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. ' ri '/f *KKB&~r-^- ' v"- -< \-or v: -<-3 lTirrr- - _ 4 ' ' ' ' - The Press and Banner. | ZB^ZRT1 SEOOUD. 1 WADE HAMPTON. Ol lo The State Honors Itself by Erect- ?c ing a Monument J St be fo rrn dud nuahTP PHM J V Ai-E/JA J1JUIVJ.V Wii. - VI re Memories of Sixty-Four and Seventy-Six **' Revived io ibe Scenes in Coium- of lu bia Last Week Attending tbe id ur Unvdling of the Hampton Be, Monument. 110 Tbe Impressive ceremony of the cn- w* yelling of the handsoire 130,000 p* brocza rquestiian statue of Gen ch Wade Hampton, one of tbe world's gri greatest cavalryman and Sooth Oaro vo Una's greatest statesman and moot |?a * i-J * iOvaDiO SOD, cr-rneu auuuu uurcu i thoupand people lO the city of Co ed lumbia on Tuesday of last week. H< Main street, beautifully decorated of . Id Confederate colors, was thronged Bu as on a big day of fair week, and tba lccg processslon iepre?*nMng tbe Con- 410 federate orgaj.liulons of iba State <s 1 tbe schools and colleges, the National 9ra Guard organizations. tbe executive, 601 Judicial aect legislative brauohte of tbe State government wh cheered to J the echo as It moyed down Main street frt m the poBt efflae, thenof ^ around tbe eapltol building opposite for tba stand erected for speolal guests f by tbe side rf tbe statute ?hlch faces E the caplt 1 bulidln? from tbe east. Tbe cutpcurn g of the crowd fron; 3oi all over tbe btate, and tbe enthusiasm . whioa marked ever? detail of tht ceremony, manifested an interested th< and healthy ospccit} cn the part of aD( the people generally to genulnelj J?i honor a really great man. The mil! ful tary genius of Hampton at the t mr ?y. of his remarkable campaigns in Vir- of ginia attrsoied the admiring gazs of J the,world at ti e time But that he spent a great for rune as well as exer an( aised with still greater effect his offl 1 AoAe^r.o fhvnncrb plG 5JJ1CUUJU UgUVlLig vulwxfew the four years' great struggle, was tin not what most endeared him to the 8hi hearts of his oountrymen, nor yet was ttL; it his grand work of redeeming his prostrate state from radical rule and ^ negro domination in '76, when the f?< greatest self control and headwork as jj*" well as undauuled courage were need Th ed to bring Eucoess to a very difficult 8tr and delicate undertaking. It was his great loving heart that prompted him to give all?his genius, his whole life, rac as well as his property?to his people ?rj that has given him a permanent place ed 1 ~+ -11 Mm ir - 1X1 tBQ I1HBJ M U1 Ail wuu fcucn uiiu II. life or are acquainted with his inti mate history. G0a Hampton was a type of the great &lc South's old time arist< cracy, nature's ** aristocracy, whose sta idards are in- Pre tellect and character as well as cul s tare and rencement and means and power. He lived close to natura anr" was strorg, being a physical giant as ma well as a priuce In manD'.ra. H-* ln went to %*r a millionaire, *ith a big re^ fortune for tiiose Gajs, and he died a Ru poor man. But none has died with a richer heritage In all the things that rec make men great and entitle th6m to ** respect and admiration. He gave his "a] genius as a cavalryman to his state tul after advising against secession. Then ha oame borne and wrested bis ?d state from northern thieves In the teeth of federal bayonetB and became < Its strong governor at a time it need- oar ed a big man and r unded rut hie- to career with many terns in tne umwc States senate. The procession, headed by a cordon t0 of polloe and bands of musio, was in m0 charge of Maj. Theo. G. Barker, erfl grand maishal of the day, and him- <jt( elf a splendid figure of the old times. wc It was escorted by a squad of Hamp- ge( ton's old oavalry under Col. T. J. wfc Llpscomb, Governor Heyward and wj staff and Brigadier General W lis gr( Jones and staff, of the national guard organization, oame next and these in ez, turn were followed by the Citadel we cadets, the damson cadets, a oom ^o pany from Porter Military academy de, at Charleston and the national guard pri organization of the stats. Next C[( Major Thomas Carwile and staff of the state Confederate division follow- wc ed by the veterans and song cf veter f0] ans. A bevy of pretty women and ga] girls bearing banners closed this a*c- <g lion of the parade. N xt came sl:r pe carriages bearing.these: Gen M. C- lei Butler, the urator cf the da>; Bithop