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The Batesburg Advocate. VOL. II. BATESBUIIG!, S. C., WKDNKSDAY, AUGUST 27, 10O2. NO. 32 RIOT IN PRISON. Exciting Times in Kentucky Penitei tiary. RIOT LASTED FOUR HOURS. The Mutineers Finally Surronil *? One Prisoner >lori ally Wouml('<1 anil Two Others Seriously Shot. tA special from Frankfort I<y., sayt The otllcials of the State penitentialaiul the citi/ens ol 1''rank fori wer thrown inloa state of wild exciteineii Wednesday by a riot in the priso started by an attempt to gain thei liberty of three desp* rate murderers Lafayette It rooks of Morg *.n count} and Wallace Bishop and T. Multima of Kenton county. Before the riot, which began at o'clock and lasted until alter 10. wa quelled the mutinous convicts wer captured, ltishop being fatally wound jed. Mulligan shot in the shoulder an a negro comict. Albert Ilansome o Louisville, whom the desperadoes ha pressed into service, \.as hit l>v i rill hall. The rioting started while lliuolo Mulligan and Bishop, one of wh?>n had a pistol concealed about his pei son, were coining out of the dinin room to answer a hospital call. Siul denly one of the convicts drew weapon and compelled <>uard A. II . llill to give up his arms. Guard F. K Hurst wlio rushed to <;ii>'s assistance was also Captured by the convicts I * Capt. Mat Madigan, acting warden then rushed forward w ith six guaid I and tired on the hunch, but noon was wounded. The convicts then ra across the road and at theentiance t the reed department of the chair fac tory captured Willis, of Clark county I a foreman. They covered him wit' their pistols and placing him In-twcei them auil the guards re rented to th rocker department in the chair fac tory, whence they could command goou view in wie enure yard. At ; window they stationed Willis, am Brooks with a revolver in his hands took a position just behind the cap tive, resting the muzzle of t he weapoi tm the foreman's side. The convict then deticd Warden Lilian! lout-temp to capture them, shouting that the would kill the foreman at the tirs ' move made against t hem. liy this time several honored per sons, many of them heavily armed gathered at the prison gates, hut th warden denied admission to all. II< issued orders for all the shops to elos and for all the prisoners to lie return ed at once to their cells, lie tliei placed a guard of no men around ih< building in which the desporadoei had barricaded themselves and eallci on them to surrender. The convict; only reply was a taunt, l-'or the pin teetion of Foreman Willi*, the wardei then determined to starve the des peradoes into .submission. James Buckley, foimer city work housekeeper, and Morgan brewer. ; former guard at the penitentiary climbed to the root of a resideno overlooking the building in which th convicts had taken refuge and lire* several shots into the room where tin desperadoes were entrenched. The] were compelled to desist, however, a Foreman Willis was forced to the win dow in the line of tire. Finally a letter was dropped fron the window saving that if the wardei would come to the head of the step leading to the reed department the convicts would surrender, lirst sending their weapons down by Fran! Brooks. Warden Lilian! prepared to aeccp the terms of this note, and as a mat ter of precaution-a half dozen convict were placed in the hospital overlook i itir t lio fAzv/1 ?.? ...... t \\T.--. i tuu i vi u u(-|i,ii i iiirin. \ \ a ruui Li Hard accompanied l>y eijjlu mei then proceeded to the foot of tin- stair way. The prisoners emerged from tin reed room as they had promised will hands up. but as they proceeded dowi Hie stairway. Itishop dropped hi> hunds to his side as it to daaw a weap on. ile had hardly made motioi when one of the warden's parly tired the bullet striking Itishop in tin breast indicting a fatal wound. When Itishop fell Mulligan an< It rooks sank to their knees he^in< the warden to save their lives and a 10.do o'clock the two desperadoes heavily shackled and accompanied h; ten men with drawn pistols, wen placed in their cells and ipiiet ha( been restored. A llint Wreck. a regular Pennsylvaniatrain on tin New York and Long branch railroad bound north, was run into froin tin rear at the Itelmar station Tuesday night by a special < entral railroad o New .Jersey train, 'i'lie IVnnsylvani; train bid stopped at Itelmar statioi to pick up passengers. 