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onnnnTno nnnnnmnn HOLDS FASThTO SEABOARD. IilANY PEOPLE KILLED TMAL OF TILLMAN. jDlOCuONfriEW Note Frota Rlchraood. 4 Richmond; Vt, Special. The anU-saloon forces were practically routed In the primary herejast weeltandhs (Opponents the Mann hilt nominated a -slated that they had agreed upoE and defeated Messrs.

L. T. Chris 'an and Harry I TTatson, who were recognized as liana bill candidates for the House. Mr: Christian wa member the last Bonse and supported the Mann bllL Mr. Watson new aspirant, but supported the anti-saloon.

The slate which went through with a rush cc! meed Gen. Charles J. Anderson, E. PCok, S. L.

Kelley, E. B. Thomason and Charles M. Wallace, Jr. Mr.

A. C. Harman, for 8enator, and Circuit Court Clerk Rowle had no opposition There were only about 3,000 votes cast The small vote and the use of a slate lead to much talk of an independent ticket Boat In Collision. Norfolk, Special. The American steamer Georgetown, Captain Thorsen.

bound from Georgetown, S. to New York laden with lumber, was seriously damaged In collision here last week. A hole eight feet long was knocked in her port bow and the plates are dented a great distance along the water line. She Is damaged to the extent of it is estimated, and will likely await repairs here. The Georgetown came in for hunger coal and whistled twice to pas3 the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railway tug Salisbury, which was towing a large steel barge loaded with freight can.

The steamer backed at a misunderstanding of the signals and cleared the Salisbury, but the barge was caught by the current and sent against the Georgetown. Both captains claim to have given the proper signals, but an ives-tigatlon will be held. Spjrdy Justice. Winchester, Special. Indicted, tried, found guilty and sentenced all within a few hours such was the experience last week of Shack Johnson, the negro who brutally assaulted City Councilman James M.

Haymaker, in the Corporation Court. A special grand jury indicted Johnson this afternoon, as pe-cial term of court was immediately called, the jury and witnesses summoned and the trial was held. The negro was found guilty and was sentenced to nipe and a half years in the penitentiary. His accomplice, Harry Thomas, who is at large, was also President Williams Stays In, and No Cbanses Will Occur. Baltimore.

Special. President John 8kelton Williams was in the city today and 4In referring to the status of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad and his following statement: "There has been no change In the Seaboard Air Line situation as announced at the time of the entrance of the 'Frisco-Rock Island interests Into the board board, six weeks ago. The Seaboard system is an property and no change In this -condition Is contemplated, nor am I considering any change In my official connection with the system as its president My interests in the road are tow, and always have been large, and so long as this condition exists, I expect to remain president. "The position of the Seaboard system has, in my opinion, been greatly strengthened both from a traffic and financial standpoint by the intimate association with the property of the gentlemen who have recently come into our board, and by the strong financial people who have also recently acquired large interests in the property for investment. "The policy which I and my associates have pursued in building up the Seaboard Air Line system, and operat-reported intention to resign, made the leg it for the best interests of the stockholders will be continued." President Returns.

Washington, Special. After an absence of thirteen weeks spent at Oyster Bay, President Roosevelt returned to Washington Monday. His special train over the Pennsylvania Railroad arrived here at 4 o'clock this afternoon. The President was accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt, Miss Alice Roosevelt and other members of the family and by Private Secretary Loeb.

The President was greeted by several hundred people who cheered when he entered his carriage. He also was met by Postmaster General Payne, Col. Simmons, superintendent of public buildings and grounds, Chief Wilkie, Of the Secret Service, and by other public officials. The President and family drove direct to the White House. The trip from New York was uneventful.

Indians Want Damages. Washington, Special. Justice Anderson of the Sapreme Court of the District of Columbia, rendered an opinion, In the injunction proceeding of the Delaware Indians against Secretary Hitchcock and the Dawes Indian commission, dissolving the temporary injunction heretofore granted. The case involved the right of the Secretary to pass oh the 157,000 acres of land in the Cherokee nation segregated for the use of the Datawares. Soon after the decision was rendered Attoreny Walter S.

Logan filed a petition in the court of claims, on behilf of the Delaware against the United States asking that damages be awarded in the sum of $1,000,000 because of the expenses to which the Indians have been subjected, in defending1 the title to their lands. In this petition they make some sensational statements. Rioting in Canadian Soo. Sa-ult Ste Marie, Special. Monday night the situation in the Canadian Soo.

which has been the scene of serious rioting by the discharged employes of the Consolidated Lake Superior Company all day, was very grave. No reinforcements of militia had arrived from outside, and the only defense against the mob which grows hourly was a more or less demoralized police department and a small company of militiamen. An assault upon the office building by the mob early in the afternoon, before the arrival on the ground of the troops, was successful and a mass of frenzied rioters secured possession of the ground floor of the building, destroying everything movable that came in their path. A crowd of the office staff with drawn revolvers prevented their gaining access to Jhe upper floors of the building. Every window and door in the building is smashed in.

