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FORT MILL TIMES. 1 VOL. XL ( FORT MILL, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1902. NO. I. jl WILCOX GUILT1 The Judje Sentences Him to Die On April 25th WILCOX SHOWS INDIFFERENCE | A Brief Review of a Famous Case? i Argument of the Attorneys for State and Defense. Elizabeth City, Special.?The Jury rendered a verdict, of murder \ln the first degree against .lames Wilcbx, at 10:T50 Saturday night. G. F. Derrick- i son acted as spokesman. The prisoner heard the verdict without apparent emotion. After the verdict was received Judge Jones said: "It is sadder to me than it Is to you, Mr. Wilcox. The jury found the facts nml I laid down the law. I have tried to see that you had a fair trial. I do not believe thnt some of the people wanted you to have it. Part of the public seemed to be afraid for the Jury to try yo ir case. I am informed that the movement in the court house Friday, when several hundred people went our, was pre-arranged and for a purpose. I hope it is not so. If it were WILCOX. true and the guilty ones were brought before llie I should SPnd >.? last mnn woman and child to jail for contempt, j If It was wilful and with a design it was a disgrace to the fair name of the j county. I hope it did not influence you gentlemen. I refrain from saying anything else. I would not wound the feelings of any one. "The judgment of the court is that the prisoner be removed to jai^and be hanged, until dead, by the nect on the 25th day of April, between 10 and 12 o'clock." This said, the court adjourned. Hawyer Aydlett wept while the judgment was being read. He will take an appeal. All is quiet; the peop/e are j satisfied. The trial of James Wilcox, charged with the murder of Miss Nellie Cropse.v, began at Elizabeth City, N. C., last Thursday a week and en led, closed on Friday. The case went; to 9 tho jury on Friday afternoon. The story of the disappearance of Miss_Cropsey from her home last fall and the long search for her; the ultimate finding of her body in the Posquotank river; the arrest of James Wilcox, charged with her mur- I der, and the beginning of tho trial 1 are ail familiar to our readers. Thi grand jury of Perquiman's county found a true bill against Wilcox and the court trial followed. The evidence was circumstantial. The defense introduced no witnesses. Tho pleading I of the attorneys was on a high plane. \ Speaking for the prosecution Solicitor Ward said: "This is the most important trial ever held in Pasquotank county, and no citizens have ever had more re sponslbility tli.an rests on you gentlemen. I have never had such a task before. I stand here for the State, ivithout the hope or desire of more than the usual compensation. It is not my purpose to lecture the jury , nor shall I paint pictures. What I say will ho fn plain English and about a murdered girl and the man who murdered her. I will not try to i prejudice you. I would not in the fear of Clod help convict an innocent man. If I go outside of the ev'denee I do not want you to consider what is not right, fair and just. If you do not find Wilcox guilty from the evidence do not convict him. But we shall con vince you. "What is the evidence in the ease? All authorities sny that in 49 cases out of 100 the/e Is water in the lungs where a person is drowned, in the other 51 the pleural cavities would contain water. There was none in either organ In this case. There was no bloody froth. The stomach was free from water and the right side of the heart from blood. None of the symptoms of drowning were found. 1 would rather believe what Drs. Wood and Fearing said about this case than Taylor or Reese or anybody else who was not here. Why did Dr. W. J. Lumsden fail to testify? It is not { OF MURDER. for mo to say that he did not have the courage to face the examination from the books of medical jurisprudence. I know this, that if he had not agreed to corroborate what the other doctors' said about the death of the girl he would never have been subpoenaed here as a witness. Dr. Wood said that the girl was stunned by the blow on the head and put in the water while in that condition. That contusion or bruise on tire left i temlpe was made by a blow, it was | ru!l of fluid blood. If the blood had left the lioart by exuding, as Mr. Aydlett would have you believe, why did it not go from that place on the head? In the progress of his argument he said: "Wilcox told Tom Hayman that ho would hunt the girl, but if lie found her they would say that lie killed her. Mark his words. They were said when everybody else thought she was in Baltimore. Wilson or somewhere else. But he knew that she was dead. Wilcox did not help search for the girl. If I had been innocent of that crime when I was charged with it l would have spent every dollar I could got toward finding the girl. I have never heard or read of a man who conducted himself under similnr circumstances as Jim Wilcox has done. He has sat here throughout this trial without a sign of an emotion. He is guilty of that foul murder. His conduct shows it. You need not tell mo that the conduct of that man is not the conduct of a criminal.." Mr. E. F. Aydlett, leading counsel for the defense, made a forceful argument In which he said in part: "The Cropseys have my sympathy. 