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VOL. XVII. MAI) MISSOURI MOB '? t a Takes Charge of Joplin and Hangs y an Unknown Black Tramn 8 y i WHO KILLED A POLICE OFFICER. J1 t The Moh BuUln Nc^ro ynarter v t hihI Drive* (lie Blacki froiu I t (hn Town Defying lliu 0 Aulhorit ten. A mob took possession of Joplin, Mo., Wednesday evening, and took an j unknown negro tramp from the city ^ jail and hanged him to a telegraph | pole at the corner of Second and Wall s streets, two blocks from the Jail. The 8 negro was charged with having mur- ^ dercd Police Ofllcer Leslio, who was s shot dead Tuesday night In the f" Kansas City Southern railroad yards N wlillo endcavoilng to arrest several * negroes suspected of theft. g Olflecr Leslie had ordered several j negroes who had taken rofugc In a box ^ oar to surrender and when they failed { to do so ho tired several shots at the <j car. During the shooting a negro c slipped from the car and coming up j l>ehind tho otllccr, shot him through ., ?l? V . 1 HI- ? " * ' viic ucau. i uu negro tlicn UCU ano within a short time posses were after ( him. ^ About 3 o'clock Wednesday after- s noon, Leo Fullerton, aged 21, located the fugitive in a slaughter house Just ^ east of Joplln. The negro was armed with a rifle and defied arrest. Fullerton slipped into the strueturo unobserved and crept up behind the negro. Suddenly lie sprang at the unsuspect- H ing fugitive and l>efore resistance H could be made ho had the negro on ' iiis back with a knife at ills throat. ( The negro then surrendered his rifle, ( and pointing the weapon at him Ful- ^ Icrton marched him out of the building. With the assistance of another 1 man the negro was brought to Joplin e and placed in jail. 8 News of the capture spread rapidly 1 and tho jail w;is speedily surrounded 1 I... On.w1.-o.lo .** ~" rn t I?jr uuiiuicwn \?l puwJJIi;. X 11151 u were cries <if "Lynch him!" on nil sides and [ City Attorney II. II. Decker mounted 1 the jail steps and made a strong plea c in behalf of law and order. This H served temporarily to stay the mob * but did not appease it and a short time after Decker's speech the mob s started to batter in a section of the H Jail wall. Every effort was mado to 1 prevent the entrance of the mob, but k without avail and within 15 minutes the men had gained entrance to the jail and secured the trembling negro. As he was dragged forth City Attorney Decker again interfered and urged ,< that the negro be given a trial. For f half an hour he talked and the mob listened to him with the negro in their custody. At one time it seemed that the city attorney would win, as members of the mob began dispersing, but suddenly a rush was made for the spot whero the negro was being held and he was dragged two blocks from the jail with a rope fastened around his neck, and after the rope had been thrown over the crossbar of a telegraph pole a score of men attempted to pull tho negro from the ground. ( As many more seized the negro and ^ pulled to prevent him being hanged, j For some moments it was a verltablo j tug of war, hut recnforcements on tho j free end of the ropo proved the j stronger and the negro, despite his ( protestations of innocence, was finally p swung into the air and strangled to , death, while shouts of satisfaction ^ went up from the mob. The name of r the negro was not known and he was j a stranger in Joplln. The lynching of the negro served only temporarily to satisfy the indignance of the mob and leter Wednesday night hundreds of men again as- j sembled and rioted through the negro i section of the city, burning houses, f stoning negroes and finally driving i every negro from the confines of the ^ town of Joplln. Tho police wero pow- \ erless. The first act of the mob after ( hanging the negro was to demand the { release from Jail of a local character j known as "Hickory Hill," who was t under arrest on the charge of assault- ) ing a negro. In the hope that this t would appease the mob the prisoner , was set free. * But the mob did not disperse. In- ( stead a rush was made through Main | street, tho principal street of Joplln, \ and every negro was frightened off tho , street and fled to the northern part of ] the city where the negro population j resides. In this way the negroes were , unven iroin an parts oiuieciLy tome , negro section. Then the mob charged ( down on the section. Stones were thrown, doors and wiudows of nogro houses were broken In and Anally several were Hrcd. The Are department responded, but