'J'he Centra train was running north also and wa: empty. The engine of the Centra train tele.seop< <1 the rear of tin Pennsylvania train. Six cars wen wrecked, several persons were killei and a number injured. At midnight two b<idles had been taken from tin wreck. A little yirl was killed a: she was being put aboard the waiting train. The engineer and tireman o the Central train have not been seei since the collision. It is believed tbej are under the wreckage. The lit tit girl killed was Alice Itiggert. thirteei years old, who lived at Ualiway. Tin tirst body taken out was I bat of at unknown man aUiut thirty-live yean of age. 'J'lie man was poorly dresser and looked to 1)0 a laborer. WHERE THE MONEY GOES. ' KIkIiI Hundred Million Dollar* Spent 1by I'retttMil Cimikitsn. The volume containing statements of appropriations, new olllces, etc., required by law to he prepared and I published at the end of each session ! of congress, under the direction of the j committees on appropriations of the ! senate and the house, lias lieen completed for the lirst session of the 57th congress by Thomas I'. Cleaves and .lames S. Courts, chief clerks respectively oT these committees. . A summary on the appiopriations shows the prand total of $8,000,024,V 400. j ' ' The details by hills are as follows: i ' '1- Agricultural, $5,208,000; army, $01,- 1 " 730,136; diplomatic, $1,057,925; Dis-11 r tricl of Columbia, $8.511.400: f>u litica- ( < tion $7,298,955; Indian, $8,980,028; I ' j legislative, $25,398,081; military aca- ' " | demy, $2,027,321: nuvals. $78,850,503; < I pension. $139.sp.>,230: postollice, $138,| f 10,508; river and harbor, $20,771.142; | uS sundry civil. $80,103,3511; deficiencies, , o $28,050.007;miscellaneous, $2,722,705; | ) I* isthmian canal. $50.130,000; perman- j j ! ent appropriations. $123,021,220. ' In addition to the specific appropria-; ! <Mtions made, contracts are authorized 0 ' to he entered into for certain works 1 ' ! requirinp future appropriations by ; ? j conpress in the upprcpate sum of , ' 11 j $202.711.405. These contracts in-'1 ' | elude $21,000,500 for additional ships | . ? | for the navy and for permanent im- j ' j provements of increased facilities at : il certain navy yards; $15,943,050 fori. ' additions to old buildings and the con- j | struction of new public buddings in ' i various cit ies of the country: $38,330.- |'. i loo for improvement of rivers and j 1 harbors; $3,500.000 for reconstruction 1 :< I or old and erection of new buildings ' e at the military aca demy at West. 11! Point, and $180,000,000 for .the con- L "'struction of an isthmian canal. The new otUees and employment of a civilian character, specitieally an- |. 11 thorized, number 0,380 with com pen- j j I j sat iou for the year of $0,343,505. and ''! those aholislred or omitted apprepate , " 1.105, at an annual pay of $1,289,080, ' ;i i a net increase of 5,221 at a vearlv cost ''. II Of $5,054,514. f rf In addition to the new civilian em j ploymcnts shown the volume also!., shows an increase of 05 in the mill- " 11 | lary establishments, at an annual cost! s ; of $42,308, and 300 otlicers (including ; f 285 additional midshipmen) together1' y with 3,000 seamen in the naval estab- j 1 j lishment. and 1,550 additional men in ' the marine corps, with total annual j " pay of$1,343,777. L A comparison of the total appropria- I' L> Lions made at the last session of con- ! . press for 1003 $800,024,490?with ^ c those of the preceding or short session j. ", the 50th con press for 1002 $730,338,- ' 1 1 570 shows and increase of $70,285,- !( 2j 020. | , SI I TRAGEDY IN HIGH LIFE. s ? i j t i Newport Shocked I$.v the Suicide ol? t a Disappointed Ijovcr. s - I 1 Disappoint mcnt over a broken inatri-1 v mnnial engagement is believed to have j 0 i been the eanse of the suieide at New(l port. K. 1.. of Robert Reading Ucm*. L, j ington, of New York. Mr. Remington e went over to the elub house from his . j ; rooms at the La Forge cottage al>out j s I oVIoek Monday afternoon, and, after ^ reading the papers for some time, L went to the committee rooms on the j e , second iloor. An hour and a half later 1 j , two mutiled reports were heard, but s those in the building paid no attention < v , to them. Later Mr. Remington's' body was found by a member who went , to the committee room. Remington jc 1 evidently had been dead for some time, j . A local undertaker took charge of the I ? . body. i t s Mr. Remington was well known s . | among the summer residents of New- , , port and had been closely identified f ( with t lie social world of that resort for the last seven or eight years. His ; J engagement to Miss May Van Alcn. i c | daughter of .lames Van Alen and I c I granddaughter of Mrs. William Astor, t , lias been discussed for some time. At first it .vas denied and