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* r LOCAL OPTION. ' I I Bill Passed to a Third Reading < ] in the House. HOW MEMBERS VOTED Under the Bill Charleston Can Issne Liquor Licenses and the Other Counties In the State Would Have to Accept ProhiblI tion or Establish Dispensaries. i The Morgan local option bill, which , abolishes the State dispensary and creates county dispensaries or prohibition. accord in if t,n how osnh nnunt.v votes, txcept^in Charleston, where they can issu^iiquor licenses, estab lis'a dispensaries or adopt prohibition, passed its sioud reading in the House of Representatives on Tuesday of last week tby the same vote it passed its tirst reading week before last. The bill passed its third leading on Wednesday and was sent to the Senate. Saould it pass that body and receive the governor's approval it will become a law at once, unless it Is attacked in the courts, which is prob able, as some good lawyers hold that the provision iu the bill giving Charleston the right to ist-ue licenses makes the bill ore institutional. There were efforts made to kill the bill, then to amend it, but Mr. Sand ers, who was the il ior manager, kept the bill Intact, and Mr. Whaley, to getber witi| the other members of the Charleston delegation, kept the Charleston license clause intact, although there was a tierce onslaught on the license c ause. It was expecied that there shnnlrl lift a Ml/IO. on 1. bill going through. Col. D. O. Herbert, or Orangeburg, took up the tight against the bill. He stated plainly that he was opposed to Charleston havlug high license and then went on to sympath with Charleston wanting something d lT^rent from the other counties. Col. Herb rt contended that this was wrong in priori pie as well as unconstitutional. He protested against the passage of this bi'l. It has been stated that under this bill as It now stauris general pro hlbition can be had. This Is a mis take. If the Prohibitionists believe this, they are being deluded. Tula bill, this thing of thread* and patches, will not sccare prohibition. Under tbis bill counties having dispensaries will have to pay 10 per cent to the State, whereas Charleston, having high license, will be exempted from paying anything to the State. Col. Herbert said this matter of county dispensaries won't do. 1) won't do at all. lie Insisted that it was all wrong Every dispensary la operation to day under this hill bccime a county dis pensary. Simply clianging the name did 110 good 11o voted for prohibi tioii bee ua he thought auythun. better than 'the M rgan bill. This Morgan hill would ruing a lot of fea teri/. g sort s all ov?.r the State. C;ipt. Hamel said this was not the experiei Co oi Georgia and North Carolina. Col. Herbert said tho bill wan absoluhly without restrictions. The county b a . o ,wid I uy at any old price, any oid|liquor, and p'.edgo the cre iii of tin c Uiiiy ivit;iou& limlta Ion. If this bill be pas-ud the State simply mu;tiplies by 115 or 40 times the op po'tunl'.h s for stealing. The people c i ' not srera to appreciate the seriousness of county dispensaries. The co jori itfice bill regulates the purchase cf bquor. In this bill tin re are no res i.c ous of the county board. Toe till, ho thought, was clrrctly in couilic with ihe Constitution. He ur^ed 1->?>, the Constitution w is written in lb r ji . olive, and nev r contemplated county adoption. Tuere Is no local < pli'jri in the Constitution, and he i id in t think there hud ev<-,r heen ar y argument against county ad p ^ tioh. Ciipt Hamel said the county dlspen>ari?b v.ere simply the lesser c tlm evils, and the c >untv nit nensart >. woulo c rtaiLly got rid of tlie Sta r dlpr' ns>? ry. Mr O tn pointed cut that the credit of it t c un to c uld <>ul> bo usrd lor tl fc ti t pure <> o, ai d i ly h< tiise O i li bui Insist d ti &t the county (.-)>) . rn&wereunc nMimtiunal, aid c u d not. o le ).zo : Mr, H rnphill took i. utrn at Oil. 11 rbi it, <\> d showed lijjqq s me of the v?Hg' j; ays in the aisprns ry bill. M IT m? 1 said that If Urn di.spon i dv cub bad none v-ltb th< li tub. 1 /iirts tie lie use question \ oi U.