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I Millc Cottd Sheet Metal f0 jDealers. JPPLY CI Itlanta, Ga I South Broad! on I ATLANTA, I COLLEGI lhat LaQ range is an itty nfth Session tperienced Teachers Hundred Rooms Icity. Hot and Cold and Tuition for the year. I Iture, Morality and ss Presiden COBB INSTITUTE onhVsthooi wm to the JTA BUSINESS business i a Painting. i Ihes taught at Lycett ihall Street.

I price5 for the Sumn JNTER'S for IE SCHOOL! Ladies and eon Academy THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 26. 1897 TEN PAGES PEICE FIVE CENTS 3om. And i and CONVICT LHSES Hoys' and Child the low Noveltie ARE ALL ILLEd HER! PRESIDENT BUKUA AUTH0R KILLED qoose modbrnebd. killed his wife ICCKQINATFII imm a Sflvraufl fljJnJjII'nlLU Praacis Barton Llojit Assassiaatefl Ktar "iJafjuSK HL 101 Harper Hill Tells i Kaigbbor (int Down by Anarch ist while slayer boasts of the deed IHafr CUIMS IT WAS AN ACCIDENT Startling Decision That Comes Uaving the Cathedral.

on Burning Question, 10 "UE DOCTORS 61VE SOME HIPORTAHT TESTIMONY DEATH FOLLOWED INSTANTLY C0NMTS T0 BE ftTTOE0 was found stone dead with two Is a illegality. gtnor Idiarte Borda was elected presl wounds In hi. body. Gafford had Hamrick and who had examined the Everyman employing misdemeanor it for the term extending dbntl lis a double barreled shotgun There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, wound, testified that the direction was for pr.vate gain breaking the lent of use And gha nad g0 many children she didn't, know what to do. on a level and could not have been fired law 1 jsra.

hTwas assassinated patched toThe scene to hunt iJthVmvr whipped them spanked them, threw them overboard; in the position he says he was. county offlcial wn0 or per. RIOT OCCURS AT. bray will sdrrbhder today WILL DRIYg THEN CHARLESTON HILLS AWAY WITH GDIS 1, D. to taken alive.

No motive is assigned HB MAKES A STATEMENT. been Instantaneous and it would have been lt widow and three children. WWH Uu NflgrOCS NegiOvS II PlDBSylYI.1. Art CaiSftlg for the mature to I tad he held any number of important He was native of Butler county and WtS i BlOOttj 0ll8. GrBdt TfOUh'e.

Harper. He wa. brought In by th. sherttt Hit elevation to the chief magis served as representative in the last legls ed the Trouble Li iiwuwu. and Is now In jail.

le ln hm is said to have been distasteful to l.t,,™ that county by His Friends. ZZZT airecuon. wiinout a single exception tne advanced element the people. He represented Montgomery county In NEGROES MET AT THE NULL A LAWLESS CROWD IN CAMP HUSBAHP WITH POKER. Tj could interest attkches to ttio natlormlity the (reneral assembly in 1834.

In the last Greenville. August S5. Coroner's Jury Decides That Bosa Was lease every mdsdemeanor convict from tflkt assassin of the president. legislature he vigorously opposed the con Officer Tried To Arrest One and a Charles Bray, who shot and killed Mor They Have Committed Several Mur Justifiable. the shackles of confinement In private It Was the Third Attempt.

stitutional convention measure and the Fierce Fight Followed. daunt Strickland on June 1st of this year derS Recently. Savarnah, August 23. (Special camps, that no the letitT POLICEIIEN COULD MIT USE PISTOLS wm surrender to the sheriff. His WORTHLESS WOMEN IN 6REAT NUHBERS over u'e supreme court's the Sunday newspapers.

He was contem case will be ca.led at onco and he will an a no witnesses to the killing. ZTA Action of Senor Borda ami declared them ln toTm The They Done So Children Might nounce ready for trial. Campers Steal Farmers' Chickens ard, on her statement that he bagan an so ooLtuvely and 3 ttotit marked a reaction in the country's deceased had considerable ability as a lect Have Been Kllled The Rioter. The lling of Strickland occurred in Railroad Authorities Will Drive attack upon her. the coroner's Jury decided the of leaalng WiNta.

Later President Borda issued a Urer and was well known in Texas. Clubbed and Arrested. Strickland's Held, near White Sulphur the Negroes Off. tne k'lling was Justifiable homicide convicts to private individuals that there j9 tarauen August 2i CARGO OF DtJBT. 3 aton wlU Mnd the dogs by the train in thl Chlrleston catton mills, where col and was working for Strickland, a popu Watching for the Steamship Portland was rendered oh December a.

