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VOL i. I SOLD INTO SLAVERY | Peonage Case in Alabama Has Sensational Features. I COP WAS A STAR WITNESS ■ N* B ro«» Were Arrested, Tied With Ropes and Carried into the Coun try , and Sold to Farmer. ' Transaction Told in Detail. The case of he United States against “ Fletcher Turner.uitowedrwTtE'^ Glennie Uelms, a negro, in a condi tion of peonage, was continued at Montgomery, Ala., Wednesday, and some very sensational testimony was brought out at the afternoon session, telling how Helms was sold into slav ery. ' At the morning session U fit White, a retired merchant, of Columbus, Ga., testifled that he was employed by Helms’ father to purchase Helms’ re lease, which he did for |4B, which Tur ner accepted. Dave Johnson, one Os the negroes held by Turner, testifled practically thg^same as Helms did on Tuesday. He Stated he saw Helms whipped with a stick as large as r broom handle sev eral times. Dave M. White, mayor of Goodwa ter, Ala., and chairman of the Coosa county democratic executive commit tee. brought in records of his court, showing fines of Helms paid with no commitment papers issued. The sensation of the day was the testimony of J. F. Dunbar, formerly night marshal of Goodwater, but now a policeman of Columbus, Ga. He tes tified that he arrested the negroes af ter the trial and carried them to Dade ville tied with ropes, stating that he thought he could sell them at a better profit there. He met J. W. Pace, but Pace said he didn’t want them, but Turner did. "1 then saw Turner and Turner said, ... ’ filial are they worth?’ _ I aer. ’T [PSHien I said $46. He again said, Eoo much," but said he wbuid id. I accepted. He gave me'a (Check produced in court.) ked to the negroes, came back id me to make contracts with I told him I would not sign nor •ontract. I had no commitment I returned to Goodwater, paid as and costs.” ross-exa'mination he was asked ight had he to charge S4O for legroes. He said he mdde $« above expenses, which he ac dged he kept. carried a man named Durffoy m. Paid his fare and charged nst expenses. He ia indicted same offense, the case having >een set. ict Attorney Reese brought out । accidentally the fact that he had made a sworn, written and signed statement before him about the case. . The attorneys for the defense insist ed that the paper was best evidence. The judge made the district attorney give up the statement. The district at torney acknowledged that he had slip ped up, but did not.want to give up the ^mper. The statement whicn was read to . the jury contradicted nearly every fitness the government has on the] Stand and contradicts Dunbar in sev erai instances. The attorneys for the defense offered the statement as evi dence. A letter was attached to the [j jitatement to the district attorney prac- WBhUy offering his (Dunbar's) services to the government. The attorneys for .the defense are jubilant over securing Miiis statement. Court adjourned to meet Thursday. ————-— SEIZING AMERICAN VESSELS. 1 Venezuelan Government Forces and £ Revolutionists Take Five Ships. P It is reported from Ciudad Bolivar. Venezuela, that the Venezuelan gov ernment forces Wednesday captured !three American steamers near Apure and the revolutionists at Ciudad Boll ■var have captured two American ves- NEGROEB ON THE BLOCK. Harvest Hands in Kansas Sell Their Labor to the Highest Bidder, At Russell, Kans. Wednesday, two negroes were bid for on the auction block for harvest work. They are John and Harper Porter, known as [good workers. The bidding was spir [ited. starting vritn $2.50 per day. * Au [gust Reinhart finally secured them on [a bid of $3.21 per day. [ At Victoria, Just over (he line in El |?is county, another colored man asked [for bids for a farm laborer who would Ipnch to the stack all the grain a one jbesder could ent. On this condition Ifim negro bmgbt $6 per day bid. | ijRE MILLEN NEWS 1 X 11-J.LJ X^*X. W X ” X—vv CHILO LABOR BILL