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THE TESTIMON0_Y. [Cootinued from page one.j on the outer edge of the pavement nenar the station: that Mr. Gonzales was on the inside of the pavement near the stat ion door when the shot was ired. witih his side to Tillman as if lie was going arunk tI:e three men walk ijr abreast: t \.t Mi Tillman said nothing until he tired. when jst as he tired he said. *I. received your t:es sage," -or like words: that as the snot wvas tired a lady very near to Mr. Gon 7.alesalmost within touching distaitce. screamed and ran oT. whereupon one of the gentlemen who had lb-een wit i Mr. Tiliman ran after her and toul her across t he street: ibat when .1: Tillman tired lie ralsed his pi-.1Q agair. as if he intended to repeatl shot, when Mr Gonzales said solu thing to him which (eponl eit did Iot understand, and that tihere was a - tleman about t i att ile wOo.o . tween Mr. Tiliran and M. Gozales but deponent did not know iil tNat Mr. Gonzales held himself up after the shot and if armed had plenty of tie in which to use his weapon. but he made no effort of that sort. August Schiedeman: Personally comes before me Joseph R. Allen, who being duly sworn, says: I was standing at my desk the day of the shooting looking at Mr. N. G. Go zales walking towards the State house. His hands were in his overcoat pocket and am positive his thumbs were out side. Mr. Gonzales appeared to be par ticularly pleased over something. I never saw the shot but stepped to the left as soon as the shot was tired and saw nothing as a street car was be tween us. Then I stepped outside my office and saw next a lady walking rapidly and a gentleman following close behind her. The next thing that I saw was James H. Tillman, who came around the car and turnedwalk ing north. He had a pistol in his hand with a very small barrel-a black pis tol. Tillman had his head turned to - the right, watching the opposite side walk. Then Policeman Boland cne and arrested him. The policeman walked up within four or tive feet of him; they stopped and Boland said "I am an otticer," and pulled his coat open and showed his badge. They were not over six feet forn me. I could not hear what Tillman said, but he did not want to give up the pistol, but 'Boland took it out of his hand and car ried him over to the station house. There was some further conversation between them which I did not hear, but I heard Boland say, "I cannot al low a prisoner to be armed." lust as Tillman came around the car Mr. N. G. Gonzales appeared in view on the posite sidewalk, between two men, -r. LaMotte being one of them, Mr. Gonzales' head swinging from side to side. Joseph R. Allen. Personally appeared W. F. Stieglitz. who. on oath says: 1 am a merchant in the city of Columbia, doing business in sporting goods and a gun and lock smith. On the afternoon before the day of the shooting of N. G. Gonzales by J. H. Tillman, Mr. F. I Dominick -came into my store and owed me a magazine for a Luger pistol and said wanted one like it. I told him I did not have one but could repair the one he had. He said he wanted it at once and I told him I could not repair it at once for him, for some time was required for the glue to dry, but if he *would leave it he could get it early the next morning. He then said. "All right," left the magazine with me and went out. Mr. Dominick came in next morning about 9 o'clock. 1 handed him the magazine. He then exhibit ed a Luger automatic pistol, saying this is what takes the magazine, slid ing in the magazine as he spoke. Hie asked me the charges for repairing. I told him that I would charge him nothing;, he thanked me and went out. Since the shooting of Mr. N. G. Gon zales I have seen a Luger automatic ~pistol. said to be the same one used bJ. H. Tillmnan, and the magazine m , *said pistol appears to be the samel magazine that I repaired at the re qest of Mr. Dominick. A few days -atr the shooting 1 was sent for by M1r. J. F. Walker, clerk of the court for Richland county, and I went to his office. He showed mec a Luger automa tic pistol. He wanted me to extract the loaded cartridges from the barrel, as he could not operate it. I did so and it was then that I noticed the magazine, containing several loaded cartridges, a'ppeared to be the same one that I had repaired. W. F. Stileglitz. Personally appeared before me a no tary public of South Carolina. W. J. Huiet, Mark Toney, Willie Clark, T. R Denny, C. J. Terrell, Lewis Hlolmes, C. B. Boatwright. J. H. A. Williams and M. W. Clark, of the county and State aforesaid, who, being duly sworn s: That they each for himself know Richard Holsonbacke, who is a resi dent of Edgefield county, and that the each for himself know Richard Hosnbacke's general reputation for truth and veracity in the neighborhood in which he lives and it is bad; and from his general reputation deponents would not believe any statement made under oath by the said Richard Hlol sonbcke. M. W. Clark, W. J1. Huiet,, Mark Toney, T. R. Denny, C. J. Terrell, Lewis Holmes, C. B. Boatwright, J. H. A. Williams, Willie Clark. Sworn to before me this 14th day of February, 1903. Win. Toney, Notoary Public for S. C. Personally comes William Toney, of Johnston, S. C., in the County of Edge field, State of South Carolina, who. being duly sworn, says: That he is rsonally acquainted with Richard ~olsonbake of county and State above named; that on or about the 17th day of January, he, Lewis Holmes, and Richard Holsonbacke engaged in con versation in the store of C. H. Pech man, in the town of Johnston, in the county and State aforesaid, late in the afternoon; that said conversation was relative to the shooting of N. G. Gon sales by Lieut. Gov. .T. H. Tillman. That the said Richard Holsonbacke said he was an eyewitness to the affair. That he heard Tillman say. "I got your message." and then puzlled his pistol and tired. That when asked for further particulars, he, the said Rich ard Holsonbacke. replied. "That's every damn thing I know about the case. Wiiliam Toney. Before me personally appears Lewis Holmes of Wards townshmp, in the county of Edgetlid, S. C., who. bemog duly sworn. ssys: That he and Rtichara Holsonbacke reside in the same town ship; that he has kncwn said Richard Holsonbacke for over twenty years; that on or about the 10th day of Janu ary, 1903, at Thomas Holmes' place (new house) in said county, at about the hour of 3 p. in., deponent engaged in conversation with C. B. Boat wrighlt. Thomas Holmes. Willie Clark, and said Richard Hlolsonbacke: that dur ing said conversation said Plichard Holsonbacke exhibited a letter and re *marked that he had been given ten dollars, and produced same: that said money was given him to payx his ex penses to Columbia. S. C.: that ne was going to get a job. but did not think he would get it. and that he had somne .other business in view th~a would p.y him much better. or wo'rds to that e' fect: that said money conisste~d of Iwo tive doilar bills. Lewis Hlolmes. Personally comes William J1. ('ark of woa twnship. in t he count y of Edgeek, S C.. who beit;: duly sworn says: That he has read the attached afltidarit of Lewis Holmes and that the matters and things therein stated are substantially true. W illie Clark. Personally aopears 0. 