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-r-r- XXIX, BARNWELL. S. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1900. NO. 2A HE WIU DIE QaDows For a Most Hein* ous Crime. BRUTE TO BS-HANGI P .j The Lew Vindicated in the Ceae of An drew Thompson, Wh<*, Within Five f Weeks From the Commission mx of the Crime, is Tried and Condemned to be tfnnf. There has scarcely ever been r moelirInterest sfcown Id any cilmina) trial In Greenville an Is shown in th trial of tbo rsplst, Andrew T :0’op no, who Is oharsed with asiaiiUlDi. Mrs. Frank James, tho wife of * farmer, near Taylor's, Decemtxr 18 ISOS, which was begun In the court of semiODS Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock, says,a special dispatch to Th' State. ▲ verdict of gu Ity was re tamed Wednesday afternoon. According to the testimony of ber Smith and Charlie Moseley, both col ored, they wore with the defendant at cundown on the day the alleged crime was oommltted, about a quarter i f a milt distant from the James home They parted at that i>oint, after having partaken of whiskey. from a plntbottlo which thi defend an Urad. Before they parted this buttle was emptied. Thompeon went in the dl* reetkm of the James heme, they to iper tng arKiiir.nnt for the Stat«. Vlwava log <04,1 end eloqOfnt, he made ne of tb“ Mronpesr. (,p (-ches ever eard in a G eeovir> court room. He va* followed by flnfhftur I { who ma' , e a short u n o at a> d ao.«l>zed iho testjreony. E ■ q ieoMy the so loltrr appealed fir tui<j pro tee‘Jon of el less womrn and t’ e upi res-tioc >f mob Uw by the petit jury doing Its iuty. Ills bpe ch was forcible and dellvt red with c: araoterist c tamest- ness. , John J. MoSweln made toe closing tegument. Hd wi-s arpoloted by the 'ourtto defend Thompron, and a vaye fi^ht wts raado prov>i the nnocence of the c .,ed Ev r point of testlm-.ny which was Intro luoed by tbt-Sta e ,/hleh h irde ed on beirg irrelevant wo s ccnUste 1. Earnest y ard rlslrdy fH» a“t r 'rn**y reclt< d ;be State’s testimor y to th^ jury and made a strut g pita- for hi Mient. R luctrctly Mr. M Swa’n took tbe case, but he had no way cu c of It.atid l.e did his duty well H- 5 urged upen rhe Jorv to se*' that no Innocent man w^s conv coed; the law did not want It, ard to give the prls' oner, who was. helpless and in the hands of the law and his Gcd, an im partial verdict. ■>> A verdict (f guHty was reached after the j iry was out one hour T tompaou was sentenced to hi hang ed on F-brusry 2 IW.Tiiction for a new trltf was m^da. WENT ON ROCKS. Steamer Valencia Wrecked on the Coast of an Island. \IAISY PERSONS LOST. AN OFFICER 1LLED. rt ATIKSIPT TO AUUEST SLAYER EM»9 IN OKFK ER’9 HE ATH It Is Tlionght That Ode Hundred and Twenty*One Souls Perished on tbe Ill-fated Ship. Not a Woman . or Child Among the Rescued. A dlspVoh from Victoria, B. C, Uvs the Valencia, which was en route from San Franchc s with 94 pasaen ,er8 ard a c ew of 60, went ashore at uidnlght Tuesday night durirg a tbiik fog and a la r ge-number were drowned when attempting to leave the ,bip. The >tcamer Is on the recks against a high ellil, and Is likely togt roptrees at any time. Ore boat’s crew r &cbed Cape be..l,> at 3 o’clock Tues day afternoon, and nine men got ashore near the telegraph hut, about IF mllea from the lighthouse Two tn“u are prisoners on the face of the c Iff n^Ai^whlch the steamer want ashore and'cannot get' up tbe cl ff or return to Aj ewnck. Tae sea will probably reach them when the tide is Mc^orpick fyehe of a difficulty nigh- The men report terrible scenes. in Which Hate C onstable I ost ^is ’ if a. A special d!sp^t:h from Augusta, Ga‘,-o rue btwte says' Mr. -J, -C. ick^a^oi'mber cf the Stater,ons bul'.ry. ried in the Augusta cVV he8p:t-]•;? v ue^iay morn-^ lug, Jan. 33, at 8 o,click, having been brought to t e c cy M mi ly la a ser- - hheig hemm In in apnnsltn .tUru^ltu^ aa... n a t This bottle figured prominently h the trial. An empty bottla waa fount at the place where Mre. James wat suited, which, when presented to witnesses, brought forth the statements that “If it wasn't the mme bottle Thompeon carried and from which they drenk, it looked