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% i * | |1| A LOI I . ill THE m- r mm * . Iiijj By ROGE: 2*0 had bettor own up at once ^ ^ that I ain't a writer, but O I O was only raised to punch ^ cows, and not to tell storics. And, anyway, this no-accou.it story which I have to tell is only about a British lord which I met with once in Arizona. It lays no claim to Sunday-best English, but only stakes itself out for being truth. Away back in 'SG, me being restive in old Texas and wishful just to see the ocean, I pulled out on the long trail for California. In the first hundred miles or so I '. .was no way adventurous. I reckon the good traveler shies clear of dan Igers before they come, a:ia tne most excitements happen on the worst man's journey. Still, sometimes a danger comes along pressing and insists on getting right in the way. Before I left Texas a bad man tried to get my outfit, pointing his gun from behind a rock, but he was hurt when we parted and needed a surgeon bad. Then, in New Mexico, a bear happened into my camp, and, not disturbing me, politely walked off with my provisions. Further on, the water holes seemed to stray out of my course a whole lot, or else they saw me coming along thirsty and dried up cautious. Near the edge of Arizona one of my ponies died of rattlesnake, aggravated by a bullet through the head. Still, on the whole, I didn't get scalped ; by Indians or wiped out by border ruffians or diminished by hunger and l|? thirst to any great extent. The betting was in favor of my winning p through to the Pacific Ocean, r .^ The day after my little mare's death &..-I was riding along and driving the s, pack horse, when I heard in the silence |; the small voice of a rifle far off to ?, the left. Maybe some hunter was missing a deer in the distance, so I pointed % that way to inquire. After a mile or ? 80 h heard the rifle speaking again, and three guns answered, spluttering quick fcid excited. That sounded mighty like a disagreement, so I concluded I ought to be cautious and roll my tail at once for foreign parts. I .went on slow, nearing a little hill. Again a rifle shot rang out from just beyond that hill, and two shots an18wered?muzzle-loading guns. At the jS|p game time the wind blew fresh from glf the hill, with a whiff of powder, and something else which made my horses shy. "Heap bad smell!" they snufg|v; fled. "Just look at that!" they sig|||, nailed with their ears. "Ugh!" they snorted. P "Git up!" said I, and charged the ggr- slope of the hill. IpH Near the top I told them to be good +*nnt tl>om TTArio than 1 lifTPP. (; VI JL U ilUUb lUbiu Tf vawv ? *%?.. ^ Then I went on afoot with my rifle, crept up to the brow of the hill anu looked over through a clumD of cactus. At the foot of the hill, two hundred feet below me, there was standing water, a muddy pooj perhaps half an acre wide, and just beyond that on the plain a burned out camp tire beside a couple of canvas-covered wagons. It looked as if the white men there had just been pulling out of camp with their teams all harnessed for the. trail, for the horses lay, some dead, some wounded, mixed up in a struggling heap. As I watched, a rifle shot rang out from the wagons, aimed at the hillside, and when I looked right down I could see nothing but loose rocks scattered below the slope. After I watched a moment a kj. - brown rock moved. I caught the shine ? on an Indian's hide, the gleam of a . gun barrel. Close by was another Indian, painted for war, and beyond him a third lying dead; so I counted from rock to rock^ until I made out thirteen of the worst kind of Indians ?Apaches, all edging away from cover to cover to the left, while out of the -wagons two rifles talked whenever A1 n.ir-tln'nrr tn lllf f)nA 1'iflf* dil? UUJ K\s *.