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ESTABLISHED m IS MANY LIVES LOST In a Most destructive Hotel Fire at Fort Wayne; inrj. NUMBER OF MISSING. The Burning of the Register Renders | Accurate Estimate of FatUitiesJ Impossible?The Fire Was discov ered at Half-Past Three O'clock Sunday Morning in the Elevator Shaft. At least 12 persons lost their lives In a fire which destroyed the New Aveline hotel at Fort Wayne, Ind., early Sunday morning. The entire Interior of the building is a smould ering heap of ruins and how many dead are concealed by the debris can only be conjectured. The hotel reg-J ister was consumed by the fire and! there is no accurate means of de-1 termining who is missing. ' Charred wood, bricks and twisted girders are piled up tjetween the walls to the second story. Piece by piece this must be removed before the roll, of the dead can be completed. Some'/ of the bodies taken out are mangled and charred beyond recognition. The fire was discovered at 3:30 Sunday morning in the elevator shaft by Night Clerk Ralph Piplins. He rushed to the upper floors, alarming "the guests until the flames, which had spread with great rapidity, drove them back. His efforts, howeve-, saved many lives. The hotel was erected half a cen tury ago and the wood work was dry as tinder. Within a few minutes from the time the fire was discovered tbe whole interior was a mass of flames and the only avenue of escape was by the windows. The fire department rescued many of the guests by means of ladders, but some, frenzied- by the rush of ?flames, leap?d from windows to the street. R. S. Johnson, of Pana. 111., jump ed from the fifth story. His body struck a balcony and bounded far in to the street. He died a short time 1 "l?tefr ,f.; '=Vr ' - - ?' As the flames increased men and women were seen in the windows of -their rooms imploring help. Some did not wait for the assistance of the firemen and leaped to the street. ; Those who left their rooms before the 1 flames cut off their retreat were able j to make their way to the fire escape : and were saved. That there are several bodies in 1 the ruins is the belief of Fire Chief ? Hilbrecht and Chief of Police A,nck enbruck places his estimate of dead ! yet in the ruins as high as 20. The j kew Aveline Hotel was a six story 1 building of brick. It stood in the business centre of the city. The hotel 1 and its furnishings were |valued at ' $80,000. * 1 ?. FAMOUS OUTLAW CAUGHT. John Harper Surrounded by a Large Posse and Captured. A special from Copper Hill, Tenn.. states that a posse of Tennessee and Georgia citizens and United States of ficers have captured in the moun tains of Fannin county, Tennessee, the notorious outlaw John Harper. Harper murdered Allison England 1 near Blue Ridge over a year ago. He was arrested and incarceratd in jail in Atlanta February I. U>C8, pending bis appeal to the supreme' court for-the murder of Sheriff Keith i Of Murray county, Georgia in July, 1907. Rewards amounting to near- i ly $900 dollars were out for his ar- ' rest which was accomplished by mak ing him believe that the house in which he was concealed was being | burned down. * BROWNE? HERSELF Because She Thought She Had Killed Her Child. Crazed by the thought that she might have accidentally killed her son by a mistaken dose of medicine ten months ago. Mrs. R. L. Poole jumped in the Etowah river and drowned herself Thursday. She lived in Rome, Ga. On Wednesday she was tried for lunacy and found guilty. She resisted going to jail antt was ?committed to the care of her hus band during the day. While her hus band was not looking she slipped away, went to the river and jumped in. It was found that she had tied Tier own arms before jumping into the river to prevent any efforts being made unconsciously. * WAS REFUSED BAIL. Decision of the Supreme Court in Grover Welsh Case. The supreme court has refused to grant bail to Grover G. Welsh, who is now in the Lancaster jail charged with the killing of Berry B. Mobley. The killing took place last February on a train near Heath Springs and was the outcome of a shooting affray In which Mobley killed Stephen Welsh, brother of Grover, and Thos Claybourn. The -attorneys in their argument for bail-claimed that Mobr ley was the aggressor, but this was denied by the prosecution. _ ? S69. PARTY RULES FOR COVERING MEMBERSHIP OF DEMOCRATIC CTA7BS. The Qualification of Voters, and the Conduct of Primary Elections of the Democratic Party of This State. The following rules shall .govern the memhershjin of the different sub ordidate Democratic Clubs of this State,, the qualification of voters at [the primary elections held by the