\ ve t-ave be n an issue. He it . ten how the Prohibitionists in the Cc< r iitiu jooaI Conv< nlion aided th( oitq, nteoy advocates, and made it p< st bie to lihva a license system. The Prohibitionists in that Convention fought against license-, and the dis pi qfrary aov.cates forced the license system into the Constitution. The Prohibitionists were simply trying to pet the. best they could ,nrl that was why they favored the Morgan bill. Mr Sanders then took the floor and arpucd that there wps nothing in the. world Id Col. H rbert's position. He said there was nc thing in the objections made, and that Charleston would have to pay its same proportion to the State. The Constitution was absolutely plain that county dis pensarles were legal. The Constitution even permits muniolnM control, and it plainly provide for county adoption. The debate was warm and The State says Col. Herbert ''rossted" the bill severely and made a number of thoughtful points agalust it. Mr. Pollock, who was opposed to the bill, wanted to speak, but Mr. Sanders, who had the bill in oharge, applied the gag law by calling the previous question Mr. Pollock insls ted on his right to be heard but friends f the bill did not want to have it further debated, and insisted on the previous question being called. Mr. Pollock was in no mood to have the gag law applhd to him without a tight., and so he demanded a yea and nay vote on the call for the previous q lestlrn, whioh resulted in a vote ?i HO to 46, and the prev ious question was ordered, which cut < if all further debate. The dispensary advocates voted for continuing the d-bate, and the advocates of the bill voted to shut t fT further d bile. Several amend merits were ? tf red an voted down, and the bill was ordered to a vote with the follow ing r? suit: The following voted to establish county dhpensirios by voting f< >r the bib: Ardrey, Amo d, Ashley, Banks, Bass, Beamguard, Brad ham, Brice, Browning. Cothran. Dabbs, Davis, D Vo e. Kivhard , L. B E heredge, Flshburne, F \s er, Era er, Frost, Gasque. J P Gibson, J. W. G b m, Grav, W. Mel) Gr en, Hall, Hamel, rr ii_ r? ? ? iiimnn, narrison, nancy, lia^k? II. Hemphill, Hey ward, Ke,r haw, Lvwson, Lofton, L wax McMvster, Mas say, Latmi MuiMm Miller, N vdi, N sbit, Nicholson, Otis, PaU*.rion, R^av^s, Rucker, Sanders, Saye, S abrock, St Hers, Sheldon, Sinklor, Sulvey, Strong, T vor, Toole, Tribhle, Vander Horsfc, Vomer, M. VV. Walk er, Wlmberly?63 The following voted against c mnty dispensaries by voting against the bill: Speaker Smith, Boj d, Brant, Bruce, Chfion, Ouller, LP'sOhamps, Doar. Dukes, E it I g, E J Etheroi go Eaust, Ford, Guise, Graham, D L Green. Gyles, H irr> llson, I). O. Herbert, Hlggins, Irhy, Keenan. Klrven, LaFilte, Lsney. L s er, MeColl, Mc Faddin, Nance, Pittmau Pollock, Rawlinson, Richards, Riley, Sooll, Turner, J. M. Walker, Wtbb, Wnatley, YeldeM?40. The passage of the bill was no sur prise to the friends of ttie dispensary. As soon as Mr. Sanders could secure the lloor be put the parliamentary olincher on the vote and the bill was finally closed as a second reading inci dent. Wtilrlotl to Mr. Press Fulmore, who lives near Cavalry Lutheran Church, in Aiken county, was taking his little children to school in a buggy a fe w miles from home, when the horse took fright and ran away. With remarkablo presence of mind he took three of the little ones and threw them out of the hllL'l/V savin Lr th m frr>ir? onrlrmu lr\ jury If not death. Thinking ho could then get the hoi so un ier control, he gave all his attention In that rllrec lion. One, a little boy, ju uped from the buggy, and his head Htruck a b'ook causing a sev^ro Injury from which he may die. Too otner, a lit tie girl, about 7 years < Id, attempted to save herself by j omo'ng. Her dress was caught In one f the whe Is and she was barily raaDglod. She was whirl d ( v r and tv r, as tho anlm.il sped ra.pl :ly down the ri ad ay, and aas dragged u i ll t ie team c me to a com pi te st p. She as so badly i urt toat shi 1 v d hilt: bout an ho <r nnd a half. It s rep rh d thi t Mr. Fulmore also si t!-red M-rlcui I juries. Thnbu gy wa d molls d. The old e?t of the children is ab ut 10 y? ar< f age, and all of the unfortunate man's family were lev ilv d in the ao cidcnt, ixciptlng his wife and small baby. Nine Pm<p ii tiuru d Oa Wednesday morning a small house near Curtis, Ml, was destroyed by lire In which w re burned to death nine colored persons only ono of the inmates ftsean.n/ ahu Thu tHn Uu were: Richard Taylor, Horace Jack Ron, his wire E iz a? d their soo Samuel, a ycuth of 17, it aa Jack hod, a widow ai d her o l.tiren, X la, a grO'?n daught r; Vuuu, 11 year** old; lsador. 