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INDI FOLI! JOUENA Li WKKKLT KSTAIILISHED IS2Z. III.T K.STAt'.MSHED vol Li xo. :o:. LXDIAXAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY 3IORXIXG, OCTOBER 1001. PRICE 2 CKXTS EVERYWHERE. E ANA iL END OF detail of Tin: killing f runs- IDKM M'KI.M-I'.VS ASSASSIN. iffn(frn Hundred Volt of Electric ity Sent Through the rrUnncr Ilodr Three Time. AN AUTOPSY PERFORMED JirtAIX rOl'NTl TO II K SLIGHTLY AflOVK NORMAL CONDITIONS. All OrRNn In Healthy State, and Nothing DlscoTereil That Indl ralfd 'Wenk Mentality. BODY AT ONCE DESTROYED ri.uF.n i a iiavr ami strong acid roniKD ovkii it. All Clothing nil Personal Effects IlnrnrH-flrother and Ilrother-In-I.niv .Not Permitted to Sec Body. AUHL'RX, X. Y.. Oct. 20 As announced In extra editions of the newspapers (in cluding the Journal) this morning. Ieon F. Czolgoez. the assassin of President Mc Kinley, was electrocuted at 7:12:.t0 o'clock this morninR. Just before he was killed he said he was not sorry for his crime, hut regretted he could not see his father before he died. "I killed the President," he said, "because he was an enemy of the Rood peo pI,of the Rood working people." After three contacts of the electric current he was pronounced d ad. Aside from the doomed man's brief statement, there were no scenes different from those attending the electrocution of any criminal. Rev. Cordello Herriek, chaplain of the prison, was In the death chamber, ready for any call that might he made for his services. He was not wanted by the prisoner, how ever, and sat quietly in the rear of the chamber throughout the execution. Electrician Davis made this statement as to the execution: "I used 1.7)0 volts of elec tricity, turning it into the body at full volt age for neven seconds and then slowly re ducing it for forty-live seconds. Then I threw the full voltage on again for eight seconds. Then, at the suggestion of Dr. MacDonald. I turned it on agola for a few seconds. I did not think there was any necessity for the third contact, and the lack of resistance shown when it was ad ministered proved th.it life was extinct. The body showed eight amperes of resist ance. That Is a little more than would be Kiven by a larger or stouter man. where th" current could have more chance to percolate. It was as successful an execu tion as I ever operated at in all my experi ence." When the body of Czolgoez had been re moved from the room where he was killed to the autopsy table Auburn rrison re turned to tli routine of Its ordinary life. The prisoners, who had been kept locked In their cells, were released at 7:13 o'clock and prison work was resumed at once. There was no excitement among the con victs. Scarcely a hundred people had gath ered outside the prison Rate to watch the witnesses enter ami wait until they reap peared. The witnesses dispersed quickly, some of them leaving for their homes as early as 9 o'clock. Tin: AfTOPSv. Naturally almost the entire attention of the physicians assigned to hold the autopsy was directed towards discovering if possible whether the assassin was in any way men tally Irreponsible. The autopsy was con dinted by Dr. Carlos F. MacDonald. K. A. Spitzka and Prison Physician Gerin. The top of the head was sawed off through the thickest part of the skull, which was found to be of normal thickness, and it was the unanimous opinion after a microscopical examination that the brain was normal or slightly above normal. This demonstrated to the satisfaction of the physicians that In .no way was Czolgoez s mental condi tion, except as It mlKht have been per verted, responsible for the crime. , The autopsy was computed shortly before noon, when the surgeons Issued the following brief statement : "The autopsy was made by Mr. Edward A. Spitzka. of New York, under the imme diate supervision and direction of Dr. Car los F. MacDonald. of New York, and Dr. John Gerin. prison physician. The autopsy occupied over three hours and embraced a careful examination of all the bodily organs, including the brain. The examina tion revealed a perfectly healthy state of all the organs, including the brain. All of the physicians who attended the execu tion were present at the autopsy, and all concurred in the findings of the examiners." A longer rejort prepared this afternoon by the surgeons related entirely to the brain and was of a highly teennieal char acter. After scientifically describing to the minutest detail the brain of the dead mur derer, the report continues as follows: "No anomalies found. The brain in general is well developed, sufficiently marked with fissures, and the lobes are in normal pro portion." Tin: body destroyed. After the autopsy the body was placed in a black-stained pine coffin, every portion of the anatomy being replaced under the su pervision of Dr. Gerin and Warden Mead. Shortly afterward it was taken to the prison cemetery and an extraordinary pre caution taken to completely e'errroy it. A few day ago. under the warden's order, an experiment was made to determine the power of quicklime in the destruction of flesh and bone, which was not satisfactory. Warden Mead, who conferred with some of the physicians present, determined, in con junction with Superintendent Collins, that the purpose of the law was the destruction of the body, and that it was necessary to use quicklime for that end. Accordingly, a carboy of acid was obtained and poured upon trie body i.i the eoflln after it had b-.n lowered into the grave. Straw was u.e in the four corners of the grave as the nrth was put in to give vent to such gases as might form. It i the belief of the phy sicians that the body will entirely dis integrated within twelve hours. During that time, and as long as deemed neces sary, a guard will be kept over the un marKed grave. The clothing and personal effects of the assassin were burned, under direction of Waiden Mead, shortly after the execution. Walde k Czolgoez ami Wal.lek Thomas Bandowski. brother and brother-in-law of 1 1 1 - ;i.i"-in, called at the prison at Z o r lo k this afternoon. They sent word into Warden Mead that they wi.