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POLITICAL REFORM AND THE GENERAL UPBUILDING OF MADISON COUNTY.
VOL. XI. MARSHALL, N FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1909. NO. 46.
THE SUGAR FRAUDS MM.
designations being Accepted and Arrests Being
Made-Company Helps to Ferret the Guilty.
New York, -Speeial. Evidence,
"which ig confidently expected to re
veal the "man higher up" in the
sugar weighing frauds unearthed dur
ing the term of Henry L. Stimson as
United States district attorney for
the Southern district of New York,
?as been placed in possession of the
joverntmmt, it was authoritatively
stated Thursday and is being used
ns the basis of a Federal indictment
toon to be filedagajnst one of the
officials of the " American Sugar Re
fining Company.
Since surrendering the duties of
TJnited States District Attroney Mr.
Stimson, acting as a special United
States attorney general has had in
liand the work of building up the
government's case against the custom
Louse weighers and the employes of
the American Sugar Refining Com
pany who are charged with having
conspired together to defraud the
United Stales of $2,000,000 of sugar
duties.
Mr. Stimson himself refused to dis
cuss the nature of" the new evidence
but it is learned that the evidence,
furnished by one of the implicated
A GIRL BORN BLIND MADE TO SEE AT 23 YEARS.
Ann Arbor, Mich., Special. Born
Wind, Miss Lottie Sheldon of Mount
Pleasant, Mich., 23 years of age, has
tieen made to see. This is the re
sult of months of treatment and a
delicate operation which was per
formed at the Homeoparhic Hospital
here.
When she was a ha'ov the phy
sicians told the girl's parents that
she was suffering
from congenital
cataracts and that
she would never
lie able to see.
Because of her affliction she hns
Tieen -able to perform only the ro.r.'.!:
est and crudest kind of labor, and
for many years, day after day, she
lias sembbed floors and done other
housework. At times her week's
MOB THIRSTING FOR MORE
Cario, 111., Special. Henry Salz
tier, white, a photographer who kill
ed his wife last July with an axe,
was taken from jail at 11:40 o'clock
Thursday night by a mob and hang
ed to a telegraph pole and his bodv
riddled with bullets. This lynching
followed closely on the lynching of
Will James, a negro, who earlier in
the evening had been langed for the
murder of Miss Annie Pelley.
The mob found some difficulty in
breaking the cage, as it was an en
tirely steel structure, but after a half
dour of telling blows upon the door,
it- gave way and Salzner was se
cured. The mob rushed him out of
the back door of the jail, which is
in the basement of the court house,
around the building, through the
yard and out into Washington avenue
PRESIDENT TAFT GOES EAST AND IS MADE AN LL. D.
Hartford, Conn., Special. Presi
dent xTaft added New England to-his
9ong Western and Southern trip Fri
day by visits to Middletown and
Hartford,' attending in the former
city Eriday morning the installation
.. o Dr. William A. Shanklin as presi
dent of Wesleyan University and
participating in this city Friday night
in the dedication of the magnificent
. tiew State arsenal and armory. The
President left Friday night for Wash
ington, going direct to his train from
: a State ball in the armory,- -,
The, President's reception- in' Mid-
THE LATE STORM, HITS JAMAICA HARD AND IS STILL ON.
Kingston By. Cable,: Via Holland
Bay, Jamacia. From ; the fragmen
tary reports that are arriving here
- from the country-side, the damage re-
t v. -: euuing irom me storms ana Hood
t wiucli Dave raged ' throughout the
1 . islandjince last Friday is enormous.
