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The Batesbure; Advocate. 1 VOL III BATESBURG, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22,1903. $o 12 MAI) MISSOURI MOB Takes Charge of Joplin and Hangs an Unknown Black Tramp WHO KILLED A POLICE OFFICER. The Mult HaIiIh Negro Quarter and Driven the Illack* from the Town Defying the Authorities. A mob took possession of Joplin, Mo., Wednesday evening, and took an unknown negro tramp from the city jail and hanged him to a telegrapli pole at the corner of Second and Wall streets, two blocks from tire Jail. The negro was charged with having murdered Police Olilcer Leslie, who was shot dead Tuesday night in the Kansas City Southern railroad yards while endeavoring to arrest several negroes suspected or tlieft. Olficer Leslie had ordered several negroes who had taken refuge in a 1k>x car to surrender and when Lliey failed to do so he tired several shots at the car. During the shooting a negro slipped from the car and coining up behind the otltcer, shot him through j the head. The negro then tied and ' within a short time posses were after I him. About :t o'clock Wednesday afternoon, Lee Fullerton, aged 21, located j . the fugitive in a slaughter house just ' east of Joplin. The negro was armed : with a rille and detied arrest. Fuller- I ton slipped into the structure unobserved and crept up behind the negro. Suddenly lie sprang at ttie unsuspecting fugitive and before resistance j could be made lie had the negro on : his back with a knife at his throat.] The negro then surrendered his rille, j and pointing the weapon at him Ful- | lerton marched him out of the build- ; ing. With the assistance of another man the negro was brought to Joplin and placed in jail. News of the capture spread rapidly j and the jail was speedily surrounded ; by hundreds of people. There were ] cries of "Lynch him!" on all sides and City Attorney II. II. Decker mounteo 1 mil -1-- i VllC j f 11 I r?tup"? Iltiu iliilUC il AtlUIl^ |Hta j In behalf of law and order. This served temporarily to stay the mob but did not appease it and a short time after Decker's speech the mob """" started to batter in a section of the ' jail wall. Every eirort was made to prevent the entrance of the mob, but without avail and within 15 minutes the men had trained entrance to the jail and secured the trembling negro. 1 As he was dragged forth City Attorney Decker again interfered and urged that the negro he given a trial. For half an hour he talked and the mob listened to him with the negro in their custody. At one time it seemed that the city attorney would win, as members of the mob began dispersing, but sud- ; denly a rush was made for the spot where the negro was being held and he was dragged two blocks from the jail with a rope fastened around his neck, and after the rope had been thrown over the crossbar of a telegraph pole a score of men attempted! to pull the negro from the ground. As many more seized the negro and pulled to prevent him being hanged. For some moments it was a veritable tug of war, but reenforoements on the free end of the rope proved the stronger and the negro, despite his protestations of innocence, was finally swung into the air and strangled to death, while shouts of satisfaction went up from the mob. The name of the negro was not known and he was a stranger in .loplin. The lyuching of the negro served only temporarily to satisfy the Malignance of the mob and leter Wednesday night hundreds of men again as- ; sembled and rioted through the negro section of the city, burning bouses, stoning negroes and dually driving I every negro from the routines of the town of .loplin. The police were powerless. The llrst act of the molt after i hanging the negro was to demand the release from jail of a local character known as "Ilickory Hill," wtio was under arrest on the charge of assaulting a negro. In the hope that this would appease the moh t he prisoner j was set free. Hut the mob did not disperse. In-1 stead a rush was made t hrough Main street, the nrineinal street of .Innlin I and every negro was frightened oH the street and lied to tlie nort hern part of the city where t lie negro population j resides. In this way the negroes were i driven from all parts t?f the city to the i negro section. Then the inob charged ' down on the section. Stones wenthrown, doors and windows of negro houses were broken in and finally several were tired. The fire department responded, but many of the houses were burned to the ground. The mob made endeavors to prevent the lire department from extinguishing the flames and were