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THE DISPATCH, POUNDED 13C0.
WHOLE NUMBER 16 428.
R I.CHMON D, VA? WEDN ESO ? Y, DECEMBER '?t?, 100?,
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SUMMARY OF THE DAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
, WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.?Forecast for
! Wednesday-und Thursday:
Virglnla-Falr Wednesday and Thtirs
?i?y; light to fresh varltiblo wind?.
North Carolina?Fair Wednesday and
Thursday; light to fresh north to north?
east winds.
Rather mild weal her, becoming sIlKht
ly'colder after nightfall, marked-yester?
day, Tho mercury reached 51 during"tho
warmest portion of ? he day, and wan
some degrees above froiln? point at mid
nlglfl.
STATE OP ??? THERMCMriTKI?. .
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Vi..M.G?
?I P. M.'..',.,. ti
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9 *. M. SO
12 midnight .St
Average. <t?-0
Highest temperature yesLerduy.?.",
.'.invest temperature yesterday. ?19
Mean temperature yesterday. l'?
Normal temperature for December.40
Departure from normal temperature.. OC
1'reclpllalloti during past 21 hour?. 00
MINIATURE1 ALMANAC.
Decomber 23, 1903.
Sun rises.7:21 I HIOH TIDE.
Hun set?.1:65 [ Morning...7:43
Moon sots.5:2? | Evening.7:51
? Richmond.
The discovery made that marriages per?
formed since December 12th are not valid
?Senator Mcllwalno replies to thu criti?
cisms of Delegato Duke-?Legislatur?)
decides to take a recess to-day until De?
cember 2!ith?-House extends tho time
limit of the JaniOHtown Exposition Com?
pany's charter to July 1st. but th? Senate
falls to muster a quorum to concur ?
Supply of turkovs for the ChrlRtmiis sea
non adequate-Shoplifters busy In the big
stores-No agreement ye', on tho K.1
mondson road bill?Drill and concert at
the Regimental Armory last night-Su?
perintendent Davis provides good cheer
for the inmates of the almshouso?
Houses are entered and rebbed?Elabo?
rate muslo, at the Cathedral?Ano:h?r
'coUncllnionlc Investigation?Tl,e ?Ity's
now bond plan Is submitted?UUnnin's
?tore robbed?Clerks ot Senato ana
House receive Christmas gifts?Chair?
man Dowdoln, of the State Board of
Fisheries, repllCH to ?tntcinents mude In
the Senate-C. ?-G. Fisher given twelve
months In Jail-?Report of Municipal
Investigating .Committee to be presented
soon after'the holiday season?Tobacco
coming In very slowly-Hcnrlco county
roused over the dog lav,?; scarlet fever
raging In certain sections of the county
-Members of the Senato guests of
IJcu tenant-Governor Willard. MAN?
CHESTER?Rcapport.ioninent resoluci?n
to be adopted at the Council*? next regu?
lar session?Names of new members
?uggested-A paper factory to lie erect?
ed?^Manchester Council, Royal Arcanum,
elected omcers-Junior Order to chooso
officers-Hiawatha Club to meet Chrlst
'inas" .t?ve-Mr. John Phaup'badly hurt
by a-yard engine-Study of music In
the .schools to be'discontinued-Red Men
adopt new by-laws?Christmas goods. -
Virgit
mia. ..-...
The dispensary won over the saloons
at Farm ville dtter a hot fight; spiced
with'personal ehcotintcrs-r-^-Traln wrecaer
at Boydton confesses and Is given live
years-Dr. Albert Nicholson loses his
residence In Princess AJino a few days
after bringing-home tu bride??-Very val?
uable library given to 'ho University of
Virginia-Charles Nelson cleared of
serious charge at Suffolk?^Burglars
break Into a store In Amelia and take
goods-Dr. Jesso Ewell Jumps and es?
capes, while his buggy is torn to pieces
by a train?Cracksmen wreck postonico
safe at Clarksvllle and get very little
Claremoht luis discharged its town sur
gennt since going dry-Pcnlsular Indus?
try of Belling ovengrcons has glutted the
northern market-Weems Steamboat
Company to build new boat for Ruppa
hannock, H.nd' Fredericksburg wants It
named after that city-Two noted
cracksmen traced a thousand miles by a
letter which one of them dropped at Now;;
port News-The police. <;f Norfolk pro?
hibited from arresting sailors for purpose
of securing reward for deserters??Un?
usual number of ships loading coal at
Newport News-t-'lre In clothing store
In Petersburg does large damage,
North Carolina.