Telrg-sphtc Briefs. A verdict in favor of John Wana-maker was found by the jury at Beaver, who tried the suit for alleged slander brought by ex-Superintendent of Printing Robinson. The appointment of Resold Pasha, the deposed Vail of Beirut, as Vali of Brusa. and Turkey's slowness in settling American claims, create dissatisfaction. Boycotts Prohibited.

Montgomery, Special. The Senate today passed the House bill prohibiting boycotts, blacklists, bans or picketing in this State and provides punishment The bill is considered very strict and was opposed by organized labor of the State. Shot a Watchman. Johnson City, TennJ, Special. David Gritt.

a watchman at the Federal Soldiers Home, was shot and killed Monday morning by Policeman George Allen. Allen claims he had a previous difflculty with Gritt over the arrest of Gritt's son on a trival charge. Allen claims self-defense. PUBLISHED T7EZHL7 AT WALKED. 1 Cltot 'A slam Inspector the Glasgow Slsnlclpal Commission on the Housing of the Poor that on some occasions lie had found families sleeping In tiers the parents on the floor, then a.

mattress, and a layer of on tie The large Insurance companies now Insist that individuals are much more dangerous risks in the matter of tuberculosis If they are twenty pounds under the weight than If they are the, descendants of families with tuberculosis heredity on both sides of the house, when not intimately associated with those who are actually suffering from tuberculosis. We should think of shooting stars as solid shot about the size of a cherry or cherry stone, each of them flying with 10O times the speed of a bullet as far as the orbit of Uranus and returning to the earth's distance from the sun three times in a century unless it strikes our atmosphere and is burned up in a flash, says the American In Tentor. A London paper tells an excellent story in connection with the sentries In front of Buckingham Palace. It appears that their custom 'of meeting face to face for a moment and then separating without a word, having cut each other dead, is a continual source of discomfort- to sympathetic Americans. One morning a visitor from the States found it too much for him.

"Come, i boys," he said, soothingly, 44make it up." Whether the sentries responded to this touching appeal and flung themselves sobbing upon each other's bosoms, is not recorded 1 "Apart from other reasons, says Chief Justice Clark, of North Carolina. 4the mode of trial prescribed by legislation of itself renders a conviction for murder in first degree almost an Impossibility, except in cases of sheer poisoning or lying in wait, if the prisoner, is able to obtain able and skillful counsel. Our statute law says murder shall be punished with death. In practice, in this State and some others, the punishment is ordinarily a fine paid by the accused to his counsel as a fee, and a far heavier fine paid by the law-abiding people for the costs of the useless trial." As in most things, we have hitched the cart before the horse; built palaces lor our students In the universities before obtaining the best teachers; imagined that a grand house will engender the human beings fit to dwell The demand was for tuor-oughly skilled artisans, and we bavo tried to produce easel painters; for men who build a comfortable and beautiful dwelling, and we have architects who engineer ugly enormities. All the libraries in the world, all the art museums are not going to produce learning, literature or art.

They may be helpful in time, but at present they are premature. What the great cities of the Union lack most of all are workshops where boys and girls can put their hands into immediate useful labor, reflects the New York Times. When we have these the fine arts will take care of themselves. No single step toward the assimilation of Japanese civilization to that of modern Europe and America has been of greater importance than the projected abolition of the old Chinese Ideographs (until now used in writing and printing) and the substitution in their place of the alphabet This reform will not only make the acquisition of the Japanese language by foreigners easier than it has been, but cannot fail to bring the people of Japan nearer to the family of modern nations into which they have been received, observes the Philadelphia Record. Imagine some of the peoples of Central and Western Europe employing Egyptian hieroglyphics, or some other system of picture writing, instead of spelling their words and representing sounds by and It will be realized what an intellectual gulf irould divide them from their next neighbors.

It is such a gulf which is mbout to be bridged by the Japanese. Abcut Two Hundred Witnesses te Be Heard. A GREAT ARRAY OF COUNSEL The Trial Proceeds Rapidly, Although Every Inch of Ground Will Vigorously Contested. Lexington, S. C.

Special. James H. Tillman, former Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina, was placed on trial here Monday in the Circuit Court Lexington county, under an indictment charging him with the murder of N. G. Gonzales, editor of The Columbia State.

