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ESTABjpHED IST 18 TAKESiS LIFE. A Young Mawrom this State | CommijBuicIde in THE CITlBF MOBILE. ^Was Short in ?Accounts With fie | Company for|ffliich tie Worked, He Was Malar and His Death Vna Shock to Hij^ rieods. A dispatch jjiQ Mobile, Ala., to | The State saysE:Lward Carew Bice, : 33 years of agea. local society favor-1 ite and a promiun t club man, who es timated his frlacs.in Mobile by the "hundreds, connioted suicide some time Thursday xuprning in the office of the Virgii-jparolina Chemical e was the mana calibre Smith & the mean* selecti on and he took bis 'ter leaving a tele nsat Nmety-Six, ar this gave prac for suicide. Bice a chair where he e sent the bullet brain. Temple the office, was the dy. TUls was slaort Thursday morning, tones notified and f and Lacey were in and e fleets when ,ers arrived on the ? company, of wtc ging agent. I Wesson revolve: ? ?d by the you .life deliberate! gram advising S. 0., of -hissu Another let tically the re was found de was sitting wl crashing throu ? Qaarles, acier man to find th ly before 9 o'cl The police we: Detee wives MuJ charge of the newspaper re scene. Correspondent which was conven iently placed by. young Bice before taking his life ga? the probable reason (for committing siicide. His accounts e overdrawn ?d it is because of is that he to>k his own Ufe, al though he did nijt leave any message [to tbat effect b 5 placed the corres pondence betwee i c fficers of tbe com pany relative to his financial status in a position wh re this could be sur mised. After a tijorough investigation and Chief Bondeau, n charge of by the ng company. Edward Carew Bice e ic the manner se ct known, but that time early Thursday cefi by tbe fact tbat becoming rigid ana the flur beside tbe hly congealed. An s the fact that he oat and placed it on as found to be wet, at Mr. Bice enter g the heavy down ly before 6 o'clock The surroundings de was a deliberate Tay the deteotiv I the body was ta Boacbe undert Just what ti [ ended his exist leoted by him ; it was done so '"morning is evi his body was f; a pool of blood ? chair was thoxo ! -other evidence had taken off hi a table where 1 wbloh indicates ed the office du pour of rain sh Thursday morn ' .show that the s one. \ He could ha vi distance in vari ! made his wants ? as those who vl iJay morning pn his friends w; ! in financial tro stances of hiss Thursday morn was premedi shown by the f o young Bice plai table: "Mobile, this to H. T. C, Ed. Rice Thursday morn -Carolina Cnemi This told to the following 1 ?cember 27 tb, a bor, of tne sal1 Virginia-Caroli at Montgomer; the president had been sent gave the re this letter b ltion WLere it swering yours beg to advise t that the acco is over brawn 75. Among his i Carew Rice Bice, an appe plained but 1 To them thi blow and the Count for th to Mobile a Greenwood, his arrival many friend iSM he was red financial as s ways had he out own to his friends, d tbe office Th?rs aimed. Not one of w?re that he was le ur'.il the circum cise became known g. That bis suicide d is conclusively wing telegram which conspicuously on a ec 28ob. 1905. Send oan, Ninety-Six, S. und dead In effice g, Signed, Virginia Company.' " story of suicide and r, under date of Da dressed to E. A. Ta department of the a Chemical company, , Ala., and signed by ' the company, which o R oo by Mr. Tabor, on for the suicide, ng placed in pes ould be seen: "An f December 26 th, I t inclosed slip shown of E C. R'.cj, agent, tbe extent of $S68. imate friends Edward known as "Grit" t.ion wbich 1? not ex dicatss determination, suicide was a terrible were at a loss to ac cause. Young R ce came out tree years ago froi 0. A snort tima after ere he began to make and it was not long be favorite in the ranks of of Mobile. He was a very ember of the Manamas clubs and also of sever rganizitlons. He was a ng conversationalist and rapidly. ^vs at greenwood. from Greenwoo ? go the News was received here 5e death of Mr. Eiw.ird C lobile, Ala. The people of )d are Immeasurably shocked news, as Mr. Rice was for sntified with this city and her &ts in great degree. He was cue foity's most prominent business Iveral years ago, being a mem (the firm of nail & Rice. The iLcaw state that his body was in the offices of the Virginia (ina Coeraical company at Mo in whose employ he was at the of his death. No details were as to the cause of his