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'' >. The Press and ' .w3 ,x 41 J LOSS OF LIFE Caused by Destructive Cyclone in Louisiana and Mississippi ONE HUNDRED KILLED. Over One Hundred People Killed and Many Cabins Wrecked?All of the Dead Except Two Are Colored? A Parish in liouisiana and Three Counties in Mississippi Swept by the Cyclone. A wind of cyclonic proportions swept over portions of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama late Friday, leaving a trail of dead and injured. The number of killed is estimated at close to 100 and the number of the injured at over 100 with many por-| tions of the afflicted districts to *iear from. Most of the dead are negroes. Per haps a dozen white persons were caught in falling buildings and either fatally injured or so serously disabled as to require medical attention. The loss of life was in the quar ters of colored * persons where the wind destroyed their cabins, burying the occupants in the debris, or in the 1 farming section of the country where trees were uprooted, telegraph ana 1 telephone polls torn up and general destruction became an encore to a 1 storm which, with almost tornado i fury, swept through the' country. It is difficult to estimate the loss of life or the extent of the disaster, I for there is little or no communica tion with the points where th-.i wind 1 > and rain did its greatest damage. In Louisiana it is estimated that a 1 ' score of small towns were destroyed 1 or nartially wrecked. These include Amite City, Arcadia and Indei.ead- ' ence, Belle Grove, Melton, Lorm?n, I Pine Ridge. Quitman. Landing, Fair childs Creek, Purvis and Lumbeiton, 1 f Miss, are reported seriously damaged 1 by the storm. / In Alabama, Dora was the chief sufferer. This fown is also known as Bergen. Four or more persons were 1 killed, among them the wife and daughter of Section Master Moore. Fifty persons at the lowest estimate were injured. Those most seriously i hurt were carried to hospitals in Bir- , mingham, Ala. One woman, a M:s. McCully, died on the train. Two other members of this family were , J Ininmil At I-tOVp-pil ParS i SCI 1UU31? lujuicu. ^?V ..vc , were Mown from the railroad tracks | and considerable other property de stroyed. Reports also say that the , storm struck Abertville, Ala., and de- , stroyed nearly the entire northern portion of the town. A cotton mill was blown down, the storm ranging , northward, doing much destruction to life and property. An unconfirmed report from that section gives the death list as from 30 to 35 with other persons injured. A special train was sent from Birming ham, carrying physicians and a squad of State militiamen to the district. Aid is also pouring iu from all drec tons. From Meridian, Miss., comes a re port that Mrs. John Minniece and her child were killed outright and John Minniece was seriously injured, while a number of other persons were hurt and there was considerable destruc tion of property. Richland and Lamourie, La., were ? 1.. ~ ?PfV? struck by the storm ana uttwij a of their population injured. Winchester, Miss., a small town, is reported wiped out. though only two persons are known to have been killed. Natchez, Miss., reports sixty un known to be dead in tho northerr Louisiana storm. Hundreds of plan tation cabins are reported destroyed in that section. Mobile reported nine dead in Hat tiesburg. Miss., but this has not been confirmed. , * PLUMBER S CARELESSNESS Caused the Death of a Young Lady in Brooklyn. Miss Grace Buckley, the 21-year old daughter of H. H. Buckley of No. I 398 Halsey street, Brooklyn, was killed Tuesday night by gas asphyxia tion,, said to be caused by the care lessness of a plumber. The gas jet In her bed room was fixed the day be fore by the plumber who tightened the stopcock so that it was impossible to turn it completely off; and Tues when her grandmother, found Miss Buckley dead In bed and the gas escaping from the fixture. A physician was called but he stated the girl had been dead for some hours. HEAVY DISPENSARY SALES. Three Thousand Dollars Worth of Liquor Sold in One Day. The largest sales since the opening ofr the North Augusta dispensary were made on Saturday, April 18, the sales amounting to over $3000. This amount exceeded the largest amount yet sold in one day previous by about $1,100, the largest sales previously being