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THE STARKVILLE NEWS.
VOLUME I.
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Germany and Italy Cause Another
Hitch in Settlement of Vene
zuelan Trouble.
BOWEN WILL NOT SI6N THEIR PROTOCOLS
Me Object* to Their Demands on
Principle, uu<l Ha* Informed Ger
man and Italian MinlMtern that
Their Demand* Must Me Modified
llefore They Will Be Considered.
Washington, Feb. 10, —Although Mr.
Bowen and the other negotiators are
closely guarding the provisions of the
several protocols, it is understood
that the demands which are known
to exist in German and Italian agree
ments, as they are at present drafted,
which Mr. Bowen can not agree to
concede, arc an increased payment by
Venezuela prior to the handing down
of The Hague’s decision regarding
the allies' contention for preferential
consideration in the settlement of
their claims. It is reported that Ger
many asks that she receive, in addi
tion to the $27,500 cash that Mr.
Bowen lias agreed to pay, a certain
percentage of the customs receipts
until the remainder of the $40,000 de
manded in the original ultimatum ad
dressed by Germany to President Cas
tro last autumn, is paid.
Italy, it is believed, is insisting on
a similar demand, though the amount
asked for in her ultimatum was more
than $500,000. Both Germany and
Italy suggest that this money be paid
in monthly installments out of the
customs duties, but even under this
arrangement it would require eight
months for the payment of the entire
sum.
Mr. Bowen Is Firm.
It is the principle, however, to
which Mr. Bowen so strenuously ob
jects and which he has informed the
German and Italian envoys he can
not subscribe to. Until their pro
tocols are relieved of these objection
able demands, Mr. Bowen says they
must remain unsigned. He contends
that Germany and Italy arc insisting
on preferential treatment, a question
which they agree in the protocols
shall go to The Hague.
it is the firm opinion of both the
Italian ambassador and the German
minister that the insertion in their
protocols of these demands is the re
sult of a serious misunderstanding on
the part of their foreign offices of
certain phases of the negotiations
which were supposed to be settled.
They are using every efT* rt to have
this misunderstanding cleared up. and
have informed Mr. Bowen that they
hope to submit their conclusions to
him in a few days.
Will Not Sin Protocols.
Mr. Bowen has made it plain to the
allies’ representatives that he is will
ing to consider any reasonable re
■quests they may advance, but that he
will not yield to the extent of sign
ing the present German and Italian
protocols.
Published reports that Germany in
cluded in her protocol a demand for
an apology from President Castro or
his resignation, is news to Mr. Bowen,
and of course would not be consid
ered.
A SINGULAR ACCIDENT.
Itnilroad Car Rohm Thronh a Sta
tion and Kills Little Girl Stand
ins Beside Her Parents.
Davenport, la., Feb. 10. —F. H. Croft
and wife were seriously injured and
their five-year-old daughter was killed
in a peculiar accident at Buffalo, la.,
ten miles south of here, at noon Mon
day. Asa west-bound Rock Island
freight, drawn by two locomotives,
was passing the station, the second
engine and several cars jumped the
track and a loaded car plunged
through the station, in which Croft
and his wife and child were standing.
Attempted Murder and Snleide.
Duluth, Minn., Feb. 10.—Walter
Tripp, 24 years old, attempted to kill
his former sweetheart, Nellie Tanner,
aged 20, and then committed suicide,
Sunday night. The woman was se
riously wounded but will recover.
Another Strike in Barcelona.
Barcelona, Feb. 10. —The Workman’s
association here have decided to
commence a strike within the next
Jftw days.
STARKVILLE, MISS., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1903,
PARDON OF COLE YOUNGER.
The Ternw l'nder Which Thomas Cole
man Younger Was Granted
Pardon in Minnesota*
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Minneapolis, fMinn., Fob. 5. — I nom
as Coleman Younger has been par
doiietl. 'The state board of pardons
held a long’ meeting 1 Wednesday tore
noon, at the conclusion of which a
statement was prepared for publica
tion. Aside from facts given in the
statinent, the members of the b*aard
have little to say about the action
taken. Following is the statement in
full:
“In the matter of the petition of
Thomas Coleman Younger for an ab
solute or conditional pardon, as the
board may deem proper, having care
fully considered this matter, with due
appreciation of its importance to the
public and to the petitioner, we have
reached the conclusion that his con
duct for twenty-five years in prison
and his subsequent conduct as a
paroled prisoner justify the belief
that, if his request to be permitted
to return to his friends and kindred
be granted, he will live and remain
at liberty without any violation of
law. We are, however, of the opinion
that his absolute pardon would not be
compatible with the welfare of this
state, the scene of his crime, for the
reason that his presence therein, if
freed from conditions of his parole,
woidd create a morbid and demoral
izing interest in him and his crime.
