Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Sj.littinj* tli-e Tip. "I went to a hotel at Palm I2^?ch,' said the commercial traveler, "Tr'ner the waiters are exceptionally pron< to neglecting you unless you tip. was to be there two days. I cut j dollar in two, gave one-half to tin waiter at my table and said to him: " 'Now, if you wait on mo well vnn epf thp other half. If von don't you don't.' "Work! I should think it did That waiter seemed to be 011 rolle: skates all the time, he did such nim ble sprinting."?New York Press. ONE KIDNEY GONE, Rut Cured After Doctors Said Then Was No Hope. Sylvanus O. Verrill, Milford, Me. says: "Five years ago a bad injur] ?5^ paralyzed me anc affected my kid neys. My bacl hurt me terribly and tbe urine wa! badly disordered Doctors said m] rigtlt kidney wa: practically dead 1/y They said I coulc never walk again I read of Doan's Kidney Pills anc began using them. One box made mi stronger and freer from pain. I kep on using them and in three month; was able to get out on crutches, anc the kidneys were acting better. 1 im proved rapidly, discarded the crutche: and to the wonder of my friends was soon completely cured." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Orderly and well behaved convicts * 14. &re empioyea <is ugnuuuuiui ers in Austria, owing to the lack ol farm hands. The prisoners are muct pleased with the work, and taeir env ployment is an incentive to others to behave well in prison. Beware of Ointments For Catarrh That Contain Mercury, as mercury will surely destroy the sense ol imeil and completely derrnge the whole sys tern when entering it through the mucous urfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable phy giciaus, as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contains no mercury, arid is taken internally, acting iirectly upon the blood and mucouu surfaces Df thesystem. J n buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine, it is taken in ternally and made in Toledo. Ohio, by i?\ 0. Cheney & Co. Testimonials fri;e. Sold by .Druggists; price, 75c. pir bottle. 'J ake Mail s rarauy rma iui cuuoi..H?i.uli Holland has 10,100 windmills, each drain fag on an average of 310 ficrea. H. H. Green's Sons, of Atlanta, Ga.,are the only successful Dropsy Specialists in the world. See their liberal offer in advertisement in another column of this paper. Weir Mitchell's Bore. Dr. Weir Mitchell, whose brilliant medical career is only exceeded bj bis brilliance in literature, is noted In Philadelphia for the detestation that he has for bores. Only a bore can ruffle the gracious and gentle suavity of Dr. Weir Mitchell's manner, and even with bores his reproofs are delicate rather than rough. They say at the Franklin Inn, PhilutoT-ofv oinh that a bore AUeipuia s 111.W j accosted Dr. Weir Mitchell one das on Chestnut street and insisted or walking with him to the Philadelphia Library. During the walk the bore's flow of talk was incessant. Dr. Weii Mitchell walked on amid the deluge Vowning silently. But as they turned down Junipei Btreet, a man across the waj stretched out his arms and yawnec as if to dislocate his jaw. Dr. Weir Mitchell took the bore'.< arm and nodded toward the yawning man. "Hush," he said. "Don't speak sc J?ud. People can hear you." The First Evolutionist. The first to suggest the transmuta lion of species among animals wa: Bufton, about 1750. The eccentrii Lord Monboddo was the first to sug gest the possible descent of man fron the ape, about 1774. In 1813 a Dr W. C. Wells first proposed to appl; the principle of natural selection t the natural history of man, and ii 1822 Herbert first asserted the trans mutation of species in plants.?Th American. Old Cemetery Left. "' A?..