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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-24
CHAPTER xxvI.

T was the first of May, and the
 annual reunion of the Confed- crate veterans was being held
 in Atlanta. It was the gala week of the year. Every town and city in the south sent it's official repre- sentatives and it's maids of honor. The hotels were crowded and the streets thronged with an incongruous multi tude wearing badges of ribbon. South ern generals and their wives and daugh- ters were holding gay receptions. Ev- erybody was. welcome; hands were ex- ~-Sded to people from the north as well sAs from the south. Shouts filled the fSfr when the carriage of an ex-Confed- crate officer passed through the streets The bands played Dixie" Men, scared and maimed, stood on the street corners and in the bars and hotels and told war stories and sang the praises of Robert H Lee and Stonewall Jack son. All was mirth and good feeling From the public buildings, the clubs, hotels and carriages floated the Amer ican flag. It hung everywhere, but it was never applauded and yet never ul6cGQs AI W&S lOOh uPOA and stood for peace, patriotism and prosperity. The southerners would have admitted this, and yet there was another beauty dearer to their weary xnemory-a beauty for which they had fought grimly and lost.
 Mrs Cranston, Lydia and Kitty Cos by were visiting the Dunleighs, Vir- ginia family who lived in one of the best houses in Peachtree street. George Buckley was in the city, but he had gone only to attend to the work of in- epecting the books of broker who handled considerable grain and cotton for the Darley house.
 The brolz CT. MT. Harry Stone, was q young anan of high social standing in Atlanta, and he had formed a strong friendship for George and extended the hospitality of the best club in the place 10 him and offered to introduce him to his friends, but George refrained from accepting. He was too fine q man to feel at ease In general society DO early after his father's disgrace. and
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-24

4~ 1UCKLEY hardly knew where he ER went, but soon found himself HD agadn near the executive man sion The merriment was at.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-04-13
RiotiDc Follows Strike.

Although it was announced Tues
day night that the strike at the
American Can company's plant in
Chicago had been settled the rioting
around the place was fercer Wednes-
day than it has been at any time and
one man, John Nichols, lost his life
1y bullet fired, it is sad, from a
train on which were number OF non
union men being taken back to the
city after the conclusion Of the days
work. The fighting beagn early in the
morning, when 800 Greeks who have
been employed during the strike at
tempted to come to the factory. They
were metat the gates by a large num-
Der of union picketS who attacked
them with stones and clubs. a large
detachment Of the police had their
hands full in protecting the Greeks
when a shot fred from the crowd
aroused the Greeks to fury. Those
who had entered the factory came
pouring out armed with knives and
revolvers and attempted to attack the
union men and their sympathizer who
were assaulting those Greeks who
had not yet reached the gateway.
The police after a desperate struggle
managed to keep the two bodies OF
men apart. In this fehta number OF
men were battered up. At night
when the 800 Greeks left the plant
they were attacked by mob fully
10000 strong that pelted them with
stones, sticks and bottles.
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Clearing a Mystery.

The first trace of Mrs. John c.
Burns since her disappearance from
a Chicago hotel two years ago was
found last week when James Taylor,
a negro, was arrested at Cincinnati.
He had in his possession, Mrs. Burns
Daughter Of the American Revolution
pin, engraved With her name, as we'll
as several articles Of jewelry which
bore initials. The prisoner is said to
have disclosed the hiding places Of
other jewels, which are alleged to
have been the property of Mrs. Burns.
The total value Of the property re-
covered is nearly $4,000. About two
years ago, Mrs. Burns announced that
she was going away on a short visit.
Her husband was believed to be in
Europe. Taking several trunks, but
leaving many Of her belongings in her
room, Mrs. Burns left the hotel CIV
ing instructions to hold mail until
she sent her forwarding address. From
that day to this 10 word has been re-
ceived from her or her husband. Mrs.
Burns was prominent as member OF
the Daughters Of the American
Revolution, and also was connected
with several women's clubs, most Of
the organizations to which she belong
ed having been located in the East,
where she resided before coming to
Chicago.
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Five Were Sufocated.

