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X 1903. NO 33 N- ilAI) MISSOURI *.(t ( Takes Charge of Joplin and Hangs an Unknown Black Traino i WHO KILLED A POLICE OFFICE* The Mob Raids Negro Quarter and -Drive* the Blacks t, from the Town t>efyJi>jr the Authorities. A mob took possession >of Jopikt,^ Mo., Wednesday evening^and took an unknown ‘ negro tramp from the city _ , JaH and hanged him to a telegraph jxjle at the corner of Second and Wall | streets, two blocks from the Jail. The negro was charged with having mur dered Police Officer Leslie, who was Shot dead Tuesday night In the CQnsume<}> AH efforts to reason with the rioters weW futile, as apparently a frenzy-had seizetKiigon them. A- dispatch from v^rthag* 1 , Mo , which is only a few milesTF<30} Joplin, i, says the negro lynched was Tho& yard, a tramp. He had confessed that he murdered Leslie in Tuesday night’s fight. Early Wednesday Sheriff Owen hurried off to the county Jail it Car thage, Dan Bullard, a negro who was with Gilyard just before the police man was killed. Wednesday night JhiUard was spirited away from Car thage for fear of an attack)-'on the county Jail. ‘BELONGS TOOUB COUNTRY.” Kansas City Southern railroad yards while endeavoring to arrest several negroes suspected of theft- . 'Officer Leslie had ordered' several negroes who bad taken refuge In a box car to surrender and when they failed to do so he tired several shots at the car. During the shooting a negro slipped from the car and coming up behind the officer, shot him through the head. The negro then fled and Within a short time posses were after ^hout o'clock Wednesday after- Lee Fullerton, aged 21, located WHEf ugitivt> in a slaughter house.just of Joplin. The negro was armed with a rifle and defied arrest. Fuller ton flipped into the structure unoh--, , .served and crept up behind the negro. Suddenly he sprang at the unsuspect- , ing fugitive and before resistance ^ could be made he had the negro on his back with a-knife at his throat. The negro then surrendered his rifle, and pointing the weapon at him Ful lerton marc)red him out of the build ing. WlttijLhe Assistance of another man the negro was brought to Joplin and placed in jail. News of the capture spread rapidly and the jail was speedily surrounded by hundreds of people. There- were X cries ofLynch him!" on all sides and Citv Attorney H. H. Decker mounted ^ the jail steps and made a strong plea In behalf of- taw and order. This ° served temporarily td-'fetay the mob but did not appease it and a short time after l>eclcer's speech the mob started to batter itr* section of the Jail wall. Every effort was made to prevent the entrance of the mob, but without avail and within IS ,minutes -the men bad gained entrance^Aoihe ■Jail and secured the trembling negro." As he was dragged forth City AtthiV ~ uey Decker again interfered aud urged that the negro be given a trial. For — ‘- half an hour he talked and Uie mob listened to him with the negro in their , custody. t _• ^ At one time it seemed that the city attorney would win, as members of the mob began dispersing, but sud- — denly a rush was madfe for the spot ■where the negro was being held and he was’ dragged' two blocks .from the Jill with a rope fastened around his neck, and after the -rope had' been thrown over the c|pssbar bf a tele graph pole a score of men attempted — to pull the negro frorp^Uie ground. As many more sclzp^, the negro and pulled to prevent him being hanged. For some moments it tfas a veritable tug of war, but reenforcements on the ffee end of the rope proved the stronger and the negrp,. despite^ bis protestations of innocence, was finally swung Into tlit- atr and strangled to death, twhiic shouts of satisfaction went up from the mob. The mune of the negro was not known and he was a stranger In Joplin. ^ negro served temporarily to satisfy the indig- nance of the mob and leter Wednes- day night hundreds of men again as- Hccretai jr Moody's Tribute to the Con* 4»! # V ? tedcrate Torpedo Boat Heroes. / ' ' - Secretary of the Navy Moody, in a cordial letter of acknowledgment, has completed a pleasant Interchange of tokens of good feeling between the North and South. On TTTC ‘Battery; in Charleston, S. C., there is a hand some granite monument U* the men who lust their lives in the operation of the Confederate torpedo boat “Hundley,’’ called by the Federal authorities