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VOL. XXI. MANNING, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1906. NO.9 WADE HAMPTON. The State Honors Itself by Erect ing a Monument TO HER RR01C 8ON. Memories of Sixty-Four and Seventy-Six Revived in the Scenes in Colum bla Last Week Attending the C Unveillog of the Hlampton Monument. The impressive ceremony of the un veiling of the handso-e $30,000 t brorze Fquestrian statue of Gen Wade Hampton, one of the world's a greatest cavalryman and South Caro lina's greatest statesman and most lovable son, carried about fifteer thousand people to the city of Co- a lumbia on Tuesday of last week. J Main street, beautifully decorated in Confederate colors, was thronged as on a big day of fair week, and the a long processsion representing the Con- l federate organizations of the State. f the schools and colleges, the National b Guard organizstions, the executive, o judicial and legislative branches of the State government was cheered t : the echo as it moved down Main ai street from the post ciice, thenoc e around the capitol building opposite p the stand erected for special guests tj by tbe side - f t.h-e s atute which faces 3t the capit-l building from the east. ti The outpcurirg f sbe crowd from all over the bate. aud tre enthusiasm te whIcn marked every detail of tht ar ceremoriy, msnifested an Interested i and healthy capacity on the part of T the people gererally to genulnel at honor a real1y -r.at man. The mill j1 tary geniua of Hf mpton at the t'm of of his remark 'ci c*mpaigns in Vir- ra ginia attraceo th admirlng gaz 0! gI the world at the im,% -But that he ed spent a great fortune as well as exer :ised with stail greater effect his in splendid fighting capacity througr do the f ,ur years' great struggle, was &l, not what most endeared him to the ;zj hearts of his countrymen, nor yet was pr it his grand work of redeeming his prostrate state from radical rule and th negro domination in '76, when the ed greatest self control and neadwork as M well as undaunted courage were need in ed to bring success to a very difcult re and delicate undertaking. It was his R great loving heart that prompted him %, to give all-bis gentua, his whole life, re, as weLl as his property-to his people W that has given him a permanent place C, in the hearts of all who knew him in tu life or are acquainted with his inti- w] mate history. ed Hampton was a type of the great South's old time ariatcOracy, nature's aristccracy, whose stadards are in tellect and character as well as cul. ca ture and rencement and means and tc power. He lived close to nature and bs was strong, zeir.g a physicul giant as at well as a prace in manners. H; to went to war a millionalIe, with a big m fortune for those days, and he died a er poor man. Bat Done has died with a de rioner heritage in all the things that wi make men great and entitle them to ge respect and admiration. He gave his wl genius as a cavalryman to his stiate wi after advising against secessIon. gr Then he came home and wrested his 01 state from northern thieves In thbe ei teeth of federai bayonets and became wl Its strong governor at a time It need- at ed a big man and rounded out his d' career with many terms in the United or States senate. ci The procession, headed by a cordon wv of police and bands of music, was in w charge of Maj. TheO. G. Barker, fc grand marshal1 of the day, and him- si self a splendid figure of the old times. 8s It wasesor!ted by8a quad of Hamp- p( ton's old cavalry under Col. T- 3-l Lipsomb, Governor Heyward andi ti staff and Brigadier General Wilie u Jones and staff, of the national guard la organizntion, came next and thiese In w turn were followed by the Citadel fC cadets, the Clemson cadets, a comn is pany from Porter Military academy b at Charleason and the national guard 01 organizationl of the state. Nex v p Major Thomas Carwile and staff of ami~ate Cjnfederate division folbow ed bythe veterans and sons of veter ans. A bevy of pretty women and o( girls bearing banners closed this sec- , lion of the parade. Next came sih carriages bearing these: Gen M. C. Batler, the orator of the day; Bishop Edison Capers, himself a distinguish- at ed Confederate general; Maj. Lown- d des, Chairman J. Q. Marshall, of the al monument commision, F. W. Huck- t( stahl. the monument sculptor. Gay- d ernor-elect N. F. Ansel, President a Benjamin Sloan of the Scuth Caro- g lina University, Hon. Etchard I. & Manning of Sumter, 0ol. B. A. Mar- r gan, superintendent A. Coward of ' tne Citadel, President D. B. Johnson, t of Winthrop college, Hon. E4 I. Sea- I brook and Rev. Mikell, Hampton's 11 grand children In charge of 001. a Wade H. Manning, his chief aid de t camp. Mayor T. H. Gibbes, of Cc- t1 lumbia, and Msavor B. Gaodwyn b Bhett of Charlestoni. t It is esudma-ded i.nat there were be tween ten and fifteen thousand visit or augmented by the city's popula uion, all business having been suspend- a ed in honor ..f the occasion. A lea ture of the day was the parade whic'. was probably the longest ever seen in this city. In the line of march were numerone~ mlit"ary and civic organiz e tions. Besides three companies fromi the military institutionls of the state and about twenty five :-ompanies of I state troops there e r-e the survivora of Hamptoni's cav-.un- mounted, a long line of Confederate veterans, sons1 of yenergeSs and a stream of cariageb