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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-09
TOGO AND ROJESTVENSKY SOON
 TO MEET IN A DEATH GRAPPLE

ism of the masses protesting against the rich. It would legislate only for the poor. It would cure a bad law, not by repeating 1t. but by making worse one. Instead of remedying an evil by the enforcement of the law. IL seeks to cure 1t by other laws, either incapable of enforcement or carrying greater evils in their enforcement than the one they would remedy. Seeing an evil in State government, but ignoring It's cause, 1t would transfer the subject to national control where. because the people know less of its workings they magnify its blessings. Impatient at all things, 1t Is restive under any re- straint the constitution may interpose to It's quick forming plan of relief. Censuring the courts for their deci- sions, It would set aside the proved safeguards of liberty for a temporary benefit. Against agitations Is only the conservatism of wealth whose opposi- ton gives only too frequently fresh ground of complaint, for 1t is con- servatism that is born not of conserv- ative thought, but the desire to hold what wrong has frequently acquired.
 There will be a great conservative party that believes, breaches and acts true conservatism, one that Is pro- gressive always. that believes in the
 
 indestructable union of indestructable States, that will freely admit and use the powers of the nation, but will also guard with jealous care the reserved rights of the States and that it may better guard them will insist on effect i've and honest State and local govern ment, that will favor more or repeal of law and less of enactment, that will have a sufficient faith In the people to believe they are men, not children. ca- pablo in the daily affairs of life of car ing for themselves: that will use pow CTS of the Government to prevent op- pression but not to destroy individual initiative.
 This party is actually to be. The very stars in their course will fight for 1t. You may hasten or delay 1t only. The south stands ready. Men of the north, throw wide open the doors of your national life. Let the south know you have faith in your own flesh and blood and nation. She is ready, actually ready over and be- yond the desires of politicians and visionaries, and overnight will the glorious movement start, preserving as she should her individuality, her temperament, her local coloring, as you shall yours. Her arms shall be around you and yours about her. To- gether you shall face the future, with sublime faith in the destiny of a common countrN realizing in very truth the motto of my state United we stand, divided we fall"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-09
MET FEARFUL DEATH
EIGHT MEN KILLED IN PREMA-
 TURF EXPLOSION.
Terrible Accident at Limestone Quarry in PuIaski County, Virginia. Relief Force at Work
 on the Scene.

Roanoke, Va, April S.-A special from E,lsonia, Pulaski County, Virginia, to The Times says;
 While tamping powder in blast this afternoon at the Ardway nmc- stone quarry. in this county, about four miles west of Allisonia, the blast was accidentally discharged. This caused the explosion of two other blasts that had been set nearby and a fearful ac- cident followed Eight men were in- stantly killed and two others were so badly injured as to leave but little hone of their recovery. The names or the victims are: John Fortner, negro laborer; Walter Miller. negro laborer John Harris, negro laborer Tobe Sut- ton, negro laborer; O. Davis. negro la borer: A. Vaughan. negro laborer' A. O. Walter, white laborer; one unknoWh'
 The injured: Tom Sampson. negro Ia aborer: William Dalton. white fore man, who was in charge Of the gang of workmen.
 So far it is not certainly known If these are all of the victims and 1t Is feared that other bodies will be found in the debris when it Is moved.
 This quarry Is operated by the Nir- sinia Iron. Coal and Coke Company The explosion occurred on blur pro iectinR over the track of the Norfolk and Western Railway and the whole mass of earth and stone was precipi- tated upon 1t.
 A wrecking car and a force of about 100 men has been sent by the rall- road authorities to the scene to clear the track and the quarry force IS lend- ing assistance in getting the line open It is impossible at this hour to secure the addresses of the dead and injured but 1t is believed that the greater part
 fhtQ section. east bound passenger train was behind the blockade and a train was run from Pulaski to that place and the passen- gers and mail transferred.
 The wounded men are being gwen the best of attention possible
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-09
AFTER A. AND B.
Rock Island Said to Re Planning for
 Ac0uiaEtt0u.

