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SUPREME BENCH Mi Ckoke Wu Owt Turned Down h] TkWore Rwseveft A "TRUST" JUDGE B? W? Called "Private Car Lur ton/' the Sobrtquet Sticks Something A boot tb? Pro?pectir* Bulwark of Our Liberties 1b The** Cuited States. "I came here to see what kind o' a reputation bla neighbors glV3 ti Jodie Horace H. Lurton. whj ha* been picked by President Taft ?< socowd Justice Peckhatn on lb* United Statee supreme court.," sal Otl9on Gardner, In Nashville, Tean. a few daps ago. " 'The railroads and the corpora tlona of Tennessee will be entlrel satisfied with Judge Lurton's appoint meat,' said the firet man I aeked 'He baa served them here In Ten nee see long and faithfully, and they wii be glad to see him promoted to tb> larger field.' "I asked what evidence there wo of friendliness between Judge Lnr ton and the railroads. "The tamllla A?oi?nat4r>ri Prlvato Car Lurton the lawyer answered. 'I sappo? you've bf?rd what everybody know throughout Ibis section of the Sout' about Judge Lurton'e habitual us of private* cars furnished by the ral' roads. Up to the passage of tb Hepburn law, Judge Lurton scarcel move! without the private car.' "True enough, everywhere I wer X fonnd tales of Lurton'e privat cars. Not for business merely di he use them, but he gave privat car parties. Once he took a part of young friends, men and womei through the West, including a vi6i to the Yellowstone. On such occ* iflona th? railroads furnished nc only the cars, but the chef, the pre visions and all the little extras the go to make a junket of this sor complete. "It should be understood that th etpeosea of these cars were born by railroads which were actual o potential litigants in hia court. A one time, I am Informed, there wa a receivership which brought th management of a railway Into Judgt7nrt/w>** mnrf and th? ludeo stmr ly Indicated to the receiver bis df rire to have a private ear. The rt fcetrer naturally obeyed. "Neither Jndge Lurton nor hi friends ever have denied his fr? quent habHnal use of private can Nor have they tried to Justify It. was talking to a grizzled corporatlo lawyer who wa?j most friendly t the Judge. " 'I don't think that story sboul be brought up at this time,' said tb lawyer. 'Judge Lurton haa r* formed and seen the error of hi ways. Why not forget the past? "He went on to say that thla pr' vate car affair hod already lost th judge a promotion to the suprem court. " 'It was President Rooseveit purpose to appoint Judge Lurton t eucceea jusuce orown, tne lawyf Mid. 'Judge Taft who was then ae' retary of war. was pressing Lu* ton's name. But Roosevelt got tb story of Judge Lurton's use of pr vate cars, aod he dropped that nam from his list.' "President Taft and Judge Lur too werre oo the bench together. A one time the court was made op o Taft, I/orton and Day, the latt^ being Mr. Justice Day, of the Unite Statw supreme court. The distrir Included Michigan, Ohio, Kontuck and Tennessee. Judge Lurton owe his appointment to President Clev< land. "A leading member of the Nasv vllle bar and himself a cornoratir lawyer John J. Vertress. What b had to say of Judge Lurton take on added significance from the far that he is personally and profef skroally the judge's friend. " 'In these days,' said Mr. Vetrees, 'Judges and lawyers are ar to be classified under two heed? those who place the emphasln o property rights, and thoso who placthe emphasis on personal rights. T the former clans belongs Judge Luton.* The attorney went on to argu that this position la the correct on' and that stability of property shoul be made paramount I talked wit' lawyers In Cincinnati and Memphis and found nothing to contradict tb hnpreselon as to Lurton's corporat and railway leanings. " 'If Judge Lurton has ever dp elded a motion or a case In a wa distasteful to the Louisville an Nashville railroad,' Bald a Memphl attorney, 'I have never heard of th case." and he added: 'This ma T O Vt J J- -i ujrau iuai iur u. oi rx- ruau is ai way? right; but If that Is what 1 means ft Is singular to say th least' "Judge Lurton's pro-raflroad an pro-corporation record covers a pr riod of about 30 years. It bega when the firm was Lcrton & Smltt and he was local attorney for tb L. & N. It is made up on man learned decisions, well written an folly 'buttressed* by hoary prec? dent, and all tending to the weaken lng of personal and the strengthen !ng of property rights. They hav contributed to the defeat of persona Injury claims against railroads an to tho breaking down of federal an State regulation of corporations. "And to this end Judgo Lurto has worked with ability. He is scholarly man of industrious habit and no small rices. " 'He can write an unsound opin ion.