The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, February 20, 1913, Image 3
SHE GAVE HER ALL
THE NOBLE SACRIFICE MRS. MARY
E. TILLMAN
MADE FOR HER COUNTRY
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Hot Husband and Tliree Sons Were
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Killed in the. War With Mexico
While Fighting the Battles of
Their Country and Now Sleep on
Mexican Soil.
We print below the speech of Hon.
Preston S. Brooks In the House of
Representatives, of which lie was a
member, on April 10, 185G, advo1
eating a pension for Mrs. Mary E.
Tillman, of Edgefield-, whoso husband
and three sons were ki^Jed in
the Mexican war. Mrs. Tillman's
husband was a second cousin of Senator
'B. R. Tillman. The father and
two sons were members of the immortal
Palmetto Regiment, while the
third son was a member of a Alabama
regiment, he being a resident
of that State when the war began.
Thomas Tillman, a brother of Senator
Tillman, the first born of the
family, was also a member of the
Palmetto Regiment, and gave up his
young life in the war with Mexico.
His name, with those of the husband
and two sons of Mrs. Mary E. Tillman,
are on the Palmetto Regiment
Monument on the State House
grounds at Columbia. Mrs. Tillrr
un's other son's name is not on it
, b 'cause he was not a member of the
Palmetto Regiment, out was killed
while serving in an Alabama regi
ment.
Congresman Brooks' speech is a
most eloquent one, and wo feel sure
that it will be read with interest.
He had a most inspiring subject and
he handled it masterly. We doubt if
any single family in the State lost
as many members in the'Mexican war
as tlio Tillman family. Five Ti 11mans
were killed in it, which shows
that they were a brave, patriotic people,
who were ready and did die to
uphold the honor of their State and
country. Hero Is Congressman
Brooks' eloquent speech and other
proceedings in connection with the
pension, which was granted:
Eroin the Congressional Globe of
April J?, 18.*>?.
Mrs. Mary E. Tillman
^ Mr. Oliver of New York, from the
Committee on Invalid Pensions, reported
a bill for the relief of Mary E.
Tillman, which was read a first and
second time by Its title.
Mr. Brooks: Mr. Speaker, I beg
the indulgence of the House to make
a few remarks explanatory of the
merits of this bill. The bill itself is
the unanimous report of the committee
to which was referred the position
of Mrs. Mary E. Tillman, a resident
of my district, who when the
requisition was made on the State of
South Carolina for troops for the
Mexican war, gave to the service of
her country, every member of her
family at the time capable of bearing
arms. They were three high-toned,
spirited sons, and the husband of her
bosom.
? All went, but not one returned to
dry a mother's tears, with the story
of the gallantry of her soldier boys.
The bones of one now lie at Saltillo,
another fell at Jalapa, the father
was buried beside the oastlel walls
of Perote, and the last reached the
goal at once of his early career and
of his youthful ambition, at the capltol
of 'Mexico.
With a strange and crushing fatality,
about the very time that this harvest
of sorrow was ripening for this
woman In a foreign land, her only re^
maining son, In the discharge of duties
which he was too young to perform,
and which were devolved upon
him in consequence of the absence of
his older brothers, by a fall from his
horse became the victim of confirmed
paralysis. This lady Is thus left
in the decline of life, with a helpless
child and an infant daughter dependent
upon her personal exertions for
their and her own support.
This is the narrative of her petition,
and upon it she builds the hope
that her country will remember her
sacrifices, and requite her services.
By the laws of nature, and of regulated
society, the services of a minor
are due to its parent; and we, who
are the Representatives of the country
which has been benefited by the
exertions of the children, ought not
and will not forget the obligation we
owe the mother.
In support of the facts set forth In
thti petition, it is my misfortune to be
witness in chief. Those whom the
petitioner pave to the service of her
country were my immediate neighbors
and friends. One of her sons
volunteered in the Alabama regiment,
and in the company commanded
by his uncle, Captain Gallman.
