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The Marlboro' "DO THOU LIBERTY GREAT. INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVES IN THY POSSESSION HAPPY OR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE. VOL ikix. BENNETTS VILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 19?4 NO. d 6, ANOTHER KILLING. Magistrate Folk in Ecuffle With Su pervisor Seale Was Shot. WHAT CORONER'S JURY SAYS Both Bleu Weie Popular iud Highly Respected, und the Unfortu nate AOUlr 1M Very Much Hegrettc d. A dispatch from Sumter to The State says Magistrate Richard C. Folk of Providence was shot and killed Thursday morning about 8 o'clock, near his home, in front of County Supervisor W. H. Scalp's reaideuce, while in a souille with Mr. Seale. Magistrate Folk waa a candidate for re-election and damaging reports were in circulation as to the mysteri ous disappearance of Mr. Folk's dec ket, a second book in which is kept the business of the court. Mr. Fulk was informed that Supervisor Seale was the author of these reports. Sam Folk, a brother of Magistrate Folk, called to see Seale early Thurs day morning in regard to the matter, and Seale told Sam that he had cir culated no report. Ile had told that Magistrate Folk had said that the docket was in his (Seale'.s) ellice, but he and Probate Judge Walsh could not find lt. Sam informed him that it bad been found. Sam told him that If Folk would bring it to him he would examine lt as supervisor, and if round correet would mark it ko and all ru mors would be stopped. Sam Folk went after Richard Folk to bring him and the docket, and after a consider able wait Se'A?e telephoned the Folks to hurry, that he wanted to catch the train for Sumter. Mr. Folk answered: "Wait, we are coming." After reaching the house it waa decided to come to Sumter to settle the matter. While waiting for his buggy and horse, Seale walked alonglde Judge Folk's buggy, leading to the end of the avenue from his bouse. The discussion was resumed. Sam Folk was follwiug In another buggy. As the public road was reached Judge Folk, lt ls said, called, Seale a --viliar, drawing his pistol at the Bame tllae. Seale grabbad him by the collar, Folk falling out of the buggy. Both fell to tho ground together. The pistol was discharged, the bullet pass ed through Seale's coat on the left side about the hip, and, passing up ward,entered Folk's head in the right temple' and came out left of the me dial HUB of the skull. In the sou nie it is alleged Sam Folk - jumped from his ouggy and attempted J tfl/ahoOVSeaie, uut Seale's son, W. J Seava knocked tho pistol away and seize^bdm. When Seale got up he saw blood Noir-, Folk's face. He assisted lu carrying him to the roadside and washed the blood from his face and telephoned for a doctor. Folk died in two hours and llfteeu minutes after he waa Bhot, having never regained con sciousness. Doctors Cheyne and Foster could do nothing, as the wound was mortal. Seale drove Into town to the sherill's otb ce to give himself up, but the sher iff and the deputy were away and he gave himself up to Mayor Dick. Coro ner Sam Flowers au tn moued a jury and began the inquest at l o'clock Thursday afternoon. At 111 o'clock Thursday night the inquest has not adjourned ami fuller particulars are not obtained. A phone message says Sam Folk and W. J. Seale, the two eye wit nesses, tell exactly opposite stories to the jury. Seale says the pistol was lu Folk's band when he pulled the trigger and the weapon was pointing toward Fojk. Sam Folk says the pis tol was lu Scale's hands when it was bred. The following jury was empaneled: C. L. Williamson, forman, IC. W. Parker, Dr. E. W. Parker, Jr., J. A. Hoykln, Sr., J. A. Boykin, Jr., M. H. Hoykln, J. F. Cumalns, W. F. Hoykln, R. L. Burkett, J. lt. Durrant, M. L. Moore. Judge Folk was a popular man and regarded as one among the best citi zens. He leaves three brothels and two sisters and a widowed mother. Dr. Legrand Guerry of Columbia and H. D. Moise, Esq , married the two sisters. Judge Folk was serving his third term as magistrate. Super visor Seale ls j opular all over the county. He ls an energetic, patriotic citizen. Ho is serving his second termas supervisor and ls a candidate for re-election. Mr. Scale regrets the sad tragedy. He suys he was unarm ed, lils pistol was in bisofUce at the court bouse in Sumter. The coroner's jury have returned the following \ercllct: "Deceased, R. C. Folk, came to his death by a gunshot wound indicted by the bands * of parties unknown to the jury." Attacked hy a Madman, A dispatch from Yorkvllle to The State says Magistrate Lt. L. A. Smith of Hickory drove shot and killed a negro man about 10 o'clock Friday night. The nt gio attempted to chug Mr. Smith out of a window of his bouse and almost tore his s'il rt off. He warned the negro away but he came again at him, when he used his shotgun with fatal elieet. Mr. Smith telephoned the sherill' that he was ready to surrender and was advised to await the verdict of inquest which was held Friday. The negro was said to have been Insane, but Mr. Smith was not aware of of it. Ile) v. ard to MailllNHHH. Gov. Ileyward and two of lils stall have been invited by (len. Corbin to attend tho uianoeuvers at Manassas. Gov. Ileyward will leave on the morn lug of September 5, taking with lil m Adjutant General Frost, his chief of staff, and the t^uarlermaster General, H. H. Watkins, or Anderson. The party will spend about two days at Manassas. Nerved Ulm Hight. Governor Hey ward has ordered the arrest of J. H. Bennett of Brimson, Hampton County, and his return to the penitentiary to serve out lils life sentence-for which he was pardoned by Gov. Mcsweeney