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IeIM-' -h- •ftb«Farm«r , s Union of Cliostor THE SENIOR SENATOR If: b ■t/ .> * the I>enotino- «• Oompalaory Education, Speaks Pleasantly oT President Taft, De* fends Clemaon and Scored Some of the Newspapers. A special dispatch frp.ro CheBter tn Thg~ News' md" Cotjrter Bays- *» audience Tarlously estimated at from 1,500 to 4,000 persons gathered on tb*e grounds of Union A. R. F. church, near Rlchburg. Tuesday to attend the rally of the Chester Conn ty Farmers’ Union and to hear Sen ator B. R. Tillman and the other speakers engaged for this occasion. The senior Senator seems fully re juvenated and spoke with all his old-time force and Are. He lumped on the mileage system In vogue in’ this State by which the railroads sell a passenger a mileage book tot $20 and then compel the passenger to waste much valuable time and patience In attempting to eichange mileage for a ticket. He said the whole thing Is the fault of the legislature and cautioned the people against putting too many rail road lawyers and frelends of cor porations In the law-making body “An Infernal fool arrangement,’ he called the present practice. He said he did not know much about the Farmers' Union, hut thinks It a good thing, only he beg ged to warn the people against al lowing the organisation to become ' a lever to advance the fortunes of politicians. He described his mis sionary work In the North, and his endeavors to convert the Northern people to the sane and Southern way of viewing the race question. He denounced the efforts of those who favor compulso?V education as a scheme to give the ballot to negroes which it svjrely will, he said, by com pelling them to go to school and overiome the educational qualifies tlons, which alone stand between them and the ballot. President Taft, he said, Is a splen did gentleman, a great Improvement over his predecessor, hut Is "spread ing all the molasses he can to catch fHes." - He deserbed conditions at the North as regards social problems and drew a beautiful picture of the com paratlve purity that obtains In the South. The divorce evil he particu larly denounced and called on his hearers to hold fast to the present practice la South Carolina on this subject. Touching on Clemson College, the Senator denounced the newspapers that have been meddling with the situation there, as he desrlbed it for the sole purpose of stirring up discord, and offered to compare rec ords of life trustees with those of elected trustees. He also said that no instance could be shown where life trustees had ^ned up en masse on one side of s question and the elected trustees on the other. He hoped that certain defects at Clemson have been reme died, and the future of the College made brighter. » Certain political foemen In South Carolina, he said, want to write his , obituary, but he is well and hearty gnd won’t go until he has to. He grarned the people against the "ras cals'’ and bade them keep their eye 00, the State legislature and the lawmakers at Washington. dther speakers were Editor W. F Caldwsll. of the Chester Lantern; Sollcltdr^J. K. Henry, Col. T. B Butler, of Gaffney; Mr. J. O. L White, president of the Chester County Farmers’ Unon, and Prof. W. 8. Morrison, of Clemson College The day passed off quietly, the most perfect order prevwfHng, Masked Robbers. Four maked men entered the home of Charles Rurlew, a store keeper at West Pittbon, Pa., and going to a room occupied by a mer chant and his wife, demanded of the former the money he received from his sales on Saturday. He refused and was knocked Insensible. The Intruders then bound and gagged Burlew and his wife and ransacked the room. After securing $300, the men set fire to the house and fled. Burlew and his wife were rescued. • Fiend Will Hang. Rogers Merritt, a negro, was Tuesday convicted in the Superior court at Atlanta of criminal assault upon Mies Maggie McDermott, 16 years old, on the night of June 20 last. Tbe negro will be sentenced to bang. The assault occurred In the heert of Atlanta. Miss McDer mott being en rout^ to her home when the negro attacked her. Three Died is Mine. All the missing miners In the Har- of the Camelia mine, near Pachnca, Mexico, have been account- «4 for. The total oaanlty list Is three ^ 2° injured. Work IB the mine has been resumed. Fire fens’ broke oqt In this mine last Saturday. ' a sdoes of miners- were -reported 1 first to have been