The Winchester News, 1908-12-03

ALEXIS DRIVEN FROM CAPITAL I Deposed President Seeks Protection I s of FranceMob Seeks His Life Special to The News PQRT AU PRINCE Haiti Dec 3A night of pillaging followed the thee - e thee pulsioIL of President Alexis Twelye were killed before order was restored restoredr fort au Prince Dec 3 PresIdent Nord Alexis has been deposed and is now safe on board the French train training - ing training ship Duguay Trouin and Port au Prince is in the hands of the revo revolutionists - lutionists revolutionists General Antoine Simon the leader of the insurgents is marching up the peninsula with an army of 5000 and a new president General Legitime has been pro proclaimed - claimed proclaimed At the last moment President Alex Alexis - is Alexis yielded to the urging of those about him and decided to take refuge aboard the French warship A salute of 21 guns announced his departure from the palace Thousands had gath gathered - ered gathered there early in the day and they had surged around the entrance threatening to tear down the walls to drive out the president and his loyal followers As the hours passed the great mob became infuriated shouting for him to leave the coun country - try country The mob was armed and men and women beside themselves with rage heaped curses on the head of the aged man who had been deposed from the presidency but who had fiercely expressed his determination to fight to the last So serious was the situation that the French minister M Carteron and other foreign representatives to together - gether together with members of a special committee forced themselves upon the president who finally consented to withdraw Shouts greeted him as he stepped from the precincts of the palace and into a carriage which had been provided Mr Carteron carry carryIng - ing carryIng the French tricolor sat beside him and the minister threw the folds of the flag over the shoulders of the deposed president to protect him An immense crowd of men and women had assembled at the wharf and the arrival of the presidential carriage escorted by a battalion of r fantry and a squadron of cavalry un under - der under command of General Hippolyte was the signal for wild tumult and riotAll All along the route the people who lined the streets shouted jeered and cursed at the fallen president but when the landing stage was reached the mob lost all restraint The scene was tragic and shameful Infuriated women broke through the cordon of troops and shrieked the coarsest in insults - sults insults into the very face of the presi president - dent president who strove bravely to appear undismayedI They tried to hurl themselves upon Alexis and fought with hands and feet against the soldiers who found I difficulty in forcin them forcing back InI order to disengage him the troops i discharged their guns several shots being fired During this time a space I was cleared and Nord Alexis with the French colors draped about him was I hurried aboard a skiff in tow of a steam launch his suite tumbling into launcht the skiff after him As the launch drew away three Haitien gunboats and the French and American war warships - ships warships in the harbor fired a salute to the fallen president Just as Nord Alexis was embark embarkIng - ing embarkIng a woman succeeded in reaching his side and drawing a murderous knife made a sweep at his body The blow fell short however and before the woman could follow it up with another she was seized by a soldier A man succeeded in striking the president with his fist but the blow was a glancing one on the neck Nord Alexis turned to M Carteron and shaking his head said I told you so your excellency A trunk which was left behind on I the precipitate departure of the pres president - ident president and his party from the wharf was seized upon by the rioters and broken open It was found to con contain i - tain contain some 10000 in gold and 20000 Haitien gourdes The specie was scattered about and promptly appro appropriated - priated appropriated A catastrophe was feared If the palace was invaded by the I populace In such event the foreign consuls were ready to have landed detach detachments - ments detachments of sailors and marines from the warship now in port In order to protect the interests of the citi citizens - zens citizens of their respective nations A series of signals had been arranged from the consulates to the warships with this in view but as those who had taken charge of the government have also taken precautionary meas measures - ures measures warship forces were not con consider - sider consider d necessary ashore ek r a y r 1

