Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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V(L. XVII. 3ANNING, S. C., WEI)NESDAY. AUGUST 27, 1902. NO.4. RIOT IN PRISON. Exciting Times in Kentucky Peniten tiary. RIOT LASTED FOUR HOURS. The Mtitineers Einally Sarr: n de; One Prisoner Mortally Wound ed and Two Ohers Seri ousdy Shot. A special from Franklfort Ky.. says The otticials of the State penitentiar and the citizens of Frankfurt wer thrown into a state of wild excitemen Wednesday by a riot in the priso started by an attempt to gain thei liberty of three desperate murderers Lafayette Brooks of Morgan county and Wallace Bishop and T. Mulligai of Kenton county. Before the riot, which began at o'clock and lasted until after 10. wa quelled the mutinous convicts wer captured, Bishop being fatally wound ed, Mulligan shot in the shoulder an' a negro convict. Albert Ransome o Louisville. whom the desperadoes ha' pressed into service, was hit by a ril ball. The rioting started while lirouk Mulligan and Bishop. one of whto had a pistol concealed about his per son. were coming out of the dinin room to answer a hospital call. Sud denly one of the convicts drew weapon and compelled Guard A. IL Hill to give up his arms. Guard F. F Hurst who rushed to Gill's assistance was also captured by the convicts Capt. Mat Madigan. acting warden then rushed forward with six guard and fired on the bunch, but no on was wounded. The convicts then ra across the road and at the entrance t the reed department of the chair fac tory captured Willis, of Clark county a foreman. They covered him wit] their pistols and placing him betwee: them and the guards retreated to th rocker department in the chair fac tory, whence they could command good view of the entire yard. At window they stationed Willis. an' Brooks with a revolver in his hands took a position just behind the cap tive. resting the muzzle of the weapoi on the foreman's side. The convict then defied Warden Lillard to attemp to capture them, shouting that the woula kill the foreman at the firs move made against them. By this time several hundred per sons, many of them heavily armed gathered at the prison gates, but th wvarden denied admission to all. H1 issued orders for all the shops to clos and for all the prisoners to be returt ed at once to their cells. He thel placed a guard of 60 men around thi building in which the desperadoe had barricaded themselves and calle' on them to surrender. The convict only reply was a taunt. For the pro tection of Foreman Willis, the warder then determined to starve the des peradoes into submission. James Buckley, former city work~ house keeper, and Morgan Brewer, former guard at the penitentiary climbed to the roof of a residenc overlooking the building in which th convicts had taken refuge and firei several shots into the room where th Sdesperadoes were entrenched. The; were compelled to desist, however. a Foreman Willis was forced to the wir dow in the line of fire. Finally a letter was dropped fron Swindow saying that if the warde: would come to the head of the step leading to the reed department th< convicts would surrender, first send ing their weapons down by Fran: Brooks. Warden Lillard prepared to accep the terms of this note, and as a mat ter of precaution a half dozen convict were placed in the hospital overlooli ing the reed department. Warde: Lillard accompanied by eight me then proceeded to the foot of the stail way. The prisoners emerged from th reed room as they had promised witl hands up. but as they preceeded dow the stairway. Bishop dropped hi! hands to his side as if to daaw a weal on. lie had hardly made motic when one of the ward~en's party tired the bullet striking Bishop in th breast indlicting a fatal wound. When Bishop fell Mulligan an Brooks sank to their knees beggin the warden to save their lives anda 10.30 o'clock the -two desperadoe! heavily shackled and accompanied I ten men with drawn pistols. we. placed in their cells and quiet ha been restored. A Bad Wreck. A regular Pennsylvania train on tt New York and Long Branch railroat bound north, was run into from tl: rear at the Belmar station Tuesda night by a special Central railroad 4 New Jersey train. The Pennsylvam train had stopped at Belmar static to pick up passengers. The Centr; train was running north also and w: empty. The engine of the Centr; train telescoped the rear of tU Pennsylvania train. Six cars wei wrecked, several persons were kilk and a number injured. At midnigi two bodies had been taken from tU wreck. A little girl was killed she was being put aboard the waitir train. The engineer and liremnan the Central train have not been see since the collision. It is believed th( are under the wreckage. The litt girl killed was Alice Biggert, thirtes years old, who lived at Itahway. T~ first body taken out was that ofa unknown man about thirty-five yea of age. The man was poorly dress< and looked to be a laborer. Drowned His Four Children. Joseph Anderson. a farmer livit near Salina, Kansas. in a it of de pondency drowned his fou:- childre three girls and a boy, in a cister and then shot himself with a revt.vt Anderson is probably fatally injure Financial matters had atfected 1 mind. The crime was commnitt during the absence of the mothe The oldest child was six years of a and the youngest a baby of fo months. Anduerson left a note on table, notifying the mother that t: children could be tonnd in the cister WHERE THE MONEY GOES. Eight Hundred Million DollarsSpen by Present Congress. The volume containing statement if appropriations, new offices. etc. required by law to be prepared anc published at the end of Pa:ch "essioi of congress. under the direction of the . committees on appropriations of the senate and the house. has been com pleted for the first session of the 57th congress by Thomas P. Cleaves anc .ames S. Courts. chief clerks respec tivelv of these committees. A summary on the appropriation: shows the grand total of $8.o0o.;24. The details by bills are as folloiws: A \ iricultural, S5. 