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PALMETTO AffAIRS Occurrences of Interest From All Over South Carc!ina ANY ITEMS OF STATE NEWS A Batch of Live Paragraphs Cover ing a Wide Range-What is Going On in Our State. General Cotton Market. Galveston. quiet.... ........10 1-2 New Orleans. quiet.... ....10 5-16 3lobite, eas.. .. .. .. ......10 Savannah, nominal.... ....10 3-16 Norfolk. steady.. .. .. ......10 5-S Baltimore. ncminal.. .... ..10 5-S New York. ctuiet.... .... ....10.00 Boston. quiet.... ............10.60 Philadelphia. quiet. .. . .10.S5 Houston. quiet.... .... ....10 3-S Augusta, quiet.... .... ....10 3-S St. Louis. nominal.... ......10 3-S Memphis. quiet.... .... ....10 1-4 Loisville. firm .... .... ......10 3-4 Charlotte Cotton Market. These prices represent the prices paid to wagons: Good middling.... .... .... 10 7-S Strict middling.... .... .... 10 7-S Middling................ 10 7-S Good middling, tinged.... .. 10 7-S Stains.... .... .... ...... 9 to 10 The Farmers at Clemson. A special from Clemson College the Columbia State of Friday The attendance at the insti continues to increase, and is var estimated at from 700 to 1.500. e are too many people here to together in any one building, d threfore the exact number can not be ascertained. In addition to the hundreds from all parts of the State. many have been driving in from the surrounding country-men. women, children and babies. There is a very large numbers of women in attendance. All seem hdppy and hopeful. Col. R. B. Watson announe ed the meeting of the Agricultural and Mechanical Society of South Carolina, and made a plea for more members and more exhibits at the State fair. Mr. G. A. Guignard, president of the society, called the meeting to order at 4 p. m. Mr. A. I W. Love. secretary, was at his post. Many of the prominent members of the society were present, among them Hon. B. F. Crayton, of Anderson, ho has given as much time and to the State fair as and other uth Carolina. On the stage resident and the seere B. Watson. Hon. W. W. G. Hinson and Upon motion of ans ilb'was voted to e railroads ti run trains d from the fair , utnds for accomodation of the peop Hon. .Striblirg appeared before- .hc society as a representative of the Farmers' union and asked that a day be appointed during the State fair -on which the Farmers' union should meet. On motion of Hon. W. D. Qvans, Wednesday, Oect. 24 was ~ignated as the day for the meet of the Farmers' union. It was .de<I to invite Hon. W. J. Bryant ake an address at the State fair. Aiken's Warehouse. ken. Specia.-A meeting' of the holders of the Farmers' Storaze compangv'as held here. The old board of directors was reelected, with the addition of Mr. H. C. Hahn and Mr. S. S. Goss. The executive 6 committee was reelected,' and they were instructed to appoint a manager for the - warehouse. Divi dlends of 10 per cent. were declared. The warehouse is open and ready for the, storage of this season's erop. otton can be stored at cheaper rates '-Augusta and other cotton ts The stockholders are well fled with their investment. The n warehouse business is a comn ativelv new venture in Aiken, the rrirs' Storage icompany having en organized only about a year o. The warehouse is well patron zed and has among its stockholders many of the leading farmers of Aik-en county. Candy Factory Collapses. Greenville. Special.-Almost with out warning the brick store house occupied by a candy factory 'collaps ed here Wednesday afternoon. No one was caught in the falling debris. though it is thought remarkable that the inmates of the places escapedl. Thle collaose was cautsed by ceava tions being made on the side of the -wall by contraetors who are eri g anew bl1iiding for the Bank of (om mercee crner Mai andu Coffee streets. Th~e ad:nage is estimated at between~ M4OflO and $5.')00. l-i- isnt known wher-e the damagze wil ail. Mill Operative Disappears. Greenville. Speial.-John G. Gamn brell of Monaghan mills has disap peared. His wherebouts are uin known. He leaves a wife and two small children. The authorities have 'nstituited a search. - His wife is in a hysterical -cadition, though there seems to be no reason to suspect foul play. When last seen Saturday night Gambrell is.said to have had a watch and $30 in cash. Arrested for Rocking Trains. J. B. Hutto of Denmark arrived here bringing with hi m six negroes who ch:.ed with havinug thrown les 01 an ex'rsloll train near mark. The negoes rallge from to 22or '3 Tey were cairried he... c... u........