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The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-27
PROCTOR ANSWERS
CHARLES EMORY SMITH
What He Says About the Attack on
Hts Report.

nus
Washington, July 26.-Chairman
Proctor of the Civil Service Commits
sion has made reply to the recent let
ter of former Postmaster General
Smith concerning the latter's attack
on his report on the investigation of
the Washington postofice, and also TO
an editorial article in the Philadelphia
Press.
Mr.. Proctor says that in his report
he was compelled to go into the ad-
ministration of the Postoffice Depart
ment. because the department made
the city postoffice at Washington a
bureau of the department. The de-
partment, and not the local postmas-
ter, he says, was responsible for civil
service violations. Mr.. Proctor quotes
the postmaster in a report on this point
as follows:
"As most of the appointments of the
| people who have in any degree vio-
lated the civil service regulations have
! been made or designated by the depart
ment it seems to me that the RESPONSE
bility for violation of the regulations
should be located with the parties dt-
recting the appointments"
People that had been proved inef-
hcient in the department had been I'M
loaded upon the postoffice on several
| occasions.
The postmaster also stated that in
his opinion, his office could have been
run with the same degree of efficiency,
but with much greater economy. If the
| department had left the personnel of
the force to his own selection.
OF Ex~Postmaster General Smith s
| statement that it was common prac-
tice to put persons into out-of-town
postofices and then transfer them to
| Washingto under the civil service, Mr..
such appointments in the latter part of
! 1897 and early part of 1898 and 124 UNI
| der Mr.. Smiths administration.
The letter then says that under Mr..
Smith the rural free delivery service
was packed, and that f1fty-six appoint
ments under il were made in the TWEEN
ty-six days prior to this service being
brought under the civil service. OF
Mr.. Smiths citation of the fact that
forty-one of a certain group of fifty
six employees mentioned in the COM
! eating that the influences leading to
these appointments were not political.
Mr.. Proctor says:
The commission has not claimed
that the influences which prompted
the numerous appointments under con-
sideration were all political; nor will
anything be found in the letter or re-
| port which necessitates an analysis on
| the basis of sex. 1t is a fact, however,
| that nearly all of the persons, men rs
| we'll as women, appointed or employed
| in evasion or contravention of the
civil service law and rules, who were
examined during the investigation,
were appointed through the influence
| of senators and representatives, or
| high officials of the Postoffice Depart
ment. Their names and the names of
the persons who urged their appoint
| ments appear in the report of the in
vestigation."
Mr. Proctor denies that he sought
exceptions to the civil service rules IN
behalf of his (Proctor's) friends, and
says he never asked any exceptions,
and that so far as he knows he has
no relatives in the classified service.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-27
LYNCHED A WOMAN
.r.eprss WAS ACCUSED OF POL
sONING A GIRL.
WAS CAUGHT BY A MOB
,~n HANGED TO A TREE, WHERE
SHE WAS SHOT.

4o steer, the Victim of the
,,isiann Mob, Denied Her Guilt
"a the Last, but the Proof Against
uer was ConcIusive-POisOn Was
administered in n Glass of Lem
,ode to the Beautiful 16-Year-
ola Daughter of John DOIan.
New orleans, July pa Picayune
snecial from Shreveport, La, says:
News reached Shreveport to-day that
q negress, Jennie Steer who admin
istered poison in glass of lemonade
n Lizzie Dolan, the 16-year-old daugh-
Ter of John Dolan, from the effects
Of which she died, was lynched by an
,rf,riated mob about shutdown last
night. The lynching occurred on the
BEARD plantation, near where the crime
was committed.
Jennie Steer was stubborn to the
last denying her crime, but the proof
against her was direct and conclusive.
II is said the negress fed from the
Dolan house as soon as her crime was
known. She was found crouching in
hay loft. The negress Indignantly
denied the crime. She was taken to
the Dolan homestead and fully identi-
fed.
The mob then took her to nearby
tree, placed a rope around her neck
and again asked her to confess. She
was stubborn to the last, however,
and was strung up without making
any admissions.
While the body was dangling in mid
air several bullets were fired into 1t
by enraged citizens.
The victim of poison was a beauti-
full young girl, who was not known
to have an enemy in the world. She
died in horrible agony, which accen-
tuated the rage of the mob
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-27
FOUR MEN CHARGED WITH
ASSAULT AND MURDER

