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AUGUSTA SWEPT BY FLOOD, LIVES LOST Dam Collapses and Streets Are Under Six Feet of Water. CROP DAMAGE IS IMMENSE Scores of Lives Have Been Lost in Georgia and the Carolinas?Five Feet of Water in Augusta's Chief Street?City in Darkness. Atlanta, Ga.?The Goods in the Carolinas and Georgia culminated in the breaking of the big dam. six miles from Augusta, which diverts the water from the Savannah River into the canal at that point. The great flood of water let loose soon found its way into the city, and from Fifteenth street to the eastern boundary Augusta is under from six to twelve feet of water. The big bridge across the Savannah ruver weui uuwii in uie rusu ui waters, and the dam at the lock seven miles above the city collapsed, adding to the flood. The Nixon warehouses, containing thousands of hales of cotton, caught fire. The city is in darkness and boats are being used in the streets. All wires are down. There were three deaths caused by the flood in Augusta. The damage to the city and immediate surroundings, it is estimated, will reach half a million dollars. The Union Station is in ten feet of water, and in the residence district in Green street the water is six feet deep and slowly rising. The Sacred Heart Church is in six feet of water. 1 The Southern and the Georgia Rail- ; ways have been unable to move any trains over their regular lines. All traffic was detoured by way of Nash- ( vine. Trains are irom twenty-tour to ( thirty-six hours late. A dispatch from Camden, S. C., , reports two lives lost and nineteen j missing as the result of the washing away of the steel bridge over the Wateree River at that place. FLGOD LOSS MILLIONS. 1 All Records Broken In South Carolina , ?Five Known Dead. ( Columbia. S. C.?Reports received * from all sections of the State indicate 1 that the present flood is the most 1 damaging ever recorded in South 1 Carolina. The flooded area covers practically the entire State, and at ] many points the rivers are from two s to six feet higher than ever known, * not excepting the great floods of 1 1842, 1S86 and 1903. The railroads ( are operating few trains, and no ef- ? fort is made to maintain schedules. Manv rilarps in tho Sfnto aro 1 lated. More ihan a dozen toll and public bridges crossing the large riv- ' ers have been swept away, and at least two steel railroad bridges have gone down. Many of the dams along 3 the rivers, erected for the protection j of the fertile bottom lands, have been , swept away, and the large corn crops | along the different streams are a to- ( tal loss. The total loss of life thus t far reported is five. It is impossible to estimate the damage to the farming interests throughout the State, but it will run j into the millions. It is estimated that ( the damage to the cotton crop alone ; is ten times greater than the total loss of property resulting from the great flood of 1903 in this section. A dispatch from Anderson says that the storm damage in Anderson ' County will amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars, and no train service is expected for the next ten i days. ( A dispatch from Camden says the j crops along the rivers and creeks in i that section are a total loss, and un- c told damage has been done to the f corn and cotton crops on the uplands. \ Five persons were drowned when the t toll brif*ge across the Wateree River went down?George Rabon and his q son and three negro women. The floods are heaviest in Western . South Carolina and Eastern Georgia. ^ Property loss is enormous, and the railroads are among the principal suf- c ferers through trestles and bridges 1 being washed away, washouts along q miles of tracks and cave-ins which have buried the tracks in places under hundreds of tons of earth. A. O. BROWN & CO. SUSPEND. New York City Firm Could Not Get 1 Stock to Cover Obligations. New York City.?A. O. Brown & Co., of No. 30 Broad street, the bro-1 ( kers whose enormous dealings in 1 REPORTS 371,089 Iv Warner's Figures Show Large I ance of I Washington, D. C.?An increase of 371.0S9 pensions issued, with a saving of $1,343,066 out of the reduced appropriations for the maintenance of the bureau during 1905'08, covering Commissioner of Pensions Warner's administration, as l against the period of l901-'04, is an- ! nounced in a compilation of figures : given out at the Interior Department. : 1 ixc iiguita aii; wimtu num vuuiuiusioner Warner's report, which will be i issued shortly. Statement follows: ] From 