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Ihe Weather To-day: !CA KOLIN a” | GENERALLY FAIR. The News and Observer. VOL. XLVJ, NO. lit. Lire 111 mm eMiull dailies I news and circulai?-* m. HORRIBLESTORYOF BRUTALITY Jim Lowe Beaten to Death in the Field. UNPARALLELED CRUELTY TO CONVICTS Prisoners Maltreated, Whipped And Starved. CONVICT MAZOS lIISAIIiB THREE WEEKS 111' WHIPPING ~~4 And Then Hidden for Two Days in a Cell Without Food or Medical Attention — Testimony of D. S. Russell, Broth er of the Governor, Before In vestigating Committee. D S. Russell to the Committee : “He did not get into line as quick as Summerell.wanted him to, and Summerell took hold of the staff of the lash, which is about as large as a man’s arm and peeled him over the head five or six limes with it. Tne staff was about two feet long. * * * * He bled profusely, Every time he hit him the blood spouted. * * * * * ***** “Summerell did not think that sufficient, and he jerked the whip out of Slater’s hand and whipped him on the side. He was so raw all below that he whipped him on the side. * * * • The rawness was from the lash, He was not able to work for three or four weeks. * * * * * * * * * * “1 heard that he (Lowe) was whipped to death in the field. • • • • Tney brought him from the field in a wag on. •* * * Summerell said to me: “What do you think? Tnat d—n’d fool beat Lowe to death.” * * * * Dr. Furguson sawed his head open and found blood clot-* ted around the brain. • • • • Dr. Furguson told me the whipping was the cause of his death.” Halifax. N. CL, Aug. 25. — (Staff porrespondence.) —Tin* penitentiary investi gating committee, composed of Seriate Brown and Representatives Gattis and Patterson, drove out nine miles to the Caledonia farms today. '1 hey went over the farms in the morning and examined witnesses in the afternoon. It had been the general supposition, at the farms and at headquarters, that the examination would be con fined chiefly to the farm of which Lewis Sum mered is the supervisor. Therefore, when Summerell received sunstroke and notice of the approach of the committee simultaneously he went to bed, and when the committee reached the Northampton farm on Wednesday afternoon he was shut up incommunicado. But they found plenty of witnesses out at Caledonia. There were men there who had served under Summerell on the other farfn in various capacities, as overseers, stewards, whatnots. And while the whole ground of the farm manage ment was gone over the most startling evidence was that relating to the treat ment of helpless convicts by Summerell. The most important witness was D. S. Russell. avlio was Summerell’s stew ard in 1898, for a period of S months. Russell is a half brother of Governor Daniel L. Russell, and a full brother of former Warden Russell at the peniten tiary. He is it man of intelligence and of quite another temper from the Gov ernor. He spoke calmly, so far as any man can speak calmly of tin* scenes he described, and with not the least perceptible bias one way or the other. Rus sell told the truth, nobody could watch him while testifying and doubt it; one wished for the sake of the good name of mankind that one could believe Russell was lying. He did not tell tin; full truth because nobody that had seen eight months of Sunnuerell’s treatment of convicts could think of it all at once or could have told it in the time. Russell was on the stand. From Russell’s sworn estimate it appears: 1. One man was beaten to death on SummerelPs farm. 2. One man was beaten so he eon Id not get out of bed for two weeks, was left without food for two days and was denied medical at tention. 3. Numerous others were beaten in the most brutal manner and were, some of them, disabled let days. 4. Summerell was accustomed to do more whipping than any of the oilier supervisors, and more than was necessary to good discipline. Apart from the evidence as to Summerell the examination yesterday show ed that under the Fusion regime tin* Supervisors of farms did not know what the produce they shipped brought, what went with it in many eases, or whether the farms were making or losing money. This system of keeping books is still in rogue, RUSSELL’S TESTIMONY. How Summerell and His Overseers I orttired the Convicts. Q. How long have you been in the employ of the State Penitentiary/ A. A little over two years. *v Q. Who appointed you? A. John It. Smith. (). Where have you been at work? A. Well, I was here about 12 months, then I Avas at Northampton I arm about 8 months Avitli Stimtnerell, and have been here since April. <}. You worked under Mr. Summerell, did you? A. Yes, sir. Q. Did you ever know Mr. Summerell to iuHiet any punishment on any of bis convicts? A. Yes. Q. Was it very severe' A. Well, itt three or four instances I should call it brutal. Q. Will you relate these instances? THE BLOOJ) SPOTTED. A. One prisoner, Joe Mazon, a life prisoner, was whipped very (Continued ou Second Page.) RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20, 1803. STORY OF DISASTER GROWS. Many Sloops, Barges, Lighters and Small Schooners Missing. Norfolk, August 25.