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The iVlarlboro' Democrat 6IL "DO THOU, GREAT LIBERTY, INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVES IljfTHY POSSESSION HAPPY FOR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE.' VOL. xx^ BENNETTS VILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1905, NO, 38T WAGES OF SIN A Florida Man Kills Himself in a New York Hotel. A WOM^N WITH HIM The Man and Woman Eloped from De land, Fla., and the Former, Becom ing Ccnscience Striken, Ended His life hy Taking 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 botel at 4Gth street and Sixth avenue, New York, Thursday, from morphine polsoniug. With him at the time was a woman who told the o dice that her name was Mrs Dona Miller and that she left Deland with K pier two weeks ago. Mrs. Miller said Kepler was the Bon of a D?land physician and that he left Florida suddenly because of some trouhle which he 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 an* the woman occupied the police found two small bottles. One was filled w 1 th Mi Tphiue and the other nearly empt^ contained a trace of the drug Mrs. Miller told the p dice that Kepler had been despondent for sever al days and had told her that unless his father did something at once to fix up thc trouble at Deland he feared something dreadful wt uld happen. When Mrs. Miller was arraigned in po lice court s: e was remaudtd to the custody of the coroner without exam lnation. A note found in Kepler's rot ru indi cated that the man bad deliberately tiken his Hf . lt was addre-sed to his neptnw, Jonn lt ty mond, wi o ls em ployed In that city, and said: "Good bye, Jack. I thaek you for all you have done. You know as well as I the reason for this and will forgive me. Airain, 1 thank you, and again 1 say a last good bye. (Sigucd) Herl.crt." Raymond told the police tiiat, his uncle at one time was a p: o mi neut tennis player and that he won the voir hem cham pionship several years ago. Later Mrs. Miller told the ct roner that a portion of h .i story as she g -.ve it to the police was untrue. She Ind not lived with htr husband in seve.rai years, she said, aud did not fi'e from Deland with K"pler. She had been in New York or vicinity for several years. She also told the coroner t hat she had been a witness in tlie William Hooper Young murder cave in that city sever al years ago. She had lived in tlie house with the murdered woman, she said, ai d had first introducer! her to Young. Mrs. MiHer also said that Kepler left a letter a .dr. s ed to his father and mother begging that he and Mrs. Miller be not separated In neath and that his parents a;.d nnughter forgive him for his act. In view of this letter the police believe that Kepler intend ed to kill both himself and the wo man. A Lit iL KUM ? A CE. Sends lor Hin Sweetheart and Will tie Married Soon. The Columbia ll corri says the Hrs! incident In the romance line to occur In Oom tn bs i o< er Wats in's experience with bis new departo cut of HnniLra tion and agriculture wi il take the form of a dout.lo wedding of Scotch couples, the certm :.y to be perform ed In Commissioner Watson's t dice in the capitol bunding within the next week or ten days. Oae of the happy croon-s to be ls James Reid, a handsome young fel low whom Mr. Watson brought here last Oatobor and who Inspired hy the bliss awaiting his successfully estab lishing himself in this country has been carving out a business air..er for himself at Georgetown. Through ar rangements made with lite depart ment's apency in Glasgow Mr. Reid's bride-to-be, Mi s Schofield, sailed on the llth from Liverpool on the An ebor liner "Columbia." Sile ls ex pected to meet Mr Reid In Columbia the latter patt, of this week. Peter Buchan ls so charmed wich the prospects ;>f th's country that h'< has doti realm d to take a wife before he has been here sixty days. Ile came here In March from Gate Hean, Scotland, bu h li g au expert dairy man he readily f und work on a farm right Herc io Richland c unty. His fiance sailed < n the White Star liner "Baltic" from Liverpool about tlie same time thai Miss Schofield started out for happiness and a home, and the two are expected here on the same day or within a day or so of each other. Killed UiiiiBolf. T. R. Tulles, formerly town mar shal of Philadelphia, Miss , and one of the most prominently conneated young men In Nesbobacounty, i as commit ted 3uicir.e by Hiing a bullet through his brain. Af.er b ing married for five months, dorntstic tioubles are said to have arisen, and husband and wife agreed to separat - As the wife's effects wire b lng loaded on a wagon preparatory I i moving, Tulles went toher rt om ann a-lad to kiss her good by. A ter doing so, he retired at once to thc rear of he house and fired tho fatal shot. lui ?ll? III I ii. ll ir, HUI A. Last week a vessel brought 77C Italians fiom Palermo to Nev/ Or leai.s. All but about 2u were permit ted lo land; Those refused were alli ctid with distase or did not meit the requirements of the law in som* other particulars, Tue immigrant* were la'.ded at. N w Orleans at the suggest! >:i of the italian ambassador, through whom southern planters made an app al for Italian