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t he Press and Banner, '||j PAST SEOOITD. f j SEES MANY DIE. The Harrowing Tale of a Castaway Who Fights SHAKES ABOUT EAFT Sole Survivor of a Houseboat Party Wrecked Off Florida Coast Arrived at New York, and Ttlls of Solitary Vigil in Mid-ocean Without Food. Declaring himself to tw the sole survivor ol a party of fchirty-seTen, who were blown into the sea from & houceboat in the recent cjclcne off the Florida coast. John Russsll, of Key West who was pioked up by the Morgan line steamship El Paso and carried to New York after being In the water thirty-six hours, told a re* markable story Wednesday of the catastrophe, the hardships he endured while struggling for life on the raft, and his subsequent rescue. ' My belief in prayer is more firmly established now than ever balore," Bus8eil said. "For thirty six long hours 1 prayed for deliverance as I had never prayed before, ' 'At 5 o'clock on the mornlDg of Oaicber 18, while the houseboat E fie was moored 100 yards from shore, iff Matacombi Key, F1&., the oyolone struck us, skatteri; g the barge. Eight of the men were thrown into the sea .before our very eyes. "Nine of us ciurg to a piece of the floorirg. The remaining twenty olutohed cesperately at Liis of driftwood as long as they could remain above the water. I saw them ali drown, one after another, until daylight came. 1 Shortly after daybreak the piece of, flooring tipped over, throwing all nine of us Into the sea. I reached a small piece of wreckage, and in olimbing aboard my b^nda, face and chest were badly tern by protruding nails. A 3c&n named MoBride, who lived In New York, came floating by on a door, to which was attached a piece of rope. The dooi collided with the largest part of the flooring, throwing McBride into the water. 1 heard him about as he went under. It has almost killed me.' "With the rope attached to the door I lashed the door and my raft together and tied myBelf in the centre of the raft. "By this time it was light and I looked around, but cot a sign cf life was visible. Then the horror of the situation dawned upon me fully. Exhausted and weakened from loss of blood I lay upon the boards to Bleep, but my ears buzzed and my hea<. throbbed until I thought I was goinp mad. "All through the day the wind con tinned to blow, but when darkneBfc came it subsided considerably. Abou, the middle of the nlgUt I felt some * 1 fcOiug uuai(;uJK oj5atut?u oiuc v. x mr raft. Thinking it might be a man 1 reached out my hand and felt the head of a shark. Presently I felt the bumping cn the otaersideof the raft, then as bjth ends. All at onoe I was surrounded by at least a dozen sharks, whioh were trying to get at me. "I ripped loose a board tnat had two naiis In the end of It and all night long I fcught the sharks wltt the board as a wtapOL. When daylight came tbe sharks vanished. "As the day pa^sd on I slght-.d six steamers, but they did net set ?l, frantic signals lor aid. T^e raft vu constantly gctticg weaker and 1 bad fio use the rcpe with which I had ats taohed myself to the two piecs3 of wreckage. ' '1 sighteo the El Paso coming to. ward me at 1 p. m. I was bo nearly exhausted when taken aboard tnat 1 oould hardly stand." The raft was sighted by Eoamett Bagnell, a mess boy en the El Paso, who was scrublng the deok. Russell remained cn boaid the El Paso last nignt and will probably be sent back to Florida Wednesday. Faimer Killed. Anton M llibach, a German farmer, residing at Renault,. Moo roe cou.ty. 111., w^s white capped on last Thurs day nighi and dlec Friday nlght.Millibach wens to town on Thursday and beoame slightly intoxicated. A gang surrounded Mm in a saloot and threat .to hancr him. He resisted but was overpowered. Then the lights were put cut and he was beaten and thrown cue. Milllbach then got into his wagon and started heme. A part of the gang was waiting for him at the cut6klrt8 of the vJitge. The) showered him with stones. Ha fell In his watfen and was taken home by a bartender. The wbitecappers were composed of idle young men who hang around the salocbs of the villiage and persecute strangers, simple minded persons and Inebriates. Dugs Kor food. A special correspondent finds that the slaughtering of dogs for food has nor (iprit, BTirt murcAscu I'uim/ vuAvw fwA VWM? w?. that of horses