Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The iVlarlbor Democrat 3 ll "DO THOU, GREAT LIBERTY, INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVES IK THY POSSESSION HAPPY FOR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE. VOL. XXK BENNETTSVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1905, NO, SST -V WAGES OF SIN A Florida Man Kills Himself in a New York Hotel. A WOMvN WITH HIM The Man and Woman Eloped from De land, Fla., and the Former, Bccom IHR Ccnsclencc Striken, Ended His life bY Takinjj Mor phine. He Left Letters. Herbert Leon Kepler, a book keep er whose home was in Deland, Fla., died In a r om In Si sen's hotel at 46th street and Sixth avenue, New York, Thursday, (rom morphine poisoning. With him at the time was a woman who told the o -lice that her name was Mrs Dona Miller and that she left Deland with Kepler two weeks ago. Mrs. Miller said Kepler was the son of a Djland physician and that he left Florida suddenly bi cause of same trouble which be got into there. Mrs. Miller said she left her husband to come with Kepler. She was detain ed by the police. In the room in which Kepler au"1 the woman occupied the police found two i>mall bottles. One was filled vs 1 r.ti Morphine and the other nearly empt\ contained a trace of the drug Mrs. Miller told the p >liee that Kepler bad been despondent for sever al days and han" told her that unless his father did something at once to lix up thc trouble at Deland he feared something dreadful wt uki harpen. When Mrs. Miller was arraigned in po lice court s e was remanded to thc custody of the coroner without exam inatlon. A note found in Kepler's room indi cued that thc man had deliberately taken his lif . lt was addressed to his nephtw, Juno H tyraond, who is em ployed In that c.ty, and siid:_ ' G loti bye, Jack. 1 thar k you for all you have done. You know as well as 1 the reason for this and will forgive me. Again, I thank you, and again I say a last good bye. (Sigued) Herbert." Raymond told the police toar, Iiis uncle at one time was a prominent tennis player and that he won the Fouthern cham pionship.several years ago. Later Mrs. M-'.ler told the c< roner that a portion of li .r story as she g tva lt to the police was untrue. She had not lived with lur husband in several years, she said, aud did not tl'e from Deland with Kepler. She had been lu New York or vicinity for several years. She also told the coroner that she had boen a witness in the William Hooper Young murder cave in that city sever al years ago. She had lived in the house with the murdered woman, she said, ai d had li:.st introduced her to Young. Mrs. Mil'er also sai:l that Kepler left a letter a> id risked to his father and mother I egging that lie and Mrs. Miller be not separated in death and that his parents a;.d nnu^hter forgive him for Iiis act. In view of this letter tile police believe that Kepler intend ed to kill both iiiiu e.! and the wo man. A LlnL K I?IAACE. HondB lor His Sweetheart ami Will lie M ari lcd Soon. The Columbia lt cord says the ?rst incident In the romance line to occur in UommiFSloi tr Watsm's experience with his new di part? tnt of inmi.ra tion and agriculture will take the form of a double wedding of Scotch couples, the t er-, ni r y to be pei form ed in Commissioner Watson's i nice in the capitol hui ding within the next week or ten days. One of tiie happy grootrs to be ls James lld'!, a handsome young fol low whom Mr. Watson brought here last Ojtt.bjr and who inspired by bbc bliss awaiting his successfully estab lishing himself in this country has been earvin? out a business ?m.er for himself at Georgetown. Through ar rangements made with the depart ment's agency in Glasgow Mr. Reid's bride-to-be, Mis Schofield, sailed oh the 11th from Livarpool on the An chor liner "Columbia." She is i x pected to meet Mr Held in Columbia the latter patt of this week. Peter Buchan ls so charmed wi eil the prospects .if th's country that ie has delirmimd to take a wife before he has been here sixty days. He came here in Match fr- tri Cate. Head, Scotland, bu b h g au expert dairy man he readily f und work on a farm right here io Ric.?latid c unty. His iiance sailed on the White Star liner "Baltic" from Liverpool about the same time tl mt Miss Sc'.ioUeld started out for happiness and a home, and the two arc. expected here on the same day or within a day or so of each other. Killed HilllHOlf. T. R. Tollos, formerly town mar shal of Philadelphia, Miss , and one of the most, prominently connected young men in Nesboba county, has commit ted suicide by Bring a bullet through his brain. Af.er being married for live mont.'is, d mustie ttoubles are said to have arisen, and husband and wife agreed to separat' Ai the wife's etfects wire b lng loaded on a wagon preparatory to moving Tullos went to her n om and .v k< d to kiss bet good hy. A'ter doln? KO, bc retired at once to thc rear of he liuusB and lired Lin: fatal shot. IC.NI AIIH III lu IIIHIIIIIA. Last week a vessel brought 77( Italians ftom Palermo to New Or leai.s All but about ~u were permit ted to land. Those refused wort afflicted with dis? ase or did not mei I the requirements of the law in som-, other particulars. T te immigrant* were landed at N w Orleans at tin suggesti m of the italian ambassador, through whom southern planten made an app al for Italian laborers. They will be employed largely on tl < plantations nt Louisiana and otiiti Southern states. A