containing distinguJished guests. There were also t- rse nands of music in the parad1e. Oa reaching the statue w::lch is located on th state house grounds, the para(te disbanded, 4forming L. a circle around the large stand erecte-i for the spekes and in vited gues's The . ra era and me-rbars of the retiring .'gISlature Sad the memnbers' mec* of the new legislature, members f the Clemson faculty and mombers of the chamber of commerce of GO lumbia met in the capitol building %nd proceeded to the stand outside under the sergeants of arms of the ierate and house bearing the official mace and sword of state. The unveiling ceremony, proper was opened with prayer from Bishop Dapers. Then after music the unveil log was done by the Hampton grand. shildren. four girls and one boy. A frgat shout wert up from 10,000 rolces as the fols fell away from the landsome figure of Hampton on his lashing steed. The commission then formally turn d the monument over to Governor leyward, who received it in behalf ' the state and introduced General Intler, the orator of the day, who harmed his audience with a two iours' splendid oration. Gen. Butler % ove of the South's splendid speak rs and his fascinating diction and ouch ng eloquence held the azen ion of the crowd throughout. At the conclusion of the address he students of Winthrop the Colum is Female college and the Oollete r Women and the school children rom this and other cities sang tae Bonnie Blue Flag" and other patlri ic airs while the Daughters of the enfederacy banked the monument rith garlands and wreaths. When Gen. Butler had ccaumuded as eulogy upon his comrade In arms od colleague in wongress, Sate Sena )r Richard I. Manning read a beauti i1 poem, dedicated to the occasion V James Henry Rice, Jr. A saulte 19 gunw closed the exercises. Long before time for the parade, is crowds centered on Main street 2d from the state house to the post flce, the streets were lined with peo te, who seemed content to spend the me standing out in the warm sun dne, talking to the many friendf iey met there. The merchants had 7"red ro painr i make the decoratia- attractive, id to those seated ? the steps of te capital it was a b . u iful 'izt as blue sky overhead tu.icsed Mtin reet, where barnners 2.a. degs ,owar g the Southern Crosa und draper!es red, white and red rf the Confede cy blended in the distance with the ay uniforms of the veterans gather at the post cffioe for the parade. The crowd on the streets was an teresting crowd. There was a good al of cheering as the parade passed mng, but the spirit which character ad it was one of er j yment and ap eciation and cordiaLi fellowship. Seeing the old Confederate fAgs, e gray uniforms, the red shirts, call up in the mind of the old soldiers any an incident and thrilling scene I .which perhaps these identical. [les had figured. Sculptor F. W. 2okstuhl, who designed the statute, I 6s introduced to the audience, and I 3eivecia great ovation. The statue Ls erected by the state of South I rolina and its citizens, the legisia- 1 ze having appropriated 820,000, lle the remaining $10,000 was rais- 1 . by popular subscription. HaveQuit Work. Some 60 of iae immigrants who me over on the Wittekind and went work in the Anderson cotton mills, sve quit in a body, and are walking1 iut the streets of Anderson talking1 each other and get ting themselves ore dissatifisd. Some of the foreign are complaining that they were eived into believing that they :.uld get 'more money than they are ttng, and the Rev. Father Gwynn, ho has been among them talkint Lth an interpreter says there is some ound for this complaint, though hers who have talted direct and :amined the circulars on which they are induced to leave their happy >mes in E~Irope, say there is nothing ceprive about the circulars, that of essional agitators among thE owd are trying to dissatisfy people ho are satisfied and disposed to ork. Tnio mill authorities say the reigners are being paid exaccly the ;me as the iccal help, and that this all that will be paid, that the ox rienced help is getting what exper nced help in this country get, but it green hands must be content bo ork as local green hands work. It said most of the newcomers want to ork, that they quit out of sympathy r those who were dissatisfied, and it believed that many of tnem will go ick to work. Some will leave and hers the mill authorities will comn i to seek work elsewhere. Sho't Through a Window A dispatch from Johnston says that >mmunity was shocked or' Thursday hen the news spread that a murder md been committed and soon Mayor 'rer aed Chief Derrick were on the iene and found that the six-year-old ughter of Bill Gomillon a respect ale negro, who lives on the edge of wo, had been shot through a win ow, the ball penetrating near the eye ld causing instant deatb- T wo ne roes were held in jail. Kirk Prinus od E ek Cowle's; out the rormer was ~leased. In June Cowles killed his ife's uncle and for this fact she left Im and is in Atlanta, leaving her taie girl in the care or Bill Gomil on's wife. When Cowles was tried 5 a recent court there was a mis rial and he was out on bail. Since te above was writtra Kirk Primnus as been released and Cowles carried jail. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Wolf Attackedl Lad. Tearing itself loose from its chain. half-tamed coyote ran at large on he streets of Greenville Thursday dght attacking several people, .ong them Luther Rogers, a 12 ear old white lad, whcse leg was 'earfully lacerated in several places. ICe wolf was- caught by a big negro >lacksmt~h while in the act of chew ng the lad's leg. The blacksmit'1 ~tunned the infuriated animal with a. olow from his flat and later stamped ,t to death. Several negro men at acked earlier in the evening had bheir clothing torn by the wolf but uffered no ir jaries. The wolf was rought about a year ago from a Western State. It has generally been regarded as tame and docile, and it is reared that the animal was suffering with raqies when killed. The I gad will be sent to a pasteur institute f~r .aminationl. FOUL MURDER. An Aged Widow Who Lived Near Gaffney Robbed AND HER THROAT CUT The Crime, Which Was a Most Shock ingly Brutal One, Was Committed About Mid-day. Tom Harris, a Wondering Character Ar rested On Suspicion. A dispatch from G&ffney to -The News and Courier says that section was again the scene of a most shock ing crime. On Tuesday of last week between 12 and 1 o'clock, at her home on the crest of a hill, two and a half miles from Qaffney, and overlooking the town, Mrs. Hortense Morgan, an aged widow, living all alone, was mur dered and robbed. Her throat was cut from ear to ear and several han dred dollars stolen frem her person. As the citizens were returning from their dinner the news spread that Mrs. Morgan had been murdered and the heriff and the chief of police with the blood hounds went to the scene, but they bad not been gone long before ne Tom Harris was pointed out at the depot as a man seen at Mrs. Nor Zan's just before the crime was com itted. Several good and substantial men identided him as having been een on the porch of the house as they a'sed coming to town. darra w& arrested b" Omcer COy1le c Deputy Marshal Phil j)- OM-e-3r ollman came up and they too Har is to the city prison where he was arched. Oa his person was found a arge knife, very sharp andI bloody, and n two rolls was found $726 10. One .oll of bills was wrapped in a white ,ag very much as a woman would wrap it. The other roll had been 4 wrapped in the same way, but the wrappings were gone. The rag which emed to have been wrapped around ibs last roll was found between the iouse ani Gaffney. Harris, when asked how much mon. y he had, said that he had ab- u 600, 3126 1kEs tcan he really had. I 1 6ddition to the money and knife there I were found on his person stains of I lood, about his hands, and on hil reast there was a bruise. 0 Your oorresponder t visled the ene of the crime and found Mrs 1 [organ on her bed in a pool of her iwn blood. Her throat was cut from , ar to ear and her clothing bad been N urned up anl two cloth bags contain. a ng the money, which was attached iv her waist, had been out off and a ibrown to the floor. The room had )een ransacked, the clothing thrown Lbout the floor. From Inquiry of the eighbors the following facts were as eraned: Mrs. Morgan lived alone in her ouse on the top of the hill, but spent ier nights with a tenant on her place', ~ecause she was afraid of being mur iered. Between 11 and 12 o'clock irs. Webb saw her about the place. angng out clothes and feeding the lgs. At 1 o'clock M's. Webb had an agagement to go with her to see a eghbor. After waiting some time a ver the appoInted hour she went to he house to see what had become of er. Snie looked in the windowe and iaw her Oh the bed with her throat ut. She gave the alarm and soon a ,rod had gathered. Harris was seen going to Mrs. Mor ian's near to 12 o'clock. He asked1 cme people along the road how far it was to her hotuse. He was seen In the orch talking to her while she was ( tewing. When he came to town after le murder the flrst thing he did was e buy a suit of clothes and an over- 1 Later Tuesday afte'nooui big broth- I rin-law, ,Tim Chlldress, who works It one of the mills here, but who had 1 teen away for some time, returding to Gatney Tuesday morning withC uris, was arrested as knowing t omethng of the crime. Chliress worked with Mrs. Morgan this fall, I picking cotton, and knew of the report that she carried money on her person, I When arrested he was on his way to I Blaksburg, where he was to join Mrs Harris, who was waiting there for her musband to return. It Is thought that Jhfldress knows a great deal about the iair, as Harris was a btranger in the oommuntv. Harris is a man of medium size, of a low order of Intelligence, with sandy whiskers over his face. As a boy he was considered wild. Rumror has It that he was at Forest City, N. 0., about three weeks ago working in a xml, but he says that he came here from Grove's, N. C. Three years ago ie lived at Hickory Grcve, where he was known as a preacher, having been ordained by the Baptist Church. Another rumor has it that he was a Holiness preacher. Anyway, he asked the offcers to look In his suit case and get him his Bible. When asked where e got so much money he said that he labored and made it, but afterwards said that he made It by labor and gambling. It Is thought by many that if Har rls killed Mrs. Morgan he was hired to murder her? There are those who believe that the killing of Mrs. Mor an was the execution of a deep laid plot to put the aged lady out of the way, and that Harris was the tool secured to do the bloody work. The ,,fitals of Gaffacey are now at work ecuring evidence in thie case against Harris, and It is believed that the In vestigation