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ESTABLISHID 1860 1 9 MARKS GAYLE, Montgomery, Ala. Kmtident Managmn for JHa.hmm.rn, COL. GRAVES RECOMMENDS MUSTER OUT OF Rev. Hampden C. DuBose, D.

one of the most noted and scholarly of the missionaries of the Southern Presbyterian Church, preached two sermons' In Montgomery Sunday. The first sermon was delivered to a large in the lecture room of the'. First Presbyterian Church, Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, the second in the Central Presbyterian Church Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock. Dr. DuBose has devoted a large part of a useful life to missionary work In the Chinese Empire and has made a careful study of the present conditions in that country.

He has worked among the natives and is well informed as to the missionary situation In Cathay. Both of his sermons were delivered on Chinese subjects. In his morning sermon Dr. DuBose told of the conditions in China before the Boxer uprising: how the missionaries struggled with those conditions; how the legations were defended, and the conditions for missionary work after the fall of Pekin. At the night service Dr.

DnRose'a suh- Ject was "China's New Era," In' this sermon he followed up the idea of his morning sermon and told how the conditions in which the unrisine made China a fertile field for mission work. "Veneration for age is an essential characteristic," said Dr. DuBose at the evening service. 'When we behold the Patriarch of Nations who bears upon his shoulders the weight of forty centuries yet whose eye is undlmmed. and whose form is erect and sten firm, we see the fulfillment of that first commandment with promise to those who honor father and mother.

Before the vastness of Its nonulatlon 400.000,000, a vast multitude beyond the grasp of the human intellect, we stand in awe as we contemplate their nresent condition and future destiny. we see mem, too, standing as a solid mass, not as the aborigines of America or the scattered tribes of but as one great people, with a common life, sweeping through Its millions and a common thought controlling its numbers. The Chinaman is not an individual as the American, but is only a cog in the great social wheel which revolves round and round. 'Here. too.

are these hundreds of mil lions who, hy reason of the constant struggle for existence have been Inured to toil and taught habits' of economy and Industry who are now brought face to face with the civilization of the West, and as one-fourth of the inhabitants of the globe are to become competitors in commerce and manufactures. They, too, possess a civilization of a very high order. To dress tney nave given more attention than anv people wno nave ever existed, in finance, whether considered as bankers or mer- cnants, tney tane tne "cnier seats among commercial men, ana tne mnuence of the China trade' is felt across the seas. "The nation has for millenniums elven special attention to literature, and by their civil service examinations men rise to office. Also the teachings of the sages have filtered down among the people and become their Intellectual warp and woof.

The glory of the nation is their high ethical system. "During the ages of the past thev hnve been perfectly satisfied with their attain ments, but in recent years four new powers have been brought to bear upon the country the power of arms, the power of commerce, the power of science and the power of religion. six years ago they were conauered hv the Japanese, a people inhabiting a country no larger than one of its eighteen provinces, who sent over an army composed of 'pigmy as they contemptuously called them, and routed their undisciplined rorces. Thus this little island country became the teacher of the great continental empire. There is now the closest alliance being formed between the two countries.

"Recently three events have been pow-rful in forwarding the cause of Chris tianity In the land. The one is the siege of Pekin. Christian England and Christian America sat at ease in reference to the great nation across the Pacific when God permitted the Boxers to seize the cpresentatlves of the great powers and place them under hot shot and shell for eight long weeks, during which time such volume of prayer in behalf of China scended to heaven as the church has Result of Trouble at Recent prepaid The deductions of the detectives of flc-tiou receive little credence In real life, although they are amuBing enough the astonishing results obtained by them; unfortunately, have hardly a parallel in the history of actual crimes. The of all countries find a great many crimes whose knots they are unable to untie, and there are great many persons who say that when a thoroughly clever man commits a crime carefully there Is little chance of his being discovered unless by some of those strange instances of chance that have been referred to. The police run in a rut more or less, it Is true, but what comes within the region of their past i-xperiences or teachings they are well able to cope with.

But. all criminals are not good enough to scatter, clews around before their departure from the scenes of their crimes, and very many occasions see the police, in spite of their assertions to the contrary, balked at the very outset of their investigations. It is possible that the novelists are right and that thisr may be avoided by the consideration of the most prosaic and trivial details and the assumption that the impossible is what one should take for granted?" In London there Is a man in jail -now simply be- -cause he was foolish enough to put his thumb on a dusty window sill. In that case there is surely one worthy follower of the book detective in the English capl-- -tal today. The schemes of the detectives of fiction do not seem sofar drawn when we regard this instance of keen-witted investigation.

