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VOL. XXIX. BARNWELL. S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1906. NO. 18. THREE KILLED. Run Down by a Passenger Train -at Spartaabarg, HORRIBLE iCOIDENT. THU SAD STOBY 01 a-Oirl Who Stuved to Toath in Fiw York. Taber onlostii. She Traia Dashed Round The Curve While ^ • The Hen Were Staudlnf oa the ! V. Track Watchiaf a Pastint Preitht I rain and B re Down on Them. The Spar tat burg Jiurial says In tha twkkilnK of an ey*, and with no warning of their Impending fate, throe men were hurled into eternity on Tuetday Burning of.lftst week at half paat eight o'cloc k wfille walklrg down the Southern railway tracks near" the Brawley street crossing, being run down by train No. 36 com ing towards the city from Atlanta. Toe dead men are M. D. Hill, J. E. Stone and Richard Rogers. A fourth man with the party e ciped Injury and fl;d in consternation from the scene. r Toe accident took - p'aee thirty yards beyoLd the trestle ov< r Draw ley street. The party of lour men ware watering, It la pnaomed, an .outgoing Irelghtj and heeded not the thundering and heavy roll t.f th. f oat mail running-bablnd time at a rapid rate of speed toward the Spartanburg huge engine Was on the men before they knew of its approach, and the probability is that none of thoee who were killed had time >o realise what had happened before tuey were knocked unoonaoiius and dead, and their bodies burled into the air wHhit terrific speed. The men were on the east track coming towards tha city while the » heavy freight waa pulling out on the west track and while avoiding this train they were suddenly overtaken by the fast mail in their rear, which shot into the party with no warning that they oould heed, and they were killed instantly. « The bodies of the dead men were horribly^ at* elated, and Hill's remains especially, were torn and mashed be yond ail recognition. It is supposed that be was right In the center ol track when struck and that tha point of the pilot eaigbt him and hla body waa rolled and ground under tha heavy engine and when the first peo pis arrived at the scene bis remains were a mass of unreoognis ible mass of flash and bones. There waa not a feature or part of tha b dy that oould be Identified by lot kirg upon It and men who have seen mutinied corpses say that never before have they been called upon to witness a worse muti lated corpse. In fact, it waa thought that Hill's btdy waa roiled under the t i and engine for ita whole length remains ware found by the first valsat the aoene of the awful iji lying midway between the rails. Tha bedy of Stops waa hurled some .twenty or thirty yards down tha track and to the right as one approaches the dapot, while Rogera’a remain* were on the oppolite side, led.eating that the latter two had been hit by the sides of the pilot and thrown to either side of the engine, while H i) was caught and rolled under the heavy — engine amHraln. The engine whloh ran cv^r the Htrfoken With N*re*d Am d Aant UptU the JLat-~ ter I)t« d and Thf n Mnccam t> »d. A d'spstch from NawYoik says a Phils del pbla undertaker went to the morgue and got the tody of Mary Weeks, who was found dead at 59 Barrow street. He was acting under instructions from the young woman’s relatives. He tcok Uje remains to PailadtlpMa for interment. Tbs girl waa found kneeling by he> bed In the basement of the Birrow street house. She groped in her dear fingers a broken rosary and an old atldewed letter, describing a scene in the basi ment room where she cam - to her lorn ly dnd. The letter read: ‘ Spring bad ripened Into summer and the day was'fir sp*nt when 1 again entered the happy basement. 