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r /1 VOL. XVIII. 1 THE RULE OF T MURDEROUS MOBS NEW ORL 1 .abort-r« itutcli •Upon Siilp»—<'ownrt Coruertt—Weak or Cr Nkw Orleans, ^ were ten seperaJe ind today, both probably (.he same plan. One iWcurml river front near the iFreppif'market, where ^the ship h^ifjrineeiywa.s loadin he V/tner occuri »P for LiveriKJol. about four miles tion of Carrollton _ ip street. Only BARNWELL, S- C., THURSDAY, MARdf 21, 1895. NO. 28. istant, in the at the foot ne man, William was killed in the ames of the dead Campbell, colored latter affair. The ape as follows "William Campln'll, colored, Janies Carrabee and' two unknown negroes who have not been identified. The wounded are: .' James A. Bane, purser of the steamer Engineer, dan gerously wounded; Henry Brown, col ored, will recover; T^onard Mallard, colored, since died; Tim Persten, col- hred" may Ffechver; LOlilff Cast,' colored will recover; Billy Williams, colored, will recover: Frank Lighthall, colored slightly wounded: Robert Brooks,’ white, shot in the leg, not diingerous. A total of eight were wounded. Doubtless amumber of other negroes wer6 slightly wounded, but ran away and cannot in* identified: All thecom- mereiaLbodies are in session tonight, ■with tiovemor Foster. - {►reseiigto de~ : vise some means of ending " the trouble. The killing in one ease was done by mob of white men numbering about wo hundred, who w : ere armed with pistols and Winchester rifles, negroes were alxiut to start to on noard the steamer Engineer, heir-wtntc'-ni e proaelfed from all direetimis. arm. Capi had just occurred self and saw most there w scene w ore After icked' r. Bal mve Wood,! took occ Mayor was at One man slaved the barrel of a pistol in close proiimity to Mr. Bane's head and fired, fee pulled the trigger again twice and tfe purser fell, bleeding. An other man fshotMT. Bane iti the rigid in W<hx1, °f the Engineer, ttcn uj> when the shooting He hurriedly dressed him- e on deck. Captain wood the conflict. He says that firing from aB sides and the like a battlefield. It was a eased. sliqpting Captain Wood Mr. Bane and called a cab, was sent to the h ospital to wonnda? dressed. Captain ile talking to a reiM>rter, on to score the ‘police and zpatrick. He said (hat it ark infernal outrage that the net groes were riot protected. Mayor Fit/.-' ;>atrick| appeared: on the scene., soon after tne riot and Captain Wood paid lis compliments to His Honor in un measured terms. Mayor Fitzpatrick tad hurried to the scene as fast as possible and directed the poliee otlicers.. Acting Superintendent Journee also arrived on the scene in due‘time. The mayor was very much disap- pointed when' told that there were no- arrest made, fie called the ]x>lice to gether and told them in a firm tone, that whenever they saw a mail fire a shot to get that man of all hazards. Continuing he said: “You men walk along the wharf, and if you see any one whom you think txxik part in the shooting arrest them.” The negroes tired upon vverein the employ of Stevedore (jeddes, of' the Harrison lineUf steamcrf u ts sard that the reason that there was not suf ficient force of police on hand at that hour was that the Ixnir to liegin work was ” :30 o'clock and tiie jxdice had re ceived orders to report at that time. There was only a Handful of men on the scene at the time of the shooting. -T4«< w liai f :tt- this-‘P>OTv4-i^--Htnb rrl. lo- \ n tallvob)Vi‘m‘<f w-iib freigl+t anil nearbv Thf work Ivin .i •were amied-trml-mtHi-v-took—iK♦with belaud tx*x cars and poured volley u}M)ii volley into the negroes. Tliose who were on tiie scene say that it re minded them of a .battlefield, so fast and furious was the liring. Tiie ne groes were given no quarter, and were shot down like dogs. Not only were the darkies shot down, but several in noeentpersons suffered. Among tho$e killed were Jules Clice Carabee, a shoe maker who happened to be in the vicinity. James Bane, the purser of the Engineer, was standing on the le yee near his ship when the attack was made, and he received four wounds, three in the bead and another' in the arm. lie was tired upon by several men who aimed over the'hcads of .po licemen; vriio were kneeling behind some freight just- on tiie etlge of the ~wlittff7 TlTu wounds nnty-prove bool. As near as can be sLtted, the sluxit ing occurred a few minutes after 7 o'clock this morning. There was a dens*' fog prevailing and this afforded the white men an excellent chance to do their bloody work. At the time there were only six jxdicemen on the scene and there were no arrests effect ed, as the .police were as badly-fright ened as the negroes* The attackers were coin|x>scJ of ^two narties. A large number men appeared at tiie corner «)f Dumuine street, and equally as largdia mob came from the corner at St. Ann street, f’orporul Devan ney, who was in charge of the hand- full of j»dlicemen, ordered the mobjto disperse,*but no attention was ]iaid to him and the mob beiraii to grow largt'r ev^ry .minute. Suddenly a shot was fired. /This liad a startling effect on the num. The first report was follow ed by five or six shots and then the liring became general. The smoke and |,he fog combined made tiie scene al- r i lost dark as night. The negroes were r bn board the ship and liad just com mcnced lo raTseTfietarjiaulTps ofTTialcIi No z, when the athick was made. Tiie negroes were taken completely by sur prise. They ran about like a lot of wild animals and their cries were piti ful. Many‘sought refuge alxiard the shin while some, ran down the wharf and maoe their escape. ()ne negro, it is stated, jumped under the wharf. If is impossible to estimate the number of shots fired, but it is said that there were about two hundred. After the bltxxly work, the men hurried off as fast as they had come. The attackers fired recklessly on allsides, not caring ijvhom they shot. The o white men came in a body, mtiving along the leVee uptown unmolested. After their departure, a large number of police undercommand 6f Sergeant Day made their appearance on the scene and cleared the wharf of the large crowds which gathered. * It was known that many men'had been wounded and several killed, and a search was made for these persons by the jxdice and others, Carabee Vras ,found dead on the banquette in front of on*' of the show windows of Lion’s clothing ijtoreat the corner of St. Ann and Decatur streets. Blood was gush ing from a terrible wound in his head and ho was quite dead. No one seem ed to know how or where he was shot. He had been running back to St. Ann street, and just as he reached the banquette, he steggered and fell head long to the pavement and expired a i in few minutes later. Sergeant Hevron who hurried up from his precinct to the scene, had the bodies oT two ne groes sent to the morgue in the patrol wagon. One-of the negroes was found on the levee at the head of St. Louis street. The man was dead and lay In a pool of biodd which came front wound in his head. The wound was a large onp. The negro was running from the'scene of the shooting. The other body.,wus found some distance away from the first. He had crawled under an elevated tank and there died. e was not discovered until some time hter... No one in tlm vincinity knew the names of the dead irien. Purser Bane was not given half a chance for his life. He was on the wharf attending to some business when the white men appeared and began lir ing. He was about to go aboard the vessel for safety when he was lire* upon. Three policemeqjvere imme diately in front of Mr^Bane and they knelt down and seemed terror-stricken. The Allltuicn, From Coltiu to N«u York, ClmiuMl OH'Culm by a Simnluh VVumlilp, ami Repeatedly Fired 1 pon—Ali Inter national Complication. ew YbRK, March T^. —Ttie mail steamer Allianca of,the New York and Colon line, which arrived yesterday, wayiret! upon'and chased by a Span ish glttnboat when off the east end of Cuba on March 8. The affair is likely to lead to international complications. The owners of the line are very in dignant at tiie insult, and say they wul-demapd a reason for tiie .attempt o stop an American steamship .on the ngh seas in times of peace. The fol- owing letter has been sent to Secreta ry Gresham: !io tiie Hon. Walter Q. Gresham, Sec rotary of State: Sir: The American mail steamship ary .a uunibcr.uf Ijux caes—TluvUiojur: ity of tilt* attackers Jeonccaletl tliem- sclves Ix'liind these obstructions. -4- For h Fxbiliit. C-ttLlMBiA, March 11.—The work of arranging a creditable .exhibit for South Carolina at the Atlanta Exposi tion is taking definite and satisfactory shape. A Sjtecial meetThg of the cen tral comniittee was held here tonight and matters were generally talked over and a progreuume of work map ped out. The committee- through its chairman. Governor Evans, issued the following address: Tokbe jx'ople of South Carolina and to t|t8ffluards of county commissioners frtFibe .Tffanta Exjxisition : At a meet ing of the CenreaL ritatc committee clmrgeti with tiie managentent -am supervision of the* Slate exiiiliit belt here t<Kluy the following plan was agreed upon:. . v 1st. Mr. E. L. Roche has Ixen seiec ted as State commissioner with full power to collect and arrange the ma terials contributed by tiie various counties for said exhibit. 2d. Each county in the State is eft- pected to contribute the sum of three lAuadmL.-dullaxs-.lpji.^gyne)‘ fund for the purpose of securing and arranging the exhibit. 