being made may lead tc: the arrest of other parties, in Gaff ney there Is well founded belief that Harris was hired to kill Mrs. Morgan for the purpose of getting her out of the way. Mrs. Morgan was well-to do, having about six bales of cotton, which she had been nolding for some time, several of the bales having been~ held over frc m last year. Her land is worth about *10,000. Harris has been removed to Spa? tanbug. It was feared that if he wab kept in Gaffney the jail would be strmed bY an angry mob and the prisoner lynche:. The excitement was great. It is balleved that Harris was hired to kill Mrs. Morgan. She was eighty years of age. She had more than 8700 in her house, six bales of cotton and owned land worth about 810,030. At the trial of Harris the State will show that the old woman was murdered for her property. A man by the name of Childress, a half brother of Harris, has been arrested as a material wit nesses. It Is expected that other ar rests will be made shortly. FiRs TulkrM ALL.t t C REPUYE4 TO SUSPEND ORCDER 0 DISOBARGING THE NE(ROES d Roosevelt Cables Taft 'hat Facts Are Jecessary to secure Rehearing r The War Departm-nt Thurtday Is sued the following statement con eerning the negro troops ordered to be dismissed at Fort Reno: "In the matter of the o:der oils oharging the enlisted men of three :ompanies of the Twenty-f4th In fantry, Issued by the President, ar application was presented to the Sec retary of War by a number of persone d f standing asking for a rehearing by b he President of the grrund on which etion was taken. h "The Secretary telegraphed the el President of the application and de layed the proceedings of discharge un Al the President could indicate his wishes. The Secretary was meantime alled out of town. No answer was received from the President. "The Secretary on his return did aot feel justified in further delaying w he execution of the order of dis re ,barge especially in view of the fact hat the Secretary learned that the President had fully and exhaustivel. a - nsidered the argument against thet rder of the persons who have nov pplied for a rehfarng. re "Accordingly the Secretary direoter m esterday, Tuesday, that the proceed , ngs for discharge be continued with- t ut delay." h, Later in the day Secretary Taft re- M eived a dispatch from President kosevelt and Issued the following ad- m itional statement: sa A telegram was received from the a ?resident at 11 o'clock today, after p he previous statement was given out T t the War Department. in which he re eclined to suspend the discharge un- 90 Bss there are new facts of such im Portance as to warrant cabling him. [e stares that his action was taken ,fer due deliberation, and that the nly matter to which be can pay heed M a presentation of the facts showing cz he official reports to be in whole or e a parb untrue or clearly exculpating t me individual. If any such facts co tr appear he can act as he-demi sh disable, but thus far nothing as been Introduced to warrant a spension of the order, and he directs hat it be executed." Entered Through Skylight. t Frank York is in p>lic custody as result of one Of the most daring urgarles In the history of Birming- m am, Als. The robbery in qaestion ta as that of the Birmingham~ Arms in Ic, one of the most prominent hard rare and sporting goods stores in the e state. It was entered about 11 'lock in the night, the suppses ethod being v~a the skylight, which a ras found unnooked. A rope was Bl ed to lower the marauder two OC tries to where the contents of t. e cr ain part of the store was ser able of fearly S1.000 worth of fi e.arms, or ~nives and cutlery were stoisa. The rrest of Yora followed his attempL cc pawn goods which the locai detec- s le, think were part of tae arms c e company lost. vi Dead in scor-e in Mr. A. Bullard, who lived at K' bbe, da t.., was found deast in bis store ~hursday morning. Upan investiga on it was found that he had been urdered, probably Monday night. ~here were three wounrie on his head, v ficted by some heavy club or axe. [e ran a small merchrandise b-asiness t Kibbe and had not been seen by is; neighbors for several days. Some m ne passing this morning noticed s hat one window was broken and n when the house was entered he was h ound dead on the floor by his cot. Ebber~y ssema to have been the mo ive. TherA ta no cine whatever asG o the perretra or of the crime. A Ba $oy . ol At Punistsawuey, P .., be.cause his ecer refused to go. t him permis- i Ion to~ go hunting, Jam s Do'uzner- sk y, 18 years o;d, S-10C and seriously st ounded Prof. J E Kokler, princi- re pal, and Prof Meade Snyder, his as- si ,istant. Following tae afternoon S iesson of scaool young D aughier y Id is home secured a shot gnn and meet- di g the teachers demanded hre b.: giv an permisson to go hunting. The eacers refused again, a',d the boe o red at them. Prof, Snyder receiv d a part of the charge in his face, I ody ::nd legs, whle Prof. Kokler was c rnly slightly injured in tue regs. Prof. inyder,s condition Is critlcal. Dong-a ierty was arrested. Death of Bishop Tigert. k Bishop John J. Tiger?, of the Meth'- a1 dist Espiscopal church, Souto died ~ t Tulas, I. T., on Wednesday after i an Illness of ten days. Bishop Ti- s gert was taken ill while attending a siurch conference an Atoka, L TE., r but disregarded the advice t of his ph) sician to rest. He came to bi lulas Intending to open the confer- se