The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 07, 1905, Image 6
THE VERY BEST.
A Grand Tribute to the Soilders
of the Confederacy.
FOUGHT GREVT ODDS
But A1 -vnys Acquitted Themselves in a
Way that Atad; Their linemies Respect
The .it. Some Interesting
Face and Figu-es from
I riend and Foe.
The subjoined extracts are taken '
from the writings or L^ev. J. Willlaui
Jones, who was lirst a private and
seived In the ranks, then a chaplain
to the close ol the war These extracts
are taken from Vol. XII, "Confi d r
ate Military lli&tory." The author is
now Chap aln General of the United
Confederate Veterans. During the
war he was fittingly drs'guatod as the
''Fighting Parson." Chaplain Jours
is a man of marked ability, with tr tti
pen aid tongue. He is a Hiptfst
minister. In his testimony before
"the committee on the conduct of the
war," Major Gcnener&l Hooker?
"Fighting Joe" he was affectionately
and appropriately called by his men?
uses this remarkable and emphatic
language:
"Our artillery had always been su
perior to that of the rebels, as was
also our infantry, except in discipline,
and that, for reasons not necessary to
mention, never did equal Lee's army.
With a rank and tile vastly Inferior to
our own intellectually and physically,
that army had, by dictpline alone, ac
quired a character for steadiness and
eiliclency unsurpassed, in my judgement,
in ancient or modegn times.
XIT- I - A- % -11- - ? %
we imve not ouen aoie u) rival it."
Now, we may fully accept the latter
part of this statement of General
Hooker's as to the chatacter of the
Confederate army, without c< needing
that it was due alone te discipline. It
was my privilege to be a member ot
the army of Morthern Virginia. As a
private soidieror asChaplian 1 followed
its flag from Harper's Ferry in '01
to Appomattox in '05, mingling freely
with the men In camp, on the march,
In the bivouac, on the battlciield, and
in the tospital. 1 knew its most conspicuous
leaders and made It my es
pedal business to know the heroes of
the rank and iile. 1 marched with
them alocg the weary road, bivouacked
with them in the pelting storm,
went with them into the leaden and
iron hall of battle, ministered to them
in the loathsome hospitals, labored
with among them in those glorious revivals
which made well nigh every
camp vocal with God's praises, resulting
in the profossed conversion of
over 15,000 men; rejoiced witli them
in that long series of brilliant victories
whicu have illustrated brightest pages
of Amerlean history, and wept with
them when Lee was "compelled to
yield to overwelmiug nuxibers and resources."
omce ine war i nave careruuy
studied the olficial reports on both
sides and everything that has been
published which throws any light on
the history cf that army. 1 am pre
pared, therefore, not only to fully indors3
General Hookers's opinion of
the infantry of the army of Northern
Virginia, hut to go further and say
that our artillery, though inferior in
guns, ammunition and equipment,
was always a match for that to which
it was exposed; that the men who
rode with Turner Ashby, Wade
Hamptm and Fitz Lee, or "followed
the feather" of "Jeb" Stuart, though
greatly inferior in mount and equipment
to the Federal cavalry, were
masters of the situation on any fair
fields; and that the army of Northern
Virginia as a whole, was, in gallant
dash, steady resistance, patient cn
durance, heroic courage, and all other
qualities which go to make up the best
soldiers, not only unrivaled, as the
gallant, general says, by the army of
the Potomac, but the < quals of any
other army that eyer marched under
any flag, or fought for any cause.
^ And 1 give equal honor to the other
armies of the Confederacy. The men
who defended Fort Sumter and Charleston
and Savannah and Mobile and
Fort Fisher; who fought under Albert
Sidney Johnson, Heauregard, Ilragg,
Joseph E. Johnson, Hood, Stapen D.
Lee, PemberLon, Van Dorn, Price,
Dick Taylor, ' Klrby Smith, Forrest,
Joe Wheeler, John Morgan, and
others, were the peers of thoso who
followed Lee and Stonewall Jackson
and deserve equal praise. The world
never saw better soldiers than those
who composed the Confederate armies.
But we must utterly repudiate the
reason General Hooker assigns for the
ertlolency of the Confederate soldiers.
