Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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MY SK SEA. 1-., r 1 one T :. Ai ' aboamrd. al:td then ie s db A eve r.. mus unders-t md Thre v''" -ropels i.s and wt : I tr ! reCI thi otheir sice: -And -. v h at joy and wonder w:t, Inside : porl, and set tire 2ate. Far en::tning that lovely seen , Anid e'tIng you -ee II dreamh, And :"' longinzs tiat you fetel lin t .:: they a come rea!' IN A :PERILOUS FIX: 00 e 0 00 By Crace Leigh. *@S00#**@***000S0.00*.0000000 - 0- 0 Ao= T"S the strangest noise I ''ver hen I !he Ihourse C 0 nlust bi un IL ted for wniy ghost could lie uilty of OW miaking such an uuearthly s. "replied1 sister Battie. with a I l nervous Iaugh. t's only the wind or aNmouse stirrin: thero." Htth-* glanced apprehensively over hier shi, r in the directin Indicated. Iluik wlh and startled. -lixw 'f1ish1 it was of us to think of %styi Wwhole nightS in this great cil U - :iro(n: I wish ('ousi J11a-k w o.re h .' fr if a ghost were really to mrake' it :aarce wha~rt should. wve ever do.~ : .l.: so unchir a frajil of "hosts -tomli 's as I amas of .1o1berAs. 1hiank hev :: iedoors are locked, and 110 <iw ::Pre in without our eain Duinra'th a bsiIee of rotu" paen ts. -who hai goni. to vit : sick rehltive living n : neig'hboring town. my sister H1artie I: had volunteercd to stay at 11111. and! take einarge of ad'airs unltil thlir einv:. The onily person besides urrselvdn tile lOulse-a great. t'ilb linig old i iiture, with mny imneys and l und wvethr-stind porh1e's i -was a -:ale donc'stie. who sleptd in i a tei:J, -iiinbe' on t1 first Mloor. We wenllrt up tI oIr 1Oolii e'arly ill til even inz. for wt. felt a little timid in spite 0f1 th oe oftl'i e-xjpressed nss-rtin tlt we I w 01rot . hit afraid. Ie sreer was kept in a suia' safE I in my m'.iner's apartments. Whieb comli nunient-ed' wxNith our. and coli Id not bei reachled othlerwi~se wvithou, ;go in :!' through a lonl: hall, the d(:or of whilcil wvas oil: ieked and bolted oni the in-l side. TI.-: noise that had so star'tied urs was uunike anyrth ing I had ever before heard-a kind of stealtlky. uncertain rutstling. z- if made unintentionally atnd enttu2ly against th illi of what everCL er wioev-er it was that occasioned it. .Naturally>3 courageous, and accus toimed to an:.in as well as thrinking fori nmyself, arose, locked the door, l dr'opped nide shrade, and took a 14ook( 21'ound th' noonm. No :ign of either1 !ghost or :ubber was to bre seen.1 *'A lbravt pair we are, I must say." said I. tnking a volm;e of Scott'si poems froml the table anid begining to1 read aloud from the "L~ay of tire Last Minstre&." but I had scarcely read lihree lanes before tire samne low. strange ru~stiing soun~d was hreard i again. Hattie *uickly turned and looked in iuiringiy at the big closet in Ihe cor ner, the door of which ::tood patrtly open. A li:.'ge, old fashioned o.ak chest was irn one ('orner, and above it hung d resses. skirts. wraps and ladies' ap parels of nll kinds. 'It must surely be a mrouse. Grace, for there can't be arnythring else inl tile closet." said Hattie, in a frightened whisper. I got up and flung the closet door wxide open and ;;ave the skirts a :'igor ouis shake. I even rmounted tire old -chest arn2 took a prolonged survey of tihe urp;.er shelves, mnoving~ bonnet boxes n::d shrawls anid e'verything~ within myi reach, but mouse ihere wasI none. no:' any' irndicatioin thna rtine had ever been there. "It is v'ery odd."'. observed Ilarttie. in a low u'. notinug anxinously tire result of iny search.a"I wonder i.s thene truly are a"y suc 'thin;:s as spir'its' "Of co'.ie riot. We ar ' only a little nrvous. fo there is really nothing here." :. I gav'e the ski rtsanrother shrake xy wayi if atdding~ voint to mry Hatir-1'd nIo mtore( and I resumnedI mry ye't. irmlt determined not to againr aillow n' Y f:ars to get the better' ot my reason:. Hattie. after a whriie. -a id she" would go to lbed, and I inight have Scott anid the ghost all to myvself. But it was i ra ther' nely' sitting up :il atlone. "o 1 througir sh wie thing I could do wxas o foallow hier'C~ examle-bi ut no:i util I i:ad again miade sre that thre door was locked and had placed a shaded himp on tire stand at the head of the bed. It nmst have been near levenr O'ioek whenr I was awxakenied. niot by ar soundr. for 1 did nrot hiean any. burt bry somre Ihing tha seemtued like a sihad'w Pass' ju ic he *sn me 'and4 thre lirht. I spra-~::a up i wvithout dlistrinrg Ihnt tie. an looked evrywhvier:e abou411t theI rioomf sm sian of t her- myste'rous pilsem't-it "r whtever it was tt had "io unt xvantly wakene mr:: buit I I drew u. p 11: shadt :and cikrd onut onl th'i -l'Awn. -\hi5'lme si:en 'r-cr.ned e'very xl:''r'. W\ithl : a iri of relie' drewexn tiv a shade aganl ad re :and iny for more- thani hour 'rzing' ab sently at the faint r'ay af liht that shimmered across the carpet: and P'rese-ntly I sawy tihe ild ot the 'ld oak ch.st "lowly: rise, andr two tiere hrla-k te,. raed in a matted mass of >-. jet-bh'tek hrair, peered cau tiul ot.Ii et sod still: thc t. o aw:. anr:t fratinr.heXt 2P 11r -;114dw hd ".I cliest _I:. anr ie it :idt. lwrface s wite asa h. t -.piD! III. -il. (;r:ce0. for !a v1n':.,:k. kwhlt :I itit" :)i.