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GAVE HIM BACK K Bey tdnippd ud Hrld Twq Moalfcs Returned t* His PartoU* A VERY STRANGE CASE ft* Father of the Lad Says He Wui Restored at Brooklyn Bridge?The Boy Says He Was Well Treated by His Captors, Who Had Four Other Children. After being held a prisoner for more than two months by a band of ; kidnappers. Peter, the six-year-old aon of Charles Cirincion, is again at his home. No. 414 Hackensaek Plank Road, Union Hill, N. J. He is uninjured and Is a little stouter and taller than when his captors ' earried him away. The boy told a World reporter that In the house to which he was taken, either on the east side of New York or else In Brooklyn, there are four other children. He gives their names as Rose, who is two years old: Treclna, who is five: Katie, four, and "Nonna," a boy of seven. Peter says that the children re ferred to the woman who cared for them as "Mamma," but the police believe them to be other children held for a reward. A determined effort will be made 4o locate the house where Peter was kept and to , run down the fang of kidnappers. * Peter was returned to his fatner as mysteriously as he disappeared. Cirincion was sitting in his carpet store about 2 o'clock Monday after noon, so he asserts, when the tele phone rang and a man's voice on the other end of the wire said that If he would be at the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Rrid?e at 10 o'clock that night his son would be restored to him. He hadn't much hope, as during the last month he says he received several similar messaged without result. The father declares he took up his stand at the bridge at the hour ap pointed, and says that from the crowd the little fellow darted to him and in a minute was in his arms. Cirincion is unwilling to discuss f*nr that Ulf case Kl iruftiii I.U1WQ the kidnappers will again moleBt kliri He denies that he paid any rtDFom to regain his boy. He says that the men who took the little fel low away, when they found that he could not pay the tribute demanded, returned the child of their own ac cord. "Peter went away on Sept. 26," said Cirincion, 'and I had nearly giren up hope of Beeing him a?ain. When he went to school that morn ing a man gave him a penny. When school let ort the man wss waiting for h'm with another man. Both were Italians. The first man spoke to my boy, calling him "Petie," and asking him if he didn't want some candy. Then they took him off with them. I heard at the time that they ?v>im mvflv in a oony cart, tai i ivpv* ? ?in w - ... ? ? but it was in a stree-t car. A After this happened I got a tele phono message. and a man asked me bow much I would give to g^t my boy back a^a'n. I told him that I had no monpv and he rane: of. 11 tried to find out where the message camo frcn. but I could not." "The mans took me away on a car and T^en forked me on two trains." said Petie to The World reporter, and b- pointed in the direction of the Bull's Ferry cars. Tt is believed that hr took the cars and then crossed to Ypw York from Jersey City by the Hudson tube. "Thev 'ooked me to a house, a; bi? red ho"5"*." he said. 'The mans. I they called troked me. lie! was a young mans and he gave mo j pome randy ?o T went with him. And | w'ioti I col i<"> rnp nousw m?,? ?ii=> ?i lady thorn. She was a young lady att' ba^ b'ack hair and she Rived rre s^me eke. It was fis: cake and some nico kind of cake with some .hint: sr-od in the middle. "And thera was other children at the horpo. too. There was Nonna. Fe was a hoy and we used to play marbles. He used to heat me when we plaved and then he'd give me the marb'es back again and we'd play a)! over. "They let me play in the back yard, brt I never runned away. They ea'd mv pana would come for me. Once the la'iy canonod me unaer inei stove pnd she giver me the strap, b;ii it didn't hurt. We went to the moving picture hows. I saw seme Indians an:l row bovs fi^htins:. Xaw, the Indians didn't boat the cowboys. Course not, the cowbovs beat the Ind'ans. "At niuht I slept with the fat mans. There were three other mans j In the house. Thoy all used to j?o over to another house, and some times they sent me to set beer. "Last night they told me