Thegreatcr portion of the; railway
,:nd the coast line on the north side
. of the island have , been . seriously
, "damaged. . Landslides are numerous
ANOTHER WOMAN TO TELL
" -, Cincinnati, " 0., Special. ThevTnys
tery which: envelope the relations of
Charles L. Warrimsr, the defaulting
local treasurer cf the Big Four Rail
road, with tho "two .women and a
.' man whom ho asserts' have system
r -atically- blackmailed" him "fofseveral
. .years, was 'deepened, late Thursday
when-: it -was lea rned from one of
. the railway -officials that another wo
, man, whose name has not been'pre-
vionsly mentioned, twas' involved,
' , This official, who has hen special-,
government weighers- was regarded
as'conclusive enough to make practi
cally certain the indictment, of a
high official of the American Sugar
Refining Company.
W. M. Thomas, president of tho
American Sugar Refining Company,
speaking of the government investi
gation said;
"Our company is just as anxious
aS the government to bring out tho
facts in the sugar frauds. We arc
doing everything in our power to aid
Mr. Stimson in his investigation.'
Resignations of James F. Bender
nagel, the superintendent of the Wil
liamsburg plant and several other de
partment heads in the plant were ac
cepted Thursday, it is said, and other
changes are contemplated in the
house cleaning that the company has
strartcd. Bendernagel has been ar
rest ?d.
Henry L. Stimson, special counsel
for the government in the sugar
fraud cases, denied a statement pub
lished here that the true losses to
the Federal treasury by short weigh
ins of imported raw sugar would
total $30,000,000.
earnings would not total more than
50 cents, but every penny was hoard
ed, and at last she had enough money
.to enter the hospital and the time
lor the operation arrived.
When this was completed she :vas
led to a window and given her first
sight of the world. It was no more
than a glimpse before the bandages
she will be forced to wear for several
weeks were applied, but that glimpse
amplv repaid her for the years of
darkness and suffering.
' Her joy is almost boundless, not
alone because she is now able to
see, but that that fact enables her
to work and provide money for a
like course of treatment for a little
brother whg has also been blind from
birth.
BLOOD KILLS ANOTHER,
and up to Twenty-first street, which
is in a prominent corner and has a
public square. He cried and begged
piteously for his life and was met
by cries and blows from the nob.
Cario. 111., Special. With Arthur
Alexander, the last of the persons ar
rested in connection with the murder
of Miss Annie Pelley, safely out of
town and the Fourth Regiment of the
Illinois National Guard on guard in
the streets and about the jail Friday
night, the mob spirit that kept Cario
ablaze with excitement for four days
was quelled.
No crowds were allowed to gather
at any place and every known dan
ger point was occupied by troops.
Bayonets held sway where twenty
four hours before the rope, the torch
and the pistol had been in evidence.
dleton Friday ' and in Hartfora at
night was in keeping with the enthu
siasm that has been displayed else
where on his journey.
As a part of the installation exer
cises at Wesleyan University, degrees
of doctor of laws were conferred up
on President Taft Vive President
Sherman, Senator Root and others.
Arriving in Hartford in the after
noon, the President went direct from
his train to the new armoy where he
was presented by Governor Weeks.
Several other speakers had attempted
in vain to hold the attention of the
big crowd which was constantly on
tiptoe, endeavoring to catch a glimpse
of the President.
on the main railroad and communica
tion has been completely ' cut out.
Many bridges ao have been earned - fcridge here were ,studisd Saturday
awy r; ( v ' 1 by the members of the Appalachian
t j yi - 8round Kinston Engineering Association fn. a day of
hag- suffered severely, , the damage sightseeing about the city, spent in
!?ufaf ff stimated at examining engineering worts and dis
i500,000. : .The recorded : rainfall cussing topics of interest with mem
Ironr November 6 to November 10 -bers of the Forestry Bureau, Geo
was 48 inches. There are no signs logical Survey and other Government
jet of tha weather 'breaking. ; f establishments.
OF WAR.RINERS FRAUDS.
i ly detailed to investigate the $643,000
shortage,, coniessed to by Warriner,
stated that the woman who enters as
a newr factor into the case,- had, as
far as he knew, no criminal connec
tion with the embezzlement, but could
give important information in regard
to the disposal ef the stolea money.
