Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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-A & S?Hcv Jr"'H5 m 0 ESI State Bouse SWEPT BY FIRE. fearful Damage Done by Fire In City of Chelsea. OVER A SQUARE MILE Of the Masschusetts Town Devasta r ted?Property Loss Ten Million Dollars?Twelve Persons Dead and . JJIany Injured?Ten Thousand Are Homeless?Eleven Hours Requir ed to Get Flames Under Control, t Fire devasted more than one square mile of the manufacturing business and tenement district of Chelsea. Mass., Sunday, entailing a loss estimated at fully $10,000,000. The flre started at 10.40 a.m. near the Boston Blacking Company's works on West Third street, near the Everett city line, and crossed the city, a distance of one mile and a quarter, to Marginal, opposite the East Bos ton shore. Late Sunday night four dead bod ies had been recovered from the ruins: Half a hundred persons were injured, several" fatally. Ten thous and persons left homeless. Among the building burned were thirteen churches, the Frost Hospital, the ChiMren's Hospital, the City Hall, the Fitz Public Library, five school houses, a dozen or more fac tories and about 300 tenements and dwellings. The residential section of the city, where the wealthier classes reside, escaped the flames. In the retail sec tion, through which the fire passed, were twenty business blocks, which were destroyed". The United States marine buildings were not damaged. At 9 o'clock Sunday night the flames were under control. KILLED HIS SON IN LAW. Man Barricated Himself but Finally Surrendered. At Fort W'orth, Texas, enraged ov er domestic troubles, Isaac Knight, a teamster shot and killed Edward Larmon, his son-in-law Saturday night, and then to ' evade capture, shot and mortally wounded Oscar B. Montgomery, captain of police of JK9.r$h. Fort . Worthvv.and sfiriQUsly wounded Richard Howell, ? former I ?city marshal. Pursued by armed men and wo men, Knight sought a point of van tage in the Stone creamery, where he had been employed. He finally agreed to surrender to any unarmed citizen who would guarantee his protection. J. F. Bryant, a citizen, accepted the proposition and walked behind the walls of the creamery where Knight surrendered. The prisoner was tak en to Dallas for safekeeping. Lar-i mon was married ten days ago te Knight's step-daughter. ^ Domestic trouble, it is stated.s pre vailed in Knight's home and the mar riage widened the breach. After Larmon and his wife had been or dered from the Knight home. Knight followed them to their ? new home, armed with a shotgun. Entering the house he killed Larmon. Knight en deavored to escape, followed by offi cers and citizens. He fired at his pursuers as he ran, wounding Mont gomery and Howell. After Knight had sought refuge in the creamery he fired several shots into the crowd but no others were hurt.. * JORDAN URGES REDUCTION. President of Cottou Association Ad* vises Farmers to Curtail Acreage. In a signed statement to the far mers of the South issued last week, Harvie Jordan, president of the Southern Cotton association, urges a reduction in cotton acreage of 33 per cent. Unless this is done, he says, prices will be lowered in the fall. Mr. Jordan alsd* urges grow ers to hold to what remnants of cot ton they have. His statement says in part: "With a shortage in the world's supply of cotton amounting to 4,000 O00 bales, due to bad seasons last year, the price of cotton continues to go steadily down. American mills have been for some time cur tailing the manufacture of cotton goods, due to trade depression and the condition of the foreign trade is none too bright at the present time. If the same acreage is planted in cotton this year that was planted in 1907 and followed by good seasons in America, India and Egypt, the growers will find but little or no profit in the harvest next fall." ? FIVE MEN KILLED By Big Storm in and Axonnd New York City. A dispatch from New York says: "Five men are known to have lost their lives, a number of boatmen are reported missing, and dozens of per sons were injured Saturday in a fur ious wind storm which set in that afternoon. The wind velocity, ac cording to the local weather bureau, ranged generally between 40 to 50 miles an hour, but at times was as high as 60 miles. Pedestrians suf fered much discomfort besides being in constant danger from falling signs, shutters, awnings and other articles which were torn from their fasten ings." . ! ?