many of the houses 1 were burned to the ground. The mob ' made endeavors to prevent the Are department from extinguishing the f Aames and were partially successful. V All the oAlcers of the city, township and county were called out, but the mob swept them aside and proceeded with the rioting. Mayor Trigg ran from corner to corner and mounting boxes made earnest appeals to the mob to cease, but beyond cheering the 1 mayor vociferously the mob swept on and the depredations continued. The saloons were hurriedly closed by the 1 mayor. After the hundreds of frenzied men composing the mob bad vented their wrath In the north end 1 of the city they rushed to the southern end where lived a number of negroes. Their homes were vacant and not a negro could be found. Three more houses were tired and two were onsuined. All efforts to reason with he rioters wore futile, as apparently , frenzy had seized upon them. A dispatch from Carthage, Mo , vhich is only a few miles from Joplln, ays the negro lynched wasThos. Oilard, a tramp, llo had confessed that ic murdered Leslie In Tuesday night's Ight. Karly Wednesday Sheriff Owen lurried off to the county Jail at Garbage, Dan Dullard, a negro who was vlth Gllyard Just before the policenan was killed. Wednesday night hillard was spirited away from Garbage for fear of an attack on the ounty Jail. The State OiapeiiNnry. The report of the State dispensary or the tirst fiscal quarter has been put n the hands of the governor. The rross sales for the quarter were $660,26.25, against $588,296.20 for the amc time of the preceding year. The issets are reported as $788,85:1 8.1, including supplies $57,485,52; real estate 152,860.56; liquor in hands of dispellers $354,856.87, and merchandise in >tate dispensary $291,409.62. The :ross profits for the quarter were H42,100.77, and the expenses $103,157.32. The State's net profits were 139,809.15, in addition to which the irolits of the towns and counties ag jregate $149,805.46, making the total (ruins ior liic iiseai quarter nns7,u74, 1. The State's protit showed an inreasc of $9,000 over the same time ast year. The contraband seizures ggregated but $203.23 this quarter gainst $1,215.35, showing the elTcct if the seizures made by the federal government. The expenses of the contabulary showed an increase of $2, 00? tiie difference between $11,722,(2 in 1902 and $13,793.59 this year. A War Ship Rained. The warship Reina Christina flaghip of Admiral Montejo, which was unlc by Admiral Dewey In Manila lay, was raised last week. Skeletons >f eighty of her crew were in tho hulk. )ne skeleton evidently was that of an ifllcor, for It had a sword by it side. There were fifteen shell holes in the lull of the boat, one being made by an ilght-lnch gun, and the others were mall. The main Injection valve was nlsslng, showing the Hhlp was scutled when Admiral Mantejo abandoned ler. The hull Is In a fair condition. Captain Albert R. Couden, commandng the naval station at Cavlte, took ihargc of the remains of the Spanish oldlers, expressing his purpose to rive them an American naval funeral, rhe Spanish residents are eager to hip the remains to Spain, and It Is uggested that the United States transport Summer convey them to Jpaln by way of Suez canal In June. A Serloua Charge. A dispatch to The State says warants have been issued In Anderson for ,he arrest of Mr. J. W. Pooser, an Inu ranee agent who spent s< me time In ,hat city last winter. The dispatch ays Mr. Pooser while in Anderson eprescnted the Pennsylvania Casualty :ompany and possibly one or two other eliablc companies. He collected noney for a number of policies that tave never been received by those who iald for them. Mr. L. C. Houston of ireenvllle, the agent of the company, las informed parties in Anderson that ic never received the money for the lolicles and has stated that he, too, las a warrant Issued for Pooser In Ireenville. The warrants charge him vlth obtaining money with frauducnt Intent and breach of trust. Mr. Pooser went to Anderson from Colum na and went back to Columbia from lcre. A letter was received here a lay or two ago from one of bin friends itatlng that Pooser Is now in Callforlia. This statement will be fully Investigated and every effort will be nade to have the warrants that have >een issued served upon him. . Of What Governor. A dispatch to The State from Morrlstown, N. J., says: David Tclfer, m old man, a grandson of a former jovcrnor of South Carolina, who has icen a charge on this county over a