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Looking back at this incident after all these years, Fry's reply to this official may appear imprudent and even rash, but the occasion should be borne in r. mind. Ha and the 12 men with him •were prisoners condemned to death. •Nothing was to be gained by a pacifio manner. His daring won the respect uf (the mob, and O. H. Jones, the fellow *wbo insulted these helpless men, retired beaten from this verbal contest, aa he certainly would have done from a physical encounter had he accepted Fry's challenge.

The jail in Atlanta at this time was fin insignificant affair. The lower of its two stories was occupied by the jailer ..And his family, and the four rooms of the upper floor were set aside for pris'oners. One of these rooms was occupied by city prisoners, principally negroes, and in the others were placed Fry and

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that if he ever had any conception of jjnanliness, honor and dignity he now [lost it. With flushed face and protruding eyes this man rushed at the raiders Bmd shouted: "You're all sent up here to be hanged, d—n your cowardly Yankee eoulsl" ^Fhen, holding up his right hand, he continued "Look at that hand, curse you! Do you dogs all see it? Well, it was jthat hand that fastened the rope round (Andrews' neck when be was sent to pell, and it'll do the same for all you!" I "Yon look like a hangman,"said the imperturbable mountaineer, "and so 'when you say you are one, we're obliged fro believe you that much, but if so be grou was to hint that you was a soldier jhnd a gentleman, then we'd have you fellow that you lied from your heart to yonr tongue and the truth isn't and tfiever was in you."

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a prisoner instead of' being pe?&ffled to live down stairs with his family. He did, however, show his kindness in a practical way, for he fod the men abun- I dantly and did all in his power to cheer them up and make them comfortable. I

Captain Fry's fertile brain, when he was not employed in holding prayer meetings for his own comfort and the salvation of his companions, was busy with plans for escape. He watched the guards till he knew every man of them, and made a pretty good estimate of his pluck and his ability to act in an emer-

"Here is the thief and murderer/"

gency. He conferred with his associates from day to day till about the middle of June, when his plans were completed. But now happened a thing for which the little band of Union men in that jail were wholly unprepared.

So long a time had elapsed since their trial and conviction at Chattanooga and Nashville that the least sanguine of the men began to feel that he was safe from the fearful sentence of the court martial. On the morning of June 18, 18C2, as Captains Fry and Mason of the Twen-ty-first Ohio were looking out the jail window, they saw a squadron of cavalry riding up and forming about the prison. They turned to their companions, who were amusing themselves with some simple games on the floor, and reported the facts.

At once, and with beating hearts and ashy faces, all the men leaped to their feet and looked out. They heard doors opening below, and then the stamping of spurred boots and the olatter 6f sabers on the stairs.

The door of the room in which the cop^enjned ijrisoqers were confined was

I tnrown open, ana an omcer strocre in with an ominous looking paper in his hand. Bowing to the men, this officer said: "Gentlemen, as yonr names are called, please answer and form in line facing the door. William Campbell, George

D. Wilson, Company B, Second Ohio Marvin Roes, Company A, Second Ohio Perry G. Shadrach, Company K, Second Ohio Samuel Slavins, Thirty-third Ohio Samuel Robinson, Company G, Thirty-third Ohio John Scott, Company H, Twenty-first Ohio."

These men were led out into the hall and a number of Tennesseeans from the room opposite took their places.

The men taken out, as well as those who remained in the room, were astounded—so mnch so, indeed, that most of them were unable to talk. But Captain Fry was as cool as if this were an ordinary proceeding. Addressing a Confederate officer, be asked: "What is up, captain?" "This is the first batch," was the reI ply"The first batch?" "That is what I said."

What are you going to do with those men?" And for the first time the captain's strong voice trembled. "They are going from here to be executed," said the officer.

No reply was made to this. The news was so sudden, so appalling, that no man could speak. Even the cool and ever ready Fry stood and looked in mute horror at the line of pale faced but still heroio fellows who constituted "the first batch."

Mr. Scott, an Atlanta clergyman— and I have every reason to believe an excellent man—came down to pray with the first batch. One half hour %as spent in devotion then the men rose and faced •he stairs, Wilson of Ohio still calm ind fearless, stepping into the advance With a firm tread.