(i fo sf keeping. d:an::wsai a avebeen done SOUTH CAROUiNA CROPS Condition of South Carolina Crops For Week Ending Monday, Aug. 6, 1906, as Given Out by tha De partment. General cluudv weat;her prevailed during the first and middle parts of the week. while the last two days had about normal sunshine. ''he mean temperature for the week was slightly below normal. and the daily range was smaller than is usual to the season. The highest tempera ture for the week was 94 degress at Sumter on August 3rd, and the lowest was 62 degrees at Greenville on Au rust 2nd. The temperature conditions were wholly favorable. Frequent showers occurred during he week over the entire State. and i number of places reported rain on every day. Many places in the nor thern, western, southwestern and east ern counties had excessive rainfall, with a maximum amount of 5.15 inches at Batesburg. The week's rainfall was below normal in the east central counties, but the average amount for the entire State was above normal. All parts of the State have ample moisture and many localities bave too much. The rivers and their tributaries, in the western half of the State reached lood stages during the middle of the week, but fell rapidly during the last two days. Poisoned by Alleged Dr. Staub. Aiken, Special.-Frank Harris; an ld negro living near Batesburg, came to Aiken with a pitiful stoty of mis treatment at the hands of a white an. The old negro said he lives on the place of Mr. U. I. Gunter. near Batesburg, and that Monday a white man, giving his name as Dr. Staubs, eame to his house and proposed to ire the negro and his team to drive [iim through the country selling patent medicines. The negro accepted the propositior and they starte' out. Af ter driving nearly all day, the doc tor asked Harris if he did not feel tired. The old negro replied that he was somewhat tired and the doctor told him lie would give him some thing to relieve his fatigue. He gave the negro a dose of something out of a bottle. Harris said that soon af ter taking the stuff he became sick and the next thing he knew lie was in the ditch next morning, half dead and his horse and buggy gone. The old negro was cared for by Mr. San iers, near whose house.he was found, and after being revived was brought to Aiken, where he told his story to the sheriff. Harris is in a eritical condition yet from the effects of the dose administered to him by the al leged Dr. Staubs. His mouth and throat are burned as if by wood al eohol and lie is suffering internally. A collection was taken up for him among the'eitizens of Aiken and he will be properly cared for. It is be lieved that Dr. Staubs is a man known in Aiken, who wvas here Saturday afternoon trying to sell a buggy and mule. and the sheriff is on the look out for him. The man wanted is of medium height. has black hair, gray eyes, round head, stocky build. dark mustache, ruddy skin, wore light col red clothes and hat, and was driving1 rathier poor mule to a red buggy of the Babeoek make. A reward of .9 i offered for his capture. Arrested for Se1iig Liq.uor. Anaderson, Special.-Frank S les bee and -A. L. Campbell, both white men. living at :he .local cotton mills, were lodged in jail on the chare of selling liquor. It is charged against (mpbell that lie ordered wvhiskey in another man's name, and when itar rived forged an order to obtain the oods. Neither man has askedl for a preliminary hearing. Mayor and Police Pight. Gaffney, Special.-As the resuilt of a dispute the moyor of Gaffney andi three of the police officers engaged in a street fight in this city. No in juries resulted from the fraeus and nothing exciting has occurred in re gard to the incident. The board of aldermen of the city will consider te matter in a special meeting. Bank Issues New Money. Columbia. Special.-The Palmetto National bank has issued $200.0 w orthI of new bills bearing thle im pint ot that bank. A telegram re Q'ived the dav before from the rca s ary d (epar tment stated, that the in ittioi ha d been made a goeriment !eosoy\ for .9100.000 in anddit i<m to th alre ady carried. More mony wvi h e placted on deCposit by the gov '-rnmenti within the next fe weeks rowxing~ out of the sale of the Pane ma cana l bods,i on which the Pa! tto Nattional bank was a surccess ful bidder. Negro Man .Arrested on .Serious Charge. Jonesville. Special.