9, y? a s, and a six month ' old baby. 'rhu only lnmae who es ciped was E 1; W b.-tor, who Jumped from the i c >nd st .ry wl td > >v to the gnund ar.d gave the aiarm. When the n igi o s arrive , he house w>s a pile of bl z >g und smoking debris and when >h) b oies ere recover*d nothing huo the .harr d bones of the v c 1m wt re 1? ft. A co rob g to the s at rren of t e survivor, E ia Wt h s er. I he fire w o. < u ' b one of the young* r c I'd e w .? up to stir th fire In the chi i y pi e and a cideiitally m tioiiho 'ii the floor. D.-ui k i'outc: C? J. Ktmbdi, a prominent traveling snl a it, and a n< gro barber dud atC. del , Ua , as t.ho re.tilt of drlt k t g a w. il ki n hair toulo for lot' X'C-' ?;)(1R ru D>?. S Thfti/ rira \r the medicine W ri ^-xy aftertom Kianball died d i 1/ & e right and t ?e rj' gro Thursday m rnh g. The c >rom r convened h jury and held an irqucst, the verdict ber g that they came to their rifath fr< m internal polnoniug self ar ministered. J>lHOh*rg<i<l. The seven men arrested in Bum well county last week en the oha>g3 of parutclpulng la the lynching of Frank and John DeLoach, colored, h?d a preliminary nearlng before M*gls tratc Moody on Wednesday and were discharged for lack if evidence to bind them over. A BATTLE ROYAL. ? A Negro Leads a Band to His Brother's House AND MURDERS HIM. The Leader of the Band Fired Upon the Officers Who Went to Arrest Mim And is Shot to Death by Them After a Severe Battle. El. Pirickney and his half brother, Jesse Pinckney, two Florence county negroes, had had a "falling out" over some land In their possession. From day to day the trouble grew until Sunday week ago, when the two men had a light. That night Jesse Pircknoy made up a crowd to go to El. i'lnckney's house and thrash him The crowd, as recognized by Ei Pinckney's wife and daughter, was composed of Jesse Plnckney, Isaac Pinckney, Jr.. Willie Brown, Jim Williams and Sam Iiarli, all negroes. What happened is thus deicrlbod by the Fiorecc 5 correspondent of The News and Courier: Arriving at the house Jesso Pluck ney called for EI Pinckney, but he r fused to get up or bother with Je sc Seeir g that E 1 was not coming out nor going to get out of bed, Jesse Piuckuey tired his gun through a window towards Ei's bed. The load of shot struck the bed, between E.l Pinckney and bis wife, both of whom were lying in the bed. Then Jes.se with the butt of his gun broke the door open and the crowd entered the house and began to beat El Pinckney over the head with their guns and with sticks. Plrcknev's wife managed to get out of their way, for a time, by hiding beneath the bed The crowd continued beating Pinckney over the head with the butts of their guns and the clubs that they had carried there until they had bru tally murdered tine old Degro In bis bed. Tney then turned to hunt for nis wiro arid soou found her. Stn was dragged from beneath the bed and they beat her so badly that she will hardly recover. Sue ban a terrl ble gash across the head and numbers bruises about her faoe and body. She finally suroeedod In getting away and hid in the woods nearby. From E1 Piuokney's house the crowd went to another negro's, Sam J ihnsou's, and called hi 111 to the door As soon as the door was opened they b. gau firing at Johnson, who Is a brother In law of Piuckaey. Johnson was bidly hurt, having ueen struck In the face and body a number of limes. They tben rushed in < u J >l n son and in the 8 utile Johnson's throa was cut almost from e .r to ear, and he was left for dead, but after b in, attended by a physlau ho reviv d uid m \y recover. During the tig t wit Jonnson, Charlie James, another ne gro, who came to Joh -s u' as is ante as also shot. Trie crowd of re ill ?u then visited several other In u^es, and three or four ot ier negroes were suot or cu'i by ra m lers of this band. Jesse Pluckney, ju t before daylight went to bis bumf, and upon reaching there told bis wifj to take the chb dren and get away from tln-re as ho in as she could, for