205. 1(0: arm., +I. t i730,1 36: diplomatic. $1.:57.i125: Dis 1 trict of Columbia. 58.54 .4i : f rtitica tion 7.29,,.55: Indian. ',.966,026: legislative. $25.39n.6S1: military aca demy, $2.627,324: navals. $78,856,363: pension, 139.42.230: postottice, 8138, 416,59S: river and harbor, $26.771.442: sundry civil, 8S0,i3.35: deticiencies. s $28.050.007:miscellaneous. $2.722,795: e isthmian canal. 350.139,000: perman ent appropriations. $123.921,220. in addition to the specific appropria f tions made. contracts are authorized to be entered into for certain works requiring future appropriations by coUngress in the aggregate sum of $262.71.405. These contracts in ctude 521,069.500 for additional ships for the navy and for permanent iu provements of increased facilities a' - certain navy yards: 815,943.650 for a additions to old buildings and the con struction of new public buildings in various cities of the country: $38,336, 160 for improvement of rivers and harbors: 83,500,000 for reconstruction of old and erection of new buildings s at the military aca demy at West e Point. and 8IS0.000,000 for the con 2 struction of an isthmian canal. 0 The new otices and employment of a civilian character, specifically au thorized. number 6.386 with compen 1 sation for the year of 86,343,595, and I those abolished or omitted aggregate e 1,163. at an annual pay of $1,289,080. - a Let increase of 5,221 at a yearly cost a of 85,054,514. In addition to the new civilian em i ployments shown the volume also " shows an increase of 65 in the mili - tary establishments, at an annual cost n of $42,308, and 300 officers (including S 2S5 additional midshipmen) together t with 3.000 seamen in the naval estab Y lishment, and 1,550 additional men in t the marine corps, with total annual pay of S1,343,777. - A comparison of the total appropria tions made at the last session of con e gress for 1903-$800,624,496--with those of the preceding or short session e the 56th congress for 1902-$730.338, - 576-shows and increase of 870.285. 1 920. s TRAGEDY IN HIGH LIFE. Newport Shocked By the Suicide o1 a Disappointed Lover. -Disappointment over a broken matri m nonial engagement is believed to have been the cause of the suicide at New eport. R. I.. of Robert Reading Rem ington, of New York. Mr. Remingtr went over to the club house from his erooms at the La Forge cottage about S1 o'clock Monday afternoon, and, afte: reading the papers for some time, went to the committee rooms on the second flodr. An hour and a half late: atwo muffled reports were heard, but athose in the building paid no attentior Sto them. Later Mr. Remington': body was found by a member who wen1 to the committee room. Remingtor kevidently had been dead for some time. A local undertaker took charge of the t body. Mr. Remington was well knowr among the summer residents of New port and had been closely identifiet Swith the social world of that resor1 nfor the last seven or eiglit years. Hi, engagement to Miss May Van Alen daughter of James Van Alent anc egranddaughter of Mrs. William Astor t irst it was denied and then attirmed -but it is generally believed there wa a definite engagement, which, hov: never, was broken some three week ago. It is said that Mr. Van Aler was greatly opposed to the engage ment fromn the beginning. d Since then Mr. Remington has beer gdespondent. although when aske< t about the engagement he steadily af firmed that he was to be married ir the fall. He left the city about ter edays ago. breaking up his domesti d arrangements and sending away al his effects. On Thursday of last week however, he suddenly returned t< Newport. lie had frequented thi e ileading clubs of Newport. but seemer , to desire to be left alone. e When the body was discovered blvoo y was coming from the mouth and a re f volver was found by the dead man; a side. A physician found that threi n shots had been tired from the re . volver. and an examination of thi s head showed that all three had take: t etfect. The first bullet apparentl, e ploughed across the forehead, cuttin: ea deep gash, and the second glance dup over the head, making a furrow oi it the top of the cranium, but still no e entering the skull. The thizd sho s was fired through the mouth and thi bullet entered the brain, death prob >fably resulting instantly. The revolve nwas a 38-calibre. yMr. Remington was about 35s year e of age and a member of the firm ( n Remington Brothers, of New York en Ie always had been known as a mal nof very quiet taste. Ihis death ha s caused a tremenous sensation i dNewport. Girl Murdered in Kentucky. Zoda, the tifteen-year-old daughtec of C. M. Vick, a prominent farmer I- lussellville, Ky., was killed Wednes i'y in slight of her father's house S h'e haid gone to a spring for wate: r- and faiing to return, a search was ir d stituted. Later the body, with th Sh."ad crushed, was found in a fen. corner. partly covered with leave: r One hundred men with bloodhound e have gone to the scene of the crim< r aind if the gzuilty person shall I. a caught a lynching wilt follow. Tih e Vick home is about five miles fror FOR THE TRUSTS. A Pair of Labor Union Haters on the Bench. WOULD