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-.v-? 'J B Wi /\. MB ij, s vg s a M ?raga *, sss i ?K ?;V?\sl-?? EB V-15 ?SHH i cmoc? "DO THOU, O UR AT MBB1TY, ?NBPIR* Olia SOULS AND MAKIO OUR DIV KS US THY POSSESSION HAPPY ?lt OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY OAUSB." V(XC*XXI. BENNETTS VILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1906. HE WILL DIE Qa the Gallows For a ?Most Hein ous Crime. BRUTE TO B'S HANGUP Thc Law Vindicated in the Case of An drew Thompson, Win, Within Five ' Weeks From the Commission of the Crime. Is Tried and Condemned to bc Hung. There bas scarcely over been so muob Interest st own in any orimlnal trial lo Greenville as ls shown in Hu trial of the rapist, Andrew Taomp son, who is oharnod with assaulting Mrs. Frank J unes, the wife of a farmer, near Taylor's, Decorabcr 18 1806, which was begun lu the court of sessions Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock, says a special dispatch to The State. A vordlot of gu lty was re turned Wednesday afternoon. Acoording to tho testimony of Ben ?Smith and Charlie Moseley, both col ored, they wore with tho defendant at sundown on the day tho alleged orlmo was committed, about a quarter of a mlle distant from tbe James home They parted at that point, after having partaken of whiskey from a pint bottle wblob the defendant had. Before they parted this bottlo was emptied. Thompson wont in the di rection of the James h< ms, they to their homes in an opposite dircotlon. This bottle figured prominently in the trial. An empty bottlo was found at the place where Mrs. James wa* assaulted, wbioh, when presented do these witnesses, brought forth the statements that "if lt wasn't thc samo bottle Thompson carried and from which they drank, lt looked very much like lt." Mrs. James' testimony was pathetic ard caused no httlo Interest. There was no disorder among tho crowd, whloh was silent to catch tho words of the witness. ?She was visibly af fected as ?ho took the stand, lt was a trying ordeal, and If tho courts h:v auy way. to shield a woman from s.uob publiolty it would undoubtedly be done. Her voice was faint when she answered the first few questions of Solioitor Boggs, but she b< c ;me moro confident as tho examination preced ed and lt was not necessary fer the solicitor to propound questions to se cure her evidence. Sae testified that a negro giving his name as Androv Thompson came to I or tv use about ar hour by sun and w no away. Aboul dark tho same mar. returned and asko? whero her husband was. She told him that ho was in Greenville. She suspeoted the negro was up to m good and plckifg up a lamp, started out at her front door for the home o? Mrs. Pbillips, a few hundred yarii away. Tho negro turned and went toward tho back of tho yard. Aftei she had gone only a few yards the negro ran up behind her and takinp hold of hor jerked the 'amp from her hand. A terrible sci fill ensued. Shf mado superhuman t flor ts to repule tho attaok, but was overpowered anc tho orlmo was committed, from willoi sho si flared greatly. At this point in tho testimony So lloltor Boggs asked : "Ls tho dofen dant who sits there the man who as suited you, or is he not, Mrs. James? 1 Tho silence which provailod over the crowded court room w.is deathlike. Tho speotators had listened for this question, wniob WSH the most Im portant to oonvlot the defendant Mrs. James looked straight at the prisonor, who sat by tho sido of his attorney. "That ls thc man," said abo In a strong voice, "that did it" and after a slight pause, "that's the dog!" This testimony caused a con siderable stir and tbe deputies moved about among the crowd. Constable ltalncy testified to the capture of Thompson in his homo and his Identification by Mrs. James tho next day. Ile was in a drunken Btupor when arrested and made differ ent and confiloting statements to tho magistrate To show that the defendant was not at the Jame? home when the orlmo WU committed and that a strange negro was in thc neighborhood is the sole defence of the negro Thompson and upon this tho defendant's oaso rested. Attorney McSwaln for tho defense in tho cross examination of all witnesses for the State, sought to bring out testimony showing there was a strange negro in the vicinity where the crime was committed Such a strango person was there abouts the afternoon of the crime. The positive identification of tho de fendant by Mrs. James and the chain of ovldedce whioh clings about the bottlo are strongly contradictory to the theory of tho defenso and are questions whioh will bo decided by tho Jury. Tim Stato closed its caso at thu noon hour, all tho testimony being hoard The defense put up no witnesses and arguments wcro at onco begun. The defence by not introducing any ovl dence scoured tho last argument co the Jury. Mr. Alvin H. Dean assist ed tho preiaecution and mado tho opening argument for the State. Alwavs logical and eloquent, ho made one of tho strongest speeches over heard in a Greenville court room. Ile was followed by Sol lei tot B rggs, who made a short argument and annlyzod the testimony. Eloquently tho so lloltor appealed for tho protection ol helpless women and the suppressor of mob law by tho pottt Jury elolng lti duty. His speech was forolble ant delivered with charl?te?'st1" miment, ness. John J. McSwaln mado tho olosioi argument. He was appointed by tin court to defend