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PUBLLCXTED TRE-WEEKLY ?R?TAl_?TTAOt fkite Wraai Accises While lai and a Near? ef an Awral Crifle. HOST FIENDISH TALE The Storj, According to Reports, Is Doubted, However, by Many People at Cainhoy?Little Excitement at Wando River Village Over Alleged Victim's Story. The News and Courier says Cain Taoy, the little town at the further ond of the Wando River which has furnished so much news of a startling nature in its history, now sends a tale of a white woman criminally as saulted a few miles from the village and left on the public highway after the deed was accomplished. The woman is the wife of a well known resident of Cainhoy and the vicinity and she herself told the story to Magistrate P. R. Donnelly, of Cainhoy, according to reports from the town iMonday morning. The crime is said to have been committed on Saturday night and as a result of the woman's statements, it is reported that steps have been .taken to place a white man and his son and a negro under arrest. The stories which were told by peo ple coming from Cainhoy were to the effect that the white woman told a tale of a heinous crime to Magistrate Donnelly. She sai^i, according to the reports, that she had been at home Saturday night with only her baby and that at about 10 o'clock some one had rapped on the door. She said they asked if her husband was in, and, upon her replying to the con trary, the men outside said: "You're a d?n liar," and came into the house. The woman said, according to the reports, that when she found the men meant to do her harm, she of fered to give them $100 to spare her life, and that they took this and took $300 more from her. She is said to have identified a negro as the man to whom she handed the money. There were several men in the crowd, white and colored, according to her reported story. The- men then took the woman, it is alleged, out into the,woods and crim inally afijjaultei her', keeping her in the woods all night and placing her on the road early in the morning. The woman is said to have stated that they bound her with ropes before tak ing her from the house. She went into Cainhoy, from which place her home is about five miles dis tant, and there told her story, She Is said to have charged the two white men and the nsgro with having part in the affair. It is said that bad hlood existed for some time between the two white men and the negro on one side and the woman's husband on the other. Although from the woman's re ported story she had been most bru tally attacked, it is said that out wardly she shows no signs whatever of injuries. This has led a number of people to doubt the story, espec ially in view of the emphatic denials of the men concerned. Contrary to what might be imag ined, it is said that there Is not much excitement In Cainhoy as the result of the occurrence, ft is stated that many people do not credit the alleged victim's story, believing that she had not been attacked at all, in view of the fact that the woman's condition is apparently normal and' that the accused men so confidently deny the ' allegations. Latest reports from Cainhoy stated that the three men were being kept under guard, al though they were not locked up. This report could not bo confirmed. CONDITIONS ARE APPALLING. People in Asiatic Russia Suffer From Fanrne. A dispatch from St. Petersburg, Russia, says the sufferings experi enced in tho famine of 1S91 are be ing repeated in the province of Oren burg and Tural territory. Asiatic Russia, is famine str;cken. The in habitants of these regions are flock ing to towns, preparing for death and begging for the adm'n'ttratlon of the iast communion. Tbe crops in the province of Orenburg are S6 per cent below the average, and Eishop T. C. Helyabinsk has issued an appeal to the government asking aid for peas ants. Frozen to Death. A flock of ducks, their feet frozen to the ground, was found in a field near Williams, Ind., during the re cent blizzard. It is believed the ducks had alighted in the field to spend the night and that the sudden change in temperature caused the wet ground to freeze holding them prisoners. Many of the birds were caught by farmers in the vicinity, who cut them loose from the ground with axes. Convict Sees His Dying Babe. Thomas Edgar Stripling, former police chief of Danville, Va., and now Georgia convict and inmate of the state farm at Milledgevllle, in chains and under guard, reached the home of his wife at Columbus, Ga., and embraced his dying baby. FOUR BOYS WILL HANG TWO OTHER BOYS GO TO STATE pfo ?Z-.T-TFB- ....... For a Most Brutal Murder Committed on tile Outskirts of Chicago Sen tence is Passed on Six Boys. At Chicago four hoys were found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death and two oth ers were sentenced to life imprison ment by a jury Monday night for the murder of a truck farmer on the out skirts of the city a month ago. The four sentenced to death are: Edwald and Frank Shiblawski, Philip Sommerling and Joseph Schultz. The two sentenced to life imprisonment were Frank Kita and Leo Suchomski, both 16 years old. None of the four on whom the jury visited the death penalty is of age. The youngest of them is 18 years old. The boys robbed and killed Fred W. Gruelzow in spite of his suppli cation for life because he had a wife and baby to support. All confessed. Assistant State's Attorney Edward S. Day made a unique closing argument for the prosecution. Grurlzow had nearly reached the city with a load of garden products when the six boys set on him, armed J with two revolvers, two butcher knives, a club and a hammer. He alighted from' his wagon and was struck down with the club. He pleaded for his life, on his knees, offering the boys all in his pos session because he had a wifo and a baby a month old at home but the answer of the youths was to beat him into unconsciousness with the club and th9 hammer. After the man was unconscious he was stabbed four times with the bitcher knives, the corpse was dragged into a nearby thicket, a club was jammed down the throat and sev eral bullets were fired into the body. The boys were arrested while try ing to sell :.me of the booty. The jury was ?ui only two hours and only one ballot was taken in each case. The youth of the two 16-year oid boys was all that saved them from hanging said the jurors. The verdict calls down death upon more persons than any other one verdict in Cook county save that fol lowing the Haymarket riot yearaago, when the four anarchists convicted of throwing bombs into the police ranks were hanged from a., single scaffold. In 1904, Peter Niedermeyer, Har vey Van Pine and Gustave Marks, all about 20 years old, were hanged one after the other in punishment for the murder of eight persons. CAUGHT ESCAPED CONVICT. Got Out of the Penitentiary Over Seventeen Years Ago. The Greenville Piedmont says after being through twenty states for more than seventeen years since he made his escape from the state pen itentiary, Charlie Hawkins, alias Jack Hawkins, was arrested at one o'clock Monday morning by Sheriff J. Perry Poole and Deputy Sheriff, John Hunsinger at Laurel Creek, about 5 miles from the city, and at 2 o'clock the notorious negro prisoner was placed safely behind the big iron bars at the county jail. Hawkins es caped from the state penitentiary at Columbia in 1892, more thas seven teen years ago after serving six years of his fifteen-year sentence. Charlie Hawkins was tried and convicted of assault with intent to J ravish at the March term of court in I Greesville county in 1886,,and sen-! tenced to serve a term of fifteen years in the state penitentiary, and after serving six years of his fifteen year sentence he escaped from the prison walls and has since been a free man. The prisoner says he has been in about twenty-five different states and has done all kinds ofj work. NEGRO KILLS ANOTHER NEGRO. Eugcno Moseley Shoots Brutus Eu banks at Barnwell. At Barnwell Eugene Moseley, a negro, shot and almost instantly kill ed Brutus Eubanks. another negro, at the Suthern depot Sunday evening at about 7 o'clock. iMoseley claims that he shot in self-defense. Moseley gave himself up to J. 0. Patterson, for whom he has been working as a farm hand. He was lodged in jail, and will probably be tried at the present term of court. Eubanks bad been in the employ of the Southern Express Company as driver for a long time. Dead Bodies Found in Park. At Kansas City, shadowed for months by detectives, and wanted In several cities for alleged brokerage frauds, amounting to thousands of dollars, Claire G. Andrews, with his wife, laid down in a wood of a subur ban park near here and swallowed morphine. They had been dead more than two months when found by boys. Train Settles in Quagmire. Lacking water and food, more than 100 passengers, several of them wo men were marooned several hours on the roof of a Soo line passenger train which had settled seven feet in a quagmire 21 miles east of iMoose Lake, Minn. They were is a perilous! plight until rescued. \ ORANGEBUR TAKE UP CASE Grand Jury Considers Charge Against Tbos. B. Felder, of Atlanta BRIBERY IS CHARGED Accused of Trying to Corrupt K.