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The News and lierald. WINNSBORO, S. C. Wednesday, March 30.1904. STATE CONVENTI0N. The Democratic Cmmittee Issued the Call For It on Tuesdy Night. ANMAIGN IN SECOND DISTRICT The Dates of the Meetings in the Several Counties and oi the Primaries Rave Been Fixed. In compliance with the call issued recently the State Democratic execu tive committee met at the office of the- secretary of state Tuesday night Iflast week and made arrangements for the campaign in the Second dis 'ettand also for the meeting of the State convention. In the absence of ydelegate from Spartanburg, Gen. W1e ines,' chairman of the com :'read an invitation from that ttlat on motion of Mr. T. B. Crews It was dccided to hold the State con vention in Columbia and Spartanburg's generous offer was declined with thanks. There was quite a large re presentation, very few counties being withot1t committeemen on the floor. The following delegates were pre ,'.Abbe*Wlle-A. W. Jones. -J X. Polatty. A~deSO-J. P. Glenn. amberg-C. B. Free. .Barnh-W. C. Smith. erkeley-R. W. Haynes. Charleston-John F. Riley. Cherok'ee-JhnQ. Little. Chester-T. J. Cunningham. Clarendon-W. C. Davis. Cemet6n-J. W. Hill. Darlingtop-A. J. A. Perritt. Dorchester-John D. Bivens. Edgefteld-L. J. Williams. Fairtield-Thos. H. Ketchin. Florence -D. H. Traxler. Georgtown-J.. W. Doar. * Q Greenville-J. T. Austin. Greenwood-D. I. Magill. Hampton-M. B. McSweeney. Kershaw-John G. Richards. /Laurens-T. B. Crews. Lee-. E. Carnes. Lexington-D. J. Griffith. Marion-James Stackhouse. iboro-W. D. Evans. Newberry-C. L. Blease. Oconee-J. W. Shelor. d~iiiurrt .H. Moss. -Plegens--W. T. Odell. Richland-Wilie Jones. Saloda.-E. S. Blease. -L. Y. Bennett. Tinlo-J. ). Greer. * Wllamsburg-A. H. Blackwell. York-t. C. Wilborn and secretary JaseTI.:Parks.byM.agl The following offeredby r.agl Was adopted: "A convention of the Democratic party of the State of South Carolina k is hereby called to meet in the city of Columbia at 12 o'clock noon on May 18, 19O4, for the purpose of electing delegates to the national Democratic --convention, and to transact such other business as the convention may see -proper. "The county chairmen throughout the State are hereby Instructed to call *togethier their executive committees and order meeting of the clubs in their respective counties on Saturday, April 23, for the purpose of electing dele gates to the county convention to be Sheld on Monday, May 2nd, 1904, for ~ he purpose of electing delegates to the State convention. Each county Is entitled to twice the number of delegates in this convention as it has members of tile legislatllre." The resolution also carried a para. -graph providing for a primary lanthe Second congressional district on Tues day, the 19th of April. But as this Is a special and not a gene~ral primary -It was thought fair to all of the candi dates for the voting to be done on Saturday as that day of the week Is more satisfactory to the people in the rural districts. Accordingly a resolu tion was adopted to appoint a comn mittee of one member from each county in the congressional district' to -frame ~resolutions more explicit in Ptheir nature and fixing the primaries for Saturdays instead of Tuesdays. The members of the sub-committee were: M. B. McSweeney of Hampton, Dr. W. C. Smitk1 of Barnwell, C. B. Free of Bamnbergr, J. M. Pollatty of Aiken, L. J. Williams of Edgetield, E. S. Blease of Saluda, and Beaufort was not represnted. After some consultation the follow . ing amendment to Mr. Magill's resolu tion was prepared and the resolution as amended was adopted by the exec utive committee: The committee, composed of m- m bers representing the counties in .be Second cngressional district, respect fully recommend that the first primary for the nomination of a corgressman to fill the vacany e::isting in the Second congressional district be held -on Saturday, April 23d. And a second primary, if the -same be necessary, be held on Saturday, May 7th. That the executive committees of the various Icounties compsing the Second con gressional district meet at their re spective court houses on the Tuesdays following the primaries to tabulatie the votes of their county. That the committee of the State executive com mittee shall meet on the Fridays following the primaries to tabulate the vote and declare the results of said primaries. That ,the county chairmen of the contes composing this district are hereby instructed to assemble their respective executive committee and make all necessary arrangements for these primaries. The committee further recommends the campaign meetings be held at the court house, county seats, of the various counties on the dates herein after narned: April 5-Saluda. April 7-Eigetield. A pril.9-A iken. April 12-Barnwell. A pril 14-Bimberg. April 16-Iampton. April 19-Beaufort. It was decided that the primaries should be held on Saturdays, the I county executive committees should meet on Tuesdays following, giving ample time for each precinct to