HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1906-09-27, Page 7Bit WAR ON NEGROtS IN ATLANTA.
CAUSED BY ASSAULTS ON WOMEN.
Negroes Were Hunted Down, Shot, Lynched, and
Beaten by the Mob.
Hardly a Negro to be Seen on the Streets -Hotel
Help Absent.
City Now Controlled by a Large Force of Soldiers
and Police,
'Atlanta, Ga„ Sept. 24. -With sixteen
companies of infantry, one battery of
light artillery, and one squadron of cav-
alry and the entire city police force still
guarding the city, Atlanta, early to -day
is comparatively quiet. The uegro
while brenking out in several sec -
tame during last night, is now almost
entirely abated,
By order of the Mayor, saloons have
'been closed. until further notice, and
many busines places, swat as restaurants,
all-night drug stores, etc., wore closed
-early in the evening.
. In the early part of the night there
were several eases where street cars were
shot at from ambush, and a few motor-
men and conductors refused to continue
on the cars.
About 10 o'clock a. negro, pursued by a
crowd of about fifty persons, ran into
the Marion Hotel, where he was shot,
mid it is thought fatally injured.
A negro was shot in the hip in Mc-
Daniel street, but the prompt arrival of
the militia saved him.
A street car couductor, white, was
shot by an unknown negro, but his in-
juries were not serious.
The number of killed, all told, is still
placed at ten, but there is no way of
finding out the definite number, as the
negroes' friends carried the dead away
in many cases, fearing the dead would
not receive proper burial.
Six bodies are at ono local undertak-
ing establishment.
At the request -of the authorities the
newspapers issued no extra editions to-
day.
Atlanta Now Quiet.
Atlanta.,Ga., Sept. 24. -At 8.30 o'-
clock the city is quiet. The 17 companies
of State militia are in complete control
of the situation. Business has assumed
normal conditions, the street car scluo
dales have been resamed, the schools are
open as usual and public confidence is
being restored, Under the energetic mea-
sures taken by the authorities city, coun-
ty and State, to maintain. order, no
further •outbreak is anticipated.
DETAILS 01? THE TROUBLE.
Four White Women Assaulted -Mad-
dened the People.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 23. -Barring the
lynching of a negro in Marietta street
3 at 5 o'clock this afternoon, who was
suspected of asaulting one of the four
wbite women yesterday Atlanta passed a
fairly quiet Sabbath.
The negro who was lynched was on
his way hi custody to the jail when he
was taken from the oficers by a dozen
men and shot to death in the street.
It was 4 o'clock this morning before
a .semblance of order was restored in
the city. At 2 o'clock Gov. Terrill or-
dered out all the State troops la the
city and placed the situation in charge
of Col. Clifford H. Anderson. As soon
as Col. Anderson could got in touch
with his subordinates he distributed
squads over the city, placing them at
etrategie point i and in a short while
the situation was greatly improved.
A heavy rain which began falling at
3 o'clock and continued for nearly two
hours, was probably more effective in
subduing the mob and sending its
members to cover than even the pres-
ence of the State troops.
The southern mob, as ri rule, when
after negroes, cares very little for tho
local soldiery. The mob members be-
lieve that in their attacks on negroes
they have the silent sympathy .of the
local troops and the view of the mob
is not far wrong.
A disturbance was caused about 8
o'clock this morning when a negro ep-
4peered on Marietta street, near the
-United States building with a Win-
chester rifle. In five minutes the negro
was surrounded by a crowd of white
men who seized the Winchester and
used it to club the negro so that he was
sent to the hospital. Fifty yards away
was grouped a patrol of 20 guardsmen.
A black face to -day has been a rarity
on the streets. Ordinarily one SCOS,
about as many negroes as evlate, but
the lesson a last night had its effect
and the negroes remained in their
bomes. Practically every home in At-
lanta was minus its servants this
morning, the negroes_ebeing afraid to
venture through the etreets to reach
the places where they were employed.
Ladies on Peachtree street, the fash-
ionable residence section of the city,
who have not touched a culinary Om-
en in years, prepared the meals for
their families •to -day,
The hotels are practically without
servants and not a negro bootblack or
tewsboy was to be emit. Many of the
wounded negroes have been secretly
removed from the eity.
The, outbreak last night was against
the negro race and was marked by all
the savagery which aecotnpaniee a roe'
ial eruption.
Thirteen white women have bon at-
tacked by negroes in Atlanta in the
last two months. Pour of these women
were assaulted Saturday evening. One
ef these assaulters had bean caught and
lynelied. The temper of the . whites,
terribly strained, was anappea by thoso
four aeaults, end last night the mob
reigned in Atlanta. Some white man
mounted a. box on Marietta street, liner
the postoffite and, boldiug aloft a night,
extra newepaper announcing "Fourth
.Assault by negroes, on white women ill
one dityl" cried:
"Are Ave southeen white Mail golog
to stand for this"
"No; let's Idll all the negroes 'so our
women will be see," was shouted back
and the mob wae soon en the move.
