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lively refused. to give lip tho keys, ' The cfoWd br?shed'bim (i3lde. aa.if lie were a child and broke the lock ori tile frail doors and brought the three negroes, Johnson, Felder and Hartwell out, ono after the other. Tho tJcsrroes all expected to be lyucbcd and their fear was great. It. was understood that they knew* of the acts of the Evans boys and they were made to tell yvbat they. knew. At first they did this very;reluctantly. One hy one they were, cowhided within an inch bf their lives and then they told their ktbrles. vi* ls remarkable that all three of the negroes, who like all or their kind lie Iii fear, und Ile under all, circumstances, should have told thc same tales. Charles Evans shot Mr. Phillips, they all said. Ills brother helped him to get ready for the crime and went with him when he shot into the Phillips household. That Jim was an "accessory to tho crime they proved by stories that tallid, absolute ly, but each said that it was Charles who fired the shot. THE lt KAL WORK TUE NIOnT. After the negroes had been beaten so that they will be marked for life they were put back in the guard house and then began the real work of the night. Evans was taken out and car ried to the outskirts of thc town. Ile was asked if he wished to make a statement and in reply said that if the crowd would only let him live un til morning that he would- tell them wiio committed the crime. He was denied this privilege and told that lie must die. Then he tried to plaeo the critic on Iiis brother. Ile was asked to tell where Iiis brother was. He said that he did not know, but he knew triadic could lind him by morning or some of his friends could. The mob, with the thought of old Phillips and his wounded children in their minds, laughed in derision. U UNO KY FOK TIIEIK I'KEY. "Take him out in thc woods. We will teach every negro within 1,000 miles ol' here to keep their guns away from women and old men," cried the ringleader of the mob of now mad dened men. They lifted the negro his yellow face shining in the lights of the lanterns, bodily from the ground and carried him out in a little woods beyond the town-not very far, to be sure, uot more than 200 yards at the utmost, from the house where the old soldier's lifeblood was oozing out slowly, and some of them would have carried him further but for the fact that the string of hes; that he cried out on the night air seemed to enrage them more and more-at every step they took. HURLED INTO ETERNITY. Finally they put him down on thc ground and a semi-circle ol' tuen stood about him-some with their ri Iles raised for fear that lie, noted as a ilect-footed negro, would escape-and the customary piece of rope was pro duced, lt took hut a moment then to put it about Iiis neck and the co wardly brute was told to make ids peace with his God. lusted he begged for mercy. "'Ask Phillips," was the laconic re ply, and the rope was made taut. "Kow stand back men and riddle the brute, so that every negro that comes this way "Wednesday may have In's lesson." Two hundred guns were ii red at the word and when your correspondent went to tile scene. Wednesday morn therc were just 12 wounds in the body. TUE AWFUL SIGHT A LESSON. The negro made an ugly picture, the sun steaming down on his copper colored face and the blood dripping from his wounds. But his dead face was as nothing to thc live ones of the negroes about thc scene. Despite the fact that they knew that there is dan ger for every negro in the county, un til after Mr. Phillips dies, like a mur derer to tlie scene of his crime, they hailed back and camped around the spot. Up to late hour Wednesday evening the body had not been cut down, the towns-people leaving it swinging from the limb ol' the tree all day, that ib might teacli the lesson that they said was so much desired in the country and from which they hoped much good ell'ect would emanate. Meantime down thc shaded country lane but a short distance away there is another picture, lt is within the vine-clad cottage ol' the Phillips. Since the fatal wounding it lias been prac tically impossible to keep thc old man in bed. Ile half sits, half reclines in a chair with his head oh his arm, suf fering the death agony that is only the question of a few lion rs. Thc room Is on the verandah. The