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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-14
ACCIDENT IS SEVERE
BOARD OF IMoUIRx REPORTS ON
 THE 1EASSACEuSETTS.
The Vessel VIII Be Sent to the Brooklyn Navy Yard to De Dry Doched for Neees-
 saxy Repairs.

Washin&ton,. Aug. ls.--Aeting Secretary Darling late this afternoon received from Capkafn Emory. coEntnandinS the Indi- ana, the esni0f ofllder present. the report 'ok the board appointed % investigate the accident to the Massacnusets. The dis- patch is &s follows:
 Bar Harbor, Me, Aug. 1s. 1868, Secretary of the Navy, Washington
 Board has finished investigation Mas sachusets. Its conclusions meet my ap- provaI. Reports as follows:
 Commandments A ana A % full of wa- ter, about 800 tons. Slight leaks into A and A 6. where longItudinals pieced water-tisht bulikhead at frame iA This bulkhead slightly sprung. Slight leaks through rivets into compartments A and AS. Diver reports that port starboard strake dented and cracked athwartship between frames 17 and IS. Crack about IS inches long and half inch wide. Sec oTld crack in shape of inverted 'T'' in port strake B or c, between same frames Crack extends four feet across the plate, and 14 inches in the seam with halt inch greatest opening. About "A feet of docking keel injured. Divers remain at work. Recommend two centrifugal pumps electric driven preferred, eight foot check valve, and delivery hose for each pump. I consider 1t necessary for Indiana to remain. Emory.
 A later dispatch from Captain Emory reads:
 subsequently to report of board divers discovered that starDoard garboard strake between frames No. and No. IS Is punctured. Opening extends above S5z feet across the plate. Greatest width is four inches.
 "Orders were sent this afternoon to Naval Constructor Gilmore at Bath Me, to make a thorough inspection of, the ship, and report the extent of the dam age to the department. The comnandant at the Boston navy yard has been tele- graphed instructions to send a wreclklng pump to the Massachusetts to pump out the water from the flooded compart- ments.
 In reply to Captain Emory's inquiries as to when he can sail with the Indiana. to join the fleet, the acting secretary has informed him by telegraph that he is to remain by the Massachusetts for the present.
 Orders have been sent to the Brooklyn navy yard to get the dock there in read mess for the Massachusetts, which is to go there for repairs. Compartment A 42, which Is one of the compartments flooded. is up almost on a level with the protective deck.
 At the department it is realized that the damage to the Massachusetts may cost a large amount to repair. One hun dred thousand dollars was spent on the Massachusetts when sne grounded in New York harbort in 1899. The pilot of the vessel was suspended for this aocI- dent.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-14
COMMUNITY OF INTERESTS
No Effort to Violate Laws of
 the States.
Central of Georgia the Only Line outsids the Pale and It Is Ex-
 $ psstsd to Join the tF N Others. k.

New York, Aug. B.-(Special)-On Wal Street today 1t was asserted on all sides that all the Southern railways are being combined into one vast system. <
 There win be no big holding company' but a genuine community of interest idea. The results thus far justify the statement that complete success has been obtained.
 It must be adrnitetd. for reasons that are plain, that the Rock Island-Frtsco interests and powers dominant in south ern railway are very friendly, and tn Tact are working together with definite object.
 Some of the results of years work are: Southern Railway and Louisville control .'Monon," the Atlantic Coast line controls Louisville and Nashville; Rock Island controls the Frisco. which extends into Southern territory; Frisco has control of Chicago and Eastern Illinois. Evans vile and Terre Haute and now the Sea boar Air Line; 1t has an alliance with the Illinois Central by which 1t gains ac- cess to New Orleans and friendly rela- tibns have been established with the Gould lines. Rock Island has secured control of all the Southern Pacific. North and South Lines in Texas, and 1t has contract with the Southern Railway.
 Thus, the territory North and South. is xridironed by lines directly controlled by interests working tn complete harmony and not even the Kentucky State Rail- road Commission can find that the letter or spirit of the law has been violated.
 The only road renaaining independent Is the Georgia Central, but it Is expected that 1t will sooner or later be brought into control of the combine, is e
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-14
THE EXTRA SESSION
IT MAY BE CALLED BEFORE
 NOVEMBER.
Members of the Senate Finance Com- mittee Have Long Talk With
 the President on Question of Currency.