So far from Its being due to "disci pline
alone"?so far from Its being
true that the Confederates were
"vastly Inferior, intellectually and
physically," to the soldiers on the
other side it can be abundantly demonstrated
that just the reverse is
nearer the truth, and that the world
never saw an army composed of more
superb material, Intellectually, physically
and morally, in all that constitutes
what we oall morale in an army,
than the armies of the Confederate
States of America.
But perhaps the best evidence of
the morale of the Confederate ^an^les
is their achievements, notwithstanding
the immense odds in numbers, resources
and equipment against which
they fought. The population of the
Northern States was about 20,000,000,
while the population of the Confederate
States was only 6,000,000 whites.
I There were enlisted in the Federal
armies, as shown by the < flldal reports,
6,804,211 men, while there were
mustered in the Confederate armies a
total of only 800,000 men The block
ade t lit i IT the Confederacy from the
factories and general supplies of the
world and shut the South up to its
own seant. res< urcei; while the Federals
had not only only the arsenals, the
navy yards and ^tiie shops of| the
government, and the numerous factories
of the Nortli, but those of the
whole world from which to draw their
war material. The Federal armies
were eq lipped in complete style, their
arms and ammunition were of the
most improved patter s, theitf supplies
of every kind were abundant and even
luxurious, their transportation v ry
superior and their telegraph, pioneer,
'"secret service," and every ovher department
of the highest etllclency;
while it e C >n fed rates were sauly d?*li
dent in all cf these and, indeed,
lacked everthing save devoted patri t
Ism. able leadership and heroic hearts.
And yet, with these overwhelming
odds age ins . them, the Confederate
armies for lour years maintained the
unequal content, fought over nearly
all trie terrhory of the Confederacy,
and In over 2 000 engagements, gr^at
and small, won many victories which
astonished the world
In evidence of the high mi rale of i
the Confederate army, a letter from a
gallant Union colonel, who served to :
the cud of the war, is here quoted as
it was i uollshed in the Southern Historical
Society Papers (Vol. JX, pp, I
142, 143), in which he says: "1 take <
pleasure iti reading the Southern His- <
torioal Society Papers, and consider <
them invaluable Taey show conelu- I
sively the groat disparity of numbers
and the bravery and great sacrifices i
of the Southerners in battling for t
their princip'es and for what they <
honestly consider were their rights. I
And 1 take a just pride, as an Amor- ;
ican citzm, a descendant, on both i
bides of my parentage, of English \
stock who came to this country about i
1(540, that the Southern army, com i
postd a'most entirely of Americans. |
were able, under the ablest American |
chieftains, to defeat so often the over I
whelming hosts of the North, which <
were composed largely of foreigners 1
to our soli." General Hooker, In his
testimony, surely overlooked this clo
mcnt, or he would not have test!lied i
that the Confederates were inferior to I
his people, "intellectually and physi- 1
cally," and acquired their superiority <
in ste adiness and etlloiency "by dis- i
clpline alone." 1
Hut the point will he obvious by
citing the results of a few of the
many battles as illustrations. When
on account of tho wounding of Gen J.
E. Johnson at Seven Piiies, Gju. It
E. Lee was put in command In Vlr- >
ginla, June 1, 1802, the situation 1
looked dark indeed for the C >nfedcrates.
The caDture of Fi\>rt? linnm
and Donelson, the fall of New Of
leans, the capture of Nashville, It >anoku
island and Norfolk, gave the Federals
conildence of success and tended
to greatly dispirit the Confederates 1
The gloom had been somewhat bright i
ened by the Confederate victory at
Shiloh and Stonewll Jackson's brilliant |
Valley campaign, which terminated
at Cross Keys and Fort B'public a
few da>s after General Lee assumed ,
command, Hut the slliution was ?x ,
eeedingly threatening, for McClellau
was strorgly intrenched with 115,000
men within sight of the spires of ,
Richmond and almost within cannon ,
range of the city. lie had 10,000 ,
moro men at Fortress Monroe and
vis confidently expecting McDowell, |
whose troops had hecn diverted by
the movements of Stonewall Jackson, ,
to join him with 40,000 troops. Gen.
Lee t) oppose this strong force, after
receiving all of the reinfoicements <
that he could draw from every source
could only muster 78,000 men, the
largest army he ever commanded.
