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CROSS DEAD LINES FIXED BY MARTIAL LAW AND CITIZENS ARE SHOT BY I SOLDIERS IN AUGUSTA Humor That Power Plant Was to be Blown Up Results in Troops Being Placed to Guard Property, With Orders to rire on Anyone vrtwMug Dead Line. As the climax to the rioting In Audita, Ga., and the shooting of three citizens late Friday by State militia troops Governor Brown Friday night Issued a proclamation declaring "the City of Augusta to be in a state of insurrection" and ordering the immediate enforcement of martial law. Adjt. Gen. William G. O'Bear ordered by the Governor to proceed to Augusta at once from Atlanta and assume charge of the situation. Anmmnsnv nf militia was ordered to Augusta from Wynesboro to reinforce the four local companies under Capt. Levy. In the interval of the firing by the troops on 15 th street and the hour r?et for a labor meeting at the Court House the situation appeared to have calmed down, hut intensity of feeling over the shooting of five people incensed the people generally, largely because they did not understand that "the city is under martial law. Efforts to Secure Adjustment. During the day ceaseless efforts "Were made by every business faction In the city to bring about an adjustment of the street car strike, which 'is now hut an incident of the troubled condition. The Chamber of Commerce, the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association, and the Cotton Exchange, in joint meeting, demanded immediate arbitration by the company and the strikers, commended Mayor Barrett's position of enforcing protection of property and lives and the measures taken to bold down mob rule. In rocmnncA fft thfl riomftnria nt fit A business interests the striking car men have unequivocally accepted the suggestion of arbitration, but the company, in an address signed by General Manager Deal, flatly refused -arbitration, declaring they have nothing to arbitrate, and, further, that the men who left their employ and whom he declares joined in the riot- ing Thursday night, have no connection with or further claim on the -company. He asserts that the company stands ready to operato all its cars so soon as they are given sufficient protection, which they claim as right. , Like Firebrand in Tinder. This declaration was like a firebrand in a pile of tinder, and the entire laboring element, particularly in "West End, the mill district, became even more turbulent than it was ^Thursday night. Prom one end of the city to the other the news has been spread of the shooting by troops cn 15th St., and besides the thousand -or more people congregated in West End, the 700 block of Broad street, in the heart of the business district, wa* crowded. During the middle of the day information was conveyed to the authorities that the strike sympathizers had planned to plant a mine under the power bouse fTiday night. During the afternoon a military guard was thrown around 15th street property , 'Of the company, where one of the power plants is located, and a dead line established at each end of the property. The troops were given Instructions to challenge anybody attempting to pass through the line and stop them; to fire if the chal lenge should be ignored and any effort made to pass through the lines after the challenge. The troops are piovided with riot cartridges and were stationed on duty with loaded pieces. Citizens Shot to Death. Bobert Christie, a business man, was driving by in an automobile, and, evidently did not hear the challenge of the sentry. He had gone but a few feet when he was shot through the lungs. He is at the Margaret Wright Hospital, where he will die. Ben F. Baker and Alfred Dorn, also business men, attempted to drive through 15th street a few minutes later. A few blocks from the power plant some one told Parker, in whose tuggy they were riding, the soldiers were firing blank cartridges. As he approached the power plant he whipped up his horse, and, immediately after challenging, one sentry fired, and immediately others Joined in the fire. Baker was wounded, but will probably recover. Dorn was literally shot to pieces and is dead. An unknown white boy, apparently about 20 years old, attempted to rush the sentry lines on a motorcycle and one handle of his machine was she t off, but he was uninjured. Charles Wilson, who operates a pool room in one of the local hotels, va*- driving through 15th street in his automobile with his wife and child, and says he was unconscious of the fact that the dead lines were bemg enforced. He claims not to have heard any challenge, though he saw or..