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BLACKSHEAR TIMES. ♦
VOL. VI.
AT THE CAPITAL.
WHAT THE FIFTY-FIRST CON
GRESS IS DOING.
APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT HARRISON—
MEASURES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
In the house, on Saturday morning, ihe
regular order being demanded, Air.
Hooker, of Mississippi, proceeded to ad
dress the house upon the world’s fair bill.
He spoke in favor of Washington. Mr.
Mills, of Texas, in a short address also
favored Washington as the site for the
fair. Mr. Morse, of Massachusetts, an
nounced his opposition for one reason.
that the proposed exhibition, werever
held, would involve a loss to the treasury
of the United States of several million
dollars. Air. Bianchard, of Louisiana,
in reply to Air. Mills’ re
marks said the discovery by Colunbus
argued that the south had more benefits
to expect from the fair than any other sec
tion. The fair would call the attention of
capitalists of the world to the fields and
forests of the south. Air. O’Ferrall, of
Virginia, said that the city of his choice
was 'Washington, where beauty and grand
cur and maguilicience filled the eye. Air.
Gibson, of Alarylaud, was in favor of one
spot which commended itself as a place and
where national progress in wealth
grandeur could be best seeu—A\ ashington. world’s
Mr. Houk, of Tennessee, wanted a
fair at which our wonderful wealth, skill
and energy could be exhibited. To have
it anywhere except at the national capital
would take from it much of its impor
tance. Air. Wilson, of AVest \ ir
ginia, favored the national capital.
Mr. Vandero, of California, argued wished in fa
vor of St. Louis. Air. Carlisle to
restate and emphasize the consideration
that would influence his vote. Each of
the four cities was worthy of the fair.
The exposition was to give the people ol
the old world not an insight into oui
great manufactories and industries only,
but to show them our held great country.
The exposition should he at the cen
ter of the country. St. Louis was the
nearest and Chicago next. He would
vote first for St. Louis and next for Chi
cago. Alessrs. Kin-tv and Wilson, of
Alissouri, and O’Neill, of Indiana, spoke of
for St. Louis, so also did Mr. Forman,
Illinois (whose district lies opposite Louis), and St.
Louis and includes East St.
Mr. Hatch, of Missouri, and Air. Outh
waite, of Ohio, advocated the claims of
Chicago. Air. Mason, of Illinois, was in
favor "of Chicago. General Kerr, of
Iowa, Owen of Indiana, and Springer, of
Illinois, spoke for Chicago. Messrs.
Fitch, Flower, Dunphy, Lansing,
Spinola, Wallace, Raines, Turney,
McCarty and Farquhar, all of New
York, again pressed the claims of
the empire city. Faquhar concluded
by offering in behalf of New Yerk $15,
000,000 and a cosmopolitan people that
know how to care for visitors. Air. Can
dler, of Massachusetts, closed the debate
in words, saying the country conid safely
trust the house to discharge its full duty,
and he hoped for a favorable conclusion
upon the question. The house, at the
evening session passed adjourned. forty private pen
sion bills, and at 10.25
In the house, on Monday, when the
speaker’s gavel fell, the galleries crowds were
packed with spectators and ob
structed the corridors. All of these peo
ple had gathered to witness the deciding
struggle between the adherents of the
cities of New York, Chigago, St.
Louis, and Washington, upon the result
of which depended the location
of the world’s fair to be held in 1802.
Representative O’Neil, of Pennsylvania,
opened the proceedings by presenting
John E. Rcyburn, successor of the late
Representative Kelly, of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Reyburn took his place before the
bar and was sworn in by the speaker. the
The clerk read the special order of
house prescribing the method of voting
upon the site for the fair, requiring some
one place to have a majority of the votes cast
Mr. Blount, of Georgia, wished to know
if there would be an opportunity afforded
to pass upon the question as to whether
there shall be a fair before selecting a site.
The speaker replied that, under the spe
cial order, this opportunity could not he
had, and immediately directed the clerk
to call the roll. The vote resulted:
Chicago, 115; New York, 72; St. Louis,
61; Washington, 56; scattering 1. The
speaker announced that the total number
of votes cast was 305, and 153 was a ma
jority. The contest finally narrowed
down between New York and Chicago.
On the seventh ballot the result was 311
votes, divided as follows: Chicago, 154:
New York. 112; St. Louis. 27; Washing
ton, 17. A majority would be 156. and
Chicago had 154, just two votes short.