The Carnegie offer for a library ac?
cepted by Wlnston-Salem, N. C.?Cap?
tain Fowler assaulted by footpad at Salis?
bury and badly hurt; his assailant cap?
tured-New York capitalists to Unnico
new cotton mill at Marshall-Mr. Van
d?rbllt buys slxteon acres of ground to
be added to Blltmore at one thousand
dollars an acre?The deputy sheriff shot
by W. ji. Gaultier is dead, and Gaudier
will be brought buck from Atlanta to bo
I lied.
General.
Stock market so near idle that many
of tho, brokers leave town for the holi?
days?-Cotton bus another wild day .tini
prices go above thirteen cents to a. now
high record-Charles M. Schwab files his
answer to cross hill In sull for receiver
for shipbuilding company, nnd makes gen?
eral denial of any fraudulent act In con?
nection -with the promotion or financing
of! the company?Letters and cable?
grams, alleged to havo neon used In pro?
moting tho company In Franco, uro pub
iinned, and on Inquiry will be started as
how tho Information was given oui?
Europe, it Is said, will look with approval
on refusal on part of Ciilted Statua to
refer Isthmian question to The Hague ar?
bitration tribunal; It is supposed tnat
General rteyes lu his forthcoming noto
io tho Stato Department will suggest mich
a reference-Bogota government is suld
to b? determined to continua Bonding
iroops to tho Isthmus If the United States
refuses to come to an ngreement diploma.
tlcally-Russo-.Inpallosi* situation Is said
In bo graver I han ever as a result of
Japan ? having rejected fundamental
features of Russia's reply.
MORE VESSELS READY
TO SAIL FOR SOUTH
(By AwucUU'it Pre??.)
SAN FRANCISCO. CAI,., Dec. 22.-The
United States emisor Now York arrived
today frani Brqrnerton, Washington, it
was understood that sho viil at once
proceed to Panama, Tho commandant
of the Mare Island navy-yard, has been
ordered ?o draft 250 men from the re?
ceiving slip Independence and send them
hsre to join tho New York to-morrow.
Supplies for the cruiser will also be in
readiness. The torpedo boat destroyers
Fi'vblo und Paul Jones, huvo roceived
supplies of ammunition at Mare Island
and are expected hero to?marrow. In
leodlness to steam south with the Now
York.
GAIN IN NUMBER
OF HARVARD STUDENTS
(Special to Tho Tluioe-Plnpntcli.)
CAMBUJ DOB, MASH., Poe. yi-In the
Harvard catalogue, out to-duy, tho total
registration of students Is given ns -i.rtTB,
which, excluding summer school, now
clpsed, Is a not gain ot 117 over last
year,
Virginia sends twelve and West Vir?
ginia nine. Massachusetts leads natu?
rally, -wUh ?,??D,
REVOLUTION
THE BATTERY, PANAMA, DELIVERED TO SECESSIONISTS BY HUERTAS.
Revolutionists Were Confident
of Support From Government
of the United Slates.
PROMISE OF OUR WARSHIPS
Message From Buiiaii-Vanlla
Was the Occasion of Remov?
ing All Doubt of Failure.
By MEHRILL A. TEA?H7E.
(From a Staff Correspondent of The
Times-Dispatch.)
PANAMA. It. X'., December 12.?Pres?
ident Roosevelt lins assured tho Ameri?
can Congress that his administration was
not privy to the scheme to establish titt
independent republics on tho isthmus',
There is absoluto!y no evidence discov?
erable hero to controvert Unit statement
in tho slightest clegroc, yet It is an indis?
putable fact that, tho conspirators for
Independence at Panama believed implic?
itly, before they made a single open move
for Independence, that advance assurances
of support hud been given by the govern?
ment ut Washington. This belief is
llxod that those In tho conspiracy du not
hesitate to say that tho tir?t ????? would
never have been mado had It not been
that Washington liad fri von a promise of,
support. For this leading ?G the Pana
mainns into striking for Independence,
credit could lie given to M. Bunau-Va
rllla, as It was because of a cablegram
from him promising most certainly Amer?
ican support that the revolution was ac?
tually effected.
