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THE RICHMOND PLANET VOL XVII. NO 15 THE STORY OF A LYNCHING. HORRIBLE SCENES. The Last Moment of the Victims. OFFICERS OF THE LAW, WITNESSES. Intense excitement has prevailed in this city, due to the lynching of Walter Cotton (colored) and Grandt O'Grady (white) at Emporia, Va., Saturday, March 24th, 1900, after the troops sent to upbold the majesty of the law had been ordered away by the judge and sheriff whose lives were threatened, and this too with the consent and approval of the Governor of Virginia. The reports from the scene of the trouble show a most astounding condition of affairs. Friday morning, much excitement existed at Emporia. The Blues from Richmond were under command of Major Sol. Guthchew. THE MOB UNEASY. The mob was uneasy. The leader of it found out that the only way to lynch the prisoners was to secure the removal of the troops and accordingly a conference of the "citizens of the town" was held Saturday morning, 24th inst. Major Cutchins was invited to attend and Judge Goodwyn is quoted as follows: "Gentlemen, I have invited you here in order that I might consult with you as to your wishes. I sent for these troops because I believed them necessary to preserve law and order. I am informed that you are incensed at my action, and I now desire to have you express your wishes." A number of those present spoke and all were in favor of having the troops sent away. Major Cutchins was invited to speak. He informed them that he had wired the Governor for instructions and had been told to obey the orders of the Sheriff and would do so, so far as those orders affected his movements. WOULD DO HIS DUTY. He continued: "If I stay, gentlemen, I shall request more troops to be sent here. I do not want to have to fire upon you, and I believe I can best avid do so by bringing sufficient troops here to render an attack improbable. If an attack is made upon the jail while I am in charge I will order my men to fire, and I will stop any mob, no matter how large it be, that attempts to take those prisoners." This did not suit the mob. They wanted him to indicate that he would fire over their heads or use blank cardridges, but it was evident that the Major meant business The following was the telegram sent to the Governor and the reply thereto: "EMFORIA, VA., 7:30 A.M. "Governor J, Hoge Tyler, Richmond·Va: "Hold company at Armory. Everything quiet this morning. We will soon be discharged. Without protest, the prisoner will be pushed to night. Shall I obey order and leave?" SO CURIOUS!" A REMARKABLE ORDER. "Major Sol. Cutchina, Emporia, Va. ; "The sole responsibility is on the Sheriff. If he orders you to withdraw you can do nothing but obey. We have done everything possible to uphold law and prevent mob violence, and are still prepared to render any aid necessary. Have recalled train with Captain Cheatwood's company, and will again dismiss them. Will arrange with railroad to bring your men back. The promptness and soldierly conduct of your battalion is commended and your own efficient services are appreciated. J. HOGE TYLER, Governor." These were the telegrams which sealed the fate of the two prisoners. The Governor insisted upon forcing Major Gutchins to obey the order of the Sheriff, although he had been informed by that cool-headed officer that such a course would result in a murder. PARLEYING WITH LYNCHERS. The conference was called upon by Judge Goodwyn as follows: "What is your pleasure, gentlemen? Shall this order be signed? All favoring it hold up their hands." All voted for it. Nowing order, duly signed, was then handed to Major Cutchins. It was as follows: "EMPORIA, VA., March 24, 1900. 10:15 A. M. Major Sol. Cutchins. Communication Major Sol. Couturein, Commanding Virginia Volunteers at Emporia, Va. Sir.-The services of your command are no longer required, and you are hereby discharged from further duty and directed to withdraw your troops from this county as soon as practicable. Respectfully. S. W. LEE, Sheriff. "I approve the above action of S. W. Lee, Sheriff of the county of Greensville, Va. .. W. Samuel Goodwyn, Judge of the County Court of Greensville." The troops had not reached this city before the mob, headed by Ex Judge Barham, proceeded to make arrangements to lynch the colored man, Ootton. Two coils of rope were secured. A call was made for the keys of the jail. Some one said that a deputy-sheriff had them. It being so understood, he walked across the street, dropping them in the middle of the road and were immediately picked up by a leader of the lynchers. We have the keys, now on to the jail, was the cry. There was some delay. Some delay was caused in the effort to open doors open, but they were soon unlocked and the mob surged into the jail. A sad spectacle presented itself. The committee of lynchers entered the cell of Cotton and O'Grady. There they sat, chained to the floor, hepless and deserted. Neither raised their eyes, as the doors swung open. THE SCENE BEFORE THE LYNCHING. Vulgar sayings and brutal oaths sounded upon Cotton's ears as he was told his end was at hand. He looked into the faces of his murders, but did not speak. In reply to a query of the Dispatch's reporter, Clarence T. Boykin, he said he felt badly and that he was not prepared to die. Then he added: "O. I done it. There saint no use in my denying that, and I know you are going to harm me." The noose was slipped over his head and adjusted about his throat. He attempted to stand up, but being shackled could not do so. The noose was sent for the keys to the chainlock, and in a moment returned with them. Cotton show-d no fear, but with head erect marched in the midst of his executioners. A yell went up from the mob of white and colored people as a he appeared. Everybody seemed to be armed. The cry of "Don't shoot" was passed around and Ootton was led to the tree from which he was soon to be suspend- ed. Two white men climbed the tree, one fell back while the other one was assisted in reaching a limb about five feet from the tree. Once this a rope was tossed. Then came the command. "Everybody catch hood of the rope." A GHASTLY SIGHT. This was obeyed with such a will that the head of their victim struck the limb of the tree with such force that it was badly gashed and the blood trickled over the body of the dying man. Again and again and again was he let down and drawn up. To add to the horror of the scene, two white men caught hold of his feet and swung too and fro by them to increase the pressure upon the man's neck. It was a scene long to be remembered. Cotton had attempted to say that he wanted to speak to the Commonwealth's Attorney, but the cry was "To hell with the Commonwealth's Attorney," and he was jerked from the ground, two bullets being fired into his body and his life ended. It was asserted that he died from strangulation. It was five minutes before there was any evidence that life remained. Then he slowly drew up his legs, straightened them out again and — all was over. ANOTHER LIFE DEMANDED. For half an hour, men, women and children gazed upon the awful spectacle. Then it was cut down, and it lay on the ground while hundreds made an effort to secure pieces of his clothing and some endeavored to cut off his fingers. The taste for blood had not been satisfied and the cry of "Bring out the white man!" was heard on every side. It is thus described: About a dozen men started into the jail, but were met at the door by several gentlemen, among them Ex Judge G, P. Barham. The mob was urged to leave the white man alone, it being argued that guild had not then conclusively proved G. O. Field, Confederate veteran of Petersburg, had short speech, in which he begged the lynchers to desist from their purpose, but they pushed past him and entered the jail. In the cell they found O'Graw dy seated in a chair, with his hands and feet tightly maneuved. In a moment the chabies were thrown off him and a rope was placed about his neck. DRAGGED FROM THE CHAIR. He was dragged from his chair and told to leave the cell, but the friends of law and orderlagain interceded, and C.T. Boykin, of Richmond, pleaded with the crowd to give the man an opportunity to prove his innocence. The reporter then interrogated O'Grady, and he stoutly denied all knowledge of any of the crimes, save that of the killing of Measra. Welton and Saunders, of which he had been an eye-witness, but that he took no part in these trials, bestified to by Mr. Morris and by Cotton, bestified to O'Grady, frightened, but maintained his composure, and said that if given three days he could communicate with his friends in Boston and prove his innocence of the crimes. After much more persuasion on the part of gentlemen present, the mob agreed to grant the man a three-day's respite, and left the cell, with the understanding that if not proven innocent by Tuesday at noon, the man should then be lynched. O. T. Boykin, reporter for the Dispatch, removed the rope from around the neck of the frightened Irishman, and he was left alone, the cell being locked upon him. (Continued on, 4th Page.) RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1900 THE CRIME OF CRIMES. The Mob Demands and the Officials Surrender. MOURNING THROUGHOUT THE COMMONWEALTH. The Victims Spat Upon----The Law and its Obligations. THE ENTIRE COUNTRY STANDS AGHAST AT THE LYNCHINGS "When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person."—HOLY BIBLE, Matt. 27:24. "And they spit upon him."—HOLY BIBLE,—Matt. 27:30. Major Cutchins' Ringing Reply to the Lynchers "If I stay, gentlemen, I shall request more troops to be sent here. I do not want to have to fire upon you, and I believe I can best avoid doing so by bringing sufficient troops here to render an attack improbable. If an attack is made upon the jail, while I am in charge, I will order my men to fire and I will stop any mob, no matter how large it be that attempts to take those prisoners." After this, the Major was not wanted in Greensville County, and was ordered home by Governor Tyler, by way of the drunken white Sheriff of the County. this just person."—HOLY BIBLE, Matt. 27:24. CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES EMPHATIC "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favour and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense."—Constitution of United States, Article VI. CONSTITUTION OF VIRGINIA EQUALLY SO. "That in all capital or criminal prosecutions, as a right to demand the cause and nature of his accuser to be confronted with the accusers and witness for evidence in his favor, and to a speedy trial in a martial jury of his vicinage, without whose unanimous consent he cannot be found guilty; nor can he be compelled to give evidence against himself; that no man be deed of his liberty, except by the law of the landement of his peers. "That no free government, or the blessings of life be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence, moderation, temperance and virtue, and by a constant recurrence to fundamental principles."—Concern of Virginia, Article I. section 10 and 17, "That in all capital or criminal prosecutions, a man hath a right to demand the cause and nature of his accusation, to be confronted with the accusers and witnesses, to call for evidence in his favor, and to a speedy trial by an impartial jury of his vicinage, without whose unanimous consent he connot be found guilty; nor can he be compelled to give evidence against himself; that no man be deprived of his liberty, except by the law of the land or the judgment of his peers. "That no free government, or the blessings of liberty can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence of justice, moderation, temperance and virtue, and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles."—Constitution of Virginia, Article I. Section 10 and 17. THE DUTY OF THE GOVERNOR. "The Governor shall reside at the seat of governor receive five thousand dollars for each year of se * He shall take care that the law be faithfully d. * * * "—Constitution of Virginia, Article IV s 4 and 5. "The Governor shall reside at the seat of government shall receive five thousand dollars for each year of service * * * He shall take care that the law be faithfully executed. * * * "—Constitution of Virginia, Article IV, Sections 4 and 5. LYNCHING DEFINED AS MURDER "Murder by poison, lying in wait, imprisonment, or any willful, deliberate and premeditated killing the commission of, or attempt to commit arson,ERY, or burglary, is murder of the first degree." "Murder of the first degree; shall be punished in. h."—Code of Virginia, Section 8662 and 8668. "Murder by poison, lying in wait, imprisonment, starving, or any willful, deliberate and premeditated killing, or in the commission of, or attempt to commit arson, rapa, robbery, or burglary, is murder of the first degree." "Murder of the first degree; shall be punished with death."—Code of Virginia, Section 3862 and 3863. TOO PLAIN TO MAKE A MISTAKE. If any combination, whether for dismembering the establishing in any part of it a separate government any other purpose, shall become so powerful as to det, in any part of this state, the due execution of thereof, in the ordinary course of proseding, the or may call forth the militia, or any part there press such combination."—Code of Virginia, Section "if any combination, whether for dismembering the state or establishing in any part of it a separate government, or for any other purpose, shall become so powerful as to obstruct, in any part of this state, the due execution of the laws thereof, in the ordinary course of proceeding, the Governor may call forth the militia, or any part thereof, to suppress such combination."—Code of Virginia, Section 211. THE SHERIFF'S OATH. "I, S. W. Lee, do solomnly swear that I will superset the constitution and laws of the United States the constitution and laws of the State of Virginia; recognize and accept the civil and political equality before the law, and that I will faithfully perform of Sheriff of Greeneville County to the best of my duty; So help me God." "I, S. W. LEE, do solomly swear that I will support and maintain the constitution and laws of the United States and the constitution and laws of the State of Virginia; that I recognize and accept the civil and political equality of all men before the law, and that I will faithfully perform the duty of Sheriff of Greenville County to the best of my ability; So help me God." THE JUDGE'S OATH. I. W. SAMUEL GOODWYN, do selemnly swear that he short and maintain the constitution and laws of United States and the constitution and laws of the State. Major Cutchins' Ring I. W. SAMUEL GOODWYN, do solemnly swear that I will support and maintain the constitution and laws of the United States and the constitution and laws of the State. Virginia; that I recognize and accept the civil and political equality of all men before the law, and that I will faithfully perform the duty of Judge of the County Court of Greeneville County to the best of my ability: So help me God." THE GOVERNOR'S OATH. J. HOGE TYLER, do solemnly swear that I will stand and maintain the constitution and laws of the Union and the constitution and laws of the state of W. that I recognize and accept the civil and political of all men before the law, and that I will faithfully form the duty of Governor to the best of my ability me God. "I. J. HOGE TYLER, do solemnly swear that I will support and maintain the constitution and laws of the United States, and the constitution and laws of the state of Virginia; that I recognize and accept the civil and political equality of all men before the law, and that I will faithfully perform the duty of Governor to the best of my ability: So help me God. AN OFFICER'S WARNING "EMFORIA, VA., 7:30 A. M. Noror J. Hoge Tyler, Richmond, Va.: old company at armory. Everything quiet this mo- We will soon be discharged. Without protection, her will be lynched to-night. Shall I obey order a SOL CUTCHINS." The Governor sent the following telegram to Me- nors at 9 o'clock: _____ "EMPEROR, VA., 7:30 A. M. "Governor J. Hoge Tyler, Richmond, Va.: Hold company at armory. Everything quiet this morning. We will soon be discharged. Without protection, the prisoner will be lynched to-night. Shall I obey order and leave? SOL CUTCHINS." The Governor sent the following telegram to Major Cutchins at 9 o'clock: THAT PECULIAR EXECUTIVE ORDER The sole responsibility is on the sheriff. If he orders withdraw, you can do nothing but obey. We have everything possible to uphold the law and prevent violence and are still prepared to render any aid need. Have recalled train with [Captain Cheatwood] any and will again dismiss them. Will arrange wad to bring your men back. The promptness and the conduct of your battalion is commended and your efficient services are appreciated. "The sole responsibility is on the sheriff. If he orders you to withdraw, you can do nothing but obey. We have done everything possible to uphold the law and prevent mob violence and are still prepared to render any aid necessary. Have recalled train with [Captain Oheatwood's] company and will again dismiss them. Will arrange with railroad to bring your men back. The promptness and soldierly conduct of your battalion is commended and your own efficient services are appreciated. J. Hoge TYLER, Governor." THEY ALL KNEW HIM Men of Greenesville, you all know me. I would do you an untruth. The military shall be sent away from the first train. The body of Cotton shall be buried county, or else it will go to the State Anatomist from here. The Negro shall never go away from here alive. I that."—Sheriff Lee's Speech, Friday, March 23, 1906 "Men of Greeneesville, you all know me. I would not tell you an untruth. The military shall be sent away from here by the first train. The body of Cotton shall be buried in this county, or else it will go 'to the State Anatomical Board from here. "The Negro shall never go away from here alive. I will see to that."—Sheriff Lee's Speech, Friday, March 28, 1900. OATHS VIOLATED. the conference was called and Judge Goodwyn addressed leaders of the mob as follows: "What is your plea for entitlement? Shall this order be signed? All favor up their hands." All voted for it. The following oral order: "EMPORIA, VA., March 24, 1900. 10:15 o'elock A. M. Sol. Cutchins, Commanding Virginia Volunteers Emporia: r.—The services of your command are no longer, and you are hereby discharged from further d directed to withdraw your troops from the county; convenience. Respectfully, S. W. LEE, Sheriff." approve the above action of S. W. Lee, Sheriff of of Greensville, Va. The conference was called and Judge Goodwyn addressed the leaders of the mob as follows: "What is your pleasure, gentlemen? Shall this order be signed? All favoring it, hold up their hands." All voted for it. The following is the fatal order: "EMPORIA, VA., March 24, 1900. 10:15 o'clock A. M. Major Sol. Cutchins, Commanding Virginia Volunteers at Emporia: Sir.—The services of your command are no longer required, and you are hereby discharged from further duty and directed to withdraw your troops from the county at your convenience. Respectfully, S. W. Lee, Sheriff." "I appreve the above action of S. W. Lee, Sheriff of the county of Greenesville, Va. W. SAMUEL GOODWYN, Judge of the County Courts of Greenesville." aly to the Lynchers. ups to be sent here. I do not want to ha go so by bringing sufficient troops here upon the jail, while I am in charge, I witter how large it be that attent GREAT OPENING DAY. Tuesday, April 3rd, 1900.—First Refor me's Store, N. E. Corner 6th and Clay Sts.—A Big Thanksgiv- The Reformer Mercantile Association, having purchased a large and commodious building on the North East corner of 6th and Clay Sts., will open on Tuesday, April 3rd, a large wholesale and retail grocery store where every thing in the grocery line can be had at lowest figures. This store will be runed on business principles and no pains or expense will be spared to furnish the public the best services. A full corps of competent, and courteous clerks will be on hand at all times. Goods will be delivered in all parts of the city free; and orders by mail or 'Old Phone, No. 1299, will receive proper after on. PUBLIC MEETING On Tuesday Night, April 8th, 1900, there will be held the Annual Thanksgiving Meeting at the Reformer's Hall. The public is invited. Speeches will be made by President W. L. Taylor, and others. One of the finest quartets will furnish special music for the occasion. Special efforts will be made in interest of the Old Folk's Homes. FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. Easy way to get a SUIT for Easter. Come and open on a account with me for 50 cents and pay 50 cents weekly. Everything made to order. Fit guaranteed. Bring this ad. Will allow you $1.00. R. ROS3 BUKT. 324 W. 87th St., New York. Then Read our Ad on last Page. BOSTON CHEM.CAL Co., Richmond, VE. One box of your Ozono has benefited my hair so much that I enclose you 50c. for another box. Miss TERIBOSIA MIDDLETON, 507 Chareton St., Savannah, Ga. Read our ad on last page. Agents wanted. The Moor's Visit Rev. Charles Mohammed, who was cowardly attacked in Danville, Va., March 9h, 1900 is in the city. He has with him a copy of the resolutions passed by the Moffett Memorial Church (white) of Danville, Va., exonerating him and condemning his assailants for their brutal attack upon him. Rev. Mohammed is from Morocco, Africa. He speaks six different languages, but declares that the English is the most difficult of them all. Having been notified by the Town Council of Barton Heights, through its attorney that an effort would be made to get possession of Union Mechanics Burial Ground by the removal of its trustee and the appointment of a citizen of Barton Heights in his place to take charge. In order to notify all section owners to call to see me at once or to communicate with me in order that the necessary funds may be raised to save the property. Signed: BENJAMIN HARRIS, Superintendent and Trustee. 