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-CRO0XINI CONI)EMNEI) ITiS SAID HIS DEATH WAS ORDERED BY THE CLAN-NA-iAEL. He Was Found Guilty on a Secret Trial of Betraying the Irish Cause-No Hear ing Was Given Him-Le Caron Was His Aceuser-Other Men Were Also Sen tence d to Death-Agents Sent from Other Cities to Carry Out the Murderous 3Deeree. CHIcAGO, May 26.-The police have been put in possession of startling facts cQncerning Dr. Cronin's murder. It has been clearly shown by the dead man's friends that his removal was ordered by a committee representing the Clan-na-Gael society. Charges of traitorous conduct were preferred against him at a meeting of the Clan-na-Gael Camp. He was found guilty and his death was ordered. The charge was based on the statement of the British spy Le Caron that there were four more spies in America. When Le Caron made that statement on the stand before the Parnell Commis sion he was ordered to give the names of the spies. He said he dared not do it, because if they were known they would be murdered. Presiding Jlistice Hannan then took him into an ante room, and in the pres ence of Sir Richard Webster, the Attor ney General who is conducting the pros ecution, and Sir Charles Russell, Par nell's attorney, Le Caron gave the names. Within forty-eight hours after this news was cabled from London nearly every Clan-na-Gael camp in America had met and passed resolutions declar ing in favor ef a rigid hunt for the four spies. Suspicion, justly or unjustly, was pointed at Dr. Cronin. A committee was appointed to try him. He was convicted without having a chance to make a defense, and his as sssinse-wre brought here iro cities to carry out the mandate of the conmitlee. The latter were chosen by secret ballot. Positively nothing is known of the evi dence that was produced to bring about the conviction, but it is said on the best authority that it was furnished by men who were unfriendly to Dr. Cronin. It consisted of telegrams, letters and afidavits. It see ned almost overwhelming, and Cronin was declared a traitor. His deathxwas ordered under the clause in the Clan-na-Gael by laws which ;says tha: a man can be "removed" for trait t, us conduct. The - word "removed" simply means death. Cronin, his friends say, was not aware of his trial and conviction. He had expected for years that his enemies F would one day attempt to kill him, but when the trial finally took place he had noiinfimation of it. For- y nine months previous to his death sentence was signed 'bas been followed night and day by a detective whom his friends had em ployed to protect him against surprise. Cronin, however, was not aware of this precaution, because the men who were mere instrumental in getting the body guard did not care to alarm him - by telling him what they had done. The detective would have been on his trail . mnight he was murdered had he not 1ie exhausted several'weeks before. There are mnani'patriotic Irisbmen in -Chicago who are not menbers of secret Ssocieties, but who are thoroughly ac~ Squainted with all the facts of Dr. Cro -nin's career in this city. These men Sare determined that the murderous con 5spiracy shall be fully exposed, and that the me~n who hatched the plot as them have undertaken to furnish the police with all the evidence they can fm hd, and the services they have ren Sdered f~ws far have been of incalculable .imodifanee. tiasetdthat the murderous con e Cronin's death had not his mutilated Abody been found. There were other 3''rshmen on the condemned list, and Stiywould all have shared Cronin's fate Sbdthe chance to dispose of them safely arisen. SIt is asserted that W. J. Hynes, the wellknown attorney, Father Gleason, Captain I. P. O'Connor, John Devoy, and two others had been tried, con ~ Yceand their death sentences signed. ANALLEGED CONF'ESSION. ~~P.~a~vanSaid to Have Made a Clean oueat of the Conspiracy. Jmcaso, May 28.-The Times in a teedition has the following: ek 0. Sullivan, an iceman, has the veil of the conspiracy. He bas made a full confession, and has 'giwen the police the names of every one Whe 'kew that was implicated in the i.murder of Dr. Cronin. &- Sullivan was neatly trapped. Day ~ fter day he has been subjected to the Squestioning of officers. Day after day h e lied. But no liar lives who, ques Stioned by different men at different u-anweave a woof of falsehood so st4rongly as to make it appear to be truth's fabric. ~The ice man did not know that on the >very night that Dr. Cronin was mur 'dered the police took possession of the avenue. -But such was the c. The police pumped Sullivan ls Thursday. He contradicted himself frequently Then they told him their susoicions and gave him enough truth to show that they knew more than he thought they did. The next day Sulli van changed his tune, and more contra diections~ followed. This lying continued *until yesterday. Then he decided to Stell the truth ~and by so doing to save himself from the fate that surely awaits the slavers of Dr. Cronin. He notified .