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VOL. IX. FORT MILL, 8. C ., WEDNESDAY, MAY i>, 1!>00. xo. 8_
TAILOR-MADE
BOYS' SPRING SUIT.T.
IS. I1ELK.
Bill MP SCORES DEREK.
He Takes Chauncey to Task for His
Utterances About
BARBARA E RI ETC HIE STORY
Uepcw Was Too Old To To Be l>Jayinjt
Around His flotlier's Knee in
Those Times.
?\ iinner is dean. out Ins poetic license
and slanders still live. lie wa as
much a fanatic as old John Brown
and no douht old John unbihed ft am
him his first lessons in hatred of tinSouth
and slavery. Whittier's poems
are before nte and thirty-seven of
thoni are wailing for the slaves and
malignant stings against the Southern
statesmen, including Calhoun, and
the Southern people. He was an intense
secessionists and when Texas
was admitted he prayed In verse for a
yawning gulf ! ? open and separate the.
North front the South. When Daniel
Webster made his last and greatest
speech at Cap m saving-:, in wlihh ho
defended the South and declared that
we had the right to withdraw fre.n
the union when we believed the fed''
eral coniput I had been broken. Whittier
Hew to his inkstand and wiote
this of hint:
"So fallen! So lost! The light withdrawn
Which onto lie wore:
The glory from his gray heirs geno
For evermore.
Let not the hi mi once prom! of him
Nor brand with deeper shame his dim
Insult him now,
Dishonored brow.
All else is gone; from luo-.e grea;
eyes
The soul is fled.
When faith is lost and he nor dies
The man is dead.
They pay the reverence ol old-days
To his dead fame;
Walk backward, with averted cnv.o
And hide his shame.'
That is part of the tribute lie paid
to the immortal Webster, the grand
est figure in New Fngland history.
Mm I wa< not troubling inyst if
about the gifted fanatic, l was ruminating
about Chnuncey Depcw. who
is not dead and who every little whi.'e.
bobs up serenely to g<d a. little mote
fame as a humorist, it seems that
when r.enernl Marly passed through
i I ril'-l H ft I ll>. ill .Mil! \ lilllll. n<' ptlUSml
long enough In < x.n t l^ni the good
people the sum of $200,000 for army
purposes, for as Whittier wrote ot
them, they were "a furnished horde."
and now that city has applied to . ongress
for a refunding of that mon y
and one reason they give is that an
old woman in her ninety-sixth year
waved the union flag at the rebels and
Stonewall Jackson ordered his men to
tire at her and they fired and hroko
the window glass and riddled the
(lag and knocked it out of her hand
and she picked it tip and waved it
again. That's the poetic yarn that
Whittier told about Barbara Freitchio
and a committee from Frederick iMty
has been before congress and said it
was so. Chauncey Depow heard it till
and said it was worth $200,000 to have
the truth of the story established and
ho nodded his head approvingly and
said that, "old Barbara was one of the
idols of his childhood, and when he
piaved around his mother's km-cs ...<
heart throbbed with sympathy for the
gray-liaired old woman whose patriotism
defied the enemies of his country."
The old Rip Van Winkle! I
reckon that is one of his latest jokes,
for he was born in 1S34, and was
twenty-eight years old when our army
was in Frederick City, and he was
then playing around his mother's
knees in the New York legislature.
Dr. J. William Jones, of Richmond,
the highest authority on confederate
hlstorv. has published In the Alarch
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number ol the Confederate Veteran
another exposure of this wanton malignant
myth about Barbara Freitehie,
and does so only because the poem
has got ton into some Southern school boks
and he wishes to brand with
falsehood this vile slander on Stonewall
Jackson. The whole miserable
thing was investigated not at Washington.
but on the spot at Frederick
City, and it was established years ago
that no Confederate troops passed in
sight of the old woman's house: that
no flag was waved: that Stonewall
.lackson was not then with his trnnnn
! ami that old Harharu was bed-ridden
and paralysed and could not have j
waved a linn if she had had one. The
dame's nephew. Valerius Ebert. has j
published his certificate that the (lag 1
story is all a myth without the slight
est foundation, and that his old aunt i
was at that time bed-ridden and had ,
lost the power of locomotion. Ebert
was there at the time, and was the i
administrator on her estate when she j
died and never heard of any Hug. and
yet one of the rascals who is after j
that money testified that he had the ,
Hag at home at his house. The very I
i last curse in the Hible <s against him '
who maketh or loveth a lie, and it I
makes no difference whether he is a I
I poet, priest or senator, he will find j
: himself in awful bad company in the j
| world to come. Years ago this myth .