the “David.” On Secre tary Moody’s return from the West Indies he received through Mayor Smyth, of Charleston, .a handsome THE RAWS ISSUE. E*freaident Grover Cleveland Seems to Grasp the Case. SOLUTION OF NEGRO PROBLEM Rests on Southern Shoulders. Those ^ \ . ’ - T ■, * Who Lift the Weight Must Stand Next to It He. double ffjtme containing photographs of the two Inscribed faces of the “tor pedo monument.” The following'let ter from Mayor Smyth accompanied it: “You expreesed a wish for a pho- graph uf the monument on our Bat tery to our torpedo heroes during a drive 1 had the honor to have with you when recently tn our city. I mentioned your request to Mrs. S. E. Conner, president of the Charleston Chapter of the Daughters of the Con federacy, ;*,nd' also your "ternarks as you stood'witlr head uncovered before that monument, ‘Mr. Mayor; this be longs to our country, not to Charles ton alone!’ ~T ~ “It gives me great pleasure to pre sent This photograph to you and to thank you for your kind words and the interest you have manifested in thi*'. "oR city. Such feelings as you ex pressed do hondS to your brain and heartland will be cherished "by 1 ug all as typical of the true and broad Ameri can citizen you have always proved VAlirftAlf t n \f r; jLymgyfT, tv uszi was in the same kindly vain. What was known as the “Fish tor pedo tioat," a submarine, was built at Mobile, in 1863, by Hundley and Mc- Clintock. Hundley lost his own life within itis boat and eventually she went down for the last time with her victim, the Housatontc. The“Davld^ was an entirely different frype of tor- Former President Grover Cleveland was the principal speaker Tuesday night at a meeting held in the concert hall of Madison Square Garden New York, Iff the Interest of the Tngkegee Normal and Industrial institute. Among those on the platform with Mr. Cleveland were Mayor Low, who pre- sided; Itooker T. Wash I ngton,. Ed- gar G. Murphy, Dr! Lyman Abbott, President Nicholas Murray Butler ahd Dean J. Van Amringe of Colum- blffr W. H. Bold win, Chancellor McCracken of New York univer- sity.J ohh DeWitt Warnef and George F. Peabody. Mrs. Cleveland, sat in the gallery with Mr.'and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie,, who are Mr. Cleveland’s hosts while, he is in the city. Mr. Cleveland, who was greeted with pro- oiiged applause as he was introduced by Mayor Low, said: “I have come here tonight as a sin cere friend of the negro and I should be very sorry to suppose that my good and regular standing need support at this late day either from certiflcate or confession of faith. Inasmuch, how ever as there may be differences of thought and sentiment among those who profess to be friends of the negro, desire to declare myself as belong ng to the Booker Washington-Tuske* gee section of the organization.,;"- "I believe that the days of.‘Uncle Pom’s Cabin’ are past. I believe that neither the decree that made the slaves free nor the enactment that sud denly Invested them With the rights of citizenship any more purged them of their racial and slavery-bred imper fections and defid^ncies , than it changed the color of their skins. I believe that among the nearly nine mlilions of negroes who have been in termixed with our citizenship, there amount of ignorance & sad amount of viciousness and a tre- flood of indiscriminate, untelllgent and brigbtlng suffrage. Whatever it is, let us try to he tolerant and con siderate of the feelings and even preju diced racial instinct of our white fel low countrymen of the south, who in the solution of the negro problem must, amid their own surroundings, hear the heat of the day ahd stagger under the weight of the white man’s burden. There are, however, other consid erations relating to this feature of the negro question, which may be regarded as more in keeping with the objects and purposes of this occasion. As friends of the negro, fully believing in the possibility of his improvement and. advancement, and sincerely and con fidently laboring to that end, it is folly for us to ignore the Importance of the ungrudging cooperation op the part of the white people of the. south in this work. Labor aa we will, those who do the lifting of the weight must he those who stand next to it. This co operation cannot be forced Lhor can it be gained by gratuitously running counter JLo tirmly fixed and tenaciously pedo craft and was never