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Vol. Z. No. 51.
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LACK FIEND KILLS
esome Crime Discovercd at
Savannah, Ga,
HITE WOMEN VICTIMS
vam'ah Shecked and Outraged Over
ne of the Most Dastardly Crimes
ver Committed In Its History—
olice Arrest 150 Ncgroes.
avannah, Ga.—A gruesome crime
thé® rosult of an assault by a ne
wag brought to light when per
s forced their way into the home
Mrs. Eliza Gribble at this place,
ich had been closed so long as to
ms‘susplcions of something wrong.
Tpon entering the residence Mrs.
bb]é was found dead in one of the
1 rooms with her head beaten into
pulp. Marther search then found
s. Carrie Ohlando, a daughter, dead.
sr head had been split wide open
th some sharp instrument, suppos
ly ¥n axe.
he thira inmate of the residence,
second daunghter cf Mrs. ~ Gribble,
s later found in a dying condition
the room.
All indications point to the fact
t the women were murdered during
night by a nezro who entered the
e with the intention of commit
-2 an assauit,
'fiaugh’t In Police Dragnet,
ne hundvzed and fifty negrc men,
ught in the meshes of the police
egnet through Yamacraw, the negro
*ti(‘x of the city, are prisoners in
police station, the theory of the
lice being that a negro man, hav
planned an assault upon Mrs.
lander, was cocmpelled to commit
» other crimes in order to escape.
o#ze belleve that this negro, using
ax taken from the woodshed In
rear of the Gribble home, beat
s. Gribble to death, struck down
other woman and after assaui?-
Mrs. Ohlander in the wide, long
llway, where the bodies were found,
ished his terrible work by beating
her skull with the weapon.
4 SI,OOO Reward Offered.
ayor Tideman has offered a re
rd of SI,OOO, with evidence to con
+ for the arrest of the negro who
rimitted the crime,
Thg city of Savannah was thrown
to a furore of excitement over the
ful crime, :
WWHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC”
“hisration Commission Probing Into
- Revolting Conditions,
Wash.ington.—Stories of revolting
actices of American and foreign
ocurers of women for importation
(0 uhe United States for immoral
rposes are told in a report issued
the immigration commission, "he
commendations of the commission
ntemplate a closer scrutiny into the
mission of alien women and re
wed efforts to stamp out the so
lled “white slave traffic.”
In gqxplanation of the act of laying
re to the public the details of dis
veries by its agents, the commis
n says that the “white slave trat
» is the most pitiful and the most
volting phase of the immigration
estfon. This business has assumed
rge proportions, and it has been ex
ting so evil an influence upon the
ntry that the commission declares
at it felt compelled to make it the
bject of a thorough investigation,
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WDER MAGAZINE EXPLODES.
e Killed and Several Injured at
Bull’s Gap, Tenn,
Knogville, Tenn—A special to the
ntinel from Bull’'s Gap, Tenn,, says
at a dymamite and powder maga
ne of A. Donovan, a railroad con
ctor, exploded there. Isaac Buc
nan was killed and W. H. Booth
Dana Berry were probably fa
ly y_xjured.
It ig claimed Buchanan entered the
wder house with a lighted pipe
d the explosion followed.
Wwindow glass were broken in a
rge number of bnildings in the
wn, gund a cavity about 20 feet in
ameEr and 10 feet deep marks the
yot of the explosion. The magazine
as Rotally destroyed.
Oldest Odd Fellow Dcaa,
Bangor, Main —Phinneas Baghel
r, said to be%e oldest member of
e Independent Order of Odd- Fel
ws sip the world;uied here, aged 98
ears. He hag. be pan Odd Veliow.
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National Geographic scciety to inves
tigate the question of the claims of
Cook and Peary to priority in the dis
covery of the north pole, is a Washing
ton educator of note who has written
books on zeography and other sciences,
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George Washington university and sec
retary of the American Meteorological
society.
HOSPITABLE TO THE END.
In Death’s Shadow, Woman Enter
tains Friends at Reception.
Springfleld, Mc.—Determined that
none of her social obligations should
remain unpaid when she died, Mrs.