party, tjie conduct of the primary election to be held on the last Tues day of August, and the second prim ary held two weeks later, if one bo necessary. Rule 1. The qualifications for membership In any subordinate club of the Democratic Party of this State, or for voting at a Democratic prim ary, shall be as follows, viz: The ap plicant for membership, or voter, shall be twenty-one years of age, or shall become so before the succeeding general election, and be a white Dem ocrat, or a negro who voted for Gen eral Hampton in 1876, and has voted the Democratic ticket continuously since. Provided, that no white man shall be excluded from participation in the Democratic primary who shall take the pledge required by the rules of the Democratic Party. The managers at each box at the primary election shall require every voter In a Democratic primary election to pledge himself to abide results of the primary, and to support the nom inees of the party, and to take the following oath and pledge, viz: "I do solemnly swear that I am duly quali fied to vote at this election according to the rules of the Democratic Party, and that I have not voted before at this election, and pledge myself to support the nominees of this prim ary." Rule 2. Every negro applying for membership in a Democratic Club, or offering to vote in a Democratic prim ary election, must produce a written statement of ten reputable white men who shall swear that they, know of their own knowledge that the appli cant or voter voted for General Hampton in 1876, and has voted the Democratic ticket continuously since. The said ticket shall be placed in the ballot box by the managers, and re turned with the poll lists to the County Chairman. The managers of election shall keep a. srperate l'^t of all negro voters, and return it with poll list to the County Chairman. No person shall be permitted to vote unless he has been enrolled on a club at least five days before the said primary election. Provded, that In Charleston County the voter must have his name o nthe club list at least sixty days before the said prim ary election. The club lists shall he inspected by and certified to by the president and secretary and turned over to the managers !t? be used as the regular list. I Rule. 3. Each County Executive Committee of the Democratic Parly in this State shall meet on or before the first Monday of each election year and shall appoint three managers for each primary election precinct in their respective Counties, who shall hold the primary election provided under the Democratic Constitution, in accordance with the Acts of the Gen eral Assembly of this State regulat ing primary elections, the Constitu tion of the Democratic Party of this State, and the rules herein set forth. The names of such managers may be published by the Chairman of each County Executive Committee in one or more County papers at least two weeks before the election. Rule 4. Each voter in said prim ary shall vote two ballots, on which shall be printed the name or names of the candidates voted for by him for each of the offices to 'be filled, to gether with the name of the office. The tickets to be voted shall be fur-1 nished by the State and County Exec utive Committees respectively, and shall contain the names of all candi dates for the representative offices and no other tickets shall be used. The tickets to be voted shall be in the following forms, one for United States Senator. Governor. Lieutenant Governor. Secretary of State. Comptroller General. State Treasurer. Adjutant and Inspector General. State Superintendent of Education. Attorney General. Railroad Commissioner. The other with spaces to .suit the different Counties: For Congress - District. For Solicitor-Judicial Circuit. State Senator. House of Representatives. Sheriff. Judge of Probate. Clerk of Court. County Supervisor. Coroner. County Superintendent of Educa tion. Treasurer. Auditor. Magistrate. Master. County Commissioners. No vote for House of Representa tives shall be counted unless it con tains as many names as the county is entitled to representatives. Rule 5. The managers ef election shall open the polls at 8 o'clock, A. M., and shall . close them at 4. o'clock, P. M.;. provided, that iu the city of Charleston the polls shall open at> 8-, o'rlock A. M., and shall close at 6 o'clock P. M. After tabu lating the result,, the managers shall , OBANGEBt TRAPPED BY FLAMES. FIRE CAUSES THE LOSS OF SIX LIVES. Many People Rescued by the Foremen and Police?Origin of Fire Very Peculiar. An early Sund# morning Are in a four-story brick tenement at No. 17 Humboldt stret. a thickly populated section of Brooklyn, caused the