1 found Mre H. sitting behind hr screen, reading her B ble. She aroee and warmed my heart by her truly benignant smile, that threw a4%dUnc scarcely of earth u? >n her time worn feature^ They were only two or three articles of furniture left in the room. In the flrep’aoe was a pile of old books and letters, with a broken jewelry box c n top. * An old copy of . Shakespeare’* plays lay open at "A Mldann mer Night’s Dream Mary Weeka was twenty five yearn old. She came from PaiUddlpbia not oog ago to nurasber aunt, wbo waa the widow of Da Witt Waterman. The old bouse, which lias withstood the changes that have been sweeping over lihe neighborhood, was once Mrs Waterman’s poverty, but li had been alienated. She still retained the priv- lege, however, of occupying the base ment, and there her niece took care of fctJgggfcflfe ■ — The young woman, however, was sffl oted with consumption, and ah lad been taking the open air cure be fore she came to New York At one time she became so weak that she had to give up the task of nursing her aunt and went to Bellevue Hospital for reatment. When she regained a little strength, however, she went back to Barrow street and took care of the old woman until she died, on Friday, De cember 15 Nobody seems to know how the young woman got along the succeed ing week. She was too ill to work, and It is believe! that she had almost no m'tiey. Mrs. Forshay, j mi tress of the bouse, which it now let out in ten ements, went to her rooms on Sstur day to tee how she waa getting along. Soa aaya aha found the sick girl sit ting on the aide of the bed trying to ri a ring the beads of her rosary, which bad bean broken. ' There were ny sheets or blankets on tha bed; The girl was crying, and 'oily, shuttle rou^hcoatod terier, waa sittlrg on the fl >or looking up Into her face. M-«. Forshay found out tie oth the dog and mistress were hun rry and had nothing to eat. She ran to her rooms and brought them some Tod S ie says she thinks Mary Weeks was too week to eat and gave all the food to the d >g. Tuesday morning an old friend of Mr. Waterman sent for a portrait in >il of the dead man, which sMll hung on. the wan of the front batumml room. When Mr. Forshay and the messenger went to the room they Tourd the young wpmin dead. Dr. Conkllng, of St. Vlriceni’* hospital, •aid tuberculosis had caused death People in the house say that the end was at least accelerated by privations. The little dyg waa still in thefdark, lonely room, I where his mistress died. He whined from time to tfhie, hut had not strength enough to make much noise. ^ - It Is said that Mrs Waterman and If try Weeks were descendants to Ospt. Abel Bradley, a notable of the tton—the mall which waa running About section—of two No. 36, hours bthtad time Mid Is said to have been speeding along the rails at rapid rata of speed. The train was in ouarge of Conductor Gordon and Eogineer Fo- gua, and waa rounding a« curve just when the accident took place this morning. The presence of tbe freight train, whloh not only attraeted the atten tion of the men walklrg along the traeks hut made it well nigh impoaai b e to hear any warning that might have been given by the approaching passenger, formed a combination of circumstances whloh soaroe oould be counteracted by any human agency and the result waa a frightful kill ing. for many feat along the tracks where the accident took place there waa scsttored brains, blood, pieces of flesh and clothing, making a sight so guily thvt few cared to gas? upon it. The bodies wen later brought into the city and carried to Floyd’s undertaking eetablithment on Church street, whan the remains wen pn- ; pared for burial The awfulneaa of V tragedy coming just at tha height l‘the holiday season, east a gloom pvar tha city all day. Hill wbo waa tha wont tha three, had on bis person, tax i from Falser and it la pi rfbat be bad been in the Tnllla before eonring to the oity. ill a son of a minister. Bet Rogers who aborede at Whitney i ago, and la a young man of a eighteen to twenty yean and 1st Stxm Milk. He bad re la the man Stone, JUUad*. TAKES HIS LIFE. A Young Man From this State Commits Suicide in PHE CITY OF MOBILE, Was Short ia His Accounts With the Company for Which He Worked. He Was Popular and His Death Was a