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Evening journal., 1900-06-04
WOMEN PLANNED
HIS PUNISHMENT
Others Fear Visits Of the
Band That Tarred and
Feathered Afford

Bridgeton, N. j., June 4.-Those wo-
men of South Bridgeton, to whose ag-
gregate vigilance and vigor can be di-
rectly traced the tarring and feather
ing OF Il. Smith Afford on last Friday
night, propose to be a law unto them
selves. They make it plain that they
do not consider their mission COM
pleted with the punishment of Afford,
and three other men, neighbOrs Of AL
ford, who are charged with transgress-
ing certain social laws, are in constant
dread Of a visit from the same band Of
whitecaps that dealt so summarily
with the wife-abusing Afford
The activity of the women is equalled
only by the apparent indifference Of
the city officials to what is going on.
Mayor George Hampton himself said
yesterday afternoon he had no desire to
interfere, and would take no action un
less folmal complaint was made to hl q
by someone of the interested parties.
These women are worth a study in
themselves. Thus far the only one to
permit her identity to be revealed is
Mrs. George Greene, who, with no hesi
fancy, declares her pride in what she
has helped to accomplish. There is de-
termination in her eyes, and every
line of her countenace is marked BY
resolution. She is tall and angular and
of middle age
Evening journal., 1900-06-04
Foreign Attaches Express Be-
lief That The War is
at an End
MOVE PROVISIONS
TransaaI Capital in a State Of In
deScribable Confusion and British
Expected Hourly

London. June 4.--There IS no direct
news from Pretoria of later date than
Thursday evening. General French's
cavalry were then at Irene, eight miles
south OF Pretoria. and firing was heard
there. Lord Roberts messages about
secondary operations elsewhere and
the situation at johannesburg, dated at
Orange Grove, a farm four miles north
east OF johannesburg show that on
Saturday at 9:10 D. m. he was 25 miles
from Pretoria.
The correspondents with Lord Rob-
erts have not got through a line about
the operations after the occupation OF
johannesburg. Official messages con-
tinue to come through, but press tele-
grams are held up, probably to avoid
their giving even q hint as to what
may be the pending operations. From
the other side there filters through
Lourenzo Marques a mass of state
ments. some contradictory, others OBJ
Yiously improbable. but the following
purporting to be facts:
Passengers arriving at Lourenzo
Marques Saturday. direct from Pre-
toria. say that the capital was prepar-
ing TO surrender when they lett Thurs
day. The forts were dismantled. Tho
Boer guard at Komati Poort searched
all trains and turned back most OF the
fugitives. among them deserting for
eigners who were striving to reach
neutral soil
Immense Boer conveys OF provis-
Ions are between Pretoria and Middle
burg. Fifteen trains are sent daily to
Machadsdoran with supplies for Lyden-
burg Pretoria is pictured by the
refugees as In q state of indescribable
confusion and chaos. The populace
are dismayed, and the British are ex-
pectcd hourly"
Some foreign attaches have arrived
at Lourenzo Marques to communicate
with their governments for orders to
leave, as they consider that organized
war, on the Transvaal side is at an
end. Flying among the Beers are re-
ports that the British have been
beaten back at Lindley, with heavy
loss, that the main attack on Glands
fontein failed and Lord Roberts was
forced to retire to Klipsriverberg. that
the railway has been cut behind him
south OF Vereeniging. and that a pro-
vision train has been captured
Without crediting any of these Boer
bulletins everything from the field Of
war behind Lord Roberts points to a
great effort last week to paralyze his
advance by a bold stroke from the
eastward at the railway north OF
Bloemfontein. Unless four Boer col
umns were in a movement seemingly
with his objective. there was a COM
mando In front OF General Brabant.
near Ficksburg. another faced General
Rundle, near Senakal. a third occu-
pied Lindiey and pressed toward the
railway, and a fourth seized Heilbron
and pushed toward Kroonstad. These
operations, assuming them to have
been independent. all appear to have
failed
The revival Of the Boer fighting
,wer east Of Lord Roberts advance
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Evening journal., 1900-06-04

