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No One pa the Train Knew of the
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Daring Robbery Until the Mee?
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senger Was Gotten Out of the
Box in Which He Had Been
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Locked by the Robbers.
Train robbers on Tuesday night
overpowered Express Messenger
Thomas L. Hutto, on Southern train
No. 17. which passed Branchville little
before eight o'clock and which
is due in Augusta at half-past ten
o'clock, and robbed the express safe
of about $200, all the money that
was In it. The robbers took nothing
else. The following particulars
of the robbery we take from the
Augusta Chronicle:
The robbery occurred between
Warrenville and Augusta. The
thieves got the drop on the messenger,
knocked him senseless, tied
his hands behind his back, and threw
him into and locked him In a chest.
They procured his keys and, at their
leisure, ransacked the car.
The messenger was liberated at
the Union Station in Augusta. The
blow with which he was fellod was
not severe. He was nearly suffocated
from his close confinement in the
ch??t. Otherwise he suffered no 111
effects physically.
Southern No. 17 makes up at
Branchville. It's connections there
are with Columbia and Charleston.
It's express and mall are through.
Ordinarily the train, for the Southern
Express Company, carries $2,GOO
to $10,000 of currency. Tuesday
night's packages were the smallest
in years. As stated, as luck had it,
the shipments was not more than approximately
$200.
Thomas L. Hutto has been an oxpress
messenger four years. He lives
at 20 8 Ellis street. He tellB a very
interesting story of the robbery.
Hutto was sitting idly on a box in
his car?a compartment car, embracing
mall and express service?as the
train pulled out from Warrenville.
The end door of the car?next the
baggage car?was thrown suddenly
open and a man, his face hidden by
a shabby mask of red flannel, pistol
extended, ordered "hands up!" Hutto
was dazed by the 6Uddeness of it
ail, and made no move. "Hands up,
I tell you!""was ordered by another
voice, and a second man had entered
face red-flanneled, pistol extended.
Before Hutto could obey the rapid
and tierce orders, and as he reached
for his gun,, which was in a tin box
but a foot or so removed from him,
he received a blow, presumably from
the man who had entered the car
first, and was rendered unconscious.
Hut he regained consciousness in
a flash?he is sure he was unconscious
but a moment. When himself
again he found his hands gr^sp1
ed tightly behind his back. A pistol
barrel was pressed hard against his
spinal column. "Cry out, make any
demonstration, and I will pull the
,j>-, trigger!" the robber told him. A
package of baby clothing?an express
shipment? vas cut open and
cords taken theiv ?>om, with which
t the messenger was securely tied?
hands behind back.
?$?>'- ^ There was in the car an empty
express chest four feet wide, five
H&CTfc* . . ... ...
ireet long ana uiree reet deep, rno
robbers threw the helpless messenger
Into this chest and clasped it, but
did not lock It. They then, having
secured Ills keys, went through the
ear and safe at their leisure.
There Hutto remained until express
helpers extricated him at the
Station in Augusta.
| Tho negro helpers at the Union
Station, when they proceeded to the
Ctcar. as is customary, to remove the
express to the station office, found
the door of the car on the right
bide?which was closed?unlocked.
The end door was locked. The door
on the left side of the car was open.
Knterlng the car they heard vigorous
talking in 'tjhe ^express chest
and liberated Hutto, who gave the
first Information of the robbery.
Conductor J. B. Metz declares that
he and no other man on the train
had intimation of any thing wrong
until after Hutto had been released.
The robbers left the train at Broad
street, through the down-town side
door of the car?the one found open
at the station.
From his chest prison Hutto could
hear them plainly rattle silver. He
could hear their voices, but no dis
tlnctly enough to distinguish whHt
they were saying. He heard one of
them call the other "Jim."
His experience on the run enabled
hlin to locate when the train reached
the Hani berg yards, when it crossed
the bridge and about when It reached
?road. It was then that the hum of
'I# conversation ceased and Hutto knew
m that the men had left the car. He
,V kicked the cheat in the hope of attracting
the attention of some one?
