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- ■ W5 ■'~.S V‘ ‘ .' v \ ■ ' - . ' ■ • • ■ ' - ■' - " V—... -v ■ ■ •••' — < - ' « :• ' . ... / ; ; . . , ' • > » • ' - a 1’ ' . • ' ~ 'A’ ‘•tSJKt 1 -f l] ■ ... VOL. XZXX. BARNWELL, 8: 0., THUR8DAT, SEPTEMBER 21,1906. NO. •C'V MIKtSA BURNED. FlreQot to the Magazine And An Explosion Follows. SIX HUNDRED LOST. The Pride of the Japanese Navy Sinks lato the Sea. She was Tofo’s Flagship, bat he was not on Board When the Terrible jj '• ‘ * Accident Took Plaee. A dispatch from Tokio says the JapaneooDavy department anBoooeeo that the battloohip Mikauhad been dostro) td by Are and the explosion of her magazine, causing the Ions of 590 lives, Including men of other ships, who went to the rescue. The fire started from an unknown, danse at midnight on Sunday night, September 10th. Before the tffiaers could be r seen red, the fire reached the aft magazine, blowing a bole In the port aide of the vessel below the water line and causing the ship to sink. 't An investigation Is now being held to determine the oanae of tha fire. As is well known the Mlkasa was Ad- flagship, but he was not the terrible accident happened.. - ’ Tuo ship wan at anchor in Sasebo harbor ifhen the fire started at the base of the .mainmast at,> midnight It spread with great rapidity, explod ing the after magazine, an hour after the fire had been dissevered. ^—-**■***" The Mlkasa sank In shallow water and It Is believed the ship can be re paired. Rescuing parties were emit from the various warships in the har bor and there were heavy casualties among them. Various conjectures are current to the cause hots It tn Great relief was felt throughout Ja pan, whan It was. learned that Ad miraj Togo’s) on bbard whan mini Togo was not outboard the ship at the time of the firs. The disaster has oast a gloom over tbs whole of Japan. —•■■■—— 7 k FOOLISH HOT Shoots Two.Young liSdtes and Then Kills Himself. At Frodarlok, Md., because his 16 year old sweetheart persisted in her refusal to marry him and had dismis sed him, Lee Weddle, 11 years of age la dead by hil own hand, the sweet heart, Nellie Btoheiberger, la suffer ing from two pistol shot wound i that may prove fatal and bar friend and ^eotnpviloo, Maud Darla, has a bullet woncJ through her arm. Meddle was fee aon of a prominent builder and oontraoter of Thumout, this scanty, at whlob place the trig ady took plaoe last night. Mlsa Etoh- bsrgar, wife Mia Darts and anoth- glrl were shopping and bad reached >ubUc square of Thurmont when die approached and took Mia Eiohelbarger to task for sending him his litter of dismissal Upon her reltofUing the sentiments she had ex preaed-in fee letter, Weddle drew a revolver and fired at hei*twioe. The first of ' the bullets went through Mia Davis’s arm and into Mia Eiobelburger’s left shoulder; the Second penetrating a few Incbea to the right of fee fiat. As bis vlotlm fell fainting bo the ground, fee boy believing be had killed her, turned tie weapon and sent two bullets through his own heart, dying instant ly. He is Jaid to have threatened pooh an act on several occasions. rWM.fc- The New York American ays the divorce suit by which Mrs. Oedlla Lewis wss freed •from her husband, waa instituted last Jans, and broke all records In point of time consumed Into trial It took Justloe Maroon just two minutes to grant an Interlo outcry degree. The three months that most si epee before fee final de grte la signed expired at midnight on -Sunday. Mrs. Lewis was so JOBS 60 BIGOING. Ofloes leathers Ptmocrats Co Jd Get If They Tr ed. Causes of Failure to Participate. Oae Section of the Country Where • ■• ••*•. There la a Shortage. The discovery made through the personal. Investigation of Commis sioner Greene, of fee United States civil sendee commission, that Demo crats as a class refrain from partici pating in the civil, service examina tions in the Seufe serves to explain in a measure a point which has puzzled the commission for a long time, name ly, the difficulty In maintaining regie* ten of Southern ellglbles sufficiently large to enable the Sontherb states to receive their proper quota in federal appointments. This Information was obtained by Commissioner Greene while In Kentuoky, North Carolina and Tennessee on tfflclal business. Commissioner Greene lost no time In making public the results of his In vestigation, and now the civil servioe commission Is doing all in Its power to rectify this condition of affairs. Various dauses are assigned for the reluctance of Southern Democrats to enter the lists for federal plums. Mr. Greene obtained the imprenion that the main cause wal the