killed. »v . D*owma ia Swolen Stream, was received Monday of the ■ear Shafter, Tex., Satur- Btates Deputy €ollec- John Donaldson and i Inspector Robert Httgk ras over- -v MV' Youag Man's Brave Efforts Prove Useless, Giant Waves Finally Over. coming, Driving Him Under. Niagara rapids claims one one more victim. A dispatch from there says August Sparer, an eighteen- year-old boy, a resident of Niagara Falls, went to his death Monday in the whirlpool rapids after a gallant battle with the giant waves between the lower bridges and the pool. With three companions Sporer went for a swlcOa t^iySferm tUttSK, about at bbbe for the middle of the stream and then turned toward the bridges. His companions called to him to turn back, for the current Is very swift at that point, but he kept on dowq stream and was caught in the great sweep, the first break from the smoother water? to the rapids. The boy struggled for a time against the current but to no avail. Then, realizing that he was beyond human help and was to be carried through the rapid which took the life of Capt. Webb, and which have resisted every unaided human effort at passage, he deliberately turned down stream and began a grim fight for life. Not in all the history of the river has such a brave effort been witness ed. Although "but a frail boy, he went Into the rapids swimming strongly and held his own until he struck the giant wave which curls up opposite the Old Battery elevator. Then he went under and for a sec ond was lost to sight of the score of people who stood on the lower arch bridge. Again and again he disappeared only to reappear, each time fighting desperately against the terrible cur rent. Then when within 300 yards of the whirlpool his strenjtth gave out and he sank and was lost to view. Even then he had swum perhaps 100 yards farther than did the great English swimmer, Capt. Webb. THEY WERE HENT BACK. Uncle Sam Detains a Runaway Couple From Prague. At New York the Immigration of flclals have shattered the romance of nlneteen-year-old Beatrice Mayer, who left her husband of a few months and eloped to this country with her first sweetheart, Adolph Orohman, a youth of twenty-three The young couple who have a plenti ful supply of money, and whose re finement apparently verifies their claims to kinship with prominent families at Prague, arrived In New York on Monday. Mrs.'flayer was accompanied by her maid and all of them had first cabin passage. They would not have been disturb ed In their desire to land bad not a cablegram preceded their arrival, was from Mrs. Mayer’s husband, and asked that they be detained at New Torn. A special board of Inquiry has decided that the man and Mrs Mayer and her maid must be deport od. Before the board, Mrs. Mayei made an Impassioned plea to be al lowed to land. "Adolph was my school compan ion. and we have loved each other for years," she said "We wanted to marry, but my folks objected l resisted as long as I ceuld, but In the end they forced me Into this objectionable marriage. 1 never lov ed my husband, hut I do love Adolph After four months of marital trouble I decided that the only way to avoid a life of trouble and unhappiness was to run away with Adolph.” CapUin of Schooner Drives HXs Ves sel on Shore Thinking Hotel Glare '•jl t e • Was Liner's Light. ' Long Island Ufa savers, after a six hours' battle, added another vic tory against tha see to their long list of remarkable rescues Tuesday, wheu they brought safely to land the cap tain and crew—seven souls in all— from the three-masted schooner Ar lington, of Boston, which went aohore early Tuesday morning In the drlrlng rain and fox off Lonx Beach. on the South sbore oT Lohg lsland. The eighth member of the crew, Maddeu Pierson, a Swede, put off from the schooner on a raft a line, but was swept out to sea and lost sight of. It Is believed that he per Ished. The rescue from the schooner was witnessed by cheering guests of the Nassau Hotel at Long Beach and by hundreds of cottagers. The ho tel was Indirectly responsible for the vessel's plight, for Capt. Ira Smith, after having lost his bearings, mis took the glimmering lights In the structure for those of a liner in mid- ocean, and thus misled ran aground The schooner, heavily laden with Anthratlc, bound from New York for Mayport, Fla., struck a sand bar. Pounded by a heavy sea while a terrific easterly gale was blowing, she began to yield Immediately. The captain and crew