entirely aub- inerged —-Ed. The N. and Or- ~ X> ' M——il— — 1 V A SerlouM Charge. A dispatch to The State says war rants have been Issued in Anderson for the arrest of Mr. J W. Fooser, an in surance agent who spent s< me time in thatA5ity' last winter. The 'dispatch says Mr. -Fobser while in -Anderson represented the Pennsylvania Casualty company and possibly one or two other pliable companies. He collected money for a numlier of policies that have never been received by thosft who paid for them. Mr. L. C. Houston mendous amount of laziness and thrift- ssness. I bellve that these condl- ons Inexorably-present to the white people of the United States, to each in Ms environment and under the man •date of'good citizenship, a problem which nor the htgher motive ttf huinan syin- )athy will permit them to put aside * only sembled and rioted through the negro section of the city, burning houses,, stoning negroes wad Batlly artehfrl ir. every- negro ffoih the conflnes of the town of Joplin. The police were pow erless. The first act of the mob after hanging the negro was to demand the ■release from jail of a local character known as “Hickory Bill,” who was under arrest on the charge of assault ing a negro. In the hope that this would appease the mob the prisoner was set free. > But the mob did not disperse. In- atead a rush was made through Main street, the principal street of Joplin, atyl every negro was frightened off=the street and fied'to the northern part of the city where the negro population -In this way the negroes were Mai were fired, responded, hut ‘ it driven from all parts of the city to the , negro section. Then the mob charged down on the section. Stones were thrown, doors and windows of negro^ were broken In and finally sev- The fire department many of the houses were burned to the ground. The mob vorsto prevent the fire de nt from extinguishing, the and were partially successful. All the officers of the city, township county were called- cu.t,J>ut the swept them aside" and proceeded the rioting. Mayor Trigg ran corner to corner and mounting earnest appeals to the ce*M, but beyond cheer i ng the vociferously the mob sweptpassengefs- depredations continued. were'hurriedly closed by the The After the hundreds of fren- composing the mob had wrath in the north end rushed to the south- ed a number of ne- were vacant and be found. Three and two were Greenville, the agent of the company, lias informed parties in Anderson that he never received the money for the policies and has stated that he, too, has a warrant issued for Pooser in Greenville. The warrants charge him with obtaining money with fraudu lent Jntent ana breach of trust., Mr Pooser went to Anderson from CbTufm* here. A lettpr was received here day or two ago from one of his friends stating that Pooser Is now in Califor nia. This statement will be fully in vestigated and every effort will b; made to have the warrants that have been issued served upon him.- The warship Edna Christina, flag ship of Admiral Montejo'. which was sunk by Admiral Dewey in Manila Bay, was raised last week. Skeletons One skeleton evidently was that of an officer; for It had a sword by it side. There were fifteen shell holes in the hull of the boat, one being made by an eight-inch gun, and the others were small. The main Injection valve was missing, shewing the ship was scut tled when Admiral Mantejo abandoned her. The hull is In a fair condition. Captain Albert It. Coufien, command ing the naval station at Cavite, took charge of the remains of the Spanish roldfers^expresslng his purpose t give them an American naval funeral The Spanish residents are eager to ship !the remains to Spain, and it is suggested that the United States transport Summer convey "them to Spain by way of Suez canal in June. / ‘ A Total Wreck. The section of * southbound Louis ville and Nashville passenger train which left Montgomery,'Ala., at 12 30 Wednesday night, was wrecked at Castleberfy, ten miles south of Montgomery Thursday morning. Two members of the crew were killed and John Wright of Montgomery, the engineer, sustained\a fractured skull dead are H. L. Donovan, Mobile, rail way mail clerk, and Major Knox Montgomery, negro fireman. Almost in front of the station at Cagtleberry the engine struck an open switch am plowed through an empty freight car. The mall and baggage cars which fol lowed caught fire &pd were