St Louis, July 26.-Four men. Thorn
as, Nicholas and W. r. Nydem, and
William McComb, charged with hav-
ing assaulted and killed Gertie Glib
son, agred 8. at Bloomfield, were
brought here to-day for safe keeping
in the Jail, as a mob had attempted
to take the four prisoners by force at
Bloomfield and lynch them. Sheriff
Stoddard Of Bloomfield succeeded in
getting his prisoners away during the
night
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-27
COULD NOT REST WITH
BLOOD ON HER HANDS.
Young Woman Surrendered and Is
Held on a Murder Charge.

AOunS " oman surrendered and Is
Held ON "A Murder Charge.
Grand Rapids, Mich, July ga
young woman, giving the name of Mrs
Aurora Hodge, her age 10, and her
home Denison, Ia, entered the office
of Superintendent of Police Carr to-
day and said she wanted to give her.
self up, declaring that she had killed
man near Salt Lake City, Utah. on
July II, last. She said she had part
ed from her husband a few months
after their marriage, and went on The
road with a travelling medicine vendor
as his bookkeeper.
When on a lonely road near Salt
Lake City, July H." she said, "he at
tempted to assault me, and 1 shot him
with a revolver l had been carrying.
l left him in the wagon and went to
Salt Lake City to give myself up, but
my nerve failed me, and took a train
for Denison. told my brother, and
when he went to tell the authorities |
fled to Chicago. There 1 secured a po-
sition as waitress in a Spring Lake
(Mich) hotel, but could not rest with
it on my mind, so I came to Grand
Rapids to give myself up"
Mrs Hodge refused to tell the name
of the man she killed. Chief Carr is
investigating and the woman is in
Jail.
A telegram late tonight from Act
ing Chief of Police Burbridge of Salt
Lake City, Utah, to Chief Carr con-
firms Mrs. Hodges story, states that
there is a warrant for her arrest for
murder, and asks that she be held for
the Salt Lake City authorities.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-27
WRECK IN VIRGINIA.
One Man and Two Children Reported
Injured.

Injured.
Charlottesville, Va, July ga wreck
in which four ladies, one man and
two children were hurt, occurred near
Coveville twelve to fifteen miles south
of here this morning at about 10
o'clock. The wounded were brought
here about o'clock this afternoon and
treated at the University of Virginia
Hospital DIR. McGruder, railroad sur
geon, and several other physicians
We're carried to the scene of the wreck
on a special train. The surgeon and
Agent Peyton refuse to give out the
names of those wounded. 1t is learn
ed however, that none were fatally In
jured. Two ladies received broken
legs, two others We're badly shaken,
and bruised. Two children were
slightly hurt and George Powell, me-
gro fireman on one train was hurt,
probably internally, by jumping from
his cab.
All three trains were north
bound. The forward freight stopped
on account of a break down and the
passenger also stopped. The second
freight crashed into the passenger. No.
81 the fast mail, was caught north
of the wreck and is still here.
The injured are:
Mabel Burks of Nelson county, vir-
ginia, right leg broken.
Mrs. P. T. Profit of Lawrenceville,
Va, left leg broken
Ethel Hughes of Greenway, Buck
ingham county, Virginia.
Lillian Galloway of Buffalo Station,
Va, left leg fractured.
Cary Munddy, Ernest Munday, Miss
Ruby Munday of Lynchburg, Va; Mrs.
Marshall Carpenter of Fabers, Va;
Mrs. Laura Stennett of Amherst, Va;
George Powell of Alexandria, Va, and
an unknown white tramp were slightly
injured.
The accident was due to the flagnfan
of passenger train No. 10 not stopping
the freight in time to prevent a rear
end collision. The accident caused $780,
900 damage to the railroad.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-27
;ned). "Gioachino Pecci."
Gibbons Is ut Rome.
Sorrow of Canada.