Her name has been given to Prosecu
tor Hunt. . -":. , - ; - 1
The reports of Mr. Warriner 't
breakdown in health were reiterated
and it was generally conceded th
accused man .is in a very .feeble il
not prMario)ia ""onCion. i
WASHINGTON NOTES
In an opinion by Justice Holmes
the Supreme Ceurt of' the . United
States decided against the complain
ants the case of the 13,000 Choctaw
and Chickasaw Indians rho asked
for 'redress for being excluded from
the citizenship rolls of those nations
when they were prepared by Secre
tary Hitchock, of the Interior De
partment, on March 4, 1907. I y
i
Since the German navar strength
in the last year has jumped overthat
of France in tonnage afloat and 'over
the United States in tonnage' afloat
and under construction the question
as to whether the United States
should increase her building program
will be taken under consideratioti. at
once by the General Board, with
Captain Andrews, naval adviser to
the Secretary of the Navy, partici
pating. Capt. William A. Marshall, who
has commanded the armored cruiser
North Carolina since that vessel was
placed in commission two years ago,
has been selected by Rear-Admiral
W. P. Potter, Chief of Navigation,
as commandant of the Norfolk Navy
Yard. It is expected that the, selec
tion will be approved by. Secretary
Meyer and orders issued this week.
.
The production of 78.8 per centiof
a full crop of peanuts for 1909 is
estimated by the Department of Ag
riculture in a crop report issued
Monday. This is a decrease of 4.2
per cent, from last year's crop.
Among the first questions which
will be presented for the considera
tion of Congress when it convenes
will be the change of the date of in
auguration Day, Commissioner
Henry B. F. MacFarland, chairman
of the national committee, announced.
I Backed up by the Governors of 40
States, by strong popular support
of the movement and a batch of
photographs which would give liny
Senator past the age of 40, a fTul
monafy shiveF,"Mr. Macfarland win
begin the assault with heavy ammu
nition. The committee will also pre
sent statistics showing thedeath toll
frorn pneumonia contracted by vis
itors and the soldiery last inaugura
tion. The local members feel that
their efforts will meet with success.
The recommendation of the joint
army and navy board that Pearl
Harbor, in the Hawaiian islands, ho
made the great naval station in the
Pacific was approved Thursday by
President Ta;t. In doing this it
was decided that a temporary naval
station only would be constructed at
Olongapo and that the proposed im
provement of Manila harbor be aban
doned. This will leave the protec
tion of the Philippine islands to the
army.
British capital practically has cap
tured the South Ameiican commercial
field and American business men will
have to exert the most strenuous ef
forts to overcome the lead the Eng
lishmen have acquired in that section
of the world. This is the warning
issued by Alfred A. Winslow, United
States Consul at. Valpariso, Chile.
He reports to the Department of
Commerce and Labor that the amount
of money invested by Britons in
South American "industries lias reach
ed the enormous sum of $3,290,023,
300,, which is divided among invest
ments in Government and municipal
bonds, railroads, commercial interests
and banks. ' The prospects for busi
ness there are unlimited, but Ameri
can manufacturers and business men
must seek it earnestly and furnish
better goods than their European
competitors to capture it.
Engineering problems as present
ed in the construction of the Union
Station and' the Connecticut avenue
" .Leading officers of the naval militia
of various States discussed at a con
ference here Saturday a plan of cam
paign to induce Congress to extend
to the' naval militia of the country
the provisions of the Dick National
Guard law. Those attending were:
TTapi. Warren"7 F. v Purdy,- Illinois ;
Commander Joseph " If.".-, Mltcheson,
Pennsylvania; Capt. James P. Parker,
Massachusetts i Cap, Edward "v M.
Peters, New Jersey; Capt S. W.
Stratton, District of Columbia, and
Commander ClkArles Ct Marsh, of ths
Kavy Department.
SENTENCED TO JAIL.
