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The Marlboro* Democrat. "DO THOU LIBERTY GREAT. INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVES IN THY POSSESSION HAPPY OR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE. VOlfcx. BENNETTS VILLE, S. C., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 2, 1904 NO. ? G. ANOTHER KILLING. Magistrate Folk in Souffle With Su pervisor Seale Was Phot. WHAT CORONER'S JURY BATS Botb Meo Weio Popular ami Highly Kfupeoted, and the Unfortu nate Affair lu Very Much ltegrettcd. A dispatch from Sumter to The State says Magistrate Richard C. Folk of Providence was shot and killed Thursday morning about 8 o'clock, near his home, in front of County Supervisor W. H. Seale's reaidence, < while in a souille with Mr. Seale. Magistrate Folk waa a candidate ? for re-election and damaging reports < were In circulation as to the mysteri ous disappearance of Mr. Folk's dec- < kot, a second book io which is kept f Che business of the court. Mr. Fulk i was Informed that Supervisor Seale < was the author of these reports. 1 Sam Folk, a brother of Magistrate < Folk, called to see Seale early Thurs- I day morning in regard to the matter, I and Seale told Sam that he had cir- i oulated no report. Ile had told that I Magistrate Folk had Eald that the 1 docket was in bis (Seale'.s) otllce, but J he and Probate Judge Walsh could not I rind it. Sam informed him that it ? had been found. Sam told him that ( if Folk would bring it to him he would i examine lt as supervisor, aud if fouud I correet would mark it M> and all ru- < mors would be stopped. Sam Folk t went after Richard Folk to bring him and lite dooket, and after a consider- - able walt Seale telephoned the Folks 1 to hurry, that be wanted to catch the 1 train for Sumter. ' Mr. Folk answered: "Walt, we are v coming.1' After reaching the house lt s was decided to come to Sumter to J settle the matter. While waiting for his buggy and horse, Seale walked alongide Judge Folk's buggy, leading } to the end of the avenue from his house. The discussion was resumed. 1 Sam Folk was follwiug In another c buggy. 1 As the public road was reached 1 Juc!ge Folk, lt is said, called, Seale a r -har, drawing his pistol at the same time. Seale grabbad him by the 1 collar, Folk falling out of the buggy. c Both fell to the ground together. The c pistol was discharged, the bullet pass- x ed through Seale's coat on the left [ side about the hip, and, passing up- ,L ward, entered Folk's head In the right ' temple' and came out left ul' the me- J dial line of the skull. In the scuffle it ls alleged Sam Folk e jumped from his ouggy and attempted 1 ' to ghooli Seale,Taut Seale's sun, W. J Sea\o knocked tho pistol away and ^ selz?V him. When Seale got up he saw J blood on,Folk's face. Ile assisted lu 1 carrying him to the roadside and * washed the blood from his face and telephoned for a doctor. Folk died lu two hours aud lifleeu minutes after he , was shot, having never regained con- , sciousuess. , Doctors Cheyne and Fuster could do ( nothing, as the wound was mortal, j Seale drove Into town to the sherill's t office to give himself up, but the sher- . Iff and the deputy were away and he ' gave himself up to Mayor Dick. Coro- [ uer Sam Flowers summoned a jury , and began the inquest at I o'clock r Thursday afternoon. At lo o'clock v Thursday night the inquest bas not j adjourned and fuller particulars are t not obtained. A phone message says Sam Folk i and W. J. Seale, the two eye wit- a uesses, tell exactly opposite stories to t the jury. Seale says tile pistol was i lu Folk's hand when be pulled the l trigger and the weapon was pointing i toward Folk. Sam Folk says the pis- l toi was In Seale's bands when it was \ tired. c The following jury was empaneled: l C. L. Williamson, forman, E. W. ] Parker, Dr. E. W. Parker, Jr., J. A. i iioykin, Sr., J. A. Poy kin, Jr., M. H. t Boykin, J. F. Cumains, W. F. Boykin, i R. L. Burkett, J. It. Durrant, M. h. Moore. Judge Folk was a popular man and regarded as one among the best ci tl- 1 /ens. Ile leaves three brothels and 1 two sisters and a widowed motlier. Dr. Legrand thierry of Columbia and H. D. Moise, Esq , married the two sisters. Judge Folk was serving lils third term as magistrate. Super visor Seale ls copular all over the county. He ls au energetic, patriotic citizen. He is serving bis second term as supervisor and ls a candidate for re-election. Mr. Seale regrets the sad tragedy. He says he was unarm ed. His pistol was in his office at the court house in Sumter. The coroner's jury have returned the following verdict: "Deceased, K. C. Folk, came to his death by a gunshot wound indicted by the bauds ??. of parties unknown to the jury." Attacked hy a Mailman, ? dispatch from Yorkvllle to The ??. .ite says Magistrate lt. L. A. Smith of Hickory (hove shot and killed a negro man about lo o'clock Friday night. The m gio attempted tu drag Mr. Smith out. of a window of Iiis house and ahnest tore his shirt off. He warned the negro away hut be came again ut him, when be used his shotgun with fatal effect. Mr. Smith telephoned thc sherill' that, he was ready to surrender and was advised to await the verdict of Inquest which was held Friday. The negro was said to have been Insano, but Mr. Smith was not aware of of it. Hayward to MAIIUHHHH. <JOV. Heyward and two of his staff nave been Invited by (?en. (-'olbin to attend the mauoeuvers at Manassas, Gov. Hey ward will leave on the morn ing iff September 5, taking with bim Adjutant General Frost, his chief uf staff, and the Quartermaster General, H. H. Watkins, of Anderson. The party will spend about twu days at Manassas. Nerved Him llijrht. Governor Heyward has ordered the arrest of J. B. Bennett of Brimson, Hampton County, and his return tu the penitentiary to serve out lils life sentence-for which lie was pardoned by Gov. Mcsweeney on condition that lie would leave the state never to re turn. He did return, and accidentally killed his wife a few nights ago. \ t THE CARNIVAL OF CRIME. A Boy Murdered in it Fisherman's . Camp Near Columbia. Tbe State says another murder as mysterious as tbe M 'iide Allen case, as cold-blooded an?