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n MADE DARING RAID SEIZED A TRAIN, WERE HOTLY PURSUED AND CAUGHT ? /A FAMOUS WAR EPISODE Had ilie Famous Raid of Andrews and His Picked Men Succeeded the Source of Supplies of the Coil federate Army AVould ilavo Been Cut Oil' and liuiued. Fifty years ago occurred tho daring Andrews raid, the thrilling pursuit and capture of the federal spies, who hud stolen tho engine "General " by a gallant party party of railroad men and citizens in the little "Texas." It is one of the most famous passages of civil war history and unique in tho history of modern warfare, it was a crucial 1110 venient, and if it had succeeded the confederacy would not have lasted so long as it did. James J. Andrews, a spy and contraband merchant in tho service of tho Federal General O. M. Mltchel, is have been tho originator of t?.fX scheme to capturo Chattanooga, and his name has been used to designate the unsuccessr-ul raid which ended with his executions. Mitchel had been left in centre of middle Tennessee when General Huell moved westward to join Grant at Shiloh, and immediately started an energetic campaign to subduo his territory. Chattanooga was an Imporant point still held by the Confederate forces, and its capturo would have meant disaster to their cause. Audi owe had accurate knowledge of the surrounding territory, and he conceived tlio scheme of crippling the city by cutting off all sources of supP ies, then attacking vigorously and investing before reinforcements eojuld bd had. ile planned to take a small body of picked men into Georgia, and at *ome point on the Western and Atlantic railroad owned by the state, to sei/.o an engine, run it toward Cnattanooga, burning the bridges as l.e went. At the same time, General Mi tell el would tako Jluntsville, Ala., secure a Memphis and Charleston < railroad train and proceed to Chattanooga, which could easily be captured, as all roads by which aid might have been secured would then have been in the hands of the enemy. It was a brilliant scheme, one which the energy and emergency of the time gavo rise to with men wno dared undertake the execution. The clato set was April 11 1862, when the simultaneous advance was to be made and the entire south crippled at one decisive blow. With a party of twenty-two men Andrews started for Marietta, Ca., v. hero they were to board the train. Heavy rains and storm so impeded their travel that it was impossible for them to make the early train vhich left Atlanta at four o'clock ev< y morning. Reasoning that the snno delay would meet Mitchel's M Rebel's forces, they decided to postpone the execution of the plan until the next day, April 12. Their presence on the train, dressed as they wero in citizens' clothes, e cited no suspicion, and when Rig fchanty was reiched, seven miles above Marietta, the passengers sat down to breakfast little dreaming vhat was about to bo done. Andrews and his men twenty in num ber, as two of them had gotten left, t working quickly, soon detached the S engine "General" and three freight ears from the rest of the train , put on full speed and sot off toward Tennessee. Started in Pursuit on Foot. As soon as their departure was discovered Conductor William A. Fuller, well known in Atlanta, started off on foot to catch them, unci Minted by tho danger which threatened. lie was accompanied by Anthony Murphy, foreman of motive . power of the road, and Jeff Cain engineer. At Moon's station, some miles away, they secured a platform handcar, were reinforced by two section hands and two ecitizens from Acworth, and continued their pursuit, h ear tho Etowah bridge they found the engino "Yonah," which they < unmandeered and at full speed were v ;-oon careening madl yafter Andrews. At Kingston the raiders had found their traffic impeded hy freights. Explaining that they were a powder (train, racing to Beauregard, they soon got tlirought. When tho "Yonah" came up they had been gono some minutes, and tho way was again blocked. Conductor Fuller was not to bo balked. With the same determination which set him out afoot in pursuit pf a railroad engino in tho control of twenty armed men ho pressed Into service a Rome road engine, tho "William R. Smith," with Oliver Wiley Harbin as engineer, and kept on. Five miles away they wero forced to quit, tho raiders having torn up n. section of the track. Again the pursuit was continued on foot, until a freight train, drawn by the "Texas," was met. With the <purtfners on board. Engineer Peter _ . ;m:; t. / jA ? J s~~ Bracken, late of 'Macon backed Into I Adairsville, left his cars' on a siding, | and continued the chase, running " backwards. There were now In the party W. A. Fuller, Henry Haney, Alonzo Martin, Fleming Cox, Anthony |J Murphy and Peter Bracken. Edward Henderson, a seventeenyear-old boy was added at Calhoun. Ho was telegraph operator at J)alton, and finding the wires not working had started out to look for the jl trouble. All along the line ho found the wires cut, the work of the raiders. He was helped aboard the mov- ^ ing engine by.