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PUBLISHED THREE Locked The Messenger Up and Rob Express Car MAKE THIER ESCAPE No One on the Train Knew of the Daring Robbery Until the Mes senger Was Gotten Out of the Box in Which He Had Been Locked by the Robbers. Train robbers on Tuesday night overpowered 'Express Messenger Thomas L. Hutto, on Southern train I No. 17, which passed Branchville lit tle before ?ight o'clock and which Is due in Augusta at half-past ten o'clock, and robbed the express safe of about $200, all the money that was in it. The robbers took noth ing else. The following particulars of the robbery we take from the Augusta Chronicle: The robbery occurred between Warrenville and Augusta. The thieves got the drop on the mes senger, knocked him senseless, tied his hands behind his back, and t'irew him into and locked him in a chest. They procured his keys and, at their leisure, ransacked the car. The messenger was liberated at the Union Station in Augusta. The blow with which he was felled was not severe. He was nearly suffocat ed from his close confinement in the chest. Otherwise he suffered r.o ill effects physically. Southern No. 17 makes up at Branchville. It's connections there are with Columbia and Charleston. It's express and mail are through. Ordinarily the train, for the South ern Express Company, carries $2,500 to $10,000 of currency. Tuesday night's packages were the. smallest in years. As stated, as luck had it, the shipments was not more than ap proximately $200. Thomas L. Hutto has been an ex press messenger four years. He lives at 208 Ellis street. He tells a ver; interesting story of the robbery. Hutto was sitting idly on a b3X?in his car?a compartment car, embrac ing mail and express service?as the train pulled out from Warrenville. The end door of the car?next the baggage car?was thrown, suddenly open and a man, his face hidden by a shabby mask of red flannel, pistol extended, ordered "hands up!" Hut to was daztd by the suddeness of it all, and made no move. "Hands up, I tell you!" was ordered by another voice, and a second man had entered face red-flanneled, pistol extended. Before Hutto cculd obey the rapid and fierce orders, and as he reached for his gun, which was in a tin box but a foot or so removed from him, he received a blow, presumably from the man who had entered the car first, and was rendered unconscious. But het regained consciousness in a flash?he is sure he was uncon scious but a moment. -.When him self again he found his hands grasp ed tightly behind his back. A pistol barrel was pressed hard against his spinal column. "Cry out, make any demonstration, and I will pull the trigger!" the '?obber told him. A package of baby clothing?an ex press shipment?was cut open and cords taken therefrom, with which the messenger was securely ti-d? hands behind back. There was in the car an empty express chest four feet wide, five feet long and 'hree feet deep. The robbers threw the helpless messenger into this chest and clasped it, but t did not lock it. They then, having secured his keys, went through the car and safe at tluir leisure. There Hutto remained until ex press helpers extricated him at the station in Augusta. The neuro helpers at the Union Station, when they proceeded to the car, as is customary, to remove the express to the station office, found the door of the car on tii" right side?which was closed?unlocked. The end door was locked. The door on the, left side of the car was open. Entering the car they heard vigor -ou? talking in 'the (express chest and liberated Hutto. who gave the firs? information of the robbery. Conductor .1. B. Metz declares ?hat he and no oth r man on tin- train had intimation of any thing wrong until after Hutto had been released. T!ie robbers left the train at Broad street, through the down-town side door of the car?the one found open at the station. From his chest prison Hutto could hear them plainly rattle silver. He could hear their voices, but no dis tinctly enough to distinguish what they were saying. He heard one of them call the other "Jim." His experience on the run enabled him to locate when the train reached the Hamberg yards, when it crossed \ the bridge and about when it reached i Broad. It was. then that the hum of j conversation ceased and Hutto kn> w j ; that the men had left the car. He j kicked the chesl in the hope of at tracting the attention of some one? } for h<* was