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The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-03
ALL CoMERs, GOLF TO URNAMENr
Willie Smith Carries Ofr First Honors
 and Sviliie Anderson is Second.

New York, Aug. 2--Willie Smith, o the Midlothian Golf club, Chicago, ant former open champion golfer of tn ] United States, won the all corners medal play of 36 holes from field O four contestants on the links of thu Hollywood Golf club, near Long Branch, N. J., to-day. Smith wa! nearly on his best game from the mo ment he teed off in to-day's contest. Willie Anderson, of Pittsfield, Mass. the present holder of the open cham pionship title, won second honors, just one stroke behind Smith, while foul other professional players, George Low of Dyker Meadow, Bernard Nichols, o1 Boston, Jack Park, of the Essex Coun- ty Country club, and Alexander Camp bell, of the Brookline Country club Massachusetts, tied for third place with 166 strokes each, and divided third fourth, fifth and sixth moneys. The seventh place was taken by Findlay S. Douglas, of the Nassau Country club Long Island, who played a splendid game all through the day, finishing the thirty-six holes with a total of 16s strokes.
 Tomorrow twenty-seven pairs have entered for Scotch foursome, which will be made on thirty six holes medal play and it is said this event will oc- cupy the greater part of the closing day of the tournament
 Following are the leading scores in to-day's play;
 Willie Smith, Midlothian Golf club, Chicago, 164.
 Willie Anderson, Pittsfield Country club, Mass, 165.
 George Low, Dyker Meadow, New York, 166.
 Alexander Campbell, Brookline Coun- try club, Mass, 166.
 Bernard Nichols, unattached, Bos- ton, 166.
 Jack Parks, Essex County, N, J., 1ee.
 Findlay S. Douglas, Nassau Country club, L. l., 16S.
 David Brown, Oakland, l.. T., 169.
 A. G. Griffiths, Westbrook, L.sI., 17S.
 Willie Kirk, Knowlwood, N. F., 175.
 Horace Rawlins, Waumbach, N. H., IF,
 John Hobens, Glen Ridge, N. J., IFS.
 Willie Norton, Deal Beach, N. J., 1S1.
 Willie Tucker, Ardsley, N Y., 1S2.
 Dave Hunter, Baltusrol N. J., 182.
 A. Patrick, Century, Westchester, N. Y., 1S2.
 Donald Ball, Narragansett, R. T., 1S2.
 John Reid, Atlantic City, N. J., 1s3.
 Isaac Mackie, Fox Hills, s. T., 1855. Robert Dow, Powellton, Newburg, N r., 186.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-03
 ABOUT REV. MIR. FOSTER.

Ex Pastor of Olivet Baptist Church
 Head Master of Cornwall School.
 Scores of friends Of Rev Allyn K. Foster who recently retired as pastor of Olivet Baptist church, after a most acceptable ministry of six years will be interested to learn that he has been secured by the trustees of Cornwall school, in this state, as head master, and the entire management has been placed in his hands. The school is a preparatory institution for all colleges and scientific schools. The membership of the Cornwall school is limited, and especial care is given each pupil The fall term opens September 17.
 Rev Mir Foster s essentially win ner of young people; he knows them and they soon learn to understand and believe in him. Perhaps it is to be re- gretted that so popular a preacher should decide to leave the pulpit, but certainly the field which he has entered has it's great opportunities.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-03
CHINESE DEATH SENTENCES.''1 <
\ Chinese Account of How They were