-Jeirr Toller~ on a negro man about 45 years old, living on Capt. A. H. Foster's place. near here, wvas arrested andl brotughit before .1. W. Bares. magistrate at this place, char~ged with committing rape upon Arimita Foster. a marri'ed negro woman, last Suniday on the way from church.. lIe was given a re'liminary hearing and bound over Pythian Convention. Aiken. Speci:al.-Thte dist rict conl vent ion of the Knights of Pyvthias will convene here Tuesday morning. Ma ters pert ainiug to the wel tare of c the oe wil be dliseussed and a pb ic ieetin wil be held. iftyI or ( dee-' e fronm the district will be p:-set The w xill be entertained I thhome- f the A iken memb)ers in will behb in the mningii''.. 4 TROUBLE WITH JAPS Several Killed and Wounded While Seal Hunting AN UNFORTUNATE OCCURRENCE Four Schooners, Raiding Seal Rcck eries in the Pribiloft Islands, Fired on and Five Killed-Twelve Prison ers, Two Seriously Wounded Taken to New York by Revenue Cutter McCulloch. New York. Special-Further details of the killing of the five Japanese poachers in the Pribiloff Islands are contained in a special to The Herald dated Dutch Harbor, Alaska, July 2. which says: Five Japanese were shot and killed on the island of St. Paul, Af the Pribiloff group, by order of the agent of the Department of Com merce and Labor July 17, as a result 7 Df a raid by four Japanese schooners >n the seal rookeries. The revenue cutter MeCulloch reached here from St. Paui with 12 1 prisoners, two seriously wounded, who vere turned over to Deputy Marshal Jarmon. , t Refused to Surrender. Raiders were discovered lying near northeast point, St. Paul, by native I ookouts of the Norti American Com- i mercial Co. The raiders refused to 1 surrender when commanded and tried to make off with their boody in small boats, several of which were drawn ap on the shore. The agent ordered the guard of the ~vessel to open fire. The Japanese offered no resistance, being without firearms. Three of the raiders fell dead on the beach, a t fourth was seen to be thrown over- c board from one of the boats that es ?aped and a fifth body drifted ashore later in another boat. The men had killed more than 200 seals. many of them cows. The three who escaped carried about 120 skins. This is believed to have been a con- t erted effort by the Japanese, who v have been hanging around the island i for months, and giving the revenue .utters much trouble. Standard Oil Co. Indicted. Chicago, Special.-An indictment r 2harging the Standard Oil Company with receiving rebates in the form of non-payment of storage charges to s certain railroad companies was re turned by a Federal grand jury be fore Judlge J. A. S. Bethea. Thet indictment came as a surprise inas- y :uch as the grand jury had just be- t zun the inv.estigation. The Stnadardt iil Company is the only defendant, no )firial of the company and no railway -ompany or officials being named. T he bondi of the defendant was fixed by Judge Bethea at $25.000. This is the case investigated by the grand1 t jury in Cleveland. 0.. where it was t found that the grand jury had no jur-t isdiction. The testimony taken there t was transferred to Chicago and the 5ocuments in~ evidence were identified 1 by witnesses who testified in Cleve land. It was on this testimony and vidience that indictment w~as returned so quickly. The gr'and jury immedi ately resumed its session to take up the investigation of the charge that I he Standard Oil was given direct re bntes by some of the railroads. The indictment contains 19 counts, each ount constitutinig a sep)arate charge. The true bills come under the Elkins law which provides a fine of from $1.000 to $20.000 for each violation. Ender this indictL.nt should the gov rnment procure a conviction on the trial of the issues, a fine of $380,000 as a maximum under the Elkins law may be assessed. Aged Alabamian Charged With Mur der. Fort Payne. Ala.. Speia!.-An aged white man named Wright is in jailJ here charged with murder near Lydia. Ala. Wright went to the house of his sons-in-law. Sami Bailey and John I Bailey. and began to abuse his daugh ters. The Baileys remonstrated and John Bailey's throet was cut by Wright so badly that lhe died abnost instanitly. Samn leh-y. who( was holdinig an infant in hi< armas, was al so stabbed in lie throat hut will re eover. Wrieht hi..s surendered. Trafile Resumed in Texas. Temple. Tex.. Specia.