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o VOL. XII. The Eminent Divine's . Discourse. Rnl.l..i. "Brilliant BIttere.,"AUlla th i as a Horrible Cximpli Type Of t fl Wrtrm m m a- ,. A,ero Ie CTeat star from J"" 01 me rivers, and npon the founta,fnsof waters, snath .m. 10 cailBl "ormwooa." tion x.f 11. ; r . -ReveU' ittew Hnnrv. Albert ftirn. ., .Zztl'JtcL eommentators say that the star Wormwood i-Siil 1 V a Btlr and-,lke wofmwood, he wi"?1, vwyth!inf.h tooebei. We hae Btod'odthe Star of Bethlehem, and thJIornlnsr Star of Revelation and the un wce, Dm my subject ntM a to luc Lr Hormirofii. ana m e i imm. unfoi db csueti "Brilliant Bitterness." A more extraonllonry character history does not furnish than this man Atttla. the Kinsr of the Hans. Tfle story Roes tbst one iy a troanded heffercftme limping alon thronffh the fields, and herdsman fol lowed Us bFoodr truck on the srrass to see where tbe better wag wonflded. and went on ' buck, fort her and farther, nntll he came to jvard- VOTjuablt had dfODDed from th . " iJrnR'jwrfi against the edges of this sword the heifer had been ent. ThA hP,ia. man culled up that sword and presented it to AtMla. Attila said that sword must Save dropped from the heavens from the V i YV uu 119 whidk Riven 'b1m meant that Attila shonld conquer find govern the whole earth. Other mtahtv eji have been deUuhted at bfln ealled Vlr,10" or the M,relfl the Good, but Attila called hrmself and demanded that other call him "the Scourge of God." At the head of 700.000 troops, mounted fvn Capnadoclan horses, he wept every thing, from the Adriatic to the F.laefcSea He put his iron hee on Macedonia and Greece and Thrace. He made Milan and Pavia and Padua and Verona be for mercy, which he bestowed not. The Br Eantineastle, to meet his miaous lew pjit uj at. anctlon mtsslre silver tables and vases of .olid jro'd. When a city was raptured by him, the inhabitants were brpucht out and put into hree classes. The first class, those who could bear arms must immediately enlist -under Attila or be butohered; the second class, the beautt ful women, were made captives to the HtinFithe third class, the aired men and vroman, were robbed ot everything and let sro back to the city to pay a heavy tax. It wa a common saying that the srrass never jrrew where the hoof of Attila' horse nd trod. His armies reddened the waters GUhe Seine and the Mose:Ie and tbe Rhine "with carnaeeand fought on the Catalonian plains the fiercest battle sinrte th apM stood-300.000 deadjeft on the field. -On and on until all those Who could not -oppose him with arms lay prostrate on their laces In orayer, then a cloud or dust was peen inthe distance, and a bishop cried. "It Is the aid of God." and all the people took np the cry. "It is the aid ot God." As the cloud of dust was blown aside the banners of re-en fore I ng armies marched In ui7iy nKiui Aiuia. -xne scourge or God." -The most unimportant occurrences be used1 as a supernatural resource. After throe months of lailure to capture the city i of AquUeia, when bis army had given up the siege, the flight of a stork and her young from tbe tower of the city was taken by him as a sign that be was to capture the oity, and his army, inspired with the same occurence, resumed the siege and took the walls at a nolnt. from tviiioh the stork had emerged. So brilliant was the conqueror in attire that his enemies could not look at him,-but shaded tnelr eves or turned their heads. Slain on the evening of his marriage by bis bride, Ildlco, who was hired for the as sassination, his followers bewailed him, not with tears, but with blood, cutting themselves with knives and lances. He was put into three eofSns. the first of Iron. tne second or silver and the third of gold. He was burled by night, and into his rave was poured the most valuable coins and Precious stones, amounting "to the wealth of a kingdom. Tbe gravedlggers and all those who assisted at the burial .were mnssacred, so that it would never be kno wn where so much wealth was en tombed. Tbe Roman empire conquered the world, but Attila conquered the Roman empire, He was right iocalllng himself a scourge, but instead of being "tbe scourge of God" he was the.soourge of hell. Because of his brilliancy and bitterness, thecommentators might well have sup posed him to be the star Wormwood of the text. As the regions he davastated were ports most opulent with fountains and Btreams and rivers, you see how graphic tny text is: "There fell a great-star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell uron the third part of the rivers, and upon tbe fountain-? of waters, and the name of the star is called Wormwood." Have you ever thought bow many embit tered lives there are all about us, misan thropic, morbid, acrid, saturnine? The European plant from which wormwood is extracted, Artemisia absinthium, ls a per ennial plant, and all the vear round it is ready to exude Its oil. And in many hu man lives therft la n nprannlal Iotlll of acrid