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I WENT BACK. A Colored Christian Missionary I Who Turned Cannibal. SHOCKING DOWNFALL Of the Rev. Wilberforce, Who Has Peen ft Arrested for Butcheritig and Hating the Human Beings He Once Tried to Convert in DaikI est Africa. I Of all the fancies ever evolved In th? imaginings of Lttder Haggard?of I all the weird legends that. ?v?r Ilnto the. light out. of the darkness of the African foiesta there is none stranger than that of the Rev. Dr. Daniel Flickinger VVllherforce, of Sierra Leone, once missionary general and now reported to be the war chief of the I nperlal tribe and a devotee of cannibalism. In the who'e history of missionary labor among the races of the lOisttbc story of this venerabi npastor of seven ty vnjirs, sometime called Bishop of the. Cornell of the United Brethren of Amor'ci, who, according to many do lailcd dispatches, after forty years of missionary life, reverted by a gradual process of avatlsm to his natural state of pagan and cannibal, stands without a parallel. YVaerever missionary work is known, wherrv >r good men and women labor through many years for the conversion of their benighted brethren in Iiir i i, Asia or Africa, the stcry is told and retold with lamentation. Scientists and criminologists the __ l J "i wuriu over win accept the retrotfres- I slon of this missionary, famous through the East for his eloquence ani learning, to the wiu paint of his t ribe a; <1 a dinner of human ll sh, as establishing the eternal truth that, the original b >ast in the siv.igc can never be quelled in centuries of o'.vihzition ann that Mr. Wllhcrforce, stcrelly hungering t? r ugh forty years of re presslon of his natural self for the tlftsh for which his hi od craved, and the idols (if, his forefathers, has but obeyed the law of his nature Hut the good men and women of the white and colored races who through a lorg lib*. have labored with blind, cea^less, single hearted devotion for the enlighter ment of the heathen, stand aghast and In face of this aw ful living 9pectaele of d'generaoy asU j themselves wnetnor their labor i l loenturies Is, after all, labor spoilt in vain, and whether it Is. indeed, the immutable law of nature that the i savage strain once implanted in the heart can never be wiped out Throughout tills country the story has struc'i deep Into the hearts of the ininiulorj nf all fronHa n?H t\f V#* w ? k v/l WV/'IU) WMU V/I |>liuac> who ^tve bounteously of their wealth and substance to shed the li^ht of \ Civil'zttiou on darkened places. And ^bver their hearts and the hearts of the SI p'ous men and women of VV11 her force's rac^ han^s a Mack pall of g'oom and } s ame and doubt of the future. I For two rations had Mr. Wtl berforce stood as the exemplar for all youiur ne^ro students of divinity of the heights to which they themselves mitfht reach In the pursuit of their ) sacred raissior; and for the missionaries of the while race he served as a beacon whenever their hearts failed th( m In the stupendous wo k of conversion of the West African savage. To thousands of his fellows landing In -West Africa, fresh from these shorei, he has b ien as a dear and venerable friend, rich In experience as In learn In# and erudition; an adviser and Kuide In the lirst few trouolcd months of their adventure. And now, back at home In America, or In E inland, or lab >rlnur still In the wild, they look blankly at each other , and ask how In the name of Heaven isuch things can be. !! As If In replv fall the words of the old man to hi s cap tors as he was led to the prison at Sierra Leone, there to await his trial for cannibalism. "If I am to die It is well, I shall Hie in tne faith of my fathers?the faith that was born thousands upon thousands of years a^o and which all your Christaln teachings have not driven out. The forty years in which I lived In yourjakh were forty years Iof a living lie. >be voices of my fathers, of my people whom I had deserted In my youth, of tne ?ods that I; had worshipped, were ever calling to I me to end my days as I had begun. And at last I heard and went back." The g >od men with whom his life pad been passed pleaded with him, even with tears, up to the very gates' i>f the prison to return to the faith that he nad abjured. And now they urge, with some 'nger, that the stern action