partially successful. All theotlieers of the city, township and county were called out, but the mob swept them aside and proceeded with the rioting. Mayor Trigg ran from corner to corner and mounting boxes made earnest appeals to the I mob to cease, but beyond cheering the mayor vociferously the mob swept on and the depredations continued. The ' saloons were hurriedly closed by the mayor. After the hundreds of frenzied men composing the mob bad vented their wrath in the north end of the city they rushed to the south-| em end where lived a number of ne- j groes. Their homes were vacant and not a negro could be found. Three more bouses were tired and two were i consumed. All efforts to reason with the rioters were futile, as apparently a frenzy had seized upon them. A dispatch from Carthage, Mo , ? which Is ouly a few miles from Joplln, says the negro lynched was Thus. Gilyard, a tramp. lie hud confessed that he murdered Leslie In Tuesday night's tight. Early Wednesday Sheriff Owen g hurried off to the county Jail at Carthage, I>an Milliard, a negro who was with Gilyard Just before the police- n man was killed. Wednesday night Mullard was spirited away from Cartilage for fear of an attack on the county Jail. "BELONGS TO OUR COUN TRY." Secretary Moody'* Tribute to the Con- VV| III lederute Torpedo Bout Heroes. |); Secretary of the Navy Moody, in a \ cordial letter of acknowledgment, lias * completed a pleasant interchange of ^ tokens of good feeling between the Nortli iind South. On the battery, s ' in Charleston, S. C., there is a hand- ^ l'i some granite monument to the men ^ wlio lost their lives in the operation j,j of the Confederate torpedo boat M "Hundley," called by the Federal s' authorities the "David." On Secretary Moody's return from the West q. Indies he received through Mayor hi Smyth, of Charleston, a handsome CI double frame containing photographs lo of the two inscribed faces of the "tor- by pedo monument." The following letter from Mayor Smyth accompanied it: ce "You expreescd a wish for a pho- he graph of the monument on our bat- at tcry to oui torpedo heroes during a tli drive I had the honor to have with co you when recently in our city. I ev mentioned your request to Mrs. S. E. tli Conner, president of the Charleston wl Chapter of the Daughters of the Con- I 1 federaey, and also your remarks as in you stood with head uncovered liefore ge that monument, 'Mr. Mayor, this belongs to our country, not to Charles-, T? ton alone!' \ nc "It gives me great pleasure to pre- si: sent tliis photograph to you and to de thank you for your kind words and t lie of interest you have manifested in thD of old city. Such feelings as you ex- fc pressed do honor to your brain and ch heart, and will he cherished by us all Ix1 as typical of the true and broad Ameri- m can citi/.en you have always proved te yourself to he." Mr. Moody's response is was in the same kindly vain. a i m What was known as the "Fish tor- le: pedo boat," a submarine, was built at ti< Mobile, in 186:1, by Hundley and Mc- po Clintock. Hundley lost his own life hi within his noat and eventually she da went down for the last time with her wi victim, t ho Hniivntonio 'l'ho " r>;i vid" ll( was an entirely different type of tor- pn pedo craft and was never entirely sub- 1 merged. -Ed. The N. and C. so St A SerinuM Charge. A dispatch to The State says war- Cn rants have been issued in Anderson for the arrest of Mr. J. W. Pooser, an in- pe surance agent who spent s< me time in ij3 that city last winter. The dispatch pr says Mr. Pooser while in Anderson ??o represented tlie Pennsylvania Casualty io company and possibly one or two other tp reliable companies. lie collected ar money for a number of policies that p< have never been received by those who ^ paid for them. Mr. L. C. Houston of ie (irecnvillc, the agent of the company, lias informed parties in Anderson that :ij ho never received the money for tlie m policies and has stated that he, t(?o, ze has a warrant issued for Pooser in cr (Jrcenville. The warrants charge him with obtaining money with fraudu- in lent intent a no breach of trust. Mr. of Pooser went to Anderson froraColum- j 0f bia and wont back to Columbia from I aj here. A letter was received here a 1 re day or two ago from one of his friends j U| stating that Pooser is now in Califor- jc nia. 'Phis statement w ill lie fully in- \ u vestigated and every clTort will bo ()( made to have the warrants that have , p; been issued served upon him. so A W ar Slop Kuiscd. 