**%., was slow and ccol. the other scared f; and panicky, but neither was getting much meat, j&p For a time I reckoned, sizing up the \ whole proposition. While the Apaches down below attacked the wagons, their v sentry up here 011 the hill had forgotten to keep a lookout, being too much as , interested. He never turned until he heard my horses clattering up the rocks, but then he yelled a warning to his crowd and bolted. One Indian had tried to climb the liill against me and been killed from the wagons; now & the rest were scared of being shot from above before they could reach ? their ponies. They are making off ^ . to the left, in search of their ponies. Off a hundred yards to the left was the sentry, a boy with a bow and arrows, running for all he was worth across the plain. A hundred yards behind him, down in a hollow, was a mounted Indian coming up with a bunch of ponies. If the main body oi' the Apaches got to their ponies they could surround the hill, charge and gather in my scalp. I did not want them to take so much trouble with I. - me. Of course, my ilrst move was to up and bolt along the ridge to the left, until I gained the shoulder of the hill. There I took cover and said: "Abide with ne and keep me cool, if you please,*' while I sighted, took a steady bead and let fly at the mounted Indian. At my third shot lie came down flop on his pony's neck, and that was my first bird. The bunch of ponies smelt his blood and stampeded prov miscuousiy. .. ..... I at '."-.V. v ; .-jpjs-.. K* ; i ..* *,' v 1 yfjjSX. ' Hlj ID ON III RANGE III * * *pK A ^ >.C/T ^-r. ^ao R POCOCK Hijsii The Apaches, being left afoot, couldn't attack me none. If they tried to stampede they would be shot from the wagons, while I hovered unpleasantly above their line of retreat, and if they stayed I could add up their scalps like a sum in arithmetic. They were plumb surprised at me and some discouraged, for they knew they were going to have disagreeable times. Their chief rose up to howl, and a shot from the wagons lifted iiim clean oft' his feet. It was getting very awk wuru ior xuose poor naroarians, ana one of them hoisted a rag on his gun by way of surrender. Surrender? This Indian play was robbery and murder, and not the honest game of war. The man who happens imprudent into his own bear trap is not going to get much chance by claiming to be a warrior and putting up white flags. The game was bear traps, and those Apaches had got to play bear traps now, whether they liked it or not. There were only two white folks left alive in the wagons, and one on the hill, so what use had we for a dozen prisoners who would lie low until we gave them a chance and then murder us prompt! The man who reared up with the peace flag got a shot from the wagons which gave him peace eternal. Then I closed down with my rifle, taking the Indians by turns as they tried to bolt, while the quiet gun in the wagon camp arrested fugitives, and the scary marksman splashed lead at the hill most generous. Out of sixteen Apaches, two and their boy got away intact, three damaged and the rest were gathered to their fathers. "When it was all over I felt unusual solemn, running my paw slow over my head to make sure I still had my scalp, then collected my two ponies and rode around the camp. There I ranged up with a yell, lifting my hand to make the sign of peace, and a man came limping out from the wagons. He carried his rifle and had a yearling son by the paw. The man was tall, clean built and of good stock for certain; but his clothes were in the lo-and-behold style ?a deer-stalker cap, pane of glass on tha nflf ora cf-tnr^-nn nnllnr snnttv necktie, boiled shirt, riding breeches with puffed sleeves (most amazing), cad the legs of his boots stiff like a brace of stovepipes. His near leg was all bloody and tied up with a tourniquet bandage. As to his boy, Jim, that was just the quaintest thing in the way of pups ever saw loose on the stock range. He was knee high to a dawg, but trailed his gun like a man and looked as wide awake as a little fox. I wondered if I could tame him for a pet. "How d'ye do?" squeaked the pup, as I stepped down from the saddle. I allowed I was feeling good. "I'm sure," said the man, "that we're obliged to you and your friends on the hill. In fact, very much obliged." Back in Texas I'd seen water go to sleep with the cold?but this man was cool enough to freeze a boiler. you?er?;;siv j>uur jlhukus, hv drawled, "to come down? I'd like to tliank them." "I'll pass the glad word," said I; "my friends is in Texas." 