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C A ITldvTh TO Til If THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF v- THE CITY OF CAIRO OmciHEWSPAPER - or ALEXANDER COUNTY VOLUME XLI, No. 343. CAIRO, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 2, 1909. ESTABLISHED IN 18C8. DAVIS HEARING CONTINUED TO THIS MORNING Both Sides Will Try to Agree on Statement of Facts to the Governor WARDER PRESENTS CASE OF DAVIS FOR REINSTATEMENT Negro Woman From Chicago Makes Sensational Speecg Asking Deneen to Make Davis' Va cation Permanent-Had Nothing But Praise For Annie Pelly's Slayer and Denunciation For Davis Special to The Bulletin. . Springfield, III., De- 1. After .a conference lasting ail day and until nearly 11 o'clock tonight, both sides in the controversy over the petiton of Frank E. Davs, former sheriff of Alexander county, before Geovernor Deneen, for-reinstatement, asked for a continuance of the hearing until 10 o'elock .tomorrow morning, that they might be given an opportunity to agree, If possible, on a statement of facts to; be presented to the governor. The request was granted by the gov ernor and the hearing will be resum ed, at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. PROCEEDINGS OF THE CAY. Former state senator Walter War der, of Cairo, appeared as" the per sonal attorney of Sheriff Davis and he read Sheriff Davis' petiton, a pe ttion from the' business men of Cairo, affidavits and letters asking for the reinstatement of the sheriff on the ground that he had done all Gat he could to prevent the lynching. He also read ft petitioned signed oy 300 colored citizens of Cairo, asking that the sheriff be reinstated in office. Some of the letters were from the nas- tors of colored churches in Cairo. The I tenle'1 by fifty c the 1('a,'inK col petitions from business men and of-!0,'el mcn of Cair0 an1 at whlcn a" ficials wer signed by all the county Bigne,t a strons Protest 'to be present em! city officials, bankers and promi-i1 ,0 Governor Denee against the re nent business men. lawyers, a news- '"statement in offce of Sherff Davis, paper man and officials sent letters At this "'eeting it was stated that to the eovernor. I1 officers in Cairo and nearly every Thos Present. j 111311 in tlle cltv new forty-eight Sheriff Davis was accompanied by hours beforc James was lynched that flemitv sheriff Thomas A. Fuller. hc! wa to 1,e Iyncne.?. Hundreds of whom he took with him to guard Will Jam James when he took the negro from Cairo to avoid a lynching. There were also present on behalf of the sheriff, and made speeches, States Attorney Alexander Wilson of Alexan der county, Horace A. Hannou, T. A. Head (colored) and T. V. Warrick, (colored), all of Cairo, and .1. P. Nes bitt of Murphysboro, member of the state loard of equalization for the Twenty-fifth district. There were present to opose the reinstatement of Sheriff Davis, Attor ney A. M. Williams, (colored), of this city, and Mrs. Ida liarnett, wife of 1 ne Iart tnat sheriff Davis is a Ke F. L. Barnett. the colored assistant i nrb!icau an'1 that Coroner James M. State's attorney of Cook county. Mrs. McManus, who succeeds him in of Barnett spoke at some length, strong-, f!c('- is a I"nocrat, Influenced many 1v nrotptine acainst the reinstate. .f them to ask for the reinstatement ment ofSheriff Davis What Negro Woman Said. She said she had been annointed at a meeting of colored people of Chica- j go held in the Institution church 0f that city on Nov. 16. to Investigate the Cairo lynching with regard to , seeing what measures had been taken by Sheriff Davis to protect his pris oner.' At the meeting in Chicago George C. Hall was the chairman and W. G. Anderson the secretary. The I meeting adopted resolutions demand-, ing an Investigation or the lynching at Cairo. Mrs. Barnett stated that she had spent several days In Cairo making inquiries of both white and colored citizens and that she was convinced that Sheriff Davis utterly failed to provide protection for th two prison era. William James, colored, and i Henry Salzzner. white. She declared that his prisoners could have been protected, first, by the police; second. bv the citizens deputized as special deputy sheriffs; third, by state sol- diers of Cairo. ' Knew Mob Was Coming. Instead of calling on any of these 4t,,.o fr sheriff navis. she de- dared took James Into the country, accompanied by one deputy and arm- ed with one revolver a piece. He did not take the 2 o'clock train, she said. fey which, h could have gottea his prisoner away from tho woods where he had him, and when the mob made their appearance he made.no effort to defend his prisoner. LV.s. Harnett said the sheriff knew thirty hours be forehand that a mob was.