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THEY HAVE QUIT Legislature Adjourned Saturday Night About Tfculve O'clock. FF.W GENERAL BILLS Were Passed but There Were Many Local Acts?The Most Important Were Substitute Prohibition Dill and Repeal of Lien Law?Factory Inspection, Etc. Columbia, Feb. 2 8.?Tl{e General Assembly adjourned sometVmo between twelve o'clock Saturday niglit and Sunday morning. In some respects is presented some remarkable features. There was little general legislation, although an unusually large number of local acts wero passed . The Senate and House wero in session 4 7 days, which was a week longer than usual and there was a iilibuster that broke all previous records over the prohibition bill in the I House and another 011 the aame measure in the Senate. It was largely due to the compromise which was effected in the Senate that the prohibition fight was ended in the General Assembbly and an adjournment sine die was reach ed Saturday night. The compromise was no surprise here to thoso who have kept in touch with the whiskey legislation except that it was not so certain even up to Saturday afternoon that the House was going to accede to the Senate amendments. However, the bill was passed in the House by a vote of 45 to 4 1, thus doing away with the necessity of conference on the bill. There appears to be general satisfaction here with the compromise, having, as it does, the Carey-Cothran act intact except as to the election which is ordered in all wet counties for August 17. Of course, there have been all sorts of speculations as to how many of the counties now wet will go dry next August. A safe prediction is that not more than five will, if that many. Threo counties had by special acts applied to the Legislature to. allow election. Some of the prohibitionists, however, feel ^ that more than ten counties now wet <m will go dry. All this is a matter of speculation. v-?? The General Assembly passed a compromise prohibition measure which will hardly change existing conditions, although a few of the counties may vote out the dispensaries. There is no doubt hut that at the next session another effort will be made to pass the State-wide bill. The General Assembly passed Mr. K. P. Smith's bill requiring corporations to make public to the stockholders the exact financial condition. It also passed Senator Mauldin's bill forbidding any corporation from declaring dividends not actually earned. It repealed the lien law after a very hard fight in the Senate. It killed the railroad rate law, which would have made the legal passenger rate in the State 2 1-2 cents per mile. It increased considerably the appropriations for the common schools and passed some important amendments to the present high school law It passed the Brice act, making 1( hours the legal day in textile estab lisliments. This act does not appl: in cases of lost tiirve. It changed and enlarged Commis sioner Watson's department, elimi nating the immigration feature an< creating a department of factory in spection with the right to appoin two inspectors. It passed a law making the pas sage of a worthless check a misde meanor. It provided for a new class roon at the University of South Carolln and additional facilities at Winthroj It passed an anti-discriminatio hill, which would forbid undersellin of certain products for tlio purpos of stifling comfHd.ition. , ? ... , j nose are some or tne most im portant matters acted on. A larg number of bills were killed and very large number carried over unt next session. It refused to tako an action on tax reform or on compu sory education, although both wi probably bo acted on next year. Mixed in Scandal. The Pittsburg graft cases are cam ing the entire State of Pennsylvani to stand aghast with horror. A cording to the story of Councilma John F. Klein, now on trial for a cepting a bribe, thore was a reguh organization among the councilmc and he, as "The Angel of Charity wps its head. * Sl)K ) ACTED AS A NURSE TO DYING HUSBAND AND CONSOLES INVALID WIFE. Th? Noble and Self-Sacrificing Work of Miss Edna Dorinan, an Actress, in an Emergency. I Atlanta, Fob. 2 7.?Miss FVinn Dorman, au actress who is playing j a week's engagement at tho Or| pheum theatre here, is spending her days in Atlanta on a mission of mercy, giving consolation to Mrs. William J. O'Neal, tho Southern railway engineer who was killed in a wreck Monday morning. It happened that Miss Dorman was a passenger on the train which Mr. O'Neal was bringing to Atlanta. Having been a trained nurse, she administered to the needs of tho injured man. Leaving her berth in the dark hours of early morning, she