The father and two other sons enrolled
in my company and were mustered
into the service of the United
States at Charleston, and under my
command.
Considerations of personal attachment
might, possibly did, Influence
them in joining the army. But, sir,
the love of our friends is after all
but another name for the love of our
country, for he who Is Incapable of
the first, will be surely found recreant
in the hour of his country's
j
need.
The interest I take in the passage
of this bill for the relief of their widowed
mother is but a poor reflection
of the friendship borne to myself by
her noble sons; but it constrains me
to do that for her which she will not
do for herself. She appeals not to
your magnanimity. 1 appeal to both.
I come before you begging for bread
for the widow and the fatherless.
She comes in confidence and dignity,
as the Mother of this modern Gracchi,
and demands that her name shall
be inscribed in honor upon the statutes
of her country.
The pittance of eight dollars per
months, which is all that is granted
by the bill, is less coveted by this i
ladv than the oflicial and recorded
acknowledgement or her service to
the State; and yet, sir, because a
few dollars are involved?a sum less
than a single hundred for an entire
year?apprehension is expressed lost
the precedent may prove dangerous
i ntho future.
Never since this Government was
established has a claim identical with
the peculiar circumstances of this
been presented to the consideration
of Congress. In all human probability
another like it will never be presented,
and if it should be, then those
of us who admire the example of this
mother,?those of us who, in our
country's extremity, would hold up
her heroism as a precedent for every
American mother to follow, will but
obey an honorable instinct, and subserve
the best interests of our respective
constituents, when we follow
the precedent, which, I trust, is
this day to be established.
Mr. Speaker, there is a golden
mean even in virtue itself. Prudence
may be pushed so far as to
partake of the infirmities of fear,
and constitutional construction in regard
to the disbursement of public
moneys may become so rigid as to
prejudice public virtue by its imitation
of the meanness of avarice.
It would be difficult to point out
the line, or the section, or the article
of the Constitution which authorizes
the purchase of the paintings which
embellish this Capitol; but, sir, public
contempt would wither the wretch
who, by his vote, would convert into
filthy lucre that portrait of the savior
of his country, (pointing to the
portrait of Washington) or that of
him his chosen discipline, (pointing
to the portrait of I.a Fayette).
Money, sir, is neither the wealth
or strength of a State. Virtue, genius,
knowledge, courage, patriotism!
these are its treasures, compared
i.ruvi in tlioir influence unon
popular sentiment, gold?gold is even
worse than dross.
"Ill fares the land, to hastening ills
a prey
Where wealth accumulates and
mew decay."
Three centuries ago, when border
feuds were common, a maiden born
on the shore of Lake Constance had
gone to seek her fortune in Switzerland,
and learning by accident, in
the family in which she was domesticated,
that an assault was intended
upon her native village, under the
cover of night she took a horse and
swam the current of the Rhine, and
by her timely warning, saved her
birthplace and people from sack and
slaughter. An equestrian monument
was erected to her honor, ,but her
heroism is to this day commemorated
by a memorial more touching.
Each nigh as the watchman goes his
round, when the hour of midnight
arrives, he calls aloud the name of
her who three hundred years before,
awoke the sleeping inhabitants and
rescued them from danger. The historian
appropriately says, that the
fame and memory of that girl has
given a tone and spirit of the youth
of that little town, which is worth
in its defense a batallion of armed
T " * """"m + Oio otnrv' It. |r
Ill till . 1 U U t I U|JU?I, H1U wvvy. ^ ,
for the gentlemen of the House to
make the applications.
It is proper that I should state that
the petitioner has already received
tho bounty of the Government; but
these allowances ceases on the 4th of
March next, when, unless this bill
passes, she will be thrown upon the
cold charities of the world. I have
stated her case with as much brevity
as a full understanding of her claim
would permit, and I now appeal to
every gentleman who hears me, to
yield to the generous Impulses which
now swell their bosoms, to unite with
me in passing this bill with a unanimity
which will be as honorable to
them as it will bo gratifying to the
petitioner.