^^Tlioal, oc curred Thursday m "'ear Co lumbia. In the fln?.urnpf1 ?he act seemed to Indicate the -.^rk of one Infuriated with drink ano jealousy; in the lat? st tho heinous purpose of au inhuman, blood-thirsty tiena. Clarence Shealy, a 15 year-old boy, while lying asltep upon the banks of the Congaree at a tisherman's camp two miles south of Columbia, was ap proached from behind and was most foully hacked to death with a hoe, JUC pitiless stroke marriDg the boy's race almost beyond recognition and mother cleaving the head from the ;rown deep into the brain. Clarence Shealy's parents live at 1150 31ympia avenue, and ot! and on since jprlng the boy has boen with a tisber uan. Frank Smith, who has a tlshing amp a short distance below Sbealy's tome. Smith and a man by the name if Cushman, who lived In the camp, itated Thursday that they got up at ?.?lO a. m. to go down the river to nake the circuit of their baskets, aud eft the buy to cook breakfast; that they had been gone about an hour and i quarter and on their return found ihe child breathing his last. Neither law anyone about, on leaving the place >r on their approach. Cue of the nen came at once to the home of the joy and nutiiicd his parents and tbe sounty otllclals, leaving the other with ihe body. The only other witness was a negro ?ent by ?Ir. John Stuart, overseer cn Vir. Tom Taylor's place, a mile and mlf from the scene, to get some tish. This negro is reported to have ridden vltbln eye range of the camp, and eeing the form of a person writhing ibout the ground, turned bis horse's lead and ran his horse back to Mr. stuart's home and reported his obser vation. This man was not arrested thursday as a witness but the Infier nen were arrested and placed In the sounty jail, on the ground merely that ihey weie material witnesses of the ;rime. The body of the hoy was removed Thursday afternoon to his father's mme on Olympia avenue and the cor mer empanuelcd a jury and went out md viewed the body. The inquest viii be held later, when all the ev! lenee in the case can be got together, sherill Coleman announced at a late lour Thursday night that so far no dues had been discovered as to the dentlty of the murderer. The blood id hoe with which the deed was com nitted was fouud near the body and be flsberoK that their shot ;uii uml ;.u uuu luaut'u uutr.:,^... ?.";"J - ng. The gun and ammunition were n the camp when they weut out on .be river they say. A Columbia Suicide. The Columbia Record says abou* bree o'clock Thursday morning Nor nan O'Connor, a white man about 2.'1 rears of age, committed suicide. )'Coniior walked into the house of Hertha Medlin, who keeps a disrepu table house on Gate street, and was ilso a witness in the Maud Allen case, iud with no explanation poured a lose of carbolic acid In a glass of beer ind swallowed it. As f.ooil as lt was ealized what wai done a hurry call vas sent for the city physician, Dr. 'ope. who lives nearly two miles from he house, and the man was nearly lead when assistance arrived. The nmutes of the bouse made the f? How ,s easy as possible, but the amouut aken proved fatal. O'Connor came 0 Columbia from Arizona, but bis lome is Noling, ill., he having learned ils trade in the former place. He lad been in Columbia about live veeks, and during that time had trank very heavily, but managed to mid his place at the Southern shops, le was a member of the Machinists' inion, and will be sent to his home jy that organization as Boon as the iiipiesL ls held. Filipino Bandits, A dispatch from Manilla says a de ,all of native constabulary has been imbushed ou the island of Ley be by a uperior force of bandits. Capt. H. barrett, of the constabulary, was tilled in the lighting. There has been ?rouble in thu province of Misamis, sland cf Mindanao, where bandits nive looteil several towns. The na ,lve authorities weredelicd and Pablo Marcado and bis family were kid lapped. Marcado was accused of be ug too friendly with the Americans. Three Chinese stores Were burned. 1 our natives were murdered, three of heir being binned alive. Colonel Harbord, of the constabulary, is now )ii the trail of the bandits. Lieuten ant 'Thornton, of the constabulary, las met death by drowning near Dag npin island of Luzon. Killed Me. Brother. At Kiugstree a coroner's jury Thursday found Harry Hardy not guilty of the murder of his deaf mute brother, ..hom be Thursday night ?itruck with his list In order to knock tiim from the track to avoid a fosbap! proachiug train on the Atlantic Coast Line. Thu de if mute w.is drunk and refused to lespond to his brother's warning, but foolishly tried lo make lignais to the engineer tb stop. Harry itruck him a violent, blow In the face, lind the jury found that lt was lrom this blow that tile deaf mute had met death. Harry was thereupon released from custody, the jury recognizing j that he bail no recourse but to strike lils brother In Ills effort to save bis life. J ii m ped tu rho itivor. A man, supposed fruin thu papers found In a coat left lying on thu bridge tobe Frank McC irmick, of Winter haven, Florida, committed suicide Thursday at St. Louis by leaping from the Bads bridge into the Mis sissippi river. A