-The Sant~e Fe Railroad division ollicials here re ort the resuimption of trafELe on thie t San A ngelo branch wvhich l ,s be ied up by flooids. The wters have ee. ded. an:d normalI condi it ions havye en resumed. Tht us far reports of he loss of IifCe lave p)roved to be ~rroneous. The loss of cattle and ~rops is estimated at $'200.000.t Limited D'ivercee for Mrs. Maude Gonne MacBride. Paris. By Cable.-Tlhe civil t ribunal i has confirmed its de-.ree granting Mrs. , Maud (Gonne Ma~cIa ble. known as the "'Irish .Joan of Ar." a jud(icial Sep aration fronm her hunsband. Major Mac- ~ Bride, but t he trIiibal refused to a grant her absoh:1ec divorce on the ground ofat her I rish' nainali. Mrs. I MacBride was award,d tlhe e.:stod.\ J of her child.s Aiken's Immigrants.J Aiken ...Special-The coln im migrants out at Hapipyrille. near Aik en, are preparing to erect a gmnnery. saw mill and shingle mill. The creekhs 1 running through their piremises is be- . ing dammed and the founodat ionis o! the buildin:gs nave bceen construjcte ci The cinnery w ill be enmlet>1 d fior 5 ration this fail. This -aea far Late New-s In 'Brief A MINOR MATTERS Of INTEREST M. B. l"se and his wife are in a vnchburg hospital, she with a bul et wound in her head, said to have )een inflicted by him. and he with njuries received in falling from a rain while endeavoring to escape. As a result of a brewers' war, "larksburg is enjoying free beer. Lightning at Martinsburg killed a [uantity of tomatoes attached to a vire wl:.ch was hit by a bolt. "Stonewal?" Jackson's house is to iecome a modern hospital. Some shippers fear the railroads re preparing to increase dividends nd raise rates in the schedules to e filed under the Railroad Rate law. The exports of the United States ave grown 1C9 per cent. in the last 0 years. In the new Minidaka region of Ida o, just opened by irrigation, the Jnited States is to sell at auction the as in two model towns. Mrs. Thomas W. Lawson, wife of he author of "Frenzied Finunce," is ead. The new Illinois primary election aw worked various surprises, the big est one being the defeat of the earst-Dunne-Carey combination. Archbishop Vilatte has secured a" d in Texas for a Catholic colony. Enraged by the report that he had ttackcl a woman, a New York mob eat negro badly. Mrs. Ekanor C. Pardridge, a sis er of Julia Arthur and a Chicago so iety woman, has obtained a divorce nd will go on the stage. J. Raymond Storrs, son of a weal hy New Yorker, has enlisted in the avy for four years. There has been little response to he general strike order in Russia, nd the Government officials predict s failure. Three hundied persons, mostly Ital n and Spanish -migrants. and in lading a Brazilian archbishop, were >st by the wreck of the steamer Siro ear Cape Palos. A great increase in the nation's in ane is shown in a forthcoming report f the Census Bureau. The Attorney-General has decided at the Eight-Hour law does not ap ly to work done for the naval and ilitary departments of the govern ent in private establishments. Lieut. E. H. Dunn. now stevioned t the Mare Island Navy Yard is to e courtmartialed on grave charges. The Henrico county supervisors will e asked to call an election to au orize an issue of $300.000 in-bonds o provide 100 miles of good roads for e county. Oscar C. James, a Loudoun county armer, killed himself after attempt rig to kill his sister-in-law.. M. B. Case, who fell from a train fter shooting his wife, is expected o die of his injuries in a Lynchburg ospital. Major W. F. IIrvine, a prominent sident of Norfolk. is dead. Five of six negroes on trial for the mrder of Farmer Isaac Lyerly, his rife and two children were taken om the jail at Salisbury, N. C., and inbed. District Attorney Jerome, of New ork, announced tliat he would con et ,the prosecution of Harry K ~haw in person. President Roesevelt gave a large meheori at Sagamore Hill. Nearly 7,000 immigrants were land in New York, being second largest umber to be debarked there in one It is regarded as certain that Bryon il be endorsed for President by the wa Democratie State Convention. Electioneering in the teamsters' nvention in Chicago led to fisteuffs. The annonneement of the failure of e Milwaukee Avenue State Bank, of ~hicago, caused the death of one dhe ositor and the suicide of another. The Government resumed in Chica : its investigation of tSandard Oil ethods in connection with railwvay ates. Judge Roselsky in New York in ructed the grand jury to investigate e alleged ice trust. The resignation of Arthur A. Fair id as manager of the p)ublicity ureau, who admitted owning an in erest in the Piedmont Brokerage ompany. was tendered but no ac ion is reported on this. Man Killed in Melee. Evergreen, Ala., Special.