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FATHER RETURNS HOME AND IS MET BY HORRIBLE SIGHT. ONE LITTLE GIRL MAY SURVIVE. She ingrains Coinwlongneas Sufficiently to Give a Description of the Brutal Assassin. One of the most atrocious and in- human murders on record in the south was committed Wednesday night in the edge of Simpson county, Miss. some twenty miles from the town of Wesson. Brown Smith, a farmer and son of ex-Representative Ed Smith, of Simp- son county, left his family at his home in tlic country to go to town for shop- ping purposes, thinking of no possible danger for them. Thursday morning when he returned he found his wife aud five children weltering in their own blood and &p- parentlv all dead. An alarm was raised immediately and the entire neighborhood turned out to hunt for the perpetrator of this foul and bloody crime. There being no telegraph connections, details of the murder came in slowly, but it is since reported that, one of the little gir s, supposed to have been dead, has revived enough to tell win* she knew of the occurrence. She said she knows the man who committed the deed; that it was a negro, and described him. A posse started at once in pursuit of the murderer and there is great prob- ability that he will be apprehended, It is learned that Mrs. Smith and four of her children are dead and one of the children is still living. Sheriff McNair, of Lincoln, and Sheriff Thompson, of Copiah counties, also went to the scene of the murder, each with a pack of trained blood- hounds THREE OFFICERS KILLED. An Outlaw# Fatally Wounded, Does Deadly Work With Winchester. News has just been received at Den- ver. Co)., of a desperate fight that oc- curred near the border of Arizona and oid Mexico. t hree guards of the Mexican service and one desperado were killed. The latter was I rank C. Phallard, one of Black .lack s gang and and an outlaw irom Texas, whose two brothers were killed while mem- bers of Billy the Kid’s gang. The two forces met face to face at a turn in the railroad near Leander Springs. There were eight outlaws against three officers, but the latter opened the attack with orders for “hands up.” Two of the outlaws turned iheir horses for the hills, but Phallard dismounted, and drawing his winchester, opened fire and killed the three officers before he fell with a fatal wound in his side. Phallard is the last of the Sam Bass gang of train robbers, who cleaned out Custer City many years ago. His two brothers were killed in Pan Handle of Texas by state rangers, LOUISIANA DEMOCRATS MEET. Thu State Convention Assembles at Baton Rouge. The democratic state convention, called for the purpose of nominating 36 candidates for delegates at large lo the constitutional convention, to meet in New Orleans in February, was called to order in Baton Bouge Thurs¬ day. administra¬ Governor Foster aud his tion have expressed themselves as fa¬ voring the obliteration of geographical lines in order to insure the nomina¬ tion of the biggest and brainest demo¬ crats of the state, irrespective of whence they come. KILLED A BYSTANDER. Revenue Officer’s Aim Went Wide of the Mark. A tragedy which was the outgrowth of the illicit sale of brandy and an attempt by the revenue officers to apprehend the offenders was enacted on the river bank about four miles from Carthage, Tenn., Wednesday night. A young countryman named Ted Wright was killed by Deputy United States Marshal S. S. Harper accident¬ ally while returning the fire of a vio¬ lator of the revenue laws. ARBITRATION NOT WANTED. Irishmen Send a Long Petition to the United States Senate. A petition to the senators of the United States was issued from the headquarters of tho Irish National Al- liauce in New York Friday against the adoption of the proposed general treaty of arbitration with England. The petition will be circulated by the various councils of the alliance throughout this country, the Ancient Order of Hibernians and other Irish- Anierican societies. The petition says that the advocates of the arbitration treaty here are the modern American tories, descendants of the men who would have hanged Washington. O’BRIEN FORCED TO QUIT. lieutenant’s Resignation From the Army Was Not Voluntary. Colonel H. C. Cook, of the Fifth United States Infantry, in an inter¬ view with a newspaper man, said that Lieutenant Michael J. O’Brien’s res¬ ignation from the army was not vol¬ untary on his part, but was requested but was requested by the war depart¬ ment, and that the officer was given his choice of resigning or submitting to a courtmartial. WHOLESALE LYNCHING REPORTED A» the Aftermath of the Brown Family Assasslnat ion. Later dispatches from Wesson,Miss., state that a party who left the scene of the murder of the Smith family at 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon aud had just reached Wesson says a mob of 1,000 men formed and that a whole- neighborhood “I*'^ in * w at “* the al ?! tune ,, *p he 1 « left. , einth»t Additional details of the murder of Mrs. Brown Smith and her four chil- dren and the subsequent lynching of the sup osed murderer were received during the day. After capturing Charley Lewis, the alleged murderer, the mdb placed him alongside of several other negroes and asked the little 8 irI » who was spared by the murderer, to pick ont the one who killed her mother. She at once pointed to Charley Lewis. This strong evidence to the mob made it difficult ‘ or Sheriff Gassel, of Montieello, to induce the people to turn Lewis over to him for safe keeping. He assured them he would have the Negro at Bankston Ferry Friday morning for trial. A® promised, he arrived there on time with Le'”is, and another mob of * wo hundred uion armed with shot- al 'd winchesters met him on the opposite batik of the river. Speeches "-ere made by the cool-headed men, among them being Hon. A. F. Weath- ersby, senator from Lawrence county, an<1 - Bov. Drummonds, a Methodist preacher, who pleaded eloquently for the negro’s life. The mob for a time was quieted aud an attempt was made to hold an improvised court, After parleying for some time, the mob, under the leadership of a few determined men, made a rush for the negro and succeeded in getting him Lom the deputies after a hard struggle, They then put a plow line around the negro s neck and ran up the street with him. He was put on a big horse and driven under a tree. After that the rope was made fast to a limb and the horse was driven from under him. ’‘ 1 s Bmt touched the ground, hut ho was strangling, aud Mr. Arrington, 0116 °t the lawyers, and another man ent him down. He could not speak. The clowd allowed him to be revived and then hung him in earnest, A report that the negro committed the murder at the instigation of Smith, which has gained currency, is discred- ped i-y ]jj s neighbors, but the facts au( j circumstances connected with the a ff a i r will all bo sifted to the bottom. Tho three negroes arrested in the Montieello neighborhood in conjunc- tiou with Charley Lewis, the negro lynched for the quintuple butchery of the Smith family, were, after a long trial, declared not guilty, but given until Monday to leave the country. TO INVESTIGATE CIVIL SERVICE. Republican Representatives In Conjjross Hold a Special Meeting. A Washington special says: A largely attended meeting of republican repre¬ sentatives in congress was held Sat¬ urday night at the river and harbor committee room to devise means for securing a change in the present civil service law. About sixty members were present, representing most of the states having republican delegations in congress. The discussion took a wide range, but in the main was temperate aud conservative, It was finally deter- mined to name a committee to devise a plan of action and the following reso¬ lution was adopted; “Resolved, That the chairman ap- point a committee of seven, the chair¬ man of which shall be Representative Grosvenor, of Ohio,with the chairman of this meeting as a member, who shall examine the bills pending before the committee on reform of the civil serv¬ ice and report to a subsequent meet¬ ing of this conference by hill or other¬ wise.” PRESIDENT’S MOTHER DEAD. Succumbs To Stroke of Paralysis After a Remarkable Struggle. A special from Canton, O., says: Mrs. Nancy Allison McKinley died Sunday morning at 2:30 o’clock. Mother McKinley was stricken with paralysis two weeks ago and her death had been constantly looked for since. The end came after a day of marked sinking. It was quiet and peaceful. Life went out without a struggle. The president and the members of the family had been around the bed¬ side all night, knowing that the final struggle was near. STEEL MEN CONSIDER POOL. They Hold a Meeting In New York, But Are Reticent. A meeting of the representatives of nearly all the steel companies in the United States was held Friday in New York city, at which the harmonizing of their interests and the division of the territory are said to have been the chief subjects of disccussion. Among those present were Presi¬ dent Stackhouse, of the Cambria Iron Company; Linderman, of the Beth¬ lehem Iron Company; Fellon, of the Pennsylvania aud Maryland Steel Company, and Secretary Kenney, of the Bessemer Steel Company. None of those who were present at the meeting would dsscuss the matter. BILL SCOTT CONFESSES. H© Implicated Another Negro In the Murder of the Slngleys. A special from Selma, Ala., says that Bill Scott, in jail in that place, charged with the killing of three of the Singley family, in Hale county some days ago, has made a partial con¬ fession, saying that he and another negro named Henry