nineteen per oent over the figures of 1904, the total number of dogs eaten in 1905 being 1,568 aad the number of horses 81,312 These statistic.; will be utilized by those agitating for the opecirg of the frontiers to importing foreign cattle, as indicating a necessity for immedlate government aid toward giving thiworkiog people cheaper food, / ' ME &ACE PBOBLEM. THE DUTY OF THE NORTH IN SOLVING IT An Seen by an Editor Who ; Is Far Removed From I he Scene. We publish below a unique oontri bution to the literature or tbe rics i trouble. It comes from the Jio.v'h- ] west, a section of the country wheiu e the negro is least known, bat it is by far the fairest utteranoe we have yet 1 i ieen from a northern source. Thr- y Bellman, published in Minneapolis, is f the publication referred to and Bome of its expressions from the iasua of J September 29 are Riven below for tbe consideration of all, and in order that i home others may know that there is t still hupe for fair treatment of the ' South by tbcse who reside north of B the Line. The Bellman points out in i preamble that there is no doubt of ? she existence of the problem, whether one sympathizes with the outbreak ? it Atlanta or oond9mn3 it, and then 1 it points out'the northerners duty to p Che white man of the south in this * wise. . "The conclusion of the rebellion de- * imonstrated, onoe and for all, that 1 this was a nation. Being such, its ^ component parts most share responsi- 1 bility for the maintainensc of order * and justice within its borders, If J the protection of woman is not the u supreme duty of the American citizen, whether he lives north or south of Mason and Dixon line, tben ou; 0 country do longer deserves to rank s' among civilized notions. If it is, thtn , it is time that the oitizsns of the north li ceasa to cansider the problem of the E south as an academic question to be * discussed calmly and regretfully at a 7 safe distance from the scene of horror and shame. It is their duty to " come forward, manfully and assume ? his part of the burden. "The north is even more responsi- J ole for this overshadowing horror L. than the south. Let it face tbe facts L &s thev are and cease this sloppy sen- ? Omental talk about the elevation of 0 the negro rat* and the need of * self control on the part of the South 11 em Oaucasiin. Ethical considerations, fine spun theories, philanthropic & oal devices for the elevation of the g negro are not entitled to a moment's e consideration when It is true tbat no a white woman living in the south is ? safe for a moment unless guarded by * a gun. Ordinary punishment, ade- a quatelnthe north to oheok orlme, rails entirely in the south to restrain w the negro from even the commission " of minor misdemeanors. "The fear of immediate and dread n ful death Is powerles. to ccntrol tbe ? brutal, degenerated negro when hits 11 passions are aroused. Bis mind is too feeble and shallow to consider the consequenoes of his orlme and the 3 brute in him, once awakened, reckons nothing whatever of future pun a ishment. The force.of example, even u in its most terrifying form when K frenzied mobs wreak vengeanoe in 8, burnings and sickening torture, does f, not Impress Itself upon this class for j more than a very brief time. 8I "It is time for tbe north to bear a y hand in the solution of the problem it ^ Has liberally shared In creating. It f( nan do so bv ceasing to exploit the * negro as the white man's equal. It ? oan do so by considering the mass of D negroes In thfe south as tbey are, not as sentimentalists represent them to r be. It can do bo by discontinuing Its j senseless, fruitless attempt at higher ^ cultivation of the negro. As long as t the vast majority of the race In the 8 south remains as It Is, the strong arm 3 wtf white control must be strengthened g and encouraged to exert Itself. a "The negro must be taught the rudl v mentary virtues he has forgotten before he oan aspire to a higher education. He must be made to obey, ab HUlUiei/i XXO U1UDU UC OJUI^BIIUU tu restrain himself. He must (ear and respcct the law and he must be made to understand tbat If he dares so much as think wrongfully of a white woman he will deserv* death and at the sllghteset indication of an intent to oommit wrong, he will reoeive It The north can do its duty by first understanding the condition