Ottawa, Ont, July 26.-Sir WiIfrid
Laurier, the Canadian premier, has
addressed the following letter to the
apostolic delegate Mgr. Sbaretti, to
be forwarded to Rome:
Ottawa, Ont, July 81, 1903.-Excel-
lency l beg you to convey to his emf
hence, the Cardinal Secretary of State,
the deep sense of sorrow which has
been caused in this country by the
death of his holiness, Pope Leo XIII.
Canadians of all classes and denomi-
nations have had many reasons to an
preciate the broad, wise and enlight-
ened craftsmanship with which he
guided the church and which now calls
for the spontaneous tribute of admira-
ton of the whole world l have the
honor to be, your excellency's obedient
servant,
(Signed.) 'EWilfrid Laurier."
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-27
INTO A CROWDED CAR
A TRAIN CRASHED.
Three Persons Were Killed and a
Score Injured.

Score Injured
East ST Louis, ILL.,, July 26.-An ac-
commodation train on the Vandalia
road en- route to st. Louis ran into
well-fAled electric car on the East
st. Louis and Suburban Street Railway
near Lansdowne, three miles north of
here to-day, killing three persons and
injuring a score. The dead:
John Roy Roy, Vandalia. engineer.
]. J. Lenhardt.
David H. Beatie.
Seriously injured: Vincent Higgins,
fireman, will die.
Charles Burkhardt, motorman.
w. R. Miller, electric car conductor.
The injuries of the others were not
serious.
The crash of the collision was ter
rife and was heard a long distance.
The accommodation train was drawn
by an engine, which was backing and
was running at a good speed, when
suddenly the tender of the engine
crashed into the trolley car at the
street crossing. The car was hurled
from it's track, a mass of wreckage.
The impact caused the coaches to
break loose from the engine. They
did not leave the track. but the en-
CINE left the rails, ran about 200 feet
over the ties and turned over on its
side. Engineer Roy and Fireman Hig-
gins stuck to the engine and were
buried in it's wreckage. After being
removed Engineer Roy died at the hos
pital. Fireman Higgins is so ba tly in
jured that he cannot live. The two
were pinioned under a jet of scalding
steam and their screams were agon-
izing. When they were finally taken
out both were literally parboiled.
Beattie and Lenhardt, the two other
men who were killed, were standing
on the platform of the street car when
the crash came. They were hurled al
most thirty feet and were picked up
dead
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-27
BODY OF MISS WEEKS
HAS BEEN EXHUMED
Vital Organs Sent to Atlanta for
Analysis.

Reidsville, Ga. July 26.-The body
Of Miss Evie Weeks, who was sup
posed to have been poisoned about
three weeks ago by Rooch Barnard
near Glennville, in this county, was
yesterday exhumed, and the doctor and
coroner's jury removed her liver, kid
neys and spleen, which were forward
ed to the state chemist last night in
the custody of Judge w. B. Surrency,
where, together with the stomach. they
will be analysed.
The state chemist notified the coun-
try officials last Monday that the
chance to find poison in the stomach
alone was doubtful. and requested that
the other organs of the body be sent
dt once.
This case has created a sensation in
this section, and the county is sparing
no effort to get at the facts in the
case.
Barnard is still in jail at this place,
awaiting trial at the next session of
the Superior Court. which will be held
in October.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-27
EXCESSES REPORTED
OF THE AMERICANS

Madrid, July 26.-Reports have been
published here of excesses INDUCED in
by sailors of the United States squad
ron at Lisbon.
The Associated Press correspondent
learns from Lisbon that the affair
which gave rise to the report was quite
unimportant. and that it has been
satisfactorily adjusted
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-27
THEY WANTED TO LYNCH
A RAILROAD DETECTIVE.
Villagers Resented His Acquisition
of Evidence.

