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Seotdom IFages Q bo 1 v f- I i VOL XXVI NO 150 GAINESVILLE FLORIDA SATURDAY JULY 31 1909 TEN CENTS A WE jr e v Second 6 it HARRY THAW PLEASED AT STATUS OF HIS CASE Jerome Has Finished Inquisition In Supreme Court Will Take Stand in Own Behalf I WHITE PLANS N Y July 30 William Travers Jerome district at- torney of New York prosecutor at both Thaw murder trials finished i l Inquisition of Harry K Thaw in the supreme court at 525 oclock evening This ends perhaps the most surprising chapter of the long court procedure In which the young Pittsburger tins figured certainly the most surprising In this latest phase of the Thaws fight to prove himself sane and obtain his release from the Matteaxvun asylum for the criminal Insane All told Wednesday and Thursday Harry Thaw faced Mr Jeromes lightning thrusts for ten hours In which ho held his oMi at all tints Today he IK In the hands of friends Hi attorney Charles Monichurwr expects to call hum his mormni This examination may K an long a- Jeromes and after it the district it torney may have a few more ipn tlons to Notwithstanding the ineiitnl htriiu he was under Wednesday and Thurs- day Thaw labored far Into the night with his attorney in Juptlco Mill anteroom going over the multitude of records used yesterday by Mr Je rome in his rapid fire of crossques- tioning Thaw Well Satisfied On the whole Thaw and his are well satisfied with the days work Thaw showed even more confidence than he exhibited during the first encounter In faN his nolf 1 Ii ask yester- day case i r 4 r at- torney ¬ ¬ > ¬ ¬ ¬ + Bristols Wet and Dry Fight In Courts Becomes Unique BRISTOL Tenn July situation arose yesterday in the Va local option election contest Bud Dctheridge who was active In the campaign for the wets and I believed to possess all the secrets touching how and where money spent to influence the election declin- ed to cross the State line Into Vir- ginia in order that summons might he served on him Counsel for the drys adjourned the sitting at the Vir- ginia court house and came to the house in Tennessee having Oetberidge summoned there Hy this turn they toped to catch Dothorldgo In their dragnet Counsel for the wets nrned the trick by citing a Tonnes o statute providing that In order 30A Bris- tol r wh wa I court ¬ ¬ Father Rescues His Child From Most Horrible Death NEW ORLEANS July 20 A spe- cial from Vicksburg Miss says News was received here last night of the serious Injury of several persons and a narrow escape of others as tin result of a fire on the houseboat of C A Fuller near Ducksport La late Tuesday- A child of the ownei threw a lighted match Into a pile of oakum and in a few minutes the en boat WM enveloped In flames The women and children la the party vrn H rrirdly placed In small boat tlree year old tlr3 I consciousness at one time almost cost him dear when he ventured into a heated passing at arms with the dis trict attorney But he checked him self when he realized that he had nothing to gain and everything to lose by a show of temper Except for this squall the exchange of ques- tions and answers with here and there an occasional sally of wit progressed smoothly from 115 until adjournment Wednesday Mr Jerome devoted most of his time to the prisoners past life Yesterday he based his questions chiefly on various letters and memo randa which he produced in reports In numbers The one he found most useful was n tablet containing twenty six sheets of foolscap paper on which were pasted n strange variety of news- paper clippings nnd scraps of manu- script Thaw identified It as ho had prepared and sent to- DelpliIn M Delmas his chief counsel during the first trial for use in pro paring his closing speech to the Jury Some of Its contents was strange enough to muse suspicions of tin authors sanity but those bits Thaw Invariably explained by saying they were letters written to him and his family by persons whose kind Inten- tions probably were better than their mental balances Man of Many Tastes Thaws part of the compilation showed him as a man of many tastes and Interests In It he quoted pass- ages of Scripture regarding sins against the young and referred to the I some- thing ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ to adjourn the taking of depositions from the Virginia to the Tennessee side of the State line a special com- mission from the Virginia court would be necessary Since the new Judge of the corporation court of Bristol Va has not yet qualified there was no one to matte applica- tion to for a commission and Magis- trate Pile dismissed the proceedings upon the grounds that under the cir- cumstances he had no jurisdiction Counsel then adjourned resume the taking of depositions on the Vlrr- glnla side today but without any as surnnce that the muchwanted witness would appear Every possible effort will bo made to entrap Detherldge If he persists In remaining out of Vir- ginia to ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ and then it was discovered that the earold daughter of Mr Fuller had been left aboard Groping his way through a mass of flames and blinding smoke the father reached the sleeping child and bore her to a place- of safety on a towed flat boat The child was only slightly burned but the tongue and the lips of the man were blistered and his face and hands and body burned It is believed he will recover Several members of the crew worn painfully tbough not fatally burned flse ROOSEVELTS DAUGHTER TO GO UP IN A BALOON WASHINGTON July M Mrs Nich- olas Lougworth daughter of former Provident Roosevelt has become an enthusiast about aeronautics Her upon the trials of the Wrights nwroplnne Is almost constant and now it is said she Is determined to make u flight herself not in the aeroplane though It Is said she even expressed her willingness for that but in a baloon- A Holland Forbes of New York act- Ing president of the Aero Club of America is In Washington and has promised Mrs Longworth to take her up Mr Longworth is said to have ac corded his permission Mr Forbes having made the promise contingent upon her husbands consent that she undergo the risk that baloon travel Involves FOUGHT FIVE HOURS WITH HUGE SNAKE P1TTSBURG Pa July 30 Three women who went out early to pick berries on a farm about three miles IroUl LatroLe were rescued Wednes- day by farm hands after having boon uiitd In ati abandoned coal mine for live hours during which tune thu fought continually with a nest 01 huge enaKes Two of the women IK came hysterical on their relcate and are In a serious condition The women are Mi Maggie Male Mrs Mary