Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 4, 1902, Page 7

The Herald-Beview. (BOLD PLOT FOILED By E. C. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. If congress builds the Nicaragua ca- nal Uncle Sam will find some way to take care of it. Robert Ball says the earth is moving slower, but it is still going fast enough for most of us. Max O’Rell says girls shouldn't flirt, and that when they do they deserve all they get. Also all they fail to get. Europe’s encounter with the great North American shoe has all the poig- nancy that one would naturally expect. There will probably be no Christmas in Columbia this year. They have al- ready shot up all their fireworks down there. The director of the mint says the country needs more small coin. It isn’t hard to find people woo need other kinds also, Harvard’s basket ball team ends the season witu a deficit of 25 “cents, but the football treasury is ahead by $36,- 122.41 for the year. Wouldn't it be well to terminate the Colombian revolutionary war by in- augurating a continuous train service across the field of battle? There is something wrong in the man who can look into a Christmas toy window without wanting to plunder the whole of it for his own hopeful. Now comes the groomless marriage to rhyme with the horseless carriage. At a Tioga, Pa. wedding a photograph was used to represent the man in the case. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massa- chusetts is now almost as frequently pointed out from the galleries as Sen- ator Marcus Alonzo Hanna of Ohio used to be. In case of war between the United States and a foreign power, the latter would not be inclined to place too much confidence in the neutralization of the isthmian canal. The Christmas tree, the lighted can- dle, and the cotton-trimmed amateur Santa Claus form a combination that is beginning to worry the fire insur- ance agent just now. The bones of a mastodon recently found in Missouri indicate that the beast had a throat six feet in diameter. And just to think that they had no free junch counters in those days! Perhaps there is a close connection between Nordica’s wish to playroulette for a while and her suit against the government for $4,000,000. If she fol- lows her plan of resting she may need the money, In offering free vaccination with every subscription a Boston editor seems to have hit upon an original idea. And yet the scheme is quite likely to make each new subscriber feel pretty sore for awhile. Why should the Philadelphia North American press the administration to. tell how much of England's friendship is sincere and how much false pre- tence? It is probably as sincere as ours is—enough to work in harmony until some issue arises worth fighting for. The London press solemnly asserts that the United States, having enunci- ated and stood on the Monroe doctrine, must bear the burden of keeping in- ternational traffic on the isthmus open. If the editors of the London papers will cast an eye over in that direction they will observe that this country is accepting the task and performing it with a thoroughness that should sat- isfy all parties. A student at the state university in Washington starved himself to death and left a wife and baby destitute that he might secure an education. This is a practical demonstration of the often-stated fact that knowledge is not confined to the schools. This man should have learned first of all that he was responsible for the welfare of his wife and baby, and that the stomach, as well as the brain needs feeding. The court decision in England that out of the Winans estate of something near a dozen miilions in Yankee money more than a million must be paid in death duties to the British exechequer orght to encourage rich Americans to die here rather than abroad. In this country the imposts upon big estates are by no means modest, but the tax collector in Great Britain is more ex- acting and pertinacious in life and after death than he is in this repub- lic. Vanderbilt’s cousin has obtained a divorce from her husband because he hugged and kissed the servant girl. There are other men who make this “error” when they think a darkened stairway will give them sufficient evi- dence to clear themselves before His Honor. In sixty million years from now the days on this earth will, according to | Sir Robert Ball, be twice as long as at present. But let’s not do any wor- rying now about having to work over- time on account of the change. CONVICTS AT LEAVENWORTH CON- COCT ANOTHER PLAN TO ESCAPE. MURDEROUS SCHEME OVERHEARD CONVICT DIVULGES THE DESPER- ATE PLOT TO WARDEN MC- CLAUGHRY. DEPUTY WARDEN LEMON MARKED HE WAS TO BE SEIZED AND USED AS SHIELD TO COVER THE ESCAPE, Leavenworth, Kan., Dec. 31.