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BARNWELL, S. C. THURSDAY AUGUST 25, 1904. ■ ■ i ' -r, *•. m tW Ha to a totomiAtd Mob I MILITIA II oysmpowxsiD «M SolAfova «m lliitf WiiA ITbImM wm Wm« HelpktM la tb« Hand* of tha Orazntf With (doUUiif wtuilUod witti kOro- wrlthiog aod fewisUog la (hair , •ore&ming to ttearaa for ttM mmj that tho mob would not abow, Paul Baud and Will Oato, negrow, two of tba principals io the dastardly mur der aad banring of Heury Hodges aod wife and three children six miles from Statesboro-, Ga., three weeks ago, were honied at the stake on Tuesday, Aug. Iftth. That afternoon at 1.21 o'clock a de termined mob charged upon the court bouse, overpowered the military guard, secured Oato and Rsed, who had bean found guilty after a legal trial and sentenced to be hanged, took them two miles from States boro and there exacted the fearful penalty. The forenoon passed quietly, the trial of Paul Reed, the ringleader in the murder, being concluded and a verdict of guilty rendered. Sentence wee imposed upon both him and Will Oato, sentenced the day before, and SepUmbar » Was fixed as the date for the execution. , The crowd astern bled about the court home Tuesday was not so large as Monday. Nor was it so threatning, though, for that matter, there was naver much parade about the crowd that Argued the worst and the deter mination of the countrymen who had come in from miles around for the trial waa never to be doubted. Up to the noon hour there was no intimation that so soon wsa to be en acted the terrible climax. In the trial of Reed little delay was caused and upon its conclusion the prisoners, as before, ware hustled Into the wit ness room where a strong guard of military was mounted over them. THK AGITATION BCG IN 8. In the corridors the agitation be gan. The spectators left the court room and from the lawn outside many entered the hallways. Shortly before 1 o'clock the crowd was addressed by a tell man who seemed to ioflune it greatly. He called on those about him to follow him. Then Gapt. Hitch of the Oglethorpe Light Infantry, who wet in oommand of the forces, realised that tbe situation was deeper ate. Ha posted guards on each of the stairways that led to the floor above where the prisoners were confined. With fixed bayonets but unloaded rlfiee, tbe guards stood. The mob surged toward them but ware repulsed several time a The determined effort waa yet to be made. At tbe rear stair way tbe gravtst danger threatened Prominent In the crowd was Rev. Mr. Hodges, brother cf tbe murdered man, who sprang to tbe front to address Its members. He begged them to die- rcy, all resistance having been beaten down. Oato, Reed, Handy, Ball and other prisoners cowered before the crowd. They dragged Oato and Raed Out,, releasing Bau Into tbe baada of fs^soldiers left there ta soon as 1 hey learned that be wag not Beedr for whom they had mat taken him. Reed was taken down oaa stairway with a rope about his neck and Oato down tbe other, both pleading for their lives. By than the crowd numbered 500. They dragged tbe men along, shouting and cheering along the roadway laad- ng to tbe Hodges homestead, where ,be five members of the family had men murdered and burned. That wa their destination. THE CRIME ' ■' .v-'". , " —■ • • ' • for Which Oato and lee Burned to Death. Wars AM SOTIBI FAMILY MUBDXRXD And Their Former In their Which Waa but remembered that tbe little had escaped and would tell who were. According to the woman, the ne groes then returned to the boose and found the little girl hid behind a trunk. She pleaded with them to spare her life, but her pleadings were in vain. A blow from an axe ended her life. The wonaan then satd the 1 Shsriff Kendrick was in the crowd. Ha Cautioned the crowd against vio lence and pleaded with them to dia- nerae. 