^iy^.W.ai ^ J 69. THEY ARE SCARED. THE REPUBLICANS PEAR THEY WILL BE BEATEN. Troubles Without and Within the Party Cause Alarm?Many Think Roosevelt Will Be the Nominee. A Washington letter to the Char leston Post says Republican leaders in Congress make no pretense of con cealing their anxiety over the out come of the national elections next November. It is a common thing ;to hear Republican members of the House admit that the chances are against the election of a Republican majority in the House next fall. Some Republicans entertain very grave doubts over the Presidential election, but console themselves with the hope that the Democrats may '^o the wrong thing at the right time" and thus compensate for ex isting disadvantages under which the Republican party is said to be laboring. It is admitted that this is some what of a new role for the Republi can party to be playing?prospective beneficiary of the mistakes of its op ponents. It is pointed out that heretofore the Republicans have won upon a policy of action, agression and progress.' The great victories on the money question,'the tariff question, the Phillipines question and other issues were gained in this way. Two main causes contribute to the anxiety of the Republicans at ihis time. They are, first the widespread industrial depression, the resulting hard times, a fertile and prolific field for Democratic growth. Second, the factional troubles within the Re publican party in a great many States. Some Republicans in Congress are qf the opinion that conditions are rapidly growing more favorable to a" possible stampede for Roosevelt. They say that unless Secretary Taft is nominated on the first ballot the way will be open for a contest in the convention which will make Roosevelt's renomination unavoid able. They think that conditions are working rapidly to this end. It is a fact that the average run of Republicans entertain the opinion that President Roosevelt's renomina tion will be the outcome of the pres ent muss in which the party finds it self. Opinions vary whether in that event' tue Republicans would win or lose. Some think that President Roosevelt is so strong with "the* com mon people that he would override all opposition. Others believe that the third term question could be raised against him with effect. Still others say it would all depend upon the Demo cratic nominee, and on that side of the question as to whether Bryav. or Johnson would be the stronger man there are as many opinions as there are facets to a diamond. * TILLMAX IMPROVING The Senior Senator Says He Is Feel ing Considerably Stronger. A special from Atlanta to The State says "reports from the sanitar ium indicate that Senator Tillman is improving even more rapidly than expected when he came here. To a friend who saw him for a few min utes he said he was feeling consider ably stronger, but realized his dan ger and expressed his purpose to avoid all forms of mental excite ment for s.ome time to come. He walks around the sanitarium, but has not yet ventured to the city. He proposes to lead an absolutely quiet existence for the next six weeks or two months, sailing for Europe as soon as he feels he is strong enough to stand the trip." * AN OLD BRIDEGROOM. Iowa Anti-Saloon Leader Weds Mrs. Nellie Ingalls at Detrlot. A dispatch from Fort? Dodge, Iowa, says: L. S. Coffin, founder of Hope Hall and former president of the An ti-Saloon League of Iowa, was mar ried Friday to Mrs. Nellie Ingalls, of Detrlot. Mr. Coffin will celebrate his eighty-fifth birth day today, and upon his arrival at his country home will be given a reception by friends. * STARVED TO DEATH. At the End of the Thirty-First Day j Man Dies. At St. Paul, Minn., Knute Ohn stead died at 195 Grove street early Saturday, having literally starved himself to death in an attempt to fast for forty days in order to demon strate his theory that the mind con trols the body and that mind is mightier than matter. Qhnstead's fast lasted 31 days, according to I those in the house. ? PICKED UP AT SEA. Thrilling Rescue of Twenty-Ei?ht Men by a Steamship. A thrilling rescue of 28 shipwreck ed men was made during the trip of the steamship Voturno, which picked up the men floating near the al most dismantled schooner Chapgne, which had been bit by a hurricane. Th rescue was made February 27th. The steamship reached New York on Friday. . . .. ' * m