~i?n tlia Third an .viany tictvcicio uu vuv .....v. Second avenue elevated railways c New York City wonder how the littl cemetery at New Bowery and Olive street came to be there. It is a rerr nant of the first Jewish cemetery 1 the United States, and was estal lished in 1656. AFRAID TO EAT Girl Starving 011 Ill-Selected Food. "Several years ago I was actuall starving," writes a Me. girl, "yt dared not eat for fear of the cons( quences. "I had suffered from lndigestio from overwork, irregular meals an improper food, until at last m stomach became so weak I could ea scarcely any food without great dis tress. "Many kinds of food were trier all with the same discouraging el fects. I steadily lost health an strength until I was but a wreck c my former self. "Havin? heard of Grane-Nuts an Us gffeat merits, I purchased a pack age, but with little hope that it woul help me?I was so discouraged. "I found it not only appetizing bu chat I could eat it as I liked and tha ed the craving iLU-lqfrjL with ing~3tstfeso, and if I ru3k* us bssion, 'it filled the bill. \ ?onths Grape-Nuts was m Article of diet. I felt froi Hrst that I bad found th wo health and happines: g^^^icipations were full HrWalajM use I rcgaine anytbin forms | U I 1 H UlilflW VI I libiivnn | ;! ? I, 5 j Star of Bengal Wrecked on Rocks of Coronation Island. , : I BROKE INTO THREE PIECES ; ! Details of Disaster on Alaskan Island ! ( ?Vessel a Total Loss, Only the ] ( Ends of tlit? MastsShowingAbove j r , | t lie Water?Tale of a Survivor, j t Wrangel, Alaska. ? Tlie Star of ] * , J Bengal is a total loss. Captain Far- | * T J rar. of the tug Hattie G ig?, gives this | ' 1 I account of the disaster cn cnc rocivs ; ' I of Coronation Island: s c "As we ran into the gala we could f ' see we were making leeway and o drifting toward Coronation Island. j The other tug, the Kayak, was light * 3 and could do nothing. The Hattie ? Gage could not handle the ship alone, e I At 4 o'clock the Star of Bengal i drifted into a narrow bight and wo i t j could sea land on both sides abreast, j j "We sounded and found eight fath- ' 1 . oms. We could see the vessel dimly J t I by the phosphorous ro>ks that were ( 3 | all arouud. We cut the towline and t I steamed out into open water. We a - I could not see anything in the driving t 3 j rain except one blue light burning on I 3 the ship. The storm increased and f j the tugs steamed to Shipley Bay, c twenty-sit miles away." | t The total number of lives lost was I 110. There were 137 people on I s , board. The bodies recovered and | r buried were thosj of Benjamin John- j ? " son. Siguard Nelson. Eric Pierscn, | s ? William Perischke, Peter Peterson, j t 1 j John Peterson, Olaf Peterson, Einon i g - | Swensou, Charles Buchanan,. Carl t i i Bore, Joseph Griffin, Andrew Han- I son, Frank Healy, Norman Hawkins t and G. Hendrickson. t i The ship sank, after breaking into i three pieces, according to the survivE ors. These tell of getting a boat off ( the doomed craft and effecting a landi ing. They helped several ashore and 1 pulled Captain Wagner out of the ' wreckage. He could not speak. The f breeches buoy was rigged to a tree, s I but the ship was swaying so that the r i line was alternately loose and tight, ^ ; making it impossible to use. f i The ship's books and papers were \ 1 found on the beach. One man had a matches, and a fire was built with |3 * <-?? + 1-.r> TirronL- Trip fire I j Kerosene Hum mc t kept the survivors from freezing. c BACK BROKEN IN* CLASS RUSH, r Worcester Tech Freshnma in Hospital : 1 Paralyzed From Breast to Feet. ( ! Worcester, Mass.?Emil Gran, Jr., aged seventeen years, of 15 West F Wareham, a member of the freshman * class of Worcester Polytechnic Insti- 1 : tute, had his back broken on the com' | mon in the annual class rush between [ the freshmen and the sophomores, i i He tvas removed to the City Hospital, g with his body from the breast down I paralyzed. 1 | Residents in the vicinity thought ' the rush was, a riot and telephoned 1 police headquarters for officers, but s i when the police arrived and saw what e it was they allowed the boys to fight a . it out. t k | Urau s companions muusui ue umj \ had the wind knocked out of him un- I til they found he was unable to rise, e 1 and then the call was sent for an am- c 1 bulance. t i 1 RAVAGES OF TUBERCULOSIS. a Physician Says It Causes Every Third ; Death During Working Life. ^ r i Philadelphia, Pa.?"Every third I I death during the period of working ( I life is caused by pulmonary tubercu- p 3 ! losis; every workman who becomes [ r i incapacitated must ascribe his con! dition to tuberculosis," declared Dr. j j Gotthold Pannwitz, of Berlin, one of j the world-famous authorities on the c : "white plague," in an address on "So- c j cial Life and Tuberculosis," before s { the Hospital Association of Philadel- j phia here. The meeting was prelim- ^ 3 ! inary to the opening of the Interna- j c | tional Conference on Tubarculosis, I . j of which Dr. Pannwitz is secretary- I 3 1 general. I NATURAL GAS KILLS THREE. 