ALLOWS FOR FLUII
FOUND GUILTY AND SENTENCED
TO HANG AUGUST 25.
JURY WAS OUT SEVENTEEN HOURS
oaTicted MurUertr'i Attorney More
-Straightway for a New Trial Argu
tnent Will b Heard on the 14th.
. EdwardC. Flanagan was pronounced
guilty of murder by the jury at Deca
tur, Ga., Saturday morning;
-Ho was! at once sentenced by the
judge, Hon. John 8. Candler, to die
-on the gallows on Wednesday, August
25th.
Colonel iGlenn, the prisoner's lead
;ing counsel, straightway filed a motioif
for a new trial. It will be argued on
Saturday, August 14th. ?
The jury, was out seventeen hours
before reaching a verdict.
At 8:45 Saturday morning Flanagan
'as . led, handcuffed, to the court-
liouse.
-Let the jury come out," said t
judge.
; iue x'ji men wno xor six days
ad
a'-cuujr siruggieu wim ail tne
ol tins remarkable case, filed
room.
the
Gentlemen, have you anfeed upon
a verdict?" asked his bono
"We have," said the foreman.
Solicitor Kimsey took
-which was written th5 prisoner's fate
We, the j4"fiud the defendant
guilty."- J ,
. "I ask tbS the jury be polled," said
ciy(Jlenn.
"Sijudge called the name of each
epondd promptly, "yes.
During this time Flanagan eat with
downcast eyes as if meditating the fate
that was in store for him.
Mr. Flanagan, stand up!" said
Judge Candler.
The man slowly rose, and sentence
was pronounced as follows:
"It is ordered by the court that the
defendant, Edward C, Flanagan, be
taken from the bar of this court to the
common jail of DeKalb county and
be there safely and securely kept until
Wednesday, the 25th day of August,
1897, when, betw ?en the hours of 11
o'clock a. in. and 1 o'clock p. m., he
ehalf be taken from there by the sheriff
of DeKalb county and. in private in
the jail yard of DeKalb county, be
linng by the neck until he is dead, and
may God have mercy on his soul."
"It is further ordered ' that in the
execution of the sentence said sheriff
have such guard as in his discretion is
necessary, and that he procure the at
tendance of two physicians to ascer
tain when life is extinct.
"It is further ordered that the de
fendant be allowed at the time of the
execution of this sentence to have as
many as two ministers of the gospel
present, and such of his immediate
family as he may devsire, to be limited
by the discretion of the sheriff."
-After sentence had been passed the
judge discharged the jury, after thank
ing them for their attendance and good
deportment.
IXSURUENTS CAPTURE- A TOWN.
Tliey Got 94
140,000 In ioll. Besides m nig
Lot of Supplies.
The story telegraphed from. Havana
last about an attack by insurgents on
Mariano, a suburban town, is fully
.confirmed by passengers who left Ha
yana on the Plant line steamer Mas
cotte Saturday noon and arrived- at
Tampa, Fla., Saturday night.
The engagement was short and des
perate. Forty-nine Spaniards were
killed and 120 -rounded; two Cubans
were killed and twenty wounded.
The inhabitants of the town fled for
their lives, leaving the insurgents in
complete possession. They sacked the
place and secured $40,000 in gold
besides a lot of supplies that they
could carry away.
TwelTC Mill Operatives Drown.
Twelve milt workers while crossing
a bridge at Thiemendorf, near Chem
nitz, Germany, were swept off the
Tmdge by a sudden rise of the river.
All were drowed.
CHARTER FORTY STEAMERS.
Twenty Million BufceU of Grain to Be
Exported te Great Britsls.
The Philadelphia Record of Friday
.contained the following:
"Forty steamers were yesterday
chartered to load cargoes of gram at
Philadelphia, New York. Baltimore
and Newport News for ports in the
United Kingdom and Europo, making
o dav's record which, it is ciaimed,has
,ever been equaled. All of these ves-
eU will require over 4,000.000 bush
els of grain.
"Durinir the pa, two weeks fixtures
for steam tonnage to carry over 2Ut -
COO 000 bushels of coreals abroad have
fceen ordered.
