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The Marlbor?' Democrat.33 _ __._i.: -_ _ ? ~ ; ;-?- . "DO THOU, GREAT LIBERTY, INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVES Ii^ THY POSSESSION HAPPY FOR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE." __._ ---?--'-----?-" --J_--.-:_ 1 VOL. SXK BENNETTS VILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1905, NO, 2ST i WAGES OF SIN A Florida Man Kills Himself in a New York Hotel. A WOMvN WITH HIM The Man and Woman Eloped from De land, Fla., and the Former, Becom ing Conscience Striken, Ended His life pY Taking Mor phine. He Left Letters. Herbert Leon Kepler, a book keep er whose home was In Deland, Fla., died In a r om In Siren's hotel at 46th street and Sixth avenue, Now York, Thursday, from morphine poisoning. With him at the time was a woman who told the o 'lice that ber name was Mrs Dona Miller and that ehe left Deland with K pier two weeks ago. Mrs. Miller said Kepler was the Bon of a D.'land physician and that he left Florida suddenly bi cause of some trouble which he gut into there. Mrs. Miller saki alie lef c her husband to come with Kepler. She was detain ed Oy the police. In the room In which Kepler anH the woman occupied the police found two small bottles. One was filled with Morphine and the other nearly erupt) contained a trace of the drug Mrs. M.lier told the police that Kepler bad tuen despondent for sever al days and had told her that unless his father did something at once to lix up the trouble at Deland he feared something dreadful wi uld happen. When Mrs. Miller was arraigned in po lice court she was remanded to the custody of the coroner without ex a in inatlon. A note found in Kepler's rorm Indi cated that the man bad deliberately taken Ids lif .. lt was addressed to his neph) w, .lunn lt ly mond, wi o is em ployed In that city, and said: '"Good bye, Jack. I thank you for al! you have done. You know as well as I the reason for tbls and will forgive me. Again, 1 thank you, and again I say a last good bye. (Signed) Herbert." Raymond told the police that Iiis uncle at one time was a prominent tennis player and that he won Hie southern cham pionship.several years ago. Later Mrs. Miller told the coroner that a portion of h ;r story as she g ive it to the police was untrue. She had not lived with btr hu-band in several yearB, she said, aud did not fl;e from Deland with Kepler. She had been in New Yi.rk or vicinity for several years. She also told the coroner that she had been a witness in the William Hooper Young murder cave in that cloy sever al years ago. She had lived In the house with the murdered woman, she Bald, ai d had Orst introduced her to Young. Mrs. Mil'er also said that Kepler left a letter aid risked to his father and mother I egging that lie and Mrs. Miller be not separated in death and that his parents aud tiaughter forgive him for bis act. lu view of this letter the police believe that Kepler intend ed to kill both himself and the wo man. A LlnL K IMPACE. Hernia lor Hin Swvoihear! and Will bo Married Soon. The Columbia lt cord say.-, the first incident In the romance line to occur in Uommhsioi er Watson's experience with bis new dt p ?rt.n int of iuimi^ra tlon and agriculture will take the form of a doui.le wedding of Scotch couples, the cere m my to be perform ed In Commissioner Watson's i dice in the capitol budding within the next week or len days. One of the happy grooms to be Is James Reid, a handsome young fol low whom Mr. Watson brought here last Oatobsr and who Inspired by the bliss awaiting bis .successfully estab lishing himself In this country has been earvin? out a business 3ireer for himself at Georgetown. Through ar rangements mude with the depart ment's agency in Glasgow Mr. Reid's bride-to-be, Ml s Schotield, sailed on the 11th from Liv >rp n.) on the An chor liner "C. lumbla." She ls < x pected to meet Mr Reid lu Columbia the latter part of this week. Peter Buchan is so charmed wich the prospects of th's c. untry that he hasdetirtxilutd to take a wife before be bas been here sixty days. Hu came here in March from Gate Hean, Scotland, bu b i; g au expert dairy man he readily f und work on a farm right here in Ric iland c unty. His fiance sailed on the White Star liner "Baltic" from Llverp ol about the same time that Miss Schofield started out for happiness and a home, and the two are expected here on the same day or within a day or so of each other. Killed HitiiBOir, T. It. Tulles, formerly town mar Bhul of Philadelphia, Miss , and one of the most prominently conneoted young menin Ne boba county, has commit ted suicir.e bj tifinga bu'let through his brain. A f..er being married for five months, domistic ttouhles are said to have arl.sen, and husband and wife agreed to separat' Ai tho wife's effects wire li lng loaded on a wagon preparatory t i moving, Tullos went toher rt om and a1 ked to kiss her goodby. A'ter doing BO, he retired at once to the rear of he house and fired thc fatal ?hot. ital kim In Ijollitiiaiia. Last week a vessel hiouvht TTfi Italians fi om Palermo to Nev/ Or leans, All but ai.out ~u were permit ted lo land. Those refused were afflicted with dis?, ase or did not met t the requirements of the law in som-, other particulars. T ie immigrant? were la:.