1901 to 1904, inclusive, ; there were issued 516,251 certificates 1 of pension. From 1905 to 1908, inBig Hay Crop West. There is a big crop in the West and a good deal of old hay not yet sent j to market, but in the Eastern States the new crop is undoubtedly a little ( short, and farmers will have a small- . er surplus for shipment and for sale , to local markets. To Consider Convict Lenses. Atlanta, Ga.?Governor Hoke Smith ordered an extra session of the Georgia Legislature. The convict lease < system is the matter to be consid- i ered. Newsy Paragraphs. Naval authorities discusscd a plan to paint warships a darker color. Turkey recalled its ambassadors at Berlin and Vienna and its minister at Belgrade. The Dutch at Curacao stoned a Brazilian schooner taking Venezuelan i trnrvrlci tn TVi 11PTT1 St ad. Australia granted permission to the ; American sailors to land at Sydney bearing arms, but without ammuni- < tion. A break of about $3 a bale in October cotton caused a bull panic on the Cotton Exchange, New York City. 1,300,000 shares on the Stock Exchange became a subject of investigation by the Exchange, suspended and D. W. Noel has been made assignee. Wall Street was inclined to regard the suspension as a "bear" failure, brought about by inability to cover shorts. At the height of the boom markets nf cpvpral vears aeo. A. O. Brown & Co. did an enormous business, said to have been larger than any other brokerage house at one time. The firm had offices in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Erie, Utica and Toronto and Paterscn, N. J. It was organized in 1902, the members being A. O. Brown, G. Lee Stout, E. F. Buchanan, Samuel C. Brown and W. Rhea Whitman. EARLE "AFFINITY" BEATER. Charge of Choking Soul Mate Lands Him in Cell at Monroe, N. Y. Monroe, X. Y.?Charged with having "choked and beaten his wife with his fist," Ferdinand Pir.ney Earle, who only a year ago sent his first wife to her home in Franca so he might marry his "affinity," Julia Kuttner, was arrested in his home here and locked in a cell in the county .iail in Goshen. It was alleged Earle had attacked his wife many times in the last three months, and that the young woman bad "suffered many indignities" at his hands. The arrest of Earle caused a trepon;itfnn hprp. ns it ca.me exactly a year after the first news of the "harmonious agreement" between Earle and his first wife to part. WORKMEN KILLED UNDER WALL Collapse of Chelsea (Mass.) Structure Buries Many Laborers. Chelsea, Mass.?A thirty-foot brick wall, which was being put up for a building in Chelsea Square, on the site of one burned in the fire last April, collapsed and buried a score of workmen. Five bodies were removed from the ruins, all but one of which were identified. Those known to be dead are: Meyer Arlwok, Ferri Sarto and Francisco Gouelifa, of Boston, and M. Zackler, Df New York. The unidentified body Is apparently that of a Russian, about twenty years old. Fifteen men were Injured. THIRTY KILLED IN A MINE. Fire Destroys a Hoisting Shaft and Air Shaft in Oklahoma. McAlester, Okla.?More than thirty niners were suffocated in Hailey-Ola Doal Mine No. 1, near Haileyville, 'ourteen miles east of McAlester, vhen fire destroyed the hoisting shaft ind air shaft and cut off air from the nen below. Twenty-five dead bodies were renoved from the mine, following a ;uccessful three hours' battle with the lames. Explorations in the channels evealed that none of the men met ieath by burning, but that all were suffocated. IVOMAN MOB LEADER A SUICIDE. Takes Poison When Arrested For Murder in Springfield Riots. Springfield, 111.?Kate Howard, nob leader and rioter, with a police 'ecord and conspicuous for years ibout the streets of Springfield be:ause of her 35 0 pounds of avoirlupois, committed suicide shortly afer being taken into custody on an ndictment voted by the special Grand Fury charging her with murder. Poison swallowed at her home just >efore accompanying an officer to the :ounty jail caused death before the voman was put behind the bars. SALOONS OUT OF BUSINESS. Prohibition Laws in Several States Affect Liquor Traffic. Washington, D. C.?The internal evenue collected in July was $22,)29,316, $2,899,50S less than in ruly, 1907. A decrease was $216,149 n the receipts from the retail liquor lealers' special tax, indicating that >646 retail liquor dealers went out of msiness in July, because of prohibiten legislation in the various States. [*o Make Spars For Kaiser. Hoquiam, Wash.?Chris. Endersen k Sons, sparmakers, of