STARVE ALL STRIKERS. They Think that Working Men Have No Rights W h i c h Trusts Are Bound to Respect. The "vampire" speech made by Judge Jackson of West Virginia when he fixed extreme penalties on the labor representatives who were work ing for their order is one of those ut terances that have in them the ele iments of all sorts of dissatisfaction and disturbance. Periodically there comes to the bench a man who is absolutely out of sympathy with the spirit of his time. and such a one is very likely to regard his elevation to the position as a war rant for assuming that he is privileged to hector and scold as well as to tix penalties and decide disputes. These are the judges who are most given to usiug their power of commit ment for contempt of court. The men Judge Jockson has sent to jail for periods of two and three months disregarded the injunction that forbade them to persuade men to join a labor union. It will be a long time before America is ready to ac cept the ruling of this court that talk ing to the employees of a particular concern is an offense so grave that a sweeping injunction can make it con tempt of court. That such a ruling is of use to the Clarksburg Fuel company is obvious, and there have been judges who have found warrant of law for prohibiting anything that rich corporations found to their disadvantage. Does anybody believe that if the Miners' union applied to this or any other judge for an injunction prohibit ing the Clarksburg Fuel company from inducing its employees to remain outside the union they would ge; even a hearing? The description of the union organ izers as "vampires that live and fatten on the honest labor of the coal miners of the country * * * and have noth ing in common with the people who are employed in the mines of the Clarks burg Fuel company" Is part of Judge Jackson's trade. Certainly the dignity of the courts is more jeopardized by such a revela tion of temper and bias on the part of a judge than it ever could be by the disregard of his injunctions. The lawyers who practice before Judge Jackson "have nothing in com men" with the litigants they repre sent. but he would hardly describe them as vampires. The walking delegates are a part of the sceme of unionizing labor-a scheme that has done more for the betterment of conditions among those who toil than any other element of our civilization. Without their un ions the employees of any cor poration are utterly at its mercy. By concerted action they can make a stand against injustice that they never could do as individuals. Without the organizers there would be no unions, a situation that would doubtless satisfy the own ers of coal mines and possibly Judge Jackson, but one that would be mel ancholy for the men who have to work with their hands. The last word as to government by injunction has not been spoken in this country by any means. The power to punish for contempt of court was given judges as a pro tection to tnemselves at their ses sions. It was n-ever meant to create new crimes or to furnish a weapon for employers as against their men. Th 3re is another aspect of this case. Every person before a court is required to treat that court with respect and courtesy. The obligation of the par ticular citizen who happens to be chosen to sit in judgment on his fel lows to treat others with respect and courtesy is equally binding. The judge who is there to decide the rights and wrongs of disputes and administer the law generally, is neither a preacher nor a professor of morals. Sermons and lessons are as far from his luties as abuse and tyranny. Calling men vampires because they are intrusted by their fellows with a function of which Judge Jackson dis approves is neitheir law nor manners. ** * * * * * * * * * * One more crime has been added to the catalogue. Judge Jackson by his Injunctions made it a pumishabhle offense to ask a coal miner to join a labor union, and now Judge Keller, another WVest Vir ginila jurist haz issued injunctions for bidding ibhe establishment of strike camps, which are established in con netion with she purchase and distri buton of food for the striking miners. SThe lawbreaking .railroads, which mine coal illegally and In detiance of rtheir charters, are to be congratulated on the presence on the bench of two a such convenient justices as these. t If they do not win the strike, it will not he the fault of~ Judge Jackson and Judge Keller. - The splendid response of the union r conference in the matter of strike ben eits made it impossible for the coal s operators to carry out their beneticent f scheme of starving the strikers into .abandoning their union, so this in ajunction. directed at the leaders of the s national executive committee and oth i e-s charged with the duty of providing supplies for the men who art: out on s~trike. comes along in the v'ery nick of time. r The encroachment on the liberty of f the miners is greater with every cx - ample of this misuse of the power of .the federal injunction. -There was a time in the history of the struggle between capital and its e employees that it was a serious penal e olense for a man to accept or demand .more than a rate of wages so low that s t seems incredible that workmen were . able to live at all. It was no mere e make believe law either and was but e tressed hy another that made it pun ishable by imprisonment to refuse to work: at the prevailing rate. It was from this condition of slav ery that labor unions rescued the men who do the world's work. The injunction principle would again bind the hands of labor and make it absolutely dependent on the generosity