Thompson, and t br? vc fl ?ht was mada to provo the Innooenoo of the accused. Every point of testimony which was Intro duced by tht State whioh bttdored nu beirg irrelevant was contested. E irnest'y and rlainly tbe attorney recited tbe State's testimony to tbe Jury and made a strong plea for his client. R luctantly Mr. M-Swain took the case, but he had no way cu*, of it and be did bis duty well. Ho urged upon the Jury to see tbat no innocent man was conv'cted; the law did not want it, and to give the pris onev, v. i was helpless and In the hanan o? tho law and his U _d, an im partial veld lot. A verdict of guilty was reached after the Jury was out ono hour. Thompson was sentenced to bs bang ed on February ? No. motion for a new trial was mado. AN OFFICER KILLED. ATIMVll'T TO A Kit IO ST lil-AVHK ENDS IN OFFICE El'N DB.ITH. Bf oCormick tho Peone of a D faculty in Whioh State Constable lost His Tife. A spooial dispatch from Augusta, Ga , to The State says Mr. J. O Holst ion of MoOormtok, a member cf Hie State oonstabuliry, died in the ? Augusta city hospital Tuesday morn ing, Jan. 33, at 8 o,oh.ok, having been brought to the olty Mondsty in a ser- < tous condition from a gunshot wound , Mr. Holstein was accompanied by Dr- , R, M. Fuller of McOjrmlok, who wai; | with him until tho end carno, and es- | corked tho remains to Mr. Holstolu** < former homo, at Batcaburg Tuesday | afternoon. I Dr. Fuller was seon by tho State's representativo and gave the following , statement for publication; ( 'Mr. J. O. Holstlen, Smte consta- , bio at McCormick, was shot by Mr. , Wade Cothran, a farmor living about , bwo milos from MiGormlok. The | shooting tock plaoe on Main street In . tho pr cuenco of a number of witness- ? es. j "Mr (Jothran and Mr Tump Wide- ? man woro about to gob into an alter , oatlon when Mr, Cothran drew a 38 f oallbre Smith & Wesaou pistol. Tho j town marshall, M?\ J. R. Brown, came j upon tho sceno and plaocd Mr. Coth ran under arrest, tut ho re fused to | give up bis weapon. The marshal ; oalled upon Mr. Holstein .'or asBlst i anco. Ho stepped up end it seems \ took hold of the barrel cf the weapon ^ aud requested Mr. Oothran to let t bim have tho pistol. Mr. Cofchran j still refused and endeavored to pull 9 the pistol from Mr. Oothran, when it c was di. charged. Tho bullet, nntnred i vim ohest about two and a half "inches 'j below the nipple, on a line pnnotrat- t lng tbe diphragm In two plaocs, pass ( lng through tho ponioardium and \ tbrough the lower lobe of tho left ^ lung, lodging Just under the skin at a ? point of tho shoulder blade. "Mr. llo ntoiu was taken to thc c oity hospital by his physician on the c sfternoon t.ain. Ho continued to ^row worse until (Fath ensued at 8 j'oloek Wednesday morning. An lutopay revealed tho faot that both c .ibe abdomen and plurae were Ulled J with blood. "Mr. Wade Cothran was cut two or ' three timcB by Mr. Wldeman after 1 tho shooting took place. Ills wound ( were flesh wounds and not llkoly to 1 give him trouble "Mr. llolstoiu was cool and collect- 1 ed. Ho walked nearly two blooks to 1 the physlc'an's etil e aftor tho wou id \ iLd was counclous until about 15 minutes before ho dlod. Ho made no statement in regard to the wound. "His remains wero shipped to Hates- 1 burg, his furmor homo, on tho 3 30 1 train Tuesday afternoon whore the ( interment will tako placa tomorrow. 1 His fither, mother, ono brother and one bister survive bim. Tho throe i cains over to Augusta on tho morn- ' log train, roaoblng hore ajshort while 1 after his death. 1 "Mr. Holstein was a young man 1 about 30 yoars e f age and well liked by every one In Mc'Jorni'ok, whoro hs 1 had boon stationed for tho past two I and a half years. Ila was a mombnr 1 of tho Knights of Pythias and his ' friends wore numerous." A CON V.SE I GO?S IHi SANE Anti DtoUroB dod Told Him to Kill tito l'roftotior. nis mind unbal . i'oed, u victim of roligluus mania, Phillp Robins, aged (If by, was lodged in Jail at Catskill, N. J., rec3ntly on complaint of R v. H. [, II ?ag, pastor of Methodist Episco pal church at Leeds. Robins ls prop ristor of the Marlon house at South Cairo *nd recently experienced reli gion through attendance at revivals conduotod by pastor. After singing hymns and quoting Soripturo for tho bonotlt of the neigh burs, Robins suddenly declared that God had commissioned him to u'ay i.iri Loads divine, and accordingly he dashed oiT through mud, oovorlr.g tho throe-milo stretch <*f highway between his home and the Methollst parson ago. Confronting R$T. M. Hoag, ho touched briefly on tho outlook for Ice and then with olinohcd list ai mod a blow at tbs pastor's head shouting: "God commanded me to kill you ano I must do it." Tho mlnlstor, driven to a corner of tho room by tho onslaught retallat cd in kind and when opportunity of ferod darted pant the madman and Hod to the house of I>r. Rouse. Robins was c osely watched by the doctor until I tho arrival of some county (ulolols, and when lodged In Jail was examined by two physlolans. Ho will be com mltted to the state hospital at rough kcopalo. _ Wanted to liynoti Him. Tho peoplo bf Georgia came mighty near lynching a Mothooist preaohor who recently stood well In tho confer * once. Ho had deserted his wife and i children, leaving them ponnlless while j he Hod with the wife of a former par 1 ishonor in another town. Tho woman . bad robbed hor husband o! a bU sum