was by the side of tho dying engineer until death came to his relief several hours after the accident. lie was consciohs during most of tho time, and ho talkod to his actress-nurse of his Invalid wife who was waiting bis return home. No one of his relatives reached him till after h.o died, and dying messages to his loved ones, especially to bis helpless wife, were entrusted to Miss Dorman. All her talents as an actress have had to he exercised since her engagement at the Orpheum began, for she has laughed and jested and danced with heavy heart. Immediately after the funeral she went to see Mrs. O'Neal, and most of her off time has been spent by the bedside of the Invalid lady, consoling Mrs. O'Neal with the assurances of love and devotion that the dying engineer entrusted to bis nurses care. Despite the sad and melancholy but pleasant days she has done her night work well, becoming a prime favortie with local audiences. Miss Dorman is the daughter of E. T. Porman, a prominent hotel man who for several months about a year ago was connected with the Hotel Lanier at Macon. She was not with him there, having already begun her stage career. She lives in New York. Iler father is in the West. * PREHISTORIC HABITATIONS. Vast Underground Apartments Discovered in Mexico. Mexico City, Mexico, Feb. 2 0.?A remarkable discovery has been made on the Isthmus of Tehauntepec, in ino lorm or ft prenistoric underground habitfttion, on tlie ranch of Juan Mateo Castillanos. The caveron covers a great area, Fourteen large rooms have so fai been explored. These rooms are elaborately furnished with articles ol the prehistoric period. The stonr benches are elaborately carved, and some of them are painted. Heads of Indian chiefs, tigers and othei wild animals, carved in stone, hang upon the walls. Painted stone dish es and many other curious articles were found in the rooms. The bodes iof four men, all ii mil mi fled state, were brought t( light. They do not resemble any o the Indian types found in Mexico L A large quantity of rich gold ore wa: : also found in the cavern. MUST FILE REPORTS. j New Law Regarding the Duties o ) Magistrates. Columbia, Feb. 2 6.?In the magis ^ Hates' bill adopted today there i a provision that all magistrate " should file with the clerks of Court a statement of all cases and their dis * I position, a statement of all costs an " fines collected, a detailed statemer t of all cases compromised. This state ment must be sworn to and the oat ~ must further state that all mono " received and fines and costs hav been paid the county. Unless tli! 11 sworn statement is filed the treasui a or is prohibited from paying the sa ? ary for the month. This provisio 11 was inserted in free conference. g a MAKES HIS LAST JUMP. i- "Cycling Cyclone" Meets His Deal at Dawson, Ga. Ci II Dawson, Oa., Feb. 27.?C. J. TIoi y nens, the "Cycling Cyclone," of Ro 1- ton, Mass., died today as a result < 11 Injuries received two days ago will * giving his "Gapping the Gap" pe formance. His norvy feat conslst< of jumping two 30 feet gaps near tl n- end of a steep incline. A large crov ia witnessed the accident. c n Killed By His Wife. c- Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 27.?Tl ir F. Hurt, a farmer residing ne ;n hero, was killed by his wife this t ternoon, while Hurt was quarreli with his step-son. SCRIBE P A GREAT PARADE Of Soldiers, Sailors and Cival War Veteran at Norfolk A MONSTER PAGENT Veterans of Federal and Confederate Armies Form Court of Honor Through which Itcgulnrs, National Guurds and lllue Jackets Pass.?A Givat Martial Event. Fort Monroe, Feb. 27.?Thirty-two companies of blue jackets, forming a lleet brigade of 2,000 men, were brought to Norfolk today where the sailors made their llrst appearance after the notable voyage around tho world. Eight companies of const artillery from Fort Monroe accompanied the sailors to Norfolk, where they were joined by additional companies of blue jackets from Norfolk navy yard, by a regiment of tho National Guard and by various other organization that helped to form tho greatest martial event Norfolk has known in recent years. Veterans of both tho Union and Confederate armies were brought together In the parade and in the reviewing stand, forming a "Court of Honor," through tho soldiers and sailors passed. In traversing Main street the sailors and their escorts passed through a cordon of honor in front of tho reviewing stand, composed of hundreds of veterans of both tlie Confederate and Union armies. Tho blue jackets mado a splendid showing in spito of their long stay 011 board the ship. * DIED IN T1IEIK HOME. Mother and Four Children Burned to Death. Bakcrsfield, Cala., Feb. 2G.?Mrs. Minnie heekman, widow of W. M. Heekman, who was a prominent rosij dent of Kern county, and her four children wore burned to death in their homo four miles south of Bakcrsfleld today. The police say they were murdered and that the houso was fired. 