*H. Evans, While Ho Was Chairman of the Old State Dispensary Board of Control by Offering Him a Bribe to Purchase Liquor. In the Court of General Sessions at Newberry on last iMonday .morn ing a bill of indictment was handed to the grand jury, charging Thomas B. Felder, of Atlanta, with attempt ing to bribe H. H. Evans in 1905, whiid Evans was chairman of the board of directors o: the State dis pensary. At that time Evans was on the board with John Bell Towill, of Batesburg, and L. W. Boykin, of Camien. Evans, Towill and Boykin were sworn as witnesses before the grand jury. Governor Blease was in Court at the time the indictment was hand ed out by Solicitor Cooper. The in dictment follows a warrant sworn out some months ago by B. Frank Kelley, then secretary of the dispen sary winding-up commission. This warrant was placed in the hands of Sheriff Buford of Newber ry county, who went to Atlanta for. Felder,' but was powerless to arrest] him, because Governor Brown, of Georgia., refused to honor the requi sition issued by Governor Blease of South Carolina. The indictment comes after an in vestigation by the winding-up com mission. Judge Gage charged the grand jury that they should find a true bill if the testimony before them satisfied them beyond a reasonable doubt; if not, to find a "no bill." In addition to the former members of this dispensary board sent before the grand jury, it Is understood thqit several letters purporting To have been written by Felder to Evans and other were submitted to the jury. The bill of Indictment is drawn under Section 2Gl of the Criminal Code and contains three counts. In effect, it charges that Felder, on or about October 2nd, 1905, offered H. H. Evans, of Newberry, then chair man of the State dispensary board, a large amount of stock in & company organized by Felder, to influence Evan's vote to secure orders for li quors from the company organized. The first count charges that on the date named Felder offered Evans $50,000 of the capital stock of this company organized under the laws of one of the States of the United States, said State being to the jurors known. The second count charges Felder with offering Evans $250,000 of the preferred stock of this company and the third count charges the offer by Felder to Evans of the $250,000 in lawful money of the United States, being practically a repetition of the second count in a different form. (The famous "T. P." letter, address ed "Dear Hub," which was some time ago given to the press by Governor Blease, as a letter written by Fel der to Evans, bears date Atlanta, October 2, 1905, and the indictment appears to he grounded upon the mat ters set out in this letter. When Court reconvened after the dinner recess Judge Gage suggested to the grand jury that if all the wit nesses had testified before them in the Felder case, since this case could not be tried at this term of Court, and as the Court was waiting upon the findings of the grand jury on other bills handed them, that they postpone consideration of the Felder case until they had disposed of other Indictments, in order that the Court might be kept busy. HOUSE DROPS SIXTY FEET. Mine Cave-is Swallowed Up Dwelling in Scranton, Pa. Occupants of a double dwelling in Scranton, Pa., escaped in their night clothes when the house was swallow ed by a mine cave and reduced to de bris at the bottom of a 00-foot pit one night this week. Broken gas pipes and an exploding lamp formed a destructi;e combination, and the building, with its contents was con sumed by fire. The peak of the house was just; visible 30 feet below the surface when tho city firemen arrived and they wer0 powerless to check the flames. For an hour the pit was a roaring furnace, and when the fire was over all that remained ef the house was a heap of smoking embers. Beheaded Sixty Manchus. At Wu-<?how, China, tho revolu tionary soldiers are avenging the re cent massacre. They have already beheaded sixty prisoners, some of them sons of aristocrats. After wards they had an orgy, cutting out the hearts of victims, which, they roasted and ate. Traps Station Robbers. When robbers entered the station ai Oriental. Pa., held up, robbed and beat Operator A. L. Carroll they were unaware of the fact that he threw a red signal as they entered the place. The signal Btopped a train and both rob.bers were caught ransacking the place. I G, S. C, THURSDAY, NOVEM D1V? KEEPER'S WILL ONC& NOTORIOUS WOMAN GAVE BIG SUM TO CHARITY. Six Months Ago She Gave Her Former Resort to City for an