very much like It.” Mre. James' testimony was pathetic and caused no little Interest. There was ho disorder among the crowd, .which wee silent to catch the words of the wltnees. She was visibly af fected as she took the stand. It wa» : a trying Ordeal, and if the courts ha 1 any way to shield a woman from euoi publicity It would undoubtedly 1 e done. Her vole# wee faint when six' answered the first few questions of Solicitor Boggs, but she tnome mor - confident as the < lamination pit c )e<1- ed and it was not necessary'ftt * tbe Solicitor to propound questions to st- oure her evidence. Sue testified that e negro giving hit name as Andre« Thompson came to ber house about an bodr by sun and went away. About dark the same man returned and aske' where her husband avis. She fe lt him that he wee in Greenville. S * suspected the negro wee up to n good and picking up f ilmp, started out at her front door for the home of Mrs. Phillips, a few hundred yards away. Tbe negro turned and went toward the back of tbe yard. A'ter ■he bed gone only a ftw yards the negro ran up behind ber and taking f hold of her jerked the lamp frougher hand. A terrible sci (hr ensued. She made superhuman ftl .ns to r>ptl e tbe attack, but was overpowered anc the crime was committed, from whlo.) the etffered greatly. , fmm poiQt t D th e testimony So lidtorBoggs asked: "Is the defen dant who sits there tbe man who as suited yon, or Is he not, Mrs. James? 1 - The silence which prevailed over the crowded court room was deathlike. The spectators had listened for this question, which was the most im portant to convict tbe defendant Mrp. James looked straight at the prisoner, who set by the side of bis attorney. "That is the man,” said she In a strong voice, "that did It”- - and after a slight pause, "that’s the dogl” This testimony caused a con siderable stir and tbe deputies moved about among the crowd. Constable Rainey testified to the capture of Thompson in his home and his Identificatlon by Mrs. Jam|s tbe nest day. Ha ‘was In a drunken stupor when arrested and made differ ant and conflicting statements to the magistrate. To show that the defendant was not at the James home when tbe orime was oommltted and that a strange negro was in the neighborhood Is the sole defence of the negro Thompson and upon this the defendant’s case nated. Attorney MoSwain for the defense In the cross examination of all wltfewees for the State, Bought to ftrirgC"* teetlmnrfr- showing there was e strange negro in tbe vicln By when the crime was oommifed Such a strange person was there attoute tbe afternoon of the crime Tbe positive identification of tbe de fend ant by Mrs. James and the chain ofevldedce which clings about the bottle are strongly contradictory to the theory of the defense and are questions which will be decided by the jury. The State dosed its case at the noon hoar, all the testimony being heard The dtfr"— put up do witnesses and arguments ware at ores begun, delenoe by not Introducing any secured the lest Mr. Holstein was accompanied by Dr- It M. Fuller of M -U it m<ck, who wa» with him ui.tll the end came, and as- cored th«* remalts toMr ItelhUin’s f irm« r i ome at Bit* s .urg Tuesday aftercooa. ‘ „ . Dr. Fuller was seen by the S.ate’s representative anil gave the following statement fur rubilcat on; 'Mr. J. C. Holstlen-, S..te cinsta ble at M C>rmick, wa> shot by Mr. WadeC -thran, a fa*-ir r r living about two miles ftoBT M Ur.rmkk. I Tbe shooting to k p'ace o i Main str et in the presence of a nuxBsr of witiress- Oothrao and Mr Tump, Wid-;- maa were about to get into an alfe-r carton when Mr. Cothran drew a 311 Oae woman dropped her child Into t '.e sea when trying to hand It to her husband, who was in one of the boats. When'tbe boat's crew left there was a little biy runni-g about the decks crying tor .his mother, who was among the drowned. There,Are still about 125 persons on the Wreck, with almost .certain death staring them in tbe face. The steamer Queen, which arrived here 'at 4 o’cloc* from San Francisco, landed her passengers and efrltgmThmemfirof The ■wreck Ti.e steamer Q teen City left at m'.d night on ber ngular