-F. P. curee, of New Orleans. was killed nd two negroes wounded, one prob bly fatally, in a fight between a owd of men beating their way on Louisville & Nashville freight train nd Marshall Kitchen and a posse of ~vergreen. The marshall and his osse attempted to arrest the men and hots were exchanged. Lged Mississippi Merchant Suicides. New Orleans. Special. - Frank racobs, a Bay St. Louis, Miss.. mer ant, 75 years 01(d. shot and killed imself at that place under unusual ircumstances. He had written to a mpany here, ordering drugs which' he company rep)lied it would not end as there was a drug house in a St. Louis. .Jacobs then wrote a etter to the 1n.anager of the company ere. He was arrested on the ebarze hat tlis leter co::z ied ob.jeetion BACE TDA[( GAMBLING MAY BE STPPED BY LAW .assidy-Lansiing Bi1l Advocated or New York. LUD CLOSING AT SARATOGA Governor Higgins, on Record Against Betting, Declares That the Fence Makes No Difference in Favor of Track-Gambling. WHAT IT WOULD MEAN TO WIPE OUT RACING Racing Plants in State. Tracks. Investment. Belmont Park...... .. ......$l.500,00J Sheepshead Bay......... .. 1.000.000 Gravesend.. . . ............ 1,000,000 Brighton Beach... .. ........ 1,000.0001 Saratoga......... .. .. .... S00.000 I Jamaica.... .. .. .... ........ 700,000 Aqueduct ...... ........... 600.000 Kenilworth (Buffalo) .... .... .500,000 Total investment in race tracks. . .. .....$7,100,000 Invested in thoroughbred race horses.... .. .... .... ...... 3.000.000 Grand Total Racing In vestment.. .. .. ..$10,100,000 Annual Disbursements by Race Tracks. For purses and expenses...... 3,0041.000 State tax........ ............ 200.000 Total.t...:.... .. .............$3,200.000 Other Expenditures in Racing. Annual salaries to jockeys......$600,000 Annual salaries to trainers...... 600,000 Horse feed. farriers' and veter inary bills, saddles, bridles, boots, etc.... .... .... ...... 275,000 Annual disbursements by book makers for salaries. etc........ 960,000 The public pays in ad missions annually over$4,000,000' New York City.-Inspired by the unexpected success of the crusade to close the gambling-houses in Sara toga' the anti-gambling element in the State has already begun an ac tive campaign to stop betting on .ace tracks. The Cassidy-Lansing bill to pro hibit race track betting, which was buried in committee in the last Leg islature, will be introduced at the next session and a determined effort will be made to pass it, regardless of what political party is successful at the polls next November. Governor Higgins is on record aainst race-track betti -g. At the time the Cassidy-Lansing bill was in troduced he gave it his indorsement. "From a moral viewpoint," said the Governor, "it is impossible for me to understand how the act of a man on one side of a fence inclosing a betting ring can be legal when on the other side of the fence it is a crime." If race track patrons cannot bet on the track they will not go to the races. This has been established many times in various parts of this country. Immense sums invested in race tracks in New Jersey and Mis souri were recently rendered profit less by the passage of a law prohibit ug betting. New York capitalists started a running meeting mp at Salem, N. H., last month. The au thorities stopped the betting feature and the first meeting was a paralyz :frost. The growth of racing in this State [n the last few years has been phe iomenal. From 7000 to 10,000 peo ple attend the metropolitan tracks every racing day, a great majority of them paying $3 apiece for a badge at the gate. On big days the attend arce runs up to 30,000 and 40,000. 