about to suffocate?lint was not successful. He then sum- I moned all his strength and waited | til! the Union Station was reached, j when he renewed his vigorous kick- j ing. j On the floor of the express car | was found a piece of rubber tubing? such as is used on the air brake con- j nections?on one end of which was jASSaUiTr, j,, "If J TIMES A WEEK. DESTROY FLEET STARTING INVENTION TO PRO TECT GERMAN COAST. To Erect Great Electric Magnets to Draw Enemy's Vessels Within Reach of Forts. A dispatch from Berlin, Germany, says a startling novel invention, for the protection of the German coast, harbors and seaports, is receiving j the serious attention of the German j naval authorities. A German naval engineer, named Holimann, applied to the German patent office for a provisional patent for an invention which is intended to destroy any hostile fleet attempt ing to blockade or attack German ports. According to the inventor, stations must be erected along the coast and at the mouths of rivers, whch will be equipped with the strongest elec tric magnets that can be manufac tured. When these are in action it is claimed that they would exercise suf ficient attractive force to make irou clads and other protected vessels deviate from their course. These magnet stations are to situated where shallow and deep water al ternate. The hostile ships would be drawn into the shallow water where they would ground and lie helpless at the mercy of the guns of the forte. Although the invention smacks strongly of romance, yet is note worthy that competent authorities deem it of sufficient importance to be subjected to a thorough examina tion. In this connecton, it may be ad ded that electric cranes capable of lifting weights of five tons by mag netism are already in use at German harbors. FATAL FIGHT ABOUT A FENCE. Father and Son Killed in Row With Neighbors. At Richmond, Ind., a controversy over a line fence between two farms resulted in the killing of Alexander Meek and Raymond Meek, father and son, by Joel Railsback. Frank Railsback, Sr., and his son, Frank Railsback, Jr., were wounded by the Meeks. The Railsbacks began shipping away the posts. The Meeks went out to the fence where the Rails backs were at work. The elder Meek had a revolver and the son a shot gun. Both fired on the Railsbacks and Frank Railsback, Jr., fell with a wound in his knee. The elder Railsback was wounded in the ab domen by a shot from one barrel of the younger Meek's gun. The Railsbacks retreated, and Joel Railsback, another son, went to the house and returned with a double-barreled shotgun, fired point blank at the Meeks, killing bo'lh, shooting each of them in the head. Joel Railsback surrendered to the sheriff. , STUDYING CIVIL WAR BATTLES. Army Officers Going Over Virginia Battlefields. The fields of Seven Pines, Fair Oaks and Malvern Hill, which were fought over in tne Seven Days' bat tle in which Gen. McCIellan's army was driven back from Richmond, then the capital of the Confederate States, were traversed Monday by the 32 student officers from the war college at Washington who are en camped in Sherwood park, just out side Richmond. Tuesday they visit ed Cold Harbor, Mechanicsville, Frazer's Farm, Gaines' Mill and oth er secenes of sanguinary engage ments. The whole detachment of 32 officers and 4 2 cavelrymen will travel through Louisa Court House, Trevilian's Station and Oranue Court House to the theatre of Stonewall Jackson's famous Shenandoah Valley campaign. Capt. Stoll Dead. Capt. Samuel .M. Stoll, formerly of Kingstree, a Pullman car conductor, with headquarters at Savannah, died a few days ago at his old home. Arrested on Suspicion. Prince Russell, a white man of Greenville has been arrested suspect ed of making way with his daughter who has been missing several days. a brass coupling joint, tlutto had i been hit with th rubber hose. '1 In re | were no signs of the discharged red i flannel used for masks. No mer-1 chandise was disturbed, lluttos; pistol was found lying on top of ; the chest in whic h he was imprison ed. The police got on the case imme diately. Sergenal McArdle and Rey nold!