3.81 4t. Glorious Times at the Fifth St. Baptist Church. Last Sunday closed a most interesting special service at the Fifth Street Baptist Church. Recently a new ceiling overhead, was made in the church at a cost $600, and as a result of last Sunday's special collection, this ceiling is now paid for and the church was never in a healthier condition. At 11:80 A. M., last Sunday, Rev. Prof. Diggs from the University, preached one of the ablest sermons on "Truth," that has ever been delivered in the city of Richmond. So moved and stirred was the congregation, that to a man, they voted, requesting Pref. Diggs to repeat the sermon to-merrow at 11:80 A. M. The different clubs, under their presidents, labored faithfully to make the special effort a success. The pastor of the Fifth St. Baptist Church, knows no failure in raising money, especially when he knows that the clubs, led by Mrs. Mary Page, Miss Hattie Jordan, Mrs. Isabella Wilkerson, Miss Lizzie Brown, Mrs. J. A. Grassam, Mrs. Edith Roman, Mrs. Georgiana Walker and Mr. Wm. Mason with their faithful officers and members, are supporting him. The pastor, W. F. Graham, will preach the opening sermon of the revival at the Fifth Street Baptist Church to-morrow night, subject "Many Ways to Hell. One Way to Heaven." Rev. Dr. Perkins of West Virginia will arrive Monday to take charge of the meetings for fifteen nights. All Christians, regardless of denomination, are respectfully invited to come and help in the salvation of sons. REV. BRAXTON'S FUNERAL Hard Time to Bury Him—Mr. Evan's Statement. BALTIMORE, MD., March 28, 1900 Rev. P. H. Braxton, of Baltimore, brother of M. Laois Braxton of your city died, and having been sick for some time, was without means. In order to keep his remains out of Potter's Field, friends were asked to help defray the expense of his burial and the following contributed: James P. Evans, $17.75; Hattie Green, $10; Maggie Hart: $10; Kate A. Neal, $10; Lizzie Fits, $5 50; Alice Hill, $5; Nancy Harris, $5; J. W. Edwards, $8; John Young, $1; Mary Johnson, $2; Samuel Klao, $1; William Headin, $1; Robert A. Dennis, $1; I. Lindsay, $1; Benjamin Hamilton, $1; I. W. Ganet, 506; Miss Ballard, 250. No relative contributed any money whatever to the expense of the funeral and it was through the efforts of friends that this minister was saved from an ignominious burial. Mr. Lewis Passes Away. Mr. James H. Lewis, an aged citizen of Manchester, and for a number of years a resident of Swansboro, after a long illness died at his residence on Bainbridge street, between Toler and Clopton streets, Swansboro, Chesterfield Co. Va., Friday, March 28, 1900, at 7:00 a.m. He was a well-known singer, possessing rare ability, and a professional vocal music instructor. Some of the leading singers of to-day, white and colored were taught by him. He was the leader of the First Baptist Church Choir of Manchester, Va., up to the time of his death, for about forty years. His funeral was held from the First Baptist church, which he was a devoted member. Sunday, March 25h, at 11: 30 o'clock, the interment was made in the family section of Maury cemetery. He was a member of Lodge, 18, of Good Samaritan, and was one of its founders; and was buried with Samaritan honors. Rev. A. Binga, D. D., officiated. He leaves a wife, two sons, one sister, one brother, other relatives and friends to mourn their loss. DIED—Miss Irene P. Glenn, Wednesday, March 21st at 1:45 P. M., in Philadelphia, Pa. Age 18 years. Died in full triumph of faith, was willing and ready to go. She leaves a mother, father, t. ur brothers, five sisters and a host of friends and relatives to mourn their loss. Her remains were brought here and taken to her home in Powhatan Co., and laid to rest on Saturday, 25th. Dr. Taneil Wins Before the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court of Appeals handed down a decision on Thursday last, affirming the decision of the Law and Equity Court in the case Payne versus Tancell. It will be remembered that Rsv. Payne took an appeal from the decision of the court, in awarding the D. R. F. Tancell for slander and based it upon technical error in the declaration. The result is that Rsv. Payne will now have to pay the full amount including, the costs of the suit. TALLEYSVILLS, NEW KENT Co., VA. March 28, 1900. There was a grand birthday party at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Cumber- r. The party was given to his daughter and wife. Miss Josephine and Mrs. Annie Cumber. The house was beautifully dressed with flowers and the guests were follows: D L. Patterson, R. A. Patterson, Dulema H. Cumber, B. C. Bumber, A. A. Cumber, W. C. Cumber, Novia Fox, W. C. Wilkerson, F. L. Crump, M. V. Wilkerson, B. E. Davis, Ellen O. Brown, W. A. Brown, O. L. Cumber, C. B. Cribie, Henry Evans, Major Brown, Alexander Cumber, Edora Cumber, Myrtle Brown. The evening was happily spent. Notice. Brethren. Arrangements have been made with the R. Es. to furnish delegates in attendance of the Virginia Baptist State Convention, which meets in Lynchburg May 9th, reduced rates, which will be about a fare and a third for the round trip. No cards will be distributed to delegates. Just ask the agent at your Station for reduced rates to the Virginia Baptist State Convention. W. H. Meems, Cor. Secretary of Va. Bapt. State Convention. Mrs. Mary S. Tribbett, 1825 Addison St., Philadelphia, Pa., and S. R. Glenn of Lakewood, N. J., were in the city this week attending the burial of their sister. Much local news is crowded out this week on account of the Greenville County Lynchings. They will appear in our next issue. 1. The image contains a series of numbers and symbols. To recognize them, we need to look for recognizable patterns or sequences. For example, the numbers are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100. CARSON WILDRED'S CRIME A DETECTIVE STORY OF TWO CONTINENTS BY HARRY WOOD REYNOLDS 2 CHAPTER XVI. The case being one of great local importance, having thrown the country side into a whirl of excitement, the inspector himself had thought it worth while to accompany me on my journey to the mortuary. I extolled the arrangements of the local authorities, and ended by saying that, as the sight I had just witnessed had considerably upset me, I should be glad if he would do me the favor of having something with me at the private bar of the adjacent inn. "Well, sir, it's against the rules, you know," he said, smiling sapiently. But I certainly consider it an honor to be invited by so celebrated a gentleman as you, Mr. Stanton. And-if you'll go first, sir, I'll just look in a little later and find you at the private bar. I followed the prudent suggestion, and was presently joined by the inspector, who appeared relieved at finding himself shut in and along with me. We had whiskey-and soda ad libitum and then I cautiously began: "The fact is, Inspector." I said, "I was particularly anxious for this chance of a little friendly chat with you. I have certain suspicions, which may be, of course, without a grain of foundation. What I mean to say is. I have grave fears that the murdered man is the friend I thought it possible I might identify. Quite between ourselves, may I ask what your police surgeon had to say regarding his examination?" SHE HAD BEEN WRITING AT A LITTLE DAVENPORT. The inspector looked dubulous, then brightened visibly. "You being the man you are, Mr. Stanton," he said sociably, over his third glass of old Scotch. "I can't see that there'd be anything amiss in my answering you so far. Our surgeon,Mr. Potter, reported that the corpse was that of a well-nourished man probably between forty and forty-five years of age, all the organs healthy, though there were traces of opium in the system—not, however, enough to have caused death, and had been severed from the neck by a stithemist, who knew exactly where to sit at the table, had been separated after death, not before. Also, the mutilation of the left hand had been done in the same way. I suppose that is, roughly, the sort of thing you wanted to know?" "Exactly," I returned, "and every detail you have mentioned goes to strengthen my suspicions. Being an amateur, I was obliged to judge principally by size and height. The surgeon's report fits in with my theory exactly. Still, it does not comprise everything. It would be a great assistance if I might know whether the police have as yet had any reliable information to work upon." We had grown very friendly, indeed, almost fraternal now, and the inspector kindly allowed me to refill his glass. "Do you know who Mr. Carson Wilfred, of the house of the lock, is, Mr. stanton?" he inquired confidently. "Yes. I not only know who he is, but have a slight personal acquaintance with him." I said, conservatively. "Well, sir"—slowly and with some motion—Mr. Wildred has been the only one so far—not counting what you yourself may have to say presently—who has given any information of value. "Indeed? He has given information?" I could not eliminate the astonishment and perhaps something of the disappointment from my voice. "Yes, sir. As you know Mr. Wildred you're probably aware that his country house is close by our town, and close, too, to the spot where the body was found. He was in yesterday evening, as soon as the matter got noised about, and asked to see the body." "I incredible!" The word sprang to my lips, but I forced it back, and retrained from uttering it. "He was unable to identify it, but he grieke of having seen something in the neighborhood of the small backwater not far from his house, just before Christmas, which seemed likely to throw light on the matter. The surgeon's idea is, as I think I forgot to mention, sir, that the body has been in the water since Christmas time, or thereabouts, which made Mr. Wildred's supposition the more feasible. "It seems that the gentleman had a friend staying with him at the House by the Lock until a week or so ago—Mr. Farnham, an American—who has since sailed for home. They were in the habit of taking daily walks together whenever they were not in town, and a week before Christmas noticed that close to the little backwater two men were living in a tent. "It was a quiet place enough in Winter time, and the fellows might have expected to escape observation encaps, but it was the smell of their men, and their attracted Mr. Wilfred and his friend. As it was his land Mr. Wilfred was thought of ordering the chaps away. He thought better of it, though, as he seems a good-natured gentleman, and said it didn't really matter to him whether they stayed or went. A strict watch was kept on all the locks up at the house, however, as it occurred to Mr. Wilfred the men might have some queer designs. A day or two went by, and the tent was still but on BY HARRY WOOD REYNOLDS Christmas Day, when Mr. Wildred and Mr. Farnham were walking out, they heard the sound of loud voices, and went near enough to see that the two men were quarrelling outside. "He says he wishes now he had interfered, but it didn't seem worth while at the time. That night there was an unpleasant smell of burning, which came up to the house by the lock with the wind from that quarter, and was noticed by all the servants, as as well as the two gentlemen, who talked about it at their dinner. Next day, when Mr. Wildred sent down to find the tent and the men were both gone." "I suppose," I said. "that you have already taken means to ascertain whether there are any remaining traces of such an encampment by the backwater?" "Certainly we have. That was done immediately, sir, and the ashes left by a big wood fire were found close to the water; also four rough stakes for tentropes, and—a coal sack—much of the sort in which the body up there at the mortuary was sewn. There was something else, too, sir. I wouldn't mention it thus early in the proceedings to anybody for whom I hadn't the respect I have for you: but, even as it is. I must have your promise it isn't go any further till it comes out in the proper course of events." I gave him my promise, hiding my temptation as best I could. "Well, Mr. Stanton," the inspector went on, lowering his voice, though there was nobody within earshot. "in the wood ashes was found what looks like a most important clew. Nothing less, sir, than the calcined bones of four human fingers, cut from the left hand!" "By Jove!" I ejaculated involuntarily, springing to my feet, and beginning to walk nervously up and down. I hardly knew whether to feel that I had been brought to a dead stop in my operations and suspicions, or to tell myself that Carson Wildred was the most cold-blooded and, at the same time, the cleverest scoundrel who had ever walked the earth. CHAPTER XVII "You seem surprised, Mr. Stanton!" exclaimed the inspector. "I am surprised," I echoed, "and I intend to explain why presently. Meanwhile, I suppose you are trying to get on the track of the second man who lived in that tent?" "That's what we are doing, sir—hard at it." "You will never find him," I said. "No, sir? May I ask what makes you so sure of that?" "Simply because my opinion is that he does not exist—never did exist." The inspector's jaw dropped. "But—but Mr. Carson Wildred"—he began, when I turned on him and cut him short. "You shall judge for yourself whether I have any evidence to offer worth building upon." I said. And then I told him everything, beginning with my chance meeting with Harvey Farnham at the theatre on Christmas Eve. His face grew graver and graver as I vent on, and when at last (having dwelt with due insistence upon the mysterious proceedings attending my call at the house by the lock) I mentioned the reappearance of the ring on a young lady's finger he shook his head regrettfully. You've made out a fairly good case against Mr. Wildred, sir," he observed. "Would it be indiscret to ask whether you've any personal enmity against the gentleman?" "I don't like him," I admitted. And then went on to describe in a few words my haunting impression of having been disagreeably associated with him in the past. "I would wish," I added hurriedly, "to keep the name of the lady now in possession of the ring entirely out of the question if possible. It must only be brought in, Inspector, at the last extremity, should no other means remain of detecting a murderer. As for hering itself, to save trouble in that direction, I think I could if necessary engage to get hold of it, and I am quite ready at any time to swear to its identity with the one worn by my old friend Farnham." The Inspector thoughtfully scratched his head. "It'll be a nasty business to examine Mr. Wildred's house, in case your friend, Mr. Farnham, should prove to be in the States. But we can't lose any time. What you've told me to-day is very serious, sir, and must be attended to at once. A couple of deliberate calls at the house by the lock with a search warrant before nightfall. I can assure you of that. Until some definite conclusion is arrived at, Mr. Stanton, I suppose you would prefer that your name didn't appear in the matter?" "I don't care a hang whether it apears or not." I retorted recklessly. Perhaps if I had been a little less reckless—But it is never profitable to dwell on or brood over the mistakes of one's past. The inspector assured me that a detective should call that night at the hotel in Great Marlow, where I had volunteered to remain, and give me all particulars concerning the examination of the house by the lock. The appointment was made for 8 o'clock, by which time, allowing for obstacles and delays, all was sure to be well over. Though the inspector had promised that the New York police should be communicated with, a great restlessness was upon me, and I resolved myself to cable to America. It was possible that the St. Paul, the ship in which Farnham had been supposed to sail in it was arriving in New York that day, though the chances were, as the weather had been rough, that she would not have made one of her record trips. However, there could be no harm in wiring, and if the ship had got in all waste of time would be avoided. I wrote out a dispatch to the office of the American Line in New York, to be answered (reply prepaid), the moment the St. Paul got in. In this I inquired whether Mr. Harvey Farnham, of 'Denver, Col., had been among the passengers. And, not contenting myself with this, I cabled Farnham both THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA to Denver and New York, and to the manager of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, in the latter place, where I had been told that he usually put up. I LOOKED INTO THE CIRCLET. The answers to these messages I requested to have sent to me at the hotel I had chosen for my headquarters in Great Marlow. Eight o'clock struck, however, and I was reluctantly obliged to give up all idea of receiving any news from America for the night. Five minutes later, as I restlessly paced the room, the wished-for knock sounded, but there was no cablegraph to be presented on a tray. A young, fresh-faced man in plain clothing stood there, who I knew before he spoke must be the expected detective. "I think, sir," said the young man of the cheerful countenance, "that we've been on a false scent to-day." I got him to sit down and launched him upon the full tide of narrative. "Mr. Wildred was aware, when we first arrived at the house by the lock, sir," he went on, "but we should have made use of our search warrant without waiting for his return had not the passage and the octagonal room you described, as well as the tower, been shut off from all communication with the older part of the house by a heavy iron door, of which Mr. Wildred invariably carries the key. This his butler explained by saying that the door had been placed there on account of his master's chemical experiments, which were sometimes of a slightly dangerous character, unless great precautions were used, and in case of an explosion or other accident the safety of the living rooms might be assured by means of the iron door. The only way of opening it would have been to employ dynamite, the lock being impregnable, and as the grounds for suspicion against Mr. Wildred were not yet strong enough to resort to such violent means, there was nothing to do but wait. He was wired for to London at once." "Naturally he would prefer being on the spot," I said, with something like a sneer. "All the same, I am very sure that there is another means of communicating with the octagonal room and the tower besides the main door through the passage." And I mentioned the mysterious dissappearance of the servant, which had on Christmas day led me to believe in the existence of a secret way of exit. "We did look about for something of sort and even went down the collar," said the detective, "but saw not the slightest sign to suggest a secret door." "Well, go on, then, to Mr. Wildred's return," I exclaimed impatiently. "I am anxious to learn why it has been decided that I put you on the wrong track." 'When he came home he admitted very frankly that he had been annoyed at the bother occasioned by our telegram, but appeared by that time to have recovered from his vexation and to be inclined to laugh the matter off. He let us know in a moment that he guessed how the information had come but we said nothing, of course, to confirm his suppositions. 