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Flffi IlWßim CGmmiiled Double Milrder The Led The Jfloli AND TRIED TO LYNCH An Innocent Negro. Fiend Con fessed And Was Hanged. Americus, Ga., Aug. 22. — Chief of Police Wheeler, Mar shal Feagin ami Deputy Sheriff Bell, who went to the scene of the double murder and lynch ing near Friendship, in this county, yesterday, taking blood liounds with which to chase the murderer of Mrs. Mary McGar rah and son, James Boone, re turned here at 2 o’clock this morning, the murderer, Hamp Hollis, having been caught and lynched several hours before the officers reached the scene of the terrible tragedy. Friendship is a hamlet four teen miles west of Americus, and being without telegraph or tele phone facilities, communication can only be had by mail or spe cial messenger. It is now certain that the atro cious murder of Mrs. McGarrah aid young Boone, her son bv a former marriage, was a well laid plot in which others besides Hamp Hollis and his wife were concerned. Considerable evi dence is at hand to show this be true, and the arrest of other negroes in chat locality will fol low. Hollis’s wife made a statement of the killing yesterday after noon, which led to the finding of the blood stained axe and suit of clothes worn by Hamp Hollis when the crime was committed. Confronted with this damaging evidence of guilt, Hollis con fessed the double murder, and was immediately strung up to a tree and 500 bullets put into his carcass. The statement of the killing made by Hollis’s wife startled the posse in searoh of the mur derer, All during the morning Hollis had followed the posse, armed with a shotgun, and was loud in his denunciation of the foul muder and eager to wreak vengeance upon the fiend who committed it. Early in the morning the posse had arrested Eugene Reese, a negro, against whom suspicion was directed, and came very near lynching him as the tnur derer. Hamp Hollis was wild to hange Reese, whom he pretend ed to believe was the murderer, but the cool headed farmers who had the negro in charge would not permit this until more and stronger evidence of guilt had been secured. However, Reese was tightly bound with ropes and placed under a strong guard, and Hamp Hollis was nourishing a gun in the face of the innocent negro and demanding his life, when placed under arrest as the real murderer upon the strength of the statement made by his own wife and subsequeht finding of the bloody clothes and ax in his cabin. After Hollis had been lynched Reese was set at liberty. Late last night, however, he was again arrested, brought to Americus and placed in jail pending a thorough investigation of an al leged plot in which others, in cluding Hollis’s wile, are thought to be implicated. Sever- I , negroes evidently knew of the I murder, though it is believed « Hollis alone struck the deadly blows that ended the Jives of GIGANTIC TRUST. Jdsts2oo,ooo,ooo Invested in Steel anil Iron TO FORM THE COMBINE. Even the Rockefeller &. Carne gia to Enter. • - Chicago, 111., Aug. 22 —The report from New York that the capitalization ot the proposed new steel combine is to be $200,- OpO.OOO was a bigeye-opener Jo local capitalists. It would seem to indicate that John W. Gates and his financial co uljutors are looking beyond the immediate consolidation of the I llinois S eel Minnesota Iron, Jonson and other minor companies and in tend that ultimately the com lane shall include every steel and iron concern operation in the United States, an I that even the Rockefeller Carne gie Company, long the bitter and powerful rival of the West ern companies, may be absorbed in the gigantic trust of steel and iron. Such a company would be more the equal of the Standard Oil in power. It would control the mining supplies of botli the iron and the fuel used in the conversion to steel. It would control the marine and railway transportations of its products, through its own railways and lake barges, and i* could supply the world with rails, armor plate and all kinds of structural work, manufactured at its own plants. The following companies are slated as “sure” to enter the deal: The Illinois Steel Company, the Minnesota Iron Company, the Johnson Company, the El gin, Joilet & Eastern Railway. The following other companies are figured as immediate possi bilities : Cambria Iron Company, the Tennessee Coal and Iron Com pany, the Pennsylvania Steel Company, the Bathlehem Iron Company. As a remote possibility the Carnegie Company may be mentioned. Mrs. McGarrah and young Boone as they slept. fho brutal murder was very adroitly planned, and but for the accidental finding es the bloody clothes and ax in Hol li’s cabin, the real murderer might have escaped and Eugene Reese have paid the penalty with his life. It was Hollis who tied his own wife to a tret in the woods the night of the murder, himself discovering her there next morn ing and then professing to be lieve the negro Reese did it. This scheme was done to avert any suspicion from himself, and it appears that the wife acted well her part. Their sole grievance against Mrs. McGarrath and her son, and which prompted, the mur der, was the theft of a piece of bacon last week, which was laid to Hollis’ wife' E iraged at be ing suspected of this act, it is believed the couple planned and successfully executed the most foul murder. THE HANGING B )DY. T ie body of Hamp Hollis re mained suspended from a limb of a tree for some time, after which it was cut down. The carcass was pierced by hundreds of bullets, and presented a ghastly spectacle. It was the fi nale of the most brutal and atro- HUMAN WRECKS — Half Insane, And With Ghast ly Faces WERE BORNE IN PITY From The Mobile To Montauk Hospitals. M mtaiik Point, N. Y., Ai g 22. —The horrors of war were made plain when 150 sick and dying sol* diors of the Second MassaehuiettS Infantry and the Eighth and Twenty-second Regular Infantry, Were moved on a!retd ere, and tnen in ami ulauces from the trans port Mobile to the detention hospi tal at Camp WikotT Word of what might beexpicted e l came to the shore a little whiie before the Mobile left her anchor age, and a crowd gathered about the picket lines. It was a silent throng. Every iimbaulat.ee in the camp, and several covered wagons of the sig ial corps were called ou* and drawn up in a semicircle about the foot of the pier. Col mel For wood had only 150 beds at his dis position . The gang plank was thrown out and a squad of soldiers, tatered and begrimed, walked down it. They came in pairs, supporting between them wrecks of men too feeble to stand alone, sunken-eyed, hollow cheeked and having the pallor of death on their faces . Twenty of these men were help ed s'owly and carefully along. Then came the stretchers bearing what a 1 first eight appeared to he dead L 'd es. Some vo.-e uniforms which hung from them like bags as thr-y were lifted trorn the stretch ers into the ambulances: Others were naked except for blakets thrown over them . As they passed down the hue and the corner of a blanket was accidentally blown aside their ribs stood out like the ribs of a starved animal. Their knees and elbows bulge.d, making tbeir limbs nideous prop >rti ms and their bears led faces in some cases w ire almost the look of insanity It was a sad spectacle so much so that w imm who h id joined the throng merely to gratify tbeir curiosity vept. All hands are glad to get back. An officer of the Twenty-second Infantry, who was on the Mobile, said: “If this army of invasion had all remained in Cuba until n<>w tbe ships would have brought dead by hundreds instead of tens ” cious crime ever committed in Sumpter county, and while the eause is deeply deplored, it is generally believed that the ne gro got his just deser's at the rope’s end. The funeral of the poor vic tims, Mrs. McGrath and young Boone, took place at Friendship yesterday morning, thousands ot people from the city and sur roundidg country attending. The family is among the most highly respected in the county, and has wide and influential connections. I f there are others connected with the foul murder of these people, the tra.th will soon be ferreted out. BU JKLEN’S ARNICA SALVE T'he best salve in the world for cuts, brusese sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands,chilblain®, corns, and all skin eruptions, and pos itively cures piles, or no pay re quired. 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