The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, May 01, 1901, Image 1

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XVI MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY; MAY A MANIA TO KILL Seized This Wcikmen While Pleasantly Talking. SHOOTS DOWN FOUR MEN. He Then Reloaded His Pistol and Hunted Dcwn More Human Game. Finally Over pC wered by Police. One of the bloodiest tragedies in the history ofPortland, Maine, in recent years occured Wednesday afternoon on the fourth floor of the building ce::upied by the New England. Telephone cam pany. The principal actor in the affair was George H. Brainerd, a fcreman who has been employed for the company for almost twenty years. For some un known reason, and without the slight est provocation, while chatting with his fellow workmen, he whipped out a 38 calibre revolver and op-ned fire on the party around him. He was evi dently an expert marksman. f or in a brief space of time he killed one man outright, fatally wounded another man, and probably fatally vounded two others. Then he made an attempt to kill Deputy Marshall W. A. Frith. when the officer tried to place him under ar rest. The man who was killed outright was I. H. Farnham of Boston, the elee trical engineer of the New Eagland Telephone company. Earl Buxton an other victim,-died in the hospital Wed nesday night. Elmer Z L'ne of Mechanic Falls and James Wadsworth of Lswiston are believed to be fatally irjured. The only charitable motive that can be assigned for the crime' is insanity. yet neither before or after the tragedy did Brainerd exhibit any marked evi dence of mental derangement. The men in the tragedy were em ployes of the telephone company, and, exoepting Mr. Farnham; were engaged in instaling a new exchange system on the uprer floor of the building. There were 14 men in the crew, -and J3rainerd had charge of the work. Mr. Farnham having general oversight. The entire force, which was attached to the gen eral office in Boston, had bien at work for three or four months. Mr. Farn ham came down from Boston Tuesday night to look over the portion com pleted. Wednesday morning the men went to work as usual, and nothing out of the ordinary occurred up to noon. Just be fore 2 o'olcck Mr. Farnham and Mr Brainerd walked over to one corner of the room, where a carpenter was at work. Brainerd gave the carpenter a few instructions, and then he and Mr. Farnham walked away in a friendly manner. They passed down by the long switchboard to the end, where they stopped. Then the report of a revolver rang out. The workmen saw Mr. Farn ham fall on the floor, with Brainerd standing over him with a smoking re volver in his hand. Brainerd did not remain inactive for a moment after shooting Mr. Farnham, but immediately opened fire on the other workmen. A panic followed, and every man endeavored to get under cover to escape the bullets, which were flying in every direction. Some attempted to escape through a hole in the floor, but they were unable to squeese themselves through, and were then obligedl to take a chance at dodging bullets as the ran For the stair way. Some of the men dodged behind boxes and bernches until they had a chance to escape, but three cf them were unable to reach a place of safety. When Brainerd shot Mr. Farnham, Lane and Wadsworth were working to gether directly across the room and be. fore they could make the slightest move Brainerd turned his revolver on them and opened fire. Wadsworth fell to the floor, while Lane, who was not bit at this time, made a dash for a closet in a corner of the room. Buxton was stand ing at a bench near the head of the atairway and Brainerd taking deliberate aim, sent a bullet straight through his body. Buxton fell to the floor but re mained partly conscicus. He saw Brainerd come over to the head of the stairway and reload the revolver and then start towards the closet in which Lane had taken refuge. Brainerd went to that closet apparently with the deliberate intention of killing Lane and although he did not kill him instant ly he inflicted wounds which the physi cians believe will prove fatal. Lane made a game fight for life, but fell twice wounded, while Buxton ran down stairs-and was cared for. Brain. erd then was alone on the fourth floor with his three victims, but he im mediately started down to the operat ing room shouting ' send for the police" Supt. J. D. Stanford at tnis point ran into the hall and met Brainerd coming down the stairs, revolver in hand, fran tically calling for the police. Mr. Stan ford knew Brainerd's revolver was load t d, but he barred the door to the crowd ed operating room and demanded that the man return up stairs. "Go back; we will fix it with the police," he said. And Brainerd went back. A telephone message had brought Deputy Frith and others from the sta tion. The deputy at the fourth floor met Brainerd who, with self control, greet ed him pleasantly, shook hands and then turned as if to go up stairs. The deputy saw the revolver in IBrainerd's hands and determined to overpower him As Mr. Frith attempted to seize the weapon, Brainerd turned and met the attack with the revolver levelled at the deputy. A struggle followed and the revolver was discharged, the bullet grasing the officer's side. Then another officer clubbed Bramn ered into submission and he was taken to the police station. He appeared ex cited and ugly and was kept hand cnffed. His clothing was saturated with blood and he paced restlessly up and down the cell. In she meantime the surgeons had cared for the wounded. Wadsworth had bullets through the left arm and the bowels. Lane was shot in the throat and Buxton had received a bul let through the body. The men were taken to the hospital and Buxton