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Hfje Chatham Becorb, Slje Cbotljotn VLttoib. H. ArLONDONf Editor and Proprietor. ' TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 Per Year. Strictly Sn Advance HATES 0rADVERTI$IN8r i- Ott squar, on On tansTA. t6 insertion!' 1.W One square, two insertion! On square, one month. 250 For Larger Advertise- a 7 ments Liberal .,Xonr tracts will be made. r VOL. XXVIII, NO. 44. :ff:!irrTtf PITTSBORO. CHATHAM COUNTY N. C, THURSDAY. JUNE 14. 1906. Ait . w- mm m nw t?C ivC ab -pub t V SEARCH FOR DlflnOHb IN THE WORLD. 1 ititiKlfciZ By FRANK BARRETT. itititit ititititititMit&itit&ir&&:fcit CHAPTER XVIII. Continued. ?; ''Can that man hare been the 'Furni !ral' tv ho obtained the address of Brace and myself from you?" For my own part, I doubted Van Hoeck's innocence. Perhaps I may bare been biased in forming an ill opinion of him by my jealous dislike of the relation he' had formed with Ed ith. She was the only living creature Van Hoeck had spoken well of in my bearing; and I fancied that he was playing a hypocritical part to obtain the pleasure of her society and friend Ship. By the return mail Sir Edmund Wrrote: "I feel it right to read that part of your letter referring to the robbery to Van Hoeck, who for the past few weeks has been an accepted visitor here, and, I may add, the object of Edith's sympathetic commiseration. He declared upon his oath that there had been no struggle between himself and Brace, and that no statement had been extorted from him by the violent means indicated; that when you left be felt his way to the road and waited there. Brace came and undertook to lead him home. He remembers stop ping on the "way while Brace asked him If he thought you had really been robbed of the diamond. He knew nothing of the leather case, which Brace might well have concealed in the 1 .anner you describe without his perception. After- this explanation, be s.".id that he must once more relin-. fluish our friendship until all doubt is Cleared up. 'But,' he added, emphati cally, as he was about to leave us, 'if (only a part of this story is true if the girl got possession of the diamond, hid it, and should restore it to Brace and Thorne, they will make away with it, and you will never see one of them Bgain.' " "If Van Hoeck is not the very old 'un hisself," said the Judge, when 1 showed him this letter, "he's hand in band with him." We asked Lola if she had recognized Ifche man who dropped from the oriel window. "No," she replied, "the night was too thick; but lie was about the size of the man I ' saw the night before going from one window to the other in the left-hand side of the house." One morning Brace said to me: "I've had my suspicions on it for Borne time; but now I'm sure on it. We're being watched." I asked him what reason he had for this belief.- "My reason is this," he replied. "The one-legged beggar as comes here for ecraps give one of the house-helps barf a dollar this morning. It looked like he'd been buying up your silver epoons, so I jest had the rascal searched; but there warn't nairy thing on him but varmin. Lay your life, sir, that beggar didn't give harf a dollar for nothing. We've got to keep our eyes open!" "You think he is a spy paying the helps for information with respect to our movements?" I said. "I do jest that" "Why?" "Why?" echoed Brace, drawing a long breath, "because it's jest three weeks since Van Hoeck learnt that we are goin' to get back the Great Hesper, and he found an excuse for quittin' the locality of Monken Abbey." CHAPTER XIX. As the spring advanced, Brace turned es laily to the mountain tops. Oh the first of May he said he would have a day or two off, and "jest have a look round at things." On the seventh he returned. "The time's come," he said; "the snow's goin' away sharp, and the rocks Is already squittering down, but, glory be, the hole's open. All we've got to pray for now is that the Kid'll listen to the voice of reason. Leave her to me.'" As we were sitting at table he said In a casual way: . "I was up to my old lot in Petersville for a bit of a refresher during my lit tle holiday, sir; and you've no idea how nice the old place do look. Now, sup posin' as we ain't got nairy blessed thing to do for the next week we kind er take a look around arter that stone We used ter think such a lot of jest for curiosity like hey? The Kid used ter make a fine to do about bein' good when she was sick; do you feel like it now, my gel?" Lola turned deadly pale, and was si lent for a moment, then lifting her eyes to mine, she stretched her hand out, and, as I took it, said: "I am ready." We