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"The Press and Bann^^^ PAR T SZECOHSTD. ... " :V.i ODD THINGS. ; b I 11 A Few Queer Happenings of the ? Day That Have a d COME TO THE WORLD ? M fi I During the Past Year. How t^e Small w News of the Weeks and Mon bs P1 il: Shows the Play of This Old ^ w World's Lights and w ShaiKws. ^ bt When the dying year was young, 8 T farm hand near St Paul drunk a small ^ bottle of nitr glycerine on a wager. pj Oa the way hem3 he was overcome by the cold, and, when his friends tried to thaw him out, he lost his winnings si! and everythirg save two buttons. 01 Until the fi :st frost there were to be (a seen cn a tree near K'ngton on- ^ Thomas, Ergland, several semi-roast cd apples. An auto had caught fire ar beneath the branches, acd the dimes bc jd&a cooKea ice uu.u nuuo uv?w*vr_n 3LI the car. tv Last February the herrings came down Departure Biy, B C , In sucb 3, numbers that tbeir rush through the ye sounded like escaping steam. |e) This h^ed 21 hours, at the end of ^ which Wmfe ne^rlf TTCWL.tous of fisb 13 were in and near the ohailhei, dead? ex imothered by their own deD-fty. Life's Little Iromks. ^ (Jen. Dokstouriff, running tp stairs ][t to thank the minister of war f jr order oa ing him to the front (tie had begged to be allowed to die a soldier's deatb) pa " was palmed by heart disease on the top step.' Ci The only essay entered for the an- ar nual pr'zs offered by the Parisian ea Academy of Moral an i Political tb Science, did not receive tbe a *ard?as It was too illegible to be read. iQ Sir Alfred Harmsworth offered 1500 g reward for information which migni w! lead to the arrest of a certain reckless motorist?who turned out to be Sir at Alfred's brothe r. cb Dying in poverty in a San Francis ne co hospital, Luscomb Seares received tie word that the British government bad 0f * * " 1 ?- -i-J? AAA AAA just aiioweci. nis ciaim ui ta,uvv,vw arising from losses during the Boer . tl( THE GENTLEB SEX. In October, Mrs. Ella Gritz of Portsmouth, O., swore out a warrant ne -tor a circus elephant, which had eaten w< iier gold watch aLd smashed In a Pr Jbrandnew Paris hat. A Cologne dairymaid was arrested de .lor bathlcg herself dally in the milk o? he later sold. oe I A negress, living near Atlanta, ua., re lias to have her snoes made to order punished they are 23 inches Jong ano oe weigh 18 pounds. ae E A June bride ent?r d a grcc?ry ptore at Fort FairfiJd, M\, to buj ur ['an empty barrel of Q >ur ihat sht on bilght make a henc.op for her dog." po WHAT S IN A NAME. m; F To commemorate the year's yellow wi fever epidemic aNiw Orleans couple na named their baby Stegomyla Sciata Wilson. "Old Tabby," chief of a tribe of Utah Indians, died In October of a cat aleptic fit. pr "Damsite" Is to be the nam5* or one *" of Texas' new pnsu Tnere are irrigation works th^r*. At a wedding in P plar Eng'and, 8b the bride's name wu Wedlock, aao the bridegroom's M irriage. 30 our foue footkd kkiends ,jtl 10 During a Miachurlan etg*g m':ni iie a Japanese officer fv.uaJ a P k;ng spaniel wondering Ijsg between the r<] opposing lines. It cam; lo whistle and was at once affectionate. Later 0? when the charge sou ade 3, the dog a started fourth with his new friend; w but as it could not ktep up with th* ac rusb, the Jap tujked it under bis left arm and so led his men to victory. A cat belonging to the Dutchess of Beaufort, being taken to a countr> Q< seat other than the one where it had ^ been born, turned back ''home," after two unhappy days, covering the 200 'D inteivjniDg miles Id sarety. A veteran police torse (October sc 28ib) climbed the stepi of a htuse on sC Forty fourth street, New York, and thumped with his boofs-on the door helping arouse the sleeping tenants of ^ the smoke-filled rooms. la WEIltD WILLS. ^ n i An Australian detect i*e died ir April, dividing a $35,000 property into %\% shares seeming q <able to him c; These divisions were specified In writ w lDgs, placed in sealed envelops the 0 six heirs drawing them with no clue tj to the contents. b. Baron Botbschild was named sole beneficiary under the will of a Nice miser. Abraham Fidler, who left him $550,000 on the principle tbat "money e< must seek money." The baron hunt ed up the relatives cf the departed k and gave each an equal sbare. s' N "This tbe last wi-1 and testament of me, John T lomas," read a certain 0 document in Montreal, last July. "I ? gave all my things to my relations to * ' ? - * *-mm fKo Kooh tX7Q O j9 be deviaea bieuuk lUDUU vuv uvav ?