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The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-22
ROBBED OF ITS PREY
NEGRO RAVISHERS SNATCHED
FROM GRASP OF THE LAW.
PASSION REIGNED SUPREME.
WESLEY AND BARTON TRIED BY
LAW AND HANGED BY A MOB.

Both Acknowledged Guilt of Double
Crime-Victim Was Mrs. Susan
Lewis, 63 Years Old - Brought
From Houston without Military
Guard, Officers Were PowerIess to
Save-Juries Had Fixed Punish
ment at Death and Mob Took Exc
cutiOn of Sentence Out of the
Hands of the Law.
Hampstead, Tex, Oct. 21.-After be-
ing tried with legal form and proceed
ure for criminal assault and murder,
and given the death penalty in each
case, Jim Wesley and Reddick Barton,
negroes, were late this afternoon taken
from the authorities and lynched in
the public square by an Infatuated mob.
The district judge asked the Govern
or for troops to accompany the negroes
here from Jail at Houston, where they
number of citizens of Hampstead who
signed a written promise to aid the au-
thorities in preventing any mob law,
it is said Judge Thompson counter
handed his request and the troops did
not accompany the negroes.
Barton was first tried. He pleaded
guilty to criminal assault and then to
the murder of Mrs. Susan Lewis, aged
60, Sunday, Oct. IL. The juries in each
case, on which were several negroes,
promptly returned verdicts assessing
the death penalty.
Broke in the Court Room
During the afternoon Wesley was put
on trial. He pleaded guilty to assault
and then to the murder charge, but
while the second trial was going on
mob broke into the courtroom and at
| tempted to take him, having learned
that the sheriff had finally asked for
troops.
The mob was dispersed and the trial
| proceeded, the state putting through
| it's testimony hurriedly and in cor
roboration of the plea of guilty. Both
| juries assessed the death penalty.
The officers of the court sat about the
room awaiting the coming of the
| troops, when there was a sudden move
! ment on the part of several men in the
! room, the sheriff was overpowered and
| Wesley was taken possession of by the
! mob and hurried away.
Hanged i'm Public Square.
Another portion of the mob attack
| ed the Jail and Barton was surrender
ed to them without a struggle. %he
two prisoners were hustled to the pub
lie square and there executed by
| hanging.
Neither of them had been sentenced
and District Judge Thompson had pos
| lively refused to permit them to waive
the thirty days of grace allowed then
by law. 1t was the general desire thai
| they die quickly.
They are hanging tonight to the
arm of a telephone pole, where only
last month a negro murderer had beer
strung up by a mob.
The town is quiet tonight Sheriff
Lipscomb was badly hurt about the
back by the rough treatment of the
mob. During the first rush a shot was
accidentally fired and Sheriff Sparks
| of Lee county, was wounded in the
stomach, though not seriously hurt
The governor was informed of the
lynching, but has yet had nothing tc
| say.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-22
COAL PRICES TOO HIGH.
Mark Twain Puts in an Order for
Government Bonds.

Mark Twain Puts IN an order for
Government Bonds.
Washington, Oct. 21.-The following
letter was received at the Treasury
Department TO-DAY:
New York. Oct. 3. To the Honor
able, the Secretary of the Treasury.
Washington. Sir-Prices for the GUS
tomary kinds of winter fuel having
reached an altitude which puts them
out of the reach of literary persons
in Strengthened circumstances, / desire
to place with you the following order:
"Forty-five tons best, old dry govern
ment bonds. suitable to furnace. gold
per cents. 1864, preferred twelve
tons early greenbacks range size,
suitable for cooking; eight barrels seas
oned rs and so cent postal currency,
vintage of 1866, eligible for kindlings
please deliver with all convenient
dispatch at my house in Riverdale at
lowest rates for spot cash. and send
bill to
your Obliged servant,
MARK Twain,
"who will be very grateful and Will
vote right"
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-22
BONDH0LDERS ALL AGREE.
Favor Acceptance of ReOrEnniIa-
ton scheme Suggested.