- of the soldiers standing by the driveway. His machine was fired into the ball passing through the top. He reached down to toot his horn, he says, and another guard evidently mistook the motion as one to reach for a gun. Other shots were fired and Wilson, though escaping without injury to himself or other occupants of the car, drove onto Broad street with four big holes through his machine. Railroad Bridge Spiked. Just before dark the West End sympathisers spiked the long Broad PALMETTO BULL MOOSE MEETING IN COLUMBIV FRIDAY TO LAUNCH THIRD PARTY. ' "Tinll Moosers" Looking to South j Carolina as Land of Promise on Strenth of Factionalism. The "Bull Moose" will meet in Columbia on Friday, October 4, to or- * ganize the Progressive party in South Carolina, name the electoral ticket, which will be placed in the field and to consider the advisability of nominating a full State ticket to contest with the Democratic nominees in the general election in November, and to do such other things as are necessary to launch a full grown "Bull Moose" < movement for the Palmetto State. I B. Sherwood Dunn, of Aiken, is 1 acting in the capacity of "launcher" i for the new party, and is said to be 1 the national committeeman from this i State. He will preside over the inl- < tial gathering here on October 4, ana ( see the Roosevelt party started on Its < efforts to capture the electoral votes f o1 South Carolina. Mr. Dunn Is a 1 warm personal friend of "T. R." and t wont to New York to have a confer- 1 ence with National "Bull Moose" f Chairman Joseph M. Dixon and the i other dignataries of the third party J efore putting the final touches to his t plans. ? It is rumored here !n Columbia i that the "Bull Moosers" are looking ( Om.+Vi rovnllna oa a land nf WV VT ai UO UVUbU VMt VAiUM ?MT w ? great promise, and tnat they are < banking strong on the factionalism which reigns within the Democratic t ranks. One rumor has it that the ' new party hopes that the State com- ( mittee will throw out Blease and < they would then seek alliance with i him, but indications being that i Blease is going to be declared the c nominee next Thesday the third par- c ty will probably turn to dissatisfied 1 Democrats with the purpose In view c of recruiting strength from their i ranks and placing a full State and electoral ticket in the field. ^ It is accepted here that the Pro- ^ giessive party will certainly name an c electoral ticket and go before the t people and ask them to vote for Col. t Roosevelt for President. This per- c sonnel of this ticket and also the pos- t sibility of the "Bull Moosers" making overtures for alliance with some g one of the factions in the Democratic t party, make the meeting called for I October 4 full of interest. t It is said there that the personnel I of the third party will be white men, c and most of them hitherto unidentl- i fled with politics in the State. The ; Jerome Hotel will be the headquar- t ten; for the meeting of the Progres- t sives on October 4. ? ? + s ( A a *** ww w rvmn vr vv r ?m v p IWU A11V riJA/lB f\ I liiirvif. German Military Officers Meet With Fatal Accidents. Near Freilburg, Saxony, two German military officers were killed while flying Friday. This makes the third double fatality in Europe within the present month in which members of the army flying corps were the victims. The machine, which was of the monoplane type, was being piloted by Lieut. Berger, who was carrying Lieut. Junghans as a passenger in a flight from Chemnitz to Berlin. When passing over the city the machine suddenly plunged from a high elevation to the ground. The airmen were instantly killed, and the machine smashed to bits. TTie cause of the accident is not expU'nel. * stieet bridge, a double row of railway spikes being driven on each side of each street car rail the entire length of the bridge. At 8:30 a labor mass meeting assembled at the Court House, but labor union officials declared they were going to permit no sort of inflammatory speeches, but intended to dismiss the meeting so soon as they have urged a cessation of violence. The labor mass meeting