The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 28, 1902, Image 1
VOL XVII.
MOT IN PRISON.
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Exciting Times in Kentucky Penitentiary.
RIOT I ASTEL FOUR I1GUKS.
Tin* Mutineers Finally Surrend er.
One Prisoner Mortally Wounded
ami Two Others Seriously
Shot.
A special from Frankfort Ky., says.
The otlU'ials of the State penitentiary
and the eiti'/.ens of Frankfort were
t hrown into a state < f wild exeiteinent
Wednesday by a riot in the prison
started by an attempt to gain their
liberty of t hree desperate murderers,
Lafayette llr< oks of Morgan eounty,
and Wallace Itishop and T. Mulligan
or Kenton county.
before the Hot, which began at ii
o'clock and lasted until after 10, was
(jiielled the unit inous convicts were
captured, bishop being fatally wounded,
Mulligan shot in the shoulder and
a negro convict, Albert. bansome of
Louisville, whom the desperadoes had
pressed into service, was hit by a rltle
hall.
The rioting started while brooks,
Mulligan and Itishop, one of whom
had a pistol concealed about his person,
were coining out of the dining
room to answer a hospital call. Suddenly
one of the. convicts drew a
weapon and compelled Guard A. II.
Hill to give up his arms. Guard l<\ i \
Hurst who rushed to < Jill's assistance,
was also captured by the convicts.
Capt. Mat Madigan, acting warden,
then rushed forward with six guards
and tired on tlie bunch, hut no one
was wounded. The < onvlcts then ran
across the road and at the entrance to
the reed department of the chair factory
captured Willis, of Clark county,
a foreman. They covered him with
their pistols and placing him between
tin-in ami liii" Junius retreatee u> uie
rocker department in the chair factnry,
whence the> could command a
good view of the entire yard. At a
window they stationed Willis, and
Brooks with a revolver in his hands,
took a position just behind t lie captive,
resting the muzzle of the weapon
on the foreman's side. The convicts
then defied Warden IdUard to attempt
to capture them, shouting that they
would kill the foreman at the first
move made against them.
By this time several hundred persons,
many of them heavily armed,
gathered at the prison gates, but the
warden denied admission to all. lie
issued orders for all the shops to close
and for all the prisoners to lie returned
at once to their cells. lie then
placed a guard of <>o men around flic
building in which the desperadoes
had barricaded themselves and called
on them to surrender. The convicts
only reply was a taunt. For the protiWtion
of Foreman Willis, t lie warden
fnen determined to starve the desperadoes
into submission.
.lames Buckley, former city workIwdiwo
l/nnnnr \I/?vimn lhon-oe ?
former guard at the penitentiary,
climbed to the roof of a residence
overlooking the building in which the
convicts had taken refuge and flred
several shots into the room where the
desperadoes were entrenched. They
were compelled to desist, however, as
Foreman Willis was forced to the window
in the line of lire.
Finally a letter was dropped from
the window saying that if the warden
would come to the head of the steps
leading to the reed department the
convicts would surrender, lirst sending
their weapons down by Frank
Brooks.
Warden Lillard prepared to accept
the terms of this note, and as a matter
of precaution a half dozen convicts
were placed in the hospital overlooking
the reed department. Warden
Lillard accompanied by eight men
then proceeded to the foot of the stairway.
The prisoners emerged from the
reed room as they had promised with
hands up, but as they proceeded down
the stairway, Bishop dropped his
hands to his side as if to daaw a weapon.
lie had hardly made motion
when one of the warden's party tired,
the bullet striking Bishop in the
breast indicting a fatal wound.
When Bishop fell Mulligan and
Brooks sank to their knees begging
the warden to save their lives and at
I0.:t() o'clock the two desperadoes,
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Ill'ilVIIJf Dliavmuu 111' I <H ' 'MI I 11.1 I 1 I' ll ny
ten men with drawn pistols, were
placed in their cells and quiet had
been restored.
\A Had Wrock.
A regular Pennsylvania train on the
New Vork and Long branch railroad,
l)ound north, was run into from the
rear at the Itelmar station Tuesday
night hy a special Central railroad of
New .Jersey train. The Pennsylvania
train had stopped at Helmar station
to pick iip passengers. The Central
train was running north also and was
empty. The engine of the Central
train telescoped the rear of the
Pennsylvania train. Six cars were
wrecked, several persons were killed
and a number injured. At midnight
two ladles had l>eon taken from the
wreck. A little girl was killed as
she was lieing put aboard the waiting
? train. The engineer and fireman of
the Central train have not been seen
since the collision, it is believed they
are under the wreckage. The little
girl killed was Alice Hlggert., thirteen
years old, who lived at Itahway. The
first body taken out was that of an
unknown "man about thirty-five years
of age. The man was poorly dressed
and looked to be a laborer.