be heard from and the State committee or its representative, on the Fridays following the meeting of the county committees. As the Second district is interested more than the rest of the State, it was decided to let the special committee tabulate the vote instead of requiring the entire com mittee to meet, and exGov. McSwee ney, L. J. Williams (or his substitute), Thos. Martin, J. M. Polatty, C.. B. Free, Dr. W. C. Smith and E. S. Blesse, one from each county in the Second district, were aipointed with the addition of D. H. Magill, A. W. Jones, D. J. Grittith and Gen. Jones 1 as chairman. There being no further business the committee adjourned. As the campaign in the Second dis trict closes on the 5th of April, the I last day for filling the pledges with I the State chairman will be at noon of I April 4th.-The State. Trusts Destroy Individuality. In an addres before the students of the college of the city of New York; W. H. Truesdale, president of the Delaware, Lackawanna railroad, de scribed the great combinations of capital and labor as socialistic, declar ing the tendencies are to shackle, if not destroy, the American individuali ty to which the country owes so much. After desaribing the development of the great industries, the greatest of which is the railroad business, he ex pressed the opinion that the gain is due to the spirit of American free dom, and he said he does not expect the same proportionate mileage to be constructed hereafter, as the cost of the terminals-will interfere, but the improvements will continue rapidly as ever. He said.great combinations of capital are impossible elewhere and it is a. question if it do not stifle indi viduality. The labor organizations may be beneficial in some ways and have done good in some cases and in jury in others. he declared, and when they stifle ambition they do harm. Fatal Ending of an Elopement. A special from Batesville, Ark., says: ~.M.- Hall, a well known mer chnfAnstin,Aes shot and killed Wenynight~ at/eightro'clock -by H. C. Hanicock. The tragedy is the'i sequel to the, elopement of Hall and Mss Bessie Hancock, a daughter ofI H. C. Hancock, -in. January last. I Hall recently returned to Arkanss and stated that he proposed to live I' down the past and resume business at Austi. I~all arrived in Batesville Wednesday afternoon. Hancock came up on Hall in front of the court house at eight o'clock and immediately pulled a revolver and began firing. Three of the four or five shots took effect in vital parts of the body. Hall fell after the first shot, dying almost instantly. Hancook surrendered to the sheriff and was placed in jail. A London Tragedy. A ghostly crime was today un-1 earthed at Kensairise, a suburb of West London, England. The police 1 found a trunk in a boarding house, I containing the bodies of a woman and 1 child, who disappeared two months 1 ago, and who had been murdered. f The bodies were covered with several inches of cement. The oificer sus peeted a lodger in the house named 1 Crossman. When they attempted toe arrest him he dashed through the 1 streets pursued by a large crowd.] Seeing escape impossible, Grossman1 drew a razor and committed suicide by 1 cutting his throat. The police now are digging in the garden of the house, thinking other bedies are possibly 1 buried there.t A Fanny Case. A dispatch from Towanda, Pa., 1 says forty years have been knocked out of the life of Edward Smith, a farmer, by a singie blow. Last week he was felling a large tree. In fall ing it struck another small tree wvhich fell on Smith, cutting a deep gash in 1 his forehead. He ..as unconscious for 1 some time, and since he has recovered he has no recollection of his present life. He acts like a boy again. al- 1 though he is over fifty. He plays the1 games he played while a boy and goes about d.oing the same farm work he did as a youngster. He has no recol lection of his life for the last forty1 years, but otherwise is in good health. Three Lives Lost. A special to The Gazette from Para- I gould. Ark., says: A destructive storm C visited this county Sunday causing the death of three persons and laying I waste to much property in Gaines ville and vicinity. It is feared thereI will be more casualties. At present it is impossible to ascertain the extent of danage done as telegraph and tele phone wires are down. Storm Devastates, A tornado caused wide-spread ruin throughout the island of Reunion March 21 and 22, doing an enormous amount of damage. Twenty-four per-1 sons are known to be killed and thous-1 ands are without food or shelter. Crops, houses, bridges and telegraph lines are1 SHERMAN'S LIBEL. le Char ed Hampton With Furning Columbia to Injure Him. IEN. HAMPA0N'S INDEGRATION, loped Never to Meer Shermar. as He Could Not Tru. - to Keep His Hands Off the Milici ons Slanderer. In a recent issue of The Saturday Evening Post, former Senator George 3. Vest, of Missouri, writes of Gen. Nade Hampton witla'whom he served n the Senate, and was on t2rms of in amate friendship. One of the most nteresting