-Mr. Fuller, who wrote out a message to General Leadbetter, in Chattanooga, apprising him or the situation, wnicn nenuerson sent from Dalton. The "General" Was Sighted. Just above Calhoun the "General" was sighted. The raiders made every effort to stop their pursuers, crossties were dropped 011 the track, C cars were dropped from their string, A and one care was even set a Aire in h the hopes of burning a bridge but 0 the rain put it out. Every obstacle ^ was surmounted by the determination f of the men 011 the "Texas." r At last, on a steep grade below 11 Ringgold, with Chattanooga almost in sight, the wood and water of the "General" gave out, and the raiders h look to the woods. In the next two c we fks all were captured, Andrews is being hanged June 7 in Atlanta, d where the Georgian Terrace now c stands. Seven others were subse- n quently executed, the remainder eith- 11 or escaping or being exchanged, c Mitchel's movement from JIuntsville o vns a failure, due to the delay of An- n draws. 11 Because of the failure Chattanooga n was not taken for months, not until t Sherman made his memorable ( "March to the Sea." The little en- e gino which did sucli valiant work h for the state and the south conlin- 0 lied its daily run through the mountains of north Georgia until superseded by more powerful models e when it was relegated to the scrap p heap. f The "William It. Smith" and the v "Yonah" finished their days as sta- v tionary engine and as junk. The s "General" was finally rescued from the scrap heap and mounted in the ( station in Chattanooga. The "Texas", the queer little gengine which was the pride of the state at one /time, and whicjli was the instrument used to save the confederacy at a most critical period is now in Grant park, esposed to the wind and j. he weather. A movement to properly house it in the new cyclorama ^ building has been started. FAVOR WOODKOW WILSON. A Poll Taken of tlic State Democratic ^ Committee. s ii Governor Woodrow Wilson, of e Xew Jersey, has a long lead among (] South Carolina Democrats for the / Presidential nomination if a polo of s the members of the Democratic ex- v eeutive committee, twenty-three or c forty expressing their choice for the p Xew Jersey Governor is a correct index 'to public sentiment in this mat- t ter. p Speaker Champ Clark is the choice p of eight of the members, Congress- a man Underwood two, and Governor v Harmon three, while three of the p members were for the most available $ man and one declined to express any X] opinion. 1 State Chairman Wilio -Jones is t. for Governor Wilson, while Govern- i or Please was one of the three who expressed a choice for Harmon. { Judging by the poll of the committee, there is practically no sentiment c for Harmon. Speaker Champ Clark ? is Wilson's nearest competitor, but v Governor Wilson is overwhelmingly c tho choice of the committee. J United States Senator E. D. Smith c was proclaiming tho virtues of Governor Wilson while busily shaking hands with his many friends. Sena- t tor TiHman would not express a choice, but is known to bo friendly to tho New Jersey man. COW OVERTURNED BUGGY. 1 c ? Suffer Painful Injuries in Peculiar 1 s Accident. I Mr. I. M. Peeler, a merchant of t Goffney, is in the city hospital suf- s fering from a wound received in a j rather strange fashion. Mr. Peeler ^ was returning to the city from tho ( country, a cow tied to the rear of tho buggy. The. bovine becamo fright- ^ ened and ran up to the front of tho ^ buggy,, getting the ropo under tho buggy and overturning it. Mr. Peel- t or was cut across tho forehead and quite a nasty wound was inflicted, j. lie was taken to the city hospital, f where he received medical attention. Late Thursday night ho was said to ^ ho rnsHmr well. ? T Saved Iler From Suicide. ^ Disappointment over lovo affair r was given by Johana DIeck, nine- ( tfen years old, as her reason for at- s tempting to commit sulci do by leap- t ing into tho Chicago river Friday p night. A man on the bridge from v which sho leaped caught her skirt and dragged her back to safety. ^ ? fc Four Roys Were Drowned. ( Four boys crossing tho