A cable from Bogota wns received at
Panama early on the :11st of October,
announcing tho adjournment, sine die. of
tin: special session of the Colombian Con?
gress an<l the definito failure of tho llay
Uerrnn treaty. This news was no sooner
reeelvetl than the conspirators, whose,
names have already been given In this
correspondence, gathered in tho parlor of
the residence of Dr. Amador. The crux
of tilo situation had been reached, and
It was the consensus of opinion that IE
the blow for a trans-Isthmian canal un?
der American ownership, and, Incidentally,
for Panamalan Independence, was to ho
dealt ?it a,l it should bo dealt at onci?.
The situation having been thoroughly
gone over, nil accounts having been cast
and a balance having been struck by the
conspirators to discover their exact status,
Dr. Amador penned u telegram to Mr,
?uliati-Varilla, and it was immediately
dispatched,
In this telegram it was .stateti that all
the plans were perfected, and that it'
Varilla could give ?my assuranco of Anior-,
lean support there would be no further
hesitation. As he linlslietl this cablegram
Dr. Amador remarked to his fellow con?
spirators;
"If tills mall (referring to Varilla) ran
move an American warship so as to piuco
It at tho Isthmus to nclp us, wo need
hesitate no longer."
From Hint moment lite whole plan
waited on the reply from Varilla; it was
received oil tho tlrst of November, al?
though tinteci the previous clay. As to Its
contents there are two versions, and since
Dr. Amador, who bus possession til' the
original, Is in the States, tho disputo as
lo Its contents cannot lie settled. Enough.
Is known, however, Hi Justify the asser?
tion thai It was this cablegram Iroin
(Continued on Sixth Pago.)
DISPENSARY WINS
OVER THE SALOONS
?,
A Wurm Elcclioi) in Firmvillc,
With Personal En?
counters.
(Special to Tho Tlnies-Dlspatch.)
FAHMV1LLE, VA., December 23,-The,
dispensary won in to-day's election over
the saloon by flfty-nino majority.
Throughout the entire day an unusually
large number of citizens congregated In
the courthouse yard, and heated discus?
sions, followed by a. few personal en
countors, furnished stilllclent excitement.
Tho election will go on record as one of
tho warmest and hardest fought In tho
history of tho town- The saloon men are
Inking their defeat calmly, having very
little to say,
Now that the. dispensary has won by
a handsome majority. It Is believed that
the Council will meet at an early day,
appoint n dispensary board und iruke
all necessary arruneonienls for the im?
mediato establishment of a dispensary.
Following Is Mm ofllclal vote: Totiil
number casi, fl?l; for dispensary, js7,
. against 1-5; thrown out, 9?
SUBMIT NEW
BOND PLAN
Report of Messrs. Anderson and
Pollock oil the Sub?
ject.
STAND FOR M'CARTHY IDEA
Recommend Adoption of Ordi?
nances Putting at Rest
the Question,
Messrs. Gilbert K. Pollock nnd Charles
J. Anderson, constituting a majority of
the subcommittee to whom tho bond is?
sue matter" was referred by tho Council,
and who have led such a powerful and
successful buttle for the principles?of the
McCarthy plan for settling tho debt, have
?prepared the following report on- tlur sub?
ject:
Richmond, Va., Dec. 21, 1903.
To tho Common Council:
Gentlemen.?Your committee, to whom
was referred tbe matters pending before
your body, relative to the proposed bond
Issue, respectfully beg leave to report:
That several meetings were, held and
the plans proposed considered carefully,
your committee spending hours In making
calculations and verifications. Your com?
mittee, os a result of such consideration,
believe that at this time the city, follow?
ing the lines luid down by Special Ac?
countant Carltori McCarthy, should adopt
some well defined general plan Tor hand?
ling the entire outstanding debt; for
recouping the sinking rund s? as to
begin discharging the. debt not later than
January 1, 1920. This your committee is
convinced Is wise for many reasons,
Tin?: city's hopk
The city's hope for great development;
nnd Improvement Is In being able to havo
large sums of money available initially
for Improving, beautifying and building a
great city. Site cannot hope to do this
troni her current revenues and must look
lorward to bond Issues, made possible by
the discharge from the sinking runtl of
the present debt as it falls due, being re?
quired to take from her current revenues
only such sum ?is will provide a? sinking
lund to meet such issues at. rnalurity.