death, and jieop'.e of this city and county are Wsiv awaiting further news, [mediately upon the raceip of the gam announcing his death Mr. C. irret of this city and Mr. HalT. 69. Sloan of Ninety-Six left for Mobile to escort tbe remains to this county. It was learned that tbe Masons of Mo bile have taken charge of the body. Mr. Bice being a prominent member of tha j order. The body will probab ly arrive here .next Saturday, and the interment will take place at Ninety Six on Sunday following. Prepara tions are being made by the Masonic lodge of this city to inter tbe remains with Masonic honors. Mr. Edward 0. Bice was about 33 years of age, and was a general favor ite in this city and county with every one with whom he came in contact. He was generally loved bv the youny people o' Greenwood, and bis death comes as a distinct shock to the people of this city. He was born at Ninety Six and is survived by two brothers, JameB Henry Bice, Jr., of Georgetown and Maner L. Rice, mayor of Ninety Six; a sister, Mrs. Hal T. Sloan of the same place, and his father and moth er, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Henry Rloe of Ninety-Six. Mr. R'c; for a number of years held a responsible position with the Edisto FhoBpbate company of Charleston and severed his conecfcion with that con cern to go into business in this city, forming a connection with Mr. W. P. Hall, under the firm name of Hall & Rice. He was closely identified wltn the business interests of Greenwood during the lr.a of the concern, and was a general favorite in social circles. He possessed a genial and whole-heart ed nature which made for him num bers of friends. A few years ago he went to Mobile, Ala., where he ac cepfced a position with the Virginia Carolina Chemie vi company as book keeper. He was a ShrlDer and a Knight of Pythias. SAVAGKSY IN MOSCOW. Bare Hints au-to Horrors Existing in the City. There are no signs yet that the end of civil war i i Moscow is in sight. Revolutionists are surprising the au thorities bv tbe determination which they have constantly shown since tha fighting began. A host of savage passions have been shown, not only by Cossacks, but by revolutionists as well, especially by women who are fighting in tbe ranks of revolutionists who have shown the greatest cour age. The number of casualties among the rebels has been decreased owing to a change in their taciics of fight ing from bouses Instead of from barri cades. The castaltles now number about 200 a day, while twenty-seven he-uses Iz the record destroyed by ar artlllery in one day. Two of the chief leaders of the Mos cow revolt have been arrested. The police discovered that agsneral upris ing and revolt had been planned to take place at SC. Petersburg in sup ports of the Moscow insurgents. Fol lowing the discovery many arrests were made and the movement in' St. Petersburg has been checked tempo rarily. Advices from Saratc ff tell of one instance of brutality on part of the Cossacks in the village of Uporori. A Cossack offioer demanded that peas ants should pay 250 roubles for a horse which had been killed accident ally. Tbe peasants replied that they were too poor and could not pay the amount asked. Tne officer then or dered Cossacks to fire on peasants, despite the appeal of victims on their knees that they be spared. Cossacks mutilated men and outsaged the wo men and practically destroyed the entire village. Miuv of tbe victims were thrown into wells by Cossacks. The total casualties numbered twenty eight killed and over a hundred wounded. . Advices from Moscow say the situa tion is graver than ever. Hostilities have spread to neighboring districts and peasants are responding to ap peals to arm themselves. A Rough Time. A ds3patcb from Galveston, Texas, says without food or water and with out scarcely ecough air to sustain life, Carl Joseph Kuhlcck, a young German stowaway. 