; was exploded in the New York Sun j
while Dana was living, but now that I
he is dead it has come to light again
; in its columns. That paper's motto !
' used to he "If you see it in the Sun j
| it's so," but now if you see It. in the ;
Sun it's not so. would fit it better. I
wish that every confederate soldier ;
and their children and grandchildren
would subscribe for the Veteran and '
keep up with the best memories of the '
Lost Cause- a chiik<> fnr wht/?t> ?*/ > >
still proud, for pets brighter and !
purer as the years roll on. Some '
months ago l>r. Andrews, the great i
educator, declared and published that ,
I every principle the South fought for
had since been before the suprome ,
court of the nation and decided In its I
favor?and recently a notable New I
England minister has declared that ,
negro suffrage was a miserable blun- :
d?T, and that the fifteenth and six- !
tcenth amendments to the constitution |
should be repealed.
Well, time is a good doc tor, and the j
South is on the upground. The Re~ j
pumican party may be re-elected, but '
the South cannot he worsted. The day '
will come when pensions and back pay i
will be given our old soldiers and our 1
Confederate widows, and our Northern
soldiers will take off their hats ami
apologize. We are trying hard at my
inn: ? to oe reconciled to forget niul
forgive and be calm and serene when
holding social intercourse with those
who lit on the other side, and we g?-r
along pretty well as long as they meet
as on halfway ground, but as for these
vile slanderers who keep on lying and
rubbing it in. we Rre very much like
iny lamented friend. George Adair,
said about u preacher In whom he had
no confidence: "Weil, he may get to
heaven, for the grace of God is very
great, but if I get there I'll not hunt
him up to say howdy?1 don't want to '
live on the same street with, him."? j
Hill Arp in Atlanta Constitution.
Greater New York can now claim to
be the "city of parks." The area covered
by tlicm includ -s acres. The
two largest parks, situated in l'.roiix
borough, arc IVIhani liny I'ark of 1.7.".r,
acres, and Van Cortland! I'ark of
1.1"2'? acres. Central I'ark. Manhattan.
lias nearly SIO acres; l'.roiix I'ark.
I Itroiix Korotigh. <idl acres; I'.rooU
lyn Forest Park. town of Jamaica,
within tin* city limits. acres, ami
Prospect Park.in Brooklyn ~?1C> 1 '
acres. The est of a total of sixtynine
narks are considerably smaller,
and acres of Bronx Park are to be
devoted to a botanical garden.
Tito Florists' Hall Association of the
Pnltcd States carries $800,000 lunar
once ou hothouses.
IERRIBIH11IN INDIA.
Frightful Suffering From Hunger j
and Disease.
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MILLIONS OF PEOPLE STARVING
The Native States Dotted With Heaps
of Dead and Dying -A Pitiful Description
Sent by a Bombay Corres- j
pondent of the Scene at Ahmeda- I
bad.
lxmdon. By Cable.?The report that |
cholera is strengthening its deadly j
liold on famine-stricken India, brings J
the pitiful condition of that country ,
more than over to the public view.