* said one lawyer, "and make I sound like music on the water.' "On "cceelmj. b'-^ngpcBr. Jndg [ CHANGE OF POLICY SOUTHERN NEGRO OFFICE-HOLDf I ' ERS SLATED TO GO. President lart to Appoint i>e?rowi? ?fc. . XT . 7?""^ ~ '' ?r>. '**. to Offloo in the North, Instead of in the Soath. "That President Taft Is going to appoint Northern negroes to office " rather than Southern ones Is the Information which has been prettj thoroughly discussed among the poll tlciana of Washington and elsewhere ilnce Booker Washington was ther( 'ast week," saya the Washington correspondent of The News and ] Courier. As the result of thia policy it If \ >xpected that the negroen in the >, k>uth who are holding importan' fficea will, as their terms expire t >e displaced for the most part by /hltee, and in turn recognition will >e given to colored men in the North ' "he list of colored men holding lm>ortant officer in the South under th< 1 ederal government includes the fol owing. ; Robert Smalls, collector of cus oms at Beaufort, 8. C.; Henry A ' tucker, collector of internal reve j <U6 BI /vuamn, uii., JUOCV" iollecior of Internal revenue at Jack ' onville. Fla.; Nathan H. Alexander egister of the land office at Monf ornery, Ala.; Thomas V. McAllister ecdver of public moneys at Jack < on, MIps.; Walter L. Cohen, regis er of the land office at New Or eans; Alexander B. Kennedy, recelv j r of public moneys at New Orleans i ohn E. Bush, receiver of public : . loneys at Little Rock. The course the President will take n the matter of appointing colore len Is likely to be Illustrated In the election of a successor to W. T ( "ernon, register of the treasury, ooker T. Washington and othet >lored leaders have given their sup- ; >ort to J. C. Naples, of Nashville ir the place, but It appears that th< i Resident probably select a col l re<J man from the North. Washington was In Washington t a ew davtt ago, and It Is said that he rote#ted when ho learned that 3 ?either Vernon nor Ralph Tyler, th< ; itt^r as auditor for the navy deartment, were to be ousted.. Nelth- 1 r of these pull with Washington. ( ( SIXTY KILLED LAST YEAR. ? t tail roads Submit Report to Rail* { road Commission. ! 1 Sixty-seven people were killed and 58 injured on the railroads of the ? tate during the past fiscal year, ac- j ordlng to the annual report of the 3 wenty-flve companlos received by he railroad commission. It is shown ( i the last annual report of tho comil6sion that 57 were killed and 1,- ? 87 Injured. It will be seen that he number willed on the ralroade c as been Increased by ten, while the ] umber of Injured was less by sev- f ral hundred. The fiscal year ended , n June 30. The commission is now ompillng the statistical part of its t nnual report. Sailors Lost. Hope of finding the five "Jackles" 1 f the gunboat Marietta off Port Li on. who were driven to see In fi elpless whaleboat on Friday night ( as been abandoned. i urton was eloquently silent. That ^ remembered by lawyers as the 'me he overruled the United States upreme court. The factB were ] 'iese: One Kelly had sued a rail- j ' ad for damages to compensate fo^ ( 9rsonal Injuries resulting from toe Mlure of the road to furnish safety ppllances required by the so-called oupler law. Judge Lurton protect- ; 1 the railroad by reading Into the i <w the necessity for due diligence, teantlme the same sort of case t ent from Arkansas to the Unit*! tates supreme court and the lattar | iiy knocked out the 'due diligence' efense. Kelly applied to Lurton "T rehearing. 'Denied,' ruled the ^urt. 