DRINKING PLACE Hot Authorized in the Establishment of Heer Dispensaries. Law Allowa Par by llovalty In Liiou ol Salary and DiBponnors May Bottle Their Boor. Attorney General Gunter in a lengthy opinion Wednesday answered three questions propounded by the State board of dispensary directors with regard to beer dispensaries, but lt is not thought that the board itself will make an announcement until Thursday. The question whether the law al lows pay by royalty in lieu of salary is answered in the atllrmative as is the question as to whether beer dispen sers may bottle their own beer. The definition of "premises" ls lengthy and somewhat complicated, but in brief lt may bs said that the opinion defines "premises" to be whatever the county board designates as "premises;" ii? other words the opinion ls all that the most fastidious beer dispenser could desire. Says the opinion: "In regard to your third request for a definition of thc word premises, it occurs in sec tlon ?Ul above quoted, is fraught with ditlijulty, for it Involves to a great extent a question of fact, ri i Her lng In each particular case. Krora such an examination as I have been able to make of tills subject in the legal authorities, I am unable to lay down a precise definition for in such casas where the matter has been dis cussed so much depends on the techni cal statutes and circumstances the reusoning ls of but little aid here. "From a perusal of the dispensary law it ls manifest, however, in deter mining the limits of the 'premises,' recourse must be had to the action of the county bi ard of control, in select ing a place for a dispem er to op?rale. "Sectiou 5(35 directs: 'The county uoard of control shall designate or provide a huitable place in which to sell the liquors,' and section 5t>4, authorizing the county bjard to ap pointa dispenser: Says 'every appoint ment so made shall specify the hulld lng, giving the street and number or location In which intoxicating liquors may be sold by virtue of the same.' When the county board has designat ed or provided 'a suitable place' in which to sell liquors that 'suitable place' becomes 'premises' on which liquor can not le opened nor malt liquors drunk. "Were a provision of the nature di rected to Individuals, premises under such circumstances would be limited to some place over which such indi vidual had the legal right to exercise autuorlty or coutrol. This rule ap ptieR to the governmental agenay hav ing the selection and control of the place where liquors are sold and of course, can not apply to places over wblca the county board has no au thorlty. There ls no law authorizing the county board or any other otllcer io provide a drinking place; if SUCJ be attempted lt is without warrant of law. "It follows that 'pn mises' is such a placa as ls provided by the comity board for the sale of liq .ors and over which the State agencies have cou trol. This trust ls devolved upon that holy to be perf jrmed ace trdiug ly to the expressed meaning and pur pose of the law." VEILED MUB.DiSR.ES5 DEAD. Cou ll ned Ovi-r Fifty Years. Slit? Claimed Hoya! Blood. A dispatch from Newborn, N. V.. says Mrs. Henrie ta Ko lins in, known j as "the veiled murderess,'' diel at the M Ul a wan state h spital Wed! nesday. She was convicted of tue murder of Timothy Lanagan and Catherine Lu bee in Troy In 1853. During de trial she wore a hoavy veli. Judge Harris, before whom she was tried, asked her to remove the veli, but she refused, saying that she would rallier have any verdict pro ne, unced thau to remove lt. Ihr counsel, Martin I. Townson, stat- d to the court that lie could not prevail on her t? remove lt. Finally site drew the veil for an instant and, smiling to the jury, replaced lt. She was sen tena to he hanged on June 10, 18?li Har sentinee was afterward commu ted. Soe was sent to the Auburn state lu spital for the insane in 187?t and later transferred t> Matteawau. Mrs. ll J blus?n was 89 years old. When, a few days agu, ii was certain she muiti die, the physicians at the hospital endeavored to hu ve her re veal lier identity, which she had hid den since her c mmitment. She re fused, saying that slie had kept the secret for ?0 years and might as well let it die with her. Only once In her long confinement did she ever revial any I hing about herself, and then she told a pnyslcian that she came from the English royal family. Then, as If ?he had forgotten herself, she re fused to say anything further. She has employed her time in recent years in rn?king lace, which she wore. Some time ago she made a set of false teeth out of buttons and wore Hiern a large share of the time. W Int li roi> Coinmonooment. Invitations have been sent out foi , the annual commencement exercise.1 of Winthrop Normal and Industria i College at R';ck Hill, on Juno 4, 6 and ti. Fifty young women will re ! celve their degrees. On Sunda] morning, .lune 4, tho sermon will bi delivered before the Young Women' Christian Association, and at nigh . Kev. B. W. Smith, of Greensboro, N C., will preach the bacalaureate ser men. On Monday the joint cell bra , Hon Of the literary societies and ai Inspection of the buildings and de 5 partments will take place. On Jun , (i, the schedule provides for th . alumnae reunion, address to th alumnae hy Hon. E. D. Smith, o ', Sumter. "Daisy Chain l'rocesslon, address to the graduating class b j Hon. M. K. Ansel, of Greenville, an . t|ie award of diplomas and certlti cates. HE