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, 1900-10-31

He Succumbed to Appendicitis Early
This Morning After Having In
%dergone an Operation For the
Dread Disease-Was Forty Years
Old and Prominent Among Best
Lawyers Of the States.
, 1900-10-31
DO YOU KNOW

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The age-herald., 1900-09-27
UNCLE SAM AGAIN IN
 A WAITING ATTITUDE
Instructions to Minister Conger to Establish Rea-
 tioGs With Ii Still Held Up.

much against the starch trust or any other trust as MT. Smyth is, and will fight them aes hard as he does, and If by the aid of the people of this country and of this State l am made President of the United States l will promise you that I will do all that can to dissolve the starch trust and leave the Argo Company an independent Nebras- ka City company"
 He asserted to support the trusts meant to support the Republican policies, includ- ing militarism, imperialism, high tariff, etc. He took up and discussed briefly the gem eral issues of the campaign. The speech was literally applauded in many places, and there were fewer shouts for opposing candidates than at most meetings.
 MT. Bryan was followed by Attorney Gen. eral Smyth, who said that he had been in- formed he would not be permitted to speak. But he had not believed this. He explained his purpose In bringing the action which he had instituted, saying he had done nothing more than attempt to enforce the law of the State. His purpose was not to close the starch factory but his only object was to preserve 1t an independent enterprise MT. Smyth received respectful attention. He was followed by Hon. J. Hamilton Lewis, former Congressman from the State of Washington, who made a general political speech.
 MT. Bryan returned to Lincoln tonight He starts at o'clock tomorrow morning on a general tour of the country, not to re- turn to Nebraska until a few days before election.
The age-herald., 1900-09-27
HANNA WORKING TO
 SETTLE THE STRIKE

New York, Sept. 26-The Times will say tomorrow:
 Senator Hanna made another visit to the offices of J. P Morgan & Co., in Wall street yesterday, which was much more protracted than his call on Morgan the day before. A conference was held at MT. Mor- gan's offices, which was attended by all of the presidents of the coal railroads ex- cepting President oliphant, of the Dele ware and Hudson, who is ill.,
 MT. Morgan is working hand in glove with Senator Hanna to bring about set tlement of the anthracite coal strike, and a report got abroad in Wall street as a consequence that the strike had been set tied.
 President Fowler of the Ontario and Western and other railroad officials de- clined to talk Some of the officers would not even admit that they attended the conference.
 President Truesdale of the Lackawanna, discussing the settlement, said:
 There is not word of truth in 1t. As a matter of fact we are no nearer settle ment today than we have ever been. We started in to fight the miners union and we propose to continue that fight to the end.
 'As for the report of a conference Of rail- road presidents, I do not care to say any, thing about 1t one way or the other. Ger tainly there is no settlement, conference or no conference.
 Tn regard to the story that Arcnbishos Ryan called on me Tuesday, I can only say that I was out and did not see him. do not know of any representa- tatives of the miners coming to see me-"
 w. P. Hamilton of the firm of J. P Mar- gan & Co. declined to make a statement supposed to have taken place in the offlce of his firm. He contented himself with ssy- ing that there was nothing to De given 6ot, and that nothing had been given out. Pres ident Thomas of the Eric road, who was-yc~ ported to have admitted that such confcT- ence took place, later absolutely denied mat he had made any such statement.
 Vice President Warren of the Ic-.Sy Central said he knew nothing of such a conference, and that the Jersey Central has certainly not been rtpresented.
 John Edmonds, agent of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company said he had heard nothing of such a conference.
 The strike, it is said, was discussed at Republican national headquarters yester- day at a conference attended by Senator Hanna, Senator Scott, Treasurer Cornelius N. Bliss, Joseph H. Hanley and Fred s. Gibbs. Before the meeting Senators Platt and Depew of this State and Senator Pen rose of Pennsylvania were consulted. The session lasted more than two hours.
 Senator Hanna was very reticent when asked about what was being done to settle the strike and professed to know nothing about 1t.
 "But you went to see J. P. Morgan, the
The age-herald., 1900-09-27