3d. The county Ixiartls are expected to meet as soon as practicable, at their respective county st'ats, perfect their organization and proceed to collect and forward to the State commissioner inv alid all products, minerals, woods and manufactured articles they may tlesire placed in their county exhibits. They will lie notified by Commission ev Rtx'he of the time and place to ship such articles. The county commission ers charged especially with the collec tion of the amount of money assessed 4tli. Theco-operation of all maim facturing, industrial and educational institutions is urgently requested, as it is especially desirable at this exhibi tion to fully set forth any exhibit of South Carolina's progress as the lead er of the South in these direction. th. Recognizing the invaluable aid of the women of the State in arousing the spirit of superiority inherent in South Carolinians, we ask their co-op eration in this work and especially their aid in collecting the necessary funds to carry out this patriotic un dertaking.. 6th. The financial management has l>een placed in charge of Messrs. An tteew Simmondsi K7 H. Pringle -and’ K. H. Snarkman, of Charleston, S. C., to wlifim all remittances should be piade. • r 7th. Any further information may tx> had from Commissioner' 1 E. L. Roche, .of Charleston, S. C., or the Governori^- ~ — This exhibit should be creditable to tiie State, and it rests upon the citi zens, individually and collectively, to see to it that South Carolinians visit ing the Exposition are iiot allowed to feel ashamed of our pfacein the pic ture. —Luthe absence of any Legislative' appropriation we are dependent entire ly upon the patriotism of our peAtfltf and in appealing to it I am satislted o ' a hearty response. John Gary Evans, Governor and Chainyan of the Board. Commissioner Roche will get to work at onee.‘ a. k. AHianea, under my command, while on her homeward bound voyage from Cofon, R. C., to New Yorfr, -was on the morning of March 8 till' the east end of Cuba. At 6:30 o'clock a bark entine-rigged steamship was sighted under the land bearing directly for us. At 7:15 she set-her colors, prov ing to be a Spanish gunboat. I inime diately ordered the American ensign misted on tiie Allianca and saluted the Spaniard, w hich salute was duly returned by'her. I then saluted once morre nfrd sit jtjxried it was at an end. But almut live minutes later the Spaniard fired a blank cartridge and. » few minutes later another tmep fol lowed shortly afterward by three solid hots, all- of which fell short of the Allianca. but showing conclusively that th*' Spaniard wits tiring at us. I -brntg fullr srmrrfesfTff^shore-afttt on the high .M-ns |>uT<1 nbTTi'rTher afTf*nfrbn t>«. Hat Simniard. but ‘kept ~Tip<m -mr- ^ eoiirse. The Spaniaixl kept up the base, altho.ugh, gradually dropping astern, fully twenty five miles. I desire to know if the Spaniard had any right to fire on 'my ship, with the irobable' chance of endangering the ives of the passengers and crevriunder my charge, and compel me to heave to is Improbably intended. ^ "I respt'ctfully ask for information on that subject as I did not and do not propose to heave to,thereby losing time on my voyage to oblige S gunboats or any others,except in cases of distress. .. Respectfully, James a. Crossman. "Commander. ” The story-told by the ship's officers, is that at daylight last Friday morn- ingnt aboxit O :3tt o’clock, while i th rtnigh the Windward Passage tin 1 Carribean » A Su iiKiler’it Clo*-er tlunie. MACON, March 14.—A swindler has recently gotten several tliousaiid dol. lars out of tiie leading jewellers in the different cities of the State by the use of a very' clever game. He operate* from Swainsboro, a town in Kmanue county, remote from the railroads. He used the letter heads of J. C..Cole man, a welLknown merchant of high financial standing, and signed Cole man’s name to the letters. The mer chants shipped the goods aConce af ter getting Colediau’s rating. When the gtxxls \vere received at Midville, the nearest ra.il road station, the express agent did not deliver them until assured by the merchant Cole man that he did not order such goods Then he delivered them to the strang er. He left Swainsboro day before yesterday And jewellers all over the State are anxious to find hinn V* FIRED ON THE FLAG, ^ SPANISH INSULT TO AN AMERICAN SHIP. ticular pains lo keep off my ordinary course, I usually pass within a mile of of Cape Maysi, but on this trip, I was from four to four and a half miles from the Spanish shore. ’ “If 1 had fx'cn within one marine league of shore, I would have stopped my ship, but I. was not and he had no right to stop me. We were going along at our usual* speed, of thirteen knots when we-met the warship and we .kept it up: Although lie fired up, he could not make more than about 11 1-2 knots and we slowly dropped him astern. I suppose he wanted to show the authority and pretige of a warship, but time is valuable in this business’ and I have none to waste on gunboats. Besides anyone with half the eye of a seaman could see that this was an ordinary passengersteamer with wings spread fore and aft, just going'about her busness. He set no signals till we were so far away we could ndtread theiii. It may bo that the ship was a riCwoneon that station.. One thing that makes it l(x>k that way was that the ship was painted' hlitek and her bottom seemed very clean. STEPPED OUT OF HfS LIFE. REMARKABLE DISAPPEARANCE OF A WELL-KNOWN CITIZEN. Oao. C, Fufuc Step* Out of hi* IIoii«e, til tjiirvn Street, on March t mnl ha* t^om- .pletely Dinappeareil. CHARLESTtiN, S. About*’9 o'cloek- rch C., March *15.