experience?. Yea, there are some who3e whole work is to shed a baleful in fluence over others. There are Attilas of the home, Attilas of the social circle, At tilas of the ohureb, Attilas of theState. and one-third of the waters of all the world are poisoned by the falling ot the star Worm wood. It is not complimentary to human nature that most men, as soon as they eet Kreat yower, ' become overbearing. The more power men have the better, if their tuwrr vo useu ror gooo. rue less power iuou nave me Decxer, irtney use it lor evil liut are any of you the star Wormwood? juo you scold and growl from the thrones paternut or maternal? Are your children everlastingly pecked at? Are yon always crying "Hush!" to the merry voices and swift feet, and to the laughter, which occasionally trickles through at wrong times, and is suppressed by them until they can hold it no louger. and all the barriers burst into unlimited guffaw and cacbinnation, as In high weather the water has trickled through a slight open ing in the mllldam, but afterward makes wider and wider breach until it carries all before it with irresistible freshet? . Do not be too much offended at the noise your children now make. It will be still enough when one of them is dead. Then you would giveyour right band to hear one shout from the silent voice, or one step from the still foot. You will not any ot you have to wait very long before yourhouse is stiller than you want it. Alas.that there are so many homes not known to tbe Society for tha Prevention ot Cruelty to Children wnere enjiaren are whacked and cuffed audi ear puuea.ana tenselessly called to order, and answered sharply and suppressed, tin-, til it ia a wonder that under sueh processes they do not all turn out Nana Sahlosl uuc i will cuaoge this and suppose you are a star ot worldly prosperity. Then vou have large opportunity. You can encour age that artist by buying his picture. You can improve tbe fields, the stables, the highway, by introducing higher style of fowl and horse and eow and sheep. You can bless the world with pomologicaj achievement in the orchard. You can ad vance arboriculture and arrest the death- ful destruction of the American forests You can put a piece of sculpture Into the niche of that publio academy. You can endow a college.. You can stocking 1000 bare teet from the winter frost. You can bnild a church. You can put a missionary of Christ on that foreign shore. You can uelp ransom n world. A rich man with his heart right can you tell me how much food A James Lenox or Qaerg Ptabedy I Le ,e nrm-nnl tkt . ' : U ? I "ea -inere is riot a city, town or neigh- borbood that haa -not glorious specimens or consecrated wealth. But suppose you grind the face of the poor. Suppose, when a tnmn's wages are one, you make birrf. trait, for tbern because, b oannot help himself. , Suppose that, be cause his family is sick and be has bad ex-tr-i expenses, be should politely ask you to lAnl,1. -lt I.I . JVU, u" waires ior tnis torn- an UUU1: u'"i ne wants a better place to ro and get it. Suppose, by your roan- net a tnougn ne were nothing and you were everything. Suppose you are eetflsh and overbearing and arrogant, xour first name ought to be Attila and your last name Attila, because you are the ArY,.f.mood acd yn haTd Imbittered One-thlrd, if not three-thirds of the waters that roll past your employes and opera- LTf "d dependents and associates, and lot? i"?Vf caiases which the under taker orders for your funeral in order to tu occasion respectable will be fll'ed with twice as many dry .tearless eves, a there are persons -Upving tbern. You will be in the rfu'l5uVa'eir Minutes. As pomnanf rHh ptprntfr th at.v nf longest life on earth Is not ciore than a minute. What are we doing with tbat minute? Wbar rrtftie of individuals is true of nations. God sets them nn to vpvhIva m rtarsjUU-tbey may fall wormwood Trre ine atmoBphere of tbe desert, fragrant spices coming in caravans to her fairs; all seas cleft Into foam bv the keeli nf hr laden merchantmen; her markets rich with horses and camels from Toearmab; the bazaar filled with upholstery from Dedan, with emerald and coral and nate from Syria, with mines from Helbon, with ynhroldereI worit from Ashnr and Chil- mad. where now the gleam of her towers, where the roar of her chariots, where the mast of her ships? Let the fishermen who dry tbelr nets where once she stood, let the sea that rU3he3 npon the barrenness where once she challenged the admiration of all nations, let the barbarians who set set their rude tents where once her palaces glittered, answer the questions. She Was a star, but by her own sin turned to worm Wood and has fallen. Hundred gated Thebes for all time to be the study of antiquarian and hleroglyphist. Her stupendous ruins spread over .twenty seven miles, ber sculptures presenting in figure of warrior and chariot the victories with which tbe now forgotten kings of Egypt shook the nations; her obelisks and columns; Karnak and Luxor, the