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AWFUL TRAGEDY A Drunken Man Slays Two Men on a Train Near Wilmington, Del. KILLER SHOT TO DEATH ? J. H. Bethc* of Dillon, S. C., Kills Y a Colored Porter and the Condnc- I e tor on a Pullman Car and Is Fi- ^ nally Killed in Battle With the ' fc Police. ii An exciting battle in which three ? men were killed took place on a north bound Baltimore and Ohio railroad train Wednesday afternoon. The fight began at Newark, Del., and ^ ended at Wilmington, Del. . Several persons were wounded in the deadly affray which occurred at the Delaware avenue station at Wilmington following the arrival of the N train at 5:17 o'clock. 'a J ^ R Wellman. aped h i ne urau. \j. *.* 40, of Philadelphia, conductor of the I ^ train Samuel Williams, aged 50, ne-jc gro Pullman porter, whose homf is I j, Bald to have been in Jersey City; I a J. H. Bethea, aged 4 0, Dillon, S. C.J The injured: John O. Wiley, aged I ^ 40. a park guard of Wilmington. 1 Del., shot in the hand and leg; Mat- e thew Haley, a citizen of WPmin?:-|j: ton, shot in the leg. Others were g grazed by flying bullets. The foi I ^ lowing graphic story of the awful I tragedy was told by one of the mem a bers of the train crew. I j, "We left Washington at three ^ o'clock " said the member of the ^ crew, "but nothing peculiar in too actions of Bethea was observed un- I til the train pulled out of Baltimore. 11] We had scarcely reached the out-1 j] skirts of the city, when Bethea, whola was occupying a chair in the parlor car, threatened to chastise Williams. I because of no apparent reason, oth'jr w than he took exception to the pur- a ter being a negro. I ^ "A short time later the porter I j) again had occa3i/".'-. to pass through ^ the car. He was busy opening a I i ventilator, when Bethea arose and lunged toward him. The porter hurriedly left the car and reported 'he I matter to Conductor Wellman. The I * wniiimo tn rpmain ortl^ jauer ??? of the car unless it was aosciutel.v necessary fior him to enter. Bethea In the meantime had taken * scat in a coach. 'j "When the f.rain was b'-.ween * Harve de Grance and Newark, the v porter started through the coa<\i, not noticing Bethea. The latter was ap- ? parently dosing in his seat, b'.'t just w as the colored man passed him he * rose and said: 'Yoii negro; I'll ? shoot you full of holes." P "Williams was less than four f?et ^ from the enraged man and as Bethea spoke Williams turned half arouj d " in evident surprise. As he did so a Bethea fired a shot into the porter's n heart. Williams fell back into a ?eat, and as Condnctor Wellman ap- ' proached the murderer, Bethea -fired r' again. This last shot went througi p Williams' thigh and burled Itself in n the woodwork in the side of the a car. a "Rv this time nandemonium reign- ^ ed. There were about thirty persons In the car and they made a mad a rush for both doors. Conductor Wellman apparently didn't know that Williams had been fatally shot, as 6 the negro was sitting upright in the e seat. As Wellman spoke to Bethea the latter turned livid with rage, s and placing his revolver almost on the conductor's chest, fired. Wellman dropped without moving an inch and Bethea, flourishing his re- L volver, backed toward the toilet room, entered and closed the d^T. "In the meantime the train had reached Newark, Del. No stop was made but a message was thrown off asking the railroad officials at Wilmingtion, 12 miles distant, to have ^ policemen on hand to arrest Bethea. None of us knew at this time ^ that either Williams or Conductor Wotlmari ran Hr>nr1 Rpfnro tho train r reached Wilmington the door wa? barred from the outside and a has- ^ ty exnraination of both men showed , that life was extinct. "So bitter was the feeling against ^ the desperate man among the pas- ^ sengers that he could have been torn . limb from limb had they been abli to gain admittance to the toilet. "When Wilmington was reached ^ a score of policemen and citizenn were waiting on the station platform. The top of Bethea's head could Ik l seen above the window blind as he ^ 1 was standing in the toilet. Captain Kane of the Wilmington police force c was the first man to step on our 1 train. He was followed by half a c dozen other policemen. As they ap- 1 proached the toilet