White committed the murder. A special term of court will be held for his trial. ALLEN ASKS FOR RECOGNITION OF THEIR POLITICAL LIBERTY. HE DELIVERS 8 STRONG SPEECH. Hawaiian Matter Set Back—Business In The House And Senate on the Move—Notes. Wednesday’s session of the senate occupied less than an hour, the time being principally consumed by the members in the presentation of me¬ morials, resolutions aud bills. A resolution presented by Mr. Al¬ len, populist, declaring it to be the sense of the senate that the United States should recognize the political independence of Cuba, was made the subject of some remarks by the Ne¬ braska senator in the course of which he criticized the president for not carrying into effect the pledge of the republican party made in its last na¬ tional platform to recognize the inde¬ pendence of the Cuban republic. The president, Mr. Allen thought, had been lulled to sleep by the decla¬ ration of Spain that she would give Cuba a semi-political existence. He expressed the belief that the presi¬ dent’s neglect to take such action as would insure the political independ¬ ence of Cuba was an exhibition of “rank hypocrisy” and “a flagrant neg¬ lect of public duty” which would be corrected by the all-ruling power in His own good time. At the conclusion'of Mr. Allen’s re¬ marks Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, presented a resolution expressing the regret of the senate at the news of the death of Representative Ashly B. Wright, of Massachusetts, and provid¬ ing for an adjournment as a further mark of respect. At 12:55 the resolu¬ tion was adopted and the senate ad¬ journed. only The session of the house lasted fifteen minutes. Mr. W. A. Stone, republican, of Pennsylvania, reported the pension appropriation bill, the first of the appropriation bills, and gave notice that he would call it up immediately after the reading of the journal Thursday. The committee on banking and currency were given leave to sit during the sessions of the house. Then, at 12:15 o’clock, the house ad¬ journed. NOTES. Senator Davis, chairman of the for¬ eign relations committee, says he is not yet ready to proceed with the Ha¬ waiian annexation treaty, as had been reported, and cannot now fix a time when it will be taken up, although he thought it would be considered before the holidays. Senator McLaurin, of South Caroli- na, is confined to his bed with an at- tack of typhoid fever. The senator was ailing when he arrived in Wash- ington a week ago, but the typhoid at- tack did not develop until a day or so ago. No apprehension is felt over the attack as it is not of a violent charac- ter. Congressman Tate, of Georgia, in¬ troduced a bill to appropriate $25,000 for the erection of a government build- ing in Gainesville. Mr. Lewis intro¬ duced a bil which was referred to the committee on rivers «.nd harbors for the appropriation of $50,000 to be spent in improving the Ocmulgee river. The indications are that the holiday recess of congress will extend from Saturday, December 18th, to Monday or Tuesday, January 3d or 4th. Speaker Reed is understood to favor these dates. If, however, any impor- taut business develops in the senate or the house, the recess will probably be postponed into Christmas week. The house committee on banking and currency, which will have the shaping of a considerable portion of the financial legislation before the house, held its first meeting Wednes¬ day morning and outlined its general plan of action. In view of Secretary Gage’s recommendation of a compre¬ hensive revision of currency and bank¬ ing affairs, a resolution was adopted inviting the secretary to embody his views in a bill. The committee was informed that the secretary was now at work on a measure and that it would be available for the committee in about a week. TO INVESTIGATE SMALLPOX. Governor Ellerbe, of South Carolina, Karnes Committee of Doctors. A dispatch from Columbia, S. C„ says: Governor Ellerbe has appointed a commission composed of Dr. Bab¬ cock, superintendent of the insane asylum; Rev. Dr. Evans and Dr. Strother Pope, to visit Rock Hill and thoroughly investigate the smallpox situation there in connection with Winthrop college. The parents of tho hundreds of girls thero have been making it warm for the autliorifies. Superintendent of Education May- field wires from Rock Hill that every precaution is being taken to prevent the disease spreading to the college. MISS WILLARD STILL WITH US. After Securing; Her Passage She Did Not Leave Windy City. A Chicago dispatch states that Miss Frances W. Willard did not sail for England on the 24-th, although her passage had been engaged on the steamer St. Louis. The change made in her plans at Buffalo will keep her in Chicago for some time. The Chicago Woman’s Club gave a reception in her honor