prevalence of a feeling that, despite academic as surances to the contrary, the spoils ■till belong to the vlotore, and that, therefore, a Democrat, however good a showing he might make in a com petitive examination, stands but little ■how of appointment. To correct this impression Mr. Greene has used the columns of several newspapers of the North to call renewed attention to the non-partisan character of appoint ments made under the civil servioe act and to die the faot that the only AIRUtm That Reids Like the Fiction We * Find in Story Books manner marvellously like URAL LIFE TABGEDI «r ' ' V “■ ’ ■ '• , . j ’ 4 • la the City of Rome Which Very Nearly Parallels the Most Improbable Lit erary Piet of the Novel, “The Masqaerader ” Leaf Writtea. Not The following remarkable story we take from fee Now Tork American: “Impoaalble, bat Interesting;” peo ple said when they read “The Mas querader,” Katherine Oedl Thurston’ 8 successful novel, In whloh two men not related, but looking absolutely alike, change places. And now, to Justify her imagination, to prove that the novelist’s dream was not only interesti ng, but pomlble real, be baa come to fee rescue. In Rome fee situation feat formed fee plot of "The Masquerader" haa bean duplicated. A nobleman, Count Andrtano Benioulll, finding a valet who resembled him marvelously, em- >loyed him as hie double. The valet, Paolo, impersonated his master at all sorts it social functions. He Imitated his manners and graces to perfection; he walked like him and talked like ance and himself. The Count had grown to find Moie ty, whloh demanded more or leas cf his presence, an awful bore. Ha had become as tired of It as he had of hia wife, whom he scarcely saw. In faot, whan he first met fee man Paolo, be was not even living wife her. As be marked the extraordinary res emblanoe between himself and the man an Idea flew Into bis bead. He would take him In his employ and make use of him. Now, whether the Count had beard of "The Masque rader" or not has not yet been unfold ed. In fee novel a similar propoeltioa was made like this: “ ‘You propose,’ said Lader, that for a consideration of money I should trade on dummy, when you are other wise engaged?’ “ ‘After all,’ fee other urged, 'what I ask of you is a simple thing. Merely to carry through my routine dutlesJjpr a week or two occasionally. When I find my endurance giving way—when a respite becomes essential. The work would be nothing, the pay anything you like to name.’ ” The double hesitates and fee other urges. All objections are wavad away. Oblloote agrees to discharge his ser vant and his secretary, who might p s tibly recognise a substitute. Then they came dawn (as the Count and Paolo must have) to the question of fee wife." " ‘You have entirely forgotten one thing,’ said L„der. 'You can hardly dismiss your wife.' - ** *My wife doesn’t count. ’ "I’m afraid I scarcely Agree. The complication i would be efightty 1 ■lightly” He paused. "The faot of your being man led ban it. Can’t nounoed herself es his wife, his wife in the eyes of God and fee Church of Roma. Of ooune sbe would not believe so preposterous a tale u feat fee Coun tess could believe him to be her hus band. How long, however, fee Coun tess would have clung to bar belief we may only conjecture, four In fee mid »t of bis true wife’s insults and fee noble lady’s teen, Paolo fen upon his knees and confessed the part be had played. They say that the Coon tern looked ss though In that moment she had been tamed to stone. The light fad ed out of her beautiful eyes, her Upe oeaaed to quiver, she stood erect and, turning to a peasant woman, begged her pardon humbly for having for one instance oome between bar and her rightful husband. That night, in her gorgeons boudoir in the splendid Benioulll mansion in Rome, fee countess In despair took an overdose of laudanum. Behind her ■he left a tew lines stUlng that fee thought of what she had done had driven her to aulotde, and that sbe forgive those who bad deceived her. In real life "The Masquerader” had become a tragedy, for whloh those who masqueraded are to be fully re sponsible. B0U1D AND TORTU&IP, Wealthy Illinois Faimera Badly Treated by Three Bandlta. ilm, and, even is the duel 1mpersona tom who made "The Masquerader” reason why Republicans are in m large a majority in fee minor fedirsT no | i °™T Uount smends,- but his wife as well In "The Masquerader," fee im personator falls In love with the wife of hie double, aud it is Jealously 6f a woman feat asaists In fee denouement But In real Ufa the denouement Is a tragedy. Reel life Is not aooommodat- m of tb« fire. Some Mtrl