'Tam your^frienl," he said. -^T beg you to do nothing that will re leot upon us as we l aa on the com munlty. Disperse and let tbe law take its course. We need these men. There are other* to be brought to Jus- ttoa and only from the information to be gained from Cato and Reel can we bring the right ones to Jnstioe. lean almost promise you that a hen the ca-e Mfinally sifted there will be five par the who are equally guilty.” THKIK KKIKND KKNDKK K. "Wf know yon are our friend, Ken drick,” someone shouted, “but prom ise Os that you will Jet these men stay Ih the Statesboro Jail and not be taken back to Savannah. Theh we will dis perse, 'not untlTthcuu” There was a shout and cheering and Kendrick oould n)t reply. “Promise •us that,” th a ,y shouted, “you will not .take them away from Statesboro.” A •commotion to the front drew tbe •crowd there. Tots was bat tempor- ary. Presently they were back at the " fear and some 25 men crowded around tba guards. Before they oould be (prevented they bad caught two of the guards, wreitled their weapon* from them aud thrown open the breech kicks.' Tbe weapons were empty iThst was What the oroed wanted to ascertain. The troops had been given 'orders not to load their rifl *. The captured soldiers were belt prisoners. Tbe same policy was fol Jowad wltb others of tbe soldiers. Man after man, caught isolated, was relieved of his rlfls after a struggle. At the front a member of the mob » crept along the Will until he got dose to the guards. He threw himself upon them. In tbe broach thus formed his companions threw them selves, Two hondred wildly cheering men followed him and soon thg aol dlert, though thqj tough desperate ly snd inflicted bayonet wounds upon Some of their assailants, were over A WAABY CROWD. , The beat was so intense that tbe crowd wearied when two miles of the six mile route had been traversed. Going several hundred yards from tbe road-the crowd halted. The two ne groes were made to seat themselves on a log. They were told they had but short time to live and that they should confess. Reed was tbe first to speak. He confessed, Implicating other negroes as he had In the court room. He denied, however, that he had taken an active part in tbe murder. Cato answ-ered Incoherently. The crowd moved across a field to strip of woodland. Several men dimed to branches and called for ropes. Burn them, burn them” shouted the crowd. Oato begged to be shot or hanged, he was Innocent; that be bad oad no band in the crime. Some of the more humane wanted to granthts request but they were in tbe minority. The rest Wanted to visit tbe same death upon the negroes that they had visited upon the Hodges family. A member of the mob made a speech recounting tbq horrors of the crime. This, inflamed the crowd to the buro- ng pitch. To a large stump, 12 feet ilgh, the men were chained with their >acka to the stump. With trace chains tbe men were lashed to the stump. Then a wagonload of plnewood was hauled to tbe spot. It waa plied around the men and ten gallons of kerosene was thrown over them. ‘ A GROBGLA OOIN-CHABKR. A Photographer was ^present and the crowd waa cleared back that he might get several views of the men muod to the stake and ready for the burning. Tbe scene’ which followed beggars description. Freniled cheers rent tbe air aa men, almost crazed with hatred of the men being punished, saw the cruel flames drinking up the life blood. Just as the match waa applied to the pyre one of tboee in froot asked Reed didn’t be want to tell the troth before he died. ‘Yea, sir; I killed Mr. and Mis H dges,” be replied. ‘Who killed the childreny” be was asked. x Handy Bell,"came the reepo se, aa the flames lept upwards tnd further questioning^ was Impossible in the wild tumult. The spectacle was frightful. As the flames touched Reed’s naked oil satked akin he twist ed his head around in an endeavor to choke himself aod avoid. tbe . (earful torture. Only once did he complain. He said: “Lord have mercy!” Cato screamed in agony and begged that he be shot. His heavy suit of batr which was oil suaked wai almost the first th’ng the flames fastened oo, and be screamed with agony, while the lr mp rope became a collar of fire around his neck. A thrill of horror ran through the frames of the more timid. Before the flames had quench ed (Jato'a life, tbe rope was burned io two and his head swung from side to si do is he endeavored to avoid the fiery tongue. By efforts almost super human he writhed under the Clore locked chains. For only about three minutes was he vis’ble to the crowd tx fore the gre.it pile of fagots made a wall of flame' 1 jRbiQh the wind wiped