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WHERE THE MONEY GOES.
Might 11 u ml rod Million l)olliir? Spoilt
l?y I'roHont ('oii/jim'sh.
The volume containlng statements I
of appropriations, now otllces, etc., j
ro<|ulre<l by law to be prepared and
j published at the end of each session
of congress, under the direction of the !
committees on appropriations of the ,
senate and the house, has been completed
for the llrst session of the "?7111
congress by Thomas 1*. Cleaves and
.lames S. Courts, chief clerks respectively
of these committees.
A summary on the appropriations
shows the grand total of $8,000,(124.- '
49(1.
The details by bills are as follows: !
Agricultural, $5,208,900; army, $91,- j
780,180; diplomatic, $1,957,925; Dis- i
trlct ofColuinbia, $8,514.4(19: fortiiica- 1
I tlon $7,298,956; Indian. 4h,D38,U28;
i legislative, $25,898,981; military acaj
demy, $2,(127,824: navals. $78,85(1,3(18;
i pension, $189,842,230; postolllce, $ 138,i
110,598; river and harbor, $20,771,112:
i sundry civil, $80,103,859; deficiencies,
$28,(150,007:miscellaneous, $2.722,795;
isthmian canal, $60,139,000; permanent
appropriations, $128,921,220.
Ln addition to the specific appropria- !
tions made, contracts are authorized j
to be entered into for certain works j
requiring future appropriations by '
congress in the aggregate sum of j
$202,711,406. These contracts In-1
elude $21,0(19,500 for additional ships !
for the navy and for permanent itn- |
provemonts of increased facilities at I
certain navy yards; $15,948,(150 fori
add it ions to old buildings and t be con- ;
struction of new public buildings in
various cit ies of the country; $88,88(1,1(10
for improvement of rivers and
harbors; $8,500,000 for reconstruction
of old and erection of new buildings
ai 1110 in unary aoa aemy at West I
Point, and $180,000,000 for tlie construction
of an isthmian canal.
The now olllccs and employment of
a civilian character, specifically authorized,
number (1,38(5 with compensation
for t he year of $0,343,595, and !
those abolished or omitted aggregate
1,105, at an annual pay of $1,289,080,
a net increase of ">,221 at a yearly cost
of $5,054,514.
In addition to tlie new civilian employments
shown the volume also
shows an increase of (i."> in the military
establishments, at an annual cost
of $42,308, and 300 otllccrs (including
28"> additional midshipmen) together
with 3,000 seamen in the naval establishment,
and 1,550 additional men in
the marine corps, with total annual
pay of $1,343,777.
A comparison of the total appropriations
made at the last session of congress
for 1903?$800,024,496?with
those of the preceding or short session
the 50th congress for 1902?$730,338,676
shows and increase of $70,285,920.
TRAGEDY IN HIGH LIFE.
! Newport Shocked By the Suicide of
a Disappointed Dover.
I >isappointment over a broken matrimonial
engagement is believed to have
been the cause of the suicide at Newport.,
II. 1., of Robert Reading Remington,
of New York. Mr. Remington
went over to the club liouse from his
rooms at the La Forge cottage alxmt
I o'clock Monday afternoon, and, after
reading the papers for some time,
went to the committee rooms on the
second lloor. An hour and a half later !
two inulllcd reports were heard, hut I
those in the building paid no attention
to them. Later Mr. Remington's
body was found by a member who went
to the committee room. Remington
evidently had been dead for some time.
A local undertaker took charge of the
body.
Mr. Remington was well known
among the summer residents of Newport
and had been closely identified
with the social world of that resort
for the last seven or eight years. His
engagement to Miss May Van Alcn,
daughter of James Van Alcn and
granddaughter of Mrs. William Astor,
has been discussed for some time. At
first it was denied and then affirmed,
but it is generally believed there was
a definite engagement, which, however,
was broken some three weeks
ago. It is said that Mr. Van Alen
was greatly opposed to the engagement
from the beginning.