About f>3,500.000 persons, for this is
the population of the district affected,
are sweltering their squalid existences j
away amid pestilence and misery that i
show no signs of a I fating. Hundreds
of thousands of pounds in good Brit- j
isli gold, good Herman marks and
American coin, have been thrown into '
the country, but. judging front the |
latest ad \ ices. all this charity is mere
ly a drop in the ocean. The famiii"
and its attendant complications up- :
pear to exceed in virulence any previous
visitations. The Viceroy. Lor I
Curzon, of Kedleston. and the govern.
ment are making .ceaseless exertions
to meet the terrible emergeney. but !
tin- stupendous diffleulty confronting
them prevent the present supplying
of relief to more than a.000,000. In ,
the meant Imp the native states are ]
dotted with heaps of dead and dying
and the roads are crowded with ghast- '
ly hands seeking to escape from the ,
stricken territories, hut \\ !n?. for lack .
of food and water, mostly sueeitmh n
the attempt. One of the most hope- |
less features of the whole affair is contained
in the statement of a special
correspondent at Simla, who writes
"Ton times the total relief could he
laid out in a single district without
fully relieving its distress. All we
can hope for is a succession of good
years to put the people on their legs
again."
The British districts are reported to |
ite so far escaping the large starvation t
and mortality that mark the native
States. But that their condition is not
enviable is evident front the following i
description sent by a Bombay correspondent
of the scene at Ahmedahad. a
city in the presidency of Rom buy:
In an open space upwards of L'tto
were s:i>:iteit nlil :iii/I votimr Iw.in .
famine personift0(1. The smell arising
from their filthy rags was sickening,
and had attracted myriads of llies.
Some, especially the !<! men. were
bony frame-works. \ girl suckling
two children was ghastly to look at.
but the little ones, with hollow tent
pies, sunken eyes and cheeks, and the
napes of their necks falling in under
their skulls, which seemed to overbalance
their emaciated bodies, and
with wisp-like arms and legs, were j
more dreadful still. Man\ were suffering
from disease and numbers had
the fever. Those who could work j
were sent on where tanks were being
dug. They were given meat and
passed on to the poor-house. This '
picture is front a less seriously affected
part of the country. The sufferings
in the remoter districts, wheie
the famine is severe, where all the cattle
have long since died, where the
water is precious and where cholera
has now added its dread scourge, can
well he imagined.
Florida Sugar Company.
Tampa. Fin., Special. Northern capitalists.
after thoroughly examining j
the lands in the vicinity of Tampa, organized
a yoinpaii.v for the purpose of
planting sugar cane on a large scale.
and refining the i"iw material. The
organization, which is known as the
South Florida Sugar Planting and 1{.tining
Company. Iia> now received ar- <
tides of incorporation, under tin- New '
Jersey laws.
Weekly Hank Statement.
New York. Special. The weekly 1
bank statement shows the following '
changes: Surplus reserve decreased j (
$ I .095.S(?0; loans increa-ed $2.2 1.100; i
specie increased $2,010 ton; legal ten- I
dels increased $1.100.500; deposits in- '
creased $17,092,800; circulation increased
$89,800. The hanks now hold ; ,
$15,978,475 in excess of the recpiirements
of the 25 per cent. rule.
Otis Sails For home. '
.Manila. li.v Cable. The I'nited
States transport Meade sailed for the
Vnited States at 5 o'clock Saturday (
afternoon with .Major Oeneral Otis !
and two aides-de-camp on hoard. The \ ]
warships in port fired a major Ron- *
era Is salute as the steamer raised her [
anchor. The General's launch left
the palace at 4 o'clock, carrying Gen- J
eral Otis and General MacArthur's 4
staffs to the Meade. The Fourteenth '
and Twentieth infantry, drawn op >
ashore in front of the city wall presented
arms, and the bands played f
"At.ld Lang Syne" while a shore bat- j
tery saluted. i
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MANY DEAD IN UTAH MINE
Blasting: Powder Explodes, Causing
Great Loss of Life and Property.
SCORES OE BODIES RECOVERED.
Tin* l>lni.*tor i.t Schotiehl, t'ti.h ?Pathetic
Scene* at tlie Mouth .if the
Mine o? the 1tei.il Were Tiikrn Out ?
Itimcnlt Timtt ot the KcHctler*?The
Woiitt.letl Tnki'ii to Suit l.i.Ue <*tt>.