-hed to see the body of Leon Czolgoez. The warden told them that the body h.'d ! en buried for more than an hour, and tl at if they wished be would vend a guard to guide then to the gtavc. They answered that they did Hot (arr to go to the ceineterv. but that they were anxious to arrange for the collection of the insurance on the life of the dead murderer and aked that a certificate of death be given to them. The warden prom ised them a certificate and they departed. CZOLGOCZ The insurance about which they talked is supposed to be in a fraternal society to which the murderer belonged. hi: avas i vrm run l. Cxolcnex Said to Have Hern nn An mi In In n Small Way. AFRFRN. N. Y.. Oct. 2?.-In his inter view with Superintendent Collins last night Czolgoez made another explanation of his visit to Chicago just before h went to Buffalo, but later admitted that he had lied. He said that when he reached Chi cago a boy. whom he did not know, ap proached him at the depot and handed him a packet of monev. He said the money whs for use on the Buffalo trip, but that he never knew who sent it to him. or the identity of the lad who delivered it. He then explained that most of the meetings of Anarchists that he attended at Cleveland were held in saloons designated by an Anarchist newspaper. Half an hour later, when the superin tendent called In the brother and brother-in-law of the prisoner, he brought the sub ject up again and said: "How about that money you got at Chicago?" "What money." asked the prisoner. "Why. the money you told me about here, earlier in the evening." said the superin tendent. "Did I tell you that? I have forgotten if I did. I did not get any money If I said so It was not true." Another demonstration of the many false hoods told by the prisoner was furnished bv Waldek Czolgoez. He positively assured Warden Mead that his brother Leon could read and write. In direct contradiction of the oft-repeated claim of the prisoner that he was illiterate. s i : i: m i n f i l v im) i f i ' k n i: n t. Little Emotion Shown by Member of Ihr Am na nit ln F'amily. CLEVELAND. O., Oct. 29,-Paul Czolgoez. the father of the assassin, two brothers and several neighbors were In the local office of the Associated Press when the eletrocutlon of President McKinley's slayer was announced. The same seeming Indif ference that has characterized the members of the family was maintained to the end, and when the statement that Leon Czolgoez ha-d been put to death was told to the father In Polish his fingers twitched nervously for a minute or so. a suspicion of a tear was seen to come Into his dark eyes, and he made a reply in Polish to a friend, who acted as interpreter. The old man's state ment was to the effect that inasmuch as It had to be it were better that It Is all over. When told of Leon's regret that he had not seen his father the parent replied that had he been asked to go to Auburn he would have done so. but the news from Auburn was never reassurrlng, and the father felt that he was not wanted, hence he remained at home. The old man said finally that he would not have been a witness to the killing of his son. for the scene would have been too much for his parental heart. Cxolgocs Hanged In Effluy. NEW YORK. Oct. 2!. Czolgoez was hanged In effigy at Hempstead, Long island, to-night with elaborate ceremonials amid hisses, cat calls and groans. Moses A. Baldwin, of post No. 41, G. A. R.. marched with the elaborately constructed efllgy to Smith's Hotel, where It was swung up into a tree and many pistol shots were tired at it. Kockets. Roman candles and red tire were burned, and under the swinging eftigy a fire of tar barrels was started. Then amid the cheers of the thousand or more persons who had gathered the efhgy was cut down and allowed to drop Into the lire, where It was consumed. Shoemaker Painted rteil. PLYMOUTH. Wis., Oct. 2. Henry Dor- mier, a shoemaker, about fifty years of age. was handled roughly by a mob to night and given a coat of red paint. It is said he expressed sympathy for President McKinley's assassin. MOST SAVED FROM PRISON NEW YORK SI 'PnEMR COl'HT JUS TICE 31 AC I. FAN TO THE RESCUE. Noted Anarchist Granted a Certificate of Reasonable Doubt In Order to Stay the Sentence. NEW YORK. Oct. 20. Justice MacLean, In the Supreme Court to-day granted a cer tificate of reasonable doubt In the case of John Most, editor of the Freiheit, an Anarchist paper, in order to stay his sen tence of twelve months' Imprisonment for the ptiblication of an article entitled "Mur der vs. Murder." which appeared on the day of President McKinley's assassination. Justice MacLean says the only proof to support the judgment is that Most pur loined an article, expressing certain senti ments, written by another half a century ago, and published it as his own "In a paper professedly of some circulation, but which circulation is shown by the sale of but a single copy, that purchased by the police, probably for the purpose of prosecu tion." He further says that -it may be doubted reasonably whether the Judgment, even with that support, should stand, as plagiarism is not a criminal offense under the laws of the United States. "It is not shown." says Justice MacLean. "that tho defendant's expression of borrowed senti ment has