- :sed .\ mn-a bur 'r iar-:i imurd err. for I i k HIolt iakr . for your life! r Ieplied. Thi lihall-simothered wretch. by a vio ent etiort. suceeeded in forcin;- off ont inge it sueh a manner as~ to admit ir enough to preclude the possibility f hit; being suffocated in his strange rison. Another wrench. and the remaining inge was started. A second con -ulsive movement. so vielent as to nake the stout old chest quiver, and ive grimy lingers were thrust out in a -ain attempt to clutch my throat. I bore down with all my might. but he terrile hand maintained its ad -antage. and inch by inch the lid was lowly moved aside until only our nited strellgth held it in place. Hattie did her best to aid my efforts; )ut when two giaring black eyes ap ieared on a level with the fearful and she lost all control of herself and loud ear-piercing shriek broke from er :1shell lips. T:.- nearest neigibor lived half a lile away. We were utterly alone. ind entirely at the m _rcy of the ruf ian in the chest. who. should he es ape, would doubtless murder us both nd' burn the house aftei:ward, per aps. to hide the double crime. The thougit wa; appallin.-. and bough she had no hope of help reach ug us. 1lattie continued to screatm at he top of her voice. tid every shrielO as lie tlat of onei in mortal agony. H.ark: Soie one Nas colillg: An nswe-rig shout from the porch below, sliverling of glass and window sash. Ind up the stairs. three at a time. qame Couini .Jaek. HIatze flew to tihe door -ind ,ulocked . -nd teI fell to he floor in a dead ailt. "What is thle mari" exclaimed .ick. h ltered. "Wlat in the *h 17lh4 man11,11 spranilg fronm the chest and mnae a dash for the door. Jack in tatly seized him. clapped a revolver o the villain's Car, and iI no gentle >neadmonished him to surrendey. if e (11i not wanlt to die there and then. The ruttian. seeing that resistance vas of no further avail. snlkenly per lited imsl1eSt'lf to be bound. Ie did ot speak a word. but his glittering es told plainlyx of th: flry raging in is heart. A plentiful use of cold water quickly estored Hattie to (onclioustess. :nd .5 soon 1s she was able to walk we, rew on our wrappers and went out i t he hall. where the burglar ltay rowr on the floor, securely bound and and foot-. "I in::pened to be passinlg thle house t :ihe momenlt amnd I heard your -reams." explained Jack. "so I made 11 hlaste to see what was the mlatter. tt expecting to 11ind you in quite so erilous a fly. thlough I felt sure you mst he ill sore need of help, for evet before did I hleat suIch a ser'iesI f blood-curdling shr'ieks as those with hiha~ttie has just beetn favoring Hattie shuddered. and crept closer o stronlg. courageous Jack, and not ill tile nlext day did wve knlow that the an we had held captive in the old ak chest for two mortal hours, was i-k Billings. one of the most daring urglrs of the presenlt genleration. ~ew York Weekly. The secretary of a rur:1 English so lety for tile propagation and advance lenht of agriculture tile other day re ~eved this letter: "Sir-I partickly wish the satiety to e called to c-onsider the case what ollows. as I tiink it nrite be maid ralxtionlaole ill thle next Reports. ly1 if had Tombd Cat that dyd. Being torture shell anld a grate favrit, we id Himl berried inl tile Guar'dianl and 'or thle sake of thle enrichment of the told I hlad thle ealrks deposited tmnder he roots of a Gotsherry Bush (The rit beinlg upl till thlen of a smooth tindi. But next Sesons Frute. after he Cat was berried, tile Gosberries ms all hairy, and more Remarkable to~ Catpillers of tile same Bush was -1 of the samle hlairy Description." Armour's Egg Waterloo. Tile Iowa henl broke up the Armilur ::g Trust. Of course, thle Illinois hent ld the Iissourli hell and~ some othler ens helped, but it was the collective 101 that did the business. Tile Ar tours have been selling thleir egg torage establishlments in Iowa. At dl. Perry. Gowrie an~d several other laes thley hlav't wittin a fortnight old their planlts. costing large amounts f monley. to priva'2te dealers. It is aid that thle hoose of Armour has ist at roundl~ sum ill 11e big venlture'. rhe Iowa farmler talkes notie thlat tile gTrust coillhapsed wvithlout legisla ol. Some other conmbilnes atre goin he samelt waty. It does not pay to ory too much about --monlopolies.'' -Burington Hawk-Eye. Something to Think Of. Grit is at quallity evenl mote desirable hn wit. L~ fe loves beost thlose of hecr children iho laugh. .