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* :-:m s.-*i Tlie Press and Banner. JP-A-ZRT SEOOHD. ??????? ??? _^L ' ' ' ?- I m m mm m mm m a a am I AArO TA W(AI>I/ I A n RIW* 0% 0\ I | |ft| ; WELL ONCE MORE I SI Senator Tillman and Mrs Tillman Spent Short Time In THE CAPITAL CITY The Senator Talks With Much InterOii est About His Fight on Crum and foi f rc How He Held I'p Sixty Senators jn< by Relating Reminiscences of vei th( Reconstruction. jU( Columbia, March 11.?Senator and **!< Mrs. Tillman spent a couple of hours ? in Columbia today. Senator Tillman was on his way home from the meet- ju ing of the trustees of Clemson Col80s lege. Mrs. Tillman had been on a visit to relatives at Greenwood. Senator Tillman looks remarkably ^ well. He said that he had never felt better. His face is well filled, ?rC inc his complexion ruddy and healthy, and altogether he looks well. He is gQE devoting himself to indoor exercise .. ,l , a tha and says it is fine. g.R Senator Tillman says that the . Clemson board transacted consider- nQj able business. The board has asked j . that Major Marcus B. Stokes, originally of Hampton county, be detailed ern to Clemson College as commandant . to take the place of Capt. Minus, f resigned. for Senator Tillman expects to spend mJt a month in Trenton, as he does not not think the Democrats can do very nec much in the tariff situation, and he a^. is satisfied that the Republicans will gon carry out the'r policies. N * Senator Tillman said he did not orn know what President Taft would do an(J with Dr. Crum. He had heard noth- ^tti lng whatever about any appointment g^. for Dr. Crum and would not be sur- j prised If he were not appointed to ing{ btaiilH Via hp snrnris any piauc, uu. ? r ? CQU ed if he were given some place in ha^ Washington. mei Senator Tillman talks with much aQd interest about his fight against the ^ confirmation of the appointment of ^ Dr. Crum, and sai \ that one of the g remarkable things about his fight ? ven was for hours he held up sixty sen- ^ ators, while he was relating his reWftS mlniscences of reconstruction and his - fight with McLaurin. Qecl The senator says he feels quite well enough to go out on another of his lecture tours, and incidentally lie thinks that the "wild talk" in Toll which he indulged while on his lecturing tour had done much to clear up the atmosphere with regard to ^ the race question. age( Mrs. Tillman 6ays that Senator Tillman is not to go on any lecture Moi tours, but she is quite willing for urlj him to go to Europe again. she Senator Tillman continues to be on ( much interested in the Navy Yard ^a, at Charleston, and says that he had gtat the work there well cared for in ave, the appropriation bill, and that "as ^ long as he is alive the Charleston yard has nothing to fear."?News ^ and Courier. ]evj THIS rs GOOD NEWS. ^ Scientists Say the Earth Won't Have Collision. a s whi Cambridge. Mass., March 11.? stri Commenting on the assertion made She recently by Dr. Percival Lowell that fout the earth was in danger of colliding tan with some large astral body and thus p0a be destroyed. Prof. William H. Pick- by ering, of ,the Harvard Astronomo- j cal Observatory, says that the chance the of such an event is about "one in pia( one hundred millions, raised to the one hundred millionth power." Til "A more possible danger,' he added, "but nevertheless an improbable one, is that the solar system In its ? journey through space may come close enough to some such a dark body as to cause a disturbance in the ( orbital motion of planets and per- w'h haps carry some of them, the earth chi included, into space. The danger is on so remote, however, that there need Gis be no popular apprehension about nu< it." Th of WANT SOLDIERS ARRESTED afc wh ^ * 11 Vrtcf or? 3,1)1 l"'Or KODDing llu jvnf,n J era James Island. his Columbia, S. C., March 11.?Presi- t?l* Kll dent Taylor of the State AuduVon Society has secured warrants from v 11 an f Magistrate Fowler here, against the eleven federal soldiers stationed at 1C Fort Moultrie, accused in an article 0 in the News and Courier of today, of ' having robbe^l an eagle's nest of its 1 young on James Island Sunday . Mr. Taylor is having papers sent down for service. The warrant charges the men with violation of the act of 1905. Fr WANTED TO LYNCH HIM. Was Pursued All Night by an Angry rP( Mob of Men. ni< ch Siccurney, Iowa, March 11.?After gu . - ?it. j Via wnrcf rnaHc fro a ten-mne uriv^ wci .v*-.