worked injury to any individual by falsifying any fact, or to the public peace or health, or that his acts were at tended with circumstances likely to disturb or endanger the public peace or health." The justice says also the contention that the publication has openly outraged pub lie decency rests solely upon the language of the article itself, and that the Indecency repressed by the law relates rather to action and words which nature and pro priety require to be concealed and sup pressed and to public displays, sale and ex hibition of evil books or prints. "The in decorum of this pilfered screed." says Judge MacLean, "is of another sort. It prates of humanity, immorality and morality, reason and conscience, but carries no suggestion of the obscene." The utterances. Justice MacLean says, do not come within the meaning of the section of the code under which Most was prosecuted. ROBBED OF $9,000. Jeweler Who Drnnk with Three Jlen mid Shotted Iii Money. WINSTON-SALEM. N. C. Oct. 20. Wil liam Richon, a Jeweler, of Chicago, arrived here Monday, accompanied by Iiis wife. Three men giving their names as H. T. Hammond. William Schade and James Pinckley arrived on the same day and stayed at the same hotel, registeiing from Washington, D. C. Mr. Richon claims he was robbed last night of over ?: and to-day he had the three Washington men arrested on the charge of robherv. Mr. i Richon drank with the three men last night and during a discussion all of them showed j how much money they had. Schade, one of ' the Washington men. gave a $" bond to day for his appearance before the mayor. A sack containing several hundred dollars in silver was found in his possession. The other two nun were committed to jail. MR. SCHWAB'S TOUR. Inillnnn In licit Cltlc to II r Visited h- the Steel Mnunntc. MILWAUKEE. Oct. 2. Charles M. I S hwab. president of the United States ! Steel Corporation, accompanied by a party j of men whose names are intimately aso j ciated with the steel manufacturing ind-is- iry. maoe a lour 01 inspection 01 me May view pl.int to-day. Mr. Schwab refused to be interviewed on the proposed new Steel corporation, which, it is said, will have a capital of j:.iMi,ui.uii i,ti ,,f which H. C. Frick is spok'-n of as presld. nt. Mr! Schwab and party left nftr the insji c'io;i oTi a ?-pK lal train, and among other places will visit Muncie. Anderson and Elvvood. Ind.. Lora in and Cleveland, O.. and New Castle. Pa. STILL UNDER FIRE HEAR ADMIRAL SCIII.CY noMnARD i:i) II Y CAPTAIN LKMLV, Who Spent AH Yenterdny Trying; to Find a Weak Plnce In the Defence of the Popnlar Officer. VOLLEYS OF QUERIES TIRED FROM Tili; LEGAL I1ATTKIUKS OF THE MAVAL JIT) (iE AI1VOCATE, Rut n Serloti Rrcnk Mnde In the Atl mirnl' Armor, Tliotijcli the I"Ire Wan C'onrentrntod at Times GREW TESTY ONCE OR TWICE WHEN INTERROGATIONS OF A PRE VIOLS DAY WKRH REPEATED. Lemly'a Question! Mninly on the ConL ingr Probien and the So-Called Retrograde Movement. WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. The cross-cx-amwiation of Admiral Schley was continued throughout the session of the court of Inquiry to-day. The progress made was exceedingly slow. Practically the whole day was consumed In questioning the ad miral about the cruise from Cienfuegos to Santiago and the motives and influences that governed him In turning back after his sijuadron had arrived In the vicinity of the latter port. This latter branch of the cross-examination had not been con cluded when the court adjourned. The blockade at Santiago, the reconnoissance on May 31 and the battle of July 3 still remain to be covered. It is hardly proba ble the judge advocate can conclude before adjournment to-morrow. After he finishes quite a number of questions prepared by the members of the court will be sub mitted. The judge advocate in conducting the cross-examination used a carefully pre pared typewritten list of questions. They called for comparison of statement Ad miral Schley had made, either in his direct testimony, in his communication , to the Senate or in his dispatch to Admiral Samp son or the Navy Department; with the tes timony of witnesses who have preceded him and the logs and signal books of the other vessels of the fleet. The questions were not asked In chronological order, but jumped from one subject to another and from one stage of the campaign to an other. Throughout the strain to which the wit ness naturally was subjected while under examination, the admiral retained his cus tomary composure. Only once or twice did he display impatience or weariness. At one point when asked a question he replied that he hail been asked the same question yesterday, at the same time telling what his reply had been then. On another oc casion when he was being searchingly in terrogated as to his distance from shore at Cienfuegos and as to whether the dis tances were a matter cf record he re sponded rather tartly: "Oh, no. I did not know they ever would become a matter of such great importance, or I phould have plotted them and made a memorandum, as 1 should of many other things." LEMLY'S MAIN EFFORTS. The main points to which the cross-examination was directed to-day were the ability of the ships to coal off Cienfuegos and the reasons for vrhat Is known as the "retrograde movement." The latter point was dwelt upon with much emphasis and detail and had not been disposed of fully when the court adjourned. The admiral gave three reasons for turning back; first, the statement of Captain Sigsbee, who com manded the scout ship St. Paul, that the enemy was not in Santiago; second, the opinion of Nunez, the pilot, that the en trance was too narrow and shallow for the Spanish ships to enter, and third, the