-f'elng form ed to lynch James by a man . with u megaphone on the streets crying for the men to assemble and form trio mob.. She declared that James was an industrious negro, who had never been in trouble before; that there twas no evidence that he had ever known the murdered girl and that all the evidence against him was the tes timony of a dog who had been given a coat of James' and who followed the trail to where James was arreted. Mrs. Barnett said all the evidence that -. had found- in Cam - that Sheriff Davis had attempted to avert the lynching of James was merely hearsay, and to the effect that he had endeavored to throi'f oif the rope af ter it had been placed around the neck of James. There was noevidenco that he had sworn in additional dep uties. Had Meeting Here. She said she had attended a meet ing on Monday night, which was at- people at the railroad station knew that the sheriff had taken his prison er from the city an I were only wait ing to learn where in order to follow and lynch the prisoner, she was sur prised that the negroes of Cairo should have been made the tools of the sheriff and his sympathisers, as she declared they had been. Many negroes present at the meeting Mon day night had said they had written letters to the governor or signed the petition for Davis' reinstatement and were sorry that they had done so. Politics Mentioned. of Davis as they thought Davis would be easier with the colored people .than - 'McManns, This she declared to be a grave mistake. She presentc.l to the governor a list of names of 150 Prominent citizens of Cairo who had refU8ed ' t0 sl)?n the petition to re in state uavis. sne declared tnat ex amples must be made of the men who would allow such outrages to occur an1 citei1 th case of the sheriff of Vermillion county, Illinois, who fn ,n0!l f,red on the rnoR, "Hns one and wounding otheis and 'prevented a prisioner being taken from the Jail and lynched and who was endorsed by the community, as a case where the sheriff bad done his duty. In Mobile. Ala., this year, the sheriff had allowed a man to be taken from the Jail and lynched and hail been im peacneu ior so doing, an-i me su Preme covrt of the state had sustain- e,l tA mpeachment.. Prsnts Resolutions. Mrs. Bnrnett then fupresented the resolutions adopted at the meeting of tne Negro Ministers Alliance of Cairo, signed by eight colored ministers of that city, ncludng Presiding Elder McCracken andDuke, demanding of Oovenor Deneen that the suspension from office of Sheriff Davis be made permanent. She declared that T. C. Graves , a negro who had been Htrong ly la lavor ot the re-matatement of Davis, wag another Judas Iscarot and ' Benedict Arnold. In the matter of lynching of Salz ner, Mrs. Barnett said. Sheriff Davis had not made the least effort to pre vent the mob from entering the jail and taking ovt Salzner and hanging l:im. ' . Flit EUttZZLERS ARE SEHTEHCED FOUR OTHERS PLEATED GUILTY AND WILL BE TRIED LATER IN THE INDIANA FEDERAL COURT. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 1. Eight former employes of hanks indicted on charges of embezzlement with two other men charge with complicity in the embezzlement, we re arraigned in the federal court yesterday. Wm. and Noah ,Marker, charged with ' the embezzlement of $100,000 from the First National hank, of Tipton, plead ed not guilty and will be tried later. Oscar F. Cochrane, a former book keeper for the American National bank, of Indlnnnpolis, charged with embezzling $7,000, and Paul C. Gall charged-with complicity in the em bezzlement of $10,000 from the Cap! tal National bank, pleaded not guilty. The following pleaded guilty and were sentenced to five years at Fort Leavenworth prison: Max Emmerich, bookkeeper for tlie Capital National bank, Indianapois, embezzlement of $10,000. Harry C. Prinxler, complicity with Emmerich. 