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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-08-10
TWO CONSTRUCTIONS
GIVEN TIE LETTER HERE

President RoOsevelt's cordial indorse-
ment Of the stand taken by Governor
Durbin of Indiana. in sending an entire
regiment Of infantry and a company OF
artillery TO Evansville. Ind, early In
July 10 suppress mob violence in con-
nection with the lynching Of one negro
and an attempt TO lynch others. has
met with hearty approval here.
II is believed that one OF the mo-
tives which inspired the writing of this
letter was the Presidents desire to cor
rect finally and Enthusiastically the er-
TCneous story given wide circulation
several weeks ago TO the effect that
Secretary Moody had said the President
had told him that lynching. under some
CircuIas stances, was justifable. Mr..
Moody utterly repudiated the alleged in
tervicW. but IL is possible that the
President. Notwithstanding this denial,
feared that the story might have been
accepted as true IN some quarters
Another suggestion is that the Presi-
dent is looking toward the executive
mansion in Indiana for Z possible run
ming mate for 1904.
The President in his letter indicates
that Governor Durbin. in one respect
Al least IS a man after his own heart.
The political advantages OF the selcG-
ton Of a Vice Presidential candidate
from the Middle West are obvious.
That no one has as yet been determined
upon by the leaders OF the party for
this honor gives Governor Durbin an
equal chance with other possibilities,
with the added advantage OF the Presi-
dents personal friendship.
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CANNIBAL BOASTS OF
MURDER OF THREE MEN
GrUeSome Tale Comes From Gulf
of Tartary.

ST. PETERSBURG. Aug. 10.-A dis
patch from the Island OF Saghalin. in
the gulf OF Tartary, tells of horrible
case Of cannibalism in the village Of
Chandassa.
a peasant woman named Kasserchi.
wife OF an exile. informed the police
that her husband had murdered three
men-Liutomsk. Selski. and Ivanoffkoe.
by name-and had eaten a portion OF
their bodies. In proof OF her story she
led the officers to a place in the garden
where Liutomsks head was buried
She declared she would have informed
the authorities sooner. but that KAISER
chi apparently suspected her and watch
ed her closely. The latter. when ar
rested, made no secret of his crime, but
admitted 1t in a boastful manner.
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RUSSIA STRENGTHENS
GRIP ON NIUCHWANG
Civil Administration Building For
mallY Dedicated.

LONDON, Aug. 1O.-Last Tuesday, says
the Times" correspondent at shang-
hal. the Russians at Niuchwang ceIe-
brated the anniversary of the capture
OF the city. \ significant feature OF the
occasion consisted in the formal invita-
ton TO the community to attend the
dedication OF the Russian civil admin
istratiOn building. which was originally
intended for the Russian consulate.
The Russian administrator, who issued
the invitations, arrived in Niuchwang
last January and announced that he
would revert TO the position of consul
after the evacuation had taken place, on
April 6. but subsequent events. says the
correspondent, are evidently considered
justification for the present intimation,
which is equivalent to a declaration to
the representatives OF the other powers
that they cannot claim footing of
equality or treaty rights at this Chinese
treaty port.
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PRISON LASH Piled
UNTIL WOMAN FALLS
White Convict in Georgia VIII
Probably De

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga, Aug. 10
Mamie De Crist, the Diamond Queen"
convict of Georgia, is likely to die as the
result of a whipping given her by War
den Alagood at the instigation of the
wife Of the latter. Mrs. Alagcod said the
De Crist woman was impertinent and
told her husband to whip her
Investigation shows that Alagood had
the woman stripped to the waist and gave
her forty lashes with a cOWhide II is
said after she had tainted the lash was
still piled. With her back bruised and
bleeding, she was sent to the field TO
work with negroes. where she again
tainted.
Superintendent Foster discovered her
and sent her TO the hospital, where she
is now at the point of death. She con-
tinually shrieked Don't pull off my
clothes; don't hit me again" The public
here is greatly agitated over the affair.
When Miss De Crist was convicted OF
procuring jewelry by means OF forged
orders, her friends said she was insane
and should be sent 10 a hospital She
is the only white woman at the convict
camp and the first white woman ever
whipped there. The prison commission is
investigating the case
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NEGRO ASSISTANTS GET
SO YEARS IN PRISON

HENDERSON, Tex, Aug 1O-Isham
Strong, a negro, surrendered Saturday
night by a mob which had taken him
from the officers for the purpose of
lyncAins him, pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to Imprisonment for ninety
nine years. He was taken to the peniten-
uary yesterday afternoon. Shortly after
the conviction of Strong a negro named
Emanuel Thomson was brought in from
Mount Enterprise, where he had at
tempted 10 assault = Miss Sparks. He
was hurried 10 the courthouse, an in
dictmcnt was returned and the trial
was proceeded with at once. The jury
returned a verdict of guilty and fixed
the penalty at ninety-nine years i'm
prisonment.
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DEATH OF JOANNA CAREY.