as it Is and then uniting with the Cauoaslan o? the south, in situation, to devise proper, adequate and permanent relief. "What is now needed Is less sent! ment and more common sense on t he part of the north. All the money it has to devote to humani' arlan purnnnnfl and all fchft avnonathv and sun port It can summon should, in this I grave emergency which threats 1 north and south alike, bo placed!, un- ' reservedly and In the fullest confl- 1 dence, back of the better clnss of < white people in the south who alone are possesed of a full comprehension of the true situation and who alone are competent to deal with It ade- > quately and justly. * Murderer Killed, Dispatohes from Oentreville, Miss, say that Tom Orompton, a negro, was I lynched near there Wednesday. It is alleged that he confessed to ihe murder of Ely Whit taker, a farmer Whittaker was muidered the day before and all that night a posse of men : suspeoting foul play, searohed for him. 1 With this posse was the negro i Orompton. Wednesday he begged ! leave from trie searchers to ko noma, but after he had gone the posse followed him, finding, It Is alleged that I instead of going home he hcd gone to the spot where Whittaker's body lay. 1 and cutting c ft the head, arms anc ' legs with an an, had dropped them i into ft sinkhole near hli oabin. 1 VO iVKI) NOT TO LIVE AFTER THE DEATH OP HIS SICK WIFE I And After Fearing Bad Reports from the Doctor Shoots Him self. Because he had vowed that he would iot live longer than his wife, Jacob [ie7iberg, a retired cigar manufaotur)r of New York and reputed to be a Billionaire, shot himself through the * iemple Thursday when a telephone nessagc from a sanitarium wbere she *as confine! told aim that Mrs. Levi* probably would die. Mr. Leviberg occupied tbe handlonast suite in the fashionable Del ilcnte, at No. 102 Weal Seventy fifth tioet. All through their married life, lis friends say, be and his wife had >e?n inseperable, and when, three e reeks ago, Mrs. Levlberg was compell- o d to leave her home and undergo D reatment for a sarioua malady it t anitarium, the husband was almost rantic with grief. E&chday he call* 11 d up the physioi&n in charge of the a institution a dczen times and asked 0 lathetloally for information about his q >i'e's ojudition. t The report ; *ere not favorable, a9 0 I??. Leviberg continually grew worse, n ..J . S ~ n MA Una i mn B^nf AM UU a lew \JLiya not wwu dujudio, q rolled over the strange aotions of j he meiasah^ly husband, came to stay iith him during the day, and brought D heir brother to sleep at hli side at IgUt. h But Thursday it is said, the news D rota his wife's bedside was even more a 'tecrlcss than usual, and Levlberg n aemed in torment all the afternoon. ? 19 ate luncheon with his sisters-in- 3J iw at 1 o'clock, then he begged to be x Unwed to go into another room and 3 Leep. Hs Beamed tlrod out, and the Q roa-.on relaxed their watoh. ? Half a hour later they heard a pis- ? ol shot. When they reached the bed- 0, com thei found the grief-atrioken a usband lying on the bed, with a re- tJ oiver in his hand and blood flowing ^ roan a bullet wound in his temple. 0 >r. T. A. Smith, who has an offioe ext door, and Dr. I. Pierce Obern- & orfer, a relative of the family, who n rere summoned, said Leviberg died j? aatantly. tl Ooroner Aoritell's report of the caie * 0 the police was delayed, and Ser 0] eant Breauan, of the West Sixty- * Ighth street station, scented a plot & nd asked for an investigation of the gl uiolde on the ground that friends of he dead man had tried to oonoeal his q eath. _ _ f( Jb'jz several noura me pauoe who f, rent to inquire at tbe Del Monte ere told that Lav'berg bad died from g] atural causes. Later tbe excuse was lade that under do oiroumstanoes f( iust tbe suicide's sick wife be told of ^ be tragic manner of bis death. ^ Kan NegroeH Off. B Casey, I1L, with a population of ^ 500 persons, is without a negro olti- ^ un, following the troubles of Friday ~!j ua Siturday, in which the negro pep- Jj! iation was cleared out, after a white lrl had been insulted by John John- ?! ?d, a negro hotel cook. A mob was ." traced immr-diately after the arrest of obnson on Friday, but the nepro was a ftved from barm by a rune.Tbe police idge announced tbat Johnson would ave four hours in which to prepare . jr bis defence in court, and he was 8 hen hurried out of town without the w nowledge of the members of the * 30b, which without a leader. * ?he mob, learning this, became fu lous, ana immediately started w ree the city of the negro population. l limited number of minutes In whioh ? o leave were given to negro barber * hop employes and hotel porters, *' ooksand laborers. The police and F| everal deputies mixed with the mob, nd the order to olean out was obeyed a fith alacrity. ; He le Rlsht. 