New York. April S.-Rock Island Railway interests are reported. says The Herald to be consideringl the ad- visibility of reaching the Atlantic sea- board through tho acquisition of the Atlantic and Birmingham Railway by the Frisco system. This would give the latter road an outlet to the coast at Brunswick. Ga. from its terminal at Birmingham, Ala.
 The Atlantic and Birmingham. which runs from Brunswick to MontezuTa, Ga. Is making preparations to com plete its extension to Birmingham. It is a corporation formed under the laws of Georgia, being a consolidation of the railroad company of the same title with the Triton, Thomasvihe and Gulf Railway Company and the Triton and Northeastern Railroad Company. It has a capitalization of $4,620,0O0.
 It was at one time considered prob- able that the Rock Island would obtain the Seaboard Air Line for its desired outlet This and other plans were dis cussed at various times. but never .na- terialized.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-09
REVOLT AGAINST CHURCH.
The Clergy is Speaking It's Sentiments
 OuenIy.

St Petersburg, April S.-The revolt against the tyranny of the church ad- ministration Is attracting immense at tention The clergy are now speaking their sentiments quite as openly on religion as are liberals in the political field. The intimate connection between the movements for the regeneration of the church and the reorganization of the state is set forth in a strong letter printed this morning and ascribed to "a high ecclesiastic" in which the writer says:
 "The church as living idea is in- extricably bound up with Russian life and when the Russian public realized that they could not any longer exist without breaking the shackles of the bureaucracy the church awoke from two hundred years ol lethargy and its first murmur was that 1t was the universal right of every thinking Rus sian to do his task with freed 1m.'
 The letter further declares that for years the clergy were held SO closely in the vice of obedience, not to an idea but to the dictates of one man, who virtually said T am the church.. that they had become automatons to regis ter his decrees and now with the pros pect of liberty before them they are hardly capable of raising their voices. In the cities, it is added, there have
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-09
Fire Threatens Town.

Roanoke, Va, April s.-A special to The Times from Harrisonburg, Va, says the largest fire In the history of Rockingham County broke out there today in the Shell Warehouse, follow ing an explosion of matches and for a time threatened the town.
 The warehouse extended along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tracks for over 100 yards and was occupied by F. Lubbetts Hay Company. J. M. Shell Grocery Company, Armour Pack ing Company and J. NJ. Wilson Hard ware Company. This property was destroyed, as was also the handsome Shands residence and the home of D. F. Detwiler. The Catholic Church was eutted and the Baltimore and Ohio station damaged. Three loaded box cars belonging to the Southern Rail- way were consumed. The loss will ag- gregate S55,O0O. mostly covered by in- surance.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-09
HAMMOND SOUNDS WARNING NOTE IN REPLY TO
 BARON KANEKOS BRILLIANT APPEAL FOR JAPAN

Army War College, spoke on 'Tmple- ments in Modern Lands" He said with the tendency of decrease in per centage of loss there is tendency to increasing concentration of energy on the battlefield as represented by in creased number of combatants and the strange fact is that this increase in concentration of energy Is itself one of the causes of decrease in loss. Strat- egy, grand and minor tactics now and at all times, have been alike in basic principle. They consist in the deter imitation of the amount of a given power and the application of 1t at certain point to perform a certain work In overcoming calculated resistance. In battle there may be an exhibition of more or less destructive energy over miles of front. while the real work is being done perhaps along a line of one hundred yards"
 Rear Admiral G. W. Melville was tho next speaker.
 This subject was also discussed by Col N. w. W. Wotherspoon and Col. H. Sharn
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-09
INTEREsT sHIFTs.
England Watching for Meeting of the
 Two Fleets.