on condition that lie would leave the state never to re turn. He did return, and accidentally killed his wife a few nights ago. THE CARNIVAL OF CRIME. A Boy Murdered In a Fisherman's . Camp Near Columbia. Tbe State says another murder as mysterious as the Mt??de Allen case, as cold-blooded auVor<3j?,,,ca1' oc' curred Thursday mfr ^ear Co lumbia. In the u*t^lrne^ihe act seemed to Indicate the if .,rk- of one lufurluted with drink antrj&louRy ; in the latest the heinous purpose or au Inhuman, blood-thirsty tiend. Clarence Shealy, a 15 year-old boy, while lying ashep upou the banks of the Congaree at a llsherman's camp two miles south of Columbia, was ap proached from behind and was most foully hacked to death with a hoe, one pitiless stroke marring the boy's face almost beyond recognition and another cleaving the head from the crown deep into the brain. Clarence Shealy's parents live at 1150 Olympia avenue, aud oil and on since spring the boy has been with a haber man, Frauk Smith, who has a tishing camp a short distance below Shealy's home. Smith and a mau by the name of Cushman, who lived in the camp, stated Thursday that they got up at ;>.:i0 a. m. to go down the river to make the circuit of their baskets, and left the boy to cook breakfast; that they had been gone about au hour and a quarter and on their return found the child breathing his last. Neither saw anyone about on leaving the place or on their approach. One of the men came at once to the home of the boy and notified his paients and the county olllclals, leaving the other with the body. The only other witness was a negro sent by Mr. John Stuart, overseer on Mr. Toni Taylor's place, a mile and half from the scene, to get some tish. This negro ls reported to have ridden within eye range of the camp, and seeing the form of a person writhing about the ground, turned his horse's head and ran his horse back to Mr. Stuart's home and reported his obser vation. This man was not arrested Thursday as a witness but the lisher men were arrested and placed in thc county Jail, on the ground merely that they were material witnesses of the crime. The body of the boy was removed Thursday afternoon to his father's home on Olympia avenue and the cor oner empanueled a jury and went out and viewed the body. The inquest will be held later, when all the evi dence in the case can be got together. Sherill Coleman announced at a late hour Thursday night that so far no clues had been discovered as to the identity of the murderer. The blood ed hoe with which the deed was com mitted was found near the body and Hie flsberiiK that their Bbot- , gun~UIirl T.il cue loaueu j'ucltr. ?...-?U;"U- . lng. The gun and ammunition were In the camp when they went out on the river they say. A Col umhin. Suicide. The Columbia Record says abou' three o'clock Thursday morning Nor mau O'Connor, a white man about years of age, committed suicide. O'Connor walked Inio the house of Bertha Medlin, who keeps a disrepu table house on Gate street, and was also a witness in the Maud Allen case, and with no explanation pouted a dose ol' carinii ic acid In a glass of beer and swallowed it. As soon as it was realized what wai done a hurry call was sent for the city physician, Hr. l'ope, who lives nearly two miles from tbe house, and the man was nearly dead when assistance arrived. The Inmates of the house made the f. How as easy as possible, but the amount taken proved fatal. O'Connor came to Columbia from Arizona, but his home is Noling, lil., he having learned bis trade in the former place. He had been m Columbia about live weeks, and during that time had drank very heavily, but managed to hold his place at the Southern shops. He was a member of the Machinists' union, and will be sent to hts home by that organization as soon as the inquest ts held. Filipino lia nd 11 a. A dispatch from Manilla says a de tail of native constabulary bas been ambushed on the island of Leyte by a superior force of bandits. Capt. H. Barrett, of the constabulary, was killed in the lighting. There has been trouble in thu province of Misamis, island of Mindanao, where bandits bave looted .several towns. The na tive authorities were defied and Pablo Marcado and his family were kid napped. Marcado was accused of be ing too friendly with ihe Americans. Three Chinese stores were burned, l our natives were murdered, three of them being burned alive. Colonel Harbord, nf the constabulary, is now on the trail of the bandits. Lieuten ant Thornton, of the constabulary, bas met death by drowning near l>ag upin island of Luzon. Killed Hia Brother. At ICingstree a coroner's jury Thursday found Garry Hardy not guilty of the murder of his deaf mule brother, whom he Thursday night struck with bis list In order to knock him from the track to avoid a fast ap! proachlug train on the Atlantic Coast Line. Tlie de if mute was drunk and refused to respond to Ids brother's warning, but foolishly tried to make signals to the engineer to slop. Harry struck him a violent blow lu the face, and the jury found that it was troni this blow that the deaf mute had met death. Harry was thereupon released from custody, the jury recognizing that he had no recourse but to strike lils brother in lils effort to save his life. . J 111111. ? - < i in the Uiver. A man, supposed from Hie papers found in a coat left lying on the bridge to be Fiank McC irmick, of Winter haven, Fl rida, committed suicide Thursday at, St. Louis by leaping from thc Fads bridge into the Mis sissippi river. A watchman saw tho man climb to the rail, but was not in time lo prevent bim jumping. Bryan Will Speak. Cl lair man Taggart Wednesday re ceived a telegram from M. G. Wet