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- - Philadelphia Press: There ia hard?
ly room for doubt that the financial
question will be taken . up for con
sideration at the extra session of
Congress in November. The Cuban
treaty, the first subject for consid
eration, will not occupy much time,
unless Cuba does some foolish thing,
which is improbable. Cuba has
already ratified the treaty in regard
to-naval stations, and there only re
mains the one relating to the Piatt
amendment. That is rather pro
forma, as it is already embodied in
the Cuban Constitution. But a re
fusal to ratify it might create dis
trust and delay in Congress.
Representative Cannon, who will
be the next Speaker, Is known to be
very conservative on the financial
question, which was probably the
foundation of the recent report that
he was opposed to currency legisla
tion. While refusing to discuss the
report further than to say that
"any one attempting to prevent the
majority from working its will
would write himself down worse
than an ass and a knave," yet he is
not anxious for such legislation. But
Senator Lodge's statement on
Thursday, after consultation with
the President, makes it clear that
there will be currency legislation at
the extra session in November, at
least in the Senate at that time and
probably in the House. Some rail
roads have recently negotiated loans
at 5 and 6 per cent. If that rate is
charged now the situation will be
much worse in the period of moving
the crops.
There is a difference of opinion
as to what legislation is neeaea;
but it is certain that no very radi
cal measure can pass Congress. Sen
ator Lodge says that the President
hopes and desires that early action
may be taken along the lines of his
meaaage and speeches sinco he be
came president. That does not
mean anything radical. A bill
something along the line of the Al
drich bill, which passed the Senate at
the last session, will probably prove
the most acceptable.
No great increase of currency Is
needed, excepting in times of emer
gency. That extra issue is provid
ed for, and should be so taxed that
it will be retired after the emer
gency is over. That would do away
with clearing house certificates and
such expedients. Mr. A. P. Hep
burn, the New Yoik banker and
former comptroller of the currency,
advocates a 6 per cents tax on this
emergency, and as it will not be
based on a deposit of bonds or other
securities that perhaps would not be
too much. The successful opera
tion of such a system in Germany
proves its worth.
The scheme for an asset currency,
advocated in the last Congress by
the majority of the House Commit
tee on Banking and Currency, can
not now pass Congress. Mr. Can-
nou is strongly opposed to mat
measure, and it receives no favor In
the Senate Finance Committee. It
would, under the circumstances, be
a waste of time to consider it. At
some future time It may receive
more favor. Mr. Fowler favors it,
and so do others, but they generally
agree that it could not pass now.
WMIa favnrinor annuo enrrenev leer-
w mmrm w w a f r
islation, Chairman Payne, of the
last Ways and Means, says that he
"does not believe in any radical
measures of currency reform," and
that he "would support a measure
in the nature of the Aldrich bill as
modified and reintroduced by him
self near the close of the last ses
sion." The expression of opinion
by individual members indicate some
moderate legislation of that kind
which would meet present needs.
BOSTON'S AUTOMOBILE POLICE
.. KXH "
. Ingenious Bostonians have dis
covered a new use for the automo
bile, says the New York Sun. It ia
made to protect the interests of peo
ple in the Back Bay district.
In past years, while many of the
residents of that part of Boston have
been away for the Summer and their
town houses have been closed, van-
dais ana petty thieves nave naa a
merry time of it. The approach of
the mounted police was easily de
tected by the clatter of the horses'
hoofs, and it was not very difficult
to evade the policemen on foot.
Now the path of .the evildoers Is not
so rosy. They have found an arch
enemy in the automobile, "which is
being used to patrol Boston's fash
ionable neighborhood.
This vehicle is in charge of a
chauffeur and carries a policeman
in civilian's attire. It goes out in
the morning and covers every, part
of the Back-Bay region at a speed
of from fife to seven miles an hour.
In the course of a day it travels
fifty or sixty miles, or nearly twice
the distance covered by any mem
ber of the monnted force.
The Boston police department's
records show thatv since the instal
lation of this new service, a few
weeks ago, scarcely a day has passed
without the arrest by the automo
bile "cop" of at least one offender,
and that, in a single day, her has
gathered in as many as four thieves,
unaided. As the summer season
advances and the harvesting period
of the thieves shortens they become
bolder and more active; hence the
automobile officer is expected to be
kept very busy during the next six
weeks.
So great has been the success of
this experiment that it is reported
the police department intends to
have an automobile squad compris
ing six machines before the end of
July. With such a force it will be
possible to patrol several of the out
lying districts of the town, and
also to increase the. auto-policemen's
duties. For example, scorch
ers of all varieties and degrees of
recklessness will be taken Care of,
and there will be no escape for the
hog who demands the whole road. .