If any one ca ue after ulm lie was going to shoot them as long a* be c uld hold his t ead up to see them, and Ha d, "1 am going t cook my own br akf'ist, even if I nav? to ao It In hell." Notice was sent to Coroner Cooper and toe Sheriff Burch to go the scene of the kll iog to bold the inque t and to arrest J sse Pinok nay. Tae t-vo officers le't Florence as so m as they could, Sher IT Burch carrying his depot/, Me Eiwln C. Harrell, alo g with him to assist in making arrests. Arriving at the pi ce where the murrer was oommltt d, whlcu Is In th Brick Church sicnoo, tor e milts south' ast of M rs Bluff and three milts north of Clausen's. C rouer Cooper viewed the remains of old man Ed P nekney and soon had a Jury. T le j iry fouud that he came to his math at tne hands of J* IT Pincknev arid the other negro; s, al e dy men tloned, two of whom, Isaac Pinckney, Jr , and Willie B own, w ire present at the inquest. Warrants vera is>ued by C ?ro' or Coop-r and glv^n to the she) IT t ? arr o tne guilty parties, 1.1. 3 Pi itk if/, Jr , and Willi. KMtl>n 11/ IT;. arl-/int,./l - * L . ... . r I Wllifini'J 111 UUI1 uu .o . ';t on to Floronc a id 1 i k d i j .11 Shcr ff Buron then art d to . -r r J se Pi ckney, aul carrl d v/i<. h m I) pu<y 11 .rrt'll a^d Nt Is. xi Wauo. , t it) last men io.ied ah a guide to direct the paruy to tin*. UOUBft. Arriving at P.nckney's house the sheriff placed his depur v at the back door and he approaohed th - frontdoor Ah soon as Pinokney heard tnat he was there he made a dash to ) ave the buiidirg. As he opened the door he saw Nelson Watson, the negro guide, sitting on a mule, directly in front, and he threw up his gun and fired the I load toking effect In Watson's head and body. Wateon rode off without further warning and went for a physician, leaving the sheriff and bis deputy alone to protect themselves or kill Pinokney. Sheriff Buroh, while standing guard, oould bear Pinokney loadinK his gun, and the pouring ol Hhot in the muzzle made enough noise for him to know about where he was standing on the Inside of the house. Both he and Deputy Ilarrell then boKan tiring their Winchesters throuKh the side of the house with the hope of wounding Pluckney enough to make him surrender, but suoh w&> not the result. Each time they would shoot Plnckney would return the tire through a door that was protected by a ourtaln which obscured him from the view of both otlloers. This constant shootinK at each other was kept up for a half hour and dually Piuckney came to the door attain, where ho could sec Ilarrell but where Ilarrell c;uld not see him Within 15 feet of each other the two men stood face to face, tirlnK and re thing at er.ch other; Plncknev all the while standing to one side of the door and pokligblSKun through the cur talus to shoot. Ilarrell, thinktnK that he stood directly behind his gun, would shoot at the kuq, and each time missed his aim. Pincknev's shots, at each cack of the gun w? u!d go either to the right or the left of IIarreU'8 bed v. Luckilv for lla.rr??il tie was never hit by a ball frooi Pinckne>'s guu. When Pinokney found that bis am munition was about exhausted tie made a clash out of tlie back door to cape. As be came out lie directed be muzzle of bis guii at Harrell'a face and tired, the load passing near the left ear of Harrell. Harrell quickly tbrew up his Winchester and tired. Tills ball took etfect in Pinck ney's band, tearing it so badiv that lie was unable to stand, and be fell upon bis kueos and tried to reload again. Just wblle doing so Sheriff Burch shot, and tlie ball entered Pincktiey's head just behind the ear, and came out on the opposite side of his head, near the jaw bone. Tills quickly put Pinckney out of business uud hi two minutes be was dead. Coroner Cooper was sent for and empanelled another jury and a verdict that Pinckney came to h.s death at the bands cf the sheriff wblle in discharge of his duty was rendered. As soon as the verdict was rendered the sheriff and the other officers came ou to tlie city, arriving here late in the night. The sheriff will use every j r IT ?rt to arreat J im Williams and Sam Hart, the other two negroes, who managed to get away, and who are implicated. Old man Pinckney, who was murdered by the crowd, Is said to have been h >rrlbly beaten; so much so thai, the b dv was hardly retogn ziblo ?