The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, April 30, 1903, Image 1
VOL. XVII.
A BIG SENSATION.
o-* Official Stir in Washington Cause I by
Series of Scandals
A HIGH OFFICIAL DISMISSED
tS
Ho I* Oft' on Hick Leave, and Ills
Wll'e (iocs to IIIn Ofllce Mini
Pukes Papers tVom
Safe.
A Washington dispatch says a nio>t
sensational development of the investigation
of tiie postotllce department
affairs occurred just before the department
closed Thursday when Postmaster
General Payne announced the sum
mary dismissal or James N. Tyner,
assistant attorney general for
the postofficc department, coupling
with the announcement the startling
charge that all the papers and recoros
In the safe of the lattcr's office had
ueen austracteu ny :>irs. l/yner, wife
of the discharged official, witii the assistance
of others. The facts are told
tersely In the letter of dismissal,
signed by Postmaster General Payne,
late Wednesday afternoon and made
public tonight. The letter is as follows:
April 22, 1903.
Hon. James N. Tyner, Assistant Attorney
General for the Postoffioe Department:
Sir: You are hereby removed from
the office of assistant attorney general
for the post-office department.
I deem It proper to give you the reasons
for this summary action on the
part of tiie department. Kijrly In the
month of March 1 communicated to
you, through a mutual friend, the lequest
for your resignation. After a
painful interview with you, and a more
painful one with Mrs. Tyner, I consented
to modify the demand for your
resignation so that It might take effect
on May 1, 1903, with the proviso,
however, that you were given leave of
absence from the time of the acceptance
of the resignation to the date of
its taking effect. with the understanding
that you were not in any way to
undertake to discharge the duties of
the office.
Late Wednesday afternoon Mrs.
Tyner came to the office of assistant
attorney general for the post-office department,
entering in the regular way,
and went through the main office to
the private office, closing the door behind
her. .She then unlocked the door,
entering rroin the public hull into the
private rooms and admitted her sister,
Mrs. IJarrett, whose son was formerly
an assistant in your olllce. and
whose conduct is now under investigation
by the department. She also ads
mitted' in the same manner, O. G.
Hamner, an expert in the employ of
the Motler Safe company, with whom
she made an arrangement to meet her
at the department. At her direction
Mr. Hamner opened the safe in the
room, and she took therefrom all papers,
records and articles of every kind
and carried them away with her.
Immediately upon learning what
had been done I directed the fourth assistant
postmaster general to send two
inspectors to your house to demand,
in the name of the postmaster general,
the delivery to them of any papers,
documents or other materials which
had been abstracted from the safe.
This demand was refused by Mrs. Tyner;
and she likewise refused to permit
the inspectors to see you or to sec
> and examine the papers in her prcs
cnce. Mrs. Tyner further stated to
the postortlcc inspectors that she committed
tilts act with your knowledge
and by your direction. Further comment
on tliis transaction, on ray part,
Is not necessary.
The facts in the case will be submitted
to the attorney general of the
United States for such action In the
premises as he may deem proper.
Very respectfully,
II. C. Payne,
Postmaster General.
Mrs. Tyner came to the office of the
assistant attorney general on the fifth
floor of the postortlcc building, at 3.45
o'clock Tuesday afternoon and remained
there exactly an hour. When she
arrived Acting Assistant Attorney
General Christiancy, who has had
charge of the office for monhts past
in the absence of Gen. Tyner, who has
been in poor health for a long period,
was in the office. The clerks were at
their desks. Mrs. Tyner passed from
..public room into the private office
. closed the door behind her. Being
then alone in the office she stepped
to the door opening into the public
corridor and, by previous arrangement
admitted Mrs. Barrett, mother of
Harrison J. Barrett, the former law
clerk oj the postotllee department, and
G. G. Ilamner, a safe expert,
the .- * An Inspector discovered Mrs. Tyner
J' in the otllce and reported her presence
to his superviorofficer, Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General Bristow. Postmaster
General Payne was also notified.
Mr. Bristow asked authority to
have Mrs. Tyner ejected from the
; office. The authority came too late.
When the inspector returned Mrs. Tyner
and her party had left. The safe
on being examined was found to be
empty. The afTair created much exit
citement among the investigating officials,
but the news was concealed
< carefully from the public. Two Inspectors
were dispatched to the Tyner
residence to recover the papers.
