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THE BLACKSHEAR TIMES
E. Z. BYRD, Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XX. NO. 29.
Pierce County Directory.
Ordinary—J. I. Summerall.
Clerk Superior Court—John Thomas,
Sheriff—J. R. Carter.
Tax Receiver—J. O. Waters.
Tax Collector—J. A. Jacobs,
County Treasurer—B. P. Brantley.
County Surveyor—W. H. Bowen.
Coroner—Dr. J, M. Brown.
Superior court first Monday iu May
and third Monday in November.
COUNTY COURT.
Robt. G. Mitchell, Jr., Judge.
W. A. Milton, Solicitor.
Monthly session, second Friday in
each month; quarterly sessions, third
Monday iu March, June, September
and December.
TOWN DIRECTORY.
TRobert G. Mitchell, Jr., Mayor.
B. D. Brnntley, W. G. McMillan,
John A. Strickland, Jos. A. Harper,
Councilman.
M. C. McAlpiu, Clerk and Trcas
urer.
W. L. McMillan, Marshal.
Police court every Monday morning.
SECRET ORDERS.
Blnckshenr Lodge No. 270, F. & A.
M., meets first and third Friday nights
in each month.
A. B. Estes, W. M.
J. I. Summebam,, Sec.
Alabahe, Lodge No. 16, K. of I\,
nieeta p ,-ery Monday night.
B. D. Brantley, C. O.
E. Z. Byrd. K. of R. & S.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
£V 4 EMMET COCHRAN,
‘ * LAWYE P
Practices in United States courts,
district, circuit and supreme courts,
nud in all counties in Brunswick cir
cuit.—Redding Block, Waycross, Ga.
G. MITCHELL, Jib,
County Attorney-at Law and Judge
Cour*, Blackshear, Ga.
A. 15. ESTES. E. L. WAT,men.
jUSTES & WALKER, Attouneys at-Law,
Blnckshenr, Georgia.
W M. TOOMER,
• Attorney-At-Law,
Office Waycross, Ga.
iu First National Bank Building.
YVALTER A. MILTON,
** Attorney-nt-Law and Solicitor
Uonnty Court. Offico in the court
house. Blaekshear, Ga.
EAR. A. L. R. AVANT,
ITiysician and SunoeoN,
Patterson, Georgin.
Calls promptly answered day or
might from my office or residence.
N. BUOWN, Dentist,
• Office Near the Courthouse.
OiTers hia professional services to
the citizens of Pierce and adjoining
•eouuties. Guarantees satisfaction.
Crown and bridge work a specialty,
lilacksliear, Ga.
ALLEN BROTN, D. D. S. |
Office upstairs in McCulloy *
Walker’s new building. Tenders his
professional services to the public.
Crown and bridge work a specialty.
Waycross, Ga.
Fall and Winter
NOW IN*
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IV/. ll C /.nv- OIi( r til( laifcost * assortment, ____. . tho ..
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best goods and best HU ever offered
before for prices that defy
-Compotition
HATS, SHOES,
Gent’s Fimiisliings, i
All to suit the most fastidious included.
During Fair Week a big dtscoun.
will be made to rush business. Come
to see us.
raffaycrossCiollim Store
Waycross. G-n.
BRUNSWICK CIRCUIT.
COURT CALENDAR.
Appling Superior Court—First and
second 5fondays iu 5Iarch; third and
fourth Mondays in September.
Camden Superior Court—Tnesday
'ter the third Slonday in .March;
uesday after the first Monday in
to ,er *
Charlton Superior Court—Tnesday
after the first 5Ionday in April; Toes
day after the fourth Monday in Oc
T,inch Superior Conrt—Second Mon
d * )r ‘"'' p ' m,bi,a “°^
her.
Ware Superior Court—Third and
fourth Mondays in April; first aud
second Mondays in November-.
day Tierce iu May; Superior third Court- Monday Tirfet iu Noiew- Mon- j
her.
Wayne Superior Court—Second
Monday in Way; fourth Monday iu
November.
cember; to continue for tttch time as
the business may retjn ; re.
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v/itho^ fr
A SPEClAUi'f
J. C. BREWER,
DENTIST,
BLACKSHKAIl, OA.
Gold Crowns and Bridge Work a
specially. 0-5, ’99
HOTEL - PBOEIIS
j. 1. STHGEASD, Maattr.
