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1 ( .1 > \ WHY HE DID IT. the President Gives Good and J * HIS RECENT ORDER I Discharging Certain Negro Soldiers from the United States Array .reV10Ut Honor. He Make* No Apology and Says He Would Do It Again. In response to the senate resolution oalllng lor an Investigation in the "shooting up" of Brownsville by negro soldiers and there subs-quern diamissall therefor, President lioosevelt sent to the senate a complete report or the atlilr. The report is one Of the strongest papers ever prepared by the president, and is a conclusive answer to bis critics. Wo make some extracts from the report, which will be read with iuteres. The presldeut ays: I am glad to avail myself of tl^^p portuni&y afforded bv these resolutions to lay before the congress the followl } lug facts as to the murderous conduce ^ of certain members of the compai ieu ' a in question and as to the or nsplracy [ by wbiob many of the other members ^ of these companies saved the orimll nal8f rom justice, to tho disgrace of the United States uniform. I oall your attention to the acoom panylog reports of Mr J. Augustus P. Bioolcsom, of Lieut. Col. Leonard A. Lover lug and of Brig. Gen. Earnest A. Garllngton, the inspector general of the United States army, of their Investigation into the oonduot of the troops in question. An effort has been made to discredit the falrnors of the lovestigaation into the oondivt of vnese ooiorea troops ov poinuag out that Geo. GarlinKtuu Is a Southerner. Preoisely the same action would have been taken had the trocpj been white ?indeed, ihe discharge would proba bly have been made In more summary fashion. Gen Garltngfcon is a native of South Carolina; Lieut. Col. Levering is a native of New Harm hire; Ma i. Block som is a native of Ohio. As it hap ^-_pena, the dlsolosuie of the guilt of /the troops was made in the report of fthe officer who comes from Oilo, and ft he efforts of an officer who cames -r from South Carolina were oontined to a the endeavor to shield the innocent r men of the companies in question, if any suoh there were, by s curing information which would enable us ad equately to punish the qullty. But I wish it dlstinoly understood that the faot of the birthplace of either offleer Is one which I absolutely refuse to consider. The standard of professional honor and of loyalty to the flag and the ser vice Is the same for all officers and all nilstpd men of the United States army, and I resent with the keenest Indignation any effort to draw any line among them based upon birthplaoe, creed, or any other oonsidera tion of the kind. I should put the umo entire faith in thes reports If it -? -bad happened that they were all mac'e by men coming from some one State, whether In the South or the North, the Eist or the West, as I now do, when, as it happens, they were made by officers born in different States. Haj. Blccksom's report is most ^ careful, m baaed upon the testimony of scores of eye-witnesses?testimony which conflicted only in nonessentials and which established the essential facts beyond chanoe of successful ocntranlotlon. Not only has no successful effort been made to traverse his findings lh any essential partlotlar, but, as a matter or faot, every trustworthy report from outsiders amply corrobates them, by far the beat of these outside reports being that of Gen. A. B. Nettleton, made In a letter to the secretary of war, whioh I herewith append; Gen. Net tleton being an ex-Union soldier, a oonsistent friend of the colored man throughout bis life, a lifelong Republican, a citizen of Illinois, and assistant secretary of the treasury under President Harrison. ^ The attack was made neasi'inldnight on Auguit 13. Tae following faots as to tnis auac* are uiauc uie?r by MaJ. Blookgom's investigation and have cot been, and, In my judgment, cap not be, successfully controverted From 9 to 15 or 20 of the colored sol dlers took part In tbe attack. Tbey leaped over tbe walla from the barracks and hurried through the town. They shot at whomever tbey saw mov log, and tbey shot into hou<es where | they saw lights. lp some of these houses there were women and ohild-1 ft . ren, as the would-be murderers must have known. In one house in which there were two women and five child(dren some ten shots went fchro^S at a height of about four and a hah? feet above the floor, one putting out the lamp upon ttye table. The