Saturday. lull NATIONAL QUARANTINE. A Hill Is Introduced In Congress By Senntor Cutlery, of Loulstnna. Senator Caff* ry, of Louisiana, in¬ troduced a bill in congress Thursday for a revision of the quarantine laws, the distinctive feature of which is the placing of the quarantine regulations exclusively in the hands of the nation¬ al authorities. The secretary of the treasury is au¬ thorized to make regulations to pre¬ vent the introduction of infectious or contagious diseases into one state from another, and such regulations to be enforced by the sanitary authorities of the state or of municipalities when these authorities will undertake to en¬ force them, bnt when they fail the president is given authority to exe¬ cute aud enforce them and to adopt “such measures as in his judgment shall be necessary to prevent the in¬ troduction or spread of such diseases.” He is also given authority to detail or appoint officers for that purpose. It is further provided that whenever yel¬ low fever, cholera, plague or typhus fever has passed the quarantine of the United States or in any manner ap¬ peared within any state or territory “the quarantine regulations of the secretary of the treasury shall be su¬ premo and have precedence of state or municipal quarantine laws,” and the president is authorized to enforce these national regulations, to control the movement of trains, vessels, vehicles or persons, to prevent the diseases spreading from one state to another. Violations of these prohibitions is made punishable by a fine of $1,000 or imprisonment for one year. Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, pre¬ sented a petition signed by 21,209 na¬ tive Hawaiians, protesting against the annexation of Hawaii. After a little routine business the senate considered private pension bills. Senator Gallinger, republican, of New Hampshire, chairman of the pensions committee, sounded a warning against inconsiderate pension legislation. The senate agreed to adjourn until Monday. introduced house A bill was in the by Mr. Fleming, of Georgia, and re¬ ferred to the Pacific railroad commit¬ tee, authorizing the president to ex¬ amine at his pleasure the book of the government aided railroads and in case the hens of the government are en¬ dangered by a forced sale under a prior lien, to bid in these roads. MRS. F1TZ IS WILLING For Her Hubby to Tackle Mr. Corbett Again. A dispatch from .Milwaukee, Wis., says: It is almost a certainty now that Robert Fitzsimmons, champion pugil¬ ist of the world, and James J. Cor- b e tt, will meet in the roped arena to again ]j battle and decide the question for a time. For the first time Mrs. Fitzsimmons has given expression to her thoughts in the matter since the affair at Carson City last March. Before the contest last March, Fitz- simmons promised his wife that he would never enter the ring again with- out her consent. While Mrs. Fitz- simmons does not come out openly and say there will be another battle, it can be readily seen that she is not anxious to put a block in the way of her husband as regards his future plans, FORGOT THE MONEY ORDERS. Former Librarian Spoffbrd’s Shortage May Be Cleared Up. A Washington dispatch says: An investigation now being made between the officials of the congressional library and the officials of the postoffice de- partment promises to throw a great deal of light on the recently discussed shortage of Former Librarian Ains- worth R. Spofford. It appears that a large part, if not all, of this deficiency, which Spofford promptly made good out of his own pocket, will be recounted for by a great batch of old money orders which the absent-minded librarian forgot to cash. BIG CHICAGO FIRM ASSIGNS. Wholesale Hardware Dealers- €Je Under With Liabilities at 630<MMML At Chicago, Thursday, Horton, Gil¬ more, McWilliams & Co., wholesale hardware dealers, 171-176 Lakestreet, assigned to the Illinois Trust and Sav¬ ings bank. Ike liabilities are $300,000 and the assets $210,000. THE MILLS TO BE SOLD. Judge Newman Passes Order Which Will Dispose of Eagle and PTtenix. the federal court at Columbus, Ga ” Thursday morning Judge New- man sl - ned the flecree “thorizing the sale of the Eagle and Flienix, and Captain J. W. Murphy was named as master commissioner to conduct the sale. Tho salo is to bo advertised once a week, for eight weeks in one paper in Columbus, Atlanta, New York, Montgomery and Boston. On the confirmation of tho .sale by the court the bidder is to make a cash payment of $150,000. The aggregate amount of the bids for the various property to be sold must be $500,000, or the bids will not be considered. HAYTIAN MINISTRY QUITS. l’cace Beiges and I’ort-au-Prlnee Assumes Normal Aspect. Advices from Port-au-Prince, Hayti, state that the entire ministry has re¬ igned. As yet the composition