to come a!ons: with them, and I went, with Sam and the other mans. We walked ? l^nc way. I was awfully tired, but th^n thov brought me home. Naw. pana didn't find me at the brid^o. lie's just making that up." Potie says trains went past tiie bouse where lie was kept: and that you had to go upstairs to the car". He savs thf-re were a lot of Tta'iars end Hebrews in th<5 neighborhood. His first request yesterday was urn he be taken to th*1 moving ploture Bhow. just as be was tok-'-n by the woman member of the kidnapping sai)C l!i? ro'jitoct tvr?a ernntpil. Sent I?ack Home. -Eleven hundred, arrives: at cau Francisco, on the steamer Manchuria, will be deported under a medical in spector's order. The Hindus are af flicted with the hook-worm. Immi gration authorities say they are de porting many recent arrivals because of the existence ol hook-worm dis ease among them. WOMAN CHAINED BY HER NEiiKO HUSBAND IX HIS HOMK IN BOSTON, MASS. When Found by the Folic* She Wan Almost Nude, Badly Hruined and Nearly SUrrwl. A young white woman, aged 23 years, nearly nude and fastened to a wall with & chain about her neck, her hands tied behind her back and hpr and bodv a masa of raw bruise*, was found In a room at 58 Middlesex street, in Boston. Mass., Wednesday night by the police when they forced their way into the home of J. H. Taylor, a negro, against whom they had a warrant in connec tion with the sale of cocaine. Taylor is said to have threatened the police with a revolver when the door was opened, but he was over powered quickly. Entering the room, the police found the young white woman lying on a couch with a chain about her neck, fastened to the wall. "When asked why she was so con fined, Taylor, according to the po lice, declared it was because she would run away if he did not chain her. He was ordered to release her, and when he did so, she rushed to an ice chest and ravenously devoured a loaf of bread. According to the police, the girl said she was married to Taylor last September. She declared she had been chained down for eight days and in that time hai eaten but on:e. That was three days ago when Bhe was given some bread and tea. MAD MOB MAKES MISCHIEF. Objecting to "Pay-as-You-Enter" System, Wreck Cars. At Toronto, Kan., 6erious rioting occurred Wednesday night, following a maBs meeting called to protest against the introduction of "pay-as you-enter ' cars by the Toronto Street Railway Company. The system was installed on the principal car lines of the city two weeks ago. It caused general dis satisfaction because, it was claimed, the company fa'led to provide proper! cars. A mass meeting was called for at Massey Hall. The call was is sued by the board of control, through Mayor Geary, and was intended J mAfiAlw wftlrtA o lawful nrntoef I U1U1CJ/ tv u IUU1UI yt VbVUb I against the innovation. Many fiery speeches were made and upon leaving the building the audience became a mob. They attacked the street cars, dragged off the conductors and mot- j ormen and then proceeded to wreck i the cars. The police reserves were j unable to control the situation,: wh'cb grew more serious every rain-! ute. Mayor Geary personally ap pealed to the mob, but liis advice was! ignored and at 11 o'clock the work1 of destruction was still going on. Twelve cars were completely! wrecked and the windows in one hundred others were smashed. Eigh- j teen persons were injured. The| worst of the rioting appeared to be over at midnight. VESSEL HAS STOU.MV VOYAGE. I The Crew Suffered Much Before Reaching Port. The lumber laden bark Mantanzas,; bound from Brunswick, Ga., far, Philadelphia, anchored at Branrly-1 wine Shoals tonight, after being tossed about by contrary winds for ' 47 days, in a voyage usually com-; pleted in two weeks. Four timos: within the past five weeks the vessel' MTU OLctlt:?, LUC uuais l\j a t ?> V?t.' j t-isht out of the forty e*igh' Ftatos already have been an tionnced. The prand total for 2^ of these States Is GO.OSfi. 7.r?0, whlcl lis a gain of between 21 and 22 pei i(?>nt over the population in the ?am# ! States in 1 ! 