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VOL. X!XXIV BARNWELL. S. C., THURSDAY. OCTOBER 6 NOS. =5 . m HONORS HEROES Litrei^ Ctuaty UiTeils a Mtiineat t« tbe MeMrj $f Her NOBLE, GALLANT SONS A IloHiitiful Momorlal Is Kitn-ted lo ('ommrnHkrate the ism of (lie (^nllant Men of Laurens Countjr Who Willingly !j»id Down TI»e»r Lives foe» Their State. In the presence of fully 3,000 peo ple, including L’OO veterans and 3)0 school children the Confederate mon th e FARMER IS ROBBED ON A liOXKLY ROAD BY AN UN KNOWN KOOTPAl). ument erected to the memory of I^aurens-County soldiers, was Wed nesday unveiled after being formally presented to the eoun'y of Laurens by Governor Martin F. Ansel in be half of ,1. M. Kershaw Chapter, Unit ed Daughters of the Confederacy, un der whose auspices the exercises were held. ^ The speech of acceptance was de livered by the Hon. K. A. Cooper, of Laurens, who in behalf of the people of Laurens pledged the care and protection of the shaft, which fitting ly commemorates the valor of Lau rens County heroes of the Southern Confederacy. The Hon. C. C. Featherstone acted as master of ceremonies and made the address of welcome, dwelling sympathetically upon the auspicious ness of the occasion. The oration of the day was delivered tty Hr. Lee Davis Lodge, president of Limestone College, and one of the moat accom plished speakers of this State. The invocation was offered by the Ho. W. K Thayer, of Laurens Preceding the exercises the Veter ans were given a ride about the city in automobiles, there being over 3b machines in the procession. Prompt ly at lo o'clock the Daughters and Veteran- assembled at the Opera House and there marched to the stand n< ar the mnounient. headed by the Newberry Hand The thirteen girls selected to unveil the monument were joined in the line of march by the school children and their teach ers Tt was a most imposing and in spiring scene, one of the notable fea tures of the day The stand was dee. orated anu from all the stores anil other buildings on the .vpiare flags and bun’ing were displaced in honor of thi occasion All stores banks and officers were closed during the cer emonies Upon concluding his speech Gov ernor \lyse 1 announced that *he lit tle girls who were to pull the cords unveiling the monument would come forward and he suggested that the old war-time yell be given as the veil fell, and tli esuggestion was car ried out with a will. In connection with the children who unveiled i he shaft it o interesting to note that Heaufort Hall Copeland, youngest of the thirteen, is a granddaughter .,f the late Co! H W Hall and great- eranddauglifer of W D Watts, one of the signers of the Ordinance of Secession She also participated in unveiling the monument at Cross Hill, erected by H W. Hall Chapter, I D C . -some t ime ago Dr Lodge was presented with some handsome bouquets, including one lo Sarah K.lira Swygert, a little tot. who was held in the arms of Mr. Featherstone as she gracefully pre sent'll t)u> wreath Governor Ansel also received flowers Another hap- p\ incident was the presentation of a beautiful wreath to the Laurens Chapter f D C , by Stephen D. Kl- liott. of Clinton. The monument is thirty-two feet high The lower section is built of Wlnnsboro granite of a lignt gray color Crowning the monument is the figure of a Southern soldier, a private, standing erect and almost in the attitude of "parade rest.' This figure is of delicate carved white. Vermont marble and bears in its ev er' curve the proud looks that Jie “Hoys in Gray' 1 rightly hear Tin* soldier Is facing the fPnU h, and on the ‘main shaft 'below is can* ed Jhe Confederate flag. The section underneath this bears the memor able dates 1 SfiM SI53. Below the dates is this inscription: In memory of The Hoys in Gray Erected 1910 By the Citizens of Laurens County Under the Auspices of J. B. Kershaw Chapter U. D. C. On the top stone of the base, carv ed on the south and north sides, are the words: “Our Heroes.’’ The north side of the monument hears this inscription: “On Fame s Eternal Camping Oroun 1 Their Sileut Tents are Spread, And Glory Guards with Solemn Round The Bivouac of the Dead.’’ “Who shall break the guards that wait, B ' —Before the awful face of fate? . The tattered standards of tbe South Were shrivelled at the cannons mouth And all her hopes were desolate. “Fold up the banners’ Smelt th* * guns! Love Rule*. Her gentler purpose runs. The mighty Mother turns in Lears The pages of her battle years. Lamenting all her fallen Sons’. ‘ Mr, -Jemeti Bolmett is Relieved of the Droceeds from the S«le of a Bale of Cotton. **• A bold robl>ery has just been made public. With the proceeds from a bale of cotton that he had sold. In his pocket, James Bonnett, a well known farmer living between White Pond and Windsor, in this slate, was iobbed_Tuesday afternoon by an un known negro, who made hi.s escape. The robbery was one of the boldest that has been reported in a long time, and was practically a hold up. illr. Bonnett went Tuesday to Wil- liston, and there sold a bale of cot ton. He started to drive home late in the afternoon, and had In cash $56. When some distance out of Willisfon, and driving along a lonely stretch of road, he overtook a negro, who was walking. The negro aaked for a ride and Mr. Bonnett stopped his team and took the rtegro in the wagon. He did hot drive far until the ne gro, who was standing up behind Mr. Bonnett, caught him by the throat and lx>re him down to the floor of the wagon. Mr. Bonnett, who is between 60 and 65 years of age. was easily overcome, and when he was choaked into insensibility, the negro rifled his pockets, secur ing all the money he had. The negro then made his escape. Mr Bonnett was not injured serious ly and soon recovered. He stated that he did not know the negro, but it is very likely that he could recog nize him if he ever sees his assailant again H is thought that the negro had been in Williston Tuesdav, and seeing Mr. Bonnett selling cotton, deliberately planned to rob him. KILLED FOR REVENGE. Negro Committed Brutal Crime to Avenge Himself. Robert L Magulgnn, Jr.. 13-year- dd son of Robert Maguigah. of Bev erley. N .1 . who was found hanging from The-front stoop ot his parents residence on September 23. was mur dered. it Is believed, by some enemy of his lather, instead of having com mitted suicide, as was at first sup posed The facts came out at the inquest Wednesdav night when the father took the witness stand. The father is foreman of a large factory. He has had numerous dif- ferences with the men under him. His most recent trouble was on Sep tember 23 "That day a colored man came to see me and demanded some money, said Maguigan. " 1 refused to give him any lie told me he would get even, and before the day was over 1 would know how ho was to take revenge 1 thought nothing of the threat un'll that night when I went home to find my boy dead. His little sis ter found him hanging tp the front door steps, a strap around’his neck “I am sure the man who made the threats did the deed. He killed my hoy to revenge himself upon me. I have kept quiet to see if I eotild not run down the murderer and take tbe matter into my own hands. TEDDY IN T PUSHES HIS TICKET^THROUGH REPUBLICAN CONVENTION, Whips the Old Guard to a Kraz,Me nnd Then Hide* Hough Shod Ov er Them. The New York Republican State Convention at Saratoga Wednesday evening nominated Henry L. Stiin- son of New York as its candidate for governor. The nomination of Mr. Ktimson was one more victory for Roosevelt, who led the tight for the nomination of his ea+Ktida'e, com pleting the unbroken series of ir 1 - umphs from the moment the con vention was called to order until its final adjournment. The vote foT governor stood as follows: Henry L. Stlmson, 6S4, Wm. S. Bennett of New Y'ork, 242; Thomas B. Dunn of Rochester, 33; James B. McEwan of Albany, 28, scatering. 23. The State as made up Wednesday for the balance of the ticket by Roosevelt. Root and nis henchmen went through without a hitch. With the exception of the nomi nations for governor and comptrol ler there were no contests. Repre sentative Bennett, who has been con ducting the only open campaign for the nomination of governor, kept up the fight to the end and his persist ency and his strength with the N^w York delegation threatened to break the slate. It is understood that Roosevelt will stump the State for the ticket. At the close of the convention James S. Wadsworth, Jr , speaker of the assembly, announced his with drawal from the legislature. He said this determination was reached some time ago, and was due the en tirely to his personal views as to the length of time a memlver of the as sembly should hold that important and difficult office. Wadsworth would not say that his retirement was due to the victo ry of the progressives in the conven- MADE HIS HAUL