more, of St. Louis, saying that Wm. I. Bryan would speak at Butler and Lamor, Nevada, and Springfield, Mo., the last days or August and lirst of September. LULA ALLEN HOLT Is Alive and Well, But Her Husband Held for Her Murder. A VERY QUEER CASE, INDEED. Tho Faots Brought Out In the Habeas Corpus Proceedings Before Chief Justice Pope at Newberry. "Cun a mau be held In Jail under charge of murder of a person who swears that she ia alive?" asks the Newberry correspondent of The State. The correspondent then answers bis own question as follows: "Learned lawyers will say that he cannot be. Rut butler Holt knows better. That seems tobe his present condition." The correspondent then yoes on to say: As will be seen below an affidavit, alleged to have been made by Lula Allen, who Is supposed also to have been known as Maude Allen, Btating that she is alive and well, was read in court. And there ls an affidavit from her father confirming Mils. But Justice Pope remanded Butler Holt to jail until next Wednesday when a linal bearing will be had under habeas proceedings as to why he shall not be relieved or the charge of the murder of the woman supposed to be Maude Allen, alias Lula Allen, in Columbia un August 11th last. WILL MARTIN, BUPPOSED ACCOM PUCK. And what of Will Martin? Ap parently no one ls taking any interest In the other man arrested at the same time as Butler ll oil and supposed to be Holt's brother-In-law. lt cannot be said that he is languishing in jail, for the man on the street says Will Martin ls "lying up in jail reading the newspapers and having a good time on three meals a day-more than he usually got-" Thar, may 06 a slander though, and doubtless Will Martin Is as anxious for bis liberty as any one would be. But the fact remains that while he ls fed from Sheriff Buford's table yet he ls restrained from his freedom. He was committed upon papers issued by Mayor ICarhardt In his magisterial capacity and will be released only upon orders from some competent authority. Of the 200 or more people who gather ed lu the court room to hear thc pro ceedings about the most intered prob ably were the mother and sister of Butler Holt-besides himself. Ills mother ls a woman of about f>0 years of age and she hung intently upon every word of the lawyers or chief justice. Her sister is a sweet faced Ltai'og woman, who -listened : to the, "arg'.meni*' ua ii}'..uKu, uru'mn. DUO? ed no uneasiness. Butler Holt ls i young man of about 25 years of age, of an agreeable countenance, bis face indicating no especial forc? of charac ter, but certainly no viciousness. In quiring of those present as to what kind of a man Butler Holt was one would be given the information that "he was a pretty good sort of a fol low." One Of the most Interested speeta tors, and probably the mau of sub stance of the affair, was a brother or Holt, who is a boss in a cotton mill at Whitmlre, and a man of whom everyone has the kindest of words as to his worth. He is a Masou of high degiee, and bears an excellent cbarac ter. THU PKOCEBDIN?B IN DETAIL. The proceedings were opened promptly at 4 o'clock by Chief Justice Pope who inquired of the attorneys for the defence and for the State if they were ready for the hearing. Upon being informed that they were he requested the attorney general to read the order for the production of thc body of Butler Holt in court, and the return of the chief of police of Newberry. The attorneys for the defense then proposed to read the affidavits made In support of the petition but the attorney general Interposed an objec tion to the continuance ol" the proceed ings on the ground that the State had not been given proper notice under rule 1U of the supreme court. There was some threshing out of the legal technicalities but the attor neys, after which the chief justice ruled that because or the gravity of the case to the prisoner he would let the proceedings continue, and would seta later dale for the linal hearing it need be. The allldavlts were then read. The first allldavit was that of the defend ant, Butler Holt, himself and was as follows: AFFIDAVIT OK HUTLEK HOLT. Personally came before me, Butler Holt, who being duly sworn, says: That he is now confined In the county jail at Newberry, charged, bo he has' been informed since his confinement I therein, with the murder of one Maude Allen in city or Columbia, State aforesaid, on the afternoon of Thursday, August 11th, 1004. That dep ,nent is 25 years of uge and dur ing the latter part of the year lUOa married Lula Allen, the daughter of Richard Allen, In the city of Newber ry. That during the month of Jan uary of this year he let L Newberry and went to work on the farm of Bud Berry and worked on s lid farm for the said Bud Berry continuously until about the lirst day of August, 1904, when he returned to the town of Newberry where he has since resid ed with Ids parents. That on the llth day of August, 1904, he was In thc txiwn of Newberry in company with T. S. Coleman, Pope L. Havird and others and that he was in Havird Bros. store and made purchases there in several times during the day. That I among otiier things done by deponent lon said date he watered and fed Mr. T. S. Coleman's mule at dinner and helped him to hitch up his mule in tlie afternoon of the said date and just before Mr. Coleman left for bis home in Saluda couty. That a short while after this he met John Gruber with a load of weed, who told him thut if he would help him to un load his wagon he would let him ride tba greater part of the way to the home of Mr. Press George, about six or seven miles from the town of New berry, and at whose home the said Butler Holt Intended to spend the