—A plot more desperate than any ever discov- ered was unearthed at the federal pris- on here Saturday. Warden McClaughry, through one of, the prisoners, learned of a plan con- cocted by five prisoners to seize one of the guards and the deputy warden, and with them as shields, to force their way into the prison armory and then es- cape. The plot was made by five of the captured prisoners who escaped in the mutiny in the new prison site on Nov. 7, and it is probable that the guard and Deputy Warden Lemon would have been murdered and a large number of prisoners liberated had not the plan been frustrated. The ringleader of the plot is Gilbert Mullens, who held up and disarmed Sheriff Cook of the To- peka police force. Frank Thompson, a negro, Fred Robinson, Bob Clark and Turner Barns are the others who Were in the Plot. Clark and Barnes are the last two of the prisoners who escaped Nov. 7 to be captured, and were caught in Okla- homa several weeks ago. One of thein, Clark, wrote a cipher letter while in the jail at Lawton to have a brother rescue him while being brought back to the penitentiary by boarding the train near Guthrie and killing the guards. The plot of Saturday was given away by a convict who overheard the prisoners talking about it. The re- captured prisoners had been put to work in the stonebreaking shed, which is inside the prison walls. They were secured by means of a ball and chain attached to their ankles, and have been kept hard at work. Among them, Mullens, who ‘s one of the worst of the lot, in some way secured a file. An- other of the convicts had secured a case knife, which had been sharpened to a fine point. The plan of the con- victs was to use the file to remove the shackles, and then tie them together so that the guards would not suspect that they had been cut. The intention of the desperadoes was to make an attempt for freedom Saturday after- noon. At that time four of the prison- ers, as barbers, came to the sheds to shave the prisoners. It had been ar- ranged that when the Signal Was Given the barbers’ razors were to be seized, the shackles torn off and the guard seized and overpowered. One of the prisoners was then to be sent to th deputy warden’s office, and he was to be told to come at once to the stone shed. As soon as he arrived there he was to be seized, his hands tied and the convicts were to use him and the guard as shields to force their way out of the front gate. They intended to place the razors at their throats, march them to the first iron gate and here to demand the gate to be opened, under penalty of death of the guard and Deputy Warden Lemon. They then intended to make a rush for the armory of the guards where the rifles are kept, which is just inside the first iron gate. As soon as they had seized the guns it would have been an easy raatter to force the outside gate. The intention was to kill any officer who interfered. When told of the plans of the convicts the officials of the prison lost no time in searching Mullins and the other four. They fourd the file.con- cealed in Mullins’ clothes and the knife was on another of the convicts. BURGLARS GET $6000. Two Elderly Maidcr Ladies Robbed of Their Savings. Washington, Ga., Dec. 31—The Misses Battle, two elderly maiden ladies living at Barnett Junction, on the Washing- ton branch of the Georgia railroad, were robbed early yesterday morning of $6,000 in gold. When the robbers en- tered the house the women, hearing a noise, investigated, lighting a lamp. The robbers dashed a bucket of cold water on the one holding the lamp and overawed them. The women lived alone in the house. Several previous at- tempts have »een made to rob them during the last few months. The ladies believed the robbers were white men, having recognized cne of them, they say. LIVED IN ONE PLACE 103 YEARS. Oldest Woman in Maine Dies at Her Home in Millbridge. Millbridge, Me., Dec. 31.