Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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' itSfvSrl m - fBILL ARP. | mj^^F 8Sli$SSliii$iS5R$iSKXKii5i5i0iSS1if* V About nineteen hundred years ago there occurred in Bethlehem, a village B of Judea. the most notable event in the K world's history. An event that changed . the calendar of time and eclipsed the S creed and faith of nations and has esR tablish-.'d the Christian religion in all ^^^civilized countries. This event was but of a little child, but no other f wiild was ever heralded by the angels singing, "Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace and good will to man." v - 1 From the very first that child was a .suspect and Herod was alarmed. He was not a Jew but was a convert to the Jewish religion, and it was whispered to him that the ctyld was the Son of God and would grow up and rule the people and take His kingdom away from Him. He did not believe it. but ( It alarmed him, for it came to him from many sources and he determined to put an end to it by killing the child. p- * In the meanwhile the angels came and spirited the child and its mother away \ by night to Egypt. Nobody in BethleMy^hem knew the child or its mother, and so Herod's cruel murderers could not find them. Herod said they were hidden around them among the poor peonlp anH sn tn make if Ri:ro hp nrriprod ^ the mdrderers to go from house to Louse and kill every child under two years old. and they did it. Was there ever such horrible brutality? It was worse than Pharoah, who ordered the znidwives to kill the male infants of the Hebrews, but to leave the females " ' alive. Is it not strange that men can be found who would kill little innocent children just to please a king? I wonder how they killed them. Did they cut their throats or smother them or knock them in the head or stab them to j ^ _ the heart? Did they snatch them from j their mothers' arras while they scream- j ed and begged for mercy? Did they leave them there in their blood or ' throw them in wagons and haul them away to the potter's field. Historians ! say- those murderers probably killed a thousand, for they did not stop at Bethlehem but went all along the coast * ; region where the fishermen lived. What a creature that man Herod must Lhave been. No wonder that the Lord sent worms to prey upon him and eat him up while he was yet alive. ^fiaMhe little child escaped, and with Joseph *nd its mother stayed in Egypt ?" viitil He^%d was doad. He grew up to manhood afld was crucified by his own 1people and then they began to persecute his followers. For about three hundred years theThristians were pursued and driven frcri^mtce to place and suffered martyrdom for~tKeirJ<^th. They had no peace or protection"unttr ' Constantine the Great came into power i and took pity upon them. Before that | i had no friend at court in any 1 kingdom. In the second century Dio- ' cletian pretended to tolerate them ' while they were quiet and made no i public demonstration, but one time i ? they secured the use of an old church 1 and all gathered there to have service 1 ?and commemorate the birth of their < Savior and start a Christian custom, j j ^ This made Diocletian very mad. and j ; ^ after the men and women and children i ( were all inside and had begun service. I he sent some brutes there and locked ! the doors and barred the windows and | ^ set the house on fire and burned .hem ; all up. It Is amazing how Christianity ; 1 could live and survive its Dersecution K for the first five hundred years. His- ! t' tory says it is impossible to estimate mJ;; ?. the number of those who suffered mar- : ^^-..^Jyrdom for their faith, but there were V - t&hous&nds and tens of thousands. V .r?hme were beheaded, others thrown to ! r< Vfdbeasts and others crucified. Nero j L 'had wome of them smeared with tar and fired by night in the public streets. | Marcus' Aurelius had them chained to I thV&bt8 of red hot iron chairs. St. : * Blandtina and St. Felicitas, who were ! V noble "RoniM. ladies, were compelled to , U witness'the^tWure and death of their , children. antl- were then beheaded. These are only mentioned as examples of what thousands .suffered. But neither the. world. the flesh nor the devil could stop the siire and steady progress of Christianity. Christmas has come to stay. It means a ceremony, a festival of love and loyalty to Him who was born on that day X Id Protestant Germany it is called rmfrfhildren's , festival and they are taught"that the | Savior loves them and cares far them ] and said "Suffer little children ta^ ome , unto Me. for such is the kingaoi!) of j , heaven." \ |. Christmas sigmnes a new era?:i ue? 1 it date to time and