vear, is to be taken back to his home n South Carolina tomorrow. How he ;ame north Is a mystery. Part of the Jme he has been In the asylum and ?art of the tlmo In Jail. The authorJen have been (juarrellng with his reativesln South Carolina as to who ihould take care of him. They didn't want him as he does not live here. The authorities did not think they ihould keep him here. They tried bo persuade his relatives to keep him, Dut this they refused. So now the lid man is to be sent to South Carolina and literally dumped into the State. Then they will have to take ;aro of him and the burden of his maintenance will no longer lie on this county." A Doable Tragedy. A dispatch from Savannah, Ga., lays Tuesday near Quitman, In Brooks county, Ivy Dampter a young man 23 years old, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. A deputy sheriff had gone from Quitman with a warrant for him. Arrangements were made for him to make bond, and the ufilccr w.cs asked to take dinner with his family. Dampior asked permission to batho and change his clothing. Soon after retiring to his room the sound of a pistol shot alarmed the household, and he was found to have placed a pistol to his left temple and sent a bullet through his brain. Early the next morning Miss Georgia Rogers, who is said to have beeu engaged to marry Dampter at an early date, placed the muzzle of a shot gun against her breast and discharged It. Her breast and shoulder were terribly lacerated. She is still alive, but there are doubts that she will recover. ? he M CONWAY, S. < THE RACE ISSUE. J il Ex-President Grover Cleveland 8eems (] . _ 1. to Grasp the Case. t r SOLUTION OF NEGRO PROBLEM j t Hosts 011 Houthoru Shoulders. Those ^ Who Iilft the Weight Must 1 il Htmul Next to It a Says lie. j Former President Grover Cleveland j' was the principal speaker Tuesday f night at a meeting held in the concert i hall of Madison Square Garden New t York, in the interest of the Tuskegec v Normal and Industrial institute. J Among those on the platform with Mr. (] Cleveland were Mayor Low, who pre- 1 sided; Hooker T. Washington, Kd- 0 gar G. Murphy, l)r. Lyman Abbott, President Nicholas Murray Jlutler and | Dean .1. Van Amringe of Colura- c hla, W. H. Bold win, Chancellor j McCrackcn of New York univer- v sity,J ohn DeWitt Warner and George c F. Peabody. Mrs. Cleveland, sat in r the gallery witli Mr. and Mrs. Andrew t Carnegie, who .are Mr. Cleveland's [, hosts while he is in the city. Mr. a Cleveland, who was greeted with pro- (J longed applause as lie was introduced p by Mayor Low, said: li "I have come here tonight as a sin- a cere friend of the negro and I should p be very sorry to suppose that my good p and regular standing need support at j, this late day either from certificate or n confession of faith. Inasmuch, how- i, ever as there may be differences of n thought and sentiment among those p who profess to he friends of the negro, e I desire to declare myself as belong- v ing to the Hooker Washlngton-Tuskegee section of the organization. \\ "I believe that the days of 'Uncle s rum's Cabin' arc past. 1 believe that 0 neither the decree that made the slaves free nor the enactment that sud- n detdy invested them with the rights () of citizenship any more purged them p of their racial and slavery-bred imperfections and deiiciuncles than it p changed the color of their skins. I a * I- - t ijfiii"vu milt among inr nearly nine g millions nf negroes who have been In- si tor mixed with our citizenship, there C{ is still a grievous amount of ignorance, NV a sad amount of viclousness and a tre- p mendous amount of laziness and thrift- y lessness. I bellve that tliese eondl- w tions inexorably present to the white j, people of the United States, to each in j, ills environment and under the man- S( date of good citizenship, a problem (j which neither enlightened self interest f, nor the higher motive of human sym- w pathy will permit them to put aside. ^ I believe our fellow countrymen in the jj southern and In the late slave-holding ^ States, surrounded by about nine- j, tenths, or nearly eight millions of tills 0 entire negro population, and who re- u gard their material prosperity, their ^ peace and even the safety of their civilization, interwoven with tho negro problem, arc entitled to our utmost consideration and sympathy and fellA...nh(.x f *1 * ? * * " luvmiiii'. a am uiuruugmy convinced r that the efforts of Booker Washington 11 and the methods of Tuskegee institute p point the way to a safe and