cuast cruise-and should reach the ioeutVf the wreck In a few hours. Urgentpaessagas ars being receiv .d for assistance. A dispatch from' Cape Beale, says the s’eamer lost Is tbe Valencia of San Francisco, which went ashore on Vancouver island oast near Clo se The ligtiih iuoe keeper says about 100 were drowned. The news of jbhe dis aster on the Vancouver Island coast In meagre, being confined to the mes- sagferccei«ud.b? Gapt. Gaudin, agent of the marine service, from Light house Keeper Patterson at Cap Beale, saying: ".Steam :r wricked be ■ ween here and .Cl o>e, about loo PASSED AWAY. Gen. Joe Wheeler Has Joined His Comrades Under the SH4DE OF THE TREES. calibre Smill \ W s-apifttol. Toe^drowned, niie reached tekgraph htt. town marshall, V . J. r.-Tir- wD, came upon the scene a^.n plao-d M'. Coth ran under arreht.luj he rtfised . fe*- wive up bis weapon. T .e marshal o«lled upon Mr HoUteUi hr esa s r . ance. He stepped up pud it s t.m-. took hold of tbr-b»r!«l f tbe vreap n aud req ieared Mr. Cothran Ui 1 t b!m hava the ^ st- 1. Mr, C fer n ui 1 re'uMf d an * c-,-4* iv r t il to p ill cue pistol frotr M' C *tufan, w l :en is wasel e M»rje*l. I.tc bullet catered the cheet aoout two &un a half ijiches below the nfpp e, ou a line penetrat ing the diphrag n io two places, pass Ing through the po.ir.cardlum add- through the 1’wtr 1 be of tbe ltf‘ lung, lolgiug j Jst under tie skiu at a point of be Ht.ouidtr blade. -‘ Mr. Ho stem was tak*-n to the city hospital by ht* physlcun on the afternoon t.win ^r-Trrrtluufcd -fe*- grow sroni unti dab ensued at 8 o'clock WenesHy morning. Ah autopiy revealed iht fauc Hut both the abdc men and plurau were tilled with blood. * "Mr. Wade C dhran wa<« cut two or three timvKby Mirr -Wldeman the shoot!i g to k p’ace. Hli w‘und» were fl ah wounds aD-J~hdt likely to give him trouble. . Mr. Holsteiu was cx)l and colkct- ed. He walked marly twi> bkok* to the physic aa's i til e afeer the wcu id and was councioas until about 15 m 1 eutes-btf>re he-dird. Ite made uo stffemeat in reg’vnrt^the wou^d. - ‘TIM Terrains were shlpp-d to Bite^- burg, his fuimtr home, oa the' 3 30 train Tuesday afternoon where the interment will take plao tomorrow 0Is f*ther, mother, one b other and onesisfer survive 1 dm. Tne three cams over to Angus a un the mum- lug train, reaching here a^sbort while after h s d ath. Mr, Hulstein was a young man about 30 y ears i f age i^id well liked by every one in'Mc^ornl ck, where he had been s atloned f >r the past two and a half yet rs. II - was a member of the Knights of Pythias and his friends were numi'rous.” - . Si cl <ly Woin.m Honred. c Chicago society was astoueded when it learned that the recent Kirme^s had been denounced by the Rev. Syd ney 8tr6arg- speaking before a large Witt wire more raticu'ars as soon a possible.” Cape Bcale/ta on Vancouv is’and at -the sou hern'slde of the en trance to Barclay Bound. T.:e name of the wrecked vessel has not been as certained. - ^ NO SION ok Lira Tbe evi denoe secured the lest argument to tbblury. Mr. Alvin H. Dean ssslsfe gd the prosecution and made the The correspondent of the Associat 'd Pre-s on board the steamer Salvor as* wired from Bimfieldas follows: Tne siramer Valencia was located by the steamer Q leen at 9 a. m. today pa Point P in way, about live mttes from Cape Beale. Toe tug Czir went in to investigate and report that the ifeamer was ashore, stern first ard her dfccks swept clear with tbe ex- oeptlonif a small part of the deck house and her two masts standing. No peisons could be tau alive on •oard la the rigging of the foremast waa whaMthe captain of we tug Crsr took, tq.tie a signal, although he fets unahV-tcnsay whether it was a piece of sail or a human being clluglng to lh# rlggiog. ' Toe steamer Silv r stood In for atnut two mtl.s but was unable to go any turtne erly gale was h.owmg, making It high ly dangerous, if not impossible, to make a closer approach. The Czir was within three quarters Topeka picked op a life raft at 1 o’clock Wednesday afeerm ou six mile* off Cape B ale with 20 suiv vors of the Vale'c’a on board. The mao were in a pitiable condition and al most dead from