>uj > I possible. N. B : If anybody kicks up ? 9 a row he Isn't to have anything." s g KED TAI'E AND THE LAW. P*" In a lawsuit at Aberdeen, Wash., s 1 over a horse whose death the owner v I attributed to a man who had hired it, I the court decided the animal had I committed suicide. Traced by the impression of h] eeth in a half-eaten apple, left In louse at Basle, S vi:z9rland, a burgla las confessed and been sentenced. In Miy the famous St< vans, Smft' 'cow case" was c'osed In Ciloradc rith a fc ?tal of 12 500 attorneys' fees lus court charges. Tne cow, wortl nly 830 in tbe first place, has b;ei ead 15 years. COMPENSATIONS. Ridolph Malter, a New York c'v' a iaeer, ?a< uncivil enough to hui [:ss Gladys Ciapman, overlooking th iCj tbaf, he did not know the lady 'he magistrate thought the embrao orth six manta un the Island." B ciuse a revolver, whicb he har urcdased to kill himself, with mlssec re. Paul Schlardtum of San B;rnar tno, brought suit against tbe hard are company for the pi ice of tfii eipon. Mrs. Lawson of Richmond, Ya ?rns a cow and the cow owned a calf it tbis last was drowned in a swamp aer. upon the bereaved mother adop id a fawn, first rescuing it frcm i Dund which tad chased it into th< LRtii rft. JUST L'YE. Three brothers were weeded to three jiers an sister of the brothers to a other of the s sters at Darren, Eagnd, last September. In each of tu ur cases bride and grcx m were of tht me age, ranging from 19 to 28. A young and pretty Bdilevue nurse opprd her stethoscope out of the >spita) window in May. It hit the loulderof a masculine passer-by. The to were married ia Ju le. A couple were wid ed in Ilertzfeld, vi ziriand, after a courtship of 4c ars and the exoaaDge of 3.3U0 love Lters; while, do?n in T xis a j Jted /a!n nas sued his once fair lady foi 0,000 charging <5,000 to courtship penses at *7 a day for bis time. HUMORS OF LIGHTNING Near a sm>U town in Minnesota, fhtnmg struck an electrio auto whose .tteries hai ran out. Toe stroke re iarged ihe oafcteries and the occu,nts of tue machine ran It home. A bot stiuckthe home of Kellai eagen, at Ringgold, Mi., running ouad his straw hat to above his left r, then djwn the side of his neok 10 ie body, tearing the sbirt collar, then iwn his right leg, tearing the shoe half and splitting the great toe. Is skin was scorcaed but his hair is not even singed. The chatelaln of the Castle of Benonnaire, France, was sitting in a air when struck by a bolt. She wae rself uninjured, but on the back ci sr dress was found a perfect pictuie the.chair, to its minutes detail. STRANGER THAN FICTION. At the very hour of the assassin** )n of the Eassian Grand Date Serus, his god daughter, in the Alexis .lace, declares he ODened the duor of ir room covered with blteding junds, and exclaimed: ' Look, young incest!" E flber Mason, who -lives neir In pendenca ult?, Mj., has tui't his n coffi a from a tree he plaoted when i first came to Jackson county, 72 ars a?' ; while an Irish mercb tut s burieu In tbe spring, his rtquijm iag sung from a paono^rapb recjrd i himself had made just beioredeath S.Lus attrrneys found In F b ary a missing heiress to an estate, rough tbe continuous cries of a pet >rrot of tbe deceased 'I want to see y Baltimore baby," was tbe clue ilcb lead to success In tbe cic> ,med. POULTRY In ODD HOLES A brown African srco3e In North tleboro, Miss., amazed Its owner by oducing an egg measuring 11 6-E obes In ct.