beneficent R solution of the vexations negro prob- CA lem at the south and I know that the p good people at the north, who have ; aided these efforts and methods, have illustrated the highest and best citl- * zenship and the most Christian and ' enlightened philanthroplsm. '*1 cannot, however, keep out of my ,l, mind tonight the thought that all we of the north may do, the realization of our hopes for the negro must, after all, mainly depend, except so far as it rests with the negroes themselves, . upon the sentiment and conduct of the , leading and responsible white men of ^ the south, and upon the maintenance * of a kindly and helpful feeling on their . part towards those in their midst who so much need their aid and encourago- ? ment. ''1 need waste no time In detailing p the evidence that this aid and encour- ? agement has thus far been generously forthcoming. Schools for the education of negro children and institutions for their industrial training are scat- R tercd all over the south and are lib- , eruny assisted oy uie southern public " and private funds. So far as I am in- ? formed the sentiment in favor of the ' largest extension and broadest Influ- r ence of Tuskegec institute and kin- ( dred agencies is universal, and I believe that without exception the negroes who fit themselves for useful oc- v cupatlons and service find willing and 1 cheerful patronage and employment c among their white neighbors. v "I do not know how it may be with v other northern friends of the negro, 1 but I have faith in the honor and sincerity of the respectable white people y of the south in their relations with the negro and his improvement and well- s being. They do not believe in the so- ? clal equality of the race and they make no false pretense in regard to it. That \ this docs not grow out of hatred of the negro is plain. It seems to me that * there is abundant sentiment and abun- ( dant behavior among the southern ' whites towards the negro to make us 1 doubt the Justice of charging this denial of social equality to prejudice, as wo usually understand the word. Per- 1 haps it is born out of something so t much deeper and more imperious than I prejudice as to amount to a racial in- 1 stlnct. Whatever it Is, let us rcrnem- 1 ber that it has condoned the negro's 1 share in the humllation and spoliation i of the white men of the south during 1 the saturnalia of the reconstruction days and has allowed a kindly feeling 1 for the negro to survive the time when thejsouth was deluged by a pcrlltous | orvti 0., THURSDAY, A1 lood of Indiscriminate, (intelligent ?k incl brightlng suffrage. Whatever It s, let us try to ho tolerant and coniderate of the feelings and even prejullced racial instinct of our white fe) ow countrymen of the south, who in lie solution of the negro problem nust, amid their own surroundings, icar the heat of the day and stagger inder the weight of the white man's nirden. "There are, however, other cotisld-< rations relating to this feature of the L icgro question, whicli may be regarded ls more in keeping with the objects nid purposes of this occasion. As I riends of the negro, fully believing in i lie possibility of his Improvement and ' idvanccmetit, and sincerely and con idently latiorlng to that end, it is folly or us to ignore t he importance of the ingrudging cooperation on tlie part of lie white people of the south in this vork. Labor as we will, those who do he lifting of the weight must be hose who stand next to It. This eoiperation cannot be forced; nor can it le gained by gratuitously running ounter to firmly lixed and tenaciously icld southern Idea s or even prejudices. Ve are not brought to the point of dong or overlooking evil that good may dine when we proceed upon the theory hat before we reach the stage where ve may lie directly and practically onfrontcd with the question of the icgro's full enjoyment of civic advatiges or even of all Ills political priviPi/cs. t here are immArliiit.nlv linfnni no ,n , ~ - w "VIUIU 140 ml around us questions demanding ur immediate care and that, in dealtig elTectlvely with these, we can condently rely upon tlie encouragement nd assistance of every thought ful and t atrlotic citizen of the land, wherever | ic may live and whatever may he his [leas or predilections concerning the 1 dore remote phase of the negro prob- ' jm. These questions that are so 1111- I icdlately pressing have to do with the raotlcal education of the negro and specially with titting him to compete j 1 dth his white neighbors in gaining a 1 ecent, respectable and remunerative j < ivcllhood. Hooker Washington, In t [leaking on the conditions and needs ( f his race, has wisely said: 'It Is at he bottom of life we must begin and 1 ot at the top; nor should wo permit ' ur grievances to overshadow our oportunities.' "In summing up the whole matter, 1 here is one tiling of which we can be v bsolutely certain. When we aid Tus- ^ ogee institute and agencies like It, r Lriving for the mental and manual ' [location of the negro at the south, 1 re are In every point of view renderig him the best possible service. c Whatever may lie his ultimate destiny ? 