The Syracuse Journal, Volume 1, Number 36, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 7 January 1908 — Page 6

METO A RESSEHO &WH "HEAVEN

"z / -11/1/ ' /K ?S£SA I I ' ft?«?W' : A? 7 -';'-'- - ■ S IgflllißHME' A flitting spark across a summer aky, a globe like a glowing Grange, a mass of lambent * Iktiii •. a thunderous crash, and a, great piece of _meteejr buried itself iti the'groffnd. Half la dozen rods'away a man lay .cowering, cringing from i!e>i -'l lie i c-. r ;' t ;i t‘> pray, first fog" -Si ■ (wrath ef'his Makbr and then'for pjanlon for his sins, .all the time shrink!lag■ \m ■'?■« • |m i'ic ::>• .in >j. in iiis cxtiemitytrying to hide himself from the Bfist ■■-. silo of the Alniishtyffi The nilniltes lagged by. No other,, thunder • Jcame, itftul the still terrified. farmer'Slipped. across his fecHl’-lot to his poor little'house. 1 * Ithe ymuug night iiid the. wife, slrickeh. with equal fear, and'smarting a---from*-: n: .;• wli-’ii tjlie liiim.md i rtr-i. d i ii. • .<!• • e ipoit'-mft b.. im‘<'d-im ilffi'i fln y kiiMl : rnflrnr m.d ; eayffil eve'.' mid «vtw for pa-l’fl- > a: 1 pity.. 'To ope .■■Oklahoma tffat sffiutoet’ eveuiiig t : ff(> .years :. ’ ' .ent' impression on.til' uiftiitoTed rnimis of the ihau and woniuti iu, tbe-little; ' kitchen. ■ . .••«. ' i 1 !'• 7 Meteor. Turns Them from Sin. ' : .There was.no supper that night,-nothii g to eat,, all the next day—yjiist ! ceaseless, praying night and day that God might see tit: to. cor.done Silis i of two .erring and yield them life. ' The, warning .had .beeh sufficient; .their paths would turng- it would- all- le ■ different. tiley .supplicated' For days there via's no.cessation in the praying and exhorting. The stock ■went unfed,. the two supplicants went unfed find without sleep, while exhaustion find the madness of fear worked in their childish minds with subtle poison. 'Then, writes E.. 11. Smith in the Chicago Record- Iler aid, J-ftnics Sharp had a revelation. The Father had seen his waywardness and' lack] of devotion and had sent him a warniing to change his ways. He was t<v'g|ve up material life, dispose of • his farm and go out into the world to teach the benighted and heathen the marvels of God’s manifestation to him. James Sharp, the prophet, who didn’t knqw what a meteor was. Two weeks after the revelation Sharp gave his farm and horses away and? started out to “teach all peoples.” -He wandered over Oklahoma and was jeered; he went to Kansas and Colorado and Nebraska, the Dakotas, and finally to Canada, and tried to iimpress the people with the greatness of his nmv faith. The new prophet and prophetess were kicked and cuffed from place to place till they finally gofebaek to Oklahoma. They preached on the streets of Oklahoma City one night and ai man joined them from a little group of listeners. John 1 Adkins was his name. 11 is eloquence got gifts of money for the band f it brought Sharp's brother into the fold and attracted crowds everywhere. Adkins finally convinced Sharp that he was 'Adam and that Mrs. Sharp was Eve, anfi that Sharp's brother, by some Biblical vagary, was, in fact.-Abel. Then the entire band- was placed in an asylum for the insane. In a mopth Sharp and his wife were-released, but Adkins was held for sixteen months. Adkins soon won his way back to the asylum, but: the Sharps were looked upon as harmless fanatics apd permitted to go their way. , With a band reinforced by Louis Pratt; his wife' and five children: Sharp -started for Canada again, preaching everywhere he stopped.-, I - In Canada he' preached the revealed .doctrine of the meteor and' the wrath of God. as he called it. He had leatned, however, that the police of the Dominion took unkindly to his eujt, and lie formed an immediate and’unreasoning. hatred ,I’o‘r the law. Then Sharp announced that the Lord come to him in the-night, told him that Adam was the name of the (first man-and the common name of all mankind, and ..that, since God was; the name of the Father the Maker, the-natural name of all mankind , was ‘“Ac. .a God.” .As the leader and deliverer of-humanity. Sharp was to bo the first to bear'"the universal name. and his Wife was thenceforward to