aronnd on Cato’s side and so bid him from view. * a girl toay Met on Flaw by tbe Hu man Devils. The Bodgea murder, for which the two negroes, Oato and Raed, were burned near Statesboro, Ga., on Tues day of last week, was one of the moat brutal that baa ever been committed any where. An entire famHr, con sisting of the husband, wife and three children, were cruelly murdered In cold blood and their former home set on fire and burned to the ground. The devilish fiends threw the bodies of their Innocent victims in the burning bonding and thus attempted to bide their crime by cremeatlog the bodies. Thera was no happier family In all tbe section around Statesboro than Henry Hodges, a well-to-do farmer, and his wife and three children. He was Industrious and economical and bad managed to accumulate some thing for a rainy day. His accumula tions, following a small dsposit be bad made in one of the banks, began to be talked about and soon reports of boarded money were told. It waa even said that Hodges had a pot of gold hidden in his front yard. With the coming of the dawn on Friday, Jnly 29 the whole community was shocked by the story of the crime. Shortly after midnight neighbors dis covered the home of Mr. Hodges in flames. The home is just six miles from Statesboro. Rapidly neighbors and ftiends gathered to render assis tance. Instead of a home just afire they found the bouse ahnoet destroy ed. Members of the family were no where to be seen. BCRNK OF HORROR. Closer investigation, as daylight opened the way, showed a horrible scene. Mr. Hodges was found with bis skull crushed in as though from the blow of an axe. Mn. Hodges’ head and body had been beaten with some blunt instru ment. ~ The body of a little girl was horrib ly mangled. The two other children!* bodies did not show any signs of violence, and It is supposed they were victims of the flames and not the murderous blows of tbelr assailants. On pieces of timber In the yard were found many blood stains and bloody finger prints. STRUGGLE WITH ASSAILANTS. It developed that Hodges went to a neighbor’! about 8 o’clock the same n*ght to bring his little child back, who had been spending the day. It is believed be was met at tbe gate by tbe aasai'ants and murdeied ih re and that his body was dragged into the house. There were many In dications of a struggle at the gate and blood stains were lound on the gate post. A lamp waa found sitting on the gate post. A horse and buggy was also found, hitched to a tree in the back yard. Toe body of Mrs. Hodges waa found near tbe fireplace. Tne body of the oldest child was discover ed on the front porch. All the bodies were dressed, indioat' ing that tbe crime was committed early in tbe night before the family had retired. BLOODHOUNDe ON TRAIL. As soon as the crime was made known, s large posse was formed and bloodhounds put on the trait. As reported at the trial, the blood hounds followed the trail during the day to a picnic, at which several bun- tired negroes were at-sembied. With out warning tbe dogs pounced on two negroes. The office is fan to the dogs and in attempting to arrest the two negroes they were immediately sur rounded by the crowd. The crowd sought to prevent the arrest fit tbe two men and the officers drew their guns. Within a short time thirteen ne groes were placed under arrest aud carried to tbe St&teeboro Jill. Prior to the arrest of the thirteen, Paul Reid and his wife and Will Gate, other negroes, were placed in jail. In s confess on made later by the wife of Paul Reid she declared her hus band and Will Cato committed the murder. NRG BO WOMAN CONKKS8KS. The woman told a harrowing tale of tbe crime. She was anxious, she said, to make a clean breast of the whole matter and would have dune so before, when she heard Gf the murder being planned, but she was afraid, she said, that her husband would kill bodies of the five vlctimi were then piled In a heap and the house set on fire. There wsa great excitement follow ing the woman's confession and threats of lynching were heard on all aides. A public meeting was callen at the court house and the cooler heads finally persuaded the enraged citizens to allow tbe law to take its course. Later, under military escort, the