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KATUBDAY MARCH 1st, 1890.
fTlTHOOBAPHIC GROUP
nF THE OFFICERS OF THE
AFRO-AMERICAN
LEAGUE.
The Freeman, the only pictoral
colored newspaper pub’ ished. has just
iggued a lithographic group of the of
c.p.s of the Afro - American League,
ffhi h met in Chicago, 111., Jan. 15,
16 and 17, and wiU ^ the 8arae to
an or all officers of branch Leagues,
Jree of charge, if app’ication is made
for them. They will be sent also to
one who will inclose 8c in stamps
in a letter, to pay the postage. They
will be sent elegantly framed to any
address, on receipt of $1.00. Address
all letters to
the freeman,
EPWABO E. COOPER - Pabll»ta«r,
Indianapolis, Ind.
PERSONAL.
Messrs. T. S. Cooper. H. R. Dox,
R. M. Lowe, F. R, Davis and Cal
vin Jones called to see us last Sat
urday.
Hon. James Jackson the assista t
Hist Ati’y. has been in town this
week helping to select the Jurors for
the April term of court.
Prof. J. A. B. Lovette has been
elected 1st vice President of the Nat
ional Educational Association.
g Rev. J. F. Humphrey, is engaged
by the S\v;in Lake Lodge G. U. O.
of 0. F. of Decatur to preach the an
nual Sermon to-morrow.
Patents Received.
Cash patents were received at the
Huntsville Land Office last week as
follows:
No. 36483, II C North.
“ 37622, Genl. K. Davis. P. O.
Goldmine.
“ 37623, Jos. M. Pearce.
“ 37624, J as. W. Worthy.
u 37625, Thos. W, Harper.
“ 37626, Jos. Swau. Texas.
Mrs. Millie Rankins house in Dav
is Grove is uearing completion.
—The concert at Palmer Hall last
week under the management of Miss
Virginia Hall and Mr. Ham Brad
ford was quite a success.
The proceeds go to the A. M. E.
church
We learn it will be repeated soon.
—The Grand Rally at the M. E.
church under the able management
ofMrs. G. A. McDonald last Sab<
bath was quite a success.
The fund are are for repairiug the
church and we hope they will suc
ceed in raising the amount required.
They collected $27.50 last Sab
bath.
— The 1st Census District, of which
Hou. A. J. Ingle has been appointed
supervissor, is composed of the fol
lowing counties.
Dekalb. Blount, Walker, Fayette,
Marshall, Jackson, Morgan, Law
rence, 1 rauklin, Colbert, Lauder
dale, Limestone and Madisan.
— H our city Dads would macada
mize the drive leading down the
spring branch it would add a good
deal to the looks as well as comfort
°f our fair city.
The L. E. A. Society of the
11 ^ ^ D. church, will give a grand
conceit at thcr church on Thursday
Eight March 5th 1890 it promises to
e & grand and interesting enter
tainment. Every body invited.
Admission 10 cents.
—The members of 2nd, C. J*
church are making preperations for
repairing their church for the Gen
eral Assembly which convenes here
on 8th day of May.
s
The Weather.
fiJv' r r°1<l "aVC is upon us in a11 its
it 1 StniCk US lTesterday and although
litt, ‘' exPec'ted' it began to create no
Wore ^lrprise at its intensity as the day
^lie afternoon of yesterday
freest/ (llrom<ded as a raw, disa
■witli ti C an(1 not at all in keeping
fti? !?e,bran'i <” weathcr we enpec, in
In \ j°n °n the last day of February,
prevailed 6 °f the raw teraPeratnre that
Sunt t>i ? est?rdaythe street force under
°n thf. a e sotnc very effective work
traveled C™9sinSs of 80me of our much
thank it lorouSbfares, for which the
Ka of °nr people are due..
The Triple Murderer
Dies Game.
The Drop Falls at One p. m.
and the Culprit is Pro
nounced_Dead in
Seven Minutes.
Five Thousand Persons
Surround the Jail, while
Large Crowds Occupy
Positions of Vantage on
Housetops and Chim
neys.
Tickets of Admission to the
Execution were Sold
at$ 20 each.
HIS DYING STATEMENT.
Special to The Mercury.
Birmingham, Feb. 28.—Dick Hawes
was hanged in the jail yard here today,
for the murder of bis wife and two chil
dren in December 1888. From an early
hour in the morning crowds of curiosity
seekers gathered in the neighborhood of
the jail, and by noon fully five thousand
were present; a restless, surging, excited
mass. As the hour of execution drew
nigh, every housetop in the neighbor
hood swarmed with human beings, and
every chimney that commanded a view
of the jail yard, was black with the mor
bid crowd whose curiosity in seeing a
fellow-being strangled to death impelled
them to climb to dizzy heights and brave
the chilly elements.