then atlirmed. | j( .! but it is generally believed there was t. , a delinite engagement, which, how-i v ever, was broken some three weeL-< .1 a^o. It is said that Mr. Van Alcn ]; was p'reatly opposed to t!ie cn^a^e-1 ? I merit from tbe be^inniiitf. L, , I Si nee then Mr. Keininefon has been j j despondent. although when asked j alKiut the engagement lie steadily afJ I lirnied that lie was to he married in '' ^ j the fall, lie left the city about ten i I | days ago. breaking up his domestic arrangements and sending away all bis eifeets. (>n Thursday of last week, however, he suddenly returned to. [ Newport. lie had frequented the . leading clubs of Newport, but seemed " [> to desire to Ik: left alone. |l' ; When the body was discovered blood ! " I was coming from the mouth and a re- ~ i solver was found h\ the dead man's 'J II side. A physician found that three c 1 shots had been fired from the re- 11 s solver, and an examination of the 1 head showed that all three had taken effect. The tii>t bullet apparently 111 ploughed across the forehead, cutting ' I a deep gash. and the second glanced!" L up over the head, making a furrow on s the top of the cranium, bet still not s entering the skull. The thiru shot!" r was tired through the mouth and the ' I bullet entered the brain, death pmb- j i ably resulting instantly. The revolver c r was a 118-calibre. e Mr. Memington was about years o i ot age and 4 member of the lirin of s< Remington I trot hers, of New York, a 1 lb- always had been known as a man ji , of very quiet taste. Mis death has I n I caused :i tremendous sensation in e Newport. j si FOR THE TRUSTS. A Pair of Labor Union Haters on the Bench. WOULD STARVE ALL STRIKERS. They Think that Working Men II ave No UIkIiIn Which Trusts Are Hound lo ltCMpCCt. The "vain pi re" speech made by Jiidtfo Jackson of West Virginia when lie fixed extreme penalties on the j lalxir representatives who were work- ' Inir for their order is one of those ut.erances that have in them the ele- j nenUs of all sorts of dissatisfaction \ ind disturbance. : Periodically there comes t? the ' icneh a man who is absolutely out of i I ?y in pa thy with the spirit of his time, j, ind such a one is very likely to regard , -lie |/v llvo .otolith - I ?.-? Viviuviv/ll l\l UilU [JV, I 1.1V.111 il*> tl v> til* , . ant for assuming that he is privileged > , < hector and scold as well as to tlx ! , penalties and decide disputes. These are the judges who are most | fiVv'n to usiug their power of c nnnit- | nent for contempt of court. t Tlie men .1 udgc .lockson has sent to j j tail for periods of two and three i nonths disregarded (lie injunction | ( hat, forbade tiiem to persuade men to | oiti a labor union. It will he a long ' , ime before Ameriea is read.- to ac- >, opt the ruling of this court that talk- I , ng to tlie employees of a particular , loucern is an offense so grave that a ! weeping injunction can make it eon- t cmpt of court. ! I That such a ruling Is of us to the ; ( Turksburg Fuel company is obvious, j ( iiid there have lwcn judges who have 11 bund warrant of law for prohibiting i ( Ltiytliinj; that rich corporations found j 0 their disadvantage. L Does anyoodv believe that if the i v diners' union applied to this or anj js ither judge for an injunction prohibit- . ng tlie Clarksburg Fuel company rom inducing its employees to remain uitsidc the union they would get even t Ilea ring? The description of the union organ- i zers as "vampires that live and fatten | >n the honest lalior of tlie coal miners ; | >f tlie country * * * and have noth- | ng in common with tlie people who j s ire employed in the mines of tlieClarks-1;! >urg Fuel company" is part of Judge ! N lacksoifs trade. i s Certainly tlie dignity of the courts i t s more jeopardized by such a revela- j [ ion of temper and bias on the part of s 1 judge than it ever could lie by tlie , lisregard of his injunctions. . j The lawyers who practice before , ludge Jackson "'have nothing in comnon" with tlie litigants they repre- x cut. but lie would hardly describe s Item as vampires. ^ The walking delegates are a part of i t lie sceme of unionizing labor a s elieme that has done more for the i a letterment of conditions among tiiose 11 vlio toil than any other element of I 1 >ur civilization. Without their un-j e nns tlie employees of any corporation , t ire utterly at its mercy. By concerted , J* .etion they can make a stand against a njustice tliat they never could do as j 1 iiuiviuuais. \\ linout tlie organizers ! 