entirely demolished and the wreckage took ftre. 7T— Is this-outgrowtb of the effort* of Gen S. O. Armstrong of the Hampton In stitute In Virginia. Gen.'Arnwtmng was one of the -g^a 1 a**™ and P ro ‘ phets who realized tliat the task of the nation was not fuliilfed v when the shackles of physical slavery., were struck from theJtmhAOf the millions of slaves of the south. He realized that nine miliions of steeped in ignorance, minus experi ence cou id be but free. He foresaw that the nation must have a new birth and a, new freedom and that this re generation must irreiude the indus trial, intellectual and moral and re ligious freedom of the ex slaves. “In this connection 1 am glad that we have another great American and Christian statesman In the person of lion. Grover-Cleveland, who Is mani festing by his presence and words here this evening that he too Is conscious of the fact that the lifting up of the qegro Is not alone TbSkegee’s problem, THE CRACKSMEN CONVICTED. held southern idea s or even prejudices. We are not brought to the point of do ing or overlooking evil that good may come when we proceed upon the theory that before we reach the stage where we may be directly and practically confronted with the question of the negro’s full enjoyment of civic advan- tges or even of alLhis political privi leges, there are immidiately before us and around us questions demanding our Immediate care and that, in deal ing effectively with these, we can con fidently rely upon the encouragement and assistance of every thoughtful and not alone the south’sduty, but is the problem of'the nation, because the whole people were responsible for the introduction and perpetuation —of American slavery; In behalf of our struggling rac£.t want to thank you, Mr. Cleveland, for your deep interest, and to say to you that because of your interest and faith In us we shall see to it that the nation is not disappointed in our progress nor In our usefulness.” PROGRESS IN FARM WORK. patriotic citizen of the land, wherever he may live and whatever may be his Ideas or predilections concerning the more remote phase of the negro prob lem—These questions that-are so Im mediately pressing have to do with the practical education of the negro and especially with "fitting him to compete with his white neighbors in gaining a decent, respectable and remunerative livelihood. Booker Washington, in speaking- on the conditions and needs of his race, has wisely said: ‘It Is ST the bottom of life we mutt begin and not at the top; nor should we permit our grievances to overshadow our op portunities.’^ “In summing up the whole matter, there is one thing of which we can be absolutely certain. When we aid Tus- kegee Institute and agencies like it, striving for the mental and manual education of the negro at the south, gft are tn Bvery pntirt of Ttew Tender believe our fellow countrymen In the southern and in the late slave-1 States, surrounded by about nine- tenths, or nearly eight millions of this entiie negro population, and who re gard their material prosperity, their jeace and even the safety of the! izatlon, interwoven with the negro problem, arc 1 entitled to our utmost consideration and sympathy and fel- wshlp. I am thoroughly convinced that the efforts of Booker Washington apd the methods of Tuskegee institute point the way to a safe and benefleeht solution of ttre vexations negro prob- he south and I know that the plauded him good peopte at the north, who have ; tided these efforts and methods, have Illustrated the highest and best citi zenship and the most Christian and enlightened philanthropism. T cannot, however, keep out of my mind tonight the thought that all we i)f the north jnay do, the realization of our hopes for the negro must, after mainly depend, exoept so far as It ing .bliff the best possible service. Whatever may be bis ultimate destiny we are thus helping to fit him for fill ing his place and bearing Its responsi bilities. Wearaaowing well in the soil at ‘the bottom of life’ the seeds of the black man’s development and use fulness, These seeds will not die,-but. will sprout and grow, and if it he within the wise purpose of God, the At the conclusion of his address Mr. Cleveland-introduced Edgar G. Mur phy, who said: “1 think that wise est moral assets in the lifis of our country today. The south has not ap- rests with the negroes themselves, upon the