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The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-28
GIRL CATCHES NEGEO
ovERPOwERs BLACK BRUTE !
 HEIR HOME.
MeR Took Charge of Otts Hendricks and Claim That He Eseapea
 From Them in the WaOdR.

StAtesboro. Ga. Sept. 27.- When Otis Hendricks. a negro, entered the room of a young white woman near here last night for the purpose of commit ting criminal assault. he was attack ed with such fury by hls intended victim that he was soon Overpowered and captured.
 After subduinE the negro the young woman forcihly held hinn until sever al men in the house cane to her as distance and took the negro in charge
 The men took thets prisoner to a nearby woods where they intended guarding him until ularninK and then bringing him here to tzii. While thes were building a fire the negro escap. ed and has not been Fecaptured.
 Several articles of clothing which the negro had removed before enter Ing the room of his intended victim were found near the young womahr home this morning.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-28
Conner Names Euans
 For Supreme Court

sci whose crew Is now aboard the win ter quarter school lightship was the Norwegian steamer Gere. Captain Myer. The steamer cleared from Philadelphia September 23 for Sagua La Grande. Cuba.
 Captain Delano stated that as the Porto Rico was passing winter quar- ter hghtship yesterday morning a sig nal was seen flying from the lightship. A heavy northalst gale prevailed. He ordered his ship to run close to the light station and when as near. as consistent with safety, because of the nature of the weather, an attempt was made to communicate by megaphones. It was difficult work with the wind whistling about the superstructure of the ships but enough was learned by those on the Porto Rico for them to realize that ship had foundered.
 The captain of the llightship said there were six survivors from the Ill fated ship on his vessel and asked that they be taken of.
 Captain Delano considered the mat ter carefully and decided 1t would be tempting death to try to make the transfer under the weather conditions prevailing. Those on the lightship were apparently satisfied to wait.
 While the information was given that twelve persons had been drowned. no attempt was made to secure the names. Those on the Porto Rico said they saw a small boat hanging to the rear of the lightship. The little craft was badly battered and it Is believed that the men saved made their way in 1t to the lightship.
 It Is not thought the small boat which brought the survivors could have come any great distance.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-28
WILL RETURN MONEY
VOLUNTARY OFFER BY A DIsTIL-
 LERY COMPANY.
Proposes to Make Good Losses to South Carolina DispenaaFy sys- tenn by the PeeulattOns
 of Farnum.

Columbia, s. C., Sept 27.-Foilowing a conference last week between the winding-up commission of the old State dispensary and the representa- tives of the Bernheim Distilling Com pany of Louisville. Ky, the company today announced that 1t will refund to the State overcharges on liouors amounting to $30.oOO.
 The company. which was represent ed before the old State Board of Con. trol by James S. Farnum. acquitted Saturday of bribing Joseph B. Wiley, then a member of the purchasing board to give the concerns represent ed by Farnum preference in purchas- ing liquors, admits the overcharEes and says 1t Is willing to make good this much of the States loss
 The refund Is voluntary on the part of the company as the old State Dis- pensary Board of Control had effected a complete settlement with the con- cern before the winding up commits sion took charge of the affaits of the dispensary when the institution was legislated out of existence. The com pany had never put in a claim for money due it for liquors sold to the dispensary.
 Farnum is under indictment for con- spiracy and there are two more charges of bribery against him. What effect this admission by the liquor company that 1t secured contracts at exorbftant PriC6s VIII have on these cases. which probably will come up at the next term of court is not known.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-28
CLAIMS COOKS REPORT FALSE Commander Peary Gives
 The Lie. DISCUSSES WHITNEY VISIT "Ihe Roosevelt Not An Express
 For Dr. Cook" Declare. whi.ey We. Not Esectes, Bwt Left ship of ow. Accord
 --wm Go ss New
 
