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N j, VOL. XIV. |\ DESPERATE EIGHT. ? - - ii i ook riace uehino I he Doors of a Bank. TWO MEN WILL DIE. I An Aged Cashier Attacked By Stranger. Supposed Robber i Mortally Wounded. An 1 Unlikely Story. A;'dispatch from Chicago, of Sept. 20, says: Frederick J. Filbert, the aged cashier of tho Palatine bank in Palatine, III., 20 miles north of Chicago, is lying close to death as tho result of an attack mado upon him today hy a young man vrho gives tho naiuo of Walter Lawton. Tho latter, who is unknown to anybody in Palatine, and apparently of good education, is in the county jail sufforing from a bullet wound in the abdomen which will probably prove fatal. Ilonry Plaggo, 70 years old, a farmer, whoso intervention at a critical momont prevented the out- , right murder of the cashier, is at his homo west of the villago cut and bruised and disabled as a result of his struggle with Lawton, whoso motivo for tho assault, according to his roneatod stntr> monts. was not robbery. T\r*V? ttaok upon Filbert was made with a tack liannncr and tho aged ( casliicr was struck at least a dozen times beforo Plaggo interfered. Tho attack oocurred at 3 o'clock in tho afternoon. At this hour many of the residents of tho community were thrown into a tumult by hearing tho report of a revolver and the noiso of a tierco strug- ] gle in the bank rooms. Win. Garmc, j a farruor, was among tho first to reach tho bank rooms. As he entered he almost stumbled over the form of Cashier Filbert, who with torn clothing and bleeding head was feebly endeavoring to crawl through the open door. Garmo turned and ran into tho Btrect shouting "murder," and then returned to tho bank. Sounds of a struggle still came from the rear room and Garmo j hurried to that apartment. Ashe push- i ed opon tho glass door, he found tho ] old German farmer, Plaggo, bleeding j from a number of wounds, but fighting ] I vigorously with a stalwart young man ; who lay on the lloor with Plaggo on \ J top of him. A bloody tack hammer and | a revolver with a broken butt lay on i cither sido of the struggling men. The I young man's clothing was stained with i blood in tho region of the abdomen. i Tho crowd which had gathered rap- i idly after tho alarm had been given scp- i aratcd the two men and took the sup- 1 posed robber to the village lock-up. i lie was too severely wounded to oiler ] any resistance and this fact was all that ' saved him from violence at tho hands I of the excited crowd that followed him ' to the jail. Lawton's confessed motive ] for tho assault was revenge on Filbert, ] who ho alleges, alienated the afloctions \ of his wifo. His story is not believed by tho polico, however. They have no doubt the looting of tho bank was his If ultimate design. Tho robber says ho" tracked Filbert for five years and that he discovered only recently where tho object of his pursuit lived, lie went to tho bank, lie asserts, to demand $1,500 in satisfaction for tho old injury. Tho cash balaneo of tho institution was $100,000, all of which was in the vaults at tho time the assault took place. Lawton was brought to Chicago on a late train tonight and placed in tho county jail, llo denied that he had entered the bank for the purposo of robbcrv, and claimed that the a ienation of his wife's aifections by Filbert took placo ] five years ago at the Fifth Avenue hotel | in New York city. Filbert declares ho t has not been in New York for twenty yoars. b Lato tonight it was announced that both Filbert and Lawton will die. The c former's skull is fractured in two l places and the latter cannot survive the t wound in his abdomen. t Dies In His Buggy. Nows reached Spartanburg Wednes- i day morning that the horse of Dr. Tho?. ' W. Vernon of Whitney had run away j and killed him. He was a lover of flno c horses and this particular one had run t away several times. When ho was h found dead in tho lot of Mr. A. M. r Glover, with an abrasion on his head, i it was naturally concluded that a j shocking accidont had happened. Hut c an examination of all tho circumstances q showed that it was no accident but a ? case of ho^,1,failurc. Mr Glover found him in his- .b'fabout 0 o'clock Sunday night and at onco called his neighbors. Dr. Vernon's horse and buggy wcro t standing near. Tho doctor had been I seen near night going homo alone in his c buggy, and he had to pass Mr. Glover's 1 KL to reach his own house, which was