of money to take with horan! hor former pastor. Ho had returned to ! his tlrst wife and tried to nra'co up when tho people got after him. WENT ON ROCKS. steamer Valencia Wrecked on the Coast of an Island. MANY PERSONS LOST. ?t ls Thought That One Hundred and Twenty>One Souls Perished on the Ill-fated Ship. Not a Woman or Child Among the Rescued. A dispatch from Viotorla, B. O , savs tho Valencia, which waa on route from San Francie c-?, with 04 passen gers ar d a c ew of 00, went ashore at midnight Tuesday night during a thick fog and a largo number were drowned when attempting to leave the Wp. The steamer is on the reeks against a high ell il', and ls likely togo to pieces at auy time. Oae boat's crow reached Capo Bealo at 3 o'olock Tues day afternoon, and nine mon got ashore near the telegraph hut, about 15 miles from tho lighthouse Two men are prisoners on the face of the .viii near wbi :h the steamar went ishore and cannot get up tho oh il or rot urn to tho wrtck. Tao sea will probably reaoh them when the tide is nigh. The men report terrible scenes. 3no woman dropped hor child Into iba sea when trying to hand it to her lusbard who was in ono of the boats. When the boat's orew left there was a little b >y running about the leeks crying for bis mother, who was Hmong tho drowned. Thore aro still ibout 126 persons on tho wreck, with Umost certain death staring thom in ?tie faoo. The steamer Queen, whloh irrlved hero at 4 o'clock from San Francisco, landed her passengers aud eft at once for the scene of the wreck. The steamer Q leon City left at mid night on hor regular coast cruise and mould reaoh tho tcene of tho wreok u a few hours. Urgent messages are acing received for assistance. A dispatch from Gape Beale says ibo steamer lost ls tho Valencia of ian Francisco, whloh wont ashoro on Vancouver Island coast near Oloose The lighthouse koopor says about 100 vero drowned. Tho nows of tho dis ister on tho Vancouver Islaud coast u meagre, balng conti uni to tho mes ago recolvad by Oapt. Gaudln, agent >f tho marine service, from Light loiiRo Tfennn.r " ~ " ~> ?>. DIUT? Seale,'saying': " "Steamar wrecked be iweeu here and Oleoso, about 100 Irowned, ni? e reached tolcgraph hut. (Viii wiro more iratlculars SB soon an lossible." Cape Beale is on Vanocuv s laud at the southern sido of tho on rance to Barolay suund. The name >f the wrecked vessel has not been as ?ertained. NO slew OK ui i"ic. The correspondent of tho Assoclat ;d Press on board the steamer Salvor ms wired from Barnfield as follows: Thc steamer Valencia was looated by /lie steamer Q leen at 0 a. m. today on Point Plauway, about live miles from Dapo Bealo. Tao tug Cut went in to investigate and report that thc itcamer was ashore, stern first and ncr decks swept clear with the ex japtlou (f a small part of the deck louse and her two masts standing. No poisons could Oe men allvo on Kiard In the rigging of tho foremast was what the oaptaln of tho lug Cz ir :ook to bc a signal, although ho was mable to say whother it was a pleoe af sail or a human being chuging to ;he rigging. Tue steamer Si.lv r stood in for ibout two milos but was unable to go my further as a heavy Bea and a weat arly gale was blowing, making it high ly dangerous, if not impossible, to make a oloser approach. The Czar was within throe quarters of a ailie from the wreok but oould JJ no further towards the Valor ?la und aftor making as complete an ex amlnatlon as possible, she returned to tho Qieen and Salvor. Tho latter steamer and tho tug C/.ar then loft for Bamllold creek, tho Queen stand lng by her companion line. When the Salvor left tho socne there was a heavy swell from the southwest and rain was falling In torrents. The Quaen rep irted having heard three gunshot* shortly before tho arrival of tho Sal vor, but nothing of any living person was to bo seen. Advices from Cape Bealo say that 16 men have arrived, ono of whom is the boatswain, the others being aall ors. They reported a passongor list of 04 and a crow of 00 and said that When they left tho wreck yestorday morning there wore about 100 persons on board, a largo pctointago of whom wero women and ohildron who were on the quarterdeck. Two boats wore smashed alongside and all the oocu pants wero drowned. The Valencia loft San Francisco about 11 o'olock on Saturday last and heard no sound and saw no light pre saging danger. Tho ofllcers wero run nlng by dead reckoning and woro on tho outloon for Chumatllla reef light ship when tlie steamer struck. She was backed olf after she abruok but the water ll lcd tho engine roora, the lires were extlngulghcd and the on gino orew forced out of tho room, al tin ugh nob beforo the Valon?la had boon d ri von bard on the beach. HOURIllLIO KXI'KUIKNOICS. A ?pedal representativo of The] Post-lntolllgcnoor wired from Port Angelos at 3:30 a. m. Thursday morning that the rescue ship City of Topeka picked up a life raft at 1 o'olock Wednesday afternoon six milos o(T Cape Bealo with 20 survivors of tho Valencia on board. The mon were in a pltlabio condition and al most dead from exposure. Tho men on their frail support battled bravely with a pair of oars to reach tho City of Topeka, whloh, owing to the dan gerous ooast, oould not run in any closor to thom. Within half a milo from tho raft- a boat* was lowered from tho deck, whloh was with rnuoh dinl nulty, mado fast with a line to the raft The work of resouo