Shock to His Friend*. A Toe glvio ai to the cause of hls diatb, and the people of this otty sod county are anxiously awaiting furtbtr news Immediately npon the raoelp of the telegram announoirg bis death Mr G. W. Garret of this city and M'. Hal T Sloan of Ninety S x left for M bile to escort the remains to this c ,un:y. u was learned that the Masons of Mo bile have taken charge of the‘b6dy, Mr. Rice being a prominent member, of that order. The bofy will probib ijr arrive here next Sitnrday, and the Interment will take place at Ninety- 5Ix on §poday following. Fr. para Mods are .being male b; the Masonic SCHOOL FIUUBES. tbn.meo.ucurrloitb. Dm r, aiwlliui*; bt»*Sru(iit«r toT aw, Charlotte Bradley,' was once known as “Lady Bountiful, rf Green wich village.” ——— ■ ■ > : Brave Man It warded. As a reward for defending the po*t- o against four burglere. President Roosevelt bas waived the civil seiv ce regulations upon the rec mmendatlon of Postmaster General Gortellou and promoted S. H. Alexandir from a laborer to a clerkship In the depart ment. Not only has th? brave North Oarolenlan been promoted hut to ac centuate the honor an < ffifial state ment was Issued which gives a full account of the deed. The attempted robbery took place on the night of February 6, 1901, and the offlolal ac o unt shows that Alexander, although of small stature, engiged In a deeper ate struggle with toe men, one of whom shot him In the abdomen. Alex ander, however, continued to fight, and snot two men. seriously IdJ irlng them. He called tor aaslstkroi and was found lying weak and faint in pool of blood. The two acoompl'cas wbo were waiting on the outside oar rled away tha wounded burglere to the house in which they ware arrest ed the same night. Two of them were banged, February 26, 1902, while the other two received life aentecoee. Blew Up. “ A dispatch from Newport News, Va., aaya while the two mat tec schooner Emma waa oomlag into Dar ling’s Wharf, In Hampton Creek, Wednesday, an explosion )f the gaso line tank of the auxiliary engine oc curred. Oapt. A. T. Nottingham was instantly killed. Tha explosion was of wt&mrvmrihTo, The boat was owned at Bnokroe, and oaed for oj catering. dispatch fftm Mobile, Ala., to State says E (ward Carew R e?, 33 yean of age, a local society favor ite and a prominent clttownar, who es timated his frietd* Ja, Mobile by the hundreds, c >mmlUed su clde some it me Thursday morning in the office of the Virgina Carolina Chemical company, of wbioS he was the mana ging agent. A 32 calibre Smicb & Wesson revolver was the meaniMlect- ed by the young man and he took hL life deliberately,'ITteneavirg a tele gram adv.aiog persons at N aely S x S. Cl, r* hla snlrfide Another letter near this gave prec tlcally the reason for suicide. Rice was found dead In & chair where he was sitting when be sent the bullet crashing through his brain. Tomple y larles, a clerk ia the < tfi > a , was the man to find the body. Tuts was short ly befor< 9 Aloes Thursday morning The police were at once notified and DettcJves Murphy and Lvoey were In ohay ff « of-Uftf iffija and . ff whanJ- newspaper reporters arr.ved on the scene. Correspondence which was on van lently placed by young Uloe before taking his life gave the prooable reason for committing suicide. Els accounts are overdrawn and it Is beoausa if this that-;be took hla own Ufa, al though be did not leave any message to that«ffeot but placed the orres pondenoe between iffhare of the com pany relative to bia financial status ab a position where this oould be sur m’sed.