13. N. Detzner. teller of the First National bank, Fort Wayne, embezzle ment of $7,000. J. Jf. Pilllps, bookkeeper for the Tere Havte National bank, embezzle ment of $15,000. Frank N. Nicolal, assistant cashier of the City National bank, of Auburn, embezzlement of $0,000. The case of Norman Hamilton, a clerk for the ISndlana National bank, of Indianapolis, charged with the theft of $500, was taken under considera tion. PRIME STEERS GO UP.. Chicago. Dec-1. Prime steers to day ' reached- the highest price ever paid in tho open market In' Chicago. Nineteen steers, averaging 7,572 pounds bropght 99.50 per hundred weight; ten yearlings, weighing 1081 were sold at the same price. A sin gle head sold for 10 cents a pound. BENEFIT FOR SUFFERERS. Chicago, Dec. 1. At a benefit per formance given today by the theatric ai managers the sm of $0,74o was roised for the relief fund of the faml lies of Cherry mine victims. This swells the relief fund to about $80,000. CHOSE FOOT BALL CAPTAIN Madison. Dec. 1. James tDean, right end of this year's eleven, was today elected captain of the Unversity of Wisconsin football team for 1910. Providing for th Future More than 3,000 camphor trees hara been set out In Florida STRIKE TAKES on mm PROPORTIONS t PEOPLE IN IRON RANGE IN THE SUPERIOR COUNTRY ARE THREATENED BY FAMINE. i MANY INDUSTRIES ARE GLOSINC DOWN Over Twelve Thousand Men Already Out of Work Other Factories May Close Sx'e Tracks Are F"H of Cart Strike Breakers. St. Pau', Dec. 1. Every line of In dustry in tho Twin Cities, Duluth, Superior and alt cities of the north west dependent on the movement of supplies are seriously affected by the switchmen's strike. It Is estimated that upward of 12. 000 men are made Idle, and thousands of freight handlers and teamsters are losing timo as the result of the freight blockade in the terminal towns, whllo. the continuance of -tho strike will throw additional thousands out of work. Yards are filled wltli stalled Caught Again. freight trains. The railroad managers announced today that they are bringing switch men to St. Paul to take the places of the strikers. Hawley responded: "Lt them come, we will not object." The first business affected were wholesale and commission houses, which reported nothing moving. The Minneapolis flour mills closed tonight. It is estimated that 3,500 mill employes are Idle. The continua tion of the strike will throw out 1,500 nore employed by the cooperage al lied trades. In the stock yards 300 head of cat tle were received today; whee ,1,800 is the dally average., '; ; ., In the iron range country the small towns will soon face famine unless food is brought in. In Superior 300 men are laid off at the Great .North ern" machine shops. On the ore docks at Duluth. and Superior, ten thousan will soon be out of employment. St. Paul and Minneapolis are dis tributing points for Minnesota, north ern Wisconsin, northern Iowa, North and South Dakota, Montana and Idaho, but the most serious effect will be in Montana, where the copper mines and smelters are located. Unless the railroads can carry ore and coal to the smelters, operations will cease. The smelters' coke sup ply Is limitel. That all hopes of settlement are enlel was Indicate-.! by the departure tonight of Knapp and Neiil. Knapp said he could do nothing but offer bis services as mediator, and they wore not wanted. MEAT HANDLING SUFFERS. Portland, Dor. 1. The mot serlojs 1 result of the switchmen's strike thus far. U the interruption or the trana- portation of meat to Seattle nnd Ta coma. The meat companies are shli ping some fresh meats In express car attached to. the passenger trains. Th alternative Is to take care of thi Seattle trade by water from here. tThe Portland merchants have in; niense quantities of goods en route from the eastern markets for the holi day trade. COPPER MINES CLOSE. , Butte, ec. 1. The superintendent 6' the Amalgamated Copper coinrau announces that the smelters at Grea' Falls close tonight as no ore can be hauled from the mines of the Boston and Montana company hero on ac count of tho switchmen's strike When these mines close five thousand men will be affected'. CAR SHOPS CLOSE. V Spokane,' ec. 1. Freight traffic has almost ceased on the Northern Pacific anl Great Northern. Eighty of the Northern Pacific switchmen and 45 of the 200' Great Northern men quit A shortage of fuel Is threatened. Tho Great 'Northern car shops and repair works at Ilillyard closed today throwing five hundred men out of em ployment., "Shortages- of material" it the explanation given, INCREASE OFFERED. Seattle, Dec. 1. (In the Northert Pacific fand Great Northern bulletl boards ii notice of nn increase of tw cents per hour to switch-iion':) wager are posted, but none returned to work The Chicago, Milwaukee and "-'ugc' Sound railroad Is unaffected, and I' handling all kinds of freight. A' most large cities of the Pacific norti" west are reached by other roads be sides tho awo whose switchmen urr out, it seems unlikely that they will suffer seriously. THE PUBLIC KM According to Treasury Report Yes terday i $1,295,718,757 Internal Revenue Increased. Washington, Dec. 