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ASKING FOR HELP. -A Rot Turn in the Great Anthracite Coal Strike NATIONAL DEFENSE FUND PLANNED A Movement on Foot By Which tho General Public Will Be Asked .io Assist the Strikers. I TJhoate For President. Hjondon, By Cable. Speaking at the annual dinner of the Rarwicke Society in London, Don M. Dickinson, of De troit, referred to Joseph H. Choate, the United States ambassador, as a possi ble candidate for the presidency of the United States. The company consisted of several hundred members of the English bar, law lords and justices. Mr. Dickinson took Mr. Choate's place .as the guest of honor. He prefaced his. proposal of a toast to the English liench by a tribute to Mr. Choate. "Mr. Choate, dees not belong," said Mr. .Dickinson, "to my party or to my gov ernment but it is very near the hearts vol the American people that he shall go from the court of St. James to the presidential chair and I wish he may jBpet there." , Wilkesbarre, Pa., Special. A nation al defense fund to which all organized labor and the public in general will be asked to contribute is the latest propo sition nlaced on foot to help the strik ing anthracite coal miners in need of assistence in their struggle for higher wages and a shorter work day. Harry White, ofNew York, secretary of the National Garment Workers, and member of the conciliation committee of the National Civic Federation, held Mitchell during which the plan was ap proved by the miners' chief and Mr. White will at once .begin preparations to carry out the plan. President Mitch ell wants it understood, however that the miners' union will accept no -aid until their own resources are exhaust ed. Mr. White came here authorized by several labor organizations. He says: "Mr. Mitchell says that before solicit ing outside support the miners at. work must set the example themselves v by contributing a considerable portion of their earnings to sustain their fellow members in the hard coal fields who are fighting their common battle. Tihs will bo determined upon at the Indi anapolis convention. Efforts will also be m&de to organize a movement throughout the country that the unions and others may be prepared to collect funds when the time is propitious. Pub lic men will also undertake an inde pendent movement and receive sub scriptions from those not connected with labor organizations. This move ment will be inaugurated in New York city and the labor organizations and sympathizers in all the principal cities of the country will be called on to ap point committees to carry on similar work. MA1I friendy newspapers will be ask ed to co-operate. The scheme in brief contemplates the concentration of the energy of organized labor in behalf of the miners' cause, a result which has never before been achieved. ;It involves the raising of a given ambunht of money each week with which provisions and other necessities of life will be purchased. The plan has the appropal of President Samuel Compere. The entire plan is contingent upon the Indianapolis convention of mine workers voting down a motion for a general strike, as in that event, the aid which the soft coal miners would be able to render would be cut ofE as it would be out of the question u iry io maintain me vast numoer or people who would be involved. The op erators are counting on the means of he miners soon becoming exhausted -and when it is demanstrated to them that the funds will be forthcoming the contest indefinitely prolonged, the situ ation will be changed materially." Personally, Secretary White disap proves of the proposecf general sus pension order of mining, as well as of sympathetic strikes in general. Tragedy By Crazy Man. "Boston, Special. At Boxbury, Tues day Herbert Hill, 21 years of age, shot and killed his ister, Mrs. Alice Riley, -and inflicted serious wounds on his mother, Mrs. Amelia Hill. The latter tarats struck in the back of the head ap parently with the butt of a revolver. Hill is said to be demented and to have Iseen under treatment for mental trou ble: from a specialists for some weeks. He is still at large. -Xloros Getting flore Aggressive. "Manila, By Cable. A large body of micros from Masieu, island of Mindanao ;armed with 21 rifles, recently planned fx ambush a pack train of the Lake Lanao column, but the Americans were reamed in time, and anticipated the at tack. One shell from a mountain gun dispersed the Moros.i The Moros in the fSnwns of Masieu and Bacolod are grow ing more ' aggressive. General Chaffee Ifcas advised General George W. Davis to disregard the insulting letter re ceived from the Sultan of Bacolod and to remain unaggressive unless attacked -or In the . event of an overt