—Mrs. Eliza Pinkham, the oldest woman in Maine, is dead. She was born on Jan. 7, 179%. Although she had never been away from Washington county, she was born in Massachuseits, her birth ante- dating by nearly a quarter of a cen- tury the setting «ff of the Province of Maine. Mrs. Pinkham was married in 1820. She raised a large family, and of her children five survive. One, Paul Pinkham, is a well known Maine ship- builder. HELD FOR MURDER OF FATHER. Theodore Watkins Accased of Ma- Heious Homicide for Shooting Parent. Brazil, Ind., Dec. 31—Coroner Mer- shon has rendered his verdict in the case of the killing of Richard Watkins by his son, Theodore Watkins, on Christmas. The finding is that the boy maliciously murdered his father, and a charge of felonious homicide has been placed against him. His story that he killed his father to save his mother's life is cisbelieved by the authorities. RIVERS ON A TEAR. Much Propehty Has Already Been Destroyed in Some Places, Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 31.—Rain has been falling incessantly throughout the South for the past forty-eight hours. All the streams are out of their banks. Much property has already been destroyed and heavy loss of life is feared. Floods throughout East Tennessee threaten to do more damage to prop- erty than the disastrous flood of last May, when eight lives were lost and fully $2,000,000 damage done to railroad and farming property. The Southern railway has annulled all trains between Knoxville and Asheville, N. C., owing to water-covered and perhaps badly washed tracks betw2en Newport and Rankin. All through trafic and mail will be handled over the Norfolk & Western. It will be impossible for the Southern to handle trains east via Asheville until late to-day at least, and possibly longer, for Rain Is Still Falling. The Tennessee river is nearing the thirty-foot mark at Knoxville, with indications that it will reach forty feet and do heavy damage. Heavy rains over the entire upper basin of the Tennessee river will produce a flood tide. The weather bureau pre- dicts that the river will pass the danger line at Chattanooga at noon to-day. Owing to the recent rains the Chatta- hooche river at Columbus, Ga., is a raging torrent, the water having risen to a point thirty-eight feet above low water mark. The large stone dam of the Columbus Power company on North Highlands broke in two places yester- day. Heavy rains for the past thirty- six hours have caused Greenbriar and New rivers in West Virginia to become high. They are rising six inches per hour. The damage along both streams will be heavy. Streams Out of Their Banks. Lancaster, Pa., Dec. 30.— A heavy rainfall has been continuous in this section since Saturday evening. All the streams in the county naturally are swollen greatly beyond their volume and the Conestoga creek has overflowed its banks to an extent unknown in re- cent years. The bridge crossing this stream at Engleside is threatened with destruction and traffic on the Lan- caster-Strasburg railway has been sus- pended. High water at the plant of the Lancaster Electric Light company at Rockhill, on the Conestoga, affected the system and sections of the city were in darkness last night. The Sus- quehanna river is rising rapidly. At Safe Harbor the rise is at the rate of six inches an hour. The tracks of the Port Deposit & Columbia railway at this peint are submerged and much ap- prehension is felt for property on low lying ground at Bald Friar, further down the river, a landslide has oc- curred, covering the tracks at Colum- bia and Martetta. The river has not yet risen sufficiently to cause alarm. FLYER IS DITCHED. Four Persons Are Killed and Sev- eral Injured Seriously. Chicago, Dec. 31.—Four persons were killed and twenty-six injured,several of them possibly fatally, in a collision on the Chicago & Northwestern railroad yesterday at Malta, Il., sixty miles west of Chicago. id ‘The trains in collision were the “Oma- ha Flyer,” an east-bound passenger train, and an east-bound freight train. The wreck caught fire and two passen- ger coaches, one sleeper and eight freight cars were partly burned. Injured passengers wer> attended im- mediately by surgeons from Rochelle and De Kalb, and later were removed to St. Luke's hospital, in Chicago, by Special train. The freight train had taken a siding at Malta but the train was longer than the siding and the freight locomotive protruded upon the main track be- yond the sidetrack. The incoming train from the west was not stopped until the locomotives “cornered” at the switch, the passenger engine being throwa into the ditch and several coaches being piled upon the wreck. The cars caught fire