1. Blac who, being sworn, says: I ami the rnag man between Columbia. S. C.. and Jacksonville. Ila. I was formerly on the run betweeon (3'0ol1)t u A Augusta.Ca. A t timLe iicn. Jam1S: H. Tiliumn~:~u was~~ com,~ing to Coluia to count the " iC. naiots, about t 10; V IM efr Wit shoot ing of N. ( n. : es. I wa' 'aa - between asI Ad . ut and heard tile i. Iillnafn say. in the caii, r ". I ;at he was going to whin 0or li aid N. GGonzales. Along n Novez 'her I ws in the Albion hotei .i ugu1ia, With saia .. 1. Tillman and 'i I saw a blue steel nagazine pistol: said James 11. Tillman intimat ed to me that was the pistol he in tended to kill N. G. Gonzales with. I said. "Don't kill him. whip him.' Tillman replied. "_Bv God, I am going to kill him." Said Tillman pulled the pistol above referred to out of his hip pocket. 0. 1). Black. Personally comes W. B. (ause. a member of ie legislature of the State of South Carolina from the county of I Florence, who being duly sworn says: , That on the 13th day of January, 1943. deponent met lames II. Tiliman. then I lieutenant governor of the State of I State of South Carolina. in company with several members of the .house of representatives: that while said men bers, in Company with said Tillman and said deponent, were here in the city of Columbia, the question was asked as to were we Were stopping. . Some of the :entem en's named their respective lodging houses and others t told whe-e they were stopping, where- t upon Gov. Tillman spoke tip and said, v "When I left home I did not tell my f wife where I was going to stop at. I just stuck those editorials that Gon zales had written about me in my pocket and told her I might be stop ping in the penitentiary before I got back home." W. B. Gause. Personally comes 11. Shorter Wat son. who on oath says: That he is a native of Edgetield county, now of Co lumbia. S. C. That deponent has known J1. A. White of Edgefield coun ty for the past ten years, that his gen- t e'ral reputation is bad: so bad that de ponent would not believe him on oath. That on information and belief the said J. A. White some time ago was stricken with paralysis, from which he is now suffering and which is perma- i nent in its effects. And further on in- i formation and belief that said White is reputed to be over 50 years of age. H. Shorter Watson. Drs. D. S. Pope and Hubert Clayton, of Columbia, testitied that any one who has had a severe stroke of paraly- I sis is necessarily affected mentally. and I such a one would be more easily in duced from such mental weakness and f (to seive the purpose of any one who would do him a kindness) could be, led as a child would be. induced to aid such a person in any way that the pa ralvtic would not lend himself to if he haa not had the stroke. Personally appears A. G. LaMotte. who. being sworn, says: He reached 1 the side of r. N.' G.~Gonzales a few i moments after he was shot on Jan. 16th last, and was with him continu ously until some considerable time af ter his reaching The State ottice, and until after the arrival of the doctors; deponent sawv no weapon of any char-t acter on the person of N. G. GonzalesC and does not believe that a weapon I could be removed from his person cur lg the time he was with him withoutj deponent seeing it. A. Gamewell La)Iotte. This affidavit wa corroborated by 3. C. Wallace, Lewis G. Wood, Jr., F. C. Withers. L. A. Grittith, M.'D., and Jas. H. 31eIntosh. M.- D., who were tbe persons that first reached MIr. Gonzales after he was shot and tookC off his overcoat.. Messrs. E. J. Wat son. W. E. Gonzales and Jas. A. IHoyt. .Jr..'who worked in the ottice with MIr. Gonzales,testified that they never had seen Mfr.'Gonzales with a pistol on his person at any time. They' had seen him hundreds of times in his shirt sleeves and had he carried a pistol inC the last ten years they could not have I failcd to have scen it, as they were in timately asociated with him for that many years.c Personally appears S. T. D. Lancas ter. he being duly sworn says: Iam a member of the State house of represen-, tatives from Sparta nburg county. On the 14th day of January, 1903, the day receding the shooting of N. G. Gon- I aes by -l)ames II. Tillman, 1 walked i past Tillman. who was standing onc the outer edge of the pavement in thea State house grounds with his back towards me, and I saw a pistol stic ing out from the rear coat pocket of the said J. H. Tillman, then lieutenant governor. S. T. D. Lancaster. Francis W. Smith and Vedkr Zim merman, two twelve year old boys,i stated thiat on a day previous to the shooting they saw a man with a pistol showing in his hip-pocket from under a Prince Albert coat. whom from a. picture, they later believed to be Till- I man. They saidl he was on MIain street 1 near the State ottice, and seemed to be I looking for some one. Next week we will publish the testi- I mony of the defence in rebuttal of 1 the above. We would do so this week, but the want of space forbids. li CRIMIAL STATISTICS. t The Number of Cases Tried in Our Courts Last Year. The annual rep-rt of the attorney general of South Carolina. Which hasC been prepared, contains interesting statistics of the state f.or the year 1902. Between theO ages of 10 and 15 years t'4ere were 12 white. 57 blacks. 08 males and i female olfenders. et ween 15 and 20 years there werer 23 white. 220 colored, 23S male .and o female cotendecrs. Between 2o and 20 years. th~ere were 120 white. 