1 "My deak fellow, you don't?aw? mean to say you were alone?" "Injuns can shoot," said I, "but they cayn't hit." "Two of my men are dead, and the third is dying. I defer to your?er? experience; but I thought they could ?er?hit." Thqji I began to reckon I'd been somewhat hazardous in my guu play. It made me sweat to think. "Well," I said, to be civil. "I carlate I'd best introduce myself to you alls. My name's Chalkeye Davies." "I'm Lord Balshannon," said he, mighty polite. "And I'm the Honorable Jim du Chesny," squeaked the kid. I took his paw and said I was proud to know a warrior with such heap big names. The man laughed. "Well, Mr. Balshannon," says I. "your horses is remnants, and the near fore-wheel of the wagon is sprung to hnet ami thorn Anifhps lifls chiDDed your laig, which it's broke out bleeding again, so I reckon"? "You have an eye for detail," he says, laughing, "but if you will excuse me now, I'm rather busy." He looked right into my eyes, cool and smiling, asking for 110 help, ready to rely 011 himself if I wanted to go. A lump came into my throat, for I sure loved that' man from the beginning. "Mr. Balshannon," says I, "put this kid on top of the wagon to watch for Indians, while you dress that wound. 1*1:1 off." He turned his back on me and walked away. "I'll be back," siid I. busy unloading my pack horse; "I'll be back." I called after him. "when I bring help." At that he swung sudden and came up against me. "Er?thanks," he said, and grabbed my paw. "I'm awfully obliged, don't you know." I swung to my saddle and streaked off for help. II. With all the signs and the signal ; smokes pointing for war, I reckoned i I could dispense with that ocean and stray round to see the play. Moreover, there .was this British lord, lost in the desert, wounded, helpless as a | ?< baby, game as a grizzly bear, ringed ! ^ round with dead horses and dead j y Apaches, and his troubles appealed to j ^ me plentiful. I scouted around until i y I hit a live trail, then streaked away j ^ to tind people. I was a bit doubtful j y if I had done right in case that lord j ' got massacred, me being absent, so I rode hard and at noon saw the smoke j of a camp against the Tres Ilermanos i Mountains. It proved to be a cow W: camp, with all the boys at dinner. ! co They had heard nothing about st( Apaches on the war trail, but when I told what I knew they came glad, on the dead run, their wagons and their pony herd following. We found the Britisher digging graves for three dead ! t^( men. and looking apt to need a fourth ' for his own use. j "Er?good evening,'' says he: and 1 : ^ began to wonder why I'd sweated myself so hot to rescue an iceberg. "Gentlemen," said he to the boys, "you'll find some coffee ready beside the fire?and afterward, if you please. we will bury my dead." j an The boys leaned over in tbeir sad- j re; dies wondering at him, but the lord's ; cool eye looked from face to face, J re: and we had to do what he said. Pie was surely a great chief, that Lor? ; *-{ Balshannon. The men who had fallen a prey to the Apaches were two teamsters and a Mexican, all known to these Bar Y riders, and they were sure sorry; but ro more than that they enjoyed this short- an horn, this tenderfoot from the East, ju: who could stand off an outfit of hos- en tile Indians with his bne rifle. They Hj saw he was wounded, yet he dug 1 f0] graves for his dead., made coffee for | en the living and thought of everything \ except himself. After coffee we lined i up by the graves to watch the bluff he made at funeral honors. Lord Balshannon was a Colonel in the British Cl? Army, and he stood like an officer on ^ parade, reading from a book. His ^ black hair was touched silver, his face, VII yellow and gaunt with pain, was strong, hard and manful, and his voice . quivered while he read from the lit- * tie book: th CO For I air. a stranger with Thee, ?t And a sojourner, as all my fathers were; , 0 spare me a little, that i may recover my strength Before I go lience, and am no more seen. I reckon that there were some of us sniffing as though we had just caught a cold, while we listened to UP that man's voice and saw the loneli- *lc ness of him. Afterward Dick Bryant, be the Bar Y foreman, walked straight Er up to Lord Balshannon. of ' Britisher," said