'In the first place he opened the iron door, explaining its workings as though he took some pride in its mechanism, which he said he had invented himself. Then he shewed us into the octagonal room, which he had fitted up as a studio and smooching room combined. The little door you had seen behind the drapery merely led into a cupboard containing boots, an artist's model—a jointed figure of wood—and other odds and ends. It was concealed only because it was not 'an object of beauty,' Mr. Wildred said. "We then proceeded to the tower, where the chemical experiments are made. There is a small room, reached by mounting a skeleton stairway of iron, and there we were shown Mr. Wildred's apparatus. I know something of chemistry myself, having had a fad that way when I was a boy, and I could see that everything was straight and above board. proached the house that day and Mr. Wildred voluntarily mentioned that there had been something wrong with the flues, so that his experiments could not be conducted properly, and he had sent for an expert to come down from London to look at everything. The man had been expected on Christmast eve, then on Christmast day, as Mr. Wildred considered the man urgent, and duly arrived the day after. Mr. Wildred gave us his address without waiting to be asked to do so. That accounted for one more point in our story sir—the man who was so anxiously looked for, the man the butter seemed at first to take you to be. "We then said we had been informed that screams or groans had been heard issuing from his house on Christmas day. Mr. Wildred laughed, remarking that judging from what he knew of our informant, he had been waiting for us to come to that. "And he repeated the explanation which had been given you, asking us also if we would care to see the scar (which was not yet quite healed) made by the methylated spirit on the cook's foot or ankle. "We thought it best to do as he suggested—indeed, if we had lot, we should have proposed the same course ourselves, for the sake of making assurance doubly sure. The cook was sent for; a very handsome young woman, sir, bright and ready with her shoulder. She described the accident and whip off her shoe and stocking from the right, and showed us a red mark which spread from the ankle down over the whole steps." "So the cook was a handsome young woman, was she?" I asked suspiciously, remembering the face which had peered at me through the narrow window by the door. "Had she great black eyes, a very white face and a quantity of dark hair?" "She had, sir. That wouldn't describe her very well. A woman not more than twenty-five or six, and evidently of a superior class." I turned this bit of information over in my mind. To be sure, I could not at the moment make any thing of it approward of the case in hand, but afterward I was to remember it under somewhat startling circumstances. "So you see, sir," the detective continued, "every point you made was met and in our opinion frankly and sufficiently met. Nothing was found which could possibly justify an arrest, and unless unfavorable reports are received from the New York police the case against Mr. Wildred will have to be dropped. The Inspector is having an interview with him to night, and doubtless some details with which we, in enforcing our warrant, had no concern will be satisfied, agreed up. I mean to say, details relating to the american gentleman, his ring and his departure to the States. Should we hear from New York that he has not returned, why, of course, in spite of appearances at the house by the lock and failure of circumstantial evidence, suspicion will be renewed again. There was absolutely nothing more to be said. Deep as was my chagrin, I held my tongue as to my opinion of the way, affairs had been managed, and parted with the young detective with apparent nonchalance. Naturally I slept little during the night, and was awake even before the knock which sounded at my door. "Two cablegrams for you, sir." said the waiter, when I had bidden him come in. CHAPTER XVIII I took the two envelopes from the man and told him he might go. Now for it! I thought. Now to see whether the edifice I had built had but a foundation of sand, or whether Wildred had merely been clever enough to pull wool over the eyes of the police. My heart was thumping with excitement as I opened the first envelope. "St. Paul in to-night. First class passenger on board named Harvey Farnham." I laid the bit of paper down dazedly and took up the other. It was from the manager of the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York. "Mr. Farnham telegraphed to keep room for him. Is spending a day with friend." I did not what to think. It all sounded straightforward enough, and it was not credible that other the officials in the office of the American inners or the manager of a hotel could be in collusion with Carson Wildred. Still, I was far from being satisfied. Days never dragged as they did with me until I received the promised intimation from my friend the inspector that tidlings had arrived from the police in New York. It was all right, so far as my friend was concerned, and I need have no further fears regarding his safety. The body found in the Thames was certainly not that of Mr. Harvey Farnham, as he was in New York, and had actually been interviewed there. He had been very ill in crossing, and had had the misfortune to fall down the companionway on shipboard in a heavy gale, spraining his ankle. He would not be able to resume his journey and proceed to Denver for some time to come, but had laughed at the idea of any foul play. When questioned on the subject of the ring he said he had given it to his friend, Mr. Wildred at parting, and jokingly added that he had experienced great difficulty in getting it off. A hot sense of injustice burned with in me. I had been thwarted on every side, not, I believed, by the revelation of truth, but by Carson Wildred's superior cunning. I could, I thought, understand what his motive for so foul a murder might have been. He had just purchased a valuable gold mine from Farnham. Should Farnham be made to vanish without fear of suspicion falling upon Wildred, the latter might not only be the owner of the mine, but repossess himself of the purchase money, which must have comprised a very large sum. In the midst of the cogitations which followed upon the receipt of the inspector's letter another cablegram was handed in to me from Farnham himself, merely saying: "Many thanks for kind inquiries. Have turned up here smiling, but too seedy to write at present. Glad to hear from you—Fifth Avenue Hotel." It was then - Friday. In five minutes after reading this kind and apparently conclusive cablegram I had resolved that on the following day, Saturday I would sail for New York. My decisions when made are usually soon acted upon. Within a couple of hour's after receiving the inspector's letter and the message from New York my passage was engaged for the following day. A curious mood was upon me as I began my preparations. Hardly more than a fortnight ago I had been congratulating myself on the prospect of a considerable stay in London. My ideal existence had for the moment been an utterly aimless one. I was sated with excitement and what is popularly called "adventure," and had only wanted to rest and amuse myself I had meant to be a man about townt until I should again tire of the life, drifting agreeably here and there, taking pleasure as it came, troubling my self little either about other people's affairs or my own. By 2 o'clock everything was ar ranged for my departure on Saturday and I was at Waterloo, taking my ticket for Haslemere, which was the station nearest to Sir Walter Tressidy's country place. CHAPTER XIX "I had a long dreary drive after leave, ing the train, though in other circumstances I might have been charmed by one of England's fairest counties. As it was I merely clafed at the endless hill where horses slowly plodded, half inclined to the river. I have done better to trust to my own feet or come on a bicycle from town. The curtain of twilight was falling by the time my fly entered the long avenue that led to the house. Here and there, lights shone out from the windows, and as the vehicle drew up be fore the door I caught a glimpse of something which set my heart throbbing. It was only a ruddy gleam of fire light on a golden head, which shone for an instant in the warm light like burnished copper; only a rosy glow on a girl's white dress, a shimmer seen in the parted folds of dark rich window drappings. For a second only the vision was granted me. A tall, slender form rose from its kneeling position before fire, and in so moving passed beyond my line of sight. But my pulses leaped, and I rejoiced in the good fortune which had brought me at an hour when Karine was not absent. Presently in answer to my summons a foobman appeared (@ fellow) remembered to have seen at the town house when I had called; and it struck me that, as I inquired if Lady Tressley was at home, he eyed me more percibly than a well-trained servant usually eyes a guest. "am sorry, sir," he answered with a slight hesitation, "that her ladyship is out at present. What name shall I say when she returns." "Mr. Stanton." I unsuspectingly replied, though it did dimly occur to me that the man might have left me to give him my card. "I am sorry." I hypocritically remarked, "not to see Lady Tressidy; but I have come some distance, and perhaps Miss Cunningham would spare me a few minutes." "I—I am afraid, sir."—still stammering uncomfortably—"that Miss Cunningham is away with her ladyship." "I think you are mistaken about that," I boldly said. "Please be good enough at any rate in inquiry." "I am quite sure I am right, sir," he went on more firmly. "Miss Cunningham is with my lady." There might be one way out, and I took it. "I will wait," I announced, "until the ladies return. Or possibly Sir Walter" "Sir Walter wont be here for a day or two," promptly responded the man. "As for the ladies, sir, unfortunately they are not expected back this evening until—until the last train—too late, as you can understand to receive any visitors, as at all events they can't reach the house until after eleven." I will write a line on my card, then, to be handed to the ladies, whom I regret not having seen." I said with what dignity I had at my command, and stepping past him into the hall, despite a visible gleam of consternation in his eye, I deliberately took out a pencil and card case, slowly scribbled on it, inscrumpingly placed a sovereign on the card as I gave it to the footman, remarking quietly that I would wish the latter to be delivered in the presence of both ladies if possible. Then I seemed to have come to the end of my resources, until a desperate idea seized me. I turned from the door and got into the cab, which the footman politely opened for me as if only too glad to speed the parting guest. The direction "to the station," was given, the gravel crunched under the wheels and horse's hoofs, the door at which I had been received so inhospitably shut me out of paradise, and no doubt the servant triumphantly watched me drive off. Halfway down the avenue, however, I thrust my stick from the window of the rattle-trap vehicle and stopped the coachman. I never forgotten something I curtly said. "You needn't go back; wait here, and I'll return in a few moments." The fly was standing just out of sight from the house, and rapidly leaving it behind me. I stood the frozen grass of the lawn, taking a shorter cut than the avenue would have been. The falling darkness had protected me, I felt confident, from being seen by anybody in the house as I crossed the lawn, and I approached with a boldness, which only left me as I reached the window. The curtain hung apart as before, and I could see the fireplace, with the lights and shadows travelling fantastically along the polished floor and wall. The white irradiated figure was no longer visible, but, undiscouraged by this fact, I gently rapped, trusting that Karine might be in another part of the room to which my eyes could not reach. But I knocked once, twice, thrice, each time a little louder, a little more insistently than before, and there was no response, no sound, no movement. After all, I was thwarted, and I had but one comfort in the midst of gloom—I had not been easily repulsed, I had done what I could, and need not feel afterward, when I was far away, that I had let myself be outwitted, outgeneraled, without an effort to resist. Hate had occured that I must go to Arlene with a word, without a look into Karine Cummingham's eyes; and, drearily returning to my waiting cab, I commenced once more the tedious drive to the station. A Big American's Response to a Challenge from a Very Much Excited Little Cuban. According to a New York Sun correspondent duels are getting to be more and more out of fashion in Havana, even among Cubans, but there is still an occasional native who attempts to redress his grievances against Americans by an appeal to the code. As a consequence the rash man generally gets sat upon heavily. On Tuesday night last a 220-pound American, more than six feet in height, went into an American saloon. There was a crowd at the bar, and the Yankee, without SHOOK HIM LIKE A BAT Intending insult, pushed his weight in between two men so that he might get his drink. One of the chaps wedged out happened to be a little Cuban. Immediately he. became extremely incensed at this high-handed outrage. Diving into his pocket with trembling hands he pulled forth his cardcase and extracted a card. Then, with exaggerated courtesy, he tapped the big Yankee on the arm and presented him with the card. 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Co. Cor. William & Sons St. Johnson, ATOR & EMBALMER N. Foushes St., near Broad. ATOR HIRE-- telegraph promptly filled. Wed ements promptly attended. In Building New Phone 420 TRYING TO LYNCH A PRISONER. Troops Ordered to the Scene. A DRUNKEN SHERIFF AND THE MAJOR. The Back-down of the Governor. [Dispatch, March 24th.] The terrible excitement that has held away in Greeneville county for the last forty-eight hours in consequence of the killing of Justice-of-the Peace Saunders and Mr. Welton, came near culminating in the lynching of their colored murderer this morning. As soon as it was known that the murderer had been arrested the infuriated citizens began to pour into Emporia. A company of the Richmond Light Infantry Blues was ordered to the scue, and the presence of the military seemed to incense further the people. By agreement last night the military was withdrawn from the jail and the Sheriff undertook to guard the prisoner with a local guard, and gave a pledge that there should be no violence. This morning it appeared that the Sheriff would not be allowed to keep his pledge, the military were recalled to guard the jail, and at one time it looked as if there would be a bloody clash between the troops and citizens. Finally the evident determination of the military to do their duty brought the would-be lynchers to sober second thought, and at 2:30 a. m., it was thought that the danger was overpassed—for the present, at least. The story of the arrest of the murderer and the subsequent events follows: (Special from a Staff Correspondent.) (special from a 9th Correspondent, EMPIORIA, VA., March 23rd.--With troops forming a cordon around the jail and occupying the court-house grounds, and an angry mob surging to and fro making threats of violence, Emporia was stirred to-day as it never was before. Walter Cotton, the colored murderer, who, while under sentence of death, escaped from the Portsmouth jail, and who has confessed to several of the crimes recently committed in this vicinity, is in the court house and held in the turbulence centred. He was arrested at Stony Creek, about twenty miles from Emporia, about 8 o'clock this morning, and brought here direct and placed within the jail. It became noised about that he had been apprehended, and an immense crowd congregated about the court-house, armed to the teeth, and ready and anxious to convene the court of Judge Lytech forthwith. Wise heads prevailed, however, and it was decided to delay the lynching until such information as could be secured from Cotton implicating others was gotten. ASKED FOR TROOPS. In the mean time Judge W. Samuel Goodwyn, fearing the worst, had telegrammed to Governor Tyler for troops, and urged that they be sent forthwith. His Excellency replied that he could not comply with the request unless it came through the sheriff, whereupon Sheriff S. W. Lee united in the request. The Governor had ordered Company E, of the Richmond Light Infantry Blues, in readiness at their armory, and as soon as the Sheriff's telegram was sent to him the troops were dispatched on a special over the Atlantic Coast Line, which came through on unusually fast time. The fact that troops were on the way soon became known, and runners were sent to the South End of the county to notify the great mass of people who had congregated about the graves of Magistrate J. W. Saunders and Mr. J. N Melton, who lost their lives in an effort to cotton Cotton on Thursday. As rapidly as possible the crowd began to return to the court-house, but the military arrived first. Major Sol. Cutchins, who came with the troops, by request of the Governor, had a conference with Sheriff Lee and Judge Goodwyn, and suggested that Cotton and the white tramp. Brandt O'Grady, who were then in jail, be sent at once to Richmond in custody of the militia. The Judge feared that this course would precipitate bloodshed, and while he was in conference with Major Cutchins two prominent county officials entered and told him that if any effort was made to remove the prisoners the mob would be ordered to open fire on the militia, and that his (the Judge's) life would be placed jeopardy. A TACIT AGREEMENT It was then agreed that the prisoners should not be moved, and it was tacitly understood that this agreement would be accepted by the mob, and that they would await a speedy trial. Quiet reigned until 4 o'clock, when a pose, which had been organized for the purpose, drove up to the jail with four prisoners—Frank Delaney, aged 62; Jim Delaney, aged 15, and Robert Delaney, aged 18, of Parkersburg, W. Va., and James Edgar Olay, of Spartanburg—all of whom Cotton identified as having been in some manner implicated in the murder of Barker Blick in February last. The arrival of these prisoners and their identification by Cotton caused a renewal of the excitement, and just before dark the crowd in Emporia assembled for organization. The meeting was held behind closed doors and no one would reveal aught that took place. Information subsequently reached Judge Goodwyn that an attack upon the jail had been agreed upon, and in a few minutes a courier entered the town and gave information that 800 men were marching from Pissarshade, and a like number were forming about three miles below the town to reinforce those already about the court-house. INCREASED THE GUARD. Captain Daughtrey, of the Blues, insisted his guard, and gave his sentries positive instructions to permit no citizen on the court-green or within fifty yards of the jail. Judge Goodwyn wired Governor Tyler for addi- ti mal troops, informing him that the force on hand was entirely had quarrel. This act of his was soon communicated to the mcb. A committee waited up on the Judge, and the result was that the request for more troops was recalled. Cotton is a cold-blooded man, and apparently is absolutely devoid of fear. He seems to glory in the deeds he has done, and says he expects to hang for them. When I visited him in his cell this afternoon he was seated on a stoel, ensured to the floor, hand and foot while a rope was with a rope, was O'Grady, the white who was in the house with him when Messrs. Saunders and Welton were killed. COTTON CONFERENCE. Cotton talked freely to me and admitted his identity, describing in minute detail how he had sawed his way out of the Portsmouth jail. He denied his guilt in the case in which he was sentenced to be hanged, and also denied having been a party to the murder of Barkeeper Bliek. He admitted, however, having robbed Mr. Grizzard here, and then, with all the harrowing details, told how he had on yesterday killed Messra. Saunders and Welton, attempting to justify himself by the statement that they drew guns on him. He was asked why he had not made his escape good after the killing, and replied: "Oh, I know I was going to get caught, and did not bother much about it. I don't ask what they have sent the military for; am going to swing and go to hell; am going to swing and go as a warrior. Cotton was caught on the railroad at Stony Creek by Mr. William Moore and Gyrus Parham, a colored man. Cotton told me that he saw them laying f. him and could have "plugged" one of them but he was tired of killing people, and he surrendered. THE WHITE TRAMP: Up to the time I entered the cell the white tramp had refused steadfastly to give his name, or to speak to any one. He finally, after much eruasion, agreed to talk, and said his name was Brands O'Grady, and that he was a native of Boston. Mass. He said he had been married but lost his wife, and had then fallen through drink until he became a tramp. flia people were respectable, he claimed, and he had, he said, a daughter, now being educated in Paris by her grandfather. He denied having been a party to the shooting yesterday, and in this he was borne out by Cotton. When the four prisoners from Jarrat's were brought in Cotton at first did not recognize the old man, Delaney, but identified his sone and the Clay boy. By the statement of one of the Delaney boys it was shown that the old man had cut his mustache off, and then Cotton recognized him, he said, as the man who had on 'Tuesday night last given him the key to Blick's bar, which was found on his person. This would seem to prove that the Delaneys and Clay were parties to the murder of Blick, but the popular impression is that Cotton perpetrated this murder also, though he says he was in Wilmington, N. C., on the date of that murder. DISPOSITION OF TEODPA. The jail in which the prisoners are incarcerated is a small frame structure on the court house green. It has only two cells within it and no place in which the soldiers can find refuge should a mob attack. Captain Daughtrey has his men massed at the door, however and has extended his pick-lines for a radius of fifty yards. He is not, however, with his small force, in a position to offer much defence if attacked by a mob of such proportions as is said to be approaching, and hence the uneasiness. The men are however in good spirits, and are prepared to defend the prisoners to the end. Each man has forty cartridges in his belt, and though some are raw rescues, yet all are good soldiers, and orders are obeyed without question. the command rank and file numbers sixty men. They are: Captain W. L. Daughrey, Lieutenants T. A. Spencer and W. N. Jones, First-Sergeant J. L. Young, Jr., Quarkmaster-Sergeant R. M. Taylor, sergeants Ransom Guy, A. T. Brock, T. M. Hobson and Walter Holliday; Corporals Fendley, John Mayo, J. T. Ryan, Robert Peyton, Harry Bates, Beverly Harvey and J. O Robertson; Private Brazeal, Bidgood, Burwell, Bridges, Blanton, Chamberaine, Cooke, Corrella, Davis, Deane, English, Graves, Granberry, Gills, Goddin, F. S. Harrison, J. H. Harrison, Knowles, Lathrop, Lefebvre, Lloyd, Loving, Lynch, Mayo, Mercer, Morton, Newton, Osterloh, Rogers, Rudd, Rutty, Smith, Sydnor, Slater, West Wood, Williams, Jones, J. Donati, U. I. Domati, Taylor, Webber, Moody and Chalkley. DARK AS MREBUS. It is dark as Erebus on the courtgreen, and all is as quiet as can be yet the stillness is taken as a foreboding of evil, and if a rush is made on the jail by the mob, it would be hard in the darkness for the troops to hold the fort. It has just been reported to the judge that dynamite has been secured by the would-be lynchers, and that an effort will be made to blow the jail open. At 9 o'clock to-night a party of prominent citizens, headed by ex-Judge Barham, waited upon Judge Goodyn, and requested him to have the troops withdrawn from Emporia. They advised him that half a thousand determined men were moving on the town, and that unless the military was withdrawn there would be bloodshed. Major Cutchins and Sheriff Lee were present at the conference, and it was finally agreed that the troops should be withdrawn, and that a local guard of twenty-five should be appointed to surround the jail, the citizens on their part pledging that order should be maintained. THE SHERIFF SPEAKS. Ex-Judge Barham communicated this agreement to the crowd around the court-house, and besought them to disperse to their homes. This they finally agreed to do, with the understanding that the prisoners should be left at Emporia. Major Cutchins, at the request of Judge Barham, made a statement, asserting that the military did not seek to use force, and that he would do anything that Sheriff