Then rt street ear appeared in which
were two iregrocis sittiug baek of two
white wenrien. The white e boarded the
ear and threw the negreee into the
midet of the 'crowd, where one was lit-
erally cut to death and the other badly
,beaten, In lest than thirty minutes
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11.4' there eame reports a Mobs attaeking
negroets in more than a dozen sections
of the elty.
The etoriee were all the Mine; the
whites 'mid sea a itOgro and erY1
'There is tine of the black fiends who
assault our wOmen,' and in a few
ea,
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minutes the negro week!, be dead or
beaten into insensibility.
There was no question of the negro's
guilt or innocence. lie was simply a
member of the race that was laying
hands on white women and therefore he
was doomed,
For houre the mob storit revelled in
V017 Satan mile,. On Pematree street,
the swell thoroughfare of the city, the
lemma in mealy places, bore pools of
blood which had gushed from =gram
who had been• shot, stabbed or beaten;
at 10 o'clock this morning traces of
slaughter wore to be found in certain
parts elmiterea Irene the ream
One of the wonst battles of .the night
took place armuni the Post Office. Dere
the mob, yellihg for blood, rusted upon
a negro barber shop norms from the
Federal building. "Get 'em! Get 'em
all!" With this for their slogan the
crowd, armed with heavy elates, cams,
revolvers, stones, and, weapons of every
description, made a rush upon the
negro barber shop. Tho two negre
barbers working by their chairs made
no effort to meet the mob, One man
hckl up las hands. A brick ceeight
him hi the face. At the same time
shots were fired. Both Mil fell to the
floor. The bodies of both barbere were
if)liztekicked and then draggedfrom the
Grabbing at their clothing, this was
soon tore front them, many of the
crowd taking the rags of shirts and
clothing home as souvenirs or waving
them above their heads to incite to
further riot. The mob dragged the
bodies across the street to the monu-
ment in boner of Henry W. Grady.
Here a wigro was detected lurking
in the shadow of the monument. Ile
was summarily treated.
"Beat 'em up! Beat 'em up! You'll
kill good white men by shooting!" the
crowd yelled.
aaasfica that the negro was dead,
his body was thrown by the side of
the two negro barbers and left there.
where they were found this morning,
the eyes of the late Henry W. Grady,
kinelly even in bronze, gazing down
upon them. One negro Willi killed on
the Fourth street bridge, on which the
windows -of the Atlanta Constitution'
editorial room -look down.. This negro
was chased from Marietta. street -on, to
the Foneythe -street briage. Inetantly
several bullets. were !fired. Evidently
these went wikl, as the negro kept on
running and was making some head-
way. Then, from the southern side of
the bridge, came the vries of several
white men, who cried: "Stop shoot-
ing and we'll stop lam. We'll hill the
black -. He'll get away if you don't
stop shooting and. let us at him."
Seeming to realize the truth .of this
statement, tlie. mob on the north side
of the bridge'still in puma, yelled
"We've .clone stopped slmoting. Stop
the negro."
All of this in a few eeconas. Then
just before the negro wits leaving the
bridge a man stepped front one of the
leen beanie of the bridge and came
down upon the negro's skull with a
club. The bleak man dropped like a
shot. Ile was dead.
One of the most sensational deeds
done by the mob was an elle& on two
cae porters and other negrom who had
taken refuge in the Union Station. The
mob amasried the eboors of the coaches
and dragged the negroes from their
hiding places and beat them into insen-
eibility.
All this time alnyor Woodward 11.118
riding from point to point begging the
neabe to disperse and not eto diegrate
Atlanta. "0.11, go lome yourself, Jen,"
the rioters crie(1 to the Mayor. "We are
after niggers." The police were as
helpless as babes.
Only onto Was tha mob baulked, naid
that 11418 when one section of it was
raiding negro saloons and restaurants
on Decatur street. A tiro alarm was
turned in asta Chief Joyner, recently
nominated for Mayor, came with three
engines. In a few minutes be had
streams of water playing and ea soon es
elte water touched the mob it dissolved,
one fellow calling out:
"Why are you soaking 11,1, Ohief, we
all voted for you for Mayor?"
All this time Governor Terrill was
nsleep in the Executive Mansion on
Pacelaree street, uneonecious of the
trouble. .No one hod notified him.
About 10 o'clock it occurred to some-
one to call up the Governor and tell
lam what was going on. The Gov-
ernor Haat promptly, He order:el out
the troops, but the evil heel already
been. wrought.