Therefore, it is ordered that a pardon
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be granted to Thos. Coleman Younger,
upon the conditions precedent and
subsequent that he return .without
unnecessary delay to his friends an 1
kindred, whence he came, and that
he never voluntarily come back to tl’-e
state of Minnesota. And, upon the
further condition that he tile with
the governor of the state of Minneso
ta his written promise that he will
never exhibit himself or allow him
self to be exhibited as an actor or
participant in any public perform
ance. museum, circus, theater, opera
house or any other place of public
amusement or assembly, where a
charge is made for admission; pro
vided, that this shall not exclude him
from attending any such public per
formance or place of amusement. If
he violates any of the conditions of
the pardon it shall be absolutely void.
[Signed. |
“S. 1L VANSAXT, Governor.
“CHARLES M. HART,
“Chief Justice Supreme Court.
“WALLACE 1), DOUGLASS,
“Attorney General.”
Shortly after the announcement of
his pardon Younger appeared at the
capitol building, where he took the
first opportunity available to thank
the members of the board. He said:
“I feel all right, and when I leave,
Minnesota I leave as many friends
behind as I will find in Missouri. I
am going to Stillwater to see Warden
Wolfer. I will go to Kansas City
some time next week. I was raised in
that county and I will reside there.
1 feel very grateful for my pardon,
to the beard which granted it, and
also fully appreciate the efforts of all
my friends in my behalf. My life has
been sYieh as few* men have experi
enced. I have learned much by drink
ing deep the dregs of the cup of life.
Experience has taught me to live as
becomes a respectable citizen. My
future course will be that of which
no man might be ashamed. 1 will not
come back to Minneapolis if the con
ditions are against my coming, but,
nevertheless, I will always remember
the people of this state. 1 owe much
to Minnesota.” •
H e says he has no definite plans for
the future, and does not know what
he will do. Late to-day Senator Wil
son, of Minneapolis, received a tele
gram from W. C. Bronaugh, of Kan
sas City, asking what time Cole
Younger would reach there, as. his
friends had planned to give him a re
ception.
Word of the pardon was good news
to several members of legisla
ture, who have in the past years in
terested themselves in behalf of the
brothers.
Gen. George P. Wilson, who worked
so hard for the pardon bill four years
ago, expressed his unqualified pleas
ure to see the incident closed.
P. C. Deming, author of the parole
bill, passed two years ago, under
which the two brothers were re
leased from Stilwater, also ex
pressed his pleasure.
It is intimated here that friends of
Younger, in Missouri, have offered to
supply him with funds to start in the
stock-raising business, which, in view
of the conditions of the pardon, It la
not unlikely that he may conclude to
accept. He is, however, averse to be
ing made a hero of on his return To
Missouri, and has so written to his
friends there.
E. J. ARNOLD & COTSUSPEND.
Operator* of Turf Investment Com
pany t lo.se Bum! ness Pending
Lea I sin ti vc In vest! Kilt ion.
Sf. Louis, Feb. 10.—K. J, Arnold &
Cos., a linn operating r.s a turf-invest
ment company in this city, owning a
racing stable, a breeding farm and
making books on race tracks, an
nounced Monday that, pending inves
tigation of its books by the special
committee appointed for the purpose
by the Missouri legislature, payment
of its stock certificates would be sus
pended.
This means that stockholders in the
firm can not withdraw the money in
vested until the company announces
resumption of business on the old
basis.
L. A. Gill, manager of the firm,
said that the suspension of payment
of stock certificates was due entirely
to the fact that the company desired
to have its books ready when the
legislative committee called to ex
amine them.
MUST ABANDON M. GIRON.
Father of Former Crown Prince**
Louise Will Foprlvc Her on Com
pliance with Condition*.
Munich, Bavaria, Feb. 10. —The fa
ther of the former Crown Princess
Louise of Saxony, the Grand Duke
Ferdinand IV., of the non-reigning
house of Tuscany, is willing to be
come reconciled to her. it is said here,
on the following conditions: Abso
lute separation from Giron; the grand
duke of Tuscany to fix her place of
residence anil select her entourage.
The Ohio Five Mile* Wide.
Evansville, Iml., Feb. 10.—Steam
boats arriving here Monday night re
port considerable loss above and be
low the city from the high Water. In
•‘Cypress bottoms,” ten miles below
this city, many families were forced
to move to the hills, as the water is
irt their houses. The river between
this city and Paducah in many places
is five miles wide. The gunge here at
six o’clock Monday night registered
39.2. It is thought the crest of the
wave wall not reach here before
Wednesday morning.