1 The children wore Verna, Raymond, Annie and Arthur, ranging from G to 14 years. Tho charred bodies wero found 1 in bed. Tho half consumed inat.. tress, 011 which Mrs. Heekman had . slept, was covered with what appear1 or to be blood stains. It was sent to a chemist for analysis. Mrs. Hcekman's husband died a year ago. IIo had two children by . a former wife. To theso he left * $100 each and bequested the remain? der of his $75,000 estate to his wid1 ow and her four children. * \ AVEXCZEl) ills DAicirrrn r - Shot Her Assailant t<? Death in Sheriff's Onicc. 1 Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 2 6.? 1 While James Drown, a negro, was in 1 the office of Deputy Sheriff Jones at. Bessemer, awaiting a preliminary s trial on a charge of attempting to * criminally assault Miss Jessie Robinson, (laughter of James Robinson, a merchant of that place, the father entered and fired four shots at the f negro, killing him instantly. The negro was handcuffed to another prisoner at the time. Mr. Robin[ son made no effort to get away and s will be held for murder. * s , s TRESPASSER KILLED i d When Ordered to Leave Attacker it Man With Axe. Abbeville, Feb. 28.?Lee Mosley y colored, was shot last night b: 0 Charley Cochran, a young white man and died this afternoon. Cochrai says the negro came into his yart drunk and cursing and when order " ed to leave picked up an axe and at tacked him. Cochran then shot him Cochran is a young farmer living iivi miles from Abbeville. lie came ii and surrendered to the sheriff am 1 is now in jail. 1 i n_ YOUNG MAN SUICIDES. 8- ???? r>f Dentist Tonilinson, of Olanta, End j" His Own Iiifo. Manning, Feb. 2 7.?Int.elligene 10 lias just been received here by 'phon of the suicide of Mr. C. T. Tonilin * son, resident at Olanta, tho terinina station on tho Alcolu railroad. H was a dentist by profession and 3 en years old. He was unmarried. H ar was highly esteemed by all who kne if- him. Tho reason assigned for h ng deed was despondency, owing i 1 continued ill health. WW TO GIVES HIS VIEWS SENATOR TILLMAN EXPLAINS HIS VOTE ON TILE Brownsville Resolution, Which l Ivooks to tho Reinstating Negroes In tho Army. Washington, Feb. 2 7.?Rising iu tho Senate the other clay to explain his vote on tho Brownsville resolution, Senator Tillman said: "When tho Brownsville matter was first brought into tho Senate I took tho position, 1 believe alone among Democrats, that the President was not warranted in liis action: that his dismissal of tho troops under the conditions and circumstances was cruel and contrary to all ideas of justice which 1 had ever read about or thought about. The majority of tho Senate then took a contrary position and sustained him. The Senate today lias reversed and stultified itself and emphatically condemned his action by the step which it has just taken, which permits all of these troops to be reenlisted under certain conditionsguilty and innocent alike. "My position then was that tho President ought not to have dismissed and punished innocent men because some men wore guilty. Wo have today illustrated what used to bo called on the Scotch border 'Jedwood justice.' When tho lords of the marches caught some man who might have been suspected of stealing cattle or committing some other offence, they would hang him first and then try him afterwards. These negroes have boon 'hanged,' so far as the President could do it, and now the Senate proposes to give them a trial and a tardy justice to those who may ho able to prove their Innocence, although I doubt if any can prove it. Hut it is a cardinal legal principle that a man must be considered innocent until ho is proved guilty, and proving a negative is an impossibility. Hut my attitude is that somebody shot up Brownsvillo, and I believe some of the negroes did it, but not moro than 2 5 of them were ever charged with it, while 1G8 were discharged. Now, to turn the whole bunch back into the army, as they doubtless will be, will be to admit into the service of the United States, some men who have committed murder, for there is no doubt in my mind that you will never bo able to find out who committed this crime. Therefore, as 1 did not want innocent men to be kicked out of the army, I do not want any guilty men to get back into the army, and so I voted 'nay' on this proposition." * KILLED BY AUTOMOBILE. Muchinc