from the locomo- tive. A statement given out by officials of the railroad company explains that the switch at the east end of the siding was open through mistake, and that tne responsibility probably lies with some member of the crew of the freignt train. The statement places the com- pany’s property loss at about $30,000. LANDSLIDE CAUSES WRECK. Four Railread Employes Killed and Several Other Persons Injured. Lyrehburg, Va., Dec. 31. — A land- slide on the Chesapeake & Ohio rail- road near Reusen Station, five miles suuth of here on the James River branch, yesterday caused a wreck, in which the engineer, condvctor, fireman and baggageman of a passenged train were killed and several other persons imured, but none seriously. The slide wns caused by wash-outs, due to the feavy rains. Early reports said that ten or twelve passengers had been killed, but it is. now stated that the passenger car got out of the way just in time to escape the hillslide when it crashed down over the tracks. TWO HUNDRED DROWNED. Town in Morocco Inundated by a Waterspont. Tangier, Morocco, Dec. 31.—A water- spout. has burst over the town of Saffe, Morocco. It inundated the lower part of the town for the space of! twelve hours, sweeping everything into the sea. Two hundred persons are re- ported to have been drowned. ‘There are no Europeans among the deid. The damage to Saffe is enormous, Saffe is a fortified seaport town. It has a pop- ulation of 12,000, including about 8,000 Jews. It is inclosed by massive walls and has a palace anda small fort. ‘Troops Restore Order. Columbus, Ga., Dec: 31.—The latest reports from Crawford, Ala., to which place troops were ordered Saturday night to assist in the arrest of Uriah‘ Porter, charged with murder, say the military has restored order. Charged With Murder. Steckton, Cal., Dec. 31. — A woman ‘mown as Lena Young was killed yes- cerday in her apartments and George Gribble is in jail charged with the crime. She claimed to be Gribble’s wife, WILL PROBABLY BE INDORSED BY EXECUTIVES OF OTHER STATES. GOVERNOR KEEPS IT TO HIMSELF WILL NOT ANNOUNCE HIS PLAN UN- TIL THE CLOSE OF THE MEETING, OFFICIALS MEET AT WELENA ALL STATES EXCEPT NORTH DA- KOTA HAVE REPRESENTA- TIVES PRESENT. Helena, Mont., Dec. 31. — No action was taken yesterday at the meeting of the governors ana attorneys general of the the Northwestern States called to consider plans for opposing the pro- posed conselidation of the Northern Pacific, Great Northern and Burling- ton railway systems. From the dis- cussion at these meetings, however, it is considered probably that the plan of Gov. Van Sant of Minnesota will be indorsed by the executives of the other states who were present and that the fight against the rallroad consolidation will be carried to # finish. What this plan is, Gov. Yan Sant refused to state until the meeting to-day shall have taken action, The meetings were held in Gov. Toole’s private office and be- hind closed doors. ‘There were present besides Gov. ‘Toole and Attorney Gen- eral Donovan of Montana, Gov. Van Sant and Attorney General Douglas of Mirnesota, Gov. Herried and Attorney Genera! Pyle of South Dakota, Gov. Hunt and Attorney General Martin of Idaho, and Attorney Gencral Stratton of Washington, Gov. McBride of that state not being able to be present on account of the death of Gov. Rogers. Gov. White of North Dakota wes also expected to attend the conference, and, in fact, had telegraphed Gov. Van Sant that he would be present, In a later telegram, however, he stated that it was impossible for him to attend he meetings. ‘The meeting wxs organized by the election of Gov. Van Sant‘as chairman and Attorney General Martin of Idaho as secretary. After reading Gov. White’s communteation stating that he weuld not be present, Gov. Van Sant made a brief speech in regard to the objects of the meeting, giving a brief nistory of the proposed railway consol- i@ation and the effect he believed it would have on the states affected. BLOW AT HILL’S SCHEME. Restraining Ordex Issued to Prevent Retiring of Stock. Minneapolis, Dec. 31.