t All the partec th < se of Fouo1 i Simon Firmin and Menos were rep represented - resented represented on the committee which urged the presidency upon General Legitime While accepting the office at the first call General Legitime showed some hesitancy in undertak undertaking If - ing undertaking the presidency at such a crisis He expressed his wishes to obUiB General Simons adhesion before dot Initely accepting the office The flags of the nations are flying over the doors and windows of the homes of the foreign residents for notwithstanding their exhibitions of hostility against their fallen presi president - dent president the Haitiens are in dread of the landing of forces from the war warships - ships warships They especially fear the men of the United States cruisers Tacoma and Des Moines whose reputation for putting down riot and disorder have gone before them General Canal is doing everything possible to maintain order Infantry and caval ry patrol the streets and although a panicky feeling remains there is lit tie danger to the foreigners If there is an engagement at all It will be among the various factions striving for the leadership BURGLARS EVADE POLICE Blow Bank Safe Secure 14000 and Make Good Their Escape Peppereli Mass Dec 3 Although the police of every city and town within a radius of 50 miles were keeping a sharp lookout for traces of the five burglars who blew open the safe of the First National bank here and escaped with 14000 in cash no T clue to their Identity or whereabouts has been discovered The burglars overlooked about 3000 in gold and silver coin Fullington Names Chief Deputy Columbus 0 Dec 3E M Ful lington state auditorelect has announced the appointment of A W Beatty of St Clairsville w his first deputy a position which Ma Major - jor Major Fullington now holds under Audi Auditor - tor Auditor of State Guilbert also the ap appointment - pointment appointment of Miss Mary C Morrison as private secretary and correspond ing clerk a position she has filled throughout the time Mr Guilbert has been in the office Mr Beatty who is to be chief deputy is now serving his second term as auditor of Bel mont county SAYS SIBLEY OWNS 4 w SUBSIDIARY STOCK y l Arciibold Outlines Organization of Standard < New York Dec SThe processes I through which the Standard Oil trust was liquidated and its thirty subsid subsIdiary - iary subsIdiary companies brought under con control - trol control of the present Standard Oil com company - pany company of New Jersey were develop d din - in din interesting detail by John D Arch bold under cross examination in the i federal suit to dissolve the Standard Oil companyI Mr Archbold declared that the trust had been liquidated in the per iod of years from 1892 to 1899 with Iiod good faith to obey the mandates of the Ohio supreme court ordering the trust dissolved There was no ul = terior motive in the fact that only about fiftyone per cent of the trust certificates were liquidated into the stocks of the subsidiary companies said Mr Archbold IMr Archbold also testified that Former Congressman Joseph S Sib ley of Pennsylvania was identified with the GalenaSignal Oil company a subsidiary of the Standard It was Mr Sibley to whom Mr Archbold ad addressed - dressed addressed many of his letters which were made public during the recent presidential campaign Independent Wins Mayoralty Atlanta Ga Dec 3Robert F Maddox was elected mayor of Atlan Atlanta - ta Atlanta by a majority of more than 3000 votes over James G Woodward reg regular - ular regular Democratic nominee and twice mayor of the City Maddox carried every ward in the city except the third and fifth l Bank Employe Sentenced Buffalo N Y Dec 3Roy Van Housen formerly a bookkeeper of u e wrecked Peoples National bank of Franklinville was sentenced by Judge Hazel in the United States district court to five years in the fed = eral prison at Atlanta Ga 1 DEEDS AND TRANFERS The following real estate deeds and transfers have been filed iw the Coun County - ty County Clerics office for record J A Frazier and wife to Thorn s sHall - Hall sHall a house and lot in South Park 1 for 3250 > Ed Willoughby and wife to Mat MatE - E MatE Hall a house and lot in Robertson addition for 100 N f s B F Derary and wifeJto h i fen Wallonghly a house and lot in RoD ertson addition for 200 < I i r > f r 5 5 fJ > r r