'No opinion,' that was all. lc?e then the supreme court has itervoned and taken the Kelly cane -om Lurton's court. "Ju'lge Lurton, a? a member of "ie United States circuit court of npeals, found technical grounds for eclarln* the employers' liability act nconstltutlonal. In the appllca'on of J. K. Keen for an Injunction gainst voting certain railway stockB, urtgc Lurton found the Bherman ntl-trust law not to be binding up r n him or his railroads, much to the Ulsfactlon of E. H. Harrlman, whose onaolldation program waa thus made * easy. "As far back ap the early '70fi rudge Lurton wan known as a parIsan of the corporations as against < he people, defending the claims of ' turnpike and early railway companies ' to the subsidies voted them by the * 3tate before the war. "It is recalled that when he was C x member of the chancellors court he ' -ead a paper before the Bar associap Mon arguing the entire sufficiency of i the courts to curb trusts monopo* ies. and depreciating legislation of r this character. d "Another paper was read a few >- -ears ago is devoted to an elaborate i- lefense of corporations generally, i- "Judge Lurton was born in Clarksf ville, Ky., but was brought, as a i' boy, to Tennessee. He graduated from the Lebanon Bcbool of Law. * the oldest Institution of its sort in Tennessee. After about four years' r as Judge of tho chancellors court he | r was elected to the State supreme } court bench, wherg he served ten rears. He was apppintd to the fed* t- eral court in I8f?3. His residence l!. [1 ft! Nashville. He has two children, both grown, and living a-?-'3v from A FISHY YARN Is 0 ad. we Claim Thai The; Manufactured Cq)\ tb< Obsmatiwtf tat _ p0 COCK AND BULL STORY ? ev? tlo Ka| Two Men Gtve the New Yort wa Times Statements That They Werr mQ < Bribed by the Explorer to Help bo Him Fix Up Data to Fool th< frc wo Public. -o ia< The New York Times prints th< cj remarkable narrative of two men 'ea nade under oath, declaring that they '.af were employed by Dr. Frederick A 12? Dook to fabricate astronomical an' er )ther observations for submission t< *hc he University of Copenhagen, which of s about to pass upon Dr. Cook'f H. assertion that he discovered th< up< *Jorth Pole on April 21, l&Of. Thes< ass nen are George H. Dunkle, an lnsur < ince broker, of 81 Nassau street -lu sTew York, and Capt. August Wede it xxjse. a sea captain, of 437 Thlr of eenth street, Brooklyn. For the! the * -i?>Q 1 abors they were to nave recwivwi '?? olntly from Dr. Cook $4,000 wltt ? id additional bonus of $500 to Capt < x>oae upon the acceptance of th< lot cords by the University of Copen ^?< lagen. They say that Dr. Cook ha' >ald them only $200 when be die ippeared on the eve of the dispatch -ba >f his "records'* to Copenhagen tw' *?? veeka ago and his failure to pay tb iaf um remaining due them they freeb < icknowledge to be their motive fo ^ ioming forward with the story. Accompanying these narratives wll' ippear copies of the affidavits o 3apt. Loose and Dunkle affirming ^5 heir accuracy, facsimile of Dr ?d book's Instructions to Capt Loose ^ec n Cook's handwriting, In possessor >f The Times and the affidavits o na 'apt Loose swearing to the accuracy I >f the same. The translation of thi> -'ov nemoranda by Dr. Cook is as fol- :en ows: ral' "8vartevaag, start March 17-18: 3r* itrong wind?hate." jrn "March 30?Observations latitude he md longitude; dally observatlns tc :be Iprll 23." -aI The Times also printe the followug list under the heading, "Wha: ^apt Loose Bays Ho Supplied to Dr. 2ook." 1. Twenty-four altitudes for latlude sights. ^ 2. One chart covering route fronc Jvartcvaag to the Pole, with all of )r. Cook's assumed positions marked j lpon It say 3. Complete observations for tlmr thr ind chronometer rate, as tbey might ;be lave been taken by stars at Anoratok irs ind Svartevaag, probably 3 0 in all. hoi 4. Diagram for compass error ant 8te :orrection at different points. at 6. Calculations for longitude, about in< 10 in all. la; 6. Blxteen observations as they me *>uld have been taken at the North tru Pole, In two Bete, eight with depres- Ma ?lon of Pole Considered and eight otb vlth depression ignorod. 