about $1,900. TRIED TO KILL THEM. GREENWOOD MAX AXD WIFE HAD CLOSE CALL. While They Were Asleep in Bed the Son of the Man Shot at Them at Close Range. a aispatcn irom ureenwooa 10 me News and Courier 6ays Butler Pinsou, known as "Bub," is charged with making an attempt to kill his father and step-mother, Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Pinson, as they lay asleep early on Tuesday morning, firing both barrels of a gun at them, and when only about eight feet away from thein. That Mr. and Mrs. Pinson are living to tell how it happened is a miracle, for the load of shot entered the head of the bed, only a few inches above their heads, and some of the shot were found imbedded in the pillows, on which their heads rested. Mr. B. M. Pinson lives about a mile anl a half southeast of Saluca, and within about four hundred yards of Siloam Church. He is a well-to-do farmer, and is numbered among Greenwood County's most substantial citizens, he being a man of about 55 years of age. "Bub," however, seems t? bear a pretty bad reputation, having lived a very profligate life, living the greater part of the time away from home. Young Pinson's motive is unknown, but his father, the elder Pinson, him self thinks that the boy, knowing that no one Knew ne was in uu? imn of the country, decided that he would kill both himself and Mrs. Pin son, and that he would then share ;he estate with his brother, Richard, being hard pressed for funds. Mr* Pinsoft had only lately refused to grant his requester money. Young Pinson made his escape, but Sheriff McMillan is making every ef fort to catch him, and has sent out the following description of Pinson all over the country: "Arrest Butler Pinson; charge, attempt to murder; color, white, age twenty-six rears, height 5 feet, 7 inches, weight 160 pounds. Said to have missing tooth, brown eyes and dark hair; full face and clean shaven. Use caution." COAL MINE VICTIMS. Evploson in Pennsylvania Coal Mine Kills Four Men. Mine Inspector Henry Loutett and the miners who volunteered for res sue work in Mine No. 1 of the Ells worth Collieries Company, at Ells worth, Pa., where an explosion oc curred early Thursday, have complet ed their search of the mine and report that only four men were killed. There were over one hundred men at work at the time and their scape is due to the fact that the explosion happened at a point beyond where they were workng. The explosion re sulting from the victims striking a pocket of gas while at work far back in the mine and ahead of the air supplied by the ventilating system. Fire followed the explosion, which was terrific, but the affected sections have been bratticed and the damage will not be heavy. This was the second explosion in the mine, but no deaths resulted from the first. In spectors regarded the mine as gaseous - nn/1 r>vr*tOctpH I to a uangeruus uegnx aim ? against it being equipped with elec trical appliances, but their protests were denied on the hearing of the suit against the company. * ANOTHER SAFE ROBBED. Yeggmen Enter Stores and Take Three Hundred Dollars. At Greenville Tuesday morning .saf? crackers entered the branch store if Carpenter Brothers and t>le\v open he safe, securing in the nighborhourl >f JoOO. The sub-postolHce was lo cated in the building and part of the money belonged to the Govern meat. The building is located on Washing ton street, in a few yards of the Southern depot and the robbery was i daring piece of work, as there is constant passing on the street at all hours of the night. It is thought that the robbers blew the safe open, just as a passenger train rolled into the yards, the noise from the train drowning the report from the explo cinn BRYAN WINS AGAIN. .Massachusetts Will Send Delegates to Denver Favorable to Him. A dispatch from Boston says the Bryan men report the state for Bryan at the caucusses held to elect delegates to the state convention. No contest worth the name was made for any other candidate, and the dele gates chosen, were, generally speak ing. favorable to Bryan. In Boston only four per cent, of the party vote came out. and (he same thing was the rule throughout the state. In one Boston ward, where efforts were made to elect delegates, pledged to .Johnson, the attempt was unsuccess ful. , * A Wonderful Cat. The Newberry Observer says: "There is a pet cat in the family