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LATIMER DEAD. HE will run. TIm Senator Dies Thursday Morn ing After a Short Dlnoss. Mr. C. C. Featberstone WUi Op pose Dev. Ansel This SMifflor. SHOCK TO STATE. Xbe flMMlor Wm OpentM Oa Fov Appendicitis at a Washington Hos pital on Sunday.—At First He Got Along Al| Right; But Peritonitis Followed and He Soon Passed Away. Senator Asbury C. Latimer died at Providence Hospital at Washington on Thursday morning after a few •days Illness. He was taken sick on Sunday night and was tjaken to the . hospital at once, where he was oper ated on for appendicitis. He got on Very weH until Tuesday, when complications set in, and the Senator grew rapidly worse until Thursday morning, when he passed away at n.\ne o’clock.. Mrs. Latimer and two daughters were present when the end came. Senator Latimer was about fifty- seven years old. He hat been In the Sesate nearly six years. Before going to the Senate, he served ten years In th^t.House as a Representa tive. He was a candidate to succeed himself and would have been voted for In the primary this ^Summer. His remains were brought from Washington Thursday night In charge of a committee of Senators and Re- Jresentatives on a special train and Interred at Belton, at which place he Bred. ~Serretortarttraer was a hlfh- toned up-right gentleman. He had been for years a member of the Meth odist Church. He leaves a wife and several children. . Among the prospective candidates developed for the unexpired term to be filled by the Lgtslature, are E. ' Marlon Rucker of Andersoa, Ex- Speaker of the House Farnk B. Gary of Abbeville, Senator LeGrand Wal ker of Georgetown. SALARY RILL PASSED. CANDIDATES GALORE. The Distinguished Prohibition It An. V " , •ounces His Candidacy on an An- U-Dlspensary Platform. _Th* Columbia, correspondent of O. L. Blease Has Announced That The News and Courier says.tlie pol itical'situation was still further com plicated by the announcement Thurs day night that Mr. C. C. Feather- stone, of ■ Laurens, will be a candi date for Governor In the primary this summer. Mr. Featberstone was-In Columbia Thursday night on his way home from Orangeburg County, where he had- gone to deliver two prohibition speeches. He said he believed the time for the enactment of a State prohibition law had arrived and that he had acceded to the wlahes -of his friends to enter the race for Govern or to advocate that policy. Mr. Featberstone was a candidate for Governor In 1898 on the prohi bition platform and was defeated by a combination of peculiar circum stances, and by a very narrow major ity. He has not since that time par- stand in the next campaign is not known. Mr. Featberstone Is one of the strongest-lawyers In the State, la a man of fine address snd manners and Is personally very popular. He has served as grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, and la an ac tive and prominent member of the Methodist church. Governor Ansel some time ago an nounced that he will be a candidate for reel action. He was elected two The House Agrees to Pay Its Mem bers More Money. '— The House by a vote of 67 to 34, and without debate, last week passed the bill of Senator Walker to change the manner of compensation of mem bers of the General Assembly. The bill was amended so as to give the Speaker doubts tbs compensation of n member. The bill as passed,, reads: , Section 1- That members of the General Assembly shall receive as een^pensatlon for .their services the sum of two hundred dollars for bach regular session, and mileage for the . -Actual distance travelled In the most Vrect route, going to and returning f the place where the session of pflft>eaeral Assembly shall be held. ^Yne Speaker of the House shall re ceive double the pay of the members Section 2. That the provisions of this Act shall not go into effect until January 1. 