A QUEER BATTLE CRY PATROL CITY STEAMER COSTWUMAtl'SHOtlOR ASSAILANT IS CAUGHT BLOWS IIP A Thief C o e.vernmsct Pay ' : Cii, as far $2,000. , ONE IS GASHED IN ATLANTA One of t.-3 Stolen Checks Was Paid by the Lowry National Bank, An other Cashed by a Bank In Montr gorr.ery, Ala. Washington, Aug. 13. A .messen ger's pouch containing' United States jjovernment pay checks for nearly two thousand dollars was stolen early last week in front of the building oc cupied by the department of com merce and labor according to Chief "Wilkie. of the secret service. . The fouch was found with the pay checks jKone. while the other mail it contain--ed was intact,, between this city, and Alexandria, Va, The identity of the robber is-not known. . The first Intimation that Chief Wil- Saturday when one of the checks for Saturday when one of the checks for ? 72.33, payable to R. P. Troxler, of the public health and marine hospital service, came through the Rlggs Na tional bank, of this city, to the treas ury department, after having been cashed by the Lowry National bank of Atlanta, Ga. A check, payable to J. W. Kerr for $265.S3, of the came service, was received- through the American bank of -Montgomery, la. The facts in the case are these: On Monday morning, August 3, a negro messenger of the public health nd marine hospital service went to the treasury department to get the mairand pay checks for some of the officials of the public health and ma- me nospiiai service. After securing nine pay checks ag gregating $1,142.47, and the usual mount of mail, the negro messenger nclo'sed them in his pouch and de parted on his wheel for the marine iospltal building. On the way he stopped at the department of com merce and labor ' leaving his wheel and valuable pouch outside'. sOn bis return a few minutes rater lie found his wheel and its valuable "burden gone s. Next day the pouch was .found about half way between Wash ington and Alexandria, Va. The wheel, the pouch and the mail were found , tmt the pay checks had been ab- stracted. The checks payment on which was ordered stopped , were flrawn by Disbursing Clerk W. L. 3 rVkrt e r 4 tna vi J rrr -A atm tv a of the United States treasurer. Notice has been sent agents of the secret service to be on the lookout for the presentation of the missing pa checks to banks throughout the country. ' - ROOSTER WOUNDS CHILD. , Baby In Yard at Play When Attack Was Made. Baton Rouge, La., Aug. 13. But for the timely arrival of its parents, It Is probable that the 14-month5-old fcaby of Dr. and Mrs. L. L. Morgan would have been fatally injured by a. big Shanghai rooster in the -back yard of its home here Tuesday after noen. The baby was in the yard with its elder sister when the rooster attack ed both children; the older child, be--coming frightened, left the baby and ran into the house. Wh?n the parents arrived the baby was lying on the ground with the big roo?:er standing over it picking Its face and hands. The baby was bleeflg profusely .from a dozen or wounds. The physi cian who attended the child says it will recover. NO CLUES TO THE MYSTERY. Believes Wife Has Either Eloped or Has Drowned Herself. Atlanta, Aug. 13. iSunday morning Mrs. Stella Burkett, who had myste riously disappeared from her home, leaving a note to her husband, Elmer 'Burkett, telling him that her body would be found in the Chattahoochee river, and requesting that her 6-year-old boy be cared foV, the mystery sur rounding the case has deepened and the authorities working on the mat ter are "completely baffled. The husband believes his wife has either killed herself or disappeared with a man. ) The police are working upon the case in efforts to bring a"bout a solu tion of the whereabouts of the woman, Many Autos Food for Fire. Chicago, Aug. 13. -More than fifty automobiles and taxi cabs have been -destroyed in a fire which consumed a one-story brick building occupied by C A. Coey & Co. as a garage. The fire started- with an explosion and apread so rapidly that the building was almost entirely destroyed before tae arrival of the firemen ' The total Wright Makes Splendid FHaht. Xmans, France, Aug. 13.