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The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-27
PLEA BY A WOMAN
OF THE SOUTH.
happenings of Her own Town an
Example of Common Danger.

happenings of Her own Town an
Example of Common Danger.
Letter to the New York Herald,
1 beg you to publish this communica-
ton, though 1 never wrote line for
publication in my life before. am
not a new woman" have nothing to
do with politics and have no desire to
pose before the public in any way. But
our community was yesterday shocked
by such blood curdling horror that 1
feel | must try to arouse some sym
pathy for the white women of the
South-must try to make the North
realize that we are not safe even in
our homes, sometimes not even by the
side of our husbands. These awful
atrocities are becoming so fearfully
frequent that we begin to tremble and
ask each other, who will be the next
victim?" In this story 1 do not want
you to print the name of the victim.
The widow is of gentle birth and
shrinks from having her agony blazon-
ed to the world. Lest you think my
story overdrawn or untrue altogether
! give you the name of the location and
of the victim of the tragedy. The place
is -. N. c. The child was -
-, only daughter of Mrs. --.
Her father was a lawyer. for many
terms the Mayor Commissioner, Reg
lister of Deeds, etc. Every detail of
my story is true, as you can find out
by applying to the Mayor or to the
clerk of the court.
Mote The names given above are
eliminated in Difference to the wish of
the writer.o
You people of the North say that the
people of the South have never settled
any question satisfactorily or wisely;
that we are entirely incapable Of solv-
ing the negro problem. Won't you,
for humanity's sake, for mercys sake.
in your superior goodness and wisdom,
settle il and settle it soon. so that
the white females of the South will
be safe from the unutterable outra ges
of the black man? Try to realize our
danger, and be sorry for US. Surely.
men who can be so wrought UP by the
Imaginary sufferings of an imaginary
black man can be moved by the UNI
speakab1e wrongs of the women of their
own race.
Will you listen to a true story? 1t
is horrible, so horrible that not even
the gifted Harriet Beecher Stowe could
have described its heartrending mis-
cry. 1t happened yesterday. The de-
filed, mutilated body of the little white
girl is still unburied. Come with me
and I will show you the very spot
where the horror" took place, not 200
yards from the Court House, stone
throw Of the chld's home.
She entered this stable a beautiful
blue-eyed, 1axen haired maid of II
years. the only daughter OF a widowed
mother. her JOY, her pride. her dar-
ling. The child had been sent by her
mother TO get some eggs that she
knows are IN a nest there. black
man sees her go In and follows her
II the child knows he Is behind her
she doubtless feels no alarm. He IL the
hobtler. she has known him all her
NE sees him every day around the
barn.
Wher he reappears he locks the
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-27

Connects with parcel car for city.
tlS minutes wait at Sandfiy. Con-
meets with Thunderbolt line at Casino.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-27

OLD NEWSPAPERS. 200 FOR -
cents. az Business once, Aofh'"A
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-27
Savannah Almanac, 18th Meridian
Savannah City Time.

Sun rise at $50 a. m. and sets 6:55
p. m.
High water at Tybee to-day at IL a.
/, m. and 11:25 p. m. High water at Sa-
Vannah one hour later
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-28
GERMAN MARRIAGE BROKERS
A Clique of Them Gets Into the Tolls
of the Berlin Authorities.
They Tried to Bleed an Austrian
Count, who Married an Amer
lean Heiress, Out of 100000.

Berlin, Aug. PA clique of usurers
and marriage brokers has been de-
manding $5O, 900 from Count Franz Jo-
seph Maria Won Larisch-Monnich, since
his marriage with Miss Marie Satter-
lee, of Titusville, Pa, at Buffalo, N.
Y, in July, 1901, which sum the count
has refused to pay. The public prose-
cutor has now brought proceedings
against the usurers for attempted
swindling. Some time before Count
Larisch-Monnich visited America the
accused persons assert they supplied
him with funds to go to Nuremberg
and court the daughter of Faber, the
pencil manufacturer, and that the
count signed a note for $4,000, pay
able on condition that he married Miss
Faber. He went to Nuremberg, it is
further asserted, properly supplied
with cash, and paid his addresses to
Miss Faber, but was not accepted.
Later, the count went to America, pre-
sumably at his own expense, and event
ually married Miss Satterlee. The
group that asserts that it financed the
Faber affair demanded $4,000, not on
the conditional note, but on another,
which, it is insisted, Count Larisch-
Monnich signed, and which he refused
to pay. The public prosecutor was in
formed of the case by someone whose
name does not appear, and the matter
was investigated, with the result that
the public prosecutor has instituted
proceedings against a merchant, re-
ferred to as "R" in the statements
civ TO ha ND r,cf
tired cavalry captain. The trial has
been set for the autumn term of the
criminal court. Count Lariisch-Mon-
mich belongs to the Austrian nobility.
His father has an estate near Astro-
nitz, Prussia, and has become a natur-
allied German.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-28
takes Three Wins
TO DECIDE contest
"The Cup Will Not be Won Until
the Better Boat Has Taken
Three Races"
SO SPOKE OLIVER c. ISELIN
WHEN ASKED ABOUT OUTLOOK
Shamrock III. Has Been Remeasured
and Has Not Lost Amy of Her Time
Allowance, Other Weight Having,
Presumably, Been Taken Out OF
the Craft.