1609. Section 3. That Section 14. Vol years ago on the platform of local option, but before that campaign he was an out and but State Dispen sary advocate. Just where he will stand in the campaign la not nown. Mr. Featberstone Is a candidate that will have to be reckoned with. Those who think that Gov. Ansel will have a walk-over In the campaign thla Summer will find that they' are mistaken at the end of the campaign. Many who believe-fa the dispensary will support Mr. Featberstone against Gov. Ansel. Gov. Ansel Is not near as strong now as he was two years ago, And many who voted for him then will oppose him now. Many people regard him as dlctorlal In the extreme, and this has mads him many enemies In all parts of the State. (There has been considerable talk to the effect that Mr. John O. Rich ards, of Kershaw, in ay enter ths race for Governor this year and Mr. Richards In reply to a question said he had the nutter under considera tion. He Is also for Slate prohibi tion. * Trasewell, Va., Circuit Court In the ume I, Code of Laws of South Caro- of the Commonwealth against Una. 1902. be, and the same is here by, repealed. • * TWO MORE JUDGES To Fill the New Circuits Created This Session. — Messrs. J- W. DeVore, of Edge- field, and S. W. G. Shipp, of Flor ence, were Thursday afternoon elect ed Judges ( ’ the two new circuits created by t is legislature. Mr. J. . DeVore was chosen -Judge of the Seventh circuit, con sisting of LeHngton, Saluda and Edgefield. ' He was opposed 6y Mr. C. M. Eflrd Mr. DeVore represents Edgefield In the bouse, and his opponent, Mr, Efird, is supreme court reporter. Mr. DeVore defeated Mr. Sflrd by a vote of 89 to 70. )■ Mr. S W. O. Shipp, of Florence, defeated Mr. W, Y. Montgomery, of Marlon, by a vote of 92 to 68. The twelfth circuit consists of the coun ties of Florence. Horry, Georgetown and Marion. . The new Judges will begin the dis charge of their duties with the be- glning of the spring terms of court lb May. READS LIKE FICTION. V Left a Fortune of. One Hundred Thousand Dollars. 9 ' J A story reading very much like • tale in a novel has developed at Ao- » •jf-^ata, Ga., In which Mrs. Joe Koger, Columbia County, haa become .-/.I'heiress to a fortune of about 1100,- r ,ooo. About forty-five years ago .her brother, Col. Elisha Bates, went out to the Santa Fe country and engaged am a stage driver. He was penniless bat boarded his little earnings until eventually he became the operator of the stage )llne. and later made other successful business ventures. A short time ago Col. Bates died, leaving an estate of |100,000, to SPEEDY JUSTICE. Quick Wort: In the Trial of a Con fessed Fiend. Committed assault Thursday, ar rested and Jailed Friday, Indicted the following Monday, tried, convicted and sentenced to be hanged Tuesday, is the record established by the Walter Rlppey, the conv&aaed negro rapist. Rlppey was tried for assault on Mrs. Mai7 Dancey. Mrs. Dancey testified and in tbs course of her story was several times overcome, and the Court had to wait until she regained her composure before pro ceeding. The recital was one of the most harrowing in the annals of crime In that section. The Jury was >ut a short time and when the ver- Uct was returned Rlppey was sen tenced to hang on March 26. UTfUB BOY BURNED TO DEATH. Hatch Ignited Oil'Soaked Cloth Plac ed on his Chest. Anpeclal to The News and Courier from Louisville, Qa., says Walter, the little 9-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Farrell was burned to death st their home last night In- a very touching and pathetic manner. The little fellow was suffering from a se vere cold .and a flannel cloth saturat ed with turpentine was placed over his chest. During the night the skin became Irritated, and the child was restless; the mother arose tajeom- fort it'and, striking a match while leaning over the Mttle fellow, the tur pentine Ignited. Mrs. Farrell was severly burned In her efforts to ex tinguish the flames. The child died in a short time. WENT FROM THIS STATE. Man Who Klled Another in Miaaiaalp- pl la From Spartanbarg. WILL BE UVELY. Bov. Ansel Will Not Have o Walk over This Sumner. He Will Be In the Race for Cover" nor, and So May C. C. Feather- ■tone, W. B. Nash, John Calhoun Otts and One or Two Others. The Columbia correspondent of the Augusta Herald says up to a few days ago the probability has been strong almost to the point of certain ty that Governor Ansel would glide into a second term without opposi tion, as was the good fate of Gov. Heyward, but the gathering of the legislature, and its actions recently, have wrought several radical, cruel changes In this program. The practical certainty now is that the gubernatorial race this sum mer will be an extremely lively If not sensational one, with half a dox- en men in the race, with a great va riety of Uqugr platforms from which to