Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I brSv ' BURIED HNER OUT, I . HP 80ES WILD , Hicks, Entombsd at Bakersfield, CaU Fifteen Days, Kesouea. 11 i HUNDREDS CHEER AND WEEP Fine Engineering Work ? Diggers | Plump on Their Man's Resting Place to the Fraction of an j Inch. ^ Bakersfield. Cal.?Oat of the Val- ] lev of the Shadow A. E. Hicks, the 1 . miner who was buried fifteen days i in the Edison mine at this place, was rescued at 9 o'clock p. m. i Surrounded by hundreds who have , literally camped at the head of the i mine shaft waiting for the outcome < of the desperate battle being waged j fViQ frfioH ODTltl'VP iui a uumau w%? v?rv.. , r -was carried, lying on a stretcher, on < the shoulders of the triumphant men who reached him to the hospital. Rough miners cheered, with tears in their eyes, as the procession reached the top of the mine shaft; women alternately laughed and wept, and every one crowded forward for a look at the rough, begrimed, sunk- j en cheeked workman whose name has been on the lips of nearly sixty millions of people for a week. And above it all the mine whistles, , factory whistles, locomotive whistles ] and every other thing that could be , induced to make a noise shrieked j a welcome back to earth of the man who had been buried alive and twice given up for lost. Every one who j could grasped the hand of him who ] had been saved from almost certain , death after a Herculean struggle. It was known that only another ] cavein could keep the rescue workers from reaching their goal. After twice changing plans on account of great rocks that blocked their path, the diggers, by careful timber work to keep the soft dirt and rock from | raining down upon their heads, came upon the top of the car which covered ( Hicks. ] Bits of rock were torn out, and finally the buried man could be seen. They had heard him for three days. Through a hole a candle was dropped in to Hicks. His eyes have been bandaged for two days to keep the sudden glare from affecting him, but he took the cloth off and blinked at the candle. "I'm all right," he said. "I'd give one of these eyes to get a good look at the sun right now, though." All the crevices disclose the fact that the company engineers have been absolutely correct in their calculations. The candle was dropped on a string eighteen inches long and struck plumb at the side of the ore car, proving exactly where Assistant Engineer Hall and his assistants planned to arrive. . Two men handling picks a few mo- [ ments later shouted for joy, reached j TiaIah tttawa tt- t*? rr , LUG UU1CO IUCJ nuimut, ] at and shooks hands with the captive. < Every one was feverishly excited. rA physician who has been constant- j ly in attendance with the diggers, , tested Hicks' temperature and found , ; It normal, although the pulse was a ? i little high. I Whep a plug of very dark brown , tobacco was pressed through the hole < ? as soon as the doctor had finished his l examination there was a yelp for joy, j followed by the gleam of teeth fas- . tening deep in the pressed wped. "First time I've felt altogether , right in a week," confessed the miner, as he lay luxuriating in the , tobacco and watching the shining picks opening the crevices. "It's most as good as water. I needed that mighty bad." < Hicks said he felt as if he were , surely coming back to earth when a miner touched his hand during the afternoon and shouted, "You're all . right, Hicks. Stick it out for a 1' :le while longer and we 11 nave you out of this safe and sound as a dollar." At intervais during the day some ( r member of the rescuing party would cry, "What's the matter with Hicis?" and the answer would come back, "He's all right. You bet he's all right!" i This badinage had a -wholesome ef- < feet on the spirits of the prisoner. It ] was administered every time Hicks \ showed signs of lapsing in his nerve. Sometimes the efforts to keep the } mastery over his feelings were mani- J festly painful. Then would come the rallying cry from without and the i picks and spades would fly faster. < KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK. 3 Six Passengers Fatally Injured in North Dakota. St. Paul.?Nine passengers were 1 killed, six fatally injured and twen- 1 ty-five suffered broken bones and ' bruises in n head-on wreck on the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad in Enderlin, N. D. An accommodation passenger train ( crowded with persons bound on 1 Christmas visits from Moose Jaw, i Canada, ran into a freight train in the Enderlin railroad yards, and the eix coaches were hurled down a steep embankment, where they caught fire. Many lives were saved by the 1 switchmen and other railroad work- < ers in the yards. They succeeded in running two lines of hose to the