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A HOST OF OLD HEROES
IN GRAY GATHER AT
GREENSBORO
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General Carr Opens the First
Session of the
Reunion
THE GENERAL RE-ELECTED
A Resolution is Unanimously Passed
Denouncing Pritchard’s
Deserter Bill.
HON. S. A. CRUMP DELIVERS AN ORATION
Eloquent Welcome by Capt. Waddell. Poem by
Mr, Pir.cknsy Groome. Resolution of
Thanks to Judg3 Clark For
Regimental Histories.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Greensboro, N. C., Aug. 20. —A con
servative estimate of the number of visi
tors in Greensboro at 12 o’clock today
would be eight thousand. Os these near
ly half are old veterans. At the regis
tration office at 10 o’clock, 3,200 had been
registered and it was going on then
three at a time, and new squads arrived
on the noon trains. Officer W. W. Wood
had prepared two thousand old vets,
badges and the last one was pinned on
at 6 o’clock this morning before the
heavily loaded morning trains came in.
So tremendous was the strain of pro
viding free rations in abundance for such
an unexpected number of guests, but few
stopping anywhere but at the camps
under charge of a commissary, that Gen
eral Carr issued an order this morning
advising as many as were able, to take
their meals at restaurants, boarding
houses, or at the homes of citizens of
the city, who have thrown open their
doors to hundreds. Train loads of visi
tors have been coming in all day and
at the hour of the parade at 5 o'clock,
no less than 10,000 out of town people
were interested spectators.
AN IDEAL CAMP.
Alfred M. Scales Camp in Eckles
Grove has proven an ideal spot and the
old soldiers are enjoying every minute
spent there. Citizens of the town, ladies
and children are taking advantage of
the occasion to mingle with the old
heroes and look upon a regular, pitched
camp, see how the men are fed. hoy
they sleep and how soldiers after forty
years rest can enjoy a soldier’s food.
Eckles Grove is especially appropriate
for another reason. It was in this resi
dence that President Davis spent the
night on his retreat from Richmond after
the surrender, to set up a new capital
1 outside of the territory embraced in the
terms of capitulation to Grant. Here,
too, did Forest spend the night, having in
charge $30,000 of Confederate gold. He
buried the two bags under the tree at
the parlor window, and the spot is now
covered by General Carr's tent. Forest
was pursued by Kilpatrick and retreated,
leaving the buried treasurer. Kilpatrick
took possession of the Eckles home under
military law and he pitched a tent im
mediately over the gold, where headquart
ers tent now stands. After he had gone,
Forest came back and recovered the gold
which had lain there undiscovered by the
enemy.
The formal ceremonies of the re
union were begun when at ten o’clock,
the order to fall in was given out by
General Carr, and was repeated through
out the various divisions of the camp.
Old soldiers fell in line, and led by the
Gate City Guards, the third regiment
band of Reidsville and the Proximity
band of Greensboro, marched to the
Grand Opera House.
The stage of the Grand Opera House
was beautifully festooned with red and
white streamers. Occupying prominent
positions were the magnificent bat
tle flag of the Confederate Vet
erans. the splendid new flag of
tin Guilford ( hapter of the Daughters
of the Confederacy, while smaller Con
federate flags were everywhere, the gal
leries being festooned with flags and red
and white bunting designs. Splendid por
traits of Generals Jackson, Lee, Scales
and others occupied conspicuous posi
tions.
THE SESSION OPENED.
Hero General Carr, in a few ringing
words, which were punctuated at every
sentence by enthusiastic yells, called tho
session to order. Chaplain L. W. Craw
ford opened the meeting with a beautiful
iprayer. General Carr then announced
with unfeigned regret the absence on ac
count of sickness of Major General H. A.
London, and had appointed Colonel Jamc s
I. Metz, of Wilmington, to act in that
capacity. Colonel Metz then called the
roll of camps and organizations present,
responses being heard from Bayboro,
Elizabeth City and from the remotest
mountain districts.