Perhaps no one would be any the worse for it, then, if we had, a little, more of such things in our pollca researches everywhere. That is, no WOUiU UB WV.OT. criminals. Av NEGROES WILL NOT WOUK. Louisiana Planters Forced to Secure Italian Labor.

New Orleans Special. The Louisiana planters continue to DC Encampment. Courf oi Inquiry Reports to Com mander of Seconl. Infantry That Selma Guards are Ia-efficient and Should Be Disbanded. Colonel E.

H. Graves, commanding the zna intantry Alabama National Guard, has recommended to Adjutant General W. AV. Brandon the Immediate muster out of the Selma Guards, Company 2nd Infantry. The commanding officer of the 2nd Infantry further recommends, on account of the manifest stability and worth of some of the officers and members of the company, that a new company be organized in Selma In place of the old.

Colonel Graves's recommendations were based upon the findings of the Court of Inquiry, which convened at October 21. The court was composed of Lleu-enant Colonel H. B. May of the 2nd Major D. M.

Scott of the Brigade Staff, Major C. R. Bricken of the 2nd Infantry, Captain I. N. Eddy of the I Lead to Detection Interesting Cases Outside of Works of Section.

Some French. Mysteries Solved 1 by Discovery of Insignificant Things, i New Tork Special to Chicago Inter-Ocean. Sherlock Holmes confirmed his suspicions of an Impending bank robbery by a glance at the knees of a man's trousers. M. Tirauclair established a murderer's Identity by a cigar stump.

Lecoq drew a net around a titled homi cide because he had heard a parrot In an obscure Paris hotel repeat a certain sentence. Dupin and the dozen or so best detectives of fiction have done as much at one time or another, and while we must all be charmed by the Ingenlous- ness of Gaboriau and Poe and Conan Doyle In making such charmingly astute police we are very apt to think that these masters of deduction and inference have no counterparts outside book pages, and that In real life we could never find an episode to cast even the slightest edge of an eclipse over the horror and fascination and cleverness of "The Sign of the Four" or "The Mystery of Orclval," -or "The Murders of the Rue Morgue' Here In New Tork, where, we hear every day the details of some new murder or embezzlement or bank robbery. wie give very 'little attention to the methods, by which the criminals are captured, very likely because there is not much of ttaa romantic. Incident to their (seizure. The workings of the New York police force and detective bureau are largely almost entirely prosaic in the estimation of New Yorkers In general, and because we have them with us all the time they have none of the fascination of the agents of the Third Section of Russia or the Scotland Yard in England or the Secret Police of Paris.

One may hear once In an age of a dramatic capture or an astonishing deduction in New York but there is little chance of such a thing For our police are above such matters as cigar-stump and trouser-knee deduc tion and turn more readily to "stool pigeons" and past records and pictures, and, perchance If it be whispered lightly the "third degree." They are good, stout men usually, who can tell the hand of an old offender in a new job, ana who can find his friends and pump them and bribe them, and who can do a great deal of identifying by means of the Bertillon system of measurements and photographs when they have once located their man. But the difficulty Hes very many times, Indeed locating tjie man, and there is a small army of murderers, burglars and the like who work cleverly, year In and out, quite undiscovered, because they leave no threads to pick up and follow. The list of undiscovered crimes In New York is, indeed very large, and we may suppose that it Is principally because the Lecoqs and Sherlock Holmes- or nction reallv find no counterparts In actual ex istence, and the almost impossible un-ravellngs of difficult situations are never accomplished. There have been, however, some very strange episodes connected with actual crimes and their discovery episodes which read verv much like fiction ana wnicn might have been used to advantage by the writers of famous detective stones, wno, according to one of their critics, delight to present a corpse in the opening chapter and use the rest of the book to prevent th roader from guessing how it came ther. Almost a month ago the perpetrator r.r a rnhherv was discovered in Lionaon by a method which would not have been unworthy of even old rapa nraucnwr, mo nmatenr nrecentor of Monsieur Lecoq VilTneolf In this case the detectives investigating i-no rnhheiV discovery on the window sill by which the thief had undoubtedly en tered and ransacked tne nouse me of a thumb.

