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VOL. XIII. MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY. AUGUS ANOTHER KILLING. Magistrate Folk in Ecuffie With Su pervisor Seals Was Shot. WHAT COROE'S JURY SAYS Both Men Were Popular and Highi: Rt spected. and the Unfortu nate A trair is Very Mucb Regretted. A dispatch frcm Sumter to Tb( State says Magistrate Richard C. Foll of Providence was shot and killec Thursday morning about 8 o'clock near his home, In front of Countj Supervisor W. H. Seale's reaidence, while in a scLile with Mr. Seale. Magistrate Folk was a canCidat for re-election and damaging reportV were in circulation as to the mysteri ous disappearance of Mr. Folk's dcc. ket, a second book in which is kepi the business of the court. Mr. F4lt was informed that Supervisor Seal was the author of these reports. Sam Folk, a brother of Magistrate Folk, called to see Seale early Thurs day morning in regard to the matter, and Seale told Sam that he bad cir culated no report. He had told that Magistrate Folk had said that the docket was in his (Seale'.) oticee, but he and Probate Judge Walsh could not find it. Sam informed him that it had been found. Sam told him that if Folk would bring it to him he would examine It as supervisor, and if found correet would mark it o and all ru mors would be stopped. Sam Folk went after Richard Folk to bring him and the docket, and after a consider able wait Seale telephoned the Folks to hurry, that he wanted to catch the train for Sumter. Mr. Folk answered: "Wait, we are coming." After reaching the house it was decided to come to Sumter to settle the matter. While waiting for his buggy and horse, Seale walked alongide Judge Folk's buggy, leading to the end of the avenue from his house. The discussion was resumed. Sam Folk was follwing in another buggy. As the public road was reached Judge Folk, it is said, called, Seale a liar, drawing his pistol at the same time. Seale grabbad him by the collar, Folk falling out of the buggy. Both fell to the ground together. The pistol was discharged, the bullet pass ed through Seale's ceat on the left side about the hip, and, passing up ward, entered Folk's head in the right temple and came out lt ft of the me dial line of the skull. In the scuffle it is alleged Sam Folk jumped from his Duggy and attempted to shoot Seale, but Seale's son, W. J. Seale, knocked the pistol away and seized him. When Seale got up he saw blood on Folk's face. He assisted In carrying him to the roadside and washed the blood from his face and telephoned for a doctor. Folk died in two hours and fifteen minutes after he was shot, having never regained con sciousness. Doctors Cheyne and Foster could dc nothing, as the wound was mortal. Seale drove into town to the sheriff's office to give himself up, but the sher 1ff and the deputy were away and he gave himself up to Mayor Dick. Coro ner Sam Flowers summoned a jury and began the inquest at 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon. At 10 o'clock 'Thursday night the inquest has not adjourned and fuller particulars are not obtained. A phone message sa3s Sam Folk and W. J. Seale, the two eye wit nesses, tell exactly opposite stories tc the jury. Seale says the pistol was in Folk's hand when he pulled the trigger and the weapon was pointing toward Folk. Sam Fok says the pis tol was in Seale's hands when it was fired. The following jury was empaneled: C. L. Williamson, formnan, E. W. Parker, Dr. E. W. Parker, Jr., J. A. Boykin, Sr., J. A. Boykin, Jr., M. H. Boykin, J. F. Cumains, W. F. Boykin, R. L Burkett, J. R. Durrant, M. L. Moore. Judge Folk was a popular man and regarded as one among the best citi zens. He leaves three brothers and two sisters and a widowed mother. Dr. Legrand Guerry of Columbia and H. D. Moise, Esq , married the two sisters. Judge Folk was serving his third term as magistrate. Su;:er visor Seale is I~ojular all over the county. He is an energetic, patrioti< citizen. He is serving his seconc term as supervisor arnd is a candidata for re-electioa. Mr. Seale regrets thi sad tragedy. He says he was unarm ed. His pistol was in his office at thi court house in Sumter. The coroner's jury have returne< the following verdict: "Deceased R. 0. Folk, came to his death by gunshot wound infl:cted by the hand: of parties unknown to the jury." Attacked by a Madman. A disp2.tch frem Yorkville to Thb State says Magistrate R. L. A. Smiti of Hickory Grove shot and killed negro man about 10 o'clock Fridt; night. The n gro attempted to drai Mr. Smith out of a wir~dow of hi house and almost tore his shirt off He warned the negro away but ha came again at him, when he used hi shot gun with fatal effect. Mr. Smiti telepnioned the sheriff that he wa ready to srrrender and was advised t await the vt rdict of inquest whic1 was held Friday. The negro was sai to have been insane, but Mr. Smiti was not aware of of it. Hey ward to Manassas. -Goy. Heyward and two of his sta bave been invited by Gen. Corbin t attend the manoeuivers at Manassas G&ov. Hey ward will leave on the mort ing of September 5, taking with hiu Adjutant General Frost, his chief< staff, and the Quartermaster Genera H. H. Watkins, of Anderso~n. Ti party will spend about two days Manassas. served Rkm Right. Governor Beyward has ordered ti arrest of J. B. Bennett of Brunsol Hampton County, and his return 1 the penitei.tiary to serve out his 11. sentence-for which he was pardone by Gov. McSWeeney on condition th~ he would leave the state never to r turn. He did return, and accidental kimed his wife a few nights ago. LULA ALLN