II li
T All IFF ACT CAUSES HOTTLV
Protestations Poorlng la From All Part
Of the World. '
A Washington speceial says : In a
late number of the Congressional Rec
ord containing speeches on the tarifF
c nference report is a speech by M. TSJI
Jobinon, of North Dakota, in whch
he makes a compilation of the protests
received by the state department
from the representatives of foreign
governments against certain duties -imposed
in the Dingley tariff bill
while that measure was pending.
Some of these protests have been
made public, others ha.4e been re
ferred to the committees having the
tariff bill in charge, arid little or no
attention has been pajrtl to them.
Nearly all these' communications
revert to the consfrneree between the
several countr
LS-S V s X- V I
and the United
fetates. Ihejif insist that the new
insist that the new
tariff bill will .retard that commerce
and some o thera intimate that it will
result in (creasing the demand for
Americanjoods; some of the ministers
disclaimany intention to interfere in
the internal affairs- of the United
Statesbut make the representations
of the benefit of the commerce between
the Countries. Some suggestions are
rxxede that the iniurv to be done the
'easury of the United States on ac-
ount of the imposition of the pro
posed duties will be considerable.
Minister Brun, of Denmark,calls at
tention to the fact that the tarin on
American goods going into Denmark
is very favorable and that his govern
ment views with a great deal of ap
prehension the pending tariff bill and
the rates especially.
Sir Julian Faunceforte sent two very
brief communication, one in Decem
ber, 1896, informing the state depart
ment that the fishery board of Scot
land protested aorainst the hisrh rate
on cured herrings and at the request
of marquis of Salisbury he represents
to the United States government that
the high rates which the Dingley bill
imposes on salt mackerel and other
cured fish would cause grave injury to
the fishermen on the west coast of Ire?
laud. This note is dated June 18,1897,
The protest of Argentine against the
duy on hides b aH wool and of 1 Japan
agrfinst a number of duties has already
bedn published. China made a pro
test on lines similar to those of Japan.
SMALLPOX IN ALABAMA.
Over Three Hundred Cases Developed But
No Deaths Result. j
The physicians of Montgomery,
Ala., have practically all agreed that
the twelve cases of sickness now in
the city's pesthouse are smallpox, al
though of a mild form. Compulsory
vaccination has been ordered and the
police are going from house to house
insisting on compliance with the law.
The smallpox situation in the state
is now somewhat alarming. The dis
ease is of the mildest type ever known
to the physicians, but it is spreading
too much for the public safety.
The very mild form of the disease is
shown by the fact that out of the 500
cases developed in Alabama within a
few months not a death has resulted.
This fact is acknowledged to be due
to. the season of year. The physicians
explain that during the summer the
patients can be kept in well ventilated
rooms, where the air and sunshine
can reach them, and these elements
counteract the poison in the patient's
system. . It is acknowledged that un
.less the disease is stamped out before
winter the consequences will be dis
astrous. .
LOCOMOTIVES DESTROYED.
Western Hallway's Hound House at Mont
pmry Burned to the Ground.
Saturday night the round house of
the Western railroad at Montgomery,
Ala., caught fire and in less than an
hour it was a complete wreck.
The building was full of engines,
and it is said that eleven were
destroyed, some of them the finest on
the road.
The machine shop attached to the
round house was also completely
Wrecked. j
TVio bnilincr was Drincioally of
wood and, being very dry, burned like
pine lightwood. The damage is heavy,
but fully - covered oy insurance.
Only Need 31aterlal.
The Natchez, Miss., cotton mills
have posted notices that work will be
suspended on account of lack of raw
cotton to work on. Three hundred
people will be thrown out of employ
ment, j
TWO SENTENCED TO HAXCJ.
A Third FUMd Ob Trial tor TAfe All
Charged With Xlelooos Crime.
At Decatur. Ala., Saturday night.
after being out three hours and twenty-five
minutes, the jury in the case of
Walter Neville, colored, accomplice of
Lewis Thompson in the assault of Nel
lie Lawton, brought in a verdict of
guilty and fixed the penalty of death,
as in Thompson's case.
The most sensational part of the case
began Monday, when Rosa Buford was
placed on trial. She is the negro wo
man who instigated the crime and de-
coyed the little girl.
I Feeling is mucn stronger agaiusmer
I than against Neville, as it seems she is
I responsioie xor ae wuuie uC!