mee on the 10~h, but was compelled take to his bed. His Illness was caused by the lodgment of a piece I, tncken bone just be-ow the tonsils nw caused an inflamation of I e roat and resulted in blood poison-n ng. __ _ _ _ _ _ _ Woman Murdered-.s With head horribly battered by a le' club and with her thrroat black and 2: bue, Mrs. Sarah Klingar, aged 60 yeas, the widow of a CIvil war veter an, was found in her home at Sham okin, Pa., on Thursday. The wo. C man lived alone. The authorIties a have no clue to the murderer and are P not yet able to decide whether the n woman was killed by robbers or f whether her life was taken to acccm- 'l p1h some other pupoen. e RUM BABY FAM. iOATRS;OME DETAILS OF ORIM INALITY IN NEW YORK, L Woman Accused of Vileness by Her Daughters Who Have Her Arrested. At New York the spectacle of two romen denouncing as a murderess he woman who brought them Into qe world but whom they refused to all "mother" was witnessed In the fmoe of the district attorney Thurs Ny The women are Mrs. Marie 3ooh, recently a; resident of Massa nusetns, and Mrs Wilhelmia Itarig of r-w York. The mothe'r whom they accused is [rs. Wilhelmia Eckardt, who was ar 'sted by representatives of the county ,edlcal society on a charge of having erformed a criminal operation. The rrest was made upon information irnishei the society by the daugh -r and the two younger women ap. eared voiuntarily at the district at >rney's cffice to amplify the tes mony they already had given against isir mother. Both rs. Seboch and Mrs. Ihrlg sclared that they had seen Mrs. EA ardt kill hour-old infants and ds )so of the bodies by burning themz i her kitchen stove. Mrs. Thrig do ared that her mother bad quarreled ith her because she refused to al.ist burning the bodies of babies. Mrs. Schch told the district attor. Dy that when she was three days old r mother wrapped her in a bund-e rags and cast her in the street. 2e was rescued oy her grandmother. ho reared her and with whom she :mained until she became a woman. When she came to this country she f id she found her mother conducting C disorderly house and she declarE-d at her molher sought to have her oot7-e an inmate o1 the place. She fused. Toe first she knew of her other's present occupation. she said as when Mrs. Eckbards's little adop I d son made a discovery in the >use which led to the exposure and rs. EBkhardt's arrest. When she learned of the discovery I ade by the little boy Mrs. Schoch t Id she went to her mother about it 1 id she declares Mrs Eckhardt pro. sed that they go Into partership. a2s she did after consulting with presentatives of the county medica Dlety, and with a view of causing rs. Eckhardt's arrest. It was bile cccupyicg this position in her nher's house, she said that she pro- I red the evidence which resulted in 1 rs Eckhardt's' arrest. Mrs. Ihrig a me here four months ago from Esg sburg, Germany. She testified at she lived with her mother after t aing here and that in August last C e saw her mother burn the bodies of Wants,I Four Men Lost. Four men caught by a storm on e e crib work fo the new breakwater e the entrance to Holland harbor on 6ke Michigan. were washed away by e waves and drowned, The four 4 mn with Bi Bannett went out on c e crib work in a launch and a scow t the afternoon shortly before the yrm broke. When the wind struck e crib the scow with Bennett l card, was torn loose. It driftea the lake and was finally castr bore north of Ottawa beaoh with nuett safe, although in exhausted c adition. The four men left on the tb could not gain the shore because the immense sea. A life savihg ew attempted to aid them, but the ~ ,ves were so high thsat no bia: aid live. Attempts were made to oot a line to them but the hurri' ne hurled the line back. When ght closed the men were still cli'g g desperately to the crib work. ~At ybreak Friday they were gone.1 Shoots a Doctor. Mss Otillo Schneider, 42 years ofi e, Thursday afternoon fired five re Iver shots at Dr. Frederick Bier- I 1, two of which struck the doctor, 1 e in the body and another in thea mn, while two shzts struck other n. The shooting took place in tbe I reet Lt Madison avenue and Fifty,C nth street. Dr. Bierhoff was takenC thE Presbyterian hospital, where s wounds were found to be not es- t :illy dangerous. One of the other 1 ots took ef ect in the arm of Otto oege, a lawyer, anotaer struck f ul Sheehan in the o. ek. N-ither the latter was seriously irdajred. Miss Schneider, who was seized by I eB police before she could fire a sixth ot, gave varioks reasons for the ooting asserting dirst th~at she was 1 venging herself for alleged profes1 mnai malpractice, and afterwards I id that the doctor had stolen all the I eas for French waists wh ca she bad t signed. ________ Stor mers Crushed. The steamers Kaiser Wilhelm and1 reoc. collidedi near Oherbare, ance, on Wednesday. The shock described as having been terrific, ,using a panic among the passengers ib ard the two yessels, especially nong the immigrants. On the rinoco three men and women were1 lled, six women and men Injured, d five persons knoc'red overboard d drowsned. Of the two steamers es Kaiser Wilhelm i said to haveC stained the most damage. Four of < e crewe of the Kaiser Wilhelm are ported to have been killed and I eva injured, but the exact num- 1 r of killed and wounded on that yes 1 is not reported. Murder and suziie. After a trival quarrel Thursday ih his bride