16 years of age, after suffering indescribable tortures for a period of nearly 10 days, was rescued from his perilous position in a narrow space between sacks of cof fee in the lower hold of the Malloiy steamer Comal at 11 o'clock Thursday morning. He was imme ,(*,teiy con veyed to the John Saaly hospital where medical attention was given him. His chances for recovery arc considered good. He snys hia hoove is at 305 Columbia avenue, Jamaica, L. I. _ Sain of Joffjraon Humu Stayed. The old home of the late Joseph Jefferson, the actor, at Undeiciiff, near Ridgewood, N. J., will not be sedd under tbe hammer for a longtime if at ail. Chancellor Stevenson nas sustained the answer to the plea, made by council, for Mrs. Isabel E. Miller, who owns the property. Mrs. Miller, a distant relative of the Goulds, got the estate from Jefferson, who held a 815,000 mortgage on it. The case wnl oe fought in the courts. Wants It Drapned. President Roosevelt's attention hav ing been called to a dispatch from Baker City, Oregon, to the effect that a subscription was about to be started for wedding presents for Miss Alice. The president stated that while he deeply appreciated tbe evidencs of good will he turned nothing of the kind would be undertaken. In fact he wished particularly that the pro pose'' collection of funds should not be made. Ivan Into "Flyer." A horse attached to a bu?gy ran lutu the Pennsylvania 18 hour "llyer" at D?lpbos, Obio, Monday morning and Hanry Hornster aDd daughter, Rose, were instantly k'lled and Mrs. Barney Wahompoff, alsc a daughter of Mr. Hornster, was severely injur ed. ORANGE?UKG, I A WOMAN SPY. Hiss FmoUanikoff, a Young Russian lady of High Birth, Learns Many of the German Empe ror's iMilitaiy Secrete. She la Caught and Imprisoned. A dispatch from Barlin, Germany, says the sensational career of a spy, Miss Zinaida Smolianinoff, a Russian spy, has been cut short by a sentei ee of fifteen months' imprisonment at L9ipsia Her case demonstrates to what methods the European govern ments resort in order to ferret out each others' military secrets. Miss Smolianinoff was a typical twentieth century spy, pretty, dash ing, of high birth and good education. In St. Petersburg Miss Smolianioff was feted during one of two seasons as a society beauty. Suddenly, when she had attained her twentieth birch day, her father lost all his money and committed suicide. Her mother died shortly afterward and Miss Smoliani noff was left alone in the world with ou' a cent. She became a governess. The life, however, was irksome and humiliating to her. After a year of drudgery Miss Smo lianinoff met by chance a young offi cer of the Russian headquarters staff, who had formerly been one of her ad mirers and was genuinely distressed at her unhappiness. He suggested to her a career which would enable her to live in luxury?that she become a spy in the service c* the Russian gov ernment. He promised to use his in fluence at the war office to obtain em ployment for her. Miss Smolianinoff consented and was shortly afterward engaged as a spy. She was dispatched to Germany to learn as many military secrets as pos sible. Sue arrived at Berlin provided with exceptional letters of recommen dation, which, combined with her ap pearance and manners, ensblea her to achieve a great social success in the German capital. She appeared to have unlimited funds and drove about ij her'carriage and pair with liveried domestics, and maintained a gorgeous apartment in price -ly style in the most fashibionable street of Berlin. Her social connections gave her ex cellent od port unities. She bewitched s"ate officials an army officers into telling becrets which they ought to have guarded as jealously as their own lives. She was so adroit that her victims had not the slightest Idea of how they were being duped. She con tinued her opPr ions uncht cited for four veare. During this period she ascertained plans for the defense of Germany's eastern frontier against a possible Russian invasion, as well as the scheme of mobilization if Ger many oecime involved in a war with Russia. She obtained sketches of im portant fortifications and copies of weighty military documents. Pre cisely .how the achieved all this has not been revealed. Suspicion was first directed toward her by the suicide of a young offic it of brilliant-prospects, out of whom M:ss Smolianioff had wormed a most important military secret. He left a letter giving this as the cause of his self-destruotion. Tbe German au thorities closely watched Miss^Smoh anineff from that day. Af ?er several montbs they had sufficient evidence to justify her arrest. The trial at Leipsic was bebind closed doors, owing to tho nature of the military secrets discussed. It has transpired that Miss Smolianinoff received a salary of 115.000 a year and had communicated to Russia over fifty important military secrets. Had it been possible to prove this legally she would hardly have escaped with a smaller penalty