'C are thus helping to lit him for till- ' ig his place and bearing its responsi- ^ 111 ties. We are sowing well in the ^ jii at toe uouom or lire' the seeds of K lie black man's development and use- a illness. These seeds will not die, but * rill sprout and grow, and If it be rithin the wise purpose of God, the ardened surface of no untoward sen- vf Imcnt of pcjudice can prevent the ' ursting forth of the blade and plant J f the negro's appointed opportunity ' ito the bright sunlight of a cloudless T ay." t OTHER SPEECHES. At the conclusion of his address Mr. | levcland introduced Edgar O. Mur- R hy, who said: "I think that wise icn everywhere are recognizing in the y rlnclpalof Tuskegee one of the great- _ st moral assets in the life of our j ountry today. The south has not aplauded him with undiscriminating gr cement or with monotonous, tioughtlcss, profitless acclaim. The luth has sometimes blamed him. But y lie soutli is too fair to him and to his ice to allow these occasions of disgreement to distort the broad per- H pective in which she has viewed and 1 ppreciated that arduous public ser- ' ice through which, for 20 years, in 1 heerful patience and unaffected nodesty, he has labored for the up- f eliding of Ills humble and untutored 1 allows. J Ie has greatly done a great * rork in response to a great need, forth and south there have been ( hose who have seen perial in the no- ( ro's progress. But If the progress of 1 lie negro bring peril with it that ieril is nothing in comparison with the J erils attendant on the negro's ' allure." I)r. Lyman Abbott, who followed, ( aid that the south de.servp.d i/rpat. ' rcdlt for taking up as it had an un- ( ried problem, in helping the negro to I iclp himself. "And the north," he ' aid, "has given her scant credit, ihe has given him schools that the 1 lorth has refused him and done many ' ither tilings towards his future that ,he north never thought of." I)r. Abbott next spoke of the great vork of Hooker T. Washington and J iralsed him In the highest terms, dc- j daring he had done as much for the 1 vhite race as for thecolored race. His vork had really brought about the inlon of north and south in the work 1 ,hat he had taken up as his life task. Quoting a remark made by Henry ' Ward Beecher, to the effect that we hould "make the negro worthy first md then give him suffrage," I>r. Abx>tt said: "We made the mistake of flving him suffrage first and the un'ortunate negro has had to suffer ever ilnce. Wiiat the negro wants is education. It all depends upon education whether the negro will be a shackle to >ur feet or wings to our body." nOOKKIl WASHINGTON SI'ICAKS. Mr. Cleveland, in Introducing Booker T. Washington, the last jpeaker of the evening, said: "I have to introduce to you a man too well known by every man in the United States; a man who has been spoken of too frequently and too favorably for it to be necessary for me to say more than?here Is Booker T. Washington." Booker Wash in ton then spoke as follows: "Tho Tuskegee Normal and Industrial institute at Tuskegee, Ala. is the outgrowth of the efforts of Gen. fml >ltIL 253, 1!)<>53. >. C. Armstrong of the Hampton institute in Virginia, (ion. Armstrong .vas one of the great seers and prophets who realized that tlie task of the ( latlon was not fultilled when tiie shackles of physical slavery were struck from the limbs or the millions if slaves of the south, lie realized hat- nine millions of human beings ' steeped in Ignorance, minus expert- ' nee could be lint free. lie foresaw ( diat the nat ion must haven new hirth | md a new freedom and that this ic{eneration must include the industrial, intellectual and moral and re- t: iglous freedom of the ex slaves. i "In this connection I am glad that | ac have another great American and i Jhristian statesman In the person of i lion. U rover-Cleveland, who is maid- \ 