«TE$: S2.QG PER DAY
iYayrross, Georgia.
Convenient t<» d*q>ot, not and cole
t.i'». Table flint. d„se. Elec tr it
■tl.u ttii ugnout the building.
Got. 1 ’96 fv.
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tween Brunswick nml Atlanta, ctwoen .Jack
•onvillG,,Fln., Nos. and Cincinnati.
15 4*vnd lO.-r-Pullman Sleeping Curs be
tween Tampa and Cincinnati, vui Chatta
nooga; phis. also between Chattanooga and Mern
Noe. 7 and 8—Pnllnian Sleeping Onrs bo
tween Atlanta and Chattanooga, anil Pullman
Drawing-room Macon Buffet Bleeping cars between
and Asheville.
Louis and Kansas City, via .Tesup and Atlanta.
Nos. 9 and ]<J~PulJinan Library Observation
Cars between Macon and New York.
Connection nt Union Depot, Atlanta, for nil
Jacksonville, points north, east and west. Also at Jesup for
liunbia, Washington Tampa, and etc., the and Savannah, Oo
east.
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Army Post at Key Rest.
War department officials have jnet
«^V5sari! , 2S7s.*‘o2
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF PIERCE COUNTY.
BLACK SB KAIL GA., THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 1. 1900.
CANDLER SWORN IN
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Georgia’s Governor Takes Oath of
Office For Second Terns.
Inan;iiJ.Tl Address Short and to the Point.
Oatli Was Administered By Chief
duptlcu SimtttOnft.
In tho presence of tho general As 1
sembly of tie state of Gilot-giit; tht>
justices of (he supreme court dud state
officials; (Governor Allen D. Candler
leek the oath of office as chief execu
tive for the second time Saturday
morning. Tho oeremony of the in
auguration was brief ami interesting,
tiro senate and bouse convening in the
hall of representatives in joint BesSioti
at noon for (lie purpose of hcatitig tlta
inaugural address aud witnessing tho
ceremony.
Governor Candler spoke but fifioen
minutes. He reviewed the pi ogress of
Georgia tdong industrial and govern
mental lines and referred to its great
ness not only in territory, but in tho
integrity aud Uprightness of its people.
He advised the general assembly to
deal lightly with that class of citiiseils
which had been impoverished by re
cent shrinkage iu values. He would
uot levy upon them a single dollar of
taxes not absolutely essential to the
running expenses of tho stato.
During the address and the inaugu
ration the gallery and floor of tho
house were crowded with visitors and
Governor Candler received an enthusi
astic reception as he eante ih the hall
and later When introduced by Presi
dent Howell of the senate.
Tho president of tho senate an
nounced that the resolution under
which the joint session had convened
would be read.
“It gives the chair great pleasure,"
said President Howell in presenting
the governor, “to introduce Governor
Allen D. Candler. He needs no pre
sentation to this assembly, for ho was
known to tho people of Georgia Before
lie was elevated to tho chief magis
tracy of tho state. 11 is popularity
with the people is attested by the
nearly 70,000 majority received by him
less than a month ago in his second
election to tho governorship. It gives
me great pleasure to present the gov
ernor-elect, Hon. Allen D. Candler, of
Hall.”
Tlio sCene was an enthusiastic one
as Governor Candler rose to deliver
liis inaugural address. At its conclu
sion the presiding officer announced
that the governor elect would Lo sworn
in by the chief justice of the state.
Chief Justice Simmons, of the supreme
court, stepped forward and in a clear
voice recitod tho oath under which the
governor agrees to defend the consti
tution of tho United States.
Governor Cnudler then delivared to
Secretary of State Cook the great seal
of the stnte with the injunction: “I
commit the great Beal of the stato of
Georgia into your hands, feeling as
sured that its upe will not he abused."
This ended tlio ceremony and tho joint
session of the assembly was dissolved.
POISONER BY GAS.
Well Known Georgia Legislator Found In
Dylnjj ContiItlon at Hoarding Koiimo.
51. B. Walker, a representative in
the Georgia legislature from Crawford
county,wns found in a dying condition'
in his hoarding houso in Atlanta as
the result of gns poisoning. Tho well
known representative was found in his
room in an almost lifeless condition
and the apartment filled with stifling
gas from a jet which had apparently
been turned on for hours. Tho ex
planation of how tho gas was turned
on cannot he made clear, for no ono
was with tho legislator when he re
tired.