— -on Urn nioniing of the 4tte of March Gt'Oi’gvC. IJnfug, a tailor, walketl dut of his residence, at 61 t^ueen stn*et, and nothing has been reen or heard trf-himfi-since. A more remarkable case of mysterious disap pearance never occurred anywhere, and certainly a parallel toil has not been heard of in "Charleston in many years. As the name indicates Mr. Uufug was of German birth, but he came tor this xity over avquarterof a century ago. Formally years he has conducttHla well-known tailoring es tablishment, which was uatnmizetl by ell-known Charleston iieo fluence of liquor, or while suffering from the use of it, tliat lie has done awhy with himself. The few people who know that Mr. Infug is missing share'this opinio^i. ’ ’hey don’t see how it would be possi ble ^or him tt) be alive and keep as completely bidden as lie is. One or two persons suggested that he might lave been the victim of foul play. He «d gone- out to-eplleet money-* and-j- - xwsibly be may have done st) and then fallen a victim to some of the desper adoes who have beeHcommitting higfix way robberies in the city recently. All of this is mere conjecture, however, ks there is absolutely no clue to suggest what became of Mr. I nfug after he eft his home. Mr. (4eoige C. Unfug was a sliqrt, dark man, hxtking. :ts his wife said, much more like a Frenchman than a tertnan. In figure he was stout rath er than Klim and stooped in , walking, lis fsce was clean shaven except (or a grizzled iqiistaehe. lit' was alxiut 60 years of age. News and Courier. many w They always paint their ships on their ships on that-station white. Rut he could esisily have seen that this was not tlm kintlof ship for a filibuster. Captain Crossman is the senior com- mantler of the Colombian Line and commodore of the fleet. Ho was,in command of the Brazillian warship American, which was the remodeHed excursion shin, Britannia, but a brok- leg forced him to leave the Brazil eu ian service, and from Martinque. be returned home MR. LANE’S ADDRESS. rom Sea to the Atlantic, a sh ip w a s seFn cTmiin g out from tiie land of Cape Maysi, the eastern point of Cuht. The stranger laid her course with the evident object of in tercepting the Allianca and .at 7 o’clock she'hoisted the* orange and crimson collors, which, Liken with Iter build and.general appearance left no doubt in the minds of those aboard the Alli- vas a Spanish man-oL war. Ntesooner were tlie gunboat’s colors seen,at her mizzen peak, than Captain Grossman of the Allianea.or- dered the xtarseud strijxts to lx; hoist ed on the jack statf over the tatf-rail and dipped tliree times in salute. The marine courtesy was returned in kind by the warship and the Allianca en sign.was unbent from its halyards anti stowed .away. Hardly had this been accomplished than the Spanaird again displayed his colors, and, as a mark of extra politeness, Captain Crossman ordered the Allianca's Hag to be run up and dipjied again, and then left ilyinv. Again was t ht* salute; acknowledged and then to the utter amazement of those abotird the Amer ican steamer, a blank shot was fired from ope of the war vessel's forward port guns. The shot was probably meant as an invitation to the Allianca to heave to, but Captain Crossman liad no in- tention-of-obeying the summons. He remarked to Second OHicer Russell, who was on duty on the bridge: “The Spayiard seems to be firing a shot.” apd then calmly kept to his course. Soon another blank shot was fired, which the captain greeted by saying: "All right, let him shoot.” A third ■ T i * fl t 1 * I 1 4 4 1 « 1 ilUXXX ft « 4 r * f 41 TftttTt/ vTtts 11 rr ti, TTttx ctiin tixfit? rtr vvtPi shot in earnest. It was a solid ' shot and not a harmless blank cartridge which the gunboat next charged her "Port bow rifle, and she yawed from Iter course that the gun might be aim ed tit the Yankee' merchantman. Tiie course of the shot could be seen where it richochetted along the water before finally going to the bottom, a full quarter of a mile short of its mark. Still Captain Gasman kept his course and waited for the gunboat to over take him if it could. The black smoke "began trepeur from the gunboat’s fun nel and the water aroimd-ber bow to heap up in a Way that showed that her fires were being vigorously stoked and steam forced up to its highest limit The-gunboat fired again, ten minntes later,"and* still again after another equal interval of time. But observa tion through the glass showed that she was gradually falling astern, and after a chase lasting fully twenty-five miles she gave it up and laid away on her course. Captain Grossman was very indig nant over the^oecurence when his ship was lied up this Skfternoon. He said; "We were from six to eight miles oil' shore when the occurrence took place, and not in Spanish jurisdiction at all We were to the southward of Cuba when be first sighted tiie warship and far away from Gauntaliamo, where I understand they have been having trou ble in that country. 