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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
A CLASH OF RACES
THREE NEGROES, ARE DEAD IN
 MIsSTSsIPPI.
When T. D. Kirk, Planter Gave Blacks Instructions, They Were fingered and Serious Trouble
 Was the ResGit.

Memphis. Tenn. June S--A special to The Commercial-A from Ya- zoo City. Miss. says:
 As a result of a racIal clash near here late today. three negroes are dead. two others were severely whipped. and four white men were wounded.
 The trouble originated when T. D. Kirk, a plantation owner approached a group of negro tenants to instruct them relative to some field work. This angered the negroes and one of them, Abe Johnson. cursed Kirk. who. be- of the number Of his af1taE onfsts, and being unarmed. retreated toward his home to secure a weapon.
 Johnson and his three sons proceed ed to their cabin on a like mission, and before Kirk reached his house he was younger negroes Attracted by the shooting two of Kirk's brothers and T. F. Cheatham ran to nIs assistance and were fired on and wounded. They returned the fire, killing Green John- son. one of their opponents. The John- sons then barricaded themselves in their home and defied arrest. The house was surrounded and protection offered them should they surrender. On their refusal. the building was attack ed, two of the negroes being killed and two others severely whipped
 Late advices from the scene of the trouble state that everything is now quiet and no further trouble is antfct- pated. The Kirk brothers and Chat. ham, while their wounds are severe 1t is believed. will all recover.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
ANSWERS CRITICISM
COTTON EXCHANGE OFFICER GIVES
 OUT STATEMENT.
Quotes List Of Cotton Merchants Who WiH Say That Cotton Deliverable On contract Is Not over
 cIasseAs

New York, June S.-Edward M. Weld. vice president of the New York Cotton Exchange, issued a statement today re- pIving to criticisms as to the classi- f,cation of cotton by the exchange. He gave the names of the following cotton merchants who. he said, have given or will give. affidavits that cot ion deliverable on the contracts of the New York exchange Is not overclassed George H. McFadden and Brothers. Philadelphia: Hooper. Bassett and Company Liverpool Weld and Neville, Houston, Texas, and New York; lnman and Company. Atlanta; e. E. Rich and Comnany, New York; Rogers McCabe and Company. Norfolk.
 MT weld saf1 also that 6 buyer Io demands delivery is likely to get twen- tv-five or thirty different grades. be- csnse so many grades are dealt in and .tbe holder of contracts has to receive any or all of them. After March l. o0S. however, only fifteen grades will ha deliverable He denied that the counsel for the, exchange had admitted that the exchange handles only riff raff cotton and asserted that its rules exclude sandy, dusty. gin cut and re- baled cotton.
 He said the exchanges quotations on tbe day of delivery are one to two cents below the price of cotton in the snot market. because the quotation is based on the price of middling cotton, which this year has ruled at prem ium over the current position. The re- tisfon committee of the exchange, he said made an error when they did not establish sufficiently wide differences at which the grades below middling might be delivered.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
|KIIA A WIFE; .IHEN HIMSELF Captain Walker Prin- cipal in Tragedy. HAD A FAMILY QUARREL Aged Officer of Two Navies Takes
 Life. Resided in BiIoxi, Miss, and Had served on warships of United
 states and the Con-
 federacy.
HAD A FAMILY QUARREL.

BiloN. Miss. uune S.--Capt. John walker shot and killed his wife and ten killed himself shortly after Luncheon today.
 Captain Walker was an officer in the United States navy with Perry on his memorable trip to Japan. was a cap- tain in the Confederate navy, with com mand of the Mississippi and Louisiana coast fleet, and at the time of his death was President of the Bank of Biloxi. He was one of the best known men in this section of the South.
 The tragedy occurred during a dis pute between husband and wife.
 The servants in the house say that the aged couple. both of whom were over 70 years of age, had violent quarrel during luncheon. Five min utes elapsed between the shooting of his wife and Captain Walkers sui- eide.
 During this interval he wrote a note requesting that J.. H. Walker. his son. in New orleans, be notified. Mrs. Walker was a second wife. The police have begun an investigation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
CAN THE RACES BE SEP PARATEDp Big Question Before terstate Commission. EEGRESs IS COMPLAINANT Alleges She Had to Ride in Jim
 Crow" Car. CIaims she Was Discriminated Against and was Forced to Ride In
 an Inferior Car for
 Negroes.
NEGREss IS COMPLAINANT