-.. .v, experienced in Iowa, on the darkest fr< night imaginable, and then a twenty- is mile ride upon a handcar. Sheriff Grimes, with his prisoner, John Dun- wj ken, the confessed murderer of Cara m Rosen, the Ottumwa choir singer, tr managed to escape with what is be- bi lieved to be the approaching of a mob m and landed his prisoner in the peni- th tentiary at Fort Madison today. tb GOES SCOT FREE PAXDARD OIL ACQUITTED OF Is ALL CHARGES. le Verdict 1Vas Returned On Instruction of United Slates Judge | Anderson in Chicago. Chicago, March 10.?The Standard I Company of Indiana was today ind not guilty of accepting rebates I >m shipments of oil from Whiting, J., to East St. Louis, 111. The rd:ct was returned by a jury in t ; federal court on instructions of rtge A. G. Anderson, who averred 1 it he followed the circuit court appeale decision as to the verdict urned at the former trial of the ilea ne case and on which verdict sen ige Kensaw Mountain Landis as- jnsi sed a fine of $29,240,000. evo fudge Anderson's decision was not expected as he had yesterday told 'mi] ! government prosecutors that the des of relied on in the first trial was Can ompetent, and that it must he ing implemented or fail. It was with prei nething of an air of hopelessness wee t District Attorney Edwin W. thei is, and his assistant attempted to to i iw the admissability of the Illi- the s classification to prove the ex- nex ince of a legal rate of 18 cents, I; ich was a vital point in the gov- 219 ment's contention. The t was after Assistant District At- ovei tiey Jas. H. Wilkersoif had argued cert two hours and in the end ad- Len ted that the prosecution could ele-c furnish the further proof deemed Uni essary by the court for a continu- fore >n of the case that Judge Ander- 195 announced his decision. tim; Ir. Wilkerson said that the gov- stre ment could proceed no further vote suggested dismissal of the case, insu prney John S. Miller, chief coun- to f in the case of the oil company, The tiediately moved that there be an hers ructed verdict of not guilty. The Plui rt so ordered and the jury, which Wis been excluded during the argu- T its by the attorneys, was called in to j charged. the 'he decision of Judge Grosscup. the :er and Seaman, of the United recr tes circuit court of appeals, re- pose sing Judge Landis, together with ents decision of the rnnrf nf antipplo e+ifi assigned as authority for today's doin Ision. Leai of t VERY QUEER TALE. houi chai [1 by Escort of Girl Who Was obn( are Shot. lead radi laltimore, March 9.?Jennie Reed, ?jv d 21 years, of this city, was mur- ra(jj ?d Monday by a highwayman at tjje mt Washington, residence subShe and Joe Mueller, to whom that was engaged to be married were equ. the way to visit friends at Mount pam shington, according to Mueller's ular ement and left the car at Seventh A uue. t0 t ^'hen they had walked half a gurg :k and were in a lonely place,. ^ y were stopped by a man, who, jg ^ >ling a pistol, called for their val- ^ , les. Mueller said he gave up ^ ' it valuables he had and then the hwayman demanded a necklace n by Miss Reed. Her reply was of lap in the face, upon receiving j ' ch, the man fired, the bullet . ^ king the girl behind the left ear. . was carried into a nearby house, ^ . death had .been almost instaneous. The highwayman disapred and is being diligently sought the police. . lueller, who appears to have been only witness to the shooting was eed under arrest. .. EOLOGY AND A BROKEN HEAD !'?n Spej wha vv One Led to the Other in Chero- ontf kee Negro Church. recr Saffney, March 10.?At a row regi ich occurred in a colored as irch, a few miles in the country absi Saturday, a negro named Wat 'hoi it was arguing some theological I sstions, when a negro named goo omas Jeter took issue with some poll the doctrines promulgated by the day >resaid Gist, calling him a liar, ereupon Gist seized a chair and plied same with such force to the mium of Jeter as to bring him to qij( i knees, and pursuing his advance, struck him in the mouth and ocked several front teeth down his 'oat. As soon as Jeter recovered fficiently to come to town he in- Wa :ted Gist for asault and battery hui a high and aggravated nature, and b matter will be threshed out in he 3 Courts. pro He OXE HUNDRED MI5X * h the wil om One State Caught Pneumonia At Inauguration. P'a are Washington, March 10.?A