So another roll call was necessary. It was
the eighth and last, for Chicago achieved
her victorv, and out of a total of 307
votes, received 157, three more than a
majoritv. New York had 10i, St. Louis
25 and Washington 18. greeted The announce- with
ment of the result was tre
mendous applause by the Chicago adher
ent.s. Thev shouted and cheered whilf
Mr. Lamler waved his handkerchief
around his head and shook hands with
everybody within reach. The house ad
journed at 6 oclock in the wildest of
uproars.
In the senate on Alonday a number Oi
bills were reported from the committees
and placed on the calendar. Among
them was one to authorize the purchase of
gold and silver bullion and the issue of
treasury notes in payment therefor. Ihe
bill directs the purchase of silver bullion
to the amount of four and a haif millions
a month, of such gold bullion as may be
offered, and the issue therefor of treasury
notes. It repeals the law directing the
toinage of two million silver dollars pier
month.
In the house. on Tuesday, a
bill discontinuing the coinage of one
BLACKSHEAR. GA. THURSDAY. MARCH 6, 1890.
dollar and three dollar gold pieces and
three cent nickel pieces was passed. Also
a bill was passed authorizing the score
tarv of state to appoint two suitable pi r
sons to represent tlie United States at
the international conference in reference
to protection of industrial property to be
held at Madrid, Spain, April 1, 1890.
The house then in committee of the
whole resumed consideration of the
Oklahoma bill.
In the senate, on Wednesday, presented Air.
Chandler, of New Hampshire,
a petition from Union county, Arkansas,
representing that at the state election
there in Seutember. 1888. a systematic
reign of terror prevailed; that armed and
reckless mobs paraded the county, night
and day. terrorizing the whites and shoot
ing and whipping the colored voters;
that schools and churches had been de
moralized, and ballot boxes carried off,
and asking for the protection guaranteed
by the constitution. This petition (with
several others ironi Arkansas on the same
subiect) was referred to the committee
an privilegei and elect ons... .Mr. Call,
Of Florida, offered a resolution, in rela
tion to lands claimed by the Florida Cen
tral and Peninsula Railroad company, be
tween Waldo and Tampa, directing the
ittorney-gencral to institute proceedings
to prevent any lurtner sales oi -uen muu
until action be taken by congress.... Busi
ness on calendar was then taken up and
twenty-six pension and private hills
passed. The Biair educational bill was
then taken up as unfinished business.
After a brief executive session,the senate,
it 4 :45, adjourned.
Immediately after the reading of the
journal in the house, on Wednesday, contested Air.
Rowell, of Illinois, called up the
election case of Atkinson vs. Pendleton
from the first district of 4V est Virginia.
The case of the contestant was champ
ioned by Air. Rowell, and Air. Pendleton’s
claims were maintained by Mr. O’Ferrall,
of Virginia. Air. Rowell was seconded
by Mr. Lacey, of Iowa, and Mr. O’Ferrall
by Air. Wilson, of Missouri. analysis All the of
speeches were confined to an
the evidence, and were dry .and uninter
esting. Pending this debate the house
adjourned.
NOTE8.
The Alarylaud congressional re-district
ing bill, which makes five of the six dis
tricts solidly Democratic, passed the leg
islature Tuesday.
The President, on Tuesday, nominated
Richard G. Banks collector of customs
for the district of Norfolk and Ports
mouth, Va.; Edward W. Alatteson, Sur
veyor of customs at Chattanooga, Tenn.,
and Harold M. Sewall, of Maine, consul
general of the United States at Apia.
A brief executive session of the senate
was held Monday afternoon, at which the
matter of the publication of proceedings dis
of the executive session was under
cussion. It was decided to make an in
quiry into the method hy which news
papers secure their information concern
ing proceedings in executive session.
Though Chicago has been voted ns tho
site the bill to hold a fair has, however,
not yet been passed. The southern men
will vote almost solidly against it. Some
fears are entertained that it will not pass,
but the Chicago men seem determined to
rush it through. The New Yorkers are, kill
however, quietly working to
the bill. Speaker Reed voted on every
ballot for New York, It is the first ac
tion the house has taken this congress
that he did not support.