Tho most natural presumption is
that Mr. Walker waa unused to gns
light in his room and that he must
have blown the light out instead of
turning it off when he retired for the
• , .
Ulgnt.
Iteptiblieniis Parade In Chicago.
For six hours and a half Saturday
working men from every branch of in
dnstiyin Chicago, lawyers, merchants,
railroad men, financiers, marched
through the down town streeta of tlio
city in thepnrade of Republican voters
which waa planned as the culmination
of tho natioual compaign in Chteago.
New Treasurer Sworn In.
Captain R. F,. Park, the newly elect
ed state treasurer of Geoigia, took
formal charge of the office 5Ionday,
receipting the retiring treasurer, W.
•I- Speer, for the moneys and securi
ties which he had in keeping for the
state. He was checked in and is now
the state treasnrer of Georgia.
BARBER • • SHOP.
fnttv triininGF ’ Pronrletnr '
blackshf.ar, GKoitdiA.
Hair Cutting, Shaving, Dyeing, Sham
poo ing, etc., done at the following
prices:
Cutting hair, 16 cents.
Shaving, 10 cents.
Shampoo, 20 cents.
Blacking, 25 cents. Dec w-U7.
V)ttW6BSOV. Viflatnoa. )Av.
* Js* *f *«ii, incirrtiu* 4 in i-SitiVi lui.
(«iorraii mihWBniS «««■»«,
i,?- jhisd’ *TUttUnimtUlVn.
•sssassssi;
had nearly l\jj) tluden'i in uIU wIm au luti year.
lives ARE LOST !
EXPLOSIONS I
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A . Disastrous r,. . Accident , ., . Occurs n .1 In
the Heart ol New York City.
CAUSED BY DRUG STORE FlR t
dxpiddtili Chemicals Wreck
Buildings and Many Victims
Are Buriod Under Burn
ing Debris.
A Now York special says: Tlio long
list of lire horrors that have occurred
in ntid tirouhd the city of NeW York; a
list that includes the ltoyal hotel fire,
the Park Tlnco disaster and tho Wind
sor and Hoboken tires, was added to
Monday by a fire aud explosiou that
shook tho lower end of Manhattan like
an earthquake, hurled a seven-story
building iuto tbo air and set firo to
two blocks of Buildings, with a loss of
life that Only tho efforts of htttldfedit
of men who were rushed to the work
of digging away the ruins ns soon ns
the fire was extinguished will reveal.
Tho big building of Tarrant A Co.,
makers of medicinal specialties, stand
ing at the northwest corner of Green
wich and Warren streets, and filled
with chemicals, took tiro in some way
that may never o'clock be known, nt about a
quarter after 12 Monday nftot
noon. It was sixteen minutes after
noon that a citizen rushed into tho
house of fire engine 29, on Chambers
street, nenr Greenwich, and shouted
that Tarrant’s drug house was on tire,
lie had seen a volume of black smoko
coming from tho third story window.
An alarm wns turned fn,
Kuou afterwards second and third
alarms wero turned in. One fire com
pany had just arrived when a terrific
explosion occurred and threw the en
tire engine's crew down the stairway.
The firemen, realizing tho danger of
their position, rushed out of the Build •
lug to tho street. Tho explosiou bad
filled tho street in front with a shower
of falling glass and small debris, which
sent tho crowd, which hud already
gathered on tlio opposite sidewalks,
fleeing for safety.
Captain Dcvanuey, of the company,
ordered his crow back into the build
ing again. Tho were dragging tho
lino to tho doorway a second time
when another explosion, more terrirto
than tho first came, mid the whole
crow was hurled across Greenwich
street.
Iu the meantime the otlior engines
that had responded to the alarm hud
collected, and the firemen wero rescu-,
ing peoplo from surrounding build
ings. Firemen had already taken many
girls down the only fire escape upon
the building, and more persons had
been carried down tho escapes of the
Home Made restaurant, next door, and
the buildings adjoining upon Warren
street.
The second explosion occurred about
five minutes after the first.
From tho accounts of witnesses, tho
building seemed to leap into the brick air,
and in a moment masssos of
wall, timbers and stone were falling
into tho streets. The force of the ex
plosion tore away the walls of the big
commission store houso fronting on
Washington street, and caused them
to collapse.