New York, Aug. 24.-The cup will
not be won until the better boat has
taken three races said G. Oliver 1se-
lin, Monday, just before getting aboard
the Reliance. Asked whether the re-
measurement of the Shamrock would
have any effect on the future races, he
said: 81 know no more about it than
you do. The fact is, that attention
was called to the matter of the absence
of the anchor and chain not SO much
on account of it effect on any racing,
as to follow absolutely the rules. Sir
Thomas would have felt it much more
keenly if the issue had been raised
after he had won a race"
Declined to Discuss Saturdays Race.
Mr. Iselin would not discuss the race
of Saturday or the criticisms raised
concerning the sailing of the Shamrock
further than to say: Both boats were
well handled"
The bay inside the Hook was compar-
atively deserted Monday, except for the
presence of Reliance and her tender.
The wind was f1ucky from north and
east and not strong enough to get the
boats over the course in time had it
been a race day. The Reliance stood
out beyond the Hook with her main
sail, club topsail, jib and staysails set.
She tackled out to windward, evidently
stretching her sails. After she had
been out a half-hour a new jib was
tried and it was evident that the boat
was out for the purpose of trying some
new sails
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-28
A RECORD OF THIRTY HOURS
st. Louis Electric Railroad Cars Get
On n Regular Hot Weather
Rampage.

st. Louis. Aug 24.-For the past 80
hours the street railways of this city
have been on the rampage. Here is the
record:
Ambulance. dirt wagon and ice
wagon hit within one block, by same
car; three persons injured; one seri-
ously.
Buggy struck; woman and child
saved only by heroic deed of husband
and father.
Policeman VIM. Y. Hoagland struck,
thrown against pole and fatally hurt.
Three women injured, one perhaps
fatally, when derailed car struck troll
ley pole.
Christ Schurger struck and badly
hurt while crossing the street.
Miss Della Bryant thrown while
allighting from car and painfully hurt.
Mrs. Annie Johnson painfully hurt
in panic following burning out of a
fuse
Express wagon struck; Conrad Nor
ton and Henry Koeln thrown out; Nor
ton badly hurt on head.
Fred Ewin knocked from running
board by another car; painfully in
jured.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-28
RAN INTO FREIGHT TRAIN.
Cars and Trucks Scattered
Along Track.

Pana, Ill, Aug. 24.-The Knicker-
booker special crashed into the rear
end of the local freight at the west end
of town yesterday afternoon, demolish-
ing the day coach and three box cars.
The cars and trucks were thrown into
the air and scattered along the track
a distance of 100 yards. The engine
pilot and headlight were demolished.
Engineer James Reynolds and his fire
man jumped Reynolds sustained
broken collar bone and cash in his
nead George Nash, passenger
jumped out Of the day coach, narrow
ly escaping with his life. The train
was running 25 miles an hour. The
trouble is said 10 have been caused by
the fagman OH the local freight not
being far enough back from the train
to give the engineer on the special
enough space to stop his train. Trah1c
was delayed six hours.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-28
7 erlnessee State News
Best Yield in Years.

According to Section Director
Bate, warm weather has brought out
the crops in Tennessee, and corn es-
pecially, is in excellent condition of
growth and maturity. It bids fair
to make the best yield in years. Cot
ton is developing and fruiting well.
In some of the western counties it
is inclined to excessive stalk growth,
but the general outlook is altogether
favorable. The large crop of tobac-
co is in remarkably fine condition of
growth and some of it is ready to
be cut. Worms are reported scarcer
than ever known at this season. The
second crop of Irish potatoes has
been planted and is coming up we'll
as a rule. Sweet potatoes are in
good condition of growth. Late
peas and millet and sorghum are
growing well. Seed clover is pro-
ducing finely. Some hay was lost
on account of showery weather. Gar
den products are in good condition.
Pastures are fine and stock is in e1-
cellent condition.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-28
GIGANTIC RAILROAD SCHEME.
PInns For a Pan-American Railroad
Ten Thousand Miles Long,
Are Disclosed.