England Watching for Meeting of the
 Two Fleets.
 London. April s-The sudden shift ing of interest in the war from the land to the sea and the apparently lm- minent prospects of a fateful battle between the Russian and Japanese souadrons in the China Sea have re- vived all the interest shown here in the earlier developments of the strug- gle in the far East. It is taken for granted that Admiral Togo's ships re- ported to be in the neighborhood of Singapore in the middle of March are still in that vicinity and the report from Penang on the west coast or the Malay peninsula, that twelve Japanese ships were seen steaming ahead of the Russian warships Is interpreted to mean that the former are scouts sent out by Togo to get in touch with the Russians and when their object is ac- complished to retire on the main body of the Japanese squadron.
 The reports about the numbers of the Russian ships vary. but at any rate over thirty-ive battleships, cruis- CTS. coIliers and torpedo boats have passed the port of Singapore. The un- derwriters here presume from the northeasterly course they were steer ing that after passing Singapore the Russian ships are attempting to roach the Frnech port of Saigon, Cochin China. However 1t is pointed out that a Japanese squadron of twenty-twO ships is still off Hortsburg Light where 1t was reported March 14. Tho naval forces were this afternoon only about thirty miles apart and may be in touch at any moment
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-09
RUssIA's ANXIETY.
cx.r,. Hopes staked Upon Result of
 Conflict.


 Conflict.
 St. Petersburg, April S.--(4:So ?. m.1 -Jntense interest was aroused here to- day by the announcement that Ao- mIral Rojestvensky's squadron was nassIrp Singapore, but the admiralty does not admit that it has received of hcial confirmation of the report. n fact the officials have observed unhsaAl reticent for some time about the move ments and intentions or the squaA.oh. hut asserted several times in these dis natcbas the Associated Press had posi- five knowledge that Admiral Rotest- varsl.v was leaving Admiral Nebogat- off commander of division or the second Pacific squadron behind. ana was hound for the Far East to try con- elusions with Admiral Togo. All Rus sia's hope of changing the fortune or war are staked upon the issue and TOT some time the admiralty has oeciareo that only peace could intervene to pre- vent inc mastery of the sea Unofi- cIal information also reported that Ro- 4estvensky intended to pass through the Straits of Mallaca.
 Some doubt Is expressed here as 70 whether the Russian squadron has yet rsached point so far on it's journey. According to Rojesvensky's iettef 70 his wife referred to in these dispatches April f. the squadron intended 70 sail from Madagascar March 19. If 1t has hann abIe to cover the intervening $500 miles in eighteen days at an average sneed of eight knots, not counting the necessary stops to coal the smaller sbins. the squadron has now arrived at the entrance to the China Sea with ont encountering obstacles in the shape of Japanese torpedo boats, there is all the more reason for consratulation- Rojestvensky's reports rom Maoasas. ear as to the efficiency of the ships nersonnel and gunnery have been sat- isfactory and they have greatly en~ cnnraged the admiralty.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-09
FOUR HUNDRED VICTIMS.
Collapse of Spanish Reservoir Does
 Deadly Work.

Collapse of Spanish Reservoir Does
 Deadly Work.
 Madrid. Spain. April S.--Four hum dred persons were killed or injured to- day by the collapse of a new water reservoir in course of construction. Fifty bodies have already been recov- cred.
 The Prince of the Asturias. the war minister, the governor of Madrid and a representative of the king have gone to the spot to superintend the work of rescue. Troops sent to the scene are engaged in helping the sufferers and recovering the bodies of the dead.
 The structure which collapsed was a huge quadrilateral one. $50 by 15o me- tres, built on arches. The disaster was due to the weakness of the sup porting pillars.
 As the greater part of the debris Is under water. the work of extricating the victims is most difficult. Up to this time 100 bodies have been recov- cred. These were taken immediately to the cemetery. in order to prevent disorder
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-09
AGAIN BROKEN OFF.
Another Hitch in Proposed Southern
 Iron Merger.

New York, April S.-The Herald to- morrow will say: It Is understood that the negotiations for the merger of the Southern steel and iron com panies which were resumed several weeks ago when new interests identi- fled themselves with the project have agai nbeen broken off. Owing to dls- satisfaction over the terms offered the Sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron Company has announced it's withdrawal from the proposed plan to merge the properties. 1t is understood that the financial house which was considering the merger was to furnish $25,0o0,000 in new capital.
 The hope Is entertained by the vari- ous interests concerned however, that the merger will eventually be accom- plIshed. The present hitch in the pro- ceedings is not regarded as an insur- mountable obstacle to consolidation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-09
HAYES FOR ooNsULsH1P.
He is Virginia Negro Not Loved Great-
 Iy by SOutherners.

