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editorials
The proverbial "step from the sub¬
lime to the ridiculous’ la generally •
fyuicls® boro of "the blues."
Man will never be truly civilized uu
ill he learus to make bis senilmcuts
eud prejudices subservient to reuso/
and justice-.
■ A tunnel Will not be ao beautiful ns
the famous Horseshoe Curve, but ll
vrUl be abort*-. It gives one a vivid
sense of how much money time Is
worth, continues the Philadelphia ltec
ord, when the Pennsylvania Railroad
projects a tunnel nt a cost of $15,000,
000 to escape the curve.
The San Antonio Express says that
-In the annals cf American history one
scene ^•111 always stand out. It coii
sists of a group of officers In Cuba
under a tree on ihe heights overlooking
Santiago. xhe tropic sun burned
fiercely, sickness and lack of ood and
shelter had demoralized men ordin¬
arily brave. A genera) urged retreat
and several of his eouucii agreed with
him. But a little gray general with
dauntless eyes stood out firmly against
any backward movement. He expos¬
tulated and urged and finally climbed
that tree to verify his recocnalsance.
The victory, lie said, was won; wby
should the Americans retreat? The
indomitable will of the man swayed
them. He was scarcely over five feet
tall, his face was furrowed by suffer¬
ing and hardship, and his hair white
iwlth age, but bis spirit was unbowed.
The courage that shone in his eyes
shamed his fellow officers out of their
moment's panic; the forward move¬
ment was pushed on aggressively. In¬
stead of defeat and disgrace, victory
and the prompt ending of a bloody war
was the result. Who achieved this?
Oue man. Joseph Wheeler.
The survival of the unfit Is In the
long run and absolutely a contradic¬
tion of terms used by those who have
not a cleat idea of the law of selection
of the fittest for survival—a natural
Inw so universal as to be almost with¬
out exceptions. As the medical pro¬
fession is frequently accused of pre¬
serving the unfit by tts life saving
methods, American Medicine believes
that it is time to'(define the law over
agnin. Civilian, -m^-'tself is said to bo
preserving (he veify uuflttest In Its pris¬
ons. asylums /md hospitals—types
■which nntnrpr lii past ages promptly
killed off. Scientists, who should
betyer, are occasionally heard
to depio ibis modern tendency to up
set a lew of nature, The only proof
of time sss for selection is sm Tho
only way to prove which one of many
pugilists Is the best Is to let them fight
it out, and the survivor Is selected.
The men or types of men who survive
are, therefore,'the fittest for survival,
irrespective of the means taken to
survive, and what may nave been our
Opinion of the superiority of those who
died prematurely. A frail, stupid man
Who resists all diseases naturally, and
Who survives to old age after rearing
n family, thus proves that he is in¬
finitely more fit for survival than the
brilliant strong man who died of ty¬
phoid iu early manhood.
Imbedded In a speech by Represen¬
tative Candler, of Mississippi, Is a lit¬
erary gem so perfect that !• would be
little less than profanation to mutilate
It, snya the Philadelphia Record. It
could never have been produced north
of the Mason and Dixon’s line, and In
the tropical luxuriance of language
Which Is often encountered in the fav¬
ored region ,>outh of that boundary
lino between cold uttllarlanlsm and
glowing, beautiful sei liment we can¬
not believe that any oue except Mr.
Candler himself could have so com¬
pletely absorbed the divine afflatus as
-to give off such on exquisite produc¬
tion. Mr. Candler said: "8ome one
lias said that when God made the
American girl ’He sent His angel mes
t pagers throughout all the star-strewn
realms of space to gather all there was
of beauty and brightness, of enchant¬
ment, of glamour. When those an¬
gels returned from the'r harvesting
of beauty and threw down their glit¬
tering burden at His feet, He began la
their wondering presence the fashion¬
ing of the A merican girl. He wrought
With the gold and the gleam of the
stars, shlftirg glories of the rainbow
hues, and the pallid silver of the moon.