Alma Dodson, a social leader and the
only woman . lawyer in this county,
invited all her friends to a farewell
card party and reception immediztely
after being informed by her physi
cian that she must submit to an op
eration that would probably _.prove
fatal. ) .
The party was held the day before
the operation was performed.
Smiling and cheerful, Mrs. Dodson
was an admirable hostess, allowing
nothing to disturt the pleasure of her
guests. If she felt any anxiety she
gave no evidence of it,
When the party was over and she
Lad bade her guests goodby, Mrs, Dod
son calmjly arranged her personal ef
fects and picked out the clothing in
which she wished to be attired after
death. She then went to the hespital,
where she died fcllowing the opera
tion.
RANDALL IS NAMED.
Re-Elected President of the National
Rivers and Harbors Congress.
Washington—Joseph E. Raadell.
‘member of congress from Louisiana,
has been re-elected president of the
National Rivers and Harbors Con
gress, Capt. J. F. Ellison, of Cincin
nati, was re-elected secretary-treas
urer, Through resclutions, the con
vention declared for a new depart
ment for the treatment 6f waterways
improvements, and for regular annual
appropriations for the speedy comple
‘tion of waterways projects now under
construction to be paid out of current
revenues if possible; otherwise for the
sale of bonds.
The resolutions also call upon states
and municipalities to preserve and
protect their deck and landing facili
ties, without which the improved
channel would be crippled in its use
fulness.
| One More Auto Victim,
Atlanta,—An automobile party ot
four young men came.to a sudden and
disastrous ending on the Peachtree
‘road, when the right rear wheel fell
from the axle, throwing the car vio
lently into a ditch, E, Jones, better
known as “Daredevil” Jones, who was
driving the car, suffered a depressed
ifracture of the skull, and was taken
to the Grady hospital, where he died
a short while afterward, Jones had
“won several amateur automobile
rßoes, :
Woman Cets Aibany Postoffice.
Washingtoh.—Among the appoint
ments sent to the senate for confirma
tion by the president was that of
Mrs. H. F. Brimberry, postmaster at
“Albany, Ga., to succeed her hushand,
9‘ hw recently of injuries ‘sustain
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Hazlehurst., Jeff Davis County, Georgia, Thursday, December 16. 1909.
Winter’s Storm on Lake Takes
Toll of Many Lives.
59 PERSONS PERISHED
Storm on Lake Eric Also Laid Waste
More Than $1,000,C00 Worth of Ves
sel Progerty—Dead Brought to
Port,
Cleveland, Ohio.—~The winter storm
which passed over Lake Erie reaped
a deadly harvest and laid waste mcre
than $1,000,000 worth of vessel prop
erty, Late reports show that ©OOY
lives were lost, that 20 sailors were
reacued, thet four boats were do
stroyed and that cone sustained heavy
damages,
A summary of the storm’s work
shows:
Steamer Ciarion burncd; ffiteen
lives lost, six saved. v
Steamer W. C. Richardson sunk;
five drowned, fourteen saved.
Car ferry Marguette and Bessemer
No. 2 wrecked; thirty-two lives lost.
Tow boat sunk; no lives lost,
Sailor from Richardson, crazed by
exposure, committed suicide.
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Erie, Pa.—With her flag at balf
mast the state fisheries’ boat, Ccm
modore Perry, brought to this port
the dead and frczen bodics of nine
members of the crew of the Bessemer
and Marquette ferry No. 2, which left
Conneaut, Ohio, carrying thirty-two
men, and which probably foundered
in the middle of Lake Erie,
News of the finding of the bodies
had reached the city, and thousands
of persons swarmed the wharves. As
soon as the fish boat made fast a
force of men, with tackle, set to work
raising the dead bodies of the men to
the deck, where wagons were in wait
ing.
The procession of dead passed
through the principal streets cf the
city with hundreds of people follotv
ing.
Conneaut, Ohio, where most of tho
men lived, was nctified by telephone,
and a hundred residents of that city
arrived here within two hours. They
were taken directly to the coroncr’s
morgue, where identifications were
made.
! SKATING PARTY DROWNS,
i Sad Accident Almost Obliterates Fam
ily at Kent, Ohio.