1,1 The warship Hcina Christina Ilug-L. ship of Admiral Montejo, which was j, sunk liy Admiral 1 )ewey in Manila May. was raised last week. Skeletons , of eighty of her crew were in the hulk. . j (>ne skeleton evidently was that of an ! /' ( nicer, for it had a sword by it side. There were fifteen shell holes in the 1^' hull of the boat, one being made by an I eight-inch gun, and the others were ," small. The main injection valve was ,l missing, showing the ship was scuttied when Admiral M ante jo abandoned (' her. The hull is in a fair condition. " Captain Albert It. Couden, commanding the naval station at Cavite, Look charge of the remains of the Spanish j' soldiers, expressing his pur|>osc t ai give them an American naval funeral. The Spanish residents are eager to l)' ship the remains to Spain, and it is suggested that the United States t-< transport Summer convey them to Spain by way of Suez canal in dune. m Ik A Total Wreck. cj The section of a southbound Louis- n< villt? and Nashville passenger train t! which left Montgomery, Ala., at 12.-i n< :<0 Wednesday night, was wrecked at, tl Castleberry, ten miles south of di Montgomery Thuisday morning. Two ! w memt?ers of the crew were killed and di John Wright of Montgomery, the ni engineer, sustained a fractured skull, w No passengers were injured. The h dead are II. I,. Donovan, Mobile, rail- n" way mail clerk, and Major Knox, p Montgomery, negro fireman. Almost si in front of the station at Castleberry b the engine st ruck an open switch and si plowed through an empty freight car. jo! The mail and baggage cars which fol- . tl lowed caught lire and were entirely d demolished and the wreckage took j ft fire. j tl THE RACE ISSUE. x-President Grover Cleveland Seems to Grasp the Case. SOLUTION OF NEGRO PROBLEM eNtN oil Southern Hbouldcrx. Those Who Liift the Weight Must Stuml Next to It Says He. Former President Grover Cleveland us the principal speaker Tuesday ght at a meeting held in the concert ill of Madison Square Garden New ork, in the interest of the Tuskegee ormal and Industrial institute, mong those on the platform with Mr. eveland were Mayor Low, who preicd; Hooker T. Washington. Edir G. Murphy, I)r. Lyman Ablxitt, resident Nicholas Murray Hutlcr and eati J. Van Amringe of Columa, W. II. Hold win, Chaucellor fipKU/il'An TV# \r 1. ? wiuvncu <11 new iurK uuiverty,J olin DeWitt Warner and George . Peabody. Mrs. Cleveland, sat in le gallery with Mr. and Mrs. Andrew irnegie, who are Mr. Cleveland's >sts while he is in the city. Mr. eveland, who was greeted with pronged applause as he was introduced ' Mayor Low, said: "I have come here tonight as a sinre friend of the negro and I should t very sorry to suppose that my good id regular standing nee<j* support at lis late day either from certificate or infession of faith. Inasmuch, bower as there may be differences of lougiit and sentiment among those! tio profess to he friends of the negro, desire to declare myself as belongg to the Hooker Washington-Tuskee section of the organization. "1 believe that the days of 'Uncle iin's Cabin' are past. 1 believe that! ither the decree that made tlie j ives free nor the enactment that sud- j nly invested them with t lie rights | citizenship any more purged them ; their racial and slavery-bred imperctions and deficiencies than it tanged the color of their skins. I lieve that among the nearly nine illions of negroes who have been inrmixed with our citizenship, there still a grievous amount of ignorance, sad amount of viciousness and a trcendous amount of laziness pod thrift,isness. I bellvc that these condijns inexorably present to the white ople of the United States, to each In s environment and under the manite of good citizenship, a problem hich neither enlightened self interest >r the higher motive of human symilhy will permit them to put aside, believe our fellow countrymen in the uthern and in the late slave-holding .ales, surrounded by al>out uinenths, or nearly eight millions of this itire negro population, and who reird their material prosperity, their ;ace and even the safety of their civl- j .ation, interwoven with the negro j llhlnm nrn nnl itl.ul f ^ ? - - * ' uiv buuivicu w uui Ul UUSl nsidcration and sympathy and felwshlp. I am thoroughly convinced iat the etT iris of Hooker Washington id the methods of Tuskegee institute ?lnt the way to a safe and beneficent lutlon of the vexations negro probm at the south and 1 know that, the mkI people at the. north, who have ded these efforts and methods, have ustrated the highest and best citinship and the most Christian and ihghtened phllanthropism. "I cannot, however, keep out of my ; ind tonight the thought that all we j the north may do, the