"Forward, march !'f 'came thelorSer. The Yankees, who within the hour were to sleep at the foot of a gallows, obeyed the Confederates' order to march to death. Not a man trembled or faltered. As they moved from the hall they shouted goodby to their comrades.

The sound of descending feet died out on the stairs. Below the cavalry formed about the prisoners and the march to the gallows began.

CHAPTER III.

If one of the Andrews raiders was a spy, all were spies. If one had forfeited his life to the Confederate authorities, all had forfeited their lives. Why, the", 7 of the 20 raiders in the Atlanta jail in June, Is02, shouid be taken out and hanged, each being selected by name, it is difficult to guess. The remaining raiders, with Captaii^ Fry and othei Tennesseeans who had been tried and sentenced to death, did not attempt tc see through the motives of the enemy. They sat on the floor of the jail stunned, or, if they gave the situation a thought, it was to infer that within an hour or another day at the furthest they, too, would be led out to face the same fate.

I am sure I will be pardoned if 1 leave the case of Captain Fry for a few* minutes to follow to the scaffold the gallant men who that morning were done to death in Atlanta. Two clergymen, named Scott and MacDowell, were sent to administer "spiritual comfort" to the seven young Union soldiers who, without a moment's notice, were taken from the jail to the scaffold. The clergymen, whispering words of comfort that must have sounded to themselves like a mockery, and the cavalry who formed the guard saw men in ragged blue, pale from a cruel imprisonment, with its attendant starvation, but not from fear. The weakest man in the doomed band, if any .were weaker than the other where all were so cool and brave, walked with head erect and lips set and brave eyes fixed on the eternity just in front, but there was'never a groan or an outcry, for each felt in his gallant heart that he was going to death at the call of duty.

Beyond the jail they were placed in a cart and driven through the city to the cemetery, in the negro quarter of which the gallows was erected. On the way a curious crowd followed, many of the white men and women jeering the seven men in ragged blue, but the awed blacks bad exclamations of pity on their trembling lips and tears in tbeir sad black eyes.

Any attempt at word painting wouM be a profanity here. As the cart rolled on there came to view the scaffold, erected between two trees. From the oaken crossbeams seven noosed ropes hung. To the east of ..the soaffold and only a few feet away the red earth had been dug up it marked the trench imo which the men were to be thrown when the hideous work was over. The guards and the ministers gasped as they gazed on these ghastly appliances for the murder and burial of seven men as innocent of the crime charged as they were fearless in meeting its terrible consequences.

Keeping step, as if on parade, the doomed comrades ascended the scaffold. Their feet and hands were bound, and caps were prepared to be pulled over their faces, but before the latter could be done, George Wilson of the Second Ohio called out: "Gentlemen, we are not afraid to meet our God, nor ashamed to face man. Let us die in the light of earth, as we hope for the light of heaven."

Aft^r a brief consultation Colonel Foreacre granted this request. Then Wilson, with a glorified light on his handsome young face, asked to be permitted to say a word for himsolf and comrades. This request was also granted.

Had Wilson been spared, he would have made Lis mark as an orator and writer. His mind was as clear as his person was comely and his heart bravo. He had not even the comfort of religion to cheer and strengthen him during that terrible ordeal. But in a voice clear as a trumpet, without tremor or break, and with an eloquence made irresistibly effective by hi* position, he declared himself and his companions to be not spies, but soldiers captured in the performance

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Colonel Lawton, wno was yrosent at this execution, said to me many years after peace had oome: "There were tears in all our eyes while that young man spoke, and I conld not have uttered a word had my yfe depended on it. He praised his kinsmen, men of the south, as he oalled us, for our honesty and oourage, but he denounced what he called our ambitious leaders. He spoke like an inspired prophet. He told of the ruin that would come to Atlanta and the south, and then with words that thrilled all, while they maddened some, he pictured the Union restored and the flag of the republic floating over the grave into which he and his comrades were so soon to descend. Had their reprieve depended upon the Confederate®soldiers about that scaffold, those men would bever have been hanged, but the orders ©f superiors had to be obeyed."