of the Missionary Board of the Qoltrd Hreth ten at Dayton, Ohio, in summarily expelling him on evidence of his retrogression precipitated the final downfall. a father's sacrifice. Well might tne word of missionaries wall over h's loss, for his story ri ads like a rarely beautiful romance k<f olden times. It was in tiy days of half a century agone, when fhe light of civilization was drawing in darkest Africa, that the great chief of the Imperial tilbo, the most powerful warlike of those timis, and the U>v. Samuel Fllcklnger, pioneer among the missionaries of the United Brethren, met In solemn conference to arrarge a treaty of com meroo and p^aoe. From that time the friendship of the ciief for the enthusiastic young missionaries warmed a id grew deeper with the years. Too old to change the faith of his ancestors, h?? said he would male ro til <rt to inrp> d i the work of the missionarles among his p ople. l>r< bib y the ag?*d ohn f saw the commir cial value of a good, friendly understanding with the gentlemen who were in a position to bring him so much g' od trade from Kaglaud ai d America. C vlef of his people and heir apparent to his pla^*1 was his line strapping stripling of ti'tien years?the one hope of his life, the sole remembrance of the woman who died years before. And wnen Mr. Fiicklnger, who had the Wd und *r his tuition, at last, begged the chief to rellngulsh htm for good, saving that he would take him to his own home in Dayton, America, the old man consented And so to school and to a college he went, taking first prize in history, literature and tue class e i And the tirst years of the young cilei'. life in America in the home of btie good man who hud br- ughtyhlm to this country wi re yea-s of golden promise. From the earliest days o* nis arrival his trend had been to roilg on "My path In life is chosen," he said with a smile that showed v r> gleaming tooth in his head. "I will he a worker in the vim yard." To tin the 'logical seminary he went, again gr idu-vtuig with tue highest honors. IIis way was c car. For West A rlca he sailed, and on the coast for twenty years he labored, winning couverts every where ar.d becoming farn >us fur t is elcquei a and power, until his re turn to D i> tou. And when he mtrried a woman of his own race and settled down into a ministry of tnc home CMi'Oh, ltsepra ort Mint. Mio rnuln \u. .?-L? . ' 1<1" " ? ----- vw<?v W>1V UJII1U TM10| V? 1 Uin II I O '? tj, complete. But the spilt between the Ltadleal and Conservative faction* of the United Brethren drove him tirst to one side at d then to toe outer and at last hack to West Africa. And now those who know his story cite two peculiar c rcumsratices almost unnoticed at the time, batnow rtcall e l In avtvid memory. Taere was in his whole attitude a crouch, an animal stealth that sent a ct udder thuujh these who watcoed hi 111. It may he that in the storm of contention between the two factions of the o lurch die tirst sense of rebellion against his ad jpted faith ? -he n-.bel li n that had Iodk lain smould rn g in nis tieari- arosestrong aii i clear with in him. Yet ho. bravaiy went I aik to his duty. The remembrance < f the tr< od rran?now so loi g hi tils gravi? vho had taken him by the hat d, l eld him fatt". I l I I t- "--'in rliiiiAt < rl hrtrt * 1 " d i i?u v 1 'U u u< !0 \ir V vji i 14 i l\Jik 1 u i) ( i i\ ij i i dU been part of himself, that bar) g.von fervor and force to hi.s work was gone. Yet to those who watched him e.osely now?ae was seemingly th same gentle protfctior of ihe poor a id thestr.cken that he had ever been. His mission school grew larg r and larger; ids church grew more and more powerful; his i- tluouct the w,tier. Hh o nvetts to (Jurlaiiariity wt ri found by the thousand along the wtioe line id the West African eoast Ills art as a preacher had nullowel and ripened with in* years. li was on the night cf a Sun'lay Miree years ago ttiat he returned to tils cottage looking very tired and old. The services of that day had been m >re than usually exhaustlrg N v r, they said af erward, had he preacheo so well. lie had take "Sine rit.