LABOR CHIEFS -WHO BERE SENTENCED FOR CONTEMPT.

jl; II Wa : I \& ’ ; • ■/ ■ ■ ■'. F jF ' . ; / f R - ...Xx ’ I v*r ''’" ■ v S ' - ~ CTT~. .7 < JZM'TCGEL Gon r Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and FranS Morrison, who have beeij found guilty of contempt and to jail by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, are three of the most prominent and widely known labor leaders in the United States. Gompers, who has been president of the American Federation of Labor since 1882, with the exception of one year, was .born In England in 1850. A cigarmaker by trade, he has been connected

with the labor movement since he was 15 years old. As one of the organizers ■of*the American Federation of Labor and editor of the official magazine of the organization, he has wielded a* wide influence ail oyer the world. John Mitchell, vice president of the organization, who until recently wasi also president of the United Mine Workers of America, is a native of Will county, Illinois. Aside from what he learhed in the' public- schools of Braidwood up to the time he Was 10 years old he is self-educated. - He was born in IS7O and lias been in the labor movement since boyhood. Frank Morrison," who was born in 1559, has been secretary of the American Federation, of labor since* ISO".. By trade a printer, |he is also.a graduate of Lake Forest University Law-School. The Buck’s Company’s prosecution of the officials of the American Federation of Labor, which resulted in their sentence, began in August, 1907. The original action was a test case, wherein it was sought to enjoin the“ labor unions from using the “unfair” and “We don’t patronize” lists in theif fight against linns and individuals. Justice Gould of the’Supreme Court of the District of- Columbia issued an injunction, which later was made permanent, forbidding the publication of the company’s name in these lists. President Gompers, in an editorial in the F.ederationist of January last, made known his intention hot to' obey the court’s order, contending that the injunction issued was in derogation of the rights of labor and an abuse of the injunctive pew’er of the courts. Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison subsequently ’ were cited for contempt and this phase of the case has been beforb the court for many months, the proceedings the form of a hearing of testimony before an examiner and many arguments.