KILLED Georgia House of Representatives Goes on Record Against the Measure by a vote of 89 to 75, The muchly-discussed, child labor bill Whs defeated in the Georgia house of representatives Wednesday at the conclusion of a debate which lasted for six hours. Opponents of the bill asserted confi dently on Tuesday night that they had 90 votes. The result of the roll call in the house at noon Wednesday dis closed the fact {hat they had lost only one of these, while the vote for the measure was about what had been con- ceded by them, its failure being record -•W by 89-tffT£ — — ——” ~ During the debate there was consid erable feeling displayed by some of the speakers, but it was all in good nature, and the evidence was abundant that every vote was the result pf an honest, straightforward opinion as to the merits of the measured One or two of the numerous amendments offered were adopted, and when the favorable report of the committee on education was agreed to by a vote of 91 to 38, the advocates of the measure seemed to tiling they would have things pretty much their own way. It was very evi dent, however, that some members voted in favor of the report of the committee simply with a view to hav ing a final vote taken on the bill, and that on the final vote they were re corded against it. As on the day before the gallery was crowded with interested listeners, and now and then Speaker Morris had io demand a cessation of applause. Those voting for the bill were Mes srs. Alexander, Blackburn, Boykin, Brinson. Brown, Bruce, Buchan, Butts, Candler, Cann, Carswell, Cliatt Cro martie, Dozier, Duggan. Dunbar, Ev ans, Felder, Flanigan, Foster of Oco nee, Franklin, Fussel, waulden, Glenn, Grenade, Hall. Harden, Hayes, Hendy, Hicks, Houston, Howard of Baldwin, Hutcheson, Jones of Dougherty, Kelly, Kendrick, Kent, Kilburn, Knight, Knowles, Martin, Mayson, MLler of Bullock, Miller of Muscogee. Mills, Mitcham, Mitchell, Misell, Morton, Mulherin. McHenry, Newton, Nisbet. Qwen. Overstreet. O’^sinn ^fe of RanS* Red wino. ’ Reid^Rlchardsom 31aton, Spence, Steed of Taylor, Sto vall, Tlgner, Underwood, Walker of - Pierce, Watson, Wellborn, Wise—7s. Those voting against the bill were Messrs. Adams, Alford, Almond, Ar i nold, Ayres, Baldwin, Beall of Pauld ing, Beauchamp, Bell of Milton, Booth, Bowen, Bower, Buchannon, Burton, Bush, Carr, Carrington, Conner, Cook, Crumbly, Daniel, Daves, Davis, Davi son. Deal, Duckett, Edwards, English. Fields, Flynt, Foster of Towns, George, Grice, Grifflu, Hardman, Hawes, Hen ry, Hixon of Laurens, Howell, Johnson of Clinch, Johnson of Crawford, Jones of Pickens, Lane, Lanier, Lawrence, Leigh, Little, Lowe, Maples,- Moses. Mcßride, McCurry, McElmurray, Mc- Lain, Mcßae, Parker, Pate of Dooly, Paulk of Coffee. Peyton, Phillips of Jefferson. Phillips of Quitman, Rawij, Rice, Ridley, Rogers of Hall, Rogers of Mclntosh, Roper, Rountree. Sanders. Snackelford. Shannon, Singletary, Stanford, Steed of Carroll, Stewart, haompson. Thurman, Tracy. Valen tine, Walker of Monroe, West. Whit ley, Wilson, Womble. Wooten, Yatps— -89. ■ GENERAL LONGSTREET ILL. Will Undergo Danderous Operation for Cancerous Growth In* Eye. General Jame’s Longstreet, the veter an confederate commander, who is at present in Gaines Ville, Ga., will go un der the knife for a cancerous growth which has destroyed his left eye. Phy sicians will remove the destroyed eye. Grave fears are entertained as to General Longstreet’s ability to with stand the shock of the operation, ow ing to his age, 81 years, and his ex treme weakness. The general has been apprised of the situation. He is fully conscious of the danger of the operation, but Is as game as be was in his warfare days. He has consented to the operation. General Longstreet left Washington for Gainesville about ten days ago. He had been far from well for some time and for three weeks before leaving Washington he had been under treat men! at the Garfield hospital. A THRILUNG FISH STORY. Boy