chronology. The j I' ures on each letter head and on every ' j E note and account and receipt prove the j I" birth of Christ. Jews, Uentnes. atneists, infidels, skeptics-, every civilized nation and every inan and woman have HB to use these figures whether they belieye them or not. It is wonderful, WW wonderful. And now we are ail near- , iff ing another Christmas. It may cot l>e & the exact anniversary of the Savior's birth, and there are many learned coA- < mentators who say that the shepherds i * did not watch their flocks by night in midwinter nor were taxes given in tin-' ( til aboyt April. Be that as it may, the / good Christians of the third century, 1 the fathers of the church, met and < [.. made it a movable festival to be held < | in April or in May. But a hundred ] - tKn nnno ft T1 gflg years-nater 111 41UU iuc v>?m | thfc'priesthood to meet. and iix a <ia.v, 'day certain, and after long consulta Vt:nn the 25th of December was agreed V.-a by. the majority, and the rest 1 H rnm-urrpd. Not because any of them believed that was the true anniversary of the Savior's birth, but because that day wot.Id better suit the masse-: of the people. But. my young frien Is. Christmas W a time for love and kindness, a time W , for pqace and good will. It is a time ?f' to give-gifts and make little presents, < [ and to .brighten up the homes of the I poor, "fbis is better than fireworks and k noise and is far more appropriate to f the day.- The wise men brought to th? 1 infant Savior gifts?costly gifts, and if I we have nothing else to give, v.e can certainly give a smile to those we meet I and wish them a happy Christmas.? ft Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution, Lt mmm Bjn*ra^.-.ar?r?> . n NEGRO AND WIFE LYNCHED. Brutal Murder of a Farmer Avenged in a Summary flanner. Charleston. S. C.. Special.?A special to The News and Courier from Greenwood, S. C., says: "\V. K. Jay, a prominent young farmer of the Troy section of this county, was foully murdered in his own yard by a negro, Oliver Wideman. or his wife, both of them living on the place. Both of the negroes were lynched by Jay's infuriated neighbors. Mr. Jay. on returning home on Friday afternoon, heard Wideman abusing or fighting his (Wideman's) wife. He wont to the raliin and ordered the negroes to bo quiet. Immediately afterwards Mrs. Jay heard the report of a gun and saw the two negroes running away. Calling for her husband, she had no answer and on looking over the yard found him dead in a pool of his own blood. Almost his entire head had been blown off. "The alarm was given and parties were soon scouring the country in pursuit of the negroes. They were cap tured. Before the coroner both acknowledged the deed, but the man said the woman did it, and the woman accused the man. They never changed from this, but died, accusing each other of the crime. While in the custody of a constable on the way to jail they were stopped at the Winterseat bridge by a crowd of infuriated friends and neighbors of Jay and bull negroes were lynched. The lynching took place about midday, seven hour? after the inquest. W. K. Jay was a good citizen and prominent Mason, having been a high official of the grand lodge of South Carolina." Method of the Arbitration. Washington. Special.?There is now in nrncrncc on nptivo PYr-hnnfo r.t 1M V3. vww "" ^ V?V?^..0V notes between the allied powers, Venezuela and the United States, respecting the method of submitting to arbitration the issues which have arisen between Venezuela and the allies. Questions are being put and are being answered, but it is said the negotiations are in such shape that it would be extremely injurious and indiscreet to make each phase public if there really existed a desire to reach a satisfactory settlement. It is explained at the State Department that the part of the United States government just now is that of a "good friend" to all parties; that it is not undertaking to draw up protocols or impose limitations upon the parties, but is confining its offices to getting them together and keeping them so. In this view it will not be necessary for our government to prescribe how the Monroe doctrine shall or shall not figure in the protocols; it will judge for itself by results how our interests are affected and will not indulge in premature or uncalled-for protests. Iter for the term of the arbitration agreement. "Tt^is-stated that they are In a fair way to be speedily adjusted, hut nothing can be said the details. It is presumed that allies will agree to terminate the bK?gkai|e. though no stipulation has yet been vntered into on that point. Nothing bar been heard recently oi the part to be taken by United States Minister Bowen in the final settlement anu it DeSins to appear that after all. Venezuela will probably be represented by ine of her own people. 