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A GREAT SPEECHI Capt. Fitzhugh Opens for State in Cooper Trial. HE SCORES COOPER And Sharp and Charges Them With Entering a Conspiracy - The Speech Was a Bitter Arraignment of the Defendants, Coupled With a Masterly Presentation of - rgument Nashville, March 8.-The greatest crush of people since the trial began were in attendance this morning to hear the opening argument in the case of Col. Duncan B. Cooper, his son Robin Cooper and John D. Sharp, whose trial on the charge of murder Ing former Senator Edwin W. Car mack, has entered upon its eighth and probably final week. Back of the table reserved for the prosecu tion's attorneys, who begin the ar gument of their case today, the crush was unusually heavy. Large numbers of ladies were in the crowd, which began to gather as aarly as 6:30 o'clock. By 9 o'clock every bit of available space in the court room had been taken and many scores of people had been turned away. It was 9:20 o'clock when Capt. G. T. Fitzhugh, the eloquent Memphis attorney and long friend of Senator Carmack, opened the State'? argu ment to the jury. The court room at this time was crowded to suf focation, every seat being taken and all the open places were filled with standing spectators. Captain Fitzhugh began by paying the customary tribute to the jury, thanking them for their untiring pa tience and their uniform courtesy and attentiveness. He then lauded the citizenship of the dead man. He dwelt at length mpon the distinguished service to his country of this son of Tennes see. Captain Fitzhugh then defined "malice" to the jury and said it could arise suddenly, in law and fact, or could be the result of brooding "as it has been in this case," he added. He told how the e fendant, Colonel Cooper, had been heard curs ing and threatening Carmack and said that this showed the colonel bore malice deep in his heart against Carmack. Captain Fitzhugh declared that Colonel Cooper did not kill Senator Carmack because of wounded repu tation, but "'he killed him because of his fear of the truth and his love of vengeance." The speaker asked how it was that this man's name could not be mentioned, "this man who had shap ed the destinies of a State, this man who had made politicians, this man who had pulled the wires. John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan and E. H. Harriman are not. office-holders, yet they are not going around killing men who dare to me.ition their names in the paper. "This man who has .ajured all he has ever touched, this lobbyist, this defaulter, this professional poli tician," exclaimed Captain Fitzbugh with intense emphasis, "puts himself on a pedestal so high that liis name may not be mentioned even in a jocular manner." Capt. Fitzhugh took up the editor rial in order. The first was October 24. In this one Colonel Cooper had. complained because his name had been linked with those of certain saloon men and gamblers." "The only difference," declared Captain Fitzhugh, "lay in the fact that Colonel Cooper, a gambler all his life, had played for larger stakes and had never paid his debts with his killing winnings. "The editorial of No. 3," said Captain Fitzhugh, "did not even men tion his name, yet he took offense at it because the machine was at tacked. His attitude, 'I am the ma chine; I am the State and when you strike the machine you strike me.' "Where was the offense in that un Tess Colonel Cooper was looking for it with jaundiced and malicious eye?" Captain Fitzhugh then took up the editorial of Sunday morning. Novembser 9, "Across the Muddy Chasm," and dissected that for the jury. "You gentlemen :'emember," said Captain Fitzhugh, "that I asked Colonel Cooper to take the editorial sentence by sentence and point out the parts that were offensive and that he refused to do so, saying it was offensive as a whole. Yet that morning he wrote the threat, the note. And there is some mystery about the notes. Where are the orig inals? only copies here and a copy of a copy; then he saw Ed. Craig that night and after he sent the message, 'you or I must die,' he hatched up a pretext to arm himself against Carmack. He tells you, gentlemen of the fury, that Ed. Craig reported to him that Carmack was In an ugly, vicious mood. "Ed. Craig says he brought no such information about Carmack and could not have been true." TRAGADY IN~ CHESTER. Negro Kills Wife and Fatally Wounds Her Father. Chester, March 8.-John Steven son, colored, killed his wife and fat ally wounded his father-in-law, Till man Gaston, this afternoon at his home in the Mount Prospect sec tion, five miles southeast of Rich burg. This afternoon Stevenson and his wife quarreled, and when Gaston endeavored to pacify them Steven son shot with the results already given. Pounds of Bones. Savannah, March 8.