-cimferecc}, w.iile a ben Cieyerton.E jgland, was so ixv.rav :aot as to inciude tbree yolks In on ell. It v ai fortuuate for Mamie Gaul -*- T\ A Ta fKok chn ho^ LI Ui- J2 JLV U U^rj i(k ? uuuv o?'w uuv ticfcen f ir dinner en January 21, foi tie g.zzard of the f iwl she round z icklac3- uhe had lost two years a*o. Mrs. L :cy Siymour of G;eat B r ton, Miss., has a hen which layt ;gs each bearing the initial M ()r W' i tbe shell. Every time this fow ys ac ecu she p?cks on tbe kltc^er II dew till her mistress gathers in th< qaisitijn. TRAGEDIES IN LITTLE "I might as well dead a* alive, I've )thing to live for." As a tramp or le road near LiMgh, Eigland, siid lis he wasstiuck by lightning, dylnt istantiy. D irlEg the singiDg of a pat)heti( mg, picturing "the old home' lanes a yourg man in a Chicago the ire, shot himself. (Fjbruary ) Sint to bed In punist mint for i ttle naughtiness wnici it tranipirer ,ter he did not. connait, Harry Aid ier, a 14-year old L)ndon boy, huD$ [mself. A6 Stoke on-Trent, Enplane*, ir pptember, a Mr. Latham assisted lr meg for abiy killed by a dray. Hi as bruised beyond rec guization at a more thorough examination o 13 body showed the rescuer he hat een working over his own son. V AXVQWfif ITTH! A Tjpekagirl, Mabjl Hujton, sav I her father's wheat crop from i threatening rain by given hugs am isses as prizes to the laborers wh aocked the most grain. Kinsas has prohlbited?tbe printini f menue cards in any languages sav Inglish. Tue worst bail storm in the hlstor f the State visited tbe eastern coun ies late in July. The stones, flit )i bape, were many of them 12 inche cross. Hups were killed, and horte od cows, blicd d by the missillef tamped into tbe wire fencing an rere badly cut up. DIVKltS DIVORCE8. Abriham Leakio, a New York til 's or, brought action in July for divorce a from bis wife Dvrvi, alleging that T "she" is a man. They bad been mar rled 11 years. b A long Island gentleman, whose >> wife had d? cided to establish r sldence ? m Sioux, Falls that she might divorce ( 1 -him, traveled West with her as she D *as unaccusstomed to going nb ut alone?and didn't like to, anyway. A Manchester, England, mechanic ] appli. d for sepa-atlon from bis wife ? on the ground of her 'Voodness." e "She put in so much time priying for , me," said he, "that be she has no time j e for housework, an' I have to do the cookin'." 1 THE OLD FOLKS 1 James Barns, aged 85, c mp'eted in 0 September, the walk fram Nj* York to D?s Moine?. Iowa, while in that 2 spme month, E B. Barrnett (79) cf Wichita, Kin , ciimed Pike's Peak, i 'making the round trip in 26 hours. Tae roster of the Mississippi Agri culiural college bears the name of William Standifer, who at 70, has 1 started bis colhgiate adulation. Logan township. Michigan, bas pro- ^ I nujea me prizg oriaegroom in ij^orge Sinton, who, at 98, and with six ; erandc uldren, has just wedded a Miss 6 , Miud L.V2 at?ed 34. ti PURE CHANCE. P A house ]q Siybrook, Conn., wat v on fire in April by the rays of sun- cl ( light focus-.d on- a curtain b/ a geld- Q , fish trlobe. ir A Canadian farmer, hurling a sleigf $ [ hammer at a fl elng fox in June, un ? earth, d a valuable silver and nickel t, mine g | Sim Wjibe of R'vsrslds, Gil., be- 3. ! came the father ot a boy, on Waeb- p I iDgton's birthday. Of h'* nine other . sons one was t>orn on Fjbuary 29, p ( two on April fid's diy, one on In g auguration day, one on groundhog's x dav (Fab. 2) and one on Thankstriv in*. ~ tl BAliLkS AND FUNERALS. t? Marie von Mater, a 5 year-old New Yorker, lost a doll In Central Pirk, ad- K vartised for it?and received sevan , dolls in apswer. In February, in accordance with her will, Mrs. Constance Miller of ia J' New Rxjhelle, N. Y., was cremated, 6| ner ashes placed in a work-basket cf ic , which she had been very fond, and t>: then burled 'in her own yard. * BiDks arrived last Good Friday in to the homes of twin sisters, living with- cs in a block of each other on Colgan ta street, L tuisville. There was but 5G hi ' minutes d ffirence In the hours of the ' births. & , At his last rrq mt, a Welohman *ho died in February, was buried in o< his Sunday clothes, his 'sealskin cap " on his head, his walking st.'c c by his side, his pipe in his fingers and plen- v< ty of tobacco in his pouch. : pi ALL WANT REWARD *' 0( " ' ii Each Tries to CSaira That He Arrest- &i ol cd Dan Murphy. Dan Marphy has been assigned to ^ his old q larters In the State peniten tary, and sevsral psrsDns are c'aim ol ing the reward (If .red for his arrest. ^ la commenting on the matter the w Augusta Chronicle sayi; x ''DanMurphy was arrested In this * 1 city last May by Patrolmen Campbel1 Ql | and O'Connell for Emanuel county, P1 1 Gi , authorities on a c *.arge cf horse 11 stealing, beingciu?ht "on the Roods." * Later, through some very clever work of City Detective Tom Howard P ; and Cbief Norrls, it was discovered a aDd proven that he was the famous Ci [ escap\ ' Taere was 50Tie diffl '-ulty in finally 1 . sccuriDg his identil c .lion, but it has M . been at last accomplished aiid Mur * phy has hlmseir conre^sen it. xner was a reward of $230 offered for bis 1 I capture and three sets of c'aimant-s c r Have come forward and stcired at jl t torneys to press t.