death of six persons and the serious injury of four others. Every member of the family, consisting of a mother and four children, are among the dead. There were many thrilling escapes by Rolice and firemen and it was due to their brave work that the death list was not larger. A half dozen or more persons who were trapped in the upper stories were saved by jumping into life nets. The financial list caused by the fire is estimated at $10,000. The fire started in th cellar of the building when the people comprising the eight families living in the house were asleep. It had gained much headway before it was discovered and three policemen repeatedly risked their lives in dragging people from within reach of the flames. When the firemen came the fire had spread through the entire rear of the house where the fire escapes were, and the terror-stricken inmates of the upper floors had been driven to the front rooms where they were hanging | from windows shrieking for help. Ladders and life lines were quickly brought into use and most of the imperiled persons were thus rescued. The Abrams family lived on the third floor. For some reason, the flames swept through their apartment so that the only way of escape was by jumping from the windows Charles Abrams and his sister Anna did this, but both struck an iron rali ing and were dead when picked ,up. Mrs. Abrams and her other children, Sadie, and Carrie, were burned to death, clasped in each other's arms. * certify the same and forward the ballot-box, poll list and all other pa pers relating to such e'- :tion. by one of their number of Executive Com mitteemen, to the Chairmen of the respective Democratic County Execu tive - Committees within forty-eight hours after the close of the polls. Rule G. The County Democratic Executive Committee shall assemble at their respective Court Houses on the morning of the second day after the election, on or before 12 o'clock M., to tabulate the returns and de clare the results of the primary, so far as the same relates to mem hers of the General Assembly and County Offices, and shall forward immediate ly to the Chairman of the State Exec utive Committee at Columbia, S. C, the result of the election in their re spective Counties, for U. S. Senator, State officers, Congressmen and So licitors. Rule 7. The protests and contests for County Officers shall be filed with in five days after the election with the Chairman of the County Execu tive Committee, and said Executive Committee shall hear and determine the same. The State Executive Com mittee shall hear and decide protests and contests as to United States Sen ator, State Officers, Congressmen and Solicitors, and ten days shall be al lowed for filing the same. , .Rule 8. Candidates for the General Assembly and for County Officers shall file with the Chairman of the County Executive Committee a pledge in writing, to abide the results of the primary and support the nominees thereof. Canddates for other ofF ces shall file such pledge with the Chairman of the State Executive Committee. Provided, That the pledge of such candidate shall be filed on or before 12 o'clock, meridian, of the day preceedmg the day fixed by the County Executive Committe or the State Executive Committee for the first campaign -aeetlng of the County or State respectively; provid ed, further, that in Charleston Coun ty the candidates for congrss, solici tor and county officers shall file their pledges and pay their assessments within the' time fixed by the County Excutive Committee. No vote for any candidate who has not paid his as sessment nor complied with this rul3 shall be counted. The followng is the form rf the oath: "As a candidate for th?s office 0f-_ in the Democratic primary election, to be held on the last Tues day in August, I hereby pledge my self to abide the results of such prim ary and support the nominees there of, and that I am not. nor will I become, the candidate of any faction, either privately or publicly suggested, other than the regular Democratic nomination." If th candidate is run ning for the United States Senate, or for the United States House of Re presentatives this additional pledge shall be required: "I will support, the political principles and policies of the Democratic Party during the term of Office for whoh I may be elected, and work in accord with my Dem ocratic associates in Congress on all party questions." This the ? day or-." Rule 9. In the primary election herein provided for, a majority of the votes cast shall be necessary to nominate candidates. A second primary when necessary, shall be held two weeks; after the first, as provided un der the Constitution of