climbed out on tbe bowsprit. The life savers reached the scene soon after daylight. They worked frantically, but In vain trying to shoot a line to the wreck. The high wind and seas made made this mpossible, but after six futile attempts they succeeded in getting a surf boat through the breakers to the lee of the wreck and the rescue of tbe Imperilled sailors followed. Aside from a broken ankle sus tained by the cabin boy and the suf fering Incident to exposure, which all sustained, no one was seriously injured. The Arlington will be total loss. LUNATIC KILLS HIMSELF. RELICS OF TRAGEDY. Fifteen Skeletons Are Found In Ex- eavatlon. In Washington fifteen skeletons lying together In such a position as to Indicate hasty burial and three English copper coins bearing the date 1720, found with them during the excavating for the United States Medical School Hospital near the banks of the Potomac, brings to light, It Is believed, some Indian or piratical tragedy of early American days. _ . As authentic history sheds no il luminating ray on the case, the finger of suspicion wavefs In Ita pointing looking first tO'^affT the rem man, who stole silently along the wooded Potomac banks a century and a half ago, then to a mythical pirate crew which is believed to have made its rendezvous in the upper Potomac, and lastly to a mutiny-infested cave trading vessel. But the bones may remain forever as silent as when they were In their grave. • Killed by Lightning. Two men were killed by lightning at Trlon Factory. Ga., on Tuesday. Seven men were sitting In a row in front of the depot when the bolt descended, killing SabTHay ana Clar ence McCanta and serlonsly injuring Jeff McCanta. Other men were mocked down, but not seriously in jured. Lightsing damaged the de pot of the Ceatral of Georgia aad lively ilifbTe hSaT by ' *" Killed Near WiUiston. Dan Gaines was shot ana Instantly killed by another negro, named Pet er Green, near Williston Saturday night. The men were playing, when Green pulled out a pistol, saying, "I believe I will shoot yon.” Gainea •aid, “Well aboot.” be did ao, with deadly sffaet. It teems that it waa ‘an unprovoked murder. Was an Inmate of the Hospital for the Insane. A Columbia dispatch to The News and Courier says Emanuel Boland, \ middle-aged white man from Aiken county, an Inmate of the State Hos pital for the Insane, who tried to kill himself several months ago while on a railway train in the custody of a guard, on his way to the insti- rutlon, committed suicide late Mon day by falling thirty feet from the lattice work on a porch to one of the Asylum buildings. He lived only a few moments after striking the ground. The unfortunate man was suffering from suicidal melancholia and had been carefully watched since he entered the Institntlon. It is stated that he was In the yard of the Asylum Monday after noon with several other patients and two nurses. While the attention of the nurses was distracted for a mo ment he climbed the lattice of veranda to the third story and either let go his hold or jumped backward. It Is said that the nurse tried to per- oiade him to come down when he was about half way up. The acci dent although deplorable was una voidable. No blame cau be placed on any one. Last spring when Boland was being carried to the Asylum on the train, he borrowed a knife from some one and, while manacled, plunged it Into his throat, Inflicting an ugly wound When he arrived in Columbia he was In a desperate condition. He recov- nred from this self-inflicted injury, only to end his life Monday. FAMILY FOUND STARVING !■ the Great City of Chicago Midst of Plenty. Starving in sight of plenty is the sad fate of a family in Chicago. John Fitzgerald. 18 months old. is dead of starvation, and his mother r Mary Fitzgerald, Is 111 from tbe same cause. Three other children, all 111 from lack of food, passed Monday night in the care of the police, and will be taken to the juvenile home. These children are Helen, 10 years old; Lilian, 8 years old, and Irene, 4 years old. Mrs. Fitzgerald and her family were deserted by her husband on June 10. For the last^ew weeks family has had nbthln^Ro live on except what was contributed by obtained by pawning articles from the home, which already had been nearly stripped of Its furnishings. • SLAPPED HER FACE. Because He Said She Sent Him Un- seenly Post Cards. As an exceuse tor*slapping his wife’s face, William Schenck, of Cincinnati, O., said that he was the victim of "postal card mania,” and that his wife had aent the cards to him. Judge Hoffman^ of the Police court, dismissed the case and told the wife not to send her husband any more postal cards. The husband pre sented several cards to the court. On one was written, "All In, down and out;” another showed a band- some young woman, with outstretch ed arms, and underneath the pic ture, was printed the words, "I don’t care If he never cornea back.'’ Another had written on It, "Come In; the water la Ana.” . HARD CASH PER YEAR General Bingham, Police Commis sioner of New York, Says That He Could Have Made at Least Six \ Hundred Thousand Dollars in Hig^ First Twelve Months in Office. "1 am asked jo estimate the money value of graft and blackmail in New York each year. No one can make such an estimate with accuracy, but my belief is that the total Is not less than $100,000,000. During my first year at the head of the police department It would have been an easy matter for me to have made $600,000 in bribe money, and $1,- 000,1100 would not have been an ex cessive figure at all.’’ Thus writes 'General Theodore Bingham In an article to be publish ed In the September number of the Hampton's magazine. It is the first public statement made by General Bingham since his removal by May or McClellan from the office of Po lice Commissioner. He writes: “The power of Tammany Hall rests, and has rested for forty years, upon Its ability to control' the 'po^ lice, by fair means or foul. A strong honest, fearless Police Commission er, supported by Police Magistrates of ability and integrity and a mayor big enough ^o conduct his office without fear or favor, can sap and utterly destroy Tammany influence In ten years or even less, provided he Is empowered to dismiss and transfer his subordinates for cause, without recourse to the courts. "1 do not believe 1 am unfair in estimating that from fifteen hun dred to two thousand members of the force are unscrupulous grafters, whose hands are always out for easy money." That this is known by the head of the department and apparently Ignored is because the commissioner is only nominal head of the force, he states, while a policeman has of fice for life. Discipline and’ the question of vested interests should be kept separate, be declares. Graft Is hidden in most city ordinances, he says and were enacted to be brok en so that some one could make money from them. He continues: "One day, shortly after my ar rival at Police headquarters an ac quaintance dropped Into my office. "Commissioner," he said. "Thero is a house at No. W est Thirty- third street, run very quietly. It will be worth $10.0UU a month to you”-—but the sentence was never finished to my knowledge. "As a matter of fact, the place had never been opened, and the man had In-eu used as an agent to feel out the department. "A few months later I was of fered $.'1,000 In cash and $500 a month merely to be seen shaking hands with the proprietor of an up per Broadway cafe." General Bngham states as his be lief that gamtiling cannot be elimi nated, but that a reasonable law, Imposing heavy licenses and ironclad restrictions can tie enforced. Con cerning tbe Rogues' Gallery, the controversy over which proved his stumbling block, he states that it is ueces>ary to photograph criminals but adds that it should be settled by a law not drawn in the interest of criminals Beautiful, Elevating Portrayal of ftelf-Hacrlflrefog Devotion of Noble Women of "Lost Cause.” it Befitting In nobility of conception and beamty of execution the subject it is to commemorate, the design for the monument to women of the "lost cause” has been completed. It Is \the work of a Dixie girl, Miss Belle nney, of Nashville, Tenn., and has bees, accepted by several States. It atmir mt allTbe Stales tehlch' COLUMBIA. S* C. HIDEOUS CRIME Hlddtn by Charity’s Cloak In New York City. CLASSIFIED COLUMN Game Bantams—Thres varieties, also Sebright's. Carlisle Cobb. Athena, Ga. irpn left thtkunlon In the Civil War will adopt the design and that replc&s of the monument will be placed In the capltols of each. The design for the proposed monu ment is very beautiful and elevating. The central figure, of heroic size, Is the Goddess of Fame.XAt her right, the reclining figure, delicately fea tured, beautiful, but with an expres sion of exquisite sadness, represents the self-sacrificing Southern woman of the war time. Fame is represent