-Captain Schaack of this resolution. -At 11 o'clock yesterday morning Sullh van was taken into Captain Wing's pri vate office. He was confronted by Capt. Schaaek and Lieut. Schuttler. There was no stenographer present. The oflg -cers would not have one present. They did not dare to trust to the discretion of a clerk. Schaack and Schuttler took long hand notes of the confession. It took many hoars to teldl the story. From 11:30 o'clock in the morning until 6 in the evening they talked. But every- aw ful detail of the crime was revealed. Finally the story was ended, and Sulli van fell back in his chair exhausted. Mayor Boldenweek of Lake View, who know's Sullivan and bad great influence -with him, was called in during the after noon and took part in the conference. Nayor Boldenweck said Sullivan to make 3a clean 'breastaf it. --It will all be ~ way," said the Mayor, ssake don't keep back a Sulvntook his friend's advice. He confessed- that he had known Dan Coughlin for many years. instead of having made his acquaintance shortly after the murder. The ice man admitted that he was a member ot ~the Clan-na Gael in good standing, and was present at Lincoln Hall. on the night of March 22, when Dr. Cronia officiated at the initiation of several new members of the order. The prisoner said he was for merly~ a stret car conductor, and that Whalen, his brother-in-law, who lives with him, is a street car conductor now. Coughlin is also a street car employee, employ of the North Side Street Car Company. Sullivan naturally became acquainted with many detectives and policemen, especially those on the North Side. This was one of the facts brought to Sullivan's notice -to disprove his statement that he was unacquainted with any officers -that caused him to break down. Sulliein said that he had worked in the Northern mines of Michigan ana at H1aneock, and became acquainted with relatives of Detective Coughlin. Sullivan revealed the whole plot and the names of all those connected with the crime. Mayor Boldenweck said last night that the statement was of the most startling nature. "-It implicates many -but I must not talk." Several sensational arrests may be ex Dected to day. THE FOREGOtNG STORY PRONOUNCED FALSE. CHICAGO, May 28.-Mayor Boldenweekl of Lake View was seen this morning by a reporter and was asked for a contirma tion of the published statement 'o the effect that the iceman. P. 0. Sullivan, had made a full coniession of the plot I to kill Dr. Cronin and of the manner it which it was carried out. The Mayoi declared that it was not true. THE CORONER'S INQUEST. CHICAGO. May 28.-Coroner Herts con vened his jury at 10 o'clock this morn ing, and before taking testimony in the case took it out to Lake View to examinm the Carlson cottage, in which the mur der is supposed to have been committed. After 11 o'clock P. 0. Sullivan wa. brought from the Lake View station be fore Justice Kersten, at East Chicagc avenue, and held without bail until Jun( 10. A mittimus was made out for hi: committal and he was taken to the County jail. Frank Woodruff. a horse thief, was brought before Judge Williamson thi; morning to plead to the charge of lar ceny as bailee. He entered a plea of not guilty. and was taken back to jail. Woodruff is the man who says he carried a body in a wagon to Lincoln Park or the night of Cronin's disappearance. ccS 1N ATE DR. CRONI'. jCHICAGO. May ~ ~ w has the following: Detective Robert Bruce, who has beer conducting a private agency in this city, walked into Lieut. Horace Elliott's offic this morning and said that severa months ago Alderman McCormick of fered him $1,100 to kill Dr. Cronin. Bruce, who has just returned from a three months' stay in Texas, says thal McCormick paid him $100 in advanct and agreed to pay the remaining $1,000 when the job was done. Bruce declare: that McCormick told him to feign sick ness in his office and then send for Dr. Cronin and kill him. Bruce says h( took the $100, spent it for liquor, anc never made a move toward carrying ou the contract. Bruce bears a rather un savoiy reputation, and the police do nol place all the reliance in the world in hi: story. He has been in numerous scrape in this city. CHICAGO, May 29.-The testimony a elicited before the grand jury in th< Cronin case yesterday was not only ver: important, but thorough. Each an< every witness summoned was pu through a series of questions such a! called up their remembrance of fact: from the greatest to the smallest in im portance. The chief witness was Milkman Mertes Said he: "1 passed the Carlson cottag< on the night of the murder. I saw v Lbuggy containing two men and a whiti horse drive up to the door. The mai seated on the left jumped from his sea hastily and ran up the steps. He carnie< inside the hallway. At the instan1 the man stepped inside the door the man -n the buggy whipped up and drovt rapidly to North street, where he went t< the West and was lost to sight. I has been driving past the cottage when] saw the man in the buggy get ou1 and run up the steps and the buggy drive away. After attending to my business at. the grocery near by I re turned over the same road past the cot tage on my wiy home. This was per haps thirty-three minutes. I saw a