than twenty years' penal servitude. She bad ensnared over 100 state officials and army offi cers and exploited them for her pur poses. Wnen she emerges from pris on in 15 months she will be expelled from Germany and prohibited from ever again entering the country. Ger man milit-.ry authorities regard her as the most dangerous and successful spy of recent times.' Beaten and Robbed. The Columbia Record says Mr. Dial Brazzel, a farmer living several miles north of the city on the Two Notch road, was beaten into Insensi bility and robbed Tnurbday night. Just how the affair occured Brazzel is not able to tell, but be says that he will investigate the assualt himself and will probably issue warrants in a few dayb. He says that he left the city Thursday rltrht about 8 o'c'ock and as his wagon had g me on ahead he found it necc-ssaxy to walk. A bout two miles out of the city a white man halted h?ra in the middle of the road and ordered him to throw up his hands. Brazzel started to resist and as he made a movement toward his pocket he was aealt a blow over the head with a broken ax handle and knocked senseless. When he came to a little later he found himself lying in a ditch beside tue ruad. His watch, a rather ceeap silver affair, valued at about 84, was gone and about 8;J in cash. Brazzel was not armed and he said tbat he only made a motion to his pocket in the hope of frightening the highwayman off. Burneil to Uaath. To be burned so that there was nothing to Identify him but buttons on his cloths was the fate of Dennle Bradley, aged 97 years in a tire on Sranton Street, Trenton, N. J , cn Cortetmas D*y Bradley had a room in an old barn. He was formerly well off, but lost his fortune in th? panic of 1891. Since tnen he has lived as he could. Christmas he wa the recipient of a bounty of his neigh bors, and had a llttl i Christmas tree which he had placed in a comer of his room. It is presumed that he lighted it and was taus burned to death. I S. C, WEDNESDAY, JAj t_ ! DEATH OF A HERO. The Old Georgia Veteran Who Captured the Engine General HAS (JONE TO REST. j During the Civil War He Was the Lead er of the Band that Ron Down and Captured the Famous Cap tain Andrews aad His Baad. Capt. William Allen Fuller, a prom inent pioneer citizen of Atlanta, and former conductor for the State road, who made himself famous during the war between the stateB byf recaptur ing the historic engine "General" and oauslng the execution of James J. An drews, and his raiders, passed away Thursday morniog at 3:25 o'clock at his late residence, 337 Washington street, Atlanta* The Augusta Chronicle says the death of this distinguished citizen and patriot of the Confederacy was caused by a malady of carbuncles, and he passed away after a five weeks' illness. When he died he was surrounded by the members of his family and his phy sicians. His famous recapture of the ' General" has given him a place not only in tbe history of Georgia and the South but the entire Union. Several histories have been written contain ing the details of this great feature of ? the war. Capt. Fuller, as conductor, took part in tbe following graphic story of the recapture of the Confederate engine, ??General:" In 1862 the Confederate line of de fense extended from Richmond, Va., to Corinth, Miss. Tbe line of railroad ran from Memphis to Richmond through Chattanooga to Atlanta and connected with divergent lines to Charleston, Savannah, Montgomery, Mobile and New Orleans. Capt. Andrews, in command of a body of Federal troops, planned to de stroy several bridges, cutting oil com munication between Chattanooga and tbe south, leaving Cnattanooga an easy prey to the Union army. A little company cf twenty-one re sponded to the call of Andrews, and a meeting for explanation of the details was held In tbe woods near Shelby viile, Tenn., April 7, 1862. After this the men broke up into hquads of three or four and made their way through the Confederate lines to Marietta, Ga., to meet Andrews, Nineteen of the men, two of them getting left, boarded a Western and Atlantic train at Marietta. Their real identity was disguised. The train con sisted of three empty box cars, be sides the passenger coaches. Tbe nineteen spies for the Federal forces immediately scattered themselves throughout tbe train. When Big Shanty was reached, which is seven miles north of Marlet-' ta, the flagman cried out: "Big Shan ty 1 Twenty minutes for