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The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-02
\: ADY FOR RIFLEMEN
sEA GRIT MECCA OF HUNDREDS OF
MAREkSMEN.
TOURNAMENT OPENS TO-DAY.
WHEN MATCHES WILL BE CON-
FINED TO rs COMPETITORS.

shooting in the National Trophy
Match Will Take Place Tuesday
and Wednesday-Mnny Teams on
the Range and Individual Rifle
men Coming by Every Train.
Many Matches to Be Started ON
Opening Day-HyOscOpe Damaged
But May be Fixed.
Sea Girt, N. j., Sept. 1.-The moon
shone brightly tonight upon the Sea
Girt range, raising the hopes of hun
dreds of expectant rifiemen that to-
morrow, the opening day of the thirty
first annual meeting of the National
Rinemens Association of America, the
twelfth annual meeting of the New Jer-
sey State Rife Association and the
fourth annual meeting of the United
states Revolver Association will dawn
bright and clear.
The members of the several teams
took advantage of the opportunity af-
forded this afternoon by clearing
skies to engage in work before the tar
gets and make up for time lost by the
almost ceaseless fall of rain since last
Thursday.
Interest centers in the national
match for the trophy presented by the
Congress of the United States. The
national match has absorbed the Hill
ton trophy match and the interstate
match of former years.
The famous Hilton trophy will be
atA-a lad a.
terstate trophy, The Soldier of Mara
thon," as third prize in the national
match. The following are the entries
in the national trophy match: New
York, Massac husetts, Vermont, Con-
necticut, New Jersey Ohio, District of
Columbia, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,
Georgia, Michigan, United States army,
United States navy and the United
States Marine Corps.
General regret was expressed when
1t was announced tonight that the
Hyoscope, which Lieut.. Jones imported
from England, is at the Custom House.
New York, in a badly damaged condi-
ton. The device is one by the use
OF Which a rifleman, himself concealed,
can obtain good sight of aim accu-
rately at an enemy. 1t was intended
10 make it one of the features of the
--'NSNA4io' AL ClLOlI Will DG IIldQG 10
have the damage repaired before the
close of the meeting
Although firing will begin tomorrow
morning and continue throughout the
day in twenty-five individual conpeti-
IONS, no results in connection there
with will be reached until late next
week, as the events are re-entry
matches, each competitor being per-
mtted to shoot as many times as he
desires on payment of an entrance fee.
On Thursday the interstate regI-
mental match, the Columbia trophy
match and the New Jersey National
Guard team match will take place, and
on Friday the Wimbledon cup match
and the competition open to the in
spectors of rifle practice. The skirmish
team match and the revolver team
match are set for Saturday.
These events are on the programme
for next week:
Monday-Leech cup, inter-club and
company team matches.
Tuesday and Wednesday-The ma
tional trophy match.
Thursday-Carbine team, Tyro COM
pany team and veteran matches.
Friday-The Dryden team match.
Saturday-The Presidents match for
the military championship of the Unit
ed States
The annual meeting of the National
Rifle Association of America will be
held here Thursday evening, Sept TO-
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-02

Pekin, Sept. IA telegram has been
received hare announcing that the
steamer Stanley Dollar, formerly a
Danish vessel but now owned by an
American, sent by a Russian company
from Tien Tsin 10 Yongampho, at the
mouth Of the Yalu river, Corea, for "a
cargo 81 lumber from the Russian con-
cession Of the Yalu river, was prevent
ed from entering the port OF Yongamp-
no by a japanese gunbOat, whose COM
mander said Yongampho was not an
open port and that foreign vessels had
no right 10 enter.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-02
WILL PAY IN FULL
IF RECEIVERS GET OUT.
Proposition Made Creditors OF
oliver Refining Co.

OlfVer Remn1DE Co.
Norfolk, Va, Sept. lat a meeting
of the creditors of the Oliver Refining
Company, which recently failed for
over $3.50, 1000. held here to-day, a propo-
sition was submitted by the company
to pay it's liabilities dollar for dollar if
the receivers appointed by Judge Wad-
dill were withdrawn, and the COM
pany allowed to resaHne operations.
The proposition is that Thomas Oil
yer of Lockport. N. Y, and William
Oliver of Lincoln Neb., brothers of
John Oliver. president of the company,
agree to furnish 100000 cash at once,
and assume all the other liabilities,
giving notes at one, two and three
years. secured by deeds of trust upon
the plant here. and their own personal
and real estate. life insurance except
ed.
The divers also agree to defray all
cost of the court proceedings. as well
as to furnish the compensation to be
received by Receivers Edward l..
Flash and p. l.. Stephens of Norfolk
The creditors adjourned to meet Fri
day in New York. when the matter
will be settled.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-02
HUNG TO TOW LINES
WAITING FOR WIND.
Another Attempt at Race n nis-
mai Failure.