Since then Mr. Remington has been
despondent., although when asked
about the engagement he steadily afHrmed
that lie was to he married in
the fall, lie left the city ahout ten
days ago, breaking tip his domestic
arrangements and sending away all
his effects. On Thursday of last week,
however, he suddenly returned to
Newport. He had frequented the
leading clubs of Newport, but seemed
to desire to be left alone.
When tbe body was discovered blood
was coming from the mouth and a revolver
was found by the dead man's
side. A physician found that three
shots had been fired from tbe revolver,
and an examination of the
head showed that all three had taken
effect. The first bullet apparently
ploughed across the forehead, cutting
a deep gash, and the second glanced
up over the head, making a furrow on
the top of the cranium, but still not
entering the skull. The third shot
was fired through the mouth and the
bullet entered the brain, death probably
resulting instantly. The revolver
was a 118-callbre.
Mr. Itcmlngton was about .'15 years
of age and a member of the firm of
Kcmington Brothers, of New York.
He always had been known as a man
of very quiet taste. His death has
caused a tremendous sensation in
Newport.
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CONWAY, S
FOR THE TRUSTS. I>
A Pair of Labor Union Haters on .
the Bench.
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WOULD STARVE ALL STRIKERS. ?
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Tliey Think that Working Men !
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The "vampire'' speech matte by N
Jud^e Jackson of West Virginia when |
lie lixctl extreme penalties on theja
labor representatives who were work- '
in^r for their order is one of titose lit-;
terances that have in them the ele- *
ments of all sorts of dissatisfaction t
and disturbance. s
Periodically there comes t? the c
bench a man who is absolutely out of v
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sympat hy with the spirit of his time, y
and such a one is very likely to regard v
his elevation to the position as a war- L,
rant for assuming tii.vt he is privileged v
to hector and scold as well as to lix ,
penalties and decide disputes.
These arc the Judges who are most, y
given to using their power of commit- t
inent for contempt of court. j y
The men Judge .lockson has sent to j
jail for periods of two and three j
months disregarded the injunction ,
that forbade t hem to persuade men to f
Join a labor union. It will be a long |
time before America is ready to ac- (
eept the ruling of this court that talk- ,
ing to the employees of a particular j y
concern Is an otTcnse so grave that a
sweeping injunction can make it con- t
tempt of court. I
That such a ruling is of use to t he (j
Clarksburg Fuel company is obvious.
and there have been judges who have y
found warrantor law for prohibiting y
anything that rich corporations found j
to their disadvantage. L
Does anybody believe that if the v
Miners' union applied to this or any s
other judge for an injunction prohibiting
the Clarksburg Find company
from inducing its employees to remain
outside the union they would get even
a hearing?
The description of the union organ- \
i/.ers as "vampires that live and fatten \
on the honest labor of the coal miners j
of the country * *. * and have noth- j
ing in common with the people who o
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are employed in t he mines ot the Clarks- j,
burg Fuel company" is part of Judge N
.Jackson's trade. H
Certainly the dignity of the courts \
is more jeopardized by such a re vela- \
tion of temper and bias on the part of s
a judge than it ever could be by the ,
disregard of his injunctions. t
The lawyers who practice before ,
Judge Jackson "have nothing in common"
with the litigants they rcpre- N
sent, but he would hardly describe s
them as vampires. t
The walking delegates are a part of t
the sceme of unionizing labor a s
scheme that has done more for the a
betterment of conditions among those t
who toil than any other element, of 1
our civilization. Without their un- e
ions the employees of any corporation t
are utterly at its mercy, ity concerted F
action they can make a stand against a
injustice that they never could do as 1
individuals. Without the organizers 1
there would he no unions, a situation I
that would doubtless satisfy the own- a
ers of coal mines and possibly Judge i
Jackson, but one that would he mcl- t
ancholy for the men who have to work f
with their hands. (
The last word as to government by ;
injunction has not been spoken in this t
country by any means. f
The power to punish for contempt f
of court was given judges as a pro- f
tcction to themselves at their scs- i
uinnu It. ivnu n n.... r mnaxi f
Div.iui A VI VIUO IIV TUI J 11V <1111, IAS liiuatu
new crimes or to furnish a weapon
for employers as against their men.
There is another aspect of this case.