28 Killed In a Wreck. London. Ont.. Special.?The most' ' 'rightful railroad accident in the annals of the past decade happened a short distance from the little i-'ation :f Wanstead. on the Sarnax branch of :he Grand Trunk Railroad. Frida\ light. The trains in collision were the Pacific Express and a freight. The \ express was running nearly two hours , ate and was making fast time. Tse j j 'reight was endeavoring to make a j ( siding to get clear of the express, but 'ailed by a minute or two. There was ( * ,inAr,,if.,l /.?oc.V? rho lrw*r\mnti ft UlCttUlUl VIOOU, iitv luvvuiviow , eared up and fell over in a ditch, the aaggage car of the express telescoped :he smoker and in an instant the shrieks and cries of the wounded and :be dying filled the air. The loss of life is 28. The injured will number ( ronsiderably more, and many of tlmse , nay die. The Cold Wnve. Kansas City. Mo.. Special.?Advices received here indicate severe weather , :hroughout Kansas and Missouri, j Hutchinson. Kan., reported the coldest | weather in years, the theimoraeter at i hat point registering below zero. At \tchinson 5 below is recorded. At Mexco. Mo., a coal famine confronts the people. There is no more teal for salo , \t any yards and the tempeiature was ityzero Friday night. V \ Charge to Be Made. Washington Special.?It is learner it the Sfqte Department that leave of , absence has^ been granted to J. B. , Crossland. United States minister rest.lent and consul general to Liberia, and [hat upon his return to this country he will tender his i^signaton. Minister Crossland was appointed to his post from Missouri in January last and his conduct, has been unde^ investigation swing to a personal encoApter between himself and one of the officials of the Monrovian legation. There ^|uearoci ti he a state of affair^ in exisflnce at Monrovia that was not-.acceptable to ( the* State Department and therefore a ihange in tho mfssion will be made. ? $200,000 Fire. ' Bloomington. 111., Special.?Fire in the business section here caused > loss of about $200,000. The building occupied by William A. Nicholaus# & Co.. dry goods and ladies' furnishings, was destroyed and the double store of C. W. Klem, wholesale and retail dry roods, was considerably damaged by smoke and water. Charles Abrams, assistant fire cfyief, fell front a ladder and was scrlousljJ injured. ( ilrwliis ti ?J\ jfjjJh1 1 iFearful Ending Jjjmn* dan Out oftilMit ?? t ' SOUGHT DEATH AT HIS OWN HAND, i i V/ O !>??!? Thnrm.nhlv Die. V UUI1|? UIUIC UVUIVf I IIVI VM^Ui^ | appointed In Life. Seeks Solace in i Death. ' I Norfolk. Va.. Special.?Penniless, ( out of employment and without a home, for himself and young wife, ( Bruce Booie, formerly of Wilmington. N. C., at a late hour Saturday night cut his throat with a razor, nearly severing his jugular vein. He may, j however, recover. Booie is 30 years of ] age and. according to a statement ' from his wife to the police, was mar- ' ried three week3 ago in Newark, N. , J. They came to this city some time i ago and. being strangers, boarded at a house on Cove street. Being without funds the landlady gave Mrs. Booie a position as housekeeper and she and her husband occupied a room on the second floor. Saturday night Mrs. < Booie and the landlady had some i words and the latter ordered Mrs. , Booie out of the house. Booie. who was ill and worried, when informed < of the circumstances by his wife, grab- . bed a razor and. with the excla'.ma- , tion. "Before I would see you suiter ' any more hardships. I will kill my- '' self." brought the keen blade deep ! into his throat. His wife snatched the ( razor and screamed while her husband 1 sank to the floor in a pool of ^iis own 1 IJ ? "l'-n tr> Ot* Vinr>r>nt'e i uiuwu> jnt' lun.a iv ? imw*.. ? . Hospital, where it was said there ! were even chances for lite and death. ' The young wife is being cared for by friends, with temporary quarters at the Union Mission. Charlotte. X. C.. Special.?Booie resided in Charlotte some years ago. and ' was among the first conductors on the electric cars when the present street 1 railway system was established. He will also be remembered in Charlotte J as the man who sent up paper bal- * loons at the park on Saturday afternoons for the entertainment of the \ children. __f A Day of Suicides. New York. Special.?Eight persons f met violent deaths in Greater New a York Sunday. Three were clear cases ; of suicide and resulted from a variety j of causes. Mrs. Mary Clarke, aged 45, wife of the chief officer of the steamer Beverly, died from the result of gas poisoning, self-administered. George Simon, 46, and Jacob Sch- ( wartz. 