neigh bors sit about and take turns doing what they can to aleviatc the fright ful pain. When your correspondent entered tho. room the wounded man had just passed though one of his paroxysms ol'pain, lu a moment of consciouness he asked with some pathos in his voice what any one could have against him that could have caused the deed. The two sons are half crazed over thc su tiering that, they brought on their lather, and thus far the physicians have been un able lo relieve his pain. Tlie fact that he Is alive at all isa mystery and it is thought that he cannot possibly live until morning. A GOOD COMMUNITY. Mr. Phillips was employed as the overseer of Mr. II. L. Solomons, a wealthy merchant and larmer of the neighborhood. Mr. Solomons said Thursday that in ten years' residence in the community he had not seen a half dozen drunken men of any description, and that the citizens were a peaceful, lawbiding people. The assassination ol' his overseer he regards . as tlie most horrible thing that ever occurred in tlie community, arid al though he had nothing to do with thc lynching he did not condemn it. Thc inquest will be held Thursday morning. It is not expected that any thing will come of thc inquest, how ever, as the lynchers are sworn to secrecy, and try as he would your cor respondent could learn nothing of the identy of any of them. Information was received here late this afternoon that Jim Evans*had given himself up in Orangeburg. The consensus ol' (?pinion wa:: that it was best thing that could happen to the community If he had, as scouting par tics had been out all day long and if the other Evans boy hart been captur ed it would undoubtedly have fared hard with him. Neither of thc wounds to Mr. Philips' children were at all serious and they were up ami about the village. ! NO NEO KOKS IN NORWAY. Not a negro was seen in the place Wednesday except a few old and trust ed servants who condemn thc action ol' the Evans desperadoes as much as the white-people of thc community. It , has been feared all Wednesday that there might he trouble again that r ???iv? beet? cbnrfrcgafclug I? tu?'fc?untrv nearby, here. Tile sueriff Q?$ "flo. secta tx) erft?ltain thia feat and ilia request of Wold ht the oltl?otis^that Gt?y. 'Jrl?y \viird. bb asked -for troops'Wa? not're garded. That tho 'hegroeh aro Bti^l milch stirred up, how?v?'rV .'cannot be questioned. The suw mill n??r hare and the planing mill where Bumer 30 ur 40 negre are employed had. to shut down because they could get no negro labor. On tho other habid a, hupihcr b?'ut-gro?s Just outside of the town are working quietly In the fields and tlic hope, if not the exportation,- is in the hearts of all that Liu "OUble is at an end. -3 . ? COTTON MILL TAXES Will bo.Fi.vcdby the Stnto Boord of Equalization. The State board of equalization has been called to meet in Columbia On the loth of July. This is a very Im portant commission, having for its main object tlic assessment for taxa tion of the property of cotton mills, oil mills, etc. The chairman of thc hoard last year was.Mr. W. W. Brad ley, of Abbeville. The call for the meeting was issued by thc comptroller general, lion. A. W. Jones, who would have announced an earlier date but for thc fact that the returns from* a Krcat many of the mills-had to be sent back to the county auditors for correc tion. The hoard has a number of new members this year, aud is constituted as follows: Abbeville-W. W. Bradley, Abbe ville. Aiken-J. L. Qui ti by, Aiken. Anderson-?. H. Bailey, Mooreville. Hamberg--S. D. Guess, Denmark. Barn well-J. C. (J ri H'm, Hobbins. Beaufort-J. S. Claghorn, Graham ville. Berkeley-J. St. Clair "White, Gough. Charleston-M. Israel, Charleston. Cherokee-T. M. Littlejohn, Star Farm. ~ Chester-C E. Fant, Chester. Chesterfield-1). M. Barrebting, Chesterfield. Clarendon-A. J. Richbourg, St. Paul. CoUeton-A 10. Williams, Cottage ville. Darlington-W. J. Bogers, Darling ton. Dorchester-C. M. Gavin, St. Geor ges. Edgelicld-IX. H. Cochran, Reho both. Kai ifield- John B. Patrick, White Oak. Florence-Alex Mc-Taggcrt, Hawes. Georgetown-Louis S. Erich, Gcor get jwn. Greenville -W. D. Garrison, Green ville. Greenwood-J. W. Alton Green wood. Huhipl0n---1L D. Mulllngan,. Mulli gan's. 1 lorry-J. P. Dcrhara, Green Sen Kershaw-J. M. Sewell, Kershaw. Lancaster-J. Wren Tillman, Lan caster. Laurens-IL V. Adair, Clinton. Lee-T. Hd Haskins, Bishopville. Lexington-F. TI. Hendrix, Lees ville. Marion-L. B. 