room Betheu 1 threatened to murder the whole 1 bunch, if they attempted to enter the room. The officers withdrew from the car and held a consultation. This conference was interrupted by several shotfe from the toilet window. Bethea then drew back as the policemen returned the fire. 1 "At this juncture a fire appartus i appeared and a stream was turned 1 in the broken window. Bethea kept ; on firing, but we had all secured 1 convenient posts and waited develop- 1 ments. In a few minutes Beth(1a staggered from his arsenal. He was H still firing his revolver. As he started to leave the car an officer shot him in the face and a second later 1 V, Jr. ? cull aiiuwiici ouui ouaiicicu 1110 aim. uuu struggling to thrust his revolver from his injured arm to the sound member, the man dropped dead. "In thp toilet room we found nearly fifty empty cartridges, while the window was a full of holes as a pepper box. There was no way of identifying him by baggage, as we could find none. In his pocket was a memorandum book containing the name COOK'S SAD PLIGHT 3ROKEN IX HEATH AND WITHOUT FUNDS OK FRIENDS. vnows no One He Could Trust to go to Arctic Regions After Proofs if He Had the Money. '1' TT i ?*?11 ?0 DaIIIm ct? I ijr. vvniiam ti. /&.\ieut ui ucmu&lam, Wash., a personal friend of )r. Frederick A. Cook, the explorr, Wednesday received a letter from ilrs. Cook, dated Valparaiso, Chile, n which she says the explorer is >roken iu health, without funds and mable to continue his fight to esabllsh his claim that he discovered he North Pole. Dr. Axtel said: "Mrs. Cook tells ne in her letter that Cook made coniderable money out of his trip when L'e first landed in New York, but hat he spent it in defending himselft gainst the bitter attacks from his nemies before the Copenhagen deision was made publie. Cook left lew York later to escape contumely, ays Mrs. Cook, and to go before the oard of Iqulry at Copenhagen a<5 is own representative. Then Mrs. took Bought him, met him in Engand, found him a nervous wreck nd very ill. "She writes that it was her fault hat Cook did not appear publicly at he time he was unfavorably reportd on. She says she took him to lolland, France, Itally end then to pain, where they embarked for luenos Aires. "Fnom Buenos Aires they went ^ ** ? - nun* rouiia uape norn xo ^uno. j still very ill and will be in no conition to take up his fight for the onors which he still says 6hould een his." Dr. Axtell added that, according to tie letter, the explorer and his famy will arrive quietly in New York nd settle down for a quiet life "Mrs. Cook says," he continued, that her husband has no funds with hich to go to the Arctic regions fter the proofs required by the niversity of Copenhagen, and that f he had the necessary cash, he npws of no one he could trust to 0 the work for him." TWELVE UIKLS I'EKISH. 11 Factory Ftre Caused by Explosion of llenziiie. Twelve persons are reported dead 1 a fire which attacked the L'Fish urniture company building at lU0t> /abash Avanue, Chicago Friday.. About 40 employes escaped.' A irl who jumped from a third blory indow died at a hospital. The de;\d rere trapped, it is Baid on the fourth fty and sixth floors, when aa uxlosion of benzine on the fourth oor wrapped the building in flames. Ladders were raised to the sixth oor, the topmost one, in a desperte effort to resuce any person who light be alive there. i ne lire is stua iu nave siancu roin an explosion of benzine in the epair rooms on the fourth floor, robably from a carelessly dropped xatch. Two cabinet makers who t work in the repair room wore mong those who escaped slightly urned. When a great shheet of flame shot cross the floor they were knocked own, but although almost stifled hey managtd to crawl to the front talrway, whence they made their scape to the street below. The fire, he said, was preceded by an exploion which shook the building. QIITS KANSAS CITT. iillis of Recent Notoriety Exiles Iliinself. Jere F. Lillis, president of the Western Exchange bank of Kansas !it.v. who was arracked by John P. ludahy three weeks ago in Cudahy's ipuse, left Wednesday on an inennite vacation, but his designation 3 not known by the public. Orderd by his physician to take a long est. Lillis may go abroad before reurnln? to Kansas City. He has