639 colo:ed: 715 male and 44 female offenders. Uetween 40 and 50 years there wereC 50 whit. 10i. black. 150 male and Gii female oliendiers. Bet ween the agzes of 50 anid 60 y'earsC there were 40 white. 54 black. 91 male and 3 female u'lleuders. The covietions were 202 white, '1.054 black: acquittals. 170 white. 30 back. The various cri mes are thus classi ied: Against the peace, 205 white, 475 black: against property, 105 white, 757 black; against morality, 2 white. 26 black: against the dispen sar. 33~ white, 9 lack Thle total ntelmer of eaises were 1.7:31. The several circuits uiven a total oft 223 cases of manslaughter Cduring the year. The verdicts in the cases tha't ( went to trial were -'guilty." of murder or manslaughter. in all cases~ exce~pt 1t4. wh(ih resulted in a ver dmct or A vot \ woman who applied for a rur sch -!u out wvest was (fuestioned i by teC school directors: "What is 'ur positionr upon1 whippingz child rc'.- "My usual position," respond ed te. appucant. 'Is (on a chair, wih tme cbild held iirmliy across my knee,C RACE QUESTION. Ers. Teresa Dean Writes of Con&i tions In the South. 'WO STANDARDS ARE NEEDED. .%hite and lack Sho:i Not Be Treated Alike. White Supre acy Ausolutely Necesary to Preserve Civilization. Mrs. Teresa Dean. who writes for Cown Topics of New York under the lesignation of "The Widow," wriles in the negroU question generauly from olumbia as follows: Conditions are all wrona in the outh either for carrying out high. noral purpose, for instantaneous hanges. The negro is the stumbling lock. Northern politics have placed im where, under the 11ag and con titutionally, he has the same privi ages as a white citizen. Politics did: ot remember that the negro in his atural state is a savage and in his ivilized state a dependent slave. To ive him Lis freedom does not take ro.a him the instincts of his nature r of the later servilty: can not put ato him force of character or anbi ion. Freedom, if it means anything o him, means doing as he pleases, vith no knowledge whatever of the iner sensibilities that make thrall iom of one's conscience. Free as the egro is, the Southern negroes must ie led, or must be dri'.en, or else must ie given time and the right conditions or development into respectable law .biding, law-protectiug citizens. This an not be brought about by poitlics. olitics, however, through franchise nd wire pulling, can bring about a ondition that makes the negro vote egal. Should this become general in owns where the colored population is he largest, it would mean disaster to he South and a- racial war. This ountry is supposed to be a white nan's country. Even the most dar ng and unscrupulous politician wou!d lot in his senses assert that the stars Lnd stripes are mueaut for more than :o protect colored people under white ule. Yet, under present conditions vith colored political appointments asping against traditions with com ulsory education being legislated -ead ing and writting being the test :hat makes the negro a voter-our lag does not seem much of a protec on. Surely the problems of the south are a Chinese puzzle! With two distinct races in color and nental development there should be lifferent laws-one for the negro, one or the white race. I heard a promi 1ent judge, who has been on the bench or years in South Carolina, say that 2e always meted out much severer yunshment to the white prisoner than : the colored; that he considered the vhite man much more responsible for us sins than the negro: that the in elligence of the negro fell far below ~ven the lowest class of white. Yet >olitics and the franchise place them qually in the aflairs of the country:I or very shame's sake, and perhaps to iave something to legish te-these eople seem to be indlefatigable Legis ators-bill against child labor, bills or compuisory education and bills for he bettering of all conditions in the outb are introduced in the State ~egislatures and then fall hiat or be ome inoperative because of struck ut clauses or from the fact that tihe egro must be helped the same as. nd by the side of. the white people. Chere is no class of white child that ill sit down by the side of a colored hild in the schools of the South. They an play together as children, but the lack child fetches and carries for the hite child and is still the subject as n the slave days. The great question f child labor has for its strongest oint the fact that while the white hild is employed in these mills, the iegro is getting ahead in education. Che negroes knowing that they are iot voting citizens without the knowl: dge of reading and writing, and be g taught that to vote is power. :rowd the schools with a seemin'is ~mbition away beyond the whites. Cheir ambition does not go beyond the ranchise clause, excepting in rare in tances where an intelligent half-an estry has overbalanced the negro Irifting instincts. Compulsory education which has >ecome a law in this State, has been nade inoperative by striking out the lause tining or imprisoning parents who do~ not enforce the law. In every nstance the incentive for this condi ion of things is to keep the negro be ow the privileges accorded by the ~overnment. It sounds badly to ad nit or assert that the South does try o keep the negro down, but the outherners know the negro. They :now his possibilities and impossibili ,ies. They know his condition is bet ,er when entirely cared for by the bite people than when he does for iimself. They know he can not get n without the guidance of the white ople. They know he lacks the asoning power that makesan intelli rent, wide world in one accord. )he ause of this lack of reasoning power Lud the impulse that alonfe guides his Lctions, and with his ideas or license isunderstood liberty-the negro is he menace to Southern civilization as e gauge it from the North. The egro is not held down by the South. >ut the negro can uot be made inlto m independent citizen as a race. HieI nust now and always be led. Thel southerners know, as we do not, and n their knowledge of the negro :haracter have the best interests of :he colored race at heart. When ranchises and politics get the negro n the wrong plane, then the South ~rner must do the best he can for the Southern country, and the result i condition that makes problems. These "waiking arsenals." this con ;tant "killing his man" in the Suut'. his ever ready use of a weapon that s concealed, are