realization j our hopes for the negro must, after | 1. mainly depend, except so far as it | sts with the negroes themselves, : jon the sentiment and conduct of the ading and responsible white men of: te south, and upon the maintenance a kindly and helpful feeling on their ' irt towards those in their midst who i much need their aid and encourage- j ent. "1 need waste no time in detailing ie evidence that this aid and encour- i jeinent has thus far been generously rthcomlng. Schools for the educaon of negro children and institutions r their industrial training are scutred all over the south and are libally assisted by the southern public id private funds. So far as 1 am binned the sentiment in favor of the . i auiouiii umi uruuucsc mini-j ice of Tuskegee institute and kin-1 ed agencies is universal, and I bej\c that without exception the ne*oes who tit tlicinselves for useful oci pat ions and service tind willing and leerful patronage and employment nong tiicir while neighbors. "I do not know how it may be with ; her northern friends of the negro, it 1 have faith in the honor and sin rity of the respectable white people ' the south in their relations with the igro and tiis improvement and welldug. Tliey do not believe in the so- 1 al equality of the race and they make > false pretense in regard to it. That lis docs not grow out of hatred of the L'gro is plain. It seems to me that icre is abundant sentiment and abun-: int behavior among the southern hites towards the negro to make us Dubt the just ice of charging this deial of social equality to prejudice, as e usually understand the word. Peraps it is born out of something so inch deeper and more imperious than rejudice as to amount to a racial induct. Whatever It is, let us remcmer that it has condoned the negro's tare in the liumilation and spoliation F the white men of the south during le saturnalia of the reconstruction ays and has allowed a kindly feeling >r the negro to survive the timo when tie south was deluged hy a perllious Mood of Indiscriminate, untelligent i and brlghting suffrage. Whatever it ! Is, let us try to bo tolerant and con- j slderate of the feelings and even preju- * diced racial instinct of our white fel- | low countrymen of the south, who In i the solution of tlie negro problem t must, umid their own surroundings, t bear the heat of the day and stacker < under the weight of the white man's l burden. s ' There are, however, other consid- ? orations relating to this feature of the i negro question, which may l?e regarded ; as more in keeping with the objects i and purposes of this occasion. As l friends of the negro, fully believing in I the possibility ot his improvement and advancement, and sincerely and con- < tidently laboring to that end, it is folly < for us to ignore the importance of the I ungrudging cooperation on the part of I the white people of the south in this I work. Labor as we will, those who do < the lifting of the weight must be i those who stand next to it. Tills co- i operation cannot be forced; nor can it | be gained by gratuitously running i counter to tirmly lixed and tenaciously i held southern Idea s or even prejudices. . We are not brought to the point of do- .? ing or overlooking evil that good may ] come when we proceed upon the theory ; that before we rcacli the stage where i we may he directly and practically i confronted witli the uuestion of the i negro's full enjoyment of civic advantges or even of all his political privileges. there are imtmdiatcly before us and around us questions demanding our immediate care and that, in deal- ; ing effectively with these, we can con- i tidently rely upon the encouragement j and assistance of every thoughtful and patriotic citizen of the land, wherever i he may live and whatever may be his I j Ideas or predilections concerning tlie 1 more remote phase of the negro prob- ' lem These questions that are so im- ' mediately pressing have to do with the i i practical education of the. negro and I especially with fitting him to compete * . with his white neighbors in gaining a decent, respectable and remunerative I livelihood. Hooker Washington, in ! speaking on the conditions and needs of his race, has wisely said: 'It is at the bottom of life we must begin and j not at the top: nor should we permit our grievances to overshadow our op- j portunitlcs.' i "In summing up the whole matter, j there is one thing of which we can lie | absolutely certain. When we aid Tus-! kegee institute and agencies like it. j striving for the mental and manual education of the nefro at the south, we are In every point of