ambiguity of the department's telegram. In the course of the cross-examination the adndral said he regarded the department's dispatch rather as a suggestion than as an explicit order, a suggestion which he car ried out after the sea had abated and the coal supply of the ships had been replen ished. Before resuming the cross-examination of Admiral Schley to-day Judge Advocate Lemly announced that, with the consent of counsel for the other side, the signal books of the New York for May IS and 10 and July 2 and 3. and the Brooklyn's for May IS and 19 to June 2. Inclusive, and July 2 and 3 would be included in the record. He explained that May IS and 13 were the day before and the day on which the New York left Key West. The judge advocate then asked tho admiral a string of ques tions regarding the trip to Cienfuegos and events there, but developed nothing of im portance until he put this query. "Had Cervera's fleet appeared during the nights you were at Cienfuegos, either com ing out or coming in from seaward what, under your instructions, would your fleet have done?" "Knocked them out." A stir in court. "What were your instructions?" "To follow the flag instructions given at Hampton Roads." "What wore your written instructions?" "There were none. I don't consider that the regulations or customs required writ ten instructions." "Is it not the unwritten law at sea in the navy that the vessels In squadron shall follow the flag?" "Yes. except under certain circum sta nces." "What circumstances?" AN EXCEPTION. "Well a vessel tnUht see one of the enemy's ships drop out and follow to at tack her. That might be one of the circum stances." "Rut the rule Is to follow the flag?" "It is." The coaling question was taken up again and the admiral's replies were similar to hi direct testimony. "When you left Cienfuegos. where did you think the Spanish squadron was"' asked Captain Lemly. "1 didn't, of course, know exactlv where it was. If I had 1 would have gone straight for it. According to the informa tion which came to me. I supposed that if it was not at Santiago It was somewhere i j , the neighborhood, but my impression was that it had come out as this in forme tion from the admiral had indicated, but just where it was, of course, I could not decide." "Did you give any special Instructions to your captains while making the passage from Cienfuegos to Santiago, in regard to looking out for the Spanish fleet?" "I did not give any special instructions. They had their general instructions." Referring to the beginning of the west ward movement r.t that time Captain Lcm IV called Admiral Schley' attention to the fact that he (Admiral Schley) had said In his testimony In chief that he had said as soon as the sea had calmed down he had begun to coal, considering himself better able to Judge than any other yfttcer. Cnp ain Lemly then had the witness examine the log- of the Brooklyn for the purpose of bringing out the fact that during the day of the 27th the barometer was rising, the breeze dying down and the sea becoming calmer. "Notwithstanding these improved condi tions, did you not steam twenty-three miles to the westward that day before attempt ing to coal?" After looking at the log the admiral said that according to the memorandum he had steamed eighteen miles. Further, the ad miral stated that they had been obliged to steam three or four knots further than they would to overtake th Yale, which did not respond to the Brooklyn's signal. "In your testimony you say that you did not disobey orders when ydu started west ward because you returned to your station without further action. Am 1 right?" "Yes." "Upon the receipt of the instructions, did you not, nevertheless, leave your station?" REASONS FOR LEAVING. "Yes, I did. for these reasons: First, be cause Captain Sigsbee, a scout, placed In front of Santiago harbor, informed me that he did not believe the Spanish fleet was there: second, because Nunez, the pilot, told me lie did not believe tho enemy's fleet could enter the harbor; third, the order No. 7, with the accompanying memorandum. Admiral Sampson minimized the Importance of this squadron being there, and the fact that the department's telegram, which reached me on May 27, was so ambiguous in its terms. It authorized me to coal at Uonalves, Hayti, or at Cape Cruz. Co naives being to the eastward, and believ ing that Admiral Sampson was at Kay Francis, in the Bahama channel to the north, it occurred to me that if the Span ish scjuadron were, extant the proper stra tegical movement was to go to the west ward, and not the eastward. I was au thorized in the same telegram to move as far west as Cape Cruz, providing coaling had been found possible there. 1 did not go to Capo Cruz within eighty miles. I think. Now, those were the influencing and operative motives. 1 felt that the move west was strategically the proper one, with a determination to coal as quickly as pos sible, and that the efficiency of my squad ron as a unit was only equal to the elll ciency of the coal supply of the lowest one iCONT 1 N U IS I ) ON l'AGK 4. COL. 4.) WARNED BY M'CULLAGH THERE MIST RE t ILLEGAL VOT ING I.N" .NEW YORK ON TL KS DAY. Hundred of Rejclwt rat Ion Made with Intent to Commit Frand Arrest rrobably Will Result. NEW YORK, Oct. 29. According to In formation which the Herald will print to morrow. Superintendent of Elections John McCullagh has prepared a letter to be for warded to Police Commissioner Murphy, demanding the co-operation of the police in preventing illegal voting next Tuesday, and in bringing about the punishment of those guilty of an attack upon the Integrity of elections. A copy of the letter will be sent to Mayor Van Wyck and