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Edgefieid Advertiser Published Weekly. IDQEFIELD, 8. C. BRIEF NEWS NOTES FOR THE BUSY MAN MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. WORLD'S N:%VS EPITOMIZED Complete Review of Happenings et Greatest Interest From AH ? Parts of World. Southern. After a special session of fourteen days, in which 316 witnesses were examined, the Lincoln county, Missis sippi grand jury, which has been in vestigating the alleged vote-selling scandal of the August Democratic pri mary, finally adjourned having turned in 56 true bills, not all of which, how ever, charge vote-trafficking. Seven arrests have been made. The names of many prominent persons, both in church and politics, have been con nected with the affair. The central bureau for the valida tion of cotton bills of lading recently established in New York City is still in operation, despite rejection of the plan by Southern bankers and cotton shippers at New Orleans. It was said at the bureau that no action would be taken pending the return from the south of Charles S. Haight, American representative of the Liverpool com mittee. New York bankers think the action of the Southern conference ef fectually put an end to the validation plan. Samuel E. Hyde, confessed murder er of his young wife and her father, was convicted by a jury and sentenc ed to be hanged at Anderson, S. C. The reading of the verdict had no ef fect on the prisoner, who said, later, the finding was a just one; that he was guilty of murder and expected to be convicted. Under the laws of South Carolina, pleas of guilty in murder cases are forbidden. The jury was out less than an hour. The cotton interests of the South will have absolutely nothing to do with the Liverpool spinners' scheme of a New York clearing house for cot ton bills: of lading. This was setUed beyond peradventure when ringing resolutions denouncing the scheme was passed by the representatives of "muthern cotton interests gathered at M J New Orleans cotton exchange to discuss the matter An organization of a $4,000 con cern, known as the Southern Cotton Corporation, with an eye to controll ing the marketing of the cotton from the South, was announced at Macon, Ga., by Georg? Dole Wadley of Bowl ing Brooke, one of the wealthiest men In Georgia, and controlling iinan cial interests of great extent. The concern will work in connection with a string of banks operated by the National Bank Audit company, of which William Barrett Ridgely, for mer comptroller of currency, is presi dent The Southern Cotton Corpora tion will advance farmers' money up to 74 per cent of the normal price on cotton deposited in warehouses. This cctton will be held and when the time arrives each year when a correct estimate will be fixed and the cotton held until such price is paid. General. According to an official communi cation from the Italian government, the cholera cases in Italy are decras ing. From September 10 to 17, in clusive, there were a total of 1,007 cases with 320 deaths. For the first time since ihe epidemic began, the disease has made its appearance in Sardinia, nineteen deaths from a to tal of fifty-four cases at Cagliart be ing reported. turned in Boston, Mass., against five officials and a large stockholder of the United States Machinery compa ny. The indictments alleged conspir acy in restraint of trade under the Sherman act The penalty provided under the statutes is a fine of $5,000 .or imprisonment for one year, or both. The six defendants probably will plead within the next ten days. The long periods of national anxie ty attendant upon the Moroccan negotiations is drawing toward a con clusion. The French people have been slow in accepting the optimism which has prevailed in Berlin, and it was only after a communication to the press based on Ambassador Cambon's report of his interview with the Ger man foreign minister, that sufficient reasons appeared for the conviction that the six months' uncertainty is nearing the end. Following an..investigation by ai state inspector, in which he reported that the papers heTd by the Metropoli tan Bank and Trust company of Cin cinnati, Ohio, did.not show conserva tive transactions,^ the bank closed. The death list in the earthquakes in the northern Chilean provinces and Tarapaca will reach forty. A new record for speed in the Ken tucky courts was established at Mays ville when W. T. Ham, a 62-year-old church worker, was tried and sentenc ed to forty years in the penitentiary charged with attacking three little girls under 12 years of age. The