wreck, and quickly quenched the flames. Two of the passengers were suffocated, however, and one man was terribly burned on the right Ririp Thft pmfforine of the ininrfiri was intensified by the zero weather. George A. Marden Dead. General George A. Marden, Assistant Treasurer of the United States, in charge of the Sub-Treasury in Boston, died at his home in Lowell, Mass. - / v ? ^Consul Shoots Himself. Nelson Fairchild, the American Vice-Consul-General, shot and killed himself at Mukden, China. It is believed that his death was accidental. ~ I ' I adouc j>oiea reopie. Archbishop Ireland is sixty-eight years of age. John D. Rockefeller has taken to playing golf with his Italian work . men. Nicholas Longworth, the President's son-in-law, wears chiefly English clothes. Ferdinand Brunetiere, the writer and member of the French Academy, died recently in Paris. Jeffries Davis, the new Senator from Arkansas, has never worn a swallowtail coat and vo^s he never will. J" UP MEBRO LYNCHED Henry Bavio Confessed to Assaulting Mrs. Reld. Doors of Jail at Annapolis Battered Down?Body Biddled With Shot ?Governor Denounces Crime. Annapolis, Md.?Within sight ot the United States Naval Academy a masked mob of sixty men, with faces Slackened, battered in the door of the jail here, held up the warden and his deputies with pistols, then dragged Henry Davis, alias Chambers, a negro prisoner, to the street and lynched him. As the negro's body dangled from a pole the lynchers, with shotguns and pistols, fired a shower of bullets Into it. Then cutting down the :orpse they ripped part of the clothing off and divided that and the rope used as souvenirs among them. Before being put to death Davis confessed that ne had attacked Mrs. John Reid, in Brownsville, last Frliay, the crime for which the mob 3ought vengeance. He added delantly that he would have committed the assault either dead or alive. This Infuriated the crowd, and he was Kootan lrlnVorl qc fin ttrcia rnchoH UVUl-tU UUU **V " * WWMVW along to the gibbet. Denounced by Gov. Warfleld. Baltimore, Md. ? Gov. Warfleld, who came here from Annapolis, said tie knew nothing about the lynching until he read It in the newspaper extras, and added: "I hope the Grand Jury of Anne A.rundel County will immediately take steps to discover and punish the men who participated in the lawless act. I greatly regret the occurrence and deprecate and denounce such lawless acts." FIFTY GIRLS SEE MURDER. SToung Women Break Out Windows to Escape From Death Battle. New York City.?In the presence Df fifty frightened girls, Abraham Lass, foreman of a book bindery at No. 82 Centre street, was stabbed to Jeath by Louis Segal, as the result of a quarrel over Henry Lapidus, fifteen years old, and a brother-in-law of the murdered man. The fifty girls In the bindery broke out the windows in their hysterical Cright at the tragedy. Many of them were bundled into patrol wagons and taken to the Elizabeth street station, where they were questioned by Captain Doolev. Lass was married and twenty-four years old. CONSTITUTION IN TRANSVAAL. Letters Patent Granted by Kine? Chinese Labor Excluded. London.?Letters. patent were issued granting a constitution to the rransvaal. The terms were fully outlined by Churchill, Under Secretary tor the Colonies, in the House of Commons July 31. There is no change in the provisions as finally approved by King Edward. Members of the Legislature will receive a salary of $1600 yearly, rhe recruiting of Chinese for work in the Transvaal will cease immediately and the entire system of Chinese labor must be stopped a year ifter the first meeting of the Legislature. The latter has a right to put in end to the system earlier. BOASTED BIGHT TO KILL WIFE. 'She Was My Woman," Declared Brutal Slayer. Butler, Pa.?Roused to frenzy during a quarrel with his wife, Max Cas:le struck the woman with a bottle ind killed her instantly. When arrested he did not deny h& had killed ,ne woman, ana in extenuation 01 tne :rime said: "She was my woman md I could do as I pleased with her." rhe woman leaves three children, )ne a baby of five months. Lack of Coal Closes Waterworks. The waterworks at Carlsbad, N. M., irore shut down for lack of coal. The jntire city was without water. The Pecos Valley Railroad has only a few :ons of coal to run trains. Manitoba Fo? Government Ownership By an overwhelming majority Manitoba voted in favor of Government ownership of long-distance telephone lines and municipal ownership of local exchanges. Admissions by Standard Oil. Attorney-General Hadley, of Missouri, got from Standard Oil witnesses admissions of the existence of & combination. Demand For Fruits. ? Cranberry prices are holding steady. Demand for apples continues heavy. Trade in grapes is better than for