-Wllbr wxigit, of Dayton. Ohio. mad ajttndld flight with his aeroplane here circling the field five times sntf rib. gaining in the air six minutes and Hwo-fifths seconds." The flight ; was -Haauiaung throughout, with the high cSt level SO feet. - Was Aftermath of Pensacola's Recent Lynching. VICTIM. OF UNKNOWN BLACK "This Is How We Pay Back for Lynch Ing Shaw," Said; Black Brute As He Attacked Woman Pensacola at White Heat. Pensacola, Fla., Aug. 15. (Mrs. Ed Moclair, residing four miles - from this city, has been assaulted by an unknown negro. . ' "This is how we pay back for lynch ing Lee Shaw," said the negro as he overpowered the woman , and choked her into insensibility. When Mrs. Moclair had recovered enough to let the neighbors know her plight, the county officials were notified, and a sheriffs possee was started immediately upon the track of the assailant. vs Meanwhile, excitement is at white heat, following so closely upon the lynching of the negro Shaw two weeks ago, after a battle at the Jail,. .-in which three men were killed and nine wounded. , Along the streets groups are form ed, and as reports reach the" city they become more determined to mete out quick Justice. There are no demon strations, nor no disorder. If the sheriff and his officers cap ture the negro and place him in Jail he will be lynched within 30 minutes after his ' arrival. .With descriptions furnished by his victim officers are searching for George Croombs, alias .George But tercup, as the man who assaulted Mrs. Bd Mocair, when she was alone with an infant of eight months, mak ing his escape into the swamps.- The sheriffs posse, which, left the city early In th enight has never re turned, and citizen's posses returning report that the negro has not yet been captured, though two negroes were arrested supposed to be the criminal, but when taken before the lady were released, for she saldthey were not the, men. ' Mrs. Moclair is now lying at her home four miles from the city suffer ing from the shock and bruises which she sustained when the negro grasped her about the arms and body and threw her to the floor. The brute approached the house and asked for a drink of water, and the young wife, with her infant in her arms, told him to wait .until she placed her baby in the cradle and she would give him water. When she laid the baby down and turned to com ply with the request she was grasped by the brute and thrown to the" floor. Later he fled to the woods and has so far eluded his pursuers. All night long and all day have mobs remained at various points awaiting the arrival of the negro in the city. They are determined that he shall meet the fate of the negro Leander Shaw, who was lynched two weeks ago for the same crime. Around the Jail, silent but watchful, have , remained fully i one hundred men, while a half-block distant a sim. liar number are grouped in silent squads. MILITARY DIRIGIBLE BALLOON.' Big Balloon Plant To Be Erected at Ft. Omaha. Washington, Aug. 15. With every thing indicating the, acceptance of the Baldwin military balloon by the'gov ernment, interest centers to the uses to which the airship will be put after it becomes the property of the signal corps. It now is evident that it will be used principally for training the Officers and men of . the aeronautical ciivi ion in the handling of a dirigible balloon, as the airship Is too small to be of much practical value in actual warfare. ' f When the tig balloon plant now being erected at Fort Omaha is com pleted the airship will be taken there. In the meantime after the Wright Brothers and A. M. Herring have completed the tests of their aero-' planes, before the army board, Cap tain Baldwin will .train two officers of the signal corps in the handling of the aerial craft. Lieutenant Frank P.Lahm, already well-known for balloon work, and Lieutenant Thomas D. Self ridge, the aeroplanist, both of the signal corps, probably will be selected by General James Allen, chief signal officer, to handle the airship. . Cordova Reateased From Prison. Trenton, N. J., Aug. 15. J. Frank Cordova, the former South River, N. J., clergyman who eloped with Julia (Bowne, a choir singer, and who after wards was sentenced to state prison, has been released from tbaf institu tion after an Imprisonment st nearly four years. Cardova left the city In an automobile. Young Man Kills Uncle. Mount Carmel, Pa., Aug. 15.