^eir claims Caup b?ll and 0 ConLel c im it becauM they arrested the man. Norris and 1 j Qjward, on the other banJ, say that ' ) Murphy was known only to the first 1 1 two as F;ank Smith, the horse thief, A , iijd they have g ;tten the $25 for thi.?- 4 , capture. > * O i the other hand they claim thf 0 reward on the ground that the court; 11 have decided it goes to the mau 11 5 who discovered the identity cf the per u 1 son wanted. Swainbboro iffliers also want a finger in the pie, thougt- / f any possible excuse for their claim ir ^ not apparent." j< > Another Georgia Killing;. J( Asa result of a difficulty at Jontsbon ) 6i., on Tuesday night of, last weet & i Ben EL.l Dorsty, a prominent cit i izan of Jonebboro, is dead and Leoi f T. Milner, a well known farmer, i. a \ painfully w uaded The two mei a with pistols met in front of the ston i of R. M. Watoersou near the post n ) office about 6 o'cl.ck. Seven s^iots i s were tired. Dorsey was shot In the i , left side under tbe heart. Miiner'h p f left thumb was sbot cff and he was \ \ also wounded In two othts places, j It appears that he was bea'.tn aboui the face with the ba t end of a pistol. The shooting waB the result of the renewing of a former difficulty ova << j family affairs. Dorsey was a brothei J of Judge R. T. Dorsey of Atlanta J He leaves six sons and two daughters. 9 Mllner isurmirried. He surrender- * g ed to Sheriff B own soon after thi * shooting. H-i claims self defence. y Murdorfcdiiid KubOut*. Two men named Suthegrfcrd and D Murray, from Pniiadeipbia, were kill- 1 ed by b'g \waymen ob a ranch at Diaz t w a small settlement in Chihuhau, M x- ? lco. A man Darned In star*, o' Lo- ' d Angeles and anotLer known as "Shor- v ty" were wounded. The robbers es caped. No details of the light have ' [. bean received. REBELS KILL ^hief of Police and His Aids Af ter Trying Them. BiGr FIGHT AT TUKUAI ireat Strike Inaugurated in St, Petersburg; But Without Serious Disorders. Severe Fighting Reported in Various Places. A dispitch from St. Petersburg, Lussia, s8ys sJnce noon Thursday the A.- ? ? A11.J I 4-V, Lireeis uavs u ou uucu wiuu uiujps, specially those in the Industrial secIons. Tho railroad stations are in ossession of the millltary. Wholesale arrests cf the leaders of ae workmen were made T^ursdiy ight. It is reported that the police lclude in their captures the members f the second workmen's council who ere placed in the fortress of St. Peter ad St. Paul with the members of the rstouncil, who were arrested Satur ay nighs. A third council, however, rompdy tookthe place of the second. Moscow is already cut off from St etersburg and with the provi aces nsrally there was no communication hursdiy morning. According to the latest information le Lithuanian insurrection has ex:nded into the province of Vitebsk, :ross the borders of Livonia. At ohunhusen the chief or police and Is assistants were tried by a revoluonarv tribunal and executed. It turns out that Taxum, In Kur ,nd, only surrendered after a severe ;ht which lasted for 12 hours. The isurrecuuuisiis uau luruueu iuo wwu f throwing up entrenchments, before hich tbey dug pits. They also had i position the machine guns recently iptured by them. Tne trenohes were iken by sturm, bjth sld^s losing ?avily. T e latest Information from K'lar.11 saye that 10,COO revolutionaries :e unier armsaLd tbat troops are iing concentrated for the purpose of capturing the city. Tee strike started there" at noon )ry timely. In the centre of the city le shops were not closed, the prorietors bavin* received guarantees >atif thevr.mained open tney wou.'d j given ample protection and that ny deputation of strikers seeking bj jreats of force to compel the closing : the sbopj would be instantly ar ssted. Tnere was, however, an 1m rcsslve demonstration in the lndus lal section/ Tne main interest in the strike cf le railroad men centered in the War tw station, where the government as to make a test of its ability by icving a train for Berlin. The depot as packed with troops. Promptly at oon there was a wild hurrah accomanied ny the roar of escaping steam ad few minutes later tne railroad len walkted cui of the yard in a b;dy. 