>" for uls text. It was an address to be re meoabered for all time. 11 it it was recalled afterward that right in the heart of his sermon he had coma to a sudden dead siod. his hand uolifi,?i as though to bespeak slltno , bin eye.s tixcd on vacancy, his whoie expression as one who listens frmo afar. Tin n, as If with a ureal t IV >rt he recovered ills thou/hts, sighed pscpy and re .turned his discourse. "1 am very weary," he said to his servants. "To night while 1 was speaking, 1 heard the snind of the prayer sontf that I rt metnoer in my youth. The sontf seemed to be born in upon me from the v ry depths of the forest. I heard the voIcjs of my brethren raised an though to call me. When they entered the room In the morning his bed was empty. Yet they did not search for him, hut after the manner of their race, quietly sat down at their doors and waited. And at last there came a dark time when, they say, for twenty one lori^' days he vanished from the ken of all who had known him. Diwntd br yf'it and beautiful the mjrrdntf of the twenty-second day, and before the eves of his am;?y. >rl ser vtnts he stojd?th". sam) -yet trjmformerl. For the first time la forty yearn he wan himself. Within a week the church In which he bad preached w s empty and the <-Oho)ihous) a dismantled ruin. Trie edifice of two generations was destroyed. Little it r'cked to him that the council of the church in far away Arairioa had solemnly expelled him /or lrll iellty to the brotherhood. For the first time in his 11'e he breatced the air of freedom. And now from out the recesses of the African forests, ten miles away from the coast, came ghastly stories of the sacritlces (flared up by the tribes of the Imperial In return for the restoration of their chief; of death feasts in which the II ;sh A children and women was eaten. Sp es and scouts, creeping throuuh a th( u<and paths, csmi upon tn^n and toid *f the chief of the Impert seated with his wives on a pile o< rooks around him, his men danc.n^ j the dance of death >ver a corpse. And In a wild medley of juHtioeand revenge, police and soldiers alike were (> the trail of the former missionary 'o buot him, bv day and night, until, in his own camp, surrounded by his men, he was cai ght and forced to surrender, and led, a captive, to Sierra Leone. ? New York American. C JiXUN 8 IILL KING. tllgh I'rioo of ttio Staple Mak> h the Soutli i'rowperoii*. C ottou, unlike the Czar, is seated on a staple throne. The good old Southern monarch, despite all clforts of speculators and market gamblers to ihe contrary, holds p werful sway throughout the world. Tne government report of last Tuesday concerning the present crop tends only to the support of the c itton market. As this orop, on account of the dry fall, has been completely harvested, the estimate this time btc >mes almost an sc'.ual statement as to the number of hales made. The report puts the number at 10,107 818. As these tig ores are considerably below the world's oousi mptlon of cottou the surplus of last year can easily be taken up without reducing the price of the staple at all. Cotton tl &j is being held must In the face of this rep >rt become more valuable than It is at present and as much of the holding* Ik ?mii in the hands of the farmer the prospects are that there will he nood times In Dixie during the next twelve months. Hut there Is more significance In this small crop of cotton than thai which attaches to the present year. With only ten million bales, as stated before, the surplus of the great 1904 crop will have to be used to meet con sumption, and this will start the 1906 o-op with a cleau sheet. Tnere w;h oe none, or very little, residue from lormer crops to bear down i s price. Taken all in all the conditions for prosperity in the South are altogether cheerfkl aud the people have but lo use energy and judgment to gra3p success.?Charleston Post. N w Y?.rk Mysteries. Three of New York's great high ways, the river, tlie undergri uad railway aud street aud that oark section known as "Coiaatown, eacli furnished a police rnys'ery 1 ist weik. Au unknown mau j imped in front or a train ssttswuug into 137th street and Broadway station of the subway, ilis body was literally ground to pieces. Tae Chinatown mystery was : the death of a white woman, Lottie Line, wnose husband, a Chinaman, oled a short time ago. Lottie Line uad three callers Tuesday night of last week, a Chinaman and a white | man and a white woman. During ; the idgnt these callers summoned a physician and notified the p dice that t itsr hostess had