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VOL. X. ISLAND IS IN REVOLT Troubles in Samar Seem ts Have Reached the Acute Stage. TROOPS ARE I!lM:EDTO SCENE Heroic Measures Will Da Adopted, and Every Filipino Without Occupa tion Will Be Forced to Go into a Town. Tuesday the navy department re ceived the following cablegram from Rear Admiral Rodgers: “Cavite, October 22. —To Sec retary of the Navy, Washington: Active insurrection in Samar. New York leaves today for Cat balogan with 300 ma-rines, to re turn to Basey and Balangiga, to co-operate with army. Nearly all naval forces concentrated on Samar patrol. Services Arethu sa and Zafiro, two colliers, need ed, and being utilized. “RODGERS.” According to' other advices from Manila, General Chaffee does not ex pect to hear of any extensive engage ment in the Island of Samar. He be lieves the operations there will not result in an open fight. It is hard to find armed Filipinos, but every man without occupation will be compelled to go into a town. It is reported that all the rifles cap tured by the Filipinos at Balangiga are now in the island of Leyte, where many bolo men are known to have gone from tho island of Samar. In fact, Leyte is as disturbed as Samar. The object of the reinforcement c£ American troops now being pushed forward is to increase all the garri sons to thirty-eight men. Some of them have until recently numbered only eight men. The reinforcements will a}so allow the detailing of a working force to operate in the field, hunting for insurgents. General Wheaton reports that a band of bole men has entered Tarlac province, island of Luzon, through Bu langan province, and that tho men composing it are distributing inflam matory bulletins, which are also post ed on the church doors, warning the people to prepare to take the field in January. Some of the frienlly na tives were informed by bolo men that various bands of armed natives would shortly concentrate in the vicinity of Resales. PRESIDENT’S ACTION APPROVED. American Missionary Association Is In Favor of Social Equality. President Roosevelt’s action in en tertaining Booker T. Washington, the colored educator, at the white house was upheld and publicly approved by the American Missionary Association, which opened its fifty-fifth annual meeting in Chicago Tuesday. The matter had been a common topic of conversation among the delegates to the convention throughout the day, the society’s prominence in the educa tion of the negro making the matter of unusual interest. Additional im portance was lent to the affair from the fact that Booker T. Washington is a protege of the association. He re ceived his first assistance In securing an. education from the association and the impetus and encouragement thus given him in his youth has often been acknowledged by him as the basis of the eminence he now enjoys. COTTON SPECULATION ILLEGAL. Judge Makes Important Ruling Re garding a South Carolina Law. According to an opinion filed Tues day by United States Circuit Judge Sl monton, citizens of South Carolina who buy cotton futures and lose cannot be made to pay. Under the state law cotton specula tion Is held to be immoral, Illegal and void. The suit In question was brought In the federal court by New York cotton exchange members against W. A. Moore, a farmer of Spar tanburg county. NEW COMPRESS COMPANY. Petitions For Charter of Incorporation at Atlanta, Georgia. A petition for a charter for tho Capi tal Compress Company has been filed in the office of the superior court at Atlanta. The incorporators of the concern are .Tames Swann, John W. Sanders, Inman H. Sanders, Frank M. Inman and J. S. Akers, composing the firm of Sanders, Swann & Cos., and W. H. Beatty. The capital stock is placed at $42,000, It being stated that more than ten per cent has already been paid. The privilege Is asked to increase the amount to not more than SIOO,OOO. STATE OF DADE NEWS. RAVISHES QRE4SED AND FIRED. Mob at Call town, Louisiana, Burns at the oicike the Black Assailant of a White Woman. A Columbia, Miss., dispatch says: The negro, Bill Morris, who commit ted the outrage on Mrs. John Ball at Balltown, La., was burned at tho stake Thursday. After being captured he made an effort to implicate others, but they soon proved their innocence. He was carried to the scene of his crime and there tied to a pine sapling with chains and his hands and feet chained to Lis body. Pine knots and pine straf' were piled about the body and saturated with coal oil and the whole set on fire. The negro made no outcry when the flames reached him and only when partially consumed did the spectators notice any movement on his part. Fie made no resistance when being bound to the stake and said that he deserved his fate. Mrs. Ball, who conducts a store, was waiting on the negro when he clutched her by the throat, dragged her off down a hill and accomplished hi* pur pose. After that he beat her in the head with a pine knot and thought he had killed her. Going back to the store, he collected all the change that