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VOL. xx. .MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1906. NO. 18. HE WILL DIE On the Gallows For a Most Hein. ous Crime. BRUTE TO BE HAINGED The Law Vindicated in the Case of An. drew Thompson, Who. Within Five Weeks From the Commission of the Crime, is Tried and Condemned to be Hung. There has scarcely ever been so much interest at own in any criminal trial in Greeaville as is shown In the trial of the rapist., Andrew Tao'up son, who is charged with assaulting Mrs. Frank James, the wife of a farmer, near Taylor's, December 1$. 1805, which was begun In the court of sesilons Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock, says a special dispatch to The State. A verdict of gulty was re turned Wednesday afternoon. Acc:rding to the testimony of Ben Smith and Charlie Moseley, bfth col ored, they were with the defendant al sundown en the day the all, ed crime was eommitted, about a quzrter of a mile distant from the James home They parted at that point, after having partakeD of whiskey from a pint bottle which the defendant had. Before they parted this bottle was emptied. Tnompson went in the di rection of the James h me, they to their homes in an opposite direction. This bottle figured prominently in the trial. An empty bottle w:s found at the place where Mrs. James was assaulted, which, when presented to these witnesses, brought forth the statements that "if it wasn't the same bottle Thompson carried and from which they drank, it looked very much like It." Mrs. James' testimony was pathetic and caused no httle interest. There was no disorder among the crowd, which was silent to catch the words of the witness. She was visibly af fected as she took the stand. It was a trying. ordeal, and if the courts had any way to shield a woman from sucb publicity It would undoubtedly be done. Her voice was faint when she answered the first fewv questions of Solcitor Boggs, but she bzcune more confident as the xmination prtemed ed and it was not necessary fer the solicitor to propcunr questions to se eure her evidence. Sne testified that a negro giving his name as Andrew Tnompson came to t er house about an hour by sun and went away . About dlark the same man returned and asked where her husband was. She told him that he was in Greenville. Sbe suspected the negro was up to no good and picking up a lamp, started out at her front door for the home of Mrs. Phillips, a few hundred yards away. The negro turned and went toward the back of the yard. After she had gone only a few yards the negro ran up behind her and taking hold .f her jerked the lamp from her hand. A terrible sci fflh ensued. Sur made superhuman fforts to re pul- e the attack, but was overpowered and the crim.e was committed, from which she suffered greatly. At this point in the testimony So licitor Boggs asked: "Is the defen dant who sits there the man who as sulted you, or is he not, Mrs. James?' The silence which prevailed over the crowded court room wa deathlike. The spectators had listened for this question, wnich was the most Im portant to convict the defendant Mrs. James looked straight at the prisoner, who sat by the side of his attorziey. "That is the man," said she In a strong voice, "that did it" and after a slight pause, "that's the dogl" This testimony caused a con siderable stir and the deputies moved about among the crowd. Constable Balney testified to the capture of Thompson In his home and his Identification by Mrs. James the next day. He was in a drunken stupor when arrested and made differ ent and conflicting statements to the magistrate. To show that the defendant was not at the James home when the crime was comitted and that a strange negro was in the neighborhood Is the sole defence of the negro Thompson and non this the defendant's case rested. Attorney McSwaln for the defense in the cross examination of all witnesses for the St-ate, sought to brirg cut testimony showing there was a strange negro in the vicinity where the crime was committed Such a strange person was there abouts the afternoon of the crime. The positive identification of the de fendant by Mrs. James and the chain of evidedce which clings about the bottle are strongly contradictory to the theory of the defense and are .questions which will be decided by the jury. The State closed Its case at the noon hour, all the testimony being heard. The defense put up no witnesses and arguments were at orLCe begun. The defence by not Introd'ucing any evi dence secured the last argument a the jury. Mr. Alvmn H. Dean assist ed the prosecution and made thi - pening argument ,for the .State Alwavs'logical ad .eloquent~, he mad one of the strongest .speeches eve had in a Greenville court room. H1 was followed by Solicitor Bhggs, whi wade a short argumient and analyze' ~ estimony. -Elcqnently the sc c'itor appeaied-for the protection c .elpless women and the suppressio: of mob law by the petit jury doing It duty. His speccai was forcible an .delivered with characteristic earnes1 ness. -c-- - Jon I. McSwain made-the c'osin argument. He was appointed by tb a cr to defend Thomp'son, and brave tiht was made to prove thi innocence of the accused. Ever] point or testimony which was intro duced by tht State which b-rderet on being irrelevant was