Messrs. R. p. Patterson, W. L. London,
T. L. Every, a. C. McAlister and A.
Ramsey were aopointed a committee on
resolutions, to whom should be referred
all resolutions. The first one offered by
Colonel W. L. London provoked a storm
of enthusiastic applause and was to this
effect: ,
“Resolved, That we condemn and de-
nounce the recent act of Congress re
warding treachery and desertion by giv
ing pensions to those of the Southern
forces who. in the face of distress at
home and contrary to all rules of honor
or bravery, cowardly deserted to the
enemy and became traitors to friends.”
There was a storm of demands for an im
mediate rising vote on this resolution,
but its patron, Captain London, asked
that it be referred to the committee.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS,
Election of officers was then proceeded
with and resulted as follows: General
Commanding, General Julian S. Carr;
Brigadier General of First Brigade, Col.
P. C. Carlton, of Statesville; Brigadier
General of Second Brigade, Gen. W. L.
London, of Pittsboro; Brigadier General
of Third Brigade, Colonel Frank W.
Parker, of Halifax; Brigadier General of
Fourth Brigade, Colonel James W. Ray,
of Buncombe.
A resolution of thanks to Judge Walter
Clark and his assistants for their splen
did work of editing and collecting the
regimental histories, was under rules, re
fered to the committee. Enquiry as to
why the address delivered by General
Carr at the last re-union had not been
published in pamphlet form as ordered,
brought out the statement from General
Carr, that as delivered, the address was
incomplete, and he hoped to be able to
have it completed and published this fall,
DESERTER BILL DENOUNCED.
The Committee on Resolutions reported
favorably on resolution denouncing the
act of Congress in rewarding perfidy and
desertion, and it was adopted by a unani
mous rising vote. Resolutions of thanks
to Judge Clark; of commendation of re
cent pension legislation of tho State
Legislature; of condolence for Major H.
A. London; of thanks to citizens amt
patriotic organizations of Greensboro and
Guilford county and to railroads for
cheap rates and free transportation of
ordinance, etc., were adopted.
Mr. Pinckney Groome, of Greensboro,
recited amid great applause an original
poem dedicated to the “Men of the Con
federacy.” A resolution of thanks to
Mr. Groome and an order to publish the
excellent poem was then adopted. A
rising vote of thanks was next tendered
Capt. A. B. Stronach for his unselfish de
votion to the interests of the old Soldiers’
Home.
ADDRESS OF WELCOME.
After the reading of the report
had been concluded, Captain D. C Wal
dell, Sr., of Greensboro, then addressee
the assembled veterans, extending a cor
dial and an eloquent welcome, couched in
the following sublime sentiments:
“It becomes my pleasant duty, fellow
soldiers, to extend to you from tho citi
zens of Greensboro and Guilford county,
a welcome.
“Not an ordinary and formal welcome,
far otherwise, for it proceeds from the
love and affection of their people. They
wish you to feel that you are in tho
home of your friends, surrounded by fel
low soldiers and their descendants and
that you are not only camping upon their
soil, but in their hearts.
“They know that you are the battle
scarred remnant, left from the magnifi
cent regiments which North Carolina
furnished to the peerless army, whose
renown has extended to the utmost con
fines of the earth. That the flags of
these regiments could ever be seen wav
ing in the smoke of the fore Gont of
every fight. That the great battle cry
of that army—the historic yell—origi
nated with those regiments, born of the
battle where the fighting was most furi
ous, it rose to the heart and broke from
the lips, ringing through the roar and
storm of battle, carrying defiance and the
exultation of victory in its mighty sound.