The claim is so just, so peculiar,
that I regard the passage of the bill
but as a matter of form, and I therefore
ask for its third reading, with a
view to its immediate passage.
Mr. Mace: I have examined this
bill and it simply proposes to pay to
this lady eight dollars a month. After
the statement made by the gentleman
from South Carolina, I am willing
that relief should be granted,
' ?- A l- ~ ntv??iinf Irt UlO Kill Is.
<111(1 its nit? niituuui >1* titu ?... ?
small, I move that the word "eight"
be stricken out, and that the word
"fifty" be inserted in lieu thereof.
Mr. Giddings: It is not in consonance
with my feelings to oppose
the passage of this bill.
Mr. Mace: I ask the gentleman
from Ohio to yield to me a moment,
that I may modify my amendment.
iMr. Mace: At the suggestion of
many members, I will modify my
amendment so as to make the pension
twenty dollars a month.
Mr. Giddings: I feel disposed, on
the present occasion, rather than oppose
the passage of this bill, to re
I
mind our friends here of the important
subject which was before us yesterday,
and which will be before us
again to-day. At the time this war
was declared, in which this mother
was rendered childless, I was present
here. I foresaw the hearts which
would be pained and tortured, and
made to bleed, in consequence of it.
She comes here pleading the loss of
her children; but eighty thousand
other mothers, whose children were
as dear and precious, to them as were
these to their mother, fell in that
war, and three hundred thousand
hearts were made to mourn the loss
of dear friends. Yet, sir, with these
facts before us?for no statesman
could have failed to see them?only
fourteen members of this House were
unwilling to enter upon that war,
Sir, opposition to it was made a hissing
and a by-word. Notwithstanding
the dreadful, the unutterable,
and (he fearful pain which it was
known would bo inflicted upon the
people of this country and of Mexico,
these sons volunteered to go to a
foreign coi^itry to strike down their
fe'/'.ow men, but they themselves
were struck down.
Mr. McMullin . I rise to a question
of order. The bill before the House
is a bill granting a pension to a certain
lady of South Carolina, and the
member from Ohio is discussing the
Mexican war, and that is not relevant
to the matter under consideration.
The Speaker: In tlio opinion of
the Chair, the gentleman from Ohio,
is in order. The proposition is to
grant a pension for services in the
Mexican war, and it is certainly in
order for the gentleman from Ohio
to allude to it, so far as he has done
at present.
Mr. McMullin: But not to discuss
the merits of the war.
Mr. Sapp: It never had anj\
Mr. Ciddings: It grieves me to inflict
pain upon my friend from Virginia.
Of all men living, he is the
last one whose feelings I would injure.
But, Mr. Speaker, I wish to
impress upon this House what has
been urged here for fifteen years?
a change of our policy so as to avoid
war?so that when we have national
difficulties to settle we will arbitrate
them as an honorable people and an
honorable Government should do,
without shedding blood, and without
inflicting pain upon mothers, or children.
or friends, or such vast expense
to the people.
I know the pain this widow must
suffer. I know the sorrow she must
bear. I have myself seen my friends
struck down in battle, and I have
seen the wife made a widow, and her
children fatherless; and far bo it
from to pain any friend of these
fallen men by alluding to the circumstances
under which they fell.
Yet the fact is before us, that these
sons went to a foreign country and
for what? Why, sir, to engage in
the horrors of war, to murder their
fellow-men, not because they had
done us any injury, not because the
people of Mexico had in any manner
offended us, not because they had detracted
from our happiness or interest,
but for the purpose, which had
been often avowed, to extend the institution
of slavery into Mexico.
Sir, I only rise to renew the intimation
which I made yesterday that
it is time for the people of this nation
to reform the policy of their
Government, to seek a course ot
peace and national arbitration, to
disband their army, lay by the most
of their navy, and pursue a course
which shall save the nation from the
flood of expenditures, extravagance,
and corruption which are sweeping
over It, save our people from the suffering
to which human nature is exposed
in consequence of war, and prevent
such a state of suffering as that
tc which the gentleman from South
Carolina has alluded in such eloquent
terras. I have no objection to the
amendment of the gentleman from
Indiana as modified.