Baltimore, Oct. 2l.-By a unanimous
vote, the committee representing the
.bondholders of the Nashville Railway
Company decided to-day to accept the
offer of so per cent. rendered by the
Reorganization Committee of the COM
pany.
This plan of reorganization. which
Is being financed by Ladenburg, Thai
man & Co, of New York. and Isaac
Newman q Sons OF New Orleans. con-
templates the purchase of the $780,
900 outstanding bonds at so per cent:
and the assumption of all debts. con-
tracts and liabilities of the company.
except certain counsel fees
Stockholders of the company will be
given an opportunity to pass upon the
proposition of the Reorganization
Committee
The Bondholders Committee. which
met here to-day, Is composed of John
B. Ramsay, chairman; Frederick M.
Colston, William c. Sedden John N.
Steele and r. Lancaster Williams. The
Nashville Railway Company went into
receivership on June 81 1901.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-22
MORGAN HIT IN LONDON.
YerIe" Forces Deal .''Tube" Rail-
road Scheme N Body Blow.

London, Oct. IA dramatic de-
velopment in the fight for the control
of Londons tube" railroads occurred
to-day when it transpired that Speyer
Brothers, who are financing Charles T.
Yerkes' plans, had bought control of
the London United Electric Railways
a large company hitherto allied with
the Morgan scheme of transportation
BY this move not only is the scope
of the Morgan projected lines reduced
by many miles. but the project is actu-
ally threatened with legal obliteration,
as the Morgan combine was incorpor-
ated under the title Aof the London
United and Piccadilly and City Rail-
road.
u. Pierpont Morgan has met his Sec
ond defeat in this country within a
month" says the Star 1.-THE first was
the Cunard subsidy; the second was
the smash-up of his great London
tube scheme"
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-22
ROOSEVELT GETS THE NEWS.
Arbitration Commission to Meet Fri
day-President Well Satisfied.

Arbitration Commission to Meet Fri
day--President Well Satisfied.
Washington, Oct. 21.-Shortly before
8 o'clock this afternoon President
Roosevelt received a telegram from
Wilkesbarre, Pa, informing him that
the convention of miners had declared
off the anthracite coal strike. The
telegram was signed by John Mitchell,
chairman, and w. B. Wilson, secretary,
of the convention, and was identical
with that made public at Wilkesbarre
before noon to-day.
Immediately upon receipt of the in
formation the following telegram sign
ed by Secretary Cortelyou was sent to
Mr.. Mitchell:
Upon receipt of your telegram Of
this date the President summoned the
commission to meet here on Friday
next, the oath instant, at 10 a. M"
News of the termination of the
strike was received by the President
with great satisfaction. Before the
formal telegram from Mr. Mitchell had
reached him he had been informed
through the Associated Press of the
conventions favorable action. Soon
afterward Carroll D. Wright, commits
sioner of labor, who is to be the recor-
der OF the arbitration commission, call
ed at the White House and gave to the
President the information in kilograms
which he had received from Wilkes
barre.
Already kilograms have been sent to
the members of the commission, noti-
flying them of the first meeting to be
held in this city on Friday morning,
and summoning them to be present.
The meeting probably will be held in
the office of Commissioner Wright in
the Department of Labor.
Instructions From President.
After the commission has effected its
organization the members will call in
a body upon the President to pay their
respects. At that time it is expected
he will embrace the opportunity to give
the commission such verbal instruc-
lions as he may care to present to it.
Besides he may prepare formal letter
of instructions. That was the course
pursued at the time of the appoint
ment of the Pullman Strike Commits
sion, of which Col. Wright was the
president.
1t is understood that few meetings
of the commission will be held in
washington. After the work of the
commission has been mapped out. the
first step will be to take the testimony
of the miners. who may be regarded as
CONTINUED on Fifth Page,)
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-22
RECORD BREAKING SPEED.
MoIineux TrinI-Agreemcnt as 10
Letters.