1 here would l>c no unions, a situation ! I hat would doubtless satisfy the own-; a rs of coal mines and possibly Judgeji ackson. but one that would be niel-1 c ncholy for the men who have to work ; f vith their hands. I d The last word as to government by i ;i njunction has not been spoken in this \ t ountry l>y any means. | s The power to punish for contempt s if court was given judges as a pro- s ection to themselves at their ses- v ions, it was never meant to create lew crimes or to furnish a weapon or employers as against their men. There is another aspect of this case. _ Cvery person before a court is required I , o treat that court with respect and | ourtesy. The obligation of the par- | icular citizen who happens to be ' , hosen to sit in judgment on his fcl- i Dws to treat others with respect and , ourtesy is equally binding. The judge i , rho is there to decide the rights and q rrongs of disputes and administer the ' s aw generally, is neither a preacher j j| ior a professor of morals. Sermons |s ,nd lessons are as far from his duties ( s abuse and tyranny. Calling men vampires because they j ; re Intrusted t?y their fellows with a \ unetion of which Jud^e Jackson dis- |; pproves is neithcir law nor manners, p <**** **?*?*; One more crime has been added to e he catalogue. la Jud^e Jackson hy his Injunctions v aade it a punishable otfense to ask a > oal miner to join a labor union, and >i lowJudtfe Keller, another West \ ir- t inia jurist has issued injunctions for- t lidding the establishment i? strike ( amps, which are established in eon- , icclion with she purchase and distri-' nit ion of food for the striking miners. The lawbreakinp' railroads, which ], nine coal illegally and in defiance of s heir charters, arc to be contra dated v n die presence on the bench of two, ^ ucli convenient justices as these, w if they do not win the strike, it will s mt be the fault of Judye Jackson and udtfc Keller. ' The splendid response of the union c onference in the matlcrof st like hen-. n tits made it impossible for the coal I peralors to carry out their beneticent w [ heme of starving the strikers into si liaudoninK their union, so this in- o auction, directed at the leaders of the si at ional executive committee and oth- a rscharged with the duty of providing ti applies for the men who are out on d I strike, comes along in the very nick of time. The encroachment on the liberty of the miners is greater with every ex- q ample of this misuse of ttie power of the federal injunction. There was a time in the history of the struggle between capital and Its employees that it was a serious penal j offense for a man to accept or demand more than a rate of wages so low that it seems incredible that workmen were (l able to live at all. It was no mere make believe law either and was buttressed by another that made it punishable by imprisonment to refuse to work at the prevailing rate. It was from this condition of slavery that labor unions rescued the men who do the world's work. n The injunction principle would again liiii?l the hands of labor and make it absolutely dependent on the generosity ( of employers. j w it is not for the law to say that men t| shall not join unions tor their mutual beneiit or that thev shall nnt. Lu get others to join them or that they shall not form Gimps or do anything 2Ise that is n tt in itself unlawful, and (j when the law is turned and bent toj make the; e things criminal, to the end that some man or set of men may hire workers cheaply, there is engendered pi i contempt for laws that may not al T ways be confined to the judge-made rulings. ' The progress of labor has been o\er j the wrecks of just such obstacles as ^ these, and it is absurd to suppose tlrat | si bis progress ran be halted now. The ;1( njunetions of Judge Jackson and , ( lodge Keller will never become precelenls. Whether they are sustained 'or tlio present or not, they will soon ':l ?e overruled by the court of public -vt tpiuion, against the decisions of which io injustice can stand in a free conntry. I ,s\' Within a generation these injunc-}'"1 ions will tte as great curiosities i.i the ' w listory of the struggle fur better con- i " litions for laboring men as the old law j sa eferrcd to above that made it a crime j o refuse work for a small and arbi- ' f'( rarily set rate of wages. tx The law is what the people make it. md tb" people of the t'nited States }\ sill never be a party to the erection of ^ iuch tyrannical and one-sided rulings j is these into part of the legal system. :u New York American and Journal. 