was dan gerous. The men wore too exhausted to oven tie a rope about themselves. The sor vi vor? told terrible taloa o' the wr ok of tho vesiol. When tbe> left tho ship there were about 90 peo* pie OD board, most of them clinging to the rigging. ' G. Willis, ono of the men roioued from tho raft, lu desorlbiog bis ex perlenere said two of tho boats woro smashed as Boon as they strict the water aud a third fell into the water ?tern fl .st, prec; pi tating its occupants Into the w.'U.fr. Then, ho said, au attempt was made to got a line ?ishoro. "A Aroman nu m 3d Oigale? agreed to swim ashore Ho was In the water fully half an hour, but was unable to mako tho beaob. O JO mau wns ?wornpt ashore and succeeded in landing on a small rc ok. Wo shot a lino to him and thon ho tried to ollmb the til i tr, but he fell and was killed bo Toro our eyes. "In tbe morning another sad ca lamity occurred. About 15 or 20 por tons, among them ono or two women, tiad taken refuge in the fore topmast. Suddenly, and without warning, the nant tottered and there carno a shriek from those on it, and tho next mo neut it fell with a orash, carrying ts load of human freight to a torrible ieath. "Capt. Johnson lost bis bearings md ran tho ship ashore, lt was a lark and stormy night, and nothing lould bo seen. The ship struck while unning full speed. Wo all thought ve wero to tho southward o' Flat ?ry, and after striking CJapt. John ion proved himself a hero. Ho made the statement that ho would never eave tho wreok alive and I belicvo it. rho chief engineer ls also carrying a ovolvar with whioh to blow out his irains when the orltloal mbmint omeo." SUUMKUOKD AND HltOKKN With only 33 of tho 154 poraooR 011 loard known to be safe up to a late tour Thursday night, t ie wreoked teamor Valenola now Hes submerged ni broken on the Vanoouver coast iva miles from Gape B?alo. Oaly a no tion of a mast stands above the vator and the (bet of steamers and ugs Thursday turned their attention o patrolliug tho coast in the hope of Inding boats, rafts or wreckago still lloat with survivors. Hub the belief :rows stronger each hour that 121 lorsons. lncludlug most of tho passen : .ers aro lost. Oi tho 33 persons definitely acooun ed for, ' and these do not inolude 1 hror men, believed to be survivors 1 een on shore by tho whaling ves el Orlon, six have been taken on thc lalvor, bruised, half naked, and ex iHusted. Nine others in a similar light are still oamped on Darling reek in a telegraph hut, while the emainlng 18 wero picked up by the Jity of Topeka from a raft. . Vf nfi A wnmrtn r?r nh ll ri In omnnn *-u~ aved, survivors saying that tho wo ien refused to leave the wreok ven who J told tho s ip was going to 1 teces, CONFEDERATE G?AVE3. 'ox'.'.Kev PiiBlioa His Bill to Mark Them With Stone?. Confederate veterans and Southern rs generally are taklrg a deep inter st in the Foraker b'll to appropriate 200,000 to buy the lands In Northern 1 tates wherin rest the bodies of Cou oderatos who died In thc Northern irisons in tho civil war, to improvt beso grounds substantially and to reot headstones over the graves. A ood deal of N jr them seniimcnt, too, 3 with the people of tho South tn this ' natter, as is evidenced by tho fact hat Senator Foraker, hlmsell a lire atlng veteran of the rebellion, isurg ng the passage of tho bill. President Roosevelt himself ls fa 'orablo to proper care of the graves if Confederates who died in tiic Northern prisons. Ho recommended .bis in his last message. President Me Kinley was also favor iblc to it and through IIIB efforts the Confederate dead tn the District of Columbia ovor six years ago were all irought together in Arlington ceme tary aud a seperate plat proparcd for ?hera. The great dlilljulty in the way of die proper caro of tho Confederate fra ves In the Northern states is lu ,ho house. Thero, for tho political eason that -uivlvors cf the civil war nthe Noithcrn stateB might otjiot SO appropriating money to expend on /ho graves of Confederates, nothing t?as boon done and tho opposition to lolng anything has by no means pass 3d. The bill Sanator Foraker now lias Introduced, lias already been twice passed by tho senate. Statistlos gatheedon tho number of [Confederate dead In tho. North show the total la 30,152 Of tho number ;i,300 are burled in tho national oomo tories. Their graves aro given as good attention as those cf tho soldiers who defended tho union. The graves of the remained aro m ottered about and dcslgnatlon-and looatlon are rap Idly bocomlng imposible. Unless the government takes charge of them and either buys the laud in willoh they are situated or removes tho remains of nal,ional ocmetarles, lt will in a few yoars, bo out of the question to And them. Close Cati, A dispatch from Ormond, Fla., says (Charles Hamilton, and dropped 3U0 foet with lils airship Tuosdayand narrowly escaped fatal injuries. Hamilton was pitched for ward upon the board walk and ron dorod urcjiioious. No bone? wore broken, Oollapao was due to tho In sn Molent power of tho six ty-horse power touring car whioh was used to do the towing. When tho speed of the tow hogan to loasen and the air ship bogan towabble and Hamil ton, by mistake, droppod bis oa, ca, which was to have boen tho signal to the tow driver to stop. Tho aero plane at onco began to flutter down ward. ivar in Chinatown i A dlspatoh from Now York say? war hroko out Wodnesday In thr