35 years of age, died after s tJ tf in annaing carouuc aciu. maiy oiativ, aged .24. was found dead in a hotel. > Escaping gas was given as the cause. ( An unidentified man was found in his J room unconscious. Mary Searles. aged v 38. drank wood alcohol and died in a s hospital. Henry Bunkey, aged 27. was s found on the sidewalk with a frac- h tared skull and died later.'Two men b are dead as the result of falls, one in S the power house of a street railway P company and the other in a lodging house. 18-year-old girl unsuccessfully attempted suicide by swallowing carbolic acid and a woman 32 years old hanged herself in the police sVa.- o tion, but wo? cut 5o#n in time to save j c< her life. Mrs. Hugh Moonev drank s carbolic acid anl a it J before a phvsi- ti cian could attend her. Her husband said she had tried to commit suicide ^ twelve times before. n j F Death of firs. Fremont. si 0 . Los Angeles. Cal.. Special.?Mrs. j ? Jessie Benton Fremont, widow of Gen- i oral Fremont, who died Sunday night, j q at her home in this city, was 78 years j h of age. Mrs. Fremont was taken ill i n on Christmas morning. She grew ra- ; gJ pidly worse and soon lapsed into uis- ^ consciousness from which she never j e raillied. For the past three years the j aged wdow of the "Pathfinder" had j been extremely feeble as a result of a j F fall n which she suffered a dislocation S of the hip which had since prevented ? her from walking. Mrs. Fremont was tl the daughter of Thomas H. Benton, for si 30 vears a United States Senator. a ! n nt. Pelee Again In Eruption. St. Thomas. D. W. I.. By Cable.?The c cablesbip Newington. which arrived at t< St. I^ocia. B. VV. I., reportod haviug n passed Mont peiee. Msiana 01 aianm. n que. at 10:30 in the morning. The n volcano was then in violent eruption, p Dense clouds of gray smoke and dust s were pouring out of the crator and rending to an enormous height. Other ^ advices say that the cone was luminous during the night. ? Value of Frost Warnings. s Jacksonville Fla.. Special.?The cold ^ wave has done no material damage to j, any crops in Florida. While a tempera- (5 ture of from 27 to 30 degrees above c' zero was experienced at some sections ^ just below the freezing line on the p west coast last night, frost warnings had been sent out in ample time and Q practically all the vegetable growers who could be effected bad prepared for ir It., The ccld was not severe enough, t( nor was it of sufficient duration to ? damage the citrus frvilt trees or th*- -j( fruit. o< tl I Two Boys Drowned. ^Detroit. Special.?A Tribune special from Grand Rapids. Mich, says: "Al- S hcrt Hnltgrcen, aged 16(1 and Henry e Faulkerson, were drowned in Half l.; Moon lake. Hultgreen broke through th,'? ice while skating and Faull'crsoji got in while attmepting to aid ^.his g companion. A third lad. Thomas Devin. ir also broke ir. while trying to save the T boys, but managed to pull h'mself out of the water." . , {* ^ CHRISTMAs\ OBSERVANCES. How The Day Wai Spent By President Roosevelt and Others. Washington, Special.?Snow which hegan falling late Wednesday night gave Washington a genuine Christmas appearance. Public and private business was practically entirely suspended. Interest centered In the happenings at the White House. ^rly in the SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL 1 To Manufacture Sea Island Cotton. E. S. Matthews of ?tarke, Fla.. writes to the Manufacturers' Record desiring detailed information regarding the best means of utilizing in manufacturing Sea Island Cotton. He says: "The Sea Island cotton growers of this county are serious'ly discussing the establishment of a mill for the manufacture of the product of their fields, and I have been requested to ascertain as nearly as possible the cost of a factory that would work up the crop of the county. Thirty-six hundred bales is about an average crop for the county, though neighboring counties could be depended upon to materially increase this number if the factory was large enough to accommodate them. A factory here v/ouid, of course, have to be for the manufacture of such articles as are produced from long-staple Sea Island Cotton, and there is a lack of Information as to what particular line of manufacture could be most profitably engaged In." A $350,000 Addition. Several weeks ago announcement was made that the directors of the Gainesville (Ga.) Cotton Mills bad called a meeting for January 10 to vote on increasing capital stock from {500,000 to $S50.000. It is now known that arrangements for the increase at 5350,000 have been definitely decided, and the meeting will be mere routine action. The