the party, and shall be subject to the rules gov: jerning the first primary. At said I (Continued on Page Three.). JKG, S. C. TUESDAY, M FAVOR BRYAN. ? Congressmen in Doubtful States Declare That He Would ENTHUSE THE PEOPLE And Poll More Votes Thun Any Other Candidate the Democrats Could Nominate?They Say All States Should Send Instructed Delegates) for Bryan to the Democratic Cou-| vention at Denver. "We want you to tell the Demo crats of South Carolina that, with one exception, there is not a Demo cratic congressman, wno represents a doubtful district west of the Alle gheny mountains who does' not feel that the dereat of Bryan at'the Den ver convention would impe-il Demo cratic success in his disti ict. We want the aid of the South td preserve our political Jives, and we do not want the Democrats to wait till the Denver convention but to express themselves now in no uncertain terms by instructing their delegates for Bryan. "If Bryan is tile nominee, then we will certainly return to congress and other doubtful districts in our States now represented by Republicans will send Democrats. If Bryan is defeat ed for the nomination, many of us will as certainly be defeated. We keep in close touch with the senti ment in our districts, as we have to, and ths is our deliberate judgment." Ths is what Judge D. W. Shackle ford, a congressman ? from Missouri, said to Mr. Zack McGhee, the Wash ington correspondent of The State one day last week, to which there was hearty and unanimous agreement at an informal conference Mr. McGhee held with Democratic congressman from the)Middle West tSates at Con gress hall. There were present, be sides Judge Shackleford, Messrs Hamilton of Iowa, Murphy of Wscon sin, Russell of Missouri, Adair of In aiana, Ashbrook of Ohio, and Kimball af Kentucky. Mr. McGhee had talked, in the af> ternoon also with Messrs. Denver of Ohio, and Dixon and" Ranch of In diana. They are all of oijc accord and without reserve in declaring that the defeat of Bryan at Denver, if anything should bring about such an unexpected possibility, would mean disaster to Democratic hopns not only for the presidential and congressional tickets but for all local tickets. And they each assure him that this is the view entertained by all the Democrat ic congressmen in the States of the Middle West, with the single oxcep tion of Mr. Hammond of Minnesota, who thinks that Johnsou would be stronger in Minnesota than Bryan. "If Bryan is nominated," said one, "then I expect to run and get elected, but if any movement hostile to Mr. Bryan names another man, then I know that there is not a possible jhance for me, because Democrats will knife the whole ticket. If any ather man should be nominated, even though not hostile to Bryan, the Dem crats would not come to the polls for it is impossible'to get up any en thusiasm except for Bryan." "There are five counties in my dis trict," said Mr. Ashbbrook of Ohio. "Two of these are Republican, two are doubtful, though now Democratic and one is safely Democratic. Witl Bryan heading the ticket, I can easily carry the two doubtful districts and will get a plurality of 2,000, but if Bryan is not named at Denver I fear the consequences, though esrcn ^.hen I think I could get a plurality of some thing like. 1.000 '* Mr Denver of Ohio is the first Democrat who has ever represented his district in Congress. He has been the county chairman of the. Demo cratic party in his county and he knows the seutimeut among the peo ple throughout Ohio. His district Is now normally Republican by nearly 5,00$. He says with Bryan as the nominee there is an excellent chance of carrying Ohio for the Democratic party.. Mr. Hamilton is the only Democrat from Iowa. "With Bryan as the Dem ocratic nominee," he said, "and with Taft the Republican nominee for president. Allison again nominated for the senate, I believe there is an excellent chance of carrying Iowa. This would not be the case with any other man in place of Bryan. In I he northern part of Iowa, next to Minne sota, there is a little sentiment for Johnson, but the overwhelming senti ment amoug Iowa Democrats i.