1 y i 0 j Well Diggers in Manitoba Strike a Sudden Rush in Deep Pit. ! j Winnipeg, Manitoba. ? Word has e j been received from Stanley, a small ' town near Port Arthur, Ont., that three of the inlanders were asphyx! iated in a deep well they were digging , . ; by a sudden outbreak of natural gas. ' The gas gushed in great volume lf j from a fissure opened by a pick. Two e | of the men who were at the bottom ;t j of the well were overcome at once. 1 i- The third, going to tneir assistance, D suffered the fate of his comrades. . j Natural gas is now flowing from , I the well in greac quantities. WOMAN* WIN'S AT POLLS. Mrs. Eakins the "Regular" Rcpnbli- < j can Nominee at Kearny, N\ J. Kearny, N. J.?The first woman [ elected to run for public office in this ( '' State was chosen here at the prima- < j ries, when Mrs. Pamela Eakins D triumphed at the polls and became ] d the "regular" nominee of the Repub- ( y licans for member of the Board of < tt Education. She defeated George Mc- | .. Clintock by a poll of 291 to 211. 1 Mrs. Eakins made an interesting ( . i campaign, winning on an issue of j thorough representation of parents ; i i r % r\ Q/*hnr\1 PnnrH d .... - ? If1 , like Crop Short. d it is now certain that the estimated crop of G.000.000 sacks of rice will d not materialize. Receipts arc light ] : on the Atlantic coast and prices hold | [{ firm. i it; _ i- Work For 1G01) Men. The Department of Commerce and ! Labor at Washington. D. C.. through y j T. V. Powderly, has found work for n i 1090 men throughout thin: live e ! States since July 1. 3, j y j Feminine Notes. I Seventy-five dollars is the price . I ?i?i r? ornren nn nnp nf a ; astvtru iui me uoim-u v<v~ -? _). ! the new model hats. g I New York City laments a shortage | a ' of chorus girls and Oklahoma a shorta j age of school teachers. I Miss Julia C. Lathrop, of Rockford, [e 111., has been made co-director with Profpssor Graham Taylor, of the Chif nstitute of Social Science. peasant women of Servia have scarlet fez caps embroidered eal seed pearls. They are heirhanded fown from generation eration. !HE llBiHS ? FIRE" Five Thousand Men Fight Spreading Flames. * T ?-n linn \ rolnolila IL JUlTcOL UVjVUtf mien \/* * HJU1IU1W Forest Lands in New York Threatened With Destruction. North Creek, N. Y.?The forest firo :cnditions in all parts of the Adironlacks are growing worse hourly, with 10 sign of relief. Although at least >000 men are engaged in fighting the lames day and night, not a single ire has been checked, and the smaller mrning areas are rapidly spreading nto conflagrations, which in some in;tances are coalescing. At least 50,000 acres of valuable orest lands are on fire and the extent if the destruction may be much great. r. A big fire has broken out at >Jorth Hudson, in Essex County, vhere 250 men are fighting it on both ides. This fire is already miles in ixtent. Small fires are springing up j n a hundred localities and the situa- j ion is becoming extremely alarmins. | Gangs of men are being rushed j nto the woods from the large cities I o fight the fires. At the North Woods i 31ub, a popular resort twenty miles j torth of here, patroaizea i>y lasmuu- i ible people, many of the guests who j iad come up to hunt are leaving and : lastening back to their city homes, as ires are burning on all sides of the lub property and the smoke condi- | ions are extremely annoying. In the village of North Creek the j moke is so dense that at 9 o'clock a. ; a. it was impossible to see fifty yards, j !un, moon and stars have been ob- j cured for several days, and at night J he roads are