died and Lane is barely alive. The police are making inquiry to determine il Brainerd has shown. signs of insanity at ay previors; time. ARMY APPOINTMENTS. Five Spanish War Veterans Named from this State. The secretary of war Wedn-sday made public the names of the 588 men se lected for firtt and second lieutenant in the regular army under the army re organization bill. All of tHese men have had service either in the State or i national volunteers or in the regular 3 army. They have been crdered for ex amination and should they pass will be appinted. The following are from r South Carolina: Thadeus B Seitler, Lawrence S. Carson, Clarence S. Net tles, Jas. C. Hardin, Edward R. Tom kins and Wm. P. Crawford. The first named in the list of South t Carolina appointments is not recognized by The State's military authority as having been recantly connected with this S:ate's military forces. In fsct, be is a Cbarlotf e, N. C., ran, and en listed in the volunteer army, being made a sergeant He served in the Philippines. The others arc well known. Clarence S. Nettles, of Darlington. enlisted for the Spanish war in Com pany A, Independent battalion. He was quartermaster sergeant. Later he was discharged to raise a company of immunes, of which he was captain. He subsequently went to the Phiiip pines. Lagrence S. Carson, of Sumter, was captain of Company B Indpendent battalion., His company was transfer. red to the First -eginent, S. C. V. to complete it. On the muster out he went to the Philippines as a lieutenant. Joseph C.. Hardin, probably should be Joseph L. Hardin, of Chester, a cap tain in the Frdt regiment. Edmond R Tompkins, of Rock Hill, was appointed sergeant major of the Se cond regiment, but was immediately promoted to first lieutenant, Company I, of that regiment. Soon after muster out he was aopointed first lieutenant in the 30th U. S volunteers, and has 'b'en in the Philippines bince July, 1899. William P. Crawford, of Chester, was captain of Company H, in the Second regiment. Soon after the muster out of that regiment two years ago, Craw ford raised a company and went to the Philippines as captain. He has served there about the same length of time as Tompkins. Two places allowed for South Caro linians have not yet been filled. Swept Over The Falls. A dispatch from Niagara Falls, N. Y., says Wednesday afternoon, between 1 and 2 o'clock workmen engaged on the new plant of the Natural Food com I any, which is located on the bank of the upper river, about a half mie back from the falls, were horrified when looking across the river from their elevated position on the iron work to see a man and a boat caught in the swift current and swept into the upper rapids When first seen the craft and its ocoupant were well out in mid stream, the man pulling at the ders in a desperate effort to make the Canadian shore before he was carried to a point where he must lose all hope. Never did man pull harder, but the currant swept hi n onward with terrible rapi dity. Over reef after reef the craft plunged, but the man held fast to the oars until one wave of the rapids more fierce than the others lifted the boat high up and toppled it over. Soon the boat was seen to make the plunge over the lrink of the Horseshoe Falls, and tbe men who stsod helpless on the shore knew that another life had been saorificed because there are no life saving facilities at the~ falls. April Snow Storms. The Florence Times says the cold snap breaking up now it is hoped, re calls to the minds of the older inhabi tants of this section the snow storm of April 15, 1849. The spring of that year was far advanced. All the trees were in full foliage, roses were in full bloom, and all spring and summer flow ers were in blossom. It was delight ful spring weather and crops locked as promising as ever they did look. On the 15;h of April, however, a sudden and remarkabli change took place in weather conditions. The mercury tumbled over itself in its burry to reach the-low figures. Clouds having gathered it began to snow and for a time the flake. fell thick and fist until the earth was covered to a depth of 21 inches. It was a beautiful picture to iook upon say the "old" people. Roses peeped out from their covering of crystal white, and the green of the trees made a charming background. However, the snow disappeared in a very short time. A Young Man's Fall. A dispatch froma Greenville to the State says the community was greatly surprised when it was auncuoced on the streets that a shortage bad been dis covered in the pos office. The fact was net known to the public until legal pro ceedings had been instigated against Frank N Jordan, the money order clerk and assistant postmaster, v-ho had en tire charge of the financisi affair3 nf ~ office. He was arrested and tak' fore Commissioner J. G. Haw. where he made a full and complete confession of his guilt, and there was no need of furth~r investigation, so that he was immediately baund over to the October term of the United States court in the sum of $1,500. Mr. Frank Nichols, the postmaster, who is an uncle of Jordan, gave a justified bond for the appearance of his nephew for trial at the time specified. The Terrible Cost. The New York Tribune, which has -been distinctly pro-British in regard to the South African war, summing up the cost to date sys'the gold mines of the Rand probably will be made to re pay the millions expended, "but never from mine or veldt can arise the thous ands of strong young lives that have been spent in the same cause. Seven teen thousand lives, of her best picked meD l And it was to have been merely a military promenade to Pretoria! It is an appalling proof of the illimitable uncertainties into which a nation plunges blindly and headlong