ed as placing a wreath upon the Southern woman's head, while she supports, at her left, a dying and emaciated Confederate soldier, to whom the Southern woman is ex tending, even In death, the palm of victory. The design Is such that it readily lends Itself to reproduction either of marble or bronze. A year or more ago the Daugh ters of the Confederacy and the Sons of Confederate Veterans decided up on the. erection of these monuments In every State capltol In Dixie. The work was to have been done by an Italian sculptor. When his design was submitted at the late Confede rate reunion In Memphis, It raised a storm of protest. The artist had pictured the Southern w T oman as a militant and amazonion figure, carrying in one hand a sword -and in the other the banner of the Lost Cause. This conception was so foreign to the gentle, suffering and pa'Ient wo man of the Southland as those who loved her had known her, 'hat the design was rejected by an over whelming vote. The artist declined to submit another and Miss Kinney was appealed tc. J Tennessee hSi ap propriated $2,500 through the Daugheters and Sons of the Confed- eiary for a bronze cast of the design. Other Slates are raising funds for the purpore and it is believed bv fall each of the former Confederate States will have followed suit. Miss Kinney, the artist, is but 22 years of age and is already a sculp tor of more than national fame She was recently awarded tha con tract for a heroic statute of the late Senator Edward W. Carmack, of Tennessee, killed by the Coopets. When but a c$ild she received a prize at the centennial in Nashville for a bust of b£r father. She received her education In art at the Art In stitute af Chicago and later studied abroad. 1 She was awarded the con tract for twenty Igorrote figures at the Field Museum and has attracted a great deal of attention in art cir cles throughout the world. • WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC FEET TOUCH ON BODY. Man Thus Located Under Water and Was Rescued. When Miss Ruth Rogers leaped feet foremost from a raft on Man hattan beach at Chicago she touch ed one of her feet on a body lay ing in the bottom of the lake. Her cries when she reached the surface brought former Congressman Chas. S. Wharton. Dr. W. H. Falke and Dr. H. B. Clapp, who were swim ming near. Mr. Wharton dived and assured himself that what Miss Rogers had touched was really the body of a man and after repeated efforts the rescuers were successful in bringing it to the surface. They were aston ished to find that breath still re mained. although the victim was un conscious. When he had been resuscitated after an hour's work, he said he was John Tuzhoeki, twenty-three years old He was unable to say how he came into his plight, but it Is be lieved by those who were at the beach that In diving from a post he struck a great rope stretched as a life line and was rendered uncon scious. TAFT MAY VISIT STAE FAIR Columbia Wants to Change With Augusta. Dates A dLpatch from Columbia to Th^ Charleston Evening Post says it is entirely agreeable to have Colum bia and Augusta swap days for en tertaining Mr. Taft, so as to brint him herejftn the closing day of Ahe Carolina fair and In Augusta ou the opening day of tbe fair there, This Is the result of a conference between Chamber of Commerce and Fair So ciety representatives. Mayor Reamer wrote Secretary Carpenter along this Ijne. If the change Is made Mr. Taft will come to Columbia from Charleston on Saturday morning early and go ,.to Augusta oa Saturday afternoon and remain there through Monday. RUTLEDGE COUNTY DEFEATED. Itoth Williamsburg and Clarendon Voted It Down. A dispatch from Lake City, which town expected to be the county seat of the new county, says the propo sition to form the new county of Rutledge out of portions of Wil liamsburg and Clarendon was voted on by the voters in the sections af fected Tuesday and the result was a victory for those who are opposed to the formation of the county by a little over two hundred vtes. The W illiamsburg portion-of the propos ed county gave 823 votes for the new county and 4 >5 against. The Clarendon voters, whose precinct was Sandy Grove, gave 45 for the new county and 25 against. The new county to have won required .S31 votes In Williamsburg county and 51 votes in Clarendon. So the proposition was voted down in both Williamsburg and Clarendon coun ties. STRIKES HIM ON ENGINE, Lightning Severely