increase is to be expended upon the erection of an additional mill, details as to equipment for which ire now under consideration Plans for the buildings required have been agreed upon. The company s present equipment is 25,200 spindles an 1 740 ooms. ' Adding 3500 Spindles. Reference was made last week to he Great Falls Manufacturing Co. of Rockingham, N. C., as having increased capital from $100,000 to $150,)00. This increase will be invested in lew machinery, to consist mainly of 1500 additional spindles. The present luilding can accommodate this maehinery. It now has 4524 ring spindles ind 145 looms In position. About flfeen tenement cottages will be erected to house the additional operatives hat will be required. Contract for urnishing the machinery has. been iwarded to the Howard & Bullough American Machine Co. of Boston, Mass.' A $100,000 Silk Mill. Tie Newport News Chamber of Commerce has closed negotiations enluring the establishment of a silk ciill at Newport News! Va. This plant vill be erected by the Liberty Silk 'o. of 546 West 57th street, New fork city, and over $100,000 will be inested. Local investors have subcribed to this amount of preferred tock. Further details will probably e announced in the near future. (The .iberty corporation is capitalized at 600.000, and operates several large lants for manufacturing dress goods.) Textile Notes. It is rumored that C. B. Somerville f Staunton, Va.. proposes forming ompaiiy to build cotton factory. It is aid it is contemplated to manufac* ure denims for the overall trade. Durham Cotton Manufacturing Co.. last Durham. N. C., has installed 300 ew looms, replacing bid looms, hirther additions are to be made oou. The company has been operat- ( lg 23,500 spindles and 692 looms. < It is reported that North and South t arolina and Northern capitalists < ave purchased Green River Shoals. ^ ear Saluda. S. C. Their purpose is " lid to be the development of the ^ rater-power of the property and the f rection of a large cotton factory. s s Messrs. Thomas G. McAllister of f Itzgerald, N. C.; B. K. Terry of j pray. N. C., and J. Worth McAllister. ^ ( Charlotte. N. C., have incorporated r ie Imperial Company, with capital c tock of $60,000. Company's purpose ; re to manufacture textile, deal in \ lerchandise, etc. The Columbus (Ga.) Manufacturing lo.'s increase of capital from $400,000 > $500,000, reported last week, is lade to pay for the full equipment of. 1 lachinery already installed, and is I ot to make any additions to the s lant. Plant as present has 20.0O0' e pindles and 800 looms. i Saxon Mills, Spartanburg. S. C., has 1 eclared a semi-annual dividend of 3 c er cent. Company is capitalized at ] 200,000. J Carlisle Knitting Mill of Carlisle, j . C., has been incorporated to estab- T sh plant by Messrs. D. Fant Gilliam, r ohn A. Fant, J. S. Welch and W. II. 1 1st. The capital stock is $30,000. The a jmpany will build the plant recently ? nnounced as projected by Fant Gil- ? am of Union, S. C.. wno is to be resent. The Proximity Manufacturing Co. ? Greensboro, N. C.. has announced a lat after January 1 the hours or laoor r i its mill will be reduced from eleven j ) ten hours daily. Thi3 action iu c dopted as preferable to confrlnuin^ r ie present time with an increase of s 0 per cent, in wages. There are lb'.- h DO ring spindles and 1000 looms i:i r ie plant. \ J Cotton Seed Oil Notes. > . The new cotton seed oil mill ofj^E hnbuta Oil & Manufacturing djCaT huiutn, Miss., began open jfc^J'on * ie 19th. and will nm dayA^y1. .night ' *] uring the season. ^ The large oil ?Itta sill has a ca^^^ktf J he oYAcemKr. *1\c ohen. "plwidcht; J.-.OlJlVTfcy**Vice; c resident, and J. M. PhfUips^^n^ral f ianager.V^' ? ^ i ?M| morning the President a?d all the members of his family repaired to .he library, where presents were exchanged and the many boxes and packages which had come from out of town opened. There was a large number of cakes and many gifts in the shape of handsome floral pieces were received. Soon after breakfast the President, Theodore, Jr.j and Lieutenant Ferguson, of the Rough Riders, who is a house guest, took a long horseback ride, returning in time to join the rest of tbe family at luncheon, with Commander and Mrs. Cowles. The President and Mrs. Roosevelt entertained a number of friends at dinner tonight. The table was set in the newly finished State dining room. The guests included Senator and Mrs. Lodge, Mr. John Lodge, Captain and Mrs. Cowles, Mr. John Elliott, Mrs. Chas. Henry Davi3, Miss Davis, the Messrs. Davis and Mr. Robert Ferguson. At the home of the cabinet officers the day was quietly observed, while among the embassies and legations elaborate preparations had beeu