Guthrie, Okla, Aug. 24.-Plans for
a. gigantic railroad, with trunk line
connecting Hudson bay, British Colum-
bia, Buenos Ayres, South America, and
has a network of branches, was dis
closed to-day when articles of incor-
poration of the Pan-American Rail
road Co, with a capital stock placed at
$3.50, 900 600 were filed here with the
secretary of the territory. The purpose
of the corporation, it is said, is to
build a line of railway extending from
Port Nelson, Hudson bay, in souther-
ly direction, crossing the line OF the
Canadian Pacific near Winnipeg, Man,
through North Dakota, South Dakota,
Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and In
dian territory, to Galveston, Tex;
from Galveston through the Republic
of Mexico to the boundary line of Cen
trail America, through the isthmus OF
Panama, thence through the United
States of Colombia to Ecuador, and
finally through the republic of Peru to
Buenos Ayres, on the Atlantic ocean.
Also a branch line, beginning in the
republic of Peru and extending in a
southeasterly direction through Brazil
to Rio Janeiro; also branch line be-
ginning in the republic of Peru and ex-
tending in a southerly direction
through Chilli, to Valparaiso, on the
South Pacific ocean. The estimated
cost of the Pan-American railway is
$3.50 900, 900, and the estimated length
10000 miles.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-28
ONLY PARTIALLY EFFECTIVE.
Chicago Restaurant Walters and
Cooks Called Out, But the Re-
spOnse Was Not General

Chicago, Aug. 24.-Waiters and cooks
employed in several downtown lunch
rooms were called out on strike early
Monday morning. The number of men
responding to the order was small.
owing to the small forces on duty at
the time This is the first move OF
the walters and cooks union in the re-
newed fight against the Chicago Res
taurant Keepers association which,
two months ago, tied up the establish
ments controlled by them and which
resulted in the granting of an increase
in wages of ten per cent. to their en-
ployes.
Within an hour after 80 committees
led by officials of the Hotel and Restau-
rant employees alliance left their head
quarters with instructions to call out
every restaurant emplOye except those
in the few establishments which grant
ed the strikers demands last June. Ten
restaurants and lunch rooms were more
or less crippled. The cooks responded
quite generally to the strike call, but
in several places the strike was but
partially effective, many of the wait
ers refusing to walk out.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-28
THE HUMBERTS CONVICTED
Notorious French Swind1ers Are
Found Guilty and Sentenced.
Woman who Was Center of Interest
Displayed Usual Hauteur-Sur-
veyed Crowd with ScOrn.

Paris, Aug 24.-Mme. Therese Hum
bert, her husband, Frederic, and her
brothers, Romaine and Emile d'Aurig-
nae, the notorious swindlers, were,
Saturday, found guilty by a jury OF
forgery and fraud.
The court sentenced Nine Humbert
and her husband each to five years i'm
priSonment and to a hundred francs
fine. Emile d'Aurignac was sentenced
to two years Imprisonment. Roman
d'Aurignac was sentenced to three
years Imprisonment Nine. and NJ
Humbert will undergo solitary con-
finement during their term of imprison-
ment.
The expectation that the day would
bring the conclusion of the Humbert
tried renewed the intense public inter-
est in the case. The courtroom was
again crowded. Among :he throns
were a number of American lawyers
and tourists, who secured favored
places through the efforts of the United
States embassy.
The prisoners maintained the same
outward aspect of calm. Nine. Hum
bert walked in haughtily and surveyed
the crowd with scornful air.
DR.. FloQuet, who examined the pr1s-
oner before she came into court, found
her to be in good health and showing
no signs of nervous breakdown under
the strain of the elimination OF the
trial Outside the courtroom the pub
lie everywhere awaited the verdict and
discussed the prospects. The jury in
dorsed upon its verdict that there were
extenuating circumstances in favor OF
all the accused.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-28
RUMORS rife Of
MANY MASSACRES
The Entire Balkan Region Seeming
ly Given Up To the Lust of
Human Butchery.
MASSACRES BY The TURKS
And MORE BY BULGARIANS.
The Dead I'm KrushevO Still Remain
Unburied, the Survivors Fearing
to Incur the Suspicion of the
Turks-FiGhtfs = Reported at Ad-
rianOple.