whenever Iit goes to war." The United-States is paying the same price for the Philip .EWS WOUND INIAN'S HEART. Remarkable Operation Perfoxmed i3 St Louis City Hospital Vith a stab wcund and three siiobe in his heart, Philip Gunn is atthe St Louis, city hospital, and from prasen indications seems likely to recover. Hi was operated upon by Dr. H. L. Neiter who is probably the first person in th< world who sewed together a wound ii the heart of a living person. Threi sutures closed the opening, which wai about ore-half of an inch long, aD which penetrated into the heart cavity Whi'e his heart was t xposed to the ai: Guru emerged from the anesthetic mpifested rerfect c mciousness ani taled to the surgeon and his a tend ants. During the hour and a half re quired for the operation, hypodermi< injections of salt solutions were kep up to counteract the loss of Wood Dr Neiter remov' d a section of the breast bone, exposing the percardiun or ccvering of the heart. It was found that the knife had penetrated this, and blood was spouting from this, ani spouting from the aperture with ever] motion of the most delicate organ of the body. An incision was made in the percardium, and a large quan-ty ol blood which had pulsed from the knift wound in the heart was poured out. This revealed the heart, which pa'pita ted violently. As it rcse and fell the avenue by which the blood had esoap ed from the heart becami visible. The point of the knife .blade had entered the right ventricle and had pierc'd tc the cavity. Luckily the knife had en tered the heart obliquely, and the re. sult was that the opening betweer cavity and the percardium was lip-ahap ed en bosh sides. The wound acted ai a valve, and at each pulsation (f bloci through the heart but a small quantitc e'caped through the artificial opening. The task of stitching this unaus] P ound was very difficult. The motion of the heart cannot be repressed, ard Dr. Neit ri was forced to make the stitches while the organ was shiftinj about After the delicate operatiox was fiinished the per3ardium wai sewed ttgether. The portion of the breast bone could not be replaced, and the operation was concluded by stitch ing tc.gether the skin and outer tissues ;hich cover the chest. Bryan's Position. -In a statement given publicity Wm. J. Briari says in effect that he has no intention of seeking a third nomination for the presidency. Mr. Bryan's an nouncement is an answer to an article in an -eastern paper speculating on his plans as a political leader. Mr. 3ryan said: "I am not planning for another presidential nomination, if I were I would not be editirg a paper. If I ever become a candidate again it will be because it seems necessary for the advancement of tie principles to which I adhere, and that does not now seem probable. I shall, how tvor, take an active interest in plitics for several years yet, if I live, arid can be relied upon to support those who as candidates, advance Democratic prin ciples and who can be entrusted to en' force them if elected. I have no ene mies to push. No matter what a man may have said or done against the ticket in 1896 or in 1900, that man be comes my friend the moment he ae cepts Democratic principles. Neither have I any disposition to reward politi cal friends at the expense of our caus,. No matter what a man may have said or done for the tichet in 1896 or in 1900, that man becomes an opponent the moment he turns against Democratic priciple. Political battles are fought, not in the past or in the future but present. The heretofore cannot be recalled and the hereafter cannot be anticipated, but the Now ie aUl important." Jones Says His Say. CharleE ton, S. C., 'April 23, 1901. Editor The Greenville News: Sir: I cannot be responsible for Senator John L. McLaurin, in his meeting the challenge of Senator Till. man to debate the questions of great moment to the people; all the people of South Carolina at this time. I hope they will meet. Senator MoLaurin still claims to be a Demiorerat, and] regard him to be the true expoment of the twentieth century Democracy.I am prepared to meet and take Senator Tillman at his challenge. I do so asa white Republican of many years stand ing in this my native State of Scuti Carolina. Having served this people in peace and in war I am prepared tc meet the foe anywhere, everywhere is our State. The paramount thought will be with me: What has 8enato: Tillman done, or rather what has he not done for the material interest of m: much beleved State and commonwealth. "When Greek meets Greek, then comei the tug of war." Let it come. (Signeoa) T. Barker Jones. A Remarkable Case. The Columbia State says on Thurs day tht Governor received the follow ing letter from W. B. Holmes of Char leston stating a most unusual and inded remarkable case. "If a body, buried some years ago, is ;ashed up by the tides and on thal to~y is found the sum of $160, does this money belor g to the parties t< whom the lands belong where found, or does it belong to the State? If t< the State, does the State give a roward for information leading to the recover: of such find?" The governor's reply to the letter ii as follows: "Replyin: to your letter of the 23d Gov. McSweeney directs me to say thal he knows of no law regula'ing suci cases as you refer to but he would aug gest that you might report the case t< the coroner and if he concluded th< facts justify it he might instituse an in vestigation. Gave Them Up. Marcus Miller, of Binghampton, N Y., educator, inventor and author os several widely read political brochures who died Wednesday, maie an unusua request during his last hours. It wa that the works of Col. Robert Ingersol he burned at his grave in Floral Par] emetery Friday afternoon, immedi tely