Through this speech the surrounding Confederates heard for the first time a calm but intensely eloquent presentation of the Union cause, and the words of that dying youth lived after him, to be repeated about the campfires of the men in gray and to breed that revolt against their masters in Richmond which subsequently made desertion an epidemic in the armies of Bragg, Johnston and Hood.

No coffins were provided. What need of them And so side by side the comrades were laid in the shallow trench. In this, at least, they were treated by a shortsighted and relentless enemy like gallant men who had gone down to death on the battlefield. "O Father of all, take home thy sons, not sinless as to life, but guiltless as to the offense for which we die. God bless the Union i"

George Wilson said this, and forever his lips were mute. The Confederates, thrilled by his glowing words, averted their faces—some to hide their tears.

The pallor left the faces of the men

to Wilson's right. Who can doubt that, strengthened by his splendid courage and inspired eloquence, they, too, caught a prophetic glimpse of the future that was so clear to him? They may not have seen in that vision Sherman's steel crested lines sweeping to victory over that red trench, nor Sherman's veterans climbing the gallows tree to give to the southern breeze the flag by which the seven died.

At that moment, when time's red currents chilled as they touched the placid ocean of eternity, no thought of retaliation could have come into the minds of these noble young men. Would it have lightened the descent into the dark valley had the veil of the future been rent so that they could have heard the slow booming of surroundiug cannon, sounding like giant funeral drums the fate of the present Atlanta? I think not, for vengeance was not in their hearts. No need for prophecy to assure them that one day loving hands would reopen the red trench, and that, coffined like chieftains and shrouded in the flag they so loved, they would be carried to the slopes that look down on Chattanooga, and that, beside comrades whose daring was yet destined to lift those slopes into the heights of historic immortality, they would sleep to the perpetual requiem of the blue Tennessee, where—

On fame's immortal camping ground Their-silent tents are spread, And glory guards with solemn round

The bivouac of the dead.

It was well with the dead who slept in the red trench at the foot of the gallows, but words are all too inadequate to describe the torture of the raiders and Tennesseeans who remained back in the Atlanta jail. The most sanguine believed that at most only another day of earth remained to him, and he was disappointed that the worst was not over at once.

When David Fry gathered his neighbors in from the surrounding valleys and swore them to sustain the Union, he was the finest type of patriot I know of even the mythical Tell loses by comparison. When, as a soldier, he returned from Kentucky, and, enlisting 700 of his mountaineer compatriots, set the armies of Lead better and Smith at defiance and severed the short lines between Richmond and the west, he showed those qualities of leadership that have given Spartacus, Wallace and Stark a place in history, but it remained fof suffering and imprisonment to develop the best that was in him. To his tortured comrades in the Atlanta jail he was a saint. 5 [CONTINUED.]

No Conclusion Reached.

WASHINGTON, March 25.—The conferees of the two houses on the Cuban resolutions held a session yesterday, but without reaching a conclusion. The entire time of the conference was spent in canvassing the situation, and in trying to arrive at common ground upon which the two houses can stand.

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Colonel C. U. Buehler Dead. GETTYSBURG, Pa., March 25.—Colonel

C. H. Buehler died at his residence in this place yesterday, aged 71 years. During the war he served as major of the Eighty-seventh Pennsylvania infantry and later as a colonel of the Oua Hundred and Twenty-sixth regiment. He was vice president of the Gettysburg battlefield commission.

Died While Searching For Health. MILWAUKEE, March 25.—James G.

Flint, president of the Commercial bank and one of the wealthiest and most prominent business men of Milwaukee died yesterday in Chihuahua, Mexico where lie went some time ago for his health. He suffered from nervous prostration.

Taken From Jail and Lynched. CARENCKO, iJa.. March 25.—Louis

Senegal, colored, who on Sunday made a criminal assault on Mrs Martin, the wife of a respectable farmer in this neighborhood, was taken from jail last night and lynched by a mob of 500 men.

Thomas Hughes'Burial Place. LONDON, March 25.—Thomas Hughes,

whose death was announced yesterday, will be buried at Brighton. A

FIGHT ONE ANOTHER.

Mistake Made by Spanish Soldiers in Cuba.

IT COST TWENTY-FIVE LIVES.

Two Columns of Weyler's Men Engage in Battle For Ten Minutes in a Canebrake.