Experience has shown that the
drivers of high-powered automo
biles in New York, when plainly
exceeding the legal speed limit,
have been able to "give the laugh"
to policemen on bicycles. The
power of steam, gasolene or elec
tricity, as the case might be, has
been too great for human muscle to
overcome, and, consequently, the
scorchers have triumphed. Now
their days of misdoing around Bos
ton are numbered, and the method
employed to subdue them may ap
peal to the police authorities elsewhere.
NEAR TO DROWNING.
NOBLE INSTANTLY KILLED.
SPIRITS TURPENTINE.
Miraculous Escape of Two
White Men in a Small Boat
Saturday Night:
MANY CONFUSED REPORTS.
Brothers Ia Skill Ran Dowa by Passen
ger Barfe and Plunged lato the
River One Rescued, While the
Other Slang to the Canoe.
THE BOTJTH'S PROGRESS.
According to the Baltimore Manu
facturers' Record, in 1880 the South
had forty cotton seed oil mills, with
a capital of $3,500,000. During the
last six months alone the South has
organized ninety-four cotton seed
oil mills, with a capital of $3,700,
000. There are now 700 oil mills,
with an annual output of $125,000,
000 in place of the forty oil mills of
1880. In 1880 the South made
397,000 tons of iron; this year its
production will be largely over
3,000,000 tons. Its coal output
will be about 65,000,000 tons,
against 6,000,000 tons then. Its
cotton spindles now number nearly
8,000,000, against 600,000 in 1880.
These are but typical illustrations
of the progress of every line of In
dustry in the South. The advance
in these industries has been matched
by the growth in lumber, in furni
ture making, in rice production, in
railroad develoment, in fruit and
early truck raising and in nearly all
other lines of human activity. But
the next ten years will show far
greater progress than the -.last
twenty.
A Richmond, Va., special to the
Baltimore Sun says a conservative
estimate of the financial loss caused
by the late strike of the conductors
and motormen of the Virginia Pas
senger and Power Company and the
cost . of suppressing the attendant
disorders places the amount not far
short of $200,000.
Lower Market street was thrown into
a fever of excitement Saturday night
over a report, widely circulated, that
a small row boat In which two, and
perhaps three, men were seated, had
been capsized in the river and that
one or two of the occupants had been
drowned and a third had been brought
ashore in almost a lifeless condition.
Crowds gathered about the dock
where the man rescued was being
rolled and turned In the usual manner
of resuscitating those brought ashore
from drowning accidents. Fortunate
ly the man was soon revived, and in
about an hour It was developed that
no one had been drowned! though
two men had come as near to meeting
that fate as usually ocean.
The man at the dock proved to be
Ed. Herring, a white man well known
ia the city, who was more dead than
alive from his experience. Dr. An
drew H. Harrits was quickly sum
moned and after administering tem
porary restoratives, sent him to the
hospital In the patrol wagon. As It
afterwards proved, there was only one
other man in the boat with him and
that was his brother, James Ell Her
ring, familiarly known as "L" Her
ring. The two men had been drink
ing to some extent and had been In
the boat around Market dock nearly
all the afternoon. Their brother, Mr.
O. W. Herring, hearing of their con
dition, earlier In the evening went to
Market dock but found that the boat
with the two men in It was drifting
with the tide up the river. He bor
rowed another boat from Wesley Ev
ans, tne colored restaurant keeper
on the south side of the dock, rowed
out to the men and persuaded them to
return to the dock and go home. Mr.
G. W. Herring then went to his own
home and Messrs. "L." and Ed Herring
started to row their boat, against the
tide, down the river. As they were
passing close to the shore, off Brooks
& Taylor's warehouse, the tug "Im
perial," having a barge heavily laden
with colored excursionists, put out
from the wharf for a trip down
the river, The barge ran squarely
Into the small boat and the two men
were thrown Into the river. The ac
cident was witnessed by Mr. A. Q.
Martin and wife, who had strolled
down to the river for the breeze. The
men shouted for help and CapL A. A.
Milliken, of the schooner "J. C.
Allen," lying close by, launched a
small boat and went to the rescue.
He reached the scene In time
to save Ed Herring and bring him to
Market street dock. "L." Herring, it
afterwards appeared, clung to. the
capsized boat and after the lapse of
an hour, drifted In near the Coal,
Cement & Supply Co's wharf, down
the river, and came back to lnquhe
as to tbe fate of hia brother. It then
became known that no one was drown
ed. The fact that Mr. G. W. Herring
went out to the men in a boat earlier
in the night gave rise to the report
that three men were in the canoe, but
uch was not the case.
White Mas Harled to Platform by Falling
Lumber from Overturned Track.
Negro Also lsortd.
As the result of the overturning of a
truck, heavily laden with lumber, at
the Angola mill, beyond Hilton Park,
Friday morning ' about 9 o'clock,
James E. Noble, white, aged about 40
years, waslrtruck by the falling mass
and thrown to a platform with such
violence that he was instantly killed.