Tied Line Around His Body and Shark Pulled Him Under. At Pensacola. Fla., Wednesday night while a number of boys were gathered on Perido wharf fishing for shark, one of them, Carl Johnsbn. tied his line about his waist and threw the hook in the water. In a few moments a big fish took the batt and Sndlng itself caught, lunged for the bottom, drugging the little fel low from the wharf. He disappeared beneath the surface and was nevei I seen as i MILLEN. GA., FRIDAY, JULY 10.1903. SCORES WHELMED Frightful Loss of Life Fol lows B reaking of a Dam t ' "'9 ' CAUSED BY CLOUDBURST Sunday Pleasure Seekers Caught in Park Ravine at Greenburg, Pennsylvania, by a Terrific , Flood. A water spout.jU-lmttensy'ffiopo^ tlons struck in the vicinity of Oakford j park. Greenburg, Pa., Sunday after -1 noon and crested a flood that caused t great loss of life and property. It is 1 known that' at least twenty ( persons ’ lost their lives and rumors place the I number of dead at more than one hun i dried, but up to a late hour Sunday i night only three or four bodies had ■ been recovered, having been washed to the banks of the little creek that runs parallel with the park. At 3 o’clock rain began to fall in tor rents in the vicinity of tne park, and spread over territory covering proba bly ten miles> A half hour later the cloudburst oc curred. The waters in the lake north of Oakford park began to rise, and Manager James McGrath, believing there was danger of a final break In the great walls of the oam, hurried among the crowds of pleasure seekers who had gathered under the roofs of the eating stands, the dancing pavilion and other buildings in Jine of the wa ter, should the banks break, and warn ed them to run to the hills. A telephone message trom Jeannette received at midnight stated that from fifty to seventy-five men, women and children perished by the cloudburst at Oakford park. The majority were drowned, or their lives were beaten out against the rocks in Brush cfeek. but l a number were electrocuted. At least 800 people were ar the park I .. . .. I * , » . 1 ... 1 the storm burst ti^e greater number sought the hillside, preferring the shel ter of the forest trees to the park buildings, because they did not care to b$ below the level of th# dam and ■ but little above the level of Bush creek. When the dam broke a solid wall of water twenty feet high, rushed down and completely filled the narrow ravine with its car tracks, car barn and res taurant. In front of the car barn stood a car containing from fifty to seventy passengers, many of them seeking '.o return to Jeannette, others using it as a temporary shelter. ’ With the immense body of water be hind it, the crest of the flood bore down with irresistible force. It car ried with It in its embrace the loaded street car and the crowded restaurant. The flood was filled with men, women and children struggling for their lives. The poles carrying the heavily charg ed trolley wires were uprooted and strewn along the gounds. In a number of instances—how many it is not vet known—the victims of the flood, gasp ing for anything that might save them from the fury of the water, seized the trolley wires and met death by being electrocuted instead of being drowned. Several bodies have already been re covered, showing that death was the result of this cause. It is almost the concensus of opin ion of the people of Jeannettee that fully one hundred persons perished in the flood while many conservative per sons maintain that the official death list will contain fully one hundred and fifty more. Many persons who witness ed the Calamity claim that from 100 to 150 lives were lost while there are Oth ers who were In the hills overlooking the death valley who insist that not more than a score of persons were washed away by the roaring waters. Great destruction of property result ed at Irwin, Manor and Larimer, and Greensburg suffered still more severe ly. The great part of the latter little city