Mrs. Tyner refused to give them up,
saying that she was acting under the
direction of her husband. She told
the inspectors, so they reported, thai
they had a right to the papers as Mr.
Tyner was still assltant attorney gen
^
c
I ~ ~
, oral, utid, moreover, insisted that the
papers wore all of a private characl
ter. The Inspectors reported that
Mrs. Tyncr declared the papers belonged
solely to them and slie announced
emphatically that she did
' not propose to have her papers submitted
to the scrutiny of the Inspectors.
It is suspected at the department
that the papers have some connection
! with the recent conduct of the oillee.
Some weeks a^o a turf Investment
concern, whose alTairs were aired in
: curt, alleged that its operations and
workim/ methods liar! Ii -cn siuwt iinn>il
by the assistant attorney general for
the pustoillce department/. The
; charges involving the otllco of the as1
sistant attorney general and a lawyer,
i formerly connected with that otlloe,
were ventilated very generally at that
time and an investigation was ordered
by tlie postmaster general, it was
really the inception of the investigation
that lias spread into every part
of the department. The complaints
crystalized into nation, signed by
Postmaster General Payne, on March
9th last. Mr. T>ner had been in ex
eeedmgly bad health for a long time
and had visited the olll;e at only rare
intervals, leaving the otlleo entirely
in charge of his assistant for months
at a time. He is sulTerlng from an
unusually severe ease of parahsis,
and in consideration of this fact the
request for his resignat ion was based
on his ill health. Mr. Tyner then sent
In his resignation, to take cITect May
1st, and it was accepted.
The announcement of these developments
were made by Postmaster General
Payne late Thursday afternoon to
a large number of newspaper correspondents.
In a voice that trembled
with emotion l:e said he regretted to
I have to say that he had found it neoesI
sary to remove from olllce the assls|
taut attorney general for the department,
and after speaking in a general
1 way about t lie facts that had (level- >pi
ed said the story was best told in the
correspondence, which lie then read
! In a most feeling tone. Then he announced
that he would say nothing
luiLiiur uu tin; Muujt;ut auu coat ne
preferred not to be asked.any questions.
He was asked if any arrests
would be made as a result of the abstraction
and if any one else In the
office was involved. He said that
this he could not discuss; that It rested
with the attorney general, to
whom the papers would go as soon as
the record of the case could be copied
and submitted. The case, however,
lie added, will be In the hands of the
department of justice Friday, and
what further steps will be taken will
be decided by the attorney general.
He did not care to venture any prediction
as to the outcome.
Mr. Tyner has been In the government
service, in various important
capacities, for many years. He la
from Indiana. . He was at one time
postmaster general. He is one of the
best known men In official life Iti
Washington. He and Mrs. Tyner and
President and Mrs. Grant were intimate
friends.
Mr. Tyner is In a very weak and almost
helpless condition from his long
sickness. He remains In Ids room
most of the time and sees very few
callers.
1 NTKN'DKI) NOTI11 NO WKONO.
After being not!tied of Postmastei
General Payne's action Mr. Tyner
called into consultation It. Ross Perrj
and L. T. Michener, who are intlmatt
f i* I o n rl u KArrn?/1ln?? f r'h? -
1UVIIUO) it^uiuiu^ V11C IIiaUHJM. 1 III
gentlemen later made a statement
saying that Mrs. Tyncr had nc
thought of wrong doing In opening
the safe, that the papers removed
were the private papers of Mr. and
Mrs. Tyner, with the exeption of ont
bundle not relating to departmenl
matters. These papers, the state
ment says, will be placed at the dis
posal of the proper authorities of the
government.
Would Not ICnt.
After living for nearly thirty dayi
without eating a mouthful Halle]
Chance, the white man who has beer
in the county Jail at Hrunswick, Ga.
for lunacy for some time, died Wed
nesday night. Chance was taken ou
of the Jail Saturday and carried to hli
home by the county physician, in tlx
hope that he might be persuaded toea
but the man still refused to swallow ;
mouthful. Chance was in Jail eigh
teen days and did not eat, and it I:
understood that he refused to eat foi
several days before he was confined
The man, it Is understood, would neve
c?u> auytriing unices tnc rooo was pre
pared either by his mother or himself
A Iiepcr in This HtAte.
