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About Wayne County news. (Jesup, Ga.) 1896-???? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 28, 1906)
TO DOUBLE-TRACK Southern is Forced to In¬ crease its Facilities. CHARLOTTE TO ATLANTA South’s Prosperity Proves Too Much far Great System— Contract is Let to Oliver Company of Knox¬ ville, Tennessee. A special from Charlotte, N. C., states that the Southern railway has just let a contract for double tracking the main line between that city and Atlanta. The contracting firm is the Oliver company of Knoxville, Tenn., one of the largest in the south. The undertaking is monumental and it is not improbable that the Oliver peo¬ ple will sublet contracts to smaller companies. This information comes from an authentic source. Tbe work will be begun by December 1 or Jffh uary 1. It will probably take three or four years to do this work, as aside from the double trackage, the course of the track will be changed at many points, and the c_rves and grades done away with a 3 far as passible. The line, when completed, will be al¬ most a new one. Oliver Brothers already have a con¬ tract for improving the freight yards in Charlotte, and Tuesday morning ninety-three mules and two steam shovels were brought in for the work. The Southern has been forced to this proposition on account of the conges¬ tion of traffic which it h?.s been un¬ able to meet with its present facili ties. Double tracking has been in prog ress north of Charlotte to a consider¬ able extent and the second line has been laid between several of the larger cities as far north as Danville. It is probable that the line will bo double-tracked between Charlotte and Spencer, in order to eventually give double trackage all ihe way be¬ tween Washington and Atlanta. NO REVOCATION OF ORDER Be False, Says Teddy. Unless Facts as Known Are Shown to A cable dispatch from President L’or-evelt declining to suspend his or¬ der discharging the negro troops ot the twenty-fifth regiment unless the f.icts as known to him are shown to be false, but expressing his willing¬ ness to hear new facts bearing upon the case, was made public at Wash¬ ington Tuesday by Gilchrist Stewart of the Constitutional League. Mr. Stewart cabled Roosevelt at. An¬ ton, Panama, as follows: “Republican county committee unan¬ imously denounces discharge of color¬ ed soldiers. Parsons, Olcott, Bennett, committee, petitioning department. Newspapers emphatic. Developments and new facts warrant an immediate suspension of order.’’ The president’s reply contained the following: “Uales3 facts as known to me are shown to be false, the order will, un¬ der no circumstances, he revoked, and I shall not for cue moment consider suspending It on a simple allegation that there are new facts until these new facts are laid before me. Inform any persons having new fact", to have them in shape to lay before me at my return, and l will then consider wheth¬ er or not any further action by me is called for. “THEODORE ROOSEVELT.” The president's riow is that the ne¬ gro soldiers, in refusing information, necessary to tbe apprehension of the men who committed the criminal acts at Brownsville. Texas, struck at the very heart • f military justice and dis¬ cipline. Had the white troops done this same thing, they would have suffered the same penal*? As previously published, Major Gen¬ eral Ainsworth, military secretary, acting under orders of Taft, directed that further discharges of the negro companies cf the twenty-fifth Infantry, on account of the shooting at Browns ville, Texas, be suspended pending further orders. CHISHOLM DECLARED SANE. Plea of Bank Embezzler Did Not Go With Special Jury. A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch says: The jury which heard the evidence upon the insanity issue in the case of Alexander R. Chisholm, charged with embezzling large sums of money from the First National bank, Wednes¬ day, returned a verdict in the United States court. The jury decided that Chisholm is sane and in sufficient pos¬ session. of his mental faculties to be placed on trial. WOMAN SLAIN FOR MONEY. Was Found With Throat Cut and Neighbor is Arrested on Suspicion. Mrs. Tinsley, an aged white woman, was found at. her borne, near Gaffney, S C Tuesday, with her throat cut, aud. it is believed, she was murdered for her money. It was known that she had a large sum in the house, though when it was searched none was found. Tom Harris, a white man, has been arrested on suspicion. BIG SHIPS IN COLLISION, Thirteen