-Just about to finish a contract for 20.000 pounds of bones, most of which he stated he had obtained from a negro graveyard here, Joe Marks, colored, was arrest ed yesterday by a patrolman. He had some plates from coffins in his pockets. He will not be allowed to disinter any more bodies, but will be tried on the lunacy charge. A thin purse makes a person feel TRAMPS RITUAL AS RECITED BY ONE OF THE TRIBE In a Police Court, Where He Had Been Carried to be Tried for Loafing. Question-Who comes here? Answer-A poor worthless can didate for charity, who begs to have and receive part of the free lunch of this town. set apart for regular customers, as many thousand tramps have done before me. Q. How do you expect to gain the rights and privileges? A. By being a man too lazy to work. not ashamed to beg, and under the tongue of generally bad report. Q. Where can this report be had of you? A. It is in the police reports. in ebriate asylums and at the cafes. Q. From whence came you? A. From a town in Texas call ed Booze. Q. Then you are a regular tramp. I perceive? A. I am so taken and arrested wherever I go. Q. How do you know you are a regular tramp? A. By being often arrested and tried and never acquitted. and ex pectto be arested, tried and convict ed again. Q. . Where were you first prepar ed to be a tramp? A. In a small bar-room adjoining my place of abode. Q. How were you then prepared? A. By being kicked and cuffed around until divested of nearly all my clothes. having been previously deprived of all my money and dia mons. Q. What first induced you to be come a tramp? A. That I might travel all over the land and indulge my ravenous appetite for beer. and sponge my liv ing from an easily humbugged pub lie. Q. How am I to know you to be a tramp? A. By the size and laziness of my feet, by signs, grips, and'words. Q. What are words? A. Certain plausible tales that will best induce the lady of the house to give up her cakes and pies. Q. What are signs? A. Dirty face and hands, torn and dirty clothes, with a bad limp in either leg. Q. What is grip? A. A tight hold on any'hing por table that may be turned into ready cash. Q. Will you give me a grip? A. No, get some other fellow. Q. How did you first gain admis sion to this town? A. By a good long tramp at 'low twelve."' the time when all police men are called from labor to re freshmen ts. Q. How were you received? A. By a cop just on the point of taking a Manhattan eye-opener. Q. What did he do with your? A. He put me in a cooler in due form. Q. What was next done with you? A. He conducted me around from east to west to the court house, and told me to stand erect and face the public jud.ge. Q. What did the judge say to you? A. He told me to say my name. promise to obey the law, after which he ordered me to take a step to the left and follow the cop to the place from whence I came-the jail. A MYSTERIOUS CAVERON. Two Dogs Are Lost in It and Can't Be Found. Farmers of Weldon Spring. in St. Charles county. Mo., strove for two days to rescue two dogs that had been imprisoned for three weeks in a cave. Spurred by the piteous barks and whines of the dogs, the men due down until they were stopped by Colid rock. Dynamite was used with out avail. One man risked his life by crawling 150 feet at the end of a rope into a cave, but was unable +o rescue the dogs. The effort was fthen abandoned, because th'e cries of the dogs could no longer he heard. and it was concluded that they had nerished. Three weeks ago Bob Tarbel and Cam Pitman were hunting on .Tohn Burton's farm. when their does start. ad a coon, which sought safety in a eave. The dogs, intent on the chase. followed it in through the narrow entrance and disanpeared from sight and hearing. They did not return, and it was three week-s later, that their whines were heard near an old sink hole 500 feet away. Digginr began hut was soon stopped by solid rock and dynamite was then used. Fully 100 men, women and child ren gathered and urged the workerse to greater endeavors. hut they could dlo nothing excent to try to explore the cave. Finally Howell risked his ife in an attempt to reach and res ene the does. He volunteered te -rawl into the cave with a rope ti, - to him. One '150 feet long was brought and an end of it tied around his waist. H~e crawled into the cave and went the length of the rc-pe H-e found the passage at that depth o smail that he could not have gone further, even if the rope had been longer. He could hear the dogs and ~alled loudly to the'm. hut they seem ed to have fallen .rer a declivity and could not come to him. * BAK(ED CHILD ON STOVE. But Said She Did Not Want to Injure the Boy. New York. March 8.