another copy may be sent to District Attorney Phtlbln. Affidavits will accompany the letters. Su perintendent McCullagh will call Commis sioner Murphy's attention to the fact that illegal registration has been resorted to in all of the downtown districts. Mr. McCullagh is quoted as saying: "I shall ask for no more warrants. My agents will make arrests without warrants. The law gives us the right to do so and it will be done. This will enrage certain police of ficials, but I do not think any attempt to interfere with us will be made. If any at tempt is made there will be trouble and it will be for the courts to settle." After a conference with President Morr's, of the Republican county committee, to night. Superintendent McCullagh decided to subpoena in the morning the six hun dred men who are alleged to be illegally registered from houses in the Second as sembly district alone. BOERS WERE DRIVEN OFF ATTACKED A RRITIMI CAMP IN FORCE, RUT WERK RH PI' LS El). Left Forty Dead on the Field, but Killed and Wounded Eighty Three of Their Opponents. LONDON. Oct. 29. A dispatch from Lord Kitchener, dated Pretoria, Oct. 28, says he has received reports of important fighting Oct. 24 near Great Marico river, when De Lary. and Kemp attacked a British force, and were only repulsed after severe light ing, leaving forty dead on the rieid, includ ing Commandant Omstirhcyse't. The Brit ish lost twenty-eight men killed and had fifty-five wounded. The Roers carried off eight British wagons. The Republicans ap peared to have paid special attention to the guns, as thirty-seven gunners and drivers were killed or wounded. Lord Kitchener mentions a number of minor affairs, and says that this week's "bag" consisted of seventy-four Roers killed, sixteen wounded and :'3 made pris oners. In addition forty-five Boers sur rendered and the British captured 471 rifles. 75.!50 rounds of ammunition, 210 wag ons, &30 horses and S. cattle. Commandant Cieneral Botha's recent es cape from the British columns pursuing him was a close affair. Major Remington inarched on the commander-in-chief's ciuarters at night, only to tind that Botha had got off with a few hundred yards' start, leaving his hat. revolver and papers behind. Ten prisoners. Including Com mandant Hans Botha and former Landrost Schutte, were, captured. The imperial authorities In Natal have reached the conclusion that the early re peopling of the Transvaal and Orange Riv er colonies is advisable, so that the former industrial and agricultural life of the col onics may be resumed. In the course of a speech vesterday at Durban. Lord Milner, of Cape Town, said it was useless to wait until the war was over in a formal sense. It miKht never be over, he declared, but it was burning Itself out. and in time "we ought to show ourselves masters in the house we have taken by rebuilding it and beginning to live in it." VICTIMS OF A FIRE. Two rerwons SnfToented. Three In Jnred and Other Affected by Smoke. CHICAGO. Oct. 23. Two persons lost their lives, three were Injured and a score overcome by smoke in a fire in the Eagle flat building. Lyttle and Taylor streets, to day. The dead are: MRS. D. RYAN, fifty years old. suffo cated. MRS. ANNA KING, daughter of Mrs. Ryan, suffocated. The injured are: Elsie King, twelve years old, rescued while unconscious from inhal ing smoke, slightly injured; Otis, jumped forty feet from roof, badly bruised; E. Heg, jumped from roof, bruised. Other occupants of the building who were over come by the smokv were rescued by fire men or members of their own family, ami all recovered in the open air. Property los. SCENE OF CARNAGE DETAILS OF A RATTLE AT A N E(RO CAMP MEETING CJROt.NIJ. Nine RlnekM Killed Ontright and a Dozen or More Probably Dy IiiK In the Wood a. TWO WHITE MEN WOUNDED ANOTHER MEMBER OF A CO.V STADL.ES l'OSSK SHOT DEAD. C'litirrh Perforated trith IRiHet and the Preacher and Ills Daughter Killed, at Their Home. A LOUISIANA -PARISH IN ARMS REIGN OF TERROR THAT FAMED WITH FLIGHT OF NEGROES. Ilodie of the Colored Victims Throvru Into Holen N'o Fnrther Trouble After the Black Fled. NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 29. A dispatch to the Picayune from Balltown. La., says: A race war between the blacks and whites, started at a negro camp meeting at Dun can's Chapel Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock, has left a carnival of blood up the Pearl river valley unequaled In Ute history of the eountrj One white man is dead, another is now dying with a bullet hole through his stom ach, and a third white man is badly wound ed. Nine negroes were killed in the bloody affray five men, three women and one small child. A dozen or, perhaps, more negroes escaped to the woods and swamps with wounds that are believed to be cer tain death in the brush away from fare. Many are perforated with lead. The cas ualties follow: JOSKPH SEAL, white, son of Willis Seal, aged thirty-two years, residence at Varan do, La., killed. CHARLES THOMAS ELLIOTT, white, aged twenty-six, fatally wounded, now dy ing, Varandcfc La. EDWARD THOMPSON, white, aged forty-five, shot through thigh and fleshy por tion of leg, Varando. Dead Negroes. REV. ALEXANDER CONNOLLY, aged fifty, pastor Duncan Chapel. MARY DAVIS, aged thirty, his daughter. CREAK LOTT. aged forty-six. JULIA PETERS, his daughter, aged twenty-four. M ELLIN PETERS, hr child, aged four year.. AMY TONY, aged seventy-five years, mother-in-law of Crear Lott. LEWIS DUNN, aged eighteen years, son of Helen Dunn, living in Poplarville. THOMAS PARKER, aged twenty-four. KID BEVERLY, aged eighteen years, a turpentine worker from Georgia. No one is able to estimate the number of wounded, negroes who escaped the carnage