Lee ordered. The Sheriff then ascended to stile from which the others had spoken. He said: "Men of Greenville, you all know me. I would not tell you an untruth. The military shall be sent away from here by the first train. The body of Cotton shall be buried in this county, or else it will go to the State Anatomical Board from here. The Negro shall never go away from here alive. I will see to that." With this assurance the crowd gave three cheers for Sheriff Lee, and some left for their homes. The military is making no preparation for departure, and it is not thought any move will be made until morning, if then. A tele- gram was received here from the Governor, stating that Company A, of the Blues, was in readiness to move at short notice, and Major Cutchins replied that all was quiet and no more troops were needed. At 10:45 P. M., all appearing to be quiet, the Sheriff issued an order directing Major Cutchins to withdraw the troops, and the order was obeyed. The Sheriff then swore in the following citizens, whom he appointed deputies to surround and guard the jail: P. W. D. Jones, A. N. Goodwyn, A. C. King, J. S. Weaver, H. L. Ivey, E. E. Goodwyn, G. W. Livzey, E. Mann, G. W Gay, W. W. Robinson, Sam Robinson, G. P. Barham, J. K Low, H. Gay, W. C. Weaver, W. W. Maelin, E. C. Palmer, W. F. Deal, William Richardson, L. H. Fields, N. W. Norfleet, C. P. Guy, J. C. Prince, Oliver Hanfield and W. I Lee. REENWED EXCITEMENT. After the troops were withdrawn from about the jail, Major Cutchins fearing that they might be needed notwithstanding the orders of the Sheriff, had his men marched into the courthouse, with a veiw of taking up quarters for the night. All seemed to be quiet, but further notice was received here that a mob was enroute from Pleasant Hill, and another from along the Atlanta and Danville. When the last section of the north bound train passed here, fifty men debarked at Belfield, across the river. Late to-night, a lady, the wife of a prominent leader of the turbulent forces, rushed over to Judge Goodwyn's home, and bessought Mrs. Goodwyn to get her husband to leave the town. This lady said she had absolute information that an attempt would be made to dynamite the Judge's home and to lynch him. Mrs. Goodwyn was thrown into a state bordering on nervous prostration by this message, and it was some time before she was quieted. Mrs. Goodwyn was being severely criticised for having ordered out the militia, but it is not thought that their lives are in danger. Number of Persons Lyncked from January 5th, 1897, to January 5th, 1898, Date. Names. Charge. Place. No. 1898. F. J. Baker, colored Postmaster, no charge Lake City, S. O. Jan. 7, Lincoln McGelsey, colored, Murder, Maude P. O., O. T. Devoe, colored, assault, Pearken, Ark. Marshall Chadwick, suspected of murder, Colfax, Wash. colored, suspected of stealing a $20 bag, Cleveland Co. Ark. March 8, Will Jones, colored, criminal assault, Comorant, Miss. March 8, L. J. Johnson, white, murder, Rock Springs, Wyoming. Bemerret April 2, Wm. Bell, colored no crime Amite City, La. May 25, Elbert Harris, suspected of house burning Anderson, S. O. 26 Garfield King, shooting a white officer Salisbury, Md. 29 Joe Kiser and Gilmore Johnson, colored, assault Charlotte, N. O. June 2, Sam and Curtis Young, colored, shooting officer Clarksville, Md. 18 George Washington, colored shooting Constable Weimar, Texas 18 John Becker, white murder Great Bend, Kansas 17 Sol. Jackson, colored Wetumpka, Ala. Lewis Speir, colored murder Jesse Thompson, colored Camp Reese, colored murder June 22 Charlie Washington, colored rane and robbery Dayton, Ala. Wm. Street, colored, attempted assault (burned at stake) Davine, La June 22 Howlett, white murder Hillville, Va. June 14, Mrs. Jake Cobrone, colored nothing, Plano, Texas June 22, Packa, 8 yr old, colored nothing, Batesville, S. O. July 11, John Henry James, Colored, Criminal Assault, Wood's Crossing, Vs July 11, James Redd colored Murder Moncksillo, Ark. July 14, W. T. Patterson, white murder Westville, Miss. July 20, W. T. Patterson, white murder Westville, Miss. July 22, Jos. Williams, colored Impudent to white man Scotland Neck, N. O. August 7 Dan Ogg, colored In white families room Palestines, Tex. August 8 John Meadows, colored Criminal Assault, Carmel, Ge. August 9 Will Sanders, colored murder Clarendon, Ark. Aug. 20. Colored, murder and assault Friendship Ga. Aug. 21, Tom Miller, colored attempt assault Quitman Ga. Sept. 8 Colored Nothing North Texas. Sept. 11 Beny Jones, White Liberty Mo. Albert Anderson, Colored Stealing Sulligent Ala. George Burden, Suspected Criminal Assault, Griffin Ga. Sept. 12 Lee Pickett, White Criminal Assault, Patrick Co. Va. Sept. 26 John Williams, colored murder and assault, Mountain City, Tenn. Oct. 5 Wright Smith, Colored Attempted Assault, Annapolis, Md. Oct. 6 Rev. Jesse Shelton, Colored Nothing, Isequena, County Miss. Oct. 28 Fish Burke, Colored Defended Themselves Harpersville, Miss. J. E. Gatewood, Henry Anderson, John Latewood, Hugh Anderson, Sim Haralson, Ben Haralson Arch Baur, Attempted Murder, John Anderson, Colored innocent Lafayette, Ala. Nov. 9 colored Defended Themselves Phonix, S. C., Nov. 10 colored No Crime Wilmington, N. C. Nov. 22 Ed. Merrweather murder Monticello, Ga. December colored injured a white man Meridian, Miss. December 8th Jake Glover, colored innocent Monticello, Ga. Dec. 24 Jeff Bolton, Barn Burning New Harmony Grove Ga. Jan. 5 Marenall McGregor, Colored Barn burning Bank, Ala. Feb 9 Alfred Boynton and wife Colored Nothing Fort Gaines Ga. Feb 12 Cupid Redding Colored Murder Leesburg Ga. Feb 12 March 1 Morris Christopher, colored Criminal Assault, Hope, Ark. Harrison Hudson, Ed. Brown, Henry Bingham, John Bingaby, Jno. Jameson, (wounded) George Tatum. 22 General Duckett, colored Troublesome, Little Rock Co., Ark. Edwin Goodwin, Adam King, Joseph Jones, Benjamin Jones, Moses Jones, Joe King, John Johnson, Names unknown. 18 Knor Wilson, colored Fired on white men, Silver City, Miss. C. O. Reed, Willis Boyd. April 6 Forest Samerson, Colored Murder Brookville Miss Mose Anderson. April 11 Rev Gilbert Ellison, Nothing Waynesboro Ga. A. H. Larue white murder Henderson Tenn April 11 Will White white murder Clinton Ark April 23 Sam Hose, Colored Murder and Assault Newman, Ga. 23 Rev. Lige Strickland Innocent Palmetto, Ga. 24 Albert Sewell Talked too much Murder Brookville, Miss Moses Anderson. April 26 Charles Williams alias Jones Colored Murder, Galena, Kan. Mitchell Daniel talked too much Leesburg, Ga. April 20 Willis Sees Barn-burning, Oseola, Ark. May 8 Bill Dibblele Trespass, Lebanon, Tenn. May 24 J. Humphries, white shelter's a murderer, Aley, Henderson Co., Tex Hisons, April 27 Mitchell Daniel Talked too Much Leesburg, Ga. June 14 Lewis Patrick, Murder Beafort, N. C. June 27 Jim Dill Defended a colored man Oardiff, Ala. June 14 Lewis Patrick Suspected of Murder, Moorehead City, N. O. Ala. June 12 Drowned a Man Dunnellon, Fla. July 9 Abner Calhoun, Innocent Campbell Co., Ga. July 15 Si Smith white Murder Gainesville Ga. Pas Bowers bad character Lexington, Co., S. C. July 22 Frank Defata, Italian, wounded a white man Tallulah, La. Mrs William Cunnard white Mormonism Jasper Co. Frank Embark Colored Assault Higbee Mo. Charles Defata Jo Defatta Sy Deferroch John Cereno 24 Click Davis, colored murder Wilmoth, Ark. 22 Louis Sammin assault Steinmetts, Mo. Frank Embree attempted assault Hattiesburg, Miss Charles MackNothing Lesburg, Ga. Randall Hamilton Church-burring Fqua Prairie Tex At 1 o'clock this (Saturday) morning, Deputy-Sheriff Sam Robertson, in charge of the citizen guard, ascertained that the mob was forming without the limits of the town. He called at once upon Captain Fangtrey for assistance. The Captain declined to act unless given entire charge. This Mr. Robertson acquiesced in, and the alarm was sounded. In a moment the sleeping soldiers were on their feet and ready for the fray. The police and citizen belts were buckled on, and rifles were shouldered. The men acted like veterans, and in a very few minutes they had again thrown a cordon about the jail, and sentries with fixed bayonets were driving all litterers from the court-green. At 1:30 A.M., Juge L. D. Varell, who has been over the town and the adjacent country, arrived at the courthouse and asserted that hundreds of armed citizens were on every side ready for a signal to attack. He fearled bloodshed, and urged that the military be withdrawn, as that action alone in his opinion could avert trouble. The people, he said, are determined to secure the body of Cotton, and no power could, in his belief, stop them. Judge Yarell has been all night endeavoring to avert trouble, but says now he can see no hope for avoiding a clash. No order has been yet issued recalling the troops, and the jail is thoroughly surrounded by them. WILL SHOOT TO KILL. The people are greatly incensed that the militia has again been called into service, and that additional troops have been asked for. They seem, however, to lack leadership, and now that the soldiers are surrounding the jail the likelihood of an attack has diminished. While some of the most influential citizens of the community are heartily in favor of lynching, they are not willing to shed innocent blood in order to accomplish their purpose. They realize that the troops are determined, Mejr Gutchins having assured them that he will protect the prisoners as long as he has a man left standing. He has warned the leaders of the people that he will fire upon any mob that approaches the jail, and that he will shoot to kill. This has had the effect of dampening the seal of the would-be lynchers, and it is thought at this hour—2:05 A. M.—that the law will prevail. At 2:30 A. M., a small-sized crowd, headed by a brother of Mr. Welton, one of the murdered men, gathered at a corner of the court-house square, and listened to an address by Lawyer S. V. Soushall. Jr., who counselled conservatism. He urged the men to go to their homes, and not to attempt to storm the jail. At first they refused to listen to reason, but finally consented to disperse, and apparently all danger of trouble to-night is over. There is some likelihood of trouble to-morrow, as the people seem determined that Cotton shall not be taken from Emporia alive. When the additional military arrive in the morning, an effort will be made to take Cotton to Richmond, and then trouble is looked for. THE CALL FOR TROOPS. The first telegram, dispatched from Stony Creek at 10:28, announced the capture of Walter Cotton, and suggested that he be sent to Petersburg for safe-keeping. It read as follows: "Direct officers to take prisoner to Petersburg." Ten minutes later Judge Goodwyn sent the following telegram: "Emporia. Vs. Mar. 23-10:88 A. M. Governor Tyler: "If prisoner is brought here this morning on 11 o'clock train, mob will lynch him. Please send company of soldiers here at once to protect him. The company can come from Franklin. Answer quick. THE BLUES ORDERED OUT. The call was issued for Company B, of the Blues, to turn out, and in a few minutes after 11 o'clock messagegers were hurrying in all directions to get the men together. The response was very prompt and highly commendable. A special train, composed of two cars and an engine, was soon in readiness. (Continued on 6th Page.) Ed. " Put hand onwhite woman, Jusper " Attempted Assault, Port Gibson, M's " Criminal Assault, Bell Buckley, Tenn " Attempted Assault Cle " Brantley, Ala. " Peter Lon and " 15 year old Son, white, Shooting a man, Wetumpka, Ala. " Charlie Hart, colored criminal assault Brantley, Ala. " Tom Keith, colored, ente ed lady's room drunk, Near Greenvie, S.G. " Rev. T. J. Floyd, colored, wanted to work, Cartersville, Ill. " Wm. Prentiss, " Hughes Bradley, " Henry Branum, " Jim Hayes, " John Black, " Sim Cremennings, " white, smoke against lynching, Georgetown, Ga. " spoke against lynching, Near Thompson, Ga. " Cuban, nothing Havana, Cube " Judge Barit La Place white, Assaulting, Near New Orleans " Arson and Assault, burned, St Ann Miss " Colonel Smith. Col. Tinnocent, Partly Roasted not, dead " George Wells, Colored, Murder, Wier City Kan 3 ROUTE. EFFECTIVE MARCH 1, 1900 TRAINS LEAVE BROAD-STREET STATION 9:00 A. M., Daily, with Parlorea, for principle stations. Newport News Old Point. Norfolk and Portsmouth 8:45 P. M., Daily, with Newport news, Old Point stations. Newport news, Old Point Norfolk and Portsmouth. Connects at Old Point with Washington station, with Baltimore steeamers except Sunday. Connects at Norfolk with Old Dominion Seam Ship except Sunday for New York. 10:20 A. M., Daily, Express except Sunday for Clifton Forge Connects at Gordonville for Orange. Calverton. Manassas. Alexandra and Waxley. Lincoln Station. Charlotteville for Lynchburg; Basic for Hagerstown. 2:15 P. 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No prisoner is justified in surrendering to an offender of the law who will not protect him. When the mob hanged O'GRADY, it did much to hasten the end of lynching in Virginia. NUMBERS of white folks couldn't see the evil of lynch-law until they heard that O'GRADY, the white man had been lynched. It was thought that the mob would stop with COTTON, but when it reached for O'GRADY, even the DISPATCH shed tears. THERE is one redeeming feature about COTTON. He was not charged with rape, and no one alleged that he was afraid to die. THE last news from Greensville county is to the effect that the _white sheriff is still drunk, and Governor TYLER need not send any more troops for him to command. Gov. Tyler's sheriff not only was drunk himself, but carried two jugs of whiskey to the state militia to make them drunk. He is a white man, with not a drop of Negro blood in his veins. COLORED folks are quick to learn lessons of devilment. They helped the white folks to lynch a colored man and then forgot how to stop, and persuaded the white folks into helping them lynch a white one. The conduct of Major Sol. CUTCHINS at Emporia, Vs., was such as to merit commendation from all quarters. It seems that he was the man for the occasion. Had Gov. Tyler given him discretionary powers, our state would not now be disgraced by a lynching. If the colored man, Ootton had been the only one lynched, all protest would have been stifled in 24 hours, but when the news reached the city that O'GRADE, the white man had gone on the same journey; there was "weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth," and they are still gnashing them. Gov. Tylre placed Major Sol. Ootton ins, a gentleman of culture and refinement under the orders of a drunken sheriff, who was unable to order himself about, much less the troops placed at his disposal. That the Major submitted is a lasting tribute to his military training and his ability to obey orders of the most exasperating character. by the Governor and his advisers had right that he was signing the death- rants of a white man also with the stating of the lynchings colored one, he not only would have permitted Major Sol. Cutchins and his men to have remained at Emporia, Va., but would have sent all of the troops in the state to help him. The colored men of Greensville Co., seemed to have an eye to business. They helped the white folks lynch a colored man who was virtually legally dead and then had the white folks help them lynch a white man who was legally alive. In this deal the colored men, although murderers came out one or two quarter stretches ahead. WILL Attorney-General MORTAGUE explain where he finds authority for advising the Governor that he is powerless to protect the life of a citizen? If he'll step over across the river, Ex Governor O'FERRALL will show him enough law in an hour to last him a life-time. It is not even necessary to declare martial law in order to put down mob- law in Virginia or to save the life of a prisoner. No words can be too severe in con- demination of the cowardly action of certain colored men in participating in the lynching of Cotton and O'GRADY. In our position at this particular period of our earthly existence and legal enfranchisement, it is urgently necessary that we array ourselves upon the side of law and order. The guilt of Cotton or the responsibility of O'GRADY formed no justification for their murder. It 'was not the business of the mob to mute punishment—that belonged to the law. We were sorry enough to witness the murderous acts of white men; we were grieved to chronicle the lawless acts of colored ones. Whether by the use of troops, the aid of the penitentiary or the help of the gallows, lynch-law must go, and the lynchers with it. GOV. TYLER'S RESPONSIBILITY. The action of Governor TYLER in permitting the lynching of WALTER CORTON (colored) and BRANDT O'GRADY (white) Saturday, March 25, 1900 at Emporia, Greenesville County, Va., is without a parallel in the criminal annals of the commonwealth. Viewing it from any passionate standpoint, it made the Chief Executive a party to a crime, which was heinous in its conception, and diabolical in its execution. The troops were sent to uphold the majesty of the law, but this could have been done only by saving the lives of the prisoners. These men had virtually thrown themselves upon the state, and the state in disarming, manacling and holding them had assumed a responsibility which it could not honorably shirk. Its duty was to either protect these men's lives against all comers, backed up by all of its machinery, or it should have armed and released them, giving them the opportunity to protect themselves. By no process of reasoning, either of morals or of law can the responsibility be shifted from Governor J. Hoech TYLER of VIRGINIA. He admits that he knew that the withdrawal of the troops would mean the lynching of the prisoners. As lynching is murder, according to the statutes of Virginia, the thereby be a party to the crime, and is as much responsible for the shedding of blood as are the judge, the sheriff and the mob who took away the lives of the prisoners. Indeed some have argued that he is even more so, for he was outside of the zone of passionate excitement, and within the confines of the EXECUTIVE MANSION, free from danger. He had the Attorney-General almost at his elbow, and presumed to be learned in the law. There is hardly even a shyster attorney in the state, who could not have told him that it is not necessary to declare martial law in order to save the life of a citizen. The protection of life and liberty is the purpose for which governments are established. He had the example of his predecessor, Hon. CHARLES T. O'FERRALL staring him in the face, and that constitutional provision commanding that he shall take care that the laws are faithfully executed. Gov. Tyler was therefore left with no discretion in the matter, after he had been officially informed that the removal of the troops would result in murder. Certainly when the Judge of Greenesville County informed him that his own life was in danger, and the mob had suspended the operation of the processes of the court, if ever there were a time for declaring even martial law, it was then. Moreover, the statutes provide that every citizen is legally bound to prevent the commission of felony. It is no wonder that the entire country, the whole civilized world has regarded with amazement, the action of the Governor of Virginia. This has been intensified when it is known that he, as Commander-in-Chief of the military forces of Virginia ordered Major Sol. CUTONINS to place himself and men under the control of, and wholly subject to the orders of a drunken white sheriff, a man who attempted to drug with whiskey, the militia of the state. This then is a spectacle which not only dumfounds the public but creates amusement among all classes wherever it is told. THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA To say that we have been astounded is to express it mildly. The colored people of the state have had the kindest feelings towards His Excellency, and have regarded him as being a man conscientious to the extent of self-sacrifice. Not since the encumbency of LEN, and the rule of O'FERREALL, have they gazed upon an official that they more implicitly trusted. But this exhibition of official weakness has proved a most rude and unwelcome awakening. The cry of "Troops Rushing to Save a Negro," had no effect upon those who were posted upon the necessity of upholding the majesty of the law. The prisoners were necessarily lost sight of. The issue was squarely drawn between the mob and the law. No one heres believed that after entailing an expense of hundreds of dollars upon the commonwealth that an ignominious retreat and surrender would be made to a cowardly armed mob of a thousand which had halted, quaked and feared the shotted guns of a gallant band of fifty or sixty men who stood in the uniform of our mother state holdly declaring that they would uphold the laws of the commonwealth. These men were ordered to turn and march away at the command of cowards and in this order the Governor concurred to the disgust and dismay of every law-abiding citizen in Virginia. It is needless for us here to call attention to the fact that the section of the law to which the Governor referred was not operative because Major Sol. CUTCHINS and his command were not called out directly by the sheeriff but by the Commander-in-Chief himself. That fact is too plainly established and admits of no question on the part of any person learned in the law. Again we ask, was the Attorney-General of the state consulted, and was it upon his advice that our Chief Executive acted? If so, he was even more guilty than the Governor of our Commonwealth, who acted upon the advice given. May this lesson prove a warning, and may race-prejudice, the enemy of our beloved land be laid away forever. In pandering to it, the life of an already legally dead colored man sacrificed the life of a white resident of another state offered up, and the law itself wounded in its vitals in a manner which will last it for years to come. The safest way is the best way, and the best way is to know no man on account of race or color but to impartially enforce the laws