* made examinations at th de pot. Lieutenant Britl summoned the detectives. No arrests have as yet been reported. Hinto says the first robber who enter; I the car was about 5 feet 1!. and slimly built. The second robber was of slight build and a lit tle taller than his companion. Fur ther than this, the messenger could give no description of the men. What happened, happened quickly. After Hutto was rendered senseless, he had no further opportunity to see his assailants. i OBANOEBUBG. STEAMSHIP LOST WAS SINKING WHEN CREW PUSHED OFF IN BOAT. They Reached Land After Three Days and Nights Hard AVork in Raging Seas. After having ?'v*n up all hope rf i ever seeing lani ?{."?'in, Capt. Arm son and his crew of five of the Brit ish steamer Roanoke, which went to pieces twenty-five miles off the Azores on March 2G, arrived in New York on the steamship Gollia. Loaded d wn with a cargo of salt from Santa Paolo, Spain, for St. John, N. B., the Roanoke ran into a hurricane when 150 miles off Fayal, which cut her canvas into shreds. A jury sail was rigged and the cyew managed to get the sinking vessel to a point twenty-five miles from the Azores when the seas car ried away the deck house. The only life-boat on the Roanoke had been so damaged by the storm that it was necessary to repair it with canvas. As the Roanoke settled Capt. Aronson and his men got under way in' a small boat. They rowed the twenty-five miles' into Fayal through raging seas, the work requiring three nights and three days. In that time they passed two steamers which did not reply to their flaring torches. At Fayal they were so exhausted that they were kept in the hospital until the Galiia touched there and brought them to New York. Killed in Machinery. Night Watchman Walter Mason was killed and an employe named Coon was fatally injured early Mon day morning by being caught in the machinery of the Union Tannery Company's acid plant, at Blue Ridge, Ga. MURDERED BY HER HUSBAND. Creeps Into Wife's Room and Cuts Her Throat. At Atlanta, Ga., Mrs. George B?rge was murdered early Monday by a man who crept to the side of her bed while she slept and cut her throat with a razor. Her husband is under arrest charged with the > killing. I A remarkable feature of the case is that the slayer, after killing the woman, picked up her 13-months old baby from its cradle and fervent ly kissed it before running from the room. It is alleged that B?rge, who had separated from his wife, threat ened her with violence if she did not give him custody of her baby. Throe other children of Mrs. B?rge?all step-children of B?rge? were asleep in the room at the time. Frank Britton, the eldest of these. I was slightly cut by his mother's slayer, whom he claims he recogniz ed as his step-father. B?rge was arrested at his boarding house. The police claimed that he had blood on his shirt sleeve, but he said it was merely dirt. Ho said that he I could prove an alibi. DECORATE SUICIDES' GRAVES. Program of Committee for Relief of Unemployed. The graves of suicides in the cem eteries about New York city will lie decorated on Memorial Day, May uy the .New 101k branch of the national committee ilor 'the relief of the unemployed, according to reso lutions adopted at a meeting at New York. J. Fads How. of St. Louis, presi dent of the organization, introduced the resolut ion. saying that to deco rate the graves of those who had died by their own hands as a result of failure to obtain employment or of hardships created by the industrial depression would do much to bring to the attention of those responsible the conditions of the unemployed. It was also planned to have a pa rade as a rival to that of the Grand Army Republic, and to go to the cem etery at the same tim , but* with the flowers they proposed to place on the grave of each suicide a bann? .? or placard caliing attention to the resolution of the association; DEVELOPS HYDROPHOBIA After Haling Been Bitten by a Dog Two Years.' Those people who claim not to I believe in hydrophobia will find it [ i liar.i to explain t!i>' following eas . j whicli is reported from Winston Sa lt ni. X. C:: Miss Maude Winiel, 1 G 1 years old. daughter of a Forsytli I ! farmer, who was bitten two years ago ! by a rabid dog and who for the past .'two days lias lieeu manifesting signs' of hydrophobia, was declur d Mon-I day by attending physicians to be1 suffering from that disease. It is said she can live but a few days. j Firemen Strike. News from Augusta says about ."ii freight firemen on the Georgia railroad struck .Monday night against the rules of the road giving seniori ty places to negro firemen. The 3U j negro firemen are at their places, j White firemen have been employed i and are in the places of the white strikers. 