Ten men were- dead and a Innalred
othere. wounded, some of whom will die.
Tbe white 1111111, like aforrin, -was shot
dead by a negro just as the riot was
simmering down. The negro escaped.
Atlanta, (4a., Sept. 24. -The body of
Zebe Long, -a negro, was found hangieg
in the woods early to -day near East
Point, a mulmth 8 miles south of Atlanta.
T.ong was locked up in the East Point
charged with disordedly conduct.
The jail eves broken into shortly after
midnight and Long eves taken to his
doom.
The usual mystery surrounds the at -
fair.
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Two Killed at a Crossing.
Nicolet, Que., Sept. 23. -An acident
happenea laet night at 8.35 at the cross-
ing of the L C. It, half it mile west of
Ste. :Monique station, which caused the
death of Mr. Arthur Heinle of St. Cel-
estin and Dr. Lapierre. They were driv-
ing and were struck by the Nieokt ex-
press. The train was fifty minutes late.
Dr. Lapierre was instantly killed and
Mr. Howie died twenty mintitee niter.
The horse was also killed, and the buggy
smashed.
Kicked in race by Ilene.
London, Sept. 22.--W. L. Mitchelti to,
Manlier, Wns severely hi:lured. this
-morning by it horse beleuging, to Ben-
gali MeIntyre. Mr. "Alitcheltree was
carreing a. basket of meat to a wagon
when lteTetyre's horse Itickee over
the triers, one of his beefs striking
Mitebeltree squarely in the flee end
knoekieg him down. 'While 1.111tehelt1'ee
wes lying prostrate on the ground the
‘leiolie animal trampled on him several
times.
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20 Bodies round.
San Francisco, Sept. 24.4- AU.
other tragedy of the great fire of
April 18 Was brought to light
through the finding of a score of
human bodies in the ruin* Of a
lodging house at Fifth and Minna
streets. The lodging house, which
was a four -storey frame building,
was tossed bodily into Minna
street in a heap by the earthquake
and immediately took fire, It is
Said that the fire south of Market
street originated in the house,
Fifty persons were in the place
at the time of the quake, only
seven of whom have been account-
ed for. Mrs. Murray, the land-
lady, has never been heard from
by friends, and it is thought that
her body is among those found.
She is said to have a wealthy
daughter in New Yorls Cita.
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BOY SHOT DEAD.
JOHN KENDRICK, OF SAULT STE.
MARIE.
Following Another Boy Who Carried a
Gun While Shooting Partridges, the
Weapon Discharged and Shot Ken-
drick in the Breast.
Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., Sopt, 23. -
John Kendrick, the thirteen -year-old son
of Henry Kendrick, of this place, was
the victim of a fatal gunning accident
yesterday afternoon. With another
boy named Ernest Quigley, aged six-
teen years, he was hunting partridge
three miles from the Soo. They sight-
ed a bird and followed it through the
woods. Quigley went ahead and Ken-
rick followed 021 the trail. Quigley lmd
the gun cocked ready to shoot, and ear-
ried it over his shoulder. It was ac-
cidentally discharged, and the shot en-
tered Kendrick's breast, killing him in-
stantly. Quigley notified a farmer liv-
ing about a mile distant, and the body
was brought to town, Coroner Mc-
Caig investigated, but as it was quite
heeviidd.ently an accident no inquest will be
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MAN FOUND DEAD.
PERCY M'LELLAND EXPIRES IN A
C. P. R. SLEEPING CAR.
Was Travelling to Toronto From Mont-
real -Seemed ih Good Health When
He Secured His Berth -He Was For-
merly of Stratford.
Toronto, Sept. 24. --Travelling to To-
ronto from Montreal hi it C. P. R. sleep-
ing car, Percival McClelland, twenty
years old, died .suddenly early yester-
day morning. He was found dead in
the toilet room when the train reached
Toronto about 7.30. Dr. Henry A. Beat-
ty, the railway surgeon, said !death batt
overtaken the young man but 0, SkOlt
time before. The body was identified
by a card found in the clothing, and af-
ter Coroner W. J. Greig had made his
investigation a sister of deceased obtain-
ed permission to ship the remains to
Stratford) the home of the young manes
parents.
Deceased was in the employ of Ed.
wards, Morgan ,S; Co., charterNi ac-
countants, 20 Wellingeten street east,
and lived at SS Alexander street. The
young mg 13 said to Luxe been subject
to fits, and it is thought was a suf.
ferer from heart trouble.
STRANGE CASE.
Woman Fined for Kissing Her Daughter
in Ottawa.