not esigned as president of the bank. A riend of Lillis was asked if the tanker did not expect to meet Cudihy in the South, but this friend lenied this was the purpose of Mr. lillis' trip. Cudahy recently was in Vsheville, N. C. Burns Self to Death. A shocking tragedy occured at an arly hour Friday morning in West ,Vater*.e, Kershaw County, when tfrs. Sam Kirkland committed sui:ide. The unfortunate woman is re>orted to have poured kerosene oil >n her head and set fire to it and was .turned so badly that death soon esulted. She is survived by her lusband and five or six children. * Acres of Dead Fish. Capt. Johnson, of the Ward liner, Morro Castle, reported to agents in \"ew York city, that his vessel has lighted an immense quantity of dead fish in West Indian waters. The mass was half a mile long and 500 feet wide, covering a surface of 30 acres. A submarine volcano is supposed to have cause the wholesale iestruction. * of J. H. Bethea, Dillon, S. C., aged 40 years.' "There were half a dozen wounds on his body. He was shot in the arm, face and shoulder. "I never saw such a scene in my life and never want to see a repetition of it. The women passengers were screaming and were so hysterical that they even attempted to jump from the train. Even after it was known that the murderer was dead we had cur hands full in quieting some of the more nervous in the run from Wilmington to this city." DIED IN FIRE" Fourteen Persons Probably Perished in the Chicago Burn. DEATH TOLL FEARFUL - Falling Walls Halt the Search for Bodies.?Grapic Description of Horrible Burning of Men and Women in Fire Caused by Accidental Explosion of Benzine. Si-arch of the wreckage for the remaining bodies of those who lost their lives in the Fish Furniture Company fire "horror at Chicago on Friday was discontinued Friday afternoon owing to the danger from the falling walls but not until twelve of the dead had been recovered and eleven of those identified. While earlier estimates placed the number of victims trapped on the fourth and fifth floors of the Fish huitdiing as high ae. twenty, later and more thorough investigation indicates with considerable certainty that there were but sixteen. Two of thes;1 escaped with their lives, which Leaves but two more to be accounted for. Leo Steckel, a clerk of the Fish Company, who by accident is said to have started tb? 9ro, told his atory to Fire Attorney Frank Hogan Friday afternoon. Although Stoeckel, who is but 20 years of age, is admitted more unfortunate than culpable, Attorney Hogan says that he will bring some charge against the young man to insure nis attendance at the inquest. iStoeckel was brought before the fire attorney with his hand, which had been burned, swarthed in bandages. He appeared heart-broken, and told his story with difficulty. "About 4.45 p. m.," Stoekel said, "Mr. Mitchell, who is a member of the firm, gave me three piece cigar lighters, and told roe to go to the finishing room on the fourth flooi; and fill them with benzine. I had filled two of the lighters, consisting of a gallon can and was working on the third, when tln-re was an explosion. "A sheet of flame almost blinded me, and I did not fully regain my senses until I had reached the street. The lighters contained a contrivance to make a spark, but whether I igntghted one of them or not, I don't know. I either dropped the can of benzine when the flame shot up in front of mte, or it was blow* out of my hands." Alexander Bush, a slreet car conductor, identified one of the bodies as that of Rosie Bruncke, whom he wae to have married on Easter Sunday. He recognizcd her through the medium of a numl>er of trinkets, including an engagement ring he had given her. One of the victims lost his life in a desperate endeavor to rush upstairs to the aid of the women and girls imprisoned above. Tten women and girls it is said were at work on the sixth floor when the explosion occurred. The spread of the flames was almost instantan11 a o n H tx/Vinn the crirla riichoH to the stairways they found -escape cut off. They next turned to the front of the building, smashing the window. Horrified spectators in the street saw Emma Ltchenstein step to the window ledge and heard her scream for help. Then she jumped. FaLling on the awning over the front entrance