Nai.t Lotr. City, Utah (SpocinH. ? A tor.
rifle explosion occurred in tbo wintei
quarters of the Pleasant Valley Coru.pany's
coal tniue at Kehotlold, on the lUo
Grande \V est era ltailwav, near t'olton,
,1'tnlt, by which over two hundred people
were killed and many injured. Scores ot
bodies liave Iwcti taken from the debris.Theexplosion
is attributed to the blowing
up of a number of kegs of blasting powder.
The disaster appears to have beeu one ot
those accidents Hint are occasional to tlm
most carefully regulated mines, and in
spite of the best endeavors of the most
-ompctent superintendents. The State
Mine Inspector is without the data to
{dace t he blame.
The scene before the mouths of tbe tunnels
is pitiful, as usual in mining disasters.
the weeping women and ehlldretf
waiting to see each man brought out of the
mine on a stretcher. A special train conveyed
tbe seriously wounded from Seliotleld
to Salt Lake City.
Workers on the outside al 10.15 o'clock
a. in. saw the entire top of ih? mountain
over the tunnel lifted and heard a loud report.
(treat masses of stone and tall trees
were hurled hundreds ot feet in the air and
fell in every direction, some of tiieni halt
a mile from the mines, l'or many minutes
debris fell, and then came complete
stillness.
While it was known that an awful catastrophe
hail occurred, the scope of the disaster
was not nt 'Irs? nniirnol il-i.l ?ll >--i
liamnco seemed to have been done in tunNo.
t. I>ut a hasty investigation showed
Ihut No. I. which adjoins and connects with
t, 11:i> 1 also bnoii destroyed.
Telegrams worn sent in every direction
'<>r uolp, and responses were prompt.
tVithtu an hour after tho explosion u hunIreil
men were swarming into tho wreckice.
an I more followed. Their light was
igainst terrillc oilils, for tho nlast had let
loose volumes of gas. which choked the
rescuers and frequently compelled thorn to
desist from their efforts, Gradually, however.
tho air cleared away and the task became
easier.
Most of tho miners were rtali men with
'amilies One man named Filsoti and his
four sons were in the mluo at tho time of
t ho explosion. The three sons were kille I
outright and tho father and other son (a
tally injured.
Among the known dead are linger Davis,
lack Wilson, S. T. Evans. I'cte Crockett,
lohn Anderson, .lames Wilson, Will Wilstead,
Andrew iladdow and son.
STRIKES IN BUILDINC TRADES.
\ < ia 1 >Iovonuiit Tliriincliiiiit tlir*
Country I'or Mourn.
N'kw Yoiik Ciiy (Special).?Nearly nineteen
thousand man wont on strike in vuri
ous parts of the country. Most of tin
tri Iters demanded an eight-hour day with
oui ? uin'rmi^u hi | iiv. rtorao ovnn demanded
the shorter 'lav with Increased
pa v. Others asked for more wngos only.
The building t rmles were most ulToctnJ.
Ourponters, plumbers, bricklayers ami
woodworkers worn demanding I lie short
work day with either I ho saiuo <>r larger
pay.
However, railromt section men. trainmen,
t iiismillis, giaiiilo eutt rs and polishers ami
other trades joined the .May day movement
.
In Philadelphia tt concerted movement
was being made by all the building trades.
The carpenters throughout the country
were demanding eight hour - work and a
higher wage scale, in many instances the
employers granted the demands.
The police of Oiovelaml, <>., were calle I
upon to quell a riot in the llig Four yards.
Twenty non-union Iron-workers, repairing
a bridge, were attacked by sixty members
of the Structural Ironworkers' Union.
Clubs, stones and pieces of iron wore used
by the combatants, ami several of the participants
received bad cuts and bruises.
Vim police arrested the leaders.
GOVERNOR ALLEN INAUGURATED.
I'imt American Civil liovi-rnor of Port*.
Itiro Takes I lie Until <>| Hitter.
San Jitas, Porto Itleo (lly (fable). -The
itinuguration of ('buries Herbert Allen,
former Assistant Secretary of I lie Navy, as
llrst American Civil (iovernor of Porto
Itico, was most impressive and was attended
wltb many pleasing Incidents. The enthusiasm
oft tie people was greater than
expected.