Your ears have heard it and your lips
have uttered it. * * *
“It is true that you, fello.v soldiers,
returned from the mightiest conflict that
ever shook the earth, weary, ragged and
foot sore, to your beloved and impov
erished State, to face another mighty
war, the battle against poverty, but your
wives and your daughters and all the
brave and lovely women of the land had
but words of kindness for you, and
smiling eyes, though they may have been
through tears. In your hearts you
raised again a mighty yell of defiance
and went up against the enemy and over
came him, and you have been more than
conquerors in this last great contest.
“You have shed a lustre upon the fair
name of North Carolina, unequalled by
any who have preceded you, for none
have ever shown such devotion, none
have ever made; such sacrifices, and her
memory will cherish you so long as
the ocean breaks upon her shores and
her blue mountains stand.
“All North Carolina loves you—you are
her jewels.
“But what shall I say of her dead
soldiers who fell fight'ng upon the field
of battle amidst the -earn of shells,
the ringing of rifles : th i teloss
hiss of bullets sinr quiein
over their untimely
“My prayer is t spirits
soared aloft to ba I ian dew
drops of the rai - t to the
voice of Israfael . the melo
dies of the gold, r nhale the
pci fume of har • p which the
spicy winds w tl he codared
alleys of the - c. tod and be
holding the c endless arch
ways and co blazing stars
that they fei . ove and beyond
all that th G arms wore be
neath then love of God wag
eternal.
“I hid • '. .v ig welcome.”
Capta.ii followed by Hon.
/■ K. .i., in a few rousing
improra brought forth ap
plause t. t . wake the dead and
to set the living on fire with enthusiasm.
Col. Paul B. Means then, in an extended
ai’.d well received speech, in which he
earnestly and warmly praised General
( arr, testifying to his heroic valor on the
field of battle, he having seen him in
the thick of shot and shell, blood and
carnage fighting like a boy Turk,
(Continued on Second Page.) i
RALEIGH. NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY MORNING. AUGUST 21. 1902.
ALL STILL QUIET
ABOUT HENDERSON
Two Negroes Used Pistols in
Railroad Murder.
NO ATTEMPT TO LYNCH
Two Arrests of Negroes Who Went on
to Louisburg.
STILL ASStRTED THAT TWO ESCAPED
John Miichell, the Colored Porter, Lies Near
Death’s Door, The Seaboard Air Line
Offers a Reward For Capture
of Men Who Escaped.
(Staff Correspondence.)
Henderson, N. C., Aug. 20. —As the
north bound Seaboard train pulled into
Henderson shortly after three o’clock
this morning there was a crowd of some
thirty people at the depot.
It was a sad gathering, for is the
train stopped there came with solemn
tread a body of men bearing a case
within which was the casket containing
the mortal remains of the brave Road
master Fred Stevers, brutally murdered
while striving to make peace.
The body was sent to Stevers, Va., his
home, where a bereaved and heart broken
wife and three children were disconso
late geeause of a husband and father
gone, sent to his death by the hands of
an infuriated negro. The body will be
brought back from Stevers to Suffolk for
interment. The mute symbol of the
tragedy of the previous day carried deep
pathos with it.
* * *
There had been rumors of a possible
lynching in Henderson sent to Raleigh,
but about the depot was no sign of
angry men, but of saddened ones. The
city was quiet and as the train with its
lighted windows passed away the people
dispersed and a small group gathered at
the hotel.
There the various incidents of the
tragedy was being discussed as was tho
talk of a possible lynching. It was learn
ed that there had been talk of such by
a few, but that there had been no at
tempt to organize a party of lynchers.
That offers of assistance in ease there
was an attempt to lynch had come from
various quarters is true, and it was re
ported that word had been received that
two parties, one of fifteen and another of
thirty-five, were coming from the direc
tion of Oxford, but no such parties ar
rived.
Just before daybreak there was a re
port that a lynching party was being
formed and several visitors to the city
were awakened as they had requested.
A party of six or eight men walked in
the direction of the jail, hut there were
no lynchers and the quiet of the night
was not broken by an attack on the
jail. Day broke, and the night was past.
