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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
MAINTAINED A TRUST
PACKING COMPANIES CONVICT
 ED IN MISSOURI.
Order of Custer Issued and Each is FingS 5000 and Costs-Must Pay It or Get Out of
 the State.

Jefferson City. Mo, March D.-The Ms souri Supreme Court today found five large beef packing companies guilty of maintaining an unlawful combination to maintain prices of meat in the State of Missouri and issued an order of custer prohibiting them from doing business in Missouri and fined the companies Sy000 each costs each. The companies are given thir- ty days in which to pay the fine imposed and if during that time they accept the judgment and pay the fine the custer will be held in abeyance and the companies be permitted to continue to do business in Missouri.
 The opinion in the case was written by Judge W. c. Marshall and was concurred in by each of the six other Judges of the court. on banc.
 The companies affected by the decision are the Armour Packing Company. Cud- ahyPacking Company, Hammond Packing Company and Swift and Company of Chi cago, and Schwartzschild and Sulzeberger Company of New York. which maintains branch offices in different cities of the United States and in Missouri at St. Lou is. Kansas City and St. Joseph.
 The decision In the Supreme Court to- day against the packers Is the ending of a proceedings which was instituted last May.
 The opinion holds that the evidence ob- tained at the hearings showed conclusive ly that there was a combination of the packers to maintain trust prices on beef in Missouri; that the representatives of the packers met on certain days to fix the prices for that week: that rebates were allowed; that the same prices prevailed at all of the coolers at the same time; that no competitor could enter the field against the packers because the combine would undersell the newcomer out of busi- ness.
 The decision does not take up the charge in the proceedings by the Attorney Gener- al that the companies were also guilty of selling diseased meat. Much of the evil dence was to the affect that the companies did sell diseased meat but the decision of the court was based on the violation of the antitrust law of Missouri. The Judg- ment does not affect the Henry Krug Packing Company. which was originally a party to the suit. the action against that company having been withdrawn.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
SAYS TREATYISROTTEN
PETTUs PRAISES MORGAN FOR
 HIS FIGHT.
Declares That the American People Will See That What the Senior Senator Prophesied Will
 Come True.

Washington, March 20.-Cspecial. )-Sena- tor and Mrs Edmund w. Pettus left this morning via the Southern for Selma. They were accompanied by their grand children, the Misses Roberts and Ed mund Pettus Lacey, the Senator's private secretary. The venerable couple appear in excellent health considerable party of Washington Alabamians were at the passenger station to say goodbye and wish them a pleasant journey.
 Senator Pettus went away warm in his praise of the heroic resistance by his colleague. Senator Morgan against the Panama canal treaty as 1t was adopted by the Senate.
 If was remarked to the venerable junlo. Senator: ''The thing is rotten and there ia no man m America who knc "s 1t bet fer than Senator Morgan"
 ,.Yes Sir" responded Senator Pettus. ..Tt is and what Morgan said about 1t Is trus The things that Morgan has said viii occur in connection with the canal are eoing to he just that way, and 1t will he seen that ne is a prophet in the mat ter,''
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
TO GUARD THE LEVEE.
Concordia Parish Will Take Vigor-
 ous Measures.

Natchez, Miss, March 20.-J. L. Roun- tree. editor of The Concordia-Vidalia Gen. tennial, states that Hon. J. P. Pagan, President of the police jury of Concordia Parish, has issued a call for meeting of the police jury of the Parish to take place in Vidalia next Monday March B, to consider the matter of appointing guards for the protection of the levees in the parish and to take any additional measures for their protection as may ap- pear to be necessary and proper.
 The chief source of apprehension over the Sycamore levee is that the seepage and rain water on the inside has not been drained off sufficiently, though 1t was generally reported that this work had been successfully performed.
 Captain H. s. Douglass of the United States Engineer Corps. acting under di- rection of Captain c. E. Browell, who has charge of this district, returned to- day from Vicksburg. He says there IS a very large force at work on the Syca- more levee. He will send 19o wheel bar rows, shovels and the usual high water araphernalia to the different levees be- tween here and Lake Concordia, La- Lumber is now a scarce article. but two carloads will be shipped to Lake Concor- dia tomorrow.
 The weather today was cloudy with light showers this evening" The river is ES s5 feet, 8 rise of three-tenths in twen- ty-four hours, 4.s5 above the danger line.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
LAUGHED IN HER FACE.
General Davis's Treatment of Mother
 of Murdered Soldier.