streets of Chinatown batweon two Chinean socictlos, tho Hip Sings and tho On On Locngs. Two Olilnamcr wero killed during a shooting affraj and a third was mortally and a fourti barny Injured. PASSED AWAY den. joe Wheeler Has Joined His Comrades Under the SHADE OF THE TM ES. He Wag a Hero of Two Wars, Was Of ficially .Thanked By the Sooth Carolina Legislature For His Defense of Aiken Dur ing Slici nun's Raid. Gen. Joseph Wheolor, the famous Confederate eavalry leader and a bri gad.jr general of the United States army stnoo the war with Spain, died at 5.36 O'clock Thursday afternoon at the home of hie sister, Mrs. Sterling Smith, in Brooklyn. Tue veteran of two wars was 60 years old, but in spite of his age, LIKU o was bopo until Thursday of his recovery from tho at taok of pneumonia, which caused the death. lt bas not yet been announced where the body will bo buried, but prcbtbly it will ba in Arlington cem etery, noar Washington. Anuounce ment for the plano for the funeral will bo made tomorrow. Gen. Whooler was talion ill six days ano at his sister's ' homo, whore be has been living re- 1 emtly. Ho contraoted a sovore cold whtoh developed into pleurisy and l, pneumonia. From the ttrst bis age told against bim but the family did ' not give up hope until Wednesday Dight, when the disease was found to have aff.'oted both lungs. ' Gen. Wheeler's Immediate relatives , wero ali with him. His daughters, Mrs. W. T. Harris aud the Mis es ( Anne, Lucille ard Curio Wboalor, ( had boen summonod from tho South \ ?nd arrived early in the week. His ' son, M.I.J. Jos. Wheolor, Jr., U. S. A., * now stationed at West Point, was ah>o preBontrVas well as Gon. Wheeler's sister, ^Ers. Sterling Smith, and her son. Tho family wore summoned to the ) bedsldojof the patient at midnight * Wednesday night, when tho doctor's tn consultation con-hided that the end was but a matter of hours. The gen oral was then awake and ?onsnlous and 1 his mind was apparently aotive. He ( seemed to know that death was* ap ' nroo- on* thrush too weak to : ipea ~ Hucoeeuuu in givuiK uiKUB m j recognici?n and encouragement to hts ohlldreh. 1 Later thc general sank into a peace- 1 ful slumber, and at the request of the ( doctors tho family quietly withdrew from tho sick man's bedBlde. Gen. Wheeler was never again more ? than semi ojnsolous. Ile lingered un- , bil this evening and passed away j quietly. . j OKN. WllBELBR'S OAItEBli. I Joseph Wheeler, soldier, born in I Augusta, Ga , Sopt. 10, 1836. Ho was t graduated at the United States Mill- ? bary academy In 1859 and assigned to ' the dragoons. After a year's sarvice ' it the oavalry school for praotioe at < Carlisle, Pa., ho recolved tho full rank < .f second lloutenant, but on April 22, 1861, resigned and entered the Cou- ' federate army. He was made colonel i of tho Nineteenth Alabiraa infantry ? on Sopt. 4. 1801, and served princi pally tn the West. 1 At Shiloh he oommandod a brigade i and coverer! the Confederate rotroat 1 from the field. In July, 1802, ho was I transferred to a cavalry command and I engaged in raiding Western Tennessee < During the Kentucky campaign of ? that year ho had charge of G^n. Brax ton Bregg'a cav.ilry and fought at < Oreen It vor and Perry ville. Ho com- I manded tho rear guard of tho Confed erate army when lt retreated into Tennessee and on October 30, 1802, wau promoted to brigadier general. A t ' Murfreesboro he was lu ohargo of the cavalry, and thereafter he was contin uously activo in contesting Gon. Wil liam S. Itoscorans' advauco, also at tacking bis Hanks, rab'ing in the rear ind destroying his trains. Ox Janu ary ll), 18(53, ho received his commis sion as maj jr general and opposod the Union advance at Chattanooga. He commanded tho cavalry at Chloka mauga and after the battle orosscd Tennessee ri vor and fell upon Rose crans' line of communications, defeat ing thc foroe that was sent against him and destroying over 1,200 wagons with stores. On this raid ho succeeded In damaging federal property to tho value of $3,00J,000, but, after losing (100 men, was driven bmk to nothern Alabama. Subsequently ho took part in the siego of Knoxville and covered bragg's rotroat from Lincoln Ridge and Lookout Mountain. During tho wlntor and spring ho oonlnually harassed tho Union troops, and, on tho advance ot Gen. William T. Sherman's army toward Atlanta, I ho opp: sed every movement and fought ainu st dally, often with his men dis mounted. July 27 30 he f ught the raiding f<rco of Gen. Geo. Stoncman, General Kenner Gerard and Gen. fiji? ward M. McUook, and capto ted many prisoners, Including G m. Stoneman and all the artillery and transporta ;lon. On Aug. 0, 1801, he was sont by Gen. .lohn D. Hood to capturo thona uional lupplleSt burn bridges and break up railways In the rear of Gen. Sherman's army. Passing through northern Georgia, he went Into east ern Tennossce as far as tho Kontucky une, and thence through middle Ten oessce back Into northern Alabama. During this raid, which lasted one month, he was continuously engagod and ruined mu oh property. He was unsuccessful tn destroying Sherman's communications, and was filially ^rlv en back by tho national oavalry. When jho Confederate commandor beoamo convinced of tho Impossibility of ar 1 resting Sherman's advanco, Wooler ? was sent In front of the army to pro ! vent tho Union troops from raiding ' and foraging. Ho then engaged in I