CURIOSITY RUN WILD.
Seldom has the world witnessed such
an eager, clamoring, gaping multitude,
as surrounded the city jail to-day. Spec
ulation as to how the condemned would
meet his fate was the all-absorbing topic
of conversation. None pitied the man
who was so soon to expiate his crime on
the gallows, and it was noticeable that
the sympathy usually felt for condemned
criminals in their last moments was not
manifested on this occasion.
WITHIN THE PRISON.
Hawes spent his last night on earth in
prayer and reading the Bible until past
midnight. He then retired, and the
death watch knew that his last night of
weary watching and patient vigil was
fast drawing to a close.
During the morning the Sheriff was
besieged with applications from persons
who longed to witness the death struggles
of Dick Hawes, and numbers of tickets
of admission were sold as high as $20
each. The spiritual ^advisers of the con
demned, Dr. Purser, of the Baptist
church, and Dr. McCoy, of the Methodist
church, were untiring in their attentions
in offering spiritual consolation to the
man so soon to enter the valley of the
shadow.
THOUGHTS OF'SUIOIDE.
After breakfast when the prison bar
ber called to shave Hawes he offered
the barber $100 for the razor. The mod
est sum was refused, and the barber
shaved his prison patron for the last
time on earth. In conversation with the
barber he stated that he was ready to die
and would rather go to the grave than
spend ten years in the Pratt mines.
ON THE GALLOWS.
At 12:40 the procession started for the
scaffold. As it came in sight every head
was bared in token of the solemnity of
the occasion, and every neck was craned
to catch a glimpse of the man so soon to
be launched into eternity. Hawes was
neatly dressed in black diagonal cutaway
suit, in the lapel of the coat,
A BUTTON HOLE BOUQUET,
was daintily placed. He looked pale,
but resolute and had evidently nerved
himself to meet his doom bravely. He
ascended the steps of the gallows dis
playing the utmost resolution, and show
ing the nerve of a stoic. He was the
calmest and most collected man around
the fatal death trap.
HIS LAST WORDS.
When asked if he had anything to say,
he spoke in a voice, without a tremor
and said: “Don’t think that I die with a
lie on my lips; boys, let liquor and bad
women alone; I wish to say to the ‘Silent
Eye’ don’t misrepresent me, I have left a
written confession which is the truth in
1
every particular.”
THH DROP TO D8ATH.
When Hawes ceased speaking the pre
liminaries for the closing scene of the
blackest picture ever painted in the annals
of crime were speedily concluded. As
the clock tolled the hour of one, the trap
was sprung, and Dick Hawes hung sus
pended between the gallows rail above
and the ground beneath a limp and life
less mass. His neck was broken by the
fall.
A few convulsive twitchings of the
muscle* followed and all was over. The
murder of Mrs. Hawes and her children
had been avenged by the all powerful
and far reaching arm of the law. In sev
en minutes after the drop fell, the phy
sicians pronounced him dead. His death
was painless, and the excution was per
fect in every way. *
HIS WRITTEN CONFESSION.
In the written statement left by the ex
ecuted murderer, and which will be pub
lished in book form, and sold for the
benefit of his six-year-old son, Willie, he
states that his first trouble with his wife
was when he found her drunk, and un
faithful to him in his absence. He claims
to having paid John Wylie and Fannie
Bryant to dispose of his wife and Irene.
Both wife and child were made drunk on
Saturday night, and murdered, after
which they were carried to Lakeview, at
midnight and their bodies weighted with
irons and sunk in the center of the lake.
His eldest daughter, May, hearing the
matter talked over next day began to
make troublesome inquiries, when all
parties concluded to dispose of May also.
There is much clamoring among news
paper men in the city about the full text
of the confession, some of whom claim to
be in possession of it, and it is thought
that so many “confessions,” each pur
porting to be the original, will be pub
lished that the public will be misled, and
it is safe to say that none can be relied 1
on until the authorized version appears 1
in book or pamphlet form. This confes
sion is in the hands of Hawes’ attorney •
and has been duly sworn to and sealed,
signed and delivered before a notary pub
lic.
About a dozen or fifteen special corre
spondents representing newspapers in
other cities witnessed the execution.
These were admitted by ticket into the i
jail yard.
Central Ala. Accademy.
... i
Huntsville Feb, 27th, 1890.
