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About Wayne County news. (Jesup, Ga.) 1896-???? | View Entire Issue (July 25, 1906)
SLAVS THROTTLED Czar Dissolves RussEongress With Stroke of Pen. MAILED HAND IS SHOWN Autccrat Has Elected to Fight Rather Than Grant Reforms.—Declares Martial Law and Depends On Bayonets. A St. Petersburg dispatch says: Russia’s first experiment in parliamen¬ tary government came to an Ignomin¬ ious end Saturday night with the pro mulgation of two imperial ukases, the first dissolving the present parliament and providing for the convocation of its successor on March 5, 1907, and the second proclaiming the capital of Russia and the surrounding provinces to be in a state of extraordinary se¬ curity, which is infinitesimally differ ent from all martial law. This meas¬ ure of safety is to provide for the out¬ bursts which undoubtedly will be pro¬ voked by this daring measure. It is now but * step tor dictatorship. The text of the two ukases, both of which are addressed in the stereo¬ typed form to the ruling senate, are as follows: 1 “According to paragraph 105 of the fundamental law we order the im¬ perial parliament dissolved and fix the time for the convocation of the newly elected parliament for March 5, 1907. “Regarding the time for the new election to the imperial parliament we will later issue special indications. "The ruling senate will not fail to take proper measures to place this into effect. (Signed). ‘'NICHOLAS.” The text of the second ukase fol¬ lows : “In consideration of a report of the council of ministers presented to us regarding the necessity in the fu¬ ture for the preservation of order and public safety in the city and prov¬ ince of St. Petersburg, we consider it necessary to declare in the above citv and province, instead of the state of reinforced security which now pre¬ vails there, a’state of extraordinai,. security. The prefect of the city and governor of the province are entrusted with the rights thereto appertaining. “The ruling senate will not fail to take proper measures to place this into effect. (Signed). “NICHOLAS. With these pithy but momentous or¬ ders, Emperor Nicholas by a stroke of the pen set Russia back to where she stood two years ago in the full grip of autocracy and irresponsible government, wiping out for lix months at least the whole structure of parliament, erected at such cost. No one doubts the severity of the storm which will rise in the country in response to the emperor’s disper¬ sal of the men whom he welcomed two months ago in the winter palace as the “best men in Russia;” but the die is cast, The government has elected to fight, and St. Petersburg bears eloquent testimony of the-prepa¬ rations made to repress the masses by force. The city is packed with soL diers and resembles an armed camp. The parliament was constituted May 10, 1906. amid scenes of general rejoicings. The speech from the throne, read at the opening session, was conciliatory ill tone, The re-or ganized council of the empire was formally convened in the hall of no bles at the winter palace the fob lowing day. •A striking feature of the lower house was the multiplicity of races there being great Rus j®,!!-. little Russians, white Germans, Russians, Lithuanians, Letts, Tartars, Bashkirs, Kirghis, Circas¬ sians, Mordvanians, Votiaks, Jews, Bulgarians, Chuvas, Roumanians, Cal muks, Georgians, Armenians, Osse tines and Buriats in attendance. During the entire session the lower house had been at hitter odds with the ministry, and has demanded its resignation, and the formation of a cabinet from members of the majority. GO-CART SAVED THE BABY. While Father, Mother ar.d Little Sis¬ ter Found Watery Grave. By the capsizing of a sailing skiff at Portsmouth, R- I-, Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Anthony and their daugh¬ ter, aged four years, were drowned, while their baby, aged one year, who was the only other occupant of the boat, was saved. The baby was strap ped in a small go-cart, and when the boat capsized the baby floated secure ly in its go-cart, drifting to the Pru dence lighthouse, where the keeper and his wife rescued it. FROZE IN COLD STORAGE ROOM. Florence, Ala., Man Meets Death In Peculiar Manner. J. F. Inman is dead at Florence, Ala., as the result of being locked m a cold storage room. Mr. Inman had entered the room to make some repairs when the door accidentally closed and locked him in. An examination of the body showed that the man’s lungs and brain were frozen- THE PEOPLE WILL ELECT Georgia Railroad Commissioners if Bill Just Passed by House of Rep¬ resentatives