'Rogers, Latta. Marlboro-A. J. Matheson, Ben nettsville. dewberry-II. II. Folk,'.Newberry. Oconee-C. W. Bitch ford, Wal halla. Orangeburg-J. D. Shuler, Feldcr ville. Bickens-Burl C. Johnson, Kasley. . Richland -J. A. Meetzc, Cullimbin. Saluda--.). C. II. i tandi, Wyse Ferry. Spartanhurg--J. J. Vernon, Well ford. Sumter.-IV. L. McLauren. Sumter. Union -lt. G. Hill, Carlisle. Williamsburg-W. R. Funk, Kings tree. York-W. W. Boyce, Rock lilli. MOB KILLED NEGRO. Nobody Scorns io Know Anything ol' Guilty Parties. A dispatch from Anderson Thurs day night says: Heuben TClrod, a re spected old negro who lives near Pied mont, was shot ariel liBled in his own home about 10 o'clock last night, and three negro women, who were occu pants ol' the same house were given a severe whipping. Details of the alfair arc meagre. Magistrate Bowen held an inquest over tlie body of the dead negro today. The verdict of the Jury was that he cnnic to his death at the hands of parties unknown. The women who! testitied at the inquest, said that about K) o'clock last night a crowd of about f>u white men caine to the house and after shooting and killing Kl rod, gave them a severe heating and warn ed them to leave the county. The women said they did not reeog onize any of their assailants, hut that they did not live in that community. This is all that is definitely known. The general supposition is that the women were objectionable to thc peo ple of the community and that a posse of citizens went to the house to chas tise them and drive them away and that HI rod resisted them and was killed. The affair is strongly con demned hy the people in and around Piedmont and a thorough investiga tion will likely bc had. ?KW York girls who are employed in offices and stores remotes from their places and residences have petitioned tlic elevated railroad management for special cars for women. "Night af ter night," says one of them, "have I waited patiently for live, ten or even Hf teen inimit?s on thc very edge, of the platform - in the hope of obtain ing a place or a scat_j.ii an incoming empty train, and then as the gates were opened I and women around me have been dragged aside and driven back in a malestroin ol' ruffians striv ing, it would seem, to crush us weaker ones out of their way.'' Tine honest, hard-working, law abiding negroes, and there are plenty of them, make a grave mistake when tiley ally themselves with cowardly murderers like the man who brutally assassinated Mr. Phillips, and who was lynched for his dastardly crime. Evans was not lynched because he was a negro, hut because he had as sassinated a citizen in the presence of lils family, and no negro can afford to defend that crime. .Tuic Wilmington Star asks: "Why does a man who discontinues his sub scription to a newspaper when In debted Ui it consider himself absolved from all legal and moral obligation to pay tlic honest debt?'? Because he is a dishonest inaii. ? . . ^^^^^^^^^^^^ (?reeiwil'e, (?Olitmt??? and ??d?raon SelOOt?ft f?'f Camp?. . r-fe_ WORRIED RY TRANSPORTATION; The Regiments, Companies and their CoiiunnndlnR Olllsors. Dates of tho ISnoainpiuout Have Been Fixed. Tho First regiment of Milita of the State will go into camp at ? Co lumbia "on the 20th of July, the Sec ond regiment will be camped at Green ville one week later and the Third regiment will go to Anderson the first week in August. Thc time and place of encampment of tho cavalry regi ment has not yet been designated. The Naval Reserves will not take part in tills encampment, the government makiug other provisions for them. This is thc outcome of the delibera tion of thc ''war college board*' of the State militia, if such a designation is apropos for thc commission whick met in Columbia Wednesday. At this mecting there were present Gov, Hayward, Gen. Frost, Assistanl General Patrick, Gen. Wilie Joues Col. J. C. "Boyd, of Greenville, Col D. 0. Herbert, of Orangeburg, Cot Henry Schachte, of Charleston, ant Col. Sparkman, of Georgetown, com madding thc cavalry regiment. Rock Hill, Camden, Sumter, Char leston, Anderson, Greenville and Co lumbla submitted bids for the en campment of all or of part of tin troops. Each of these places offeree in writing to