several weeks. Young Rockefeller's Advice. J. D. Rockefeller, Jr., advised the unmarried members of his Bible class to be particular about choosing wives. Victoria Luise a Total Wreck. The Prinzessin Victoria Luise, ashore on the Island of Jamaica, is a total wreck, and will be turned over to the underwriters. , Two Firemen Dead. From Injuries at the fireworks factory fire at Savannah, Ga., Assistant Fire Chief Mouro and Fireman Edward Daley are dead. Long Southern Tunnel Through. The 3600-foot tunnel through Lookout Mountain, driven by the Southern Railway, is finished. Arkansas Bank Looted. RobberB looted the bank at Hora tio, Ark., of ?4000. U The Field of Labor. In the anthracite coal regions 12, 000 boys less than fourteen year old are employed in mines in Penn sylvania. The establishment of the postoffic< sayings banks has been an enormou! inducement to the cultivation o thrift among the workingmen o England. Wage-raising appears to have be come epidemic. Even the Standan Oil Company has caught the infectioi and added ten per cent, to the pa: of all its employes earning less thai HOI per. month.? . / TFJTIIL MCE RIOT M MISSISSIPPI Negroes and Whites Killed in r:^li ii -j! ngni near meridian. TROOPS ORDERED TO SCENE Eight of the Nine Men Killed Are Negroes ? Militia Withdrawn After the First Trouble-?Two Whites Arrested. Meridian, Miss. ? Nine dead and three wounded is the record of the race riot in Kemper County since the trouble started. Eight of the dead are negroes, while but one white man was killed. When the troops arrived at Wahalak they found the little town in a fever of excitement over the clash between the races earlier in the day. Colonel.McCants, the commander of the Second Regiment, was informed that the negroes had fortified themselves two miles from Wahalak, and a party of soldiers went out to dislodge them, but when the troops arrived on the scene the blacks had disappeared. Two negroes were killed near Wahalak by whites, but no further trouble occurred there during the night or next morning. All of the negroes in that section ! had either fled or secreted them: selves in their homes, and believing the trouble at an end, Colonel McCants returned to Meridian with the soldiers. At night rioting broke out at Scooba, a town in the same county, five miles south of Wahalak, as a result of which five negroes were killed. The SherifT of Kemper County was unable to control the situation and sent Governor Vardaman an urgent appeal for troops. The Governor immediately notified the militia at Meridian, Macon and Columbus to proceed to Scooba by special train. Reports from Kemper County by long distance telepohne state that all of the white people fn the county are up in arms. The negroes are armed . with rifles and shotguns. :, Two of the alleged slayers of the negroes at Scooba have been placed under arrest, and 'Governor Vardaman has ordered a company of State troops irom ims cuy 10 prevent ineir escape. . . FARMER STARTED RIOTS. Wahalak, Miss.?Robert Harrison, a conductor on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, who was ambushed and seriously wounded by a negro, is dead. The origin of the racial troubles here was caused primarily by the meeting in a narrow roadway of wagons driven by a white farmer and negro respectively. The negro abused the , white man, who reported the occurrence to the white villagers at Wahalak. * The whites immediately organized themselves, and in a fight wit.h the negroes of the community several white men were killed, including one of the most prominent of the villagers. Dead negroes have been found in many parts of the settlement since the trouble started. DURAND VICTIM OF GOSSIP. Ambassador's Retirement Laid to Lady Susan Townley. Washington, D. C.?Lady Susan Townley is the latest woman to cause a diplomatic upset in the country which her husband serves. If reports in the Diplomatic Corps in Washington are true, it is largely because of her that Sir Mortimer Durand, British Ambassador to the United States, has handed in his letter of recall to the President, and is to be succeeded by the Right Hon. James Bryce. Lady Susan is the wife of Walter Beaupre Townley, formerly counsellor of the British Embassy here, and at present Minister for England to Brazil. She is the daughter of the seventh Earl of Albemarle, whose family name is Keppel, and before ner marriage 10 Mr. rowniey was Lady Susan Mary Keppel. She comes from one of the most prominent families in England, and her father was a famous admiral. One of Lady Susan's brothers is the present earl. Lady Susan did not like Washington, and she was unhappy in her social relations with Lady Durand. She is quoted on one occasion as being dissatisfied with the fact that 3he had to go to dinner