Ellison Capers, hlm&elf a distinguish- wc ed Confederate general; Vaj L<wn j8 des, Chairman J. Q. Marshall, of the Wc monument coma-'iooion, F. W Buck- fg stahl, the monument scu p or Gov- js ernor-elect M. F. Ansel, President bi Benjamin Sloan of the Scu?h Caro- 0t; Una University, Hon. R'0^8Td I. pe Manning of Sumter, Col. B. A Mirgan, superintendent A _Co**rd of the Citadel, President v. a. jonnson, of Wmthrop college, Hub. E. M Set- te; brook and Rev. Misell, Hampton's sic grand children in charge of Col. ty Wade H. Manning, bis ohlef aid de camp, Mayor T. H. Gibbes, of Co pa lumbia, and Miyor JR. Goodwyn <>if Bhett of Charleston. sei It is estimated that there were be hi tween ten and fliteen thousand visit- in orB augmented by '?be city's popula- ?'n tion, all business having been suspend* te ed in honor of the occasion. A fea- fii ture of tbe day was the parade which ed was probably the longest ever seen io be fchlsoitj. In the line of march were or numerous military and civic organize- Si " : _ h, tloni. Besides uuoe j ? se military Institutions of the state id about twenty Ave companies of t<? troops there were the survivors ' Hampton's cavalry mounted, a ng line of Confederate veterans, sons yeter&us and a stream of oariages intainiDg distinguished guests. here were also three bands of muslo the parade. Oa reaching the atus wbich Is looited on the state >use grounds, the parade disbanded, rmlng in a oirola around the large -?-3 #/v? fkA oMAnVave onH In. KUU CR'UOQU 1UX bliO ttuu mted guests The effrers and mexbars of the tiring legislature and the members:ct of the now legislature, members the CiemFnn faoulty and mo:nb6rs the obsrtber of commeroe of G ? mbia met In the capitol building id proceeded to the aland outside idertbe Bergeants of arms of the nate and house bearing the cffldal ace and sword of state. The unveiling oeremony, proper is opened with prayer from BUbop ,pers. Then after muslo the unveil? was done by the Hampton grand ildren. four girls and one boy. A Bat shout went up from 10,000 Ices as the folcs fell away from the ndsome figure of Hampton on hih shlng steed. The commission then formally turnt.' p mnnnnmnt over to Governor jywsrl who reoeived It In behalf the g'.&te tod Introduced General itler, the orator of the day, wbo armed hie audienoe with a t^o urfe' splendid oration. (Jen. B- ler dec cf the Soutb's splendid speaki and his fascinating diction and iching alcquenoj held the attenn of the crowd throughout. &.t the conclusion of the addrewi 3 students of Winthrop the Oolum, Female college and the College Women and the sohool children m this and ether oibiti sang tbi< iomie Biu? Flag" and other patrlo airs while the Daughters of the federaoy banked tbe monument tb garlands and wreaths. When Gen. Butler had concluded } eulogy upon his oomrade In arm3 colleague In congress, State Sena Richard I. Manning read a btautl n. .am ripriiAAtAd tf) the (JGC&&1' Q ruv?i ? Ji mes Henry Rloe, Jr. A saulte 19 guns closed the exercises. Liong before lime for tbe parade, ? orowds centered on Main street 1 from tbe state bouse to the post ce, tbe streets were Uned witb peo i, wbo seemed content to spend tbe ae standing out la the warm sunne, talking to tbe many frlendu jy met there. The merchants had spared do pains make tbe decorations attractive, 1 to those seated on tbe steps of ) capital it was a beautiful sight' e blue rky overhead enolosed Msln eet, wbere banners and flags bear: the Southern Gross and draperies red, white and red of the Oonfede ly blended In the dlstanoe with tbe ly unlformi of the veterans gatherat the post office for the parade, ["he crowd on the streets was an ar*3tlnff orowd. Tbere was a good a of oheerlng as the parade passed ng, but the spirit which obaraoter 3 it was one of er.-j jymerit and epilation and oordlai fellowship leeicg the old Confederate fligs, i gray uniform?, the red shirts, callup in the mind of the oid soldiers ny an lnoident and thrilling soene whio'u perhaps these identical ics had figured. Sculptor F. W. 