Washington. April s.-(special.)- There apears to be reality coming in the rumor that the Virginia negro, James H. Hayes, Is to be given a con suIship at Guadalupe. in the West In- dies, as word went out to that effect today from the State Department.
 Southerners here regard this as quite interesting in view of the fact that Hayes is the negro who has bitterly sought to overthrow the Virginia Con stitution disfranchising the negro, and in A speech advocated the torch and sword as an efficacious remedy for de- pleted negro suffrage, and also in view of the fact that President Roosevelt Is full of eloquence just now about this one country. about his being half southerner an half Northerner, etc.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-09
WEATHER FORECAST.
 Washington, April S.-For Alabama -Fair sunday and Monday, light vari- abse winds.

been many instances where the church has been used as a political machine to stir up hatred and strife between the various classes of the population referring especially to the recent in- citement of the ignorant against the intelligent The writer halls the day when the church, freed from state con-
 trol. will devote itself fo religion and not to politics.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-09
Co,n,erse,t BIu Taken.

Louisville, Ky, April S.-A VI sIIVer certificate raised to $5 was taken np by the secret service here today. The certificate used Is of the series of lS9s' The spread eagle in the center Of the bill is partially removed and the Tn dian head required on the $5 note is photographed in its place. The other alterations are made In the same way. the figures being changed partially by erasure and partially by photographic work. This process is believed to be new.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-09
CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY.
Many Prominent Citizens Are Indicted
 at Portland.


 Portland, April S.-The Federal grand jury this afternoon indicted fif- teen well-known men of Oregon and Washington. Among them are the fol- lowing:
 State Senator R. A. Booth, manager of the Booth Kelly Lumber Company; his brother, Henry Booth, receiver of the Roseburg land office; Frank D. AL ley of Roseburg. A. R. and Edward R. Downs, Seattle, timbermen: Rev. Steph- en W. Turnelle. a Roseburg minister: Edward Singleton, brother-in-law to the Booths; William N. Jones, a Port land timberman; Thaddeus 5. Potter. formerly clerk in the law office of F. P Mays; H. L. Sissler of Seattle. Dan iel Clark, an ex-soldier of the rebel lion; Clarence Zachary, Col D. C. Bar nard and Charles A. Watson of Fossil, Wheeler County
 They are charged with conspiracy to defraud the Government of portion of its public lands.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-09
MOTHERS FATAL MISTAKE.
Overdose of Strychnine Causes Depio'
 rabIe Triple Tragedy.

EuutG
 Danyille. Va, April S.-A special to The Register from Chatham. Va, says: As the result of a mistake Mrs. Nan nie Bowe lies dead at her home near Concord Church, nine miles from this place, with a bullet wound through her heart, shot by her own hand; her 12-year-old daughter Winnie. lies dead in the same room from an overdose of strychnine &C., cidentally administered by her mother in the place of quinine, and her 10-year- old son, Cabell, Is des- perately i'll in an adjoining room from strychpine poison. administered in like manner.
 J. Thall who lives near the Bowe home, was aroused early today by .he screams of Mrs. Bowe. MT. Hall and his son at once repaired to the Bowe home. They were met at the door by the woman. who told them she had killed her children by mistake. Mrs Bowe also stated that after learning of her fatal error she had herself ta- ken both strychnine and carbolic acid.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-09

twenty-five transports and was steer ing toward Singapore
 The steamer Kumsang reports have ing sighf twelve cruisers, presum- ably Jar..> csc steaming some distance ahead q idently a Japanese scouting squadSf4.
 TtSSs is much excitement here and in Sapore over the anticipation of ans gagement in Malayan waters.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-09
GnIveston,n OmciaI Trip.

Washington, April S.-Orders have been issued for the official trip of the cruiser Galveston about the lst of May over the measured mile course at Newport or over the new course off Rockland, Me.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-09
Ian. on the Lookout.