WHITNEY VISIT

Portland, Me. Sept. 27.--"I wish to emphasize that the relations between Whitney and myself were, at all times while he was aboard the Roosevelt. and when he left to so aboard the Jeanie. the relations as between gentlemen" said Commander Peary today.
 Up to the moment when he last saw ~him, Peary said, he did not consider it conceivable that whitney could have had any valuable instruments or doc- uments of pr. Cooks. In fact, Whit. ney had stated that he merely had some of Cooks belongings and asked to put them aboard the Roosevelt.
 This refused to permit for obvi- ous reasons" said Peary. T knew what Cook was up to, and that he had been trying to take advantage of my life's work and supplies. Therefore, I did not care to make the Roosevelt an express for pr. Cook. As for Whit ney living year on my supplies, he Was perfectly welcome to them and he should have considered himself my guest during the year he was hunting from Etah."
 Disbelieyes Cooks Story.
 Peary says he does not believe Cook left records. instruments or flags with Whitney and cannot conceive that any man under the circumstances would have left such priceless things behind. The instruments, records and flags. he says, would have added practically nothing to the burden of the three or fepr sledges and teams oe dogs which transported Cook to Danish Greenland.
 Up to this noon Psary had received no werd from and had not attempted to communicate with Harry whitney. He expected to hear nothing from him.
 Peary's reference to his relations with Whitney was made after he had been asked if 1t were true that he had elected Whitney from the Roosevelt. He explained that Whitney left the ship ana boarded the Jeahie because he desired further hunting.
 Comander Peary, accompanied by Mrs. Peary. left Portland today for Bar Harber to confer with General
 psssy sass hs ssepia prsssea se New York to take Mie place oss StA0 hrfdga oE Sbl6 8Asy1zs in tEH 5lsdson- Fulton pAkh(t <ftra EatNFeSsEs M asss ss <, pr. Cook was very emphatic that he possessed all that was necessary. The statement that the condition of his boots would show whether he had been to the pole brought the following re- ply.
 we used Eskimo seal skin kamiks. when the first pairs were worn out. we gave them to the dogs to eat when we reached Jones' Sound. and there made new ones. These also were worn out, and we made others. with which we re- turned to Etah. When we arrived there the boots were comparatively new.
 we built our own sledgss at Anno- tok. Che of my siedses was given to MT. whitney"
 when the subject of his relations to Peary was touched upon, pr. Cook said:
 T have never had any trouble with Lieutenant Peary and cannot explain his attitude. expect to meet him when he returns. 1 am prepared to meet any charges he may formulate over his signature"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-28
WHISTLER ON FIRE
DAMAGE DONE TO SUBURB OF MO-
 BILE.
Entire Block Is Burned Imelua&Aw Oad Fellows Hall And Assistance ss Rushed Te
 Town.

Mobile, Sept 2s.-At 1 o'clock this morning call for assistance from Whistler was received by the local fire department saying that an entire block of residences were destroyed and that the Odd Fellows Hall was threatened.
 It is impossible to get into commu- nfcation with whistler over the tele- phone and it is not known what the damage Is.
 A light steamer and also a chemical engine left shortly after 1 o'clock this morning for the town. five miles dis tAnt.
 It was learned from a local source that the fire started in a two story building occupied by Italian laborers employed at the Mobile and Ohio shops, The fire partially destroyed a small residence next door and is reported to have wiped away nearly the entire block.
 Information is meagre and it Is im- possible at this hour Co ascertain the extent of the damage or exactly what property was destroyed.
 The Are was eXtinguished by the Whistler nremen aided by the many employees Of the Mobile and Ohio Rail road shops together with the citizens of the town.
 It appears that the flames were checked before the arrival Of the Mo- bile engines.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-28
AWFUL CRIME DARED.
Alleged That Man Confesses to Chil
 dren's Murder.


 dren's Murder.
 Utica, N. r.. Sept. 27 7.--Theodore Rizzo. who has been in jail here for 8 week on suspicion of being connected with the Kidnapping of two little girls and boy and killing one of the girls and the little boy, and shooting the other child in the arm, was today for- mally charged with the crime in the city court.
 It is alleged that Rizxo made a com plete confession to the police today. It is said he declared that he took the girls to culvert with the intention of attacking them, and that when they threatened to tell their fathers, he shot them to silence them.
 For thirty-six hours, according to the police they had been endeav bring to secure an admission from Rlzzu and finally he told the story in all its narrowing details. Rizzo, 1t is claimed, assaulted the two little girls but when they threatened to tell their fathers he shot them and the little boy as we'll. leaving all three for dead. Following the alleged confession. . charge of murder in the first degree was made against Rixzo. He was ar- raikned before Justice O'connor and when the latter read the charge aMaiRat him Rizza collapsed. Exanii- nation was thsn waived and Risxo fa- fAandsa to jail. s.,.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-28
TWELVE MEN PERISH
STORY OF A THRILLING EXPERT-
 ENCE AT SEA.
Master Of Steamer Porto Rico Tells Of Tragedy Which Befen Crew Of An Unknown
 Weasel.