-Marjorie Miles. the housekeeper of Win. John son, a cabinet maker, of Williams burg, was held without bail to await the action of the grand jury by Mag istrate Higginbotham in Brooklyn 1:o day, on a charge of having caused the death of Johnson's 3-year-old boy, Arthu~r. by holding him on a hot stove. The accused woman said in court that the child was unruly, and she had threatened to set him on the stove, but had not intended to TOWN HIT HARD TEARLY WIPED OUT BY TER RIBLE CYCLONE. rhe Business Section and One Hun dred Dwellings Demolished at Cuthbert, Ga.-Seven Lives Lost. Cuthbert, Ga., March 9.-A ter rifie cyclone struck Cuthbert tonight at 8:30 o'clock, killing six negroes and one white man. demolishing the entire business section, razing one hundred or more residences and in juring many, entailing a loss which is estimated at $100,000. The town is in total darkness, ow ing to the damage to the electric light system and it is exceedingly difficult to estimate the loss of life with accuracy and the damage to the business and residential sections. The loss of life would have been much greater had it not been for the fact that several hundred of the citi zens were in attendance upon a re vival meeting when the storm struck the place. Shortly after 8 o'clock a great black cloud appeared in the south west and bore down upon the little city. Few people were on the streets and few were in the stores. With a great roaring accompanied by vivid flashes of lightning the cyclone struck the business blocks and wrecked every building. Merchan dise, bricks and debris was scattered along the streets. It passed on the residential sec tion, blowing down nearly one hun dred houses, raising chimneys, fenc es, barns, and doing much damage otherwise. Few people were at home at the time when the storm struck. All of the wires of the Cuthbert lighting plant are down and the city is in complete darkness, which makes the situation very serious and hinders the work of rescue and attention to the injured. The telephone service of the city is crippled by falling poles and brok -n wires. It is impossible to learn the damage in the outlying district. Thirty loaded box cars on the sid ing at the depot were blown off the track, and completely demolished. Cuthbert is a town of about 3,000 Inhabitants, situated in Randolph county, on th Central of Georgia rail road, about 200 miles southwest of Augusta, near the Alabama line. TAX ON COFFEE AND TEA Will Cause Republican Congressmen to Be Beaten. Washington, March 13.-The pro posed tax on coffee and tea is giving th'e Republicars some concern. Some Republicans declare that taxin.g of 'the breakfast table would make it impossible for the Republicans to carry their district in the next elec tion. The National Coffee and Tea As sociation, in a communication to the committee, wrote the a tax on coffee or tea "would be unjust to the con sumer, detrimental to trade, irritat ing to the masses, and finally, will fail to produce any material reve nue to the government for nearly two years." "A duty of five cents upon coffee would mean an immediate profit of at least $6.50 per bag upon every bag in the United States to the own ers thereof,'' is the claim made in brief. "There being nearly 4,000,000 bags at present held here by individ uals, c'rporations, and Wall stret speculative interests, such a duty would mean a profit of $26,000,000 to the owners and holders thereof. But it would not mean one do.lar's paid into the United States treas ury.'' * HEAVY LOSS FROM FIRE. Six People Are Hurt by Walls Fall ing on Them. Spartanburg, March 12.--Property valued at $65,000 was destroyed here tonight by a fire in the very center of the business section of the city, when half the Cleveland building at east Main and South Church strets was completely gutted and other por tions of it considerably damaged. The Harry Prince clothing firm lost a stock of goods valued at $25, 000, and R. L. Bowden, the oldest dry goods merchant in the city, sus rained a loss estimated at $20,000, while the loss on the building will probably exceed $20,000. The building is owned by 3. B. and J. F. Cleveland and is fully insured. Insurance so far reported 'overers only about half the value 'f the stocks burned. In the course of the fire five firemen and one Wof ford student were injiured by falling walls.* HIS MIND WAS OFF. Boston Policeman Kills His Wife and Himself. Boston, March 8.-Daniel C. Shil Tane, a policeman, was found dying sarly today in his home in East Boston from the effects of a bullet wound, believed to have been self nflicted, while the body of his wife 'ay in the floor beside him. Shillane lied later at the hospital. It Is said that Shillane, who had been a policeman 22 years, was deranged from two years' brooding over the jeath of a 19-year-old daughter. The Shillane family occupied the hird floor of a tenement house. Conditions indicated that the trag edy occurred while breakfast was being prepared. Other families in the house heard two quick revolver shots from the kitchen of the Shil ane apartment. They forced open he door and found Mrs. Shillane lead and Shillane still breathing but insensible. In his hand was his tistol, telling the story of what had happened. Avalanche JKills Twenty-Seven. Vienna. March 9.