The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, December 06, 1906, Image 7
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KILLED IN WRECK
President Spencer, of the Southern
Roil way, aid Friends
MKT DEATH ON RAIL.
t
His Prints Car Was Dashed latoSand
Demolished hy a Trail That Was
Pollsyrisg It, Oa Acceuat of
the Carelessness of an
Official.
President Samuel Spenoar, of th?
Southern railway, and four gueets lr
his private car were killed In a frightful
wreck on that road early Thurs
day morning and adcz^n parsons were
Injured at Lawyers, Va.
With a party of ( ffloials and other
guests, Mr. Spencer was traveling
south on a train that left Washington
late Wednesday oight. They occupied
a apt otal car c u the rear of the train,
whlnh rr \felncr a. *tnn tr\r ra
WW <4.v-> I ?W " 'Ft *** *V? A U
paira, wa* crashed into by a pasaengar
train from the rear.
TUB DMA I).
President Samuel Sptnter, Waib?
lngton.
Ohaa. D. Fisher, of Baltimore, Md.
Philip Schuyler of Ne-v York city.
Frabk T. Rsdwood of Baltimore.
D, W. Davia of Alexandria, Va.,
prlvato dispatcher to Prealuout Spenoar.
William Pollard, aolored, porter on
President Spencer'* oar, who died In
the hospital. \
An unknown peraoD, whose
and limbs are burned off short, who
is believed to be the third porter on
the private oar, who is mUslng. Ill*
name oannot be learned.
T11E INJURED,
Luoretla Alton, oeiored, Danville,
Va., leg broken and amputated below
the knee; left arm badly broken,
Willis J. Winston, 233 east One
Hundred and Twentv seventh street,
N>w York city; leg badly broken.
I J. W, Shaw, oolored, Spencer, N,
O,, fireman, badly crushed and both
legs broken.
Garland Thomas, colored, Greensboro,
N. 0 , leg broken ana badly
i j a
uruisen up.
P. E. Vauls, colored, Waynesboro,
Va., badly broken up and bruised.
t Cor: Logan, oolored, Shelby, N. 0.,
I both legs broken.
Sam Ooz, colored, porter on tbe prll
vate car, of 611 First street, S. W.,
Washington, D. 0., leg broken.
Cruett, address unknown, the
I supreme organizer of the Heptaaophs,
I j back badly wrenched,
ji Son Hoglan, colored, Charlotte, ft.
O., badly bruised leg.
P E. A. Merill. New York city, private
secretary to President Spencer,
head and arms badly burned, will re
oover.
Mr. Spenoer's destination was
Friendship, N. 0., where he was going
on a hunting trip, with Messers.
Schuyler, Fisher, Merrill and Bed
wood, as his guests.
ASL.KKJT W1IKN CUASII CAMJB
Pre*.cent Spencer aud his entire
party oocupled the rear oar on the
forward train and as far as la known
I were sleeping when the collision hap
peusd aud the probaollltles are thai
all of tnem excepting Dispatcher
Davis were killed Instantly. It 1b
certain that lifo waa extinct before
tne flamcM touched them. President
Spenoer's body was burned almost beyond
recognition, aa was that of Mr.
Fisher. The body of Mr. Sobuyler
was oaken from unci r the train before
it was burned very much, having been
singed only slightly. Prasideut ftponcar's
oar was attached to tbe rear ?f
the Jackson?.lie train, whloh wan
staadlug still when struck.
President Spenoer was lying direct
ly under the big locomotive of too
rear train, so great wu tue rorce oi
the inpact that the forward train was
sent 160 feet ahead, the looom^lve
going over and upon the body of Mr.
Spencer. Until after the debris burn
ed itself out and the engine oooled off
the bodies oould uot be removed.
The Impact drove the combination
oar forward and the express oar lifted
up together with Its truck and oruahed
toe oar 40 feet, leaving the remainder
of the aro strewn with tons of baggage
and colored passengers, who were
pushed baok, as the expreas oar
crushed the combination oar like rats.