thirteen witnesses f4NhmihNH ~
MoIineux TriaI-Agreemcnt as 10
Letters.
New York, oct 21-To-day was
record breaking day in the Molineux
trial No such speed has ever been
made in an important murder trial in
New York city. In the Ave hours the
court sat, thirteen witnesses were ,ex-
amined, not including the reading of
the testimony given at the last trial
by a witness who Is now dead
EN-GoV. Black and Mr.. Osborne were
asked what attitude Justice Lambert
announced i'm regard to the much dis
cussed Barnett letters. Mr.. Osborne
said, ex-Gov. Black agreeing with him,
that although no formal decision had
been reached, counsel understood that
those letters which request the copy
of a book or a pamphlet would be ad-
mitted, but the one or two sent TO
medical firms and concerning diagnosis
of disease etc. should not be offered
by the prosecution.
Harry Cornish concluded his testi-
mony. Mr.. Osborne presented to the
witness a number of letters and papers.
Cornish said he wrote none of them.
The defense objected to each as 1t was
OUefeu.
Justice Lambert ruled that Mr.. Os-
borne was within his rights, but that
the letters must not be described to
the jury, nor admitted as evidence un-
til tile assistant district attorney mad
proved them competent.
"Who wrote that?' Mr.. Osborne ask
ed the witness as he looked at each pa
per and Cornish replied. "MolineuX.
Patrick J. Finneman said he saw
Cornish open the poison package ana
throw the wrapper into waste
basket. After Cornish had remarked
on the peculiarly of anyone
sending him a package anonymously,
Finneman picked the wrapper out OF
the basket and told Cornish If he kept
the wrapper he might some day hnd
the donor by his handwriting.
DR. Louis A. Coffin, who was called
to the club to attend Cornish said he
found Cornish suffering from mer-
curial poisoning. John A. Yokum gave
the component parts of cyanide of mer-
curry. Detectives testified as TO their
work In tracing the bottle which con-
tanned the poison and the evidence OF
Elsie Gray, deceased, who was cashier
at the Kutnow powder factory, given
at the first trial. as to how a sample
bottle of the powder could be obtained,
was read.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-22
ERWIN REACHES CHICAGO.
Pushing Civil Case for Recovery of
Carter Spells.

Chicago, Oct. 21.-Marion Erwin,
special assistant attorney general of the
United States, has arrived to present
evidence in the case through which the
government is trying to recover certain
money and bonds from the relatives of
ex-Capt. Oberlin NJ. Carter.
Judge Kohlsaat recently designated
William M. Booth as special master to
take evidence in the case. Mr.. Erwin
has been connected with all branches
of the civil proceedings against Capt.
Carter, and he helped to arrange the
details of the plan through which
Green and Gaynor were taken from
Quebec to Montreal some months ago.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-22
MAUD KiEHL TALKATIVE.
Alleged Murderess Declares She IL
Innocent of Crime.

Syracuse. N. Y, Oct. 21.-Maud
Kiehl. the 1s-year-old widow, who is
in jail at Cortland under suspicion of
causing the death of her brother-in-
law, Adam Kiehl. by strychnine, talked
of the case to-day for the first time.
She denied the charge, declared she
was in love with her husband and
cared nothing for Adam, and that she
liked his brother Henry much better.
The attorney then made her stop talk
ing.
Mrs. Kiehls mother arrived at Cort-
land to-day with the formers 1S-months
old baby. which the mother will be
permitted to keep with her in jail.
Coroner Santee to-day reported that
he found Adam Kiehl's death due to
strychnine administered in tea by Mrs.
Maud Kiehl.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-22
TROOPS TO soMALILAND
VIII Sail From IndIa to Help I'm
Brffnfn's Fight.

Simla, India. Oct. 21.-The Second
Bombay Grenadiers, stationed at
AIhow, Central India. have been or
dered to SoFnahland. Other troops
probably will follow.
Twelve officers and 400 men of the
Twenty-Third Bombay Infantry will
accompany the Second Grenadiers.
The troops will sail for Somaliland
Thursday
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-22
TEMPERANCE IN SCHOOLS.
In United States II liz Taught to &c.
100000 Children.