choose./^ Bleaae of Newberry. State Senator Cole L. Blease, of Newberry authorizes your correapon dent to formally announce bis can didacy for governor. His liquor plat form Is the present local option svs- tem with a Hcense feature for t use counties that desire this way of aand- Ungv Hquwr. He r> ; n for. -eovernor when Ansel was el c • .ed 7 * ad inkpit* HOT SENATOR •■‘e Charges Extravagance on Part of Dispensary Commission.. Whni He SaSd, What He Reiterates and “Responsible foe What 1 Say, Here and Elsewhere.” There was another personal priv ilege statement In the State sen ate Tuesday, anent the dispensary winding up commission and Attorney W. F. Stevenson, over the Irrepressi ble Clark purchase. Senator John son was the speaker, he said: , "Mr. President: In my remarks on Thursday last on bill No. 669, Mr. Christensen's bill, to appropriate the sum of tl 5,000 .to enable Mr. Lyon to secure counsel to prosecute alleg ed grafters, I stated in opposition of the bill that the InvestlgatlngUfiofn- mlttee bad already spent |20,000 of the people's money without any re sults. That the wlndlng-up commis sion had spent f50,000 during the yetr of their existence, and If state ments and charges In the public prints were true and to be jelled upon, In refusing to accept an offer that was said to have been made by a firm or corporation outside of the state, to take over tbe entire stock of liquors, wines, etc.. Including dead stock, odds and ends, at their origi nal Invoice price, and having subse quently sold the stock at a discount of 20 per cent, on the dollar, which resulted in another loss of $200,000, to thr-people of South Carolina, I of the unpopularity of the state dls- T°Be tbd JStF.OOO was spent, but, 1 simply said that It bad been spent by the commission, and any state ment to the contrary is false.._ But It now develops, add is shown b> their own record that $59,389.66 was J. F. Wilder, who shot and killed W. L. Booth of Dallas, Texas. At Epps. Mississippi, last Saturday af ternoon, Is a native of Spartanburg county. Re has a brother living In Spartanbarg and haa many relatives In the county. Twenty years ago Wilder was running a saw mill ea gles at Woodruff at KO cents a day. He left hare IS years ago for Mis- stsstppl, where he operated a saw mill om hi* own account He node Ik pensary system, which was his plat form at.the time, he received nearly 18,000 votes in th race where the vote was split up among a number of candidates. It has been thought that he would offer for re-elcetion as senator, but developments of tbe past few weeks have decided him other wise. In spite of his politics being distasteful to a large body of the sen ate he has for years been one of the smartest and most Influential mem bers of It. John G. Richards. It Is also practically certian, unless there are further radical changes in the political situation, that Repre sentative John G. Richards, for a number of years one of the house floor leaders for tbe state dispensary, will be In the race for goyernor against Ansel on a state wide pro hibition platform. Hla fight through ten continuous years for a repeal of the agricultural Hen law has brought him into prominence on account of .the adverse action of the senate on that measure. Urged to Ran. A number of delegations have come to him and offered their support and urged him to run promising to work for him regardless of his liquor plat form. Some of these have urged him to run for lieutenant governor against President of the Senate McLeod on account;of the latter’s vote against tbe Crouch Hen law repeal bill In the senate. But although Mr. McLeod's vote against this bill was applauded on the floor of tbe senate at the tlm by the anti-repeal forces bis ac tion Is said by his friends to have been misconstrued, that he was vot ing against the Crouch bill in order to get the Richard’s house bill passed so as to hasten enactment of repeal. C. C. Featberstone. C. C. Featberstone, of Laurens,, a former candidate for governor, has been In Columbia several days hold ing conferences, and It Is predicted that he will announce himself for governor on a state wide prohibition platform In a few dayti—He has been making prohibition speeches Ip dif ferent parts of the state recently. The friends of Mr. Richards and other prohibition candidates have gently intimated to him that he has