These marks were careiuuj and com oared with the thumb marks taken by the English Ber tillon system of a criminal, tnen ax large, hut fnrmerlv in prison for a similar crime. The lines of the two thumbs marks were found to be identical. The criminal was traced, arrested and controntea wim what seemed to him to be miracuious evi dence. He confessea ana was sen to a term of imprisonment, the Bertillon imnroasinn and the photographed Impression from the window sill being admitted in court as evidence. The Chinese have from almost unnnown times used the impression of the inked thumb as a means of identification and a opal for documents, for it nas al ways been a well known fact that no two thumbs in the world are exactly the same in shape, size and the oroer or lines on the skin.

In almost all of the continental countries, where the Bertillon system of measuring criminals is In use, impression of the thumb is taken when the photographs are taken and the measurements made of the arrested person's body, the nrlnolnal dimensions taken being me lerurth and width of the head, the length of the middle finger, the length of the foot, forearm and outstretched arm; tne height standing and sitting, and the contour of the ear. In England, as has been seen, the same form of taking thumb marks is In use, but the police in the United States have never considered that such impressions would help them, the Idea being that the rest of the Bertillon system affords sufficient means of identification. The Bertillon system itself is a tre mendous aid to the identification of crim inals arrested for a second offense, but It Is naturally not expected to do much toward discovering and convicting a man of a crime when he has never been sub jected to the measurements himself. In one case In Paris, nowever. tne cenuion system did accomplish this apparently impossible task.

One day in the summer oi mi a neaaiess body of 'a man was discovered in the cellar of a box factory on the rue de-Cha- ronne. in Paris, mere was aosoiuieiy nothing by eh the police hoped to discover the identity of the dead man or his murderer, until some one measured the body bv the Bertillon system, and, after searching the Bertillon files at the police agency, found that the measurements agreed exactly with those of one Bouty, an old and notorious criminal of the Barrier neighborhood. A search was made for Bouty and he was not to -be found. The last that had been seen of him was when he turned into, the rue de Charonne, few nights before, with an associate named Vancourt. Vancourt was found and accused of the murder.

He confessed, and was sent to the guillotine two months later. Manv crimes have been discovered In England and France by the most trifling slips of tongue or judgment; A Duke who murdered his wifenn Paris years ago might have easily escaped detection had it not been that In trying to create the impression that burglar? had his TiTa Formula tells nevei- known before. "The second Is the rersecution of the native cnurcn, during which hundreds ind thousands of those who had recently been brought into the Christian church stood 'faitnful unto death" when they had only to recant and their lives would have been spared. This has demonstrated the stability of the church Jn China and that no 'wear of man' can shake its foundations. It has also caused the native Christians to be held up to the admiring gaze of the whole of Christendom.

"The third is the martyrdom of the missionaries. During the past century till next to its closing year only one hundred and thirty missionaries on the isles of the sea and amidst the savage tribes of Africa had been called upon to lay down their jut during July and August. 1900, in China alone, 1S8 of these 136 were adults and 53 were childrenwere numbered among the 'martyrs of As the 'blood of the martyrs Is the seed of the church' and as this seed has been broadcast on China's plains, we may expect a very large harvest dur lug the next few years. "The special charges that are noticed in China are the breaking down of the great wall of prejudice and the springing up of a teachable spirit. There is a com-ple revolution In the mental recptlvity of -the people.

Whereas before they were proud and need of nothing they now oall to the West, 'Come over and teach "Up to this time the government examinations have proved a foe to progress but by the edict of the Emperor western science and literature have been introduced and the curriculum of our colleges is to be their literary standard. This has caused an intellectual fermentation to set in and what before was an obstacle to re form is now the very channel in which Christian truth may The people are purchasing Christian books and the sales of the Bible are far more rapid man in tne past. "The edict of the Emoeror Dowaeer against foot-binding, which is not prohibi tory, dui advisory marKs an era in tne national history and ere long we mar hope that popular sentiment may be thoroughly aroused against this cruel and Darnarous practice. "The opening; of colleges for the studv of western school books in all the great cities is a proof that the old China is a thing of the past and that a new people with new thought and activities are about to taKe their place on the world arena. Ihe attention given to the mineral wealth of the country the fields of coal and the mountains of iron, fully equal to those of the United States, with the mines of gold and silver and copper wnicn nas been ma in the earth till this, the twentieth century proved that the sun of this nation great destiny is just rising.