night and a day or two afterwards That he hflped John Gruber unload the said wagon and after the Bald John Gruber bad bought some provis ions from the store of C. L. Pitts in the town of Newberry they left the said town of Newberry at whloh time the sun was about an hour high. That deponeut rode on with the said John Gruber until they reached a point about live miles from the town of Newberry when he left John Gru ber and walked on to the home of Mr. Press George, abuut one mlle further on, spent the night there and until the fo'lowiog Saturday morning, after which he went to the home of Geb. A. Long between 8 and 9 o'clcck and helped him in barbecuing some meats. After taking dinner with the said Gee. A. Long he came on to Mew berry, arriving hereat about half past 1 o'clock. Deponent further deposes arr says that he has never been to the city of Columbia but once in his life and that trip was made on an excur sion train to the said town from the town of Newberry last summer. That his wife, Lula Allen, left Newberry on the Friday following their mar riage, which eec irred on the Sunday before and tbat be saw her on the next day In the town of Prosperity and has not seen her since, but he is informed and believes that she is now at the home of ber father in the town of Bath, S. C. That be never saw hertha Medlin until he was confront ed with her In the county jail at New berry and has never been in her house In the city of Columbia, nor has he taken any one to lier house at any time. UuTLKtt HOLT. Sworn to before me this, 25th day of August. 1004. OT1IKH AFFIDAVITS. Mrs. Rebeca Paysinger's affidavit stated that she had seen Butler Holt In the store of Havlrd Bros. in New berry on the ! 1 Lil of August. J. S. Coleman swore that he saw Butler Holt In Newberry on the streets and in the store of Havlrd Bros. on the 11th of August and that ne was with Holt the greater part of the day till 4 o'clock in the afternoon. John (?ruber, who signed by his mark, swore that Butler Holt had as-. Histed him in unloading some wood in Newberry and bad ridden with him Into tlie country about live miles on the evening uf August ll tb. That Butler left him about an hour before sun down. Brooks Geir^e and L?e (?eorge, sons of Mr. I'.ess George, who lives between six and seven miles from Newberry, swore that late on the af ternoon of August 11th Butler Holt came to their father's house and spent the night there and remained there until the'following Saturday. j! C. Fulmer swore that he bad seen Butler Holt in Newberry at 3' rv,oi'",ir ?rv *,h? aft?j2x?? ".-^ P. B. Yaroorough had seen Butler Holt In Newberry before 2 o'clock p. m.. on Aug. 11th. Eddie Bogden, signing by his mark, stated in his atlldavit that he had boarded in the family of Richard Al len and that he knew Lula Allen well. That lie had seen the budy of the wo man killed in Columbia and that it was not the body of Lula Allen. The two following allldavlts were about the most Important read: SIIK IS AMVKANU U KI.I.. State of South Carolina, County of Aiken. Personally came before me Richard Allen, who being duly sworn, says that he is the father of Lula Allen, the wife of Butler Holt; that, the said Lula Allen is now in tlie town of Bath, S. C., and thal the body claimed and described to be Maude Allen aud killed in the city uf Columbia ou the 11th day of August, 1904, is not the body of Lula Allen. Richard (his X mark) Allen. Sworn to before me this 1'luA day of August, 1904. (L. S.) A. ll. McCarrel, Notary Public for S. C. Richard Allen, signed by Hugh Cook in my pres; nee. A. H. McCarrel, Notary for S. C. Lula Allen came into Bath at 4 a. m., bhis day, -;ird August, on an ex cursion from Columbia, taking ad vantage of the chance to come to see her parents to relieve them of anxie ty. 1 have seen her in person. A. II. McCarrel, Notary for S. C. State of Si.nth Carolina, County of Aiken. Personally came befe re me the un dersigned, who being duly sworn, says that she married Butler Holt during the latter part, of the year 1903, and that she is now in the town of Bath, Aiken enanty, in the St ato nf South Carolina, with her father, Richard Allen, having arrived last night on the excursion train from Columbia. Lula (uer X mark) Allen. Sworn to before me this 22nd day of August, 1904. (L. S.) A. H. McCarrel, x Notary Public for S. C. Name signed by Mr. Hugh Couk and mark made by Lula Allen, all in my presence. A. H. McCarrel, .Notary for S. C. HUMAN DUD TO JAIL. The atlldavit of Lula Allen was the last to be read, and at Its conclusion the attorney general asked the court to be niven a reasonable time to seek for counter allldavlts, asking that a date fora lina! hearing bo tixed after the primary election next Tuesday. Attorneys for defense asked that next Monday be made the day of next heur ing. Chief Justice Pope, after a few min utes thought, Inst meted the attorney general tu prepare an order Uxlng Wednesday, August :n,at4 p. m., as the day and hour for li nal hearing and remanding Butler Holt to jail In New berry county unt il that tl me. The attorneys for the defense made no further objection and the order was drawn and signed. b\ H. McMaster. Itohbcd ii Monastery? A band of Catalonlan brigands at tacked the famous monastery at Mont serrrat, Spain, and after binding the monks pillaged the monastery, es caped with a large quantity of rich booty. The alano was given as aeon as possible, and a squad of gendarmes started in pursuit. They came upon the brigands and a tierce conflict fol lowed In which seven of the robbers were killed and the others lied. AT MANASSAS AGAIN. The Hi?toric Field Upon Which Troops Will Manoeuvre IN GRAND MIMIC BATTLE ARRAY A Field Upon ?Vilich thu Confederate Soldiers Twice Whipped the Federal Holdlem During ( the Ci vil War. The announcement that there are to be increasing army manoeuvres near Manassas in the early future nat urally turns the attention at least ol thc old timers to the llrst great battle In the War Between the States, which was fought In July, 1801, upun that famous battletield. The.