laborers. They will he employ ed largely on tl c. plantations <f Louisiana and otln r Southern states. A DRINKING PLACE Not Authorized in the Establishment of Heer Dispensaries. Law Allows Pay by Koyalty lu Lieu of Salary anti DispcnsorB May linttlo Their Boer. Attorney Qencral Gunter in a lengthy opinion Wednesday answered three questions propounded by the State board of dispensary directors with regard to beer dispensaries, but it is not thought that thc 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 detinition of "premises" ls lengthy and somewhat complicated, but in brief it may be said that the opinion d.dines "premises" to be whatever tile county board designates as "premises;" ii. other words the opinion is all that the most fastidious beer dispenser could desire. Says the opinion: "In regard to your third request for a definition of the word premises, it OCCUTB In sec tion 561 above quoted, ls fraught with riltlljulty, for it Involves to a great extent a question of fact, allier lng in each particular case. From such an examination as I have been able to make of this subject in the legal authorities, I am unable to lay down a precise detiultlon for in such cases where the matter has been dis cussed so much depends on the technl cal statutes and circumstances the reasoning is of hut little aid herc. "From a perusal of the dispensary law it ls manifest, however, in deter mining the limits or the 'premises,' recourse must be had to the action of the county b< ard of control, in select in? a place for a dispen. er to operate. "Sectlou 565 directs: 'The county ooard of control shall designate or provide a suitable place lu which to sell the liquors,' and section 564, authorizing tue county board to ap point a dispenser: Says 'every appoint merit 80 made shall specify the nulld lng, giving the street and number or location In which intoxicating liquors may be sold by virtue of che 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 be opened nor malt liquors drunk. "Were a provision of the nature di rected to individuals, premises under such clrcumnauces would he limited to some place over which such indi vidual had the legal right to exercise autuority or control. This rule ap piles to the governmental agenay hav ing the selection and control of the place where liqu?rs are sold and of course, can nut apply to places over whlc.i the county board has no au thorlty. There Is no law authorizing the county board or any other olncer to provide a driuklng place; if suca be attempted lt ls without warraut of law. "lt follows that 'pa mises' is such a placa as ls provided by the county bo ard for the sale of liquors and over which the State agencies have con trol. Tnis trust is devolved upon that holy to be performed acceding ly to the expressed meaning and pur I pose of the law." VEILED MURDERESS DEAD. Confined Over Fifty Vcaro. She j Claimed Itnyal Blood. A d'spatch from Newborn, N. Y., says Mrs. Henrie'ta Ho iluson, known as "the veiled murderess." die 1 at the M ittvawan state h spltal Wed nesday. -She was convicted of the murder of Timothy Latng^n and Catherine Lu bee In Troy in 1853. During tue trial she wore a heavy veil. Judge ILirrls, before whom she was tried, a^ked her to remove the veil, but she refused, saying that she v.ould rather have any verdict pro nounced Miau to remove lt. II i r counsel, Martin I. Townson, stat'd to! the court that he could not prevail on her t? remove lt. Finally she drew the veil for an Instant and, smiling to the jury, replaced lt. Sue was sen tene: < to he hanged on June 10, 18511 Har senti nee was afterward eoruiou ted. Sue was sent to the Auburn state lu spit al for the. insine in and later transfi rn d t > Matteawan Mrs. Robinson was s 'J > ears old. When, a few days ago, it was certain she inu-.t die, the physicians at the hospital endeavored to have lier re veal her identity, which she had hid den since her c nimltmont. She re fused, saying that she had kept the secret fur 50 years and might as well let it die with lier. Only once in her long oonlineinent did she ever rev? al anything about herself, and then she told a pn> aldan that she came from the English royal family. Then, as If she had forgotten herself, she re fused to say anything further. She has employed her time in recent years in miking lace, which she wore. Some time ago she made a set of false teeth out of huttons and wore them a large share of the time. WI II ttl ron Com III en co mc nt. Invitations have been sent out for thc annual commencement exercises of Winthrop Normaland industrial College at Rock Hill, on June 4, 5, and ti. Fifty young women will re eel ve their decrees. On Sunday morning, Juno 4, the sermon will he delivered before the Young Women's Christian Association, and at night i Kev. G. W. Smith, of Greensboro, N. C., will preach the hacalaurcate ser mon. On Monday the joint celebra , tion of the literary societies and an \ inspection of Hie buildings and de ! partmcnts will take place. On June i (I, the schedule provides for thc , alumnae reunion, address Lo the alumnae hy Hon. 10. D. smith, ol . Sumter. "Daisy Chain Procession,' aridrei-s to the graduating class by i Hon. M. It. Ansel, of