behind the church. They scattered to the four winds. Some are known to have been shot, but they have not been found. The fierce conflict raged for half an hour. Those at a distance say the firing sounded like a pitched battle between troops. To the camp meeting negroes had come from 2X) miles, all up and down the valley. Elder Stephen Duncan, of New Orleans, for whom tho chapel was named, was pres ent. On last Thursday the meeting opened with several hundred negroes encamped around the church, in tents and in rudely constructed shanties. It was 1o continue one week. There they ate and slept and held services in the chapel. One day previous to the camp meeting, the negro, Bill Morris, had been burned at the stake near Balltown, for an assault on Mrs. J. J. Ball. Public feeling was at a high pitch. Under those conditions the negroes gathered at Live Oak. There was trouble over a licence and Crear lxtt's tent became the center of contention. Some trouble occurred Saturday evening, but no bloodshed. It came up again Sunday after noon, when Constanble Boon and a posse rode up to Lott's tent with a warrant. Lott came out and is reported to have shouted with an oath: "One nigger has been burned, but a white man will be next." Wade Walker, one of the constable's posse, was struck over the head with a Winches ter, and then the slaughter begun. The blacks fled from the frail wooden church. for It was no shelter from the rain of bul lets. Lott retired into his tent, shooting and fighting. Joe Seal received his death wound. A torrent of lead was sent whizzing through the tent and through the church, while the negroes fled. Preacher Connolly was shot while stand ing in his yard. His daughter fell just In side the house. The other negroes around Lott's place kept up a steady rain of bid lets. It was death and blood, and the shrieks of the wounded and dying were heard on ever side. Iott's oid mother-in-law, his two daughters and the little bov fell in a heap Inside the shelter. Sophie Lott saved her life by concealing herself behind the stove. Then she escaped and the men did not harm her. They were after Crear Lott. He was barricaded and the next move was to lire the plac. which they did. When tho fire forced him from under cover he appeared in the doorway and twenty rifle balls went crashing through him. He fell In a heap, headforemost on the ground. Parker and Beverly, both blacks, fell with him. Washington parish has never seen such a slaughter. For twenty-four hours it looked like a general uprising to wipe out the black race in Washington parish. The news spread like wildfire and yesterday over 3 . cm m armed men had reached the scene of the battle. They came for miles and miles, some from as far away as Monticello. Yesterday afternoon the nine negroes who were left in a heap where they had died, were piled into three unmarked graves, dug near the chirred remains of Lott's tenthouse. There was no eeremonv. The minister and his daughter filled one of the holes, the women and child another, the men a third. At the same time prominent citizens held a conference which was at tended by Sheriff Simmons and a message was sent to the negroes. "Do you want any more?" was the query. "No." came the reply. This had a quieting effect and peace again reigned. The negroes left the countrv. They carried all the personal effects possl Lle. All who could rode on horseburk and In buggies, and those who could not ride took to the woods afoot. Those who were a little bolder lined the roads, getting out of the community. This afternoon all was quiet. The negroes are cowed and the whites believe there will b no further trou ble. Hundreds Hunting: for Hicks. DALLAS. Tex.. Oct. 29.-John MacPher son. a white man. manager of a large plantation at Glenflora. was killed by a negro named William Hicks. Several hun dred men are hunting for Hicks. Six oth er negroes are In jail. LcKislHtlic llrlbery Case. LANSING. Mich.. Oct. 2.' -A jury was readilv scoured in the Ingham County Cir cuit Court to-day for the trial of Charles II. Pratt, indicted with ex-Speaker Adams and Iand Commissioner French for brib ery in connection with the attempted pas sage of a julnt resolution by the Legisla- tur r f Iv'fl l.i Tmr-!i: ( titiiti worth nf law rejMtrts from a St. Paul puhü.-hir.g house. In opening the ease the prosecutor said he could show that the company h;ol deposited $:.''. in a St. Paul bank subj t to Pratt's order when the purchisc was actually made. He allege 1 that Pratt mad- seven drafts payable to bearer, and deliv ered $"."0 to Adams and Jlt.om to land Commissioner French for use in si-curing the passage of the measure. The resolution failed of passage by a narrow margin. C. W. FAIRBANKS IN OHIO. Reception to the Senior Indiana Sen ator nt S prlii nil eld. Spc-cial to ihe Indi lriapolis Journal. SPRINGFIELD. O., Oct. 29-Senator Charles W. Fairbanks, of Indianapolis, was given a warm reception this evening at the Arc-ado Hotel, under the auspices of the Columbia Republican Club. Three thou sand people grasped the hand of the sena tor and expressed their pleasure at meeting him. He was introduced by President John It. . Grew, of the club. Mr. Fairbanks came here to visit his mother, who lives with his brother-in-law. Mayor M. L. Milli gan. The senator has just returned from a campaign trip through Iowa ami Nebraska, and he predicts that both States will give large Republican majorities, lie referred with pleasure to the recent Republican vic torv in Indianapolis. Speaking of the na tional situation, he said: "Prosperity is the strongest advocate of the party to-day. If we adhere to the policies for which Presi dent McKinley stood the party will