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Leaderless Mob Foiled In At

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GUARDS PROTECTED PRISONERS

Two Men Were Wounded In the Fu-

rious Attack Made by the People In-

tent on Wreaking Vengeance on As-

sailant of Girl

Chaltumxifu Tcnu Ja 27 Aftera vain effort ut u leaderless mob rungtug at times truer Sun lo beveiul tbuustud peraons to get posues iou o thezero who brutally ussuultod Mi s Ne-

vada Taylor on Tuesday night nt theentrance to Fotest Hills cemetery inSt Elmo a suburb of this city itfinally became convinced through twocommit ties of the truth of tbo coun-ty authorities statement that the ne-

gro had been taken to Knoxvllle andtit 1230 oclock had practically dis-

persedTroop B of the state guard now sur

rounds tho jail to prevent further asaulta Before this however the mobentered the jail and being driven outby policemen battered In the doorsand shattered the windows discharg-ing firearms Into the air every fewseconds

Wood Parker wns shot In the eyeand Will Gentry In the leg as the re-

sult of this promiscuous firing Bothwere bystanders Neither was seri-ously Injured

At no tube did tho mob have a lead-er or organization and no one ap-

peared to take chargeIt Is difficult to estimate the corm

bur of persons actually In the mob

Story of the AttackAt mldnUht Thursday u mob of be-

tween one and two thousand men surrounded tho county jail demandingthe negro who criminally assaultedMiss Nevada Taylor a highly respect-able young lady of St Elms n sub-

urb of this city on Tuesday nightTho county authorities admit havingarrested the guilty negro but theyclnlmed that he was taken to Knoxvllle by wnv of Hnrrlman Howeverthe mob refused to believe the statemint and were persistent In Its de-

mand though the situation qulotcddown In tlu next hour or HO

The crowd began to form as earlyus 7 oclock said shortly after S head-

ed b an immense man carrying adoublt barrel shotgun marched Intothe Jiil an I demanded the negro Tiltmob was told the negro was not thereand t lie authorities offered to allow-n committee of ten to Inspect the pris-

oners to hear out this statement Themull seemed to have no leader andthis committee was named

With the aid of the police reservesho crowd was then driven from the

jail offices Promptly It began bat-

tering down the doom and succeededIn effecting an entrance The ringingof the rio hell served to add to thecrowd but nothing further was doneby the men a large number of whomwere heavily armed except to remainabout the jail

All of the windows of the jail woremashed In by rocks but deputies

armed guarded the doorway lendingto thi cell and would not allow themob t pays and they were assistedby the pollro reserves

The members of the mob came fromall ports of the county hut beyondfiring of pistols arid breaking in thedoors lending to the offices of the jailnothing war done

Negroes in JailThere Is one in In the jail who

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of several attempted criminal assnultsand murders hy negroes and fcollneeverywhere U at a hkh pitch Thosuccessful flondlsh attack placeon Tuesday 4ilKht-

Mlas Thylor I nn rmployo at fhr-W W n o grocery or Mnristreet nnd tiwo h M hom with herfather nt a enMairo In ih cemetery

STATEHOOD BILL CARRIED

Opposition Was Exhausted In Fight-on Wednesday

Washington Inn 21 The hoiiepnsMd tilt h rtThooi bill ntoriiiuto sclt uU on Tlmrsia-

Tlu IJiuMti an oppoiilon to tlemeasure spent ii euiiie force and no-

effirt wns niaii to t at itu bill onfinnl but of tit inn

gents voting atahit till iiieji urThe hall paved by the vote of I to

TIll till pr od provides that Okla-homa find the Indian Territory shIllconstitute one state under tIlt nnmof Oklahoma anti that Arizona andNew Mexico shall constitute one stateunder the name of Arizona Shouldthe terms of admission bo ratified bythe residents of the territories In ques-tion their respective state constitu-tions must contain clauses prohibiting-the of Intoxicating liquors andplural marriages