of three mouths over ie purchase of some furniture, Delos 1 igh and, a farmer living near Cas avia, Mit'et., shot and killed her, he ien turned tbe revolver upon him if kil ing himself instantly. High nd was 28 years old and his wife Fatal Pistol Duel. A special from Dublin, Ga., says harles Gardiner, a white man, and a unknown negro were killed in a itol duel at Beachman's mill, a few iles from D~ublin, early Friday. The gbt was the result of a quarrel 'ursday over an unknown differ NEGRO TROOPS Who Were Dismissed Entered a Compact to Preserve Secrecy, AND IN CONQPIR&CY. [Irest Pressure Brought to Bear to Have a Rehearing i. the Case. War Department Issues a Statement in Reference to the Dis missal. The war devartment issued the fol lowing statement Thursday concern Ing the negro troops ordered dismissed it Fort Rano: "In the matter of the order dis Dharging the enlisted men of three ompinies of the Twenty fifth Infan ry iPeued by the president application was presented to the secretary of war y a number of persons of standing aik!ng a rehearing by the president )n the ground on which the action was taken. The secretary telegraph d the prsident of the appiication and lelayed the proceedin. a of the dis barge until the prestdin& could indi ate his wishes. The secretary was neantime called out of town. No an wer was received from the president. [he secretary on his return did no; 'eel J astifned in further delaying the Lxecution of the orter rf discharge, specially in view of the fact that the cretary then learned that the presi [ent had fully and exhaustively con idered the argument against the or r, of the persons who now applied or a rehearing. Accordingly, the see stary directed that the proceedings or discharge be continued without lay " The Investigation of the conduct of tegro troops of companies B. 0. and ), Twenty-ndfth infanory, as reported pon by Maj. Blocksom, Inspector gen ral's department, Lieut Col. Lover ag, Fourth infantry, acting nspe or general, and Brig Gen Garling on, inspector general of the arm, nas made public at the war depart aent Wednesday in a volume entitle 'The Affray at Brownsville, Tex." Msj. Blecksom declaies tat the at air was preconcerted ard both be an' en. Garlington exoneratel the cfli ern from blame. Gn. Garlinrtor ys It was evident fro;m the first tbas he three companies had entered Into compact to give no information bout the affair. Secretary Taft sadt ednesday that nQ steps will be taken o make a further investigationof the onduct of the officers. In his summary of the reports mar, y the other cffeers and of his own ef - rts to discover the guilty soldiers, rig. Gen. Garlington declares that very means of getting evidence con erning the shsoting was exhausted. L1 the men of the three compante: rere talked with Individually on dif rent occasions, he says, and the dire osequence of their failure to giive ui he guilty soldiers were pointed Ou'. 11i the soldiers avoided questions and en refused to discuss the events at ~rownsville, which were known tu ave enraged the negroes before the t "Tee secretive nature of th race here crimes are charged to members f their color, is well known." *EN *ABLINOTON's R3PORT. Gen Gariington says: "Under such rcmstances self protection or self iterest is the only lever by which the skeb of their minds can be pried pen Acting upon this principle, the ilsory and record of the regiment to which they belong, the part played by hess old soldiers In this record, were onted out and enlarged upon. The diumn of disgrace to the battalion and i individual members by this crime ere indicated. The future effect upon e battalion as a whole was referred ; and, finally, the concern of the ited States in the matter, his de re and the disire of the war depart sent to seperate the innocent from e guilty were explained, but with ut effect." Continuing Gen. Garling n's report says: "No absolutely accurate verifica ion of the riflis and the men of the atsJou was made on the night of Lug. i3 In time to account for the ri n and men at tbe beginning of the irig or immediately on its conclu ion. The failure is explained as fol w: Tue commanding offioar and his gsociates, when the alarm was sound id and they heardl the firing assumed bat It camne froni the city of Browns 111b and that the guns were In the iands of civilians; in other words that e garrism was being fired into from he outsIde c' vilians. It does not ap sar to have occurred to any of them ha certain enlisted men of the T wen ry.lfth Infantry had possession of heir arms and were committing the rime of nrmng into trie houses and pon the citizens of Brownsville, until e mayor of the city came to the gar ison and Informed the commanding fioer, Maj Penrose, that one mar iad been klled and another wounded iy his soldiers." MAJ 3LOC~sOM's REPORT Maj. Blocksom, in his report, re ommended that if satisfactory evi lence concerning the Identity of the riminals who "shot up" Brownsville, id not come from members of the lattalion all enlisted men of the three ~ompanes3 present on the night of Lug. 13 be discharged from service ,d debarred from reenlistment in the rmy, navy or marine orips. Maj. 3ocsom regards it particularly u~n ortunate for the reputation of the ,attalion that the officers did not dis over a single clue to the "terrible preconcerted crime" in the investiga ion that was conducted by the comn nanders of tho colored