A dispatch from Washington say? s
curiousvcase involving* a leper soldlci
In the Philippines Is before the war
r department, having been referred tx
' the Judge advocate general to deter
mine In what manner the afflicted
soldier shall receipt for his pay. Th(
leper is an enlisted man in the artil
' lery and at present Is isolated in Soutl
, Carolina. Pay offlcers do not care tx
have him handle the rolls to sign tm
receit for his pay so an agreemcni
probably will be made whereby the
, soldier can be paid through a power ,o
. attorney executed In the presence ol
the physician and nurse In attendance
A Town Pillaged.
i A dispatch from Tangier, Morocco
says tribesmen have attacked an(
pillaged Mequinz. Thirty-seven In
I habitants of the town and 13 tribes
. men were killed In the lighting
Mequlnz Is about 36 miles west b;
south of Fez. It has a population o
, about 30,000. Some mouths ago ?
> number of A merican missionaries weri
I located at Mequlnz, but during th<
i recent disturbances In Morocco the;
, arc reported to have left there to
Fez.
me 1
CONWAY, S.
IN HOT FIST FIGHT.
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A Very Disgraceful Affair in th<
II inois Legislature.
WHIRLWIND OF WILD DI80RDEH
Grew Out of* the Municipal Owmr
hip Fight, Chair* and Ki-nIis
4'omplctol.v Wrrckfil In
the Melee.
At Springfield, III., slugging anc
rolling civer across each other acrosi
the speaker's platform In a frenzied
general light, at the feet of a score ol
female guests, the members of the
Illinois legislature Thursday surpassed
the wildest Hcenes of the Austria!
reichsrath. Charges by the speakei
of the house, Isaac Miller, that at
tempts had been made to bribe bin
were formally made as an ezplanatlor
or the extraordinary actions on ho
part, which precipitated the riot.
The Interior of the legislative chamber
resembled, in a measure, the trace
of a tornado, so general was the wreckage
of ihairsand desks.
Chicago street railway franchises,
more valuable than gold mines, were
directly at stake, federal court receivership
proceedings against the Union
Traction company of Chicago having
brought the matter to a sudden issue.
The stormiest time ever experienced
in the Illinois legislature began al;
most without warning, In a whirlwind
I of wild disorder, which arose Thursday
hi the house of representative?
j over rival traction measures, or soi
called municipal ownership hills.
Adherents of the Mueller hill, Indlg,
n ml at Speaker Miller's ruling in
i favor of Lindley bill, attempted t(
| pull the speaker from his ohiar. The
speaker raised his voice above the
turmoil and declared the house ad
Journed. Thereupon Hepresetatlvc
Murray, a Mueller bill man, called foi
j the election of a speaker pro tempore.
Chas Allen of Vermillion was selected
but had dlfllculty in forcing his way
to the speaker's chair. The aisle?
were thronged with a crowd so exclt
ed that It was almost a mob. Even
tually he made the passage and Henrj
Keitler was made clerk. It was founc
exceedingly diflicult, however, to ac
complish business.
During roll calls on amendments t(
the Llndley bill nearl) half the mem
hers of the house stood on their desks
shouting and gesticulating. Man)
' members had seized bill books am
1 were pounding their desks, while Mr
' Cummlngs from his seat, In the front
row on the Democratic side, was vlg1
orously wielding a board.
Personal violence against the speak
er was threatened. A number of la
dies were sitting on the couch on tin
speaker's desk.
"Will t.be ladles please move fron
1 behind?" shouted Mr. Allen.
"Get them out," shouted Mr. Slier
man, "get the ladies out. Do not act
the coward."
A light broke out on the Democra
tic side, a few feet from the speaker
Werdell (Dem.), and Glade (Kept,
were the central figures, but eight o
j ten other members?In fact almosl
5 everybody in their immediate vicinity
' ?appeared to be taking a hand in th<
> melee, in evident endeavor to separate
[ the two combatants. It afterward
developed that Werdell had startet
[ for the speaker with a menacing at
| and that Glade had seized him, thu
J precipitating the encounter.