New York. June 4.-Rev. Edward
S. Hume, missionary of the American
board, who has seen 25 years of SER
vice in Bombay, arrived last week di-
rect from India. Mr.. Hume has been
connected with the Bombay branch of
the India famine charitable relief fund.
and was secretary Of the inter-denom-
national relief committee. Speaking
before the executive committee of the
rommittee of one hundred on India
famine relief Mr. hume said:
Il have read the accounts of the fam
inc published in the American papers;
/ have seen the pictures; 1 have seen
the conditions in the famine districts
and / can assure you that the actual
state OF affairs is much more terrible
than printed or pictured. And the
worst of il is that. even if the June
rains are entirely favorable. no relief
can be expected till the crop is gath
cred in October.
"The distress is not equal over the
famine area. At it's worst centers,
as in Gujarat and Rajpuana, conditions
are dreadful beyond all description.
Before leaving India l visited the gov
ernment relief works at Ahmedabad
and Ghorda, in Gujarat, and saw those
awful sights that photographs are
making familiar to people here. The
emaciated lay around the relief camps.
Many were dying each day. for they
were too far gone for food to save
them. The dead and the dying lay side
by side, the dead being gathered daily
from the living and burned. Magnifi-
cent work Of relief is being carried on
by the British government and by
private agencies. The government now
has on relief about 5000, 900 of souls, a
scneme of charity vaster than ever
before conceived. let alone carried out.
Distress is greatest in the native
states, where, on account of their in
dependence, British control is least,
and where native rulers are more in
different to human life. There are
6SS native states, ranging in size from
that OF an American county to nearly
the area of Italy. More than five hum
dred are in the famine district, and
Evening journal., 1900-06-04

St. Louis, June A riot OF small
proportions. during the progress Of
which boy was fatally shot. and a dy-
Mantle explosion marred what would
have otherwise been an uneventful Sab
bath.
AS a car on the Tower Grove line
OF the st. Louis Transit company was
passing the corner of Twelfth and CAL
houn streets q crowd of strike sympa-
thizers began throwing stones at it.
An unknown man leaned from a win
dow of the car and fired a revolver
shot toward the crowd. The bullet
sped over the heads of the mob and
lodged in the breast of Peter Frank.
aged 16. who was sitting in the door
way Of his fathers house. A detach-
ment of police dispersed the rioters
and carried young Frank to the city
hospital. where 1t is said the wound
Will prove fatal.
Late in the afternoon an explosion OF
dynamite shattered the cable conduit
and switches In the Olive Street line,
at the intersection OF Maryland and
Boyle avenues. No one was injured,
but the traffic on that end OF the line
had to be suspended. There Is no clew
to the perpetrators.
Evening journal., 1900-06-04

Washington, June 4.-The suggestion
adopted by the committee in charge OF
the Republican national convention
that the survivors of the first national
gathering Of Republicans held at Pitts
burg on Feb. %, 1856, and later at the
convention held in Philadelphia on
June 1S of the same year be specially
honored with invitations to this years
convention came from William Paul
Weyand. of Pittsburg. The idea met
the approval of Senator Hanna, who
has sent a letter of invitation to each
of the surviving delegates. so far as
known there are only IA surviving del
egates. They are: John H. Bryant.
Princeton. Ills; w. Penn Clark, Wash
ington; Sidney Edgerton, Akron, o.;
Allen A. Craig, Cory, Pa; Charles G.
Davis, Plymouth, Ills; H. p. Mccall
mont, Franklin, Pa; George II. Frey,
Springfield, o.. Rush r. Sloan, San
dusky, O.; Raeliff Brinkerhoff, Mans
field. o.; Jacob Weyand, Beaver, Pa;
William A. Cook. Washington; Will
lam S. Lane, Philadelphia; William H.
Upson, Akron. o.; R. M. Simpson,
Marietta, o.
Evening journal., 1900-06-04
SURVEY OF GREAT WORK DONE
BY THE PRESENT CONGRESS-
Antitrust Bill Advanced But One Vote in House
Against Amended Sherman Law ApprOpri-
atiOnS Aggregate 500, 900

amending the law of June 81, 1890, so
as to permit the "aggrogaNng" of dis
abilities, and changing the provision
as to widows, so that a widow may
receive pension when she is without
means of support other than her daily
labor, and has an actual net income
not exceeding $3.50" etc.
The free homes" act has at last be-
come law. 1t provides for the patent
ing of homesteads on the public lands
acquired from the Indians, on the pay
ment Of the usual fees and no other
or further charges. This opens to free
homestead entry many millions of
acres Of public lands in the west, here
tofore sold at stated figures per acre.
Another measure passed permits the
secretary Of agriculture to restore
game birds which are becoming ex-
tinct, and provides means for the
restriction Of traffic in dead animals.
birds, etc, from state to state, the lat
ter provision being in part designed
to limit the destruction of song birds
for the sale of their plumage.
There is now hardly any doubt that
the senate will agree to the house reso-
luton to adjourn the session next
Wednesday. The passage Of the last
OF the appropriation bills, which was
accomplished Saturday, leaves no OBJ
Etacle in the way of final adjournment
except the amendments made to those
pills by the senate.
Evening journal., 1900-06-04
FLEEING BURGLAR is KILLED;
BOY A VICTIM OF STRIKERS