Steerage Passengers and Sail¬ ors Lose Life in Crash—Vessels Were Wilhelm and Orinoco. A special from Cherbourg, France, says: The big liners, the I/aiser Wil¬ helm der Grosse and the Orinoco, col¬ lided in the English channel Wednes¬ day night at 9 o’clock. As a result ]3 steerage passengers and sailors were killed, each vessel was seriously damaged, and the two steamers have returned to port for repairs. The Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse be¬ longs to the North German Lloyd Steamship company. She carried 25S first class passe-ngers, 389 in the sec¬ ond cabin and 697 in the steerage. She left Southampton and Cherbourg Wed¬ nesday for New York. The Orinoco, which belongs to the British Royal Mail Steamship company, had cleared from Southampton for West Indian ports and Mew York. The passengers of the German vessel will be trans¬ shipped and leave France for New York Saturday." The Orinoco’s pas¬ sengers will be sent forward from Southampton on November 28. The shock of the collision was ter¬ rific and created a panic on board each ship. Order, however, was quick¬ ly restored, but not before a small boat lowered from the Orinoco had been swamped by the effort of the lear striekcn passengers to crowd into it. As soon as the accident occurred a number of small boats from Cher¬ bourg put out to the scene and suc¬ ceeded in rescuing some of the sailors and passengers who were struggling in the waves. The responsibility for the accident has not been fixed, but it is charged that the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse did not respond to signals from English ship. LIVES AND VESSELS LOST. | Twenty-Three , Sailors and 11 Record of Gale on Great Lakes. The gale of Wednesday night Thursday on the Great Lakes j a heavy loss to vessel property twenty-three lives. The barge Sank off Toronto and six men drowned. The barge Athens is ably lost off Sandusky. Ohio, with men. All hope for the Athens, ever, has not been abandoned tugs are scouring Lake Erie for Following is the list of losses: The Hurl but, stranded on Erie; the 0. B. Hill, beached on Erie; the Athens, missing on Erie; the Puritan, aground on Huron; the Comfort, sunk in Claire liver; the Conenvaugh, on Lake Erie; the Pratt, damaged storm. Lake Erie: The foundered off Toronto; the Pere quette, No. 16, stranded, Lake igan; the schooner Paige, ashore, Michigan; steamer Taylor, Lake Michigan. PEONAGE TESTIMONY CLOSED. Arguments Begun in Pensacola in Case Against Lumber Company. The taking of testimony in the ed States court at Pensacola, Fla., the famous case of conspiracy to com mil peonage, charged against W. S. Harlan and others of the son Lumber company, ceased day afternoon, consuming more a week. The testimony of was in rebuttal and the brought out in some of its witnesses, who gave additional mation on the line of and beating of foreigners, while defense also made a strong in rebuttal. TWO-CENT RATE DECLARED Court Holds It is Contrary to the teenth Amendment. In the Virginia supreme court, appeals at Richmond, Thursday, Cardwell handed down a decision firming the decision of the state poration commission declaring the cent passenger rate act passed by Virginia legislature contrary to j {ourteenth amendment of the j tion of tlie jj n jted States. The . 1 v/as a tost involving the that the railroads place on sale hundred mile two-cent rate books. NEGRO JUDGE IS UNSEATED. Canvassing Board at Chicago That He Was Not Elected. Ferdinand L. Barnett, the assistant state's attorney, who, cording to returns, was elected of the new municipal count of at the recent election, has been seated by the canvassing board. election returns gave Barnett a rality of 499, but the official of the thirty-five wards of the city, which was completed Thursday, that Thomas B. Lantry, democrat, elected by a plurality of 304. was the only republican defeated for a city office at the election. FATHER PAYS BIG REWARD For Young Son Who is Charged With Murder of a Negro. James Taylor, Jr., a well known young man of Duquesne, a suburb of Pittsburg, Pa., charged with the der of a negro, was arrested in Mar tinsburg, Taylor says W. he Va., shot Thursday. in «fense. The young man s father offered a re¬ v,ard of 11,000 for the capture of son. ROOSEVELT IS FIRM Stands Pat on Orders Dis¬ banding Colored Troops. TAFT ADVISED BY CABLE Secretary of War is Told to Cease Dal¬ lying in the Matter—Army Officers' Report on the Brownsville Affair Made Public. The war department at Washington issued the following