Alex. Judge, colored, who was assist
ing Noble with the truck, was caught
under a part of the lumber and badly
bruited and broken. Two other ne
groes narrowly escaped with their
lives. The wounded negro was sent
to the hospital where he was reported
as doing remarkably well at last ac
counts.
It is said that Noble had been drink
ing during the morning and, with the
three negroes, was engaged in remov
ing the truck, piled high with lumber,
fromAbedrykiln to a platform for
shipment. One of the wheels In some
way became caught and the vehicle
was overturned. Noble was struck by
the lumber and thrown on his back to
the platform. His head was crushed
badly and an ugly hole was made in
the back and front part of his head.
No other part of his body was Injured.
His death was instantaneous.
SUES C. R., L. & P. 60. FOR $20,000.
Prank D. Irving Alleges Isjarles to That
Extent la Car Collision.
Through his attorneys. Hon. Jno.
D. Bellamy and L. V. Grady, Esq..
Frank D. Irving, shipping clerk for
Swift & Co. In this city, yesterday. In
stituted suit against the Consolidated
Railways, Light and Power Co., for
damages received about a month ago
in the collision of a street car and a
buggy in which young Mr. Irvine was
ridiog with Col. W. B. Fort,, the well
known railroadman of Pikeville, N.O.,
who was on his way to the railroad
station.
The complaint in the suit will be
filed Monday, and will allege $20,000
damages, by reason of injuries, inter
nal and external, received by the
young man. It will be remembered
that the accident occurred at Front
and Grace streets and was not thought
to have beenserlous at the time.
Messrs. Davis & DavlTare attorneys
for the defendant company.
Sommerclal Pacific Cables.
The Commercial-Pacific cables ope
rated in direct connection with the
land lines of the Postal Telegraph
Cable Company will be opened for
cable business to and from the Philip
pine and Lidrone Islands, China,
Japan and Corea, on and after Sat
urday, July 25, 1903. As Manila time
Is considerably in advance of San
Francisco time, business from Manila
may be looked for on Friday alter
noon. The Postal Telegraph-Cable
Company, in direct connections with
the Commercial Pacific Cable, an
nounces that on and after Saturday,
July 25, 1903, the rate between San
Francisco and Honolulu will be re
duced from fifty cents to thirty-five
cents per word.
LOCAL DOTS.
Rev. L. B. Boney was in the
city yesterday. He recently took
charge of a church in Gunnison,
Miss., but has resigned and Is now lo
cated at Chadbourn, N. 0., doing
evangelistic work.
Alberba Teachy, colored,
charged with disorderly conduct, was
sent to jail for 30 days by Justice Bor
nemann yesterday. The defendant
had figured in several law suits lately,
hence the rather seversentence.
- Local speculators are said to
have been "hard hit" by the slump
In alocks the closing days of last week.
One man Is quoted as having said that
he knew of a party who had lost $14,
000 or $15,000, while any number have
lost from $1,000 to $3,000.
Atlanta - Constitution 25th :
"The special excursion carrying Rev.
Len Brougbton, the choir of the
Tabernacle, church and some 200
others, arrived yesterday noon over
the Seaboard from Wrlghtsvllle Beach,
N. O. All report having enjoyed the
best kind of a time."
Bid PI6NIB AT ATKINSON.
Wilmington's Whoiessle Trade.
Florence Times: : "Wilmington's
wholesale merchants are out for gore.
They have Invited tbe retail trade of
this section to trade with them and as
a guarantee of their anxiety to have
the trade they have offered to refund
the full fare to any who purchase a
bill of goods amounting to $1,000.
Fare one way will be refunded to the
man who buys $500 worth of goods.
That is a good way to get the trade.
Peonle like to know that a man Is In
earnest when he extends an Invitation
to him to 'drop in and have something.'"
VBefore S.
Referee in Bank-
Miss Bertha Dawson, of Wash
ington City, is a remarkable swim
mer. She took a small row boat a
few days ago and, with her sister,
funea out into tne ureas ooutu jr,
I., about three miles from shore,
'lhen, in an attractive bathing suit,
she swam to the shore, which she
reached a few yards behind her sis
ter, who pulls a strong oar and had
tried to leave a gap of half a mile be
tween them. This the rower failed
to do.
It is said that the export price of
wheat for the last fiscal year was 4
cents per bushel higher than in the
previous year and flour averaged
$3.75 per barrel, a slight increase.
The actual value of the export of
these Items was $161,512,000, or
$17,000,000 less than iu 1902.
That Buffalo confidential law
clerk,- Frank Labountie, made a
pretty good sized swipe from his
employers' till, if all reports are cor
rect. The figures are now approach-
I ing tbe half million mark, and the
investigation is not near nnisnea.