Portland, Me-, Oct. 21.-President
Mrs. Lillian Stevens Of Portland and
the other officers of the National W.
c. T. U. were reelected at to-days
session Of the national convention here.
Among the reports presented was that
of Mrs. Mary II. Hunt, of Massachu-
sets. superintendent of the department
of scientific temperance instruction.
Mrs. Hunt said the dream of Frances
Willard twenty years ago in creating
a department looking to scientific tenn
perance instruction in our schools has
become an imposing reality.
More than 26, 100000 children of school
age in the United States are under tenn
perance education laws to-day.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-22
REQUEST CAME TOO LATE.
Governor Could Not Get Troops to
Hampstead in Time.

Austin, Tex, Oct 21.-This afternoon
Gov. Savers received a telephone mes
sage from the sheriff at Hampstead
asking for state troops post haste as a
mob was trying to get the prisoners
away from him.
At AIS o'clock this was followed by
a telegram from the district asking for
troops by special train. Orders were
issued for Houston and Bryan COM
panies to respond, but before they
could be assembled the mob had lynch
ed the negroes and the order for troops
was countermanded
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-22
LLOYD SAVED A LIFE.
But Saving Took the Life of Negro
Desperate.

Columbia. S. c.. Oct. 21.-Cisely Rod
man. a negro for whom the police have
been looking. was elected from a freight
train at Rock Hill last midnight. As
he bit the ground. Rodman drew a pis-
toll and leveled it at Conductor Trapier.
but Henry Lloyd of Savannah. one of
the crew, was too quick.
He saw the movement, drew his pis-
toll and fired. the bullet going under
Rodman's appraised arm and into his
heart To-day the coroner's inquest
exonerated Lloyd.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-22
FROM FOREIGN SEAS
AMERICAN SHIPS OF WAR WILL
GATHER IN MOCK COMBAT.
SoUADRoNS AT MIMIC WAR.
NAVAL MANEUVERS TO TAKE
PLACE OFF VENEZUELAN COAST.

Rear Admiral Taylor Describes the
Plan ON Which the Fights VIII
BE Wnged-OIympIn 90 Find Safe
Anchorage for ships of Mighty
Fleet-EurOpean and south Amer
lean SqundrOns to Rendezvous In
Hide and Seek-Au to Meet Under
Dewey's Flag.
Washington, Oct. 21.-Rear Admiral
Taylor this afternoon was able to fur
nish some details of the projected
naval maneuvers to take place next
month in the neighborhood of Culebra
Island.
To begin with the Golfers Leonidas.
Lebanon and Brutus will leave Hamp-
ton Roads Nov. 1 for the rendezvous
near Culebra Island. The Olympia
will escort them or will follow very
closely, her work being to prepare safe
anchorages for the numerous fleet
which is to gather from three naval
stations. She will place large buoys
and anchorage tackle and mark out the
CnannelS. 4 ne naval tugs Fortune ana
Leyden will be assigned to assist in
this work and the Bancroft, which is
to be placed at San Juan as station
ship for Capt. Dunlap, will be used
whenever necessary.
The converted yacht Wasp is as
signed to duty as tender to the flag
SHIPS and six big coal barges are to
be sent out from Norfolk and two from
Pensacola.
Two s0uadrOns VIII Merge.
The European and South American
squadrons are ordered to rendezvous
in the Gulf of Paria, on the north coast
of Venezuela on Nov. rs. This win
bring together the two rear admirals,
Summer and Crowninsheld, and as the
former Is the senior. he will take COM
mand of the joint force. The combined
squadrons will then early in December
engage in a search problem, similar
in plan to that undertaken last sum-
mer off the coast of New England, but
on a far larger scale.
Upon the conclusion of this work, In
which Admiral Higginson's North At
lantic fleet will be pitted against the
combined foreign fleets, all of the ships
will gather under Admiral Dewey's flag
in the anchorage on the south side oil
| Culebra Island, and then will follow
| feet drills and maneuvers on lines vel
| to be announced.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-22
RIFLES HIDDEN IN BALES.
SOmaIis' Fondness for American
Goods Explained.