New York, June 1.-The police at an
early hour yesterday morning chased
four housebreakers over the roof tops
in the One Hundred and Third street
East Side tenement district. The men
were discovered after they had broken
into q vacant store and were attempt
ing to get into a clothing store. Three
Of the men attempted to make a de-
scent to the ground by means of
lofty clothes pole standing close to
one of the buildings. At least two OF
them fell from about the third story
10 the paved areaway below. Alex
ander Grove, q years old, was killed
instantly. and William Dickson was
found unconscious, with concussion Of
the brain. It is thought the other
man fell on top OF these two and was
not injured. He made his escape.
James Smith, p years old. was caught
on the roof.
Evening journal., 1900-06-04
CROWDS VIEW
SCENE Oh MURDER
Both thC MOrriSOnS Attend
a Strawberry Festival
Dover Authorities Looking for SuS-
piciOHS Characters Seen There
Dav After The Murder

West Chester, June 4-The scene OF
the Morrison murder was again the OBJ
Ject OF much interest yesterday, but
the crowds did not assemble there until
the afternoon. Up to l o'clock Daddy
Morrison and his son, Washington.
were left unmolested until the many
groups began to appear. They showed n
disposition TO avoid conversation and a
dislike for the people who had eather-
ed there, and soon they left the scene
and went across the field TO the Rem
jamin Sharpless farmhouse. where
they remained the afternoon.
AT A STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL.
Both Of these men attended q straw
berry festival Saturday evening I'm the
Presbyterian Church at Dilworthtown.
where young and old were gathered in
their best clothes and bent on having
good time. The murder was largely
the topic 0f conversation during the
evening, and as the people indulged In
their opinions and theories many were
the distasteful remarks which fell
upon the ears OF the two men, inas-
much as their presence was not known
to many Of the people present.
DOVER AUTHORITIES AT WORK.
The authorities Of Dover. Del. are
looking for two suspicious charactpre
who were seen lettering about the edge
OF a thick woods near that place early
In the morning OF the day following ths
murder Of Stella Morrison. The men
skulked about the trees, beating a re.
treat at the approach Of a pedestrian
or a carriage.
Evening journal., 1900-06-04
WILL BUILD AUTOMOBILES
National automobile Company to Purchase
The Mclear & KendaIl Plant

In short time new industry. that
or constructing automobiles. will be-
gin in Wilmington on an extensive
scale, with a capital stock OF 500 COO.
The National Automobile Company.
which applied in Dover to-day for a
charter, has arranged to purchase the
McLear & Kendall building at Ninth
and King streets, and will operate the
plant there.
The building is fully equipped for
the construction Of autos" but few
additional lathes being required. The
style Of horseless carriages to be built
is that invented by John Parson. OF
this city, and the company has al
ready contract 20 construct two ma
chimes to be operated between Sixth
and King streets and the Boulevard.
which will be completed in sixty days
Evening journal., 1900-06-04
STIRLING MAY
PROVE AN ALIBI
Police in Doubt About EVi-
dcncC Against Him
Detectives Go TO Harrisburg to InyeS-
tigate Story Of Whites Alleged
Murderer