Baltimore. Md. Sept. 27.-sIx sur vivors out of crew of eighteen are aboard winter quarter lightship. the remaining twelve men having perish ed, according to a report made by Captain Delano, of the steamer Porto Rico. which arrived here today from New York.
 Captain Delano said the name of the ship through the gale sounded like 'Savilla." There Is a fruit steamer or the name of Savilia. but there Is also a steamer named SatillA, e lumber car rier, which sailed from Galveston Sep- tember IT for New York and it Is call culated would have been in the neigh borhood of winter quarter lightship about this time. She carried a crew of eighteen.
 Theae facts incline mariners here to the belief that the lost vessel might have been the Satilla.
 IL is believed here that the lost ves-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-28
TEN DIE IN WRECK
EARLY MORNING COLLISION OC-
 OURS IN CHICAGO.
Train Crashes Into Another Bound For The Stock Yaras--sfx Bodies Have Been Recovered From
 the Debris.

Chicago. ILL, Sept. 2s-Tea men were killed and sixteen probably fatal ly injured early this morning when a train southbound for Cincinnati on the Pennsylvania Railroad crashed into the caboose of Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul train bound for the stock yards.
 sixtssn msn were in Int esbepse os the stock trstn when tn6 bassshket train crashsd into it in rhs raiIfoad yards few blocks from the downtown station.
 The locomotive ploughnd through the caboose. tearing 1t to shfeds and set- ting fire to the debris.
 Six bodies were recovered within a few minutes after the crash while the flames were eating up the splIntefed bits of the demolished car. Sixteen inc jured were dragged from the burning ruins.
 The passenger train. known as the Cincinnati special of the Pan Handle Route of the Pennsylvania Railroad, left the union station soon after mid- night No signals had been given SO far as could be learned that any other train was on the track. The passenger train increased its speed and when at Twelfth Street the engineer saw the rear lights of the freight ahead. IL was too late to avert collision. Not only was the caboose cut in-two. but four cars ih front of 1t were tele. scoped@
 The first body to be identified was that of Charles Bond. of Milwaukee conductor of the freight train.
 The engineer. the fireman and the conductor of the passenger train were slf9htly injured.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-28
CHILDREN IN PANIC
ITALIAN LITTLE ONEss EXCITED
 BY FIREWORKS.
They Were Nervous ct School Because of Black Hand StoFtes-srour-
 teen of Them Are

hUENs
 New York City. Sept. 27.-Terrified by Black Hand stories. 1000 children stampeded in a Polish parochial school In Jersey City today when fire works were set off in the street below. and in the mad rush for the doors. four teen were crushed. one so seriously that death probably will result
 The fatally injured child In Mari anna Zelackshky. years old. the oth- CTS comprise five litle girls and eight little boys, all ranging from ' to 10 years of age. All are in Jersey City hospitals. but 1t Is believed all will recover.
 The school house. three story brick building, is stones throw from an Italian church, which had obtain ed a permit to set off fire works iur- ing a church celebration today. A ru- nor got out last week among the chill dren in lower Jersey City schools that threats had been made to blow up the schools with dynamite.
 The children of St. Anthony's school have been particularly nervous about it. and when the bombs went off sud denly today they ran shriekinE from their recitation rooms into the halls and down the stairways. There are two street loorways but one of them was closed. At the closed entrance there occurred a disastrous jam. Hero several of the smaller children were trampled into unconsciousness while others ran back into the building and sprang through open windows fifteen feet to an areaway below
 Policemen and passers-by. attracted by the cries. rushed to the scene. but order was not restored until fourteen children had been seriously hurt.
 A report spread quickly that there were eight dead and hundreds of mothers mingled in the crowd outside the building moaning. weeping and adding to the general confusion. This Is not the first riot of it's kind in Jer- say City as the children of the for eiGn element are constantly in fear Of the Black Hand
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-28
DIT CBEfsEs aeTs MONET. D. ,. vsnt Is Heir to Hrssa4e in ssss-
 land 4+4