Jftlto^tl«nr*SIia5oroT«to. Wi. an ovwcbarge of dcetrtoHy. ^ocratlcparty ^ h»PPT, romantto. As a valet Paplo has been all his life the dominant party, of course oom- prta. tb. tote, loUlllt-ooe » • Muqamdu ,.. KKuaM MM. offices of fee South Is feat Democrats have steadfastly declined to take fee examinations thereby leaving fee eomtolmlon a list oumposed entirely of Republicans from whloh to make fee federal selections. Hie average rating obtained by competitors from Southern states is you see that?” —. "You mistake fee position,” said Oblloote. ”1 tell you my wife and I are nothing to each oth^r. Sbe goes Iter way; I go mine. We have our own friends, our own rooms. Marri age,eotoal marriage, doesn’t enter fee __ We meet occasionally at meals, and at other people’s houses; sometimes we go out together for fee sake of. appearances; beyond feat nothing. If yon take up my life no one will trouble you lees than my wife —I can promise that.” So it was arranged In the novel, and so, probably ranged nwatd rran Mlglir HLTlaye: Bound, gaged and tortured by fire by three bandits who sought to make them reveal ttiOUldlhg plaoe of a trea sure they thought concealed in fee bouli, Andrew and John Fohreo, old and wealthy farmers living nearGprlng Lake, twelve miles north of there, are REGENT APPEAL a FATAL WRE Td Those Tamers Who Are Able and Gan Hold Back To Do So, So feat Fortunate Farmers May Profit by their Oonditlaa of Base. Now thatM muoh Interest is being evinced In fee fixing of the minimum pries of ootton by fee Southern Cot ton Association during Its reoent meeting In Asheville, North Carolina, the following from fee pen of Hon. Harvle Jordan wlll be read wife at tention: 'Toe executive committee of fee Southern Ootton Association held Its meeting at AshevlUe, N. 0., last week, and the question of fixing a minimum prlde of this crop waa the matter of greatest Interest to fee people and country at large. The eyes of the whole ootton world were centered on Asheville daring fee 6fe end 1th days of September, while the executive com mittee was In eeeilon. "The price finally agreed upon af ter long and tedlous. dellberaUon was 11 cents, basis middling, at all in terior points in the south. The con dition of the crop up to August 26th was found to be IS 03 per cent, as compared wife a condition of 84 per ooqb. for fee, same period a year ago. The estimated yield of fee.orop as re- ^ di8patoh>o the^ Chicago Record- j^orud by over 16,000 correspondents from all fee ootloo growing counties this i Of 9,688, in bales, as 12,000,000 balsa last year, from farmers all over tbs belt advised a minimum prtoe ah tbs way from 10 cents to 12 1-2 cents, some figuring is hlgb as 16 cents. But the final result Jtltn cents, and farmers all over fee In a serious condition and It is feared w m oe expected to stand firmly together this fall and winter to main tain that price. By fee determined that fee shook and injuries may provef, fatal to Andrew, fee elder of the two brothers. Andrew, after fee robbers had searched fee boose and taken 8360, managed to free himself from fed thongs whloh bound him and started across fee fields to secure help. The Mies of his feet were blistered, bow- effort prices can be foro8din^above 11 cents later on and fames should de tormina now Jo, moye their crops slowly and not ruth fee market. The only way we can secure and maintain our price Is to refute to sell for less ably, it was discussed and ar ^ hehwi f&r ha «»>» *lis buyers comAiam by fee flnnnt Aflrienn Bsni. r.mr.^, d S ft £n*iJ£ ? S? aiw. If cotton is thrown on m I Aninoro Paolo, fee valet. h! “ d anyway, it will be dlfflc whole of fee community.' It Is there fore evident that If fee Democrats as a class should eater fee lists of federal appointment fee standard of ellglbles would be raised and more Democrats than Republicans would be appointed, w there are more Demeorste than Republicans in the South who have the required quail floatlons. The first state entitled to an appointment at this time is Louisiana. It will take twenty-nine appointments fr jm Lou isiana to bring it np Into the list of Northern states in fee order of ap pointment. Unless a special effort had bean made to Induce applicants from Louisiana to oome forward and take fee examination it would have run further and further behind In Its when sbe found feat sbe had permit ted a menial to make love to bar under fee guise of her husband. The poor, deceived wife le dead, and Count Benioulll bee appealed to .fee courts of Rome to aveoge him. He charges that his valet took advantage of fee position he had permitted him to occupy and caused fee death of his