Greenville, and . the award of diplomas and certlti i 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, does Forth With a Winchester and a Pistol and * Starts Another Graveyard in Sandiego, Cal. At Sandiego, Gal., on Monday, Wil liam P. Robinson, a house servant, ran amuck killing four persons, wounding two others and then killin? bimself. Toe dead: ? William Stewart. Mrs. Emma Stewart. H. W. Chase. Harry Doddridge. W. P. R .blnson. j Tue wounded: Mrs. W. II. Doddridge. W. H. Doddridge was Injured by , falling out of a window. , At first 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 | shanghaied when he was a sailor. It ? ls said also that he had expressed a j dislike for the Stewarts. ? About 8 o'clock Monday morning | Robinson left bis house at tbe corner of Fourth and A streets and going to | tbe apartments in tbe 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 j through the head by Robinson, who , had leveled a rifle Robinson then ( entered the dining room where Stow- ? art, who had been seated at breakfast, \ was just rising from the table. Rob- , lnson attacked him immediately, t plunging a long knife into Stewart's , bo ty close to the heart and again into , thc abdomen. At the second stab j Stewart sank to thc door with blood ? p turing from ht* hotly in a stream. Robinson the-1 i mumed to bia room. ( Reloading his r ll and jewing his | knife, he sllrp da n vo!v r into hi3 . pocket. II2 Glien descended to the , tirst Uoor, i n . portion of which is , used asa e\rpen er ?-1 op by n. W. ( Chase. C .a e probably siw Robinson ( enter, but patt no attentl u to him, j for Robinson approached ooo to him j and, suddenly throwing up bis ritle, ( tired, the bullet entering. Chase's , breast'olo?e to tho heart. Chase died , immediately. I From the carpenter shop Robinson ( proc eded on his bicycle down Fourth , street for several Uiocks through the , business section of the town with the , title still in his hand. Ile went di- , rectly to the house of W. H Dod- ( dridge, internal revenue, collector, on , thc northeast corner of Second and II . streets. He left bin wheel at the. , < urb and ran up the steps to the front ( door, carrying his revolver in om- hand , and his rilla in tho other. In re ( ?jponse to bis ring Harry Doddridge , son of W. H. DoJdrldge, who ls an ? engineer at the Sandiego brewery, , opened tlie door. Robinson tired his revolver and ', young Doddridge sank to the tloor with a bullet just, above the heart Death followed before med cal assis lance could he summoned. Mrs. . Doddridge, tile y.ung man's mother, nearing the shot and perhaps wit nessiug the tragedy, ran screaming fr.>rn the house Robinson, hearing the screams, started through the , Mouse after the woman. As she wa- , cros.s?!ig tlie yard the orp.zed man caught sight of her and tired, the bul l.-t striking her in the back. She fell headlong upon her face in the yard W. il. Doddridge, who was lu bed on the second tloor when the commo tion began, jumped or fell out of the window, breaking the bones of his rlgtit hand and probably sustaining internal Injuries. Robinson searched the hou.ie for more people. When he came to the room Just vacated by Do;l.?ridge he climbed upon the bcd and placing his revolver t) his temple tired a bullet which tore off the tO' of his bead. There ls no known rea sop for thinking there had been ill feeling between lt minson and any of lils victims. Collector Doddridge says be n vi r even saw or heard o' Robin son he fore. 1 h rn i?- Dieu i >: Sm :\ I |HII . Tlie. NJ wherry Observer says Dr. M. t?. Hendrix, tlie most prominent physician of Lexington, died oo Saturday night with smallpox. Ile must have been a man of rare ability, judging from the tribute of the local paper, though a man of "peculiar characteristics" and of "strong pre jud Ices." We infer from a remark made by the town board of health, in the same paper, that the doctor had not been vaccinated-this probably hoing one evidence of his "strong pre judges." Tlie dector's wife ani chil dren also had the disease, but he was the only member of the family who died. "Mrs. Hendrix now being able to be up and about her household work, and other membersof tho fami ly hoing successfully vaccinated." We refer to this case to emphasize two points: I. That the smallpox now prevailing in tlie state ls of a virulent and dangerous type; 2. That vaccina tion is the only sure protection against this most loathsome and dan gerous disease. To Si v i MMII'H 1 .ile. Carl M. Spiner a former trusted employe of thi DJS M iln< s National hank, has bet n iudi.lt d on a charge of embezzle ja ligand alleged fraudu lent entries. Toe um uul of his short i age does not oxceed 15,000. There ls : a pathetic story in connection with i Spencer's confession, which he m?de ' prior to tin; ie.dlctment. For many i years annually he had been taking an r invalid son east for medical treat i ment. Ile had been unable to meet the expenses and to save the boy's life he LOOK money from bise mployers. FOR HOLDING COTTON The Flan for Southern Farmors to Fix Its Price. Lotter From Prceldont Harvle Jor dan As to tho Plan for a Chato of Cotton Warehouse*. One of the most important