Five persons are dead and another
is dying as the result Of FIRE that oc-
Cured Wednesday in the Columbia
hall building, a metal sheathed three
story structure located in Wilson
Place at Mount Vernon, n. Y. The
dead:
Nathan Frey, S6 years old.
1saoore Frey, II years.
Stephen Frey, 9 years.
Henry Frey, 8 years.
GuSSie Dohring, 10 years, a cousin
Of Mrs. Rebecca Frey.
Mrs. Frey is dying in hospital.
The first floor of the building was
occupied by the Columbia Piano CON-
pany. On the second floor was Co.
lumbia hall, with ante-rooms and on
the third floor were apartments oc
cupied by the Frey, Barry and
Lavigne families. Fire spread through
out the toop floor with great rapidity
The inmates were aroused by the
smoke and heat and all endeayored tc
make their escape but the members
of the Frey family were o"eTcome be-
fore any Of them could even reach a
window. Mr.. and Mrs. Barry and Mr..
and Mrs. Lavigne managed to reach
windows on the third floor and were
brought down ladders by the fremen.
All the dead are more or less burn.
ed, but their deaths probably resulted
directly from sufocation. The prop
erty loss is estimated about 10000.
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Stole the h1ormon's Wives

Prospectors from the lower Sierra
Madre Mountains of Mexico, south
west of Ell Paso, bring the story of d
raid made by Guam Coloroda, a!ais
John Redhead," upon Don Felipe,
a newly formed Mormon colony. The
noted bandit and his band pillaged
the settlement, carrying away three
of Elder Hiram Johnson's wives, one
OF which is the farorite OF his large
household. \ posse Of Mexican rural
police and a squad of Mormons, who
as a vigilance committee, style them
selves 'avenging angels pursued the
bandits for hirty-six hours and final
ly surprised them in the fastnesS OF
the Sierra Madra Mountains. \ tight
took plack in which two Of the out
laws were wounded. The band fed:
leaving the women. They had been
kept Two days in a cave, where Coz
siderable amount of bullion treasure
was found. which, it is believed, was
stolen from pack train recently.
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Ware Mass March %. 1904,

Ware, Mass. March %, 1904.
Col. John P. Thomas, Charleson, S. G.
Dear Sir: The Columbia State at
hand. Your editorial o. K. am
inclined to think Mr.. Watson thinks
you and have too much to say. At
any rate he don't condescend to ac-
knowledge our good intentions. see
NJ. Y. Richards has sent a man to
Columbia in the interest Of Southern
railroad. We no doubt will see the
workings Of the bureau Of immigra-
tion in good time if we only will have
patience. Mr. Watson is no doubt
working his brains. The class of peo-
pie this very State Of Massachusetts,
has allowed to come in last year are a
curse to any country, and are contin-
ually dumped over hereto the bene.
st Of the country they leave. and a
curse to the one they come to. If
you don't believe it visit any Of the
manufacturing cities Of Massachu-
settS. am, Very truly yours,
W. V. HOWARD.
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HORRIBLE DEEDS
Told by Presbyterian Missionary
to the Can o Free State.
THE CANNABAL ARMY MURDERS
Innocent Womenand Children Who
Are Captured to Show that
Work of RaidinS Villages
is Well Done.
is Well Done.

DR.. W. NJ. Morrison, Southern
Presbyterian missionary to the Congo
Free State, in an address at Louisville,
Ky, gave an impressive recital Of
alleged barbarities practiced on the
natives OF Congo by the authorities,
and of the obstacles thrown in the
way of their correction by the Of
icials.
He said: Il lived with these peo-
pie seven years, and know what am
talking about. King Leopold has
there a native cannibal army OF
twenty thousand men, differed by
white Belgians and armed with
repeating rifles. They are men re-
presenting the worst and most savage
type Of natives, caught and carried
far from their homes and forced into
military service. In turn this soldiery
is used to compel the natives to bring
in enormous tribute Of ivory and rub
Der. It is worth nothing that the
King of Belgium is today is reputed to
be the largest dealer in ivory and rub.
Der in the world.
AS a result of forced military serv-
ice and labor, great and unspeakable
cruelties are practiced on the natives
l have seen FIVE thousand fleeing to
the forests to escape the cannibal
soldiers Of King Leopold. I have
seen soldiers securing through the
forests catching men wanted by the
government as laborers and taking
the captives away with ropes tied
around their necks.
Raids upon villages are constantly
made, some are killed, others sold into
captivity and others forced into labor
and military service. One can bu.'
all the slaves wanted for ten or fifteen
dollars each. In these raids innocent
women and children are killed or cap.
tured. Their hands are cut of to be
taken back to the Belgian officers to
show that the work has been well
done. On one Of these raids near the
mission stations, one Of our mission
aries counted eighty hands cut off,
drying by fire to De taken to an
officer and forty-fye dead lying near.
THE Belgian government make a
stereotyped denial OF all charges. l
have seen personally the Governor OF
the Congo Free State and have been
in the palace OF the King of Belgium;
neither will do anything. The British
government is interested in the situa-
tion., Consul Roger Easement, as the
English and American representative
to Congo, has Just made tour Of. in.
yestigation. His report IS now in the
bands of the government at Washing
ton and presents a most deplorable
situaeion.'
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Gave Life for Friend,