furnish camp sites, dril grounds, water, lights, fuel and frei transportation of baggage. Camdcr made an attractive oiler of the pol grounds, and may yet bo selected a the place for the cavalry regiment t go Into camp. It was decided t limit tho number of each company t 00 men. CENTRAL CAMI' NEXT YEA?. A resolutiou was passed to thc el feet that: "It is the sense bf th I committee that a central drill g rou ir be located and that the regiments b ordered in turn to encamp at tba central drill ground." ' It was also decided to have a sevc days' encampment on five days' pa j In fact tile matter of finances worrie tlie committee no little. As suggest ed in The State the appropriate would hardly hold out if the piar then In view should have been carrie out, for tlie troops from the up coui try wanted to go to Charleston au thc troops from the coast wanted to y to Anderson. 1II0H TIDE INTERKERED. hut after investigation it was fohn that the hour in the afternoon moi suited to drill work and to inspectlo would lind the beach at the Isle < Palms covered with water, and thr most attractive camp site was rule out, and thc First regiment was o dercd to Columbia instead, savii thc encampment fund several hui dretl dollars. The matter of tran pollution worried the committee i little, and the resolution practical lixing Columbia au the place of e campment for all of the militia her after is regarded as the only solutic of the transportation problem. KI HST REGIMENT. Thc following companies compo Col. Boyd's regiment, which will can in Columbia on thc 20th of July: First regiment, Col. J. C. Boyi Greenville. Greenville Light Inlantry, Grecnvi'l Capt. E. M. Blythe. Liberty Hill Rifles, Liberty Hil Capt. J. G. Richards, Jr. Smyth Rides, Pclzer, Capt. J. Adg Smyth. Greenwood Guards, Greenwoo Capt. Ira B. Taylor. Anderson Rilles, Anderson, Cap Jho. M. Patrick. Morgan Rilles, Clinton, Capt. Jn F. Langston. llasclwood Rilles, Chester, Car. M. J. Wallace. Catawba Rilles, Rock Hill, Capt. 1 M. Dunlap. Lee Light Infantry, Chester, Car R. G. Mills. Fort Mill Light Infantry, Fo Mill, Capt T.. B. Spratt. Jasper Light Infantry, Yorkvill Capt. W. B. Moore. Jonesville Guards. Jonesville, Cap R. W. Scott. SECOND REGIMENT. Col. Herbert's regiment, which w go ?;o Greenville the week followii will consist of tlie following coi panics: Kershaw Guards, Camden, Cat S. C. Zcmp. llichland Volunteers, Columbi Capt. L. W. Haskell. Governor's Guards, Columbia, Gai Geo. R. Rembcrt. Colombia Light Infantry, Cohn bia, Capt. Chas. T. Lipscomb. 'i illina 11 Volunteers, Orahgebui Capt. J: ll. Chilly. ... Kdisto lillies, Orangeburg, Capt. A. lier ry. Hamberg Guards, Hamberg, C?J W. it. Wright. Kort Motte Guards, Port M uti Capt. A. T. Darby. - Timinunsvllle Guards, Timmoi ville, Capt W. ll. Keith. Darlington Guards, Darlingti Capt. Ii. R. Cox. Sumter Light Infantry, Sumti Capt. C. B. Yeadon. brookland Light Infantry, Brno land, Capt. Shulcr. llishopville Light Infantry, Cai G. P. Parrott. THIRD REGIMENT. Tho Third regiment, Col. Schacht line body of troops from Chariest! received a special invitation from / dersoii and will go there August .'I Thc following are the companies that command: Sumter Guards, Charleston, Ca T. T. Hyde. Washington Light Infantry, Cli leston, Capt. F. 10. Robson. Irish Volunteers, Charleston, Ci\ I), P. Kearney. German Fusllcers, Charleston, Ca H. B. Schroder. Palmetto Guards, Charleston, Ca J. II. E. Stelling. Georgetown Rilles, Gcorgeto Capt. S. M. Ward. .Sautee Rilles, Ellorce, Capt. S. Kern merlin. ? Calhoun Light Infantry, Floret Capt. C. E. Johnson. Hurtsville Light Infantry, Hai vile Capt. C. W. Coker.-Tlie Stat Ten Lives Lost. A special from Austin says a me cr telephone report from Leeville a o'clock says a cloudburst occur Thursday and that ten lives were 1< All wi res-arc'down to Beeville. Wu outs are reported on thc Arkar Pass rai?way.i . . - ,* ft?ll*NlgflfS Cool rftwi Kv?f?u'le tb* ?c||? ; t?h J)evr)lrjpi??6Ht. Section Director lia?br bas ias?et?. the following, crop ; bulletin:- The Week ending;8.a. m.'Mbliday, Jnne 29, 1903, bad a mean: temperature of 70 degrees which ls about 4 degrees below normal. The nights continue too cool for "tho favorable development of cot ton, .There was more thau the usnal Amount of cloudiness, aad there is an indicated need of moro sunshine for corn, cotton and melons. There,were local high winds accompanying thun derstorms that caused slight damage over limited areas. The western half of the State had beneficial rains on the 22nd and ?