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A. S Mire Jr ESTABLISHED Etf IS TAKES A HAND. ... United States Court Assumes Jur isdiction in Dispensary Matter. STATE WILL APPEAL. Lyon Suggests That the Judge Wait Until Question of Jurisdiction Is Settled Finally?He Says He Has No Intention of Provoking Conflict. ?Pritchard Declares He Has No Doubt of His Accuracy. It looks like the .United States Court will at last take a hand in winding . up the affairs of the old State dispensary. At Asheville, N. C, on Saturday the matter was again brought up in that court on a recent order of Judge Pritchard's, signed on motion of the Wilson Distilling Com pany commission of South Carolina to appear and show cause why a re ceiver should not be appointed to take charge of the $S00,000 funds now in the hands of the commission for the payment of the just liabilities of the old dispensary. Prior to the hearing of the Wilson case Judge Pritchard informally re ferred to the recent hearing in the matter of the Fleishmann Company against the dispensary commission. The complainants in this case also applied for a receiver. The application for a receiver was denied and argument had on the question of jurisdiction, the court reserving its decision. Saturday morning Judge Pritchard stated that he hadn't completed his forn|il opin ion and decision, but that in view of the coming on of the Wilson case he thought it best to indicate what his decision would be. "The suit is not a suit against the State," said Judge Pritchard. "I have considered carefully this whole mat ter and had I any doubt I would give the defendants the benefit of that doubt and rule in favor of the S' ite. .There is no doubt in my mind, how ever, and therefore the court takes jurisdiction." Judge Pritchard said it was his purpose to appoint two special mas ters IX is stated that these masters will be named next Mo 'day, when the defendants make formal answer. The defendants announced that they would appeal from the decision of the court. Attorney General Lyon in referring tothedeternihationof the State to ap peal suggested to the court in effect that in order to avoid any unseemly clash between the State and Federal authorities that "your honor refrain from ordering any specific acts to* be done until the question of jurisdic tion is settled." Judge Pritchard to this suggestion made reply: "That this court is not going to do anything to provoke a conflict but at 'the same time the court is going ahead and do its duty." Judge Pritchard said there was no necessity or reason for a recur rence of the unfortunate incidents which occurred in North Carolina last year. He said that "this court is as much a South Carolina court as any court and incidentally that it is presided over by a Southern man." A hearing of the receivorship pro ceedings will be held on Saturday. HAD TOO MANY KEYS. Why a Stranger is Now Under Arrest in Florence. At Florence P. W. Boswell, one of three white men who were found loitering on the strets at an early hour Sunday morning and acting in a very suspicious manner, was arrest ed by Oflicer Cain. The other two men made good their scape. After being arrested, Boswell was searched and a large bunch of skeleton and various other kinds of keys were tak en from his pockets. Chief Koopman now thinks that Boswell is one of the men who blew the safe in Mr. J. J. Hood's store at Blenheim on Fri day night. HANGING AT ST. AUGUSTINE. Two Thousand Persons See Negro Ex ' ecuted for Murder. Charlie Powers, colored, was hang ed in the county jail yard at St. Augustine. Fla., at 10:30 o'clock Fri day morning for the murder of John Rogers, also colored. As the trap was sprung the rope parted, but not before Power's neck had been brok en. Powers was so frightened that he gave way entirely and had to be carried to the scaffold. He was too limp to stand, and a board was se cured and fastened to his back. Two thousand persons witnessed the hang STREET FIGHT. Contractor Shoots Merchant Over in the Town of Aiken. AtAiken on Friday, W. F. Doby, a prominent contractor, had an al tercation with K. H. Rankin. a groc er, about a small account he owed Rankin. Doby invlt i Rankin to the street and words passed. Rankin struck Doby, who tiled a pistol, shooting Rankin in the hip. painfully inj-iring him. The wound ;^ not n^c es^.?lrily fatal. The shooting created some excitement. ? 