contested Eirnestly and plainly the attorney recited the State's testimony to tb( jury and made a strong plea for hi. client. Reluctantly Mr. McSwair took the case, but he had no way cut of it and be did his duty well. HE urged upcn che jury to see that nc innocent man was convicted: the lay did not want It, and to give the pris on-r, who was helpless and in thE haudil vf the law and his Gcd, anim partial verdict. A verdict of guilty was reachecd after the jury was out one hour. Taompson was sentenced to be bang ed on February I Nomotion for, a new trial was made. AN OFFICER KILLED. ATTEUPT TO ARR EST SLAYER ENDS IN OFFICER's DEATH. YcVormick the Ecene of a r fficulty in Which State Constable lost His 7 ife. A special dispatch from Augusta, Ga , to The State says Mr. J. C. Hoistien of McCormick, a m mber cf the State constabultry, died in the Augusta city hospital Tuesday morn ing, Jan. 33, at 8 o,cl& ck, having been brought to the city Mondxy in a ser inus condition from a gunshot wound Mr. Holstein was accompanied by Dr. R. M. Fuller of M-Cormick, who was with him until the end came, and es coertd the remains toMr. Holstein's former home at Batesburg Tuesday afternoon. Dr. Fuller was seen by the State's representative and gave the following statement for publication; 'Mr. J. C. Holstien, Suite consta ble at MLOormick, was shot by Mr. Wade Cobhran, a farmer living about two miles from MzCormlck. The shootIng took place on Main street in the presence of a number of witness W. "Mr Oothran and Mr. Tump Wide man were about to get into an alter cation when Mr, Cothran drew a 38 calibre Smith & Wesson pistol. The town marshall, Mr. J. R. Brown, came upon the scene and placed Mr. Coth ran under arrest, tul he refused to give up his weapon. The marshal called upon Mr. Holstein for assist ance. He stepped up end it seems took hold of the barrel of the weapon and requested Mr. Cothran to let him have the pistol. Mr. Cothran still refused and endeavored to pull the pistol from Mr. OCthran, when it was di c'arged. Tne bullet entered the chest about two and a half inches below the nipple, on a line penetrat ing the diphragm in two places, pass Ing through the penicardium and through the l'wer lobe of the left lung, lodging just under the skin at a point of 6he shoulder blade. "Mr. Ho'stein was taken to the city hospital by his physician on the ifternoon tiain. He continued to grow worse until death ensued at 8 o'clock Wednesday morning. An autopsy revealed the fact that both the abdomen and plurae were filled with blood. "Mr. Wade Cothran was cut two or three times by Mr. Wideman after the shooting took place. His wounds were fh-sh wounds and not likely to give him trouble. 'Mr. Holstein was cool and collect. ed. He walked nearly two blocks to the physician's cffl2. after the wound and was councious until about 15 minutes before he died. He made no statement in regard to the wound. "His remains were shipped to Bates burg, his former home, on the 3 30 rain Tuesday afternoon where the interment will take place tomorrow. His father, mother, one brother and one sister survive him. The three came over to Augusta on the morn ing train, reaching here alshort while after his death. "Mr. Holstein was a young man abous 30 years ci age and well liked by every one in Mc'.2orm'.ek, where he had been stationed for the past two and a half years. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias and his friends were numerous." A 003VER&T G028 IRBAIE And Declaree God? Told Him to Kill the Preacher. His mind unbalanced, a victim of religious mania, Philip Robins, aged fifty, was lodged in jail at Catskill, N. J., recaly oncomplaint of R.v. H. [. Hoag, pastor of Methodist Fpisco pal church at Leeds. Robins is prop rietor of the Marion house at South Caire end recently experiencei reli gion through attendance at revivals conducted by pastor. After singing hymns and q-.roting Scripture for the benenit of the neigh bors, Robins suddenly declared that the Leeds divine, and accordingly he dashed off through mud, coverng the three-mile stretch of highway between his home and the M.e-boiist praon age. Confronting R sv. M. Hoag, he touched briefly on the outlook for ice and then with clinched fist aimed a blow at tus pastor's head shouting: "God commanded me to kill you and I must do it." The minister, driven to a corner of the room by the onslaught retaliat ed in kind and when cpportunity of fered darted past the madman and fled to the house of Dr. Rouse. R bins was c:osely watcad by the doctor until Ithe arrival of some county clilals, and when lcdged in jail was examined by two physicians. He will be comn -mitted to the state hospital at Pough keepsie. Wanted to Lynch Him. The people of Georgia came mighty near lynching a Methocist preacher who recently stood well in the confer rence. He had deserted his wife and Schildren, leaving rthem penniless whili She fled with the wife of a former par Sishoner in another town. The womnat bad robbed her busan3fd o: a bi; suiz of money to take with her ani be: former pastor. He had returned ti ehis Arst wife and tried tontate ul when'the pecple got after him. 