Tradesmen s Trust company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has closed tits doors. The company company was established in 1890 and has paid up capital of $500,000. Peter Boyd is president of the institution. Revolution is still simmering all through Mexico. Reports were re ceived telling of rebel successes. Strong indications were given that Mrs. Laura Farnsworth Schen?: will never again face a jury on the charge of trying to poison her millionaire husband. When her case was called in court it was postponed until the November term. The conquest of the Atlantic, the most ambitious exploit yet undertak en by an aviator, is contemplated by a Danish airman, who describes his plans in a letter published in The I Nord Lyset, a Danish newspaper of Brooklyn. This aviator writes that he has enlisted the necessary finan cial aid and made arrangements to fly next spring from Copenhagen to New York, resting only at London and Queenstown, and upon ships sta tioned at intervals across the Atlantic ocean. Two lives were the toll paid by the world of aviation. Frank Miller, a daring young birdman, was cremated in mid-air, at Troy, Ohio, and "Dare Devil" Castellane lost his life in an accident that befell him three-quarters of a mile above ten thousand specta tors at Elmira, N. Y. In another ac cident, Vangie Ludwig was severely bruised when his aeroplane failed to work and landed in the midst of a yard of horses, causing forty runa ways into a crowd of thousands of people. The Laurier government and reci procity suffered an overwhelming de feat in the Canadian elections. By a veritable political landslide, the Lib eral majority of 43 was swept away, and the Conservative party secured one of the heaviest majorities-up wards of 50-that any Canadian par ty has ever had. Robert L. Borden, leader of the Conservative party, will shortly become prime minister of ?Canada. The government defeat means that the Fielding-Knox reci procity agreement ratified, by the American congress in extra session, will not be introduced when the twelfth parliament assembles next month. Spurred on by appeals to pa triotism and the cry that reciprocity was the entering wedge for annexa tion, the Conservatives swept nearly everything before them. It was reported in New York on ex cellent authority that the matter of dissolving and reorganizing the Unit ed States Steel Corporation is receiv ing the earnest attention of the de partment of justice and legal repre sentatives of the so-called "billion dol lar trust." There is ground also for the assertion that the steel corpora tion is making a strenuous effort to meet the demands of the government, but little headway has yet been made. United States Circuit Judge Peter Stenger Grosscup" of Chicago, one of the most widely known Federal ju rists in the United States, has resign ed, to take effect October 1. The an nouncement came as a surprise. lt has been rumored that he would take this step as a result of statements concerning his attitude in the Chicago ti-action litigation and other matters in his court He always laughed at the rumors and seldom replied to the statements. ^ Intense excitement prevailed in Kleff, Russia, over the death o? Pre mier Stolypin, and it needed but a single spak to set off a bloody dis aster. Flags fluttered at half-mast over all the public buildings and over many of the private buildings, while thousands of Cosascks and foo; sol diers patrolled the streets to preserve order. More than 250 arrests have been made, some for political causes, others merely on suspicion, but all re lating to the intense situation. If present plans do not miscarry, the stentorian voice of John L. Sulli van, tho i'ormer world's champion heavyweight, may be heard ringing in the lower halls of congress within a year or two. The candidacy of the one-time champion heavyweight prize fighter of the world has been launched by a number of his Democratic neigh bors, and Mr. Sullivan will make a formal statement from his Masaschu setts farm within a few days, it is said. With a big hole in her starboard quarter, the Olympic, proudest of the White Star company's trans-Atlantic liners, and the biggest passenger ves sel afloat, returned to Southampton, England, four hours after she had sailed for New York. Her more than 2,000 passengers were unharmed, Washington. President Taft had a heart-to-heart talk at Peoria, Htinois, with the lead ers of the different Republican fac tions in Illinois, defined his status as to Progressiveness, pleaded guilty to being a poor politician, acknowledged again