KILLED FOUR. A California Mad Man Tries To Kill Everybody. SHOT HIMSELF ALSO, Supposed to Be Crazed by Liquor, Wil liam P. Robinson, (iocs Forth With a Winchester and a Pistol and Starts Another Graveyard lu Sandiego, Cal. At Sandiego, Oal., on Monday, "Wil liam P. Robinson, a house servant, ran amuck killing four persons, wounding two others and then killing himself. Tue dead: William Stewart. Mrs. Emma Stewart. H. W. Gbase. Harry Doddridge. W. P. R ?binson. The wounded: Mrs. W. IT. Doddridge. W. H. Doddridge was Injured by falling out of a window. At tirst Robinson was said to be crazed by liquor, but later lt was said that he had threatened Doddridge for an alleged attempt to have Robinson shangtiaied when be was a sailor. It ls said also that he had expressed a dislike for the Stewarts. About 8 o'clock Monday morning Robinson left his house at the corner of Fourth and A streets and going to the apartments in the same building occupied by Mrs. Emma Stewart, the landlady, and ber son, William, rap ped for admission. Mrs. Stewart, upon opening the door, was shot i brough thc head by Robinson, who had leveled a rifle Robinson then entered the dining room where Stew art, who had been seated at breakfast, was just rising from the table. Rob inson attacked him immediately, plunging a long knife into Stewart's bo iy close to the heart and again into thc abdomen. At the second stab Stewart sank to thc lloor with blood p mring from his bo^y In a stream. Robinson ti e-1 'mumed to hiiroom. Reloading bis r ll a id ?exvlng his knife, he sllpp d a nvo'.v r into his pocket. IIa Gb< n d '.sc?"nr'ed to the tirst ?loor, i n . \.o tioi of which is used as a c ?rpi nor hi op by IT. W. Chase. C .a e probably siw Robinson enter, but pat 1 io.itu ni i u to him, for Robinson a,p cached coe to him and, suddenly throwing up his rille, tired, the bullet entering ^ Chase's breast'olos? to the heart. Ohaae died immediately. From the carpenter shop Robinson proc eded on his blcyole down Fourth street for several blocks through the business section of the town with the lille still in his hand. He went di rectly to the bouse of W. n Dod dridge, internal revenue collector, on the northeast corner of Second and II streets. Ile left bis wheel at the < urb and ran up the steps to the front dour, carryit g his revolver in one hand and his ritlo in the other. In re spouse to hin ring Harry Doridnrge, son of W. II. Doddridge, who ls au engineer at the Sandiego bresvery, opened the door. Robinson tired bis revolver and ynung Doddridge sank to the lloor with a bullet just above the heart Death followed before med cal assis tance could he sumtimned. Mrs. Dod ?ridge, tiie y ung mao's mother, nearing the shot and perhaps wit Hessing the tragedy, ran screaming from the house Robinson, hearing ihc screams, started through the Douve after the wom'in. As she wai crossing the yard the crazed man caught sight of her and tired, the bul let striking tier in thc back. She fell headlong upon her face in the yard W. fl Doddridge, who was in bed on the second floor when the commo tion began, jumped or fell out of the window, breaking the hones of his right band and probably sustaining hibernal injuries. Robinson searched ? ne. IIOUMC for more people. When lie came to the room just vacated by Doddridge lie climbed upon the bed aud placing lils revolver t > his te mple tired a bullet which tore off the to of his head. There ls no known rea son for thinking there had been ill feeling between Robinson and any of Iiis victims. Collector Doddridge says he n vcr even saw or heard of Robin son before. Itcoior Die? of Smallpox. The NJ wherry Observer says Dr. M. (4. Hendrix, the most prominent physician of Lexington, died on Saturday night with smallpox. Hi must have been a man of rare ability, judging from the tribute of the loca paper, though a man of "pecullat characteristics" and of "strong pre> indices." We infer from a remark made by the town board of health, li: the same paper, that the doctor hat not been vaccinated-this probably 1 being one evidence of hts "strong pre jucioies." The elector's wife an i chil ! dieu also liad the disease, but he wai - tlie only member of the family win died. "Mrs. Hendrix now being abb to be up and about her househok work, and other members of the fami ly being successfully vaccinated." W< i refer to this case to emphasize tw< 1 points: 1. That the smallpox nov prevailing in the state ls of a vlrulen ' and dangerous type; 2. That vaccina ' tion is tiie only sure protectloi i against this most loathsome and dan 3 gerous disease. ^ To Bhvo SOII'H liilo. Carl M. Spiner a former truste . employeof tin D-s M dm s Nationa . bank, lias IHM H indi.ti d on a charg ! of embtzzie n ni ?ind alleged fraudt . lent, entries. Toe Mn uni of his short ? agc does not exceed ?;>,uuO. There I ,. a pat bet 10 story in connection wit e Spencer's con fes di in, which he in?d f prior to the indictment. For man n years annually he had been taking a y invalid son east for medical trea :\ ment. Ho had been unable to met thc expenses and to save the boy's lil he tooK money from bise mployers. FOR HOLDING COTTON The Flan for Southern Farmers to Fix Its Price. Lotter From President Hnrvlo Jor dan As to the Plan for a Chain of Cotton Warehouses. One of the most important move ments ever inaugurated in the South Is now rapidly taking form, and once lt is completed, the Southern farmer and cotton grower will be able, for