lieutenant of polloe of the town heard the firing and rode toward it. He met tbe rald| ?ho, as he stated, were about 16 L', c'Olbred soldiers. They lnstan ly startF ed firing upon him. He turned and I rode off, and they continued firing A upon him until they had killed his A hone They shdt him In the right arm (It was afterwards amputated I above the elbow) A number of shots I were alto fired at two other policemen. I The raiders fired several times into a hotel, some of the shots being almel I at a guest sitting by a wlndowJ They I shot into a saloons killing the )*rfcen der and wounding another man. At the same time other raidora fired into another houae in whloh woman and ehildren were Bleeping, two of the hota going through the mosquito bar over the bed in whloh the mlatreaa of the houae and her two ohlldren were lying. 8everal other houses were *truok by bulleta. It was at night, and the streets of the town are poorly lighted, so that none of the indiyldu al raiders were reoogniied, but the evidenoe of many witnesses of all olasses was conolusive to the effect that the raiders were negro soldiers. The shat to red bullets, shells, and ollps of the government rities, whloh were found on the ground, are merely oorrobora tive. Si are the bullet holds in the houses; some of which It appears must, from the dlr?ctlon, have been tired from the fort just at the moment when the soldiers left It. Not . bullet hole appears in any of the structures of the fort. The townspeople were oompletely surprised by the unprovoked and murderous savagery or the attaok. The soldiers were the aggressors from start to tiulsh. They mat with no substan tlal resistance, and one and all who took part in that raid stand as deliberate murderous, who did murder one man, who tried to murder others, and who tried to murdor women and children. The act was one of horrible atrocity, and so far as I am aware, unparalled for infamy in the annals of the United States army. The white oilleors of the companies were completely taken by surprise, and at iirst evidently believed that lirlng meant that the townspeopl were attaking the soldiers. It was not until 2 or 3 o'olook In the morning that any of them became aware of the t?rutn. l nave directed a careful in vestigation Into the conduct of the oilloui8, to see If any of them were blame worthy, and 1 have approved the recommendation of the war department that two be brought before a oourtmartial. a 8 to be noncommissioned officers and enlisted men, there o*n be no doubt whatever that many were necessarily privy, after If not bofore the attack, to t?ne conduct of those who took actual pari In this murderous riot. I refer to Maj. Blocksom's report for proof of tue fact that certainly Home #nd probably all of the noncom missioned officers in charge of quarters who were responsible for the gun racks and had keys hereto In their personal possession knew what men were engaged In th attaok. N sjor Penrose, In command of the pest, in h s his letter (Included in the appendix) gives the reasons why ha was reluotantly convinced that some of the men under him?as he thinks, from seven to ten?got their rifles, slipped cut of quarters to do the shooting, and returned to the barraoks without being discovered, the shooting all ooourrlcg within two and a half short blooks of the barraoks. It was possible for the raiders to go from the fort to the farthest point of tiring and return in less than 10 minutes, for the distance did not exceed 350 yards. Such are the faots of this case. General Nettleton, in his letter here with appended, states that neit door to where was he writing In Brownsville Is a small cottage where a children's party had just broken up before the house was riddled by United States bullets, fired by United States troop* from United States Springfield rifles, at close range, with the purpose of rilling or maiming the inmates, including the parents and children who were still in the wellllgh'jed house, and whose esoape from death under such oirouinstances was astonishing. He states that on anocior street he looks upon fresh bullet soars where a volley from si ml lar govarument rifles was fired into the side anc windows of a hotel occupied at the time by sleeping or frightened guests from abroad who oould u t possibl? ha ;e given any cffsnse to the assailant*. He writes that the chief of the Brownsville police is again on duty from the hospital, and