Another Expedition Land9 Safely in Cuba—An American Mysteriously Missing—Some Smuggled News. HAVANA, March 25.—Another terrible

mistake attended with loss of life and resulting in many soldiers being wounded, has taken place. In some mannei unexplained, two columns of Spanish troops opened fire upon each other at midday. According to the few details received here, the columns of troops commanded by General, Godoy and Colonel Holguin, at the Santa Rosa plantation," near Esperanza, province of Santa Clara, mutually mistook each other for insurgent forces owing, it is said, to the thickness of the sugar cane. Each detachment opened fire upon the other and for 10 minutes shots were exchanged, resulting in the killing of 17 soldiers, among them being Lieutenant Colonel Fuenmayor of the Navas battalion. In addition, five officers and 84' soldiers were 'wounded. Two of the latter have since died, six others are mortally wounded and 32 are seriously injured.

Lieutenant Colonel Fuenmayor died while leading his troops on and shouting "Long live*Spain." Owing to the fact that* the meeting between the two columns took place at midday, the explanation furnished by the Spanish commanders is considered unsatisfactory and courtmartial will follow.

Maximo Gomez has returned westward from the province of Santa Clara and was encamped yesterday at the plantation of Moralito, near Union de Reyes, province of Matanzas.

Antonio Maceo is supposed to be at "San Diego de Los Bajos, province of Pinar del Rio.

Enrique Poro Mata, an insurgent leader, has surrendered to the police of Cardenas, province of Matanzas.

The authorities of Cardenas have captured Rafel Torayo and Casimoro Ponce, who have been accused of conspiring against the government.

The explanation given for the capture of the three boats loaded with arms and ammunition at Varadero, near Cardenas, is that Collazo, who is understood to have commanded the expedition, mistook the landing place and went ashore at Varadero instead of at the San Anton canal.

SMUGGLED NEWS FROM CUBA.

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A Vastly Different Story From Censorship Dispatches. BOSTON, March 25.—The Standard

publishes a letter from Captain C. S. B. Yaleros, a member of the personal staff of Maximo Gomez in the Cuban patriot army. The letter was written to Mr. N. li. Johnstone of New Haven, Conn., with whom Captain Valeros became intimate while at Yale college, and was smuggled through the Spanish lines to Havana and forwarded to New York. The letter is dated March 6, and says in part: 'It has been a most trying experience through which I have passed during the last 30 days blood, biood, blood and blood agaiu, everywhere. No less than six of our headquarters' mess have gone to their eternal rest since my last to you—all killed with their faces to the foe. "Cespedes, one of the general's perI sonal scouts, who brought our last dispatches, after paying a visit to Havana, had a hard time getting through the

Spanish lines and was twice held up and put through the severest questioning. All this time the dispatches were in his stockings, but his coolness and ready wit saved him. The password was changed before he passed the outer line and he waited till dark and made a I rush rather than take chances of furtlier explanations. "One week ago a scout of the general's was waylaid and murdered by a gang of cut throats, as you Yankees would term them, and valuable papers I secured and sold to Spanish authorities,

One of the papers lost has worried the general a good deal, as it related to a

ship load of ammunition expected a few days later from Texas, and might enable the enemy to capture it. "We have marched and countermarched over 400 miles of territory the past two months, have met the enemy 31 different times, 28 of which we have been successful. The severest of these was on the railroad from Havana to Mantanzas, in Havana province, about 19 miles from the capitol, the battle of Morra del Rey. The enemy left 29 killed and 51 wounded on the field, nine of whom were officers. General Gomez lost 13 killed and 31 wounded. "The Spanish newspaper Imparcial, published in Havana, gave the 'rebel' losses as 'upward of 300,' and I presume dispatches reaching the states exaggerated fully as great. "We now have with us a staff of experienced surgeons with plenty of medicines and good 'outfits.' So the poor fellows of both sides are promptly attended to, though the other corps is sadly lacking these necessities. The 6ix officers of my mess, who have been killed, were all my personal friends. "The general is confident. He badly needs ammunition, however, and the great misfortunes met with in the endeavor to smuggle it here would discourage a less persistent and brave man.''