1 A Sad Tragedy. I A special from Yorkville says: Karly j,l( A'ediiesday morning, at I'leasant jsl tidge, about eighteen miles above iere, in (lastonia County, N. C.. Jesse s< Harris shot and wounded Harvey Dickon and a short time afterwards shot ind killed himself. Moth parties are Sl veil known white citizens of Cuit lection. The facts surrounding t4.o ('< .ragedy are as follows; Karris had had i'1 rouble with his family and as a re- n< ,ulL had not been living at home for w nore than a year. Yesterday he re- A urned In a bad humor, being intoxi- ''J ated. His wife and daughter were E ifraid to stay in the house with hlin a! vithout protection, and asked Dick- (,;1 on, a neighbor, to eome and stay In I r:l heir home during the night and un- J il the husband and father became : h; ober. Dickson came to the house ; ,fter dark, and lie and Karris sat on hi he front piazza and talked in a friend- tl v manner for an hour or more, at the h< nd of which time Dickson retired to hi lie room that had been assigned him. J (Ubseqnently Karris went to Dickson i h< nd said that lie was going to shoot jsu lim, and said i<? his family that "the tl iglits will bum all night tonight." lickson was not alarmed at t he threat h; nd only realized that it. was not an die one when some time later a load hi if shot was emptied into his thigh rom a gun tired through an open win- P< low hy Jesse Karris. Immediately im Iter tiring the shot Karris went to , hi lie rear of the house and shot him- I ai elf through the head, dying in a P( hurt time from the wound. ltis;"? aid that Dickson will recover, his j hi round not being serious. > ^l in Murdered His Iaimllord. tl The coroner's jury investigating the , JY obhery and murder of Watkins New- , nan and the partial cremation of his A M?dy in 1 lis home near Jefferson City, renn., reported Wednesday, recoinnending the arrest of William Wat-L^' iilis. Tile accused was a wit ness !? - ore the jury and was at once taken nto custody and jailed at Morristown, ^ Penn. The testimony brought out i ol I lowed that Newman had been inurlered, tied to his lied and the house '' et on lire. His arms and legs were turned olT. and an examination showed hat robltery had also been committed. 1 HI the testimony was damaging to Vat kins, but that of C. T. Kankin, a iwycr, was especially so. Watkins or tad been ejected from one of New- ^ nan's houses and went to llnnkin to ol onsult him concerning a suit for dam- (|( ges. He asked the attorney what (m fould he the cll'eet on the suit it' y s'ewman was out of the way and could ' lot testily. He made the assertion (|, hree times in his attorney's presence i (1(| hat lie would geteven with Newman. t(. >tlier arrests are expected. Killed ai a Meeting. At a county campaign meeting to eld Tuesday, August 1!?, at Wilson's i pi; tore, in the upper section of Green-' ar ilie county, Carey Styles stiot and I ed illed Walter McCarrell and seriously pi: rounded his younger brother. Kmmet St tyles, and Earnest McCarrell. Styles M as been arrested. The shooting took (A lace about 2(lu yards from where the j <h nndidates were speaking. Eye wit- all esses say that Earnest McCarrell and of Immct Styles were engaged in a tight, fr< hen Carey Styles appeared and began Id hooting his first bullet striking his W wn brother in the leg. Styles then j de hot Earnest McCarrell in the right ( ll< rin. and upon the appearance of Wal- j co i McCarrell Styles tired at liini, pro- wl ucing instant death. hi A. A RACE RIOT. ix Persons Seriously Wounded in a Fight In Mississippi. ROUBLE CAUSED BY NEGROES. netted by a Mouthy Preacher. They Have Secretly Organized and Armed Themselves lor Unlawful Purposes. Six persons seriously sliot and a n ml v.* r injured is tlie reported result r a race riot in the south eud of Lee ounty, near Shannon, Miss., which as reported to t?c still in progress on le 20th inst. Three negroes and iree white men are badly injured and hers probably inure or less so. i This is the result of a race riot par- i cipated in by a secret organization of jgroes tiring upon and wounding the uhank Invlhers while on their own i remises. The shooting occurred on uesday, soon after dark. I'osses in ' irsuit had a lively encounter with 1 le negroes six miles south of Shannon 'ednesday evening, when more or less j looting was done. One white man i id three negroes were badly wounded id several more negroes were slightly ( art. Other posses were in pursuit at ) st accounts and the alfair was not < ;t over. A dispatch from Tupelo, Miss., ited the 21st inst., says: Deputy leritT Temple has lust reached the I ty, with eight desperadoes hound ith chains and under a heavy guard, e reports r?00 men under arms and ivs great excitement