following the committal eervices Thissact was designed by Mr. Miller t< oe an explicit public declaration of hit absolute repudiation of Ingersol's acngs. COLUMBIA'S GRAND FESTIVAL. Preparations Now Complete for the Great Performances. Columbia, April 27 - Speeal: Every arrang, ment for the grand cen'certs of ;he Columbia Festival A-sociation, to ake place on May 6 and 7, is now com )lete. There will be one concert on be. former day and two concerts on the atter. The chorus of 200 voices, under the lirection of Prof. Kittredge of the ?resbyterian College for Women has nade cxcellent progress, and the ex nctations of the public as to this eature will be f ally realized. In addi ion an array of talent, from New York its been engaged Altogether, such an irganization has never been seen in olumbia. Campanari beads the list of singers nd stands among the leading stars in n the Metropolian grind opera caste, iew York city. Ii close comparison ollow Mr. Glenn Hall, Mr. Gwilym liles. Mrs Marie Kunkel Zimmerman, lias Fielding Riselle and Miss Marie iicho's, all of whom are artists of iational reputation. The superb Byston Festival orches ra, comprising 50 musicians, will %e an xtraordinary feature of the occasion. )f this organizition to much cannot be aid. Thb press everywhere speaks in erms similar to the following from the pringfield Republican: "The Boston Festival orchestra is ndeed a uighly satisfactory organiz ion, and the musical association is ortunate indeed in having so fine a body f musicians available. The excelence f the solo winds is surprising. -The ne quality of the strings bas also been onstantly in evidence. Mr. Mollen amer is an admirable conductor and nil-master, and the quality of his dis ipline is shown by the ensemble at ained in spite of the limited time vailable for'rehearsal. There is hard r any other oreleitra in the country rhich could do such satisfactory work iader the same circumstance?. The ien play with snap and vigor, and do ot seem to lose interest in their work y reason of much vain repetition at ne festival after another. The ren ering of the Mendelssohn symphony ras an uncommonly strong and artistic ieee of work." The prices of the season tickets arcely average $1 a conctrt, which is bout one third the price paid in east rn cities for similar concerts. A lket costing five dollars is good for wo seats at each of the three concertr. All the railroads have fired a rate of ne fare for the round trip. A grand suncess is already assured. THE CAPTURE OF REESE ad the Part Lancaster Men Took In It. A special to the State from Lancas r says "the news of the capture of [arion R. Reese, at Oxford, Miss., as asurprise to everjbody here, except g three men, namely, W. G. R. Por r, J. M. Caskey and J. B. Sims, who 'are instrumental in bringing it about. 'he facts briefly are these: "J. A. Montgomery, formerly of Lan lter, but now residing at Oxford, is the employ of United States Mar ia Buchanan of Mississippi. Some sw weeks ago Mr. Montgomery wrote is cousin, J. Montgomery Caskey, ask sg him to try and procure the photo eaphs of Reese, L ackue and Mrs. An erson, and send to him at once; that ere was a man and woman in Ox rd who had never been known, since ieir residence there, to go to the post ice either to mail letters or to ask r letters. Mr. Caskey after receiving ie letter showed it to Mr. Porter, who id he would make the effort to get ie photc graphs. He, .accordingly, poke to Ms. Sims, who at once, wrote heriff Logan of York county, request sg that he send him the photographs. In the~ 8th April instant, Sheriff Logan at Mr. Sims photographs of Reese, uckie and Mrs. Anderson with a mi ate description of all three. The pho )graphs and description were at once mt to Mr. J. A. Montgomery, at Ox rd. The next step was the arrest of ~eese, news of which was contained Sunday's State. Thus it will be ~en that Lancaster men, three at this ad, viz : W. G. A. Porter, J. M. Cas ey and J. B. Sims, and Mr. J. A. [otgomery at the other end of the ne, put the machinery in motion hioh led to the capture of Reese, and -mmon justice demands that they ould not be overlooked when the re ards offered are disur buted." Pension Reduction. The pension board completed its ork Wednesday and the total number n the rolls is 6,417, against 7,106 last ear. The board has given each appli tion full consideration and it has eeded out those not entitled to pen ons as far as possible, so that the list s year is about as near ju~st and equi ole as it can be made. PFolb9wing are de numbers for each county. Abbe ille, 138; Aiken, 190; Anderson, 370; lamberg, 50; Barnwell, 108; Beaufort, 7; Berkeley, 88; Charleston 84; Chero e, 158; Chester, 93; Chestet field, 135; iaedon, 122; Colleton, 286, Darline ,n. 190; Darehester, 69; Eigefield, 97; 'aifield, 1l1; Florence. 131; George >Wn, 38;-Greenville, 336; Greenwood, 20; Hampton, 114; Horry, 151; Ker haw, 111; L ancaster, 222; Laurens, 18; Lexington, 140; Marian, 190; Marl or,, 111; Ne wherry, 142; Osonee, 165; rangeburg, 126; Pickens, 238; Rich. ad, 162;8Saluda, 146;8Spartanburg,530; ira ter, 165; Union, 140; Williamsburg, 13; York, 289. An Outrage. A dispatch from Athens, Tenn., ays as the out come of a recent temper neo crusade the offies of the McMinn litizen was raided during the night. 'he presses were overturned and the ype was dumped into a stream nearby. 