act being xaomxnitted. v, n PAID THE PENALTY :i A .Double Execution la Salisbury- Story of Two Crimes. Salisbury, Speclal.Dick ( Fleming, fapist, and Arch' Conley, murderer, paid the penalty off their crime Tuesday morning, both necks breaking at the drop. It was an entirely successful exe cution and death, or what isj death so far as the power to feel is concerned, must have been practically instantane ous. Only a few scarcely perceptible twitchings, the result of reflex muscu lar action, gave any suggestion of re maining life in either. The drop fell at 10:54 and the attending physicians pro nounced Fleming dead at if: 05 and Conley at il:05&. The bodies were taken down at 11:20 and a careful ex amination followed. When tlie ' black caps were removed by the physicians it was seen that there were present on the faces of the dead men none J of the frightful marks left by a death in which even partial strangulation plays a part. Both were composed ano; natural in their expression. The sheriffs pres ent from other counties joined -with the physicians in the opinion that jthe exe cution had been carried out with sig nal success and congratulate Sheriff Julian accordingly. Conley 's body was placed in a casket provided by his rela tives and will be sent by express to them at Owensboro, Ky. Fleming was buried in the afternoon at the county home. 1 Conley's crime was the murder of Gus Davis, a well-known young! colored man, on the 22nd of last November. Conley 'was a stranger here, only stop ping over on his way to Birmingham, Ala. He had had a quarrel with Davis several days before the killing and had expressed an intention to do him bodily injury. The killing took place as both, with a number of. other colored lyouths, were in the act of leaving a festival which had been given near the passen ger depot. The circumstances were pe culiarly atrocious. Upon a slight quar rel he jumped upon Davis and stabbed Dim with a knife. Then as the injured man broke away and ran as'fast as his condition would permit, crying to the others for God's sake not to let (Conley kill him, the latter overtook him and stabbed him several times in the most savage manner, causing his deajh in a few minutes. He was found twd hours later, about 1 o'clock in the morning inder a bed in a negro woman's house 3n Church street. After convictions he was given the benefit of an appeal to the Supreme Court, but without avail. - Flemming's crime, committed bn the l8th. of last February, was of even a more' aggravated nature. The house of a lone widow in the upper parti of. the county, where she was living with the voungest of her six children was bro ken into in the dead of night by 'Flem ing,' in company with one or more com panions, and the poor woman 1 foully md brutally outraged. "Flemine entered through the door after it hadj- been torcee and extinguished a lamp ( which had been burning. It thus happened that he was the only one whom the rictim, Mrs. Belle Livengood, f could Identify without difficulty. Besides her testimony a glove proved to have be longed to him was found just outside he house. On a descrlntion furnish ad iy Mrs. Livengood, " Rich Blaton, the man who was respited yesterday 'and a third negro named Ed. Woods,! who had been seen with Fleming some time before the crime was committed! were also taken into custody. On the trial Fleming's guilt was evident and Woods was acquitted by the jury for wint of svidence. Oa the stand Mrs. Liveiigood itated that she believed Blanton to have been one of the men who coinmib ted the.assault. but refused to identlfv dim positively. For Blaton an alibi was Introduced which was strong evidence, though not of a conclusive nature even If considered fully established. Aln ap peal to the Supreme Court was heard. Fleming ma.de an alleged confession, 3tating that he was alone when he committed the crime, thus making a clear issue of veracity between himself and Mrs. TJvpne-nnrL Tt has hppn! aim. " posed, as a plausible explanation that Fleming wished to save Blaton, hom he knew to be innocent, without in volving the guilty party or parties. i Destructive Fire at Clinton! Wilmington, Special. Clinton the county seat of Sampton, a town . of about, 3,500 people, was swept by a dis astrous fire Sunday and the loss is es timated at 4100,000, , with about $20,000 insurance. It was the worst fire in the town's history, and the , conflagration is a calamity to that community.! - Child Killed by Lightning. ' Richmond," Va Special. A terrific thunder' storm swept over this section Monday evening. At the farm of C. J. Sledd, in Powhattan county, three of the children, Annie, Hugh and (Flor ence, and a little girl from this city, named