portions of Senator Vest's trticle is that dealing with the burn ng of Columbia, which Gen. Sherman 'alsely, maliciously charged against 3en. Hampton. Senator Vest brings Jut no new facts in relation to the natter, but presents the whole case -ery concisely and clearly, as follows: It is not my purpose to revive any >itter memories of the civil war. I ,old it to be the first duty of every ,itizen to promote as far as he can the ra of good feeling which now exists o a large degree between thos3 who were once engaged in armed conflict. [ should not now allude to the con roversy between Gen. Sherman and enator Hampton in regard to the )urning of Columbia, but for the fact ;hat I have lately seen the statement ade in a widely circulated publica ion that Hampton was responsible or that terrible event. I deem it my luty to lay before the pablic, without omment, the unquestionable state nents of Gen. Sherman himself and iis.officers as to the responsibility for he destruction by fire of thirteen iundred houses inhabited by non ombatants and not used for any mili ary purpose. In the official report, made in the pring of 1865, of his march through he Carolinas, Gen. Sherman made. ;he statement that the burniing of Dolumbia was caused by Gen. Hamp :n, who commanded the rear guard f the Confederate forces, ordering he cotton, which he had caused to )e piled up in the streets of the city, o be fired, and that, although Sher man's soldiers labored earnestly to ?tinguish these tires, the wind rose md caused the burning cotton to be 3lown upon the roofs of the adjacent 2ouses until the fire became unman igeable. "And without hesitation,.I %harge Gen. Wade Hampton with aving burned his own city of Colum ila; not with malicious Intent, as the nanifestation of a silly Roman stoic sm, but from folly and want oftsense n filling It with' lint cotton and tin ier." On July 14; 1 5, Gen. Hampton re plid to this c rg,and- tated thatt a far from o ring the cotton to >e ired In the st eets of Columbia, he iad, on taking command of thie rear ruard the night before, issued an or er that no cotton should be fired ithin the city, and that when he ivacuated Columbia on the next morn ng there was not a bale of cotton on n the streets nor anywhere else. In a letter published In the proceed ngs of Congress in April, 1866, Gen. sherman says: "The citIzens of Columbia set fire o thousands of bales.of cotton rolled ut into the streets, and which were >urnng before we entered Columbia. myself was in the city asearly as 9 'clock, and I saw these fires." In a deposition of Gen. Sherman, aken before a United States commis oner at Washington city In 1872, in he case of Browne vs. United States, e swore that a brigade of the Fif eeth army corps,. commanded by 3rig. Gen. Stone, of Iowa, were the irst Federal troops to reach Columbia nd that this brigade formed the pro ost guard which was distributed roughout the city, Hie also reit rated his charge that the city was urned by the flaming cotton which lampton had fired before he left, and hich was carried by the high wind o the adjacent houses. In January, 1873, Brig. Gen. Stone, ho commanded, the Federal troops hat first occupied Columbia, made he following statement in The hicago Tribune: "The entire brigade was distributed brough the city. Up to this time o fires occurred in any part of the ~ity save those of public buildings and uartermasters' stores, fired by the nemy the day before we entered, 1 hink, but which fires had not ex ended and did not extend to any ~ther part of the city. The streets n some places contained bales of cot n, which had been cut open, and hese caught fire twice or three times luring the day, but these fires had een promptly put out by some of the iremen, aided by a detail of soldiers mder charge of an officer." He further says: "Col. D. J. Pal ner, commanding my regiment, the seventy-fifth Iowa, and to whom I lad intrusted the charge of the most angerous part of the city, confirmed ny opinion that there was a plot to yur the city by telling me several ires had started in his district; that ie had succeeded in putting them out o far, but could not much longer, mnd that, in his opinion, the next one ~ould fire the city. The wind after ~unset had increased in violence, and bout 9 o'clock was blowing almost a iurricane from Col. Palmer's district ight toward the heart cf the city. Al at once fifteen or twenty fiames ~rom as many different places along he river shot up, and in ten minutes ,he fate of Columbia was settled. "The next morning it was discovered he guard had been too small; and al annah a square mile of the heart of the city had been eaten out, anri the men's appetite for revenge satiated, yet it was then considered that a di vision of troops was necessary fur pro vost duty." In his Memoirs (page 286), Gen, Sherman says: "Having utterly ruined Columbia. the right wing began its march north west to Winnsboro on the twentieth." What Gen Sherman thought in re gard to the rules of civilized warfare is best explained by