(Iovernor Allen took the oath of olllee at
10.30 a. m., under a llag canopy at the I-'xucutivo
Mansion.
The speech of General I> vis, tho retiring
Govcrnor-Geiiuri \ was full of feeling
iml expressed only the best wishes for the
rontlnued good conduct of the island.
Governor Alien's reply was equally felicitous,
although remarkably temperate, lie
iddrcssoil the attending crowds as '"Fellow
citizens of Porto llico." This happy
introduction won Instant approval.
At the conclusion of Governor Allen's
ipoueh Fort San Cristobal thundered forth
i salute of seventeen guns.
ECUMENICAL CONf-ERENCE ENDS.
Conner President Harrison'* I'nrmvi-ll
Address Advocated Christum Unity,
Nkw Yokk City (Specials.?Just sucii a
rowd as attended tlio opening exercises
%f tlio Kcumenclal ('inference came to t iko
>art in the closing ceremonies. Former
['resident Benjamin >Iarri9on presided over
rfio main meeting in Carnegie Hall and
nude u farewell address in which let
ltrOKll/1 V JlllVfti'iltHil f.liriotlon '
? ...... UI.HJ,
Conference figures nnd estimates by the
Management kIiow boards and societies
' presented, 115; countries represented,'
lH;\lelogates, 1500; mioslonaries, 800; num.
wr of mo dings, 75; estimated attendance,
i?>:i,000; attendance at missionary exhibit,
1,000.
The conference cost i"i'2,000, which covered
rent of iiuli, printing and hotel Mils
>f such delegates its were not privately!
ntertained. 'fliis money was obtained by
ndtvldual donations, nearly all in small
urns.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Wfinliliicioii Ifenift.
*<ier??tary <!ugo favor* tin* ostiil>liT*.lirnont
of u national sl.jiular.l luirt'riu fortlio II Nine
of n stamlnni lor foiuiiRC, weinlits iiml
measurni.
l\in<llll>l> r..r M? II........ Mru Orl.lUl.
mill (teuerul IotiKurool \v?,r votcil by the
Senate.
The Somite passed the Army Appropriation
bill without division.
The "Free Homes" bill. passed bv the i
House will take millions out ?r the Treasury
ill repayment of money paid the ilovornment
for homestead lands.
The President has issued a proelnination
extending for six monttis from April 11
the time allowed Spanish subjects in the
Philippines to designate their allegiance la
aecordtiUce with tlio Treaty of Paris.
The receipts of the Government for the
month of April were ? l."i,0T.i,:V2ti. mi increase
of $.'i,127.7.T.I over the -atne month
last vear customs showing 1,11 liierease of
*1.1 l'.'.7t?:i and internal revenue * I,1!'2.
1'nitoii States Treasurer It iherls mailed ,
"7.722 checks aggregating *2.12 !.VI">.re| re- '
smiting the interest due on M;iv I, i'.HM), on J
registered bonds of the live, four and !
I three per eent. loans.
Our Aitopfi-it t*ti\iiils.
Purine live inoutlis eliding November :5ft
last Porto Kico's exports \\ -i-?> ',301;
her imports, $4,221,Sal.
The Hawaiian Government l?ill foiled to j
provide for a Collector of Customs, ami i
this omission will l>o remedied.
A oonsnsof Guam irivos nihil as tho population
of tlo* island,of which :'pjs are inning
over seven ami ;ti;so females over seven.
Governor I.earv, of Guam, sont an ae. i
kii'uvliMltfomcnt to tho American people lor
their contributions of literature, etc., to
the soldiers and citi ons of that island.
Major-General Gtis. Governor-General of j
the Philippine, lias issued orders restricting
Chinese immigration and making
changes in the (Jrimluiu Code.
Many Hiiglish ami Americans from tho
Sanioan islands surrendered to the Ger- \
mans are flocking to the American island
from Apia. They will soon huild a thriving
town on Pago-Pago.
General Adna It. ChntTce has reipiested
to ho relieved as chief of stall' to Governor- |
General Wood of Culia.