-Confederacy bad changed Its capital tu Richmond, the last session ot its congress having been held in Montgomery on May 21st. President Davis followed live days later, and Gen. Beauregard arrived on June. 1st and assumed command of the Confed erate troops in the department of Al exandria^ It soon became apparent that the llrst struggle would take place In northern Virginia, aud the federal'government held the Potomac river in tight grasp and Washington was well guarded. Gen. McDowell had a union army of about 45,000 troops lo camp south of the Potomac ready for the fray. Gen. Beauregard with a Confederate army was posted near Manassas Junction, 33 miles from Washington. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, with a Confederate army, was entrenched at Winchester, his task bein" to prevent any advance by Gen. Robert Patterson, and to keep him from joining McClellan. At the same time McDowell was assured that Patterson .with his 18,000 men, would prevent? Johnston from joining Beau regard. 'Eut, as it afterwards turned out, Patterson was not In. Johnston's way. ltwas planned that McDowell should march to Fairfax Courthouse, then turn south, cross the Oecoquan river, and attack Beauregard's line of communication with Richmond. That svas the situation just before the fa mous battle. "The advance of the union army," says a northern writer, "was looked upon as a holiday, for none at the north doubted that lt would be suc cessful, j A large number of congress men and crowds of civilians rode out from Washington. to witness the novel and Inspiring sight. In many of the carriages were ladles who se cured favorable position from which to view.? through their opera, glasses tbe^overthrow of j)he rebel forces." Bli 'ivithe-^ay closed "Linden quite diff?rent ?n the last act of the tragedy from what this gay crowd from the north had expected. The Confederacy had gathered there its ii nest troops, many of the privates being young men out of the colleges and universities, clothed lu the finest uniforms, with glittering arms, but nothing about them so bright as the Mash of their eyes. The noblest com manders of the Confederate forces were there. Beauregard was there and Johnston was there, as has al ready been said. Thomas J. Jackson was there, and when (len. Bee looked upon him and his gallant men he ex claimed: "Look! There stands Jack s' n like a stone wall!" and from that day this great soldier was affection ately known as "Stonewall" Jackson. Kirby Smith was there, coming in the rick of time with 4,ooo Confeder ates coming in time to receive John ston'! order to attack McDowell's righi and make the Confederate vic tory sure. Stuart and his cavalry wore there und joined in the impetuous charge which threw the federal troops Into pauli. F.v?ell was there, that crusty old In dian tighter, a diamotul in the rough, and John B. Gordon was there. Ur. limiter McGuire or Richmond was there and dressed the wound whlclnStonewall Jackson received. j We.siave not space to mention the wholt dist, but must add that even President Davis himself was there, and I d his misgivings suddenly turn ed ilX) the gladness of triumph. "Wl';e 1 was dressing (len. Jackson's band,' said Dr. McGuire, In one of lils addresses, "1 siw President Davis ride |p from the direction ol Manas sas. ille had been told by stragglers that hir army had baen defeated. Ile stopt:d his horse in the middle of the stream, Young's branch, stood up in his s'irrups (the palest, sternest face 1 eu,r saw) and cried to the great crowi of soldiers, '1 am President Dav J, follow me back to the held.' " Mr. TlcGuire told (Jen. Jackson who it w>'i and what he said, when Jack son Hood up, took ot! his cap and cried "We have whipped them-, they ran Ike sheep. Give me U),u0li men and i will take Washington city to morrow." And if the men had been forthcoming, he would have kept his proUse and the entire fortune of the war night have been changed. B t we are too fast. Let us go back a step in the narrative and re late the closing act In the tragedy. Let Js go back to the point where Klrly Smith arrived with his rein fore men ts and attacked McDowell's righi and let the story be told by a uorliern writer, who refers to the southerners us rebels and Insurgents. Wc piote: "The situation of Beaure gard was critical. Ile was lighting desrjrately, but was pressed steadily baclward. At the moment when defeat seem Inevitable, he was strong ly rduforced: An advance along the whee line was ordered, and the rresh troops charged with wild enthusiasm. Theunlonlsts were Hanked and forced dow.1 the side of tho plateau. Sharp sholters kept the woods aflame, and a stn.?g force of Smarts cavalry joined in tie Impetuous charge which threw thefederul troops into panic. 'A terrible scene followed, lt was aboit. 