himself. Gen. Halleck having written to Sherman at Savannah that he hoped when he cap tured Charleston the city would be re duced to ashes and salt sown upon the ruins, Gen. Sherman in his Memoirs (page 296), says he answered Halleck as follows: "This war differs from European wars in this particular: We are not only fighting hostile armies. but a hos tile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the., bard hand of war, as well as their organized armies. * * * * "I will bear in mind your hint as to Charleston, and do not think it will be necessary. When 1 move, the Fif teenth corps will be on the right of the right wing, and their position will bring them into Cuarleston tirst; and if you have watched the history of the corps, you will na've remarked that they generally do their work pretty well. The truth is, the whole army is burning with insatiable desire to wreak vengeance upon South Caro lina, I almost tremble at her fate, but feel that she deserves all that seems in store for her." He also stated in his deposition in the case of Browne vs. United States. to which reference has already been made, that he and his army, both of ficers and men, thought that South Carolina should be extirpated, which meant utter destruction beyond the hope of resurrection; and he ylso stat ed in the saine deposition that it be had thought it necessary he would have d-stroyed Columbia as he would a prairie-dog village. In his Memoirs (page 287), Gen. Sherman says that the fire that de stroyed Columbia was accidental, and on the same page he says: "In my official report of this confla gration I distinctly charged it to Gen. Wade Hampton, and confess I did so pointedly, to shake the faith of his people in him, for he was, in my opin ion, a braggart, and professed to be the special champion of South Caro lina." In the last conversation I ever had with him on the subject, Gen. Hampton said that the charge of Sherman made against him as to the burning of Columbia was the most flagrant injustice that could possibly be perpetrated by any man who claimed to be a soldier and gentleman. "During the whole war,'" he contin ned, *I never committed an act in violatiori of the rules of civillized war fare and never permitted my' soldiers do so. I was second in cmmand h t~cavalry raid was zae into. 4ennsylvania in: 1862, and 1lo. 'Mc Clure, the well-known edito4 of The Philladelphia Times, has te tlied in lils memoir's how scrupulously I caused the rights of private citizens and non combatants to be respected by my men when we captured Chambers burg. Of course, we took such n'eces saries belonging to private citizens as we were compelled to have, but in every instance the owners were given vouchers upon which they could collect the value of the property so taken from tbe United States govern ment. I never permitted my soldiers to enter an orchard or to draw water from a private well or cistern without first obtaining the permission of the wner. N5o outrage or violence was committed by them in any instance, and yet when I returned home after the war I found my residence burned, which was two miles from Columbia, and also Millwood, the home of my grandfather and father, around' which clustered the most sacred memories of my life. I had lost in the war all my estate and had seen my brother and youngest son shot down upon the battlefield; but Gen. Sherman was not satisfied with this, and has attempted to place upon me the terrible stigma of having burned the houses of my friends and neighbors in Columbia. A more cruel and false accusation was never made, and though I shall not make myself ridiculous by seeking any personal satisfaction, I hope that we may never meet, for I distrust my own self-control if face to face with a man who has wronged me so foully." Society Polygamy. Some ugly features of .>ur national life and what to do about them was the subject of a lenten sermon Sun day night by the Rev. Dr. McKim of the Epiphany church at Washington, D. C. Dr. McKim made a direct, forcible attack on the "Almost con scienceless extravagance and passion for display" that has spread down ward among the people. He drew a vivid picture of the 'Progressive polygamy" of society divorces, as com pared with the polygamy of the Mor mons, and made a caustic reference to the "graft top to bottom of society," and "even the dark and portentious shadow of the betrayal of public trust lying across the legislstive halls of the nation." Horrors of the Deep. The British steamer Cubal, which arrived Thursday at New York from Peru and Chili, reports that on Feb ruary 12th, in the Straits of Magellan, she fell In with a Chillian sealing schooner in distress. The schooner was a very small craft, with a crew of sixteen men. They had been out six months and were starving. They had caught 150 seals, and the only pro visions obtainable were shellfish and water. Their boat had been stove-in and rendered useless in bad weather. Capt. Berry supplied them with abundi ant provisions. )( THE WORK OF A MOB. Several