of Thomas Barberry, of Hopkins Cor ners. Mich., that will never play with the baby without first bitting off the sharp point on its claws * WILL NOW QUIT Selling Booze or Go to Jail for Contempt of Court. AFTER BLIND TIGERS Court Injunctions "Will bo Pushed aiul nil Earnest Effort Made to Stop the Illegal Sale of Liquor?Gov. Ansel Will Authorize the Attorney i General to Proceed as Supreme Court Gives the Itight. "What will be done now that the supreme court has sustained the in junction policy as applied to blind tigers? This question has suggested itself to a great many people n the last two doys. Gov. Ansel himself declines to talk, and Attorney General Lyon is out of the city," says the Columbia State. "But it is renorted that Mr. Mar shall P. DeBruhl, assistant attorney general, has been given a batch of of injunction affidavits and has been ordered by Governor Ansel to pro ceed against the places regarded as 'blind tigers.' It is said that among these cases are five right here in Columbia and that Capt. T . E. Dixon has been given orders to enjoin not only the keepers of liu* places but the owners of the pr?>ie. :y i'njm ever again toleratng the illicit sale of li quor on the premises such sale con stituting a nuisance u'i 'cr the Carey-; Cothran act and subjoining the prop erty to be handled in injunction pro ceedings. I Jt is believed that Gov. Ansel will now push the injunctions against) bling tigers in Charleston?and in other cities where they may exist? and by this drastic measure drive these people out of an unlawful bus mess. "When Gov. Ansel was a candidate for governor he received nearly 75 per cent, of the otes in Charleston county. Some time after he assumed his official duties there was some talk to the effect that Charleston was getting more and more 'wide open,' depending upon Gov. Ansel's political friendship. When this mat ter was brought to Gov. Ansel's at tention he inquired of the attorney general if there were any way effect ually to go after the blind tigers. "Mr. Lyon suggested the injunction method. This; was approved by the Governor and the State disuensary auditor, Mr. W. B. West, was sent to Charleston to work up evidence against suspects. The dispensary constabulary was used and upon af fidaits thus obtained the attorney general issued injunctions closing a number of liquor shops in Charles ton. "An appeal was taken to the su preme court and the court decided in favor of the injunctions. Mr. Lyon had been advised by Gov. Ansel to suspend thef enjoining proceedings until the court should act. Mr. De Hvnhi it is stated, has received in structions that as the court lias sus tained the injunctious the work should be pushed. It is said that in Charleston when a law breaker was enjoined from selling liquor he would move his place to the upper story of the same building and conduct the business in his cherk's name. Mr. Lyon will now issue injunctions against property owners also. These injunctions are perpetual, and the punishment is sure."' , * A SEYEKE CYCLONE. I todies of n Man and His Wife Car ried a Mile. A destructive cyclone visited Ne braska last Thursday, sweeping through Cummiug County. Three people are known to have been kill ed. a number injured and a number of houses destroyed. Telegraph and telephone lines are down and reports are slow in arriving. The tornado struck the house of John Mangleson, near Pender, Neb., and then swooped up into the air, taking the wreckage and both Mr. and Mrs. Mangleson. Hoth were kill ed, their bodies being carried a mile. George Wacker and family were at lunch when the twister struck their house. Three of the family- were seriously injured. * EIGHT WEltE EXECITEI). Attninntfri to Assassinate the President of (iuaitemnla. A dispatch from Mexico says stu dents attempted to assassinate the President of Guatemala on Wednes day. The students were immediately seized, and, without trial, eight ol them were executed. The squad ol cadels had been assigned from the institute to act as an hororarv guard at the reception of Major Willian Heinke. the new minister from the United States. The dispatches assert that as th< president entered the palace the stu dents fired and Cabrera fell, blooc Btraming from several wounds. Soldiers seized the students an< wrenched the guns from them befon they could reload or use their clubs