\rdent loveris .lon't alwaiys mlake mihiille husbands. Who cver' heartd 4)1 a personl being ;ory for what they didii't telli Th1: ro i no iini ity in abulse: all h \- wCl S m-.ietow r alt e E-'very ma wh'Io is n'airing the enld Shis dayi mu;ast regrel(t thei w'o-ry he ms Ci ven thle fals1 ialirmS all through Somte people can say a good deal and .;t talk too mucht'l. whlile' othlers say too nuh when thiey talk to thenmselv'es. 31arriage wvill be one granLid sweet Ong whlen somnvbody in-:ntts a way of ning duets as a sol . Poorfarm Supouorted by Grapes. The G;eary County Ipoortifr haS a vineyard of el'veni acres. and the inl mates pick enough grapes in a good roj year to)11: maintain tile enitire insti tuti..-Kan C ity .Tourna l Report of friglt~;id Loss of Life in a CORPSES FLOAT IN EVERY STREET 3uanjuato. Bui't in a Great Gorge in the Mountains. is Partly Submerged. and the Breaking of a Dam Above the City Would Mean Utter Ruin One Report Says at Least 100 Were Drowned and a Later One Placts the Dead at 1,000. Mexico City. Special.--No news has been received directly from Guanajuto regarding a great flood in that mining -ity, now the important seat of activ ity *by several large American and Brtish companies. The wires were own all day Sunday and the roais were impassible Two reports are :-urrent: one says 1.000 were killed, another says at least 100 were drown ?d. Late tidings are that Guanajuto is ::ompletely flooded and water is already invading the higher parts of the town. while there is fear that "Laolla" dam may give way, which would mean -omplete and gencral ruin. The city is built in a great gorge in the mountains and the streets ramble up the mountain side in picturesque fashion. A storm began furiously on the night of June 30th. and after midnight no one of the inhabitants dared to go to bed, so tremendous were the fury of the elements. The water rose in the lower or business streets flooding shops .nd damaging thousands of dollars' worth of merchandise. The lower treets became lower torrents as the waters poured in rivers down the up per streets. Doors were smashed in by the force of the :ater. and windows were no protection against the furious Rood. PROPERTY LOSS IMMENSE. The authorities worked strenuously to get people safely from their homes to the higher par-: of the city. The loss of property, it is said, will be im mense. Advices from Querelaro are to the effect that there was no telegraphic ommunication with the stricken city unday night. Messengers who man aged to get or)t of the city say the water stands :hree or four feet deep in houses and shops in the lower part of the city and that panic stricken )e( ple have gono into the mountains car rying their valuables. The storm be gan to abate at 3 oclck in the after noon. l.ater advices state that it is known that over 100 lives were lcst at Guana juto. Telegraphi.- communication is cut off and it is supposed "Laolla" Iam was completely destroyed. bu this cannot be confirmed. SMIALLER TOWNS WIPED OUT. The Mexican Central northbound passenger train ran into a washout north of Irapuato and was derailed. the water running over some of the ars. President R*)binson. of the rail road, say some lives were lost, but he oes not know how many. The town of Marafil. just below Guanajuto, was completely wiped out. Another dispatch to President Rob inson. of the Me.xican Central. -says that there are 1.000 dead at Guana juto. The raging water is carrying the rlead through every street. The wa ter is up9 to the second story of the Hotel U'nion. Great damage has been wrought to the street car lines, and ser vice cannot be restmed inside a month. There is only one way the people can get to Marafil. which is with mules or a.foot. A Revolutionary Plot. St. Petersburg, By Cable.-Reports eceived by the Ministry of the Interior rive an entirely different version of the rigin of the Knias Potemkine mutiny. which is attributed to a deliberate plot >rganized by twenty sailors belonging :o the revolutionary organization. 'hese reports placed the number of iled during the rioting on shore at t0 and the wounded at twice that lumber. Gossip says there has been a nutiny on board the battleship Tehes ne at Seabastopol. Martial Law Extended. St. Petersburg. By Cable.