behind the "daughter of a country curate's, daughter." It is also said Lady Susan rather freely criticised American officials and their ways, making comments on the President, Secretary Taft and others of the official set, and having witticisms "at hand in speaking of official functions. These remarks have been credited recently to Lady Durand herself, but it is said that Lady Durand never expressed any opinions one way or the other of Washington official society. Arkansas Senator a Briber. The Arkansas Supreme Court has reaffirmed the two years' imprisonment sentence of Senator F. 0. Butt, convicted of bribery. Prisoners Break Jail. Through a hole in the wall dug by H. A. Hillman, two negro prisoners escaped with him from the jail at Birmingham, Ala. ' Arrested For Misstatements. Postal authorities have arrested Fred Colvin; at Chicago, for misstating through the mails the value of a mine he is promoting. i Disappointed Composer Dead. insane by reason or repeated refusals of an opera he had written, William F. Bercherc killed himself at Mayville, Wis. Feminine Notes. 3 Mrs. Parsons' theory of trial marriages has been scornfully received. The English suffragettes continue j to show heroic temper and quality. ? A woman in Virginia has offered ? to sell her brain to medical students. E At Hazelhurst, Miss., Judge Miller sentenced Mrs. Angle Birdsong to serve five years in the penitentiary i for killing Dr. Butler, who was ali leged to have slandered her. f One of the fads of the Duchess of 1 Marlborough is the study of philosoP.hfc. - - - - ... . f THE LIFE USE PARTED, |TWO DROWNED III POND1 / Davis, of Morristown, N. J., Tried to Rescue a Skater. n d uie u/irr e/\w mr TD/incn\? d. itiw mi L gnu IIIL iimuLUi d a Tied a Rope About Her Husband Be? I fore He Entered the Water, Bui y It Broke When She Pulled?Thu r Bodies Recovered. j ?vIorristown, N. J.?Eight-year-old 8 John Arke and George Davis, who r was twenty-five, were drowned in tho I grist mill pond in the Rockaway River, after a hard struggle for life, < the latter victim dying before tho j eyes of his wife, who fought to savo a him. Arke, while skating on the pond with other boys, suddenly fell t through a hole in the ice. Davis * lived near by, and the boys ran to his home for assistance. Both Mr. and Mrs. Davis hurried to the pond. \ Young Arke was then struggling in ] the water and crying pitifully to be <3 saved. Mrs. Davis brought a clothes line, , and before she would allow her hus- j; band to go near the hole through j which the boy had fallen she tied the rope around his body and held fast to the other en^ of the rope. In a 1 few seconds Davis was at the edge c( of the hole and slowly slid into the 1 cold water. He seized young Arke, 1 who by that time was exhausted. S When Davis tried to lift the limp * : body to the surface he encountered a ! task that was too much for him. Each time he got the body to the surface it slid back into the water. Soon overcome by the cold, Davis was unable to render further assistance and bent what little strength he had left to getting himself out. He could not lo it. "Pull, for God's sake, pull," he cried to his "wife who, with the help i of several of the boys was tugging on the rope fastened to his waist. ' Just as the man was about to crawl to safety on the ice the rope broke and he went back into the water and : under the Ice. He came up once, but only for a second. Although several men had been attracted by the cries of the woman, they stood on the banks like statuary. Crazed by the sight of her husband's drowning, Mrs. Davis endeavored to make a dash for the hole, and would have jumped in, but was prevented by the crowd. The bodies of Davis and Arke were recovered. *' CASTELLANE DEBTS ADJUSTED. Money Lenders' Claims Thrown Out ?Mme. Gould Pays Some. Paris.?The decision of the court In the suits of the creditors of Count de Castellane against him and his former wife, Mme. Anna Gould, was delivered. All the claims of Seigler, tho money lender, amounting to $400,000, were rejected. The Count and Mme. Gould are ordered to pay the bill of Hartog, the jeweler, jointly. Tho court, however, refused to allow the full claim of $137,200, and appointed an expert to examine into it with a view to reducing the amount, as though Mme. Gould has the jewels now she was not in a position to judge of their value at the time of the purchase. The Count and Mme. Gould were ordered to pay jointly $24,000 to the actress, Mile. Nimidoff, for diamonds which the Count got" from her under the pretence that the Countess would buy them for that sum and which he sold for half that amount. LYNCHING A SCHOOLBOY LARK. I Evidence That Students Were Con- * cerned in Killing Negro. Annapolis, Md. ? Accumulating < evidence i3 making