watchman saw the man climb to the rail, but was not in time to prevent him jumping. Bryan Will Sneak. Chairman Taggart Wednesday re ceived a telegram from M. G. Wet more, of St. Louis, saying that Wm. J. Bryan would speak at lintier and Lamor, Nevada, anil Springfield, Mo,, tlic last days or August and fl rat Of September. LULA ALLEN HOLT Is Alive and Well, But Her Husband Held for Her Murder. A VERY QUEER CASE, INDEED. Thc Faots -Brought Out in the Habeai Corpus Proceed.nw Before Chief Justice l*ope at Newberry. "Can a man be held in jail under charge of murder of a person who swears that Bhe is alive?" asks the Newberry correspondent of The State. The correspondent then answers his owu question an follows: "Learned lawyers will say that he cannot be. -But Butler Holt knows better. That seems tobe his present condition." The correspondent then goes on to say: As will be seen below an affidavit, alleged to have been made hy Lula Allen, who ls supposed also to have been known as Maude Allen, Beating that she is alive and well, was read in court. And there is an affidavit from her father confirming this. But Justice Pope remanded Butler Holt to jail until next Wednesday when a final hearing will be had under habeas proceedings as to why he shall not be relieved of the charge of the murder of the womau suppused to be Maude Allen, alias Lula Allen, in Columbia on August 11th last. WI LL. MARTIN, SUPPOSED ACCOMPLICE. And what of Will Martin? Ap parently no oue is taking any interest in tl e other man arrested at the sume time as Butler Holt and supposed to be Holt's brother-in-law. lt cannot be said that he is languishing in jail, for the man on the street says Will Martin is "lying up in jail reading the newspapers and having a good time on three meals a day more than he usually got." That may be a slander though, and doubtless Will Martin Is! as anxious for his liberty as any one would be. But the fact remains that while he is fed from Sheriff Buford's table yet he ls restrained from his freedom. He was committed upon papers Issued by Mayor Earhardt in his magisterial capacity and will he released only upou orders from some competent authority. Of the 200 or more people who gather ed In the court room to hear the pro ceedings about the most Intered prob ably were the mother and sister of Butler Holt-besides himself. His mother is a woman of about 50 years OL age and she hung intently upon every word of the lawyers or chief justice. Her sister is a sweet faced LHai'og woman, who - listened ( to the, "arg~-.do.eni*' -^a'itiu??^t-%,z\i'rruij oumr ed no uneasiness. Butler Holt ls ? young man of about 25 years of age, of an agreeable countenance, his face indicating no especial forc? of charac ter, but certainly no viciousness. In quiring of those present as to what kind of a man Butler Holt was one would he given the information that "he was a pretty good sort nf a fel low." One of the most Interested specta tors, and probably the man of sub stance of the affair, was a brother of Huit, who ls a buss lu a cotton mill at Whit mire, and a man of whom everyone has the kindest of words as to his worth. He is a Masou of high degiee, and bears au excellent charac ter. TIIK PROCEEDINGS IN DETAIL. The proceedings were opened promptly at 4 o'clock hy Chief Justice Pope who inquired of the attorneys fdr the defence and for the State if they were ready for the hearing. Upon being informed that they were he requested the attorney general to read tue order for the production of the budy of Butler Holt in court, and* the return of the chief of police of Newberry. The attorneys for the defense then proposed to read the allldu /Its made in support of the petition but the attorney general Interposed an objec tion lo the continuance of the proceed ings on the ground that the State had not been given proper notice under rule lu of the supreme court. There was some threshing out of the legal technicalities hut the attor neys, after which the chief justice ruled that because of the gravity of the case to the prisoner he would let the proceedings continue, and would set a later date for the final hearing ll need be. The affidavits were then read. The tirst affidavit was that of the defend ant, Butler Holt, himself and was as follows: AFFIDAVIT OK ?UTI.KK MOLT. Personally came before me, Butler Holt, who being duly sworn, says: That he is now confined in the county jail at Newberry, charged, t>o he has bien informed since his confinement therein, with the murder of one Maude Allen In city of Columbia, State aforesaid, on the afternoon of Thursday, August 11th, 1004. That dep neut is 25 years of age and dur ing the latter part of the year 1903 married Lula Allen, the daughter of Richard Allen, in tue city of Newber ry. That during the month of Jan uary of this year he lett Newberry and went tu work on the farm of Hud Berry and worked ou s lid farm for the said Bud Berry continuously until about the lirst day of Augut>t, 1004, when he returned to the town ol' j Newberry where he has since resid ed with bis parents. That on the 1 Ith day of August, 1001, he was In the t?