He wrought with the crimson which
swooned in the rose's rubied heart,
■with the pure sweet snow which
gleams from the lily’s petals, and the
fires and the flames which flash and
\ leap from Jewels' depth. Then glanc
, lag deep Into His own bosom He took
of the love which gleamed there like
some rare pearl beneath the wind
kissed waves of a summer sea, thrilled
into the form He was fashioning, and
all heaven and earth rejoiced, for lo!
He bad wrought the American girL”*
WOMANSLAYSHERSISTER
Effectively Breaks Up Sinful Alliance
Between Husband and Her victim
With Six Revolver Bullet*.
Maddened with uncontrollable jeal¬
ousy, Mrs. Wfille Standlfer, wife of
Edward Marlon Standlfer, of 203 West
Alexander sheet, Atlanta, shot to
death Miss Chapell Whlsenant, her
youngest sister, at the home, of D. P.
Durham, her brother-in-law, 261 South
Boulevard Friday morning.
The two sisters were alone In a
bedroom. The wife had been plead¬
ing with the girl to remain away
from the husband. The girl was scorn¬
ful. The infuriated woman drew a
pistol tout fired alx shots. The first
crashed Into the mirror of the dresser,
the second struck the girl la the face
and sho threw horself upon a lounge
and tried to shield herself with a pil¬
low. Determined that only death
could satisfy hor, the woman lifted tho
girl’s arm ami fired four shots Into her
breast.
Two hours after the tragedy Mrs.
Standlfer went with her husband to
the police barracks and told of tho
killing. Both sho and her husband
were held as prisoners.
The affair sis one of the most
shocking that 1ms occurred In tho
city in many years, Mrs. Standlfer
is 24 years of age and the mother of
a little boy 20 months old. The dead
girl was only 17. Standlfer and his
wife were married throe fears ago In
Alabama. Ho became infatuated with
his pretty young sister in-law. The
wife suspected the couple, and a few
months ago her suspicions became so
st’ong that slie went to her young
sister and upbraided her.
Thursday evening about 6 o'clock
Standlfer hired a carriage and he and
Miss Whlsenant took a ride. They
were together until nearly midnight.
Mrs. Standlfer, always suspicious, as¬
certained by telephoning that her hus¬
band was not at work. She wont to
Durham’s homo and watted until near¬
ly midnight for the couple. She had
been gone only fifteen minutes when
they drove up in a carriage and the
gfrl got out. Mrs. Standlfer had a
pistol at that time, and it is believed
she meant to kill both sister and
husband.
About 1 o’clock Friday morning
Mrs. Standlfer, who had reached her
own home, called up Mr. Durham over
tho telephone and asked if her sister
had returned. When told that the
girl was there sho said: "Let me
speak to her."
Tile girl held a conversation over
the phone with Mrs. Standifer and
the former was asked to go nt onco
to the Standlfer homo, but it was too
late. Mrs. Standifer closed the con¬
versation with the remark: "Well, I
will see you in the morning."
And she saw her. She went to the
Durham home with n pistol holding
six bullets and She used every ohe t5T
them.
The dead girl was to have been
married within a week to J. E. Sit
ton of Seneca, S. C., to whom she had
beon engaged for some months.
Marion Standifer brazenly admitted
that he had loved Miss Whlsenant,
but swore that his affection for her
platonic; that he loved her, but
that It was a pure love.
AN ADMINISTRATION DEFEAT
Results from Final Disposition of the
Statehood Bill In Senate.
The first open clash between Pres¬
ident Roosevelt and the senate re¬
sulted in a distinct defeat for the ad¬
ministration. (Not only did the sen
ate adopt the Foraker referendum
amendment to the statehood bill
against the strenuous opposition of
the administration forces led by Sen¬
ator Beveridge, and in t lie face of
what Senator MoCumber pronounced
the most vigorous lashing of which
he had ever known, but on top of tills
defeat the senate proceeded to admin¬
ister another by adopting tho Bur¬
rows amendment, striking from the
bill all mention of Arizona and New
Mexico.
GILLETTE IN A DOUBLE ROLE.
Major Appears as Witness for Greene
and Gaynor.
Major Cassius E. Gillette was given
the untquo distinction in the federal
court at Savannah Wednesday of be¬
coming a witness for the defendants,
t- ec ne and Gaynor, the men whom he
has done so much to have arraigned at
the bar of justice.