A Chinese Account of How They Werd Received and Executed. A Chinese paper published in Picking
 has obtained the following details rel-s
 ative to the deaths of the high officials
 Chaushuchiau, Yung- nien, and Prince Chwang, who committed suicide on
 command of the Emperor. It is i'm possible to give the full report, as the
 details of the actual suicides are given with true Chinese barbarity and una dorned lucidity. The whole account, however bears the stamp of truth, and the statement of the Chinese Court, that the three officials had paid the penalty for their crimes hitherto ufl-3 proved, may hereby be considered as confirmed. The report runs:
 Chauchuchias ate gold leaf which Is the distinguished method of taking one's life among well-to-do Chinese. Death is caused, not by poisoning, as isS generally assumed, but by asphyxla, as the thin gold leaves stick in the air passages. Hoping against hope, how- ever, that the Empress would have mercy on him, he took too littie, and as he still lived when the time pre-f scribed had elapsed, he took opium and other means to effectuate his death. His religion forbade him to do this bys injuring his body in any way.
 Prince Chwang, who received the news of his sentence in Pu-chou-fu, large town in the southwest of Shansi, immediately hanged himself in a tenn pie of the local mandarin, with whom he was living, in the presence of the Imperial Commissioner, Ko-pau-kwa. He used the white silk cord sent him by the Emperor, as a significant sign of the mitigated punishment.
 Yung- -nien the President of the Court of Censors, was the most cowardly. He was in prison in 5i-ngan-fu, and continually upbraided Prince Ching flor leaving him in the lurch., He@l suffocated himself with earth before the Imperial Decree, so his death was kept hidden some days till the decree was published.
 Prince Yuan anticipated his banish- ment, and on receiving the sentence at Ningsia, town on the Mongolian frontier, whither he had fed proceeded at once to Turkestan, lest the allies might still demand his death.-The } London Times.
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in any way. MT. Chamberlain has very properly telegraphed instructions that all who are found guilty of such prac- tices shall suffer death. We have car red leniency very far, further than it jhas ever been carried in the history of war and it is time to think of the fu- ture in businesslike way and not in the sentimental manner of the opposi tion."
 London, Aug. 9,-A correspondent of the Daily News whose name the paper reserves says: We have deliberately armed the natives. l have seen scores of them with rifles and bandoliers, Once I travelled in train which car ried two truck loads of armed blacks in complete khaki get up. They are constantly to be seen, ones friends tell one, about Kimberley and to the north of that town. Armed Kaflirs have been allowed to attack people on their farms in Bechuanaland, in parts of the Transvaal and in the vicinity of Mafe- king
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-03
STREET COMMITTEES MEETING.
Business Transacted at the Session
 Held Last Night

| Business Transacted at the Sessiol Held Last Night. | The street committee yesterday after non made a tour of inspection abou
 various sections of the city in whicl | cross walks curbs and other minol | street improvements have been peti toned for. A hearing was held last ev,
 ening on the petitions and in execu
 tive session the committee decided tc recommend that all be granted, but | two or three concerning which no one | appeared to be heard. Hearings or | these will be given later.
 | During the tour of inspection yester- day afternoon Councilman Lubenow of the Ninth ward, member of the street committee called the attention of his colleagues to dangerous portion of Dorman street This street was partly graded, but at one end near Beaver Ponds park deep gully at least ten feet deep has been washed. This gully is not protected in any way, and there IS nothing to prevent team or a pc destrian from going into the hole in the night and sustaining serious dam-
 age, which might cost the city consid- erable.
 Councilman Lubenow suggested that
 the committee recommend to the com- mon council the passage of a resolution
 requesting the director of public works
 to see that the dangerous spit is prop erly safeguarded and repaired as soon as possible. This suggestion will be acted upon favorably by the commit tee and the recommendation will be made to the aldermen at Monday nights meeting.
 Among those who appeared at the hearing last night was ex- Alderman Unger of the Ninth ward The ex-al- d4rman does not appear often at the city now, and last night in honor of his Vlslt there he wore a new Panama hat, which he placed on table during the hearing. Alderman John Beecher of the Seventh ward, chairman of the street committee. also wore Panama to the meeting. MT. Unger left before the meeting closed and picked up hat which he supposed was his, but which was really Mr. Beecher's. Now MT unger's hat is several degrees larg- CT tran MT. Beecher's, and as he walk ed out of the hall with MT. Beecher's nat perched on the top of his head, and covering his corpulent form, there was a smile among those who noticed the mistake, but said nothing.
 A little later MT. Beecher, as he was about to leave, picked up the Panama which was left and clapped it on his head which was soon lost in depths of the tile of the gentleman from the Ninth. At last accounts the two gen. tlemen were following each other about the central part of the city, each look ing for the other and an exchange of hats.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-03
UNOFFICIAL VERSION.