laiutud. The, physician found her dead. Tne police put. the three callers under arrest. William Ilallinger, who baid he came down from Yonkers and after dispos u.g of his lohd of produce started oul o ei j )y himself, was dragged from the kiist river with a fractured skull. Mabel Weber, a 20 year old 1 who found lying bound, gaggo i and sense less in the hallway of iter house In West Forty-Fifth street where she resided with two girl companions. Attempted Huiculo. Dr. J. H. Matthews, in jail at G eensboro, N. (J., for wife murder, came near ending his life bv cutting his wrist with a spoon handle one day last week. The physicians reached him In time to stop the fl >w of blood and he is now out of danger. A guard nas been placed In the cell with him A prison sr In an adjoining c 11 no tioed nim lying on ins cot with his bandaged wrist hanging down. Ask ing what was the matter, Matthews responded that he was cold and had bandaged his pulse to make him warm. Suspecting something wrong, the jtilor was notified and on Investigation found the prisoner with a tin spoon handle, but he had failed to sever the artery. He had tied a handkerchief over It and was holding his hand down with the edge of the blanket conceling it while his blood ll >wed in a bucket. Matthews swallowed a quid oftobaco, several match heads aud charred stumps of c'garettes he had been allowed to smoke during the day. The physician gave him a powerful emltic and saved Mb life. MUHl i'KKlUOII 1 * A (MTH. The State Supreme Court Is deter mined to tind out what Is contained in those alleged private letters and other papers which Chief Beer Dls i peuser James S. Farnum, of Charles ton, on the advise of counsel had re i moved from his dispensary, N >. 12 In Charleston beyond the reac i of the dispensary Investigating commission toaro.her Soate and to this end ' Thursday passed an order requiring him to place them before the c.urt. Death lit hi. of it it i ft i <* rn, The total numb3f of hunters killed by accident ho far this year, vVhcjnsln and Northern M ebitfan Is twenty six. Fifty-one have been wounded. More hunters were killed this year by ac oi iental discharge of their own kuos than evt r bef ;re. Many were shot by mistake by hunters who took them (or deer. Miow l/oliect ion. A London money lender pressed . his claim for money loaned in a citv o >urt and the Judge, after au exhaus tlve inquiry Iqoj trie merits of tnc eise, directel the defendant to pay < the debt at the rata of one penny per month, the entire amount to be paid by the end of the 209 th year. < 8P>N[ x f ? - rril)ma? CorUlyou Pis,ensed Nearly two Milli n Pollars on Campaign. it Cime (roiu Many Hourc'W, i ho Subscription W?n()iio Hundred IhouNtil Dollarv, Ac:ordlug to a Washington newspaper which, with evidence of friendly handling, prints a long statement about the expenses t?f Chairman Cortelyou In 1904, the Republican national committee used the sum i f $1,800,000 to elect It icsevelt and Fairbanks, auu had in bank when the campaign was ended about $100 000. It is stated that Cnalrman Cortelyou had $900,000 less that Chairman 11 anna had in 1000 and D"&rly $2,000,000 less ttian lie had in 1206 It is also declared to be a fact mat the I)?mo ratlc national c >mmittee in 1892, when Mr. Cleveland was elected ino second time, had a fund exceeding anything known in American politics nefore or site.!?the sum of $1 100, 000. Chairman Cortelyou, according to this article, turned over to State committee in New York, New Jersey, West Virginia, Masiaohu setts, Con neoticut, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Nev ida tlie sum of $700 000. No amount is tix *d as to the sum ex iend? d In New York by the national committee through Gov. Oit 11, but it must have bceu largely in excess of $200,000 F >r literature, it states, t,he uational committee expended $550,000; for the speakers' bureau, $175,000; for lithographs, advertising, etc., $150 OOOr for salaries and headquarters expenses, $150,000, and for mlscellan eous expenses, $50,000. 