sions of several of the jurors made prior to the trial which were hostile to the de- fendant. It will be charged that Juror Crutcher made the statement that all of the suspects under arrest ought to be hung and that he particularly specified Howard as one upon whom the death penalty ought to be pronounced. This was the general ground for the motion for a new trial in the case of Caleb Powers at George town month ago.
 After Howard went back to jail Robert Noakes, who was one of the principal wit nesses for the State in the Powers case, but who did not testify in the Howard case, was passing through the jail corridor. How ard saw him and poked his hand through the grating to shake hands. He said: Well, Bob, good-by. If I don't see you again on earth guess I will meet you in h-l.",
 w. H. Culton, who Is under indictment a an accessory to the Goebel murder, and who gave damaging evidence against both Howard and Caleb Powers, was released on bail this afternon and his case was con- tinued until the January term. His bond was fixed at $10,000, and his brotherin-law, E D. Hogg of owsley County. and J. F. Halcomb and John Johnson of Johnson County became his sureties.
 Jim" Howard, as he is commonly known in the mountains, is a strikingly handsome man, A years of age, and would be one of the last to be pointed out by a stranger as the man on trial. He had the record, however of being the leader of the How ard-White faction in the Baker-Howard faction in Clay County, in which numerous lives were taken. He had killed George Baker and was suspected of the assassina- ton of Tom Baker, who was killed after the same fashion as the Goebel murder, and Towards ffiends believe that these facts had very much to do with the making of the verdict sentencing him to the gallows.
 The trial of Henry E. Youtsey of Newport will be called next at Georgetown next Monday.
The age-herald., 1900-09-27
LITTLE CHANGE IN
 STRIKE SITUATION
Tenth Day Finds Both Miners and Operators Stand
 ing Firm For Their Original Contentious.

nronertv that 1t was impossible to be ev- anywhere. He frankly told the Governor that the situation it stood yesterday was getting beyond his control, and sug- gested to him that two commands would be sufficient to preserve order. He did not specify any command. He also informed the Governor that under no circumstances would he shoot man; that he would not make the mistake that Sheriff Martin made three years ago, when score of men were shot to death by deputies at Latt- mer."
 The Governor replied to him that he would take the whole subject under care ful consideration and would let him know later what he would do in the matter. Sheriff Harvey will have another talk with the Governor during the day.
 In speaking further on the question of using firearms, the sheriff said "I am a better friend of the strikers than they think for. know they are fighting for what they think is right have given positive orders to my deputies that they must not do any shooting, that they must be calm and try to reason with the men when they see the strikers are about to commit violations of the law.
 q believe that more can be done with sugar than with vinegar. When I faced the men of Derringer yesterday morning, l kept my deputies split up in groups so as not to excite the strikers, and went myself to the mob of 800 men unarmed and pleaded with them to let those workers go to the mines who so desired. They positively refused to so, and I arrested all those who were not within the law. When men will not listen to reason then force must be used, and that means shooting. The presence of troops will prevent the gathering of mobs, and this is why I asked the Governor to send the sol- diers."
 G. B. Markle and Companys employees to- day made known to the firm their decision. They accept the firms proposition in regard to the hoisting of men from the slope, &C., quiesce in the refusal to pay the engineers by the hour and want to arbitrate all the other grievances except those relating to semi-monthly pay, and the location of pow der houses, which have been adjusted by the answer of Markle and Company.
 The men also decided to remain at work pending the arbitration negotiations and agreed to ask the firm to deduct form the pay of each family that returns to work their quota for the payment of the arbitra- tor selected by the men.
 With regard to the general strike situ- ation in the Lehigh Valley it cannot be said that many gains were made on either side today. Some who quit work yesterday at the Coxe, Tomhicken, Derringer and Gowen mines returned today. The Lehigh Valley Coal Company reports mere men working today than at any time since the strike began, but the labor leaders claim ac- sessions to their ranks from both the mines at Eskley and Lattlmer.
 The Daily production of coal In the dis trict is steadily decreasing. This is shown from the shipments of coal from the region today which indicate a falling off of more than. 75 per cent.
The age-herald., 1900-09-27
PURPOSE OF THE DELAY Desire to Ascertain More Clearly
 Plans of the Powers. THEY MAY REQUIRE REcAsTING There is No Disposition to Subject Our Minister to Humiliation by Flat
 Fake Which Might be
 Anticipated.
THEY MAY. REQUIRE REcasTING