was in the cajeh drawer and had presence of mind enough to put coal oil on his feet when leaving the store. Mrs. Ball, however, recovered con sciousness and crawled to the nearby home of her father-in-law. He at once gave the alarm and the neighborhood gathered and commenced a search for the negro. He was found at his home about four miles from the scene of the tragedy and at once ran off, when he was shot at by one of the posse and wounded in the hip. Later on he was captured in Mississippi. DEFENDED HOME AND HONOR. Wronged Husband Make* Quick Work With Wife’* Illicit Lover. Jesse A. Wall, a switchman for the Southern railroad, was shot to death in Atlanta, Ga., Wednesday afternoon by Robert A. Keith, who runs a mar ket at No. 94 Decatur street. The tragedy occurred at No. 28 Jones avenue, directly opposite the Jones avenue Baptist church, In the house where Wall was boarding. The killing was the result of an al leged intimacy between Wall and Mrs. Keith. Mrs. Schlapbach, the mother of Mrs. Keith, was present and identified Wall before the shooting took place, as Keith did not knTw Wall by sight. Immediately after the shooting Keith surrendered himself to the po lice and was locked up at the police barracks. An hour later Mrs. Schlap bach was locked up as an accessory to the killing. Attorney Burton Smith was retained to defend Keith, and he did so with the statement that he only took charge of a criminal case because he felt that Keith should have proper considera tion, as he had struck a blow for the defense of his home and his honor. MACON ENTERTAINS VETS. Georgia Heroes Had the Right of Way in Central City. Macon, Ga., entertained more than 5,000 confederate veterans Wednes day and Thursday, the occasion be ing the annual reunion of the Georgia division, United Confederate Veterans. There were in the neighborhood of 10,000 visitors to the Elks' fair, In addition to the visiting soldiers, but the old veterans had the right of way at all points and at all times. General Clement A. Evans delivered his annual address Thursday. The au ditorium, or that which passed for an auditorium —the market house —was filled with 4,000 veterans. The streets were packed outside and many did not try to get about the place, knowing the Incapacity of the building to hold them. General Evans had been unanimous ly and most enthusiastically re-elected commander of the* division, and tho compliment that had been paid him caused him to rise to a very high pitch of eloquence and to show deep feeling in his speech. He paid a glowing trib ute to the south's cause, for which her soldiers fought so valiantly during the war. PAN-AMERICAN CONFERENCE. Formally Opened In Mexico City and Welcomed By President Diaz. The Pan-American conference was formally opened in Mexico City Tues day afternoon by Hon. Ignacio Marls eal, minister of foreign relations. After the assembly was organized the delegates proceeded In a body to the presidential suite, where they were Introduced to President Diaz. Minister Mariscal presented the guests In alphabetical order of their coun tries. President Dias bade ths dele gates personally weleome and wished success to the work of the conferencs. TRENTON. GA. FRIDA Y. OCTOBER 2>. 190). WHELMED BY FLAMES Eighteen Perish In a Disastrous Fire in City of Philadelphia. % VICTIMS DIE LINOERINQ DEATH Fearful and Sickening Scene* Enacte 1 In Presence of Thousands of Spectators Who Were Pow erless to Aid. Eighteen known dead and property: lose amounting to upward of $500,800 is the awful result of a fire which oc & curred Friday morning in the business section of Philadelphia. Fully a score of injured were treated at various hos pitals. Police and firemen were later delving in the ruins in search of supposed to have been buried benea\ j the debris, as it Is feared that besides the known dead may have-lost their lives In the flames. The build ings destroyed were the eight-story structure, 1219 and 1221 Market street, occupied by Hunt, Wilkinson & Com pany, upholsterers and furniture deal ers, and a three-story building occu pied by small merenantment. Never in its history has Philadel phia experienced a fir* which spread with such great rapidity. At 10:25 a. m. the blaze broke from the building occupied by Hunt, Wilkin son & Company, ana one hour later the horrible sacrifice of life had been made and the immense loss of proper ty had been accomplished. The origin of the conflagration is un known. It is said that an explosion of naptha or gasoline in the basement was the cause, but this is denied by Mr. Wilkinson. Men and women died & lingering, agonising death in the presence of thousands of spectators who were un able to lift a hand to their ass' ■Yar-’e. The rear of Hunt, pany’s building faces Ok J, ~a*f H street, a small thoroughfare. tfie fire escapes at this end of the building two men and one woman were slowly roasted to death, while the horror stricken throng on the 'jstreet below turned sick at the sighL In front, on Market street, a woman, driven to desperation, leaped