1 H. H. Rogers, the manager of the y Standard Oil Trust, deolares that jj )emooratio sucoess would be inlmioal ^ 't.n larorfi hnainftfui Interests." Rotrers qi a right, for he means there would I >9 trouble for the tariff protected s irusts and corporations when the I Democrat's control tbe government. Che signs ^olnt to Demooratio Buooess t or there is great pertubation t imongst the plutocrats, so muoh so r ihat even Jobn D. Rockefeller took g ihe trouble to register as a voter in p Sew York. TdIb is said to be the o irst tims the Standard Oil m gnate g :as registered and voted in New York t iiocpt at a presidential eleofion. r raj ordinary voter, who pays toll to a ihe trusts should emulate bis exam b pie by registering and voting. Tbus r will Dsmccracy surely triumph if the \ 'common people" are alert to their c' iwn interest. Ti She Has Gone. A'o Birmingham, Ala., Mrs. J. H Sidebottoin ha reported to the police the mysterious disappearance of her 19-year old daughter, Miss Fannie Feunell, from the family home on North Twenty-firat street. Mrs. Sldsbottom believes her daughter, was chloroformed and kidnapped be Lwesn midnight and this morning. A.n examination of Miss Fennell's i-oum showed she had slept la her bed and left her clothes undisturbed on a chair. Her mother says the odor of ohloroform peivaded the room, Mrs Sidsbottom and her daughter visited Denver l?st August and alter tnen t return, Mm Fennell, It Is olalmed ] began raceivlng letters from an un- \ known man, who said he had seen < her first out West and followed ber i to Birmingham. The writer profess- | ed bis love and said be would kill 1 ber if be did not get ber. 1 MODERN BORGIA Poisoned Perfume Found in This nigb lined RASCAL'S BOUQUET. 'rince Tschllindro, of Montenegro, Poisoned Women Guests While He Entertained Them and Then Robbed Them of Their Valuable Jewels. In Paris a criminal has just reviewd the mithods wbioh have made Lurezla Borgia's name Infamously immortal m history and synonymous rith ingenious and wholesale poisonag. The modern Lucrezla Borgia is prince He bears the title and name f Prince Tsohllindro of Montenegro. ?he Prince has just been arrested at be Grand Hotel in Paris on a charge i attempting to steal a costly diamond tiara from a rich American woian, whose name Is withheld by the 'arisian polio?, according to their cusom, but who is said to be a Mrs. Anabel Gardiner, of Chicaga. He was calling on Mrs. Gardiner, aving accepted an invitation to diner. A waiter entered unexpectedly nd found him stooping over the wo lan, who was unconscious. The Prince ras In the very act of removing a plendid diamond tiara from her head, a her hand, which was ropplng into her lap, she held a magificent bouquet of white flowers, rhlch tbe Prince had evidently presnted to har. The waiter, a man of surage and determination, immeditely summoned help and although he Prince peremptorily ordered him s leave the rocm, he refused to be verawed. When the police arrived one of them 30k up the bouqaet from Mrs. Gardier's lap to examine it, and immed> itely became dizzy, staggered, and hen fell uncoDSoious. The bocquet ras carried away to the police station a the end of a pole and the Prince ras looked up. It was many hours efore Mrs. Gardiner reoovered oon;louanes3, and then she stated that fter the Prince handed her the bou UOt 8DB mrca iii up tu bmgu m auu jund that It bad a very strange but isclnatlng odor. Immediately afterrard she felt terribly faint and then lost oonsolousnesa. In the Prince's rooms the polio# jund a large number of small vials jntainlng liquids, and also retorts, tubes, a pestile and mortar, a lass fioe-mask, and a considerable uantity of other chemical apparatus. .11 this, together with the myelerious ouquet, is now in the hands of solen iflc experts, employed by the polioe. 