Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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; > ' ' E. ' "* ?* "" i x WINTER WEATHER. *Tis a dull sight To see the year dying. When the winter winds Set the yellow wood sighing; Sighing, oh: sighing. When suc-h a time cometh I do retire Into an old room Beside a bright fire: Oh, pile a bright fire! And there I sit >V Reading old things Of knights and lorn damsels. While the wind sings? Oh, drearily sings! I never look out Nor attend to the blast; For all to be seen Is the leaves falling fast; Falling, falling! But close at the hearth. Like a cricket, sit I, Reading of summer And chivalry? Gallant chivalry! ?Edward Fitzgerald. ???? A Difference A? T\ UD guanine, V < I By ROBERT BARNES. Jv- . To Jim Carrigan, the big red-faced 4 contractor on the railroad cut through Horseback Ledge, came Padrone Angeio Valente with empty kerosene can * one biting, snowless December morn; ing. "How heata dynamita?" asked he, in tones of despair. "Oil for stove all gone." "Borrow some of Murphy at the east end. If he hasn't any, try Jenson." "Murphy no gotta more than 'nough for 'self, nor Jenson, neither. I go to town to buy?" That meant a wait of at least an I hour, and perhaps a good deal longer. In a half-hour twenty-four holes would be ready for loading. It was Saturday forenoon,, and time was precious. Carrigan picked up an old grain-bag in which the dulled drills were carried :f/ to be sharpened. From a box in the ^ squat tool-shanty he took two dozen eight-inch sticks of dynamite, rolled in oiled paper, and looking for all the world like lemon-colored molasses candy. He dropped them into the sack. "Take this to the engine house, and tell ^rew to let you put it on the 5 boiler," he said, with decision. Valente swung the bag over his shoulder and scrambled up the ladder. The survey for the new railroad had called for a cut one thousand feet long and eighty deep through solid feldspar The general contractors were driving 'the work. Three "gangs." one at each ^?ase of the ridge and one on the backV "bone, were leaking havoc with steam and dynamite. Carrigan's subcontract allotted him itiie centre of the ledge. In his employ were an engineer, Morrison Drew; r a fireman, Frank Hix; and forty Italian laborers. Already they had blasted a pit fifty feet deep. On the brink stood the boiler house and derrick, and near by ran a temporary track, on which the rtyik was hauled off as fast as it was hoisted out. The boiler furnished steam to the hoisting engine, to the pdmp that freed the pit of water, and to the three drills chugging away the ?ard feldspaf. k gather made it necessary to. 'teat the explosive before it could be used; and this had been done by a pail . of hot water on an oil stove, t As the "boss" was deciding where to fc start his next line of holes, his ears ? were greeted by the sound of excited talk from the boiler-house. Then down the ladder came Angeio again, bag on j g?;, shoulder. , "Here, you, what are you bringing j that dynamite back for?" demanded j Carrigan, angrily. ? ?a ?> ! "J2*ngmeer leu me no pui it on uuu, er," whimpered Valente. "What!" shouted the contractor. "'Let me talk to him!" As fast as his two hundred and twe-n- ! ty pounds would permit, he puffed up | 'the ladder and stormed into the boiler- i house. "What's this I hear?" he bellowed i to Drew, a small, dark-haired young | man. "Did you tell Angelo he couldn't j warm this dynamite on the boiler?" . "Yes, I did," replied the engineer. "Didn't he tell you I sent him up ; with it?" "Yes," returned Drew, "but I thought j you hadn't considered the matter care- i fully enough when you gave him his j orders. I'm not ashamed to say that j I'm afraid of the stuff; and I don't J think you can be any too careful with I it. It seems to me that it's a good deal j better to take an hour or so to send a j man to Weston rather than to render j irjciirunr-p vnirt nnH rick fhp ! life of everybody on the job/' "Haven't I handled dyaamite before you were born, and never had an accident yet? Put that bag 0:1 the boiler, AngelS." "Not while I'm responsible for this machinery," was Drew's firm response. The contractor flushed with anger. "Who owns this outfit, anyway? Who's hiring these men, and you, too? You know altogether too much, young man, to be wasting your time round here. You're discharged; you'll get your pay check tonight. This plant's under your " control, Hlx. You can run it all right, can't you?" ' "Sure!" said Hix, briskly. He was older than the engineer, and had always been a little jealous of him. Carrigao snatched the bag from the Italian's hands and laid it on the boiler. "I'll send one of the men up to fire for ;"*<](/' he said, and flung out of the Co or witRiout another look at Drew. Tut discharged engineer stood lor a moment dumbfounded. It is not pleasant to be throws out of one's position just because one has been overfedthful | to duty. Drew tool: off his workiugsuit and began to make his few belongings into a bundle. Hix busied himself about the machinery. After his first elation at bring ! promoted, he felt sincerely sorry for Drew, and also a little apprehensive regarding his -new responsibility. He ventured a few questions about the hoister. His former chief answered ! them cheerfully. He bore no malic? ] against Hix. Then, as a short, stout | Italian appeared in the doorway, he j picked up his bundle and went out. j He had no definite plans as yet, but ; thought that he would call on the en- j giueer at the east end of the cut. A train of empty cars now backed ! in on the spur, and for the next twenty j minutes Hix was busy at the engine, J hoisting out and dumping drags as fast j as the Italians could load them. His j green fireman, zealous to furnish plen- j ty of steam, kept up a roaring blaze j in the firebox. On the bottom of the pit Carrigan di- j rected the loading of the drags, a task i that his slight knowledge of Italian | rendered by no means easy. "Them dagoes'll wear me clean" out!" he muttered. Now that his fit of anger was over, he felt sorry that he had discharged Drew. The holes were ready for the dynamite. He wanted to j see how his .new engineer and fireman j were getting on, so he decided to go up for the explosive himself. Just as the last car was loaded, a sheet of flame burst from the boilertop. Almost fainting with terror, Hix realized that the overheated plates had ignited the contents of the bag. With a wild yell of alarm, he bolted from the building, followed by the Italian; nor did the two stop running until they had put a safe distance between themselves and the threatening d^ris-pr Carr.'gan had just set foot on the bottom of the latter when he heard running feet above and Hix's panic-stricken yell: "The dynamite's afire!" The shout fell like the trump of doom en the workers penned in the pit. An explosion would send building, j machinery and loaded cars hurtling j down upon them. And not a man would escape death or maiming. All the strength went out of the big boss's legs, and he wilted on the feldspar. Round him the shrieking Italians scurried frantically. Some flattened themselves behind boulders. Others vainly tried to climb the steep walls. But not one dared to approach the ladder at the top of which stood the cnginc-houW, with the smoke streaming from its windows. With an effort Carrigan pulled himself together. He had courage enough. Y/ith trembling limbs and pasty face he began climbing in the direction of the peril. He knew that nothing could be expected from Hix or the Italian. Oh, if "he had not been so hasty in dis charging Drew: _ i . The former (Engineer was just returning from the eastern end of the cut. He was about a hundred feet away when the fleeing men burst from the building, and the smoke and flame proclaimed what had happened. He instantly understood the situation. For a moment he hesitated. Why should he, a man discharged unjustly for trying to prevent this very catastrophe, risk his life for a crowd of foreigners? Then, as a full perception came of what an explosion would mean to the men trapped in the gulf below the loaded cars, he started for the house on the run. Inside was a smoky darkness, lighted by flame-jets leaping from boilertop to ceiling. A strong sulphurous smell pervaded the air. The rafters were charring. The windows were covered with a black, greasy soot. Down the steel plates and into the cinders below was trickling a melted mass of deadly explosive. Drew's head was cool and clear. He was familiar with .the freakiness of burning dynamite. It might consume itself harmlessly, or at any second a thunderclap might come that would wine out the entire plant and kill every man in the vicinity. Standing on an empty box close to the boiler, he reached up, and with his gloved hands brushed asiae'tfce charred folds of the bag. Grasping two blading sticks, he ran a hundred feet from the building, and laid them carefully on the ground. Then back he hurried for another pair. Until the last of the dynamite was carried out and extinguished the danger would not be over; for a single stick might do nearly as much damage as all. A pail of water caught his eye a~s he entered the house the second time. He loir? tV?o tirn ctir-lrs nn rhp Vtriplr i - ~ j hearth, and poured a thin stream on their flaming ends. They sputtered j ! and crackled ominously, and he desist- j j ed, fearing that even such slight conj finement of the explosive might bring | about the very catastrophe he was ! trying to avert. Again he began to carry out the fiery ; torches. He worked alone. The lo; comotive engineer and the br^ikeman j who coupled the cars had run for their j lives. From a distance Hix and the i Italian watched him. but clfered no aid. ; As he was hurrying back to the boilcv j house for the fifth time, Carrigan's pa 1i lid. face