The municipal ownership tight nov
In progress is the most exciting whlcl
J the State capitol has witnessed li
many years. Chicago sentiment I
said to favor the Mueller, and Mayo
Harrison and others of Influence havi
9 been here several days working for it
f The Llndley bill, the municipal owner
) I uhl r\ nAAAOiiMA J L.. " ? ? ?
niii(i liiciMiiic lavuruu uy UII uu
? tive minority, has, however, beer
" forced ahead. Thursday the speake
L refused a roll call on a motion to post
* pone consideration of the Llndley bill
3 although a majority of the house de
t raanded the roll call. The postpone
1 ment motion was declared carried
" amid the protests of the majority. Tc
* day Speaker Miller ordered the Llnd
ley measure advanced to a third read
- lng in the tumult of voices rose in op
r position, during which the attemp
" was made to pull the speaker from hi
chair. After Speaker Miller dcclare<
the house adjourned the newly or
ganlxed house recalled the bill fron
i third reading and proceeded, sectioi
by section to substitute the Muelle
' bill for it. The tlmo then ar
) rived for the regular aftcrnooi
- session and Speaker Miller rcsumei
I the chair without opposition. Con
e siderabic confussion attended at
- tempts to transact business and
i recess was taken until evening.
) At the night session Speaker Miller
b said his action in refusing a roll cal
t was due to reports that he could mak
j money by allowing a roll call on th
f Mueller bill, but as the house deslrci
f it he washed his hands of the entir
. matter and would permit a roll call
An agreement was reached for a re
consideration of the Llndlcy bill am
the house adjourned until Friday.
i
Touched lllin Henri If.
E. J. Kennedy of Greensboro, N
. 0., who arrived at Norfolk on Wednes
1 day on a lloanokc and Southern train
r claims he was robbed of a wallet con
\ taining >1,701 In cash and a railroa
e ticket from Winston to Denver, Col
j Kennedy recently sold out his mercan
i tile business at Oreensboro and start
r ed for Colorado. So far there Is n
trace of the missing money.
paw?
. C., THURSDAY, ?
" the tiLlman case.
L
Considerable Surprise at 11? lleln
Continued I* Kxiirenind.
Thorn has been some surprh
throughout the state at the sonn
what unusual manner In which th
trial of .1. If. Tillman for the mm
dor of N. G. Gonzales was continue
. to the July term of court for Rlol
land County. It Is customary to glv
the defendant the benefit of an
doubt that may exist as to the pn
prlety of continuing a case of sue
gravity as a murder case, but till
I one seems to have boon continued o
a remarkably poor showing, if indce
' the rules of court have not b :en who
I ly disregarded.
r An analysis of tin? proceeding
, shows t hat a continuance was grunl
ed on the statement that two wil
nesses were absent. One of then
i witnesses, J. A. White, madeallldavi
that lie saw a man talking to on
Ilolsonback and heard him say lie ha
made Tillman show the white feat.hr
' and would do so again. White di
1 not know the speaker, but Holsonbac
i asserted that the person who mad
the alleged threat was N. O. Gonzale:
The defense showed by nflldavl
, that White was ill. Nothing w;i
' produced from White to indicat
when, if ever, he could appear as
witness, but counsel, by contetidin
| that ttic rule had been complied wltl
and that it was their desire to hnv
11 lose witnesses confront the Jury, li
timated ho purpose of the defense t
' produce them. The court, howevci
did not require the usual showing o
this vital point.
I The other witness because of whos
absence the continuance was aske
was Miss Roper, a yonng klnswoma
* of the prisoner, who Is a tralne
nurse. M'ss Roper, according to a til
davit, Is willing to testify that whil
employed in lior professional capaclt
j t>y Mr. Gonzales to minister at th
deatli tied of ids uncle, slie heard Mi
j Gonzales say to ids stricken relatlv
tliat he had made Tillman show tii
white feather or would make him d
so. The defense demonstrated tha
Miss Itoper was not at her home li
Spartanburg, and although it wt
' known that she was at a hospital 1
t New York, there was no exhibit t
show that she iiaJ been communicate
with by her relatives or that she ha
'f received a request to bo present I
I Columbia when the case was to t
called, and only the counsel's belli
that she would be present at the nci
} term.