Every person bcforcacourt is required
to treat that court with respect, and
courtesy. The obligation of the particular
citizen who happens to be
chosen to sit in judgment on his fellows
to treat others with respect and
courtesy is equally binding. The judge
who is there to decide the rights and
wrongs of disputes and administer the
law generally, is neither a preacher
nor a professor of morals. Sermons
and lessons are as far from his duties
as abuse and tyranny.
Calling men vampires because they
are intrusted by their fellows with a
function of which Judge Jackson disapproves
is ncitheir law nor manners.
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One more crime lias lieen added to <
the catalogue. {
Judge .Jackson by his injunctions i
made It a punishable otTense to ask a
coal miner to join a labor union, and >
now Judge Keller, another West Vlr- t
ginia jurist has Issued injunctions for- t
bidding the establishment of strike <
camps, which are established in connection
with she purchase and distribution
of food for the striking miners.
The lawbreaking railroads, which j
mine coal illegally and in defiance of ?
their charters, are to be congratulated ,
on the presence on the bench of two \
such convenient justices as these. ,
If they do not win the strike, it will <
not be the fault of Judge Jackson and j
Judge Keller. I
The splendid response of the union (
conference in the matter of strike ben- i
etits made it impossible for the coal 1
operators to carry out their beneficent \
scheme of starving the strikers into *
abandoning their union, so this in- (
junction, directed at the leaders of the h
national executive committee and oth- t
ers charged with the duty of providing t
supplies for the men who are out on c
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itriko, comes alon^r in the very nlrk
of time.
'The encroachment on the liberty of
he miners is greater with every ex- ,
nnple of this misuse of t tie power of '
lie federal injunction.
There was a time in tlie history of
lie struggle between capital and its
,-mployecs that it was a serious penal !.
Il'ense for a man to accept or demand
11 ore than a rate of wages so low that
t seems Incredible that workmen were ]
iblc to live at all. it was no mere,
nake believe law either and was hutressed
by anotlier that made it punshable
by imprisonment, to refuse to
vork at the prevailing rate.
It was from this condition of skivvy
tlial labor unions rescued the men
vho do t lie world's work.
The injunct ion principle would attain
and flic hands of labor and make if '
ibsolutely depend* lit on the generosit y {
if employers. I \
It is not for the law to say that men t
hall not join unions tor their mutual
icnetit or that they shall notendeavor ,
o get ot hers to join them or that they ;c
hall not. form camps or do anything
ilse that is not in itself unlawful, and t
vlien the law is turned and bent to (
nake t lie: e t hings eiiminal, to the end
hat some man or set of men may hire
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Ufi r\v I r? * 11 * i i 11 y , I iiriu I l" 11^' I'll' II' I I'M \
l contempt lor laws that may not al-!'
vays be confined to the judgo-mado I.
ulinvrs.
The progress of labor has been over ,
.he wrecks of just sueh obst acles as j1
hesc, ami It Is absurd to suppose t hat sIds
progress can be halted now. The ;
njunctions of Judge Jackson and
lodge Keller will never become preoolents.
Whether they tire sustained '
or the present or not, they will soon '
>e overruled by the court of public J
ipinion, against tin* decisions of which
jo injustice can stand in a free conn- '
ry.
Within ;i generation these injunc- '
ions w ill be as great curiosities in the 1
bstory of the struggle for hotter conlitions
for laboring men as the old law }
eferrcd to uhove tliiit. made it a crime
o refuse work for ti small and arid- '
rarity set rate of wages. '
The law is what the people make it,
.nd the people of the i'nited States j
vill never lie a party to the erection of
ucli tyrannical and one-sided rulings 1
is these into part of the legal system. :
? New York American and Journal.
A Had Tragedy. ,
A special from Yorkville says: Early
iVcdnesday morning, at Pleasant
tidgc, tiliout eighteen miles above
lore, in Gastonia County, N. C., Jesse
Harris shot and wounded Harvey Dick- I
on and a short time afterwards shot
md killed himself. Moth parties are !
veil known white eitl/.cns of that (
lection. The facts surrounding the 1
.ragedy arc as follows; Karris had had
.rouble with his family and as a re- 1
a I b had not been living at home for
nore t han a year. Yesterday he re.urncd
in a bad humor, being intoxl- I
a ted. Mis wife and daughter were
if raid to stay in the house with him 1
vithout protection, and asked Dick- 1
on, a neighbor, to come and stay in
heir home during the night and unit
the husband and father became
,ober. Dickson came to the house
ifter dark, and lie and Karris sat on
lie front piazza and talked in a frlendy
manner for an hour or more, at, the I
Sid of which time Dickson retired to
he room that had been assigned him. i
uibsequent ly Karris went to Dickson
md said that he was going to shoot ;
dm, and said to his family that "the 1
ights will burn all night tonight." (
lickson was not alarmed at the threat
ind only realized that it was not an
die one when some time later a load
if shot was emptied into his thigh I
rom a gun lired through an open winlow
by Jesse Karris. Immediately
ifter firing the shot Karris went to
die rear of the house and shot himiclf
through the head, dying in a
iliorfc time from the wound. It is
laid that Dickson will recover, Ills
ivound not being serious.