Rawi, Wlra CMMUttd Siicidt ii His Heae Ust Simmer, Tins Out FIRST CLASS GRAFTER Former President of (’nr Itepnir Company Details the Payment of l>arge Sums of Former President of Motion Route, Hho Was Mys teriously Shot at His Hesideme. Henry C. Ostermann, fornu r pres ident of the Ostermann Manufactur ing Company, who is said to have been a big faclor in the Illinois cen tral car repair frauds, related a sen sational story of the inside workings of his concern before Judge Brtig- gemeyer at Chicago on Wednesday Ostermann was called as a witness for the prosecution in the conspiracy hearing against Frank B. Harriman, Chas. L. Kwing and John M Taylor, former Illinois Central officials, who are charged with participating in ex tensive* car repair swindles. The ’late Ira G. Rawn, former president of the f.Monon Route, who was ''mysteriously'' shot to death at his summer residence in Winnetka, Ills., last July, was named by the chief figures m the alleged giuft ring. Ostermann declared that as vice president of the Illinois Central, Rawn was given 1,5 DO shares of stock in the Ostermann Manufactur ing Company, and that this was in creased to 2,7bO shares. He said that Rawn sold his stock to the man ufacturing company at par, $5 a share. After Rawn had sold back his stock holdings in the car repair company for $ 1 3,500, the witness says the former Illinois Central vice- president demanded and g<d first $■> and then $ 1", and finally $15 for each car repaired or alleged to have l*een repaired at the Ostermann lion. The close of the < onventlon * plant. found the Roosevelt fon cs in com plete masiry of the situation. Following the first rout of the or ganization came Roosevelt's drama’,- c and successful battle for flu- adbp- tion of the platform of the progress i\os, and his final vi< tory in the nom ination of Ftimson. R> the time the vote was taken the strength of the organiz.ttion had been dissipated badly. BLISTERS THE OLD GI ARI). CAUSE MANY TO El,EE. Earthquake Shocks (VcpoptiHMe Pait of Arizona. A dispatch from Flagstaff, Am., sa's a territory fiftv miles square, extending from there to the grand canon of the Colorado, stands prac tically depopulated because of earth quake and rumblings, which, begin ning Saturday, are steadily increasing in magnitude and violence. Indians, of whom there were many in the region, fled when the quakea began, terrified by sinister imports wbl^h they imagined to he contain ed in the cracking of gro*nd. The whites remained until their homes fell at>out them. J. B. Shaves, the first of the. re fugees to reach Flagstaff, reported that his house was cracked. Others who came in later reported that vol canic stones had been torn from beds and sent down the mountain sides They refused to go back. The whole district is of volcanic origin. The phenomena is attributed to a slip 'n the earth. liiMirgeniN I’our Hot Shot Into Their Ranks. The Wisconsin Republican State platform convention at Madison, spent Thtirsdav listening to insur gent Congressmen make speeches. Esch rehearsed phases of the insm- gent fight against the rules in the house of representatives nl Washing ton and extolled Senator La Follette as the father of the progressive ideas, after erroneously, they declare, call ed the Roosevelt policies ■’They c.allqd us insunigents 1 an’t quite give the nasty accent and then they called us Democrats, said congressman lamroot Well, there are worse tilings than being 3 iemocrat. The old line Senators ielt heir chair with smiles of derision when Senator La Follette began m speak. He turned to them and said th a phopher \ which has come true: “Those chairs, which you ave vacant temporarily will be made permanently so by the people. Where are former senators from North an,d South Dakota, from Kan sas and from Iowa' 1 Their seats aie occupied by Cummings, by Borah, by Bristow. "Yes, Hale is sick and Aldrich not feeling well,'’ said Congressman Cooper, after submitting one plank pledging Republican legislators to return Senator La Follette to the sen ate at Washington. Home Big Fish. O-ne of the biggest catches of the fishing season-at Long Branch. N. J is credited to Capt. Hiram Lqckwood and the little crew of his fishing smack Dinah. The boat Thursday brought in four fish which tipp'd the scales at an average ot 1.000 pounds each. The catch Included three sharks and a horse mackerel His Money Was Safe. At Boston, Mass., upon being told his bootblack