The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-07-13
TELEG2APHIC TICKS.
Interesting Dispatches About
important Late Events.
President Harrison Recalls Lieu
tenant Borup From France.

L6IlduI DOfup rUW IduOo'
Acting on information received from Mr..
Coolidge, the United States Minister at
Paris, the Secretary of War issued from
Washington an or .er relieving Captain
Borrp, Of the Ordnance Department, from
further duty at the United States Legation
at Paris and direcsin, him to report to the
War Department for further orders. This
act Oh was taken at the instance OF the
French Government. Secretary Elkins and
Acting Secretary Wharton bad a confer
,ence on the subject at tine War Department.
and the French dinister subsequently visited
Mr.. Wharton at the State Department.
The allegations upon which the demand
for Captain Borup's recall are based in brief
are to the effect that he has participated IN
a plot to secure possession OF drawings OF GER
tain French coast defenses which have here
toiore been kept in the secret archives OF the
Ministry of Marine.
According to the reports from Paris, it ap-
pears that q clerk named Grenier, an en-
ploye OF the Government in the Office Of the
Keeper General of National Archives, has
implicated Borup in a confession made con-
corning the sale of plans and specifications OF
the defenses referred to to the Governments
OF Germany and Italy.
The Government officials do not believe
that Captain Borup is guilty OF the charges
against him, and his recall is said to be due
altogether to the request Of the French Gov
ernnent and in the interests of harmony.
Mr. T. jefferson Coolidge, the American
Minister to France, has informed N. Ribot,
Minister of Foreign Affairs, that Captain
Borup admits having paid for secret official
documents, nut declares that in doing this
he only followed the example OF all military
attaches.
Captain Borup has apparently lost his
head and has given several contradictory
versions OF the affair in interviews ne mas
ha'; with newspaper reporters
A French detective in citizens clothes sat
Tor several days on bench in the Avenue
Marceau watching the house OF Captain
Eorup and the doors Of the American
Legation.
Killed in Open Court.
Max Clerget, prisoner, was shot and
killed in Judge Martine's Court in New
York City at 1l40 o'clock, A. NJ, few days
ago. The shot was fired by Edward De-
wins, brother OF the girl for whose ruin
che dead man had just been arraigned and
plead guilty at the bar. Only one shot was
2reJ, the thirty-two caliber bullet passing
dramatic scene ever witnessed in New
York courtroom.
Clerget was only eighteen years old.
The Judge had announced that C!erget was
Iemanded for sentence until the following
Friday, and the young man, between two
policemen, had started back to the prison.
ers' pen, passing within five feet of Ed.
Devins.
Suddenly Devins arose. drawing a pistol
I,iS ctat IN nj
ing the muzzle of the weapon within three
inches of Clerget's heart and fired. Tho
SCENE that followed simply beggars descrip.
ticn.
Before De7ins could fire again, as he evi.
denrly intended TO do he was overpowered
by Court Officers Mclaughlin and Collier,
the latter wrestling the smoking pistol from
his hand.
When the room was cleared the body Of
Clerset was picked up and laid down be-
hind the benches. He was gasping family
but not bleeding much. Four minutes after
the shot was fired he was dead.
Devins is twenty-five years old. His
father and mother are both dead and he has
naturally felt as father toward the
younger sisters, Katie and Sarah. He is
feeble.minded young man, lame and half
paralyzed. His sister, Sarah, is also small,
lame, ,deformed girl Of less than fifteen years.
She, TOO, was OF 1eeOle inlnQs
Took Strychnkne Together.
Gilbert Palmer, of Jamestown, Ohio. about
twenty-one years ole, procured horse and
buggy at livery stable, as he said, to 60 to
Port William, about four miles north. He
was last seeL at the above-namsd place
about 10 o'clock, in company with Mary
Concklin, aged sixteen, the daughter Of a
widow living in Port William. Miss Conck-
Inns mother strenuously objected to Ter as
sociation with Palmer.
Next morning Palmer and Miss Concklin
were discovered on the roadside, both deal.
They had taken the robes out Of the buggy
and spread them down on the ground, and
placed the buggy cushion on them for head
rest. Near them was two glasses and two
papers that contained strychnine. A note
was found, written on one Of the labels, read
ing as follows: BURY us as close to-
Sether as possible. Good-by."
Will Manage the Campaign.
The Republican National Committee met
at Washington, and William j. Campbell,
of Illinois, was elected Chairman.
The others elected were: Vice Chairman,
m H. De Young, Of California; Secretary,
Thomas H. Carter, Of Montana: Treasurer,
tCornelius n. Bliss, Of New York; Sergeant
!At-.Arms, colonel II. II. SWOrQS, OIL 1o"d.
The members OF committee met in the
Arlington parlors at 1l:45, and were called
to order by Chairman Clarkson. Holt call
BY Secretary DE- Young showed an attend.
ance of ali but three members-an unusual
proportion.
Under rule adopted bv the National Re-
publican Convention an Executive Commit
tee consisting Of nine members will be Sc
lected Of which the Chairman, Vice Chair
man, Secretary and Treasury OF the National
Committee will be members ex-officio.
; Departure of Pea rvs Relief.
The steamer Miranda left the foot Of
Congress street. Brooklyn, N. Y,
q few days since, having on board
the members of the expedition organ.
lied by the Academy of Naturnal Sciences Of
Philadelphia to search for the Greenland ex-
ploring party under the command Of Lieut..
Robert E. Peary. The steamer will proceed
to st. Johns where the party will be trans.
ferred to the sealing steamer Kite, which is
scheduled to leave for the camping grounos
of the Peary party at Mccormick Bay.