(kd at New Orleans at the suggostl >:i of tint Italian ambassador, through whom sotn.liern planters made an appi al for Italian laborers. They will bo employed largely on tl e plantations of Louisiana and other Southern slates. A DEIlSKIiXGr PLACE Not Authorized in the .Establishment of t?eer Dispensaries. Law Allowa Pay by lt DY ?Hy In Liiou ol Salary and Diaponsora May Bottlo Their Boer. Attorney General Gunter In a lengthy opinion Wednesday answered three questions propounded by the State board of dispensary directors with regard to beer dispensaries, but lb is not thought that the board itself will make an announcement until Thursday. The question whether the law al lows pay by royalty In lieu of salary is answered in the atllrmative as is the qucstfou as to whether beer dispen sers may bottle their own beer. The definition of "premises" ls lengthy and somewhat complicated, but in brief it may be said that the opinion defines "premises" to be whatever the county board designates as "premises;" ii. other words the opinion ls all that the most fastidious beer dispenser could desire. Says the opinion: '"In regard to your third request for a definition of the word premises, it occurs lu sec tlon f>Gl above quoted, ls fraught with ditlljulty, for it Involves to a great extent a question of fact, rt i O'er lng in each particular case. From such an examination as 1 have been able to malte of this subject In the legal authorities, 1 am unable to lay down a precise definition for in such cases where the matter has been dis cussed so much depends on the techni cal statutes and circumstances the reusoniug is of hut little aid here. "From a perusal of Mie dispensary law it is manifest, however, lo deter minirg the limits of the 'premises,1 recourse must be nad to the action of the county biard of control, in select lng a place for a dispen- er to operate. "Section 5G5 directs: 'The county board or control shall designate or provide a suitable place in which to sell the liquors,' and section 5154, authorizing tue county bjard to ap pointa dispenser: Says 'every appoint ment BO made shall specify the liuild ing, giving the street and number or location in which intoxicating liquors may be sold by virtue of the same.1 When the county board has designat ed or provided 'a suitable place1 in which to sell liquors that 'suitable place' becomes 'premises' on which liquor can not bo opened nor malt liquors drunk. "Were a provision of the nature di rected to Individuals, premises under such circumstances would be limited to some place over which such indi vidual had the legal right to exercise autuorlty or control. This rule ap piles to tho governmental agenay hav ing the selection and control of the place wher? liquors are sold and of course, can not apply to places over which the county board has no au thorliy. There ls no law authorizing the county board or any other otlluer io provide a drinking place; if suc.i be attempted it ls without warraut ot lav;. "lt follows that 'pr< mises' is such a plac3 as is provided by the county bo ird for the sale of liquors and over which the State agencies have con trol. Tins trust ls devolved upon that holy to be perfjrmed ace trdlug ly to the expressed meaning and pur pose of the law." VEILED MURDERESS DEAD. Co ll ft neel Ovt;r Kil'ty Yearn. Hbo Claimed Itoyal Blood. A dispatch from Newburu, N. Y., says Mrs. Henrie ta Ito ?ins in, known ss "the veiled murderess," diel at the M vtt awan state h sp I tal Wed nesday. She was convicted of the murder of Timothy Lanagan and Catherine Lubee in Troy in is?3. During the trial site, wore a heavy veil. Judge Harris, before whom she was tried, arkell her to remove the veil, but she refused, saying that she would rather have any verdict pro nounced thau to remove lt. Ht r counsel, Martin I. Townson, stated to the court that he could not prevail on her t? remove lt. Finally she drew thc veil for an Instant and, smiling to the jury, replaced lt. She was sen tene: . to be hanged on June 10, 1853 lier sentence was afterward ot) m mu ted. S:?; was sent to the Auburn state ht spit al for tho Insane in 187 :? and later transferred t i Matteawan. Mrs. Robinson was 89 years old. When, a few days ago, it was certain she inuit die, the physicians at the hospital endeavored to lia ve her re veal her identity, which she had hid den since lier c mmitmont. She re fused, saying that she had kept the secret for ?? years and might as well let lt die with her. Only once in her long confinement did she ever rev? al any i bing about herself, and then she to id a physician that she came from the Ko gi I sh royal family. Then, as if nhe had forgotten herself, she re fused lt) say anything further. She has employed her time in recent years in miking lace, which she wore. Some time ago sho made a set of false teeth out of buttons and wore them a large share of the time. Winthrop Commencement. Invitations have, been sent out for tlie annual commencement exercises of Winthrop Normal and Industrial College at R';ck Hill, on June 4, f>, and tl. Fifty young women will re ceive their degrees. Oh Sunday morning, June 4, thc sermon will bo delivered before the Young Women's Christian Association, and at night Rev. B. W. Smith, of Greensboro, N. G , will preach tho bacalaorer.te ser mon. On Monday the joint celebra tion of the literary societies and an Inspection of the buildings and de partments will take place. On June ii, the schedule provides for the alumnae reunion, address to the alumnae by Hon. E. D. Smith, of Sumter. "Daisy Chain l'rocession," tddrefis to tho graduating class by Hon. M. R. Ansel, of Greenville, and the award of