The constitution of Arizona mustprohibit the sale of liquor to Indianforever and that of Oklahoma for 21

yearsThere are many other stipulations

governing schools courts and polltlcrl subdivisions of the proposed newstates Little Interest way manifest-ed In tilt days proceedings asidefrom tl actual vote on the bill

Two Hundred Passengers BruisedJeflorson City Mo Inn 27 A this

fcourl IiKillc express train westboundcrashed into n freight train standing-on the nnln track Friday andnearly Lt 0 passengers were bruisedhut none way seriously hurt Thefrticht train caught tire and tin de-

railed cars wore burnod TIll expresswas running at full speed and round-Ing a curve ploughed through tin ofthe 15 ears composing the frightOnly one truck of u car of the pas-

senger train lift tho rails and onlythe engirt was damaged Respon-sibility for the wreck has nut yet beenofficially placed

Lumber Association AdjournsWashington Jan 27 The National

Lumber Kx orters association closedIts sixth annual convention here onThursday Olllcers were elected as fol-

lows President D li Kusse Memphis first vice president J I AlcockBaltimore treasurer Richard W

Price Baltimore secretory and trafficmanager Kdwnrd M Terry Now YorkThe association placed Itself on rec-

ord as In favor of reciprocity betweenthis country and foreign countriesand In favor of the Grosscup plan ofregulation of freight rates in tho Unitcd States

Murphy Ends His LifeBarnesvllle Ga Jan 27 P A

Murphy a will known citizen of thiscity about Jirt years of age committedHiilcMo by shooting himself throughthe l nrt with n Winchester rifle Howas a member of the Murphy familywhich Is one of tho most widelykn wn families of this section III

h iib and tttiandnl reverses art saidto bo till cause f r the deid andthat he lead C nt updated the act forsome time

Jeweler Works StreetsDecatur Ali Jan 27 U Bachman

a ir firiu rl of Hoche tei NY ha b n co iictod of witobeatingand lUiu worked on tit streetswltli shackles on his nnklos TIlllaw provides for n punishment of n

h nnre In the ronl mine or work onthe nots for e Much

man own valuable property and liwell known

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WHEELER FUNERAL TO

BE AT WASHINGTON

IntermtiDt Will Be In ArlingtonCemetery

WITH FULL MILITARY HONORS-

An Escort Consisting of Troops fromAll Branches of United States Ser-

vice Will Accompany Remains to

Last Resting Place

Washington Jan 27 General Jobepli Wheeler will bo buried in Ar-

lington cemetery wills full militaryhonors The tentative program pro-

vided that the Mineral shall be heldat St Johns Episcopal church hereMonday afternoon and an escort con-

sisting of troops from all branch ofthe j ervlc accompany the body tothe cemetery

Sketch of General WheelerBrigadier General Joseph Wheeler

United Stales army who was retiredfrom active service Sept 1 Il n wasborn at Augusta ia Sept H-

He graduated from West Point In 1S

and in 1S 9 was given the honorarydegree of LI l by Georgetown colI-

ORO tie married Miss Nannie EllaJones

From ISi to ISO I he was secondlieutenant of 1nlted States cavalrybut on the outbreak of the civil warentered the confederate artillery with-a commission a first lieutenant Be-

came of his military training and hisdashing prowess he rapidly rube andbecame colonel of Infantry later brigadler general of cavalry major gener-al an I corps commander and at thecloy of the civil war was lieutenantgeneral-

He wns wounded three times sixteen horses wore shut under himeight of Mt staff officers were killedand thirtytwo wounded He at one-

time received the thanks of the con-

federate government for his skill andgallantry In battle

After the war he settled down toprivate life as A planter occasionallypracticing law In ISS1 he was elect-ed congressman train the eighth dl-

trlct of Alabama servlne until 1S99a erlod of eighteen years broonly by his absence during I ho

war He was reelectedto the flflyslxth congress but resign-ed He was senior memberof con-

gress of the Democratic slh Sereral times ho was a member of the hoardof visitors to the military academyand for fourteen years was a regent-of the Smithsonian Institute