The revenue gunboat llaracoa has captured
a Itritls'i sh?op olT liatabaiio en- j
traced in the sponge fishery. The vessel
is now in charge of the customs author!- i
tics at Havana.
General I.lovd Wheaton reports that
Senor Pnterno, the former I'rosidnnt of the ]
Filipino Cahinet, has been captured in the
mountains near 'Trinidad, province of
libllgllOt.
1 >??! !A?l IP.
A>l:niral Dewey wiutgreoU?d on lite arrival
in St. l.ouis, Mo., l?y un immense throng.
Great flit husiasni was sliown xI along the
route fr->m Chicago.
I'mlnr tlio auspices of the Illinois Medical
Association, aliout 800 doctors and tlioir
families front Illinois, Iowa and Missouri
will visit the Paris Exposition in a body.
Henry M. Flagler. a Standard Oil mat;- |
naif in New York City,asked to bo roli?v?ii| ,
of thf cure of the person and estate of Ids
wife, wlui is insane.
Sheriff W. II. Ilood was killed by lightning
while riding through Ids cotton iield
near the town of Chester, S. C.
l ire swept the village of (Iruntshurg,
111. Every business house in the town win
destroyed except the postofllce and on*
saloon.
Two antiipte Chinese vases, valued ai
$40,000, were sei/.ed at the French lint
pier in New York City for alleged evasion
of tlio customs laws.
Twenty-live thousand men em ployed by
the standard *til ('outpany all over tint
country have had their wages raised let.
per cent. Tlds means an additional outlay
of ? 1.500,(100 a year.
Paul Nuici. a laborer, was precipilato.l
with tons of masonry Into a hidden shaft
in the wall of th?' liryant Park reservoir,
New York City, now being demolished.
Mrs. Margaret Frost was taken to jui! ill
York. Koh., charged with complicity in th<
poisoning of her husband. Charles \Y. Frost.
She has a son nil e years old.
Kiowa and Comnnelin Indians on reservat
ion in Oklahoma are in dire need o
foid. I'liey are appealing to tlio Fasten
{States tn help tliein before all tribes die o
starvation.
Samuel''. Seelev. who. while a trusted
employe of the National Shoo and I.father
Itank in New York i'Hv, em o/./.led
and was sent to the King- County Penitentiary
in 1 *!?.">, to serve eight years, was released,
having obtained the full commutation
for good behavior.
Mnjor-t Jonernl Itrno'.e wasord*-roil to as.
siime command of the Department of tin
Fast, ISeneral Merrill being relieved at
Ids own rcipiest.
William Moran, nineteen years old, nl
bloom lici t, N. .1 , vva- laki'ii to the Mountainside
Hospital suffering from what Itermed
"dry pleurisy," dm- to excossiv*
cigarette smoking.
Dr. C. C. Todd, formerly >f Kentuckv, u '
brettier-in-law of l'i---id?oii Abraham I.lncoln,
died in itamwoll, s.
Desk Si-rgeant Timothy S. () Council cd 1
the Woodlawn Police staii<>n was shot and i
instantly killed on tlio F.ighteonth Street
Viaduct in t'hie.-igo. The shooting is a
1 mystery.
The State of Kansas will outer proceedings
I" tlie I'niteil States Supremo Court
against the State of Arkansas to prevent
the ill version ol the Arkansas Kivor Irotn
Its nntnral channel by Irrigating companies.
Mildred I'roston, an aslrologlst, lias boon
nrr-'Sted on a charge of fraudulently securing
?moo from .Miss F.tliel (.inimtiv, a
voting ioclety woman of Grand Kapids,
Sli-h.
William Iloiyard, of New I'jipor Sandusk
v. Ohio, who-o wife had left him,
killed the woman and fatally - a >t himself.
Pomlifii)
If the full Dnlagoa F'.iy award is not
forthcomlng soon the British and Amorlcan
Ministers will present a joint protest
to the Swi-s Government.
Thomas Itleliard-1. an American, has been
arrested at Johannesburg, South Africa,
charged with murder In coune tlon with
the destruction of the Itegldo Works.