con tinue to retain the public confidence. The subject of reciprocity is a Republican doc trine, and will receive tho utmost consid eration by Congress. The indications are that such progress has bern made between the United States and Great Britain with respect to the abrogation of the Clayton Bulwer treaty that Congress will be able to take up the subject of an isthmian canal and provide for pushing the work." W. B0URKE C0CKRAN HURT. Noted Orator Thrown from Horse and Bruised nnd Cut. NEW YORK. Oct. 23. W. Bourke Cockran was severely injured to-day by being thrown from his horse- while riding about his place at Sands Point, Long island. There was no witness to the accident. Mr. Cockran was riding a spirited horse and he was either thrown or the horse stumbled. When found he was unconscious on the ground and was suffering from bruises and a cut on the head, from which there was a considerable flow of blood. He was taken home. Dr. William I. Cook, the physician at tending Mr. Cockran, said to-night: "Mr. Cockran is resting comfortably. He is bad ly bruised about the face, but none of his bones is broken. I do not know how he happened to fall from his horse, and did not deem It wise to question him. I do not believe he is seriously injured. I will make a more careful examination in the morning. Mr. Cockran is resting comfortably and I am sure there need be no alarm about his condition." SLAUGHTER OF HORSES Rl'FFALO RILL'S "WILD WEST" SHOW TRAIN WRECKED. Over lOO Animals, Inclndinst Famous "Old Pap." Crushed to Death Col. Cody Heartbroken. CHARLOTTE. N. C. Oct. 29. One hun dred and ten of the ring horses of "Buffalo Bill's" Wild West show were crushed to death in a railroad wreck near Lexington at 3 o'clock this morning. Among the horses killed was "Old Pap." Colonel Cody's favorite saddle horse. "Old Eagle," the star ring horse, was killed and his man gled body fell on top of one of the wrecked engines. The mules that drew the Dead wood coach were also killed. Colonel Cody spent to-day at the scene of the wreck and Is heartbroken over the slaughter. He says his loss is ?in,n00. The accident was the result of a head-end col lision between a fast south-bound freight train and the second section of the show train, and was due to a misunderstanding of orders. Several train hands were in jured, but no one was killed. Twelve thousand people greeted the "Wild West" show In Charlotte yesterdav, and it left at midnight for Danville, Va. where Jt was to have made Its last stand of the season-. At Danville the show was to have disbanded and the animals sent to Bridgeport, Conn., to go Into winter quar ters. The show left here in three sections. Near Ixington. as the second section was going twenty-five miles an hour, a fast Houth-bound- freight train crashed into it. Both engines were wrecked. Next to the engine of the show train there were large stock cars containing the horses, and this is where the slaughter occurred. The ears were smashed into a huge, distorted heap of debris, and only two horses escaped alive. The scene was sickening. From the mass oi the wreckage blood poured in a stream that ran alongside the railroad track in a email rivulet. Colonel e'odv's engagement at Danville was canceled "in consequence of the disaster, which marked the close of a very successful tour. Menneerle Wrecked. NEW ORLEANS. Oct. 29. The Fore paugli & Sells circus, which left this city last night, was wrecked one mile this side of Baton Rouge at noon to-day. Four cars loaded with animal cages were badly wrecked, but none of the cages was torn open and none of the animals allowed to escape. A carload of elephants were turned loose through the wreck, but. after they had wandered about the country a short time, were driven into Raton Rouge and corralled. Three men wro badly hurt. The wreck was caused by the front section of the circus train running Into the rear of a freight train. Four Trumps Reported Dead. BEMIDJI. Minn., Oet. 20. On the Foss t n line of the Great Northern to-day sev enteen freight cars were ditched at Silkce, ! the first station west of here. They were entirely destroyed. It is reiorted that four tramps were caught in the wreck and lie buried beneath the tons of flax, with which the cars were loaded. It will take two dus to clear the tracks. PARADES OF MINERS. Mitchell Dn" Observed Throughout the Anthracite Field. Wl LKEFBAERE. Pa.. Oct. 2!i.-"MitohrIl day," named in honor of the president of the United Mine Workers of America, and which marks the first anniversary of the ending of the great '.-oal strike last fall, in which the mine workers of the anthra cite field won a l) per cent, increase in wages and other concessions, vva cele brated to-day. Thousands f miners in the anthracite region paraded. At Wilkesbarre there was a parade in which 1.".i miner marched and which was headed by John Mitc hell, the president of the union. After the parade there w.: a mass meeting, at w hich Pre sident Mite h ell was the principal speaker. He s-aid he was in favor of voluntary arbitration in the settlement f dispute' btwn cjip!or :ind employes. He urged the miners to pe tition Congress to re--naet the- hine-e exclusion iu t. otherwise- the w h ! countrv will be overrun with MTuoi.t;-. .md manv of them will find their way to the nun. s, there tc compete wiih white labor. Mr. Mitchell said he was hopeful that the coal operators et the anthracite re-viori would-c-ctnent to a joint conference with llit mln- era before the flitt of April next. RAWS IT CLOSE STATE PRESENTS STRONG EVIDENCE I.N THE IH NN CASE. "Marie Sampleson, Dunn's Domestic, Sajs She Heard Screams In the Kam on Afternoon of July 2. DUNN WAS PALE AND WORRIED LATER WANTED HER TO GO AWAY, in ituii:i)L am si: iii:tlv. He Also Told Her that Alice ( olhrrll Had Not Gone Accn? , lint Wns In Wallen, nnd Was Dead. UNION TRACTION LINE BLOCKED FAIRMOVNT ltlKNTS SI.OWNHSS IN BALLASTING THE TRACK. Farmer Kicked to Death liy a Mule RurKlar Shot at Bedford 'Nobles ville Has a IlrlsU lire. Fpe-cial to the Indianapolis JojT.al. FORT WAYNE. Ind.. Oct. .