1 had seen in the Panama Star and Herald, of February 28, before I sailed from Colon, a dis patch from Paris which said tliat ad vices from "Madrid told, that it was known that a considerable body of troops had been sent to the disturlied provinces and that gunboats were cru ising along the eastern coast of Cuba in order to prevent the landing of fili busters. In consequence, I t<x)k i>ar hundreds of people^, ami it appears almost incredible that he shoukl have disappeared within tin hour so com pletely that every effort to discover a single trace of his whereabouts has proved unavailing. Yet this is a sim ple statement of what has occurred. In larger cities 1 men come ami go without much attention being given te their movements. One figure more or less in New York, for instance, is of little consequence, but even there a well-known man cannot drop install taneously from the view of his assocl- ateg-Tvithmtt -leaving sntnft Yrtuc of limself. In Charleston'll "isTar more remarkable how a man could step out of bis life which has surrounded him without his faiiiily or his friends being •able to give any account of him after given hour. Yet this is exactly what hits happened in the case of A Saving to An liii|>ortant Coinintuilration to tlu; Cot ton (•rower*. , ^Athens,. Ala, March 16.—Him. Hector 'Df Lime, president of the American Cotton Growers association -itasasxucd the following address: To the Colton Growers of the South: J wish i<> /‘Jill tee utmntirxn y., T a ‘-j-.’j-T <* ■. t* ...*— i.. iiw w^iSSWSSQ* w “* eo,n movement bt'ing made by cotton ma nipulators to delude them into" the suicidal act of again planting a large icreage in cotton. That uneasiness it felt in LivenxteKfor some time in reference to a tlecreased acre age g(x*s without saying,and had these conditions not have existed, cotton values would have been lower than they have been : and how, as the end tif the season is at.’hand and the staple is substantially out of the hands of the farmer, these gentlemen, who have represented the bear elpment for so piany months;—while cotton was moving in large volumes, now resort to this, ruse of running values up, sim ply as a device to induce the farmer to plant-more cotton than possibly he in- tended-.- - ——*— ; ———~ 1 ~.—«— of I warn that. this rist the farmers in the last TITe South few davs is fictitious ;• is the product of a conspira- try of the men to systematically rob the pnxlttcer of his legitimate gains. It is a delusion and a snare to catch tiie unsuspecting farmer; to inveigle him into the toils of another three million surplus, so that they can bear down values lower than last season with an increased surplage on hand. - Let-the'proplr beware:. It ritt fratt to catch those who will'bite. There fs no legitimate reason shown for the rise in cotton values. The production has exceeded the most sanguine ex- pectatiou. "Therefore where* is the legitimate cause for this rise, if cotton has been selling at legitimate figurest It is simply the same old ‘spider and lly’ game, a recurrence of the farmer and the ‘bunco steerer,’ and I axn--con strained t*J exclaim: -‘How long, oh Lord, how long.’ Is it to be ever thus, that our people ai**: to he waylaid and robbed of theifc meagre substanceY T deny the proposition and defy the man who made it—that any man can produce cotton legitimately for 5 cents with any reasonable profit; and I state advisedly anil emphatically that today the Southern cotton grow er—I mean, literally, the man who digs the ground, the unfortunate whd ‘pulls the 1 x;ll cord over the mortgaged mule’—is not Realizing 12 cehts a da* for his labor the year round. Ami what is to be the fate of this man if cotton goes down 1- or 1J cents this fall, which is not at all improbable when we recognize the conditions that confront us and take into considera tion the fact that we had a most phe homenal season for picking our crop this last season, anti its classification was higher than ever known, hardly any grading lower than low middling. "Still, it averaged under cents,and though" we may make a smaller crop the ensuing season of . 1895 96, if we have a riiiny or unpiopitious gather ing season, cotton in all will grade lower, and mayhap we wi •u layhap \ the set have a recurrence of the season oi ! 18&1, when we had a superabundance of the poorer qualities. We coult then expect the saihe relative differ ence, which must of course result in considerably reduced returns from the whole crop. ‘T invoice the most earnest attention of eotton growers to this nefarious scheme, and address you this letter as caveat, that you may not be delude* by this wolf in sheep’s clothing,’ or in other words this bear in bull cloth ing.” ? > Tin- ( ruUt'i LoM. Madrid, March 13.