* for he was about to suffocate?but
was not successful. He then summoned
all his strength and waited
till the Union Station was reached,
when be renewed his vigorous kickw***
h : On the floor of the express car
"..waa&ound a piece of rubber tubing?
' auch as is used on the air brake connections?on
one end of which was
*'~-*Tp^was8 coupling joint. Hutto had
been hit with the rubber hose. There
were no signs of the discharged red
' flannel used for masks. No merchandise
was disturbed. Hutto'B i
pistol was found lying on top of 1
the cheat fa which he was Imprison- i
efl.
& f. :vs The police got on the case imme- d'.ately.
fckrgenat. McArdle and Rey- 1
examinations at the deA
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STARTING INVENTION ? TO PROill
To Xnct Great KwU jftagneto to
Draw Encmy'i1 y Vassijfc Within
Reach of Forta.S^ S
A dispatch from HKUlL Germany,
says a startling nofHwtp^tlon, for
the protection of tWMH^S(pjjan coast,
tihrbora and seapaHEM* receiving
the serious attentlpaftoipttti German
naval authorities.
A German naval n^ppieer, named
Holimann, applied to tfce German
patent office for a provisional patent
for an Invention whiafe la intended
to destroy any hostlle^leet attempting
to blockade or attack German
!
ywx is.
According to the Inventor, stations
must he erected along the coast and
at the mouths of rivers^ whch will
be equipped with the strongest electric
magnets that can be manufactured.
When these are In action It is
claimed that they would exercise sufficient
attractive force to make ironclads
and other protected vessels
deviate from their course. These
magnet stations are to situated
where shallow and deep water alternate.
The hostile ships would be drawn
into the shallow water where they
would ground and lie helpless at the
mercy of the guns of the forts.
Although the invention smacks
strongly of romance, yet is noteworthy
that competent authorities
deem it of sufficient importance to
be subjected to a thorough examination.
In this connecton, it" may be added
that electric cranes capable of
lifting weights of five tons by magnetism
are already in use at German
harbors. "
FATAL FIGHT ABOVT A FENCE.
Father and Son Killed in flow With
Neighbors.
At Richmond, Ind., a controversy
over a line fence between two farms
resulted in the killing of Alexander
Meek and Raymond Meek, father and
son, by Joel Rallshack. Frank
Railsback, Sr., and his son, Frank
Railsback, Jr., were wounded by the
Meeks.
The Railsbacks began shipping
away the posts. The Meeks went
out to the fence where the Rails
backs were at work. The elder Meek
had a revolver and the son a shotgun.
Both fired on the Rallsbarks
and Prank Railsback, Jr., fell with
a wound in his knee. The elder
Railsback was wounded in the abdomen
by a shot from one barrel
of the younger Week's gun.
The Railsbacks retreated, and
Joel Railsback, another son, went to
the house and returned with a
double-barreled shotgun, fired point
blank at the Meeks, killing both,
shooting each of them in the head.
Joel Railsback surrendered to the
sheriff.
STUDYING CIVIL WAR BATTLES.
Army Officers Going Over Virginia
Battlefields.
The fields of Seven Pines, Fair
Oaks and Malvern Hill, which were
fought over In the Sevety Davs' battle
in which Gen. McClellan's army
was driven back from Richmond,
then the capital of the Confederate
States, were traversed Monday by
the 32 student officers from the war
college at Washington who are encamped
in Sherwood park, Just outside
Richmond. Tuesday they visited
Cold Harbor, Mechanicsvllle,
Frazer's Farm, Gaines" Mill and other
secenes of sanguinary engagements.
The whole detachment of
3 2 officers and 4 2 cavelrymen will
travel through Louisa Court House,
Trevllian'B Station and Orange Court
House to the theatre of Stonewall
Jackson's famous Shenandoah Valley
campaign.
DEVELOPS HYDROPHOBIA ' ])
After Having Been Bitten by a I>dg
Two Years.
Those people who claim not to
believe in hydrophobia will find it
hard to explain the following case,
which is reported from WiuBton Sa- '
lem. N. C.: Miss Maude Wimel, 16
years old, daughter of a Forsyth
farmer, who was bitten two years ago
by a rabid dog and who for the past
two days has been manifesting signs
of hydrophobia, was declared Monday
by attending physicians to be
suffering from that disease. It is
said she can live but a few days.