it clear that 1 Henry Davis, the negro who assaulted Mrs. John Reid, was lynched by two score of schoolboys as a huge i lark. There seems to be J'.ttle doubt ( that few residents of the section in ( which the crime was committed, or even mature men from any section, ? took part in the lynching. The evi? \ dence is overwhelming that the ^ crowd, which numbered about forty, was composed largely of candidates for the Naval Academy and students J at St. John's College. t DIE IN SUSUPICIOUS FIRE. 1 Neighbors Come Too Late to Save 1 Riverdale Family. Paterson, N. J.?A fire, the origin v of which is unknown, at Riverdale, near Pompton Plains, at 2 o'clock a. m., destroyed the home of Louis McWithey, a Naw York engraver. Mrs. McWithey and their two children, Helen six, and Elizabeth, four years old, were burned to death. Mrs. McWithey was subject to fainting spells, and it is supposed that she got up in the night to attend to her children and was seized with one of these attacks while carrying a lamp in her hand. Root Urged to Act. Prominent New Yorkers urged Secretary Root to use the Nation's "moral support" to remedy evils in the Congo Free State. Escaped Convict Returns. ? Edward Ness, who, with eight others escaped from the Hamilton Coun- j ty jail, at Cincinnati, Ohio, surren- t dered himself at the jail. He said j he was tired of being hunted like a ( wild animal and preferred to serve his sentence. y ( Holiday Fatalities in One Day. i Twenty-six persons met death io 1 Loui&iana, Alabama and Mississippi, many of them from the use "of fire- t v/orks in celebrating Christmas. t The Field of Sports. \ Robert Weir won the golf tourna- z ment at Lakewood, N. J. i Steiger, the new pitching acquisition r?f Detroit, is a SOUthDaW. I i Dr. Schurman, president of Cornell ( University, strongly praises the re- 1 vised game of football. * President Charles W. Eliot, of Harvard, while praising rowing and ? tennis condemns football. Mordecai Browne, of the Chicago J Nationals, has only three fingers on I His pucning nana, uui ue io la&iug the place of the mighty Mathewson ? ! as the best Ditcher in the country. j V : - - v i^r- i ' . \ . . - ;V?t ;i i\v M BITSINEWS WASHINGTON. The Senate adopted both the Former and the Penrose resolutions of nquiry after Senator Foraker had [eclared that the President had exeeded his constitutional rights in \ cm i ce ? r? rr o f f o 1 i r?n /\f nnorrt cnl liOUtlOOIUg OUV VI. V ?W*liers. Senators Lodge and Crane have .sked the President to speak at ^ovincetown, Mass., next summer, rhen the corner-stone of the new lilgrims* monument is laid. The new secretary of the British Embassy, Efeme Howard, was preented to Secretary Root. Ten cents for the Conscience Fund eached the Treasury from Rowan, owa. The President has nominated Chaplain Frank B. Rose, retired pith the rank of captain, to be chapain, retired, with the rank of rear .dmiraJ. February 4 has been set for the rial of Congressman Binger Herrnann, of Oregon, accused of destroyng letter-press copy books when he etired from the General Land Office. Rumor has it in Washington that >oth Herbert W. Bowen and Francis 3. Loomis soon are to re-enter the liplomatlc service. Secretary M^tcalf has asked Congress for $26,000 to build two porttble contagious disease hospitals at liins isiana, x\ew iorK. It became known that President ioosevelt has made several unsuc:essful attempts to induce Messrs. 3ortelyou and Bliss to restore money jaid by the "big three" insurance lomoanies toward his campaign und. The President has promised an adIress before the National Convention or the Extension of Foreign Comnerce, which meets in Washington Tanuary 16. / 'OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. The railroad line on the Island of 3anay will be surveyed first, some ihanges in the original1 survey being lecessary. Rumors of a second uprising in 3uba, in Santa Clara Province, were eported at Havana. Seventeen sugar estates in the irovince of Matanzas, Havana and Santa Clara and one at Guantanamo ire now grinding. There is plenty >f cane to make a big crop. Porto Rico offers a spectacle of >rder and prosperity. For the last wo years the island has been making itriking material progress, and with his progress have come political con 1UCUCU auu Luutuutmuub. The Mindanao Herald reports that t German syndicate is "to exploit a arge stand of timber near Butuan n the province; of Surigao, comprisng in the neighborhood of fifty iquare miles." The Filipinos are generally pleased vith the proposed election law, vhfch is based on election laws of Nlew York, Massachusetts and California. DOMESTIC. A plea of guilty was made at San Francisco by LouIb Dabner, slayer of Manager M. Munakata, of the Japan>se Bank. The battleship Iowa put to