DR PORTER IOCLUSE S ON FRIDAY NIGHT Last Series of Revival Services at at HandBaptism Friday Mcrning s The meetings at the First Baptist church yesterday were among some of the best services that have been held Dr Porter preaching with re renewed - newed renewed energy and effect There were three conversions and three additions to tbe church There were ten women and girls baptized Thursday morning There will be about twentythree to be baptized Friday after the morn morning - ing morning service Dr Porter preaches to tonight - night tonight at 7 30 also Friday morning at 1030 and Friday night will be his closing sermon r GREAT PRODUCTION OF OFt - t OFt LUMBER IN STATE Kentucky Ranks Among the First in v Different Kinds of Tim ber WASHINGTON Dec 3Ken tucky ranked seventeenth among the States in the reduction of lumber last year according to a statement issued by the Census Bureau but she was well tin to the front on the pro Production - duction Production of some of the scarcer and more valuable species I Kentucky led in the production of yellow poplar lumber furnishing 239 per cent of the cut of the entire coun country - try country valued at 5240177 Kentucky produced 14 per cent of the entire quantity of hickory cut last year her product being valued at 780985 Arkansas alone exceeded Kentucky with a total cut valued at 1045000 > Kentucky was third in the produc tior of sycamore lumber her cut be being - ing being valued at 92275 Indiana came to the front as a lumber producing State in the matter of the sycamore i standing first with a cut valued at i 185957 representing nearly 25 per percent - cent percent of the cut of the country Kentucky was fifth in theproduc tion of walnut the most valuable tim ber cut in the United States her product eoualing 18 per cent of the cut of the entire country and valued at 183914 Kentucky stood sixth in the production of beech lumber her output equaling 71 per cent of the countrys production and was valued at 384348 She was seventh in the production of chesnut her output amounting to 68 per cent of the countrys entire cut and being valued at 725910 In the production of red gum Ken Kentucky - tucky Kentucky stood fifth her production amounting to 53 per cent of that of the country and was valued at 518210HOG HOG KILLING TIME The slaughter houses and others who are in the hog killing business arc working overtime the past few days as the recent cold spell has made it ideal weather for killing hogs find the farmers and others who kill their own meat are taking advantage of it and are having their hogs kill killed - ed killed now

4FE MAYOR 1At HUGHES DOING CITY WORK Culverts and Crossings Are Being Worked onGaryg of Men r at Work Mayor r JA Hughes started a gang of men to work Thursday morning pq putting inthe much need ed culvert on Buckner street This p will relieve the residents of that vi ciriity from the trouble they have ex exp - p exp riEmced heretofore of being flooded out during hard rains as theold one was not large enough to carry off the water 4 during the heavy rains Work has also begun on the build building - ing building of the new crossings in the dif diff - f diff erent parts of the city that were ordered put mat the last meeting of the City Council Two have been put in on North Main street one on Winn avenue and one on Court street The new crossings are all made of concrete and are much wider than R the old ones tNEW METHOD OF Si J STATE BOOKKEEPING 7 State Examiner Thatcher is to Rec I Commend System to the A Legislature FRANKFORT Ky Dec 3 As a esult of the discovery of the pecu Peculations - lations Peculations of Judge C E Booej the de faulting claim clerk under Auditor James Kentucky will have an upto date system of accounting all of its receipts disbursements taxes and cost of running the government State Examiner and Inspector M H Thatcher finds in checking over the vouchers in the Auditors office that iSthe State lias practically no chance tJescape theft if its officers are not honest and he is now studying the systems of accounting in Ohio New York Illinois Arizona Wyoming and Oklahoma with theview of recom memUngto GOY Willson fln entire entirely - ly entirely new system of accounting all of the States claims Just when he will submit the e recommendations lie us not able to say but in the meantime he has recommended to toG - G toG tWillson that Treasurer Far ley send out all of the checks from the State The sYstem to be recommended will beas faras is practicable in Ken Kentucky - tucky Kentucky one that will riot only cover the State accounts but also those of every countyand municipality in the r State STREET RAILWAY TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS President of Company Authorize 7 Mayor Hughes tc Do Nec isiv essary Work V L Mayor J A Hughes received a letter Thursday morning from J B 3icAfee president of the Blue Grass abaction Company authorizing him to have concrete put in between the rails off the street car track where ever the city was putting ina con concrete - crete concrete sidewalk and to send them the bill for their amount and they would pay the city