'csting by his presence and words here 4 diis evening tliat lie too is conscious >f tiie fact that the lifting up of the 1 icgro is not alone Tuskegce's prolilem, (< jot alone the soulh'sdnty, hut Is the 0 problem of the nation, because the i vhole people were responsible for the < ntroduction and perpetuation of | \mcrlcan slavery. In liehalf of our t itruggllng race 1 want to thank you, i Mr. Cleveland, for your deep interest, \ md to say to you that because of your ( ntercst and faith In us wo shall see to j t that the nation is not disappointed i n our progress nor In our usefulness." ( PROGRESS IN FARM WORK. f t deport of t??o rianting Oporatlona of j (ho I*nat Work. [ Mr. J. W. Bauer, section director of ( die weatlier bureau, last week Issued \, lis weekly report of farm operations, s compiled from letters from correspond tils throughout tho State. He says, a part: 11 "It appears tint tho frost of the e >th reached to within a few miles of ' ,he coast, and that thin Ico formed ^ >ver the northern counties, but that he damage was slight and was conIned lo white potatoes and other tenler garden truck. Fruit escaped lull ry. "There wore qulto general rains on he 8th, heavy in the western and 1 lorthern counties, that delay farm vork materially by making the ground oo wet to plough in the already lamed divisions, where ploughing was iracticablc on one or two days only at he close of the week. "The rainfall was light over the astern half of the State, and farm rork was scarcely interrupted by It. !?he week closed with warm, cloudy, threatening and showery conditions irevailing that are favorable for rowth of vegetation, but are unfavor,ble for the rapid progress of farm "Planting operations made favora- " ilc progress in the eastern and south- r' astern counties, where they are as ar advanced as usual at this season, n the western counties planting Is rom 10 to 15 days later than usual, * rlth but little corn and no cotton <l danted. "Corn that was planted early Is omlng up to fair stands, and some is icing cultivated. Birds are destroying ' tands In a few counties. "Cotton planting has not advanced >cyond the central counties, and In daces In the. eastern Is being purposey delayed, awaiting moro settled vcather. "Oats look well In a few localities inly. Generally they have been serilusly damaged by a grain aphis and >y rust. Some fields are ruined. "Wheat has an unusually rank ;rowth, but In places the plants are .urnlng red, In other localities rust las appeared, both conditions tending o mar its prospects. "Itlce planting has made fair progress, except in the Georgetown dis.rlct, where the lands are still too vet to work. "Tobacco plants are plentiful and ;arly. Transplanting Is actively unler way. Some farmers have almost Inished this work. "Strawberry shipments are being nadc from all tho eastern truck districts. "Melon plants are sickly In the Charleston district, owing to defective leed. Other truck crops arc growing dowly. Bugs have appeared on white potatoes. Pastures afford line graz- ( Ilg. "Fruit prospects appear to be unimpaired, with, however, a few localities that report peaches sparsely set." Tlio <)I<1 Veterans. The work preliminary to the entertainment of the Confederate veterans it their approaching annual reunion In the city of Columbia on May 12, 13 and 14 Is getting well under way. It Is requested that the members of all camps throughout the state wear their camp badges when they go to Columbia, thus Identifying themselves and materially aiding the entertainment committees that would meet them at the depot. The entertainment committee proposes to establis i headquarters at the depot where veterans arriving can be given proper direction. I'aIiI 111 in to Kick. Isaac II. Stratton of Colorado Springs, Col., realized $235,000 net on Thursday from $350,000 paid him in the compromise over the contest at)OUt his father's will. His lawyers got $115,000, ex-Senator Wolcott receiving $02,500 for his fee. I To Cu I Take Laxative Bron I Soven MQAon koscs sold la past 13 n THE CRACKSMEN CONVICTED. iot's to 1'i-Ivoii for Flvo Yearn unci I'uy u Fine. After being out two hours the jury eturned a verdict of guilty Thursday n the case against William McKlnlcy, jharlcs Howard, Thoniiis Nolan and Odwurd Dugan, in the I'nited States ireuit court, at Charleston, on the :harge or conspiracy, breaking Into lostotllces and larceny of goverment unds. Immediately upon the anlouncement of the verdict, Judge Sinonton sentenced the men to live 