Kent, Ohio.—The opening of the
skating season claimed five victims
near here, and nearly obliterated a
family,
Frank, Helen, Flora, Mabel and
Russell Gormany were the victims.
The tragedy occurred on Sperry
Brook, a tributary of the Cyuahoga
river, at Monroe Falls.
The Gormany girls had been warned
against venturing on the ice alone,
and persuaded their father and uncle
to accompany them. The men were,
to skate and the children to slidc.
They left home about 9 a. m., promis
ing to return for dinner.
When they falled to appear, Mrs.
Gormany became anxious, and, taking
her 3-year-old son, Charles, the only
surviving child, went to the homes ot
neighbors, and organized a’searching;
pacty. Search at the falls revealed at
first only a big hole in the ice. ‘
In the afternoon Flora Gormany’s
body was dragged from the water, and
’later the others were recovered,
Skating Causes Five Deaths. |
Philadeiphia, Pa.—TFive deaths re
sulted from the inauguration of the
skating season in this state and New
Jersey. Four of the victims were
boys, and the fifth, a father, who was
drowned after rescuing his 12-year-old
son,
School Teachers Drowned,
Oak Harbor, Ohio.—Nelson Davids,
aged 19, and Mary Mpylander, aged
§X, both school teac¢hers, were drown
ca €M gxatine An the Portogs river.
Negro Killed Aged White Man.
Harlem, Ga.—News of the Kkilling
of Zack Kendrick, an aged citizen
lof Columbia courty, by a negro, Ju
lian Lumpkin, has reached here. Mr.
)Kendrick was over 70 years old, and
an ex-confaderate veteran. He lived
in No. 3 district, which is located
next to-the Savannah river, where
very fgw white families live, The
killing occurred at the store of Mr.
Kendrick, the negro attacking the
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Admiral William Wirt Kimball is the
man sclecied by the Washington au
thorities to command the squadron es
American vessels sent to Nicaraguan
waters., Admiral Kimball is one of the
newest of the nation’s admirals, havs
iu been advanced only recently from
the grade of captain. Ilis previous
command was the big battleship New
Jersey.
FIRST GUN IS FIRED.
Controversy In Congress Over Rail
road Legislation This Winter.
Washington.—A controversy over
sailroad legislation will be precipitat
ed in congress this winter, which, in
intensity of interest and gravity of
importance, promises to surpass the
legislative ccnflict over railroad rates
four years ago.
. The first gun has just been fired by
Senator Cummins, of lowa, introduc
ing a bill proposing radical changes in
the interstate commerce act. In a
large sense the Cummins measure is
a practical substitute for the present
interstate commerce act. It is ex
pected that a measure proposing
amendments to the existing law will
be introduced ecarly in January by
Senator Elkins and will differ from
the Cummins bill in many important
details,
In brief the Cummins bill requires
the interstate commerce commission
to promulgate a uniform classification
of freight and to prepare a plan for
the statement of freight rates which
shall hereafter be made in a uniform
way. The carriers are required to
adopt this classification.
COTTON MARKET BOOM.
Government Crop Report Shoots Price
Up $2 a Bale,
New York.—Not since the Sully
boom of 1904 has the New York cot
ton exchange witnessed a more sen
sational scene or a more spectacular
rise in prices than occurred with the
announcement of the government crop
report.
With the galleries crowded with vis
itors from the scuth, augmented by
friends and relatives of operators and
other interested spectators, the mar
ket soared to a new high rgcord for
the season with gains of more than $2
a bale. Both the May and the July
options touched the high mark of
15.80, both gaining approximately 42
points over Thursday’s close,
The government estimate is about
200,000 bales below the predictions of
the most sangnine of the bulls, and
the action of the market naturally
followed. Sixteen-cent cotton, so
much talked about, was net realized,
T 4, Al waswlbat cama near it
Mrs. Read Given Pen Sentence.
Denver—Mrs. Allen F, Read, re
cently convicted of assault and an at
tempt to blackmail Mrs. -Genevieve
Chandler Phipps, of Denver, out of
SIOO,OOO, has been sentenced to not
less than one year nor more than
eighteen years in the penitentiary.