-An avalanche has destroyed a workman's shelter at Sankia Johan, in the Pongau district "f Salzhurg, killing twenty-seven persons. Fifteen bodies have been recovered. Common sense always brings fan MANY KILLED knd Many More Injured by Cy clone in Arkansas HUNDREDS HOMELESS yhe Town of Brinkley Almost Wip ed Off the Map-Fourteen White r and Sixteen Colored People Known d to be Dead-Many Killed at Oth f er Places. Little Rock, Ark., March 8.-Many I persons are reported dead, and a number injured as the result of a violent storm which swept through western, eastern and southern Ar- 1 kansas late this afternocn and to- i night. Turee are reported to havt been killed at Brinkley and dispatches at midnight on the only wire in opera tion between that place and Little Rock, a railroad wire, were to the ef fect that the town was In :lamas, and its complete destruction seened in evitable. Brinkley is a town of 3,000 per sons and the junction point of sev eral important railroad systems. A dispatch from Fores: CIty says late advices from Brinkley indicate that practically the enti:-e town is now a mass of ruins and that eight persons have ben killed and the in jured will be numbered by scores. The fire at 2 o'clock this morning is still burning and the reflection can be seen from here, a distance of twenty miles. Every physician of this place as well as many nurses were dispatched to Brinkley at mid night and other towns are rushing aid to the storm-swept town. A Cotton Belt passenger train due in Little Rock at 6:30 o'clock to night is lost in the vicinity of Bau cum, where a tornado struck, and is reported to have been swept off the track. Another report is to the effect that the train was struck by lightning. Railroad offices in Little Rock have been endeavoring to lo cate the train for hours, but have been unable to do so. The tornado struck at Fourchdema at five o'clock this afternoon within five miles of Little Rock, killing a negro boy and injuring other ne groes. Two houses were demolished by fire after it had been blown to bits. Several negroes are reported to be fatally hurt. The tornado crossed the Arkansas river at Fourchdema and raised a spout of water about 200 feet high. It traveled toward the northeast and swept a clean path about sixty yards wide. It was impossible to get any definite reports from that vicinity tonight. The tornado was followed by a violent hail and rain storm, which kept up throughout the night. The same tornado passed into Ban cum, where the extent of the dam age is also unknown and from there to Kerns, in Lonke county-where sev eral home were de'molished and E. B. Adams, a farmer, was serously if not fatally injured. He, with his wife, son and three others were in the house at the time of the storm. They were hurled in the debris, but all escaped alive. The home of Dan Wagner, a saw mill operator, near there, was also destroyed, but he and his wife es caped with a few bruises. A gin and several negro cabins were de molished. All the windows of a train -between Gurdon and Rester were blown out. At Balvern the Methodist church was entirely destroyed at a lass of $6,000. The Baptist church was damaged, portion of thie court house was unroofed and ether extensive damage was done. No loss af life. was reported, although the extent of the damage in the surrounding coun try was not known. OVER THIRTY DEAD. Property Worth One Million Dollars Destroyed. Brinkley, Ark., March 9.-Thirty ore more lives were snuffed out, sixty people were injured and prop erty estimated to be worth one mil lion dollars was destroyed as a re sult of the tornado which wrecked this little city last night. Fourteen whites and sixteen colored persons are known to have been killed. Every business house is in ruins. and there is hardly a home that has not at least suffered the loss of a roof or king. Hundreds of people are homeless and are wandering about seeking a temporary abode. Six Killed Near Little Rock. Little Rock, March 9.-Six deoed and eight injured are reported today in the vicinity of Little Rock as the result of the tornado which passel close to Little oRck Monday nigh:. The dead: Mrs. Elrod, aged 75, Benton, Ark. Mrs. Sam *Kesterson, Salem. Unknown child at Piney Woods, near Carlisle. Edgar, Roy and Lena, aged 17, 12 and 8 years respectively, childre~n of Mrs. Isabel Mason, at Zion. Mrs. Mason and six other children were seriously hurt. Mrs. Cruce, liv ing near Benton were also injured. One of her arms was broken. The Methodist church and school house at Mount Carmel were demoi ished and eight houses at Hurri cane Creek were destroyed. THE READY PISTOL. Tragedy Enacted on the Streets of Yidalia, Ga. Vidalia, Ga., March 8.