Ohio River r from tho West Virginia side were c drowned near East Liverpool, Ohio, r when their boat capsized tho fifth f bay was saved. ' j / ' ?T ... . l_ I ITS ENEMIES HARD , < LEASE HANDED HOT SHOT TO 1 ALL HIS OPPONENTS !' i IE LOVES JOSH ASHLEY I ( ailed Members of Legislature Cow- J ardly Liars and Said They Were 1 Afraid to Impeach Him, Hut Said i Josh Ashley Was All ltight and j Wanted More Like Him. ( A thousand voters or Anderson | ounty heard Governor Hlease at nderson Saturday afternoon, when < e severely arraigned the members f the commission to investigate the j nsel dispensary board and criticised i lie Legislature, paying particular i espects to Senator Sullivan and j lembers of the lower House from ' I-. 4 ,1 < ,r 11 CI C V UU11 tj . After an invocation, made by the lev. W. T. Myers, of Pelzer^ tlie Covin or began by saying that the Legjlatnro appropriated half a million oliars more than they arranged to ollect. lie told of savings he had lade to the State; of turning back lore than $5,000 of the Governor's ontingent fund; that the revocation f commissions for notaries public ot only put out of oilice a great lany incompetent white men and egroes, but brought $6,000 into the reasury; of his vetoes of the 1911 Jeneral Assembly whereby taxpayrs were-saved ..80,000. He said o saved the people more than $1.00,0 0 during 1911. Charges Conspiracy. Tie said that when the 1912 Gcnral Assembly met organization was erfected, the object lieing to deeat his reelection, and tlie result ras that not one law was passed /hicli will benefit all the people of loutli Carolina. He said P. M. Cary, a member of lie Oconee County delegation statd on the floor of the House that 11 be wanted to know about a measire was whether it had the approval f the Governor and if it did ho was gainst it. Governor Please said he has stood or impartial government for all the eople; that some people did not like ini because lie would not submit to eing bossed. Ho has been Goverior for two years and will be for the ext two. He explained his side of the conroversy over the appointment of pecial Judges, claiming his motive ti refusing to commission somo othr person when a Circuit Judge was [isengaged was to save expenses, mderson County has just had a pecial term of Court and a Judge fas found disengaged, so that the ounty was saved more than $150, ie said. The Governor favors building up ho schools, but is unalterably opiosed to the taxes of the white peo>le going to negroes. He read from , pamphlet of Prof. W. K. Tate, in fbich it was stated that 1 93,400 ne;roes are going to school and 13 4 9,83 4 is being spent on their edLcation. Prof. Tate stated that when ie enters school rooms lie often hinks that he State is wasting too nilfli ninnov nri non-rnns Governor Please said that the edior of the Columbia State is doing noi'3 harm among the negroes than iducation is doing. "When white non rise to the defence of the white vomen ho makes the negro brute mit a hero and calls white men murlerers," said the Governor, who delared such endorsement "encourges negroes in their devilment vlien the editor writes such an aricle he is jus as bad as the negro." Would Quit His Job. "As for me, if the commission of he Governor's office stands between ne and the protection of the women >f our State, I will tear up my comnission and go to their defence," ho aid. He next referred to the Rucker >ill to regulate negro secret socieies. lie declared these were responiblo for the killing of Bryson, in murens County, and the burning of hree houses at Olar, which resulted n tho lynching of three negroes. The Governor wants to know what Vinthrop College is going to do with ho $242,000 it is going to get this ear, $0 0,000 of which comes from he Peabody board. Ho said ho is , friend of Wintbrop but he thinks ural schools, which exist only for our or five months, with a scarcity f teachers, are more in need of noney. Tho Governor then rapped tho legislature, saying everything was +r\ li 11 ro il 1 n t n ll J TT? n T>r1 flftfonf ills IV7IIV l/V* || || III I *? J ? i. Il?? v? x/ ?. v ?? v o-eloction. Thorp was some talk of ho Legislature impeaching him, aid the Governor, but it wasn't atempted because tlio body was comosed of "a set of cowardly liars, ^-ho woro afraid." The Governor declared that the Icneral Assembly is being led by wo North Carolinians; that ono of hose has been made independently icli off fees received from "graft" ases. TTo said ho expects to tell >eopIo of this can's county (Chosterleld, referring to Mr. Stevenson), ust whats ort of man they are sond\ ng there. Wants