1854. on a Political parties io that end. ln the morning and has notified Convict In red labor lg fully 190 negroes leader at the time. miners' camp at Plum Creek, which has a at Fort Townsend. in which a county sued a private con madB Vgry when WQrK gapped t0 Bray fled after the KlMng ana the offl fcr lawlessness uneaualed in this Pcrt he had agreed to take.

The case came 1 ternoon of CAPE STABBED POOL TO DEATH. prevent the whlte ex operatives from at hinT Alth UP' tSo pa8t lhe BOUth of Vukon rjver tomorrow and It U.P orlBlnalIy JudKe clark of PifcTht in Hall County with Fatal Ba tacking the negro men and women as they oflered by lhe KOvernor and aaaitional end a score or more shooti. scrapes at the is she will bring several tons of lg94 and the factg are Ciese: I ithou.t ln. suit. march out of the mill.

reward of S3U0 tendered by Strickland's cen.p in which many of the negroes were from the Klondike gold Held On September 27. 1890. the county of Wal ired. Gainesville. August 25.

(Speclal.) This afternoon as the workmen were brothers, there could be found no one ready injured. Associated Press tug will he In the ton. by its ordinary, entered into a contract accom Mr. James ai. Pool was killed with a knife oliceman went to arrest a negro or able to capture Bray.

Li night three men were ehot and on stl alts till the I onian 1 is sighted. Special with a lessee named Franklin, whereby it Colonel in the of W. P. Cape at Lula, in eav n8 a 1C ToniBht Bray made a statement to The Si l'day one man was killed and four dan lookouts have been placed at every tele agreed to deliver to him at Its Jail all foment Zllnol The Mr. B.C otner officers rushed up, aud the three wTrks durint dbe ouir ct were wiih and slone.

The on that he did not give himself up was ed the arrival of one hundred colored wo slip by without hting sightei. he itruck up voluntary manslaughter. policemen did not shoot for fear Of Decauge he df.8lred t0 walt untl, men of the worst character at the negro weatber tract that he In Newton oou and the Cape was arrested and lodged In the the children, but managed to knock down court. which is now in progress. He "'ofntlaU AraerTan ty PUbHC by the late him lv He was seen in his cell this morning a dozen ne8roes wlth clubs TKa fighting 6 1 illed Strickland only ness nnd dlsorder at ttle camp were bsoken Transportation and Trading Company look nrovisicnTor the safe keenlna and man I IrecelvS and says that the killing was done in self was becoming furious and ptfl lomorrovV.

they m.y arranged" Jumped on me." Mid bTught" the dJ trjB emanwanonwa, seriously Injured. RAILROAD IH YUHOH DISTRICT. young lady that I had been going to see Tho DegTOes who had been dubbed Indictment had been found against him were Mnt through the camp Has a Big Scheme malnUm them expose to" "he DESTROY A LAKOP WCRT mnn and while I am sorry the were locked up. Further trouble was fear 06 Greenville, and will tomorrow to secure the names and numbers of every to send picper guard for them E3TBOY A LARGE FORT but tonight render to the man who is employed on the raih oad. To on Other Are Strickland's two brothers are in town, morrow the company wiU march a strong "Gertiurtde.

and s.x assistants are now tbelr deUrery. keep, guards clothe of Ammunition. The killing occurred In the woods and REFORTED LYNCHING UNTRUE. It Is said that they have sworn to kill of heavily armed men into the surveying the White Pass In the Interest work all such cenvicts as provided ln Stall. Auguet mi 11 there were no witnesses The two fought Bray trouWe camps and drive out all the women and of an English syndicate, which intends to the respective tentences of the courts.

today that Fort AUMusJad ln together some time Pool having no weap If John ion's Hurderers Are Caught gamblers at the mussles of Winchesters. run a railroad from Skaguay. the entrance For the faithful performance of this con le Wyber pa5s. was evacuated after on of defense and Cape possessing the knife They Will Be Hanged. FADRE SEES RUSSIAN TROOPS.

This done, a dead Une will be drawn to he executed a bond with security. the garrison composed of Khy and get ing the best of the light. Little Rock August The report about the camp and they will not be per payable to the crdinary of Walton coun (native levies), had deserted. The cause of the tragedy is due to wholeJsale' lynching ln Cleveland county Pifty Thousand of Them March by the The whole A of Victoria, ta one ty "successors. The county per St.