The country, in the opening of railways, is just entering upon its steel age. "It is also now the age of preaching, The people come to the churches in large numbers and in many places chapels have been opened by the probationers and the missionaries Invited to come and preach. The spirit of inquiry has taken the place oi inainerence ana that of earnest consideration the place of utter carelessness. ine outlook is most hopetul. "The opportunity for Christian teachers in China is now unbounded and sending mese snouia oe tne special ertort of the Young Men's Christian Association.

Christian physicians are greatly needed to open we.l-equipped hospitals which the people will in a large measure support. Most of all the cliurch should take ad vantage of this crisis in the national his tory and send out a large number of ministers who will daily preach to the waiting congregations." Dr. DuBose left Montgomery yesterday morning for Columbia, S. He was urged by the pastors and congregations of the churches In which he preached, to return to Montgomery before his depart' ure for the Celestial Empire and his as. surance was given that if such' a thing were possible, he would do so.

Dr. DuBose is a man of striking per sonality, being tall, erect, and wearing a flowing beard. He has translated several valuable Chinese works, has written several books in Chinese and has con tributed some literary and religious works to his native language. He is a South Carolinian by birth and his wife is a very attractive Alabama woman. AND IS LYNCHED blows on the head with the ax and began searching the place for the money.

Hearing some one coming, he went to the door and saw Miss Meadows approaching. As she came up the steps he struck at her with the ax. She threw up one arm to ward off the blow, and her arm was broken. She turned and ran with the fiend following. When they reached the gate he caught up with her and struck her a blow on the head, knocking her to the ground.

Then he kicked her In the side, bruising her badly. He returned to the house, but failed 'tp find the money. Thinking both women dead, he return. to his work, after Blip- ping homo- and washing off the smut. The daughter came to and started to neighbors for help.

Arriving at Mr. Cad-'enheads, in faltering accents she told the awful story and the word soon spread over the County. Sheriff Hodge was sick in bed, but one of his deputies. Chief of Police Morgan, R. W.

Capps, a son-in-law of Mrs. Meadows, Tax Collector Booker and others left for the scene of the attempted murders and have been gone all day. The Negro Identified. This afternoon the negro was caught by a posse. Smut was found on his face and in the water where he had washed.

He was carried to the scene of his crime and wa sidentifhjd by Miss Meadows. After the evidences of his guilt were seen, including his finger prints on the back of a chimney where he had gotten the smut, he was carried to the Meadows home. Silently the vast throng of men, many of them armed, followed. Arriving there they ranged themselves on all sides and the negro was carried to the door. Miss Meadows, her mother being still unconscious, was brought to the door and immediately recognized the negro as the one who had assaulted her and her mother.

The negro did not get six feet from the steps before the sharp report of a pistol rang out. The negro gave a groan, then another shot was heard and then came a sound like the rattle of artillery and then all was still. i Sank to the The negro sank to the ground, dead. The people had asserted their power, and outraged manhood had brought down the vengeance of death. There were only a few movements of the body, and the men moved away.

Mrs. Meadows' cannot recover and her daughter Is In great danger. In the house of mourning the neighbors have lent all possible assistance. This is one of the worst tragedies and one of the first of Its kind that occurred in this county. The negro's wife Is now under an est charged with complicity.

good horse of today runs from fifteen to thirty races In' a season, meeting a large number of competitors and is asked to concede weight, and is kept in training fully nine months of the year, If time is any criterion, there is no comparison between the of today and those of former years. A woman cai 'forgive a man's self-lnve if he also love another and she is the other. operators ot rich and extensive phosphate mines, direct import ers or the products of the Ger man Kali Works: Kainit, Muriate of Potash, etc. This company is not in the nor allied with or controlled by any "combine. Its plants, completed and under construction, are large and up-to-date, thereby enabling them to produce better goods and more econom ically than can possibly be done by the old plants in general use.

These goods will not cost the consumer more than was for merly paid for less meritorious lertihzers. Cmmrgim, liiitcippl, and W. tlmrlda. SELMA COMPANY Court of Inquiry. I court was not only with the duty of investigating the company's specific act of insubordination, but it was directed to bring in a report on the status oi the command, its efficiency and its care of the military property consigned lu 11.

Upon receiving the findings of the court Colonel Graves issued the following order dissolving it. "Headquarters 2nd Infantry, "Alabama National Guard. "Eufaula, Oct. 27, 1902. "Regimental Order, No.