'ears In the peneitcntlary and a line 1500 each. The trial last d exactly one week, t began on Hood Friday, which was onsidered hy some people as being immuous lor the robbers. In all over 00 witnesses were put on the stand. )f this number, the defense put up ess than a dozen and these were only o prove an alibi for the. accused. The awyers for the defense did not atempt to sustain the private character >f the men, which the government ninetured easily by the many witlosses. In fact, Nolan, the only one ?r the defendants who was put on the tand, did not ncsltate to admit that ic was of the sporting fraternity and flint he made his living hy gambling. The Columbia witnesses gave eerain testimony (if the disreputable daces which the accused frequented. The lawyers for the defense pitched heir ease on the common principle of aw, that the case against the men hould be proven by facts, which they barged had not been shown, and not laving been proven to be guilty, the ncn should be judged not guilty. The ivirdcn of proof was put on the govrnmcnt hy the lawyers for the do A ense. It was gladly accepted by the overnment attorneys and they made .strong piooot tlon of their testi nony for the Jury to pass upon. The ease has been followed with nuch interest, not only In Charleston, mt through the State and especially 11 the several communities where the (ostolllees were robbed. The defendill.s have shown that t hey had friends nd means, by the employment of lessrs. Nelson and Mario of Columbia, nd llagood of Charleston, to repreent them, for without g<K>d hacking hey could never have made the deense that they did. It, is understood hat some of the sporting fraternity ven followed the accused to Charlcs011, attending the trial and giving noli assistance and encouragement as rouId come from their presence, not o speak of the financial aid which hey contributed. The trial has been long hearing, but the case has not cen'without a good deal of general uterest, and every day the large court ooin was crowded with spectators. Th? Murder of Gov Qoelitl. The facts connected with the assasInation of Gov. Qoebel, of Kentucky bout two years ago, are slowly comng out. Frank Cecil, who Is under ndictment for complicity In the crime, * a witness at the trial of Jim Howrd, who is charged with the murler. ('cell only recently surrendered dmself to the commonwealth, after icing a fugitive for a year in Califorda and Honolulu. He is now under lond. Cecil told a story substantially .he same as the testimony of Culton, Joldcn and Hroughton, former witleSHPft. who rlctallcrl arid :?U?i.nwl ?>l,o I o bring about the death of Goebel. ,'ecil says Caleb Towers adopted the uggostlon of Henry llroughton that le (Cecil) might be contracted with to commit the crhno and asked him to 10 it. Continuing, Cecil said. "On fanuary 30 L was In Taylor's ofllce and I'aylor said: 'Goebel lias to i>e killed >r I'll be robbed. 1 have $2,600 of ,he campaign fund and I'll give that ind a free pardon to the man who vill kill him. "I told Taylor I was lot In that business," said Cecil. Jecil said lie went Into the agrlcultur11 ofllce after the shooting and was there until the soldiers came. He ?aw Harlan Whittaker arrested and proposed to help take VVIdttaker away from the man who had him. The Taylor referred to by Cecil was the Republican governor of Kentucky when Goebel, who had been elected Governor to succeed him, was murdered. He ran away from Kentucky to keep from being tried, and is now a resident of Indianapolis, the Governor of Indiana refusing to honor a reposition for ills return to Kentucky, where he is under Indictment as one of the murderers of Gov. Goebel. Cecils testimony puts Taylor In a bad lights before the country. Million Dollar Fir?. A dispatch from Beaumont, Texas, says a careless workmen kicked over a lantern at one of the Caldwell oil wells on block 3H, Ilogg-Swaync tract, on Spindle Top Wednesday and started a tire that resulted In the loss o property valued at $1,000,000 and the bankruptcy of 20 or more of the smaller companls. There were 175 wells on the three blocks of the tract and only live of the derricks and pump house are left standing- Kvcry company that had property In the lloggSwayne tract Is a loser. The lire swept the three blocks covered with derricks and pump houses clear of all Its buildings. The derricks left arc on the edges and are few and far between. None of the companies had a cent of insurance. re a Cold in Oi no Quinine Tablets, a K>nti?a. This