1 h^ive before extended it from my own lips, t do not blame Mr. Cropsey foi trying to ferret out the cause of the death of his fair daughter. The people of North Carolina are noble, just and law-abiding. They would not want anything but what is right. They want an honest verdict. Any criminal has a right to have an attorney speak for him.* When I secured my license to practice law I promised to do my duty I have been criticised for my part in connection with this case. I havo done nothing by my honest duty." "Let us look into the evidence in this case. The doctors say that there are but three certain tests of drowning and that they do not apply in eases whore the body has been dead for any length of time. The doctors admit that they aid not examine the windpipe and other tubes to the lungs. That is one of the three certain symptoms. The second is that of the lungs. They say that there was no water there, but they found bloody froth, which is one of the usual tests o? drowning. They found no water in the stomach. The medical authorities say that these symptoms cannot be relied upon when a body has been in the\water five or six weeks. The books do not lay down the nbsence of blood in the right side of the heart as one of the tests against drowning. It may lie that if the body had been found within one or two or three days water would have been found in the pleural cavities but longer time than that would have given it a chance to get out by natural causes, tho endosmosis process. The water could have left the stomach in the same way. The doctors admit it. We want the light." "If you helieve^that the girl was killed you must decide who did it. Did Mr. , Wilcox do it? You are asked to convict him because he has been indifferent. Chas. Reid testified that Wilcox was indifferent but that it was his nature. I agree with the statement of the gentleman who said tnat no better man i lived in Pasquotank county than Mr. Rcid. He would not he unfair. They say Wilcox is indifferent because tip ti.v not wept in the court house. If he had l shed tears they would have said thai he was guilty. He Is accused of being Indifferent because he would not take part in the search for the young lady. Put yourself in his place. One moment they charge him with being Indifferent and the next they say that he is guilty because he showed emotion on I f ) occasions when he thought the body of the girl had been found. His face turned pale and hiR hand trembled. Mr. Hayman said he told hi"* that he wished to God the girl could be found. "No, gentlemen, he has not been indifferent. Consider his position. Every move of his was watched. Everything die did w?'?s criticised. To go further. There was no motive. He had been attentive to the girl for several years. We find no trouble between them till list September. Then Miss Ollie heard i h r tell hint ihnt if he was going to act | . that way ho might stay at home. All lovers have quarrels. They claim that M.ss Nellie told him to 'pull ' 'to go.' Sh* meant nothing by that. 'He went to the fair with Miss Nellie jiad Miss ; Carrie. Ho kept going to the * "ropaey hone. He went to the buggj' as it 1 passed. He was frequently in the 1 kitchen. He patted Miss Ollie on the 1 hack and nut. smut on h? . vsnm v... .?v? ta\ u. puu ' tried to put some on liirn. It was all for merriment and in play. Because ! Miss Nell refused an opplo that the de ' fendaut had bought is no evidenro( that 1 she wus mad. I don't believe any member of that family thought tnere .van ] anything wrong. Mr. Cropaey could not have thought so or he would have remained in the room. There was no mo- 1 tive for the crime. I do not say it. hut * could not the girl have been jealous? i She might have felt that her form ^r i friend was slipping away from her. I ] cannot say what a sweet little girl , would do under such conditions. It is possible that she committed suicide." JUDGE JONES' CHARGE. , In naklng his charge to the Jury 1 among other things Judge. Jones said. . "Gentlemen of the jury, your problem I is to find the facts in this case. You j l have heard the testimony of the wit- J < nesses and the argument of the at- I torneys. Now the case is with you. It must ho tried by the evidence. It you should