stupend ous temples of brpridel Who can imagine the greatness of Thebes in those days, when the hippodrome rang with her sports -and foreign royalty bowed at her shrines, and her avenues roared with the wheels of pro cessions in the wake of returning conqurors? What spirit of destruction spread the lair' of wild beats in her royal sepulchers and taught the miserable cottagers of to-day to build huts in the courts of her temples and sent desolation and ruin skulking be hind the obelisks, and dodging among the sarcophagi, and leaning against the cdI umns, awd stooping among the arches, and weeping in the waters which go mourn fully by, as though they were carrying the tears of all the ages? Let the mummies break their long silence and come up to shiver in the desolation and point to fallen gates and shattered statues and defaced S'julpture, responding: "Thebes built not cne temple to God. Thebes hated right eousness and loved sin. Thebes was a star, but she turned to wormwood and has fallen." , ' - Babylon, with her 250 towers and her brazen gates and her embattled walls, the . splendor of the earth gathered within ber gates, her hanging gardens buiJt by Ne buchadnezzar to please his bride. Amytls, who had been brought up in a mountain ous country and could not endure the flat country around Babylon. These hanging gardens built terrace above terrace, till at the height of 403 feet there were woods waving and fountains playing, ihe verdure, the foliage, the glory, looking as if a moun tain were on the wing. On the tiptop a king walking with his queen among the statues, snowy white, looking up at birds brought from distant lands and drinking out of tankards of solid gold or looking off over rivers and lakes upon nations subdued and tributary, crying, "Is not this great Babylon which I have built?" What battering ram smote the walls? What plowshare upturned the gardens? What army shattered the brazen gates? What long, fierce blast of storm put out tbU light which illuminated the world? nhHt crash of discord drove down the mu sic that poured from palace window and garden grove and called the banqueters to their revel and the dancer to their feet? I walk upon the scene ,of desolation to find an answer and pick up pieces of bitumen and brick and broken pottery the remains of B:ibylon. I hear the wild waves saying: "Babylon was proud. Babylon was im pure. Babylon was a star, but by sin she turned to wormwood and h'as fallen." From the persecutions pf the pilgrim fathers and he Huguenots in other lands God set upon these shores a nation. The council fires of the aborigines went out in . the greater light of a free government. The sound ef the warwhooo was exchanged for the thousand wheels of enterprise and pro gress. The mild winters, the fruittul sum mers, the healthful skies, charmed from other lands a race of hardy men, who loved God and wanted to be; free. Before the woodman's ax forests fell and rose again into ships masts and churches' pillars. Cities on. the banks of lakes be gan to rival cities by the sea. The land quakes with the rash of the rail car, and the waters are churned white with the steamer's wheel. Fabulous bushels of Western wheat meet on the. way fabulous bushels of Eastern coal.. Furs from the North pass on the rivers fruits from the South. And trading in the same market are Maine lumbermen and South Carolina rice merchant and Ohio farmer and Alaska fur dealer. And churches and schools and asylums scatter light and love and mercy and salvation upon 70,000,000 of people. 1 pray that our nation may not copy the crimes of nations that have perished; that our cup of blessing turn not to wormwood and we go down. Iam by nature and by grace an optimist, and I expeo: that this country will continue to advance until the world shall reach the raillenial era. Our only safety is ia righteousness toward God and justice toward man. If we forget the goodness of the Lord to this land and break his Sabbaths, and improve not by the dire disasters that have agiir. and again come to us ns a people, r.d we learn giving lesson neither' izon civil war nor raping epidemic. v drought, nor mildew, nor scburge of iocrst and grasshopper; if the political corrup tion which ha poisoned the foundations of puolio virtue and beslimed the hisrh places of authority, making free govern ment at times a hissing and a byword in all the eaith; if the drunkenness and li centiousness thak stagger and blaspheme In the streets ot our great cities, as though they were reaching after the fame ot aCop- iniu ana a boaoni, are not repented of, we will yet see the smoke of onr nitinn'g r,,;n The pillars of our national and State cacU tola will fall more disastrously than when Sampson pulled down the Dragon and futuro historians will record upon the pave bedewed with generous tajtrs the story that the free nation ot the west rose ia splendor which made the world stare. It had magnificent possibilities; It forgot God; tt hated justice; it hugged its crime, it baited on its high march; it reeled under the blow of calamity; it fell, and as tt was going down all the despotisms of .earth from the top ot ojoody . thrones . began to shout: "Aha! So would, we have it!" while struggling and oppressed peoples looked out from dungeon bars, with tVars and groans and cries ot untold agony, the scorn of those and the woe of these, uniting in the ex clamation: "Look-yondeji 'There fell a great star from heaven burning ac it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers and .upon the fountains of waters, and tha satue of the star is called1 Wormwoodl'" .y.".