sentiment and conductrof the leading and responsible white men of the south, aniupQD the.maintenance of a kindly and helpful feeling on their part towards those in their midst who so much need their ment. agreement or with monotonous, thoughtless, profitless acclaim. The south has sometimes blamed him. But the south is too fair to him and to his race to allow these occasions of dis agreement to distort the broad per spective in which she has viewed and appreciated that arduous public ser- Vifee thfdugh Whifch, for 2& years, Hr cheerful patience and. unaffected modesty, he has labored for the up building of his humble and untutored :’ellows. He hasgreatly done a great work in response to a greaL need. North and sodth there have been those who have seen perial in the ne- ro’a progress. But.if the progress of “I need waste non the evidence that thfl aid and encour agement has tfiui far been generously forthcoming. Schools for the educa- for their industrial'tiraining are scat tered all overthe south and are lib erally assisted by the southern public and private funds. So far as I am in formed the sentiment In favor of the largest extension and broadest influ ence of Tuskegee institute and kin dred agencies is universal, and ,1 be lieve that without exception the ne groes who fit themselves for useful oc cupations and service find willing and cheerful. patronage and employment among their white neighbors. “I do not know how it may be with other northern friends of the negro but I have faith in the honor £,nd sin cerity of the respectable white people of the south in their relations with the ndgro and hi«Tiapprovement and well being. They do not believe in the so- clal equality of the race and they make no false pretense in regard to it. That this does not grow out of hatred of the negro is plain. It seems to me that there Is abundant sentiment and abun dant behavior among the southern whites towards the negro to make us doubt the justice of Charging this de nial of social equality to prejudice, as we usually understand the word. Per- ~ deeper aid more tmpar prejudice as to amount to a racial in stinct. Whatever it is, let us remem her that it has condoned the negro’s iphare in the humilation and spoliation of the white men of the south during the saturnalia of the reconstruction days and has allowed a kindly feeling for the negro to survive the time when hm-M. Prison fhr Five Tears and PajTn Fine. ' , ".......j... After being out two Iwurs the Jury returned a veWict of guilty Thursday human* being* n the caHe affalff^WiillairMcJfcinley, Charles Howard, Thomas NfSlan and Edward Dugan, tn thAjprted States circuit court, at Charleston, on the charge of conspiracy, liruaih'ng into postoffices and lAn&py of goverment funds.^,Immediately upon the an nouncement of the verdict, Judge Si- monton sentenced the men to live years in the peneitentlary and a fine 11500 each. _ . • ,. The trial last >4 exactly ' one week, t began on Good Friday, which was considered by some people as being omninous for the robbers. In all over 100 witnesses weire put on the stand. Of this number, the defense put up less than a dozen and these were only to prove an alibi for the accused. The awyers for the defense did not at- tempt to sustain the private character Report of the PUntlng Operations of X" the Past Week. 1 , >4 ...... ■ ‘ Mr. J. W. Bauer, section director of the weather bureau, last week issued his weekly report of farm operations, complied from letters from correspond ents throughout the State. He says, in,part: v '* appears tbit the frost-of^the to within -a Tew miles of thexrpast, and that thin Ice formed over the northern bounties/but that the damage Was sfltjfht and was con fined to white potatoes and other ten der garden truck. Fruit escaped In- )u '7. There were quite general rains on the 8th, , heavy in the western and northern counties, that delay farm work materially by making the ground too wet to plough in the already natned divisions, where ploughing was practicable.on one or two. 4»ys only ut the dose of the week. The rainfall -the hardened surface of no untoward sen- tlmeht of pejudice can prevent thelf* 81 *?