A BRUTAL MURDER DIDN'T INTEND TO TO KILL ANY IMltTIULliAlt I'ttlfBUA. Hoped His A'ictim Would Be Wen 1 thy American or English Tourist, Who He Could Kob. The sheperd, Joseph Michaud, who murdered Robert Munziger, a young Swiss Alpinist, on the Col de Balme last August, has been sentenced to life imprisonment at Martlgny, Switz erland. The crime was perhaps the most re markable ever committed in the Alps. According to Michaud's confess sion, which was made with great cal lousness, he lay in wait on the Col de Balme for days, intending to murder the first unaccompanied tourist who came along. He honed his victim would be a rich Englishman or American, and his intention was to leave Switzer land with the proceeds of the rob bery and to come to America, where he hoped to make his fortune. Michaud explained that he had thought this out carefully while at tending to his flock, and had conclud ed that he would remain a'shepherd to the end of his days unless he could make a coup by murdering and rob bing a wealthy tourist. "Many Englishmen passed," ^aid Michaud in his confession, "but they were all accompanied by relatives or friends." Finally Munziger appeared. He intended crossing the Col de Balrae and descending to Ohamonlx, whence he meant attempting an ascent of Mont Blanc. When near the summit of the Col de ^alm? Michaud at tacked him with a hunting knife nnd slabbed him to death. Michaud robbed the body, strip ped it of cjothes, and then ouried ft nndor mme rocks. He l'OV?fiti how e'1 tu remove the traces of the crimp, and guides who searched the preelple- i es of the Col de Balme for a week finally discovered the evidences of a struggle, which led to Munziger's noUy being disintered. < Michaud aroused suspicion in a neighboring village by displaying a watch which afterward proved to bo Munziger's. When the shepherd was i arrested he was wearing the clothes of the murdered man. He showeu great unconcern and langlied and i joked with the gendarmes. His booty amounted to a about $5 and Michaud's only regret was that he had killed a Swiss instead of a wealthy foreigner. "I was too has ty," he complained to the judge dur ing his trial, "but I had been waiting , so long that I had become impatient." BANKER'S CONVENTION Met in Columbia Last Week in Reg ular Annual Session. The eighth annual convention of the South Carolina Bankers' Associa' tion was called to order at Columbia Thursday morning by the President, Hon. W. D. Morgan of Georgetown. There was a large attendance of bank ers from all sections of the State. The invocation by Rev. Kirkman G. Fin ley, rector of Trinity church, opened the proceedings, and Presi dent Morgan then introduced Mayor \V. S. Reamer, who extended to the convention the welcome of the city and placed the keys of the city in tht hands of the visitors. He was followed by Hon. D. C. Heyward, president of the Columbia Savings Bank and Trust Company, who, on behalf of the Columbia Clearing House - Association, extend ed the welcome of the Columbia hankers. The response of the association was made by Hon. John C. Sheppard, of Edgefield, who made an elo'iumt address, leferring to the tin1:' when thirty-five years ago he first cam*! to Columbia to a meeting organized to rescue the State from misrule and the courageous part of the people Columbia had taken in that move ment. * MARTYR TO SERVICE. Attendant in a Contagious Hospital a Victim of Septicemia. A New York dispatch says one of the most popular and efficient nurses of the Rierside Hospital ou North Brother Island, Miss Maybelle F. Strawski, has given her life to her calling. Riverside Hospital is a city institution given over to the treat meat of contagions diseases exclusive ly and about three weeks ago Miss Strawski was in charge of several diphtheria patients. She pricked her thumb with a safe ty pin in the care of one of the pa ' tients and at the time thought noth ' ing of it. i In a few days, however, it devel ? oped that the pin was badly infected I and Miss Strawski was found to be i suffering from a violent attack of ; septicemia. Ordinarily an operation on the in ; jured thumb or an amputation of the - arm would have saved the life of the 1 suffffered, but in the case of Miss Strawski the poison has been so vir 1 ulent and had spread so rapidly that i ail pffnrts to save her life proved fit SHOT HIM DOWN