'Within the limits of Greater New York or on its borders there are six great race-tracks, representing an in restment of probably $6,000,000 at a conservative estimate. The other racks in the State are at Saratoga and Buffalo. During the season here are quartered around the Lpng [sland tracks upward of 1000 racing horses, attended by an army of trainers, stable hands, jockeys, rub bers and general hangers on. It is the contention of the reform-* ers that the race tracks constitute a damaging drain, that they make hieves and forgers and broken homes-that they are. In short, an evil demanding eradication. The Rev. A. S. Gregg, Field Secre :ary of the National Reform Bu reau, is at the head of the fight Lgainst the race L.racks. -He Is one of the busiest men that ever engineered crusade. Ever since the opening of :he racing season he has bean at aork personally and through aigents. [Ie appears to have limitless sums of money and Is tabulating evidence by :he bale. He expects to show the Legislature :hat betting on the race tracks is pen and- flagrant, that pool-rooms annot be cut o ' from the news of he race tracks and that the Jockey ~lub-indirectly but none the less ertainly-proits by race track bet ,ing and could not maintain its ox ,nsive establishments were it not for~ the fact that gambling on the: race tracks is allowed. National Assembly For Persia. The Persian Minister at Washing ton received official notice that the Persian Government had issued a de ree granting to the peoplg of that. ountry a national assembly. Chinese Laborers For Panama. The Panama Canal Commission, It was learned in Washington, is pre paring to advertise for 2500 Chinese coolie laborers to perform work at the isthmus for which the Jamaican egroes appear unfitted. Treasury Buys Silver. The Treasury Department at Wash :ngton, U. C.. for the first time since ctober, 1893, entered the open mar ke': as a regular buyer of silver for 1 oinage. - Sporting Brevities. - I The Corinthian football team sailed rom England for this country. Record breaking crowds of turf nthusiasts are gathered in Saratoga or the races. Jarvis, of England, was victorious n the great French swimming race or amateurs. Frank L. Kramer won the open ml-mile cycle race at the Vailsburg (N. .. track. Although twenty-eight years old, Jay Bird is the sire of forty-two f,,als (1SSING DABBED IN INDIANA l loosiers Laughing at Directions to School Children. 3oard " Health Declares Osculation ( Spreads Disease-Silly Season Rules. Indianapolis, Ind. -Indianapolis and Indiana generally are laughing g it and quizzing the State Board of p Eealth. To block consumption, tu- i :erculosis and incipient germs of the t: hite plague the board thinks that b Kissing should be stopped. Kissing on the mouth is particu- o iarly objectionable, and in a set of c 'rules for school children" the board n peaks especially of the kissing habit. c "Do not kiss any one on the mouth 1< >r anow anybody to do so to you," n the rules say. C In the opinion of the board the b germs of consumption may easily be d 3ommunicated in this way, and it is d suggested that not only children, but l1 grown people, may well do away with p the habit of kissing each other on the A mouth when they meet in the street d )r in the home. Among other suggestions to school p :hildren are the following: st "Do not put your fingers in your i< mouth; do not wet your fingers in l your mouth when turning the leaves c >f books; do not put pencils in your tl mouth or wet them with your lips. it :o not hold money in your mouth; tl lo not put pins in your mouth; do fi sot put anything in your mouth ex- b 3ept food and drink; do not swap n apple cores, candy, chewing gum, fi half-eaten food, whistles, bean blow- ii ers or anything that is put in the ii mouth; peel fruit or wash it before o eating it; never cough or sneeze in a b person's face-turn your '.ace to one b side or hold a handkerchief before your mouth: keep your face and n hands and finger nails clean; wash b your hands with soap and. water be- n fore each meal; when you don't feel % well, have cut yourself or have been A hurt by others, do not be afraid to h report to the teacher; learn to love b, fresh air and learn to breathe deeply, and do it often." a --- A Warning Against Drinking. Soda. it Chicago, ill.