eland, in which he had $300, was a fire, Joseph Sesoneran Friday died of cerebral hemorrhage The fire was extingushed before it reached the money. t Born Keeled Over. At Pensacola, Fla., August Wilena and Heinrich Star .were drow ned and five other men had a narrow escape from death when a small boat in which they were rowing to a steamer in the harbor capsized. All of the men had spent the night in the city and attempted to fow hack to the vessel in a boat which had a capac ity of carrying three persons. Fewer Deaths. The mortality report of the census bureau shows a decrease in 1909 compared with 1908 of Deattis in this country from tuberculosis and ty phoid fever. The rate of tbe former fell from 174 to 167 1-2 per hun dred thousand, the rate of the later from 25 to 22. CHINESE BANDITS * _ • -r" GARRY OFF FIFTEEN MEN TO BE HELD FOR RANSOM. They Stole Thirty Thon-nand Dollars from a Bank and Then K-M-aped to the Mountains. "C Dispatches from Victoria, H G, says Manciniria bandits made a r,Id on the town of New t'hwang,, at the mouth of lilt* Liao river, earlv this month, and carried away fifteen Chin ese merchants to be held for ransom, at im ding to advices received by tin*.' s'eeitier Stcdo Mam, which has just arrived trom the Orient. 'Hie bandits stole $30,ODD from a bank and secured large stores of arms and ammunition. The brigands, of whom there were 3bd, retired to-a stronghold in the mountains near Antanshlen. When the steamer left Japan the bandits were surrounded by 600 Chinese troops and police from Hai Cheng and Ilao Yan.g. Operations against the brigands began on Sep- tenii>er 5, when a number of pickets and two entrenchments were captur ed. The brigands have a large store of food in the temple buildings in the mountains and have settled down to withstand a Beige. Artillery was being sent from Muk den A company of Japanese fron- •ier guards who joined the Chinese and sought to assist them in the attack were ordered to return by the Chinese. DEAD OR STOLEN MAN LOOKING FOR SON MISSING SIX MONTHS. rS-Z. Yttif l|p Fraa Brwklyi IjsteriMilj Disappears aa^ TEDDY GETTING RIGHT. Died After Walts. “I could die waltzing,” aald Mias Elizabeth Harris At the close of a dance late Thursday night at Chic ago. As she seated herself she feli, over. She died within a few min utes. She had been dancing cdlflNn- uously for four hours. She was 22 years old. Took Him for Thief. Aah Armstrong, of Birmingham Ala., was shot to death by George Jackson, a negro peddle!*, who'*ml>- took' bis victim for a highwayman. Tbe negro is held on a charge of murder. Killed in Battle. Four thousand lives were lost 1^ the recent war in NicAragua, accord-: ing to Jacob Weinberger, manager of the Blueftelds Stfan^ip Co^ptny, at Blueflelde, KIcaraiSrue. who re- turned to Kew Orleans. In this connection (Mermann tes tified that he pel sons lly made cine payment of $lo.5nn m Rawn, which, he said, was for 7"u ( ars upon which fhe repair coin enlTTafT i bTlecfed bills" for repairs The witness *hh1 that Rawn received $13 a car during the first .six months of the vear i:>"9. This was during the last six months that Ostermann was connected with the repair companv. According to Osterinann, three dis tinct kinds ot pa'nients were made n the passing of this alleged graft In addition to the payment per car as to Rawn. said Ostermann. a fixed monthly sum was paid certain odi- eials anti a two per cent monthly dividend was paid on all Osterm.uiii Manufaettiring Companv si(» k In Id >y Illinois Central officers. This stock dividend, amounting to 2 4 per rent a year, was paid on several blocks of Ostermann Company slot k, said Ostermann What Illinois ✓Central officials held stock in your company 0 ' was asked Ostermann by Attorney Fish er. “Ira G Rawj- had 2.10" shares; Frank R Harriman had 2,200 shai- es. John M Tavlor had first 1 .000, and then 5,0"o shares: Jos. K. link er had 2.200 shares Win. Ronshaw « had 1.500 shares and W' J. Taylor had 500 S B and Mildred Harp- man had D»o shares rath, hut I don t know who they are other than they were connected with the Illinois Central Company Their stock was ■ought a.nd paid for by Frank B Harriman.'' “W hat officers of the railroad com pany received monthly payments from your concern and In what amounts?" Osterman was asked by counse 1 ! for the prosecution "Frank B Harriman received $N- 100 monthly: Joseph E. Bilker al.v> got $1^000 monthly; W’m. Renshaw was