he, "you may be a tii sojourner, and we hopes you are a It whole lor, but there is no need to be pi; a stranger. Shake!" ca So they shook hands, and that was ce +Vi<* hoorinninn' nf n bisr frion:lsliin. th Then Lord Balshannon turned* to the v,i crowd and looked slowly from face th to face of us. ' Gentlemen," he said, kind of feeble, and we saw his face go gray while he spoke, "I'm much obliged to you all for?er?coming. It seems, in- ve deed?ah!?that my?er?little son Jim ^ and I have found friends and?er? wj neighbors. I'm sorry that you should th find my camp in such?aw?in such ^ a beastly mess; but there's some fairly decent whisky in this nearest wagon, ^ and?er"? The man was reeling and _ A Ti iiis eyes seemed Dima. "wnen we get i t to my new ranch at Holy Cross, I?I C2 hope you'll?friends?aw?and"? And he dropped in a dead faint. 1 The Ear 1* foreman knelt clown to 1111 loosen the stranger's collar, while one of the boys brought water from the camp, and the rest of us stood watching. "These Britishers," says he. "runs to two breeds, the lords, which they ^ say 'er?haw!' and the flunkeys, which cc cast their a itches and says 'orse' for da hawss.' That's how you know their ar brand, and this Mister Balshaiinon or here is a sure lord. I reckon, boys," wj lie looked all round at us. "that we- th alls has met with a man which we're be % sure to bo proud to have for a friend on and neighbor." "Er? haw!" said one of the boys. Wi "Hay-men!" squeaked another. as That's how it all began, and I put in th twelve long years at Holy Cross, rid- ze ing for Lord Balshaiiiion.?Black and j ca White. Diamonds For Breakfast. If any one thinks that "diamonds in the morning" are an evidence of bad j de o mHClC.ol til fir 11 111 <? !tl thfV I Ul (I muoiVUJ Waldorf's grand ballroom would convince bim to the contrary. All the women of fashion are laden with j cr gems, and, although tiaras and dog collars are tabooed, diamond chains and glittering brooches are used freely. It is a bit incongruous when a woman' wears a $4000 corsage ornament with w; a cloth walking suit. But the women who buy the boxes f3r princely sums and whose names are high in the list of persons of fashion in New York Pr have issued the decree. One woman P1 carried a chain of diamonds and sev- he eral pins of groat value. Another tc woman, whose name is linked with every charitalle enterprise wore a cc strand of pearls of sufficient worth to th keep five families in comfort for a ' wi year. Jewel experts say pearls should j tli be worn moaning, noon and night, and j to this seems to be the excuse for the | women who wear their pearls for j th breakfast. The morning attire of the ' ^ modern New York woman is not dif- j ^ forent frcm that for the late afternoon. ; ^ Velvet gMvns, with deep cuffs of lnfe. ! ! Q2 are in general favor, and the tone of i .. luxury is desired above all things.? New York Press. at The First Cultivated Itose. !t is said that the first cultivated j rose was planted in Belgium in the j y?a.? 1522. The damr.sk rose was | taken to England from France in 157o. j P1 the moss rose about 3 7-4 and the , ta Chi,<A rose fifty years later. th rsMvjfvjrsirjrMCNjrsij ! c, SOUTH CAROLINA < Z STATE NEWS ITEMS. S rsarsjrjCNKs>c\jfNJ NJ< u m Negro .Kills Another. At Reedy Branch church, near *i' ards, Saluda county, Willis Daniel, S< lorecl. shot and instantly killed W-g.o- ar ?r Andrew's, also colored. tii * % to Homicide in Westminster. a Great excitement prevails among e negroes of Westminster over the 1 liing of Palmer Furgeson by Jim [ iwkins. Both are negroes. The trou- j 1 a was. about a woman. d< *% ol M Clemscn Cadets Arrested. Only the artillery ,a few officers d a'ocut 15 privates showed up for girlar drill on Thursday afternoon May 26th at Clemson College. The c suit was that Colonel Sirmyre, for ^ eged breach of discipline, placed 0 cadets under arrest. of ? * 3.1 Became Entangled in Machinery. |n Tim Bclen, operative in the picker 10 ora of the Glendale cotton mill, lost ^ eye, and was otherwise badly inred a few days ago by becoming 01 tangled in machinery in the mill. c* s life was despaired of by doctors r a time, but some hopes are now tertained for his recovery, " gi