read himself, out of the pro hibition forces by bis Interview pub lished recently to the effect that the next change In tbe liquor law should eb to declare a state of prohibition and aH6w_such counties as desire 11 to vote in dtUfrensaries. His attitude the past year has been construed tbit he would not oppose Mr. Ansel, but If others are coming in he will Join the merry band. Representative Nash. Representative Nash, of Spartan burg, a life-long prohibitionist, Is qp- pected to announce his candidacy for governor aoon as the legislature ad Journs. His friends say that tbe rea son he does not announce now It that that course would reduce hit Influence and hamper him In his work on the floor of the house. John Calhoun Otta. Still another state wide guberna torial possibility is said to be Repre sentative John Calhoun Qtfe, of Cherokee, a former dispensary advo cate. but last year a champion of lo cal option in the senate. Ansel’s Platform. It Is thought highly probable that Governor Ansel himself will switch to a state wide prohibition platform before he, flies hie pledge next June. He was elected on a local option plat form, but he has always been a work; or for prohibition, ehostng loeal op tion as the next best thing. It 1b known that he hesitated many many spent by them, Insteau of $50,000 as stated in my argument, and tae $15,- uOO, given them by order of Judge Pritchard, and the $20,000 spent by the Investigating committee, togeth er with the $15,000, carried by the Christensen bill, yrlll make an ag gregate of the enormous sum of $110,000 In round numbers of the dispensary fund that has been got ten away with In one way or another, which Is over one elgth of the total amount of the entire assets of the dis pensary. . 7 . ‘Now comes one, W. F. Steven son, who la said to 6e the attorney for the commission, snd who claims that no such offer was ever made ex cept in a Jocular way, by a Mr. Bull, of Peoria, 111. # ‘This alleged offer and loss caused thereby will however, be Investigat ed, but Mr. Steveusen says, if such an offer had been made it could not have been accepted under the act. This is a most remarkable proposi tion to come from a man who claims to be a lawyer, but not altogether surprising to others In view of tbe fact that if an offer had been made, and accepted, It would have been fol? fowed by the loss of some fat legs' fees. I do not believe, however, there is a real lawyer In South Carolina, who would read the act creating the commission and place any such con struction upon it. "Now I have presented the facto and figures relative to the matter, ust as they appear, and have repro duced my remarks upon the subject ust as they were made, and any charge or Intimation of unfairness bn my part Is false and without founda tion no matter by whom made, I will further state that l alp respon sible for what I say, hefd' J or else where.” Several Gentlemen Hope tir Suc ceed Late Senator Latlmar. POLITICAL GOSSIP. Legislature Expected to Hold Elec tion on March 8 to Fill the Unex pired Term.—Various Persons Are Mentioned for the Place. - Names 9 > of the Candidates Who Expect to Rah In the Primary. The announcement of tho death of Senator Latimer on last Thurs day threw the General Assembly In to political turmoil. Coming with in two days of the expected cud of the session with the certainty that the Legislature must fill tho vacan cy before It could adjourn, the whole aspect of legislation was changed. In addition, tbe removal of Senator Latimer from the race In the pyimary entirely alters the condition of af fairs, and that the political situation in South Carolina had been complete ly transformed. Within an hour after the an nouncement that Senator Latimer was- dead had reached tbe State (louse, it was seen that the names of uore than one member of the Gen eral. Assembly would be presented for the unexpired term and their friends ^t once got to work. This may have Colored Photographs Taken by Two Clemson Professors. say how or for what pur-fVpeared somewfiat heartless, but at that time It was the prevailing ion that the election would have to be held ou Saturday and It was real ized that in this case no time could be lost. Investigation of the law was set How the Pictures Are Taken—-Art of Photography Will, It Is Predict ed, Be Revolutionised. A special to the News and Courier from