Buried in Mine.
A telegram from Negaunee, Mich.,
says that Victor Norse and Edgar
Ylensen, miners, were burled alive
in the Mary Charlotte mine. A large
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>?>vv ul U1IUMII I.III1UCICU lOT II1H
men all day and recovered the dead
bodies. i
Arretted on Huspicton.
Prince Russell, a white man of 1
Greenville has been arrested suspect- '
od of making way with his daughter '
who has been missing several days. <
I
pot. Lieutenant Brttt summoned the <
detectives. No arrests have as yet
been reported. 1
Hutto says the first robber who ^
entered the car was about 6 feet *
11, and sllmly built. The second 1
robber was of slight build and a lit- 1
tie taller than his companion. Pur- <
ther than this, the messenger could 1
give no description of the men.
What happened, happened quickly.
After Hutto was rendered senseless,
he had no further, opportunity to t
tee his assailants. . _ i
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MOTHER MAKES ACCUSATION
AGAINST HER DAUGHTER.
Th* Polio* Heifer* That Loait* Arbogaet
fa Guilty of Murder and |
Think* She 1* Crazy.
The authorities in St. Paul, Minn., ,
hare the slayer of Louis Arbogast
In the hospital ward of the County
Jail, but they are uncertain whether
mother or daughter did the actual
killing. Louise, 23 years of age, I
tearlsse. refuses to talk. The mother, I
atrs. Minnie Arbogast, escaped a
direct accusation because the police ,
were able to establish clrcusstantlal
evidelce that makes It Impossible
to prove the charge. She escaped
formal accusation because the police
forced her to accuse someone else
in self-defense. 8he accused LoulBe.
The body of Louis Arbfrgkst was
found in his bed, last week. The
head had been crushed with an axe
and gasoline was used In an effort
to destroy the remains. When the
accusing officers got the daughter
and mother together in the mother's
cell the girl withstood the battery
of searching eyes and maintained
her absolute innocence. Finally
the mother, in an outburst of desperate
appeal, cried:
"Louise, it is either you or me.
Tell the truth, tell the truth. You
were outside father's door when I
came from the bathroom. Tou muit
tell the truth."
The girl was silent. The mother
persisted. . She almost shouted,'
"You say you didn't do It, but I
know you did."
But Louise professed to remember
nothing and stared straight ahead
in silence until the terrific strain
was broken by their sob and the two,
embraced, weeping bitterly, the girl
kneeling by her mother's bedside.
The girl was arraigned in court
and listened to the reading of the
charge. She said she needed no at-1
torney. A plea of not guilty was
entered, and the prisioner taken to
Jail, the case being continued till
Thursday.
It is declared at St. Luke's
hospital that Miss Arbogast, who Is
one of the most beautiful young women
of Minnesota is irresponsible
and killed her father in a moment
of demoniaclal frenzy, caused by
hallucinations which have for
months lioon niiponl n tr Iiok
"She is plainly irresponsible." I
Chief of Police O'Connor said:
"According to hospital reports and
other facts known to - us," said
County Attorney O'Brien. "The girl
is insane and was not respoasible
for her action."
The story of the mother, the accusing
story which brought Louise
Arbogast to the bar, bears out the
statements of the authorittes as to
the girl's mental ondftion. The
very nature of the act, indeed, indicated
maniaclal frenzy, the cunnlugness
of some of her alleged attempts
to cover up the slaying is declared
to establish the fact, and the asserted
inconsishonciets of her statements
after the slaying are said to have
been the lapse of cunning due to
slip of Judgment, common to crimes
committed by the inasne.
MURDERED BY HER HUSBAND.
Creeps Into Wife's Room and Cuts
Her Throut.
At Atlanta, Ga., Mrs. George
Burge was murdered early Monday [
by a man who crept to the side of
her bed while she al*t aud cut her
throat with a razor. Her husband
is under arrest charged with the
killing.