—Anxiety for the safety of the cruiser Iteina Regente has grown rapidly today and thiseyen jngiLis feaisAl generally that *h« wen t down with her 420 souls in the storm which swept the south coast on 8up- day night and Monday morning. jMs- patches from Gibraltar, says tha. pieces ot a boat and several sumaphory flags belonging to the cruiser cam ashore at Ceuta and Tarifa this aftei noon. The cruiser Isla de Luseon, ha left Algeuras to searclr for the missin vessel. A dispatch /rom* Tangie says that the Reina Regente left port in bad weather. The Reina gente was a steel deck protected cruis er of 4,80*) tons ^displacement ant 12,000 horse power. Bhe was launchet in 1887, and was a sister ship of the Alfonsa XIII and Uie Le Panto. Her speed was 201 knots. ""ColUmbia,~ B. CL March 12. The omission of an az-t of the legisla turpfnmi the ctxle preparetl some time ago and adopted by theBtate legisla ture without reading, lias cost nearly ill county treasurers iu the State. 1200 epch. The act was omitted by the ctxli- ]'ier-while preparing Uit' code. antF wben the ctxle was adopted all other iws tban tlu»M; meiilioned therein were i’e|x*aletl. Tim* matter developed- -yesteiTlay when it was called to the attention of 'omptroller 'General Notion. "TKe Cpmptroller, inasmuch as a legal piestion as to the amount of salaries in commissions each treasurer is to re ceivc from the ‘93 ’94 collection of taxt's Wits left iu doubt, referred it to Unfrigr Between • 9 -and- tUB ATOmey GeneTaT. talf-past 9. Monday moniing. Mareb out in the city. He took his hat and coat aiql stepped out inttt t^ueen street and that is absolutely the last that she has set'll or heard of him. Eyery ef fort has been made by his friends to discover his whereabouts, but the search has been futile. The police department took the mat ter up some days ago, and the officers have oeeii on the l<x»kout foTthe miss ing man, but they too have Ixxm una ble Rediscover a trace of him. There has evidently been an effort made to keep the matter quiet, for very few people knew of Mr. Unfugji disap pearance yesterday. A Rejxirter for The News and Courier heard 6f it acci dentally from a gentleman who for years had been a customer of the miss ing tailor, •nd^an invest set on foot at onoe.—Mre. * v iL a ; s Juuxw whether the treasurers sliall get oring establishment used to be at 131 Church street, but within the last few months he together w!Qi his family had moved to 61 Queen street, a neat little house with a green front, two doors in the rear of Tighe’s auction establishment at the corner of Meeting and Queen. When the Reporter applied there for information ho found the place closed coulu be-seen at 69 Queen street. A door bearing ihese figures proved to be an entrance to a stairway which leads to the apartments above the auc -tion house on the corner, and one or two hearty pulls upon a bell knob brought,two or three bright-eyed lit tle children tumbling over one another down the steps and to the door. When Mrs. Unfug was asked for the wort was passed back up the steps fcqm one child to another that Mrs. Unfug was to b§ told that there was a gentlemqn who wished tt> see her. A momen. later a little woman in amodest brown dress appeared. " Her hair was almost white, and upon her face, which was very sad; were traces of the anxiety and suffering which she had been en during for the last ten days. She said she was Mrs. Unfug, and it was true that Mr. Unfug was missing. He had left the home on the morning of the 4th, and she had heard nothing of him since. She could form no con jecture of his whereabouts, but she feared tliat be w;is dead. When he went out that morning she suppose* he had gone out. 4o collect bills When he hail not returned at dinner time she was not uneasy, for there were many things which might have delayed him; Even- nightfall she was not seriously alarmed by his pro tracted absence, but when the long night wore away anti there was stil no sign of him her fears were tiroustsl He never Spent the night away from home. Next morning she confidet her fears to her family, and inquiries were made far and near; but that day and the next dragged slowly by ant still there was no-sign of her missing husband. The police were notiflec finally, but they too had failed to lint a trace of Mr. Unfug. She liad wantet to notify The News and Courier of her husband's absence some days ago, but she liad been prevented from doing so. She had no theory to advance, but she feared that lier husband was no lopge alive. She cbuld think of no reason why he should remain away -L_‘T.know,” shecontinued, “that re cently he hasoccasiofially drank too much. Possibly htr was in this con ditionaud remained in it so long that he was ashamed tp return u but, I don't care what his coyndition is, where be is Art' what he has done, I want hTfh baejt; All I wanL.is that he shoult come back to me once more