General Young, who is soon to be
the head of the United States army,
began his military career as a private
In the Twelfth Pennsylvania In
fantry, says the Buffalo JSzpress.
People la Attendance for Miles Around.
Music, Dancing nnd Refreshments.
Special Star Correspondence.
Athnson, N. C, July 23. Three
hundred people attended the picnic to
day. The Italian band furnished the
music for the occasion. A platform
was erected In the grove and dancing
was kept up during the day. The din
ner was superb and so much of It that
it could not be consumed by those, pres
ent I a the afternoon melons, apples,
peaches, Ice cream and lemonade were
served in abundance. New. Hanover
and Sampson counties were well repre
sented by beautiful women and gallant
men. Our attention was especially
called to two beautiful young women
who are visiting In the neighborhood
one from South Carolina; the other
from Virginia in whose honor the
plcnie was given.
At the close of. the day a vote of
thanka was unanimously passed to tbe
committee of arrangements:' Steve J.
Hawes, A. L. Prldgen, Fred. Simpson,
A. E. Eaklns and F. E. Henry.
Bankruptcy Proceedlngs.
Favetteville Observer:
EL MacRae. Esq ,
ruptcy, there was a hearing yesterday
in the matter of Jas. H. Johnson,
bankrupt, the entire afternoon being
consumed in the examination of Mr.
p Punnall and Mr. Johnston. The
other creditors are attacking a prefer
ence claimed by McNalr & Pearsall of
Wilmington, because of a mortgage
given that firm by the bankrupt,"
Railroad Condemnation Proceedings.
Clerk of the Court Johnson, of Pen
der county, Saturday rendered a (de
dsion in favor of the Holly Shelter
Railroad Co., In the condemnation
proceedings recently argued berore
him at Burgaw. The question was
upon certain matters of law and the
clerk will now on Aug. Slh hear an
argument as to matters of fact,
SOME OF LIFE'S PERILS
Modern Society: Drink water
and get typhoid. - Drink milk and
get tuberculosis. Drink whiskey
and get the jim-jams. Drink soup
and get Blight's disease. Eat meat
and encourage apoplexy. Eat oys
ters and acquire taxemia. Jat
vegetables and weaken the system.
Eat dessert and take to paresis.
Smoke cigarettes and die early.
Smoke cigars and get catarrh.
Drink coffee and obtain nervous
prostration. Drink wine. and get
the gout. In order to be entirely
healthy one must eat nothing, drink
nothing, smoke nothing, and even
before breathing one should see that
the air is properly sterilized.
. A terrific wind and hail storm
passed over the Albemarle section
last Thursday, causing a loss of
about $20,000.
Yadkin Ripple: We are in
formed that there are about fifteen
cases of smallpox in and . around
East Bend, this county.
The Baptist Female Univer
sity at Raleigh will erect a music
building on its grounds, which, it
is Bald, will cost at least $25,000.
Catawba News: M. A. Bolch,
the noted trader and saw mill man,
sold his mill one day and. bought it
back the next. You cannot back
him down when it comes to a trade.
Hon. Theo. F. Eluttz says
that the number of females in
Rowan county exceed the number
of males by six. In Salisbury the
females are in the majority by
junety-nre.
Mr. Frank Suttles, of Arm
strong, was felling a bee tree when
it lodged in the limb of another tree
and this Rmb breaking fell upon Mr.
Suttles, inflicting injuries from
which he may die.
President Roosevelt has declined
to grant a pardon to Lawrence Pul
liam,who was cashier of the National
Bank of Asheville, and who embez
zled five or six years ago $7; 000 of
tbe funds belonging to the bank.
A wreck occurred on the South
ern Railway, four miles from Ral
eigh, Thursday morning, when a
freight train ran into-another at
Garner. One man, J. F. Fowler,
was injured and has been carried to
the hospital.
General M. W. Ransom says
that the most serious problem be
fore the farmers of North Carolina
now is the labor question, and as
yet he sees no solution of how labor
is to be secured to take the place of
negroes leaving.
William Roark, an Ashe coun
ty farmer, committed suicide in a
strange way. He tied one end of a
rope around hia neck and the other
to a brush on the side of a cliff and
then leaped from a ledge of rocks.
His body was found under another
rock on a ledge some 20 feet below.
He had made several threats to com
mit suicide.
Lexington Dispatch: Lindsay
Cntting, Lexington's 75 pound mid
get, was married at Fort Mill, S. C,
last Wednesday night, to Miss Mary
Rav. of Salisbury. Miss Ray is a
large and handsome young woman,
weighing possibly 175 pounds. Mr.
Cutting ia less than five feet high
and it is doubtful if he can balance
the scales at 75 pounds.
Gastonia Gazette: The apple
crop is better than usual this year.