this place, lave closed a deal with the Emperor >f Germany whereby they are to sup)ly spars for the royal yacht. Co Found Esperanto Institute. Dresden.?The Esperanto Congress )assed a resolution to found a teach;rs' federation and also an interna:ional Esperanto institute, which >hali draw up rules by which the lew language may be kept pure. Roosevelt Speaks to Farmers. President Roosevelt spoke at Jorlanville, N. Y., in praise of farmers' .vives and on uplifting farmers. iORE PENSIONERS. ncrease--Saving in MaintenBurcau. :lusive, there were issued, not including 202,577 increases under the act Df April 19, 1908, made by directions to pension agents, 887,340. This makes an increase of 371,089. From 1901 to 1904, inclusive, there was paid as pensions $554,888,977, and from 1905 to 190S, inclusive, $571,391,648, an increase of $16,502,671. While the appropriations for the maintenance of the bureau have been reduced each year since 1904, there has been saved and covered into the Treasury as unexpended of such appropriations that year $1,343,666. Spring Colts Scarce. Frederick Wagner, president of the Fiss, Doerr & Carroll Horse Company, New York City, remarked that In going 200 miles recently through one of the best horse breeding sections of New York State he did not see enough spring colts in the pastures to fill the stalls of the company's coach horse department. Wade Ellis Appointed. Wade Ellis, Attorney-General of Ohio, accepted the position of assistant to Attorney-General Bonanarte. recently held by Milton D. Purdy. The Field of Labor. A now union of carpenters has been Conned at Virgues, Porto Rico. The Waterville (Me.) textile workers have applied for a charter from tne unuea Textile woiKers. The Scotch Shipbuilding Employers' Federation and the men's union are arranging for a joint agreement, and the men's union has appointed seven well-known representatives to draft a constitution. The Governor of Porto Rico has recommended to the Legislature a law creating a labor bureau on the island. THE RACE 1 I ' ?Cartoon I SECRETLY MURDERED Zia Bey, ex-Head of Turkish Secret Po The System of Espionage-Euad Adherent of Young Turk London.?Zia Bey, the former head of Turkey's Secret Police, who is a refugee in London, in an interview said: "I am glad to be here, and it is not possible that I will ever return to Turkey. You must remember that at the bidding of my superiors I have been the means of ruining Ministers, officers and Government officials, and 170 Turks, many of them members of the most honorable families, disappeared during my term of office. "It mattered not who were the persons to be removed, the orders from the Yildiz Kiosk were implicitly obeyed. To be denounced by the secret police was sufficient to ruin any one. Can you wonder that Turkey has seen the last of me? "The Porte as an administrative machine ceased to exist twenty-five years ago; since then all the power has been centred in the Yildiz Kiosk. I do not blame the Sultan entirely, nor the Chamberlains entirely. Their power rested in a sort of working agreement, which enabled them to manipulate the resources of the empire in their own interests. Izzet Pasha, the Sultan's secretary, is reputed to have saved $7,500,000, which he has invested in the United States. The Sultan himself has at least $15,000,000 invested In Europe, this amount being his percentage on bribes from contractors for war stores and army and navy supplies. "I often reflected that this could not go on forever, but the end came quicker than most of us expected." Zia Bey explained the difficulties he had in making his escape from Turkey. The Sultan, he said, warned him to flee, and he had to shoot a man dead who tried to prevent his embarkation despite the disguise he had adopted. Constantinople.?Euad Pasha, one of the most brilliant Turkish officers in the Russo-Turkey war, who was exiled for being identified with the PRUSSIA TO GRANT WOMEN Forced by Modern Conditions to Pre Co-Education in Universities--E Begin at Six Years and L( Berlin.?German homes and Ger- 1 man newspapers have been far more occupied during the end of the week ; with the Prussian Government's de- < cree granting higher education to ! women than by discussions on Ger- : man and British naval armaments or < the meeting of the two sovereigns. 