-After a brief argument on . the street here jjaniei nompson , a young , man, stabbed and -"killed his uncle, Daniel Bisrch. The weapon entered the elder man's neck and he died instantly.; The police arrested Thompson an.4 he was quickly removed to the Jail at Banbury Pa. t Received a Divine Manifestation from Clouds, Couple Claim. SAY "DOUBT AND BE DAMNED" Declare III Will Befall' Any One Who Discusses It Before Its Fifteenth ' Anniversary Charter for the Incor po rati on Filed. , Chicago, Aug. 15. "Doubt and be damned"' is the battle cry of a new organization, according to Mrs. Jen nie Blakely, of. 773 West Sixty-third street, who, with her husband, Albert Blakely, is promoting it and who, to gether comprises the "Kingdom of Heaven Church of the First Born." The couple claim to ; have received a divine manifestation from out of the clouds fifteen years ago this com ing 29th day of August and they de clare that ill will befall any one wao discusses it before Jts fifteenth an niversay. ., They filed their charter of incorpo ration in the 'county recorder's office on Thursday. Blakely is named in the papers on file as "Ruler," and his wife as "secretary, and the claim is made tliat the Almighty' elected them. The ob jects of the church are given as fol lows: "To rule and refine; to redeem ZIon; to set up the Heavenly sanctu ary; to bind up the testimony and seal the law; to work after the 'spiritual order of God in air divine ordinances; to establish apostles, prophets, pastors and teachers with fundamental prin dples. To gather in all -Israel." SENT IN RIOT CALL. A Dozen Men Hurt in Attempt to Bolt Organization. , ! Chicago, Aug. 15. In the presence of Matthew Comerford, of Minneap olis, general president ''of the station ery venglneers' union, a dozen men were hurt, two of them severely, at a meeting of the union here. A dozen men attempted to bolt the meeting because three of their number had been expelled and had started a sep arate organization of engineers. Bmll Mas sow who led the bolters, struck Michael Walsh, sergeant-at-arms, over the head with a chair for closing the door at the order of the president, George ,W. Goding. Walsh turned on Massow and struck him several times, inflicting a deep gash over Massow's nose and almost break, ing the organ. Then the fight be came general. Charles Gralf,. another of the bolt ers, sent in a riot call for the police. When the latter appeared no one seemei to wish to press charges and the wagon left without any passen gers. , President Comerford tried to get order. He had come to Chicago to attend the meetinz. 'This is an insult to the national officers," said President Comerford. No pttPTiticn was paid to him , and the bolt went on. Members of both factions threaten to cause arrests. HEADLESS BODY BEING SOUGHT. Head of Woman Found Floating n River at Cleveland. Cleveland, Ohio. Aug. 15.- Life savers began a systematic dragging of the lake at the mouth of the river for a body. ' The police, working on the same mystery, searched the city for the trunk which was thrown from the Columbus road bridge by a man and t woman. The head of a woman was discover ed floating in the river mouth by the crew of a dredge. It had been sev ered from the body by a knife. The features were well preserved. A few hours after the grewsome find a bridge tender saw a man and a woman approach the Columbus road bridge and toss a trunk Into the wa ter. The police recovered the trunk and found that it contained clothing belonging to a woman. They believe that the persons who had severed the head from the body had heard of the find and "becoming freightened dumped the clothes into the river BALLOON EXPLODED. Woman Is Killed and Body Burned to a Cinder. London, Aug. 15. Two persons were killed and six Injured by the explosion this morning at the Ffanco British exhibition of the envelope of the balloon owned by Captain Love lace, of the New York Aero club. Preparations for an ascension wer e made when the accident occurred. The eauee is supposed to have been the throwing down, of a lighted match, wnich Ignited the gas envelope Miss Hill, aged 18, secretary to Cap tain Lovelace was one of the persons killed.; She was burned to a cinder. The other person killed, a man and the six men who sustained injuries, also were employed by Captain Love lace. Captain Lovelace's clothes were burned, but otherwise he sustained no Injuries. . X '. ; Taft and Bryan Expected In Toledo, Toledo, Ohio., Augr 