tho dofense of Savannah, and for lils ! defense of Aiken reooived the thanks II of the legislature of South Carolina. Gon. Whoelor received bis promotion to tbe rank of lieutenant general on Feb. 28,1805, iud oom inned in charge of the oavalry uider Gon. Joseph IO. Johnston until the surrender In April, 1806. The death of Gen. James E B. Stuart, on May ll, 1864, made him senior oavalry general of the Con fed - arate army. After the war, he studied law, whloh profession and the occupa tion of cotton planting he followed until 1880, when he was eleoted to oongress as a Domoorat, and took his seat on Die. 6, 1881; but bis plaoe was successfully contested by Wm. M. I/we, and he was unfeated, June 3, 1882. He was reeleotcd to tbe same oongress on tbe death of Mr. Lowe, a few months later, and nerved until after the war with Spain, li M*y, 1808. be was made maj >r general and was active In tho war with Spain. DREW HIS MIL ti AG fi. Burton Poepad into Moantu to Oom i>i.v with law, Sonator Burton, of Kansas, drew his mileage Wednesday, aud thereby bangs a remarkable tale. The law rrq lires that in ordor for a senator to dr*w mileage be must have been saen in tho senato chamber by an offlc al of that august tribunal. Had the Kansas senator stepped within the portal, and bad the eyes of, say Sena tor Balley, of Texas, been clapped upon him, there ls no doubt that a few warm remarks would have been submitted by the Tex m. To avoid embarrassment of this sort, and pos sibly of some other kind, Mr: Burton deolined ilrmly to show himself in the chamber proper. All acojunts of tho highly elating incident agree that ho was in the Ri publican cloakroom: that ho was lur od to the door by one oOlolal of thc lenate, who artfully engaging him in jouveraation, induced him to faoo the irena where ho once sit among the nighty of the laud, wearing tho toga with the purple bordee, and when he was gaging-oh, ever so wistfully fazing-toward the vice president's lais, two other chljlals of the sonate ooked him iquarcly in his downcast jyes, then eft* they strode to the lillee of Financial Clerk Nixon and iwore that tney had soon S.-nator Horton in tho senate chamber. Aud 10 thev had. Then Mr. Burton drow this mil lage, amounting to something more ;han 8500. Mr. Burton, of course, las been drawiug his salary all along 11 noe tho senate bas deolined to take lotion on his case until the courts lave finally passed upon tho convie tilons that hang over him. Whother Mr. Burton stays in Washington nueh could not bo learned Wednea lay. Nor could his abode there be iscortaiuod. Naturally the Kuisas ion tl i M ; ont decline to db outs hm or ?'-".?? Ml??-l?1 ~f"?..-~ . rn,,?,? ?,.. s still a soi?ator cf , united States mwover is now fully attested by thc .ecords, exe ipt of course tba records if the daily proceedings of the senate. ltcod'H Doath Kxhumod. A dispatoh from Bamberg to Tho State says as a result of reports and rumors which have gone out conoorn ng the death of B T. Reed, who died in Bamberg on the morning of Janu ?ary 14tn, after an llness of only a !cw hours, an investigation was be (un Thursday by the order of Coron it J. H, Z ilgler. Tho coroner's jury vent to the burial grounds at Cope, whore Reed was burled, and there lislnterrcd tho body. Dr. J. J. Jlcckley performed the oporatinn. The results, If there are any, will be .nought, out in the oourt house in i tow days. At the time of Reed's ieath tho commonly accepted report was that he had died of paralysis of the brain. But Mr. G. B, luttrell, \ brother In-law of tho deceased man, tiearlng tho rumor that Raed had Ooen poisoned, carried part of the body to Augusta, Ga , where he rdatms that a obemtst found a largo quantity of arsenic in the stomach The investigation in process ls to alear up all this mystery if possible ?ind to got tho faots of the caso. In tho meanwhile Elisha Hunch, a white woman who resides in tho mill dis trlot of this town, and Viola Wesley, oolorod, aro in jail, being held as parties connected with the death c f Reed. A Morrow! ul Itt mi o HUD A clever and beautiful girl of nine teen, namod Baroness Irma Von Hoi*/., has just died at Berlin, Germany, tho result of consumption, Her doath brings to light a romauo. As a girl she turned tho heads of tho barons and counts frequenting the salons of tho best Berlin sooiety. Driven from her home by hor proud parents be r ius'.: of her determination to marry a man of whom they disapproved, and who lator deserted ber to marry another, she commenced the soiling or Howers In tho streets of Krems, whero her paronts resided. They had re fused to give hor auv assistance what ever. Finally the young baroness brought an action against hor parents to force them to acknowledge her as their daughter. She won her caso, bub did not win from thom muoh lo tho way of monetary assistance. Thc consumption she contracted as the re sult of exposure to all weathers in following her calling of Mower sollor. A DoHortod-Vllli?K?