of Murdered Soldier.
 Boston. March 20-At the meeting of the citizens at Faneuil Hall last night to protest against the suppression of truth about the Philippines and praying for further official inquiry into the conditions there," the case of Mrs. Ellen c. Richter, of Syracuse, N. Y., whose son. an en- listed man, recently died in the Philip pines and whose death is said to have resulted from torture, was referred to by Herbert Weloh of Philadelphia
 Mir. Welch said that Mrs. Richter made every endeavor to obtain the records of W. T. Sinclair of the 2Sth infantry, who was charged with being responsible for her sons death. She was put off by many excuses and General Davis laughed in her face.
 "Is that not so?' asked MT. Welch, of Mrs. Richter. who was sitting on the platform.
 "Yes, General Davis was the mar" said Mrs. Richter, rising.
 Mir. welch claimed that Lieutenant Sim clair ordered Richter brought out of the guardhouse, bound and gagged, and that ice water be poured slowly in his face by the dipperfui The torture last ed. according to many witnesses. MT. Welch said. for two hours and half, and was not desisted from until life was extinct. Lieutenant Sinclair was tried by general courtmartiL for causing Richter's death and was acquitted.
 MT. welch said that Richter had in his possession information detrimental to the officers of his company. and he had threatened to "squeal' on them.
 Turning to Mrs. Richter again, MT. welch asked: Did you not appeal to President Roosevelt?"
 "Yes," she replied. 'but he showed me no sympathy at all. and treated me with even less consideration than the army off, ar~ara
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
THE ANSWER OF HAY
DOES NOT FAVOR THE ARGEN
 TINE PLAN.
Position of America as to Collection by European Powers of Debts Due by South America Has
 Been Made Clear.

Washington. March 20.--The text of the response of Secretary Hay to the Argen- tine note proposing combined action of American States to resist the collection of debts by naval force was made public today. It follows
 Without expressing assent to or dis sent from the positions ably set forth In the note of the Argentine Minister of Foreign Relations. dated December g. 1902, the general position of the United States in the matter Is indicated in re- cent messages of the President.
 The President declared In his message to Congress. December 8, 1901. that by the Monroe Doctrine, We do not guar antee any State against punishment if 1t misconducts itself. provided that pun ishment does not take the form of acqui- sition of territory by any non-American power."
 In harmony with the foregoing lan- guage. the President announced in his message of December 2. 1902:
 No independent nation in America need have the slightest fear of aggres- sion from the United States. It behooves borders and to discharge its just obliga- tons to foreigners When this Is done they can rest assured that. be they strong or weak. they have nothing to dread from outside interference"
 Advocating and adhering in practices in questions concerning Itself to the re- sort to international arbitration in set tlement of controversies not adjustable by the orderly treatment of diplomatic negotiation the Government of the United States would always be glad to see the questions of the justice of claims by one State against another growing out of in- dividual wrongs or national obligations, as well as the guarantees for the exc cution of whatever award might be made left to the decision of an impartial ar bitration tribunal before which the liti- gant nations. weak and strong alike, may stand as equals in the eye of interna- tional and mutual duty
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
Decision Against Government.

Mobile, Ala, March 20.-Judge Toulmin of the United States District Court here, decided today in favor of s. P. Shotter Company on demurrer to suit against the company for taking crude turpentine from government lands. The demurrer was that suit should have been brought against the Shotter Company In West Virginia where the company was incor- porated and not in State where depreda- tions occurred. The government con- tended that the United States Is citizen of every State. The government will ap- neal
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
REVOLVER FIGHT ON CAR.
George Willard, Wanted for ESQ.,
 GOO Robbery, is Worsted.