District Attorney Marlon Erwin
hail put Major Gilletto on tho stand
again to bring out further points that
ho desired to develop tho government's
case.
AVALANCHE OF PENSION BILLS.
Four Hundred and Eight Passed by
the House Friday.
Tho house Friday passed 408 private
pension bills and devoted three hours
to the consideration of a bill provid¬
ing a uniform system of naturaliza¬
tion, tho chief features of which re¬
quire an alien to write oil her his own
or tho English language and to speak
and read the latter.
RIOTERS FOUND GUILTY.
Eight Men to Be Punished for Hang¬
ing Negroes in Ohio.
The Jury In tho riot cases at
Springfield, Ohio, found eight young
men guilty of rioting as follows; Har¬
ry Garber, John Plerpont, George Ep
precht, Carl Kloehfer, Glen Johnson,
Frank Young, Carl WIso ami Kemp
Reeder.
Leniency was recommended, and
tho court was asked not to impose
n work house sentence. None of these
found guilty is over 25 yenrs of age.
QQQQ fQfl FARMERS
Lewis Bill Allows Banks to
Loan on Farm Lands.
AN IMPORTANT MEASURE
Gives the Husbandman an Equal
Chance With Hie Busineet Brother
In Dealing With National
Banka.
A Washington special says: The
house committee on banking and cur¬
rency agreed Wednesday to report
favorably the bill of Representative
Lewis of Georgia, making real estate
security for loans by national banks.
Mr. Lewis’ bill provides that na¬
tional banking associations shall be
permitted to make loans on farm prop¬
erty on the basis of one half its value,
provided that not more than 25 per
cent ol the total capital and surplus
or undivided profits iof any such
banking association shall at any time
be invested in any such real estate
securities.
The agitation for the change In the
national banking laws has been a long
one, but not until the last congress
did any committee act favorably upon
It. Mr. Lewis succeeded In getting a
favorable report upon his bill in the
closing hours of the last congress,
but, as it was the short session, it
was found impossible to pass the
measure.
He has kept up the fight, and again
have his efforts been crowned with
success. There is every prospect of
the bill being enacted. Mr. Lewis re¬
gards the national banking system as
a condition and not a theory, and,
viewing it in that light, his effortd
as a member of the banking and cur¬
rency committee of the house have
been toward the extension of the
facilities so that the farmers of the
south and west may secure the privi¬
leges and facilities heretofore enjoy¬
ed only by men in other lines of busi¬
ness in the cities.
By the passage of this bill the own¬
ers of farm properties will be placed
in a far better position from a mon¬
etary standpoint than they have ever
been heretofore with the possibility
of securing loans from national banks
closed to them.
THE ISSUE A VITAL ONE.
Democrats Will Demand an Effeotlve
Railroad Rate Law.
A Washington dispatch says: That
there Is is still a sharp difference
of opinion between the supposed
friends of the Dolllver-Hepburn rail¬
road rate bill was made decidedly
manifest Wtednesday in the sena'*
chamber. The division is over the
question whether a rate made by the
interstate commerce commission shall
be suspended by the courts pending
final adjudication, and was brought
to the surface In a brief debate which
followed a set speech by Mr. Clapp, In
support of the bill. In reply to a
question by Mr. Tillman, Mr. Clapp
expressed doubt as to the power to
legislate so as to enforce the penalties
proposed by the bill pending a review
of any given finding by the courts.
Mr. Tillman and Mr. Bailey took
sharp Issue with this statement. The
former expressed the opinion that the
issue Is a vital one, and declared that
If an der Is not to be maintained
until a final Judicial settlement In a
case Is reached, It will V>o noeosoary
to reform the courts.
Mr. Bailey also contended that con¬
gress can so legislate as to maintain
the commission's rate until the final
order of the court is Issued, and to
prevent interlocutory orders suspend¬
ing such rates. During the day there
were two speeches on the rate bill,
the one by Mr. Clapp, In support of
ft, and another by Mr. Scott, practi¬
cally In opposition.
The remainder of the day was de¬
voted to the statehood bill, and
Messrs. Perkins and Spooner spoke
in opposition to that bill as It stands.