a t shert distance away. lie had been vis- 1 iting a patient at Mr. Glover's, and it c is supposed tho horso turned in there a from force of habit. IIo was probably r dead before reaching this point. IIo c had been subject to attacks of heart v r_:i e <nnuiu iur huiuu imio. no was about h 34 years old and very popular as a phy- o sioian. f 1 Japanese Steamer Sinks. A telegram from the governor of Shiga, prefecture to the Japancso government, reported by the steamship Empress of India, states that on the r 4th inst." the steamer Koun Maru o founded during a typhoon off liana- o kawl, in Biwa lake, going to tho bottom R like a stone. Sho had fifty passcngors ti on board, a majority being women and h ohildron. Twclvo of theso wcro drowned tl and two fatally injarcd while eight of o< the crow also went down with tho ship, w their bodies being ooffined by tho vos- t< sel. oi ?1 HIGHWAY ROBBERY. Two Citizens Assaulted and Robbed in Lancaster County A dispatch from Lancaster to The State says a very daring act of highway ..At - 1 - " " ruuucrry was comnmicu noi iur irom tho town limits on tho Camden road Tuesday night shortly after dark. The victims were too young whito fartnors, Frank Shaver and his brother-in-law, ltobcit llagins, who live at ?St. Luke, a Btition on the South Carolina and Ueorgia railroad, four miles southeast of this place. Tho facts are about as follows: Shortly after dark Shaver and llagius left towns for home, both being under the influcnco of "fuss-X." Ilaginswason a mule and was followed bohind by Shaver, who was on foot. As they reached ".Jacob's Hollow" they wero both set upon by threo men who knocked them down and beat them in a fearful manner, llagins managed to get to a house nearby, leaving Shaver in an unsensible condition in the road. Shortly after Shaver was brought to town in a buggy. Hoth men presented a horrible appearance, being fearfully bruised and out up about tho faco and head, llagins has ouo arm broken, but Shaver's wounds arc more serious, ono of them being a fracture of the outer skull. Two men implicated in tho robbery were arrostcd Wednesday night shortly Afto'ihooc urrcnec. One is Robert Fuir, white, and tho other Nathaniel (Miinno, colored, both notorious characters living in tho county. Roth of the victims positively idontify theso two men, which, with other circumstances, mako it certain that they aro two of tho gang. The moon was shining very brightly at tho timo of the robbery, llag'ns' pockctbook containing $3.15 was found not far from tho scene of tho robbery Wednesday morning. Tho supposition is that it was thrown away in their flight by the robbers. A NARROW ESCAPE. Details of the Wreck of the Transport Morgan City. A dispatch from Yokohouaa says interesting details aro at hand of tllA wrnnt- r?f tlin Amnrtnnn Oonu. port Morgan City. It appears that it came very near being an appalling catastrophe. Striking upon i reef at II o'clock in tho morning tho ship ramaincd fast until daylight when by adopting tho expedient of pushing, the men alternately from one sido to tho other, the ship was rollod from tho rooks into deep water, where she at Slice began to fill rapidly. She headed For tho shore of tho Island of Inoshima mvcral miles distant, sinking pcrciptibly with every yard of progross. Had dio not reached the beach sho would liavc gone under in another uiinuto. Tho discipline of tho men was admirable and all were got ton ashore in safety. The seamanship shown appears not to have been spent so admirablo, as no precautions were taken to make the boat fast to tho shore after beaching. The Lime was spent in removing stores, tho transport lying very nearly bows under, but well afloat in the after part. Lato in the afternoon without warning, sho did off the steep beach and sunk in ibout six fathoms. A moro favctblo ?pot for a shipwreck could scarcely be Found. The island of Inoshima is about i dozen miles from Hiroshima chief jity of tho inland stato. Almost instantly came aid from the Japanese authorities, tho cruiser Yosohotno being it onco dispatched and the Kcd Cross mciety sending a relief expedition. Flic troops are loud in their appreciaion of Japanese kindness. Tho transport City of Sydney having just put into Yokohama short of coal and wator, will proceed via the inland sea and unless provision has already boon mado, will ake on board a part of tho troops. Stronger Than Ever. .James Crcclman, tho well known correspondent, who