letter do ceived here states that of the 800 he ?n which represented the Massa- wa usetts coast artillery in the inau- vol iral parade, iuu 01 mem <tre sm- ma ring from pneumonia, one has died pp( 3m typhoid pneumonia and another as dying from the same disease, ppi The Massachusetts coast artillery is quartered in National Rifle's arory and like many of the other oops were not supplied with coats, Mc it 6lept on the floor with only a thin ad attress to protect their bodies from th< ie drafts which swept in through bo ie doors and windows. Ai BITTER FIGH1 On Between Speaker Ca And The Insurgents. iEMOCRATS JOIN ? War on (he Speaker and He ic Defeated?The Allies >nly One Vote, Which They ] o Get From Four fenibers. Vashington, March 10.?Re ,n leaders in the house of r< tatives are gravely discussing lrgents movement, which lved sufficient strength to r ninent a change of the house i pite the resistive efforts of mon-Payne^-Dalzell combine. 1 to change the rules on the seeding the adjournment k, the insurgents gave notic ir immovable purpose there; enew the fight with vigor \> extra session is rapped to o t Monday. n the next house there wil Republicans and 172 Democ insurgents will have 22 I r members in their ranks ain addition of Judge Ir t Lenroot, of Wisconsin, who terl on an Anti-Cannon pie ted with the solid Democi es they will be able to nm votes, according to present Ues, while the total opposi ngth will be 196. It requires > of only one Republican for rgents to change the house r iny extent that may be desi insurgents claim four new n i: Picket and Woods, of Ic nly, of Vermont, and Kopp consin. hey have been working earn* nake their converts and ur leaders stick close to their ? movement will undoubtedly uited. So intense has the s and the loyalty of the ins become that each man is iting himself a "whip" an< ig strenuous service. Mine jer Clark says that every lis men shall be present in se on March 15, to vote fc lge in the rules, which are Dxious to the Democrats, as 1 to those Republicans who ing the movement for cer cal reform. he changing of the rules al cal lines is not the only ain insurgents. They mean, if ?, to depose Speaker Cannon, progress in that direction is ll and co-extensive with t paign for a change of the unj rules. proposition has been submi he Democrats by which an ;ent may be elected Speaker i aid of the minority. The ] o allow the Democratic Ieai select a candidate from am insurgents, who will then sup It is not believed that )osition will be accepted, as s he Democrats regard it as inv bad policies, and might re the insurants being repudi their party as going too fa; r opposition to the Republ ers of the house. Whethei Mr. Cannon is defeated for tion as Speaker, every indica its to the'success of the m it against the existing rules t a banquet last Saturday nigl a banquet last Saturday nigh or of Vice Tresident Sherr aker Cannon took occasion to it he thought, about the ins ;, saying among other things, ceforth none of them woulr ignizod by the house Republ ime. He also referred to t bullies and bluffers, who 1 olutely without the courag< ir convictions. t will be seen from this th d-sized vote, at least, ma led aeainst Mr. Cannon next ] .?News and Courier. \rivv ii'avt muc > Hundred and Thirty Applj Two Positions. Columbia, March 9?Commissi tson has already received ldred and twenty application: two positions of inspectors is required to appoint undei ^visions of the act recently pa hopes to he able to find two 0 have had some training z 1 lines expected, or who wi ling to work along modern ] . Watson hopes to make these ces nerve those for whom ! intended, and to get data inspecting along proper lines does not want men who si nt the places for the salar: ved. He is in no hurry i king the appointments, anc *ts to get first class men, at good as the moderate salary rmit. Dies of Old Age. Des Moines, March 11.?Mrs. Pherson died here today a vanced age of 102 years. Shi 2 oldest person in Iowa and rn in Grayson county, Virgini igust 22, 1S07. p A MYSTEKIUUS UAV1SJ Two Dogs Are Lost in It ai nnon Be FoundFarmers of Weldon Sprini Charles county, Mo., strove days to rescue two dogs t j been imprisoned for three v 111 a cave. Spurred by the piteoi and whines of the dogs, the r down until they were stoj May so',(l rock. Dynamite was us' out avail. One man risked Lark hv crawling- 150 feet at the a rope into a cave, but