All Josh Aslileys. "If people would send down a General Assembly composed of Jash Ashleys we would have one worth laving." ] Some people criticised him for re-< 'lining to appoint officers recomnendod by tho Senate, ho said. "Of course I did. Have you ever heard if the Lord's kissing the hand of , lie devel? I will not appoint an enimy of mine to public office." Governor Blcaso paid his respects ;o Senator Sullivan, who he said did lot like him (I)lease) because he defeated liis nephew (Featherstone) 'or the Governorship. Sullivan wanted his nephew to bo elected so ie could go down and occupy the bridal chamber and bo "Boss Sullivan." Ho said Senator Sullivan is ?no of tlio commission investigating [lie graft charges and with all the Dther members were enemies of the i Governor. , lie ridiculed the procedure of the Investigation, stating that tlio men under investigation were the first to take the witness stand. When a man is being ried the Stale makes its case before tlio defendant is called, said the Governor. '.Men composing the commission , bate me worse than the devil hates holy water. There is Senator Carlisle, from Spartanburg, who lias been going around making dirty attacks upon me; Senator Sullivan, from this county who lias been quoted as saying that if lie and the Governor were in hell together and he was handling the shovel in throwing coal, ho would refuse to throw coal on the Governor. Then there is Gary, from Oconee, who stated on the floor of the House all he wanted to know about a measure was whether I was for or against it, and ho would vote just the opposite way. There is a little fellow Evans, who hails from Marlboro County. He got mad because I wouldn't call special session of the Legislature to deal with the cotton question. "Now, aint's that a pretty set of nothings." And they tried to make me come before them to testify. 1 didn't do it, and, by the eternal gods, I'm not going to. Would Convict Feldor or Resign. "Where is Tom Folder? If they will get Felder back in South Carolina and give me 12 men whether Hleaseitos or not, in any county in tlio State, I'll furnish the evidence showing that he attempted to bribe an ofiiccr of the State. ir I don't furnish the evidence to convict him, I'll agree now to resign and go to the Philippines." Referring to the last Legislature, Governor Please said if he sent a message to the General Assembly saying, "Jesus is our Saviour, and the Ten Commandments composed the original law," l.liey would say: "No, there is a mistake." lie charged the Legislature with creating unnecessary offices for friends and ho vetoed the appropriations, but his veto was overridden. Ho didn't care whether his vetoes were overridden or not; ho was elected to office to represent the people to hold down expenses, and when ho vetoed a measure ho was fulfilling his duty. He said some are claiming taxes will be lower, but they will be higher. Again tho Newspapers. Governor Please then turned to the newspapers, saying they are heralding it over the State "Please is losing ground." Newspapers publish big, long stories about his opponent, of tremendous crowds hearing him, of ovations, when, in fact, his opponent is being heard in school rooms by thirty-five or forty men some women and children, and some have howled him down*, said the Cover nor. Jfo has information that loads him to believo ho will ho re-elected. If ho doesn't carry Union and Spartanburg counties, ho said ho will present John Ashley with a Prince Albert coat and a beaver hat. He declared his enemies are resorting to all sorts of tricks to defeat him, saying in Fort Mill a banker was quoted as saying ho held his baby out of the window, threatening to drop it if the wife wouldn't give him some money with which he wanted to go off 011 a frolic. "Just to show you now absurd that is," said the Governor, "I'll state that I haven't got any children that I know of." The Governor said ho had been asked to pardon a white man sent up for eighteen months for fighting; he had served fourteen months and his wife and children were needing him for a support. ITo took a hand primary of the crowd and tho yells were for him to givo tho man a pardon, and the speaker said that man will como into Anderson Tuesday. lie ? ? 