has been accompanying Bryan in his recent western ravels, tells tho Baltimore Herald hat in his opinion tho Nebraskan's lame will be tho only ono presontcd ,o the national Democratic convention >ext year. 41 His strength," said he, lis greater than three years ago, but is the lines of battle arc not yet fairly Irawn and tho issues not yet clearly lefincd, tho question of Mr. Bryan's, uoccss is still open." As Crcclman eportcd Bryan's presidential canvass n 1800 he is qualiticd to make the comparison. Ho is a gold man, too, and ught not to take an exaggerated view f Bryan's increase in strength.?Tho itate. Death of an Ensign. Ensign Noah T. Coleman of tho bat1 L : ~ T J ! ~ -1 mi 1 icnntp iuwii uicu i n ur.su ay in a privaio lospital at San Francisco as a result it' a complication of troubles and a bulet wound inflicted by himself some imo ago in an attempt at suicide, foung Coleman was to stand trial by lourtmartial for various offenses, and .ttomptcd suicide. Tho wound would tot have caused death under ordinary ircumstances, but his vitality was so weakened by worry that ho could not urvive. Ensigh Coleman carao from no of tho oldest and most respected amilics of Now York. IIo entered the laval academy with the brightest pros eots. Four Men Killed. Four men wero killed and three seiously injured Thursday in a rear-end ollision of freight trains on a bridgo n tho Omaha road near Windom. linn. An engine was pushing tho first rain and tho second was a doublocador, so that thrco cnginos wero lirown into tho river in a badly wrcokd condition. Ono span of the bridge as demolished and 17 cars thrown in) tho rivor or along tho tracks. Thoso ?rs took firo and several wore burnod. lie 1< CONWAY. S. C., NEGRO CONFERENCE Called by Rev. Junius Mobley, a Colored Preacher TO BE HELD IN COLUMBIA. Text of the Call Setting Forth the Reasons Why it is Issued. Tired of Whites. "When neighbors quit visiting thoy will full out." Such is the homely aphorism of "Rev." Junius Mobloy "ancnt" tho condition of tho Republican party i 11 this State. Tho dctiuition is that when "neighbors quit visiting ' intimacy gives way to suspicion, distrust is bred, and, with tho aid of tho gossip, open enmity is tho consequence. The application is that the whito and tho colored Republicans "have quit visiting." According to his statement, they arc not only not on friendly terms but tho Negro is beginning to distrust tho white leaders. Juno claims that lie kept quiet while the "Rily Whito" and "Black and Tan ' controversy was being waged. Ho wanted "the pot to boil down ho that ho could hco what would conic out of it nil." lie has issued a call to the colored Republicans to meet in Columbia fair week to devise some plan of policy for their betterment. Mobloy hails from Union county and to his tit.c of "reverend" may be added that of "honorable" for ho represented his county in the legis'aturo in Radical days, and. was a lawyer. He is opposed to the deportation of tlio Negro, for lie realizes that his moo is treated properly in the south, As such a solution of tho Negro problem is not near at hand, 'ho claims to waut to established a piano upon which tho Negroes and whites may meet and "frcc/.o out" tho white Republicans, lie wants to bo tho leader of tho Negroes, of course. Following is his manifesto issued Thursday: To tho Colored Republicans of South Carolina. Thoro is a great necessity for union among us as a race variety in a country where the interest of all the people arc common for wo as a race have been so long misrepresented by our so-called Republican whitolcadcrs in the politios of this and other States of this Union and thereby have rendered us as a raco almost worthless to ourselves and to any other race politically. This is shown in tho fact that they have kept silent in everything which embodied the interest of tho Negro along political lines. The Negro has simply been usod as a tool by his so-called whito Republicans and that to his detriment. This fact is charged by tho Democrats in their speeches and -aDo by the Demociatic newspapers?a fact which cannot be denied. The fact is, that theso so called white Republican leaders stand as a barrier between us and tho southern whites with whom we must live, move and havo our continued being, for wo never will leave this country. Now, therefore, sinco wo arc to livo together in this southland, I think it wise to call a conference among ourselves to deviso some