the first time in history, to set his o*n price upon his own commodities, exclusive of the outside influences of the Wall street "bull" and '"bear." This ls the vast bonded warehouse system, supported by the Southern Cotton association. By this it is hoped to erect a fireproof warehouse in every communitv in which 2,U0O bales of cotton are marketed. In this way the farmer may store his cotton and borrow cheap money on the re ceipts, holding the staole until the price ls high enough to warrant him selling. President Ilarvle Jordan, ina letter given out Thursday, outlines the plan of the movement as follows: The time has come in the South when our business men and farmers must align themselves together for mutual protection and safeguarding the great staple crop of this section of the union. Tlie cotton growers pro duce the crop and prepare it for mar ket and the sagacity and financial support of our business men, bankers and merchants are needed to aid in so selling the crop as to make the slap'J bring Its full legitimate value. One of tbe essential features in the future handling of the cotton crop by the producers is to provide adequate warehouse facilities in which to store cotton and use it as a collateral to borrow cheap money until the owner is prepared or ready to sell it These warehouses should bc constructed iu every community where 2,000 bales or more of cottou is marketed and should be built, operated and controlled by thc farmers and business men in tho local communities. A great many of these warehouses will be built this year and the Southern Cotton associa tion will be glad to furnish the latest and most Improved plans and speci fications issued by the fire insurance* companies. Each warehouse should be so constructed as to reduce the cost of insurance and storage to a minimum. In connection with the warehouse proposition the Southern Cotton association ls also deeply Inter ested in the development of the Cot tou Planters' Cjmralssion and Hold ing company, which was organized during the late >Tew Orleans cotton convention. This holding^compaAv if properly Indorsed ?nd subTciibeffto by the farmers and business men of the South, can soon develop into a power of strength to protect the grow ers against any of tlie schemes and devices so ofteu resorted to by certain classes for tho purpose of depressing toe price of the staple. The stock of this company has been lix d at th? par value of one dollar per share, so as to place lt within the roaJi of every f irmer in the South. The char ter provides that no stockholder will ever be liable for an amount greater than his subscription. Every banker lo the South ha-, this sni ck lu hand for sale, bosid ?8 a large uumber of county and stats agjnts. lt is hiped that the stock to this ix m,?any will h rapidly subscrib d to so that the peo pin w' o grow ii e co'ton may.be abe to build upa im w irk of safety b ^ tw en thems-lvc'.s and ilie element which h;>s so Lug b en engig* d lu de pie-sit g the cotton nunki t. Tile ass dillon v ill be glai to fur nish detailed information willi refer '.nc? to these two 'moor'ant adj mels of the association's w> rk to ali p*r ties interested. Tlie farmers have al ready whipped the tight as to reduc 'lon nf cotton acreage iud use of guano under ditton for l?)0?3 N iw let the piople get closer together an I continue the fight for their emancipa tion from the dominating inllueuces nf the speculators. IIAKVIK JORDAN, President Southern ditton Assucia llon. Itryan In the I'ulplt. W. J. Bryan tilled the pulpit of a Methodist church at L ncoln, Neb , recently. A very large crowd was in attendance. He book up tlie Sermon on the Mount, with his text the words: "Blessed aro the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Flo declared his belief that religion c in sisted more In kindness to and consid eration fi.r fellow men, more in char lty for others and In por.-onal purity i than In dogma, ceremony or creed. He deplored thc tendency to higher : criticism of tlie Scriptures and rejec tion of parts of lt because one could 1 not understand. Ile declared that he found dally more mysteries In life than were bound up within the cov : ers of tile Bible. He believed tlie 1 higher wisdom lay in accepting the I good we understand, and hope for un ' derstandlng later of that we dou't. He Insisted that no mau could com mand real success in the world unless * lie possessed an ideal, nor could lie be > of real value to the world so long as i selfishness and low conceptions of bli 1 duty to himself and others dominated - his life and conduct, a - . Ni vcr lind Any. ir President Hadley of Yale Univerltj t was one of thc speakers at thc dlnnei of tlie Cornhill Alumni, of New Yorl i city. Dr. Hadley told a story of i . little buy whose mother had died ant whose father had married again, hav lng ?wo sons by the second wife *'] had a mother and I'vo got a step ri mother," said the boy, "but Billy ant 1 Harry, all they've got ls a stepmother e They never had any mojiher.'1 Tho IJAHI Survivor. '* Tlie body of Hiram Cronk, the las j survivor of thc war of 1812 was cai e riod to New York from Boonvllle v j and Uld away In tho Cypress Hill cemetery w! Mi full military honors Accompanying the body were Cronk' three survivi ig sons and one daughtf -Philander Cronk, aged 81, Wilban aged 82, John, aged 60 and Mis. Sara Rawley, aged H. KILLED BY BOMB A Would-Be Assassin Dies by Its Accidentai Discharge ON HIS