Here is new story about the killing of Patrolman McKeon by Andrea Lau- dano, at F Prindle street, Wednesday @ruidnight In substance it is that Pa trolr1an McKeon chased the masquer- adlng Slater woman tf the house. 12 . Prindle street; that the woman ran up the steps, opened the door and quickly shut it: that McKeon, close behind her, whistled for help, gave the knob T twist, opened the door and was con fronted by Laudano; that Laudano was told that the woman was wanted,-"the woman who had just run up the steps and entered the house.; that Laudano, in reply, refused admittance and tried to shut tlse door; that in the ensuing melee Mckeon was shot, dropping on the piazza, and Turbert who hat1 re- sponded to the whistle, was hit oL the head by a revolver butt; and that, fol- lowing the immediate slamming and barring of the heavy door, it was forced fin ky officers and citizens who used for the purpose a railroad tie ol heavy plank which they obtained in a yard across tbe street.
 ms SIQIy IS lOId ny oCNCi al pCDGiN and in substance was corrobor1tc1 by half dozen persons seen last even ing. They were early arrivals at the scene of the tragedy and their stories tally remarkably well.
 One of these is Carl Victor Wade, of 153 Wooster street, a clerk employed at the grocery store of H. H. Peck x Co.,. few doors west of the scene of the shootiug MT. Wade was on the cor ner of Wooster and Prindle streets when the affair happened. He says that he heard the officers alarm whis- tie and ran with the crowd. He found Patrolman Mckeon on the sidewalk and aided tke other officers and some others in battering in the door with the railroad tie, which they found across tre street. He says his arm and shoul- der are black and blue from the eff forts he made to assist the officers in forcing the door,
 Another man, proprietor of store f&t the corner Of Wooster and Olive
 eets says that he was on the spot
 Ire Patrolman McKeon had been put
 ae police wagon on the way to the
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-03
A THRIFTY NEGRO.
Gives s1,000 to Aid a Town-The Secret
 of His Success

1 Gives $1 900 to Aid a Town-The Secret of His Success.
 | A few days ago there was printed in the Atlanta Constitution the story o1 the town of Douglas, in Coffee county Georgia, The good people of the hust- ling city desired very much that the Birmingham and Brunswick road. now under construction, should go through their limits. The management of the road stated that guarantee fund of twenty-five thousand dollars would be
 required of the Douglas citizens A
 subscription list was begun at once,
 and among the first to write his name
 was negro, an ex-save, and when he
 did the figures that he put down were
 one thousand dollars. The Constitu-
 tion believes that the story of the ca-
 reer of a negro who takes such an in-
 terest in his towns affairs and who is
 both able and willing to donate sum
 that to the majority of negroes is a
 fortune, is worth the telling, and here
 it is in a special from Douglas, Ga:
 Sixty-two years ago, on the planta-
 ton of Eli Vickers, in what was then a
 part of Irwin, now Coffee county, Peter
 Vickers was born. Fortunately the
 first twenty-five years of his life were
 spent under the kind but positive dis
 cipline of master whose fine execu-
 tive ability has been shown, not only
 in the career of his ex-slave but also
 in the hand of sturdy, industrious sons
 who are now among the best, most prosperous and honored citizens of the country.
 The excellence of the training he had received was shown when, with the rest of his class, he was clothed with the rights and privileges of freedom. He had been too much a part of we'll ordered system of industry and had seen too clearly it's results to be satis- fled with attendance upon noisy assem- blages, or with wasting his time in mischief breeding idleness, as too many of his race are doing. He justly req soned that the chief difference in his condition was that before he had been the servant of his master; now he was the servant of himself, and asked, Shall I serve myself less faithfully than did my master?" He desired to make Peter as good slave as he had Eli Vickers.
 He engaged with his master, taking an interest in the crop. This he con tinued to do until he made enough to buy a mule, when he began renting. Economy and industry soon enabled him to get sufficiently ahead to buy home Fortune continued to smile upon his lahors. Each wear saw the of his little farm widen out, he bought up contiguous land, which he converted into farms and peopled with tenants He stocked his woods with cattle and sheep, thus utilizing the abundant wiregrass that carpeted the open 'piney woods"
 His purpose was clear: Get more and to make more money to get more and" and his manner of achieving his purpose was very simple; he lived at nome, making all he used there. His ,rops were clear, the increase of his ,attle was clear, the fleece of his con- ;tanty growing flock of sheep was dear, the proceeds of the leases of
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-03
 AN ATTEMPTED HOLDUP.