lighs in the cottage and heard a hammering or smashing sound. ft was plainly evidgnt from the above testimony that the man who ran rapidly up the stait way was Dr. Cronin, intent on rendering s'uccorto some dying man. The next witness was Carlson, Sr., the owner of the cottage. '"When tht man who called himself Frank Willian rented my cottage, March 20. I noticed that he went over and talked to Sulli van, the ice man. He apparently talkec familiarly with him. As the -20th o: April approached and rent day was coming uear, I began to think it strange that my tenant did not occupy the .pre mises.' I wanted a reliable tenant. Seeing that the man had talked witi Sullivan, I stepped over and spoke o1 his queer conduct in not living in tht house he had rented, and adde< that I felt -somewhat anxious about my rent ansi the permanency of the tenanit. 'He's all right,' said Mr. Slivan to me. 'He will pay you all right enough when the month is up. Mr. Sullivan at first denied that he evei saw the man." The connection of Iceman Sullivar with the Cronin mystery and thbe cause of his arrest and detention areferte made plainly a ~ Youngwas the next witness fordL te. "I was present when the furniture was brought to the cottage, two days after its rental, March 22. Twc men, calling themselves Willhaos, urn oled the truck. The driver remained seaed. He did not handle the goods. I casually stepped up to the driver and discovered that he was a Swede. spoke to 11im in the language, and he told me that he had brought the furni ture from 117 Clark street." The story of the men who rented the cottage, having formerly roomed at 117 Clark street. where the furniture was taken by A. HI. Revall & Co.. is thus verified. The next witness was one of import. ance She was young Mrs. Carlson, and was attired in deep black, with a heavy mourning veil covering her face. Said she: "I visited my mother-in-law March 20 Whileat this home--her 'cottage, which sits in rear of the fatal cottage a man knocked at the door and eiitered. ie came from the back part of the pre mises, in the vicinity of Sullivan's barn or house. He said 'he desired to see the cottage, which was for rent. Old Mr. Carlson took him over and showed him, about the place. They returned., and the man said he would take the cottage, at the same time pro ducing $12, the amount of the first month's rent. He gave his name as Frank Williams While the receipt for the money was being made out, young IMr. Carlson asked Mr. Williams what his business, c iling or profession was. This did not suit Williams, for he looked sullenly at his questioner and at all of us and then, lowering his eyes, said: "I .am employed down town." I remarked shortly after he left that he seemed mad at thle que-stion. When he departed he did not go to the front toward Ashland avenue, but started ever towards Sullivan's. He seemed anxious to get out of the house." The description given by Mrs. Carlson tallies ver'v clesely with that given by Woodruff 'of the m'an he called King, and who he said gave him the trunk hauling r. and Mrs Conklin, at whose honu Dr. Cronin boarded, were the next wit nesses. They told how Dr. Cronin was driven away' in a buggy with a white horse. According to a morning paper, there appear to be more in the story which Detective Coughlin told about the con nection of .the man whom he called Thomas Smith from Houghton. Mich., with the Cronin case than has been supposed. The man calls himself Willard Smith. Notes of Coughlin's statement to Mayor Ciezier were produced before the grand jury yester day, and they placed Smi.h iu an ugly po sition. His name Willard is no: a bap tismal one. It is one under which he was known in Chicago. He visited the East Chicago avenue station to inquire for Coughlin. Coughlin and himself immediately established intimate rela tions. Smith really paid $3 to Coughlin as pay.nent for the use of a buggy given on Coughlin's recommendation. This is established by the testimony of the desk sergeant at the station. Smith has re cently been keeping company with a somewhat frolicsome woman at a certain resort here. The same young woman is a friend of a Pinkerton detective. She has given the detective some valuable pointers in reference to Smith. - Smith shaved off his heavy coat of beard the day after the Cronin murder. The bar ber who did the shaving has given his testimony. Smith threw away his old slouch hat the same day. He bought a new one. that which he now wears. The hatter has been discovered and can be produced if necessary. The intimntion in several morning papers thaw Wilard J. Smith may possibly know something more of the Cronin case than is yet suspected brought that gentleman into the city this morning from Riverside. He went before Chief Hubbard, and after again denying any complicity in the murder. at the suggestion of the chief he visited the jail and Detective Coughlin was brought from his cell. The suspicion against Smith rests on the fact s name is Smith, tha ' originally from Ha r - - e ., and that he does e a very straight account of his life in this city. -'Hello, Willard," said