Emergency Hospital. MIbb Anna Wilson's gift of practi cally $500,000 to charity, the ac cumulation of 40 year's profits from the most notorious dive Omaha, Neb., has ever known, has brought out more reminiscenses and caused more talk than any single event in the Mid dle West in years. Miss Wilson was sixty years of age when she died a few days ago, and In her will she makes no individual gifts, except of a trust fund, but leaves all that she had. saved to the city as her greatest possible resti tution. It b the second largest gift to charity ever made by an Omaha resident. Six months ago iMiss Wil son closed her dive and presented the building, with $75,000, to the city as an emergency hospital. Anna Wilson went to Omaha when it was a frontier town several years before the Union Pacific railroad was completed in 1SG7. Her first ap pearance was on a music hall stage. She was bright and pretty. Also she was well educated. Just who she really was has always been a mys iery. She freely acknowledged that "Anna Wilson" was not her true name, but her real identity has never been revealed. The young girl remained on the stage only a short time. When the music hall went to the wall she was without an engagement. In the emer gency ehe took up with a noted "square" gambler, Dan Allen, and be came his common law wife. This relation she sustained for 20 years until Allen died. Allen is said to have furnished the money with which Miss Wilson opened the most notori ous dive in the city. In the 40 years of its existence, however, there were few arrests made there. When Allen died he left a $10,000 policy, made in favor of Miss Wilson. She notified his brothers that at her death the money would be handed over to them. Some years ago one of them asked Miss Wilson for a portion of the money and was given $1,000. In her will $9,000 is left to Dan Allen's brothers. Six years ago Mis3" Wllaon leased her home, purchased a $15,000 resi dence in Krountze place, an exclusive residential district, and wont to live in her new home. With her, she brought one of the best Shakespear ian libraries in the West. Among her books is an illustrated Bible, which cost many thousands ot dollars, and which Miss Wilson is said to have been fond of reading and studying. Her library ran into thous ands of volumes, and pictures and works of art fairly filled her home. Her flower garden and home were the wonder of the town. DRINK TOO M UCH LIQUOR. Remarkable Statement Made by the Commission. 1 Royal E. Cabell, United States Commissioner of Internal Revenue, has made some remarkable state ments in his annual report showing that the internal revenue receipts last year were the best in the history of the Government, amounting to $322.520,299. Another very remark able statement of .Mr. Cabell is that iast. year the production of distilled spirits in the United States was 175, 402,395 gallons, or nearly 7,000,000 gallons more than in 1907, the prev ious banner year. The production of beer, ale, etc., aggregated 63,21G,S51 barrels, or nearly 4,000,000 barrels more than in the previous banner year, 1910. There are now in the bonded ware houses of the United States, ripen ing for use, 249,279,346 gallons of in toxicating liquors. Still another very remarkable statement in Mr. Cabell's report is that there has been a very large increase in the illicit manufac ture of liquor in North Carolina, South Caroiina, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia. The first four of these States are supposed to bo prohibition and in Virginia the stuff is sold only in in corporated cities and towns and then only in towns in which the question of the sale of the stuff has been sub mitted to the qualified voters. WIPED OUT HIS FAMILY. An Italian Murders Five People and Kills Himself. Ignacia Plcfcia, an Italian store keeper, killed his wife, Iiis mother, his sister and then his two children, then shot himself to death in the rooms back of his store at Lodl, a small town near HackensacK, N. Y? Monday afternoon. Plefcla had quar reled with his family and had been away a week. He returned Monday afternoon and went into the store. A customer who entered the store soon after found the six corpses. The man used a revolver and each car tridge counted for a life. Plefcla's corpse lay nearest the door. Between him and the living room at the rear lay the body of his wife. In the next room were the other two -.voinen, and in the bedroom the children, aged four and six. :BER30, 1911. BOUGHT TEDDY Philadelphia Baoker Tells a Sensational Story Abtat EiectiiB. STARTLING