view render- j lng hhn the best possible service. I Whatever may beriisaiTimTte deJiemy we are tbus helping to tit him for filling his place and bearing Its responsibilities. We are sowing well in the soil at 'the bottom of life' the seeds of : the black man's development and usefulness. These seeds will not die, hut will sprout and grow, and if it be within the wise purpose of God, the hardened surface of no untoward sentiment of pejudiec can ore vent the j bursting forth of the blade and plant I of the negro's appointed opportunity | into the hrii/ht Kimlicrltf of -a nlniifilncc ! day. ' I OTITER srEECITES. At the conclusion of his address Mr. < Cleveland introduced Edgar G. Mur- 1 phy, who said: "I think that wiso j ? men everywhere are recognizing In the ' principal of Tuskegee one of the great- 1 est moral assets In the life of our I country today. The south has not np- 1 plauded him with undiscriminating 1 agreement or with monotonous, thoughtless, profitless acclaim. The < south has sometimes blamed him. Hut < the south is too fair to him and to his I race to allow these occasions of dis-1 agreement to distort the broad per- ; ^ speetivc in which she has viewed and i appreciated that arduous public ser- ] vice through which, for 20 years, in i cheerful patience and unaffected i modesty, lie has labored for the up- j t building of Ids humble and untutored i fellows. He has greatly done a great j < work in response to a great need, j North and south there have been ( those who have seen perial In the lie- < gro'b progress, but If the progress of i the negro bring peril with it that peril is nothing in comparison with the i perils attendant on the negro's ; failure." I?r. Lyman Abbott, who followed. < said that the south deserved great : credit for taking up as It had an un- i tried problem, in helping the negro to | help himself. "And the north," he , i said, "lias given her scant credit, i She has given him schools that the I north has refused him and done many ! ' other things towards his future that the north never thought of." I>r. Abbott next spoke of the great | work of booker T. Washington and praised him in the highest terms, de- | daring lie had done as much for the white race as for thecolored race. 11 is work had really brought, about tlie union of north and south in the work that he had taken upas his life task. Quoting a remark made by Henry Ward Hceeher, to the etTeet that we should "make the negro worthy tirst and then give him sulTrage," l>r. Abbott said: "We made the mistake of giving him sulTrage tirst and the unfortunate negro has had to sulTer ever since. What the negro wants is education. It all depends upon education whether the negro will l>e a shackle to our feet or wings to our bodv.'' HOOK Kit WASHINGTON SI'KAKS. Mr. Cleveland, in introducing! Hooker T. Washington, the last speaker of the evening, said: "I have to introduce to you a man too well known by every man in the United ' States; a man who has been spoken of ; too frequently and too favorably for it | \ to be necessary for me to say more than?here Is Hooker T. Washington." j Hooker Washintou then spoke as I follows: "The Tuskcgee Normal and ( Industrial institute at Tuskcgee, Ala. J Is the outgrowth 0f the efforts of Gen. 3. C. Arm?.rung of the Hampton inititute in Virginia. Gen. Armstrong was one of tlie great seers and pro- * phels who realized that the task of the nation was not fulfilled when the ihackles of physical slavery were ttruck from the limbs of the millions A slaves of the south. He realized 1 that nine millions of human beings ' itceped in ignorance, minus experi- ( Mice could be but free. He foresaw 1 that the nation must have a new birth i ind a new freedom and that this re- < generation must include the Indus- j trial, intellectual and moral and re- ( ligious freedom of the ex slaves. r "in this connection 1 am glad that i we have another great American and j Jhristian statesman in the person of 3 lion. Grover-Cieveland, who is maulresting by his presence and words here 1 this evening that lie too is conscious c >f tlie fact that the lifting up of the c legro is not alone Tu. kegee's problem, I not alone tlie soutlfsduty, but is tlie < problem of the nation, because the whole people were responsible for the ntroduction and perpetuation of American slavery, in behalf of our itruggling race I want to thank you, Mr. Cleveland, for your deep interest, md to say to you that because of your ntcrest and faith in us we shall see to t that the nation is not disappointed 11 our progress nor in our usefulness." PROGRESS IN FARM WORK. Ih'liorl