oarrles an empty sleeve because he was shot by federal soldiers frcm the adjacent garrison in the oourso of their murderous foray; and not far away is tha fresh grave of anonoffend ing citizen of th < place, boy in year* who was wantonly shot down by these United States soldiers while attempting to escape. The effort to confute this testimony so far has consisted in the assertion or implication that the townspiople shot one another in order to di.oredlt the soldiers--an aos.rdlty too gross to need discussion anrt iinaiinnrirhad hv a thrArl r?f avI. UUkf Vt |T|rv/* WVVI ** J wm K VV4 \S A V V 1 dencu. There is do question as to the murder and the attempted murders; there is uo question that some of the soldiers w^re guilty rhereof, jhen is no question that nan/ of their oomrades privy to the deed have combined to shelter the criminal* from justice, These oomrades of the murderers, by the r own action, have J... J 1 i. ^ Am A. a reuuoreu it uoueaaary eibuor i/U leave i all the men, including the murderers, I in the army, or to turn them all out; and under such circumstances there was no alternatlye, for the usefulness of the army would be at an end were we to permit such an outrage to be oommltted with impunity, In short the evidence proves eonoiusively that a number of soldiers engagsd in a deliberate and oonoerted attack, as cool blooded as it was cowardly; the purpose being to terrorize the community, and to ki I or injure men, wcman, and ohlldren in their homes and beds or on the streets, and this at an hour of the night when concerted 01/ effeotlve resistance or defense was out of the question, and wnon detection by Identification of the criminals in the United States uniform w>s well-nigh impossible. So muoh for the orlgiinal orlme. A. blacker never stained the annuals of s / onr army. II has baan supplemaoted by another, on y leas blcki, Id the shape of a suooassful oonsplraoy of sllenoe for lbs purpcsa of shlaidlng tbosa who took part in the original conspiracy of murdsr. These soldiers were not sohool boys on a frolic. They ware full-grown men, in the uniform of the United States army, armed with deadly weapons sworn to uphold the laws of the United States, and under every obligation of oath and honor not merely from criminally but with the sturdiest rigor to hunt downoriml ally; and the crime they committed or connived at was mur dor. Thay pervorted the power put Into their hauds to sustain the law Into the most deadly violation of the law. The noncommissioned othoers are pri 1 marlly responsible for the dlsolpline and good oonduct of the men; they < are appointed to their posltlous for the very purpoao of preserving this discipline and good conduct, and of detecting and seouring the punishment of every enlisted man who does what Is wrong. They till, with reference to the discipline, apart that the Oommisftloued cUlcers are of course unable to till, although the ultimate responsibility for the dlsolpline can never be shifted from the shoulders of the latter. Undir any ordinary clr oumstancos the tirat duty of the noncommissioned cUlcers, as of the c >m mlsfloned ctlloers, is to train the pri vate iu the ranks so that ho may be au etllolont lighting m&u against a foreign fee. But theie Is an even higher duty, so obvious that It Is not under ordinary circumstances necessary so much as to allude to It?the duty of training the soldier so that, he shall be a nroteotion and not a ? menace to his peaceful fellow-citizens, t and above all to the women and ohll * dreu of the uation. Unless this duty i is well performed, the army becomes c a mere dangerous mob; and if conduct such aa that of the murderers in j question is not, where possible, pun fl ished, and, where this is not possible, a unless the chance of its repetition is t guarded against in the meet thor- , ough going fashion, it would bo bet- e ter that the entire army should be c disbanded. It is vital for the army a to bo lmbusod with the spirit which ^ will make every man in it, and above all, the effiaers and noncommissioned c officers, feci it a matter of highest t obligation to discover and punish, c aud not to shield, theorimlnal in unl- i form. Yet some of the noncommissioned officers and many of the men of the three companies In question have banded together in a conspiracy to proteot the assassins and would-be assassins who have disgraced their uniform by the.oonduot above relate.