OPJSRATOK AT FAULT.
The responibilitv for the disaster
has not been ilxed, but it is believed
to have been due either to negligence
of the operator in allowing the seopnc
passenger train to run by the brook
and o/ash into the preceding one.
\ which had stopped for repairs, or tc
the failure of the brakenoan on the
Va first train to go baok and fiag.
f1, The Jacksonville express had the
1 right of war In the blook and the an
glne lift the train and prooeeded two
do ilea, one of which was beyond Law
yera before tha engineer notloed he
was without bla train. It may br
that whan he paaaed Lawyers that
The American Federation of Labor,
at its annual sessional Minneapolis,
Minn., declared for woman suffrage, j
1 -Mf
The proposed Ship Subsidy bill 'was
denounced as conscription by President
Samuel Gompers betcre the
American Federation of Labor.
the operator there gave Rangoon a
dear block, without noticing whether
or not the rear end rra-kers were to
be seen before he did *o.
The oar next ahead of President
Spsnoer's wae des'oyed by fire, but
It la reported that the passengers in '
It esoaped before it caught on
The dub oar on the first section of No
37 was destroyed by flrr, but no one
m board la reported Injured.
GK11T BA1LKOAD MBKQRK.
President Spencer, who was a native
of Georgia, la said to have done more
towards merging the railroads of the
South Into the Southern railway sys *
tern than any other man. President
Spenoer was about sixty years old. He
was of slight build aud bad ateel gray
hair and moustache. In appearanoe
he was a atrloking man. He did nr uob
for the industrial development of the
South and gave many th'ura^da r'
dollars to technical fo'rr? * i - vat
seotlon, especially iu Georgia, in
whloh state his road centers.
President 8pencer w?s the best i
known of Southern railway magnates (
and had under his dbejtion ard o n ,
trol one of the largest railroad system ?
In the world. He was the right-hand
man of J. P. Morgan The greatest *
excitement prevailed at the head i
quarters of the road in Washington '
when dlspatohes regarding the wreok J
were received, It *as at first report 1
ed that Mr. Spencer was only slightly ?
Injured. Later, the rumor of his i
death, whloh had been circulated over i
the wires, were confirmed lu an ctll
oial dispatch from ths scene. 1
MANY NAKKOW KSCAl'Hfi
The combination oar did net leave 1
the trsok and In eleirimr the tr&o*>
the express car v?u hauled to a ?ud.c '
a tni.e distant on top and In the tie
btis of the combination car How
the colored passengers in this com .
partmcDt, which is known as the Jim
Grow part of the train, escaped, none
of them being kilied, it beyond ex- j
planation. ;
The wreck occurred on the crest of
a steep grade, when the Atlanta train c
o^uld not have beon ru nlDg more ^
than 30 miles an bour if as fast Had *
It be?n a mile or two further south,
the number of dead might have been c
frightful, as the train wts a^eut two J"
hours behind its schedule, a condl- .
Mon in the grade there tnat would
have meant a speed of more than 60 u
mil oh an hour. fc
It was reported at first that En ?
gineer Kinney of Spencer, N. C,,
who was in charge of the engine on
the Atlanta train, was kll!er1, but fc
this proves to be incorrect. Kinney
suffered only a few flight bruits and '!
outs, which wera dressed and he did
not go to a hospital. .
Mr. H. B. Spenrar, the sixth vlco
president of the ?$buthern rai' -ay, ;
was a passenger on the northbound
train from the South, whlob 'eaohed '
the soene of the wreck a few minutes "
after it occurred. He spent sivera
hours there until theoharred regains
of his father were taken from untie- .
the locomotive and then be o*me to
the olty wltb the remains of bin 'v
father and those of bis party
The ooaoh containing the oorpsafi '
?fas sidetracked in the yard above th< '
olty. Gaskets were procured fathom.