-Martial aw has been proclaimed in the gov ernment of Sebastopol. Nicholaieff and rivan. An imperial decree confers on :he viceroy of the Caucasus the rights >f a military commander with special >owers. The same powers are bestowed n the commander of the Black Sea eet so far as the districts of Seabas opol and Nicholaieff are concerned. Fatal Wreck at Spartanburg. Charleston. S. C., Special.-A spe cial from -Spartan burg says that a serious wre:-k ocurred at the Brawley street crossing, on the Southern Rail e~y at 1 a. m. Through freight No. 2. running in two sections, came to. ;ether wvhile in the city of Spartan ~urg near the crossing, and a dozen ~reight cars, laden with coal, and one ngine were badly damaged. Sher rnan Justice and a second member of he crew of train No. 52 are dead, and Engineer Whitmire is seriously in jured. Another colored trainman was zlso hurt. The accident was causedl by failure of brakes on section No. SThe track was soon cleured and r;raffic resumed. Police Ousted For Grafting. New Orleans, Special.-After an in restigation which disclosed wide spread grafting by police department. nspector Wh'itaker dismissed Cap ain Iohn Cooper from the force. Witnesses restifiedi that gambling ouses. hand~bcok rooms. fake auction shops and other pllaces paidl tribute to the police. andl there was specific testimony against Cooper. Patrlmanr' Kerin was also dismissed byv the in spector for alleged grafting. A Mysterious Corpse. Branchville. Special-The body of a negro. who had evidently been dead for several months,. was found in a swamp about two miles from here. The body was almost entirely decomposed and could not Le identified, but theC man had evidently been murdered, as the body when found was partly bar ie. As soon as; notified of the find Acting Coroner D.akes em paneled a jury to hold the inquest, the verdiet of the jury being that ai party unknojwn had come to his death by means unknown to them. LYNCIED IN EORA' White Man aqd Eight .-egroes Are Shot to Pieces WAS A VERY BLOODTIiRSTY MOB, Jail at Watkinsville, Ga., Near Athens, is Entered by From 50 to 75 Masked Men at 2 a. m., and of Ten Prisoners Ore is Overlooked and Another Mistakingly Left Dead, While the Other Eight Are Shot to Death. Watkinsville. Ga.. Speeial.-A mob entered the jail at Watkinsville at 2 O'clock Thursday morning and took therefrom nine prisoners, eight of whom were shot to death, and the ninth escaped only by being thought dead by the mob. The prisoners taken out and ly nehed were Leon J. Aycock. white, charged with the murder of F. M. Hol brook and wife. Oconee county, and seven negroes-Rich Robinson, Lewis Robinson, and Claud Elder, charged with the murder of the Holbrook couple: Sandy Price. a young negro, charged with attempted rape on the person of Mrs. Weldon Dooley: Rich Allen, a negro convicted and under sen tence of death for the murder of Will Robertson. another negro: Gene Yer by, another negro charged with the burglary of a rifle from Mr. Marshall, and Bob Harris, a negro. charged with shooting another negro. MADE OFFICER OPEN JAIL. The mob came quetly into Watkins ville a little before 2 a. m. There were about 50 to 75 men in the crowd. All i were heavily masked and no one knows whence they came or to what point they returned. They went at once to the house of Town Marshal L. H. Aiken and quetly called him to the door. As he put his head out of the door he was seized and told that he must de liver the jail kcay. He refused and the men put pistols in his face and over powered him, he being a rather small man. Aiken refused to dress, but some of the party dressed him and carried him along. The mob next seized Court ney Elder. a blacksmith, and made him bring his tools along-with him. (ATIZEN'S PLEA DISREGARDED. On their way to the jail they were met by A. -W. Ashford. a prominent citizen of Watkinsville. who had heard the noise at the marshal's house, and came down town as soon as he could dress. Mr. Ashford begged the men to desist and let the law take its course, especially pleading for Aycock. on the ground that the evidence had not been secured to warrant his convinction. He also begged them not to lynch those not earged with capital crimes. They told hom that they were cool, sober and determined and that he might as well go back and go to bed. The jail was then opened by the town mar shal under the cover of severm. pis tols. and inside the jail the mob held up Jailer Crow and demanded the keys to the cells. He refused at first, but surrendered them after being menaced with guns. Jailer Crow begged hard for Aycock on the same ground that Mr. Ashford did, and also for the two negroes who were not charged with capital crimes. Members of the attack ing party told him to shut his mouth. They knew what to do, they said, andI they were going to clear out the whole jail. WHITE MAN DIES