of its successor has not been definitely set¬ tled, but several well known names HI" mentioned that will command the confidence of Haytians and foreigners alike. its The city has now resumed nor ¬ mal aspect. AND WON THE GREAT SIX-DAY BICYCLE RACE AT NEW YORK. GETS GOOD MONET FOR HIS EFFORT Over One Hundred Thousand People# First and Last# Witnessed the Struggle of Endurance. One of the greatest crowds* that ever filled Madison Square Garden, New York, were collected within its walls Saturday night. It had surged into the vast ring to see C. W. Miller, of Chicago, cross the tape winner of the great six-day bicycle race with a rec¬ ord of 2,093 miles in 142 hours. From start to finish the race was the most interesting ever witnessed. Thousands upon thousands had ponred into the place day after day and night after night until it is safe to say that from first to last 100,000 people saw the remarkable contest. The race was a success from every point of view, from the sportsman’s standpoint and from the business man’s standpoint. The gate receipts will easily reach $60,000, leaving the management a good profit. The following is the final score for the 142 hours: MiHer....... ......2,093.4 Bice........ ......2,026.5 Schinneer... ......2,000.7 Hale.... .... ......1,920.2 Waller...... ......1.883.1 Pierce...... ......1,828.0 Golden...... ......1,778.0 Gannon..... ......1,760.0 Enterman... ......1,753.7 Elkes....... ......1,660.7 Kiuz......... ......1,616.8 Julius...... ......1.503.5 Beacom..... ......1,350.8 Johnson.... ...... 1,279.4 Grey........ ......1,229.0 Bivierre..... ......1,746.7 Moore....... ......1.495.4 Best previous record 1,910 miles 8 laps, by Hale. As a reward for their week of pain and torture in covering hundreds of miles awheel, Miller will get $1,500, aside from presents from wheel and tire concerns; $1,300 of this is the winner’s share of the purse, and $200 more goes for breaking the record. Joe Bice’s share of the purse will be $800 and Schineer will get $500; Teddy Hale will receive $350 and Waller $50 less, Pierce gets $200, Golden $150, Gannon $125, Enterman and Bivierre $100 and Elkes $75. All the riders who covered more than 1,350 miles will receive a prize, probably $50 apiece. The managers of the contest now admit what, has been alleged since the second day of the race—-that the track was short. Sunday, surveyors went over the course, and although it was officially announced that the riders had not traveled a full mile for every nine laps, just how short each “mile” was has not been given out. When Miller finished winner of the race 2,0931 miles had been cheeked up to his credit. From what cau be learned, it is believed the track was something like 200 feet short to the mile, and, therefore, the actual dis¬ tance traveled was about 2,014. BAD FOR ANNEXATION. Ex-Senator Dubois Declares Hawaiians Are Against It. Former Senator Dubois, who has just reached home, after and extended visit to Japan, China and Hawaii, says the United States will not annex these islands against the bitter oppo¬ sition of the natives. He says there are no less than 1,200 male Americans on the island over twenty-one years of age, and nearly half of them are opposed to annexa¬ tion, while nearly all the balance of the population are against it. Said Mr. Dubois: “Nothing but the support of the United States government keeps the present oligarchy, misnamed a repub¬ lic, in power. They could not sustain themselves a day if the United States should withdraw its support. It will require a large armed force constantly to maintain any government the United States may establish there. The na¬ tives will never consent to the de¬ struction of their national life.” BOND A CANDIDATE. The Judge Announces For tho- Gover¬ norship of Tennessee. A special from Nashville, Tenn., says: Hon. John R. Bond, of Browns- ville, judge of the eighteenth judicial circuit, has announced his decision to make the race for the democratic nom- ination for governor. West Tennessee claims to be euti- tied to the governorship the next time, and if E. W. Carmack is unseated by congress he will be a candidate. A. B. Woodward, of Fayetteville, and Judge T. M. 3IcConnell, of Chat- tanooga, will probably be the other candidates. SUN SPOTS YISIliLE. Solar Disturbances On Big Scale are Announced. A dispatch from Geneva, N. Y., says: ProfessorWilliam R. Brooks, of Smith observatory, reports the observation of a great group of sun spots approach¬ ing the center of the sun’s disc. The group is visible to the naked eye through smoked glass. Measurements made by Professor Brooks show this vast solar disturb¬ ance to be 100,000 miles in length. THREE WERE IMPLICATED In the Horrible Murder of Mrs. Iircnrn and Her Children. A special from Wesson, Miss., says: Late Thursday afternoon the negro