diplomas and certlti cates. HE KILLED FOUR. A California Mad Man Tries To Kill Everybody. SHOT HIMSELF ALSO, Supposed lo Be Crazed by Liquor, Wil liam P. Robinson, Goes Forth With a Winchester and a Pistol and Statis Another Graveyard At Sandiego, Gal., on Monday, Wil liam P. Robinson, a house servant, ran amuck killing four persons, wounding two others abd then killing himself. Tue dead: William Stewart. Mrs. Emma Stewart. ll. W. Chase. ITarry Doddridge. W. P. R ibinson. The wounded: Mrs. W. H. Doddridge. W. H. Doddridge was Injured by falling out of a window. At iirst Robinson was said to be crazed by liquor, but later lt was said that he had threatened Doddridge for an alleged attempt to have Robinson shanghaied when ho was a sailor. It ls said also that he had expressed a dislike for the Stewarts. About 8 o'clock Monday morning Robinson left his bouse at the corner of Fourth and A streets and going to the apartments in the same building occupied by Mrs. Emma Stewart, the landlady, and ber Bon, William, rap ped for admission. Mrs. Stewart, upon opening the door, was shot through tile head by Robinson, who had leveled a rifle Robinson theu mitered the dining room where Stew art, who had been seated at breakfast, was just rising from the table. Rob inson attacked him Immediately, plunging a long knife into Stewart's bo ?y dose to the heart and again into tlic abdomen. At the second stab Stewart sank to the lloor with blood p Miring from his bo3y in a stream. Robinson tberi 'nrarnedto hUroom. Reloading h?s r il a id jewing his knife, he si i pp da revolver into his pocket. He cb?>n d-'.sc'nr'ed to the first floor, in? porttoi of which is usad as a cirpfn er tl op by n. W. Chase. Ca e prot ab'y siw Robinson enter, but pai l no attention to him, for Robinson app cached cose to him und, suddenly throwing up his rifle, tired, tho bullet entering Chase's brcast'oioae to tho heart. Chase died immediately. From the carpenter shop Robinson proc eded on his bicycle down Ifourth street for several blocks through the business section of the town with the rifle still in his baud. Ile went di rectly to the house of W. H Dod dridge, Internal revenue collector, on the northeast corner of Second and ll streets. He left his wheel at the curb and ran up the steps to the front door, carry it g his revolver in one h?iid and his rifle m the other. In re spouse to his ring Harry Doddridge, son of W. II. Doddridge, who is an engineer at the Sandiego brewery, ope ed the door. Robinson fired bis revolver ano young Doddridge sank to the floor with a bullet just above the heart D,jath followed before medical assis tance could be summuned. Mrs. Doddridge, the yung man's mother, bearing the shot and perhaps wit nessi ng the tragedy, ran screaming from the house Robinson, hearing the screams, started through the oouse after the woman. As she wa> crossing tile yard the cruzad man caught sight of lier and fired, the bul let striking her in the back. She fell headlong upon lier face in the yard W. H Doch!ridge, who was In bed on the second floor when the commo tion began, jumped or fell out of the window, breaking the hones of his rlgiit hand and probably sustaining internal injuries. Robinson searched the house for more people. When he came to the room just vacated by Doddridge ho climbed upon the bed and placing his revolver t> lils temple tired a bullet which tore off the to of his head. There is no known rca sop for thinking there had been ill feeling between Robinson and any of ins victims. Collector Doddridge says he n vcr even saw or heard of Robin son he fore. Doctor Dieu of Smallpox. The Newberry Observer says Dr. M. y. Hendrix, the most prominent physician of Lexington, died on Saturday night witli smallpox. He must have been a man of rare ability, judging from the trib-.i?e of the local paper, though a mau of "peculiar characteristics" and of "strong prc ludlces." We infer from a remark made by the town board of health, in tile same papi'r, that the doctor had not been vaccinated-this probably being one evidence of his "strong pre judclcs." The doctor's wife ani chil dren also had the disease, but he was the only member of the family who died. Mrs. Hendrix now being able to be up and about her household work, arid other members of the fami ly hoing successfully vaccinated." We refer to this case to emphasize two points: 1. That the smallpox now prevailing In the state is of a virulent and dangerous type; 2. That vaccina tion is the only sure protection against this most loathsome and dan gerous disease. Carl M. Sp. ncr a former trusted employe of tin DJS M ?int s National bank, lias bern Indicted on a charge of emb z/.'o n ii? and alleged fraudu lent entries. The um- unt of lils short age does not exceed $5,uu(>. There is a pathetic story lu connection with Spencer's confession, which he made prior to the indictment. For many years annually he had been taking an invalid son east for medical treat ment. Ho bad been unable to meet the expenses and to save the boy's life he tooK money from bise mployers. In Sandiego, Cal. Ti? Si v i SIIII'M Ijilo. FOR HOLDING COTTON The Flan for Southern Farmers to Fix Its Price. Loiter From President Hardie Jor dan As to tho Plan fora Obaln of Cotton Warehouse*. Oae of the most Important move ments ever inaugurated iu the South is now rapidly taking form, and once it is oompleted, the Southern farmer and cotton grower will be able, for the firbt time in history, to Bet