15. William H. Taft and William J. Bryan are expected to attend the G. A. R. en campment here in September. Perpetrator of Dastardly Crime . in Hands of Officers. CROWDS GATHER AT MILTON Should Negro Be Brought to Pensa cola He Will Be LyichedCro-wds Gather In Town of MUton Where the Nearo Is In Jail. s. V Pensacola, Fla-Aug. 17. Pursued all night by the . sheriff's posse and bloodhounds, the negro who assaulted and ravished Mrs. Edward Moclaire J ate Thursday .afternoon at ner home four miles east of this city, swam the Blackwater river, escaping his pur suers, but was captured by the sheriff of the adjojlnlng county, is now in jail at Milton. Two miles below Milton the negro swam the river and he was seen by several parties., as he' left the swamp and made the attempt to cross. These meri watched him and saw him enter an old house and they immediately reported the fact to the sheriff, who made the arrest. i Should the negro be brought to Pen sacola he will be lynched, but it Is not thought he will be brought ber at the present time. Newspaper reporters sent from here to Milton have reported oyer the long distance phone that large crowds have gathered on the streets tnere, but thev do not anticipate a -lynching. Ten Minutes to Leave City. Pensacola, Fla., Aug. 17. Enraged because they had been frustrated in their efforts to lynch the assaulter of Mrs. Edward Moclaire, a mob of men met the inooming train and, finding that the negro was not aboard, then proceeded to the house of John Buoy, on East Belmont ' street, and rousing the negro up, gave him ten minutes in which to get out of the city limits and never return. The crowd followed the negro a portion of the way, and when last seen he was on a dead run. The negro was recently arrested for sending -a letter to one of the yard foremen threaten ing his life. 300 MEN ATTACK JAIL. Sheriff, Police and Firemen Forced Mob to Retire. . Norfolk, Va., Aug. 17. A mob of more "than three hundred men at the Portsmouth jail bent on lynching William King and Henry Smith, both negroes , who were held on "the charge of criminally assaulting Mrs. Kath erine Powell , an aged white woman , last Monday. The negroes had, been removed to Norfolk jail earlier in the evening for safekeeping. The mob forced the doors of the jail, but were met by . Deputy. Sheriff Huybert and a score of officers, of whom the cell keys were demanded and refused. The crowd was forced back by the policemen with drawn weapons, and the fire department was called out to ' disperse the mob -with the hose. Under orders of Mayor Reed, the police arrested Wade Codd, Martin L.I Westbrook and T. O. Williams, white men , . and a half-score of negroes , as Hag-leaders.'1 Warrants have been is sued for a half-hundred more. The crowd left the vicinity of the jail about midnight, and it Is report ed that they are congregating else where and intend to march later to Norfolk and attack the jail , in the hope of securing the prisoners. TOOK WARRANT AND ESCAPED. Alabama Man Ran a Winning Race for Georgia SoiI.r Columbus, Aug.' 17. When Officer Kennington, of Girard, Ala., went to arrest Will Abney, a young man of that city, on a state charge Abney asked him for his authority. The officer pulled out an imposing looking warrant and began to read, when Abney i snatched it from his hand and mglde a break for liberty,' succeeding in reaching the Georgia side after a "spectacular race, and eventually made his escape. Man Hooted the Idea. . New York Aug. 17. Although Con. rad teingTuber laughed at the Christ hospital physicians in Jersey City who said that he would die in twenty-foui hours from the effects of a bite from a . dog, the man died. Stelngruber said he wag a disbeliever in hydro phobia and that he would be , around again in a few days. He rapidly grew wors, anu" until he died his suffer ing was intense. Fell From Train and Was Killed. Jefferson City Mo., Aug. 17. The .bodyof Fred Smith,, of Citronelle, Ala., was found lying beside the Mis souri Pacific track at Cole Junction, four miles west of this city. Wounds on the head"indicate that' Smith was killed by falling from a train. First Cotton' atvMobile. "Mobile, Ala., Aug. 17. The first two bales of cotton of this season's crop has arrived in Mobile from Ala nama, river points. The cotton is of fine quality. '. Springfield