nlann hv whio.li wo cin moot, tho other rato upon amicable terms as no gro representatives. This is fair since the color lino has been drawn even by our white Republicans. We believe that tho Negro can best represent himself with his whito brethren, since lie has this to do in all of his business walks of lifo. Why should lie need somo one to represent him in tho political walks any moro . than in businoss or in any other walks of lifo? Let the Negro leaders como to.gother and act for themselves in all of tho vocations in which he is called to act as a citizen. This will teach him the true meaning of citizenship. [ verily believe that this is the sentiment of the southern whito pcoplo. Relieving as [ do, I therefore issuo tho following oall; Let all lovers of tho raco meet in conference in tho city of Columbia on tho Oth day in November, 1809. Como together, my follow citizons, and Ictus show to tho world that wo fool keenly ouroondition and that we arc willing to do any honorable thing to better the samo for the timo of talk is past. Junius 8. Moblcy. Reed, The Traitor. "Wo aro bound to say that of all TY1A fill fifl fl f\f (iManlini; * V* u Wft ft 4- nn/l V,w w. v?l?vnilJ5 VliV ?*1>C?V ??JU good McKinloy which have been devised, that pursued by ex-Speaker Reed is tho most 'dastardly.' It is especially so becausoof tho impossibility of answering it. All that Mr. Reed docs is to pay that he believes in the declaration of independence and in tho principles of liborty, self-government, and the rights of man. How can an imperialist, though a MeKinley editor, oonvict Mr. Reed of 'treason' for saying such things? Yet it is 'treason' of tho blaokost kind known to this epoch. Mr. Reed is porfcotly well aware of tho fiendish significanceo of his words. Ho knows the pain they will eauso in the whito houso, and that tho pain must be borno in silence, yet ho utters thorn. Wo should liko very much to havo a frank expression of opinion on Mr. Reed's conduot from Mr. Hanna, or Gov. Roosevelt, or Senator Piatt, or any other strenuous upholdor of the President's Philippine policy. Thoy must regard it with deop loathing as a moro cowardly form of assault than even tho un-Amorican mugwumps havo devised. Thoso can bo answored and donouneed, but how can you anawor or donounco a man when your oaso is gone if you quoto his words?"?New York Kvcning Post. i vvy \ THURSDAY. SEPT EH DREYFUS PARDONFD. His Departure from the Prison Was ^Unnoticed. A dispatch from ltcnncs, Francc? eays, Cupt. Alfred Dreyfus at 3 o'clock this morning left tho prison hero in which ho had been confined sinoo his roturn from Dovil's Island, and proceeded to Yern, whero ho took a train \ i i\._ M_..i? n:_ j ?? uuniiu iui i/iuuiva. inn uupariuro was completely unnoticed. M. Yiguie, tho chief of the secret ocrvico, and the prefect, M. Duroault, arrived at tho prison after midnight, bringing the minister of war's order for tho roloaso of Droyfus. Tho lattor walked from tho prison to tho boulevard Laonne, where ho entor cd a waiting carriago and was drivon to tho Vcrn station, outsido tho town. Mathiou l>reyfus mot him at tho traiu and accompanied him to Nantes. While this dramatic turn intna l>reyfus drama was taking placo all Kenues slept and tho departure of tho famous prisoner of Devil's Island was no more noticed than that of an ordinary traveler. Tho carriago which was in waiting was tho same vehicle which took Droyfus to his prison when he returned from Devil's Island. Droyfus got in oppoHito tho house where Muitro Labori had stayed previous to the attempt upon his lifo, and alighted about 500 yards from tho station aud walked in, regardless of the drizzling rain. The Nantes train eamo in just as ho arrived. Alfred and Mathieu Dreyfus quickly took their seats and the train went out of Kcnncs bear ing nrcytus away a ireo man. A small crowd of people had walkod round tho prison until midnight, expecting the release of Dreyfus, but it then dispersed, thinking it too lato for Droyfus to leave. Madame Droyfus left llonnos at noon, accompanied by her father and friends. A SWINDLER ABROAD. Ho Represents Himself as a Lawyer from Birmingham, Ala. A dispatch to Tho Stato from Spartanburg Hays a slick rascal giving his home as Birmingham, Ala., worked a confidence game on one of tho oldest and most prominont mombers of tho Spartanburg bar on tho 2d of this month, lie went into tho office and talked about things in goncral in a most