Representative AIcComas, of Alarylaud,
is preparing a new bill to cover unprotected. the points
that the Wickham bill left
It has been discussed by the leading re
publicans in the house, and will have the
undivided support of the majority. It
provides that no rcdistricting shall occur
in tin: United States until after the census
is taken, when the various state legisla
tures shall make congressional apportion
ments, to remain in effect for ten years.
It also provides that the regular state
canvassing board shall certify to the elec
tion of representatives.
Tli ere is a great scramble being made
by various companies all over the country
to secure the control of the seal fur fishe
ries in the Behring sea. The government
has opened the bids for the control of
these fisheries for the next twenty years.
It allows 00,000 seals to be killed annu
ally. The Alaska Seal Fur company has
Controlled it for twenty years past. They
are among the score of bidders this time,
Their profits for twenty years have been
909 per cent annually, consequently the
great scramble and large number of
bidders.
The direct land tax bill, which recent
ly passed the senate, was on Tuesday re
ported favorably to the house by the ju
riiciary committee. However, Colonel
Oates, of Alabama, in the name of the
democrats of the committee, is preparing
a minoritv report, which will hold that
if the direct tax is refunded, the cotton
tax should he likewise refunded- The
direct tax carries with it seventeen million
dollars, while the cotton tax carries sev
?ntv million dollars. The majority of the
•efund of the direct tax bill, ho wever,
roes north, while the cotton tax money
roes to the cotton growing states. The
direct tax hill will certainly pass, but
here seems no chance for the cotton tax
imendment going through. Georgia will
get $108,000 from the direct tax bill. It
s the money that she paid to the during govern- and
nent as a tax on her lands
after the war.
A young man may have the worst
memory on record, but hewiilnot forget
to remove the price mark from the pres
ent he buys for his b girl—if the arti
tie cost loss tban $1 d. On the other
hand, he may have the best memory in
the world, but if the present costs $25 the
price mark is inadvertently overlooked.
—Numutown Herald.
ALLIANCE NOTES.
WHAT THE ORDER AND ITS
MEMBERS ARE DOING.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO TnF, FARMER,
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SECTION*
OF THE COUNTRY.
There is talk of building an Alliance
cigarette factory at Oxford, N. C.
*
* of
The Alliance Tribune is the name a
new publication which has appeared at
Topeka, Kan.
The Fort Gaines, Ga., Alliance is con
templating the establishment of a guano
factory and oil mill at that place.
*** Ex
The South Carolina Alliance
change was opened at Greenville by
tlie State Business Agent on the 0th ol
January.
***
A joint stock company has been or
gatiized at Fairplay, 8. C., to — manufac- ---------
tore the “Grady Alliance plowstock,’
invented byJ. O. L. King.
*
* i|c * South
The Executive Committee of
Dakota Alliance, have bought the Du
kota Ruralist published at Aberdeen,
and it will be conducted as the state or
gan.
± *
The Alliance in Hillsborough county,
Fla., have raised neatly $2,000, with
prospects of $3,000 more, for the estab
lishment of an Alliance Business Ex
change at Tampa.
* .
5$c Alli
A Minnesota misrepresented paper jumped it the bitterly.
ance and most
The object was to keep the farmers from
joining. An Alliance was organized the
next week with 52 members.
***
The Alliancemen of Franklin, Georgia, Rowan
and Habersham counties, of
have organized a joint stock company
with a capital of $15,000 to sell the pro
duct raised by their members.
* >1;
The appointment, of Mr. A. 1). Chase,
the eminent Alliance champion, as rail
road commissioner, is farming a very appropriate element in
recognition of the
the state of Dakota, and gives great sat
isfaction.
*
* -Jf. feel
The Alliancemen of Brooks county
sure that they will succeed in establish
ing a bank at Quitman, Ga., this spring.
'I’lie committee report about $10,000 al
ready subscribed to the capital stock,
with eight sub-Alliances yet to hear from
on the third Wednesday of March.
The Farmers’ Alliance **.* has saved the
farmers of America $5,000,000 in twine,
$2,500,000 on bagging, and it is claimed
that through the operations of t he Alli
anee Exchange discounts have been se
cured that will make the amount saved
by farmers $10,000,000 annually.
The Alliancemen in Iowa, Kansas, Da
kota and other western states are sending
in petitions to their representatives in
congress asking them to enact laws to
suppress gambling on the board ot trade
by selling or buying products which the
owner docs not own nor expects to own.