made our preparations that af ternoon, and took the night train frog Ean Diego to Canon River, where we put up for the night. In the morning Sve look the stage to Great Canon City a deserted mining town at the foot of tlio Sierra. After lunching at the only hotel, we hired mules, and, leav ing the valley, ascended the mountain Path. Water streamed freely down the mountain path upon the lower slopes; but our difficulties only commenced "When we reached the line where the half-iiieited snow made the ro'.'ks treacherous even to the feet of the "kit THE BIQQlST sure mules. We had four hours of ter rible rough and dangerous traveling before we reached Petersville the most wretched collection, of rotten shanties I ever saw. Not a living creature was to be seen; there was not a foot mark in the slushy snow, which lay ankle deep up on the ground; it seemed completely abandoned. But the Judge led the way through the deserted rows of tumble-down huts, and presently point ed to one from which -a column of smoke was""ascendlng through the clear air. We were on a plateau In the very heart of he mountains. "ATI" roun3. the rugged peaks rose high into the still air, tinted with deep purple in the shadow and the loveliest rose-pink where the sunlight fell upon the snow. Where the snow had slid away from the precipitous sides, the granite, streaming with water, glittered in the bright rays as if it were encrusted with jewels. As we came to a halt waiting for a response to Brace's call, the silence was broken by a prolonged roar like that of distant thunder, as some rock loosened by the frost broke away and hurtled down the unfathomed canon. A man came from the building, which still bore faint trace of the word "Hotel" on the facade, and greeting Brace with the air of an old acquaint ance, said he had got everything aired and a supper ready to put down to the fire. Brace had seen the necessity of preparing him for our reception A couple of rooms had been made as de cently comfortable as might be ex pected. We left Lola there, and strolled" out while the dinner was pre paring. The end of the town abutted upon a jtvide stream, that was tearing and k'ling along among the gigantic bowlders1 thaT marked its course, "to ward a black cleft which divided a towering mountain in twOi Fantastic as are the effects which characterize the heights of the Sierra, I had seen nothing comparable to this. It was as if some mighty hand had split the mountain in half. "I have knowed the time," said the Judge, impressively, "when both sides of this river was filled with miners, and every one of 'em worth his thou sands of dollars!" I had no sympathies with the past glories of the stream. My mind was filled with admiration of the savage beauty of the scenery around. "Thar," said the Judge, flinging a piece of wood, part of an appliance which might have washed gold untold, into the turbid and rushing water; thar, bar stoppages, that'll pass the Great Hesper in less time than it will take us to get back to the hotel." "Is it through that cleft we have to go?" "Ah, sir, and down into the very in nards of it." . I was looking toward the dark chasm with a feeling of awe, when Brace touched my elbow. He was dragging at his chin tuft, his lower lip protrud ing, his heavy brows bent. He point ed slowly to a trace in the snow. "The man from the hotel been down here is that what you mean?" I asked. "It ain't him, sir, that mark. Look at it it's a one-footed man, end," he added, striding forward and looking loser end's it's a left-footed man, end it's a one wooden-legged man;" and then, with conviction, "it's the "blamed beggar that's been spyin' after us. Leave him to me. He ain't goin' to spy us to-morrow, not hef I knows it." I approached the marks, and per ceived that beside the foot was the round hole made by a wooden stump. After dinner Brace looked to the pine torches he had brought up, and spent the evening drying them carefully, while chatting with the man of the hotel. He said not a word about our discovery, nor did the man speak of any visitor in the house. This, with a certain cunning look in his little red eyes, alarmed me. We were called at 4 o'clock tne next morning, Brace saying that we must start early in order to get our job done in time to et back to a comfortable dinner, but in reality, I believe, to preclude the aossibiiity- of being folj lowed. When we had nnisnea our breakfast, Brace, taking the hotel man by the button, said: "Old nal. you nev got a strangei. stayin' in this house, I reckon?" - The man scratched ms ear, looueu up and looked down, and then, at a jerk of his button, blinked up at Brace, and said: "Wal, I allow I hev." "A wooden-legged stranger, I think?" The same shuffling, and then: "Wal, I allow he hev got a wooden leg." "A native, I believe." "Wal, a native, accordin' to appear ances." " "I kinder fancy he's in the little chamber over there. 