let any impression you may have had, public opinion or anything else, influence you, you do violence to your oaths. "A few simple rules must govern you. You start out with the assumption that the prisoner is innocent. If you should find that he slew the deceased unintentionally, without just cause, it is murder in the second degree; if intentionally, wilfully and with deliberation and premeditation, it is murder in the first degree. i ii? i' luu*. ,yuu muhi nrst assumu that tli" prisoner is innocent. If the State satisfies you beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant killed the deceased without cause it is murder in the second degree; that he did it wilfully. after deliberation and premeditation. it is murder in the first degree. If the State does not satisfy you. beyond a resonable doubt, that the defendant killed the deceased you must And tiiat he is not guilty. The evidence must not only he conclusively consistent with the prisoner's guilt, but must 1)0 inconsistent with his innocence. "You are sworn to try the case by j the evidence and that alone. Try the ! case as men. Kise above public opin- \ ion." The indictment of the grand jury was read. The judge continued: "The defendant denies the charge. You must try the case. You will fnd whether he is innocent or guilty of murder in the first or second degree. The State must establish guilt. I have no opinion in the case. I shall call your attention to some of the contentions of the State and the defense. The State claims that j It has been proven that t!To deceased ' SSI MISS NELL IK CROTSEV. was killed, that the prisoner had the motive and that the facts and his eonduet show that he did it The defense i contends that the evidence will not satisfy the jury that the girl was killed: that the bruise on the head could have been made in a thousand and one ways; that all the tests against drowning aro fallacies; that the defendant had no motive and that there was no opportunity." The reading of the evidence was then begun. There was 200 typewritten pages of it and the task of reading it ! required the hours from 10:30 to 1:30. Dcatii Reveals a Secret. Petersburg, Special.?One of the , most reamrkable cases that has ever beer, known in this section is alleged , to have come to light in Ettrick, Chesterfield county, last week, which reveals a well-kept secret. A few months ag( a couple, supposed to lie ? nti .....I i. r- ? ?-T ki.im .11:11 m111-. Liime infill Uiin it'.ii. i>. and located r. r.trick, a village just across the liver from Peters-! burg. For some time past the "husband." who was about 75 years of age. has been suffering from dropsy, i ami this morning he died. A gentleman of the village was called in to shroud a man who had died. According to his statement the deceased, instead of being one of the stronger sex, much to his surprise proved to be a woman. The couplo have lived together as man ami wife, it is said, for the past 35 years, and they have j faithfully kept the secret as to their sex. The deceased, who is said to have gone by the name of Green, had I been going among the people of Et- 1 trick, and there had never been the 1( ast suspicion that "he" was a woman in man's clothing. Duck Combine. Trenton. N. J., Special.?The United States Cotton Duck Company has filed certificates decreasing its outliorized 1 capital stock from $50,000,000 to $30,000.000, The oortifi ate was signed 1 ?y T. L. Park, president, and David H. Carroll, secretary. Air. Bryan Movps, Lincoln. Neb., Special.?W. J. Bryan is no longer a resident of tlie city of Lincoln. This was Mr. Bryan's forty- i 3ccond birthday, and he cclebraed the ; jvent by moving to his farm four miles from the city. 1'ntil a handsome country residence which he is building shall he completed. Mr. Bryan and his family will livo in the barn. The President has sent the following nomination to the Senate: Marshall L. King, collector of customs, district r.f \iexandrla, Va.; second lieutenant of infantry, Albert G. Goodwyn, Alabama; Postmasters, Virginia, Pulaski City. L. S. Calee; Mississippi, Brookaaven. Wm. F. Jobcs. MILES WAY (BE RETIRED He Criticises the War Department's _ General Staff Bill. ACT DISPLEASES HIS SUPERIORS Secretary Knot't 3Icn??rn !n Subvemtve of tlio Interciili) of the Army, He Tell* ;i Sfualr Committee?Threiitciis to IteII in Commission if tlio Ifill i* l*i?