noble mistress. ^ la "The Masquerader” Is Is fee mor phine eater, John Ohilcote, who dies, around men of distlncMoa and refine ment, and he acquired the ways end manners of fee great. Added to felt, ie is, by every aooount, a man good looking as the Count himself. They are both tall, dark, wife olear-eut eaturas and pronounced personalities. The resemblance, according to every one, is uncanny. Of course, the Count’s .intention when he made his bargain wife Paolo was merely to be relieved of his tire- some social duties. Instead of having to make himself agreeable all fee time, f be oould train his double to repre- th* man whn nf Wuxi hi« ■nil wept hlgr aroi>«rly be need only be "*2 unday. Mrs. Lewis wss so anxious to obtain her freedom feet she in ■tructed her lawyer to have dooumant signed immediately at fee stroke of twelve. Sbe had made ell arrange meats for ber wedding to Senator WllooX Wednesday. The lawyer waa i»»*hii» to get a Justice to execute fee degree until Wednesday afternoon The wedding had to be postponed, finmh to Mrs. Lewis’ ohagrtn. Om fietsMt Boy, While Mine boy* were bathing In areek near Belfast, Go., recently wildcat suddenly darted from behind fi pde of lumber and fastened Its teeth in the teg of John Maboney, a boy of abort 1* years of ago. Messrs, a L. BkUksr and A. L. Kirkland were at ahr hotel, same yards distent, end W tbeS3** of the led, ■eear- Ufifl hurried to fee 1 stffl bolding i ■bore of appotutmenta. As It Is, eight men and five women pasaed fee examination for clerk, and one woman passed for bookkeeping, t will be observed, however, feat this does not provide nearly enough Ollgl- bias to give Louisiana its due share of appointments. The state nsstin. turn for appointments after Louisiana is Alabama. This state will be en titled to thirty-five appointments to he share whloh Illinois now has. The May examinations provided twelve men end tlx women ellglbles for olerks, but fell la not nearly enough to fill its quota. Following Alabama comes Mississippi. This stats is en titled to have twenty-three appoint ments to bring It abreast wife Mlnne ■bta. It famished only seven men and three women fox fee clerkregls .. ter and one man for the bookkeeping 1 „ register. ' . Taking fee remaining Soathem states in fee order in which they are entitled to receive appointments, they are Arkansas, Texas, Georgia, Ken tuoky, Tennessee, MlsMurl, South Carolina and North Carolina. These states are each entitled to from fif teen to twenty appointments to bring up their quotas, and male stenograph en will have an especially good obanoe of early appointment. Friends of the South in Washington hope that the present efforts of fee civil service commission will result similarly to fee movement inaugurated by President Harrison, which resulted in Mine 200 Southern appointments In fee federal service. j gun only r bis teg. He his duties, leaving both to fee care and attention of his double, John Yoder, fee good, clever hero. The novelist herself seems to realize that fee poaelbllltj of fee extraordi nary resemblance upon whloh she bases her apparently fanciful plot, Is going to bo much doubted and ques*- loned, for she refers to It in the open- ng chapter In this fashion: "By that im too mild for real life end yet be long to no other sphere, the two faces were Identical, feature for feature. It seemed to safe man feat he looked not at fee face of another, but at his own faoe reflected in a flawless looking glass." Then, again, John Chlloote brings up fee subject of identity In a convex aatlou wife Lady Astrupp. Oblloote picked up a book that lay te'iweeu them. "Other men’s shoesl.’ he read. ‘A noval, of course?’ " , "She Smiled. ’Of course. Such s fantastic story. Two men change ante wife work to make up. - The SP plications want above 800. Of ooune nearly 200 had jn be refused. Sons are reporting who have never put In applications. Dr. Mali can do noth but tog, of ooune, fee next train. send then back on ▲bout a dozen have they to Chlteota zoos and walked book the mantlepieoe. - Changing Identities?’ he said, wife a touch of Interest. Tee; one man Is an artist, tbs other a millionaire; one wants to know what fame Is like, fee other wants to know how It feels to be really, sinfully rich. So they exchange experience for a month.” She laughed. "Chlloote laughed as well. But how? he asked. 'Oh, I tpld you fee idea was ab surd. Fancy two poop’s m muoh alike feat neither their friends nor their servants see any difference! Such thing oouldo’t be, oould it? There are Likenesses, but not freak liken like feat.’ ” The novelist plainly foresees that the possibility of such s resemblance ss sbe makes the basis of bar plot going to be questioned by the great mass of ber public. Yet In Rome real life upholds her most fanciful Imagin ings. Hie Count Adriano Benioulll Is. of an old and respected family. He him ■elf la a bit coeentrie, but none fee less a nobleman who tote always mov ed in the highest social circles. He owns vast estates on whloh he entertained handMmely. He had, until the tragedy whloh set all Borne talk ing in horrified whispers, a charming wife whom he neglected shamefully. During her life fete was said to be one of bis eoowtrioittee. Another was his Gets • Good Job. Former Judge Alton' B. Parker will succeed ProfesMr Collins as chief counsel for the Brooklyn Rapid Tran ■it Company \t an annual salary of 8100,000, according to an announce ment Thursday. Professor Collins has retired, end the firm of Collins & Sheehan, whleh has acted for years In an advteory capacity to fee company, will be known as Sheehan A Parker. William F. Sheehan was one of Par ker’s strongest supporters In the re oent presidential campaign. Oleneon Crowded. There am over sofirtodente at nu—ewi already," and they ^oontlnui Ovor 260 of feqee ore “• 8 MjaohhyjiI OoUaotlag and repelrtng ag-tRTmlB, to are oldstud- dent looks. lowed by tb If you hid asked In Rome months ago about the Count Benioulll and his wile, you would have beard feeae things and not much else. They eeemfid eomrnonfdro enough m doubtless they were until one day fee Count looked upm Antinoro Paalo and bored occasionally. So be supplied Paolo liberally wife good clothes and plenty of money. He gave him all he luxuries be dreamed of; he set him In one of his own palaces, where he oould play master at his pleasure. He played it charmingly. The news went abroad that the Count Benioulll lad Improved Im mensely. He was -far less taciturn, ar less domineering than formerly. The Countess heard these things. She ad not laid eyes upon her husband for mouths, but she oould not believe them true. She sighed, however, and wished they were, for in her heart of hearts she loved her husband. — At last at some ball she met Paolo masquerading as fee Count. Sne bad sever looked more lovely, she had never been more grade uv The sup posed Count smiled upon her wife new adoration, and fee jpoor woman trembled and glowed wife joy. It seemed to her the. love of her girlhood returning to her. All that evening the man whom she took to be her Husband Was at her tide, assiduous in his attentions, whis pering such compliments as.she had not heard since first he wooed her. After this there followed days of happiness, suoh days as the hero and heroine of "The Masquerader" passed, while fee secret of John Loder’s, Iden tity was still hidden. To the Conn- tress Benioulll the valet waa the hus band of her youth. All Rome'feld in amazement of fee reconciliation be tween the eccentric Count andHtls charming Titiinhalred wife. -V* "* And, wonder of wonders, the Count’s eccentricities had grown fewer In fee years of feelr separation. He seemed to be a considerate, nor mal, healthy person, whoee greatest desire was to advance her happiness. She made fee most of the present and decided to refer as little as possible to the bitter, unhappay past. One day, while her love dream wss at Its height, the Countess end her supposed Count drove over to Rimini to make an excursion into fee won derful oaves that are there. When any reference was made to the past lay until after daylight. Finally he revived and made his way to a cheese factory, where he gave the alarm, but the bandlta had gained a start of sev eral hours and oould not be found. The bandits appeared Tuesday night and when refused admittance battered in the door and overpowered the eld men after a brief struggle. They ssarobed fee house, and finding only 8360, concluded that a larger sum was concealed Mmewhere. They beat and choked their victims and finally ap plied lighted papers to fee role of their feet to mace them tell where the sap- posed treature was hidden. After half an hour of exoruolatlng torture John Fohren fainted from pain and the robbers left. John was unoon ■clous when assistance arrived, but re vived and Is In a less serious condition than hls elder brother. FOIOOI IM OUR FOOD. *4 - ■aw thit fee man, though of humble origin, waa educated and la nDeear- with its unhappiness she said, like the heroine of ’The Masquerader," "I don’t want explanations. I want to —to enjoy the moment without hav ing things analyzed or smoothered away. Can’t yon understand? Can’t you eee that I’m wonderfully, terribly happy—to have you—as you are?” Paolo ML~ the Oodnt’s