Ottawa, Sept. 24, --Mrs. Elizabeth
Crowe, of Aberdeen, S. D., at the Pollee
Court on Saturday morning, was fined. $3
and costs for kissing Mildred Lyon, the
little dauglaer of Dr. V. if. Lyon, of
Ottawa, her own child by a former mar-
riage. Mrs. Crowe was formerly the wife
of Dr. Lyon, but in the Dakota divorce
courts by Judge McCoy was granted a
deeree of divorce. Dr. Lyon was given
the custody of the child. Mrs. , Crowe
was here visiting, and was on the street
with her sister, Mrs. Ilempill. They
saw the little girl, and Mrs. Crowe
talked to her and kissed. her. The
child and father alleged this was againet
her will, mid a charge of assault was
laid. Mrs. Crowe was fined, but the
charge against Mrs. Hempill was dis-
missed.
AUDITS FOUND INCORRECT.
City Finances of Stratford in Pretty Bad
Tangle.
Stratford, Ont., Sept. 23. -In the
early part of the year the City Coun
ell engaged Auditor Neff to =mine
into the city finances. Ite found that
for 10 years hardly an - audit had been
correct. The late -collector had been
either paying the city too much money
or too little, more frequently the hit-
ter, the auditor's report containing, an
indictment of the tact displayed by
the city clerk. Recently a eommit-
tee, consisting of the whole coancil
superseded the clerk and virtually ap-
pointed anotlfbr man. Last night some
of the aldermen seeeded from the posi-
tion taken up and uncertainty exists as
to what attitude will be taken.
Damage by Lightning.
Brookville, Sept One of the
fiercest electrie etorms in the history
Broekville brolve between 7 mut s
e'eloek on Salerday eveuing. Terrific
lightning woe aeemnpanied by torrenth
of rain. Two of the publie schools,
Trinity Cluneh Ana the residenee of
Edward Vitzpatriek were damaged by
lightnieg. The occupants nf the Fitzpat-
rick house had a narrow mope.
Sydttey Flyer Derailed.
Ualifax, N. S., Sept. 2.3. --The Sydney
flyer from Ihtlifax was derailed near
11411 lost night about 11.35. The engine
eempletely left the track and is lying
n its side. Three 0111%4 1111:411 1(41 the
rails. Driver MU04 was badly seabled.
Wrecking trains left, Sydney and Point
NEWS IN BRIEF
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CANADIAN
Iiumigration movement Orem* Tor.
onto allows a falling off this month.
Mrs. 'William Hunter died in Grace
Ili(nnittal, Toronto, from the effects of
b
Impressive services were held in tit
synagogues at Toronto in celebration o
the Hebrew ;New Year.
Mr. Allan E. McLean, of Oshawa, drop-
ped dead in the drug store of Mr. E. A
Legge, corner af College street and Os
sington avenue, Toronto.
Railway traffic experts calculate that
there are about 108,000,000 bushels of
grain in Ontario to be moved before the
end of December.
a bad citizen. If it wo proven that
- these people were undeeirable as a dais Sw
, some special legislation, as la the MO .. sT p
of Chiuese, could be pressed to dela
i ,
I with tee matter. The immigration siet
was for the betterment of exieting con -
fie prohibitory legislation to keep any
ditions, and was not intended to be used TO LAND T
1Brigadier General Funston on the Way to T
Charge of the Operadons.
'particular nationality out of te hcountry.
14 CRIMINAL CATCHER.
CAMERA, AND MICROSCOPE MAKE
• THEIR DETECTION CERTAIN,
0 Reveals Minutes( Stains -Evidence In -
Sir Frederick Borden, interviewed by a
representative of Canada, deelared tha
Canada will never contribute a dollar to
the Imperial navy unless she is in some
manner represented in the spending
of it.
The name of Mr. A. W. Wright is men-
tioned, in connection with the vacancy
in the Ontario Labor Bureau, Hon. Dr,
ileatime says that nothing definite has
been decided on yet with reference to the
vacancy,.
The two-year-old daughter of Michael
Goldfield, a Hebrew, living on St. Joseph
street, Ottawa, ran in front of an east-
bound street ear in charge of Conductor
Consmeau last evening. The little thing
Was might by the fender, but rolled off
under the wheels of the cal-, and her
right leg was severed at the thigh. The
other leg was badly crushed.
The petition presented by English-
speaking Catholics of Ottawa to Mgr.
Siametti invoking his aid to terminate
the struggle with the Catholics of
French origin, and give the former the
control of their own schools, a copy of
which was forwaeded to 1101110 upon the
alleged. failure of the Apostolic Delegate
to move in the matter, has been made
public.
A. letter from the Montreal Humane
Society was read at yesterday's meeting
of the Toronto Humane Society stating
that the Ministers of Agriculture and
of Justice had been asked to introduce
legislation similar to that in force in
New York State, prohibiting the use of
the wings, plumage or bodies of insectiv-
orous birds on hats. The Ministers have
premised to confer and see what can be
done.