Becomes a Law. By the largest vote recorded at the present session of the Georgia house of representatives the bill of Mr. Kelly of Glascock to make the state railroad commissioners elective by di¬ rect vote of the people, was passed Wednesday by a vote eof 152 to 4, and immediately transmitted to the senate. Linder the terms of the bill a suc¬ cessor to -Commissioner Joseph M. Brown, whose term expires October 15, 1907, will be elected by the people at tho general election to be held in October, 1906, a second commissioner will be elected in October, 1908, to succeed the commissioner whose term expires October 15, 1909, and at the election to be held In October, 1910, the third commissioner will be elect¬ ed to succeed th« incumbent, whose term expires October 15, 1911. The term of office of the commissioners will remain as they now are, six years each. Dr. T. J. M. Kelly of Glasoock, the author of the bill, made the following statement with regard to the bill: “The measure was intended in no sense as one of political significance, Nor is it aimed at any of the present railroad commissioners. It was pro¬ posed In deference to the growing sentiment of the people of the state that these officers should be elected by the people. “I have the highest respect for each of tho five candidates now running for governor, but the bill was not drawn and advocated by me in the interest of any of these candidates.” APPEAL IN LYNCHING CASE Judge Quashes Indictment Against Al¬ leged Slayers of Johnson. Judge Thomas J. Shaw, presiding at the special term of Union county superior court at Monroe, N. C., Wed¬ nesday afternoon, entertained a mo¬ tion to quash the indictments against the alleged lynchers of J. V. Johnson, on the ground that they could not properly be brought in Union ty. The counsel for tho state except¬ ed and appealed to the supreme court. The twenty defendants were held in $5,000 bond each for their apearance at the next term of Union court, by which time a decision have been reached by the state’s high¬ est court. The case of Zeke Lewis Is the one at issue, and if the supreme holds that the effect of the o* the code by which a portion the statute was not brought has the effect of annulling the ion for trying the case in county, they will doubtless be manded to Anson, the county In which the lynching occurred for trial. the court holds otherwise, the cases will be heard at some future term of court In Unifin county. SUFFRAGE BILL NOT WANTED. Proposition Turned Down by Commit¬ tee in Georgia Legislature. The proposition to disfranchise the negroes of Georgia received a decis¬ ive blow Wednesday afternoon when considered in the committee of the house of representatives on constitu tional amendments. The caption of the bill provides that the constitution shall be so amended that In addition to the qualifications now required by law of all voters thore shall be required an educational qualification. This qualification In¬ cludes the “grandfather” exemption clause. “I move,” said Mr. Hall of Bibb, ‘‘that we report the bill with the recommendation that it do not pass.” "AH in favor of the motion,” said Chairman Perry, “will signify It by saying aye.” There was a chorus of ayes. “All opposed will signify it by say ing no.” -Not a voice was raised, and thus petered out a second attempt in the house of representatives to dlsfran chise negroes in Georgia. A FATAL MINE HORROR. Five Men Lose Life From Gas Explc. sion in West Virginia Pit. As a result of a gas explosion in the Dixon Mine at Huger, W. Va., Wallace Mitchell and four miners, Ernest Jones, Palmer Harris and Rob ert Harris, brothers, and John Gil more are dead, and Bill Crouse and Langdon Whiteside will die from burns and shock. T ^ e explosion was caused by the men having a gasoline lamp in the j 3UC i ie ^ > while descending, the light jg n i t j ng an accumulation of gas. PUBLISHERS’ PRESS CHANGE. Milton McCrae is Elected President cf the Association. At a meeting of the directors or the Publishers’ Press Association iu New York City Friday it was an nouuctd that E. W. Scripps and M. A McRae had purchased a controll¬ ing interest in the institution, Mr. Shale, the president, retiring. The Publishers’ Press will continue as an independent organization. SEABOARD HORROR Fast Passenger and Freight in Frightful Crash. OVER SCORE ARE DEAD Report Gives List of Killed As Twen¬ ty-Nine and Injured Twenty.Five. Majority of Victims Were Colored Passengers. Twenty-nine persons were killed and twenty-five injured in a head-on col¬ lision between a -Seaboard Air Line passenger train and an extra freight train