sea 'rom Norfolk to test a new device .'or coaling ats^a. The St. Paul system announced a lew stoek issue to the amount of ^99,510,840. Assistant Attorney General McHeynolds had a conference with the federal District Attorney in San Francisco on the Japanese educaional controversy, and it is believed v* r? * iVi A AAtfarnmAnf will nan rlmaHn rUai UUC uw TCI utuuuw T? *** uwv ukMwwkv neasures to carry out President Roosevelt's ideas. For embezzling postal funds forner Postmaster Gilbert Meeks, ol Nichols, Ga., was fined $2063, the imount of his peculations, and waa jentenced to one year's imprisonnent. On his first trip, Claud Bailey, an express helper, was killed in an Atantic Coast Line wreck, near McJuire's Creek, Fla. A trivial dispute at Blue Creek, kV. Va., led to a fight, in which Jeorge Goodwin shot five men, one >f them fatally. From asphyxiation due to a gas itove, Stanley Taylor and Paul Buckey, compositors, were found dead at Dayton, Ohio. Mrs. Margaret Clark killed Alger A 4>mAA/1 nonirni* In Vl flf PnO iUU AtYT UUU, U1 JL/CUTCi j IU uwi uuw oil home and took her own life. FOREIGN. The Spanish Chamber of Deputies las ratified the convention for Mo occan reforms. Admiral Thierry is to command ;he French squadron at the Jamesown Exposition. The House of Commons has ap>roved the grant of Constitutions to he Transvaal and Orknge River Colonies. Galicians who had emigrated to he United States sent to their homes n Austrian Poland during 1905 alnost $1,200,000 in money orders ilone. Young clericals drew the carriage >f the Archbishop of Paris from his jalace to the residence of a Deputy ?rho had offered him an asylum. There was an upward movement n security prices on the bourses of 3t. Petersburg and Moscow as a remit of Premier Stolypin's announcenent of the Russian Government's )lans for reform. The elections to the German Reichitag have been set for January 25. A large band of terrorists held up i train near Bialystok, Russia, killed ;hree guards, wounded twelve, and eleased a number of political prismers. The British House of Lords, by a rote of 132 to 52, rejected the con:ession3 offered by the government n the matter of the Education bill, ind the measure is dead. Soldiers at Loja, Ecuador, muinied, killed three officers and fcwen,y-flve citizens and pillaged the town. According to a special despatch 'rom Teheran, the Crown Prince has irrived in the capital and practically ules in Persia. A number of prominent Britons md Americans met in London to :elebrate the 300th anniversary of :he sailing of the first British colony 'or Jamestown. Constitutional Democrats in Rus"* " unmioviiH h? tho nrtinn of )IA die j/ClpiCAVU KJJ VU.W lie Prefect of Police in dispersing heir convention after having given t his sanction. Fire at Harbin, Manchuria, dejtroyed the quarters of the general itaff, the museum, the library and aany warehouses. \ , ' J -J k .A yj&.^ m .J ' ? ' * ' - :. ? ? !M CANNOT HIKE m upon os She Hasn't the Money and Cannot Borrow Any. OUR NAVY MUCH STRONGER Besides, 7000 Miles of Occan Intervenes?And Even in the Improbable Event of England Assisting Her, It Would Fail. Washington, D. C.?The Administration is not concerned over reports from Havana that five Japanese have been taking measurements and photographs of the fortifications of Havana. . rne iact is tne liovernment ratner expects this sort of thing. It is .well known that other countries have measurements and plans of all the fortifications, both here and in the outlying possessions, just as the United States has measurements and plans of the fortifications of other countries. That is what general 3taffs are for. So far as Japan's alleged de3ire to go to war with the United States id concerned, there isn't a clear mind in che Administration that does not acout the idea. Japan cannot go to war with anybody. She is in debt a million dollars, with no place to borrow more. The idea that England would assist Japan in an assault on this coiiiL :ry is preposterous. The people who have given study to the problem .admit, .for the sake of argument, the judposition that England would join tvlth Japan in a concerted movement on both the Atlantic a,nd . Pacific Joasts of the United States. Then what? They might bottle up this ;ountry, although "there would be an argument on the Atlantic Coast and mother on the Pacific before that happened. But the people who look it the facts as they are, going further in the argument, concedeihe bottling ap. Then they point out that the fTrdtod Gtotoa lo tVio rmltr pnrint'rV <n . che world sufficient to itself, and If England tried the experiment of oottllng tip this country she would :ut herself off from a very large pnv, portion of her own food supplies. Meantime the United States; in che extreme