* ^ bursting forth of the blade and plant of the negro's appointed opportunity nto the bright sunlight of a cloudless day.” ./ _ . OTHEB SPEECHES. ■was light over eastern half of the State, and farm work was scarcely interrupted by it. The week closed with warm, cloudy, threatening and showery conditions prevailing^ that are favorable for growth of vegetation, hut are unfavor able Tor the rapid progress of farm work. “Planting operations made favora hie progress are far advanced as usual at this In the western counties planting from ID to 15 days later than usual, with but little corn and no cotton v-X xj; tn comparison with the' perils attendant on the negro’s fallute^X. Dr. Lyman Abbott, who followed, great credit for taking up as it bad an un ites appeared, both to mkr Its prospects. Rice planting has made fair pro gress, except in the Georgetown dis trict, where the lands are still too wet to work. / “Tobacco plants are plentiful and early. Transplanting is actively un der way. Some farmers have almost finished this work. . ^rawherry Ihjpmente ^ atrawherry Bxipmente ara wing made from all tberekstero-^ruck dfs- tried problem, in helping the negro to help himself. “And the north,” he said, “has given her scant credit. She has given him schools that the BOOKER WASHINGTON SPEAKS. Mr. Cleveland, iu introducing Booker TV Washington, | the last ’TTfirve to introduce to you a man too we khown by every man in the United States; a man who has been spoken of too frequently and too favorably for it to be necessary for me to say more than—here Is Booker T. Washington.” Booker Washlnton then spoke as follows: “The Tuskegee Normal on ' 1 is TELLS OF THE CRIME. Henry YouUey at Last Maks* « fall Confession JAMES HOWARD KILLED GOEBEL of the men, which the government punctured easily by the many wit nesses. In fact, Nolan, .the only one of the defendants who was put on<the- stand, did not nesltate to admit that le was of the sporting fraternity and that he mads his living by gambling. The Columbia witnesses gave cer tain testimony of the disreputable Maces which the accused frequented. The lawyers fqr the defense pitched their case on the common principle of aw, that the case against the men should be proven by facts, which they charged had not been shown, and not having been proven to be guilty, the men should be judged not guilty. The burden of proof was put on the gov ernment by the lawyers for the de fense. It was gladly accepted by the government attorneys and they made a strong presentation testi mony for the jury to pass upon. The case has been followed with much interest, not only In Charleston, but Hnpough the State and especially in the several communities where the postofflees were robbed. The defend ants have shown that they hadfriends and means, by the employment of Messrs. Nelson and Earle of Columbia, and Hagood of Charleston,~T<r repre sent them, for without good, hacking they could never have made the de fense that they did. It is understood that some of the sporting fraternity accused to Charles ton, attending the trial and^ giving such assistance and encouragement as 'j And, Hald You fury, "Gov. Taylor Dt* reeled Everythin* We Bid.” Re- - garded a« Leader by the AeeaMlne. James Howard is now on trial for the second time at Frankfort, Ky., for the murder of Governor Gofebel about eighteen months ago. Henry E. Youtsey Thursday for the first "time told on the witness, stand liST story of the killing. He named James Howard, the defendant, as the man who fired the shot. Youtsey said be saw Howard for the first time a Tew minutes before the shooting. Howard had a letter sent him several days be- -fere hy^trho wltness at Gov. Taylor's dictation. Youtsey says he took than and no anted. X Corn that was planted early coming up to fair stands, and some is being cultivated. Birds are destroying stands In a few counties. Cotton planting has not advanced beyond the central counties, and in places-ln the^astern Is being purpose- delayed, awaiting more settled ugaa Ihcr -—— _____ .