Murdered llis Landlord.
The coroner's Jury investigating the
'obbery and murder of Watkins Newnan
and the partial cremation of his
iody in his home near Jefferson City,
Term., reported Wednesday, recomnending
the arrest of William Wat- ,
<ins. The accused was a witness be'ore
the jury and was at once taken
nto custody and jailed at Morristown, 1
Penn. The testimony brought out (
mowed mi;il flc.ffman nan necn mur- ,
Icrcd, tied to his bed and the house
let on lire. Ilis arms and legs were
aimed olT, and an examination showed 1
,hat robbery had also been committed. 1
Ml the testimony was damaging to
iVatkins, hut that of 0. T. Itankin, a
awycr, was especially so. Watkins (
iad liccn ejected from one of Newnan's
houses and went to Itankin to
onsult liim concerning a suit for damiges.
lie asked the attorney what
ivould lie flie elfeet on the suit if
Newman was out < f the way and could
lot, testify, lie made the assertion
three times in 11is attorney's presence
that he would get even with Newman.
)ther arrests are expected.
Killed at n Meeting.
At a county campaign meeting
icld Tuesday, August 19, at Wilson's
Store, in the upper section of Green- i
rillc county, 'Carey Styles shot and i
tilled Walter McCarreli and seriously
ivoundcd his younger brother, Emmet
Styles, and Earnest McCarreli. Styles
las been arrested. The shooting took
place about 200 yards from where the <
candidates were speaking. Rye witlesses
say that Earnest McCarrell and <
lOmmct Styles were engaged in a tight,
vhen Carey Styles appeared and began
.hooting ids first bullet striking his
>wn brother in the leg. Styles then <
ihot Earnest McCarrell in the right
irm, and upon the appearance of VVal- i
.er McCarrell Styles tired at him, proluclng
instant death.
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T<UST 28, ll)<>2.
A RACE RIOT.
Six Persons Seriously Wounded in a
Fight In Mississippi.
TROUBLE CAUSED BY NEGROES 1
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liicltod by it Mouthy I'rciu lii-r. Ilicv
Iliivo Secretly Organized ami
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Armed TiiiMitNrlvi'H lor
I'nliiwt'ul I'iii'Ikisch,
Six persons seriously shot and a j1
lumber injured is the reported result '
d' a race riot in the south end of Lee t
Joiinty, near Shannon, Miss., which \
vas reported to he still in progress on 1
he 20th iust. Three negroes and 1
hree white men are hadly injured and
it hers probably more or less so. r
This is the result of a r.iee ri??t par- f
lei pa ted in l?ya see ret. organization of iJ
legrocs tiring upon and wounding the J
'hihank brothers while on their own ,
iremises. The .shooting oeeurred on t
I'uesday, soo.i after dark. Posses in '
nirsuit had a lively encounter with |(
,he negroes six miles south of Shannon ,
Wednesday evening, when more or less ;
ihooting was done. < hie white man i
ind three negroes were hadly wounded
iiid several more negroes wore slightly
inrt. other posses were in pursuit at
ast accounts and the alTair was not
t'et over.
A dispatch from Tupelo, Miss.,
la ted the 21st, hist., says: ivputv
sheritT Temple lias just readied the!
ity, with eight desperadoes hound
with chains and under a heavy guard,
lie reports f>00 men under arms and
(ays great excitement prevails.
For some months negroes at Shan-'
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iwii <vim n rttiri' mi mil*" ih'i'ii i \ i (1 j
considerable trouble, secret Societies!
being formed under the guidance of a
former school teacher or preacher.
These organizations are said to I?c for
the. purpose of resisting white men j
ind protecting negroes in deeds of
lawlessness.
The alleged inst igator of the serious
outbreak is a negro preacher named
lelf. Rogers, lie has been held under :
suspicion by t he whites for some time
us a bad character, lie is a negro of
some educat ion and has considerable
Intluence in bis church.