so dark that it is dan- i ;erous to venture upon them. Never j las it been known to be so dry in this ; ocality. The highways are a mass of ! teavy dust, the streams are drying | ip and the supply of drinking water j s almost exhausted. Claims All New York State Fires Arc ! l/UU^? Wliiivii ( Albany, N. Y.?Colonel William F. j \>x, State Superintendent of Forests, j aid that, while reports were being \ eceived daily cf new forest fires, they j vere all practically under control, j ^ire patrols are being maintained in i arious sections of the Adirondacks, j nd the fire wardens are being em- ! toyed day and night. Colonel Fox I aid: "Although many fires have broken j mt we have them under control. Th5 i eports of the fires and the damage j [one are exaggerated. This is espe- i ially true of the reports from North | ;reek." Colonel Fox regards the fire retorted near Big Crooked Lake, in the } Jeaver River territory, as the most j hreatening. OUST TEMPERANCE WORKERS, j They Cause a Row in the Indiana j House of Representatives. Indianapolis, Ind. ? Feeling that ; ias been aroused over the calling of a pecial session of the Legislature to I nact a county local option law led to | i row in the House of Representaives. The House had adjouned, but many lepresentatives were at their desks ngaged in writing when a delegation ' if about fifty temperance workers en- | ered the hall. Horace G. Murphy, a i awyer, of Muncie, mounted a chair I .nd spoke aggressively in advocacy of hs county local option bill. He inally declared that the men who are ipposed to it "are saloon bums and irewery representatives." Representative Coble, of Dubois bounty, who had been listening, lointed his finger at Murphy and de- j iberately said: "You are a liar, sir, and you know 1 t." Murphy jumped down from the i hair and started toward Coble. The I irowd followed and engaged in an j ingry demonstration. The Rev. Mr. J Sverson, of Muncie, threw himself be- : ween the two men and forced Mur- | >hy away. HEAHS DOOM AND KILLS TWO. I lYifc Murderer Also Wounds Four Other Prisoners in Alexandria, La. j Alexandria, La.?A mania for kill- j ng took possession of Edward Ayles, j i negro prisoner, when his death warrant for the murder of his wife was ead to him in jail. He grasped a :ase knife and killed '"Tip" Davis ind Garfleld Bradley, and severely wounded four other prisoners, all legroes. The screams of the victims attracted almost a thousand persons to the vicinity of the jail. Meanwhile, jail j officers played a fire hose on Ayles, | :he cold water finally bringing him j jack to reason. "NIGHT RIDING" CONDEMNED. Jrowd at Spartanburg Passes Resolution?Hold Cotton For 10 Cents. Spartanburg, S. C.?A crowd that I overtaxed the Court House, in response to the call of President E. L. \rcher, of the Cotton Association, passed resolutions condemning socalled "night riding," as practiced in ?ome cotton States, adopted resolu ;ions recommenuing ui<il uu tuuuii j jo sold at this time for less than ten :enrs, and heard addresses from E. D. Smith, United States Senator-elect, and C. C. Moore, president of the j North Carolina Association. Companion Killed; Mrs. Borden Hurt. Mrs. W. D. Gavev, wife of a confectioner of Fall River, Mass., was killed and her two children and a Mrs. Borden, also of Fall River, were oadly hurt in an automobile accident near Providence, R. I. The touring car struck an electric car at a turn in the road. For Governor of Utah. The Democratic State Convention at Logan, Utah, nominated Jesse Knight, of Provo, for Governor by acclamation. The Field of Sports. Thirty-one motorcycle records were lowered on jl?os Angeies iracK. Lewis Strang, in the BriarclifT [sotta, won the Lowell 250 mile automobile race. The Eel won the Nutmeg $5000 2.07 pace at Hartford in straight heats, best time 2.05. Philadelphia cricketers arrived home after a successful tour through England, Ireland and Wales. Battling Nelson, the lightweight champion of America, knocked out Joe Gans in twenty-one r<?undi at Colma, C*l. DROUTH 10 FOREST || FiRES IIM STATES , Pennsylvania, Ohio end West Virginia Suffer. , FARMERS STOP THEIR PLOWING dazing Timber Menaces Many Towns c and Villages?Flames Spread j Rapidly ? Volunteers Making i Desperate Fight to Stop Fire. j Pittsburg.?With forest fires de- * Stroying much valuable property, the e enforced suspension of many industries, crops ruined, livestock suffer- * mg, river navigation at a standstill and numerous small streams abso- a t-utely dry, a drouth which has practi- ?