Again was Vance county's proud record
of “no lynching ever done in this county,”
unblotted.
THE NEGRO PRISONERS TALK.
Early this morning a visit was made
to the county jail, where the three cap
tured negroes are confined. It is a solid
looking building, on tho edge of the town.
Once within the enclosure two doors had
to be opened before the steel cells were
reached in which were the prisoners.
A conversation was had fhrst with the
rtwo younger negroes, confined in the
lower tier. These are Joe Cole, tho son
of Joe Cole who shot Mr. Stevers, and
John Jones, alias Charles Ferguson.
The younger Cole simply declared he
knew nothing about the affair and that
when he had been told to go to the
colored coach he had gone and sat down.
He acknowledged hearing the shots, but
said he saw no one shoot.
The second negro, who said his name
was John Jones, said that he bad follow
ed young Cole into the colored coach, and
that with them were Willie Mitchell, Joe
Cole, Sr., Willie Dabney and Henry Gar
rett. He said that ,he saw the elder Colo
put his pistol to Mr. Stevers’ head and
shoot. As to whom had shot Joe Mitchell,
the porter, he declared he did not know.
The two negroes appear to be about
twenty-three years old. Cole is a dark
mulatto, while Jones Is nearly black.
Both protested their innocence and
Jones declared he had made no attempt
to escape after the shooting.
Joe Cole, the older, was found in the
upper cells. He was crouching against
the door and appeared half human, half
beast, in tho dim light. Being asked
about the trouble he began by exclaim
ing:
“Before God I shot nobody. I was not
in the colored coach. Hope I may die
and sink to torment if I ever saw it.”
Continuing, in answer to questions, he
declared that six men had gone into the
colored coach. These he said were his
son, Joe Cole, John Jones, Jim Payne,
Willie Mitchell Willie Dabney and Henry
Garrett. Dabney he said had a cork leg,
while Garrett was without his lower legs,
these having been cut off in a railroad
accident at Wilson. “I heard the shots,”
he said, “and ran out of the second
class coach to the platform. There I
was grabbed and the men said, “here
is one of them.” They took me and tied
me. In my pocket they found a pistol
I had taken out of pawn for John Jones, j
as he calls himself, but his name is I
Charley Ferguson. I paid 85 cents for it, j
(Continued on Fifth Fage.) f
WAR GAME OPENS
OFF NEW ENGLAND
Pillsbury’s Blue Squadron
Threatens the Coast.
HIGGINSON DEFENDS IT
The Enemy Will Attempt to Move in
Secretly.
THE WHITE SQUADRON ON THE WATCH
If This Fleet Discovers Pillsbury at Sea or
Within Six Hours After He Lands Pills
bury Wi I be Considered
Defeated,
(By the Associated Press.)
Rockport. Mass., Aug. 20. —The unique
war game in which the rival fleets of
Admiral Francis J. Higginson and Com
mander John E. Pillsbury are pitted
against each oth?r began at noon today.
The North Atlantic coast is now threat
ened by a theoretically powerful squad
ron of hostile ships from the attack of
which an equally able fleet will attempt
to defend. This is the first se)rh s of
manoouvers in which the ships will par
ticipate and it will be order the direction
of the Navy Department alone. Such
prajctice as follows tho conclusion of
this first contest will be the joint work
of tho army and navy departments.
Commander Piilsbury’s fleet is known
as the WhUe Squadron, sailed from
Provincetown on Monday and is now at
sea. Its present whereabouts is un
known to Admiral Higginson, whose force
i 3 known as the Blue Squadron.
It was understood that the latter fleet
which made its appearance in this har
bor last Saturday, would, under the rules
of contest, remain here until after noon
today. At any time after that hour Ad
miral Higginson was free to sail in
search of the “enemy.”
It will be the object of the White
Squadron to effect a landing at some tin
fortified place along the coast as soon
as possible after this fixed hour anl oc
cupy tho position without interference
for at least six hours. It is the duty of
the defending fleet, to prevent the inva
ders from accomplishing their purpose.