-Soda water has b come under the ban of the Health to Department, and a warning was is sued against the too free use of .this 0 drink. The eminent experts of the p Health Department say the fruit d juices used are too prone to ferment unexpectedly with accompanying un- T pleas:.nt results. No comfort is given those ':ho prefer a cold stein, p and the injunction is given to drink ' only water that has come off the ice, i but has no ice in it. STARVED TO CHEAT GALLOWS. Samuel Monich Hanged For Murder of Mrs. Harriet Decker. Morristown, N. 3.-Weak and ema :ated, Samuel Monich, who shot$ and killed Irs. Harriet Decker, re laughter of Wilbur Kayhart, a wealthy farmer of this city, on Jan- 1 uary 18, was led to the gallows in 0 the Morris County jail and hanged. For two months Monich has re- $ii lused to take any solid food and it a was necessary for the prison offi- g, 3ials to force whisky and milk down c is throat in order to keep life in his o fody. So weak did Monich become g :hat Sheriff Shaw dispensed with the A leath watch-.I Monich was employed in the Cap-; stick Mills at Monville, and although o. he had a wife and three children liv- it ng in Hungary, became infatuated a' with Mrs. Decker. She was sepa- v; ated from her husband and lived on $ er father's farm, a short distance b: ~rom the boarding house of Monich. ti He went to the Kayhart farm and tl :oncealed himself behind ome' s< 3ushes. When Mrs. Decker, hearing t i peculiar noise, wvent from the house :o investigate, Monich fired five shots y mt her, all of which took effect. He v :hen reloaded the revolver and shot 1'j lmself four times. s Despite his wou-ds he managed to p: each his boarding house, where he a was arrested later. tc s4 GIRL NIHILIST A SUICIDE. 0. 3eneral's Daughter Drops Bomb Ac cidentally, Then Shoots Herself. Odessa, Russia. - A well-dressed N girl about eighteen years old, reg;is ered under the name of Potupkin at :he Hotel St. Petersburg, adjoining ;he palace of the Governor-General., seneral Kaulbars. She inquired the itiation of the Governor-General's 0~ esidence, and proceeded toward theb >alace. When only a few yards from thet mtrance she dropped her reticule, c which contained a bomb. It er loded, but did not injure the girl, l ho rushed back to her hotel and ~hot herself dead. It was learned later that the girlt as a daughter of General Printz. B B~oy Arrested For Murder. t At New Haven, Conn., Alfred Nel ~on, aged eighteen, of New Britain, .Y dmits the murder of Maurice Kent, 21 LIso of New Britain, and was arrest- 1: d. He said he killed Kent because 1: he latter refused to give him a small g ~um of money that he o*ved him, a: Dr. Crapsey's Views Endorsed!. The Rev. George Clark Cox, of tGn ~innati, came out strongly for D'r-t 3rapsey's views . in a letter to. his t )ishop. Standard Oil Indictments. Indictments were found by a Fed- e ral Grand Jury at Jamestown, N. Y., tl gainst the Standard Oil Company, o he Pennsylvania Railroad Company ~ tnd the Vacuum Oil Company for re ating. Russian Peace Movement. Members of moderate parties in o ussia have started a movement to t: ring about a constitutional form of i ;overnment through peaceful means. The National Game. Jake Weimer is pitching fine ball F 'or Cincinnati. Pitcher Ames isroundinginto form iter a long lay-off. -A Speaker Cannon was born in North g arolina, May 7, 18'36. 8 Bob Unglaub is still hitting the >all for keeps in the outlaw leag ie. President Hermann, of Cincinnati, ~nnounces that Jo3 Kelley will re nain a Red. Patsy Donovan has done much to 'evive the basecall spirit in brookla n C arts his yar.c NHT IlL__LABOR DOI 'oliticians Anxious About Its In fluence in Presidential Race. iompers Plans to Put Mitchell on Ticket For Vice-President Congressmen Opposed. Washington, D. C.-Whether or anized labor is to be a great and erhaps controlling factor in the next residential election is a question dat is being given serious attention y far-sighted politicians. Much will depend on the success r failure of organized labor in its ampaign this fall t9 defeat certain iembers of Congress who are barged with being unfriendly to the agislation organized labor is de ianding. If the plans of President ompers are successful and a num er of candidates for Congress are efeated by the labor vote, then un oubtedly plans will be laid by the Lbor leaders for the :argest possible articipation in the 1908 campaign. iready preliminary plans have been iscussed. An allliance with one or the other arty, whereby the labor people will acure the nomination for Vice-Pres lent, will be attempted