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The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20
MADE THEM ADMIT
ROOSEVELT WAS WRONG
How TiIlman Scored His Point in
wisconsin.

How TiIlman Scored His Point in
wisconsin.
Madison, Wis March 19-United
States Senator Tillman of South Caro-
lima, delivered an address on THE Ne
gro Question from a Southern Stand
point" before an audience of 1S00 uni
versity students, citizens and law
makers tonight. He was greeted with
the stirring university yell.
A rather sensational incident oc-
CURED while Senator Tillman was dis
cussing the Indianola postoffice case.
After stating the Southern View of the
affair, he asked whether the audience
approved of President Roosevelt's ac-
ton, and there was applause.
Being uncertain whether the applause
was intended as an Endorsement of the
Presidents action, the senator asked
how it was meant. He was told that
it was meant as an Endorsement of the
President. This aroused the senator.
He went into the details of the Indian
ola affair, and when he concluded ask
cd his hearers whether it would not
have been better for the President to
have kept the office open and punished
the few hotheads that caused the trou-
BILE than to have punished the entire
community by closing the office, re-
questing those to raise their hands who
supported the Presidents action. Only
a few raised their hands.
In the main, his address was much
like his other recent utterances on the
same subject. He condemned the ne
gro to eternal inferiority to the white
man.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20
HAD A CAKEWALKER.
Parisians Made Merry with South
ern Darkies.J

ern Darkies.
Paris, March 19.-The city was com
pleteE given up to-day to the annual
observance of the mid-Lent festivities.
Governmental and commercial bust
ness was suspended and the boulevards
We're thronged with merry makers in
quaint, picturesque costumes.
A monster procession was formed at
noon, and visited the Elysee Palace,
where President Loubet received the
Queen of Queens" and her courtiers.
The cavalcade embraced many beau
tifully decorated floats and allegorical
groups. One of the CHIEF groups show
ed an American cake-walker as the
apothesis of dancing, with a crowd of
Southern darkies executing a dance.
After midnight the unruly elements
in the crowd began making trouble
for the police by starting disturbances
in various parts of the boulevards
and on adjacent streets. Some 300 dis
orderly persons were arrested. but most
of them were discharged after being
detained for an hour or two at the
police station.
1t was said at the prefecture of po-
lice that 96S arrests had been made
during the whole day; they were mostly
for trivial offenses.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20

local depot Office. The four ingots were
taken into the depot Office and placed
In the safe.
Shortly before the eastbound train
was due to leave they were removed
from the strong box and loaded on
a truck, to be wheeled out to the ex-
press car. The train was an hour and
a half late, however, and It is UNDER
stood by the police that the gold was
not put into the safe again pending
the time for the train to leave, but lay
on the truck in the office, which Is on
the level of the street.
Capt. Mcdonnell says that he has
found that at least nine persons were
in the Office at different times while
the gold lay on the truck, exposed to
view, and that several of them han
died and commented on its value. Two
men who were in the office were taken
into custody early to-day, but proved
to the satisfaction of the officers that
they had nothing to do with the dis
appearance of the gold.
When the train was finally ready IL
was found that there were only three
ingots on the truck. A frantic search
of the office was made, but no trace of
the fourth bar was found. The train
was held for a time, but finally the
three ingots were dispatched on their
way. and Foreman Miller notified the
police of the disappearance.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20
NEGROES THREATEN TO
BURN B0YD'S HOUSE.
Attempt Followed by nm Attack
Upon His Wife.


Upon His Wife.
Birmingham Ala. March ia Sc
ries of mysterious threats to burn the
home of w. II. Boyd, prominent con-
tractor residing in this city, eliminated
this morning in an attack upon Boyd s
wife by an unknown negro.
Yesterday Boyd received an anony-
nous letter warning him that his house
would be burned. In the afternoon
and unknown negro met him and
handed him another letter, containing
a similar threat. After delivering the
letter the negro fled. Later telephone
message from unknown parties con-
veyed similar threats.
While at supper last night Boyd and
his wife discovered that the house was
on fire, but with the aid of the neigh
bors the flames were quickly eXtin-
guished
This morning an unknown negro was
seen lurking around the Boyd house.
Apprehending danger, Mrs. Boyd pro-
cured a pistol and fired at him. Miss
ing him she held her weapon on him
and attempted a the same time to
telephone for her husband. While at
the telephone the negro snatched the
revolver from her hand, felled her to
the floor with the butt of the weapon
and fled Mrs. Boyd is severely
wounded.
The police believe that these out
RACES were instigated by some dis
charged employee or other person who
had a grudge against Boyd. No ar
rests have yet been made.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20
OBITUARY..


