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VOL. XVIL MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. APRIL 22.1908 NO. 8. MAT MISS( RI 1 MuOB Takes Charge of Joplin and Hangs an Unknown Black Tramp WHO KILLED A POLICE OFFICER.! The Mob Raids Negro Quarter; and Drives the Black from the Town Detying the Authorities. A mob took possession of Joplin, o11., Wednesday evening. and took an unknown negro tramp from the city jail and hanged him to a telegraph pole at the corner of Second and Wall streets, two blocks rrom the jail. The negro was charged with having mur dered Police Ofticer Leslie, who was shot dead Tuesday night in the Kansas City Southern railroad yards while endeavoring to arrest several negroes suspected of theft. Otficer Leslie had ordered several negroes who had taKen refuge in a box car to surrender and when they failed to do so be tired several shots at the car. During the shooting a negro slipped from the car and coming up belhind the otlicer, shot him through the head. The negro then fled and within a short time posses were after him. About 3 o'clock Wednesday after noon, Lee Fullerton. aged 21, lcated the fugitive in a slaughter bous. j'Zt east of Joplin. The negro was armed with a rifle and detied arrest. Fuller ton slipped into the structure unob served and crept up behind the negro. Suddenly he sprang at the unsuspect ing fugitive and before resistance could be made he had the negro on his back with a knife at his throat. The negro then surrendered his rifle, and pointing the weapon at him Ful lerton marched him out of the build ing. With the assistance of another man the negro was brought to Joplin and placed in jail. News of the capture spread rapidly and the jail was speedily surrounded by hundreds of people. There were cries of "Lynch him!" on all sides and City Attorney H. H. Decker mounted the jail steps and made a strong plea in behalf of law and order. This served temporarily to stay the mob but did not appease it and a short time after Decker's speech the mab 1 started to batter in a section of the jail wall. Every effort was made to prevent the entrance of the mob, but without avail and within 15 minutes the men had gained entrance to the jail and secured the trembling negro. I As he was dragged forth City Attor ney Decker again interfered and urged that the negro be given a trial. For half an hour he talked and the mob listened to him with the negro in their custody. At one time it seemed that the city attorney would win, as members of the-mob began dispersing, but sud denly a rush was nade for the spot where the negro was being held and he was dragged two blocks from the jail with a rope fastened around his neck, and after the rope had been thrown over the crossbar of a tele graph pole a score of men attempted to pull the negro from the ground. As many more seized the negro and1 pulled to prevent him being hanged. For some moments it was a veritable tug of war, but reenforcements on the free end of the rope proved the stronger and the negro, despite his protestations of innocence, was finally swung into the air and strangled to death, while shouts of satisfaction went up from the mob. The name of the negro was not known and he was a stranger in Joplin. The lynching of the negro served only temporarily to satisfy the indig nance of the mob and leter Wednes day night hundreds of men again as sembled and rioted through the negro' section of the city, burning houses, stoning negroes and finally driving every negro from the confines of the, town of Joplin. The police were pow erless. The first act of the mob after hanging the negro was to demand the release from jail of a local character known as "Hickory Bill," who was under arrest on the charge of assault ing a negro. In the hope that this would appease the mob the prisoner was set free. Nut the mob did not disperse. In stead a rush was made through Main street, the principal street of Joplin, and every negro was frightened off the street and fied to the northern part of the city where the negro population resides. In this way the negroes were driven from all parts of the city to the negro section. Then the mob charged down on the section.- Stones were thrown, doors and windows of negro houses were broken in and finally sev eral were tired. The fire department responded, but many of the houses were burned to the ground. The mob made endeavors to prevent the fire de partment from extinguishing the flames and were partially successful. All the officers of the city, township and county were called Gut, but the mob swept them aside and proceeded with the rioting. Mayor Trigg ran from corner to corner and mounting boxes made earnest appeals to the mob to cease, but beyond cheering the mayor vociferously the mob swept on and the depredations continued. The saloons were hurriedly closed by the mayor. After the hundreds of fren ziled men composing the mob had vented their wrath in the north end of the city they rushed to the south ern end where lived a number of ne groes. Their homes were vacant and not a negro could be found. Three: more houses were fired and two were consumed. All -iforts to reason with the rioters were futile, as apparently a frenzy had seized upon them. A dispatch from Carthage, Mo , which is only a few miles from Joplin, says the negro lynched was Thos. Gil yard, a tramp. He had confessed that he murdered Leslie in Tuesday night's fight. Early Wednesday Sheriff Owen hurried off to the cou1nty jail at Car thage. Dan Bullard, a negro who was with Gilyard just before the police man was killed. Wednesday might