TIoboes Tackled Street Car Conductor at Belle Dock.
 Two attempts were made by hoboes last night to hold up Samuel Steinberg, a conductor employed on a steamboat car, at Belle dock, Bridge street, rail- road crossing. The first attempt was made about 10 o'clock The steamboat car stops at the crossing and does not go over the steam road tracks. The To- cality is a dark, lonely one at night is in the midst of the railroad yards and is a favorite hangout place for hoboes who dodge in and about the docks
 Stenbergs car had just stopped at the crossing last night and the conduc- tor was reversing the trolley to make the run back to the center of the city when a tough looking customer, ap- parently one of the hoboes who steal rides about the country on freight trains, stepped from the dark shadows at one side of the crossing and de- manded money, saying that he wanted enough to pay his fare to New York on the night boat Steinberg asked him if he couldn't work his passage down and told him that he would give him no money. Yes you will, said the fellow with an oath, grabbing Stein berg by the coat The conductor broke away and the motorman started up the car. The hobo slunk back into the yards.
 On the next trip down the same hobo this time reinforced by another tough looking individual, again appeared and said 'So you wont give me any money, eh? Well you will" At the same time he grabbed Steinberg, but the latter pushed him away and said that he would call for assistance if they attempted to force him to give them any money. The car was started up and the hoboes evidently lacking the sand to carry out their felonious inten- tions, walked away into the yards. The matter was reported to the police of the Grand avenue precinct
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| turpentine and timber privileges were
 clear, and all must be put into the only
 kind of investment he understood
 land. So that now, with what he has | given to his children, he has more than | twenty lots of four hundred and nine-A | ty acres each, and the end is not yet, for Peter is active, hale and hearty, in
 the best of humor with himself and
 everybody else and bids fair to live
 many years yet to preach the doctrine
 of Judgment and industry" which he. so thoroughly believes, and his faith in
 dirt has never wavered. So that should it appear that he is premature in claiming to be the largest landows1- CT of his race in the state it is only a question of time when he will be.
 But this is not all. Besides what he has in Coffee, he has land in Irwin and Ware counties, valuable real estate iii the towns of Waycross, Douglas and Fitzgerald, a snug bank account and unlimited credit.
 While eschewing politics Peter vick- CTS has always manifested considerable spiritedness, readily Joining in any measure promising public good.
 When 1t was proposed that this conl- munity subscribe twenty five thou- sand dollars to bring the Brunswick and Birmingham railroad by Douglas, Peter promptly put down his name for one thousand dollars of the amount. He has endeavored to give his children the advantage of education, sending them to school in the neighborhood, and when sufficiently advanced to more pretentious instructions. As they have grown up he has settled them around him.
 When asked to what he ascribed his success he replied: "To close atten- ton to business, fair and respectful treatment to others"
 Could any colored man have done al well as you?''
 Yes; there is no reason why others, white and black, should not have dona as we'll or better The secret, if there Is any secret, is in two words, 4judg ment and industry and have no pa- tent on them"
 When reminded that times had changed since he started, and that slc- cess might be more difficult now, he i1a- sisted that the means by which success may be won are the same now as here - tofore, and must always be the same; that there are just as many opportQni- ties for their exercise now as ever, and { just as great rewards in store for thosesS who are faithful and believe that Judgment and industry are the open sesame to the storehouses of nature. He says:
 "There Is work for all right here, and the negro is better understood and bet ter off here where he was raised than anywhere else"
 He thinks the negro has a better op-s portunity for development in the south. where he is not only allowed, but en- couraged to work as much as he will at anything he is capable of doing, forM here he is never driven from field to x shop on account of color, as in some Aof $ the mort hern states.
 Peter Vickers Is well known through- out the country and section, is respects ed by white and black, not only bAcaueH of his success, but because as well of his uprightness in dealing his polite- ness and unfailing good humor. If wa had more of his kind we would heSt less of the trace problem. ."-Atlanta W
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CORPORATION MATTERS.