1 The granting of educational opportu- i nicies for girls and women equal to those of men is regarded as marking ] ! a deep change in German life, where, i more than in the Western States, < I women have been considered as the i keepers of the home and the workers < in minor industries. s The introductory paragraphs of the s decree of the Ministry of Education, which has been approved by the Em! peror, recite the reasons for the change in the system. Modern life, says the decree, develops an increasing disinclination 011 the part of men of the upper classes to marry, and more girls in the upper and middle classes are prevented from becoming wives and mothers. It is desirable, j therefore, that the surplus of young | women should have a chance of pre| paring themselves for professional j callings, and that they should be ' trained in the higher mental functions. According to the scheme, girls are to be educated in all studies embraced in a specially arranged curriculum; beginning at a minimum age of six years. At the end of the seventh school year the pupils will begin to differentiate in their studies, those preparing for advanced instruction Harvard Has $20,000,000 In- { vested?Income of $945,170. Cambridge, Mass. ? According to the report of the Harvard College 1 treasurer, the investment funds of < the college amount to $1 9,977,911, ' and the annual income is $945,176. 1 General investments aggregate $17,344,229. Over $5,000,000 are I j invested in railroad bonds, over $1,- < ! 000.000 in railroad stock. $2,000,000 : In. real estate and $1,500,000 in trac- 1 tion bonds. Besides, over $2,500,000 ' are invested in sundry bonds and $1,- i 173,000 in mortgages and notes. ' Prominent People. Fairfax L. Cartwright. the British minister at Munich, has been appoint- \ ed ambassador at Vienna. ' Eighty-eight thoroughbred race- < horses belonging to James R. Keene < nnrl .lamps B. Hacsrin were shinned to South America. ! Osman Na Xizami Pasha has been i i appointed Minister of War of Turkey, i to succeed Redjeb Pasha, who died suddenly of apoplexy. Governor Magoon, of Cuba, predicts that no trouble of any sort will ( follow the evacuation of Cuba by American troops next winter. ISSUE. ^ OF EMi d'JMSi MY I A ,/ IN THE.YEAR! |gg fo fikt6miK, num Bm MmKamr m _ | ^.ignored. B i^Nohii?ii^cll,i4,??i! Mil >y Macauley, in the New York World. 170 FOR THE SULTAN | lice, Explains Methods of Camarilla- !: I Pasha, a Field Marsha] and s, Tells of His Escapes. i Young Turk Party in 1902, but who > was recently restored to his rank as Field Marshal and returned to Con- j stantinople, tells an interesting story i of his exile and imprisonment at j J Brussa. He says that before his de- j portation his life was attempted fourteen times, his struggle against the ! infamous palace rule involving him j | in dangers of all kinds. "When they failed to murder me," j ( he said, "by secret means I was de- ' ported without trial or warning, and j ] even while imprisoned the systematic 1 precautions did not cease. j ' "It is the fashion to say that the I ( sovereign is ignorant of the fearful j ( crimes committed in his name, but | His Majesty must have sheaves of re- , j ports in my handwriting reciting the 1 mysteries of the camarilla for years ! past. Every Ottoman functionary ; 1 was compelled, whether he liked it j 3 or not, to be an accomplice to a great- j ! er or lesser degree in the wholesale j ' robbery which has made Turkey a ! byword. Comparatively honest men j 1 were drawn into the meshes, and j ' once there it was impossible to resist | : rowing in the same boat. To refuse j meant to become the object of perse- ' cution and to pay dearly for one's j J temerity in the end. ! "I ask you whether the mere grant- ! J ing of a Constitution at the sword's | point is sufficient to blot out the . memory of the sufferings of thou- I sands like myself, who have under- f gone far worse physical and mental | tortures than I have. If the Sultan j henceforth sets his face against the !abuses he formerly fathered he has j nothing to fear, but he must be warned that the slightest symptom of tampering with the nation's rights i and liberties will be the signal for j his downfall. That he has for so j long a time been unmolested Is large- j ly the fault of one or two European ! Powers, whose Interest lay in main- j taining Turkey's weakness as a pow- : er. We now look chiefly to Great . Britain and France to foster our lib- ! erties." i i ____________ I All FAN I TA liril tUUUAHUN tUUAL IU IVltn. pare Them For Earning a Living-Ziaborate Courses of Study to | ( :ad Up to Matriculation. having special courses laid out for j them, such as Latin. After two j years they will again be arranged