7. Bowditch's complete natloual the .ablee. Ma 8. Anflneen's tables for correction lo, )f altitudes of heavenly bodlea. to 9. American nautical almanac for lee: several years. Ing 10. Lloyd's calendar of 1908. jav 11. Three admlrallty charts, cov- to srlng Bmlth sound and the polar try regions, Noa. 269, 274 and 276. eat 12.. One Bliss almanac of 1908. pre 13. One Negus almanac, 1907. % tat The Times ha? followed the stepe for described by th^e tw>o men and Jioi has verified their goingB and com- Jifl Ings, tbeir purchases of boots ana ret charts and the fact of their Intimate relations with Dr. Cook. Whether the "observations" calculated by Capt. Loose and supplied Sir as bo alleges, to Dr. Cook, were adopted by the latter and made a part of his report to tho University of Copenhagen, it -is, of course, im- , possible to say, without a comparison of Capt. Loose's narrative with ^r3 that report.. The Tlmee hae com- ^ municated to tho University of Cop- t enhagen the main facts of Capt. a Loosed story and Mr. Dunkle'B and at{ offered to supply to the university tlo the corroborative documents It has j received from these two men. One t of these purports to bo Dr. Cook's tjfl memorandum directing the prepara- gr, tion of observations from Hvarteraag gt( tiii uue w*ijr iu lue pun*. In the narrative of Capt. Loose ha ho frankly expresses hla scorn of gc Dr. Cook's claims, laughs at his lg- un norance of tho simplest oysentlala de for accurate observations* In the Aro- gc tic regions and describes at length how, working backward from the pole, he calculated observations that would fit In with Cook's narrative and coached him on the necessary modifications of the latter. As, for example, that he must be sure to record that he rose before 4:15 o'clock on a certain morning, be- E. cause it was at that hour that a cer- ta tain star, mentioned In one of 'a' Loose's calculations, would be vlsl- Pr ble. Mr. Dunkle describe# the In* mi ceptlon of the enterprise; ho* from Btl newspapers they gathered that Dr. aD Cook was In deep water and In- Wl ferred that he would be glad to pay P*1 for help; how Dunkle got John R. Bradley, Cook's backer, to Introduce lim; how the subject was led up to M! delicately and the bargain finally struck and carried out, and how, o? at last, Dr. Cook disappeared, after Wl aoceptln* their work and paying only fa $250 for it. Both Capt. Loose and Mr. Donkle tell of a visit to the shop of John Glies & Co., at 128 Front street, a at few days after the captain's talk i G< with the explorer at the Waldorf and a of purchasing for Dr. Cook various M nautical and astronomical works, ( b? besides three charts of Smith sound . lo and the polar regions. Robert to Flight, ?ol(J "tie bookc tnd re irta, told a reporter of The Tlmo^i it he recalled the visit and that ) purchases were made as des:;it>The charts Bold, Mr. Plight said, re numbered 200, 274 and 27o 4 ./^nll^/4 V otilnu oaho/1 him Trhftfl LI IUVOUU'1 UOTIUQ nuuvu >'MV> charts were bought If thy uipn Intended going to the North Id. "And from what I have known the captain's experience aa a plgator and his acquaintance wltb >rythlng pertaining to observens," aald Mr. Flight, "I would : that if any one could find hie y to the pole, Capt. Loose is that n." ~apt. Loose, in hie statement, eaye stayed at the Oramatan hotel m Noveml?er 16 to November 19, rklng out observations for Dr ok. and that he and the doctor 1 frequent conferences. Mr. Duni went with him on November 16. ving the next day. He and thf >taln had connecting rooms, Nos 6 and 128. Mr. DuDkle regised for them. The hotel register >ws the arrival on November 16 George H. Dunkle and "Andrew Lewis," the fictitious name agreec an for Capt. Loose. They were Igned to rooms 126 and 128. 2apt Loose says he remained seded In bis room during hla stay the hotel bo as to run no chanct having the doctor found out. All i time he worked hard on polar culations, giving them to Dr. Cook they were completed. )n the last day of hie stay at th< el, Capt. Loose says he gare Dr >k the flnpl set of observations h< 1 made for him and the docto nked him profusely, declaring t he now felt confident that hi: ords would be accepted at Copen[en. ?apt Losse was born at Bergon rway, on March 17, 1889, and ii younger days worked as an as ant to his father, who has ton; m connected with the coast sur ' of Norway. Capt Loose stud at the Navigation college of Ber i and was graduated In 1891 wltl best honors. He has been In com nd of many sea going vessels. ^ewi8 Nixon, the ship builder, wh< iches for Capt. Loose's compe ce sb n navigator, put the cap l in command of the torpedo boa: >gory, built for