'Twarn't a swine I heard gruntin', were it?" ".You kin inspect him, if you like. I will, after which hef I take a fan cy to nailin' of him up for four-and-twenty hours for the same number o' dollars, you will allow me the use of a hammer and some three-inch pints?" "I will do that," said the man; and the two having shaken "aands on the bargain, he went off to get the articles required, while Brace looked into the room. "It's the same," said Brace, and turn ing up his sleeves, he proceeded to nail up the door in a business-like manner. "I don't think he will trouble us, un less he kin afford to make it worth the old pal's .while to let him out," 6aid Brace, as we started from the house, "end even then he won't get much of a chance, seein' as no mortal man can get down that hole" without a light, and we've got eyes for to see hef a light is follerin' On us," It was dark, despite the snow that lay upon the ground. Brace ied the way with a pine torchv Which burned slug1 gishiy in the mist that enveloped iiSi Lola holding my hand tightly; we fol lowed, close behind Brace; 'whd "kept the torch low to shdw the nature of the path; nevertheless we slipped and floundered considerably in stepping from bowlder to bowlder the half melted snow rendering it impossible to obtain a firm footing. Under othet" circumstances Lola would have enjoyed the difficulties, and laughed at our mishaps, but now she neither smiled nor spoke j Borne' times she would press my hand a little tighter that Was all the sign she gave. We followed the course of "the HveFi guided by the sound bf the rushing waters. Ac we proceeded the descent grew more and more rapid, the stream forming a long succession of falls, and the light increasing, the rocks and bowlders about us became dimly vis ible through the gray mist. At length our progress was stopped by a huge rock that rose perpendicular before USi. "Hark! said the Judge, as we stopped tb regain the breath that had been pumped out of our lungs by the last scramble. I listened we seemed to have turned our backs on the stream Its rushing sounded more distant than I had yet heard it. I said this. "Hark again!" said Brace-. Then as I listened attentively I heard beside the swirling and dashing noise in bur rear a muffled roar that seemed td come from the very bowels of the earth. I almost fancied I felt the rock vi brating under my feet. "You're right," said Brace, when I gave him my impression; "end the roar you hear is that stream shootin down thousands of feet to the bottom of the great hole tf it warn't for the blamed mist," he added, holding up the torch, Which revealed but a few feet above our heads of the granite wall by our side, "you'd see that we're now standin right between the two sides of the divide we looked at last night. We air standin' right over the canon, with pre'aps four or five thou sand feet of nothing under us, on a lump of rock that's tumbled down from Up above, and wedged itself here. 'cause somethin stopped its goin' fur- der, and it do tremble, I allow. It ain't solid! It's moved a lump since I knew it in the old days, and one o these days a chunk from above will come down and start it off for good an all." "I think we may as well get off it. in that case." "Wall, yes. It ain't more risky standin' on it than standin' under it; and as we've got to go under it, and down the hole, we may as well git.' He led the way along the trembling rock a dozen yards, may be the rush ing water sounding upon the left of as, and then stretched out his arm to stop us. He advanced cautiously, and. hpldmg out the torch at arm s length, the light fell upon the yellow water as it poured down into the black gulf upon ,which our standing place abut ted. The flame of the torch was drawn down by the current of air as if it had been at the blast hole of a furnace. Raising his voice to overcome the noise of the water, Brace called out: "We've got to go down there!" "You are not afraid, Lola?" I asked. She shook her head, and gave my hand another little squeeze. Brace led us off the rock, keeping the water still on our left, and there was some more downward clambering for a few minutes. Then we came to a stand, and he showed me a lateral. opening about four feet in height. "We goes through there," he said; then he produced a flask, poured out a dram, and handed it to me. goffered it to Lola. Another