HOLT Is Alive and Well, Eut Her Husband Held for Her Murder. A VERY QUEER CASE, INDEED. The Facts Brought Out in the Habeas Corpus Proceedings Before Chief Justice Pope at Newberrv. "Can a man be held In jail under charge of murder of a person who swears that she is alive?" asks the Newberry correspondent of The State. The correspondent then answers his own question as follows: "Learned lawyers will say that he cannot be. But Butler Holt knows better. That seems to be his present condition." The correspondent then goes on to say: As will be seen below an affidavit, lleged to have been made by Lula llen, who is supposed also to have een known as Maude Allen, stating that she is alive and well, was read in murt. And there is an affidavit from er father confirming this. But Justice Pope remanded Butler Holt to jail until next Wednesday when a anal hearing will be had under habeas proceedings as to why he shall not be relieved of the charge of the murder )f the woman supposed to be Maude Allen, alias Lula Allen, In Columbia n August 11th last. WILL MARTIN, SUPPOSED ACCOMPLICE. And what of Will Martin? Ap parently no one is taking any interest in the other man arrested at the same time as Butler Holt and supposed to e Holt's brother-in-law. It cannot e said that he is languishing in jail, ror the man on the street says Will Kartin Is "lying up in jail reading the newspapers and having a good time on three meals a day-more than ae usually got." That may be a slander though, and doubtless Will Martin is is anxious for his liberty as any one would be. But the fact remains that while he is fed from Sheriff Buford's table yet he is restrained from his reedom. He was committed upon papers issued by Mayor Earhardt In is magisterial capacity and will be released only upon orders from some 30mpetent authority. Of the 200 or more people who gather d in the court room to hear the pro :eedings about the most intered prob Lbly were the mother and sister of Butler Holt-lxsides himself. His mother is a woman of about 50 years Af age and she hung intently upon very word of the lawyers or chief justice. Her sister is a sweet faced oung woman, who listened to the arguments and rulings, but who show d no uneasiness. Butler Holt is a roung man of about 25 years of age, )f an agreeable countenance, his face indicating no especial force of charac ber, but certainly no viciousness. In 1uiring of those present as to what ind of a man Butler Holt was one would be given the information that "he was a pretty good sort of a fel tow." One of the most Interested specta ors, and probably the man of sub ~tance of the aff'air, was a brother of olt, wiho is a boss in a cotton mill t Whitmire, and a man of whom ~veryone has the kindest of words as o his worth. He Is a Mason of high legree, and bears an excellent charac THE PROCEEDINGs IN DETAIL. The proceedings were opened promptly at 4 o'clock by Chief Justice Pope who inquired of the attorneys r the defence and for the State if hey were ready for the hearing. UIpon being Informed that they were ae requested the attorney general to ead the order for the production of the body of Butler Holt in court, and the return of the chief of police of Newberry. The attorneys for the defense then proposed to read the afidavits made in support of the petition but the attorney general Interposed an objec tion to the continuance of the proceed ings oai the ground that the State had not been given proper notice under rule 9 of the supreme cou~t. There was some threshing out of the legal technicalities but the attor neys, after which the chief justice ruled that because of the gravity of the case to the prisoner he would let te proceedings continue, and would set a later date for the final hearig if need be. Tihe affidavits were then read. The first affidavit was that of the def end ant, Butler Holt, himself and was as follows: AFFIDAVIT OF BUTLER HOLT. Prsonally came before me, Butler Holt, who being duly sworn, says: That he is new confined in the county jail at Newberry, charged, so he has been informed since his continement therein, with the murder of one Maude Allen in city of Columbia, State aforesaid, on the afternoon of Thursday, A ugust 11th, 1904. That dep anent is 25 years of age and dur ing the latter part of the year 1903 married Lula Allen, the daughter of Richard Allen, in the city of Newber ry. That during the month of Jan uary of this year he leit Newberry and went to wor k on the farm of Bud Berry and worked on siid farm for the said Bud Beriy continuously until about the first day of August, 1904, when he r..turned to the town of Newberry where he has s'nce resid ed with his parents. That on the 11th day of August, 1904, he was in te town of Newberry in company with T. S. Coleman, Pope L. Hlavird and others and that he was in Havird Bros. store and made purchases there in several times during the day. That among other things done by deponent on said date he watered and fed Mr. T. S. Colemnan's mule at dinner and helped him to hitch up his mule In the .afternoon of the said date and just before Mr. Coleman left for his home in Saluda couty. That a short while after this he met John Gruber with a load of wood, who told him that if he would help him to un load his wagon he would let him ride the greater part of the way to the home of Mr. Press George, about six or seven miles from the town of New berry, and at whose home the said uler Bolt Intended in spend the THR CARNIVAL OF CRIME. A Bov Murdered in a Fisherian's CamlD Near Columbia. The State says another murder as mysterious as the Maude