'hey have not yet announced their inclusions, but it 1b understood that sey have found many varieties of opites, a large quantity of prusslc aoid ad several ohemlcals, of whiob they wnot tell the nature, among the rlnoa's belongings. They are satisfied iat he is a poisoner of remarkable till and knowledge. Apparently he as able to concoct volatile poisons, hioh would be mistaken for yai fumes hen Inhaled. H3 could compound aem bo that they would produc eath or merely unoonsolousn?ss. They made another most ex -raordlary dlsoovsry among his possessions 'he; found a large collection of poo nrrantaB of women whosa acauain ince be had enloyed, among: them eirg many Americans, rich, hand Dme and well known in American and osmopollfcan society. One of these holographs was evidently that of Irs. Halsey Corwin, the handsome oung woman whose alleged loss of a iamond stomaoher by theft at the ousa of one of her friends in New fork exoited the great metropolis for sveral weeks. She is now staying in 'aria and it will surprise no one that he should have been among the 'rlnoe'a victims. The police began a thorough lnvesigation of the Prince's past and found hat for more than a year he had been obblng women by means of his In enious poisons. He frequented the itlnoipal Summer and Winter resorts f Fronce, where there is always & reat gathering of wealthy coBmopolians. Ha always took a fine suite of ooxs at the principal hotel. Ha ha'1 , very imposing appearance, tall, traight, with thick black hair, waxed nustache and imperial and an ala master complexion. There waB a good leal of the grand seigneur about him vith a dash of - the barbarous mountaineer. He habitually sought the acquain;ance of women possesnlng fine jewels ind the majority of his victims were imericane, who were fascinated b> ihe idea of reoeiving attentions from i Prince. He offered his victim a jouquetof poisoned flowers, and while ihe was unoonsoious, robbed her of ler jewels. The police were only able a conjecture what bad occurred id ihe majority of Instance. The women lad complained to hotel keepers of ihe loss of their jewels, but usually ;hey were for obvious reasons dlslnillned to relate the ezaot circumstances which had attended their loss. They lid not like to admit that they hid ost consciousness in the sooiety of a fascinating foreign Prince. The infer* moe, at the miliest would have been that they had been intoxicated. When jhey reported their loss they did not want the police called in, and there ? *! ? ? o khara IUJ.0 )iuo uaoww* TTM uAvyyvt* As the Prince is a man of matur age, It Is probiblo that he has carrie oo a career of crime for years. It 1 not likely that a mao of his Ingenuit; has confined himself Invariably to tb pi&n oi me poisoned oouquet, or wia be has only robbed women. With suol subtle and powerful poisons as tboa of whloh he has the secret, he woul< ba ab'e to attack any mm In any wa; he pleased, and it would be imposslbli to guard against blm. It Is surmlset that many millionaires and possibl] Kings have been robbed by him. BLACKLISTED BY HEGBOES. Wealthy Dorchester Farmer Make Sensational Charge. A dlspatoh to the News and Oouri er from St. Gaorges says what prom lses to be as sensational and provoca tlve of excitement as the trial of thi suspeoted lynchers of Keltt Bookhardl Is the indlotment contained In a war rant sworn out by Mr. S. E. Klzer be fore Magistrate J. W. Oummlngs Wednesday charging ten or twelve oi the most prominent negroes of thic community with bandlug themselvei together with the Intent and purpose of oppressing Mr. Kizer, and prevent lug and hindering htm in the exercise and enjoyment of his right and prlvl leges as guaranteed him under the Constitution and laws of this State. Thelynohing of Will Spain S3me months slnoe gave rise to the trouble. The negroes in the vicinity of St. Georges have been greatly inflamed and wrought up since Spain was lynched, forming numerous societies, the object of whioh was to hamper and intimidate the white people, and es peolally those who were suapeoted ol having anything to do with the lynching. A threat of the negroes wa* that any one who assisted in the burial of the body of Spain would be dealt with as Spain was; as a consequence difficulty was had in getting Spain interred and only was it done when Mr. Kizer bad neveral of hii hands perform