17. The finding of the Court of Inquiry appointed to meet In Selma, on October 21st, are approved and court dissolved. "II. The court will accept thanks of the regimental commander for the efficiency of the work done and celerity with which It was accomplished. "By order Colonel Graves.

H. Hurt, "Captain and Adjutant 2nd Infantry The finding of the court are reviewed by Colonel Graves In his communication to Adjutant General Brandon. The court found that the company was torn by dis sensions and that It was in a state of ineffiicency. The company equipment, the court found, was In a deplorable condl Colonel Graves communication to the Adjutant General is as follows: "Headquarters 2nd Infantry, Alabama National Guard, "Kiifaula, Oct. 27, 1902.

"I have the honor to recommend the Immediate muster out of 'Company 2nd Infantry, A. N. and to request that an order for same be issued at once. This recommendation Is based on the findings of the Court of Inquiry, ordered to look Into the Internal dissen sions that existed in this company. The court reports that this company does not come up to the standard required by the Interest of the regiment, or the National Guard.

They report the Quartermaster's Department in a deplorable condition, with arms and aecouterments uncared for, with uniforms scattered indiscriminately over the city, and others plied in a shapeless mass In the armory. With dif ferences, dissensions, and insubordina tion existing abundantly among the rank and file of the company; and altogether, the affairs of the company, as a whole, to be in a reprehensible and deplorable condition. The court also recommends on accourit of the manifest stability and worth of some of the officers, and members of this company, that, if possible, a new company be organized In the place of the old, and I request that precedence be given any petition from Selma, asking for the organization of a company. Very respectfully. H.

Graves, "Colonel 2nd Infantry, A. N. Adjutant General Brandon is at present absent from the city on a campaign tour. It is expected that the formal order mustering out the company will be issued on his return to Montgomery. upon further plans.

Montgomery veterans who are In charge of the preliminary details of the reunion, are preparing for 2,500 old soldiers who followed the Southern Cross. The attendance upon the reunion last year was veterans. This year it Is confidently expected that 1,000 more Confederate veterans will participate in the reunion. The local committees are going forward with their work with this estimate as a basis. The reunion crowd will, of course, be many times larger.

The visitors who were not soldiers will greatly outnumber the Confederate veterans. But the old soldiers will form the center of attraction. The Interest of the occasion clusters about them. The exercises are being arranged in their honor and for their gratification. The remarkaly low rate which has been granted for the two day's reunion will attract great crowds to Montgomery.

All railroads' will give a rate of one cent a mile This rate is one of the lowest ever allowed by Southeastern Passenger Association. No other low rate for any occasion this fall has been granted by the railroads and thousands of people In. Alabama will avail themselves ot this opportunity' of visiting Montgomery. the other a class who only know the older horse's by tradition and see everything magnified by the purple distance of time. I might add a third group those who are forever lamenting the, "want of class" in our great races, but this amounts merely to an affectation of blase and hardly, merits notice, as it Is in- Comparing the horses of today with NEGRO ATTEMPIS MURDER wreolie Willi me iouv.

jjwuw. is scarce in every parish in Central and Southern Louisiana, and farmers report that they are having all sorts of trouble with their laborers, while idle negroes are plentiful about the country towns. A large number of sugar planters have been forced to import Italians from New York, St. Louis, Chicago and other places to harvest the cane crop. This "has not only been expensive, but It has made the farmers resentful 'towird the trifling blacks who Tefuse to work, and are calling; upon the authorities to enforce the va- Pettus Artillery at Selma and Captain E.

B. Joseph, of the Montgomery Greys. The court was convened principally to investigate the lnsurbordinatlon of Company at Camp Foster in Selma last July. It will be recalled that nearly every noncommissioned officer and enlisted man marched out of the camp in defiance of their company officers. Between the of- fleers and men of the command dissension had been previously shown.

The trouble culminated In an attempt made by Captain William Quinn to have Bugler O'Flynn arrested for refusing to do guard The non-commissioned officers of the company refused to make the arrest. Taking advantage of the time when the remainder of the regiment was at dinner the entire company marched out of the camp and went to the city. It is said that since the encampment the men and officers have patched up their differences, but at that time charges and counter-charges were made by the men nd officers. The men accused the officers of neglect of duty and indifference and the officers charged the men with desertion and Insubordination. Colonel Graves was not disposed to condone so serious a breach of dlscplline as an entire company leaving camp in defiance of officers.