statement Wed¬ nesday concerning the negro troops ordered dismissed at Fort Reno; “In the matter of the order discharg¬ ing the enlisted men of three compa¬ nies of the twenty-fifth infantry is¬ sued by the president, application was presented to the secretary of war by a large number of persons asking a rehearing by the president on the ground on which the action was taken. The secretary telegraphed the presi¬ dent of the application and delayed^the proceeding.? of the discharge until the president could" indicate his desires. The secretary was in the meantime called out of town. No answer was received from the president. The sec¬ retary on his return did not feel jus¬ tified in further delaying the execution of the order of discharge, especially in view of the fact that the secretary then learned Hie president had fully and exhaustively considered the argu¬ ment against the order of the persons who now applied for a rehearing. Ac¬ cordingly, tbe secretary directed yes¬ terday (Tuesday) that the proceedings for discharge be continued without delay.” Later in the day. Secretary Taft re¬ ceived a dispatch from President Roosevelt and Issued the following additional statement: “A telegram was received from the president at. 11 o’clock today aftor the previous statement was given out at the war department, in which lie dc dined to suspend the discharge un¬ less there are new facts of such im¬ portance as to warrant cabling him. He states that the action was taken after due consideration, and that the only matter to which he can pay heed is the presentation of facts showing the official reports to he In whole or in part untrue, or clearly excul¬ pating some individual. If any such facts later appear he can act as he deems advisable, but thus far nothing has been Introduced to warrant the suspension of the order? and he di¬ rects that it bp executed.” The investigation of the conduct of the negro troops of companies B, C and D twenty-fifth infantry, as re ported upon by Major Blocksom, in¬ spector general’s department; Lieuten¬ ant Colonel Lovering, fourth infantry, acting inspector general, and Briga¬ dier General Garlington, Inspector general of the army, was made public at the war department in a volume en titled “The Affray at Brownsville, Texas." Major Blocksom declares that the af¬ fair was preconcerted, and both lie and General Garlinglon exonerate the officers from blame. General Garling ton says it was evident from the first that: the three companies had entered into a compact to give no information about the affair. Secretary Taft said that, no steps will taken to make a further investigation of the conduct of the officers. In his summary of the reports made by the other officers and of ids own efforts to discover the guilty soldiers Brigadier General Garlington declares that, every means of getting evidence concerning the shooting was exhaust¬ ed. All the men of the three companies were talked with individually on dif ferent occasions, he says, and the dire consequences of their lailure to give up the guilty soldiers were pointed out. All the soldiers avoided ques¬ tions and even refused to discuss the events at Brownsville. “The secretive nature of the race, where crimes are charged to members of their color is well known,” says General Garlington. “Under the conditions, seif-protec¬ tion or self-interest is the only lever by which the casket of tlieir minds can be pried open. Acting upon this principle, the history and record of the regiment to which they belong, the part played by these old soldiers in this record, were pointed out and en¬ larged upon. The odium and disgrace to the battalion and its individual members by this crime were indicated. The future effect upon the individuals and upon the battalion as a whole was referred to; and, finally, the eon corn of the president, of the United States in tbe matter, his desire and the desire of the war department to separate the innocent from the guilty were explained, but without effect.” WALLS CRASH; THREE KILLED. Big Building Collapses and Workmen Are Crushed. A dispatch from Rochester, N. Y., rays : The new emulsion building at Kodak Park, Eastman Kodak Works, roilapsed Wednesday mo;uing, and three persons are reported killed. Every ambulance in tbe city was hurriedly called to the park, which is four miles from the center of the city. “ POST MORTEM LETTER’ I Written by Mrs. Jefferson Davis, Is Made Public and Creates a Stir Among Daughters of Confederacy. A private letter, written six years