his ambition had lain in the di rection of the office of chief justice arther than the presidency, admitted that he had undoubtedly made mis takes, but asserted as president he had tried to do what he thought to be right I Business war was declared upon the so-called "bread trust" by delegates to the Bakery and Confectionery Work ers' International Union of America in conference in Kansas Slty. Factories will be established by the' union in the strongholds of {he alleged com bine and attempt made to drive the non-union bakeries out of business. The committee appointed to investi gate the "trust problem" reported to the convention that enough money could be raised immediately to finance six factories costing $75,000 each. The resignation from the navy of Lieutenant Roy C. Smith was accept ed by the acting secretary of the navy I (Nicholson to take effect when Lieu tenant Smtih arrived at his home in Niles, .Jich. Lieutenant Smith's res ignation is said to have been given at the request of Rear Admiral Mur doch, commanding the Asiatic fleet, after a court of inquiry had investigat ed charges of unbecoming conduct made against him. He was attached to the gunboat Villalobos, and his brother officers persuaded him to re sign rather than cause a naval scan dal. Brig. Gen. James Allen, chief of the signal corps of the United States army, began active work in planning the winter's campaign of the army aviators under his direction. The avia tion corps will go south. Where head quarters will be has not been decided. Several cities in the South already I have asked to be considered when the winter camp is selected. Among these j are Greenville, South Carolina; Au gusta, Georgia; Aiken, South Caro lina, and Palm Beach, Florida. An nouncement of the selection of a loca . tion will be made at an early date. ^SERIAL? \j?T STORY gyj Q)hen ajfan Jfiarries By MARY ROBERTS RINEHART Jluthor of The Circular Staircase. Th* ?Kan In Lower Ten. Bc Copyright 1900, by tb? Bobt?-)Urrll> Co. SI SYNOPSIS. Jame? Wilsen or Jimmy aa he ls calle?* by hts frlen4>, waa rotund and look ed shorter than ' he really was. His ambition In life was to be taken seriously, but people steadily refused to do so, his art ls considered a huge joke, except to himself, If he asked people to dinner ev eryone expected a frolic. Jimmy marries Bolla Knowles; they live together a year and are dlvoroed. Jimmy's friends ar range to celebrate the first anniversary of his divorce. The party ls in full swing when Jimmy receives a telegram from his Aunt Selina, who will arrive in four hours to visit him and his wife. He neglects to tell her of his divorce. Jimmy takes Kit Into his confidence. He suggests that Kit play the hostess for one night, be Mrs. wllion pro tem- Aunt Selina arrives and the deception works out as planned. Jim's Jap servant ls taken lil. Bella, Jimmy's divorced wife, enters the house and asks Kit who ls being taken away in the ambulance? Belle insists it ls Jim. Kit tells her Jim ls well and is in the house. Harbison steps out on the porch and discovers a man tacking a card on the door. He demands an explanation. The man points to the placard and Har bison sees the word "Smallpox*''printed on lt He tells him the guests cannot leave the houss until the quarantine ls lifted. After the lifting of the quarantine several letters are found In the mall box undelivered, one ls addressed to Henry Llewellyn, Iqulque. Chile, which was written by Harbison. He " de8cribes mi nutely of their incarceration, also of his infatuation for Mrs. Wilson. Aunt Selina ls taken ill with la grippe. Betty acts as nurse. Harbison finds Kit sulking on the roof. She tells him that Jim has been treating her outrageously. Kit starts downstairs, when suddenly she ls grasped in the arms of a man who kisses ber sev eral times. She believes that Harbison did lt and ls humiliated. Aunt Selina tells Jimmy that her cameo breastpin and other articles of Jewelry have been stolen. She accuses Betty of the theft Jimmy tells Aunt Selina all about the strange happenings, but she persists in suspecting Betty of the theft of her valuables. Harbison demands an explanation from Kit as to her conduct towards him. she tells him of the incident on the roof, he does not deny nor confirm her accusation. AUDt Selina is awakened during the night; she finds Jim making love to Bella; she demands an explanation from Jim. Bella reveals the whole plot to Aunt Belina. She forgives both of them, but calls Kit a Jezebel. She tells Jim to reveal the true situation to Harbison. Jimmy ls taken Ul. They are