of employers. It is not for the law to say that men shall not join unions for their mutual benefit or that they shall not endeavor to get others to join them or that they k shall not form camps or do anything else that is not in itself unlawful, and when the law is turned and bent to make there things criminal, to the end that some man or set of men may hire workers cheaply, there is engendered a contempt for laws that may not al ways be confined to the judge-made rulings. The progress of labor has been over the wrecks of just such obstacles as these, and it is absurd to suppose that this progress can be halted row. The injunctions of Judge Jac son and .Judge Keller will never become prece dents. Whether they are sustained for the present or not, they will soon be overruled by the court of public opinion. against the decision; of which no injustice can stand .n a free coun try. Within a generation these injunc tions will he as great curiosities in the history of the struggle for better con diti, s for laboring men as the old law refe. red to above that made it a crime to refuse work for a small and arbi trarily set rate of wages. The law is what the people make it. and the people of the United States will never be a party to the erection of such tyrannical and one-sided rulings as these into part of the legal system. -New York American and Journal. A Sad Tragedy. A special from Yorkville says: Early Wednesday morning, at Pleasant Ridge, about eighteen miles above here, in Gastonia County, N. C., Jesse Farris shot and wounded Harvey Dick son and a short time afterwards shot and killed himself. Both parties are well known white citizens of that section. The facts surrounding the tragedy are as follows; Farris had had trouble with his family and as a re sult had not been living at home for more than a year. Yesterday he re turned in a bad humor, being intoxi cated. His wife and daughter were afraid to stay in the house with him without protection, and asked Dick son. a neighbor, to come and stay in their home during the night and un til the husband and father became sober. Dickson came to the house after dark, and he and Farris sat on the front piazza and talked in a friend ly manner for an hour or more, at the end of which time Dickson retired to the room that had been assigned him. Subsequently Farris went to Dickson and said that he was going to shoot him, and said to his family that "the lights will burn all night tonight." Dickson was not alarmed at the threat and only realized that it was not an idle one when some time later a load of shot was emptied into his thigh from a gun fired through an open win dow by Jesse Farris. Immediately after tiring the shot Farris went to the rear of the house and shot him self through the head, dying in a short time from the wound. It is said that Dickson will recover, his wound not being serious. A noadmaster Killed. Roadmaster Fred Stevers of Stev ers, Va., was shot and killed and Jim Mithell, a negro porter, was danger ously wounded in a fight with disor derly negroes on a southbound Sea board Air Line train near Middleburg, Va. The negroes had taken seats in the coach reserved for whites. Con ductor Clements ordered them to the coach for negroes. The negroes pro tested but obyed the order. When in the "jim crow" coach one of the ne groes, named Joe Cole, struck at the conductor Roadmaster Stevers came to the conductor's rescue. The negro pulled a pistol and Stevers clasped him around the body, but the negro twist ed his arm around, and getting his pistol against Stevers' head, shot him, Stevers falling dead on the coach floor. Mitchell the porter rushed towards Cole as he pointed the pistol at Con ductor Clements and was shot in the abdomen. Passengers captured three of the participants and two jumped from the train, escaping to the woods. Blood hounds have been sent from Weldon to chase them down. The dead body of Stevers was put off at Henderson and Jim Mitchell, the colored porter, was brought to Raleigh where an operation was performed on him. Thue physicians fear he will die. Murdered llis Landlord. The coroner's jury investigating the robbery and murder of Watkins New man and the partial cremation of his body in his home near Jefferson City, Tenn., reported Wednesday, recom mending the arrest of William Wat kins. The accused was a witness be fore the jury and was at once taken into custody anid jailed at Morristown, Tenn. The testimony brought out showed that Newman had been mur dered, tied to his bed and the house set on ire. ils arms and legs were burned oti, and an examination showed that robbery had also been committed. All the testimony was damaging to Watkins. but that of C. T. Rankin, a lawyer, was especially so. Watkins had been ejected from one of New man's houses and went to Rankin to consult him concerning a suit for dam ages. lie asked the attorney what would be the etfect on the suit if Newman was out of the way and could not testify. lie made the assertion three times in his attorney's presence that he would get even with Newman. Other arrests are expected. Sunk In the Sea. A dispatch from Yokohoma, Japan says the little island of Orishima was overwhelmed by a volcanic eruption between August 13 and August 15. and all the inhabitants, numbering 150 persons, were undoubtedly killed. The island is covered with volcanic debris and all the houses on it have disappeared. The eruption is still proceeding and is accompanied oy sub marine eruptions in the vicinity which make it dangerous for vessels to ap proach the island. The Orishima is one of a chain of islands