'he Citizen published temperance edi oras during a recent election. This Ssupposed to have caused the raid. Killed Himself. Capt. Frank Crossland of the Bri ish steamship Selma, commuitted sui ide in a lodging house at Houston, 'exas, Wednesday. He disappeared wo weeks ago and his vessel sailed ithout him. He left no letters. A nsiderable amount of money was un on his person. CUBAN COMXISSION. Passed Though Columbia en their Way to Washington. On Tuesday afternoon of last week the Cuban assemblage commission now en route to Washington to confer with President McKinley upon the relations of the United States to Cuba, and Eee what are tne chances for securing ' Cuba Libre," passed through Colum bia. They were traveling on the Seri board Air Line's elegant metropolitan limited train, which happened to be a very heavy one, loaded with eastern tourists hastening home from Florida. The gentlemen were traveling in the last car on the train, and occupied the observation end, from which they had been viewing the country on the way up from Jacksonville. In the party were Gen. Domingo Mtar z Capote, president of the com mission; Gen. Pegro E. Betaneourt, Gen. Rafael M. Portundo, Mr. Diego Tamayo and Dr. Pedro Go z lL z 1or ento. These are the members of the commission. They are scompanied by Pedo M. Enter zi2 interpreter; Col. M. M. Coronado, editor of La Discusian; M. Marquc z Sterling, representative of the United States press of Cuba, and correspondent of El Mundo. The train arrived here at 6:20 o'clock tuesday afternoon, and stopped here for about a quarter of and hour. A representative of The State called upon the party of Cubans. As he enterod and before he could speak, all rose ana bowed. One of the party is an aged gentleman, and one of the most polite ever seen here. None of the pary, save Signor Entenza, could speak English, and his English was as pretty as his Spanish. The gentlemen sta'ed that they were very much ple'ased with the appearance of the country through which they had passed; that their trip thus far had been most pleasant, and without accident or incident; and that they hoped to accomplish something for their beloved country. When asked how long they would be in Washington, they shook their heads and said that would depend upon the shape things took after their arrival. No more distinguished looking arty of gentlemen ever passed through Co lumbia. The majority of those in the party were exceedingly handsome men, and their ability was manifested time and again in the brief talk with them. At this point Traveling Passenger Agent Batts of the Seaboard joined the party, witth instructions to take them through to Washington, seeing that they were gi~ven every attention. -The State. A Terrible Story. A special from Victoria, B. C , says: A terrible story of the fate of a party of six gold seekers in the Copper River country from Dawson where a survivor of the little party has arrived. The party left Seattle three years ago for Copper river and according to this man'. tale, the treacherous Valdes Glacier claimed one of the party for its own. He disappeared in a fissure in the ice, descending adistance of 75 feet, where he became wedged between walls of ice. He remained contcus and give final instructions to his compan ions who were powerless to assist him. The next misadventure was on a raft which was tossed over thundering ra pids and broken to pieces against the jagged rocks. The five men made a desperate fight for life, but three of them were never again seen. Two reached shore, one of whom was severe ly injured internally and the other with a fractured arm. They were bereft of all provisions and hundreds of miles from civilization. Afterjdays of.; un told suffering the spark of life in thie man irnjured internally was mercifully extinguished. His lone partner for 13 days wandered without food. After that his life became a blank for a period of twelve months and when his senses returned he found himself among friend ly Indians. Supports McIaurin. A dispatch from Wasaington says Ex Senator M. C. Butler and Senator Mc L iurin. who formerly were as w da apart as the poles, are now political bed-fel lows. Mr. Butler, in an interview, en noises Senator McLaurin's Charlotte sech. He speaks approvingly of the course of the President with reference to our new possessions, says that ex pansion will be advantageous to the South and gives the opiaion that it would be a good thing to have in South Carlina an active and respectable op position to the present political organi zat ion of that State. Senator McLeurin was in the city Thursday and talked to his friends concerning his candidacy for re-election. He will ask for re election upon the platform of supporting the admiaistration's policy of expansion on the ground that it is benficial to the ma teriel welfare of his State. He will support his votes in the Senate at the last session of Congress by arguments to show that he wasvoting for the best interests of South Carolina. Attempted Murder. T. J. Hughes, a merchant at Lock hart Junction, in Union County, was assaulted and Lobbed Thursday night. Mr. Hughes is a widower and lives alone in his store, and that night about 8 or 9 o'olock, after he had closed his front door, some one knocked at the door and Mr. Hughes opened it and turned round to go behind his counter, supposing it was a sustomer that wanted to trade and just then he received a blow on the back of the head from some kind of a club which felled him to the floor and he remembers nothing more till late in the night when he came to himself and was very cold and just able to crawl to his bed, which is in a back room to the store, and he laid in bed with his front door open till morning when he was found by some of his friends in a very serious condition. There was considerable blood over the floor where Mr. Hughes crawled about before he came to himself. He had $12.00 and a pistol in the store which is missing. Great Floods. The floods at Cincinnati are subsid ing. They were terrific. The whole city was under water and people had to go about in boats to trim the electric lights. When the water stopped rising they hunted a dry spot and fired off annons and rang belie. AN OUTLAW HANGED. Just Before Death He Exonerated Three Ren Dow in Prison. Thos. E. Ketchum, alias Black Jack, the train robber, was hanged at Clayton, N. M., on Friday. The rope broke, but thekfall j -rked Ketchum's head of. Twenty deputies guarded the jail throughout the night. Hundreds of armed men, many of them cowboys from the surrounding country, arrived during the morning. but no demonstra tion occurred. Ketchum has been the most noted desperado of the sonth west for many years and although he was credited with having taken the lives of some of his fellow outlaws, his excu tion Friday was for an attempted train robbery in which nobody was killed. The crime was committed near Fol som, N. M., August 16. 