ago, bv Mrs. Jefferson Davis, explain¬ ing why her husband, the president of the Southern Confederacy, was buried in Virginia instead of Missis sippi, has. just been made public. The letter, which was read in executive session at the recent convention of the Daughters of the Confederacy iD Richmond, is caustic in some parts, and induges in some tart criticisms of •Mississippi's public men of the period at which it was written, six years ago. It says she preferred Beauvoir as the resting place of her husband, but that the grave there would not he invio¬ late, mid she could not afford $6,000 a year, the expense necessary to guard it. She says that, while Louisiana and Virginia were anxious to have the re¬ mains, Mississippi was #ilent until af¬ ter the body had been interred in Rich¬ mond, and then only a letter was writ¬ ten. The body was kept in New Or¬ leans .1 year pending the decision over a final resting place. A leading Mis¬ sissippi Daughter will publish a reply to Mrs. Davis Not for many a day will the ladies who attended the meetings of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at Gulfport, Miss., the past week, for¬ get the reading there of the “post¬ mortem letter of Mrs. Jefferson Davis.’’ In this communication Mrs. Davis sought to vindicate herself for the crit¬ icism of not having burled the remains of Jefferson Davis in Mississippi, and, among other things, she also attempt¬ ed an explanation of the motives which prompted her to live in the north. Mrs. Davis was particular!# se¬ vere in her comments on the attitude of the Mississippi people toward her¬ self and her husband, and, although she was sparing in her pleasant refer ences to other southern states, she praised Virginia in fervid rhetoric, and was particularly tender in her ref erences to Richmond. She had much to say, too, by way of explaining her continued residence in the north. The communication undoubtedly look everybody unawares. It. was of¬ fered by Mrs. A. M. C. Kimbrough, of Richmond. Mrs. Cornelia Branch Stone of Texas moved that the letter be read, and her motion was second¬ ed by Mrs. Parker of New York, and thus it came about the letter got be¬ fore the Gulfport meeting. Mrs. Kimbiough, who offered the "post mortem” letter, and her husband wore intimate friends of Mrs. Davis. FOR MURDER OF POLICEMAN Chattanooga Negro is Doomed to lows by Verdict of Jury. Will Hurd, the negro who killed Policeman T. O. Musgrove, in front of a South Chattanooga saloon on No¬ vember l, was found guilty of murder in the first degree at Tuesday. Judge McReynolds of criminal court will sentence him hang. Much excitement was by the killing of Musgrove, and negro was taken to Knoxville for safe keeping. The trial passed off incident, and the jury, which was com¬ posed of leading Chattanoogans, re¬ turned a verdict within a short time. JOYNER SUCCEEDS MclVER As President of the North Carolina State Normal College. J. Y. Joyner of North Carolina, state superintendent of public instruction, was elected Tuesday by the board of trustees president of the State Nor¬ mal and Industrial College to suc¬ ceed Dr. Charles D. Mclvcr, who died September 17. Professor Joyner clined to accept the position. STEEL WORKERS GET RAISE. Common Laborers of Giant Corpora¬ tion Have Wages Advanced. E. H. Gary, chairman of the board of directors of the united States Steel Corporation, announced at New York Friday that the wages of the common labor in the plants of the subsidiary companies of the United States Steel Corporation would be increased 10 cents a day, beginning May 1 next. The wages of day and turn labor would o« adjusted accordingly. SEEK TO BAR TILLMAN. Chicago Negroes Appeal to Mayor to Prevent Lecture. Protest against the delivery of an address in Chicago by Senator Benja¬ min Ryan Tillman was made Tuesday to Mayor Dunne bv a delegation of negroes of the city. They declared that Senator Tillman’s speech would destroy the harmony now existing in the city among the negroes. The mayor would not intimate what action be would take, if any. UP TO FACTORY OWNERS. Cotton Mill Operatives Must Mave More Pay or Strike. The five unions of cotton mill oper¬ atives at Fall Fiver, Mass., at special meetings held Thursday night, voted by large majorities to reject an offer of a 5 per cent advance in wages, and to go out on strike next Monday morn ing, unless the demand for 10 per cent increase Is granted before that time. ADMITS HIS GUILT O'd Jog Smith, Head of Mor¬ mon Church, Fined $300. IS TOO MUCHLY MARRIED Addresses