Mexico City. Sept. 27--out of a job by reason of recently resigning at the time .h etrain dispatchers of the Ma tiona1 Lines of Mexico went out on strike, and now in the United States in search of Work. D. J. Vent. former chief dispatcher at Monterey for the National Lines. has fallen heir to ss0O.- 900 gold
 Mrs. Vent, now In this city, has been advised by her husband by wire, that he is one of ten heirs to $e.00o.00o gold left by his grandmother in Scotland. Mir. Vents share Is s600,0004
 The grandmother recently died and her fortune was even larger than sup posed. The money is to be devided equally among the heirs.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-28

mine before" suggested the commit teeman.
 .'weiI, I have seen pictures and read about them" replied MT. Hammond.
 The upward journey In the cages, with a $500 horse power engine pull ing at the cables. was accomplished in just half the time occupied in the de- scent and at q speed which made the inexperienced gasp
 During his journey through the mines. the President was within sev- enty-five feet of fire which has been burning for four years and which has defied all efforts to extinguish 1t.
 At Butte. the President was present. ed with full sized gold ciub--a driv- er-made of copper. silver and gold. the three metals that have made Butte famous.
 On the head of the driver, the fol- lowing inscription was engraved:
 william Howard Taft, Champion is0s-1s13--and then some. Butte. Mont. September 27. f909."
 In the course of his speech at Butte, the President said:
 T am mighty glad to see you and the reason why am mighty glad to see you is that ! cannot help but feel from your kindness and cordiality that you are glad to see me. I am deeply pleased at the reception be- cause of Its non partisan character and especially glad that I am look ing into the faces of Democrats as we'll as Republicans and that we are all here without thought of party and only to give expression to the feeling of common interest in our common cause and love for our dear old flag"
 When the Presidents special train pulled into Helena reception com mittee composed of 400 citizens from all parts of Montana graeted Mr. Taft He was driven in an automobile di- rectly to the State Fair grounds. He was given an enthusiastic welcome as he mounted the speakers stand. where two hours before James J. Hill had de. livered an address. Mir. Taft was in- troduced by Governor Norris.
 The President spoke for about twen- ty minutes. At the conclusion of his speech he witnessed a cowboy race and was then driven down to the city where he reviewed the school children who had been assembled on the lawn in front of the Federal building. He was then driven 10 his train and left for Spokane about 6 o'clock
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-28
ANOTHER CONTROVERSY.
Japan Has Dispute Concerning Expior-
 erss Feat.

Victoria, B. C., Sept. 27.--- Wordy warfare in the English newspapers in Japan similar to the Peary-Cook con troversy in the United States was be- ing waged when the steamer Empress of China sailed. The controversy in Japan was with regard to descent made last month into the crater Of Mount Asama by Prof. Jay J. Rogers, of Chicago.
 The professor .telegraphed the par" ticulars of the exploit to Yokohama newspapers. telling of sensational ex- perfences when lowered on a rope by four others in the crater. pr. Clay McCauIey, of Boston, author and mis- sionary, wrote: Tn the interest or truth" stating that Professor Rogers had greatly magnifed the adventure and instead of being lowered into the crater had crawled down the rough slope leading into it. Since then friends of both have been busy, and coIunns are being devoted to letters and photographs.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-28
COOK ANswERs PEARy.
Broskiyn Man Gees More Hnto the De-
 tMkins

Broehiyn Man Gees More Hnto the ne-
 tMkln.
 New york. Sept. 27--Dr. Cook con- scented tonight to give The Associated Press a formal reply to some of the most material Of the charges brought against him by Commander Peary.
 A more complete declaration will be issued by the explorer when Command CT Peary make his accusations over his own signature.
 The statement is es follows:
 Commander Peary says that my sledges were not fitted to Arctic travel and that he would not care to voyage in the Arctic with them. The only sledge Commander Peary saw was half of one which I had given to Mir whitney as a souvenir. The remainder arrows.
 "As to my reasons for leaving my instruments with MT. Whitney. he had told me that tho Eric was coming to Etah and would take him over to the American side to hunt big game and would come back later to Annatok. The distance from Annatok to Upernavik by the route which I was compelled to follow was nearly 700 miles. Tn that journey I had to travel over high land in two places with glaciers and dim cult places to negotiate. The ice was extremely rough and thers was good deal of water to be expected that would have subjected the instruments to @ risk which was entirely unnecessary when MT. Whitney awaited skip to so to Etah for him upon which he ex- pected to return direct to America
 By going to Upernavik I hoped to get back by the end of July or the middle of August. wanted to see my famnflN uG nnHaihAp | had been separated from them for over two years while Mir Whitney did not ex- pect to get back before Octoher.
 "As to the charge that I had not found traces of Commander Peary'S records at Cape Thomas Hubbard: The cape is a round promuntory and 1T would be difficult to find any distinct point which could be positively recoR' nized as Cape Thomas Hubbard. From Commander Peary's map am abso. luteiy unable to locate Cape Thomas Hubbard. We did not search for any cairn where records might be depos. tied. In fact. I did not know that Com mander Peary had left any records there.
 Considerably to the west 1 did see a rock which might have been cache but it might have been merely clufnp of rocks. was at a very long dis tance from it and there was no reason why I should have searched. left cache of provisions close to the be ginning of the cliffs of what Sverdrup pots down as svartenoeg. There was no indication near where we left our provisions.
 The other points of the so-calied charges have been replied to in detail on several occasions. I win answer ev- erythine in the most formal way when
 