—'The story of maritime disaster from the late burn nine grows daily. A close consultation of the northbound arrivals through the Albemarle and Chesapeake Fa mil re veals many sloops, barges, lighters ami small schooners missing. Two schoon ers arrived in the Capes today in dis tress. tlu> Frank W. turn Dunn, and the Oscar G. Smith, both badly handled by the storm. The Oscar G. Smith's signal showed one life lost. This proved to be her captain. William S. Crawford, who was washed overboard by a huge aa’uvc August Kith. Captain. French, the wrecker, sailed with Avreckiug outfit, for Roanoke Land ing Marshes today to rescue the steam er Neuse, which is nearly a mile in land in the marshes, in three feet of Aval or. The Diamond Shoal Lightship is re ported by seamen to be in a bad posi tion, as she lies stern foremost in a quicksand. The Keswick, Avhich was lost in the sound, is thought to lie the schooner Sallie Purnell Beswiek, well known in Norfolk and Baltimore, TO PATROL FLORIDA’S COAST. Vessel Asked for to Guard Against Ifc -1 reduction of Fever. Washington. August 25.—The Marine Hospital 'Service, recently applied to the Navy Department for a suitable ves sel to assist in the patrol of the Flori da coast to guard against the possible introduction of yelhnv fever and other contagious diseases. Surgeon General Wyman has been notified by Acting Secretary Allen that the yachts Oneida, at Norfolk and Kanawha at New York, are the only naval vessels available for that purpose. He suggests that the Marine Hospital authorities Inspect these vessels to determine which of them is most suitable. THE COTTON DUCK TRUST IT WILL BE PERFECTED IN A FEW DAYS. Fourteen Mills in it. The New Company has a Total Capitalization of $2,- 500,000. Baltimore, Md„ August 25.—The cot ton consolidation, which is one of the most important industrial sonibinntions of the .South, has been completed, and the fourt ihui mills acquired are iioav- ip. the hands of the Continental Trust Company of this city, the syndicate manager, awaiting their transfer to the Mount Vernon-Woodbury Cotton Duck Company, which has been incorporated under the laws of the State of Dela ware, the* permanent organization of AV'hieh will he completed within the next flew days when the properties will be taken over by that company. The total capitalization of the new company is $23,500,000. Payment for tin* properties began Tuesday at the Continental Trust Com pany, set I lenient for the last two mills having been arranged by the Continen tal Trust Company to take place today in New York at Messrs. Yermyle and Company’s hanking house. The properties acquired* by tin* new company, are as follow#; Mount Vernon Company, four mills nnmbers 1, 3 and 1 ("Druid”), Balti more: and “Phoenix,” Baltimore coun ty, Maryland. Woodbury Manufacturing Company. (William E. Hooper and Sons), live mills—“ Woodbury,” "Clippers,” “Mead ow,’* “Park,” and “Mount Washing ton,” Baltimore Md. Laurelville and Franklin Mills, Mary land. Tallnsee Falls Manufacturing Com pany, Tallasscc, Alabama. Greenwoods Company, New Hart ford. Conn. Columbia Mills Company, Columbia, S. C. Tiie mills consolidated' manufacture over ninety per cent of alt the cot ton duck manufactured in the United States. Mr. S. Davis. Warfield. President of the Continental Trust Company, who conducted the negotiations states that there is no disjiositioiii on the part of the mill-owners to make an advance In the price of cotton duck. IMPORTS TO HAWAII. Vast Increase from the United States Since the Annexation. Washington, August 25. —The Treas ury Department has received from the Auditor General of Hawaii a compara tive statement of the imports into the islands for June, 1898 and 1899, and the* receipts and e.