STATEMENT Says Roosevelt Made a Corrupt Bar gain With tho Railroads and Big Business for Their Support in His Race for President of the United States. Wharton Barker, a retired banker, of Philadelphia, sprang a sensation on the State committee on Inter State commerce Tuesday, when he alleged that a New York financier told him in 1904 that the financial interests would support Theodore Roosevelt for President, because Roosevelt had "made a bargain with them on the railroad question." Mr. Barker's statement carne in the midst of a vigorous attack on the "Money Trust," in which ho alleges also that President Roosevelt had been given the details of the impend ing panic of 1907 several months be fore it happened, but took no action to prevent it. Mr. Ilarker also declared that the Aldricb currency plan was the handi work, not of former Senator ALirich, but of Mr. VY'arbu", of the banking firm of Kuhn, L,oeb & Co., of New York, and that a fund of $100,000 had been started to secure its adop tion. "Throe or four weeks before the ejection in 1 904," said Mr. Barker, "1 was walking down Broadway when I met one of the mo3t distinguished money kings in New York, a man now dead. He said to me: 'We are going to elect Roosevelt.' I expressed sur prise and asked if he had given up the support of Parker. He said yes, that they had frightened Roosevelt so he had made a bargain with them. "He is to holler all he wants to,' he told me, 'but by and by a railroad bill will be brought in by recommen dation of tho President, cutting off rebates and free passes, which suits us who own the railroads, perlitting the railroads to make pooling ar rangements and providing for maxi mum rates.' " The railroad man added, said Mr. Barker, that under the latter authori ty it would be possible to add from $300,000,000 to $400,000,000 to the total freight charges .paid by the American public. '"I told hjira I did not Welicire Roosevelt had made any such agree ment," said Mr. Barker, "nut when the annual message of 1905 went to j Congress ho recommended most of those things. I wrote to President Rooj.evelt and told him what I had heard, and that I had thought the man lied, hut now I must believe hei had not. It was the only letter of mino Mr. Roosevelt ever failed toi answer." Members of the committee asked Mr. Barker to give the name of the financial man who had told him that Roosevelt was to be elected. "J cannot do it," said Mr. Barker, "but subsequently somebody was al leged to have stolen some corre spondence between Mr. Harrlman and the President, telling of $250,000 put up lor election expenses in the city of New York." Referring to tho panic of 1907, Mr. Barker said a man who was present at a ""inference at J. P. Morgan's house in .May, came to him in Phila delphia and wanted him to use his influence with President Roosevelt to stop a plan that had been mapped out, ho alleged, by the financial lead ers. This man was a captain in the Rough Riders, he said, and had used his own influence with tho President, but without avail. "The plan," said Mr. Barker, "con templated tho curtailment of loana, the withdrawal of credits, the putting away of money by those interested where they could get it when they needed it to stop the panic, and the enforcement of the various State laws regarding tho holding of cash re serves by the banks and trust com panies." Mr. Barker said that in October, when tho financial upheaval reached its crisis, he urged President Roose velt to distribute the $145,000,000 of cash in the treasury among the banks of Chicago, Philadelphia, Bos ton and other largo cities. "He wanted to do it," he said, "but ho called in Olr. Knox, Mr. Cortelyou and Mr. Root, and instead of deposit ing in tho outsido ciMes, he plunged the whole amount into Wall Street. It broke the counry, but it saved the gamblers." The Philadelphia man. whose bank ing house at one time was fisca' agent for the Russian Govern meivf, declared that those who backed tho Aldrich monetary plan had boon a "propa ganda" In which it was proposed to spend $1,000,000 to secure the en dorsement of tho proposed currency legislation. "Yesterday a banker in Philadel phia started to collect that city's share of tho money, $100,000" he said. I He declared that the great "money oligarchy" of New York controlled all the lines of finance, industry and transportation, and that no legisla tion designed to break up tho trusts would strike at tho root of the trou ble. "Few people appreciate how, by control of the money of trust compa LOSS HEAVY BY FIRE ABOUT TWO HUNDRED AND