was under water, but no lives are reported lost. At the Greensburg race track twen ty-five valuable race horses were drowned. The total loss by flood, ft is estimat ed, will reach $809,069. RACE TROUBLE IN CAROLINA. Negroes Threaten to Mob White Peo ple of Norway for Lynching Evans.. Against the protest of the people of Norway, S. C., the troops sent from Columbia by the governor Saturday night, owing to a reported impending race riot, were withdrawn Sunday af ternoon. The town was then quiet and the as sistant. adjutant general did not believe danger was imminent. Norway people, however, say that John Evans, the -white man, who is the father of Charles Evans, the young mulatto lynched, is leading the negroes and ftatfew trouble Is expected. I NEW yCIFIC CABLE OPEN I President .Roosevelt, at Oyster Bay, Send* First 'Message Direct te mr-Away PhHlppwei. A New York special says: The Pa cific cab,< was successfully completed at 10:50 eclock uaturday bight, east ern tim*. by the welding together of the ea&ern and western links at Hono- I lulu, ot I uard the cable ship Arwjla, thus competing the entire‘line of tX graph trim Ban Francisco to the PtS ippine Hands, a distance of over eight thousßM miles, and bringing to a eon - -ciflSWn We greatest-aird-mosr ^g^^ of subnarine cable enterprises under taken in the history of ocean tele graph'. ' A fram President Roosevelt to President Mackay, of the Commer cial PAcHI Cable Company, was sent over the^w cable around the world in twelvyninut.es, and Mr. Mackay's reply wg^sent around the world in nine am^ne-half minutes. The best pre-viOw^Luie for a message around the worlßwas fifty minutes. Menage Sent by President The hist message over the cable was sent at 10:60 p, ®, by President Roosevelt,.at Oyster Bay, to Governor Taft, at^^nila, as follows: “To Governor Taft, Manila.—l open the American Pacific cable Wl® greet ings to you and the people of the Phil ippines. THEODORE ROOSEVELT," At 11:19 ®e following reply was re ceived by the president from Governor “To Pres.dent—The Filipino people and the American residents in these Islands are glad to present their re spectful g.- etinga and congratulations to the president of the United States, conveyed over the cable with which American enterprise has girded the Pacific, thweby rendering greatly eas ier and frequent communication between tjg Iwo countries. It win eefj | talaly MW ■ closer union anil a heifer ’ mutual unr ^standing of each others; aims and »: Lurthies ano of their com-1 men inter^gythe prosperity of the ■ imwro^EkZ' toit*frporaiA !a thU ’ the Vst/ message across the Pacific ’ fromVhe Philippines to America, an . earnesYpiea for the reduction of the tariff oikFiliptoo products in accord j ante witn, the troad and liberal spirit s Which the’ Am rican people desire to ‘ manifest tbwa d the Philippines anil of which you 1 ive been an earnest cx- ' ponent. TAFT.” . President "R losevelt then sent the , following message around the world, , westward to (Jlaren-e H. Mackay, who was with Mr. Roosevelt at Oyster Bay: "Congratulations and success to the Pacific cable, which the genius of your lamented father and your own enter prise made possible.” The message was sent at 11:23 p. m.. and was received by Mr. Mackay at 11:35, making the time of its transmis sion arQund the wor(d twelve minutes. Mr. Mackay replied as follows, his message going around the world east ward: "I thank you deeply for your mes sage, and I earnestly hope tuat the Pa cific cable by opening the wide horizon of the great east may prove a useful factor to the commerce of tne United States.” President Roosevelt received the I message at 12:04 1-2. The time con- I Burned in passing around the world was nine and one-half minutes. Course of the Message. The course of President Roosevelt's message around the world was by the Postal Telegraph Company’s land line from Oyster Bay to San Francisco, thence by the Commercial Pacific ca ble to Honolulu, to