ELLiGtT BOASTS F0S1ER.
SMITHSONIA INSTITUTION" OFFI
C IAL WHITES' HOT LETTER.
BROUGHT OUT-BY SEAL FISHERIES.
Elliott Claims That Special Commissioner
Foster Hat Mijled Secretary Sherman
In Ills 1U-ports On ScaUae Matters.
Professor Henry-W. Elliott, of the
Smithsonian institution, has given out
the complete; text of his recent sensa-
I ,
tional letter! to Judge Day, assistant
secretary of state, reirardincr the seal
v I o O -
fisheries. It reads as follows:
Hon. W. R. dt, assistant secretary
of state.: Washington:
i .
Dear Sir Inhe Morning Recorder;
of Lakewood, phio, appears the text
of a letter to lLord Salisbury, dated
Mav 10, 1897,
and signed by Hon.
John Sherman, secretary of state, on
the fur seal question. This letter is
prefaced hy an!
account of the great
iwhieh its publication
embarrassment
has caused the!
president, and that it
has been held
iup for several days at
the request o John W. Foster,, who
now ieaxs iub ueci. oi ixia own wur&
a few weeks, earlier.
'Inasmuch as I have a closer per
sonal knowledge of this present ques
tion than any other man living, and
vastly more extended, and inasmuch
as I am the author of the modus Viven
di of 1893, which is the only credible
step taken by Our ' government toward
settling this seal dispute since it be
gan in 1890 upjto. date, I desire to say
that after a careful perusal of the let
ter of May lOth, above cited, the
president has reason to feel greatly
embarrassed, because it lays the state
department open to a crushing reply
from those notjof the Canadian office,
and yon will be in the same mortify
ing fix that Blaine found himself in
1890, when the' Canadians 8imply
crushed his contra bonis mores letter
by the date which they promptly fur
nished in rebuttal.
"Inexperienced and ignorant men
should not write such letters dealing
with data about which they know no
more than so many parrots. John W.
Foster is utterly ignorant of the truth
in regard to the salient features of this
seal question on the islands; that letter
of May 10th is; like all other prepara
tions from his hand. on. this subject
full of gross errors
His dullness in making up the
American casejin 1892-93 cost us that
shameful and humiliating defeat which
we met with at Paris in 1893. Had
he been bright and quick witted, he
never would have met with such dias
ter. .
, "Taking this commonplace man up
now, after this record of flat-failure is
stamped all over his anatomy, and
n: i i! i t T.'r.
question will only thrust you deeper
-
into the mire than he and your prede
cessors have ben j)laced before by the
bright men over the line at Ottawa.
"l am moved to write you on this
point because a senator of the United
States recently said to me that Foster
had assured the president ; that the
information which I gave the British
in 1890 caused the defeat of the Amer
ican case at Paris in 1893. The mean-
ness and untruth of this charge will
be quickly seen by your turning to
my report of November 17, 1890, which
contains this information.
"Mr. Foster! and his stupid associ
ates tried to suppress this report be
cause it contained the proof of my au
thorship "of tjhe modus viyendi of
1891-93, which he meanly stole from
me plagarized in fact, but he was un
able to suppress it. And now that he
comes forward) again to figure in this
question, I intend that he shall be re
quired at the proper time and before
the proper tribunal to give a full" ac
count of his wretched record as the
azent of the United States before the
B hrf g tAh Paris in im
"This whole sealing business, from
the day the trouble began in 1890-91
up to date, has not been ia the hands
of a competent man for one moment.
It has been and is now the sport of
Canadians, and the languid contempt
of the British1 queen's council is all
that it receives when it comes up
there. Very traly vours,
"Hkxbt W. Elliott."
MISERS BEC0MIXU DESTITUTE
roar Hundred Families Are Without Any
Means Wfastsver.
Miners in the Danville, 111., district-
are ia destitute circumstances.
Over 400 families are reported without
means, umzens ana many oi uie up
erators are contributing liberally with
provisions and money. There is no
evidence that the strikers contemplate
giving up. j
A Chicago dispateh aays: Provision
for the relief of the suffering miners
of Illinois are coming in rather slowly.
The relief headquarters have been
open two days, but nothing beyond a
few cash contributions from labor
unions ha been received.