'WENT ON ROOKS Steamer Valencia Wrecked o the Coast of an Island. NANY PERSONS LOST t Is Thought That One Hundred an' Twenty-One Souls Perished on the Ill-fated Ship. Not a Woman or Child Among the Rescued. A dispatch from Victoria, B. C, savs the Valencia, which was en routi from San Francifc%, with 94 passen gers and a c -ew of 60, went ashore al midnight Tuesday night during a thick fog and a large number were drowned when attempting to leave the ihip. The steamer is on the rccka against a high cliff, and is likely to go to pieces at any time. Oae boat's crew reached Cape Beale at 3 o'clock Tues day afternoon, and nine men got ashore near the telegraph but, about 15 miles from tht, lighthouse Two men are prisoners on the face of the cliff near which the steamer went ashore and cannot get up the cl if or return to the wrcck. Toe sea will probably reach them when the tide is nigh. The men report terrible scenes. One woman dropped her child into the sea when trying to hand it to her husbar d who was in one of the boats. Wuen the boat's crew left there wzs a little by running about the decks crying for his mother, who was among the drowned. There are still about 125 persons on the wreck, with almost certain death staring them in the face. The steamer Queen, which arrived here at 4 o'clocE from San Francisco, landed her passengers and left at once for the scene of the wreck. The steamer Q .een City left at mid night on her regular coast cruise and should reach the scene of the wreck in a. few hours. Urgent messages are being received for assistance. A dispatch from Cape Beale says the steamer lost is the Valencia of San Francisco, which went ashore on Vancouver island coast near Clorse. The. lighthouse keeper says about 100 were drowned. The news of the dis aster on the VancoLver island coast in meagre, being confdaed to the mes sage received by Capt. Gaudin, agent of the marine service, from Light huse Keeper Patterson at Cap Beale, saying: "Steamer wrecked be tween here and ClLoie, about 100 drowned, niLe reached telegraph hut. Will wire more ;raticulars'as soon as possible." Cape Beale is on Vanccuv. island at the sou ..hern side of the en trance to Barclay sound. The name of the wrecked vessel has not been as certained. NO SIGN OF LIEE. The correspondent of the Associat ed Press on board the steamer Salver has wired from Bamnfield as follows: The steamer Valencia was located by the steamer Q ieen at 9 a. mn. today on Point Planway, about five miles from Cape Beale. Tae tug Czar went in to investigate and report that the steamer was ashore, stern first and her decks swept clear with the ex ception (f a small part of the deck house and her two masts standing. No persons could be seen alive on ooard- In the rigging of the foremast was what the captain of the tug Czir took to be a signal, although he was unable to say whether it was a piece of sail or a human being clinging to the rigging. Tne steamer Silv r stood In for about two miles but was unable to go any further as a heavy sea and a west erly gale was blowmn4, making it high ly dangerous, if not impossible, to make a closer approach. The Czar was within three quarters of a :niis from the wreck but could g> no further towards the Valercia and after making as complete an ex amination as possible, she returned to the Qieen and Salvor. The latter steamer and the tug Czar then left for Bamfield creek, the Queen stand ing by her companion line. When the Salvor left the scene there was a heavy swell from the southwest and rain was falling in torrents. The Queen reprted having heard three gunsnots shortly before the arrival of the Sil vor, but nothing of any living person was to be seen. Advices from Cape Beale say that f5men have arrived, one of whonm it the boatswa~1, the othzrs being sail era. Tney reported a passenger list of 94 and a craw'of 60 and said thaZ when theyietlh the wreck yesterday morning there were about 100 persons on board, a large percanta.ge of whom were women and children Wbio were on the quarterdeok. T wo boats were smashed alongside and all the ocu pants were drowned. The Valencia left San Francisco about 11 o'clock on Saturday last and heard no sound and saw no light pre saging danger. The officers were run ning by dead reckoning and were on the outloon for Cnumnatilla reet light ship when the steamer struck. She was backed off after she struck but the water fi led the engine room, the 6res were extinguighed and the en gine crew forced out of the room, al theough not before the Valencia had been driven bard on the beach. HoRRIBLE EXPERIE~CES. A special representative of The Post-Intelligencer wired from Port Angeles at 3:30 a. m. Thursday morning that the rescue ship City 01 Topeka picked up a life raft at1 o'clock Wednesday afternoon six miles off Cape B'eale with 20 survivors of the Valerca on board.