>wu of Newberry in company with T. S. Coleman, l'ope L. Ila vi rd and others and that ho was In Havird Bros. store anti made purchases there in several times during the day. That among other things done by deponent on said date he watered and fed Mr. T. S. Coleman's mule at dinner and helped him to hitch up his mule lu the afternoon of the said date and just before Mr. Coleman left for his home in Saluda couty. That a short while after this ho met John Gruber with a load of wood, who told him that If he would help him to un load his wagon he would let him ride tho greater part or the way to the home of Mr. Press George, about six or Heven miles from the town of New berry, and at whose home tho said Butler Holt Intended to spend the night and a day or two afterwards That he lu 1 peri Juhn Gruber unload the Bald wagon and after the said John Gruber bad bought some provis ions from the store of C. L. Pitts in the town of Newberry they left the said town of Newberry at which time the sun was about, an hour high. That deponeut rode on with the said John Gruber until they reached a point about live miles from the town of Newberry when he left John Gru ber and walked on to the home of Mr. Press George, about one mlle further on, spent the night there and untH the fu'lowiug Saturday morning, aftu which he went to the home of Geo. A. Long between 8 and 9 o'clcekand helped him in barbecuing some meats. After taking diuner with the said Geo. A. Long be came on to New berry, arriving hereat about half past 1 o'clock. Deponent further deposes an'' says that he has never been to the city of Columbia but once in his life and that trip was made on an excur sion train to the said town from the town of Newberry last summer. That his wife, Lula Allen, left Newberry on the Friday following their mar riage, which cccurred on the Sunday before and that he saw her on the next day In the town of Prosperity and has not seen her since, but be is informed and believes that she is nqw at the home of ber father in the town of Haili. S. C. That he never saw Bertha Medlin until he was confront ed with ber in the county jail at New berry and bas never been lu her house In the city of Columbia, nor has he taken any one to ber bouse at any time. BUTLKK HOLT. Sworn to before me this, 25th day of August. 1P04. OT11KU AFFIDAVITS. Mrs. Rebeca Paysinger's allldavlt stated that she had seth Butler Holt In the store of Havird Bros. In New berry on the 11th of August. J. S. Coleman swore that he saw Butler Holt In Newterry on the streets and in the store of Havird tiros, on thc 1 Uh of August and that be was with Holt the greater part of the day till I o'clock iu the afternoon. John Crubcr, who signed by bis mark, swore that Butler Holt bad as-, slated him In unloading some wood in Newbfirry and bad ridden with him Into the country about live miles on the evening of August 11th. That butler left bim about an hour before sun down. Brooks George and L?e (leorge, sons of Mr. P.ess George, who lives between six and seven miles from Newberry, swore that late ou the af ternoon ot August 11th Butler Holt came to their father's house and spent the night there and remained there until the'following Saturday. J. C. Fulmer swore that he had seen Butler Holt in Newberry at ? '-?'riliMtlr r?r? *he U f t G R2 C?Wr #.? '? -- - - t t." - P. B. Yarojrough had seen Butler Holt In Newberry before 2 o'clock p. m.. on Aug. 11th. Eddie Bogden, signing by his mark, stated in his atlldavlt that he bad hoarded in the family of Itichard Al len and that he knew Lula Allen well. That he bad seen the budy of the wo man killed in Columbia and that it was not the body of Lula Allen. The two following affidavits were about the most important read: Sil K IS ALI VK AND WKLL. State of South Carolina, County ol' Aiken. Personally came before me Richard Allen, who being duly sworn, says that he is the father of Lula Allen, the wife of Butler Holt; that the said Lula Allen is now in the town of Bath, S. C., and that the body claimed and described to be Maude Allen and killed In the city of Columbia on the llth day of August, 1904, is not the body of Lula Allen. Itichard (his N mark) Allen. Sworn to before me this -'ind day of August, I?04. IL. S.) A. II. McCarrel, ^ Notary Public for S. C. Richard Allen, signed by Hugh Cook in my presence. A. II. McCarrel, Notary for S. C. Lula Allin came into Bath at 4 a. m., this day, JJrd August, on an ex cursion from Columbia, taking ad vantage of the chance to como to see her parents to relieve them of anxie ty. I have seen her in person. A. ll. McCarrel, Notary for S. C. State of South Carolina, County of Aiken. Personally came before me the un dersigned, who being (buy sworn, says that she mat ried Butler Holt during the latter part of the year 1003, and that she is now lu the town of Bath, Aiken county, in the State of South Cand?na, with her father, Richard Allen, having arrived last night on the excursion train from Columbia. Lula (uer X mark) Allen. Sworn to before mo this 22nd day uf August, l'.)04. (L. S.) A. H. McCarrel, s Notary Public for S. C. Name signed by Mr. Hugh Cook and mark made by Lula Allen, all in my presence. A. II. McCarrel, Notary for S. C. KKMANDKD TO JAIL. Tlie affidavit of Lula Allen was the last to be read, and at Its concluslou thc attorney general asked the court to be ui ven a reasonable rime Lo seek for counter affidavits, asking that a date fora final hearing to tixed after the primary election next Tuesday. Attorneys for defense asked that next Monday bc made the day of next hear ing. Chief Justice I'ope, after a few min utes thought, instructed the attorney general to prepare an order tlxlng Wednesday, August HI, at 4 p. m., as the day and hour for Iii ia 1 hearing and remanding Butler Holt to jail in New berry county until that time. The attorneys for the defense made no further objection and the order was drawn and signed. F. H. McMaster. Hobbed a Moiiuutury. A band of Catalonlan brigands at tacked the famous monastery at Mont serrrat, Spain, and after binding the monks pillaged the monastery, es caped with a large quantity of rich booty. The ulai m was given as scon as j usslble, and a Mjuad of gendarmes sta.