from a window on the top floor and was dash ed to death on the pavement. Firemen claim to have seen men and women, unable to reach the windows or fire escapes, burned to death in the in terior of the building. When the fire started more than half of the firm’s 100 employees were on the upper five floors, and it was among these that the greatest number were killed or injured. With the possible ex ception of the engineer, who is miss ing, all persons on the first three floors got out of he building safely. Most of those killed were at work on the sixth floor, where women were engag ed in sewing. It was reported that goods were stored against the win dows, which prevented the women get ting out on the fire escapes, but this was positively denied by a member of the firm. There were eleven employees and a number of outside workmen on the eighth floor, A ladder reached from this floor to the roof, which would have enabled those on that floor to reach the roof of an adjoining eight story building, but in the excitement this means of escape was forgotten. Several made the terrible leap to the sidewalk and were crushed, while the others ran the gauntlet of smoke and fire down the rear tire escapes. As If by common impulse the major ity of the employees attempted to reach places of safety by means of the fire escape on Commerce street en trance of the structure. Many of them, rendered Insane from fright, leaped to the ground, and others, be coming unconscious from the smoke and intense heat, fell to the pavement. When the firemen arrived Commerce street was filled with these unfortu nate victims. By noon the fire was under control, and at 2 o’clock p. m. a force of men began clearing away the debris for the purpose of recovering the bodies of the victims. FOOTSALL GAME ENDS IN RIOT. Five Men Severely Beaten and Four teen Receive Painful Bruises. Fourteen men painfuly bruised and five seriously beaten Is the score of a football game in McKinney, Texas, Friday. Two of the players got into a dispute that developed into a fight. Others joined In the affair and the fight be came general. Twenty-two men were soon involved in a fist fight. Bystand ers joined In the affair with clubs, and several men were frightfully beaten. Police and deputies rushed *n and af ter some time succeeded in quelling the riot. Both teams were arrested. SORROW IN LEGISLATURE. Georgia Lawmakers Deplore Sad and Sudden Death of their Friend and Colleague, Hon. Porter King. There was little business transacted in the Georgia legislature Friday. The proceedings in the house almost whol ly related to the sad and sudden death of Hon. Porter King, Fulton’s repre sentative, whose seat, draped deep in bore silent and sorrowful jestimony that he had vacated it for f'ever in response to the highest call. Chaplain Harris referred eloquent!/ to the eed death of colleague and friend. A joint resolution was passed providing for a committee from sen ate and house to report upon proper observance®. Some brief business in tervened, including the reading of a short message from the governor, and the house took a recess until the joint committee could be heard from. The resolutions of the joint eom .mittee expressed sympathy, provided [that both house of the legislature should attend the funeral Saturday, that as escort of eight from the house and four from the senate be appointed to accompany the remains, and that the legislature in adjourning, adjourn until Monday, October 28, out of re spect to the memory of Mr. King. Fallowing the adoption of the joint resolution, on motion of Mr. Barron, of Jones, the house, as a further mark of respect to the deceased, adjourned. In the Senate. President Howell called the senate to order at II o’clock. A sealed mes sage from the goY r ernor was an nounced. The joint resolution offered by Mr. Slaton in the house, calling for the ap pointment of a committee to take suit able action on the death of Hon. Por ter King, was concurred In. President Howell appointed, on the part of the senate, Messrs. Ellis, Grantland, Allen, Chappell and Cann. The following house bills were read the first time and referred: By Mr. .Taylor, of Houston: A bill to make it a penal offense to import diseased cattle into the state. By Mr. Howard, of Dooly: A bill to prohibit the manufacture, sale or giv ing away of cigarettes or cigarette pa pers in Georgia. By Mr. Wright, of Floyd: A bill to amend the garnishment laws of the state so as to make subject to the lien of garnishments all indebtedness of the garnishee to the defendant occur ing after the service of the summons of garnishment. The following appointments by the governor were up for confirmation by the senate in executive session: Charlton J. Wellborn, of Union, to ba state librarian A. D. Freeman, to be judge of the city court of Newnan, and N. A. Post, to be solicitor of same. J. C. Reynolds, to be judge, and Walter Bennett solicitor of the city court of Way cross. J. I. Carter to be judge and U. S. Holton solicitor of the city court of Baxley. Samuel