shake of the head, and another little squeeze. ", I emptied the cup and Brace helped himself. "There ain't no need to get ourselves In a muck over this job. We'll put our rubbers on," Jie said, "the wet drips through." I took out the overcoats from the bundle of rusrs. and we put them on. Then I strapped the roll of rugs on my shoulders again. Brace touched my shoulder and pointed upward to a couple of faintly pink nebulous patches in the mist. "What is it?" I asked. "The sun ketchin' the tops of the peaks," he replied. He took a couple of torches from the bundle he carried, and began to light them at the end of the one he had last used. "Won't you wait a little it will be light in half an hour?" I said. "Not. down there." he replied "it's pitch dark at noon in that almighty hole. Now," he added, when the torches were well lit, "take one of these, kick the snow well off your feet, keep one eye on me, and t'other on the rocks, and leave the rest to Provi dence." With this last injunction he stooped down, and passed through the opening. We followed, but singly, for we needed both hands to make the perilous de scent. The first thing I noticed in passing under the great block that bridged the awful chasm was the comparative si Ienct. s To be Continued. GIRL'S BRAVE DEED Shoots Down tlgr Wou!d-Be Assailant and Resumes Work SELMA TELEPHONE OPERATOR Miss Pearl Jones, Night Telephone Operator, With Rare Coolness, Puts Fatal Bullet Into Negro Who Pre meditated ail Assault Upon Her NegrOi Trapped, Confesses His In tended Grime His Accomplice Landed in Jail Admiring Citizens to Present Brave Girl With Gold Mounted Revolver and Medal. Selma, N. C, Special. Saturday night about 11:30 o'clock Miss Pearl Jones, the telephone operator at this place, shot and fatally wounded Bud Ricliardsbrij a negro, who, by his own confession; had premeditated an as sault upon her. The telephone office is located in a narrow room between a large store and the bank fronting on Main street. In the rear of the office, enclosed by a high board wall, is a small back lot private to the operators. This lot is entered through a screen door in the rear of the office and there is also a door through the wall in the rear of the lot which is kept fastened by a hook on the inside. About two weeks ago a negro' was caught climb ing over this high wall and scared away by one of the operators. Three nights afterwards, as one of . the j-oung ladies stepped into the back lot trorh the office, she was confront ed by a hegrb man. This time there happened to be a young man in the operating room who ran to her reset e, only to see the negro's back and give a irmtless chase. Fired Five Shots. Hearing of this second attempt the young men of the town decided to guard the office at night, which they am regularly, taking turns, until Sat urday night, the two men assigned to this duty were sitting in front of the drug store awaiting for the stores to close so they could take their po sitions, when at 11 , o'clock they heard a pistol shot, followed by four more in quick succession. These two, with the chief of police, ran to the office, when thev found the vounsr la dy with the pistol in her hand. She told them she started out into . the back lot and some one started toward her, then she lumped back into the office, grabbed the pistol and fired once. By the aid of that fire she could plainly see some one crouched in the corner. Then she aimed at him and fired the other four shots as he went out the door and thought she hit him with the last one. The doctor's examination showed that .the ball went through his left arm and into his., body between the thud and fourth ribs.. The bullet was probed for, but could not be lo cated. The wound was bleeding and he was breathing through the hole. The doctor says he will not live, but eighteen hours later he is still living and is conscious. Three of this ne gro's associates were arrested and held in the lockup. At 4 o'clock Sunday they were all given a preliminary hearing before a magistrate, resulting in two of them being released and two held. At the trial the wounded negro, realizing his condition, said he was ready to make a statement, which he did in the form of an affidavit as follows: Wounded Negro's Confession. "North Carolina, Johnston coun ty: Bud Richardson, being sworn, says: Jim Merritt and I went into the back lot of the telephone com pany's office Saturday night, June 9th for the purpose of committing rape on Misses Pearl Jones and Jessie Hunt, who were night operators for the company. I got shot and Jim told me he had been there twice be fore for the same purpose, but