Doesn't Slow Up??Church Goers See Accident. New York, Feb. 2 2.?A young man who had not been identified todav. wns mil down mid Ifillod lor an automobile last night in view of the members of the congregation of Christ Episcopal church in Williamsburg. The machine, which contained two men and two women, sped onward after the accident. A general alarm with a description of the automobile, has been sent to ev, ery pol ce station in the city. The , victim was evidently on his way to , church when he was struck. TOO FEW WEST POINTERS. I ' Capt. Ila^ooil Would Increase Size of Cadet Corps. Washington, Feb. 2 4.?If a 1 scheme that has been prepared by Capt. Johnson Hagood, of the army, and which has been proposed as an , amendment to the military bill in / the House is passed, South Carolina , will hereafter have twelve men at i West Point, instead of nine, as at 1 present. Recent compilations show - that a very small percentage of the - regular army Is rnado up of West . Point men, and it is proposed to b remedy this, if possible, by allowing i each State more men. 1 ACCIDENTALLY KILLED. Ono Negro Shoots at Another and l/ltl.. ll'l. H ~ ir s J\lll? n III1U IVJilll. Easley, Fob. 2 8.?Hezokiah King a nogro, shot and killed Mr. Zlor e Fortnor hero last night at 10 o'clock e From tho best Information obtain i- able It appears that King was in i il row with another negro, shot at th< o negro threo times, one of the bulleti 6 striking Mr. Fortner, who was stand e Ing 3 0 yards away. Tho bullet tool w effect In the head. Tho negro mad< Is his escape and is still at large. Mr :o' Fortner died today at 10 o'clock He never spoke after being shot. THE H COOPER TRIAL Sharp Creates Havoc in Camp of the Defence. WAS THEIR WITNESS After Swearing That Ho Saw Entire Fight II? Admitted That Ho Was iiC? i?oet .lway on tho Other Side of tlio Crest of a Ilill?SUite 1m Making a Hood l?ight. Nashville, Feb. 2 5.?Tho defense of the Coopers and Sharp in tho Carmack murder case is finding tho way a littlo bit rocky, and tho pitfalls dug by tho State deep and well concealed. Robin Cooper, whom the defense declares llrod tho shot thai killed ex-Senator Carinack, was tho first witness called after the opening address had been made to tho jury. The young defendant was cool and careful whilo on tho stand, and he did not return an answer to a single question asked him until he had deliberated upon it. Tho lawyers for tho prosecution tried in vain to make him contradict himself. Then they tried to anger him. but with i When ho finally loft tho stand it was the unanimous opinion in tho court room that ho had greatly helped tho defense of himself and his two follow prisoners. John 1). Sharp, another of tho defendants, following young Cooper on the stand and under the skillful questioning of Gen. Alecks, he told a story both plausable and helpful. Tho case of tho defense went along swimmingly until Sharp was turned over to tho State for cross-examination. Then his trouble began. At tho end of two hours ho sat on tho witness stand a crumpled and bewildered man. The State had led and driven and cajoled him into telling a tale of tho killing so at variance with tho testimony ho had given on his direct examination as to amaze every impartial listener and even cause tho jurors to look at him with pity. Sharp, by his own admission, put himself in such a position in the few moments in which tho killing of Senator Carmack was accomplished, as to have made it physically impossible for him to have seen what he swore he saw. lie claimed ho was standing at least 175 feet from the scene of the killing with a crest of a hill rising between him and tho Coopers and Senator Carmack, and yet he Insisted that he saw every move made by the principals in tho tragedy, even to tho blue-barreled pistol. Again Sharp got on dangerous ground by swearing that "Carmack fell after Robin Cooper had lired threo times." One of tho bullet woiindrf, a necessarily fatal one, pierced tho senator's neck within one-sixteenth of an. inch of tho spinal cord and came out under iho tonguo. As Sharp swore that Carmack was facing young Cooper, aiming a revolver at him, this wound would bo impossible to reconcile with tho statement. Sharp was also pressed as to the identity of the revolver young Cooper had used. He said lie never saw it before. Tho State's theory is that the automatic revolver is Sharp's, and three times it has had the number of the gun entered in the record. GIVEN DEATH SENTENCE. t Eieud Who Assaulted Lady at Harts villo Will Ifang. Darlington, February 27.?"Guilty" was the verdict returned by the jury In the case of the State against Robert Johnson, charged with making a criminal assault on a married woman at Hartsvllle some time ago, and at nine o'clock tonight Judge Gage sentenced the prisoner to bo hanged March 20. After sentence had been pronounced and as the sheriff's posse was , coming out of the Court House on the way to the Jail with the prisoner, Ed Perry, a brother of the husband of tho victim of the assault, got in front of Johnson and attempted to kill him. Refc.ro ho could carry his purpose ' Into execution, however, a policeman saw him and disarmed him, taking two fine revolvers from him. He was , arrested, but up to a late hour to t night had not been ablo to secure . his release. * i Engineer Killed. 