Constantinople, Aug. 24.-According
to Turkish advices when the insur-
gents captured Vasliliko they killed
the garrison, consisting of so soldiers
and about 100 of the inhabitants.
The insurgents are now threatening
Midia, 60 miles northwest of Con-
stantinople, and are reported to be at
tacking the important town of Kirk
Kilioseh, 80 miles from Adrianople.
Christian, Greek and Mussulman ref
ugees have arrived at the mouth of the
Bosporus from the neighborhood OF
Midia, fearing a massacre there. They
have been sheltered and fed at Anado-
li-Kavak by the authorities.
The Italian ambassador has notified
the porte that it holds it responsible
for any injury which may be done to
the consul of Italy at Monastir, and de-
mands the punishment of those who
insulted the consul recently by calling
him a "Giaour" infideD.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-28
LORD SALISBURYS FUNERAL
The Casket Closed, But the Funeral
Will Be Delayed.
VIII Await Return From Egypt OF
Lord Edward Cecil, Fourth Son
of the Deceased.

Hatfield, Eng, Aug. 24.-Lord Sails
bury's coffin has been finally closed.
The servants and family will act as
pallbearers at the funeral, which will
be held at the end of the week, when
Lord Edward Cecil, military secretary
of the Egyptian army, and fourth son
of the deceased statesman, shall reach
England from Egypt.
Ambassador Choate telegraphed to
Hatfield expressing, in behalf OF the
American nation, sorrow for the death
of Lord Salisbury.
The text of Mr.. Choate's telegram,
which was addressed to Lord Gran
borne, was as follows:
II have heard with the deepest re-
gret of the death of your illustrious
father. The people of the United States
will sincerely sympathize with those of
England in deploring the loss of the
great statesman"
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-28
TRIALS POSTPONED.
The Cases of Senator Farris and
Smith Carried Over Until NOvem-
Der at Jefferson City, Mo.

Jefferson City, Mo, Aug. 24.-In the
circuit court, Monday, Judge Graves
continued the bribery cases of Senators
Frank H Farris and Charles H. Smith
because of the present serious illness
of Senator Farris. The Farris case
was reset for November 2 and the
Smith case for November 4. Senator
Smiths case was continued because
Farris is wanted as a witness in the
case.
The physician attending Farris ap-
peared before Judge Graves and testf-
fled that his patient is suffering from
uraemia and could not leave his bed
at this time. The continuance was
then granted at the cost of the de-
fendant.
The bribery case of Senator Mat
thews is set for August 81 before Judge
HAZEL. The defense will ask for
continuance.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-28
DOWN AN EMBANKM lent.
Wreck of a Chicago and Northwest
ern Passenger Train-One Killed
and Thirty-One Injured.

Fond Du Lac, Wis, Aug. 24.-The
Chicago & Northwestern passenger
train, from Chicago, was wrecked three
miles south of here at 2 o'clock Mon
day morning. George w. Zuhlke, OF
Fon du Lac, was killed. Conductor
Moy. of Chicago, and 80 passengers
were injured. The entire train, express
car, baggage car, two coaches and
three sleepers were thrown down 20
foot embankment.
The injured were conveyed to a
farmhouse near by, which was convert
ed into a temporary hospital. Ply
sicians were sent from this city in car
riages, and later by relief trains. All
the injured were brought to the city.
The track was torn up for 800 feet, and
traffic was suspended several hours.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-28
RETAINS TINE ALLOWANCE.
Remeasurement of Shamrock III.
Did Not Penalize Her.

Did Not Penalize Her.
New York, Aug. 24.-ShamrOck III.
was remeasured at the drydock in Erie
Basin Monday morning, after having
taken on board her cable and anchor,
as required by the rules affecting the
measurement of the cup yachts. Sir
Thomas Upton was on board. The
measurement was taken by Charles D.
Mower, official measurer Of the New
York yacht club, and watched by Mr..
Fife, representing Shamrock Ill and
by Secretary Carmack, representing the
New York Yacht club. When the meas
urement was concluded, Sir Thomas
Upton said that he had been Informed
by Mr.. Mower that Shamrock IIIs rae
ing rank had not been affected and that
it would be unchanged. 1t is pre-
sumed that sufficient weight was re-
moved to equalize the weight of the an
chor and cable.
The Reliance was taken out for
sail at ten o'clock this morning.
The new measurement shows that II
differs by only five one-thousands OF
foot. which would not affect the time
allowance more than a very small frac-
ton of a second. The time allowance,
therefore, stands at 1:57.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-28
Over a Hundred.