in g Jivisions, classical or modern higher | t study respectively. Then after four t years' work they will, under normal i conditions, be admitted to examina- r Lions for matriculation to the univer- ! [ sides. > t Up to this time their education will I r have been carried on in separate j t schools, but in the university co-edu- j i cation will begin under conditions s similar to those governing men stu- i ients. Those who at the end of the ' f seventh school year do not elect to ( specialize for a university course may I j continue tne orainary courses uniu g :hey reach the age of sixteen, after ! ^ vhich they may leave school or take ! , :wo years in modern languages, mu- J j sic or domestic accomplishments, or ; :hey may take four years' special 1 ;raining as teachers. , * This scheme has been under dis- ' mssion and preparation for a year. I rhere has been an agitation for equal j privileges for the sexes since the early i jighties, and most of the other Ger- I nan States have already granted ! <1 :hem. I f Frau Helene Lange, the noted edu- ! ? :ationalist, has been a leading advo- j t :ate of this intellectual emancipa- ; :ion. Professor Adolf Harnack,sof ji .he University of Berlin, said that j a ivomen now have equal rights with j I nen to enter all the technical schools, : I ivith the exception of the art acade- \ c nioe aTirf that this nrnh ihitinn is like- i 1 y soon to be removed. I e I I Spain Has Used False Coii? i?c* Fifteen Years, j ^ Madrid, Spai.v?The Government | cv-ill sustain a heavy loss as a result i if the decision to retire from circu- I g ation $200,000 worth of counterfeit j five peseta coins. These coins have been in circula- | Jon for the past fifteen years, and t they have been practically accepted j ( \s legal tender from the people. The j j snly return the Government will get j \ will be from the sale of the ingots j a into which the coins will soon be I melted. ? 1 Feminine Notes. While a successful surgical operation was being performed on Mrs. PI ^ ? 1, ~ /.(non-.r.V.ln i nomas ueueii, tuu tsiuaiiianip *jc3ric was stopped three hours in mii- / jcean. Jane Addams, Dr. Cornelia De Bey and Mrs. Emmons Blaine, whoso r terms on the Chicago School Board have expired, have not been reappointed. 2 Before she left for Cowes with the \ King the other day Queen Alexandra caused it to be made known that the sheath gown will not be tolerated at her court. i LONE BiDIIUS 7 SMS Compels Passengers in Yellowstone Park to Give Up Property. Tourists Robbed of $8000 in Money and Jewels Near Old Faithful Inn in WyomingYellowstone Park, Wyo. ? United States cavalry and a squad of Government scouts went in pursuit of a lone bandit who held up and robbed seven stages in Yellowstone National Park, robbing the passengers of jewelry, cash and drafts of a total value of $8000. Some of the passengers who were robbed are from New York. The fact that tourists in the park are not allowed to carry weapons made it impossible to offer resistance. The coaches left Old Faithful Inn at intervals of a few minutes and were held up one after the other as fast as they came in sight of a bend in the road where the bandit was invisible from either direction. At the point of a rifle he lined up the pas sengers, ana after taking tneir money and valuables allowed them to enter the stage and resume the journey. The bandit, who was masked and wore overalls, is described as being about fifty-five years of age, and weighing only 140 pounds. After holding up the seventh coach the man disappeared into the hills, and it was afterward found that he had made his escape on a horse belonging to the transportation company. All haste was made back to Old Faithful Inn to give the alarm. The soldiers encamped at the Thumb station were notified, and a messenger was sent to the camp on the West Gallatin River at the west boundary of the park. JEROME GUILTLESS. District Attorney Showed Neither Incapacity Nor Indifference. Albany, N. Y.?Governor Hughes made public the report and conclusions of Richard L. Hand on the charges preferred against District Attorney Jerome, of New York, by the minority stockholders of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company. Judge Hand finds that not one of the charges is proved, but that all are Jisproved upon the evidence submitted to him by forty witnesses in support of sixteen of the charges, ten having been withdrawn. "My conclusion upon the whole case," says Judge Hand, "is that the respondent (Mr. Jerome) has been 3hown to