was ope to rescue the dogs. The eff j^ew then abandoned, because tl of the dogs could no longer h and it was concluded that tl perished. ipub- Three weeks ago Bob Tar jpre- Sam Pitman were hunting c r the Burton's farm, when their doi kas ed a coon, which sought saf< cave. The dogs, intent on th nake followed it in through the "ules entrance and disappeared fro the and hearing. They did not pajl_ and it was three weeks lat( (jay their whines were heard neai last s'nk feet away. e 0f began but was soon stopped 1 ifter *'oclc an(* dynamite was then i yhen fully 100 men, worner; an' rder ren gathered and urged the 1 * to greater endeavors, but the j j)? do nothing except to try to rats the cave. Finally Howell ris iold- in an attempt to reach a wjttl cue the dogs. He volunt.e< ving crawl ,nto t^ie cave a rc wag to him. One 150 feet Ion; j brought and an end of it tied ratio, wa's^ crawled iftto t. ister an(* went the length of th eg_ He found the passage at tha tion so srTia1' that could not ha' further, even if the rope ha .. longer. He could hear the d( ules oa^efl '0U(^y to them, but the ' ed to have fallen over a d< F0Q " and could not come to him. i em- ____________ wai BOAT TO BE RAISED , of First Confederate Torpedo I :stly iless Bottom. juns , he New Orleans, March 11.?T p?r_ rangements have been compl urg- raise first torPedo hoat con- Confederacy from the bottom < j js Ponchartrain was announced irjty meeting of Confederates her one night. The boat is lying neai tlje ish Fort, where it went dowi )r ago. It is proposed to plai s as vesse' on 'awn of the < erate Soldiers' Home in N< "are leanstain nriT ADnrnPU PPT\ffV \ \;I1IA/IU/A' v/i ?m. vaiii'AAifia long i of Favors Elimination of Hangi posanfj Electrocution. co" Atlanta, Ga., March 11. heir Clement A. Evans, commar pop~ chief of the United Confedera erans and chairman of the 'te(* commission of Georgia, ad 'n~ chloroforming criminals wh received the death sentence, plan <<j Relieve the law has n< ^ers to do more than take a man' l0n5> said Gen. Evans. "No livin port should witness it. The dea should be air tight, and the m omP is to die should inhale fth olv~ breath of death itself and sho lSU,t painlessly and alone. Any rfoath punishment is nothing [ 'n of barbarous. Even this ican enough." or Gen. Evans had already q .ro~ this statement by declaring tion opposed to capital punishmi ovp" anv crime save that of attac s !n women. it in _____________ 1 in TIIEY DESTROY CROP nan, say urp- Poisoned Wheat to Rait Prair that . .. ,,T . . , in the \\ est. \ bA ican Washington, March 11.?P hom wheat, is to lie used as bait to tver? the prairie dogs, the stockiru 5 ?f rmy, that now infest Arizo New Mexico and have beconn at a nace to the forest ranges the y be ranch lands prairie dogs have VIon- destructive to a variety of cr eluding wheat, grain, potat< sugar beets; while on grazin they destroy so much grass I grazing capacity of the lam - fOP dttced 50 to 75 per cent. Th service is employing every e prevent range deterioration. ?nCr STARRED HIMSELF one Sthat Sc'ssors While Ridir Georgia Train. ssed. men Savannah, Ga., March 10.? ilong in& violent on a Southern tr II be night between Atlanta and lines, and claiming he was being s > two R- T. Baird, of Fredericksbu they stabbed himself in the chest and pair of scissors, then attac , and negro porter and other ti mply He was found dead this mo y in- his berth on the arrival of t ibout in Jesup. It is presumed I ex- under the influence of sonleast The body was taken to Jack ' will Three Men Buried Aliv Hamilton, Ohio, March sower trench eight feet dee Ruth in today, burying three men t the rescuers reached the botton a was sewer they found the deac I was of James Robinson and A ia, on Howard. Thomas Revera cued alive, but will probablj A HUut UAVt id Can't Found In The Adiron dacke Upin st per New YorK for two hat had ::t:z rival the mammoth nen dug jped by ed with- Extensive Rooms Under the Mountain , his life Ncjjp Standish N< y \v7,ich Are ' end of s unable Yet to Be Explored?Veteran Gives ? \j it w an ^ ve cries Some Measurements and Tells of s heard the pitg Whlch Are j^p , tiey had Saranac Lake, N. Y., March 10.? hel and capt. E. E. Thomas, an old-time >n John woodsman, has discovered a great' *s start- cave jn a secluded part of the Adiron;ty in a dacks which may rival the famous e chase, Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. Thomnarrow as chanced to strike the entrance to m sight the cavern on the summit of a moun- ? return, tain se]dom visited by travelers, or ;r, that sportsmen, some time ago, but kept an old f^e matter secret until he could make Digging an investigation. by solid Taking a companinon with him, ised.