Coughlin, when he was confronted by Smith. "Hello. Dan," replied Smith. "Is this the Smith you meant when you stated that the buggy you ordered at Dinan's was for Tom Smith of Hancock. Mich.; an old friend who had since gone to New Mexico?" asked Chief Hubbard. "It is not," said Coughlin. He affirmed this statement, and the Chief said to Smith: "I guess this ought to settle it." Smith is not under arrest. Coroner Herts adjourned the Cronin inouest until Monday morning next. No evidence was heard. The adjourn ment was taken at the suggestion of State's Attorney Longenecker, who was of the opinion that the takiy of evi dence in public might hamper the police > in their work of investigating clues. A special from South Bend, Ind., says: Millard Williams of this city was ar rested Monday night, near Chain Lakes, where he had been fishing. He is sus pected of being the person who drove the rig containing the remains of the murdered Dr. Cronin. Williams is a ngive of this city, but for several months past, until the day following the disap pearance of Cronin, he has been living in Chicago. On the day of Cronin's dis appearance he returned, and it is said he departed from Chicago so suddenly that all his effects were left behind. He denies all knowledge of the crime. A morning paper publishes a long story of the investigation of one of its re porters in Toronto. The point sought to be established is the connection be tween Charles Long. the reporter who sent out dispatches alleging that be had seen and talked with Cronin in Toronto, and W. J. Starkey. a Chicago lawyer, wh been in Toronto for a year.gor ninoeaugitive Tr6diiisice, cfli-ged with jury bribing. The pape; says: 'Proof is conclusive that Starkey sup plied Charles Long with the cue and materials for the latter's reports of Cro nin s presence in Canada and the inter views with him. Dr. Cronin's Eemarkable Prophecy. PmuLDFLPSA, May 26. -Friends of Dr. Cronin made public to-day a curi ous statement, drawil up by Dr. Cronin himself eighteen months ago, and sent out by him to guide his friends in ease he shiould suffer from attacks on his char ater or life. In it he related a series of incidents tending to prove that Sul livan, William S:arkey, David Callahan, C. M. Hardy and A. D. Williston were engaged in a conspiracy to injure h in some way. Williston is stenograph br in the office of Windus & Sullivan. They started a rumor that Dr. Cronin had been killed by or on account of a woman, and when Dr. Cronin ran it down, he found that it came from a sa loon kept by the father of Annie Mur phy, the woman who misled the police recently by saying that she had seen Dr. Cronin on a street car on the nmght he is now known to save been murdered. David Callahan is the New Haven man who, while Cronin's fate was in doubt, elped to mystify matters by saying that he had gone to Europe. The statement was in the form of an interview, and covers twelve printed pages. At the close the reporter, refer ring to the number of societies to which Dr. Cronin belonged, said: "Your funeral will be largely at tended.". "Yes," responded Dr. ' r , '"nd the cause of death '- -e extensively investi ' . crds that now seem ~pro'phetic. Shocking Death of a Deaf Mute. WINNsIoRo. May 30.-[Special to The Register.]3-Wilkes Starke, a negro man, while walking on the track of the C., C. & A. R. R. this morning, was run over and instantly killed. He was both deaf and dumb.' The accident happened while he was on his way to the cotton field. His back was to the traia, which was backing down to the tank for water. The engineer saw him and gave the signal of danger, but he paid no attention to it, and still kept the track. The engineer, not- thinking anything wrong, did not try to stop the train until it was too late to save his life. His body was dragged about 30 yards. Both legs were cut off and his head was ernshed in and one shoulder torn away from the body, which was otherwise fearfuly maugied. Awrested at the Picnic. It will be remembered that during the early part of the last year Miss Florence Little of Gaffney City was charged with marrylr.g Mr. Gus Mintz of Blacks burg, and shortly afterwards again marrying Dr. Atkinson of Chester. This created quite a sensation at the time, and neither man regarded her as his wife. Later on she effected a Ireconciliation with Dr. Atkinson, and has been living with him very happily at Yorkville. On Tuesday she went to Blaksburg on the picnic escursion, and while there she was arrested on a war rant sworn out by Mintz charging her with bigamy. She appeared before the Trial Justice, waived a preliminary hear ing and gave bond in the sum of $500 for her appearance at Court. The war rant was served on the lady while she. was in the midst of the picnic party, and we understand that this action created a great deal of indignation. J ork Enterpjrise. Peace Prevails in Samoa. WASHINGTON. May 28.-Admiral Kim berlev reports to the Navy Department, under date of Auckland, May t27: "The ISamoan natives are disbanding. Peace FORETOLD HER HUSBAND'S DEATH A Railroad Man's Wife Warns Him of ( His Impending Doom. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 26 -Mrs. George B. Davis, living at Uwchlan, Chester County, wrote a week ago to her husband, a young brakeman on the Pennsylvania Railroad, a letter in which she said :-"You will surely fall off your train and be killed if you don't stop drinking." Davis's body, mangled almost beyond recognition, was found lying along the track at Fortieth street this morning. In a pocket in a remnant of his coat was found a pathetic letter from his wife, from which it was learned that he left his native village two months. ago to get work on the railroad. One of the Coroner's messengers went down to Uwehlan in the afternoon and gently broke the news to- tbe widow. She was overcome and became hysterical, and the children frantically appealed to the messenger to "bring poppy home." THE SAMOAN CONFERENCE. Negotiations Progressing Satisfactorily to All Concerned. BERLIN, May 30.-The Samoan con ference yesterday discussed the harbor rights of the United- States in Samoa and the conditions under which mer chandise may be imported. The inten tion is to allow the Samoans all possible facilities. The conference also settled the matter of Germany's demand on Samoa for indemmity. The American commissioners are awaiting instructions from the Washington -government. They expect them next week. The com missioners will not sign the conyention until they are received. Laura Brigdman. Laura Dewey Bridgman's death at the South Boston Asylum. in the 59th year of her ag;e. whlreh .v.omrr lax FniI2._,a, e . when two years of age she bad an attack of scarlet fever, which destroyed her senses of sight and hearing and greatly im paired those of taste and smell. The wlreadful disease so shattered her physi cal health that it was two years after the attack before she was able to spend a whole day out of bed. At the age of eight years Dr. S. G. Howe undertook her education. She had only the sense of touch through which to receive instruction, and had to be taught the names of objects by means of raised letters. By degrees she learned to read the books printed in raised letters for the blind and to write. In the early stages of her instruction the acquisition of every fresh idea afforded her un bounded satisfaction, and her pursuit of knowledge was indefatigable. She became so dexterous in the use of the sign language that she could convey her meanings too quickly for the apprehen sion of any but experts. Her sense of touch was marvelously devel oped. She learned to sew and make nearly all her own clothing, as well as to read and write. Although light and darkness were the same to her sight, she could distinguish and would salate any of her acquaintances while passing them in the corridors of the institution where she spent fifty-two years. She enjoyed life as much as most persons do, al though she could neither see nor speak nor hear. The patience and skill which her benefactor and friend, Dr. Howe, exercised in training the single sense of feeling to such results as we see in this cultivated, intelligent and happy woman is one of the miracles of our times. - He began an almost hopeless task, but was rewarded from day to day by the deve.l opment of a latent intelligence which fully responded to his greatest expecta tions and furnished the example of a long life of usefulaess and happincss brought out of the depths of profound affiction. Dr. Howe had intended to strction, in the belef that her experi ence would throw sorme light on the question of innate religious ideas, but before the experiment was completed some one having temporary charge of her in his absence conveyed the ideas of a revealed religion to her mind, and thus destroyed the expectation of a revelation from her on natural religion. An Exte'nsive Tannery Burned., ALmsADaRI, Va., May 30.-Shortly after midnight fire broke out in tbe engine room of the extensive tannery of C. C. Smoot & Sons, and before the flames could be subdued the entire structure, covering a square of ground, was destroyed, .together with a large quantity of leather, hides, etc. The establishment was one of the largest and most complete in the South, and the buildings were principally of brick. The loss, which is not yet fully ascer taned, is heavy and partially covered by insurance. Accident on a Race Course. 1 CHICAGO, May 29.-The races at West Side park yesterday afternoon were attended by a severe accident. In the fourth r'ace, in which there was anI unusually large field of horses, Saratoga1 fell and broke his leg. His jockey, thei veteran Enoch Turner, was struck by one of the other heroes and sustained injuries from which it is feared he cannot recover. Saratoga, who wr valued at $1,000,_ aed. A ~ naeHugged the Baby. WnLLs PoL\.vr Texas, May 28.-A ladyi near here was busy about the house1 when she beard her infant, whom she had left on a pallet on the porch. make< a peculiar noise. She hastened to her babe and was horrifiedt to see a long, poisonous snake loosely coiled about the child with its head in the baby's lap, looking straight into the child's face. The mother with one frantic movement jerked the infant out of the snake's coil. The reptile fell and ran under the floori where it was dispatched by the lady: soon afterward by pouring a kettle of < hot water through the open cracks of the floor. The Cronin Mystery.3 CHICAGo, May 31.