69. BRUTES CONFESS. The Tojand Negroes Tall of Foul Killing in Lexington. They Make Full Confession of the Murder of Mrs. Paul W. Ellisor Near Columbia. A dispatch from Columbia says Ned anil Brack Toland, negroes, age l 17 and 19 years, respectfully, late Friday afternoon made a full con fession of the murder of Mrs. Paul VV. Ellisor, the aged woman who liv ed just across the river from Colum bia. Brack, the-youngest of the broth ers, said that Mrs. Ellisor suspected something as soon as they entered the house. When they got inside Brack said he caught the old woman and held her while his brother knocked her in the head with an axe. They put her body in a basket and Ned struck her two more blows. They then proceeded to rob the house, tak ing a gun and a number of articles of wearing apparel. No money was found. These negroes were arrested on the train going to New berry the day after the brutal murder and brought back to Columbia. There was a big crowd of men at the train when they arrived and had it not been for the presence of several officers an at tempt to lynch them would have been made. The two fiends are now in the penitentiary for safe keeping. A dispatch from Prosperity says Ned Toland bears a bad reputation, having been in a number of scrapes. About six years ago he broke into Sligh's store, at Sligh's Station, and robbed the postoffice. He served a sentence in the United States prison in Atlanta for this crime. He has been on the chain gang several times at different places. , Brack was working in the oil mill and was enticed away by Ned. They left Prosperity walking Monday. Some of the hands in the oil mil! warned Brack that Ned would get him in trouble. Ned's wife had gone to Columbia on the morning Colum bia, Newberry and Laurens train. WIFE SKIPS. Mother of Two Little Girls Runs Away With a Man She Loves. Sending her two little girls to bed at 10 o'clock Sunday night and leav ing a note behind saying that her household effects may be sold to pay all debts incurred, Mrs. C. A. Ctrick land, of the Olympia mill village, on the outskirts of Columbia, ran away from her home with a man she loved at 12 o'clock Sunday night, while her husband is in North Carolina, and sentenced to the penitentiary for 18 months for bigamy. The little girls are ten and twelve years of age and lived with their mother in the Olympia mill village. Only the small family of three were together in the house, so whn Mrs. Strickland left, the children were thrown upon the mercy of the world. ?The front door was left open as the mother of the little girls and the man to whom she was engaged or married fled under coverof darkness in the dead of the night. Some neigh bors there were, however, who pos sibly heard the ci ?ak of the door and saw the pair as ihjjy stole out into the world and away from two tiny mortals, the flesh and blood of a de serting mother. Early Monday morning two mar ried sisters of the little ones, who lived next door, entered the home and found to their utter surprise and horror, the note that told the incred ible story. The children were taken to their sster's home and will be cared for until the mother returns, if she so decides to do so. The elder girl works in thi mill and the note contained information that the mother would return on pay day to get her daughter's salary. About forty days ago, the husband of Mrs. Strickland was tried in North Carolina for bigamy and sentenced for 18 months. Upon some after dis covered evidence, however, Gov. Glenn granted him a reprieve for 60 days, but that time has not yet ex pired. SOUTH CAROLINIAN DEAD. Judge John A. Edison, WofTord Mau, Dies in Texas. The Spartanburg Herald says Judge J. A. Edison, formerly of South Car olina, and a gradual* of Wofford College, died in Hamilton, Texas, several days ago. He was considered by many one of the ablest lawyers in Texas. He was appointed associate justice of court of appals by Governor Lanaham of Texas, another Wofford boy. Mr. Edison graduated from Wofford soon after the war, having served through tl 3 latter part of the * war. Hanged in Georgia. Lee Holmes, colored, slayer of Dr. E. A. Sands, was hanged in the jall yard at Derien. Ga., at noon Friday. He was brought from Savannah the night before. Holmes said nothing at the gallows except to pray aloud for a short time. Threw a Bomb. At Buenas Ayres a dynamite bomb was thrown Friday against a car riage in which President Alcorta was driving but .failed to explode. Four 1 nersons are arrestt charged with j complicity In the plot * DEADLY AVALANCHE Demolishes Hotel Building andjn jures Thirty People. Little Children Lose Their Lives in Vainly Trying to Save the Lives of Others. An awful and deadly avalanche de scended Sunday near the village of Goppenstein in Switzerland. The enormous atmospheric pressure de molished a hotel at the mouth of the Loetschenthal tunnel works, killing thirteen