style herself as Eve God. He was, in fact,, a new Messiah, come for the saving of the abysmal world. That was not all. In the night the Lord had told Sharp that men's ■ society and men's law were unlawful, since they not foimded’un the Bible, which was the sole and only law that needed , obedience. The Lord had spoken and Sharp had interpreted the revelation to mean that his band was tv arm, in order to resist’ and destroy the “unlawful law” and its officers. ' The little band of madmen, deluded women and benighted little chi!j dren broke camp, singing homemade songs, brandishing weapons and makl ing for the States where the creed had’ started and where the seed was to flourish into blood and murder. Tue peripatetic b'and made its. way across* the line,'bought a pqorlcovered wagon nud.a tottering old horse and began ’ the mJve for the South.. Finally Minot, S. D„ was reached. The horse and wagon were traded for a small fiatboat, with a canvas top spread tepeelike for a shelter. In this the new Messiah and the band started south. At ■ Omaha and at St.' Joseph. Mo., they were driven out. and they finally • reached Kansas City, harried by the police and full of resolve to fight and. extermihate the enemies of “the Lord’s chosen*folk. ‘ Clash with Kansas City Police. ' At various points where they arms and ammunition were bought. The women and children were taught to shoot 6 the "unlawful officers,” and Sharp was openly teaching his followers that he, Adam God, and they, the children of Adam, could no more be harmed by the bullets of the police than could the Lord Himself. lu this frenzy of superstitious fever they landed at Kansas City, and near the city hall, under the very noses of the "unlawful officers,” they sang and preached and exhorted, and Sharp, or Adam God, uttered public threats against the police. For weeks nothing happehedi, "tintil one chill, somber December afternoon a probationary officer chanced pass the band singing on its accustomed corner. The officer told Sharl> that to have children of such tender age-sinking on the streets was in defiance of the school laws and that it should be stopped and the children sent to .school. • The fateful -hour; had come. Adam God. who knew no law but'the Bible’s," wheeled and struck "the officer doivn. The band'. set upon him, singing and beating at once. A -.single officer, ran out. brandished his revolver and advanced, on the fanatics who had .taken up their services on the corner. Then there was a shot. The servants of God had answered. The policeman ran back to the station and three others came. Adam God, tall and bearded, stood ing a long] knife. Near nim stood Louis Pratt,’his hand on his revolver, wVile MrS Sharp (Eve) and Mrs, Pratt held revolvers, and the: eldest of ihe'.little girls. Lulu ITatt. 13 years old, waved a similar weap-a, t.oq large for her to handle or fire-properly. - Death in Mad \ ]■ Hatlefes ami unarmed. Sergeant Patrick Clark walked up to th<s prqrphet. iy-pillowed by Michael Mullane and Arthur Dolbow, two patrolmen, hitter a '■> uffiirmed. »Clark', confident of his great' stwpgth,. grappled wijh? he' tin , iiet. The.knife descended across his face in a lung, cruel Cut that 'destroyed an eye? It?. Has bed again, piercing Clark’s neck, and fie fell. -. fired and D-hb.-w foiled across the narrow walk tlead. .'.Lu.laue''fired puce, high for fear of ’hitting one .of the .children, who clustered about the kn os’ of th,e two men. • Then one or .two urrted up. j-h-e crowd scattered'in mad, unrvckoiiing'. flight, and Afie battle jbetweeil e "mil twkffil officers’’ 1 and. the Servants of the Lord was on. ■ ’ A bullet from a.-police revolver,-passed harmlessly through Adam Gods -hat. "Their arms shall fall at their sides and. their bullets skill not prevail against the Lord;” he exhorted, drunk with a sense of security. Meantime 'Mrs. Officer Mullane'ar -und a wagon, tiring ajt_ every step, while Mullaue tried to get into range of the leader, who was Ifiring right and left at die officers, fie turned and saw d -woman tire at him.°blit refused to. kill a woman. The next moment two bullets, one .from the woman’s revolver and one from , the little girl's, struck the big policeman. I’-rat.t still stood..in the middle of the street, firing from two revolvers. One shot.struck’a bystander with fatal results. Then a rifle, ball pierced his brain and he went down. Other balls pierced both hands of .Adam God and he fled in the mad crowd and the gathering darkness. Eve also had fled, and then the last rfemnant of the misguided band.' mother and fiye childrefi, retreated do the river and their boat., Alone, ■in the prow with a- rifle, the mother held the officers back, pleading that tney bring Eve to counsel hes. But Ere did not come. While the police crept nearer to- the boat, she sprang into a skiff with her two- oldest daughters and pushed off. Then the police were ordered to shoot low find sink the boat. A -few minutes’ pursuit and the chase was over. • Mrs. Pratt and her younger girl were dragged off, but Lulu Pratt had been shot through flu face and was dead. ■ • > . .. Half a-dozen miles away, along a railroad track, Adam God, his hands bh eding 'in his overcoat pockets, walked through the night At dawn he entered a patch of woods and slept. Then he walked again all night and appeared at a farmhouse, famished and begging for food. He said he was a paralytic and the farmer fed him. A Jew hours later Adam God was'arrested and carted back to Kansas City. “What I did,” he said, “I did -becatise of the faith, but the : way it has all turned out I guess the faith was-i wrong. .It was the fault of ihe faith. I knew that as soon as the first bullet hit me. Up to that .moment, as I felt the bullets graze me and. go harmlessly byy I felt that God was turning them asieje, and it made’me all the more sude that we were right and would prevail.” In her cell the new Eve had not heard, and stuck to her' faith.' The Pratt children and* her mother also’ were still firm. Then a policeman told that Adam God was wounded and a-prisoner. The Pratts said nothing. In* her cell Eve hcard the news with another effect. “If Adam is .wounded and caught, what of our faith?” she moaned. “It was all wrong, and J have' nothing left to lean on.” They took' S,harp, no longes Adam God. into a justice court’and arraigned him for murder. .