-. Many of these noncommissioned officers and men must have known, and all of them may have known, clrcum-A.^ J U 1 ^ J ?. ^ AU. Hbauuos wuiuu wuuiu uavo igu uu tub N con vlct'on of those ongaged In the h murderous assault. Tuey have stclld- y ly and as one man broken their oaths c of enlistment and refused to help dlB- 1 cover the criminals. \ By my direction every effort was made to persuade those innocent of , murder among them to Heparat* , themselves fiom the guilty by help- , ing bring the orlminala to justice } They we o warned that if t>?ey did \ not take advantago of the ( far they ] would all he discharged from the ser- i vloe and forbidden eg&in to enter the ( employ of the government. They re- | fused to protlt by the warning. I ac- f oordingly had them discharged. If any organization of troops in the ser vloe, white or black, Is guilty of slmi- , lar conduct in the future I shall follow preoisely the same course. Undtr ( no circumstances will I consent to ] keep in the servioe bodies of men whom the oircumstanoesishow to be a menace to the country. Inoldentally I may add that the soldiers of longest , service and highest position who suffered beoause of the order, so far from J being those who deserve most sympathy, deserve least, for they are the men upon whom we seould be able es- { peel ally to rely to prevent mutiny and , murder. People have spoken as If this discharge from the servloe was a punish- ; ment, I deny emphatically that suoh is the oaee, because as punishment it is utterly Inadequate. The punish meat meet for mutineers and murderers suoh as those guilty of the Brownsville assault Is death; and a punishment only less severe ought to be moted out to those who have aided and abetted mutiny and murder and treason by refusing to help in their deteotion. I would that It were possible for me to have punished the guilty men. I regret most keenly that I have not been able to do so. Be It remembered always that these men were all In the service of tho United States under contracts of enlistment, whloh by their terms and by statute were terminable by my direction as commander-In chief of the army. It was my clear duty to terminate those contraots when the public Interest demanded It: and It would have been a betrayal of ihe public Interest on my part not to terminate the contracts whloh were keeping In the service of the United States a body of mutineers and murderers. After oltlng many precedents, both In the United States and the Confederate armies, for bis action In discharging the negro soldiers, and sayIn? that lie Is and alwavs has been friendly disposed toward the negro, President Roosevelt oonoludes by saying: I would hold myself unfit to be president .If I did not feel the same revolt at wrong done a colored man as 1 feel wrong done a white man. I have condemned in unstinted terms the crime of lynohing perpetrated by white men, and I should take Instant advantage of any opportunity whereby I could bring to Justice a mob of lynchers. In oreolselv the same spirit 1 I have now acted wllb reference t< (base colored men wbo hen been guilty of a blaok and daa tardly orlme. In one polloy, as It tbe other, I do not olalm aa a favor, but I challenge as a right, tbe sup port of every citizen of this country, whatever bis oolor, provided only he has In htm tbe spirit of genuine and far sighted patriotism Thkoooku Rooskvklt. The White House, Dm 19, 1906. MARRIED 81X SI8T1&8. rtio lleiuarkablo Alatrliuoiiial Kxiierlcnoo of JainoH Cruvon. When James Craven, formerly of Montana, and Lar a Lamproaht were uaie one at Mount Gllead, Ohio, last week by a justice of the peace, the irldegroom had married tho last of a family ot six sisters, live ofwhom bad joen wooed and won by Craven only jo meet with a violent death soon ifter beoomlng his wife. Thirty years *go Craven, who had i trading post In Montma, met the Liimprecht family, and beoame Infatlatad with Nora, tho eldest of six >ome!y daughters. The oourtshlp was short but declsrvo, end the wed ling followed shortly. But Craven was unaware that Charey Wolf, a half breed Indian, had sot ds heart ou wedding the buxom Nora, uid when ho heard the wedding balls iuglog for tho trader the half-breod tworo to he revenged. A fow weeks ifter tbe marslage poor Nora was hot dead In her doorway by tho halfjreed. Wolf made his escape, and Graven, iffcor four years of mourning, decided ihat It was not good for man to be