'kstuhl, who designed tbe statute, s introduced to tbe audieQce, and elved a great ovation. The statue s erected by the state of South rollna and its citizens, the legisla:e having appropriated 120,000, Ho the remaining 910,000 was raisby popular subscription. Have Quit Work. Some 60 of the Immigrants who ce over on the Wittekiod and went work In tbe Anderson ootton mills, ?e q lit in a body, and are walking )ut utie streets of Anderson talking e&c^ other and getting themselves ire dissatifisd. Some of the foreignare complaining that tbey were ieived iuto balleving that they uld get more money than tbey are Dting, and the Rev. Father Gwynn, to has been among them talkln? bh an Interpreter says there is some Hind for this complaint, though lers who have talked direct and imined tbe olroulars on which they ire Induced to leave their happy mes In Europe, say there is nothing cepdve about the circulars, that Dfessional agitators among tbe )wd are trying to dissatisfy people 10 are satisfied and disposed to >rk. Tho mill authorities say tbe relgners are being paid exactly the me *s line locai aeip, ana mat ldib all tbat will be paid, that the exrlenoed help is getting what expericed help In this ocuntry get, but at green hands muat be content to >rk as local green bands work. It said most of the newoomsrs want to >rk, that they quit out of sympathy r those who were dissatisfied, and it believed that many of tnem will go ok to work. Some will leave and bers the mill authorities will com1 to seek work elsewhere. A Bad Boy, At Punxstawney, Pa , beoause his aober refund to grant him permls* m ti go hunting, Jam?s Dcujher, 16 years o'.d, shot and serlousl; Dwnf T T? IT r.tlo? nrinn!< , UbUCU i. 1U1 I *J. JU |?4M?VA .1, and Prof M:ade Snyder, his aiaant. Fallowing the afternoon sslon of scaool young Dougherty s home secured a shotgnn and meetg the teachers demanded he ba givl peroQistioa to go hunting. The achera refused again, aad the boj ed at tutm. Prof, Sovder reoeiv[ a part of the charge in his fane, 3 j i?M ?"u41- -n.?# m.m lay mia legs, wuiie riui. X^-U&ici wbd ily Plightly injured in the iegs. Prof, lyder.s oocdiilon Is orltloal. Dougjrty was arrested. FOUL MURDER. An Aged Widow Who Lived Near *-? mm r> LI 1 uattney kooosu AND Hi B THROAT CUT Ths Ciim*, Which Was a Most Shockioglv Brutal One, Was Committed About Mid.day Tom Harrig, a Wonde log Character Arri 8tc4 0a Suspicion. A dispi ah from G*ffaey to The News ?nd Courier siysthat seotlon was again lie scene of t most shook in# crime. u l xuesaay 01 last wee* between 12 an 11 o'olook, at her home on the crsst of a hill, two and a half m'V3 from G .Iney, and overlooking the town, Mr.. Hortenae Morgan, an aged widow, living all alone, was mur dered And robbed. Her throat was cut from ear to ear <wd several hun dred dollars s*o'en frem her person. As the oltizeDH were returning from their dinner the news spread that Mrs. Morgan had been murdered and the sheriff and the chlcf of pcl.ce with the blood hounds went to the soene, bub they had n t h*en gone long before one Tom Harris was poln&ed out at the d*pot fs a. m\n ?*etl at Mm. Mor gan's just before the crime was oommltbed. Several good and substantial men identified him as having been >?een on the poroh )f the house as they pa sed coming lo town. Harris wai arrested br Offlcsr Chyle and Deputy Marshal Pa 1 ps. Officer doliman c;me up and tt<ey took Harris to the city prison where he was A , 1*4*) n/ymnsy** rr, & a ots^iullcu. v 1 uu pl'idju win iuuuu m large knife, very shvp and hlooay, and In two rolls was found 1726 10. One roll of bills was wrapped iu a whits rag very much as a woman wonld wrap It. The other roll had been wrapped in the same way, but the wrappings were gone. Tbe rag whloh seemed to have been wrapped around this last roll was found between the house anl Gtffney. Harris, when asked how muoh mon- , ey he had, said that he had abcut 1600, 1126 lrgg than he really bad. In addition to the money and knife there , were found on his person stains of , blood, about his hands, and on his breast there was a bruise. Your correspondent visloed the scene of the crime and found Mrs. Morgan on her bed in a pool of her own blood. Her throat was cut from ear to ear and her olothing bad been , turned up anl two cloth bags containing tbe money, whloh was attached , to her waist, had been out off and thrown to the door. Tbe room had been ransacked, the olothing thrown about the floor. From Inquiry of the j neighbors the following facts were u , certained: . ] Mrs. Morgan lived alone In her house on tbe top of the hill, but spent her nights with a tenant on herplaoe, ; because she was afraid of being mur- , dered. Baft ween 11 and 12 o'clock j Mrs. Webb saw