Bullard was spirited away from Car thage for fear of an attack on the county jail. "BELONGS TO OUR COUNTRY."' Secretary Moody's Tribute to theCon tederate Torpedo Boat Heroes. Secretary of the Navy Muody. in a cordial letter of acknowledgment, has completed a pleasant interchange of tokens of good feeling between the North and South. On the Battery, in Charleston, S. C., there is a hand some granite monument to the men who lost their lives in the operation of the Confederate torpedo boat "Hundley." called by the Federal uthorities the "David." Oa Secr tary Moody's return from the West Indies he received through Mayor Smyth, of Charleston. a handsome ouble frame containing photographs t the two inscribed faces of the "tor pedo monument." The following let ter from Mayor Smyth accompanied it: 'You expreesed a wish for a pho raph of the monument on our Bat ury to our torpedo heroes during a drive I had the honor to have - with you when recently in our city. I mentioned your request to Mrs. S. E. Conner, president of the Charleston Chapter of the Daughters of the Con federacy, and also your remarks as you stood with head uncovered before that monument, 'Mr. Mayor, this be longs to our country, not to Charles ton alone! "It gives me great pleasure to pre sent this photograph to you and to thank you for your kind words and the interest you have manifested in this ld city. Such feelings a.- you ex pressed do honor to your brain and qeart, and will be cherished by us all is typicalof the true and broad Ameri :an citizen you have always proved vourself to be." Mr. Moody's response was in the same kindly vain. What was known as the "Fish tor pedo boat," a submarine, was built at &obile, in 1863, by Hundley and Mc lintock. Hundley lost his own life within his boat and eventually she went down for the last time with her victim, the Housatonic. The "David" was an entirely different type :f tor edo craft and was never entirely sub merged.-Ed. The N. and C. A Serious Charge. A dispatch to The State says war rants have been issued in Anderson for -he arrest of Mr. J. W. Pooser, an in ;urance agent who spent stme time in that city last winter. The dispatch ays Mr. Pooser while in Anderson represented the Pennsylvania Casualty :ompany and possibly one or two other eliable companies. He collected money for a number of policies that 3ave never been received by those who id for them. Mr. L. C. Houston of Ieenville, the agent of the company, as informed partiesin Anderson that ,e never received the money for the :olicies and has stated that he, too, as a warrant Issued for Pooser in reenilie. The warrants charge him with obtaining money with fraudu ent intent ana breach of trust. Mr. Pooser went to Anderson from Colum oia and went back to Columbia from ere. A letter was received here a lay or two ago from one of his friends tating that Pooser is now in Califor ia. This statement will be fully in estigated and every effort will be ade to have the warrants that have een issue'd served upon him. A War Ship Raised. The warship Reina Christina flag sip of Admiral Montejo. which was sunk by Admiral Dewey in Manila Bay, was raised last week. Skeletons of eighty of her crew were in the hulk. One skeleton evldently was that of an fficer, for it had a sword by it side. There were fifteen shell holes in the bull of the boat, one being made by an ight-inch gun, and the others were spmall. The main injection valve was missing, showing the ship was scut ted when Ad miral Mantejo3 abandoned her. The bull is in a fair conditioni. Captain Albert RI. Couden, command ing the naval station at Cavite, took harge of the remains of the Spanish soldiers, expressing his purpose t give them an American naval fueral. The Spanish residents are eager to ship the remains to Spain, anti it is suggested that the United States transport Summer convey them to Spain by way of Suez canal in June. (Pf What Governor. A dispatch to The State from Mor ristown, N. .J., says: David Telfer, an old man, a grandson of a former governor of South Carolina, who has been a charga on this county over a year, is to be taken back to his home in South Carolina tomorrow. H1ow he came north is a mystery. Para o~f the time he has been in the asylum and part of the time in jail. The author ties bave been quarreling with his re~ latives in South Carolina as to- whc should take care of him. They didn't want him as he does not live here. Te authorities did not think they should keep him here. Tfhey tried to persuade his relatives to keep him, but this they refused. So now the old man is to be sent to South Caro. lina and literally dumped into the State. Then they will have to take care of him and the burden of his maintenance will no longer be on this county.' A Doable Tragedy. A dispatch from Savannah, Ga., says Tuesday near Quitman, in Brooks county, Ivy Dampier a young man 23 years old, committed suicide by shoot ing himself in the head. A deputy sheriff had gone from Quitman witha warrant 'or him. Arrangements were made for him to make bond, and the oticer w:s asked to take dinner with his family. Dampier asked permissiot to bathe and change his clothing. Soon after retiring to his room the sound of a pistol shot alarmed the household, and he was found to have placed a pistol to his left temple and sent a bullet through his brain. Early the next morning Miss Georgia Rtogers, who is said to have been en gaged to marry Dampier at an early date, placed the muzzle of a shot gun against her breast and discharged it. Hcr breast and shoulder were terribly lacerated. She is still alive, but thern are