could not succeed by himself. No one else was with us. (Signed "BUD RICHARDSON." Vera Cruz to Have $6,000,000 Rail way Terminals. Mexico City, Special. Work will soon begin on the new railroad ter minals at Vera Cruz, Avhich will be the finest terminals in the country and make transfer of goods and pas sengers between steamers and rail ways easy and economical. The cost of the terminals is estimated at $6, 000,000, gold. A large custom house will be built on the railway pier with tracks connecting with the railway yards. The new terminals will be used by four railways. Drowned in Mill Pond. Spartanburg, S. C, Special. Palm er Lester, a young white man 20 years of age, was drowned in the Appalach ian Mill pond Saturday afternoon. Lester and his companions were bathing and he fell from the spring board into seven feet of water. Bs ing unable to swim he sank to rise no more, after frantic efforts to save himself. No inquest was held. THE WORK OF CONGRESS What is Being Done Day by Day By the National House and Senate; Danger to Quarantine Bill. There is decided danger that the quarantine bill intended to give Fed eral aid in yellow fever quarantines; which has passed the Senate House, will fail because of a deadlock among the conferes on the seventh section of the bill providing that ihter-State traffic may be carried on" without in terruption through a state under yel low fever quarantine under certain regulations j that is, . that through trains may make their regular runs without taking on or letting off pas sengers or freight within the quaran tined state. Report on Packers Matter. The House Committee on Agricul ture decided to comply with the re quest of the Chicago packers to be heard on the Neill-Reynolds report regarding the conditions in the Chi cago packing houses; The request was made by Mr. th Wilson", who said he was an employee bf the Nel son Morris Company, but in this in stance was authorized to speak for all the Chicago packers. Secretary of "Agriculture Wilson, Dr. A. D. Mel vin of the Department, and Mr. Neill were present at the hearing. Mr Wilson made a general denial of the existence of the conditions in packing houses as set forth in the Neill-Reynolds report; Some of the suggestions made in the report he said, had already been complied with by the packers, such as additional sanitary facilities. As to the charge that canned meats were boiled in water to "freshen them up." Mr. Wilson said there was ab solutely nothing in this. What ths cans were put in hot water were ,o soak off the old labels, which he said, was an injury to the appearance of the gobds oh sale. He denied absolutely that thes were any deceased cattle Or hogs butchered for food. Mr. Wilson de scribed in detail the operation of pre paring canned meats and when asked by Representative Scott of Kansas, a member of the committee, THow about the rope and other foreign mat ter found with scraps on the floor," Mr. Wilson explained that what was probably seen in this instance was the string on the knuckle and what had been dried beef. This string was used with which to hang the beef in a smoke house, and when the beef had been sliced off, this knuckle end was left. There was a bone in it. The bone would smash the machine if an attempt was made to use it. Flooded With Petitions. As Senator Tillman suggested there was "A streak of yellow" in the Senate due to the fact that practically every desk in the chamber was cover ed with telegrams of protest against the Anti-Pass provision in the Rail road Rate Bill as reported by the Conference Commit ee. They were all f'om railroad men and in each case consisted of pro tests against cutting off the privilege of riding free. In addition there was a formal statement on behalf of "engineers, firemen, conductors and trainmen say ing that they represented 230,000 railwasv cKsvJavcca The discussion of the Railroad Rate Bill conference report in the Senate showed that the bill would be sent back to tthe conference. The confer ence announced that they expected that result. Busy Day in the House. Against the days when the House of Representatives was in throes of a filibuster or "putting oft until to morrow what it might have done the day before," must be set the work accomplished in the lower branch of the national Legislature. , . In many particulars Tuesday was a "red letter day" in the House, not only in the number of bills passed, but in the general character of the legislation enacted. What bid fair to cause endless trouble, the natural ization bill, was passed under suspen s'on of the rules, the Speaker and the gentleman in charge of the bill, Mr. Boynge, of Colorado, doing tteam work of a superior kind.