Negroes Lynchedin Arkansa for killing Two Men. A special to the Arkansas Gazette from DeWitt. Arkansas county, says: Five negroes who had been arrested as a result of race troubles at St. Charles, this county, were taken from the guards and shot to death. Tle victims were: Jim Smith. Charley Smith. Mack Baldwin. Abe Bailey. Garrett Flood. This makes nine negroes that have been killed within the past week in the vicinity of St. Charles on account of the racial troubles. A few days ago a difficulty occurred over a trivial matter at St. Charles between a white man named Searcy and two negroes named Henry and Walker Griffin. On Monday last the two negroes met Searcv and his brother in a store in St. Charles and the diliculty was renewed. One of the negroes. without warning, struck.both of the Searcy boys over the head with a table leg, rendering them unconscious and fracturing their skulls, orne of them to such an extent that he may die. Deputy Sheriff James Kirkpatrick at tempted to arrest him and he too was knocked down. The negroes then gathered and de fied lie officers, declaring that "no white man could arrest them.'' Their demonstrations aroused the fears of the citizens of St. Charles and they telephoned to this place for a posse to come out and protect the town. P. A. Douglass, deputy sheriff, went out with a posse of several men to capture the Grifin negroes. The constable met three negroes-Randall Flood, Will Baldwin and Will Madison -in the road. He inquired of them if they knew where the Gritfins were and one of them replied that they did but "would tell no white man" adding an oath. The negroes then attempted to draw their pistols but the posse tired, killing all three of them. Thursday 16 men left this place for the scene of the trouble. Large crowds gathered in from Roe, Ethel and Clar endon. During the day while the sheriff's posse was searching for the Griftin negroes, they were tired upon by a negro named Aaron Hinton, from ambush. Three of the posse were hit, but the shot used were small and no seriou/s damage resulted. The posse returned the fire and the negro was shot down. Several other shots were fired into him, killing him instantly. Five other negroes, Jim Smith, Charles Smith, Mack Baldwin, Abe Bailey and Garrett Flood, who were the negroes that had defied the offi cers, were arrested and Thursday night a crowd of men took them away from the guards and shot them to death. It is reported late Friday evening that the Gr iffn boys have beelAp tured. If so it probably means that two more will be killed. Everything at St. Charles at this time is quiet, but the town is heavily guarded. TWO MORE KILLED. A dispatch dated last Sunday says wo more negroes have been killed in the clash between whites and blacks at St. Charles. This brings the total of dead ne groes up to 13, all of them being killed within the last week. The last two negroes killed were the Griffn brothers, Henry and Walker, who were the cause of the trouble. The negroes were reported to have escaped but it is known that they are dead and it is believed that they were kill ed Saturday. Owing to the remoteness of St. Charles and to the fact that news of the result of the riot is not given out freely, it is..dficult to otsain details, but there is no doubt of the authentic ity of the death of the Griffns. In the St. Charles ,neighborhood the negroes largely outnumber the whites and trouble has been brewing for a long time and it Is said the negeoes for the last two .jeais have been getting insolent and belligerent. It is now believed that the leaders of the nnruly element have been killed and that further trouble will be avert Saturday was election day and usually on such a day St. Charles is crowded with negroes, but during the entire day only two negroes were seen in the town, and these two appeared in the morning and stayed in the vil lage but a short time. Near St. Charles the negroes are quiet and are attending strictly to their work. The trouble originated last Monday wen the two Gritmus met two white men, brothers, named Searcy. The Searcys, who are fishermen, and the Griois had an altercation a few days before and when they met the trouble was renewed. One of the negroes armed himself with the leg of a chair and with his brother assaulted the white men, beating them so severely that one is now on the verge of death and the other is in a critical condition. In an effort to arrest the Griffns 11 negroes have been killed. The death of the two Griffns makes the death list number 13 dead. Robbed tho Gallows. At Tuskagee, Ala., on Thursday Ralph Armstrong, under sentence of death for the murder of his cousin, Miss Alice Armstong, committed sui cide in his cell. He killed the young woman because she refused to marry him. Armstrong was a son of the late 0ol. H. Clay Armstrong, consul to Rio Janeiro under President Cleve land, and was a member of one of the most prominent families in the State. SENATOR Tillman is at his home at~ Trenton recuperating. His throat is~ eabot well again. KILLED