doubts that she will recover. / THE RACE ISSUE. Ex-President Grover Cleveland Seems to Grasp the Case. SOLUTION OF NEGRO PROBLEM Rests on Southern ShoulderA. Those Who Lift the Weight Must Stand Next to It Says He. Former President Grover Cleveland was the principal speaker Tuesday night at a meeting held in the concert ball of Madison Square Garden New York, in the interest of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial institute. Among those on the platform with Mr. Cleveland were Mayor Low, who pre sided; Booker T. Washington, Ed gar G. Murphy, Dr. Lyman Abbott, President Nicholas Murray Butler and Dean J. Van Amringe of Colum bia, W. H. Boldwin, Chancellor McCracken of New York univer sity,J ohn DeWitt Warner and George F. Peabody. Mrs. Cleveland, sat in the gallery with Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, who are Mr. Cleveland's hosts while he is in the city. Mr. Cleveland, who was greeted with pro longed applause as he was introduced by Mayor Low, said: "I have come here tonight as a sin cere friend of the negro and I should be very sorry to suppose that my good and regular standing need support at this late day either from certiticate or confession of faith. Inasmuch, how ever as there may be differences of thought and sentiment among those who profess to be friends of the negro, I desire to declare myself as belong ing to the Booker Washington-Tuske gee section of the organization. "I believe that the diys of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' are past. I believe that neither the decree that made the slaves free nor the enactment that sud denly invested them with the rights of citizenship any more purged them of their racial and slavery-bred imper fections and detciOncies than it changed the color of their skins. I believe that among the nearly nine millions of negroes who have been in termixed with our citizenship, there is still a grievous amount of ignorance, a sad amount of viciousness and a tre mendous amount of laziness and thrift lessness. I belive that these condi tions inexorably present to the white people of the United States, to each in his environment and under the man date of good citizenship, a problem which neither enlightened self interest nor the higher motive of human sym pathy will permit them to put aside. I believe our fellow countrymen in the southern and in the late slave-holding States, surrounded by about nine tzenths, or nearly eight millions of this entire negro population, and who re gard their material prosperity, their peace and even the safety of their civi lization, interwoven with the negro problem, are entitled to our utmost consideration and sympathy and fel lowship. I am thoroughly convinced that the efforts of Booker Washington and the methods of Tuskegee institute point the way to a safe and beneficent solution of the vexations negro prob lem at the south and I knowv that the good people at the north, who have aided these efforts and methods, have illustrated the highest and best citi zenship and the most Christian and enlightened philanthropism. "I cannot, however, keep out of my mind tonight the thought that all we ~of the north may do, the realization of our hopes for the negro must, after all, mainly depend, except so far as it rests with the negroes themselves, upon the sentiment and conduct of the leading and responsible white men of the south, and upon the maintenance of a kindly and helpful feeling on their part towards those in their midst who so much need their aid and encourage ment. "I need waste no time in detailing the evidence that this aid and encour agement has thus far been generously forthcoming. Schools for the educa tlon of negro children and institutions for their industrial training are scat tered all over the south and are lib erally assisted by the southern public and private funds. So far as I am in formed the sentiment in favor of the largest extension and broadest influ ence of Tuskegee institute and kin dred agencies is universal, and I be lieve that without exception the ne groes who fit themselves for useful oc cupations and service find willing and cheerful patronage and employment among their white neighbors. "I do not know how it may be with other northern friends of the negro, but I have faith in the honor and sin cerity of the respectable white people of the south in their relations with the negro and his improvement and well eing. They do not believe in the so cial equality of the race and they make no false pretense in regard to it. That this does not grow out of hatred of the negro is plain. It seems to me that there is abundant sentiment and abun dant behavior among the southern whites towards the negro to make us doubt the justice of charging this de nial of social equality to prejudice, as we usually understand the word. Per haps it is born out of something so much deeper and more imperious than prejudice as to amount to a racial in stinct. Whatever it is, let us remem ber that it has condoned the negro's share in the humilation and spoliatiou of the white men of the south during the saturnalla of the reconstruction days and has allowed a kindly feeling for the negro to survive the time when the south was, deluged by a perilious flood of indiscriminate, untelligent and brighting suffrage. Whatever it Iis, let us try to be tolerant and con sderate of the feelings and even preju diced racial instinct of our white fel low countrymen of the south, who in the solution of the negro problem must, amid their own surroundings, bear the heat of the day and stagger under the weight of the white