New York, Sept. 1.-The third at
tempt to sail the third and probably
hnal race of the series for the Ameri-
cas- cup was a failure to-day. There
was not wind enough to make it worth
While to send the yachts across the
line A small fleet of excursion steam
ers poorly patronized, and a few steam
yachts conveyed the racers to Sandy
Hook lightship and then hopelessly
waited for a fair sailing breeze.
A heavy pail of haze and mist hung
over sea with surface like glass.
An absolute calm was varied at inter-
walls by faint drafts of wind from
the southeast and southwest. Reliance
and Shamrock III never dropped their
tow lines, but with mainsails and
club topsails set. circled in ghostly
fashion about and through the feet.
At lao the committee tug Navigator
signalled that the start would be post
poned until later in the day. An ex-
cursion steamer pursued Shamrock III,
her band playing THE Wearing of the
Green" to relieve the monotony of the
long wait. c. oliver Iselin impatiently
paced the deck of the Reliance and De-
signer Fife was the center of a little
group of sailing advisers on Shamrock
III.
There was no sign either of wind or
lifting of the foggy haze when, at 1890,
the Navigator asked the assent of the
racing shippers to a postponement and,
securing it, signalled that the race was
off, and another attempt to sail would
be made t morrow. The discouraged
fleet quickly started for home.
Wind for TO-day's Race.
New York Sept. 1.-The wind
at Sandy ook at midnight was
from the west two miles an
hour The sky was partly cloudy, the
atmosphere hazy, and the sea smooth.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-02
Is TRYING TO STOP
NEGRO SCHOOLS MONEY

Montgomery. Ala, Sept 1.-Repre-
sentative Wood introduced in the Ala
bama Legislature to-day a bill which
seeks to take from the Tuskegee Nor
NAL School of which Booker r. Wash
ington is the head, the annual appro-
priatlon of 81. 500 which it receives from
the state agricultural fund. The same
bill seeks also TO deprive the Negro
Normal College al Montgomery OF ST.
600 from the same source Mr. Wood
is resident OF the town where the
Tuskegee school Is located The bill
was referred TO tae Committee on Ed
ucatiOn.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-02
STOCKMEN COMBINE
TO FIGHT BEEF TRUST
Have Organized Company with
Capital of 81, 900, 900.

Kansas City, Mo, Sept. Twenty
five stockmen from different parts of
the Western grass country met in this
city to-day and arranged to perfect
the organization of a packing COM
pany to compete with the alleged pack
ers' trust.
The new company was named the
Independent Packing Company. Arti-
cles of incorporation will be drawn and
signed tomorrow. The company will
have a capital stock of S7,000,000 and
will be incorporated under the laws Of
Arizona OF the total capitalization
81 per cent. will be so disposed of ds
to be held in escrow by the board Of
directors of the company. This will
insure stockmen who interest them
selves in the plan that the company
will always be controlled by stock in
terests.
The Independent Packing Company
will build one plant in the Missouri
valley Another plant will be built
later, probably in Texas.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-02
Up. MORGAN SHAKEN UP.

New York, Sept. III. p Morgan,
on his way from his yacht, the Cor
sair, this evening was the victim of
carriage accident. At Tenth avenue
and Thirty-sixth street, the driver of
his brougham drove the horse and We
hicle into an excavation. Mr.. Morgan
was not injured. He left his carriage
and proceeded in a car.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-02

Milwaukee, Wis. Sept. 1.-Three men
were suffocated by sewer gas in the
North avenue sewer near the Chicago
and Northwestern track to-day. The
dead:
r. J. Hickey, sewer contractor.
Supt. Schunke of the city water de-
partment.
Colored man, name unknown.
Contractor Hickey and his men were
at work in the sewer in North avenue
under the newly depressed track and
were overcome by gas and died before
they could be rescued. Several othrs
had narrow scapes.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-02
PARDON FOR MAMIE DECRIS.
VIII BE Considered by Prison Com
mission Next Week.