move ments ever inaugurated in the South ls 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 vn price upon his own commodities, exclusive of tbe outside influences of thc Wall street "bull" and "bear." This is the vast bonded warehouse system, supported by the Southern Cotton association. By this it is hoped to erect a fireproof warehouse in every communltv in which 2,000 bales of cotton are marketed. In this way the farmer may store his cotton and borrow cheap money on the re celpts, holding the staple until che price is high enough to warrant him selling. President Ilarvie Jordan, ina letter given out Thursday, outlliicsthe plan af the movement as follows: The time has come lu the South when our business men and farmers must align themselves together for mutual protection and safeguarding the great stn pie crop of thin section of the union. The cotton growers pro duce the crop and prepare it for mar ket and the sagacity and financial jupport of our business men, bankers ind merchants are needed to aid in so wiling the crop as to make the staple ?ring its full legitimate value. One of the essential features in the future handliug of the cotton orop by ihe producers ls to provide adequate warehouse facilities in which to store cotton aud use it as a collateral to aorrow cheap money until the owner s prepared or ready to sell it These warehouses should be constructed in ?VL-ry commuulty where 2,000 bales or nore of cotton is marketed and should je built, operated and controlled by Lhe farmers and business men in the ocal communities. A great many of these warehouses will be built this pear and the Southern Cotton associa tion will be glad to furnish the latest ind most improved plans and specl lications issued by the Aro insurance companies. Each warehouse should be so constructed as to reduce the jost of insurance and storage to a minimum. In connection with the warehouse proposition the Southern Jut ton association is also deeply inter Bsted in the development of the Cot ton Planters' Commission and Hold ing company, which was organized luring the late New Orleans cotton sonvantion. This holding^aompabJe If properly indorsed "and subscribed'to by the farmers und business men of the South, can soon develop into a power of strength to proteot the grow ars against any of the schemes and S?vices so often resorted to by certain liasses for the purpose of depressing the price of the staple. The stock of this company has been tlx d at the par value of one dollar per share, so is to place lt within the reajh of 3very f irmer in the South. The char ter provides that no stockholder will ?ver be liable for :in amount greater than iii.-? subscription. Every banker lo the South lias this stock in hand for sale, be^id ?a a large number of cuuuty md stats agmts. lt is hiped that the stock to this company w?!l b< rapidly subscrib d to so that the peo pl? wi o gr.?w ti e co'ton tnay.be. nb e t build upa hu w irk of safety b bw en thems Iws an i ihe ?l?ment which hus so long b en engig. d i.i de pie sii g the col?n.i maiki t. The ass cl it lo:i ? ill be glad to fur nish detailed information wah refer ence to these two 'inuortant adj mets ?f the association's work to all par ties interested. Thc farmers have al ready whipped the tight us to reduo Hon of cotton acreage a> d use of guano under cotton for 1 OO?J N iw let the people get o oser t igethf-r and continue the light for their emancipa tion from the dominating influences of tile speculators. IIAKVIB JOKDAN, President Southern Cotton Associa tion. itryau lu ihe 1'ul pit. W. J. Bryan tilled thc pulpit of a Methodist church at L ncoln, Neb , recently. A very large crowd was in attendance. He took up the Sermon on the Mount, with his text the words: "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see Grid." He declared Iiis belief that religion con sisted more in kindness to and consid eration fur fellow men, more in char ity fur otheis and In per.-onal purity' than in dogma, ceremony or creed. He deplored the tendency to higher criticism of the Scriptures and rejec tion of parts of it because one could not understand. He declared that he found dally more mysteries in life than were bound up within the cov ers of the Hlbie. Ile believed the higher wisdom lay In accepting the good we understand, and hope for un derstanding later of that wo don't. He insisted that no man could com mand real success In the world unless he possessed an Ideal, nor could he be of real value to the world so long as selfishness and low conceptions of his duty to himself and others dominated his life and conduct. Ni'vcr lind Any. President Hadley of Y*le Unlverlty was one of the speakers at the dinner of the Cornhill Alumni, of New York city. Dr. Hadley told a story of a little boy whose mother had died and whose fallier had married again, hav ing two sons by the second wife. "I had a mother and l'vo got a step mother," said the boy, "but Hilly and Harry, all they've got ls a stepmother. Tliey never liad any nrmtho.r." Tilt) i / ..:-. i Survivor* The body of Hiram Cronk, the last survivor of the war of 1812 was car rlod to New York from Boonvllle, and laid away in the Cypress Hills cemetery w!Mi full