In the Cherryville section it is said
to be abundant. A few days ago,
Mr. J. R. Shannon and Mr. Will
Bradley went into cahoot and took
a day off to make cider over in
Cherryville township. They came
back home with about 30 gallons
which they made that day at a cost
of about $2.50.
Lexington special to Charlotte
Observer: Four prisoners in the Da
vidson county jail were released, it
is thought, by outside assistance
some time to-night between 7 and
9:30 o'clock. They are Burwell
Holland and Glass Oates, white,
and John Barber and Henry Thomp
son, colored. Holland was in jail
charsred with trying to burn the
town ; the other prisoners were held
for petty larceny.
Lenoir Topic. On the farm of
Alphonso Setzer, In Patterson
township, there is a most remark
able poplar tree. At the ground,
9 feet apart, there are two distinct
and nerfect trees, two feet in diame
ter, and 25 feet from the ground
these unite and form a perfect tree,
some three feet in diameter, and is
probably 50 or 60 feet in height
above where they are joined to
gether. High Point Enterprise: A very
sad occurence was the burning of a
bright seven-year old white boy by
the name of Farcum, near Mace
donia, Thursday morning. The
mother had instructed the child to
build a fire under a pot in the yard,
and the child, before it was discov
ered, had secured an oil can. The
heat from the fire caused the ex
RACE WAR IN AN
ILLINOIS TOWN.
Caused by the Brutal Assault by
a Negro on the Wife of a
White Fanner.
NEQRO HANGED AND BURNED.
Merry, white, shot thror1- the' head
by volley from jail. Hines, white,
shot In neck and shoulders by volley
from jail; Otto Heinke, whiter ahot in
arm; Ben Rich, negro, badly beaten by
mob. Jfatroiman Charles Liopp, club
bed on the head while defending May-
neid ; patrolman William Lteverenz,
badly Injured internally by mob's
battering ram while defending May
field; Fred Lorenx, shot three times In
the leg In attack on jail; Mince Mo-
back s snot in attack on jail; Thomas
I Bell, shot In chest In attack on jail.
THERE WILL BE NO STRIKE.
A White Ksa Shot and Killed by a Negro.
The Mob Attacked the Jsli and Were
Fired UponSeveral White Men
Were Woanded.
Book-binders in tbe Government Printing
Office Abandoned the Intention of
Walking Oat
A semi-official announcement is
made at Sofia, Bulgaria, confirming
the denial that Prince Ferdinand's
ministers advised htm to depart, owing
to the existence of a conspiracy
against him, and asserting that his de
parture is a sign of internal quietude
in Bulgaria.
plosion of the can, which ignited
the boy's clothing, ana ne was Durn
ed to death before proper assistance
could be rendered.
Rockingham special to Char
lotte Observer: Dr. N. C. Hunter,
of this place, lost his horse in a
very unusual manner yesterday.
While making a call the animal
was hitched near a bee gum. The
bees attacked the horse and com
pletely covered him. He was cut
loose and an effort made to brush
the bees off, but so vigorously were
the insects in their attack that all
efforts at rescue were of no avail
and the horse died in a very short
time.
New Bern Journal: The peo
ple of Kinston are either driving
their idle ones out of town, or com
pelling them to go to work. They
employ an original and very unique
lan to ascertain the extent of the
eisure one's laziness." When one of
the ."critters" is spotted, he is ap
proached by some one ana onerea
work. If he says he is out of a job
and won't accept the work offered,
he is ordered to apperar before the
Mayor on a charge - of ' ragrancy.
The ruse is effective. His Nibs
skips the town or goes to hustling
instanter, for his mush.
Norfolk Virqinian-Pilot: Jesse
Wilson's excursion trip from Eliza
beth City, N. C, to Virginia iseacn
yesterday cost him considerably more
than he had originally bargained
for. He fell in with an oily confi
dence operator at the ocean reBort
and was relieved of $300 in cash, a
valuable gold watch and such other
articles of personal bric-a-brac that
a representative of the sterner sex
generally carries in his clothes. Im
mediately after the robbery the
rogue faded away and at last reports
his whereabouts were enveloped in
a cloak of impenetrable gloom.
' 8i Telegraph to the Mornmtt star.
Danville, III , July 25. This city
is on tbe threshold of a race war. One
negro, an unknown man from Evans
vllle, Ind., who to-night shot and
killed Henry Gatterman, hite, has
already been lynched by a mob of 600
men, who were later fired upon by the
sheriff, three men being -wounded.
The mob was clamoring for the life
of another negro named James Wil
son, who has confessed to a brutal as
sault on the wife of a farmer at Alvon,
111., just north of here.
The unknown negro met his fate
while the mob was on the way to
lynch Wilson. The angry throng
was passing down East Main street
when the negro became involved in an
altercation with some of its member.