The American hospital ship Maine sailed
from Southampton, Kugland, for South
Africa.
The Foreign Ambassadors at Constantinople,
Turkey, agreed to an increase In
customs dutloft with certain conditions.
Forty members of tho Mafia liavo been
arrested at J'almero, Sicily. A great sensation
has bean cause.I i>> si,.n? ?..
MrrOHtfl, mi.I it Is oxpoctod tliat others will
{follow.
' Ambassador Clioato, at London, lias
asknd Lord Salisbury for an explanation
of tbe reported boarding of an Amor.can
ship in neutral waters at UeloKon Bav.
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iim hit in Vermont;
Father and Son Taken by a Posse After,
Ten Days' Chase.
MANY SHOTS WFRE EXCHANGED.
I> it not in :?tul Kri.nlc Slt?v H?<1
Prom Jail ? 11111ml ;* l)?*|?utjr K????rllT In
Tlu?ir Flight? lloumlint For l>?y?
Tlinmxli t111* Woods t?y Armrd (Mlimn
? Son Wio Seriously Wuumlrd.
Miniu.r.nrnv, Vt. (Special).? Punstiu
Shaw and It is son, V'rauk. who e?rnp?d
from Woodstock I.iil on April an.l who
for days wore hounded through the woods
ami tn on a fains of (' at ml Vermont ,by
armed oflleer* mid citizens aided by bloodhounds,
and wli > in the cour.m of their
lllght killed Deputy ShorifT Hoffman of
Windsor County, tyro captured in a swamp
aboat four miles from Middlobury. They
resisted the officer* and citizens with Winchesters,
and fourteen or liftceu shots were
exchanged, wh-n Frank Shaw fell with two
bullet wounds in his body and his father
surrendered. The young man was wounded
seriously. 1'.. . Ii were \vak from lack of
food and exhaustion. Nobody in tho
searching party wa* hurt. Tho prisoners
were brought ail h'?re pending further
proceedings.
The Sliaws 1 id lieeii tracked to tho
swani|? hv searchers who started from Middlehury
upon receiving news that the men
had stopped at a farmhouse a few miles
from MhMleburv to obtain leoil at about ?
o'clock a. in. In spile ot the handicap of
the later start, 'lie pursuing party made
good progress, i'liey entered the wood*
near the Seelov house, and began a systematic
search of every part for traces of,
the fugitives. TheShaws wore too good
as woo Ihiimmi to leave a plain trail, so the
only knowledge possessed by the pursuers
was the statement that they had taken a
west ward enurse after obtaining food. In
iim oireuoni; \v in was lliouglil lo lie
traces of tlio men won- iliseoverwl leading
toiviir.l tin- northwest.
Following in ilii-t direction several of the
searchers, with I?|>?it> TilT T'uklinm at
their heels, came out into a pasture of tlid
Middlehury swum| There was mucli wntert
in tlio swamp, nii'l I ' >ii 1 It wan n ulaatj
patch of open groan 1 'i'lio Shaves wern?
soon slowly ascending a small liill.
Hurrying forward Deputy Sharif," Tiuk-.
ham shouted t > t!i" men t?> surrender. In
reply tli" fugitives immediately raised
their guns. Without waiting for furthui'
demonstration tin- IIrim; was begun. Mort
than a do/en .-.lints worn exchanged before
anybody was hit. ami a moment later
Frank Shaw fall. This seamed to tl.ko the
courage out of tlio older man ami he
eeaseil firing. rinkham hastened to where
the men were. followed closely by the
i titers of hi.- party, and in a moment had
liiilidculTs mi the elder Shaw. The young
man lay on tile ground with blood marking
two wound-, one in the arin and the other
in the hodv near the heart. Tlio rapture
caused much satisfaction among those who
have participated in the chase day and
night. Tli" news that the Xhaws had been
taken aroused great excitement In town
and Intmlreds of people witnessed the arrival
of the < fli >rs with tin- prisoner- and
followed t horn to jail.