The tirst serious trouble broke out
some time ago, when a negro named
Ciiles Jackson assaulted the Laudcrilales
in a corn Held, seriously wounding
them. About, a month ago t his
negro died in the county jail from
wounds indicted while resisting arrest,.
A few days ago a negro was seen taking
corn from a lield belonging to Mr.
IOubanks, who lives close to Shannon,
and when spoken to about it lie became
insolent and defiant and a warrant
was sworn out for his arrest.
On Tuesday evening a son of IOubanks,
living just across the road, noticed
a number of negroes congregating
around his house, lie supposed
they meant to attack his home, and
he crossed the road and joined bis
father and younger brother. Shortly
lifter IOubanks went to Ins father's
house a command to lire was given,
illd a blindim/ vollev nun/ mil frnm
Lhe guns carried by t lie negroes. lioth |
of the younger 10ubanks wore hit and i
badly wounded.
After the shooting of the Eubanks
brothers the whites immediately or- i
Rani zed themselves into an armed
posse to bring to justice the guilty |
negroes. Wednesday evening, headed i
by Marshal Itandolph, of Nettlcton, ]
and Marshal Irby, of Shannon, this (
posse went after two members of the (
negro mob, who were supposed to be <
hiding in a cabin about six miles from j
Shannon. The posse reached the cab- ]
in and ordered the door opened, but
tin command was unheeded. After (
waiting a moment Kandolph pushed <
the door open, lie was met by a vol- \
ley of birdshot and fell across the |
thresh hold, with blood gushing from <
Ids face, and shoulders. The negroes ;
ran out of the house, over the pros- (
bratc ollic.er. They were met by a <
volley from the posse, and three negroes
were injured so badly that they
were left lying on trie ground. The
others escaped in the darkness, some
lea vine behind traces of their wniindu
A deputy has returned from Shan- ,
lion and reports everything (piiet there ;
now.
A lloud master Killed.
Road master Fred Stovers of Stevsrs,
Va., was sliot and killed and .1 im ,
Mithell, a negro porter, was dangerously
wounded in a fight with disorderly
negroes on a southtmund Sea
board Air Line train near Middlcburg,
Va. The n ok roes had taken seats in
the coach reserved for whites. Conductor
Clements ordered them to the
coach for negroes. Tlie negroes protested
but obyed' the order. When In
the "Jim crow" coach one of the negroes,
named Joe Cole, struck at tin; i
conductor I load master Steve rs came
to the conductor's rescue. The negro
pulled a pistol and Stevers clasped him I
around the body, but the negro t wist- ?
ed his arm around, and getting his
pistol against Stovers' head, shot him, <
Ste vers falling dead on the coach iloor. i
Mitchell the porter rushed towards '
Cole as he pointed the pistol at Con- <
doctor Clements and was shot In the
abdomen. Passengers captured three
of the participants and two Jumped
from the train, escaping to the woods. '
Blood hounds have been sent from '
Weldon to chase them down. The 1
dead body of Stevers was putofT at j
Henderson and Jifn Mitchell, the
colored porter, was brought to ltalcigh
where an operation was performed on
him. The physicians fear lie will die. 1
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TRAIN WRECKER ARRESTED.
t wo I'hhucoomhI'iiI Attempt* Muile
Near Chester.
The prime of train wrecking Is ^en
'rally supposed to have heen contemporaneous
witli that ot' train robbing.
I'.ut while trains are not wrecked I're- I
ipiently nowadays, It is liecause the
railroads, through their "section
tosses" keep a superb patrol of the)
treat highway of eommeree, and frus- j
rate whatever attempts are made.
A bold attempt t? wreck the S??u11? m's
fast train between Columbia and
'harlot te a few nights ayo failed miaculously,
and a subsequiil attempt
lie nieht following also failed. There
,vill be no more attempts for tie
u'tfio llcnd is in jail. The arrest was j
nade by Mr. <?eo, W. bishop, special
itfent of the Southern railroad.
The fast train which left Columbia :
it tt.2f> last Thursday evening ran inl?<
in obstruction at the Shannon place
ust beyond Corn well's. The engine !
,vas vtolnn at a mighty clip, something
ike an miles an hour, and t he obstruc
ion whs on :? curve. II. is marvelous
hat the train was not derailed,
"specially when the nature of the
list met ion Is known.