These were placed in the )
private car of President Stevens of the '
Chesapeake and Ohio railway, who
was passing through the elty with .
his family, the oar having been ten- .
dered far this use by President Btev '
ens. This car and the one containing
the remains of the killed were at?
tached to a late train going north and
the remains were transferred to the ^
casket* wbil'? the t.rviu was in transit. f
DAVI8 END WAB 1'ATHBTIC.
Dlspato ei u.v.s waaa>lve when he 1
was taken from under the wreckage.
He was crushed about the lower por t
tion of tie rody and wee conscious to
the end. He asked that word be k
sent to ills wife and child. T*e death f
r,f Mr Davis was touching H > ntat- e
ed to hi* is?ouer that be knew ne was
dying aod knew that the end could a
no* be f u off "Place your finger on m
my mouth,*' be sn-ld. "It fe It se *
cool ^nd j^o id." fla pleaded with the \
gentian. %n\ who was also & pap-euge I
on the trein, no-* to leave him, aoe t
foT 10 minutes the man stayed with g
him until he saw that nothii g could t
be done for him g
F. M. Curtis of Jamestown, N. Y , .
who was a passenger on the J loksonvllle
train, saw one negro porter gc
through a lady's grip. He saw him *
throw away such things as were of no
valae to him and appropriated those *
things that he wanted. Mr. Curtis li
declared that he would have certainly > a
kilied the p rter If he had had some
thing to do it with. q
"In the rear of the Pullman, which v.
was smashed,"eaid Mr. Curtis, "there
was a mother with a sii-months-old ji
babe. They wer in a drawing room
which had been smashed, but, strange y
to say, they were not hurt in the y
lightest. They were gotton out and o
taken to safety. As far as I know p
the train attaches did not aid in the n
first relief beoause they had gone f
both ways to protect the two trains ii
rrcxc otner ana more serious trouble. | o
"One of the thingi that struck me
forcibly was the heroic manner In I
which the eoJored passengers who li
were Injured bore their sufferings, b
There was practically not a sound u
from them. Thej were laid out in n
the fields adjoining the railway, o
where they remained for several i
hours until they could be placed in a f
ooaoh and brought to the olty."
President Roosevelt received an enthusiastic
reception from the Porto s
Ricans, to whom he promised citizen- i
ship. i
President Roosevelt finally refused
to lescind the order for the dlschaige t
of a batallion of negro troops of ine J
Twenty-fifth Infantry. 1
TILLMAN SPEAKS.
Guarded by Detectives He Talks
Out Plainly In
\
SPITE OF THREATS
)( Violence in Chicago Oa the Race
Question. The Senator Scorned Money
Offer and Threatened Restraining
Order Which He
Was Told of Them.
Despite the frantic efforts of the
legroeB of Obieago not to have him
lo so Senator Tillman delivered his
Address on the raot question In that
31 ?y UU AU^SUKY tJ gL'Ii ML (jJbiabOO
'rom (Jhloago saya when Sen* or Till
nan arrived tber* early Tuesday ?f
*>ruuon he was told of Hnea^em d lu
unotiea prcoeedngs 10 prevent him
'rorn appearing on the platform and of
\ money consideration that had b'en
ffered If he would <unr. 1 his engage
nenb, but expressed scorn f . r boih.
Until he left Chicago on Wt dn eday
Secator Tillman was guarded by prirV
e detective and the. pollec, This
r?a- in - cor dance with an o der ishucd
>y Mayor K iward F. Dunne, who was
tcheduled to preside at last night's
meeting, but who refuted to have any
Ulfig to do with It after a committee
)f oolorod oitlzens had visited him a
ew days ggo.
Senator Tillman gave his tddvsas
protected by 40 aeUotives. lu auc.wi at
Ion of trouble a number of polloeseo
wore kept at nearby stations In
eserve, but they were not oalled for.
Ilx negro polloemen mingled with the
irowd which blocked the street In
rout of the hall. In the audience were
naoy negroes, but they listened to
lenator Tillman's remarks good uauredly
and although he wiv lnterrup
ed many times, the meeting passed
flf without trouble.