her about.the place, nanging out olothes and feeding the pigs. At 1 o'olook M-'s. Webb had an , engagement to go with her to see a neighbor. After waiting some time ; over the appointed hour she went to | the house to see what had bsoome of | her. She looked in the window and saw her on the be i with her , throat out. She gave the alarm and soon a crowd had gathered. Harris was seen going to Mrs. Morgan's near to 12 o'olook. He asked some people along the road how far it was to her house. He was seen in the poroh talking to her while she was sewing. When he came to town after the murder uhe first thing he did wu to buy a sule of clothes and an overcoat. Later Tuesday aftemooa his brother-in-law, Jim Ohlldre&B, who works at one of the mills here, but who had been away for some time, returning to Gaffney Tuesday morning with < H&rrls, was arrested as knowing something of the crime. Ohlldresa worked with Mrs. Morgan this fall, picking ootton, and knew of the report that she carried money on her person, When arrested he was on his way to Blacksburg, where he was to join Mrs BarrU, who was waiting there for her husband to return. It is thought that Childress knows a great deal about the tiffiir, as Harris was a stranger in the community. Harris Is a man of medium size, of a low order of intelligence, withs&n^y whiskers oyer his face. As a boy he was conBiderod wild. Rumor has It that he was at Forest City, N. 0., about three we-^ks ago working in t mill, but hesarg that he came here from Grove's, N. C. Three years age he lived at Hickory Grcva, where he waa known as a preacher, having been ordained by the Baptist Ohurok. Another rumor has It tbat he was a Holiness preacher. Anyway, he asked the officers to look In his suit case and get blm his Bible. When asked where he got so much money he said thai he labored and made It, but afterwards stld that he made It by labor and gimbling. It le thjught by many that If Harris killed Mrs. Morgan he was hired to murder her? There are those who believe mat the killing of Mrs. Mar g&n was ttie execution or a aeep xaia plot to put tbe aged lad; out of the way, and ttut Harris wu tbe tool seoured to do the bloody work. The officials of Gaffaey are now at work securing evidence In the case agalust Harris, and it. is believed that the Investigation beiDg made may lead to the arrest of other parties. In Giftner there is well founded belief that Harris was hired to kill Mri. Morgan for the parpote of getting her out of the way.. Mrs. Morgan was well-todo, having about six bales of cotton, which she had been holding: for some time, several of the bales having been held over from last year. Her land is worth about 10,000. Harris has been removed to Spar* fcanburg. It was feared that If he was kepb In Gaffney the jail would be ( stormed by an angry mob and tbe prisoner lynobed. The exoitemenb was great. It Is believed that Harris was hired to kill Mrs. Morgan. She was eight? years of age. She had more than 8700 In ber bouse, slz bales of cotton and owned land worth about 810,030. At the trial of Harris the Statt will show that the old wo:nan was murdered for . her property. A man by the name of . Childress, a half brother of Harris, has been arrested as a material wit nesses. It is expected that other arrests will b9 made shortly. FIRE THEM ALL. i i REFUSES TO SUSPEND 'ORDER 1 DISCHARGING THE NEGROES Rooievalt Cables Taft That Pacts Are ffeceisary to Secure E shearing . The War Department Thursday issued th? following statement concerning the negro troops ordered to be dismitaed at Fork Reno: "In the matter of the order Qls charging the enlisted men of three oompanies of the Twenty fifob In fantry, inued by the President, ui application was pres anted to the Sec retary of War by a number of persons of standing asking for a rehearing by tbe President of the ground on which aotion was taken. "The Seoretary telegraphed the iMA AMttlUaHAn anH riCBIUCUV Ul lius nypiivxiiuu nuu uv layed the proceedings of discharge un e til the President could Indicate his 1 wishes. The Seoretary was meantime * called out of town. No answer was 1 received from the President. v ''The Secretary on his return did ? not feel Justified in further delaying the execution of the order or dis oharge especially in view of the fact ' that the Seoretary learned that the * Prealdent had fully and exhaustively c considered