SHX . TY MILLION YEARLY. Carelessness Is the Chief Cause, umd People Should Be Taught How to Prevent Fires. Present indications are that the Are losses in the United States and Can ada for 1911 will exceed $260,OOO, 000. The figures for the first seven months of the year show a total of $154,992,500, as compared with $126,076,800 'during the same period last year. The losses for 1910 were $234, 406,650, and if the present ratio of increase continue throughout the year, the 1911 losses may approach $3 00,000,000. This will exceed any year in the history of the country, ex cept thosa of the San Francisco ,and Baltimore conflagrations. Government officials, underwriters and firemen agree that the majority of these fires are due to carelessness and are easily preventable. All. of the recent fires, which have attracted public attention because of the heavy loss of life with which they were ac companied, were due to the careless ness and indifference of the owners, rccupants, or municipal authorities. New York has been spending $10, 000,000 a year for fire extinguish ment and only $10,000 for fire pre vention. The recent shirt waist fac tory firo aroused the public and' the authorities, and tire prevention is to be made much more prominent here after. The most important consideration is the development of a sense of per sonal responsibility ou the part of property owners for the excessive fire waste, which is daining the resources of the country and weakening its insurance capital. A score of fire insurance companies have retired from the field, already this year, be cause of the heavy losses last year and the unfavorable outlook. Disasters like the recent factory fire at Newark, N. J., in which 20 girls-were killed and 50 seriously in jured, are chiefly due to carelessness. In this ca3e both municipality and owner are responsible. The city had not seen to tho proper fire escapes and exits, although the ownprs had been frequently warned by the haz ards by the insurance men. Tho public should be brought to realize the excessive danger Involved in the handling or gasoline and -the fact that the greatest care is re quired at all timc3. Its increasing domestic use renders more important the education of the public in this regard, as there are hundreds of dis tressing fatalities each year in the smaller cities and towns which never get headlines in the papers, because only one or two persons were burned to death. ADMITS CRIME TO PRIEST. Had Killed His Wife and the Man Ho Found With Her. Tortured by the mental picture of his heedless wife and her paramour, whom he had slew, Pasquale Mar chesi, 27 years old, a merchant of Kenasha, Wis., confessed to a priest the double crime heretofore not. dis covered. He was turned ovir t;o the police who are closely guarding him for fear of possible mob violence. According to Marches!, he went home and found his wife, Rosari, and his cousin and namesake making love. Without allowing his presence to be come known, Marccsi went to a woodshed, procured a hand axe, crept into the house and chopped off tho heads of the two lovers. Taking his baby, two months ok', from the arms of his slain wife, Mai chesi washed the blood from its face, carried it to the home of his brother and said that his wife was 111. He returned to the house, dressed his daughter, Josephine, four years old, and took her to his brother's. Marchesi then returned to the house, concealed the hatchet and wandered about the city. As morn ing begun to dawn, the spectres so haunted Marchesi, so he said, that he was forced to confess. nies, savings banks and State banks this trust throttles individual enter prise,", he said. He urged a law that would compel national banks to hold their legal reserve in cash instead of having the power to redeposit part of it In the banks of New York. "Nothing but tboso immense re serves, varying from $250,000,000 to $350,000,01)1). makes New York the money power it is," said Mr. Barker, insisting that the Aldrich currency plan would strengthen this financial forco by enabling tho banks to use public credil for their own ends." Mr. Barker urged a central bank of the United States, to bo controlled by directors cho:j"n from arbitrary districts covering the whole country. "That would take the people out of tho clutches of Wall Street and put them in possession of their own rights," ho said. Peculiar Skin Disease. Dudley Payne, the negro who turn ed white at Chillicothe. Mo., is dead, and efforts will be made by the Mis souri Medical Society to ascertain the cause of the peculiar skin disease, which has baffled physlcans for sev eral years. Splotches appeared on Payne's hands and then spread to the upper part of the body. mm TWO CENTS PK ?OPY. | PARTY UNITED ?'