Wedding Stoped by Death. At Columbia, with his wedding day as arcely a week off, Paul Youmans, ?J ed 32 years, son of former Attorney a meral Leroy F. Youmans, was taken c< olently ill about 9 o'clock in the ening while visiting the home of s betrothed, and died at 9:30 o'clock, e next morning, without regaining nsciousnesii. Up to the time of trie tack Mr. Youmans was apparently [ the best of health. n! a * ei ? CI tt Newberry Seeks Lighting Plant. A matter ot much importance came ^ 1 before the commissioners of pubCI. : works at a recent meeting in New- _ ry. This was with reference to im- . tc oving the town's present system .+v, ** c-vctorn now h<sincr en iiguu:-, xu& uv.. a ely inadequate for the city's needs. ^ is estimated that an up to date gn ant, adequate for Newberry's needs, ^ n be installed at a cost of not exai eding $5,000. The matter is now in e hands of the city council, as to aether or not the town can go fur- ^ er into debt just at this time. e tl * * ti Commencement at Wofford. ' aj The baccalaureate sermon of Con- e rse College commencement was derered by Rev. J. J. Tigert, D. D., ao was for nine years a member of e faculty of Vanderbilt University, it is now editor of the Methodist rarteriy Review. ^ [t was not the first appearance of Dr. gert in Spartanburg for about fouren years ago he preached t'he bac? laureate sermon at Wofford Coi?e. and to this he referred in his ser- ^ on on this occasion. hi 'v. ai Negro Attacked Aged Woman. A: Manning, a few days ago, Eddip . ?Ison. a negro 18 years old. was 113 ?mmitted to jai'l for committing a si mgerous assault upon Mrs. Setzer, er i aged white lady,?who lives on the . itskirts of the town. Mrs. Setzer n is in her garden planting corn when ?* e negro stopped out of the woods { hind her, striking her a severe blow ^ l the back of the head. si Although badly hurt, Mrs. Setzer ai as able to recognize her assailant , he ran away. The only reason for a assault was revenge, as Mrs. Set- gI t had reported negroes for playing rcis in the woods near her home. ta d< * * * gc Woman Charged With Infanticide. |n An important turn in the baby mir- *n t case at Newbery was taken when warrant was sworn out for Lottie in jehl, a yo-ung white woman living T, i the outskirts ofc the city, charging in tr with being the mother and mur- Ql ;ress of the child. P1 A preliminary trial was held before 6* agistrate J. H. Chappell, only a few w itnesses being examined. *? Frances Franklin, a negro woman, fl( ho. it is thought, knows something ti< the case, was re-arrested, and was th esent at the hearing. There being 01 acticaly no evidence against her, nc >wever, she was released from cus- of dy. The hearing cf the Spehl case was ntinued for a few days until a fur''"-octio-qtinn is made and more vi ?. I lilt _ itnesses summoned. In the meantime, e defendant was allowed to return her home without giving bond. cj This is the case which has bnilied J af e police for two weeks, and involves J ^ e placing of a dead infant with its , to ?ad crushed and neck broken, in a j in leap valise, and putting it aboard the tr ist-bound Southern passenger train, i it: hich passes Newberry at 11:30 p. j a: . The case has attracted no little I re tention in the community. j is * i[i * ' * r, F< Death Claims Colonel Hoyt. g( Colonel James A. Hoyt. editor anc oprietor cf The Greenville Moun- at ineer. died at his home in that city cc e past week after a brief illness. ! < * / * ? v.-- r olonel Hoyt served gallantly through* ] it the civil war, rising from private i colonel of his regiment. In 1885, I olonel Hoyt was elected president of i le State Baptist convention and was j "-elected nine successive times. For renry years he was a trustee of Furan University and was once pres- j c-nt of the Southern Baptist convenon. In 1900 he was a canddate for I jvernor on the prohibition ticket, id was defeated by a small vote. At j ie recent democratic state convenon he was elected a district delegate > the St. Louis convention. He leaves widow ar.d three daughters and ie son, James A. Hoyt, Jr., city ed,or of The Columbia State. The funeral services were held from ie First Baptist church. The burial as after the rites of