one mile from Hamlet, N. C. ( Sat¬ urday night. Nearly all those killed were colored passengers. The known dead are: Engineer F. B. Lewis, of the passenger train; Fireman Tom Hill, colored, of the pas¬ senger train; negro fireman, name unknown, of the freight; H. -S. Byrd, baggage master. Probably twenty five others unidentified. Railroad men, citizens and the pas¬ sengers who escaped injury began wonting heroically to recover the dead and injured imprisoned in the wreck age. Both the second and first-class coaches were overturned, and it is feared that the death list, will be sadly augmented before the work of tho rescuers is completed. ! The blame for the wreck lias not ! been ‘ daced ’ Tho Passenger train, it 1 is sald > had ao orders t0 meet th0 l freight ’ and U is the Presumption that the freight overlooked its orders. One report ascribes the cause of the wreck to have been a lap order, stating that the passenger train had orders to meet the freight at Hamlet, while the freight's orders were to meet the pas¬ senger train at Rockingham. The persons injured In the wreck were sent to Charlotte on a special train. There are five white and eigh¬ teen colored, and these were dis¬ tributed among the Charlotte hospi¬ tals. A dispatch received at the Seaboard Air Line general offices stated that 19 bodies and 23 injured sons bad been taken from the wreck. The first news of the disaster that reached the headquarters of the road was a brief message about midnight reporting that a wreck had on the Seaboard at Hamlet and up to the time of the filing ef tho report the dead extricated from wreck numbered 19, and tho as then known reached 23. Train 44 is a through train, north from Florida to New York, through Hamlet, which, is a joint. LABOR HOSTS ENTER ARENA. “Campaign Program” Issued By Offi¬ cers of American Federation. The executive council of the Ameri¬ can Federation cf Labor, Sunday, made good its declaration of several months ago to enter the field of poli¬ tics in the interest of the trade union movement and to exhort all members and friends of organized labor to work for the election to political offices of i men known to be favorable to la¬ bor’s cause. From the headquarters of the federation at Washington the ! , council has issued its “campaign pro ! gram” addressed no all organized la¬ bor and friends in the United States.” BIG STRIKE CALLED OFF. Southern Bell Telephone and Em i ployes Settle Differences. Officials of the Southern Bell Tele phoDe Compa ny announce that the | g^j^e Q f the linemen and wire work er8 j las been in existence for some weeks, has been calied off as a result of a conference held in At lanta. The strikers were contending for recognition of the union, which Manager Peter Nix states has not been granted by the company. A11 of the strikers who have not been sig nallv active against the interests of the company during the strike will be reinstated. CHILDREN DIE IN FLAMES. Cut Off from Escape While Asleep in Burning Home. Two children of Mr. and Mrs. R. I W. Wimbish of Savannah lost their fives in a fire which destroyed the home of their grandfather, Mtr. W. G. Jordan, at Fort Valley, Wednesday night. i All the inmates of the house were j | asleep and before the fire was dis covered it had made such headway j j that it was impossible to get Into the bed room where the two children were sleeping. WAR ON TRADING STAMPS. Merchants of Missouri Want $5,000 License Imposed. The Missouri Retail Merchants’ As¬ sociation, at its annual convention in Jefferson, adopted resolutions instruct¬ ing its legislative committee to bring before the legislature a bill to tax trading stamp concerns $5,000 a year, „nd asking the enactment of a pure food law. i RUSSELL SA GE NO MORE. Grim Reaper at Last Claims Aged and Eccentric Multi-Millionaire of New York City. Russell Sage, aged multi-millionaire of New York City, died suddenly Suu day at his country home, “Cedar croft,” at Lawrence, L. I. The imme. diate cause of death was heat, failure resulting from a complication of dis¬ eases incident to old age. '*Hie vet¬ eran financier would have celebrated his ninetieth birthday on August 4. Mr. Sage had been in exceptionally good health since his arrival at h;s summer home about six months ago. At noon Sunday he was sciztd with a sinking spell and collapsed, falling into unconsciousness about two hours before his death, which occurred at 4:30 o clock. It is generally believed that Mr. Sage's vast interests will not be se¬ riously affected by his death. Brief Sketch of His Life. Russell Sage, nestor of American financiers was born fin August 