Joanna Carey. a sister of Mrs. John
Curtin, of 1888 II Street northwest, died
yesterday morning, at her home 2029 II
Street northwest, after an illness of sew -
eral weeks. The funeral will take place
tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. when i
mass of requiem will be chanted at St.
Stephens Catholic Church. The deceased
is survived by a brother, James Carey,
and two sisters.
Miss Carey had been a clerk in the
appointment division OF the Interior
Department since 1885. and was one of
the most popular clerks in the de-
partnent and was highly es-
teomed by the officials. She
occupied a peculiarly confidential
position in the appointment division,
and was rated one of its most valued
employees.
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TEXTILE WORKERS
GO BACK TO MILLS
Serious Break in Strikers Ranks
at Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 10.-Nearly
10000 striking cloth workers will return
to work. surrendering unconditioually 20
the textile manufacturers.
The union cloth weavers and warp and
warp dressers and some of the non-
union weaveTs, possibly $500 in all, VIII
attempt TO stop the stampede by con
tinutng the strike. but viii not be able
TO continue the struggle more than a
few days. A member OF the strikers
general executive board said yesterday:
The cloth weavers have put up 4
noble struggle. but they can't fight the
union beGmers. tWisters and loom hxers.
who are going 10 work with non-uniOn
weavers, and the manufacturers as
we'll"
The strikers general working COM
mittee met yesterday and voted to con-
tinue the strike for 55-hour work week
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LONDON EXPERTS SEEK
A CURE FOR CANCER

LONDON, August 10.-WhiIe the eX-
cancer through the medium of the X
rays are convinced that they are upon
the right track, the assertions made liz
certain quarters that the cure has been
discovered are. to put the matter mildly.
premature. Because cancer in Great
Britain is second only to consumption
in its destrUctiveness TO human live
everything published concerning possible
remedies is read with tense interest by
a large part Of the people. Under such
circumstances no one is more anxious
than the investigators that false hopes
shall not be raised by stories of perform
ance where only promise has been OBJ
tanned
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BOSTONIANS AWAIT
THE ENGLISH GOLFERS
Conditions on Myopia Links
Favorable to Them.

BOSTON. Aug. 10.-The committee
men OF the United States Golf Associa-
tion and the Massachusetts Golf Associa-
tion waiting TO receive the Oxford and
Cambridge GOlfng Societies team, we're
on guard throughout yesterday, but no
news came of the steamer Mawflower
on which the team are passengers. The
steamer is a new one in the Dominion
Line feet. and, as she is in spick and
span condition and this is only the
third trip. it is not thought that any &C
cident has occurred to delay her, except
the grounding after leaving Liverpool
G. Herbert Windeler. president of the
United States Golf Association, Joined
Messrs. Ballou and Heetener yesterday.
II the Mayfiower gets in today Mr.. Win
deler said that no changes would be
made in the arrangements for the
matches OF tomorrow and Thursday. The
team would be taken at once to the
Myopia Hunt Club, so that the visitors
could get some practice for the match
against the intercollegiate Golf AssO-
citation on Tuesday. The conditions most
against the players from Great Britain
in playing here, a thin covering of turf
over a hard ground, with fast, parched
putting greens, are not now present,
for ii has been raining here for practi-
caIly a week, and the Myopia and Essex
county links are in beautiful turf. The
grass is thick and verdant, and, instead
of the usual dry midsummer cOndi-
tions, the courses the two matches
are to be played on, are now much like
the inland courses Of England, a state
OF things that will be worth a stroke a
hole 10 the Oxford and Cambridge men.
r Badge Kerr, who left New York on
Saturday with his wife in an automobile,
arrived this afternoon. a stop overnight
having been made at Springfield. He is
I the former secretary Of the United
States Golf Association, and has come
TO Boston TO Join its reception com
mittee.
w. c. Chick and C. Owen Winston,
two Of the Harvard players on the IN
! tercolleRiate team, are at MyOpia Tor
practice. None of the others of the
team appeared at the links, but y.
Stewart Campbell, OF Yale, reached Bos-
ton yesterday afternoon. On account OF
I the delay in the arrival Of the May
/ flower. he thought il probable that the
/ intercollegiate team would be able 10
/ play X. Chandler Egan, the IN
/ tcrcolleg iate champion, and Walter
| E Egan. who won the West
/ ern championship on Saturday at
/ Cleveland.
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REFINED GIRLS WANTED
AS CHORUS WOMEN