In order that there might be no d<
lay, the prosecution, as usual In sue
] cases, agreed to admit that these al
j sent witnesses would, if present, swot
to the allegations set forth In the
I affidavits, but to this tlie defen:
would not consent declaring that hoi
witness had further declarations I
luiini; n; wie jury.
On this showing and against th
? protest of counsel for the prosecutioi
who cited the rules of court as ev
j dence that the whole proceeding wi
unusual In practice and violation (
those rules the continuance wa
^ granted.?Spartanburg Journal.
Try Them.
Mr. r. J. Hucker, of Columbl
j writes as follows to The State: "A
r egg wrapped in paper, packed in
^ close box In hot weather will ke(
y three months better than one laid 01
[* in the air three days. It is the a
g that ruins fresh meats, fruits, fish, ii
B or eggs. Wrap an egg the day it
j laid and it will never hatch. Egi
r loft in open air in July or August wl
s hatch in three weeks without a lie
or an incubator, so thoy arc not I
r to eat In three days unless they a
1 wrapped. Nature has prepared seal
on fish, peelings on fruit, shells c
s eggs to keep the air off them. A fit
r wrapped in paper in hot weather, w
3 cleaned, will keep 24 hours bett
, than one cut and salted two hour
1 There is Just as much Ronse in wra
. ping up meats, fish and eggs in in
1 weather to keep thorn as there is
r wrap up Ice to keep It. All I ask
r you Is to try It; wrap good with papt
and tie so no air can get to ther
I Wrap eggs the day they are laid, tl
. same as you would lemons, and pa<
In a close box. There is one thli
' certain that we have not learned
. yet?we only live to learn. Solom<
. just learned that he was a fool whi
he got ready to die and cried out th
^ all was vanity." It would do i
s harm to give these recipes a trial.
rl A MarquU for Halo.
Armed with document to verify h
n claim to nobility, Marquis" Artln
ri de Durrar.zo of Naples, Italy has con
r to New York with the avowed Into
tlon of marrying an heiress and h
n % - - ?
advertised to urn elTcct. The ma
quia thinks New York the Mceca f
'* heiresses. "There Is more money
New York than In all Europe," 1
a said. "You see I am young and wou
like a young and beautiful bride wit
[" a large dowry. So I some here to llr
It. American girl s are beautiful b
c yond all others." Asked If $100,0
? would bo a fair dowry, he said. "
would do, but Is not much of a rctu
e for tho honor my title brings. >
family Is nearly 600 years old and h
j large estates In Naples."
Killed lit* Father.
A dispatch from Clinton to tl
Spartanburg Journal says Walt
. Smith, 17 years old killed his fathe
Thomas Smith, Tuesday night
i, avenge what he states were tl
wrongs of his father toward his mot
d er. The boy lay In wait for his fat
I. er as he returned from a saloon ai
i- Inflicted three gashes on his head wli
an axe from which he died duilng tl
o night. The lad surrendered to tl
police. The victim was 42 years old
ppm
LPIUL. 30, 1003.
A CLARION CALL. I
Bryan Urges Democrats to Stand
Square tor Honesty.
). '
10 HE APPLAUDS SENATOR STONE.
(I
^ liiNtiMtd ot* IIi'Iiik True to III* I'urly
e Bryan DeclareH Cleveland IMmkraced
and Betrayed it.
>
11 BcmooratH Applaud.
s At Kansas City, Mo., last Tuesday
(l week William J. Bryan speaking to
1- the toast "Democracy" at the banquet
given by the Democratic .Jackson
County club and t he newspaper men
of Missouri complimentary to William
J. Stone, bitterly arraigned Grover
It Cleveland and his supporters who are
making tho plea for harmony among j
Democrats. The assembly was made j
n.w.f Vtlcen.irl .. ?.- ? I
,, /blllUklilin (IIKI Uiu; IUg
murks of Mr. Bryan met with cnthuc
siastic favor with liis hearers. He
* said In part.
t "What wc need In this nation is!
IS moral eourago amonn men. We need
,, moral courage more than ability and
u wc want to have the kind of moral
^ courage that will light for honest
I, Democratic principles,
e KLOWKK8 KOH STONK.
l* "In your junior senator, William
? Joel Stone, you have in Missouri a man
ri who possesses both moral courage and
n ability. 1 am glad that you have
harmony in this state. 1 helievc the
0 j Democrats of Missouri give the best
' idea of how to secure harmony among
n | the Democrats of the nation. I be;
lieve in harmony.