Ttaey started after bim and he pulled a
gun, firing Into the crowd. Henry
Gatterman, a young butcher, who has
recently returned from Fortress Mon
roe, fell mortally wounded and ex
pired In a few seconds. The negro
turned and fled but was caught by the
officers within a block of the scene of
the tragedy and hurried to the police
station with the mob in hot pursuit,
temporarily diverted from their march
to tbe county jail.
Tbe officers, with their prisoner,
took refuge in the city building, barri
cading themselves behind the door of
one of the offices. They could not
check the mob, for it secured a long
pole and tried to batter down a section
of the wall and the door, both of
which were very thick. On account
of the overwhelming numbers of the
mob it was useleas for the officers to
resist. The negro was seized and
rushed to the spot where he bad shot
down Gatterman. It was the work of
an instant to throw a rope around his
neck and swingliim up to the nearest
telegraph pole. The mob did not de
lay long, but waited to see that their
victim was dead. The life was slowly
strangled out and he was left hang
ing, while the mob proceeded on to
tbe county jail. The officers hope to
save the second negro by some ruse.
Wilson, It Is charged, went to the
farm house while the woman was
alone, and told her be was hungry.
While she was getting him something
to eat he entered the kitchen door ana
seized her. He fled, leaving her half
dead. Afterward she managed to crawl
to tbe nearest farm house where she
told the story. A posse of officers
started In pursuit of the negro and
when Wilson was captured he was
hurried to the county jail to prevent
lychlng. There the negro confessed.
Three other negroes have been at
tacked by members of the mob and se
verely beaten. One of them Is named
Ben Rich and the other two are said to
be refugees from Evansville, Ind.
Borne negroes are arming themselves
and others are preparing for flight.
The victim of the mob later was
identified as J. D. Mayfield. The
mob changed its mind before attacking
the jail and went back acd cut down
Mayfield's body. They rushed it to
the public square and burned it in a
bonfire, backing it to pieces wun
knives as it burned.
Then they charged the jail and the
sheriff and deputies fired, wounding
aeveral members of the mob, some
fatally. Among the wounded are
Adam Merry, fatally shot through the
head; H. Hines, shot in necic ana
shoulder, may Cie; Otto Heinke, shot
In tbe arm, will recover.
The mob repulsed, sent to a neigh
boring mining camp for dynamite and
probably will attack the jail again.
The mob Is Infuriated and threatens
to lynch the sheriff and hia deputies,
also the negro turnkey In the jail.
After securing battering rams, it
took the mob about half an hour
to wreck the city prison, the
negro being found hid in a safe. . He
was pulled from the safe, struck with
sledges, knocked down, jumped upon
and stamped to death. A rope was
placed around his neck and his lifeiess
body was dragged through three
blocks. An effort was made to hang
the body to a telegraph pole but the
rope broke. The mob which by this
time numbered 5,000, then dragged the
body to the jail and burned it.
While waiting for the men who
were expected to bring the dynamite
the mob marched up and down in
front of the jail, stoning It and firing
shots at random.
About a half hour after the message
for the dynamite was sent a telephone
menage came from Hlmrod, a little
town half way between Westvllle and
Danville, saying that one of the men
had been stopped there by citizens
who had hurriedly set out from Dan
ville to intercept him. They took
from him a large quantity of dyna
mite which he was carrying. The
other man with dynamite is believed
to be on tbe way here. About half of
company K, the colored organization,
has assembled at the armory and is
barricaded there in fear of an attack
from the mob.
The entire reserve police force, num
bering about twenty, has been called
out and this, with twelve deputy sher
iffs and Sheriff Whltlock, forms the
garrison at the jail.
Wilson was Interviewed lathe jail.
He said he was the man-who visited
the farm house and he admitted that
he had attacked the woman, but de
nied that he had criminally assaulted
her.
The sheriff Implored the mob to let
justice take Its course, but hewasln
urrnnted bv shouts from the mob.
members of which loudly declared
their determination to have the
negro's life sooner or later.
They said that it they did not get him
to-night they would storm the jail to
morrow. The jail Is one block below
the public square and three squares
from the police station where the ne
gro, Mayfield, was captured by the
mob. '
Company K, a colored troop, has Its
quarters here and the officials have
prepared to call It out. Leaders of the
mob declare they will try to kill the
entire company If it comes out.
The Casualties.
The dead: J. D. Mayfield, Evans
Tille, Ind., negro, lynched, and burn
ed by the mob; Henry Gatterman v
Danville, Ills., white, shot dead by
Mayfield. Fatally wounded: Adam
By Telegrapn to the Horning star.
Washington, July 25. The Book
binders' Union, which has been fight
ing the re-instatement of W. A.
Miller, the assistant foreman in the
government printing office, has aban
doned any intention of walking out
in case Miller reaumea work.