the argument against th6 8 order of the persons who have now fi applied for a rehearing. "Aooordingly the Seoretary directed a yesterday, Tuesday, that the proofed' ' Ings for discharge be continued without delay." c Later in the day Seoretary Taft received a dispatch ftorn President t Roosevelt and issued the following ad- { ditional statement: 1 A telegram was received from the ? President at 11 o'oiook today, after 0 the previous statement was given out ^ at the War Department, in wh?oh he * declined to ausDend she disoharge un- * leu there are new facta of such im* 0 poriance as to warrant cabling him. 1 He itates that his action wu taken 1 after due deliberation, and tnat the * :)nly matter to whloa tie can pay heed 1 Is a presentation of the facte showing t the offlolal reports to be in whole or r in pare untrne or dearly exculpating ? some individual. If any such facts 0 later appear he oan act as he deemi advisable, but thus far nothing Has been introduced to warrant a c suspension of the order, and he directs i that it be ex?outed." a Shoots n Dootor. 0 Miss Otillo Schneider, 42 years Of j; age, Thursday afternoon fired five re- J volver shots at Dr. Frederick Bierhofl, two of whloh struok the dootor, * nne In the body and another in tbe , arm. while two ahcts struok other 3Q6D. The shooting took. plaoe in the * street at Madison avenue and Fifty, I ninth street. Dr. Bierhoff was taken I bo the Presbyterian hospital, where * his wounds were found 1io be not especially dangerous. -One of the other " shots took effaot in the arm of Otto * Groege, a lawyer, another struck Paul Sheehan In the back. Neither of the latter was seriously Injured. . Miss Schneider, who was seized by . the police before she could Are a sixth , ihot, gave various reasons for the { shooting aaS3!tlng first that she was f revenging herself for alleged profes sioual malpractice, and afterwards * a dd that the dootor had stolen all the Ideas for French waists wh.oh she had ? Jesigned. ? Birgtit' trtWb Drowia, ^ The barge A rieo, In tow of the t iteamer Pratt, w^nt down in a storm t Thursday nigut. The oaptain and t six men of the orew were probably j drowned. Capt. Maokey of Mllwau- t ?ee was in command of the barge t 17- am InWfl \TT no Litis BftllCU UU uuo IdlD 1UI luitf | years. The Pratt was bound from c Eioaoaba to Buffalo with Iron ore. i Six of the crew of the barye Resolu t lion from Erie, Pa., were drowned r Thursday. Their boat was &wam- c ped astbey were endeavoring toes t o&pe from the barge whion was sink- t ing. __ Pol?oue<l Gaudy. At Philadelphia, poisoned by eat- c ing candy whloh tbey brought at a c little shop near their home, e gbt- c year-old Miry Carey, and aerslx year- c old sleter Annie are deid, and their \ three-year-old brother Eiwird, Is ( dangerously lil. Tb.e girls died on i Tuesday night within a few hours of s ? ^ VioTrinrr aiiffan, f{ fnr < QftUU uuun muui uiav<uB humvavm I early two days. Taey were swicken ] ?f cer having eaten the candy on Sun- i day. 1 NEGRO TROOPS Who Were Dismissed Entered a Comoact to Preserve Secrecy, AND IN CONSPIRACY '? v - r- ' ft / , ' k g .? iJZ *}. Great Pn;siure Brought to Bear to Have a Rehearing io the Case. War Department Issues a Statement In Reference to the DIs* missal. The war department faiued the fol owing statement Thursday eonoernug the negro troops ordered dismissed it. Fort Rano: ' . ^ > "In the matter of the order dts* sharglnj? the enlisted men of three jompanies of the Twenty fifth infancy Issued by the president application presented to the secretary ot war tf a number of persons of standing i king a reheariii? by the president m the groond on which the action vas taken. Toe secretary telegraphid the president cf the application and lelayed the proceeding of the dis charge until the preheat could indl ;ate his wishes. The secretary was neantlme called out of town. No an iwer was received frcm the president The secretary on hiB return did no eel J lBtifled in further delaying tot ixecudon of the oner cf discharge (specially in view of the faot that th? iscreUry then learned that the presi lent had fully and exhaustively on ildered the argument against the orlar, of the persons who now applied or a rehearing. Accordingly, the sec etary directed that the proceeding? or discharge be continued without iciaj The investigation of the conduct of i?gro troops of