breakfast!'' Every member of the train orew, most of the passengers, save tbe spies, to gether with Capt. Andrews, alighted. Andrews quietly directed Engineer Knight to uncouple the train back of the empty freight cars, thus providing quarter for bis party without alarm ing the pa-sengers. Then, as if he were conductor of the train, Andrews loaded the empty cars with his men. This done, Audrewa, William Knight, Wilson and Brown, all Federalists, mounted the engine and rolled away. One precaution, however, was omit ted. He failed to cut in twain tbe bell ccrd. When the engine pulled away with the box cars the cord snap ped and the engine bell rang aloud. But they were off. Along the way they tore up rails and cut telegram wires. According to Andrews' calculations, there was only one train likely to give him trouble?the southbound local freight?which, he knew, might be met at any point between Big Shanty and Kingston. He plac9d a red Hag to indicate that another train was fol lowin.. Tiiis was done to assist him in explanations that might be demand ed because he was running out of sche dule time. This train, helonging to the Confed erates, in the hands of enemies, puil t.d through Moons Station, where tools were taken from workmen v.ith which to tear up rails. The train passed through Acworch, Atlouna, Etoworth Reseca, Cartesvllle, Cxlhouu, Tunnel Hill, and finally Rmggold, wueie they were thwarted aDd wnere the "Gener al" was recaptured. As soon as the bell rang, while Cap tain Fuller and his men were eating, he looked from the window and saw the "General" moving away. Jumping from his chair, he pursued tbe enemy on foot for 2j miles, accompanied by Anthony Murphy, master mechanic of the Western and Atlantic railroad, now living in Atlanta, and one cf the few surviving members of this crew, and Jeff Cain, engineer. Beforehand he dispatched William Kandrick on horseback to Marietta to notify the Atlanta office. Reaching Moons Station on foot, Captain Fuller met Jack Bon, fore man cf a read gang, from whom he loarned that the fugitive train had passed there, carryiug about twenty five people. Capt. Fuller, obtaining an old time handcar, propelled by pohs, ran this car back to gather up Murphy and Ciiu, whom he had outsprmted and left oehind. Then they started on tue run after the spies?Fuller, with a handcar, and the Yankees with one of the best engines in service. The $A.URY 3, 1906. Yankees were running at the rate of twenty miles an hour. Captain Andrews and his raiders I succeeded in passing every road agent i by telling them that he and his men were Confederates and had orders to carry some powder to General Beaure gard, who was stationed to tho north. At every place where it was possible to do so wirft? were cut down to pre vent communication and the rails were torn up to prevent pursuit. Captain Fuller, with his poor ve hicle, but with every pulsa of the heart beating rapidly w.th patriot ism, made superhuman efforts to cap ture the engine. After be had gone several miles up the road he secured another engine, "Texas," whfcahad passed Andrews and his raiders, and continued pursuit with this. Captain Fuller and his men boarded the "Texas" and went on at a more equal pursuit of the spies. For miles he and the enemy ran on, but the "Texas" as if by magic, gained grad ually. Captain Andrews' two or three times stopped to get wood for the "General" and to scatter destruction in his path. These were fatal mis takes. When Rlnggold was reached Cap tain Andrews was compelled to stop and replenish his engine with wood and water. It had become exhausted and refused to go farther without a good supply of fuel. After restlessly and excitedly trying to make the ' 'General' move on, he and his party were thunderstruok by a shrill whis tle from the "Texas" as it bounded around a curve in full view of Captain Andrews and his men. Not before this time did Captain Andrews actu ally know that he was being pursued. As a last resort. Andrews, and his raiders conceived the Idea of reversing the "General" and causing it to meet the oncoming "Texas," but the lat ter engine still refused to move. All hope were g 3ne. Captain An drews and his men jumped from their engine and fled to the wuods. They almost reached tbe Federal lines, but all were captured in various places, including the two who were left at Marietta. Eight were executed In At lanta, Including Captain Andrews, eight escaped