military ?lonors. Accompanying the body wore Cronk't three survivrig sons and one danghtei -Philander Cronk, aged 81, William, aged 82, John, aged 60 and Mrs. Sarat Rawley, aged II, A Would-Be Assassin Dies by Ks Accidental 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 Use on Another Maa. A dispatch from Warsaw, Russian Poland, says a workman who was try lng to avoid the observation of two detectives on Miodowa street at noon Friday stumbled on the curb of tbe sidewalk and a b mab which he was carrying in his pocket exploded killing the workman and li ah detectives ann wounding 23 persous. It is belli ved the bomb was intended for Gov. Gen. Maxlmovltoh, who was expected to pass tbe spot on his way from the ca thedral, where be was attending the service in honor of the czar's birth day. The bodies of the victims were lit erally blown to pieces. A cafe near the scene of the explosion was entirely demolished, all the windows in the neighborhood were smashed and a 1 lamp post was torn out of the ground. The number Injured by the explosion includes three women, one student and two school boya. One of the lat ter ls detained at the police station, 1 having been noticed warning people against going into Miodowa street. The man who was carrying thc bomb ! bas been identified as a Polish shoe maker named Dobrowolski, a member I of the violent section of the Socialists. ? Many arrests have been made since the. explosion and the police are busy making domiciliary searches. ' Tho authorities are convinced that the bomb was intended for the gover- ! nor general. He was attending thc services at the cathedral, which ls situated at the corner of Dluga and Miodowa streets, a few yards from the scene of the explosion. All the high ' officials and members of Russian so- 1 clety there also was present. The gov ernor general had recently been tbr. at ' ened with a bomb attack particularly 1 since the May day disturbance. The police accordingly exercise the great est vigilance whenever be leaves the 1 castle. After the o til dals had ente ed the Cathedral detectives observed a 1 poor}y- dre-.sed man loitering on Mio d J wa street. When the man saw the ' d>* -.?iye * } ran towards the entrance J or a confectioner's store, when he?lth er tripped or threw the bomb back wards at the detectives. 1 The explosion occurred only a min ute before the people commenced to 1 pour out of the cathedral. ! Three minutes later the governor general would have passed the spot. Cossacks who were hastily summoned soon cleared the streets and the gov 1 rm r general drove bv another route i co the castle. Friday's outrage is t:.e sixth of similar character lu Warsaw ? siuce the January disturb inc-'S. The 1 editors or Polish papers there have de cided to publish, li thc censor will permit it, strong articles denouncing such attacks, lt is stated that G >V. Gen. Max:m vitch recently received an annoymous letter threatening that is be Ind allowed men, worn? n and c illdren to be sn t d >wn ou May dav, o he would he killt d with his wife ..nd chi dren, the writer addii g that ev n rem doing within the castle vould not save them from tint fate. I)ruKU"U to Death. A dispatc'i from Johnston to The State says Mr. Jeter W Crlm was killed Tuursday afternoon in a pecu liarly norrlble manner. Mr. Crlm h id b. en out plowl g and about sundown started home rpm the lieid, r.dlng the hor.ie, sitting slde.vays. In some way the horse bolted, and Mr. Crim'.s feet became entangled In the harness He was dragged for a quarter of a mile, with the horrie going at full speed. When the horse was stopped, nearly at Mr. Crlm's home, the unfor tunate man .was still alive bJt unable t > speak and in that condition lie liv ed for about 30 minutes. Mr Crlm was (30 years of age and was a Confederate veteran. He was a farmer and senior member of the firm of Crlm & Son. The om LiOTo Ituvived. Miss May Story, of Thomson, and Mr. L. h. Harker, of Marietta, Ga., were married at Thompson, Ga , Thursday, and created quite a ripple of excltem&nt 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 to be solemnized in June. All ar rangements had been made for this wedding, which was to be the society event of the season, but lt appears that an old sweetheart appeared upon the scene, with the result above men tloned. The newly married couple left Immediately for Marietta, Ca., where they will make there future home. IMt atlml Utility. L. P. Ohllger, ex-president of the closed Wooster, Oolo, national bank, ploaded guilty before Judge Taylor lu the United States district court Wed nesday afternoon to a count in one 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. Obliger ls an ex congress man, ex county treasurer, postmaster, at Wooster under President Cleveland's first administration and collector of Internal revenue at Cleveland during Cleveland's second administration. Two r labor Cam Caught. O. W. Streeter of Holton, N. Y , caught In traps In the Holton moun tains recently two fisher cats, animals i rarely seen In this part of the country. The animals have heads which resem ? ble that of a bear. They weighed . about ten pounds each. They possess , a fine black fur, wtdoh ls valuable, i