Clemson College says two ipem- bers of the faculty, Prof. F. H. H. Calhoun, of tbe geological -depart ment, and Assistant Prof. E. T, How ard, of the mechanical department, have succeeded In producing photo graphs showing the original jtolore of the objects photographed. This has been accomplished by means of the Lumlere autochrom plate, The process was discovered about one year ago only l*y Lumlere, at Lyons. France; and Yhe specially prepared films have been on the mar ket about three months. Dr. Calhoun and Prof. Howard are among the very first In this county to try the process, thelf order for plates being the 33d. Out of eight plates they succeeded In getting tev- flgn excellent color photographs of 'various scenes around the College, and they are naturally very proud of their auccess. They are doubtless the first people In the South to under take the matter. The film used In making these col or photographs la so made that it contains coloring matter, which is af fected by the various colore In the picture- to be taken. The plate is exposed as usual In photography, ex eept rather longer through a speeUI ray filter. Great care needs to be ex ercised to handle the platen n a dull red light. ~ ' . . on foot however and It wts then dis covered that the General Assembly might not have to elect at this Ume, apd further, that is was possi ble that the election, could not be held at this time. Though no official Information was served from Wash ington until transmitted through the message of Governor Ansel Thursday night, the Judiciary committee of both House and Senate met and con sidered the question that was pre sented. Senator Carlisle, chairman of tbe .State judiciary committee then,. C- Heyward 'Thursday . . . . . ... ... ‘ V * 1 n 4 «r Vif annrxiifwinwl 9 H*>+ K a 1A Ka #» ?ot into communication with Wash ington and talked with Senator Bail ey on the long distance telephone. Mr, Bailey being regarded as an au thority on such questions. Mr. Bailey informed Mr. Carlisle that after consulting Senator Till man be and Senator Tillman were of tbe opinion that the General Assembly could at once elect upon receipt of official notification of the vacancy but that Senator Hale and other Republican Senators, who would in the final analysis decide the point If it were raised, held differ ently and thought that the General Assembly could not elect until the second Tuesday after the receipt of official notification of tbe vacancy. Senator Bailey then advised as it was a Democratic egislature electing was a Democratic legislature electing best not- to elect anyone now, but to follow the procedure which Senator Hale considered legal. In accord ance'with this opinion the Legisla ture adjourned on Saturday until Tuesday. March 3. when it will meet and elect a Senator for the unexplr- ed term of Senator Latimer, which has about one year to run yet. ► ff ■" KILLED 1 IN RI^T. V , \ .. v Two Dead and Six Injured la • Penn sylvania Town. Two men were killed and six others were seriously injured in a riot at Dunbar, Pa., Tuesday night. Two of the wounded are Americans, the dead and the other wounded being foreigners. Forty-five persons were arrested by the police who were call ed to quell the disturbance. According to one of those arrest ed the trouble Is tne outcome of rfc valry between two boarding houses conducted by foreigners. It Is said that six Croatlns who lived in a box car went to an old homestead which another gang of foreigners had turn ed into a boarding house and after battering down the' doors, started -u ight AN AUTOIST SUED For a Mole Ron Away- and Killing Driver. 4 V • - 4 i' ' Mr. Harry Buhl, a wealthy resi dent of Pittsburg, Pa., who, winters in Augusta, Ga., la being sue dby Melissa McClady, a negro woman, for $3,000 for tbe death of her husband While autolng on a country road a few miles out of Augusta, Mr. Buhl’s machine frightened a mule which the woman's husband was driving, caus ing It to run away and kill him. Gen. Stoessel Condemned to Dio For Surrendering the POST OF PORT ARTHUR Court-Martial Which Has Been Try- ‘ . ; t—i. ing him for Cowardice In Surrm* ' ■** dering Port Arthur Return* Ver dict Sentencing Famous General to Death, but Recommending Tea years In Prison Instead. Lleut-Ge. Stoessel was 'Condemned to death Thursday evehlng by a Military Court at Ft retorapurg for the aurrender