who murdered the family of Brown Smith was captured by the posse, carried to Montieello, the county seat of Law¬ rence county, and at 7 o'clock was carried back to the scene of his crime, where he was fully identified by the little girl. Another special to The New Orleans Picayune from Wesson, Miss , says: “Your correspondent has just inter¬ viewed one of the most prominent men in this section, who left the scene of the massacre of the Brown Smith fam¬ ily Friday morning. The accused ne¬ gro, Charley Lewis, is being tried be¬ fore Justice D. T. Holmes; he has given testimony implicating two other negroes—Will Powell and Andy Smith, who are now in custody. “My informant is positive that the recent lynching at Monroe will be im¬ itated, making it public, and each ne¬ gro will be made to carry pine knots to burn the other. “The trial is being conducted in> a. lawful manner. The committee has charge of the prisoners and will not permit them to be sent to any jail. During the trial Lewis broke down and confessed, saying: ‘It’s mighty hard for me to suffer for what somebody else has done.’ “Upon being allow to talk further, he said: ‘Get Will Powell and Andrew Smith.’ “Lewis is a mulatto about twenty^ three years old, and married. It is believed that a general clean-up will be made in that section of the country, and that a number of negroes will be lynched,” CALL TO VETERANS. PeoplB of Georgia Asked to Assist In Mak¬ ing Reunion a Success. The work of arranging for the reun¬ ion of all Confederate survivors to be held in Atlanta, Ga., in July, next year,, has been begun in earnest. All of the committee have been appointed and as the details are now over the work will progress rapidly. General C. A. Evans has issued the follow¬ ing communication to the public: “To the Confederates of Georgia and Their Friends: “The organization of the reunion association of Georgia, with its neces¬ sary officers, general executive com¬ mittee,, and sub-committees has been secured and the work for the reunion of tho Confederate veterans in 1898 has commenced with that enthusiasm and organized effort which will make the occasion memorable. “I now make appeal to the people of Georgia to unite heartily in show¬ ing that great consideration which I know they feel for the men who so willingly made the offering of life on the call of patriotic duty. The occa¬ sion will bring together for probably the last time in Georgia the Confed¬ erate survivors of the entire country, north aud south, and the scene will be the most impressive that the eyes of our sons and daughters ever beheld. The co-operation already tendered from all parts of the state to the city of Atlanta is most gratifying in its assurance that the hospitable arrange¬ ments now in progress will be in some degree worthy of the Confederate sur¬ vivors who are to be our guests, and in order to make our work effective I beg all officers of camps and districts, all Sons- and Daughters of Confede¬ rates, and all citizens to organize with¬ out delay in every place, so as to be put in: communication with the execu¬ tive committee in Atlanta. “Clement A. Evans, ‘President Georgia Reunion Associa¬ tion ” HAD KILLED NINE. N3frbet^.th» Multi-Murderer, Swung Into * Eternity. Henry Nisbet, colored, was hanged at Irwinville, Ga., Friday, for the murder of Jim Arlington, another ne¬ gro,. at Fitzgerald last spring. Nisbet, according to reports, is a most desperate character. After he murdered Arrington an attempt was made to. lynch him by the negroes and. he wan nearly cut to pieces. He was given a pistol by one of his friends, however, and in the fight he killed two of his assailants and wounded three others. Nisbet has slain nine men in his. career of crime and wounded and crippled as many more, All his vio- tiins were of his own race, which he always declared he abhored. CLEVELAND COMES SOUTH!. Ex-President Visits His Old Haunts On» a Duck Hunt. Ex-President Grover Cleveland, ac- eompanied by Gen. Anson G. McCook an q Captain Evans and Captain Lam- berton, of the United States navy, ar- r j TOt | j n Georgetown, S.C., early Satur- niorning as guests of Gen. if. P. Alexander. They were immediately conveyed to South Island on the government steamer Wistaria. Their sport will probably last several weeks. The Palmetto club and the citizens 0 f Georgetown have dispatched a mes- senger to the party tendering them a banquet. ESTEKHAZY TO BE TRIED. A Courtmartial Is Ordered To Investigate tho Dreyfus Matter. The military governor of Paris, General Saus,sier, has ordered a court- martial to examine into the charges brought against Count Ferdinand I I Waldin Esterhazy, the retired major of the French army, who is accused of | writing the letter which brought about 1 the sentencing of Alfred Dreyfus to 1 imprisonment- for life.