If Admiral Higginson finds the hostile
vessels before they can get within strik
ing distance the victory is with him. If
Pillsbury, with his ships, should elude
Higginson ar.d land his force he must oc
cupy the place he has captured and be
free from discovery during the six hour
period agreed upon. If he is located be
fore this time expires it is scored as a
defeat, for him.
The first series of manoeuvers is pure
ly technical and there will be no sem
l lance of m engagement between the
ships. No shots will be fired except
upon the discovery of tho hostile
fleet at night when the firing would be
entirely for signalling purposes and to
i nnounco the discovery of Pillsbury's
squadron.
Admiral Higginson lost no time in get
ting under way after the hour agreed
upon for the beginning of the contest had
arived. During the forenoon the ships
were getting up steam and at about i 2
o’clock they began to weigh anchor
half an hour later all except the tlagship
Kearsarge had started out. First the
Mayflower and one of the torpedo'boats
headed outside the breakwater, bearing
toward the north. A second torpedo
boat followed toward the northeast. The
Brooklyn and the Olympia moved out to
gether with the Alabama astern o.f the
latter and the Massachusetts at the end
of the line. These ships seemed to make,
directly east. Just bet'oro noon a tor
pedo boat came in from the south and
after joining another vessel of the c .ame
class, both steamed out together, accom
panied by the Scorpion-
The Thornton and Gloucester went cut
by the southern passage just before 2
o’clock. At about the same moment the
Montgomery, accompanied by the Ley
den, moved out to the southwest. This
left the Kearsarge and one torpedo boat
inside the breakwater.
All the ships after going two miles off
shore, dropped their speed and lav to,
apparently waiting for the Ivearsargi- to
join them.
The big vessels of the squadron when
the morning sun broke upon them today
were as motionless and gave as little
sign of life as the rocks on tha nearby
shore. The little torpedo boats were not
far from the larger craft. As the fore
noon advanced various signs of a pros
pective movement were noted. Signals
wore exchanged nod small craft were
dodging about. The torpedo boats began
to throw out black smoke and men the
larger vesses showed that their fires
were being freshened. The crowd of
spectators increased and front every ad
vantageously point the proceedings were
eagerly watched.
Gommandor Pi’lsburv’s squadron in
cludes the auxiliary cruisers Prairie,
Panther and Supply.
Hear Admiral Higginson has his flag
ship, the Kearsarge and two other bat
tleships, the Massachusetts and the Ala
bama, and the cruisers Brooklyn, Olym
pia and Montgomery, besides seven tor
pedo boats, two unarmorod gunboats,
two tugs and the converted yachts May
flower and Gloucester.
The torpedo boats are the Shubriek,
Decatur (destroyer), Thornton, Stockton,
Bagley. Barney and Biddle. The gun
boats are the Scorpion and the Peoria
While the White Squadron are under
stood to represent an attacking force of
great power, in reality it can hardly he
compared with the defending comple
ments. Commander Pillsbury’s three
auxiliary cruisers have an average lis
placement of six thousand tons and an
average speed of thirteen knots. Ad
miral Higginson's squadron includes bat
tleships of nearly 11,000 tons average dis
placement and nearly seventeen knots
average speed; cruisers, the slowest of
which is a nineteen knot vessel and tor
pedo boats good for twenty-six to twen
ty-nine.
The Blockade Inefficient,
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, Aug. 20.—A telegram was
received last night at the Department of
State from Minister Bowen, dated Cara
cas yesterday, In which he reported that
the government forces had evacuated
Curnana the previous night. He further
stated that he had been informed that
Germany, France and Great Britain,
through their representatives at Caracas,
had jointly characterized the Venezuelan
declaration of blockade as inefficient,
whereupon the government asked for
proof and suggested that merchant ves
sels be sent to test the efficiency of the
blockade. Minister Bowen has informed
the Venezuelan Foreign Office that the
policy of the United States is not <o re
cognize a blockade found Inefficient and
to this annnouneement no objection was
made, the Venezuelan minister acknowl
edging it to be sound.