From Ambush While He Was Riding Along the Road in rim i v iirnminpn Id rMIMLLT VYUUNUtU Mr. J. B. Sims Assassinated Near the Scene of a Fight He Had a Few Weeks Ago Mith Mr. W. Hampton Stogner, in Which the Latter Was Mortally Wounded?The Assassin Unknown. A dispatch from Lancaster to The State says J. B. Sims, a farmer of that county,! was found on Wednesday lying face downward about three miles from Lancaster, with what is believed to be a mortal wound, hav ing been shot from ambush. His ! left side is filled with buckshot. Rev. E. O. Thompson made the dis- 1 covery and at once summoned Dr. i R. G. Elliott, who attended the wounded man. It is believed that his wound is fatal. Sims' body was found almost at the identical spot at which the diffi culty between Hampton Stonger and himself occurred on February'3, last, in which both men used their pistols, Stonger receiving a wound which re sulted in his death at a Chester hos pital the following day. Sims, in the difficulty, escaped without injury. Sims was tried for the killing of Stogner at the last term of court, the case resulting in a mistrial. There is no clue to the assassin of Sims. . TIGER SPRINGS UPON MAX.. Driver of Bullock Cart Has Narrow Escape From Death. ' A fvnm Polnilf f O CQ1TC Q _ A UlOJJAltli 11 V/iU \jaivubtu ocu j correspondent at Chamarajankar s sends the following: A cart be- f longing to the forest range officer was going along with some twenty other carts, at 4 a. m., at a very lit tle distance from Atigulipur, eight miles from Chamarajanger. There were two persons in the cart. Both were wide awake. There was noticed some uneasiness among the bullocks that were drawfng tne r carts. The cartman saw this symp- t torn and became aware that there ( was danger. The bullocks began to f run, as the road was sloping. s The tiger was perceived by some of a the cartmen pursuing them, and the cartmen began to beat the kerosene t oil tins and shout wildly to scare J away the tiger, But the tiger, not a daunted by this, sprang upon one c bullock that was to the left side of $ the hindmost cart. The two persons, t- ? .. vof tnnlf i uiougn 111 lieu 11 i^u ttuvu, j \s\, vw? i courage and began to shout and howl c their loudest. t The tiger, enraged at this, sprang f on the man who was driving the c cart. But the man managed to slip \ back into the cart, and the tiger lost its hold, and sat by the roadside, t After awhile the two persons issued t from the cart and tried to lift the j bullock, but found it was dead. Then, i taking the other bullock, they pro- t ceeded to the town. * HUNT FOR LOST BOY. James K. WillunI, of Ogden, Utah, Is Searching Whole Country. v The Atlanta Journal says on Wed- ' nesday morning a well-dressed n;3n 1 with a distinctly western appearance 1 walked into the police station and be- I gan making inquiries as to whether I they had heard anything of a strange I woman with a nine-year-old boy being < seen in Atlanta. He trated that fthout four months I ago his only child had been kidnapped i and he was searching for him, com- i iig to Atlanta from New Orleans upon i hearing that the woman and boy i were headed this way. i Upon being questioned the myster- < ious man stated that his name was James K. Willard, and that he lived near Odgen, Utah. He stated that his child, Karl Willard, was stolen from near his home about four months ago and practically ever since that time he has been searching for him, and intended to keep searching until he either found the boy or knew positive ly where he was. The child was described as being a pretty nine-year-old boy with gold /niriv lnrks. He said that the boy was very smart and that he knew he would hear from his child if he ever got an opportunity to write him. * WOOD FISH STORY. Dog Drowned by Dig Trout in a Fierce Struggle. A small dog belonging to A. E. Case, of Dayton, Wyo., was dragged into Tongue river by a trout and drowned. The dog accompanied Case's little son on a fishing trip. The boy hooked a fish large enough to jerk the fishing rod into the water. The boy sent the dog after it, but ' * A 1 1 on/1 nrtlfl 1116 l TO III imuieu nic uug anu j/uiv | about until the clog was carried down the rapids and drowned in sight of his master. The boy recovered the pole and after a hard struggle landed vttie trout, which weighed four pounds BUSH WARJltf AGED. TREACHERY