two negroes, Paul Reid and Will Oato, were carried to the Savannah jail. To a party of Statesboro citizens, who viilted the pris mere in the Savannah jail, Reid confessed that the Hodges murder was planned by a black mafia society known as “Before tile Day Club.” He said tbe mem bers of the dub, whloh included many negroes in the neighborhood, had marked several victims. The meet ing of tbe club were held after mid night and sdj urned before day A*! Want* HU Fee. The State says: “Aron Prioleau, who periodically protest the oongroi- slonal election in the first district for GOES IIP FOB LIFE. White Murderer feat to Penitentiary from Faluda. the A GOOD 1XAMPLB TO FOLLOW. Judge Watte Telle the Ooavtcted Man of the Enormity of hie Crime and tbe Justice of the Rentenee. A spedal dispatch from Saluda to Tbe News and Oourler aays the notice of motion for a new trial in the Tbrallklll case, was abandoned by de fendant’s attorneys, and the prisoner arraigned for sentence. In passing sentence Judge Watts old: “You have been tried and convicted by a Jury of your country of murder. It is now my painful duty to pass sen tence upon you. I am always sorry for any one who la In trouble and dis tress. But you have violated tbe law of vour country. A jury of your coun try have found you guilty of murder, and have recommended you to the mercy of the Court. 1 am of tbe opin ion that the verdict was warranted absolutely by the facte of the case. I do not see how the Jury oould have done otherwise under the testimony the case than to bare found the verdict they did. I think it is going to have a happy effect throughout tbe State of South Carolina, because the he had nothing to say | sentence should not be passed * J> upon him. Judge Watts then aeoten-1 levtral Bloody lattlee: oed him to hard labor In the State] _ . • Penitentiary tor the period of his nat- F®** oral life. YOUMG AM1IL KILLKD WILL IT TO In a the sake of the $2,000 that Is allowed a contestant by the federal govern- I>®opJc of this State .Will learn that a Mr meet, Is in trouble with the negio lawyer who helped to manage his case in Washington before the congres sional committee. This fellow wants his fees for services. He has brought suit against Prioleau and Is likely to get judgment against him even If he never is able to collect tbe amount. Prioleau Is In worse luck than ex-Oon- gressman Murry of Sumter who Suc ceeded in swindling an old darkey who was not smart enough to care for himself until the courts took tbe mat ter up and brougbt.Mqrray to grief.' Boys for Farm Work. The State says Commissioner Wat son expects two boys from tbe Chil drens’ Aid society of New York city n s few days. These b iys will go to Abbeville and later on In the year others will be sent. As has been stated, these boys are not Inmates of reformatore, but are foundings oared l or bv the society until an age of discretion has been reached, when -they are sent out to make their own ivings. They are under tbe supervi- »1 n of the State for two years. Any one wishing to secure some of these boy* as laborers, farm hands, etc., should write lb Commissioner E. J. Watson, care tbe department of ag riculture, oomjaerceand Immigration, at Columbia. SAVAGERY IN DKTAIL. Reed was the first to exhibit unoon- sclousne s and was perhaps the first dead. After tbe flames bad progress ed very far up bis body his head sank forward and many believed that tbe fire got into his lung and killed h'm. As Cato’s bead swung to and fro sime of tbe more excited members of tbe party oommenoed throwing llghtwood knot* at it. As soon as it was seen that the men were dead the crowd commenced dis persing. A large number remained behind, however, p : ling more fuel on until the bodies were burned except the trunks. They employed them selves In tbrasing out the tire which commenced spreading slung the Streaks of pine net dies. Late Tuesday attpruoon, after the. last member of the mob bad left the scene, hundreds of citizens who had in no wise participated in the (xecuttoolmr. Tbe woman said that her bus- repaired to the scene and many riffband Will Oato were Impressed that V ’ ONE FIGHTING SOLDIER. One young soldier of the Oglethorpe L He fought i through his cap- lout RpoQ the