paid $5n0 monthly: W. J. Leahy $100; H. N. Dunlay $100; R. g. Ran som $25; John Waters $25, Matthew Morgan $75, and F. A. Jones $100 on at least one occasion that I personally know of.” Ostermann then entered Into a pe- cital of the organization of the man ufacturing company. “I did not think of going Into Ih'e car repair business at first, said Ostermann. “The idea whs first suggested to-me by a Mr Considine, whom I met while selling stock in the grain door enterprise. He sug gested the matter to me and la'*T I took it up with John M. Taylor, of the Illinois Central. He discouraged me first and later assisted me, John E. Baker took me to Ira G Rawn to arrange for a contract to -do- repmr work for the Illinois Central. ‘VMr Rawn asked me how many cars I thought I could turn out in a day, and 1 replied about 25.'' " You are the man we are look ing for', he said, and the deal was arranged ’’ The witness then related how in 1907 he was told by John M. Tay- lor,4hat, Frgnk B. Harriman wanted to see him; that Harriman wanted to buy more stock in the Ostermann concern “1 refused to sell Harriman a block of stoc\c at that time berms* 1 would thereby lose the controlling Interest in the company. Instead « f selling Harriman stock, we came io an agreement whereby-! was to pay Harriman $10,060 a month. I paid Bryan Says He Is Advocating Demo cratic Doctrines. .'In an addrees before a mass meet ing at Pueblo, Col., W J Bryan on Monday charged Theodore Roosevelt with having advocated old time Democratic principles in many of his recent addresses on his Western tour Referring lo Roosevelt's Osswatomi *. Kan . speech on "New Nationalism.' Mr Bryan said: "The Democratic party has p’each- od this doctrine for fourteen years and in 1900 Incorporated it in P- -platform7- quite Tn contrast witrt distinguished gen'lcman who appears to have just made the discovery that tins iloetrino is cornu t and p-ogres- sive and jufiL* With His Companions t-nd Was Play ing.—"Madman” Seared Them and They lt*n. Charles H Adams district super intendent of tlie Fnited Natural Gas company, a Standard Oil subsidiary, at Kant*, Pa . is 111 New York city to invoke the aid of the New York po lice in his search for his little son, Edw ard Patrick, w hoTVas been miss ing since JuaV- April 15. vAdams told a remarkable story of the hoy's sudden and mysterious dis appearance and of the efforts that searching parties, often numbering more than 1(10 persons. He has car ried the search aa far eat as St. Ixniis Mrs. Adams is prostratud from grief and believes her sou mur dered by a madman. The father still hopes (hat little Edward was on ly kidnapped and may yet be found. Edward will be ten years old next December On April 15 last he went out with three other boys of hia own age to fish in a creek about ten min utes' walk fom home, through the woods There was not sufficient wa ter in the creek to drown a kitten in. The lads were fishing for min nows with bent pins. It is impossi ble that Edward was drowned. Another party of slightly older lads waa fishing nearby. One of these thought it would he fun to try to scare the younger boys He went up to them and pretending he was the son of the fish warden, told them they had no right to fish and would be arrested. The little chaps had been there ARE ANXIOUS Edward J. Boyd, a Traveling Agent for aa AdvertlwlnK Firm, is Missfag _ ' Yrom Augusta, Ga., Where He Waa Ij»n< tfeeo Home Weeks Ago, aud Caanot Be Found. The Augusta Herald says Edward J Boyd, of Brooklyn, N. Y., con nected with the advertising firm of Shearman A Ryan, of that city, haa mysteriously disappeared and all.ef forts, so far, to locate him have proven unavailing. Mr. Boyd arrived in Auguata-from Savannah on tha 26th of A.UgU»L Intending to do quite a good deal of advertialng in that city, for certain branda of teaa. On hia arrival in Augusta he went direct to the tMarks-Orocery company and made arrangementa with that firm for the placing of certain signa and display cards. A short while after his conversation with Mr. Marks, two boxes of advertising mat ter and a grip arrived at the store and Mr. Marka*aigiped the express re ceipt for them. It is also stated that Mr. Boyd signed in person for another grip which was forwarded to him from Savannah. Mr. Boyd later want to the Marks store and talked with Mr. Marks about some window signs and on leaving him stated that he would swearing and looking as though In