McWhorter, of Lexington, and Samuel M. Adair, of Savannah, to be trustees of the state university. Hamilton McWhorter, Jr., of Lexing ton, to be solicitor of the city court of Lexington. J. N. Quincy, to be judge, and Levi O. Steen, solicitor, of the city court of Douglas. H. H. Perry, to be judge of the coun ty court of Burke. C. T. Crawford, to be solicitor of the county court of brooks. Judge Griffin and S. M. Varnadoe, so licitor, of the city court of Valdosta, to succeed themselves. John O. Perry to be judge of the county court of Bakers W. U. Jackoway, to be judge, and John G. Hale, solicitor, of the county court of Dade. Richard Hobbs to be judge and John D. Pope solicitor of the city court of Albany. G. W. Hammond to be judge of the county court of Griffin. Arthur Patton to be Judge of the city court of Thomas. H. B. Peeples to be judge of the county court of Berrien. All of the above were confirmed by the senate except the solicitors, whose confirmations were referred to the gen eral judiciary committee, the opinion of the senate being of the opinion that confirmation was net necessary as re gards these appointments. TROOPS FOR PHILIPPINES. Plan Is Formulated For Replacing Sol diers Whose Enlistment Expires. The war department has formulated a plan to replace troops now in the Philippines with others to be sent from the United States. The Seventh, Thirteenth, Seventeenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first. Twenty-second and Twenty-third infantry will be with drawn from the islands and replaced by the Eleventh, Twelfth and fif teenth cavalry and Twenty-seventh, Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth in fantry, all being recruited to their [ maximum strength. SCHLEY TAKES STAND He Testifies In His Own Behalf Before Board of Inquiry. COURT ROOM DENSELY PACKED Court Room Was Packed and Jammed With an Audience that Lis tened Attentively to Distin guished Witness. Admiral Schley took the stand in his own behalf Thursday afternoon be fore the court of inquiry which is in vestigating his conduct at command er in chief of the flying squadron dur ing the Santiago campaign. He was summoned a few minutes after the court convened at 4 o’clock, and when court convened at 2 o’clock, and when parently had gotten only well under way in ms testimony. Captain Charles E. Clark, of the Ore gon, had just concluded his statement when Mr. Raynor, rising from his seat, said: "I should like to have Rear Admiral Schley called,” and the admiral ac cordingly was asked to take the stand. It was a turn In the proceedings for which apparently neither the members of the court, its officers nor the specta tors were prepared, and a murmur of surprise wa6 heard on ail sides. It had been expected that the admiral’s name would be reached toward the close of the afternoon session. There were still two other witnesses on his list who had not been heard, and it was understood to be his purpose not to take the stand until the entire list had been exhausted'; He, however, re sponded immediately to the call, and before the audience was well aware of the fact he had begun his narrative of the campaign, which terminated in the destruction of Cervera’s fleet. Mr. Raynor introduced the testi mony of his distinguished witness by saying: , “Will you give the court name and rank?” “Winfield Scott Schley, rear admi ral, United States navy, retired; at present on service in tnis court of in quiry." The admiral then, in answer to a question from his counsel, proceeded to give a careful and detailed narrative of all the events of cue campaign up to the battle of Santiago. He had not reached the stage of his testimony where he will tell of the battle, when the court adjourned for the day. The audience which listened to his recital was by far the largest "Which has yet gathered in the gunners’ work shop, where the court sits. All the re served seats were occupied, as were the seats set apart for the public at large. In the rear of the room stood probably as many people as found seats, scores of men and women stand ing upon tables, chairs and In the win dows; in fact, anywhere from which they could see the court There was no appearance of demon stration of any kind curing the ad miral’s recital. On the contrary, the silence was almost unbroken, except for the sound of the witness’ own voice. Only once was there a stir in the room which indicated any feeling on the part of the listeners. That was when the admiral, detailing his conver sation with Admiral Sampson in the cabin of the New \ork, at Key West, told him he had assured the com mander in chief of fealty to him. When the court adjourned for the day many of the spectators pressed forward and shook the admiral’s hand. Schley’s Plan of Battle. During his statement Admiral Schley outlined the plan which he had indicated to his commanding officers before leaving Hampton roads, saying: “During this time I explained to all commanding officers that as it would be Impossible to contrive a plan of battle that would meet unforeseen