Allen case, as cold-blooded and diabolical, oc curred Thursday morning near Co lumbia. In the first case the act seemed to indicate the work of one infuriated with drink and j talousy; in the latst the heinous Purpose of an inhuman, blood-thirsty tiend. Clarence Shealy, a 15 year-old boy, while lyirg asl-ep upon the banks of the Congaree at a tisherman's camp two miles south of Clumbia, was ap proached from behind and was most foully hacked to death with a hoe, one pitiless stroke marring the boy s face almost beyond recognition and another cleaving the head from the crown deep into the brain. Clarence Shealy's parents live at 1150 Olympia avenue, and oIl and on since sprirg the boy has been with a fisher man, Fiank Smith, who has a fishing camp a short distance below Shealy's home. Smith and a man by the n ime of Cushman, who lived in the camp, stated Thursday that they got up at 5 30 a. m. to go down the river to make the circuit of their baskets, and left the boy to cook breakfast; that they had been gone about an hour and a quarter and on their return found the child breathing his last. Neither saw anyone about on leaving the place or on their approach. One of the men came at once to the home of the boy and notitied his parents and the county otficials, leaving the other with the body. The only other witness was a negro sent by Mr. John Stuart, overseer on Mr. Tom Taylor's place, a mile and half from the scene, to get some fish. This negro is reported to have ridden within eye range of the camp, and seeir g the form of a person writhirg about the ground, turned his horse's head and ran his horse back to Mr. Stuart's home and reported his obser vation. This man was not arrested Thursday as a witness but the fisher men were arrested and placed in the county jail, on the ground merely that they were material witnesses of the crime. The body of the boy was removed Thursday afternoon to his father's home on Olympia avenue and the cor oner empanneled a jury and went out and viewed the body. The iuquest will be held later, when all the evi dence in the case can be got together. Sheriff Coleman announced at a late hour Thursday nght that so far no clues had been discovered as to the identity of the murderer. The blood ed hoe wit-h which the deed was com mitted was found near the body and the fishermen all ge that their shot gun and all the loaded shells are. miss ing. The gun and ammunition were in the camp when they went out on the river they say. A Columbia Suicide. The Columbia Rteord says about three o'clock Thursday morning Nor man O'Connor, a white man about 23 years of age, committed suicide. 'C2nnor walked ino the house of Bertha Medlin, who keeps a disrepu table house on Gate street, and was also a witness in the Maud Allen case, and with no explanation poured a dose of cairbolic acid in a glass of beer and swallowed it. As a n as it was realized what was done a hurry call was sent for the city physician, Dr. Pope, who lives nearly two miles from the touse, and the man was nearly dead when assistance arrived. The inmates of the house made the iL llow as easy as possible, but the amount taken proved fatal. O'Connor came to Columbia from Arizona, but his home is Noling, Ill, he having learned his trade in the former place. He ad been in Columbia about nyve weeks, and during that time had drank very heavily, but managed to hold his place at the Southern shops. He was a member of the Machinists' union, and will be sent to his home by that organization as soon as the inquest is held. Filipino Bandits. A dispatch from Manilla says a de tail of native constabulary has been ambushed on the island of Leyte by a uperior force of bandits. Capt. H. Barrett, of the constabulary, was killed in the fighting. There has been trouble in the province of Misamis, island of Mindanao, where bandits have looted several towns. The na tive authorities were detied and Pablo Marcado and his family were kid napped. Marcado was accused of be ing too friendly with the A meriecans. Three Chinese stores were burned. Four natives were murdered, three of them being burned alive. Colonel Harbord, of the constabulary, is now on the trail of the bandits. Lieuten ant Thornton, of the constabulary, has met death by drowning near Dag upin island of Luzon. Killed His Brother. At Kingstree a coroner's jury Thursday found Harry Hardy - not guilty of the murder of his deaf mute brtewhom he Thursday night struk wihbis fist in order to knock Shim from the track to avoid a fast api proaching train on the Atlantic Coast Line. The deit mute was drunk and Srefused to respond to his brother's warning, but foolishly tried to make signals to the engineer to stop. Harry ,strurk him a violent blow in the face, Sand the jury found that it was from Sthis blow that the deaf mute had met Sdeath. Harry was thereuponre leased from custody, the jury recognizing that he had no recourse but to strike his brother in his effort to save his Slife. 