Four men lost their lives in an ex-
plcsion Friday at the Pintsch Gas
Comprising company's plant in south
west Washington. The dead are:
Stephen Henson, Charles ". Grigsby:
Joseph Cumberland and an unknown
negro. Henson, Cumberland and the
negro were Instantly killed. Grigsby
was seriously burned and died at the
hospital. His injuries were the re-
suit of an heroic attempt to rescue
bis comrades. He rushed into the
engine room and catching the arm Of
Cumberland, who was buried in the
debris, tried to drag MIN out. Toe
flames rapidly enyeloped GrigSby but
he released his hold on Cumberland
only after the arrival Of the iremen.
He told the hospital physicians that
the disaster was caused by the gas be-
coming too high and the inability o.
the men to ind the leak. The
ROOM" said he, must have been full
the gas kept rising and the roof wa:
blown off -
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Students Shoot a Man.

At Lexington, KY, Coley Hayden,
l9 years old, was shot at the State
college baseball park Friday by Lee
Andersen, a State college student,
who was acting as guard at the park.
The bullet entered Hayden's left
shoulder and inflicted aserious wound.
Police Capt. Brown went to the park
to arrest Anderson. AS soon as Ander-
son learned his mission, be pulled his
revolver and declared he would not
submit to arrest. a crowd Of 200
State college students backed him up
in his refusal Capt. Brown rushed
in before he could shoot, however, and
after tussle, disarmed Anderson. He
was placed under arrest ano
the students made no further
attempt to keep him from the
police. Later he was released
on bond. The State college anc
Central university were engaged in q
game of baseball, and Hayden was
looking on through a crack in Gh5
fence. Anderson ordered him away
when, it is said, Hayden cursed him
Anderson there upon shot him with
ont, further words.
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This is one clipping Mr.. Howard
Very truly, ETC.,
W. V. HOWARD.

This is one clipping Mr.. Howard
sends:
The Hartford Post lightly says:
-Four Waterbury hotels were plum
full the other night when a colored
clergyman applied for room in one
after another OF Them 1t is for this
reason that SO many northerneTS see
fit to protest against the introduction
of Jim Crow cars in the south. They
have an easier method here. Spring
field Republican.
This is another:
"Tables Of figures showing the i'm
migration CT foreigners into New
England during 1868 have: just been
completed by Rev. Joel S. Ives OF
Hartford, who for the past four years
has conducted a census Of the foreign
population of the six States in behalf
of the Congregational Home Mission
ary society. According to his figures,
the influx Of foreigners last year was
as follows: Maine, 1897; New Hamp-
shire, 1861: Vermont, l,6ll: Massa.
chuset5S, IS, 7571: Rhode Island, 9,t6i
and G. nnecticut. 2l,Sl3, a total o.
! lO2, sos. Southern Europe supplied
a great number of these immigrants
for Of the total IS, Isl were Italian:
and ll,s77 les."-Spriagfeld Re
publican.
The third clipping I give is from
/ the same paper, the Springfield Re
publican:
The south wants white immigra
ton, but is denied it: and why thai
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-04-13
The New Stamps.

The new series Of stamps commem-
orative Of the Louisiana purchase ex-
position will be placed on sale by the
postoftice department April 80 and
will be continued till December lst.
The designs are as follows: One cent,
with portrait of Robt. R. Livingston,
United States minister to France,
who conducted the purchase negotia-
tions; two cent, red, portrait Of Thos.
Jefferson, president at the time the
purchase was made; three cent, pur-
pie, portrait Of Jas. Monroe, special
ambassador to France; five cents, blue,
portrait William Mckinley, who as
president approved the act OF con-
gress officially connected with the
exposition; ten cent, brown, bearing
United States map, showing the ter
ritory Of the purchase.
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Knife in the Brain.