A remarkable feature of the case
is that the slayer, after killing the
woman, picked up her 13-monthsold
baby from its cradle and fervently
kissed it before running from the
room. It is allegod that Hurg?, who
had separated froin his wife, threatened
her with violence if she did
not give him custody of her baby.
Three other children of Mrs.
Burge?all step-children of Burg??
were asleep in the room at the time.
Frank Britton, the eldest of these,
was Blightly cut by his mother's j
slayer, whom he claims he recognlz- (
ed as his step-father. Barge was
arrested at his boarding house. The
police claimed that he had blood i
on his shirt sleeve, but he said it <
waB merely dirt. He said that he <
could prove an alibi. <
?ECOItATE SUICIDES' CRAVES. 1
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Efeogram of Committee for Relief of 1
Unemployed.
The graves of suicides in the cemeteries
about New York city will be 1
decorated on Memorial Day, May
31. by the New York branch of the
national committee Hor ithe relief
of the unemployed, according to reso- ^
lutlons adopted at a meeting at New 1
York. *
J. Eads How, of 8t. Louis, presi- ?
dent of the organization, Introduced 8
the resolution, saying that to deco- 1
rate the graves of ihose who had r
died by their own hands a result 8
3f failure to obtain employment or of c
hardships created by the industrial
depression would do much to bring
to the attention of those responsible
the conditions of the unemployed.
It was also planned to have a pa- e
rade as a rival to that of the Grand C
\rmy Republic, and to go to the cem- d
?tery at the same time, but with the ti
lowers they proposed to placa on e
he grave of each suicide a banner ii
>r placard calling attention to tho c<
'evolution of the association.
Found in Itvler.
Altmeyer, six years old, who was A
hought to be kidnapped, w&a found |
n the river at Newark.
GOES FOR ROOT
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We Dont Want His Advice Han; Tl
Wa Spurn It,"
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DECLARED MR. MONEY
"lies Him lio Hack to Um Cstaklllt g(
and. Like Rip Van Winkle, Sleep bIc
sa
Twenty Years," Continues the fl
Mississippi Senator, Who Seemed
du
to be Very Mad. wl
te
In the senate one day last week gh
Senator Root received one of the By
most scathing verbal drubbings ever ca
delivered In that august body. He
brought It down on his head .by a ^
at
defense of Chairman Aldrich and ^
his Finance Committee, which, had ^
been assailed by La Follette. who C(
complained that he had difficulty in tt
obtaining from the committee in- ^
formation to guide him in his course
on the tariff bill. i n]
When LaFoletto had concluded T
Root, who although in the Senate y
less than six weeks, has tried to g,
ride over older members of the body,' ^
began a general lecture k>f their
tariff conduct. He said he did not p
care to hear declamation. He. tI
thought it undignified and dishon- a
orable to get up and make speeches
merely to make votes at home, know- 1
ing that no one here was listening*
It waa tiresome to him. v<
"I, too, have listened," he contin*- n]
ued, attempting to raise his voted (|
to an oratorial pitch, "to the vituper- j
e(,os heaped upon tho chairman of
the finance committee. It is utterly o]
disgusting." s,
Two minutes later he regretted ^
that he had spoken. Senator Money it
ambled Into the chamber as Hoot
was finishing. {r
"I substflje to -every word oE (^1
praise given to that little cherub,
Mr. Aldrlch," Senator Money began. p,
"I like hi3 angelic face and I believe lf
In his divine inspiration. Not one
man of us on this side so far as I Ql
know, thinks of him other than ft
gentleman.