Mr. Streeter says the animals arc ferlons and will put up a good j fight. SHIPS THAT VANISH. Some Bemarkable Mysteries and Po crots of the Great Ocean. Fino Ships that Have Bailed Away and Disappeared Forever from the Sight of Men. London Tit Bits says there are few things which are so full of mystery, or which makes such a powerful ap-1 \ peal to the imagination, as the stories 11 of ships that sall gallantly out to sea and of which nothing ls ever heard or I ~t seen after tbe masts have dipped be-1 ? low the horizon. At present the pa pers are full of .the records of these marine tragedies. Today, it ls tbe Giaverdale, which left Hong Kong on November 23, for Vladivostok, and of which no trace bas been found for over two months; yesterday it was the Royalist, whloh cleared a few days later from Singapore to Hong Kong, and has never reached ber destina tion; the day before it was the Idum, from Noway, which has vanished from human view; and so on, -through the | [ long Hst of ships that have sailed and disappeared. What are the secrets of these mys terious vanishings of stately ships with their crews and cargoes? In nineteen cases of twenty the secrets Ile with the ships many latboms deep, and will perhaps nave, leap to light. To this day no one knows what be-1 f( came of the Oity of Glasgow, whloh set her sails BO gallantly In the Mer sey half a century and more ago, bound for Philadelphia, nor was she seen again after the hills of Wales were 1 jst to view. The Burvie Castle left London some years ago OD a long voyage to Austra lia. She should have made a final call at Plymouth, but she never came within sight of the Hoe, nor has hu man eye ever seen her from the day me dropped down the Channel It was on May 10, 1854, that Lady Nu s'.-nt spread her sails at Madras with 3li7 of the 25th Madras Light Infant-1 g| ry and other passengers on board lier destination was Rangoon, but half a century has gone, and neither Rangoon nor any other port has sighted her. I rj Nearly two years later the Collins | rj Liner, the Pac!tic, dropped down the Mersey with 180 souls on board. She was accounted one of the stoutest and swiftest vessels of her time-and so, no doubt she was. But she went the | Hi way the City of Glasgow had gone a couple of years earlier, and for forty uine years has been lying at the bot- | 13 tom ot the sea-but where, none may <eow till all secrets are revealed. The brading vessel Atlanta started, a quar tier of a century ago, for a short erul.se | s? In Bermudan waters, and from that lay to this no one knows what be 3ame of her and th? 250 souls sue car-11 ried. On January 28, 1870, the City of Boston sailed from Halifax for Eng- ei land, with 191 souls on board. Sne ^ was an Inman Liner, a fine ship. ^ {plondidly equipped and handled; but [, ihe, too, was dcsiintd to vanish from r-j tue 'ace of the waters. ti Tue victim of auother still remem- ?j bured ocean mastery was the Pres! r) lient, a hue vessel which was expected ,t\ it Liverpool In March, 1841. Marc i passed and Liverpool saw nothing of 01 her. The long delay In her arriva rj l?.iused great anxiety, and the wlldot a rumor? hegan to be circulated. On n April 13 news came that her engine- 0| aud rudder had been disabled in heav weather and that she had put into Maderla for repairs, and there natu rally followed a reaction from gloomy G forebodings to transports of joy. The g vessel was expected at Liverpool on a b certain day, and her arrival was awaited hy hundreds of people who V had friends aboard; but she never o cime, and ii was found that the story V of her arrival at Maderla was a heart G less hoax. All the time the Ill-fated vessel was at the bottom of the sea. On November 30, 1883, a large ves st l was seen from the beach ao Deal, sailing toward the Goodwin Sands. S e was a fair picture to look on, as -he moved over the waters with her stately spread of sails, But as the eyes of the watchers followed her Bbc was seen to pause, and within a few seconds she vanished utterly from their view. What caused this trag! cally sudden disappearance of a state ly Bhlp? Tnat ls an itherof the count less secrets which the ocsan has in its Jealous keeping. Forrest Honored. At MemDhis, Tenn., to the accom paniment of martial music and in the presence of thousands of oltlzens and visitors the iquestrlan bronte staue of Lieutenant General Nathan B. Flirrest was unveiled Tuesday after noon in the park that bears the Con federate general's name. The statue ls tlie work of the sculptor, Nlethaus lt was cast in Paris. Little Miss Bradley, a great grand-daughtor 0 the dead boro, pulled the silken cord which exposed to view tho handsome monument. The municipal officers declared a half holiday and the city was crowded with visitors. Drowned O fr toe Island. The Charleston Post says J. AmoB Kelly, a painter employed on the Isle of Balms by Contraotor H. D. Sohua dier, was drowned Wednesday after noon ot! thc island. Ho left the beach In a boat, which was over turned by the waves In sight of the shore, and tho unfortunate painter I sank ' without thu possibility of help being rendered him. His body has not yet been recovered. Kelly with his wife and child livod in the rear of Mr. John D. Cappclmann's residence, 200 Rutledge avenue. He was a man [of kindly disposition and of good labs -enea d about 45 years old. CletH Ho: 1'uy. The Philadelphia Enquirer says that Nan Patterson was in this olty today and signed a contract to appear on the stiueof the Harlem Music hall, New York, at a salary of $2,000 a waek. It is said she arrived here in the after noon and returned to Washington immediately after the negotiations had been closed. Miss Patterson, lt ls understood, waa represented by Attorney DinielJ O'Reilly. Accord ing to the Enquirer, she is to appear In an sot at tho head of t lx other ohorus girls. The longth of the en gagement ls not known. 