appeared above the ladder top. i Drew spoke to him sharply: i ,,Get away from here, if you value ! your life!" The flames had eaten through Drew's i gloves, and his skin was scorched by j i the hot, sticky naste. He did not dare . stop to remove it. Soldiers have passed ! through the thick of great battles and ! not been in half the peril this man en| countered in the performance of what 1 he deemed his duty. Back and forth j he ran, the flaming brands ever gr&w! ing shorter. Finally the last one had i been safely carried out, and had burned i itself to harmlessness on the ground, i Then Drew began. ;o put out the fire I ^ i :n the rcof cf the engine-house; str/l j Hix and the Italian, sure that all danI ger was now over, came back to help j him. Carrigan came up, too. and look> ed on without saying anything. .4f:*r j the smoking rafters had been well i drenched, Drew bathed his parched, grimy hands, and turned to go; but the boss stopped him. "Drew," he said, "I was a 1'goI and worse to put that stuff on the boiler, and I ask your pardon. You've get me out of a tight place at the risk of your own life. Will you take the job again at an advance of ten dollars a month, with the understanding that you are to have complete control of this boilerhouse? I won't step my foot into it, unless you tell me I may." "I don't objee " replied Drew. "One thing more," said Carrigan. "Will you shake hands with me?" The engineer held out his scorched fingers to the contractor.?Youth's Companion. HALF THE PEOPLE "OFF." Doctor Tells Entertainment Club Nerves Are Going to Rack. Affirming that the strenuous life of the age is making such extravagant demands on the nerve stores cf Americans that half the nation's population suffers in a certain degree from hallucinations, Dr. John D. Quuckenbos, j addressing the Entertainment Club in j the Waldorf-Astoria voiced a warning against overtaxing the physical body J in fashionable and business life. "While in the last 10 years demands on nervous vitality have markedly increased," said the speaker, "the elements of nerve nutrition in the ma- j chine-made food stuffs and substitutes ! I the mass of the people live on have i conspicuously diminished. Nerve j work has been doubled, while nerve i nourishment has been halved, and this j is the worst of all the infractions of j the poor man's rights by the soulless j corporations.'' Hv AiiOrthrtnkAn coirl +V?of r>orCAP C ui. v^navuciiuua oaiu uiai . otherwise intellectual beyond the average of mankind, through various kind of excesses which poisoned or fagged the nervous system, have most absurd hallucinations in certain directions. When these hallucinations become permanent the patient becomes i insane, he said, but if friends of such sufferers before they reached the insane state used kindly persuasion to j convince them the ills were only imag- ; inary, the insane asylums today would i be comparatively deserted. Enumerating the various activities that tend to wreck the nervous system the speaker said that gambling, whether at bridge or poker, the races, lotteries or stocks, was to be reckoned with. "Americans speed their automobiles along every conceivable life- ; way," he continued, "exhausting their i energies as they go, and inviting pre- | mature nervous and mental impair- j m?nt." Citing many instances of nervous . K/ lliiAinnf f not liorl llTlflpf hlS f JiciiiUtmaliuuo mcu uuu vvuiv , observation. Dr. Quackenbos said that once the wife of a representative, otherwise perfectly sound, imagined that fishing worms crawled continually on her body. When she went to bed at night the delusion was so marked that she believed her couch was a lake and the fish were constantly swimming about her in quest of the bait. When the suggestive method of treatment was resorted to she "was persuaded that all the worms except one had gone. "There is'just one left. It's under my garter,' she told Dr. Quackenbos. "Won't you take that one, too?" The physician said he pretended to comply with the request and the hallucination disappeared permanently. "The suggestive method of treatment," said the physician, "in an advanced form, is hypnotism." He read several letters that came to him from persons having exaggerated ideas of his hypnotic powers, and they sounded like testimonials from a patent medicine almanac. "Dear Doctor," read one from Boston, "there is a man named T. Lawson living in this city who is buying oil paintings. I have two that I would [ like to sell him. Please hypnotize I *5. _ ^ I him, so he will buy them ana pay me i a liberal price." A Wall street broker once wrote: "Dear Doctor: Every time I meet a corpulent woman in the street, I have an impulse to throw myself into her 1 arms. Can you cure me of it?" The physician laughed with the others at j several of these letters.?New York Press. The Red Howling Monkey. The red howler "(Mycetes seniculus) j is a rare monkey cf the forests