Fort Mill Times, 1900-10-31

Willie muter arrest. Private Brown, who was detailed <o (lie Hospital Corps recently was. it is alleged. caught robbing a comrade ami placed in the guardhouse, lie niauaged to escape from there, hut was reraptured. I lis trial was set for Tuesday. He managed to escape again before he was taken to court. As soon is his escape wasdiseovered the guards were doubled at all points. John Morrensnn emtio here eight vears ago with his parents, his father being employed on the works. The voting man grew up in and around the fort, and had for several years In en steadily iu the employ of the army. After supper he left his home, which is near Fort Hancock, hound for the home of a young woman to whom some sav he was engaged to be married. As Sorrenscn walked along the beach he passed o e <>f tin1 inside sentries lit j seine distance. Tin command t-i halt | was given and repeated. Sorrenscn did not hear the challenge, or. hearing it. did not heed it. as he kepi on. After again calling on the mail to stop tlie sentry lired. The bullet was not aimed at the man. hut passed close to him. Sorrenscn. Instead of stopping, started t<> run. The seniry then tired again. The bullet entered Sorrensen's side. The sentry kept his post until I lie Corporal anil the tiles, turning out m the alarm, arrived. They found Sorreason dead. The I.Untenant of ihe guard caused the body to he carried Into the fori. The otlleers rcfr to allow the seatry's name to bo given out pending the itlieial report of the department. Hrown at noon surrendered at Fort Hancock. He said he was forced by hunger to give up his attempt to escape. IlllliWe!

i iiiii iiiur. * um i?? niiiifir*. Piim: ami operators lias approached $11.Jitoo.noo. -nd it lias resulted in a considerable ndvatu e in roal priees. Its result is a victory for the strikers, who Ret an increase o;' lt> per cent, jn wages, guaranteed until April 1. 1!XX>. The end was formally annottneed when President .Tolin Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers of America, issued a long statement addressed to all miners and mine workers in the anthracite region. The statement says, in part: "After carefully canvassing the entire strike situation, we. your ollieers. .district and national, have concluded 'that your victory is so nearly complete that no good end can lie served l>y continuing the strike longer. "The companies agree, in their notices, to take up with their mine employes nil grievanes complained of. We would therefore advise that when work Is resumed committees lie selected liy the mine employes and that they wait upon the superintendents of the companies and present their grievances in an orderly, businesslike manner. and ask that they lie corrected. "As there are some few companies who have neither posted, notified nor signified in any other manner their willingness to pay the ten per cent, advance in wages and suspend the sliding scale, we would advise that unless the men employed by such companies receive notice before Monday that the advance will lie paid, fliey remain away from the mines and continue on strike until tlie companies employing tliein agree to the conditions offered by the other companies: and the employes of the companies who have of- j

i wiiiu itii i:iiir u. i try to, l>ut sometimes it is hard work. When it rained all tlio month of June and we had a burning sun all th<> month of Srptea:her. I , ouldn't "rarpe diem. ' When ! ponder upon the eruel and useless Philippine war and the Porto Ilieo steal and the Chinese muddle ami all the other devilment that this atlniini tration has brought about. I ean't he reconciled. When I hear these M Kin ley men shouting prosperity it makes* ine hot tinder the e dlar. They remind nie of a gang of highway rohners who murder helpless travelers and roh them and then sn off and cry prosperity. Manufacturers of army and navy supplies are getting rich on contract and army officers in .Manila and Pekin are taking in the loot and cry pro p i ity. War always bring a show of pro. perity, lint it is at the cost of Idood and tears. Hut still we live in hope that there will come a change. If Hryan is elected I know there will. And if he is not we will he no worse off than w< are now. We ean't he worsted, and so we will try to he reconeiled. When 1 was a young man 1 was a Democrat because my father was hut I east my lirst vote for \V. \V. Clayton, who \\ is a Whig. 1 wa a college hoy at Vhom. and Mr. Clayton was so kind to us ami we all vot? d for him for State s nator. 1 knew Mr. Clayton for many years and always re- ported him. for lie had a kind heart and was a gentleman. Af'er his election he gave the college hoys a partv one night and was especially kind to me. and I have never forgotten it.