A .Sister's* Trrgle Death-
Oskaioosa. Kas.. • lei). 10.—A1 Pat
rick. one of the first editors of the
Louisville Courier-Journal, is dead
here, aged SO years. Mr. Patrick was
a forty-niner, having made the first
rush to California. He had published
papers at Oskaioosa and Valley Falls,
Kas.
Patrick’s death was smkh'n. When
his sister, Mrs. S. Cooper, went to her
brother's house and looked a moment
at the body she fell to the floor para
lyzed one one hide and unconscious.
She died within a few hours.
New Railroad Chartered.
Jefferson City, Mo., Feb. 10. —Secre-
tary of State Cook on Monday issued
a charter to the Central Missouri
Railroad Cos., of Brookfield, with a
capital of $4,000,000. The road is to
extend from Brookfield to Glasgow*
and thence to St. Louis, a distance of
194 miles. Col. W. H. Chase, of New
York, is the principal financier of the
road. George B. Harrison, of Glas
gow, is president of the company. The
line is to be an electric line and is to
be completed in time for the World’s
fair.
Rudolph in Arkansas.
St. Louis, Feb. 10. — Dispatches from
Randolph county. Ark., say that a
jxxsse of 25 men has been organized to
hunt four men, two of whom answer
the description of Rudolph and Lewis,
the Union ((Mo.) bank robbers and
murderers. The men commenced
their search in the Black river bot
toms, about three miles from Poca
hontas. The posse is undtr the lead
ership of Sheriff W. R. Russell of Ran
dolph county, M. M. Carouthers, mar
shal, and W. A. Ames, deputy marshal
of Pocahontas.
Injunction Order Affirmed.
Chicago, Feb. 10. —An injunction or
der issued by Judge Tuley a year ago,
restraining the Chicago Telephona
Cos. from charging more than the
franchise rate for the use of tele
phones, was affirmeed by the appel
late Kourt Monday.
THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE.
Dedication of the World** Fair to
Occur on the Centennial of the
SiKniiiK of the Treaty.
St. Louis, Feb. 9. —April 30 next will
be the one hundredth anniversary of
the signing of the Louisiana treaty.
The event will be celebrated by the
dedication of the Louisiana Purchase
exposition’s buildings and grounds
and by other exercises extending over
three days. The dedication ceremony
will be performed by Theodore Roose
velt, president of the United States.
The principal address will be deliv
ered by his only predecessor still liv
ing, ex-President Grover Cleveland.
The presiding officer wall be Hon. Da
vid R. Francis, president of the ex
position. He will tender the build
ings and ground to Hon. Thomas H.
Carter, president of the national com
mission. who will then turn them over
to the president of the United States.
Three big dignitaries of the church —
Cardinal Gibbons and Bishops Hen
drix and Potter —will officiate in the
religions portion of the exercises, and
the chorus will consist of voices
from the Choral Symphony society,
the Saengerfest chorus, the Morning
Choral club, the Apollo club and Mrs.
.lames L, Hlair’s choral classes.
The exercises will be attended not
only by President Roosevelt, but also
by the members of his cabinet; the
foreign ambassadors and ministers at
Washington, I). (’., and the entire dip
lomatic corps; by the chief justice and
associate justices of the United
States supreme court; by the mem
bers of both branches of congress;
by a number of the highest officers of
the American army and navy; by the
governors ? of many states and terri
tories. including those comprising the
Louisiana purchase; by the members
of the World’s Fair commissions of
the different states and territories;
and by many other persons of dis
tinction. The# dedication exercises
will be held in the afternoon of April
30. In the forenoon * will be t
military parade, with Maj.-Gen. Cor
bin as grand marshal. The proces
sion will have several thousand sol
diers from the regular army and a
still larger number from the state
troop’s.
It is expected that there will bo
fully 300,000 people on the grounds
that day. In the evening a display
of fireworks will be given, which
promises to be grander than anything
of the kind ever heretofore attempt
ed. The second and third days of the
celebration will be devoted to the re
ception ‘of distinguished foreign
guests, governors of states, state com
missioners, ete. Another grand dis
play of fireworks will be given on the
evening of Friday, May 1 # and on the
afternoon of that day, as also on the
following day, Saturday. May 2. there
will be an exhibition of day fireworks.
IMPORTANT ORGANIZATION.
Information Service Organized In St.
Louitt to Provide Accommoda
tions for Visitor*.