And yet, with this force Lee attneted
MoClellan in his stronghold, and in i
"Seven Days' battles" drove him i
from every position and forced lilm to
take refuse under the cover of his 1
gunboats at Harrison's landing, forty 1
miles below Richmond, after a sereis '
of brilliant Confederate victories <
which Inlllcted immense less on the 1
enemy In both men and material. <
Gen. J. B. Kershaw, of South Caro- <
Una, published some years ago a deep i
ly interesting narrative oonoemlng l
"Richard Kirkland, the humane hero 1
of Fredericksburg," a sergeant tn the
Second South Carolina regiment. After
the bloody repulse of the Federals
at Fredericksburg, near the foot of
Marye's hill, they left their many killed
and wounded lying between the
lines, and the piteous cries of the
brave men on account of pain and
thirst appealed to the sympathies of
the soldiers of both armies.?Kirkland
went to General Kershaw, who
was then In command of the Confederates
at that point, and said with
deep emotion: "General I eun'r
stand this." "What Is the matter, !
Sergeant?" asked the general. He
replied : "All day I have heard those
poor people crying for water and I
can stand it no longer, I come to ask j
permission to give them water." The ,
general regarded him for a moment
with feelings of profound admiration, j
and said : "Kirkland, don't you j
know that you would get a bullet .
through your head the moment you ]
stepped over the wall?" "Yes," he ]
said, "I know that I may, but if ycu |
will let me, I am willing to try it."? (
After a pause the general said : t
"Kirkland, I ought not to allow you (
to run such a risk, but the sentiment (
which actuates you is so noble that I
will not refuse your request, trusting
that God may protect you. You may
go." With light heart and buoyant i
step the humane hero, armed with all 1
of the canteens he oould carry filled
with water, orossed the wall, went t
unharmed through the shower of bullets,
which at first greeted htm, and
reached and relieved the nearest sutl
erer, pouring down his parched throat j
the life-giving fluid, putting him in a
more comfortable position, and leaving
him a canteen tilled with water.
Ills purpose i ow being apparent, the i
Federals ceased to tire on him, and
for an hour and a half, amid the
pl&uiits of both armies, this angci of
mercy went on his mission from man
to man of the wounded enemy?his
comrades gladly tililDg his canteens ]
fir him and being prevented from
joining him In his labor of love only
oy the orders against their crossing 1
the line?until ail on that part of the 1
tleld had been relieved. 11 needs only <
to he udded?since 4 the bravest are ,
the tenderest and the loving are the
daring''?that S rgeant Kirkland so 1
greatly distinguished himself at Oct 1
tysburg that he was promoted for
''consplcious gallantly " and that he {
fell on the victorious tleld of Cblcka- I
mauga, bravely doing his duty. But
be will be known io the anuals of the '
war as 4'The humane hero of Freder- 1
ickburg," and as he bed but a short 1
time before feu id "Christ in the *
Camp," 1 doubt not that he w? ais :
now a br:gut crown bestowed by Him '
who promises that a cup of cold water 1
given in the right spirit shall riot I
lose its reward.
As for the treatment of prisoners, 1
despite ail of the slanders that were
published against the Confederacy and
Are still unjustly repeated the. fact re
mains that Confederate records have ?
! e -i) searched in vain for proof that '
. I.. _ ? 1
mf uonreaerate authorities ever ordered
or connived at any ill treatment s
pf prisoners. The Confederates did v
Everything in their power to mitigate
the tulTjrlng of prisoners and made
varkui humane propositions to that 1
3nd, which were rejected by the F d- ^
prah; and while the sufferings of prisoners
were very great and the mortality
among them fearful on both sides,
yet the fill ;ial reports of K. M Saan- li
ton, United S!ates secretary i f war, b
md J. K. Barnes, surgeon general, p
ihow that nearly four per cent more a
Confederates perished in Northern
prisons than Federals in Southern d
prist,ns, aud this notwithstanding the li
Fact that the Confederacy was deti- o
dent in food, raiment and medicines r
for even its own j-oldiors, while the t
Federals had an abundance of all sup- v
plies. The truth Is that our Chris- r
tian President, JtiT^rson Davis, and o
Ids generals conducted the war on t
the highest plane of civilization; that
jur rank and iile caught their spirit
and showed in this, as in other direc j
tions, their peculiar and lofty morale. ,j
The great English scholar and p >et,
Prof. P. S. WoReley, wrote the truth
in lines of blended strength and beau
In his poem dedicated to Gen. U, E.