Augusta, March 19.-Mr. Ben d.
Jones, a well known citizen, died very
suddenly to-day. He was standing in
front of his dresser. buttoning his col
lar, when he called to his wife to come
to him. Before Mrs. Jones could reach
the side of her husband he gave a
gasp and fell on the bed nearby and
in few minutes breathed his last.
Though SO years of age, ne is sur
vived by both his father and mother,
Mr.: and Mrs. John II. Jones. He is
also survived by four brothers, Will
liam H., John II. and Marion L.. OF
Augusta, and Louis F. Jones of Jack
sonville; one sister. Mrs. Ferdinand
Richards, of this city, and two grown
sons, G. c. Jones of this city and John
II. Jones of Birmingham, Ala, and a
wife. He was member of one of the
old families of Augusta. His uncle, w.
c. Jones, is president of the Board of
Education.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20
ALICE ROOSEVELT
RECEIVED WITH HONOR.

San Juan, Porto Rico, March 10
day from the steamer Comoa, from New
York. She was met by Gov. Hunt and
mis- family, and was driven to the pal
ace, where she afterwards held an In
formal house reception.
Miss Roosevelt will receive the Citi-
zens' Committee in public tomorrow.
and will attend the citizens reception
at the theater the same evening, when
there will be a display of fireworks and
a demonstration in her honor. Many
invitations have been issued by the
Governor for an entertainment on Sat
urday.
On Wednesday Miss Roosevelt will
leave San Juan on an inland trip, dur
ing which she will visit the principal
plantations and cities.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20
KIN-T0RTURED
BABIES
And Tired, Fretted
Mothers
Find Comfort in Cuticura Soap
and Ointment
When All Other Remedies and
Physicians Fail.

Instant relief and refreshing sleep
for skin-tortured babies and rest for
tired, worried mothers in warm baths
with Cuticura SOAP, and gentle anoint-
Ings with Cuticura Ointment, purest Of
smollient skin cures, to be followed In
severe cases by mild doses of Cuticura
Resolvcnt Pills. This Is the purest,
sweetest, most speedy, permanent and
economical treatment for torturinQ,
disfiguring, itching, burning, bleeding,
Scaly, crusted and pimply skin and
scaly humours, with loss of hair, of in
fants and children, as well as adults,
and is sure to succeed when all other
remedies and the best physicians fail.
The agonizing itching and burning
of the skin, as in eczema; the frightfuj
scaling, as in psoriasis the loss of HAIR
and crusting Of the scalp, as in scaled
head; the facial Disagreement. as in
pimples and ringworm; the awful SUI.
fering OF infants, and anxiety of worn
out parents, as in milk crust, letter and
salt rheum, - all demand a remedy OF
almost superhuman virtues to success
fully cope with them. That Cuticura
Soap, Ointment and Pills are such
stands proven beyond all doubt. No
statement is made regarding them that
Is NOS justified by the strongest evil
dence. The purity and sweetness, the
power 10 afford immediate relief, she
certainty of speedy and pepnanent
sure, the absolute safety aud great
eeOr Ony have made them the standard
skin cures and hum0ur remedies of the
civilized world.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20
CHIEF OF POLICE JONES
PROMISED PROTECTION.
Tampa Is Amused Over the Uneasi-
ness shown.

Tampa. Fla, March 19.-Chief of Po-
lice Jones tonight received a lengthy
telegram from Samuel Gompers presi-
dent of the American Federation of
Labor, demanding protection for four
labor leaders alleged to have received
threatening letters several weeks ago.
Chief Jones answered that the men will
be given all protection necessary.
The chief of police also received a
letter to-day from the president of the
International Cfgarmakers Union of
the same tenor as the Gompers tele-
gram, and sent the same answer.
The people of Tampa are amused by
the incident though somewhat exas-
perated. Many believe that the threat
ening letters were written by one of
the men who received them for the
purpose of exciting sympathy and aid
ing them in their work. There is no
feeling against them and they are not
and have not been in any danger
whatever.
The letters were received over two
weeks ago.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20
WILL SOON BE BUILT.