In leading up to his address, "Shall
he United States Annex Cuba," Mr
Cillman took oocat Ion to criticize May
r Dunne's action lu ro'ujslng to pre
lde at the meeting. "1 have been told
hat I have been snubbed by the rnayr
of this eity," sale tne senator. "1
Id not 'sk Mayor Du ine to bo here
onight. if anyone has been snubbed
b is the gracious ladies, who planned
bis meeting to secure money for Cbe
Jhloago Union hospital and who renested
Mayor Dunne, tho creature
t a political hour, to come forward
nd add his mite.
"1 have he?n advertised to discuss
he annexation of Caba," continued
dr. Tillman, "but in view of tho fuot
bat I onuld not discuss that eul j ;*.
without discussing the race qu suoti,
am golug to go at the matter ham
oer and tonga. Tuerefore, 1 shall dts
uas the race proolem pure and slm
>ie from an America.! standpoint, and
lot from a Cuban standpoint. O vlog
o mytxperlenoe with tne q twilon
knd the dlllgeuut study I have made of
v, i oentve i am netter quaiiuea to
liscuss tht-i question lhau any other
nan in America "
While discussing the 15th amend
nent to the constitution, whlou he
leclared wave the negro every r'ght
>hat a white man had, he wag interuptcd
several times b> one of his lis
oners who kept asking "How abou
ientuoky?"
Finally Mr. Tillman seemed to lose
its temper and exclaimed:
'Oh shut your mouth. Ycu don't
enow tne A. B C. of this tiling. I
ortrot 40 years ago more than you
ver knew."
* Y iU make up your minds that
quality b'fore the law which the 15th
wendment guarantees is right and
.ould be enforoed notwiths.ending
s results if this law was enforoed
is would result in two S ales at least
>elog dominated absolutely by ne:roes,
while four other States would
A r - n *a ? t\ 'k 4 m <? i / . m m n a/4 V~v vi tr t> a mm
rg bu ucn' U71HK mru ;jy iiiic ucro
that there w uli praotlcally bo an
qual dlvlvion of cfB^oe."
a. voioe?"Haw aoout the law? '
Senator Tillman?"The law, lo hell
rlth such law "
After telling in detail how the ne
ro la prevented from easting his btlc>t
la the South, S-nator Tillman
aid:
"There Is a great deal more to thla
uestlon that the Utile racket here in
jiiloago."
voice?"How about the negro
udge?
Senator Tillman: "Well, I will tell
ou about your negro judge and about
our political machines putting him
n yeu ticket and bamboozling thoee
oor Ignorant baboona into electing
ilm, and then afterwards you fellows
rho voted the ticket without know
ng what waa on it, ttnd a way tc
L. i ~ A I A.
UBftb UIOJ UUb Ul I V.
"No mutter what the people in the
forth may gay or do, the white race
the South wli: never be dominated
>y the negro and I want to tell you
low that If some State should ever
oake an attempt to 'save South Oar*
lina' we will show them in their fanaticism
that we will make it red beore
we make it blaok.
"God Almighty made the OaucaiA
Commerce Commission Bulletin
(hows that the net earnings of rail- (
ways in the Unite States increased
aearly $07,000,000 last year
The amount of cotton reported by
ihe Census Bureau as ginned up to
November 14 is 8 621,4t6 bales against.
1,601,1?0 last year. I
(an of better day than the Mongolian
or the Afrloao or any other raoe. Th
Ethiopian It a burden bearer. He ha*
done absolutely nothing for history
nor h?oi he ever achieved anything o'
jrrr.t Importance. The*f. are no great
m?n urn >rg the raoe. Tet this people
hae byn ploked out ?>y he fanatic
of the North and lifted up to the equal
It y of the citizenship aud to the rlglr
of suffrage. No doubt many of you hav
listened to the oratory oj the greatirsi
colored man of this o untry?Bnoke*
Washington Ho had a white father
however, and his brains aud hit
character ho has Inherited from t' a?
father.