contingency that it lost' Its fleets, would build other'fleets and go out and regain its prestige. The United States has money, men, food ind everything else to niaintaiH a placid existence with air the fleets of ill the seas on its coasts, and wmld Use immediately go $ci$ss the border ind seize Canada, which is the choifc sst bit of suburban real estate Great Britain has. There isn't an American living who thinks the Urdted, States would ever capitulate in clr1 .".umstances like these, and there isn't in American living who doesn't know j that, even it the Philippine? and: Porto Rico atad ports in Alaska and' sea coast cities were taken, the Ujiited States would eventually get them all ; 5ack, and more, too, by force of arms. Of course these conjectures are al' most fantastic,- but the statements :hat call them out are the basis oi!- the . talk that has been going on for the! ' past six .months of an invasion of this country by Japan, and the theory tbat , Sreat Britain is the hard and fast atyy that country. So far as Japan herself is con, cerned she does not want a fight with: , anybody. Her public debt is. almost, j if not quite, as large as that of the United States, and her territory is about as big as the State of California. The greatest problem Japan has now is, not to conquer any country, but to provide for the rapid increase in Japanese population, which I Increase is 500,000 a year. Japan's navy, when you analyze it, is not to be compared in any way tfith any half of the American navy. Tbe alarmists say that Japan's navy is in the Pacific and the navy of the United States is not. That is perfectly true, but that portion of the United States _navy which might be needed in tne I'acinc would De sent tnere. Furthermore, the proposition of Japan bringing an invading force of a 1 size to do any particular damage 7000 miles has its grotesque features i that apparently do not appeal to tho people who are continually finding war clouds over Nippon way. GROOM RESCUED BY POSSE. < Virginia Farmer Makes Elam Marry His Daughter. Richmond, Va.?R. E. Chandler, a farmer, procured a license at Bridgetown for the marriage of his daughter and Richard Elam, a young farmer, then returned home, and.i with his brother, forced young Elam to marry his daughter, Bessie Chandler. Watson Elam, father of the young man, with a party of twenty neighbors, all armed, went to Chandler's house, and, after surrounding it, demanded the surrender of young Elam. ' ? An/1 V? rtmo tie was given up auu mncu Elam swore out a warrant against the Chandlers. St. Regis Indian Kills His Father. At the St. Regis Indian reservation, at Malone, N. Y., Peter Gray, an Indian, murdered his father, Tom Gray, by catting his head open with an axe. They had both been drinking and had a quarrel over fome property. Gray is under arrest. m , * * Two Killed by Gas. Robert Widgren and Herman Oberg, partners in a coal business, were found dead in a room in the rear of their office in Chicago. Gas was escaping from a broken gaspipe. Released From Asylum. Theodore Wright, a Philadelphia financier and railroad man, was released from an insane asylum after ten years' confinement. Newsy Gleanings. Roumania has accepted an invitation to participate in the Jamestown Exposition. It is reported that the United States recently purchased a war balloon in Paris. Water Register Padden reported an increase of nearly $500,000 in the water revenues. Alexander Greger, Russian diplomatz horsewhipped Count Rodellec du Forzic in raris. The most complete veterinary college in the world is contemplated by the University of Illinois. . v.1 ' . j*\> . s t* .r_. f ?? ? ? ?? Value of Good Roads. In an address by John Craft, o? I Mobile, It was- stated that1 the cost to the farmers of the South la fifty ' /* cents per. bale of cotton for-an a*ef<age haul of eight miles. If there were good roads the cost would be reduced to Sixteen cents a bale. Estimating a crop at a million bales, this would mean a saying of $340,000 annually! > .. It costs under present road condltions twenty-flve cents to" haul a ton of fertilizer a mile. With good roads the cost would be eight?jCents a ton. ? i "I have studied for some years the ' . <$ problem of working convicts on our Dubllc roads." said Mr. Craft, "and they have proved to be the tnost economical road builders to be had. The -v convict has long passed the experimental stage for road-making." Judge Eve, of Georgia, who has has twenty years of experience ingvorking convicts^ as road builders,-says:r "They are '{he best and cheapest road-builders." : VWhile working convicts riot a single overt aft; was committed, or a single cMId, woman or man molested,. or one dollar's worth of property depredated on. . Meckfenbojg jCoiinty, NU C., has