made for celebrating. Official dinner parties were given by the British, Mexican and Russian ambassadors. The Argentine minister and wife gave a children's party at the legation, while the minister from Peru and his wife entertained a number of Perurlan studei'.M in the various schools and colleges of the United States. . Asheville, N. C.. Special.?At Biltirore House Christmas afternoon the hundred employes of Vanderbit's estate were given a most elaborate Christmas entertainment. Exercises were held in the banquet hall of BHt more House. In the center of the hall was the largest holy tree to be found on the Vanderbilt estate, a mammoth tree that towered to the ceiling of the immense room. At one end of the hall was a large star made of hundreds of Incandescent lights. Beneath the Christmas tree were stacked presents of every conceivable nature. There was a gift for every person who worked or stayed on the estate. Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbit, with their own hands, distributed gifts to the assembled guests and wished each a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Music was furnished throughout the afternoon by ; the First North Carolina Regiment 1 Band. Four Burned to Death. j MoIatia XI V Cnar>!o1 ?Pmir tinr- i ?uajuuc, ii, a it a vui j/' i sons were burned to death today in the house of Julius King, of Piercefleld, a pulp and paper manufacturing town in the Adirondaeks. The fire had gained such headway before it was discovered that Mrs. McGovern, Kind's eldest laughter, and her three children who were sleeping on the lower floor were not able to get out and all were burned to death. One of the children, whose body was found close to a window, eviiently had made heroic efforts to esape. King and his wife, with a few boarders on an upper floor escaped by jumping out of the window. One man was burned seriously, it is not known bow the fire started. Jumped From Burning Factory. St. Joseph. Mo., Special.?Fire broke >ut Wednesday morning in Chase & Sons' candy manufactory. Sophia Minus. aged 15. and Mattie Leslie, aged 10. employes, jumped from a third itory window and were fatally hurt, rhere were 50 girls employed in the actory and many others jumped from lecond and third story windows, some mstaining slight injuries. Laua Craw ord. Maq Dakin and Rosie Kraus were njured about the heads by Jumping. >ut not fally. The factory had been unning night and day to fill holiday irders and the night and day forces vere changing at the time tne me ] >roke out. The loss is $100,000. < Big Lumber Fire. Norfolk, Special.?A fire which started at 8 o'clock Wednesday night in the , arge lumber mills of the John L. Re- ( >er Lumber Company, at Gilmoore, j ;ix miles from Norfolk, on the South- ? irn branch of the Elizabeth river, had, j ip to 11:30 o'clock destroyed eight ira- j nense dry kilns and over 2.000,000 feet ? ?f lumber. At midnight it was burning j vith renewed fury and had not been i u the least gotten under control, as ( here is no great amount of fire flghtng apparatus on the scene except the volunteer and bucket bridges. At midlight it was considered that there was ittie chance of saving any o? the kilns j tnd lumber. President John L. Roper < itated that he was unable to estimate r he loss, but it will be very consider- J ible. * 1 Cattle Starving. ' Denver, Special.?Thousands of cattle 1 ire reported to be starving on the ( ange in northwestern Colorado. The * lumane Society appealed to the own- j rs to rescue their stock and th' y have ( eplied that they are powerless to <io t o. The cattle are snowed in on the j ilgh range in Routt and Rio Blanco ountics. without pasture and without Tf Jo }rr?n/>e?ll*ln fn rr of fnO'1 ^ aici. u :a iu ?v?/ 4 ? / hem anil equally impossible to drive hern into suitable winter quarters. Sultan's Soldiers Defeated. L Tangier. Morocco, By Cable.?The ^ nj,}fefial troops have been totally dc- ^ iratctl.^fter a sanguinary battle with D ?{<i?rebe.ls headed by the pretender to he*VWnae. The latter decapitated 40 1 i?5dhe,,flfeltan's soldiers. Incensed by ? he'suc^sses of the rebnls the Suits n ta^prclered his soldiers to spare no ' iDfc at Taza, in spite of the advice of . he chiefs who counseled liim not to ndulge in excesses. r . A ROYAL SCANDAL I V - . 