Mr. Orr: The amendment that has
been suggested ,by the gentleman
from Indiana emanates, I have no
doubt, from himself, and from the
generosity of his nature, responding
to tills application. It is for the
House to determine whether they will
adopt the amendment suggested by
him of giving twenty dollars per
month, or will fall back upon the original
report. The House can take
its choice. I think this lady is entitled
to some relief at the hands of
this House, she having given to the
service of the country her husband
and three of her sons. I demand the
previous question on the engrossment
and third reading of the bill.
Mr. Kennett: I would inquire
what pension the committee recommends?
Mr. Orr: Eight dollars per month.
Mr. Matterson: I ask that the report
may bo read.
The Speaker. Tho Chair is informed
there is no report.
Mr. iBrooks: The committee have
reported by bill and reported unanimously.
The previous question was second
ed, and the main question ordered.
The first question being on Mr.
Mace's amendment, and it was agreed
to.
The bill was then ordered to be engrossed
and read a third time; and
being engrossed, it was accordingly
read the third time.
Mr. Brooks: I ask for the previous
question on the passage of the
bill.
The previous question was seconded,
and the main question ordered;
and under the operation of the previous
question the bill was passed.
Mr. Brooks mo red to reconsider
MISLED BY T. B. FELDER |
GRAFT IN THE CHARLESTON LIQUOK
SYSTEM. d
Report Refutes All the Charges Made
by the Governor in Message to the
Last Legislature.
"Your committee also had a meeting
in Charleston and as a result of I
that and other testimony along the
same lino taken in Columbia we are
convinced that a regular system of
graft exists and has existed for years
in that city in connection with the
I ... ?. _< j 1. . ? |
worn i'i iiiu uispuuoui v ii?i?il?h.-o,
says the committee appointed by the
last general assembly to investigate
tlio charges made by Governor Blease
agai-nst the Ansel winding up commission
and former Attorney General
Lyon, in their report filed with the (j
senate Friday morning, and ordered j
printed in the journal.
The majority report is signed by t
Senators Carlisle, Sullivan and Clif- ^
ton and Representatives J. J. Evans j
and W. L. Daniel, while a minority ^
report signed by Representative Gary
agrees in the findings of the majority
with the exception of the testimony ,
taken in Augusta and afterwards in ^
Columbia, which Mr. Gary does not j
think is relevant.
The report, with the exception that
B. F. Arthur, when a member of the
Ansel commission, overcharged the (
Stale, says of the charges made by r]
Governor Blease tnat they are '
"wholly unsupported by the testimony
and, therefore, without foundation
in fact." Attorney General Lyon (
and the members of the Ansel commission,
Dr. W. J. Murray, chairman;
J. S. Iirice, Avery Patton, John .Mc- *
Sween, A. N. Wood, are exonerated of 1
all charges made against them.
The committee thinks that Tnos. B.
Felder misled them in his statements j1
about what his testimony would show
when the committee went to Augusta,
Ga., last summer to take his
testimony. They, however, went to c
Augusta as they thought something c
would be gotten from Felder, and as s
he would not come to the state be- c
cause ho feared arrest and possible 1
assassination. But his testimony es- 1
tablished nothing, in tlio report of v
the committee. 1
The majority of tlio report is a
repetition of the charges made by the
governor and the refutation of them '
section by section from the testimony
adduced, all of which is mado a part ^
of the report.