'he cu .horities, however, were pre ared aud after a delay of ten minutes locomotive manned by soldiers of a lilroad battalion backed into the siaion aad was coupled to tbe waiting raiu which was crowded with people jekin to depirt from the unhappy jumry. Liuis of soldiers with fixed ajo:;ets lkukid tne train and aa ofcial witn four soldiers entered the images aLd thoroughly searched Ciem in order ;o ascertain if guspic us persons were on board. As the cfcial and hfs e. cort left the train a Ktai'/.as given and 2) soldiers en >red the baggage cars, whire another etachment was scattered through images. The train then pulled out. .a txoiac.rload with wrtciing ap aratus was attached to the train to i used in case or accident between cations. Tne u ju.il mail car was miss:g. At other stations Bimilar precalions were taken. Id the manufacturing districts be ond the Warsaw and Narva gates in tie Schlusselburg district, and in the sctions on boih sides of the Neva, tie workman generally obeyed the ummcns to strinfe and promptly at 12 'clock thousands of them emerged to he street. Police, Cossacks, scldlers of the uard regiments and other patrds rere every where, but so far as reportd no collision marked the inau*ura Ion of the strike. Tne woikmen ecmsd v;ry quiet but determined, 'ne men of each factov selected in cvance a certain numoer to act as .ckets for the f urpo^e of preventing ny attempt to introduce strike break is into the factories. The Kujclioft Way. At London, England, on Friday thp rial of Hugh Watt, former member t Parlism nfc r.harirfd with Incifcinc ired a^euts to murder bis divorced /ife, Julia Watt, and Sir R?giuald tsauchamp, ended with a verd.C; of uilty. Watt was sentsic d to five ears at ferial servitude. Hu*ck Must Hriig. The supreme CDurt of Illinois has cfused a new trial to Johan Hock, ,he man who married about forty wo a n aud killed several of them for ,bcir money. Tue hanging of Hock vi.l even up the score with the hang ng of Mrs. Mary Mabel Rogers in Vermont last week. Crime is punlhed nci in a wnilt la places. BISHOP D stomp. Hew feDator 1 illmin s ^Pitchfoik lug 0 t a Big Salary. ' Made It So Hot that a Alan Holding a Fat Job on the Panama Oan?l Gave It Up. A special dispatch from Washington to the Augusta Herald says that famous "pitchfork of Senator Tillman is not a very handsome weapon, and i ' in the olden dajp when chivalry was rampart, It wou'd have been classed 1 as barbarous,'1 out it is very effeotive \ sometimes in throwing bad legislation ' or bad administration to the glare of t4e public. For semi weeks muc^i was 1 said about one Bishop who was draw- 1 lng a salary of 810,000 a year for sit- 1 ting in a handsomely fnrnished apart meat at Washington and giving to } press, when the press called arouad 1 for it, doses of Bulohate defenslo, of 1 the doings cf the Panama Canal Com t mission, but Mr. Bishop and the ad 8 ministration p*ld no attention to 1 what was being said, until Senator a Titlman tojk the field with his pitch- e fork and then Bishop, Shonts and a others rua to cover and Senator Hale ^ was delegated to announco to the sen- 1 ate that the press bureau" of the 1 commission would be discontinued. 1 It remains to be seen whether the salary was al>ollshed with the bu- c reau. a St nator Tillman exjr ssss his de i tei mlnation to push mattersuntll a 11 reform in the salary list is ..brought u about all along the line. Ii this be. r will be joined by Senator B icon. Ii" D is not to be taken that S mator Till c man and Senator B^on are opposirg u the construction of the canal, for they 1 are not, but are am mg its most ear- J nest advocates, but tbey do not belleve In overweighting it with enormous salaries. In short, their motto 6 Is "more dirt digging and less flash- c Htrht disDlave As a nation we- are only a little c more than a century old, but are old a enough to begin to