lawn. A weapon Thill they mained until long after nightfall pick ihg op whatever souvenirs th*y could find. Conspicuous among the crowd were a nnmber of small boys in knee pants. HERD'S CONFESSION. Both nigroes made statements be fore they died. I Will Oato n iterated the statement made a few days ago that be was only a guard in the cane patch while tbe murder was being ^ ^,oommlttod. Paul Reed said that ha Jh# crowd end did ail the hlUlBg and that Will Oato told the truth when be said ha watch ed In the jOiaapsto'L He said be did who bed relaed threw them- Mr. Hodges bad about $300 in money and had planned to kill him and rub the house the Saturday night before. The?' went to the house, called Mr. Hodges out, but tbelr courage failed them and as an excuse asked for some spirits of turpentine. They were still resolved to try tbe murder again, tbe woman stated. She heard them plotting doling the week. - She said her husband and Will Oato left tbe bouse together on the night of Aha murder sad there were two or three others with them, but did not know who, as they Richly Deserved It. Alfred A. Knapp, convicted of the murder of bis wife, Hannah Goddard Knapp, and who confessed to five murders, was electrocuted in the annex of the Ohio penitentiary a few minutes after midnight Thursday. Knapp, who weakened when he found his last hope for life had gone, ex pressed a fear that be would have to he carried to tbe death chair, regained his nerve and met bis fate with little show of fear or emotion. Tbe 'elec trocution was performed without a aitoh, the first shock being applied at 12 02, tbe second s drinute later, and at 12.09 he was pronounced dead. Wont on Record. According to tbe Railroad Gazette, tbe recent wfieck at Eden, Col., was tbe worst railroad disaster in point of loss of life, wblch has ever occurred in this conntfy. It is believed that more than 100 persons were killed in the Colorado disaster. In August, J887, St Chatswortb, 111., 85 lives :were lost in a railroad wreck, and this was the record until last week. There were a larger number injured in thff Illinois wreck, however. Well Taken Care Of. The State says: _ Tbrallklll and his son Saluda Jail fur several months charg ed with the unprovoked murder of Benj.' Burton, but our correspondent reports that ’neither looked the worse for oorflnement.’ And why should they, living in oomfort&bly furnished and well fortified rooms, taking their meals at tbe sheriff’s table, having the liberty of tbe honse and being well armed P r . Burned to Deatb. John II. Frazier wa* burned to death at Columbia Tenn., Thursday moruing in a fire which destroyed the planinga mill pl&nt of the N. F. Vaughn Mercantile and Manufactur ing company. Frazier was cut ot while attempting Ap save tools stored in tbe mllL The property loss was MO,000. A Trolley Tragedy. At Chicago four people were killed another fatally hurt and tweoty-tbree severely Injured In a collision late Thursday afternoon between an ex press train on the Chicago Great Western railroad and a train of three cars bound for the Hawthorne race track. “Morgan W. have been in overpow. not kill the children; that they were never asms Into ttM house where she Meek Broken. Clarence Derlder, a cyclist, was killed while attempting to “loop-tbe loop” at a local resort at Salt Lake Wednesday night. He reached tbe ltd# when the wheel left the track and he droped. His head struck the wheal aod his Deck was broken. man of respectable character and with property can be convicted when he commits a crime, the same as the poor, the ignorant and the unlettered. | here has been too much shooting in •South Carolina. Men too much have taken the law in their own hands. You cannot pick up a newspaper but what you will see that somebody has lieen killed. Defendants come in Court aud make an effort at self-de- ence. I heard the Solicitor of the 6th district say he was absolutely afraid to blow his nose in the Court House because be carried hit handker chief in his hip pocket aud was fear ful that somebody might take that aa an excuse for shooting him. There is no doubt in my mind that you went up to Monetta with malice in your Heart and blood on your mind. You went up there to pick a row, it