\ i end it tires for July, 1898 and 1899. It shows a A”ast in crease in the importations from the United States si nice the Islands came under our sovereignty. Imports from the United States .lime, 1898, the last month of the old regime were $599,- 803, all either $283,995. In June. 1899 they Avere sl,-112.1158; all other $348,491. Total increase six month $3,619,151. At the same time the Government’s receipts increased aiul the expenditures diminished. In July, 189 S, the receipts were $183,798 and expenditures $234,- 9(19, while in July, 1899, the receipts were $207,125 and the expenditures $172,382. TELEtrRAI’HIC BUIEFS. The Association of Fire Chiefs at Syracuse, N. Y., selected Charleston their next place of meeting. BAYONETS GLEAM IN DARIEN TOWN Sent There to Prevent a Threatened Outbreak. NEGRO KILLS A DEPUTY SON OF HENRY DELAGEL, AR RESTED FOR ASSAULT. MANY OTHER NEGROES UNDER ARREST Negroes in This Srction Outnumber the Whites Five to One, and Their Sullen Silence May Ptecede an Out break. Darien, Ga., Aug. 2->, —While all is quiet, here tonight the day \a\is one of great anxiety and intense excitement among the white people. An outhr<*a»» bj the negroes has been momentarily ex pected since the killing by John Deluge., a negro, of Joseph Townsend, a promi nent citizen and deputy sheriff ot this city, last night. Today Sheriff Ll. Hint sent the following to Governor ( a ltd lev: “Please order Liberty Independent troop to re[M»rt to me, mounted. :rt once. Situation critical. One deputy killed, an other wounded. (Signed) “T. B. BLOUX \\ “Sheriff.” Folonel A. R. Lawton, late command 1 i of the Second Georgia Regiment, l ni ted States volunteers, also wired the Governor to send a quantity of carbines aftwl supply of ammunition for the sol diers. ■Colonel Lawton was here this morning 4o investigate the situation. After a <en fci-ence with the officials he leturned to S;tA ivnii'.ih. 1\ hen the Governor received the message from Sheriff Blount 'i * <>r dered Folonel Lawton to return if nec essary aiud take command of the n ilita ry. He is now here ill tii.it capacity and has enough men. it is he'ieved to easily handle the situation. The .Sheriff and his deputies continue to make arrests of the rioting negroes, and the jail has a large number in it notwithstanding the fact th.ai tin* town boat Iris left here this morning for Sa vannah Avith twenty-five rioters Hie had been arrested. This avus a preen'iromary measure to prevent an attack on tne jail by the negro friends of those imprisoned and to .make room for those* a*. :io nave been arrested since flu* removal. Tin* situation here is regarded as crit ical, although with determined military control it is thought further troub'e can Ik* prevented. The negroes apparently have no leader iqion whom they can rely. It is estimated that the negroes ouriiu.in ner the white people in this part of Georgia five to one, and the whites are const qurntly apprehr nsive. John Dolngcl, the negro who killed Deputy Sheriff Joseph Townsend end wounded Deputy Hopkins last night can not. he found. He is the son of ITeaiy Del a gel, whose arrest for assault st -F'-'d the race war. The tAvo deputes \veut last night to the house of Henry D»-ia gcl to arrest . his two sums. John was found at the house and Townsend enter ed. The negro made no remonstrance, but showed his willingness to accompany the officers. Hopkins who was in tin* moonlight outside Avas joined by Town send, ami the two waited for the negro to (*OlllO out. lie came to the door, and a negro woman, handing him a gun, lie fired on the officers. Townsend died in a few indnutes, and was brought to this place by Hopkins, who is badly wound ed. The while people thought this would be a signal for attack, and many slept om their anus all night as they will do to night. The negroes have remained sullenly si leii't up to this time, gathering sin crowds, and looking doggedly at the military and the officers of the Jaw. The county offi cials have offered SIOO reward for John Delugel, and Governor Candler will be asked to increase this amount. The seventy-five members of the First Georgia who were left here two days ago when old man Del a gel was taken tit Savannah are patrolling tin* town to night. All saloons are closed and the strictest order is maintained. Nearly every negro left town this evening and tonight word comet* that they arc* massed 1 in Delagers swamp twelve miles from town. They are known to lie armed, and a posse of citizens left oil a s|mcial train for tin* place at 8 o'clock. They will maintain a guard over the negroes and keep them from doing any damage during the night. A telegram was sent to Bruns wick, urging all white citizen** to come to Darien. A boat was dispatched to carry them to this city, and a special train will be ready in case more warn to come. The presence of the Avhites is wanted to overawe the negroes, who are well aware of their superiority in numbers. One hundred men of the First Georgia are under orders in Sa vannah to he in readiness to move, and if more militia is wanted tin* Liberty Riti.s will lw* sent. The ordering out of these troops is Avith in the discretion of Colonel Lawton. THE GOVERNOR’S ACTION. Atlanta. Git. Aug. 25.—Upon rsreipt* of the alarmilg telegrams from Sheriff Blount of Mclntosh bounty, this State, and Colonel Lawton at Darien, Gover nor Candler took immediate steps to render every assistance in quelling the negro outbreak. Tile GoA'ernor sent the following telegram to Colonel LaAVton: •‘John R. Lawton, Savannah, Ga.: “Blount, sheriff, wires for Liberty troops. 