Wenlinger, went into a field near the house to drive up the cows. Lightning struck a tree in the yard just as the children were driving the icows under it, and tore it to pieces. Annie aged 20. was instantly killed: " Hugh xand Florence, who are younger, jwere renaerea unconscious, ana the Wen linger child was badly shocked. -Mrs. Sledd, who was watching the children from a window, .was stunned but soon recovered, j ARP AMD DOCTORS. . : . Sill Recovering From Illness Tells of ' Medicine He Took )UR PHYSICIANS ARE BLESSINGS krp Says But For the Doctors He and King Edward Would Probably Have Died Last Week. I don't know whether I can write a letter or not. I will try; The effort will keep me from thinking about my self. For a month I have been play ing "Billy in the low grounds," but I had a good doctor who has nursed tne night and day and cheered me up and, comforted 'me and -I am on tho up grade, though as the Georgia' crackers say, "I am powerful weak." This doctor is my son and he says he has not forgotten" how his mother and I nursed him for three long months in Florida and saved his life and now Ir shall not die if he can help it. I take all his medicine, quinine, strych nine, calomel, spirits of nitre and cap sules without number, and tonics, too. and if I get well I will never know what cured me, but he will. What would the world do without doctors? King Edward and I would have died last week. 1 About twenty years ago I had a spell like this one, for I had been working in the water all day trying to dam up the branch in the. meadow so that the children could go, in bathing. That night I liked to have died and old Dr. Kirk was sent for and worked on me for three or four days and got me up again. My wife told me then that if I didn't be more careful of myself 1 wouldn't live out half my days. She told me the same thing the other day, and she knows. Old Dr. Kirk is a trump. He was our family doctor until he got old and tired and moved ,iway to live with his children. Before he moved to this place from South Carolina he had a love scrape over there, and he had a rivair too, . and they fell out. The girl wouldn't have either one of them and the other fellow heard that the doc tor had told stories on him to the girl and so after the doctor located here his rival wrote to him and de manded a retraxit or else a fight The doctor wrote him a stinger and re fused to make a retraxit, but would accept his challenge and fight him un til Hades froze over, and as the fight ing code gave the challenged party choice of weapons and time and place and distance he should choose rifles at long range and the next 29th day of February as the time and the other fellow must stay where he was and shoot over this way and he (the doctor) would stay here and shoot over that way and both must aim high so as not to hit anybody between them. But I must stop now and take breath. A good long breath is what I want. The old woman was asked what disease her husband died of and she said the doctors differed about' it, but she always believed he died for lack of breath. I don't want to go that way. I was ruminating about these physicians, for doctor is not the proper name. Doctor means a teacher of anything whether it be science or art or law or pharmacy or theology. Physician is the right word. It is a very ancient name for the profession. The Bible tells how Joseph got the physicians to embalm his old father, but I do not think it was a very popular profession among the Jews, for it is mentioned only two or three times and with doubtful favor. King Asa had a disease in hisif eet and would not call upon the Lord for re lief; but sent for a physician, and he died and slept with his fathers. Then there was a woman who had had an issue of blood for twelve years and had suffered much" from many phys icians and spent all she had and was nothing better, but rather grew worse. The Jews unto this day do not giv much patronage to . physicians ; or quack medicines. I never knew but one Jew doctor, though there are a few very eminent ones in the larg cities, for whatever a learned Jew does he does well. There is a doctoi JacObi in New York city who stands at the head of the prof ession and is consulted by the rich and great men of the nation. " Now, let me stop for another, good long breath. When I was a boy w didn't have but one doctor in the town, and he weighed 300-pounds and was never in a hurry. He left little babies around ever and anon ana when one came to, our house our old cook told us where he got them and she: slyly pointed to his corporosity, He had a little office on the street and , a ; few shelves with bottles on them containing calomel, 1 salts and v ; - v Vv'Vn-'-'' castor