-After a thorough nrestlg itl< n by the detectives aud Chief Rondeau, the body waa taken charge of by the Roache undertaking company. — Just what time Edward Carew Rloe ended hla • xtatence la the manner se looted by him Is not known, but that It was done some time early Thursday morning is evidenced by the fact that bis body wss fsst becoming rigid ana pool of blood on the tl k r beside the chair was thoroughly congealed. Ah other evidence was the fact that he had taken off his ooat and placed it on a table where It was found to b i wet, vbiob Indicates that Mr. Rloe enter-' ed the office during the heavy down pour of ra’n shortly before 6 o’clock Tbu'sday morning The surroundings show that the\uiolde waa a deliberate one. * He oould have secured financial as slstanoe In various ways had he out made his wants known to hts friends, those who vUifed tne office Thun day morning proclaimed. Not one of nis friends wss aware that he was ’n financial trotto'e until the c rcum star.oes of his suicide became known Thursday morning. Tnat his suicide was premeditated is conclusively shown by the f flowing tel gram which young Rloe placed e -osptcu u?ty on s table: "Mobile, Dec 23th. 1905 Send this to H. T^ ShmnvNlnety Six, S. i^rEi. Rice, found dead in -Affiie Thursday morning, S goed, V rgtnia Uifbifba Chemical Company..’ ” 4, This told the story of • u oide and ie following 1 tier, under date of jD.i oember 27 oh, addressed to E A. Ta oor, of the sales department of the Virginia Carolina Cbem c .1 company, at Montgomery, Ala , and signed by the president oL the company, which bad been sent to R oe by Mr. Tabor, ifate tha reason for the suicide, Uhls letter being placed In pos Ition wi ere It oould be seen: “An swering yours of D.cember 26th, I lodge of this city to Inter the remains with Masonic-bindrs. Mr. Elward O. Rea was about 33 years of age, at d was a general favot- I e in this city and county wlthev> ry- one with wb m he came in contact. Hs was g ne all / loved by the youny people of Greenwood, and his death comet as a dl- tnct shock to the pe< pie f tblso ty. II i was born at Ninety ^ixandlssuiv el by two bri there, James Hinry Rlc •, Jr., of Gr-orgetown anl Miner L Rioe. itay tr of Ninety- Six; a fcls er, Mre Hal T. Sloan of the -ame place, and his father and moth er, Mr, and Mrs JaS. Henry Rloe cf Ninety Six. M-. Re for a number of yeaishe'd a reepoosih e position with the Kllsto Pni sphate company of Ca&rleston and •*ev red his coniction with that c >n c rn to go into business In this citv. hirmlrg a oor me Ion with Mr. W. P Hall, under the firm name of Ildll & Rice. He was closely identified wltn the busln as Interests of G eenwcod during tne life Of ib: concerr, and was a general fav jrlte in soolarcircles. He possessed s genial and whole heart ed nature which'made for him num bers of friends! A few years ago he went to Mobile, Ala.,»where he ac copte! a'poiitlon with the Virglnia- Carollna,Chem'cvl company as' book keeper. He was a Shriner and a Knight of Pythias. SAVAGERY IE MOSCOW. Statistics Fresented t? Legislat re by f upt. 0. B. Martin. • /■' - v'v*- Tbere Hm Be- n m Larger Iiereaee ♦n Nuinli r of Wtil:e I t i.IIm Than of Colored. In his annual report to the general sssrmbly, Hon. O B Martin, S ate superintendent of edutatlon, gives interesting figures In regard to the enrollment of pupils in ibe public :c ols of ih? Mate, Th re were Id the schools of the State for the ti oal year ending Jum 30tb, 19j5, a total rf 111391 whit cnild enand 161 272 o Jored, a grind •otal of 302,663 Pjr thy sam? pe rl d for the tiical year 1904 tberr we-e -nrolled 135 527 whites and 156,568 colored, miking a grand tots) of 292 115 This fthawf ,a gain of 5 864 wrnte c illdren and of 4,684 ooi red children. There were 2 681 white schools and 250 negro reboots with an average oi 52 wbi e pupils and 70 o bred to a cuool. Toe average Lumber of white pupils to a teacher was 38; colored, 64. Tne wblie sch ols showed an average o' 24 7 weeks for a srs-lou while the ctlored schools had 15 5. T ie number schools showed au increase of 7 white and 44 colored orer the year preceding. The receipt# and expend tores for the fiscal year 1905 were as follows: y^Ru.ipts: Poll tex, >183,901; 3 ‘mill tax, T 1619 86frOTT dispensary fund >210,971 42; ixtrs levy. >236, 109 Td; y 0tber aturces, >59 386 29; to tal, >1 681 599 54. ’ * . Expenditure ; . Teachers, >1 