OKANGKEBI MAY 60 IN ARMY MAJOR MICAH JENKINS MAY GET PROMOTION. His Present Office Is Wanted for a Mian Who Will Hustle for Taft Votes. Zach McGee, Washington cor respondent of The State, says Maj. jMicah Jenkins, collector of 'internal revenue, is about to get involved in the administration's right for dele gates to the Republican convention, but by the now popular process of elimination. The following "hand out" attests: "It is underst ood that the secre tary of war, at the request of Com missioner of Internal Revenue Cap ers, contemplates the restoration in the army of Maj. Micah J. Jenkins, now collector of internal revenue at Columbia, S. C, in such a way as to be not only congenial to the major, but to operate as a distinct compli ment and promotion. This would necessarily vacate the office of the collector of internal revenue at Col umbia, now held by Maj. Jenkins, and it is also understood that Maj. L. W. C. Blalock and R. R. Tolbe^t would be appointed, according to the recommendation made in that con nection by Capt Capers." It will be remembered that Major Jenkins is a personal friend of one T. R., having been closely associated with him in the Spanish war, be cause of which friendship he was ap pointed to his present position. He has performed the duties of in ternal revenue collector acceptably to his chief until now when, being a Democrat, he is unable to perform the principal duty of that office which is to corral Republican dele gates. He can serve his country better in the army. Now Oiie R. R- Volbert is an ideal man for collector of internal revenue, his especial qualification be ing that, at this moment he is going up and down in the State of South Carolina trying to oust Capt. Capers from the high and potent job of na tional committeeman, for the express purpose of sending an anti-admin istration delgeation to Chicago. But Mr. Tolbert would, of course, rather be collector of internal revenue. * PREFER TILLMAN TO TAFT. Threatened That Negroes Will Knife President at the Polls. A letter addressed to Representa tive Rainey of Illinois, by Walter S. Thomas, chairman of the Ohio-Afro American League, with headquarters at Columbus, Ohio, was read in the House of Representatives Saturday. Thomas referring to a speech some time since in the House in reply to the one by Mr. Rainey, declared that the negroes of Ohio "refused to be led like dumb driven cattle to the voting booths and there cast their ballots for President Roosevelt, his Secretary of War or any other man he may see fit to support for the President of the United States at Chicago." The letter points out that a grave injustice was done the negro race in the Brownsville matter, and states that the negroes of the country will support no candidate for President who does not stand squarely upon the broad principles of justice. In conclusion the letter says: "We have almost reached that point where we can say thank God for Senator Tillman, for we believe him to be at least honest in his expressions and we believe him square in his life. I am absolutely convinced of this one fact, that should Secretary Taft be nominated at Chicago for President of the Unit ed States the colored voters of Ohio and of the whole United States, 95 per cent, of them at least calcula tion, would cast their votes for the straight Democratic ticket for Pres ident or remain away from the polls, thus making the election of a Dem ocratic President practically certain." GOT OFF LIGHT. Clerk Accused of Improper Conduct Toward Two Young Girls. At Savannah, Ga., B. Rhett Wever, a clerk in a shoe store was fined $50 by the recorder last week for having written two notes for young girls asking the principal of the school they attended to excuse them for the day as they were unwell. He signed th names of the girls' parents to the notes. The recorder looked upon the matter as a very serious one and fined Wever $50. He was unable to pay it for several ho' rs and had to spend about half the day In jail be fore he secured the desired amount. One of the young girls told her fatn er some very bad stories of W9ver's conduct toward her. * ON LAST LEG OF ' OURNEY. Fleet Left Magdalena . y for Cor onadt in Four Divisions. The Atlantic fleet r 16 battleships began ^unday the last leg of its originally planned cruise from Hamp ton Roads to the Golden Gate. The four divisions of the ileet weighed j anchoi- at 4 o'clock that