OWN PERSON. Two Detectives Were Also Blown to Atoms and Twenty-three People Were Hurt. The Man Was ? Carrying the Bomb to Usc on Another Man. A dispatch from Warsaw, Russian Poland, says a workman who was try lng to avoid the obs orv uti an of two detectives on Mlodowa street at noon Friday stumbled on the curb of the sidewalk and a b >mb which he was carrying in his pocket exploded killing the workman and b>th detectives anrl wounding 23 persons. It is belli ved tho bomb waa intended for Gov. Gen. Maximovitoh, who was expected to pass tho fip'it on his way from the ca thedral, where he wa3 attending the service in honor of the czar's birth day. Thc bodieB of the victims were lit erally blown to pieces. A cafe near the scene of the explosion was entirely demolished, all the windows tn thc neighborhood were smashed and a lamp post was torn out of the ground. The number Injured by the explosion includes three women, one student and two school boys. One of the lat ter is detained at the police station, having been noticed warning people against going into Mlodowa street. The man who was carrying the bomb has been Identified as a Polish shoe maker named Dobrowolski, a member of the violent section of the Socialists. Many arrests have been made since the explosion and the police are busy making domiciliary searches. The authorities are convinced that the bomb was Intended for the gover nor general. Ile was attending thc services at the cathedral, which is situated at tho corner of Dluga aud Mlodowa streets, a few yards from the scene of the explosion. All the high officials and members of Russian so ciety there also was present. Tba 30V ernor general had recently been Mir. at ened with a bomb attack particularly since the May day disturbance. The police accordingly exercise the great est vigilance whenever he leaves the castle. Atter the officials had ente ed the. cathedral detectives observed a poor,y dressed man loitering on Mlo dowa street. When tho man saw the ,uAva. * > ran towards the entrance or a confectioner's store, when he eith er tripped or threw thc bomb back wards at the detectives. The explosion occurred only a min ute before the people commenced to pour out of the cathedral. Three minutes later the governor general would have passed the spot. Cossacks who were hastily summoned soon ck-ared the streets and the gov ernor general drove by another rout? ?it the castle. Friday's outrace is t ;.e sixth o' sim.lar character lu Warsaw since the January disturbances. Th? editors of Polish papers there have de cided to publish, if the censor wll permit it, strong articles denouncing ?such attucks, lt ls stated that, G >v Gan. Maxim vitch recently received au annoy mous letter threatening, that ?is he h id allowed men, wornt n and c dldnm to be sn t d >wn ou May dav o he would lie killt d with his wife ..nd eli i dren, the writer addii g tba' ev m rein lining within thc castle would not save them from that fate. Dragged (<> lt: mit. A dlspatct from Johnston to The State says Mr. Jeter W Grim was killed Tours-.ay afternoon in a pecu liarly horrible manner. Mr. Crlm hid b. en out plowl-g and abouti sundown started li.nm: fr in the Held, riding the horse, sitting slde-vays. In some way the horse bolted, and Mr. Grim'.-; fet:t became entangled In t he harness He was dragged for a quarter of a mile, with the horse going at full speed. When the horse was stopped, nearly at Mr. Grlm's home, the unfor tunate man .was still alive b.it unable t * speak and In that condition he liv ed for about 30 minot's. Mr Grim was Ot) years of age and was a G mfederate veteran. Ile was a farmer and senior member of tho tirm of Grim Sc Sou. Tho OUI liovo ltitvivoil. Miss May Story, of Thomson, and Mr. L. L. Harker, of Marietta, Ga., wero married at Thompson, Ga , Thursday, and created quite a ripple of excitement from the fact that the engagement of Miss Story to a pro minent young man of a neighboring town had been announced, tho wed ding tu be solemnized in June. All ar rangements had been made for this wedding, willoh was to be the society event of thc season, but it appears that an old sweetheart appeared upon the scene, with the result above men tioned. The newly married couple left immediately for Marietta, (Ja., where they will make there future home. Pleaded Utility. L. P. Obliger, ex-president of the closed Wooster, Ohio, national hank, pleaded guilty before Judge Taylor in the United States district court Wed nesday afternoon to a count In ono of the indictments charging him with having issued a draft when there were no funds In the bank to meet lt. Judge Taylor sentenced Obliger to eight years' imprisonment In the Ohio pen itentiary. Obligor is an ex-congress man, ex county treasurer, postmaster, at Wooster under President Cleveland's iirst administration and collector of Internal revenue at Cleveland during Cleveland's second administration. Two fr'ttttior t'atN Caught. G. W. Streeter of Holton, N. Y , caught in traps in thc Holton moun tains recently two Usher cats, animals rarely seen In this part of thc country. The animals havo heads which resem ble that of a hear. They weighed about ten pound* each. They possess a tine black fur, whioh is valuable. Mr. Streeter says the. animals are ferious and will put up a good j light. SHIPS THAT VANISH. Sonic- Bemarkable Mysteries and Se crets of the Grout Ocean. Fino Ships that Have Balled Away and Disappeared Forever from tho Sight of