-ted In pursuit. They came upon the brigands and a tierce contllct fol lowed in which sevon of the robbers I were killed and the others lied. AT MANASSAS AGAIN. Tho H?toric Field Upon "Which Troops Will Manoeuvre IN GRAND MIMIC BATTLE ARRAY A Field Upon Which tho Confederate Sol (Muru Twice Whipped the Federal Hohl lorn Du i l M ix ( the Civil War. The announcement that there are to be increasing army manoeuvres near Manassos in the early future nat urally turns the attention at least of the old timers to the first great battle In the War Between the States, which was fought in July, 1801, upon that famous battlelield. The : Confederacy had changed its capital tu Richmond, the last session of its congress having been held in Montgomery on May 21st. President Davis followed five days later, and Gen. Beauregard arrived on June 1st and assumed command of the Confed erate troops In the department of Al exandria^ lt soon became apparent that the first struggle would take place lp',-.northern Virginia, and the federal government held the Potomac river In tight grasp and Washington was well guarded. Cen. McDowell bad a union army of about -l?.UOU troops lu camp south of tbe Potomac reddy for the fray. Gen. Beauregard with a Confederate army was posted near Manassas Junction, 3? miles from Washington. Gen. Joseph E. .Johnston, with a Confederate arny, was entrenched at Winchester, his task belog to prevent any advance by Gen. Robert Patterson, and to keep him from' joining McClellan. At the same time McDowell was assured that Patterson .with his 18,000 men, would prevent Johnston from joining Beau regard. ^ Bilt, as it afterwards turned uut, Faoiereuu wu? not in. Johnstorrs way. It was planned that McDowell should march to Fairfax Courthouse, then turn south, cross the Occoquan river, and attack Beauregard's line of communication with Richmond. That was the situation just before the fa mous hattie. "The advance of the union army," says a northern writer, "was looked upon as a holiday, for none at the north doubted that it would be suc cessful. A large number of congress men and crowds of civilians rode out from "Washington . to witness the uovel and inspiring sight. In many of the carriages were ladies who se cured favorable position from which to vlew> through their opera, glasses the o' xthrow of $,he rebel forces." Bi '<;theM3?y ciosed "Linden - "rt v. - "?-*> .u^jfTh?x Bbno/.-WH? quite dat?rent in thc last act of the tragedy from what this gay crowd from the north had expected. The Confederacy had gathered there its finest troups, many of the privates being young men out of the colleges and universities, clothed in the finest uniforms, with glittering arms, but nothing about them so bright as the Hash of their eyes. The noblest com manders of tbe Confederate forces were there. Beauregard was there and Johnston was there, us has al ready been said. Thomas J. Jackson was there, and when Cen. Bee looked upon him aud his gallant men he ex claimed: "Look! There stands Jack s' u like a stone wall!" and from that day this great soldier was affection ately known as "Stonewall" Jackson. Ki (hy Smith was t here, coming in the nick of time with 4,000 Confeder ates, coming in time to receive John ston'! order to attack McDowell's rlghtj and make the Confederate vic tory jiure. Stuart and his cavalry were there and Joined In the impetuous charge whlci threw the federal troops into panU. lOwell was there, that crusty old In dian lighter, a diamond io the rough, and c'ohn B. Gordon was there. Dr. Hunter McGuire uf Richmond was there and dressed the wound whicluStonewall Jackson received. We?iave not space to mention the whole dist, hut must add that even President Davis himself was there, and 1 l.d his misgivings suddenly turn ed \^,M the gladness of triumph. "Whiel was dressing Cen. Jackson's liane..' said Dr. McGuire, In one ol his ardresses, "1 saw President Davis ride ip from the direction of Manas sas. He had been told by stragglers that lurarmy had been defeated. Ile stopt:d his horse lu the middle ol' the streaa, Young's branch, stood up in his Pinups (the palest, sternest face I eu|r saw) and cried to the great crow j. of soldiers, '1 am President DavJ, follow me back to the Held."' Mr. jlc?uire told (Jen. Jackson who lt wy s and what be said, when J tick son Hood up, took oir his cap and cried "We have whipped them; they ran Ike sheep. Give me 10,?0? men and i will take Washington city to morr?w." And if the men had been fortlcoming, he would have kept lils proiJse and the entire fortune of thc war night have been changed. B t we are too fast. Let us go back a step in thc narrative and re late the closing act in the trugedy. Let js go back to tbe point where Klrly Smith arrived with bis rein foroments aud attacked McDowell's righi and let the story be told hy a nortiem writer, who refers to the soutiemers us rebels and Insurgents. We piote: "The situation of Beaure gard was critical. Ile was lighting desperately, but was pressed steadily baclward. At the moment when defekt seem Inevitable, he was strong ly rdnforced: An advance along the Wime line was ordered, and the fresh troups charged with wild enthusiasm. Thejunionists were Hanked aud forced dow.i the side of the plateau. Sharp shooters kept the woods allume, and a strong force of Stuarts cavalry joined in tie Impetuous charge which threw thefederal troops into panic. "a terrible sceno followed, lt was ahmt 4.:i0 that the right wing broke andiled, quickly followed by the cen tre md the left. A jumble of artillery, Infantry, ambulance trains, congress met, civilians and vehicles of all kinds jolr?d In a wild struggle lo get back to /Washington. Artillerymen cut the traces of their galloping horses, and' leaping upon their backs, tram ple! those who were too helpless or too crazed with fright tu get out of their path. Men who wera perched amid the limbs of trees so as to gain a good view of the Confederate defeat, jumped to the ground and joined in the stampede, and hundreds, pale with terror, ran until exhausted, when they fell and were crushed under the massive wheels of the plunging canuuu. The soldiers and spectators had become a frantic mob, swayed by the one wild desire to escape death." In view of the terribble disaster to uniou arms, in view of the panic de scribed above, lt has occurred to some of the old Confederates that it is a lit tle curious that the United States government should have chosen this battlefield for tlte forthcoming man ouevrea.