4, 1816, iu Verona, Oneida County, New York, where his parents, Elisha and Pendence Sage, members of a little company of pioneers from Connecticut nad halted while on their westward march in quest of a homestead. At the age of 12 years Russell Sage began his career as an errand boy in the grocery store of his brother, Henry, in Troy. At the age of *22 he established a wholesale grocery of his own in that place. In 1857 the young merchant had acquired a for¬ tune estimated at almost half a niil ! lion dollars, a vast amount for those ,Ja >' s - and determined to retire from active business life. He had, howevey, already become interested in rail roads, which he kept up through life, bei'ig at the time of his death an officer and director in twenty-five great railway and telegraph corpora¬ tions. An incident which startled the whole country occurred in Mr. Sage’s office in the old Arcade building, No. 71 Broadway, on December 4, 1891. On that day lie was visited by Henry P. Norcross, of Boston, a man of un¬ balanced mind, who demanded an im¬ mediate gift cf $1,260,000. When the demand was refused Norcross drop¬ ped a dynamite bomb upon the floor, the explosion of which decapitated Norcross, killed one of the clerks and wrecked the whole office. Mr. Sago was only slightly injured by the ex¬ plosion. One clerk who was injured claimed (hat he was used as a shield by Mr. Sage, and brought suit to re cover damages. Mr. Sage fought the case, but the clerk finally recovered damages. Many stories are told of the eccen¬ tricities of Mr. Sage, 11 e was re puted to be a hard man to part from his money. He v/as never well dress¬ ed, and it is said that he always or¬ dered the cheapest lunch possible. It has been said that Russell Sage and Hetty Green were the two hard¬ est persons in the United States to get money out of. Mr. Sage boasted that he never took a vacation, and that he was al¬ ways the first man at his office. NO BOOZC FOR COPS. Atlanta Policemen Angered Over the Drastic Action of Council. An ordinance which the Atlanta city council passed a few days ago In re¬ gard to revoking the license of a sa¬ loon keeper for selling a policeman or giving a policeman a drink while in uniform, either on duty or off duty, has caused considerable feeling among the policemen. They state that it is not so much the fact that they must abstain from the use of whiskey and other Intox¬ icants during the time in which they have on their uniform, but the ordi¬ nance is a slap in their faces. They claim that such a law puts them be¬ fore the public in the light of being topers, and that it looks like council had to pass such an ordinance to keep watchmen of the city of Atlanta from being constantly drunk. GEORGIA EDITORS ADJOURN. Weekly Press Association Wind Up Business and Begin Jaunt. The twentieth session of the Geor¬ gia Weakly Press Association came to a close at Hartwell Wednesday, Walter Coleman cf Cedartown over his protest was re-elected president unanimously; James T. Magill of The Hartwell Sun, vice president; W. A. Shackleford of Lexington, secretary, and B. T. Moselv of Danielsville, treas¬ urer. Sandersville vron the next meet¬ ing. The party left for Asheville, N. C. Invitations to attend Jamestown and Atlanta expositions were accepted The convention also invited Hon. W. J. Bryan to Georgia this fall. TOM TAGGART IS ACCUSED. State Auditor Says He Wilfully Vio¬ lates Criminal Law. Warren Reigler, auditor of the state of Indiana, has written to the French Lick Springs company and the West Baden Springs company that, as the result of investigation, he finds that the two hotel companies have been engaged in'“wanton and willful vio¬ lation of the criminal laws” df the state, and demands that both com¬ panies cease their “unlawful prac tices.” New Use For the Auto. Hi £ 7 S»;i iiiai s; m: r J* "I & m ii! Is w? y •ft . ■v'k n ■ \d tmi'W* & 1 <&'*&**. ' L Wm, I I ■ ’ yj? J' * ■ lUlffl ; ' V< K M ■■ -. • w-h - i. * ~ is L it §11116 . ■ flitSt; ,• m s SP IX? m . "'.P '- V 'p • SAN FRANCISCO'S MORGUE WAGON. THE OLD CIRCUS SCHOOL. Built Years Ago by John O’Brien and Bareback Itiders’ Practice Spot. Philadelphia has long been consid¬ ered by circus people an excellent city, not only for the large audiences that their shows can attract here, but also as the home and birthplace of many famous circus actors and acrobats. And it is a strange coincidence that most of these performers come from Frank ford and that section of the city. The “training school” where nearly all of these entertainers received their early education in the art of “doing stunts” is still standing