AGREEMENT TO ARBITRATE.
Japaa and Hawaii To Settle Thslr Dif
ferences Peaceably.
A Washington special says: The
Japanese government has accepted the
offer made by Hawaii to arbitrate the
dispute between the two countries.
The state department has been inform
ed of the offer and the acceptance.
The subjects for arbitration will in
clude not only the difficulty over the
landing of the Japanese immigrants,
but also will include other disagree
ments between the two countries, the
most important of which is the tax
imposed upon the Japanese liquor,
largely imported and consumed by the
Japanese in Hawaii.
. The acceptance of the offer of arbi
tration, a brief synopsis of which has
been telegraphed to the Japanese min
ister here and given the state depart
ment, states that the J apanese govern
ment accepts arbitration in principle
and is prepared to enter upop the
terms for a settlement of pending dis
putes. '
The formal letter of acceptance nas
been sent to Hawaii and the conditions
of arbitration will be contain 3d there
in. These conditions are not known
here. Pendincr the arrangement of de-
tails, all other ruroceedincrs looking to
a settlement will be discontinued.
The sake tax, of which the Japanese
complain, is an increase of the duty
on this liquor from 15 cents to SI per
gallon. This tax was passed by the
Hawaiian legislature and vetoed by
President Dole on the ground that it
was unconstitutional, and in violation
of the treaty with Japan, who had
rights under the most favored cause.
The tax was passed over his veto
almost unanimously, only one vote
being cast to sustain the president.
The pressure for taxing sake was
from the saloon keepers and the man-
uiacturers of liquors, as the Japanese
use this liquor almost wholly to the
exclusion of other beverages.
TEXAS DE3I0CRATS ACT.
At a Called Conference They Affirm Unwa-
erina Allegiance to the Party.
Over a thousand Texas ' democrats
attended a conference at "Waco Friday,
called by Chairman Blake of the dem
ocratic state executive committe
The most important action taken
was the adoption of resolutions affirm
ing unwavering allegiance to the pnn
ciples of the party as expressed in its
recent platform, state and national,
and appealing to citizens who desire
crood government to stand as a unit
for its support.
The paragraph in regard to finance
is as follows:
"That we hail as an advance sign of
the return to the principles upon
which the prosperity of the country
can alone be achieved, the disposition
of the people in other states, as ex
pressed in the recent elections, to the
time-honoed doctrine of bimetallism
and to the use of both gold and silver
as the standard mosey metals of the
country, and to a system of fair and
just taxation, opposed to the trusts
and monopolies, and to the principles
contained in the last national demo-
f f.P101111 ft?Pted tttCfe!
1 ftQfi " Tho raonlntions onnplniift Willi
1896." The resolutions concluae witn
a denunciatiouof the republican party.
NEW PLACE FOR ANDREWS.
Deposed President Will Assume Chare
of Another University.
A Providence special says that
President Andrews, of Brown uni-
verstfy, .will in September assume the
head of the university projected by
John Brisben Walker, the New York
millionaire journalist, along absolutly
unique lines. Mr. Walker is also a
silver man.
The university will at first resemble
the chautauqua movement. "It will ca
ter to the masses of the common peo
ple, and there will be no cost or ex
penses whatever to the student. Even
the textbooks will be free, and work
will be conducted by correspondence.
The institution will be liberally en
dowed. President Andrews will be assisted
by an advisory board of ten of the
ablest minds in the country. Presi
dent Andrews, in speaking of the mat
ter, said:
The course of studies will be work
ed out with reference to the real needs
of men and women in the various
walks of life, and will be designed not
onlv to produce broader minds, more
cultivated intellects and give greater
fitness for special lines of work, but
to make better citizens, better neigh
bors, and give a happier type of man
and womanhood,"
I THREE WILL IIXSO TOUETHER.
Closln; Chapter of a bark Crime Commit
ted In AUbsm.
! The closing chapter in one of Ala
bama's dark crimes was completed at
Decatur Monday afternoon when Rosa
omoru, uc uriw wuuu, a ivu
j ricted of aiding and abetting Lewis
Thompson and Waiter Seville in as
saulting Nellie Lawtoa.