-; be yond all possible doubt for Bryan, and he is a great favorite with Republi cans." Only two other men mentioned Johnson. One of those was Mr. Mur-j phy of Wisconsin. "We know John son up in Wisconsin," said he, "and the people do not take to him at all. They want Bryan. I hones*ly believe that Bryan could carry Wis consin aganst Taft. Mr. Murphy's district is largely Republican, hut party lines are being broken up. The people want reform and they will vote for the man who they think will give It to them*, the three favorites being Roosevelt, LaFollette and Bryan." All the Indiana Democrats refer to the three districts in their State now represented by Republicans who hold their seats by.small majorities. These are Gllhams, with a majority of 350 over his Democratic opponent, with 1,490.votes for the Prohibition and: AY 5, I90S. WEIRD THINGS I ARE TOLD ABOUT THE DOINGS OF SOME FANATICS. Two Followers of "Unknown Tongue" Will Be Arraigned on Charge ofj Lunacy in Pike County, Ga. There have been some sensational developments in Pike County, Ga., re cently with reference to a religious sect which has been operating for the past several years through that sec tion, Vega, in Pike county being the central points of operations. A lot of these people have been acting so strangely that they have been severe-1 ly criticised, and in fact, in a num ber of instances their conduct has been such, it is claimed that it has become objectionable to the commun ity. Last summer they ran a camp meeting at Vega, which became so no torius that people from the entire surrounding country flocked there to witness the performances. The lead ers claimed to have received miracu lous power, and to have a special favor called the "unknown tongue," which consisted of such an alleged jabbering as was probably never be fore witnessed, unitelligible to ordi nary begins but clearly understood as they claimed by all the followers of the new religion. Some times various individuals would go off into a trancs like state, in which condition they would remain for hours and days, and at times weeks. Some times some of them would tramp the fields and woods, shouting and moaning, until the neighborhood would become alarmed and the women and children much frightened. In the meantime repre-| sentatives of the new sect were trav eling the country, begging funds with which to establish an orphans' home at .Vega and a large framed building had been erected, where several cull- ( dren had been collected. This condition continued until the | Pike County grand jury met two weeks ago, when certain citizens of the county went before the body and asked relief at its hands. It seems j that the grand jury, in its efforts to aid the people of that section, re turned two bills against, two victims of the new religious order and the j investigations of the ^alleged home ( resulted in .two children from, the ? home appearing before the body in . Zebulon and from there sent to their - former home in Columbus, Ga. The citizens of Vega then took a hand and after public meetings aoci fled Manager Stafford that he was net a proper person to be in charge of the place and that a proper man would have to he put in charge or the place closed. All children there were im mediately sent to their former homes and it is probable that the orphanage is out of bupiness. Interesting de velopmtuts have been going on, how ever, in the ranks of the holiness followers. When the sheriff of the county weut to arrest the young man and young woman, charged with va grancy, a wonderful state of affairs) was discussed. From the information obtained these two people went into a trance at the camp meeting last summer, In which they lingered many days.#They then \yent to the home of the young man's father where they have since been, actually refusing to do a single 1 thing, not even bathing or changing wearing apparel. The food on which | they have subsisted had to be carried to their rooms and fed to them. They are sights to look upon. Strange as it may seem, the father ] of this young man is a respectable citizen and the faimly esteemed in the community and they stoutly main tain that there is nothing the matter with the young man and the yoHng woman except that they "had the power of the Holy Ghost." In the discharge cf his duty the sheriff car ried the two to Zebulon and placed them in jail. The friends of the fam ily at once made bond for their re lease, but when the sheriff opened the | doors and told them to walk out they declined, saying that the "Lord had put them in jail and when He order ed them out they would obey." Socialist candidates; Chaney, wth 340 majority over the Democrat, and 1, 620 votes for the Prohibition and So cialist candidates, and the late Atr. Brick, who had a majority of 207 over the Democrat and 2,190 for other candidates. These districts, they all declare, will be safely in the Democratic column if Bryan is nomi nated, and as surely Republican if he is not. Messrs Shackleford and Russe! dis cussed the situation in Missouri, and they say that if Bryan is nominated Missouri will not only come I? ck into the Democratic column so far as the presidential electors are concerned." but that !?"