(?th, the latter heavy enough to stop culti vation for the remainder of the week, but Hie rain was needed to soften emit ed lands that had become too hard to plow. The central and northeastern countries had rain nearly every day, with some excessive rains .that washed lands and rendered all ont hillsides too wet to cultivate. In Barnwell*, Bum berg, Orangeburg, Berkeley, Williams burg, Sumter, Clarendon, Florence, Darlington, Marlon and Marlboro, and parts of adjoining counties, crops arc suffering from lack of work and excess of moisture. Tbe immediate coast counties had moderated and benefi cial rains. The average rainfall for the State was nearly two indies. Hail storms occurred in many counties, serious damage by,hall was reported from Berkeley, Marlboro and Baluda counties only. . The general conditions of all crop is better than any time tlds season, but tlie . Improvement ia comparatively slight in many places, and all cultiva ted Held crops need dry weather to permit cultivation, and to rid them of grass. Tiley also need more sunshine to give thom a healthier color, and greater warmth to stimulate to more rapid growth. The corn crop is fairly promising, except in a few central counties where lack of cultivation and an excess of moisture has given it a sickle color and a stunted growth. Early corn ls being laid by in tbe eastern and cen tral counties, with many fields in grassy condition. It is tasseling. Bottom land corn has not recovered from thc effect of the recent Hoods and is poor. There ls general improve ment in cotton over last week holli in color and growth, but the plants con tinue small and in places still lack a healthy color, while stands arc broken and irregular. Lice are less prevalent than last week. First blooms am rc-" ported, since the 19ih, from the east ern and central parts of tbe State, but blooming ls not general. Last year cotton was in full bloom by the 1st of July. The work of cleaning fields has made rapid progress but many fields arc still grassy, and some have not been chopped to stands. Sea island cot ton is small, but vigorous and healthy. Tobacco curing ls in progress. The tobacco crop has improved recently, and now ranges from fair to exceed ingly fine. Bice is doing well. Cantalope shipments have begun. Hay meadows, sweet potatoes and cane look tine. The fruit prospects arc less promising, especially for ap ples and grapes.' Gardens are line . ANOTHER POINT OF VIE " . . A. Chicago Prencher-SnysSoiiio Se; ti bie Things About IjynchinRB. "1 am no advocate of lynching )r of mob law, but 1 would rather see a community wrought to the higbist pitch over crimes that would seem Im possible this side of hell than to re main apathetic." was the declara tion of the Bey. Dr. W. A. Bartbtt at the First Congregational chu:-;h of Ch i cogo on Sunday in a pty ludc on "Lynching from Anotb';r Point of View.''' j ^ Dr. Bartlett said among otl|cr things: "I have seen so many ser mons, editorials and resolutions Re nouncing ]ynchfcnj^4nd mob law that one nets the impression that the citi zens who bang or burn thc destroyer of life and all that is held sacred by womanhood arc the race offenders rather than thc monster whom they destroy. "Wc seem to be so absorbed with thc majesty of this vague terra 'hw' that the notion appears to prevhil that the real criminals arc those who do not wait for legal processes, and the violator of womanhood is thc abused party. "Wc shudder at thc torture of thc criminal who is burned, but apparent ly forget to shudder for the innocent girl whose mental and spiritual agony ls tenfold greater than that of the tire. This is nota race problem ex cept so far as one race are the offend ers. Thc white man who commits the same crime is just as guilty. "Thc indignant uprising of a com munity and some of the liest men in it lo avenge a wrong of such awful magnitude may he technically law less, but the spirit which causes thc uprising is the reflection of a higher civiization. There are crimes so dreadful that the pure and the chiv alrous and tlie strong find it well nigh impossible to endure the thought that such a degenerate