PROTESTING. The mob got every prisoner in jail I except Ed. Thrasher, a negro, charged with gambling, who was on the misde meanor side of the prison and carried to a point some one hundred yards from the jail and tied to three fence posts, by their necks. Aycock protested his innocence to the las':. He said they] were killing an innocent man. While the general belief in Oconee county is that Aycock was not guilty, still there are many who did not t:elieve so. Rich Robinson \said it was all right, so far as he wa concerned, but that three more negroes were in the Holbrook murder. He named Sidney Norris, Jim Taylor, and Wiley Durham as the three implicated. These negroes had been in jail before on this charge and had been released after full investigation by the committee. The other prisoners did not open their mouths during their march to their doom. Will Offer Rewards. IAtlanta, Ga., Special.--In an inter view with a correspondent of the As sociated Press, Governor Joseph M.1 Terrell said that he deplored the hor rible affair at Watkinsville. Governor Terrell said further that he was mak ing a rigid investigation of the affair and that he intended to do everything in his powver to bring the guilty per sons to justice. "These men killed by the mob should have had a fair trial," stated Governor Terrell. The Governor will immediately offer a suitable reward for the apprehension of the men composing the mob. Cruiser Collides With Liner. Ferrol, Spain, Special.-The British cruiser Carnarvon ran down the North German Lloyd steamer Coblenz in a dense fog at 4 o'clock Sunday morn ing off Cape Prior (on the northwest coast of Spain, ten miles from Ferro,) The Coblenz was badly damaged and sprung a leak. The passengers were transferred to the cruiser, which tow ed the liner here. The injury to the cruiser was trifling, but the Coblenz will have to go into dry dock. No Hurry to Face Rebels. Sr. Petersburg. By Cable.-A dis patch which arrived here early Thurs day morning from Sebastopol an nounced that a srinadron of battle ships, the Tri Siatitelia. Sinope and Rostslav, with a cruiser and several torpedo boats, only started for Odessa at S o'clock last evening. This explains the non-appearance of the squadron at Odessa. but it is diffi cult to conjecture the reasons for de laying the departure two days at so critical a junicture. ONE NEGRO WILL RECOVER. After the prisoners had been tied to the fence posts, the mob lined up and fired five volleys into their bodies. All] died without a struggle with the ex-1 ception of Joe Patterson, a negro, who was charged with pointing a gun at Albert Ward. Patterson was shot sev eral times in the body. but was alive after the mob left and will recover. Aycock's body was fairly riddled with shot. a great hole was torn through his heart'and another through Ihis right breast, CHINESE STIRRED UP Celestials Become Wrathy Against Uncle Sam's aclusiveness DISPLAYING SiARP RESENTMENT They Urge That Coolies Should Not Be Kept Out of Hawaii, Where They Do Not Compete With American Labor, While Chinese immigration Has Long Been Established in the Philippines. Pekln, By Cable.-The question of Chinese exclusion from the United States continues chiefly to occupy the Lttention of the Chinese. The e.<tent ind depth of the feeling manifested istonish foreigners and is regarded as in evidence of the growth of a nation Qi sentiment of public spirit which five rears ago would have been iuconceiv ble. The chief obstacle is the questicn of xclusion of coolies from Hawaii and he Philippines. it is urged that there s no reasonable objection to the land :ng of coolies in Hawaii, where they o not compete with American labor, while Chinese immigration has long >een established in the Philippines. hese points the Chinese regard as es ential. but it is thought unlikely that bey will be conceded by the Ameri an government. hence te apparent leadlock. With a view of facilitating ettlement. China proposed to send a pecial mision to Washington. but merican Minister Rockhill declined o entertain the idea. In the meantime the boycott of merican goods from the United StatCs ontinues and the anti-American cam aign is increasing in vigor. The Am rican minister has applied to the 3oard of Foreign Affairs to check he movement and Viceroy Yuan. of hili province, has issued a proclama ion on the subject, but its effmiency s considered doubtful. COSSACKS ATTACK SOCIALISTS. k Raid on a Meeting of 200 Near Lodz Results in 18. Being Wounded and 180 Arrested. Warsaw, By Cable.