^ After expend rig moro than ',$1,000 000 during tho past six years in pur chasing and working tho Copper ? Flolds mines, for many years the third largest In thc United States, George Westinghouse, of Pittsburg, has abandoned his search fir copper in tho Vorshlro mountains in Ver mont as a result the vlllago ls now practically deserted. Wostlnghouso's representatives declaro that tho cop por vein ls worthless. Scores of min ors and their families have loft town, and now thore are not a dozen fami Hos, whore thu population at one timo was moro than a thousand. Throughout the village all the dwell ings formorly occupied by tho omploy-1 es aro being sold and moved away or torn down. Tho machinery, boilors, and furnaces aro hoing blown up by dynamite. Worst Than War. Statistics show that 17 700 people lout, their ll VA? in Allegheny OOlinty, Pennsylvania, the past yoar by acci dents in iron and stool mills, blast furnrois, ooal mines, railroads and othor lines of industry. A STitANOK AFFAIR. SOUTH OIROLINA GlH? 'J KIMI) IO MA KUY ANOTHER GIHh. 'ays Fer Beal Name is Pauline Web st?r, Daughter of late Noah Web?ter, of Gaffney. A Sruth Oarollna yr man, Pauline Webster, bas been arrested at Kan ias City, Mo., on the chai go of mas querading as a mau and fraudulently jrocurrlng a marriage lloense and narrylng anoihei woman in that 5lty. The ca e is singular and muoh In ;ercst att .ches to its on'como. The l?ense to marry was scoured by thf Webster woman in the name of John \llaine Whitman and it ls on UK sharge of perjury that the woman ls low to bo prosecuted. The story of >he marrlago is told in the following l ?xtrno'j from a Ka isas City paper: < "I am a womau, but I have dressed is a man for three yean?," said John ; Ulaloo Whitman, when questioned i n the presenoe of Chief Hayes this i norning. "I have worked as a man n d lived as one. I married this girl I vhen she said that she could uot Uvo > without me. - My'?real name ls Paul- I no; Webster." i ''I loved him andithought that with I ils money and my little savings we < vould buy a restaurant and make a I food living," said Marietta Jolley in i 1er home at Sheflleld. "Wo were narrled Friday morning. I can not jelleve he-she-ls a woman. lb lb ' loo av? ful. I thank dod though, that [ did not leave Kinsas City with < dm, or her, or-oh, I don't know j vhat to say. Ile wanted me for my : coney, little that it was." < John AUalno Whitman, or Pauline I Vebster is probably flvo feet four 1 uohes in holght and weighs about 130 I ounr?s. She has strong features, sal- > JW complexion, brown hair, blue grey ye3 that never look long at any one r anything. lier hair is out short nd lt ls stringy and neglected. < Hbo wears a ohcap dark suit and ! Ight melton overooat. She weam wo I aon's shoes. She smokes a pipe or oi ars and chews tobaooo. She talki < ood Eugllsb and In an lntorvlew last ug nearly an hour she used not one 1 ingrammatloal sentence and no slang, ibo was ptrfiOtty calm and apparent V unconcerned or Ignorant of the sc lousness of tho offenoe which she has f< ommitted. Her voice ls unpleasant, ? oing soft and feminine one moment, ? id breaking hoarse in tho next. She ays she ls twenty-one years old, but I ppears muoh older. VI was bpm at Gaff ioy city, ,S.. C.. J ??bl ?t??ame* w?s No^fWebster. He v ras a big Mason. When he died, ight years ago, he left some money c o me and my two brothers J. E ? Vebster and J. H. Webster. I dtd ot think I was getting my Bhare, nd so after quarrelling with my ?.others, 1 left home and started ou o earn my own living. I have been duoated, bub do not care to say diere. My mother died when I wab ob i ld. ''1 worked In hotels and restaurants oin about three years ago, when, ( ne d.iy In Dallas, Texas, while I was , mployed In the Kimball Hotel, I I card ttiat a cook was wanted by a j hoatxloal company that traveled In a rlvate oar. Tue owner of an em- \ iloymeut agency told me If I was a t oan I could get 800 a month. That j ave me an Idea. I went away and \ .ought mysolf a oheap suit, out off < ay hair and tho noxb day wont back t o tho agency and was hired for the { heatrlcal company. Tho employ- i neut agent did not recognize me In < ay new rig. I talked little to any . ne. 1 took no one into my coull lenoe." I Bo o i? ty Women Scored. . Chicago sooioty was astonoded when t learuod that the recent Klrmcss i lad been denounced by the Rev. Syd | ley Strong speaking beforo a large ? ludlence at the Seooud Congregation | il Church, as the most Improper so ? slal gathering over hold in Ohloigo. < in an address that fairly bristled with i avectivo t|ie olorgyman stigmatized , n tho entertainment as "half naked, i painted, sensualized orcatures, full i.aors to tho benighted Fetish dane ? 'rs of South Africa, promoters of the Kinness, which was hold two weeks , igo, ratsod ?2S.000 for the Onildren's , Memorial II tspltal. Mrs. Waltor S | [irowlster, treasurer of the Klrmoss, , leolarod after she had heard of Dr. , Strong's remarks that none of the ; lance was immodest and thafa the cos L?mes worn by the women who dis pensed punoh compliod with evory rule )t propriotv. Gon, Grunt on lion, IJ JO. At New York Wednesday night ipoaklug at tho annual banquet of the Uonfedorato veterans camp of New York City, Gonoral Frederick D. Grant, commanding the department of thc easb, C. S. A., proposod an in formal resolution that steps bo buken immediately to make January 10, lOol, the ono hundredth anniversary of tho birth of General Robert E. Lee a national day of memorial. He spoke of his fabhor':: friendship with Gener al I .oe and of the latbor's herlbabe to tho country. Tho resolution waa adopted amid oheors. F. Hopkinson Smith spoke to the boast "O.d Plan bablou Days." In his address he de clared tho sulT age of the negro was the "greatest orlme of the century." Oun't