-The Stat scored heavily this afternoon in the trial of Charles Dunn for the murder of Alice Cothrell, and if the Jury had gaimI any impression, as had many of the observer, that the State had a weak case against Dunn, all such impressions disappeared after hearing Estcile Marie Sampleson tell her story. It was heard by a packed tourt room and while minute to a most disgust ing degree, it was intensely dramatic at times. After protracted detail of her life from her birth, seventeen years ago. of he r mother's death when she was four years old, of her finding a home in the Chicago industrial school and of being employed with different families in this county as a domestic, she told of being engaged by Dunn at Wallen. On the 2d day of July as she was return ing, a little after 1 o'clock, from her next door neighbor's to her own kitchen, she heard screams and rushed out to see where they came from. Mrs. Dunn had beard them, too, and had jumped out of her in valid bed. Marie Faid she looked toward the barn and haw Dunn leaning against tho door In the barn. Only a short time before she had seen little Alice Cothrell pass out of Dunn's house and go In that direction. Dunn soon came Into the house and she told the jury this afternoon that he looked pale and worried. She asked him w :;-f-w.as the matter. He said he ha-i vome'o having a sunstroke. He ate very little din ner and sat around awhile In a dejected at titude. On the 4th of July Dunn talked with her confidentially and told her that Alice was not out of Wallen but was in town aqd yas dead. Witness said Dunn then tried to persuade her to go to Toledo to John Ervin, a single man, and he would pay her way and pro vide her with clothes, but she must go right away. Dunn offered to tell her some thing if she would not tell Del Reed, the h.red man, but she would not promise, and asked why the should not tell him. He said: "Because Del would squeal on me." Witness also said that on the 3d of July, when Mrs. Dunn remarked that she be lieved Alice was in the cistern. Dunn said: "Shut your d d mouth, or I will knock you down." Witness said the testimony she gave be fore the coroner, saying the screams she heard were made by some children at play, was false and was made under Dunn's in structions. She acknowledged that she will become a mother next month, and admitted relations with Dunn and others. She said Dunn had tried to commit a criminal op eration on her last June. Her cross-examination, not yet finished, was extremely severe, and led to a confes sion that she had been discharged from her work as domestic several times for thievery and for associating with lewd company. She stood the examination fairly we-ll. This morning all the members of the Cothrell family were aaln on the stand. They were repealled to deny several state ments witness had said Dunn made to them. Dunn said that Mrs. Cothrell was at his house looking for Alice on the noon of the day she disappeared, and that h told her to search everywhere for her. Mrs. Cothrell elenled any such conversation, and even denied seeing Dunn. Dunn told Iiis cook that Mrs. Cothrell had told him she had whipped Alice that morning, and that he believed it h;il cause-d her to run away. Mrs. Cothrell anel the other members ef the- family also denied this ami other statements which had been attributed to the-m by Dunn In his alleged efforts to stop the search for Alice. Then Dr. MoReth. city health commis sioner, who was at the post-mortem ex amination, was called. He testified to the same conditions existing in the- tody ss did Dr. W. W. Harriett. He pave it as hi opinion that the child had lee-n choked to death and that she had not Ik.mi drw:u-l. the mut have be-e-n dead before etiterlnif the- water. Dr. McBeth's testimony ooe-upied almost all the- morr.im;. the- larger part of it teaiching on the evidence of criminal assault ein the child. This testimony ftij e-otidiK te d in a low oie-e. so that Ih lar;e- erowil outside the railing eoutd not hear It. Dr. Harnett was recalled at d testHie-eJ that the- clothing of the littt iirl had been torn. Im! WVtfzell, a neighbor, said that Dunn told him he was sc are hire for the little Kirl at 1 .. k en the afternoon of July 2. This was several hours before any -one el.e khevr that the- child was missing. Two Men rrested for hoot Inn;, Sjf'.-il tith ln-liana;""!! J.vjri .cl. BliOMINGToN. Ind , Oct. 2T-Ex lt nient was caused this afternoon by ;ne arrest of John llendrnks and John Eranam. two we-ll-known young nir:i, (ha rued with attempting to kill John Co. the farmer who was shot In lh' back few weeks ago while geling home fjoyt town. Cole made a statement in wl,ih lis said thct b'jth were i-aiiity. Jini- Martin fixed the ti.il cd ach at and t-oir Hendricks and Branam are in jail, brinr unable to pi t sure ti . I I.iiiitr Sfiilmi nf llit Mnlliu Jnrr. S'j'.-ci .t M ti e If. !i .i?'.4(-il Jl TE.'tRE HAFTE. Ind.. Oct. 2 -The Jury in the trial ef Alonz'i Mafox for the mur- il-r of "Teel" Britten, vhnli jetire-d ;it 1 oYloe k this afternoon. r 1 1 ! 1 o :t at taid nicht. Mrjrr Hound 0t-r to t Hurt. r' eil i t- the- In II 'i e .- ! I" .1 l f Ii 1 1 FORT WAYNE. It.'d. o. t. 7. -Wüüarrt Me-yer. president of the .-!ern lta-hall Association, will yjat-.J trial on the chars of tinbexzlexent. lie had his preliminary