indirectly the resuit >f forced contact with lawless negroes. e is a mighty brave man who goes. t all times, without a weapon. Still t is, not the custom to carry wapons. Iany men say they never carry a vapon, and none of the better class >f men-the more intelligent class nsiders it necessary. Yet. the most onserative. refined and brodest hinkers of this class will tell you in letail of tihe unsettled conditimns .ad hatI there is risk in going w ithout Omlething~ for self-protection. "But. he add, "it is so cowardly to go med. Th~e colored peopie, if they 'an scrape together enough money. tways carry somle kind of a weapon trazor or a revolver. And you can eer te'll whjen you run up against he sharip edge of their impulsive unm :ontrollabie tempers. Late at night A HIDEOUS DISASTER. .Nine Guests RIoasted In a Hotel Fire! Trap. At Cedar Rapids, Ia., fire early Fr!i day morning destroyed the Clifton Hotel, cremating nine of the guests and caused injuries to 42 persons. who, were scorched or forced to jump to the frozen street from second and third story windows. After an all day s areb in the debris four bodies have been recovered. It is now believed that five bodies more remain in the ruins of the hotel, which is said to have been a tlimnsy structure and tilled with delegates to the State Yourr Men's Christian Association Conven tion and the district conventioa of the Knights of Pythias. The hotel register was destroyed, thus making it ditlicult to ascertain the number of missing persons. In an hour St. Luke's Hospital contained 15 injured, while many more, chiefly tbose who hid escaped with comparatively slight h irts, were being cared for in build ings near the cene of the tragedy. S-me who jumped owe their lives to the fact that their falls were broken by telegraph wires which interposed in their downward flight. A number of the guests who were able to con verse calmly following their escape declared that they stumbled over prostrate bodies as they rushed to the windows. The flames literally were chasing them and the smoke made it almost impossible to breathe. The proprietor of the hotel placed his esti mate of the number of people in the building when the alarm was raised at between 70 and 80. Those who were first to escape, where they were not too severely injured, stood for some time barefooted in the snow, chained to the spot and rendered un conscious of the cold by the horror of the scene. Many of them had to be led away. A DESECRATION. A Historical Sideboard Now Adorns a Liquor Salon. An interesting story relating to the sale of the sideboard presented to Mrs. Hayes when she was mistress of the White House is being sent out from Washinuton. The story says the side buard, laden with wine glasses. decan ters, siplh:>ns and even beer steins.now graces a saloon in the capital city. This sileboard was originally present ei to Mrs. Hayes when her husband was president in recognition of her re fusal to allow liquors on the table at the White House. It was the gift of numerous young women of Cincinnati, among whom were Mrs. Bellamy Stor er, wife of the ambassador to Austria, and Mrs. Taft, wife of the civil gover nor of the Philippines. The sideboard shared the fate of many another piece of White House furniture at the gen eral clearing out auction last week. It was knocked down to its present owner for $85, and transferred from the executive halls to a saloon, where it has becomne not merely an article of use, but has furnished to iconoclasts the subject for many a bibulous jest. No sconer did it become known that the historic bit of furniture was being thus desecrated than John R. Mc Lean offered $850, ten times the price it had been b'ought at, for the old sideboard. The new owner, realizing the advertising value of the sideboard declined. Then Colonel Webb Hayes, anxious to rescue the prized possession of his mother from vandals, attempt ed to purchase it., but he was inform ed that the price placed on it was 83,030. So, surrounded by bacchana lian insignia, in an atmosphere heavy with the fumes of alcohol, the old sideboard, the gift of the Cincinnati belles, the most cherished possession of the white ribbon mistress of the Wnite Ihouse, stands while ribald jests are abroad at the sad descent from its former high estate. A TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE. Seven Schoeol Children K~illed in a Collision. A t Newark. N. .., a fast express on on the Lackawanna railroad cut through a trolley car crowded with school children at the Clifton avenue Thursday. Eight of the children. were killed and a score or more of them in jured. Both the express and trolley were on steep grades, going at right angles. The express was signalled and the crossing gates were lowered while the trolley car was yet half way1 down the hill. The motorman shut off the power and applied the breakes, but almost immediately the car began to slip along the icy rails. It gained' tremedous momentum at the bottom of the hill, crashed through the gates, directly in the track of the oncoming train. The locomotive plunged its way through the trolley, throwing the children in every direction.. The accident happened within three blccks of the high school building and in the car at the time were nearly one hun dred pupils. As many as thirty others 1 had managed to throw themselves< from the car before the crash came. The trolley was one of the specials which every day bring the children to school. It had more than its ordinary load Thursday owing to the cold. It contained every child that could squeeze inside arid maniy others stood< on the rear platform. Because this car: had been so crowded. many who. were I: waiting for it before the hill was reached could not get on although some climbed on the front platformi with tue motorman. A score or more< children were compelled to walk and they followed the car afoot. Withini tive minutes as many dead bodies hadi been laidi side by side in the snow alongside the track. -One of the bodies, that of a girl, was found a block beyond. It had been carried I there on the pilot of the engine. Load after load of. the injured was sent 1 away in patrol wagons and ambua lances. Within a short time there was no injured person near the scene of the wreck and the dead were on their way to the morgue. Lires Lost. At-Port Huron, Mich., fireman Mil- I ton Campbell, which was crushed un der a falling wall at the fire which early Wednesday destroyed the St. Clair hotel arnd a number of business houses, is dead. Yard man Albert Worthing, of the hotel, has not yet been found and it is believed that heC was bur'oed to death in the hotel. All the guests have been accounted for. The loss will reach between $75,000 ( and .