- -:v -, n n KrWHK : v. - : ......... vMbnv, iibiiiiiiu FOR PERPETRATORS OF THE PAL ' METTO, UA., HORROR. FURTHER DETAILS OF THE AFFAIR " ""esses y the Negroes Were Shot . Down Like Dogs and Were Shown No Mercy. Governor Candler, of Georgia, took prompt action in the endeavor -to bring the perpetrators of the Palmetto lynching1 to justice by issuing the-fol lowing " " , ' - ' Froclapnatlon; , Whereas, ofireial information has been received at this department that on the night of March 15, 1899, an unknown mob foully murdered Henry Bingham, colored,, Tip Hudson, col ored, Ed Brown, colored, and Bud Cotton, colored, while said parties were incarcerated and well guarded awaitiDg a committal trial upon the charge of..-arson, in the county of Campbell. I have thought proper, therefore, to issue this my proclamation hereby offering a reward of five hundred dol lars for the apprehension and delivery of the first member of said unknown mob and a further reward of one hun dred dollars for each additional person eo implicated, with evidence sufficient to convict, to the sheriff of said county and stale. And I do moreover charge and re quire all officers in this stute.civil and military, to be vigilant in endeavoring to apprehend the said members the unknown mob in order tbat hey may be brought to trial for the offense with which they stand charged. Given under my hand and seal of the state, this the 16th day of March, 1899. A. D. Candler, Governor. By the governor. PhijIP Cook, Secretary of State. Governor Strong Condemnation. Governor Candler said in an inter riew Thurpday morning: "I regard the outrage as simply in excusable. These men had been ar rested, as I am informed, and proof was at hand to convict -them. They were in the hands of the law. The law was amply able to punish, them, and the interposition of this mob of two hundred disguised men was entirely unnecessary, since with the proof in the "hands" of those wlio had made the arrests conviction and pun ishment were absolutely certain. "I shall'today offer the largest re ward the law' will authorize for the apprehension of any one or more of the perpetrators - of this dastardly deed, and I will try to see to it that they are prosecuted to the limit of the law. Such outrages must stop xn Georgia." - Detail or Tragedy. Further details of the deplorable anair show that is was one of horror. The negroes killed were: Tip Hudson, Bud Cotton, Ed Wynn and Henry Bing ham. John Bigby was fatally shot; John Jameson, shot, but will recoverj George Talum, arm broken; Ison Brown and Clem Watts escaped with out injury. The men who were guarding the negroes are well known and promi nent citizens oi raimetto, ana were sworn in only Wednesday as special guard for the night. Bud Cotton, who was . killed, had confessed to the burnitfg of the stores in Palmetto and had implicated all the others who had been arrested. Eye witnesses state that Tvhen the mob broke into the warehouse the guards were placed in line, six of them, and marched around the room and then marched to the front of the room, near tne aoor in wnicn the mob entered. .. They were placed in line against the front wall of the building and ordered not to move at the cost of their lives. They did not speak, neither 'I did they move, and not a word was said by the guard to the mob. The men then walked around where they could get a good look at the trembling, pleading," terror stricken negroes, begging for life and declaring that they were innocent. There was a moment's, pause of deliberation. The negroes thought it meant that the assassins hesitated hi their bloody deed, but the men only hesitated because they wanted deliber ate action and a clear range for their bullets. The negroes, helpless, tied together with ropes, begged for mercy, for they saw the cold gun barrels, the angry and determined actions of the men, and they- knew it meant death to them. - . ' " On leaving the horrible scene of their ' work the whitecaps turned to give a word of warning to the guard. And then disappeared as silentlv in the night as they had arrived. The military sent by Governor Can dler arrived at 10:40 o'clock Thursday morning .on a special train under command of Co onel John S. Candler, and took immediate charge of - the place. - PREPARIXG CAMP "AT MACON For Reception and Master Out of Col. Bay IaaiiM. - . Work was commenced at