Editor Gautte:
We are on the road of progress,
our able corps of teachers are doing
good work in the cause of education,'
and I hope that they may be long ,
spared to furnish good food for J
thought and to edify our boys and
girls, that they inturn may grow up j
to be useful men and women, for we i
are in great need of educated men '
and women who will give their time i
and talents tor the good ot the race
I fear our people do not take the in
terest in normal, College, academical
and industrial training that they
should, these are the places where our
future leaders and great men are now
in trainny for their future work and
on their stability depend the future
hope of the colored race.
Our able principal, Rev. A. W.
McKinney, is using every means to
give our boys and girls a Christian
education, and I hope that he will be
successfull.
The Hartzell Literary society
hold its meetings on each Friday
night.
On last Friday night the subject of
debate was “Resolved that woman
should have the right of saffrage,
the affirmative were J. A. K. Sholar,
Misses Mannie Dahn, Minnie Man
ning. and Pearl A. Binford. The
negative were ably represented by
J. C Sammons, A. G. Petty, C. E.
Newton and J. W. Lyles, but if I be
allowed to judge from the way the
young ladies hand ed their subject
they should have the right to vote.
This society is doing much good.
A Visitor.
The Recent Ratno.
The late deluge, and the damage re
sulting therefrom, will form news items
for several days to come. The rivers
everywhere are rising, and in some por
tions of the country the telegraph wires
are down, and news is difficult to obtain.
In the lowlands, on the banks of the
great watercourses, trouble is apprehend
ed on account of overflow and backwater.
Trains are delayed on many of the rail
roads on account of washouts, and other
mishaps incidental to the late heavy rain
storm. The west bound train on the M.
& C. road was over an hour behind the
schedule time yesterday but no cause
was assigned for the delay.
Preparing to Evacuate.
Mr. Harry Latham who lives near Ack
len’s Mill was in the city yesterday bor
rowing a skiff, which he succeeded in
doing, for the purpose of being ready to
get out of his house in case of a rise in
the Tennessee river and the consequent
flow of the back water.
Mr. Latham reported that things looked
squally in the neighborhood of Acklen’s
Mill.
The Reports From the Dam Dis
aster in Arizona.
Number of Lives Lost Now Es
timated at 150.
Survivors Unable to Identify Many of the
Dod!ea of the Victims—A Prescott Man
Says the Catastrophe Was Undoubtedly
Due to a Leak Which Had Been Per
ceptible for Some Time.
Prescott, Ariz., Feb. 28.—The lowest
estimate now put on the loss of life is 150
and the number will probably go above
that. The loss of property will be away
up in the millions. Many of the bodies
found are those of people unknown to
the survivors.
Professor Blake, of New Haven, was
not the engineer of the ruined Walnut
Grove dam. He says: “My connection
with the work ceased when it was let
out to the contractors and another en
gineer wfcs appointed.”
THE DAM LEAKED.
The Engineer Knew it. But no Effort Was
Made to Have it Repaired.
Chicago, Feb. 28.—E. B. Priest, of
of Prescott, Ariz., says the undoubted
reason for the breaking of the dam by
the Walnut Grove Storage company
across the Hassayyanipa river last Sat
urday, was the leak which had been
perceptible for some time in the mason
! ry. about fiftv feet from the bottom.
“Th's leak had been known to the en
gineer of the dam,” said Mr. Priest,
i “and yet he made no effort to have it
! repaired. I don't see how anyone else
could he held responsible. As to the
number of lives lost, meet certainly ex
ceed 100. There were scores of men ,
: working in tiie placer mines there of |
1 whom no one knew anything. They |
had no homes, and for all I know they i
had no names.
“These men could have been swept1
away and no one would have been the !
wiser. This is the time when the placer |
mines are being worked to their utmost;
capacity and the rush is the greatest, I
and so I will be much surprised should I
it be learned that anything under 100
men have been lost.”
VERY CLOSE CALL.
The Steamer La Champagne Runs Down
a Schooner.
New York, Feb. 28.—The steamer La
Champagne, which arrived Wednesday
from Havre, ran down the schooner
Belle Higgins off Shinnecock light at 5
o’clock Wednesday morning. A small
hole was made in the steamer's how. but
the water-tight bulkhead just prevented
the water from getting beyond the for- j
ward compartment.
Some of the passengers were awak
ened by the shock, and came on deck, i
but there was no alarm, and most of the
passengers did not know of the accident
until several hours afterward. The
schooner was lumber laden, and there
fore did not sink. Her crew were taken .
aboard and brought here. The schooner |
was anchored, and a tug has been sent
to tow her in.
There was no fog at the time of the
collision, but it was dark. The steamer .
saw a Hash light on the schooner, and i
took lier for a pilot which boat generally
signals incoming steamers about that lo
cality. The steamer therefore did not '
alter her course, as she would do in the
case of a regular sailing vessel. The
schooner kept on across the schooner's
bow, and the collision occurred.