$1o0.000. 1i THE salvation of South Carolina depends on the education of her chil-< dren, and where parents refuse to send I their children to school they should< be made to doso. ii he feels insuitcd, immediately whips out a razor or revolver, and can only be subdued by the flash of steel. The most conservative men who say the revcover is unnecessary will add, " *i1 musi. Admit that every wom an who livs t of the City limits 'sho )-uld rmed. White wmen are nv'er sae fi rm the bruitality (1 these blac:k bests." The most intelligent .;:1 and women deplre the fact' of the (aurrving of firea ms. and realiy believe themselv es when they say the impre-s;ion hit it is a CuSTomU is erro ne'uN. Yet they niil tell you of ; r''iwhen they 'really needed a re volver. ' or -!,.e of a time "it was ;'eliiy they ebian,-ed to have a revolv er!' Two or three years ago. a represen tative man met an acquaintance on the train who said. 'I an going to stop in Columbia if you think I won't run into a shooting: I declare I am almost afraid to stop there. your bul lets fly so easily." .:Nonsense'" said the Columbian: "you have an entirely wrong idea; you people of the North are always tilled with wrong ideas of the South. Just get oil the train and I will show you the most peaceful law abiding lit tle town you ever saw." The acquaintance decided laughing ly to run the risk. He went to the hotel. started out to see the town be fore supper, and at the first corner ran into the wor:.t shooting affair of the year. So he returned to the hotel, took his satchel, went supperiess to the station and left on the first train. I ai rived here at night. The next mornings paper had in the first col umn the killing of a father and son by a neighbor for some dispute over a dog. in a suburban district. Eich day there seems to be an afTair that values human life very cheaply, but these dear, good people don't notice it. If I speak of it they Immediately remind me of the cold-blooded murders, horri ble butcheries, trunk discoveries, man hole concealments, dismembered bod ies, saloon death blows and a few other killings we have in the North, and they have the best of the argu ment. The murders here are clean cut and sure. not disfiguring;. if meth ods must be considered, these seem the most respectable. There are a lot of things these dear Columbia people refer to abaut the North if I try to get at conditions here. So I am being led to believe "seeing oursel's as ithers see us," that the South is much more civilizd-problems or no problems than the North. Anyway I am culti vating a humble and neutral spirit, and trying to have nu prejudice, no favor. SEVEN BAPTIST GOVERNORS. That Denomination Has Been Sac cessfi in Southern Politics. Seven governors of southern States have been invited to attend the an nual convention of the southern Bap tists, which will be held in this city, beginning May 8. In the list of celebrities that will attend will be many of the ex-governors of southern States, President Eagle of Arkansas being one and ex-Governor Northern of this State, who is vice president of the convention, being another. The governors of the south who are Baptists rnle over tihe following :States at this time: Virginia, North Caro lina, Georgia, Florida, Arkansas and Louisiana. The governor of Alaaa. is not a churchman; but his family arc members of a Baptist church. The conventions of the Baptist church are always noted for bringing together many of tihe brightest minds of the south, as it always includes in its makeup many of tile leaders of thought. The meetings c f the~ con vention will be hld in the taberniele to be built in the park extension soon, if the de sired permission can be secured for its use. It is quite probable that the permission will be granted by the city council and a monster tabernacle erect ed which will be able to accommodate the great crowds that will come. It is estimated that at least 2.500 visi'ors fro:n a distance will he pres et, arnd in addition hundlreds more from all of the nearby terr'itory. canl be counted on to attred. Tile meet ing will be a great one and there is no church i'n the city that could begin to hold the crowds, as hundreds and hundreds of all denominations will be on hand, for the occasion will be one of' the big events in church life in the south during the year. All around Savannah is a large Bap tist population and these wiL swell the crowds to a very large extent, and the fact that there is a population of nearly 2010,000 communicants in the State, means that Savannah will have to prepare for a crowd.-Savannah Press. The Storm lKing. A terrible wind storm and tidal wave that swept across' Munden's Point, Va., Monday night destroyed several houses. barns and the round house of the Norfolk and Southern railroadl at Norfolk, Va.. from which several persons narrowly escaped with their lives. The residence of Thos. Morris was entirelY destroyed. Mr. Mors. his wife andi daughlter were in the house at the time and narrowly escap:ed teing crushed to death. All were injiured. The house of Elijah White also was entirely demolished. the occupants narrowly escaping with thir lives. Mr. White being' quite badly injured. At high tide a tidal wave came across the land between the ocean anid Paimlico sound which wanhed away everything in its course. Se\eral people living in the water front were compelled to wade through water up ti their waist in order to es cpe from their homnes which were be ing washed awvay by the tide. The storm struck Moyc.ck, N. C., on the Norfolk and Southern railroad last Monda:: night. Two two-story dwell ings were picked up and carried sev eral feet. H-ad No Coal. At St. Louis owing to the scarcity of coal at the "Four Courts." which contains the jail, police headquarters. criminal court. etc. the building was closed today. Nota pound of coal could be found in the engine room, and the old tloor ar~e being torn lip to keep the 250 prisoners in 'the jail warm. The~. grand jury investigation into