089, 28) 12; total expenditures, >1 3)4,- 629 14; balance on hand June 30, 19 4, wae >376 970 a-sjurtawgg Bare Hints as to Horrors Rxlstlng In theCHv. ’ f ' There are no signs yet that the end of civil war li Mxctw Is In sight. Revolutionists are surprising the au- t Jonties by tbe determination which they have constantly shown since the fighting began A host of savsg passions have been shown, not only by Cossacks, but by revolutionists as well, especially by women who are fighting In tbe ranks of revolutionists who have shown the greatest our age. The number ol casualties among the rebels has been decreased owing to a change in their Uc les of tight ing from bouses instead of from barrl cades. The cistaltles now number about 200 a day, while twenty-seven hcu>es Is the record destroyed by ar artillery in one day. Two of the chief leaders of the Mos cow revolt have bsen arrested. The police discovered that a general upris ing and revolt hid been planned to take place at St Petersburg in sup port of tbe M scow insurgents. Fol lowing the discovery many arrests were mide and the movement In St. Peteisburg has been .checked tempo rarity. ; -■* ■ ■' Advices from Sarat II tell of one Instate: if brutality on part of the Cossacks In the village of Upororl. A Cossack tffl;3r demanded that peas antsshouli pay 250 roublts for a horse which had been killed aooldant ally. The peasants replied that they wtre too poor and could cot pay the aanuntask*^ Tjeofflctr then or dered Oxnacks to fire on peasants, d spite the appeal of vie ims on tl elf kneeji that tney be »p red. Cossacks oeg to advise that Inclosed slip shows that the aooount of E C. Res, agent, U overbrawn to the ex lent of >868. 75.’* Among hts intimate friends Elward Carew Rice was known as ' G It” Rice, an appellation which Is not ex^ rW ben told that she was dead. Mrs plained but indicates determination To them this suicide was a terrible blow and they were at s loss to ac count for the cause. Y Ming R oe came to Mobile about tree years ago from Greenwood, S. C. A short time after his arrival there he began to make many friends and It was not loeg be fore he wss a.favorite In tbe ranks of this social set of Mobile. He was a very enthusiastic member of the ManaseaS and Atheistic dubs and also of sever al franternal organ i ttions. He was s very interesting conversationalist and made friends rapidly. TH* NEWS AT GKEEN WOOD. A dispatch from Greenwood to the State lays: News was received here today of the death of Mr. Eiward C Rloe at Mobile, Ala. I'he people of Greenwood are immeasutaoly shocked at the sad newt, as Mr. Rice was for merly Identified with thk c ty and her Interests in great degree. He was cue of tbe city’s most prominent business men several years ago, being a mem her of the firm of Hall it Rloe. dispatches state. Unt his body was found in tos J^MLJOt^lM^rixglaiA mutilated mm and outraged the wo men and praotlceliy destroyed the inure v 11 ega Muy of the victim! were thro ad into wel ; s bf Cossacks. The total casualties numbered twenty- eight killed^ aud over a hundred wounded. AdvIoos from Moscow say tbe sltua- tkm Is graver than ever* Hostilities have spread to neighboring districts and peasants are responding to ap peals to arm themselves. A WOMAN SPY. Hiu RAj-eipts fiscal year 1904; Poll tsx, >rstrm OT^Tttnf'YtSf; fSYH! fUT* ff j’dafilbn, #BIch, cbmblhed with dispensary. >2^6-t96vfr2;‘extra levy, I200,868*.25; other sources. >43 534 15; total revenue,->1,565,135 r 74, an In crease for 19 .dr of >110,000 In round oumbere. It * 111. be otsirved that for the fiscal year 19.5 the dispensary profits are nearly as much as for tbe year preceding when really this does not represent the profits of the dispensary or the calendar year running from January to January, and fnm the evidence brought out In tbe dispen sary Invest'gatton the sebefti fund may show a Jailing, lit ln. Qlsper s wy ordflfs f or the fi oil y.ar ending June 3)tb, 1906. following Is the enrollment .by jountles for the year ending June 30 1OOR• M , nnllanikoff, a Young Xussian n •' Lsdy pf High Tirtk, li'aroa Many of tbe Oerman Empe ror'* Millteiy Scerett.