RAILROADS BECOMING SCARED.
Western Lines to Cut Rates to Fore¬
stall Commission.
Warned by the agitation of govern¬
ment control of rates, western rail¬
roads, according to the Chicago Rec¬
ord-Herald, have decided to make vol¬
untary reductions In transportation
charges amounting In the aggregate
to many million dollars annually.
The proposed reductions are to be
made in all the rates of the six classes
Into which freight Is divided and will
ho effective In the entire territory be.
tween the Atlantic seaboard and Mis¬
souri river.
GROVER LANDS IN FLORIDA.
Ex-President on Annual Fishing
Jaunt in Land of Flowers.
Former President. Grover Cleveland,
accompanied by Dr. Joseph D. Bry¬
ant', of Now York, and Howard Mc
Lenahau, of Princeton, arrived at St
Augustine, Fla., Saturday. After tak¬
ing dinner at the Ponce de Leon, Mr.
Cleveland and party left for Stuart
where he will enjoy his annual Ashing
trip.
BAPTIST PREACHER CONVICTED.
Rev. Johns Given Sentence for Inti¬
macy With a Woman.
Rev. A. H. Johns, a Baptist minis
tor, and former pastor of a circuit
of seven churches in Blue Ridge town¬
ship, N. C., was convicted at Hen¬
dersonville of criminal relations with
Airs. Angelina Cagle and sentenced to
Imprisonment for one year. The wo¬
man was also convicted and fined $100
and costs. I
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COVERS RICH I TERRIT ORY.
Buys Bljf (nt nteiytte in Coal
Fields—The Penney lylvinfa Puts
Up Mlllmne.
It was auth oriGfttvely stated in
Pittsburg, Pa., Wednesday evening
that the plans of the Seaboard Air
Line for its new trunk line to the
south from Tennessee include the pur¬
chase of 860,000 acres of coal lands
In Virginia in connection with the
sew railroad project.
These lands stand in the name of
the Cllnchfleld corporation, which U
the underlying company that is build¬
ing the Seaboard’s new line. The Penn¬
sylvania (railroad; which (dominates
the Seaboard’s policy, has a hand in
the project, and has $40,000,000 behind
it. This will include the cost of the
new trunk line. The money, it is said,
has been raised by Alfred Walters,
formerly president of the Lehigh Val¬
ley railroad, who Is now president of
the Cllncbfield corporation.
This corporation will later become
the operating head of the Seaboard
system, which will aid the Pennsylva¬
nia in tightening its grip in the bitu¬
minous fields.
The coal promirtles which have
been purchased Hi the OUnchfield cor¬
poration on behalf at the Seaboard Air
Line embrace about 260,000 acres o?
land In Wyeth and Dickinson coun¬
ties, Virginia. It also owns 112,000
acres of coal lands purchased from
the Crane’s Nest Coal company. Much
of this fuel is in the celebrated Po l>
hontas field, and the plan of the Sea¬
board, when its trunk line is complet¬
ed, is to open a market for It in the
south and southwest, and distribute
it to the-gulf and Atlantic seaports
for export.
The engineers , engaged In building
the new road expect to get a maximum
grade of one-half per cent. As previ¬
ously stated, the ;£outh and Western
railroad in Tennessee is the nucleus
of the new line. It will be extended
nearly 286 miles from Johnson City,
Tenn., the northern terminus to the
coal properties acquired, and also to
a connection with the Chesapeake and
Ohio at Elkhorn, Va.
From Spruce Pine, N. O., the south¬
ern terminus, It will be extended
southward to connect with the Sear
board's Atlanta division at Ruther
fordton, N. C., and will also connect
with the Atlantic Coast Line and the
Southern railway.
Detailed announcement of the com¬
pany’s financial plans will be made In
New York this spring. The new line
will give the Pennsylvania lines west
an outlet from Cincinnati and Louis¬
ville to the south, and will cement the
cordial cooperative relations existing
between the Seaboard, the Pennsylva¬
nia and the Chesapeake and Ohio.
It will also permit the Pennsylvania
to further control production in the
bituminous fields.
ATLANTA POLICE BOARD RAPPED
Council Condemg* Action In Arbltrally
Inaugurating Civil Servlee.