>y the jury or even Ills own family. His eyes were Deaten out of Ills head, his s-kull bono crushed In in several places all of ins teeth knocked out, his collar lone, three ribs and one leg bioken and his f ,cri was pummelled to a jelly This is the terrible story as told by the sher IF In person, and it Is revolting to the (Xtreme to think that such negro brutes live in a oivil.zid community. Old man Ed Ihnckney was a good old darky and was highly thought of hy tiic white people in the Mars Bluff section of the county, being polite, honest and respected. He was a kind of a preacher in his community and taught school at tiroes. Sheriff Burco and Deputy El win Harreil certain! oerterve great credit for the bravery shown, and for the capture of J. use Binckney. lie stated to a number ( f p? oplo in that community after killing old man Pinokney, that he was golr g o bo another Simon Coop"r, of Sum t^r couri y, the negro who do tied the Sumter authorities so long a few years ag). TIRIiD OF LIFE. People WIki (3 m m it ted Suicide !<\>r One Caiihi) stud Another. Dr. Li II. Hutohersun, a well known phys clan of Toccoa, Oa., committed Kiilnirln uiit.h ?-? nLf' .1 nn W<iHn?u<lon .>M?wiv?v " i v>* ? p?.iu 'i vii vv rjuutnuajr Bad health Is the alleged cause. Rsv. J. G. Norton, a Baptist mlnj 1st or of V\tdosta, Gt, committed suicide on Tuesday by jumping Into i his well. He was GO years old and | was well to do ai d popular. Miss Bertha Marsden committed uiclde at Selraa, Ala., on Tuesday by taking c doroform because she was In love with a young man who did not reel pro-ate. M ss Ciiarlotte Ferrell, aged 20, of Roan county, W. Va , committed NUicide on Tuesday by hanging herself because her parents would not lethe r marry the young man she was In Ijvo with. Mot. Lllburn McNtlr, aged 34, prominent In St. Lools society and champion golf player of the city, committed sulciue at her home o Monday with a pistol. She was in bad health. Eugene Moore, aged 28, manager for a large cotton firm at Americui, Ga., committed suicide on Wednesday b/shooting himself the head with a rev iv r. No cause Is assigned. It v. J'i -1 G. Wade, pastor of the Mr C ngrrnational church of Wau n. J?1 , wan arrested by the p is (flflvj u h ii ti'.'B on Wednesday for >oi,d r ? e matter through the maliH N t (.ay he committed suic d<- by ?, rowing himself under a train. Jaught Tiiein George C. Coleman said to b^ the president of a gold mining company In G oldfleld, Nevada, oaused the arrest of his wife Mable, and Frank Stahley, a cbauflour and a former employe, on the ouarge of grand lar ceny. Coleman alleges ha was de serted by his wife on January 15. last at whlod time bis chauffeur left bim and he discovered the loss of 50,000 shares of a gold mining company stock. ' J 4W' A DIRTY BARGAIN Was Made to Pass The Local Option Bill Says , - * \ SENATOR TILLMAN, J ( ( t He Chaiges Corruption in Dispensary * Management, and Asserts That a t Straightening Out is Needed. I Says The Dispensary will t t be the Issue this Year. \ 1 Mr. Zjob McGhee, the Washington a o jrrespondent of The State sayH Sen- ? ator Tillman Insists that when he t characterized the method by whiob ( i the Morgan bill passed the house as a f ''dirty bargain" he meant just that \ word and no other, though he saya he I did not mean to rill.'Ot In any way ^ upon any of the Uharleston delega- s tlon. I Says he: "I said there was a trade 8 by which Charleston's nine votes were a cast for the bill in consideration for j making that most remarkable excep- j limn for Charleston, allowing it the privilege denied all the rest of the State of having license if it wants It ' There may uot have been any ac tual overt trade, there may not have been any formal agreement, but the thing Is so self evident that It isn't worth while for any body to deny It. Charleston has always been in favor of U Oil option, by which, of course, It is meant that it wants saloons, and its representatives In the legislature haw tnat the only way to get it was to vote for this bill. "Likewise the antldlspensary members from other counties know that the only way they could get Charleston support of a so called prohibition measure would be