00. At this rate of in ctcase the tota! populaion of thf icintry should be about 91,000, ?i00. The most striking development 'the census so far shown is the re tive growth of cities and Industr. jrentres compared with fanning > I :Ions. The Eastern States have- more jthan hold their own. while the States !cf the Middle West have off. Another Warning. Mrs. LillJe Knsley, wife of O. A. Easley, a farmer five miles from : 'Mobile, Ala., died Monday night from llie effects of burns received while frying to light a fire wilh a can of kerosene. The oil touched a live coal and the can exploded. She was al most from lior wai?t dnwn. Meets Peculiar Death. The two-year-old son of Mr. Ben linrton, of Greenville, was the vic tim of a most unusual accident. The child was playing in front of an open prate when a kettle of boiling water in turning over completely immersed him. The Utt'e fellow suffered great agony, living about eight hours. * PA1NTHIMWHITE Repoblicaxis Pit ?b a Thick C?it ef Vbitewasb on BaUingrr. SCORED BY DEMOCRATS Republicans Say the Secretary Has Honestly and Faithfully Performed Hi? Dutiew, While the Democrat* Say He Has Not Heen True to the Trnst Reposed in Him. The Hailinger-Pinchot investigat ing committee, after eleven months of work, made its final report to both houses of the Congress Wednesday. In the opinion of seven Republican members, a majority of the commit tee, Secretary Ballinger "honestly and faithfully performed the duties of hiB high office, with an eye 6ingle j to the public interest." In the opinion of the four Demo crats, Mr. Ballinger, "has not been true to the trust reposed in him as Secretary of the Interior and Bhouid be asked by the proper authorities to resign." Both reports, together with the independent report of Representative Madison, (Republican) also adverse to Mr. Ballineer. were offered in the Senate by Senator Nelson, and in the House by Representative McCall. Their presentation followed a meet In? of the fuy committee. The Dem ocratic members, lead by Senator Fletcher, of Florida, agreed to thiE method of getting the reports before Congress, after their motion to sub stitute their own report had been rejected in the committee. Senator Fletcher first raised the point of order that the committee had already approved the report that was made public at 'Minneapolis. This point was overruled by Chairman Nelson. A motion then was made to substitute the Democratic report for the report agreed upon by the seven Republican members. This was voted down 7 to 5, Representative Madi son voting with the four Democratp. It was agreed by the committee after the majority report had been adopted, that all three should be presented at once In each house and printed together. Under this ar rangement the dissenting reports arc given equal standing with the ma inrltv rpnnrt before the two houses. An order, for 30,000 copieB of the report was made by the Senate. Senator Fletcher said later that steps will be taken by the Democrats to bring about action in accordance with the recommendation contained in their report. The recommenda tion in question characterizes Secre tary Ballinger as "not deserving of the public confidence" and recom mends "that ho should be requested by the proper authority to resign h!s olT.ce as Secretary of the Interior." The reports were accepted in both houses without comment. The plm of ncticn to bo followed by the Dem ocrats has not been determined upon, but it is said a resolution will be presented to carry out the recom mendation made for the Secretary's removrl. Si'ch a resolution probably will ca'l uatly u'?on the President approaches the Delaware C:\pes, culy j to he blown out to sea again. Threoi times the crew were on the verge of starvation, when passing steam-! ships suuplied them with pro\isiuns, the list time more cnan a week ago, I when the El Paso went to the bark's rest-up. after Capt. Trim and his crew of eleven had been without food for four days. MXETY-OXK MILLION. Population of United States Mnj Itenrh Stated Figure*. i ne total (lopinai inn ui uie ijmii cd States, as revealed by the 13tL censns, Is expected to be announcer, by the census bureau on Decemb?: 10. Counting Arizona and Xew Mex * ? f f A>? f TTftntH to d'schargs his Cabinet officer. The Democrats held a conference on the matter to!ay. Th^y chir.l" terize the majority