NEW YORK. Aug 1O--Sam S Shu-
bert, theatrical manager. IS arranging
10 recruit for the musical comedies OF
his firm and that Of Nixon & thinner
man, of Philadelphia. 500 chorus girls
from cities all over the country. Within
few days fourteen Offices will be open
and signing will begin. The idea is %
find intelligent and beautiful women Of
good social position Some time ago Mr..
Shabert took into his company several
well-bred women. Immediately he dis
covered that they made better chorus
girls than those recruited from a less
favored class.
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PHlLANTHROPlST DODGE
DIES I'M BAR HARB0R

NEW YORK, Aug. 10.-After a pro.
longed Illness, William E. Dodge. a phi
lanthropist. died yesterday afternoon at
his summer home IN Bar Harbor He
left his residence, 262 Madison Avenue
in this city. last Nay. complaining of
poor health, and had teen failing steadi-
ly ever since. Only his wife and his cid
est daughter were with him, his two
other daughters. Mrs. Osborn and Nav
Dodge. being abroad. Born In this city
February Is. 1892, Mr.. Dodge followed
closely in the footsteps of his father,
William Earle Dodge, whose gifts 20
charity we're said 70 exceed those OF any
other citizen of the metropolis.
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SHOT PRETTY WAITRESS
WHO HAD STRUCK HIM

CLARIFIED, Pa, Aug. 1G.-Esther
Murphy. a pretty waiter at the Ale
gheny House. was shot and dangerously
wounded by a young man named Vain
wright. of Benazette. Elk county. in the
lobby Of the hotel yesterday morning.
Wainwright carried an insulting note TO
the girl yesterday, it is alleged. and
she struck him. He was ordered from
the house, but returned this morning
and awaited an opportunity to see the
girl.
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MOB IN MISSISSIPPI
LYNCHES A MURDERER

HATTIESBURG. Miss. Aug. 1O.-A ne
gro named Amos Jones was hanged by
a mob here Saturday night for shoot
ing and mOrtaIIy wOunding JaiIer VI. NJ
Sexton. Jones and another negro, Nc
Elroy. prisoners, seized Sexton, intend
ing TO break from the jail McElroy
threw Sexton down, and two white
youths. also prisoners. held him, and
Jones shot him. inficting three Wounds.
deputy and thers-Overpowered three
OF the prison BIS. but McElroy ESCAPED
and has not been caught
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NEW EVIDENCE SHOWS
CONVICTS INNOCENT

louisville. Aug. TO- - Six young
men. two OF whom are from Buffalo, n.
Y, and the others from Allentown, who
are serving terms of ten years IN Jail
for robbing the residence of Jacob
Baker here. are now believed by the
authorities 20 be innocent. New evil
dence has been found in their case. The
accused men have served three years In
jail and two of them have become insane
by broOding over their troubles. An ef-
fort will be made to obtain the pardon
OF all
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MILES RETIREMENT
DELIGHTS GEORGIANS

ATLANTA. Aug. lob. NJ. Blackburn,
secretary of the executive department.
Saturday had the State capitol deco
rated with fifty confederate flags and a
photograph of all the generals of the
confederate army. in celebration Of the
retirement of Nelson A. Miles, as COM
mander- inc chief Of the United States
army. II was General Miles who placed
the shackles on Jefferson Davis, the
former president OF the Confederacy. at
Fort Monroe, and as he now no longer
heads the army Mr. Blackburn desired
TO celebrate the event.
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HER HEART REMOVED,
MISS TOOMEY LIVES
Organ Exposed Without the Chest for
Two Minutes.