On the day of the, occurrence he determined that the affair should he thoroughly investigated and that some action should be taken In preservation of regimental discipline. To probe Into the affair he apjpointed the hotel and had committed the crime he made the marks, of a thief's jimmy on the window sash of the Duchess's room in a place where a person working from the outside could never have reached. Even Gaborlau's parallel, of the murder by the Count de Tremorel affords no more astonishing Incident. A very peculiar instance of detection by the aid of a chance word is afforded by the story of a crime which some years ago affected a well known family in London. A wealthy woman had left her house one evening for the theatre, and her maid, looking over her mistress's clothing In her bedroom, tried on a pair of her silk stockings and satin shoes, noted the effect and exclaimed aloud, with some, satisfaction: "There's a leg for a stocking and a foot for a shoe!" The maid then took off her mistress's effects and left the room, forgetting the incident for' the time.

That night the mistress was murdered in her bed and all of her Jewels were stolen. London was convulsed for nine days by the tragedy, but after a long and thorough investigation the poliee were forced to admit their defeat. The murderer could not be discovered. Several years later the maid was walk ing aiong one of the streets of Paris wnen two men passed her, looking at her intently for a moment and smiled. As they went by she, heard one say the other with a "There's a leg for a siocKing ana a foot for a shoe!" The maid, who seems to have been a giri or some courage and wit, turned niuunu, Degan to joke with the men quite ingenuously and succeeded In hrin lng them back to talk to her.

Suddenlv. pretending to be insulted by the remarks of one of them, she declared she would have them arrested, and, leaving them laughing at her, she. hurried to a nearby Bci'uarme. to tne policemen the girl said, in broken French: "I want you to arrest those two men for murder." Strange to say, the gendarme seized the lenows and took them to the nnll h. reau, where the maid told her storv.

The men were detained, an investigation was uHtue ana tney were finally forced to ad mlt that years before thev had heen nn, eealed in the Englishwoman's bedroom while the maid had tried on the stockings and shoes and that they had after- wia commuted the murder and robbery. In the great list of undiscovered nrlmn there are very few Indeed In which the police have even come near tho soliitinn of the mystery. The double Kyan murder of 1878, which was a peculiarly horrible and widely discussed crime, was never solved, although it was committed in a crowded tenement house. The murder In 1885 of the Chinese restaurant keeper, Ching Ong, In lower New York, was one of the most atrocious butcheries In the history of crime in this city, and was committed in broad daylight in the open shop at the foot of a flight of area steps on street, above which a constant stream of people was passing, almost literally in view of the corpse. Yet the murderer was never found.

Benlamin Nathan, a wealthy business marl of New York, was killed in his bedroom In ISiO iir this city, and his family reached him surely not more than a minute after the death blow was struck. Many recent murders remain a mystery, and to name half a dozen cases of undiscovered crimes of this sort would only be to recall as many sensations of the last year the authors of which are free men today. Even in cases where evidence seems to overpowerlngly convict a prisoner. it Is strangely hard, very often, for the detective force to obtain that connec ting link which permits the changing of the evidence. In 1836 the murder of Helen Jewett, a notorious woman of great beauty and popularity among a certain class of admirers tremendous excitement in New York and seemed indubitably to in volve a wild young man who.

was last seen with her and who visited her On the night that she met her death. One of the -servants testified at his trial for he was arrested, charged with the crime- that she had heard a groan in Helen Jewett's rooms and had immediately afterward seen a figure wearing a Spanish cloak and a glazed cap, such as the prisoner affected, move qultely down the hall and out of the back A great mass of circumstantial evidence was secured against the man but a connected link was not to be found and he was acquitted. The murder of Mary Rogers, the famous and beautiful attraction at Anderson's Broadway tobacco shop. In 1841, resulted in the arrest of a man with whom she was last seen alive, and an apparently overwhelming amount of evidence was procured against him. There, was no Lecoq or Holmes, however, to weld the chain and the man released.

No one else was found who might havo committed the crime, and tne case ended In the air. the story either go to work or leave the country. The planters are not the only sufferers. The steamboat lines on the Mississippi River are experiencing similar trouble. The roustabouts have tied up several boats in New Orleans during the tea days and absolutely refused to work when offered $100 aNmonth by the steamboat.