--0. G. Moore, a prominent lumberman, was shot to death on the street today by W. L. Darby, another well known business man. The men quarrelled ovr a business matter. Moore slapped the face of Darby. The latter drew his pistol and shot Moore down. Darby fled, but was captured later in a swamp, two miles from thisi place hidden beneath a pile of logs. He was placed in Toombs' county 4511 SOME GOOD ADVICE l 'ROM DR. ELLIOT ON RACIAL INTERMARRIAGES. [e Says That Different Races of People Have Never Profited by Doing So. Montgomery, Ala., March 8. There should be no admixture of acial stock," declared retiring Presi ent Eliot, of Harvard University, to Ight in an Interview. "I believe, or example, that Irish should not ntermarry with the Am ricans of 3nglish descent; that the Germans hould not marry the Italians; that he Jews should not marry the rench. Each race should maintain its own ndividuality. The experience of civ lization shows that racial stocks are iever mixed with profit, and that uch unions do not bring forth the yest and strongest children. There s no reason, however, why the races ,annot live together, side by side, n perfect peace and amity. "In the case of the negroes and :he whites, the races should be kept xpart in every respect. The South las a wise policty. I believe that Booker T. Washington has the right deals, and that Dubois is injuring the progress of his race with his vie.ws." President Eliot emphatically de nies that he ever said that there was a suffrage problem in the North, owing to the predominance of Cath olics. "In the North we are affiliated in our civic life by having masses of voters who know nothing of liber ty. Take the Irish-they say them selves that at home they had no experience at self-government. Our problem is to show the newer arrivals that it is to their Interest to have efficient government and not lavish expenditure." BRIDGES TO BE REPLACED With Better Ones by the Atlantic Coast Line. Wilmington, N. C., March 8.-It is announced from the executive offices of the Atlantic Coast Line here that from the proceeds of the recent sale of the road's consolidated 4 per cent bonds In New York the company has provided, In addition to the canoel lation of Its short term, that the per cent notes due March 1, 1910, and all the cash necessary to retire on June 1, 1910, one million six hundred thousand underlying 6 per cent bonds, the funds required for replacing five and one-quarter miles of wooden trestle with concrete piers and steel girders across the Pee-Dee river, near Florence, S. C.; over San tee river, between Lanes and Charles ton, S. C., and over the Savannah river, between Hardeeville, S. C., and Savannah. By the negotiations for the sale of the bonds interest charg es will be reduced $119,000 per an num. MEETS HORRIBLE DEATH. Negro Gin Hand Given Lye in His Coffee. Florence, March 8.-News reach ed the city late today of a terrible affair, which resulted In the death of James Allison, a negro, at Allison's Postoffice, which resulted in Allison's death Saturday night. .From what can be learned Allison was employed by Messrs. A. Poston & Son as a fireman at their ginnery and saw mill plant. After eating his breakfast at the mill Friday morning he was taken suddenly ill and never regained consciousness, death result ing on Saturday. Dr. Eaddy, a physician in that sec tion was called In and pronounced the case one of poisoning. The mag istrate in that township held an in quest and. it was found that the ne gro had been poisoned by being giv en a dose of conisentrated lye, which it Is now thought was administered through the sugar that was used in sweetening his coffee. ANOTHER FIM FLAM ARTIST Wor'ks a Skin Game on the Negroes of Prosperity. Prosperity, March 8.-A negro claiming to be from Washington, D. C., has been in this community for the past ten days organizing a new "skin game." He said he had au thority from President Roosevelt to organize the negroes into lodges, and when they paid ten dollars they could get anything they wanted, and their membership was a guaranttee that they would get it. He got too familiar wit~h one of the sisters and she resented it. This led to trouble with the husband andi the usual fight ensued, and the result was the Rooseveltian agent was tied hog fashion and brought to Judge Kibler's office. The agent was charg ed with vagrancy and carrying con cealed weaporns, and was sent up for duty for the country for sixty days. A charge ftor assault and battery with attempt to kill awaits him when he has finished the sixty days. SURGEONS MAKE MISTAKE. Took Out Appendix for Enlargement of Tonsils. Harrisburg. March IS.