oyster Bay, Aug. 12.-President Roose- velt's conference with the members of the subcommittee of the Senate Finance Committee was not concluded until the small hours of this morning. The whole subject of financial legislation at the ap- preaching session of Congress was dis cussed thoroughly.
 The committee did not present even a tentative draft of a currency bill to the President, although some propositions which subsequently may be embodied fin the measure, were reduced to concrete form, no definite conc1usions as to the shape of the proposed legislation were reached The conference related rather to methods of procedure in the work at hand rather than to the form of legisla- ton. At Il o'clock some of the members left Sagamore Hill for Senator Aldrich's s home in Rhode Island.
 One fact of distinct importance was de- veloped at the conference. While an ex- traordinary session of Congress next fall is assured, 1t has not been determined definitely whether it Will be called to meet in October or November. It has been supposed that the extraordinary session would convene Monday, Nov. g. But the indications now are that 1t will be called perhaps several weeks earlier
 The primary purpose of the extraordi- nary session will be to enact legislation making operative the Cuban reciprocity treaty. but financial legislation also will be pressed upon the attention of Con- gross soon after it convenes.
 It can be said that the Senate Finance Committee will draft no measure for mally and conclusively until consulta- tions have been held with other members of the Senate, Democrats as well as Republicaus-with members of the House and with the best authorities on finance in the country. It is the desire of the committee to be constantly in touch with the President. with other senators. with members of the House. with bankers of the West as well as those of the East and with country bankers as well as city bankers, so that some plan of legislation may be formed by the opening of the ex- traordinary session of Congress.
 It is the hope of the committee to de- wise a genuinely elastic currency system "a system that will expand when the necessity shall arise ana contract when the necessity shall have ceased to exist
 Senator Aldrich, when asked with ref erence to the visit, said:
 We talked with the President about financial conditions and the need of leg islative changes. No bill has been draft ed or agreed on and none will be until after the fullest consultation with our Democratic associates or the sub-com- mittee and all the members of the Ff- nance Committee. It is. however, our purpose to have a bili M readiness for presentation to the Senate at the begin ming of the extra session. if one shall be called in October or November. We
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-14
NEGROES ON LYNCHING
MRS. CRAvATT SIMPSON OF Bos-
 TON HEARD FROM.
Says United States Should Attend to Home Affairs Before Delivering Advice to the Nations
 of Europe.

New Haven, Conn. Aug. 13.-Some re- marks on lynching delivered by Mrs. G. Cravatt Simpson of Boston caused ex- citement today at the opening session of the annual convention of the Northeast ern Federation of Womens Clubs, an organizations of colored women.
 Mrs. Simpson. who is a member of the Womens Era Club of Boston, declared there was no better time than the present for the convention to put itself on record regarding lynchings, and she called for the adoption of resolutions to be sent to President Roosevelt. The resolutions will be drawn up and presented later.
 Mrs. Simpson said that the club mem bers should conceive feasible plan to suggest to the government of the United States whereby they could chastise their own lawless children. better known as lynchers. instead of contemplating the sending of messages across the water to other countries instructing them what they must do and what they must not do as regards the butchering of human souls. while they at home encouraged barbecues of the anne kind.
 The barbarism of these so-ealled civil lized lynchers," said the speaker, ''ls ana Joyous to the atrocities of their forefath- CTS who had ships plying by the African coast laden with thousands of human souls to sell into bondage. Their revolt ing heartlessness and the crimes of today might make the devil wonder and hell recognize its own likeness"
 Miss Elizabeth Carter of New Bedford Mass. spoke of the recent attack on Booker T. Washington in Boston and pleaded for an endorsement of his work by the convention. She said:
 When think of the recent insult of- fered to him feel that those who are responsible for that affair in Boston are not our people; not part of the race that I am in. We ought to be proud to have such a man one of us."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-14
IND4-s FINANCES.
story of Progress and -siiity of
 the Empire.