9 Probably Divorce Proceedings Mil^H Be Instituted KM THE ESTRANGEMENT NOT SETTU^fl European High Flyers Not Exfl|H| Frcm the Same Troubles Tha^H^^H fllct Common Folks. DressJen, Saxcny, By Cable.? George and the Crown Prince I'reue^^^B lck know where the Crown Princesa^^M Louise has sought refuge, but they have decided to accept the estrangement of the Princess and her husband as irreparable. They have madet the cabinet privy to the circumstances of the Princess' flight, as they sde them, and a decree of divorce is talked of as O nflrtueeaiH' oomiAn/iA *C/\ * ? uvttgoaij 0C4UCUCC tu IUU n decision to leave the court forever. This determination the Princess announced to her husband early in November, after one of their frequent violent scenes. She also confided her intention to , separate herself utterly from the court and "all its wretchedness" to two or three of her intimate friends and discussed with them the impossibility of her longer enduring the artificial etiquette of the court and the "forced compantonship of a man who was loathsome to her." The Princess wrote to her mother at the end of November that it was her ^ purpose to leave the Crown Prince and" ^ give up the prospect of the que-eoship, which, instead of being attractive, the Princess frequently said, was detesta^ ble to her. She formally told members of her entourage tLat she was going to visit her parents at Salzburg. The letter of the Princess to her mother brought the Archduchess immediately to Dresden. She implored her daughter to reconsider her determination and make the best of an unpleasant situation for the sake of her children, and see as little of the Crown Prince as permissible. The Princess replied, according to one of her confidants, that she would see nothing of "that beast;" that tutelage of her children was largely taken out of her hands and that Bhe could not bear to see them petted by "the hypocricies of the court." What she complained of in the Prince was his intemperaeoe, his infidelities and as her partisans affirm, his cruelty of disposition. They affirm that he has had for years a liason with an actress named Baste, and it is creditably reported that at a review of troops at Grimma, a couple of years ago, the Prince fell from his horse, intoxicated, IT* n A# Klo monf UATOAt?Of + nuuk ui uio i^tuivuvi ixung* gi , it uv these incidents may be, the court and ill Dresden knew that a chasm separated the affections of the Crown Princess from the Crown Prince. Though be seemingly had genuine admiration tor his wife, the Prince did his share ol quarreling and often tried to impose his will upon her, but he always boped that she would in the end humble herself. His attitude recently, until she had actually gone, appears to have Abeen that of disdainful indifference and disbelief that she really intended to" carry out her threats. The Crown Princess' days at Salzbury were spent in controversy with ler father and mother who did not excuse her for a moment in her mad dej!re to leave her position and family. Her brother, Archduke Leopold Ferdiland took her part. The circumstances )i the Princess' flight are still obscure Here and no further reliable news is ivailable. The only fact that seems clear is that the Crown Prince knew where she is and was in communica:ion with her but It is learned that she v s absolutely intractable. Dresden is absorbed by the sensa:ion. The theory that the Crown Princess is suffering from mental aberration is now only feebly propagated ly the Saxon court and the Crown Prince's adherents intimate that an 11icit love affair is the cause of the Princess' desertion. Killed By Young Woman. Jackson, Tenn., Special.?Wednesday it *Toone Station, a village near this city, Miss Lizzie Hillhouse, a promiient young woman in the locality, shot ind fatally wounded a young man lamed Marsh. She called Marsh from :he breakfast table, seized hirr. by the irm and with her disengaged hand ired six shots from a revolver into his jody. Marsh was to have been married soon. ^ Bomb Exploded at Cathedral. Geneva, By Cable.?A dynamite cart idge was exploded at the entrance of >t. Peter's cathedral Wednesday night, rhe doorway was damaged but not seriously. The outrage is supposed to lave been perpetrated by an anarchist, rhe damage, it became known later in ;he day, was caused by the explosion )f a bomb filled with scrap iron. The explosion was very violent and except or the clumsy manner in which the jomb was placed, the damage to the cathedral undoubtedly would have been serious. Windows of neighboring louses were shattered and th? inmate )f an adjacent house was thrown out Y r )f his bed. A Suicide. \ "instr.n-Salen:. X. C.. Snecial.? tufus Stevenson, aged at out 30 cars, was found den el in his room late londay afternoon. It. is bcli.vcd that e committecd suicide by tniir.g nn verdose of either laudanum or morhine. Stevenson and a man named ohn ?<inier were together Sunday, 'he latter has not been seen since nd there is seme fear en the part f relatives that he has teen cither illed or Las committed suit tie. Both len were unmarried and were drinktg characters.