Flat, on t he outer rail on the curve
tvas placed a piece of tlat iron about
in inch thick and four feet Imp;. This
, Use If was almost enough to throw the
wheels of the engine from the track.
Hack of this was placed a "llsh-platc"
ir piece of iron which is used to tie
i.lic ends of rails. This was almost a
aire ag'iit of destruction. Ifut to
nake I lie tiling doubly sure, the would*
?c wrecker placed on each rail a Hint
rock weighing 12"? pounds.
When the groat engine struck this
o.nhinat ion ol obstructions if hurled
lie iron bar far Into a Held nearby,
ossed the "llsh-plate" to one side and
pushed t he rocks from the track.
Friday night t he attempt was releafed;
this time a smaller rock was
iised. There was some delay in reporting
the matter, but in less than
wo days after he got the information
Mr. bishop had secured a confession
from John Wallace, a negro boy 10
/ears old, who lives near the scene of
he at tempted wreck.
The section master suspected a coram
negro, but the latter, in proving
lis innocence, threw some light, on
die crime and stated that two or three
negroes whom he named had been
>een in the neighborhood about that
lour. An old plantation darkey corroborated
this statement. John Wallace
was among the boys named. Mr.
bishop found the boy and charged
him with the crime. Wallace wilted
md Ids suspicious act ions led to his
i i-i.... I < ?.. I I... ....... ? .. il... ' > > 1
I...-.u. wii im- ?<i> to iiic jilii in* admit
t<mI having made the second attempt
hut denied responsibility tor
Lite first. He had no motive except
Unit he wanted to do something devilish.
When visited by ids parents at jail
John Wallace was asked what lie did
with liis younger brother with whom
lie had started to church. It developed
t hat Wallace had protested against
Lhc younger 1 k?y going with him, and
when they arrived near the scene of
Ids intended crime he left his brother
>n some pretext and slipped down the
railroad track. After some evasion
lie. finally confessed his guilt in the
lirst attempt, lie would have used
more elaborate methods the second
night but was frightened by the approach
of the train.
It is (11 tllcult to appreciate the enormity
of tills attempted crime. .John
Wallace waited for the short, train, or
local, to go by, and his efforts were directed
against the vestibule whicli follows
shortly afterwards. This train
arries upwards of lf>0 persons every
lay. From the topography of the locality,
the speed of the train, etc.,
it is easy to believe that the loss of
life would have been appalling.
The law, it is said, is not severe
enough. Last year over in Lexington
Bounty an attempt was made to wreck
i passenger train coming down the
lit 11 at Lccsvillc. A spike was driven
securely between the ends of rails and
x link used in coupling was thrown
Dver the spike, making a formidable
instruction.
A white man passing the spot saw
luc oostruciion and with a lightwood
knot drove the spike from its secure
position. It required frantic efforts
to remove the spike Ik;fore the train
I'amc rushing l>y with 1 i:t persons
aboard. The guilty party, a negro,
was caught and was given 18 months
in jail, hut little more than an ordinary
thief would be given. A railroad
man said Wednesday that the author
of an unsuccessful attempt at train
wrecking should he sentenced for life
with the stipulation that a pardon
by a governor would not be recognized
in such a ease.
Drowned Hi* Four <'liildren.
Joseph Anderson, a fanner living
near Salina, Kansas, in a tit of despondency
drowned his four children,
three Kiiis and a boy, in a cistern,
and then shot himself with a revolver.
Anderson is probably fatally injured.
Financial matters had affected his
mind. The crime was committed
luring the absence of the mother.
The oldest child was six years of age
and the youngest a baby of four
months. Anderson left a note on a
table, notifying the mother that the
children could be found in the cistern.
Severe Storm* in town.
Another series of severe lightning
md windstorms passed through S mtli3
as tern Iowa Tuesday evening, doing
much damage. In the last few weeks
more than UK) barns have lieen struck
by lightning near Keokuk and more
than that number in Southeastern
Iowa. Many Northeast Missouri counties
have sulTerod the same way.
SIXTEEN KILLED.
Territfic Explosion of Two Steel
Digesters.
VICTIMS MANGLED AND BURNED
Details of' a ltlooil-( 'urdllng OccurI'i'Hcc
lii Doluwnre I'ulp Mill*.
Tlir W orst Is Ycl to llo Tolil.
Many IVmoiiH A re Missing.