exposure. The mer on tbe'r frail support battled bravely with a pair of oars to reach the City >f Topeka, which, owlog to the dan gerous oosfct, could not run in any closer to them.' Within half a mile from tbe raft 2'boat was lowered from the deck, whidh was with mcch. d;ffl sulty, made fast with a Hoe to thr raft. Tbe work of rescue wsa dan. gerous. Tne men were too exhausted to even tie a rope about themselves The survivors told terrible tales o< tbe wr ck of tbe ves el. When they teft the ship there were about 90 peo ple od board, mo»t of them clinging to tbe rigging. G. Willis, one of the men rescued from the raft, in describing his cx - periencts, said two of the beats were ^mashed as soon as they, stn ck. the water and a third fell Into the water item first, prec'pitatlog its occupants into the wafer. . Then, he said, an attempt was made- to get a Hue ashore. "A fireman named Clgales agreed to swim ashore He was in tbe water fully half an hour, but was unable to make the beech. Oae man was dwempt ashore and succeeded in landing on a email r< ck. We shot a line to him and then he tried to climb the cliff, but he fell and was killed be fore our eyes. *Tn the morning another sad ca lamlty octurred. About 15 or 20 per- ions, among them one or two women, had taken refuge In the fore topmsst. Suddenly, and without warning, the mast tottered end there mme a shriek from those on it, and tbe next mo ment it fell with a eresh, carrying its load of human freight to a terrible death. "Gapt. Johnson lost bis bearings and ran tbe ship ashore. It was a dark and stormy night, and nothing oould be seen. The ship struck while runulng full- spe?d. We all thought we were tp the southward of Flat tery, and after striking Gapt. John; son proved himself a hero. He made the statement that be would never- iftlje the wrepk alive and I he chief engineer fs aim carryTiig a revolver with whtoh to blow cut his brains when • the critical moment comas.” —;— . ' 8UHMBBQED AND BBOAEN ' With only 33 of the 164 persons on 'ward known to be safe up to a late hour Thursday night, the wrecked teamer Valencia now lies submerged ni broken on tbe Vancouver coast five miles from Cape B; ale. Only a portion of a mast stands above the water and the fl *et of steamer* and tugs Thursday turned their attention . to patrottlng the coast In the hope.of wasapperently active fi ding biats, rafts or wreckage still tfloat with survivors. But tbe bellrf grows stronger each hour that 121 persons. Including most of the passen gfjs are lo^t. O' the 33 persons definitely accouo ted for, and these do not Include threr men, believed to be survivors sasn on i bore by the wballrg ves set Orion, six have been taken on the Salvor, bruised, half naked, and ex hauned. Nine others in a similar plight are still camped on Darling creek in a telegraph but, while tbe remaining 18 were picked up by tbe City of T peka from a raft. Not a woman or ohlld Is among the saved, survivors saying that the wo merT' refused to leava the wreck even wfce i told the a Ip was going to pieces. A CO 3 V ART 0018 IIS All a alie frona the wreck bac could -conducted hr pastor. audience at the Second ContrregatFm al Church, as ih« most Improper so olal gathering ever held in Coicigo. In an address that fairly bristled with invective the cli-rgymau sTgmatized in the entertain meet as "half naked, painted, sensualiz'd creatures, full sisters to .the benigitted Fetish danc ers of S >utti Africa, promoters of the Klrmees, wh'ch wbs held two weeks ago, raised 92 i.000 Tor the Children's Memorial II spiiil. -Mr?. Walter S Brewister, treasurer of the Kt r m"ss, declared after she had heard Of Dr: Strong’s remarks that none of the danoe was immoicat and that the cos tumes worn by tbs. worn* n who dis pensed punch complied with every rule of propriety. of g > no further towards the Valdrcla and after making as complete an ex am I nation aypowrtble, she returneito the Q leen and Salvor. The letter steamer and the tug Czar then left for Bamfleld creek, the Qaeen stand Ing by her companion line.