Judge Frank B. Gary, presided. It was 11 o'clock when the solicitor for this circuit, J. W. Thurmond announ.

ced that he State was -ready to proceed with the trial of the case, and by the time the mid-day recess was taken at 1:30 the defendant had been arraigned, a jury drawn and charged and all was in readiness for the Intro duction of testimony. The court room was well filled, but not crowded Probably never in the history of this judicial circuit has there been so great an array of counsel engaged in the trial of a case in the circuit, or perhaps in the entire State as in the trial of the former Lieutenant Governor. The solicitor is assisted by five attorneys, while the defendant has 11 lawyers with G. W. Groft, a representative in Congress from Aiken, as chW counsel, conducting the defense.

Mrs. J. H. Tillman and the mother of the defendant were present at the opening of the court and remained throughout the day's session, occupying seas within the railing. A vigorously contested legal battle is in prospect.

In fact, it was manifested at the very outset of the trial thfft every inch of the ground is to be contested. Nevertheless the case proceeded rapidly. Immediately upon reconvening at 3 p. the examination of witnesses was begun, and when court adjourned six witnesses had testified. Tillman was brought into court and directed to stand in the dock, when he was arraigned in accordance with the law and custom of this court.

He wa.i calm and when asked to plead replied In a clear and firm voice "not guilty." The indictment charges the carrying of concealed weapons as well as the more serious violation of law. Mr. Tillman took a seat close to his attorneys, where he listened intently to ttst proceedings. When" the court directed the empanelling of a jury a six-year-old boy drew from a hat in which had been placed the. names of those composing, the panel, a slip of paper bearing a juror who was called and accepted.

It was not until 1 p. m. that second juror was secured and there was every indication that a jury could not be secured during the day, but in the next fifteen minutes the jury was completed. The jury will not be permitted to separate until a verdict i3 rendered. Men from the country and from the mills compose the jury.

The State objected to five of the panel, and the defense to ten. G. E. Boland, a member of the Columbia police force, was the first witness called by the State. He said he took Tillman to the police station in Columbia, from the scene of the shooting on January 15, describing where Tillman standing in the street with reference to Gonzales.

He testified that Tillman said to him: "I received Gonzales The witness said he asked Tillman "Did yo-shoot to which he said Tillman replied that he did. He said the defendant carried a pistol in his hand, and that another was found in his pocket when the station was reached. Tillman, he said, wanted to keep the pistol until the station was reached for bis protection, but witness insisted on taking it. He said Tillman was walking diagonally across tbe 8 tree when he first saw him, and looking toward Gonzales. The two pistols were exhibited to the witness for the purpose of identification.

One was ah automatic pistol, the other which witness said Tillman held in his hand. On cross-examination be said Tillman submitted quietly to accompanying him to the station. W. H. Coleman, sheriff of Richland county, in which Columbia is located, identified the pistols as those turned over to him.

J. F. Walker, clerk of Richland county, was asked to demonstrate to the Jury the working of the automatic pistol. An overcoat and- a uit of clothes were, exhibited wbfca were identified by J. A.

Hoyt. and L. G. Wood. members of the editorial staff of The State, as garments worn by Mr.

Gonzales. The attention of the jury was drawn to the bullet holes in the coat and overcoat. The cross-e xam i nation of witnesses by the defense was brief. Wcsea WfcxYilccised tie Accident )lhj Die Frca FriffcL; BAD WRECr NEAK VA. The, Train Was Running at the Rate of 50 orfio mits an Hoar and Left ttio TrecSc en an Curve.

Danville. Special No. 97. the Southern Railways fast mall. plying between New York and New Orleans, plunged over a trestle north of this city Sunday afternoon, killing nine men.

Injuring seven others and completely wrecking: three mall and ose express cars. The killed are: The Dead. J. L. Thompson, railway mall clerk, of Washington.

W. 8. Chambers, railway mail of Midland. Va. Dl P.

Flory, railway mall clerk, of Nokesvllle, Va. P. M. Argelwright. railway mall clerk, of Mt.

Clinton. Va. J. A. Broady, engineer, of Plaeer-Tille.

Va. J. T. Blair, conductor, of Spender, N. C.

A. O. Clapp. of Greensboro. Flagman S.

J. Moody, of Raleigh. N. a A 12-year-old son of J. L.

Thompson. Tbe Injured. The injured are: Lewis W. Spears, of Manassas. Frank G.

Brooks, of Charlottesville. Perclval ladenmauer, of Washington. Charles E. Reames, of Charlottesville. 1 Jennings J.

Dunlap, of Washington. N. C. Maupin. of Charlottesville J.

Harrison Thompson," of St. Luke. All of the above' are railway mail clerks. It Is said that this Is the first time that Engineer Broady ever ran a mail train and the supposition Is that he was running too fast and was not entirely familiar with his road-bed. The wreck occurred on a steep grade, the latter embracing the trestle, which is in the shape of the letter The train was probably running at a rate of between 50 and 60 miles an hour when the engine left the track.