-Richmond Times-Dispatch. A Deadly Tornado. Four persons lost their lives and sevetal others were injure lin ahor nado that swent through Chautauqua county, N. Y.j Thursday. Park hurst's grove, where the Stocktown town picnic was being held was direct ly in the path of the storm. Five thousand people were on the grounds when a terrille windstorm swept tin ough the place. The storm came up suddenly. Trees lu the gre ve were struck bv lightning, many of them were blown and the rain fell in torrents. The people who took refuge under the trees, at the tirst sign of the storm, were caught by the falling branches and Injured Many Lo ses were killed In the same manner. Some of the animals stampeded, trampling upon the injured people lying on Ute ground. Some of the buildings in the vicinity were blown down and others were unroofed. Hundreds of forests and fruit trees were torn up and coi n and oat Heids were laid waste, caus ing a loss of thousands of dollars. At the assembly grounds at Chautauqua many trees were uprooted and a por tion of the fence around the grounds was demolished. The Men's club house was badly damaged. Beauregard's Fame. A movement has been started in Charleston to erect a handsome gran ite arch on Washington square to the memory of Gen. Pierre Gustav Tou rnant Beauregard. A movement was inaugurated some years ago and vol untary donations were made for the purpo.se, but the sum was not suf ficiently large to undertake the work and the money was deposited in bank. lt was recently decided to erect a monument on a smaller scale than ( originally planned and now this is to , be done. It ls especially appropriate that Charleston should honor the memory of one the ablest soldiers of . the south, for the reason that Gen. 'Beauregard had a warm place in bis . heart for Charleston, as evidenced lu the bequest of his sword which uow occupies a case, in city council diam- ? ri?r_jKhU?t. tiOfti best thoughts ot_ his ; military career were~ainfce?A iBrrajnU the harbor defense bf Charleston. . The programme of the exercises at- , tending the unveiling of the munni- j ment, inscriptions, etc., will be an- , nouueed later. * Shot Him Dqad. 1 A disprtch from Bluefleld, W. V., ( says Sam Watson, a negro, shot and 1 iustantly killed Frank Underwood, ( hank boss at the mine of the Crane Creek and Coke company Thursday, and immediately lied to the motin- f talus. A posse of seven or eight citi zens led by a son of Mr. Underwood 5 started after him. Tuey got within ? shooting distance of the fugitive, but failed to hit bim. Young Underwood ! noted carefully the direction Watson took across the country the Waltch- 1 back, where he hoped to Intercept his 1 father's murderer. He discovered 1 Watson riding on top of a gondola on f . freight train which was running c very slowly. Underwood tired at the murderer and Watson fell headlong ( Into tiie bottom of the car and died ; before the train could he stopped. UicvcllHt Killed. At Paris, France. George Leander, tile American bicyclist, died Tuesday morning from injuries sustained in a ; terrible fall at the l'arc au Princes on Sunday last as the result of running into a motor cycle which was pacing a race in which an attempt was being made to break the record fcr one hour. There were three cyclists in the race. At the time of the accident Leander was traveling at about a pace of 57 miles an hour and was more than a lap ahead when be was thrown over the bandle bars of lils machine and fell on his head, ile was re moved unconscious to a hospital and did not regain consciousness up to the time of his death. [Iowa lt JIM odd Fi-i-itk. One of the queerest natural freaks ever seen in Iowa is a double snouted bog owned by Charles Snell, who lives at Lehigh. The hog is now a year old and is in perfectly normal lu every respect, with the exception of the extra nose, willoh does not seem to in convenience him. This snout which is perfect in every detail, comes out of the Jowl on tho left side, standing at right angles, just below the eye. lt ls almost as large as the regular one. '.orig Distance Murder. Mrs. Cornelia Botklns was sen tenced on Monday at San Francisco, Cal., by Superior Judge Carrol to life imprisonment in the state prison at San Quentin for the murder of Mrs. John P. Dunning, in Dover, Del., by means of poisoned candy mailed from San Francisco. In passing sentence Judge Cook expressed regret that he could not impose the death penalty, as tiie jury in i's verdict had tixed tho punishment. Killed Uta Fattier. A dispatch to the A gusta Chronicle from Qrlfllu, Ca., says W. JelT Shiv ers, one of the best-known farmers in that sec-tun, was shot Iii the breast by his 17-year-old son, Harry at 1 o'clock Thursday and tiled Instantly. Tho shooting was don? with a double-bar reled breech-loading shot-gun, loaded with buck-shot and bird-shot, and oc curred on the farm of the former, about I miles