1 doubt propriety of sending them and leave it to your discretion. Have wired Hughes, captain Liberty troops, to hold bis commiaud in readiness to respond if you call for them, but do nothing until you order him. The peo ple of Mclntosh county are excised. The situation demands a cool head. You have it, and 1 must rely on: you to exercise that Avise discretion, Avhicli I, so far away, cannot exercise. If neces sary return toDarien. (Signed.) “A. D. CANDLER, “Governor.” The Governor was in conference Avith Acting Adjutant General Byrd during the day. A large number of carbines have been sent to Darien, and a supply of ammunition is en route by special messenger, as the express company re fused to carry it owing to its explosive character. The Governor is in tele graphic communication Avith the seat of trouble. A MOVE AGAINST THE NEGROES. Darien, Ga., Aug. 26.—(Midnight.)— A conference was held at 11 o’clock to night between the militia officials and a citizens’ committee, and it was decided to take decisive action at daylight against the negroes, Avho are massed and armed in Delagel’s Swamp, twelve miles from this city. The sheriff wired Colonel I.awton, who is in Savannah tonight, to send the militia at once, and has received a reply to the effect that the men are ready and that the Liberty county troops will start from Hinesville for Darien at 2 o’clock. The Mclntosh dragoons are at their armory Avitli horses ready. The citizens move from Darien on a special train lor tin* swamp at 3 o’clock, and the militia—about 150 in number —one hour later. The ne groes are armed in defiance of law, and the purpose of the militia is to surround the swamp and relieve the blacks of their firearms and arrest them. The two special trains are being prepared. IN A STATE OF ANARCHY AMERICAN FOOTHOLD IN PHILIPPINES DE SCRIBED AS SMALL. C tis Wants no More Cavalry There, as They Cannot be Used Advantageously. A Negro Regiment. I minimi, August 25.—The Lab nan correspondent of the Reuter Teh‘grain Company, cables that reliable news re ceived there direct from Manila says that an indescribable state of anarchy prevails. The Americans, according to these advices occupy a radius of fifteen miles there, around the town of Iloilo they occupy a radius of nine miles and around Cebu they occupy a small ra dius, The rest of the country, it is added, is in the hands of tin* Filipinos. The correspondent also says it is re ported that the Filipinos/ Have mur dered the crew of the steamer Satur n us. The steamer Satnrnus. of the Com pania Maritina, coasting under the American Hag was beached under the insurgent trenches at San Fernando, and burned August 2nd. NO MORE CAVALRY. Washington, August 23.—1 tls not likely that any move cavalry regiments will he organized, save the one .which General Otis formed in the Philippines. General Otis has cabled that cavalry cannot be used to the best advantage in the islands, and in his judgment the two regiments of regular cavalry and the volunteer regiment wiy Ik* sufficient to meet all needs of the campaign. DESIRE A NEGRO REGIMENT. Washington. August 25. —Great pres sure has been brought to hear on the Administration to organize a colored regiment for service in the Philippines. The matter is still under consideration by Secretary Root. If it is decided to raise the organization, the Lieutenant Colonel and other field l officers will Ik* taken from the regular army, but the company officers will all be colored men. WAR’S SANITARY LESSONS. Three Hundred Copies Wanted by England’s Army Medical Service. Washington. August 25.—Surgeon General Sternberg today received a ca blegram from the Director General of tin* Army Medical Service of Great Britain asking him for 300 copies of a publication called “Sanitary Lessons of the Wff.” If this number could not be obtained the Director General asked authority to reprint the publication for the purpose of distributing it among the medical officers of the British army. The significance of the request by cable is in the preparation that Is now being made for a possible war in South in, which Great Britain will Lm* a prominent figure. LIGHTNING SET THEM ABLAZE. Methodist Church and Two Residences Were Destroyed. Atlanta. Ga., August 25. —By a stroke of lightning during a thunderstorm this afternoon the Epworth Methodist Episcopal church at Edge wood, a su burb of this city, and two residences on adjoining lots were set on tire, and completely destroyed. Nothing was saved from the church except a piano, A hhndsome pipe organ was destroyed. Furniture from the residences was saved. The loss is estimated at $20,- 000, partly covered by insurance. PRICE