at the corner of Willow and Foulkrod streets, in Frnnkfonl, in much tho same condition as when it was built many years ago by John O’Brien (better known as “Porgy” O’Brien, who at that time ■v l m m if? ijfrr ' j 41 1 iin Sol ■cagqjj m I A 11|| I III TV „ « * - r --'Wi THE OLD RING BARN, FRANKFORD. managed one of the foremost circuses j i u the country. i Bareback riding bad just become j popular, and O'Brien, seeing posslbill* ties in that field that had not yet been attempted, built liis “Ring Barn," by which name it is still known to the residents of Frankford, in order to keep his company together, and to create new sensations with which to startle the amazed public tlie next sea son. During these winter months the com¬ pany was paid from the proceeds of two performances given each week. The barn was arranged exactly ns the regu¬ lative one-ringed circus of to-day. Ani¬ mal cages lined the walls on one side of the circular building, while on the other side were a few tiers of seats for the spectators. At one end was the public’s entrance and ticket office, nnd almost opposite, across the building was the door where the performers came into the ring, up an incline which led from the adjoining barn, where the stalls for the horses were located, and where tents and wagons were stored. Over this entrance was a small bnl coiiy for the band. The place became quite famous as a winter circus, but It wus not until O’Brien “discovered” the famous “La Wando Family” that he was able to re¬ alize bis dreams of daring bareback feats. It was while on a short tour In Cuba that lie acidentally came across a wan- WL m Wk m v a % mm w / £ jrlrllKk •l ' y. w. /I ri wmm wWLm «t, msm mmwk V mmm V fH =E m i ! SB i SvL i s i r INTERIOR OF THE OLD RING BARN. dering troup of acrobats with a don¬ key, uiKin which they did tlie most wonderful tricks he had ever seen, and he straightway made a contract with them (seven in number) and brought them up to Frankford, where, with the assistance of old man La Wando, the father of the troup, he soon had the boys drilled into doing daring feats that astonished the public and brought applause and lots of money wherever they exhibited. For practicing purposes the centre pole of the building was fltted up with an attachment called In the circus lan¬ guage a ‘mechanic." It had a long pro¬ jecting arm, from which was suspend¬ ed a harness. This was adjusted about the body pf the practicing performer to prevent him from falling in the event of any mistakes while trying a somersault The long arm was at¬ tached by means of a perpendicular •shaft to a shorter arm below, turned by a man on the groundwhile the acro¬ bat was practicing with the horse In motion. On several occasions great excite¬ ment was caused by animals escaping. Sig. Robison once caught a loose lion that refused to return to its cage l>y mounting the elephant Empress and driving it Into confinement in real jun¬ gle stylo. Among the famous circus people, some of whom are still In the business with other circuses, who started In at this quaint old-time burn were Molly Brown, the first female bareback rider to turn somersaults on horseback; George II. Adams, the fa¬ mous clown, now with “Superba,” and his family; the La Waudo and De Mott families of riders and the La Itue family of acrobats. One great drawback to this old winter circus, from the small boy stamliioint, was that it was Impossible to sneak into the show under the tent cloth, and the windows were too high nnd always too well guarded for any peeps from the outside.—Philadelphia Record. How She Compromised. “This somewhat grasping spirit,” said Senator Burrows, in the course of a recent argument, “reminds me of a lady who dropped In the other day at a certain bank. “Going to tlie paying teller’s win¬ dow she ojiened her poeketbook, took out a check and pushed it under the brass grating. “ ‘Cash this, please,’ she said. “The paying teller, after one glance at the check, pushed it back to the woman again. “ "There is my husband’s signature on it,’ the woman said excitedly. “ ‘Yes, I know,’ admitted the teller, ‘but there is uo amount.’ " ‘Oh, never mind that,’ said the woman, impatiently. ‘Give me what there Is.’ ” Passing of the Hand Mule. Speaking of old Industries going out of existence one has just died out in Bolton, England, namely, that of the hand mule, which was at one time an extensive form of the spin¬ ning industry. It is absolutely un¬ known now. Human remains, which are believed by Mr. C. H. Read, of the British Mu¬ seum, to be those of Saxons, have been discovered at Hawk’s Hill, Surrey, England.