-Rosa Co hen, an eight-year-old girl, is con valescing in the Harrisburg hospital after having been operated on Sun day for appendicitis by mistake. The child and her eleven-year-old brother were sent to the institution suffering with enlarged tonsils. In some unexplained manner the girl was given an anaesthetic and her ap )endix was taken out. The surgeons ~ay that the appendix was somewhat nfamed and that they did not dis over their mistake until the parents ~alled. The humorous feature of the case s the assertion that the condition >f the little girl's appendix showed hat she would have developed ap yendicitis anyway and that the oper Ltton, therefore, was a fortunate miss IGH DEATH RATE mong the Junior Senatars From South Carolina HE SENIOR SENATOR "alls Attention to the Matter in Eulogizing Senator Latimer Re cently in the Senate Chamber. Senator Tillman has Had Five Colleagues in Fourteen Years. Charleston, March 8. - The ,harleston Post says in the senate he other day eulogies were pro iounced on the late Senator A. C. atlmer, who died a year ago, after ive years in service as a member of hat body, having previously for ten rears been a member of the house of :epresentatives. As the senior sena 'or from the State represented by the leparted senator, Mr. Tillman pro aounced the first expression of sor row at the death of his late colleague. He remarked an interesting record as follows: "It is a little more than fourteen years since I was sent by the people of South Carolina to be one of their representatives in this chamber. As things now are that is about one tlird of the average lifetime of a man, and while during the time there have transpired many events of nat ional importance, it seems but a brief period after all. Yet during this comparatively short span I have served here with five United States senators from South Carolina, and after the fourth of March my sixth colleague will have taken the oath at the desk. It is a strange coinci dence that all of these men who have come and gone save one were young er in years than I. Three of them have answered the roll call on the other side of the river. First in service, John Lowndes Manning Irby, bright, brave, witty and genial; next the knightly and courtly Jo sep.h Haynesworth Earle, forceful, logical, chivalrous and In every way well equipped for work in the forum or on the bench; last, Asbury Churchwell Latimer, who, while de nied in youth those advantages of education possessed by the other two, was in some respects the superior of either of them." By designating none but those of his colleagues who have passed from life, Senator Tillman avoided the necessity of naming and of charac terizing the one with whom his as sociation was most strenuous, John Lowndes McLaurin. It would have been interesting to have had his es timate of McLaurin pronounced in this calm mood and upon this solemn occasion. When Tillman took his seat in the senate in 1895, succeeding M. C. Butler, who had had three terms in the chamber, he found J. L. M. Irby as his colleague in the represen tation of South Carolina in that body. A little more than a year afterwards Joseph H. Earle was elected to suc ceed Irby, who did not offer for re election in the primary which nomi nated Judge Earle. In December, 1907, Senator Earle was sworn in as a member of the chamber, and within three months he was dead. Governor Ellerbe, who also died in office before completing his sec ond term as chief executive of the State, appointed John L. McLaurin to fill the vacancy, and the Demo crats of South Carolina confirmed the appointment by nominating Mc Laurin at the primary held in the summer of 1898. At the completion of this term, a service of five years, McLaurin retired from the senate, not offering for re-election, and has since been a negligible and almost a forgotten figure in the political life of South Carolina. He was succeeded by the late Sen ator Latimer, who, as we have not ed, lived to serve but five years of the full term to which he was elect ed. A year ago the general assembly elected Frank G. Gary to fill the un expired term, and he is now com pleting that brief service, and will retire to private life at noon on the day after tomorrow. The general assembly which has just adjourned elected E. D. Smith to succeed him, ratifying the nomination mnade in the Democratic primary last summer. As Senator Tillman says. Mr. Smith will be his sixth colleague in the sen ate during a period of fourteen years. Not one of these has served a full term in company with Tillman, and the average length of their service as his associates is but a little more than two years. It Is a. striking rec ord of mortality-physical and po litical-and is well calculated to give rise to melancholy reflection in the mind of the survivor of so many and such brief asociations In the consti tutional representation of his State in the United States senate. NEGRO MURDERER CAUGHT. Man Who Slew Two With One Bullet in Custody. New Orleans, March 8.