—— “Oats look well in a few localities only. Generally they have been seri ously damaged by a grain aphis aad by rust. Some fields are ruined. Wheat has an unusually rank growth, but In places the plants are ■uynlng red, in other localities rust would come from their presence, not to speak of the financial aid which they contributed. The trial has been a long hearing, but the case has not been without s good deal of general Interest, and every day the large court room wa\crowded with spectators. ~ The Murder of Gov Goebel. The facts connected with tfte as—r f pewer ililnatlon of Gov. Goebel, of Kebtu< about two years ago, are slowly com ing out. Frank Cedi, who is under Indictment for complicity in the crime, is a'vritneas st the trial of Jim How-' ard, who is charged with the mur der. Cecil only recently surrendered himself to the commonwealth, after being a fugitive fpr a year In Califor nia and Honolulu. He is now Ul bond. Cedi told a story substantially Howard Into the office of Caleb Powers, then secretary of state, which had been especially arranged for the shoot ing. He showed Howard the Marlin rifle, the bullets and the window from which the shooting was to be done. He says Howard asked what be was to get for doing the shooting. “What do you want for it?" Yout sey says he asked, and that Howard said he wanted a pardon for killing George Baker. “I told him he coaid have that knd more too,” said Youtsey. “About that time,” said the wIUmm, “Goeb 1 came in the gate and 1 pointed him * out to Howard and then ran from the room. As I disappeared down the steps to the basement I ’ beard the crack of Howard’s rifle.” Youtsey said that after the shoot- t ing he passed through the State bouse« basement and a .few minutes later came hack into the executive build- , X log, from the east side entrance. —ill stayed in the office of Assistant Secretary of State Matthews,” said he, “for a few minutes and saw Matthews break open Caleb Powere’ office and find the guns that had been left In there.” Youtsey said that at the time of the shooting he was private SeeWUry to Auditor Sweeney but that while his political status was npt definitely fixed it was understood bgvrss to have a good place under Tailor. “GdfTtv Taylor,” said Youtsey “directed everything we did. We regarded him as our leader and be wasrmorally re sponsible for all we did. We knew we had the governor and the pardoning behind us and we were not fix we were punishment for killing ;he same as the testimony of Cuiton, Golden and Broughton, farmer wit nesses, who detailed, and alleged plot a bring about the death of Goebel. Cecil says Caleb-Powers adopted the suggestion of Henry Broughton that be (Cedi) might be contracted with to commit the crime and astfed him to do it. Continuing, Cecil said. “On January 301 was in Taylor’s office and 'aytorsatd: ‘Goebel hes_tp be killed I’ll be robbed. I have 12,500 of the.campaign fund and PH give that and a free pardon to the man who will kill him. “I told Taylor I was not in that business,” said Cedi. Cecil said he went into the agriculture office after the shooting and was there until the soldiers came. He saw Harlan Whittaker arrested and proposed to Help take Whittaker are BSIhgl from The man who had him. The ' L Tgytar"referred to hy Qacll was the trlcts. “Melon plants are sickly in the Charleston district, owing to defective seed. Other truck crops are growing slowly. Bugs have appeared on white >otatoes. Pastures afford fine graz- ng. Fruit prospects appear to be un- mpaired, wlth,.however, a few Tocall- north has refused him and done many_ ties that report peaches sparsely set.” other things towards his future that the north never thought of.” Dr. Abbott next spoke of the great work of Booker T, Washington and praised him in the highest terms, de daring he had done as much for the work had really brought ahdul the union of north and south In the work that he had taken up as his life task. Quoting a remark made by Henry Ward Beecher, to the effect that we should “make the negro worthy first and then give him suffrage,” Dr. Ab bott said: “We made the mistake of giving him suffrage first and the un fortunate negro has had to suffer ever since. What the negro wanti is edu cation. It all depends upon education whether the negro will be a shackle to our feet or wings to our body." — Too Many Wives. — Chas. D. Smith who recently mar ried a young widow in Charleston and was carried back to bis; old home in Monroe, Mich., on the charge of blga- guilty on Monday and was sentenced to fonr and a half years in the penitentiary. He had been married twice before coming to this State and it was bis second > marriage for which he was convicted. When arrested in Charleston, Smith was mak ing arrangements to go in business in that city. His last victim believed In Smith to the last, as he assured her everything would be cleared up. ■ Paid Rim to Kick. Isaac H. Stratton of Colorado Springs, Col., realized $235,000 net on Thursday