I* "The Democrats' bed Is wide enough !
0 f ?r all who want to come In, but we
J 1 don't have to sit up nights to keep j
0 ; certain pretenders from picking our
r- pockets. We Invite all who have
e I strayed from the fold to come hack If
e t oey so desire, but we want them to
? I slay In after they come.
KNOUOII OK CLUVKLA.NI>.
^ "We have had enough of Clevelandn|
Ism In the Democratic party. Wc had
r) i four years of Cleveland, and after his
(j 1 administration was over we found ourj
selves weaker than we had ever been
? ! before because we had been betrayed.
"These so-called hannonizcrs, Cleveland
and his followers, showed their
nearness to Republicanism by deserting
us In our hour of greatest need
and supporting the Republican party.
Ij "The Democratic party won a great
)m victory In 1892, which gave our party
ir a great opportunity, but (Jrover
lr Cleveland betrayed tiie Democratic
party and It carried the burden of his j
administration through two national !
0 campaigns and there was not a plank j
j in either platform that was such a i
ie j detriment to me in those campaign as |
t on/it Durcicn was.
1?
1- CUtOVKIt BKTHYKI) PAUTY.
is "Cleveland had the host opportunity
>f to redeem the Democratic party ever
u offered to any man since the time of
Andrew Jackson, but instead of being
true to ills party lie disgraced himself.
"As a party, we must stand true to
a, Democratic principles and if we do I
,11 believe that Democratic victory will
a some day come and it will he here to
!p remain when it comes,
it "lie is of the highest service to his
Ir fellows, who can give the highest ideal,
sc There has been a lowering of ideals in
is this country. Money Is talked about
/s morning, noon and night. Commer111
clallsm Is the curse of the country torn
day, and it has debauched our counlt
try. The foreigner has come to rere
gard the American simply as a moneycs
maker and we give cause for the belief
in that we put nothing beyond wealth,
ih and that money is ruling the country
ot with an iron hand.
cr MOKK IMPOKTANT THAN MONBY.
a
rPlin mn nh/ vA/1 n nrl
a iiu iiuiiiiiwu auu nwiuaiiiiuwil ui
the United States are more important
^ than money. Jefferson set a higher
fI Ideal for us than that of the worship
" of money, and nothing hut the Ideals
' of Jefferson will ever lift us out of the
n" slough of despond. The Democratic
? party is not the enemy of honestly
acquired wealth.
"I have heard it said that Demo1
crats believe that a man can not have
n money and he honest. I deny that as
" being false.
"A man can have money and be a
10 Democrat, but If money has him he
has to be a Hepubllcan. Jefferson believed
that money should be sub
is servient to the man, and Jefferson was
Jr an educated man. There are people
ae to-day who think that the educated
n- man should he separated from thecomas
mon rabble. Jefferson believed that
ir. the man who was too good to take part
or in politics was not good enough to live
in In a land like tills. Jefferson did not
ie create the principles of the Democld
racy; they existed Ion# before Jefferson
,h lived. He simply put the principles
id Into living form. There never was a
<?. time when the people were more ready
00 to accept Democratic principles than
It today.
rn MUST API'KALTO CONSCIENCE,
ly "We must appeal to the conscience
as of the people. Three remedies for
existing evils have been suggested to
me. First, an appeal to the conscience
of the people; second, by legislation,
,e and third, by revolution. HutrevoluHon
Is not to be thought of. Revolus|
To Cu
I Take Laxative Bror
lc I Seven MQBoa boxes soM In past 12 n
\
111.
. jlutlon
Is not a remedy in a country
where people can volc.
' People can vote themselves tree in
litis country and if the) could not do
that, they could not tight theinsclvcs
free, Jetterson stood for the
people and their lute rests and Hamll-1
ton believed that the president and I
the senate should he elected for life or ;
during good behavior. Tho Ropubllcan
parly today Is forming not Jeflferson
clubs hut Hamilton club.
"Never swerve in your loyally to j
Democratic principles. I would not
givo one Democrat who really believes
in Democratle principles tor a whole
barn yard full of trimmers and compromisers
who pretend to be Democrats.