ST. LOUIS, Mo, Aug 10. - Alma
Toomey, the pretty thirteen-year-old
girl who was stabbed by Thomas Barnes.
aged hfty-twO, and whose heart was ex-
posed by city hospital physicians and
removed from the cnest cavity Tor fully
two minutes Saturday. is still alive and
the hospital superintendent thinks she
has a splendid chance OF recovery.
Although the operation performed on
Miss ToOmey has been attempted only
eleven times, and has resulted success
fully less than half dozen times il is
believed that her naturally robust con-
stitution will enable her 10 recover.
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R0UMARIAN SOVEREIGN
VISITS FRANCIS JOSEPH

VIENNA. Aug 10-Carl. King of Pou-
mania, arrived at Ischi yesterday, and
had an interview with Emperor Francis
Joseph, NJ. Goluchowski, the Austrian
premier, being present.
II is supposed that the situation in
the Balkans was the subject Of the dis
cussion. The Emperor will return here
on Wednesday. One explanation of the
Macedonian outbreak given here is that
Hilmi Pasha ordered the arrest Of every
Bulgarian suspect, with the result that
hundreds fed to the hills and forced
the hand of the inner revolutionary or
ganiZation.
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WILL IMPORT BUGS TO
DESTROY PLANT PESTS
Parasites Which Extermnate Scales on Orange
Trees.

Considerable attention is being given
by officials of the agricultural Depart
Only those of a useful variety are
brought in. Many of them seem to
service in destroying plant pests.
Among the most important OF the bug
importations is that of the lady bird,
which is intended to destroy the San
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PRESIDENT SPEAKS
FORLAW ANDORDER

torture IN order to punish crimes Of an
ordinary type.
Surely no patriot can fail to see the
fearful EQUALIZATION and debasement
which the indulgence Of such a spirit and
such practices inevitably portend. Surely
all public men, all writer's for the daily
press, all clergymen. all teachers. all
who in any way have a right to address
the public should with energy unite to
denounce such crimes and to support
those engaged in putting them down
LAS a people we claim the right to
speak with peculiar emphasis for free
dom and for fair treatment of all men
without regard to difference of race,
fortune. creed. or color. when We com
nit or condone such crimes as these OF
which 1 speak
Nation Like Individual.
The nation. like the individual. can
not commit a crime with impunity. If
We are guilty Of lawlessness and brutal
violence. whether our guilt consists in
active participation therein or in mere
connivance and encouragement, We shall
assuredly suffer later on because Of
what we have done. The cornerstone of
this republic. as of all free govern
ments, IS respect for and obedience to
the law.
Where We permit the law to be de-
fed or -evaded. whether by rich man or
poor man. black man or white, we are
by just SO much weakening the bonds Of
our civilization and increasing the
chances of its overthrow and OF the
substitution thereof or a system in
which there shall be violent alterna-
tions of anarchy and tyranny"
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Jose scale. There were thirty OF these
insects imported, but only two survived
These have multiplied until there are
now 1000 ladybirds engaged in exter-
minating the San Jose scale
From South Africa a small! parasite
has been imported which destroys the
black scale of the California orange
groves. Within q few years 1t is be-
lieved the black PARTICLES observed in
that fruit will disappear.
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FORTUNE IN BUSTlE
LOST ON A TRAIN

ST. PAUL, Mimi. Aug. 10.-Mrs.
August Vanelerke, Of Shawnee. Kan, has
reported to the station authorities that
she had lost hustle containing 81, 800 on
the way to st. Paul on a Rock Island
train. Mrs. Vanclerke, who Is well ad-
vanced in years. said that she feared To
leave her money in a bank. and thought
that it would be safe If she sewed it in
her hustle This she did. and then start
ed on a journey to Pierce, MINI. to visit
her son-in-law
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FOXHALL KEENE LOST
100000 IN STREET

NEW YORK. Aug. 10. - Foxhall P.
Keene. son of James r. Keene. returned
from England yesterday. Have there
been any more failures in Wall Street p
was his first question. Il feel the fail
ure Of T. J. Taylor & Co. very much.
I have big interests in the firm 1 lost
100000, but that is a mere bagatelle."
Mr.. Keene is going TO Saratoga. He
was enthusiastic over the prospects of
his twelve two-year- Odds in England.
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EMPEROR ACCEPTS
PREMIER'S RESIGNATION

LONDON, Aug. 1O.-The Vienna cor
respondent of the Times" says that
Emperor Francis Joseph has accepted
the resignation of the Hungarian pre-
mier, Count Khun Hedervary, and his
cabinet The Austrian premier, Dr. Won
korher. visited the country house of NJ.
dc Sell. the Hungarian ex-premier. yes
terday, and it is assumed that an at
tempt is being made to induce II. de
Sell to return to power
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EARTHQUAKE SHAKES
CITY OF LISBON