stone and Webster Make Announce
ment About Alabama Lines.
Boston, Mass, March ia dispatch
was received here to-day stating that
the City Council of Girard, Ala, last
night granted a franchise to capitalists
in the city for use of the streets by an
electric car line. The franchise was
granted to the Columbus (Ga.) Rail-
road, which recently secured similar
privileges In Phoenix CITY, Ala.
The managers of the properties,
Messrs. Stone and Webster of this city,
announce that the new roads in Ala
bama will be in operation in about two
months. They will be directly connect
ed with the present Columbus (Ga)
lines by a bridge over the Chattahoo-
chez river. forming an interstate and
interurban trolley system.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20

ests Judge Young was followed by NJ.
n. Grover of st. Paul, also counsel for
the defense.
Former Attorney General Griggs to-
night informed the Associated Press
that, in order to facilitate the hearing
of the Northern Securities Company
case, IL had been decided by the coun-
sci for the defendants not to read in
court the brief prepared by Daniel
Wilcox, and signed by him and Fran
els Lynde Stetson, in behalf of j.
Pierpont Morgan. Robert Bacon and
Daniel S. Lamont. and that copies had
been given to all concerned in the case.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20
TILLMAN IN WISCONSIN.

Opposes the Project started There
for a Race Convention.
Madison, Wis. March Ex-senator
Tillman, who arrived at Madison to-
day, said concerning the Patton reso-
luton to hold convention at Atlanta
to discuss the race question, that the
problem could not be solved in that
way. He intimated that the people
of Wisconsin do not sufficiently under
stand the race question to send dele
gates who could arrive at any definite
conclusion. If they should go to At
lanta all they could do would be to
talk the matter over, and no definite
action could be taken. He said that
he had been studying the question for
twenty-five years and had not arrived
at any conclusion
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20
GOMPERS WANTS HIS
ORGANIZERS PROTECTED.
Calls on the Tampa Chief of Police
to Look to Their Safety.


Washington, March 19.-Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, to-day sent the
following telegram:
Washington, D. c.. March 10, 1903
The Chief of Police. Tampa, Fla: In
the name of organized labor, as we'll as
every liberty-loving citizen, demand
full protection TO our organizers, James
Woods and James A. Roberts, and
others whose lives have been threat
ened. These men l know to be law
abiding citizens, and would not be gull
ty of an unlawful act. They have a
right TO organize workingmen, and, if
necessary, in defense of their rights,
to strike for the enforcement of them
if no other means of redress is afford
ed. The kidnapping and making away
with a number of Tampa's workmen
less than two years ago warrants be-
lief that the present threat is serious
and emanates from a capitalistic Or
ganized banditti.
(Signed.) Samuel Gompers,
President American Federation of
Labor"
This telegram was sent by Mr. Com
pers on receipts of statements from
the organizers mentioned that the fol-
lowing communications had been re-
ceived by them:
Tampa, Fla, March 10, 1907
James Wood: You are hereby COM
manded to leave the city at once and
not return. Our men have been watch
ing you since your arrival here, and
we are convinced that you are a trou-
ble-maker. Leave the city and save
yourself the trouble of our being COM
PEELED to remove you which we will
do if you are in the city twenty-four
hours after receiving this letter. Take
your big guard and leave the city, I'M
der pain of death, for we will not have
or tolerate any more strikes in this
city. Leave or you die.
"(Signed) Committee of Tampa and
Surrounding Country"
Tampa, March 10, 1903.-James Rob-
erts: You sare hereby commanded to
leave the city at once. You conspired
to bring niger MILAN back. You
brought Wood here. You are conspir-
ing with the anarchists in Ybor to
bring on a strike. You brought them
anarchists from Key West to bring on
a strike, and we think your next move
for the good of Tampa will be to leave
the city, and if you ever come back,
you do so at your own peril. To re-
main twenty-four hours after receiving
this letter means death for both you
and Wood. Get out of the city and
save us the trouble of removing you.
"(Signed) Committee of Tampa and
Surrounding Country"
Mr.. Gompers announced that he had
been advised that letters similar to
these also were served on Jose Biaz,
George Bristow and Frank Kelly, mem
bers of the Cigarmakers' International
Union.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20