1t Is stated that the money expend ed by Cnairmin C irtelyou came from 10 000 dliferent s? urces, about 4 000 contributors being known, leaving about tj 000 unkrown, to the chair m in of the national committee. The larg est single contributor furnlsned upward of $100 ooo, it, u stated, and his Identity was not known to either Uaalrman Oorteljou or Mr. Rllss. Tne article is lactlng in details as to the Identity of c irponti >ns and c >rp -rati in managers that contribut ed to the Republican fu ids- No refer enoe whatever Is made to contribu tions either fr >m life Insurance c >n,p anies or railway companies, bin It Is alleged that in every Instance where a c mtrlbution was made conditional on soma political favor to come the of fer was r< j oted or the money returned. In connection with the Republican campaign fund, the statement Is made that Rft sident Roost v.ill and Chair man Conel>ou wtil c (operate to have pa.t-ed a law providing for the publi city of c >Dtributi< ns to political committee. Chairman Cortcly'ou de clined to alscu<8 the figures conneqted with the camp ilgn of 1904 but intimated 1 tuai they were ''about right." Wire). Tt-lrgi ? i>hy. Reports received bv the Rureau of ' Equipment of the Navy at Washing l! to.i fr in the c ? um:uit!ant of tue naval station at K >y W. st, Cxnmander 1 Beehl r state mat tie wireless tele graph operator there received ann 1 read wlih< ut trouble a message of eight words sent by tbe station a> Coou, a distance of more than 1 000 geographical miles. This new sta tion at Ool ?n whs rqilpoed for the government by the oe Forest Compi ny. Messages passing between Beaufort, 8 C , and Havana, Cu >a were heard and read by the station at New port R. I at the same time. These are ex raoriinary records, hub Rear Adm.ral M \nney, the cuief of the i ureau, has Instituted a system of daily tests of the d 11' irent stations and it is nope before no retires from the servue to have this means of c'mmuolcatign in Hucn perfect order that those occasional records snail have become a regular matter. 1 *mi but it !>> (j?ii it l lm> h. Among the passengers who arrived at San Francisco from A us vrmiii on Lite iiner is mom a were uap taiu Watts and O.oief Ortiaer Alex Stlnson, of the American hiiip Sutquo nanna, which founded shortly a:ter she left Njhone, New (JaUdonla, August 23 last, with a car^o o' ?hr'?m?? *r?'P for Delaware breakwater The crew left the ship In three boats which were headed for the Solomon islands. Only one boat landed there. The other two were picked up at hen by a trading tcaooner. There the men were kindly treated for a time but finally bad to fly for their lives j from a set of Oannlbals who threaten ( ed their existence. They were sub- i sequently picked up by a trading vessel and j )ined the rest of the crew at . Sydney. i Horrible Aoonh nl. I Oa last Wednesday morning Mr John U. Funches, who lives near 1 Itowesville, met with a most norribie j accident. He was operating a su^ar cane mill, and by some means his coat ' sleeve on the rikht arm T?/as oau/ht in ihc cotfs. Ilefore Mr. Funobes ould pull vletvecut hm arm was drawn < la the cojt.h and crushed to the elbow. ( The machinery wa9 stopped as hoou i as possible and Mr. Function was re- | leased from tlio mill. Liter I)r. A. j S. Jlydrlck, of this city, assisted by Dr. J D. S. Fuircy, amputated tho arm just abovo the elbow. We ex te.id our sympathy to Mr. Punches and ho. e that he will soon be up attain. Ktlkdlliiiivdlt. At New York Allen Kllnedinst committed sulcldb early Sunday nl^ht by drinking carool.c acii. lie died three hours afterwards In tne presence of his youug<wlfe and child. / TLX PERSONS KILLER And a Number Infiiml by a Hoadon Collision. Ten persons were killed and 11 train employes and eight* passengers were injured In the wreck of the Overland | Limited passenger train No. li on the Union Pacific, live miles west ol It ok Springs, WyoM Thursday morning. The Limited was run into head-on by a freight train aud loth engines were demolished. The dyamo oar, mail car and dining car on the limited burned to the wheels. Several of the dead were luelnerated. An extra freight train was given an order before It left R >ok Springs to meet four eastbound pas senger trains, of wbich the Overland limited was the last one, at Ahsay, a siding live miles west of Rick Springs. The freight took the siding at All sav and waited until three of these had pa-sod east aud then pulled out. When a mile aud a half west of Ahsay the freight met the O /erland Limited and crashed Into It, headon. 