Admiral Schley’s bearing as a com
manding officer, he said: “I always re
garded him as an enthusiastically
brave and patriotic officer."
Referring to the famous loop of the
Brooklyn, Captain Cook said that he
gave the order for the movement him
self and that the turn never endanger
ed the Tens. He stated that the idea
of a collision never entered his head,
and the loop was justified by the re
sults.
Asked what orders were given by
Commodore Schley to the fleet by sig
nal or otherwise, during the battle of
July 3, Captain Cook said: “Quite a
number of signals were made, but I
only recollect a few of them. The first
signal made was the formulated sig
nal to close in. Afterwards, there
were signals made; a great many wig
wags were made to the Oregon.”
CYPRESS TIMBER DEAL.
lowa Capitalists Spend Big Money In
Florida Property.
Just east of the Chattahoochee river,
■ a the section of which Tallahassee,
Fla., is the commercial center, lies
what experts term one of the finest
cypress timber tracts in the gulf
states. It skirts the coast for 100 miles.
In this section the largest and most
important lumber and timber deal
ever made in middle Florida was con
summated the past week. John A.
Graham, president and principal own
er of the Graham Cypress Company, of
St. Marks, Fla., has sold the saw mill,
logging railroad and cypress timber
lands belonging to his company to Wil
liam L. Roach and associates, of Mus
catine, lowa. The exact figures in
this deal have not been given out, but
the deal approximates half a million
dollars. It is understood that the price
paid by the Roach syndicate for the
saw mill and cypress timber is some
thing ever $350,000.
Boiler Exploded; Two Dead.
At Clifton, Ariz., Monday an explo
sion of the boiler in the plant of the
Detroit Copper Company instantly kill
ed W. W. Morgan and P. A. Adams,
firemen.
LONG TERMS ASKED FOR.
Cuban Prosecutor of Neely, Rathbone,
Et Al. Forwards Indictment.
A special from Havana says: The
indictment in the postofflee fraud cases
have been sent by the fiscal to. the au
diencia, but have not yet been made
public.
It Is known, however, that the fiscal
has asked that C. F. V 7. Neely, Estes
G. Rathbone and W. H. Reeves, the in
dicted officials, be sentenced to impris
onment for terms ranging from twen
ty-four to twenty-six years.
Each of the accused men is charged
with from fifteen to eighteen offenses.
PAT CROWE AGAIN ON DECK.
Alleged Kidnaper of Young Cudahy
Offers to Surrender if Reward
of $50,000 Is Withdrawn.
Saturday Chief of Police Donahue,
at Omaha, Neb., received from Pat
rick Crow, through a friend of the lat
ter, an offer to surrender himself and
stand trial in the courts if the reward
of $50,000 hanging over his head for
the alleged kidnaping of Edward A.
Cudahy, Jr., is withdrawn.
Chief Donahue did not accept the
proposition, but made a counter offer
to waive the reward himself, saying
nobody else could secure it. The chief
says Crowe is tired of being hunted,
and is willing to take chances of a
trial if the reward is withdrawn. He
says Crowe is less than i-00 miles away
from Omaha, and is r.ot with relatives.
Edward A. Cudahy, Sr., was asked
if the reward for Crowe would be with
drawn. In reply he said:
‘Y‘es; we will do anything to secure
Crowe. I still believe Crowe was one
of the abductors of my son, but if he
surrenders he shall have a fair trial,
and if he gives himself up under the
circumstances named the reward will
be withdrawn at once.”
A secret letter was received Sunday
irom Crowe naming the terms on
which he will surrender. The letter
came in care of an Omaha newspaper,
in which it is published and covers fif
teen closely written pages of manu
script. The postmark is illegible, but
the letter was mailed at 8 oclock in
the morning and reached the city at
8 in the evening of the same day, indi
cating that it had not traveled a long
distance. In the letter Crowe agrees
to give himself up at once and stand
trial for the kidnaping of Edward Cu
dahy, provided he is not locked up un
til a jury shall adjudge him guilty. He
says he is unable to furnish bond in
excess of SSOO, and demands that bail
be fixed in that sum.
Chief Donahue when asked his opin
ion of the genuineness of the letter,
expressed himself as quite satisfied
that it came from Crowe. Donahue
has known Crowe for several years,
Is acquainted with his manner, hand
writing and style of speech. The chief
also received a letter from Crowe’s un
cle at Manchester, lowa, submitting
similar terms for Crowe’s surrender,
which lead the police to believe that
they are dealing with the right man.
FINAL CENSUS REPORT.
Total Population of United States By
Sex, Nativity and Color.
The final census report oh the pop
ulation of the Uniteu States by sex, na
tivity and color was issued Saturday.
It shows that the males number 39,-
059,242, or 51,2 per cent of the total
population in 1900.
The increase of 13,233.631 in total
population since 1890 is made up of 6,-
744,179 males and 6,489,452 females, an
increase of 20.9 of males and 21.13 fe
males.
The foreign born element have in
creased only 12.4 per cent and the na
tive bom population 22.6 per cent
since 1890. As to color and race the
population of 1900 comprises 66,990,-
802 white persons and 9,312,585 colored
persons, the latter comprising 8,840,-
785 persons of negro descent. The col
ored element as a whole shows an In
crease of 17.6 per cent since 1890.
BIG INCREASE IN WAGES.
Employees of Illinois Central Railway
In Great Luck.
Five thousand employees of the Illi
nois Central railroad, including prac
tically every conductor, brakeman,
switchman and yardman, except those
in the far south, will receive an in
crease in wages within the next month.
This was decided .on in a conference
between the officers of the road and
representatives of the Order of Rail
way Conductors and the Brotherhood
of Railway Trainmen. It involves an
increase in expenditures on the part of
the company amounting to between
$400,000 and $500,000 annually, the
largest single increase in wages grant
ed by any westtern road for ten years.
i “ ”
Was Last Mayor of Washington.
Matthew C. Emery, the last mayor
of the city of Washington under the
old form of government, died in that
city Saturday. He was 83 years of
age.
SCARCITY OF COTTON PICKERS.
Farmers Cannot Secure Enough Hands
to Keep Up With Harvesting.
Farmers throughout southwest Geor
gia and the section about Eufaula, Ala.,
are experiencing difficulty in gathering
the cotton crop. The. fields .are whiter
than known in years for the season,
'while there is a decided scarcity of la
bor. The price for cotton pickers has
steadily increased from 30 to 45 cents
per hundred, and yet hands sufficient
to keep up with the work cannot be
secured. A great hardship is the re
sult. as corn, hay, peas and potatoes
are ready to be gathered and the sea
son for scattering oats is neft- at baud.