- When the Salvor left the scene there was a heavy swell from v the southwest and rain was falling in torrents. The Qu en rf ported having heard three guusnots shortly before tbe arrival of the Sal vor, but nothing of any living person was to be seen. Advices from Cape Beale say that 15 men have arrived* one of whpm U the boatswain, the other., being' sail ors. They reported a passmger ILt of 94 sod a crew of" 60 and said that when they left the wrtek yesterday marnlcg there were about 100 persons on board, a large peremtagu of whom were women and children who were on the quarterdeck. Two boats were imasbed alongside and all tbe cctu pants were drowned. , ~ r The Valencia l|?t San Francisco about 11 o'clock on Saturday last and heard no sound and saw no light pre saging danger. .The officers were run nlng by dead reckoning and were on the putloon for Cbumailtta reef light ship when the steamer struck. She was backed off after she Btrwk but the water ii led the engine room, the fires were extingutghed and the en glne crew forced out of the room, al th< ugh not before tbe V ilenola had been driven hard on the bead. UOKUIHLB xfcPKUIBNCBS. A spiclal representative of The P «t*IutelligeDoer wired from P »rt Angeles at 3:30 a. m. Thursday morning that the rescue ship City of And Declare* God Told Him to Kill the Preaohdr. His mind unbalanced, e victim of religious mania, Philip Robins, aged fifty, was lodged In jail at Catsklll, N. J., rccmtly on complaint of R v H. a heavy seaantTa-wesfr f LttR <ag, pastor of Methodist Fptoco- pal church at Leeds Robins is prop rietor of the Marlon bouse at South Cairo md recently experienced reli gion through attendance at revivals After singing hymns and quoting Scripture for the bennfit of the oelgh hors, R'bitty inddcniy declared the 1 God had commlseiooed him to s’ay the Loads divine, said accordingly he d edod off through mud. ooverieg the three mile itreten ef highway between his bom* and the Methodist parson age. Confronting Rovt M Hoag, he touched briefly on the outlook for loe and then with clinched fist aimed i blow at ths pastor’s head shouting "God commanded me to kill you and I must do it.” The minister, driven to a corner of the room by the onslaught retaliat ed in kind and when opportunltytlf fared darted pact the madman and fled to the house of Dr. Rouse. Rabins was Cosely watched by the doctor until the arrival of some county iffleials, and when lodged in jail was examinee by two physicians. He will be com mttted to the state hospital at Pongh keeps!*. Close Call. - A dispatch from Ormond, Fia., says Charles Hamilton, and aeronaut, dropped 300 feet with hie airship Tuesday and narrowly escaped fatal injuries. Hamilton was pitched for- wird upon tbe board walk and ren dered ucooudous. No bones s broken. Collapse was due to the In sufficient power of the sixty-horse power touring car which was used to do the towing. When the spetd of th* tow began.to lessen and the air ship began towabule and Hindi ten, by mistake, dropped his oa, ca, which was to have been the algna to the tow driver to stop. The aero plane at once began to flutter down* ward. ^ He Was a Hero of Two Wars/Was Of* fiddly Thanked By the Sooth Carolina Leyislatnre For His Defense of Aiken Dnr* inf Sherman’s Raid. c Gen. Joseph Wheeler, th* famous Confederate cavalry leader and a bri gadier general of the United/States army since the war with Spain, died at 5 35 o’clock Thursday afternoon at the home of bU sister, Mrs. Sterling Smith, In Brooklyn. -The veteran of two ware was 69 yean old, but io iplte of his age, theie was hupe until Thursday of his recovery from the at-' rack of pneumonia, which caused tbe death. It has not yet been announced where tbe body will be burled, bu v . prcbibly It will be In Arlington cem etery, near Washington. Announce ment for the plane for the funeral will be male tomorrow. Gen. Wheeler was taken 111 six days ago at his sister’s home, where he has been living re cantly. He contracted a severe oolr' which developed into pleurisy and pneumonia. From the first his age told against him but the family did not give up hope until Wednesday night, when the alsease was found to have all oted both lungs. Gen. Wheeler’s Immediate relatives 'were .all with him. His daughfeera,^ Anne, Ludlle ai d Carrie Wheeler, had been summoned from the South and arrived early in the week. His eon, Mij. Joe. Wheeler; J/„ y Jl. A , now stationed at West Point, was also present, as well as Gan. Wheeler s sister, Mtf; Sterling Smith, and her son. The family were summoned to the ledside of tbe patient at midnight Wednesday night, when the doctor’s in consultation bonduded that the end was but a matter of hours. Tbe gen eral was then awake and conscious and He seemed to know that death waa ap preaching and tb< ugh tee weak to peak, be succeeded In giving signs of recognition and enooursgiment to his oblldrtn. .. ' •*’ Later the general sank Into a peace ful slwm oer, and at tne request of the doctors the family quietly withdrew from tbe sick man’s bedside. Gen. Wheeler wee never again more than seml-o nscious. He lingered un til this evening and passed away quietly. _ „. , GEN. WHEELER 8 CAREER. Joseph Wheeler, soldier, born In Augusta, Ga , Sept. 10, 1836. He waa graduated at the United States Mill tary academy In 1859 and assigned to the dragooes. After a year’s ssrvloe at the o.valry school for practice at Carlisle, Pa., be received the full rank of second lieutenant, but on April 22, 1861, resigned and entered the Con federate army. He wee made colonel of the Nineteenth Alabama Infantry on Sept. 4, 1861, and servdd' prlnc - pally In the West. At Shiloh he oommanded a brigade and covered the Confederate retreat ! rom the field. In July, 1862, he was transferred to a cavalry command and engaged in raiding Western Tennessee Daring the Ksqtucky campaign of that year be had charge of Gan. Brax ion Bregg’s cavalry and fought at Green R ver and Perry vllle. He com- mandc(A4he rear guard of the Cjufed- erate army when It retreated into and on October 30, 1862, At nesv* b*ok into northern Alabama. During th s raid, which lasted one aroitj, be waa continuously engaged and ruined much property. He was unsuooenful In destroying Sherman’s communications, and was finally ‘riv en back by the national cavalry. Wh n ;he Con ft d'rate commander became convinced of tbe Impossibility of ar resting Sherman’s advance, Weeler was sent in front of the armf to pre vent the Union troops from raiding and foraging. He then engaged In the defense of Savannah, end for bis defense of Aiken received the thanks of the legislature of South Carolina. Gen. Wheeler received hie promotion r '0 the rank of lieutenant general on Feb. 28,1865, audoon'lnued In charge of the cavalry aider Gsn. Joseph E. Johnston until tbe surrender In April, 1865. The death of Gen. James E B. Stuart, on May 11, 1864, made bUn senior cavalry gent ral of the Oonfed- srate army. After th* war, be studied law, which profession ard tbe occuoa tion of obtto:) planting he followed until 1880, when he was elec ed to congress as a Democrat, and took bis seat on D. c. 6, 1881; but his plaoe was successfully contested by Wm M. L wo, and he was unseated, June 3. 1882 He waa reelected to tbe same congress on the death of Mr. Lowe, a few months later, and served until after tbe war with Spain. Io May, 1898. he was made m»j or general and was active In the war with Spain. - DRAW BIS MILEAGE GREW PERISH By f iplosion on a BrazHUafl Tnrretted Naval Ship ONE 0FFICEE SATID Tennessee was promoted to brigadier general Murfreesboro he was lu charge of the cavalry, and thereafter he was contin iiously active In contesting Gen. Wll Ham 8. Roeeorana’ advance, also at tacking hie flanks, raiding in the rear and destroying his trains. Or Janu ary 19, 1863, he received hie oommis slon as major general and opposed the Union advance at Chattanooga. He commanded the. cavalry at Cbloka- mauga and after the battle crossed tell upo Team river and' upon Rose- crane’ line of communications, defeat Ing the force that was sent against him and destroying over 1,200 wagons with stores. On this raid he succeeded in damaging federal property to tbe value of t3,00J,000, but, after losing •600 men, was driven back to nothern Alabama. Subsequently be took part In the siege of Knoxville and covered Bragg’s retreat from Lincoln Ridge and