of Port Arthur to the Japanese. The Court^nr^commend ed that the death sentence upon Lieut Gen. Stoessel be commuted to ten years Imprisonment In a fortress and he be excluded from the service. Gen. Frock, who commanded tbe 4th East Siberian division of Port Arthur, was ordered reprimanded for a disciplinary offence, which ,was not" connected - with the surrender, and Gen. Smirnoff, acting command- Relsa, chief of staff to Gen. Stoessel, Reiss, chief of staff to Gen. StoesseD, were acquitted of the charges against them for lack of pgopf. Gen. Vodar, president of the Court, road the sentences amid a tense si lence. By a great effort of self con trol 'Gen. Stoessel maintained rigid soldierly-Hke Impassivity. Gen Smir noff also was seemingly unmoved, but thfetti were tears in the eyes of Gen. Reiss. They must be washed in nine sola:. The- sontenee -of death was pro- first two to Tola! darkness. The others take place I* the opeu daylight. The colors appear Imme diately upon taking the plates Into the light; but the remaining procefi- es are essential to the Intensifying, clearing and fixing of tbe colors. The newly discovered process, by means of which any scene may te pictured In fhe original colors, seems destined to revolutionise the- art oi photography. WILL Be IN RACE. Got. Heyward Announces His Candi dacy for United States Senator. On the understanding that thO\ 9 iat * ona ^ Issues night annou nced that he’Would be i candidate in the Democratic primary this summer for the nomination t&L the United States senate. Gov. Hey ward has received messages and com munications from all parts of the State urging him to annonnee his candidacy. Last night he stated de finitely that he will become a candi date, and he expects to win. I will be a candidate for United States Senator In the Democratic primary this Summer,” he said, “and will make the race on my record and qualifications for the office, which ! trust are known to the people of South Carolina. The constitution of the Democratic party In South Carolina provides that each candidate for the United Stater senate shall file a pledge that he will support the political principles of the party during the term of office for which he may be elected and work In accord with hla Democratic associate* in congress on all party question!. I will of course abide by that pledge and will therefore be bound by the •platform adopted by the national Democratic convention at Denver. At oresent It Is not necessary to discuss aqunced dpon Geu Stoessel, ""for sur- -endering the fortress before all the meanwhf defence had been exhaust ed, for failing to enforce his author ity and* for military misdemeanors.” Commutation of the sentence was asked on tbe ground that "Port Ar thur, beset by overwhelming forces, lefended itself under Gen. Stoepsel’s leauership with unexampled stub bornness and filled tbe world with as tonishment at the heroic courage of Its garrison; that several assaults have been repulsed with tremendous loeses on the part of the enemy; that len. Stoessel throughout the selge had maintained the heroic courage >t the defenders and finally that he had taken effergetlc part* til thMe' campaigns.” . .*' Before the sentenci-^was read, measures were taken to prevent A de- - — Vi- v.— General Assembly would elect apNgs one to fill the unexplred teraMlone, and not one of the candidates for the long term, the following members of the General Assembly were at once suggested: Lieutenant Governor T. O. McLeod of Lee County; Hon. Frank B. Gary, of Abbeville; Hon. George Von Kol- nitz, of Charleston; Hon. James Cos grove, of Charleston; Hon. W. L. Mauldin, of Greenville; Hon. Legrand Walker, of Georgetown, Senator; Hon. E. M. Rucker, of Anderson. The name of Gen. Wille Jones, chairman of the State Democratic committee, was also presented. , The list of candid a wlr And prob able candidates, as published in The News and Courier a few days ago, was a fqUowa: Col. John J Dargan, of Statesburg, Sumter County; Hon. O. B. Martin, of Pickens County, at present State Superintendent of Edu cation; Hon. D S. Henderson, of Aik en; Hon. Jas- A. McCullough, of Greenville; Hun. Geqrge Johnstone, of dewberry; Hon. E. D. Smith, of Florence. DRANK DISPENSARY DRY. Closed for North Augusta While. , to ths present legislators. Mr. Aw—I is a former stats dispensary supporter. He has the advantage In hausted the —«"ff rM9 of the strong sent!