should pollute the earth by his presence, lt is easy to theorize about the anarchy of mob law, but the same hand which oenned tlie calm editorial might be thc fust to grasp the torch if ii was a motlier, wire or daughter who was tlie victim. "i say that when you look at a lynching from another view point it is simply the bursting forth of an indig nation and loathing thai will not be checked. In the Old Testament days they made short work of such an of fender. "Lynching is certainly abad method and forms the habit of disorder and makes men bloodthirsty. Hut if it is to be avoided there certainly.is called for a more sure and speedy trial of these wretches who .often brazenly deny crime amid red tape of legal processes, but confess abjectly when fronted with determined men. Lt is useless to bring to trial men who rise up to protect their firesides. The community will not hear it. If men object to be burned let them cease from crimes which make a nation sick." AT a mass meeting of negroes In Chicago to denounce the Belleville lynching It was decided that tlie ne gro in Illinois should arm himself. Strange that at these negro indigna tion meetings it never occurs to the orators and agitators to propose resolu tions warning members of their race against assaulting women and murder ing white people in cold blood. By all means let the Illinois negro arm himself; the quicker the violent cle ment makes Hie Issue with law and order the quicker we'll bc rid of thc ' mob and violence. i. MAN ASS?Sl?lN. 'sii?ok f?torie W?t?f Hl? V?ftlia, Tuet | Bhb?Him to' D.eatt?, TEXAS' COMPTROLLER ?8 SL??N Tho Annuitant a Former Attache, Who After tho Crime, Acci dentally Kills HlniHcir, Supposod Wrongs. Tlierc was a terrible tragedy enact ed at Austin, Texas, on Tuesday morning of last week. Frenzied by supposed wrongs, W. G. Hill, an ex attache of the State comptroller's ollice, Tuesday morning, a few minutes past 10 o'clock, entered the private obi ce of State Comptroller R. M. Love and killed him by means of | two well-directed shots from a large calibre revolver. As Hill turned to lice,. be was intercepted by Chief Cleik Stevens of the department, who engaged him in a scuttle, during which his revolver was accldentllay exploded. The bullet entered Hill's abdomen causing a wound from which he died at 3 o'clock In the afternoon, three j hours after the death of thc man whose life bc sought. Thus, in brief, is told the story of tlie double tragedy, the first assassination ever chronicled in thc Texas capital. Tlie shooting has thrown tlie town and State into a commotion, but the death of the assassin, tts well as his victim, has | closed the story in one chapter. As to what caused the shooting none I can explain, other than that it was the act of a madman. Hill bad been an employe of the comptroller's ollice for 10 years preceding Love's term of office. Ile was let out by Mr. Love when thc latter took charge and it is | presumed that this fact preyed upon bis mind until he went Insane. Th ls morning he went to the capitol, en tered Mr. Love's private ollice, spoke to him cheerfully, shook hands, and banding him a letter to read, sat down at the invitation of the comptroller. No sooner had Mr. Love began to read | the letter than Hill sprang to his feet and tired two shot into the body of Mr. Love, one taking effect just above, and the other immediately below, the heart. Mr. Love screamed, dropped the letter and sprang half forward to wards bis assassin, then gasped and fell backward. Hill, seeing that bis purpose bad been accomplished, turned to make I for tlie door. He was Intercepted by ! Cbief Clerk Stevens' who grapped with bim and was wrestling with bini when Hill's pistol was accidentally discharged the bullet entering Hill's abdomen. He fell a dead weight in Stevens' arms and was lowered gently to the door where he lay until taken to the hospital. He died at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Love was given all I medical attention possible but died within an hour after the shooting. The letter that Hill gave to Lovc| rea ls as follows: Austin, Tex.,"xx, 1?Q3. Col. R. M. Love, State Comptroller. Dear Sir: Public ollice is a public trust. Public olllces are created for tn? Service ?TTtbc people a"nd not for the-aggrandizement of a few individ uals. The practice of