sane The hoy ran, shouting warn ing to both fishing parties. All-fled. , v „ , return on the following morning and too^ often to be frightened Ip that ((lace th( , m Thi> WM the ^ ^ _ , , . of him and the boxes and the grip are On his way hack to hia chums. thlsL ul , , t the 8tore< awaltlnf lnatruc _ lad met a rough looking man. who liona aa t0 the)r dUpo . UIoil . hounded out of the woods at him, | Mr . Marka atat?d Wednei(dliy morning to s Herald reporter that Mr. Boyd seemed to be in a happy , .humor and that there was nothing '\s they ran they missed Edward L |nd , cate about Mln thal be m| ^ They shouted tor hnn and dodged b< or deapondent . He described around several paths to look for him. hlm aR . ymin „ man abolJt , 2 . e u ” Tk ? of medium height, with dark as. place he was seen was the spot balr and , very interesting talker, where the rough looking man Jump- No trace of h(m ha „ ^ found out upon the path tfim of the I y ^ fhe hotH8 ^ ^ ^ '..'S i.isieiH. to tc Mrs. Adams | nquiry at He v e ral grocery stores de-, tha Edward was lost in the wood,. VP , op , d tb „ fart that a M itlnn; an hour Adams was swering the description of Mr. swollen fortune.-, and campaign <cntnlmtions, Mr. Roos*-|were examined, veil has merely followed a well es tablished Democratic lead For years Democratic platforms have been 1 toot of the ground was gone ov*r clamoring tor legislation in this ui- time and time again, with the utmost reitiuu.” system. No trace ol any newly turn Hr Hiv.-in also said the former ed earth was discovered. scouring the woods, a hundred neigh- on number of the merchailt(| n h ‘ S ^.less.ons regarding rail- bors helping Ev^v day for weeks I, f (h . e cfty Jn d to |acJ ^ road regulation, the income tax, the searen was kept up. Every part j • public r, Of | Of the woods and all the country The last , etter wh , ch tbe yo|ing . . . , 1 * as ' '° UK *’ t ' man wrote to hia employers waa from . . K , kUled pud Aluul!t a and wal , dated on 8 . huned. perhaps in the woods. Every | ber m and on , be ^ date be a , so wrote to his mother, in Brooklyn. He was on hia way toward Colombia, 8. C., to which potnt htw -firm had ■*ei>t him a registered letter contain ing a sum of money. The police department has receiv ed a letter asking information about Mr. Boyd but so far they have been unable to aaceitain anything about him They state that letters of this description are received every day and that they do not attract any great attention at headquarters. Mr. Marks, of the Marks Grocery company, stated that Mr. Boyd, aa the Ri csidrut s conversion lo the income tax had been "recent FATALITIES IN IMTTSBl HG. One Day’s Record in i'olice Courts of That Oity. This rather exceptional record of Frequently the search parties num bered more than a thousand men anJ women Pinkertons were engaged. Tbe police and all the local author ities in Pehiisylvania have done thiir ut most. ('OVER CROI* CAMPAIGN. a day's tragedies was compiled by the police of Pittsburg, Pa., on lax Thursday: Mrs Sarali Welsh, aged 32, was found fatally burned in her apa r t merit at 19 Penn street north side Varied* Agencies Work for the Bet terment of Agriculture. There will he more winter cover P ft ^ erB fff c ffi v ©d in Augusta state, did crop planted in, South Carolina thla not *l > P eBr ,0 he a drinking man fall than ever before. The work of m " features were clear cut and re- the v arious agencies for better agri- j ^ticd and he did not seem dlsafpaTetT. She died after saving that her Itui ns I cult uro in this State la quit** notice- Marks fears that the young man were received in an explosion of a able. Last year notwUhstanding the I' 8 l he victim of foul play gas range, tmt the range w as found I dry fall and spring, there were hun intact The police scented m,v stery 1 dreds of suscessful fields of vetch, 111 tlie case and are investigating bur Hover, crimson clover, red r|o George Stewart, aged 30, was ver and alfalfa The majority of found dead on the steps of the Her- these w/*ro planted under the super ron Hill Methodist Episcopal church, vision /of a government agent, and He had taken carbolic alid. were so satisfactory that the area George Ogden fell from the win- will fie greatly extended this vear. . . „ , . ... .. . . dov* of a L arson street hotel and was A/G Smith, scientific assisstant of .. , . . instantly killed | the/United State department of agrl- MI N DREDS DROvVNDED. | Severe