of j tropical America. It is an extremely | delicate animal, and is closely remcrkj able for the extraordinary noises it ' makes. The cries it utters comprise almost any sound from a subdued moan to an angry roar, and it is hardly conceivable that tbsy should prorppf] from a single animal. This is the animal called red monkey by Wa! terton in "Wanderings in South ! America," where an admirable de; scription of its weird cries may be j read. These sounds are produced in j a bony cavity formed by an enlargei ment of the hyoid, or tongue bone. In appearance the red howler is an elegant little creature, well clothed with h#ir of a reddish brown color. | Like the spider monkeys, it is proi vided with a long, prehensile tail, the ! under surface of which is naked to ward the tip, but it differs from those ! monkeys in having well developed j thumbs.?Westminster Gazette. A clock once owned by John Wesley ani presented by him to the Join street Methodist church, ^ in New : :>.rk city,' Is still doing good service | in the church at 44 John street. I . I railroad~Ts blockedT Central Bars A. B. & A. From I its Tracks Into Atlanta?Latter Must Await Building of Own Line. The Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic railroad will not operate trains into Atlanta until the tracks of the system are completed into the city, which, it is officially stated, will be some time next fall. Every arrangement had been made for the operating of trains over the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic from Brunswick to LaGrange, and from LaGrange to Atlanta over the tracks of the West Point railroad. This through schedule was announcj ed to begin on March 3. Then, it was,. I that after all of the details had beeD J arranged and the schedules for the j through service to Atlanta via tne j West Point route haa been placed j in the hands of the printers, that the | entire deal was declared off. Then came the announcement that i the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic j would operate trains from Brunswick I to LaGrange only, and the new time j tables are now out advertising this j regular service, which started last j Sunday. j As this service is now operated, passengers from points along the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic make their way to LaGrange, and there change cars and wait for the regular trains over the West Point route to Atlanta. These connections are such as necesj sitate a wait of several hours at LaGrange. it seems that this through service to Atlanta from points along the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic via West Point route was declared off as 1 Ml /1^ Itie result 01 ODjecuous vy uie vcutial of Georgia management. The proprietary interests of the Central of Georgia and the Southern railway are such as easily explain the occasion of this order preventing the new through service, the arrangements of which had been entirely completed. Because of this order there will be no through service over the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic until the completion of its line into the city, as stated. This action has occasioned wide comment in Atlanta railway circles, where it has been suggested that the Central may continue its present policy and try to keep the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic from run' ning its trains into the new Atlanta terminal passenger station. It will also be remembered that at the time President Atkinson first pro. jected the entrance of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic into Atlanta, the Central of Georgia management was very active in taking every measure possible to prevent the construction of this independent road. TWo* tYm Piantral intends to COH< 1 uat tug wub*MA ?M?v?.? ? ^? rinue this policy is proved by this last objection, and as a result, passengers over the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic will have to make their way to Atlanta from LaQrange as best they can, and according to the regu-v lar schedule of the Atlanta and West Point with all of the necessary waits incidental to this service. In the matter of any objection being made to the entrance of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic into the new terminal passenger station, tbe Atkinson system is more or less independent, as their property ad' joins that of the passenger station, and it Vould be an easy matter to erect a passenger depot of their own. f HEYWAftD GOES TO BREMEN i Will Arrange for Permanent Steamship Service. To complete arrangements with the ofhcials of the Hamburg-American Steamship company for the establish i n'onf <-?f a permanent steamship serv arcuivco 01. , states that the amounts paid to the I intermediaries of the plot were at least ?6,OCO,OOG. PROFESSOR SOULE RESIGNS. Quits Position in Virginia College for One in Georgia. Professor A. M. Soule, dean and I director