report as "weak," while th?? R'-pubM^a" members of tlip committer sav it has fully answered all the charges made ngiinst Bal linger and has disposed of all testi mony presented during the long hearings. An effort undoubtedly will br made to put the House or. record as to its opinion of the majority report. Some of the Democratic House mem bers favor deniandiri? consideration of the report at the first opportnnify. following up their demand with an appeal from the (^eels-ion of th* chairman should Speaker Cannon rule them out of order. Officials of the interior department declined to make any comment whatever on the majority report. "I have no comment to make on the report of the committee." said Secretary of the Interior Ralllngcr, when ask?d in regard to the findings. In case the Speaker permits mat ters to take their course, it 13 held by parliamentarians that a resolu tion demanding a vote would be nec essary. Such a resolution would h?.ve to go to some standing com mittee Tor report, and as no such committee would relish the responsi bility thus thrust upon It. the reso lution probably would be pigeon holed. The general feeling Is that there would be no action on the re port at this session, which means ! not at aM. for the report loses its: I force with the evniration of the ores-i ent Congress In March. Wealth Mid in Stovepipe. r>:mk books and bonds represent ing a total value of $30,000 and be lonping to Mi?s Emily Williams, wliosp body was found in lu*r homp! nenr Milford, X. J., Sunday, several days af'er her death, were discov er cd h:.! ir. a stovcj ip.?. Miss Wil liams' will was also found in the same h'din.q pi a pp. Swept, by Cyclone, i Western Spain was swppt by a cv . clone according to advices. Several j verse-Is pans in Corunn harbor. Many j prisoners \vere drownei. At Seville the river rose ten foot. flonlinsr tlie valley. Several persons were killed near Bilbour. Deadly Gasolene. At Orange, X. J., Raymond Hamil ton. a ehaffeur was burned to death while on his hack beneath his em p'oyer's automobile, trying to adjust the running gear by the light of a kerosene lantern, when a sudden e.v ' plosion occurred. * CO rTON GINNED AH GIVEN OUT BY THE REPORT OF THE CENSUS BUREAU. Amounts to 10,130,980 Ba]?xt, of Which 1,036,480 Wm Reported From South Carolina. The cotton ginning report of the census bureau, issued at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning, Bhowa 10,139, 986 bajee. counting round as b-ilf bales, ginned from the growth of 1910 to December 1, compared with 8,876,'886 for 1909, 11,008,661 for 1908 and 8,343,396 for 1907. The per cent of.the la6t three crops ginned to December 1 was 88.1 for 1S09, 811 for 1908 and 75.5 for 1907. Round bales included this year are 101.652, compared with 134,393 for 1909. 201,480 for 1908 and 154,636 for 1907. Sea ibland cotton ginned for 1910 was 66,634 bales, compared with 77, 591 for 1909, 68,396 for 1908 and 55,299 for 1907, and distributed as follows: Florida 23,649, Georgia 35,405 and South Carolina 7,580. I3.v States the number of bales ginned is: Alabama 1,062.629 Arkansas 625,03 0 Fiorina 54,307 Georgia 1,626,499 Louisiana 218,772 Mississippi 970,205 North Carolina 615,493 Oklahoma 828,842 South Carolina 1,036,480 Tennessee 249,794 Texas 2,795,330 All other States 56,605 TEXAS IS A GKEAT STATE. - v?? t>^Mi-_. u out; Jiuw xvaiiiwn rnui ui t upui?iivu Among the States. The population of the State of Texas 1b 3,896,542, according to sta tistics of the thirteenth census is sued tonight. This is an increase of 847,832, or 27.8 per cent, over 3, 048,710 in 1900. The increase from 1890 to 1900 was 813,187, or 36.4 per cent. 1 Population of the Texas counties | containing the principal cities is: Bexar, 119,676; Dallas, 135,748; Ei ] Paso, 52,699; Galveston, 44,479; , Harris, 115,693; Jefferson, 38,182; , McLennan, 73,250; Tarrant, 108, 572; Travis, 55,620; Webb, 22,503. ( No city population statistics for Tex as were issued. Texas, the largest State in the United States In point or area, made , greater progress in its increase in population during the last ten years than any of the States, which ex ceeded it in the number of inhabi tants, and now takes rank as flfU) State