was far more quiet than those which preceded it, the net result being adoption of a resolution, which has been telegraphed to Governor Brown, demanding immediate withdrawal of the troops. It is as follows: "Whereas, three of the citizens of Augusta, while peacefully traversing the streets of Augusta Friday afternoon, were shot down by irresponsible militia; be it, "Resolved, That we, the people of Augusta, in mass meeting assembled, request of his Excellency, Governor J. M. Brewn, that the State militia be withdrawn at once." rtn ir t a nm nx xnousanus cnarcnea xnrougn aums. ] Following the labor meeting at the s Court House at 8:30, which lasted ] over two hours, a crowd of fully 2,- j 000 marched out on to Broad street, declaring they were "going to the power house". At the corner of 8th street an earnest plea was made to r them by one of their political leaders not to attack the power plant or do any further violence, but disperse and go to their homes. Half an hour later a crowd j more than half as large congregated ] four blocks further up town, in front ( cl the fire houses, and again the j same leader mounted into an auto- ? mobile and made an impassioned ap- i peal to them, on the basis of a per- < sonal plea, that they not attempt vio- 1 leuce but give him their promise to ] disperse. Hundreds ac a lime gave ; the promise and left. At Midnight 1 the streets were clear of that element from the mill district, which has ? earned all the trouble. . i Shortly after midnight the com- : pany of troops from Wynesboro were run into the yards of the Central Railway and began to detrain. They were immediately put on guard around the power plant and the local : troops removed "by order of Major ' Levy, who is commanding until the i arrival of Col. W. L. O'Leary. % f WHAT MAY BE DONE CHANGE IN PRIMARY LAWS MAY BE RECOMMENDED. BY ELECTION PROBERS ? 5ub-Committee to Investigate Alleged Frauds in Recent Primary Not Likely to Report on Present Contest bnt May Urge Certain Reforms to Safeguard Future Primaries. IMr. S, B. Boney, of The News and Courier, writing to his paper from Lnderson, sums up what the sub-comnittee may say in its reports to the :uli committee when it meets in Coumbia to-day. He says a mass of evdence has "been placed in the hands >f the committee, covering about half >f the counties in the State. Charges >f fraud have been made in some instances, but in most cases there have jeen simply the reports of committee appointed by the county execu;ive committees as to duplications md the voting of persons whose lames were not on the club rolls. !n short, the evidence submitted to ;ke sub-committee of probers is of such a nature as to merely give an nvestigating committee grounds up>n which to proceed, not to act, in ;he sense of whether declaring an election valid or void. Roughly estimating the work of ;he committee it appears that about 2,800 votes have been called into juestion. This by no means indicates that there have been 2,800 raudulent votes cast; but, j^st that nany have been submitted to the :ommittee for investigation. This, of :ourse, covers only about half the orty-four counties <of the State, and jven in those reported, only partial nvestigation was made. It is estimated that if the reports Fere complete from all counties there j rould be eight or ten thousand votes Tito+ tttV* o + fV?A onm rr*4i | UC&UUUCU. u UOk n uob luo Wiuuiivec will do with this information in land in reference to the 2,800 votes >f character to be questioned, now >efore it, remains to be seen. The sub-committee, of course, has riven no indication, during or since he meetings held in the three big 'iedmont counties, as to what its acion will be. Neither has any mem>er disclosed the sentiment of those omprising the committee. But specilation has been quite free as to the icssible report that will be submited to the State Democratic commitee. From the nature of the evidence lubmitted, and taking into consideration the time necessary for legal iroceedlngs upon which to base a onteet, it is. believed in many quarers that the sub-committee will carcely undertake to make ft definite eport on the recent primary, except is to general conditions. This corespondent, not endowed with powsrs ofprophecy, therefore, does not mdertake to forecast what the re>crt of the sub-committee will be. But it is quite