the Court and Pleads for Leniency—Case Was Made on Ad¬ vent of His Forty-Third on List of Progeny. At Salt Luke City, Utah, Friday, Joseph F. Smith, president of the Mor¬ mon church, appeared in the district court before Judge Ritchie, pleaded guilty to a charge of having too many wives, and a fine of $3Cfl was imposed. The charge under which tlie Mor¬ mon prophet was arrested and fined was based on the recent birth of Pres¬ ident smith's forty-third child, born to his fifth wife. Earlier in the day counsel for Smith secured a transfer of the case from the criminal division of that court, where Judge Armstrong “presided, to Judge Ritchie’s division. After die non recess, when the eourt- 100 m was practically deserted, Smith went before Judge Ritchie, offered his plea and the fine was imposed. The old man addressed the court. He stated that his last marriage was in 1881. Ali his marriages, he said, were entered into with the sanction of the church, and, as they believed, with the approval of the Lord. According to his faith, and the law cf the church, they were eternal in duration. He contin¬ ued: “In the tacit general understanding that was had in 1890 and the years subsequent thereto, regarding what were classed as the old cases of polyg¬ amy, I have appreciated the magnanim¬ ity of the American people in not en¬ forcing a pcBUy that in their minds was unnecessarily harsh, but which as¬ signed the settlement of this difficult problem to the onward progress of time. “Since lS'JO a very large percentage of the polygamous families have ceas¬ ed to exist, until now the number with¬ in the jurisdiction of this court is very small, and marriages in violation of tile iaw have been and now are pro¬ hibited. In view of this situation, which has fixed with certainty a re¬ sult that cannot be easily measured up, the family relations in the old cases of that time have been generally left undisturbed. So far as my own case is concerned, I, like others who had entered into solemn religious ob¬ ligations, sought, to the best of my ability, to comply with all require¬ ments pertaining to the trying position in which we were placed. 1 have felt secure in the protectioji of that mag¬ nanimous sentiment which was extbTfil ed as an olive branch in 1890 and subsequent years lo those old cases of plural family relationships which came within its purview, as did mine. “When l aceptefi the manifesto is¬ sued by President Wilford Woodruff, I did not understand that I would bo expected to abandon and discard my wives. Knowing the sacred covenants and obligations which I had assumed by reason of these marriages, I have conscientiously tried to discharge the responsibilities attending them without being offensive to any one. I have never flaunted my family relations be¬ fore the public, nor have I felt a spirit of defiance against the law, but, on the contrary, I have always desired to be a law-abiding citizen. In con¬ sidering the trying position in which I have been placed, I trust that your honor will exercise such leniency, in your sentence, as the law and jus¬ tice will permit.” Judge Ritchie imposed the maximum fine, but omitted the jail sentence, of from one day to six months, which he might have imposed under the Utah statute. SCHOOLBOY SHOOTS TEACHERS. Because his teacher refused him per¬ mission to go hunting, James Dough¬ erty, Jr., 16 years old, shot and se¬ riously wounded Professor J. F. Koh¬ ler, principal, and Meade Snyder, his assistant, in a school at Punxsutawney, Pa. Professor Snyder’s condition is critical. WAIVED RIGHT TO TRIAL. Fear of Lynching Leads Negro to En¬ ter Plea of Guilt. At Center, Texas. Dick Garrett, the negro who killed Mike Paul Saturday, will be executed at once. After the funeral Tuesday afternoon friends of the murdered man were so wrought up that, an attack on the jail was im¬ minent. The accused sent for District Attorney Iniboden, waived all his legal right and requested to be hanged im¬ mediately. Judge Davis agreed to take up the ease, accept a plea of guilty, pronounce sentence and let the exe¬ cution take place. KILLED BY HIGHWAYMEN. Night Clerk and Actor snot in Hold Up Raid Made on Hotel. At Arkansas City, Kars., early Fri¬ day morning, two masked men, in an attempt to hold up the St. Charles hotel, shot and instantly killed Wil¬ liam Goff, the night clerk; wounded S. A. iialpin, an actor, so badly that be died in a few hours afterwards. The robbers made their escape. BISHOP TIGERT DEAD. Killed by Small Chicken Bone Which Lodged in