At the beginning of the SpanishAmerican war he volunteered his ser-vices and on May I 1W wax np oliited major general of volunteers 1nlteStates army and assigned to till com-

mand of the cavalry division army ofSantiago commanded I ho troops-In the engagement at LnxguaslmnnCuba line 21 19 was nlor officerIn the Held at the battle of San Juanand was a senior member of n cornIon which arranged the surrender ofSantiago

From August IS 1S99 until Febru-ary 7 1900 he commanded the Firstbrigade Second division of the armyin the Philippines He participatedIn a number of Important engagementIn the conquest of three islands InJuno ho was appointed brigadiergeneral of the regular Tnlted Statesarmv and was In command of the

of the lakes until Septemberof that yenr when he was retired Hewas n member of the Society of Co-

lonial Curs Sons of tio RevolutionSons nf the War of lSIl1 tit SoMetyof Snntlnvo Inltod Confederate Vi i

emus sorlatlon and the Naval andMlllnry Ord r of the SpanlhhAmerlcan War

writings wore numerous deallnu-ltr ol with lehntrni military runner

o wrote an urount of the Kentuckymilitary ciu rnlgn of mo snit In tarho compiled fur the ore of th eonfederate ftv n tnnniinl oftaoMr a inlllary hlxror-vf labama H iry of terar aiirn n Mtirv of Cula andr rai Ills rfth E cUauu CivllUuitou gj tbv War of the

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I Nlnteenth Century He also wrotemonographs upon the lives of AdmiralGeorge Dewey President William Me

I Kin Icy General Stonewall Jacksonand President Theodore Roosevelt

HAD BOUGHT BOGUS LAND GRANT

Man Thought He Had Bought GoodLand in Georgia

Atlanta Jan 27 A man who gavehis name at J T Penv anti raid howas from Nebraska called at the offlee of Secretary of State Philip Coolto lint tliiU a title which ho hadht had l o hl to 2I9 9 acres ofland in Wa Mtigton county fia-

Tii title on the face of It appearedto be n goo l one The only trouiluwas the lust link In the chainwas a one It was a bogus Geor-gia land grant ont of the many whichhave ben trafficked in at variouspoint In Iht country and out ofwhich the purchasers have securedonly a little sorrowful experience-

1he land grant xn s ssed by MrPeavy was for 2UM 0 acres of land InWashington county anti was allegedto have been made to Enoch NllsonThe grant purported to have beenrecorded In Hook IE page 514 in Sec-retary Cooks once

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in question showed that It containeda grant of 15 acres In Wllkes county-to Isaac Hodge

MAKING A FIGHT ON DISPENSARY

Petition Being Circulated Against theAthens Booze Emporium

Athens Ja Jan 27 A petition Isbeing circulated throughout the countyasking the legislature to pass a In

abolishing the Athens dispensary-The movement Is being led by Rev

V G Crawley pastor of Oconee streetM thodlsl church and already quite alarge number of names have been at-

tached to time petition These petitionswill be circulated In every counlry dis-

trict as well as In the city-It Is claimed by those who are

this movement that there w beno trouble In securing a majority ofthe voters on these lists and that therepresentative from Clarke Hon J URucker has pledged to advocate what-ever tho majority of the white peo-

ple of tho county ask on this questionTho dldspcnsary advocates will op-

pose the movement strenuously anddo not seem to be worried about thooutcome

Discovers New StarsCambridge Mass Jan 27 The dis-

covery of twentylive new variablestars by Miss Henrietta S evltt bya recent examination oJ tho plates taken with a telescope has beesannounced by the Harvard observa-tory Six of these stars are In theconstellation of Orion three In the coa-stellat Ion of Virgo and sixteen In theconstellation of Cygnus All the platesare of extremely tine quality tho I

ages of at least 200000 stars havingmen caught with a clearness that willpermit of comparisons The newvariables In Cygnus are In the regionof the great spiral nebelaub