0 Jumped in thie River. A man, supposed from the papers nfound in a coat left lying on the bridge Sto be Frank McC >rmick, of Winter haven, Fl rida, committed suicide Thursday at St. Louis by leaping Sfrom the Eads bridge into the Mis sissippi river. A watchman saw the man climb to the rai1, but was not in time to prevent him jumping. Bryan W ill Speak. Chairman Taggart Wednesday re 'ceived a telegram from M. G. WVet more, of St. Louis, saying that Win. t.. Bryan would speak at Butler and Lamor, Nevada, and Springfield, Mo., ythe last days of August and first of September. night and a day or two afterwards That he h lped John Gruber unload the said m agon and after the said John Gruber had bought some provis ions from the store of C. L. Pitts in the town of Newberry they left the said town of Newberry at which time the sun was about an hour high. That deponent rode on with the said John Gruber until they reached a point about tive miles from the town of Newberry when he left John Gru ber and walked on to the home of Mr. Press George, about one mile further on, spent the night there and until the fo'lowing Saturday morning, after which he went to the home of Geo. A. Long between 8 and 9 o'clcek and helped him In baibecuing some meats. After taking dinner with the said Gec. A. Long be came on to New berry, arriving here at about half past 1 o'clock. Deponent further deposes and says that he has never been to Ihe city of Columbia but once in his life and that trip was made on an excur gion train to the said town from the town of Newberry.last summer. That his wife, Lula Allen, left Newberry n the Friday following their mar riage, which cccurred on the Sunday before and that he saw her on the ext day in the town of Prosperity and has not seen her since, but he is informed and believes that she is now )t the home of her father in the town >f Bath, S. C. That he never saw Bertha Medlin until be was confront d with her in the county jail at New erry and has never been in her hou e in the city of Columbia, nor has he taken any one to her house at any iime. BUTLER HOLT. Sworn to before me this, 25th day )f August. 1904. OTHER AFFIDAVITS. Mrs. Rebec.a Paysinger's affidavit tated that she had setn Butler Holt z the store of Havird Bros. in New :erry on the 1 Ith of August. J. S. Coleman swore that he saw Butler Bolt in Newberry on the streets and in the store of Havird Bros. on the 11th of August and that :e was with Holt the greater part of ,he day till 4 o'clock in the afternoon. John Gruber, who signed by his nark, swore that Butler Holt had as sted him in unloading some wood in Newberry and had ridden with him to the country about five miles on ;he evening of August 11th. That Butler left him about an hour before sun down. Brooks George and Lee George, ons of Mr. P~ess George, who lives etween six and seven miles from Newberry, swore that late on the af ernoon of August 11th Butler Holt :ame to their father's house and spent he night there and remained there mtil the following Saturday. J. C. Fulmer swore that he had seen Butler Holt in Newberry at 3 >'olock on the afternoon of Aug. 11th. P. B. Yarborough had seen Butler olt in Newberry before 2 o'clock p. n.. on Aug. 11th. Eddie Bogden, signing by his mark, 1tated in his affidavit that he had Joarded in the family of Richard Al en and that he knew Lula Allen well. hat he had seen the body of the wo nan killed in Columbia and that it was not the body of Lula Allen. The two following affidavits were Lhout the most important read: SHE Is ALIVE AND WELL. itate of Sjuth Carolina, County of Alken. Personally came before me Richard llen, who being duly sworn, says hat he is the father of Lula Allen, she wife of Butler Holt; that the said ula Allen is now in the town of Bath, S. C., and that the body claimed Ld described to be Maude Allen and illed in the city of Columbia on the ith day of August, 1904, is not the ody of Lula Allen. Richard (his X mark) Allen. worn to before me this 22nd day of August, 1904. (L. S.) A. H. McC'arrel, Notary Public for S. C. Richard Allen, sigtsed by Hugh ook in my presence. A. H. McCarrel, Notary for S. C. Lula Allen came into Bath at 4 a. ., this day, 23rd August, on an ex ursion from Columbia, taking ad vantage of the chance to come to see der parents to relieve them of anxie ty. I have seen her In person. A. H. Mc~arrel, Notary for S. C. State of South Carolina, County of Aken. Personally came before me the un dersigned, who being duly sw orn, stys that she married Butler Holt during the latter part of the year 19013, and that she is r~ow in the town of Bath, Aiken county, In the State of South Carolina, with her father, Richard Allen, having arrived last night on the excursion train from Columbia. Lula (her X mark) Allen. Sworn to before me this 22nd day of August, 1904. (L. S.) , A. H. McCarrel, Notary Public for S. C. Nare signed by Mr. Hugh Coik and mark made by Lula Allen, all in my presence. A. H. McCarrel, Notary for S. C. REMIANDED TO JAIL. The atlidavit of Lula Allen was the last to be read, and at its conclusion the attorney general asked the court to be given a reasonable time to seek for counter affidavits, asking that a date for a final hearing be fixed after the primary election next Tuesday. Attorneys for defense asked that next Monday be made the day of next hear Chief Justice Pope, after a few min utes thought, irstructed the attorney general to prepare an order fixing Wednesday, August 31, at 4 p. in., as the day and hour for final hearing and remanding Butler Bolt to jail In New berry county until that time. The attorneys for the defense made no further objection and the order was drawn and signed. F. H. McMaster. Robbed a Monastery. A band of Catalonian brigands at tacked the famous monastery at Mont serrrat, Spain, and after binding the monks pillaged th.e monastery, es caped with a large quantity of rich booty. The alar m was given as scori as pssible, and a squad of gendarmes started in pursuit. They came upon the brigands and a tierce conflict fol lowed in which seven or the robbers wren killed and the others tied. AT MANASSAS AGAIN. The Historic Field Upon Which Troops Will Manoeuvre IN GRAND MIMIC BATTLE AER&Y A Field