convinced that Jim has the dreaded dis ease. Kit discovers Anne's pearl neck lace In the laundry lnbedded in a mass of soap. Kit finds Harbison lying on the roof unconscious with his face covered with blood. The doctor is sum moned and pronounced Harbison injuries ?light While Kit ls walting on Harbison they are startled by a pandemonium of noises* CHAPTER XXII. (Continued.) "A rope!" he demanded, without paying any attention to us and diving Into corners of the room. "Good heav ens, Isn't there a rope In this con founded house!" He turned and rushed out, without any explanation, and left us staring at the door. "Bother the rope!" I found myself forced to look into two earnest eyes. "Kit, were you very angry when kissed you that night on the roof?" "Very," I maintained stoutly. "Then prepare yourself for another attack of rage!" he said. And Betty opened the door. She had on a fetching pale blue dressing gown, and one braid of her yellow hair was pulled carelessly over her shoulder. When she saw me on my knees beside the bed (oh, yes, I forgot to say that, quite unconscious ly, I had slid into that position) she stopped short, just inside the door, and put her band to her throat She stood for quite a perceptible time looking at us, and I tried to rise. But Tom shamelessly put his arm around my shoulders and held me beside him. "l-l beg yow pardon for coming In," she said nervously. "But-they want you downstairs. Kit At least I thought you would want to go, but perhaps-*' Just then from the lower part of the house came a pandemonium of noises. CHAPTER XXIII. Coming. The second floor was empty. A ta lle lay overturned at the top of the stairs, and a broken flower vase was weltering in Its own ooze. Part way down Betty stepped on something sharp, that proved to be the Jap anese paper knife from the den. I left her on the stairs examining her foot, and hurried to the lower floor. Here everything was In the utmost contusion. Aunt Selina had fainted, ?nd was sitting in a ball chair with her head rolled over sidewise and the poker from the library fireplace across her knees. No one was paying any attention to her. And Jim was holding the front door open, while three of the guards hesitated in the vestibule. The noises continued from the back of the house, and as I stood on the lowest stair Bella came out from the dining room, with her face streaked with soot, and carrying a kettle of hot water. "Jim," she called wildly. "While Max and Dal are below, you can pour this down from the top. Ifs boiling." Jim glanced back over his shoulder. Thwarting At the banquet of Pittsburg lodge, Ko. ll, B. P. 0. E., recently, R. W. Iiwin, past exalted ruler of Washing ton (Pa.) lodge, told a story In illus tration of the necessity for charity (meaning brotherly love), among even some ministers of the gospel. He said that two pastors of rival denomina tions were discussing the merits of their different methods of preaching. Brother A always wrote his sermons , "Carry out your own murderous de signs," he said. And then, as she started back with it, "Bella, for Heav en's sake." he called, "have you gone stark mad? Put that kettle down. She did lt sulkily and Jim turned to the policeman. "Yes, T know it was a false alarm befor*- . explained patiently, "but thir ,cnuine. It is just as I tell y * es, Flannigan is in the house ' .where, but he's hiding, I guess. J could manage the thing very well ourselves, but we have no cartridges for our revolvers." Then as the noise from the rear redoubled, "If you don't come In and help, I will telephone for the fire department," he concluded emphatically. I ran to Aunt Selina and tried to straighten her head. In a moment she opened her eyes, sat up and stared around her. She saw the kettle at once. "What are you doing with boiling water on the floor?" she said to me, with her returning voice. "Don't you know you will spoil the floor?" The ruling passion was strong with Aunt Selina, as usual I could not find out the trouble from any one: people appeared and disap peared, carrying strange articles. Anne with a rope, Dal with his hatch et, Bella and the kettle, but I could get a coherent explanation from no one. Whe' ?ie guards finally decided that Jim was in earnest, and that the rest of us were not crawling out a rear window while he held them at the door, they cam: in, three of them and two reporters, and Jim led them to the butler's pantry. Here we found Anne, very white and shaky, with the pantry table and two chairs piled against the door of the kitchen slide, and clutching the chamois-skin