from prison and six were exchanged The eight were hanged near Oakland cemetery and Captain Andrews met bis fate off Peachtree road about two miles out from the central section of Atlanta. At BIngs'Old a monument has been erected to mark tbe spot of the recap ture of the "General. " On the monu ment is a tablet giving data as to tbe attempt to steal the engine. Another monument was erected in the city of Chattanooga in memory of the recapture of the "General." Randal W. McBryde, who has writ ten the "Historic General," cias&es Andrews as a hero who will live in history. Andrews would have follow ed school teaching if he could have ob tained a position, bu^., failing, enter ed the ranks of the Uaioa army. By authority of congress, each of tne survivors of the famous raid were pre sented medals for heroism. These were the first medals awarded for bravery by congress after the civil war The "General now stands in the union depot at Chattanooga as a silent spokesman of the days of 62. This engine was on exhibition at the World's Fair a Volcano in 1892, in Atlanta in 189o, ai.d at So. Louis in 1904. ItfAERCUVBaCAPA Watch D:>? Saves a Family From Perishing in the Flames. The Atlanta Journal says a family watch dog savad F. A. Blackledge, his wife and two little children from be ing burned to death in a fire Tuesday night which entirely destroyed their residence at 7 Pliant avenue, and con sumed tbelr household effects and clothing. The family was asleep when the flames broke out. The dog which was tied on the back porch began howling and scratching at the back door when be saw the flimes. Mrs. Blackledge who heard the dog'? strange noise, went out to see what was the matter when she found tbe house in flimes. She immediately gave the alarm and oth^r members of the family 11 ;d from the house In their night clothes. Just as the members of family left the house, the flames burned the rope which tied tbe dog on the back porch. The dog then dashed into the houae barking at the top of his voica, as if he wlsbed to awaken any one of the family who might st 11 be in danger. The dog sprang out of the burning house just a^t the roof lell in, and has not been seen since. The house is beyond the city !..re protection districts, and the builolng was in flames before tbe f imily knew anything of the danger. If It had not been for the warning of tbe d ig, there would have been little chance of es cape. The burning of the house has left tbe family destitute of any funds and clotbicg, and the members wjuld have suffered for clothing If it uad not been for the generosity of neighbors. Black ledge ha* secured a temporary home for himself and family at 73J South Boulevard, but unless the family can secure some assistance they will be In need of necessaries. The home of Joe Flynn, on Pliant avenue, was also badly damaged by the flames, but most of the furnishings were removed. Oldest Oddfellow'H y&irthday. John Wade of Sumner, la., who h\s tbe distinction of being the oldest member of the order of Oidfellows living, celebrated his S7su birthday Wednesday. Ha became a mumber of tue order in 1743, wneu the organiza tion was only a few years old. Mr. Wade is a saddler by profession, but uas devjeed himself to farming for many years. PROPOSED FOOTBALL RBFORM. O. mmIttoe Powerless to Take Fur* ther Immediate Action. The intercollegiate football rules committee after a prolonged discus-' sion at Philadelphia, Pa., Friday night, decided that its members had no power to amalgamate with the committee of seven appointed by the N iw York uni veraity conference with out first consulting their respective universities. The old committee will communicate with the. new commit tee as soon as possible. This decision r ~V* reached after a conference with the New York conference committee, at which the latter proposed to amal gamton of the committees to be known as the national rules commit tee. Subsequent to making its de cision, the oid committee invited the members of the new committee to j oin them in an informal discussion of suggested changes in rules which they accepted. The joint meeting continued until long after mid night. It was the intention of the original football rules committee to take up the suggestion made by its members at a meeting held there three weeks ago, but the programme was disarran ged by the action Thursday of the New York conference. There was much interest manifested