have discharged the onerdus duties of his office with zeal and ibility, having the public good as his motive, and that no incapacity, indifference or neglect of duty has been shown in any case." BOY FIGHTS TO DROWN SELF. Knocks a Man Down to Perish With Companions in Quicksands. Fayetteville, 111. ? "If they are ' lead I might as well die. They've nacle my life worth living. I'm going ifter them, anyhow." With these words George Scheineicli, eighteen years old, sprang into ;he quicksands of Silver Creek, near fayetteville, and was sucked to his leath while trying to drag the bodies )f Chris Eisenhauer, seventeen years j )ld, and August Eisenhauer, twenty rears old, brothers, from the mud. rhe three bodies, with the hands of j Scheinleich entangled in the hair of he other two boys, were recovered | hree hours later. The boys were warned against the ; luicksands, but all three of the i souths were strong swimmers and aughed at the fears of their com ades. AIJiUl MAI If.ft.15JU j< )/Iicers Reported to Have Pledged $100,000 For Hains Defense. Long Island City, L. I.?It was re)orted that the officers of the United States array were raising a huge fund J o be applied to the defense of Cap- j ain Peter C. Hains, Jr., and his >rother, Thornton Jenkins Hains. ! iow held for the murder of William j S. Annis. Further, it was asserted . hat $100,000 had already been i )ledg?d *and that $1,000,000 would j >e forthcoming, if necessary, al- j hough it is not beiieveu tnat any i uch sura will be needed. Within the last three days officers I >f various forts have called upon I Jeneral Peter Hains, father of the j irisoners, and assured him that the j irmy men are deeply in sympathy j vith his sons and are eager to aid in j jotting them out of their predicanent. IOSQUITOES DRIVE A MAX MAD. ! ! Jitcs Bring on Delusions, But Doctors j Say He Will Recover. Philadelphia.?Harassed by mos- | [uitoes all summer, Harry Kempher, j oreman of the testing plant of the j Southern Pipe Line Company's pipes j """ 171^,1,, Otnnn finnllv hrnfce down ica.i uuujijivuv,, __ inder the strain of constantly strikng at the insects as they lit on him, ind he was sent to his home in Lancaster suffering from delusions, vempher imagines that he is the offi- j ial mosquito destroyer and swings ! lis arms about, annihilating with ach swing large armies of insects, ie will recover, his doctors say. t DEAD AS BULL WRECKS TRAIN. southern Pacific Cars Ditched and l Piled Up in a Heap. Eugene, Ore.?Four persons were :illed near here when the Cottage Jrove local train of the Southern 'acific struck a bull on the track and ^as piled up in the ditch. The dead re John Nichols, Portland, engineer; ''rank Polter, Portland, fireman; Ray Jwartz, Junction City, Ore., and C -o. Jailey, Eugene, Ore. KILLED IN THE ALPS. Lclress and Violinist Fall From Precipice?The Former Dead. Innsbruck, Austria.?As Leontine i vUJIlci.II, (l x uiian awncoo, auu ?. . . violinist, were ascending the Gerlos j >eak, they fell over a precipice. The ictress was killed. Posselt was s^'erely injured. German Ambassador Dead. Baron Speck von Steruburg, Ciarnan Ambassador to Washington, D. 3 died at HeidftJbere. Germany* (113,009 STOLEN FROM J ' II. S. SM-lfHSM f Assorting Teller G. W. Fitzgerald a _j._ J f-__ n_(. I Hrresieu rui Kuuuejy. HUGE SUM VANISHED IN 1907 [ Suspicion Aroused by Fitzgerald's Attempt to Negotiate $1000 Hill and Speculation in Eggs?Others Are Implicated. Chicago, 111.?The mystery of the i theft of $173,000 from the United | States Sub-Treasury a year and a j half ago, one of the largest losses the . Government has ever suffered in this manner, is believed to have been J solved by the arrest of George W. I Fitzgerald. Others are believed to have been implicated in the crime : which for mouths completely baffled I Government Secrct Servics men. ! Fitzgerald was an assorting tensr! under Assistant United States Treas1 urer William Eoldenwreck. SuspicI ion at the time of the theft, February ! 