>Recl?X'reslUeut l.iUcIy to Ketire Him asnington, i'. c. - L,io;:tonaiu-< !cneval Nelson A. Miles, ? remanding '.lie Army, has made more Uillicult his position as Commanding General of I he Army, by criticising tlio President and Secretary Root befeiv the Senate Coni111 it tee on Military Affairs. While the fact that he made his statements in the capacity of a wituess may exempt him from punishment for his criticism, this and other actions which have not met with the approval of the Administration niaj lead to his forcible retirement by the President. General Miles declared that if the staff reorganization bill became u law lie would resign the ottice of Commanding General of the Army. lie asserted that the bill was calculated to accomplish no purpose except to allow the Secretary of War and the AdjutantGeneral to promote the interests of their personal favorites. lie added that If the bill wore passed he could now uame the men who would hold the piuces of honor which It created. These names he did not mention, but he is said to have had Adjutant-General Corbin iu mind. So utterly subversive is this of military discipline that the President and Secretary of War may decide that even though tiie remarks made by the General were addressed to the Military Committee of the Senate, lie had no right to make such an attack upon his superior officers. Secretary Root was at the White Ilouse four hours, and it was presumed that ho had conferred with the President regarding General Miles' conduct. lie denied that this was the case, and added: "1 am suarry that General Miles is opposed to the hill, because it means much for the efficiency of the Army. Under the proposed bill he would- hold the office of chief of staff and have largely increased powers." < J..iu>rnl tl.i-nni tl.nt 1.- ? resign from the Aruiy if the bill became a law wan based upon the view that it was subversive of the interests of the military establishment, and he j declared that lie did not intend to lie a party to sacb a proceeding, even it ho had to relinquish his otliee. Section 7 of tht- Hoot Army bill provides for the assignment of the senior general ofliecr of the Army to command "such portion of the Army as the President may direct or he detailed to duty In the general staff corps. All duties prescribed by law for the Commanding General shall l?e performed by the chief of the general staff, or other general ollieer designated by the Secretary of War." The unity of the Army would be do- > stroyed. General Miles predicted, if ilns provision should bo enacted into law. MANY LIVES LOST IN STORM. 15,000 Sheep and Cattle and 300 Horsm AIko l'crisli in It. St. Paul, Minn.?Reports of loss of life in the great storm that swept over North Dakota show that at least fifteen deaths resulted from freezing, with the prospect that the number of persons lost will he much larger. The aggregate loss of live stock will reach 10.000 slieep, ."iOOO cattle and perhaps 500 or COO horses. ? .1 | On the Great Northern Railroad hve carloads of valuable horses and a Train load of cattle were frozen to death in the cars. Ranchmen and farmers have been found frozen and the carcasses of their horses found neur them, showing great struggles to reach places of sliel- 1 tor. It may be a month or more before the exact number of fatalities can be accurately ascertained, for it is believed that many strangers out on the prairie selecting homes were overtaken by the storm whose bodies cannot be ' found until the snow melts. RICH WiDOW drops to death. Ilcr llody Kouitd on Top of (ho I'mittenK?r monitor in Her Home. Boston, Mass.?Mrs. Julia Blanche ' French, widow of Benjamin French, a litigant in more legal actions than any 1 other woman in Massachusetts, was] found dead at her liomc. The house, ' in which she had lived almost as a re- l ciuse, was hrak at into and her hody was discovered lying upon the top of the passenger elevator. She had evidently fallen from the third story, a distance of nhout forty feet. There is no suspicion that her death wasotlx r I than accidental. Mrs French, besides being tlie owner ! of several hundred thousand dollars' I worth of property, at one time had as many as thirty different cases pending in which bhe was interested. CroiTot nulilplil it ICrnr- A ilmi r:tl Now The United States Senate has con* firmed the nomination of Captain A. S. Crownlnshkdd to be a Itear-Admiral. There was ne comment upon the uotuination. TV?t Tax ISeppitl lllll The War Ke\euue Reduction bill lias passed the United States Senate without a division or a yea and nay vote. It has already passed the House and now will become a law. - . . I GIRL WAIF AN HEIRESS Baby Whom Millionaire Found in Train Wreck Gets a Fortune. n <?tl? Fatlirr mid Motlirr of Jim Infntit Worn Killed in tlt? l>l?a?tt'r Wliicli ller Bonofwctnr Witnessed. I Ithaca. N. Y.?The will of Frank ; Conner, of Brooklyn, who ilittl :i few ilays a;ro in Detroit, as tiled with the Surrogate here, lit vf.uatlis hi.: estate of $<J,(HX).000 to liis adopted daughter, Otvssa Stewart Conger. The girl is now about thirteen years old. Her mother was killed in a railroad wreck in Hamburg, N. Y.. twelve years ago. Mr. Cougcv