Philadelphia. June 4.-The police
plan 20 hasten the prosecution OF the
suspected murderers OF Professor Roy
Wilson White has met a setback
Even superintendent Quirk Is down
east by the latest turns OF affairs. lie
refused to talk yesterday about the
mission Of Detectives DOnaghy and
Mcl<enty to Harrisburg.
The fact that these detectives were
sent to Harrisburg shows that there IS
doubt of Strings guilt He has foiled
the police in all their efforts 10 induce
him to make an admission which
would incriminate him. He persist
emily denied ever seeing ivory or Perry.
The only evidence against him IS the
so-called confessions of Ivory and
Perry that Stirling was the man who
killed the young professor and then
robbed him, while they looked on.
DOUBT IVORY AND PERRY.
This testimony comes from men
whom the detectives have caught In 40
many lies that no credence can he
placed in anything they say. CAPTAIN
OF Detectives Miller has doubted Ivory
and Perry from the beginning. and II
was at his suggestion that Donaghv
and Mckcnty went to Harrisburg
Stirling insists that on the night of me
murder he was in Harrisburg. ana he
told In what places he had been there
IT this story Is substantiated the case
against him must fail.
The AfrO-American League will take
a hand In the case. and see chat Stir
ing Is properly represented by conn
sci. The extraordinary happenings
since Professor White was murdered a
little more than three weeks ago have
raised serious doubt In the minds of
many that Stirling had anything what
ever TO do with the crime The action
or the police in having him indicted
Immediately after the coroner's inoueef
on last Friday on the Testimony ~
ivory and Perry has brought upon the
department some severe criticism
ivory, the first man arrested and
Identified as one of the two negroes
seen IN the neighborhood on the niebf
OF the murder. said I'm his first confess
sion that only he and another man
We're concerned in the murder. Tbie
olher man, he said was named Brown
put ne could give no satisfactory de-
scrlptlon or him. He stuck to his story
lhat there were only two men until
Perry. was captured through the acci-
dental arrest Of Charles smith. when
ne tfied 10 pawn Professor Whites
watch. Then Ivory's statement ~
only two men being concerned In the
crime was proved false. Perry con-
Iesaed. He is an intelligent negro. with
some education, and had read in the
papers about Ivory's confession. Under
lne sweatbox' and third degree"
pressure. he went in with Ivory to nnt
the blame upon Stirling. '4'
Evening journal., 1900-06-04
ELECTED SCHOOL COMHISSIOYER
Diamond District ia Mount Cuba Names
Jehu Pyle

In.school district No. 81. in Mt. Cuba.
on Saturday afternoon. the annual
school election was held. This Is called
the Diamond school. Jehu Pyle was
chosen commissioner. and on organiza-
tion. Bernard DuRoss was reelected
clerk. Cornelius ]. Horrigan Is the
third commissioner.
This is the dictrict in which there
was a contest year ago. at which c.
J. Horrigan's election was held to be IL
legal. He was declared elected by the
State Board Of Education. to which
body the matter was carried.
Evening journal., 1900-06-04
INDIA FAMINE HORRORS
DEPICTED BY AMERICANS

were lying on the ground. there being
no cots. Otherwise their condition
was fair.
81 can fully verify the reports that
vultures, dogs and jackals are devour-
ing the dead. Dogs have been seen
running about with children's limbs in
their jaws.
"The government is doing IT'S best,
but the native officials are hopelessly
and heartlessly inefficient. Between
the famine. the plague and the chol-
era the condition OF Bombay presi-
dency is now worse than II has been
at any previous period I'm the nine
teenth century. Whole families have
been blotted out. The spirit OF the
people is broken. and there may be
something still worse TO come when
the monsoon breaks"
Evening journal., 1900-06-04
CONGRESSMAN LENTz'S ADDRESS
Will Speak TO Democrats in academy Of
Music

The Hon. John J. Lentz. Of Ohio, who
will address a meeting OF Democrats in
the Academy OF Music on Thursday
evening, has gained for himself a repu-
tation as a forcible and logical sneaker
while In Congress. Mr.. Lentz will talk
on trusts and imperialism in his ad-
dress. The meeting viii be under the
OF the Democratic League, be-
fore which Mr. Lentz was to have made
an address at a smoker recently, but
did not because he was absent from
Ohio when the invitation arrived at his
home, and he did not receive il until
too late to be present.
Evening journal., 1900-06-04
Run snil,e I'M Hls Ennt

Patrick Kennedy. living near Fifth
and Church streets, Jumped from
Church street wharf to a raft Coating
in the Brandywine yesterday morning
and ran a spike in his foot. He was
taken to the Homeopathic Hospital by
the Phoenix ambulance.
Evening journal., 1900-06-04

Carriage Wrecked in Runaway
frlghtened by a trolley car. the horse
OF Charles c. Kurtz OF No. Sl2 West
Ninth street ran away from Eighth
and Broome streets yesterday. AT
Delaware avenue and Broome street
the carriage collided with a telegraph
pole and was wrecked.
Evening journal., 1900-06-04
Euuipments ON Exbihi,,on

II. NJ. Wiley, first assistant engineer
OF the Fire Department, has placed the
equipments presented to him BY his
fellow members of the Friendship Fire
Company, on exhibition in the windows
Of ]. T. Mullin & Sons clothing store.
Evening journal., 1900-06-04
Mrs. Sherman Goes "a r.u

mis. Harriet A. Sherman. OF New
YORK charged with obtaining 5000 I'm
money from Miss Sarah j. Le Carmen
ter by false pretenses. was held To
await the action Of the grand iupy nv
Magistrate John A. Kelley SATURDAY. AZ
ternoon. In default of $500 bail. she
was committed to Jail.
Evening journal., 1900-06-04
Rcsigncd Hls Position