A resolution deploring the action
of the board of police commissioners
In instituting civil service, contrary
to the interpretation put upon the
charter by the general council, and
in direct conflict with the opinion of
the city attorney, was passed by the
Atlanta city oouncil Wednesday.
Members of council took the posi¬
tion that the police board had no more
right to act independent of council
and in conflict with the opinion of
the city attorney upon such a matter
as civil service than had other boards
and right to Involve the - 2 l'ty In debts
and litigation. >-
HOWELL 8UCCEED8 MIMS
A* President of the Capital City Citib
In Atlanta,
Following the death of Major Liv¬
ingston Mims, who waB for many
years president of the Capital City
Club in Atlanta, Albert Howell, Jr.,
the vice president, becomes president
of that Institution, and will remain
its executive head until the annual
election of officers, which will take
place In April.
Members of the club generally say
they propose to elect Mr. Howell pres¬
ident at the April meeting.
WRECK TAKES TWO LIVES.
Three Train* Crash Together and De¬
bris is Deitroyed by Fire.
Two killed and fifteen Injured, one
of whom will die, is the list of fa¬
talities In a wreck of two freight
trains and a fast passenger train on
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad which
occurred Sunday about two miles from
Blooindale, Ohio.
Two engines were completely
wrecked and the mall and express
cars, two baggage cars, two passen¬
ger coaches and four freight cars were
completely demolished and later burn¬
ed up.
ADKINS BROTHERS MAKE BOND.
Men Charged With 8hooting Aiken
Given Their Liberty.
Mell and Alex Adkins, the two
white men residing in Oglethorpe
county, Georgia, who have been In jail
for two weeks charged with the shoot¬
ing of Benjamin H. Aiken from am¬
bush on the night of February 10,
were released from custody Friday
morning on bonds of $1,000 each.
ALLEGED CROOK NABBED.
Ten Men Now In Atlanta Jail Suspect¬
ed of Being Yeggmen.
A short and stout young man giv¬
ing his name as Poly Kimball, but
who explained his real name was,. Na¬
poleon, Poly being his nickname, was
arrested by city detectives in Atlanta
Wednesday morning on suspicion- 1 of
being on inttmato terms with the
crowd held as suspected crooks la
the! tower,
MORO HOST SLAIN
Six Hundred Killed in 8attle
with Philippine Troops,
FIFTEEN SOLDIERS KILLED
Besides the Dead, Thirty-Six Ameri¬
can* Are Wounded—Fight Occur¬
red on Mountain Top and Was
Desperate Encounter.
A Manila dispatch says: An impor¬
tant action between American forces
and hostile Moros has taken place
near Jolo. Fifteen enlisted men were
killed, four commissioned officers and
thirty enlisted men were wounded and
a naval contingent operating with the
military sustained thirty-two casual¬
ties. The Moros lost 600 men killed.
The attack was made under the
most hazardous circumstances. Start
inly early in the afternoon of March
6, the assailants climbed for a dis¬
tance of 2,100 feet up a lava cone,
the thickly wooded ridges of which
furnished the only foothold. The last
600 feet of the ascent was at an angle
of 60 degrees, and the last fifty feet
almost perpendicular. At the top
were 600 fanatical Moros armed
with rifles and knives and support¬
ed by native artillery. The fortified
crater was almost Invisible and seem¬
ingly inaccessible. At the word of
command the troops rushed Into the
crater and a hand to hand encounter
followed.
? Major General Leonard Wood, com¬
mander of the division of ihe Philip¬
pines, reports as follows from Jolo,
capital of the Sulu Islands:
“A severe action between troops, a
naval detachment and constabulary
and hostile Moros has taken place
at Mount Dajo, near Jolo. The en¬
gagement opened during the after¬
noon of March 6 and ended in the
morning of March 8. The action In¬
volved the capture of Mount Dajo, a.
lava cone, 2,100 feet high, with a cra¬
ter at its summit and extremely steep.
The last 400 feet were at an angle of
60 degrees and there were fifty per¬
pendicular ridges covered with a
growth of timber and strongly forti¬
fied and defended by an invisible force
Of Moros.