clothes, fol- the Count’s servants, with his arms about the exquisite Countess BankmllL He knew that they loved end be forgot all else hntil suddenly aeoream of rage called him to the realities ofhfs. A woman stood to hls pathway, wife tfas memos to truth In her voles, him tor toe Kills Dogs, limb bits and Other Ani mals In Export Test. To demonstrate the effect of Im pure foods on fee human system, Professor Eugene Girard, one of fee chief chemists of fee International Stewards Association, whloh Is In session at fee Hotel Rndolf, Atlantic City, startled fee delegates and a large numhar of fee outsiders by ■bowing the effects of a remarkable eiperiment he has been making on anlmtis fed wife impurities found tn T3bd Mid throughout the country. Prof Girard had on hand a collec tion of rabbits, gulnas pigs and dogs. Professor Girard extracted the color ing matter used In breadstuffs and fed a healthy New Foundland dog from day to day on this substance, mixing It wife bis food. To day fee dog is thin and emaciated and It will have to be killed on Thursday. Other coloring matter that Pro fessor Girard Fed to guinea plge and rabbits killed fee animals In a short time- The tissues and every organ was found to be polslened and dis colored. i, Profesox Girard stated that the adulterations in the foods sold to- day axe having the same iff jot on thous ands of persons. There Is e big exhibit of pure and and Impure foods Id the grotto of the Hotel Rudolf, an4 Profeeeor Girard expiates the methods used In onaly zing the various products. The Stow ards’ Association bis become oo strong tSft many corporations dealing in food staffs make no attempt to plaee their goods on the market un less they are first subjected to an anaylsls by its chemists. Victim of Fowl Play. J- B. Hawkins, who was found in a mangled and nneonslous condition Calhoun ten days ago and who was later Indentlfled is a still operator of Greenville, S, 0., has surprised fee physleansby living and though hls tongue cannot be controlled, he wat able to let Sheriff GUreafe understand that hls condition waa due to fool Wont Accident of the KM h New York’s History. BAN IN OPEN SWITCH. market ult to oroe prices up until much later tn the season. Let those who are able and can hold back do eo, and thereby help those, who are forced to sell to meet feelr maturing debts and obliga tions wife fee supply merchants and guano dealers. Bankers will be glad o advance from 8 and 9 cents a pound on ootton In storage and fens twist In financing fee situation. We are np against a bard fight, but It will be easier to get 11 oente for a small orop than 10 cents for a 13,000,000 bale orop. ■ _ _ : —J STAND BY YOtra GUNS, We axe now well entrenched, wife plenty of ammunition In the shape of corn and meat, our banks r, fee enemy lain retreat, and : f we don’t whip this fight and force fee prloe of cotton to above 11 certs, then the farmers of the south ou^tt to have a guardian appointed to look after their business intereqte. The mills of the world have taken a orop of 13,600,000 bales of Amerioen oot ton during the last twelve months, at an average prloe of 9 oente per pound. There will be no oheok in consumption during fee next twelve months. Toe price of ootton goods In very high and ;olng still higher. Hie wboti ffivIT- zad world le in a prosperous condition and It le unreeaocable to say-feat fee farmers should not this searon receive an average of 11 oente per pound for a orop of ootton now estimated to be un der ten million bales. All you have got to do is to stand pat for your )riee, refuse to sell under 11 oente end he market will soon advance to feat Igure. If arach cotton is offered on der 11 cents, as a matter of owns, fee market can be deprssesd and held down. Twelve Persoas KOM art Thirty le. jered. Retpossibilltj for the Trag edy NetYst Fixed The Meter- ■us ■ Fugitive art Otesr - Traisaes Arrested. * The death list of the accident on the Ninth avenue elevated railroad in New York Monday, when a ear crowd ed with early morning workers on their way down town, pitched bead- long into the street, stands at IS. Three men are la hospitals wife frac tured skulls. One of feeae, who aa yet remains unidentified at Ropeevtit hospital, Is unconscious and not ex pected to live. More than two seore persons were injured, many of fesm seriously.- v The cause of the accident end fee Immediate responsibility remain to be settled. The mortorman of the wreak, ed train Ian fugitive, while a switob- man, conductor and four guards are under arrest. The switchman is charged wife manslaughter and the trainman are hold ee wMnesasa. What- fee of the overhead railroads York, oame when a southbound train on fee Ninth avenue line was ewltetaed off to the Sixth avenue line at fen- Fifty third street Junction.