* lally been unbroken for over two nonths is fast assuming serious pro- v portions In Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio and West Virginia. a At night raging forest fires light * ap miles of territory, while thousands t )f persons are doing everything in c their power to check the flames. t Meetings are held at which prayers t 'or rain are offered. Forest fires in Somerset County, ^ about thirty miles from Astoria, have 3 iestrnvpd three lumber camns and ^ ibout ten million feet of lumber and g timber, valued at $150,000. Over v jne thousand men have been fighting Che flames for forty-eight hours, j .vorking without food or sleep. r The forests on all sides of the city t jf Corry, Pa., are ablaze, and the , aeavy smoke makes it almost impos- t sible to breathe. Farmers are mak- [ ing desperate efforts to check the flames by plowing around them, but c the fire is rapidly spreading. At all places the populace is praying for rain. During a recent opan iir prayer meeting near here a brief ; thunder shower occurred. Instead of seeking shelter the congregation renamed in the rain, singing "Praise God From Whom All Blessings c Flow." v A tour through portions of the j three States shows the seriousness of r the drouth. A majority of the small- ? ir streams are dry, and their beds are r being used as wagon roads. At a v .lumber of places along the Ohio and 1 West Virginia shores of the Ohio t River there is not a sign of water. I Near Marietta, Ohio, the large ( steamboat Tornado, with a tow of barges for Pittsburg, is lying on a t bed of gravel in the middle of what c was the river. At many points small a streams of water extend a few yards t from either shore, and boys, after 1 having crossed these, can be seen I flaying ball in the middle of the Ohic River. Telegraph and telephone companies having cables crossing tbe river arc t busily engaged in digging trenches in the riverbed so the cables can be placed out of sight. Many industries along the river i are suspended on account of lack of ^ water for power purposes, and many I others will be idle unless rain falls \ soon. j It is said of the streams now dry j that it is the first time in fifty years i that such a condition has existed. 1 In Pittsburg harbor there are be- i tween fifteen and twenty million j bushels of coal ready to be shipped I to points south and west of this city, i Unless this fuel reaches its destina- < tion before snow comes considerable i suffering will result from a coal i famine. The great mass of coal has i nlmost exhausted the supply of barges here, and the probabilities are many of the river coal mines, employing more than fifteen thousand miners, will be compelled to suspend opera- I tions. , Renorts from the foothills on the eastern side of the Allegheny Moun- , .tains say the drouth is the severest in twenty years. No rain has fallen for ! ten wesks, swamps, streams and springs are dried up, and many of the larger streams have become mere rivulets. Trout and other fish have perished by the thousands. The water suoplv of Hollidaysburs ' has been greatly decreased, and all use of water except for domestic purposes has been prohibited. The drouth has blighted every growing ; thing, not only the products of the : fields and gardens, but also those of the forests, and there will be scarcely any chestnuts or hickory nuts, as the Viovo follon frnTYl thp and I icarca ua?? *?