"The army casualties were fifteen
enlisted men killed, four commission¬
ed officers and thirty enlisted men
wounded.
"Colonel Joseph W. Duncan of the
sixth infantry directed the operations.
All tho defenders of the Moro strong¬
holds were killed. Six hundred bod¬
ies were found on the field.
“The action resulted in the extermi¬
nation of a band of outlaws, who, rec¬
ognizing no chief, had been raiding
friendly Moros and owing to their de¬
fiance of the American authorities
had stirred up a dangerous condition
of affairs.
“Tha-jwtuiery was lifted, by block
and tackle a distance or 300 feel Into
a position on the lip of the crater.
"Brigadier General Bliss and my¬
self were present throughout the ac¬
tion.
"The officers and men engaged high¬
ly commend the Moro constabulary,
who did excellent work, their casu¬
alties numbering seventeen out of the
force of forty-five engaged.
"It Is impossible to conceive •
stronger natural position than that at¬
tacked.”^
(Some of the army officers in Wash¬
ington, who have served In the Jolo
group, say that Mount Dajo, the
scene of tho action, la located about
14 miles from Jo{o, the capital of the
Island. Moro Goto Is on the very
top of the mountain. Once before the
garrison of natives was induced to
vacate the place by the' _ exercise of
diplomacy, but heretofore &C. force
has been able to capture it. TCSslxth
Infantry, which seems to hue borne
the brunt of the fighting^K: s from
Fort Leavenworth, and lias been in
the Philippines about a year, The
officers of the general staff fully ac¬
quainted with the habits of the Mo¬
ros say they have not the slightest
fear that the Moros will try to re¬
taliate for the crushing defeat admin¬
istered to them.
WHITE SLAVERY ALLEGED,
Another “Fugitive" From Florida Airs
HI* Grievances.
. A fugitive from what ho calls white
slavery, to which he says men have
been drawn under false pretenses,
John Harles of Philadelphia, landed
in Boston Friday on the schooner
Theollne, from Jacksonville, Fla., with
a tale of 4,000 men subjected to hard¬
ship and indignities.
Harles says he went to work last
year on a railroad which Is being con¬
structed In Florida, but received only
$7.60 a week, instead of $4 a day,
which he was promised.
SLEW WIFE AND SUICIDED.
Double Tragedy Enacted in Albany,
Ga., by M, L. Cohen.
M. L. Cohen, a Hebrew, at an early
hour Thursday morning, after retir¬
ing with his wife at a house on Mar¬
ket street, Augusta, Ga., secured a
gun, shot his wife and then himself.
He died Instantly. The woman never
regained consciousness, and died a
short while afterwards, They were
married only six weeks ago.
MAY BAR TOWN TOPICS.
Representative Coekran Wants Infor¬
mation from postmaster General.
Representative Bourke Coekran of
New York Introduced a resolution in
the house Thursday requiring the post¬
master general to report to the house
whether Town Topics is admitted to
the malls and whether the government
assists the publication In "Its said oc¬
cupation of extorting money by black
mail."
HELD IN NEGRO DIVES.
Astounding State of Affair* Revealed
In New York* Tenderloin
District
A New York dispatch says; Repre¬
sentatives of the district attorney’s
office went into the tenderloin Friday
night and raided a flat in West Thir¬
tieth street, as a preliminary step, It
was said, in a campaign against a
band of negroes whom the district at¬
torney has been investigating for four
months.
Important information about them
came finally from the arrest and trial
of Berthe Clalche, who killed a man
toward whose support Bhe alleged she
had been compelled to contribute. The
raid followed an Indictment by the
grand Jury on three counts against
Robert II. Spriggs, a tenderloin negro,
who was ’wrested immediately.
The police claim that there exists
a syndicate of resorts patronized by
negro men, an dwhere white women
are forcibly detained.
One case, it is said, has been
brought to light of an. unusually at¬
tractive girl being kept in one of these
places for more than three years. An
sistant District Attorney Garven Inti¬
mated that the raid would be followed
by others.
"This is only the beginning of this
mess,” he said. “Facts which have
been given to this office show an ap¬
palling condition of affairs.”