^ he entered the cavern for 1,000 d child- feet( an(j as ^e end was not reached, workers the extent of the cave from that y could p0int on is as yet undetermined. It explore js situated on a mountain known as Ited his <.Yy? Mountain, not far from Stand.nd res- lsh) N y ;red to In describing his discovery, the >pe tied woodsman said: "The mouth is g was ^0^ flfty feet wide. The first room around |g j^y feet long, twenty feet wide he cave an(j thirty feet high. It swarmed ^ 6 *,ats' which lined the walls anrl c t depth Seemed scarcely able to move. There q *e gone was a decided smell of sulphur. In G .d been the next room, which was about an forty by fifteen feet, we .found pasV 800TT1? sages branching in many directions, t c v ^ and were unable to explore all of a them. a "With only the feeble rays of a r lantern to guide us, we several times 1 , . narrowly escaped falling into pits. k)ftt on ?? ? , , . . You can imagine how deep some of ti these were, when I say that we had ii time to count fifteen and twenty be- !\ hat ar- fore rocks we dropped into them were t eted to heard to strike?and we did not ii of the Count rapidly. An elk's horn was c 3f Lake f0und by us far inside the cave. n at a "After going a short distance from n e ^ast the mouth there was no vegetation, v r Span- There is no opening at the base of c i years the mountain and there are no o ce this streams in the cave so far as we ^ 3onfed- have yet discovered." a -w 0r- s TRAIN HANI) KILLED. c > ti LS. a Will Campbell Run Over by Engine ng and at Greenwood. Greenwood, March 11.?Will Campbell, a negro train hand emGen. pi0yCd jn the Seaboard local yards, 4( ider-in- had his legs cut off while at work te Vet- jn yards early Wednesday morn- > prison an(j several hours later vocates from the effects of his injuries. He o have wag run Qver shortiy after 2 o'clock and died at 5 o'clock Wednesday 3 rI^ morning. s " ' It appeared that Camnbell was at fh man swItch waiting for the engine 0 to go up to the tank and return. It 1 an w o wou](j seem that, as the engine came 1 e back, he attempted to jump on, but h u e missed his footing and fell under- 1 ?. ej" neath. Both legs were cut off. P r short ' The switching crew was in charge s )a of Yard Conductor Meaders and En- c . gineer Pittman. Mr. Pittman stated H hf ' that t*ie pnRlne was some about ^ himse tWQ Qr mjjes an hour. Camp- s or bell was an excellent train hand, P uI'on knew his business well, and it seemS 11 more than likely that it was a case s of accident. It was said at the in- t quest that Campbell said before ho died that he did not see how he could a ic Dogs get hurt. r A coroner's jury was impanelled c and the following verdict was render- r oisoned e(*: "Will Campbell came to his t kill off doath accident on his own part." 1 c na? and TRAIN WRECKER CAUGHT. 3 a me re. On Arrested on Charge of Causing Wreck proved ( ops, in- at Harbins. jes and Greenville, March 10.?John Tarh .a", f rell, colored, was arrested near Sen" eca this morning by Special Agent < ,s re~ Alton, of the Southern, and Sheriff ? p forest Kay, of ?conee county, charged with 1 nort o wrec]<ing train No. 35, near Harbins, s on February 22. i It will be remembered that En- ( gineer Will O'Neal lost his life in ( the wreck. A warrant has also been ig on a iSSUed for the Lewis, colored, charging him with being a party to the ; deed. The grand jury at Walhalla < -Becom- returned a true bill against both ne- ] ain last groes this moring. The sheriff of ] Jesup, Oconee has gone to Georgia looking ] hot, Dr. for Lewis. i irg, Va., ( , with a Killed and Injured. 1 ked the Brinkley, Ark., March 10.?Twen- ; ainmen. tv-nine dead and seventy-four in- i rning in jured is Brinkley's list of casualties ; ne irain from tne tornaao 01 wionuay. uui- i he was Side of Brinkley thirteen persons i ie drug, were killed and forty-six wounded, sonville. several of whom may die. e. Passenger Train \Y rooked. 