signature, I * NO. :J8 TELLS OF THE CRIME. Henry Youtsey at Last Makes a full Confession JAMES HOWARD KILLED OOEBEL And, Said YoutMcy, "(iov. Taylor IX* reeled Mv<'ry(liliiK Wo Old." Up* Knriloil us lioador I?y tbo A ss;?hm! us, James Howard is now on trial for the second time at Frankfort, Ky., for the murder of Governor (loebel about eighteen months titfo. Henry 10. Youtsey Thursday for the tirst time told on tiin witness stand his story of tiie killing, lie u imed James Howard, Lho defendant, as tho man who tired the shot. Youtscy said he saw Howard for the tirst time a few minutes before the shooting. Howard had a letter sent him several days before by the witness at Gov. Taylor's dictation. Youtsey says he took Howard into the oillee of Caleb l'owers, then secretary of state, which had been especially arranged for the shooting. tie showed Howard the Marlln rlllc, the bullets and tho window from which the shooting was to be done, lie says Howard asked what he was to get for doing tho shooting. " What do you want for it?" Youtsey says lie asked, and that Howard said he wanted a pardon for killing George Hakcr. "I told him ho could have that and more too," said Youtsey. "About that time," said the witness, "Goebel came in the gate and L pointed h m out to Howard and then ran from the room. As I disappeared down the steps to the basement I heard ttie crack of Howard's rille." Youtscy said that after the shooting he passed through the State house basement and a few minutes later came back into the executive building, from the east side entrance. "I stayed In the olltoe of Assistant Secretary of State Matthews," said he, km <?, k;?t iiiiuim.i;.-> illiu BilVV lUiltllieWK break open Caleb Powers' oil loo and find the guns that had been left in there." Voutsey said that at the time of the shooting lie was private secretary to Auditor Sweeney but that while his political status v/as not definitely llxed it was understood lie was to have a good place under Taylor. "Gov. Taylor," said Youtsey, "directed everything we did. We regarded him as our leader and lie was morally responsible for all we did. We knew we had the governor and the pardoning power behind us and we were not afraid of punishment for killing Goebel." Youtsey, on cross-examination, said that after he was arrested and later sent to the penitentiary, he still had hope of gaining ids liberty, lie thought Yerkes would be elected governor and would pardon him. Yerkes was defeated, however, and about a year ago lie decided to talk and did tell his story to Prison Physician Tobin. Youtcscy said further that he had an additional Incentive to tell the story, as Taylor, Powers and others had used him as a cats paw and scapegoat and then deserted him when lie got into trouble. The Good Old Doctrine. Itev. I. O. Ilorrold, pastor of the Christian Church at San Jose, Cal., must lie an eloquent and convincing speaker. Many years ago a man cheated a woman at Wabash, Ind., out of $;j. The woman had forgotten I about it, but the cheater had not, A few Sundays since the man listened to a sermon by the San Jose minister on "Restitution." Ills conscience was stirred, and after the sermon lie approached the pulpit, confessed ills crime, gave the address of the victim and handed the minister $10?$5 for the principal and $5 for the interest? requesting that the woman living on tlie banks of the Wabash far away lie repaid, r.very community in the land needs that sort of a preacher. If the tioodlers and shysters could be moved to return their stealings, the taxes of honest men would he considerably reduced for a time thereby. And, by the way, has not the modern preacher nearly forgotten to insist upon the good old robust doct rine of restitution? The old divines hammered this belief into the hearts of their hearers. True repentance in those days meant the righting, so far as possible, of all past wrongs. Nowadays repentance is often preached as a sort of mushy sentimentalism of sorrow, having no regard to past sins. Let us have more ilerrolds in the pulpit. Champion Lazy Man. Bruce Marco in, a white man, con vlcted of vagrancy, was sold into servitude for six months at Jackson, Ky., on Saturday, the highest bid being being only $(5.50. lie is 27 years old and a member of a well known family, but too lazy to work. - # Over SeiiHative. ? Mrs. Clarence Bishop, a bride of 17, of Port Jervis, N. J., drowned herself Saturday in Neversink river because her lO-year-old husband spoke lightly of her Easter hat. ie Day 1