President Tatum,. of the Interna
tional' Brotherhood of Book-binders,
is now en route here from Chicago to
advise with the local leaders. The
latter" have decided to abide 'by the
decision of the publio printer and
avoid any clash with the government.
Although failing to appear at the
beginning of office hours, Miller re
ported for duty about 10 o'clock this
morning and was assigned to duty.
He remained only a few minutes and
left, after explaining that Saturday
was a short day and he would wait
until Monday for further work.
The union officials announced to
day that there would be no action on
their part for thirty days, during
which they anticipated- that the ques
tion would be solved by the public
printer. It is expected that a na
tional arbitration council will meet
to-morrow to discuss the situation.
The union officials to-day called on
Secretary Oortelyou and Public Printer
Palmer and left with them a statement
regarding what was done at the meet
ing of the book-binders last .night. It
set forth that Miller would, he per
mitted under protest to continue in
the position to which he has been re
Instated, and that there would be
nothing done at present by the book
binders that would interfere with the
work of the office. It gives assurance
that this action Is Inspired by a regard
for the action of the President and for
the Federal statutes, and expresses the
belief that the charges against Miller
will be substantiated on Investigation.
A similar statement was filed, with the
civil service commission.
Two members of the executive
council of the National Book-binders
Union arrived in Washington to-night.
but the local officers refused to give
their names. Tbe local book-binders
admit that the letter to the President
makes the government printing office
an "open" shop, and say that under
It no objection would be made to a
non-union man working there If duly
certified by the civil service commis
sion. At the same time an effort
would be made to Induce such work
men to join the union.
Discussed it Length ly sa Official of tbe
Rasslsn Foreign Office Japsa's
Pretentions RIdlcaled.
By cable to the Morning Star.
St. Pbtebbbubq, July 25. Director
Hartwlg, of the Asiatic department of
the Russian Foreign Offloe, talked
long, earnestly and frankly to a repre
sentative of the Associated Press re
garding Manchuria. He declared that
he could not understand Prince Ohlng's
statement to United States Minister
Conger, but he presumed that the port
question would be arranged. Russia,
he said, excluded Hartsln from the port
noaaibUitiea because of Its railway Im
portance, but he could see no objection
to two more other ports being opened.
Passing to the statement of Ameri
can opinion regarding Manchuria, the
director made a remarkably outspoken
attack upon England. He said:
"I do not comprehend how Russia,
whose foreign policy i the most
straightforward, can be accused of du-
illoity, when England's double deal
ng is a question - that should
be apparent to everybody. Why
does not anybody stop to consider how
much the American-Manohurian trade
amounted to before 1899. Whoever
heard New Chwang mentioned before
we brought order theret Who Is
building Dadney as a free porlt "Rus
sia has ten thousand miles of Chinese
frontier," he said," shall we place our
selves on the same footing as others t
When we saved Admiral Seymour
from destruction, why did nobody
protest against Klachow t What is the
outcry fort Does anybody suppose
we are going ta be compelled to relin
quish th rail way to marauders f
"I repeat that we do not fear war
even with five powers. Our defeat in
the Crimea Is a glorious chapter In our
history, and I do not believe that any
five powers desire to get their new lau
rels like those of the Crimea. What
can Japan dot Suppose Japan de
feated tbe Russian army, we would '
crush Japan to sand. Japan exists
upon Russian fish.
" It is your duty to expose England's
duplicity. Some English 'dispatches
surpass opera bouffe. Here is a dis
patch just received stating tnat japan
Is preparing for war and that the en
tire Japanese squadron is now at
Vladivestock where foreign warships
are not allowed at all
Director Hartwlg generally and
specifically denied the reports regard
ing Russia's mobilization of troops.
KING EDWARD IN IRELAND.
FOR THE TURKISH EMPIRE.
New Cruiser Launched nt Cramp's Ship
yard First Warship Ever Boll! In
This Country for tbe Saltan.
or TeiesraDh to the Mornlna star.
Philadelphia. July 25. In the
presence of a distinguished gathering
of diplomatic foreign and American
naval officers and eminent citizens of
Philadelphia, the Turkish cruiser
Medjldi, the first warship ever built
here for the Ottoman empire, was
launched to day at Cramp's ship yard.
The sponsor for tbe new addition to
the Sultan's navy was Mrs. EwlnB.
Cramp, and the baptism was an eva
sion of the . Koran's teaching turned
Into a graceful compliment of the
American people. The Koran forbids
a Turkish woman from participating
In a christening at which wine Is used.
The difficulty was overcome by tbe
selection of an- American . woman,
Mrs. Cramp, to break the bottle on
the bow of the sea-fighter. The gen
eral dimensions of the vessel areas
follows: Length on load line, 330 feet;
beam extreme, 42 feet; draft, mean, 16
feet; displacement, 3,300 tons; speed,
22 knots.