Sarfano told MM Flor once Lacoy As they invaded an In- viting field of berries the earth sud- denly swallowed them All throe fen about HO foot through n break in Un root of nn abandoned mine into u pool ot shallow water KILLED WIFES FRIEND AND WOUNDED WIFE ELIZADETHTCmX Ky July 30 One load from the shotgun of Collie llubtln a tenant farmer living six miles from this city ended the life of James Talbott Wednesday and se- riously wounded Hustins wife in whose company Talbott was Hustln according to his story to officers to whom he Immediately surrendered returned from a hunting trip to meet his wife and Talbott emerging from in adjacent wheat field Words pass- ed between the men both of whom tire middleaged and the shooting fol lowed Hustln claims selfdefense Talbott was wealthy I attendance ¬ ¬ > ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ dragon tales In Percys Kcllques for striking similes regarding Stanford White While Thaw was of course the central figure at the hearing yester- day there were two other witnesses Susan Merrill the former New York lodging house keeper and Clifford W Hnrtrldge Thaws former attorney Mrs Merrill went further into regarding Thaws alleged abuse of young women at her house She having had dealings also wi h Stanford White de- tails ¬ Hartrldge testified to the truth of parts of her story He said that the money he turned over to the woman which she said was used to prevent girls Thnw whipped from nuking rouble did not come from Thaw himself Ho said that he had re- ceived 103000 from Sirs William Thaw hut had used n large port of it for various purposes connected with his employment by the family th- I ¬ bvclyn Thaw was an Interested auditor in court again yesterday but her husband on the stand ignored her presence Indications are that the hearing will last at least a week longer Mayors Court Friday- In the mayors court Friday morn Ing Dennis Green and Nancy Doby forfeited a 15 bond for disorder- ly conduct Sam Daughtrey who was charged with a plain drunk forfeited tola cash bond of 13 i ¬ Spanish Troops Kill Subjects at How Write Abroad Tray Her Flag in Dust REVOLUTION I DIES IN BLOODY BATTi SPAINS MADRID July 30 Jt was officially announced hm night that the cavalry engaged at Barcelona succeeded in driving into St Merlin Square the principal bands of revolu- tionists against whom the artillery tire causing great losses The survivors surrendered The official statement further says that It now remains only to master mall groups oi revolutionists in the villages in tue vicinity of Barcelona Official dispatches received here yesterday admit that the battlo be- tween I2oUiU tribesmen and the Spanish forces outside of Melllla July 27 was a disastrous defeat The Moors cut off the communications with the Spanish outposts nnd the main force of the Spaniards was driven back under the walls of city where fighting continued dospcr rely The Spanish killed and wounded number about 1000 which takes no account of the men nt the advance posts who evidently were cut off nnd abandoned to their fate Melllla Is full of wounded men Believe Revolt Is General HFXDAYE France Spanish Fron- tier July 30 Advices received here from a conservative and exceptionally wellinformed source In Madrid depict opened the yes- terday ¬ ¬ ¬ Virginia Republicans to Run Kent for Govern NEWPORT NEWS Va July 30 Placing themselves squarely on record as having local option with counties and clues as the unit Instead of magisterial districts as under the present law the Virginia Republicans yesterday accepted the liquor ques- tion as an Issue In the approaching gubernatorial campaign Then after adopting a platform of which the liquor plank was the principal fea- ture and electing a State ticket head ed by William P Kent of Wythe present American consul general to Guatemala they adjourned their State convention sine die The discussion of prohibition was precipitated soon after tho convention- met by the reading of the following plank as drafted by the resolution committee v We favor the general principle of local option high license rigid police t ¬ ¬ Death of Aged Negro Whose Famous Ride Saved Ron GADSDE Ala July 30 John II who died near here today at the age of 87 years won fame In ISCu by a daring allnight ride from Gadsden to Rome Ga a distance of sixtyseven miles which resulted In the capture by the Confederate cav airy leader Gen K B Forest of Gen Abel D Straight and the saving to the Confederates of tho foundries and stores at Rome Wisdom started from the east shoro of else Cooaa river shortly after night WI dom the situation both exterior and tenor as being more critical than any time since tho Cuban war Although the Spanish governs seeks to give out the Impression the movement In Catalonia Is aaa stir and simply a protest against- war In Morocco and the policy Premier Maura there are reasons believe It Is a great and spreading r lutionary movement which a of Republicans and Social r lutionnrles have bees secretly anc fectlvely preparing for a long Urn Rumors arc even current that a vlnclal government has been procl ed at Barcelona but this evident premature The desperate Moors drunk their success believe they can d the Spanish forces Into the sea Marianas men are worn out by llnunl nfeht and day duty and General has asked for 75030 relnfc menus Don Jaime May Issue Manlfes LONDON July special patch from Madrid says there persistent report In Carllst qua that Don Jaime the pretends about to Issue an address to the era nnd a manifesto to tho Sp people maintaining his claim throne 33A t co- nation protection and a strict Enforce of the law Objection to this ca stantly and emphatically from j west Virginia Tho plank as was declared to be meanlnglea Indicative pf acquiescence In 1 sting law JitVv As a substitute State Senat T Lincoln offered the following favor tho general prlnclp local option and that the countle cities bo a unit In all elections oi liquor question with rigid enforce of law Mr Lincoln led the fight fa adoption nnd was so consplc sensational In urging his cause nftertho substitute had been rated In the platform by a vol 700 to 110 ho was forward as a candidate for Lie Continued on Page Ten 1 r Vo the In t t 4 fall on his perilous trip covert distance In less than seven hou using on the trip seven horses arrived at Rome six hours Gen Straight and tho city was pared for tho latters coming Straight and many of his ralde lug taken prisoners The city of Rome presented dom with a costly silver serric 400 In cash besides giving a purse ot 9400 to the woman furnished Wisdom v bono f r hart leg of his Journey abe r