OOO GNoUDcEyS ID WoAoSSN'
 Chicago, March 2O.-George Willard. sought by the police of two continents for years for a daring SSO.OOo robbery committed in Paris, was last night wors- ed in a revolver fight with two detee- tives on crowded street car.
 With him were arrested Edward Carr ney, charged with many robberies throughout the country, and William Moffatt with whom Willard is said to have been operating in Chicago. The fight which preceded the capture of the three men, caused a panic among the rssengers of the street car, in which several women were injured.
 Willard has been identified. the police say. as the man who assisted Mickey" Gleason in the robbery of an express messenger of SSO.OOO in gold ard bank notes in Parts several years ago. He was arrested in Buffalo later and $10.000 of the proceeds of the robbery were found In his possession and confiscated. He escaped from custody, however be- fore he could be turned over to he Paris authorities. Willard also Is wanted for a bank robbery in Iowa and a diamond robbery in Cleveland, O.
 Carney is said to be wanted on charges of rot bery in Boston, Grand Rapids. Mich, and Chicago. He served four years in the penitentiary at Columbus. O.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
STRUCK IN
 HEAVY FOG Steamers Collide and Six
 Are Killed. NUMBER OF OTHERS HURT Responsibility for the Acci-
 dent Not Placed. Passenger List Larger Than Usual, and That No More Were Killed
 is Regarded as Mirac-
NUMBER OF OTHERS HURT

New London. Conn, March 20.-Trayel- ing at a moderate rate of speed through Long Island Sound early today, the big passenger steamer, Plymouth, of the Fall River Line, bound for Fall River, from New York. and the freight steamer City Of Taunton, of the same line, came into collision in the fog just east of Plymouth Island. the bow of the freight steamer raking the starboard side of Plymouth and causing the death of six persons on the Plymouth and the serious injury to a number of others.
 The dead: John F. Mccarthy, watch man. Fall River; unidentified passenger, supposed to be George H. Marston of Patterson. N. J.: John Coleman, negro pantryman; J. Dawson, negro mess man; J. H. Williams, negro baker; J. Briscoe. negro pantryman.
 The complete list of injured is impossi- ble to obtain for the reason that many who were slightly hurt were attended to immediately upon the arrival of the Ply mouth this aftern pr. and tnen proceeded on their way.
 Three of the Injured.
 Three of the injured are in hospital. They are: J. E. Criger, a travelling salesman of Philadelphia, who is suffer ing with a sprained back; David Samuel son. negro. of New Bedford. leg wrench ed, and Patrick Daily, a freight trim mer. whose right arm was crushed from his body.
 Mike Kilduff of Boston, and J. M. Thompson of Allegheny. are the only oth- CT persons whose names are known by the officers.
 The responsibility for the accident has not been determined. and will be the sub ject of an investigation. It Is said by the officers of the two vessels that both were going at a fair speed considering the fog and that there was no time af- ter the warning whistles which followed the lookouts discovery of the danger. te avert a collision.
 At o'clock this evening there re- mained one body in the lower cabin oi the Plymouth, that of John Briscoe, the missing waiter.
 The officials of the company said tonight that as far as they knew all steerage passengers had been accounted for, al though they admitted that it was possi- ble that one or two might have been swept overheard.
 The number of passengers was larger than usual at this season, about bSO, and that more people did not lose their lives Is considered little short of miraculous
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
HOTEL IS DESTROYED.
William G. Hawkins Cremated in
 Grand Rapids, Mich.

Grand Rapids. Mich, March 0.-By the throwing of lighted match by a gust in his room a fire was started tonight which destroyed the Clarendon Hotel en- tailing a loss of s75.0Oo and burning to death William c. Hawkins of Bay City. Several other persons were injured.
 Peter Sternberg. salesman went to his room on the second floor and after lighting the gas. threw the match among his silk goods which immediately took fire. He made an effort to extinguish the flames and was severely burned be- fore he rushed out and gave the alarm. The flames spread through the four-story brick building with rapidity and by the time the fire department arrived flames were bursting from nearly every window. Most of the guests were out of their rooms. A panic ensued among those in the upper story and number of rescues were made by the flremen.
 After about an hours work the firemen gained control of the flames but the build ing had been gutted.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
At Helena Ark.