Lee, in which he thus refers to the 1
Southern Confederacy: ^
v
"Ah! realm of tombs! but let her bear (J
This blazon to t he last of times:
No nation rose so white and fair,
Or fell so pure of crime." v
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CllMl'K<Hl lO UMrOlOHHIlOHH. j]
The Undines and opinion of the t
court of inquiry which investigated 1
the fatal explosion on the gunboat
Bennington has been made public by 'j
Secretary Bonaparte. The court cx ^
presses t.he opinion that the explosion
was caused by excessive steam pres- ^
sure in her boilers, resulting from
closing the steam valve connecting
with the guage. The court says that
D. N. Holland, the llreman on duty
Olosed the valve. The court finds En- ?
sign Charles D. Wade of the engine '
department of the ship at fault In falling
to see that the steam and safety lj
guage valves were closed at the proper [.
time, having accepted the report of
subordinates that this had been done
In March. lie was declared negligent in
the perform mce of duty and that he "
should be brought before a court
matial.
Jb'OOliMtl itoyN. J
At Santa Fe, N. M., two youths 0
named Jose Martinez and Hudore R > a
mero have been killed by the explosion
of a box of dynamite they used .
Tor a target. The boys were rabbit (,
hunting. Not finding any game,
when they reached the powder house *
>f the Denver and Rio Grande railway
near Uhama, they set up a box
)f dynamite as a target. The box
sontalned 400 pounds of the explosive
ind it's explosion set c ff four tons of
QOWti?r In flhama mimi \zrimir\m
r _ ? ? w?ai?i*4w mmuj niuuun"
panes were broken. 0
o
Hailly Stuug. o
In an elT >rt to rescue her cow which rlad
been attacked by bees Mrs. Bert ii
Goodrich, of Davenport Centre, bad a b
larrow escape from being stung to s<
ieath. The cow, which was tied to a h
itake by a long rope, upset a hive of si
jecR and the insects attacked the ani- ^
mal. Mrs. Goodrich rushed from the t
riouse with a razjr and severed the
rope, but the bers fell upon her so si
tiercely that neighbors bad to rtscue b
Her. Scores of bees wet# taken from w
the woman's hair and one was found c
In her ear. S
Itlowil lo 1'ii'CCH. ^
Three Slavs and an Italian were
blown to pieces by the premature ex- p
plosion of a blast near Safe Harbor, b
Pa., Thursday night. Another Slav
Is missing and is believed to have been
blown into the Susquehanna river,
*nd two Slavs and a negro were badly t
Injured. The men were engaged in a
loading a blast hole 50 feet deep and *
bad Just placed In the dynamite and r<
ietonatlng oap. It is supposed the c
tamping rod struck this oap. The G
concussion exploded a similar charge ?
>nly four feet away. t
Hsllor Kills Himself*
Guy Earle flowett, a yoeman on the
receiving ship Franklin, at the Nor- ^
folk navy yard, oommitted suicide 0
Thursday by shooting. No explana- p
Lion was given. tl
TRIPLE ALLIANCE
Suggested Between France, Fngland
and the United 8tates.
Such A Combination Would Bo Most
Pew riul and Diotate the Policy
of the World.
The most interesting Idea which
has occupied the attention of the diplomatic
world for a long time past is
the suggestion, mooted a few days ago
by an inlluential New York newspaper
of high standing to theetliot that the
time was rip^ for the formation of a
new triple alliance, the high contract
log parties to which sh< u'd bs Groat
Brtian, Freucnaud the Uoltrd States,
<ays II. U. Wilson in The London Express.
The idea is not quite a new one,
out its novelty consists in the fact
that it was put toward at a time when
the relations beteewn the three countries
are of an unusually cordial char
icier, and by a lober aud frequently
csplred journal. It is probably very
nuch "in the air" at present, but its
,,w. nl l.i 1 li 1? A- A J '
uiiiLy j? ikju so remote, aria lis
importance is so great tbat it is at
east worthy of serious consideration.
Wltlithe adhe-iou of Japan practl
sally assured the combination would
)3 one of su jh enortuous power that It
dmost amounts to a truism to say
.bat it would icsuie the peace of the
vorlcl. it t IT cts may perhaps best be
bowu bv a few c>mparative tables
vhlch will reveal some startling facts.
Sq Miles.