talk about mark & log historical spots, and commemoait ng a stone or brorzs the heroic 3 acts of tho3e who have passed froze & sight. Among the heroic scenes of ri the great contest for liberty was the Q battle of Oowpenn in Cherokee coua- (J ty, South Carolina. . The force3 engaged were not large > tut *t wa? a fiercfy cjntestcd battle U and displayed the power of untrained i Americans to contest with British i trained soldiers. iispresentatlvd 3 Fialey, of South Carolina, has Intro- a due :d a bill appropriating 925,000 for a the erection of a monument and . in- u closure on one grouna wnere ueneraj D mlel M )rgan made bis heroic stand b for liberty. . ; t Mr. Flnley bas alf) introducsd a c bill appropriating one hundred thou fl tiand dollars for erection of a monu t ment on the ground where the most 0; noted bittle in the south was f :ught, o on Kings Mountain. Representative Kitchen has introduced a bill lookl' (2 b to the acceptance by the government C of the transfer from the state of si North Carolina of the ground and b monuments where the the battle ol b Guilford was fought. 8 The contest for the posssssien of the two Cirolinas was mm daspsr- r, ate; it was heroism displayed by the 2 colonists there that so delayed and * wasted away the strength of Corn- .i waills as to make his final capture at p Yorktown possible and the whol a country will heartily indorse the fi move to appropriately mark these u pLcss. h Did Noble Woik. ^ A dispatch from New York says s men forgot they were convicts and re- j, membared only that they were mec on Blackwells islands when the malt j, prisoners, marshaled by their keepert ^ into a fire fighting and life saving corps, bore from the Aiming floors of p f ti a m/Mmon'o YT7o prlo ?vQ/t f TO nt"ln QTf>. uuo wuiuau a naiuo ttu~x ii?uuiv nv* * women and from the hospital beds 50 , more. All the inmates were savid , and the fire confined to the women'* i workhouse. AJthougb only a part bf v the convicts were used in rescuing tjie women, those wbo remained locked Id their calls-marte fran ic appeals to be allowed to help. As the screams of ' the women penetrated to their cells a some of tbe convicts fall upon their p knees, b?a ing tbe bars with theli j fists, and imploring tbe guards to let I them out to tig-its tbe fire. When re f fused they begged t^e guards to go ti e the rescue, promising they would be c their own jailors. c Killed by Dyaimte. ^ AtNiwYorks x men were killed ^ and more than a dcz2n injured in a ? dynamite explosion in an excavation for a new building opposite the Wal. dorf-Astoria hotel at Fu'th avtuoe and Thirty-fourth street. The ex- ^ plosion was caused by some workmen j who started to redrill a partially t drilhd hole in which several sticks L of dynamite had been left Tuesday t night About twenty men were at c work in the vicinity; some cf whom. j. were blown to atoms E ghty men were t at work in the entire excavation. ' ' . Tarred and Feathered. So called prophets don't stand much 1 chance in Kmeas. George Huffman representing himself to be the "True Prnnhp.h nt fihrlafc." was tarred and c feathered at Perth by a mob. After j the terrible punishment was applied t the man walked all night to Renfrew, j Grant county, Okla. He suffered c greatly from the cjid, as he was with- j out clothing. Hufiman is chahged , with inducing a farmer to give up his . property to him so that he could re- j j generate tie world. , ( ANOTHKR FOOTPAD Attempts, to Hold Tip a Man io Columbia After Firing?t Intended Victim, He Set ki Safety in Plight and Makes His E c?pe. The Columbia Stafe says an unknown highwayman, wearing a long black cverooat, which reached to h s feet and enveloped his body, anc with a pair of automobj ists gogg'e over hts eyes, attempted to hotd up Capt E. S Motte, the well knowL* Southern railway condjc'or, near tht sorner of Elmwood and First avenue it 8 40 o'clock Tuesday night of last week and when Capt. Motte grapped with him the local E fll g fired at aim at a distance of a lew feet ano ran, making his escape. The affair occurred just off Elm* pood avenue in f font of a vacant let idjoining the home of Mr. William Lamar. Ca fc. Motte was on his way lome and had 1 jsd tu ned Into First iveaue when he met a ycung nan