Helena, Ark, March 20.-There is but lit- tIe change In the river situation here to- day except insofar as concerns North Hell ena. the suburb of this city. which has al ready been reported as filling up with water from an eight foot crevasse in the levee protecting that section. Last night section of the levee forty yards wide gave way and the water from the river poured through in torrent that quickly filled the entire basin. Tonight North Hel- ena Is a perfect sea of water with the smaller houses under the water almost to the caves. All but about a dozen families have moved to higher ground inside Walk CT Street levee, those who remain having moved ti the second story of their houses. The river here tonight rgisters 4S,6 and still rising. A fifty-one foot stage is re- garded as certain. Captain Lucas of Mem phis is expected here tontghe on the Clel-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
ALDRICH IN WASHINGTON
Referee Charles Scott is Ex-
 pected by Monday.
In Other Southern States as in Ala bama "Draw No Color Ldneo Must Be Placed on the
 Republican Banner.

Washington, March 2o.-(Special )-w. F. Aldrich, one of the Alabama Federal pat ronage referees who has been in the city some days. has been busy going over the situation with reference to offices aoored- itable to the State both in Alabama and elsewhere, including Washington, with the executive department.
 He appears to ge informing himself against the appearance of another of the referees, Charles Scott of Montgomery, who is in Philadelphia but is expected in Washington by Monday. The two will take up a number of matters the disposal of which will have a direct bearing upon the factional differences of the Aldrich- Scott Thompson regime. representing the ad- ministration, and the Wellman lily white propaganda of the State Committee.
 His attention having been called to the Statement in a dispatch from Birmingham that the majority of the State Executive Committee, of which W. I. Wellman of Huntsville is chairman. had come over to the administration. MT. Aldrich said:
 That is true, as when I left Birming- ham we had eighteen out of the thirty three"
 Administration Policy.
 MT. Aldrich talked about the situation as to the future of the administrati ton s following In Alabama rather conndently. While he made no measured statement to that effect, 1t is evident from his tone that the triumvirate mean to determine and promulgate just who is who in Alaba- ma and who shall hold Federal office. Ii will not do for office holders or anybody else who is Republican in Alabama to be Iukewarm in this emergency. He must to use Referee Aldrichs own phrasing Do some dusting'' to establish both his sincerity and his capacity for usefulness in the cause.
 MT. Aldrich says he believes in 'parti- sanship. reasonable partisanship." It is plain, too, since MT. Aldrich has had extended talks with President Roose. welt, General Clarkson. his general coun- | sel in Southern job dispensing matters and others in the confidence of the admin istration. that no partisanship is to be accounted reasonable that Is not for Roosevelt first. last and all the time. AS in Alabama, so 1t will be in the other Southern States where there Is any anti negro distraction to be met.
 President Roosevelt is going to hew tc the draw no color line" no matter how many lily whites it hits.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
At Alexandria, La.

Alexandria, La, March 20.-Assistant State Engineer Frank Nj. Kerr arrived here yesterday evening after tour of in- spection of the levees on Red River Atch- afalaya and Bayou Bouff levee districts In this district the levee line on Red River still averages six feet above the water in the river. On the Bayou Des Glaizes about eight feet and on the Atch- afalaya River from about eight feet at Simmsport to about three feet at Mel vile. The water in Red River in this dis trict is still about 21a feet below the high est record. In Bayou Des Glaizes it is from six feet near MoreauviIle to four and a half feet at Red Fish. The Ievees all ap- pear in excellent condition. Road cuts, pathways and other abuses here and there are receiving the attention of the authori- ties and the outlook for w1thstanding the water in sight today is assuring.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
Bakers Bail s1oooo

Tarboro, N. C., March 20,-Dr. J. M.
 Baker surrendered himself today upon his return to town. Later he appeared before Judge Brown on bench warrant charging him with the felonious killing of pr. Bass and the prosecution claims that as Bess was held back by his friends Baker advanced and shot him. The de- fence claims that Baker all the time was
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
At Rosedale. Miss.