Senior Tillman then t'Id hlo aud!
enco cf the attack on white -omen
by negroee in the South and di elarv5
that the pc pie of the North were in
a great measure responsible for this
state of affairs.
In conclusion. SmatsrTillsaansaid:
"Now as a general Illustration of
*he injustice that la sometimes done
President Roosevelt discharged three i
companies of colored soldiers without
a oourtmarttal, and in doing this he i
unlshod innocent man for the orime ]
of a few. In doing this he tranda- <
cended the authority of the law and
he ongtat not have done it. i
Du Irg Mr. Tillman's apeeoh a col- i
orrd m5,a aud a Ruiu.an were arrest i
cri for creating a d'aturbanoe In the
gallery.
til FVRlHH IV FLAXSS.
_
i ii'o VimIi* Crowilrtt SHlffttlon Ai my 1
Barrack* In Ht Louis.
St. Louis, Mo., ctme very near 1
having a most disastrous tire, so fa? |
as the less of human life is concerned, ,
on last Wednesday morning. The 1
Light House hotel, a three story (
structure on the northwest oornor o?'
Nlnlh and Mark3t streets, utilized ?*
a Salvation Army barracks, wv
damaged by fire wheu probably 600
homeless men wore lodged withlu It.
Six persons lost their lives and prob *
ably 36 wore lrjurrd, some not being
expected to live. Four were burned L
to death and two died from irjurlee 1
received in jumping from the upper
windows. Too of the dead men have
been identified as follows: Oioar F
Davis, (^jlnoey, 111 , died at hospital;
George D. Hose, died at hospital. ^
The tiro started on the third floor t
and swept through iJn- old buliuing ^
rapidly. Man fought at the wiudows ^
to secure rhe life lines nod slide to y
the street but so great wa? the fretzy
with which tho ropes worn seized and f
held thai they were of little avail (
and those who oould not escape bv r
the stalwny loaprd from the windows. ^
A largo number of those who jutnp t
ed were caught in nets, but many
Jumped t efor? the nets were stretched
and were Injured. There was but ~
one stairway and the panic-striokou rj
men surged down this stairway to the r
treat, ^nlv to find that door looksd. .
\ Jim resulted and probably & great- J
r loss of life would have occurred f
nad not tlremen promptly burst the t
lour opeu Tne cause of the lire hat
aot been asoertali ,ed.
ShoekoU Mors*".
A dispatch from New York Bays 1
tho news of the death of Samuel '
wp i\(fr In the railway wreck reached {
J. P. Morgan just as he was about tc>
"Qter Graoe church to attend the spec
Ui Thanksgiving day services. When
the news of hia friend's death w&>
told him. Mr. Morgan tureel death .
iy pale. "What! Sam Speuo#:?" he
a ma* ) shouted. "My God, man, Is ,
.vam Spencer dead? ' He trembled ,
an Jl ins limbs almost gave way. Stv
v.rai frtonda, thinking he was about tc .
collapse, ran to him. "This is a ter- ,
.lble shock," Mr. Morgan said, when ,
he had somewhat recovered himself.
"1 oan't say anything now. I was
aeer soshooke^ in my life." A frleur.
helped the financier to a carriage and '
ho was driven b- m
Kilty Live* IjomI. I
Tutupic, Guaiainala, was destroyed
by a hurricane recently. When
the burrloahe was at its height tne
town wan InundAted by a rl*e In the 1
river on wL onif, is aliuated, and all '
of the buildings ware waah.d away. f
X"n? lnraiilianu sought refuge in \
trese, but many of them wer> washed '
away during the r<gut. Tne news, ?