4.30 that thc right wing broke andtlcd, quickly followed by the cen tre ind tbs left. A jumble of artillery, infantry, ambulance trains, con g ress - mei, civilians and vehicles of all kinds Jolrhd lu a wild struggle to get back to .Washington. Artillerymen cut tho^traces of their galloping horses, and leaping upon their backs, tram plet those who were too helpless or too crazed with fright to get out of their path. Men who were perched amid the limbs of trees so as to gain a good view of the Confederate defeat, jumped to Hie ground and joined In the stampede, and hundreds, pale with terror, ran uutil exhausted, when tliey foll and were crushed under the massive wheels of the plunging cannon. The soldiers and spectators had become a frantic moh, swayed by the one wild desire to escape death." In view of the terr ibbie disaster to union arms, in view of the panic de scribed above, lt has occurred to some of the old Confederates that lt ls a lit tle curious that the United Stales government should have chosen this ba tile ll eld for the foi theo ml UK mau ouevres.-Richmond Times-Dispatch. A Deadly Tornado. Four persons lost their lives and seveial others were injured In a tor nado that swept through Chautauqua county, N. Y., Thursday. Park hurst's grove, where the Slocktown town picnic was being held was direct ly in the path of the storm. Five thousand people were on the ?rounds when a terrille windstorm swept tinough the place. The storm came up suddenly. Trees In the gre ve were struck bv lightning, many of them were blown and the rain fell in torrents. The pc opie who took refuge under the trees, at the lirstsign of the storm, were caught by the falling branches and injured. Many Lo ses were killed In the same manner. Some of the animals stampeded, trampling upon the injured people lying un the ground. Some of the buildings in the vicinity were blown down and others were unroofed. Hundreds of forests and fruit trees were torn up aud corn and oat fields were laid waste, caus ing a loss of thousands of dollars. At ! the assembly grounds at Chautauqua many trees were uprooted and a por tion of the fence around the grounds was demolished. The Men's club house was badly damaged. BcaureKiird'H Kamo. A movement has been started io Charleston to erect a handsome gran ite arch on Washington square to the memory of Gen. Pierre Gustav Tou tant Beauregard. A movement was inaugurated some years ago and v ol untary donations were made for the purpose, but the sum was not suf ficiently lurge to undertake the work and the money was deposited in bank. lt was recently decided to erect a monument on a smaller scale than originally planned and now this is to be done, lt ls especially appropriate tbat Charleston should honor the memory of one the ablest soldiers of the south, for the reason that Gen. 'Beauregard had a warm place in bis heart for Charleston, as evidenced in the bequest of his sword which now occupies a case, in city council cham !j^ML^jKbUiCtjfa, best thoughts of his military career were" oi'rccioA i^r-d., the harbor defense bf Charleston. The programme of the exercises at tending the unveiling of the mouau ment, inscriptions, etc., will be an nounced later. * Shot Ulm Oqad. A dlsprtch from BlueQeld, W. V., says Sam Watson, a negro, shot and instantly killed Frank Underwood, bank boss at the mine of the Crane Creek and (Joke company Thursday, and immediately Med to the moun tains. A pusse of seven or ei^ht citi zens led by a son of Mr. Underwood started after him. Tuey got within shouting distance of the fugitive, but failed to hit him. Young Underwood noted carefully the direction Watson took across the country the Waiteh back, where he hoped to Intercept his I father's murderer. He discovered Watson riding on top of a gondola on a freight train which was running very slowly. Underwood tired at the murderer and Watson fell headlong into the bottom of the car and died before the train could be stopped. Bicyclist Killed. At Paris, France. George Leander, the American bicyclist, died Tuesday morning from injuries sustained In a terrible fall at the l'arc au Princes on Sunday last as the result of running Into a motor cycle which was pacing a race in which an attempt w;is being made to break the record for one hour. There were three cyclists in the race. At the time of the accident Leander was traveling at about a pace of milts an hour and was more than a lap ahead when be was thrown over the bundle bars of his machine and fell on his bead. Ile was re moved unconscious to a hospital and did not regain consciousness up to the time of lils death. sa; da soi of Fe Wi th ga an ty sp bo st: lai ye Ul at Mi ha Ho pr mc cit ne an th it re] at sei cb wa sic we Ph wi< me llb Die ed r Me cat wa St. loo COE hai Du c wb eel' Cot he on i al } foll .v . tori my era lice per tra; Lhh tba in lice car the do: casi ord 'I sail sail eui! hoi; vlei the ryh wit viii sole clei wh of 1 Pre shi pro tide fed [Iowa HnH Odd Freuk. < hie of the queerest uni ural freaks ever seen In Iowa is a double snouted bog owned by Charles Snell, who lives at Lehigh. The hog is now a year old and ls In perfectly normal in every respect, with the exception of the extra nose, which does not seem to in convenience him. This snout which ls perfect in every detail, conics out of the Jowl on the left side, standing at right angles, just below the eye. lt ls almost as large as the regular one. ary 1 Th pie nix Th Ka am Y ti me Mi mc pei in nei wu tin rle hu foi Long DiHlanco Murder. Mrs. Cornelia Botkina was sen tenced on Monday at San Francisco, Cal., by Superior Judge Carrol to life imprisonment in the state prison at San Quentin for thc murder of Mrs. J olin P. Dunning, in Dover, Del., by means c>f poisoned candy mai Jed from San Francisco, lu passing sentence Judge Cook expressed regret that he could not ire nose the death penalty, aa the Jury in its verdict had fixed tho punishment. Killed Hm Father. A dispatch to the Agusta Chronicle from (?rillln, Ca., sakW, Jeff Shiv ers, one of tho best-known farmers In that sect! tn, was shot In the breast by his 17-year-old son, Harry at 1 o'clock Thursday and died instantly. Tho