Midway, to Guam, and to Manila. From Manila to Hong Kong the message passed by the cable which was lifted and cut by Admiral Dowey in 1898. From Hong Kong it went to Siagon to Singapore, to Pian ffat, to Madras, to Bombay, to Aden, to Suez, to Alexandria, to Malta, to Gi braltar, to Lisbon and to the Azores Between Hong Kong and the Azores it I came by foreign cables. At the Azores the message was taken up again by the Commercial Cable Company and sent to Canso, to New York and th Oyster Bay. MOB RULES IN EVANSVILLE. Ribeirtg in Indiana Blty the Result of Negro Shooting Policeman. At 2:415 Monday morning the jail at Evansville, lnd„ was surrounded by 500 persons. A mob of 200 whije men, armed With rifles and revolvers, were scouring the city looking for negroes and shorting into wed! known negro resorts. The outbreak was eatreed lay the shooting) of Policeman Massey Friday night byi Lee Brown, a negro. Disorder and deadly rioting were ev erywbere, and every one of the thou sands oik the streets was carrying Uis life in his hands,;> k —.» .. ■ _x_ RIOTERS SHOT DEAD Soldiers and Mob tn Bloody Clash at Evansville, Ind* RESULT OF A RACE WAR r . After Four Daya of Rampant Lawless ness, Brought About by Race Prejudice, Fatal Climax is Reached. Following four days of tfe^ng *^d general lawlessness, Evansville, Ind.. Monday night saw the most terrible of Its experiences with ricrar®. Seven persons are dead and f^yen are known to be injured, wi— aKaast that number more thought to l®Lrt. The dead are: Ed®grd^Bilffman, painter, top ot head “blown off with Springfield rifle; Hasel Allman, 15-| year-old daughter of Joseph H. All man, shot in breast with shotgun; John Barnett, shot in right lung; died in St, Mary hospital; August Jordan, J 9, musician, bullet wound through heart; Ed Rule, 31 years old.laborer, killed instantly; two unidentified.dead. Six other rioters were seen to fall,' but got away before their names were learned. At least that number are suspected of being hurt. * Four members of company A, Fir? regiment, bullet and light gun shiLj wounds on. the body. One of t^ was shot through the sjiobMh^, 1 other through the ankle arid the other , two received slight scratches. Tw-^ deputy sheriffs slightly wounded. Soldiers FirrPoint Blank, M .At 10:33 o’clock Monday night tbK ‘Ryberg erf Company A, Flrat regM m^t, Indiana national guard, after file’s vigllarice guarding the count. | $$ and 100 deputy sheriffs, unde ’ I ' 1 i ai^ets, aurrodg^t the Vand^e ^gty ja»', &> WBemptlng its -.wptu the morning irri YatlTufiS,■ n vile names, afs&ilw with stones and berating the deputy sheriffs who guarded tne jail. , How Trouble Began. The trouble which nas been brewing for months, came to a crisis last Fri day when Lee Brown, a negro, shot and killed Patrolman Massey, who was trying to arrest him while bent, on the murder of a man witl) whom he had quarreled. Threats of vengeance were' followed by the mob surrounding the jail. The negro was secretly removed from the city Saturday and taken to Vincennes. Patrolman Massey died in terrible agony Sunday morning. The crowd refused to credit statements of the offi cers that the negro was not in jail and began threating as it increased. Tw*en ty-flve policemen were mobilized in the jail and repulsed the first attempt to force an entrance after the gates were crashed in. A telephone pole was used as a bat tering ram and the jail windows gave way. A committee was appointed to search for the negro, but its report that he was not there was not believed and after forcing a breach the mob poured into the corridors. Finding its Victim gone, there was a cry of "Kill the negroes!” and arms were de manded A company of armed negroes, aroused by the race troubles marched through the streets snouting “Down with the whites” and threatening death to all If the regro was lynched. This started a rush for the gun stores by the whites. Three were broken open and 400 lisles and revolvers, with