1. The public debt, exclusive of certificates and treasury notes of $1,295, 718, 757, of which the net increase is $571,325; an actual working balance in the treasury i officea,;,pf, $27,059108; a to- taftrnrr;1i ciusive or. iv jrerervp ana irww ivnq of $81.'935.125.' a decrease of $7,1f.7r 953; this summarizes today's treasury report. ' ' ' -. . - The Internal revenue receipts re corded were $24,109,191, an increase of $2,118,91!: for Novemher. which makes a total of $113,892,527 for the five months since the fiscal year be gan, an Increase of $5,921,073. Tho customs receipts for November reached $25,C37,429. For the five months of this fiscal year, the cus toms receipts run $27,148,733 ahead of the corresponding period last year. RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT. New York Dec. 1. I-ewis It. Speare of Boston, was re-elected president of the American Associat'on today. Among the directors selected were William S. White, of Sioux City; J. W. Watzek, of Davenport and II. B. Allfree, of Newton, la. HARRIMAN'S ESTATE. New Yo"k Dec. 1, Harriman's es tate Is valued at $l49,000,OO0 accord ine to the annralsers" estimate which 'is completed, but not yet made puh-ilic. (N0X GIVES ZELAYA BITTER SCORING IH LETTER TO HlS AGENT AT WASHINGTON, D. C. Diplomatic Relations With Present Governmont of Nicaragua Severed Knox Leller Bears Approval ol President Tal Reparation for Torture and Execution ol Groce and Cannon Will be Exacted -U. S. Sympathizes With Revolutionists Washington, Doe. 1 Felipe Rodrl- ,uez charge( d'affaires at the Nlca aguan legation, tonight tendered his assports by Secretary of State Knox, hereby severing the diplomatic rein ions of the two countries. Knox in ortned Rodriguez by note that the Jnited States would hold personally responsible tho men responsible for he torture and execution of, Groce and Cannon, recently killed In Nlca- ragua Knox also Informed RodrJguW that Nicaragua would bo held to the observance of the principles of the Washington conference of South American republics, In the interest of general peace and harmony. The letter which Is definitely de clared to represent the views of President Tnft, Is as plain-spoken a 3 anything emanating from the state department In many years. Its 'ex traordinary feature Is its evidence of the Intention to hold Zelaya person ally responsible for the alleged tor Uire and execution of Camion and Groce, exhibiting the unique situation f ono government holding tho chief executive of another practically as a ommon malefactor. 1 Zelaya Is branded us a violator of the Internu ional conventions, a disturber of na tional and international peace, and tyrant whose administration . has Ven blot tipon,tb nmo l good government. . Knox virtually announces recogni tion of the revolutionists, and, add 'hat all parties will be, held account ahlo for the actions affecting the in terests of Americans and the peaco of Central America. This brings the crisis as near n status of war as could be by execu tive action without a definite declara tion by congress, which will convene Monday. The Knox letter makes it plaia In all but so many words that his action represents the wish of all the Central American states excepting Honduras, which Is regarded hro as dominated by Zelaya, Mexico all along has shown sympathy with the United States. The status of the consular represen tatives of the United States In Nica ragua was not. definitely explained lo niglit, but. it Is expected that they will be given passports tomorrow. Following Is Knox's lcter. Department of State, Washington, D. C, Dec. I. Sir: Since the Washington conven tions of 1907 it Is notorious that President Zelaya has almost continu ously kept Central America In tension or turmoil, that he has repeatedly n;nlu,,, stat(8 wouW b)f , flagrantly violated the conventions! ,0Sfl th(? llint)cptlt and ny a baleful inMuence upon Hon duros, whose neutrality the Conven tions were to assure, has sought to discredit those sacred International obligations to tho great detriment of Costa Rica, Salvador and Guatemala, whose governments meanwhile, it ap pears, have been able to patiently strive for the loyal support of en- gflBfinents, o solemnly undertaken at aafMngton.' untler' the ad&plces of the Dnited 8iatc and .Mexfeo.v '; ;?' ' "' It is equally a matter of common 'timB r(SV,ntf.,) tothave pVeceded the knowledge that under the regime of 'pactions. If these be verified; and Zelaya, reiwblican institution ceased tf)t, tlUp8t)n f whither the govern to exist In Nicaragua, except In Jmnt be