prevails. For some months negroes at Slianir. and Netileton have been giving msiderahle trouble, secret societies dug formed under th^ guidance of a trmer school teacher or preacher, j he.se organizations are said to ite for : ie purpose of resisting white men 1 id protecting negroes in deeds of ' wlcssness. i The alleged instigator of the serious | itbreak is a negro preaclier named ;IT. lingers. He has been held under I lspicion by the whites for some time i i a bad character. He is a negro of 1 imc education and has considerable , itluencc in his church. j The tirst serious trouble broke out une time ago, when a negro named iles Jackson assaulted the Laudcriles in a corn Held, seriously woundig them. About a month ago this ?gro died in the county jail from oundsinflicted while resisting arrest, few days ago a negro was seen takig corn from a field belonging to Mr. ' ubanks, who lives close to Shannon, j id when spoken to about it he beitne insolent and defiant and a warint was sworn out for his arrest. On Tuesday evening a son of Hu- , iiiks, living jusl across uie road, no- i ced a number of negroes congregat- t ig around his house. He supposed \ ley meant to attack his home, and ; y crossed the road and joined his j | ther and younger brother. Shortly , ter Euhanks went to his father's ] iuso a command to lire was given, 11 id a blinding volley rang out from ' t le guns carried by the negroes. Itoth i ' the younger Euhanks were hit and ; | idly wounded. . j After the shooting of the Euhanks I others the whites immediately or- j t ini/.ed themselves into an armed j 1 ?sse to bring to justice the guilty ; i groes. Wednesday evening, headed ! ; Marshal Randolph, of Nettleton, I ] id Marshal lrbv, of Shannon, this 11 isse went after two memliers of the < gro mob, who were supposed to lie L ding in a cabin about six miles from j j lannoii. The posse reached the cab- 11 and ordered tlie door opened, hut ; ie command was unheeded. After ( aitinga moment itandolph pushed ! c ie door open, lie was met by a vol- \ 5 y of hirdshot and fell across the 1 i ireshhold. with blood gushing from \s s face and shoulders. The negroes u out of the house, over the pros- t ate ofllcer. They were met by a , illcy from the posse, and three ne'ocs were injured so hadly that they | ere left lying on tne ground. The [, hers escaped in the darkness, some ^ aving behind traces of their wounds. j t A deputy has returned from Shan- , >n and rejiorts everything quiet there ?w. > A "ojoliiuiMter Killed. i ?) Uoadmuster Froci Stcvers of Stev- , s, Va., was shot and killed and .Mm , ithi-11, a negro porter, was danger- % isly wounded in a tight with disor- % rly negroes on a southbound Sea-! j >ard Air Line train near Middlcburg, j a. The negroes had taken seats in le coach reserved for whites. Conictor Clements ordered them to the ach for negroes. The negroes pro-, i sled but obyed the order. When in t ie "jini crow" coach one of t he ne- j t ocs. named Joe Cole, st ruck at the I a nductor Koadmaster Stevers came ' I tlie conductor's rescue. Ttje negro I died a pistol and Stevers clasped him i ound the body, but tlie negro twist- <1 his arm around, and getting his 'I stol against Stevers' head, shot hiiu. a evers falling dead on thecoach lUwir. n itchell the porter rushed towards 11 ile as lie pointed the pistol at Con- c ictor Clements and was shot in the' idomen. Passengers raptured tliree tlie participants and two jumped mi the train, escaping to the woods. , <Kid hounds have been sent from 0 cldon to cliasc them down. The " ad body of Stcvers was put oft at " [inderson and Jim Mitciiell, the 1 lored porter, wasbrought to Ualeigh 1 lere an operation was performed on j 1 ni. The physicians fear lie will die. |1 TRAIN WRECKER ARRESTED. Two Unsuccessful Attempts Mntle Senr Chester. The crime of train wrecking is generally supposed to iiave been contemporaneous with that of train robbing. Hut while trains are not wrecked frequently nowadays, it is because the railroads, through their "section bosses" keep a superb patrol of the great highway of commerce, and frustrate whatever attempts are made. A bold attempt to wreck the Southern's fa'-t train tjetween Columbia and Charlotte a few nights ago failed miraculously, and a subsequnt attempt the night following also failed. There will be no more attempts for Ue negro fiend is in jail. The arrest was made by Mr. Geo. W. bishop, special agent of the Southern railroad. The fast train which left ftilnmhin at <>.25 last Thursday evening ran into An obstruction at the Shannon place just beyond (Jornwell's. rrhe engine was