Villagers Resented His Acquisition
of Evidence.
scranton. Pa, July 26.-An attempt
to lynch John Peel, a Delaware, Lack
awsnna and Western Company detec-
tive, was made last night at Foster by
a crowd of the villagers, who were
Infatuated upon learning that he had
gained evidence which would connect a
score of the families of the village with
Wholesale thievery of brass and other
junk from the company's property.
Peel was attacked at a hotel while
waiting for a train. When the mob
made the attack with cries of lynch
him." the detective drew his revolver
and began pulling the trigger, but
there was something wrong with the
mechanism of the hammer. and the
cartridges We're not exploded.
Peel gained the waiting room, while
the mob was shrinking before his lev
elled revolver, and locked himself in.
Word was telegraphed to this city, and
a force of INVENTIVE officers was hasti-
ly recruited to be sent to the detec-
tive's rescue.
the meantime a passenger train
arrived, and the crew, acting under
telegraph orders from this city. quit
the train and after a hard fight, sue
ceeded in getting the detective on the
train.
The rlnglsader of the mob is said to
be one of the leading citizens of the
town. and 1t is said that because the
detective had gained evidence in con-
nection with the thieving which would
disgrace him and his son forever. he
gathered the mob and led them in the
numerous attack.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-27
no CoIornlo sprinrs.

Philadelphia, July 26.-George Nc
Cain, for fourteen years connected with
the editorial staff of the Philadelphia
Press, has purchased the Colorado
Springs Gazette. Mr.. Mccain Will
sever his connection with the Press on
Aug. / and assume charge OF the Ca
zette on Aug. Is. After the latter date
the Gazette will be issued as a Repub-
lican instead of a Democratic daily.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-27
DAMAGE IN LONDON
Resulted from Heavy Rains over
the south of England.

London. July 26.-Heavy rains Sat
urday night over the south of England
caused serious floods and great dam
age in London. The underground rail-
way was flooded, and many printing
rooms of London newspapers, built in
the underground district between Fleet
street and the embankment were flood
ed and unable to print Sunday editions
until late this afternoon.
The heavy rains conceded with a
high tide of the Thames, inundating
several low lying districts.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-27
A SHORT CONCLAVE
SVAMPA THINKS 1T WILL LAST
ABOUT TWO DAYS.
FIRST DISC0RDANT NOTE
IN CONNECTION WITH OBSEQUIES
OF LEO XIII.

In Santiago, Chile, Italian Count
Lowered the Flag of His Country
That Had Been HOisted in Mourn
ing-Win of the Late Pope Read
and a Part of 1t Made Public.
RampOIIa One of the Administra-
tors.
Rome, July 26.-Several thousands
of the faithful crowded st. Peters to-
day to pay tribute before the sar-
cophagus containing the remains of the
late Pontiff. on which is the following
simple inscription:
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-27
WADE IN COMMAND
OF THE PHILIPPINES.
'Nes the Place of Mai. Gen. George
w. nnr L. rn..n

NeS the Place of Mai. Gen. George
W. Davis, Retired for Age.
~. Nanlfa' July 26.-Maj. Gen. George
w. Davis has transferred the COM
.,'aiu OF the Philippines to Maj Gen.
lines F. Wade. Gen. Davis having
D7en retired for age. Gen. Davis last
ana was to review all the troops in
81, ,1oout Manila. He Will Sail 1or
man. 'ii 'ie transport 'ii9
- s records In the case Of First
F'f,t. Tenant Hamilton Foley Of the
fi,lH5 CaValry, who was court-mar-
zIen5oaoh charges involving the embez-
frsIhat OF soldiers money and other
VISA r,oisl irregularities, have been for
ind. 70 Washington. The records
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-27
WOMEN WERE BURNED
BY MEN FOR REVENGE
Fled from the Men and Sought Ref
uge in n Barn.