The Alliancemen ***. in Bowie county,
Texas, have association,” organized the an shares “Alliance of which con
mercial
are $5 each, and hour 10 per cent, inter
est from date. On the funds raised in
this way the farmers are easily carried
through the year in their buying and sell
ing operations.
News comes from every county in Geor
gia that the Alliance is growing practical strong
er. Alliancemen are and learning co-operation:
lessons of economy had"
those who have the courage and pa
tience to stand by the principles of the
Alliance are beginning to reap the bene
fits of the order.
A number of Farmers’ Alliancemen are
borowing money at eight i. >er cent, giving their
joint security notes, and buying claim
guano and supplies for cash. They managing,
that at the present way of
they can, with good crops, soon pay out
of debt and get on their feet financially
once more.
The Johnson County Alliance in
North Carolina, deserves a gold medal.
It won the ton of guano offered last veal
by the State Agricultural society foi
largest and best lot of cotton at fltat*
fair, and with a noble spirit of donated patriot
ism it has sold the guano and
the money to the Soldiers’ Home.
The Ocala, Fla., Alliance calls upon
the sub-Alliances of Marion county tc
discuss the phosphate “craze.” As the
Alliancemen are large owners of the new
ly discovered phosphate lands it is deemed
wise to meet and consider the real value
of these lands, some of which are being
sold to speculators at too low a figure.
% *
The Clarksville, Ga., Sentinel says: “H
the Farmers’ Alliance continues to in
crease for a year or two more at the rate
at which it has been gaining during th*
Last twelve months, it will soon be the
largest organization ever known in this oi
anv other country; and if it sticks together it
and properly exercises its great power
will be easily able legislation to accomplish the such a
revolution in the of conn
breaking up the trusts and the combine*
which now robs him of much of his cam
ings, will also place the fanner again in
position to become a legislator in the in
terests of his country and his claims.”
Hall county, Ga., Alliance has adopted
the following resolutions:
Whereas, the present plan of raising
funds for the State Alliance Exchange is
inequitable, unjust and oppressive; there
fore be it
Resolved, That our representatives oi
county trustee stockholders be instructed
to insist on and work for the adoption ol
the following plan, which will equalize th<
amount to be paid and by each make member in
good hereafter standing initiated now, member of every tli oE.v on<
a
change, thereby putting into practice out
motto, “Equal rights to all, and special
privileges First Abolish to none:” the plan requiring sub
Allianceato take stock in the Exchange.
Second—Collect trom every member
and from each one initiated hereafter,fifty
cents, to be paid to the trustee stock
holders and ten cents a quarter for the
term of five years from the date of or
ganization oi’ each Alliance; allowing
those who have paid their installments
credit for the amount paid by each mem
ber.
_
DISASTROUS STORMS.
GREAT DAMAGE DONE IN TENNESSEE, OHIO,
KENTUCKY AND THE WEST
a aonnsonviue, ienn., uisparon destructive says.
One of the fiercest and most
storms that has ever swept over our town
occurred about one o’clock Tuesday, ae
Cl llll panied by lightning, thunder and
heavy rains. Two spans of the Nashville,
Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad bridge
across t lie Tennessee river, were entirely
demolished. Several buildings were blown
down, but no loss of life is yet reported.
All t elegraph communication west of John
sonville is cut off,as the wires arc bridge.... tangled
in the debris below the
The news from Hopkinsville, and destructive Kv., says:
One of the most violent
storms ever known in southern Kentucky
passed over this section Tuesday morning, doing
destroying several houses and
great injury to property. In the city of
Bellevue, a village south of that city, six
tobacco barns, with all tlicir contents,
were destroyed, and a dozen houses were
unroofed and blown down. The wind
blew a perfect cyclone over the city. . . .
From Dayton, Ohio.—A tcrritlic
electric storm, with heavy rain, Hooded
the rivers here Tuesday. The reprop
and lervees were slashed out, and a ten
inch natural gas main was tom away.
The water of the creek shot into the ail
like a geyser and a column ol gas, re
sembling black smoke, assccnded two
hundred feet, terrifying the people....
A special to the St. Louis Poet Din
patch says a terrible hurricane swept
over a" portion of northern Texas
Tuesday morning. The Masonic, hall in
Gainesville was torn to pieces and the
court house unroofed, the Santa Fe rail
road depot unroofed mid t wen
ty buildings blown down. Sever
al persons were injured. Tlir
damage will aggregate $200,000.....