in population, passing Mis souri, which in 1900 held that place. Census statistics show that only New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Ohio surpass Texas In population, while Missouri drops back to seventh place, having been passed by Massa chusetts during the last ten years. Texas population increase wouM give her four Representatives in C.m :ress if the present ratio of appor tionment is retained when Congress ?nacts the new apportionment law. Only thirty of the 245 Texas counties showed decreases in population and these were slight. IU N OYER 15Y WAGON. Tim KoIkmLn Killel at Woodruff Sat urday .Morning. The Spartanburg Journal says while rrd;ng on a two-horse wagon at Woodruff Saturday morning, Tim Roberts, aged IS years old, In some manner fell frrm the wagon and w.is run over. Roth wheels of the wagon passed over his body. The accident occurred Saturday night at S o'clock, and th> young man died of the wounds thus received. He was one of the b^st known youn? men of that town. lie was connected with one of the best known families of Wood ruff. Served Him Eight. Conductor J. B. S * vens, who runs between Atlanta and Macon on the iTouthern railway shot and fatally woi'.nded Henry Scott., a negro, Fri day morning, because he had insulted his housekeeper. The housekeeper told him of the negro's proposals and Cant. Stevers immediately got the negro in his house. He denied mak ing the insult, but when confroted by the woman admitted his guilt and attempted tc attnek her. It was then that C.spt. Stevens fired, every bullet taking effect. * Talks War in Japan. Tint Japan must prepare ror war with the Unite! Str.tfs is the next <?f an article published by the Tokio Nippon. Japan must ask herself, says the Nippon, "what object an cle ment of United States citizens have in view when they advocate the ex penditure of enormous sums 0:1 fur nishing the Pacific with a big fleet, of creating a powerful army on the Pa cific. slope, of building a huge cinal depot an.l naval elation in Hawaii Till nf fortifvini the Philippines, I Hawaii and Panama." Saving n Fi?*n<l. Charged with having assaulted a IG-vear-o'd girl at Columbus, Ga., Wednesday night as she was return ing homo from work, Henry Taylor, a negro, w;;s arrested, and after be ing identified by the girl, was hus tled out of the city for safekeeping. The girl was brutally beaten about the head and shoulders and choked, but it is said the negro was frlghten 'e1 away before accomplishing his fiendish purpose. \ GRAND SUCCESS rhe Com Exp*siti?i at Cdonbii Made a Greil Sbwioj far tke SOOTH'S CORN PRODUCT Ilig Agricultural Fair Pfocess Great Success?Surprise at the Wonder ful Possibilities of Corn-Growing in the Southern States?Boy and ' Girl Contestants Are Given Prizes. The South Atlantic States Com Exposition, held In Columbia, marks an epoch in the history of the South. Never has there been so much fine corn brought together south of the Ohio and west of the Mississippi river. It is not a pleasure event, but Is educational. The faruieis of North Carolina, South Carolina and Geor gia were shown, in a concrete form, that the great, boasted corn belt of the Weal has at last moved South. The Exposition stands for more and better corn, which means more live stock and hogs, and consequent ly bread and meat, for the milions of people in the South. The Expo sit'on showed what can be done on the broad acres of the South. It; shows that the broad acres of the South are more adapted to the cul ture of corn than the plains of the West. The Exposition was the climax of the 160,000,000 bushels Increase in the corn production of the South. .The Exposition shows, most especially, that the boys of the South have be come great farmers, and that they are capable of teaching their fathers new methods. It shows that at last the farmer has adopted intelligent methods and is not following the trail left by cotton. The Exposition was a great success, and it is only s, nucleus of what is to be next year, and in the years to come. The Exposition waB a success from every standpoint. There was a large attendance of farmers from the three States taking part and by Colum bians, who are interested In the up building