SHOULD LIMIJIOK BE TAXED? x
f
Tlio Question Debated at Length in *
State Senate. t
Most of Thursday morning session ^
was consumed by a debate on the j
Dennis bill to place a tax on timber g
in this State, requiring timber cut in
each county to bo entered in the tax
books as personal property. Senator
Appelt offered an amendment, makring
the bill apply only to timber cut
j from the soil of another. The amend- ^
ment was voted down. The finance
| committee amended the bill so that
it would not apply to individuals or
corporations cutting or manufacturing
lumber for local purposes. f
During the debate on the Dennis j
timber tax bill Senator Dennis at- s
tacked D. W. Alder lian of Alcorn c
and said that he represented the only f
corporation opposing the bill. He a
i charged that letters had been written
to several senators by Mr. Alder- ^
man. "Are you going to let D. W t
Alderman run this legislature?" ^
shouted Senator Dennis. j
He said that Mr. Alderman's lum- s
her carts destroyed tho roads and ^
that ho was a great detriment to f
I Clarendon county. Senator Appelt a
from that county defended Mr. Al- (]
derman, referring to him as one of
the best citizens in the State and saying
that he had a perfect right to
sneak for him it would be time for
| him or any other to leave the State.
L * g
Body Found Beside Tracks. v
After an all-night search, the body \
of Mrs. R R. Kime, of Atlanta, was ^
found eight miles from Kissimmee, j
Fla., lying beside the Atlantic Coast
Lino tracks. It is thought that 'Mrs. ^
Kime fell from the train whil'e passing
from the sleeping car to the day t
coach, where her husband, Dr. Kime, ,,
was attending an injured man. No
one saw her fall. The Kimes were
en route to Lakeland. r
c
Lynchburg Over in Russia.
A double lynching occurred r
Thursday near Kharkov, Russia. A j
mob of 5,000 peasants stormed the c
jail, demolished the buildings, seiz- t
ed a horse thief and lylnched him a
Then they proceeded to the police s
depot and repeated the performance e
with another horse thief, who was j
confined there.
? c
Blew Up Her Uouse.
At Lynchburg, Va., although Mrs. f
George M. Jones, a ealthy woman i
eighty years old, was blown out of j
her bed Thursday night by a dynamite
explosion, which wrecked her t<
home, the shock did no harm. The \
* * -- I* -.no on oOamnt of m 11f- t
PUIICO Buy It nao au c?vwimpv ?*v i
der. C
the vote by which the bill was passed, \
and also moved to lay the motion to c
reconsider on the table; which lat- r
ter motion was agreed to. t
MURDER OF LINCOLN!
?
ICTOR IN THE OLD THEATBE
TELL OF TRAGEDY
? ? >
rALKS OF FATAL NIGHT
I!. A. Emerson, Who Played Part of t
1
Iiord Dundreary in the Americun j j
Cousin tfio Night the President *
Was Shot, Recalls Vividly All In- c
o
cidents of tho Awful Tragedy 0
Dehind his desk in tho oflice of his 8
rt glass establishment at 030 G St.
lorthwest, in Washington, as much (
ngrossed in tho business of to-day as ^
,ny youthful apprentice, sits the last n
lurnan link between the present and ^
he greatest tragedy of American his- e
ory, says a Washington dispatch to g
ho Chicago Daily News. He Is E. A. jj
Cmerson, last of the leading actors in
ho troupe that played "The Aineri- f(
ail Cousin" at the old Ford Theatre, a
n Washington, on that fatal night in v
Vpril, 1805, when tho bullet of ^
Vilkes Hootli took away the life of (j
'resident Lincoln and tumbled the a
ountry into chaos. Mr. Emerson C)
ippeared on that occasion in tlie role v
?f Lord Dundreary, the dandified and
lemonocled English "swell", prob- cj
11)1 y the best known and certainly
'lie most popular role in the play. n
"1 was not on the stage at the time r
>f the tragedy," said '.Mr. Emerson a
ecently. "It is nearly half a cen- v
ury ago, but the events were im- I
irinted too deeply on my mind for
ne ever to forget them. It was just a
ifter the beginning of the third and a
ast act and I was leaning up against j
i piece of scenery in the wings, wait- l
ng for my cue to go on, when I s
teard a shot. cl
"Truth compels me to say that this
mused not the slimmest rippio or ex- r
itement among any of us back of the i
tage. There were, we knew, a score a
>f causes in all the various parapher- c
ialia of the stage mechanism that a
night cause a sound liko that. We c
/ere a little bewildered for a moment
>y the apparition on the stage of a i
nan who didn't belong there, crying c
?ut something we could not clearly ?
mderstand. But, you must renieni- s
>er, tlie war had just come to an ?
iiid, the President was in the house c
iiul most of the actors, I am sure, s
bought, for a few minutes, that it c
vas just some prearranged patriotic lemonstration.