- . The House refused to pass a bill leasing to a private firm or corpora tion the right to mine coal on the Island of Batan in the Philippine group, although it was stated tha &ueh a lease would decrease the amount paid by the government for coal very considerably. For two hours the House worked under suspension of the rules and then, with the lime set apart for these measures exhausted, and peace spreading its. wings over the mem bers, the rest cf the .day, until ad journment, wac taken up with the passage e biils by unanimous con sent, a form of legislation only pos sible, when there are no breakers in siW. Senator Gorman's Successor. Baltimore Special. The rumors as to who would be appointed to serve out the remainder of Senator Gor man's unexpired term were put to rest Friday night when - Governor Warfield announced the appointment of Hon. W P. Whyte. Mr. Whyte has been governor of the State, may of of Baltimore, and has twice been ia the Senate one by 'election and once before by executive apTpointnient LIVE ITEMS OF NEWS Epitome of Current Happenings of Interest Briefly Told. Senator Joseph R. Burton, who was sentenced to jail and fined for irreg ularities, resigned, and Governor Hoch appointed Foster Dwight Co burn as successor. In a battle between striking miners and guards near Plum Run Mine, in Ohio, four men were wounded, two perhaps fatally, and the militia was ordered out. The fight between Mexicans and Americans at Cananea, Mexico, is said to hate been fomented by revolu tionists from St. Lo.uis headquarters. Eight of the large meat-packing concerns joined in a signed statement protesting against the Neill-Reynolds report. ' The State investigating board re ported on the San Francisco earth quake, which .it claims, was due to ruptures in the earths crust caused by geological changes. Richard A Canfield testified in his own behalf ia the Suit of John Del ahunty against him and declared that he was "tipped off" on Jerome's pro jected raid. " Drs. Harry Adler and J. C. Hem- meter, of Baltimore, were speakers at a medical convention in Boston, which is thronged With visiting doctors. Sixty anarchists, alleged to be from Baltimore, are believed to be in Wil mington, Delaware. Ex-Mayor Phelan, of San Francis co, announces that the total cash re ceived for the relief of the city is $4,243,000, and appeals for funds to aid m rehabilitation. A big reception to William J. Bry an upon his return from abroad is projected, and is to have national pro portions. King Alfonso and Queen Victoria attended a brilliant military review. The Spanish police are on the track of the, bombthrower's accomplices. Seven persons were drowned and four killed by lightning at Odessa. Senator Arthur Pue Gorman, of Maryland, died at his residence, 1432 K street, at 9sl7 a. m, yesterday. The Virginia State Federation of Labor opens its session at Alexandria soon. Ulhcers will be elected tor the ensuing year. Addresses will be de livered by Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of La bor, and other labor leaders. Horrifying disclosures as to the conditions iti the Chicago packing houses axs made in the report of Charles P. Neill and James B. Rey nolds, which was sent to Congress yes terday by President Roosevelt. Efforts will be made by this Gov ernment to secure laborers from Spain to work on the Panama canal. The British ship Lismore was wrecked at Santa Maria, Chie, and 22 of the crew were drowned. Baron von Beck has been intrusted with the task of forming the new Austro-Hungarian Cabinet. Two Americans were convicted of swindling in London and sentenced to hard labor. Another section of Vesuvius' cone has fallen in, and the showers of ashes nd cinders is on the increase. General Alikhanoff, Governor-General of Kutals and the "pacifier" erf the Caucasus, was ser.'ously injurJ by one of two bombs thrown at him, Mr. Whitbridge, the special envoy sent by the United States to attend King Alfonso 's wedding, presented the autograph letter of good wisb written by President Roosevelt. Fifty anarchists of 'England, France and Spain are alleged to Le on the way to Madrid to assassinate Alfonso on his wedding day. Juks had memorial services over their dead at Bedford City . ' " Eleven persons were killed, two so badly hurt that they are expected to die and a score seriously hurt in a trolly accident at East Providence, R. I. Carl Schurz was eulogized by prom inent men at a memorial service held i Chicago, President Roosevelt ex pressed high appreciation of him in a letter. , - - ; "Tricolor," the Bostock leopard- lion-tiger