the work. Since then Mr. Elzer, who is one oi the largest and wealthiest farmers oi the county has been constantly annoyed and put in fear bj the conduct and aots of the negroes, and occasioned financial losses to the arfconf. nf fchrp.fi or fnnr fchnns and dollars.9 Most of hla laborert have been driven from the community by threats of violence at the hand? of the negroes, and the negroes, and the negro societies have positively forbidden one of their raoe to labor ir anywise for him. He has hundreds oi bales of ojtton lying in the field, which the negroes-refuse to gather. Muoh Interest Is manifested here In the case, as Is the culmination of wild and Incendiary rumor? from the negroes which have prevailed since the Spain lynohlng. Mr. R. Lon Weeks, a well known lawyer of the local bar, ha^ been retained by Mr. Kizer to represent the prosecution. He is determined to proseoute the case vigorously and bring the guilty ones to justice. Mr. Oummings, the magistrate before whom the preliminary comes, hews to the line and Is relentless, in his dealing with orlmlnals. The fcrrial will very probably oome oil Friday. EXPLOSION AT JOHHSOH. Hoven Men Killed in a Mine Dlsastei List Week. By an explosion In the mine of tht Cambria Steel C, mpany at Johnson, Pa., Wednesday B3ven men are re' ported to be d6ad and two painfully, out not fatally, burned. The explosion is thought to have been caused bj the Ignition of gas In setting off ? blast. Most of the viotarns are foreign' ers. The explosion ocourred in a heading three miles from themou.b of th( mine shaft. Eighteen men wore re ported Imprisoned in the heading, bal no mention Is made of this in an of fioial statement given to the Assooia ted Press Wednesday-night by the manager of the Cambria Steel Oom peny. The statement follows: By an explosion in the rolling mil mine of the Oambria Steel Oompanj this evening seven men are dead anc two are painfully, but not fatally' in jured. Up to the present only one ol the dead has been identified. He li an Amerioan born miner named Samp son Luthor. I) n bailed the othei dead are all foreigners, as are the tw< injured. "Tbe explosion took place a consid able distance (rum the ill-fated Klon dike section, w hie re 114 lost their livei over four years ago. Tae exact oausi is not known. All the men wiien fount had their sa'efcy lamp* in proper trim showiug that the accident could no have baen cau39d by negleci in thai direction." Many reports were spread as to thi 'arge number of moo imprisoned li mine, but those subsequently wen found to be untrue. The men killec were alone in the heading at the timi of the explosion. The two lDjurei men whot?e names are uuknown wen taken to the Oambria Hospital. They <00, are foreigners and are unable tc speak Eaglish. The dead men wen oaken out of the mine about 9 o'clock Baby Eats Poison, Strychnine pills sent to Mrs. Andres A.ja, of Gardner Mass., Wednesda; oaused the death of her four-year-oli ^on Bjno. T*e boy found a letter oi the table and opening it ate the pill it contained. He died In convulsioi . ^? mu^ M?ii? a few minutes isujr. xut puis n?i evidently Intended for Mrs. Aja a the letter was addressed to her. Sb oan assign no motive for the polsoi being sent to her, ? BIG COTTON EIRE. 8 y THE WAREHOUSE OP Mr, R. ? WANNAMAKER BURNED 6 a 3 On Monday With Six Hundred aj * Fifty-five Bales of Cot ton. I j The ootton warehouse belonging Mr. E E. Wannamaker at Stilto about tbrea miles from this city, w burned Monday night, together wit s Its contents of ootton. The fire w first discovered a little after 9 o'cloo and at that time had reaohed a poll ' beyond control within the closed wa ' house. Very soon the flamea burst 01 ' through the roof and tore away wit 3 its foroe the metal roofing. The wa ^ house was filled with bales of oottc ' and the fire was a very hot one. The fire oould be seen distinot from this oity and was practically ovi t within a comparatively short whll 3 The warehouse was a new one and hi 1 been built of oonorete blocks, wit * metal roof. Mr. Wannamaktr does j very large mercantile business at Sti ton, and besides buys a great deal i cotton here and over the county. ? had been accumulating ootton In ooj alterable quantities to fill contrac and there were 655 bales of ootton 1 the warehouse. The destruction wi practically