done. So ha paid his address to tiarie Lamnrecht. the next oldest laughter. With the half breed a fugitive from usiio. Ciaven felt comparatively >afe, but ene day ho fouDd that his lecond wife had been laid low by a >ullet fired by the same murderer, vho had evidently taken an oath of iztermlnation. Craven made an earntut attempt to draw a bead on the aaasaln, but Wolfe waa too adroit and rot out of the way. Then the widower reached the con ilusicn that a period of quiet mitrl nonlal life was before him, bo he lourtcd and married the third slBter, )y name Effln. The couple had just uattled down to i happy exlateuoe when craek went ihe Winchester of Wolfe, and Craven tas again a widower. This had a discouraging effoofc on (he trader, who deolded to leave Montana and go to Ohio, where a man lould live In psaoe witk his wife. Ac lordlugly. he settled down in this iown. He soon became restless, how>ver, and wandered back to Montana, vbere be prevailed upon the fourth fitur t.r? i<nant him tr\r hatl.ar n* tr\r I1BVV/A WW UIO* 1VI UVUVW* WA A V* vcrio. She consented, bub ou bhe joadiMon that he make an effort to 'do" the half-breed before he "did" ler. Craven admitted that thi3 was a laocasary precaution, so, after the wedding, he shouldered his riile and went out in searoh of his foo. Wolf a&d not been invited to the ceremony, mt he came around shortly nf:er Helen had taken po^sesflion of her nomc. Craven, however, caught sight jf him first, and with a well-dlreeted bullet, removed Wolfe to auotner jphere of usefulness. But Helen Boon afterward was taken ill and died, and Craven decided that luck was against him. However, be want to Bertha, the fifth daughtar and prevailed on her to accept his hand and heart. Everything went along nioaly until Bertha waa thrown from a horse aud killed. Then Graven came to the conelusion that he was indeed a matrimonial hoodoo, and returned sadly to Ohio. But he raoolleeted that Lena, the youngest and last of the Lampreoht .1.1a _aa -till I? Unn4?..a dn Via |iita, was avui iu iuuumum. nu is lent'for her to come hero and be his bride. She oame and they were married, and all the people in thle town are wondering what will happen to Lena. Immigrant*. The families and friends of those who came to South Carolina on the Whlttfcklnd with Commissioner Watson hate heard of the opportunities In this Slate and are ooming over themselves as soon as possible. Mr. Watson reoeivod a letter from his representative In Belgium whloa was In part as follows: "Among those who are booked now I have 20 ciioloe, strony serious, peaceful - people. Amour them are man/ members of the families of those who left with you. They received lettors from those who went over with you In whloh these people have expressed great satlsfaot.on with the new ooun try and in whloh they have insisted on those who were left behind coming over as soon as possible." The letter is particularly gratifying to Gov. Hevward and Commissioner Watson In view of the many efforts made to oheok tbe immigration movement to tbe Soutb. It moans tbe suooess of the work and that thi predictions made by those friendly tc tbe department would come true. Monnontsm a Curse, "Mormonism is a greater curse t< the country than slave? y," declare< Mrs. B'red T. DuBolse, wife of thi Idaho senator, in an address in Wash ington on "The Effect of MormODisn on Eduoction." She said that shouli President Roosevelt make a trip gout in south-eastern Idaho be would n longer be willing to deolare that ther is nothing in the Mormon questlor Six United States senators, she sale owe their election to tbe influenoe c the Mormon churoh. ; WATSON RIGHT. I ? Violated No Law in [(ringing ImI migrants on Wittekind. OPINION KENDEBEP. By Solicitor (or the Department of the Interior That Commissioner Watson Had a Right to Help Immigrants Come to This State. An important decision has been rendered by Secretary Straus, of the Department of Commeroe and Labor, as to the right of a State to lnduoe immigration to that Stato, The doolslan holds in brief that in the olr cumstanccs there is no violation of the Immigration laws or of the law to prohibit the importations of alien contract laborers in the action of the State of Souto Carolina, In this particular case, In cr.c< uraglng Immigration to that State or In paying the necessary expenses of the Immigrants In coming to the Stato. The case on which the decision is based originated