- -A secret meeting if 200 Socialists in the forest of quierz, near Lodz, was surprised by 3ossacks at noon Tuesday.. Eighteen of he Socialists were wounded and 180 Lrrested. The authorities are making Ln Insistent search for the Socialist eaders. In the course of the search number of persons were killed or ounded. All the restaurants and liquor stores iave been ordered closed. The day passed quietly here. Polish >apers this even'ng unanimously con lemn the strikers and their resultant listurbances. which they say can only ead to bloodshed and distress. All the prisons are full to overfiow ng, no less than 672 persons, mostly Fews, having been arrested during the ast 24 hours. It is expected that a tate of siege will be proclaimed, as ~reat riots are antictpated bring the noblization. The laborers on thirty-two beet root )lantations in the government of Po lolla have struck and it is feared the larvest will be lcst. The peasants in the government of Cova are forcefully cecupying pasture nd other lands of ti.,: proprietors of istates. Dividends Increased. Philadelphia, Special.--The directors f the Reading Valley Railway Coim any declared a- semi-annual dividend >f 2 per cent on the common stock. [his is an increase of one-half per ent on the last dividend and is at the ate of 3 1-2 per cent for the year. The egular semi-annual dividend of 2 per :ent on the company's first preferred stock was also declared. Green and Gayner Lose. Ottawa, Ont. Special.-The Supreme jourt unanimously granted the motion ns.de on behalf of the government of he United States to quash the appeal f Gaynor and Greene from the judg nent of the court of the King's bench, ffirming the refusal of a writ of pro libition by Judge Davidson against the ssue of a warrant tor extradition. [he appeal was quashed ,with costs. [he Court of the King's Bench of Que >ec gave judgment in favor of handing ver Gaynor and Greene to the United states government. Leave was- given :o appeal to the Supreme Court of attawa against that decision. The Su reme Court has decided that there z no appeal Negro Teachers to Meet in Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga., Special.-The second annual meeting of the National As ociation of Teachers of Negro Youth began a three-days session here. Col red teachers from all parts of the outh and from many sections of the North are expected to be present. A programme has been prepared which ncludes topics of special interest for :he various meetings. J. R. E. Lee, of olumba. S. C.. is president; F. G. Smith. Nashville. Tenn., secretary. md( Roscoe C. Simmons. New York city, statistical secretary. Joins Catholic Church. New York, Special.-Mrs. Winthrop Rutherford, fourth dlaughter of Levi P. Morton, formar Vice President of :he United States, was last Saturday loon received into-the Roman Catholic hurch. She had been considering :he step for the last two years, and lbad been givin ; much attention to rading of relfgious subjects. Mrs. Rutherford wa-, and her parents are, iembers of the Protestant Episcopal haurch, as is also her husband. Father r.nd Daughter Slain. Miam. Fla., Special.-Charles E. )avis and his daughter, Elsie, were 'ound Menday morning dead, in their iome. Thcy had besen murdered, prob tbly Saturday night. Both had been hot. One shot killed Mr. Davis, hile his (laughter was shot twice. 7: was rumored that an assault had een committed on Miss Davis, but MUTINY ON WARSHIP I Officers Killed and Red Flag floated at Masthead ODESSA IS HIELD AT THEIR MERCY Captain and All Officers Except Eight Compliant Ones on Board the Most Powerful Battleship Left to the Czar Are Murdered in a Mutiny Growing Out of Shooting of a Sailor Who Presented Complaint Against Bad Food. Odessa, By Cable.-The red flag of i revolution is at the masthead of the Kniaz Potemkine, Russia's most pow erful battleship in the Black Sea, which now lies in the harbor in the hands of mutineers. The captain and most of the officers were murdered and thrown overboard in the open sea and the snip is com pletely in the possession of the crew 1 and a few officers who have thrown t in their lot with the mutineers. The guns of the Kniaz Potemkine command the city, and in the streets masses of striking workmen, who Wed nesday fled before the volleys of the troops, are now inflamed by the spec tacle of open revolt on board an im- i perial warship and are making a bold I front against the military. All day long firing has been heard in many quarters of the city. A num ber of barracades have been erected, and tumult and disorder reign. EXPECT A CIVIL SEA FIGHT. K The main squadron of the Black Sea i fleet, consisting of the battleships Geor- 1 gei Pobiedonosetz (George the Victo rious), Tri Sviatitelia Rostivlav and Ekaterina II, with two cruisers, are expected to arrive here and a regular naval battle is in prospect. The rioters are in a most defiant mood and are