Upon Which the Confederate Soldiers Twice Whipped the Federal Soldiers During the Civil War. S The announcement that there are t to be increasing army manoeuvres j near Manassas in the early future nat urally turns the attention at least of C the old timers to the first great battle in the War Between the States, which was fought in July, 1861, upon that s famous battlefield. The Confederacy had changed its capital to Richmond, the last session of its congress havirg been held in Montgomery on May 2 1st. President Davis followed five days later, and Gen. Beauregard arrived on June 1st and assumed command of the Confed- t erate trcops In the department of Al exandria. It soon became apparent V that the first struggle would take place in northern Virginia, and the federal government held the Potomac U river in tight grasp and Washington t was well guarded. Gen. McDowell bad a union army of about 45,000 9 troops in camp south of the Potomac 0 ready for the fray. Gen. Beauregard t with a Confederate army was posted 9 near Manassas Junction, 33 miles Y frm Washington. Gen. Joseph E. ' a Johnston, with a Confederate army,a was entrenched at Winchester, his task being to prevent any advance by Gen. Robert Patterson, and to keep im from joining McClellan. At the " same time McDowell was assured that Patterson with his 18,000 men, would 9 prevent Johnston from joining Beau regard. But, as it afterwards turned >ut, Patterson was not in Johnston's way. It was planned that McDowell C should march to Fairfax Courthouse, ij bhen turn south, cross the Occoquan n river, and attack Beauregard's line of :ommunication with Richmond. That i was the situation just before the fa- u mous battle. ' "The advance of the union army," fi ;ays a northern writer, "was looked a apon as a holiday, for none at the I aorth doubted that it would be suc- n sessful. A large number of congress- o men and crowds of civilians rode out b rom Washington to witness the t: 3ovel and inspiring sight. In many n )f the carriages were ladies who se- t] :ured favorable position from which E to view through their opera glasses b he overthrow of the rebel forces." t] But before the day closed "Linden o -aw another sight." The show was b luite different in the last act of the n ragedy from what this gay crowd ti .rom the north bad expected. I The Confederacy had gathered there ti 1s finest troops, many of the privates n eing young men out of the colleges n md universities, clothed in the finest anforms, with glittering arms, but 1othing about them so bright as the lash of their eyes. The noblest com- s Landers of the Confedera'e forces ~ were there. Beauregard was there b md Johnston was there, as has al- C ready been said. Thomas J. Jackson a was there, and when Gen. Bee looked ti pon him and his gallant men he exz laimed: "Look! There stands Jack. s1 y n like a stone wall!" and from that s: lay this great soldier was affection- f tely known as "Stonewall" Jackson. Kirby Smith was there, coming in t bhe nick of time with 4,000 Confeder- b tes, coming in time to receive John- f tons order to attack McDowell's rightsand make the Confederate vic- a Stuart and his cavalry were there a and joined in the impetuous charge I] which threw the federal trcops intob panic. Evvell was there, that crusty old In lian fighter, a diamond in the rough, t and John B. Gordon was there. Dr. Hunter McGuire of Richmond t was there and dressed the wound 6 which Stonewall Jackson received. la We have not space to mention the r whole list, but must add that even t President Davis himself was there, t and had his misgivings suddenly turn- t ed into the gladness of triumph. I "While I was dressing Gen. Jackson's C hand," said Dr. McGuire, in one of t his addresses, "I saw President Davis C ride up from the direction of Manas- a sas. He had been told by stragglers r that our army had been defeated. He d stopped his horse in the middle of the t stream, Young's branch, stood up in his stirrups (the palest, sternest face I ever saw) arad cried to the great crowd of soldiers, '1 am President E Davis, follow me back to the field.' " Mr. McGuire told Gen. Jackson who a it was and what he said, when Jack- C son stood up, took off his cap and I cried, "We have whipped them; they ran like sheep. Give me 10,000 menC and I will take Washington city to- I morrow." And if the men had beenC forthcoming, he would have kept his promise and the entire fortune of the war might have been changed. C But we are too fast. Let us go back a step in the narrative and re late the closing act in the tragedy. Let us go back to the point where Kirby Smith arrived with his rein forcements and attacked McDowell's right and let the story be told by a northern writer, who refers to the southerners as rebels and insurgents. We quote: "Tne situation of Beaure gard was critical. He was fighting desperately, but was pressed steadily backward. At the moment when defeat seem inevitable, he was strong ly reinficed: An advance along the whole line was ordered, and the fresh troops charged with wild enthusiasm. The unicnists were flanked and forced down the side of the plateau. Sharp-1 shooters kept the woods anlame, and a strong force of Stuarts cavalry joined in the impetuous charge which threw the federal troops into panic. "A terrible scene followed. It was about 4.30 that the right wing broke and tied, quickly followed by the cen tre and the left. A jumble of artillery, infantry, ambulance trains, congress men, civilians and vehicles of all kinds joined in a wild struggle to get back to Washington. Artillerymen cut] the traces of their galloping horses,1 and, leaping upon their backs, tram-i pled thnse whn were too helnless or' oo crazed with fright to get out of heir path. Men who were perched mid the limbs of trees so as to gain a rood view of the Confederate defeat, umped to the ground and joined in he stampede, and hundreds, pale vith terror, ran until exhausted, vhen they fell and were cruibed under he massive wheels of the plunging annon. The soldiers and spectators iad become a frantic mob, swayed by he one wild desire to escape death." In view of the terribble disaster to mion arms, in view of the panic de cribed above, it has occurred to some f the old Confederates that it is a lit le curious that the United States overnment should have cbosen this attlefield for the forthcoming man uevres.