oomplete. Mr. Wannamtker carried S36,0( Insurance on the ootton and he ha 12,000 insuranoe on the bulldini which hadoost between <2,500 an <3,000. The heavy loss of ootton wi fully oovered by Insuranoe. The lnsui anoe had been distributed among tt Insurance agencies at this place, as the following companies have the los Pennsylvania Fire, <6,000; Britfo America, <5,000; Fire Association i Philadelphia, <5,000; German AUlani <2,500; Palatine, <2,500; Queen, <2 500; Scotish Union and National, <2 1 500; Springfield Fire and Marine, <2 I 500; North, British and Mercantile ' <2,500; German, of Freeport, <1,501 r Connecticut, <1,500; Amerloan, < i Newark, <1,000; Southern Unde ) writers, of Greensboro, N. O., <1,0( on the ootton, and Phenix, of Brool i lyn, <2,000 on building.?The Orang burg Timet and Democrat. I SUSPXHDBD BY OOVSEHOE. i Sheriff Limehoiiae, of Doroheiti I Most Stand Trial. On last Saturday Gjv. Hey ward i j sued the formal order suspendii Sheriff M. M. Llmehouae, of Dorohe i ter on aoooont of his being Indicted I the Dorchester grand jury for malfe; 1 sanoein office in that he allowed , party of about fifteen white men t take a negro named Will Spain troi i him and lynoh him. The Governor acted upon offioial n< biflcatlon presented to him Saturdi 1 by Solicitor Hlldebrand, who went t i Columbia with a certified copy of tt presentment of the grand jury in tl case of the Sheriff. The action of tl: Jury meets the approval of nearly a the people In the oounty, but thei la much sympathy for the sheriff. By the operation of the law ltse the coroner succeeds the sheriff, ant the sheriff is acquitted and reinstate* j or convicted and removed wben a ne sheriff will be appointed by the G^ 1 ernor. The coroner Is Fink J?lse ' of the Indian Fields section of Do Chester. Sheriff Llmehouse will be tried 1 , one of the counties contlgoua to D > Chester, the particular county to t k named by the attorney General. M ' Llmehouse Is aboub 60 years old. I served through the war In Hampton " Legion. It seems pathetlo that 1 ) should now be charged with oowardlc ' by lit plication. 3 Solicitor Hlldebrand spoke In a vei sympathetic way about Mr. Llm ' house: "Mr. Llmehouse Is not li 5 dloted for cowardice* and I do not b lieve him laoklng In personal cou ege," said the solicitor. "He simp 1 does not seem to understand the d [ ties of his office. He has allowed 1 number of prisoners to escape, by t? ' easy going. He is old and lncomp ' tent. We feel for him down then 3 but It is neccessary to have a ne ' sheriff. He Is a good old fellow, bi r he is simply not the man to be sue J Iff of Doroeester. His friends did hi an injustice In electing him sheriff A Republican Wail. 3 The Bspublioans of Massaohnset 3 are greatly disturbed and annoy< 3 by the slgus of the times. At the * recent state convention Ex-Gov. Jot t L. Bates speaking as permanent chal ' > man of the convention, expressed h grief and apprehension thus: "Trus 8 investigations, Indictments, theorle 1 schemes, reorlmlnations, and mm ? rakes are having their da>No doub 1 the Indictments are about the on 9 thing the Republican leaders real 3 fear; but the other proceedings a 6 making them sadly uncomfortabl < The way of the wiokedls, Indeed, ve > iiard in these times. May it never I B easier I Kills Guard, Drinks Acid. At Jfiaii xop miucs iu buo wesie s part of Alabama J. A. Hilley, agua y was killed with an ax Wednesday 1 a William Falne colored, a trusty, wl a was serving a life sentence for ttJ s murder. Falne then committed st a clde by taking oarbollo add. Qua s Hilley waa lying In wait to cab s Falne in a breach of prison dlsolplin e The negro learning of the fact a a proaehed the guard from behind ai killed him. r SCORESPERiSH. j Fearful Tenement House Fire in ! ad Kansas City Thursday.] "5a ? FLAMES KILL Mffl, | u Ladders Conld Ocly Reach Third Story | I and Men Lfvtof io the Foarth ;| ^ Story Threw Their Wives and ,r" at Children Oat and Thai ? J Jumped. T0 >r In tbe ru'.aii of the Chamber of ^jl Commerce building in Kansas City, . b Kan., destroyed by fire early Thuri- M Br day, there are aoywhen from hail a ^ c ckzen to thirty bodies, aocording to ' < it estimates given "ut by firemen. ih The actual loss of life will not bo a known until ft thorough seftroh of the 1- ruins oftn be made, probably not then, "j>j 3f