of the State along material lines. All were surpriaed at the large number of exhibits and the fine corn. There are over 700 individual exhibits. The executive committee of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce, meeting Wednesday, discussed plans for a great Southern corn show for next year. The plan will be con summated. Even lower rates will connroH nvor oil of rflllrnarlc 3nd there will be many festivities In connection with the Exposition. President Herbert, of the Chamber of Commerce, Is very enthusiastic and will lend every effort to see that Columbia's part In the success of the next Exposition Is carried out. There were two important and ed ucational speeches made Wednesday it the Exposition. The first speech was by O. B. Martin, assistant to Dr. Penman A. Knapp, of the United States farm demonstration work. He 'old cf the work of the Roys' Corn Clrbs in the South and of the won 'erful results that have been ob tained In this State. He praised the ire?s for the assislance in bringing ibout the great wave of agitation for 'orn production in the ?onth. The next speaker wps Ira W. Wil liams, State asent of the United States for farm demonstration work. He also gave credit to the press for 'he assistance rendered the move ment and especially thanked the bus ness men of this an! other States. vho have so liberally contributed irizes for the Corn Exposition. Wed nesday night there were addresses by Commissioner Watson and T,. 0. >aub. In charce of the Roys' Corn Cl::b work in North Cirolina. The prizes for the boys' corn -how, beiii 7 !? . M? c*?nnoo-?n wj.-h fhe Corn Exposition were i warded Wednesday. The prizes ag:\iviate several hundred dollars. Th-e show was held under the direction of Ira W. Williams. State accent for the United States farm demonstration work. Approximately 4 00 boys, from thirty "ounties, sent exhibits. Agri cr.ltural libraries were awarded to Aiken. Barnwell and Clarendon counties for the best exhibits. L. L. Raker was in charge of the boys' corn show. Prizes aggregating $10,000 ' were awarded Wednesday night for the best corn rxhlbiterl from North Car olina. South Carolina and Georgia. The prizp for the best single ear of corn was won by E. Goodwin, of Apex, N. C.; best ten ears, by J. C. Lewis, of Reedy Pranch. X. C. Rest individual disnlay and best 50 ears, by A. D. Hudson, of Newberry, S. C. Prizes for the largest yields were awarded to Jerry II. Moore, 15 years of ag?\ of Winona, S. C.. who pro duced 228 bushels and 3 peeks on one arm, and to Miss Hannah Plow-. r:en. 15 years of age. who produced I 120 bushels of corn on one arre. Quality nnd not quantity of corn ! w;ts considered by the judges, in , making fhe awards. Makes Good Commissioner E. J. Watson, in the opening paragraph of bis 1910 re port, said the population of South : Carolina has Increased to over 1,-i nOO.OOO people. Detailed figures , prepared fur Governor Ansel a short j while before fixed the population a j few thousand over that amount. The ! census figures given out Wednesday malre this State's population 1,015, 4 ft 0. Fell !)?>n?l ;it I?;? While Asking a young woman to dance with him. Oeoree L. Johnson, ?gpd 21. dropped dead at ? ball at, Worp?B??r. Mrm.. Thursday night WORSE THAN SUYE TALES CHINESE GIRLS SMUGGLED INTO THE UNITED STATES. Miuic Jo antej im Unhealthy Locker, With No Light, Little Food qih! Ijtm Air Afforded Them. Seven Chinese girls, captured on Sunday when an attempt waB i?<wig made to smuggle mem asnore iroiu the steamer Manchuria, at San Fran cisco. tell a story that for brutality concedes nothing to the workings of the earlier African slave trade. Im migration officials say there is no doubt the girls were brought bet^ to be sold into " slavery. Their ages ran?e from 1 4 to 19gyears. All but one of them declare that they wure kidnapped in Honk Kong. This one had previously been in America and had been deported. The narrative was obtained from the girls by Chief Assistant Immi gration Commissioner Harry Edsell, who spoke to them in their own tongue. They said they had made the jour ney from China in a locker fourteen feet square, below decks?a place without ventilation. Not a ray of light, natural or artificial, did