the Russian gov ment, when it was taken fron ship yards in these waters acros' ocean. Mr. Nixon declares tha' >t. Loose Is, in his estimate, on< the "most competent, efflcien; I accurate of navigators." ? ^ BACK TO EUROPE. a Usual Christmas Rnsh to th( Old Countries. ^ dispatch from St. John, N. B. s the erlstlng state of prosperity oughout Canada is reflected ii unprecedented rush of pasaeng to Eurpoe to spent the Christmas (ldays. Never before ha\fj thi amship bookings been so hea\*3 this time of the year. The Allar. sr Victorian, which sailed a few rs ago, carried her full complent of passengers, and the same 1; e of the C. P. R. steamship Lakt nltoba, which will depart for the ier Bide soon. rhe majority of those going foi holidays will remain until spring ny of them are persona well t< who are In t.be habit of golnt; Europe every years or so. Count a others, however, are of the work; classes and have put by enough lngs the past year to enable them enjoy a holiday In the old counand to take back substantial press to the folks at home. Under >sent conditions they do not hesle to give up their employment three or four months, feeling afldent that they will have nc acuity in getting work upon their urn in the spring. STOP8 TRAIN TO BATHE. itror rhRreorarded Schedule on Har riman Railroad. A dispatch from El Paao, Tex. rs Frltzi f&heff "etopped one ol "8. E. H. Harriman's paseengei dns In the heart of the Arizonc 3sert while she took a bath. Th< iin was running fast and rockin* rood deal, so that when Miss 9chefi .ompted to take her morning ablu n the water insisted on hitting th? ling of her private car. Thla wai > much. The conductor was no ;ed and stopped his train on th< st siding, which happened to bi ?in's Pass. He telegraphed to th< ipatchor that he would have t< ve new running orders, as Misi hoff inaiBt^rf on rftmalninff then til her bath was finished. Tho or r was compiled with, as Misi heff was paying for the train. FATAL SHOOTING SCRAPE. Lawyer Shoots Down Town Mar Khal of Byron, Ga. At Byron. Ga.. on . Wednesday C Bateman, town marshal, was fa lly Injured by A. T. Harper, ' *Ter. in a duel with pistols on th lnclpal Btreet of the town. Bat* in charged that Harper bad de oyed the happiness of his horn d attacked the latter wtfb a bc?r ilking cane. Harper pulled hi stol and fired five chocs, two o ilch took effoot. Bateman dro^ b pistol as he fell and fired upo: irper, but Harper was not Injur Bateman was rushed to a Ma n hospital, where tho statemoj is given out that his Injuries wer Isdl* Historic Tree Felled. The historic Washington oak tre Bloomflold. N.' J., under whlc 9n. Washington and bis staff bel council of war on tbelr way t orrlstown. haB been filled and 1 sing cnt up Into fire wood. Th ca! authorltlec found it lmposplbl i save the tree after It had bee ipeatedly sUbBDfl^J : AWFUL CRIME 1 Negro Sbys Tw? Women and Fatally Wnnnift Thtnf. I * | AXE THE WEAPON USED l i M?? Eliza Gribble and Mrs. Carrie Ohlander, Who Was Crlmlnall} I Assaulted Before Being Killed and Mrs, Maggie Hunter, Victim* of Terrible Tragedy In Savannah Victims of a revolting; crime, Mrs Eliza Oribble, aged 70 years, and hei laughter, Mrs. Carrie Ohlander, wert 'ound dead in their home, No.. 401 ?erry street, West, in Savannah, Ga. Friday, while a third woman, Mrs Taggie ffunter,' aged~3 277ou mi ~J us t nelde th? front door of the house is at the Savannah hospital dying Physicians state that Mrs. Ohland 3r was the~victim"of"a"crlinihafas iault just before she was killed. One hundred and fifty negro men, :aught in the meshes of the polic drag net through Yamacraw, thi aegro section of the city, are priso lers in the police station, the theor. .