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Jerome Has Finished Inquisition In Supreme Court

Will Take Stand in Own BehalfIWHITE PLANS N Y July 30

William Travers Jerome district at-

torney of New York prosecutor atboth Thaw murder trials finished i l

Inquisition of Harry K Thaw in thesupreme court at 525 oclock

evening This ends perhaps themost surprising chapter of the longcourt procedure In which the youngPittsburger tins figured certainly themost surprising In this latest phaseof the Thaws fight to provehimself sane and obtain his releasefrom the Matteaxvun asylum for thecriminal Insane

All told Wednesday and ThursdayHarry Thaw faced Mr Jeromeslightning thrusts for ten hours Inwhich ho held his oMi at all tints

Today he IK In the hands of friendsHi attorney Charles Monichurwrexpects to call hum his mormniThis examination may K an long a-

Jeromes and after it the district it

torney may have a few more ipntlons to

Notwithstanding the ineiitnl htriiuhe was under Wednesday and Thurs-day Thaw labored far Into the nightwith his attorney in Juptlco Millanteroom going over the multitudeof records used yesterday by Mr Jerome in his rapid fire of crossques-tioning

Thaw Well Satisfied

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situation arose yesterday in theVa local option election contest

Bud Dctheridge who was active Inthe campaign for the wets andI believed to possess all the secretstouching how and where moneyspent to influence the election declin-ed to cross the State line Into Vir-ginia in order that summons mighthe served on him Counsel for thedrys adjourned the sitting at the Vir-ginia court house and came to the

house in Tennessee havingOetberidge summoned there Hy thisturn they toped to catch Dothorldgo Intheir dragnet Counsel for the wetsnrned the trick by citing a Tonnes

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cial from Vicksburg Miss saysNews was received here last night ofthe serious Injury of several personsand a narrow escape of others as tinresult of a fire on the houseboat ofC A Fuller near Ducksport La lateTuesday-