extending between the Bonin Islands and liondo, the iggest island of .Tapan. A RACE RIOT. Six Persons Seriously Wounded in a Fight In Mississippi. TROUBLE CAUSED BY NEGROES. Incited by a Mouthy Preacher. They Have Secretly Organized and Armed Themselves for Unlawful Purposes. Six persons seriously shot and a number injured is the reported result of a race riot in the south end of Lee County, near Shannon, Miss., which was reported to be still in progress on the 20th inst. Three negroes and three white men are badly injured and others probably more or less so. This is the result of a race riot par ticipated In by a secret organization of negroes firing upon and wounding the Eubank brothers while on their own premises. The shooting occurred on Tuesday, soon after dark. Passes In pursuit had a lively encounter with the negroes six miles south of Shannon Wednesday evening, when more or less shooting was done. One white man and three negroes were badly wounded and several more negroes were slightly hurt. Other posses were in pursuit at last accounts and the affair was not yet over. A dispatch from Tupelo, Miss., dated the 21st inst., says: Deputy Sheriff Temple has just reached the city, with eight desperadoes bound with chains and under a heavy guard. He reports 500 men under arms and says great excitement prevails. For some months negroes at Shan don and Nettleton have been giving considerable trouble, secret societies being formed under the guidance of a former school teacher or preacher. These organizations are said to be for the purpose of resisting white men and protecting negroes in deeds of lawlessness. The alleged instigator of the serious outbreak is a negro preacher named Jeff. Rogers. He has been held under suspicion by the whites for some time as a bad character. He is a negro of some education and has considerable influence in his church. The first serious trouble broke out some time ago, when a negro named Giles Jackson assaulted the Lauder dales in a corn field, seriously wound ing them. About a month ago this negro died in the county jail from wounds inflicted while resisting arrest. A few days ago a negro was seen tak ing corn from a field belonging to Mr. Eubanks, who lives close to Shannon, and when spoken to about it he be came insolent and defiant and a war rant was sworn out for his arrest. On Tuesday evening a son of Eu banks, living just across the road, no ticed a number of negroes congregat ing around his house. ie supposed they meant to attack his home, and he crossed the road and joined his father and younger brother. Shortly after Eubanks went to his father's house a command to tire was given, and a blinding volley rang out from the guns carried by the negroes. Both of the younger Eubanks were hit and badly wounded. After the shooting of the Eubanks orothers the whites immediately or ganized themselves into an armed posse to bring to justice the guilty negroes. Wednesday evening, headed by Marshal Randolph, of Nettleton, and Marshal Irby, of Shannon, this posse went after two members of the negro mob, who were supposed to be hiding in a cabin about six miles from Shannon. The posse reached the cab in and ordered the door opened, but the command was unheeded. After waiting a moment Randolph pushed the door open. He was met by a vol ley of birdshot and fell across the threshhold, with blood gushing from his face and shoulders. The negroes ran out of the house, over the pros trate officer. They were met by a volley from the posse, and three ne groes were injured so badly that they were left lying on tne ground. The others escaped in the darkness, some leaving behind traces of their wounds. A deputy has returned from Shan non and reports everything quiet there now. A Murdered Girl. The Spartanburg Journal says: Miss Minnie Mitchell, who was cruelly mur dered in Chicago. a few days ago, was a sister of Robert H. Mitchell, who married Miss Minnie Trimmier. of Spartanburg, and who is well known here. The Chicago papers recently have contained long stories of this brutal and sensational murder. The body of the young lady was found bured under some rubbish in the very heart of the city, where it was discov ered several days after the murder had been committed. A bullet hole was found in her head and her clothes were badly torn, which showed there had been a struggle. The American, one of Chicago's leading newspapers. has taken great interest in the affair, having offered a reward of $1,000 for the capture of the murderer. whose identity has been ferretted out by the reporters of that newspaper. His na me is Wnm. Bartholin and he was a suitor for Miss Mitchell's hand. Every effort 'is being made for his capture. Nearly a MillIon Pensioners. Congress has been running a race with death, and congress has won, says the Baltimore Sun. The civil war pensioners are now dying at a rapid rate, and yet the pension list is in creasing. Thirty-seven years after the close of tbhe war there are more pensioners than ever before. The number lacks only 67~4 of being a round million. This was an increase of 7,927 since 1899. The experts say it is the high-water mark, and that from now on the increasing death rate will decrease the pension list. This has been predicted each year for the past twenty years, but each time con gress has rallied to the rescue of the list and added more names than aceath TRAIN WRECKER ARRESTED. Two Unsuccessful Attempts Mad Near Chester. The crime of train wrecking is gen erally supposed to have been contem poraneous with that of train robbing But while trains are not wrecked fre quently