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Another Expedition Has Lauded Safely on Cuba's Shores. NEW YORK, March 25.—The Cuban

junta has received n|Kvs of the successful landing in Cuba of an expedition led by Braulio Pena. Commander Pena's party of 38 men are thought to be those conveyed to the island by the steamer Commodore, which left this coast some days ago. The party succeeded in landing 600 rifles, 580,000 rounds of ammunition, two rapid fire Hotchkiss cannon, several»hundred pounds of dynamite and a liberal supply of machines and hospital stores.

The party landed, it is said, without accident or molestation of any kind,, making the eighth expedition which has successfully landed iu the last 40 days.

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Where Is Walter Dygart

WASHINGTON, March 25.—-Consul General Williams at Havana has telegraphed the state department that he has made two applications to the governor general of Cuba for information as to the case of Walter Dygart, a citizen of Illinois, arrested by the Spanish officials for complicity in the rebellion. So far he has received no response to his applications.

ENTIRE FAMILY MURDERED.

Startling Revelations Made by Exhuming Seven Dead Bodies. ALMA, Wis., March 25.—An investi­

gation concluded last night shows that the seven members of the Oldhouse family, who were found dead in the ruins of their burned home on the 6th inst., were murdered. An inquest was held at the time and a verdict of accidental death was returned. Yesterday the bodies, were exhumed. It was found that two bullets had penetrated the skull of the fatliex*, that the mother's skull luul been crashed and that the head of one of the children had been crushed in.

A revolver was found on the bed near the mother's side and a shotgun lay near the body of Mr. Oldhouse, whose remains were found near the front window. A fracture in the skull of one child was evidently made with a liammer which was found liear the body. There is :io clew to the murderers. Only a small sum of money was found in the house, although Mr Oldhouse had recently sold his farm and the family was to have started west on the day following the fire.

FIERCE FLAMES.

Locomolivc Spark Causes a Destructive Lumber Fire. LA CROSSE, Wis., March 25.—Avery

destructive fire, which at one time threatened to destroy the northern portion of the city, occurred here yesterday. Afire was started in the lumber yard of the N. B. Hohvay estate, about half past 11 o'clock, from a spark of a passing locomotive on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway, A fierce gale spread the flames rapidly among the huge piles of lumber along the eastern bank of Black river. Inside of three hours over 5,000,000 feet of lumber had been wiped out.

The wind carried burning brands to the lumber yard of the La Crosse company, one mile north, and the lumber and woodpiles there were also destroyed, together with the bridge over Black river.

Another fire was started at the Sawyer & Austin mill, but the damage there was not so great.

The entire loss is estimated at over $200,000. Insurance not known. MANUFACTURING Caught

FIRM FAILS.

in the Panic of 1893 and Never# Fully Recovered. AKRON, O., March 25.—The J. F. Sei-

berling company, manufacturers of the Empire mowers, reapers and binders, made an assignment late yesterday evening to W. C. Carter, one of the employes of the company. The failure was precipitated by an attachment for $10,000 in favor of the First National bank of Ravenna, O. President J. F. Seiberling said that the liabilities would reach $250,000, but he refused to make a statement of the assets of the company,

It is said the firm of Seiberling, Miller & Company of Doylestown, O., will also be affected.

The plant was established early in the sixties as the Excelsior mower and reaper works. There was a failure in the seventies, but in 1894, the J. E. Seiberling company was organized with capital of $1,000,000. The company was caught iu the panic of 1893 and h.. never fully recovered from the shock. The company employed 850 men.

BOERS THREATENING.

They Are Apparently Ready For a Fight With John Bull. LONDON, March 25.—A dispatch to

The Pall Mall Gazette from Johannesburg says that the Transvaal burghe are assuming an alarming attitude, is added that a strong feeling exists among the Dutch throughout South Africa, and that they are nerving themselves for a supreme struggle with Great Britain.

No reason is assigned for the sudden withdrawal of the bail of four members of the reform committee. They had been permitted to go to Johannesburg in order to attend to their private affairs, but all have now been arrested \x. and are kept under guard in a private tf: house at Pretoria. ire »u a TC'alt House.

CLYDE, N. Y., March 25.—Fire yesterday in the kiln room of the Warner malt house did damage estimated at $80,000. *Vy