Macon, Ga., Thursday morning on the camp site formerly occupied by the Second Ohio regiv en t in preparation for the occupanejf by the Third 'regiment of immunes, 1 Colonel - Ray, : which - will soon arrire and occupy the camp. The regiment will be encamped about, a moatk feeforbing omiUrcd out. r SALISBURY. N. C.. WEDNESDAY. MARCH Sixteen. Dead and SUiy-Siz Blissloe Result of Windsor Hotel rir. " " j Xatef tPnnrll niiralin . t- Ttr:4 hotel fire in 2few York stat that, nn more bodies' were taken from the seeth ing mass of ruins Saturday: The latest estimate is sixteen dead, sixty six .missing and fifty-seven injured. ; It is learned that Elbridge T. Gerry, owner, had the building and the furni ture that belonged to the hotel fully insured; and ven the -annual rental, for which-he indemnified himself with policies aggregating 75,000. ; -Mr. Gerry : carried "policies assr& gating $595,000 on the-building, and had insurance for120,OOO on the fur nishings, t. In addition to this. Mr. Iceland had policies aggregation $100,- uuu on his own furniture' in the hotel. Mosfc ofthe policies that covered the hotel were "written with corporations that have their main offices in other states, than New York. No estimate can be made'of the various metal and gems which have withstood the flames and lie hidden in the embers and wreckage of the great hotel. One family lost jewelry valued at $200,000, and the total will run up somewhere near a million. How much has been picked up and carried away can never be known, nor can all ever be recovered. Mrs. Nancy Kirk, who lost her life. and her dauerhter-' JMVs. Marx- TCirk Haskins, lost family jewels valued at more than $200,000. There were scores of other families who lived in tb hn. el, and who lost jewels worth thou sands of dollars. ; Warren F. Leland. the proprietor of the Windsor, has somewhat recovered, but is still in a feeble condition. . He is as yet' unable to account for the origin of the fire. ' V . The home of Helen Gould is a point of interest to sightseers. Hundreds who managed to get inside the line waited around in hope of catching a glimpse oj the woman whose charit able acts were so spontaneous. The police threw a guard around the house. t had been slightly damaged .by fire. Miss Gould and her brother Frank occupied the house Fridaynight, al- hough they had permitted it to be turned into a hospital and morgue dur- ng the nre. - There were about 350 persons em ployed in the hotel. The list of the help is locked up in the office safe, which is somewhere in ihe ruins, and probably it will be several days before it can be got at. It . is thought that most of the help "would be on the lower floors at that hour of xihe day and that all of those who were down stairs got out safely. - . XO SENATOR ELECTED. California Legislature Holds Session on Snbbath Day. : The legislature of California ad journed sine die at Sacramento Sun day morning without a United States senator to succeed Stephen White hav ing been elected! -- When ihe hour for adjournment was extended from midnight Saturday night nntil 11:15 o'clock Sunday morning, it was expressly understood that the senatorial matter was settled, and that the question of the election, of a sena tor was not to be broached. Never theless, just before 11 o'clock Gover nor, Gage fe it a message to both houses, in which he charged the leg islature with having left ita duty un performed. The message was ignored. PRESIDENT HEARS SERMON. Attends Church In ThomasviUe and - Draws Kir Congregation. President McKinley attended ser vice Sunday at the Methodist church of ThomasviUe. The service was the event of the day to the village and country folks, and the large, weather stained church was filled to the door. The people of south Georgia are a pious community and mostly Methodists-. The prospect that the presi dent would attend their - church brought forth the regular attendants and all the backsliders of the congre gation as well. . UTAH WITHOUT SENATOR. Governor Wells Will Kot Appoint a Suc cessor To Mi. Cannon. A special from Salt Lake, Utah, pays: Governor Wells has decided not to appoint a United States sena tor to succeed Senator Cannon, whose successor failed of election in the Utah joint assembly which closed its session in a deadlock March 9th last HAVANA POLICE ASSASSINATED. Three Were Killed By Lawbreakers In ' the Recent Street Fights. A special from Havana says: Dur ing the trouble between the .Havana police and the populace Sunday night, three policemen were killed and about twenty-five persons were wounded on both sides. Publio opinion supports the police without reserve. There seems to be concerted action among the Nanigos, the secret society oi tne lawless class here, to attack the police npon every possible occasion. All the trouble of the laat two nie-hts occurred in the outlying wards, which are inhabited by the worst class. BURIAL PERMIT REFUSED Wfclt. Wbm In 8Th Wlahed to . Bortd Among Hegreee. - Miss E. A. Philo, white, from