If Ibis plan is adopted, after tho year Hill)
t?tere Will be un endless chain of largo
amounts available annually, and tho an?
nual : b?rden to carry out this plan, re?
leasing to the city hundreds of thousands
or dollars.annually, need never be greater
tliuii thai which the city is bearing to-d?y
or. account of Interest and redemption,
und has borne fur tho past decade.
? ORDINANCE SUGGUSTKD.
Your commi tteo reports Itere with an
ordinance marked "A" which provides the
general plan, and Is recommended for
your adoption.
Your committee, h?w?vor, feeling thai it
might' possibly bo the dosiro of tho body
not nt thin lime to adjust and settle ful?
fill time the whole debt question, but
simply to take caro of the debt falling
tlue January I, 1004; return herewith an
ordinance marked "H" which provides
only for a ttlkln? caro of the. maturities
m' January I. Util, without reference to
lattile maturities.
Respectfully submitted,
Signed: c,.. ?. pollard,
C. J. ANDERSON;
HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS
ALLEGED TO BE DUE
(By Associated Press.)
JACKSON, MISS.', Decomber 22.?Tho
Stato revenue, agent ims entered suits
against a large number of packing und
brewing companies which do business in
this Stato for back taxes on tholr re?
frigerator ears.
Among those sued are the Schlitz Hrnw
Ing Company, Anheiiset? Husch Brewing
Company, Stantiard Oil Company, Ainerl
can Cotton oil Company, Armoni? Packing
Company, Cutlahy Packing Company,
Swift Packing Company and a scoro of
other concerns, The agent asks, that
these concerns be made to pay tho taxes
on their cars used in this Slate for Hie
last ten years. Tho total amount of the
assessments on Which taxes arc alleged
lo bo duo |s two hundred und ninniceli
million dollars. y
ENDORSES ACTION
IN CANAL MATTER
(By Associated Press.)
ATLANTA, GA., Doc. 22,-A I a banquet
given Ulis evening by tho business men
of Atlanta to Brigadier General Barry,
In command of the Department Of the
Gulf, Gov. Joseph M. Terrell, of Georgia,
was also a guest of honor. In response
to the tonni, "Tho Stale," (???. Terrell
said, among other things; With many
tilings that President Rosevelt has tirine,
indeed with perhaps most of the nets
of hl?: administration, I differ, but there
?ir? lw0 "?lugs which 1 most heartily en?
dorse. I endorse the establishment of
tini Di partaient of tho Gulf and I most
heartily endorse , (lie recognition of the
independence of Panan|a, wiucii moans
the construction of an isthmian canal,
? iliin.i In which wo, as Southerners, tiro
most deeply alni most vitally Interested,
It. is mil and t'linnot bu made ? jinny
inalici',. We w'tnt Ilio canal and wo are
in a falr-wuy ?? g'?? II, and w>> ilo not
?O1. Ji now, il will be our ywa fault,"
MR. SCHWAB
FILES ms
Denies One and Every
Allegation of Fraud.
ACTED THROUGHOUT
IN GOOD FAITH.
Made No False'''Representations,
Nor Did lie .Promote '
Company.
BELIEVED IN FIGURES
PRESENTED TO HIM
Only After .His Return to United
States From Visit to Europe
Did He Learn Statements
in (he Prospectus
Were Inaccu?
rate. ?
(By Associated Press.)
N13W YORK, Dec; 22--Charles M,
.Schwab to-day filed his answer to tho
cross bill of the Unltad States Shipbuild?
ing Company and Jamos Smith, Jr.. Its
receiver, in tho Uniteti States Circuit
Court for tho Southern "District of New
York. The case is that of tho company
and Its receiver against the Now. York
Security and Trust Company and Mr.
Schwab."