seems to me, with the school teacher. What the cause of trouble was between you and him I do not know, but he (the teacher) seemed to be a very inoffen sive and quiet young fellow. You lad no right to take the law in your bands. The worst feature of your whole case, to my mind, is that you oaded your shotgun with buckshot and you gave your elghteen-year-old boy a pistol, and carried him along with you. A boy, especially one 18 year* old, will do anything his father tells him to do. 1 think your son is more to be pitied than to be blamed, le was acting under your orders. You went up there to harm the school teacher and got into an altercation with tbe brother of the man yon sub sequently killed, arid as far as I can earn you shot him for no cause stall, and you concluded you would clean up the crowd. When his brother came down, as It was natural that he should do, on hearing that his brother had r sbot, you shot him down with- giving him a dog’s chance. He might have been a bad man. I do not know anything about that. Tbe testimony developed the fact that he bad had some fights In his life. Un(prtuuately and unluckily all of us have done the same thing. 1 suppose if I was on trial you could, rake up some fight I lisve had and so ar as that Is concerned, most every body else In tbis Court room. Tbe older a man gets the more he realizes that fighting does mot pay. I would take a great deal before I would fight under any circumstances. The man who wins his fight usually gets tbe worst of it. I would rather be tbe dead man than tbe live one—that is, would rather be dead than to have to kill a man. I do not think a man has much bapplnem when he takes the human life, unless he does it acting strictly in self-defence. Tbe Tne law Is that no man can claim self-defence unless he Is without fault In bringing on the quarrel and diffl- oulty. It seemed to me sa if you oould feel it in the air around the Court House that tboee people around about Monetta seemed to be afraid to testify in this case. It actually looked as if they had been terrorized some bow. You are the most determined man I ever saw. You went to Monetta for a certain purpose and you carried it into effect. I think the Jury deserve great credit for find ing the verdict they did, and 1 think it is s happy omen for this conn try, going to show that tbe peo ple of Saiuda County are tired of lawlessness, are tired of so much bloodshed, and In fact they are^ deter mined to cut It down and place this county on an equality with other conn ties in this State so far as law and good order are concerned. This Is one of tbe finest counties ever saw In my life. Its people, white and black, are courteous and polite, and I cannot understand why there should be so |mach shooting. I am sor ry-for you, I am sorry for your wife, am sorry fur yonr children. I have got five children myself. I have frequent/ ly wished, on occasions of sentencing defendants, that the punishment Railroad Wreck on Thandav Morniag Near Central. A special from Greenville to The State uys In a head-on collision near Central Thursday morning a local fre’ght and a flirt train were badly smashed up and several of the train crew Injured. Claiborne Ansel, fireman on tbe local freight, waa caught between the engine aud tender and remained in that position tor over two hours until an engine oould be sent tor from Greenville to pull tbe wrecked loco mo tive off the goffering fireman. Mr. Ansel had both legs broken Just below tbe knee and was slightly scalded by the escaping steam. Engineer Hanks of the dirt train received a out In tbe bead and was burned and badly braised by the shock of the collision which threw him 20 feet from his engine. On ex amination by the physicians it was found that amputation of one of Mr. Ansel’s legs would be necessary and probably tbe other one also. If tbe artery in tbe other leg cannot be saved the limb will have to be taken off. 1$ a son of M. F. AnaeL As soon as s train oould be made up irdman Ansel and Engineer Hanks were brought to the city and taken tbe Greenville sanitarium where The Geaeral Grew] at the the am A dispatch from Gbefeo says raged' around Eirle took them In charge. Ec gineer Hanks was not seriously hurt a* he waa