as to what suggestions Harvard had to offer in the way of reform rules because of the conference Mr. Reid had with the President Roosevelt. Harvard is the only Institution represented on the old committee that has nob yet pre sented its ideas for eliminating the obj actionable features of the game. Whether Mr. Reid was prepared to present bis suggestion is not known. Brave Man Rewarded. As a reward for defending the p03t offlie at E nma, N. 0., four years ago, against four burglers, President Roosevelt has waived the olvil service regulations upon the recommendation of Postmaster General Oorteliou and promoted S. H. Alexander from a laborer to a clerkship in the depart ment. Not only has the brave North Oarolenlan been promoted but to ac centuate tho honor an official state ment was issued' which gives a full account of the deed. The attempted robbery took place on the night of FA^ruary 6, 1901, and the official ac cc it shows that Alexander, although of small stature, engaged in a desper ate struggle with tue men, one of whom shot him in the abdomen. Alex ander, however, continued to fight, and shot two men, seriously injuring them. He called for assistance and was found lying weak and faint in a pool of blood. The two accomplices who were waiting on the outside car ried away the wounded burglers to the nouse in which they ware arrest ed the same night. Two of them were hanged, February 26, 1902, while the other two received life sentences. Death of Dr, Taylor. Dr. B. W. Taylor, one of the mos prominent citizens of Columbia, and a distinguished physician of the State died this morning of heart failure caused from pneumonia. His exten sive local practice over so many years makes his death appear a personal loss *o more Citizens than that of any other man could bring about. He had an enviable war record, but as a phy sician his reputation stands. He was seventy-two years old. Dr. Taylor served throughout the civil war as a surgeon on Gen. Hampton's staff and was acting as chief surgeon at Fort Moultrie when Fort Sumter felL He was chairman of the State board of health at one time and also head of the board of regents of the State hos pital for the insane, a moug other of fices of trust and position. His final ly was that which gave to the city of Columbia t^e site upon which it is founded. Dr. Taylor had a reputa tion which extended well outside of his own State and his death will be deeply deplored by hundreds as it is by this community. Fatal 1'radical J.,ke. At Motre Dame, Ind., Louis Roqu ela of Colombia, South America, a student at Notre Dame university, Tnursday night shot and almost in stantly killed Claude A. Bagby of Dur ango, Col., when Bagby and several other students as a practical joke held up Roquela, mistaking him for another person. Several students planned a mimic hold-up of a friend, expecting him to pass a certain point, where they lay In wait. Rjquela cime along and the students, thinking him their victim, ordered him to hold up his hands. Instead, Roquela drew a re? volver and fired. The bullet struck Bagby near the heart and he died in five minutes. T?ey Are Uraiurui At a special meeting of the Confed erate veteraaacimp at Natchez, Miss., a committee of Confederate veterans of the camp was appointed to draft resolutions thanking President Roose velt for his recommendation for the nation to take care of Confederate graves and for the appointment of General Will T. Martin a Confederate major general of cavalry, as postmas ter of Natchez and Captain John Rus sell a one armed veteran, as collector of the port. The committse will re port on Janurary 8, 1906. Br< her Killed Sister. Mary Foretimlnio, aged 20 years, was instantly killed Monday by her brother, Cesaere, aged 25 years, at her home in Eist 104 jb .street, New York. Immediately af ser the shoot ing Cesaere jumped from a window to the street, and was so seriously hurt that he was unable to escape and was arrested and tiikan to a hespital. Lat er It was found that he was fatally in jured. It was learned that Cesaere shot his sister because she had deter mined to marry a man to whom he objected. $1.00 PEE ANNUM. THE SAD STORY Of a Poor Girl Who Starved to Death in the CITY OF NBWYOBK. Stricken With an Incurable: Disease, She Nursed Her Aged Aunt Until Sb: Died, and Then the Girl Herself Passed Away All Alone. A dispatch from New York says a Philadelphia undertaker went to the morgue and