EIGHT “MEpILLED
Six Are Missing and Three
Badly Injured.
The Disaster Due to the Explosion of Two Steel
Digesters in the Dilaware Pulp
Mills.
(By the Associated Press.)
Wilmington, Del., Aug. 20.—Eight work
mn are known to have been killed, six
are missing and three others were badly
injured by the explosion of two steel
digesters in the Delaware Tulp Mills of
the Jessup & Moore Taper Company, on
the Christiana River this afternoon.
The known dead are: Frank Harris,
William Burke, James Nagle, John Mc-
Cormick, Zachariah Collins (colored).
James Stokes, Joseph Lumbacher, Gran
ville Waters.
The missing are: William Scott, fire
man; Joseph Henry, fireman; Joel Hut
ton, fireman; William Ruth, fireman; E.
H. Mousley, James Sweeney.
The injured: James Jester, badly
burned, recovery doubtful; John Collins,
burned and inhaled flames; George Dur
ham, burned and scalded, recovery doubt
ful.
The digesters were located in a two
story building. There were ten of them
in the building, each one resembling a
vat and about six feet in diameter. They
were used for reducing wood pulp.
Eighteen men were at work in the build
ing. There were two terrific reports and
the next instant the building and other
mills about the structure were complete
ly wrecked. One digester was blown into
the air and fell to the ground two hun
dred and fifty feet away. A dense vol
ume of smoke for a time prevented the
outside workmen from going to the im
mediate rescue of those who were caught
in the ruins of the falling building.
Several men made their escape without
any injury. An alarm of fire was sound
ed and the entire fire department of the
city and a large force of police were
soon on the ground and th work of
rescue was immediately begun. Several
of the workmen were taken out uncon
scious only to die after being taken to
hospitals. The wreckage was piled up
for more than thirty feet, and the
escaping steam made the work of rescue
rather difficult.
Those who were not killed outright
were mangled and burned by escaping
acid that flowed over their bodies front
the broken digesters. Up to this writing
eight persons are dead, according to the
officials of the company at least six
others are in the ruins. To add to the
horror of the disaster, the wreckage
took fire, ffut after some difficulty the
tire department managed to subdue the
flames and the work of rescue was con
tinued.
Steam was used in ‘he digesters. The
officers of the company think that too
much steam was generated in them and
that this was the cause of the explosion.
The mometary loss 13 estimated at $35,-
000.
H. L. SchmeTz Resigns,
(By the Associated Press.)
Norfolk, Va., Aug. 20.—Henry L.
Schmelz, of Hampton, who was elected to
the presidency of the Jamestown Ex
position Company, today tendered his
resignation at a meeting of the directors.
Accompanying the paper was a certifi
cate signed by Mr. Schnieiz’s family phy
sician, stating that he was net physical
ly capable of undertaking the work.
Who his successor will be is not known.
Progress at Rocky Mount.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Pocky Mount. N. C., Aug. 20, —The
contract for the new and handsome mar
ket house to be erected here has been
given to Contractor Jno. C- Stout, of
Rocky Mount.
Tobacco is still selling high on this
market and the sales are large.
I’ltICK FIVE CENTS.
THREE MURDERERS
BREAK FOR LIBERTY
For Two Hours lhey Defy
the Authorities.
_ r*
THEY CAPTURE ONE MAN
Use Him as Shield, Hurling Taunts at
the Warden,
AT LENGTH THEY AGREE TO SURRENDER
One cf the Three Drops His Hands and a Bullet
From a Guard Strikes Him In
flicting a Fatal
Wound.
(By the Associated Press.)