Men. London Tit Bits says there are few things which are so full of mystery, jr which makes such a powerful ap peal to the imagination, as the stories if ships that sail gallantly out to sea ind of which nothing is ever heard or teen after the masts have dipped be ow the horizon. At present the pa jera are full of .the records of these I narine tragedies. Today, it ls tho Jlaverdale, which left Hong Kong on November 23, for Vladivostok, and of ! .viiict) no trace bas been found for )ver two months; yesterday it was the [loyalist, which cleared a few dayB| ater from Singapore to Hong Kong, ind has never reached her destina tion; the day before it was the Idum, 'rom Noway, which has vanished from luman view; and so on, 'through the J ong list of ships that have sailed and llsappeared. What are the secrets of these mys erlous vanishings of stately ships vi th ???heir orews and cargoes? In dr jen cases of twenty the secrets ' with the ships many fathoms deep, md will perhaps naver leap to light Co thlB day no one knows what be ?ame of the Oity of Glasgow, whloh ;et her sails so gallantly In the Mer cy half a century and more ago, )Ound for Philadelphia, nor was she I cen again after the hills of Wales ' vere 1 jst to view. The Burvio Castle left London some rears ago OD a long voyage to Austra ia. She should have made a final .all at Plymouth, but she never oame vitbin sight of the Hoe, nor bas 'ni nan eye ever seen her from the day he dropped down the Channel It j vas on May 10, 1854, that Lady Nu gent spread her sails at Madras with I H)7 of thc 25th Madras Light Infant- f y and other passengers on board, j 1er destination was Rangoon, but i ?alf a century has gone, and neither tangoon nor any other port haB c lighted her. ( Nearly two years later the Collins ] jiner, thc Pacific, dropped down the dorsey with 180 souls on board. She vas accounted one of the stoutest and iwiftest vessels of her time-and so, io doubt she was. But she went the vay the City of Glasgow had gone a souple of years earlier, and for forty- i line years has been lying at the bot- ] om ot the sea-but where, none may \ cn ow till all secrets are revealed. The i .radiug vessel Atlanta started, a quar- \ .er of a century ago, for ash ort orulse n Bermudau waters, and from that tay to this no one knows what be ?ame of her and the 250 souls sae car-11 led. On January 28, 1870, the City of ( boston sailed from Halifax for Eng- . and, with 101 souls on board. Sue { vas an Inman Liner, a fine ship, iplondidly equipped and hand'- d; bul the, too, was destined to vanish from me 'ace of the waters. The victim of another still remem bered ocean mastery was the Presl Un!, a tine v. s-el which was expeoted it Liverpool in March, 1841. Marco Dossed and Liverpool saw nothing of ocr. Tuc long delay In her arriva Mused great anxiety, and the wildest rumor? Oegan to be circulated. O April 13 news came that her engine iud rudder had been disabled in heavy weather and that .sin." had put into Maderia for repairs, and there natu rally followed a reaction from gloomy forebodings to transports of joy. The vessel was expected at Liverpool on a certain day, and tier arrival was awaited by hundreds of people who had friends aboard; but she never came, and ii was found that the story nf her arrival at Maderia was a heart less hoax. All the time the ill-fated vessel was at the bottom of the sea. On November 30, 1888, a large ves sel was seen from the beach at Deal, sailing toward the Goodwin Sands. S e was a fair picture to look on, as she moved over the waters with her stately spread of sails, But as the ! eyes of the watchers followed her she ! was seen to pause, and within a few seconds she vanished utterly from their view. What caused this tragl cslly sudden disappearance of a state ly hliip? Tnat ls an itherof the count less secrets which the ocean has In its | jealous keeping. Forro?! Honored, At Memphis, Tenn., to the accom paniment of martial music and in the presence of thousands of citizens and visitors the equestrian bronzs staue of Lieutenant General Nathan B. Forrest was unveiled Tuesday after noon in tlie park that bears the Con federate general's name. The statue ls the work of the sculptor, Nlethaus. lt was cast In Paris. Little Miss Bradley, a great grand-daughter of thc dead hero, pulled the silken cord which exposed to view the handsome monument. The municipal cf?icera declared a half holiday and the oity was crowded with visitors. Drowned (Ju*clio Island. Tho Charleston Post Bays J. Amos Kelly, a painter employed on the Isle of Palms by Contraotor H. D. Sohua ebor, was drowned Wednesday after noon off thc island. He left the beach In a boat, which waa over turned by the waves in sight of the shore, and the unfortunate painter sank without tho possibility of help being rendered him. Ills body has not yet been recovered. Kelly with lils wife and child livod in the rear of Mr. .lohn I). Cappnlmann's residence, 2ut) Rutledge avenue. He v.as a man of kindly disposition and of good tabs -enea d about 45 years old. Url i. Ill/; l'li;. The Philadelphia Enquirer says that Nan Patterson was in this city today and signed a contract to appear on the staue of Hie Harlem Music hall, New York, at a salary of $2,000 a week. It ls said .she arrived here in tho after nuon and returned to Washington immediately after the negotiation* had been closed. Miss Patterson, lt is understood, was represented hj Attorney Daniel J