Phe British Empire 12,750,000
Prance and her possessions 5 000 000
Phe United States 3 115,000
Total 20 805,000
When it is stated tbat the total
and area of the world is computed to
ie 197 000,000 square miles, the Jm ortance
of the above figures will be
ppreciated.
The enormous area of the British
lominion?easily the greatest empire
n the world?was staled in the hon**
f lords only a few davs ago to be 12i{
nillions of square miles, although in
looks of reference it is placed somewhat
lower tliau this. T.ie j tint teritcry
would constitute more than
tie-tenth of the total laud surface of
he globe.
POPULATION.
Phe British Empire 400,000,000
Prance and her possessions 90,000,000
Phe United States 83,000,000
Total 573,000,000
I n rruinrl fl rvn i*na f Ba f/\fnl
A. Ll 1UUMU ll^UICfl unci llUiai
Ion of the earth is 1,500,000,000. so
hat the subjects of the new alliance
vould number more thau one-third
f the world s Inhabitants. ^
The armed strength of the alliance
vould be s'-upendous, and it would be
radically impossible for any combilation
of the world p twers to bring to
ear a force capable of even threatenuk
it seriously.
F1Q1I1ING FOWKK.
Men. Guns.
[*he British Empire 1,000,000 12,000
France ai d iier possessions
3 500,000 5,000
?he United States.. 200 000 500
Total 4 700,000 17,500
In compiling the above, the whole
trength of the armiss has been taken
nto account. Thus that of Great
Jritian inc ud s the regulars, reserves,
nilitia, volunteers, the troops In lnia,
and all the native colonial forces,
^he U ilted States army Is almoRt in
ignliicant in comparison to that of
'Vance, hut 200,000 perfec.ly trained
den constitute a force that Is not to
e ignored.
GIGANTIC NAVIK8.
When we come to the navies of the
hree powers, the : v Twhelming force
f the combination is more strikingly
pparent.
G. B. France. U. S
battleships 07 36 20
Iruisers 130 20 44
^rpedo craft... . 240 284 51
uhmarines 40 09 4
Total 477 454 125
Total ships 1,056
These ligures Include battle ships
misery, and submarines now building
f the tree powers, and this vast comined
navy would be manned by,
:.ughly, 000,000 men. The similarity
l the total number of ships possessed
y Great Britain and France will be
>on t r, V*.n /liw. *- v- ~ i- T'^- ?
wu uu us uuo uu una lauu buab r rituut/
as a large excess of torpedo craft and
ubmarines, but the total lighting
weight is much in favor of this counry.
An examination of these figures
hows that Great Britlan, when her
'hiding programme Is completed,
rill posses* 197 bittle ships and
rulsers. France 101 and the United
tates 70 This Is a much greater
orce of heavy fighting ships than the
est of the world could muster altoether.
Germany, when her navnl
lans are comple, will only have 87
attle ships and crusiers of all types.
COLOSSAL WKALTH.
The combined Income which the
hree allied powers would enjoy
mounts to the tremendrous sum of
1392,545,000 a year. The individual
evenues for the year 1904 (excluding
olonles) were as follows:
Ireat Britain ?141,545,000
'ranee 143,000,000
Jnlted States 108,000,000
Total ?392,645,000
As against this they have national
ebts amounting to the almost inredlble
sum of 2,170 millions of
ounds, whlob France's share la by
ar the largest;
*
Great Brltlan ? 750.000,000
Prance 1,220,000,000
United States 200,000.000
I
Total ?2,170,000,000
The shipping controlled by the
three powers constitutes two-thirds
of the total shipping of the world.
Worked out in tons, it is as follows:
Great Brltiau 12 000.000
France 1.200,000
United States 5,198,000
Total. 18 398,000
These are but rough calculations,
and touch only the fringe of the prob
lom. The power of nations consists
not only in ships, men and money,
but in the volume of their trade and
commerce, and to enter Into details
of these would require much more
space than is uow at my disposal.
W-KNT TO PRISON
Katlior than Expose ? Weak Woman
to hor Husband.
A New York dispatch to the Baltimore
American says:
Carl Fisher Hanson, a millionaire
philanthropist and lawyer, In his
office at 3 id Hrnartwar tirlau ra?ar>l.
J - WW \JB J ) rj WJ 1 V|T t-Ul'
ed a strange story of love, devotioD
and self sacrllico to save a woman's
name.