Injures a Man in His Cab. The Spartanburg Herald says Frank J. Mooney, fireman on freight train No. 71. Southern railway, was struck by lightning in the South ern Railway yards Sunday night about Al 0 clock during the severe rain and electrical storm. Mr. Moon ey was severely injured. At first it was thought that he bad been killed, but an examination by physicians showed that his Injur ies were not fatal, and he was sent to the Spartanburg City Hospital. A report from the hospital Tuesday night said that Mr. Mooney was get ting on nicely. He was conscious, j^ut could not speak. Mr. Mooney was landing on.tfco tender of the engine filling the boil er with water when he waa struck by lightning. Strange to say, there was no scar anywherfi In the, .flesh.. Carried on by People Who Pretend to Be Honest and Friends of Their Victims-—Shocking Discovery la Made by the Detectives of the Im migration Department. The crusade against evils In the management of Immigrant aid soci eties In New York, which began Tuesday with the barring of two A good worm powder for hoi $ mules. Safe and effective. postpaid on receipt of >5e. T; Wannamaker, Cheraw, 8. O. pocieties from Ellis Island, has shoW^n conditions which officials de clare kill be called to the attention of Congress, at next session. In an Interview a few days ago Repre sentative S. Rennet, a member of the commtls/Jlon appointed by congress In 1907 to Investigate Immigration problems says that\an inquiry by the commission has sholvn that 75 per Cent of the so-called £omes In New York have perverted the purposes for which they were organized. The most serious charge made by Mr. Rennet Is that agents forXdisre- putable resorts have -been able to go to tthe homes and obtain gifls. newly arrived from foreign coun tries, who believed that they were about to find employment In desir able places. The agents have paid from $10 to $15 a piece for the girls thus recruited, he says. The commission in getting at the facts here and in other cities, em ployed detectives who posed as agents fof questionable resorts. They had no difficulty it is said, In obtaining girls from the officials of certain homes. Similar evils have been found by the commission to exist In other American cities. and the crusade against them s likely to extend to several parts where large numbers of (migrants krrive. The commis sion will report to congress early next March. * The communication made public by CommDsioner of Immigration Williams, In which he called atten tion to certain evils existing in Im migration homes In this city, revok ing the privilege which two of them had long enjoyed of sending their representatives to Ellis Island, only scraped the crust of a situation, the details of which are appalling. The Investigation of the Immi grant homes is not confined to the immigrant authorities here. Presi dent Taft has been informed of the evils existing, and both he and Sec retary Nagel of the department of commerce and labor are anxious that the most stringent methods be em ployed to stair^p out. For many months the Immigrant commission which Is separate and distinct from the Immigration service, has been In vestigating these matters and today Representative Rennet told some things of what It had done. In getting at the facts the commis- slolt" employed Its own detectives— women who posed as agents for ques tionable resorts. They had no diffi culty getting girls, and Invariably when those girls were questioned, It developed that they thought they were going to a place of quite anoth er character than they bad been hired for. In applying for girls to work for them the agents of the disreputable resorts, Mr. Rennet says, did not stipulate that they wanted them to go as Inmaes. "They didn’t need to go In to the life unless they wished to," the agents were careful to say. Mr. Rennet was not ready to give the names of any of these homes, which he gave so black a character, but It Is safe to say that the repoftT of the commission, when it Is made, at Washington, will be a startling one. It is also to be expected that the homes which have perverted the avowed purpose for which they were organized will be put out of busi ness with scant ceremony. Falrview House, Clyde, N. O.