After admitting certain of tho funda!
' mental facts, which hSvo heretofore been I
established, Mr. Schwab takes tip thor|
various allegations ari'd, charges of the
cross bill. ' He says: '?
"I deny that I aver.was or became ono
?G th'j promoters of tho Shipbuilding')
Company, or that I had a number of por-'
sons associated with mo uciitilred the cap?
ital stqojk of the Bethlehem Stop], Com?
pany, as averred in said cross bill.".
lSmphatlc. denial is made that he ever
conceived any scheme, of transferring
to the fi.lpbuildlng'^nji^nV the stock
oC-the- above fompaily t?? un o?cossIvc
rato or upon conditions! permitting bini
or bis associates tu'' cintro! the ?Ship?
building- Company.
Continuing, Mr. Schwab says:
"I dey? that, with any purpose of ac?
complishing such intent, and purposes,
otherwise, I or any associates nf '
mine represented to th? Shipbuilding
Company, that tho said shares of stock
were worth the sum of thirty million
dollars."
Mr Schwab denies that lie over mane
any false representations regarding the
Bethlehem Steel Company.
Is Innocent.
Mr. Schwab says the Shipbuilding Com?
pany Is not ontltled to enforce any al?
leged Indebtedness against him; l?o
avers that neither .he nor his associates
conspired with ilio "dummy directors of
tiics Shipbuilding Company" to have ln-:
sorted in tho mortgage to tho Security
und Trust Company and In tho charter
??" the Shipbuilding Company provisions
which would give him or them absolute
control of Ilio .Shipbuilding' and Steel
Companies, with tho power to so manip?
ulate tho. corporations as to causo de?
fault In the payment of Interest, thereby
ilefi ?aiding creditors, stockholders and
bondholders of the Shipbuilding Com?
pany.
? Mr. Sohwab says that ho nnd his nsso
clntos hud nothing to do with tho with?
holding by tho Bethlehem Company of
the dividend payments on tin? three hun?
dred thousand shares nf its stock owned
by tho Shipbuilding Company, for lb?
pin-pose of wrecking ilio latter concern.
The defendant continues:
"1 deny that 1 or tho Security and
(Continued on Second Page.)
WISHED JURORS
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Alan Convicted of Murder in Hie
First Degree lias no Grudge
Against the Jurors.
my Associated Press;)
NKYV VORK, Oee. 22.? Willi a verdict
that sends Frank JI.Burness, a self-con?
fessed minderer, to Ilio electric chair, a
Jury, before Judge Cruna this afternoon,
muled one nf the most sensational murder
trials heard in Brooklyn for mont lis.
Harness' fourth murder was committed
mi November 10th last, when ho, shot
Captain C-eorgo H, Tiiwnscud, of 'the
'Behoniior Chufles ?. Buckley, bocausn
tho latter would not pay him fft.30, Ihn
prlsonor alleged to ho duo him. Tills und
other killings were calmly described by
Burness to-day on Ilio witness stand and
Hit mui'iloror insisted that ho did the deed
with premeditation ut?! In a full realiza?
tion of tho consequences, The Jury
brought In ti verdict of murder in tho
llrst degree. Huriioss smiled broadly
When tho jury was being polled.
Judge Crane sa(d he would sentence Bur
iicss on Monday arid lie asked the judge
If ho would bo permitted to say some?
thing. On being given ilio privilege, ho
said: "There may bo till Idea on ilio minds
in' sumo of tho Jurors that I hold n. grudge
ngalnsl them for having found nie gtillly.
I wish lo say tljat 1 do not feel that way
In the slightest inni iliiiiKhingljv, all I
can fill' I" i vvllil1 I'a'in all a. merry Chrlst
liiiineHS. who is ulioiit forly-four years
of age, according tu his own statement,
was l?"'u In Butler. I'u. When aslteil
whin he I bonghi would bo I In? result of
his act. be coolly replied?. "I only seo imo
way mil of It." "What Is lliutY" "Why
ihe cliulr, o? course," lie {?aid,
SOME JOYS OF THE CHRIST/MAS 5EAS0N.
SITUATION
IS GRAVER
Japanese-Russian Controversy Is
No Nearer a Settle?
ment.