Atlanta, Sept. 1.-Along with other
applications for executive clemency the
Prison Commission will take up next
week the applications for pardon for
Mamie DeCris of Savannah. sentenced
for two years for thefts of diamonds
and jewelry. There are petitions in her
behalf from Irwin, Sumter, Muscogee
and several other counties in the state,
behalf. The opinions on the subject
are various
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-02
Flood Caused Bankruptcy.

st. Joseph, Mo- Sept 1.-The R. T.
Davis Mill and Manufacturing Com
pany, with a branch house at Kansas
City, was declared bankrupt to-day and
Charles F, Enright was appointed re-
ceiver. The officers of the company say
1t sustained heavy losses in the Kan
sas City flood. the branch there having
been submerged. Liabilities are said
to be about $350000, with assets, in
Guiding plant. $500 coo. The heaviest
creditors are local banks and capital
lists
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-02
LytIe out ON Bond.

Montgomery Ala. Sept. l.-Willlam
r. Lyle. who has been In Jail here
pending the decision Of the United
States Court OF Appeals on the denial
OF a writ Of habeas corpus for his re-
lease from the custody Of the local
chief Of police by the United states
District Court, was released to-day by
Judge Thomas @. Jones on 81. 900 bond
Lyle Is wanted In Chicago on a charge
OF assault 10 murder a negro.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-02
DOC BACON RESPITED.

Richmond, Va, Sept. 2.-Gov. Mon
tague, this morning shortly after mid
night. respited Doc Bacon, colored, I'M
til next Friday, after talking with Mr..
Rahily, counsel for the prisoner. The
negro was to hang at daybreak.
Finch the other convicted negro, will
hang. Both were convicted Of at
tempted criminal assault.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-02
Released Prisoner Died of .Jov.

San Juan, +. r., Sept. Jose Mar
rero, a non-leprous patient who was
liberated from the leper colony as q
result OF the recent investigation, died
to-day OF heart disease. superinduced
by JOY at his release. The probing into
the leprosy scandal continues 20 pro-
duce unpleasant developments. The
public report Of the committee Of the
executive council investigating the
matter VIII be made next week
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-02
LUMBER FREIGHT RATES
Discussed by RniIrOad Men, Among
Them savnnnahians.


Washington, Sept. 1.-Oficials of sew
eral Southern railroads met to-day to
revise the schedule of lumber freight
rates for the South and West, and for
general discussion of railway mat
tiers in the South. Those who attend
ed the meeting were General Traffic
Manager E. B. Cost, Seaboard Air Line;
Vice President w. A. Winburn, Cen
trail of Georgia; Vice President w. d.
Hines Louisville and Nashville, and
Vice President j. M. Culp, Southern.
The railroad officials also discussed
the question of complaint made
against various Southern railroads re-
garding an increase in rates precipi-
tated by the complaint filed by the
Georgia Saw Mill Association filed With
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Both the complaints and the answers
Of the several railroads involved have
been made public.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-02
TWO Negroes to BE Hanged.

Petersburg, Va, Sept. ANDREW
Finch and Dock Bacon, negroes, SEN
fenced to hang for attempting to Grim
inally assault Mrs. G. f. Geochegan.
We're taken TO Boydton to-day, and will
be hanged there tomorrow. Finch has
made a statement generating Bacon
from all knowledge of the crime. Ba
con was convicted upon Finchs testi-
mony Gov. Montague has refused to
interfere with the sentence of the court
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-02
JELKS TALKS OF PEONAGE.
Says Georgia Has Not Escaped
Crime But Escaped NOtoriety.

Montgomery, Ala, Sept. lin his
message to the Legislature which met
to-day, Gov. Jelks dwelt at length on
peonage in Alabama, condemning those
guilty Of the crime and deploring the
wide publicity given them by the
press. He declared that conditions
here have been greatly exaggerated.
In Georgia, he said. similar cases
have been tried. the guilty convicted
and no great hue and cry has been
aroused about them. While Georgia
has not escaped the crime, IL had es-
capped the notoriety which had been
given Alabama.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-02
LETTER CARRIERS
DID NOT DEFEAT LOUD.
Keller Wants National Officers
Away From Washington.

Away From Washington.
Syracuse, n. Y, Sept. lin his an
nual report. President J. c. Keller CT
the National Associa ton of Letter Car
riers took up the charge that Chairman
Loud. of the Postofiice Committee of
the House Of Representatives was de-
feated by w. j. Wynne. through efforts
of the carriers, denying that the OFF,
GERS of the national association had any
connection whatever with the defeat
of Loud. who was opposed to the car
riers' salary bill.
He suggested that hereafter twelve
instead of sixteen annual assessments
be made in the mutual benefit branch
Of the order. The branch, he said had
$4,000 assets in a reserve fund. He
recommended that the officers of the
association be removed from Washing
ton to avoid professional lobbyists.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-02
MEASURE FOR COURTS
TO Determine DAMAGE
Senior Quesada COrrects Report of
Havann's Mortality.