20, 1907, rested on him, but so plaus; ible was his story and so intense his i apparent interest in discovering the [ l-eal culprit, that interest ceased to centre in him. Much work was done ; on the theory that the crime had baen j perpetrated by a colored man. Meanwhile Fitzgerald was discharged from the Government employ for culpable negligence in allowing such a theft to be consummated under his very eyes. The money stolen had been used and was tied in packages, some having been marked for destruction at Washington. Any of the bills would readily have passed anywhere except for their large denominations. None of the bills was under $500, and some were of the $1000 and $5000 denominations, the $1000 i ones predominating. j The theft created a sensation I throughout the country, and Congress at the last session was asked I and refused to release Assistant I Treasurer Boldenwreck from liability, | although it was promised that Con: gress would again consider the mat! ter at its next session. Meanwhile Herbert F. Young, a I former Chicago newspaper reporter 1 and now head of a secret service j agency, became interested, at first S without official connection with the | case, but later as the agent of Mr. | Boldenwreck. Mr. Young's attention [ was redirected to Fitzgerald. The j latter, upon his discharge from the Sub-Treasury, stated that his whole fortune consisted of $600 in cash and a stock certificate for $1000. His wife had a $700 interest in the estate of her mother, which was valued at about $4000 and was in litigation. Fitzgerald, however, according to Mr. Young, embarked in speculation on a sacle not consistent with the size of his reputed means. There was no ostentation in Fitz| gerald's life. The lavish display j which detectives usually look for in tracing stolen funds, was absent. | Fitzgerald bought eggs for speculai tion and stored them. In July, 1907, he inaugurated an egg deal which ultimately, it is said, involved an expenditure of $7000, and the following March a similar deal involved him, according to Mr. Young, to the extent 1 ~ 9 If 1 IT AAA 4 1 t ui iuuiueuLctii^, me luruier teller had become the possessor, in his wife's name, of a brick house valued at $8500 in Rogers Park, a suburb of Chicago. Mr. Young declared that this purchase was made in a roundabout way, passing through several hands, ahd finally into those of Mrs. Fitzgerald for a consideration of $1. Under detective surveillance ever since the robbery, suspicion was directed more strongly than ever to him last month when Fitzgerald is said to ua.ve unereu a, ^iuuu um lur tu Colonel Harry C. Gano, superintendent of A. Booth & Co., a leading mercantile establishment. The money stolen from the Sub-Treasury was in thousand dollar bills. It was stolen from the cage in which Fitzgerald was employed. Fitzgerald's salary had been only $1800 a year. Colonel Gano notified Sub-Treasurer Boldenwerck of the alleged offer, and the latter engaged the detective agency to investigate. The evidence against Fitzgerald is circumstantial mainly, and the strongest part of it is submitted by a man whose word, while trustworthy, is not corroborated clearly. Fitzgerald defies the authorities to bring into court evidenco competent to convict him. The trial, it is intimated, involved others not only in helping dispose of the money alleged to have been stolen. but in the very act of extracting it irom ine iieasury vaults. it imu ; not been intended to arrest Fitzger- i aid at this time, but it was found j that those under suspicion had ob- j tained an inkling of developments, and it was decided to act quickly. GAG AGED COUPLE FOR $13. Rose Writhes For Ilours Before He Releases His Wife. Ithaca, X. Y.?Breaking into the residence of William Rose, on the Ellis Hollow road, near this city, three masked men bound and gagged the old couple, ransacked the house and made away with $13, all the cash thoy had. Mrs. Rose was overcome by suffocation and exhaustion and her husband writhed for three hours in an t endeavor to release himself from the i ropes that bound him and rescue his wife. Just as she was nearly dead he broke the cord and released her. MISS PARSONS SHOT DEAD. Danchter of New York Railroad President Ends Her Life in Paris. Paris.?Following closely on the death of her fiancee. Miss Winifred Parsons, daughter of the late Charles Parsons, president of the Rome. Watertown and Ogdensbtirg Railroad, was found dead in her apartments. There was a bullet wound in the side of her head and at her sirl? lay a revolver. She had been dead more than an hour when a maid came .'pea her body. Notes of the Diamond. Hans Lobert. of Cincinnati, is a pretty good imitation of Hans Wag- i ner. The Boston Club has loaned pitcher "Cy" Young III. to the Jersey City Club. Substitute infielders Merlcle and Herzog have rejoined the New York team. "When I first came into basabal^'* jays Fred Clarke, "we used to consider 10,000 a bi? crowd. Now wo have 20,000 crowds, and I expect to see 50,000 crowds sosie day when the ! itapda are. big enough