A child of the owneithrew a lighted match Into a pile ofoakum and in a few minutes the en

boat WM enveloped In flamesThe women and children la the partyvrn H rrirdly placed In small boat

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I consciousness at one time almost costhim dear when he ventured into aheated passing at arms with the district attorney But he checked himself when he realized that he hadnothing to gain and everything tolose by a show of temper Exceptfor this squall the exchange of ques-

tions and answers with here and therean occasional sally of wit progressedsmoothly from 115 until adjournmentWednesday Mr Jerome devoted mostof his time to the prisoners past life

Yesterday he based his questionschiefly on various letters and memoranda which he produced in reportsIn numbers The one he found mostuseful was n tablet containing twentysix sheets of foolscap paper on whichwere pasted n strange variety of news-paper clippings nnd scraps of manu-script Thaw identified It as

ho had prepared and sent to-

DelpliIn M Delmas his chief counselduring the first trial for use in proparing his closing speech to the JurySome of Its contents was strangeenough to muse suspicions of tinauthors sanity but those bits ThawInvariably explained by saying theywere letters written to him and hisfamily by persons whose kind Inten-tions probably were better than theirmental balances

Man of Many TastesThaws part of the compilation

showed him as a man of many tastesand Interests In It he quoted pass-ages of Scripture regarding sinsagainst the young and referred to the

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to adjourn the taking of depositionsfrom the Virginia to the Tennesseeside of the State line a special com-mission from the Virginia courtwould be necessary Since the newJudge of the corporation court ofBristol Va has not yet qualifiedthere was no one to matte applica-tion to for a commission and Magis-trate Pile dismissed the proceedingsupon the grounds that under the cir-cumstances he had no jurisdictionCounsel then adjourned resumethe taking of depositions on the Vlrr-glnla side today but without any assurnnce that the muchwanted witnesswould appear Every possible effortwill bo made to entrap Detherldge Ifhe persists In remaining out of Vir-ginia

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and then it was discovered that theearold daughter of Mr Fuller

had been left aboard Groping hisway through a mass of flames andblinding smoke the father reached thesleeping child and bore her to a place-of safety on a towed flat boat Thechild was only slightly burned but thetongue and the lips of the man wereblistered and his face and hands andbody burned It is believed he willrecover Several members of the crewworn painfully tbough not fatallyburned

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ROOSEVELTS DAUGHTER

TO GO UP IN A BALOON

WASHINGTON July M Mrs Nich-

olas Lougworth daughter of formerProvident Roosevelt has become anenthusiast about aeronautics Her

upon the trials of theWrights nwroplnne Is almost constantand now it is said she Is determinedto make u flight herself not in theaeroplane though It Is said she evenexpressed her willingness for thatbut in a baloon-

A Holland Forbes of New York act-Ing president of the Aero Club ofAmerica is In Washington and haspromised Mrs Longworth to take herup Mr Longworth is said to have accorded his permission Mr Forbeshaving made the promise contingentupon her husbands consent that sheundergo the risk that baloon travelInvolves

FOUGHT FIVE HOURS

WITH HUGE SNAKE

P1TTSBURG Pa July 30 Threewomen who went out early to pickberries on a farm about three milesIroUl LatroLe were rescued Wednes-day by farm hands after having boon

uiitd In ati abandoned coal mine forlive hours during which tune thufought continually with a nest 01

huge enaKes Two of the women IK

came hysterical on their relcate andare In a serious condition

The women are Mi Maggie MaleMrs Mary Sarfano told MM Floronce Lacoy As they invaded an In-

viting field of berries the earth sud-denly swallowed them All throe fenabout HO foot through n break in Unroot of nn abandoned mine into upool ot shallow water

KILLED WIFES FRIENDAND WOUNDED WIFE

ELIZADETHTCmX Ky July 30One load from the shotgun of Colliellubtln a tenant farmer living sixmiles from this city ended the life ofJames Talbott Wednesday and se-

riously wounded Hustins wife inwhose company Talbott was Hustlnaccording to his story to officers towhom he Immediately surrenderedreturned from a hunting trip to meethis wife and Talbott emerging fromin adjacent wheat field Words pass-ed between the men both of whomtire middleaged and the shooting followed

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dragon tales In Percys Kcllques forstriking similes regarding StanfordWhite