Even the sight of a I
nan dashing through the wings did e
lot bring us to any realization of the
ruth. I
"Then suddenly there sped through ^
he troupe gathered on the stage and j
n the wings the cry, 'The President's ^
hot!' f
"Then, indeed, there was confusion a
rorse than confounded?a veritable
vhirlpool of actors, supers, police- v
nen hurrying on the track of Booth, ft
iven some of the audience, all mixed v
n one inextricable chaos of mad hu- t
aanity on the stage. Even then, in ?
he hysteria of the moment, the cur- n
ain was not run down and it was a
ome minutes after the President was t
aken from his box before it fell. c
Meantime from the stage we could ^
? - A a n * ( m 4 V* m A *r n /-w /I n n * n _
lit) I II D III Uiill 111^ Lilt? Uiill IJ'lUK III (VII O J
lotliing from him in a mad searcn j
or the wound even as they bore him a
way v
"A little while later I went to the \
ox the President had occupied. Just
o the side of the chair in which he ^
lad sat I found a crumpled program. ^
am confident?though I have no ab- j,
oluto proof?that it was the pro- v*
;ram he had in his hand when the j,
atal bullet struck him, and in the .
gony of the shock ho crumbled and ^
Iropped it. Here it is." ^
Mr. Emerson held up a framed pro- f
;ram of the play. It was yellow with p
ige. On it was a dark sinister Bpot c
.bout tho size of a dime. n
"When I picked it up," continued i
dr. Emerson, "that spot was on it? p
ret. Of course I cannot say certain- s
y, but I am convinced that it was a n
Ircp of the life blood of President a
dncoln."
"I was well acquainted with young v
looth," Mr. Emerson coiTtinued,
rhen asked about his knowledge of
he man responsible for the tragedy.
'I had played with him In theatres
11 over tho country. One incident I 11
ecall very vividly, occurring the "
iiornlng before tho fatal night; a 0
ertain case I have at my house, v
napped into four pieces, will ever s
nake me mindful of it. That morn- 0
ng as I stood before the stago door 1
>f the treatre Wilkes Booth came up v
o me: He was in a highly nervous
tate. As ho stopped and spoke ho
matched my cane from my nana,
ind, with anagitated gesture, swung
t over behind his shoulders.
" 'Do you know what that man has j
lone?" he cried, almost hysterically. '
"I knew to whom he referred, for ^
dncoln had been an obsession with j
lim ever since Lee had evacuated ^
lichmond a fortnight before
" 'Ho went down to Richmond yeserday,'
Booth continued, 'sat in Presdent
Davis' chair and put his feet on
^resident Davis' desk. Somebody 1
night to kill him!' 1
"With that he brought his two <
lands, holding the ends of the cane, i
(own with such force that it snap* 1
led In four pieces. I gathered them i
ip, Intending to have them repaired, 1
>Vsv
lEADY FOR TAFT TO SIGN
?EN ATE PASSES MEASURE WITHOUT
ROLL CALL.
.Vould Prohibit Interstate Shipment
of Intoxicating Liquors Intended
for Unlawful Sale.
The United States Senate Monday
?y a viva voce vote, passed the Webb
iquor bill already passed by the
louse as a substitute for the KenCkminn
??rl Kill 'I'lw, \IT .,1,1. Kill
V/&I U uilli Alio U ouiJ OlIA
rould prohibit shipments of intoxiating
liquors from one state to anther
when intended to be receiver
r sold in violation of the law of tlio
tate to which the shipment is made.