>? the police being that a negrt -flan, having planned an assault uyo. drs. Ohlander, was compelled t. .ommlt the other crimes in order tx j scape. Other arrests will be made untl | jvery negro in the city who in an. ray resembles the description of i | iegro who during three days hai jeen frequently about the premise; ;f the house of the murders la i prisoner. The police believe that this negro asing an aze taken from the wood ihed in the rear of the Oribble home | >eat Mrs. Oribble to death, strucl own Mrs. Hunter apd after aaaault j .ng Mrs. Ohlander in the wide, lonj. lall way, wherei; the bodies weri ound, finished his terrible work b) >eatlng in her skull with the weapoL ' Mrs. Qrlbble evidently was attack >d from behind, as she sat in an eas. ;hair reading. .On the floor, beeid< ' ier body, were found the newBpape ihe was reading and her spectacles Jne, or possibly two, blows wer i?tit her. Her grtey hair, bloo Jiatted, ebowB the imprint of th ^lunt axe. Then the murder stealthily ap | proaching aged Mrs. Oribble, kille i ier. It is believed that Mrs. Ohland ooha Joff >wr root dr W(iB atuK<Auu MO o?v o enter the hall way, waa assault Ml and killed. Mrs. Hunter's skul *-hh crushed In and her death is i natter of but a few hourB. The motley hord of prisoners ar jutet and frightened in the polic | station and jail. It is believed tha If the negro suspected of the crim 3 caught ho can be quickly ldent; fled. Bloodhounds have been at worl In an effort to take the trail fror. he woodshod where the axe wa found by the murderer, but a .he house of mureders is almoe within the heart of the city and a :he murders were probably commit ted several hours before the discov ery of the bodies, the dogs will b< of little use. Mayor Tiedeman, of Savannah, ha offered a reward of $1,000 for th> capture with evidence to convict o the slayer of Mrs. Gribble and Mrt ~ * * J J nf Mn umanaer, ana iu?j unwiiaui Uk ?... ; Waggle Hunter, who was not ldenti i fled for hoars after the discover: ' of the murders. It ]b now almost certainly know] that a negro, the negro who was 9 first suspected Is the guilty mar Persons have been found who stat that this negro was seen enterln the Grlbble house With the fata axe In his h&nd, and wa? seen clos Ing the shutters to the windows o r the house, and to leave the premie es, all at the hour when It Is be { lleved the murders were committee This negro's description has bee: t p:lnted on handbills and scattere r broadcast over the city and county . with the reward offered, and al 3 nearby towns have been notified an 3 are on the lookout. Police officer . in automobiles have oovered all th' > roads for miles surrounding me cuj a while posses on foot have scourec 3 the places where automobiles coul j not go. The house-to-house searc' 3 of negro homes continues. It seem a hardly possible that the egro cai - long remain at large. * 5 BOY STRANGLED TO DEATH. Spartanburg Lad Accidentally Hang w Himself In Bath Room. William Pendleton, aged 9 yearE a son of the Rev. W. H. K. Pendle ton, rector of the Church of th< " Advent, was found dead In the batl 3 room at his home a few morning e ago In Spartanburg, 9. 0. He ?vl dently had beeu dead for some time * The boy went into the bath room f 9 brush his hair, mounted a chair y which tilted and hie ehlrt waist eol 5 lar caught on a hook on the doo ' and h6 strangled to death befor v assistance could react him. Ha wa Q found by the Japanese etervant wh' ' found him hanging wlifc his bad to the wall, and his le#t about tw< t Inches above the floor. Mn. and Mre e Pendleton were In tljs tlty at th time doing their Cfcfr-Jjstmas shop ping and had purchas?'! presents fo the lad. e h Women Car^y Pistols, d Women of Aur ^a. 111., who hav o to bo on the-stress after dark wltl !s out escorts, ar^ carrying small r< a rolvers tueke<yiji muffles as a meat e of protectic ^'jtgaiaBt the myaterloi a "Jack the dasher," who vl ' Ions attr^* on five ^omeru jpcontl B GAS TANK EXPLODES DEALING DEATH AND DESTRUCTION TO MANY PEOPLE. Large Xamber of Workmen, Blown High in the Air, Disappear 1b Columns of Flame. A dispatch from Hamburg, Germany, saye the explosion of two gas tank? ^n the eo-colled "Kleln'B Grasbrook," on the Elbe front Wednesday afternoon was followed oy an extensive fire and the loss of many lives. The explosion was due to a leak in a new gasometer. The escaping gas entered the retoit louse, where it came in contact with the fires, causing a terrific explodon. A large number of workmen vere engaged in rebuilding and en'arglng the plant. Twenty-five of he men were employed near the ;aaometer. They disappeared in a nam of flames which shot up to a jreat height Firemen with apparatus appeared qulokly on the scene but they were inable to approach in large force. >wlng to the Isolated situation ol 5be establishment. Up to a latf lour 10 men are reported dead and 17 missing. - It Is almost certain :hat all of theee are dead. Forty nen were dangerously Injured, ol vhom several can not recover. The fire gained rapid headway xnd threatened the old gasometer containing 50,000 cubic metre*. 