nowadays, it is because th railroads, through their "sectioi bosses" keep a superb patrol of th great highway of commerce, and frus trate whatever attempts are made. A bold attempt to wreck the South ern's fact train between Columbia an Charlotte a few nights ago failed mi raculously, and a subsequnt attemp1 the night following also failed. Ther will be no more attempts for tr negro tiend is in jail. The arrest wa: made by Mr. Geo. W. Bishop, specia agent of the Southern railroad. The fast train which left Columbir at 6.25 last Thursday evening ran int< an obstruction at the Shannon plac just beyond Cornwell's. The engine was going at a mighty clip, something like G miles an hour, and the obstruc tion was on a curve. It is marvelous that the train was not derailed especially when the nature of th< obstruction is known. Flat on the outer rail on the curvy was placed a piece of flat iron aboul an inch thick and four feet long. Thi: itself was almost enough to throw the wheels of the engine from the track Back of this was placed a "fish-plate or piece of iron which is used to ti( the ends of rails. This was almost sure agent of destruction. But t< make the thing doubly sure, the would be wrecker placed on each rail a flin1 rock weighing 125 pounds. When the great engine struck thin co.abination of obstructions it hurler the iron bar far into a field nearby tossed the "fish-plate" to one side an( pushed the rocks from the track. Friday night the attempt was re peated; this time a smaller rock was used. There was some delay in re porting the matter, but in less that two days after he got the informatior Mr. Bishop had secured a confessior from John Wallace, a negro boy 11 years old, who lives near thescene : the attempted wreck. The section master suspected a cer tain negro, but the latter, in proving his innocence, threw some light or the crime and stated that two or threw negroes whom he named had beer seen in the neighborhood about thai hour. An old plantation darkey cor roborated this statement. John Wal lace was among the boys named. Mr Bishop found the boy and charges him with the crime. Wallace wilte< and his suspicious actions led to hip arrest. On the way to the jail he ad mitted having made the second at tempt but denied responsibility fol the first. He had no motive excep that he wanted to do something devil ish. When visited by his parents at jai John Wallace was asked what he dit with his younger brother with whoa he had started to church. It developer that Wallace had protested againsi the younger boy going with him, an< when they arrived near the scene o his intended crime he left his brothe: on some pretext and slipped down the railroad track. After some evasiot he finally confessed his guilt in the first attempt. He wou'd have used more elaborate methods the secon< night but was frightened by the ap proach of the train. It is ditficult to appreciate the enor mity of this attempted crime. Johb Wallace waited for the short train, c local, to go by, and his efforts were di rected against the vestibule which fo: lows shortly afterwards. This trait carries upwards of 150 persons ever; day. From the topography of the lo cality, the speed of the train, etc. it is easy to believe that the loss c life would have been appalling. The law, it is said, is not severi enough. Last year over in Lexingtoi county an attempt was made to wrecl a passenger train coming down the hill at Leesville. A spike was driver securely between the ends of rails an< a link used in coupling was throwr over the spike, making a formidabli obstruction. A white man passing the spot say the obstruction and with a lightwoo< knot drove the spike from its securi position. It required frantic effort: to remove the spike before the trair came rushing by with 143 person: aboard. The guilty party, a negro was caught and was given 18 month: in jail, but little more than an ordin ary thief would be given. A railroa< man said Wednesday that the authol of an unsuccessful attempt at trai: wrecking should be sentenced for lif with the stipulation that a pardor by a governor would not be recognize in such a case. Big Fire in Georgetown. A special from Georgetown says A about 5 o'clock Wednesday afternoor tire was discovered up-stairs In the large store of the Atlantic Coast Lum er Company, and in a few minute: the flames burst through the roof an< the store room became a mass of seeth ing flames. The alarm was soundet promptly and the entire departmen responded. and soon eight streams o: water were pouring into the immenst wooden two-story structure, abou two hundred feet front and about one hundred feet deep. The whole build ing was practically destroyed, only shell remaining, and the foundation! and lower floor: the amount of loss be ing estimated at between $30.000 an' $40,000. The store and stock, it i reported, were valued at $75,000, witl about $70.000 insurance. But for the fact that this company has a completa system of waterworks for its own prc tection it is most likely that the flames would have spread to the ad joining, buildings the nearest beini the Atlantic Hotel, and resulted in far more disastrous conflagration. T wo Boys Drowned. A dispatch to The State says Leo: Phinizy, 13 years, and Van Veronee 12 years, inmatcs of the Charlesto: Orphan House, were drowned Frida at the annual outing at the Isle c Palms. Benjamin Hlarrington, 1 years, narrowly missed the same fate being rescued by Rudolph Claus, wh< happened to be in the surf at the same time. There were about 301 people In the water, Including th matrons and caretakers. The thre< boys were particularly