force. Brig. Gen. Mcoaskey, commanding he department of Texas, in a dis patch to the war department explains ihe discharge of 25 members of the rwentynfth infantry on Monday, after Secretary Taft had ordered the emporary suspensionl or the soldiers dismissed by stating that the dispatch jent to Fart Reno announcing Secre ary Taft': acr~ion did not reach that post until noon on Monday, which was a fte the men had been discharged, EE"OTB HUII'D&N Am SaLF. A Farmer Actress Commits Murder and Suicide in Chicago. At Chicago on Friday James F. De laney, vice president of the Amerien Shipping company, was shot and kill ed by his wife; who immediately af terward committed suicide. The tragedy occured in the apart ments ocoupled by the Delaneys at the home of Mrs. Cyrus Woods, 490 LaSalle avenue. Late Fiday a ser vant went Into the apartments 4fter having made several pr..vlous A efforts. The body of Delaney was found on the bed with a bullet wound in the back of the bead. The bod3 of Mrs. Delaney was lying close by, a bullet having been fred Into her brain though the mouth. The revol ver was still clutched in the hand of Mrt. Delaney. Eiward Tyler a boarder in the tusv told the police late Friday that t 'a heard two shots in the night, but b paid no attention to them, believinR a tkat they came from the ssreet. Vbe cause of the shooting is not known. Mrs. Woods, In whose house C the tragedy trok place, deelared thai li Mr. and Mrs. Delaney bad not quar- c reled to her knowledge, and said that she knew of nothing tbat could have a caused Mrs. Delaney to kill her hus ti band and herself. Delaney is said to be waIl known i1 among business men in New York. ' where he had lived fcr the greate: u part of his life. I i his clothing wav found a card bepi'?ng the inscription: J. M. Delaney, V ce President of the p American Shipping company, 20 a Broadway, New York." His name is % also in the Colcago directory as vIc! 8i president of the American company. N Mrs. D:laney was the daugh:er of Charles Edward Brown, formerly of i UJhicago. She was born in that city ri and graduated. a number of years age from the Chicago Dramatic c -aol. fu She was later engaged by Otis Skin- of aer for the casa of "Francesca da -i Rimini" and afterwaris played ir dc Toe Silver Sbeild" S-le was knowL on the stge as Ressle Mortimer. She c was 30 years old and her hu. band wak et 36 They were married about eight U years ago and had nochildren. Threatens Tillman. y A dispatch from Onicago says a written threat, direct at United State all Senator Berjimin B Tillman, 1r. which it was announced that he would M b shot on the rostrum of Orchestra C Hall if he persisted in giving the lee 5' are schduied f Jr next Tuesday night S for the bensfi; of the Ohicago Union fa Hospital, was placed in Chief Collins' f ands Thursday. The chief immed iately notified the authorities and an w invetigation was begun. The threat written on a postal carJ was as follows: "The Honorable Berj.'min Tiliman n will not speak. If he aoes he will be 0 ahot by a molatto, who will go in the iU unatte-cded. (Signef':) "A. T. Homms." re No suct person as A. T. Homes can br found and the police are at a loss e understand who could liave written ** be mis;Ive. The communication was written on a common one cent postal ard, and was posted at 11 o'clock at - ight. An ati~empt to disguise the wrting was evidently made, as the na or:mation of the letters changes in f) d-fferens p'wtIons of th - DO 5. 'Abree .ten Killed.e At Bochester, N. Y., a fatal acci bi ent on Tauraday as the bastman tI Kdak works, in whica three men were killed, eight seriously ii j hred t and sir slightly hurt. Tae men were t0 at work on a scaff.Ad near the top ..f ce a two story bulhmg, whien is one of te ~ight bu:lngs in c surae --f construc to ion at Kodak Parr. I was known tat as the Enulon bu:lding and wa, hi onstructed uf steel, concrete auj. m1 rick. The probable cause or the ac- B ident was th.l removal of the sup ni ports of the steel floorinZ before the gi oncrete had prioperly sem. About gi wenty workmen were on the upper et saffold when the top floor gave way T'he roof and walls toppled in with a rash of concrete and bricks and heavy steel girders. The men were hurled into tine debris fall 4 .g about forty feet. Coupler Killed, a Bobert Hall, while coupling cars on a freight in the tEast Bome, Ga , 10 ards of the Southern raliway Friday e norning about 8 o'cloek, was un over se and mortally injured. Both legs were ashed, and besides being fearfully fo ruised, he was Internally 17 j red, ad died soon after the acemdent. "" e leaves a wife arnd one child, and w" was prominently connected. He was habut 33 years old Again Get Damagese P1 At Columbia after being out seven t ours the jury Tursday af ternoon of eturned a verdict of 85 000 damages pe or John Alennder Plckett against A he Southern Railway for Injuries at ne c. Matthews on Christmas Day 1901. M he railway will lkely ask for a neww rial. The case has bean tried several ro imes. Onhe 'ry gave the Pickett 8 oy $10,000 ann the railroad secured 1 a new trial. Enng Him Quick. They made short work of a mur erer last week at Centre, Texas. Dick arret, a negro killed Dr. M. M4. Paul at :n Saturday week ago. The grand T2 iry returned a true bill on Wed- sia eday of last week, the scaffold was dr onstructed the same night, on the ke public square. The trial took place H on Thursday and Thursday afternoon ye t half-past one o'clock he was hung. E' Dr. Paul was killed by Garrett, whom SI e was endeavoring to arrest for dis- til playing a weapon on the street. T Killed With scissors. Miss OQa Kelly, aged 23, was mur-n :ered Thursday night at her home in Holloway, Mich., by Joseph Ehlich, a rejeted sulter, aged 20, who cut her throat with a pair of scissors and then in drove the scies'rs Into her heart. 