bag that held her jewels. She had a bottle of Burgundy open beside her, and was pouring herself a glass with shaking hands when we appeared. She was furious at Jim. "I very nearly fainted," she said hysterically. "I might have been mur dered, and no one would have cared. I wish they would stop that chopping, I'm so nervous I could scream." Jim took the Burgundy from her with one hand and pointed the police to the barricaded door with the other. "That is the door to the dumb-wait er shaft," he said. "The lower one ls fastened on the Inside, in some man "Mr. Lawrence McGulrk, Better Known as Tubby.' " ner. The noises commenced about eleven o'clock, while Mr. Brown was on guard. There were scraping sounds first, and later the sound of a falling body. He roused Mr. Reed and my self, but when we examined the shaft everythinb was quiet, and dark. We tried lowering a candle on a string, but-it was extinguished from below." The reporters were busily removing the table and chairs from the door. "If you have a rope handy," one of them said, "I will go down the,shaft." ''The cage appears to be stuck, half way between the floors," Jim said. "They are cutting through the door in the kitchen below." They opened the door then and cau tiously peered down, but there was nothing to be seen. I touched Jim gingerly on the arm. "Is it-is it Flannigan," I asked, "shut In there?" "No-yea-I don't know," he re turned absently. "Run along and don't bother, Kit He may take to shoot ing any minute." Anne and I went out then and shut the door, and went Into the dining room and sat on our feet, for of course the bullets might come up through thc floor. in the midst of the excitement Tom appeared in a bath-robe, looking very pale, with a bandage around his head, and the nurse at his heels threatening to leave and carrying ft bottle of med icine and a spoon. He went imme diately 'to the pantry, and soon we could hear him .giving orders and the rest harrying around to obey them. The hammering ceased, and the si lence was even worse. It was more suggestive. In about fifteen minutes there was a thud, as if the cage had fallen, and the sound of feet rushing down the cellar stairs. Then there were groans and loud oaths, and everybody talking at once, below, and the sound of a struggle. In the dining room we all sat bent forward, with straining ears and quickened breath, until we dis tinctly heard some one laugh. Then we knew that, whatever it was, It was over, and nobody was killed. The sounds came closer, were com ing up the stairs and Into the pantry. Then the door swung open, and Tom and a policeman appeared in the door way, ' with the others crowding be hind. Between them they supported a grimy, unshaven object, covered with whitewash from the wall of the shaft, an object that had Its bands fastened together with handcuffs, and that leered at us with a pair of the the Devil and read them from his manuscript Brother B boasted that he always preached extemporaneously. Each In sisted that his method was the better. Finally Brother B said: "Don't you know that when you write your ser mons the devil looks over your shoul der, reads what you write and then <;oes among the congregation and puts :!ioughta In their minds that counter act your doctrines? When you read most villainously crossed eyes ? have ever seen. None of us had ever seen him be fore. "Mr. Lawrence McGulrk, better known as 'Tubby'," Tom said cheer fully. "A celebrity in his particular Une, which is second-story man and all-round rascal. A victim of the quarantine, like ourselves." "We've missed him for a week," one of the guards said with a grin. "We've been real anxious about you, Tubby. Ain't a week goes by, when you're in health, that we don't hear something of you." Mr. McGulrk muttered something under his breath, and the men chuck* led. Aunt Selina rose suddenly and cleared her throat. "Am I to understand," she asked se verely, "that from now on we will have to add two newspaper reporters, three policemen and a burglar to the occupants of this quarantined house? Because, if that is the case, I abso lutely refuse to feed them." But one of the reporters stepped forward and bowed ceremoniously. "Madam," he said, "I thank you for your kind Invitation, but-lt will be impossible for us to accept I had in tended to break the good news earlier, but this little game of burglar-m-a corner prevented me. The fact la, your Jap has been discovered to haye nothing more serious than chicken pox, and-if you will forgive a poul try yard Joke, there ls no longer any necessity for your being