We?r Thc ni. Chinabas recently issued and edle*, prohibiting, except In the treaty ports, tho salo of metal rimmed speotaoles. Tan shoes aro also tt. booed, and any one dealing lu bhom renders himself | liable bo dtoapltabton. The latbor drasblo regulation ls duo to the faot that yellow ls bhore tho Imperial color, to be worn by none Have members of bhe royal family. , Aequlttod. V. T. Sanford, former tax oolleotor of Floyd county, Ga., was acquibbed at Rome on Saburday of the murder nf Gooree Wrlghb. He acknowledged tho killing and his defense was that Wrlghb had intorferred with his do mesbio rolabions. He ls now suing his wife for clvjrod. GREW PERISH By Fxplosion on a Brazillian ru? retied Naval Ship AN OFFICER SAY the Accident Occurred lo the Powder Magazine, and the Ship Sank In Three Minutes. Poiir Rear Ad mirais Were on Board, and Were LoBt. Ro J metro, J*n. 22.- nit Brazil* lan turret ship Aquldabau has been muk at Port Jaoarepigua, south of Rio Janerio, as tho ro mit of an ex pin don on board. It ls reported tbat Linea hundred of her o row perished ?nd that only one oflloor was ?aveal. Four rear admirals perished on board tho Aqulbaban, whlsh had been used for the accomodation of a number of supernumerary Otlloors and men attached to the flotilla escorting bhe ovu i tier Barroso. The Barroso had DU board the minister of marine and lits staff, who were inspecting the dtes proposed for a new arsenal. The explosion on the Aqildaban ocourred in the powder magazine. The vesssl sank In three minutes. The Aquldabau was of 4,950 tons Displacement and 0,200 horse-power. She wa? built in England lu 1885 cb i cost of .1,725,000. Tao armament consisted of four 9.4 looa guns and tour 5 5 inch guns and a number of muller guns. She had five torpedo tubes. Her orew numbered 350 ofiloora ind men. DKAD 190; INJUKBD 30. Rio Jauorla, Braz.il, J AU. 22.-Tho jrulser Baroso has arrived here from Port Jakerepagna, with those Injured )y the explosion on tho Aquldabau. Che Aquldabau blew up at 10.45 host tight. Nearly all tho tithers were tilled or injured. Toe daad number 00 and tho injured 30. NAMBS OF ADM III ALS. Rio Janeiro, Brazil, Jan. 22.-The ollowlng members of the commission diioh hu j the arsenal on board the iqutdaban, were drowned: Raar Admsral Rodrigo Jose Ba toona. R>.ar Admirable Franolsoo (Jalboi rc? ?ito,** A ,i . -Vii/ Two commanders, two German pno ographers and one reporter also wero Irowned. FOUGHT BUBL FOR GIRL. <V>rtb From a Rallro?m-Went Men \ - - With Loaded PlHtols vs lu a duol with a girl as tho pw or the yiotor, James Walker, son or^ jroporous farmer, was shot and in itantly killed by his rival, Peter For jes, flso a farmer's son in Lsreal Hill, Prince Edward County, Va. The men fought with pistols. They wont from a ballroom together and ;;ok aim by the light pouring through . ?he windows. Foibes was engaged to ved Miss Rosa Carew, and he had as sorted her to the ball. Walkor bad if on an old sweetheart of the woman iud when they met at the ball he re sewed his suit. Tnere had been reports )f the engagement being broken be tween Forbes and Miss Oarow, and it ippears that these were confirmed by 1er encouraging Walker. She danced with him repeatedly until Forbes J aal )U8y, drove him to fury. He went to Walker and upbaided him, Hot words were exohantred and tho two deolded j o fight to the death- Without telling i word of their lute tlon to anyone obey disappeared from the ballroom ind the pistol shots stopped a danoo._ when it was In full swing. A silence Tell over the brilliantly lighted room, ind then several persons rushed to the windows. A slgb. more dramatlo than if shown on the stage mot heir gaze. I1 wo beams of light poued out and one fell on Walker, IUt on his back dead, and the other on Forbes, stand ing with tho pistol still ready in hand ind with his faoo still sot in bato and ?leterminatlon, Miss drew became liysterioal when she realized what had happened, and is in a serious condi tion tonight, Forbes ls in tho lookup. What Tillman Hays. Tho Washington correspondent of the Charleston Post says Senator Tillman deollnod to oxprcss an opinion as to tho prospootsin the Legislature. "If I should say anything," ho do eUred, thero would be dirty accusa tions of popping his whip, eto,1 and consequently I shall not talk. It ls pretty plain, though that Sonator Tillman proposes to make tho oam palgu this summer a hot one. His health is better than it has boen tor yoars, and ho will mike tho issuo tn South Carolina so olose that nearly every vote in the State will bo polio 1. That issue will determine whether the peoplo will stand by those wno stand by those who stand by tho dispensary or whether they will roward thoso who have turned against it. Might Hutt Homo, At Pittsburg, Pa., at a mooting of tho Woman's Chi o ono of the morn I bers suggestod that women were wear? I lng their dresses too long and said they should not extend below the knees. ''That might do for a lady with your form" spoke up an angular member "ont I don't agree with you i one blt." _ Plenty of Gold. A British explorer rcomtly return ed fiona Abyssinia says that he was for four months in a region hitherto unknown to white men. Along tue tributaries of tho Blue Nile he foudd a mlhln? population Ang?gftr? tn washing gold. He ropotts that there ls an enormous quantity ot gold in that region, in which thousands of natives work,