8, C, THURSDAY, Mi GOES FOR ROOT -We Don't Want His Advice Here; We Spurn It," DECLARED MR. MONEY "Let Him Go Hack to .'the Catskills I and, Like Rip Van |Vinkle, Sleep Twenty Veal's," Continues the Mississippi Senator, "Who Seemed to be Very Mad. In the senate one day last week Senator Root received one of the most scathing verbal drubbings ever delivered in that august body. He brought it down on his bead by a defense of Chairman ;Aldrich and his Finance Committee, which had been assailed by La Follette, who complained that he had difficulty in obtaining from the committee in formation to guide him in his course on the tariff bill. \ . When LaFolette had concluded Root, who although in the Senate less than six weeks, has tried to ride ov:r older members of the body, .began a general lecture i)t their tariff conduct. He said he did not care to hear declamation. He thought it undignified and dishon orable to get up and make speeches merely to make votes at home, know ing that no one here was listening. It was tiresome to him. "I, too, have listened," he contin ued, attempting to raise his voice to an oratorial pitch, "to the vituper ation heaped upon the chairmanJof the finance committee. It is utterly disgusting." Two minutes later he regretted that he had spoken. Senator Money ambled into the chamber as Root was finishing. "I subsi/be (to every word of praise given to that little cherub, Mr. Aldrich," Senator Money began. "I like his angelic face and I believe in his divine inspiration. Kot one man of us on this side so far as I know, thinks of him other than a gentleman. "But let me say to the Senator from New York thait we do not. care so much for his advice as he seems to think it necessary to give. We have not asked for it; we do not care for it; we spurn.it after it is given. He is not yet warm in his seat before he begins to tell me and the o.her senators whose serv ices have been long in this body what we should do. To be sure, he is a distinguished man. We all know it. The Republican press has said so. He himself does not de ny it." By this time Root, sitting twenty feet away, had his face buried in his hands. Senator Depew hurried to his sidas if to console him. By some sort of telepathy he seemed to know the worst was yet to come. It was. "For generations this body," went on Money, "has gone about the bus iness of the nation in its own p cu liar and yet simple way. We, the senators coming from their States elected by the will of their people (emphasizing 'the will.' and inferr ing that Root had been elected by one man. only), have fried in our humblest way to settle our differenc es in a way becoming to senators of a mighty r -public 1 have discussed situations and have delivered speech es which I shall continue to do be cause my countrymen sent me here to do so. "Yet this senator?nev;r before having server' n a legislative body ?within the first few days of his existance here, attempts to tell me how I shall proceed with my work." "The distinguished and very learn ed attorney from New England might well go bajfk to his home State and, like Rip Van Winkle, proceed to the Catskills and sleep for twenty years, and if he should come back he would know more then than apparently be knows at this moment," con cluded the Mississippian. "And he won't be missed, mean time," said Tillman. Root sal like a chastised child. But his punish mien t was not fin ish.-d. LaFolette rose as Money as) down and said: "I hare n ver been a corporation attorney, never attempted to pro tecl questionable concerns. But I wish to say here thai r shall speak on whatever subject and object to whatev r tax proposed in this body without consulting the Senator from New York. I care nothing for bis advice; I do care for the good will of the people who sent me here." LEAPS ? ROM TRAIN. Prisoner Makes Desperate Effort to Escape. Rob rt Sams, a white man who was being carried to Anderson for trial, jumped from a train on the Southern Railway near Greenville in an attempt to escape. The train was .