who he at first thought was an itquaintance. The young man passid Uapt. Motte without speaking and if ter taking two or three steps beyond uddenly turned, and in a gruff voice irdered the conductor to stop, and at be same time commanded him to put ip his hands. Oapt. Moite, thinking that he recgn'zed the voice of an acquaintance ,nd that it was a jest, turned ana jsked what he meant by such behav or. ' Another stern order to throw ip his hands brougnt him to a full eal z^tion of the situation. Be de* aanded to know who the man was tut was told that if he did not put ip his hands the robber would shoot, stead or doing as he was told, Oapt. iotte dashed at his assailant and at- , empted to overcome him but the un- ! :nown retreated out of his reach and hreitened to kill him if he did nothrow up his hands at onoe. In his Sorts to get a hold on his man he aught the iobber's pistol by the nuzzle but It slipped thruiigh bis and. Seeing that be was unable to get [ is bauds on tbe elusive crock and hinking that be might get within each by subterfuge. C*pt. Mjtie leld his bands partly up and loid tbe entleman of tbe goggles If be want d them any higher he could come ad (ub them up; but Instead of do ig so be ordered the captain to turn rouud. This strategy having failed e again rushed at tbe young man, ut bis graspbjg fingers came just ear enough to feel the goggles outhe ian'8 eyes and to close without tak ag hold of anything. The wculd-be highwayman leaped ack out of reaoh and at tbe same Ime pulled the trigger of his already rp.vnlwpr* tharA was a hllnriincr , ash and a report, but the bullet for unately went wide of its mark and be robber turned and ran at full lit toward Elm wood avenue, where e turned westward toward the base all park and was soon lost to view. !apt. Motte gave the alarm and after ecuring a gun, he with several neighors followed In the direction taken y the fugitive but were unable to nd any trace of him Cipt. Matte said last night that be man was probably not more than 5 years old and he estimated that he fas about 5 feet and 6 laches in leight and weighted about 150 ounds. He did not seem to be a ough, tut on the other hand, Capt. lotte says that the unknown man apressed him as being a person of ome education, judging from the ironucclaticn and the tone of his oice. Trie youDg man changed the one of bis voice ti ree different times a the few words that be spoke, asuming a fierce or gruff tone bat ipslng into bis natural softer voioe ,t times. Capt. Motte had $15 in cash in his icckets and bis watch. Tuesday was iay day on the Southern and the rob?r miy hava known this and been rahing.for one or more of the severI railroad men who reside in that lcinity. rhino AUIUl 14IVCOI ..At Macon Gi. Walter McKinney, a oreman at tne Bibb cotton mills, aved several factory operatives from lossible death la aa acjlcent to tbe aachinery in tbe building Tuesday. L large rope conveying tbe power rom the eDgine to tbe machines snapid. A large number of operatives, ;hiefly children, stampeded. By a laring dash whicb endangered him te leaded off the rush and stopped them nm jumping under a death trap :reaced by toe wairling rope. One larrowly essaped. Killed by Stepson. At Stony Point, Hawkins ounty, rennessee, late Saturday afternoon, *Irs. W. M. Carr was shot and killed )y her stepson, aged 12 years. It is inderstood the shooting was accidental. Mr. Carr, the husband of the lead wumin, is an extensive dealer in !orse3 ana q lite prominent. When ihe tragedy oocured he was at Clinohjort selling mules to the South and western rauroaa, ana learueu me lews by t( lepho: e Killed Wife and Self. After accldently killing bis wife Saturday, Wiili-m Monroe McCarthy, iMadisou county Ala., farmer, cholo oformed himself at bis tome Id tbe ylnnrovia precinct, and was found lead today. A note found in tbe 'oom stated tbat he was showing his wife bow to use a pistol; chat It ex )loded accldently and killed her, ai.d le was so horrified tbat he, too, must lie. TO. CUT DOWN > % The South's Representation in the House of Representatives. ' >>'* WAR ON THE SOUTH. Proposition to Cut Sooth's R pr-seatalion By /bout One-Half. Eill Introduced By a New York Congressman and it May Give Trouble. A special