apparent that conlitions in reference to the conduct In eference to the conduct of primary Sections in the State have been repealed in such a light that the comnittee is almost bound to make some rind of recommendations looking to :hanges of the rules governing the jrimaries. Whether or not there will be a maoritv reDort and a minority reDort submitted to the State executive comnittee next week remains to be seen. :t is well known that the committee stands three to four Blease and anti: lease. On the general proposition )f needed reforms in the primary, it nay not he a hazardous guess to preiict that both Blease and Anti-Blease nembers of the committee will be unted. Of course, if question of the validly of the renomination of Governor Blease in the recent primary is raised here would doubtless be a division of sentiment. Notwithstanding partisanship, however, even the possibility of questioning the validity of so many rctes has planted firmly in the minds )f those who have attended the hearngs of the investigating committee :hat there are changes that are not rnly expedient but necessary in the nanner of holding primary elections n this State. In all probability the committee, cvhich has worked faithfully upon the :ask assigned it, and which has :hroughout evidenced a jealous care. ,? i. V ~ ....U.. ~ I_ O Jl Lilt; puiiujr Ui tJlWUUIlB 1X1 OUUIU Carolina, will recommend that the Democracy of this State "bestir itse'* low and devise some means to safe ^uard the primary and prevent frauds that may be attempted in the 'uture. S. E. Boney. ? ? MUTINOUS TROOPS KILLED. Pwo Hundred Chinese Rebels Shot by Loyal Troops. At Wu Chang, China, more than 200 mutinous soldiers were summarily executed by loyal troops in consequence of the outbreak that occurred imong the soldiers encamped outside that city on Tuesday. The remainder of the mutineers fled into >pen county after they had attacked :he town and been defeated by the loyal garrison. The mutineers were ill cavalrymen and numbered over fwo thousand. They had arranged Kith the artillerymen quartered inside the walls to join in the movement, but the gunners at the critical moment failed to keep their promise. ? Three Killed in Collision. At Kansas City, <\fo., three men were killed and several hurt in a head-on collision between a northbound Kansas City Southern passenger train and a switch engine on the outskirts of Kansas City. THE COTTON OUTLOOK - FITTEEX CENTS A POUND IS HOPED FCR THIS YEAR. ? Stow Marie':ng of the Crop is Being Urged in This State by Those Who 1 Have Given the Subject Study. By a proper marketing of the eotth? price of the staple will reach 15 cents, according to experts who have I vivAn the* mftttAr much thoueht. Among the expression recently giver. out is one from President Dabba of the State Farmers' Union, in which he says: "Never before can I recall that we have had better prospects of good prices for cotton." i Others share the opinion and some are forecasting a fifteen cent price for cotton. In this county the crop is short, as has been stated and this is generally true throughout the ' State. Mr. R. M. Mlxson of Willis- . ton. S. C., urges the holding of cot- ; ton in the following statement: The season is sufficiently advanced , to enable us to make a reasonably correct estimate of yield of cotton for the season of 1912-13. My information from every section of every State in the cotton belt indi cates a yield from rue cotton crop giown this year of 12,181,294 bales ; of 500 pounds each. The crop by States is In my opinion, as follows: Bales. Alabama 1,179,603 j Arkansas 695,404 Florida 71,219 Georgia 2,124,057 Louisiana 282,573 Mississippi .. 865,742 North Carolina 852,932 Oklahoma 803,504 South Carolina 1,275,847 Tennessee 352,274' Texas 3 573,758 Total 12,181.724 These figures are full and will rather be over than under the crop. The demand for cloth is good and sales are made at full figures. Spinners are staying out of the market, hoping to force the price of cotton still lower, believing that the bulk of the crop will be forced upon the market by November 1 and sold at a sacrifice. Now is the time to market your cotton as slowly as possible. You must meet this stay-out of the market policy of the spinners by staying out of the market yourself. Don't offer a bale for sale that you can possibly hold. Warehouse your cotton