In South Carolina. For some time past the agricultural and manufacturing industries of South Carolina have been retarded and were In danger of material injury on aooount of the lack of labor. In ordor to relieve this oondltlon of affairs the Legislature of South Carolina passed an aot creating a State Department of Agriculture, Commoioe and Immigration. E. J . Watson was appointed commissioner of the department, lie was empowered by the act to make such arrangomonts with steamship companies and the Immigration agencies in this country and abroad as would servo best the interests of suo oofnful Immigration, tho rucessary expenditure being made from an appropriation pro ided for tho purpose. Tho aot authorized the commissioner to accept cohtrlbutlons from suoh oltizona of the State as might wish to assist In bringing suoh cltissnsof the State as might wish to assist in bringing desirable Immigrants to South Carolina. On November 4, 1901, the steamship Witteklnd arrived from Bremen at ths port of Charleston, S C., having on board about 475 aliens destln ed to various points in the State of South Carolina. About 300 of these aliens were induce^ to migrate to the rr j rii.. a. t a.l a- a.i. uuiioa abates uy tuu at?tu ui ouutu Carolina, the State acting through the medium of Its Commission of ag rlculture, Commoroe and Immigra tlon, who went to Europo some time In August for the purpose of Inducing desirable Immigrants to oomt to the Slate, the passage money of the aliens was paid by the State ffum a fund, part of which was appointed by the State, and the balauoe being contributed by varlouB corporations and lndlv'duals. This fund was expended solely at the discretion of the State and In so doing exercised his own judgment aa to the person to whom and the locations to which the several aliens should be sent. The aliens were free to accept or refuse any offers of employ meet made to them. The facts in this oase were brought to the attention of tbe Secretary of Commerce and Labor b> the immigration officers at the port of Charleston, S. C., and ho In return referr d the matter to the solloltor of the department for his opinion as to whether or not the aotlon of the com mlssloner of Immigration of South Carolina in bringing these aliens to the United States a violation of the alien oo tract labor lens The Ltd ml gration service was duly notitlcd of the expeobod arrival of the Imrr.t grants in qucs&ion anu ine rignt or such ftl'en to land wan loft to the determination of the otllcers administering the Federal immigration 'hwh, The question of the right of ~i itat^ under the national immigration was raiaed by the officials of another Southern State. It was referred to the Department of Commerce anrl Labor. Realizing its Importance Secretary Metoalf reforred the legal quoQtion Involved to Solloltor Earle, of the department, for an opinion. Mr. Earle considered very carefully the facts of the case in connection with the statutes bearing upon it and ar rived finally at the oonoluV >n that there had been no violation of the national law by the author! ttos of South 1 Carolina. The opinion of Solicitor 1 Earle goes fully Into a dlsouaslon of the law re pectin# immigration. He 1 finds that "bo far as the prohibition 1 against assisting the Importation or 1 mlgiatlon of foreign laborers by * promise of employment through ad ' vertistmfuts abroad is conoerned. States ..ad Territories are expressly excepted from the operation of the a law." 3 He says, further: "By the terms e of the provision, States and Territories may otter Inducements or make Q promises to foreign laborers by ad 3 vertisement printed and published in h foreign countries and they are not 0 forbidden to 'assist* in the migration 0 of the foreigu laborers to whom suet: , offers were addressed." j' While the opinion of Solloltor Earh is general In Its application, he make it dear that It relates to the facts li this particular and Indicates that differert .jueatlon might arlae It the faota themaelvea were slightly different. Id ooDclutloc, It Is stated aa the opinion if the department: 'The plan pursued by Commissioned Watson, as It Is shown to hare been carried out, dees not Involve a violation of the immigration laws cf the United States prohibiting the importation of contract laborerr ; and I am of further opinion that there has been no mtsapp Icatlon of the exemption In favor cf States, Territories and the Dlstrlot of Columbia contained in section r> cftho ant ?.f Maroi 3, 1903." DKITHLIKV THAN OB. 1 mpoHHibio to Woko ,\]?