-It is believed that the man "Mack." who is under arresti for supposed complicity in the Cronin murder, is one of the Williams brothers, who hired the Carlson cottage in which, the deed was tdone. He answers very closely to the description of the man who <drove the buggy with a white horse. He is known to the police as Wil liams, but his identity as one of the Williams brothers remains to be estab lished. Alexander Cheats the Gallows. T. P. Alexander, the wife murderer, who was to have been hanged last Friday, May 24th, but was granted a respite by Governor Richardson until June 28th on account of ill health, died in jail at Pickens on Thursday. He was eating and died suddenly. Special Weate Bul11etin. WAsHINGTON, May 30.i.Special weather bulletin: Rain will prevail in New England, the lower Lake region. Southern Michigan and thence South- ~ ward to the South Atlantic and East Gulf coast, with severe local storms in the Middle, South Atlantic, East Gulf States and the Ohio Valley. followed by cooler weather on the Atlantic coast on Friday. Warmer and fair weather is in- ~ dicated for the States West of the Mis- s sissippi River. Died from Yellow Fever at Sea. C QrEBEc, May 28.-The Norwegian i bark Premier, from Rio Janeiro, har f been detained at quarantine for fumiga- a tion. Two of her crew died from yellow bi fever. durin the voenand were buried il A SENSATION IN ANDERSON. M. ,ol. Joseph W. Trowbridge, a Prominent Business Man, Arrested Upon a Charge of Swindling. ANDERSON, May 28. -[Special' to The Negister. ]-The failure of Col. Joseph ,. Trowbridge, a merchant broker of 1is city, is all the talk. He obtained rom Luther P. Smith, agent of the Sa rannah Valley Railroad herd, the deliv ry of four carloads of bacon, which vere shipped order notify, with bills of ading attached to drafts through the >ank. by representing to Smith that it vas all right. it now appears that it vas not all right, and Smith and his )ondsnen have to dance to :the tune of 6.700, the amount due on these drafts with the bills of lading in bank. There is great excitement here over he matter, and the friends of both par ies are anxiously awaiting develop Dents. They are simply amazed, for very one had implicit confidence in Trowbridge. There is no charge against smith, except negligence in trusting Trowbridge when in the discharge of )fficial duty. The railroad atuthorities came up yes :erday and investigated the matter, and !faj. Ganahl, the attorney of the road, eclares it is Smith's bounder duty to prosecute Trowbridge for obtaining :hese goods by false representations. Smith is financially ruined. So is rowbridge. Smith stands high bere. and people do not attach any blame to him, except that he was too confiding md deviated from the rules of the road in favor of Trowbridge through kind aess. COLONEL TROWBRIDGE ARRESTED. . ANDERSON, May 28.-[Special to The Register.J-A warrant was issued this morning by Trial Justice Quattlebaum For the arrest of J. W. Trowbridge, based upon the affidavit of Luther P. Smith, ^har iug Trowbridge with ob aining goods under false pretenses. The warrant was served by the Sheriff. and Mr. Trowbridge went immediarely before the Trial Justice and gave bond in the sum of $500 for his appearance an June 12th next for a preliminary hearing. His bondsmen are J. M. Sullivan and W. D. Brown of this city. It is currently reported that Mr. Smith will make an assignment of every dollar's worth of property be Owns in order to liquidate, as far as possible, the sixty-five hundred dollar loss. It is thought, however, that the value of his property will fall con siderably below this amount. This affair has caused a great sensa tion in our city. No man ever enjoyed more entirely the confidence of a people than Colonel Trowbridge. and many still think he will be able to show the total absence of premeditated fraud. The confidence of the people in Mr. Smith is still unshaken, and on every band is beard expressions of regret and sympathy for him. A. petition for his continuance as agent is already being circulated, with the names of many of the merchants signed to it, and it is thor ght all will sign it. COL. JOHN C. HASKELL ELECTED A Member of the National Democratic Committee to Succeed Captain F. W. Dawson. From the Columbia Daily Register. May 31.) A meeting of the State Democratic Executive Committee was held in this city last night in the President's room of the Carolina National Bank. Twelve members of the twenty-one constituting the whole committee were present, and the speci 1 object of the meeting was to ~ect a- member of the National Democratic Com mittee to fill the vacaney in the representation therein from this state aused by the death of Captain F. W. 94rson. SMurray of Anderson pre ented the na -John C. Haskell f this city in an a 'he nominiation was seconde . Atid no >her name being presented, Col. Has