At New Ha7an, Con-, aportion of a
long thin knife blade, which had been
imbedded more than twenty years in
his skull, penetrating an inch into the
brain, was removed from the head OF
Christopher Osborn by DR.. NJ. j.
Adams. The patient is negro, 81
years old. He is employed by Prof. ].
". Weir, of Yale. According to
Osborn S history Of the knife blade, he
duarreled with another negro, who
struck him in the head with knife.
The blade broke of and the steel close
to the skull. Osborn was sent to jail
for his share in the fight, but recover
ed and suffered no inconvenience until
few weeks ago, when he began to
have conyulsions. They grew in fire.
quency, until last week he had them
every half hour and paralysis be-
gan. DR.. Adams says the man will
recover.
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any interest 10 the situation that IS
attracting attention to the middle
south-the southern FraDce Of Amer
ica-and thus far effectively. I am
irving to see all who are interested In
any way, for feel that those who
invest or settle in South Carolina have
bright future awaiting them. When
the waste places have been populated
the act under which we are operating
is so constructed that we can turn our
attention to other plans Of develop
ment as the necessity for them ar
riveS
There is no part Of the country
that offers so many inducements as
does the midoele south Just now to
the native and foreign settler and
investor. Our State department has
just been launched, but l believe 1T is
constructed upon better and broader
lines than any similar State depart
ment in the country, and I expect
noteworthy results. We are now in
position to offer to the desirable farm
er from across the water lands upon
which he can raise something the
year round, and with due conSidera-
tion to all conditions I cannot see
wherein the element Of failure enters.
I know we have obstacles to sur
mount, but obstacles are ever an
element in the success of any import
ant undertaking which is OF itself a
departure from the beaten tracks.
All the Southern States are begin
ming to awaken to the value Of their
own resources, and it is safe to pre-
dict that in the next few years this
part Of the United States will tecome
considerable factor in the produc-
tion Of the wealth Of the country at
large. Eastern capital is at this time
paying more attention to southern
land and other investments than ever
before, and the spirit Of progress is
today running strong in places where
a few years ago the people seemed to
be ignorant of their opportunities. y
Eaw VOrk Snn
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Stoicai Death Of White Horse.

Sixty-three Indians in special car
en- route to Washington to see the
President were smashed into by a
mail train on the Chicago & North
western, two miles west of Haywood,
ILL.,, Friday morning during a heavy
fog. Three Indians were killed in
stantly, three fatally wounded and 20
others more OF less seriously injured.
White Horse in charge Of the Indians
on the train, was fatally injured. The
bodies of the Indians who had been
killed were laid on the prairie beside
the the track. Chief White Horse
being carried with them. He said
that he knew that death was near and
requested that he be placed near his
dead companions. The chief was
propped up and sat stoically while
physicians worked on his injuries. He
smoked pipe quietly, and gave no
sign of the pain he must have suffer-
ed. Persons on the train say the
wreck was unques ionably caused by
a fog, which stretched many miles
from Lake Michigan. The Indians
were from the reservation at Rush.
vile, Nebraska, and on journey east
ward primarily for show purposes at
Now York
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Five Were Drowned.

Five persons, members of a pleasure
party from the Florida Methods: col
lege at Sutherland, Fla, were
drowned near Anclote light house
Sunday night. Tue dead are: Mrs.
Walker, wife of the president Of the
college.
Mss O'Connor Of Atlanta.
Miss Slaughter OF Sutherland.
Miss McCray Of Sutherland.
Mr.. Bouland Of Sutherland.
President Walker and Miss Newton
reached the beach alive. The bodies
of Mrs. Walker and Miss O'Connor
have not yet been recovered. The
bodies Of the other thlee who lost
their lives were washed ashore on the
beach and recovered. President
Walker had taken the party out for a
cruise to the house, but met with
rough weather and the boat was over
turned in the gulf. The Florida
Methodist college is located at Suther-
land, on the west coast OF the gul1,
about 80 miles from Tampa.
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a W0ULD-BE sWINDLER.
Coushed up the Money When the
Doctor Dosed Him.

