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- ESTABLISHED EN" IS MYSTERIOUS DEATH. POLICE OFFICERS AT TROY, K. , Y., ARE BAFFLED. Efforts to Find Slayer of Nineteen Year-Old Girl, Whose Body Was Found Sunday, Unrewarded. i A dispatch from Troy, N. Y.. says out of a maze of the theories which -confront the authorities who arre trying to lift the cloud of mysterv ?surrounding the death of 19 year old Hazel I. Drew, whose body was found in an old mill vord near Ave rett Pzfrk last Sunday, nothing tangi ble developed so far that points to -the murderer the mot ve for the crime. No arrests have been made, although the police have closely questioned several persons whom it "was thought might throw some light on the case. That the girl was assaulted before she was murdered and thrown into the pond, is the generally accepted theory, but the body was in such a state of decomposition when found as to make it practically impossible for the physicians to determine that tact. Theories multiply as to the motive for the' murder. The girl was not known to have an enemy or sweet heart, and the baffled authorities were even willing to take up the possibili ty of suicide. The physcian's state-* ment. however, to the effect 'that there was no water in the lung was given as proof that the girl was dead, before her body was thrown into the pond. 1 At the church yard at Poestenkill, I where Hazel's life began, her body was laid to rest. A bunch of roses adorned the casket, while the Rev. W. H. E. Richards, of the Methodist Church, offered prayer. Only a few friends and relatives were present. What the girl did from the time she left her aunt on Monday. July 6, until the body was found, remains ?untold. Rhody Gunderman and Frank Smits tell cf having seen Hazel on Tuesday night on the road leading from Averill Park to Taber ton. They met her, they say, at a point in the read batted "The Hol low." A little father along another road branches off to the left and leads to the home of Wm. Taylor, an un cle of the girl. She may have been on her way to visit some friends in Taberton or her destination may have been her uncle's hsnie. Accord ing to Gunderman's story the girl ?was carrying her hat -in-her band. One of the numerous theories that developed suggested that a j'oung woman living at Taberton closely re sembles the murdered girl and that Gunderman and Smith might have been mistaken in thinking tiiat she "was Hazel. The girl, however, when ?questoned, said she was not on the Toad on Tuesday night, although she had been that way on foot on other nights. The authorities are endeavoring to find the suit case and handbag which the girl carried when she left Troy. The fact that she did not have them when she met Gunderman and Smith is taken to indicate that she may have left them where she has spent the preceding night. The possibility that the bag and suit case may have been thrown into the mill pond led the1 authorities to open the gate of the dam for the purpose of draining. After about two feet of water had been let out a heavy thunder storm came up and further operations were postponed until Thursday. The girl's hat, gloves and eyeglasses were found on the bank, and there was no Indica tion of a struggle, although a suffi cient time had elapsed since the girl met her death to have permitted the trampled grass to revive. The theory i.hat the girl died from strangulation as the result of a corset string tied about her neck, and which Ts said to have been cut at the time of the. autopsy, is not given much credence by the authorities. The string apparently was one that the girl wore about her neck and it brake when the body became swollen by being in the water so ( lone:. The authorities do not place much ?credence in the story that the girl was taken to the lonely pond by a party in an automobile. DROVE NEGRO FROM COUNTY. Y'orkville Black Given 100 Lashes and Told to Leave. About ten days or two weeks ago a report gained currency in a neigh borhood about seven miles northeast of Yorkville, near Clover, that a horrible assault had been made on the person oi a little white girl. An inimedate investigation proved it to be utterly false and without founda tion. Citizens of the neighborhood made careful inquiry as to the au thor of the report, and finally fasten ed guilt on Ho'o Howard, a. negro. On Monday night a number of men visited his home, look him out. ap plied Hid lashes to his back and ad vised to leave the Si ate. never to return, by noon. He went. It is claimed that he started similar re ports in several other neighborhoods in whic\i he had lived in the county. Oar Wheel Plant Sold. The Carnegie Steel company, chief subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation, has put the Sehoen Steel Wheel company out o. "he business bv a flat purchase, the price paid for the Piitsburg plant bei , $3,000,000. The ,rice is $1,000,00? in excess of the cost to Charles Schoen, the in HURT IX FIRE. Woman Jumps From Second Story With Fatal Result. In a fire at Memphis, Tenn., Tues day which destroyed the fashionable Jefferson fiats, Mrs. F. B. James, formerly of Chicago, jumped from a second story window and is now in a critical condition at the Presby terian hospital. ' Mrs.. J. J. Stein was carried trom the building by fire men. Mrs. Elizabeth McDonald, living on the fourth floor, did not awake until she was hemmed in on all sides by flames. Her cries attracted firemen who carried her through a window and down an extension lad der. A few minutes later the roof fell in ^ver her room. A number of other ocupants of the building were rescued by firemen, '"nst of them clad in their night