to the store, she lay unconscious until Dr. Won. L. Kingsley, crawling out on the canopy, lifted her up. She was taken at once to St. Luke's Hospital, only a few blocks away, but died soon afterward. Dr. Kingley suffered slight burns. Emma LichtenstHn was 20 years old, and was employed as a filing clerk. Death was due to internal Injuries received in her fall. Soon after Miss Lichtensteln's desperate leap, a crash as if of floors Palling was heard, and the faces at the window disappeared. Dr. Kinsley "graphically deseribbed his experience as follows: "I was nearby when the fire started, and when I reached the scene the sight fairly made my hair stand on end. The floors of the building were a miass of flames. Smoke in great clouds was rolling out of a windows. I noticed 'something must be done,' but Ike many others there, I was so stricken by the sight of thto- faces half revealed in the sixth story windows that I could scarcely move. The girls were shouting 'for God's sake send us help,' and others were crying for the firemen to raise the ladders. I tried to get up the front stairway, but. at t.he third floor a gust of flame burnt me about the face and hands and the next thing I knew I was back in the street again. Then came the cries of thi poor girls trapped in the upper story came to my ears an<i I saw one of the girls throw up her hands and plunge out of the window. "Her body crashed against the canopy over the front end of the store. Scarcely knowing what I did, I ran up-stairs to the first floor, crawled out on the window and then carried her down a ladder which a fireman had raised." Made Sick Bull Drunk. Washing to cure his prize bull of pneumonia, i^niiip Jones, or ureen Castle, Ind., gave half a pint of whiskey. The stuff must have bo^n of the fighting kind for taurns went on a rampage and came near killing his owner and hutting his own brains out before he got off his "spree." * "Suicides." According to the verdict of the : coroner of Marion, Ind., Bob Austin 1 nnri Charley Richardson, negroes, lynched there last week, "came to ' their death by suicide." * THEY RAN HIM DOWN MAN WHO SWINDLED PEOPLE IN THIS STATE CAUGHT At Oklahoma City, Okla., Were Hf Was Running a Bigger Swindle Than at Greenwood. ??i?l firim (IroonwnnH tn The A bpUUltti. 11 KJlll uiwwit mvwv. News and Courier says Postofflce Inspector Gregory, who went to Oklahoma to arrest W. J. Nicholls, former president of the Metropilitan Loan and Trust Company, has returned after having performed his part of the business in locating the man, arresting him and having the Federal authorities there "put next." Inspector Gregory's report of the trail and final capture of Nicholls, as well as the varied career of Nicholls, himself, reads like a romance.. Wlhen located in Oklahoma City, Nicholls, now going as "Mr. C. L. Jackson," was at the head of a concern that was doing: about the biggest business in that hustling community. He had an office like a railroad president, and Mr. Gregory said he had seventeen stenographers, young mien and young women as busy as bees. His oncern was alread attracting attention from Uncle Sam's men, and Federal district attorney there told Mr. Gregory that as soon as the time was ripe he would have been 1.1.A J UdU ueu. He was "selling the right to Bell the right to sell," a certain kind of stove, a sort of endless chain contract business. No provision was m&de as to seeing how or where the stoves could be secured but the right to sell the right was what Jackson was doing. It was the washing? machine swindle attempted ? this State some years ago with stoves substituted for washing machines. Mr. Gregory said when he called on Nicholls he had no little trouble in getting into his private office. When he finally reached it, he found his attorney there, and his private stenographer also present. He asked Nicholls or Jackson for a few words in private, and was told to go ahead as the other two were in a confidential relation. Mr. Gregory insisted, so these two finally returned 4o an adjoining room and then Mr. Gregory addressed him as Nicholls, and a.sked about Greenwood. Jackson was quite indignant at the joke, and carriet his part out well, until Mr. Gregory showed him his own photo, ao.d he saw the jig was up. He trembling