London, July 26.-The st. Petersburg
correspondent of the Daily Mail sends
a report to the effect that near the viii
LACE of Schalajikt in the district Of
the Don, thirty-three female field Ia
borers we're burned to death in barn,
where they had locked themselves to
escape molestation by male laborers,
who, in revenge. fired the barn ana
watched the burning without needing
the shrieks Of the victims.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-27
COLOMBIA Discusning Mind.

Bogota, Colombia, July "a, via Pan
anna, July 26.-The Colombian Congress
is discussing the creation Of mints and
the question of the adoption OF the
gold Standa I'd
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-27
THE LINE MUST STAY.
Japan Refuses Russian Request to
Move IL.

Yokohama, July pm. P'avloff, the
Russian minister to Corea, having OBJ
jected to the japanese telegraph line
from Seoul to Fusan. which was con-
structed prior to the Russian line, the
Corean government asked Japanese
Minister Hayashi 10 remove the line
The latter has declined to do so.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-27


riages. We declare that no one of
our family can claim any right in any,
thing not contemplated in the present
document, because all the other be-
longings of whatever nature which
have come to us as Pontiff, conse-
quently are, and in any case we wish
to be. the property of the Holy See.
We confide the exact execution of this,
cur disposition to Cardinals Mariana
Rampolla, our Secretary of State,
Mario -Mocenni and Serafino Cretoni.
This declaration is to be our last will.
The Vatican, Rome, this eighth day
of July, 1900.
(Signed). "Gioachino Pecci."
Gibbons Is at Rome.
Cardinal Gibbons arrived here to-
day, accompanied by Father Harvan,
his secretary. They drove to the Sui
phlan House. where mass was said.
Being tired and the hour being al
ready late, Cardinal Gibbons did not
attend the meeting of the cardinals
this morning. In the afternoon he
drove to the Vatican and paid his re-
spects to Cardinal Oreglia, who re-
ceived him most cordially. He had a
conversation with the latter in which
the camerlingo informed Cardinal Glib
bons of the leading decisions made by
the congregation with reference to the
conclave.
Cardinal Gibbons will receive no one
except cardinals until after the con-
claVe.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-27
DROWNED IN RIVER.
Two Women and Man in n Boat
That CaDsized.

New London, Conn, July 26.-Mrs. c.
T. Thorpe, Miss Anabel Rogers and
Samuel Gosel were drowned in the
Thames river north of this city this
evening by the capsizing of a pleasure
boat, while attempting to cross the
river
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-27
PRINCE A DEGENERATE.

Servian Crown Prince Not COmpe-
tent TO Take the Throne.
st. Petersburg, July 26.-A specialist
in the treatment Of backward children.
at the command of the imperial gov
eminent, examined and observed
Prince George, the eldest son of King
Peter Karageorgevitch, of Servia, dur
ing the past week and has reported
to the Emperor that the boy is de-
generate
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-27

Prince George was born in 1888. He
was reared practically under the di-
rection of the Russian court and a
report printed just after the Belgrade
tragedy said that he was educated to
occupy the throne of servia. On June
y a Berlin dispatch to the London
Times said that King Peter might abb
dictate in favor of his son.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-07-27

Company of Soldiers Surrounded the
Residence of Governor Mutis-GOv-'
ernOr and His American Wife
Had Been Warned and Escaped TO
the British COnsulnte-Ohicers of
the State We're Arrested-Ameri-
can COnsul's Dispatch Refused.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-12-09
VIGOROUS OLD AGE.