oil, senna and cammbmile and Peruvian bark, balsam of. copaiba, and ' such simple things and Jn the corner was a skeleton in a box that stood upright, with a screw in the skull, and sometimes the little, long door was open and we school chil dren could peep in and then run for pur lives,. It was an auful; sight. But the old doctor got too 0I4 and fat to practice and sent to New York 'for 'his nephew, Dr. Philo D. Wildman, a student of Valentine Mott, ; the great New York physician , and sur geon. He iwas as smart as his tutor an'd went to cutting and slashing "our people just like killing hogs. He strightened cross eyes: and sewed up hare lips and cut stones! out of blad ders. The agonizing screams of poor 1 little John - Thompson, my school mate sun naunt me, ior ne , . was Rimniyr dying of fitoneiin the bladder SaSS2& Vent It3 See as a pigeon" egg; and the little Lgot ellr My brother and Jim C?aig studied under Wildman, and when they wanted a stiff they would go out to the Redland grave yard in the night and dig up a fresh buried corpse5 and haul ,Jt to a mtlejoom. back of their office and cut it up and boil it down and make a skeleton of the bones. I went with them one nisht and helped; them to dig up a negro, but somebody rocked usaswe were taking it out dnd we had to Tun for our lives, for they threatened, to shoot. '-That satisfied me with - the business and I never went again. But our. little i town wasn't big enough for Wildman and so he moved to Columbus and made a great reputation: About that time the yellow-fever visited Savannah, and Wildman believed he could stamp-it out and that he was , an immune, but he wasn't. He took the fever right away and, died. It is a curious: coin cidence that three doctors from our town went" to Savannth to fight the fever, and every one of them took it ind died. - ' A1 , But I was ruminating about the uffering' and agony that the advance surgerv and physic has saved man kind and I rejoice that Crawford Long has? been given the first place in the Hall of Fame. I was at school in Athens when his discovery was rnade, but the magnitude of it was not realized until l long after. I was one of the , first to have a tooth ex tracted by the use of his lethean. Let me rest a while, for ' I am weak and nervous and, as Byron said: . A.r ... ,'..-';-.. , "My visions fit less palpably before me." - ;.; . I have just enjoyed a good, long let ter from . my old school mate, Nathan Crawford, v of Lincolnton. He is the honored schoof commissioner of the county and will die in harness, I reckon. He is in his eightieth year, but we were class mates, for he was one of these sure and ' slow boys, while I was precocious and uncertain. Only, three of us left nov, for Tom Alexander is, living at Rome. Nathan writes r a jgood, old-fashioned, cheer ful letter, and says that he never stole Frank Alexander's watermelons, and hints that it was Overton Young and a boy of my name. The only rea son he didn't steal them was that he boarded with Mr. Alexander and got a plenty without stealing. It is too late now for him to assume a saintly morality, for Tom and I still live to testify. But it was a good letter and the memory of Nat Crawford is al ways comforting and refreshing. Now, for a good long rest. Bill Arp in 'Atlanta Constitution. V Volcano Again Active. St., Thomas, Danish West Indies, By Cable. On Wednesday there were three loud detonations from the Soufriere volcano on the island of St. Vincent, between 8 and 9 o'clock at night. Ad vices from -Barthodsj say that loud de tonations were heard there Wednesday night from a westerly direction. V There, was a fresh! eruption of Mont Peiee Friday morning. The Rev. Charles Kansas, author of " IM. Sheldon, of n His Steps," de nies that Miss Elizabeth Mayer, of Hia watha, in that Statej is .the heroine of his latest book, "Borri to Serve." Nev ertheless it Js said Miss M. fitted the case exactly! Though the daughter of a well-to-do farmer; she worked her way through college; as a domestic in a prominent Topeka family. Health Officer Doty arrived in New York Tuesday on.the! Ward Line steam er Morro Castle from Cuba. He said he found Havana In an" exceedingly healthy condition. 1 Hot Weather Cookery. Croquettes land patties form an im portant division in the class of dishes known as entrees, and the list is nearly interminable.) An excellent article on this subject in. the August Delineatbr will prove useful to housewives in its general instructions -and its. tested re cipes. In addition will be found a var iety of cold dishes for Summer, and a useful article bn the possioilities.xjf apricots, and two illustrated pages of a temptingly cool dinner for hot weath er. "... .'