London, Oct. 21.-An official connect
ed with the Red Sea ports in an inter
view published in the Star to-day says:
"The Mullah and other turbulent
chiefs have been literally supplied
with rifles by Americans and Germans
in spite Of the British gunboats. The
rifles supplied by the Americans were
done up as cotton goods.
This explains the frequent reference
in consular reports to the fondness of
the Somalis for American calicoes and
shirtings. 1t is not the calico the Som
ali want, but the rifles inside the
calico"
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-22
A QUEEN FoR 4 GoDMOTHER.
The Honor I'm store for Duke of
Manchester's Heir

London, Oct. A.-According to the
Onlooker. Queen Alexandra has prom
ised to stand godmother to the son of
the Duke and Duchess of Manchester.
The Duchess was formerly Miss Zim-
norman of Cincinnati. The child. con-
sequently, will be named Alexander.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-22
THROUGH MOTHERS ERROR.
Mrs. William Walters, Given Car
boIic Acid, Dies in Agony.

Knoxville Tenn, Oct. 21.-Mrs. Will
liam e. Walters. wife of telegrapher
connected with the Western Union Of
flee at Baltimore. died at the home of
her mother in this city to-day as the
result of being given carbolic acid in
stead Of sweet spirits of nitre.
The deadly poison was administered
by Mrs. Lair, mother of Mrs. Walters,
who is almost frantic with grief. Mrs.
Walters had been i'll with scarlet fever,
and her physician had small hopes for
her recovery from that disease.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-22
STEAMBOAT ROSA TOTAL LOSS.
Crew of Disabled Vessel Refuse to
Take Her to Sen.

Atlantic City, N. j., Oct. 21.-The
steamboat Rosa, before reported towed
into Gardner Basin. at the entrance
to the thoroughfare near Atlantic City
Inlet, will probably be a total loss
The crew refused to go out with her.
Board of Survey makes discouragir~
reQort.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-22
RICE FAMINE THREATENED.
Every Fear That FiIipinos Are
Doomed to suffer.

Manila, oct 21.-Tt is believed that
the Philippines will experience a rice
famine The islands crop is small, the
Oriental supply seems limited and the
price is advancing rapidly 1t is pos
sible that the government will be
forced to provide supplies for the poor
err natives. aJ.ilW
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-22
REBELS MENACING CARACAS.
RevOIutionist Troops Before the
Venezuelan Capital.

Willemstad, Island of Curacao. Oct.
21.-Troops belonging to the revolu-
tionary army reappeared in strong
force Sunday at Los Teques. a few
hours from Caracas. Venezuela. The
government Of that republic sent troops
from LaVictoria to impede the ad-
vance of the revolutionists upon Cara
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-22
SHOT IN WIFE'S SIGHT.
Richard Hone, Wealthy FIOridian,
Killed From Ambush.

West Palm Beach. Fla, Oct. 21.-
Richard Hone, a well-to-do pineapple
grower, living three miles south Of
this town. on Lake Worth. was shot
and instantly killed at o'clock last
night, while sitting at table with
Mrs. Hone. writing a letter.
Robbery is supposed to have been
the motive of the murderer. who has
SO far not been found. posse is on
his trail and if caught he will be
lynched. kilograms have been sent to
different points for bloodhounds.
The affair has created intense ex-
element. owing to the prominence and
popularity of the victim.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-22
,Inv Abandon Port Artbur.

st. Petersburg, Oct. 21.-The Russian
government is contemplating the aban-
Comment of Port Arthur as an arsenal
and the establishment of a new strong
hold at Port palny.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-22

OF report from the Committee on
Resolutions as follows:
we, the Committee on Resolutions,
peg leave to recommend that the fol-
lowing communication be adopted and
forwarded to Theodore Roosevelt,
PRESIDENT of the United States of Amer
The Savannah morning news., 1902-10-22

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