—Northern Pa- cific stock will not be retired Jan. 1. Judge Elliott of the district court, granted a temporary restraining order yesterday morning on. application of Peter Power of New York city, pre- venting the retirement of the preferred stock as was contemplated by the Hill- Morgan syndicate. Judge Scott of New York, in the ac- tion brought there to prevent the re- tirement of the preferred stock, ruled it could be done the first of any year ‘up to 1907, if no lien or incumbrance is laced upon the properties of the road in so doing. It is the plan of the Hill-Morgan syn- dicate, owners of the common stock, to issue $75,000,000 in debenture bonds to pay for an equal amount of stock to be retired at par. It is the allegation of the plaintiff in the action begun here, that the debenture bonds to be issued, reprecent an ‘llegal lien on the road. Peter Power owns 100 shares of the Northern Pacific common stock, as well as considerable preferred stock. It was stated that an offer of $100,000 for these 100 shares was made by the Hill- Morgan interests and refused. There is $80,000,000 of the common stock. Of this amount Hill and Morgan own di- rectly $42,000,000, and control ali the yest under contract except that of Pe- ter Power. PEAVEY IS DEAD. Minneapolis Millionaire Away in Chicago. Chicago, Dec. 31.—F. H. Peavey, one of the best known men of Minneapolis and one of the largest grain operators in the Northwest, died at 3:30 o'clock yesterday morning at the Auditorium annex. Mr. Peavey contracted pneu- monia while doing some holiday shop- ping just before Christmas. Mr. Peavey is rated as being several times a millionaire. Passes . Will Make Good. New York, Dec. 31—The mother and father of Charles A. Alden, the miss- ing charities department treasurer, have come to this city from Northamp- ton, Mass., to make inquiries regarding that person. They say they are con- vinced of the honesty of the late city official, and they will, if necessary, give up their savings of years to make good his accounts. To Release Geronimo. Guthrie, Okla., Dec. 31.—Gen, Frank ‘Armstrong, as agent of the war depart- ment, is at Fort Still, Okla., making ar- rangements for the release of Chief Geronimo and the 298 Arizona Apache Indians held as prisoners of war. They were captured by Gen. Lawton twelve years ago after a 3,000-mile campaign. ‘They will be allotted land by the gov- ernment. i ps Fell Over a Precipice. Cody, Wyo., Dec. 31—Riley McLaugh- lin, a veteran trapper and guide of the Big Horn country, while hunting met instant death by falling over a 300-foot precipice. with difficulty with ropes and hooks. Smallpox Epidemic Near Hurley. Hurley, Wis., Dec. 31. — Smallpox is spreading rapidly in this county. In the village of Mercer, twenty-three miles south of here, nine well developed cases of the disease is reported by Dr. The body was recovered | G. E. Moore of Hurley. No deaths. — * SECRET OF ETERNAL LIFE. Seientist Declares That It Is in the Power of Mankind. Chicago, Dec. 31.—Experiments which it is claimed are the beginning of the unraveling of the mysteries of death were made public by Prof. Jacques Loeb at the fourteenth annual meeting ot the American Physiological Society at the University of Chicago last night. During the last summer the noted scientist has beon continuing his series of experiments with the eggs of the lower marine animals, especially those of the sea urchin, and last night in a paper entitled “On The Prolongation of Life of Unfertilizea Eggs of the Sea Urchin by Potassium Cyanide,” he told a group of the foremcst physiolo- gists in America that his means of 0b- servation of the effects of certain chem- icals upon these minute bits of proto- plasm, he was reacy to make tenta- tive definition of the heretofore un- known nature of death. Death, Prof. Loeb affirmed, was not a negative pro- cess, a simple breaking down of tissues, as it has been regarded up to this time, but an active agent born with the birth of the egg, and destined, if not checked, to gain the upper hand of the life in- stinct and bring about extinction. But greater even than the apparent discov- ery of this death agent in the life sub- stance, is Prof. Loeb’s announcement that he has been able to check it in the eggs of the sea urchin at least, by means of chemical agents. This, it is claimed, means nothing less than that on a minute scale the secret of eternal life is in the power of mankind. GO-BETWEEN FOR CONVICTS. Employe of State Prison Unfaithful te His Trust. Fimira, N. Y., Dec. 31—Emil Wein- berger, an instructor in the tailoring department of the New York State re- formatory here, was recently arrested om a charge of petit larceny. After his arrest it developed, it is alleged, that he had been acting as an inter- medizry between convicts and their friends outside of the institution, and it is further alleged he furnished them with news from the outside and acted as a mailing agent for any convicts in the institution who would pay for his services. One convict, it appears, tried to work a scheme to have friends in Worcester, Mass., raise money to se- cure his release by illegal means, the details of the scheme not yet being clear to the reformatory officials. This prisoner, who is serving a five-year term, previously obtained his release from a Los Angeles, Cal., prison by a similar device. ‘TRAGEDY IN HIGH LIFE. Unwelcome Suitor Is Fatally Wounded at Newport News. Newport News, Va., Dec. 31.