—Fins view, good water, good table. Ratea $6 and up per week. Ne consumptives. Dr. F. M. Davis. Wedding Invitations and announce ments. Finest quality. Correet styles. Samples free. James H. DeLooff, Dept. 6, Graad Rapids, Mich. c Agents Wanted—To sell post cards, rings, brooches, bracelets, albums, etc., gi”en for seeling $1.00 worth. Address Souvenir Post Card Co., Morgantown,.W. Va. Y-16-$t Wanted—To hear from owner hav ing farm for sale. Must 4>e In good location and reasonable in price. Not particular about size. Carolina Sales Agency, 49 E. Rue- sell St., Orangeburg, S. C. (Per sons wishing to buy, write us.) - Mall Clerk Arrested. Frank .1. Stewart, a negro railway mail clerk, running between Augusta and Atlanta, was arretted Tuesday afternoon by Deputy United States Marshal J. P. Murray, charged with embezzling a decoy letter. Regis tered mail has been missed on the Georgia Road on a number of oc casions recently and the officers claim that they will be able to trace much qL the stolen goda to Stewart. Make Your Own Will—Without tha aid of a lawyer. You don’t need one. A will is necessary to protect your family and relatives. Forma and book of Instruction, any State, one dollars. Send for free litera ture telling you all about It. Mof fett!’ Will Forms, Dept. 40, 894 Broadway, Brooklyn, New York City. Announcement. This being our twenty-fifth year of uninterrupted success, we wish it to be our "Banner year.” Our thousands of satisfied cus tomers, and fair dealing. Is bring ing ns new customers dally. If you are contemplating tbs pur chase of a piano or organ, writs as at once for catalogues, snd for our special proposition. MALONE'S MUSIC HOUSH, Columbia, 8. O. WOOD. IKON AND STTBL ISHAU^PUUfYfjSj L OMB AK AyCU ft A. OA. WENT POINTERS FIRED. President Orders Dismisoal of Sev eral for Hazing. By direction of President Taft, seven cadets were dismissed from the United States military academy for being involved in the hazing of Rolando Sutton. Cadet Sutton was a brother of James N. Sutton, Jr., of tbe naval academy, whose death was Investigated at Annapolis recent ly. The cadets ordered dismisses} are: John H. Booker, Jr , of West Point, Georgia, first class; Richard W. Hooker, of Kansas City, Mo., third class; Earle W. Dunmore, of Utica, N. Y., third class; Chauncey C. Devore, of Wheeling, W. Va., third class; Gordon Lefebvre. of Richmond, third class; Albert E. Crane, of Dawarden, Iowa, third class, and Jacob S. Fortner, of Do than, Ala., third class. A SLICK CROOK. Worked a Slick Game on a Private Detective, Thomas D. Stewart, the head of a private detective agency In Pitts burg, has reported to the Chicago po lice that he was robbed of $500 in money and jewelry while stopping at a downtown hotel In the lake city. He went to Chicago In company with a man who had offered to lead him to the man who, he said, was responsible for the dynamiting of the Pennsylvania railroad bridge near Pittsburg several months ago and for whom there is a reward of $5,000 offered. The detective and his guide slept in the same room at the hotel, and when the former woke up one morning he found his companion and all h|La valuables' gone. Shoots Young Lady. At. Portsmouth, Ohio, enraged be cause he had been jilted, . Harry Bliss, 18 years old, Tuesday shot and fatally wounded Miss Minnie Clarke, 17 years old, at a crowded street corner. When Miss Clarke refused to return a ring, Bliss drew a revolver and shot her through the back, the bullet penetrating the right lung. Blhf was arreated. 1 ^ Hung for Three Months. After hanging for about three months to a tree near a public road, near Pittsburg, Pa., along •which hundreds of persons pass daily the body of a man, apparently about 70 jeara..of Age.'Vas.found a.law. days ago by berry pickers. No clue as to the Identity of the supposed suicide was found on the body. • Wild Story Afloat. A dispatch from Charleston to The State says a wild report was circu lated Over the country Tuesday to the effect that Charleston had been destroyed by an earthquake, bring ing many telegrams of inquiry from press associations and newspapers. The report Is said to have* started from Atlanta. The foundation probably the suspension of graphic communication Monday tornooa by the wind and thus storm. tele- Poluted Paragraphs. It’s a hollow mockery—echo. . jQne.-alded people seldom, aid* with one. With some women the man who never flatters aoon falls flat. - little Glair Screw Plates I II assortments. Each assortment la In a neat wood case, as sortment has shown in cut Back sixes of taps routs Inad 1 from 744 in. all sisee rod 1 to 11-2 ia. 3 m /. / ■■ /