all over, Mr. Gregory said, although he still stoutly denied that his name was other than C. L. Jackson. As an indication of what a rushing business Nicholls was doing in selling the right t? sell the right to sell a stove that needed no right to sell a hardware nvan at Oklahoma City told Mr. Gregory that Nicholls had paid him ten thousand dollars cash for a lot of stoves to be used by his demonstrators. People love to be swindled. GONE TO SEE TEDIUE. And Talk Over Party Troubles in the Party Ranks. "It is said in Washington on the best of authority that both Garfield and Pinchot wrote letters to Roosevelt at Khartum, telling him of the sad occurrences there under the leadership of Taft. They told Roosevelt that if he wished it one of them either Garfield or Pinchot would meet him in Europe and give him further particulars. 'Roosevelt cabled to them to come, Garfield was to go, but owing to tht Ohio government matter Pinchot went. Now what does it mean? ''All Washington" i3 speculating upon that question. Back from Elba? Is that it? Mr. Taft is now squarely alligned with the so-called "reactionaries' of the Republican party, those whc. have all along been fighting the socalled "Roosevelt policies"?th central idea of which, as we all understand, is to stay the threatenin? storm of wrath against the alllanei of the Republican party with "pre datory wealth." The same man thai made these "policies" made also Mr Taft, and promised the American people that Taft would carry then out. Now what is he going to dc when he gets back here? Echo answers "what"? ANOTHER FATAL SHOOTING. Clinton Hhodon Shot to Death by \V It. Glenn on Street. A fatal shooting took place al Ratesburg on Thursday when W. B Glenn, superintendent of the electrii liglit plant, shot Clinton Rhoden, t< death, on one of the main streets o the town. The weapon used was i pistol: four shots were fired, aiu each shot took effect. One witnes stated that Rhoden was unarmed. I is stated that there had been ba< blood between the men for somi time. Much sympathy is expresse( for all parties concerned, as eacl man has a large family. The affai has cast gloom over the town. Incendiary Sentenced. For having twice set fire to tene ment houses in New York, wher dwelt a married woman who repuls ed his advances, Daniel Roe, convict ed of arson in the first degree, mus serve twenty years and one month i the penitentiary. He is twenty-eigh years old. Fifteen Drowned. Tho Norwegian steamer, Dixi< bound from a Scotland port capsize in the mouth of the Elbe river, dm ing a severe storm Thursday and th crew of 15 were drawaed. BmatmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmtmmmmmmmmmKmma AETNA ACTIVE Rivers of Red Hot Lava Rushing Madly Dowo the Mountain Side. fc i - ASHES BURIES HOUSES 1 Of Peasants, Who Congregated at Xicholls to Watch the Scene of j the Eruption.?They Are Terror s Stricken and Implore Mercy.? j Desolation and Ruin Faces Them. * Mount Aetna, near Catania, Sicily, whose eruptions in the past have i wrought great destruction, is again * in a violent state of activity. A J pronounced movement within the j crater beginning early Wednesday j evening, increasing in volume, and 1 Thursday night the gravest fears are 1 entertained as to the results if the ' eruption continues in its present vio- j lent form. t From Catania correspondents mot- c - - X, ( ored in tlie airection 01 me mountain. Passing the village of Mascalucia, twelve miles in a direct line from the crater, a thick curtain of smoke was encountered, which entirely concealed Aetna. At Nicolosi, ten miles from the crater, the entire population had gathered in the square to watch the volcano, which appeared a as black phantom above. Now and then it was illuminated wdth flashes of light, appearing almost red. Higher up the rain of cinders became thicker and extended like a veil acress the mountain. A deep roaring was heard and detonations like the sound of artillery folfowing one another in quick succession, while the earth shook under foot. One of the guidies cried: "An earthquake," and could hardly be induced to continue. The hot cinders covered the ground like a thick carpet, rendering walking difficult. A peasant was encountered coming down. He said. "The fire is rushing down, burning