About fifteen minutes after Mr. and
Mrs. Ben Parkinson, Horton street, Lon-
don, had taken breagfast yesterday,
they became violently sick. Dr. Drake
was called, and decided it was poisoning.
Mr. Parkinson soon recovered, but his
Wife was ill all day. The doctor thinks
the trouble came from the milk they
used, and an analysis will probably be
made.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN.
The Normal School at Stanberry, Mo.,
was destroyed by fire yesterday. The
loss is $7.5,000.
For the first time since 1903 the Bank
of England has sold bar gold to United
States purchasers.
The Royal Grain Commission will open
itz hearings in Toronto on Tuesday
next in the Board of Tvade building.
At Karlsruhe; Germany, the Grand
Duke and Grand Duchess of Baden cele-
brated their golden wedding yesterday.
Sir John Gorst, British Commissioner
for the International Exhibition, and T.
P, O'Connor sailed for Canada 'yesterday.
Ex -Senator James K. Jones has strong-
ly advised W. J. Bryan to drop the sub-
ilecas.
of Government ownership of rail-
,ayAt White Cloud, Mich., eight masked
burglars held back the populace at the
point of the pistol, and robbed the local
banks of $4,000.
The British bark Austria was lost at
sea, the crew being rescued by the Atlas
liner Atlai. The Austria was built at
St. John, N. B.
Henry Hartman, who murdered an
Adirondack °hide last Maar. was sen-
tenced yestenay at Gloversville, N. Y„
to imprisonment for life.
The Women's Auxiliary of the Bro-
therhood of Locomotive Firemen and
Eneinemen at Milwaukee yesterday
eleaed a Grand executive board headed
by Mrs. Sarah Bell, Stratford, Ont. The
Grand trustees include Mrs. Josephine
C. Watts, Stratford, Ont.
Sir Claude Macdonald, British Ambas-
sador at Tokio, has forwarded to the
Covet -nor -General a copy of a letter
which he received from the authorities
of a number of villages in the famine
stricken districts of eastern Japan. It is
dated latkushma. Prefecture'and ex-
presses the thankfulness- of the people
for the food sent to aid famine sufferers,
visible to the Naked Eye Made Clear
by Invention of Lausanne Protestor.
Loudon, Sept, 23.-Assassine, forgers,
and other criminals are confronted
with a new terror by the combleatiou
of the microscope and the eamere, by
which bloodstains and other means of
detection, invieible to the naked eye,
ore eeprodueed with startling, clear -
At the exhibition of the Royal
t Photographie Society at the New Gal -
fiery the most interesting 'exhibit Is a
series of photogmphs illustrating this
1 process, the work of Prof, R. A. Reiss',
of Lausanne.
There is, for instance, a ,photograph
of a post -card foam' two years after
a murder in, the pocketbook of the as-
sassin, the writing upon which is near-
ly obliterated, but which, by means of
this process, ie made quite clear.
Bloodstains are ebown upon a hand-
kerchief which has been. thoroughly
washed and to all appearances is quite
spotless, and there is a photograph of
au envelope bearing marks to flow it
was opened while passing through the
post, though to the !naked eye no ;sign
can, be seen of 'its having !been tame
pered with, -
Remarkable, too, is the photograph
of a bill of exchange for 1381. altered
to 12,0001., a fact 'which could not have
been discovered but for this invention,
CALL POLICE, TO SYNAGOGUE.
Differing Opinions Lead to Uproar and
Finally to Closing.
Glace Bay, N. S., Sept. 24.-A big dis.
turbance took place this morning in the
.1rwish Synagogue when Rabbi Solomon,
who is a reform Jew, commenced to
deliver his sermon. Several of the Jews
made such a noise that he could not be
heard.
Police officers were sent for and an-
other start made. The orthodox ones
motioned the police away and said they
were only praying. The officers, unac-
customed to the service, were non-
laussed.
Then the Mayor applied to have the
pollee withdrawn. He gave orders to
this effect, but later went down to the
synagogue, where uproar reigned su-
preme.
One 'Hebrew 'started to rush out with
the mood rolls of the scriptures. Final-
ly these were handed over to the Mayor.
who locked them up. The synagogue
keys were also delivered to him.
Ait orthodox vs. reform dispute is at
the bottom of the matter.
CANADA TO GET Tsn BEST.-
--
Hon, Frank Oliver May Deal With
Hindu Immigration,
Montreal, Sept. 23. -Hon. Frank 011.
ver, Minister of the Interior, who re.
turned from Europe yesteiday, &dared
he believed that Canada was soon to
receive the best elms of immigrants
from the Britielt Isles.
air. Oliver was asked if the present
immigration net which he fathered Tait
session would deal with the CaRa of the
ITindoo immigrants, Who are coming in
large numbers to British Columbia and
whose- presence is objected to.