man's burden. There are, however, other consid erations relating to this feature of the negro question, which may be regarded as more in keeping with the objects friends of the negro. fully blieviung h the possibility of his improvement anc advancement, and sincerely and con tidently iaboring to that end, it is fill: for us to ignore the importance of thi ungrudging cooperation on the part o the white people of the south in '-his work. Labor as we will, those who dc the lifting of the weight must b< those who stand next to it. This co operation cannot be forced: nor can it be gained by gratuitously running counter to firmly fixed and tenaciousli held southern idea s or even prejudices We are not brought to the point of do ing or overlooking evil that good -may come when we proceed upon the theory that before we reach the stage where we may be directly and practicallI confronted with the questio)n of 1hc negro's full enjoyment of civic advan' tges or even of all his political privi leges, there are immediately before us and around us questions derranding our immediate care and that, in deal ing effectively with these, we can con fidently rely upon the encouravement and assistance of every thoughtful and patriotic citizen of the land, wherever he may live and whatever may be his ideas or predilections concerning the more remote phase of the negro prob lem. These questions that are so im meaiately pressing have to do with the practical education of the negro and especially with fitting him to compete with his white neighbors in gaining a decent, respectable and remunerative livelihood. Booker Washington. in speaking on the conditions and needs of his race, has wisely said: 'It is at the bottom or life we must begin and not at the top; nor shoul' we permit our grievances to overshadow our op portunities.' "In summing up the whole matter, there is one thing of which we can be absolutely certain. When we aid Tus kegee institute and agencies like it, striving for the mental and manual education of the negro at the south, we are in every point of view render ing him the best possible service. W hatever may be his uitimate: destiny we are thus helping to fit him for fill ing his place and bearing its responsi bilities. We are sowing wel. in the soil at 'the bottom of life' the seeds of the black man's development and use fulness. These seeds will not die, but will sprout and grow, and if it be within the wise purpose of God, the bardened surface of no untoward sen timent of pejudice can Drevent the bursting forth of the blade and plant of the negro's appointed opportunity into the bright sunlight of a cloudless day." OTHER SPEECHES. At the conclusion of his address Mr. Cleveland Introduced Edgar G. Mur phy, who said: "I think that wisc men everywhere are recognizing In the principal of Tuskegee one of the great est moral assets in the life of our ountry today. The south has not ap plauded him with undiscrimiaatiag xgreement or with monotonous, thoughtless, profitless acclaim. The south has sometimes blamed him. But the south is too fair to him and to his race to allow these occasions of dis agreement to distort the broad per spective in which she has viewed and appreciated that arduous public ser vice through which, for 20 years, in heerful patience and unaffected modesty, he has labored for the up uilding of his humble and untutored ellows. He has greatly done a great work in response to a great need. North and south there have been hose who have seen perial in the ne ro's progress. But if the progress of the negro bring peril with i': that eril is nothing in comparison with the erils attendant on 'the negro's failure." Dr. Lyman Abbott, nbo followed, said that the south deserved great redit for taking'up as it had an un tried problem, In helping the negro to help himself. "And the north," he said, "has given her scant credit. She has given him schools that the orth has refused him and done many ter things towards his future that tbe north nev'er thought of." Dr. Abbott next spoke of the great work of Booker T. Washington and praised him in the highest terms, de claring he had done as much for the white race as for the colored race. His work had really brought about the union of north and south in the work that he had taken up as his life task. Quoting a remark made by Henry Ward Beecher, to the effect that we should "make the negro worthy first and then give him sulfrage," Dr. Ab bott said: "We made the mistake of giving him suffrage first and the un fortunate negro has had to suffer ever since. jVhat the negro wants is edu cation. It all depends upon e ducation whether the negro will be a snackle to our feet or wings to our body." BOOKER WAsa1NGTON SPE:AKs. Mr. Cleveland, iu introducing Booker T. Washington, the last speaker of the evening, said: "I have to Introduce to you a.mnan too well known by every man ini the United States: a man who has been spoken of too frequently arid too favorably for it to be neeessary for me to say more than-here is Booker T. Was nington. Booker Washinton then spoke as follows: "The Tuskegee N'ormal and Industrial institute at Tuskegee, Ala. is the outgrowth of the efforts of Gen. S. C. Armstrong of the Harmpton in stitute in Virginia. Gen. Armstrong was one of the great seers and pro phets who realized that the task of the nation was not fultilled when the shackles of physical slavery were struck from the limbs of the millions f slaves of the south. He realizec that nine millions of human beings steeped in ignorance, minus experi ence could be but free. He foresa'u that the nation must have a new birti: and a new freedom and that this re generation must include the indcs trial, intellectual and moral and r.