ho far recdyed from the sc.uo of the '
'Is^aater Is not very definite la Its <
ciaraoter as regards loss of lift, hut it *
la known that fully 50 people were '
drowned. Nearly all of the building* 1
In the town were swept away by the
flood. :
Got Ktjc?it?en Years
Mrs. Barrlet Moulter, charged with t
the murder of her husband, whom <:
be killed at Pulaski, Ta., lu a q tar*
rel several weeks ago was Juutr
guilty of murder in t^e seoond dogre*
and sentenoed to eighteen years in 1
prison. It was alleged that Mt.*lter 1
abused his wife and was threatenlng 1
to strike her when jahe ss'z id the re 1
volver and shot him dead. The de
renae wis inssniry. *
c
Hpi ncur * Veteran* c
Adjutant General William E Mick- *
le, United Oonfedfrate Veterans, sent t
a telegram to lira. Samuel Spencer. c
r.nd promulgated orders by command c
of Gen. Stephen D. Lr e, on the occa t
slon of the death of Samuel Spenoer, 1
colonel and aide on his staff, paylrg t
high tribute to him, as comrade, sol 1
dler and oltizeo. t
The Norfolk and Western Railroad
announced a ten per cent wage in*
crease, effective December 1st.
Gen. J. Franklin Bell is to be recalled
from Cuba January 1st, and
Gen. Theodore Wlnt placed in cammand.
M 1 APPLIB ? TORCH
Alter Taking fr'uii I'tiaanaaion or ?
Town In Kentucky.
At Princeton, Ky , the tobaoc<
stemerles or John St'ger and John O
Orr, the latter oontrclled by the Im
perlal Tobacco Company of Nn
York, were destroyed by ft fire kin 1
ed by ft mob of matkid men Sjvcral
cottages In the vioinlty were badly
iimaged. but nebudy was hurt The
Iocs Ib estimated at about 1170,000
The m ,b, vu ion nua b red 6b nt
300 mea, entered Princeton between
1 and 2 o'clock ftnd disarmed then'g t
town marshftl. Then they went to
jbe' fftcu rleB and applied the torch
Masked men stood on guard, allowing
nobody to come near until the
buildups were completely enveloped
in dimes aod help was useless.
A * quart of the mob took ohargo of
the telephone ( flloe and no word wis
permitt?d to go out. When the mob
law the tire was beyond control they
left the town, going in the dlrcottou
of Hopklnsvllle, discharging revolve**
md rttles as they departed. The ti e
department then came out, but oould
1o nothing more than to prevent the
tiro oostroylng the buildings In the
vicinity.
The Steger Factory Is oontrolle by
the Ameriom SnutI Company *n
Steger Is the Price.t n agent. Orr
.?, m. rl??rr>U?,nLi*t,t wo r>f tho Tmm.r.il
Company.
A hundred and tifty thousand
pounds of fcobacoo was In each w^r?
house and all was burned. The mow
in addition to disarming the night
policeman, took charge of the police
Gallon and the water works Kven
ad Ihe tire company responded they
j'.mld not have bien able to do any-hfng.
The work of the mob la thought to
>a only the furtherance cf the aglia
>lun by tobacoo raisers against the so
ailed tobacco trust There 1b an or
rao'zaUon known as the Dark Tobacco
Protective Association but it is
lot known that any members of that
rganlzntlon was ?n the ?~ob.
Morn Then War.
A newspaper < f an analysis turn has
aade very striking comparisons with
h'so astonishing tlguret:, in conneo
ion with the casualty list of the
real battles of the civil war. The
omparfsons show that the "dcedllos
tattles of the civil war wero mor?.
klrmlBhes compared with the fright
ul havoc wrought in times of peace
>y American railroads." In four of
hese great battles f jwe r humans were
:i)l?d than are called upon by railroads
o give up their llv^n In a single year.
Ohlckam&uga 1050 men were killid;
in the Wilderness, 2240; at Spott
ylvania, 2725; at. Gettysburg, 3070.
Phe total number or soldiers slaugherod
in thiso four gr*at battles was
1007, and In one tl>cal year ending
luue 30, I On 5, six mora than thl>
mmbar, 07(3 gsvj up tin ir n'vui on
.be railroad.