New York, Sept. 1.-At the second
days session of the International Con-
gressl of actuaries, Carroll D. Wright,
United States commissioner of labor,
said: During the last three or four
years I have been frequently asked
to furnish a rule or measure of dam
age to be applied when man is kill
ed in some mechanical trade
The courts are without the rule and
l am unable to supply it. 1 think,
however, that with the assistance of
actuarial skill such a rule may be
supplied so that we may have fairly
correct tables showing the expectancy
of life in the various trades.
A telegram from Senior Quesada, the
Cuban minister at Washington, was
read denying the accuracy of Mr.. Hoff-
mans statement regarding mortality
of Havana. Senior Quesada said sta
tistics showed the mortality to be at
the annual rate of twenty per 1000
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-02
Parlss Gnve sIO.onO nam.

New York. Sept. 1.-Recorder Con.
having refused TO accept bail to-day for
Sam Parks on the ground that II would
be discourteous to Justice Sewell OF the
Supreme Court, who granted the GER
tihcate of reasonable doubt, Parks was
taken before Justice Amend, in the
Supreme Court. and released In $4,000
hail
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-02

Evansville, Ind. Sept. Twelve
hundred stationary engineers are here
IN national convention, representing the
organization ia every state IN the I'M
ion. Washington, Richmond, Va, and
Los Angeles, CAL, are making
hot race for the next convention.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-02
GLASS Works Rcsume WORK.

Richmond. Va. Sept. 1.-The South
ern Glass Works, after a two months
smut down, will start work tomorrow
morning, 20 continue in operation day
and night until July !, 1904. The force
OF hands will be the same az that Of
last season, about $50. men and boys.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-02

Rome, Sept. i-The Russian govern
ment has Informed lRly that Portu-
Rlese win be appointed as the third
arbitrator Of The Haaie court 90 ad-
Judge the Venezuelan laims.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-02

Charlotte, N. c., Sept. 1.-Engineor
II. w. Lucas was killed and Fireman j.
~ Stafford was fatally scalded this
afternoon by an accident on the Nor
folk and Western near Winston-Salcm.
The accident was caused by several
cars breaking from freight train and
running back down the grade into the
train handled by the injured men. None
OF the passengers were injured.
Fireman Died Later.
Roanoke. Va, sept Fireman stat
ford died ~ his injuries tonight. Both
victims Of the accident lived in this
city.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-02
SEWER GAS KILLED THREE.

are various
Evening journal., 1903-03-27
ON EAST SEVENTH STREET
What This Resident Says
Is of Infinite
Value

When old-time residents and highly
respected people Of Wilmington make
statements like the following, they
must carry conviction to every reader.
Mrs. Albert Bannan. No. SIG Eass
Seventh street, says: Il had kidney
complaint for five years. l tried differ
ent so-called kidney cures and con-
suited doctors. but got no relief. l was
so bad at times that could scarcely
attend to my household cares. The pain
in my back was all but continual. and
often kept up after l had gone to ped
When / arose in the morning | felt
lame and sore. Doan's Kidney Pills
came to my notice through reading
the home papers, and thinking they
might give me relief. went to Dam
forth's drug store and got a box. l
was not disappointed in the results
for they took right hold and soon
brought me out all right My husband
also used them for backache and was
benefited"
For sale by all dealers. Price 81
cents. Foster-Milbun Co. Buffalo, N
Y, sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name-Doan's-and
take no substitute.
Evening journal., 1903-03-27
WHY OUR WARSHIPS
DO NOT CO To KILL

Berlin, March 27.-President Rooso-
yelts non-acceptance OF Emperor viii
'iams invitation for the American
North Atlantic Squadron to visit Kiel
creates some surprise, notwithstanding
the official explanation from Washing
ton that the object of the squadron's
Transatlantic trip was for drill only.
For the purpose Of preventing mis-
contraction, semi-official statement
has been issued, announcing that Mr..
Roosevelt received the Emperor's inti-
nation that the squadron would be
welcome at Kiel with pleasure and sat-
isfaction, but that the visit 70 Europe
had been in the meantime abandoned
for technical reasons which had no
connection with the Emperors COM
munication to Mr.. Roosevelt.
The suggestion that the Invitation
was refused is. according 10 the state
ment, absolutely false. Similar invita-
tions were issued to all the European
naval powers.
Evening journal., 1903-03-27
COLORED MEN RAID
DOVER HEN HOUSE
John w. Davis Accuses Will
liam Hammond With Steal
ing Nine of His Fowls
Special to the Evening Journal.