At Lima, Ohio, there is heavy damage
from the Hood. Many county bridges
were swept tuvay, and also the railroad
bridges of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton railroad.....Considerable damage
has been done to railroad property
all over Indiana vicinity. by heavy rains
in Indianapolis and
ALL Timouon THE WEST.
Dispatches of Wednesday say: At Wa
tertown, Wis., the most vicious snow
storm in two years raged Tuesday and
Wednesday nights. The snow was ac
companied with a fierce wind from tin
north. The roads are drifted badly and
the railroads are blocked to some extent.
At Mason City, Iowa, a blizzard set in
Wednesday, covering the entire northern
portion of the state. The thermometer
marks zero, and all trains cloudburst are delayed.
At Cambridge, Ind., a on
Monday night caused Martendale creek,
near t hat place, to rise so quickly that a wo
woman und three children weic
drowned. They belonged to a party of
gypsies encamped near the stream. At
Darbondale, III., Monday night, the place
was visited by the heaviest rainfall that
has occurred for the last 15 years. It rained
incessantly until noon Wednesday.
A severe rain storm, accompanied began by
thunder and lightning, at Anna,
111., Monday evening and lasted until
noon Wednesday, The flooded. streams were
swollen anil the lands It has
been snowing and blowing at Ash
nnd, Wis., ever since Saturday night.
At Oshkosh, Wis., within less than hall
in hour, three inches of snow had fallen,
md it was with the greatest difficulty
that street cars operated. the The storm effect ii
hy far the worst of year. The
will be keenly felt in the lumber camps,
where the snow is already so deep that
egging operations werc carried on with
treat difficulty.
TO CONTROL OKLAHOMA.
THE COLORED I'P.Oi'I.E ORGANIZED TOTAKH
POSSESSION.
A special from Topeka, political Kan., reporti
the existence of a secret society
of colored people, called the “First Grand
Independent Brotherhood.” Its object is
to settle the negroes in Oklahoma as
numerously as possible, so that the race
will have control of Oklahoma when it
becomes a state. White men will then
lie compelled to recognize the negroes as
equals or keep out of Oklahoma. It is
said that a remarkably large number of
colored people are already in the territo
ry.
BOSTONS LEGISLATURE.
KICKING AGAINST THE enactment oi
A PROHIBITORY LAW.
A dispatch from Boston M-* -, .*4
The liquor committee of the lepaiaturere t
enacting ported on a Thursday straight prohibitory unanunoi^ly law, agai ana
also against reducing the high license fee
of |1,500 to $500. The same com mitten
reported it expedient to appoint workings a of c«n- the
mission to investigate the
license laws of other start* and countries.
CURRENT NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM THE TELE
GRAPH AND CABLE.
THINGS THAT HAPPEN FROM DAY TO DAY
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CULLED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
The German government proposes to
intrduce new laws against socialism.
American donations to the French land
league received during the last fortnight,
a sum of $50,500.
The appointment of General Chincella
to be governor-general of Cuba, is offi
cially announced.
The senate, on Tuesday, confirmed the
nomination of Charles W. Childs, as
postmaster at Marion, Ala.
The French government has accepted
the invitation of Germany to take part in
the German labor conference at Berlin.
The lower house of the Ohio legisla
ture,on Wednesday,passed congressional a bill rcdistrict
ing the State for purposes.
The vote of the socialists in the recent
election in Germany, election as compared in with
the gain last of previous 5(1(1,405 1885, shows
a votes.
George Dowell, of Chillicothc, Mo., set
a gun trap for a thief. Mrs, Dowell did
not know the trap had been set and
walked into it and was killed.
Alfred Wolf, deputy commissioner ol
internal revenue at Richmond, N il, com
mitted suicide Monday by jumping in the
river at Hiuithtield, Isle of Wight. His
mind was affected.
In executive session on Monday the sen
ate decided to make an inquiry into Hit
methods by which newspapers secure
their executive information session. concerning proceedings
in
The schedule committee of the Aineri
[•1111 association met at Philadelphia schedule which on
Monday, and arranged a
will be submitted to (he association at
their meeting at Syracuse, March 10th.