! Kizzie Conner is a colored woman
who lives near. Medon, in Madison
county, who was born in Halifax
county, Va, in 1898, making her
now 10 years old. She is the moth
er Of seventeen children, twelve of
whom lived to be grown. She has
seventy grandchildren, twenty great
grandchildren, and nineteen great
great grandchildren. She has been
member of the Baptist church for
eighty-fve years. No one of her de-
scendants has ever been in prison, or
charged with any infraction of the
law. Aunt Kizzie retains all her
faculties, and is as spry as many per-
sons of less than seventy years.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-28
A PECULIAR ACCIDENT.
A Thousand Men and Women Fight
FranticaIIy to Escape From an
Elevated Motor Train.

New York, Aug. PA peculiar acci-
dent, Sunday night, caused a panic on
a crowded elevated motor train bound
from Jamaica to Brooklyn. More than
a thousand men and women fought to
escape from the train which was a
sheet of fire for several minutes. The
trouble was caused by metal step on
one of the cars coming into contact on
a curve with the third rail. This short
circuited the entire train and sparks
fairly rained from every piece of metal
in the cars.
The passengers who were returning
from a day on Long Island were mad
with fright.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-28
paxx Crockett Indictment.

While looking through a pile of
court house records at the court
house in Huntington last week one
of the county officials discovered
quite a curiosity iii the shape of an
indictment found by the grand jury
of the Circuit Court for Carroll
county in the year 1920, which
charges one Davy Crockett, a citi-
zen of that county, with having
committed an assault and battery
upon the person of another citizen
not named in the indictment,
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-28
HE is WANTED IN KENTUCKY.
Frank Smith. Wanted For the Al
legged Murder of Revenue OIL
Ger. Captured in Illinois.

Bloomington, ILL.,, Aug. 23.-A special
rom Mount Pulaski to the Bulletin
states that Constable Casseway cap
tured, near there, Frank Smith, who
is wanted near Lexington, KY, for the
alleged murder of a United States rev.
enue officer and who is also charged
with murderously assaulting another
officer so that death almost resulted.
Smith has been hanging around Mount
Pulaski for some time, and has been
under suspicion. A reward for the cap
ture of Smith dead or alive has been
posted for some months He will be
held to await the arrival of Kentucky
officers.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-28
MORE STORIES OF MASSACRE.
Turks Burn Twenty-Five Villages
and Slaughter Women md
Children.

Sofia, Bulgaria, Aug. 24.-The Turks
are reported to have massacred all the
women and children in % villages of
the districts of Florida and Monastir
and afterwards to have burned the vii
lagos. They are also alleged to have
killed a number of prisoners.
4le streets of Krushevo are said to
be strewn with dead and the survivors
are afraid to bury the bodies, fearing
to incur the suspicious of the Turks.
Following the proclamation of the rev.
olution throughout the vilayet OF
Adrianople the insurgents cut all the
telegraph lines connecting the city of
Adrianople with the eastern parts of
the vilayet.
There are unconfrmed rumors here
that fighting and massacres are pro-
ceeding in the streets of Adrianople.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-28
More Cars for CIarksviIIe.

The extension of the Clarksville
street car system to that city's popu-
lar summer resort, Dunbar's cave,
three miles from town, and building
of large hotel there, will be fol-
lowed by additional new lines of
electric railway, one to the suburb of
New Providence and the other
through South Clarksville, giving to
that place one of the most complete
systems of street cars in the South.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-28
Added Us Pensioners.

The State board of pension ex-
aminers last week added forty new
pensioners to the third-class and 1856
to the fourth. The former draw
800 per annum and the latter $50
a year. One thousand two hundred
cases were reinvestigated. A num-
Der of these were ordered more thor
oughly examined into and eight were
suspended pending a very rigid ex-
animation. The board viii meet
again on the first Tuesday in No
Yember.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-28
VIII Paw Off EmpIoxes.

United States Judge c. D. Clark,
who has full jurisdiction in the af-
fairs Of the Southern Car and
Foundry Company, has suggested
that the receiver at once pay off all
employees. 1t is stated the COM
panv owes about $4,000 in wages
and no formal order was issued, as it
will not be necessary.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-28
Boundary Commission.

Gov. Frazier last week appointed
Horace VanDenrenter of Knoxville,
A. H. Buchanan of Lebanon, and
o. K. Joplin of Covington, as a COM
mission to make surveys and locate
the boundary line between Tennes-
see and Arkansas. The commission
Will report the result of their work
to the next general assembly.