"How far that little candle throws its beams So shines a Rood deed in a naughty \\ orld. Before the war. when I was in my prime of manhood and had more vitality than sense, I was a strong partisan and really believed that if my party t id n't succeed the .enmtry would he ruined. My father used to laugh at inv zeal and say "Oh. no my son. the country is safe;dnn't let the politicians and the newspapers alarm you." What a pitv It is that when a mm has treas tired up a lot of wisdom and experience ho is old enough to dies! What a pity it is that we pass the host portion of our lives in looking afar off for happi liess when really it is nearby and within our gr.i p. t'.f course, I ge-t excited now and then about politics, hut I fight it off. for I realize that "domestic is the only bliss that has survived the fall." The best things on earth are the c heapest ami most abundant. The joys and comforts of home and the fire ide the showers and fruits, the air and water and sunshine, the garden, the- birds and the welcome visit of kind friends and milieus. Neither wealth nor fame nor office will compare with tin >. in most eases office moms pedis: rewards from the public e?ib .ludv I'liderwood said that one time when he was a candidate and \va; making a stump sp"ech and had closed an eloepient par -

tav II. Scowcroft, who confessed that It was in his hack, driven l?y htm. that ilie crime was committed. He was released on Sotm? bail, furnished by his counsel. The story In outline of what is regarded as one of the most horrible crimes in the history of New .lersey, follows: Mi>s Kossehieter was lured to a saloon about in o'clock on Thursday night. There she was drugged, placed in a cab with the fonr men. driven to a remote place on the outskirts of the town, taken unconscious to the ground and there, being then in a dying condition. Wits criminally assaulted by three of her companions. When they found she still remained nneonsciousafter being put back in the carriage and after all their efforts to restore her failed they drove with her to the house of a doctor In Parerson. who came down to the sidewalk, examined her in the carriage and pro notuiccd her dead. The carriage was then driven to the remote place near Ayer's icehouse and there the dead girl was I ed out. carried to the place where the body was found, thrown down like it dead dog and her head deliberately smashed against the ragged-edged rock on which it rested hen the body was discovered by one of Ayer's employes early the next morning. The families of the accused men arc completely prostrated by shame and grief. In jail. Campbell and Death.

... . |.. n< in i(i i " v J/'"i r?v?nn qualifying to vote. The Cuban Secretary of Finance describes the municipal governments of the island r.s extra vacant, ant] urges lietter business management. The Philippine Commission has appropriated S47r,.ooo. cold, for October expenses of the Insular Government. Testimony of natives taken by the Philippine Commission showed continued hostility to the restoration of tlio friars to their parishes. 1IOMKSTIC. George MeCaskill. a wealthy and most prominent planter of Uayville, I.a.. was slim and instantly killed by Malcolm Mcintosh, prominent in serial and business circles/ The tragedy is supposed to have gro vn out of business differences. The citizens of Okl: homn and the Indian Territory wai^t single Statehood for the two Terri ories. The formation of leagues to jyomote this end lias begun. . President MeKinle\ reached Canton, Ohio, where he will ivtnain until after election day. t Mrs. Kllcn Coreorap, who sells newspapers at the Brooklyn Bridge entrance. in New Yoifiv City, purelinsed i forty-live thousa nl dollar house. More than lOO men were hurt in strike riots at the Empire Wasliery, near Wilkesharre. Penn. Henry E. Youtsey. who was convicted of the murder of Goebel, was placed in jail at Frankfort, Ivy. Captain John B. Adams, former com -

.... |-> . ?.... I .11.- ...mil . . .IH'.lllSter. Andrew Campbell. <loorge .1. Kerr, and W'illi.Min A. Dcnth. The charge against them reajls that they "did wilfully. maliciously and with malice nforethought murder Jennie P.ossrhicter by administering to her a certain powerful potion or drug. from the effects of which, after lingering awhile, she died." Death Is the penalty of the olTense wlln which they are charged. Three of the accused have made full confessions. The Chief of Police made a formal complaint charging all Dimwit h wilful murder, and they were taki u before Iteeorder Seuior. They were represented by aide counsel, hut till waived examination and were committed to jail without hail to await the action of the (iratid Jury, now in session. The men under arrest are all well known. McAllister is the son of .Tames A. McAllister, a silk throwster, and is in business with his father. Kerr belongs to a well-to-do family of this city, and is a brother of former Judge Kerr. William Death is an advertising solicitor, and is a young married man. Campbell was a clerk in the office of John Hand & Sons, silk i mi mi faetnrers. The arrest of these men was followed ill) li\ the tnkimr into eustodv of Cos.