bartering de partment clerkships for private gain is a disgrace to the public service, and in this nefarious traille you are a record breaker. You bave robbed the State employes and your Incompetent administration has prompted others to rob the State. Thc man who, claiming to be a Christian, deprives | others of employment without cause, is a base hypocrite and a tyrant. Tbc | greatest mind that ever gave its wis dom to thc world; the mind of all others most capable of umpiring the mutiny between right and wrong, said 'you take my life when you do j take from me the means by which I live.' If that be true, you are a mur derer of the deepest crime. Although I I cannot help myself before laying | life's burden down I shall strike a blow-feeble though it be-for the | good of my deserving fellowmen. For the right against the wrong. For the weak against tlie strong. Yours trudy, W. Gi Hill. Mr. Hill was a quiet and gentleman ly person and was never known to have been addicted to any bad habits. At the time of the shooting he was I holding a good position in the city, so that dire want could not have In stigated the frenzy that prompted the I shooting, lt ls tlie opinion of all that | it was the act of an insane man. Im mediately after the shooting and while Hill was still lying in the corridor, a bottle of laudanum was taken from his pocket, and reaching ror it, be said: "Let mc take that and die easy." This had lcd many to believe that be contemplated suicide following his shooting of the comptroller. Doth men have families surviving them. Comptroller Love's remains were ship ped to his old home in Limestone county for interment and Hill's re mains will be buried Thursday. Aa Illinois Exhibit. At a meeting held Iii Chicago Fri day night to protest againt, the lynch ing of a negro In Helle ville, 111., Sena tor Hopkins of that State exercised himself chiefly with denunciation of1 thc Southern States, which have dis franchised the negro. Among other] things be said: "In my eighteen years of service in Congress it has been my pleasure to remark the ability of a score of negro Congreesmen, who represented at one time thc States of Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana. It ls ashame and disgrace to these' States that there are no longer men of color in their Congressional delega tions. It ls a shame to the nation that the hewers of wood and tlie ? drawers of water in those States are not represented by men of their own class, and, until public sentiment shall lie aroused and these States re turn negroes to Congress, lt will con tinue to be a disgrace to tlie United States." In the language of the Charleston livening Post "what had this to do with tlie lynching of negro In Illinois? Not thc least I thing in the world, but the people! of the South are not and the people of Belleville and Its vicinity are consti tuents of Senator Hopkins, and will have something to say about lils political future. Itcosts nothing to denounce the South and it might bc expensive to go too stronger at too great length upon the lawlessness of the citizens of l?el?evillc. Therefore, the Senator engaged himself vigorous ly with asubjectfar away from home." '-j'A&'Jfltyt?st ove* tti?'.b?dy of q J?Vat?p, ..iv?? ?as Iji?O'h?d^t Norw; bn Tuesday tilgbtLwM,h?ld oh'Thurs flay jin?rb'lng:?y . yofofler R?ckenbak erl Six .Witnesses .werobzam'lnedi i The first witness, Dr. d. II. Atyea testified; as follows; "About ?.'?'?loc] yesterday morning I was driving ou or town when I saw a dead body h?ng lng to a tree about one mile ont ol town, and auout 100 yards from tb road. 1 went up tb see what I coule learn. I found that it was the body o Ohas. Evans and saw. many gunshot wounds in ?he body.. I heard no shoot lng the night before. I saw stranger*: in town but heard nothing that would lead me to think there would bc any thing done Monday night." . ai.;?! The second witness, Mr. B S. Cog "burn, testified, as follows: "I .wa asleep Tuesday night at home when : was awakened during the night by.tin firing of guns and as the firing ceascc I did not go out to sec where it was After I arose next morning and wen to my place of business I heard that a negro had been lynched out of town and with others I went out to when th? body was hanging to an oak tret by a rope around thc neck and tbi bands tied behind