to exptc: Charleston from Its operation by giving it the third choice of high license. "Else why did they except Charleston, and why did they not exoeDt Co lumnl v also, or Greenville, or Soar- . tanburg, or any other town? t "Why, It Is plain as the nose on your face If they had not given this j special privilege to Charleston they t wouid nut have got these nine votes ( and the bill would have been defeated, t and they know it." ( A few weeks fg) it will b^ remcin- j bered It was reported in this corres- ^ pondenee that Senator Tillman said t he hud nothing to say on the South j Carolina situation, considering that t in a general way It was not his busl- a ness to interfere and that he had his ^ hands full here. As a matter of ft 0% there can be no doubt that he has his hands full Mere, about as full as any man in the senate, but he Instinctively keeps one ear to the ground for what Is going on z in Scuth Carolina and it is as impossible for him to keep out of It as it 1* for him to sit quietly in his seat in the senate when a spirited debate is going on. ''1 would be a foil," said he today, "to bit hero in Washington, however I much I am absorbed w?th alfalrs here ? and see the people of South Carolina tricked without at lea it making my 1 p.otest. And by people I mi an the t real majority of the white people for whom 1 have struggled." The senator was once called down 1 in the senate for uiing the word "trickery" when referring to the pres icient, so I asked him what lie meant ' by it in this connection. "1 say trick 1 ed," he replied, "because that la what Jt appears to me. The Brlce law dis ' fraiiCnises one-third of the white men In the State who can vote in the Dem ocratlc primary. "Besides, toe enemies of the dis pensary, why for years have controlled : the State, have been putting men in ' charge of it who have mismanaged it, 1 stolen from it, brought it into b^d uiuer, ana trie newspapers wnich are and always have been bitter against the dispensary and against me, and < which make a practice of suppressing * whatever is favorable to Uie di.-pen sary and loudly vaunting what unfuV orable to it, are the ones which have f the largest circulation and the (mis ( which these ld iflwood legislators' 1 read and look upon as tlie law, tec ( prophets and the gospel so the people 1 are hoodwinked, but there la a time 1 coming. ' "Tnc people will got a chance to express themselves next summer and 1 without any lince law to disfranchise- 1 any of them and oottle the i. up. Ail fcuy need is somebody to stir tnem up a and let them ktiuw what is going on < Phe dispensary will be the dec dlr.g t Is ue In toe whole cimpalgo, n >o o iy in the elec Ion of m in jer* of tti > 1 gIslatore but in every election l i u State, forgcv rnor, for State oltlco i. r for county i hi ri, for my sucoi ^sor s in the senile and all." t Something was said last sunrmar r about the souaur running for gover- c nor instead of for the senate and | there lias been some such talk here, j though perhaps emanating from some t ambitious representatives not averse \ to being oalled upon bv the people to take a more exalted seat. Asked the dfreot question today, Senator Till man said? 1 "Yes, 1 have thought many tlmea i of doing that. The only oondltlon that would induoe me to consider It, i however, from a personal standpoint, would be the fact that my health houlW fcske It unwlsa for r# lasnlr gton and attendTU ht ik ?Cre- li'it somebody ol - <Sp the tight in South CSib'A Ju^ar d straigten things In tho interest of the people who are being hoodwinked, put tho dispensary in good shape and otherwise given an example of honest politics." Those who think he contemplates running for governor say that in case Df election, after serving one term he would again seek election to the senate and thus break all previous recDrds in his or any other S^ate. Of sourse he would lose his prestige on jommlttees and his recognized place is ono of the leaders In debate and to forth. lie says, however that Should he iver leave the senate to become govirnor he would never return. "In ihat event," he observes, "I am done. I'm getting too old. "Now another thing," said Senaor Tillman, "I s?e somebody Is getilog off that old j'be about my havng criticised