AND CUNNING USED 6N BOTH SIDES. It Is Reported That Sixty Whites and . . Indians Have Been Killed in the Bloodly Warfare. A report that about 60 whites and Indians have been killed in Nicara gua in bloody bush warfare waged by Mosquito Indians was brought to New Orleans by W. R. Coffman of Bloomington, 111., who was a pas senger on the steamer Dictator from Central American Ports. The death list of whites numbers about 20. The fighting started over a month ago on the Caribbean coast, where the Indians live. Late in February about 100 Indians attcked Prinzapol ca Ber, a small town. They hid be hind bushes, trees and other shelter, pouring into the village a fire which killed two men. A long hard fight resulted, soldiers and citizens volunteers finally,driv ing the assailants back, about a doz- , en of the Indians being killed or mortally wounded. The other In dians fled but many of them were ;apt'ured and after being severely 1 beaten with raw hides, chains were i placed about their legs and they ] were imprisoned in an improvised ] ?tockade. 1 Another engagement took place at t 3ape Gracas, near the border of j Nicaragua and apanish Honduras, i i-Iere the casualties among the troops < vere five, but the Mosquitos were no nore successful than before and fled t n retreats to the mountalfi. Since then, Mr. Coffman said, many t roops have been sent into the Mos- A juito district and several skirmishes < lave occurred. It is reported that i reachery and cunning have been us- i id on both Bides. Whereever a party i >f white men get a chance they gen srally kill the Indians without mercy, ( ind the Indians have slain several r olders whom they caught in the t orests. , BOLI) ROBBERS RAID Lnd Rob Club House at Pistol Point * i and Escapc. c At Hot Springs Ark., four masked J nen with leveled revolvers entered he club house of the Indian club on Central avenue early Wednesday. orced the occupants to line up along ide the wall and looted the place of f i large amount of money. Ihe occupants were then locked in o a roOm and the robbers escaped >Jo definite statement concerning the , imount of money taken can be se- ^ :ured but it is estimated at between >5,000 and $10,000. * After gathering up all the money n sight the robbers forced the oc :upants to enter a small room and ^ he door was locked, rne roooers led and so quietly was the robbery :onductel that the persons in the cafe vere unaware of the proceeding. One man finally crawled over the ransom from the locked room and hen liberated his companions. The ilarm was at once given and the po ice were called on to search for the obbers. * CHANCE TO ELECT BRYAN says Editor Henry Watterson. The J Johnson Boom is 100 unit. < While in New York a fe wdays ago, * ivhere he dined with Mr. Bryan, Col. ( Henry Watterson said: "Personally, j [ have no doubt that Mr. Bryan will , je nominated at Denver,' and I think ?' that we have a good chance to elect him. The movement in the interest Df Gov.-Johnson comes too late and , from the wrong quarter. If the in terests that are now urging his nom- , ination had backed me up when I ! advocated his candidacy ten months j ago he might have had a chance for the nomination. But the Democrats of New York in the present chaotic condition cannot dictatc to the ma jority of the Democratic party." Col. , Watterson said that Taft would be nominated by the Republicans. DEADLY TYPHOID FEVER. An Augusta Family Stricken With the Terrible Disease. A dispatch says there is a small epidemic of a malignant form of ty- ; phoid fever in certain sections of Augusta. Sunday morning, Mrs. K. D. Sibley, widow of the late Chas. Sibley, died at the home of her moth- , er, Mrs. Duncan. Just a week ago iier sister, Miss Duncan, died of the same disease, and at this time Mrs. Sibley's two little childreu and her mother, wrs. Duncan, are seriously iii of the same malady. i ns r roXTROL OF TRAIN. Four Italians Were Killed When the Crash Came. Four Italians were killed outright, one fatally injured, and died on the train while en route to the Williams port hospital, and four others prob ably fatally injured in a wreck on a log train on the LaQufnn lumber road at Whalen, Pa., Wednesday morning. Failure of the reverse lever on the engine allowed the train to run away, RAISE THE DEAD.' Machine That Restores Life Win* the Vital Spark ' . SEEMS ALMOST GONE, - Mm j.