1899. Single handed Ketchum held up a Colorado and Southern passenger train. ' He or dered the engineer and fireman to un ciuple the engine and leave the train. The cnductor and mail agent opened fire. Ketchum received the contents of a double-barrEled shot gun in his right arm, but qaietly changed the rifde to his left shculder. He twuceeded in wounding both omductor and mail agent. He was captured the next day, tried and given the extreme penalty. Owing to rumors of organized bands making preparations to retene their cemrade, extreme precautions were taken to hold the prisoner, who was re moved from the Folsom jail to Clayton last week by special train, under a heavy usrd of deputies. "Black Jack" is said to have Deen the leader of a band of outlaws who committed many train robberies and other raids in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. This band has been scattered since his arrest, seven or eight having been killed Clayton Ketetum mailed a letter to President McKinley Friday morning, in which he says: "Standing in the presence of death, where no human aid can reach me, I desire to communicate to you some facts which may, perhaps, be the means of liberating innocent men. There are now three min in Santa Fe penitentiary serving sentences for the robbery of the United States mil at Steins pass, Arizona, in 1897, namely: Leonard Albertson, Walter Huffman and Bill Waterman, and they are as innocent of the crime as an unborn babe. The names of the men who com mitted the crime are Dave Atkins, Ed Bullin, Will Carver, Sam Ketchum, Broncho Bill and myself. I have given to my attorney in Clayton means by which articles taken in said robbery may be found where we hid them, and also the names of witnesses who lhve in that vicinity who will testify that myself and gang were in that neighborhood both immediately before and after the robbery. - The fact that these men are innocent and are suffer ing impels me to make this confession. While you cannot help me, and while I realizs that all efforts to secure to me a commutation of my sentence have signally failed, I wish to do what I can for these innocent men, who so far as I know, never committed a crime in their lives. I make this state ment fully realizing that my end is fast approaching, and I must very soon meet my Maker " Kills His Fourth Man. Henry Huffmnan, well known animal trainer with the Wallace shows,'met a1 horrible death at Peru, [nd , Thursday,I being killed by "Big Charley,"a mons ter elephant, while the animal was bathing in the Missinsineaw river. '-Big Charley" wound his trunk about Keeper Huffmnan and hurled him far into the stream. The man was unin jared, and when he returned he said: "Why, Charley, I didn't think that of you; aren't you ashamed of your self?" The next instant Hufitman was grabbed by the big elephant and thrown to the bottom of the river and held there by the forefeet of the ani=1, Then, with a great roar, the elephant ran away. Several showmen shot at him with no effect. He broke down fences and roamed about in a big field, keeping everbody at a distance. Ap pIes loaded with strychnine were thrown near him, and he ate one. An hour later he laid down and was in terrible agony. A rifle shot finished him. "Big Jharley" weighed over three tons, was valued at $10,000, and in his lifetime had killed four men. An Inhuman Father.' Suspicion in th~e brutal murder of five children, aged respectively 14, 11, 7, 5, 4 years, which occurred'at a farm in the neighborhood of Charties, France, now falls upon the father of the children. It is suggested that the father murdered his children in a flt of drunken madness, as he spent the evening in drinking and no traoe of the alleged tramps has been found. It is a strange fact that while the children were killed with a hammer or bludgeon the father was only stabbed and his wounds are slight. The knife with which these wounds were make belongs so the house and a blood-stained jacket belonging to the father was discovered in the court yard hidden under some straw.. Bris r , the father, was con fronted with the corpses of his children and he was afterwards arrested. Held up a Train. At an early hour Friday morning the Southern Express car on the Central of Geogia's through train from Atlanta to: Savannah was robbed near Gordon, Ga., by two white men. After binding and 4 blindfolding the express messenger-i White-the men took his keys opened and rifled the small local safe. They got several packages, but missed one containing $1,000 in silver. How much< money was secured cannot be as certain ed, but it is believed to have beena small. Not much business is transact ed on that train locally. There was a considerable sum in the large through safe, but Messenger White convinced the men that he could not open it even if he wanted to, and they did not try. The Texas Kind. William Labatt, assistant ticket agent I for the Santa