Washington, September 26.-One belated dispatch from General Chaffee relative to conditions in Pekin on the 21st instant was made public today. It is apparent that our government is again in a waiting attitude after having made the important move to- ward the removal of the American troops in China, announced Yesterday. General Chaffee had not received the departments instructions when he sent his message, made public today, but without doubt has it now on hand His offer to escort u Hung Chang was in conformity with the expressed purpose of the State Department to facilitate in every proper manner the journey of the Chinese Viceroy to Pekin. Still, it is now regarded as just as well that the offer was declined and the re- sponsibility for Lis safety left with the Russians
 The instruction to Minister Conger to es- tablish relations with Lii and Prince Ching is still held up here. It is beginning to appear that the purpose of the delay is to ascertain more clearly the plans of the powers, in whose interest as well as our own, Mr. Conger was to endeaYor to bring about negotiat tionS for a settlement If it shall appear that there Is a disposition on the part of any considerable proportion of them to reject In advance the well meant efforts Of the United States government to bring about a conference and negotiations in which they participate on equal terms with our government with the purpose of terminating the Chinese difficulties, then MT. Conger's instructions may require re- casting. It might be regarded as useless for him to arrange for q meeting of the powers with China which the former do not care to attend, owing to entirely dif- ferent purposes from those animating the United States, and there probably Is no disposition to subject our minister to hu- initiation by a flat fake, which might be anticipated.
 It is also possible that the news relative to the advance of Prince Yuan to a posi- ton where he might influence the negotia- tions is regarded as worthy of attention, and that our government may delay pro- ceedings as long as he stands in the way. The State Department has not been otfi- cially informed of Prince Tuan's promo ton.
The age-herald., 1900-09-27

stomach. MT. Will has my child yet He took it from me by force. I have never been paid any wages"
 Mollie Williams, a negro woman, swears in an affidavit that several years ago she went to the camp to carry dress to her sister She alleges she was arrested and held until a few months ago as a con- vict
 Other affiants charge that they were ar- rested and detained similarity without a criminal charge proved against them.
 Several white citizens of the vicinity al- lege that the af1idavits of the negroes are accurate as to statements made in them. Since the habeas corpus writs have been sworn out in behalf of the negroes 1t is alleged that Mckee Brothers, through W. g. Mckee, have made the following state- ment
 T agree to notify every hand men and women, on the farms of the Mckee Broth ers who is not held under a sentence of court, that he Is a free man, to go as he pleases, and to pay to the cost of the two habeas corpus suits now pending in the City Court of Valdosta.
 (Signed) W. s. McREE.
 This, September g, 1900."
 It Is said that under this notification as many as twenty persons held in the camps have been released.
The age-herald., 1900-09-27
Lacka wanna District

Scranton, Pa., September 26.-The gains that the strikers have been making in the Schuylkill region have had the effect of rousing the operators of this Uackawan- na) district to activity and steps are now being taken to drive the entering wedge in an effort to break up the strike. A prominent operator said today that the policy so far pursued of waiting for the strike to break itself up will be abandoned early next month unless something occurs this week to indicate that action on the part of operators will be unnecessary The plan of the operators Is to have each of the big corporations start up a few mines and keep them going at all costs It is confidently expected that employees of four and possibly five individual collieries will resume work when the big companies be- gin to get under way, and with good pro- portion of the men back at work, 1t will not be long before all will have returned.
 That this move is not far distant Is at- tested by the fact that 200 deputies have been sworn in by Sheriff Pryon at the in- stance of the coal companies during the past few days and that commissions for 400 coal and iron police issued by Govern or Stone were received today and distrib- uted among the five big companies, the
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The age-herald., 1900-09-27
JIM HOWARD FOUND GUILTY AND
 THE PUNISHMENT FIXED AT DEATH