Chicago, June S.-Whsther railroads have the right under the law 10 pro- vide separate cars for white and col ored passengers in interstate trafic practically is the question which wse argued today before the InterstEte Commerce Commission.
 The case was that of Georgi4 Ed- wards, negress. against the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway Company, operating the Weakern and Atlantic Railroad. The complainant al- legged that on August 31, 1908. she pur- from Chattanooga, Tenn, ito Dalton, Ga, and was compelled by Ethe defend ant company to ride in an inferior coach. popuiarly known as Jim Crow" car. although on the same train white passengers were permitted to ride in a first class coach. SBe mainA tained that in this way and in other respects she was discriminated against. She seeks reparatory damages and a construction of the law.
 In the hearing of the case it was as- serted by the railroad company that the facilities afforded the passengers in the car set apart for negro pas- sengers were equal to those in the cars set aside for white passengers; that the railroad company had not discrim- fnated against the complainant, and that, while the accommodations given negro passengers were equal to those given the whites. they were not neces- sarily identical. The negress alleged in her testimony that she was com pelled to travel in car in which smok- ing was permitted and that she became III in consequence. She also criticised the accommodations afforded in the car as inadequate. uncomfortable and in convenient.
 Briefs were filed by counsel in the case and today William H. H. Hart of this city, attorney for the com pIainant, and John L.. I've. of Atlanta, counsel for the railroad company. sub- mttted oral arguments to the Commis- sion. The former maintained that the had no right to discriminate Samong passengers who had paid first class transportation in interstate traf- fic, while Attorney I've maintained that there had been no discrimination m fact or intended.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
WIPED OUT BY QOUDBURSI Gradyvi1le Devastated and 2l Dead. SECLUDED KENTUCKY TOWN
 -s--- Swollen Greek Assdmes Preportisns of the Tidal Waves.
  Maay Women and ChiIdren Anasnw tks Desd--ReIief Dispstched ts s<rsck- en vnIase from the Ne.r-
 sst Town.
'EnUDED KENTUCKY TOWN

Louisville. Ky, June s-Twenty-o persons dead, the village dovastated. and several thousand acres of growfn9 crops ruined Is the sum total Of tho havoc wrought by g c1oudburst that de- scended on Gradyville. Ky, and vtcfn- ity last night. All the dead arc rosi~8 dents of Gradyviiie and. although re- ports are meagre owing to the re- moteness of the place. and tho prostra~ ton of telephone and telegraph w1res. it is believed that no further fatalities will be reported from the surrounding country.
 The dead Mrs. L.. c. Nell, wife Of State Senator Nell and her four chil- dren; Mrs. Lum Hill and one child: Mrs. Carl Wflmore, her daughter and granddaughter: Paul wilson. IS years old; Mrs. Hartfeid Moss and her sfx children5 Mrs. J. w. Keitner and one child: Miss Mary Moss. All but two of the bodies have been recovered.
 The disaster was due to the cratic behavior of Big Creek, ordinarily small stream but which was already swollen by recent rains. When tht cloudburst precipitated three inches of rain in an hour on Gradyville and yi- cinity the creek leaped from its bed and took new course with the im- petuosity of tidal wave. The fnhab- itants of Gradyville had no warming and nearly all were in bed when the foaming waters struck the place, car ryfng away six large residences mill and number of smaller houses. Nearly all the victims were drowned, but four were crushed by the collapse of their dwellings when the torrent struck them. State Senator Nell, who. is a physician, owes his escape from the fate that overlook the rest of his family to the fact that he was several miles away in the hills visiting pa tfent when the storm broke. He was at first reported to be among the dead.
 As soon as the news of the disaster reached Columbia. Kyy the nearest town of any size. several hundred effi- gems departed at once for the scere with wrecking appliances. food and clothing, all the physieians &vatltbit. going along. They found the residenta of the devastated village dazed and helpless. but by nightfail all the reisef possible had been afforded Several persons had been injured but none or these, 1t is stated, will die.
 GradyviiIe is q village of ITS inhab- ftants in Adair County, six miles from Columbia and eighteen miles from the nearest railroad station.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
CONFESSES
 TO MURDERS Negro Says He Killed Three White Men. MCMILLAN IN ANDALUSLA Desperate Black Who Resisted His
 Arrest. He Admits Having Killed Reab wiI- Hams, Frank Williams And An- other Mas, Name UnI<nown,
 In MyrtIewood.
IcMILLAN IN ANDALUsIA