3 Atlanta, Fob. 22.?Southern Rail * way limited No. 3 5, from New Yorl - to New Orelans, was derailed a c Harbin's station this morning am o Engineer William O'Neal, of Atlanta | was instantly killed. His flroma :. ( was seriously injured. The eauso o * > tlio derailment Is not known. e ORRY HE 1 1 CRAZY MAN'S CRIME KILLED I1IS FOUR INNOCENT LITTLE CHILDREN. SUiblx'd Ills Homo* and Cows and 1M?m, Fired llis llouso and Killed Himself. Mondovi, Wis., Feb. 22.?Hans B. Hanson, a farmer living near St.run, Cllt tlio throats r?f Mu Vfc Ittu i?/n i ^iiUUl t'II| a boy and three girls, whose ages range from 5 to 15 years, today with a butcher knife. After killing his children, Hanson went to tho barn and stabbed several horses, cows and pigs and killed a cat. lie then poured Paris green In tho hog trough. Then, having poured kerosene about tho house and barn, set lire to tho buildings, Hanson drew a sharp knife across his own throat. Hanson attended church yesterday with his four children and nothing was noticed in his actions. Ho was an inmate of an asylum about twelve years ago. Mt/KIHilllCIt CAt'GlIT. Negro Confesses That He Killed tho Young Lady. Allda, Iowa, Feb. 28.?Shortly after midnight, John Junken, the begro confined in the Jail hero charged with tho murder of Clara Rosen, tho choir singer and church worker confessed that lie killed tho young wo man at Ottumwa three weeks ago. He stated that lie was alono when tho crime waa committed, and that ho had no accomplices. Jnnken said that ho had trailed Miss Rosen to the homo of her sister the night of the murder where ho watched her till she emerged an hour later and then sneaked up behind her and struck her a fearful blow with his fist, knocking her to tho sidewalk. lie then crushed her skull with a stone which ho picked up. The negro declares he then robbed her of her purse and diamond. Jnnken told of where tho stolen Jewelry could be found, and search in the home of Frank Weaver at Ottumwa revealed Clara Rosen's purso and gold hacked mirror and other stolen jewels in the attic reached through the trap door in the colling. Jnnken will bo taken to Dcsmoincs for safe keeping. KNEE DEEP IN LIQEOH. Raiders Ilrenk l*p Rig Still in Greenville County. Walhalla, Feb. 27?Tlio Oconee News says probably the largest blockado still ever created in Greonville county was destroyed early last Monday morning in the Tablo Itock Cave, near Caesar's Head. The revenue officers journeyed Sunday night to the cove, and early Monday morning located the boozo plant, which covered with all its appurtances nearly a quarter of an acre. The raiders destroyed four thousand gallons of beer and twenty-one ferrnonters and a forty-gallon wood doubler. It took the men an hour to destroy tho layout, working liko honirot'o si 11 Hin Hum was dumped one of tho raiders said tlie whole party was knee deep In soft liquor for several minutes, and even young saplings were almost floating by the deluge. There was no clue discovered as to tho ownership of the plant. NEGROES AGAINST SALOON. Congress at Atlanta Puts Itself on Record. Atlanta, Feb. 26.?Tho Southern Negro Anti-Saloon Congress in session here has put itself on record as anxious to co-operato with any 1 and all agencies engaged in fighting against the saloon. At today's session, a resolution was adopted embracing tho follow> Ing: "Organizations shall bo perfoctod throughout the South to make war > on the saloon wherever it is In exi istanco and to stand on guard against its reencroachment in States i i and communities from which it had - already been driven; to crystalizo j sentiment among tho negroes and to * uso it against the liquor business." For Ijovo of Hoy. < Philadelphia, Feb? 28.?Forbidden t by her father to associato with a boy ;1 j with whom she was In love, 1 3-yeari, ( old Eleanor Fink committed suicide n | today by drinking carbolic acid. Her 'f . mother ended her life six years ago J by inhaillng illuminating gas. iRALD * X '