"But let me say to the Senator
from New Ybrk that we do not
care so much for his advice as he y(
seems to think it necessary to give. ^
We have not asked for it; we do w
not care for it; we spurn it after it r(
is given. He is not yet warm in
his seat before he begins to tell me i 8(
and the other senators whose serv- w
ices have been long in this body
what we should do. To be sure, he ?
is a distinguished man. We all a(
know it. The Republican press has o)
said so. He himself does not deny
it." o]
By this time Root, sitting twenty a
feet away, had his face buried in
his hands. Senator Depew hurried a
to his side as if to console him. By ia]
some sort of telepathy ho seemed* to
know the worst was yet to come, p
It was. 0(
"For generations this body," went g(
on Money, "has gone about the bus- f?
iness of the nation in its own i>ocu- 0)
liar and yet Bimple way. We, the
senators coming from their States ^
elected by the will of their people
(emphasising 'the will,' and lnfe.vring
that Root had been elected by _.
one man only), have tried in our
humblest way to settle our differenc- ^
es in a way becoming to senators of
a mighty republic. 1 have discussed ^
situations and have delivered speech- "c
es which I shall continue to do be- j_
cause my countrymen sent mo here
to do so. _
"Yet this senator?never before OI
having served .n a legislative body j lr
?within the first few days of his
existance here, attempts to tell me
how I shall proceed with my work." y(
"The distinguished and very Jearn- ^
ed attorney from New England might
well go hack to his home State and,
like Rip Van Winkle, proceed to the al
Catskills and sleep for twenty years, 1K
and if he should come hack he would
know more then than apparently pj
he knows at this moment," con- m
eluded the MissiHslpplan. or
"And he won't be missed, mean- ge
time," said Tillman. jCJ
Itoot sat like a chastised child. a
But his punishntent was not fin- qq
ished." LaFolette ro?e as Money ast ar
down and said: cj,
"I have never been a corporation
attorney, never attempted to protect
questionable concerns. Rut I
wish to say here that I shall speak
>n whatever subject and object to "l
whatever tax proposed in this body
without consulting the Senator from
S'ew York. I care nothing for his
idvlce; I do care for the good will Cc
)f the people who 6ent me here." T1
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LEAPS FROM TRAIN. br
a
[*rlsoner Makes Desperate Effort to
a 1
?.?
on
Robert Sams, a white man who sj?
vas being carried to Anderson for he;
rial, jumped from a train on the a
Southern Railway near Greenville In do
m attempt to escape. The train was re?
topped and Sams was found In an to
inconsclous condition with face and sal
lose broken. He arrived at Ander- drc
on in the ea"re of a physician. His
ondltlon Is very serious. Sams was
rrested at Waynesville, N. C. <
gut
Gen. Boyd Better. fln,
Monday afternoon Adjutant Gen- ant
ral J. C. Boyd left for his home li- Nic
lolumbia, after founding seve-a' hae
ays at Aiken, suffering from an at- me:
ick of apoplexy, having been strlckn
Friday afternoon. His recovery
i rapid and Dr. T. G. Croft feels
onfldent of a complete recovery. jn
1 whi
They Marry Young. flve
Prlnee Jeaeau, heir apparent of the fom
byeslnlan throne, 13 years old, was Ha
ar^?J a few daya ago to a princess he^
US ABSURDITY OP
TECTION SYS| fEM J
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town Up By Sevta to* Tillman/' In
His Proposition ^ Tu All' the
People for One M so. /\
The tea industry iof the United
ates came up for; :a little discut>n
in the senate a, iday or two agoV
ys Zach McGhee in his letter to
?e State. Dr. * Shepherd of Sunierville,
you kr 4CW, Is the tea inistry.
He ha j a tea farm imrri
alch he grov fs 15,000 pounds f
a. Seuator Tillman, in order o
tow the abs urdity of the protectli 11
stem, lnt< jrrupted some Repub ln
speaker, and Bald:
"Now wait one minute?a d
i it is acknowledged by the senat r
lat we -could obtain $10,000,0 0
y a duty of 10 cents a pound a
-a, and. it would not Increase t e
ast of tjea at all?so these importe s
>11 me?why do we not pick up th it
10,000,000 and give protection o
lis Industry down in South Caro ll,
where there is one tea produce ?
be re is a poor little pulling infa it
Mlustry /out in (the piney wools
I Summervllle, begging the Unitrd
tates for help, and saying If nu
an get a protection of 10 ccnti a
ound it will be the pioneer In noduclng
Into tha.t Southern coiiq ry
great industry."