Andalusia, June s.--(special.) )-Isaac McMtllan. a negro. confessed murderer of three white men in Alabama, is in the Covington county jail. He admit ted his crimes after being brought here tonight from Seawright by the marshal of this place.
 According to McMillan's confession. he killed a white man by the name of Reub Williams. in or near Birmingham, last year. During the same period, he says. he killed a white man, Frank Williams. short diytance above Mont gomery.
 During the first part of the present year. McMiflan confesses to having slain another white man at Myrtle wood. The name of this man he could not recall
 McMillan was arrested by several citizens of Seawright. When taken into custody as a suspicious character. he offered desperate resistance. A circular sent out bearing description of a negro wanted for murder led to the arrest of the negro McMillan's ap- pearance. 1t is said. corresponds with the descriptions.
 The negro did not confess until he was brought to Andalusia.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
HAVOC IS WROUGHT
FIRST DETAILS OF AN AWFUL DIs-
 AsTER-
Caroline Islands were Visited by Ty- phoon gnd Tidal Wave in March and Hundreds of Per-
 sons Killed.

San Francisco, Cal, June s.The hrst details of the havoc wrought by a typhoon and tidal wave in the Car oIine Islands in the latter part of March. were brought here today by Rev c. H Jagnow. a missionary who arrived on the steamer Coptic.
 A few days before Easter sunday the islands known as the Oleai group were completely devastated by a typhoon. A tidal wave that foiiowedd not only swept over the land, but tt practically buried the islands under ' blanket of sand from the oceans bed This wave rendered 1,50o people homeless and 250 men. women and children were drown ed on one island alone.
 The typhoon lasted three days. When the tidal wave occurred and swept over the lands. hundreds of natives were saved by swimming about until the waters receded. The German author- ities sent a steamer with supplies and with these. the natives have managed to live. .
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
INDICTED FOR PEoNAGE.
west virginians Accused of Holding
 Laborers for Fare.


 Laborers for Fare.
 Charleston, W. Va, June s,--The federal grand jury for the Southern district of West Virginia brought in indictments today for peonage against the w. M. Ritter Lumber Company or Maben, wyoming county; s. M. Wolfe. superintendent of the camp at Maben; Harvey Derne. superintendent of the manufacturing department of the same company, whose home is in Columbus: e. IT. Carson, superintendent of rail- road construction at the camp; Elias Hatfield, William Tolliver and Lace Stewart guards. These same parties were also indicted jointly on charge of conspiracy, the penalty of which is a fine of from $-.000 to s1o.000 and im- prisonment not over two years. It Is alleged that foreign laborers were worked in lumber camps under guard until their railroad fare was paid.
 The matter was first brought to the attention of the state officials by Sec retary of State Root, who was in cor respondence with Governor Dawson on the subject last winter.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
suT0TDE. RECORD BaoIx1sss. ].
chieaEo'n Great Number In May D
 Iieved Due to Weather.

Iieved Due to Weather.
 Chicago. June s.--Chicago's suicide record was broken in May when fifty five persons in the city ended their lives. The coroner's ofiice and Fore caster Henry believe that the weath- CT is responsible for the increase.
 The coroner's books show all rec ords in the section of Cook. were ,brok- en in May There were 1ss cases of de- struction when the ofilce closed last night, and the effect of the weather is to be seen in the increasing scale
 The efrect on all scores of crime also was manifest. In the first five months of the year there were seventy five murders. twenty-two of which were committed in May.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
LEE cRUcE NOMINATED.
Results Of The Democratic Primary In
 (1kJahomH.

Guthrie. okla. June s-Reports from the state Democratic primary held in Oklahoma and Indian Territory today indicate the nomination of Lee Cruce or Ardmore, sI. T.. for Governor over C.. N. Haskell of Muskogee, and Thomas Doyle of Perry.
 Returns are coming in slowly in the senatorial race. Roy Hoffman of Chan dler, and T.. P. Gore of Lawton, ap- pear to be in the les on the Oklahoma side while in Indian Territory R. l.: owens of Muskogee is ahead.
 Results from rural districts con ceded to be Haskelfs stronghold are meagre.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
Mrs. orchard Talks.