Has Entered Second :q Stage cf Riot History; r , NATIONAL GUARD IN CONTROL Capital City of I llinois 1 Steeped in ' Deepest Sorrow Known : List of . Dead Five 2,000 Negroes Have; Left the City. , .'; Springfield, : Ills., Aug. 18. The race war which began Nhere last Fri day . night is believed to be a thing of the past Sunday nighty passed without untoward incident and it was confidently asserted - by those in charge of v the situation that no mob of any size will form from now on;' Sporadic ' cases of disorderly conduct may and probably, will claim the at tention of the militia, . but it is not anticipated that the troops will be confronted by any serious task. Springfield has entered upoi ' the! second stage of riot "history the" in vestigation ! of outrages and the ar Tfi&t of the guDty. A special grand Jury was summoned by" Judge James A. Creighton of the Sangamon county court as the result of a conference held between Governor Deneen and States Attorney Hatch. Both of these officials were of.' the strong, opinion that this step should be taken. Grand Jury in Session. The grand jury will be held in ses sion so long as the mob violence is threatened. ', Evidence will be submitted to the body from day to day by officers and 60ldiers and indictments returned as soon as a. case is f made against an individual - - : The confidence of General Young that his force is sufficient to retire abortive any attempt at mob violence is fully snared by the negroes. Many more of them from the residence sec tions of the city came to the arsenal s welling ( the number now being shel tered by the stateNto, 400. None of them have left the place since they entered. It is feared that their very preseence would Incite a riot and the are guarded as closely as is the ammunition kept in the building. It- Is estimated that 1,500 negroes have left the city since Friday. When nearly the entire force of the Illinois national guard in control, Springfield again is ruled by law and order. Fifty-five hundred armed sol diers patrol the streets and the fever for blood has abated, temporarily 1 at least, among the wild element, which ruled the state capital for forty-eight hours. An attempt was made to cut fire alarm and telegraph wires in the heart' of the business district. .With the wires 'down the city would have been practically at the mercy , of tie Incendiaries, who found firing the small negro houses the easiest way of keeping the rioting going. Attempt to Cut Wires A man who would have cut off ine fire protection of the city was dis covered on the roof of a building in the act of reaching for the wires . A half-dozen shots from the .troops, were aimed at him as he stealthily climbed toward the wires. One bullet prob ably hit him, for he dropped to the roof of the building and made 'bis es cape. To this affair Is a'dded the attempt to fire the negro section on the north west side of Springfield. Prompt action-of the fire department cooperat ing with a battalion of the First in fantry stopped the Impending confla gration. Throughout the night headquarters of the two brigades had frequent calls from frightened citizens, who request ed protection from suspicious charac ters. Known Dead Is Five. With 'the death Sunday of Wil liam Donegan, the aged negro who was lynched Saturday night and Dilmore, & white man, who was shot while watching the rioting, the list of known dead was increased to five, v Springfield Steeped In Sorrow. Springfield is steeped in the" deep est orrow. The capital of Illinois well and truly realizes the sadness of her state, but she has determined to take the most vigorous steps to reassert justice and order. A careful estimate places the num ber of negroes who have left Spring field, since tie beginning of the race war. at 2,000. Says He Is Going Insane. Peoria, Ills., Aug. 18. "I am one of tbose who helped to lynch William Donnegan at Springfield, and I be lieve I am going insane ,M was the statement of Ghas. Gadwin at the of fice of N the superintendent of the Bar tonville asylum Sunday night. "We stamped him in the face; we cut his throat; and then put a gope around his neck. That's what it took to kill him." Gadwin said that he was for merly a member of the 32nd V. S. volunteers In the Philippines and'had a " sister at the asylum, i He was placed under guard. 