able to walk from tbe am bulance into the house. The extent of his Injuries were bruises, burns and gash on the to ehsd. Fireman Ansel was remarkably cool for one so badly Injured. When placed on a stretcher at the depot he recog nized the doctor and other friends and exchanged handshakes and told them about the wreck. Report says that Engineer Hanks of tbe dirt train was sitting in his cab in a cot when the local freight came down the track, lilting the front of his engine and knocking him up on tbe side of the cut about 20 feat. A later dispatch from Greenville brought tbe sad intelligence that young Ansel had died at 6 30 p. m. at the Greenville sanitarium. Ha i about 20 yean old, only son of Ion. M. F. Ansel, and -a popular young man socially. Mr. Ansel had ambitious to become a locomtive en gineer and Thursday’s trip was his I rat regular ran in the full capacity of fireman. KILL1D AT MDGGXTTt. to death when he fired tbe He told how he found the Ut- Kittie, behind a trank and X./ *7 sms. They were gone about an hour RLdabalL WhsottM husband said be bad .^Sflunltted ah awful crime, and was In trouble about it., They said they had killed Mr. Bodgea and wife and two dhUdraa, ish farmer has bad aevenU Engl la Knwr, stuffed and bee of hie fruit bird will come anywhere oould fall upon tbe guilty cue. Your wtxc ana cuiiartn wtu sonar doomm of violation of tbe laws of tire land. Nothing that we new do can bring the dead man back to life, sad bis wife sod three httie children. It is one of tbe saddest oases that I ever saw In dry life. 1 trust you will make your peace and repent of your Let the — »♦ Popular Yorfng BuestueM Man Fatal ly Shot by a Necro. A special dtspateb-from Meggett’s o Tbe News and Courier says Allen Heathlngton, prominent young white man, waa shot and killed at his broth er’s saw mill in Toogoodoo at sunrise Thursday morning. Tbe slayer was a negro teamster, Sam Brown, who waa n tbe employ of tbe mill. A difficul ty aroee over the tardiness of the oe i fro in going to work. Young Heath- ngton fired two or three shots and In ured the negro, though it is not bought seriously. A bystander stated that the negro fired but one shot, whloh was fatal, tba bullet entering the left eyrofHeathlngton, and caus ing death in a short time. News of Ahe tragedy spread Rk* wildfire and in a short while about all the white men and several of the ne groes were armed aod to pursuit 6( the fugitive. Sheriff Martin, of Ohsrltttdb, was telegraphed to for bloodhounds. A special train, was chartered andOffioar Burton and two aa$lstants arrived with the hounds about 11 o'clock. >- Up to late Thursday evening it la not thought that the hounds have struck the right trail. In view of previous troubles In this sect!oi the Governor has wired to Sheriff Owens, of Walterboro, to call out tiie Gampobelio Rifles to protect the fugitive if caught. There are two posses out, each in charge of a local magistrate. Every thing is orderly, hot serious, aud no effort will be spared to capture the negro. Mr: John M. Hsatbiagtm, trother of the deceased, has offered a reward of $500 for tbe capture of the culprit, Sam Brown. Cream Eaten Poisoned. Reports from Pleasant View, Am herst county, Va., where 25 persons were poisoned Thursday afternoon by eating ioe cream, are meagre, owing to distance from telegraph lines bat It tt known that all of tboee affected are considered out of danger save one young lady, Mlsa Lawborne, whose address Is not known, and who la said to ne In a critical condition. There were more than 2,000 persons present at tbe aeasioiia of tba Piedmont Baptist association aod those .who were poisoned ate of the cream after tbe afternoon samion adjourned. In tore than half an hour the church was turned Into a hospital and four pby- slclaas vrefo working heroically to counteract the effecta of the poison. Over tbe Fell*. ' Just before ten o’clock Wednesday morning an nnknown woman commit ted suicide by going over she Ameri can Falla at Niagara. The suicide was wHns—if by hundredsbf five hundred fret from the pradptoe. She was about forty-five years old and wore a black dress and skirt tad a eM. It seeaosthat the of tie of bogs proportions Port Arthur August 14 and 15 and waa