" Cripple Creek. Colo, June 2S--Mrs. citation for the purpose of finding out Altman yesterday and was reported to have started for Boise to be a witness in the Steunenberg case. returned to- day
 SirS said she had been visiting friends in sCaxueron and had no intention of going ID Boise. She had been asked by both, sides to be witness in the case. she said, but had refused. as she did not think she could give any im- portant tes6 lony. She denied the, re- port that shs(S'd said her husband was a detective ahS said he once told her he had joined the mine owners asso- citation for the purpose ot find out what that organization was doing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
Decline ,o Shut Down MI1is.

Fall River, Mass, June S--The Man ufacturers' Association of this city de- clined today to grant the requests of the textile workers for a weeks shut down of the cotton mills in August in order that the operatives might have a brief vacation. The manufacturers give as the reason for their refusal the inability to arrange for delivery on contracts.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
Booker at White House.

Washington. June S.-Booker T. Washington had a conference with President Roosevelt at the White House today. He reached the White House shortly before 10 o'clock and re- mained some time.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09

Carlton, who was an official of the Mine Owners Association. He had also spoken to Nelson Franklin.
 Asked how it was that he could pass the militia without trouble in Cripple Creek. Orchard replied that there were many union men who had done the same thing.
 At this point orchard created some thing of a sensation by adding the crime of arson to his long list of mis- deeds He and Johnny Nevill decid- ed to burn Nevill's saoon, near the In- dependence depot. collect the insurance money and divide it.
 'who set fire t9 the saloon~
 "I did"
 T M took some .Pettioone Dope up- stairs and came awsg and left it there"
 'You did have some use for Petit bone Dope then after ailT'
 Yes"
 insurance Neville collected.
 After the arson experience. Orchard said he deserted his second wife and started off on the trial with Nevill and his son. Orchard said he had sent some money to his first wife since he had been in the penitentiary here.
 Where did you get it?" demanded Richardson.
 q got it from Warden whitney. I asked him if he would advance me $50 on some ,guns. field glasses and things | had, which could be sold after tho trial"
 Where did Whitney get the monevT"
 He said he got it from the Govern orr
 Orchard said he had also sold a locket and chain and sent the money to his wife. Altogether he had got SIS since his arrest
 He had also got some clothes once in a while.
 Got some lately to appear in at this trial didn't you" Yes" And had your picture takenY"
 Yes"
 Adjournment at this point was taken until 9:30 a. m..- Monday
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
CONSTABLE KILLED.

J. H. Hollis Slain by Fred Burke Nenr
 Birmingham.
 Birmingham, Ala, June S.-Consta- ble J. H. Hollis was shot and killed at Littleton, near Birmingham, tonight by Fred Burke Burke was terrorizing the town when Hollis attempted to arr rest him.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
TORNADO IN rLLrNoIs.
York Practically Wiped Out And Sew
 ernY Killed.

X0Ek EEAEAac0htt FAE@t4 $@- <-A-r- -
 ernI Killed.
 York, Ill, June S--Three persons are dead and eight fatally injured as . re- suit of a tornado which practically wiped out this town last night. The loss to property is estimated at sbo.- 900. The damage to timber. fruit ana crops will be more than si0o.000.
 The dead: Henry Rock. sixty years of age, Terre HaEte, Ind; Mrs. Lucinda Pinkertoa. fifty years of age, York; Mrs. John Bostick, York
 Fatally injured: Clyde Scott. York; B. F. Miller, York: Mrs. 8. F. Free man, York: Mrs. B. F. Miller. York: Annabel Newman, York: James Layton. Granville. Ind: Mrs. Lydia Foster. York; Mrs. James Layton Grayvtlles Ind.
 Without warning the storm broke while most of the people were at supp per. Entire families were buried in the ruins of houses, The storm lasted less than four minutes. All commupi- cation was cut or until early today,
 Mrs Lydia Pinkerton was blown into the top of a tree. several hundred feet from the house. She died in few: minutes. The Methodist Protestant Church was demolished and the pro- prietor of a saloon across the street was hurled through his door into a. thick hedge fifty feet away. Many horses and cattle were blown away and the carcasses apparently fell into ths Wabash river and weer washed away.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
prIncetou. Are Champlons,

Princeton. N. J., June S-Princeton owne the Eastern intercollegiate base ball championship. defeating Yale here this afternoon by 4 to 8.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
Deaths mt New Minden.