Lookout-Mountain. During the winter end epring be oonlnually harassed the^ Unloirtroops, and, on the advance qj Gen. William T. Sherman’s army toward Atlanta, heopp sed every movement and fought almost daily, often with hie men dis mounted. July 27 30 ||e f ught the raiding Uroe of Geh. Geo. Stoneman, General Kenner Gerard and Gen. Bi- ward M. McCook, and captured many prisoners, including Gin. Stoneman and all the artillery and transporta tion. On Aug. 9, 1864, be was sent by Gan. John D. Hood to capture tbe nt tlonal supplies, burn bridges and break up ra’lwaya in the rear of Gen Shermao’i army. Paaalng through northern Georgia, be went Into east ern Tennessee as tar as tbe Kentucky line, tad thence through middle Ten Burtun Peeped into Senate to Com ply with Ltw, Senator Burton, of Kansas, drew his mileage Wednesday, and thereby hangs a remarkabl i tale. The law n q ilrea that in order for a senator to draw mileage be must have been seen In the senate chamber by an offle al of chat august tribunal. Had the K sans senator stepped within the portal, and bad the eyes of, say Sena tor Bailey, of Texas, been dapped upo*' him, there is no doubt that a few warm remarks would have been submitted by the Ttxvn. To avoid embarrassment of this sort, and poe- rtSTyWwjflMr declined firmly to show himself in th* chamber proper. All aoojunte of the highly elating Incident agree that he was in the Re- publlcarreloakroom: that he wav lur ed to the door by one official of the senate, who artfully engaging him In conversation, induced him to face the arena where he onoe eat among the mighty of the land, wearing the toga wlcb the purple hordes, and when be was gaging—oh, ever ao wistfully gszlng—toward the vtoe president's dais, two other cfflttsls of the Isuate looked him tquarely in his downcast eyes, then off they strode to the dMrai trf Flnafedil Clerk Nixon and swore that tney had seen Senator Burton in th* senate chamber. And so tbev bad. Then Mr. Burton drew this mll- eags, amounting to something mor* than 9500. Mr. Burton, of oourae, has been drawing bla salary all along since the senate has declined to take action on bis ease until tbe courts have finally passed upon the coovlc tioos that hang over him. Whether Mr. Burton stays in Washington much oould not be learned Wednes day. Nor oould hit shod) there be ascertained. N Rurally the K\nsas nontingent decline to dLouia him or his peculiar cfflolal status. That he is still a senator (f the United States however is now fully attested by the recordi, excjpt of course the records of tbe dally proceedings of the senate. Heed's Death Exhumed. A dispatch from Bamberg to Tbe State says as a result of reports and rumors which have gone out eonoern- Ing the deiilh of B T. R3ed, who died in Bamberg on th* morning of Jsnty uary 14th, after an llneaa of only k few h ura, an investigation was be gun Thursday by tbe order of Ooron er J. H. Z igler. The coroner's Jury went to the burial grounds at Cope, where Reed was burled, and there disinterred the body. Dr. J. J. Cleckley performed the operation. Tbe re&ultif, if there are any, will be brought out in the oourt houae ln a few days. At th* time of Reed’s death the commonly accepted report was that he trad died of paralysis of th* brain. But Mr. G. B. Klttrell, brother In-law of the deceased man, bearing,the rumor that Road had been poisoned, carried part of the body to Augusta, Ga, where he claims that a chemist found a large quantity of arsenic in tbe stomach. The Investigation In process M to clear up all this mystery If possible and to get the facts of the case. In the meanwhile Elisha Bunch, a white woman who resides in tbe mill dts trlot of this town, and Viola Wesley, odored, are In jail,- being held as parties connected with the death i Reed. Ike Accident Occurred la the Pewdv Mamie*, sed the Ship Saak la l Three Miaates. Pear tear Ad mirals Were ea Beard, — tad Were Lest R'o Janeiro, Jan. 22.