Frankfort, Ky., Aug. 20 —The officials
of the State penitentiary and the citizen®
of Frankfort were thrown into a state ot
wild excitement today by a riot in the
prison, started by an attempt to gain
their liberty on the part of three des
perate murderers, LaFa/ette Brooks, of
Morgan county, and Wallace Bisnop and
T. Mulligan, of Kenton county.
Before the riot, which began at G
o’clock and lasted until after 10, was
quelled and the mutinous convicts cap
tured, Bishop was fatally wounded, Mul
ligan shot in the shoulder and a negro
convict, Albert Ransom, of Louisville,
whom the desperadoes had pressed into
service, was hit by a rifle ball.
The rioting started while Brooks, Mul
ligan and Bishop, one of whom had a pis
tol concealed about his person, were
coming out of the dining room to answer
a hospital call. Suddenly one of the con
victs drew a weapon and compelled
Guard A. H. Gill to give tip his arm.
Guard F. F- Hurst, who rushed to Gill’s
assistance, was also capture J by the con
victs. Captain Mat Madigan, acting
warden, then rushed forward with six
guards and fired on the bunch, but no one
was wounded.
The convicts ran across the yard and at
the entrance to the reG department of
the chair factory captured Charles Wil
lis, of Clark .county, a foreman. They
covered him with their pistols and plac
ing him between them and the guards re
treated to the rocker department in the
chair factory, whence they would com
mand a good view of the entire yard.
At a window they stationed Willis and
Brooks with a revolver in his hand took
a position just outside the captive, rest
ing the muzle of the weapon on the fore
man’s side. The convicts then defied
Warden Lillard to attempt to capture
them, shouting that they would kill the
foreman at the first move made against
them.
By this time several hundred citizens,
many of them heavily armed, had gath
ered at the prison gate, but the warden
denied admission to all. Ho issued or
ders for all the shops to close and tor all
the prisoners to be returned at once to
their cells. Ho then placed a guard of
sixty men around the building in which
i the desperadoes had barricaded them
selves and called on them to surrender.
The convicts’ only reply was a taunt.
For the protection of Foreman Willis, the
warden then determined to starve the
desperadoest into submission. James
Buckley, former city workhouse keeper,
and Morgan Brewer, a former guard at
the penitentiary climbed to th-’ root of a
residence overlooking the building 1 11
which the convicts had taken refuge and
fired several shots into the room where
the desperadoes were intrenched. They
were compeled to desist, however, as
Foreman Willis was forced to the win
dow in the line of fire.
Finally a letter was dropped from tl;c
window, saying that if the warden would
come to the head of the steps leading to
the department the convicts would
surrender, first sending their weapons
down by Frank .Brooks.
Warden Lillard prepared to accept Ihe
terms of this note, and as a matter of
precaution a half dozen convicts were
placed in the hospital overlooking the
reed department.
Warden Lillard, accompanied by eight
men, then proceeded to the toot of the
stairway.
The prisoners emerged from the vend
room as they had promised with hand:*
up, but as they proceeded down t lie
stairway, Bishop dropped his hands to
his side as if to draw a weapon. He had
hardly made the motion when one of the
warden’s party fired, the bullet striking
Bishop in the breast, inflicting a fatal
wound.
When Bishop ’fell Mulligan and
Brooks sank to their knees, begging the
warden to save their lives and ot 10:30
o'clock the two desperadoes, heavily
shackled, and accompanied by t**n men
with drawn pistols, were placed in their
cells and quiet had been ••estored.
Alger a Receptive Candidate.
(By the Associated Trass.)
Detroit, Mich., Aug. 20.—General Rus
sell A. Alger, former Secretary of War,
issued a statement- this afternoon an
nouncing himself a receptive candidate for
the United States Senate fiiom Michigan
to ''succeed the late James McMillan. He
says that while ho will not seek election
as Senator McMillan’s successor, he will •
accept the office If tho people of the
State through the Legislature see fit
to elect him to it.