111 EhlchconfAssed. ye 1% as It Aiccidenar.al. o1 James Epps, living near Gaff ney, shot and instantly killed his wife about d 2 o'clockr Wednesday. Sheriff Thomn. T as, who was notified of the tragedy e promptly arrested Epps, The pris- I' nrm claIma the shooting wan acoiran- Iai BRYAN AND SHAW Wdress the Commercial Coffege at Kansas City Thursday. 31G CROWD PRESENT. mong a Long list of Speakers These Two Men Had the lion's Share of Attention, But Bryan Dr w the Biggest ' Crowd. At Kansas City Mo., on Thursday eslie M. Shaw and Wm 3. Bryan ad the lion's share of attention mong a long list of speakers at the ire. sessions of the Trans MissIsIppI ongress. All spoke on sutijsts re ting to the Inereasing of the cozn tercial business of the country. Mr. Bryan was appointed to head committee of former presidents of te Congress to escort Secretary Shaw i the plitform, sr-d when sbese two stinguished public men led the way the rostrum therp was great ap zuse, S- cretary Shaw declared: "If tbis country ever develops in ,rnatlonal merchants It will accom Ish it by granting them encourage ent, not alone by dredging harbors id deepening channe's, but by in ring them a merel ant marine in blob to carry, under the 1ost favor >1e terms, the products of our farms, ir mines, our forests and our facto "Secretary Rot has gone a step rtber than I prcpose to go In favor a merchant marine. He commits mself to the ship subsidy Idea. I i not say that I am in favor of a Ip, subsidy, but I will say that I a 't favor tf anythirg that will ocure a merchant marine for the ci1ted States." Mr. Bryan, whose subject principal concerned the commercial interests he Miss'ssippi Valley region, was e sole speakrr at the evening sea m. At a session of the resolutions com itte, a proysal to endorse Secre ry R ot'b suggestion for a ship sub ly, p-rticularly for mail steam'rs to uth America, was adopted. There a strong sentiment in the Congress voring Secretary Root's suggestion. The crowd that greeted Mr. Bryan is the largest of the Congress, imbering 6 000 persons. Mr. Bryan id be fels friendly toward the com ercial Congress because It was the ly body of whth he was ever pro lent Mr. Bryan asked the adoption of a solution endorsing the resolution animously adopted by the Inter ,rliamentary Union at Its London ision last July in favor of interna wal arbitration. M. Bryan asked that a resolution ~ecting trusts be passed as follows: "Resolved, That this Congress Is talterably opposed to private mono lies and, believing them indefensi e and intolerable, tavors the -en rcement of existing laws.. and the tactmennt of such new laws as miy necessary to protect Industry from te menace cffbred by the trusts." Mr. Bryan sad that he was glad at at last all people finally has come be opposed to the giving and re iving of rebates. He spoke of the cent conviction of the Sugar Trust r receiving rebates, and astacked Le Standard Oil Clomian'y, which, Sdeclared, had built up much of its rsiness by operating In rebeates. at legislation was needed, he said, ~t caly to prevent railways from anting rebates, but those other eat concerns from watering their ocz. K1IHeG by Explosion. By the explosIon of celluloid In the ant of the Bouffard Comb company, Es Seventy-fifth street, N~ew ark Thursday the owner of the bus ess, Charles Bouffard, his wife and soy employed by him were blown rough the window to the street bo w. The woman was Instantly kill .Bouffard Is dying and the boy Is riously injured. The explosion ecked the tnird floor and fire that llowea, though It was soon extin ished badly burned several emp'oy of aj.nmg-plants, among 300 of iom taiere was a panic for a time. Done by Negroeb. Burglars have b3oome a~ctive In :tsburg, Pa., and vicinity again af an abatement of two days. Scores houses were entered. a number of ople were held up on the streets. me j >rity of the highwaymen were groes. At Wasuington, Pann,, 1e Delaney, a negro 17 years of age ~s stabbed to death while trying to b an Italian. Alfred Murray, ident at the Washington and Jef eson collsge, was seriously cut by a gro whom be caught ranacking his am. Barges' Crews Drown, The barge Athen, In tow of the lamer Pratt, went down In a storm mursday night. The captain and' :men of the crew were~ probably owned. Capt. Mackey of Milwau 2 was in command of the barge. a has sailed on the lake for forty arm. The Pratt was bound from caniaba to Buffalo with Iron ore. r of the crew of the barge Resoln mn from Erie, Pa., were drowned mnraday. Their boat was Swam d as they were endeavoring to es p. from the barge which was sink g. __________ Poisoned Candy. At Philadelphia, poisoned by eat g candy which they brought at a tle shop near their home, eight ar-old Mary Carey, and her six-year El sieter Annie are dead, and their tree-year-old brother El ward, is Angerously Ill. The girls died on uesdany night within a few hours of sch other after having suffer.:d for arly two days. They were s'.:Icken ter having eaten the candy on Sun