-Richmond Times-Dispatch. A Deadly Tornado. Four persons lost their lives and everal others were injurel in a tor ado that swevt through Chautauqua ounty, N. Y., Thursday. Park urst's grove, where the Stocktown own picnic was being held was direct 7 in the path of the storm. Five housand people were on the grounds rhen a terrific windstorm swept h! ough the place. The storm came p suddenly. Trees in the grcve ere struck by lightning, many of hem were blown and the rain fell in rrents. The pe ople who took refuge oder the trees, at the first sign of be storm, were caught by the falling ratches and injured. Many Lo ses rere killed In the same manner. Some f the animals stampeded, trampling ipon the injured people lying on the round. Some of the buildings in the icinity were blown down and others rere unroofed. Hundreds of forests nd fruit trees were torn up and corn nd oat fields were laid waste, caus g a loss of thousands of dollars. At be assembly grounds at Cbautauqua any trees were uprooted and a for [on of the fence around the grounds as demolished. The Men's club ouse was badly damaged. Beauregard's Fame. A movement has been started in harleston to erect a handsome gran ie arch on Washington square to the iemory of Gen. Pierre Gustav Tou int Beauregard. A movement was iaugurated some years ago and v ol ntary donations were made for the urpose, but the sum was not suf ciently large to undertake the work ad the money was deposited in bank. t was recently decided to erect a ionument on a smaller scale than riginally planned and now this is to e done. It is especially appropriate 3at Charleston should honor the iemory of one the ablest soldiers of 2e south, for the reason that Gen. *eauregard had a warm place in his eart for Charleston, as evidenced in ie bequest of his sword which now :cupies a case In city council cham r, while the best thoughts of his tilitary career were directed towards 2e harbor defense of. Charleston. 'be programme of the exercises at mnding the unveiling of the momu ient, inscriptions, etc., will be an ounced later. * Shot. Him Dead. A disprtch from Bluefield, W. V., ys Sam Watson. a negro, shot and istantly killed Frank Underwcod, lnk boss at the mine of the Crane reek and Coke company 'Thursday, ad immediately fled to the moun is. A posse of seven or eight citi mns led by a son of Mr. Underwood arted after him. They got within ooting distance of the fugitive, but iUled to hit him. Young Underwood ned carefully the direction Watson >ok across the country the Waitch ack, where he hoped to intercept his ther's murderer. He discovered atson riding on top oi a gondola on freight -train which was running ery slowly. Underwood fired at the arderer and Watson fell headlong ito the bottom of the car ancd died efore the train could be stopped. Bicyclist Killed. At Paris, France. George Leander, he American bicyclist, died Tuesday orning fromn injuries sustained in a rrible fall at the Parc au Princes on unday last as the result of running ato a motor cycle which was pacing a ace in which an attempt was being ade to bresk the record for one our. There were three cyclists in be race. At the time of the accident dander was traveling at about a pace 57 miles an hour and was more han a lap ahead when he was thrown ver the handle bars of his machine d fell on his head. He was re :oved unconscious to a hospital and Id not regain consciousness up to the ime of his death.* ~Iowa Has Odd Freak. One of the queerest natural freaks ver seen in Iowa is a double snouted og owned by Charles Snell, who lives t Lehigh. The hog is now a year ld and Is in perfectly normal in every espect, with the exception of the itra nose, which does not seem to in onvenience him. This snout which perfect In every detail, comes out the jowl on the left side, standing .t right angles, just below the eye. .t is almost as large as the regular Long Distance Murder. Mrs. Cornelia Botkins was sen enced on Monday at San Francisco, sal., by Superior Judge Carrol to life mprisonment in the state prison at Ian Quentin for the murder of Mtrs. ohn P. DunnIng, in D~over, Del., by neans of poisoned candy mailed from ian Francisco. In passing sentence udge Cook expressed regret that he ould not impose the death panalty, . the jury in its verdict had fixed the >unishment. Killed His Father. A dispatch to the Agusta Chronicle rom Griffin, Ga., says W. Jeff Shiv rs, one of the best-known farmers in hat sectien, was shot in the breast by s 17year-old son, Harry at 1 o'clock thursday and died instantly. The hooting was done with a double-bar -eled breech-loading shot-gun, loaded vith buck-shot and bird-shot, and oc urred on the farm of the former, hout 4 miles south of Griffin. Killed on the Rail. Two young men, suppose to be Eoward and Thomas Strung of