John T. Ahrens. who has been as
sistant manager Of the Delaware Cot
ton Mills, formerly the Arlington Mills
Manufacturing Company. for a number
of years, has resigned his position.
Evening journal., 1900-06-04
Tramps Engage i'm a WANT

Several tranps engaged in a free-for-
all fight in the West Yard on Satur-
day, during the progress of which
knives and pistols were used freely.
William Spence, colored, of Trenton,
and John Roberts, of Chester, were
slightly cut.
Evening journal., 1900-06-04
FOURTEEN SURVIVORS INVITED;
RIDPATH STILL is IN DANGER

New York. June At was said at
the Presbyterian hospital last night
that John Clark Ridpath, the his
Evening journal., 1900-06-04

Darby Car Delayed by storm
Trolley cars on the Darby line were
delayed by the storm of Saturday af-
ternoon, which was particularly heavy
between Holly Oak and Chester.
Evening journal., 1900-06-04

A Minstrel Show
Shellpot Park, June z and ..
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-09

down from the Spain of old, changing
somewhat through the lapse of centu-
ries. The visitor from California, Mex
leo, Central and South America will feel
the compliment expressed in the archi-
tectural features of the exposition.
Uses of the Principal Buildings.
Now a few words about the dimen-
siOns and purposes of the larger build
ings. To the right, at the extreme east
end of the Transverse Court, is the gov
eminent group, consisting of three large
buildings The largest of these is 600
feet long by 100 feet wide with CEN
trail dome 250 feet above the main floor.
The greater portion of the government
exhibits will be sheltered in this build
inc. The other two buildings are each
$50 feet square and stand west of the
main building, connected by circular ar
cades. The group forms a semicircular
court $50 feet across, in which are foun-
tains and flowers and other decorative
features. The lesser buildings are to
be used for the aquariums and fish dis
play. the exhibits from the new island
possessions of the United States and for
q display of the United States Meteor
illogical bureau.
The western end of the EspIanade is
defined by a group of buildings little
less in their magnificence and arranged
in the same manner as the government
buildings. These are the horticultural
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broad open space, containing an aquat-
ic basin and floral features, separates
the two. On the west side of the Court
of the Fountains is the Machinery and
Transportation building, of the same
size as the Manufactures building.
CenterDiece of the Exposition.
The Court Of the Fountains is the ex-
quisite centerpece of the exposition
Beautiful by day to a degree quite I'M
surpassed, with it's wonderful display
of fountains, flowers and ornate sur
roundings, its charms are best present
ed at night. Then the element of mar
Vicious electric effects is added to the
other embellishments. All the sur
rounding buildings are outlined with a
rich tracery of incandescent electric
lights. The light is so diffused that there
are no shadows, more than 100, 900 lamps
being used to produce this pleasing eff
feet. Colored lights play upon the foun-
tains, making every glstening drop a
gem Of purest ray.
The massive Electric Tower, $50 feet
high. marks the northern boundary of
the Court of the Fountains. 1t is rs
feet square, with long, circular, wing
like colonnades extending from the east
and west and bending to the southwark
IS feet. In a niche Of the tower facing
the south is q waterfall 80 feet wide and
20 feet high. The falling water is caught
at every point of its descent. and bro
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has been recorded there by the camera
of the eye.
We are now at the Approach, shaded
by tall trees, and advance to the Fore
Court. We cross the Mirror Lakes upon
the Triumphal Bridge, one of the splen-
did exterior features of the exposition.
The Mirror Lakes are a part of the
Grand Canal, which completely encir-
cles the main group Of buildings, a mile
or more in length, upon which pleasure
craft of all sorts will carry the visitor
from point to point for small fee.
Leaving the Triumphal Bridge, we come
to the Esplanade, where 100000 people
may gather upon the occasion of special
celebrations or ceremonies.
The main exposition buildings are
grouped around a vast court in shape
like an inverted r. AS we stand in the
Esplanade facing the north the lesser
courts Of the horizontal are at the
right and left. The Esplanade is ,I4o
feet long by $40 feet wide The perpen-
dicular or greater court, including the
Court of the Fountains and the Plaza,
is 1000 feet long by 500 feet wide From
our viewpoint in the Esplanade we can
see some part of nearly all the great
buildings. 1t will be noted that there
has been liberal use of color in all the
exterior work The roofs are red tile,
and the walls of staff are tinted in va
rious soft shades that suggest the trop-