ammunition, were secured. From this time on throughout the night there were thousands of bullets fired. The mob, after leaving the jail on finding the negro Brown was gone, broke into the gun stores of Boetter icher & Kellogg, Whiterding & Co., Bnd E. M. Bush & Co, and after thor oughly arming all, dispersed through the streets hunting negroes The arm ed company of negroes had disappear ed. DU blacks fled from the streets, and. failing to find victims, the resort of Bubb Fruit was visited and snot to pieces. It is a well known hang-out. POPE UNDERGOES OPERATION. Dying Prelate Greatly Relieved by Puncture of the Pleura. A dispatch from Rome states that the pope was operated on Tuesday af ternoon and felt immediate relief. Af ter the operation the following bulle tin issue by bls physicians: “The test puncture of tne pleura has been made and eight hundred grams of liquid taken off. A rapid examina tion showed some mucous in the lung which was originally affected. “The jope underwent the operation with courage. Hie general condition NO. 11 p* 1 * * *l* » 9. »1* Wg | Cream of News.j Brief Summary of Important EvantagMt of Each Day. —Trustees of Mercer univercßO •Macon, (j* Th>. “Im prepare forma! OIL® went of wear b ye® course ia i> M Jan -By tb.wMHr Mobile rlv ■—Heims ; | Turner wir j® s'-W BS fjSi —Senato ™:^Hr Wal PljMwli Kearns ijshched wn; I veil Tuesday. Thef i leal discussion. —A writ of luna<,^| out for General Cas p generaLjlws barrleat | jhete Wr be dang,^'. XZ- ; l Wiff > I v—Therri is mti-^ Bi 80*% ansville, lud Wil Ojii fired on th ~ S Kk! K 9BB g IMBR -wy 5 - TrdflHß bM □ VQ I. MMi «nd jMI •—Fire destfMWKe iTmrrx Hammond Psckn^wmpany at St. Jo seph. Mo., Sunday. Value of plant and stock, $3,000 000. —A cloudburst at Jeannette, Pa., Sunday engulfed an excursion party on ■trolley cars and many persons wore ■drowned, some reports placing loss of life at over a hundred. —The latest bulletins from the bed side of Pope Leo shows that he is n a dying condition. —Four men were given a prelimi nary hearing at Scottsboro, Ala., as al leged members of the mob that lynched Andrew Diggs. They were released on $2,000 bail each. —General Cassius M. Clay, tho- aged Kentucky statesman and duelist, Is said to be hopelessly insane. —The trans-Paciflc Cable was ready for business on the Fourth, and at noon President Roosevelt sent the first tties sage. —The waters are receding at Gaines ville and other Texas towns and there is no further danger. Fifteen lives were lost. —lt is said that Great Britain and Japan have sent a joint note to China urging the latter to demand that Rus sia evacuate Manchuria. —A meeting held at Dublin to con sider the approaching visit of King Ed ward was broken up by members of the anti-Engllsh party, who sang “God Save Ireland.” —ln an official statement Issued at St. Petersburg regarding the proposed Hebrew petition, it is said that the czar would not think of forwarding an anti-lynching petition to the United States. —The Georgia state railroad com mission decides that the Atlanta and West Point road can • continue to charge the present freight rates un'll April 1, 1904. —Edgard Burt, of Hurtsboro, Ala.. 16 years old, while examining a pistol, was accidentally shot and instantly killed. —J. F. Turner, of Alabama, charged with peonage, through his attorneys is fighting the charge on constitutional grounds. —Five hundred teachers are at Ath ens attending the summer school of the University of Georgia. —B. F. Cosby and George D. Cosby, convicted of peonage in the Alabama courts and sentenced to one year and a day. reached the federal prison at Atlanta Saturday. —A scandal has developed In regard to the contract for-supplying the army with gloves. Congressman Littaur, of New York, is jnentioned in connection with the contract. —The treaties giving the United States naval bases and coaling sta tions have been signed at Havana. | Cuba secures absolute sovereignty i over the Isle of Pines. I