Across Wnrren street to the oppo
site buildings tho flames leaped, set
ting them all afire at once, tlio force
of tho explosion demolishing windows
and all wooden structures about tho
houses. Inn moment Warren street
was choked up with a mass of debris
and tlio whole place was aflame.
Tho great explosion was followed by
half a dozen more scarcely leas in
tense, and by a countless nnmber of
smaller ones. By this time tho fire
apparatus was arriving from every di
rection, and a fifth alarm sent out, fol
lowed by n general call for ambulancea.
Tlio explosion and fire together had
now assumed the. proportions of a
great catastrophe, and it was at first
thought that hundreds of lives had
been lost. Throngs of people wero
rushing about the nearby streets,
many of thorn panic-stricken, fleeing
from the fire. ,
ALVORD UNDER ARREST.
Absconding New York Defaultm-ruptured
in n iio.t m i.odainir ifnusc.
Cornelius L. Alvord, Jr., the ab
sconding note teller of the First Na
tional bank in New York, who is
charged with stealing $700,000 from
the bank, was arrested in Boston Mon
day afternoon by Chief Inspector '
Watts, of Boston, and Detective Arm
strong, of New York, in an ordinary
lodging house at the corner of West
Newton street aud Burlington nvenne. 1
When arrested Alvord, who knew j
Detective glad tlie suspense Armstrong, was ended, stated and he was j !
was
willing to go back to New York with-j
out papers.
EMBEZZLER UNDER ARREST.
n, lw dl ii jt A: J,’ Smith, hi c ttm 4 t( i l ' r /'i "kers r ..,t of
- ‘. 1, *b 1 ',* ( u 1 * j* 1 urr n
embezzlement er 't‘f of 'PY2 $.,2,000, ()?>() Later T »»' r In in
‘be day he was turned over to Deputy
MOC.....
MOM LYNCHES IYYO.
Jnnies Greer nrni .iituiet r-iillaloin itfert
VIM -lit I'eiith In t’lke Coilnty, (la.
A Mttien, On, special says: Near
the village of Liberty Hill iu 1’iko
hhfintys Mohdait Juu>i Great ttiiile* pm!
James Callaway, two negro iiieii)
out on a hunting expedition passed a
farm house, and fired their guns iuto
it, to tho groat fright of a young wo
then hailed attuji from thb jflnefc.
The you lift woman was prostrated
tVith tbrnit but was llot injured by the
shots. Tho mi tt of the neighborhood
ithdtrtohk a scaich and found Both
ween iitidhr ntnl Callnlian. One hf them,
ptoslmio; it la srtid, stated that
thty had a grudge against the farther
anil had tired into the house hoping to
kill him. The negroes were, during
the ear y hours of the nigh*, carried
iuto the woods. They were then plac
ed on horseback, ropes tied about their
necks and fastened to the limb of a
tree. Thu horses were started nttd the
hegt'obs left dangling;
JHKit IN PULPIT,
Itcv. Dr. John Xnvtan Ornlg Succumbs nt
Pont of Duly.
“When 1 die I want to bo at my
port of duty in the Master’s work; I
want to die in harness,"
Those words woro spoken Wednes
day by Rev. l>r. John Newton Craig,
of Atlanta, in conversation With a
frielld between the sessions of tho
Presbyterian synod of Virginia,
West Virginia ami Maryland, which is
now in convention nt the First church
in Newport News, Vu. His wish was
gratified. 11c died in harness.
The, morning session, attended by nn
audience which filled tho church, was
brought to an unexpected ami tragic
Close, by the shdlten death of Dr. Ctltig,
just ns ho wns concluding one of the
most remarkable speeches ever heard
from this prominent and popular
divine.
IVROXU-BOERN IN ARMY.
Annual U< port. of Coitrtiimrtiitlft IIy floii
«*t*nl fjplbcr* nf u<!kd A<l voent.o (Jonol iil.
General Libber, judge advocate gen
eral of the tinny, In his annual report
to the secretary of war, says tliero
were 6,080 trials by general coUrtmut
tials during tho past fiscal yenr, ot
which number thirty live wero com
missioned officers officers, four cadets,
6,618 enlisted nien and twenty-three
civilians serving with the army. Of
the commissioned officers, twenty-five,
and of the enlisted men, 6,020, were
convicted. A total of 2,588 men were
sentenced to dishonorable discharge.