everything. The lava is <ike a red hot river." Proceeding a little further, four collossal columns of black smoke oould be observed. Occasionally they were cut by flashes of fire, presenting an awe-inspiring spectacle. Then the wind opened the clouds for a moment, and a wide strip of fire could be seen in the distance, advancing with monstrous contortions. It fell like a torrent from Mount Capriclo, spreading out in the valley below. The lava flow had already reached ed the vineyards above San Leo and Rinazzo seven miles from the crater, and had buried a large number of peasants houses. It came in several streams and united in one great 1 mass about twenty feet in height and 1,500 feet a minute, varying according to the condition of the ground. This mighty wall of lava was not more than five miles from Bolosasso , and Nicolosi The meteorological station, on the , montain side, has been destroyed, and the village of Borrello is in serious danger. The populace, terror stricken, are flying from their homes. The earth shocks have reach, ed about fifty in number, but there is a continuous vibration and trembling from many miles around. Every where the villagers are carrying images in procession and imploring 1 mercy. Twelve new craters have < 1 been opened up. I Help for the people of the devas- .1 ^ tated region is being organized. A ' detatehinent of soldiers and a large j number of engineers and doctors i have gone forward. The prefect of Catania, returning from the scene ii Thursday evening, said ' "I have witnessed a spectacle of , desolation and ruin which only those who saw the eruption of Vesuvious : in 1906 can imagine. The present eruption can be compared to no [ other." ,The authorities have issued orders that no one shall be permitted to go beyond Pelpasso and soldiers . have been stationed at various points to see that these orders are obeyed. The village of Bereli is surrounded ( by the lava and the inhabitants have ) fled to Relpasso. Prof. Ricco, director of the Mount Aetna Observatory, said: "The eruption is very grave, and I think it will become much more serious. The lava has covered five miles in sixteen hours and if my calculations are . right the eruption of the volcano will not be short." t Simmons Guilty Again. At Anderson Webb Simmons, a c young mill operative, was found on 5 Wednesday guilty of the murder of f United States Deputy McAdams and j was recommended to the mercy of j the court. Simmons killed McAdams s in February, 19OS, and was sentent ced to hang last July. A new trial j was granted on the ground that a 2 member of the grand jury had ex1 pressed his opinion on the killing. i * r Grave Is ltobbcd. A dispatch from Forest Hill, La., says the most unusual robbery in the history of that section of Louisiana . was perpetrated Friday night. when P the remains of E. D. Gainer were exhumed and gold teeth, ,a diamond ring, a gold watch and cuff buttons r were taken from the body. The body ? was sealed in a tomb more than 3 0 I years ago. * Fears the Dark. Abdul Hamid. in exile in Salonica, ?> Macedonia, fears to sleep in the d dark and has a servant read to him > by day and might in a lighted room, e The deposed ruler of Turkey fears bis son will seek to cause bis death.* LOOKS GOOD TO THEM RECENT ELECTION RETURNS PLEASES DEMOCRATS. The Election in Massachusetts Tuesday Turned Out Better Than the One in Missouri. Zach McGhee says the Democrats in Washington are jubilant over the results of the by-elections in Missouri and Massachusetts. The Missouri district, the one formerly re presented by the late David A. r ??\rmond, is taken as a typical Mtdd.e Western district. In it the Democratic candidate nade large gains in the election in January. Now in Massachusetts, jn he most hide-bound Republican dis;rict of all New England, one never leretofore known to go Democratic, lot even in the Cleveland landslide, las been changed from 14,00^ Rejublican majority to 6,000 Democrat c majority. in each of these district the ta"ff and the Republican ring rule wer-1 he issues. Mr. Llody, the chairman >f the Democratic congressional lomiiittee, who went up thero last ;veek, came back with the opinion .hat there would be Democratic gains md declaring that if the 14,00(? Republican majority should l>e cut i'own to 