Brook yn were struck by a New York Cen iral train at Karners Thursday morn ng and were killed. Both bodies mere badly mutilated. TO DESTROY A TOWN. A Fricnd Attempted to Dynamite Gate of a Great Resevoir. A dispatch from St. Mary's, 03o., says an attempt was made on Tues day, 22 instant, by an unknown per son to blow up the gates at the head of St. Mary's reservoir with dynamite. Fortunately the charge of dynamite was not sutficiently large to destroy the masonry or to displace the heavy gates. There has been much ill feeling among the people living in the vicini ty of the reservoir, owing to the wide spread belief that the banks of the big body of water are not safe, notwith s'anding that the State has spent large sums of money during the past year in strengthening the earthwork. Had the object of the-miscreant teen attained Tuesday the'town of St. Mary's and the adjacent valley would have been swept by a most destructive flood causing enormous loss of life and property. Although the damages are limited mostly to broken windows in that city; to the wrecking of one house near the'bulkhead and one S.ate boat and the partial breaking of the bank, there is great excitement here because it is fear ed that the attempt may be repeated. The shock was plainly felt at Celina at the western end. of the re servoir, a distance of 10 miles. Tue charge of dynamite and nitroglycerine was placed on the wicket g;.te and a slow fuse attached from wnich there were three st'perate shocks. The ex plosion wr. cked the upper parts of the wicket and damaged the stone subut ments, but rot to such an extent as to liberate the waters. Houses in the im mediate vicinity were greatly damag ed and the occupants were stunned. The bulkead is the outlet of Lake Mercer into the Miami and Erie canals and holds back nine feet of water covering 17,000 acres of land. St. Mary's is 12 feet lower than the lock and the loss that would have ac companied success of the attempt is hard to imagine. CONFEDEEATE SOLDIERS. Do Not Have to Pay License Fees to Carry on Bussiness. On account of the many inquiries which the comptroller general has re ceived as to the recent law exempting Confederate soldiers from license taxed he has asked the attorney general for on opinion. Assistant Attorney Gener al W. H. Townsend Tuesday sent the following opinion to Mr. Jones: "Answering your inquiry to the at torney gmeral, I beg to say that in my opinion, the act to exempt Confed erate soldiers and sailors from paying license fees (24 statutes 441) gives a personal priviledge which cannot be transferred to others. The effect of this personal exemption is the same as that of a perscn paying the license tax in question. If a person paying the license tax could employ others to carry on the business under him, then the soldier or sailor exempted could do so likewise. This depends in each case upon the terms of the statue or ordiance imposing the license tax." The act 1s as follows: "An act to exempt soldiers and sailors from paying license. "Section 1. That all soldiers and sailors of the Confederate States, who enlisted from this State and who were honorably discbarged from such ser vice, shall hereatter be exempt from the charge of any license for the car ring on of and business or profession within this State, or any city, town or1 village therein: Provided, That such soldiers and sailors shall file with the clerk of the court of the county in which he resides the proper evidence of his service in the Confederate war: Provided, further, That no partner ship shall exist in any such business or profession, with any person not a bona fide soldier or sailor of the said Con federate States. "Approved the 25th day of Febru ary, A. D. 1904." Three Drowned. By the capsizing of a sail boat late Thursday afterncon three young peo ple were drowned in Oquaga lake, about three miles from Depcsit. Those drowned are: Robert Canfield, East Orange, Ni..J., Misses Amelia and Alice C. Cramer, sisters of New York city. Young Canfield was a member of a campaign paity and the Misses Cramer were guests at a sum mer hotel at the lake. Seven young people, Including Canfield, went out in A.~E. Lovejoy's sail boat. When near the middle of the lake, the boat was overturned. Floyd Lovejoy saw the accident from the shore and hur ried to the place in his naphtha launch. He succeeded in rescuing four of the young people. Negroes Threatened. The strike is still on in Chicago, and things are getting warm. Strike Leader F,tzpatrick declared Tuesday night that the importation of negroes from the south by packers was fast bringing about conditions that may result in race war in Chicago where, he says, the feeling against negroes is already so strong that negroes in no way connected with the strike have been dragged from the cars and as saulted. Fitzpatrick says the unions have done more than any other to in fluence the negroes and the unions want Washington to show whether he approves the negroes' conduct in this strike.