W. terford, N. X., for many years teacher in the Haven home for -colored child ren died at Savannah a day or two ago. One of her last' requests was that her body be buried in the colored peo ple's cemetery. Her attendants readi ly promised to comply with Her wish. ' Bat when a burial permit rwat ap plied for a legal dimeully was en na.tered. Tue permit "VV there fore, refused; : HflNY KILLED Hill IE I . THE "fTISDSOn. XV.TV Thitrr i rrn. , . ITA1JLE DEATH TBAP. ELEVEN DEAD BODIES RECOVERED Half a Hundred Guets Were Injured While a-Xjtrft-e If amber - 1 Are Missing. A. new York special says: Flames wnicn originated from the igniting of a lace curtain burst forth from the second floor of the Windsor hotel, at Fprty-seventh street and Fifth avenue, shortly after 3 "i o'clock Friday after noon, just as the St. Patrick's day pa rade was passing the building, and in a few moments they had leaped up to the roof and - enveloped the entire Fifth avenue and Forty-seventh street fronts of the hotel. ' - Ten minutes later the flames were roaring through the interior of the ho tel, and all escape by means of stair ways and elevators was cut off. There was the wildest, scene of excitement within and without the building. Hun- areas of guests and employees were in the hotel when the fire broke out. and for many of them escape with safety was impossible. " " CV Probably from ten to fifteen lives were lost within half an hour, and thirty or forty persons were injured in jnmping.from windows and in rushing through the roaring flames in the cor-v ridors and on the stairways. - Many who were injured died later at nearby residences and at hospitals, and others who made wild leaps to the stone sidewalk were so badly injured that they are still hovering between life and death. Incomplete List of Dead. Aue jiou ui ueau bo iar Known im mediately after the holocaust is as fol lows: - - Mrs. Elizabeth Leland, wife of Warren Leland, proprietor of hotel. Helen Leland, daughter of Warren Leland, jamped from window. - Mrs. Amelia Paddock, Irwington, N. Y., jumped from window. - ; Nancy Ann Kirk, (Mrs. James S. Kirk), Chicago, died in Bellevue. , Mrs. M. Pierce, Macon, Ga. Miss 'Lazelles Grandy, Elizabeth uity, n. c - Mrs. Addie Gibson, shock. Eleanor. Louise Goodman, fractured skull. ' John Connolly, hotel employe; burns and internal injuries. . ' . Unknown woman, jumped from win dow. . Unknown woman, body at :; Fast Fifty-first street station. " Unknown man, seen to jump from .roof of hotel; body not recovered.' Unknown child, thrown from win dow by mother; body not recovered. Unknown woman, mother of the child, jumped from window J body not recovered. ' ..- y . The list of missing was a long one, containing forty-one names. -'" Among- the wounded are , Kate Boache, burns of face, leg fractured ; Polly Noonan, Patrick McNichols, James McGuire, Dr. Neil . McPhatter, Kate . Flannigan, Nicholas Mallon, Mehitable Henry, .Mrs. Frank R. Waldo, Mrs. Catherine Bailey, Miss Helen Brewer, Mrs. Von Speigle,Mrs. Catherine Misch, Mrs. G. P. Wheeler, Miss Dorothy Wheeler, Mrs. William S.Boyce, Edward Skeleton,- John Duke, Warren F. Leland, proprietor of the hotel; Mrs. Mary Kirk Haskins, Mrs. Alice W. Price, " sister-in-law of Governor Caudler, of Georgia; shock, severely injured; Nellie Thomas, John Clifford, Ellen Curran, William F. Love, Arthur s James, Mrs. Caro H. Calhoun, Mrs. C. C. Simmons, Mrs. Rosina Rosenthal, unknown woman, unknown man, Thomas McPherson, Mrs. E. D. Waterman, Helen Wester field, Margaret Lawne, Mrs. Beden berg, Miss Winters, William ;Butler, Thomas McCluskey, Mrs. G. II. Striener and Mi3e Boseheim. SVveral occupants of the hotel ap peared at the windows of the sixth and seventh stories, and even on the roof, and leaped to the streets from those points. Very few of ; them escaped either instant death or injuries which resulted in their death a short time later. WILL CHARGE FOR RATIONS. The Cohans Will o Longer Get, Their -Supplies Free. A special from Havana says: An order was issued Thursday by the United States military authorities to the effect that all rations distributed to the Cnban poor after the supply now on hand ia exhausted shall be charged against the customs receipts of the province in which they are distributed. Monthly requisitions will be made as heretofore and the United; States authorities will-supply, buying in the Cuban markets such articles as sugar and rice if they can be obtained to better advantage in Havana. The rest of . the rations will be bought in the United States. HEAVY DAMAGE IN A LA ISA MA A Birmingham, Ala,,' dispatch says: Wednesday's wind and rain storm was the severest ever known in this sec tion outside of death-dealing cyclones." The record of losses in the little sub urb of Avondale, on the west of the city, will amount to at least $20,000 and probably a great deal more. Some th cxcapi wert limply sumlous. WOMAN ELECTROCUTED. Tr. Hart b a Place Pnye Penalty For the vHanler of Her Stodanghter. Mrs. Martha Place, of Brooklyn, N. Y.t waa electrocuted at Sinar Kino- prison Monday for tha murder of her ! stepdaughter, Ida Place. She made no scene. The first shock lasted four seconds.