Rosedale. Miss, March 2O.-The river continues to rise at this place, a rise of four inches having taken place in the last twenty four hours, due in a large measure probably to the heavy rainfall last night. Without a single exception the reports coming In from points in this county show that the levee is holding out splendidly in spite of the continuous rise. The only points of possible danger are at Australia, twenty-five miles north, and at Huntington. twenty miles south of this ,----
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
Death of Judge S. H. Terral.

Jackson. Miss. March 2O.-Associate Justice Samuel H. Terral of the Missis- sippi Supreme Court. died at his home, in Clarke County today, near where he was born nearly seventy years ago. He had a long and eventful public career He was a member of the secession conven- ton in 1861 and an officer in the Coll Fadarate army four years. He was ap- noInted to the supreme bench by Governor McIaurin in 1897.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
The Injunction Amended.

Nashville. Tenn, March 20.-United States Judge Lurton. sitting In cham bers here, has granted the motion made by attorneys for the Southern Railway to amend the restraining order granted March 1s The motion was to strike out the words Tn the city of New York, v where they first occur in the bylaws oi the company and insert the words "at the ofics of the company in Beechmont, Jefferson County, Ky"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
Death of J. w. Rowland,

Washington. March 20.-James w. How land of Jacksonville, Fla, who was asso- ciated with T. " Powderly on the Execu tive Board of the Knights of Labor at the ,time of the New York Central strike, died today of paralysis, He had been act i've in Florida politics for many years but was born in Ohio.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21

attempting to escape. The prosecution, to show malice. produced the declaration of Baker immediately after the shooting that he had put two Into him." Ball was fixed at $l0,oo0 which was promptly given. According to all the witnesses and the ante-mortem statement of pr. Bass. not a word was spoken by either.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
Senators Call on President.

Washington, March 20.-Neariy quo rum of the Senate was at the White House today. Many of the Senators call ed merely to pay their respects to- the President before leaving the city. while some of them wished to discuss appoint ments to office. Details of the approach ing Western trip were discussed with few Senators.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
Plague,s PrOgress Checked.

Mazatlan. March 20.-The people aro rejoicing at the evident check given to the progress of the pla que, There were no new cases and no deaths today and no new cases are reported from either Villa Union or Siquiros. Last night a miner murdered two sanitary agents at Ranueo which were hunting for sick or suspected people. The assassin disaD- peared.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
shnotinr In Viagina.

Roanoke, Va. March 2O,-"Duck" Carter shot and fatally wounded Clarence Hodges in the apartments of the latter's mother today Carter, who comes from North Carolina. entered Mrs. Hodges s room. brandishing a revolver Young Hodges protested and was shot through tba neck. Carter was arrested
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
PROUD OF PENNELL.
Eulogy of the Buffalo Man in Yale
 Alumni Weekly.

Alum" WeeKIy.
 New Haven, Conn.,, March O.-The Yale Alumni weekly today publishes a long statement signed by seven medbers of the class of 's7. in appreciation of the late Arthur R. Pennell, of Buffalo, whose death occurren uuier such tragic circum- stances a short time after the murder of Edwin l.. Burdick.
 The article characterized Penneil as a man of the first Yale type It says his course during the few days preceding his death was thoroughly characteristic of the man and served only to strengthen and confirm the confidence of his friends. and concludes:
 Not all the sons of Yale are worthy of her. but in this mans life she can find no cause for anything but pride"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21

Victor Morrawetz, Thomas P. Fowler Charles Steel, New York; John Sealy, J. W. Terry, A. c. Torbert, Leon Blum, J, H, Hutchings, L. J. Polk, H. A. Landes and T. J. Groce of Galveston. The directors will meet in few days and elect officers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21
Stockholders Meet.

Galveston, Texas, March @.-At meeting of the stockholders of the Gulf
 Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad Company held today the following directors were elected for the ensuing year; Edward ?. Ripley, Chicago; R. SomsTs Hayes,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-21

THE WEATHER. wAEHIwrUN. MARCH en.-- FOR ALABAMA: FAIR AND NOT so WARM SATURDAY; NDAY, FAIR; FRESH NORTH TO N o R T H E A ST WINDS.