NO ULTIMATUM IS SENT
But, Fundamentar Points at Is?
sue Arc Rejected by the Japa?
nese?Ready for War.
(By. Associated Press.)
?????, Doc, 22.?It Is assorted in of?
ficial circles hero that the Japnneso reply
.td Russia ? rejects the fundamental points?,
at Issue, which arc understood to includo
u'?tu?rgtiarahlees'for'the preservation of
Chinese and Corean sovereignty while se?
curing their individual Interests.
The situation Is graver than since the
commencement of the negotiations, but Is
still susceptible to a pacific solution If
Russia will quickly reconsider lier reply.
The fact that Porfelgn Minister Komu'ra
called on Baron Do Rosen, the Russian
minister, instead of Baron Do Rosen call?
ing on Komttrn,' is explained by the fact
that the Baroli Is suffering from an ear
affection. But Uto'explanation has ob?
vious diplomatic 'significance and is in?
terpreted that Japan Is determined not;
to afford ? Russia possible' ground for
claiming Japaneso impetuosity us an ox- :
cusoV ..;. ?! \,,
Nomura's communication is not believed
officially; to bo necessarily tantamount to
an ultimatum, as rumored. War prepata
LoiiB? continue a pace. Tho transports
un? the warships can sail at live minutes'
ncllce,
Tho Japanese government proposes Im?
mediately to unclerttiko the completion
of tho Seoul Ptisan Railroad, under tho
direct supervision of Japan. Popular sen?
timent nnd tlte pros uro eagerly urging
the government to sot a limit to the "Rus?
sian tactics of agression and Insolent neg?
ligence,"
May Continue Negotiations.
(n? Associated Frees.)
PARIS, Decomber 22.?Continuation was
obtained from oillclal sources to-day of
tho reports that Foreign Secretary Lans
downo ami Foreign Minister Delcasso
have within the last row days mado
.strong representations at Tokio wllh tho
view to averting a crisis between Rus?
sia and Japan. Thero is reason to'believe
that these repr?sentations, coining at the
critical moment, when Japan's reply was
being handed to tho Russian minister,
Baron lie Rosen exercised a powerful re?
straining influence. Tills Is especially
true of Lord Utitsdowne owing tu Great
Britain being the ally of Japan.
Tho terms ?G Uto Japanese answer aro
not yet known hero but owing to the ac?
tion taken by Clrcut Britain and Prance
the officials here are coulldont that her
answer permit? of a continuance of tho
dlpjomntlo negotiations towards secur?
ing common grounds for an agreement.
Deny the Reports.
(By Associated Press.)
PARIS December 22.?Press dispatches
from Tokio adirili tlial tin? Japanese min?
isters abroad havo been Instructed to deny
tlte sensational reports regarding tho rela?
tions between Japan and Russia anil to
say that while Japan replied in Russin
yesterday her responso was not hi the
nature of an ultimatum: that. It ilenuincls
simply cnanges In some of tlte determinaci
points, and ilnnlly, that Russia Is ready
to continue tho exchange of diplomatic
views. It Is added that the Japanese now
give ovltlenco of a pacific tendency,
This Information accords with the view
prevailing in diplomatic circles here.
Tho Temps to-tlay published Uni foli, ? vy?
ing on authority: "Tho fears of a Busso
Japatieso conflict at. present are without
I foundation, ? is oven salti that an agree?
ment. Is about tu bo reached on the main
points at Issue, unti it is only a iiuestlon
of form, or moro correctly, of p?lelo,
which it) causing tho two powers to hes?
itate. But It Is desired uml hoped that a
compromiso satisfactory to both parties
will bo arranged."
- ? ? ?-_??_
THE CARNEGIE OFFER
HAS BEEN ACCEPTED
(Special to Tho Titnes-Disputch.).
AVNSTON-SALBM, N. ('., December '22.
The Winston iildeiniiii have accepted the
proposition of Andrew iiarnegln to give
tills city fifteen ihtnisanil dollars for tie?
?slnhllshincut of a public library.
Tito building will be located on Ilio
West Kntl graded school lot. Chairman
J. (J, Btixton, of the School Boatti, left
Ibis afternoon for New York to notify
Mr. Curneylu u? the city'a acceptance,
CONSPIRACY
TO MURDER
Family of Miss Gillespic Accused
of Encompassing Her
Death.