> ligious freedom of the ex-slaLves. "In this connection am glad that we have another great American act Christian statesman In the person o: Hon. Grover-Cleveland, who is mani festing by his presence and words herE this evening that he t-o is conscious of the fact that the lifting up of th< negro is not alone Tuskegee's problem not alone the south's duty, but is thE problem of the nation, tecause th< whole people were responsible for tht introduction and perpecuation o American slavery. In behalf of ou struggling racez I want to thank you r Cevelad for your dcep interet and to say to you that because of your interest and faith in us we shall see to it that the nation is not disappointed in our progress nor in our usefulness." PROGRESS IN FARM WORK. Report oF the Plant ing Operations of (he Past Week. Mr. .J. W. Hauer, section director of the weather bureau, last week issued his weekly report of farm operations, complied from letters from correspond ents tnroughout the State. He says, i3 part: "It appears tht the frost of the 5th reached to witltin a few miles of c the coast, and that thin ice formed d over the northern counties, but that U the damage was slight and was con- v dned to white potatoes anl other ten der garden truck. Fruit escaped in- s jury. "There were quite general rains on t the 8th, heavy in the western and northern counties, that delay farm P work materially by making the ground K too wet to plough in the already 0 named divisions, where ploughing was practicable on one or two days only at the close of the week. t "The rainfall was light over the S eastern half of the State. and farm work was zcarcely interrupted by it. ? The week closed with warm, cloudy, threatening and showery conditions P prevailing that are favorable for growth of vegetation, but are unfavor- . able for the rapid progress of farm ? work. "Planting operations made favora- S ble progress in the eastern and south eastern counties, where they are as t far advanced as usual at this season. c In the western counties planting is g from 10 to 15 days later than usual, with but little corn and no cotton planted. V "Corn that was planted early is t coming up to fair stands, and some is 1 being cultivated. Birds are destroying w stands in a few counties. - C "Cotton planting has not advanced tl beyond the central counties, and in w places in the eistem is being purpose- ti ly delayed, awaiting more settled weather. "Oats look well in a few localities T only. Generally they have- been seri ously damaged by a grain aphis and it by rust. Some fields are ruined. g "Wheat has an unusually rank M growth, but in places the plants are turning red, in other localities rust has appeared, both conditions tending l to mar its prospects. "Rice planting has made fair pro gress, except In the Georgetown dis trict, where the lands are still too a wet to work. "Tobacco plants are plentiful and early. Transplanting is actively un der way. Some farmers have almost finished this work. w "Strawberry shipments are being . made from all the eastern truck dis- tl tricts. "Melon plants are sickly in the - Charleston district, owing to defective seed. Other truck crops are gr.wing h slowly. Bugs have appeared on white st potatoes. Pastures afford fine graz- t ing. "Fruit prospects appear to be un impaired, with, however, a few locali ties that report peacbes sparsely set." The State Dispensary. it The report of the State dispensary b for the first fiscal quarter has been put h in the hands of the governor. The gross sales for the quarter were $666, 12.25, against $588,296.26 for the same time of the preceding year. The a assets are reported as $788,853.83, in cluding supplies $57,485,52; real estate 52,860.56; liquor in hands of dispen- c sers $354,856.37, and merchandise in c State dispensary $291,409.62. The a gross profits for the quarter were C 142,166.77, and the expenses $103, 357.32. The State's net profits were $39,809.45, in addition to which the profits of the towns and counties agt gregate $149,865.46, making the total profits for the fiscal quarter $187,674, 91. The State's profit showed an in. s crease of $9,000 over the same time 01 last year. The contraband seizures aggregated-but $293.23 this quarter against $1,215.35, showing the effect of the seizures made by the federal s government. The expenses of the con stabulary showed an increase of $2, 000-the difference between $11,722,- a 82 in 1902 and $13,793.59 this year. The Old Veterans. e The work preliminary to the enter tainment of tbe Confederate veterans at their approaching annual reunion in the city of Columbia on May 12, 13 and 14 is getting well under way. it It is requested that the members of t all camps throughout the state wear e their camp badges when they go to Columbia, thus identifying themselves < and materially aiding the entertain ment committees that would meet l them at the depot. The entertain ment committee proposes to establis. headquarters at the depot wherea veterans arriving can be given proper direction- a' Too Many Wives. Chas. D. Smith who recently mar- tl ied a young widow in Charleston and li was carried back to his old home in M'nroe, Mich., on the charge of biga- g my, pleaded guilty on Monday and q was sentenced to four and a half years g in the penitentiary. Hie had been married twice before coming to this si State and it was his second marriage E for which he was convicted. When n arrested in Charleston, Smith was mak- ti ing arrangements to go in business in that city. His last victim believed b in S'nith to the last, as he assured her a everything would be cleared up. t * Paid Him to Kick. Isaac .1. Stratton of Colorado Springs, Col., realized $235,000 net on Trsday from $350,000 paid him in s the compromise over the contest about ~ his father's will. His lawyers got ~ 115,000, ex-Senator Wolcott receiv ing $62,500 for his fee. A MIystery. v Further investigation in the de- s falaton of James S. Campbell, late a treasurer of Richland county, now c Ideceased, reveals a shortage of $11,- b I000. Mr. Campbell was regarded as a an honest man, and the shortage Is a t BRAVE SAILORS. ificial Report f Resene of Cubam in Haban4 Harbor. TADE BY C0MMANDER STONEY. 