entortaining manner, representing that ho had been summering in Ashovillo and was on his way homo to Birmingham; that ho had run short of funds and desirod tho aid of a brothor attorney to get $10. Ho produced a licorso to praetico law in Birmingham and said he was a practicing attornoy at that placo. Bvorything Boomed so plausiblo and ho was Huoh a nioo fellow the Spartan wont down to tho bank with him and endorsod his chcok for$10 on tho Alabama National hank of Birmingham. In duo course of time tho chcok came back protested. A lotter to a loading law firm in Birmingham reveals tho faot that thcro is no such place; that ho has been drawing such chcckH on this bank all through Tennessee, Georgia and tho Carolinas; that ho was in Birmingham somo time ago and desired this bank to cash somo checks for him on othor banks, but thoy refused to tako them except for collection; that ho bccamo olTondcd and wont away in a hulf. Tho man is evidently a fraud and ought to bo widely published. Marital Troubles. Many pcoplo who have marital troubles write to tho governor to help thorn out, thinking that ho can do something for them, llcro is a specimen letter received Thursday bv the governor, from "Davis Station:" "I writo to ask your opinion. I married a woman in 1870 and in 1890 she left me and I got a letter from hor in 1894 saying she would novcr recognize me as her hu band any nioro. I haven't heard from her sinco then. Now, if it won't be violating the laws of South Carolina, I desire to marry another woman. Would bo pleased to have your views whethor it would bo violating tho laws of this state or not. As already t ktcd, I haven't heard from her since 1891 and don't know whether slin.'n d(>sid fir nlivo Ttionlrinir 5 w ?J vy V* 1U advanoo of your reply." The writer asks that if the letter bo givon to tho pross that his namo bo withheld.?Columbia Kccord. Hard on the DirectorsMr. W. Scott Pone, one of the bondsmcf,' for Col. Neal, has given notice that ho will not pay any part of Col. Noahs bond without suit, and a jury fixing tho amount of his liability, if any. lie takes the position that the board of directors allowed tho bad management 1 and troublo to run along so long as to ( either have known of it and acquiesced, or by thoir co ovorativo bad management and reports, whioh were mislead- 1 ing to him, to liavo roliovcd him, of ! the liability. He will mako tho issue on tho liability and duties of the board 1 of directors affording protection to tho ] bondsmen and tho Stato, and knowing something about roports to which they allix their namon and authority. When tho damages for which the bondsmon aro responsible aro fixed, Mr. Popo says, ho will pay his sharo, but not un- 1 til then. Killed For His Money* A special from Jacksonville. Fla., tolls of tho arrost at Tavarcs, Fla., of Mrs. Leonard Noumeistor and a man named Nyo, who boarded with hor. They aro suspected of tho muidor of tho woman's husband, Tho lattor's body was found in a lake noar tho house. A post mortom examination rovcalcd that ho was dead when placed in tho water. Ncumoister, rocontly by the death of a brother, a Southern steamboat captain, oamo into property amounting to noarly $50,000. 0 ?tal MISER 28, 1899. OUR HOME MILLS. Thev Have Made Themselves Felt This Year SOME ADVICE TO FARMERS Some Excellent Reasons Wh Will Pay Them To Market Their Cotton Crop Slowly. There is spread before the people of tho South at this time a great object lesson of the valuo of homo cotton mills to oottoa planters. Kvorybody realizes that these mills do good to tho communities in which thoy operate; that thoy build them up in population, in wealth and in importance, raising the villages to towns and tho towns to cities. In- j tclligcnt farmers realize that thoy do good to tho country also, increasing tho home market for produoo of a'l kinds and increasing }. ? vnluo of lands in the'r neighborhoods. It is also understood, although for tho most partloofloly, that they help tho cotton nlantcris near them by giving them better prices for thoir siaplo than vliey could get from cxportors. Hut only now is there so great and broad an sxample ef this last benefit as to impress not only tho wholo South but the cotton trade in iwo homisphoroB. The situation is 111 >st interesting, even to those who have no hazard in '.ho outcome. Tho cotton crop, which six weeks ago promised a great yield notwithstanding its partial failuro in this part of the