At Columbia Wash Kinsler. a young
negro man, will be given a prelimin-
ary before United States Commission
er Vernon shortly on he..charge Of at
tempting to pass counterfeit money.
The story of Kinsler's attempt to
escape and his attempt to evade the
charge is strange. Kinsler walked
into the fruit store of the Syrian,
George Mack, on upper Main street,
Saturday night at l2:30. He purchas-
ed pair of cheap earrings and some
fruit and carelessly threw down what
purported to be a So bill. Mack spott-
ed the counterfeit at once. Officer
Dunning happened to be passing and
was called in. The situation was
taken in at a glance and the officer
grabbed Kinsier. He was just a
little too late, however, for Kainsler
rammed the bill in his mouth and
swallowed it, despite the choaking he
received. Then Mr.. Dunning called
for DR.. Pope, the city physician, and
the rest was easy. A hyperdermic
injection was given Wash, which
acted as an emetic and the bill came
up" in about three minutes. The
negro was searched for more counter,
felt bills. No bills were found, but
a watch he had stolen was recovered
and the negro stands chance of serv-
ing term for the State for larceny
and for the United States for attempt
ing to pass counterfeit money, the
penalty for the latter, according to
the revised statutes, being from FIVE
to fifteen years. The bill which
Kinsler attempted to pass is an old
Richland Building and Loan certif-
cate, this association fourishing about
1878. The certificate looks very
much like money and there are num-
Der of them floating around. Kinslel
lives on Gates street, near Senate, and
his reputation heretofore has been
very good.
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A Trust Buster

Congressman John W. Gaines. Of
Tennessee, in a speech against an ap-
preparation for building road in
Alaska, said that his constituents
needed good roads and besides were
oppressed by trusts, but the oppres-
sion of the ice trust had been relieved
by Chief Justice Alton B. Parker and
others in New York, when the Demo
Gratis applauded the name Of Parker,
and Mr.. Gaines again provoked ap-
plause on the minority side by saying:
I'VE are going to put him in the White
House. He is going TO crush the bal
ance Of the trusts in this country,
which the Republicans will never do"
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SHOT BY CONSTABLES.
They Were Assaulted by One White
Man and Two Negroes.

A dispatch from Charleston TO The
State says N. S. Sullivan, liDeman
of the Postal Telegraph company, was
shot and seriously, perhaps fatally,
wounded in an ARRAY with State Con-
stables J. T. Owens and G. r. Hud-
SOD, which occurred Thursday night
on the steam launch Hornet, between
IL and - o'clock on the cove beach at
Mount Pleasant. The shooting grew
out Of the capture Of contraband IL
quor which Sullivan was conveying
from the Clyde wharf to a storehouse
on the water front. Two negro men
were with Sullivan at the time, one of
whom, it is said, was also wounded by
the constables. Their names could
not be learned, for neither has
been seen since the affair. Both ne
groes fed from the boat, It is said,
when the shooting commenced.
1t is not positively known which
constable shot Sullivan. At the ST..
Francis Xavier in6rmary THURSDAY,
Sullivan, it is alleged, stated that
he was shot by Constable Owens and
that the negro was shot by Constable
Hudson. Sullivan is thought to be in
a critical condition. He was brought
to the city Thursday about 8
a. m. and sent to the infrnary. An
operation was performed upon him
and it was found that the ball had
passed through his left arm, entered
the side and perforated the intestines
in six different places. The bullet
was not located.
Constables Hudson and Ovens ar
rived in the city this morning at 3 30
o'clock With 19 gallons Of whiskey,
which they had captured from the
Hornet, Sullivan's launch, having
hired a row boat at Mount Pleasant
and rowed the goods over to Charles
ton. Chief Constable Holmes was
Immediately notified Of the shooting
Of Sullivan and the capture Of the Ii
quor. Chief State Constable Hammet
was informed of the shooting early
Friday morning by Constable Holmes
and he is expected in the city soon
to make an Investigation. Consta-
bles Owens and Hudson, aching upon
the advice of Constable Holmes, sur
rendered to Sheriff Martin about II
o'clock Thursnay and were sent to
jail to await further developments.