-topped and Sams was found in an unconscious condition with face ;ui 1 nose broken. II arrived at Ander son in the Rfre of a physician. Iiis condition is very serious. Sams was arrested at Waynesville. N. (,'. Found in Rvier. Altmeyer, six years old. who was thought to be kidnapped, was found in the river at Newark. LT 1909. ONLY A JOKE THE ABSURDITY OF THE PRO TECTION SYSTEM Shown Up By Senator Tillninn in His Proposition to Tax All the People for One Man. The tea industry of the United States came up for a little discus sion in the senate a day or two ago, says Zach McGhee in his letter to The State. Dr. Shepherd of Sum merville, you know, is the tea in dustry. He has a tea farm upon which he grows 15,000 pounds of tea. Senator Tillman, in order to show the absurdity of the protection system, interrupted isome Republi can speaker and said: "Now just wait one minute?and as it is acknowledged by the senator that we could obtain $10,000,000 by a duty of 10 c?nts a pound on tea, and it would not increase the cost of tea at all?so these importers tell me?why do we not pick up that $10,000,000 and give protection to this industry down in South Caroli na, where there is one tea producer? There is a poor little pulling infant industry /but in [the 'piney woods at Sumruerville, begging the United States for help, and saying if tea can get a protection of 10 cents a pound it will'be the pioneer in in troducing into that Southern country a great industry." Mr. Hale?Let me say to the sena tor? Mr. Tillman?Will the senator vote for it, or will he have this com mittee report it favorably? I want to introduce the amendment. Now, I will join you. I want protection ? for that pulling infant in South Car olina?the tea industry?and we shall get $10,000,000 by it, too, Why not give me protection for this industry in South Carolina? Mr. Tillman?I have got a real industry. One man down there pro duces 15,000 pounds of tea. Mr. Hale?If that can become a prosperous and leading contributor to the industries of the United States as against foreign competition? never so dangerous as now and as it will be in the next 30 years?then the Republican party will adopt his bantling. 1 have no doubt of it. Mr. Tillman?I can only assure you that this gentleman, Dr. Shep herd, who has been experimenting with tea culture for 20 years, has reached that point where, like alj the others in this country who are seeking to increase their profits, wants enough protection to increase his price. He knows that as soon as he would get 10 cents per pound additional, it would raise the value of his tea. Some of us people in South Car olina have an idea that we of the South are great tea drinkers. That's because we do not really know much about the general run of people about us. Thos.1 of us who can trace our ancestry back to England or English immigrants, and do it with out the assistance of a professional genealogist or coat of arms manu facturer, usually drink tea. Many others of us who, while we can not trace our own families back, have been associated with those who can, alEo drink b- a. But hear what Senator McLaurin of Mississippi says: 'What do you pay for tea new?" asked Senator Hale. "I don't pay anything," said Mr. McLaurin. "I don't, buy tea; 1 buy coffee. We don't use tea very much in our part of the country." And that's a fact, true not only of Mississippi, but of the South gen erally. 1 have an idea that it is true to a larger extent, of the whole country, to even of New England, than is commonly supposed. But your Lodges, your Hales, your | Cranes, Aldriches, Fryes and so on do not know it. They 1) long to the tea drinking class, and know little about the lives of the great mass of people in their States. If Dr. Shepherd lived in New England, what Senaitor Hale says might be true, they might let him enjoy the special privilege of as sessing all the tea drinkers in Amer ica in order thai he might make I a profit, lint since he lives in South Carolina and most of th ? tea drink rs I are i:i New England, there is no j chance for him THERE WAS NO WOMAN Bui Only II I'eadi Haskei Hal Float- ! rug Along. I Th use !es.- bravery of Michael Conlin. of West ();?..? Hundred and Thirty-eighth street, m arly cost him I his life. I'm>in the Madison avenue, bridge over the Harlem river he saw a [teach bask I hat lion ting down the stream and believing there was a woman under it, he valiantly leap-? . d overboard and swam to the hat only to fin I ii untenanted. Bui his i [shoes and other clothing wer., sol heavy that he was unable to reach a dock una?:rj.