--Jesse Clark, a negro, who with one bullet slew two men at Amesville, La., just across the river from New Orleans, two years ago, has been arrested at Jennings, La. Clark's victims were a white man named Richardson, who was the object of the negroe's at tack, and a negro youth who was standing near Richardson, and into whom the rifle bullet went after pass ing through Richardson's body. POWDER MILLS EXPLODE. Only One Man Was Killed in the Accident. Wilmington, Del., March 8.-One man was killed and several others slightly injured early today in an explosion which destroyed two mills in the Hagley yard of the Dupont Powder Company, near here. The lead man is George Whitman, aged 50 years, an employe. The accident v'as caused by the explosion of an arperimental barrel. The country 0 Renders the food more wholesome perior in lightness an The only baking pow made from Royal Grape Cream of 1 FOUND GUILTY AND SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS Is TERM. The Defendant Killed His Friend While Riding in a Buggy With Him and Young Lady. Laurens, March 12.-Overruling a motion for a new trial, Judge Prince this afternoon sentenced young Wade Cothran Pinson to a term of two years in the State penitentiary for the killing of Thornwell Boyce. Coun sel for the defense will carry the case to the supreme court, pending which Pinson is released on a bond of $1, 000, signed by his father and uncle. The appeal will be based on alleged 11 errors in the rulings and charge of s( the presiding judge. Young Pinson received his sentence without any change of expression, he to all ap- e pearances being unaffected. 1I At 9:55 this morning the jury, d after remaining .out more than 16 C hours, brought in a verdict of guilty of manslaughter with recommenda tion to the mercy of the court. Mr. P Cannon, for the defense, at once % gave notice of a motion for a new tj trial, which was heard later in the .t< day. t] People generally were somewhat ] surprised that a verdict had been agreed upon, since the jury had stay- 2 ed out all night, thinking that the ' outcome would be a mistrial. It o is thought that the verdict rendered was a compromise, some of the ju rors holding for an acquittal and e some for plain manslaughter. How- I ever, the general opinion was that f manslaughter would be the verdict. I Judge Prince charged the jury very t clearly on the points of law relating s to involuntary manslaughter, defin ing the distinction between accident and death resulting from an act In t itself wrong, or "malum in se." The point that the jury had to decide 1 was whether or not the effort on the part of young Pinson, who was trying to adjust hIs pistol,when the fatal shot wias fired, constitutedt an unlawful act because of gross neg-t ligence, or whether or not it wast the result of a wanton disregard for human life. The tragedy which culminated In sending Cothran Pinson to the peni tentiary was enacted after the mid night hour on the public highway,3 four miles below the town of Cross Hill, in Cross Hill Township. 'The] young man, Pinson, and the victim< of his deadly pistol, Thornwell Boyce, accompanied by Miss Brown, all of Cross Hill, was returning from an entertainment given at the home of Mrs. Eugene Leavell, who resides just across the line in Newberry2 county. The principals, Boyce and1 Pinson, worked in the same town as salesmen, and were boon companins. Mr. Boyce was a son of Capt. Martin Boyce, deceased, one of the. promi nent men of the county for many years. The defendant is a son'of Mr. Enoch B. Pinson, a substantil citi-1 zen, and coninected with some of the leading families of the county. * SUPPOSED TO BE CATAMOUNT. Animal Dashes into Town and Car' ries Away a Dog. Pineville, N. C., March 13.-As Messrs. Tate Spencer and Alvah Culp were walking along the stret lastt evening, they heard the pitiful yelp of a dog, which seemed to be in dis tress. In a few minutes an animal, with a little dog clenched between its teeth dashed in front of them. The boys immediately gave chase, and a rare race they had. Over gullies, across lots, through fields they went, often splashing in water over the tops of their shoes. The wailing cries of the little dog grew 1 weaker and the unknown animal r kept straight on, out-distancing the r boys, who only desisted after utter a exhaustion. Lated in the night the a same animal made a disturbance on t: ay street, and another dog disap peared. Policeman Wegstaff has g been investigating, and the general p opinion is that the animal is a cat- d amount or a farm-famed santer. * NINE NEGROES 3AILED. C Number of Blacks Locked Up on Charge of Rioting. Newberry, March 11.