and borrow money on it, if you must, to pay your debts, but don't sell. If the south will follow this policy, you will, in my opinion, see 15 cents cotton by January 1, but if you rush it on the market and have it sold at forced sale, you will, in my opinion * seo it sell at or below il cents. If this croty is marketed slowly you will, in my opinion, see an ascending market, until 15 cents is reached. Use business judgment in marketing your cotton; the crop is short, below a supply for the spindles for the next 12 months; there is no use in making your losses still greater by sacrificing your cotton. The following is President Dabbs's letter to the farmers of the State: To the Farmers of South Carolina: Never before that I can recall have we had better prospects of good prices for cotton. Sixty days ago cotton sold at 13 1-2 cents at interior points. All of a sudden "without rh\me or reason" the market broke and it continued to go down until 10 1-2 cents was reacned in the lo cal markets. Not having the desired ; effect of stampeding the farmers like it has in the past, we see it steadily 1 going up. Each day the "wiseacres" 1 say it will break to-morrow. Each dor + Viqtt cor T Ironftrtftl o)iAit1d r>n ma UC.J OOvJ iiiTVl|/VVi OUVU4U down six or seven points. Each day sees the report that Manchester continues to buy at higher prices than can be paid on this side. What does it all mean? If it means anything, it means that cotton is in demand; that organization is telling or that mere is fear of it; that the farmers, the merchants and the bankers need nut to pull together and we will see 15-cent cotton for two-thirds of this crop. It als^j means that they are working together more slowly and the price is yours. We rejoice in the activity displayed in organizing chambers of commerce in the towns and cities of the South. We rejoice in such "boosters trips" as Richmond Just pulled off, and as Sumter will pull off in a few months. We rejoice at the hopeful letters from the various counties of South Carolina that look to thorough organizations of the Farmers' Union in them. Yes, we will organize. When each county has its strong Farmers' Union, and each town its aggressive chamber of commerce all working in harmony^ then we will see a State farmers union and a State chamber of commerce building a greater South Carolina. E. D. Dabbs, President S. C. F. U. Mobbed Him in the Street. At Lima, Peru, former President Augusto Leguia was mobbed by a furious crowd late Wednesday night, while proceeding to his private residence from the Presidential palace, which had just been taRen over by ihe new President, Ouillermo Billing- j hurst. The demonstrators shouted: "You should go to jail and noti home," and obliged the Ex-President to take refuge in the Unversity Club. ? Twenty Men Were Drowned. A steamer with 150 sawr mill workers abroad was rammed by a gun-J boat on the Dyina River, near Arch-j angel, Russia, Monday. The steamer.! stank in ten minutes and most of the | passengers jumped into the water. Thirty-five of them swam ashore. Twenty are known to have been d:owned while many are missing. YEARS CHASE ENDS" ? ONE OF THE MEN WHO ROBBED * CANADA BANK HELD F THEFT WAS FOR 320.000 Helped Beat Up CAlcago Policeman, tl o ?His Wife Also Arrested in St o Louis Who Poi3ed as Cripple Mute. ^ ?Arrest of Woman Was Key to c; Situation. o "R A year's chase following the $320,- 0 000 hank robbery In New Minister, c; B. C., ended in St Louis In the arrest ^ of J. C. Adams, who was declared P. Friday to be wanted as one of the r: robbers. The arrest of his supposed wife, ^ known to the police as Jeanette Lit- 0 tie, in Edwardsville, III., early FrI- ^ day completed the task of the local 81 police and private detectives who had a 1 i?1 J. i j _.