LISBON. Aug 10.-A violent earth
quake shook Lisbon and vicinity at eight
minutes past 10 last night. The durz-
ton Of the shock was two seconds. 1t
produced a great panic, and some dam
age. but no fatalities have yet been re-
ported.
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WASHINGTON STATE MEN
GATHER FOR LYNCHINC

TACOMA, Wash. Aug. 10. E.
Brown, a real estate broker at Coifax,
yesterday shot and fatally wounded
Thomas TurnbOw, real estate agent OF
Garfield. a mob is forming at Car
field. and If Turnbow dies. as is expect
ed, Brown viii be lynched. The shoot
ing was cold-blooded, and occurred in
front of a hotel.
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AGROUND IN ALASKA.

TACOMA, Wash. Aug. 1O.-When The
steamship ST Paul left Nome ten days
ago, United States Senators Nelson of
Minnesota, Patterson of Colorado. and
Dillingham; OF Vermont. were on board.
At last accounts they were stuck OF a
sand bar in Yukon river, 200 miles above
Nulato.
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CRATER OF VESUVIUS
DISPLAYS ACTIVITY

NAPLES. Aug. 1O.-Yesuvius had yes
terday a recrudescence of activity. The
central crater kept hurting scoriae to
an unusual height. accompanied by loud
rumbIings.
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Letter to Governor Durbin
of Indiana, Commends
That Officials Attitude In
Recent Riots.
AS Remedy for Violence the
Chief Executive Urges
That Law Be Speedily APP
piled to Criminals.

OYSTER BAY, N Y, Aug. 1o.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt has written a letter to
Winfield T. Durbin, governor Of Indiana.
commencing that officers attitude in the
recent race riots in the Hoosier State.
The President takes occasion to express
his own views upon the dangerous eff
feet OF mob violence.
He points out the peculiar vehemence
OF mobs when negroes are the victims.
He asserts that lynching. which is the
penalty for rape ana murder by mob
law, will be extended TO apply to other
causes if not checked. Asserting that
mob violence is only another form OF
anarchy and the fOrerunner Of tyranny,
the President declares that il must tend
TO weaken the nation and increase the
chances Of its overthrow.
Law Should Be Speedy.
AS remedy for mob violence and
ilynching, which he says are increasing
lalarmingly, the President urges that
the law shall be applied to all criui-
mails speedily and surely. though not with
out regard 10 the substantial rights OF
the accused men to a fair trial. The
President continues:
This matter OF Iynching would be a
terrible thing even II II stopped with the
lynching OF men guilty Of the inhuman
and hideous crime OF rape; but, as a mat
ter Of fact, lawlessness Of this type never
does stop and never can stop In such
fashion Every violent man in the com
nunity is encouraged by every case of
lynching IN which the Iynchers 20 IN
punished to himself take the law into his
own hands whenever it suits his own
convenience.
Spirit Of Torture Crows.
''In the same way the use of torture by
the mob IN certain cases IS sure TO
spread until it is applied more or less
indiscriminately in other cases. The
spirit Of lawleesness grows with what II
feeds on, and when mobs with impunity
lynch criminals for one crime they are
certain to begin TO lynch real or alleged
criminals for other causes. In the recent
cases Of Iynching over three-fourths were
not for rape at all. but for murder, at
tempted murder. and even less heinous
offenses.
Moreover. the history Of these recent
cases shows the awful fact that when
the minds Of men are habiluated to the
use Of torture by lawless bodies to
asenge crime OF a peculiarly revolving
description other lawless bodies Will use
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Sewing Machine Renting & Repairing
Auerbach. & H, Domestic Office, Phone Z. 722
Disappeared Into Workhouse.

The police last night were called upon TO
locate Joseph Chatham, negro, who was re-
ported as missing from his home at rs Cab
bage Alley since Friday last This disappear
anee was easily explained, when il was learned
THAT Chatham is a workhonse prisoner
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I. A Caldwell, James Watson and Elias
King, living at 232 Reeves Court northwest, are
each and seYeraliy regretting the untimely visit
Of some unknown person TO their donaicile some
time yesterday, after which each was shy a
quantity Of clothing
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James Curry. fifty years old. a guest at the
Mount Vernon Hotel, at ISL Pennsylvania Ave
nue. was taken Ill in his room early this morn.
ing, and was taken TO the Emergency Hospital
IN the ambulance