Fe, capturedi and caged a mosquito Thursday morning claimed to be the largest and fiercest ever seeni in this section of the country. Labatt discovered the insect perched on an inkstand on the counter. The insect 4 is on exhibition in a glass case and is attractiing considerable attention as the giant of his ria He is more than half an inch long and stands-about an1 inc high-Galveston News.4 A GENTLE ROAST Olven Ex-Senator M. C. Butler by The State. OFFICIAL PAP RUINED HIM. Never Will Forgivethe People of the State for Preferring Ben Tillman to Him. seif. During the last presidential oam paign Ex-Senator M. C. Butler, of this State, came out for McKinley, and recently he has had an inter view with the Washington Times in which he reiterate his former posi t on that the Republican policies are the best. The Columbia State, in com menting on the Ex Senator's change of heart say there are varicus reseons I which may account for his attitude. One is that he has never fergotten nor for- t given his defeat fcr reelcicon to the senate by Ben Tillman, and this dis appointment has evidently tinctured a his views of the ruling. politicil senti t meat in South Carolina; for we find him k declaring that "popular constitutional g vernment is in much more danger from demagogism, socialism, populism, t anarchism, and such heresies and falla- I cies" than from imperialism and mili tarism. Another reason is that Gen. Butler was not long ago a representa- f tive of this same militarism, holding a maj'or general's commission in the I United States volunteer army by the C gift of President McKinley. The. president was very kind to Gen. Butler t and that gentleman found militarism a 4 not unpleasant experierce. A further I reaon way perhaps be found in the cir- I camstance that Gen. Butler's present I and recent professional aseociationa in i Washington have been with corporate I and financial elements holding, like I himself, that the prevalenes of the doe C trines he is pleased to term "demagog ism, socialism, populism," etc , may I "necessitate the employment of force I to preserve public order, the rights of proparty and the enforcement of the- a law." So Gen. Butler speaks as one who e was once of and for us in South Car- t olina but is so no longer. He has t found other friends and developed other sympathies. We are not sur- 0 prised at his assertion that if he had been in the senate he "would have voted just as McLaurin did, with the xception perhaps of his vote for the ship subsidy bill-although we do not j see any reason why he should make this one exception, inasmuch as the advocacy of subsidies harmonizes with the advocacy of prohibitive tariffs, of wars of suijagation for commercial t' purposes and the other policies upon h which Senator McLaurin and the Re- q publicans agree. ii Gen. Butler declares that as the , Democrats did as mueh to bring about the war with Spain as the Republi cans they "should have claimed their1 share of its results and conse~quences," and that "they madelsa fatal blander4 when they permitted the Republicans to appropriate to their own use the :luestions growing out of the Spanish war." By this he means that the De nooracy, having from sympathy with ai oppressed people at our doors, pro coted a war to liberate them, should ~ afterwards, from mere party policy, have rivaled or outdone the Repuoli ans in transforming that war into cne for the conquest and enslavement 0 f the very peopies the United States had assisted in rescuing from Spain. t We must be permitted to say that this e foctrine is thoroughly immoral and a* unworthy. If A and B come upon C * who has knocked down and is kicking and trampling D, and they join in driving 0 away; should B then, be eause A proposes to rob D in compen sation for his work of rescue-should B, because of this proposition, throw I himself promptly upon D and go through his pockets with the purposea of getting the larger share of the ~ spoil? We defy Gen. Butler or any one else to defend this propositiot ; yet the case we have presented is a perfect parallel in morals to the one e under national consideration. What. k ever may be thought now of the al- 9 leged folly of the Democracy in declin- h ing to join the Republican administra ~ tion in robbing Cuba and the Philip- c pines of their liberties after rescuing a them from Spain, the verdict of history ~ will be that the party never acted with greater sanity nor more praisieworthy integrity than when it rejected this temptation to baseness. We note with some amusement Gen. 0 Bulter's declaration that "what is Y wanted in South Carolina above all 0 things is a greater toleration for those ~ honestly differing with us in political e opinions-greater political freedom of t action." In 1894, when centesting witht Tillman for the United States senator- a ship, Gen. Butler gave, no Euch ex pression to his conviction of what was needed in South Carolina. On the con. 2 trary, Gen. Butler in that campaign ~ 'nounced Tillman for his latitudina- ( tau theory of Democracy whiich led t 'm far on the path to populism. In I that year Gen. Butler had no tolera- t tion for Tiliman's departure from the I Democratic highway. He thought that ~ Tillman's course was such as to de. 2 mand his defeat for disloyalty to the 1 Democracy and the election of his ( competitor, M. C Butler. "Circum- 1 stances alter cases." They seem also '. to alter the political convictions of ouri statesmen, rast and present Will Not Work. The Washington Post says the pro motion of a few professional ofice-seek- ~ ers will not build up a white Republi can party in South Carolina or in any other southern State. Yet the people in that section are quite prepared to place the question of commercial