not inclined to surren der without fighting. Reports of the mutiny which occur red while the battlesiip was at sea, are difficult to obtain, as the mutineers i refuse to allow communication with the t shore; but it is ascertained that it t arose from the shooting of a sailor who was presenting, in behalf of the crew, a complaint against bad food. According to one version, this sailor. whose name was Omiltchuk, objected to the quality of the "borchth," or soup, and was immediately shot down by a mess officer. BEGINNING OF MUTINY. The crew then rose and seized the J ship and officers, eight of whom were spared on the condition that they would join the mutineers. The others were killed and their bodies thrown overboard. After a period of vacilla tion, the Kniaz Potemkine headed for Odessa and arrived here last Wednes day night, accompanied by two torpedo boats. Early Thursday the body of 1 Omiltchuk was brought ashore in onet of the battleships boats, and was land-t od on the new mole, where it was ex posed in semi-state all day. It was visited by thousands of persons, many, of whom placed .coins in the bas~ket at the head of the body towards a fund to defray the cost of the funeral which the sailors propose to hold and( which the strikers will make the occa sion of a great derionstration. An inscription on the breast of the dead sailor states on behalf of the crew that Omiltchuk died for the truth be cause he presented a just complaint of the crew. AUTHORITIES POWERLESS. The authorities have made no at-t tempt to remove the body, the sailors having served notice that the ship would open fire on any one seeking to interfere with it. A police agent vis iting the spot was killed by the strik ers. During the day a red flag was hoist ed on the Kniaz Potemkine, and mem bers of the crew rode from ship to ship in the harbor, forcing the stop page of all work thereon.. Food was supplied them by sympathizers on the < shore who pillaged the maritime store houses. Tried for Taking Bribe. Little Rock, Ark., Special.-In the Circuit Court of Pulaski county here, the trial of State Senator A. W. Coy ington, of Clarkesville, on a charge of accepting a bribe, was begun. The indictment against Senator Covington charges that he received $6,000 as a bribe for his vote for, and support of. a Senate bill appropriating $800,000 for the completion of the new State capitol. The defendant entered a plea of "not guilty." The entire day was spent in selecting jurors. This task was com pleted Wednesday and the taking of evidence began Thursday. The jury is composed of five farmers, five mer chants and two retail salesmen. President at Harvard. Cambridge. Mass., Special.--AI though nominally celebrating with his] class mates the 25th anniversary of] the class of '80 from Harvard Univer sity, President Roosevelt was the hon ored guest of America's most ancient seat of learning. No degrees of honor were conferred upon him, as he al ready holds the highest degree the Univrsity is empowered to bestow, but the welcome accorded hinm by 1 Cambridge citizens, alumni and col lege officials was most cordial. ] Cotton Goes Up. New York, Special.--The local cot ton market was excited and prices ad vanced approximately fifty points in the various options to January. This2 was equivalent to an advance of $2.50 a bale over last night's closing quo tations. and followed an advance of thirty points in yesterday's session and a previous advance in the last two or three weeks weeks of nearly a cent a pound. Miss Rogers' Body Found. Saranac Lake, N. Y., Special.-The body of Mary 0. Rogers. of Leesburg, Va., was f'ound in the Saranac river, near the cottage from which she dis appeared a week ago. District Attorney Finn issued an official statement exon erating Willoughby N. Smith from all blame in connection with the death of Miss Rogers. Leesburg, Va., Special.-Miss Mary Rogers was born in this city about 34 years ago. She is the daughter of Alex Iander Rogers. her mother, before her.) marriage to Mr. Rogers. being Miss: Julia Clagett, of Leesburg.1 ~j ~F. AIYfl The Movement Growing. is hard to uierst:ind how anly studious man cani persuade himself that gov ernment aid to good roads is not a national neces ity. affecting all sections of the coun ry and all classes. and therefore de nanded as good public policy. Many )t'the very foremost men of the coun ry have declared in its favor, and he feeling is constantly growing that t should prevail. Of course. here ad there we find it opposed by spe ious argument and strained interpre ations of thc constitution, but this op osition cannot stand in the face of he practice of the government in road ilding many years ago. and at this lay in Porto Rico. where