The order granted enjoining the Cotton
Oil trust from disposing the American of property Cotton by
transferring it to vacated
Oil company of New Jersey, was
on Monday by Judge Wallace, of the
United States court in New York.
Two masked men entered the store
of W. C. Henderson, at Berwyn, Indian
Territory Tuesday night. One of them
covered the clerk with a revolver, while
the other dumped into sacks a large
amount of jewelry and money, and moiin
ted their horses witli their booty and es
caped.
At New York, on Wednesday, Broker
Pell, under $20,000 bail on the charge of
grand larceny, in connection with the re
cent wrecking of Lenox Mill bank, was
surrendered by one of his bondsmen, and
was again taken into custody, pending
bis endeavor to secure other security.
A A 'eto'n Paris correspondent says that
Dom Pedro is unwilling lo dismiss his
imperial suite. He has, therefore, rcsol
ved lo endeavor to come to terms with
the Brazilian government, to renounce the
crown and to return to Brazil and live as
a private person.
A Providence, prohibitionists It. L, dispatch Wednesday says:
The state on
put in nomination the following ticket:
Governor, ltev. John Larry; lieutenant
governor, Joshua C. Brown; secretary of
state, John W. Mooney; attorney gcnerul,
John T. Blodgett; general treasurer John
John P. Hazard.
A dispatch of Tuesday,from Baltimore,
Md., says: A. Brehnic Towles & Co., & importers,
German street; II. P. Co., fur
nishing goods, Baltimore street; and 8.
A. Welsh, notions, Lexington street; tiled
deeds of trust for the benefit of their
creditors. The bonds filed are respect
ively $24,000, $40,000 and $1,000.
A dispatch from Kansas City says: C
II. Epplcsheimcr, manager of the Pink
erton detective agency in that city, to
which was entrusted the task of captur
ing Frederick A. Walton, the absconding
agent of the Pacific Lx press company at
Dallas, Texas, received a dispatch on
Sunday from St. Johns, N. B., stating
hat Walton had been arrested. Walton
Hole $35,000 of the company’s money.
Duly $7,000 was found on his person.
His offense is not extraditable.
AN ANCIENT LANDMARK
IN HUNTSVILLE DESTROYED BY FIRE-AN
ANTE-BELLUM RELIC.
A dispatch from Huntsville, Ala.,
says: The old Malsay carriage shop, at
the corner of Green and Meridian streets
was destroyed bo fire Sunday. This an
cient building has stood for half a cen
tury, and was a landmark of ante-bellum
days. Here was built before the war
hundreds of fine carriages ana buggies and
for the wealthy planters of this ad
joining states. The fire engine kept the
flames confined so injured. that the adjoining
residences were not The entire
building and a lot of work manufactured
by the Montezuma Rustic company and
its tools were destroyed.
CL08ED sT LAST.
AFTER REPEATED EFFORTS TO SETTLE
DIFFERENCE THE MILLS SHUT DOWN.
A dispatch from Nashua, N. H., says.
The operatives of Nashua company’*
milis manifested their determination tc
hold out against the reduction on wage*
in the most decisive manner on Tuesday.
Undei Treasurer Armory’ recently
posted ultimatum, the help were to lit
given a final opportunity If this to return disre- to
work on that day. tie dosed. was The
garded the mills were to
employes failed brief to wait respond the mills to the shut bell
and after a were
down indefinitely. The operatives are
leaving town in large numbers by every
train.
NO 22
THE HANGING OF H AWE.8.
THE NOTED MURDERER RAYS THE PENALTY
OF HIS (’RIME.
Dick Huwes tested the strength of a
five-eights sea wired rope at Birmingham, hang
A la., Friday at 12:58 o’clock. and The interest
ing was the most sensational and will
ing ever known in Alabama, chapters
make one of the most thrilling By
in the criminal history of the state.
nine o’clock a crowd of a thousand peo
ple had congregated about the jail, and
an army of policemen was oh duty to
keep them at a safe distance. No
one was allowed to pass that line
of officers except those who had passes.
By 12 the crowd numbered near 0,000.