-Nine ne groes, eight women and one man, h were placed in jail here today on the ti charge of rioting. On Tuesday P. h< B. Odell had warrants to arrest Kitty pi Glasgow for violation of contract and H Back Glasgow for enticing labor, and w when he went to execute the war- tI rants Back Glasgow refused to be ar- w rested, and the women assisted in M~ the refusal and brought into service p] shotguns, firing three times at the a: officer. d< Killed and Injured. w; Brinkley, Ark., March 10.--Twen- vC ty-nine -dead and seventy-four in- ~ jured is Brinkley's list of casualties De from the tornado of Monday. Out- as side of -Brinkley thirteen persons P( were killed and forty-six wounded, several of whom may die. Many a man has paid a lawyer ra $ and $10 for poorer advice than on his wife would willingly have given an gr Powder lately Pare and su I flavor. aer rartar. BITTER FIGHT On Between Speaker Cannon And The Insurgents. DEMOCRATS JOIN IN ie War on the Speaker and He May Be Defeated-The Allies Lack only One Vote, Which They Hope to Get From Four New Members. Washington, Maich 10.-Repub can leaders in the house of,.repre mntatives are gravely discussing the tsurgents movement, which has rolved sufficient strength to'iiake nminent a change of the house. rules espite the resistive efforts of the annon-Payne-Dalzell combine. Fa1 ig to change the rules on the day receeding the adjournment last reek, the insurgents gave notice of heir immovable purpose thereafter renew the fight with vigor when he extft session is rapped to order ext Monday. In the next house there will be 19 Republicans and 172 Democrats. 'he insurgents will have 22 hold ver members in their ranks with ertain addition of Judge . Irving .ant Lenroot, of Wisconsin, who was lected .on an Anti-Cannon pledge. Tnited with the solid Democratic orces they will be able to muster .95 votes, according to present es-, imates, while the total opposition trength will be 196. It requires the 'ote of only one Republican for the nsurgents to change the -house rules o any extent that may be desired. 'he insurgents claim four new.mem ers: Picket and Woods, of Iowa; 'lumly, of Vermont, and Kopp,. of Visconsin. They have been working earnestly o make their converts and unless. he leaders stick close to their gunis he movement will undoubtedly be ecruited. So Intense has the pur ose and' the loyalty of the insurg mnts become .that each man is con itituting -himself a "whip" and. Is olng strenuous service. Minority Z5eader Clark says that every one >f bis men shall be present In. the iouse on March 15, to vote for a >hange in the rules, which are as >bnoxlous to the Democrats, as -they tre to those Republicans who are, eading the movement for certain ~adical reform. The changing of the .rules along *adical lines Is not the. only aim of' he Insurgents. They mean,. if pos ible, to depose Speaker Caninon, and hat progress. in that direction is. co- - ~qual and co-extensive with their ~ampaign for a change of the unpop ilar rules. A proposition has been submitted :o the Democrats by 30hich an in-' urgent may be elected Spealier with he aid of the minority. The plan s to allow the Democratic leaders o select a candidate from among he insurgents, who will then support uim. It Is not believed that' the roposition will be accepted, as some >f the Democrats regard It as involv ng bad policies, and might result n the Insurgents being repudiated y their. party as going too far In heir opposition to the Republican eaders of the house. Whether or iot Mr. Cannon Is defeated for re ilection as Speaker, every indication >oints to the success of the move nent against 'the existing rules In At a banquet last Saturday night In i~t a banquet last Saturday night in tonor of Vice President Sherman, ~peaker Cannon took occasion to say rhat he thought about the Insurg nts, saying among other things, that encefort~h none .of them would be ecognized by the house Republican egime. He also r+ erred to them s bullies and bluffers, who were bsolutely without the courage of heir convictions. It will be seen from this that a ood-sized vote, at least, may 'be olled against Mr. Cannon next Mon ay.--News and Courier. MANY WANT JOBS. ne Hundred and Thirty Apply for Two Positions. Columbia, March 9-Commissioner Tatson has already received one undred and twenty applications for ie two positions of Inspectors that e is required to appoint under the ovisions of the act recently passed. e hopes to be able to find two men ho have had some training along te lines expected, or who will be illng to work along modern lines. r. Watson hopes to make these two aces serve those for whom they *e intended, and to get data and inspecting along proper lines, and does not want mien who simply ant the places for the salary In >lved. He is in no hurry about aking the appointments, and ex cts to get first class men, at least good as the moderate salary will rmit. Negro Brained. Cowpens, S. C., March 8.-At a ilroad camp a few miles from here e negro man brained another with axe. They were drunk and quar