his own price upon his own commodities, exclusive of the outside influences of the Wall street "bull" and ' bear." This is the vast bonded warehouse system, supported by the Southern Cotton association. By this it is hoped to erect a fireproof warehouse in every communltv in which 2,000 bales of cotton are marketed. In this way the farmer may store his cotton and borrow cheap money on the re ceipts, holding the staple until the price is high enough to warrant him selling. President Ilarvle Jordan, Ina letter given out Thursday, outlines the plan of the movement as follows: The time has come in the South when our business men and farmers i must align themselves together for i mutual protection and safeguarding the great staple crop of this section of i the union. The cotton growers pro duce the crop and prepare it for mar- i ket and the sagacity and ?nancial i support of our business men, bankers 1 and merchants are needed to aid luso 1 soiling the crop as to make the staple ! bring its full legitimate value. i One of the essential features in the i future handling of the cotton crop by l the producers is to provide adequate ? warehouse facilities In which to store ' cotton and use it as a collateral to I borrow cheap money until the owner i ls prepared or ready to sell it These < warehouses should be constructed in ; ?vtry community where 2,000 bales or l more of cotton is marketed and should i be built, operated and controlled by the farmers and business men in the 1 local communities. A great many of i these warehouses will be built this { year and the Southern Cotton associa- t ti ou will be glad to furnish the latest ] and most Improved plaus and spec?- j fications issued by the fire insurance t companies. Each warehouse should t be so constructed as to reduce the ? cost of insurance and storage tc a < minimum. In connection with the t warehouse proposition the Southern | Cotton association ls also deeply inter- < ested in the development of the Cot- t ton Planters' Commission and Hold- i lng company, which was organized ? during the late New Orleans cotton < convention. This hojdlnrr istyirnjgjmy M If properly 'Indorsed and~sut)7cribed to ( by the farmers t ad business men of < the South, can soon develop Into a \ power of Btrength to protect the grow ars against any of the schemes and \ devices so often resorted to by certain | classes for tho purpose of depressing tue price of the staple. The stock of | this company has been tlx d at th>- i par value of ono dollar per share, so ? as to place lt within the rea.h of ? every f irmer In the South. The char ter provides that no stockholder will ? ever be liable for an amount greater : than his subscription. Every banker i lo the South has this stock lu hand for i sale, besides a large number of county and statB agents. lt ls h ?ped that the stnek to this cern,.?any will b? i rapidly subscribed to so that the pao pie w o grow 11 e co'ton tuay.be ;.b e to build upa bu wirk of safety tia i tw en thei.s lv?.?s ati.1 ?he element which hus so leug b en engig. d lo de pieasing the cotton maiki t. The aaa cl nio:; v ill be gla. I to fur nish detailed Information with refer ence to tuese two 'muonant adj mets of the association's wirk to all p*r ties iot-f-re-.ted. Tile farmers have al ready whipped the tight as to red nc ? lou of cotton acreage ai d use of guano under cotton for 15)05 N >w let the people get c oser together an I continue the tight for their emancipa tion from tlu- dominating Influences of the speculators. IIAKVIK JUKDAN, President Southern O.ttou Associa tion. Bryan In the Pulpit. W. J. Bryan tilled thc pulpit of a Methodist church at L ncoln, Neb , recently. A very large crowd was In attendance. He took up the Sermon un the Mount, with his text the words: "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." He declared his belief that rellglou con sisted more In kindness to and consid eration for fellow men, more in char lty for others and In personal purity than In dogma, ceremony or creed. He deplored the tendency to higher criticism of tho Scriptures and rejec tion of parts of it because one could not understand. Ile declared that he found daily more mysteries in life than were bound up with'u the cov ers of the lhble. He believed the higher wisdom lay In accepting the good we understand, and hope for un derstanding later of that we don't. He Insisted that no man could com mand real success In the world unless he possessed an Ideal, nor could he be of real value to the world so long as selfishness and low conceptions of his j duty to himself and others dominated his life and conduct. NeTor llrttl Any. President Hadley of Yale Uni verity was one of the speakers at the dinner of the Cornhill Alumni, of New York city. Dr. Hadley told a story of a little boy whose mother had died and whoso father had married again, hav ing two sons by the second wife. '"I hada mother and I've got a step mother,'' said the boy, "but Hilly and Harry, all they've got ls a stepmother. They never had atty nrmthnr." Tho ijAMt Survivor. The body of Hiram Cronk, the last survivor of the war of 1812 waa car ried to New York from Boonvillc, and laid away in tho Cypress Hills cemetery wi Mi full military honors. Accompanying the body were Cronk's three survlvi )g sons and one daughter -Philander Cronk, aged 81, William, aged 82, John, aged 06 and Mrs, Sarah Bawley, aged /l. AWould-Be Assassin Dies by Its Accidental Discharge f _ ON HIS OWN