Mr. Oliver stated that bemuse a man
Wag a MAW it did not follow lie was
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Sultan Has Cancer
Paris, Sept. 24. -The Temps
says it learns from an absolutely
unquestionable source that the
latest consultations of medical
advisors of the Sultan of Turkey
established tbe fact that Abdul
Hamid was suffering from cancer
of the kidneys. This malady, the
paper says, does not permit of an
operation being performed, and is
usually fatal within a year,
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VIAND BOOK MEN FINED
THREE PLEAD GUILTY BEFORE
JUDGE WINCHESTER.
One Fined Two Hundred and the Third
One Hundred Dollars -James Joyce
Found Guilty of Assaulting a Patrol
Sergeant.
Toronto, Sept. 24. -Three bandbook
cases were disposed of in short order be-
fore Judge •Wicarester on Saturday, When
Frank Burrows, who keeps a barber shop
at 920 Queen street west, and Fred and
Allison., of the Progressive
Cigar Store, 12 Queen street east, plead-
ed. guilty to separate charges of keeping
common gaming themes. DUrPOWS and
Fred Allison were each fined $100 amt
costs, and 'William Allison was fin -ed
$200 and costa The dilater had al -
',early paid a $100 fine. Judge Win-
chester warned, the defendants if they
again apeared before bim on sitnilar
charges they would not get off so
James joyce was found guilty of as-
saulting Patrol Serge -ant McCarron, and
Samuel Smith, who was also included in
the information, was found not guilty,
Sentence in Joyce's case was deferred
until the close of the sessions.
CRAP SHOOTERS.
ST. CATHARINES HOTEL MAN IN
COURT.
St. Catharines, Ont., Sept 24. -Chief
af Police Parnell, Sergi. Wm. Maearthy
and officers Boyce and Britt swooped
down upon the Grand Central Hotel on
St. Paul street at two o'clock OD Sun-
day morning and it is said, found ten
men engaged in a game of crap in the
cellar. Chief Parnal, it is alleged, was
gathering the money off the table be-
fore the ployers were aware of the pre-
sence of the police. The proprietor, J.
A. Lofrance, appeared in the police
court before Police Magistrate Comfort
this morning, charged with keeping a
commongaming house, he pleaded not
guilty, elected to be tried by the 'Magis-
teate. The trial was set for Wednesday.
The crap shooters will come up this even-
ing.
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DEMANDS DEATH SENTENCE.
Spanish Prosecutor's Case Against Man
Who Aided Bomb Throwers.
111adrid, Sept. a3. -The trial of the
persons accused of having been impli-
cate:1 in the plot against the lives of
the King and Queen, which culminated
in the bonitethrowing on their eyed -
ding day, May 31, will begin to -day.
The prosecutor will demand a, sentence
of 'death against Ferrer, the director of
en Anarchistic school at Barcelona, aim
it believed to bare assisted. Moral, the
bomb thrower, in his arrangements, and
who :trauma' with Jose afitkensthe
editor of the Madrid El Motin, to shel-
ter atorn1 end aid him to escape after
the bomb had been thrown. Nakene car-
ried mit his part of the programme, -and
against him the prosecutor will ask a
eentence of vine years' imprisonment.
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'Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 21.-Wita the
blowing of whistlee, the clanging of bells
aml the cheeriug of thensands of persons
wbo had gathered at the river short. the
renewal of steamboat, traffic on the Mis-
semi River, after the lapse of more than
decaila was celebratea to-day.Wheu the
steamer tem. Wen with freight from
St. Louis. dm...4.4.4*ockea at the wharf here.
ALL rott ourrAto.
New York. Sept. 24.-T11e NOW York
Democratie delegetione to theTbiffale
State convention started for nafalo to -
1a a front the (Irma Ceetral depot on
both the regular and through trams and
rieveral ispeeial trains.
Russian Authorities Appalled to Think of Czar s
Narrow Escape from Death.
Prefect of Police and His Wife Shot,Thirty-Eight
R -evolutionists Caught.
Washington, Sept. 24. -Official news
with regard to the situation in Cuba was
lacking in Washington this morning. The
pacific tone of the dispatches from Ha-
vana yesterday had a favorable effect up-
on the military and naval officials, The
prospect of an amicable adjustment cf
the iSstieS between the Palma. Govern-
ment and the insurgents, however, does
not deter officials here from keeping up
the preparations which they have been
taking to land forces in Cuba, if it be-
comes necessary.