8ix death sentences were imposed, all
of which were commuted by the presi
dent.
COLOR LINE IN CUBA.
V*Nry Hitter Foeltng fluid to Kxl*t Hotwocn
Wliiton and ItlackH.
A Santiago dispatch says: Tho de
parture of the provincial delegates to
participate forthcoming in the proceedings of the
constitutional convention
at Havana caused an Immense demon
stration Wednesday afternoon. It is
estimated that they wero escorted to
tho wharf by upwards of 12,000 per
sons, of whom nine-tenths were colored
people. The political parties arc
drnwing tho color line very closely,and
this is causing bitter feeling betwoon
the races.
TESTING SOLIHITY OF SOIL.
Government Oflieor flout. To Irmpoct fllton
For NhvhI fltatloiiM.
Under direction of tho navy depart
ment, Lieutenant Chambera, United
States navy department, has begun a
series of borings nt Charleston, S. (!.,
to determine tho character of the un
derlying soil whore the government
expects to establish a naval station.
The idea has been to move the naval
station now at I’ort Royal to Charles
ton if it is found tliut all the condi
tions are favorable.
Carter Heating Font pencil.
The hearing of the habeas corpus
case of Oberlin 51. Carter, ex-captain
of engineers, against Warden Me
Claiighrey, of the federal prison,
through which the ex-captain expects
to gain his freedom, has been post
poned at Leavenworth until November
Defaulter Alvord Eludes IV,ice.
A New York dispatch says: Come
lias L. Alvord, the defaulting teller of
tho First National hunk in tho sum of
8700,000, had not boon arrested up to
Wednesday noon, and it was said no
nows hud been received of him.
PSYCHE DID SALUTE.
Allege! ailsrln to Onr Fisa Ity llrltlsh
War v.n.i ■■ D.uini.
Tlio liritish third-class cruiser
Psyche, Captain Francis R. Policy,
commander, arrived ot Hamilton, Her
muds, Thursday morning from Amur
icon waters. Captain Pulley, who ia
ill, went to the hospital. For the
present he cannot bo interviewed ro
garding the alleged slight to the Amor
ican flag on the occasion of the ernisor’s
flying One visit to New York last Monday,
of the ship’s officers, when his
attention was called to tho report that
tbo Psyche entered and left the harbor
without firing the usual salutes, re
plied that she did salute.
YOU BENEFIT OF VETERANS.
committee for the reunion of the
United Confederate Veterans next year
in Memphis, It was daoided to recoin
mend July 9th as the inaugural (late,
^ i„., Mri ,4 (,,
be flled bj the authorities of the vet
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Subscription, One Dollar a Year.
ESTABLISHED 1880
WOULD BEWRECKERS
Caught In tlm Act of Displacing
Rails On Trestle.
DISASTER WAS NARROWLY AVERTED.
Oftirei* YVe^o Oii WatMfont For Miscreant*
it ml Nulibed Thfin-A Lymliwuf
f m in 1 tioiit.
Ah Atlanta special soys: A dastard,
ly iiflcin] t wits Made to wreck tho
passenger train on tho Seaboard Air
LiuS rJlilrond, four miles from Law-
renceville Saturday night, and the two
men engaged in the plot to pltlilge tho
train with three hundred passengers
over a trestle have been arrested and
lodged in jail.
Thfl men had been suspected and
watched, and were caught iiolta in the very
act ef removing liio from the
rdils.
But for the fact that tho attempted
slaughter of many mefl, women and
children occurred only four miles from
Laweuccville, tlio prisoners would un
doubtedly have been taken from tho
officers by the indignant passengers
and lynched. As the train moved
along, hearing the miscreants and
their intended victims, tlio story of
the outrage spread through tlio crowd
ed etiaelies, and if there had beets a
few more tliilos to go the prisoners
would have been left, swinging on the
side of the road to telegraph polf'S.
Tho train which loft Atlanta Satur
day evening nt 8 o’clock lmd five
couches, all crowded, many of tlio pau
se tig er s having been to Atlanta to at
tend the fair. The two men who had
plotted to murder by Ibe wliolerald
for the purpose of robbery must have
counted on this, and selected a tinlfl
when they believed there would ho
many to fall into their grasp as they
lay dying nt the bottom of the trestle.