'be South Catolina Of~cer Recom mends Proper Rewards For the Men Who Performed the Daring Service. Asked to name the pleasantest in ident of his cruise in the West In ies, Secretary of the Navy Moody pon his return to Washington replied ith a smile of genuine satisfaction: "I recall nothing that was so in ;iring, so splendid, as that incident i Habana harbor when the men of 2e Dolphin came to the rescue of a arty of Cuban sailors whose boat cap zed in the squall. The spontaneity their action was fine, but finer still as their presentation of the $100 re ard given them by President Palma > the mother of one the drowned ilors." Interesting details of the gallantry , the Dolphin's crew are contained i a letter received at the navy de rtment Thursday from Lieut. Com iander G. M. Stoney, who, by the ay, is a South Carolinian, command ig that vessel. In this letter, which dated at sea April 11, Commander boney says: "I have the honor to call your at mtion to the worthy conduct of the .ew of the Dolphin and the specially illant conduct of Chief Boatswain's ate H. P. Rahbusch and Seaman ennie Cartin, on the occasion of a ry heavy rain and wind squall in ie harbor of Habana, Cuba, on March i, 1903. and beg that Chief Boats ain's Mate Rahdusch and Seaman irtin be specially rewarded.and that ie other members of the crew who ere with them be given some recogni On. "My attention was attracted by a ost territic fall of rain with no wind. his rain coming so suddenly, 1 was sitive there was something behind and went immediately on deck and tve orders preparatory to meeting hat might follow. In about five inutes after the commencement of te rain a strong wind came, struck Le ship and keeled her ov.er. unil she vung head to. "At the time there was a boat with ttives in it under sail a short dis .nce away. This boat capsized and call for volunteers was made to man boat. The entire crew responded, d by Chief Boatswain:s Mate Rah isch. The gig, then at the boom, as at once manned and in company ith the steam launch which was also the boom, went to the rescue re rning with five men, one of whom as apparently dead, but was revived r Passed Assistant Surgeon C. D. aghorne after more than half an )ur's work. Surgeon Langhorne towed great professional skill in re scitating the apparently drowned an. "The violence of the squall can be ~tter understood from the fact that a imber of other boats. were; capsized the, harbor. The velocity of the ind was reported at 60 miles an >r. "Chief Boatswains Mate Rahbusch as the first man to respond to the ,11 for volunteers. He was the first an in the gig and took charge, man ring the gig in a most seaman-like anner. "Seaman Cartin wa one of the gig's ew. The man in the bow grabbed ithe sinking man but missed him. rtin immediately dove after him, rought him to the surface and sup rted him until he could be polled .to the boat. "The following are the names of ie boat's crews: "Steam launch: C. Nilson, cor ain; H. A. Harmon, apprentice sec id class; W. C. Coe, ordinary sea an; G. C. Miller, oiler; C. E. Smith, al passer. Gig: H. P. Rahbusch, N. J. Svend n, A.- Liable, E. Spoerr, R. Watts, .Cartin, S. R. Nixon. "In connection with this rescue 1 so have the honor to report tbat the esident of Cuba, the Hon. Thomas strada Palma. forwarded to me $100 gold to be given to the men who fected the rescue accompained by a ost gracious letter of thanks. The oney was given to the men and al ost Immediately returned to me ith the request that I would return to President Palma to be given to ie mother of the boy who was drown during the squall. This request I mplied with." Upon receipt of Commander Stoney's tter the bureau of navigation at once ade the following recommendations the secretary, who will cheerfully prove them: 1. That Chief Boatswain's Mate erman P. Rahbusch be permitted to pear for examination for appoint ent as acting boatswain in the nited States navy, waiving the fact at he is seven years over the age "2. That Seaman Denis Cartin be yen a permanent appointment as artermaster, third class, he being a raduate of the petty officers' school. "3. That all the members of the ,eam launch and gig's crew, Chief oatswains Mate Rahbusch and Sea an Cartin receive commendatory let rs from the department." There was a British warship In the arbor at the time of the squall which as nearer the Cuban boat than was le Dolphin.