they see on the whole voyage. The eight Chinese men who were captured at the same time as the girls, were with them in the room, but. no one e'.se visited them until they reached port. Their only food and drink was some dried fruit and cold tea, of which a supply had been left for them before the departure of the boat. One of the girls, the youngest of the party, says she had come from her country home on a visit to Hong Kong. A smooth tongued country man told her a great pageant was be mg neid on ttie Dig American steamer and said he thought he might be able to gain admission for her. She fell Into the trap. Another says she was drugged by her kidnappers. Edsell says a thorough Investiga tion Is to be made of the operations of the smuggling ring that Is sup posed to be at work and that every effort will be made to discover whether any government officials are involved. TOOK PROMINENT PART. North Carolina Farmers at the Corn Exposition. North Carolina played an impor tant part In the first Southern com exposition which opened in Columbia on Tuesday. An exnibit which at tracted much attention was that of .Terry H. Moore, the 15-year-old boy of North* Carolina birth who with North Carolina seed in combination with Soi-th Carolina soil raised at Winona in Florence county 228 3-4 bushels of corn to the acre. One ol the North Carolina exhibitors is the son of the late Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States. Tbi3 planter, Mr. Rutherford B. Hayes of Asheville, has a collection of corn that Is superb. He is rrom Bun combe county but Director William!' of the North Carolina experiment station says there is no Buncombe about his pretences as a corn grow er. AVERTED I5Y ACCIDENT. Man Trips on Spikes Intended to De rail Trains. To the fact that a negro faun hand happened along at the right time is attributed the failure of an attempt to wreck a Texas and Pacific train near Ha'lsville, T^xns. late Wednes day night. In making his way along the trac?r the negro stiimbled over a series of spikes driven near th:< rail protruding far enough to have derailed the first train passing. Rail road officials are investigating i . t'le same vicin;:> quantity of cross ties and other obstructions v/ere found piled on the track several months ago. It was a narrow escape for some train. WANTED TO SEE HIS BABY. Longing Eor Little One Brings Er rant Father Back Home. It was a longing to hold in his arms his baby which he never had se<m that brought Walter A. Hall, a defaulting bank teller, back to New York and prison. He surrendere.1 himself Friday, confessed a theft of $44,000 from the Herald Square branch of the Greenwich bank, and was remanded for sentence. Hall, v.-ho is 24 years old, fled from N'ew York last July and wan dercd about Canada, he said, betting on horse raccs. When he heard that a baby had arrived his longing to see the child made his exile misery. He sent $500 to his wife, which she turned ov<r to the bank. Later, 're said, he sent $1,000 to J her. but she tolrl (he police today j that she nevpr recr ived the money. Whrn he could resist no longor the j impulse to return to see his baby, he came back to >*ew York. Hr.'l sur rendered $15,000 which he said wis all he had left of the money he hai taken. * CIhmIht r??'am\ For the establishment of one rent letter postage a hill was inl rod need , in the House Wednesday by it*-pre j conlntii'O Sllpniiarfl. of Tpx;?R. Il I would take rff'-et July 1. iflll. Ii j proposes (but the rate for 'ettprs ahnll Hp one ^pnt an omi^e Instead of Iwn fonts as nn<!?r 'h? nrooojjt !a? Drops Dead in Court. At Culfport. Miss., Janips Tunney. j a native of Baltimore and for sov-! eral years past a wealthy resident. of that city, dropped dead in the Hurrisnn county court He wai a spectator. , i if . PITIFUL STORK , " | Told by a frng Girl ( Row Sfet fas Lird Eras fl? ne WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC Sensational Twtlnwny Against 8or? Traveling Showmen. Who I* Charged With Inducing Young Girbt to Leave Their Home* aa# Then Kntrodnce*Them Co liven at. Shame. A most sensational case is being tried at Greensboro, N. C., in which serious charges are made against some showmen. A dispatch from