FIVE I ESTERHUZT mID HEWAS INNOCENT Being a Jew, That Would not Save Him. M. W! ILL’S STATEMENT READING OF HIS DEPOSITION CREATED A SENSATION. EVIDENCE OF HANDWRITING EXPERTS All Greek to Every One but the Judges. Fears Entertained by Dreyfus' Friends that it Will Effect the Case Unfavorably. Rennies, France, August 25. —After M. Bertillon, the handwriting exiK*rt, who is at the head of the Anthropome tric* Department of the Prefecture of Police of Paris, had concluded the first installment of his so-called demonstra tion of tin* guilt of Captain Dreyfus, a prominent Dreyfusard referred to him as “tilt* fin de side Cagliostro. ’ Nevertheless, even the Dreyfusards do net deceive themselves as to the ef fect M. Bertillon’s testimony, or “dem onstration” may have upon the judges, who, they fear, will be gulled by what the Dreyfusards consider spurious tes timony. All the judges have passed through the FJcolb Polytechnique, the highest school of science in I* ranee, and they are thus peculiarly interested in such “evidence" as M. Bertillon s. Moreover, with the aid of the Innumer able diagrams and specimens or writing which he submits to them, they may be able to follow his reasoning intelli gibly, which is more than any member of the audience could do today. It tin* judges accept Bertillon s premises— that Dreyfus, as an expert spy. did not write ordinary handwriting, but in close imitation, even contriving to give the let ters the a plica ranee of having been traced in order to be able to repudiate them as a forgery if detected —then the structure built upon this ground work may bo scientifically correct. Following are the proceedings in detail: Rowland Strong, correspondent ot the New York Times, and a member of the sitaff of the Observer of Lon don called. He ,bse.*d*e» at length interviews which In* had with K— terhazy, saying the Observer offered E>- terhazy 500 pounds sterling for certain documents and a confession that he wrote the bordereau as published April 25th. I It* pi vin g tv» the court, Alt*. Strong said that Esterhazy, while admitting the au thorship of tin* bordereau said the docu ments enumerated in it had been betray ed by Dreyfus to Germany. M. Henri \Vcm, a former officer of the headquarters staff was then called but he was absent and his deposition "c read. M. Weill's statement iu substance, was that Esterhazy told him in 1894 that Dreyfus was innocent, but that this would not prevent his conviction, be cause In* was a Jew. (Sensation.) The evidence of the hand writing ex perts followed. M. Hubert after test'‘y iirg'to the facts published April 22nd and April 24 th. vehemently protested against the insinuation that lie was an interestedi witness. He referred to his thirty years of services during which he had reported on thousands of documents and added, visibly affected': i protest against the tern) ‘interested expert.’” adding, turning towards the prisoner, “after all I have no right to complain when 1 look at this ua’i!'ort mate Ti’i'Mi now before you.” (Great sensation.) IM. Gobert asserted that the Eiaudwrit ing of tin* bordereau was natural and fluent and that it was almost illegible, whereas Dreyfus, even when writing rapidly, always wrote legibly. General (louse, it apiKxars from the testimony, was greatly enraged when lie learned of the result of M. Gobert's ex amination of the bordereau and visited the expert repeatedly. It was after M. Golwrt had refused to incriminate Dreyfus that M. Bertillon was entrusted with the examination of llie bordereau and after a few hours’ study. M. Bertillon positively attributed the bordereau to Dreyfus. From, that twin* forward iM. Gobert heard »•* more of the Dreyfus ease. IK* was mot asiked to/sul ui'it a report. The witness identified the horderei'i as the same which was submitted to him and he proceeded ito point out tin* idt c fity of letters therein, with letters in documents admittedly* written by Ester hazy saying that the resemblance was nut apparent in Dreyfus’ handwriting. The expert refused, in reply to a ques tion by* the court, to admit that the lw v dereau was written in a disguised haiinl. lie said it had l ecu written with great rapidity, precluding all idea of doctoring or tracing. Dreyfus here declared in the most posi 9'vo manner that he had never been at flic Bank of France, 'where M. Gobert was employed, or had relations with any one there. M. Bertillon. the next witness prela ed his evidence by saying his explnmati'ons -•'vihi be understood only by a verv limited member and therefore, he asked the court to permit him to refer to <lim'U ments which he had brought, in order to make his evidence more intelligible. The specialist then unpacked packages of photographs, plains, etc., and another (Continued on Sixth Page.)