PINE GROVE BURGLAR CAUGHT IN LEXINGTON West Jndian Traced By Blood Bloodhounds - hounds Bloodhounds and Landed By Police A West Indian who showed ex extraordinary - traordinary extraordinary acumen in two burglar burglaries - ies burglaries to which he confesses and then used seven pounds of cayenne pep pepper - per pepper to stow pursuit by bloodhounds is in the Lexington police station Mosf of the jewelry money and merchandise stolen from a store and i the depot at Pine Grove between midnight and dawn Wednesday has I been recovered s Bloodhounds arc vindicated in the capture and a large share of credit is due Captain V G Millilan Burglar is Arrested Upon information telephoned from Pine Grove by Captain Mullikin Cap Captain - tain Captain Brown and Detective Stewart arrested the burglar on East Water street in Lexington Wednesday af afternoon - ternoon afternoon and locked him in the sta station - tion station house on a charge of loiter loitering - ing loitering The prisoner gave the name of Federal Johnston said hewas a native of St Thomas WestIiKHes late of Liverpool and a farm lab laborer - orer laborer here looking for work He is a light mulatto and wears a mus mustache - tache mustache Protests His Innocence Although a search disclosed a doz dozen - en dozen rings and new scissors in his pockets and that he wore two new outfits of clothing he denied thai he had been implicated in any bur burglary - glary burglary An hour later Captain Mulli kin arrived from Pine Grove with a detailed description of the man in custody together with a list of the stolen property and joined Chief Brown in the latter office Your pepper worked alright n t the other end of the line but does not seem to have helped you at this end he saidI Has there been an arrest replied the prisoner v Yes you seem to be arrested The Shoes Are Compared Mullikin then produced two pairs of shoes from the same case th t third - hird third been broken in the depot and they corresponded with those worn by the man He remarked that the officers seemed to have him and pro proceeded - ceeded proceeded to make a full confession He said that he had been in Lexington looking for work and decided to beat his way to Huntington He got only as far as Pine Grove Tuesday and there made inquiries for work Finding nonejglie said he I decided to turn burglar l Enters Store Through Chute Fea1Jn a burglar alarm oniwin i tf fr r < i i ki f a i < t < r i d 3 c > J

dow Johnston said he avoided win windows - dows windows of the Pine Grove Mercantile Companys store secured an entrance by means ofa chute made for the then - n then le from the cellar T iget in he cut through a lathed wall with life penknife Here Jie secured jewelry Ya jogs Iv ticl q fc of clothing and sev era lsdollat frQm the postoffice com parment By prying open a window of the depot he effected an entrance and broke into a case of shoes and took other merchandise A cake of soap and a C 0 towel were among things carri awayAbout fifty postcards secured at the store also were in his pockets when searched Scatters Pepper Along Route From the store Johnston got seven pounds of pepper He says he knew that there were plenty of dogs in the South Until he had followed the railroad over a mile toward Lexing Lexington - ton Lexington however he did not break the package contained the pepper Captain Mullikin received notifica notification - tion notification of the burglaries tit 7 oclock Wednesday morning and hurried to Pine Grove with his bloodhounds They immediately struck a trail and came charging toward Lexington Af After - ter After covering a mile they encountered the pepper and as Captain Mullikin put it blew up Brutes Inhale Pepper The brutes inhaled a quantity of the stuff and they suffering was intense Nearby two pairs of shoes which Johnston had discarded as misfits were found In the village Mullikin had obtained a description of the party who had inquired for work and when the dogs trailed toward Lexington he telephoned Chief Brown The latter accom accompanied - panied accompanied by Detective Stewart found Johnston in a negro eating house The prisoner is about thirtyfive years old He admits that he is a paroled prisoner from Sing Sing and says he came to the States from Liverpool three years ago His case will be tried in this county w AUDITORIUM IS TO REOPEN ON MONDAY I During the First Week 30 in Gold Will Be Given in Prizes The Auditorium skating rink will reopen next Monday night after be being - ing being closed for a week During the first week 30 in gold will be given awav 5 being given each night I Each purchaser of tickets will be beI Mr Will Green shipped from the I farmers and Shippers Stock Yards ttO Cincinnati Tuesday Jf to carloads Iof hogs t v3k r J L S t f c i a iIJ8ir ilfj M tp1 d k t > c < ruc

YOUNG AMERICAN WHO IS NOW A LORD IN SCOTTISH PEERAGE Behold the native of the Old Dominion upon whom the committee on privileges of the house of lords recently conferred the title of Lord Fairfax of Cameron in the Scottish peerage Before the laying on of the title he was Mr Albert Kirby Fairfax The committee had the family Bible and other documentary evidence to prove the descent The decision of the com committee - I mittee committee does not give the beneficiary a seat in the house of lords I