The counsel for the woman attempt
ed to persuade her to testify, but she
refused to go upon the stand and tell
her story. The trial lasted only three
hours. 'Shortly after 2 o'clock the
jury rendered a verdict of deith.
The three prisoners were then sen
tenced to hang on September 7th next.
TROOPS MAY BE CfiLLED FOR
THE STRIKE SITUATION IS DOR-
DERISO OX A CRISIS.
GOVERNOR HUSTINGS SO NOTIFIED.
Monster Mass Meeting of Miner Indicate
That They Are Still Determined
to Win the Fight. !
A special from Pittsburg, Pa., says:
Whatever the immediate culmination
of the strike situation may beiu this
district, it is evident Sheriff Ixwrey .
considers the time a critical one.
Monday night he telegraphed Gov
ernor Hastings fully concerning the
condition existing here with the evi
dent purpose of having tne governor
prepared for any emergency that may
arise in the near future
It is learned that the governor ha
been so impressed with the gravity of
the case that he has instructed the
adjutant general to remain in his office
night, awaiting any requisition
that may be made on him for troops.
The only surface indication for this
precaution is the fact that during the
night an immense procession of
miners and citizens, headed by Bur-
gess Teat, of Turtle Creek, marched
through the streets of the borough
and back again to Camp Determina
tion, where a meeting was held and
the burgess assured the men that they
had his sympathy as well as that of all
the citizens thereabouts.
It may be the sheriff, in riew of the
fact that the big assembly at McCrea'a
schoolhouse Monday was in violation
of the proclamation, has reason to be
lieve that the miners are beyond his
control, and has warned the governor
of impending trouble.
Beyond the meeting and marching
all was quiet in the neighborhood of
the, camp. .
Crisis Seems Imminent.
The striking miners have broken all I
records both as to numbers attending
their mass meetings and the excellent
order and law-abiding behavior exhib
ited. It is conceded by all that in former
times, under similar circumstances,
bloodshed would hare resulted long
ago from the conditions under which
the miners have been placedduring
the strike. '
The mass meeting of miners at the
McCrea schoolhouse Monday was the
largest during the strike, and prob
ably the largest gathering of the kind
ever seen in Allegheny county.
More than 5,000 striking miners met
for an all-day session, and labor lead
ers harangued them in various tones.
while bands of music served to stir up
enthusiasm to the highest pitch. From
early morning miners of every nation
ality were gathering at the school-
house. : I
They came in big bands and smalt
ones, but tne one that set tne camp
wild with enthusiasm arrived from
Turtle Creek. It consisted of 1,000
miners fom that camp, and when they
came in sight there was snch eheeriug
. . " ;t ..
as nas not oeen heard since lue sinne
started. When the miners of the two
parties (met there was some wild
scenes. Men rnsbed aronnd shaking
hands, 'shouting and even embracing
each other. The crowd- gathered wa
so much larger than anticipated that
the men were wild with joy.
T. J, McCoy, a prominent member
of the Typographical Union, extended
the sympathy and financial support 'of
the printers of the country and said
the organization had made a per capita
assessment for five weeks to be paid
for the benefit of the strikers.
COAL SHIPMENTS SHORT.
Quarter of m Million Tons of Coal I-ess
Than I-at Year. .
The shipments of coal westward by
lake from the port of Buffalo, N. Y.t
show a falling off of 223,000 tons as
compared with last year to this date.
The receipts of grain, including
flour in its wheat equivalent, aggre
gate, since the opening of navigation
93.04,13 bushels, an increase a
compared with last year of 15,000,000.
At this date last year the lake receipts
of grain were largely in excet of any
previous year in the uistory ol tne
pert.
3II5ES 15 ILLINOIS RAIDED.
Strikers Swoop Down Upon Them and la
dnee Upmlon tm Stop Work.
Four hundred miners from Minonk,
Winona, Tel oca, Kiogsley and Streat
or made a raid on the mines at I loan-
oke, 111. , Thurslay morning. They
arrived at 3 o'clock and camped out
tide the town.
A conference with the mine opera
tor was held at 6 o'clock, the latter
agreeing to close the mine and keep it
closed until the end of the general ;
strike. .
The visitors were orderly except that
they seized a Santa Fe train and de
manded transportation to Minonk.
Thi wa refused.