“It is astounding; Mr. Jerome has
the facts upon which to base sweep¬
ing action, and he is going to move
quickly and effectively, He will
stamp out this in a hurry.”
RACE RIOT IN ALABAMA.
Trouble Breaks Out at Wllmer, a
Small Lumber Town.
Sheriff Powers at Mobile, Ala., re
ceived a telegram Saturday stating
that there was a race war In progress
at Wllmer, a small lumber town, 24
miles west of Mobile, and that several
whites and blacks had been killed. .
The trouble commenced through an
unknown negro shooting into houses
of white employees of A. V. Prin¬
gle, the largest turpentine operator at
Wllmer.
Sheriff Powers and four deputies
left at once for the scene of the trou¬
ble, and returned Sunday night with
four negroes, who are charged with
being Implicated In the attack.
RILL JEWS AND HANG WITTE
I* Advice Given by Reactionist Lead¬
ers In Russia.
A St. Petersburg dispatch says:
Some of the reactionary organizations
are pushing the agitation against tho
radical elements to a dangerous point
Sunday a “league of the Russian peo¬
ple” held services to celebrate the
manifesto of Miarch 8, as a victory of
the old regime.
Later the fighting society of the
same organization held a public meet¬
ing and listened to Inflammatory
speeches by two extremist leaders, at
which the orators openly summoned
their followers, the black hundreds, to
kill the Jews and hang Count Witte.
TRIED TO INFLUENCE JUDGES
I* Charge Brought Against* Fortner
"Boss” Cox at Cincinnati-;
At Cincinnati two judges pf the clr
cult court in testimony Aj> efore the
Drake investigating committee of the
state senate charged "that George B.
Cox, formerly republican leader in
Hamilton count*, had tried to Influ¬
ence the judgment of that court in a
suit Involving a $200,000 bond, while
a third judge testified that Cox had
simply asked him that the case he
given a fair and impartial hearing
when tl came up on appeal.
FATAL QUARREL OVER MULE.
Shooting Bee Results From Dispute
and Two Men Are Dead.
A shooting affair occurred Satur¬
day afternoon at Scarboro, Ga., in
which two men were killed.
John Burke and Ed Aycock, botn
white, quarreled over a mule, and the
quarrel ended in a row, each killing
the other with a pistol.
Burke leaves a wife and five chil¬
dren. Aycock was unmarried.
GREEKS ARE DENATURALIZED.
Savannah Judge Revokes Papers That
Made Them American Citizen*.
An order revoking and setting aside
the order admitting twenty-one Greeks
to citiaenship was signed by Judge
Norwood, In the city court at Savan¬
nah, Ga., Friday, upon the petition of
Alexander Akerman, assistant United
States attorney. The petition that
the order in each case was secured
through fraud was admitted by each
applicant In a voluntary sworn state¬
ment.
BRITONS WANT GEORGIA LAND8.
English Syndicate May Secure Dodge
Holdings.
A gentleman in position to know,
who has for several years been con¬
nected with the land interests of Nor¬
man W. Dodge In Laurens, Montgom¬
ery and Dodge counties, Georgia,
states that a large syndicate of Eng¬
lishmen la now negotiating with Mr.
Lodge for the purchase of about 150,
000 acres of land In that section of
Georgia. The syndicate represents
English cotton mill men.
HOUSE IS FOR TWO STATES.
Senate’* Elimination of Arizona and
New Mextoo Cannot Stand.
The statehood question will not be
taken up by the house until the return
of the members of the river and har¬
bors committee who are making a trip
of lnspeotlon throughout the aouth.
House leaders who represent the ad¬
ministration view of the statehood
problem are positive that the house
will not concur in the amendment of
the senate eliminating Arizona and
New Mflxfoo from the MB.
OVER THOUSAND DIE
Frightful MlneltorrorOccurs
in Northern France.
MENSUFFOCATEANDBURN
Of Nearly Eighteen Hundred Coal
Diggers Caught In Explosion Only
Six Hundred Escaped Horri¬
ble Death.
A Paris special saya; A mining ca¬
tastrophe of Incalculable horror and
magnitude has stricken the great coal
center of northern France.