A certificate of incorporation of the c. F. Bard corporation of Norwich has been filed with the secretary ot state The company is organized to deal :n iron, steel, copper and other metals and mill and plumbers supplies The capital stock is $10,000. The subscrib- CTS are George F. Bard, c. Percival Bard and Charles Tyler Bard, all Of Norwich.
 The Shenecossett Beach company, Of Groton, has filed articles of incorpora- ton with the secretary of state. The capital stock is $2O000. The suhscrib- CTS are George H. Watson, Groton; George D. Colt, Norwich: and Obed H. Sanderson, New York city.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-03
RED FOX ASTRAY.

Ran Through George Street and Got
 Cooped by Sergeant Fitch.
 As some fellow remarked a minute after his flight, Where the devil did that fox come from, that's it?''
 Reynard, fine red chap, with a brush that showed good care, trotted down George street yesterday after noon, ran into the yard of the Electric Light company, was chased by an im- promptu gang of enthusiastic hunts men, and was finally cornered by Ser geant Fitch, of the Grays. They stun ned him with attention and then his capture was easy, with the aid of a plank an an empty crockery crate.
 The Grays will exhibit him as soon as they can find out what he likes to eat.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-03
THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC COM
 PANY.
A Neat Pamphlet Issued Relating to
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 the Facilities of the Company. The Southern Pacific company has just got out a neat and attractive pam phlet relating to facilities which the Southern Pacific offers to travellers by their railroad and steamship lines as we'll here as in Europe, besides giving views of their many foreign depots. The book is guide of great value for the traveller who is going abroad or who is coming from the other side of the water to this country.
 Travellers in any part of the world will find the offices of the company the headquarters for all information wher- ever they wish to go and are cordially invited to avail themselves of the un- equalled facilities of the company, whether they may wish to purchase tickets or not.
 Parties desiring to come to this coun- try from Europe, whatever their desti- nation may be, can purchase their through tickets in any of the offices, and not only will the necessary steam CT reservations be engaged for them, but their names will be included in the regular cablegram which Is sent to the New York office giving the names of our passengers on each ship and they will be met upon arrival and every pos sible courtesy and attention shown them in connection with getting their baggage ready for inspec- ton by the custom house officials, or transferring persons and baggage to connecting outgoing trains, engaging sleeping car accommodations, etc
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STEEL MEN MAKE CONCESSION
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|
 secrecy being maintained as to the hap
 penings inside the room, and the prog
 ress being made to be guessed at.
 Pittsburg, Aug 2--A special to the
 Post from Altoona says:
 Instead of flatly refusing the request of the Amalgamated officials for anoth- CT conference in order to bring about a settlement of the steel strike the off, cers of the United States Steel Corpor- ation have appointed an hour for meet ing the executive board of the Amalga- mated Association in New York to-mor- row The decision to meet them was announced in message sent to Presi- dent Shaffer this afternoon and it was promptly accepted, Al once the mem | bers of the board made Arrangements to leave for New York. < They hurried | through their session ana at 10 o'clock tonight all were on board the Pitts burg Limited bound for the east. They were hopeful of the result and expressed confidence that the strike could be set tied before their return to Pittsburg The fact that the officials of the United States Steel Corporation had consented to discuss the matter with the official body of the Amalgamated Association, they saiG, was regarded as sufficient proof of the sincerity of the trust off, cials. Veryl Preston, who has acted for the trust in Pittsburg throughout the week, was among the passengers who boarded the train at the East End. He was in another car than the one occu- pied by the Amalgamatsd men, MT. Preston was accompanied by another gentleman whose identity he declined to reveal,
 The signing of the wage scale is not apparently considered of importance. There has been no disposition on the part of the workers or the manufactur- CTS to balk over this point, and it is be- lieved that once the more weighty mat ters are disposed of. the whole dispute can be quickly wiped away. If the con- ference in New York progresses as rap idly this week as the one between Pres ident Shaffer and MT, Morgan last week the strike may be declared off before many days.
 The meeting of the conferees is ex- pected soon after the arrival of the men at New York
 They say that this matter has been left in charge of the officials of the trust. In any case, however, the re- suit of the conference will not be made known until the matter has been dis posed of