and spread the protecting arm of the constitution over even the humbleest and most forsaken citizen of the commonwealth. Lynch-law must go! "O, the pity of it!" THE STORY OF A LYNCHING (Continued from First Page) When the delegation reappeared on the court-green without the man a whol of anger arose, and the colored men began to clamor for the blood of the white man. "You have lynched the Negro," they said, "and we helped you to do it; now give us the white man." Ex-Judge Barham attempted to pacify the colored men, but they fused to listen to reason, and finally the Judge said: "I don't think you ought to hang this man yet, but if you must have him, take him." With that he turned on his heel and left the yard. In a few minutes the solored men made a rush on the jail. No one is willing to say where they secured the keys, but they had them, and they soon had O'Grady on the court-green with the rope around his neck. With his long, unkempt beard flowing about the rope which enriched his neck, the unhappy wretch was dragged across the lot to the tree, beneath the spreading branches of which Cotton's body lay cold in death, and as O'Grady gazed upon the corpse of the man who had been his companion in misery but a few short minutes before, an agonizing shudder shook his frame. WHITE MAN FIXED THE ROPE. A white man climbed the tree to adjust the rope over the limb for the colored men and then, with a mighty whoop, they caught the other end of the rope, and O'Grady was dragged into the air. The man never spoke after the rope had been tied about his neck the second time. He offered no resistance whatever, though his hands were the only stood while the rope was being placed over the limb and gazed upon his executioners, and then slowly raised his hand, pointed to his finger at them, shaking it or twisted in an expressive fashion. He may have been about to speak, but the opportunity was not given him, and his arm was still extended in front of him as he was drawn into the air. ONLY RAISED HIS ARM. The man never moved a portion of his body after being suspended, except his right arm. A moment after he was jerked from his feet his arm fell to his side, and then slowly he raised it to a level with his shoulder, and slowly he lowered it to his side. When he died is not known. His body was left suspended for about three-quarters of an hour, when it, too, was cut down, and it 'tell across the body of Cotton, O'Grady's feet falling across Cotton's feet. Thus they were left, and hundreds puared and judged themselves about, and finally knives were produced, and first buttons were cut from their clothes as souvenirs, then pieces of the clothing were out off, and finally one enterprising man started to cut off one of Cotton's fingers as trophy. He was stopped from this however, and the crowd gradually thinned out, many spitting on the corpses as they withdrew. MOORE GETS THE BODY. Cotton was hanged at 12:45 o'clock, and at 1:40 o'clock O'Grady was launched into eternity. Their bodies were left where they had fallen until about 4:00 o'clock, when two plain DR. BULL'S LIGHTNING HAIR GROWER is the best Hair Preparation on the market. It cures all kinds of Itching, Irritating Scalp Diseases; Eradicates Dandruff, and causes the Hair to grow on Thin, Bald Places. It will make Stubborn, Knotty, Kinky, Curly Hair to lay Smooth and Grow Rapidly. $1.00 FOR LOT QUICK CURE QUICK CURE Corn Plaster SPEED AND CERTAIN CURSE AND MORONS. PRICE 10 cents. 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The fo'owing admirable report of Major Sol utchina to the Governor of Virginia fixes the responsibility for the lynchings: 'His Exeellency. Hon J. Hoge Tyler, Governor of Virginia. I have the honor to report that in obedience to Special Orders No. 19, from the Adjutant General's office, bearing date on the 23d day of March, 1900, I designated Company B. Captain W, L. Daughtrey, of this battalion, to proceed by special train to Emporia as quickly as possible, and report to the civil authorities of said place for further instructions; and that, in obedience to another order of that date, I assumed command of the detail. The abbreviation mentioned was'relived by me 12 o'clock M., on the 23d instant, and a few minutes thereafter my orders to Captain Daughtrey were delivered and they were executed with commendable promotions. At 2 o'clock P. M. 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About midnight the crowds that had never entirely dispersed began to grow larger, and it was rumored that an attack was to be made upon the jail at 2 o'clock, and it was apparent to me that our services would soon be needed again. At ten minutes past 1 o'clock we were again called into service by Samuel Robinson, who had been sworn in as a special deputy sheriff and had relieved Sheriff S. W. Lee for the night. The call of Deputy Shariff Robinson was promptly obeyed, and our sentiments were again posted, and the men disposed of as advantageously as possible. This action on our part had a most salutary effect, and although the crowds that had gathered seemed resolute and determined, they soon began to disperse, and by 8 o'clock quiet prevailed. After the leaders of the agitators had shown that they were unable or unwilling to control the people, I became convinced that it was necessary for me to act upon my own judgement rather than upon that of the authorities, and I therefore, on my own responsibility, wired you for another company. WIRED THE GOVERNOR. Early this morning the 24th, I was told by Deputy Sherff Robinson that I could withdraw my troops and return home. I had become convinced, however, that if we were withdrawn the prisoners would not be protected, and I therefore wired you to that effect and asked if I should obey the orders of sheriff and leave, to which you replied that I would have to obey his orders. This morning about 10 o'clock another conference was held between the judge and sheriff of Greenville county and some of the prominent citizens of Emporia, which I, by request of His Honor, attended. 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Youtsey, Auditor's Clerk, Held For Alleged Compliability in the Crime—Prisoners Said to Have Made Important Statements. Frankfort, Ky., March 28.—There were some startling developments in the Goebel assassination case yesterday. In the afternoon W. H. Culton, who waived examination and was held over to the circuit court, went to the Capitol hotel, where he was in conference with the attorneys for the prosecution for over two hours. He was accompanied by his brother-in-law, E. E. Hogg, who is also his attorney. It was reported at the time that Culton had made some kind of a confession, but later it developed that the information gained was not at all sweeping in character, as it was at first reported. Culton's friends who are in his confidence state that his statement was not in the nature of a confession, but they admit that he gave the prosecution such information as he had, and which had heretofore not come out. The conference between Culton and the attorneys took place in the room of Colonel T. C. Campbell, and there he besieged Culton and Campbell. Commonwealth's Attorney Franklin and County Attorney Polisgove, Rev. Mr. Culton, father of the prisoner, and E. E. Hogg, a brother-in-law. While this was going on Henry E. Youtsey, the auditor's clerk who was arrested at noon and locked up in jail, charged with being an accessory, sent for Colonel Campbell and the latter visited him at the jail and was closeted with him for some time. Youtsey, when he was arrested yesterday, said the officers of the prosecution had promised not to arrest him, and he complained that that side had broken faith with him. It is not known what took place at the interview between Youtsey and Campbell, but it is reported that Youtsey announced that he was ready to make a public statement, which the prosecution evidently did not care to have made at least for the present. No evidence was presented by the defense in the examination of State Secretary Powers yesterday. His counsel moved that he be dismissed on the evidence, but the motion was overruled by Judge Moore, who said: "It is not my belief that Powers fired the shot which killed Governor Goebel, but from the evidence it is my opinion that he was connected with the conspiracy to kill him. I shall therefore order that he be held without bail to the Franklin county grand jury, that the case may be further investigated." Judge Moore agreed to accept ball for Davis. When court reconvened the bondsmen secured by Davis was not acceptable to the court and Davis was locked up in jail for the night. It is understood that acceptable bonds will be available for Davis today and he will beleased. The Democrat militia will be retained here till after the April term of the circuit court, which begins Monday, at which Secretary Powers and others are to be tried. The Youtys arrest, followed by his alleged confession and that of Culton, caused another flutter of excitement, and Governor Beckham decided that it was best to keep the troops here. EX-SENATOR COVLE ACQUITTED But Alleged Briber Must Pay Half the Costs of Prosecution. Harrisburg, March 28.—The jury in the case against former Senator John J. Coyle, of Philadelphia, on trial for bribery in connection with the McCarrall bill in the legislature, come into court at 11:45 last night with a sealed verdict of not guilty, with the cost divided between the prosecutor and the defendant. The verdict was opened at 10 o'clock this morning, when court reconvened. The prosecutor is Albert Redmond, a Harrisburg constable, who acted for the house prosecuting committee. The cox-Senator Coyle had been given to the jury a continuance was granted in the case against the other alleged bribers. They entered bail for their appearance at the June term and the witnesses were discharged. These defendants are ex-Representative John R. Byrne of Evanon, Robert Evans of Philadelphia and ex-Representative Thomas M. Moyles of Wilkesbarre. Germans Disregard Postal Laws. Washington, March 28. The postal authorities have notified the German government that parcels coming through the mails to this country must be wrapped or packed so as to be easily inspected by customs officers. If these conditions are not complied with the packages will be returned to the senders. The German government was notified about a month ago that the practice of sending sealed packages must cease, but instead of decreasing the number of sealed packages has increased. To Pay the Philippines Troops. New York, March 28.—A shipment of $1,333,080 for the payment of soldiers in the Philippines left the sub-treasury yesterday. There were $600,000 in gold coin, packed in wooden boxes, each containing $20,000, the same sum in bills, packed in three iron safes, and the remainder, consisting of minor coin, packed in cartridge boxes. The money was hauled down Broad street to the transport Summer under guard of 18 soldiers. Danish Antilles Not Sold to Us. Copenhagen, March 28.—Nothing is known in competent circles here to confirm the Paris report that the sale of the Danish Antilles to the United States has been practically completed. A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED A freight elevator in Chicago fell three stories, seriously injuring 20 printers. The Democrats of Alaska have called a convention for May 25 to name delegates to the national convention. A locomotive jumped the track at Altoona, Pa., killing Engineer Kauffman and seriously injuring Fireman Shuman. The house committee on foreign affairs will investigate ex-Consul Macrum's charges that the British censor at Durban opened his official mail. J. E. Allen, a Chicagoan, has purchased 1,000,000 admission tickets to the Paris exposition, paying half the regular price. He expects to clear $100,000. Friday, March 23. A bill in the French chamber will abolish public executions by the guillotine. On Wooster's plantation, Houston county, Tex., four children of John Borden were burned to death in their home. The Listowel, Ont., gas works were wrecked by an explosion which occurred at midnight. The night watchman was killed. The rebellion which recently broke out in the province of Entre Rios, Argentina, has collapsed and the rebels have surrendered their arms. Crown Princess Stephanie of Austria and Count Lonyal were married in Vienna yesterday. By marrying a Hungarian nobleman the princess remounces her rights as an archduchess. Saturday, March 24. Exploding boiler in a sawmill near Muncle, Ind., killed three men and wounded four others, one fatally. Incendiarism continues in Barbados. There were nine plantation fires during the week ended March 17. Near Media, Kan., Frank Garmont, a wealthy farmer, killed his wife with a neck yoke because she refused to live with him. The Carnegie company has been reorganized with a capital of $160,000,000. Mr. Carnegie holds over $80,000,000 and Mr. Frick $16,000,000. Exploding collodium in a photographic supply house in Philadelphia wrecked the building, killed Herman Wise and Charles Warren and injured four others. Ex-Alderman William Lyman, of Chicago, was shot last night during a political quarrel by ex-State Senator John F. O'Malley, who was arrested. Lyman is said to be seriously wounded. Monday. March 26. Amos Rushe has signed a contract to pitch for the New York baseball club this year. Richard Croker, the Tammany leader, will return to New York from England early next month. J. B. Schweitzer, a young artist at Reno, Nov., has fallen heir to $500,000, left by an uncle in India. Ill health caused Dr. William Yaule, state quarantine officer, to blow out his brains at El Paso, Tex. Dr. William A. Blisnau, who went with Miss Harriet A. Clogg, the alleged Baltimore swindler, to Europe, was discharged from custody at New York. Cashier Frederick J. Flibert, of Patton's bank, Palatine, Ill., who was attacked with a hammer by Dr. W. L. Lewis, a morphine flend on Sept. 20, is dead of his wounds. Tuesday, March 27. Brazil is making elaborate preparations to celebrate, on May 3 to 6, the discovery of Brazil in 1500. The Washington Star says Miss Helen Gould is maintaining nine or ten army chaplains in the Philippines. Charles W. Mussey, cashier of the Merchants' National bank, of Rutland, Vt., is in jail, a confessed embezzler of $145,000. Great Britain will give 276 army commissions to the colonies and 50 to Lord Roberts for distribution to the forces in the field. Walter Deucher, secretary to the Swiss legation in Washington, has been transferred to the post of secretary of the legation at Rome. Three stone masons lost their lives while at work on the new jail in Straubing, Bavaria. Seventeen were severely injured. Secretary Long has returned to Washington from Boston, where he delivered an address last week. Charles Scott, after furiously assaulting his wife and her mother with a chisel at Owosso, Mich., shot himself dead. Mrs. Scott may die. Wednesday, March 28. The French cabinet council decided that the Paris exposition will open on April 14. More than 4,000 distinguished guests will be invited to attend Chicago's celebration in May. Hon. J. M. Stone, for ten years governor of Mississippi, died Monday at Holly Springs, Miss. A collision of fire engines in Philadelphia caused serious injuries to Firemen Clark and Rahn. A private dispatch received at Shanghai confirms the report that a British missionary has been killed at Kelping. The amount of bonds so far received at the treasury department for exchange for the new 2 per cents is $166,267,950. Ex-Chaplain Rev. Frank M. Wells declares that drunkenness is scandalously prevalent among the soldiers in the Philippines. GENERAL MARKETS. Philadelphia, March 21. -Flour barely steady; winter superfine, $3.25@3.00. Per glycania roller, clear, $3.30@3.00. city milly, extra, $2.50@2.50. Rye flour quiet at $3.10@3.40 per barrel. Wheat quiet; No. 2 rea spot, in elevator, $72%@72%. Corn firm; No. 2 mixed, in elevator, $41%@41%. grades, $20%@30. Hay flour, choice timothy, $15%@15 for large bales. Beef firm; beef ham, $21%@21.50. Pork firm; family, $14%@14.50. Lard steady; western steamed, $6.00. Butter steady; imitation creamy, $15%@22%. New York dairy, $19@24.; do creamy, $21%. Live poultry quoted at $19%@19%; for choice western fowls, $14%. 16c. for chickens and 12c. for ducks. 16c. for chickens and 12c. for ducks. western fowls, $19%@19%; old roosters, 7@6.; nearby chickens, 12@14%; nearby turkeys, young hens, 12@12%; geese, 7@8/. Bryan WHI Not Leave Nebraska. Lincoln, Neb., March 27.—The publication of a report to the effect that William Jennings Bryan contemplates leaving Nebraska and taking up his residence in Texas has caused considerable comment here. Charles W. Bryan, brother of the presidential candidate, denies the report. He said: "It is true that my brother's children and his wife are now in Texas, but they will return to Nebraska the latter part of April. Mr. Bryan has no intention of leaving Nebraska." THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA ELUDED THE BRITISH. Boer Commander Olivier Performs the Great Feat of the War. THE BOERS BECOMING BOLDER. A Small Party Headed For Jacobsdal With the Intention of Cutting the Railway—British Losses to Date Aggregate Nearly 17,000. London, March 28.—The Boers are having a little good luck and are showing some boldness again, as a raiding party estimated at 400 is believed by the British forces at Warrenton to have crossed the Kimberley-Bloemfontein wagon road Monday and to have headed for Jacobsdal, with the intention of cutting the railway ten miles west. Conspicuous Olivier appears, he have gotten his 5,000 men and 25 miles of wagons into rugged country, where he can make an easy rear guard defense. Charles Williams, the military expert, says: "If this column gets through substantially Commandant Olivier will have carried out the great feat of the war, seeing that he ran every chance of being ground between the upper millstone of Lord Roberts' army and the nether millstone of the broken Basuto frontier." He will have done it within 50 miles or so of Lord Roberts' main strength. Certainly it looked for a week as though Lord Roberts held Olivier in the hollow of his hand. If Olivier gets through to Kroonstad with even 3,000 men it will be an important addition to the Boer gathering there. His escape is attributable in part to the worn out condition of the British cavalry horses. Lord Roberts' short appears to have been badly dislodged by the loss at Riet River, before Cronje's currender, of the wagon train, and in addition to this the army with which he proposes to advance toward Pretoria is nearly double that of the earlier rapid movements. Ten thousand transport, cavalry and gun animals are due to arrive at cape ports during this and next week. It is given out at Cape Town that Lord Roberts' advance may be delayed for months. Although such statements should be received with reserve, it seems positive that he intends to go to Cape Town to meet Lady Roberts, who is due to arrive at are in ten days. General Sir George White, who arrived at Cape Town yesterday, related several instances of the courage of the British troops during the Ladysmith siege. He said: "During the attack on Caesar's Camp a remote corner was held by 16 Manchester, who fought the morning until dusk, when the Devonshire enforced them. Fourteen of them lay dead, but two survivors, one of whom was wounded, still held the position. The same day a sergeant with one of the guns had a leg and one arm shot off. He fell across the trail of the gun and said: 'Roll me out of the way and go on working the gun.'" The war office has issued another table of British losses, showing an aggregate of 16,652, which does not include 4,004 who have been invalidated home. Last Friday Lieutenant Lygon was killed and Lieutenant Colonel Crabb, Lieutenant Colonel Codrington and Captain Trotter were wounded by members of the Johannesburg mounted police. The Britons had ridden eight or nine miles beyond their camp on the Modder river without escort except one trooper. They met a party of five Boers, whom they tried to capture. The Boers took refuge on a kopje, where three of their comrades were hidden, and within five minutes every member of the British party was hit. After dressing the wounded the Boers sent them to the British camp in an ambulance. Hanson Still a Favorite Son Annapolis, March 28.—The Maryland house of delegates last night reversed its action of Monday night and defeated by a decisive vote the proposition to substitute the name of John Eager Howard for that of John Hanson as one of the two distinguished Marylanders whose statutes are to be placed in Statuary Hall, Washington. The other Marylander to be so honored is Charles Carroll, of Carrollton. This action probably terminates a bitter fight between the advocates of Hanson, the first president of the Continental congress, and Howard, one of Maryland's most famous soldiers in the war of the revolution. Bold Daylight Robbery in New York. New York, March 27—Five well dressed men entered Healy's restaurant at the corner of Sixty-sixth street and Columbus avenue, yesterday and while one of them engaged the cashier in conversation one of his companions went to the safe and got away with $1,800. The other men then quietly withdrew and the robbery was not covered for fully, five minutes afterward. There were about 40 guests at breakfast when the thieving was done. Of the amount stolen $500 was in checks. These have been returned by mail. Chamberlain Bundy Arrested. Elmira, N. Y., March 28—Frank E. Bundy, the defaulting city chamberlain, was arrested last night, charged with embezzlement, and released on $10,000 ball. The new city chamberlain has found another large deficit in one of the tax rolls, which brings Bundy's shortage, so far as known, to about $38,000. Death of a Noted Rabbit Cincinnati, March 27.—Rabbi Isaac M. Wise, one of the most noted Jewish rabbis in the United States, died last night from a stroke of paralysis at his home in this city. All his family in the city were at his bedside, and all his children and grandchildren abroad have been notified by wire to come. Mob Law in Mississippi. Greenville, Miss., March 28.