ell was unanimously elected to the vacancy. A committee'was appointed consisting >f Gen. Izlar, N. B. Dial, E. B. Murray md Colonel James A. goyt, to draft stable resolutions in hg~or of the late Daptamn Dawson, ex offcw a member of he State Committee by reason of being t member of the National Committee. The following from the Newberry 05' erver of a recent issue shows well the steem in which Colonel Haskell is held :hroughout the State: "Colonel Haskell has been a member f the House from Riebland for several rears, and if not the leader is certainly leader in that body. He is not much f an orator; but he is clear-headed, vell-informed and is a most persistent md determined fighter-never knowing ~vben he is whipped; that is, if he ever s whipped. He is held in as high es' :eem in the House by those who oppose iim as by those who agree with him >ubhec questions, because he is ' sair, rave and high-minded gent <n, whe lever resorts to trickery- sharp tactics :o carry a point. And one always mows where to -fiiid him on all public iuest ions. Buried Treasure. At Friar's Point. Miss., the people are trangely excited over newly-discovered :reasure. 'Two boys who were digging n the sand along the river unearthed a umber of gold pieces. A tisberman examiing the money found it consisted f $20 pieces. He began digging and vas soon joined by others. Pocket mives. parasols and fingers were the ools used, and they yielded a rich re urn. The fisherman got about $600, a ady passenger secured $500, and others ot smaller sums, the whole amount ag ;regating several thousand dollars, all n $20 gold pieces, bearing dates of 1859 mud 860O. The money was buried early luring the war by somebody unknown. everal years ago a wealthy planter pent about $3.000 in excavations on dontgomery Bar, some distance above ~riar's Point, to find a treasure that was upposed ,to be buried there. He failed n his attempt, but managed to furnish other channel for the river at that >oint. Mississippi's Female College.. The State of Mississippi. besides ad nitting young ladies into her university .nd agricultural and mechanical college, las had for five or six years. in success ul operation, an "Industrial Institute d College " for the higher education f her white girls. The last catalogue hows twenty- six members of the faculty .nd an enrollment of 385 young ladies. esides the literary and scientific course, .ro taught, bookkeeping. telegraphy. honogaphy and typewriting, dress aaking, painting and music. The chool is located at Columbus, which ity contributed twenty acres of ground, large unfurnished brick school build og and $50,000, the State donating bout $100,000 to build and eqaip the astitute, and annually appropriates etween twenty and thirty thousand ollars for isspot Southern Pig Iron. CHATTANOOGA, May 30.-The Trades an is in receipt of letters from pro ucers and brokers, who control- five ixths of the entire pig iron production f the Central South, relative to the cut a the price of iron by the Thomas Iron ompany, and the outlook. All agree a stating that the cut will have no ef 2ct wvhatevejr on Southern furnaces. nd the opinion among all is that the ottom is about reached, and an early nprovmnt in the market is antici-' THE MABRY MURDER. PUBLIC SENTIMENT DECIDEDLY AGAL\ST THE SLAYER. Additional Facts and Details-The Causes:Leading to the Shooting-Young Mabry's Unfortunate Habits-An Eye Witness' Account of the Affair-A Strong Array of Counsel-Verdict of the.Coroner's Jury. (rorrespondenec G;reenville Xew.) ABBEVILLE, May 27.-All the facts which have been brought out in Satur day's tragedy go to show that it was a most deliberate murder. Public senti ment outside the limits of the family connection of Mr. Lyon is against him. and although he refuses to talk. he says that he is justified for his act by the circumstances of the case. A .News correspondent cAlled -on Mr. Lyon at the jail this afternoon and be talked very cooly about the natter, and stated he would like the publie to know all circumstances connected v.ith it. le states that he stood Mabry's conduct longer than any other man ever could. Judge Cothran, Parker & McGowan and L. W. Perrin have been engaged as counsel. The verdict of the Coroner's jury on Saturday was that Mabry came to his death by a gin shot wound. the gin being in the hands of John T. Lyon. The facts of Saturday's tragedy. as far as can be gathered this morning, are about as I give them below: John T. Lyon, the murderer of young Mabry, is an old citizen of Abbeville. and always bore a good reputation as a peaceable and law-abiding citizen. His age is about sixty years. Mrs. Lyon was the mother of Mrs. Mabry. who was be fore her marriage a Miss Wardjaw. D. Lucius Mabry. the young man who was killed, was one of -the most intelligent young men in Abbeville County. His age was about twenty-eight years. He had practiced at. the Abbeville bar for about five years. He graduated at the lawv school of the University of Virginia be fore reaching the age of majority, and read in the office of W. C. Benet until he reached the age when he could be ad mitted to