companies B. 0. and ), Twenty-flftih infantry, is reported ipon by Ma J. Block^m, Inspector gen* iral's department, Lie at. Col. Lover ng, Fourth infantry, acting iuspeo or general, and Brig. Gen. Garllng on, inspector general of the army r&s made public at the war departaent Wednesday in a volume entitled 'Thfl Affray at Brownsville, Tex." M j Biccksom declares that the afalr >?as preconcerted and both he and lan. Garlin.s'ton exonerated the offiers from blame. Gsn. Garllnorton ayi It was evident from the first that he three companies had entered into t.n rrl-oa nn Infnrmitlnn ? WiAl|f?vu til/ g i w mv ??y .bout the affair. Secretary Taft sal;? Vedctsaaj' that do steps will be taken o make a further Investigation of the onduot of the offioera. Ia hii summary of the report! made 17 the other officers and of hlf own efort8 to discover the guilty soldiers, irlg. Gen. Oarllngton declares that very means of getting evidence conarnlng the ehso ting was eihauited. Lll the men of. the three oompanles ?ere talked with individually on diferent occasions, he sayi, and the dire onsequtnoe of thilr failure to give up be guilty soldiers were pointed out. Lll tbe soldiers avoided questions and ven refused to discuss the events at Brownsville, which were known to mve enraged the negroes before the lot "Tbe seoretlve nature of th race rhere crimes are oharged to membara >f tbetr color, Is well known." GEN. GARLINGTONS REPORT, Gen. Garllogton says: "Under suoh ircumstanoes self protection or sellaterest 1b the only lever by which the aiket of their minds oau he pried pen Acting upon this prioolple, the ilstory and record of the regiment to rhich they belong, the part played by hese old soldiers this record, wer* lolnted out and enlarged upoa. The dlun of disgrace to the battalion and ts Individual members by tbli crime rere Indicated. The fubure effwt upon he battalion as a whole was referred o; and, finally, the conoern of the Jnlted States in the matter, his deire and the dlsire of the war departcent to seper?te the lnnooent from ne guilty were explained, but with * I' n?n*lnnlni? Qsn O-.irHnff UU CUCUU. VUuviuuiuK vwu. V. ... D m's raport Bars: "No absolutely accurate verifleaion of the rifles and the men of the >attallOQ was mad* on tbe night of Lug. 13 in time to aooount for the rilis and men at the beginning of tlie Iring or immediately on its conolu ion. The f&Du e Ik zp!iiied as folows: Theoomjoa* di * \ fflcr and bis associates, whea th t.Ur u wassoun^id and they heaid Sti* tiring assumed ^atit oame from b?? oiry of Brownsrtllc and that t'r? gues wore in tbe lands of civilians; m oth r words that >he garrison was beiug fired into from ide outside civilians. It do-.s not ap tear to have occurred to any or them hat csrtain enlisted man of the Twany-fifth Infantry had possession of heir arms and were committing tbe irime of firing Into tbe houses acd ipon tbe citizens of Brownsville, until >he mayor of tbe oity came to the gar lson and informed tbe commanding iffloer, Maj. Penrose, that one man md been killed and another wounded )j his soldiers." MAJ. BL0CE;80M'8 REPORT. Maj. Blocksom, in his report, reiommended that if satisfactory evllence concerning the identity of the ?*?1 1 ?n nil Dvrtanaoilla jrimiuais wju buuii uy ug?*mvt ild not come from members of tbe :attalion all enlist- d men of tbe three uupantes present on tbe night of &.ug. 13 be dl80barged from service md debarred from reenllstraent In tbe irmy, navy or murine corps. Maj. Blocksom regards It particularly uutortunate for the reputation of the Qattalioa that the officers did not dls oover a stogie clue to the "terrible preconoertcd orlme" in the investigation tbat was conduoted by the oommanders of tbo oolored foroa. Brig Gen. McCaskey, commanding he department of Texas, In a dispatch to tbe war department explains th) discharge of 25 members of the Twenty fl'th Infantry on Monday, after Secretary Taft had ordered the temporary suspension or the soieiers dismissed by %r?