Fatal Aoo'dont,
A ap:cul to the News and Courier
'rom Aiken says: "Luther Craig, a
white mau, w?w? shot and killed Satlrday
night by tho accidental dlsjharge
of a pistol. Craig wai going
oome fum the olty about 8 30
o'clock in a buggy and as ha was go
Ing down a hill J ost on the edge of
'own jk phce of the harness broke
He bad a revolver on the seat, and
when ha got out of t.be buggy to flx
Dhe harness t.he pistol was In some
way thrown out on the ground, and it
was discharged the ball entering bin
aft side, a d ha died an hour afterwards.
He was 38 vears old and a
prominent member cf the I. O O F.
llod Men and Ju ior Order of United
American Mechanics (lis remains
were interred Sunday afternoon at
Town Creek C urco. lie will be
purled by the Odd F Mows.
iVjrn Uriltod.
Charges thai Louis if. PayD, when
itale hurerlntendenl c f insurance, de
nanded $100 000 from the Mu'.utl Brie;
vi Life lusuraroe company under
jhreat of s ?wing th&:> the coaipany
insolvent and that President Fred
irlok A1 Hurnharr had said that he
lad paid Mr. Payn $40 000, were mado
jy Assistant District Attorney Nott
it New York on Wednesday In the
nriel of B 1. Burnham, Jr. Mr. Burnlam
is Indicted to-ether with Fredrictc
A. Burnhaes, Jr , formrr ooun
el for the Mutual Baser ve Life Inursn>:
loaapany, and Goorge D. ?'
irltige, vi)i president of the oomp
idv, for minpropriation of the funds
>f the con t'nv.
Xi?u
G. E. Adams. aceLfc at Kayford,
/a., has beee arrested, charge1 with
.he 'Otbsry of the express at
hat plaoe laet Saturday ilng,
when over $6 TOO wee stolen .V alet
ant Agent iliabar ww ar. ?s-ed
* an aooemplioe. S v a hundred
loliare supposed t ' par*- or tbf
nonay hat wa? f urid in Adam'o
ousft. Adam * k flight wound in
he leg when ' bound and gaged
tear the r^uroad trafkg, which he
nalma b#?a r*: en h.dieted by the rob*
>ers. Whfcu the of! ear* went to ex
iminc .1 routers to find how near
ih* w apon waa held, when flrad they
^*nod that his wlfa had burned
ihem.
The American Sugar Rctining Company
was found guilty of accepting a
rebate of $20,000 from the New York
Central Kailroad.
Rev. Dr. Alfred E. Dickinson, foi
forty years editor of the Rehgiou*
Herald, died in Richmond.
SCORES THEM
k
> Gen. Garlingtoa Sustained by
Gen. Nettleton, of vhicago.
r
AN^VKSTIO TION
U* the Greaad Ceavlaces (he Old Veteran
af the liolen Amy That the
Nrjfro Soldiers Wa* Gulhy of
Conspiracy rni Was
Rightly Dlimlsetd.
Because of the apparent m'sunderstanding
In portions of the oouotry of
facti! vrhloh called foit'i the ordar discharging
tba threa sompa llus of colored
tr >op roaeatly stationed at
Brownsville. Texas, and in view of
the resultant oritlakm of the pr sidan,'soourea
In :ha matter, the o ULkwC
oomnol'.tca of Br wosvllle raoou'ly
requested Gin. A B. Nettle od
Of Cliloago, forocer a aU'MUt scorn ry
of the treasury, wh.le cu bualncub b
Br wnayllle to lihls own wa w
thorough a ad dial lit'; roe tad Inves.igttlon
of the BruwubvllU r.oi? of Aa({.
13 and report his oinalual oas. Gen.
Ne.fclatou embodied his * tidings in a
Letter to the secretary uf w*r h*
says in u.trt'
"A* a citizen of Illinois, as an anthdavary
advocate whou that phrase
had a moanlrg, and as a vateran who
servs'1 in the Caloa aroiy througout
the Civil tar, 1 shall at ImsL not be
suipeo-ad of proIju Ilea against mm
<st ocior.