BROTHER AS PRINCIPAL
All, However', Arc Accused of
Murder in the First
Degree.
(By Associated Press.)
RISING SUN, IND., Uoc. 'J'J.-ln its
report of tho Investigation of tho assas?
sination of Miss Elizabeth Gillespic on:
Decomber 8th, tho grand jury Ho-duy
returned true bills of murder In the" first.;
degree against James Gillespic, a twin
brother of tlw murdered woman; Mrs,
Belle Seward, hor widowed sister; Mrs,
Carrie Barboni?, nleco of Dr. Thnd. A,
Roani}', an cmlnont physician of Cincin?
nati, and .Myron? Harbour, hor ?husband.
Mrs, Barbour is sistor-ln-inw of Dr, Wil?
liam Glllosple, brotlwr of tlio mtirdorod
woman.
Bench warrants wore Issued l'mmo
diutely by Judge Downey,- of the Circuit
Court. Tho Glllesplcs wero expecting tho
arrests, and Dr. Gillesplo dro'vo to tho
homo of tho accused In a closed carriage
and brought the Indicted persons to th?
courthouse, surrendering all of thom to
I tho court.
A newspaper photographer attempted to
tinto a snapshot of the party, and w.
struck by James Gillesplo, who broke
away from -Sheriff Rump and knocked
tho cameni from tho hands of tho pho?
tographer,
Tho four Indictments were road to tho
accused, A conspiracy among memtoars.
of tho mtirdorod woman's own family to
kill her Is charged. James Gillesplo, her
twin brother, is tho ono who is charged
as tho principal, although all are charged
with murder in tlm first degree. Bach
entered a plea of pot guilty.
Captain Coles, attorney for tho defen?
dants, presented petitions for writs of
hnlions corpus, on the ground that thorn
is not enough ovl'denco to Indict and that
their liberty wns withhold on a charge
of a. crime of which they wero innocent.
Judge Downey ordered tlw writs roturo.
able Immediately, and the petition was
thou lioiird. with arg innen Is.
ASKS DAMAGES FOR ALLEGED
MISREPRESENTATIONS
(By Associated Tress.)
KNOXVIDLK, TKNN., Dec. 32.-?-Men,
who were brought from Bt. Louis to
Coni Crook about tlfteon days ago to
work In the Coal Creek Coni Company'
>VU|K ?? ?'? ? Oil ? i.imi ..um , .yill|,il(l? :>
mines, hu.vo brought suit for damages
ti gal usi Ilio company und Manager George
M. Camp. Th?y allego that false repre?
sentations wore made to Induco thom to
conic to Coal Creek. Two of tho cases
bave been tried, and tho court returned
Ilio'verdict of jilo, costs and attorneys'
lees In ouch caso, Thu litoti sued for
COTTON GOES UP TO
NEW HIGH RECORD
Market Becomes Very Active
and Excited ou a Kusli of
Buying Orders.
(By Associated Bros?,;
NKW yOKK, Doe, 33.?-Tho cotton mar?
ket became very activo und excited this
afternoon on a rush of buying orders led
by New Oilcans. As prices worked up?
wind, there was activo covering, 'l'ho list
was forced up to now records for tho sea?
son with January selling at Ki.17, March
at 13.38, May at 13: 111 and July ut 13.50,
According to room gossip, the advance
was lurgjjly duo to reports that a tip was
In circulation in New Orleans, regarding
tho forthcoming Census Bureau report,
making it appear limi nlioiit i),000,000
bales of cotton had been ginned between
November Ulli and December ) Kb, with
the amount remaining to be ginned about
Hevea pur cent, of tua crop.
The market closed steady within a point
or two of th?? best of the session with
.?? nuary (piotod ut 13.31. March at Kl.lp.
May at 18.6?, and July u? 13.on. pelm; '?
net gain Of 15 to 53 points. The salcd
vui'o catlumUd. ul ii^V^ U^'
WEDDED, BUT
NOT WEDDED
Startling Discovery ' About Cou?
ples Married in Counties
Since December ist.