-,t( d and had gone' : down several times when It was rescued by the police. He was sent to the Harlem hospital, where it was ' said that ho had b en almost : drowm ?!. Buried in Mine. a telegram from Negaunee, Mich., i says thai Victor Norse and Edgar! Ylonsen, miners, were buried alive in the Mary Charlotte mine, a large force of min? rs tunneled for the men all day and recovered the dead bodies. i TU KILLED HIMSELF MAJOR WILSON EXCUSED HIM SELF TO HIS FATHER. Locked Hini-self Within His Office Vault and Sent a Bullet Through I His Temple. A dispatch to the Columbia Record says Sumter was shocked Tuesday morning to hear that the Hon. Frank Wilson had killed himself. At 8:30 o'clock he was sitting in his office in the court house talking with his father on ordinary matters when he rose from his chair, stepped into his vault and pulled the inner door to. In a minute his father heard a pistol shot. It was a few minutes before the vault door could be open ed, and he was then found stretched on the flo'" with ball through his right temple. Death was in stantant .s. It has been noticed^ by his com panions in the court house lately that Major Wilson did not iseem himself. His father was with him yesterday and noticed that he was 30 nervous that he determined not to go to his home in the country, but spent the night with his son. He says that nothing in the major's manner or conversation Tuesday morning gave him any inti mation that he was contemplating the de?? he performed. It was un doubtedly a case of temporary insani ty. About a year ago Mrs. Wilson died, and Major Wilson has not been in good health for some time, and he evidently was depressed. Major Wilson was one of the se nior members of the Sumter bar and has always been prominent in public affairs since the days of '76, when he was a hard and efficient worker for Democracy. He has held nu merous public offices, among them being State senator, mayor of Sum ter, captain of the Sumter Light Infantry, and at the time of his death he was master in equity of this coun ty, which office he has held for sev eral years. He was a past grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, and was as popular throughout the State as he was at home. Major Wilson's death will be a source of sorrow to hundreds of friends, besides his sur viving relatives?his father, B. F. Wilson, his brother, Rev. A. F. Wilson and M. B. Wil son, and his sister, Mrs. Moultrie Reid, Mrs. H. L. Shaw and several other sisters. He had no children. Major. Wilson was 54 years of age. BURNED TO DEATH. Poured Oil on Smouldering Fire, in Stove From a Can. Special dispatch from Savannah to the Augusta Chronicle says Mrs. Robert Axt was so horribly burned at her house at 413 Thirty-second street, west, Tuesday afternoon, that her death followed shortly after s!|e had been removed to Park View San itarium. Mrs. Axt was found rolling in the sandy street in front of her home | beating in vain at the flames that burned every Vestige of clothing from her body. She had poured oil over a smould ering fire in a stove in her home and the resulting explosion scattered fire j over her. She ran into the street I .-?creaming and neighbors found her writhing on the ground in the death agony. Fatally Burned. At Greensboro, X. C, while start ing a fire with kerosene oil in a cooking stove at the home of H. B. Tatum a few days ago, a five-gallon can exploded, and Nellie Craves, a colored servant, was burned so badly that she died shortly afterward. The kitchen of the Tatum home was de ployed by fire. Voting Man Drowns. At Fitzgerald, Ga., Harry Stover, 17 year-old son of Rev. Stover, of the United Brethren church, waja drowned a few days ago while bath ing in a ere k. He was a member of the graduating class of the Fitz gerald high school, and would have received his diploma from Cove."or Smith Friday. Mains Goes to Prison. At Flushing, X. Y.. where he was tried, Capt. Peter C. Mains was .Mon day sentenc d to serve an Indeter- I minate sentence of from eight to six- J teen years in prison for the killing of William E. A mi is. The sent' nco ' rends. "At hard labor in the State's prison." Wild .Man Caught. A wild man has been captured in ihr? swamps near Prentiss, Miss.. I i who has shunned civilization for, live years. He refused to eal cooked I r->o.l when if was offered to him. j Me was identified as Marvin White head, whose relatives have longi searched for him. _ j Turned Them Loose. Gen. Sti essel and Admiral X< bo- 1 gatoff have been released from con finement in the fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul, by order of Emperor j Nicholas. The health of both men' has been affected by their