- The roltagewas 1,760. It was then reduce to "200 five or six seconds. A second shock waa then given. - . - Mrs. Place went calmly to the chair. She leaned on Warden Sage's arm. Her eyes were closed and ahe seemed neither to see nor hear. She murmur ed a prayer- . : Mrs. Place waa calm beyond expeo tatinn . , . Nn nYi tin wal Ita1 Inln tbo ; death -chamber as "serenely, as she. I Death came with less strueirle than i was ever witnessed before. Death was insfanfaoeou3.'. , - Just as she - sat down in the chair she 6aid: "God help me." , , . The electrode was fastened in a mo ment; .another., was placed over her thick light hair, turning gray, a small circle of which had been cut away. The straps were adjusted over her face and a pad over the forehead. Only her mouth was visible. ' . In her hand Mrs. Place carried a prayer book, and when the shock came she gripped it tightly. The other held 1 fast to the chair handle. The woman's mouth merely closed ; the face was a trifle livid. Her pulse ceased to beat wRhin a minute. v x - The crime for which Mrs. Place suf fered the death penalty was an atrooi ous one. She killed her stepdaugh ter, Ida Place, at thtir home, 598 Hancock street, Brooklyn, On Febru ary 7, 1897. The girl was but twenty two years old. A double murder had been - planned by the woman, ' She killed her stepdaughter whn the girl was taking an afternoon nap, splitting her skull open with an ax, and pour ing vitriol on her face and into her mouth. - The same evening ihe woman lay in wait for her husband, William-W. Place, in the darkened hallway of the house, and when he entered she struck him in the face with the ax and inflict ed a severe wound. He managed to get outside the front door and alarm the neighbors before he became un conscious. When the police and neigh bors entered the house they, found Mrs. Plaoe in a betLroom in which gas was escaping, and - she was shamming unconsciousness. . Mr. Place recovered consciousness and said . his -wife had tried to, murder him, and the woman was arrested after they .both had been taken to a hospital. ' , - v, SOUTHERN PROGRESS, ' , - ; - .. . .... The New Industries Iteported In the Sonth - Dnrlnir the Past Week. Among the more important of the new industries reported for the past week are brick works in Kentucky and North" Carolina; canning factories in Mississippi and North Carolina; coal mines in Kentucky and West Virginia; cooperage works in Georgia; . cotton compresses in Georgia (round bale), Louisiana, North Carolina and Texas; two cotton compress manufacturing companies in Texas; a $10,000 cot ton mill in Georgia and one of 5,000 Spindles in Louisiana;' cotton seed oil mills in Georgia; an elec trical supply factory in ; .Vir ginia; flouring mills in Alabama and North Carolina; 'a 1,000, 000-bnshel grain elevator in Texas; a hardware factory in North Carolina; a harness factory in Georgia; ice factories in Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi; a $100,000 improvement company in North Carolina; a $60,000 irrigation company in Louisiana; a $15,000 knit ting mill in East Tennessee; lumber mills in Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee; a $250,000 marble company in Tennessee; two novelty works in Virginia; a rubber tire factory, a. silk mill and a spoke and handle factory in North Carolina; a stave mill in Kentucky; a tobacco factory and a general woodworking factory in West Virginia. Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.) MINISTERS CONDEMN CRIME. 8'ronf Resolutions Adopted BeffardiBg . the Palmetto, Ga., Horror. At a meeting of the Methodist min-' isters of Atlanta, Ga., Monday morn ing resolutions relating to the Pal metto tragedy were, introduced and unanimously adopted. The resolutions expressed strong sympathy with the good citizens of Palmetto, commended Governor Candler and condemned the crime of the mob in the strongest terms. TWO BODIES FOUND. Remains of Han and Woman Pound Ia Rainsof Wlosor HoteL . A New York Dispatch says: , Two bodies charred beyond recognition were found in the ruins of the Wind sor hotel Monday. One waa the body of a man, the - other that of a young woman, 'probably a servant of the hotel. , . '-'.' - Several hundred men are delving in the debris. They have brought to light many of the personal effects of the guests. It was thought that Mon day's work would reveal many bodies, and the disappointing result has led to a revision of estimates of the num ber of dead still entombed by the piles of brick. - TOLDERTS ARE AT HOME. oath Cmrttmmmm TmUo a4raata( mi Governor Ellorfce's Proelmmatioa. A Colombia' dispatch aaya: The Tolberta, who have been under banish ment for their part in the Phoenix election riots of last November, hare decided to test the efficacy of Governor Ellerbe's proclamation