the Empire.
 London, Aug i3-Lord George Hamil- ton, Secretary of State for India. in open- ing the annual statement of the Indian budget in the House of Commons. today read an encouraging story of the prog ress and stability of India's finances. He pointed out that there had been substan- tial surpluses In the last three years. amounting this year to si5, ,zso, 900. This financial situation win enable the Gov ernment to reduce the salt tax by 2s per cent and make considerable renissions in the income tax.
 Lord Hamilton said the fears regarding . scarcity of food in India this year might be dismissed.
 He considered the proposal that India should contribute to the cost of the troops to be kept In South Africa as reasonable. They had to face the fact that Russia was advancing in Central Asia and take into account the dififcuity that would att tend the transporting of troops from Great Britain to India in certain eventu- aiities.
 Russia has steadily consolidated her power and strength in Central Asia, hut he believed with Lord Beaconfeld, that Asia was big enough 10 satisfy the aspi- rations to the two nations. Therefore, he was not jealous of the advance of Russia, hut no responsible minister should ignore the undoubted fact that as Russia in creased her strength 60 she increased her power of mobilization. Every sfngio mill tary man had been compelled to admit that In certain eventualities large re-en- forcements must be sent to India. while every naval man expressed the opinion that in such eventuality there might be a combination or other difficulties in the way of guarnnteeing the transport of troops from Great Britain to India. He regretted that the Indian Government did not take the same view. He then eoEn- mented on the success of the currency policy four years ago. The fiuctuation in the exchange value of the rupee during that period has been only i-2 per eent, and the nuctuation during the past year EonlR f-t of per cent. The Indian mer- chants had benefited enormously by the stability Of the exchange.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-14
TRAIN JUMPED INTO R1vER.
Fireman Killed and Engineer Badly
 Hurt. 5sa~-s,

Topeka, Kan. Aug, ls-The engine, Ysaau car and baggage tsaF Of the Texas express on the Rock Isiaild, which lsaTes Topeka at midnight. went through a bridge across Hendricks creek. near Al- ma. at 80 this morning killing Fireman John Leggett of Mcfarland. Kan, and seriously injuring Engineer }3ohn Me- Steen. of Kansas City. Z a
 The baggage men and express men jumped when the shock came and were swept by the waters into tree tops, from whence they were rescued at daylight by William Graves. fisherman. Graves also found the engineer unconscious and entangled in the limbs or a tree. The en- zine is at the bottom Of the creek. out of sight.
 One car is dangling from the end of the bridge and another is lodged on the bank of the stream. partially under water.
 That fearful loss Of life did not fol- low is due to the narrowness of the stream where the disaster occurred. A cloudburst had filled the creek and weak ened the bridge.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-14
PLAN FOR A REBUKE c. A. R. MEN SORE OVER WOODS z PROMOTION.
 sse@---e--s-> Resolution Aimed at Such Practice May be Passed by the EncAmp-
 nent Next Week in San
 Francisco.

Washington. Aug. -Ospecial.5.-If not a few Eastern c. A. R. men. wao arc 9o- ing to San Franisco to the reunion are in earnest. they are going to akSist in an unfiattering reflection upon the akiminis- tTation.
 It will come in resolution to be intrc- duced at the reunion aimed against the policy which jumped Dr. Leonard Wood, an ante-helium surgeon. over the scared persons of veteran officers of the civil war. h
 If there Is anything that ranhiss in the souls of the O. A. R. men. 1t is any slighting neglect of the heroes of the Union. defenders of the Union.
 Along with those who are opposed to Woods excessive advancement are many who gympathize with General Niles and condemn the heartiess treatsnena he has received at the hands of the President and the Secretary of War.
 Unless Republican politicians take hold and control the reunion oe veterans, as they usually do. the administration will get sharp reminder that st has offended the old soldiers of the Union. Scores of veteran officers have recently been re. tired. and. t Is said. almost to & raan. they have chafed over BcoBeveitss push ing of General pr. Wood.
 R. 1T. watkins,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-14
rHE PopE WELL AoAIN.
Much Money Found in the Apart
 ment of Leo.