The armament consists of two six
inch rapid-fire guns, 45 calibres long;
eight 4.7 rapid-fire guns, 60 calibres;
six three-pounder rapid-fire guns, 50
calibres; six seven-pounder rapid-fire
guns, 50 calibres; one two-Inch field
gun; two torpedo tubes for Jpurteen
lnch Whitehead torpedoes.
PE0NAQE IN ALABAMA. ,
Royal Party Lett Dublin for Connty Down.
Cheered by tbe People The King's
MesBsge of Appreclstlon.
nv cable to the Mormna etar.
Dublin, July 25. King Edward
and Queen Alexandra left Dublin by
train shortly before noon to-day, ac
companied by Princess Victoria and
their suites, On their way to County
Down, where they win visit me mar
quis of Londonderry at the Hasmount
Btewart residence. Notwithstanding
the rain the royal party drove from
the vice regal lodge in open carriages
and halted at Phcenix Park to review
thousands of school children. The
route to the railroad station was packed
with continuously cheering people.
who gave the royal visitors a magnifi
cent farewell. '
A messsge from King Edward to
the Irish people, Issued this morning,
expresses deep appreciation oi tne
loyalty and affection witn wmcn tne
King and Queen were surrounded dur
ing their stay in Dublin and says that
his Majesty trusts tnat in uoa s provi
dence the Irish may enjoy blessings
commensurate with tbe warmth of
their hearts.
After the King left Dublin It was an
nounced that he had donated $5,000 to
the poor of the city.
STEAMER MONGOLIA.
The Second Largest Ship Ever Bollt In
tbe United States,
at Taiearach to the Mornlna Btar.
Camdkn, N. J.", July 25.-The steam
ship Mongolia, built for the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company, was launch
ed to-day at the yard of the New York
Shipbuilding Company. The Mon-
Eolla Is the second largest ship ever
ullt In the United States. She Is to
be used in the Philippine and China
trade. Her sister ship, tbe Manchuria,
will be launched In October. Miss
Lucy Bell Kennedy, of Pittsburg,
christened the Mongolia. The Mon
golia was originally intended for an
Atlantic transport ship but was pur
chased by the Pacific JMall Co.
The dimensions of the new steam
ship are: Length, 615 feet 8
inches; breadth, 65 feet; depth 51 feet
8 inches; indicated horse power 13,
000; speed 16 knots; displacement 26,
514 tons; gross tonage 13,500; passeng
er capacity, first cabin 350; second
cabin 68 ; steerage 1,300. When laden
she will draw 32 feet of water.
TRAIN WRECKERS.
R. B Frsnklla Convicted and Fined $1,000
In the United Ststes Court
B j Telegraph to the Mornlna Btar.
Montgomery, Ala , July 25. The
jury In the case of the United States
against R. B. Franklin, charged with
causing Patrick Mills, a negro, to be
held In a condition of peonage, to-day
brought in a verdict of guilty. Judge
Jones Imposed the minimum fine of
$1,000 which was promptly paid.
Judge Jones thanked the jury for
their verdict.
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Lexington-Atlanta "Flyer" Derailed Near
Lonlsvllie Eight Persons Injured,
sv Taiearaph to the Mornlna star.
Louisville, Ky., July 25. Train
wreckers jeopardized the lives of over
one hundred passengers on the Lexington-AtlantauFlyer"
of the Southern
Railway last night at Tuskers, a small
station fourteen miles from here.
The "Flyer" left here at 7:05 and an
hour later, while running at a high
rate of speed, ran into an open switch.
which naa unaouoteaiy neon wrown
for a siding with the purpose of
wrecking the train. The "Flyer'
first struck two cars of stone and
crashed them Into a boarding car miea
with railroad employes. Ulght per
sons, all railroad men, were seriously.
although not rataiiy nun. xno en
gine, two freight cars and a passenger
coach were demolished. Fortunately
all passengers escaped Injury although
they received a severe shaking up.
There Is no clue to the miscreants who
misplaced the switch.
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Parties Securing Ores! Trncts of Forest
Mads li .California and Oregon.
Bv leiesxasn to the Mornlna star.
San Fbanoiboo, July 25. The Bul
letin says that E. H. Harriman and
James J. Hill are uniting in a great
timber deal whereby they, with a
number of associates, will control the
lumber market of the world. They are
securing large tracts of forest land In
Northern California and Oregon,
through their agents, who have been
for some time quietly buying property
on the coast. .
With the many minor holders which
Harriman and his associates may count
on, it I said that the plan is to mew
the more valuable lands controlled by
the Hill roads and the Southern Pa
cific. m , m
A Shreveporr, La,, dispatch says:
The plant of the Sun Planing Compa
ny, on of the largest lumber mills In
the South, is on fire. The loss will be
haary.
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