While Thaw was of course thecentral figure at the hearing yester-day there were two other witnessesSusan Merrill the former New Yorklodging house keeper and Clifford WHnrtrldge Thaws former attorneyMrs Merrill went further into

regarding Thaws alleged abuseof young women at her house She

having had dealings alsowi h Stanford White

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Hartrldge testified to the truth ofparts of her story He said that themoney he turned over to the womanwhich she said was used to prevent

girls Thnw whipped from nukingrouble did not come from Thaw

himself Ho said that he had re-

ceived 103000 from Sirs WilliamThaw hut had used n large port ofit for various purposes connectedwith his employment by the family

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bvclyn Thaw was an Interestedauditor in court again yesterday buther husband on the stand ignored herpresence Indications are that thehearing will last at least a weeklonger

Mayors Court Friday-In the mayors court Friday morn

Ing Dennis Green and Nancy Dobyforfeited a 15 bond for disorder-

ly conductSam Daughtrey who was charged

with a plain drunk forfeited tola cashbond of 13 i

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Abroad Tray Her Flag in Dust

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MADRID July 30 Jt was officiallyannounced hm night that the cavalryengaged at Barcelona succeeded

in driving into St MerlinSquare the principal bands of revolu-tionists against whom the artillery

tire causing great losses Thesurvivors surrendered

The official statement further saysthat It now remains only to mastermall groups oi revolutionists in thevillages in tue vicinity of Barcelona

Official dispatches received hereyesterday admit that the battlo be-

tween I2oUiU tribesmen and theSpanish forces outside of Melllla July27 was a disastrous defeat TheMoors cut off the communicationswith the Spanish outposts nnd themain force of the Spaniards wasdriven back under the walls ofcity where fighting continued dospcrrely

The Spanish killed and woundednumber about 1000 which takes noaccount of the men nt the advanceposts who evidently were cut off nndabandoned to their fate Melllla Isfull of wounded men

Believe Revolt Is GeneralHFXDAYE France Spanish Fron-

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Run Kent for GovernNEWPORT NEWS Va July 30

Placing themselves squarely on recordas having local option with countiesand clues as the unit Instead ofmagisterial districts as under thepresent law the Virginia Republicansyesterday accepted the liquor ques-tion as an Issue In the approachinggubernatorial campaign Then afteradopting a platform of which theliquor plank was the principal fea-ture and electing a State ticket headed by William P Kent of Wythepresent American consul general toGuatemala they adjourned their Stateconvention sine die

The discussion of prohibition wasprecipitated soon after tho convention-met by the reading of the followingplank as drafted by the resolutioncommittee v

We favor the general principle oflocal option high license rigid police

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Famous Ride Saved Ron

GADSDE Ala July 30 John IIwho died near here today at

the age of 87 years won fame InISCu by a daring allnight ride fromGadsden to Rome Ga a distance ofsixtyseven miles which resulted Inthe capture by the Confederate cavairy leader Gen K B Forest of GenAbel D Straight and the saving tothe Confederates of tho foundries andstores at Rome

Wisdom started from the east shoroof else Cooaa river shortly after night

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the situation both exterior andtenor as being more critical thanany time since tho Cuban war

Although the Spanish governs

seeks to give out the Impressionthe movement In Catalonia Is aaastir and simply a protest against-war In Morocco and the policy

Premier Maura there are reasonsbelieve It Is a great and spreading rlutionary movement which a

of Republicans and Social rlutionnrles have bees secretly ancfectlvely preparing for a long Urn

Rumors arc even current that avlnclal government has been procled at Barcelona but this evidentpremature

The desperate Moors drunktheir success believe they can dthe Spanish forces Into the seaMarianas men are worn out byllnunl nfeht and day duty andGeneral has asked for 75030 relnfcmenus

Don Jaime May Issue ManlfesLONDON July special

patch from Madrid says therepersistent report In Carllst quathat Don Jaime the pretendsabout to Issue an address to theera nnd a manifesto to tho Sppeople maintaining his claimthrone

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west Virginia Tho plank aswas declared to be meanlngleaIndicative pf acquiescence In 1

sting law JitVvAs a substitute State Senat

T Lincoln offered the followingfavor tho general prlnclp

local option and that the countlecities bo a unit In all elections oiliquor question with rigid enforceof law

Mr Lincoln led the fight faadoption nnd was so consplcsensational In urging his causenftertho substitute had beenrated In the platform by a vol700 to 110 ho wasforward as a candidate for Lie

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fall on his perilous trip covertdistance In less than seven houusing on the trip seven horsesarrived at Rome six hoursGen Straight and tho city waspared for tho latters comingStraight and many of his raldelug taken prisoners

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