the finest macadamized roadii, and it Is being done with convict labor. It costs an averag^ oMwenty-fire cents t a day to guard; feed: and cape for cpnvict labor, when it is mantiged on business principles. "?.? As for ithe convict himself, statistics show that sixty per cent of those who are worked-in the open air, properly fed and .guarded, return to their families and 'cease to be a charge op menace to the State, while of those who are Jkepfr'liL prison op worked in minis, at sawmills or other similar places eighty-fljre per 'cent become hardened criminals. ^ Nor doj^ifck it* right to put the honest wage^eirhers in competition with convict labor, or the jnanufactnrlnsr indnslrv in comnetitfon with! * the Juq. thaitv^ireq che^ convict labor. < Indiana has about 17i00ft mi lea of good gravel roads. I remember whqn Indiana was considered one of the illiterate States of 'the Union. Today she is prosperous, and fier people sufetfao longer Ignorant, bat the Slate is dotted with finest schoola<and col-' , leges. . Massachusetts spends more moaeyk than any other "State on her public roads. New York has just voted to issae $50*000^69 for her r?ads to be used in the neit ten yeajp. New;' Jersey has fine roads, whleh are the: best investments the State has. MIb?L souri Is agitating & bond^ Issue of(^ $25,000,000 for her pubife ro&(Sa.{ &ga The province of Ontario, Canada, has' ?0,000 miles of good roads, and from) that phenomenal improvement ha^wSfij been prosperity to ite farmers. . How to Gei Good Road J* We have no doubt that Governor? Woodruff will recommend a number^: Jg of measures, of judicious economy, I based on business methods, and we' j have faith to ljfelieve that-the Gen-' j eral Assembly -^will put these into, J effect. He ?s quoted as favoring aj radical reduction of expenses in cer-i * tain directions where, with the lapse! of time, it has been developed that too much goes out for what comes in;1. All this iirill approved bythe,people; everybusiness-like step will' be welcomed by a business people. "*"* * Kama 4-V?n4- olAfltf 1 *' UUt YV? luciiuo iaj uuyo tiuib vtvu^ with economies there may come some' . broad, measures of . expimdlturtftiptt worthy of Connecticut and tier ln-.Mfl telligence and civilization. There' aH are ways to 'save and w&ys to spend.' 19 The latter can be as true economy as nj , the former.. No other thing could do more, lft J any other could do as much, for the . jf State, as a system of intelligently;' 1 planned and honestly developed highways. It Is a tried maxim that roadaj measure a civilization, but it Is a* ' true as,ever! We have started In, In] . a small and haphazard ,way, to im-, ;V prove our roads. Whit has been1 done has already sufficed to silence; the objections so plenty at first. We all kno.w now what a good road Is,' and realize what a benefit it may be.' But the little that we have fs1 oply^ an invitation to more, and on a more .'< comprehensive scale. Suppose that J instead of cutting off sucli a sliCS as' seems available from our yearly in-! come and turning that Into roadbeds, we should deliberately create a State! ~ * *- 4 #nt? good-roads debt, put out UUUUO JLVU the purpose, and go in to build good! , roads all over the State on Buch ecale as would give us a real'systemf - , within a few years. A representative' of The Courant once asked Murraji -) Crane, a wise, conservative man, w when he was Governor of Massachn-i v setts, if he did not think the $1,000,? ' '? 000 a year which that State was pufci ting into good roads was a big lot of money to go that way, and the Gov- . h ernor's answer was that he wished it* was $2,000,000. It sounds very neat and thrifty to O say we have no State debt; but a1' debt for which we have got morej than our money's worth indicates! i better business management than no . rdebt and a lack of desirable?eveof necessary?things that we could have, if we would use our credit to get them.?Hartford Courant. ,, " CnoVn iXOC a iwvacawu A full grown adder may measure two feet lu length and about' sixi Inches around the thickest part of ltsj body. Its movements are sluggish,; and of course the universal idea pre-, vailing among the natives of this country that it is capable of trans-' < ferring its head from one extremity,!1 to the other once every six months is! , due simply to superstition. The lack! is that the tall of this snake does* 1 not terminate in a point, as with; ? ophidians generally, but is stumpy/ l and resembles the head so much that , * it is difficult for an observer situated) at a distance of a few yards to disnna frnm ^he other.' LiUgUiOU IUW VMW ~ hence the story o? its being two- j headed, the fallacy of which no In-! telligent observer could fail to detect. ?The Pioneer. N / y * ' ' i .0 * .