calling upon the people of Abbeville and Greenwood counties to afford them protection and btTf rstursed to tfctfr hcnier, . mm PRESIDENT AND SPEAKER HEED MEET AT THE tooCJfL THEIR SALUTATIONS YERE CQRDIRL The Presidential Iarty Kmfcatked w Brunswick Greeting Accorded .at Valdosta. O at For the first time in .the history of Brunswick, Ga., a nation's president arrived within iter corDoraio borders and' was seen.br her citizens Monday. A special train bearing thepresiden- tial party arrived in the city over the Plant system from ThomasviUe. Those on he train were President and Mrs. William McKinley, Vice President and Mrs. Garrett A, Ilobart, Senator Mark Hanna, Assistant Secre tary Cortelyou. - The train stopped at the Southern freight depot, where an immense crowd had assembled. ' According to an expressed desire on the part of the chief executive there.-, was no demonstration, but the purg ing mass of humanity who had assem bled to see the nation's chieftain gave the police much trouble to keep them in check. Assistant Secretary of the -Interior Cornelius N. Bliss, whose- guests they are to be, met the ' presi dent and introduced the mayor of Brunswick. The run of the . presidential train from ThomasviUe to Brunswick . was rapid and without incident. The only stop was at Valdosta, where there was quite a crowd. The " president went out on the platform and bowed his . acknowledgements. At' Brunswick the shipping in the inner harbor and all along the trip to Jekyl was brilliant with bunting. f i , - - Among the first vessels to fly their colors in honor of the nation's chief executive were three Spanish barks. The office of the Spanish ; vice consul was also decorated. This is the first time . since the beginning of the war with Spain that there has been any practical resumption of friendly rela ; tions jhat existed before the war be-' gan and the president expressed grat- -ification when' he saw the Spanish flags flying in his honor. Off Por Jekjrl. "... Boarding the revenue cutter Colfax the ratty got underlay headed for that palatial home of moneyed men., Jekyl If land. 'Here great prepara tions had been made for their recep tion and everybody was down tor greet, the new guests. - , X. The nfagnificent club home had been tastily arranged for the occasion and never loosed' grander , since its con struction. The costly home of Mr. Frederic - Baker, with '.its luxurious ., apartments had been placed in excel lent order for the new-comers and they were taken there by Mr. Bliss and others. . ; It is said by those composing the party that they are simply seeking rest and recreation away from the busy din , of political life. . But there is a belief that the presence at the club of Speaker Thomas B. Beed, and other men promi nent in the republican party, has more than ordinary meaning attached to their meeting at this secluded resort. The apparently hearty greeting which Speaker Beed extended to Pres ident McKinley upon the arrival of the presidential party atJekyl was one of the features of visit of the party. In advance of the coming party, there was much speculation among the club members and their guests as to whether the speaker would be on hand to greet the president, but the big speaker did the one thing most proper under the as was everybody else, to greet the distinguished party. "How do yotf do, Mr.' President," was his cordial greeting as he met tbe party immediately after' the , debarka tion. "How do you do, Mr. Speaker," was the president's hearty response. The big speaker attitude was char acteristic, his hands behind his back and his head thrown back and up ward. When the president walked ashore Mr. Reed smilingly raised' his hat and he and the president - ex changed salutation as above, noted. The president and Mrs. McKinley en tered a carriage and drove away and tne speaker strolled oil witu ' pretxy girl. ; ; . . : . S.. , MILES CHAMPIONS TTHEELEB. Declares Ho is 'ot a Party to the Ficht , on the Little General-- A Washington dispatch says: The attempt to make General MilesTespon sible for the attack upon,; General Wheeler, recently emphasized before -the war department with a! view to preventing his becoming a fixture in the regular army, is another act in the anti-Miles crusade. ; - Now . General Miles indignantly denies that lie has been in any way a party to the fight on General Wheeler. He has been all along the - consistent: friend . of WlTeeler - and now wants him given a -permanent and prominent place in the army." ' " ' ' - -' . CALLED LEGISLATORS HOME. Pooplo of Hot Sprlac Want Them' to 111 p Itostoro Order. A special from Iittle Hock. Ark.. , ays: Owing to the critical situation in Hot Springs, the entire delegation in the legislature from that city .left . for home Friday. They were called there by urgent requests from citizens . who feel their influential presence was necessary at this time. They feel that the can sid in maintaining order
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