< in? tbat tha dispatch sent to Fort Beno annonnolng Storetar; TuftJ aotloc did not reach that post until boon on Monday, which was after the men had been discharged. SHOOTS HUSB4BD AND 8BLF, \ Farmer Aotreaa Commits Harder uid Suicide in Ghieaffo. - At Chicago on Friday James F. Dalaney, vioe president of the American Shipplna company, was shot and kill* J kn U<n .4 cu ujr uib wiiVf wuu luumuuiabuijr , terward committed suicide. The tragedy ocoured In the apartments ocoupied by the Dalaneys at ; the home of Mrs. Gyrus Woods, 490 LaSalle avenue. Late Friday a ser vant went into tbe apartments 1 *fter having made Beveral previous Bfforts. The body of Delanoy was 'ouud on the bed with 4 bullet wound in the back of the head. The body , of Mrs. Dslaney was lying close by, ' a bullet havlDg been firtd into her brain though tbe mouth. The revolver was still clutched in the haud of i M.;. Deaney. Edward Tyler a boarder in the bouse told the polloe late Friday that ae heard two abota in the night, but jald no attention to them, believing ckat they came from the street. The cause of the shooting is not known. Mrs. Woods, in whose boose ;he tragedy took place, deelared that Mr. and Mrs. Delaney had not quar* ' rsled to her knowledge, and slid that 1 she knew of nothing that could have ' oausedMra. Dslaney to kill hur hus. ' oand and herself. Delaney is said to be well known 1 among business men in If aw Yxk, < where he bad lived for the greater 1 part of his life. Ia bis olofchlng vu found a oard bearing the Inscription: J. M. Delaney, Vice President of the American Shipping oompany, 20 Broadway. New York." His name is also in the Chloago dlreotory as Tic*, president of the American oomp&ny. Mrs. Delaney was the daughter of Charles Edward Brown, forme/iy of uhloago. She was born in that olty and graduated, a number of years ago from the Chicago Dramatlo school. She was later engaged by Obis Skinner for the oast of "'Francesoa da Rlmlnl" and afterwards played In "The Silver Sbelld" She was known on the stage as Bessie Mortimer. She was 30 years old and her husband was 36. They were married about eight ynurs ago and had nooblldren. Threatens Tillman. A dispatch from Chicago says a written threat, dlreotat United States Senator Benjamin R Tillman, In } which It wy announced that ne would be shot on the rostrum of Orchestra Hull if be persisted in giving the leo ?u re scheduled for next Tuesday night for the benefit of tbe Chicago Union Hospital, was placed In Oblef Oollina' hands Thursday. The oblef lmmed* taiiely notified the authorities and an investigation was begun. The threat written on ^postal oar J was as follows: "The Honorable Becjimln TlJlman will not speak. If he noes he will be shot by a molatto, who will go In the ball unattended. (Signed:) ? "A. T. Homes." No such person as A. T. Homes oan be found and the polios are at a loss to understand who could have written she missive. The communication was written on a common one cent posial o&rd, and wasjpcstea ai u o'ciock at ; night.rv Ad attempt to disguise the i writing was evidently made, as the t foro-ation of the letters changes In ] different portions of the cola. i lbree Jten Hilled. f At Rochester, N. Y., a fatal accl [ dent on Thursday at tha Eastman Kodak works, In whioh three men ware killed, eight seriously Injured and six slightly hurt. The men were ( at work on a scaffold near the top of a two story buldlng, whioh Is ona of } eight buildings Id ejursa of construo 1 tlon at Kodak Park. It was known ' as the Emulsion building and was < oonstruoted of steel, concrete aua ( Drlok. The probable cause or tha ao > oident ?u the removal or the aup ports of the steel flooring before the concrete had properly set. About twenty workmen were on the upper soaffold when the top floor gave way The roof and walls toppled in with a or?sh of concrete and bricks and heavy steel girders. The i? en were hurled Into the debris falllag about forty feet. Coupler Killed. Robert Hall, while coupling cars on a freight in the Ea3t Rjme, Ga , yards of the Southern railway Friday morning about 6 o'clock, wasjun over and mortally injured. Both legs were mfcshed, and besides being fearfully bruised, he was Internally lrjared, . And died scon after the accident. , He leaves a wife and one ohlld, and {J wu prominently oonneoiea. ne tiib abjuti 33 ytars old Again Get Damage** At Columbia after being out seven Hours the jury Tnursd&y afternoon returned a voratoo ot 15 000 damages ? fjr John Alexander Pickett against ? the Southern EUuway for injuries at t Sc. Maithews on GUils.mas Day juui. The railway will likely ask for a new i trial. The case has be?n tried several i times. Ooe 1 .ry gave the Pickett t bo; 110,000 and the railroad seouiai * a new trial. < BRYAN AND SHAW 1 Address