- The met were In a pitiable condition and al most dead from exposure. The mec on their frail support battled bravell jwith apair of oars to reach the City lof Topeka, which, owing to the dan gerous e9Ti, could not run In an3 closer t~o Unm Within half a mUlE from the raft a boat was lowered froni Sthe deck, which was with much diffi Sculty, made fast with a line to the Sraft The work of rescue was dan gerous. The men were too exhanatec to even tie a rope about themselvc The survivors told terrible tales ' the wrc ek of the vessel. When th, left the ship there were about 90 pe ple on board, most of them clingbi to the rigging. I G. Willis, one of the men rescu( from the raft, in describing his e: pbriences, said two of the boats we: smashed as soon as they strt c'i ti water and a third fell into the wat stern first, prec!pitating its occupan into the water. Then, he said, a attempt -was made to get a lir ashore. "A fireman named Cigal agreed to swim ashore He was I the water fully half an hour, but wl unable to make the beach. One ma was swempt ashore and succeeded I landing on a small rcck. We shot line to him and then he tried to clim the cliff, but he fell and was killed b fore our eyes. "In the morning another sad c4 lamity ocu-red. About 15 or 20 pe sons, among thenydone or two womet had taken refuge in the fore topmas1 Suddenly, and without warning, th mast tottered and there came a sbrie from those on it, and the next m( ment it fell with a brash, carryin its load of human freight to a terrib] death. "Capt. Johnson lost his bearing and ran the ship ashore. It was dark and stormy night, and nothinj could be seen. The ship struck whil running full speed. We all though we were to the southward of Flat tery, and after striking Capt. John son proved himself a hero. He mad the statement that he would neve leave the wredk alive and I believe it The chief engineer is also carrying i revolver with which to blow out hi brains when the. critical momn1 comes." SUB[ERGED AND BROLEN With only 33 of the 154 persons oi 'soard known to be safe up to a lati hour Thursday night, t'ae wreckst steamer Valencia now lies submergec ani broken on thd. Vancouver coas: five miles from Cape Bnale. . Only i portion of a mast stands above th water and the fl -et of steamers anC tugs Thursday turned their attentior to patrolling the coast in the hope o: finding boats, rafts or wreckage stil afloat with survivors. But, the belie grows stronger each hour that 121 persons. including most of the passen gers are lost. Of the 33 persons definitely accoun ted for, and these do not include threr men, beheved to be survivorn seen on shore by the whaling ves sel Orion, six have been taken on the Salvor, bruised, half naked, and ex hausted. Nine others in a similar plight are still camped on Darling crest in a telegraph hut, while the remaining 18 were picked up by the City of Tapeka from a raft. Not a woman or child is among the saved, survivoes saying that the wo men refused to leave the wrecli even wbea told the a ip was going t pieces. CONFEDERATE GRAVES. Foraker Pashes His Bill to Mark Them With Stones. Confaderate veterans and Southern ers generally are taking a deep Inter est in the Foraker bill to appropriate $200,000 to buy the lands in Northern states wherin rest the bodies of Con federates ffho died in the Northern prisons in the civil war, to improve these grounds substantially and tC erect headstones over the graves. A good deal of Northern sentiment, too, Is with ithe socple of the South in this :natter, as is evidenced by the fact that Senator Faraker, himseli a fire eating veteran of the rebellion, is urg ing the passige of the bill. President Boosevelt himself is fa vorable to proper care of the graves of Confederates who died in the Northern prisons. He recommended this in his last message. President Mt Kinley was also favor able to it and through his efforts the Confederate dead in the District of Columbia over six years ago were al] brought together in Arlington ceme tary and a seperate plat prepared for them. Tne great difflaulty In the way of the propor care of the Confederate graves in the Northern states is in the house. There, for the political reason that survivors of the civil wai in the Northern states might oU j30t to appropriating money to expend or the.graves of Confederates, nothing nas been done and the opposition tc doing anything has by no means pass ed. The bil Senator Foraker now has introduced, .has -already beer twiee passed by the senate. Statistics gatheed on the number 01 Confederate dead in the North show the total~is 30,152 Of the number 3,300'are buried in the national ceme teries.- Their ~graves are given as good attention .as those of the soldiers who d'etended the union. The graved of the remained are c c attered about and designation-and location are map idly becoming imposible. Unlas the government takes charge of them anc either buys the land in which they art sitUated or removes the remains o. national cematn.ries, it w!l! in a fey years, be iat'Ofthe question to find jthem. Close Call. A dispatch from Ormond, Fla., say: Charles Hjimllton, and .aeronaut dropped- 300 feet with,. his airshii Tuesday-and narrowly escaped fats injuries. Hamilton was pitched for ward upon the board walk and ren dered urcoucious. No bonss wers broken. Collapse '.s. due to the in seibsient power of the sixty-horse power touring car which was- used ti do the towing. When the speed o the tow began~to lessen a-nd the a-ir ship began towabble and Hami. ton, by mistake, .dropped his ca ca, which was to have been the signa to the tow driver to stop. The aerc plane- at.once began to flatter dowi ward. War in Chinatown. A dispatch from New York say war broke out Wednesday in th streets of Chinatown batween tw Chinese societies, the Hip Sings an the On Orn Leongs. .T wo Chiname were killed during a shooting&-affra and a third was mortally and ifourl b adly injured. PASSED AWAY. 0 Ig , Gen. Joe Wheeler Has Joined His Comrades Under the 18 SSH iDE OF THE TREES. n sO n He Was a Hero of Two Wars, Was Of. a ficially Thanked By the South b Carolina Legislature For His Defense of Aiken Dur. iug Sherman's Raid. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, the famous k Confederate cavalry leader and a bri ogdier general of the United States army since the war with Spain, died at 5.35 o'clock Thursday afternoon at s the home of his sister, Mrs. Sterling i Smith, in Brooklyn. The veteran of Z two wars was 69 years old, but in e spite of his age, thefe was hope until t Thursday of his.recovery from the at ~ tack of pneumonia, which caused the death. e It has not yet been announced r where the body will be buried, but probably It will be in Arlingt on cem etery, near Washington. Ainounce m ment for the plans for the funeral will be made tomorrow. Gen. Wheeler was taken ill ix days ao at his sister's home, where he has been living re cantly. He contracted a severe cold which developed into pleurisy. and pneumonia. From the first his age told against him but the family did ndt give up hope until Wednesday night, when the disease was found to 'Mia.;e affected both lungs. 3en. Wheeler's immediate relatives were all with him. His daughters, Mrs. W. T. Harris and the M!ses Anne, Lucille at d Carrie Wheeler, had been summoned from the South and arrived early in the week. His son, M -j. Jos. Wheeler, Jr., U. S. A., now stationed at West Point, was.also present, as well as Gen. Wheeler's sister, Mrs. Sterling Smith, and her son. The family were summoned to the bedside of the patient at midnight Wednesday night, when the doctor's in consultation con-luded that the end was but a matter of hours. The gen eral was then awake and conscious and his mind was apparently active. He seemed to know that death was ap proaching and the ugh too weak to .speak, he.succeeded in giving signs of recognition and encours gement to his children. Later the general sank into a peace ful slumber, and at the request of the doctors the family quietly withdrew from the sick man's bedside. Gen. Wheeler was never again more than semi-conscious. He lingered un til this evening and passed away quietly. GEN. WHEELEE's CAREER.. Joseph Wheeler, soldier, born in Augusta, Ga., Sept. 10, 1836. He was graduated at the United States Mili tary academy in 1859 and assigned to the dragoons. After a year's service at the cavalry school for practice at Carlisle, Pa., he received the full rank of second lieutenant, but on April 22, 1861, resigned and entered the Con federate army. He was made colonel of the Nineteenth Alabama infantry on Sept. 4, 1861, and served princi pally in the West. At Shlloh he commanded a brigade and coverei the Confederate retreat from the field. In July, 1862, he was transferred to a cavalry command and engaged in raiding Western Tennessee During the Kentucky campaign of that year he had charge of Gen. Brax ton Bregg's cavalry and fought at Green Rver and Perryville. He com manded the rear guard of the Confed erate army when it retreated Into Tennessee and on October 30, 1862, was promoted to brigadier general. At Murfreesboro he was in charge of the cavalry, and thereafter he was contin nously active In contesting Gen. Wil liam S. Rosecrans' advance, also at tacking his flanks, raiding In the rear, and destroying his trains. 0.1 Janna ary 19, 1863, he received his commls: sion as maj r general and opposed the Union advance at Chattanooga. He commanded the cavalry at Chicka mauga and after the battle crossed Tennessee river and fell upon Rose crans' line of communications, defeat ing the force that was sent against him and destroying over 1,200 wagons wIth stores. On this raid he succeeded in damaging federal property to the va-lue of $3,000,000, but, after losing 600 men, was driven back to nothern Alabama. Subseq'uently he took part in the siege of Knoxville and covered Bragg's retreat from Lincoln Bidge and Lokout Mountain. During the winter and spring he coninually harassed the Union troops, and, on the advance o: Gen. William T. Sherman's army toward Atlanta, he opp-sed every movement and fought almost daily, often with his men dis mounted. July 27 30 he f ught the raiding frrce cf Gen. Geo. Stoneman, General Kenner Gerard and Gen. Eli .iward M. McCook, and capttaed many prisoners, including Gan. Stoneman r and all the artillery and transporta 1. ion. On Aug. 9, 1864. he was sent by - Gen. John D. Hood to capture the na -tional supplies, burn bridges and Sbreak up railways in the rear of Gen. -Sherman's army. Passing through - northern Georgia, he went into east ern Tennessee as far as the Kenitucky f line, and thence through middle Ten - nessee back into northern Alabama. During this raid, which lasted one ,month, he was continuously engaged i and ruined much property. He was unsuccessful in destroying Sherman's Scommunications, arAd was finally -riv en back by the natiojnalcavalry. Wht n ihe Confiderate commander became convinced of the impossibility of am s resting Sherman's advance, Weeler e was sent in front of the army to pre 0 7ent the Union troops from raiding d and foraging. He then engaged in n.L the defense of Savannah, and for his y defense of Alken received the thanks hj on the legislature