O'Reilly. Accord lng to tlie Enquirer, she is to appeal in an act at the head of ; Ix ot.hr i Ohorns girls. Tho longth of tho on gagement ls not known.i DREAMED SHE SAW THIEF. Spartanburg Woman Ilooovors Hor Money that Was Stolon, Skeptically inclined persons, im merced, in material affairs and alive only only to the dally griodof life and the gathering in of Rheckels, placo little faith in dreams; hut Mrs. Curtin Wall of Arch street, Spartaoburg, whose husband is a well known con tractor, attaches a deep significance bo her dreams, and bas excellent rea ions for doing HO. Mrs. Wall is a rel a tive of Officer Henry Dodd of the po lice force, who related to a newspaper nan a dream and it? sequel, which will never be forgotten by the lady. Several days ago there was $20 se ?reted in a closet of Mr. Wall's house. That night on retiring Mrs. Wall who bad placed the money away foi "a rainy day," dreamed that twice lt lad been stolen by a little negro boy ind the features of the thief were in lei i bl y stamped on her mind. She ireamed that this boy had stolen ? len dollar hill and a one dollar bill, eaving four, of the sum total-$20. Friday morning she went to the boust )f a negro man, not a great distance iff, and feeling so sn re of the identity if the thief of whom she dreamed, ihe walked in and saw a little negro )0y about eight years of age who lit .ed thc picture and said, "I have ;ome for my money." It was quickly orthcoming-the ten dollar note, five iollar note and one dollar bill. Oe kooount of the extreme youth of the legro, he was not prosecuted. He !onfes3ed that he went to Mr. Wall's ?ne afternoon recently to buy milk, vhon there was no one at home. HIRED ASSASSINS. to Kill Hor Hutband And Got Into Much Trouble, Oa May 3, at midnight, masked nen entered the home of Henry Black :hire, at Brojk ville, Calhoun county, md shot him dead in the presence of ils wife and s in. Wednesday night Stirs. Blackshire is in the Calhoun sounty jail. Bier neighbor. Rubsrt Mc Dlosky, ls in the same prison and Louir lend rick-, ia lu the Parkersburg jail - Lil charged with complicity in the m?r ier. The arrest of Mrs. Blackshire Wed ?esday was brought about by th' itatement of Hendricks. He said he vas at McOlosky's home several day? )ffore the murder and heard Mrs i'.ackshire offer McClcskey money tt dil her hush ind, and say that if h< ?ef used she would get some one else io do lt. He says he told Mrs. lila rk ihlre after the murder what he heard, md she oQered to give him $100 a i on ts she collected her husband .* fe insurance if he would leave town. He and McGloskey left together tin lay following the murder and remain jd near Parkersburg till McCloskey re turn to Brookville on Sunday to get lis pay and while there he was place* in jill. During their absence Mrs Blaotrshire attempted to collect Iii Insurance, am muting to 81,000. Pub Ile sentiment was so outraged over th' rep irbi of her complicity that she WLS threatened with lynching, but no a' lempt was made to wreak vengeanct in her. McGloskey admits bel?g at t>he house at the time of the murdei ind also says Mrs. Blackshire wanted uer husband out of the way, bui 3harges Hendricks with the murder. Lomax Ippoiiiieil. Serretary Taft appointed Major General Luusford L. Lomax, of Vir ginia, a member of the GdttyKburp oattielield park commlsion, to till th vacancy caused by the death of Majo W. M. Robins, of North Carolina, om of the Confederate commissioners With the single exception of Maj i General Robert P. Hoke, of Korti Carolina General Lomax is the senior i ftlcer of the survivors of the Army ol Northern Virginia. He was born ir. li lo.ie Island, but established his le gal residence lu Virginia at au earl) age. He was graduated from the Mil itary Academy and before the out break of thc civil war was lirst lieutenant of cavalry in the United States army anci commanded the escort of President Llucoln, at the latter's lirst inaugura tion. Scon afterwards he resigned frorx the army and cast his lot with tht Confederacy. In April, 18V2, he wa> appointed a compiler of the etil?e of war records, war department, and has continued lu clerical duty in the war department ever since. Hontenood to Doatli. On Friday at Chicago Johann Hoch, who by his own confession is a polyga mist, and who is ch juged by the police with hiving married at least 40 wo men in the last 15 years, wait found guilty by a jury of murdering the next to his last wife, Marie Welcker Hosb, and the death sentence was recom mended by the jury. Hoch had been married to Mrs. Welcker only a short time when Bbc took suddenly sick and died. Ile then formed an alliance willi the sister of the dead woman and se curing the sister's money lied from Chicago. This Mrs. Hoch told the po Hoe that Hoch had poisoned hersistei and a search for lloch was begun. Ht was found two weeks later in Nev? York and brought back to Chlcag. and confronted by several alleged wives. During the trial expert testi mony was offered by the State that Hoch had poisoned the woman by ad ministering arsenic. A Bad A (Talr. At Yoakum, Texas, fi, S. Mason, s prominent business man, was shot ant killed by M. A. and P. A. Newman, brothers, wno were concealed in tht Lane hotel and who used rilles. Ma son, lt ls said feared trouble, but har: adopted the policy of going about lr his shirt sleeves to show that he wa* unarmed. Several days ago Misi Lillian Newman, about 28 years ol 1 age died at Runge, anti shortly there af 1er Dr. J. M. Boyd, a highly re > 8pec:ed physician, was bound over ii $5,000 bond to answer a charge o i malpractice In connection with tin i young womans death. Water .