1 . .1 1 , ? h /\ AMAIir/1 oh \N *3 117 (lit IV Ullt't'lUU) lllll C l U ? U OHW\>ing tlioy are supporters of tho Governor. Drank Too Much Booze. John Y. Davis, for many years an operative in the Abbeville cotton mills, and a loading political factor there committed suicido on Monday on tho plantation of MaJ. J. R. Jones, where he had recently moved to engage in farming ITo had been drinking heavily Died from the Fall, Joo Yates, a negro brakeman, fell from a car on the Seaboard Air Line near Clieraw last week and brolco both legs. He died later in tho day at a hospital in Columbia. \ 1 . ( T *' ' ' ' 4 UNFAIR TO WILSON DAMAGING REPORT IS PUBLISHED AFTER ITS DENIAL rRYING TO HURT WILSON I5y Reporting That His Manager Would Holt if Clark Was Nominated and Although Report Was False and aAdmitted as Such by Post, Was Sent Out. The News and Courier on Saturday morning in its Washington letter said much criticism is heard in Washington Friday of a reported declaration of W. F. McCombs manager for Governor Wilson's campaign for the nomination, that if Speaker Clark were nominated ho (McCombs) would work his fingers to the bono in. the Republican party. This indiscreet observation is under stod to liavo ben made in the course of an interview with the Xew York livening Post. On tlio same date that the above appeared in tlio News and Courier, tlie Atlanta Journal in its Washington let'ter said notwithstanding an emphatic denial that ho had over said or authorized the statement that he would bolt tho Democratic party In the event of Champ Clark's nomination, tho press agenta of candidates opposed to Governor Wilson's nomination Thursday night sent broadcast over the country an alleged interview with William F. McCombs, Wilson's manager, crediting him with having declared that ho would bolt if Clark was nominated. In their zeal some of these agents intimated that Governor Wilson himself shared tbo purpose imputed to McCombs; moreover, it is known that the stpry as published in Georgia had tho high personal commendation of Senator J. H. Bankliead, Kepresentativo Underwood's campaign manager, and was prominently displayed at the suggestion of Mr. T A __ 1 _ t_ _ _ 1 .1 ? * t 1 ! _ i >aiiKiieaa. uvir. ivic^om us repuumtiou of tlio alleged interview was piblislied in New York Thursday afternoon, and bore his signature. It follows: < The, interview appearing In tho Evening Post of April 10^ which was imputed to mo was not given by me; it contains expressions which I certainly would not have made. For example, I am quoted as as saying, '1 would work my hands to tho bono 'in tho Republican party rather than work for Champ Clark as Democratic candidate for tho presidency, with tho possibility of William Randolph Hearst as secretary of state.' I am a strict party man and shall, of course, as such, enthusiastically support whomsoever tho Democratic party may nominate. The foregoing denial from Mr. McCombs appeared in the New York Post Thursday afternoon, and tho paper was received in Washington Thursday night before bedtime. The text of tho denial was generally known to Democrats in congress and others who were unbiased in their disapproval of the flagrant efforts at misrepresentation by newspapers opposed to Governor Wilson's candidacy. " The campaign managers of Representative Underwood, Speaker Clark and Governor Harmon had evA Ai\M/\idntiU?f f /v rv/> r # f \ r* I T ury uppui lumi^Y IVJ Ht-t i nu uuuiai Thursday beforo their false stories were sent out ol! the capltol. Accompanying Mr. McCombs' denial, the Evening Post published an editorial nolo admitting that the original statement was not uttered by Mr. McCombs but represented the views of a clerk in Mr. 'McCombs' ollico in New York. The Post reported quoted Mr. McCombs instead of the clerk, who has no official position with Wilson's campaign, and whose politics is unknown. Thero is as little foundation for the intimation that Governor Wilson will bolt the nomination as thero is for any of the other slanderous, malignant falsehoods that have recently been circulated against him. The report to The News and Courier was dated Friday, April 12, and was published in that journal on Saturday, April 13, while the New York Post, which published the original charge, repudiated it on Thursday April 11, ono day before the Washington correspondent of The News and Courier wrote it and two days before that journal published it under a scare head in the first column of the first page. The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier must ho very much opposed to Wilson, or else ho is a very slow coach of a correspondent to report an item two days after it had been repudiated ,as news. Murderer Cheats Callows, At Columbus, CaM Jas. Jefferson, who shot PoPliceman Merchaute while resistin^arrest several months ago ami was to havo been hanrged Friday, committed suicide in his cell early Friday. Ho took poison shortly after