to,'Hold them.". - . ? JW ? : : , *gg ^vruptflTos " | cj ^Elixir #Senna' I Qcts gently^yet prompt:' I lyontke bowels, cleanses; the system effectually,) assists one in overcoming habitual constipation/ permanently. To get its; oenejicial ejects buy tke genuine. fionujactucedibytnes Pat TTflDXITA vmjii JIG Syrup CO* SOLD BY LEADING DRUGGISTS-504p~BOTTU.; Deserving a Reward. "Well, young man," said good St. * Peter, "what was your occupation down on earth?" "I was a chauffeur," responded the new arrival. "Ran people down, I suppose?" "Never ran over a chicken." "Violate the speed laws?" "Not once." . "Well, young man, you are indeed an exception. As long as you ran an auto with a record like that I am going to let you play an autoharp. Just step right in."?Chicago News. > . ' Dividing Line at Cape Hatteras. Cape Hatteras is the t^ue dividing line between the North and the South. North of it'thervj Is not a trace of the palmetto and other forma of vegetation, which, sub-tropical in character, cease there also. Mason and Dixon's line is an imaginary sort of a thing in the North, but Hatteras is the outer mark of the real dividing line, and it affords a fine opportunity for study.?Forest and Stream. Cheap Charity. Mother Alphonsa, the daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne, devotes her life to those afflicted with cancer. It is to her that New York owes Its admirable Hawthorne Cancer Home. At a recent meeting in aid of the home Mother Alphonsa spoke of charity?a subject whereupon, surely, no one could speak with more authority. , ,'i She said that too many people went in for cheap charity, that too many resembled a certain railroad president. A manager came to this president and began: J "Old John Faithful's health has been broken down. He had to leave last week. After his long service, I think, sir, we ought to do i5omething for him, don't you? He's very poor." ' "How long has John been with us?" asked the president. "For.ty-seven years, sir." "He always did his duty?" "He never missed a day, sir." "And now he's broken down completely, eh?" "The chances are he'll never leave his bed," said the manager. "The poor fellow," said the president. "We certainly must do something for him." He turned to his secretary. "Perkins," he said,* "make out John Faithful a pass for life."? Washington Star. Where Women Can't Get a Drink. "Cumbyrland, In your good State l of Maryland, is about the only town _ in the United States where they will not furnish a lady with a glass or beer, wine or intoxicating spirit of any kind," said G. J. Brooks, of Philadelphia. "It makes no difference whether the lady is alone or duly accompanied by her husband?she simply can not get any liquid refreshment. I was at one of the leading hotels in Cumberland last week with my wife, and ordered two bottles of beer, thinking to have her consume one of them, but when I ordered the waiter to fill two glasses he politely told me that the Keating license bill prohibited ladies from being served with drinks of that character." ? Baltimore American. FRIENDLY TIP Restored Hope and Confidence. After several years of indigestion and its attendant evil influence on the mind, it is not very surprising that one Dually loses faith in things generally. A N. Y. woman writes an interesting letter. She says: "Three years ago I suffered from an attack of peritonitis which left me in a most miserable condition. For over two years I suffered from nervousness, weak heart, shortness of breath, could not sleep, etc. "Aly appetite was ravenous but l felt starved all the time. I had plenty of food but it did not nourisa me because of intestinal Indigestion. Medical treatment did not seem to help, 1 got discouraged, stopped medi(.tee and did not care much whether I lived or died. "One day a friend asked me why I didn't try Grape-Nuts, stop drinking coffee and use Postum. I had lost faith in everything, but to please my friends I began to use both and soon became very fond of them. "It wasn't long ueiore i got some strength, felt a decided change in my system, hope sprang up in my heart and slowly but surely 1 got better. I could sleep very well, the constant craving for food ceased and I ha70 better health now than before the attack of peritonitis. "My husband and I are still using Grape-Nuts and Postum." "There's a Reason." Name given by Pot^tum Co., Battla Creek, Mich. Read, "The Road ta Wellville," in pkgs. Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine* true, and fuU of human interest.