cooped up." Then he retired, quite pleased with himself. One would have thought we had ex hausted our capacity for emotion, but Jim said a Joyful emotion was so new that we hardly knew how to receive it Then we all sat down and had some champagne, and while they were walt ing for the police wagon, they gave some to poor McGulrk. He was still quite shaken from his experience when the dumb-waiter stuck. The wine cheered him a little, and he told his story, in a voice that was creaky from disuse, while Tom held my hand under the table. He had had a dreadful week, ho i said; he spent his days in a closet in one of the maids' rooms-the one j where we had put Jim. It was Jim waking out of a nap and declaring that the closet door had moved by itself and that something had crawl ed under his bed and out of the door, that had roused the suspicions of the men in the house-and he slept at night on the coal in the cellar. He was actually tearful when he rubbed his hand over bis scrubby chin, and said he hadn't had a shave for a week. He took somebody's razor, he said, but he couldn't get hold of a portable mirror, and every time he lathered up and stood in front of the glass ia the dining room sideboard, some one came and he had had to run and hide. He told, too, of his attempts to es cape, of the board on the roof, of the home-made rope and the hole in the cellar, and he spoke feelingly of tho pearl collar and the struggle he had made to hide it He said that for three days lt was concealed in the pocket of Jim's old smoking coat in the studio. We were all rather sorry for him, but If we had made him uncomfort able, think of what he had done to us. And for him to tell, as he did later in court, that if that was high so ciety he would rather be a burglar, and that we starved him, and that the women had to dress each other be? cause they had no lady's maids, and that the whole lot of us were in love with one man, it was downright ma licious. The wagon came for him just as he finished his story, and we all went to jthe door. In the vestibule Aunt Selina suddenly remembered something, and she stepped forward and caught the poo'r fellow by the arm. "Young man," she said grimly. "I'll thank you to return what you took from me last Tuesday night" McGulrk started, then shuddered and turned suddenly pale. "Good Lord!" he ejaculated. "On the stairs to the roof! Youl" They led him away then, quite brok en, with Aunt Selina staring after him. She never did understand. I could have explained, but it was too awful. On the Bteps McGulrk turned and tcok a farewell glance at us. Then he waved his hand to the policemen and reporters who had gathered around. "Good-by, fellows," be called feebly. "I ain't sorry, I ain't Jail'll be a par adise after this." And then we went to pack our trunks. Kote from Max which came th? next day with its enclosure: My Dear Kit-The enclosed trunk ^ag was used on my trunk, evidently by mistake. Higgins discovered lt when he was unpacking and returned lt to me under the misapprehension that I had written it I wish I had. I suppose there must be something attractive about a fellow who has the courage to write a love letter on the back of a trunk tag, and who doesn't give a tinker's dam who finds it But for my peace of mind, ask him not to leave another one around where I will come across it Max. Written on the back of the trunk tag: Don't you know that I won't see you until tomorrow? For heaven's sake, get away from this crowd and come into the den. If you don't I will kiss you before everybody. Are you com lng? T.. Written below: No indeed. , K. This was scratched out and beneath. Coming. THE END, the sermon the devil already baa aa* swore framed In the minds of your boarers. The consequence ls the neted falls on stony ground. Now, when I get up in the pulpit to speak not eves the devil himself knows what I am going to say."-Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. The Art of Sleeping. Slumber commences at the extremi ties, beginning with the feet and legs. That is why lt ls always necessary te keep the feet waxoi.-Family Doctor. THEIR SONG IS EH B?M A FAST TRAIN RUN DOWN A LARGE CROWD OF MERRY MAKERS. MANY HORRIBLY MANGLED A Chcago and Northwestern Flyer Running at Very High Speed Crash es Into a Party Returning From a Picnic-No One on Train Hurt. Neenah, Wis. - Thirteen persons are dead, three others are dying and five are seriously hurt as the result of a fast train on the Chicago & Northwestern Railway crashing into a hayrack on^hich a party of thirty one merrymakers were returning from a celebration. A big billboard beside the railroad tracks obscured the view from the lo comotive as well, as from the wagon. Dust and fog were contributory causes to the tragedy. Nine members of the party escaped without a scratch. 