11 ?t,h engines were demolished and the tirst three oars of the Overland Limited Immediately caught lire and were burned. Engineer Brink of the freight train, who It is stated thiol ally, was rt sponsible for overrunning his orders was one of the killed. Sev ?ral trains had been badly doiayed at Granger, with the result that four passenger trains were ruahlng el )3o to gether. The freight had received positive or ders to meet all four of the crams a t Ansay, and the < ill dais say that the orders were either misunrler stood or misread. JuHtltiHl lit Firliitc* In Altoona, Pa., the other night ti7e young men serenaded the lady love of one of the party. A neighbor raised a nearby window and lired a revolver at the party then called a policeman and had them all arrested for disorderly conduct and disturbing the peace. In police court the next morning the young men protested that they were singing love songs, at.d (IT red to sing for the ecu't by way of proving their Innocence of the charge against them. The court heard them sin 4 two selections whereupon the serenad ts were Ian formed that if thecouro had preyiou sly any doubt as to their guilt it hai entirely disappeared. "Anybody would b,i j :stl(ied for liring at you, if vou were making a noise like that," Said the julge. lie lined them $5 Bica. x I -ttmf'H n Call, President liarvie Jurdon of the Southern Catton association Friday issued a cail for a general convention t f farmer?, bankers, merchants and others throughout the South t< be he'd at New Orleans, Jan. 11, 12 and 13, 1900 The ot j ct of the c juven* tion v111 be to discuss ihe work of the association, with reference to orgaob i, itlon, hindllng the crop of 1000, trade relations between producers and spinners, extending tiie market for American c itton arid holding toe unsold i> tiance of tiie present cotton crou for I5cent8a pound. Many prominent speakers from various parts of the country have promised to be present and a large attendance is already predicted. ? ItuHHiau Hod Tnpo. A storv of Russian red tape is told by YV. T. Stead. Gen. Linevltch, while in supreme command of the Russian army in Manchuria, once used a rubber-stamp signature for tire papers which he had to sign tvery day before he c ulddraw forage for his own horses. The commissary general returned the rubber stamp signed papers as out of order and dvery day tiie general commanding an army of 500,000 men had to atlW ?iis auiograpa to the requisition for liis horses' oats. Aver?tfo WeiJrhr. S'cetary IIenter makes the actual average weight of 4,252 643 bales of the cotton crop embracing port re coipts and overland for the three months from September to November, inclusive, 519.10 against 523 53 pounds oer bale 1 ist year, a decrease of 4.13. Detailed avrajres are: Texas 533 56; L tulsiana 522 16; Alabama, etc., 630; Gior^la 508; Sou-h Carolina 500; North Carolina 531.95; Virginia 496; Tennessee, etc , including Memphis, St. Louis and ovorland, 523.7. Aiwa)h Clean. I)ld you ever notice that tobacco is always clean. If a man drops a pkca of m^at, no matter how clean the lloor may be, he will either tflve it a pick or pick it up and lay it to one lie. He will never eat it. Hut let him drop his plutf of tobacco on the ground and no dilTerence how dirty the *pot was where It fell, he will I Dick It ud and ulve it a ear?i?H4 nwino i >n his coat sleeve or on tbe bosom of lis pants and then take a chew with greater relish Uvn evor. HI lllu aui, Attempts made last Friday, Saturday, anh Sunday and Monday nights to wreck passenger trains on the Georgia Southern railroad an Heartpine Pa , resulted In a watoh being int. Tnis resulted In the arrest Wed nesday of Will Born, a negro who was caught in ahe act of la>lng a tie across the track. A reward of 9260 has beeu olTered for the arrest. Negro SUippiKI, A dispatch from GatToey to The State says Elsie Mar:,la colored, was p?slbiy fatally stabbed by Son J )hnson, col rjd, late Wednesday niglu. Irjuries severe Result uncertain.. Johnson Is In j vU to await trlaj. Poth about 15 years of age. V. HUNG AT LAST." Mrs. Rogers Dies on the (iallows lor Her Crime. MURDERED HU3MNP. Whom She Chlorotormed a? a M-etlng in the Woods While She Was Caressing Him. (ireat Efforts Werj MaJe to Save the Woman, hut The* Tailed. A dispatch from Wlnlsor, Vt., siys Mrs. Mary Rogers was hanged at tl e Vermont State prison at 1:13 o'clock h'rlday aftern >on for the murder of her husbat d, Marcus U gers at lieunlngtoii, on August 13, 1002. Mrs. R >gers was pronounced dead by the prison otllolals at 1:27 1 2 The execution toek place after tlio woman had twice been reprieved on account of appeals male by ncr conn sel and after the U ilted Statos Sa premc Court refused t> take action in the case. o.ily a omparatl vely few persons wltue-sed the hauglng, tne number being restricted to those per in it ted to attend by the laws of Vermont. Mrs. Rogers maintained her composure to the last and m runted the gallows with a steady step. Although a deathly pallor overspread her countenance, hardlv a mincle quivered as Deputy SherilT ShblVrrd pronounced the fatal words, "1 now proceed to ' xecute the sentence of the law and may God have mercy on your soul." VVneu the words were pronouueed Deputy Sheriir Angus MoAuley sprung the trap and the drop fell. The crime for which Mrs. Mary Rogers was sentenced to death was the murder of her husband, Marous Rogers, at Hennlngtou, on August 1H, li)02. At the time the crime was committed Mrs. R >gors was only nineteen. Sue had been separated from her husband for some time and was desirous of marrying a young man named Maui ice Kuapp. t)i the clay of Hie murder Marcm R igers went to Rjnulugtoa to vialo his wife and thai night sin arranged to meet him in the woids near the Walloomsack rivir. While caressing him she induced him to allow her to bind tils hands, and while he was powerUssshechloroformedh.m. In this she was aided by Leon i'erham, a halfwitted b >y who was Hie son of the woman with whom she boarded. Another woman, Estella Rates, was present. A fjw days after the murdor Mrs. Rogers, Porham and the Rates woman were arrested. . Perham made a complete confession and both he and Mth. Rogers were found guilty of murder in the lirst degree. Perham was sentenced to imprisonment for life and .VPs. Rjgers was sentenced to the death gallons. Various attempts were made to commute Mrs R igers' sentence but all failed The date set for the execution was February 3, l(JOf> Gov. Rail granted two reprieves for tiie presentation of new evidence, but the court denied tiie petition for a new trial eacb time, and the United States Supreme Court refused to consider the case. Certain disclosures regarding scandals in the Vermont State prison at Windsor, wtiere Mrs. Rogers has been con lined, have, it is claimed, affected public sentiment. According to testimony before the prison investigation c unmittee of the L? gisiature one of the conv cts at Windsor had access to Mrs. Rogers' cell some time after the first reprieve was granted. It was alleged that this was part of a conspiracy on the pirt of certain prison Hlicials to brini* aW.nf U..T.W - J1 r* uuwuu nuuu lb O Jliur tiou mi would further postpone the excutlon. Mrs. Rogers was the first person sentenced to deatn In Vermont within the past thirteen vears who was refused clemency. The last woman to be executed was Mrs. Emellne Meeker, at Winds <r, on March 3d, 1883. O i the march to the gallows Mrs. Rubers declined the a;>sistance of deputies. Her step was firm. She mounted the scull' ild unaided and stopped exactly upon the center of the trap. Sue sat down In the chair for a mo npent.aud, when asked If she had any final stntemoDt to make she shook her head jpegati vely. Mrs. liters' body has been claimed by, Ucr mother and sister, and will he buried by them at Mo sick Falls, N. Ym where the mother, Mrs. .Josie Calls ban, resides. Wher? Are Tho Hooks. ( There was a hearing In Columbia 'in Friday which Is regarded as significant before the legislative comcpttteo appointed to check no ? r- vw& V?? I LA State otlloiais. Ttie object is to discover the four mission cash to>ks frt?m Secretary of State Gantt's ctil *<e covering tranactions amounting to many thousands of dollars. These are the books about which there such a heated controversy at the last *esnlon of the Legislature. Tue committee has Information that these books were not burned as was intimated. Clerk MoJowo testilled Friday that ho was absent lu Florence when toe books got lost, and Cierit McLiurin did not know how the !Kicks got awav. Secretary Oantt. is tck and his examination along with ,bat of of Clerk Msans, of tho sna)ng fund com nlssioo, is deferred uutil they can be examined together.