'Tlio plan was to throw tlio train over
the trestle at Yellow river, which is
four miles this side of Lnwroneovillo.
if the plan lmd surootded the derailed
train Would linvo taken a frightful leap
into a chasm.
THIS HlllSHll'Vtf BTOUY.
The account, given by Sheriff Mas
lett. is ns follows:
“For several days mysolf, it. F.
Brubaker, of Raleigh, N. the chief
detective of the Seaboard Air Lino
road, have been working on this mat
ter. It wns reported to us over a
week ago that, an attempt would be
made to wreck tho night train out of
Atlanta. Wo have been laying (of
them, as il, were, and last night we
succeeded in bagging our game.
“Just after dark, lust night, J. T.
liyrd, John Ouks, tho dolectivo aud
myself went out to tho trostlo, about
four miles from town, it having been
reported to us that the time for
wrecking the train had arrived. We
stationed liyrd and Oaks on onn side
of the river and llio detective and my
self on the other. About half an hour
before tlio Atlanta train was duo the
wreckers wero heard coming down tho
track and struck tho trestle.
“Tlio trestle is 450 foot long and 00
feet high. They walked on to tho
trestlo and stopped about 160 feet
from tho sido wo were ori and wont to
work loosening holts, etc.
"That was sufficient warning to ns,
and we proceeded to close iu on them.
1 had them both handcuffed together !
in a twinkling. They had a crowbar,
two blocks and two rockH that they
were using to throw tho rails out of
line. There was two of them, John
Dalton, a young man about 22 years
old* aud Tom i’utterson, a man about
28 years old. I
“Dalton lived on a farm about a
half mile from the trestle. He is an
unmarried man. Patterson is a mar
ried man with a family, and live* i
about (me mile from tho trestle. The '
1 detective asked thorn who they wero
and w, ' at * lie y "ere doing. Fntterson
replied , 1 that l lie wiih working tho
on
and wan fixing the trestle,
* " lH ,,<d ^ on ff until the train
oa,,,,! alo “«- Tll( ' dotcctivo waived it
d, ' WM HIld ,ld I'oarded tho train for
| Ijawreneovllle. "here wero four
coaches full of people and the news of
onr capture and the circumstances
spread like wildfire through the train
and caused great excitement. I verify
j believe that if tho distance had hoen
ten miles, instead of four, to Lawrence
y jii 0 tkore would have been a lynch
ing,
LI MAY RE LYING.
CJcrmnn Forclan Olltce Suspects Tliut Do
ftllc,*Ify Is I'fting I'ruf llci'il.
A Berlin dispatch snys: Discussing
the present stage of tlio relation be
tween the Chinese government and
the powers, a high official of the Oor
man foreign office has made the fob
lowing statement:
“Before Li Hung Chang can ho ae
cepted as a negotiator by the powers,
liis credentials must, of course, lis ex*
amined. So far Earl Li on various
occasions ha* n fir d to exhibit them.
When was iu Dr. Shanghai .Mumm he v in requested Scliwnrlzemitien Earl Li j j
to show tin-m The Chinese 1 states
man replied evasively.
JURORS WERE 1UUBKDI
cnit court at Ghutt4 uoo<mi \V« .Im^day
morning hv attorneys charging tliut
they had proof that certain jurymen
bad accepted bribes in certain cases
recentlv Hi ■! .............mbem of the
jury will he openly charged with re-
1 s.Erss; sss
SHERMAN IS AT REST
Body of Illustrious Statesman En
tombed at Mansfield,
THE HOME OF HIS BOYHOOD DAYS
Funeral Snrvlcoi It.itli at Wafthlngton and
At SlftiiHfliiltli YVero Beautifully Ap
propriate and Shnple.
In the cnpitol of the nation, where
his life irotk had been accomplished,
there gathered Wednesday represen
tuiive of every government department
and (ho representatives of many for
eign powors to pny homage to the
memory of John Sherman. Tho fun
eral services were hold at the Sherman
home. A notable gathering of states
men, diplomats and officials filled the
hallways and parlors ot the residence.
The services were simple. They be
gan at 1 p. in., and were conducted by
Rev. Alexander Muckny Smith, rector
of St. John’s Episcopal church, assist
ed by Rev. E. M. 1’addock, assistant
rector.