ment of Leo.
 s Rome. Aug 13.-The Pope is quite well today. He took a long drive and walk in the Vatican gardens and then received the Austrian Ambassador. who presented his credentials.
 Monsignor Cagiano. the major domo. &C., companied by Cardinals Rhmpolla and Leo this afternoon. breaking the seals put on at the time of the ponun's death, They found a considerable amount of money. 1t is stated, several million francs, besides other valuables. Cardinal Crestohi. pre- feet of the congregation Of Sacred Rights was not present. having left Rome on ac- count of Illness.
 day in the gardens He afterwards re- ceiyed Cardinal Satoili. who inquired re- Gardins the appointment 0k new Secre- tary of State in succession to Cardinal Rampolla and again suggested vincenzo 'vannuteiii as the best fitted for the DO h- ton. Cardinal Satolli then proposed the appointment of Father Edward Fowler. seeretary to the Rev J. J Harty. as a domestic preiate to the pontin, which post carries with, It the title of Monsignor. The Pope granted the request and a brief. making the appointment was Issued im- mediateiy
 Cardinal Gibbons will come to Rome Friday to assist st the conservation on Saturday of the Rev. !. J. Harty. as archbishop of Manila which is to be per- formed by Cardinal Satoiii, in the Fran ciscan Church of St, Anthony. On Sun day the Pope will receive the new arch bishop and Father Fowler in private au- dience. The former will receive the pal Hum from Cardinal Macchio on Monday and wili leave Rome the same night. The Pope this afternoon received the Minis ters of Peru Uruguay and Argentina. who presented their credentials and greet ings from the governments on the occa- sion of his election.
 Cardinals Rampolla and Mocenni after 2 summary visit to the late Pope Leo's apartment. decided 10 begin tomorrow making inventory of all it contains.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-14
HUNG JURY EXPECTED.
No Verdict in the Case of Jett and White. Ms

Cynthiana, Ky, Aug. 13.--The case of Jett and White, charged with the murs der of Attorney J. B.. MaFcusi. went to the jury this morning.
 At SEQ this afternoon judge Osborne directed Sheriff Leach to call the jury from the room. Judge Osborne asked them # they had reached their verdict. Foreman McCauley said they had not Judge Osborne then advised them and put them in charge of the sheriff and told them that after supper they might discuss the case among themselves and then retire for the night. They are to report at S:30 tomorrow morning. Judge Osborne stated that ne intended keep ing them over Sunday IT they did not sooner render a verdict.
 It is the opinion of all that hung jury is the result of this case. The at- torneys for the defense are tubilant, and Curtis Jett is laughing and talking with them and smoking cigaFettes. but White is much depressed in spirits.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-14
Golden Rule Barkeeper Dies.

Milwaukee. Wis. Aug. 1S-John A. Showles. saloon-keeper, known to al- most everyone in Milwaukee as Judge, Showies. is dead of heart failure He had conducted saloon here for more than thirty years. He never sold a mixed drink. declined to sell more than three drinks to man and if he knew a mans family suffered because he freouented Showles' place no price could buy a drink.
 No beer for you my friend" he would say, Take your money home to your family. I do not want it; they need il" And he adhered to this rule
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-14
THE MISERY IS INTENSE Appalling DeStitutiOn in
 Jamaica. REsULToF THE HURRICANE Thousands Of Persons Rem
 dered Homeless.
 ---s- Mass Meeting Appeals to the Generos- fly of the American People
 to Aid in Aiisviating
 the Distress.

Kingston. Jamaica, Aus. l-rhe desti- tusion in the hurricane-stricken districts is appalling. Thousands of persons. homeless. starving and ill-ciad. are hurry ing to the towns to obtain shelter and supplies. but as all the churches and pub lic buildings have been demolished. the misery is intense A meeting held at Port Antonio today appealed. with the Gov ernor's approval. to the generosity of the American people. Foodstuifs and lumber are urgently needed and assistance was inpiored.
 The Norwegian steamer Ethelwcid en- countered the hurrican. on her voyage from New York to Jamaica, and passed through terrible experience. Her ma chinery became deransod and the cylsn- der cover was blown off. The steamers Alfred Dumois and the Salvatore piogor- gio and still ashore The other steamers which went ashore have been fioatsd. . Wednesdays dispatches said that the Simon Dunlois and the Brighton. as well as the two named above, had been driven ashore by the storm.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-14
Russia Gives to eufEarers.

New York. Aug. 13.-The American Kishineff relief committee has received from the committee at Kishineh, which had charge of the distribution, a state ment of receipts and expenditures, and an appeal for further aid.
 Of the s450.0o0 contributed, America sent more than one-quarter. Russia gave more than half. England sent 21,Oo0 rou- bles, about half as much as Germany. The committee asks for further assist ance to the amount of Sl00,O00.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-14
Tgotaa npeoialiet Dead.