a'ternoon, and turee-"uarters of an hours later j werc ihrea-Hng their way out A Mag- j dalena Bay in the wake o: the flag ship. Conneticut, JBG, S. C. TUESDAY, Al ORDER SERVED On the Dispensary Commission by Judge Pritcbarrj in COLUMBIA ON FRIDAY. Commission Given Five Days to De cide as to What They Will Do?j It Is Said They Will Hold the Fort and Go to Jail Rather Than Obey Judge Pritchard's Recent | Order. The Columbia correspondent of The News and Courier says the order of Judge Pritchard granting a sup ersedeas on conditions was not serv ed until Friday when it was received through the mail by Chairman Mur ray, of the dispensary winding-up commission, and the other members of the commission, as well as by At torney General Lyon from the office of the clerk of the Federal Court, in Charleston. The order is dated April 8 and re quires compliance within five days from date of order, not five days from service. The commission will not give the heavy bond required by Judge Pritchard, and will not surrender the collateral, which requires to be sur rendered, so that the commission wijl be in contempt in refusing to obey the ordes to deposit the collateral with the Federal Court. As a matter of fact the collateral is not in the possession of the com mission, but is with the State Treas urer, and has been in his posesslon for a long time, even before the books and records of the dispensary were placd in the Treasurer's vaults. So that the commission can make answer that the collateral is not in its posession at all, and they cannot comply with the primary and most important condition of Judge Prit chard's order. Of course, if Judge Pritchard can get hold of the collateral he has the case in his hand absolutely, and, of cburse, the State is not going to sur render the collateral. Judge Pritchard may serve an or der on State Treasurer Jennings, but it happens that Gapt. Jennings is in Mississippi and not at this time in the jurisdiction of Judge Pritchard's order. He is having a pleasant visit out there and is doubtless not in a hurry to return, unless he is requested to come home by Governor Ansel. The Governor will not, however, ask the treasurer to come back to give up the collateral, and he will not in struct any one to give it up, because the State is going to keep its hands on the collateral. These collaterals werp deposited as security for the deposits of the dis pensary money with the various banks of the State, and the banks will not pay out the money without getting their securities back. This point is the milk in the cocoanut, and ths State holds the cocoanut. May Review Case. The State says an appeal to the United States circuit court of appeals on some ground is absolutely certain and when this court meets it will be presided over by Chief Justice Fuller of the United States supreme court. It is believed that the chief jus tice will temporarily, el least, hold off drastic action until he can hear the arguments, the appeal having ^already been perfected. A dispatch from Asheville to The News and Courier says Judge Prit chard Friday receivel a letter from Justice Fuller in reference to the case, but stated, as it was a private letter, he would not refer to its con tents. While the Chief Justice is considering the idea of a special ses sion, it is quite probable that no move will be made in the case here or in South Carolina by the recelv ers. * NEGROES NOT WANTED. Negro Band Causes Trouble in New] York State. The managers of the Watertown (N. Y.,) Chamber of Commerce are embarrassed by the refusal of the | 39th company of the state militia to march on Friday in honor of Govern or Hughes if it is led by the negro band of the 24th United States In Tantry. The latter regiment is just b3ck from the Phillipines and two battalions of it are quartered at Mad ison baracks, adjacent to Watertown. Watertown exerted considerable ef forts to have the negroes sent to some other barracks, but in vain. The committee is now trying to engage a band of white musicians. NEGRO KIDNAPS DEPUTY. Officer Captured by Man He Tried to Arrest. At Anniston, Ala., Acting Deputy Sheriff J. C. West, who was kidnap ped by a negro named Cunningham while he was attempting to arrest 'he negro, returned to that city the next day minus his revolver, money and badge. West says the negro marched him to Riverside. There ! the negro made him get into an em I pty freight ear, which he