took the babe out of her dying mother's arms and adopted her i as his ehild. The parents of the girl j were the ltev. E. E. Stewart and wife. . of Rochester, both of whom were killed | in the wreck. Mr. Conger's business ! offices were in New York City ami his | home was in Brooklyn. The child hits been attending a public school in j Brooklyn. | The baby was t'ouud in the wreekj age. half covered with snow, and its beauty and helplessness touched both j Conger and his wife, who also was on j the train. He saw in the child's dress t a Masonic emblem, and being a mem- j i her of the Mystic Shrine, lie did not ! hesitate to adopt it. lie applied to the j baby's grandparents for a release for j adoption, which was granted. The ehild lived with her new-found j parents in (Jroton. N. Y.. and as she ! grew tip was surrounded by every luxury. Mr. Conger was President of | both National hunks in the town, I'resi! dent of tlie (Jroton Bridge Company, j j tlie leading industry of the town; prln- i cipal owner of the Universal Safety , Tread Company, of tlie (Jroton Carri- ; age Works, the Conger Manufacturing Company, tlie American Visible Type- i writer Company and tlie Conger IToi duco Company. lie transferred his ; ' bridge company to tin* Bridge Trust i and made $1,000,000 by the deal. PROTECTION OF THE PRESIDENT. Hill l'aHHCtl l>y I ln? Smiili; l?y u Vote ?f to li>. Washington, 1). C.?The hill for the protection of the President passed the'j Senate by u vote of 5'J to l."?, after futile j, j attempts had been made by the Denio' erats to amend it so as to strike out | the clauses which they believe to lie j impairments of the rights of the citl- ' zeu. The bill has been generally re- ! j ferret! to as an anti-Anarchy bill, but it is merely what its title declares it to lie, and the real anti-Anarchy bill is now in the Committee on Judiciary, ! from which it will probably be reported. The bill provides that any person within the United States who shall wilfully and maliciously kill the President or any otiicer on whom the duties of the President may devolve, or any j sovereign of a foreign country, or shall attempt to kill anj of the persons named, shall suffer death; that any person who shall aid, abet, devise, or counsel the killing of any of the persons named, or shall conspire to accomplish their death, shall be imprisoned not exceeding twenty years; that any person who shall threaten to kill, or advise or counsel another to kill the President, or any otlicial on whom the duties of the President may de- : volve, shall lie imprisoned not exceeding ten years; that any person who shall wilfully aid In the escape of any person guilty of any of the offenses mentioned shall he deemed an accomplice and shall be punished as a , principal. The Secretary of War is directed to detail from the Regular Army a guard of officers and men to protect the President, "without any unnecessary display," and the Secretary is authorized to innk.? <;llcli rnwnlnUnnj on io dress, arms, and equipment 01* such guard. SUCCESS OF WIRELCSS TELEPHONY Indistinct Soundit Heard at u IMnlau^e ol One-third of a Mile. Washington, I>. C.?A practical test j of wireless telephony over a distance of | a third of a mile was conducted on the I'otomnc Itlver, just above the city, with partial success. Small Instruments were used. A wire was grounded on the shore, j and wires from a small boat, stationed a third of a mile across the water were dropped over the stern. With the instruments in operation those who participated in tin* tests announced that they recognized the sound of a harmonica, though it was partially indistinct, and also heard human voices engaged in counting at the other end. Similar experiments overland v.*ere conducted with more satisfactory results. wuivihn nl AiUUERADED AS A MAN John Green I'oncil For Thtrty-flvc Vcant iiH it II unburn!. Petersburg, Vji. Kttrick, a small manufacturing village near this city, i had a genuine sensation in the discovery that John tJreon, a person who has ( , posed before the world for thirty-live j years as a married man, was a woman. She died from a complication of dis- ; eases, in the seventy-tifih year of her age, and the discovery was made by 1 neighbors who were called in to pre- j pare the body for burial. The wife in i the partnership survives. The woman j came to the village from Raleigh N. about two months ago, and belonged to the laboring class. Munjt l*olit O'hI Arrenin In llaytl. Tbe political situation in Haytl is becoming critical. The authorities continue to make arrests, prisoners of importance being taken on board a war ship In Fort-nu-ITlnce Harbor. ] FAIR ESTATEjORTHE HEIRS ' Supreme Court Declares the Trust ? Clause in the Will Invalid. ? | ) MILLIONS TO BE DISTRIBUTED ,J Senator I'uir'n lMuti to lluii.l II io K at Ate Down to II Ik Children's Cliil* clrcn if* DtTrutnl?i*h. llermuiiti Del* rich* nml 31 ra. W. K. \ ttuderfollt, Jr.