- i n or from Augusta to Georgians Shop The troubles of the J^ozth Augus ta dispensary continue to exist. The SUu?O. mu. south o.^, town have tried to close the shop and failed on several occasions; hot the people of Augusta have been more successful. The r Iittle shop was closed, the thjrd time since Its opening during the early afternoon;; bwcanaa the stock had again been ex- And the dispensary trade I only wish my friends to know I am In the race and In to win.” Gov. Heyward came Into politic* six yfears ago. Up tp that time he bad a considerable personal acquaint ance over the State. Capt. Heyward, with four opponents, lacked 11,000 votes of receiving pe nomination on the first primanr 0 In the second primary he had j>»weeplng victory, n majority of 10,000 votes. In hi* own county, Colleton, he lost but 68 out of 2,200 votes. Another remark able feature of his career la that he had no opposition for re-election, the first time In years, possibly since the war, that such bad beep the case. It la understood th^ Got. Hey ward is not seeking election at the hand of the legislature to fill the nn- explred term, bat to in the campaign this summei'T' • TRAIN RAN DOWN BUGGY. Young Man Killed and Father and — Sister Seriously Injured. Train No. 99, the Seaboard Air Line’s southbound Florida limltod ran into a buggy containing Mr. Jerry M. Thomas, of DentoTllle, and hi* son and daughter, Tuesday morning at about 11 o’clock, at Waddell, ten miles north of Columbia, the acci dent resulting in the instant death of the young man and Che serious in jury of the girl. was smashed to pieces and tbj» mule killed. Somehow the father escaped with hurts not more serious than minor contusions. The nonstration' in favor of Stoessel by % number of the younger officers, •nd witnesses who were present. These later sent a dispatch to the Empress saying that they would hum bly bear testimony that Gen. Stoee- *el was the soul of the defsnos of Port Arthur; that b# had always 9acouraged and put heart in the gar rison, and that in case of war thsy would wish to serve again under mch a hero., They asked the Emprese graciously to bespeak from the Em peror a full pardon. There was a dramatic moment af ter the reading of the sentence when a detatchment of soldiers filed Into ths hall. The spectators, thinking they were about to seize Gen. Stoes- «1, displayed great excitement, sev eral women fainting. It developed, however, that this was merely a guard for the disposal of the Court. Gen. Stoessel. who wap accompan ied by his son, was the object of n sympathetic demonstration, friends kissing and shaking him by the hand as he left the Court leaning on hto son’s shoulder. The basis of the Indictment upon which Lieut. Gen. Stoessel, Gen. "•rock, who commanded the 4th East Siberian division of Port Arthur, and Major Gen. Reiss, chief of staff to Gen. Stoessel, were tried for their lives, was a secret report mads by Lieut. Gen. Smirnoff, on the defence of Port Arthur. Smirnoff was acting command ant of the fortress, Stoessel being commander of the Kwang-Tung Pen- Insula. Smirnoff categorically ac cused Stoessel of cowardice snd In capacity, and finally of the deliberate and treasonable hastening of the sur render to save his own life and de fiance of the decisions of two suc cessive councils of war. Gen. Smirnoff declared that ths fortress, which was surrendered to the Japanese, January 1, 1906. could have held out for slk<montha longer. The stands taken by , Gens. Stoes sel. Reiss and Frock were I that the fate of Port Arthur war sealed with the capture "Of the “Eagles Nest, and two other positions. - . _ The indictment against Gen. Smir noff charged him wUh having failed to remove Gen. Frock from hto com mand, although he suspected the agreement between Gens. Stoessel and Frock to surrender ths torL resa. N accident occurred at a crossing n was recently <i ® feat *^ *** little above Waddell * where limited term in that office by om trains run at a high speed. -rotes. He is one of e The supposition to that, ths proper dispensary signals were not gtraa or that they wots unheard, or •T WPiT ftolllitor. * JMOr owe#son» Ex-State .pispensary Director Hab Btads authorizes the annouuosfflent- of hla candidacy for sUte aeantor from Newberry. He was former^ mayor of the town of Newberry.j