At 11 o’clock, Deputy Lockhart en
tered the jail and interrupted the devo
tional exercises long enough to read the
death warrant. When the deputy in
formed Hawes of the object of his mis
sion, he said : “Stand up, Dick.” Hawes
arose, and placing his hands behind him,
looked the officer in the face. Then
Lockhart read the death warrant. Hawes
heard it through without a tremor or
without moving a muscle. At a quarter
after twelve Ed Griffin went upon the
scaffold, and adjusted tin; rope to the
beam. It was made tight by an iron
staple. Griffin is the man who built the
scaffold. (Jrillin was a member of the
jury that convicted Hawes. Griffin is
now one of Sheriff Smith's deputies, and
helped to hang the man, whom he, us a
juror, said should die. Hawes went
upon the scaffold, accompanied by the
sheriff, a deputy, and the two ministers,
lie walked with a firm step. There was
less trepidation about him than about
any of the one hundred men in the in
closure, and it was apparent to all. His
nerve was remarkable, and those who saw
him could not keep from admiring it.
TIIK l'KKI.IMINARY ARRANGEMENT*.
As h" stepped to the front of the side gal
lows, he moved his head to one to
avoid the rope. Then as In; stood at the
front of the gallows, Sheriff Smith,
standing beside him, said : “Dick, have
you anything to say?” Hawes raised his
right hand to his mouth, and gave his
moustache a twist. There was not a trem
or in the movement. Never in his life
did he twist that beard with a quieter crowd
nerve. Then looking over the
camly lie said: “1 only want to suy to
the congregation that I have written out
a full statement, of this whole thing,
and it is a true one. I don’t want
any man in the world to think
that died with a lie on my
lips. =2 I, is all I have to say.”
Hawes walked to the front of the scaf
fold, and Sheriff Smith adjusted the rope.
The prisoner was calm. There was no ex
citement about him. As the sheriff raised
the cap, Hawes said '1 want you all to
shun whisky and vile women, I wish 1
had.” The cap was adjusted, and
Hawes’s vision ot those before him was
shut out. forever, .lust as the sheriff was
stepping back to give the signal to the
man in the basement, to pull the string,
Hawes called out : “Joe, let me stand
here a minute please.” His voice was
still and steady, but it was muffled by
the black cap. The sheriff waited a
minute and then began, “One—two—
three.” As the word three was uttered
the string pulled, the traji dropped and
Hawes’s body went up an inch or two,and
then settled again at the end of the, rope.
It was 12:58 when the drop fell, and in
fourteen minutes the doctors said he was
dead The boily was turned over to Mr.
Frank Hillmrn, of Atlanta, and taken
home for burial.
Till'. W BITTEN MTATKM F.T.
The written statement Hawes has madt
is supposed to be in the hands of the
printers. It. was written by Hawes, and
was given to Col. Taliaferro, his attor
ney, by whom it was, on Fri
day, surrendered by Hawes’s directions,
to some one to be printed in book form. his
The proceeds of the sales are to go to
boy. It, consists of forty pages of his
life and sixteen pages of the crime.
Colonel Taliaferro has read it, and say*
that, it is the same story he told on the
stand on February 18th last, the only dif
ference being in reference to May. Of
her he says lie brought her to town and
turned her over to the party named ift the
statement, and that that party carried her
to the lake and put her out of the way,
The statement asserts that all were put ti
death by drowning.
A FATEH HAY.
Saturday, the last day of the week,
has figured conspicuously in the life of
Dick Hawes, lb- was born on Saturday,
•VII- married to Emma I’ettison Saturday.
He discovered evidence of his wife's in
fidelity on Saturday, murdered Mrs.
Hawes and Irene on Saturday. Their
lashes were found on Saturday. The
jail riot occured on hanged Saturday, Saturday. He was
sentenced to be on
The opinion of the supreme court affirm
ing the decision in the caw: was written
on Saturday, and on Saturday his body
was buried.
A8TORS WILL.
THE HEAT) MILLIONAIRE MADE LIBERAl
CHARITABLE BEQUESTS.
At New York, on Wednesday, Wil
liam Warldorf Astor and Lawyer South
mayd entered the surrogate’s office with
John Jacob Astor’s will, and filed a pe
tition for its probate. The will cover*
only two and a half sheets of parchment. receive*
By the will, St. Luke’s hospital of Art,
$100,000; Metropolitan Museum
$50,000; New York Cancer hospital,
$100,000; Astor library. $350,000; Alex
ander Hamilton, $30,000. and Jame*
Simmons Armstrong, $30,000. All the
rest, the residue and remainder of his es
tate, goes to his son. William Waldorf
Astor.