of South Carolina. Aanem Wheeler received his~ Dromotion to the rank of lieutenant general on Feb. 28, 1865, and continued in charge of the cavalry uider Gen. Joseph E. Johnston until the surrender in April, 1865. The death of Gen. James E B. Stuart, on May Y1, 1864, made him senior cavalry general of the Confed erate army. After the war, he studied law, which profession and the occupa tion of cottoo planting he followei until 1880, when he was elected to congress as a Democrat, and took his seat on Dec. 5, 1881; but his place was successfully contested by Wm. M. L-we, and he was unseated, June 3, 1882. He was reelected to the same congress on the death of Mr. Lowe, a few months later, and served until after th- war with Spain. Ia May. 1898, he was made maj r general and was active in the war with Spain. DRW RIB XILEAGB. Burtun Peeped into Senate to Com ply with Lzw, Senator Burton, of Kansas, drew his mileage Wednesday, and thereby hangs a remarktble tale. The law rt q ilres that in order for a senator to draw mileage he must have been seen in the senate chamber by an offe-al of that august tribunal. Had. the Kansas senator stepped within the portal, and had the eyes of, say Sena tor Bailey, of Texas, been clapped upon him, there is no doubt that a few warm remarks would have been submitted by the Texin.. To avoid embarrassment of this sort, and pos. sitly of'scme other-kind, Mr: Burton declined firmly to show himself in the chamber proper. All accounts of the higaly elating incident agree that he was in the R publican cloakroom: that he was lur ed to the door by one ofcial of the senate, who artfully eagaging him in conversation, induced him to face the arena where he once sat *-among the mighty of the land, wearing the toga with the purple bordee, and when he was gaging-oh, ever so wistfully gazing-toward the vies -president's dais, two other c31als of the senate looked him E quarely in his' downcast eyes, then Lff they strode to the ofce of Financial Clerk Nix n and swore that tney had seen S.nator Burton in the senate chamber. And so thevyhad. Then Mr. Burton drew this mil eage, amounting.to something 'more than $500. Mr. Burton, of coursa, has been drawing his salary all along since the senate has ceclined to take action on his case until the courts have finally passed upon the convic ticns that hang over him. Whether !r. Burton stays .in Washington much could not be learned Wednes day. Nojr could his aboda. there be a.scertained. Niturally the- Ktnsas contingent decline to di. cms h.m or his peculiar cftlaial status. That he is still a senator cf the United States however Is now fully attested by the records, except of course thA records of the daily proceedings of the senate. Reed's Death Exhumed. A dispatch from Bamberg to The State says as a result of reports and rumors which have gone out corcern Ing the death of B. T. Reed, who died in Bamberg on the morning of Janu. ary 14th, after an ilness of only a few hours, an Investigation was be gun Thursday by the order of Coron er 3. H. Z iigler. The coroners jury went to the burial grounds at Cope, where Reed was burled, and there isinterred the body.. Dr. J. J. O1eckley per forni~d 1the operatinn.1 The results, if there-are any, will be] rought out in the court house in a few days. At the time ot-Beed's eath the commonly accepted. report was that he had died of paralysis of the brain. But Mr. G. B.' ~ktrell, a brfther In-law of the deceased man, earing the rumor that Reed had been poisoned, carried part of the body to Augusta, Ga , where he laims that a chemist found a large uantity of arsenic In the stomach. The investigation in process Is to lear up all this mystery if possible and to get the facts of the case. In the meanwhile Elisha Bunch, a white woman who resides in the mill dis rict of this town, and Viola Wesley, colored, are in jail, being held as parties connected with the death cf Reed. A Sorrowful Romance A elever and beautiful girl of nine een, named Baroness Irma-Von Hoiz, as just died at Berlin, Garmany, the result of consumption. Her death bings, to light a romanc l. As a girl she turned the heads of the barons and counts frequenting the salons of the best Berlin society. Driven from er home by her proud parents be ause of her determination to marry a man of whom they disapproved, and who later deserted her to marry1 aother, she commenced the selling of owers in the streets of -Kremns, where er parents -resided. They had re fused to give her any assistance what ver. Finally the young baroness rought an action against her parents to force them to -acknowledge her as their daughter. She won her case' but did not win from them much in the way of monetary assistance. The consumption she contracted as the re sult of exposure to all weathers in following her calling of flower seller. A Deserted Village. After expend ug more than $8,00 000 during the past six years in pur chasing and workingt the Copper Fields mines, for many years the third largest in the Uaited States, George Westinghouse, of Pittsburg, has abandoned his search far copper In the Vershire mountains In V er mont as a result the village is now practically desertedi. Westingiiouse's representatives declare that she cop per vein is worthless. S.cores of min ers and their families have left town, and now there are not a dozen fami lies, where the population at one time was more than a thousand. Throughout the village all the d well ings formerly occupied by the employ es are-being sold and moved away o; torn down.