? 1 Chimp Clark Says Hope Succeeds Dia* pair io Democratic ?earlt. -?- ( TARIFF IS THE ISSUE After Years of Labor, Declares Speak* er, Replying to Bryan's Criticism^ Efforts of Himself and Other Lead* ers Have Entirely Eliminated Dis cussion Within Party's Ranku. Speaker Champ Clark, who is Id 'Washington, declared Monday that he had devoted -:he last three years chiefly to getting the House Demo crats together and holding them to gether, and that, after seventeen [years of factional fighting, the Dem ocrats are "united, and, by the bless ings of God, will remain so." "I did not do it all by a long shot,'* [he aided. "I had lots of help, and every Democrat who participated in j that troublesome, laudable work de serves his full share of the honor< Whdle therie was once despair Id Democratic hearts, there is high hopo now." In this way the titular head of thej Democratic l?wer house of Congress made indirect reply to criticisms ol former Presidential Candidate Wil liam Jennings Bryan, as to the Speak ership no longer carrying the leader ship of the House. Mr. Clark referr ed to the great importance of units and wisdom among the Democrats ta[ draw voters not belonging to the Democratic party. "The most important feature of tha extraordinary session of Congress from a political standpoint," said he, "was the fact that we pulled togeth er, worked together, fought together and won- together. We replaced the old habit of defeat with the new habit of victory, the bad fashion of quar relling among ourselves with the bet* ter fashion of taking counsel together, and then presenting a solid front tq astonished enemy. * "The trend of public opinion hi to* ward the Democrats. President Taft's long trip seems to have left thi:aga in statu quo." \ The speaker says the recent elee-" tion proved that, wherever the tariff was the sole or the principal issue^ the Democrats won, and that when Mr. Tait vetoed the tariff bills, It was inevitable that the tariff would- be the leading issue next year. "One of the most preposterous canards put into print since Gutten berg invented movable type," added the speaker, "is the charge that 1 am In favor of the forcible annexa tion of Canada. There Is not a fact in the universe on which to base sucB a slander. I never at any time on place stated, or even hinted, Buch at wicked and kuixotic scheme to any human being. 1 have never dreamed of such a thing, and would oppose it to the uttermost. "I have frequently for years ex pressed the hope that there might be a union of the two countries by mu tual consent and for the good ol both. It always seemed to me a friendly suggestion, because we are neighbors, of the same blood and) speaking tho same language, but as the Canadians do not seem to want ! that, there is an end to it." HANGED HTM SELF IN BARN, j Lifeless Body of Oconce County Youth Found. The body of a young 16-year-old son of John F. Bice, who lives sev eral miles from Walhalla, was feund hanging from the end of a rope In the barn on Mr. Rice's place Satur day afternoon. Yotng Rice had nev er been strong medially, and it. is thought that In a temporary fit 0/ in sanity he ended hla life. His body was found by his brother, who went to the barn late in the afternoon and the body was still warm, though lifo was extinct. Tho body was taker* jdown with the assistance of neigh bors, who were called in. The rope used was a long one, and when found the unfortunate youth's feet were: j touching the floor. WOMAN CLOTHES CHICKEN. I Puts Coats and Pajamas on Fowls fe*. "Keep Them Warm." | Rather than see her chickens, which had molted late a the season and were running about featherless these frosty mornings, suffer, Mrs, K. Stockor of Colorado City, Col., has made neatly fitting red coats, which button under the wings, and soff Flanm-! pajamas and caps tastily fas tened with ribbons under the beak, land now her flock gives "Jack Frost" the laugh. The clilckens strut about, j apparently proud of their clothe9. Mrs. Stoker says thai the hens, to show their gratitude, ura lying eggs every day. Thief Ate Too Much. A large catamount was killed inj one of the busiest sections of Hunts ville, Ala. The animal raided tho henhouse of William Fletcher and en tered a coop in which there werd seven pigeons. It ate all of the pig eons and several chickens, and afte* its feast was unable to get out through the hole it had entered.