! ' . .v; I ; ! ,.- - ; . Building an Artistic Home. "The House that Jack and Jill Built," the title of an j illustrated story, the first section of which appears in the August Delineator, will appeal to home lovers everywhere. So cleverly has the author told the various steps in the raising of this roof tree, that -the read er enters thoroughly into the spirit of it, "and almost feels that he will have some right and title to the same when finished. Unlike the usual house plans and descriptions, ' thefmallest details are, here presented, from the first rock laid to th last decorative touch inside. ; Live Items of News. : ; v - Nine thousand .freight handlers in Chicago began a strike. , ' President Roosevelt! enjoyed tennis, target-shooting and fireworks at his home, Oyster Bay, L. I. The National Educational Council is in session at Minneapolis. , -Frederick W. Vanderbllt has made a 1500,000 gift to thef .Sheffield Scientific School of Tale College. Five telephone linemen were killed by a single bolt of lightning near Of ferman, Ga. 'In a negro funeral in Charleston the crowd rushed to get a look at the coffin and 20 persons were injared. w Bm. w m 1 k m iin -w ur b Wcay Matters of QCn Th8Sunny W " A strikft nf taa t tuu H9l., Kailroad machinesta 70re The, Maryland Anti N went into effect Tuesd .i Claimine spif.. thing killed Morgan SIJ'J Station, Ky., and iSen' By running over a h 1 La., a Texas & Pacific 7 V railed and the engi81) killed. 5lneer aai $ Georgia will recommend 1 Dr. Crawford W. Long V anaethesia, for one of the 4 in Statuary Hall at W a violent wind stor e Edward County, ViSnLM night, killing a - woman and damaging: crons. At Roanoke, Vai, in WiSP """-li F (IV Tiro M . . be executed on August 21 lP ? der of Dayton H. Miller. 118 Two switch engines of the Railway smashed into eachS ivj.acon. iia.. and n tvt white fireman, was scalded toD Sheriff Joseph N. Harrw Monroeville, Ala., aTS? shot and killed by Jessie pfij ing a dispute over a land line n: A Guthrie, O. T., dispatch saj,J - j ittiio, near vjaluinpt Canadian county, are reported J holding a council of war, angry Ct order issued bv Mai agent, prohibiting them fioin dm4 wo limits, so caned, incide their sun dance. The whites cummg irigntenea." Ct. At The National Capital, DesDondent nvpi fin-snn!ni . Ernest M. Gray 35 years- old 3 uiiiiseii at wasnington, D. C. President Roosevelt ha William A. McKellip, of MaryW uubui 10 Magaeourg, Germany. The , Navy Department has in c templation a plan to establish a t less telegraph station in San .Franci uatuur. i.ue department expects; to begin a series of exneH ferent points throughout the corf witu several ioreign systems. At The North. Four persons were injured in ar end collision near Madison, 111. The Illinois Prohibition Conyei; opened at Peoria last week. : Building operations at" ' BraM Vt, are at a-standstill because ot a penters' strike. An inexplicable suicide was tic Siegmund Guthmann, well-knowt' chant and clubman of Chicago, ! The Union JTraction employes q cago, 111., demanded about 40 per wage increase. Woods' sweetheart, A. B. Dusch Woods, at Metropolis, 111. A burglar shot, and killed Albert! Latimer, a New York stationer, K day in his home. J Colorado irrigation reservoirs k full from the storms of the pasttW days. . 1 x ae i aiionai association 01 wi American teachers Is in session at M troit, Mich. Jealousy over a woman caused l- John H. Powell, an actress, to kill1 husband, at Cleveland,, 0. Immigration Commissioner FraiM Sargent left Peoria. 111., for Washff. ton,-D. C, to assume his duties. J With a shortage of $90,000 char against him, Alexander A, Robert of the Wells-Farge Bank, Salt Utah, gave himself up. , I General LI ovd Whea ton reached 4 cago, 111., from Manila, to reside, j 15. A saloon row at Detroit, Mi'ci-f ed with the murder of William man, presumably by Lawrence Rani tywho was arrested. The Hackman's Union at San Fr Cisco, ual., stopped a funeral because an uniriitiated driver as one of the carriages. : For Klondike gold deposited at S tie, Wash., the New York Sub-Trea made Jthe first payment of the st Tuesday. ! Fourteen hundred postoffice cleM Chicago, 111.; with $900 or, less s a year, had their pay advanced W year. -.: : -' -! . . f)- ; The- Hide and Leather N.b Bank, of New .York, has apPV permission to change its name v j National Bank of j the United States. 1 ; Boiler repairmen of the Chicago j Northwestern road struck for vance of five! cents an hour. Because Vniliam Trent, ajjfS! Burlington (la.) jail, flogged Jonn caras aunng invine serviuco, cut Trent's throat. Miscellaneous Matters. Private Secretary to QueeTfedS lani. Francis M. English was Kiw , day in the railroad wreck at Col. - '