then closed I up ai ? mai'.e his escape. West fi nally f ucceec "d In getting out of the car . i rt ned. Officers are Btill searc'.ng fo the nesro, ? PEIL "14, 1908. A FATAL FIRE IN A CROWDED NEW YORK TEJfE MENT FRIDAY. Two Lives Lost and Many Persons In jured in the Conflagration Which Is Supposed to Have Been Set. I At New York two lives were lost,, a score of persons injured, and twelve families driven panic-stricken and half clad from their homes in a fire in the five story tenement house at No. 25 Pitt street, early Friday. The police believe the fire v/as set by thieves for th purpose of drawing off the police from the neighborhood. The dead: William Chesner, 4 1-2 years old. Solomon Chesner, 3 1-2 years old. The seriously njured: Jacob S. Chesneri, burned about the face, hands and body. Mrs. Jacob Chesner, burned on the face, hands and body. Butchki Chesner, burned about legs and body. Abraham Lustig, a boarder in the Chesner family, hands and face burned. Julius Spainer, of Engine Co., No. 31, who was off duty, but happened to be passing the house when the alarm of the fire was given, manag ed to clamber from the narrow corn ice on the adjoining building, to the cornice over the stores of the first floor of the burning tenement. Cling ing to the wall and with several oth ers forming a human bridge, he suc ceeded in getting a dozen persons to safety. j A squad of firemen had fought their way to the third floor with a hose when they were blown down stairs by a tremendous back draft. Herman Bower, the nozzleman, was knocked unconscious and over come by smoke. He was carried to the street by his comrades. He re vived quickly and immediately went back into the building. In the meantime Mrs. Chesner had discovered that her boys were miss ing and urged by her frantic appeals men from truck No. 18 finally suc ceeded in making their way to the top floor, where face down and suf focated by the smoke, they found the body of William Chesner, ::our and a half years old. Later the body of three-year-old Solomon Chesner was found upon the bed on the top floor, whither the little fellow had crawled in a vain effort to avoid the flames. After the Are was under control, Samuel Seligman, reported to the police that his store at No. 27 Bridge street had been broken into dur ing the excitement of the fire and a considerable sum of money taken from the cash drawer. The police believe the fire was set to draw off their attention and give the robbers a chance to break into the store. * A FOOLISH BOY. His Parents Said No, and He Shot His Sweetheart. At Milwaukee, Mich., angered be cause his parents objected to his marriage to Hattie Majkowski, aged 17 years, Louis Bolski, aged 18 years shot and seriously wounded the girl at her home Friday morning. Bolski called on his sweetheart the night before and a quarrel fol lowed. He told her that he had come to kill her and kill himself. "My mother says you can't have me," he said, "and if I can't marry you, I'm going to end it all." Before the girl could cry out, Bol ski had pulled a revolver from his pocket and fired at her. The girl fell and Bolski ran away. Miss Majkowski said that Bolski had declared that he put two bullets, one for her and one for himself. Bolski and the girl have been keep ing company two years. His mother however, objected to their marriage and Bolski had been despondent. * A SAL) ANNIVERSARY. Gen. Lee Surrendered at AppomaCtos J 43 Years Ago Thursday. Forty-three years ago last Thurs day Gen. Robt. E. Lee surrendered to the federal officers at Appomattox. Col. U. R. Brooks, whose memory serves him as well as his patriotism and bravery served the "Lost Cause," says The State, called attention on last Thursday night to the fact, that thi3 is the anniversary of that occa sion when the South's proud and beloved commanding general passed his sword over to Grant and gave up, for the Confederates the great strug gle against overwhelming odds. "He surrendered 9,000 men and muskets that day," says Col. Brooke, "to a well fed, well equipped army of 200,000. It was useless tc con tinue the battle longer." " BLOODY MYSTERY. Woman Lying in Pool of Blood andj Her Husband Shot. Mrs. Emma Reiss, aged 3 2 years, wife of William F. Reiss, proprietor of Old Economy hotel, at Economy station, near Pttsburg, Pa., was found dead in a pool of blood in a bed at her home, having been shot through the h^art. On the floor