midnight, dying early Friday morning in spito of tho efforts of several doctors. It is unknown whero ho obtained fho drug. I ( EXECUTED AMERICAN THE UNITED STATES AUTHOHI1TIES AUK ANGRY. Putting to Death of Gunner From \ the United States Declared In Violation of Law. The indignation of state department officials over the excution of Thomas Fountain, the American gunner, who was captured by the ^ rebels at Parral, is believed to bo < certain to prejudice any attempt on the part of the Mexican rebels to secure any recognition of belligerent rights, so necessary to a successful conduct of their campaign. The state department did everything in its power to prevent the execution, which in its opinion was in violation of the rules of war of all civilized countries. A telegram received only Friday morning from the American consul at Chihuahua, dated on April 9 and much delayed in transmission, said that the consul had protested to tho rebel chiefs against the execution of Fountain, not only at Chihuahua but at Parral, where the man was arrested. However, lie had just heard through tho local newspapers, which ho believed to bo accurate, that Fountain had been tried and executed that morning. In tho opinion of the state department the man's killing was a deliberate murder. But it is recalled that in Ills proclamation President Taft expressly warn ed Americans against participating in the revolution on either side, indicating plainly that they would do so at their own risk. This, however, does not preclude the American government from taking measures to secure reparation. Meanwhile there does not apear to be any immediate action in contemplation. It is regarded as rather a coincidence that at the time of Fountain's execution Gen. Orozco, tho rebel commander-in-chief, directed a long statement to tho state department. This might bo regarded as the forerunner of an application for tho recognition by tho United States of tho belligerency of tlio Mexican's, rebels. In it Orozeo expressly denied the existence of any feeling hostile to Americans on tho part of present rebels and repudiated tho proclamation which was widely circulated along tho border recently bitterly attacking tho Aemlrcans In Mexico. This, ho declared, was tho product of Col. Enrile, who had no authority to represent him. / ? UOId) YEGGS JjOOT BANK. ? Blew Open Vault ami Take All tho Cash on lland. Ono of tlio boldest bank robberies that lias occurred in North Carolina in many a day was enacted at Ilellsboro somo time Friday night or Saturday morning when yegguien slipped into town, forced an entrance to the Hank of Orange, blew open tho vault with nitro-glycerine and took from tho institution between $ 1,000 and $5,000 in gold and currency. Tho bank vault- was swc^jit practically clean tho robbers leaving behind only a few $20 dollar bills and somo small silver. Bank papers 1 were not disturbed. Tho robbery m was discovered by tho janitor of the m building Saturday morning. |J There is said to bo no clue to tho ^ robbery. It is believed that tho yeggmen came into town Thursday morn- ' ing about 1:30 o'clock from the di- If/ reotlon of Greensboro. A considerable noise was heard in the direction of bank at two o'clock Saturday morning. No attention was given tho sound at tho time, but it is now believed that the noise was duo to the explosion. ? ? ? MEET IX ClfAREESTOX NEXT. Col. E. J. Watson Elected a VicePresident of Roily, Resolutions urging the appropriation by congress of $10,000 annually until the completion of the Panama canal and $5,000,000 annually J thereafter for land reclamation and f other purposes, anil calling for an A immediate conference in Washing- JK ton of the executive committee and H officers of the National Drainage congress, were unanimously adopt- ill ed at New Orleans Friday night by the delegates of the thirty-threo ^ States and four foreign countries attending the National Drainage congross, which adjourned Friday night. ^ The congress elected Former Gov. ^ David R. Francis of Missouri as pros- ^ > ident; Edmund T. Perkins, Illinois, 1T| lirst vice-president; E. J. Watson^ of M ] South Safolina, Col. W. C. Gorgas, M G. S. A., Bernard Baker, Maryland, Tk and Edward Wisner of Lauisiana, M vice presidents. Charleston was so- A lected as the place of the next meet- J1 ing, January, 1013. i? a t < ri> n I'l'illll CI' uvilt A. V<? <? ?.* MaJ. Gen. Fred. D. Grant, son of tho famous general of tho War Between tho Sections, and himself 'jUKfl commander of tho department of the East, died nt tho Hotel Buckingham in New York at about 12:40 o'clock Thursday morning. ?