got the body of Mary Weeks, wbo was found dead at 5& Barrow street. He was acting under instructions from the young woman'fi relatives. He took the remains to Philadelphia for interment. The girl was found kneeling by her bed in the basement of the Barrow street house. She grasped in her dead tinsels a broken rosary and an old mildewed letter, describing a scene in the basement room where she cams to her lonely end. The letter read: "Spring had ripened into summer and the day was far spant when I again entered the happy basement. ? found Mrs. H. sitting behind her screen, reading her Bible. ^She arose and warmed my heart by her truly benignant Boiile, that threw a radiance scarcely of earth upon her time-worn features. They were only two or three articles of furniture left in the room. In the fireplace was a pile of old books and letters, vdth a broken jewelry box on top. An old copy of Shakespeare's plays lay open at "A Mtdsunmer Night's Dream." Mar? Weeks was twenty-five years t old. She came from Philadelphia not long ago to nurse her aunt, who was the widow of De Witt Waterman. The old house, which iias withstood the changes that have been sweeping over the neighborhood, was once Mrs. Waterman's poverty, but it had been alienated. She still retained ther priv ilege, however, of oooupylng the base merit, and there her niece took care of her for many weeks. The young woman, however, was ofilleted with consumption, and stu had been taking the open-air cure b?r fore she came to New York. At one time che became so weak that she had to give up the task of nursing her aunt and went to Bellevus Hospital for treatment. When she regained a little strength, however, she went back to Barrow street and took care of the old woman until she died, on Friday, De cember 15 Nobody seems to know how the young woman got along the succeed ing week. She was too ill to work, and it is believed that she had almost no miney. Mrs. Forshs.y, janitress-of.^ the house, which is now let out in ten-~^ ements, went to her rooms on Satur day to see how she was getting along. She says she found the sick girl sit ting on the side of the bed trying to restring the beads of her rosary, which had been broken. There were no sheets or blankets on the bed. The girl was crying, and Polly, a little rough-coated terler, was sitting on tbe floor looking up into her face. Mrs. Forsbay found out that both the dog and mistress were hun gry and had nothing to. eat. She ran to her rooms and brought them some food. She says she thinks Mary Weeks was too week to eat and gave all the food to the dog. Tuesday morning an old friend of Mr. Waterman sent for a portrait in oil of the dead man, which still hung on the wall of the front basement room. When Mr. Forshay and the messenger went to the room they found the young woman dead. Dr. Conkllng, of St. Vincent's hospital, said tuberculosis had caused death. People In the house say that: the end was at least accelerated by privations. The little dog was still in tbe dark, lonely room, where his mistress died. He whined from time to time, bub had not strength enough to make muoh noise. It is said that Mrs. Waterman and Mary Weeks wpre descendants to Capt. Abel Bradley, a notable of the Revolution, and tbat his daughter-in law, Charlotte Bradley, was ocoa known as "L'.dy Bountiful, cf Green wich village." DyiiiK Man Savos Sister. Possessed of scarcely enough strength to lift his head beoause of coming death from lung disease, Charles McKiernan, of No. 280 Tenth avenue, New York Thursday dragged himself from bed to aid In saving the lire of his sister, Mrs. Miry O'Leary, whose clothing was afire. Mrs O' Leary is In the hospital and may re cover. The shock probably will kill MoKiernan._ Dredger Blown Up. A dynamite cartridge, which failed to explode when Henderson's Point N. H., was blown up by tbe Govern meat last Summer, wase struck by the digger of one of the E;stern Dredging Company's dred gers Tuesday with the result that the craft was nearly sunk and several memhers of the crew slightly injured by being thrown against tbe machin ery. Killed by Rocket, A dispatch from Union says C!ar ancs Rochester fired a sky rocket ac cidentally at his friend, Sweet Thom as, killing him instantly. Both are whit.-, and the affair oecured at Za beJla, Union county. Toe 3ky rocket was unusally large and pierced Thom as' breast like au arrow, producing death in a few moments.