going at a mighty clip, something like (50 miles an hour, and the obstruction was on a curve. It is marvelous that the train was not derailed, especially when the nature of the obstruction is known. Flat on the outer rail on tlie curve was placed a piece of llat iron about an inch thick and four feet long. This Itself was almost enough to throw the wheels of the engine from the track. I'.ack of this was placed a "lish-plate" >r piece of iron which is used to tie the ends of rails. This was almost a in re agent of destruction. Hut to make i lie tiling doubly sure, the wouldLie wrecker placed on eacli rail a tlint rock weighing 125 pounds. When tlie great engine struck this ' o.nhination of olistructions it hurled jhe iron liar far into a field nearby, tossed the "fish-plate" to one side and pushed the rocks from the track. Friday night the attempt was repeated: this time a smaller rock was ased. There was some delay in reporting the matter, hut in less than two days after lie got the information Mr. Hishop had secured a confession from .lolm Wallace, a negro boy 19 fears old, who lives near the scene of he attempted wreck. The section master suspected a cerain negro, hut the latter, in proving lis innocence, threw some light on he crime and stated that two or three legroes whom he named had lieen men in the neighborhood about that | lour. An old plantation darkey cor-olKirated this statement. John Walaee was among the boys named. Mr. Llishop found the boy and charged lim with the crime. Wallace wilted Hid his suspicions actions led to his irrest. On the way to the jail he adnitted having made the second ateinpt hut denied responsibility for lie tirst. He had no motive except ihat he wanted to do something devilsh. nun visitt'u uy ins parents ai jail John Wallace was asked what he did rith liis younger brother with whom ic had started to church. It developed hat Wallace had protested against he younger boy going with him. and ,vhen they arrived near the scene of lis intended crime he left his brother hi some pretext and slipped down the -uilroad track. After some evasion le finally confessed his guilt jn t-lie irst attempt. He would have used nore elaborate methods.the second light but was frightened by the approach of the train. it isdifllcult toappreciate the enoruity of this attempted crime. John Wallace waited Tor the short train, or ocal, to go by, and his efforts were directed against the vestibule which folows shortly afterwards. This train arries upwards of l.*>0 persons every lay. From the topography of the lorality. the speed of the train, etc., t is easy to believe that the loss of ife would have been appalling. The law, it is said, is not severe mough. Last year over in Lexington '.ounty an attempt was made to wreck l passenger train coming down the till at Leesville. A spike was driven 1 iccurely between the ends of rails and l link used in coupling was thrown >ver the spike, making a formidable destruction. A white man passing the spot saw he obstruction and with a light wood ! cnot drove the spike from its secure I position It required frantic efforts i o remove the spike liefore the train ' I mo mcliinir l.f . ' .m mill it.# ilioard. The guilty party, a negro, vas caught and was given 1* months n jail, but little more than an ordiniry thief would be given. A railroad nan said Wednesday that the author if an unsuccessful attempt at train ( vreeking sliould lie sentenced for life villi 111e stipulation that a pardon >y a governor would not be recognized n such a case. Drowned Hi* Koiir Children. Joseph Anderson, a farmer living icar Salina, Kansas, in a tit of desMindency drowned his four children, hree girls and a lxiy, in a cisteru, aid tiien sliot himself with a revolver. Vnderson is probably fatally injured. 1 'inancial matters had affected ids nind. The crime was committed 1 luring the absence of the mother. The oldest child was six year> of age nd the youngest a baby of four nonths. Anderson left a note on a able, notifying the mother that the lilldrcn could be found in the cistern. Severe Storms in Iowa. Another series of severe lightning nd windstorms passed through Sautliastern Iowa Tuesday evening, doing nuch damage. In the last few weeks nine than 100 barns have been struck >y lightning near Keokuk and more ban that number in Southeastern own. Many Northeast Missouri counies have suffered the same way. SIXTEEN KILLED. Terriffic Explosion of Two Steel Digesters. VICTIMS MANGLED AND BURNED Details ot* a ltlood-Curdllnjc Occurrence In Dclnwarc Pulp MIIIh. The Worst In Yet to lie Told. . Many Persons Are Missing. A