—The Brasil* Ian turret ship Aquidaban has baao sunk at Port Jacarapagus, south of Rio Jaotrio, aa tbe result of en explo sion ou board. It la reported that three hundred of her erew p—«f*nd and that Only one officer was saved. Four rear almlnla poHuiiad os board the Aqulbaban, which had been uied for tbe accomodation of a number of supernumerary men attached to th* flotilla the cruiser Barroso. The Barnmo had on board tbe minister of and his staff, who were Inspecting the sites proposed tor a new arasoaL The explosion on the Aqnldahaa occurred tn ths powder —g—«*»t' Tne veeasl sank In three minutes. The Aquidaban was of 4,950 tona displacement and 6.200 bone-power. She was built In England In 1885 ah a ooet of $1,726,000. Toe armasaent consisted of tour 9.4 Inch guns sad four 5 *6 inch guns and a number of smaller gnus. She had five torpedo tubes. Her crew numbered SOOoAaea IXr^wssw loot raw— M. Rio iaaerla, Brazil, Jao. ZK'—-' cruiser Barueo has arrlvad Port J .kerepagna, with those injured by the espieehm on the The Aquidaban blew up at 10.46 last night Nearly all the offloen killed or injured. Tbe dead 196 and the Injured 36. NAMES or ADMIRALS. Rto Janeiro, Brasil, Jen. 22.—The following members of the nnmmlarioa which lefj the arsenal on board the Aquidaban, were drowned: Roar Admiral Rodrigo Jose Da* Roche. Roar Admirable Franeieoo Thlfraiiai DaGraoa. , Rear Admiral Joao Oandido BnaU. Captain Alves da Lanrlgo. . two Gar drowned. A Deserted Village. After expend ng more than ’,11,600 000 during the past alx yean In pur chasing and working th* Copper Fields mines, tor many yean tbe third largest In tbe United States, George Weetlngbouae, of Pittoburg, has abandoned his searob lot, oopper in the Verahlre mountains j|n Ver mont as a result the villager la now praeticaUy deserted.’ Westingbouse’s representatives declare that $be cop per vein la worthless. Scores of min ers and their families have left town and now there are not a dozen faml lies, where the population at one time was more than a thousand Throughout the village all ths dwell logs formerly occupied by the employ ea are being sold and moved away or torn down. Tbe machinery, hollers and furnaces are being blown up by dynamite. Two lermani fOUGHT DUfL FOR GIRL. Forth From m Bell with Loaded Tlstele In a duel with a girl as tba prim or the Motor, Jams* Walker, son of a pro pc rout farmer, was she* nag m* stantly killed by fcia rival. Prim >ee, i Iso a farmer’s son tn Israel Prince Edward County, Va. Tbe men fought with went from a ballroom took aim by the light pouring throngfe the windows. Forbes wee wed Mlae Roes Oarew, and ho' had es corted her to the ball. Walker hod been an old sweetheart of tho wooma and when they met at th* boO ho » n* wed hie suit. There had bem reports of tho engagement being brohaa be tween Forbes and Mies Oarew, and M appears that these were eon firmed by her encouraging Walker. She denned with him repeatedly until Forbes jeal ousy, drove him to fury. He mferi to Walker aod upbalded him. Hot were exchanged and tha two to fight to the death- Without telttag word of their into tion to anyone they disappeared from tho bolboom and Mm pistol shots stopped a; daaoe when It was in full awing. A ollaoo fell over tbe brilliantly Ugh tod room. the windows. * A sight mor* dramatic shown on tbe stage mat Two beams of Ught poued out one fell on Walker, flat on hie deed, and the other on Forbee, < ing with the pistol still ready in I and with bis face still set la determination, Mlm Oarew hysterical when she real's 4 what had happened, and la in a aarioos tion tonight, Forbee is in tbe A Sorrowlal Roman** A clever and beantlful girl of teen, named Baroome Irma Von Hofei has Just died at Berlin, Germany, tha result of consumption. Her dmth brings to light a romans). A* a gill eh* turned the beads of tha barana and counts frtqoeallqgAhe. eal— ef the bast Berlin Soolety. her home by her proud _ cause of her determination to i man of whom they disapproved, aid who later deserted ber to mantL another, she commaneedjha Hltt^ eg flowers in the streets of her parent* resided. They fused to give her any ever. Finally the young brought en action agalari her ] to force them to aokn their daughter. She won jtor but did not win from “ tbe way of monetary i consumption aba contracted asihe ia* ■alt of exposure to aU following hex n»»g of