PERSON, Two Detectives Were Also Blown to Atoms and Twenty-three People Were Hurt. The Man Was . . Carrying the Bomb to Usc on Another Man. A dispatch from Warsaw, Russian Poland, says a workman who was try ing to avoid the observation of two detect! vs on Miodowa street at noon Friday stumbled on the curb of the sidewalk and a b >mb which he was carrying in his pocket exploded killing the workman and b)th detectives and wounding 23 persons. It ls belli vod the bomb was intended for Gov. Gen. Maximovltoh, who was expected to pass the spot on his way from the ca thedral, where he was attending the service in honor of the czar's birth- 1 day. The bodies of the victims were lit- 1 erally blown to pieces. A cafe near 1 the scene of the explosion was entirely 1 demolished, all thc windows in the neighborhood were smashed and a 1 lamp post was torn out of the ground. The number Injured by the explosion Includes three women, one student md two school boys. One of thc lat ter is detained at the police station, 1 oaving been noticed warning people against going into Miodowa street 1 The man who was carrying the bomb 1 oas been identified as a Polish shoo maker named Dobrowolskl, a member j jf the violent section of the Socialists. . Many arrests have been made since 1 the explosion and the police are busy making domiciliary searches. ' The authorities are convinced that ?he bomb was intended for the gover- ! ?or general. He was attending tire services at the cathedral, which is dtuated at the corner of Dluga and Miodowa streets, a few yards from thc ?cene of the explosion. All the high ; iffiolals and members of Russian so- 1 ?lety there also waa present. The gov ?rnor general had recently been tim at ' med with a bomb attack particularly 1 ?ince the May day disturbance. The 1 police accordingly exercise thc great- ' sst vigilance whenever he leaves the ' jastlo. After the officials had ente ed 1 the cathedral detectives observed a 1 poorly- dre-.sed man loitering on Mlo iowa. street. When the man Baw the < J** jt^ye.^Vran towards the entrance 1 3r a confectioner's store, whon ne el th jr tripped or threw the bomb back wards at the detectives. 1 The explosion occurred only a m?n ate before the people commenced to ! pour out of the cathedral. ! Three minutes later the governor ieneral would have passed the spot. Cossacks who were hastily summoned ' loon cleared the streets and the gov- 1 rn< r general drove by another route . DO the castle. Friday's outrage ls t.;.e sixth of similar character In Warsaw 1 since tho January disturb inc-'S. Tba 1 aditors of Polish papers there have de sided to publish, if tho censor will permit it, stroug articles denouncing 1 such attacks. It is stated that Gov. Gen. M ox. m vltch recently received an annoy mous letter threatening that is he had allowed mon, wornt n and o lloren to be sn t d >wn ou May dav, Ohe would be killi d with his wife md chi dren, the writer addii g tba' ev m rem lining within the castle would not S'.ve them from that fate. i>' ?'KU'-<I r<> Death. A dlspatci from Johnston to The -Hate says Mr. Jeter W Grim was killed Thursday afternoon in a pecu liarly horrible manner. Mr. Crlm bad h en out plo wi i g and about, sundown started home fr>>m the Held, riding the horse, sitting sideways. In some way the horse bolted, and Mr. Crim'.s feet became entangled In the harness ne was dragged for a quarter of a mile, with the horse going at full speed. When the horse was stopped, nearly at Mr. Crlm's home, the unfor tunate man .was still alive bat unable 11 speak and In that condition he liv ed for about 30 mlnut-S. Mr Grim was 80 years of age and was a C infcderate veteran. He wos a farmer and senior member of the firm of Grim & Son. Tilt? Old liovo Knvtvod. Miss May Story, of Thomson, and Mr. li. L. Harker, of Marietta, Ga., were married at Thompson, Ga , Thursday, and created quite a ripple of excitement from the fact that the engagement of Miss Story to a pro minent young man of a neighboring town had been announced, tho wed ding to be solemnized in June. All ar rangements had been made for this wedding, which was to be the society event of thc season, but lt appears that an old sweetheart appeared upon the scene, with the result above men tloned. The newly married couple left immediately for Marietta, (Ja., where they will make there future home. I'll-atlod lin Illy. L. P. Obliger, ex-president of the closed Wooster, O^.io, national hank, plonded guilty before Judee Taylor lu the United States district court Wed neBday afternoon to a count in one of the Indictments charging him with having issued a draft when there were no funds In the bank to meet lt. Judge Taylor sentenced Obliger to eight years' imprisonment in the Ohio pen itentiary. Obliger ls an ex-congress man, ex county treasurer, pi sttnaster, at Wooster under President Cleveland's lirst administration and collector of Internal revenue at Cleveland during Cleveland's second administration. Two J- lulu-1- Uatfl Uatiigttt. G. W. Streeter of Holton, N. Y , caught in traps in tile Holton moun tains recently two Usher cats, animals rarely seen In this part of the country. The animals havo heads willoh resem ble that ot a bear. Tlioy weighed about ten pound ; each. They possess a fine black fur, whloh is valuable. Mr. Streeter says tim animals arc ferlous and will put up a good j fight. SHIPS THAT VANISH. Sumo Bemarkable Mysteries and Pe crets of the Great Ocean. Fino Ships that HATO Sailed