St. Louis, Feb. 10.—The Business
Men’s league of St. Louis has organ
ized an information service under the
direction of Mr. J. S. Higgins, former
supervisor of the census, to corre
spond with people desiring board and
lodging in the city during dedication
week or at any time during the
World’s fair. This information bu
reau is now' in operation, ready to
take care of any who wish to come to
the city, and see that they* get the
kind of accommodations they want,
without any publicity whatever and
at prices named in written contracts
made by the hotel and boarding
house keepers, with the Business
Men’s league. The secretary of the
league, Mr. W. F. Saunders, says a
thorough canvass of theVity shows
that 150,000 transient visitors can be
comfortably provided for without
overcharge during the dedication ex
ercises of April 30 May 1 and £
next, and that the facilities to be add
ed will enable the information bu
reau to provide ample accommoda
tions for at least 250,000 visitors dur
ing the exposition.
Sentenced to Life Imprisonment.
New York, Feb. 10. —William Hoop
er Y T oung, on trial for the murder of
Mrs. Anna Pulitzer, pleaded guilty to
murder in the second degree and was
sentenced to life imprisonment.
Call t National Banks.
Washington, Feb. 10.—The comp
troller of the currency this morning
issued a call for the condition of na
tional banka at the close cf business
February 6.
NUMBER 50.
EFFORT TO COVER UP CRIME.
Dynamite Kcsorted to In Order to ComUv
a Daatardly Doable Murder
and Robbrf
Johnstown, Pa., Feb. 10.—A dastard
ly attempt to hide robbery and mur
der resulting in the wrecking by
dynamite of an Italian boarding house
at Portage, this county, early Monday
morning. Two persons are dead, two
injured and a score others had mirac
ulous escapes from death r when the
explosive let go. The dead are:
Tony (irillo, aged 44.
Mrs. Tony Grille, aged 41.
„ Ralph Tellilido and George Desttavo
were seriously injured.
The scene of the affair was an Ital
ian boarding house occupied by Gril
le, his wife, three-daughters and about
twenty-five boarders.
When the explosion occurred the in
mates were furled in all directions,
but the most of them escaped serious
injury.
The bodies of Grille and his wife
i were found buried beneath the ruins
of the buikliug, which, was demol
ished.
The boarders are all employed
about the railroad at Portage. They
had no occasion to use dynamite and
none of the explosive was known to
be in the house, yet persons familiar
with its use say that at least twenty
five pounds must have been put off
under the room where tlrillo and his
three little girls slept.
It was stated that Grille had be
tween s‘>oo and S7OO and his wife S2OO
more in the house, but none of the
money has yet been found, and the
theory is that it was stolen by some
one who killed the couple and then
exploded the dynamite to cover the
crime.
The coroner’s examination dis
closed the fact that Grillo’s head was
crushed as if by some heavy instru
ment, and his ribs also were crushed.
BRUTAL ASSAULT ON A WOMAN.
Operator in i* To-" er Bru
tally A.*anlted by an In
known at Walston, Pa.
Monongahela, Pa., Feb. 10.—During
the night an unknown man forced his
way into the telegraph tower at Wals
ton station, on the Pittsburg, Vir
ginia & Charleston railroad, and as
sailed Mrs. Wilson, the operator. Mrs.
Wilson shot the man, and this so en
raged him that he beat her almost in
to insensibility and then -tried to
burn her to death by forcing her
head into the stove.
Before he succeeded, however, an
arriving freight train frightened him
off and he tied, leaving his victim un
conscious.
Mrs. Wilson is the wife of ex-Mayor
Wilson of this city. She is a hand
some woman, aged 30, and is regard
ed as fearless. Her condition is crit
ical.
Early in the evening,, four men
made an attempt to break in the
tower, but they were frustrated by
the timely arrival of several railroad
ers. It is thought Mrs. Wilson’s as
sailant belonged to this party and the
police expect to get him.
FOR MURDER IN LUZON.
Frank Delternian, Said to be- an Es
caped Murderer from Laxun,
Arrested in St. Louis*
St. Louis. Feb, 10.—Murder in a
Filipino jungle whs the offense
charged against Frank Delterman
when, after being arraigned in Judge
Douglass' court Monday charged with
highway robbery, he w r as set free for
a minute because of the absence of
Gibbon, the man he was accused of
robbing.
Delterman was % surprised when ho
was released. It was too good to be
true, but he picked up his hat and
walked jauntily down to the court
room door, where two policemen re
arrested him and took him back to
jail to await the action of federal au
thorities, who say he is an escaped
prisoner sentenced for murder in the
Philippines.
“Somehow I knowed I’d never git
by those two bulls.” said Delterman
as he was being led back to his cell.
He denied that he escaped from Al
catraz island and alleges he was dis
charged.
* To Be Double Tracked.
Cleveland, Q„ Feb. 10.—Myron T.
Herrick, chairman of the board of di-*
rectors of the Wheeling & Lake Erie
Railroad Cos„ stated that the complete
double tracking of the road east from
Toledo and south from Cleveland had
been practically decided on at tke
cent meeting m New York. ~ *