Washington, March Ex-senator
Clay did not wait for the final adj
journment of the special session of the
Senate before starting for home. He
received advices that illness in his
family required his presence, and aft
er the settlement of the contest over
the canal treaty, he took the first
train for Georgia. Senator Bacon
remained to look after any business
which might develop of interest to
Georgia.
It was we'll understood before Sena-
tor Clay started homeward that all OF
the Georgia matters were disposed OF,
and the only thing which might de-
tain the Junior senator was the Crum
nomination, of which he had charge
as the representative of the Democratic
members of the Senate Committee on
Commerce. Senator Clay was assured
by Senators Aldrich and Spooner two
of the leading members of the Repub-
lican steering committee, that the
Crum case would not be acted upon
during the special session, and there
fore he might join his family in Geor-
gia with perfect safety.
Senator Bacon expects to remain
here several days after the Senate adj
journs, to round up several little mat
ters in the various departments. in
which his constituents are interested.
Livingston After Jobs.
Representative Lon Livingston, who
was one of the active promoters in
creating the new department of COM
merce and labor, has a few modest
requests to make of Secretary Cortel-
you, I'M behalf of certain Georgians,
who are anxious to assist in the or
Ganization of the new department. at
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20
WABASH LABOR CASE
Argued by Lawyers for the Road
and the Employees.


st. Louis. March 1.-two arguments
in behalf of the Wabash road were con-
cluded to-day in the injunction suit.
and the first statement in behalf of the
men by F. n. Johnson of st. Louis was
unfinished when court adjourned for
the day. The case will certainly con-
tinue throughout tomorrow, and pos
sibly throughout Saturday.
At the opening of court Col Blodgett
for the Wabash read extracts from the
constitution of the Brotherhood of Lo-
connective Fireman to prove his conten-
ton that there were no grievances en-
tertained by the employees against the
road. The whole thing lay, he de-
clared, in the recognition of the union.
and failing of this. the defendants had
conspired to induce the employees to
stop work. and otherwise injure the
road.
coded that employees had a right to
combine and a right to strike, provided
that such action was voluntary on the
part of all concerned, was not in
breach of contract and was for a law
full purpose. but declared that in the
present instance all of these elements
We're absent
Mr.. Travous. in concluding, recited
obligations imposed upon railroads by
the state commerce law. and urged
that it was their right to have federal
protection in carrying out the federal
laws.
F. N. Judson for the defendants
quoted numbers of legal decisions,
which went to prove that employees OF
the Wabash RAILROAD have a perfect
right to combine/or to leave its serv-
ice or to allow an organization of 9TH
err men to act for thea. No authori-
ties. he said, had been cited by the
attorneys for the road to prove the
contrary.
The charge of conspiracy brought
against these defendants" said Mr..
Judson, consists only of the demand
of the men that they be represented
by a committee in their negotiations
with the company. What they most de-
sired was the right of recognition in
behalf of their committee
Mr.. Judson denied there was any in
tention to tie up the Gould roads.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20
SENATOR CLAY CALLED HOME
Illness in His Family Necessitated His Return
Before Accommodations from Washington

the usual compensation. When the list
of appointments in the new cabinet
office is promulgated, il will be found
that one or more Georgians have been
provided for at the instance of Col.
Livingston.
Wilson and wiley Coming.
Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson and
DR.. Wiley have accepted invitations to
attend the convention of Georgia cane
growers to be held at Macon the first
week in. May. 1t is expected this Will
be an important convention and Will
be largely attended. 1t is possible that
the secretary will so arrange his trip
as to be able to stop off at TaIlulan
Falls. either going or coming. for the
purpose of inspecting the silk indus
try at that point. This has not yet
been definitely settled, however.
The Department of Agriculture has
sent to the printers the report show
ing the effect of the experiments in
Georgia last year in the interest of the
cane syrup industry It is expected
that these reports will be out within a
few weeks. and that the information
therein contained will be of use to the
growers in South Georgia.
The experiments drawn on the line
of the study of the soil and of the best
fertilizer to be used upon 1t will be
continued at Cairo and other points
in South Georgia during the present
year. At the same time the construc-
ton of the model mill, which is to be
placed at Waycross, will be pushed
forward as rapidly as possible.
DIR. Wiley chief chemist of the Agri-
cultural Department, who has taken
such an active interest in the promo
ton of the cane syrup industry, has
these arrangements in hand. He says
that the necessary contracts Will soon
be let.
Cane growers in the vicinity have
entered into contract to furnish the
plant with $50 tons of cane annually the
supply being so distributed as to keep
the mill going at all times.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20
FULL BOXES

of Doan's Kidney Pills will be given
away free to every person suffering
with kidney ailments at the under
signed address. First come, first serv-
ed, and only this one chance offered
For those in the country who cannot
call in time a box will be mailed upon
receipt of cents to pay postage. Re
member this is not a sample box, but
a regular size box of Doans Kidney
Pills, which retails at so cents.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20
REPORT on RAILROADS
Has Been Completed by the Florida
Commission.