4 DREAMED 8HE SAW THIEF. Spartanburg Woman Recovers lier Money that Was Stolen. Skeptically Inclined persons, 1m mensed in material affairs and alive mly only to the dally grind of life and the gathering in of Rheckels, place ittle faith in dreams; but Mrs. Curtis Wall of Arch Btreet, Spartauburg, whose husband ls a well known con tractor, attaches a deep sign Hi canee ;o her dreams, and bas excellent rea ions for doing so. Mrs. Wall ls a rela .ive of Officer Henry Dodd o? the po ice force, who related to a newspaper nan a dream and its sequel, which viii never be forgotten by the lady. Several days ago there wai 820 se ?rcted in a closet of Mr. Wall's house. That night on retiring Mrs. Wall vho had placed the money away foi 'a rainy day," dreamed that twice it md been stolen by a little negro boy .nd the features of the thief were in Iclibly stamped on her mind. Slu Ireamed that this boy had stolen ? on dollar bill and a one dollar bill, saving four, of the sum total-820. friday morning she went to the housi f a negro man, not a great distance ff, and feeling so sure of the Identity f the thief of whom she dreamed, he walked in and saw a little negro oy about eight years of age who fit sd the picture and said, "I have ome for my money." It was quickly )rthcoming-the ten dollar note, five ollar note and one dollar bill. On ooount of the extreme youth of the egro, he was not prosecuted. He jnfes3ed that he went to Mr. Wall's ne afternoon recently to buy milk, 'hen there was no one at home. HIRED ASSASSINS. o Kill Her Hu?band And Got Into Mach Trouble. On May 3, at midnight, masked len entered the home of Henry Black alre, at Brookville, Calhoun county, nd shot him dead in the presence of ls wife and s in. Wednesday night [rs. Blackshire is in the Calhorn, Dunty jail. Her neighbor, Robsrt Mc losky, is in the same prison and Lout lendrlcks is in the Parkersburg jail . ll charged with complicity in the mur er. The arrest of Mrs. Blackshire Wed esday was brought about by th> ;atement of Hendricks. He said he as at McOlosky's home several day.' i-fore the murder and heard Mrs lackshire offer McClcskey money ti ill her hush ind, and say that if h> i jfused she would get some one else ) do lt. He says he told Mrs. Hku k lire after the murder what he heard, ad she ofiered to give him 8100 a on ts she collected her husband't fe insurance if he would leave town. He and MoOloskey left together thc ay following the murder and remain 1 near Parkersburg till McCloskey re ?rn to Brookville on Sunday to get ls pay and while there he was place? i jill. During their absence Mrs laowshlre attempted to coliect th isuraoce, am muting to 81,0U0. Pub e. sentiment was so outraged over th sports of her complicity that she WL? Greatened with lynching, but no a' ?mpt was made to wreak vengeanct a her. McCloskey admits being at lie house at the time of the murder nd also says Mrs. Blackshire wante? er husband out of the way, hui narges Hendricks with the murder. Lomax Appointed. S?cr?tai / Taft appointed Majoi eneral Lunsford L. Lomax, of Vir lnla, a member of the Gettysburg attletield park commision, to lill tie acanoy caused by the death of Majo V. M. Robins, of North Carolina, ont f the Confederate commissioners. Vith the single exception of Maj i leneral Robert P. Hoke, of Nortl Jarollna General Lomax is the senior dicer of the survivors of the Army ot "iorthern Virginia. He was born ir loode Island, but established his le ;al residence lu Virginia at an earl) .ge. He was graduated from the Mll tary Academy and before the outbreak ?f the civil war was first lieutenant of lavalry in the United States army and iommanded the escort of President Lincoln, at the latter's first inaugura tion. Scon af terwards he resigned fron ihe army and cast his lot with tht Jonfederacy. In April, 1SU2, he wiu | ippointed a compiler of the cilice of war records, war department, and bas .ont limed lu clerical duty In the war lepartment ever since. Sentenced to Death. On Friday at Chicago Johann noch, who by his own confession is apolyga mist, and who is chirged by the police ,#lth hiving married at least 40 wo llen in the last 15 years, was found guilty by a jury of murdering the nen io his last wife, Marie Welcker Hosh, ind the death sentence was recom mended by the Jury. Hoch had been married to Mrs. Welcker only a short Lime when she took suddenly sick and died. He then formed an alliance with the sister of the dead woman and se curing the sister's money fled from Chicago. This Mrs. Hoch