of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute at Blacksburg. has placed his resignation in the hands of the j president to be transmitted to the board. The resignation is effective September 1, alter which time Professor Soule will assume presidency ot the Agricultural College of Georgia " ' * v't' *" ^ :';.. v; . \ i?r Palmetto State Newsj rHWWWWVV1** * ? * Who .is Mayor of Whitmire? The dispute over the matter of I who is mayor of Whitmire, in Newberry county, which has been argued in the courts, and which was thought | to have been settled by Judge Purdj's ruling a week ago, is as yet>?ausettled, and has been carried to the supreme court. The contestants for the office are A. J. Holt and J. P. rani. * ? New Passenger Service Assured. As a result of a recent meeting of representatives from the towns along the Columbia and Greenville division of the Southern railway, vbicn was neld in Greenville Wednesday, to consider the schedules along this line, an additional double daily passenger j train will be put on this division, beginning March 17. This announcement was made by General Manager Ackeii. , i * *i Want to Vote on Booze QuestionAbout twenty petitions have beeu put in circulation in Newberry county seeking signatures for the purpose of ordering an election on the dispensary in the county under the provisions of the new law. As the signatures of only one-fourth of the qualified voters of the county are required before the election cn the question can be ordered it is quite probable that the election will be held. * * * Paralytic Burns to Death. While sitting in frcnt of the frreplaco at his home in Spartanburg, John T. Wilkins. an ex-Con federate soldier, SO years of a?e, was burned to death by a tpark of fire igniting the quilc, which he had wlapped around himself. \ At the time his wife was cooking breakfast, and Wiifcfn.*.. being a paralytic, was urable to extinguish the flames. Tlie house was burned to the ground. *. Major Brayton Gees Hence. Major Ellery M. Brayton. one of the Republican ioaders of South Carolina in radical days and since, died at his home in Columbia a lew days ago. from a sudden attack of heart disease. He was a nativD of Augusta; Ga, and a graduate of Brown Vr?": versify and Harvard Law School. ' ? Me was collector of interna! reveatta for South Carolina under I resident Hayes * * * Costly Blaze at Charleston. A recent fire on the water front at Charleston caused property, loss aggregating $100,000 end the serious injury of a fireman. The fire originated in the Comfcabee Fertilizer Company and spread to the McMurphy and Company's fertilizer establishment, the Charleston Iron Works, the Southern pick factory and the Goldsmith Mercantile Company, all of which were damaged. The fumes from nitre in the fertilizer establishments made the work of the firemen especially difficult. * * * Trio of Bigamists Sentenced. In the criminal court at Fickens 1 n?: A "\\7xW nf I ? ice between Charleston and Bremen, former Governor D. Clinch Heyward of South Carolina, president of the Southern Immigration and Industrial Association, sails for the German port March 12, accompanied by E. J. Watj son, immigration commissioner for South Carolina, and P. H. Gadsden, president Charleston board of trade. / nursing a flagrant lie. I Spaniard Insists That United States Senate Was Bribed to Declare War. The Madrid correspondent of the London Telegraph says that as a reI eult of inquiry he confirms ail the accounts given by the Havana Diaro de la Marina of the alleged bribery of the United States senate to declare war on Spain. He asserts that officiui proofs of the story are now in tn v:...? ot w-?^-nria. and he furihor i canaries aiiu mu ~-. Gaffney pleaded guilty of bigamy an-i were sentenced to three years eacn on the public works of Pickens county. f Thad Brown was arraigned for bigamy. He was married in North Carolina to wife No. j, it was alleged, and to wife No 2 in Georgia. Judge Gary held that the court had no jurisdiction and Brown was then presented for adultery, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six months on the gang or a $100 Hue. John Henry King was tried for bigamy and convicted. He got two and one-half years ou ihe garg. All of the parties *re cotton mill people. * *. * Cabman Got His Revenge. Joseph D .Rivers, a young jyhite man, 22 years of age, was shot through the head in the tenderloin district at Charleston and W. S. Schiffhauer, white, was arrested for the shooting. Rivers was killed on the sidewalk in front of a house of questionable repute. The slayer, after shooting, forced a passing hackman to stop and take him aboard. The cabman drove th? - ? -? y-v4* o nyOir?.ir?fin man inu uic Aims ui ? j/vuvu.i?u and delivered him to the officer. Schifr'hauer said that he was being held up when the shooting occurred. * * * Will Soon Drift in Naturally. Members of the South Carolina Immigration Association express the