the Commercial College at Kansas Cily Thursday. BIG CROWD PRR88NT. | Among a Long List of Speakers These Two Men Had the Lion's Share of Attention, Bat Bryan Dr w the Biggest Crowd. At Kansas Oity Mo., on Thursday Leslie M. Shaw and Wm J. Bryan bad the lion's share of Attention among a long list of speakers at the three sessions of the Irani Mississippi Congress. All spoke on sutjacts relating to the Increasing of tne commercial business of the oountry. * M Mr. Bryan was appointed to head a committee of former presidents of the Congress to escort Seoretary Shaw to the platform, and when these two distinguished public men led the way to the rostrum there was great applause. Seoretary Shaw declared: "If this oountry ever develops International merchants it will sooompllsh it by granting them encouragement, not alone by dredging harbors wid deepening obannels, but by insuring them a merchant marine In whloh to oarry, under the moet favorible terms, the produots of our fame, 3ur mines, our forests and our facto* riea. "Seoretary Boot has gone a step further than I propose to go in favor 3f a merchant marine. He oommlts ilmself to the ship subsidy idea. I lo not say that I am in favor of a . ihlp subsidy, but I will say that I im la favor of anything that will nrnnnra a merchant marina for the CJoited States." Mi. Bryan, whose subject principaly concerned the commercial interests :f the Mississippi Valley region, was ;be sole speaker at the evening Mellon. 'vial At a session of the resolutions oomntip. a proj.?! sal to endorse Seere* ar} B ot's scggeitlon for a ship mbtldy, p rticutarly for mall steamrrvto Scutb America, was adopted. There s a Itromg sentloaent In the Congress 'avoring Secretary Boot's suggestion. The crowd that greeted Mr. Bryan iras the largest of the Oonmss, lumbering 6,000 persons. Mr. Bryan laid hs felt friendly toward the oomnerclal Congress because it was the mly body of which he was ever preildent ' Mr. Bryan asked the adoption of a resolution endorsing the resolution icanlmously adopted by the Interparliamentary Union at its London union last July in favbr of interna* JoDal arbitration. Mr. Bryan asked that a resolution /. iffeoting trusts be passed as follows: "Resolved, That this Congress Is malterably opposed to private monopolies and, believing them indefenal- - | >le and Intolerable, favors the en'oroement of existing laws and the naotmennt of suoh new lawi as may )e necessary to protect Industry from ibe menace c Aired by the trusts.'1 Mr. Bryan said that he was glad ibat at last all people finally has oom? a be opposed to the giving and re* selving of rebates. He spoke of the eoent ~#*t-he Sugar Trust 'n* rnrt: fvfnv wiMVn attacked iha Sta; tlzd OU Oonap.ny, which, le deolarect, 4U uullw up nuoh of its lu-lness by operating in rebeatee. Sat legislation wu needed, ha uid, io> only to prevent railways from panting rebates, bat those other ireat concerns from watering their >took. f " , Shot Through a Window A dispatch from Johnston says that . * jommualty was shocked on Thursday irhen the news spread that a murder lad been oommltted and soon Mayor rurner aed Ohlef Derrick were on the oene and fouod tbat the six-ytar-old laughter of Bill Gomilllon a respeotible Defrro, who lives on the edge of owo, had been shot through a winlow, tbe ball penetrating near the eye ind eaustng instant daath. Two negroes were held in Jail. Kirk Prlnus ind Z .ck Oowles; out the lormer was (leased. In Juoe Oowles killed his wife's tinole and for thlsfaot she left llm and Is In Atlanta, leavtog her lttle girl In the oare or Bill Gomilion's wife. When Oowle3 wu tried it a recent oourt there %as a mis;rial and he was out on ball. Slnoe ihe abo'e was wrlttrn Kirk Primus lai boen released and Oowles carried ?jail. Stetmers Crushed, The stMmers Kaiser Wilhelm and Jrlnooo oolllded Chtrbnrt, ifranoe, on Wednesday. The thoek a deiorlbed as having been terrlfle, auslng a pmle among the paaseofen >n baaxd the two vessels. especially imong the immigrants. Oa the Drlnoo? three men and women were cllled, six women and ua?n Injured, ind five persons kno<. a overboard >qg arowuea, ui tuv iwu onuu?u he Kaiser Wllbelm Is said to hat* lustalaed the most damsg*. Four of .aecrawoftbe Kilser Wllhelm are eported to have b3?n killed and jwelve Injured, but the exact num? )er of killed and wounded ou that Tec wl ii not ranortied. /