we have onstructed more highways in the ast live years than did the Span ards in four hundred years; and in he Philippines. where we are build ng highways every day in the year. here is more serious consideration. eing given to the subject of good oads to-day than any other that can )e named. and as a question fraught ith vital concern to the internal ,ommerce of the country and to its eligious. educational and social ad ancement. it is a sure thing that the all for natieial aid will have to be eard. It is not the farmer alone who is ffected by bad roads: trade condi ions are disastrously affected wher ver bad roads exist. Good roads are ecessary to every vocation and every nterest. The cost of bad roads has )een so often presented that repeti ion would not strengthen argument. e he main fact is the cleai fact that )ad roads are a curse to the nation md disgrace to our boasted Ameri anism. There is a necessity for gor rnment aid to better roads and it ught to be extended with the least ossible delay. In every civilized outry but ours government has fos ered improved highways. Wherever mproved highways have been built he people are happier and the coun ry more prosperous. In the United tates there has been marvelous rogress notwithstanding bad roads. Ve would have progressed a thou and fold more under an improved stem of highways. A change is eeded here. The common roads hould be made adequate to the neces ities of the country. There is no pecial class in the discussion. It is reat economic question. rapping oudly for recognition, and as all the )eople are involved the government hould step in and co-operate with he States in its solution. While any prominent men are now active support of the Brownlow-Latimer pills for national aid, the people in heir primary capacity have a duty to emselves to perform in the matter. lvery citizen knows how to press e question on his Congressman. The rood roads' camp-fires ought to be ighted in every constituency in the tates. The proposition is strong in ~ongress. Let its friends get to work Lnd make it stronger by direct com unication with those we send to re ect the public will in Washington. f the people who have made the gov ~rnment what it is and upon whom it oust rely in every crisis cannot be teard in the national councils, then he Caesars of the day have grown oo great on public meat. and we soon hall have fallen upon still. more evil imes. Chief Foe to GoodRoads. All practice and experience have learly proven that the greatest foe good roads is water. The drain Lge of improved roads is. therefore. e of the first principles of road onstruction. and its importance hould not be lost sight of. Water will nake mud of any soil however hard. Lnd unless it can be led away. mud nust follow as the inevitable result. [he fact has been stated so many ines that it almost seems out of )iace to refer to it here. A Comparison in Values. With first class roads, over which wo horses can draw two tons in two-horse wagon three hundred and ;ixty-five days in the year, irrespec 'ive of weather conditions, the land ifteen miles from town would be orth as much as it is now two miles Love Letter Received After 20 Years. Although belated more than twenty ears. a love letter appointing a tryst ias been discovered and forwarded to he person addressed. Alonzo Birdsall, motorman. who lives in Darby.4 ~irdsall was born and reared near 3ay City. MIieh.. and there he met, ooed and won his wife. who was a tiss Parkinson. Her parents and his people occupied idjoining farms. but, owing to a tem ,orary feud. the young people's love id not run smoothly. They courted on he sly. and. to facilitate meetings, used :o leave letters for each other in the tollow of an old elm tree. One day Leath visited the Birdsall family and he feud was suddenly terminated. In he excitement Miss Parkinson totally orgot a letter she had just left in the The barriers removed, the lovers mar *ied. ar d about ten years ago moved to [hladelpia. Last week Birdsall re eived a letter from his brother. which xxplaind that in c'hopping down the )ld elm he had found a note. which he n losed. Althoughi weather-bieaten nd iscolored. the writing was legible. -John. Dear-Meet me at the willows o-night. Ellen.''-Philadelphia Record. Small Girl Tiger Hunter. The Kumarahi Rajah of Venkata iri writes to us that one of his cous s. a daughter of the Rajahi of Jat role. in the Nizam's dominions. ''be an her hmuntig ea~rer while she was ery young. .ane bagged a tiger in er eighth year and completed her rnting care-er lately, having bagged n all thirty-six games without a single nss. including a tiger, five cheetahs. id other gamnes. She is now in her mnelt yer.'-Mndra$ Mail.