Don't Like U. S. Interference,
Havana, Sept. 24. -All classes are
now waiting for the conditions under
which tranquility will be restored in
Cuba, end keen disappointment is ex-
pressed on every side because of the
likelihood of peace being brought about
with armed American intervention.
Thet the differences of the opposing
factions could be reconciled was not be-
lieved to be possible until to -day, when
it was announced that the Liberals and
the insurgents bad empowered a com-
mittee to represent them before the Ant-
crican mediators.
It is evident that business interests
of the island have no confidence in the
ability of the Cubans to rule them-
selves, and now, when it appears too
late, they are openly favoring forcible
intervention, and possibly annexation.
Secretary of War Taft is cognizant ff
this general opinion that peace cannot
last unless it ig enforced by an Ameri-
can army, but he considers that it is
the duty of the United States to give
the republie another chance, and he be-
lieves that it would be bad policy Inc
the 'United States to keep a force in Cuba
longer than was required to supervise
the laying down of arms.
Funston for the Front.
Washington, Sept. 23.-Brigadier-
Ceperal Funston left here for Havana,
aecompenied by his aide, Lieut. B. J.
Mitchell, Gen. Funston will go direct
to Tampa. He will at once board the re-
gular steamer and hopes tobe in Havana
by Tuesday morning.
Chief of Red Guard.
Stockholm, Sept. 24. -Among the re-
fugee Finns arrested here on Sept, 22 as
a result of the discovery of a quantity
of dynamite in the house of two social-
ists, was one who aeseribed lamaelf as
the chief of the Finnish red guard.
A bomb factory tend important time,
meats were found in the socielleta home.
THE TERRORISTS.
Only by Chance That the Czar's Life
Was Saved,
London, Sept. 23.-Ainid the universal
sedition in Russia the whole attention
and energy of tbe Government is now
directed toward thwarting a great ven-
tral Terrorist plot against the life of
the. Emperor. The authorities have been
appalled to learn in the last few days
that all the elaborate machinery for the
protection of the royal faimily ie ineffec-
tive, and it was only ley the almost
accidental discovery in the nick of time •
that the Czar's life was saved.
Three peasants charged with mutilat-
ing ikons in a church window were
court-martialled last week, sentenced to
death for the sacrilege and lese majeste
and hanged the same day.
Shot Prefect of Police.
Tambov, Russia, Sept. 24.-Pre1ect of
Police Tomusban, of Borissogliebsk, the
home of Mlle. Maria Spiridonovo, who
shot and killed Chief of Secret Police
Luizhenoffski, was fired at and seriously
wounded in a street here to -clay by ter-
rorists, who also shot the prefect's wife
and two guards who were aeconmanying
them. The would-be assassins escaped.
Revolutionists Captured,
Vilna, Russia, Sept. 24. -Thirty-eight
men belonging to the revolationary mili-
tary league, who have been working
among the troops, have been captured
here. Important letters, revealing the
league's workings in other garrisons,
were seized.
To Expel a Prince.
Kursk, Russia, Sept. 24. -At an extra-
ordinary meetin,,,, to -day of the marshals
of the nobility it was decided by a vote
of 90 to 8 to expel from the ranas ofthe
nobility three members of the late Par-
liament, including Prince Peter Doh
aeoroukoff, vice-president of the Lower
House, who signed the Viborg manifesto.
SIX FAMILIES OF ALLEGHENY POISONED
Over a Score of People Affected-Poi5on Powder
Dropped Into Sugar.
Pittsburg, Sept. 24.-81x entire fam-
ilies of Allegheny, 111110S0 members num-
ber over a sore, have bon poisoned
through the product of a bakeshop. The
poisoning was caused by ,eating wares
that were purchased on Thureday, Fri-
day and Saturday of last week. Accord-
ing to a physician who alas been treat-
ing the eases, while the afflicted have
not recovered, all but two were hist
night moiled out of danger. The fam-
ily of Dr. G. G. Graham, which consist;
of Mrs. Graham, three daughters) 32, 10
and 6 years respectively, and a dinner
guest, Dr. E. V. Weller, and John W.
Davie) Mrs. Davis and her brother, 84
years old, and four sons, were among
the afflicted who were in the greate.st
danger.
Mr. Davis was taken ill while at a
theatre on Friday night, and last night
physicians had grave fears for his re-
covery. The other patient not expected
to recover is ataxy Graham, the 10 -year-
old daughter of Dr. Graham. An inves-
tigation was made by Dr. Graham and
Dr, l'aelleie and last night it was said
that the poloon was a powder that had
dropped from it shelf in the bakery into
0.• barrel of sugar.
The case will -be taken up by the
health authorities.
HOME RULE.