Friends of the legislation now will
eek to have the House concur in
he Senate bill, which differs from
he bill passed by the House only in
umber. Should that be dono the
ills will not be considered in confernce,
but the measure passed by the
en ate will go to the President tor
is signature.
The substitution of the Webb tyfll
or the Kenyon-Sheppard bill came
t the close of prolonged debate and
,-as by viva voce vote, no roll call
eing demanded. Senator Sheppard
uring the day had failed to get unnimous
consent for the substitution
f the Webb bill for the measure of
Hitch he was a joint author.
Senator Kenyon, co-author of the
ienate bill, closed the debate by askng
that the Webb bill bo substituted,
s the order of the day did not pernit
the voting on the Webb bill as
n independent measure. The voto
vas first upon the perfection of tho
Cenyon-Slier-pard bill.
Hy a vote of (> I to 23 the Senate
greed to the conimitto amendment,
tdding a section to the bill, which
irovided in terms that intoxicating
iquors should become subject to
(ate laws on crossing state bounlaries.
Senator Hitchcock's amendment to
sxcept liquor intended for personal
ise was defeated without a roll call,
uid one by Senator O'Gorman exopting
liquor intended for personal
ind for sacramental use was likewise
leleated, 31 to 50.
Senator Kenyon succeeded in havng
his measure amended to become
perativo July 1, 10 13. Thereupon
lenator Gallinger asked for tho sivbititution
of the Webb bill for the
kmate measure. Ho likewise suc:eeded
in having the title amended
0 as to bring tho houses in accord
ixcept as to the number of the bills.
>ut kept them as they were after the
svents that followed.
"I tried to quiet him, telling him
ho war was over and that such talk
vas intemperate, if not dangerous,
lut it never occurred to mo that he
lad any idea of putting that thought
nto execution; for Booth was always
1 wild Impetuous talker."
Mr. Emerson, who1 is the last suriving
member of tho troupe that
idd the boards on that Hateful night,
ras born in Alexandria, Va., seventyhree
years ago. He was taken to St.
..ouis, Mo., by his parents at an early
-go. but in youth return to the east
nd went on the stage, playing with
ho Booths, Charlotte Cushman and
ither celebrities of that long ago
lay. Ho was for several years Jieore
tho war and during that coaiSicfc
n the companies of tho famous manr?f
Haiti nirtrA find fltso
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layed in tho companies of the elder
Vallack.
After the tragedy of that night In
t.pril, 18G5, ho gave up the stage,
oing into tho bookselling business
n Lynchburg, Va., for many years. '
lore than half a score of years ago
ie returned to Washington, where ho
ounded a stained glass works, of
vliich thriving concern he is tho
lead. Despite his years he Is in as
ell possession of all his powers as
to was thirty years ago. Ho disourses
on tho ovents of that terriblo
ight with a fluency and correctness
hat show not only a memory unimaired,
but also tho indellible impresion
that was made upon him. On
ot one single point was his memory
t fault.
"It all seems to me as though it
fas last night." he said
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Fell Five Hundred Feet.
At Mansfield, England, thirteen
ion were killed and a number were
urt at the Ilolsover co4liery, because
f tho snapping of a chain to which
tas suspended a bucket containing0
0 gallons of water. Tho bucket
rashed down tho HO 0-foot shaft, at
he bottom of which tho men were
working.
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Wounded Negro Was Hanged.
At Collins, Miss., Rant Seymour, a
leero paralyzed, was lifted from his
ot Monday and carried to the galows
to bo hanged. Seymour had esaped
Jail. He was tracked by bloodlounds
who tore and mutilated him.
le was charged with the murder of
iVilliam TiOwory and W. T. Johns*
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Killed Three laborers*
At Evansville, Ind., Allan Von Behren,
23 years old, assistant superintendent
of a wood-working plant
Dwned by his father, B. F. Von Behren,
shot and killed three negro- laborers
Saturday. He said they had
threatened to kill him. Von Boh ren
was arrested.