if the labor aders can see their way clear to se ire it. John Mitchell, president of ie United Mine Workers of Amer a, is the man they have in mind for ie second place on the ticket. The rst announcement that he would be rought out as a candidate for the omination for Vice-President came om the anthracite coal country, but appears the subject was discussed Washington at the headquarters f the American Federation of Labor efore it was mentioned at Wilkes arre. The suggestion of Mr. Mitchell's ame has been kindly received in la )r circles everywhere, and there are any indications that if things go ell with this year's program of the . F. of L., Mr. Mitchell may find imself in the midst of - full-fledged >bm next fall. The large question in the way of ay successful participation of the merican-Federation of Labor in pol ics is, however, whether the mem ers of that organizaticn will stick gether when it comes to voting, or hether each member will vote his wn individual preferences. Idany >liticians see in the action of Presi ent Gompers and his associates in eciding to enter the political field .kening of the A. F. of L. hey relleve it will follow in the ath of the Knights of Labor some ears ago, which was disrupted be use it went into politics, and that will cut no large figure in the Con ressional elections. 7ESSON'S TAXES ONLY $12,000. evolver Manufacturer Left a For tune of $30,000,000. Springfield. Mass.-With all his 30,000,000, Daniel B. Wesson, the ~volver manufacturer, who died here id in taxes only $12,000, a sum ss than the assessment on $1,090, This revelation has caused great terest here, and there already is public demand for an explanation om the city officials. In the Muni p)al building it was said that most Wesson's wealth was in first mart iges, which could not be assessed. gainst this it is said the Wesson ansion alone is valued at more than 1,000,000. Wesson was the sole ener of the revolver plant, in which is said there is machinery to the nount of $1,000,000. The,assessed dlue of all property in -Springfield is - 86,000,000 and the amount raised taxation is $1,200,000 a year. So at with a fortune more than one iird of the entire assessment, Wes n contributed only $12,000 to the xation. total. Wesso'fs last will was drawn a ar ago by William W. McClench, ce president of the Massachusetts utual Life Insurance Company. It iperseded a will made several years reviously. It is understood that the ill leaves the bulk of the property Wesson's Sons, Walter H. and Jo ph H., who are named as executors the will. COSTS MORE THAN CHICAGO. ew York Twice as Big, But Expense of Government is Quadrupled. Washington, D. C. - Starting out ith the flat-footed statement that ew York has twice the population Chicago, the Census Bureau in a illetin issued shows that the ex mses of New York are nearly four mes as great as those of Chicago. After Chicago the next six largest ties of the country together spend ss money for running expenses than sw York spends. Though Chicago is one-third larger an Philadelphia, the latter's run ng expenses are greater. Though >out equal in size with Baltimore, oston's current expenses are nearly tree times as'great. Of all the cities mentioned New ork has the largest land area ) 9,218 acres. New -Orleans, with 25,600 acres, and Chicago, with 4,932, rank next. Hoboken, with 25 acres, had the smallest land -ea. Of the individual cities, the larg t per capita. net debt was reported rNewton, Mass.-$125.58; the sec id largest by New York-$113.25: te third by Boston-$108.17, and te fourth by Pawtucket-$104.19. Japanese Poachers Killed. The killing of five Japanese poach rs by Americans on Attu, one of ie Aleutian Islands, and the taking f twelve Japanese prisoners for oaching by the revenue cutter Mc ulloch was reported to Washington. European Travel Decreased. Steamship men reported the rush ! travel to Europe ended and a to il of 270,000 passengers carried :om North Atlantic ports. NEFF GETS SEVEN YEARS. ormer Auditor of Erie County Sen tenced to Auburn. Buffalo. N. Y.-Former County .uditor John W. Neff, convicted of rand larceny in connection with the ravdyard scandal, was sentenced at larsaw to seven years in Auburn. Execution of sentence was stayed, ending an appeal. Candidates For Zion's Leader. Voliva and A. E. Bills filed in Chi ago certificates of their candidacy