8c n tense waa the heat and so danger ...? fhaJr nnaiHnn. the firemen wer* ompelled to withdraw to a safe die ance. A terrific explosion soon oc urred and the tower became a mas* <( flames, which leaped hundred) >t feet In the air, sending frag nents of glowing coke far and widi >ver the city and harbor. After strenuous efforts, the fin vas got under control and the ree ue work was carried on vigorously 'here is little hope of finding th< >odies of the missing if they hav< >een killed, as they undoubtedly lave been Incinerated. The new gasometer which explod >d was the largest in the world, hav ag a capacity of 200,000 cubie me res. The city appropriated 14,000. >00 marks ($3,500,000) for its con tructlon. FOOLKILLER NEEDED. Ie Should Gather In These Tw< Fellows or Quit. One of the most unique pair o rlobe trotters that have yet cominder public notice will soon bi wd In America, having engage assage on a ship sailing for Nev fork from England next week. The re two Italians and they are travel ag around the world In a barrel. Their names are Vlclnello Eugen nd Zanadi Attilius, and for a wage f $7,000 they are endeavoring t' lrcle the globe In a barrel thre< ardfi long ^pd about four feet 1: iameter. They take turns, on oan rolHng the barrel while th ther sits Inside. Tue conditions ar hat they mast get their food an lothlng by selling postcards In th' owns through which they pass. Th len say they began their Journe t Vienna last June. The time t< e occupied in the attempt is 1: ,-ears. DOUBLY MARRIED. )onple Claiming to be Man and Wif | Wedded Again. Gaffney had a novelty In the mar iage line recently. Miss Annivirksey, of Gastonia, and Mr. Jat iager, of Mooreeville, N. C-, alight d from the train at Gaffney Sue 'ay morning and announced tha hey had Just been made man an 'ife; but shortly after their arrlv? he chief of police received a mee age from the parent* of the youn; ?dy to the efTect that the coup) vere not married and to arrest them he lady informed the officers tap hey could be married again an ecuring the services of Mr. H. M lobbins, notary public, were boo led up tight and fast. Refused to be Hazed When several telegraph messeng *r boys gathered around Ralph HeaJ reon, aged 15, a new recruit to thei I onto in front of the Atlanta Tei ilnal station late Wednesday pie ?aratory to "Initiating" him he turr >d on them with an open knife lalph Bulce, aged 15, was stabbe>y young Henderson through th "?ft lung, probably fatally. Hende on Is held In the city Jail pendin/ he result of Buice's injuries. Fatal Snow Storm. Blinding clouds of Bnow, accom >anied by lower temperature and ? 16 miles an hour wind, Bwept ove Chicago and the surrounding ter Itory Wednesday, bringing death t'hroe persons. One of the victim? i laborer, was found dead from col nd exposure. The other two wer iJlroad switchmen, who, blinded b. mow, were run over by engines. FateJIy Burned. The little daughter of Mr. and Mr* Trover Godfery, who live a boot tei nlles from Gaffney, wae fatally bnrn r -d on Wednesday. The rattler wa t the barn milking, leaving toe in i .le two-year-old girl and her brotb i- ?r, who was 3. In the house. Th 1 lothfng of the girl caught Are am va6 burned entirely off before th nother could reach her. f Woman Burglar. 3 Declaring the loss of her postlo 3- 'orced her to become a burglar, Mer i: violl.a stenographer, was arrested i l! '.OB Angeles. Ca!., Tuesday mornlnj o She coaie6?ed ber gul!'