Dover, March 27.-There have been no
persons sentenced TO the whipping post
by The. Superior Court of Kent county for
nearly two years, but It seems now that
colored persons around Dover are making
up for lost tims. Yesterday William Ham
ilton colered, was arrested by Constable
Williams and held for court. charged with
stealing nine hens from John w. Davis,
a well-known farmer who lives near
Dover.
Hamilton is q notorious chicken thief,
and has often been sentenced by the New
Castle county courts. He Acknowledged
that he stole the chickens and said that
he gave part of them to Mary Fisher, also
colored. The colored woman was found
and she said that she had taken the
chickens to Dover, where she had sold
them. She was held as an accompllce, but
was let out on bail. Hamilton said that
he had thrown the remainder of the
chickens he had not given to Mary Fisher
into the creek, but the creek was searched
and the chickens were not found. An
other colored man who lives near town Il
being watched and 1t is thought that h
Is also one Of Hamilton's accomplices.
Evening journal., 1903-03-27
NEW CASTLE OFFICIALS
MEET READING COMPANY

New Castle. March 27.-The repre-
of the City Council, Board OF
Trade and Trustees of the Commons
met President Bryson, of the Brylgdon
Steel Company, of Reading, Pa, yes
terday, and inspected the ground for
the proposed new steel plant. The
building proposed win be GIG feet in
length by 65 feet wide, and the prop
erty covers 16 acres. The entire plant
is valued at S250,O0O.
Frank Deli. Janvier, owner Of the
property, has offered to grant a right
of way 40 feet wide for railroad tracks
through his farm for a distance of half
a mile. The site will front on the
Delaware river, and was the one first
by the New York Shipbuilding
Company. now of Camden, n. j. The
party will attend the special meeting
of the Trustees of the Commons to Sc
cure the signatures to a deed to vail
date the agreement and secure the
ground. The Reading people will then
prepare plans and submit bids for
buildings and wharves, to be COM
pleted October / next.
Evening journal., 1903-03-27
News of the Border States
NEW JAIL FOR DENTON
Caroline County, Md, Will Have. s1o,-
600 Structure.

Port Deposit granite VIII be used in the
construction OF the new Salem Lutheran
Church, at Catonsvdlle.
Caroline county win erect a new Jail at
Denton. to cost about $4,000.
The students and friends of the Jacob
Tome Institute will present a mural tablet
in memory of the late Jacob Tome, the
founder, which will be placed in the lobby
of Memorial Han, and unveiled May to
16.
The American Clay Company, Of New
Jersey which has extensive works near
North East, has purchased 236 acres OF
land near Charlestown, Cecil county. from
William e. Birmingham, of Philadelphia.
The Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washing
ton Railroad Company has a large force
Of men at work In Ellzton erecting poles
and stringing wires for the now telegraph
dne between Philadelphia and Washing
ton.
Evening journal., 1903-03-27
OF A YOUNG , MAN
Many Attend That of John Graham.
Other News of New Castle.
snecial tn tha Evenlng journal.

Special to the Evening Journal.
New Castle, March 27.-The funeral SER
vice OF John Graham was conducted by
the Rev. f. b. Munson in Emanuel
church this afternoon at 2 o'clock. In
terment was made in the Riverview ceme-
tery, Wilmington. The pallbearers were.
Harvey Newlove, James White, Ogle
Glanden. Waiter Wilson, Eugene Chase
and Frederick Foord.
A large number Of Company II men gave
a serenade to Captain and Mrs. C. p. Hol-
comb at the home on the Buttonwoods,
last evening. Games and music were in
dulged in by a number Of the party. Re
treatments were afterwards served.
Word was received here this morning OF
the death of James Dyer of South VIII
mington. Mr.. Dyer was well-l1nown here
and for many years was a farmer near
this city.
On account Of the people who are In
charge of the Easter Monday ball the
basket bail games in the armory will be
dispensed with.
The regular High School exercises were
held in the High School this afternoon.
Fishermen are still having good luck and
the catches yesterday were large. A mum.
Der Of rock were also caught.