 1cos1Iancd oa Psse sevsn.l
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-28
ore yfgnes Are Re-Gemsea.

Knoxville. Tenn. Sept. 27--The La folette Coal. Iron and Railway Com. pany of Lafolette. has leased the ore mines of the Etowah Development Company at Cartersville, Ga Prepara' tions are being made to reopen the mine and coke ovens. Six hundred ad- ditional men will be given employment at once
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-28
Restrain Heinze Company

Portland. Me, Sept. 27-An injunc- tion restraining the holding tomorrow of the annual meeting of the Davis Daily Mining Company, of which r. A. Heinze is President, has been granted by the Maine courts on the petition of Newman Erb and s. NJ. Jarvis. The petitioners claimed that the stock holders did not have sufficient noti1ca- tion of the meeting.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-28
Successor of Justice N.
 D. Denson. CLAYTON MAN GETS
 THE JUDICIAL PLUM Harry Martin Declines to Go on
 Circuit Bench. Governor Announces Hfs Decision While on Political Visit to Oxark. Settles Contest For 2 High

Ozark, Sept. 27-(SpecizI. )-Governo Conner. while here today. announced his appointment of Judge A. A. Evans, of Clayton. to the place on the Supreme Court Bench made vacant by the resig- nation of Judge N. D. Denson,
 The successor of Judge Evans in this Judicial Circuit. has not been appoint ed. The Governor offered the place to Hon. H. L. Martin. of ozark. but he declined the honor.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-28
TAFT SUPPORTS BANARD.
Wires Embarrassment of Candidate fo
 Mayor Of New York.

Mayor of New York. < New York, Sept. z7.--A message from President Taft expressing the hope that Otto T. Banard, the Republican nom- inee, will be elected Mayor of New York City. was received today by Rep resentative Persons. chairman of the New York County Republican Commit tee. MT. Taft saids
 "I sincerely hope that he will be elected, not only because he is a Re publican. nor because of any mere party consideration. but because I know he will give to the people of the city of New York such an administration as they have not seen for many years. An intimate friendship of thirty years en- ables me to bear witness to his high character as a man and his peculiar fitness for the office.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-28
Flie. to JoahannlathaL

Berlin. Sept. 27.-Hubert Latham, the French aviator, flew in an aeroplane to- day across Berlin and outskirts to Joahannlsthal. where an aeroplane ex- hibition was in progress. He drove straight across the city. a distance of eleven and one-Quarter miles, in twen- ty-four minutes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-28
canndlnn nenIen Ieenort.

Montreal, Can, Sept. 227>-The report the the Quebec Provincial Government had decided to impose an export duty on all raw pulp wood exported to the United States is denied by Premier Gouin. MT. Gouin said to The Asso' ciated Press today that ne wished is to be specifically stated that his ans uouncefnent at St Johns recently did not mention any export duty and that 1t was not the intention of the gov ernnent to impose any such duty.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-28
Fire nentroyn Lnmher NEiIIa.

Jackson. Miss. Sept. 27-Fire early today destroyed the blaming mill and Company at Lake, Miss. The Jackson fire department. which went to the scene on a special train. saved the min proper and sixteen cars of lumber. Loss, >$60, ,0O0.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-28

Mrs. Roosevelt in Venice. Venice. Sept 27.-Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, accompanied by her daugh- ter, Ethel. has arrived here