of I lie I'limting Operations of the i'ast Week. Mr. J. W. Ffciucr, section director of die weather bureau, last week issued iiis weekly report of farm operations, ^implied from letters from correspond?nts throughout the State. He Bays, n part: "II appears tint the frost of the >th reached to within a tew miles of die coast, and that thin Ice formed ?ver the northern counties, but that die damage was slight and was eonined to white potatoes and other tenler garden truck. Fruit escaped inlury. "There were quite general rains 011 die 8th, heavy in the western and inrthern counties, that delay farm work materially by making the ground wet to plough in the already tamed divisions, where ploughing was practicable on one or two days only at lie close of the week. "The rainfall was light over the 'astern hc'.f of the State, and farm work was scarcely Interrupted by It. rhe week closed with warm, cloudy, .hreatening and showery conditions jrevailiiig that are favorable for rrowth of vegetation, but are unfavorLble for the rapid progress of farm work. "Planting operations made favora>lc progress In the eastern and southeastern counties, where they are as ar advanced as usual at this season. In the western counties planting is 'rom 10 to 15 days later than usual, ivith but little corn and no cotton planted. "Corn that was planted early is eoming up to fair stands. ?nd some is jcing cultivated, birds are destroying itands in a few counties. "Cotton planting lias not advanced jeyond the central counties, and in places in the eastern Is being purposey delayed, awaiting more settled weather. "Oats look well in a few localities >nly. Generally they have been seri>usly damaged by a grain aphis and >y rust. Some fields ore ruined. "Wheat has an unusually rank ;rowth, but in places the plants are turning red, in other localities rust las appeared, both conditions tending to mar its prospects. "lticc planting has made fair progress. except in tlie Georgetown district, where tlie lands are still too wet to work. "Tobacco plants are plentiful and ;arly. Transplanting is actively utiler way. Some farmers have almost inlshed this work. "Strawberry shipments are being made from all the eastern truck districts. "Melon plants are sickly in the Jharlestun district, owing to defective seed. Other truck crops are gr iwing slowly. Hugs have appeared on white potatoes. Pastures alford tine grazing. i iuii (iius(n:uut itppciir iu ue uu- 1 Impaired, with, however, a few locall- 1 Lies that report peaches sparsely set." < < Too Many Wives. 1 Chas. 1>. .Smith who recently married a young widow in Charleston and was carried hack to his old home in , Monroe, Mich., on the charge of biga- j my, pleaded guilty on Monday and , was sentenced to four and a half years in the penitentiary. He had been ( married twice before coming to this State and it was his second marriage for which lie was convicted. When ( arrested in Charleston, Smith was mak- , ing arrangements to go in business in that city. His last victim believed in Smith to the last, as he assured her everything would l>e cleared up. I'aid 11 iin to Kick. Isaac II. Stratum of Colorado Springs, Col., realized $2.'lf>,000 net on Thursday from $1150,000 paid him in the compromise over the contest alxiut his father's will. His lawyers got $115,000, ex-Senator Wolcott receiv- | ing $02,500 for his foe. A Mvntery. Further investigation In tlie de- j fnlcatiou of James S. Campbell, late ! trt-a urer of Kichland county, now deceased, reveals a shortage of $11,ooo. Mr. Campbell was regarded as j an honest man, and tho shortage Ua mystery. THE CRACKSMBN CONVICTED. f] ineg l?) I'rlMon lor Five Yuart and ^ Pay u Fine. After being out two hours the Jury eturned a verdict of guilty Thursday n the case against William MoKinley, ^ Charles Howard, Thomas Nolan and Edward Dugan, in the United States A ;ircuit court, at Charleston, on the charge of conspiracy, breaking into )ostortlces and larceny of govermeut unds. Immediately upon the anlouncemcnt of the verdict, Judge Slnonton sentenced the men to tive rears in the peneitentiary and a line 1500 each. t The trial last d exactly one week, it began on Good Friday, which was considered by some people as being a imninous for the robbers. In all over fc 00 witnesses were put on the stand. ^ )f this number, the defense put up ess than a dozen and these were only s o prove an alibi for the accused. The ^ awyers for the defense did not at- w ,empt to sustain the private character si if the men, which the government n iuii^iuii-u casuy ny me many witnesses. In fact, Nolan, the only one ?r the