ADMINISTRATIVE HOME RULE
15 PROPOSED FOR IRELAND.
John Redmond Indignant -Leader of
Irish Party Says Nationalists Will
Not Be Satisfied With Any Such
Makeshift,
London, Sept. 23. -In a speech deliv-
ered at Grange, Limerick, Mr. John
Redmond, the leader of the Irish party
in the liouee of Commons, referred to
Lite importance and critical nature of
the epoch opening for Ireland in the
near future. Ile said the Irish party
hail thought it good policy to give the
Ministeis time to mature their plane.
The Irish party and people had mow
forced an extraordinary political situa-
tion. The Ministers, with two or three
exceptions, were avowed Home Rulers.
Ile had been told on the highest auth-
ority that the Government woulbl intro-
duce' a bill next year dealing with self-
government for Ireland, but he was also
told that this Home Rule Government
would only introduce what was called
administrative Heine Rule. Mr. Red-
mond wfts anxious that the Irish peo-
ple should understand that the insb
party and he could have no responsibil-
ity wbatever, direct or indirect, for the
proposal of any sueh makeshift. Neith-
er his colleague.= nor he had been con -
Hulled. He lieard of men being eon -
suited. but Pe knew neither the lead-
ers lair any representative of Trelana
who had been etamulted. The Irish peo-
ple declared that nothing short of a
comelete sure of Dome Rule, that is,
a Peril:mew holy elected, with an
Executive 11spon-ille to it, (maid ever be
accepted.
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Dragrd Off a Hand Car,
North Battlotiord, Sept. 23.-Lnst
night at OM a serious accident occur-
red on the (I, N. R.. about four miles
from North Bettleford, when one man,
B. Butler, was badly hurt, and 0. Stray
was killed outright. These two man
belonged to the C. N. IL gang engaged
in ballasting the track at liattleford
junction and were returning to this
town on lutmlears, and when about a
mile from the junction one of the men
In the hack of the env, }denied off,
dragging the other man with him. An-
other ear was dose behind And. went
over the two men, ldlhing Stray in-
stantly and seriously injuring Butler.
Hes Stiller) teen Settled
Winnipeg. Fent. 23. --At a joint meet.
eng of eemmittees representing the
builders' aiul trades' redone, held to-
night, the gee.wel strike was settled, and
work will be resumed on Tnestlay morn -
WAS SHOT BY COMPANION.
Inquest Into Killing of Young Liddycoat
in Woods Near Thorold.
St. Catharines, Sept. 23. -An inquest
was opened yesterday to enquire into
the death of Clifford Liddycoat, who
was killed by being shot in the woods
near Thorold on Friday. A number of
conflicting stories had been told, and
an inquest was decided upon. After
the swearing in of the jury the enquiry
was adjourned until Tuesday. The boy
who was with Liddycoat on rethrning to
Itis home Friday noon, said nothing about
any accident, but when questioned in
the afternoon said the latter had shot
himself, but when the body was found
Liddyenat haa a stick in one hand kind
a picture in the other, so it was impos-
sible that he had shot himself. The shot
had passed upwards through the throat
ani head.
It is said that the boy who was with
him now admits that be shot him, but
whether accidentally or not it is not
known.
A HOLY WAR.
NATIVES ORGANIZING AND THE
SULTAN SAID TO BE POWERLESS.
Tangier, Sept. 24. -The situation in
Morocco is beeomIng daily more menac-
ing. Eurpoean properties at Tafilet,llif,
Mogador, Casablanca and even Tangier,
are thseatened. Natives are organizing
and equipping as if to force holy war
and the Sultan's authority is now -exist-
ent. The Sheiks in the Marakesh re-
gion hove demanded complete autonomy.
up to (1.0 pieeent time the Sultan has
eucceetial in preventing the big Fetes-
atorira from uniting; but their power
is growing daily. alley intercept -taxes
rai-e levies and expel officials sent by
tbe Fultan. -Shereef Elkstnnni, of Fez,
one of the bitterest anti-EnrOpeatiS, is
;MN; Marakesh on it mission to preach
to the tribesmen against the European
populet:ea.
Raisiili has nearly recovered from his
recent Vines.
PRISON POR GRAZIERS.
13uffalo Men t ach Sentenced te Five
Years.
Warsaw, N. Y., Sept. 23.,-Tlyion D.
Gibson end William II. jacksotr. -former
supervisers of Erie county, who were
-convieted 011 Witlay of having aceepted
It bribe of e3,000 lit eonnection with the
eontraet for removing the bodies of the
old North Street Cemetery. the site af
the pew 050 Regiment armory, Well.
SentetiP1 yesterday by Mr. driethe.
Lantleet to five, year,: in Aulown
A. stay until a week from Atoll:ley wee
granted,