6,000 Republican majority he Democrats would be doing mighty ivell and should be highly sat'afieii When the returns came in Tueslay night, with 12,000 more Demo:ratic votes than Mr. Lloyd had counted on, there was jollification ndeed and the Republican were awe itricken. The Republicans do not >retend to minimize the significance, jut frankly admit that the situation s omminous of a Democratic tidal wave n November, unless it can bn stayed. They generally stay thrse hreatenlng tidal waves, you know; 1 md they may be able to stay this >ne; but they are wearing exceedngly gloomy faces. The whole political situation gets nore and more Interesting every lay. On Capital hill the Democrats ire standing together in solid phalmx, and, contrary to the usual habit, ire saying mighty little. The breach n the Republican ranks shows no ugns of healing. Not even the ;hreat of Democratic victory seems :o frighten either faction into makng overtures to the other. T V, ^ Pinnnn r\r> swam n irro Hnn TTlPn n the house are disconserted, it is ;rue, and all the insurgents are sure Df it that they have strengthened ' cheir own individual position at home by finding a scape goat in Cannon for the sins of their party. But these same insurgents have little spirit in any further attacks upon their organization. The victory last week, so far as they are concerned, is a sort of Borodino. They may have captured Moscow by it but are so disabled as to be unable to hold it. And it looks as if they ire going to let Cannon dominate Lhe rules committee after all. The regular Republicans, or the Cannon forces, are counting on Mr. Taft to help them out, if not in the house, then in the country, and Mr. Taft jeemB in truth to be doing all in his power to fulfill the expectation. BOGUS BONi>S AGAIN. Nevada Legislature Is Anxious to Take Them Up. A special dispatch to the Charlotte Observer from Raleiga says Governor Kitchin received a telegraphic request from the Governor Df Nevada asking for all possible information regarding: the repudiated North Carolina special tax bourts, some of which have been offered Nevada in order to induce that State to sue North Carolina '1 he Governor of Nevada says he declines to accept the bonds, but the Legislature is trying to force him to do so. Governor Kitchin and Attorney General Bickitt sent him a mass of information showing how fraudulent the bonds were. HAI) A CLOSE CALL. Little Girl Falls Five Stories but Was Not Hurt. At New York Mary Davis, a 13year-old school girl, is in good health and cheerful spirits despite the fact that she fell backward from a fire escape five storifs up, in Harlem Thursday and landed plump n a basketful of wet clothes in the back yard below. She was scarcely afrnt/vhPf) As she. struck the basket with a damp thud. Mary narrowly missed Miss Peter Little, a janitress, who was taking clothes from the basket and hanging them on a nearby line. Mrs. Little fainted aiu! sn did Mary, who was found unconscious but unhurt on the baskn. Maple Sap Kills Flames. Maplesap saved the blazing house of George Fall at Pharsalia, N. Y., Thursday night. According to dispatches receive, Fall was boiling down the sap when the roof of his house caught fire. His cries brought neighbors who quickly put out the fire with several hundred quarts of sap from the storage tank. A Tug and Crew Lost. Tlie tug Arthur B., from Tacoma to Vancouver, floundered Wednesday | night off Frazer river'lightship. Six men were drowned. The tug was used in the cement and plaster carrying trade between Puget sound and British Columbia ports. Bodies From Wreck. Two unidentified bodies, a life buoy marked Prinz Willem II, sev eral oars and much miscellaneous wreckage were washed ashore at Belle Isle, France, last Wednesday. FATALWRECK j .V-v. ? . Army Chief of Staff Seriously injured h Anlo Crash. ? ? -M MRS. SLOCUM IS KILLED J A Trolley Car and an Automobile " ' . Crash in Washington, by Which ' Mrs. Herbert J. Slocum Loses .Her Life and Gen. J. F. Bell was Very Seriously Injured. Maj. Gen. J. Franklin Bell, chief of staff of the United States army, who was injured early_^ Wednesdays ^ in Washington in an automobile accident, in which 'Mrs. Herbert' J. Slocum, wife of Maj. Slocum, U. S. A., > was almost instantly killed, was reported