Landslide Wrecked TrainsSpakanc Wash Jan 27 Burling-

ton passenger train No C castbouadstruck a landslide on tho Great North-ern railway near Rock Island WashThe engine was thrown Into almost aperpendicular position and the tender and baggage car were thrown Intothe Columbia river Martin Hurraythe baggageman was drownednumber of workmen were slightly Injured but none of the paasengurs wereseriously hurt

Killed While Saving ChildCincinnati O Jan 27 After pinna-

It t p tho tames Into Charles1 burning house at Mont

Vn and safely bringing-out one of the children Jug King nwell known character was killed by nfalling tinker nn the walls fell out-ward fir Any unhurt

Child Is Burned To DeathDonaM tvil Jan 2 7 Tc

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ONLY 34 SURVIVORS

OF VALENCIA DISASTER-

Death List Vow Numbers Over-

Due Hundred

FIVE SURVIVORS WENT ASHORE

Drifting on Raft Nine Men Were Pick-

ed Up by Launch Shamrock VictoriaAfter Being Found by Indiana B-Tvlvora Tell of Hardships

Victoria Jan 27 Whh the lading-of four more burvlvors of the Valenciadisaster on Turret Island oae of tkftarchipelagoes In tho center of Berkleysound the total number of sHrrivers-ucouutud for reaches 37 peraoae

Victoria II C Jan 27 Advices tethe Express front Uclulet early todaystate that the ten men who left UMValencia on Wednesday afternoon onthe second life raft which was pickedup by the steamer City ofdrifted Into sound

On arriving at a small Island off Vil-

lage Island Wilson the thirdneer jumped overboard sad ta

to swim ashore was drewed The remaining nine tended eaTurret Island Wednesday

Before morning five went crazy andjumped into tho water One ariathe strongest started out for kelpand had not returned when the f-

mnlnlng men were taken oa board thelaunch Shamrock of Victoria After be-

ing found by IndiansWhile the mm were drifting OB the

life raft they saw the steamer Cityof Topeka for a considerable htttwere unable to attract attention al-

though they tried frantically te de aeThey saw Capo Beale light that nlftlltend tried to make for It sung to

Wounded by Unknown AssailantBirmingham Ala Jan 27 Near

Johns Thursday while a partywhich had lutes engaged In celebraUagRobert Humus birthday was diverti-ng an unknown person fired severalshots Into a group of men ataadteg

the front porch of J H Gordoaaresidence J D Evans aaperlateadent of the coke ovens for the Teasessee Coal Iron and Railroad coataaayat Johns was dangerously wounded

thigh McGecver member ef theJefferson county board of means anda prominent Birmingham merchaat re-

ceived a bad flesh wound It to notknown who did tho shooting and aoarrests have been made

Senate Paeeea Atlanta SillWashington Jan 27 The bill ap

propriating 1000000 for a new publicbuilding at Atlanta Ga barn been

by the senate This to the Mil latraduced by Senator Clay It to desliar to one Colonel Livingston kern la-

troduced in the house SomeSenator Clay secured re-port of tho public buildings coamKtee upon this mcaaare aid he sailedIt up under unanimous consent sad M

passed by the senate wltbeat adissenting vote

Woman Denies AlleaatlenNew York Jan 27 A detective

from Boston came here and IdeatliedMrs John Isaacs of Brooklyn whehad declared to the police aataerlUeaof that through that her husband wasnn accomplice In the murder of Mahel raga of Weston Vas The Boton officer afterward said thedented that tube hal made nay CBCB al-

legation and there was no rcaaea forholding her husband

Roosevelt Declines te Parden Cete-Wanhlncton Jan 27 PreaMeat

Roosevelt has declined a request topardon Charles H Cole former presi-dent of tho Globe National baak oC

Boston Mn s convicted of vtokUlonof the national bnnlle laws

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