-Columbla State. A Convict Drowned. Near Abbeville, Bud Lee Cllnck ales and Lewis Miller, two negro )nvicts on the gang of road workers, *ent in swimming in Little river at artin's mill. Their shackles were ot removed and when they got be ond their depth were entagled and eighted down by them and could not mm or regaIn the bank. Before sistance could be had they both loss nsciousness. Miller was recovered, ut Clnkscales was dead before any ieans of reviving him could be ob ined. Clinckscales had about six ios mcr to serv a a convict. THE CRACKSMEN CONVICTED. Goes to Prison for Five Years and Pay a Fine. After being out two hours the jury returned a verdict of guilty Thursday in the case against William McKinley, Charles Howard, Thomas S'olan and Edward Dugan, in the United States circuit court, at Charleston, on the charge of conspiracy, breaking into postoffices and larceny of goverment funds. Immediately upon the an nouncement of the verdict, Judge Si monton sentenced the men to tive years in the peneitentiary and a fine $500 each. The trial last.d exactly one week. It began on Good Friday, which was considered by some people as being omninous for the robbers. In all over 100 witnesses were put on the stand. Of this number, the defense-put up less than a dozen and these were only to prove an alibi for the accused. The lawyers for the defense did not at tempt to sustain the private character of the men, which the -government punctured easily hy the many wit- I nesses. In fact, Nolan, the only one j of the defendants who was put on the stand, did not nesitate to admit that be was of the sporting fraternity and I that he made his living by gambling. I The Columbia witnesses gave cer- i tain testimony of the disreputable places which the accused frequented. The lawyers for the defense pitcbed I their case on the common principle of law, that the case against the men should be proven by facts, which they 8 charged had not been shown, and not S having been proven to be - guilty, the ( men should be judged not guilty. The burden of proof was put on the gov ernment by the lawyers for the de- t fense. It was gladly accepted b3 the C government attorneys and they made C a strong pre.entation of their testi- r mony for the jury to pass upon. S The case has been followed with much interest, not only in Charleston, but through the State and especially i in the several communities where the t postoffices were robbed. The defend- c ants have shown that they had friends il and means, by the employment of Messrs. Nelson and Earle of Columbia, s and Hagood of Charleston, to repre sent them, for without good backing b they could never have made the de- f fense that they did. It is understood t that some of the sporting fraternity even followed the accused to Charles- s ton, attending the trial and giving A such assistance and encouragement as p would come from their presence, not f to speak of the financial aid which a they contributed. The trial has been -I a long hearing, but the case has not e been without a good deal of general a interest, and every day the large court s room was crowded with spectators. h The Murder of Gov Goebel. The facts connected with the assas- C sination of Gov. Goebel, of Kentucky about two years ago, are slowly com- t ing out. Frank Cecil, who is under l indictment for complicity in the crime, b is a witness at the trial of Jim How- t ard, who is charged with the mur- e der. Cecil only recently surrendered P himself to the commonwealth, after being a fugitive for a year in Califor- t nia and Honolulu. He Is now under b bond. Cecil told a story substantially the samtras the testimony of Culton, a Golden and Broughton, former wit- s nesses, who detailed, and alleged plot b to bring about the death of Goebel. g Cecil says Caleb Powers adopted the g suggestion of Henry Broughton that he (Cecil) might be contracted with to commit the crime and asked him to do it. Continuing, Cecil said. "On January 30 I was in Taylor's office and Taylor said: 'Goebel has to be killed or I'll be robbed. I have $2,500 of the campaign fund and I'll give that a and a free pardon to the man who will kill him. "I told Taylor I was not in that business," -said Cecil. Cecil said he went into the agricultur-a al office after the shooting and was there until the soldiers came. He saw Harlan Whittaker arrested and ~ proposed to help take Whittaker away1 from the man who had him. The Taylor referred to by Cecil was the Republican governor of Kentucky when Goebel, who had been elected Governor to succeed him, was murder-a ed. He ran away from Kentucky to keep from being tried, and is now a resident of Indianapolis, the Gover-r nor of Indiana refusing to honor a requsitlon for his return to Kentucky, where he is under indictment as one a of the murderers of Gov. Goebel. Cecils testimony puts Taylor in a bad a lights before the country. r The Good Old Doctrine. d Rev. I. 0. Herrold, pastor of the ~ Christian Church at San Jose, Cal., C must be an eloquent and convincing ~ speaker. Many years ago a man C cheated a woman at Wabash, Ind., t out of $5. The woman had forgotten 1 about it, but the cheater had not, A C few Sundays since the man listened to f a sermon by the San Jose minister on "Restitution." His conscience was ~ stirred, and after the sermon he ap proached the pulpit, confessed his rime, gave the address of the victim. and handed the minister $10-$5 for 1 the principal and $5- for the interest requesting that the woman living on I the banks of the Wabash far away be , repaid. i~very community in the land needs that sort of a preacher. If the boodlers and shysters could be moved to return their stealings, the taxes of honest men would be considerat,1y re duced for a time thereby. And, by 1 the way, has not the modern preacher nearly forgotten to insist upon the< good old robust doctrine of restitution? The old divines hammered iLhis beliefi into the hearts of their hearers. Truet repentance in those days meant the righting, so far as possible, of all pastt wrongs. Nowadays repentance is often f preached as a sort of