- The machinery, boilers, and fuinaces are belag blown up by dynamite. Worst Than War. Statistics show that 17.700 people lost their livas in AileghenY-.entyi, Pennsylvania, the past year by acci dnts in Iron and sw.el smills, blast furnte-s,,g 'iroads andi nth r 1 A STRANGE AFFAIB.. SOUTH CAROLINA GIRL TRIED TO MARRY ANOTHER GIRL. Saya Her Real Name is Tauine Web ster, Daughter of late Noah Webster, of afney. A South Carolina weman, Pauline Web.ter, has been arrested at Kan sas City, Mo., on the charge of mas querading as a man and fraudulently procurring a marriage license and. marryirg another woman In . tlit city. The case is singular and much In terest attaches to its outcome.' The license to marry was secured by the Webster woman in the name of John Allaine Whitman and it Is on the charge of perjury that the woman is now to be prosecuted. The story of the marriage is told in the following extract from a Kaasas City paper: "I am a woman, but I have dressed as a man for three years," said John Allaine Whitman, when questioned in the presence of Chief Hayes this morning. "I have worked as a man ard lived as one. I married this girl when she said that she could uot live without me. My real name is PRul ine Webster." "I loved him and thcught that with his money and my little savings we would buy a restaurant and make a good living," said Marietta Jelley in ber home at Shefflald. "We were married Friday morning. I can not believe he-he--is a woman. It is tvo aw ful. I thank God though, that I did not leave Kansas City with him, or her, or-3h,. I don't know what to say. He wanted me for my money, little that It was." John Allaine Whitman, or Pauline Webster is probably five feet four inches in height and weighs about 130 oouncs. She has strong features, sal low complexion, brown hair, blue grey eyes that never look long at any one or anything. Her hair is cut short and It is stringy and neglected. She wears a cheap dark suit and light melton overcoat. She wears wo man's shoes. She smokes.a pipe or ci gars and chews tobacco. She talks good E'glisb and in an interview last ng nearly an hour she used not one Lmgrammatical sentence and no slang. She was per a c'ly calm and apparent y unconcerned or ignorant of the se riousness of the offence which she has 3mmitted. Her voice is unpleasant, >eing soft and feminine one moment, ad breaking hoarse in the next. She says she is twenty-one years old, but ppears much older. "I was born at GaIfaey City, S. C., iaid this swrange prisoner. "My rather's name was Noah Webster. He was a big Mason. Wben he died, Ight years ago, he left some money :o me and my two brothers J. E Wbiter and J. B. Webster. I did ao* think I was getting my share, wd so after quarrelling with my Drothers, I left home and started out ;o earn my own living. I have been ducated, but do not care to say where. My mother died when I was child. "I worked in hotels and restaurants mntil about three years ago, when, ~ne day In Dallas, Texas, while I was ~mployed in the Kimball Hotel, I teard that a cook was wanted by a betrical compa~ay that traveled in a rvate car. The owner of an em loyment agency told me if I was a nan I could get $60 a month. That ave me an idea. I went away and lought myself a cheap suit, cut off ny hair and the next day went back 10 the agency and was hired for the iheatrical company. The employ nent agent did not recognize me in y new rig. I talked little to any me. I took no one into my confi lence." Scciety Women Scored. Chicago society was astoneded when Lt learned that the recent Kirmess ad been denounced by the Rev. Syd-1 ey Strong speaking before a large audience -at the Second Congregation. i Church, as the most Improper so ~lal gathering ever held in Cnligo. n an address that fairly bristled with nvectve the clergyman stigmatizedi n the entertainment as "half naked,1 >ainted, sensualized creatures, full isters to the benighted Fetish danc r of South Africa, promoters of the Grmess, which was- held two weeks< go, raised $2 5.000 for the Cnlldren'sc demorial HApital. Mrs. Walter S Brewister, treasurer of the Kirmess, lelared after she had heard of Dr. strong's remarks that none of the lance was Immodest and that the cos-1 umes worn by the women who dis ensed punch compled with every rule f propriety. -Gen. Gr-ant on Gen. L se. At N1ew York Wednesday night peaking at the annual banquet of the onfederate veterans camp of N~ew ork City, General Frederick D. Mant, commanding the department :.f the east, U. S. A., proposed an in ormal resolution that steps be taken mmediately to make January 19, 97, the one hundredth anniversary >I Lhe birth of General Robert E. Lee naional day of memorial. He spoke f his father's friendship with Gener a] Lee and of the latter's herisate to he country. The resolution was dopted amid cheers. F. Hopkinsoni Smith spoke to the toast "O.d Plan ation Da.ys." In his address he de-< ularEd the stff age of the negro wasi he "greatest crime of the century." Cr~n's Wear Tb mn. China has recently Issued and edicti prohibiting, except in the treaty ports, I he sale of metal rimmzd spectacles. an shoes a.re also tsb~oed, and any-1 ne dealing In them renders himself1 teble to decapitatiot. The latter -eastic regulati n is due to the fact hat yellow is there the Imperial color, to be worn by none save members of the royal family. Acqirted. . V. T. Sanford, former tax collector of Floyd county, Ga., was acquitted aq R.ome oai- Sturday or the mullrder 2:George'Wrigh't. Be acknowledged thgfilling and his defense was 'that Wrht had interferred with his do tic relations. He Is now suing his ,a a for divara. GREW PERIS1 By Uxpiosion on a Brazillian Turretted Naval Ship AN OFFICER SAVED The Accident Occurred in the Powder Magazine, and the Ship Sank in Three Minutes. Four Rear Ad. mirals Were on Beard, and Were Lost. R'o Janeiro, Jan. 22.