11.?A Now Orleans, March 11.?Ts is re>p caved ported that an Arkansas, Louisiana . When and Gulf passenger train, bound l of the south from Little Rock, was derailed 1 bodies by train wreckers during the night lexander near the Louisiana line, nnd that was res- several persons were killed and ' r die. several injurod. uulo iu wurm IN DEAD EARNEST TO FIGHT CONSUMPTION. Aiken Employs a Trained Nurse Who Will Devote All of Her Time to Tuberculosis. The Columbia Record says Miss Susie S. Ravenel has been employed fiy the Aiken County Antituberculosis League, as a trained nure, to as ?ist in us work or prevention or the white plague. The league has been /ery active In Its Inauguration of a var against consumption. Although :he league has been organized only i few weeks, practical results are low being obtained, and the people ire being instructed in the means )f preventing disease. It is only recent years that means 'or cope with this dreaded disease iave been discovered and this knowlidge is not yet prevalent among the people; and the dissemination of this cnowledge is the primary object for he league in this county. No dues ire paid for membership in the eague, but voluntary subscriptions ire being received by the officers for he prosecution of the work. Many >f the Northern visitors have liberaly helped in this work. Miss Ravenel has already comnenced her work. She devotes th* orenoon to the work, making visits 0 all parties who may need her issistance. No charge is made for ler assistance, which is given not rom a charitable standpoint, but s a matter of giving valuable suggestions for the caring of patients nd prevention of the spread to oth:r members of the family, and the iblic, with whom infected persons ay come in contact. Miss Ravenel las had long experience as a nurse, ;nd she has entered the work with 1 spirit. She will make periodical eports^ to the president of the eague, Dr. Filmore Moore. The trained nurse will conduct ter work In conjunction with, and n harmony with the board of health, fiss Ravenel will also consult with he physicians of the city, and work a conjunction with them. Such ases that are reported to her, as eeding assistance, advice, or in any lanner that she can help them, she /111 visit. The object of this is, of ourse, to prevent the further spread f the disease, and it is stated that /here persons refuse to heed friendly nd voluntary suggestions for the afety of the people against tuberulosis, such cases will be referred o the board of health, to take such ction as they see fit for public afety. MURDER WOMAN'S HUSBAND. Rev." Wolfram and Mrs. Malinda Lockhart Locked Up. Atlanta, Ga., March 10.?Charles I. Wolfram, whom calims to be an rdained Holiness preacher, and Mrs. lalinda Lockhart are being held in he county jail on charges growing ut of their discovery together in he former's room on Marietta street, 'he arrest was caused by woman's iusband, James J. Lockhart, whom, he two prisoners claim, they had lanned to murder. Wolfram is author of several soallcd religious books, and earned a ivelihood selling them on the streets. Irs. Lockhart is a strikingly handome woman, and apparently intelli;ent. She has not lived with her iusband for two years, becaute, as he claims, Wolfram was fouud to ie her "soul-mate" or "affinity." Religious/ attraction led to their .ssociation, is is claimed, and to renove all carnal barriers they had deeded to r?move Lockhart by the >oison route. Their nerve failed at he last moment and Lockhart still ives to enjoy his estate of $10,000 ir $15,000.?Augusta Chronicle. SHOULD SHUN SOFT DRINK3. Jovernment Pure Food Evpert Warns Girl Students. Washington, March 10. ? The langers of "the soft drink habit" md the innocence with which girls )ecome addicted to it, were emphasized tonight by Dr. Harvey, with W. kViley, the Government's pure food jxpert, in a lecture before one hunIred girl students at Holy Cross \cartemy. "If you only know what I know about what those soft drinks con:ain you would abstain from them," lie said. "It will surprise you to know that most of them contain more caffeine than coffee, and a drug svhich is more deadly. So beware Df the soft drink. It is more harmful than coffee, and I advise all young people against the use of this stimulant. Perhaps you would be interested to know I have collected more than one hundred samples of soft drinks sold at soda fountains, and each contains caffeine, and many of them a deadly drug." Several Drowned. Montgomery, Ala., March 10?Five persons were drowned Wednesday in the Alabama river here in the rising waters which