* v.. _ D men trailed her to St. Louis and to a p rooming house where a man met her. ic When they emerged the man was ar- r< rested and the woman allowed to "escape" to Edwardsville. * h o One of the two Canadian bank rob- . bers who escaped from the Sidias sa- 8 loon at Chicago after beating Lieut. Bernard J. Burns into insensibility, _ was arrested Thursday night in St. Louis by Chicago detectives, according to a report received by Assistant Chief of Police Schuetler Friday. The man arrested is described as the "short robber". The woman was \ located on the South side.in Chicago, J" according to Schuetler, and was per- a raitted to learn that detectives were d searching for her. She boarded a P train and went to a town outside Chi- c cage where she purchased a ticket for St. Louis. In their anxiety to prevent the man from escaping again the detectives 7 are said to have closed about him, ^ paying no attention to the woman 6 who threw away her crutches and es- s caped. * ? ? o JILTED MAN SHOOTS SELF. C * v The Girl Says She Will Marry Him P v If He Gets Well. s r "If he gets well I will marry him," was the declaration made by Miss x Grace McKinnon as she sat by the J Bide of Preston Arthur, who attempted to kill himself at her home Tuesday night at Athens, Ga. "I had the grit to do it and I have the grit to get well," asserted the young man who has a pistol bullet c' wound through his body. P Arthur and Gerdine Phelps, rivals S for the hand of Miss McKinnon, ask- c ed her to choose between them Tues- 0 day night. She chose Phelps. Ar t! thur left her home only to return a s few minutes later and send a bullet through his body. He fell a short e distance from the front door on th? McKinnon home. It is believed that ho has a chance to recover. * r 1*01100111011 Wore Electrocuted. d At Philadelphia one policeman was n killed, another rendered unconscious ^ and a number of others were less seriously shocked while attempting to report from call boxes in West Phila delphia late Saturday when the po- h Pee telephone wire became heavily o charged with elctricity from a feed s wire. * g ueen noiumg Auaoiia amuw uiu ?u reac ?eaily Wednesday morning. Adams, a ."ho Is also known as Walter Stacey, was declared by the detectives to be v one of the two men who beat Police Lieutenant Burns in a Chicago saloon a when he tried, single-handed, to cap- n ture them on the night of September p 19. When Adams was arrested by the . St. Louis police he was entered on ! the books under the name of Stacey ? and a charge of murder was placed 2 against him. It was explained that * tie was a suspect in a local case. In the meantime his photograph taken a few hours after his arrest a, was sent to Chicago. There it was identified Thursday as the picture of ^ one of Lieut. Burns' two assailants. The man arreeted as Adams or p Stacey is believed by the local Bertillion experts to be George West, reputed leader in the Canadian bank ^ robbery. The detectives said they g( know him only as Adams or Stacey. ^ All requests for interviews with jj V* rt TmloAnnHO TTTQm LUC yilOUUCAO nOAW UWUAVU* Qj At the time of the man's arrest the e( detectives could have arrested his voman companion who was walking ihead of him. Thep hoped that by p< saving her at liberty longer they p( R-ould catch another of the gang, so s? ;he was not molested but kept under surveillance until she left the city ^ Thursday evening on an interurban w :ar. b] A man met her at Gillespie, 111., p< md the two got off at Edwardsville a] md went to a hotel. There they wrere arrested but according to the b< ietectivcs the man was found to be e( lot the one wanted and was released, ti Jeaanette Little, or 'iMrs. Stacey," tl is she registered her name at a room- je ng house, told her landlady that she c ivas a cripple, and at time walked tl vith the aid of crutches. At other m ;iraes she discarded the crutches. n< In Adams' or Stacey's clothes a let- ff ;er was found which related that the hi Dearer was deaf and dumb. The po- " lice said that the crutches and the ti leaf and dumb lletter were used as subterfuges in obtaining admittance o; to banks where prospects for a rob- t; bery were good. a, Detectives said the arrest of the w wroman was the key to the situation. 2 She was located by Assistant Chief Scbuetler, of Chicago, and a private a detective in Elkhart, Ind., where she li disguised herself as a member of a t( religious order and pretended to be n lame. When she left Elkhart four tl MOB VIOLENCE REIGNS HOOPS ORDERED OUTATAUGUSTA ON ACOOUNT OR STRIKE. ? oar Companies Held in Readiness. ? Strike-Breakers Attacked and Beaten by Mob. Upon instructions of the governor, he Adjutant General has issued an rder to Major Levy, of Augusta, to rder out four companies of the Nnional Guard, to be held subject to irect orders from Mayor Barrett Capt. Thad Jowltt has taken the all and is now assembling the man f the four companies at the armory, 'here