persons and injuring fifteen others. The occupants of the hotel, num bering thirty, were surprised while seated at the table by sinister rum blings. Almost immediately two children rushed into the dining room and screamed: "An avalanche, an avalanche." There was a rush to escape, but the building, which was of a tempor ary nature, collapsed, without warn ing. Both of the children were kill ed along with many of those they liid sought to save. Among the others killed was an American engineer named Mervart, who was installing American machin ery to be used for a tunnel. The hotel had been erected by the tunnel contractors for the conven ience of the engineers and others en gaged in construction work. There were no tourists there. The village postoffice and police station were seriously damaged by the air wave and were keeled over to a angle of 45 degrees, making oc cupancy impossible. The tunnel works were not damaged. NEGRO WOUNDS NINES. Fired upon Crowd of Five Hundred Church-Goers. At Richmond, Va., Sunday night, a woman and a man were shot and fatally wounded and seven other per sons were seriously woundd by Rob ert Faulkner, a negro thief, supposed to be insane, who fired promiscously into a crowd of 500 people ov their way to church. Faulkner early in the evening broke into Lignor's gunshop, on East Franklin street, and stole a double barreled shotgun and a supply of amunition. He left the shop just as the crowd of church goers were passing, and without warning, he be gan firing, keeping up a fusilade into the throng until sixteen shots had been fired, nearly every shot finding a human target. The shrieks of the wounded and the sounds of the fir ing called six policemen hurriedly to the scene, where by this time nearly a thousand people had congregated. The policeman found the negro slowly retreating, but holding the crowd at bay with his gun. They immediately opened fire on him and he fell with five bullets in his body and with his leg broken. In defiance of the demand of the mob that the negro be lynched, the policemen quickly hurried him to the poke station, from whence he was transferred to a hospital. HARD MAN TO KILL. Lives With His Head Nearly Severed With Heavy Axe. With his head nearly severed, W. S. Smith ran half a mile to a physi cian at Sumrall, Miss, Friday, was treated, and will soon be out again. The case is one of the most singular In surgical annals. Doctors who performed the operation declare that the patient's neck is tougher than leather. Smith and a man named Hardy quarreled over a bill. Hardy felled his adversary with an axe, and tried to cut off his head. He evident ly thought he had decapitated his victim for he dragged the body 40 feet into a patch of urderbush and went to hide his axe. Shot While He Slep. At Clinton, Iowa. Fred Dolph, about 60 years old, was shot to death Saturday night while he slept. His head was blown off with a shotgun placed against his cheek. Mrs. Dolpb is under arrest. lURG, S.;C TUESDAY. 1 ALL BACK, INCLUDING HIS CLI i AWFUL RECORD. I _ Nearly One Homicide Each Day i in South Carolina. r DURIN3 LAST YEAR. The Rev. Louis J. Bristow Presents Some Interesting Figures Compiled by Him from the Reports Made to the Attorney General by the Solici tors of the Various Circuits in this State. A recent letter to the press of the St,ate, in whch I gave the number of homicides committed in South Caro lina during the last six months of 1907, caused a number of papers both in this state and others to ask for a record of the convictions for murder during the same time. A careful study of the report of the Attorney General reveals th follow ing facts: There were in South Carolina in 1907 34 6 cases in which the defend ants were charged with murder. Of these, ten defendants were convict ed of the charge and sentenced to death; 30 were convicted, but were recommended to the mercy of "the Court, which under the statute, re duced the nenalty to a life term in the penitentiary; 44 were convicted of man-slaughter and given short terms in the Penitentiary or on the county chain gangs. Besides these there were 15 convictions reported from the 2d judicial circuit wherein no record of degree of guilt or of sentence was given, and 8 in Chero kee, and 3 in Union. The total num ber of convictions thus was 110. There were no murder trials in Pickens or Oconee counties. In other counties they were as follows: First Circuit?Berkeley, 8; George town, 5; Dorchester, 20; Orangeburg, 15; total 48. Death penalty, George town, 1; Orangeburg, 1; Dorchester, 1. Life term, Georgetown, 1; Or angeburg, 2. Short terms, Berkeley, 2; Dorchester, 7; Orangeburg, 6. Total convictions, 21. Second Circuit?Aiken, 14; Bam berg, 12; Barnwell, 12; Hampton, z; total, 40. Convictions, 15, but no re cord of sentence. Third Circuit?Clarendon, 4; Flor ence, 3 (1 manslaughter;) Lee, 6; Sumter, 3; Williamsburg, 2 (man slaughter;) total, 18. Death penalty, none. Life term, Sumter, 1; Wil hamsburg, 2; Clarendon 1. Short terms, Lee, 1; Clarendon, 3; Sum ter, 1. Total convictions, 9. Fourth Circuit?Chesterfield, 2; Darlington, 2; Horry, 1; Marlboro, 8; Marion, 4; total, 17. .Death pen alty, 1 in Marlboro. Life term, Marl boro, 1. Short terms. Chesterfield, 2; Marlboro, 2; Marion, 1. Total convictions, 7. Fifth Circuit?Edgefield. 