near the bed lay her husband, with a dan gerous pistol shot wound through his temple. Considerable mystery sur rounds the affair, 7 LEVER'S SPEECH IN SUPPORTING THE BILL MAK ING APPROPRIATION Of Over Eleven Million Dollars for the Department of Agriculture Was a Good One. In supporting the bill making ap propriations of $11,431,346 for the department of agriculture, Represen tative Asbury F. Lever made an ex cellent speech. It was extended and thorough, and as the agricultural de partment Is now doing by far the best work since its establishment, and as it is doing at least as much for the South as for any other section, and as the South stands in greater need of that assistance than any other sec tion, Mr. Lever's speech in the house of representatives very appropriately particularly directed attention to the opportunities in the South, and the tremendous undeveloped resources of the South. More addresses in con gress and in the North along similar lines would bear rich fruit. ' We quote an extract or two from Mr. Lever's speech: The true measure of the industrial greatness of any country is the size of the hank books of the >armors, and their natural, inherent conservatism Is the true gauge of tne character, stability, and morals of its citizen ship. Two hundred and six million acres classified as unimproved farm lands and millions or acres of unclassified land in the South await the elixir of man's intelligence to lay at his feet their immeasurably rick treasures. (Applause.) And in conclusion: Such, Mr. Chairman ire our possi bilities, such are our opportunities, such is the record we have made, and today we stand upon the threshold of a great future, the greater tri umps lie before us. Nature has smiled upon this fair land, and the smile has brought joy to the hearts of its people and strength to their arm. The ceiebrated poet, Emerson, said: "Amer' a is another name for opportunity" and that unique char acter, Greeley, enjoined, "Young man, go West and grow up with the country," but if the great poet and the great philos ,pher and editor could see he So'.tn as she is today, with her snowy fields of cotton, her mountains of minerals, her vast for est areas, her granite beds, her coal and iron deposits, her fertile plains and unequaled climate, her long sea coast indented with incomparable har bors, her rivers lacing her like ribbons of silver, and her reawakened, confi dent, and conquering people, the conclusion of the one would be, "The South is another name for opportun ity" (applause), and the injunction of the other, "Young man, go South and grow up with the country." (Ap plause.) Mr. Chairman, we read in Holy Writ of a? "good land, a land of brooks of wa ter, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey: a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass." And to me it reads like an inspir ed description of the South fronting the future, confident, bouyant, thrilled by an all-pervading spirit of progress. (Loud applause.) * FIVE GREATEST MEN, In Private Life Invited to Attend a Conference. Who are the five greatest men in the Unithed States?not in public life? According to President Roose velt, they are Grover Cleveland, An drew Carnegie, John Mitchell, Wil liam J. Bryan and Ja*nes J. Hill. The President has invited these five to attend the big conference at the White House during the week of May 14 to discuss conservation of the natural resources of the country. Every Governor of a State, Cabi net officers, members of the United States Supreme Court and members of the Inland Waterways Commis sion are to attend officially, but these five men are singled out from the whole United States as five individ uals to he invited. They are all Democrats. PRIEST COMMITS SUICIDE. Rector of Catholic Church Shoots Himself Through Head. The Rev. Father Joseph A. Gra ham, rector of the Roman Catholic Church of the Blessed Sacrament, in Albany, N. Y., shot himself twice in the heart Friday afternoon in his study. He died almost instantly. In the opinion of Dr. Burke, who wa3 called soon after the suicide was dis covered. Father Graham was not In his right mind. He was a native of Albany and a brother of National Bank Examiner Edward J. Graham. Father Graham was about 45 years old and was re garded as one of the most brilliant men in the Albany diocese. He had been poor in health and despond ent. Ten Miners are Killed. A special dispatch to