Away and Disappeared Forever from tho Sight of Men. London Tit Bits says there are few things which are so full of mystery, or which makes such a powerful ap peal to the Imagination, as the stories of ships that sail gallantly out to sea and of which nothing is ever heard or seen after the mastn hitve dipped be low the horizon. At present the pa pers are full of .the recordB of these marine tragedies. Today, it ls the (Jlaverdale, which left Hong Kong on November 23, for Vladivostok, and of wbioh no trace has been found for over two months; yesterday it waa the Royalist, which cleared a few dayB later from Singapore to Hong Kong, and has never reached her destina tion; the day before it was the Idum, from Noway, which has vanished from human view; aud so on, -through the long list of shrps that have sailed and disappeared. What are tlie secrets of these mys terious vanishings of stately ships with their crews and cargoes? In nineteen cases of twenty the Becrets lie with the ships many fathoms deep, and will perhaps naver leap to light. To this day no one knows what be came of the City of Glasgow, which ( set her sails so gallantly in the Mer- , sey half a century and more ago, ? bound for Philadelphia, nor was she , seen again after the hills of Wales , were 1 jst to view. Thc Burvio Castle left London some years ago OD a long voyage to Austra lia. She should have made a final call at Plymouth, but she never came within sight of the Hoe, nor has hu man eye ever seen her from the day she dropped down the Channel It was on May 10, 1854, that Lady Nu ?ent spread her sails at Madras with Hil of the 25th Madras Light Infant- , ry and other passengers on board. [1er destination was Rangoon, but tialf a century has gone, and neither Rangoon nor any other port has < sighted her. i Nearly two years later the Collins Liner, the Pacific, dropped down the ? Mersey with 180 souls on board. She , was accounted one of the stoutest and jwiftest vessels of her time-and so, ! no doubt she was. But she went the , way the City of Glasgow had gone a , couple of years earlier, and for forty- | [line years has been lying at the bot- ; tom ot the sea-but where, none may | f;ow till all secrets are revealed. The , brading vessel Atlanta started, a quar- { ter of a century ago, for ash ort orulse < In bermudan waters, and from that tay to this no one knows what be < jame of her and the 250 souls she car- ? ried. On January 28, 18*70, the Ciry of , boston sailed from Halifax for Eng- ( land, with 101 souls on board. Sue : was an Inman Liner, a fine ship. ? splendidly equipped and handled; but sh;', too, was destined to vanish from tue 'ace of the waters. i Tue victim of another still remem- ? bered ocean mastery was the Preni len", a tine vessel which wa? expected , it Liverpool in March, 1841. Marc i | pissed and Liverpool saw nothing of , tier. Thc lung d<day In her arriva ?.iused gnat anxiety, and the wildest , rumor? tiegau to be circulated. 0<i ? April 13 news came that lier eugine- , iud rudder had been disabled in heavy weather and that she had put Into Maderia for repairs, and there natu rally followed a reaction from gloomy 1 forebodings to transports of joy. The I vessel was expected at Liverpool on a certain day, and her arrival was awaited hy hundred:! of people whu had friends aboard; but she never came, and ii was f.mnd that the story of lier arrival at Maderia was a heart less hoax. All the time the ill-fated vessel was at the bottom of the sea. Oe November 30, 1888, a large ves sel was seen from the beach at? Deal, sailing toward the Goodwin Sands. S e was a fair picture to look on, as she mi,ved over the waters with her stately spread of sails, But as the eyes of the watchers followed her she was seen to pause, and within a few seconds she vanished utterly from meir view. What caused this trag! cally sudden disappearance of a state ly ship? Tnat Is an itherof the count less secrets which the ocaan has in its jealous keeping. Forrest Honored. At Memphis, Tenn., to the accom paniment of martial music and In the presence of thousands of ci tizona and visitors the iquestrlan bronze staue of Lieutenant General Nathan B. Forrest was unveiled Tuesday after noon in the park that bears the Con federate general's name. The statue ls the work of the sculptor, NlethauB. lt was cast in Paris. Little Miss Bradley, a great grand-daughter of the dead horo, pulled the silken cord which exposed to view the handsome | monument. The municipal officers declared a half holiday and tlie city was crowded with visitors. Drowned olTtlio island. The Charleston Post 8ays J. Amos Kelly, a painter employad on the Isle of Palms by Contractor n. D. Sohua cher, was drowned Wednesday after noon od thc island. He left the beach In a boat, which wai over turned by the waves In sight of the shore, and tho unfortunate painter sank without the possibility of help being rendered him. His body hat not yet been recovered. Kelly with his wife and child lived in tho rear of Mr. John I). Cappelmann's residence, 200 Rutledge avenue. He was a man of kindly dispution and of good tabs -cuca d about 46 years old. UetM liiK Fay. Tlie Philadelphia Enquirer says that Nan Patterson was in this city today and signed a contract to appear on the stage of tlie Harlem Music hall, New York, at a salary of ?2,000 a waek. It is said she arrived here in the after noon and returned to Washington immediately after the negotiations had been closed. Miss