Greensboro, in speaking of the can?, says: In the United States Conrt T*ur? day afternoon, District Attorney Hol ton called the case against Citric* Quarter and Joseph Napier, proprie tors of traveling shows, who are ux> der Indictment charged with engag ing in the white-slave traffic, by in ducing yonng girls from their bome? rM . under promise of lucrative and get* teel employment and afterwards lur ing them into reprehensible occupy tions. In default of bond, the pris oners have been in jail two months. The government has a score of wit nesses here for the trial, twelve o# whom are young women, who are al leged to have been enticed away from their homes, and who have been custody of the Government as pros ecuting witnesses for over a week. The majority of these girls are ex ceedingly pretty, and are all dress^a with taste. The defendants are charged 1b some count* with a conspiracy ts bring certain yopng girls from the city of Danville. Vai. into North Cai* olina, with the purpose and. intent to Induce them into prostitution. Other counts charge that two girls were enticed from Baltimore ints? this State, -where, besides inducing them to expose their persons in im moral shows, they were debauch"* and ruined. The first witness examined was 1 fi year-old Mary Von Newendorf, oJ Baltimore, who told of being lnauc*4 by the defendants to leave her moth er, under promise of twenty-five dol lars a week, to take part 'in glrlaf dancing and chorus shows at fair*. She left Baltimore with another gilt friend, Maude McClelland. The evidence of the girl allege! immoral conduct on the part of Quar ter, immediately after taking hei from her home. She was rescned b]f a relative in Charlotte, who found her, after a week's search, in a room with Quarter, the couple being reg istered as man and wife at a leading hotel. Sh?? declared this was done under her protest, after Quaster hai promised to marry her. The cas? will likely consume several day*. CALLED FOR HER MOTHER. : Child Supposed to Re Pea/l S?-ar?*d the Undertaker. In the city of New York recently just as the undertaker put his hand?> to lift the body of 3-year-olil Lillioo> Viand to prepare her for burial, tne child sat bold upright in her wind ing sheet., opened her eyes and cried, "Mammal I want my mamma! L am cold.' The undertaker fell back In *" chair nearly fainting, hut regaining presence of mind, snatched up blank ets. wrapped the child in them ajjd rushed do v. n stairs with ber to th? parents. The little girl had been ill five '< days with convulsions. Due evening she stiffened, her eves glazed and none of rTie familiar U-st3 showng . <> any signs of life, the undertaker'! assistant was just, tying white cre;>?. on the street door when the father bolted out for tbe doctor. Shot Dead at Home. Felix Oorbln, a prominent citl?e? of Milton, Fla., and witness in tb* case of the United States agaia*' Sheriff Collins, of Santa Iv>sa eout* ty. Florida, and Sheriff Field, of Sa vannah, Ga., was called to his iroril door at Milton at a late hour'Wed nesday night and shot to dtath. Cor bin had just finished supper with hit family. When Corbin opened the door there was a volley of rifle an# pistol shots and he "p11 dead in hi* loorway, rour snais navjuj? p*>u*r trated the body. CJirte (."row Com. While the pre*?, and public are making much of the yields of com by South Carolina boys, little is be ing said about the girl corn farmer*. A Marlboro county girl product over 100 bushels to an acre, but The Chester Lantern tells about one oi its girl subscriber? -'*o raised 1-5 bushels. Her naiuc Is Lois AfTee and she worked the land an* tended the corn herself. Ovation For Clnrk. Just at the completion of the praver in the house Monday, at Washington, Representative Champ Clark of .Missouri entered the cham ber and I be Democratic side burst into prolonged theerinc, hailing hinn as the next speaker. Mr. Clark ack nowleclged tne ovation mereiy ny bowine Divorce in Georgia. At Savannah, Ga., on Monday, Judge Walter T. Charlton, in the superior court charging the grand jury referred at leugt'i to the great rrevalence of divorce In Georgia, and said the law should be changed make it harder to get a divorce la that State.