at a late hour that night to be resting comfortably. One of his ribs was broken and he suffered some scalp wounds but no Internal Injuries have been discovered .and no complications of any sort have Bet Maj. Slocum, who is a member ^ of the Seventh Cavalry, now station- -'; ed at Governor's Island, N. Y., ar- ' . rived in Washington Wednesday night. The accident was caused by a';,rsouth 'bound trolley car of the Wisconsin avenue car line, near Tenskirts of the city, colliding with an automobile owned by Gen. Bell. The car was occupied by Mrs. H. J. Slocum, aged 50 years, Mrs. H. L. Green V and Gen. Bell. Mre. Slocum, who ^ received Internal injuries, was re- 'J moved to Georgetown hospital in ah -'is automobile, where she was pronounced dead. Chauffeur Ward was unhurt, but was soon arrested, together with thiwps motorman and conductor of the trol-Jsg ley car. They were 131 tex released ': % from custody, however, on ordenr /} from Coroner Nevltt, who instructed. ^ them to appear at the Inquest. " Mrs. Slocum, whose husband 1b aT. U nephew of Mrs. Russell Sage, was , visiting her sister, Mrs. H. L. Green; r:: at the Wyoming, a department house in Washington, but Tuesday went to-, i Fort Myer to visit Mr. and Mrs. Bell, -.V with whom she and her husband were. on terms of Intimate friendship. It was on the way back to the Wyoming that the fatal collision occurred. ^ The Tennallytown road, officially , ^ known as Wisconsin Avenue, runs ^ north fnom Georgetown through the - Twesternly environs of the city, and isfi a favorite route for automobiles, ''i. Crossing the Georgetown bridge from "M Fort Myer, the car turned forth into Wisconsin avenue and was about-to turn easterly along the northerly boundary of the city wben at Gar- y field street the collision occurred. ' X The fast moving trolley car, when? < the two came together, completely*^ demolished the automobile. The . automobile was hurled about fire '[ feet against a trolley pole. It finally- . turned over. General Bell was thrown outi ;-X. Ward was pinned under the front of the car, but managed to extricate.J| himself. Mrs. Slocum was crushed under the body of the car. Bleed- ^ Ing about the hands and head, Gen. Bell directed the passengers on the car and others in lifting the auto ^ mobile from the injured woman. - j Mra Qlnnnm a a than hnrrio/1 tn fha ?'* ?J1VV/ULU n HO VUWU UUAAAVIA W I UV * hospital. ( ""ii ^ ^ ^ ^?J8 BEATING A RIDE. ' -3 Falls From Moving Train and la Ground to eDath. While beating his way on a freight train Wednesday afternoon Charles Lockabill of Lexington, N. C., better known as "Clad", fell under the moving traan and was cut In two across the stomach, dying almost instantly. The accident happened in the eastern part of Thomasville, a short distance above the cllege. No particulars further are known of the killing. Lockabill has a wife and four small children. He was a brickmason by trade and was considered a good peacable fellow, except at times he would get on a spree. SHOOTS DOWN GUARDS. Mortally Wounds Wardens at City Workhouse. At Wilmington, Del., Stephen Hunter, a negro prisoner at the Newcastle workhouse, who recently came to Delaware from South Carolina, shot and fatally wounded two guardB, Walter Hastings and Thomas McCullough. The negro struck down Hastings as the latter handed him his breakfast through the cell door. Securing the guard's revolver he emptied two shots into Hasting's body and then dropped McCullough, who had come to the rescue. The negro was himself wounded before beinc overcome. His mind is believed to have become deranged. After White Slaves. The American consulate In Antwerp is engaged in an attempt to trace two New York white slave importers, who are believed to have shipped 90 women from Paris on j outgoing steamers. British and con-) tinental ports are being watched, and' the American and Canadian authorities have been notified to scrutinize j closely all incoming passengers. ? Founds Coker College. IMaj. J. L. Coker has given Coker College, a girls school founded by him some two years ago at Hartfrville. $lo0,000, the interest on which IS avanaoiis ai once. una ueiidiiam V had already given about $50,000 tofl this school before this. This in-H sures for the institution a success-H ful career henceforth. '