The train ran some distance on the cross-ties; plunging over the trestle at a tangent, when the engine was about half way across. The engine and all of the cars fell 75 feet to the water below. The -last car tore up a considerable section of the trestle. The engine struck and was buried In the bed of the creek. The cars piled on top of the engine, all of them being split Into kindling wood.

The engineer was found some little distance from his cab, horribly mangled and dead. All of the bodies save one have been recovered. The train carried nothing but mail and express. The mail was not much damaged, considering the extent of the wreck. Some loose registered letters and the valuables of the dead men have been recovered.

The express matter was considerably injured. The mail coaches were taken in charge by R. B. Boulding, a clerk who spends his Sundays in this city. He arrived on a train within half an hour after the.

disaster. Mail clerks were sent on special trains from Richmond, Charlottesville and Greensboro. N. C. to assist In rescuing the government property.

The wreck Itself beggars desert niion. All of the cars are battered into kind- i ling wood, and the engine is buried in the mud of the creek. A wreck! or; crew is laboring to remove the debris. so that the trestle can be repaired for the continuance Of 'traffic -at as early an hour as possible tomorrow. All of the injured mail clerks were taken to the Home for the Sick in city, where they received medical attention.

The other victims may recover, although the physicians can give out no definite information as to their condition. One man. name unknown, is sUU In the wreck. He can be seen, but the debris nnder which he is lying has not been removed. Official Report Washington.

ports to the Southern Railway offices In this city state that the wrecked train was on time at the lost sta tion at which it reported, and that was going at the rate of 30 to 35 mies an hour when it approached toe trestle, and ran off the track just north of the trestle, carrying the trestle down when the engine ran off tb? track to the ground below. Froady, tk dead, engineer, was about year of age. and had been with the Sonthein Railway about 20 years, hit service a Urge part of the time being on the division on which the accident occurred. While report leave it In doubt just how the accident occurred, and it will take farther Inquiry to make this certain, tt is believed here that the accident was due to a flange 00 the front wheel projecting overi the rail and striking the ties. The trestle where the' accident occurred will be fully repaired by an early hour to-morrow morning, and trains are expected to be running over it tomorrow.

Tha injured men have been taken to the hos-pJtat. at Danville, and are bein given every attention. Train No. 97. It is stva at the general edees.

has been running about a year, and has had no eishan. except that some months ago it ran into some earth that had fallen ca the track. Virginia Briefs. Roanoke, Special. News reached here of a serious shooting affray in Russell county.

As a result John Taylor is lying at death's door with 38 shots in his body, and Lllbum Bales, a lad of 14 years, is in jail at Lebanon. Bales and Taylor, it seems, had been at outs for two or three years. They met at Sword's Creek yesterday, where the bitter feelings were again stirred up, and the quarrel ended only when Bales fired a load of shot Into Taylor's body with a shotgun. The wounded man is in a critical condition and it is believed will die. Norfolk, Special.

Today two freight trains, one on the Southern road and the other on the Atlantic Coast Line, collided at Boone, seven miles from Portsmouth. Both trains were wrecked. One of the engines set fire to the cars and their freight. They were destroyed, and Isaac West, a colored brakeman from Pinners' Point, was burned to death. Engineer Richard Carrington, of Selma, N.

was seriously injured. The accident, it is said, was caused by a miscunderstanding of the signals. Danville. Special. William Jones, colored, who was to have been hanged for the murder of Jake Lee, a Caswell county, N.

C. farmer, who was kiled and robbed In this city in November, was last week granted a re-prive by the Governor, ones' attorney will circulate a petition praying to the Governor to commute hU sentence to life imprisonment Arthur Willon has already been hanged for complicity in the crime for which Jones stands convicted. menmond, special. A telegram was received here announcing the death at Cameron, in Wise county, of W. Rhodes, who attempted suicide last Thursday.

Rhodes, who was formerly a merchant, shot himself with a Winchester rifle. It is not known why he committed suicide, though It Is thought to have been due to the fact that his property had been advertised for sale. Rhodes had been travel La 3 for a jewelry house for a year or two. mt. cnaries trts.

Co warn in. at ose time connected with the Richmond Dispatch and who has been in Staunton some time. left for Newport Newa where he has accepted a position with the Times-Herald. Rev. Edwin S.

Hinks. rector of the St- James Episcopal Church, of Lees- burg. has accepted a call to become dean of St. Michael's Cathedral at Boise City. Idaho.

Rev. Mr. Hinks' will assume the duties of his new field In November. Rev. Fred Deal, of Pennsylvania, has accepted a call to the Presbyterian Church at Piedmont, W.

Va. Smallpox, which has prerailed for some time fn Pleasants and Wood counties. In West Virginia,.