invest'mnt comnpanie~i was sus penied, and the two br'auches of tihe criminal court and The court of crimi nal correction adjcurned for the day. This condition is the result of negigence on the part of the con tractor, who failed to deiiver the col already contracted for. Other city institutions are also short of fuel. and an investigzatien will be held to aseain who is to blame. NATIONAL PHATOMS GHOSTS THAT HAUNTI tE UNiTED STATES CAPITOL. - A Story of Specters That Stall. at Night When the Halls of Legisla tion Are Gloomy and Dexerted, as Told by One at the Old Cua=rds. Like-most repositories of good stories. the ancient man who has spent dec ades as a guard in the capitol in Wash ington did not yield up the fullness of his narrafory riches without a struggle. "It's unpleasant to be made a mock of by the skeptical," he protested. "Do you believe in ghosts. young man?" "If answering in the affirmative be gets an interesting tale, I do." returned the writer. "Well, starting on the premise that you do believe to some extent in the supernatural, I will admit you to my confidence," resumed the old guard, and here goes for the authentic yarn of the spooks that haunt the nation's capitol: "In the long, monotonous watches of the night innumerable are the spooks, hobgoblins and the eerie, vapory things which glide from the shadowy nooks and crannies of the intangible nowhere to people the capitol's 7ast stretches of darkness. Of course you know of the extraordinary acoustic freaks which obtain in many parts of the great building-how a whisper, a breathed word at one particular point is audible at another scores of feet dis tant? Yes. Now, at night these acous tic spirits simply go mad. Where they by day were pygmies they expand Into giants, and a whistle, a sudden sound. a footfall, resolves itself into a pan demonium. "Weird. terrifying noises beat upon the eardrums of the watchmen as they pursue their lonely patrols through the seeming miles of corridors, and then the spooks, the shades of the nation's great, the astral bodies of those that toiled in obscurity for the nation's good, dodge the watchmen's step, some grand and awful in their speechless dignity, some creeping humbly about in apologetic silence, some laughing. some sobbing, but all of them horrible -horrible." The old man paused to muse. "Do you know," he said. 4geaking Into his own reverie explosively, "Feb. 23 Is a date dreaded by many of the capitol night guards? It was on this day. in 1848, that John Quincy Adams died in the chamber of the house of representatives, now Statuary hall, where the exact spot is marked by a brass tablet. Promptly at midnight on every anniversary of his death the shade of John Quincy Adams appears in a sort of phosphorescent glow over this brass tablet Oh, dozens of guards have seen it from time to time as well as I, and I can refer you to many of them for affirmation of my assertions. "Once over the spot the shade begins to gesticulate. after the manner of a member addressing the house. Then, all of a sudden, the fine face becomes distorted and agonized, the gracefully waving arms fall convulsively, and down sinks the shade with all the movements of an expiring man. Then the phosphorescent glow fades away. and the ethereal effigy dissolves. "But although lost sight-of, its pres ence is still made known by the 'clump, flop, clump, iop' of invisible foot falls departing down .one of the long vacant corridors. "Stranger than this Is the ghost of the entire congress of 1848, whichi ap pears In vigorous If spooky session ev ery once in awhile in Statuary hail, the old hal] of representatives, as 'I have previously remarked. Inaudible, but spirited, are the debates; energetic to the bursting point of vehemence are the silent political dissensions. Pro voked by a doubting Thomas, a mem ber of the capitol night watepi several years ago made affidavit that he had seen this ghostly congress in session. Yes. he was a sober man and true. "The shade of General John A. Lo gan Is a frequent visitor at the capitol. Almost every alternate night at half past 12 o'clock this ghost materializes at the door of the room occupie~ .by the senate committee on' miitrl and militia. Silently the door swings open, and out steps the looming and lumi nous presence, to stalk in stately dig nity away Into the swallowing gloom. This is a favorite phantom with the guards. Its conduct Is exemplary. "Then there is the shade of Vice President Wilson, who died in his room In the senate end of the capitol, you will recall. Its peregrinations are few and desultory. When it does come, there is always an expression of con cern and self absorption In the ghostly face. The movements of the vapory body are restless and hurried. "All of the older members of the night watch are well acquainted with Vice President Wilson's apparition and never fail to salute It, although, truth to tell, the shade remains haughtily in different to their deference. This spook rarely fails to put in an appearance when the body of a dead legislator or statesman of national renown is lying In state in the capitol. "Deep in the subcellar vaults spooks of lesser magnitude revel In hordes. ImmedIately beneath the hail of rep resentatives every night is to be found a tall, erect, gaunt specter, whose iden tity has remained a mystery for years In spite of unceasing efforts on the part of the night watch to uncover the secret of Its origin and anteced ents. Its bands are clasped behind its transparent back in a convulsive clutch, and the face evinces a condi tion of emotions prodIgiously wrought upon. Many attempts have been made by guards with rubber..soles on their shoes to catch this wraith unawares, but failure is the invariable result. Presto! It nas blown into thin air be fore the sleuthing watchman is within forty feet of it."