Frankfort, Ky, September 26.-James 5. Howard, who has been on trial for the past ten days charged with being princi- pal in the assassinatio of William Goebel, was found guilty by the jury today, which fixed his punishment at death. The fact that the jury had deliberated all of yester- day afternoon without reaching a verdict led to the belief that 1t was hopelessly divided and this fact made the verdict a shock to Howard and those who hoped for his acquittal. Howard did not lose his ,composure when the verdict calling for the extreme penalty of the law was read in the crowded court room. He glanced at his attorneys who sat beside him but said nothing. After the jury had been dis charged Howard was taken back to jail and here, for the first time, he betrayed emotion. He called for a pen and paper and wrote a long letter to his wife, during which tears coursed down his cheeks. He was joined later by his attorneys who spent good part of the day in conference with him in regard to the motion for a new trial, which will be filed tomorrow, and other matters in connection with the case.
 The verGict of the jury, it is believed, was based largely upon the destruction of Towards alibi, upon which he depended solely.
 One of the jurors admitted that the fail ure Of Howard to bring any or the occu- pants of the executive building on Janu- ary 30 to testify that he was not there was considered by the jury as an indication that he was there. The testimony of Gains as to seeing Howard run out of the grounds, and also of Stubblefield, who swore that Howard confessed the killing a few days after the wurder, were the other principal points upon which the jury relied.
 Towards attorney will apply for a new trial, passing the motion on alleged express
The age-herald., 1900-09-27
AR. BRYAN QUOTES TIE ACE.HERALD
 IN AN ARGUMENT AGAINST TRUSTS
With His Usual Eloquence He Drives Another Nail Into the Coffin,
 of the Republicans.

Nebraska City, Neb., September 26.-Hon. William J. Bryan spoke here to a large crowd tonight. The speech had been looked forward to with much interest, because Mir Bryan had announced that he would deal with the trust question as affected by the suit instituted by Attorney General smyth to annul the sale of the Argo Starch Works of this city to the National Starch Com pany popularly known as the starch trust MT Bryan was accompanied by Mrs. Bryan and personal friends and also by quite a number of supporters from Lincoln and other towns on the way There were not many unfriendly interruptions, but evil dently some had been expected.
 Previous to the meeting, the Mayor of the city issued an order saying that there had been rumors ot trouble and warning against it. The meeting was held in the court house grounds and the people stood under the trees and much Of the time in the rain while Mir. Bryan spoke. He plunged into the local trust question at the very beginning of his speech, speaking substantially as follows:
 Mir. Bryaa's speech
 MT. Bryan discussedsa phase of the trust question and said that the attorney general had commenced proceedings in the case or the Argo Starch Company not to de- stroy local manufacturing establishment, but to prevent the manufacturing establish ment from entering into the trust. In this connection he noted the different steps which he said had been taken. The Argo Company or Nebraska City was a prosper ous corporation. As evidence of this, he quoted from the Conservative (pubished by eX-Secretary of Agriculture J. Sterling Morton of Nebraska City), which said in an editorial May 25, 1S9O, that no trust had yet been able to buy, bully or wheedle the Argo Company.
 About the first of September, 1899, a few months after the editorial comment which have just read" said MT. Bryan, the Argo Company joined the United Starch Company. About year later, that IS, in August or September Of this year, l900, the third step was taken and the United Starch Company joined the trust. First we have an independent company, growing and prosperous upon its merits; second, this independent company joins other companies to fight the starch trust, and, third, this independent company with Its assistants, joins the starch trust and competition Is at last destroyed"
 MT. Bryan then quoted extensively from editorial articles in MT. Morton's Conserva- i've, showing hostility to trusts. Comment ing in a general way, MT. Bryan said:
 If the people of Nebraska defend the oee'ich trust, they must De prepared to de- lend all other trusts; for 1t is impossible for them to destroy trusts located else- where and defend trust located in their own city The people of your town have already seen a distillery closed down by the w-..sky trust. What is to prevent the Argo Company from being closed down by the starch trust? When all the factories belong to one corporation the closing down or one factory does not bring loss to the corporation, because the work can be car
The age-herald., 1900-09-27
Great Destruction