—The negro Will Edwards, alias "Wing" Smith, who murdered Edward B. Johnson at Dulaney's camp last Tuesday, was hanged by a mob to a railroad bridge near Greenville Tuesday. THE "OPEN DOOR" POLICY. London Papers Praise Our Government's Attitude Toward China ment's Attitude Toward China. London, March 28.—The Daily Mail, in an editorial dealing with the cabled extracts from the correspondence between the United States government and European powers upon the question of the "open door" policy in China, says: self to take a leading part in the greatest task of the coming century—the reform of the Chinese empire. The attitude of the United States has a cryptic, but yet weighty warning for the merchants of Europe, who have hitherto thought it desirable to bolster their trade by all manner of restrictions of competition. America in her foreign trade disregards competition, and some day she will learn the same lesson for her home trade." The Daily Chronicle says: "From England it was only to be expected that the answer would be favorable, but that Russia should have replied that she is happy to comply with the wishes of the United States bears eloquent testimony to the position which the United States assumed in the council of the world." With American aid, The Daily Chronicle thinks, England can regenerate China. The editorial goes on to compliment Secretary Hay for appreciating the enormous advantages of the trade of the far east." VIRGINIA'S DOUBLE LYNCHING. White Tramp Hanged With Cotton Had Aided Him to Escape. Emporia, Va., March 26—A double lynching followed the withdrawal of the troops at the jail here Saturday, a mob of 1,500 men hanging Walton Cotton, colored, a confessed slayer of four men, and Brant O'Grady, said to be his partner in crime. Cotton killed Justice Saunders and Constable Welton Thursday morning while they were trying to capture him as the murderer of Charles Wyatt, for which crime he was to have hanged Jan. 12. O'Grady was with Cotton when the double assassination took place. There is no evidence that O'Grady took part in the murders. The body of Cotton was taken to Norfolk yesterday in the custody of Sheriff Smith, of Norfolk county. Hundreds of people viewed the body the first few hours after its arrival there. Today it will be taken to Richmond for dissection. O'Grady, the white tramp lynched with Cotton, was responsible for the negro's escape from jail while under sentence of death three months ago. Sheriff Smith identified his body as that of the man who was imprisoned here at the same time Cotton was. O'Grady was an umbella mander. GENERAL SOUTHERN NEWS. Alexandria, Va., March 23—Frank, alias "Nooks," Payne last night shot and almost instantly killed Thomas Bryant as the result of a quarrel over six cents, growing out of a game of cards. Both are young negroes. Payne claims the act was done in self defense. Richmond, Va., March 24.—Reuben Griggs (colored), aged 16 years, was hanged at Cumberland Court House yesterday for criminal assault upon a girl of his own race, aged 7 years. At the last moment his nerve gave way, and he had to be supported by five men while the noose was being adjusted. Charleston, S. C., March 25.—The York cotton mills, of Yorkville, this state, has announced that they will on next pay day chip 3 per cent from the annual dividend and add it to the wages of operatives. The wages of some of the employees had been increased 33 per cent. These were not included in the present increase. Belair, Md., March 27.—Lewis Harris, colored, who was arrested here Sunday night for committing a felonious assault on Miss Anne McIlvaine, a recluse, was lynched last night. Sheriff Kinart and his deputy fought to protect their prisoner and fired into the mob, wounding two of them. They were overpowered. Norfolk, Va., March 23.—Two well known citizens of Emporia, J. N. Welton and J. W. Saunders, left that place for Trego, a station on the Atlantic Coast Line railroad. Walking along the railroad they met two tramps, one white and the other a negro, who held them up. On showing resistance the two men were shot and robbed. When found Saunders was dead and Welton barely alive, but having sufficient strength to give a description of the murders. The tramps were arrested. Memphis, March 22.—A decision rendered in the United States court by Judge Hammond yesterday establishes an important precedent in bankruptcy proceedings. The important principle emphasized by Judge Hammond's decision is that a merchant, when he sells his stock as a whole, must apply the proceeds to the satisfaction of his creditors' claims; that it is as much against the bankruptcy law to conceal or transfer money with a view to defauding creditors as it is to hide or transfer any other form of property. Meridian, Miss., March 26.—The case of Mrs. Lillie A. Stewart and Guy Jack, of Scooba, Miss., vs. the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Insurance association, of New York, for the recovery of $10,000 on the life of Charles T. Stewart, who was poisoned, for which crime Dr. W. H. Lipscomb, his family physician, was convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for life, ended Saturday in a verdict for the insurance company. Jack was indicted jointly with Lipscomb for the murder of Stewart, but was acquitted. He was the beneficiary by the death of Stewart. Lipscomb died in prison. West Point, Ga., March 27. —The fast mall on the Atlanta and West Point railroad was wrecked at Ossanippa Creek, nine miles south of this place, yesterday. One man was killed and 15 people injured, some of them seriously. The dead man is Reuben J. Oellen of Atlanta, express messenger. W. B. Blount, baggage master, Atlanta, had nine ribs broken, and was injured internally; F. E. Cox, mail agent, six ribs broken, legs badly bruised; Joseph F. Johnson, Atlanta, traveling for Winston, N. C., house, three ribs broken. Twelve others sustained injuries more or less serious. The wreck is believed to have been caused by spreading rails. Officers of the Carnegie Company, Pittsburgh, March 28.—The stock- holders of the "Carpnegie company" yesterday elected the following board of directors: Charles M. Schwab, Henry Philps, George Lauder, William H. Singer, Andrew M. Moreland, Thomas Morrison, James Gayley, Thomas Lynch, Lawrence C. Philps, Daniel M. Clemson, James B. Hill. The board organized and elected the following officers: President, Charles M. Schwab; first vice president, Lawrence C. Philps; secretary, Andrew M. Moreland; treasurer, William W. Blackburn; general counsel, Knox & Reed and James B. Dill. Mr. Joseph Burrell, Jr., of Richmond, Va., spent a very pleasant week in New York, where he was the guest of his brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Burrell. He is now in Hot Springs for the summer. There was a general mass-meeting of Good Samaritans and daughters of Samarita of Richmond and Manchester last Thursday night at their hall on Navy Hill which was largely attended, Much enthusiasm is manifested in the rank and file of the Order as shown in that meeting. Mr. W. H. Hatcher Deputy of Manchester, was elected chairman; John Pennell, Secretary. The business of the evening was the arrangements of the Annual Celebration, which were effected in the appointment of a committee, selecting the church at which the annual service happily resulting in the election of the Zion Baptist Church, Manchester of which Rev. G. C. Coleman is pastor. Grand Chief, J. W. Thompson made a happy address on the progress of the Order and though he showed visible signs of his recent sickness, yet the members were glad to have had him speak certainly longer than he did. The audience was struck with sadness when the Grand Chief spoke so touchingly upon the death of the late National Grand Sira Samuel J. Browne. Whereupon Rev. G. C. Coleman offered the following resolutions which were unanimously adopted: Whereas, we learn with very great concern and regret the untimely taking off of our National Grand Sire Samuel Brown, and Whereas the vacancy caused by the sudden demise of this invincible leader of Samaritan forces; therefore be it resolved 1. That the Samaritans of Richmond and Manchester brow humbly to the will of Him who does all things well. 2. We recognized in the Right National Grand Sire, a worthy leader, versatile Samaritan of the Holy Land, type ional Grand Sire, a worthy leader, veritable Samaritan of the Holy Land type 3. That in the next meeting of each lodge of the Order within the jurisdiction special prayers be offered to the God who directs the affairs of the nations of the earth, for strength and wisdom for another National Sire Brown, and for the family of him whom we mourn. 4. That the subordinate charters of Richmond and Manchester be draped for 30 days in memory of him, so later borne from the field of battle, who fell contending for Samaritanism from Maine to Mexico. 5. That these resolution be published in the Richmond PLANET and Virginia Baptist and a copy sent to the bereaved family. Yours in L. P. and T., G. C. COLEMAN. The Convention then adjourned to meet in Manchester at their Hall, April 7th at which time the Past Grand Chief, James M. Buckness will appear before the fraternity with words of hone and cheer. W. H. HATCHER, Chairman, JOHN PENNELL, See'y Mr. T. D. Jackson of Enfield, Va. was in the city this week and called on us. Mrs. M. M. Bunn has been confined to her bed for about seven weeks We are glad to know that she is slowly improving. The sacrament of the Lord's Supper will be administered at the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church on to-morrow, (Sunday) at 3 o'clock. Miss Ann James who has been sick for several weeks is out again. Mrs. Charles H. Lewis of 811½ N. 7th St., has been sick, but is convalescent. Mrs. S. Archer of Washington, D. C., was the guest of Mrs. F. H. Ocker and Mrs. O. W. Murray of New York city. —Rev. Charles Mohammed will preach at the Fourth Baptist Church Sunday night, April 1st. This will be the monon previous to leaving for the north. Do You Know Hm? I desire to know the whereabouts of myson, George Cabiniss. When last heard from, he was working in Philadelphia. Any information concerning his whereabouts will be thankfully released to another, who desires him to return home. The Boston Chemical Co., of No. 411 N. 23d street, Richmond, Va., is preparing to enlarge their plant. The business of this well-known and deserving firm has increased to such an extent that they find their present quarters too small for their immense trade which amounts to several hundred orders daily. Their immense business clearly shows that their great hair tonic, Ozona must be giving universal satisfaction. Any honest development of their manufacture, coupled with push and tugging it before the publis on a liberal scale, makes them deserving of the success they have attained. They offer liberal terms to agents. See their Adv. on last page. $5.00 RE WARD $5.00 Offered for any Head of Hair That Ozono Will Not Benefit It. Straight Talk. BOSTON CHEMICAL, RICHMOND, VA. Dear birs:— Please find enclosed $1. for which send me Ozono. I have used two boxes and it has done my hair so much good. I will tell all my friends about Read our advertisement on last page. Agents wanted. — Rev. Mark C. Hayford, a native of Cape Colony, W. Coast, Africa, will presen at the First Baptist Church Sunday, April 1st, at 11 a.m. Friends interested in missions are earnestly requested to attend and bring a donation for the work. Mr. Hayford is highly endorsed by the leading Baptist ministers of England and New York. He is well informed, a pleasing speaker and any one hearing him cannot fail to be interested and benefited. --- FLACK—BOLLING—Married, March 7, 1909, Mr. George Black of Augusta Co., and Mist Sylvia G. Bolling of Richmond, Va. —Rev. J. Edward Gunny left the city Tues ay evening, March 20, 1900, to attend the Washington Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which conven d in the city of Baltimore, March 21st-27th, 1900. We are glad to state that Rev. J. Edward Gunny, A. M., B. D., was returned to the city of Richmond, as pastor of the Leigh St. and Asbury M. E. Churchhes. At present, he is visiting friends and relatives in the north, but will return to the city to take charge of his work on Tuesday, April 3, 1900. 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AS A SPECIAL INDUCEMENT to get a large number who have never used STRAIGHTINE to try it, we will make the following offer: If you will cut out the "Coupon" below, with your name and address on it, and mail to us with $1.00, we will send to you the following— This SKIN LOTION is not a face bleach—as we have no confidence in such preparations—but it is the best preparation that skill can prepare for softening and clarifying the skin, removing pimples and blackheads, curing chapped or rough skin, saunburn, freckles, etc. (worth $100 but it be sent you for $1,00, provided you send this "Coupon" but this coupon, send money K. O. money order or registered letter. Only address to SPECIAL OFFER COUPON. Cut this out and enclose it with $1.00 to the Nelson Man- ufacturing Co., 1333 E. Franklin St., Richmond, Va., and we will send you the following outfit complete: 4 Boxes Nelson's Straightline. 1 Packet Nelson's Scalp and Hair Cleaner. 1 Bottle Skin Lotion. 1 Oake Skin Soap. The Annual Sorree of the Cotillion Club took place at Pries's Hall and Parlors. Tuesday night last. It was the swell affair of the season. The ladies and gents were attired in "full-dress," and the same has hardly been surpassed during the season. Daning was indulged in until the small hours, and march ushered the happy parties to the hall where refreshments were served. The following are the members of the club: Luey Reid, Louise Edmonds, treasurer; Maria Hacket, secretary; Elwira Hawkins, Ada Redd, Alice Blackwell, Lucey Clayborne, Willie Brown, Hattie Miekens, chaplain; Mrs. Kate Turser, Mary Smith. Nannie Nicholas, Madeline West, Mrs. Tinsley, A. Marie Harris, Lucey Hudues, Nannie Johnson, Hattie Thompson, Elizabath Taylor, Julia Ellis, Ross Mickey, Alzarah Mayo, Bettie Morgan, Theresa Jackson, Mrs. Mary Reed, president; Rashel Roane, Helen Banks, Clara White, Mary Collins, Mattie Jones, Mary L. Watkins, Annie Braxton, Daisy Tailiver, Irene Washington, Josephine Cooper, Adelaide Key, Matie Dandridge, Luzy Reid, president; Madeline West, secretary; Sallie Carter. United Aid & Insurance Ivanhoe Commandery. No. 5, K. T., will hold a grand reception Thursday, evening April 19th at Wendel's Assembly rooms, 44th St., between 8th and 9th Avenues, New York, for the b nefits of the Widows' and Orphans' Fund. Mr. Thomas H. Wright's latest display drill will be one of the leading feature. Music by Prof. Penner's Orchestra. Admission, 50st. Go and enjoy yourself and help a good cause. 22-3-81 TRUTH PREDOMINATES OVER DECEPTION. Here's Another True Bill. Boston Chemical Co., Richmond, Va.; I am so pleased with the Ozono you sent last month, and I like it well enough to enclose you one dollar for another coupon order. EVAN FOSTER, 84 R. R. Avenue, Orange, N. J. Read our Adv. on last page. Agents wanted. The pleasant home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Poindexter, 521 W. Baker St. Monday evening, March 19th, 1900 was brilliantly lighted, and the sound of mirth was heard out on the midnight air and the friends of host and hostess both young and old spent an evening of real enjoyment. The occasion was the celebration of their marriage by giving their China Wedding. Their home was crowded by delighted friends and acquaintances who came to pay their respects and tender their congratulations, hoping they might abound with as many and happy events as th. twenty years had been spent. We have plenty of many valuable and costly presents from their friends far and near and they accept this method of extending the hearty thanks for the kind remember-ces of their friends: ANNUAL SOIREE. TROUBLE IN GREENSVILLE. (Continued from 3rd Page) and the line was cleared right through from Richmond to Emporia to give the troop train a clean run. It was at first proposed to place Captain Daughtrey, of Company B. in command, but Major Gutehina signified his readiness and willingness to go with his men and the order was changed accordingly. DANGER OF LYNCHING. While these arrangements were going forward here the following telegrams were received: "Emporia, 11 A. M. Governor Tyler, Richmond, Va.: "I have a prisoner in jail here who assisted in killing two of our citizens yesterday, and was forced to secrete him in the woods last night. Mob entered jail in order to lynch him. In prisoner should remain here overnight without troops to protect him, I think he will be lynched. W. SAMUEL GOODWYN, Judge." Then come this one: "Emporia—11:23 A. M. Governor Tyler, Richmond: "Have prisoner in jail. Mob of 500 people to lynch him. Send troops at once. If not, prisoner will be lynched. We are doing all we can to protect him. If can, send by special trai. W. SAMUEL GOODWYN, Judge." This message shows Judge Goodwyn's alarm: "Emporia--11:29 A. M. Governor Tyler, Richmond: "Prisoner now in jail here. Nothing but company of troops will save him from being lynched. Five hundred people are jail. Send troops at once by special mission to Captain Vaughan, of Franklin, to be in readiness. Impossible to move him from jail. W. SAMUEL GOODWYN, Judge." SHERIFF UNITES IN RI QUEST The question arose at this point whether troops could be sent at the request of the Judge, and as soon as it was decided that only the Sheriff or the Mayor have the right to make a request for troops Governor Tyler telegramed as follows: "Sheriff Greensville county, Emporia, Va.: "Do I understand that you unite in the request of the Judge for troops? Answer at once. "J. HOGE TYLER, "Governor." Judge Goodwyn called upon the Franklin company in his uneasiness, as this dispatch shows: "Franklin, March 28—12:45 P.M. "Governor J. Hoge Tyler, Commander-in-Chief, Richmond, Va. "Am in receipt of following from Judge W. Samuel Goodwyn, Emporia: "Have your company in readiness to come to Emporia on first train. The Governor will wire you. Lynching party. "Not in accordance with section 388. Advise Company in writing." "Captain Company LLP, Inc." "Captain O. C. Vaughan, Franklin Va. "I have company here in readiness. Not necessary to hold your company. "J. HOGE TYLER, Governor." Governor Tyler asked to be kept notified of developments at Emporia in the following: Richmond, Va., March 23, 1900. Judge W. Samuel Goodwyn, Emporia, Va. "Keep me regularly informed as to situation. I suppose it will be best to have troops bring prisoner away. Do you think they can be moved this evening? Answer. "J. HOGE TYLER, Governor." This startling telegram came later: "Emporia—12:51 P. M. "I am informed that if troops are sent here my life is threatened. "W. SAMUEL GOODWYN, Judges The need for troops appeared to grow more imperative, as this telegram shows: "Emporia, 23-1:57 P. M. "Governor Tyler, Richmond, Va.: "Telegrams received. Troops are absolutely necessary to protect prisoners. They should bring provisions. Four murderers just caught at Jarratt's Depot. I have them under guard on their way to jail. Crowd increasing. "W. SAMUEL GOODWYN, Judge." GET READY TO MOVE. Governor Tyler had left his office and gone to the Blues' Armory, where everything was in readiness. Fifty-eight out of sixty-one men were present and 2,000 cerrtige were served out. The Commissary Department had provided one full day's rations, and everything was prepared for, the start to be made, but the delay was caused by the absence of any telegram from the Sheriff in response to the one above quoted. Governor Tyler left the Blues' Armory for the Union Depot, in order to be in touch with his office and the telegraph companies. This salarming telegram was next received. Emporia—2:06 P. M. Emporia - 2:06 P. M. Mob is made up to lynch prisoners te-night. I have twenty-five guards around jail until troops arrive. WERE QUICK TO MOVE. Then came the concurrence of the Sheriff in the actions of Judge Goodwyn, and as soon as this was received a messenger was dispatched to notify the Blues that they were to start. Within ten minutes the company came down the street at quick march, followed by an immense crowd. The work of embarkation was soon accomplished, and at 2:45 the train pulled out of the city, cheered loudly by the gathered multitudes. The train ran straight through to Emporia, arriving at 4:15, a fact that was duly reported by Major Cuthins. Then followed a protest from Judge Goodwyn against the inadequacy of the numbers sent from Richmond, and announcing that 500 men stood prepared to lynch the prisoner. CALL FOR ANOTHER COMPANY. At 8:340 o'clock Judge Goodwyn telegraphed: "It is important that more troops should be sent." Governor Tyler therefore queried Major Cutchins as to how many more troops would be needed, to whish he receive the following answer: "Sheriff wished more troops." tain Cheatwood's Company, my hatchation, or the Franklin Company might be sent. "SOL, CUTCHINS, Major." Upon receipt of this message, the Executive at once issued an order directing Captain Cheatwood, of A Company, Blues Battalion, to assemble his men at the Armory and await further orders. They were anxious to get away on the expedition, and when, at 10:10 the Governor's private secretary, Mr. Bee Owen, appeared to notify the commanding officer to disperse the company, the men disappeared. Captain Cheatwood away, in conference with the adjutant-general. The notice to disperse the men was made verbally to Lieut. Kline who had been served with the notice to assemble while witnessing the performance at the Bijou. Lieutenant Hassan was also among the first to reach the Armory. WARN NOT NEEDED. The countermanding of the order for the company to assemble was decided upon after the Governor had received a second telegram from Judge Goodwyn, saying that the tr ops would not be needed, and that those on the ground might as well be ordered to return. Citizens would guard the prisoner and the jail. The Governor took possession to compliment the troops very highly for the promptness in responding to his call, and instructed his private secretary to express his appreciation when he went to disband them. His order for the assembling or Company A was issued at 8:15, and 40 minutes later the men were answering roll-call. It was a very creditable piece of work, and was greatly appreciated by the authorities. WHY THEY WENT NOT. The correspondence that led to the revocation of the order is as follows: 9:10 P. M. Governor Tyler, Richmond, Va.: Do not send more troops. No more needed. W. SAMUEL GOODWYN. Major Cutchins, Emporia, Va.: Cheatwood's Company is ready, but Judge. Goodwyn wires not needed. Does Sheriff still want them? Gov. J. Hoge Tyler, Richmond, Va.: Agitation subsided. Don't want any more troops. SOL. CUTCHINS, Maj. EVIDENCE OF FURTHER TROUBLE. At 1:20 o'clock this morning Governor Tyler received the third call for troops. The reappearance of trouble of a serious nature brought this request from Major Cutchins: Emporia, Va., March 24, 1900. Gov. J. Hoge Tyler, Richmond, Va.: Again under orders. Trouble brewing. If you can send company at once, do so. SOL. CUTCHINS, Major. Governor Tyler replied at once as follows: Major Sol. Cutchins, Emporia, Va. Company dispersed, and cannot be gotten together for several hours. Would it be too late to start from here by daylight? Answer. ANOTHER COMPANY TO BE SENT. Major Cutchina telegraphed the Governor at 2 A. M.: "Send company at once." The Governor replied promptly: "Will get troops together as soon as possible. Keep me constantly informed." When the first telegram from Major Cutchina, after midnight, was delivered at the Mansion about 1:80, the Governor and family were all asleep. The telegram received at 11:10 had reassured his excellency, who thought all danger for the night over. This message read: "Twenty-five deputies sworn in and troops relieved from duty Railroad offices closed. Can you arrange for transportation?" Upon receipt of the 2 o'clock message the Governor hurried messengers to Captain Cheatwood and Captain Barrow, or the Adjutant-General's office, and directed that Company A of the Blues be assembled as quickly as possible. At 3 o'clock the men are being assembled, and arrangements are being made to get the company to Emporia with all possible haste. Good News for the Unemployed I live right here in the north. I am in touch with those who need help can find out who is unreasonable and unjust. I have a steady demand for good women as cooks, chambermaids and general servants, and often for good indoor and outdoor men servants. I pay your fare to which is added reasonable amount for expenses and fees. I take no orders under any circumstances from disreputable houses and hells of that kind, and the best protection is afforded the respectable girl who respects herself. Send one stamp for information to F. Z. S. PREGINO, Albany, N. Y. In care of the "Spectator." 