^Bbe la ii- ier '-i Caaght and Imprlaoned. A dispatch from B rlin, Gsrmany, says the setaUlonal career of a spy, Miss Z nalda Smollanlnoff, a Ruisian spy, baa been cut short by a sente a of flfte*n months’ imprisonment at Lilpslo Her case demons'rates to what methods the European govern- tr ents resort In order to fertet cut each others’ military srortte Miss SmollauiuLff was a typical twentieth century spy, pretty, dash ing, of high birth and good elucatlon. in St. Petersburg Mbs Smollankff was feUd durlrg one of two ieksons is a society beauty. Suddenly, when the bad atiatoed her twentieth blnh day, her fsiher lost all his money and oommitted tuiclde. Her mother died bortly afterward and Miss Smolianl- n ff was left alone In the worH with out a cent. She became a governess. Tne life, however, wss Irksome and humiliating to her. After a year of drudgery Miss SmoT llsnlrcff met by chance a young < ffi cer of the Uu s an bear’quirtera still, -who had formerly been one of her ad- m’rerasnd was genuinely dlstreswd at her uphapplness. He suggested to her* career which 'would enable her to live in luxury—that she become s spy in the service of tbe Russian gov eminent. He promised to use his in fluence at the war offe i to obtain em ployment for her. , Miss Smoliaolnoff o maented and wss shortly afterward engaged as a spy. She was dispatched to Germany to learn as many military secrets as pcs si hie. S te arrived at Berlin'provided with cxjeptional letters of r ev ap pearance and manners, eni bleo ber to aobleve a great social auooeas in the German Capital. She appeared' to have unlimited funds and drove s’vu 1j her carriage and pair with liveried domestics, and maintained a gorgeoun a. a tment in prhc ly style in tbe most fsshiblonsble street of Berlin. Ht r soo.al oonneotions gave ber e x eellent opportunities. She b wife h d rate cfflc’als an army iffluers into telling secrets which they ought to lave guarded as j laloualy as their own lives.' She wss so adroit that her SHOT TODEATH. Two Negroes Killed lor Murder- ins • Btrnwell Farmer. TARV N FfiOM A HOUSI The ie of A tree loss Merger ef a White Men Barnwell Coaaly Followed Ijr the Si Called Lyachiag ef - * \ N Uader Arrest l Fw Crime. A dlapetoh from Barnwell to The State says on Frlday morning of #rek It was reported there that Mr Hayne Craddock, one of. the prominent fr m:ri of that — the SUte had b en foo;i y murdered. T tbat Mr Craddock, aooom' ptnUd by two negroes, went to the arm of a Mr. Cirdy, who lives about two milea from Craddock's, to collect some money owed, him by n negro hwwd F amt Detoaco, iiyln?^! Corays plies. When thev raanhiul the house Craddock Cilled DxSfS the gate and when asked for tha ey DeLoacb b eams enraged. Hot words were 0passed and Craddock caught the negro in the collar. Th* negro fhen called to hie eon to bring him hla gun. The boy ran out with gun In hand and came up n Craddock from the rear, put the gun about a foot from bis back 1905: 19J5: Abbeville. White. 2,835 Uol- oreo. 5 952 how they were being tinued ber operations unch seed for ur years. During this period she aseertained plans lor the defWM Of Germany’s eastern frontier against a possible Russian invasion, as well u the scheme of mobllizition If Ger- As soon as he heard of the inm— Magistrate U mer and his •v^itable W. H. Carter, went to the hnn W 0 ( DeLosch and arretted both him and hla ion. Tney were tied together shd carried to the ht me of Craddock and placed under lock and key in an out house with a deputy on guard at the door. As the news continued to spread the friwds of Craddock earns _ w \ a from ^ rides and feeling ran high, th* sligtetsst f * ucb 40 •*‘•01 eing duped. She con 4t 12 0 oloet Bheriff Oreeeh re- ?