1 New Motor. Cycle Record. Columbus, Ga.,-Aug. "18. 01. A. Ledbetter, of this city, established a new motor cycle record between Co lumbus and Atlanta, having made the 120 miles in five hours. - The Jessel Was a Resorting Boat , Plying Carp Lake. THREE KNOWN TO BE DEAD Only Body Identified, So Far, s That of Woman of Traverse Citv m j iviich, A Dozen or More Missing and Are Supposed to Be Dying. ; Grand Itaprds, Mich., Aug. 13 . dispatch from Petoskey bays: ' The resorting steamer Leelanau w blown up in Carp lake Monday moraS ing with a loss of eleven lives. '.' There are three known to be de a a dozen or more are missis t .supposed 6 be dying, two are faf.n i injured, and many were seriously w - utu uoay jo that of - Mrs . Isabel Labinta Traver City, Mich. , ' - Mrs. Ralph Hastings and A. b Cook, both of Traverse City, are fa' tally injured. . ' HAINS BROTHERS ARRAIGNED. In Court the Two Men Showed Little Concern. .New York,' Aug. 18. -Captain Peter C. Hains, Jr., U. S. A., who shot and killed William B. Annis on Sat. 'Urday at the Bay side Yacht Club, -wag arraigned in - the first district court in Long Island Cit before Magistrate Matthew Smith. Arraigned with the captain was his brother, T. Jen kins Hains, who kept back the crowd with a revolver while his bother car ried, out his vengeance on the man who, he asserted, had ruined his home. The ' two men were immediately tak en from the Flushing police station to Long Island City. In court the brothers showed little concern. As counsel for the men had not arrived, the hearing was postponed, and in the meantime the Hains brothers are being kept imthe Queens county jail. T. Jenkins Hains, who was first held on a charge of attempted felony with assault . was later charged with being an accessory to the killing of Annis. , The body of William Annis was re moved to his) former home in Man hattan. Mrs. Annis was completely prostrated by the killing of her hus band and is under the constant care of physicians. BIG REUNION HELD. Descendents of Rev. Sam Jones Hon. or Memory. Cartersville, Ga., Aug. 18. Sun day morning, August 16, was the oc casion of the reunion of the descen dants of the ..late Rev. Samue Gt. Jones, . and it is .estimated that iour hundred of the direct descendents atd connections of the famous old preach er were present to honor Ms mem ory. Four generations of Samuel G. Jones' family have preached in tie little chapel. The little church was also the scene of the conversion of Sam. P. Jones, the noted evangelist. The services which marked the open ing of the new church Sunday morn ing will be continued through the week until the 23d, ; which was the date of Sam Jones conversion. SUICIDE OR MURDER? Druggist Montgomery, of Birming. ' hap, Found Dead In Store. Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 18. B. H. 'Montgomery, a well-known druggist, was found dead in his store at Gate City. He was lying face downward in ..a pool of blood, and it is yet un decided whether it was a case of suicide or whether the man was mur dered. He had been missing since Friday , and the ' store was not opened Saturday; A family living above the store noticed strong odors coming from the room below, and this evening decid ed to break down the doors. Mr. Montgomery lived in Woodlawn, and his son, Jack Montgomery, is profes sor of chemistry Jn the University of Mississippi. To Pass Upon Differences. Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 18. p plying to a letter inclosing a petition, signed by twenty thousand names 0? people of Birmingham district, the officials of the "United Mine Work ers of America in charge of the strifc in this state, have signified their will ingness to allow a committee on titration to pass on the differences that caused the strike at the Ala bama coal mines. . Goes Into Hands of Receiver. ? Seranton, Pa., Aug. 18. Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Com pany, one of the biggest mining con cerns In the bituminous fields of wes tern Pennsylvania , has gone icto tie hands of a receiver on application the Seranton Trust Company, ts trustee for the consolidated oB holders. Low Water Cause of Idleness. Pittsburg, Aug. 18 Eighty per ce of the coal mines along the Moc gahela river are idle and tbousan of miners are out of employment a result of the low. water from Ohio river.. I-