His Throat—Operation Was Performed, But in Vain. Bishop John J. Tigert of Louisville, Ivy., died in Tulsa, Indian Territory, early Wednesday morning after an ill¬ ness of ten days, aged 50 years. Bishop Tigert was taken ill wniie attending a church conference at Atoka, but disregarded the advice of his physic-tan to rest. He went to Tul¬ sa intending to open the conference there on the 14th, but was compelled o take to ivis bed. His illness was caused by the lodgment of a piece of chicken bone just below the ton¬ sils. This, combined with an operation which was performed caused an in¬ flammation of ihe throat and resulted in blood poisoning. It was first an¬ nounced that the trouble was tonsilitis. The body of Bishop Tigert was em¬ balmed and placed in a casket in the parlor of the Brady hotel, where a last view was given to hundreds of friends in Tulsa. The casket was taken aboard the St. Louis and San Francisco east bound train Wednesday afternoon on the way to 'Nashville. The news of the bishop’s death was withheld from Mrs. Tigert, who is suffering from acute heart disease. The dead bishop was a son of John J. and Mary Ann Veghten Tigert of Louisville, where he was born No¬ vember 25, 1S56. He was graduated in the schools of Louisville and at Vanderbilt university. He was grant¬ ed a license to preach in September, 1S75. From 1890 to 1S94 he was a pro¬ fessor at Vanderbilt university, and in 1S91 lie was elected book editor, a position held in southern Methodism until he was elevated to the college of bishops at the last session of the general conference in Birmingham, Ala., in May. 1906. He married Miss Amelia McTyeire, daughter of the late Bishop H. N. Mc¬ Tyeire, first president of Vanderbilt university, The marriage was an elopement affair. Bishop Tigert leaves a wife and six children. Bishop Tigert was regarded as one of the ablest minds in southern Meth¬ odism. Bishop Tigert's father was a Lou¬ isville contractor and the bishop him¬ self drove a wagon for years and in this way earned enough money to ed¬ ucate himself. PRESIDENT IN PORTO RICO. Takes Trip in Auto and Makes Many Speeches to Islanders. President Roosevelt Wednesday jour¬ neyed in an automobile over the fam¬ ous military road from Ponce to San Juan and was accorded an ovation by the people ol Porto Rico. The eighty mile trip was made in six hours and thirty minutes, counting the time taken up by stops at the principal towns along the route, where the president made short speeches to the people. The president, in all his addresses, dwelt upon the affection he held for the people of Porto Rico and assured them that he would use every effort to secure citizenship for them. President Roosevelt arrived at Ponce Wednesday morning from Colon on hoard the battleship Louisiana, He was visited on hoard by Governor Win throp, who extended a welcome to the island. The president at once went ashore and was greeted at the pier by Mayor Oppenheimer of Ponce and a delegation of prominent officials and citizons. The town, which was pro¬ fusely decorated in the president's honor, was crowded with people from the surrounding country eager to greet Mr. Roosevelt. TRYING TO BLUFF TILLMAN. Card Writer Says He Will Be Shot if He Attempts to Lecture. A postal card was received in Chi¬ cago Wednesday by the authorities, threatening injury to Senator Tillman of South Carolina if he persisted In giving a lecture for the benefit of the Chicago Union hospital. The threat on the card was as follows; “The Honorable Ben Tillman will r.ot speak. If he doe3 he will be shot by a mulatto who will go In the hall unattended.” WANT TO ISSUE MORTGAGE. Stockholders of Macon, Dublin and Sa¬ vannah Called to Meet in Macon. An official call for a meeting of the stockholders of the Macon, Dublin and Savannah railway in Macon on De¬ cember 2 was made Thursday by Sec¬ retary G. C. Smith of the company for (he purpose of securing consent of the owners to the creation of a mortgage on all the’ property of the.company, amounting to $1,880,000. One of the chief purposes of the company will be to get the line under one obligation of indebtedness instead of many. NO WILL BY SHAFTER Although Late General Left Property Valued at $15,000. Captain William H. McKittrick, son in-law if tbe late General Shatter, has filed, a petition in court at Bakers¬ field, Cal., for letters testamentary in the estate of the deceased general. The petition states that no will of General Shatter has been found and property valued at $15,000 is shown to exist.