Plato died in his eightvthird year.
md his last hour was devoted to intel
lectual work.
Isocratcs was ninety-four years olo
when be wrote his famous work, "a
nathenaikus."
Terestius Varro lived to be nearly q
hundred, and he continued to write up
to the day Of his death.
Hero, king Of Sicily, lived to be
ninety, and Masinissa lived to be soli
older and ruled for sixty years.
ouintus Fabius was appointed augur
when he was past middle age, and ne
held the office for sixty-two years.
Cato Censorius transacted business
until he was nearly ninety and re-
tained to the end all his old time vlgor.
Gorgias Luntium, the teacher OF
lsocrates and other distinguished men,
was in excellent health at the age of
1O7 years.
Chrysippus began to write his work
on logic in his eightieth year. Clean
thes taught his pupils up to his ninety
ninth year.
sophocles lived to be nearly hun
dred, and during his last days he wrote
the "GHpus Coloneus," one OF the
greatest tragedies ever written.
Arganthonius began to rule when ne
was forty years old and held power
for eighty years, and in the third Door
of the "History" Asinius Polio tells
us that he did not die until he was pas'
his one hundred and thirtieth year.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-12-09
ANIMAL LANGUAGE.
Sounds Both Shrill and Low That
We Cannot Hear.

Sounds Both Shrill and Low Thaf
We Cannot Hear.
Most people suppose d mole to be
dumb, but it is not. A mole can give
a sound so shrilI that It hasn't any
effect on the human ear at all and an
other sound so low and soft that no
human being can hear it Yet Wea-
sci can hear both these sounds as plain
ly0as you can the report Of q glsa, ana
q sound registering machine-the pho
nautograph-will show them both, with
scores Of other sounds you are deaf to.
The usual note Of the mole is lew
our, which 1t uses good deal While
ut work underground, and it can also
shout at the top Of its voice if hurt or
alarmed; but, though it shouted and
purred in your ear, you wouldn't hear
It. The sound register, however, with
its delicate pencil that marks the vol
ume Of sound on a paper, gives the
quality of both sounds.
A weasel, too, which Is one OF the
mole's enemies, can hear these sounds
through q couple Of inches Of eartn
and often catches the mole when ne
throws up his hillocks Of earth. The
common field mouse, too, has pur
that is altogether beyond you, though
you can hear him squeak plainly
enough if be is hurt. A deaths head
moth, too, can squeak, but that is done
by rubbing his wings together and IS
not voice at all.
But the champion Of all creatures for
good hearing and one that can hear q
sound that is over 100 degrees beyond
your own limit is the common thrush,
and you may often amuse yourself Dy
watching him at it. BE can hear a
lobworm moving underground, locate
him by the noise and haul him out
Often you may see q thrush stano
perfectly still OH your lawn, cock MS
ear and listen intently, then make q
couple Of steps and haul out fat lob
worm. Even the startling, which IS
about the size Of a thrush, cannot 90
this, but he knows the thrush can, ana,
being a disreputable person, with NO
common honesty, he follows the young
thrushes about on their worm hunts
and steals the worms from them as
soon as they are caught-London An,
swerS
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-12-09
fro BE CONTINUED
Cause For Rejoicing.

Judge Shaw in his latter days was
reyerenced by the people OF Massa-
chusetts as If he were demigod. but
in his native county Of Barnstab}e he
was rcyerenced as O god. One winter
when the supreme court held q special
session at Barnstable for the trial Of q
capital case Judge Merrick, who was
one Of the Judges, came out Of the
courthouse just at nightfall, when the
whole surface Of the earth was cover
ed with ice and slush, slipped and fell
heavily, breaking three Of his ribs. he
was taken up and carried to bis room
at the hotel and lay on q sofa waiting
for the doctor to come. While the
Judge lay groanIng and In agony the
old ianitor Of the courthouse, who had
helped pick him up, wiped of the wet
from his clothes and said to him,
"Judge Merrick, how thankful you
must be it was not the chief justice"
Poor Merrick could not help laughing,
though his broken ribs were lacerating
his aesh.-George T. Hoar in Serb
ner'S