12.2 3mo N & RY. W Norfolk AND Western N & RY. W Norfolk AND Western Nov. 19, 1899. **RAVE RICHMOND, EVER STREET STATION:** 9:00 A.M., Daily, Richmond and Norfolk, tibulum limited. Arrives Norfolk 11:25 A.M. Slope only at Petersburg, second class tickets not secured by 9:00 A.M., Daily, "The Chicago Express" for Lynchburg, Roanoke, Columbus, and Chattanooga. Arrives Roanoke to Columbus and also for Knoxville, Chattanooga, and Chattanooga. 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This great electrical invention by its marvelous magnetic powers gives new life to the hair. The effect is seen at once. The hair commences to grow straight as soon as the use of the comb is commenced. LOOK AT THE BUG! This is a Hair germ parasite. They are invisible to the naked eye, but under the rays of a powerful microscope the above picture is what they look like, this germ burrows at the roots of the hair, hundreds & thousands of them, destroying the life of the hair and causing it to drop out also causes all forms of scalp diseases. If you have dandruff or any Scalp disease, if your hair is short, harsh and brittle, bald or thin on the top or on the temples or if it is falling out, it is caused by this germ. The Magnetic Comb and Electrical Hair Restorative kills these germs, thus enabling the hair to become long, straight, silky, soft and beautiful. Two boxes of the hair grower, "Electrical Hair Restorative" are sent with this comb, Price: $5.00 and mailed securely sealed to any address on receipt of price, $5.00. NOTICE!!! To quickly introduce this great invention, we have decided to give every reader of the PLANET this grand opportunity. Cut out this advertisement and mail to us with ONE DOLLAR and we will mail you at once prepaid the Magnet Comb and Two Boxes of Electrical Hair Restora tive. Make all money and express orders payable to R. Gathright, President. Register your letters; it protects you. Address all orders to MAGNETIC COMB CO.; Box No. 5, Station B. RICHMOND, VA. Take Notice. There being so many skeptical people who decry every honest article a humbug, we take this method to repudiate all such evil minded slanderers, by absolutely guaranteeing that we will REFUND the money for every case of dissatisfaction. This is a reputable paper and would take no advertisement from a dishonest firm. Take Notice. 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It is an undeniable fact that persons will come for advice in full knowledge of what they want to know, and yet as soon as they confront a Medium they try their utmost endeavor to dispel from their minds what they know so as to hear if it will be rehearsed by the Medium. To get the secret out or a person is the art used by many unprinp.ed mediums, but to take hold of the head and gain control of the mind thereby is a matter of impossibility to most of them. And yet this can be done and by consulting Mrs. Marth the seeming mystery becomes a realization. This subject has received no little attention by eminent men and even college professors. So it proves conjectural, though there are infringers in our midst of languages perhaps the gates of wisdom have not been closed to the entire profession. 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For further information, apply to VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY, Richmond, Va Knights of Columbus of the World V. P. & F. K. of W. VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY, Richmond, Va Knights of Columbus of the World TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: This organization has been chartered under the laws and state New York, for the purposes of unceptable men on the Broad Faces. Internal and to promote the Social and Moral contrast military and uniform ranks will secure in the front ranks of all second institutions unity for active men. Deputies wanted in all the lodges. Kindly address. G. W. ALLN, Supreme Court 884 W. 58rd Street WHAT YOU HAVE NOT WHAT YOU EAT THAT MAKES YOU NICKEL SAVINGS 601 North 30th St., Richmond, Va. Hil, M. D. President. R. J. Bass. [B. A. Washington, Cashier. Branch Bank-Planet Bank] 311 North Fourth Street. Too late to save your money and remembrance dollar earned." Four per cent interest checks cleared through the National Bank instituted. DIRECTORS. Mugson Rev. W. S. 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Large rate rates and nothing but first o stantly on hand fine Funeral Supp [RESIDENCE OPEN DAY AND NIGHT C & O A.D.PRICE Funeral Director Embalmer and Liveryman All orders promptly filled at short notice by telegraph or telephone Halls rented for meetings and nice entertainments. Plenty of room with all necessary conveniences. Large picnic or band wagons for hire at reasonable rates and nothing but first class carriages, buggies, etc. Keeps constantly on hand fine Funeral Supplies. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT—MAN ON DUTY ALL NIGH. C & O Wreck! SILAS FIELDS, Formerly of the Up-to-date Tailor of 560 B now removed to 812 West Broad where he will be ready to accommodate all of on the line of turning Old Clothes NEW. His reputation for CLEANING, DYEING SPONGEING, proves that he has always satisfaction he guaranteed. Remember the number 812W. BR Day of the Up-to-date Tailor of 560 BR ed to 12 West Broad will be ready to accommodate all of of turning Old Clothes NEW. Reputation for CLEANING, DYEING, LONGEING, proves that he has always he guaranteed. Number the number 812W. BR Formerly of the Up-to-date Tailor of 560 Brook Ave., has now removed to His reputation for CLEANING, DYEING, PRESSING SPONGEING, proves that he has always given the satisfaction he guaranteed. Remember the number 812W. BROAD ST CONTAINS—Pen pictures of the Daring Charges made by Negro Soldiers at San Juan, Jamaica, and around Santiago—Corporal Brown killed at his post while firing a sniper which he and the American flag on San Juan Hill. No graves. The colored soldier who was first to raise the American flag on San Juan Hill is given a nickname, Kinley. Miles, Roosevelt and many others on the bravery of Negro Soldiers—General Morgan advocates Negro officers—Antonio and Jose Maceo, Gomes, Miss Cisserson, and the Ouachita Governor—Terry the Army Captain, the Negro Post, Paul Laurence Dunbar—"Eddie" savoy, the colored man who outwited the diplomacy of the Spanish minister at Washington—The Negro who seals Uncle Sam's money—The colored Register of the Treasury who has to sign Uncle Sam's money—make it good OVER 200 PAGES Every Page brimful of New and Interesting Reading With about fifty full half tense and line engraving of soldiers, officers, and scenes of the late Spanish American War, with the colorful soldiers around his headquarters, a Filipino lady of Manila, and a brief sketch of the Flipuino and Jacobian. Full sketch of the sin Vita. Volunteers and their treatment under threats of Gatling Guas. ANDROME PICTURE OF GEN. 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BROAD ST New Phone, 1133 THE PLANET SATURDAY, MARCH, 31 1900 THE CLASH OF ARMS There are no bands in the Boer armles. The total cost of a maxim gun is £500. During the last two years 41,375 men have been killed in battle. In the battles of the French-German war the proportion of killed to wounded was generally one to $4\frac{1}{2}$. The average age of the British soldier now at the front is nearly two years higher than that of the soldier who fought at Waterloo. An army officer estimates that in the century just closing no fewer than 30,000,000 men have been killed in war in civilized countries. It is a curious fact that the chief generals engaged in the South African war are all Irishmen. Lord Roberts is a Waterford man, Lord Kitchener a native of County Kerry, Ken. Clery halls from Cork, Gen. White from Antrim and Gen. French was born in the county of Roscommon. England's total number of guns engaged in South Africa consists of 20 field batteries, each composed of six 15-pounder guns. The Royal Horse artillery have four batteries, equaling 24 12-pounder guns, together with three howitzer field batteries. The total number of guns is 162, which is by far the most Great Britain has ever placed in the field at one time. Whatever other faults the Boers may have, their treatment of war prisoners certainly deserves commendation. Here is an instance of their humanity: Twenty-five wounded officers and men captured at the Nicholson's Nek disaster were handed over unconditionally to the British medical staff by the Boers. These men have since recovered and are now proceeding to the front again. DRY GOODS TERMS DEFINED. Canotier.—Sailor style, cloth or hat. Chiffon.—A transparent fine woven silk gauze. Cabochon. — A round buckle or brooch. Buckram.—Course linen cloth stiffened with glue. Cashmere.—A wool fabric twilled on one side only, with soft finish. Cheesecloth.—Thin muslin, bleached or brown, free from sizing. Camel's-Hair. — Cloth of several grades made from the hair of the camel. Canvas.—Plain woven cloths of cotton, wool or linen made in the sail cloth style. Cassimere.—A general term applied to all wool cloths used for men's clothing, made of woolen yarn. Challie.—An extremely light-weight dress fabric, cotton or wool, woven with twill, free from dressing. Broadcloth. — Fine, smooth woolen cloth with a glossy surface, so named on account of its breadth, which is usually 60 inches, for men's garments. Made from the finest grades of wools. All broadcloths are fulled or felted, which entangles the wool hairs of the weft and the warp so that these cloths never unravel when cut. True broadcloth need not be hemmed. The name is given to a fabric for women's wear with a slightly napped face, but it is not the same broadcloth as the twilled back. The broadcloth of the dry goods trade is ladies' cloth—Chicago Dry goods Reporter. LAST YEAR'S CROPS Corn acreage was $2,108,387, producing 2,078,143,933 bushels, the value being $692,210,110, the average yield per acre being 25.3 bushels and the average price 30.3 cents. Acreage in oats was 28,341,380, the production was 786,117,713 bushels and the value $198,167,975, the average yield per acre 20.2 bushels and the average price 24.9 cents. The barley crop is estimated at 73,381,563 bushels, the rye crop at 123,961,741 bushels, the potato crop at 228,783,232 bushels and the hay crop at 156,653,756 tons. The wheat acreage was 44,592,516, producing 547,303,846 bushels, having a value of $319,545,259, the average yield being 12.3 bushels, the average farm price per bushel being 58.4 cents. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. Signals have been sent by wireless telegraph through a suite of seven rooms, the doors of which were closed. In the experiments which have been carried on in South Africa with the Marconi system in wireless telegraphy it was found that cannonading had no effect on the system. The Marconi system will be used in the course of a few weeks on the mail steamers between Dover and Calais, and also on the mail steamers between Folkestone and Boulogue. Twenty sets of the Marconi apparatus will be installed on our warships. The first charge for each set will be $500, and an annual rental of $500 per set will be paid to the company. TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Rainy days are particularly despised by the telephone girls, because more people stay indoors, and as a consequence the work is almost doubled. A Kansas City telephone company has decided that all girls in its employ must have long arms, and that their height must be at least five feet six inches. The time a telegram needs to go from London to Alexandria is 20 minutes; to Bombay about 1 hour, to Peking 2 hours, and to Melbourne 3 hours; from London to New York, $2\frac{1}{2}$ minutes. A new method of preserving tele- graph poles is to surround the portion in the ground with an earthenware pipe like a drain-pipe. Into the space between the pole and the pipe is poured a mixture of sand and resin. ON AND OFF THE STAGE Viola Tree, oldest daughter of Beerbohm Tree, has just made her first appearance on the London stage in some amateur theatricals. She is not yet 16. Lotta pays $9,000 taxes in Boston alone. Though a sunbeam may not yield cucumbers, there is plenty of money in a little sunbeam of an actress who bubbles over with fun and sings and dances well. Lotta long retired from the stage, is reported to be considerably more than a millionaire. Gordon-Craig, son of Ellen Terry, has given up acting for the graphic art. He publishes in London a serial called The Page, to which he contributes pictures and letterpress. His sister Edith, who designed the dresses for "Robespierre," has gone deliberately into the costuming business. A Perosi stock company with a capital of $50,000 has been formed in Milan for the performances of church music. The company has bought the Church of Santa Maria della Pace for $19,000, and will turn it into a music hall. In the spring Perosi's "The Slaughter of the Innocents" and "The Entry of Christ Into Jerusalem" will be performed. Devonshire's chief "singing man," James Parsons, a hedger by occupation, is dead. The "singing men" of Devonshire preserve and chant the old West Country songs and ballads. Parsons was nicknamed "The Singing Machine" because one evening he made a bet that he could go on singing till daybreak without repeating any piece, and won the bet. ELECTRICITY AT WORK. The royal vault under the Albert Memorial chapel at Windsor castle have been lighted by electricity. The first Chinese electric railway has been opened, and connects the Peking railway station and the south gate of the capital. The Chinese have not any very serious objections to electricity, as it does not profane the air as does the locomotive, which irritates the spirits of the water and air. A burglar has been caught in London, and, according to the English Electrical Engineer, among his implements of trade was found a portable electric light set. It was undoubtedly intended to be used in his business, as it could be easily switched on and off, and there would be an entire absence of odor. In the laundry of an insane asylum at Pontiac, Mich., electric irons instead of gas irons have proved to be peculiarly adapted for insane asylum service, where most of the work is done by the patients. There is no chance of their setting anything on fire with the irons, and as the irons are kept at an even temperature they do not require the exercise of judgment in changing them. It is nearly six years since the first electric boat, imported from the United States, was placed on a Venetian canal. Evidently the innovation has won popular approval, despite the opposition of gondoliers, for it is announced that a company has been formed to operate both steam and electric launches between the Lido and the Piazzeta. BRITAIN AND HER SUBJECTS A Liverpool physician has discovered the bacillus of pink-eye in horses. In the coaching days it cost from five to six pounds to go from York to London. For the last ten years there has been an increase of 2,000 annually in the number of Great Britain's insane. Scotch and English milkmaids believe their cows will "go dry" if they forget to wash their hands when through milking. In the London meat market has been sold a consignment of frozen kangaroo tails, which are said to make a soup more savory than oxtail. Since 1858 Britain has ruled India and its 300,000,000 of people, its 1,500,000 square miles of territory, and its revenue of from $400,000,000 to $500,000,000 a year. A London postman has been sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for stealing letters. He loses a pension for 19 years' service, and £200 contributed to the Post Office Benefit society. One of the oldest hostelries in England is the New inn at Gloucester, but in spite of the centuries which have rolled by since it was built its once appropriate inscription still clings to it. The Muckross estate, which includes the famous lakes of Killarney, is annually visited by so many visitors that their fees amount to at least $6,000 a year, which is two per cent. of the price paid by Lord Ardilaun for the property. WHAT SCIENTISTS TELL US. In museums the use of formalin as a preservative for specimens is increasing. If all the mountains in the world were leveled the average height of the land would rise nearly 250 feet. Of patients subjected to anesthetics the percentage of deaths is about one in every 4,000 or 5,000. The coldest inhabited country appears to be the province of Werchojansk, in oriental Siberia. The daily mean of the entire year is 2.74 degrees below zero. While the ordinary commercial salicylic acid is a slow poison and forbidden as a food preservative in foreign countries, it is claimed that salicylic acid made from the oil of wintergreen is harmless. One of the tasks of the Hamburg hygienic institute is to make frequent examinations of the water of the river Elbe to see if it contains the germs of cholera, diphtheria, or other infectious diseases. Another is to examine the water of the wells, of which there still are 2,000 in the city. Went to the Right Place. The boy of 17 and the girl child of 13 who eloped from Pike county, Ky., and were married at Donkey, Va., displayed remarkable discrimination in selecting the place for their nuptials. THE RCHMOND PLANET RICHMONE VIRGINIA STRUGGLE FOR LIFE For a Few Seconds It Looked as Though the Colorado Man Would Be Vanquished, But Finally His Pluck Won. R. J. Armstrong went to the Philippines not to fight, but to tack shoes on the feet of the regimental horses supposed to accompany the First Colorado, Judging from the scarred and battered appearance of that gentleman it is presumed that he saw more fighting than horseshoeing during his stay abroad. Among the volunteers who returned to Denver was Armstrong. He marched in one of the companies, but with the conclusion of the welcoming ceremonies hastened to his home and there donned a civilian dress, in which he wandered down town to shake hands with his numerous friends. In reply to a question from one of them as to whether or not he had seen any fighting he pointed with some pride to his right eye, over which it is to be seen a scar fully an inch long. "That is a relic of one of my fights," said he to a Denver News reporter, "and this is another." At the same time he rolled up the sleeve covering his left arm, displaying what was once a deep gash about three inches in length on his forearm. The worthy man of brawn went on to relate that the strip of white skin taking the place of his right eyebrow came as the result of one of the regiment's early engagements. His place was in the rear, where he would be accessible should his services be needed for the tightening or removing of any of the shoes belonging to the officers' horses. A Mauser bullet happened to fly high in the air and to return to the earth in Armstrong's immediate vicinity. Had he not thrown his head back suddenly just at the moment that the ball whizzed by he would not have returned. As it was he lost his eyebrow. It was the forearm scar that elicited the better story. Armstrong was following the regiment on one of its ac- FIGURE 10. FENCING. HURLED HIS HAMMER dive days when Irving Hale was still a colonel and in command. The colonel's horse was sent back to have a shoe tightened, and the regimental shoer dismounted from the steed which he was riding, leaving his saber against the back of a bamboo shack near which he had stopped. Taking his hammer and nails and pincers, he went after the refractory shoe to the tune of a little Irish profanity, but had proceeded only a little way with his task when he was startled to see a 200-pound Filipino, almost naked and brandishing a heavy saber, coming toward him in a warlike attitude. Armstrong took in the whole situation at a glance. The native was between him and his horse, where his pistol had been left, and his saber stood some feet distant on the other side. As quick as thought, and just as the Filipino was about to strike a heavy blow, the Colorado man hurled his hammer in the direction of his foe and bounded toward the shack to recover his saber. The hammer did not hit the mark at which it was almed, but the Filipino's weapon did. It struck the horseshoe on the left forearm, cutting to the bone. This did not deter the American from making things interesting for his adversary, however, for as soon as he could unsheath his trusty steel he was brandishing it in the face of the black man. The battle that followed in that dismal solitude was fierce and to the death. When both combatants had been worn almost to exhaustion Armstrong struck the Filipino a blow that split his skull from forehead to neck. Then he tightened the colonel's horse's shoe. The orderly had to wait for a few minutes when he returned for the steed, and Armstrong made no excuse for the delay. Dead Man Stands Frect A man standing on the pavement, erect but dead, grasping in his hands an arc lamp, was the sight which attracted people the other night in front of Cafe Schurman, 383 Bowery, New York. The electric lamp had fallen from its bracket over the door and was suspended by the wires. Charles Nord, a waiter in the restaurant, had seen it fall. Realizing the danger to passby, he rushed from his station near the front door and seized the lamp-by two iron rods running down its sides. He was standing on a wet iron grating. His hands were damp, and the shock killed him instantly. The current held him like a vise. Mr. Condi, one of the proprietors of the cafe, rushed out, and, seizing the dead waiter by the collar of his coat, jerked him backward and broke his hold on the iron rods. Why He Snubbed Him. Briggsley—There's a man I don't speak to on the street. Trigsley—Is it possible! Why not? Brigsley—Because I don't know him, —Baltimore News. ever loved. 