-New York Herald. Cloak Room Aflre At Washington some lit excite ent was created in the ho se of rep resentatives just before tha body con rened by the discovery Wednesday of slight blaze in the flooring of the ast reserved gallery. The flooring bad become ignited from a defective fue in the Democratic cloak room and when discovered about 15 feet of the moulding was ablaze. The doorkeep ers and attendants rushed into the allery and the blaze was soon extin guished. A few wisps of smoke wbich irose from the fire lilled the hail with ihe odor of burning wood, but other wvi-, the members suffered no incon ienence when the house met. Guilty of Manslaughter. A t Charlottee, N. C. Sunday after Joon the jury in the case of Arthur L. Bishop, the shoe drummei' charged with the murder of Thomas I. Wilson. :ame into court and rendered a ver flct o manslaughter. Bishop was in ourt and his wife was by his side. Ihe court room was filled with people, ncuding about 50 commercial travel rs who were in Charlotte to spend Sunday. Immediately after the endering of the verdict Bishop was :minane t al. Bichop, who trael AN INRTEESTING STORY &bout the Discovery of Law.a PrOmUP gated Before Moses Lived. An interesting story from Vienna s going the rounds of the press. It s to the effect that the well-known issyilologist, Dr Hugo Winckler, )as pub]ished the account of the legis ation promulgated by King Amraphel )f Habylon. which, so far as is known Lt present. was the first book of laws i ,ver given to the world. King Amra Ihel lived 2,250 years before Christ, tnd is mentioned in the Bible as a ;ontemporary of Abraham, so that iis statutEs were drawn up fully five :enturies before the laws of Moses. rhey number 282, and contain the 'ollowing: "If a woman who sells )everages gives bad value for the noney paid to her, she shall be thrown nto wat r." "If a wife commit aiul ery, both she and her lover shall be hrown into water." "If a wife be a pendtirift, or if she otherwiseneglect jer duties, her husband may put her tway without compensation; but if a nan put away his wife for no other ,eason than that she has no children, ie shall return her whole dowry." ;If a betrothal be rescinled, the man shall pay the woman compensation." 'A widow with grown-up children may not marry again without permis sion from a judge." "If a doctor )pens a swelling of the eye and there >y robs a man of his sight, both his aands shall be cut off." - King Amra phePs laws also defined which classes A society were to receive "salbries" ind which "wages." A doctor % .s a ly laborer and received wages, out a )uilder was a worker who had to be paid in the form of a salary. The rate of payment in all occupations was fixed as well as the rent to be paid ror a house. At the conclusion of the laws, Amraphel inserted high praises A his own work in promulgating them, together with terrible curses on those who should dare to destroy the tab lets. INSURANCE FRAUDS. Several Murders Done to Aid a Gigantic Swindle. Assistant District Attornny Krotel aid Wednesday that the imurance fraud cause now under investigation In New York promised to develop into ane of the most startling ever known in the criminal history of the city. "Before the district attorney 's of ice has finished its investigation of he astounding and extraordinary New York insurance frauds," he said, "I should not be surprised if it were proved that the conspirators even vent so far as to murder in cold blood wo get bodies for the purpose of col ecting policies. We have found that 23 substitute bodies were passed off on he Hancok Insurance company alone, and as soon as the plotters are indict ad these will be exhumed. The in restigation into the remarkable plot gas hardly begun"' The fate of Sarah Weber, who it is tileged, died from the effects of brutal areatment, which, it is charged, she -eceived at the-hands of the conspira ~ors, Mr. Krotel said; was but a single nstance. According to stories told by her rela ives Sarah Webber was tortured in rder to compel her to aid in the in urance frauds. When the girl left home she had osy cheeks and was the picture of ealth. When her family found her hbe was a shadow of herself. She ~old her brother that she had been >eaten, starved and slashed with inives to force ber to help those en aged in the conspiracy. Blown to Atoms. The State says soon after 9 o'clock Lriday morning residents of the outhern part of the city were startled >y a loud explosion and subsequent ~hock seeming to, originate from the nill 'village. The force of the ex losion was much greater than that nident upon the usual blasting at ~he quarries and the general idea pre ailed that an accident of some kind ad occurred. And so it proved. News soon reached the main streets ~hat 40 pounds' of dynamite had ex loded at the Stewart quarry, the aw ul shock hurling heavenward the nangled forms of three negro work nen. As is usual many persons im >ued by curicsity went to the scene. However, by the time the greater >art of the crowd had arrived what vas left of the bodies of the men had een removed and only silent pools of -ed blood and here and there frag nents or clothing and gory bits of esh wvere left to tell the story of the ragic incident to the morbid onlook rs. H ,w the catastrophe occurred ~ill probably never be known. Only ~he three dead men could tell and heir pathetic story is loked with heir graves. Tragedy in Crowded Street. The greatest social and criminal ensation Raleigh, N. 0., has ever nown developed at 4.20 o'clock Satur lay afternoon when, on Fayetteville treet, Ernest Hlaywood shot and illed Ludlow Skinner. The promin nee of both families is marked. Hay vood is a grandson of the late State rreasurer JIohn Haywood and son of he late Dr. E. Burke Haywood and ne of Raleigh's leading lawyers. kinner was a grandson of the late ~Ir. Ludlow of New York, and a son f Rev. Dr. Thomas E. Skinner, of raleigh, one of the best known Blap ists in the south. At least a hun red persons must have seen the boting, certainly that number saw he victim of Hlaywood's revolver as e reeled and fell upon his face on the ar track in front of the postottice nd Yarborough house and not 40 ards from the court house. The umor there is that the tragedy grew ut of a reported secret marriage in he family of one of the men con erned. ___________ Tilmian's D)isappointmient. Commenting on the reception of he ruling of Justice Pope in refusing imn Tillman bail, the Columbia serd says: "If the decision was mexpected by a great majority of the yeple, it certainly was a deep and )itter disappointment to Tillman. So' onident was lhe that he would be lowed hail, that he had his bon:d ready signed b3 good surities. and il that remained to be done was to. nsert the amount and oppose the ureties. It is said that Col. Tiliman ad submitted his securities to Clerk f Court Walker, who had to approve hem in order that there