BRITISH ADVANCE ON PRETORIA.
l? ? >tI* l iiKi s jiii Important
I'tislllnu Willi > 11 u li I Limn.
I.unim.s lly ('alilci. 1 h" British liuvt
eupt 11 i-ft 1 Itran 1 fort. T!io town was taken
l?y ii <!intil>itiri! in vemant of I'olonel
Tueker - and <i.-n nil I'ole-t'nrow's divisions
mi tin east ami center ami (iwiorol
Mutton a mounted infantry mi tin* irent.
Tim British surprised tin* llovrt, >vlio retreated
hastily I'mir tliousafitl ??r the
enemy 11:i I taken >l11 n there to
tlm British advance. ('nlminl Timk
tiller.V had n sharp 1 .1 with tin
i;nns ami j>ut tw > of tlimn out of act
l.oril Holer's report* the enpture
lows;
We o i.'iipieil I'.rnndfort without
opposition and without, 1 hope,
casualties. i! >rst Brigade of m
iiifiiriI ry ' voreil llm i??ft llank ot tin
(emitli Itriiflliln ot ill** Seventh l>
and tlm right l i.nl. \vu* s.ipporteil
Fifteenth Brigade.
I'oleCarow's division advanced <
on lirnndforl I'lie l!n?r ur;nv win
jnmli-r flotn naml oT Itnlaroy, 1 r?
.northoustorly iliroi'tlon.'
Tho |iti 'n i-? I lie !:< > to oiici
inniit roiil-> iMii.lint; t<> ttio I'r.iko
pii-Hos, w111< 11 possibly ,i:iy lm tin*
it (i-ojicr'it toi. with ''icnoral Hullo
'mi. It |irovitl'\s no bust* o
l|iH"f, anil nl t U > .atm? tinm niona*
"Honrs II' IS- - ; : t! -il-?t of lUoolIlft
SENATE PASSES ARMY B!l
It M:ikr< M lli-? u I.H'lit ninlllt ( ( III*
Ciirlini it M a | in -1 innrriit.
Wamhisotot 1). f\ (S|i*fial).?Tin
Meorg-uii/.iitl'iu 1 II has linon |u?saou
fctonato. ?) 1> >t \va- lukon I
null anil that on t' " promotion of (
Milns, to ln? a I.ioiitiMiiint-Timioral.
worn >iiIy ni^tit ir;ys. Tim aini'ii
X i v i it A? to Ail.iiitiint-(ii,'iinr!il Corbln tli
of Major-(i :a?-r.i! '.vis pnssuil wit ho
vb loa.
Thn now systnnn i- not applied
Corps of Kiitfinnnr-, 1 f 1 i :11 linparl
i iy ' jiiiti :nc:.l ir 1'.l-l^U A'lVncati
frill's pnrtmont.
Tlio bill ilin'ontimi's t li rot;iinonl
Kanizntlnn of lIn; nrliliary ami oit.il
an artillery eurpN of t wo liraneUei
121! batteries of ft,lit urtillory and mt
liatt'Tli'i of llol ! arllllory, with a toi
17. i IS tn?n. lr provides for an iihto
100 iii tin Corps of <'a?loti la Wont
two at large from one It State ami ton
to tlio pro-oat nu'nbor of t-.\ 111y fro
Unitoil Status at Inrgo. j
CONSTITUTION OVER PORTO 1
Inillff I.ixlll i-ll lloeliloi 111 ;i iii I ii a
togrnt I'arl of I nltoil Miilm,
St. Pai u. Mian, spoeial).? Jmlgo
run, In tliu Cnltoil States Circuit Coin
mantled Itafaol Ortiz, the Porto Itloan
to Stillwater prison. In donylng O i
plea tor liberty Judgo I. lelir >a base
chief objection on tliw fact t hut t lt?* t
of Paris "oponh" for somn time, owli
tlm 'Into of In ratification. *
In lit* decision .In lt?o Loclirnn held
hy tlio c#-s*ioti of Porto Itlco that islaii
caino an integral part of the Uuited fr
and that the Federal Constitution t
upon ex proprlo rlffone, extended ovo
island and Its people.
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