safe,” ant the tears, which the poor little woman had been struggling bravely against, began to brim over her eyes, and her lips trembled. George ~C. Ujifug was a man wel beyond middle age. He came to this country before the war, and when that struggle came on he entered the Confederate army and fought bravely and-well.' * % - *Speaking of him yesterday a gentle man, who was himself a gallant sol dier, said, “George Unfng was as good a soldier as ever shouldered a gun, and I am sorry to hear of his disap- pearance. In later years he has been drinking too hard, and I jam very rduch afraid that wTuTb under the in- SLAD6HTER OF ITALIANS. MOB RULE IN • Hlood- *n«e. Six Italian* Shot to A COSTLY OMISSION. - - ' V tli» Stall- Hut T ri-iisii i-f m.i IIaril »n th .... ~TTr. Norton r^pbiumd iW Iruublc januewiiat. ou this sha|Mi: The attention of the department was called to it by several of the treasur ers themselves. It appeal's that in 1882 tin act was passed fixing the amount that each treasurer should re ceive in commissions during the fiscal year at $800, an exception licing made of Charleston, where the amount al lowt'tl was about $2,000; and in Horry, Chesterfield and Ijanctyjter, where the amounts were less. In 1883 another act was passed raising the general amount from $800 to $1,000. It now develops that this last act was omitted from the codification of tiie laws of the State; and that ctxle, having been adopted by the Legislature and al acts notcoutained therein having been declared re prilled, the difficulty is to ias reigned among the miners in the coal camps of Huerfano county since Sunday ntght and seven of their vic tims all but one Italians, have been slain byhfittata from the mob's Win- hesters. Four of the Italians were tilled from ambush yesterday, while xurig taken prisoners in a wagon to the jail at Walsenberg after a coro ner's commitment for complicity in the murder of Abner Hixon, a Tem : Ix*ritiice saltxm keejter at Ronna- A n American boy who was driving the wagon was unintentionally killed by the fusi lade of bullets. Before day- ightthis mornings mob of miners \Val.S4*ul>t;nr 9 **,***** P) V * tVvS "VS outside'the jail where two Italians were coiUined, got. inside by a pm* tense, and killed both the prisoners. It is reported that the same mob, thirst ing for more bloodshed, later took out o^jail a German charged with rape »nd killed him. The names of the dead so far as tnovvn are as follows: Joseph Welsby T boy, driver of prisoners' wagon; Lo renzo Danino, Killed in jail. He beat lixon U) death; Pete Jacobini, killed ». n jail. The names of the foul Ital- s ians killed on the road are unknown. Fiyg r Olhe.r xuapecta bail been rulam*. d from custody before the mob rose. Ml of them livt*d at Rouse", where the talians far outnumbered the Ameri cans. _ -* Govenjor Mclntyrt? telegraphtxl the State Department at \Vashington that, le had instrueted the Sheriff of Huer- ■ : imo ronnty to the code.. ing the only act in the t Last evening the Attorney Genera. rendered the following opinion: Hon James Norton, ComptrollerGen cral. Sir: The eommissious allowtxl by law to the county treasurers in this State ace as follows:^ In all the counties, exceyt Chester field, Lexington, Berkely and Orange burg, 3 per cent; upon Itest-ijiUMXM41 |X'r cent, upon next $10,000; 1 per ceh . upon next $10,000; and one-half of 1 percent, upon all amounts collectet over $30,0(H)< provided Ihe same shal not exceed $800 or lx* less than $5<H)- except tiie county of Charleston, where the commissions shall not excetx $2,000 and $1,000 is allowed for cleric al services. — In Lexington county -the treasurer gets a salary of $600 a year in lieu o ’ all commissions. In Berkeley county the treasurer gets $1,400 in lieu of all commissions ant clerk hire. -- . 1 n (irangeburg county the treasurer gets 4 per cent, upon first $10,000; 8 per cent upon next $10,000: 2 per cent upon next $10,000 and 1 per cent, on balance; provided the total amount shall not exceed _$80i). In Chesterfield county the treasure gets,3 per cent, on first $10,000 : 2 jx*r cent, on next $10,000; 1 per cent, on next $10,0(H) and one-half of Uper cent on all amounts above $30,000, provid ejl the Commissions do not exceed $600^ Up to December 1894, all the Ireasu rers, except,in the counties of Charles ton, Lancaster and Chesterfield, got commissions of 3 per cent, on first $10,0tH); 2 per cent: nn~ncxtt10,tH)0: per cent on next $10,(HH)'and one-hall' of 1 per cent, on all over $30,000; pro vided the same did not exceed $800, or wag less than $500- In Lancaster, up to December 17 1894, commissions were 4 per cent, oh first$10,(HH); 3 percent, on next $10,(HH) 2 percent, on next $10,(HH) and 1 per cent, on all over $30,000, jtrovided the same did notcxceed$l,(HH> or less than $7(H) ' In Chesterfield, commissions us m other counties, pwtvidetl tiie sum dit not exceed $600. - — In Charleston same commissions as in other counties, providixl the same do not exceed $2,IHH£ and tliere was al lowed for clerk hire in this countv $1,(HH). _ Respectfully yours, C. P, Townsend Assistant Attorney General. KilUil a Wliale. Boston, March 11. -A whale abouj .75 feet in length, and evidentl settler, was killed off Nil" night bjrtrj)i<"kt.