10 (1 manslaughter;) Kershaw 6, (2 man slaughter;) Legfngton, 7 (1 man ' slaughter;) Richland, 11 (3 man slaughter;) total, 34. Death pen alty, none. Life term, Richland. 1; Edgefield. 1. Short terms, Edge field. 1; Kershaw, 2. Total convic tions, 5 (and 2 in Richland County in which new trials were granted by trial Judge.) Sixth Circuit?Chester, 11; Fair field, 4; Lancaster, 6; York. 9; to tal, 30. Death penalty, Chester, 2; Fairfield, 1. Life term, Chester, 3. Short terms, Chester, 5; Lancaster,! 3; Fairfield, 1; York, 2. Total con-| victions, 17. (It is worthy of note! here that of Chester's 11 cases there' were 1 0 convictions. Seventh Circuit?Cherokee, 8; Spartanburg, S; Union, 6; total, 22. Death penalty, none. Life term, Spartanburg, 2. Short terms, Spar tanburg, 3. Total, 5. (There are no records for Cherokee and Union.) Eighth Circuit?Abbeville, 7 (2 manslaughter; Greenwood, 4; Lau-; rens, 30 (7 manslaughter;) N'ewber 1 ry, 11 (4 manslaughter;) Saluda, 11 i 4 manslaughter;) total, 63. Death sentence, Greenwood, 1. Life term, Laurens, 6; Newberry, 1; Saluda, 2. tARCII ii, 190S. DTHES. ?Rogers in New York Herald. TRIED TO KILL HIM. Two Bombs Thrown at the Shah's Automobile, in Which He Was Supposed to be Riding, but, Fearing Assassination,He Was Rid ing in a Carriage. A dispatch from Teheren, Persia, says an attempt was made in that city Friday afternoon to assassinate the Shah of Persia by a bomb. His Majesty was not hurt. Three of the outriders who were accompanying him at the time were, killed. The Shah owes his escape to the precautions taken to protect him from just such an attempt. He was on his way to a nearby town, where he intended to pass a few days. The procession had left the palace, and was traversing a narrow street, when two bombs were hurled down as if from the roof of a house. One exploded in the air, but the other struck the ground near the Shah's auomobile. This missile in exploding killed the three outriders, wounded the chaffeur and a score of bystanders and shattered the vehicle. The Shah, however, was not in his automobile. He had taken the pre caution to send the motor car on ahead and ride himself in a carriage further in the rear of the procession. The motor car was a closed one and it was thought the sovereign was in side. As soon as the Shah heard the ex plosion he alighted hurriedly from his carriage and entered a neighbor ing house. Here he remained quiet ly while his attendants sent word for a detailment of troops. The soldiers were hurried to the scene and formed in front of the house where the Shah was. He then came out, surrounded by a big body guard, and returned to the palace. The house from, which the bombs were thrown, and the buildings near by were searched, but no arrests were made. Burned to Death. According to a long distance tele phone message from Marshall, a small town in the western part of North Carolina, Miss Blazer, a girl II years old, was burned to death early Fri day in a fire that destroyed a tene ment house c?cupicd by two large families. ? Big Guns Shipped. Twelve six-inch guns, each weigh ing twelve tons and intended gy the United States government for coast defenses in the Philippines, started on their journey Friday on the Brit ist steamer lnveresk, 'vNch sailed from herNspier at the Bush stores, Brooklyn. ? Short terms, Abbeville, 2; Green wood, 1; Laurens, 7; Newberry, 4; Saluda 1. Total convictions, 25. Ninth Circuit?Beaufort, 1; Coile ton, 6 (1 manslaughter;) Charleston, 27 (3 manslaughter;) total 34. Death penalty, none. Life term, Char leston, 2. Short terms, Colleton, 1 ; Charleston, 3. Total convictions, C. Tenth Circuit?Anderson, 17; Greenville, 13; Oconro. none; Pick ens, none; total, 30. Death penalty, none. Life term. Anderson, 0. Short terms. Anderson, 2; Greenville, f?. Total convictions, 13. I have simply given the figuree as compiled by the solicitors for the At torney General. They need no com ment further than to say that out of 346 cases tried there were only 110 convictions. Of courso, it does not follow that the other 236 men were guilty of murder and "got off." j But these figures reveal the fact that the taking of human life in South Carolina is not often considered a crime against society. One other matter: While of the 34 6, no less than 40 wer-- convicted I by as many juries of felonious and wilful murder, 3 0 of these juries de clined to permit the murderers to be executed for their crimes. 