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It is the curse of spiritualism that in all large cities there are a class of men and women who claim neither gifts, credential or retinue. Sarely the colored people are not so waiting in sense as to throw their time and money to the Hon. William Dennmore, Architect and Builder. Cleveland Ave., and Arthur Sewell, shipbuilder, South Brooklyn. All have known that he has spent seven years. He gives a free test of the theories, and practiced five years in New Orleans, 84. Lotia, Memphis and Louisville; understands through the diseases, spells or influence the people of the city, and always had a large patronage from them. **PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING:** Brooklyn. Aug. 15, 1891 — This is to certify that came to New York from Albany. I was at New York in a directly, out of work and out of money. I had a friend who undertook. What to do I did not know. A friend who told me to go and see Dr. Shea. I did. He told me to go and see Dr. Shea he took me in and treated me as a brother. 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MADAME ZANTILLE, Permanent Home and Office, 818 N. 2nd Street. SINNER'S DREAM is sold at 153s each, and any one de siring to be an agent for them, can d so by paying 10s each and this will al low them 53s on each book. One dol lar will buy ten. Give this a trial. All amounts must be paid in advance. Books sent free of postage. Address, LUOINDA SMITH YOUNG, Lambertville P. O., N. J. How to obtain a standard $4.00 CAMES CO. 25. Add. s. THE PEOPLE'S SUPPLY CO., 1t Clearfield, Pa. WANTED-SEVERAL BRIGHT AND honest persons to represent us was gars in this and close by counties. Sal- gars a year and expenses. Straight, boss-ladder, position, position permanent. Our references, any bail any town. It is mainly office work con- ducted. Enclose self-addressed stamped envelope. The DOMINION CO- PANY, Dept. Chicago. Benevolent Investment And Relief Association. OF VIRGINIA. Chartered by Legislature of Virginia. MAIN OFFICE: 84 W. LEIGH ST. RICHMOND, VA. Sick and Death Benefits Paid. Those who do not keep a regular Bank Ae- count, the plan of this Association takes its place. MONEY LOANED to members on PERSONAL AND REAL ESTATE SE- CURITIES on small weekly payments Interest Paid on all Deposits. For further information apply at the main office. AGENTS WANTED. Rsv. G. O. Coleman, President Prot J. H. Blackwell, Sec'y & Ana er DENTISTRY Fine Denistry is possible, only with fine material fashioned into correct form with infinite care and skill. Money invested in fine Denistry pay a high rate of interest, often for a life-time. The interest is beautiful Teeth, Comfort, Pleasure and Health. Old Phone, 816 Dr. P. B. Ramsey, 102 W. Leigh St., Richmond, Va. IN THE FRONT RANK. SECURITY, INDUSTRIAL MUTUAL AID SOCIETY Has been a great benefi to their sick members, also their death benetashave helped many. Hustling and polite agents wanted. Masonic Hall, 511 East Glay St. WM. ISAAG JOHNSON, President, J. E. JONES, Vice-President, B. P. VAMBERVALL, Secretary, E. T. JANKINS, Treasurer, D. J. CHAVERS, Manager. A Hayes, 727 North Second St., Residence: 725 N. 2nd St. First-Class Hacks and Uaskets of all descriptions. I have a spare room for bodies when the family have not a suitable place. All Country orders are given Special Attention. Your special attention is called d to the new style Oak Uaskets. Call and see me and you shall be waited on kindly. New'Papae 1193. BEFORE Your purchase you would do well to call at this amateur furniture house in the city and see the fine line of Refrigerators, Mattings, Oil-Cloths, And in fact everything that is needed in house furnishings. Of every description; also the latest design in ROOKERS and special CHAIRS. Our goods are the best from price and the price is very low. BETWEEN 5th and 5th Street Between 5th and 5th Street The PLANET can be found at the following places every Saturday: BEAUMONT, TREAS Wm. Archibald, BOWERS HILL, VA. A. Ashburn. BERKLEY, VA. Nario Riddick. BOSTON, MASS. William L. Reed 185 Cambridge St. Mrs. Ann Collins 141% Northampton St. Edward Foote, 194 Northampton, St. BALTIMORE, MA. P. D. Blackwell, 208 Richmond, St. CLARKSVILLE, TENN. Miner Baker. W. L. Johnson, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. Jas. O. Creedie, 78 Pricent St. CLIFTON FORGE, VA. W S Thomas, DEMOPOLIS, VA. John W. Anderson, FULZON, VA. Thomas Page, State St. FAREVILLE, VA. P B Hairston. GERMANTOWN, PA. W. M. Byrd, 176 W. Prices St. HAVERHILL, MASS. Mrs L A Bailow, 24 Dudley St. HAMPTON, VA. Solomon Phillips LYNCHBURG, VA. Chas. Morgan, 702 Taylor St. Mt. HOPE, W. VA. R. H. Thomas, NORFOLK, VA. John De Bona, 888 Church St. NEWPORT NEWS VA. I. L. Brown 2181 Madison St. Wayne Crudup, 4222, 31st St NEW YORK N. Y. Fredrick J. Brown, 4076 Park Ave W H. Allen, 142 Ohlmanus Avenue Geo H. Hewson, 483 7th "7 Wm Johnson, 242 w 47th St John Williams, 988 Washington, W. A. Kenney, 1789 3rd Ave. OXANNA, ALA. James Accoose, 206 S. 9th St. E P Mackens, 1116 Pine St James E Warwick, 254 S 11th St. Marion Ric- 1218 Pine St E. J Kohler, 1040 Pine St. J. A. Stokes, Broad & Pitswater St. Charles Steward 1240 Rodman St. Lilly Central & Laundry Bicycle Co. 007 South 11th Street PATTERSSURGE, VA. Jos Jarrrett, 701 High Pearl St. POUGHKENPSSE, N Y W. J. Ellin. Nelson House, Market St PALBESTIN, TEXAS. H. B. Barrett, PITTENBURG PA Jos Evans, Main Office 3rd Ave. A. A. Charles, 6836 Kelly St. ROGER, N. O. Lenox Garland WILMINGTON, N. C. W. H. Moores. 8 Mulberry St WACO, TEXAS. Southern Herald. WINSTON, N C. Samuel Toliver WASHINGTON, D E E Cooper 80 4% hr Atlantic Coast Line. Atlantic Coast Line. TRAINS LEAVE BIGHOND-BYRD STREET STATION 9:00 A. M., Dally, Petersburg 9:31 A. M.; Norfolk 11:27 A. M.; Schoen only at Petersburg, Waverly and Gulliver. 9:05 A. M., Dally, Petersburg 9:38 A. M., Weidon 11:48 A. M.; Pey- testerville 11:27 A. M.; Garlescu 12:00 M. P.; Annah 12:50 A. M. Jacsonville 12:50 M. Tampa 6:20 P. M. Connects at Washington 6:20 M. Goldsboro 8:15 M. Washington 6:45. Pullman sleeper New York to Jacksonville 11:00 A. M., Dally, Petersburg Sunday, Arrives Pet-berrush 12:37 A. M.; Manchester, Drewry's, Blush, Centralia, and Gateson on signal. 12:35 P. M., Petersburg 4:16 P. M. Makes all stops. burg 4:16 P. M. Makes all stops. 6:00 P. M., Dally, except Sunday, Arrives pet-berrush 8:20 P. M., Weidon 8:20 P. M., and Rocky M. P. makes all intermediate stops. 6:50 P. M., Petersburg 7:31 P. M., Courtesan walks to Western for Norfolk and intermediate points; Emporie, 9:28 conducts, and 11:2 D. for stations between Westerville, Westerville 8:56 P. M. Pettesterville 12:19 a. m., avannah 7:00 A. M., Weidon 11:30 A. M. Port Temps 9:45 P. M. LINE TO MIDDLE GEORGIA IS TO Augusta 8:10 A.M. M. Aason M. A., Atlanta 12:15 P.M. M., Fullman Silverbrook New York ton, Charleston, Jacksville Port Tampa, Miami, Angusia and 6:00 P. M. Daily. Arrives Petersburg 6:00 P. M. Weldon, 11:30 P.M. M. Makes pickup for Petersburg and Weldon. Arrives burg 2:15 A. M. Koanok, Va. 4:00 P. M. Connects at Emory M. Connects at Emory. bannville, Va., arriving 5:20 A. M. Fullman Sleeper Rhondon to Lynchburg 10:00 P. M., Daily except Sunday. NEW KOAKS 10:15 P.M. KOAKS Arrives Charlesston 1766. L. Saint Paul 9:01 a.m. Jacksonville 1 M. St. Louis St. Nicole 10:00 P. Tampa 8 M. P. 8:26 A. M., Johnsonville, Savannah, Charleston, Moorburg, Augusta, all points South. 7:15 A. M., Daily, except Monday from St. Augustine, all points South. 8:15 a. M., Daily, except Sunday, from Atlanta, Savannah, Saleigh, Headerwood, Lynchburg, Lynchburg. 8:67 A. M., Daily, except Sunday, Petersburg local. 8:90 A. M., Daily, from Atlanta, Athens, Rialtigh, Henderson Lynchburg, and the West. 11:10 A. M., Daily, except Sunday, from Goldboro and Intimate stations, Norfolk and Suffolk. 11:05 A. M. Sunday only, From Norfolk, Suffolk. 1:35 P. M., Daily, except Sunday from Petersburg. 6:55 P. M., From Norfolk, Suffolk and Petersburg. 7:26 P. M., Daily, from Miami, Port Fort Jacosaville, Savannah, Goldboro and all points South. 8:56 P. M., Daily, from Petersburg, Lynchburg, and West. J. E. KENLY General Manager T. M. ENERSON Traffo Manager. H. M. ENERSON General Manager .G W. LEWIS. Attorney-at-Law and Notary Public Abstract of Title Office. Titles to property caretfully examined. Special attention given to suits and other matters in relation to property. 311 N. 4th St. 3-24-6m The Pinnacle of Fame, The Acme of perfection Reached by the Great HAIR GROWER AND HAIR STRAIGHTENER. HEY PLANET ATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1900 HEADQUARTERS, SPRINGFIELD, OHIO. We desire to call the attention of our readers to the above organization which has done and is yet doing a great work unifying the Afro-Americans and勾引着 in favor of the betterment of the condition of the race throughout the United States. The Association is only three years old yet in so short a time has created more sympathy, caused more government enactments for the features enactments for the suppression of lynching, than any other organization alone emancipation. The organization enlisted the following governors into its cause, viz: Governors McLaren of Miss; Bradley of Ky. Mr. Mount of Ird; Bushnell of Ohio; Taylor of Tenn.; Jones of Ark.; McSwainey of South Carolina; Russell of North Carolina; Oats of Ala.; Atkinson of Ga.; A.D. Chandler of Ga.; Lowndes of Md.; O'Ferrall of Va.; and the Governor of Florida; also the following statemen, senators and congressmen: President McKinley; Senators Foraker and Hanna; Representatives White, Grosvenor and Weaver It has the endorsement of the Arch Bishop of Canterbury, Eng; the Howard Association, London, Eng; and the Francis E. Willard, president of the W. C. T. U.; now President Mrs. Lillian S. Stevens of the National W. C. T. U.; also Mother Stewart, the founder of the W. C. T. U., and the late R. G. Ingersoll. The noted colored men and women who co-operate with the Association are John Mitchell, Jr., Hn. H. O. C. J. Knox, T. Thomas Fortune, R. C. Benjamin, Bishops Great Walters and Cowen, J. Madison Pieres, U. N. Newbury, Graham Dewell, Hon. J. P. Pesker, Capt. W. T. Mathews, Rev. A. J. Williams, Dr. P. A. Hubert, George W. Benson, R. L. Powers, Dr. Purvis Dr. N. A. Talbot, L. K. Morris, R. B. Coles, James H. Jones, Mrs. Booker T. Washington, Mrs. B. K. Bruce, Mrs. W. H. Costin, Mrs. Josie Coats, Mies Lucinda Washington, Mrs. C. A. Vivian, Mrs. Virginia Madden Sherman, Mrs. Henrietta Wilborn and Mrs. S. E. Huffman. The Association is organizing its Courts of Justice in every State and Territory in the U. S. and Cuba. Where these courts are organized prisons do not occur so closely as the colored citizens are free to prune their daily occupations without fear of the lynchers. The Association has been the means of saving the lives of hundreds of Afro-Americans and as proof of that fact we refer to the following places, where governors have been asked to interfere and prevent lynching, viz: Darien, Ga. where 10,000 colored men were surrounded in a swamp; Greenville, S. C.; Dunnellon, Fla.; Little Rock, Ark.; and many other places too numerous to mention. It was through the efforts of this Association that the murders of Postmaster Baker were arrested and brought to trial. It is now engaged in circulating petitions all over the U. S. urging Congress to pass what is known as the White Anti-Lynch Law Bill. The Association was the cause of three Anti-Lynch Law Bills being enacted in Ohio, the change of the Smith Anti-Lynch Law, and made it constitutional. The Association, while teaching unity and protection, is building un among the members of the race, and creating business enterprises, and admonishing the race to be frugal and get wealth and thus become a power in the government. The National Board of Control are acting as agents to buy land and locate any person desiring to come Nerth or West to live. We advise every Negre to unite with this grand organization and establish Courts of Justice every where. For any information and circulars giving full particulars, address the secretary, SAMUEL E HUFFMAN, 508 Lagonda Ave., Springfield, O. EASTER SERVICES. Rev. W. H. Brooks, D. D., Will Preach. The congregation of Ebenezer Baptist Church. Richmond, W. s., will hold special services April 15, 1900, Easter Sunday. Rev. W. H. Brooks, D. D., of Washington, D. C., will preach at 11 o'clock a. m., [and 8 o'clock p. m.] services. Communion will be administered at the 3:30 services. The congregation desires to raise a sum sufficient to pay off a debt due by the church, hence the members and friends of the congregation are requested to give liberally on the date above mentioned. Special music by the choir will be rendered. Special exercises will be conducted by the Sunday School at 9 a.m. REV. R. WELLS, Pastor, REV. W. H. SCREKES, B. D., Asst] W. P. ERPS, Clerk. 3-8-29. Mr. Jno. A. Johnson of north 1st street is quite sick. There will be a great Musical Feast here early in April by the Excelsior Operatic Co. Their repertory will include acts from four operas. Miss Kate Vaughan was married to Mr. Coleman Brown Wednesday night at 10:30 at the residence of her parents north 2nd St. Rev. S. W. Smith, pastor of the Bright Hope Baptist Church of Princeton, N. J., called on us. WANTED 100 STEMMERS & Factory, corner Sixth and Oa- nal streets. T. G. WILLIAMS CO. OZONO. KING of Hair Straighteners and Hair Growers. BEFORE AFTER BEFORE. AFTER Imitations of OZONO are on the Market. Genuine OZONO is put up in square gold boxes, with Blue and Red Labels. BEFORE. AFTER BEFORE AFTER Testimonials. Rev. E. E. JACKSON, Pastor of Mount Olive Baptist Church, Plainfield, New Jersey writes: Your preparations are a benefit to the Colored Race. BEFORE AFTER BEFORE. AFTER Miss M. A. STEPHENS. Wytheville, Virginia, Says: I have used OZONO in my family and would not be without it. BEFORE. AFTER BEFORE AFTER Mrs. ELLA POOLE, New Haven, Conn., writes: It is the best Hair Dressing I have ever. We refer the following eminent colored Editors with whom we are doing business as to how we keep our word in business transactions. BEFORE AFTER BEFORE. AFTER Mr. John Mitchell, Jr., Editor Planet, Richmond, Va. " W. E. King, " Dallas Express, Dallas, Tex., " E. E. Cooper, " Col'd-American, Wash., D. C. " E. C. Knox, " Freeman, Indianopalis Ind., or any Editor of note in the Country. BEFORE. AFTER BEFORE AFTER Special Notice! WE ARE NOW OFFERING A GRAND COMBINATION WORTH $3.50 FOR $1.00 AS BY COUPON BELOW. WE DO THIS TO INTRODUCE HONEST GOODS AND THERE IS NO PROFIT, SO WE WILL NOT SELL MORE THAN 2 ORDERS TO ANY ONE CUSTOMER. THE RICHMOND PLANET RICHMOND VIRGINIA OZONO! OZONO! KING of all Hair Dressing and Hair Straighteners. BEFORE AFTER BEFORE AFTER BEFORE AFTER BEFORE BOSTON CHEMICAL COMPANY RICHMOND, VA. AFTER Be Not Deceived!! BEFORE. AFTER. To the Colored People of America To the Colored People of America RECOGNIZING the Fact that there are many so called hair growers and straighteners now being offered on the market, and knowing to a certainty that most of these are frauds pure and simple, we wish to make a straight forward statement to the colored people of Americas through its best paper, the Planet. In the year 1871, our present Secretary through a fortunate circumstance acquired the receipt for OZONO. It was not offered for sale or pushed to any extent until 1875, when it was put upon the market and met with marked success. After a thorough test by the leading colored people of that time, it was pronounced an honest, legitimate remedy. True to all we claimed for it and worthy in every respect of the confidence and attention of every member of the colored race. Because they found it to cause the hair to GROW LONG AND STRAIGHT, soft and fine and as beautiful as an April morning. It also cures all forms of itching, humiliating scalp diseases, stops the hair from falling out, and causes a new growth on the baldest heal. Now, whenever a genuine article appears on the market, there are always a lot of people who imitate and make capital out of the merits of other people's goods. Seeing our marked success numerous re-called hair growers and hair straighteners were put on the market. Of course the colored people had no sorrow to tell that they were being fooled and bought most of them to their sorrow. Now we ask you a plain question. Would we absolutely agree to refund you your money provided you not satisfied with the preparations we manufacture if our goods were not true to all we claim for them? We assert right here that we have advertised for nearly 24 years, offering to return the money for them in which Ozzo did not give satisfaction and we have never yet had to refund them, in which positively take the Kinks out of Knotty, Kinky, Curly, Refractory Hair. It will make short, harsh hair long and straight. It will cure your head of all itching, worrying, running scalp diseases, Eczema, Pimples, Dandruff, Itch, & BEFORE. AFTER. It will stop your hair from falling out. It will restore gray hair to its natural color, making the hair Long and Soft. Fine and Silky and as beautiful as an April morning. 10,000 people are to-day using Ozone and not one complaint. We have thousands of testimonials. We have not space to publish. Rev B. Hertz an eminent Colored Divine of the Church writes: I have found your Ozone to prove satisfactory in every particular. Kate W. Page, Blacksburg, Va., writes: Your preparation has proven true to all you claim for it. The price of Ozone is 50s. a box. It takes from 3 to 4 boxes to accomplish the treatment. We make this liberal offer for a limited time only. Cut out this Coupon and send to us with $1.00, and we will forward to you 4 boxes of Ozone and one bottle of Electrical Skin Refiner which makes black skin bright rough skin soft and oilient and cures all skin diseases. We will also include one fancy jar of our Electrical Skin Food—nature's great beautifier, removes Wrinkles, Moth patches, freckles and all fialal blemishes, and to prove our liberality we will add to this one Package of Anti-Odor. A positive cure for Sore Throat, all forms of Womb Diseases, Chilblains, Sore and Frosted Feet, also Removes all smells and Odors arising from the human body such as Feet, Arm Pits, &c. Remember we will refund the money if you are not pleased with the goods and positively this offer is not good but for a limited time only. Cut out and mail this Coupon to us with One Dollar and get this Grand Combination Offer; as this opportunity will not occur again. Boston Chemical Company, I enclose you $1.00 (One Dollar) for which please send my the following goods at once; BEFORE AFTER BEFORE. AFTER Guarantee We positively agree to refund all money for every case of dissatisfaction, OZONO is guaranteed to straighten Knotty, Kinky, Curly, Troublesome, Refractory Hair. The use does not have to bekept up after the hair becomes straight, once straightened it always stays so. BEFORE. AFTER BEFORE AFTER Why! Send your money for preparations that require the use of hot irons which kill the hair and cause your hair to fall out and in a short while you are bald. BEFORE AFTER BEFORE AFTER Ozono is the only Hair Tonic on the market that is backed up by an absolute Guarantee to refund money if satisfaction is not given. BEFORE. AFTER BEFORE AFTER Read OUR GRAND COUPON ORDER! ADVANTAGE OF IT AT ONCE. Procrastination is the Thief of Time. BEFORE AFTER BEFORE. AFTER S. Manufactured by N. 23rd St., Richmond, Va.