defendants who was put on the f< Land, did not nesitate to admit that d ic was of the sporting fraternity and ]; .hat lie made his living by gainhling. ' The Columbia witnesses gave cer- r' ,aln testimony of the disreputable j ilaces which the accused frequented. ' rhe lawyers for tlie defense pitched r .heir case on the common principle of * aw, that the case against the men ihould be proven by facts, which they ^ lharged had not been shown, and not laving been proven to be guilty, the s' nen should be judged not guilty. The ^ mrden of proof was put on the govirnment by the lawyers for the deense. It was gladly accepted b> the J1 government attorneys and they made i strong pre-ent.?tion of their testinony for the jury to pass upon. The case has been followed with n nuch interest, not only in Charleston, iut through the State and especially (' n the several communities where the . xistofHces were robbed. The defend- !l inLs have shown that they had friends * ind means, by the employment of V* Messrs. Nelson and Karle of Columbia, tnd 11 a good < ?f Charleston, to represent them, for without gool hacking ^ hey could never have made the de'ense that they did. It is understood !? hat some of the sporting fraternity . !\*en followed the accused to Charleson. attending the trial and giving . luch assistance and encouragement as 8 vould come 'from their presence, not 0 speak of the financial aid which J? ,hey contributed. The trial has been 1 lung hearing, but the case has not ;l >een without a good deal of general j nterest, and every day the large court e oora was crowded with spectators. :l! S| The Murtler of Gov Goebcl. h The facts connected with the assas- P .ination of Gov. Goebel, of Kentucky a: ibout two years ago, are slowly com- G ug out. Frank Cecil, who is under ndictment for complicity in the crime, tl s a witness at the trial of Jim How- st ird, who is charged with tlie mur- h< ler. Cecil only recently surrendered tl limself to the commonwealth, after ei joing a fugitive for a year in Califor- w lia and Honolulu. He is now under y< wiiu. c.ecu 1 a story substantially t< ,he same as the testimony of Culton, b iolden and Broughton, former witlesses, who detailed, and alleged plot ai x> bring about the death of Goebel. fit >cil says Caleb Powers adopted the h suggestion of Henry Broughton that g' le tCecil) might be contracted with to gi :ommit the crime and asked him to 10 it. Continuing, Cecil said. "On lanuary 30 I was in Taylor's office and Taylor said: 'Goebel has to !> killed n ?r I'll be robt>ed. 1 have $2,.r?O0 of b .he campaign fund and I'll give that d md a free pardon to the man who a vlll kill him. "I told Taylor I was n lot in that business," said Cecil, h Jeeil said he went into the agricultur- ? 11 olllce after the shooting and was a .here until the soldiers came, lie * aw Harlan Whlttaker arrested and o imposed to help take Whlttaker away p 'roui the man who had him. The h Taylor referred to by Cecil was the h Republican governor of Kentucky p Alien Goebel, who* bad been elected t Juvernor to succeed him, was murder- 1 ;d. He ran away from Kentucky* to a <eep from being tried, and is now a n resident of Indianapolis, the Gover- p lor of Indiana refusing to honor a r requsitiun for his return to Kentucky, h viiere lie is under indictment as one jf the murderers of Gov. Goebel. a Jccils testimony puts Taylor In a bad t lights before the country. s Million Doiiur Kire. II A dispatch from Beaumont, Texas, j r iays a careless workmen kicked over a ^ lantern at one of the Caldwell oil a wells on block ;<*. 1 logg-Swayne tract, (j on Spindle Top Wednesday and start- i 2d a tire that resulted in the loss o u property valued at $1,000,000 and the ^ bankruptcy of 20 or more of the small- ^ it companis. There were 17.1 wells on (j the three blocks of the tract and only r five of the derricks and pump house ^ are left standing- Every company r that had property in the Hogg- i Swayne tract is a loser. The tire f swept the three blocks covered with \ derricks and pump houses clear of all j its buildings. The derricks left are on the edges and are few and far be- ^ tween. None of the companies had a ( cent of insurance. j t .