1 No body on the train suffered except from a momentary severe jar. The collision occurred at the Com mercial street crossing here. Train No.121, northbound, whirled through the wagon-load of singing and happy unfortunates, who were returning from the Peter Hanson farm, where they had gone to attend the celebra tion of a wedding anniversary. Ail but two, who were Chicago men, wero residents of Menasha. The dead: John Drill, Chicago, James Cheslock, Gustav Finn, Mabel Finn, John Hart, Steven Lisk, Domi nick Omniecbinski, Mabel Renz, John Schedick, Joseph. Schedick, Joseph Sienyo, Frank Sisgardt, Isaftlle Suchowski. Armless, legless and headless bodies covered the right of way as the train, nine coaches in length, was brought to a stop 800 feet from the scene of the crash. Several of the bodies were so badly mutilated that identification was pos sible only by fragments of clothing. Six bodies were discovered on the engine pilot and two other bodies were hurled through a flagman's shanty with such force as to overturn the structure. One of these was Miss. Finn, who was projected through one of the side walls of the house and was breathing when removed. She died a few hours later. Financial Side of Trust Presented. Washington.-The Intricate financial side of the American Tobacco Com pany, known as the tobacco trust, and which is now in process of dissolution by order of the Supreme Court of the United States, because it was a com bination in restraint of trade in viola tion of the Sherman anti-trust law, was set forth in a report of the Com missioner of Corporations, Herbert Knox Smith, which was sent to tha President and made public. It was the second part of a report on the tobacco industry and deals with the earnings, capitalization and invest ment of the great tobacco combina tion. The commissioner points out that the vast earning power which arose from the substantial control of the tobacco industry was a monopoly resulting from concentration. A Very Useful Institution. Blowing Rock.-The Sandy Flat school is operated it the junction of the road going to Linville and the one going to Shulls mill. It is about two and one-half mile3 from Blowing; Rock. It was fou: ed by Mr. Moses Cone, and is run under the auspices of the county superintnedent of edu cation. Half the term it is operated as a county school, and the other half out of the funds cupplied by Mrs. Cone, continuing the work her hus band started. It has fifty-five schol ars. Miss Edna Rheinhardt of Lincoln county, is the teacher. Aside from the regular academic studies, one mornlpg each week is given to indus trial work. There is a large and well appointed room devoted to this pur pose. Promises to be Unsolved Mystery. Leesburg, Ga.-Intense interest cen ters about the preliminary hearing of Mort S. Childers, held on the charge of killing his wife on August 15 by placing poison in medicine which she was taking. Childers was arrested at Americus on September 19, after an ot" er man, R. C. Kennedy, also had been arrested on the same charge. The lui! In the legal proceedings has not served to bring to light any mo tive for the poisoning.of Mrs. Childers and it is thought the crime will go down as an unsolved mystery. Test of An Important Law: Washington.-The iniatlve and ref erendum probably will be the subject of a discussion-with far-reaching consequence-by the Supreme Court of the United States during the ap proaching term. The question of the constitutionality of these expedients of government forms the basis of a suit between the state of Oregon, where they are in use, and the Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph Co. As the case is near the head of the docked, it will be reached to insure a decision before the end of the tenn. A Flyer Comes to Grie.'. Pittsburg.-Train No. 28 cn the Pennsylvania Railroad, known as the 18-hour flyer between Chicago and New York, was in a collision thirty minutes after leaving the city, kill ing one trainman, injuring four oth er and one passenger. After passing the Pitcairn freight yards, where there are cross-over tracks entering the yards, the train was held up by the towerman near Larimer, 20 miles east of here. While at a standstill a train of freight cars was let in on the track and crashed into the flyer. 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