‘fSKV 1 ,J L 0 “ Oarter •sklng for help, as he famed Gh< ked to Death. Mre, Jennie Armstrong, wife of James T. Armstrong, of Armstrong and Parker, Iron minufaoiurers, of Baltimore, Md., chiked to death Wednesdsr while eating a piece of meat. witness cf her agony, but was powef less to help, ter, and was prostrated Andets n a L.1M- 8 8u3 Bamberg... ... 1 467 Barnwell 2 445 Beaufort 509 Berkeley 1,825 , Charleston ...... 5034 Cherokee. 3 879 Cnester 2,180 Chestotfield 2,767 Clarendon 1,995 Colleton 3 833 Darlington 2,766 Dorchester J^7 5 Elgefield 1,930 Fairfield...... 1,768 Florence 3 156 Georgetown 1,317 Greeovlile 9 632 Grienwood 2,382 ilia pton 2 288 Horry ,. 4 520 K:rsbaw 2,2(2 Lancister 3,577 Lturens 3 297 Le6 \. * 1,893 Lexington 4 471 Marion. « --<▼?. 4,419 Marlboro 2 3:8 Newberry.. 2 835 Oconee 4 4)5 Orangebu g 5 261 P-ckena. .- 4,224 Richland.......,.... * 3 6-74 Saluda ^ 2 679 Spartanburg 10,419 Sumter 2,084 - Union... 3 318 Williamstu-g. 2 774 York 4 532 4 T^uJ ' 3Q &ny Otc ime invoivjd in a war with i.454 RUSS 5,454 2 753 4 361 3 183 3,867 8 951 1,068 4 301 1 403 4,529 2,320 3 878 1 559 4 256 5,591 3,406 2 718 4 191 4 93 i 2,554 1 262 3,091 3 064 4 853 3,006 2 322 4,1(9 3 396 4 740 la. Sne obtained sketches of im portant fortifioatlons and copies of weighty m litary documents. Pre cisely how the achieved all this has not been revealed. ^ , Suspicion wss first directed toward ber by tbe su cide of s young t fl'e r of brllllent praepecto, out of whom Miss Smolianicff bad wormed a most important military secret. He left a letter giving this as the cause of his self-destruction. The German au thorltlee closely watched Mlss^Smoll- aninoff from that d#y. After several montbs they had sufficient evidence to justify her arrest. Tbe trial at Lelpalc wae behind closed doors, owing to tbe nature of the military urmri riTnumi(T It has transpired that Miss Smollaninoff received a salary of >15 000a year and bad oommuoloated to Ruiala over Q'ty 'mp rtant military secrete. Had it b ten possible to provu this legally she would hardly hare escaped wit|i a smaller ^penalty than twenty years' penal servitude. She bad ensnared over 100 state (ffl dais and army offi cers renArex plotted them for her pur- our' latrate should fnreish yon with all men needed to protect prieoner Yon and he will ba held respucmlhle if any- thing happens. M Ospt. W. w, Moore of the Bare, well Guards and Coroner Warner left as soon as they beard of the trouble in bopee of persuading the mob to ire the law take Its oouree. When that arrived the feeling seemed to hire abated some and tha clearer heads I* the crowd declared that the inirnm would receive no Injury* »Thoao mre then return/ d to BarnwelL that ail wss weB. m Snerlff Creech left fmr tho Timm of the tragedy ee soon se pw—tUf d* met the men from BarewoU and mam lold that there woe no danger of a lynching. He went on, however qb. ill he met another mao, who told him that tbe prlaonere were botng m triad to BarnwelL He then retraced hto stops, coming hack to BunwoU In or der to make ready to protest the men when turned over to him, atm fearing that they might try to lynch theoL In the meantime, howerer, weifT the departure of Ospt. Moon and others the mob decided to ten la their o« deputy, who had i.ma poeei- When she emerges from prta- 10 231 on In *5 months she will be expelled —- 141,391 181,272 Tbe statistics as to the enrollment by rscM In the town and country Her husMty3*;?N*~a>. .(^em^^soboole Is. as follows: v * Towns: .Whites, 40,838; colored, Armstrong bad been cjd fined to her apartment by indigestion and her meal was carried to her room. Sbe had been miking with her husband while eating and a sudden cessation In herooDveipation caused him to turn around. He wax Stanley by a gur gling noise. He called for aid and began pounding her on tbe back. He was unable, however, to dial 4ge the meat, nor was he or any of the others who came to bis assistance able to force it down her throat. Dr. Craig- hill, who was called from a few doors away worked hard to g ve her relief