as some of tbe firemen insert thst ft [6 oumber of bodies must have been ."m ^ burned toasaes. The building, used ':M in as a tenement house sad containing u, 100 rooms, held, as near as can be \ 'm learned, between 200 and 300 peaeaa M ^ at the time the fire broke out, at 2130 | f /clock. J Most of these composed families, J many others were transient, whose " names are unknown. Of the injured -Ai * entered axong balf a d^z .n hospit- m , als and at prlyate homes, twenty fits were more or less seriously hurt. Two or three of these at leut will die. f Tbe Ohamb:r of Commerce building was situated at P^rk and Central % . streets, in the B'ver view district o< Kansas City, Kan. The structure " >1 ' * as last storiei la height with a deep . fM I agemonti r?nd f*oed the two streets. .*> 3! It wu built of brick and atone alone. . ? J It contained one hundred rooms, 11- -31 most all cf which were, u (am can \'M )0 be learned, oooopled by families or individual laboring men oz railway em' ployees at the tl^c the fire started. \ v The ground floor wu ooonpled by \ W. A. Lovelace's barbershop, Edward T. Summer's drag store, Central At- <$ e^ue Qi_ Fix ura Company. Mrs. Be e Warner, resuorent; the Smith Orera:i L'UDdry and the Labor Record. 'lne fire brujte oat on toe ground floor from some unknown cause; s' When the firemen arrived the entire 4 building was in fl\oaes. 8n qtilcklf ' s did the devouring "o*d thus !y when, a few minutes after the fire wis ;|H llsoovered, all means of escape by the '3 stairways, for the soores of occupants :i a *as shaft off. 50 On two sides of the ballding the m elev&tcd railway tzaolcs hemmed it in \ ^ and made still harder the work ot the -M 3. fkem.in. Thee another obstacle arose. ,5 Phe firemen did not have sufficient ic ladders, and maajiofcthose they had I i; were too short to recoil tbev upper ,e atoriea. A sMfl ng .smoke filled the ,:[* ie building. The firemen quickly *1 j] their ladder up, but they did nit . :e reach above tbe third floor. Many -% persons were on the floor above. It The firemto first devoted tbamV, selves to the people on the second 4 d, and third floors and di3 not thsp w heed the scream* of the people above. i Many of tbe persons in tbe interior 1 r, of the building were already overr oome by the donse smoke and had to be oarried oat by the Arena i. - . | In But many were able to escape c own r the ladders without assidtaLO). ie After getting every one they ooold r find out of the second and third floors [e the liremen'turned their attention to >b the people above. As thejlartrtu did ie notieaoh above the third floor the e, men on the fourth flior literally pitched tixeir wives ?and children ry down to the firemen on the ladders e- and then jumped down themselves. 'j q. Some of the more excitable ones e- jumped to the ground and were elthr. er killed or badly Injured. ly The fire Interrupted street traffio a. on the elevated road and a motora man whose oar stood just opposite 30 the burning building said he saw five e- or six persons struggling frantically 3, to escape,; and he is certain all of iw them succumbed to the smoak and i1 toppled over into the ruins. Cotton Ginned. I1] According to a bullatin lamed Thursday by the census bureiu there had beea ginned up to October 18, 4,910.290 bales of cotton of the | gio-vth of 1906, counting round btlts lr as half bales. m For the same period last year 4,990* r 566 bales were ginned. ig Tne amount of cotton ginned by the States Is as follows: 3 L Al*b*ma 472 646 bales, Arkansas ^ 159,998, Florida 24,315, Georgia 725, .? aou, incim Territory lud.yae, Jien* iy tuoiiy 218 Louisiana 317,084, Missisll sipi 361,857, Missouri 6,433, North re Carolina 223,327, Oklahoma 89,329, e South Carolina 396.235, Tennessee ry 38 848 Texas 1,983.033, Virginia 4,? ^ 099, United States 4,910 290. Will Be Tried. At Atlanta the trial of about forty m negroes, ohtrged with the murder of rd County Poll com vi James Heard In by connection with the reoent riots In bo Atlanta, was taken up for hearing Ife Thursday. The forty olients were ll- cpnrrtiiAnt^d hv half that numher of rd attorneys, who asked that the eases oh be tried separately. The hearing e. wis postponed until this week, when P- the trials will be resumed and pushid to a conclusion, unless other delays shall be Interposed. 13sH . j