\ Fearful Accident. Enoch and William White, two, brothers, attempted to plug a hole in } ( an iron furnace at Bristol, Ya., Wed- j 1 nesday before all the molten Iron had i passed out. The iron exploded it, | covering the faces and bodies of the < men and burning deep holes in the i llesh. The scene w*s sickening. Both < will die. 1 tm ^ k rELLS OF THE CRIME. lenry Youtsey at Last Makes a fall Confession. AMES HOWARD KILLED OOEBEL ind, Said Yoateoy, "Oo?. Taylor Directed Kverythlng We Did." Regarded am Deader by th e A?aealna. James Howard is now on trial for lie second time at Frankfort, Ky., jr the murder of Governor Goebel bout eighteen months ago. Henry !. Youtsey Thursday for the first iine told on the witness stand ids U.?ry of the killing. He named James IllWnrH tlll> llnfonrld >if no ??" ?" , v.?v %tv?vuvauuU| cw* UllC lliUll 'ho Hred the shot. Youtsey satd he iw Howard for the lirst time a few ilnutcs before the shooting. Howard ad a letter sent him several days beire by the witness at Gov. Taylor's ictation. Youtsey says he took toward into tlie office of Caleb l'owers, hen secretary of state, which had een especially arranged for theshootlg. lie showed Howard the Marlin lie, tlie bullets and the window from rhlch the shooting was to be done, ie says Howard asked what he was to et for doing the shooting. "What do you want for it?" Youtjy says he asked, and that Howard lid he wanted a pardon for killing feorge Ilaker. "I told him he could have that and lore too," said Youtsey. "About hat time," said the witness, "Goeb 1 ime in the gate and 1 pointed him ut to Howard and then ran from the ^ x>m. As I disappeared down the tops to the basement I heard the rack of Howard's ritie." Youtsey said that after the shootlg he passed through the State house asemeut and a few minutes later ime back into the executive buildlg, from the east side entrance. "I stayed in the office of Assistant ecretary of State Matthews," said he, for a few minutes and saw Matthews reak open Caleb l'owers' office and nd the guns that had been left in Youtsey said that at the time of the looting he was private secretary to ' ?? .uditor Sweeney but that while his olitical status v/as not definitely xed it was understood he was to have good place under Taylor. "Gov."aylor," said Youtsey, "directed verything we did. We regarded him s our leader and he was morally re[xinsible for all we did. We knew we ad the governor and the pardoning ower behind us and we were not fraid of punishment for killing oebel." Youtsey, on cross-examination, said lat after lie was arrested and later >Ilt. t<> M)P ncnilpnt inru lin utill ImH ope of gaining his liberty. lie aought Yerkes would be elected govrnor and would pardon him. Yerkes as defeated, however, and about a ear ago he decided to talk and did :11 his story to Prison Physician Toin. Youtesey said further that he had n additional incentive to tell the ,ory, as Taylor, Powers and others ad used him as a catspaw and scapeoat and then deserted him when he ot into trouble. A UurKlMr Killed. In a battle following an unsucccssx\ attempt to rob the First National ank of Wainpum, Pa., early Saturay morning, one man was killed and other seriously wounded. The dead lan was one of the burglars, and he as not yet been identified. The rounded man was Henry Willoughby, Isiker, who surprised the burglars rhile at work, llis injuries are serius, but not fatal. Willoughby was asslng the bank at an early hour on is way to work when he was sudden7 confronted by a man, who at the oint of a revolver ordered him to brow up his hands and keep quiet, le did so, but in bis right hand was revolver, and a moment later both jen tired at each other. At the reort of the revolvers two other men ushed from the bank and took a band a the shooting. The three-cornered revolver tight roused the people in the vicinity of he bank, and they were soon at the cone of the battle, but before their rrival the burglars tied. While the nen had broken into the hanking ooms they had not completed the _ Irilling of the safe and their attempt t robbery was unsuccessful. Saturlay morning the body of one of the urglars was discovered in a vacant lot n the upper end of town. As the iiillet wound w;is near his heart it is iresuni"d that iiis companions had to Irag or drive their dying comrade roin the bank to where lie was found. Vhile he was dressed in only an ordilary suit of clothes he was not shab>ily dressed, and on his body was ound a gold watch and $41 in cash. iVillnughby was shot in both legs, and t is supposed he tired the shot tiiat tilled the burglar. Great excitement irevailcd in the town and a posse was >rganixod to pursue and capture the nirglars. Given Ten Yearn. At Bamberg on Thursday Judge iary pionounwu sentence on Joe Daids forthe killing of J. B. King, givng the prisoner ten >cars in the [lenitentiaiy. Davis was found >;ullty it manslaughter on Wednesday withjut recommendation. This ends one it the must widely discussed murder trials ever held in Bamberg count.y