musby senti mentalism of sorrow, having no regardt to past sins. Let us have more H-er rolds in the pulpit. A Fearful Accident. Enoch and William White, two 1 brothers, attempted to plug a hole in 1 an iron furnace at Bristol, Va., Wed nesday before all the molten iron had passed out. The iron exploded it, covering the faces and bodies of the men and burning deep holes in the 1 iesb. The scene was sickening. Both 1 will die. TELLS OF THE CRIME. Henry Youtsey at last Makes a full Confession TAMES HOWARD XILLED GOEBEL And, Said Youtsey, "Gov. Taylor Di rected Everything We Did." Re garded as Leader by the As;sassins. James Howard is now on trial for the second time at Frankfort, Ky., for the murder of Governor Goebel bout eighteen months ago. Hemy E. Youtsey Thursday for the first time told oo the witness stand his tory of the killing. He named James floward, the defendant, as the mai who fired the shot. Youtsey said be aw Howard for the first time a few ninures before the shooting. Howard )ad a letter sent him several days be ore by the witness at Gov. Taylor's lictation. Youtsey says he took Ioward into the office of Caleb Powers, Men secretary of state, which had een especially arranged for the shoot g. He showed Howard the Marlin ilene buUets and the window from hich the shodting. was to be done. Ie says Howard aslied wIA~t he was to et for doing the shooting. "What do you want for it?" YoutP ey says he asked, and that Howard& . aid he wanted a pardon for killing Teorge Baker. "I told him he could have that and nore too," said Youtsey. "About hat time," said the witness, "Goebel ame in tpe-gate and I pointed him iut to Howard and then ran from the oom. As I disappeared down the teps to the basement I heard the rack of Howard's rifle." Youtsey said that after the shoot ag he passed through the State house asement and .a few minutes later ame back into the executive build g, from th2 ast side entrance. "I stayed in the office of Assistant ecretary of State Matthews," said- he, for a few minutes and saw Matthew reak open Caleb Powers' office and nd the guns that had been left ni ere." Youtsey said that at the time of the ooting he was private- secretary 'to Luditor Sweeney but that while his olitical status was not definitely ed it was understood he was to have good place under Taylor. "Gov. 7aylor," said Youtsey, "directed verythihg we did. We regarded him s our leader and he was morally re ponsible for all we did. We knew we ad the governor and the pardoning, ower behind us and we were not fraid of punishment for killing ebel." Youtsey, on cross-examination, said-7 bat after he was arrested and later mnt to the peniteutiary, he still had ope of gaining his liberty. He bought Yerkes would be elected gov rnor and would pardon him. Yerkes ras defeated, however, and about a ear ago he decided to talk and did ill his story to Prison Physician To-s Youtesey said further that he had n additional incentive to tell the ory, as Taylor, Powers and others ad used him as a catspavw and scape oat and then deserted him when he ot into trouble. A Burglar~ Killed. In a battle following an unsuccess 2 attempt to rob the First National ank of Wampum, Pa., early Satur ay morning, one man was killed and...... nother seriously-wounded. The dead ian was one of the burglars, and he as. not yet been -identified. The rounded man was Henry Willoughby, baker, who surprised the burglars hile at work. His injuries are seri us, but not fatal. Willoughby was assing the bank at an early hour on .is way to work when he was sudden r confronted by a man, who at the int of a revolver ordered him to brow up his hands and keep -qtpiet. [e did so, but in his right hand was revolver, and a moment later both 2en ired at each other. At the re ort of the revolvers two other men ushed from the bank and took a hand t the shooting. The three-cornered revolver fight roused the people in the vicinity of he bank, and they were soon at the ene of the battle, but before their rrival the burglars fled. While the - ien had broken into the banking oms they had not completed the rifling of the safe and their attempt' t robbery was unsuccessful. Satur ay morning the body of one of the urgars was discovered in a vacant lot n the upper end of town. As the ullet wound was near his heart it is> resumed that his companions had to rag or drive their dying comrade rm the bank to where he was found. Vhile he was dressed in only an ordi tary suit of clothes he was not shab sily dressed, and on his body was ound a gold watch and $44 in cash. Villoughby was shot in both legs, and t is supposed he fired the shot that illed the burglar. Great excitement irevailed in the town and a posse was rganized to pursue and capture the iurglars. Mlillion Dollar Fire. A dispatch from Beaumont, Texas, ays a careless workmen kicked over a antern at one of the Caldwell oil vells on block 38. Hogg-S wayne tract, n Spindle Top Wednesday and start :d a fire that resulted in the loss o >roperty valued at $1,000,000 and the ankrttcy of 20 or more of the small r companiS. There were l'i5 wells on he three blocks of the tract and only ive of the derricks and pump house .re left standing. lEvery company hat had property in the Hogg ;wayne tract is a loser. The fire wept the three blocks covered with erricks and pump houses clear of all ts buildings. The derricks left are on e edges and are few and far be ween. None of the companies had a ent of insurance. His Third Trial.. Bandmaster Innes has married the bird time, having been divorced ,wice already. His latest acquisition Miss France Bovden of Cincinnati.