the back. 1 did bc know who the negro was. I had nevei seen him before. I saw great many strangers in town the evening before, but did not hear any one say anything sbout lynching a negro that night." Other witnesses examined test!Gee about the same thing and after a short talk to thc Jury by Coroner Ricken baker the jury came to a verdict "that the deceased came to his deatli from thc effect- of gun shots and strangulation at the bands of a party or parties unknown to the jury." A Terrible Tragedy! A terrible tragedy occurred Thurs day night at the village of. Leeey when Mrs. Wm. Baxter hanged lier self and two children, Goodson, ager 8 years and Gladys, aged 3. . Wher her husband returned to the house al tl o'clock he could not get in. II? waited for some time; then broke in a window and searched in thc house, In an unfinished attic over tin kitchen, reached by a ladder, be sau hanging side by side from the rafters his wife and two children, lt te stated that Mrs. Baxter banded bet husband a bottle of wine to drink, He took some of it and was so sici that be bad to consult a physician That thc wine was drugged or poisonec seemed probable. The contents rc mailling will be analyzed. From in dlcations, the woman must have car ried the children up thc ladder one. at ia time. The room was so low that tb? boy's feet nearly touched thc door. Serious Practical Joke. At York, Pa., with a bicycle purni an unknown youth about 14 years oh ? seriously injured 7-years old McClellan Rcdkard Thursday night by puiriphif air into bim. Tne Joker Induced thi little fellow to hold tbe nozzel in hi! mouth and was operating thc purni when a policeman came a.nd the vic tim was rescued. The latter wat already overcome and a physician was ?required to revive bim. The boy's stomach was distended beyond thc normal size, and it is thought be suf fered internal injury. Thc youtl escaped while the policeman* was giv ing the victim attention. Four at a Birth. A special dispatch from Roanoke Va., says Mrs. George - W. Chambers wife of a Franklin county farmer Friday gave birth to four healthy gir, babies. Thc mother and thc- quar tette are doing well. The people 0| the vicinity are excited over the even I and women, old and young, are goinjj to see the little ones. Roosevelt hat been notified. "I can't see what you lind in me tt admire," said the lovelorn youth wht had recently blown himself for ti $37.50 engagement ring. "Why,' gurgled thc Huffy-haired angel of bis domestic dreams, "that's just what everybody else says." And immediate ly the silence became oppressive. and Women wini arc in nond nt the bout medical treat ment slum ld not (all to consult Dr. Mutha un y ul once, as ho ls rec o p li 1 z e d as the IvadinK and most suc cessful specialist. You ure safe in -ilacliiK ymir case tn his hands,os lie ls the longest established and has the best rep utation. He eurea vr h ero o't!ier9 fail: there ls no patchwork lor experimenting tn ?his treatment. Per iaonal attention by Dr Hathaway, also spe DR. HATHAWAY, cial counsel from hlf associate physician! when necessary, which no oilier office has. Il you can not call, write for free liookteu anr question Munka. Mention your trouble. Kv erythtng strictly confidential. J. Newtox Hathaway, M. I). 88 Inman Building 224 S. Broad St Atlanta, Ga IT ls said that when tile postolllcc department scandal is thoroughly stir red up it will bring to the surface various and divers congressmen and senators who thought tiley, did not participate lu any of the financhil swag, got large quantities of "pork' in the shape of unauthorized appoint ments and .violation of the civil ser vice law. The vociferous depreciation of the investigation In some quarters indicates where certain of these states men are to be found. Dr. Biggera Huckleberry Cordial, foi the Bowels and Children Teething. It ls THE GREAT SOUTH KRIS REMEDY for the bowels. It is one of tlie most pleasant and' otlleaciou* remedies for all summer complaints At a season when vicient attacks o! tlie bowels are so frequent, some speed j relief should be at hand. The wearier, motlier, losing sleep by nursing tbi little one teething, should use till! medicine. FROM HENRY Wi GRADY. Tlie Constitution Edltoral Rooms. Atlanta, Ga., May 23,1887. Dr. Walter A. 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