Sheriff Shipp et al. to Serve
Term.
END OF FAMOUS CONTEMPT CASE
As the Result cf the Lynching at
Chattanooga, Tenn., of a Negro
Who Had Been Convicted of As
saulting a White Woman and Sen
tenced to Hang, Former Sheriff
Shipp, His Jailor and Four Others
Must Serve Terms For Contempt.
Washington, Special. For the first
time in American history, six men
are in prison for contempt of the
Supreme Court of the United States
For the first time, too, the Federal
government has placed ' men behind
the bars as an outcome of the lynch
ing of a negro.
At the United States jail in this
city, Captain F. Shipp, former sher
iff at Chattanooga, Tenn., Jeremiah
Gibson, his jailer, and Luther Wil
liams, Nick Nolan, Henry Padgett
and William Mayes of the same city,
Monday afternoon began serving
terms of imprisonment imposed a few
hours before by the Supreme Court
of the United States.
Shipp and Gibson had been found
guilty of failure to protect from a
mob Ed Johnson, whose legal execu
tion for rape had been stayed by the
Supreme Court until it could review
the case. The others had been found
guilty of participation in the lynching
of a Federal prisoner. Shipp, Wil
liams and Nolan were given sentences
of 90 days' imprisonment each, while
Gibson ( Padgett and Mayes each re
ceived 00 days.
As the big barred doors of the jail
swung open to receive the prisoners
Monday afternoon immediately after
sentence had been imposed, Harden
McKee stood before them.
"At least we are in the hand of
a soldier," exclaimed Captain Shipp,
as he espied a G. A. R. button in the
lapel of Warden McKee 's coat. Then
turning to his five fellow prisoners
he said:
"Boys, it- will be all right."
Warden McKee has inaugurated
methods of punishment at the jail as
humanitarian as the various classes
of prisoners will allow, and he was
prepared lor the reception of the six
men, from Tennessee.
About a year ago, during the im
prisonment of an unusually large
number of women, the warden had
fitted up a store room on the fourth
floor of the jail as quarters for fe
male prisoners. It was in thisjarge
room perhaps twenty by thirty-five
feet that he locked the six prisoners.
Origin of Case.
. The case originated in the court's
decision in March, 1906, to consider
the appeal of Johnson, from a ver
dict of the Tennessee courts holding
him guilty and sentencing him t be
hanged on a charge of assault. Tho
night after the determination of the
Supreme Court to review the proceed
ings was wired to Chattanooga, a mob
stormed the jail, took the prisoner out,
and lynched him.
. The court was much incensed by
the lynching, and at its instance the
Attorney General instituted proceed
ings against Sheriff Shipp, Jailer Gib
son and twenty-five others supposed
to have been implicated in the lynch
ing, charging them with contempt.
Many of the accused were exonerated,
and in the end only six were found
guilty.
j The Lynching.
In investigating the case, the Su
preme Court found that Johnson was
removed from Chattanooga to Nash
ville before his trial, because of fear
that he would be lynched. He was
brought back for the legal execution.
When the Supreme Court stayed the
execution, the court has held, Shipp
made no effort and gave no orders to
have the deputies or others guard the
jail,' but left the night jailer, Gibson,
there-alone. That evening a white
male prisoner was removed from the
upper floor of the jail, leaving only
Jahnson and a white woman on that
floor. The court pointed out thaf
this same man had been removed -in
the same way at the time of the first
attempt to lynch Johnson, which had
been frustrated by . the removal pf
the. negro.
, ' Imprisoned Miners Dead. -
Cherry, 111., Special The three
hundred or more; miners who were
entombed in the St. Paul coat mine
by last Saturday's fire are dead. Some
of the bodies lie buried beneath
thousands of tons of -earth which
caved in tipon them,' and it is doubt
ful whether many of the bodies can
ever be recovered. This was the: opin
ion expressed Monday night f'when
rescue work was temporarily5 aban
doned. Fires in the mine, which broke
outwith " renewed -i fierceness early
Monday made ' further descents by,
rescuers impossible. "
PRESIDENT JAFT AT HOME
Ends Great Tour With a Day of En
joyment in Richmond Visits
Places of Historic Interest and
Outlines Some of His Coming Mes
sage to Congress.