-captalnB. The steamer Imperial was de- layed at her landing three days because the negroes declined to go- out on the vessel, although the wharves were lined with a gang of worthless crap shooters. The steamer Julien Peydras was tied (up at Baton Rouge because she r.ot -secure a crew of roustabouts. The blacks stood around the landing at Batin Ri.uga in large bunches, refusing to give any reason for dsclining work. The captain of.

the boat offered $65 a month, but it failed to attract the crowd of idlers and at last accounts the vessel was till tied up. The authorities at Baton Ruige propose to undertake vigorous action in order to rid the town of the hordes of idle) man wVia HpfllnA to work at liisrh wa(res. Agents are In New Orleans from Mis sissippi hunting labor, while the cotton MONTGOMERY WOMEN PLANNING TO ENTERTAIN THE VETERANS Confederate Societies Take Charge of Details of Entertainment During Southern Heroes are Expected. and cane fields in the vicinity are in urg- -ent need of more hands. OF WOMEN Sam Harris Shot to Death in Lee.

ONE VICTIM WILL DIE Struck Mrs. Meadows and Her Daughter with Ax. Upon His Identification by the Lat ter, Mob Quickly Put an End to His Life Robbery the Object of His Crimes. Opelika, Nov. 3.

(Special.) As a result of the depravity of a negro field hand, two of the best women of this County lie. at death's door and. the black has been hurled into eternity. The crime, which has shocked the entire County, took place this morning. Sam Harris, a hand on the farm of George Meadows, knocked the wife and daughter of the latter on the head with an ax.

His purpose was robbery. He had heard that Mr. Meadows had disposed of two mules and that the money was on fhe premises, so when Mr. Meadows left the place this morning to attend the organization of a school some miles off, resolved to secure the sum. Casting aside the sack into which he was placing the cottonas he picked It, he went by his house and blackened his hands and face with smut, and taking an ax started for the home of Mr.

Meadows, which was near at hand. The home of Mr. Meadows is in a sparsely settled but other houses are near. The settlement is about six miles from Salem and some distance from a telegraph or railroad atation. Struck Mrs.

Meadows. Arriving at the house, the negro went In and struck Mrs. Meadows two terrible those of thirty or forty years ago, I should say the superiority was all in favor of the former. In old times horses ran seldom often not more than five or six races a year often less. The races were over longer distances, but they were specially prepared for them, and as handicaps were few, the best horse had a pretty easy time.

Besides, the number of horses was small. The returns of 1880 showed 640 foals. In 1900 as many as were reported to the Jockey Club. A LITTLE GIRL WOUNDED. Accidentally Shot by Pistol in Hands of Small Brothet.

Troy, Nov. 8. (Special.) Yesterday; evening the little daughter of J. Thompson, who resides near Joaquin, in this county, was shot by a pistol in the hands of her brother. An older Bon of Mr.

Thompson on his return home from nis granamotner s. found a small derringer in the road, and caried it home and threw in in the yard. His little brother, about 8 years old, and his sister, about 11 years old, were playing in the yard and found it. The littla boy thinking it a toy pistol, picked It up and began to snap it. The pistol was fired and the little girl being within Its range was struck In the right breast near the nipple, the ball ranging around toward the stomach.

The doctors' hav not yet been able to locate the ball. Jhe little girl is in a precarious c'ondU tion. but was resting well this morning. Price. 50c.

The arrangements for the entertainment of the Veterans during their stay In Montgomery at the annual reunion of the Alabama Division, United Confederate Veterans, have been left to the women of Montgomery. This matter was decided upon yesterday afternoon at a joint meeting of the local camps, of United Confederate Veterans, the four local chapters of the Daughters of the Confederacy, the White House Association, and the Ladles' Memorial Association. The meeting was held In the City Council Chamber. Judge John B. Fuller presided.

The matter was fully discussed and the result was that everything-all plans for the entertainment, social and otherwise, of the old soldiers who will make their pilgrimage to Montgomery November 12 and 13 was turned over to the members of the women's Confederate societies. After thla conclusion Mrs. Vincent Elmore was made tomporary Chairman and Mrs. John A. Kirkpatrick temporary Secretary.

Upon organization Mrs. D. Beale was elected permanent Chairman and Miss Nellie Holt permanent Secre- Several committees were formed. The remainder will be formed at a meeting which will be called soon to determine Thoroughbreds Improving. From "Scientific Racing." in October Outing i.

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