* win ci...... w:?i. San Francisco. Cnl. By a decision rendered in tlio Supreme Court of California. tlie trust clause in the will of former United States Senator Jaiues (J. Fair, so far as it pertains to the personal property of liis estate, is declared invalid, and an order of distribution by Superior .liulne James M. Troutt to the children, Charles L. Fair. Mrs. Theresa Oelrlclis and Mrs. Virginia Fair Vanderbilt, is allirmed. The effect of the decision in reality is tlie complete dissolution of the trust, which tlu? late millionaire sought to create, for the purpose of passing the final distribution of his property beyond ids children and to their heirs, vouchsafing for them in the meantime the net monthly income of the estato as a life interest. By n former decision the trust was invalidated, so far as it related to the real property which was ordered distributed. Tlie trustees conteuded, however, that this decision did not extend in effect to the personal property, valued at between $8,000,000 autl $'.>,000,000. On iuc oruiT ?i .1 uuge "i rouit ror u utstrtbutioii to tho Fair children of that portion of the estate they prosecuted the appeal wltU'h is now determiued in the court *?f last resort. The personal propertv therefore now is subject to distribution. .lames (1. Fair died in San Francisco in December. IS! >4. leaving iui estate tin n valued at Slo.OOO.OOO. The will, which was found after his death, and which had been drawn three months previous, was a remarkable document, though all its terms seemed legally curia ct. Its curious feature was a trust clause which virtually entailed the big estate through one generation. After minor bequests to his brothers and relatives former Senator Fnir left tho income of his estate in equal shares to liis three children, two daughters, who now are Mrs. Hermann Oelrlehs and Mrs. William K. Vnnderbilt, Jr., and one son. Charles L. Fair, during their lives. After the death of the last survivor of these children, the trustees were empowered to convey one-quarter of the estate each to the heirs of tho daughters. Various self-styled widows appeared as claimants, but it Avas reserved for Mrs. Nettie it. Craven to carry consternation into the heirs' camp avIicu she came forward with a will that became . .....wun un lilt- JMIMIIjni Will," IIUU deeds to property worth $2,1500,000. This will resembled the one tiled, except that it divided the property absolutely. without any trust, and included a. legacy for Mrs. Craven. The heirs fried to buy Mrs. Craven off, but negotiations failed and a long contest in the courts followed. YOUNG HANGED AT MT. HOLLY. I<? Wan 11 in* of tlio Munlcrrri of Firmer Hunter, at ICtversMe, N.J. Mt. IIollv, N. .1.?John Young was hanged here for complicity in the murder of Washington Hunter, the Riverside farmer. Young was inarched to the scaffold accompanied by his spiritual adviser. Every step was linn, and the prisoner showed no signs of weakening. The noose was adjusted without delay. The trap 'ell. and the body dropped six feet. Death was almost instantaneous. The crime for which Young was banged was committed January 2ii, 1001. lie, with two other men?Clias. lb-own, who was hanged in December last, and Otto Keller?went from a saloon in New York City, where the crime was planned, to Riverside, N. J., intending to rob Farmer Hunter for whom Young had worked. They arrived at the Hunter home about midnight and attacked the old man, inflicting Injuries which resulted In his death. RUSSIAN COLONEL A TRAITOR Rentpnced to llfnth For Krvpallnc Mlllti?ry SpcrrtH to I-'orrlgii Power. Vienna.?About sixty arrests have broil made in connection with the condemnation to death by a court-martial at Warsaw of u Russian colonel named Grimm for the systematic revelation of military secrets to a foreign Power. Amoii" the persons apprehended are a number of Russian ollieors ol' high rank. it is asserted (bat Colonel Grimm during ten years has revealed to Germany every plan prepared by Russia in the eventuality of war between the two countries. The discovery was due to Colonel Grinnn's wife, who denounced her husband in revenge for Ids having paid court to another woman. Clitnnnc Ki-lirlfi Victorlona. The rebels in tile southern provinces of China continue to erushingly defeat the imperial troops. General .Ma and Marshal Su report that it Is impossible to suppress the rebellion with the troops they have, and the Viceroy of Canton lias asked (lie Viceroy o? Chill to1* rein force m ents. Incmeto In InKuranrn Kate*. New York underwriters have advan 1 Insurance rates owing to thu recent extiusivc tires.