South, has sinco declined rapidly in condition, owing to tho drought in tho southwest. Ueforo tho effects of this drought were fully rovealcd llenry M. Noil, the Now Orleans representative of British exporters, gavo out an cstimato of ovor 12,000,000 hales, and tho Liverpool ma kct, responding to it, at once and sharply lowered tho prico. This drop synchronously affected tho Now York market and, to a losser extent, all tho American markets. Soon afteiward tho government erjp report for September iovealcd tho full oxtont of the drought injuries in tho trans-Mississippi rogion and tho Southern markets began to riso. Tho nows sinco then has continued and heightened tho government's cstimato of losses, and throughout the manufactuing South prices liavo advanced materially. To this advanoo thcro has been a partial VT?.? V-..1- l.-i. T : 1 igoj>unnu in iiuiY i u>K) U 111 liivcrpooi? pinning its faith io Noill's ostimatos, has maintained practically tho prices of a month ago. Ho wo havo this oondition: Tho prico of cotton in tho cotton manufacturing States of tho South is as high as in Now York, and in somo places higher, whilo in New York it is relatively higher than in Liverpool. Liverpool hns been paying 7 cents for middling cotton, and mill towns in South Carolina havcbccn giving as much as til and (ij conts for it. Tho rcsult.is that it docs not pay to buy cotton for export, and unless Liverpool materially raises its bids it will bo ablo to buy very littloin tho near future. This Southern buying which koops tho prico up, and oven raises it in tho abscncoof foreign competition, is being dono by tho Southern mills. Their managors sco for themselves tho hollow ness of Neill's eatimato; thoy know tho crop is going to fall largoly below last year's, they believe that tho price is certain to go higher, and as provident men thoy are laying in their stocks now. In thuH rcaHoning and acting thoy arc indubitably right. At tho present and prospcotivo prices of cotton goods they can alford to pay what they are now paying, and even much higher prices. Tho demand for ootton both at homo and abroad is greater than it has over boon, tho crop is tho shortest in several years, and the margin between the prices of raw and manufactured cotton is very largo. This is tho time for Southern planters to hold all they can and for Southern mills to got all thoy can. We hopo that but littlo will be markctod for tho present and that every bale of that littlo will go into tho warehouses of our own mills. Tho significant point of tho wholo matter is that Southern mills, by competition among themselves, unaided by foreign buyors, havo for weeks kept up tho price of cotton over a largo area. This is in defianoo of ICnglish speculators and spinnors, and it is a groat step toward Southern indcnondonco. Wo can m.?ko it tho rulo and fix our own price for our great staple if wo will only build mills enough. Onoo wo spin all our cotton what will wo oaro for Liverpool, orforNew York and Boston markets! lncolton piiccswo will bo a law unto yoursolves, and no false estimates of yields need compel us to saorilico our orop. For all that wo raise wo will have purchasers at homo. Tho mill Btookholder will plant ootcon and the ootton plantor will buy mill stocks. There will be profit in both planting and manufacturing, and an adjustment of prions betwoen thorn will not bo dif ficult. South Carolina last year manufactured 44 per oont. of the largost orop of ootton alio ever raised. This year she is likely to oonsumo fivo-sevenths of a short orop- half a million balos of a orop of 700,000 bales. If we koop up the pace wo havo takon now fivo years moro will raiso consumption abovo local production. Kvery cotton plantor with as muoh as a hundred dollars to invost should put it if ho oan into a new ootton mill eonvonient to his plantation. It will buy pormancnt insurance against foreign and speoulativo oapaoity. CjSinco tho foregoing was>'written wo havo seen Wednesday's roports from tho Liverpool *nd Now York markets. tb They hIiow that tho former has taken I alarm at tho frooness of Southern baying aud tho holding back of ootton and has advanced its piioo. Now York followed suit. Tho riso will oohtinuo. bet planters hold their crops. A month of short rccoipts and Ncill s roduotion of his estimate?which must oomc will sond ootton tosovon cents or moro in ovory local markot. -Tho Stato. LOOT! NQTCH U RCHES. Resolutions Adopted by Catholic