|'>r i'< rrj?Mo ilAlTlCH the I'hjMloait Another btrargo Incident In connection with the remarkable case of the "Sleeping Piexcher" who preached to a number of physicians, newspaper men and others at the tieatre In Columbia recently says the Columbia Reo<rd, in the Imposalbllity to arouso him during his strange services. Several test wore applied by the doctors present and they not < nly failed to arouse him, but also fsiiecl to cause any interruption or pau e in Ills cllsoourse. During the tvr.-ntysix years of his strango ministry ho hasundergouethesovfire.it tertb and most thorough examinations, yet he n&s never been awukened while preaching. While In this strange sleep ho is apparently dead to ills surroundings and life of his vaklrg hours. His sei m uis are forceful and grammar faultloks. Ho has never been known to v ander fr^m his (heme lor speak disconnectedly. His utterances while, im aanliinir uruimi lllr/\ t? i ii i v VKUUIU^ OUU iiU liau H K |/1 VTduct of the deepest oonvic'lun and earnest, tbcctfht folios ed by careful study and preparation. Yet he known nothing of his strange power, lie Is Indeed & strange subject. Can a person go hito a deep sleep from which it Is impossible to arouse him without Bime lrllueneo interual or external? Of course not. lmpos- % slbie. And yet, Major Perry, perfectly Illiterate without any hypnotic suggebtions remote or approximate, has gone to his bod every night for over twenty veal's, fallen Into a mysterious trance from whioh it was impossible to arouse him preached a logical sermon and awoke in the mcruiug none the worse for his strange service, li this a miracle? Is it dual personality? Or Is it just a plain freak? Who will explain it intelligently and satisfactorily? TRAVIS ARRESTED. Ohartr Ml Willi ftlavinic CftMhod Two WxproHH Money Orders. T. S. Travis, tho telegraph operator who o* sned two forced express monny or3ers aD<? sklppel with tho money has been arrested in Chattanooga, Tenu., and v/as brought back to Columbia for trial. On Saturday, December b, Travis, who was then employed in tl e dls puncher's otllae of the Southern Railway, secured the endorse, m ml of Mr. Wilkinson, ohlof dlspatoter, to two Southern Express money orders, one for $50 and the other for $30 20, purporting to be on the cilice at Elko, Ga., where Travis had formerly worked. The orders were cashed by the express oince In Columbia and proved to be forgeries. Travis was not seen again. He left his young wife in Columbia without funds, and a collection for her was taken up among the Southern Railway employees. She was heard from Tuesday in Ashevllle. Her home Is at Heiskell, Tenn. The police at Columbia say Travis has been in Savannah and Atlanta, they have been close behind him all the time. Ho was recognlzjd in Chattanooga by an express man and admitted his identity when arrested. The Chattanooga police wired Chief Daly that Travis would be held for him, and it is expected that he will come without requisition. Llaya iiitixuAte Irloml. An extraordinary orlmo has been reported at Llbion, Portugal. The uuit:i aukuiB wore owu rnnu won kuuwu in Libion commercial olroles. One of them was the husband of & young arid beautiful woman and the other his greatest friend whom the first) had diioovared to be his wife's lover. The betrayer was literally hunted to his death by the husband. The enraged husband In faet hunted bis victim up staircases and down staircases, into the cB338 of strangers. Finally the pursued man fell In the house of a str&nyer with a bullet in his body. The assassin walked calmly up to the body, turned It over and lacked the betrayer squarely in the face. "It Is he. He has his reward," he said. Then turning awav without any ado he gave himself quietly to the polloe. Hhooto b'lio.llun, In a row near the postoffloo of Blue Crook, W. Va. Monday night George Goodwin, a Kentuokian, shut live men, one fatally William Armstrong, whose lungs were perforated, will die. The other wounded are: John Cart, about the eyeb; Mark Cart, ahot in the right hand; Walter Cart, shot in i nip aud shoulder, and Laurie Kelly, i shot in the arm. After a raoe with I the sheriff, who shot at Goodwin six times, Goodwin was captured and ) brought to j all. The light was the i result of a trivial dispute between II two of the men.