-l ft or Kxoroino Fatal. At Lancaster? N Y., Dr. A. W ? Martin, aged for-elght, died thlh ev r enlng from neuralgia of the heart . produojd by drinking large quantltle of water after violent exorcise. FIVE MURDERS Confessed to by a Negro Who Is Now in Jail. OTHERS PUNISHED Por Some of the Crimes He Says He Committed. He Claims to Have As saulted a Young Woman In Virginia for Which Another Man Was Lynched. In a letter to the police authorities o? Chester, W. Va., a man signing ilmselt "A. Johnson," and claiming co be a partner of Henry Williams, who was recently executed In Roa noke, Va., has confessed to five mur ders and numerous robberies. Ills reasons for writing are that other men have suffered for his crimes and his conscience troubles him. He lays he has been converted. The lates and manner in which the dif ferent crimes were committed as fur nished in Johnson's letter are more complete than the police records, and r.he authorities believe its authentic ity. According to Johnson he killed a woman at Chester, W. Va., two Italians at Un lon town, Pa., a man at [lymiman, Pa., and a woman at Mar tin's Ferry, Ohio. He also claims to lave assaulted a woman at Staunton, Va., foi which crime, he says, an jthsr man waa lynched. TELLS CONFLICTING TALES. A dispatch from Cincinnati, Ohio, ays Albert Johnson, colored, was ar rested in Newport, Ky., Thursday for sending threatening letters through (.he mails The officers express the oelief that he is the same man who wrote to the Chester, W. Va., chief if police, confessing various crimes for which other men bad been or were ib?ut to be punished. A postal card 0 James Mooar, son of Capt. Luke Mooar, threatening him with death vas turned over to the United States jostal authorities and led to Johnson's irrest. Johnson acknowledged writ ng the postal and was then asked: 'Did you write that letter to the ?nester, W Va., chief of police?" "'Yes, sir, 1 did and every word in hat letter 1B true," he responded. "Why do you make these voluntary : .S?StSlOSi:?" .'Because I am now converted and 1 Intend to lead a better life." "I bad three other men spotted to -till In Cleveland, but since my con version I have abandoned that idea. I Informed the men that they bad .ose calls for their lives and thought ebglou was all that had saved them." Later Johnson retracted bis state* nut that he had killed five persons. 'I have been bad," he said, "but I ever killed any one and don't know .nytning about that letter." Johnson's record in Newport in jiudts an attempt to kill Amos Phil ips by shooting, but Johnson claims hat he acted in self-defense. Our I'.-onion Li?t. The Columbia Record seems to oink that South Carolina newspapers cm not afford to criticise ether States ur abusa of the pension law, when we ?ave so much of the evil here at lome. The Record says the State ojard has found hundreds of names m the list which ought not to be .here. Tuis is not meant as an attaok m the old soldiers, because they are entitled to all the State feel justified .n paying, yet in almost every county men who never shouldered a musket ind wiio never beard the sound of a j cattle are living on the money which ?hould go to those who fought for the South. All of us can doubtless point to some particular case of grafting. ?'If the newspapers," says The Ra jord, "by publishing the county lists ire instrumental in having the names jf those not entitled to pensions ?tricken off they will in some measure perform a duty to tho public and to the Confederate soldiers." Crushed to Death. A special dispatch from Calqult, Ga., to thc Atlanta Constitution says ohat while Dr. P. E. Wilkin and Miss Jennie Edgerton were out horseback riding Monday afternoon they met two four-horse wagons loaded with spirits ut turpentine. In attempting to pass the first wagon the horse Miss Eager ton was riding became frightened and the mules became unmanageable, the result was that Miss Edgerton fell under the wagon and was crushed to death. The horse that Dr. Wilkin was riding was so mangled that lt was kill ed. Dr. Wilkin was slightly burt. Miss Kag jr ton was the adopted daughter of Mrs. Floyd. The body will be in ferred in the family burying grounds neal 'Jrlnson, Ga. A party of young people will escort the body to Its last resting place. In Hurd Liuolt. As the climax to a run of hard luok, Joseph S. McBryde, a well known olti i m of Columbus, Ga., lust his only foot Wednesday. He was alighting from his delivery wagin, carrying a shotgun. Ile has au artificial limb ' and it became entangled In the gun, 1 causing thc discharge of the weapon. 1 A hole about the size-of a dollar was olown through his right foot and the doctor afterwards found amputation 1 necessary, so MoBryde is now minus ' ooth his feet. Not very long ago his * home waa burned. A few years ago ' dre destroyed his boiler works and 1 iron works on Seventh street. Re cently he lost a line horse. j t\ Unod ii&w, f The "whipping post law" for wife i boaters wjnt into effect Thursday in the State of Oregon. Tne law provid es that a mau convicted of wife beat ing may bc punished with whippii g, * not exceeding 20 lashes, but this is only an additional punishment as the < old punihhmont by ?nc or lmprlson s mont is still in effect under the new law.