A NEW LAW IS RESPONSIBLE
Licenses Should Have Been:
Procured From Circuit In-?
stead of County Clerks. ?
Tho startling discovery was made year
lerday that, 'technically speaking', .'almost^
overy couple married , In .Virginia on
licenses Issued by the-.county clerks
Bitieo Documl.-er T'2th, ; aro not legally .
married, This!? 'd'ui{ to an oversight'hr'
.the General Assembly, ??1???1?^???.,?:?8?1???
it law vesting tho power hensiciforo^hcYltl1
by county clerks to Issue licenses, In the,
clerks of tho circuit courts, failed to
prescribe that tills, act shall bo In? force
from and after. February 1st, 10O4,- but
making the act In force from Its passage.'
As the bill was approved December 12th
by the Governor, It lias been a law and
In full force and effect since that date,
However, as the passage of .this mensuro
December I'-'tli repealed 'the ( old statuto
vesting authority to Issuo. licenses- In
county clerks, the acts of such clerks In
issuing licenses are, strictly speaking,
null and void.
Just as soon as the discovery bociimu
known, Senator Campbell, of 'Bedford; !
offered ? bill validating the acts of county
clerks In issuing marriage licenses -a flor
December i-'tll. This bill was 'Imme?
diately passed by tlte Senato and com?
municated to tho House, bat boforo It'
cuiild be acted on by that body a quorum
was broken. Unless tho retittlslto num?
ber of members can be gotten together
to-day tho law will contimi,? in effect
until tito Assembly reassembles after
tho recess, anil all marriages solemnized?!
by authority of licenses? Issued by county
clerks .since tho 12th will bu still Invalid.
Furthermore, from now on alt licenses
lo wed In tho counties must bo Issued
hy Ilio circuit clerks,
While It is hardly possible that's?ch?
il, case will arise, II. would be possiblo for
a man married since Decomber 12th tu
marry again without laying himself liable
to prosecution I'm? bigamy, for until the
fust marringo had been validated It
would bo of no effect, in lav,?. Any stnt
tttti passed thereafter would not make a
man liable for bigamy, for it would he
in tito nature of ; un e.v post facto Inw,
which Is specifically forbidden by the
Constitution, in fact, this would bo a
fino opportunity fur polygamists to Rot?
ili their work In' this State.
HANGED HIMSELF"
WITH HIS TOWEL
(By Associated Press.)
PHILADELPHIA. I'A.. Doc. 22.
Chatlea D. Foiisteiiiuchcr, aged furty-clght
years, who was yesterday convicted in
the,United States District Court of using
Urn uialls to defraud, to-day committed
Milk-idi by hanging himself with a towel
In a coll In the county prison.
Whc-n arrested, Fenstemacher was em?
ployed as ;i bookkeeper for a firm of com?
mission merchants, Postal Inspector Hol?
den Kiys. this criminal record extends
oy'Or n period uf thirty years.
Ills pieu was to mail lettor? to fanners
In various sections of tho country through
which he secured largo consignments, of
piotine.!. This he sohl, but failed to
make adiv?nate financial return to thu
fanners, During his trial, witnesses from
Ninth Carolina, Georgia', o?do ami New
York testified that they Intel been vie
limiseli by Fqnstemnohor. He was com
milted to the cQUIlty prison pending the
re: nit of an appeul for a now trial.
AGREES TO FINANCE
NEW COTTON MILL
(By Associated Press.)
AS1I10VILLD, N. C, December 2.'.-II.
II, Pottle, a banker and broker of New
Voile, has undertaken to nuance, the new
cotton mill >" l"' '"||U itl Mat-hall, for
which a charter was granted recently.
The mill I? <o be locateti on the French
llrutul River, will havo an wiulpment nt
Inn thousand spindle.?1, and a full comple?
ment of looms for tho inanui'Hi'turo of
sheetings. An Innovation will be the Im?
porting of working people from the
crowded tenements of New Volk city to
onerato the mill. Mr. l'ottle anticipait;*
?? tlllllciilty in inducing a sulllcieni ?uni
iH'l' of these people to |e.tv.< their environ.
nietils for a life uf comparative freedom
,ju Ih? mountains of Nuith Cajohuti,