Hampton for meddling n Slate alfairs while he was senator md charging that 1 am doing the lame thing. The d tfjrence Is just .his: Hampton took part in a personal ontest between candidates, engaging n a light between one man and anither running for otlice. I am takng no part in any personal contest, >ut in the dlsoussl n of great issues, vhloh It Is my duty to do so long as I i o a clt'zen of the Sta'e, especially vheti I see an Institution which I treated and fostered attacked, and ittacked In such underhanded, such i cowardly way with every cmcelva>le political trick and with a lot of ly pecrisy." Victim ol Anhuhhiii, A dispatch from TillU says the nurdor of General Grlar/.m IT chief of ,ho statT of the Viceroy of toe (J moans, van most dramatic and audacious, riio assassin evidently had studied die habits of his victim and lay In *ait behind a wall of the Alexander harden opposite the entrance to the palace, where a carriage was drawn jp to take the general for his dally irive. Tne assassin Impersonated a painter, carry ing the bomb with which io committed tne cii no concealed In l paint can. He was thus able to reach its place of ambus without suspicion, General Griar/. toif, clad In a crims 11 luifoim, made a shining target. As jhe general stepped into the earraige, jhe man sprang on the wall, swung ihe can hy a cord and the bomb, as if ,brown from a sling with marvelous precision, sped straight to the mark and struck the general on the ntck. \ ilash of lire and a tcrrltic explosion 'oliowed, and Grlozncif wai literally jlown out of the carriage, with Ills joaenman and Cassaok orderly, aud die lalter's horse was Instantly k ill ;d. A lady who was passing at the time of the explosion was mortally vounded. The assasin was caught, peaten into insensibility by the iri'urlated soldiers and carried olT to tho indent fortress above the city, where, is Titlis is unoer martial law, ho will probably bo executed at dawn. Ills dentlty Is unknown. Killed liorHolt ami Children. At Boston on Wednesday morning i woman and four children were fcurul lead hi bed at their home. An Investigation by the pollop Indicate that the woman, Mrs. Annie L. Dixon, iad killed the cilldreu and herself by ppening three gas jets. The children Acre Annie, aged 5 ycart: George. three and a half; M.ldred two yearn ind Marlon, one year. Tbe tragedy was discovered by the w< man's husbai d. Arthur B Dixon, when he returned home from work this evening. Dixon found the house locked and was obliged to break In the front Joor. He found the bodies of his wife and children In a bedroom. M edical Examiner A. A. MacDonald iccded that Mrs. Dixon had killed the children and herself. Dixon told the police that he left home at 6 o'clock tins morning to go to hla work. At that time his wife was up, the children were all awake and he Hd not notice anything ur usual. Dixon Is HI yearH old and his wife was 11. They hnd been married for about >ix years. Of la*e Mrs. Dixon had aot been in good health. A (JiHivlot'd I.tick. The winner of the 125,000 prize for sorrectly nam'ng the attendance at the St. Louis exposition in 1004 was Era k Campbell, a convict In tho Nebraska state penitentiary, who itill has abiUt one year to serve. J&mpoell was convicted of embezzlement, He will receive only $12,500 )f the priz;, as he fearlrg dUlieulty n seourh g the money while he was mprlsoaed agreed to pay a lawyer oalf of the pi'z > In cise of success in lecuriog It. Cimpbell's attorney had i conferi nee with him at the p mltannary in regard to the disposition of .he mon y wo cn will bo received in i row days. The convict will be unible to use the money until his sen,onco ex plies. Ma?lo a Change. No small stir has been made in the clltflcus world by the recent o >nverilon of El ward Evert tofc HaU t* ,hird sod of Huston's enoin* nt Unltalan patriarch, from Unltarianism to ivangeltoal Christianity. Mr. Hale s professor of Idnyllsh literature in Juion College, Sohneetady, N. Y., md he will soon join the First Presbyterian Church of that oltv. Four Klin <1. A runaway Northern Paolfic freight train crashed into a passenger train near Helena, Mont , Wednesday, wrecking It completely. Four perions were killed with a probability hat two more may have been burned * the eraac.