—C. Ay- Jett Ashby, a prominent attorney of this city, yesterday shot and perhaps fatally wounded City Engineer E. A. Marye, and also dangerously wounded Policeman Woodward, who had Marye under arrest at the time. Mayre la been paying attention to Miss May Garnett, who is a sister-in-law of Ashby. Yesterday Mayre called at the residence of the Garnetts, and on being refused, threw several bricks through the windows. Officer Woodward ar- rested him. On the way to the station they were met by Ashby, who had been summoned by telephene. Without a sword..Ashby,,drew a .pistol and fired four shots in rapid succession. Marye was struck in the abdomen. Officer Woodward was struck over the left breast. The physicians have little hope of Mayre’s recovery. \ JEFFRIES GETS A FIGHT. Sharkey Will Try to Wrest the Championship From Him. New York, Dec. 31.—Jim Jeffries and ‘Tom Sharkey were matched yesterday for a fight which will involve the heavy-weight championship of the world. “Billy” Delaney, who is Jeff- ries’ manager, met Tom Sharkey and his manager, Barney Reich, at a resort near the criminal court yesterday af- terncon, Delaney said ihat he was anxious to induce Bob Fitzsimmons to meet the champion once more and he rad given him due notice of his where- abouts, but neither Fitz nor any rep- resentative of his put in an appearance, so Delaney clinched the bargain with Sharkey. Aczording to the articles of agreement the fight will take place on any day between March 17 and April 30 before the club offering the best in- ducement. SUFFERING AT SEA. From Paul Revere Has Bad Vo; the Shores of Japan. New York, Dec. 31. — One hundred and thirty-seven days at sea, during which time two of her crew were buried and a score or more gales en- ccuntered to imperil the lives of the survivors, is the record of the ship Paul Revere, which has just arrived from japan via Cape Horn. Aug. u the Revere, Capt. Wilson skipper, sailed away from Kobe for New York. On the Pacific the weather was ideal, but as scon as the Horn was turned, gales, pryincipally from the northeast, began to gather, following each other in rapid succession. LAW OFFICER INDICTED. Vermont Anti-Saloon League Gets * After County Attorney. Brattleboro, Vt., Dec. 31. — Two in- Gictments were returned by the Addi- son county grand jury here yesterday | against State Attorney James B. Don- oway, charging negligence in making returns in connection with al’eged vio- laticns of the state prohibition law. The complainant in the case was Rev. C. G. Wilson, head of the anti-saloon league. Proceedings have also been begun before the state supreme court for the disbarment of Mr. Donoway for his alleged failure to enforce the pro- hibition law. Young Lady Cashier Held Up. Boston, Dec. 31.—A man entered the office of the Prudential Insurance com- pany in Roxbury yesterday, and point- ing a revolver at the young woman cashier and demanded what money she had. He got $60. He is still at large. wiheater Destroyed. Toledo, Ohio, Dec. 31.—Fire last night totally destroyed the Casifio summer theater located on the shore of the Maumee bay, four miles below this city. It was the property of the Toledo and Light company, DASTARDLY DEED INOFFENSIVE PASSENGER KILLED ON A TRAIN IN MISSIS- SIPPI. DRUNKEN SPREE ENDS IN MURDER PROMNENT BUSINESS MEN ARE THD OFFENDING PER- SONS. SEIZE AN ENGINE TO GET AWAY BUT ARE EASILY CAPTURED AND LANDED IN PRISON. Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 31.