pno enfirPy disassociate! name; that public opinion and the ' fro;JJ thf, present intolerable condl press have been throttled; that prison ,)ons aru, worthy t0 be trusted to has been the reward of any tendency mkf, impossible the recurrence of to real patriotism. My consideration sufh nrts ,n which case the present, for you impels me to Bbstain from tin- a frjn, 0f your country, as of the necessary discussion of the painful pther r(.puhiics of Central America, details of a regime which unfortunate- migbl ,)0 .jp,, t have the In ly has been a blot upon the history ,1(jIlinlty confined to what la reason of Nlcaraguc and a discouragement Mv ,,ue the rf.iatiVC8 ef deceased and to fne group of republics whose as- (mnltivp only so far as the punish piratlons need only the opportunity , m,nt mlght f;t whcre (t lg reau, of a free and honest government. I , In view of the Interests of the United States and its relation to the w temporarily withhold the Washington conventions, an appeal (1,,n)nnil for reparation, meanwhile against this situation has long slnee takng gnch steps as It deems wls been made to this government by aand prop t protect American Inter majority of the Central American ts- To jnR)re Mnn protection to publics. There Is now added an ap- ,PKiUniat(1 American interests, in peal, through the revolution, of a cwnsjJoratlon of the Interests of th great body of the Nicaraguan people. ,najorUy of the Central American re Two Americans who. this government ,,ublir,f a(! )n the hope of maklnt Is now convinced, were officers con- lwre fftwe the friendly offices e nected with the revolutionary force untler tne Washington conven- and therefore to be dealt with rmnt. Ing to the enlightened practices ot the! Concluded on Flfta Pa-) civilized nntions, have been killed K ine uireci order or zeiaya. Their ex ecution Is said to have been preceded by barbarous cruelties. The con sulate at Managua Is now officially to have been menaced. There Is lh a sinister culmination of the adminis tration which Is also characterized by a cruelty to its own citizens whirl) hast until tha rtwont mitt-acm fmtn.t vcnt ,n a caBe , th3 coun, , lmmnnton of lcMy ann0yances and ,njignttiP8 whh.h nmny monfns aR0 , lt ,,mmRa,,a , Bu 4r. can minister to longer reside, at Managua. From every point of view lt has become difficult for the United States to further delay a more active response to the appeals so long mads to do Its duty to Its citizens, to its dignity, to Central America and t-j civilization. The government vt the United States is convinced that tho revolu tlou represents the Ideals and will of the majority of the Nicaraguan pcoplo more faithfully than doea the government., of President Zelaya, and that its peaceful control Is well nigh as extensive as that hitherto so stern ly attempted by the government at Managua, There Is now the added fact, aa of ficially reported from more than one irW,: that ' there" Is' "an indication of a rising in the western provinces in favor of the presidential candidate who was Intimately associated with the old regime. Thus new elements arc tending toward the conditions of anarchy which leaves no definite re sponsible source to which the United States could look to f(7f reparation' for tho killing or Cannon and Groca or for the protection which must be assured American citizens and Ameri can Interests In Nicaragua. In llu'Ke circumstances the presi dent no longer feels for the govern ment cf i!c la; a that respect and con fidence which will make Is appropri ate hereafter to Maintain' with It regular diplomatic relations. Implying the will and ability to respect and ahsuro what la due from on state to nnothc.-. The govcrnmrnt of Nlcarague H lifivlty liotir.ed, as will be also the hader.- of the revolution, that the l iiittt! Etalts will hold strictly ac roiMituMo lor the protection of Ameri can lire and property the factions De Facto in rmtnd in the eastern and western portions (it Nicaragua. As for the reparation found due. after a careful consideration, for thf killing of Groce an.) Cannon, the loath to Im . ..i pose upon tne innocent peopie oi Nicaragua too heavy a burden of ex piating the acts of the regime forced upon them, or to exact the policies and Imposition of such a burden. Into the question of ultimate reparation there must enter the question of tha existence at Managua of a goveren ment capable of responding to the de mands. There must enter also the I . ,nm i. nnssihlH ! ,0 're thwM actually responsible r,,, : ;.' " -.hn"Jnitrated the tor due. i In mirsuance of this the United