Young Men's Societies. . ? . .. i lie iMitionai I nion ol Uatnolio Young Men's sooiotios, in sossion in Newark, Wednosday adopted tho following resolutions: "Wherca*, for boiiio timo past many rumors liavo appeared in the public press, and havo boon allirmod by private advices, that Catholic churches in the Philippines havo boon desecrated and spoiled of s.icrod vessels and vestments by soldiers of the United States. "Resolved, That wo, the Catholic Young Men's National Union, ombrac ing bO,OOP mon in tho United States, do call upon tho president of tho United Statos, having ovory confidence in his fair mindedncss, justico and respect for nil religions, and through him upon tho othor proper authorities, for a thorough investigation and report upon such rumors as t) their truth or fylsity, and, ) "Resolved, That if upon proper investigation those rumors should be fotind truo in whole or in o.(, demand, "First, Tho punishment of those guilty or responsible for such outrages 11 mm nnr rolicrioti ??ml VM. ....v., "8cooih1, The necessary measures ho adopted to provoiH tho recurrence of such desecrations. "Unsolved, That a copy of these rc.vo lutions, duly authenticated, hy the president and secretary of this convention bo forwarded to the president of tho I 'nitcd States." Tho following ofliecrs woro elected hy the association; President--Dr. S. II. Wall, of New York. First Yioo President?llcv. I). M. I Bogan, of Kahway, N. .J. Second Vice President?.J. M. Higgins, Hiohmond, Va. Secretary and Treasurer?lv P. Gallagher, of Philadelphia. Tho convention noxt year will ho hold in Brooklyn. A FOOL KILLER NEEDED. Another Light Headed , Frenchman Seeking Notoriety. Max Hegis, fornior mayor of Algiers, and a notorious .Jew haitcr, who returned to Algiers recently, haunted hy the idea that the government intended to arrest him, and emulous of tho notorioty of .Jules Guerin, shut himself up for four days with a party of adherents in a villa labelled "Anti-.Juif" just outsido tho town. lie laid in a stock of provisions for a seigo. Wednesday, apparently annoyed at tho absonco of anv move on tho tiarfc of tho nnlion ho issuod forth and ontercd tho town, stirring up Anti-.Jcwish demonstrations, during which the windows of several shops owned by Jows wcro smashed. Tho dews responded by firing rovolvors, and tho mob raised tho cry, "Death to tho Jews!" Tho riots continued throughout tho ovcning ami finally tho troops charged with drawn swords and dispersed tho rioters. Kcgis regained tho villa and barricaded himself and his companions. During tho affray nine persons woro stabbed or shot, among them throo police agonts and two inoffonsive citi/.ons. It is reported that somo dews were among tho wounded. Order was finally restored about midnight, Tho rioting was ronewed after mid night in tho .Jewish quarter, where there wcro collisions between tho AntiSomites and the polioo. Several persons were injured and tho polico mado six arrosts. A Curious CaseA spocial from Kalcigh, X. C., says: Tho Atlantic and North Carolina rail road, in which the State owns twothirds of tho stock, has applied to tho United States court to escape the 18(.)!> assessment for taxation imposed by tho corporation commission. Tho defendants must answer tho complaint at tho United Statos court room in this city tho first Monday in November. Tho announcement that a railroad in which tho Stato owns such a largo interest has filed a complaint with the Federal authorities against the Stato caused something of aflutter. By His Own Hand. A spocial from Covington, Ga., says: Wm. A. Franz, pr.>fossor of Knglish and litoraturo in Oxford oollcgo killed himself Tuesday night at his homo hero. Tho docd was dono with a pocket knife, Dr. Franz inflicting 15 wounds on his neck, arms and in tho lungs. Ho was found yostorday morning by his wife, who thought he had died of a homor rago. A physician who was called in summoned a ooroncr, and the result of his inquost was announced tonight. Dr. Franz only Monday assumed tho duties of his position. nnniino lifli-n I from Fayottavillo, O. IIo was a nativo of Virginia, and the romains were taken to Dadcville in that State for intcrment. Rova t Absolutely to Makes the food more del HOY At aAKWOPOyO - ? evj*" ' NO. U. TRIKI) ONCE MORE. Mr3. Mattie Hughes Faces a Jury a Third Time. DYING HUSBAND'S STORY. In Ante-Mortem Statement Mrs. Hughes is Named as the Murderess. The Accused on Witness' Stand. Mrs. Mattio Hughes, who is accused of murdering her husband at Greer's in (irccnvillo county, and who has already been tried twice, which resultod in a mistrial each time, is now on trial for tho thrid titnc lor tho same offcnco. Interest in tho easo is not near' so intetiso as on former occasions. The easo commenced in (Irccnvillo on Wednesday. There wcro only two instances where thero was any material doviation from tho proceedings heretofore. Ono was a statement of a witness, J. L. Carman, RH to wllilt I I II trll I>u un ill .