* Work of Robbers. By the explosion of some dynamite caps and in the panic that followed it, three persons were injured Thursday afternoon at the Hawthorne race track near Chicago. It is supposed that the caps were thrown on the floor of the betting ring with the idea of creating a panic, during which the cash boxes of the bookmakers might be robbed. An attempt was made to rob one bookmaker, but it failed. Tried to Kill Himself. Robert Baxter, a young man living In the Poe Mill village at Greenville who has long been a victim of melan chola, attempted to end his life Wed nesday morning with a pistol. The ball entering his neck to the left of the windpipe and ranging back ward. Dr. Walker removed the ball Iand says that the wound though sern ous may not prove fatal. THE BLACK HAND. An Italian Youth Murdered by a Member of the Society. EAD BLACKED TER CRIMES. The Murderer Captured and a Mob Wished to Wreak Instant and Blood Vengeance Upon Him. At New York on Wednesday Salva tor Bossoto, 18 years old, was shot to death in his father's restaurant in Park street by Carlo Rossati, 35 years ld, because he had disclosed to the police secrets of the alleged "Black Hand." The father was knocked down and ,hoken into insensibility by the slayer, who then ran down the street, fol owed by a great mob. Italians to the number of 1,000 attacked the Eliz ibeth street police station, hurled mi-siles at the police and prisoner, urting two detectives and one p lice man. They would have torn the mur lerer limb from limb had not it been ror the arrival of the reserve police from two station houses, who were rorced to use clubs and fists and 5hreaten to shoot. According to the police the murder was deliberately planned by an organized gang. Bossoto is an enemy of these organ zed gangs and his son inherited the rather's opposition to the lawless ele ment of their countrymen. When aot studying music young Bossoto aelped about the restaurant. Several weeks ago he learned that the murder )us gang about Mulberry Bend had planned to rob a number of miners who were coming through-New York ind who had engaged board in the lodging house over the Bossoto restan tant. Young Bossoto went to the police md asked protection for the men and oon an Italian detective had ar rested 12 suspicious characters who ere held until the miners had taken L ship for their homes. Once out of jail it is said the gang letermined upon Bossoto's death Eary Wednesday REssati entered the estaurant and when approached by ihe elder Bossoto said he wanted noth ng. As Bossoto was about to close he place he asked Rossati to leave. rhe latter became insolent and re used. Young Bossoto, who was in the kitchen, heard his father and the man in an argument and came out. he instant he saw young Bossoto, Etssati took a pistol from his pocket, eveled it at the youth and fired. The allet struck the boy between the yes and he fell, dying instantly. Iossati then, according to the police, truck the elder Bossoto with his fist, mocking him down, and started to un, but was captured before he had one two blocks. On Sunday the Bossotos found on beir door the 'bridge of death," a abalistic s'gn of the Sicilians which s said to be a threat of death. A Man Thief. A dispatch from Spartanburg to Ihe State says scme thief entered the iome of Mr. Alfred Cole, near Go ightly,,and stole $54. Ingress was ef cted through an open window In the leeping room of Mr. Cole. The thief hen went to an adjoining room, se ured a trunk from a corner, and made is escape. This trunk was carried to pasture about 200 yards from the ouse broken Into and rifled. It con aned-8$54 in money and $1,000 in anfederate bills, along with many pa 1ers, packages, letters, etc., of Mr. Jole. Nothing was molested save the noney, the rogue taking both kinds. [f an attempt Is made to pass the Con ederate bills, it will easily lead to the dentify of the thief. Mr. Cole's loss Is L heavy one. Heis a mute and an iged man, he and his aged wife live in a frugal manner. They have as a com anion a little white girl named Hat ie Range, whom they adopted sever i~l years ago. - There is noclues~s to ~he burglar. Oldest Man Dead. A dispatch from Washington, Ga., so the Augusta Chronicle says: Caesar Booker, who was probably the oldest :nan in America, is dead. The exact ige of this venerable old colored man ill never be known, bit from the ac :ounts which he related of events which occurred more than a century a.go, and from the testimony of the ,ldest living citizens,'it is a conserva ive estimate to place his age at 125 years. He came from Virginia to Wilkes county as a slave at a time - when Washington was nothing more than "a wide place in the road." He sed to tell with a great deal of guesto m.d delight of the halcyon days when e, as a .young boy, would sit on the banks of a large pond, which is now ihe public square and site of the new court house, and shoot duck and wild 3ranes. Uncle Caesar leaves six chil :ren, the oldest of whom is 96 years of age and lives near Thomson, Ga. Boat Dragged to Sea. A dispatch from Charleston to The Stats says Mr. Scott Bailey's boys on Wadmalaw Island had a narrow escape from bsing carried to sea by a mons ter devil fish and perhaps drowned. The boys were in a small boat fshing when the fish, which was said to be 18 to 20 feet long, became entangled in the anchor and started for deep water. The boat was whirled along at a terrible rate, the bow being on a line with the water, and just when the young men were beginning to face certain death the anchor chain parted and they were saved. They had some difticulty in getting ashore, but they were saved from certain drowning. Rabbis Fight. A personal difficulty occurred at - B'Nai Isreal synagogue at Norfolk, Va., on Friday night between Rev. Samuel Goldberg, rabbi of the syna gogue, and Rev. L. Heller, formerly rabbi of a synagogue at Augusta, Ga., who is making Norfolk his temporary home. Ribbi Goldberg was arrested on a warrant sworn to by Rabbi Holler, charging him with assault and bat tery. Rabbi Goldberg objected to the presence of Rabbi Heller In the syna gogne and sought to eject him. An altercation ensued and the arrest fol