Mr. Hale?Let jne say to th* sem>r
Mr. Tillman?Will th* senator
ate for it, or will he have this cotftilttee
report It favorably? 1 w;kit
> introduce the amendment. No*,
will join you. I v-*S2t protection
>r that pulling infant in South Carina?the
tea industry?and re
lall get $10,000,000 by it, too,
"hy not give me protection for tMia
ldubtry in South Carolina?
Mr. Tillman?I have got a real
idustry. One man down there pro-,
uces 15,000 pounds of tea.
Mr. Hale?If that can become a
rosperous and leading contributor
> the industries of the United States
i against foreign competition?
ever so dangerous as now and as
will be In the next 30 years?thcu
te Republican party will adopt his
untliug. 1 have no doubt of.it.
Mr. Tillman?1 can only .assure
3U that this gentleman, Dr.i Sheperil,
who haa been experimenting
ith tea culture (or 20 yeajp, haa
:ached that point where, like all
le others Ln this country who are
lekfng to increase their 'profits,
units enough protection to increase
ts price. He knows that as soon
i ho would get 10 cents per pound
triitional, it would raise the value
i his tea.
Some of us people in South Carlina
have an idea that we of the
outh are great tea drinkers. That's
scause we do not really know much
bout the general run of people
bout us. Those of us who can trace
ur anoestry back to England or
nglish Immigrants, and do it wlthut
the assistance of a professional
snealoglsl or coat of arms nianuicturer,
usually drink tea. Many
Lhers of us who, while we can not
ace our own families back, have
een associated with those who can,
ifco drink tt-a. But hoar what
enator McLaurin of Mississippi
iya:
"What do you pay for tea now?"
sked Senador Halo.
"I don't pay anything," aaid Mr.
'cLaurin. "I don't buy tea; I buy
jffee. We don't use tea very much
i our part of the country."
And that's a fact, true not only
' Mississippi, but of the South gen*ally.
I have an idea that it is
ue to a larger extent of the whole
nintry, to even of New England,
tan is commonly supposed. But
>ur Lodges, your Hales, your
ranes, Aldrlches, Fryes and so on
i not l/nnur If an***.. a- 11?
...w iv* >uc; ii< ii'IIK ll) Hie
a drinking class, and know little
>out the lives of the groat mass of
>ople in their States.
If Dr. Shepherd Ifved In New
ngland, what Senator Hale says
Ight be true, they might let him
ijoy the epeclal privilege of asssing
all the tea drinkers In Amer- :
i In order that he might make |
profit. But since he lives in South
irollna and most of the tea drinkers i
e in New England, there is no '
>*rfor him. ]
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THERE. WAS NO WOMAN i
it Only a Poach Basket Hat Float- '
i
Ing Along. i
The useless bravery of Michael v
?nlin, of West One Hundred and
ilrty-eighth street, nearly cost him (
* life. From the Madison avenue ?
Wlge over the Harlem river he saw s
peach basket hat floating down ,
b stream and believing there was
woman under It, he valiantly leapoverboard
and swam to the hat
ly to find It untenanted. But his
[H*R and other clothing were so '
f?vy that he was unable to reach
dock unapsiiatod 'and had gone '
wn several times when he was "
icued by the police. He was Bent
the Harlem hospital, where It was u
d that he had been Almost
>wned.
Turned Them
3en. Stoessel and Admiral Nebooff
have been released from con- ,r
sment In the fortress of St. Peter dl
I St. Paul, by order of Emperor 1,1
holan. The health of both men ,f
t been affected by their confine- ol
nt. rf
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Wild Man Taught.
V wild man has been captured
the swamps near Prentiss, Miss.,
} baa shunned civilization for
years. Ho refused to eat cooked
d when it was ofTered to htm.
identified as Marvin Whlte ^whose
relative* have long
HVSlfl!
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Southern States
Machinery
Plumbing
1/ COLUMI
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EDITORS SCORE
.>,
Congressman Hallngsworth of
Ohio State,
V
THE MEMBERS LAUGH
Ah They Listen to Editorial Clioracteri/.at
Ions, Such as "Ass of the
First Magnitude," "Contemptible
Little Whelp," "One of Sherman's
Hums," Applied to Him.