should be o delay in furnishing tihe bond and eeuring his release. He is very tired continement and firmly expected to >e st at liberty. The decision of the :ief justice completely upset his dansc The Saxon dinnei arrangements wer4. orderly compi?'ed *ith those. of the eaiy 'rmans, when the- halls and passages were frequently the scene of a free fight between the servaiits bring ing in the food and the crowds of hang ers on endeavoring to snatch it from them. This nuisance became at length so intolerable that ushers of the hall and kitchen were established by King William Rufus to protect not only the cooks bringing In the dinner, but the guests arriving to partake of it. Upon the occasion of his great feast at West miuster 300 of these officers were on duty, some to guard the visitors as they ascended the steps and others to defend the threatened dishes. Such was the uncivilized state of so ciety at this period. but when later on the marauders disappeared from the great houses it became customary to carry in the dishes in' procession, some times preceded by music and headed by the steward with 1his wand of office. It was the duty of an "asseeur" or placer to arrange them upon the table. the ewers and napkins with' which to perform their ablutions were present-, ed to the guests by the esquires and pages. while it fell to the lot of the al moner to say grace. A Great Feast. There has never been prepared at any feast a bigger bowl of punch than that which was brewed by the Right Hon. Edward Russell when -he-Wa. a captain general and - commander in chief of the forces in the Mediterra nean seas. It was made in a fountain in a garden in the middle of four walks, all covered overhead with lemon and orange trees. In every walk there was a table the whole length of it, and on every tnble was a cold colla tion. In the huge fountains were the following ingredients: Four hogsheads of brandy, eight hogsheads of water, 25,000 lemons, twenty gallons of lime juice, 1.300 pounds of fine , Lisbon sugar, five pounds of' grated nutmegs, 300 toasted biscuits and-a pipe of dry mountain Malaga.. Over the fountain was placed a great canopy. while in the midst of-this lake of liquor there sailed a little sailor boy who filled the cups and replenished the glasses of all those who had a desire to drink. More than 6,000 men putn an appearance at this feast-London Tit-Bits. The Feet of Chamdeleons. Chameleons, as no doubt readers are aware, all belong to the old world, and particularly to Africa. In their tongue their feet and their eyes they differ re niarkably from other lizards. Their feet, though possessing five toes, are divided into two grasping groupslook ing like a hand in mittens, and only by close examination you perceive the presence of the two or the three oppos ing respectively, but so close:together as to appear like one broad one. On the padded soles or palms of these grasping limbs you can feel see the small-may one say-palpf, which -enable them to. grasp so nl that it is difficult to detach a enee from its foothold. These clinging feet, together with their prehensile tail, en able them to sustain themselves on the branches in the strongest gale.. Paying a Can In China A Chinese bride called upon a foreign3 lady, says a missionary. On entering the room she deliberately turned her back upon her hostess and made\ an elaborate obleisance. Of course-the for eign lady was amazed and annoyed, but she found out the reason of the strange proceeding. afterward. The brides conduct had conformed to Chi nese etiquette. She had performed her obeisance, her k'o-t'-ou, to the north because -that is the direction of the royal abode. If..the foreign lady was so Ignorant as to stand on the south side of the room, that was not the bride's concern. She knew, if her hostess did not, In what direction to bow her head. Boiled Oysters. In "Social Life In the Reign of Queen Anne" Swift writes to Stella, "Lord Masham made me go home 'with him to - eat boiled oysters," and then he oblig- . ingly adds the recipe: "Take oysters, ' wash them clean; that is, wash their - shells clean; then put your oysters In an earthen pot,' with their hollow side down; then put this pot, covered,.Into a great kettle of water and let it boll. Your oysters are then boiled In their own liquor and do not mix with wa ter." Raphael's "PauL" While Raphael was engaged in paint ing his celebrated frescoes he was vis - Ited by two churchmen, who began to criticise his work without understand Ing It. "The Apostle Paul has too red a face," said one. "He blushes even in heaven to see what hands the church has fallen into," replied the indignant painter. ________ A Source of Revenue stopped. "How many quarters did you receivej last Suniday night,,Harry?' "Four." "I thought you had five sisters?' "Yes'm, but one is engaged."-Tow and Country.I Time~s Changes. Father (meditating on timne's changes) -Ah, yes, the fashion of this world: passeth away. .Daughter-Indeed it does, papa..I shall want a new hat next week. Reversed. "What sort of a man is my husbandy' Well, before we were married he wouldn't leave the house before mid night, and since he never enters it be fore."-Journal Amusant It is always safe to learn even from our enemies; never safe to instruct even cour friends.-Colton. ed for a New England shoe factory, killed Thomas I' Wilson in this city . on December 9th, last. He had gone to Wilson's home in company with-' Miss Lena Schultz and M4iss Ada Wil son, daughter of the deceased. Wil-: son, discovered the three in his parlor drinking wine and ordered Miss Schultz and Bishop to leave. Bishop wanted to parley and Wilson endeavor ed to eject him, when he was shot and killed by Bishop'. The latter fled and made his way to his home In Petersburgr. where he surrendered. Explosion Kills Four. Three men were killed outright, one man so injured that he died later, two other men fatally and at least seven seriously hurt in an explosion in the work room of the naval stOr age magazine at Fort LaFayette In New York bay about two o'clock Thursday af ternon. Mother and Child Killed. A dispatch from Ridgeway to The - Sate says a heavy rain and -wind storm passed here Monday afternoon about 4.30. Not much damage to property in town was done. A negro woman and child were killed in.Long town by a falling house. No other casualties are reported. 2<i