Tallahassee, Fla, March 19.-The
sixth annual report of the Florida Rail
road Commission has just been COM
pleted. 1t states among other things,
that the reduction in freight rates on
fruits and vegetables recently ordered
by the commission, will save to the
fruit and vegetable shippers, on all
lines $4,000 per annum." 1t us not
believed, however, that this reduction
in rates will decrease the revenue of
the railroads
Under the head of Claims the re-
port says: The claims department of
the commission is growing to be of
great value to the people," The COM
mission has collected many claims dur
ing the past year, which claimants had
endeavored for months to collect, and
only referred them to that body as d
last resort.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20

London, March 19-The Atlantic
Transport Line steamer Minneapolis,
which arrived to-day from New York,
degrees north, longitude SO degrees
west, she spoke the British steamer
Comino, Capt. Browne, which sailed
from Port Arthur, Tex, Feb. % via
Newport News, March s. for Liverpool.
The vessel was stopped, and IT was
supposed her steering gear was dis
ordered
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20
A. Randall. Grimm.

Griffin, Ga, March 19.-Maj. A. Ran
dali, one of the best known cotton mill
men throughout the South. and prom
inently connected with cotton milling
interests in several states, died here
to-day from the effects Of a paralytic
stroke. He served as superintendent Of
cotton mills in Canada. New York, IL
Iinois. Alabama and Georgia. He was
born at Providence, II. l., IN 1897.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20
WOMEN sUFFRAGIsTS MEET.
Mrs. Anthony, Rev. Anna Shaw and
Others at New Orleans.

New Orleans, La, March 19.-The
National Womans Suffrage Conven-
ton began its annual session this aft
ernoon, with Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait presiding.
The headquarters of the association
were changed from New York to War
rem, o., where Mrs. Harriet Taylor Up
ton, the national treasurer, will direct
the work with Miss Elizabeth Hauser
as Office secretary. This will enable
Mrs. Gait, the president, and Mrs. Cor
don, the secretary, to retain their Of
fees for a year without the cares OF
routine. A committee, consisting OF
Mrs. Ida P. Boyer of Pennsylvania,
Mrs. Laura Gregg of Nebraska. and
Miss Gail Laughlin of New York. to
consider a national plan of work, was
appointed.
Mayor Capedevielle and others well
coined the delegates to New Orleans.
Among the speakers were Susan B.
Anthony and Rev. Anna Shaw.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20

Starke. Fla, March 19.-The Baptist
Church of Starke has called 70 its pas
torate Rev. Mr.. Holtshau, a well-qual-
flied man for the place. The congre-
CATION at the close of its prayer meet
ing last night adjourned to the home OF
Mr. Kickliter, where they proceeded to
give the new pastor pounding,
which in quality and quantity was vel
worthy of the name. The presentation
was made by DIR. Waugh and feelingly
accepted by the pastor.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20

Little Rock, Ark, March 20.-Th'
first Choctaw train from Memphis since
O'Clock Tuesday evening will reacf
Little Rock at O'Clock this FRIDAY
morning. The train left Memphis ovei
the Illinois Central. The Mississippi
could not be crossed at Cairo and d
went to St. Louis, then via the Cottor
Belt 10 Brinkley. 1t has been on th'
road thirty hours. II carries 25e pas
eenrarE.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20
visitors to West Point.

Washington, March 19.-The Presi-
dent to-day announced the members of
of the Board of Visitors to the West
Point Military Academy as follows
Hon. d. B. Henderson of Iowa; Hon.
George F. Baxter of Colorado, Col As
bury Coward, president of the South
Carolina Military Institute; Joseph C.
Darlington of Philadelphia, William A.
Pew, Jr., of Boston, Rev. Ernest NJ
STEERS, D. D., st. Thomas Church, New
York, and j. G. Scmilapp of Cincin-