THEM ALL A Wife's Love of Dancing Makes Her Husband Cimmit TER RIBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE Mor::ally Wounded, the Wife Fights 1r Her Child, but the Fren zied Husband Kills Child and Himself. Maddened by jealousy and stung by bitter words of reproach, Christian Kirschoffer, a Williamsburg, N. Y.. hotel keeper, shot and mdrtally wounded his young wife, slew his four-year-old son and took his own life Wednesday. The tragedy was the end of a martial history of five years, beginning with Kischoffer's elopament witfh the woman he killed Wednesday and who was then his wife'-. aiece. After the death of his wife he married the niece. Residents in the neighborhood of Kent avenue and South First street were startled by a succession of pistol shots in the second story of Kirschoff er's Hotel, at No. 965 Kent avenue, about 10:30 a. m. Wednesday. - The shrieks of "Murder!" "Police!" in a woman's voice, brought Policeman Fallon, of the Sixtieth Precinct; George Ehbnenn, a citizen, and Fire man George Mulligan, who rushed up stairs, burst in the door of the apart ment in time to see the murderer fire a shot inth his own head. The policeman grappled with the man, who, although wounded to death, still struggled savagely to fire upon the intruders. As the evolver was, wrenched from the maniac's hand, he fell to the floor and expired. The room resembled a shambles. On the floor. near the door leading into the reai room, lay the murderer's little son, gasping in the throes of death. Swooning, at the window, which the wounded mother had raised in her frantic efforts to escape her doom, hung the body of Mrs. Kirsch offer, with blood streaming from a wound under the chin. The police officer picked up the shild and hastened with him into the itreet in search of medical aid. But the little fellow expired before an am bulance from the Eastern District Hospital arrived. His father's bullet ad pierced his brain. Meanwhile Ehnenn and Mulligan 3arried the wounded woman down ;tairs, and into a neighboring store. She did not regain consciousness, but urmered the name of her little boy. When partly revived by Ambulance Surgeon Shanka she prayed them to ave her baby. The crime was undoubtedly premed tated and caref ully planned. Kirsch ffer was insanely jealous of his wife. he had youth and rosy cheeks, and ns but twenty-six years old. He was c':ty. He objected to eW~ yeti, aid protested against her attend mece at dances. She went over to mizabethport on Monday night to ati end a masquerade. .The husban~d ob ected, but -the young wife had pre pred a costume, and she went, de ~pite protests, to the home of her musn, Michael Martz, with whose smly she attended the ball. Mrs. Kirschoffer did not return home mtil nine o'clock Tuesday morning. he husband met her with furious mger. A bitter quarrel followed dur ng which dishes were thrown by bth. Having exhausted ltheir' passion, usband and wife went about their .~~ several duties in connection with their restaurant, the man going upstairs. onning his best clothes and then hrrying to the butcher shop where ie bought a lot of meat. He next bought a plstc:, which he loaded. From the gun shop Kirschoffer went into the saloon kept by his life long friend, Frederick Bertz, at the corner of Wythe avenue and South First street. Here he drank deeply, announcing that it was the last glass of liquor he would ever swallow in this world. Arrived at his home the man called his wife and child into the sleeping roonas of the family on the second floor, locked the door and deliberately murdered them. He threw the wo man upon the bed in the front room and fired the weapon into her throat, the ball passing through the chin and into the bones of the head. The wo man appears to have struggled wildly for her child's life, for she broke away, and running to the window farthest from the bed, threw up the lower sash and shrieked for help. Aid came too late b r as the woman ran the husband put a bullet in the boy's head. To Go Back to Iowa. Jesse Huff man, a soldier now sta tioned at Fort Fremont, S. C., willA be taken back to Centreville, Iowa, in a day or so, to stand trial on the charge of forgery. The story of Huff man's crime was told by-W. B. Davis, n officer of that town, who called on the governor Wednesday morning for requisition papers and the warrant. Huffman was a rather bad character, although ef good family, and it was fter he joined the army that it was discovered that he had forged a note f the N'ational Bank of Centreville. The amount secured by Huffman was only $27.50, but the bank It willing to spend $200 to get him back. Oor respondence was had with the warA epartment, and it was found that his release could be secured in order that he might be tried. Governor Cummings wrote~ to Governor Hey ward in the matter, and as soon as proper papers could be obtained Mr. Davis came on for his prisoner. Word4 was wired the captain of Huffman's company at Fort Fremont and the man was placed under arrest to be arrie back to Iowa.