Storm Takes Heavy Toll of Human Life. Several steamship disasters wKh \V S. Hertsberger, aged 21, was culture gave specific directions for' vere storms in Japan and China wat ers shortly prior to the sailing of tha steamer Sado Mara which baa arriv ed at Victoria. B. C. killed by electricity while repairing [ijanting over 3o0 fields of these light at the Pressed Steel Car com- crops last year, and this year he is pan> s plant in McKees Rocks Continuing the work in practically John Ross, aged 1 9, of Homestead 1 I every section of the State. Specific fatally shot himself through :he directions for planting any of these lungs and will die. The_ police dey crops can be secured by addressing Hare it suicide. him at Columbia. He has already Mvrtle King, aged 1TI7 attempted] given dTrecTTons Tor over 150 fields., .. M . . .... .. this season. These advise the farm- I ln the 8htnan * r|ver ^undenKl, W; r The steamer Tayei Kise Maru, ply ing between Amoy and Cbnmr Cftow;— went down and two hundred paafcra- gers. many of them Chinese* v drowned. The river steamer Andsela A 1 suicide l»y drinking poison at a Sec ond av enue rooming house. She 'g | expected to recover. / er every step in the process, and tell persona wore drowned. Woman Was the Cause./ Mack Wright, a negro, wga com-1 him where to secure the seed and the I °® aka 8h ° 8en soil for inoculation. \ e J Kiliklua Maru, wen aaltore o« The aim of the department of ag- r‘ P ! ember 8 near , Ch,n ° riculture is to get a winter cover Wakayama, but no lives were loat. Cut His Head Off. J Jacob Foreman, aged 37 years. milted to the Aiken jail aw-Monday l' FT J'very acre of land_ in South for ambushing John Gilliar^, anoth- M aro ** na - ^ take thany years er negro, Sundav morning on the t0 accomplish the desired result, bull , . . farm of Capt J M. Cobb at Silver- hh*' are waking up to the op- w “ decapitated and two other men ton, and fatally shooting him about P or,unir * v and fhe bpn « fit °f winter one seriously, by Uie burst- a woman „ cover crops, and it is believed that 'ng of a steam pipe at the Orient great results will he accomplished In I foke plant, at Orient, Pa., Thnraday with Bucket and he suggested that l | the next few years. Farmers are ad-1The three atm at work to the qtav over some mo*ey to the old L'^d to plant „rye ,,or oats on ,the | englne, whea v Without warnl _ man. Mr. Rawn I ksked him how larger part of their farm if they haveMncH ste*m pffa Turaf rragine«Jof much and he said about $5 a car for nev « r * rown any leguminous winter ^e iron being hurled with tertlflc cverv car repaired./ Later, Bucker ^op. but it is advisable to force in all directions. One piece cut came to me and sajd that Mr. Rawn P larit a Bmal > ar, ‘ a of T ^ ch * bur clo-|off Foremans head felt tbev ought to have a little jnore ver * r8d c,ov ***«- or rrirason clover, fol- monev on the cats. Bucker said 1 lowing the directions given, and then K kortune Away, ought to know what it would mean in another year by having plenty of Geo. W. Patten, tha millonafrw If I didn't give It Bucker said that 8011 for, inoculation, the farmer can grain operator, of Chicago, died/oa other repair car companies were do- e * ,en<1 11,8 area as be sees fit. Most Thursday night from tubercu ing it and that he had to take his °t failures with these crops and left a fortune estimated *t $M< orders regarding the placing ot re- 8,80 wlth th * a^ 8 » 8 * ha8 been due The gffeater part is said to ha»e/been pair contracts from those above him. 10 lack of Proper knowledge of Jleft to public charitiec J In this wav/the payment per CA r P lantin S' wh «re the proper metb- large donation for tha was raised to 110 and then to 115. ’ ods lrav8 been followed there has | of the anti-tuh«rculo»ia During the period that the alleg- been practically no failures what- ed grafting ras going on Ostermann • ver * said he handled each deal In person \ and thereafter made the payment! 'f I ^ t money to the railroad officials. He Geerge Chaves, aged 2*, tha Peru- declared ^that he frequently pasted vtan aviator, who was injured in Dies From Hart. this amount/n person, sometimes lt^^1,000 bills to certain of the men I alightinf after hia, flight oyer the check and some times in cash- mentioned and upon ona oeeislen he|Alpglast weak, died hi fl.tD.oTbtoeh ’‘Sometime alter this I had a talk banded wer a 16.000 hill. * 1 Wednesday afternoon. building. 1 10 year < --/j