- of two ro! y. berles BRUTALJURDER j An A|ed Georgia Citizen Beatea It Death by Thug NEAR HIS STORE DOOR * f Just Before Dying, Not Being AM? to Speak, the Murdered Mas Wrote on a Strip of Paper That a Negro by the Name of Jule Dogett St TTIm. .jj m The Augusta Chronicle says the murder of Mr. Zachary Kendrick, who lived about twenty-one miles from Augueta, last Wednesday night, was one of the most burtal that ever took place in that section of the county. He was seventy-eight years of age. Without having a known enemy this old gentleman, a veteran of many battles In the Civil War, lived a quiet life with his family, operating a country store In adtn hla farm. His store was about 150* yards from bis residence and was on the roadside, white hja residence was off from the road. As la common , among merchants In the country, where the trade la not large enough u> employ some one In the store all the time, a discarded plow was hong jp by a wire near the store and the beating on the plow with another Iron Instrument, notified the pro* prletor that a customer awaited. While at supper Wednesday aight Mr. Kendriok heard beating )n the plow and when he finished be meal went, store key in hand, to ascertain what was wanted. As tbe aged man was In the act o( sntering his place of business ho was struck with a piece of wood, i terrible blow on the head, oauses him to sink to the floor of his (tore piazza. His assassin with soma iharp instrument, beat him on the 'ace and head, cutting a large gash >otween bis eyes, one on his upper Ip, and other places on his head. Ir. Kendrlck was rendered unoonclous and probably would have died n the position in which be was left >y his murderer, but a neighbor, Mr. 3111s Lewis, bearing tbe noise made >y the plow, finished bis supper and asually strolled to th? Kendrlck itoao Vitiv a nlaM fit tnhOMA. 'W1V tv l/U/ ? |/?WV -w As be approached the place he not* >d that there was an ominous slenee about the store. In the KenIrlck residence, which, as stated, s only a short distance from the store, a light wag shining brightly. >own the road near the store the ast retreating form of a human >elng waa seen by Mr. Lewis. The nurderer had Been some one ap proachlng and was getting away rom the scene as fast as possible. Us evident Intention of robbing the ged man had failed. Mr. Lewis walked on to the store md as he climbed the steps be saw i key in the lock unturned, a bloody stick near and the body of Mr. lendrick lying on the floor unconcioug in a pool of blood. Horrified at first, but realizing the iwful condition of affairs and the lecesalty of Immediate actios, Mr. /ewls allowed the fleeing form to ;o on bis way unmolested for ths ime and In as tender maftner as tosslble he lifted the prostrate, blood * *--J ---? nlm/vaf llfnlMM fOPm KJorencawj uuu f bis neighbor and friend and took t to bis borne where bis family *aa waiting for hhn entirely onware Of a tragedy which had been nacted only a few yards fro mtheir >wn doorstep. The neighborhood was aroused. Villing friends volunteered their ;ervic?. One went five miles to Yppllng for Dr. J. L. Weeks, tb? amily physician, while many oth*r villing hands did all in their power o resuscitate the then dying man. The news of the terrible affair pread almost by magic. Neighbors lurried to the Kendrick home. About two hours after sustaining he injury Mr. Kendrick became eonclous. His terrible wound prohibit;d his telling of the ordeal through vttlch he had passed. He loo aid nly look with a mute appeal upon hose who were gathered about his >edslde, into the tearful eyes of his ond daughter and the anxious jw raged faces of hib neighbors, who vere very solicitous regarding his ondition yet who were bent on the estruction of the beast who had ealt the' cruel blows upon his hoary tead. Finally midnight came and as the offerer lay upon his bed and felt hat the end was drawing near he notloned for a penoll and paper. ie could not speak, although Dr. -Veeke was administering as betft i physician's skill could to the want* )f the dying man. Raising Mmwlf >n the bed, Mr. Kendrick wrote, a* ather scribbled on a pleee of par ier "Jule Daggett hit me." He sank ^ack exhausted. Within two minutes his heart had ceased to beat. Mr. Sam Hardy, one of the nelgh)ore, went to the home of Daggett't ather and there arrested Julius Dag'ett. The elder Daggett professed nuch surprise at Mr. Kendrtck being :f]led. but the alleged murderer ta nalntaining a enllen silence. I m m r Lynchers Foiled. A mob of several hundred citizens vent to Dublin. Ga., Wednesday eveling determined to lynch Hansom \Tewcome, a negro, who was plaoe-J ! n the county jail last week, charged ; vitb criminal assault upon a white i voman. The sheriff, however, "had t mtlclpated th? mob and Saturday y light removed Newcome to the Jail of an adjoining county. ,.\r.