***?? * ? . the nuts have shrivelled up. There will not be one-third a potato ; crop, and unless rain comes soon the ' i corn will be only half a crop. The J ( Pennsylvania Railroad is pumping ' water from the Juniata River for its j ; locomotives, and men have been warned not to drink from the engine ; tanks, as the Juniata water is impure. Practically all the rural sections of the State are suffering as a result of the dry weather. Wells and streams never before known to have become exhausted have dried up. Farmers in some places have virtually given up plowing, because the soil is as fine as powder, and are not sowing seed, as the top soil is unable tp sprout the grain. There is also much inconvenience in providing water tor livestock, some fapmers being com pelled .to haul water for miles. Keaa- ; ing reports the Schuylkill River at , that point lo^er than it hai bsen in ( fifty years, and the Lehigh River ii . also very low. Prayers for rain were ! offered in hundreds of churches throughout the State, and it is feared that if the dry season continues much sickness will develop in localities where water is badly needed for flushing purpsses. Standard Oil Letters Burned. A Standard Oil Company official said letters desired by the Government had been destroyed. British Officer a Suicide. General Luard, retired British officer, who had received letters accusing him of murdering his wife, committed suicide in Loudon. More Pig Iron Produced. X ne proaucuua ui jng nun ? at a higher rate than at any previous ime this year. Among the Workers. Toronto (Canada) shoe clerks hav? organized a union. Boston Hebrew painters and paper, hangers are organizing a union. A new union of retail clerks has been instituted at Melrose, Minn. Tifoo-Qc oro tn he V-?ULIU 11 opiuucio uagVD ~reduced five per cent, in Lancashire, England. The conciliation board of the Nor? thumberland (England) miners hav< agreed upon a two and one-half per cent, reduction, making a total reduce tion this year of three and threes quarter per cent. SHEW UN TO PIECES fI Ylany Others Injured in Accident j cn a French Warship. | he todies of Those Slain Hurled Into the 1 Sea?Horrible Scenes?Rigid ' Investigation to Follow. ; mi Toulon, France.?During gunnery Irill one of the bitf turret guns on the Pa ^rench armored cruiser La Touche rrevllle exploded with terrific vioence, completely wrecking the after i urret and killing outright the entire I run crew of thirteen. 6 Yc A number of men were seriously njured, some of them probably atally. ?* The accident was similar to that of .board the gunnery school ship Cou- ! mc onne off Les Salino d'Hyeres, August .2 last, when by the bursting of the ireech of one of the guns six men /ere killed and eighteen injured. cip The drill had been proceeding for 0f , considerable time when, without ^ yarning, the whole turret seemed to 1 ilow out. Dismembered bodies were mi hrown in all direction, and several tlii if them were hurled into the sea thi hrough the great breech caused by tio he explosion. po The spectacle was horrible, the mi lead and wounded, together with hattered arms and legs, littering the thi leeks. A call to quarters was sound- am id, and as speedily as possible the Ro bounded were cared for. cas The gun that exploded was 7.6 nches bore, of which the cruiser car- clo ied" two. Happening so soon afcer a i he accident to the Couronne, ths ex- str ilosion has caused a sensation in cla laval circles, and doubtless will lead pri o a most rigid investigation. lnt The La Touche Treville carries a ! sal implement of 370 men. I pol _ i fai ADMITS $20,000 GEM THEFT. j ag; j th< iunday-School Teacher Tells How He ; de; Robbed Marshall Field's Daughter. litl Leicester, England.?John F. Spen- an er, a former Sunday-school teacher, a vho recently was sentenced to a wt 'ear's imprisonment for a series of | wc obberies, has confessed to the bur- j tje ;lary of Brooksby Hall, the country | wj. esidence of Captain David Eeatty, j re, vhose wife was the daughter of the i ^ ' ate Marshall Field, of Chicago. The j m( mrglary was committed last Decern)er, and jewelry to the value of ?20,- rn, )00 was stolen. j0| As a result of Spencer's confession hree of his confederates and the re- m( :eiver of the stolen jewelry have been .rrested. Spencer told the police that Dr( ;he diamonds and pearls were taken 'rom their settings and sent to the Jnited States for disposal. jg fee JOHN ROBINSON WEDS NURSE, be ho \ged Circus Proprietor Shows His sv; Gratitude. &X su Cincinnati, Ohio.?Old John Rob- fei .nson, known far and wide among cir:us people as "the Governor," and 1 _ ;he proprietor of Robinson's Circus, 10 vas married here to Miss Maud Lo;an, his trained nurse. "Governo?" Robinson is seventy-five year3 old, er, ind has been ill for a long time, but : an' aas insisted upon traveling in his pri- m( rate car with the circus. Miss Lo*an, who is now Mrs. Robinson, is gj, ;hirty years old, and is handsome. 