venturesome. TWO FIGHTS AT A MEETkNG. e Sloan and Verner l ix Up in Rich land County. - Richland County took the cake At one of her political meetings las1 week two personal encounters tool place-one between W. McB. Sloan e and Gen. J. S. Verner, candidates fo i master, and the other between Georg e W. Taylor and S. H. Owens and Dr L. B. Owens. W. McB. Sloan, candidate for mas - ter, spoke first, and was followed by I Gen. Verner. Near the close of hi - speech Mr. Verner stated that Mr. L Sloan had run for five offices sincg D Christmas. Mr. Sloan asked that the offices bE s named. I Mr. Verner started his enumeration with the office of liquor commissioner, L Mr. Sloan-Yes, and you promised > to support me, but you did not do it. 3 One or two sharp words passed while the two candidates stood face to face, i almost touching each other. The lie - was given and blows passed, the can s didates being sepdrated with difficulty, though the stand quickly filled with 3 people. After the meeting a reconciliation 3 was effected between the two candi t dates for master. s The two candidates for probate 3 judge then spoke, and Fred Harmon, the first candidate for county super visor, was heard attentively. He was followed by S. H. Owens, L who said that the eounty did owe a note for $19,000 as the result of last - year's indebtenness, but that the note t would have been liquidated but for Mr. Campbell's death. Neither he a nor any commissioner had ever ap I pointed a negro. The records show , that during Mr. Romanstine's admin I istration a negro overseer had served. G. C. Romanstine's platform was - good roads and the financial status of the county open to all. He reviewed - his former charges of extravagance i under the Owens administration. i There was a great deal of disturb i ance during Mr. Romanstine's speech. ) S. H. Owens and W. P. Bookter, the f chairman, became engaged in an alter cation, and it seemed as if a difficulty - wouid occur in the spectators' ranks. Captain Sligh urged the turbulent 1 crowd in an eloquent speech to keep a cool in respect to their rights-as citi i zens and also the ladies present. b When order was restored Mr. Ho. manstine continued and said that - there were $30,000 more than he had . previously stated now past due. Mr. I Owens had said that this was saddled I upon him when he went into the office. s Andrew J. Roberts then spoke. - During Mr. Roberts' speech be was - at a great disadvantage because of r a personal encounter which occurred t on the outskirts of the audience be - tween Dr. L. B. Owens and S. H Owens with Geo. W. Taylor. The l audience adjourned in a body to the I scene of action where the combatants i lay struggling upon a wood pile, I peacemakers vainly attempting to t separate .them. They were finally I gotten apart and Capt..W. H. Sligo f again addressed the audienc e urging r them to preserve order. Wedded Her Uncle. SA special'dispatch from Augusta tc Sthe State says Miller Walker hall, the Spublic auditorium used for all the big society dances and concerts, was thi scene Thursday night of a most un usual occurrence. Before an audience 2of nearly 200 Jews Miss Rachel r Lichenstein was married to Mr. Solo. .mon Lichenstein. The marriage It - itself was nothing unusual, but the 1feature of the occasion was the fact that the bride had married her fa ther's brother, a watch tinker. The marriage took place on the stage of g the hail and after the ceremony the bride occuppied the prominent positior Sas star actor for quite thirty minute: 2 while she was viewed by the audience SFollowing the marriage ceremony the couple and their friends had a mos1 elaborate supper on the third floor o: S the same building. There was con siderable discussion throughout thi e city Wednesday over the fact that thi woman was marrying her own uncle, v The wedding was to have occurred some months ago, but was postponed on account of the death of the bride's Sgrandfather, the father of the groom Killed at a Meeting. s At a county campaign meetini Sheld Tuesday, August 19, at ilson's s Store, in the upper section of Green - ville county, 'Carey Styles shot and Skilled Walter McCarrell and seriousl.l Swounded his younger brother. Emme1 SStyles, and Earnest McCarrell. Style Shas been arrested. The shooting tooli Splace about 200 yards from where thi candidates were speaking. Eye wit nesses say that Earnest McCarrell and Emmet Styles were engaged in a fight, t when Carey Styles appeared and begat a shooting-his first bullet striking hih own brother in the 1eg. Styles ther - shot Earnest McCarrell in the right s arm, and upon the appearance of Wial i ter McCarrell Styles fired at him, pro. - ducing instant death. Used The "Water Cure." The papers in the case of Capt. James A. Ryan, Fifteenth cavalry, who was tried by general court mar tial by order of the president on charges of administering the "water .cure" to natives in Philippines, have been received at the war department, and when considered by Judge Advo tate General Davis, will be forwarded to the president. Capt. Ryan did not deny administering the water cure, but insisted that it was necessary in order to accomplish results. On ac count of the preponderance of the testimony in favor of Capt. Ryan, it is understood that the court acquitted him. 3. A Chapter on Boys. Many bad boys would be good boys if given as much attention as the 1 average hunting dog or trotting horse. Boys will be boys; and they will be gentlemen, too, If properly taught. There are as many ways of training f boys properly as there are boys. Boys 3 who are led thrive better than boyt who are driven. It is useless to ex pect manly boys if we have no manly fathers. Tbe man who cannot re ) member that he was once a boy is ~ a very poor hand at interesting boys. 3 Boys follow example better than they do pnent.