New York, September 26--A dispatch to the Herald from Lorenzo Marques says:
 By dint of hard riding from Barberton your correspondent overlook first Gen. Ian Hamilton's division then that of General Pcle-CareW, and finally entered Komati- poort. Not a shot was fired nor was boer seen during the march.
 Evidences of the enemys destructiveness were everywhere to be seen.
 "The bridges had been dynamited, the stores, buildings and homesteads footed and burned as had been also the railway prop erty, all the chief stations being mere masses of smoking ruins, among them Kaap Muiden, Hector Spruit and Komati- poort At the last place there is an enorm- ous area over which the Boers have wrought destruction"
The age-herald., 1900-09-27
RAOE TROUBLE
Animosity Breaks Out in a Florida Com
 munity

Atlanta, Ga, Sept. 2e-A special to the Constitution from Mayport, Fla, says:
 Trouble of a serious nature is not im- probable between a large force of negro laborers engaged in working on the docks and railroads here and the white people of this community. Sunday last Henry Till n-s-n, a negro, and white man had ter rible fight. Animosity between the races because of it and through heated discus sion, caused bitter feeling to exist be- tween the races. Monday night a mob of white men went to the house occupied by Tillman and bombarded it with shotguns, pistols and other weapons until the negro was driven out He was taken to the woods nearby, where he was stripped and severely beaten
 The negroes are in an ugly humor. Sher- If Broward, with several deputies, is here . Tonight there Is quiet.
The age-herald., 1900-09-27
INNOCENT N[CRO FORCED ID
 WORK IN GEORGIA CONVICT FARM

Atlanta, Ga., September Exchanges have been filed with the prison commits sion of Georgia by Solicitor J. W. Edmond son of Brooks County against the Mckee convict camp managers in Lowndes Coun- ty, this State, in the form of affidavits from prominent citizens to the effect that the Mckee brothers have kidnapped in nocent men and women and made them work under armed guards for an indefinite period.
 It Is charged that one practice of the Mckee camp has been to employ trap pers' to arrest innocent negroes passing through the county, and, without the form of trial, to imprison them and put them to work.
 The charges filed by Solicitor Edmond son contain the following:
 Fanny Jackson eight or ten years ago went to the camp to visit her husband, who was kept there as convict. When she went to leave the camp she was ar- rested and forced to work, chained with men, watched by the guards and fre- quently whipped She had young child with her, and finally Will Mckee whipped her terribly to make her bind the child to the camp in order that 1t might grow up a convict. Her statement in part fol- lows:
 'I finally had to give up my child to prevent what seemed to me further unen- durable beating. The skin was beat from my body, and the flesh made raw. I was beat first on Sunday and then made to sit in salt water, I suppose to cure the wounds. Monday following I was taken and beat again and made to sit in salt wa- ter again. I was then put to work and MT George Mckee went to the field and made them let me go to the house. I was sick from the beating nearly four months, too sick to work, and great deal of the time could not rest at all except on my
The age-herald., 1900-09-27
LEHIGH VALLEY
Little Change in Situation-Sheriff Har-
 vey Talks

Hazleton, Pa., Sept. 26.-The request made yesterday by Sheriff Harvey for troops, although not refused, was not granted by Governor Stone.
 The sheriff and the State officers at Har- risburg, however, have an understanding between them, and if the necessity arises Boldiers will be thrown into this region in Bhort order.
 Sheriff Harvey was seen today by a re- porter of the Associated Press in regard to his request for State help.
 The sheriff said he had telegraphed tho Governor for National Guardsmen in any number that the Chief Executive, in his judgment, deemed best to preserve order as the situation is getting critical. He says he also had long talk with Governor Stone over the telephone, in which he ex- plained the entire situation and why he had made the request for troops The sher- Tiff told him that he was wanted at so many places In the county to protect life and