south of Gritlln. Killed on tho Kail. Two young meu, suppose to be Howard and Thomas Strung of Brook lyn were struok by a.New York Cen tral train at Karnet d'hursday morn ing and were kif |. Both bodies were badly mutilai i TO DESTROY A TOWN. A Friend Attempted to Dynamite Gate of a Great Resevuir. A dispatch from St. Mary's, Ohio., says an attempt was made on Tues day, 22 instant, by au unknown per son to blow up the gates at tbe bead of St. Mary's reservoir with dynamite. Fortunately tbe charge of dynamite was not suillclently large to destroy the masonry or to displace the heavy gates. There bas been much 111 feeling among the people living io the vicini ty of the reservoir, owing to the wide spread belief that the banks of the big body of water are not safe, notwith standing that the State bas spent large sums of money during tbe past year in strengthening the earthwork. Had the object of the miscreant been attained Tuesday the town of St. Mary's and the adjacept valley would have been swept by a most destructive Mood causing enormous loss of life and property. Although the damages are limited mostly to broken windows in that city; to the wrecking of one house near the bulkhead and one State boat and tbe partial breaking of the bank, there is great excitement here because it is feared that the attempt may be repeated. The shuck was plainly felt at Celina at the western end of the re servoir, a distance of 10 miles. Tue charge of dynamite and nitroglycerine was placed on the wicket gate and a slow fuse attached from which there were three seperate shocks. The ex plosion wrecked the upper parts of the wicket and damaged the stone subut ments, but not to such au extent as to liberate the waters. Houses In the im medlafe vicinity were greatly damag ed and the occupants were stunned. The bulkead is the outlet of Lake Mercer into the Miami and Erie canp.ls and holds back nine feet of water covering 17,000 acre.} of land. St. Mary's is 12 feet lower than the lock and the loss that would have ac companied success of the attempt is hard to imagine._ CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS. Do Not Have to I'ny Licence Fees to Carry on DUHHIIICHH. On account of the many inquiries which the comptroller general has re ceived as to the recent law exempting Confederate soldiers from license taxed be bas asked the attorney general for jn opinion. Anstaut Attorney Gener il W. H. Townsend Tuesday sent the following opinion to Mr. Jones: "Answering your Inquiry to the at torney general, I beg tb say*that in my opinion, the act to exempt Confed erate soldiers and sailors irony paying license-, fees (24 statutes 44IX g'.vet ;a M pors?on-i1 nr?v?edgo which ca)ncV bol irausrerred to oin ors. " The' >neiiv ol ibis personal exemption is the same as [.hat of a person paying the license tax n question. If a person paying the Icense tax could employ others to :arry on the business under him, then :he soldier or sailor exempted could lo so likewise. This depends in each jase upon the terms of the statue or irdlance imposing the license tax." The act is as follows: "An act to exempt soldiers and tailors from paying license. "Section 1. That all soldiers and tailors of the Confederate States, who uillsted from this State and who were lonorably discharged from such ser vice, shall hereafter be exempt from jhe charge of any license for the car rying on of and business or profession .vithin this State, or any city, town or .illagc therein: Provided, That such ioldiers and sailors shall tile with the derk of the court of the county in .vhlch he resides the proper evidence jf his service in the Confederate war: Provided, further, Thar, no partner diip shall exist in any such business or profession, with any person not a bona tide soldier or sailor of the said Con federate States. "Approved the 25th day of Febru ary, A. D. I'JUl." * Three_ Drowned. Hy the capsizing of a sail boat late Thursday afternoon three young peo pie were drowned in Oquaga lake, about three miles from Depr.slt. Those drowned are: Robert Canfield, East Orange, N. J., Misses Amelia and Alice C. Cramer, sisters of New York city. Young Canfield was member of a campaign party and the Misses Cramer were guests at a sum mer hotel at the lake: Seven young people, including Can.ield, went out in A. E. Lovejoy's sail boat. Wheu near the middle ut the lake, the boat was overturned. Floyd Lovejoy saw the accident from the shore and hur ried to the place in his naphtha launch. He succeeded in rescuing four of the young people. Negroes Threatened. The strike is still on lu Chicago, and tilings are getting warm. Strike Leader Fitzpatrick declared Tuesday night that the Importation of negroes from the south by packers was fast bringing about conditions that may result in race war in Chicago where, be says, the feeling against negroes ls already to strong that negroes in no way connected with the strike have bcon dragged from the cars and as saulted. Fitzpatrick says the unions have done more than any other to in fluence the negroes and thc unions want Washington to bhow whether he approves the negroes' conduct in this strike. * Work ol' KolilU'i-H, By the explosion of some dynamite caps and in the panic thru followed it, three persons wc:e injured Thursday afternoon at the Hawthorne race track near Chicago, lt ls supposed that the caps were thrown on the lloor of the betting ring with the idea of creating a panic, during which the cash boxes of the bookmakers might be robbed. An attempt was made to rob one bookmaker, but it failed. Tried to Kill Himself. Robert Baxter, a young man living In the Poe Mill village at (?reenvide who has long been a victim