Richmond, Va., Special. ' 1 During
my sixty days of travel there has
been a moment or two of deliberation
and during that time I have been
studying what is the duty bf an
executive to recommend to an in
coming Congress in respect to future
legislation and when I think of the
number of things that Congress ought
to do, I am staggered lest it may not
find time to do them."
In the final speech of his 13,000
mile trip through the West and South
before an immense audience Wednes
day afternoon, President Taft thus
prefaced a preliminary statement of
some of the recommendations his first
annual message to Congress would
contain. i
He declared himself in favor of the
reclamation of arid lands in the West,
and of the issuing of bonds for the
purpose and of some government con
trol over waterpower sites and coal
and phosphate lands, "so that they
may .not come into the hands of one
controlling corporation, but may be
retained by the government, with the
power to restrict the prices at which
coal, or at least at which the power
is sold to prevent the absorption into
one command of all the power on the
continent."
The anti'trust law, he declared,
needs enforcing, and the interstate
commerce law an amendment "in
order to give the interstate com
merce tribunal more power to pre
vent the delays which are now in
cident to appeals to the courts."
He voiced his favor of a postal
savings bank and declared that "we
must improve our legal procedure sT
as to make it both in criminal and
civil cases more simple, more rapid
and less expensive, and I mean to
recommend to Congress the appoint
ment or a commission to take up
that subject."
Mr. Taft said he believed the time
had come for the organization of a
Federal health bureau.
During the morning he visited Old
St. John church, where Patrick
Henry made his famous "Give Me
Liberty of Give Me Death" speech,
and went from there to St. Paul's
church, where Jefferson Davis, Presi
dent of the Confederacy, received the
message from General Lee, saying
that the -Confederate forces must
evacuate Petersburg and leave Rich
mond unprotected. He also visited
the Confederate museauin. He made
the comment there that the picture
of Jefferson Davis which belonged to
the museum did not compare in ex
cellence with the one in the War De
partment at Washington. The mu
seum officials said they probably
would apply to the Secretary of War
for permission to have a copy made
of the painting at Washington.
The President 's . talk to the negro
delegation was devoted mostly to the
subject of education. He said he
would attend a meeting of the board
of trustees at Hampton Institute on
November 20 and felt a very deep
interest in the work of that institu
tion as well as the Booker Washing
ton school at Tuskegee, Ala. The in
fluence of those two schools in the
importance they were giving to in
dustrial and agricultural education
the President said, was beginning at
last to be felt throughout the South,
The President lunched at the Jef
ferson hotel, delivered his principal
address at the city auditorium, and
left at 5:15 p. m. for Washington.
A Washington dispatch says that
after an absence of more than three
months during which he made a 13,-
000 mile trip through the West and
South, President Taft slept Wednes
day ni"Iit in the White House.
Boiler Explosion Kills Two,
Palatka, Fla., Special. A boiler at
the plant, of the Palatka Gas, Light
anS Fuel Company exploded Tuesday
afternoon at 6 :30 c&lock, killing two
negro firemen, almost completely de
molishing the plant and causing the
city to be in darkness Tuesday night.
Houses for, blacks around were shak
en almost off their foundations, and
window panes nearby were -broken.
Hurricane in Jamaca. ' . .
: Colon, By Cable. Communication
between this place and the Bull ly
cable station, Jamaica,' was re-established
for a shortMime Monday after
noon, but was lost again and theri
has been no, word from that point
since. The sea here is very high and
another storm from the north seems
tothreaten. ; It Was -reported here
Wednesday- night that Porto - Rico
and oe -Of the other West Indian
Islands Resides Jamaica had beenVnt
off, which would.secm to indicate that
perhaps another earthquake had oc
curred at Jamaicc. , , ;
400 MiNERS PERISH
Lii vi r . mutt v m mmm mil mixv
Coal Mine.