Penang. West Coast of Malay Penin- sula. April s.-Two steamers which have arrived at Penang report the sighting of a large Russian fleet in the Straits of Mallaca. It included
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-06-03

make him answer, and he would not
pay any attention to me at all.
Il Enew then something serious had
happened. l believe l put my hand up
and told the cabman to drive to the
drug store-I do not know whether l
did or not. l know that was my idea.
And it seemed-oh, ages before l could
get anybody to pay any attention TO
me or give me any aid at all.
and the policeman jumped on the
front of the cab and asked me what
had happened. When l saw him l felt
relieved, and l knew he would take
care of Mr.. Young, no matter what
was the matter with him. l lost con-
troll OF myself and seemed to be dazed
in my memory from then on. l re-
member l went to the hospital and the
policeman tried to lift Mr.. Young out
of The cab and his knees gave way
under him. l do not remember how |
got cut of the cab, or anything of the
kind.
81 did not shoot Caesar Young. l had
no pistol, l never saw the pistol. And
if it was in my power to bring him
back to life. l would willingly sacrifice
nv own life"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-06-03
Nan PattersOn's Own Story of
Caesar YOung's Death.
DIED BY HIS OWN HAND, SHE SAYS
Graphic Description OF Fatal Ride and Events
Leading Up to It-Fell in Love on First
Meeting Celebrated Case Ends
with Release of Show Girl.

Her meeting with Caesar" Young is
thus described:
The Meeting.
Il net Caesar Young on the train
going to California, in the latter part
of July, 1902. l was an actress then,
and had been with a 'Florodora' COM
pany in the early part of the season,
and later with "A Chinese Honey
MOON Having received an offer to
join a stock company in Los Angeles,
Cal, l had resigned from the Chinese
Honeymoon and vas on my way to
take up the latter engagement.
Caesar Young was also bound for
the coast, to attend the tracks in Cali
fornia during the racing season. Our
chance acquaintance ripened into
warm friendship and then into love.
Il was a married woman then, hav-
ing been married to Leon James Mar
tin in 1898, in Baltimore, when l was
only 16 years old. We had separated,
however. l knew that Mr.. Young was
also married, for he told me SO.
LAS a result of my meeting with
Caesar Young l did not go to Los An
geles, but remained in his company
more or less during all of the racing
season. 1t was at Caesars suggestion
that l sued my husband for divorce in
order to obtain my freedom. l was di-
vOrced in San Francisco in May, 1903.
Il left the coast and came east for
the first time in March of last year. l
had been in New York only two weeks
when Caesar telegraphed me to come
back to San Francisco, and l went. My
visit to the east made me acquainted
with my sister Julia's husband, J.
Morgan Smith, whom l had never met
before, and gave me a chance to run
down to my old home in Washington
and see my father and mother.
81 went back to the coast and met
Caesar at Los Angeles in the middle
of April, the day the races closed
there. We were together a few weeks,
and then Caesar went to San Francis
co-his wife had arrived there-and l
followed. He went east from there,
and l also did, but on different trains.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-06-03
I'M A STRANGE COUNTRY.
Where Seemingly Impossible Thing.
Were Done and Little
Thought Of.

We left Parsons rancho in Mon
tana about eight miles behind us, when
we came to where a man vas hang.
ing to the limb of a tree, and there was
a cowboy on horseback not far away
relates a writer in the Cleveland PLAIN
Dealer. The stage driver pulled III
his horses when we all had a look,
and asked:
"Has there been a lynching here?'
Cant say as. there has," was the
reply.
But a Teller is hanging there to the
LIMB of a tree"
That's true, and I've been puzzling
over it. 1t seems pur:y plain that he
was drawed UP to that limb. don't it?"
"She do. Yes, sir, it seems plain
that he was drawed up to that limb
and then the free end of the rope madu
fast"
"And that's what I'm puzzling
about" said the cowboy.
"As to how?"
AS 10 now u cTlJlCT Cdu pun Liz
self up, choke himself to death, and
then come down and fasten the rope
and go back up agin. It's the first
time [ ever seen it done, and it's
suthin' new to this country, and after
this | shall go in for all boss thieves
to do likewise. 'Tain't no use in dis
turbing us when they car do the trick
for themselves. Well, so long"
"Do you think the mar hung him.
self?" | asked Of the driver, when wa
were a mile away.
st dunno, my son-I Dunno" he re"
piled, with a shake of his head.
"But think of how impossible it is"
eyes, think Of that, but when you
are in a kentry where a wolf can bite
his tail OFF and stick it on agin, what
you going to believe CT cisbslieYeiA