The Washington correspondent of
The News and Courier says lr David
A. Hollingsworth, representative in
congress from the 16th Ohio district,
had searched during his whole life
time for a better opportunity to turn
upon himself the ridicule of his colleagues
and to make himself the
"butt" of the house, he could not
have chosen a better time nor better
surroundings than he did.
Buoyed up by the praise of his
Ohio constituency, Mr. Hollingsworth
.Monday began an attack on the memory
of Jefferson Davis and the good
people of Mississippi, who have just
placed on the battleship bearing
that name a silver service with
Davis" likeness. Promptly at noon
the Ohio congressman rose in his
place with a handful of bitter, stinging
articles from Southern papers
on his course in the Davis matter.
That was the time he thought he
would get even, but not being posted
in the parliamentary practice of
the house, instead of making his
speech first and inserting the articles
afterwards, he secured leavi
of the Speaker to Insert these articles
in the Congressional Record, then
proceeded to answer them on a point
of "personal privilege." Before he
had gotten well Into his remarks, ho
was shut off as being out of order,
only the pieces ho had inserted In
the Record remaining. However, the
story is best told in the words of
one of Washington's afternoon papers,
which sajs:
"An ass of the first magnitude,"
"perhaps one of Sherman's bums,
who robbed defenceless men and women,"
"contemptlblo little whelp,"
"a political nonentity from Ohio,"
"a pale-faced luminary," "a
pusillanimous pigmy from Ohio."
These were some of the characterizations
bf Mr. Hollingsworth, of Ohio,
in editorials which ho had read in
the house of representatives' Monday
as the basis of a question of privilege
affecting his resolution recently
offered protesting against the portrait
of Jefferson Davis on the silver
service to be presented to the
battleship Mississippi. These editorials
accused him of "waving the
bloody shirt," and appeared In the
Dally* Clarion-Ledger, of Jackson,
.Miss., April 30; The Southern Sentinel.
of Ripley, Miss., May 6; the
Shreveport Caucasion, of Shreveport,
La., May 4, and one other paper,
name not given. Tho reading
of the editorials caused a great commotion,
and at times moved the
members to great laughter.
Finally Messrs. Hartlett, of Georgia,
and Fitzgerald, of New York,
objected to further "lumbering up
the Record," and demanded that th?
Speaker rule on the question of privilege.
\In an elaborate opinion
Speaker Cannon held that Mr. Hollingsworth
had not been attacke i hi
his representative capacity, and he
was not permitted to proceed further.
Later Mr. Hollingsworth
sought unanimous consent first to
print a speech on the subject, or
"dse to address the house for thirty
imimies. ftir. Harrison, of New
Vork, objected, whereupon, Mr. Hollingsworth
wanted the Speaker to
ell him why tho objection was
fnade.
"The chair cannot tell," said tho
speaker suavely, "what moved tho
gentleman to object, because ho Is
lot a mind reader."
Thin s.-^Idy convulsed Che house
vith laughter.
Interest in the proceeding waa
n ightened by. the fact that Mr. Harison's
father, ltnrton Harrison, was
ecretarv to Jefferson Davis during
he lVar.
Young Man Drowns. I
At Fitzgerald, Ga., Harry Stover, '
7 year-old son of Rev. Stover, of '
he United brethren ichutfch, wa|s 1
rowned a few days ago while bath
rig in a cret k. He was a member
f the ernrliintlnir elnce r-*t I'n
r. ?'
erald high school, and would have |
eceived hlR diploma from Governor
mlth Friday.
f
Mains Goes to Prison. c
At Flushing, N. Y., where he war
iod, Capt. Peter C. Mains was Mon- ?
ay sentenced to serve an indeter- e
ilnate sentence of from eight to rIx en
years in prison for the killing I
' William E. Annls. The sentence t.
ads, "At hard labor In the State's
ison."
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BURN KI) TO DEATH.
Poured Oil on Smouldering Fire in
Ktove From it Can.
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nt her house at 413 Thirty-second
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, writhing on the ground in the death
; agony.
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thing to go to law about. ^
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