Mr. Hansen absolutely refused to
divulge the names of the parties In
the tragedy. It was learned, however
that a young and pretty woman,
dressed in black, called at his office at
an eur;y hour to day and requested ao
interview with Mr. Hansen on Import
ant business. She was ushered into
Mr. Hansen's private office and, amid
sobs, told Mr. Hansen a romantic
story.
"I have come to you," she said, "to
secure the pardon of a man who 1
know is Innocent and who is now serving
a Renter ce of three years in Sing
Sing on the charge of attempted
burglary.
"He went to prison to save my
honor. He is Innocent, and now that
my husband is dead I want to try and
have him righted in the eyes of his
friends and the public, because what
he did was done for my sake."
According to the w( man's story
the man was arrested a year ngo. He
had called upon her at her home during
her husband's ab<ei c^. Her bushand
unexpectedly returned, and, tiud*
ing the man in his room, made a rush
for him. The young man bolted for
the door, but the husband, who was
a much bigger man, grabbed him.
The husband shaking the Intruder
by the collar, said; "What are you
doing here?"
The young man thought a minute
and then said impressively: "I an a
thief. Lock me up."
The husband called a policeman and
the man was taken to the stationhouse
Later he was indie*ed and
taken to court When aTaiuned the
young man said: "Your Honor, I am
guilty. I entered that house for the
purpose of robbery and 1 was caught.
That's all."
lie was subsequently sentenced to
three years in Si )g Sing at hard labor.
The young woman was greatly excited,
and fainted when she reached
the end of her strange tale, On reviving
she begged Mr. Hansen to
make an effort to have this man
pardoned.
"1 will do anything," she said,
"suiter any ditgrace, if you will only
petition the governor to pardon this (
man, who has suffered all this humiliation
to save my honor. 1 couldn't 1
confess : hen; but now, that ray hus
band Is diad, I am willing to do anything
to nave him pardoned."
Mr. Hanson, while declining to give
the nan e of the woman or the convict,
saia: "I wlil certainly dj every
thing in my power after I investigate
the story of this young woman to
have this man pardoned, I don't
doubt the young woman's story in the 1
least, and I will certainly petition
Governor lUggins in the hope that 1 1
may have this young man, who so
willingly sacrificed himself to save a
woman's honor, pardoned at once."
The prisioner, sa!d Mr. Fisher Han- '
sen, was a young college student, who
disappeared from one of the colleges
when he was arrested.
"I will not say whether it was Harvard,
Yale or Princeton," said the |
lawyer. "No one has ever koown ,
what became of him, as he was tried 1
and sentenced under an assumed
name. !
"The woman In the case has also ,
peid a penalty for her indiscretion, as
a servant who knew of the affair has
collected $86,000 in blackmail from
| her within a few years. She is a i
member of one of the best of the old <
families of New York, and her late j
husband owned several factories in <
new oqrscy." ]
Thr? e Burnfrt. ]
Mr. and MrB. K. I. Martin and child, 1
of Hostou, Saturday lost their lives in {
a tire which destroyed the Maranacook
Hotel at Lake Maranacoolf,
Maine. Five other persons were
burned or otherwise injured, none ,
fatally. Over eighty guests and em (
ployees escaped in night attire, many ,
leaping from windows. The lire was ,
probably caused by a defective ohim- ,
ney. The hotel is a wooden structure,
twenty-seven years old. (
Many toat.
The correspondent of the London
Dally Telegragh at Leghorn sends a .
report received from Nagaskl of the
overtaking of a hundied fishing boats (
by a hurricane off Goto Island (belonging
to the Japanese archipelago in '
the channel of Korea:) The report
says 400 men are missing and it is
feared they have been drowned.
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fcHJDtl TWO LIVJW. '
A Barber Kills His Wife and Then
Ooiuinito Suicide.
After cutting his wife's throat with
a razor and while her dead body was
lying on the ll>or, William Washington,
a negro barber, who lived at i
Greene street, cut hisown throat with
tne same razor Wednesday night about
11 o'clock and fell dying by yie woman's
side. g j
The double tragedy return??* In a *^j
three- room house on the portion of
Greene street which passes through
D*rktown.
Neighbors heard the couple quarrelling
and later heard a fall. A sister
of \V*vshlngtou, who lived across
the street*, went to the house and
when she opened the front door she
saw Susie Washington lying dead on
he iloor with a gash aero s her throat,
and the man lying by her side, with
his throat cut and gasping for breath,
lie died before the hospital ambulance
re?.ched the scene.