practice. The hopes which had been held for the young man seem not to have been realized, as it appears he had acquired bad habits, which he concealed successfully from his friends till a few months since, when the report of his having been engaged in a drunken quarrel shocked those who had hitherto had the highest opinion of his character. Recently reports of his habits have grown worse than ever. and rumors of domestic troubles resulting from them have been freely circulated. The tragedy of Saturday was the outcome of these :roubles. Mr. Lyon and young Mabry had not been on friendly terms for some time, and recent quarrels have added fuel to the flame of enmity which burned in the breast of each. The circumstances of the killing, as given to the News correspondent, are that Mr. Lyon lay in wait for young Mabry on the route taken to his office by the latter on Saturday morning. His place of concealment was the High School building, which is located at a considerable distance from the business portion of the town and directly on Mabryv's usual course from his residence to his office. Mabry usually went to hi. office about S o'clock in the moring,. and the tragedy occurred just about 10. showing that Mr. Lyon waited for some time. The only eve witness to the killing is a boy named Chalmers Hughes, who seems to have been in the school house vard at the time. He says Mr. Lyon was sitting on the school house steps when Mabry came alone. Mr. Lyon~ spoke t; him and said: '-Do you want totgt this ' W way." Mr. Tvonti en brought his gun down t his shoulder and said, "I am going to shoot you." Mabry said, "If you dlo ou are a d-d coward." Mr. Lyon fired one shot and Mabry fell. After fallhng he threw up one hand and said, "don't shoot me any more. I am killed now." Mr. Lyon then fired the other barre! of the gun and walked off down town and surrendered. An examination of the wounds showed that eleven very large buck shot had taken effect in the ead and body, one passing through the head from temiple to temple. A Cor oner's inquest was held Saturday afterno-m. Mr. Lyon is now in jail at this place. His ease will probably come up at the June term of court. The funeral services of young Mabry were conducted on Sunday morning im tbe Presbyterian Church by the Rev. L. F. Beaty, the Methodist minister. The interment was at Ebenezer Church, seven miles from here, on Sunday after C. B. S. A Tramp Murdered by Railroad Men. MEMmHs, May 30.-An unknown tramp. who was ~stealing a ride on the East bound freight train of the Memphis and Charleston 'road last Sundlay night, was set upon and beaten by two negro brakemen and shot by the conductor. His dead body was then thrown on tne track near Juka, Miss., and not discov ered until it had been run over by the West bound passenger train early Mon day morning. The two negroes have been arrested, and one has confessed. The conductor has skipped out. The Yellow Fever Situation, MONTGOMERY, Ala.. May 30-Dr.7 Jerome Cochran, State Health Officer of Alabama. has returned from a trip to South Florida and Havana. He went to investigate the yellow fever situation. He reports that there has been no yellow fever in Florida since January,. except one case reported in April at Sanford. In lavana he found a little fever-only a dozen to twenty cases a week. He says the general health of the people is excetonally grood, and gives it as his opinion that there will be no fresh out break of yellow fever in Florida this summer tinless there is a fresh importa tion of the disease. OSEPH F. RHAME, ATTORNEY AT L AW, MANNING, S. C. OHN S. WILSON, Attorney and Counoselor at L~ae, MANNING, S. C. ISURAMCE AGEXT, MANNING. S. C. REAL ESTA4TE AGEST, FORESTON, S. C. Otfers for sale on Main .Street. in business p0rtion of the town., TWO STORES, with suitable lots:cn Manning and Rl. Rt. stree-ts TWO COTTAGE RESIDENCES. 4 and t rooms: and a nuimber of VAC.ANT LOTS uitle for reside nces, and in differentL lo ealities. Terms Reasonable. M~A G. Bryant. JAS. M. LENtD, South Carolina. - New York. Grand Central Hotel. BRYANT & LELAND, Pntornitrons. Columbia, South Carolina. The grand Central is the largest and Oest kept hotel in Columbia. located in the EX ACT B USINESS ('ENTER OF THE CITY, where al Street Car Lines pass tite door, an it rErU is noexelle by any in the R. C. BaREEY, President. V - C. BISSEL JE-mss, Gen'1 Manager. RIcHARD S. Gzcrr, Sec. & Treais. The Cameron & Barkley Gompany1 COMMISSION MERCHANTS, -AND AGENTS F'R Erie City Engine and Boilers, Atlas Engine and Boilers, the Famous Little Giant Hydraulic Cotton Press, Eagle Cotton Gins. We have in stock one eal" 60, .65, and 70 saw Eagle Gin, only shop worn that we are offering way below cost. fijrSend for prices. Oils, Rubber and Leather Belting, and a complete line of Mill Supplies. - adrWe Guarantee Lowest Prices for Best Quality of Goods.a CAMMERON & BARKLEY CO.. Chrleston. S. C. rs. A. Edwards Keeps always on hand at the MANNING BAKERY, a full supply, and choice assortment. of FA3IILY AND FANCY GROCERIES. Bread, Cake, Candy , Fruit, Etc. 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