special from Wilmington, l>el., says sixteen workmen are known to have been killed, six are uiissiug and three others are badly injured by the explosion of two steel digesters in the Delaware I'uip mills, in the Jessup & \t(tfirn l>..n..r 1? ? v- i u^vi cviu^aii) r? nui i\?, UJII tllC Christiana, Wednesday afternoon. The dead are: Frank Harris, Wm. liurke, .James Nagle, John McCorinick, Zacharius Collins, colored. Jas. Stokes, Joseph Lumbacher and Granville Waters. The missing: William Scott, Joseph Henry, Joel Hutton and Wm. Ruth, tiremen; K. II. Mousley and James Sweeney. The injured: James Jeter, badly burned, recovery doubtful: John Collins, burned and inhaled llames: Ceo. Durham, burned and scalded, recovery doubtful. The digesters were located in a twostory building. There were ten of them in the building, each one resembling a vat and al>out six feet in diameter. Tuey were used for reducing wood pulp. Eighteen men were, at work in the building. There were two terrific reports, and the next instant the building and other mills about the structure were completely wrecked. One digester was blown into the air and fell to the ground 250 feet away. A dense volume of smoke for a time prevented the outside workmen from going to the immediate rescue of those who were caught in the ruins of the falling building. Several men made their escape without any injury. An alarm of tire was sounded and the entire department of the city and a large force of policemen were soon on the ground and the work of rescue was immediately begun. Several of the workmen were taken out unconscious, only to die after being removed to hospitals. The wreckage was piled up for more than thirty feet and the escaping steam made the work of res cue rather difficult. Those who were killed outright were mangled and burned by escaping acid ? that (lowed over their bodies from the w broken digesters. Up to this writing eight persons are dead, and according to the officials of the company at least six others are in the ruins. To add to the horror of the situation. the wreckage took tire, but after aumv 11uc 111ty cue urc department managed to subdue the dames and the work of rescue was continued. Steam was used in the digesters. The officers of the company think that too much steam was generated in them and that this was the cause of the explosion. The monetary loss is estimated at $:i."i,000. A Murdered Girl. The Spartanburg Journal says: Miss Minnie Mitchell, who was cruelly murdered in Chicago, a few days ago, was a sister of Itobert II. Mitchell, who married Miss Minnie Trimmier, of Spartanburg, and who is well known here. The Chicago papers recently . have contained long stories of this brutal and sensational murder. The iKxiy of the young lady was found buried under some rubbish in the very heart of the city, where it was discovered several days after the murder had been committed. A bullet hole was found in her head and her clothes were badly torn, which showed there had been a struggle. The American, one of Chicago's leading newspapers, has taken great interest in the affair, having offered a reward of $1,000 for the capture of the murderer, whose identity has been ferretted out by the reporters of that newspaper, llis name is Wm. Bartholin and he was a suitor for Miss Mitchell's hand. Every effort is being made for his capture. Nearly a Million Pensioners. Congress has been running a race with drtMt ll :i nil i'< hsu w< m cauc the Baltimore Sun. The civil war pensioners are now dying at a rapid rate, and yet tlie pension list is Increasing. Thirty-seven years after the close of the war there are more pensioners than ever before. The number lacks only )>74 of being a round million. This was an increase i>f 7.1)27 since 1HDV?. The experts sa> it is the high-water mark, and that from now on the increasing death rate will decrease the pension list. This has been predicted each year for the past twenty years, but each time congress has rallied to the rescue of the list and added more names than death Could Bike otT. <>irl Murdered in Kentucky. Zoda, the 11 fteen-year-old daughter of (J. M. Yick. a prominent farmer of Hussellville, Ky., was killed Wednesday. in slight of her father's hoiisc. She had gone to a spring for water, and failing to return, a search was instituted. Later the tx?dy, with the head crushed, was found in a fence corner, partly covered with leaves. One hundred men with bloodhounds have gone to the scene of the crime, and if the guilty person shall be caught a lynching will follow. The Yick home is alout live miles from here, near the asphalt mines. e