followed Tuesday night's storm. Three white and a negro wore drowned from the ferry, and William Dillard, a white boy, fell in and was drowned. A CKItS I SLAIN In His Study at Newark, N. J, by Assassins SHOT AT WOMAN ALSO Three Men Walk into Room of the Rev. Erasmus Ansion and Shoot Him to Death?Dead Priest Had % Ousted Several Trustees, Causing Much Dissatisfaction. Newark, N. J., March 10.?Three men whose features appear to have been concealed by their heavy over- _ coats and slouch hats, walked into \ the study of the Rev. Erasmus Ansi-' on, pastor of the Polish Church of St. ^tanislaus, this morning and opened fire upon him. Three bul icld iiuui uitn lui w revoiwro nit me priest, killing him instantly. The trio turned to make their escape and found their way blocked by Mrs. Antonio Sewrzytska, the * housekeeper. One of the visitors v turned his revolver upon her, inflict- / ing a wound which is likely to prove fatal. Then all three made their escape. The police were put to work on the case within a few minutes of the murder' and by noon had rounded up four suspects, one of whom the housekeeper, now in St Barnasbas Hospital, thought bore a resemblance to the leader of the trio who had done the Bhooting. The others she was unable to identify. All four denied any knowledge of the affair. No adequate theory to account for t.he attack upon the priest has beea presented to the police. It was learned that there has recently been con- siderable factional trouble in the congregation, and Father Ansion, when he came from Paterson to take charge of the church five months ago, made several changes which are said to have caused widespread dissatisfaction. All the men arrested are members of St. Stanislaus church, and the. police ordered the arrest of all the former trustees, whom the dead priest ousted when he took charge of the parish. The police tonight arrested three men, suspects, all Poles, who reBlde near the church. At the same time it was announced that the belief was growing that the priest's assassins were not Newark men, although It was thought that the murder has been planned here and that some of those under arrest may be able to shed light on these plans. A crowd of 5,000 Poles gathered early tonight in front of the rectory in which lay the body of the murdered priest, expressing their grief ,and demanding to see the body. The police succeeded in getting It under control by promising to grant Its demand. Accordingly, a double line of police was arrayed from the street through the house, and for two hours or more the Poles marched in single file past the casket In which the body lay. FOUND GUILTY OP MURDER. Laurens Breaks a Record Covering Fifteen Years. Laurens, March 10.?For the first time in about fifteen years a Laurens jury has returned a straight verdict of murder without a recommen dation to mercy. Tnis occurrea tnis afternoon in the Court of General Sessions, when the jury returned a verdict of guilty in the case of the State vs. John Henry Anderson for the murder of his father-in-law. It will be recalled that Anderson shot and killed old man Joseph Carter at the Cedar Grove church at the funeral of one of Anderson's children. He shot him in the back, and without immediate provocation. Anderson will very likely be sentenced on Saturday. Two cases of attempted criminal assault were tried today in /the General Sessions Court, one against a young white man, Albert Duncan, accused of attempting to ravish a young girl in Waterloo Township, the home of both. Duncan was found guilty with mercy recommended by the jury. The other case was against Will McCollough, colored, charged with attempting to ravish a young white girl in Sullivan's Township. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty. "WEATHER CLERK EXPLAINS How He Made Such a Mistake About tiio Weather. Washington, March 8.?Just how it happened that there was such a blizzard in Washington March 4, and in the fact of his telegrams to Mr. raft, on the night of 3rd that the weather would be clear, was explained to the president today by Willis T,. Moore, chief of the United Stalo weal her bureau. Prof. Moore admitted he had waited for several days with some timidity before attempting to "pay his respects"* to Mr. Taft. Mr. Moore has an explanation which he brought to a climax with all sorts of proof that 110 such "highs" and "lows" ever before produced such a snowstorm,. . -