> of the 16 congressmen will be Democrats. There are now 12 Democrats and four Republicans 1 from Missouri. Congressman Rainey 1 of Illinois says, "I can not speak from personal knowledge as to any other State, but I do know Illinois," he said. "We have a good chance of carrying Illinois if Bryan is the nom inee. With any one else nominated there is absolutely no chance. With Bryan at the head of the ticket, we can elect 10 Democratic congressmen. I think we c Nd elect nine without him. We no have five." Mr. Rain ey himself carried his dstrict by about 5,000 plurality, so that Bryan's defeat would not seriously effect him. He declares that it would ha^e a vital effect upon the Democracy of ] the State, which is all for Bryan, WHITE AND BLACKS HAVE SOCIAL EQUALITY DINNER IN NEW YORK. White Women Sandwiched in Be tween Negro Men and White Men Between Negro Women. Nothing in recent years has so stirred the white people of this coun try as the "social equality" dinner given in New York on Monday night week under the auspices of the Cos mopolitan club. The purpose of the dinner, and of the movement of which it is a part, was, frankly and confessedly, to hroak down the social barriers be tween the two races, and the advo cacy of intermarriage, expresed by whites and blacks alike at this re-j iuarkable dinner, was greeted with the loudest enthusiasm of the even ing. There were ninety-three people at the dinner, the proportion of negroes being about two to one, while among the whites were a large number of white women, affiliated with "settle ment" work and socialism. The seating arrangements were so devised that a white woman invar iably sat between negro men. HANGED AT DARLINGTON. Gaddy Graham Pays Penalty for Kill ing Furman Moody. Gaddy Graham, colored, was hang sd at Darlington Friday for the mur der of Furman Moody on the night of Nov. 18, 1907. The hanging took place at noon and there were few persons present. Among those who witnessed the hanging were the fath er, brother and uncle of the murder ed' man. Just, before the drop fell Graham made a statement, admitting :hat he was guilty of stealing and ly ing. He said that he hated to be langed for murder, but that he was prepared for the inevitable. On the night of Nov. 18, 1907, Furman Moody, who had been em ployed as manager on Mr. William ion's plantation, went hunting. While massing by a corn field on the place te heard what he thought was some )ne breaking corn. He bailed and vas answered, "I' am Isaiah Bostict, lon't shoot. I surrender." Imme liately he was fired upon, the wounds :ausing his death some days aftcr vards in Charleston, whither he had jeen carried in order to get medical ittention at the hospital. V Isaiah Bostick was afterwards ar ?ested and so was Gaddy Graham, vho was put in jail to answer to the iharge of having killed Moody. It vas found that Bostick was not in iny way implicated; his name was liven Moody by Gaddy in order to leceive him as to who was in the leid. Gaddy had tried to cover his racks In every way but was caught ind at the trial the testimony of a vornan who had gone with him in .he wagon to steal the corn corrobo rated other testimony and Gaddy was jonvicted and sentenced to he hanged >n Friday, May 1, 1908. BOLD THIEVES. Bound and Gagged Messenger and Looted the Safe. "After ? desperate battle with two robbers, the messenge" in charge of the express car of the New York?St. Louis express of the Pennsylvania road, was bound and gagged, tossed into a corner, and left there, while the intruders looted the safe in the zar of four bags of currency and gold and then signalled the engineer to 3top. When the Irain slowed down the men jumped off the car and ec :dped. In trying to ascertain the cause of the signal to stop, the train crew found the car door open and the mes senger inside. According to the mes senger's story, he was busily engag ed as the train lett the union station it Pittsburg, Pa., at 10:15 p. m. Without warning he was attacked, md at Carnegie, eight miles from Pittsburg, the stop signal was given ind the men got away. TILLMAN TO RETURN HOME. The Senator Left the Sanitorium on Last Saturday. Senator Tillman's condition in so much improved that he has returned to his home at Trenton. He will con tinue to rest, remaining quietly at iiome until about June 1, when he expects to sail for Europe. This will be good news to the many friends of the Senator, who hope that he will soon be entirely recovered so as he will be able to return to his dutise in the Senate, where he is so much nissed. * SNOW AND SLEET Fell in Several of the Northern States tin Last Thursday. Following snow during the