the Masonic or;r, Colonel Hoyt being at the time ! his death the oldest past grand [ ason in South Carolina. * * * To Test Consolidation. U. X. Gunter, attorney general for mth Carolina, has served upon the authern Railway the complaint in ie proceedings to test the validity the absorption by the Southern of leged competing and parallel lines t this state. The proceedings are t accordance with instructions from j te legislature and for the purpose ! settling all the suits which are now 1 file against the Southern on this large. The elate formally pleads that te agreement cf consolidation by the authern with the Asheville and Sparinburg, the South Carolina and Geor- j a, the Carolina Midland and the outh Carolina and Georgia extension * set aside and declared nul'l and void ? in violation of the letter and spirit ' the stace constitution in that the isorbed lines were at the time of the >nsolidation "competing lines." * * * Panic Narrowly Averted. J What came near being a panic nong a large audience at the opera >use in Newberry the past week was irrowly averted by the cool heads of few. A very large crowd was presit to hear the musicale givsn by ie students of Miss Susie E. Summer, hen the cry of fire was sounded on ie sitreet near the theatre. With the' y some one thoughtlessly rang the re bell, which is in the opera house >wer. " y With this the audience arose as one ighty mass and began to hurry for ie exits, it being the opinion of a reat many that the building was ire. By the coolness of a few the idience .was soon quieted and inarmed that the fire was elsewhere, ad thus checked what might have sen a stampede. The people in the audience resumed leir seaits and the concert was connucd, the excitement caused by the armNsoon dying off. Two ladies fainti during the excitement. WEEVIL ENEMY FOUND.uatamalan Ant to Ee Introduced In Cotton Growing States In Fight Against the Pest. The department of agriculture at 'ashington announces mat an *ant is been found in Gautemala that is i eheccive enemy of the boli wee1. it will be immediately introduced 10 The cotton states. The greatest ' " * - ~ U ^ +V>c. ^ i zr>rw. gmncance IS iUUiv;ucru Lv/ . y, which was muds by O. F. Ccok, ie botanist in charge of tropical ag* cultural investigation of the bureau ! plant industry. Cabled instructions ive been sent to him to report imediately to the department what asstance he needs in tho way of inen id money. During a trip in Central America last >ar Mr.- Cook discovered a cotton, own by Indians, which gave evimce of being immune from the at,eks of the boll weevil and on or ;rs from the department he later betn an investigation in certain points Guantanamo and Mexico. Mr. Cook's vestigations have been in more or ss accessible regions in the provce of Alta Vera Paz, Gautemala. be weevils are present there, but the vestigations show that they are unlestionably kept in check by the esence of one active enemy in the tape of a large reddish brown ant, hich is attracted to the cotton by the od which it secured from sets of iral nectaries. Mr. Cook's investigaans show that these ants spread emselves over fields of cotton four five to a plant and that they are instantly engaged in the destruction ' the boll weevil. PETTI NGILL FILES PETITION. rell Known Advertising Agency Goes to the Bankruptcy Court. Pettingill & Co., an advertising agenr of Rccton, which, together with its filiated concern, the Dr. Green Nerira Company, which was compelled > suspend this spring, filed a petition bankruptcy in the United States disict court Thursday. The total liabilies of Pettimsrill & Co. are placed ; $1,217,975, of which $1,206,396 is ^presented as unsecured. The total. distributed -among ever 7,000 credors, which are almost entirely newstper companies scattered from Ban:-r to the Pacific coast. The assets are scheduled nominally : $30,787 in oash and $50,000 in acmnts due, of which $270,000 is owed p the Nervura company. M'OLAHE A SUICIDE | j Mayor of City of Baltimore Puts Bullet is His Brain. ! NO CAUSE IS ASSIGNED i | Had But Recently Been Married to Prominent Society Leader. Worry Alleged to Be Incentive to Tragedy. Robert M. XeLanc, of Baltimore, shot and killed himself