opinion ifcat it will not be necessary to resort to the expedient of assisting immigrants to come souih to the extent -of more than three or ship loads. After the line to Charleston is permanently established there, ?. -0 and the immigration station authorized by the last congress established, they say immigration will drift to Charleston just as naturally as iz. does to ibe northern states, and distributed to the states further south. * * * ,? Had Lived Honest Life. ?.F. S. Harris, former manager of the Postal Cable Company ii, Charleston, committed suicide at his residence in lhat city, by shooting himself in tho head, lie i^fi. letters to his wife, to the superintendent of the company at Augusta, (3m, and to ihe press, the latter being as follows: ' ^ "I have lived honestly and treated J all men lairly according to my lights. J A complete breakdown ia health and inability to perform my duties is the ; cause of ihis act." Air, Harris hid lived in Charleston for several years. He came from Georgia. He ieaves a widow artl children. * * Endowment Fund Secured. Dr. James A. B. Scherer, chairman | of the way8 and means committee :? in charge of the semi-centennial endowment at Newberry College, this state, announces that the committee feels greatly encouraged by the fact that the Sr?0:000 required fcv the terms f< of Dr. D K. Pearson's, proposition has already been so nearly secured, although the time limit does not expiry .: v until next July, they have decided *.? prosecute a vigorous canvass to carrythe new endowment to a larger figura than that embraced in the original plan. The committee bas substantial v$| grounds for the belief that Ibey may M obtain a total of $100.C4X1 at no far distant day. '\m MERCHANT AND ROBBER KILLED Deadly Midnight Duel Fought in Store , Near Columbia, S. C. C. B. Green, 45 years old, and married, a merchant of Shandon, a sub?;|?*| urb of Columbia, S. Cv was waylaid || and killed Saturday nigl^ by Edward ; Marshall, who himself was hilled by Gieen. Robbery was the motive. The shooting occurred about 117 '.J o'clock, hut the bodies of the men were not discovered until about o'clock Sunday morning. When found, Green's clothing was on fire, his body being badly charred; around, his heart and side, where the bullets toot effect and a roll of greenbacks were burned in twain. rpmH The feet of the men vfere less a foot apart, showing that they faced . ^ each other when they were killed. At Green's right hand lay a 32-caliber ref- 'volvor, with four empty chambers. ^ Near Marshall's right hand was a'.0? caliber six-shooter, with five emjfty ?!iomW? whilo a 3R./??liher. nistoL ~ ~ " r"/yMMW which had not been fired, was at Ms 'eft hand. Under his body was a wellmade leather sling-shot or sand having two rounds of small shot , in the end. Near his head lay two biHVv "^Jj glar's masks, one having two bullet - ^ noles in it, and was clotted with > blood. Marshall was shot twice through the head and once through the right breast, while Green had three butlets through his heart The finding of the two masks and ^ three hats leads to the belief that C^M Marshall had an accomplice, bat up tO this time no arrests have been made, Marshall was 24 years old, tmmar-^-fj; ried and the son of the manager of the large department store of J. J. Mimnaugh of Columbia. The fact that ^ Marshall had a pistol in? each hand, it is hard to understand how he able to manipulate the sandbag; M*?1 ^11 PENROSE SHIELDED NEGROES. Captain McDonald, incensed, Lets } Cat Out of the Bag. Incensed because of certain state- .. mentx Major Penrose of the twenty- ^ I fifth infantry is alleged to have" made ' v Friday during the progress of the courtraartiai proceedings at Sap An- , tonio, Texas, Captain W. J. McDon-, ^ aid, former ranger captain and man- ^ nger of the state's investigation of the "shooting up" of the town of Browns- ' : ville, Texas, left Austin Saturday af- < lernoon for San Antonio, where his views will be aired. . W ? "If he (Major Penrose) is correct- / : ly quoted," declared Captain McDcjlaid, "I desire to say that I have ^ heretofore refrained from making any : statement (in regard to the matter, \ but since he has seen fit to make such a statement, I will say that Penrose'v^ was guilty of shielding the guilty ne-, ; ;v groes that murdered Natus and shot ^ J into the houses of citizens of Browns- t ^ ?T f hitv? tho Q/tf VlilU &L1\A J. il!4U i vuv ouy^i, , ,U of trying to cover it up/* . jfcg t- V--' 1 ?w- r".Sji EDITOR HEARST IS ILL- .-.V^ All Engagements for Ncsr Future Are Canceled. V'i^H *. ? William Randolph Hearst is serous- :P ly iil at his heme in Nov; York, aa&; his engagements icr come time >c .?q erne have been canceled. 7Jr. Hearst ' it- **8 recently contracted a severe cold. -3 , >&m Governor Clancnard Dediwk Governor Blanchard or Louisiana .Jf| has declined to appoint a commia- ; ' sion of three from that state to study ?^e race que&tioa.