morning hours, Pittsburg, Pa., and vicinity was visited by a thunder storm, which caused much damage. Two North Side houses were struck by lightning and set on fire. Much apprehension is felt as to the effect of the snow on fruit trees. The snowfall in the su burban districts was particularly heavy. Snow also fell at Erie, Pa., Jonesville and Cleveland, Ohio. ? $1.50 pee Asmm. THEY WERE HUNG Toland Brothers Pay Death Pen alty for Awful Crime. AN ORDERLY CROWD Of About Four Hundred Witnessed! the Execution in the Lexington Jail Yard?Both Were Hanged Front the Same Scaffold.?They Held" Firmly to Their Former Story of the Muider. At Lexington on Friday Ned and? Brack Toland paid the penalty of death for the murder of Mrs. Paul Ellisor on February 26. They died at a few minutes past twelve o'clock, both being hanged from the same gallows. "I am ready to die and tell everybody to meet me in heaven,"" were the parting words of each. To> the last they held to their former story of the crime as they told it on the witness stand at Lexington on. March .12. The negroes met death with scarce ly a tremor. The eyes of Brack, the* younger I of the boys, displayed a. slight moistness. The cunning, In stinctively criminal Ned shed not a tear and he met death with apparent ly as little concern as if it were the most commonplace thing. The boys stood erect while the black caps were* being adjusted and very calmly held their heads in position for the sheriff to arrange the ropes about their necks. Ignorant, depraved, they died with out possibly a true realization of the horrible and atrocious crime which they had commtted. The hundreds, who witnessed the execution fronx housetops, trees, fences, etc., firmly beiieved'-that justice was being meted out to them, but hot one would have deigned deny them the privilege of feeling that "all is right with God.'" The trap was sprung at tll5o a_ m., and in 11 minutes Ned was pro nounced dead and In two miniutesr more the last bit of life left the body of Brack. They died from strangu lation. As the bodies dropped they swung around for a fe wseconds andL then all was still. It was thought that Brack was kill ed instantly, his body hanging per fectly motionless, with not a twich. of the hands or feet. Ned's feet and. hands drew up and relaxed repeatedly and he died with a struggle. Full six minutes had elapsed when Brack, showed signs of life and then his fin gers began to twitch and once or twice his feet drew up before his body again became motionless. Dr. E. P. Derrick, country physi cian, Dr. J. P. Drafts of Barre, Dr. L. B. Etheridge of Leesville and Dr. R. E. Methias of Irmo, constantly ex amined the bodies at at 12.06 Ned was pronounced dead. At 12.0& Brack was pronounced dead. They were allowed to remain suspended in the air until 12.20, when both bodies were cut down and placed in cheap* pine coffins furnished by the county No one claimed the bodies and at 4! o'clock Sheriff Corley turned there over to Mr. B. D. Clark, coroner, and! Mr. Geo. H. Koon, county supervisor, and they were taken to the potters* field and buried without ceremony. * AS IF BY MAGIC. Blind and Deaf Man Has His Hearing; and Sight Restored. , At Chicago a supposed deaf and blind mandicant, who had been ar 'rested was fined $3 0 and costs by I Judge Wells. As if by magic the man's hearing and eyesight were re stored and he took $80 from one oC his pockets and counted out the a mount of the fine. He was theft searched by the police and a bank: book showing a deposit of $1.-i52 waa found. "You won't need these carda which tell of your lost hearing and: poor eysight since both have been: restored." the court remarked, and the pasteboard was destroyed. * THREE SAFES BLOWN. Safe Robbers Made a Good Haul a? Hartwell, Ga. Safe robbers visited Hartwell. Ga.? alnut one o'clock Thursday morning; The postoffice was opened and robbed! of $r>0 in money and about $1,000 Ira stamps. None of the mails were were molested. The safe was blown open, with nitro glycerine. The Southern express offico was also visited and the safes blown. The express money or ders were tosstd about the place. It is believed about $200 was secured th?re. * DESPERATE BATTLE. One Man Kills Another After Being Shot Down. Dr. J. E. Garrison, shot and killed J. D. Williams, an electrician for the Consolidated Coal Company, at Flat Creek, Ala., in a duel in the public road. Previous trouble had existed between the men about family affairs and when Williams saw Garrison he asked him to wait a few minutes, and securing a pistol, shot Garrison do"wn. While on the ground, the latter shot; Williams to-death. Garrison is dan? gerously wounded. **