3he has been nursing the millionaire pt ;ircus man for a long time and travel- ge :ng with him and the circus. The ofl ceremony took place in the private pa ;ar at Nashville. gr MANIAC KILLS TWO. Dl a Surrounded by Washington, D. C., Police in Swamp and Wounded. ^ Washington, D. C.?In demoniacal fury Andrew Light, a mulatto inmate at the St. Elizabeth Asylum for the ?1C Insane, killed Patrick Maloney, the overseer of the grounds, and Millie p Follin, a young inmate of the asylum, | J,? and severely injured MiS3 RobiusoE, j dIi another inmate. The murderer es- i an caped from the grouuds and fled' to i the swamp near by, where shortly i er afterward a cordon of policj sur- | m] rounded him. He was finally caught ph after the polic? found it neces&ary to | g0 shoot him, inflicting wounds in the ! ^ leg, and was taken back to the 10 asylum. Kaiser Assures Alsatians of Peace. Colmar, Alsace.?Emperor Will- Ge [am, speaking at a reception by the city, assured the Als?.tians that .they i could develop their country peacefully. "Peace will oe maintained," he said, "and Alsace will be able to W( prosper further than she yet has *? done. Under the protection of the j ^ Imperial German Eagle and ray flag j 10 her developments will continue and an oe completed, and, God willing, v/ili j>n never be disturbed." ao 3t F. M. Howarth Dead. th At Philadelphia, F. M. Howarih, I th one of th'? best known comic artists | lie in the country, died of pneumonia j sy aged forty-three years. Mr. Howartii is credited with having originated the I comic series, using the same Charac- 1 ters day after day in the newspapers \ Two of his best known series were j Bi "E. Z. Mark" and "Lulu aud Lean- i <er." j L( Bootblack Robbed of $3323. j of At Springfield, Mass., George Nich I j1." i hnnthia^k. renorted to ths j }, ];olice that two strangers had rob'ooc j him of S3325 bv the old "flim-flam' i S Forest Fires Burn Village. Satuic, a settlement of half a dozei houses three miles ease of Rhine- j lander, Wis., was destroyed by lira I fc. The settlers fled to Moon's Lake ! . , where they were cared for. No !os: j of life has been reported. Rhiue f lander was regarded as safe and tin j fires quieted down, as there was lie | wind to fan the flames. j Hospital Interne Dismissed. Charities Commissioner Hebberd i h? dismissed Dr. Ralph S. Cone, an in j M terne at the Kings County Hospital re New York City, for demanding montj el from patients. ch About Noted People. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.," attains - - IT- 1 Ml c his majority. uao 11U L *** | j profession in life. fj( Suit was brought to break the wil. w of Etienne Givernaud, the Hobckei ty (N. J.) millionaire silk manufacturer k .Tames J. Hill, returning from tht T West, refused to repudiate tha state $ ment of Harriman that all was peac< k between them. Percy William Buntting, editor o the Contemporary Review, London, b; -who has reached the age of seventy as two, was made a knight on the King'i C recent birthday ainiversary, lit CNOLERfl RtifG IH ST. PETfRSBUnS jspitals Have 380 New Cases and 155 Deaths. ORE PATIENTS THAN ROOM thological Effect of Fright on Citizens a Curious Fenturc of t lie Epidemic?Typhoid in City Intensifies the Calamity. St. Petersburg, Russia.?The choli continues to increase rapidly day day in St. Petersburg. Tfle efforts the authorities in stopping the sale liquor aud the other preventive lasures taken have had but little .7 y effect in checking the epidemic. Between noon and noon the rnunial hospitals reported the entrance 380 cases and 155 deaths, and the dition of