QUEEN OF NIGHT RIDERS HOLDS 'SECRETS OF CLAN. ■ i ' V?S3Mv * Mi *rw||| MBS. ELLA PRIDE.. i The name of one woman stands out in memory of the Night Riders. It is |that of Mrs. Ella Pride, of Star Island, Tenn., erstwhile Queen of the Night 'Riders. Mrs. Pride, according to her I own story, was a self-appointed member of the terrorizing band of horsemen. She dressed herself in male attire and put on the regulation mask. She had been on two whipping excursions with them before she was discovered. To save themselves, she was forced by the riders to take the bath, which she was

glad to do. She was tlien made secretary’ of the band, position she held ten. months. ' ..;”~ One day she fell from grace,! however. She had committed the fatal, blunder of talking too much. She was herself visited by the masked horsemen. The papers of the organization were taken from htrgand destroyed and she was taken out and whipped. After which her home was burned. She placed herself under the, protection-of Judge. Harris, where she has been ever since; Thepalace of Czar Nicholas is no more strongly guarded than is the home of Judge Harris, Tiptonville. Lake County. The richest man in the county,' the owner of the most land surrounding Reelfoot Lake, the causeof the uprising of the Night Riders, he is the man most sought by them. Harris’ father died a few years ago, leaving him his vast’ estate and *his title to the. Reelfoot property. He was responsible for the bringing of the lawsuits which dispossessed the farmers and fishermen of what they regarded as their rights from childhood. From that time he has been a marked man. He has received daily messages warning him that his life would s pay the forfeit for his acts. From the first of the trouble Harris has never gone out of his home alone. He is always accompanied- by at least two men. His home is like a citadel. Electricians have placed mines at every approach to it.' These can be touched off by electric buttons in the house. The house itself is mined with explosives that can be fired ■ from many places, in case the Night Riders should gain access to it. Harris is not a judge. “Judge” is his surname, given to him by an aunt when he was a baby because he had such a solemn, look. Give people what yuu think they want instead of what they ask for, and Ton’ll make a lot of enemies.

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pil’s last name. The boy res nted the appellati in his class named Hazel. When the teacher learned her error, she apologized, but Hazel did not let the matter rest. He played tn:.mt for tWp weeks and concealed the. fact from bis parents. The parents were notified, bearing he would’be severely punished, the lad ran away, became a tramp, and evil association ruined him. • ' On Jan. .11,»1908. he went to his .parents’ home iu Toledo and slew his mother by hitting her over the head with a hammer. His father returned from work that night and found the woman dead on the kitchen floor. Money and jewelry had* been stolen from a room upstairs. that night arrested Harvey and he confessed. The youth is a study iu criminology and a puzzle' to alienists. With frank, open - countenance, mild brown eyes that are* uncommonly large, he looks'anything but a boy who would commit murder. He is gentle mannered and soft of speech, and during his trial was referred to as the “angelfaced” boy. . . After his arrest the boy talked about the crime with the utmost coolness. He never shed a tear during his long term in jail awaiting trial. Ha smiled when the jury gave its vendict.