shooting was done with a double-bar reled breech-loading shot-gun, loaded with buck-shot and bird-shot, and oc curred on the farm of the former, about 4 miles south of Grillln. Killed on tho Itali. Two young men, suppose to be Howard and Thomas Strung of Brook lyn were struck by a New York Cen tral train at Karner Phursday morn ing and were kil Both bodies were badly mutilai. kl au Li nil fri br rei he ali w; bc sa ha Bil Wi ap st; ca th af tn th Ila of ca be ru! !u Wi ch ne ba Lb WI an on TO DESTROY A TOWN. Friend Attempted to Dynamite Gate ol a Great flesevoir. A dispatch from St. Mary's, Ohio., ys an attempt was made on Tues y, 22 instant, by au unknown per il to blow up the gates at the head St. Mary's reservoir witb dynamite, irtunately the charge of dynamite is not sutllclently large to destroy e masonry or to displaco the heavy tes. There bas been much ill feeling long the people living in the vlclni of the reservoir, owing to the wide read belief that the banks of the big dy of water are not safe, notwith mdlng that the State has spent -ge sums of money during the past ar in strengthening the earthwork, id the object of the miscreant been talned Tuesday the town of St. irv's and the adjacent, valley would ve been swept by a most destructive od causing enormous luss of life and operty. Although thc damages are limited )stly to broken windows in that ,y; to the wrecking of one house ar tlie bulkhead and one State boat id the partial breaking of the bank, ere is great excitement here because is feared that the attempt may be pealed. The shock was plainly felt Celina at the western end of the re rvoir, a distance of 10 miles. Tue arge of dynamite and nitroglycerlue is placed on the wicket gate and a .w fuse attached from which there re three si'pcrato shocks. The ex Ksion wrecked the upper parts of the cket and damaged the stone subut ?nts, but not to such au extent as to erate the waters. Houses In the im ;dlafe vicinity were greatly damag aud the occupants were stunned. The bulkead is the outlet of Lake rcer into the Miami and Erie ?als and holds back nine feet of ter covering 17,000 acres of laud. Mary's is 12 feet lower than the k and the loss that would have ac opanled success of the attempt ls rd to imagine._ CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS. Not Have to I*ay License Fenu to Carry on IIUHHIIICHH. )n account of the many inquiries ich the comptroller general has re ved as to the recent law exempting ?federate soldiers from license taxed has asked the attorney general for opinion. Assistant Attomev Geuer iv. H. Townsend Tuesday sent the owing opinion to Mr. Jones: 'Answering your inquiry to the at ney general, I beg tb say? that lu opinion, the act to exempt Cohfed te soldiers and sailors froud' paying nse fees (24 statutes 44IX gives -a aonn.1 ' nriviledge which carnot' he 1 usrerred to o'tuers. The >nem? ol 3 personal exemption is the same as t of a person paying the license tax question. If a person paying the nse tax could employ others to ry on the business under him, then soldier or sailor exempted could so likewise. This depends in each 2 upon the terms of the statue or lance imposing the license tax." 'he act is as follows: 'An act to exempt soldiers and ors from paying license. 'Section 1. That all soldiers and ors of the Confederate States, who Isted from this State aud who were lorably discharged from such ser ?, shall hereafter be exempt from charge of any license for the car rig on of and business or profession hin this Stat'j, or any city, town or age therein: Provided, That such hers and sailors shall lile with the .k of the court of the county io ich he resides the proper evidence ils service in the Confederate war: tvlded, further, That no partner p shall exist in any such business or fesslon, with any person not a bona j soldier or sailor of the said Con erate States. 'Approved the 25th day of Febru , A. D. 1904." * Three, Drowned, ty the capsizing of a sail boat late lursday afternoon three young peo were drowned in Oquuga lake, )ut three miles from Deposit, ose drowned are: Robert Canfield, st ()range, N. J., Misses Amelia j Alice C. Cramer, sisters of New irk city. Young Canlield was a imber of a campaign party and the sses Cramer were guests at a sum ir hotel at the lake: Seven young >ple, iucluding Canlield, went out A. E. Lovejoy's sail boat. When ir the middle of the lake, the boat s overturned. Floyd Lovejoy saw a accident from the shore and hur d to the place in his naphtha inch. He succeeded in rescuing ir of the young people. Ncicro?ti Threatened. The strike ls still on in Chicago, d things are getting warm. Strike lader Pit /.patrick declared Tuesday ght that the importation of negroes jm the south by packers was fast inging about conditions that, may suit In race war in Chicago where, ; says, the feeling against negroes is ready i-o strong that negroes in no ly connected with the strike have en dragged fiona the cars and as ulted. Fitzpatrick says the unions .ve done more than any other to lu lence the negroes and the unions mt Washington to show whether he proves the negroes' conduct in this rlke. * Work ol' KohUcrH. Hy the explosion of .some dynamite ps and in the panic that followed lt, ree persons were injured Thursday ternoon at thu Hawthorne race nek near Chicago, lt is supposed at the caps were thrown on the or of the betting ring with the idea creating a panic, during which the sh boxes of the bookmakers might robbed. An attempt was made tc b one bookmaker, but lt failed. Tried to lilli lilmsel.. Hohe rt Baxter, a young man living the Poe Mill village at Greenville 10 has long been a victim of meian olia, attempted to end