contingencies, the general plan of the squadron would be to cruise in line of battle, and its general principle would be to attack the head and leading ves sel, concentrating the fire upon them in order, first, to obtain the moral ef fect, and second, to throw them into confusion, making a victory over them probably very much more successful and complete. I did that for the rea son that the older plans of battle had all been to attack centers and rear, re sulting in the escape usually of a part of each squadron. I felt that the at tack of the head of a squadron, which was to some extent new would involve the destruction of the whole, and that was the general plan of action as ex plained to them on that occasion.” The admiral detailed the target practice the squadron indulged in daily. This practice, said the admiral, resulted In an accuracy of fire which was fully demonstrated in the action six weeks or two months later. He then told of the cruise to Key West and his moetiDg there with Ad miral Sampson. NO. 24. CREAfI OF NEWS Summary of the Most Important Daily Happenings Tersely Told. —The Georgia house of representa tives Friday adapted resolutions on the death of Representative Porter King and adjourned until Monday out of respect to his memory. —ln the Buttonwood mines, near Wilkesbarre, Pa., five men were kill ed and nine injured by an explosion of gas. —Atlanta’s large show was brought to a elose Friday night with every de tail of the program carried through with completeness and satisfaction. —Railroads entering Atlanta have finally consented to expend $25,000 in improving the union depot. •—A football game at McKinney, Tex as, was transformed into a riot. Five players seriously beaten and fourteen paintnlly bruised was the final score. —The demand of textile workers at Fall River for an iacrease of wages has been refused and a strike is inevit able. —The consultations between the president and his cabinet officers at the cabinet meeting Friday were espe cially full owing to the decision which Mr. Roosevelt has reached to write all of his own messages to congress and to do it on original lines. —One of the three white republican members of the Georgia house of rep resentatives will introduce in that body a resolution condemning the ac tion of President Roosevelt In inviting to dine with his family the negro edu cator, Booker T. Washington. —ln the Georgia legislature Thurs day a bill was passed by the house pro hibiting the manufacture, sale or giv ing away of cigarettes or cigarette pa pers in the state. —A negro, Bill Morris, who outrag ed Mrs. John Ball, at La., some time ago, was burned at the stake in that town Thursday. —Admiral Schley appeared on the witness stand before the Inquiry board Thursday In his own behalf. —Hon. PorteT King, a prominent cit izen of Atlanta, and member of the present Georgia legislature, died sud denly Thursday night from a stroke of apoplexy. —Assassin Czolgosz will be electro cuted at sunrise, Tuesday morning, October 29. —Thursday President Roosevelt made a large number of appointments In the army and navy. —Missionaries operating in Bulgaria have finally located the brigands who abducted Miss Stone. —Two negro murderers were gar roted in Havana Thursday. A fellow prisoner acted as executioner. —Old lady Taylor, aged 50, went over Niagara Falls in a barrel Thurs day, a feat never before successfully accomplished. —Negro women are still endeavor ing to gain membership in the Feder ation of Women’s Clubs of Missouri, and In consequence there is a hot fight in the state convention over the mat ter. —The Southern Homeopathic Medi cine Association began its eighteenth annual session in Atlanta, Ga., Wed nesday morning. —During the session of the Schley Inquiry court Wednesday a mighty shout of applause swept the room as the courage and wisdom of Admiral Schley was portrayed in the testimony of Witness Hill, a photographer on the Brooklyn. —Advices from St. Petersburg state that Count Leo Tolstoi is again se riously ill on the estate of the Coun tess Palin, near Aloupka, in the Cri mea. —A false cry of “fire” in a Louisville, Ky., theatre, Tuesday afternoon, caus ed a stampede wherein over twenty people, men, women and children were injured. —ln the Schley court of inquiry Tuesday Association Press Corre spondent Graham exposed many lies told on Admiral Schley. —Atlanta’s horse show, the greatest social event pulled off in the Gate City of the South, was opened with much pomp and splendor. —Tuesday Assassin Czolgosz asked for spiritual aid and was visited by a Polish priest. —The second session of the Georgia state legislature began in Atlanta Wednesday at noon. —Monday President Roosevelt an nounced the appointment of George Koester as Internal revenue collec tor for district of South Carolina to succeed W. L. Webster, deceased. —The Eufaula, Ala., National bank closed its doors Monday. A heavy run and poor collections are given as the cause. —The Pan-American conference was formally opened in Mexico City Tuear day afternoon.