END OF AMERICA’S “SUGAR KING.” z v >: •' ■ 1 • ijffl M— Claus Spreckels, financier, philanthropist and “sugar king," recently died of pneumonia in San Francisco. His. two sous, John D. and Rudolph,-were at the bedside' at the end. Rudolph Spreckels, who is pictured here with his father, was on the steamship Nippon Maru. front Honolulu.; when his father’s critical condition r was flashed to him by wireless. ' He urged the officers of the.vessel to make all haste, offering to pay person.-viy tor-all the coal consumed in the dash for the Golden Gate, and arrived in port’a Tew hours before death came. < > " Clafts Spreckels was bom in Germany in 1828. At the age of 20 he took steerage passage for America, landing in Charleston} with but 83 in his pocket and a knowledge that he was in a new country where “hustle”- seemed to be the watchword. . Young .Spreckels’ first work- was as. a grocer’s clerk, when he toiled early and late for just his boqrd .for the first month. A year apd a half later Spreckels was able to buy out his employer and go into the grocery business for himself. His business prospered , from the start, and was conducted successfully until 1855, when he saw an advantageous ojwning in New York and went tliither, xyhere his success was beyond all his ex- ■ 1 ■ : j ’■ ( !■ ■■!.■’ In the gold boom period he went to San Francisco, and at first ran a store and later a brewery. In 1863 he established his first sugar refinery, and invented new refining processes. About the same time pe acquired largfr sugar estates in Hawaii. When the sugar trust was organized, its promoters invited Spreckels to sell out to them. He refused to sell, and the trust resolved to force Spreckels out of business. Instead of submitting to such dictation, Spreckels went to Philadelphia with $5,060,000 cash and erected the largest sugar refinery in the world, when he fixed prices himself in the trust’s own domains. After studying the situation for a while, the trust capitulated. Then Spreckels sold them his Philadelphia property and the trust left him in control -jrf the entire Pacific coast t

.1 : .i ■iier’s.u':'';ffi<e mnn.wydars ago is s:,'J i i li.-.ve r» si! i-‘il in D ai■ llarvey l.ffizel hu-Jmirg tb.e murderer; of his tie "'v:”.’ At Toledo' Jia :>el wap'found gl;i .y-of 'killing Itisl pitrent .anjd was. - ,s\i - I i > life imjjlsonmeij in the. Ohio penitentiary. m Wheii the boy was going tb school in the earlier -part- of- his fifle-r-he is in''’.' 17-bis tutor; uuiiiteijHoually, cffib'fl him itszel win u s’le.-waijt-ed him to recite o-r Her. This continued .l'.>r some time. ”the teacher not kiiowhig that HazeL wtjsi life pu-

HA'TDS RAW AND SCALY.W /; Itched Hiid Burned Terribly— < Not Move Thumbs Mithout I Crack inn— Sleep 1 m ble—( cura Soon Cured Beskina. “An itching humor covered iboth fiends and got up over my wrists and even Up to the elbows. The Itching aud burning weiW terrible. My hands gbt all scaly.and when 11 sera Pil'd. surface would be'covered with-I.listers and then get raw. The eCzeifia got so bad that 'I could not. move my thumbs- •* without d,eep cracks appearing. I went to my doctor, but his mediejine coufd opl.v stop-the itching.- At niiht I suf-', sered so feajpfully that I could npt sleep. 1 I could not bear to touch toy hands with’wate?. This ’went on for three months find I was fairly wornout. At last I got the Cuticura Remedies and in a month I was cured ’Walter H. Cox, ■ 16 Somerset st., Boston, Mass.; Sept. 25,1908.” Potter Drug & Chem. Corp..- Sole Props-, of Cuticura Remedies. Boston. Wo Butter in Great Brltaltt. The British.lsles are in the throes of a butter famine. The’state of affairs which now exists in London has never ; been experienced befote in the arfeni ,ryJ . of the oldest living merchant. ' city. Liverpool. Manchester; Glasgnvp. ' Bristol and other, great centers of trad* ■may be said to be. in a state of panic. There Is no reserve of cold stored butter at a11..-,Many of; the' prominent mais garine manufahturers in Englafid..'re- ’ port that not for many years have they i been working at'.suctThigh ptessure to [fill their pressing orders.. It i's antic!--’ * pated that,during> the, present high price [of butter it will mfeet with ain enorinou* i sale. .. ' ? W- ■ • ? ' HURT' IN A ' WRECK'. Kidneys t’n<”y Injured end Health , Serfi»ti<ly Impaired. -1 || wriiail. V.’II le. R. 11 malt, '_M.l Con- ■ -ic.ac.c- >. . 'f'ij.-.. Rivers. M i'.it.. .says : , "lu a railroad collision . thy khi's-ys

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