An explosion of fire damp at seven
o’clock Saturday morning carried
death and destruction throughout the
net work of coal mines centered at
Courrleres. Fire followed the explo¬
sion, making rescue difficult and al¬
most impossible.
All France has been profoundly ’
shocked by the magnitude of the dlsv
aster, which Is said to be the greatest
in the history of continental mining.
President Fallleres sent his secre¬
tary, accompanied by Minister of Pub¬
lic Works Gautier and Minister of the
Interior Dubief on a special train to
the scene of the disaster.
The scene of the catastrophe Is the
mountainous mining region near Lens,
in the department of Pas de Calais.
Here are huddled small hamlets of
the mine workers, who operate the
most-productive coal mines In Franco.
The subterranean chambers form a
series of tunnels.
Six of the outlets are near Lens
and others at Courrlers, Verdun and
many other points. The output of
these mines Is particularly combusti¬
ble, and Is largely used In the man
pfacture of gas and in smelting. About
2,000 miners work the group of mines
and with their families make a popu¬
lation of from 6,000 to 8,00(^^to^“
The catastrophe took desct^B
after 1,795 men had ir^J
the mine early Saturday explc^
There was a deafening
which was followed being by the hurled cages ff iji
mining apparatus
the mouth of the Courrleres mi
Men and horses near by outside
mine were either stunned or kill
The roof of the mine office was
off.
Immediately following the ex
sion flames burst from the moutu
the pit, driving back those i
sought to enter and dooming
within.
,the The Imprisoned work of attempting miners to 'jfl
war anjH -
begun by officials, engineesa rmhofl
drs from the surrounding
farmed parties and made forc^^| heroiqH
to obtain details to
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^^^^^^KTw~mAgedy Hffirow to 6,000 fathers, which has
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^fflP^Rves and children.
The vast mortuary camp is under
military guard, four hundred soldiers
having arrived there to assist in hold¬
ing in check the crowds of distract¬
ed mourners.
Ministers of Public Works Gautier,
Minister of the Interior Dubief and
the secretary of President Fallleres
remain on the ground endeavoring to
comfort the distressed fainilies of the
miners. President Falliers has given
$2,000 to aid in relief measures, The
ministry will add a further sum to
this, and the chamber of deputies will
be asked to vote $100,000 for the pur¬
pose of alleviating distress.
•Ministers Gautier and Dubief have
received complete details of the ca¬
tastrophe from M. Lavaurs, the di¬
rector of the mine.
“Of 1,800 miners who were down
in the pits when the explosion oc¬
curred,” he said, "673 were working
in Pit No. 4: 482 were in Pit No.
3; 571 were in Pit No. 2, and the re¬
mainder were in Pit No. 10.
FARMERS TO POOL CROPS. >
Kentucky Legislature Passes Bill to
Aid Tobacco Growers.
The Kentucky house has passed the
senate bill allowing farmers to pool
their crops and hold them for higher
prices. The main purpose for which
the bill was introduced was to allow
Kentucky tobacco growers to combine
and secure satisfactory prices for last
tobacco, something they allege they
are at present unable to do on ac¬
count of the workings of the so-called
“tobacco trust.”
THE EDITOR
JCxplaim How to Keep Op Mental and
Physical Vigor.
A New Jersey editor write#:
"A lot,' indulgence In improper food
brought on a condition of nervous dys¬
pepsia, nearly three year* ago, so
severe that I bad to quit work entirely.
I put myself on a strict regimen of
Grape-Nuts food, with plenty of out¬
door exercise and In a few month*
found my atomach ao far restored that
the process of digestion gave me pleas¬
ure Instead of distress.
"It also built up my strength so that
I was able to resume my bualneu,
which Is onerous, as I not only edit my
own paper, but also do a great deal of
‘outside’ writing.
“I find that the Grape-Nuts diet en
«bles me to write with greater vigor
than ever before, and without the feel
lug of brain-fag with which I used to
be troubled. As to bodily vlgor-I can
and do walk miles every day without
fatigue—a few squares used to weary,
me before I began to live on Grape*
Nuts!” Name given by Foitura Co,
Battle Creek, Mich.
I There’s a reason. Read the little
book, “The. Road to Wel lvUle,” In pkg*