pro gress above politics.1 -May Attain "Sassiety." Gunner Charles Morgan, who accord ing to Admiral Sampson did not possess t enough social accomplishments to hold e a "society commission in the navy may '1 yet get into "society," and acquire t those accomplishments which he so i lately lacked. He has learned to dance c nd is now sung for divorce, f HUNDREDS KILLED: By the Expi aion of Chemicals in a Oerman'Town. THE FACTORY DESTROYED. The Fire Spread to Arj -cent Buildings Igniting Smokeless Powder. People Fied from the Village. One of the most disastrous explosions Dn record oosurred Thursday afternoon at the Electro-Chcmical works near Qriesheim, Ger-nany, where smoakiess powder is manufactured. Most of the boilers exploded. The noise was so tremendous that it was heard at great listanoes, ine'uding Frankfort and Mayenee. The factory immediately became a mass of filmes and a northeast wind oarried the sparks to neighboring vii lages where, several houses were also set on fire. Eighteen cylinders, each containing about 100 hundred-weight of smokeless powder, were in the room where the ex- - plosion occurred. Troops were at once ordered to Gries heim to prevent the fire spreading to the large benzine reservoirs nearby. Fire brigades from every place in the neighborhood hurried to the scene, but owing to the dangerous nature of the isaster and the fear of a renewal of the explosion, the greatest difficulty was experienced in stopping the Pro- - gress of the fire. Only after fisre hours' strenuous effort was the oorfagration to some extent controlled and the dan ger passed, so as to make it possible to begin the work of extricating the bodies [t issfaared that nearly 200 persons' have been killed or injured. The fire continues to burn, although the greater part of the Frankfort fire lepartment and the troops are trying to prevent its spread to the buildings Dutside of the fire zone. Rospitals have been 'improvised in the vicinity, The flames spread with frightful ra pidity to the adjacent buildings and they ran over the river Main to Schwanheim. When a second explosion )ecurred the fumes and muses of burn Ing chemicals made it impossible to tay in the vicinity. The inhabitants of riesheim were ordered to leave their illage, which they did fleeing to Prank lort. The last explosion occurred 7:30 p. n., and when it was ascertained that io further danger was anticipated the habbitante were allowed to return to ;heir homes. At 8:30 the-fire was still buningand ;he work of taking the bqdies from the mins was being carried on by torch ight, gaslight not being obtainable. All railway traffic with Prankfort was stopped during the re, except for ains earring the injured, but it has ince been resumed. Four sheds for dressing the wounds >f the injured have been erected. The'casatrophe originated in a small Ire wich ignited several receptaclesof piroi aid, causing a terrific explosion. Lhe houses adjoining-the factory were partly burned and partly demolished my the violence of explosion. It is still impossible to say definitely how aumerous are the victims. A Shocking Tragedy. A dispatch from Dillo, S. C., to rhe State says: "One ofthe most listressing accidents in the history of aur town occurred at about 2 o'clock llonday afternoon. Mrs. Tucker, wife of Prof. Beverly Tacker of Virginia Military institute has been on a visit to her sister Mrs. Ben. Engerfor.< some-weeki. The~ twoela'dies had not long returned to the house from shop ping. Mrs. Tucker was seated before the fire reading, and in some way her lothing caught fire and in spite of avery effort on the part of Mr. and Mrs. Huger and neignibors who were attracted by the alarm, the unfortunate lady sustained injuries so serious that leath resulted in about thirty hours. Her husband and father were telegraph. ad for at once. Prof. Tucker reached Dillon at 20o'clock Wednesday morning, three hours too late to see his wife alive. The father was intercepted at Richamond by telegraph and informed that the remains would come on the next train, leaving here Wednesday 11 o'clock, accompanied by the bereav ad husband, also Mr. and Mrs. Huger. Mrs. Tucker was the eldest daughter of Prof. Shipp, commandant of the same institution in which her husband is engaged as professor of chemistry. Poor Old China. The Atlanta Journal says there can be little doubt that the real design and hope of the powers in demanding exor bitant indemnities from China is to ivideup the empire among themselves. r'hey certainly know that China cannot raise the $500,000,000 which would be required to pay their aggregated de nands, and such failure would afford he pretext of dismembering 'Jhina and iistributing the pieces. The entire re renues of the Chinese government imount to only about $51,000,000 a rear, which is Diarely sufficient to meet ;he expenses of the governmental ma thinery, crude as it is, and to pay the terest on the $250,000,000 of out tanding Chinese bonds. Chinese ore it was low before the recent compli ations and they have naturally degra ed further. The proper name for the cheme which the powers are working rould be a plot to cut up and appropri to the Chinese empire. Grand Old Hampton. "It is remarkable," says the Charles on News and curler, "how kindly the~ eading Confederate eavalrymen have aken to Republican policies. Mosby, isser, Wheeler, Fitzhugh Lee, and iow Battler. It is a very curious evelopment, but perhaps they could it break themselves of the habit of outing in the enemy's lines." In tead of "scouting" our contemporay vidently ment to say "foraing." As bus amentled the explanation is philo ophic. Yet the greatest Confederate avalaryman of them all holds these >olitical foraging parties in wholesome ontemt-The State.