- The motormtn, expecting a clear track on tht direct line of Ninth avenue, or disregarding the waning signal feat fee switch was open, rushed his train along at a high rota of speed. The first ear swung around the right angle carve, holding to fee rails because of the befedid. Then the strain be came too great. The Maples broke, fee second ear was whirled ‘ a too great. second ear was whirled about al most sod for and and, to tha honor o< those who looked on pitched into the street. The first tndleation _ sidewalk bad of theaotident was a loud rumbhiif-akMg fee overhead structure. Looking up feey saw a ■bower cf sparks, then followed sprin ters and the sound of splitting tim bers. Suddenly the outer gaud roll of fee railroad structure gave way, a- ■eon of bodies were hurled through space, and with a deafening oroOb, the oar fell to the street. For an instant It stood fairly oo and, then fee stdee give way se If feey wen mtde of pasteboard, belching out a mass of These passenger! who hod not jumped from befoge the into i mass at the forward eod of the oar. As the injured men art women wen struggling to free feemeelveo, the heavy front trucks of fee third oar on fee train fell almost in their midst, aa to# oar i jslf Jui off; the elevated strooturo wedged egalnst a building at southeast comer of Ninth avwusi third street. age crowds wen eoon on the m end the first work of tha hastily si moned polloe reservaa wa« dlieotte clearing a way for the iSsotiir: cue of toe passenger the wreckage. A1 -||| Hrtbatten end the Injured art rted away wife all alarms of fin to fee scene- K l ploy instead of a railway asolfienk ■i^ A Dendly Stroke- Four K men wen killed, six wen seriously burned and a dozen more wen stunned by lightning whloh wreaked a crowded poultry exhibition tent at the county fair at Indlapola, Iowa on Thursday, The lightning struck the tent pole, splitting In two art tearing the sides of the tent Into ida. Hi ThJhtthN;W8fS kiflrt* ' OTII KB ORGANIZATION WILL HKLF The ootton agent of the Educational and Oo-Operative Union of Texas waa present with us at Ashe ville and took part In the secret slims of the executive committee. He oame as the representative of the un ion and assisted In fixing the prloe at 11 oente, stating feat such a prloe would bo acceptable to the 300,000 members of tbs union. We' oan npw depend upon the effective coopera tion of all the members of fee onion, as the new president of toe union, Mr. Calvin, of Paris, Tax., has writ ten mo encouraging oo operation to more completely win out In fee fight ahead. We also have pledged the ac tive co-operation of the membership of the American Society of Equity and the Farmers’ Alliance of North Carolina In enforcing the demand for fee minimum price of II oooto. This makes the position of the producers almost impregnable, and wife all at these powerful farmers’ organizations working In harmony for mutual pro tection, I feel safo In saying that the fight oan and wHl be easily whipped. There will be no misunderstanding among these organizations this sea son on this matter. We will all work la harmony togefeWi and a knowledge of feat fart ought to be m^et an- ooaraglng. If the Formers’ uhTdo wanted one prMHmd’thaN. 0. A".,'an other, there would be difficulty ahead, but both organfrations are now to gether and will work together to win oat on the price agreed open. Sell but little ertton ~ and October. Give to itThiuft preecn oan be done In six can easily dlrtolc terms art wlnsn- tingutshed and 1 chopping oat til The taik'waa not an easy'one fog v r fee heavy ear la famhc had almost * completely buried pedestrians In lit wreckage* At least one was kHled outright In this way, while Police man Henry Attkena, who was stand ing directly under the elevated Mart- tore, !■ sinny feOM Id Jared. Eight per* when taken out of the wreck art died later at hospitals. The bad not time to make arrest tenting themselves wife miscreants as heavily as they sc Coroner Soholer oiflered the df all those (aimed lately Search, was at once made tormarCPasl Kelley, wbe sceuMS position on fee elevotrt “ " ^ months ago. Hu same t! St. Louis. Kelley ooulfl not art at s late hour Maadov i still missing, although III was said had spent fee afternoon a* tha" of a friend. The switchman in fee tower it Nlneth avenue art Fifty-third etreet, Cornelius A. Jackson, was first ed. Then Oonduotor J. W, and Guards Hmofey MoDavttt, W. L. Berry were taken Into llmlnary all the men Two m ■