MANY I.KTTKUH OK KKOttRT
Letters of regret fnitn Kicltnitl
Olney, Senator Horman, Senator Car- '
mack, \V. It. Hearst. Tom L.Johnson, I
Edward M. Shepard, D It Mill, Sena- .
tors Daniel Clark, of Arkansas, and
Italley were read. The letter of Johnson
and Hearst raised a tumult of np- 1
pi a use.
THE UOEBEL MURDER.
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Voulsey Sn\H (tuv, Taylor Said Dentil
Plan Wan (iikkI.
The evidence. hrmnrht out tn tl><? i
trial of .James Howard for the murder i
of Governor (tnchcl, of Kentucky, at
Frankfort in tlmt State, fastened the
guilt for the dastardly deed upon the
llcpuhlican Governor, who was in of- i
lice when it. ocoured, as much as it
does upon any one else. Henry Youtsey,
wlio confessed theotlierday that
he planned the arsassinat ion while on <
the witness stand, was recalled on
Wednesday. <
Youtsey was avked if he did not refuse
to tell Assistant auditor thank
Johnson where he was when Goobel
was shot, lie said Johnson asked him
tlte. question, and lie told Johnson's he <
was in a safe place. Johnson said t Hat.
was not soilleient ly dellolt e. as t he dc- 1
tectlves had called for particular data
as to where all employes of the ofllce
were when the shot was tired.
Youtsey then told him he was in the i
toilet room in the hasctnent of the
executive building. N outsey denied
that he had ever told General A.
Leads, prior to the shooting, that Goehel
once heat iiiin nut of a fee and
that he depiseo him. lie admitted
that ho told It. II. Witherspoon and
other realatlvcs that the newspaper
reports that he had named Jim Howard
as the man who fired the shot wore
without foundation.
"It was my defense at that time,"
said Youtsey, "that Howard and mo
were strangers, and 1 told everybody
I had never seen Howard till we met
in Jail."
Further along in the interrogation
Youtsey declared that from and after
the shooting of Goebc), all of the
others engaged in the killing c< plred
together to clear themselves and
throw the entire responsibility of the
crime unon him.
Responding to (|UC8tlons as to negotiations
with Dr. Johnson to kill
Goebel, Youtsey said ho went to see
Senator Deboc, and told hlra .lohnson
and others were willing to do It. Senator
Dehoe, according to witness, replied
that enough Democrats were going
to vote with Taylor to retain him
in olllce and it would not be necessary
to kill Goebel.
Deboe said it must not be done.
Witness went back and told Johnson
what Dehoe said. Johnson told him
not to pay any attention to Deboc,
but to go and see what Governor Taylor
said about It. lie went to see
Taylor and told him him what Johnson
said, and Taylor ra'sed no objection
to the plan of shooting from secretary
of state's ofllee.
Many Candidates.
The State says although Mr. A. F.
II. Dukes was buried but Wednesday
there are a dozen applicants for the
position on the board of directors of
the dispensary made vacant by his
death. These aspirants may not be
applicants in the sense that they have
appeared in person and have asked
the governor for the appointment,
but it is a fact that their friends have
recommended to the governor, which
amounts to the same thing as a personal
application. The position pays $4
a day for not exceeding 100 days in the
year, with mileage at the rate of 5 cents
a mile when on business for t.h<? diu.
pensary.
l-'ouud Dead in He(l.
A dispatch from Charleston to The
State says William Alexander Iflair, a
traveling man of Ashevllle, N. C.,
was found dead in his bed at the
Pavilion hotel Tuesday morning. He
had been here about a week and it is
said he had been drinking heavily. A
half-filled bottle of whiskey was found
In his room. It was at first thought
that he had committed suicide, but a
post-mortem examination showed that
I his death was due to natural causes.
Ills body will lie shipped to Ashevllle,
of which city lie was once mayor and
a well-to-do citizen.
Murder and Suicide.
Daniel Dove, a prosperours farmer
ofColumbus, Ark., Tuesday shot and
killed Mrs. Zan Dove, the wife of his
brother. Immediately afterward he
rode to his home and killed himself, j
It Is thought that a difficulty over a
land matter between Dove and his j
brother caused the killing of the wo- j
man.
re a Cold in On
110 Quinine Tablets.
lontha. This signature, ^
NO. :{!)