1 have of ten said that more than 50 per cent 'of the people of So-ith C rolina are :or >sed to capital punishment; 75 I sent of these j :ries '.re. i.ouis Gristow. BAD NEGRO SHOT. At Fl orence by the Chief of Police In Self Defence. IA Colored Undertaker Resists Arrest and Fires at Policeman, and Is Himself Mortally Wounded. At Florence W. P. Rogers, a well known negro undertaker and hack man of Florence, was shot and prob ably mortally wounded by Policeman Joe Turbeville at an early hour Sun day morning. Policeman Turbeville had arrested Rogers, together with Charlie Barno, John Prince, Bill Wil son 2nd John Serious, all charged with creating a disturbance at the corner of Evans and Ravenel streets in a negro restaurant. Turbeville being alone and unable to get. asisstance, some of them es caped. Rogers, who lived nearby where the disturbance occurred, got away from the officer and went into his dwelling house. Tubeville follow ed him to his door and Rogers re appeared with a shot-gun in his hands, and told Turbeville he "would be d?d if he would be arrested by any d?n white man," and threw up the gun at the officer and pulled the trigger. Luckily for Policeman Turbeville the gun failed to fire, Turbeville then quickly drew his 38-calibre and be can shooting at Rogers, firing five shots at close range. Three of the shots took effect in Roger's body, one in the shoulder, another in the arm and the third in the thigh. The one taking effect in the arm, broke the arm and caused Rogers to drop the gun. Turbevill, however, did not know this, and for fear that Rogers would make a second effort to fire his shot-gun, proceeded to empty his pistol at Rogers. Dr. B. G. Gregg was hastily sum moned, but as yet it is not known whether Rogers will survive the mock or not. Rogers is a verv lar^e and powerful man and has hoo?t up before the mayor on several occa sions for being drunk and disorderly and creatng a disturbance. If he survives this last battle it will go pretty hard with him. A BRAVE TELLER. Robbers' Pistols Had No Terror For Him. Masked robbers made a desperate at tempt to rob the Canadian Bank of Commerce at Winnipeg, Manitoba, Saturday night. Freeman Sussex, the paying teller, was shot through the arms and two of the bandits also still at large were wounded. As is customery, the bank was open Saturday evening from 7 until 9 o'c.:ock. Shortly after the open ing Sussex was disturbed at his work by a gruff command of "Hands-up." Two bandits had him covered with big revolvers. "Why," he asked, to gain time. The answer was to hurry up with his hands or die. "Shoot," yelled the only emr.ioye in the bank at the time and the rob bers complying emptied their pistols in al3 idrections. The first bullet struck Sussex in the arm. Sussex started shooting from the tellers cage and emptied his revolver at the robbers. The robbers escapd in the Cana dian Pacific railroad yards. The bank officials Sunday announced that Sus sex would be rewarded. DIES IN ST. LOUIS. Underwent Operation So As He Could Enlist in Army. A dispatch from St. Louis to The State says Charles H. Smith of Town ville died there Sunday as the result of an operation. Mr. Smith wished to enlist in the army and the recruit ing station accepted him on condition that he undergo an operation. The depot surgeon at Jefferson barracks performed the operation on Wednes day with great success and the pa tient was in very good condition un til he rose from his bed and walked accross the room without aid. The exertion of walking broke the stiches, causing injuries which resulted in his death. * DESTROYED PUBLIC RECORD Government Clerks in the Patent Of fice Fucc Serious Charge. New W. Barton, an assistant of the patent office, at Washington, Har ry E. Everding, a patent attorney of Philaedlpbia and John A. Heany, an inventor, were indicted by the grand jury and arretsed on a charge of destroying public records. The indictment charges the three with, Intent to steal and to destroy," and that they carried away from the patent, office letters, specifications and amendments, and unlawfully and wil fully destroying them. Scalded to Death. At Greensboro. N. C. on Friday, two children of