Bath, Eng land, says ten miners lost their lives in the Norton Hlll'colllery in Somer setshire, Monday as a result of coal gae. . . . ii.. .? - 31.50 PER AJSTNUM. TOOK THE SHIP. Pirate Crew Capture Vessel anri Murder All the Officers. IN THE SOUTH SEAS. The Captain anil the Mate Are Driven* Into the Sea With Tomahawks by the Seamen, Who Are Afterward* Captured on Board a Derelict Ves sel in Gilbert Island?They Witt Be Dealt With by the Authorities News has neen brought to Victoria, B.. C, by the steamship Maroma, which arrived one day last week of a remarkable .Piracy and murder In the South Seas. The Captain and mate of a Callao schooner were at tacked with a tomahawk and forced to jump overboard by Joseph Mor timer, a Belgian; J. Taylor of Man chester, and G. Jackson of London, who then stole the schooner, the Neuvre Tigre, of Callao, and started for Australia. The vessel was wreck ed in the Gilbert Islands, where she* was found by Captain Marshall, of the trading schooner Laurel, who re ported the piracy and murder to the authorities at Suva, whe>e the men " were made prisoners. Jackson later confessed. He said: "The schooner sailed under then Italian flag, being owned by the master and mate, both of whom were forced to jump overboard. "The schooner sailed out of Callao' early in Novembev last, having oa board a crew of five, the captain and mate, the cook (a Belgian) Joseph Mortimer and myself as cabin boy, and J. Taylor. "The vessel had only got about 14 miles off the coast and the first day from Callao when the cook made an attack on the mate and captain. He ruhsed at the mate first and struck him in the head with a tomahawk. ' He was felled by the blow but quickly recovered himself and took to the rigging. The captain, hearing the scuffle, came out of the cabin and he was immediately felled by a. blow. "Immediately afterward the cook got his gun and forced first the mate and then the skipper, to jump over board. The mate sank, but the skip per struck out for the shore, distant fourteen miles, and Jackson threw him a plank. The cook threatened Jackson, who agreed to assist in. working the schooner. The cargo was jettisoned and they started for Aus tralia. The vessel finally went ashore in the Gilbert group." MUST BE CRAZY. Was Told in a Dream to Kill Her Husband. At New York acting under a com mand which she said had been given to her by St. Joseph in a dream. Mrs. Telma Sardonia Friday, in the presence of her five children, at their home, gashed her husband, Salvatore, with a big bread knife deeply in the neck, in what s^e de clared to be an attempt to cut off! his head. The frenzied woman'3 attack was preceeded by most elaborate prepara tions of a religious nature. The man was taken, apparently dying to the New York hospital. The wife's frenzied attack occurred in the presence of the couple's five small children, one of whom, Mich ael, 12 years old, probably averted what would have been Instant death by screaming and arousing his fath er, who thus had time to partly avoid a thrust of the knife aimed at his throat. Mrs. Sardonia was said to have been acting queerly since the birth of her child two months ago .* PICKS HEYWARD TO WIN. Columbia Banker Says He Will Be the Next Senator. That Duncan Clinch Heyward will be the next United States Senator from South Carolina is the opinion expressed by W. A. Clark, presi dent of the Carolina National Bank, of Columbia, in an Interview in The Washington. Post. "The contest between Ex-Gov John? Gary Evans and ex-Gov. Hoyward will be hard fought probably," says Mr. Clark, "but I think the latter will win. He is a high cla-s man, in every respect, and Is alii" 1 with no element." Mr. Clark predicts the reflection of Gov. Ansel next fall without ser ious opposition, and says the Dem ocrats will be for Bryan in the na tional congress and 'he Republicans for Taft. * WTLL PUT IT BACK. Certain Words to be Restor d to the Jackson Monumer A dispatch from Mempiu.1, Te: u., says the words "The Union Must Be Preserved," are to be restored to the muniment of Andrew Jaci >n in.' cc ri home square. "During tie civil war a local confederate patrr t tookr a chisel and removevd the words from the monument," said Col Gallo way, a member of the park commis sion. "Now that the civil war Iii long past, and we arc ll so proud of the, union, it seems to m*-- that it wr ildt be only proper ti'-put the languas* back." *. . ?.,