The accident was almost precisely sim
ilar as to time, place and circumstances
to the one which resulted in the sinking
of the Oregon some years ago, when 600
passengers narrowly escaped.
RIVAL KANSAS TOWNS.
Lively Time in Gray County Over the Lo
cation of a Sugar Mill.
Wichita, Kan., Feb. 28.—Gray coun
ty, in the western part of the state, ft
greatly excited over a revival of the hos
tilities between Ingalls and Cimarron,
two rival towns. The trouble arose over
the location of a sugar mill, for which
$25,000 worth of county bonds had been
voted. It was to be located at Ingalls,
and Cimarron served an injunction.
When the case was to be tried Wednes
day morning C. T. Gregory, of Cimar
ron, appeared and was pounced upon by
a mob and forced to withdraw the suit.
He returned to Cimarron and a mob of
sixty armed men joined him. The party
at once returned to Ingalls and at once
began a search for Tom Bold and Billy
Allenworth, the two men who led the
crowd against Gregory.
The citizens of Ingalls rallied to pro
tect them, and a battle ensued. After
the firing ceased it was found that Alien
worth was fatally shot, while Bold, five
other Ingalls men, and four Cimarron
men were slightly wounded. The latter
party all returned home, but more blood
shed is feared.
Two Men Injured in a Collision.
Plainfield, N. J., Feb. 28.— A col
lision occurred here yesterday at 12:15
o’clock on the New Jersey Central rail
road which severely injured two of the
trainmen and blocked travel for over
seven hours. The wreck was caused by
two empty coal trams crashing together
near the Berckman street bridge during
the prevalence of a dense fog. Several
cars were smashed and both locomotives
badly damaged. Tbe injured men were
sent to their homes in Philadelphia.
An Exporting Trust.
New York, Feb. 28. —A number of
Newark manufacturers met in that city
Wednesday evening to consider the
feasibility of organizing an exporting
trust. It is proposed to form the trust
with a capital of $50,000,000, and it is to
be representative of each branch of
trade. This will include the entire coun
try. Its object will be to distribute such
American goods as can be advantage
ously exported. _
Getting Monotonons.
Martinsburg, W. Va.. Feb. 28.—
Three incendiary fires occurred here in
four days. W ednesday night the Schutt
tenement house was burned to the
ground, and the occupants narrowly es
caped. The Eagle hotel and a dwelling
house were the others burned. There
will be a lynching bee if the incendiary
» caught. ’___
Russell Harrison In Cuba.
Havana, Feb. 28.—Mr Russell Harri
son, son of President Harrison, arrived
Wednesday by ft as—t from Tampa,
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Office and Residence/305, Franklin St
HUNTSVILLE-ALABAMA
Office Hours: 9 to.11 a.m. and 3 to 6 p.m
Calls in town and country will be
promptly attended. Residence at
office. ,
HIGH ARM $25.00,
t Each Machine has a drop leal
I fancy cover, two large drawers
with nickel rings, and a full set
WBrj oi Auacnr.nems, equal to any am*
1 ger Machine sold from $40 tc
$60 by Canvassers. A trial in your home be
fore payment is asked. Buy direct of the Manu
facturers and save agents' profits besides getting
certificates of warrantee fo* five years. Send fix
testimonials to Co-»peraftlv* Sewing Maobtof
CO., 269 S. I Ith St, Phil adelphia, Pa. .
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
Land Office at Huntsville, Ala.
Februarj’ 24th, 1800.
Notic is hereby given that the following-named
heir, Marion McBay, as one of the heirs and for
the heirs. Felix liusenberry, Mary Edgemore,
Elizabeth Sulinger and William McBay, heirs of
Sarah A. Winkled deceased, has filed notice ofhis
intention to make final proof in support of his
claim, and that said proof will be made before
the Register and Receiver at Huntsville Alaba
ma on the.
7ib, day or April l&SO.
viz: Homestead Entry No. 13837, Sarah A. Wink
ler for the Southeast quarter of Southeast quar
ter Sec. 22 East half of Northeast quarter Sec. 27
and Southwest quarter of Northwest quarter
Sec. 26 sections 22, 27 and 26 Township 1 Range
3 East.
He names the following witnesses to prove hi*
continuous residence upon and cultivation of
said land, viz:
John R. Hardin, of Francisco Ala.
James F. Graham, “ “ “
James R. Counts “ “ “
John Brewer, “ “ “
Wm. C. WELLS,
3-U,6t, Register.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW
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