*d erewo#i€x|>erien^<l men from Nahant. Jetw wnaleUjpul -been reported by ^fveral parties'wur- ing tlje bust fmr days, and Friday night two fishOTinen.who were out in their Ixjats were forced to make a hur ried retreat tebthe shore in order to escape unduejaWiiliarity on the jxirt of his whaleship.XThe whale isevident-- ly an old one antvhe is half covered with seaweed. /Deeply imbedded in his back was aii/uncieni harpoon, bad ly rusted, buy with the inscription “Hiram K, Swain, Nantucket, 1853'’ still legible. The Nahant whalers are in high glee as therejhaa been considerable rivalry between them’ and their Swamscott bretlieren over tiie prospective capture of the monster. A COLORADO MINING CAMP. -f. Ail Ani«rlr»n Murtl<ir«d, Knit on honncT* Kvlitem I>CKth—A Oerinan Lf lu-hed for Rap*. Denver, Col., March 13.—Mob rule Y "gmr mtu) VHiJencc. He stated in his di»- lateh that from information, he be- leved the Italian miners were Amer ican citizens, but he was not certain. 1 ^ He further stated that militia n«uSSd ~ the scene could be forwarded at short notice. - Tonight he received a meagre report from Sheriff O’Mallev, who said the two kilted were kilted on the road, the others escaping. He has instructed the sheriff to call for assistance if nec essary in doing his duty. A report from Walsenberg tonight states that three of the Italians w ho were being brought here from Rouse eacapatT j given as Antonio Gobetto, Stanislo, Vittano and Fran cisco Rosetto.. It is also plated tliere were eleven Italians in the wagon. Today’s attack upon, the jail WU the result of the extreme excitement provoked by the summary vengeance of Hixon'* friends.—Three other Ital- mns, who were in custody as possible accessories to the murder of Hixon, were overlooked by the mob. The massacre of the five men from ambush was evidently well planned, with the exception ofthe killing of the driver. Four of those killed had been held for trial by the coroner's jury. It is open- Ivaae'rted that'"* ’ ‘ r ' accidental. In order to be certain that the fifth Italian held for Hixon'g der should not escapt* the mob did not stop to identify the two ers found in the jail, but riddl with rifie balls. The motive forthe murder c is the subject of much speculation. The deceased was thirty yearadold and a nXtive of Arkansas, amlvwas not of an aggressive or quarrelsome disposi tion. It is thought that me was attack ed last Sunday while on the road from Walsenberg to Rouse, a coal camp six miles distant, and knocked from his horse by a blow on the head. Workmen going to the Rouse mine discovered Hixon with his skull frac tured. The injured man was uncon scious and dietf two hours later. There was absolutely no due to the perpe trators of the crime, but T. J. Brewer, pit boss.o£,the coal mine, solved this difficulty. Hastening to his home, he secured a trained bltxxlhound and put him on tip; scent. The dog struck a trail thaf led the pursuers to the rear of a saloon half a’ mile away. The intelligent brute rushed to an old table standing in the rear room. An exam ination ofthe table revealed fresh blood stains. Lorenzo Danino and found in. thenxMn were immet Ifcly arrested. The dog continued cabin whore Pete Anrico were foun Italians made sions of the kno ar- re- in- gli boring tta\and, Frank The quartette of damaging admis- ge of the murder and upon close Questioning the names of five others/implicated were di vulged. Dauifo was chargjpd with being the chi/f conspirator. Horse-" men scoured me surrounding conn’ and by 4 o'clpck in the afternoon the suspected Italians were under rest and teBged in jail where they mainet^antil called to attend the quest^ r the attack on the wagon party all /as comparatively quiet until soon midnight. About tliat time seven ght men, wearing masks knocked the door of the jail, where Lorenzo /anino.who was charged by the other talians as having struck the blows hat killedTIixou on Sunday and the Italian wounded iu the wagon attack, were-confined. In answer to a ques tion tiie men said O'Malley, the sher iff, wapted to enter. As soon as the door was opened the guard fouhd guns in their faces. Part of the masked men then went to the cell where the two Italians were confined and fired eight or ten shots. Each prisoner re ceived four or five bullets. One died instantly, but the other lived a short time in great agony. n Ha* Accepted. Columbia, S. C., March 16.—Gov ernor John Gary Evans has been ask ed to preside at the centennial ce," tion of Union college on June 24 the day to be devoted to Union in statesmanship and politics. ' or Evans was for two years a at Union. The governor will t the invitation. %