but Mre. Armstrong died In agony before the meat could be taken out. They Are Wratefnl* At a special meeting of the Confed crate veteranacimp at N itches, Misa, 33 899.. C untry: White, 160,553; colored, 127.373. Aierage attendance > f whites in town, 27 6J9; In coubtry, 65 026 Average attendance of colored ohll dren in town, 21,684; .n the country, 86,116. The vast disparity between enroll , mtint and average attendance suggestr), that It might he advisable to have school f mis apportioned upon an en rollment based on aversg: attendance rafther tKan upon tha number of names on the soboil teachers’ books This would prevent any padding of tbe rolls. been the prevlous ntgbt and that went off a "few stops" to rdelre hla. , JHI __ toll, the mob broke tbe tocS *5 11^4 trim Germany and prohibited from spirited the negroes away, tne a tables never seeing tbexn alive again A search was Instituted at once end a sequel of the broken leek wee soon found on the hm- about 200 yaids from tbe pabbo toed crossing at Rsye. Tbsre lay tbe *mb* gled aid mutilated bodice of old mae Frank DdLreob and bis son Jobe, se they bad bsen shot down and their bodies riddled with bullets from nta. tils and shotguns. Coroner Warner held the Inquest, the jury being composed of serea white and live negroes. The verdict was tbs one usual lo snob osssa. 1 a. That the deceased mm to their deaths from gunshot i wounds In the hands of parries known to the jury.” 5,804 2 799 6,8'3 5 353 3,438 3 542 6.093 ever again entering the ejuntry. Ger* man milltrey authorities regard ber as the most dangerous and successful spy of recent times. A 11 jngh Time A despatch from Gllveston, Texas, says without food o? water and with out scarcely enough , air to sustain life, Odkl Joseph Kuhlcck, a young Germ>a stowaway, 16 yean cf age, after Mderinf^lhfftocrlbable tortures for a period of nearly 10 days, was rescued from bis perilous poiltloo la s narrow space between sacks of oof fee In the lower hold of the Mallory steamer Comal at 11 o’clock Tnuraday morning. He was Immediately con vejtd to the John Scaly hospital where medical attention was given him. His chances for recovery are oonqtderad good. He says bis home js atrSOS Columbia avenue, Jamato LI. -- pr Barnett to Dentb. To be burned so that there wss nothing to Identify him but button on trie cloths was the fate of Dennie Bradley, aged 97 yean In * fire on a committee of Confederate veterans Stanton Street; Trenton, N. J., on .y-T-i— 11 Iff " " ' —l■ll■■l^ln«ll■ - ■■I.IMIMMI i,. Old- at Oddfellow’* Birthday. Mfflriori company at Mo- n whose employ be wss el, Urns of his death. Mo of the camp was appointed to draft reso utlont thanking President Rjoee- valt for his reoc mmendstlon for the nation to taks care of Confederate graves and for the aopplntment of Tte General WillT.Martt£aConf< major gepeml of etvAlkr, as terrof^atoher Christmas Day. Bradley had a room in an old barn. He was formerly well off, but lost hla fortune In tbe panto of 1891. Slops tben bs has Uvsd as be oould. Christmas he wss ilbp reel] tt sad wai thpl bs John Wade of Sumner, la., wbo has the distinction of being the oldest member of the order of Oddfellows living, C2lebratod his S7th blrthda Wednesday. He became a member o' the order In 1743, when the organisa tion was only a few yean old. Mr. Wade Is a saddler by profession, but has devoted himself to farming for many yean. DreOgir Blows Vpt - ~f-r A dynamite cartridge, which fatted to explode when Hesktorsoo's Pji N.H., was Mown up Woata It DrapDMt President Roosevelt'sattootk* he*, ing been called to a dispatch from Baker City. Oregon, totbe rffsatthaa a subscription was about to bs slnrtai for wedding presents for Miss am*. Tbe president stated u»> whttsbs deeply appreciated tbe eridscss sf good, will be hoped nothing of tbe kind would be onderlsksn. In toes be wished particularly that tbe reT posed cjlleotton or^ be made. , ■ ' The British bark "J OeptateC et sound, ibOwCt tmbers bybrin*