dispatch from Washing. - , con to the Charleston Evening Post ' says .the recent bill in the Hoase by Representative Binnett, of Naw Tork looking to reorganlz\tion -* existing ielegatiocs in the H ;use with a view oowards cutting down Southern representation, portends .'bTcnble for that section. * Southern memb rs ire used to the yearly cry of ' cut down-Southern men" and so far agitation along this line has amounted to nothing mora than mere threats of reducid representation. Now, however, the situation does not look so bright from a S uthern viewpoint. Mr. B nnett has backing this year that he has never bad before. Be has behind him Orumpacker and Eelfer, of 01I0, and it is said ttiat the three have gone to work systematically to oarry out their plans for a smaller white representation from Qnnf.kAvn VA**AfA?w uuu jugiu roixivuij Representative Orumpacker has for ? i long time c lerished the Idea of seeing fewer Democrats in the House. He coud find no pretext upon which to drive out N /rtbern men, hence his attention was directed against those 3t the South. He has done so much calking abcut what he would do to wards getting white Democrats out of ' Dhe House that many have looked upan. him as harmless. He is now, howler, reenforced by Bsnnett and Kiifjr, and the first move has been made by the introduction of. Mr. Bennett's bill. He would reduce the present representation about one- half?for Inofonna Qnnfh Hflfvnm oovon IUOVQUVA7) UUUVU V0iVAUU? IIUIU DV fVU Do three or (our, Virginia from ten to ibout seven and other Southern ... States In like proportion. The complaint of Mr. Bennett 1b Dised on the ground that the present Southern apportionment violation of the fourteenth amendment of the constitution, and that the disfranchisenent of the negro is unconstitutional mil and void. That Is, in substanc3, ;be gist of the bill. Orumpaoker, Bennett and Keifer ire not alone in the fight they are " naklng. With them staod, of coarse, solid Republican forces ready to take >art in tne fight at the proper time. ' As stated, representative K lfer jegan a fight of similar nature Sevan ?eare ago when he was in the House !rom Ohio but did not have the backng to supPDrt him in his movement. 3e has been out of tnat body for perlaps five or six years, but has returned with his Supply of animosity none ihe less diminished by his long absence Mr. Bennett threatens to fire his isfc shot for reduction of Dam :crats won after the holidays?as soon as he jan get his bill before the committee ind has already sounded his note of warning. Ia order to maintain the present ratio of Southern Democrats in the House it will bs nec^siry for the ml aority to heal the breach now existing nmong its members if It is Intended lessen the chance of having a portion of its menbers retired through this bill. Wrecked by Dynamite. At New York a bomb was hurled through one of the front windows of the Allied Iron associition at No' 7 east fourteenth street. It landed in a room u,ed for telephone purposes ind exploding, w? -,-ed the plaoe. Several employes were in an adj >nlng room but were onJy stunned by the explosion. Fourteenth street was crowded at the time with thousands / of persons making their wa7 to their Domes on the Eist Side and to Brooklyn by way of the new Williamsburg bridge. For a time the crowd was threatened with panic, but the arrival of the police reseives soon straighten *- rt-l? nf ea mailers out. wuiy u^uiauu ui the missile could be picked up in the wrecked room and no one could be found who saw the person who had thrown it. nouHeo durudu. The latest dispatch reoeived fnm T ffl i, Caucasia, today says that 300 houses in the Mussulman quarier were set on lire by armed Armenians, who prevented the inma'e* from leaving, and fired on the Axeman who attemped to extinguish the dimes. Tne total number of Mussulmans killed is not yet ascertained, but 57 Turkish subjects are knuwned to have perished. N'j Hi pa fur Barge. ? >1 1 s U-JI t-U? HUptJ Ui UUU1LIJ4 uuo rruaicuaua. barge Bith, lost by tbe steamer Bay View off Winter Quarter light, during a storm, has been given up, as It is almost certain that the vessel foundered near Gipe Henry, and went to the bottom with Captain MacKenzle, his wife and Ave seamen.