A SMALL FIRE IS THE CAUSE.
Explosion in the St. Paul Coal Com
pany's Mine May Prove One of the
Greatest Tragedies in the List' of
Mine Horrors.
Charry, 111., Special. Many ofn-.
cials of the St. Paul Coal Company
mine where an explosion occurred
Saturday say that four hundred men,
are dead in the mine. Twelve bodies
have been taken out. Six of these
were heroes not employed in the mine,
who gave their lives in a furtile
fort to save the imprisoned workers.
Mine Superintendent James Steele
stated five hours after the explosion
that it was almost impossible that
any of the miners still imprisoned
could escape death.
The mine had a day shift of 484
men. Of these fifty left the mine at
noon. Twenty-five or more escaped
after the fire broke out. The others
are believed- to be dead.
The entrance to the mine has been
sealed up in the hope of checking the
flames. The building above the pit
entrance was blown up to permit this
Despite the frantic efforts of the of
ficials and the scores of volunteer as
sistants in the liftle town of Cherry it
seemed assured at C o'clock that only -bodies
of the dead would be taken
from the mine. Until Sunday morn
ing when the covering will be remov
ed and rescuers endeavor to pens-:
trate the smoke and gas choked shaft
alid veins the fate of the inmates
cannot be learned.
The fire causing the explosion -which
may prove one of the greatest -tragedies
in the list of mine horrors,
had an origin almost trival. A pile
of hay allowed to smoulder too long
and before the workers realized their
danger the mine was filled with,
smoke, gases and flames and all exit
were impossible. .
Heroism such as is -rarely exhibited
was shown by officials of the mine
and residents of the town of Cherry.
These men, who were outside the
mine when the fire originated, con
tributed five to the list of twelv
known dead.
TERRIBLE OCEAN CALAMITY.
Boats Aflame and 100 Go Down 61
Rescued With Great Peril.
Singapore, By Caple. The mail
steamer La Seyne of the Messagcries
maritime service, running between
Java and Singapore, and on' her way
to this port, was in collision early
Sunday morning, with the steamer
Onda of the British-India line, and
sank within two minutes. Seven Eu
ropean passengers, including . Baron
and Baroness Beniczky, the captain
of X Seyne, five European officers .
and 88 others comprising native pas
sengers and members of the crew,
were drowned.
The rgscue of 61 persons, practi
cally from the jaws of shoals of
sharks, formed a thrilling incident of
the wreck.
The accident occurred at 4 o'clock
in the morning in a thick haze. The
vessels were steaming at good speed
and the La Seyene was cut. almost in
half. The majority of those in board,
were caught in their berths and car
ried down wth the vessel. J
The force of the collision brought
the Onda to almost a dead stop and
her engines were at once slowed and.
boats lowered. The . rescue - work
proved thrilling, fQrnotiQiJyJrera ...
the rescuing parties impeded by the;
dark, but schools of sharks were al
ready attacking those clinging to
pieces of wreckage in .the water.
Sixty-one persons from the ill-fated
steamer were finally dragged into the .
boats and brought by the Onada to
this port. , Many of them had been .
bitten by sharks and several are se
verely injured. : . ,
Three Die In a Tire. . -
; Pittsbcrg, Ta., Special. Three un
identified men, all foreigners, art
dead; five others are seriously injur
ed, and twelve men and Women are,
suffering from bruises and shock, the
result of an early morning fire in a
Polish lodging house on the 'river
front Sunday. When the fire broke
out at 4 o'clock, about thirty person?
were alscep in the building. Firemen
aroused the occupants of the p'a-a
and carried the women and chilJri
to safety. . ,