told the po Hoe that Hooh had poisoned her slate and a search for Hoch was begun. lit was found two weeks later in New York and brought back to Chicag. and confronted by Beveral alleged wives. During thc trial expert testi mony was offered by the State that Hoch had poisoned the woman by ad ministering arsenic A Sad Adair. At Yoakum, Texas, B. S. Masou, a prominent business man, was shot and killed by M. A. and P. A. Newman, brothers, wno were concealed lu tht Lane hotel and who used rides. Ma son, it ls said feared trouble, but had adopted the policy of going about In his shirtsleeves to show that he was unarmed. Several days ago Miss Lillian Newman, about 28 years ot age died at Runge, and shortly there afti)r Dr. J. M. Boyd, a highly re spec: ed physician, was bound over in 85,000 bond to answer a charge ol malpractice in connection with the young womans death. Water Alter lOxorcino Fe. tal. At Lancaster, N. Y., Dr. A. W. Martin, aged for eight, dlod this ev ening from neuralgia of the heart, pro hied by drinking large quantities ot wat ar after violent exercise. / 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 ia Virginia for Which Another Man Was Lynched. ID a letter to the police authorities of Chester, W. Va., a man signing himself "A. Johnson," and claiming .0 be a partner of Henry Williams, who was recently executed in Roa noke, Va., has confessed to five mur ders and numerous robberies. His reasons for writing are that other men have suffered for his crimes and his conscience troubles him. He says he has been converted. The dates 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 U(liontown, Fa., a man at Hyndman, Pa,, and a woman at Mar tin's Ferry, Ohio. He also claims to lave assaulted a woman at Staunton, Va., for which crime, he says, an jthei man was lynched. TELLS CONFLICTING TALKS. A dispatch from Cincinnati, Ohio, ays Albert Johnson, colored, was ar rested in Newport, Ky., Thursday for sending threatening letters through .lie 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 ror which other men had been or were tbout to be punished. A postal card 0 James Mooar, son of Capt. Luke .VIooar, threatening him with death vas turned over to the United States JOS tal 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, slr, 1 did and every word In hat letter is true," he responded. "Why do you make these voluntary : .nfebsionb?" "Because I am now converted and 1 Intend to lead a better life." "I had three other men spotted to c 111 tn Cleveland, but since my con version I have abandoned that idea. I Informed the men that they had .ose calls for their lives and thought oliglon was all that had saved them." Later Johnson retracted bis state i?.nt that he had killed five persons. 1 have been bad," he said, "but I ever killed any one and don't know .nytoing 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 Pension List. The Columbia RiOord seems to oink that South Carolina newspapers can not afford to criticise ether States ur abuse 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 Hst 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 td paying, yet in almost every county men who never shouldered a musket ind who never beard the sound ot a oattle are living on the money which .hould go to those who fought for the South. All of us can doubtless point co some particular case of grafting. "If the newspapers," says The Rs jord, "by publishing the county lists ire instrumental in having the names if those not entitled to pensions .tricken off they will In some measure perform a duty to the public and to che Confederate soldiers." Crushed co Death. A special dispatch froin Oalquit, 6a., to the Atlanta Constitution says Uiat while Dr. P. E. Wilkin and Miss Jennie Edgerton were out horseback riding Monday afternoon they met two four-horse wagons loaded with soir ita of turpentine. In attempting to pas3 che first wagon the horse Miss Eager ton was riding became frightened and tho 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 hurt. Miss Eagarton was the adopted daughter of Mrs. Floyd. The body will be In ferred lu the family burying grounds .lear Brinson, Ga. A party of young people will escort the bjdy to Its last restiug place. In Uara Liuotc. As the climax to a run nf hard luck, Joseph S. Mc I try de, a well known oiti z :n of Columbus, Qa., losti his only toot Wednesday. He was alighting from his delivery wagin, carrying a shotgun. Ile has au artificial limb and it became entangled In the gun, causing the discharge of tho weapon. A hole about the size-of a dollar was blown through his right foot and the doctor afterwards found amputation necessary, BO M.; Bryde ls now minus ooth his fi et. Not very long ago his home was burned. A few years ago Ure destroyed his boiler works and iron works on Seventh street. Re cently he lost a tine horse. A Oootl Law. The "whipping po.it law'* for wife beaters went into effect Thursday in the State of Oregon. Tne law provid es that a man Convioted of wife beat ing may bo punished with whippii g, not exceeding 20 lashes, but thia is only an additional punishment as the old punishment by fine or Imprison 1 ment ls still in effect) under the new Ur,