-.r, ll,r> n!..k? p..v.? .,?.V4 UU VIIU I t- ' ' ? tlie shooting with roferonco to thoo&uso of tho trouble between himself and wife which declaration was niado whilo who was absent from the room a short timo after tho fatal shot. Some ono said to Ilughos that those around his bedsido were friends and brothren, to which ho made an emphatic dissent, saying that ono who was present had noon the cai.'SC of all the troubio with his wife and charging him with unfaithful conduct. Judges Townsond and ( Jago did not allow witnesses to testify in regard to Hughes' talk about his wife during hor absence, but Wednesday tho latitudo was a little greater and Mr. Carman told tho story.that'was <111 ito well known in tho community but was not brought out under tho former ruling. When tho witness had divulged tho matter, Judge Gary ruled tho ovidenoo out as incompetent, and it will not bo considered by the jury in making up their verdict. The othor point of deviation was tho admission of tho dying statoment of Hughes, whioh was written by tho Kov. D. 11. Simpson, and whioh was ruled out at tho tirst trial, partly intio. duced at tho second, and with tho exception of a singlo sontcneo way admitted as cvidonco this morning. The dying deposition of Hughes is as follows, tho words, "Loo pleaded for my life" being omitted: j "Personally appeared before uioGco. W. Hughes, nho being duly sworn doposcs and', says: That after supper I said: 'Mattio, thcro is no way to settle our trouble unions you toll mo everything you know ami all that - they have said to you.' Sho said, with an oath she was going to kill mo and would givo mo two minutes to get ready. I said: 'Mattio, I would not hurt you-for I it! - ii > f uuyuiiug on carin. i got up, awning to get ahold of tho pistol, and sho shot mo when 1 got up. I mado no effort to hurt hor at all. There is not a woman on earth I oared for but her and I've told her that a hundred times. I had a pistol in my pookot, but not for her. I make this stntomont realizing I cannot possibly live. Sho has pulled a pistol on moat least a dozen times. I nover. pulled ono on her onoo. I would not havo killed hor ovon in solfdofonse." ? J (Signed.) (). VV. Hughes. Subscribed and sworn to before mo this 18th day of November. A. 1). 1808. It. L. Tapp. Notary Public, S. C. Chesterfield Girl's Adventure. Miss Virginia Masscy, "JI yoars old, tho daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. It. Massey of tho Dudloy section of Chesterfield county, left her homo the morning of the 5th inst. to go to her married sist ''shomo, about two miles away, to assist in putting up some kraut. Failing to come back on the day sho was to return, her father went after hor, and was more than astonished to learn that sho had not been thcro. Search was instituted at onco, but no trace of her was found until last Tuesday, when friends of tho family living in Wadesboro, N. C\, notified tho parents that sho was thoro. It seems that on leaving homo her mind bccamo affected, and sho wandered to Wadosboro, a distance of about twenty miles from her homo, and was seeking employment whon sho was rocogDizcd by friends of the family, who notified tho parents, as stated. A Fatal Wreck. Train No. 3 on the Baltimore and Ohio duo in Cincinnati at 5:15 p. m., was wrecked near Potroloum, W. Va., Wednesday. Engineer Win. Meyers was killed. Throo postal clerks and three trainmen worn ininmil 'Pkn ongino, mail and baggage cars left the track. Tho passengers wero not hurt. Starving in Porto Rico. A dispatch from San Juan, Porto Kico, says tho board of charities' tubulated statistics' show that out of a population of 916,184 thcro are 291,098 indigont and 11,858 siok. Tho number of doaths as result of the recent hurricano was 2,619. Ona week's rations wero issued to 289,117 persons, and tho number of thoso working for rations was 11,713. LBskino Powder URE icious and wholesome M CO., WIW YO*K.