Call Otlloers Dorsett and Pharr investigated
the a IT sir. They ascertained
that Washington, who had
been working In a barber shop on Decatur
street, separated from Ills wife
several months ago. Wednesday night
he went to his wife's house and found
her alone.
Exactly what occurred could not be
known, but from the condition cf the
rooms, the i diners believe that Washington
cut his wile's throat as ho held
her on a bed ia the middle of the
room. She tried to run and fell In
the doonjr&y leading into the front
room. Washington must have stepped
over his wife's dead body and
when in the front riorn drew the
razor across his own throat. lie fell
with his head near that of his wife.
The police at tirst believed there
had been a double murder, but a
search revealed therazir with which
the crime and suicide had been committed.
It had fallen from the man's
hand and lay a few feet from his
body, dved red with the tiluod or himself
and wife. Tae raz ir was one
which Washington used at the barber
sbop.
Toe coroner was not!lied and he directed
the police to remove the bodies
to the rooms of a negro undertaker.
Au Inquest was held Thursday morning.
Washington was well known la
the city,J aviug been a bather Jiere I
for several years.?Atlanta Coiislitu- B
Found Dead.
A special to The State from Charleston
says Frienge Proluge, a Norwegian
diver, was found dead in his
bed at a Market street boarding house j
Wednesday. An attending physician
gave a certilieate that the man died
of natural causes and an inquest was
not held. Pruiuge was regularly em- B
ployed by the Riverside Iron Works I
and he did considerable work about
the harbor In examining the hulls of
vessels and other work b >low the
surface of the water, lid was 40 I
years of age. Ho was svlthout relatives
there and his body will be interred
by tho 11 vorshi ^ T'o^ w->?ks.
i'aitimlo (Jbho.
At Atlanta Mrs. S. J. Stewart, who B
was in charge of tbe linen department I
at the Piedmont hotel, has been ar- I
rested, charged with stealing linen I
and other articles from the hotel. It I
is said nlie confessed to a friend that 1
she was being worked over time and
took the articles in lieu of salary, I
which she thoughtought to have been B
paid her. Tne Stewarts are said to I
be in destitute ctrcumstances and the I
case presents a pathetic side. She fi
waived examination Thursday and H
gave a $200 bond.
Killed in tho Air,
At Greenville, Ohio, Aeronaut Bald- I
win of LosAntivnle, lad., wasTaurs- I
rlay blown to shreds as his balloon was I
lloating in the air. lie was giving at I
the county fair an exhibition of the fl
use of the dynamite from a balloon B
for war p Jrposes. He had three sticks B
of the explosive with him. When he I
had reached n height of 2,000 feet the I
dynamite accidentally exploded and I
balloon and man were literally torn to I
fragments. Baldwin's wife was one B
:>f the several thousand persons who I
*aw the accident.
In Hruptton.
Mount Vesuvius ivS in full eruption B
md is throwing out an enormous I
mass of lava. Daep rumblings aerfl
heard in the Interior of the crater I
and lava Is tlowing down the right I
lide of the cone. The ancient crater
is the island of Rtromboll, is also in I
full eruption. Panic prevails in theH
villiages around the volcano.
Oorpso in Well.
The New tf>rleans authorities oon-B
tinue td hav^n great deal of trnnhieB
wit,n Italians in the parishes justH
above New Orleans. Extraordinary?
jfforts are made to conceal cases and!
report is made of a body of one yellow?
fever victim being thrown into a well?
near Kenner, in order to prevent dls-fl
covery of the case.
Kiowa Up.
As the result of a race war at Oar-fl
lisle, Ind., the negro Baptist ohurctiH
was destroyed early Wednesday by*
dynamite which was placed under thqfl
altar. Bloodhounds have been put oil?
the trail of the dynamiters. Threats H
are being made that if any arrests & 9
made every negro in town wilKbi^kr
driven out. T
Murdered lor Money. | \1
Murdered for their money and% V?
mated in the building where
lived, to hide the evidence of thlfl
crime, was'the fate Thursday ofPhBT?^
lip H. Rob# and his wife, a younlO
couple who had been living near Ken
reystown, a small town on the NortnM
em Pacific Railway, near Kan.ow
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