-The. Brazil fan turret ship Aqu:daban has been sunk at Part Jacarepagua, south of Rio Janerio, as the result of an explo sion on board. It is reported that three hundred of her crew perished and that only one officer was saved. Four rear admira!s perished on board the Aquibaban, whish had been used for the accomodation of a number of supernumerary officers and men attached to the flotilla escrting the cruiser Barroso. The Barroao had on board the minister of marine and his staf, who were inspecting the sites proposed for a new arsenal. The explosion on the Aqildaban occurred in the powder magazine. The vesssl sank In three minutes. The Aquidaban was of 4,950 tons displacement and 6,200 horse-power. She was built In Eagland in 1885 at a cost of $1,725,000. Tae armament consisted of four 9.4 Inch guns and four 5 5 inch guns and a number of smaller guns. She had five torpedo tubes. Her crew numbered 350 officers and men. DEAD 196; INJUEED 36. Rio Janeria, BrziI, Jio. 22.-The cruiser Baroso has arrived here from Port Jakerepagna, with those injared by the explosion on the Aquidaban. The Aquidaban blew up at 10.45 last night. Nearly all the rffl-ers. were killed or Injured. The dead number 196 and the injured 36. NA3M OF ADMIRALS. Rio Janeiro, Brazil, Jan. 22.-The following members of the commission which let a the arsenal on board the Lquidaban, were drowned: Rar Admiral RlrIgo Jose Da. Bochs. Rar Admirable Francisco Calhelros DaGraca. Rear Admiral Joao Candido Brazil. Captain Alves de Larrigo. Two commanders, two German pho xographers and one reporter also were irowned. FOUGHT DUEL FOR GIRL. Forth From a Ballroom Went Men With Loaded Pistols . Ina dual with a girl as the prize r or the victor, James Walker, son of a properous farmer, was shot and in asantly killed by his rival, Peter For. bes, also a farmer's son in Isreal Hill, Prince Edward County, Va. The men fought with pistols. They went from a ballroom together and book aim by the light pouring through the windows. Forbes was engaged to wed Miss R'asa Carew, and he had es :orted her to the ball. Walker had aren an old sweetheart of the woman and when they met at the ball he re Elewed his sult. There had been reports >f the engagement being broken be tween Forbes and Miss Carew, and It appears that these were conirmed by tier encouraging Walker. She danced with him repeatedly until Forbesj jal yusy, drove him to fury. He went to Walker and upbalded him. Hot words were exahanged 3nd-the two decided so fight to the death. Without telling word of their inte tion to anyone hey disappeared from the ballroom Lnd the pistol shots stopped a dance when It was in full swing. A silence elI over the brilliantly lighted room, ad then several persons rusAed to he windows. A sight more dramatic than It ~hown on the stage met heir gaze. Ewo beams of light poued out and mne fell on Walker, fl.at on his back lead, and the other on Forbes, stand ng with the pistol still ready in hand ad with his faoe still set in bate and letermination, Miss Carew basame iysterical when she realiz -d what had iappened, and is in a serious c jndI ilon tonight, Forbes is in the lockup. What Tillman Says. The Washington correspondent of she Cnarleston Post says Senator Eilliman declined to express an opinion is to the prospects In the Legislature. 'If I should say anything," he de :lared, there wouild be dirty accusa lions of popping his whip, etc,' and :onsequently I1 shall not talk. It Is pretty plain, though that Senator rillman proposes to make the. cam paign this summer a hot one. His tealth is better than it has been for r'ears, and he will nm 3.e the issue in Santh Carolina so ose that nearly svery vote in the State wil' be pollel. rhat Issue will determAile whether the >eople will stand by Lhojse wu~o sca..d y those who stand by the dispensary r whether they will reward those who have turned against it. Might Saic some. At Pittsburg, Pa., at a meeting of ~he Woran's Clu a one of the mem ers suggested that women were wear ng their dresses too long and said they should not extend belcw the meeas. 'That migbt do for a lady with your form" spoke up an angular member "bnt I don't agree with you >ne bit." Pienty of told. A Brltish explorer rec antly return ad from Abyssinis says that he was for four months in a region bitherto uaknown to white men. Along S 1 oributaries of the Blue N'ile be iondd a mining pop-olation engage.d in washing gold. He repotts that there is an enormous quantity of gold in that region, in which thousandsi of native wnrk