confine-, ment. 0 O CENTS PEE COPY Congressman He!! ngsworth of Ohio State, THE MEMBERS LAUGH As They Listen to Editorial Charac terizations, Such us "Ass of the First Magnitude," "Contemptible Little "Whelp," "One of Sherman's Bums," Applied to Him. The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier says if David A. Hollingsworth, representative in congress from the 16th Ohio district, had searched during his whole life time for a better opportunity to turn upon himself the ridicule of his col leagues and Lo make himself the "butt" of the house, he could not have chosen a better time nor bet ter surroundings than he did. Buoyed up by the praise of his Ohio constituency, Mr. Hollingsworth Monday began an attack on the mem ory of Jefferson Davis and the good people of Mississippi, who have just placed on the battleship bearing ffiat name a silver service with Davis' likeness. Promptly at noon the Ohio congressman rose in his place with a handful of bitter, sting ing articles from Southern papers on his course in the Davis matter. That was the time he thought he would get even, but not being post ed in the parliamentary practice of the house, instead of making his speech first and inserting the ar ticles afterwards, he secured leave of the Speaker to insert these artie ies in the Congressional Record, tb?-n proceeded to answer them on a -o.'o ; of "personal privilege." Befora ht. had gotten well into his remarks, he was shut off as being out of order, only the pieces he had inserted in the Record remaining. However, the story is best told in the words of one of Washington's afternoon pa pers, which says: "An ass of the first magnitude," "perhaps one of Sherman's bums, who robbed defenceless men and wo men," "contemptible little whelp,'* "a political nonentity from Ohio," "a pale-faced luminary," "a pusillanimous pigmv from Ohio." These were some of *.he characteriza tions of Mr. Hollingsworth, of Ohio, in editorials which he had read in the house of lepresentativcs- Monday as the basis of a question of privi lege affecting his resolution recently offered protesting against the por trait of Jefferson Davis on the sil ver service to be presented to the battleship Mississippi. These edi torials accused him of "waving the bloody shirt," and appeared in the Daily Clarion-Ledger, of Jackson, Miss., April 30; The Southern Sen tinel, of Ripley, Miss., May G; the Shreveport Caucasion, of Shreve port, La., May 4, and one other pa per, name not given. The reading of the editorials caused a great com motion, and at times moved the members to great laughter. Finally Messrs-. Bartlett. of Geor gia, and Fitzgerald, of New York, objected to further "lumbering up the Record," and demanded that tho Speaker rule on the question of priv ilege. \In an elnjboralte opinion Speaker Cannon held that Mr. IIol lingsworth had not been attacke.1 in his representative capacity, and ho was not permitted to proceed fur ther. Lat r Mr. Hollingsworth sought unanimous consent first, to print a speech on the subject, or ? Ise to address the house for thirty minutes. Mr. Harrison, of New York, objected, whereupon. Mr. Hol lingsworth wanted the Speaker to tell him why the objection was made. "The chair cannot tell," said tho Speaker suavely, "what moved the gentleman to object, because he la not a mind reader." This" s.^Uy convulsed the house with laughter. Interest in the proceeding was h ightened by. the [act that Mr. Har rison's father. Burton Harrison, was secretary to Jefferson Davis during the war. ST 11.1. HANGING THEM. Turkish Soldiers Executed for Kill ing Officers. The young Turks is certainly tak ing revenge on their enemies. The executions of tho soldiers of the old Sultan goes on apace. Five more men w. re hanged .Monday morning in front of the building of the Par liament opposite the Mosque of St. Sophie, in Statnboul. They had been fell lid guilty by court martial of complicity in the murder of their officers in the revolotlonary outbreak of April 1_. <.'en. Boyd Belter. Monday afternoon Adjutant Gen eral .). ('. Boyd left for his home iu Columbia, after vrl.ng s ve \i' days at Aiken, sujfering from an a* tack of apoplexy, having been strick en Friday afternoon. His recovery is rapid and Dr. T. G. Crofi feels confident of a complete recovery. They .Marry Young. Prince Jeassti, heir apparent of the Abyssinian thront;, 13 years old, was married a few days ago to a princess 7 years old.