Patterson, it is understood, was represented by Attorney Daniel J O'Reilly. Accord ing to tiie Enquirer, she is to appear in an act at tho head of blx other ohorus giris. The length of the en gagement ls not known, j DREAMED SHE SAW THIEF. Spartanburj? Woman Recovers Her j Money that WIR Stolon. Skeptically inolinerl persons, im mersed in material affairs and alive | only only to the dally grind of life and the gathering in of sheckels, place little faith In dreams; but Mrs. Curtis Wall of Arch street, Spartanburg, whose husband is a well known con tractor, attaches a deep significance I to her drearriB, and has excellent rea sons for doing so. Mrs. Wall ls a rela tive of Officer Henry Dodd of the po lice force, who related to a newspaper man a dream and its sequel, which will never be forgotten by the lady. Several days ago there was 920 se oreted in a closet of Mr. Wall's house. That night on retiring Mrs. Wall who bad placed the money away foi "a rainy day," dreamed that twice it had been stolen by a little negro boy and the features of the thief were in delibly stamped on her mind. She dreamed that this boy had stolen ? ten dollar bill and a one dollar bill, leaving four, of the sum total-$20. Friday morning she went to the houst of a negro man, not a great distance off, and feeling so sure of the identity of the thief of whom she dreamed, she walked in and saw a little negro boy about eight years of age who fit ted the picture and Bild, "I have come for my money." lt was quickly forthcoming-the ten dollar note, five dollar note and one dollar bill. Oo account of the extreme youth of the negro, he was not prosecuted. He 3onfes3ed that he went to Mr. Wall's une afternoon recently to buy milk, when there was no one at home. HIRED A8BASaINS. To KUI Mor Hntbtnd And Got Into Much Trouble, On May 3, at midnight, masker! men entered the home of Henry Black shire, at Brookville, Calhoun county, und shot him dead in the presence of his wife and s m. Wednesday night Mrs. Blackshlre ls in the Calhoun xiunty jail. Her neighbor. Rcbsrt Mc Ulosky, is in the same prison and Loub Hendricks ia in the Parkersburg jail - ill charged with complicity In the mur ler. The arrest cf Mrs. Blackshlre Wed aesday was brought about by the itatement of Hendricks. He said he was at MoOlosky's home several dayh Di-fore the murder and heard Mrs Blaokshire offer McChskey money ti dil her hush ind, and say that If h< | ( refuted Dbe would get some one else [?o do lt. He says he told Mrs. Black ihlre after the murder what he heard, ind she ofiered to give bim $100 a } on ts she collected her husband'? i fe insurance if he would leave town. He and McOloskey left together thr lay following the murder and remain ad near Parkersburg till McOloskey re burn to Brookville on Sunday to get | lils pay and while there ht was place* In jill. During their absence Mrs BlaoKBhlre attempted to col ect th Insurance, am milting to $1.000. Pub Ile sentiment was so outraged over in reports of her (k. jpllcity that she w?.? threatened with lynching, but no a' tempt was made to wreak vengeanct m her. McOloskey admits being at the house at the time of the murder ind also says Mrs. Blackshire wanted fier husband out of the way, bui charges Hendricks with the murder. Lotn.ii Appointed. Secretary Taft appointed Majo; General Lunsford L. Lomax, of Vir ginia, a member of the Gattyfcburp tiattleiield park commlslon, to till th< vacancy caused by the death of Majo W. M. Robins, of North Carolina, om of the Confederate commissioners. With the single exception of Maj i General Robert F. Hoke, of Nortl' Carolina General Lomax ls the senior i fficer of the survivors of the Army ol Northern Virginia, ne was born ir ll io;le island, but established his le gal residence lu Virginia at an earl> age. He was graduated from the Mil itary Academy and before the outbreak of the civil war was tirst lieutenant of cavalry In the United States army and commanded the escort of President Lincoln, at the latter's tirst inaugura tion. Scon afterwards he resigned fron the army and cast his lot with tin Confederacy. In April, 18l>2, he wa1 appointed a compiler of the ellice of | war records, war department, and has continued lu clerical duty in the war department ever since. Sentenced to Death. On Friday at Chicago Johann Hoch, who by his own confession ls a polyga mist, and who is charged by the pollct with having married at least 40 wo men in the last 15 years, was found guilty by a Jury of murdering the next to his last wife, Marie Welcker Hosh, and thc death sentence was recom mended by the Jury. Hoch had been married to MrB. Welcker only a short time when she took suddenly sick and died. He then formed an alliance with the sister of the dead woman and se curing the sister's money fled from Chicago. This Mrs. Hoch told the po Hoe that nooh bad poisoned her sister and a search for Hoch was begun. Ht was found two weeks later In Nev, York and brought back to Chlcag. and confronted by several alleged wives. During the trial expert testi mony was offered by the State that Hoch had poisoned the woman by ad ministering arsenic. A Sad A (Tatr. At Yoakam, Texas, K. S. Mason, a prominent business man, was shot and killed by M. A. and P. A. Newman, brothers, w?o were concealed lu the Lane hotel and who used rllles. Ma son, lt ls said feared trouble, but had adopted the policy of going about in his shirtsleeves to show that he was unarmed. Several days ago Miss Lillian