the statistics from the litary and suburban hospitals for s same period of time will swell s total to truly formidable proporns. There are thirty-four cases of liceraen alone in the Seminoffsky litary hospitals. Dispatches received here from ee provinces report 4SS new cases 3 201 deaths in twenty-four hours. stov-on-the-Don furnishing 182 ;es and 80 deaths. The Government liquor shops were sed for two days, and this brought notable decrease in the customary eet drunkenness. The lower 5ses, however, refused to be deved entirely of their usual holiday lulgence in vodlra. and the illicit^ e of this liquor flourished. The lice summarily closed several reslrants that violated the injunction ainst the sale of spirits and seized ; stocks of a number of unlicensed alers, but in spite of this there was Lie difficulty in obtaiuing liquor in Illegal way. The hospital situation has reached crisis. The Obuchoff Hospital, lich is In the centre of one o.f the irst districts, is turning away pants, and the Kalinkin Hospital, lich was opened September 18. alidy is full. Two new hospitals will opened immediately. The Goverr.;nt has given the city the use of * dormitories in the Technological stitute, and two military barracks the housing of patiert?J with orlary diseasss. Thia wlli make >re room for the cholera cases. The situation is complicated by the ssence of a large number of typhoid rer cases in the city. A curious development of the epimic has been the pathological ef:t of fright on thi people. A numr of persons have been taken to spitals with all the characteristic niptoms of the disease, but upon amination they were found to bo ffering from nothing more ttan ir. Bar Cholera From S saling Into America Washington, D. C.?Asiatic chola's spread in the Philippines, China d Russia has spurred the Govern;nt officials here to vigorous action keep the plague out of the United ites. Surgeon-General Wyman, of the iblic Health and Marine Hospital rvice, has warned all quarantine icers to be on their guard, and in rticular to rigidly examine imrniants. On account of conditions in Russia Wyman will send to thai country cholera expert to study the condi ins. tes Stopped by Cholera in Philippines Manila, P.. I.?The Civil Commis>n summoned to special session by >vernor-General Smith to combat e cholera ordered the constabulary send 200 men into the city irameitely to assist the health inspectors, d more if they are needed. It was decided to discourage gathings of people and to refuse perits for festivals. More volunteer lysicians and more nurses have me to the cholera hospital, where commodation has been provided for 0 additional patients.ENOS CONVICT LEASES. sorgKi Legislature Tasses Measure Doing Away With System. Atlanta, Ga.?The extra session of e Georgia Assembly finished its >rk and adjourned sine die after reeing upon a bill which it is beved will effect the abolition of the nvict lease system. The bill leaves y convicts not taken by counties a pro rata distribution, not taken municipalities at $100 a year, or t needed on the State farm or other ate institution to be disposed of at e discretion of. the Governor and e Prison Commission. It is beived that this will end the lease stem definitely on March 31, 1909. :raix hits auto, one dead. iffalo Bank Secretarj's Wife Killed and He is Batliy Injured. Buffalo, N. Y.?Mrs. Stephen B. >e, wife of Assistant Secretary Lee the Erie County Bank, was Killed id Mr. Lee fatally injured in a collioiwoon their automobile and a ickawanna freight train. Lee's skull is fractured. Mrs. Lee is the daughter of J. W. Healey, of adford, Pa. One Boy Killed, Another Hurt. Carlton McConnell, nine, was lied and George Stone, seven, fatalinjured by being run do.vn by an itomobile while on their way home om Sunday school at Oklahoma ty, Okla. uban Negroes Ask Represent.-, (ion. The leaders of the new Negro party ive addressed a petition 10 Governor agoon, at Havana, Cuba, asking for presentation in the forthcoming ections. They assart the party s lances are excellent. Missouri Pacific Lowers Oil Rate. 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