from *350,000 paid him in the -ctompromise over the contest About m ^ father’s will. His lawyers got ^. Washington, ! the test *115,000, ex-Senator Wolcott recetv- hig 162,500 fortltrfrt." A Mvatery. , 7" Further investigation in the de falcation of James S. Campbell, late treasurer of Richland couhty', now deceased, reveals a shortage of til, 000. Mr. Campbell was regarded as on hrmoat mAB and the shortlife is of* GoebeL" Youtsey, on crosa-examfration, said that after.be was arrested and later sent to the penitentiary, be still bad hope of gaining Bis liberty. He thought Yerkes would be elected gov ernor and would pardon him. Yerkes was defeated, however, and about a "Ago he decided to talk and did tell his story to Prison pti/tJctan To bin. X Youtesey said further that he had an addiUonaTTbcentlve to tell the itory, m Taylor, Powers and others bad used him as a cats paw and scape* goat and then deserted him when be got into trouble. r A Bandar Killed. In a battle following"an'unsuccess ful attempt to rob the First National bank of WampumrPi., early Satur day morning, one man was kiUctf and . another seriously-wounded. The dead man was one of the burglars, and he has not yet been identified. The wounded man was Henry WlUoughby, a_haker, who surprised the burglars while at work. His Injuries are seri ous, but not fatal. Wil|okghby"waa passing the bank at an early hour on iepublican governor Of Kentucky when Goebel, who had been* elected Governor to succeed him, was murder ed. He ran away from Kentucky to keep ffoffi Betng tried, and Is Irbw a resident of Indianapolis, the Gover nor of Indians refusing to honor a requsitton for his return to Kentucky, where he is under indictment as one of the/murderers of Gov. Goebel. Cecils testimony puts Taylor in a bad lights before the country. Million Dollar Fire. hlsvtiy to work when he was sudden- ly confronted by a man, who at the tint of a revolver ordered him to throw up his band* and keep quiet. He did so, but in hi* right hand was' a revolver, and a moment later both men fired at each other. At the re- port of the revolvers two other men rushed from the bank and took a band In the shooting. | The three-cornered revolver fight aroused the people in the vicinity of the bank, and they were soon At the scene of the battle, but before tbeir arrival tbe burglars fled. While the men had broken Into tbe banking rooms they bad not completed the A dispatch from Beaumont,~Texaa, says a earless workmen kicked ovetA j drilling of the safe and their attempt lantern at one 'of the Cald well-oil robbery was unsuccessful, Satur- wettron trtoctr38, Hogg-swaywtfSct; on Spindle Top Wednesday and start ed a fire that resulted in the loss o property valued at $1,000,000 and the bankruptcy of 20 or more of the small er companis. There were 175 wells on the three blocks of the tract and only five of tbe derricks and pump house are left standing. Every company that bad property In the Hogg- Swayne tract is a loser. The fire swept the three blocks covered with derricks and pump houses clear of all Its buildings. Tbe derricks left are on tbe edges and are few and far be tween. None of the companies had a cent of insurance. X A Fearful Accident. Enoch and William White, t brothers, attempted to plug a hole in an iron furnace at Bristol, Va., Wed nesday before all tbe molten iron had passed out. Tbe iron exploded it, covering tbe faces and bodies of tbe men and burning deep holes In tbe flesh. Tbe scene was sickening. Both robbery day njprnlng the body of one oFXhe burglars was discovered in a vacant lot on tbe upper end ^ town. As the bullet wound was near Lis heart it is presumed that his companions had to drag or drive their dying comrade from the bank to where he was found. While he was dressed in only an ordi nary suit of clothes he was not shab bily dressed, and on his body was found a gold watch and $44 in cash. Willonghby was shot in both legs, and it Is supposed he fired the shot that killed the burglar. Great excltei prevailed In tbe town and a posse organized to pursue and capture burglars. j —* Given Tea -Ksapk. At Bamberg on Thursday Gary pronounced sentence on Joe Ms* — vis for the killing of J. B. King, glv* * log tbe prisoner ten yean in tbs penitentiary. Davis was found guilty of manslaughter on Wednesday with out recommendation. This ends one ~ v of tbe most widely disonsstd murder fit A*'*'