Thomas Hardin and one child of his brother met a fright ful death while playing in imitation of hog killing" around a pot of boiiing tar, which was over turn ed. Many Are Dead. Following an explosion of gas in mine No. 3, of the Cla Carbon de Sabinas mines, at Rosita, Mexico, nothing has been heard from the two hundred men working in the mine. ? SI.50 PER ANjNTJM. BOLTED PARTY. Four Assistant Republicans De feat Democratic Nominee. STABS THEIR PARTY. Deadlock in Kentucky Legislature Broken, Four So"Called Democrats Going Over to the Republicans and Electing Their Candidate for the United States Senators hip.?Looks Very Much Like a Sharp Bargain. The deadlock of the Kentucky Leg islature has been broken at last Former Governor F. 0. Bradley, the Republican candidate, was elected on Friday to the United States Senate after an exciting joint sitting of the General Assembly, receiving 64 votes, four of which were Democratic. The Republicans voted solidly for Bradley, the caucus nominee. It had. been held from the beginning of the contest (over six weeks ago) that a majority of a quorum was sufficient for an election and with 126 mem bers present it required 64 votes to elect. The votes of the four Democrats who have steadily refused to vote for former Governor Beckham were transferred to Bradley from the var ious Democratic opponents of Beck ham. Bradley received 64 votes to 60 for Beckham, one for Allen and one for Blackburn. The Democrats left the hall in an attempt to break the vote, but later returned and the vote wps ratified. Senators McNutt and Charlton and Representative Muller, of Louisville, and Representative Lillard, of Boyle, were the Democrats who voted with the Republicans for Bradley. A scene of wildest excitement pre vailed before the result was announc ed, after the Democrats demanded a recapitulation. Beckman came on the floor and released the Democrats from their primary nomination pledge. Many Democrats sought to change their votes, the majority going to Congressman James. A strong effort was made to induce the four recalcitrant Democrat?? to leave Bradley and vote for some Dem ocrat. The many changes of votes made the capitulation slow and also developed an additional vote, but the vote for Bradley remained unchanged, still being a majority of all members present and voting. The Speaker finally announced that Brad ley had received a majority of the vote and was elected. The announcment that Bradley had been elected Senator was made after nearly all the Democrats had chang ed their votes. The four who voted for Bradley resisted the strongest ap peals from the leaders of all their party factions, declaring it was too late. In a speech accepting his election. Bradley promised to use every ef fort as Senator to procure the re peal of the 6-cent tax on tobacco. Representative Lillard was the only one of the four Democrats to explain his vote for Bradley He said he thought the time had come to "throw off party shackles and to break up the machine," and, al though he did support the Democrat ic ticket for 40 years, he believed his. vote for Bradley "was the best Dem ocratic vote he ever cast." FROM EXPLODING LAMP. A Mother and Three Chldren Wer? Burned to Death. A mother and her three children were burned to death and several persons were injured by a fire in Brewerton, Ave., a foreign district of Pittsburg, Pa. A large number of excited foreigners had narrow escapes from death and injury. A nineteen year old girl jumped from a window, braking three ribs, and John Kalin keowiski, occupying r ? adjoining house which was desti . . threw his wife and four children out of Ths? window into the arms of a policeman and all were more or less injured, The fire started from an exploding lamp. TEN WEBE INJURED When Railway Engine and Electric Train Met at Crossing. Ten persons were injured, none fatally, in a collsion between a Sou thern railway engine and a train of the Washington and Alexandria Bleep trie railway Friday night at Alexen-? dria, Va. The engine was backing from the roundhouse and crashed in to the motor car of the electric train. It is asserted by passengers on the trolley cars that the accident was caused by failure to observe that the cars should have been brought to a full stop before crossing the steam railway's tracks. The body of Charles Scott, a negro, aged 18 years, was found hangmg to a tree at Conroc, Texas, Friday. The negroe's feet had a placard attached to them bearing the words: "Warn ing to negroes found prowling ia white folks' honses." Scott had been arrested and placed under bond o? a charge of : i tempting an assault up-, on a Miss A ?.y.