-The Commooner. SIXTEEN KILLED. Terriffic Explosion of Two Steel Digesters. VICTIMS MANGLED AND BURNED Details of a Blood-Curdling Occur rence in Delaware Pulp Mills. The Worst Is Yet to Be Told. Many Persons Are Missing. A special from Wilmington, Del., says sixteen workmen are known to have been killed, six are missing and three others are badly injured by the explosion of two steel digesters in the Delaware Pulp mills, in the Jessup & Moore Paper company's works, on the Christiana, Wednesday afternoon. The dead are; Frank-Harris, Wm. Burke, James Nagle, John McCormick, Zacharius Collins, colored, Jas. Stokes, Joseph Lumbacher and Granville Wa ters. The missing: William Scott, Joseph Henry, Joel Hutton and Wm. Ruth, firemen; E. H. Mousley and James Sweeney. The injured: James Jeter, badly burned, recovery doubtful; Jobn Col lins, burned and inhaled flames; Geo. Durham, burned and scalded, recovery doubtful. The digesters were located in a two story building. There were ten of them in the building, each one resembling a vat and about six feet in diamete They were used for reducing wood pulp. Eighteen men were at work in the building. There were two ter rific reports, and the next instant the building and other mills about the structure were completely wrecked, One digester was blown into the air and fell to the ground 250 feet away. A dense volume -of smoke for a time prevented the outside workmen from going to the immediate rescue of those who were caught in the ruins Of the falling building. Several men made their escape without any injury. An alarm of fire was sounded and the entire department of the city and a large force of policemen were soon on the ground and the work of rescue was immediately begun. Several of the workmen were taken out uncon scious, only to die after being removed to hospitals. The wreckage was piled up for more than thirty feet and the escaping-team made the work of res cue rather difficult. Those who were killed outright were. mangled and burned by escaping acid that flowed over their bodies from the broken digesters. Up to this-writing eight persons are dead, and according to the officials of the company at least r six others are in the ruins. To add -- the horror of the situa tion, the wreckage took fire, but after some difficulty the fire department managed to subdue the flames and the work of rescue was continued. Steam was used in the digesters. The officers of -the company think that too much steam was generated in them and that this was the cause of the explosion. The monetary loss is estimated at $35,000. Four Lost Their Lives. The bodies of two Londoners and -two guides who started August 19 to ascend the Wetterhorn, one of the highest mountains of Switzerland, and who did not return, have been found by a search party near the summitof the mountain. Two of the party were -- apparently killed by lightning and two met their deaths by falls. Two bodies only were recovered by the rescue party. They were those of E. B. Frearon and a guide named Bravand. Both bodies were blackened by light ning and still roped together. The handle of the guide's Ice axe, which was found in the snow on the summit of the Wetterborn, had been split by the lightning. The guide's body was partly consumed and his skull was crushed. NTo traces of the bodies of the other two of the party were found. It Is believed, however, that after having been overtaken by a storm on August 20, they were blown over a precipice into the Wetterkessel gorge, where they were hidden by the snow. It Can't Be Done. It is reported that one of .the great eastern railroads is to abolish the cus tom of kissing goodby at its depots. The musty, fussy officials claim that the time table is deranged, trains are delayed and train service demoralized by the awful practice. Well, what of it? Let it be known once for all that kissing is beyond and above train schedules and such unimportant mat ters, and 'not an order of a rail road company or a municipal ordinance or an avt of congress can have any et feet whatever upon it. Nothing short of direct intervention of Provi dence can or will affect the ancient and honorable custom of kissing one's relatives, friendsor sweetheartsgoodby at a railroad depot. After the Brute. Search for the unknown assailant of Miss Coda Vick, daughter of Charles Vick, a prosperous farmer near Russellville, Ky., who was as saulted and murdered as her home Friday night, is being pushed with renewed vigor. A reward of $500 has been raised by the citizens to supple ment the $300 reward offered by Gov ernor Beckham for his capture. All business houses are closed in the city to allow the merchants to participate in the search. In response to a re quest from the sheriff of Logan coun ty, Governor Beckham has ordered' out the Russellville military company to preserve order and prevent a lynch ing in the event of .the murderer of Miss Vick being captured. A Bad Spirit. Gov. Candler, of Georgia, announced Friday that he had not and would not quit politics. He says he will never again run for another office, as he has held everything in the gift of the people except United States senator, and does not want that job. because his friends are the senators. "I ex pect to remain in politics, though, because I have got friends I want to help and enemises I want to punish. I never forget my friends or my ene