resumed August 17. The Japan ese, it Is reported, sacrificed 20,000 more men but gained important ad vantages In the matter of petition. The above news was brought to Cbe- foo on Junks, one of which, having on board three Rue-Ians concealed in the baggage of Chinese to escape from tbe Japanese, toft Port Arthur Thursday night and waa blown rapidly to Chefoo by a gale. The main force of the at tack wa* directed against tbe toft wing and resulted in the capture of Pigeon bay positions sod some of the forts at Liao Tleshan. At Pal on Chang the Japanese hastily mount.d guns which did excellent service la siding tbe storming of tbe right wing where the Japanese are said to have captured two torts of minor value, mounting eight 4-inch guns, two edge guns and six quick firing guns. Tbe position that tbe Japanese oc cupy on Liao Ttosban peninsula Is not clear but numerous Chinese sources aver that the Japanese have bean seen in force la that section. Apparently an attack originating In L ulsa bay swept through the Pigeon bay, posi tions Into the peninsula, in the doing of which a ms j Jrity of the lives of the expedition were siorlficed. On the night pf tbe 15th the battle lulled somewhat when the Japanese sent tbe terms of surrender to Lieut. General StOMBSL._. H .L . ., - - . — The terms provided that tire garri son should march out with tba honors ot war and j dn Geo. Kuropatkln; that all civilians be brought to a place des ignated by the Japanese admiral; that the Russian warships in the harbor, numbering seven namely, the battle ships Betvizan, Sevastopol, Pobtoda, Peres viet, polls va, the armored cruis er Bayan and the protected cruiser Ballads and 12 or more Torpedo boat destroyed and four gunboats be euro rendered to tbe Jeponeee. Lieut. Gen. Steoerel le alleged to hare re ceived tba terms with a burst of wm$- derful profanity, his habitual togtttr- nlty deserting him. He strode tbe tbe floor until be became calmer and remarked that if the Japanese propo sition wae a joke it wae in bad taste. WILL MOT SURRENDER. The London Express printed tbe following dispatch from its Toklo cor respondent on Thursday: ,T I am informed that tba Mikado baa received from the commander of his forces at Port Arthur tbe Russian general’s reply to tbe imperial de mand tor toe surrender of tbe foroee. V:' ■ ‘-m — . — - __—- .j.—- “In bis reply, Lieut. General Stoe- ^ eel expresses hie thank* for the hu manitarian offer to grant safe conduct to all non-oombeteota within the Rus sian lines. “Tba demand to surrender Btoaseel refuses uncompromisingly, and do- dares his garrison will fight to tba last man in defence of the fortress.” ^ , • FROM PIGEON BAY, According to news reestved at Ghet foo the Japanese'have begun to bom bard Port Arthur from Pigeon Bay, to which the nght wing of the army has penetrated, this being lees than three miles from the fortram. The coal yards of Port been set afire by the J*, — and are now burning. The centre of the beetiglng force ^ “ baa been moved to Paling Unurg, two miles north of the town, and line has moved closer to tbe .doomed fortress. Passengers on board tbe steamer Deolms, whloh anchored off Port Ar thur Thursday night, wltoetied the bombardment from Pigeon Bay. A TERRIFYING SPECTACLE. Tbe Japanese shells were vis'bto during their whole course. They cir culated cometrllke to tbe town and tbelr explosions were marked by great ■plashes of fire, which shot up into the sky. Tbe bombardment from this and other points began at midnight sad lasted until morning. Tne Wi1 — 4 rn i did not reply to the Japanese fire. Major Seaman, formerly a surg.on la the American army, was a passen ger on the Declare. He says the spec tacle was most brilliant and awe In spiring. Tbe Deeinre weighed anchor from Port Arthur at 5 o'clock Friday morning. At sbma distance out she saw five Japanese warships guarding the harbor. ' Chinese refugees from Port Arthur, who arrived here last night,, report that tbe Japanese have captured tbe petition at Baliohuang, three out on the main road from tbe * rsjn Horrible AeoktewL jfca Tbe Augusta Herald say* Mrs. mie Jackson, an employe of Mill carding room, while Wednesday moral ug had tbe tom from the top of her head r While i up by the i