of melan cholia, attempted to end his lifo Wed nesday morning with a pistol. The ball entering his neck to the left of thc windpipe and ranging back ward. Dr. Walker removed the ball and says that the wound though seri ous may not prove fatal. THE BLACK HAND. Au Italian Youth Murdered by a Member of the Society. HAD BLACKED THEIR CHIMES. The Murderer Captured and a Mob Wished to Wreak Instant and Blood Vengeance m Upon Him. ' ' - - - At New York on Wednesday Salva tor Bossoto, 18 years old, was shot to death in his father's restaurant lu Park street by Carlo Rossati, 35 years aid, because he had disclosed to tbe police secrets of the alleged "Black [land." The father was knocked down and jhoken into insensibility .by the slayer, who then ran down the street, fol- , lowed by a great mob. Italians to bbe number of 1,000 attacked the Eliz abeth street police station, hurled missiles at the police and prisoner, hurting two detectives and one police man. They would have torn the mur derer limb from limb had not it been for the arrival of the reserve police from two station houses, who were Torced to use clubs and lists and threaten to shoot. According to the police the murder was deliberately planned by an organized gang. Bossoto is an enemy of these organ ized gangs and his son inherited the > father's opposition to the lawless ele meut of their countrymen. When not studying music young Bossoto helped about the restaurant. Several weeks ago he learned that the murder ous gang about Mulberry Bend had planned t/> rob a number of miners who were coming through New York iud who had engaged board in the lodging house over the Bossoto restau rant. Young Bossoto went to the police md asked protection for r.hf? men and >oon an Italian detectlye had ar rested 12 suspicious characters who vere held until the miners had taken i ship for their homes. Once out of Jail lt ls salr*illt; gang letermined upon Hesso. leath. Early Wednesday Rossati the .estauraut and when appr? \ by jhe elder Bdssoto said be wan. j th ug. As Bossoto was about tj close she place he asked Rossati to leave. The latter became insolent and re fused. Young Bossoto, who was in the ?i toben, heard bis father and the nan. in an argument and came out. The instant he saw young Bossoto, Rossati took a pistol from his pocket, eve^ it,at t^he youth and fired.,, The mllet struck the. boy between the iyea and ho fell, dying instantly. a;,l n1en,.accoiaHWHiS5>B!*^ t.i-.iou u.i> "?ia? .tan- fllSTT mocking him down, and., started to un,, but was captured before he had :one two blocks. On Sunday the Bossotoa found on ' heir door the ''bridge of death," a abalistic sign of the Sicilians which i said to be a threat of death. A Man Thief. A dispatch from Spartanburg to .'he State says seme thief entered the nme of Mr. Alfred Cole, near Go Ightly, and stole 854. Ingress was ef- N Beted through an open window In the leeping room of Mr. Cole. The thief hen went to an adjoining room, se ured a trunk from a corner, and made is escape. This trunk was carried to pasture about 200 yards from the louse broken into and rilled. It con ained 854 in money and 81,000 in tonfederate bills, along with many pa iera, packages, letters, etc., of Mr. tole. Nothing was molested save the aouey, the rogue taking both kinds, f au attempt is made to pass the Con ederate bills, It will easily lead to the dentify of the thief. Mr. Cole's loss ls . heavy one. He ls a mute and an .ged man, he and his aged wife live in . frugal manner. They have as a com uni?n a little white girl named Hal ie Range, whom they adopted sever d years ago. There is no clue as to the burglar._ Oldeut Man Dead. A dispatch from Washington, Ga., o the Augusta Chronicle says: Caesar .tooker, who was probably the oldest nan in America, ls dead. The exact ige of this venerable old colored mau rv i ll never be known, but from the ac X)unls which he related of events which occurred more than a century tgo, and from the testimony of the >ldest living citizens, lt is a conserva tive estimate to place bis age at 125 /ears. He came from Virginia to Wilkes county asa slave at a time when Washington was nothing more than "a wide-place in the road." Ile used to tell with a great deal of guesto md delight of the halcyon days when he, as a young boy, would sit on the banks of a large pond, which is now the public square and site of the new court house, and shoot duck and wild cranes. Uncle Caesar leaves six chil dren, the oldest of whom is 9U years uf age and lives near Thomson, Ga. Boat Dragged to Sea. A dispatch from Charleston to The Stat9 says Mr. Scott Bailey's boys on Wadmalaw Island had a narrow escape from being carried to sea by a mons ter devil tish and perhaps drowned. The boys were in a small boat tishing when the tish, which was said to be 18 to 20 feet long, became entangled in the anchor and started for deep water. The boat was whirled along it a terrible rate, the bow being on a line with the water, and just when Lhe young men were beginning to Face certain death the anchor chain parted and they were saved. They md some ditliculty in getting ashore, aut they were saved from certain frowning._ Rabbis Ficht. A personal ditliculty occurred at H'Nal lsreal synagogue at Norfolk, Va., on Friday night between Rev. Samuel Goldberg, rabbi of the syna gogue, and Rev. L. Heller, formerly rabbi of a synagogue at Augusta, Ga., who is making Norfolk his temporary home. Rabbi Goldberg was arrested on EL warrant sworn to by Rabbi Heller, -barging him with assault and bat tery. Rabbi Goldberg objected to the presence of Rabbi Heller in the syna gogue and sought to eject him. An altercation ensued and the arrest fol lowed.