-j The Most Remarkable Invention Fill* Inert Lungs With Oxygen and Thus Neutralizes All Poisons?A Rabbit and a Dog Pronounced Dead Leap from the Table After Use of the Respirator on Them. it was announced some time ago that Professor George Poe, of Nor folk, Va., had invented an "artificial respirator machine" that would rata the dead. There has just been com- x v pleted at Norfolk by Professor7 Poe and several inquiring scientists a ser ies of amazing successful experiment with the little contrivance which me chanically puts oxygen, the breath of life, into inert lungs. Those who witnessed the tests are firmly convinced that thousands of lives may be saved by the "brass heart," which is what Poe's machine practically is. It will be especially valuable in cases of suHn?nrf?i Lion caused by drowning, by gas as phyxiation in mines, and by coma resultaiit upon typhoid fever and oth ;r diseases. ' Professor Poe, by letting the con .rivance force upon him inhalation nd exhalation of oxygen, was enabled :o stop breathing for ten minutes. Vnimals, declared dead beyond all loubt by the visiting physicians, were evived in a few minutes and were ible to scamper out of the operating oom. Practically, though not literally, >f course, the artificial respiration nachlne brought the dead to life and he experts say it will work equally veil on human beings. Professor Poe's machine is built as lear as possible along the lines of he human heart. It is about eigh een inches in height, with two cyl nders?correspondng to the ventri :les and auricles of the heart?and nlet and outlet, valves. Double ubes enter the larynx and noBtrlls if the patient. . Roughly, the contrivance reaem >les a bicycle pump. While one set . mc xi n mues uiawa uu mc yuisuuuuo luids and gases from the lungs, the >ther set forces in the life giving >xvgen. The first experiment was upon 'Socrates," a pet rabbit on the Poe arm. ' It was given two grains of orphine, enought to kill a man. rhen immediately' four ounces of ither were administerel. The physl :ians pronounced the rabbit dead, af er all ordinary restorative* failed. The machine was then applied and / vithin three minutes the effects of he poison and anesthetic were drawn >ff, and Socrates jumpel from the able and hopped away. A large dctf vas then killed and bought back to ife again within five minutes., The doctors present realized then hat many of the evil and after effect* >f anesthesia could be doneaway with )y the machine. And there dawned lpon them another side of lis value, ivhich had rather a humorous aspect. Intoxication, it was found, could be :ured in a few minutes This experiment was actually mada. The machine was applied to a hilar iously drunken man, drew off ths poisonous alcoholic fumes and ha straightened out in three minutes. Since then, it has been said, Professor Poe has been approached with a prop osition to manufacture pocket re spirators for this purpose. Infant asphysia, that dread accom paniment of birth, which stifles many a. life before it has fairly started to exist, may also be wiped out by the respirator. Dr. J. P. Jackson and Professor Poe, with a minature ma chine, saved the life of a baby at Berkeley last week. The machine did the breathing for the child until it was able to strike out for itself. Throughout the Virginia country folks regard Professor Poe aB a mod ern miracle-worker. Despite his per sistent declarations that his invention is merely an aid to lfe after it has fled, the country people call him the "raiser of the dead." Many persons have written to Poe asking bim to try and restore life to relatives who have been dead for weeks, months and even ye ars. He J '? moniifo/jhiplnir CPV is engagfu jiu? in ma..u,?.,v?.,-0 ? sral respirators which will be tested in the leading hospitals of the coun try. ILLINOIS FOR BRYAN. Instructs Her Delegates to Vote and Work for Hini. The Illinois State Democratic Con vention, which met at Springfield on Thursday, adopted the unit rule and instructed its delegates to the Na tional Convention at Denver to vote for W. J. nryan and to "use all hon orable means" to secure his nomina tion. The resolution endorsing Mr. Bryan was adopted with enthusiasm and a flattering demonstration fol lowed the action. One by one the Western States are falling in line for the great Commoner, * ^