Newman, about 28 years ot agc died at Range, and shortly there after Dr. J. M. Boyd, a highly re spected physioian, was bound over iu $5,000 bond to answer a charge of malpractice in connection with the young womans death. Water Atter Uxoroiuo Fatal. At Lancaster, N. Y., Dr. A. W. Martin, aged for-elght, died this ev ening from neuralgia of the heart, proJuoad by drinking largo quantities Ot water af tor violent exercise. FIVE MURDERS Confessed to by a Negro Who Is Now in Jail. OTHERS PUNISHED Por Some of the Crimes He Says He Committed. He Claims to Have As saulted a Young Woman in Virginia for Which Another Man Was Lynched. lu a letter to the police authorities of Chester, W. Va., a man signing tdmself "A. Johnson," and claiming co be a partner of Henry Williams, ?ho was recently executed In Roa noke, Va., has confessed to fi^e mur ders and numerous robberies. His reasons for writing are that other men have suffered for his crimes ind his conscience troubles him. He says he has been converted. The tates and manner in which the dif ferent crimes were committed as fur bished in Johnson's letter are more complete than the police records, and ?he authorities believe its authentic ty. According to Johnson he killed a woman at Chester, W. Va., two Italians at Un ion town, Pa., a man at tlyndman, Pa., and a woman at Mar lin's Ferry, Ohio. He also claims to nive assaulted a woman at Staunton, Va., for which crime, he says, an ther man was lynched. TELLS CONFLICTING TALES. A dispatch from Cincinnati, Ohio, ays Albert Johnson, colored, was ar rested in Newport, Ky., Thursday for mending threatening letters through ?be mails The officers express the oellef that he is the same man who wrote to the Chester, W. Va., chief if police, confessing various crimes for which other men had been or were ibout to be punished. A postal card o James Mooar, son of Capt. Luke VIooar, threatening him with death vas turned over to the United States justal authorities and led to Johnson's irrest. Johnson acknowledged writ ng the postal and was then asked: 'Did you write that letter to the 3nester, W Va., chief of pollcer" ''Yes, sir, 1 did and every word In bat letter is true," he responded. "Why do y cu make these voluntary ; ,nfefcSions?" "Because I am now converted and L Intend to lead a better life." "I bad three other men spotted to till In Cleveland, but since my con version I have abandoned that idea. [ informed the men that they bad >ose calls for their lives and thought ?liglon was all that had saved thtm." Later Johnson retracted his state icnt that he had killed Uve persons. I have been bad," he said, "but I ever killed any one aud don't know mytbing about that letter." Johnson's record in Newport in MudcS an attempt to kill Amos Phil ips by shooting, but Johnson claims hat he acted in self-defense. Our Fenelon List. The Columbia Ricord seems to oink that South Carolina newspapers can not afford to criticise ether States or abuse of the pension law, when we lave so much of the evil here at mme. The Record says the State oaard has found hundreds of names m the Hst which ought not to be obere. Tuis is not meant as an attack m the old soldiers, because they are entitled to all the State feel justified in paying, yet in almost every county men who never shouldered a musket iud who never heard the sound of a oattle are living on the money which >bould go to those who fought for the South. All of us can doubtless point co some particular case of grafting. 'If the newspapers," says The Re cord, "by publishing the county lists ire instrumental in having the names it those not entitled to pensions itrlcken off they will in some measure perform a duty to the public and to the Confederate soldiers." CruBlietl to Dom ti. A special dispatch froui Oalquit, Ga., to the Atlanta Constitution says chat while Dr. P. E. Wilkin and Miss Jennie Edgerton were out horseback riding Monday afternoon they met two four-horse wagons loaded with spirits of turpentine. In attempting to pass che firht wagon the horse Miss Eager ton was riding became frightened and che mules became unmanageable, the result was that Miss Edgerton fell under the wagon and was crushed to death. The horse that Dr. Wilkin was riding was so mungled that it was kill ed. Dr. Wilkin was slightly hurt. Miss Eagerton was the adopted daughter of Mrs. Floyd. The body will be ln cerred in the family burying grounds aear Brlnson, Ga. A party of young people will escort the bjdy to Its last resting place. In Hara Luok. As the climax to a run of hard luck, Joseph S. MoBrydo, a well known eitl z m of Columbus, Ga., lose his only foot Wednesday. He was alighting from his delivery wagin, carrying a shotgun. He has au artificial limb and it became entangkd in tho gun, c uising thc dlscuarge of the weapon. A hole about thc size-of a dollar was blown through his right foot and the doctor afterwards found amputation necessary, so MeBryde ls now minus ooth his feeo. Not very long ago his home was burned. A few years ago fire destroyed his boiler works and iron works on Seventh street. Re cently he lost a fine horse. A Omni Law. The "whipping post law" for wife beaters went into effect Thursday in the State of Oregon, Tne law provid es that a man Convicted of wife beat ing may bc punished with wblppit g, not exceeding 20 lashes, bub this is only an additional punishment as the old punishment hy fine or imprison ment ls still in effect under the new law. l&BBtKBBxBBEBBMm