London. Aug. is-Dr. W. s. Playfair, the noted specialist in women's diseases and authority on oDstetric medicine, died at St. Andrews, Scotland, to-day. He was the defendant in, 8 islander suit which created some stir several years ago, when he was. mulcted in $6O.OO0 dam ages. The plaintiff, named Kitson. was a brother-in-law to Dr. Playfair, who was adjudged to have slandered the plaintiffs wife. ..
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-14
plot to Murder Preaident.

Paris, Aug. 1S-Dispatches from Santo Domingo say that a plot to murder Gen eral Alejandro Wos y Gil. the president, has been discovered and that there have been many arrests. President Wos v Gil overthrow the former president. Gen. Horatio valquez. at the time of the rev. olution last spring and proclaimed him self president. being subsequently, elect ed. His election was proclaimed by Con- Rress July 22.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-14
THEREsE STILL RETIcENT.
Promises DisclosuTes But Fails to
 - Make Them.

Paris, Aug 1s.-The Humbert trial was continued today.
 A number of provincial creditors of the Humbert family testified to loans of many millions of francs, Their statements showed their cfeduIity regarding Mime. Therese's story of the Crawford inheri- tanc4. Among the witnesses was a banker named Schotsmans. whose brother was mysteriously assassinated during the time of the Humbert complications. Mime. Therese dramatically demanded Schots- mans to exonerate her brother RomaIn d,Aurignac from the suspicion of com plicity in his brothers death. The wit ness answered that his brother did not know the Humberts. Mime Therese there upon made declamatory statement. say ing that the mass of falsehood would dis appear in a few hours when these dis- closures were made.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-14
SAYS PRESS E 'dsED pr. Tartar s1f's Unique
 >.eaS. IS A MACEDONIAN LEADER Thinks Turkey Has Bought
 American Papers. Declares That Only Intervention by the Powers Can Prevent Much
 Bloodshed in the Balkans.
 Insurgents Numerous.

Sofia, Aug. ls.-The Macedonian leaders express themselves as greatly disappoint- ed with what they assert ia the distinctly hostile attitude of America toward their cause as manifested In the utterances of the press. Dr. Tartarcheff. one of the presidents of the Central Internal Mace donian Committee. today told represen- tatiye of the Associated Press that his party was convinced that American news- papers had been bought with Turkish gold.
 There seems to be no other explanation of the tone of their articles" said he. They are not only unsympathetic toward the movement but decidedly inimicei to it. It is impossible that such an attitude could arise from ignorance of the true state of affairs in country Sd intelligent as America. and 1t is also difiicuIt to be- Miss Stone affair could have congratulated the American press.
 Intervention Necessary.
 "In regard to the press situation, only real, practical intervention by the powers can stop the fighting of the insurgents. Failing in such intervention, the cam paign win be prosecuted to the bitter end. The band now fighting in the vilayet of Monastir. consists of s.0eo to 10.000 men. mostly young and enthusiastic and train- ed in the use of arms. Their number could be quadrupled were 1t not that the difaculty of feeding such an army renders it's increase inadvisable.
 'The Turkish troops are. badly clothed and demoralized. They have repeatedly refused to march against the insurgents. who are well supplied with arms and aEss- munitien. chiefly purchased from Turkish soldiers who sold their guns for cash almost within sight Of the barracks of Monastir By the plentiful eyaplpyment of money. insur@est bands have been enabled to smu9Sls any quantity of guns across thss erOntler and the highest Turk ish ofEiclais have readily accepted insur- gent gold. v
 Dr. TartarcheR coacluded, by. saying that the committee lived in daily hope that the powers would recognise the justice of their cause and intervene. He said the friends of the cause looked chiefly toward England as the pioneer land of liberty to assist them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-14
NEGROES ARE LEAVING.
The Blacks Fear to Stay in whites
 boro, Tex.

whitesboro. Tex. Aug. 1s.-AItheuwk promised protection by the officers of Whitesboro ahd this County. negroes are continuing to leave the city in large num- bers and 1t seems but a question of a short time until WhitesborO will he with. out a colored resident.
 The mob which was foiled in an efforx to lynch a negro last night, warned the negroes to leave and committed many depredations In the colored section. sev- eral negro men were severely fogkea their houses entered and furniture de- stroyed.