his life Wed sday morning with a pistol. The 11 entering his neck to the lett ol e windpipe and ranging back ird. Dr. Walker removed the ball d says that the wound though seri s may not prove fatal. THE BLACK HAND, Au Italian Youth Murdered by a Member of the Society. HAD BLACKED THEIR CHIMES. The Murderer Captured and a Mob Wished to Wreak Instant and Blood Veiigeanoo Upon Ililli. At New York on Wednesday Salva tor Bossoto, 18 years old, was shot to death In his father's restaurant lu Park street by Carlo Rossati, 3-r> years old, because he had disclosed to the police secrets of the alleged "Black Hand." Tbe father was knocked down and cboken Into insensibility.by the slayer, who then ran down the street, fol lowed by a great mob. Italians to the number of 1,000 attacked the Eliz abeth street police station, hurled missiles at the police and prisoner, hurting two detectives and one pollce man. Tiley would have torn the mur derer limb from limb had not it been for the arrival of the reserve police from two station houses, who were forced to use clubs and lists and threaten to shoot. According to the police the murder was deliberately planned by an organized gang. Bossoto is an euemy of these organ ized gangs and his son inherited the father's opposition to the lawless ele ment of their countrymen. When not studying music young Bossoto helped about the restaurant. Several weeks ago he learned that the murder ous gang about Mulberry Bend had planned bo rob a number ci miners who were coming through New York and who had engaged hoard in the lodging house over the Bossoto restau rant. Young Bossoto went to the police and asked protection for the men and soon an Italian detective had ar rested 12 suspicious characters who were held until the miners had taken a ship for their homes. , Once out of jail it is sale*311'*, gang determined upon HOM.SU. leath. Early Wednesday Hossatl o.*^*d the restaurant and when appro 1 by the elder Bdssotosald he wan. oth ing. As Bossoto was about t j close the place he asked Rossati to leave. The latter became Insolent and re fused. Young Bossoto, who was in the kitchen, heard his father and the man in an argument and came out. The Instant he saw young Bossoto, Rossati book a pistol from his pocket.v* develed it,at t,he youth and fired., The . bullet, struck the, boy between the eyes and he fell, dying instantly Ross' iccordlner tO-t," .i.-t.r.?,.u t.i>? j.'.-iv- _ ,?n m~sHB"tr~ knocking him down, anti started to run, but was captured before he had .\ gone two blocks. On Sunday the Bossotos found on - ' their door the "bridge of death," a cabalistic sign of the Sicilians which is said tu be a threat of death. A Man Thier. A dispatch from Spartanhurg to The State says seme thief entered tl home of Mr. Alfred Cole, near Qo llgbtly, and stole 854. Ingress was ef fected through an open window In the sleeping room of Mr. Cole. The thief then went to an adjoining room, se cured a trunk from a corner, and made his escape. This trunk was carried to a pasture about 200 yards from the house broken into and rilled, lt con tained 854 in money and 81,000 in Confederate bills, along with many pa pers, packages, letters, etc., of Mr. Cole. Nothing was molested save the money, the rogue taking both kinds. If au attempt ls made to pass the Con federate bills, it will easily lead to the identify of the thief. Mr. Cole's loss is a heavy cue. He is a mute and au aged man, he and lils aged wife live in a frugal manner. They have as a com panion a little white girl named Hat tie Range, whom they adopted sever al years ago. There is no clue as to the burglar._ Oldest Man Dead. A dispatch from Washington, Ga., to the Augusta Chronicle says: Caesar Hooker, who was probably the oldest mau in America, ls dead. The exact age of this venerable old colored mau will never be known, but from the ac counts which he related or eveuts which occurred more than a century ago, and from the testimony of the oldest living citizens, lt is a conserva tive estimate to place his age at 125 years. He came from Virginia to Wilkes county as a slave at a time when Washington was nothing more than "a wide-place in the road." He used to tell with a great deal of guesto' and delight of the halcyon days when he, as a young boy, would sit on the banks of a large, pond, which ls now the public square and site of the new court house, and shoot duck and wild cranes. Uncle Caesar leaves six chil dren, the oldest of whom is 9? years of age and lives near Thomson, Ga. 1 '.(>.-.( Dragged to Soa. ! A dispatch from Charleston to The State says Mr. Scott Bailey's boys on Wadmalaw Island had a narrow escape from being carried to sea by a mons ter devil tish and perhaps drowued. The boys were In a small boat fishing when the tish, which was said to be ; 18 to 20 feet long, became entangled in the anchor and startad for deep water. The boat waa whirled along at a terrible rate, the bow being on a line with the water, and just when the young men were beginning to face certain death tho anchor chain parted and they were saved. They had some difficulty lu getting ashore, but they were saved from certain drowning._ | KaObiH Fight. A personal difficulty occurred at i B'Nai isreal synagogue at Norfolk, Va., on Friday night between Rev. Samuel Goldberg, rabbi of the syna gogue, aud Rev. L. Heller, formerly rabbi of a synagogue at Augusta, Ga., who ls making Norfolk his temporary home. Rabbi Goldberg was arrested on a warrant sworn to by Rabbi Heller, > charging him with assault and bat tery. Rabbi Goldberg objected to the presence of Rabbi Heller in the syna gogne and sought to eject him. An altercation ensued and the arrest fol I lowed.