She will be subject to parole at the
" el 4 vrEaw
Many Sailors Drowrcd.
Washington.—Drowning® was re
sponsible for more deaths during 1908
in the United States navy and marine
corps, with an average strength of
5,013, than any other cause, 47 men
having met their fate in the watery
grave out of a tctal of 305 deaths for
xear.-.,_ ‘The ratip of deaths per
SI.OO Per Yeat,
SEN. MONEY CHOSEN
Democratic Party Leader In the
~United States Senate.
SUCCEEDS CULBERSON
Senator Bacon, of Georgia, Had Besn
Mentioncd For the Honor, but He
Refused to Allow His Name t> D 2
Uscd--BShively Vice-Chairman,
Washington.—ln"ecaucus the domo
crats elected Senator H, D, Money, ot
Mississippi, as minority leader of the
senate to succeca Scnator Culberson,
of Texas, whose resignation was pre
sented, Senator Culberson resigned
on account of il health.
Senator Bocon, of Georgla, had
been mentioned very prcminently for
the chairmanship of the caucus, but
would not consent to he a candidate
in any sense if il involved a contest
with Senator Moncy. Senator Ba
con had been approached with an
offer of the chairmanship when it
was understood by some of the lead
ers that Scnator Money, on account
of the recent ill health, might not be
a candidate, The genator from Geor
gia replied that should such circum
stances develcp, he weuld consent to
be a candidate, and not ctherwise,
Scnator Money, now serving the\_
last year of his term, has been in ths
senate twelve vears and was. vice
president of the caucus when Sena
tor Culberson resigned,
Senator Shively, of Indiana, was
elected vice-chairman.
A FATAL ‘“JOY RIDZ.”
Two Beers Caused Boy Chauffeur to
Land Behind Prison Bars,
St. Louis.—Two drinks of beer, the
first in his experience, started Russet
Howard, a 17-year-old chaufieur upon
a wild “joy ride” that ended in the
death of a pedestrian and the arrest
of Howard and taree companions, e
“That’s what a kid gets for drink
ing,” said Howard in his cell. Two
women and a man were with the boy
in the automobile.
Howard said that when he drank
the two glasses of beer he wanted to
“have a big time.” So he took his em
ployer’s machine from the garage and
the fatal “joy ride” was the result.
EXPLOSION KILLS TEN.
Leak in New Gasometcr Caused Terri
ble Calamity at Hamburg.
Hamburg.—The explosion of two
gas tanks in tie so-called “Kleine’s
Grasbrcok,” on -the Elbe front, was
followed by an extensive fire and the
loss of many lives, The explosion was
due to a leak in a new gasometer.
Escaping gas entered the retort
house, where it came in contact with
the fires, causing a terrible explo
sion,
Ten men are reported dead and
seventeen missing. It is almost cer
tain that all of these are dead. Korty
men were dangerously injured, of
whom several cannot recover,
Atlanta Woman Takes Her Life.
Atlanta.—Despondent on account
of her separation from her youngest
son, who had been oalled from the
city by business interests, Mrs. Geo.
Land, Sr. committed suicide in her
rocm in a boarding house at 172 Raw
son street, by shooting herself through
the head with a 38-caliber revolver.
Mrs. Land shot herself during the
night, as the body was cold and rigid
when found lying on the bed about
8 o'clock in the moraing.
Fatal Quarrel of rriends.
Pensaccla, Fla.—After spending a
| day in the fields on a hunt, which
they had been planning for weeks,
Emory Williams and Seaborn Critch
{ield, prominent planters, of near Boni
fay, became engaged in a fight as
they neared their homes and Critch
fleld was instantly killed, . Toward the
close of the hunt the men began
drinking, it is said, and as they pre
pared to separate, they quarreled over
the division of the game.
Piedmont College Gets SIOO,OOO.
Chicago, Ill.—Piedmont’ College,
Piedmont, Ga., is the latest strug
gling institution to receive assistance
at the hands of Dr, D, K, Pearsons,
the Hinsdale milllonaire. - A check
for $25,000, which was mailed the
trustees of the college completes a
SIOO,OOO trust fund, the campaign for
which was started by Pearsons nim
| self, ~He agreed to dondte §25.000