A SAI) TALK.
Hopes His Conviction Will Be a
Leason to Others.
IT WILL DO THE STATE GOOD
lfo|>c* Hi* ( use Muv >?? a IjftMiHt to
Oiln?r Young Men to Shim
Illa Sn?l Fate.
The correspondent of The State
Had a talk with Lonnle C. Meyers, a
younu' white in.in who had just been
onvicted of murder an 1 sentenced to
I he penitentiary for life by the court
it Kln^stree. The correspondent
<ays Ids conversation disclosed some
unusual sentiments to be uttered by a
man who lias stood the excruciating
ar leal of a three days' trial, with a
consequent verdict which virtually r<inoves
hi in from the material world
for life.
The prisoner stood his trial remarkably
well, but Tuesday the tcrrib e
mental strain of the last few days bik'ati
to leave its trace upon his features.
I hiring the conversation, the
prisoner did not utter one word of bitterness,
harted, or anger against a
single witness, who testified agahnt
Mini, lie spoke iippreehitlvely of the
fair, upright manner in which Solicitor
Wilson handled the case, of the
earnest elTorts of his attorneys who
fought has battle so well and of the
consideration that he met with at the
hand of the court.
lie spoke feelingly of the wife and
four little children whom he leaves
behind to win their own bread, and
ended his conservat ion with lids sentence:
"I hope this will do South
Carolina good; I hope that my case
may cause other young men to halt
when they are faced with trouble,
and that if may be a lesson that will
cause otIters to try to avoid my fate."
His attorneys have given notice of a
motion for a new trial, but tho prisoner
seemed reconciled to the sentence
of life Imprisonment that has fallen
upon him. lie expressed the desire of
securing work in the penitentary that
he Is able physically to perform and
said further that It shall be bis earnest
endeavor to make a model, obedient
prisoner.
This Is a sad tale, and should he a
warning to all young men. Meyers
is a young man and he murdered his
brother-in-law In a quarrel about a
line fence, which should have been
settled without any trouble. If he
could undo what lie did, no doubt he
would give all he possesses, but It Is
too lato now. lie robbed a wife and
children of their natural protector
and now the law condemns him to life
long imprisonment and his own wife
and children must tight the battle of
life alone. Hut the sentence was a
iuse one, as in no oilier way can society
be protected.
'l'he lii^htning'* Work.
The bolt of lightning, which struck
the home of J. i\ Heine Wednesday
afternoon, came very near being fatal
in its result and did considerable
damage. Mrs. Heine and young
Belue, who is about 1"> years old, were
rendered wholly unconscious for some
time and the boy's right leg was temporarily
entirely paralyzed, ills right
trouser leg was cut olf a tout tho hip
as cleanly as if done by a knife and
from there split to the tottom. He
was severely burned In the legs also.
The bolt evidently came down an iron
pipe that is used as a stove Hue. It
broke the bricks that support tho
cooking stove, split a shelf in a closet
on which stood a number of jelly and
other glasses, shattered the glasses,
ripped an oil cloth from a table and
on the back piazza broke a porcelain
wash basin and probably went *nto
the ground by way of the drain pipe.
The shook to Mrs. Heluc and her son
was very great and that tlioy escaped
with their lives is wonderful. They
are both doing very well Wednesday
and there is no cause apparent to fear
any serious consequences.?Spartanburg
Journal.
In Hard Ijuck.
Samuel O'Neale and Florence Bedinger
were married at Chaneville,
Penn. After the ceremony while the
bride and groom and several others
were en route to the groom's home,
in a swollen stream the wagon upset
and the bride washed 100 yards down
the stream before she was rescued.
The groom bought a wagon load of
furniture. While going home the
straw in the wagon bed became Ignlt!
ed from a lighted cigar which cause a
| can of oil to explode, which set fire to
the furniture. O'Neil was seriously
I burned ond everything except the
! horses was consumed.
lloa<t This, Girls.
It is stated on the authority of the
head of the Chicago board of charities
that during the year 19)2 four hundred
deserted wives, who applied to
the bureau of charities for assistance,
and later obtained divorces, admitted
that they could 'neither cook nor keep
house,' and, of course, could not keep
husbands, had cookery and slovenly
house-keeping were the direct causes
of these marriages being failures.
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