Nashville, H., June s.---A tornado swept over New Minden, seven miles north of this city, early today, killing five persons and injuring several. A number of houses were demolished
 The storm struck the northern por- tion of the town and most of the houses destroyed were country cots tages.
 Tn the town, the German Lutheran Church was badly damaged. the stee- pie being blown down and the roof blown of. On the north side of the church. the parochial school was de- molished. These buildings were prae- tically the only ones in the village proper that were damaged. The tor nado IeveIIed about seven farm houses. The weihe house, in which four peo- pie were killed, was about the last house struck. It was completely de- molIshed. The occupants were carried with the debris of the house into the adjacent fields.
 Physicians from this city and Hoyle- ton were hurried to tho scene.
 A report has reached here that a farmer driving from Hoylston to New Minden with a wagon and binder had disappeared.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
WEATHER FORECAsr.

WEATHER FORECAST washington, June S.-For Alabaynas Generally fair Sunday and AIondavE E nght southwest to south ukndns
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-09
NINETEENTH LYNoHING.
Commissioner Hfahern Leaves washing. F x,,.. k... Re~s,g,e. fst.atfauoora yporlx

COmmf8HIOner MNneKM LtHVeB WH8hEHB-
 ion to Resume Chattanooga Work.
 Washington, June S.-Commissioner James D. Mahern, of the Supreme Court of the United States, left Washington for Chattanooga, Tenn. where on Mon day next he twill resume his investiga- tion into the complaints of the Su- prerne Corut against Sheriff Shlpp and others charged with complicity in the iynching of the negro. Ed Johnson. af- ter the court had taken cognizance of his case. f sst
The sun., 1907-12-29
LARRY DELMOURS FUNERAL.
Politicians. Wig and Little, Follow CrOkcr's
Right Hand Man to the Grave.

Whispering Larry Delmour who was
once the right hand man of Boss Croker
and who died at his home. at II8 East Eighty
ninth street, on Christmas day. was buried
yesterday from the Church OF st. Ignatius
Loyola with the highest honOrs Of tho
masonry OF politics. All the big and
little politicians Of the city who has been
associated with Larry in the Croker regime
were in carriages behind the hearse.
Begide the hearse marched the following
NDtDrary pallbearers: Ex-senator George
W Plunkitt. former Tax Commissioner
"a Sheehy. Senator Maurice Featherson,
Judge Alexander Feitner. Police Captain
John Fleming. Michael Cosgrove. william
Dalton, Matthew Moore, Harry Hart and
Herman Josephs. Others who were
present were Sheriff Nick Hayes. former
Corporation Counsel John j. Delany.
Congressman Daniel Riordan, Hugh bon
ner, John F. Mcintyre. former Police Inspec-
tor Alexander Williams Thomas E. Rush and
Ed W. Levy.
At the church solemn high requiem mass
was conducted by the Rev. Father George
Quinn, assisted by the Rev. Fathers Semple
and Delaney. A great crowd Of Delnour's
former constituents gathered before the
church and stood with barred heads as the
caslxet was carried in. The interment was
In Calvary Cemetery.
The sun., 1907-12-29
PARKS DRANK PARIS GREEN.
ne Took the Poison Because He Thought
His wlfe Had Conc 60 Prayer Meeting.

UTICA, Dec. 2s-Thomas Parks, a plumber
who resides in New York city, is lying at the
point OF death at the home Of his parents
in German Hollow following an attempt to
commit suicide. He swallowed paris green
last night because he believed his wife,
with whom he was spending the Christmas
holidays, planned to attend q prayer meet
ing contrary to his wishes. There has re-
Gently been organized in German Hollow
a Christian Epdeavor Society which meets
weekly, and among its members mono 10
more jealous than Mrs. Parks. Her hus-
band, however, objected to her devoting
so much time to religious purposes and
warned her that IL she attended last nights
meeting she would regret IL.
Mrs. Parks subsequently decided to re-
main at home with her husband, but in
the course Of the evening had occasion to
run over to a neighbor's house. Evidently
thinking she intended to go to the prayer
meeting Parks drank a quantity OF paris
green solution five minutes after she left
the house. Mrs. Parks on her return find
ing her husband In convulsions. suspected
that he had taken poison and forced
nearly a quart OF milk down his throat
as an emetic. He had been drinking con-
siderable cider. and the combination OF milk
and cider worked like charm and he may
recover.