—Four white men killed J. M. Rhea, an inoffensive passenger on train No. 6 of the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley branch of the Llli- nois Centrai railroad yesterday morn- ing near Leland, Miss., cut the locomo- tive from the train and forced the en- gireer to run to Cleveland, Miss. All four men were arrested, one being in jail at Leland and three locked, up at Shelby. The four men were Ashley Cocke, a prominent business man of Cleveland; A. M. Phipps, postmaster at Shelby; Thomas Lauderdale, said to be a relative cf Phipps, and a man named Blackman, residence unknown. The men went from Shelby to Le- land early Sunday night, and after spending several hours in drinking and carousing, boarded the north-bound train to return to Shelby. J. M. Rhea, an engineer, was on his way to Tut- wiler to take out a locomotive there and was sleeping on a seat in the sleeper, Cocke had a revolver and Lauderdale and Blackman Had Winchester Rifles. Walking up the aisle Phipps was in advance of the party, when he came in contact with Rhea’s legs which were extended out into the aisle. Rhea in- quired what was the matter. The members of the party discussed the situation angrily for a while and then the quartet went out on the platform. Very soon they returned and told Ithea that they could not all stay in the samé car, that he would have to get out. Rhea remarked that in order to prevent trouble he would do as they told him, whereupon he started out of the car. He had just reached the door when it is claimed the men opened fire upon him and he fell. Conductor George McLaughlin ordered the train back to Leland, there To Leave the Corpse. As soon as Leland was reached the conductor went in search of the sheriff and peace officers. The four men drove everybody out of the smoker and the adjacent car during the run back to Leland, and when they arrived there they covered Engineer Delaney ‘with their guns and told him if he did not obey their commands they would kilt him. He was compelled to uncouple his engine and when the men mounted into the cab he was ordered to run to Shelby. Phipps became separated from his companions and was arrested at Leland. At Shelby the others waited for the next train, on which they traveled to Cleveland, where they were arrested without trouble. They were placed in jail at Shelby. There is much excitement and indignation among the people of the Leland and Shelby neighborhoods over the tragedy, but no violence is anticipated. GUARDING WILCOX. Doubt Thrown on His Whereabouts to Save Him From Lynching. Norfolk, Va., Dec. 31.—C. C. Overman, deputy sheriff of Elizabeth City, N. C., informed a representative of the Asso- ciated Press that/ he broaght James Wilcox, who is under arrest in: con- nection with the death of Ella fcopsey, from Elizabeth City in a surrey after micnigt Saturday and placed him in the Portsmouth jail. The jail officials deny that Wilcox is in that place. NO ON Loud Says That It Is Impossible of Attainment at Present. ‘Washington, Dec. 31.—Representative Loud, chairman of the house committee on postoffices and postroads, had a talk with the president yesterday about postal legislation. Mr. Loud says that one-cent postage is out of the question. “Under present conditions,” said he, “penny postage would result in a deficit of $35,000,000 annually. YANKEE TARS FIGHT. Men of the Albany and Chicago im an Affray at Villefranche. London, Dec. 31.—It is announced in a dispatch to a news agency from Nice that during a fight yesterday evening at Villefranche between soldiers be~ longing to the United States warships Albany and Chicago a seaman named Dillon, belonging to the Albany, was seriously stabbed. His assailants, three men belonging to the Chicago, disap- peared. Senator Sewell’s Successor. Trenton, N. J., Dec. 31.—At a confer- ence of state Republicans held here yesterday afternoon and last night, the vacancy in the United States senate caused by the death of Gen. Sewell was incidentally discussed. Those men- tioned as candidates for the senator- ship are State Senator E. B, Stokes of Cumberland county, State Assessor’ David Baird of Camden, Banker Gum- mere of Mercer, John S. Dryden of Es- sex, and Former Attorney General John W. Griggs. ° a Charged With Looting. Yokohama, Dec. 31. — Gen. Barow Yamamand of the Fifth division of the Japanese troops in China, has resigned his command. The general's action was due to the fact that public charges of Jooting had been brought against him. Queen Much Better. . Lordon, Dec. 31.—King Edward an@ Queen Alexandra were at Sandring- ham yesterday. The looked alert and bright and showed little trace of sickness. Large crowds lined the route to the station, i a: i j « 5 | % t.. | | | s } é } om ’ 4 , } | { ‘ f ’