Concealed in tho rear of the hallway
a i piartot of St. John’s choir, accom
panied by the organist, snug in the in
tervals of tho service. After tho hymn,
“Rock of Ages,” Dr. Smith read the
simple, hut improssivo funeral service
of the Episcopal church. When the
reading of the service wns finished
tho choir softly sung the hymn,
'’Peace, Perfect Peace." There was
no funeral address and after a brief
prayer the choir chanted the uiitliom,
“Lord, Lot Me Know My End and tho
Number of My Days.”
The casket was tlion lifted by the
hearers, with tho honorary pallbearers
following, and carried from the liouso
where a detachment ef the Fifth cav
alry,. under Colonel Rafferty, waited to
escort it to the depot.
Tho honorary pallbearers, who woro
grouped about tho coffin during the
ceremony, were Secretary May, Secre
tary Gage, Justice Ihu'lati, of the su
premo court, Admiral Dewey, General
Nelson A. Miles, ex-Henator Cameron,
of Pennsylvania; Henntor Hawley, of
Connecticut J Judge Bancroft Davis,
Hon. J. A. Kasson, rl tho state de
partment, and Colonel M. M, Parker.
The funeral party left for Mansfield,
Ohio, on a special train over the Penn
sylvania railroad at 8:80 o'clock.
The train bearing the distinguished
dead ami those who escorted the body
from Mansfield the national capital nrrivod in
nt 10:15 Thursday morning.
Awaiting were Major Brown and a cit
izens' committee of five, a t-quinl of
police mid company M, Eight infantry,
Ohio national guards, which did ser
vice in the Spanish war. Clone by the
cur which contain the catafalque, and
which was heavily draped, were forty
two members of General Hliermau’a
brigade, all old men, gray and bent.
Without dirge or other sound of
mourning the body was transferred to
the henrso, the funeral cortege slowly
proceeding to the church. Tbo body
was borne between two files of tho
members of the Sherman brigade and
double files of Company M. Preceding
the hearse were tho carriages bearing
the parly from Washington. In the
first were President McKinley, Secre
tary Hoot, Congressman Kerr,of Mans
field, ami Secretary Cortelyoil.
Mansfield did honor to her departed
foremost citizen. Every business
house wan diuped in mourning, every
church was open and the streets were
thronged with the sorrowing thous
ands, including delegations from
Washington, Cleveland and nearby
oities and towns.
The formal services at the church
began at 2:30 p. m. Tho altar was
decorated in white nt the request of
the lamily, and tho robe of the offl
ciating rector, the Rev. A. It. Putnam,
was of white ulso. As the rector
chanted a brief ritualistic rite, tho
procession bonded by Governor Nash
of Ohio, filed by and took a last look
at tlio deceased. Tho crowds came
ami went with noiseless tread.
There was no formal sermon, the
officiating clergymen adhering closely
to the Episcopal ritual. At tho con
clusion of tho services the funeral traiu
proceeded to the cemetery a mile dis
tant. At the sepnlchre the oeremonies
wero of tho simplest character, the
°, ttHket , . p , “'' u< , ! . u the f , * m ‘
, y Tnlllt ttI " 1 Healetl , aud th * throng
retraced its way.
ADMINISTRATION NOT INDORSED.
Negro Mothoriitt* of Teiinfi«»«io Go Against
I'rMlfifint McKInlfty.
At Saturday’s session of tho African
Methodist Episcopal conference of
Tennessee, iu Chattanooga, the com
mittee on the "state of the union” re
ported a resolution indorsing the na
tional administration, especially the
gold standard and the foreign policy
of tho president, Tho resolutiou
raised a storm of objections and n
heated discussion followed. The trend
()f the discussion was that the negro
Jm ,l nothing to gain from a further
affiliation with tho Republican or any
other party. Tho resolution was thou
voted down by a decided majority.
Ilohxon Is at Home.
Richmond Pearson Hobson Is now
at his home in Greensboro, Ala., en
j joying a vacation. and His he eyes fears are suid
to he improving nu fur
ther trouble from them.
Roosevelt Takes a Rest.
Completing over 1,100 miles of
travel and having made over fifty
speeches, Oovsrnor Roosevelt flnisbod
the first week of his New York state
campaign iu Binghampton Saturday
night.