at his i home in that city Monday morning. His bride of two weeks was at the time asleep in the adjoining room, and was awakened by the discharge of the revolver, which Mr. McLane used while standing before the mirror of the dressing case in his rocm. The bullet entered the right temple, and crashing throngh the head, emerging in the rear of the left ear. Mrs. McLane and other members- of the household rushed to the mayor's assistance, but he did not regain consciousness and expired within an i hout. Since the fire of last February he had been kept assiduossly at work administering the affairs of N the city, besides endeavoring to direct the rehabilitation and rebuilding of the burned district. This together with ' criticisms by his political opponents are' thought by many to have caused a temporary aberration of the mind. 1 Mr. McLane was elected as a demerat to the office of chief magistrate * of the municipality in Aay of last , year for a term of four years. Under the city charter he will be succeeded by E. Clay Tymanus, republican, president of the second branch_of the city council, which is republican. Mayor McLane was 36*years of age, \ the youngest chief executive Baltimore ever had. He was the son of James L. McLane, president of the First Nar tional Bank, and nephew of Robert M. McLane, former governor of Ma- , . ryland, and United States minister to France, during. President Grover Cleveland's first administration. Previous to his- election as mayor y he had for year3 filled the office of state's attorney, in which he had distinguished Himself by a zealous and intelligent'discharge of his duties. Dur- /i ing his brief administration of the mnnn.olfn VIA ViatfV HrAll wKt ItTtAK majuiaiij vuiwt? uc uuu mvu^uv uywu himself the-antagonism of the regn- * lar democratic party by the appointment cf the independent members of ' the party. Mayor McLane was married two weeks ago to Mrs. Mary Van Bibber, a well known and popular society leader of Baltimore, and the newly made > bride is prostrated by his terrible tragedy. The dead mayor was very popular among the people generally, irrespective of party, and the whole community has been profoundly shocked by his tragic end. TO RESCUE CAPTIVES. Ik' American Warships Drop Anchor at Tangier, Morocco. According to advices? from Tangier, ! Morccco, the unitea scares cruiser | Brooklyn, flying the flag of Rear Adi miral Chadwick, arrived there MonI day. Other vcc-iels of the United i States "au .ion are following. The 'authoritie; in Tangier consider that the position cf the American, Ion Per- di?aris, and his stepson, Cromwell Varley, a British subject, who were kidnaped by bandits headed by Ralsuli, is now more serious than be- r j fore. It is the understanding that the ad- * I miral commanding the American fleet ! has orders to exercise pressure upon j the Moroccan authorities to induce j them to accept Raisuli's terms. The i sultan is willing to pay a ransom and j liberate Raisuli's prisoners who are - * : now imprisoned, but Raiculi now asks American protection for the settlement. This last condition is considered aependeat upon the American * government. Rear Admiral Chadwick, accompanied bv an aide, the United States consul general and two marines, visited M. Tores, the representative of the sultan, at Tangier. The interview lasted ten minutes, after which M. Torres : flio visit th#> Rrooklvn fiS- *? | iciuiuta -?w ? ^ ing a salute in his honor. 11. Torres has informed the American and the British representative y that he cannct grant Raisu-Ii's terms. V Mr. Gummere, the United Spates consul ?t Tangier, in a cablegram, received at the state department MenI day night, says, that threats against ! the lives of Raisuli's captives, Perj (ticaris and Varley. have been made ! ur.lrs? the bandit's demands are ? grained. PREFERRED DEATH TO DISGRACE | Hcbcken Man, Under Heinous Charge, I Cuts Throat With Pocket- Knife. Rather than face the disgrace cf a public trial, John D. Budd, a well known resident of Hcboken, N. J., j has slashed his throat with a posket J knife and will die. He was arrested a i few days ago^ together with a lawyer md four other men charged with hapng abused young ch{ldren.