A special from Wilmington, Del.,
says sixteen workmen art; known to
have been killed, six are inissi ig at <1
three others are badly Injured bv I he
explosion of two steel digesters in t lit?
Delaware I'nlp mills, in the .lessup \
Moore I'aper company's works, on the
Christiana, Wednesday afternoon.
The dead are: Frank Harris, Wrn.
hurke, .lames Nagle, John MeCormlek,
Zaehai ins Collins, colored, .las. Stokes,
Joseph laimhacher and (iranville Waters.
The missing: William Soott, Joseph
Henry, Joel llutton and Wm. Ruth,
firemen; K. II. Mousley and James
Sweeney.
The injured: James Jeter, badly
burned, recovery doubtful: John <'oliins,
burned and inhaled dames: Ceo.
Durham, burned and scalded, recovery
doubtful.
The digesters were located in a t wostory
building. There were ten of them
in the building, each one resembling a
vat and about six feet in diameter.
They were used for reducing wood
pulp. Kighteen men were at work
in the building. There were two terrific
reports, and the next instant the
building and other mills about the
structure were completely wrecked.
One digester was blown Into tin? air
and fell to the ground 2.r>0 feet away.
A dense volume of smoke for a time
prevented the outside workmen from
going to the Immediate rescue of those
who wore caught in the ruins of the
falling building. Several men made
their escape without any injury.
An alarm of tire was sounded and
the entire department of the city and
a large force of policemen were soon
(in the ground and the work of rescue
was immediately begun. Several of
the workmen were taken out unconscious,
only to die after tieing removed
to hospitals. The wreckage was piled
up for more than thirty feet and the
escaping steam made the work of rescue
rather diillcult.
Those who were killed outright were
mangled and burned by escaping acid
that flowed over their Ixxlies from the
broken digesters. Up to this writing
eight persons are dead, and according
to the officials of the company at least
six others are in the ruins.
To add to the horror of the situation,
the wreckage took lire, but after
some difficulty the fire department
manured to subduo the flames and the
work of rescue was continued.
Steam was used in the digesters.
The olllcers of tiie company tliink that
too much steam was generated in
them and that this was the cause of
the explosion. The monetary loss Is
estimated at 435,000.
A Murdered Girl.
The Spartanburg Journal says: Miss
Minnie Mitchell, who was cruelly murdered
in Chicago, a few days ago, was
a sister of iiobert II. Mitchell, who
married Miss Minnie Trimmier, of
Spartanburg, and who is well known
here. The Chicago papers recently
have contained long stories of this
brutal and sensational murder. The
body of the young lady was found
buried under some rubbish in the very
heart of the city, where it was discovered
several days after the murder had
been committed. A bullet hole was
found in her head and her clothes
were badly torn, which showed there
had been a struggle. The American,
one 01 unicago s leaning newspapers,
lias taken great interest in the alYair,
having offered a reward of $1,000 for
the capture of the murderer, whose
identity has been fcrrctted out by the
reporters of that newspaper. 11 is name
is VVm. Iiartliolin and lie was a suitor
for Miss Mitchell's hand. Every effort
is being made for his capture.
Nearly a .Million i'eiiNionor*.
Congress has lieen running a race
with death, and congress lias won, says
the Baltimore Sun. The civil war
pensioners are now dying at a rapid
rate, and yet the pension list Is increasing.
Thirty-seven years after
the close of the war there are more
pensioners than ever before. The
number lacks only 074 of being a
round million. This was an increase
at 7 U->7 ulnon 1 WOll 'I'lw. ovha.). on..
V/I I I/M I nillVV/ 1 A. 1IV/ C.\ |A/ ft l/t? i"?4A JT
it is Die high-water mark, and that
from now on the increasing death rate
will decrease the pension list. This
has been predicted each year for the
psist twenty years, but each time congress
has rallied to the rescue of the
lisl and added more names than death
could take off.
dlrl Murdered In Kentucky.
/(Mia, the tiftecn-year-old daughter
of C. M. Vle.k, a prominent farmer of
Ilussellville, Ky., was killed Wednesday,
in slight of her father's house.
She had gone to a spring for water,
and failing to return, a search was instituted.
Later the body, with the
head crushed, was found in a fence
corner, partly covered with leaves.
One hundred men with bloodhounds
have gone to the scene of the crime,
and if the guilty person shall be
caught a lynching will follow. The
Vick home is about tivc miles from
here, near the asphalt mines.