hybrid, died, and a lioness in Mr. Bostock 's manaa:eria . gave birth to a pair of puma-jaguar-Iion prodi gies. . Chicago, Pittsburg and St. Louis re port remarkable advances in business i L I L ' A" prpsperity in uieir respective secuoiis of the country. Richmond College and the Universi- tv College of Medicine at Richmond n:ay unite. Social Democrats of Wisconsin de mand the abolition of the .United States Senate, charging it with being "a bulwark of capitalism and trust ocracy.". i. . "Manuel Morales, who killed himself when about to be captured, was iden tified as the bomb thrower by the own er of the Madrid hot ;1 from whom he rented the balcony. Rev. S. Baring-Gould, the noted au thor and chuxchman, died in South Africa. GUARDSKJLLMINERS Difficulty Between Constables and Strikers SEVERAL KILLED OR INJURED Indiana Mining Town is Scene a of Fatal Clash Between -Marching Strikers and Detail of 12 Memt hers of State Constabulary. Strik? er Fired His Revolver at Troops, Who Responded With Volley From Carbines. Six of Wounded in Se (rjous Condition and T!hree yf01 Die. . " . .. :."'.. :un,r ..- Indianapolis, '. Special. The j;new mining town of Ernest, on the Buf-' falo, Rochester & Pittsburg , Rail road, five miles from here, was (the scene of a conflict between a ..de tail of State constabulary and strik ing coal miners, in which two strik ers were killed and . eight . wounded, three fatally. ' . . ; 4 Shortly after daylight a body of strikers, headed by a brass band, marched from Union Mines in Jef ferson county, to receive" one of the mine officials expected from Punx sutawney. On the way to the sta tion the marchers encountered a de tail of twelve members of the State constabulary and as they ; passed a member of the band fired his re volver at the troops. ' i --J No one was struck, but the con stabulary immediately ; retaliated with a volley from their carbines., When the 'smoke cleared 1 eight strikers were lying on the , ground and others had fled precipitately down the hill. ;-.; m 0f Two of those shot were killed in stantly and the six others were se- nously wounded. . , DENIED BY HARVIE JORDAN. President of Cotton Association Has Not Advised Farmers to Sell Spot Cotton for Future Delivery. ; i Washington, Special. President Harvie Jordan, of the Southern Cot ton Association made the following statement: "In view of the present misinterpretation of my position on prices of spot cotton which has been given general circulation in the press daring the past few days, I wish, to unqualifiedly deny any ; report that I have advised farmers, or others .to sell spot cotton for future delivery or to deal in cotton futures at all. My position in favor of higher prices is unchanged and will continue f so long as present splendid trade con ditions last and no probability of abnormally large crops being : pro duced." l -J ' (lii'i- Report Sent In. f ...j Washington, Special. In response to a request from the House commit tee on agriculture, President Roose velt forwarded to Representative Wadsworth, chairman' of that, com mittee, the report - made- to him by a committee of the Department of Agriculture regarding conditions t in the Chicago m'eat packing houses. Ac companying the report was5 a' letter from the President,' in which, the points out that there K is no conflict in substance between the Neill-Reynolds report and that of the Agri cultural Department experts... Telegraphic Briefs r;rt Gabriel Battaile, the negro who is to be . hanged today for assault upon Miss Rogers, in King. George's coun ty, confessed his crime.. t, j W. L. Francis, of Richmond, who was arrested on a charge of embez zlement, admitted the charge "and said he did it to raise-' money t with which to elope. ; . i s.; tfef Supreme Court Orders Served on Chattanooga Lynchers. Chattanooga, -Tenn Special. United States Marshal j Dunlap serv ed Supreme Court orders on ? alli de fendants cited to . appear before , the United States Supreme Court in Oc tober to answer for attempt 4 in the Johnson lynching case. The mar shal was aided in locating tiie de fendants' by sheriff's deputies all of whom in addition to the 'sheriff, are included in Attorney V General Moody's information. ,. ' , f m , . News Items. , t; , The village of Scottown, in , Ohio, was completely washed awayby flood, two persons being drowned. The Southern States' Immigration Commission elected officers and estab lished a New York bureau. . President Rosevelt is said tqave determined" on a 'complete reorganiza tion of the Btrretra' of Animal Indus try. - -:- 1 1 f --is -Hi ! !!., PI
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