they will be on duty. Any ise f the troops on the streets or on ?rs will be only upon the order of iayor Barrett, according to a diaatch received by The News and Coaler yesterday morning at 2 a m. The mob failed to show up at the hird Street car barn, though a squad f policemen from the special detail rere there waiting for them, and are till on duty at the barn. The crowd t the power plant began to diverse half an hour or more ago and f 9 A'/>Unlr 11 *. id v vjLi.ij a ouiau ^uruuu vt tiem were floating around in the icinity. A strong police guard is on duty round the power house and will relain there unless removed and relaced with militia by the. mayor. Following the adoption of a reeoition providing for a sympathetic Lrike at a monster labor meeting eld by Augusta Federation of ir.des at the court house, attended y quite 2,000 laboring men, a crowd 1 union sympathizers attacked the on-union men at the power house t 11:30 o'clock Thursday night. A :an named Cason has been badly eaten, and five men, who have born iken away in an automobile to be ut on the next train and driven from >wn. S. I. Furrow and G. W. Peger oi ew York, strikebreakers, were lees itiously beaten. They are now at Dlice barracks and say they are wilng to leave the city. The names [ tne others could not be ascertaini. At 15 minutes to 12 the mayor or&red the fire department to tae Dwer plant with instructions to dls3rse the mob with water. At the i.me time a report was mate to pfree headquarters that a mox> was oving to the Third street car barn, here it is understood 20-odd strikereakers are quartered. A squad of Dlicemen have been ordered out and re on their wa7 to that barn now. The resolution adopted at the la:t meeting at the court house pledffi the 16 affiliated organizations 01 te federation of trades to a sympaletic strike upon the ".all of tn? ader of the striking car men. Lea ornelius, a national organwer 01 :e carmen's association, after the . leeting made the statement to * ewspaper man that he would cadi >r a general sympathetic strike "if e felt in necessary," but, he said, we intend to maintain the organizacn." At 12:30 Thursday morning Mayr Thomas Barrett called Gov. Brown y long distance phone and asked for c i?ii!i>rfate order for ci.e co?v8? !:h t1 f purpose of de^li. jg Adnata L.icer martial law. Just before 6 o'clock Wednesday fternoon one of the cars on the belt" ne was attacked hy a nno on Fif;enth street and the conductor^ a. lan by the name of Kelly ?one* of ie men brought here by the comany in the past few days?was sei>usly beaten. Twenty men were arested and taken to police barracks. Prior to that a conductor was beibored on May avenue by a crowd f women. ? AW MAN LEAP INTO NIAGARA. lie Man is Believed to be Frank X. Parker, of Buffalo, N. T. Workmen on the Canadian aide of he river at Niagara Falls reported hat they seen a man vault the rail ust above the brink below the falli nd fall among the rocks, two hunred feet below. Shortly after, the dice picked up a derby hat, business srds and insurance papers, bearing he name of "Frank I. Parker, Bufalo, N. Y." Parker, who was a captain in the 4th regiment, New York State ruard, had beea in poor health for everal months. He has been raising since Wednesday. Search also is being made for trace f Mrs. George Fitch, of Windsor, Jonn., whose husband believes she fas the woman a section gang reorted they had seen leap into the fbirlpool rapids on the Canadian ide Wednesday afternoon. Mr. "itch, who is here, says his wife <rcte him from Buffalo that she in ended to die in this way. She had een in bad health for several, lonths * Complete Aeroplane Armada. The first review ever held of a omplete aeroplane armada took lace at Villacoubly, near Paris, eventy-two French army flying mahines, with their full complements f pilots and observers and the at*ched park of motor trucks bearing i pplies therefor passed in review be:rt the French minister of war. Al ndre Millderand. * I>ie<l From Mosquito Bite. At Columbus 0., Mrs. Wm. F. frown, a society woman of that city, ied after several months illness with talarial fever caused by a mosquito it.e, according to physicians. * ? ? Miner Killed in "Safe" Mine, A few hours after mine experts ad declared the mine non-gaseous, ne man was killed and two others eriously injured by an explosion of as in a mine at Carol, Pa.