"Without rehoarslng details, 1 wish
to assure you that this absolutely unprejudiced
investigation, mtdo a'ter
local excitement had ^ubstrud confirms
In every pirt'.cu'ar the conclusions
reached by the wo arm , flloera
sent here by Lho war depar meni, cd
the (strength of vrhloh the president
took his notion, as wo-1 as the clear
and temperate state me .t pu llhed Immediately
aft r the tragedy by Chairman
Kellcy of the Browns? 1 e oitlzana'
oojamltioe.'1
After summarizing facts h therto
published as to killing of one o Izjo,
the m ilmlng of a ohlof of pclloe, the
firing of volloys iuto i\nd Lhroug i
hoiils, sa oo s and many p/lvato re*ldeuoes
and of torro izlng of ?he ntlre
town. (won. Nattlutoa's letter cjail
ouch:
"It is well aUestud by avid moe
that .ho colored *roopn ware trra'.ed
here with the tam? rcu"asy that
oolorcd soldier of like bearing are
trusted in moat garrison towns of the
Northern States. That on the other
u.vKid, the stroot conduct of some r f
r.rirjr, wm ou?n aggr^sslv ly and
auMlewly lniolent toward white mm
411 d women; Uhat ihtr: was ii> pr r
voeabloti for the nuMe om raid r> t e
soldiers, unles lb oan to* oil ed a pri
vocation that tha drinkers am >ng
them were pr vlded with sepa'Ato
bars In oortaln saloons a d buat on
two cooaulons lud.viiu.l In -Lu.e *as
resented by Individual 0'. zens, both
of which happened to ev been lie*
publican federal fti laics.
"Tnere waa no 'riot' and no 'street
row,' aj ma; y newspapers persist in
calling the oicurrence. Ib war himply
a muet 00warn ly o^uspiruov 10 terrify,
wound and bill on ff mdh g men,
women and children ao the hour of
mid-nlgbt, when defense or rs I stance
was loopraotioabic and ww n t even
attempted. Evlde itiy QJt aq oppot1
riir snot was fired"
Gen. Nettletou's letter rharply
raises the question hs 10 whit the
white tffiocr<* of the gstirlnou w re doing
on the night of the raid ai d closes
thus:
'In viewof the fiats as I fl -.d them
here, the persistent attempt on the
part of some to make martyrs of aay
portion of the discharged men would
be aopalllng, if It wore n >b groteiq te
The oonsplr&oy of silence on the part
f ell rremb its of the batalllon prevent
the government fr< m punhhlng
the previous ooosplraoy of violence
and murder, and the seperatlon of all
alike from the service which they
have disgraced besoms# Inevitable. I
believe no course other than the (me
which the preildeet ha? pu sied, was
or is open to him unless all semblance
of a decent <3 solplloe in our
army Is to be ended and unless every
Amerioau community, North and
South alike, le to be given oause to
dread the proximity from the garrison
as It would that of an encampment of
armed and uniformed assailants. I
sympathize deeply with the colored
people In their upward struggle In
Amerroa; hut I believ > the most damaging
service that oan do rendered
them as a race In their period of test
and transition Is that of championing
or excusing the criminal element In
their ranks."
Fired on Ofttonri*.
in placing an attachment on the
tneatricAl baggage of a show at LaCrange,
Mo,, Saturday Constable
II js a Duvall shot and instantly killed
Constable James K pan, and an aotor
Orln Stuart was fatally wounded.
Koy Millard, an actor, was shot
through the body and a*m. T ie tw>
actors It Is alleged began the shooting.
I The investigation of the K vstern
i State Hospital at Williamsburg, Va ,
: has tinally resulted In the discharge
of the physicians in charge.
p Work on the Virginia Bulldi'g for
i the Jamestown Kxpositlon has been
halted by a strike.