Petersburg. August a The czar. due notice and FOLDING BED BROKE HIS NECK. seems leaders ln Satur I arf 'encamped" Hlf 7o taUd sa 'wiTch has been av Al Hankins, Sporting Man, of Chica mm aat Tet the tZni KWlu. onlyatoTrand go, KiUed.

The only definite information received gTard pLed the was h. had over chicken: now a the for any more such convicts as he agreed taportance. Chicago. August 25. A1 Hankins.

the from the scene of the trouble this evening stand the cxa7 cried ''Thank you my) The surveying under the contract to take, whereby tha rJ of 4.ooo ArrlOis has advanced to widely known sporting man. was killed to CODfiaed jn a 8peclal dtepatch to The WOrk JUlT f0rCed th6m twelve miles from Fort Bara dav by the collapse of a folding bed. Gazette as follows At the luncheon which followed President farmers are infuriated at tne out to have the survey completed ln unUl they could be rehired, and then to His death occurred at S908 Cottage Grove Ark. August 25. Joe Smith.

Faure toasted the czar and czarina and commi'tai upon 5f Tbey n0W mUM np rehire them at lesser rates than he had te afternoon. He had. Just entered the Russian army to which, he added, he 'xithlugh exact cort cannot yet ha to Suit was brought on ho I wt been Lundikotal hai the apartment and seated hlmse.f on the brought the greetings of Its French com mined course of action to drive the negroes estimated. It Is known that the road will. bond for dlffeTJnce hlre; expensea; edse of the bod when it, unexpectedly Btm 'at la There ,3 no mis.

rsdes. a more per mUe than other railroads. of the convicts, thus rejected, and and arC' r' llorted 10 be 8hort closfed. Hanklns's neck was broken. take abou, the murderers' participation in The czar replied by toasting "Our Com but as the trail Is the natura; outlit from the petition, showing the foregoing facts.

j.n^mUn Persons In the place rushed to his as this bloody affair. rades of the Valiant French Army." TRAGEDY NEAR STOCKBRIDGE. the Yukon, the promoters expect to reap with other details not necessary to men 25 11 The latest Bis.ance but they were too late, as death "There are six negroes in Jail here at the Both toasts were drunk standing, and large returns. tion. was dismissed on demarrer.

'ed from indicate had resulted almost instantly. present time charged with being connected the "Marseillaise" and the Russian hymn J. W. Hightower Kills Will Elliott by Plain Law This! on frontier is getting with the murder, of Mr. Johnson.

wa8 played. Shooting Him Through Heart. HE FELL BACK INTO THE WELL. a. th itCitW government ALDERMAN VICTIM OF HIS LAW.

four aw believed to ParU. August French newspa Stcktrldge. August 2i a Man Near court, and tlTfoUowlng is I tsenrtw a eTav'e or involving be "guUty. Great excitement prevails and it pers complain that the word "friendship" Tv.o miles fro here yeeterday afternoon 11 unmlmous iudsrment 9 and probably grea "Si04 of Introduced an Ordinance and Was tho dlfflcuIt t0 state waat the outcome will ta the keynote of all the official utterances iMr. J.

W. Hightower. of this place, shot Franklin First To Violate It be. The sheriff Is searching the country at Cronstaut and St. Petersburg, and and Instantly killed Mr.

Will Elliott, a Opeliks, August 2a. (Speclal.) BUck WOMEN Dawson, ln for and It Is thought that the term "alliance" has not been used yoUng farmer who lived about six rrjes Flsch, a white man living for Eaisinp was fined 125 for riding a bicycle on the Kendall 'neighborhood are compliments. The origin of the trouble is unknown. The some work was being dune. eJ "worked In to AccfdSt PP STe Mdlw'lk in the Are limits.

I COrcner heW 'nqUeSt draw in' ToTTnr' prt'hlbmng riahS Ynd" wm enceunter occur there will hereby 1o eoerce Germany. asThe ihTt Mr! bj need for nrst to vloUte It. certainly be a flow blood, as the The PeUte Republique insist, that it Is Elliott was trying to shoot Mr. Hightower nUn and ne was brought up. jj BWTtoce "I Valencia, of the Monoada The cyclists are gleefully shaking hand, white, will not tolerate any Interference revolutionary Franee which the people of when he was killed.

but only lived en hour ObnthMMd on Secind aonctoi each other. or resistance on the part of blacks. acclaiming. The deeply regretted here. He was slngW and of good family.

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