gar ments. Diamonds valued at $10,000 were recovered from Mrs. James' room durng the progress of the fire by Policemen Crosby and Smith. Loss, $25,000, covered by insurance. ROOSEVELT'S FRIEND ELOPES. Oklahoma Marshal Stole Bride He Had Determined to Marry. John R. Abernathy, former Rough Rider, and United States marshal for Oklahoma under appointment from President Roosevelt was married in Oklahoma City, after an elopement in which an angry father was evad ed. The bride is Almira Perviauce, 19 years of age.of near Guthrie. Ab ernathy is a widower of a year, 32 years of age and has six children. His first marriage was an elopment from Calveston, Tex. Mr. Perviance ob jected to the manage on acount of the disparity of age. Abernathy .entertained the Presi dent at his ranch, then in Coman c.hp county in 1905. and took him on some famous wolf chases. In the following yeaT he was appointed mar shal, desuite charges that he was unfit and which were reported to the President as untrue, the investi gator being Gov. Frantz, another Rough Rider. GONZALES VISITS ?RVAX. Columbia Editor Says the Commoner Will Moke u Few Speeches. W. E. Gonzales, editor of the State, of Columbia, S. C, and one of Mr. Bryan's lieutenants, after a visit with Mr. Bryan and Mr. Kern at Fairview, Lincoln, Neb., Tuesday said: ? "The statement that Mr..Bryan will not make a canvass is incorrect. It is his present purpose, however, t-o deliver no platform speeches, but to make ten or a dozen political ad dresses, dealing with the more vital Issues as presented in the platform. Mr. Kern will make a more coninu ous campaign, and I was assured in Denver that Mr. Towne will be no less active than if he had been the Vice Presidential nominee." Mr. Gonzales said that campaign contributions will be invited by newspapers in his State, and he- be lieved every Democratic paper in the South would do likewise. * GOES FROM ASYLUM TO JAIL. Alleged Embezzler in Florida Arrest ed and Will be Tried. G. C. Scudamore, former cashier ot" the Pensacola Bank and Trust Co., and charced with embezzling laree. sums of money from that institution, was brought to Pensacola Tuesday and placed in the county jail, being arrested by a deputy as he walked from the grounds of the Florida In sane Asylum at Chatahoochee. He will be arratnged for trial at an early date. Scudamore, when arrested a month ago on the charge of embezzling and set free on the plea of insanity, and after many commis sions had passed on him he was de clared to be insane and committed to the asylum. The asylum authori ties recently decided that he was sane and his discharge followed. SHOT THROUGH WINDOW. Son of Superintendent of Methodist Orphanage in Georgia Badiy Hurt. At Atlanta, Ga.. Hirman Jamieson. the eight-year-old son of Superinten dent Jamieson. of rho Decatur Me thodist Orphans' Home, and Mrs. Jamieson were perhaps fatally wound ed late Tuesday while on a suburban car returning to their home after tin outing given to the orphans or Fnltnn County. As the car was speeding along a shot was fired from a passing freighl train on the tleonria Railroad, which parallels the trolley line, the bullet pas-sing through the head of the boy and entering his mother's neck.! Who fired the shot is not known, but I later the entire crew of the freight j train was placed under arrest. At tending physicians say the boy can not recover and that Mrs. Jainieson's condition is critical. White-Haired "Tiger" Convicted, D. Parker, an old white-haired, 'gray-bearded man. pleaded guilty in the Court of Sessions at Spartanbnrg Tuesday niorulus on the charge of ''selling liquor. He looked like Alex I ander Dowie. Judge Hydrick en deavored to pet the defendant to pvo misc that he would not sell any more whiskey, but the old man would not [promise. He was sentenced to serve Ithree month or pay a fine of $100. ORANGEBU VICTORY FOR BRYAN. REPUBLICAN LEADERS ADMIT DEMOCRATS HAVE CHANCE. Hand a Throttle of Party Machinery is Hand ?>f More Seasoned Engi neer?Attention to. New .York. lu the view of practical politicians in Washington the Democrats have started well at Denver. It is candid ly admitted by prominent Repub licans there that the beginning of the campaign is under more auspi cious circumstances for the Demo crats than at any period of the party's history since 1892. No one attempts to account for the fact that harmony seems to have prevailed at Denver to an unusual extent, and that the whole party machinery seems to have been better oiled than at any time for sixteen years. The only explana tion offered is that the hand of the man at the throttle was that of a more seasoned engineer than in past years. Mr. Bryan, according to shrewd observers, has learned some things. m Years have brought with him the knowledge of placating op posing elements, instead of putting them at each others' throats. Men who were ten days ago declar ed that Bryan had no earthly change of election in November now admit that tjje beginning made at Den ver is such as to ensure a rattling campaign and possibly, Democratic victory, it all depends, they believe, upon whether the Democratic cam-' paign is smoothness as the prelimi the same smoothness as the prelimi nary stages. If it is November may bring tidings of a change in govern ment control. There is little question, in the minds of politicians that the fight to be made by Mr. Bryan will be in the West and Middle West. That, It is pointed out. is plainly shown in tne platform. Mr. Bryan went out, of his way to put up a platform | that would catch the Western people, and as plainly as if he had said it. himself the declaration of principles! of the Democracy appeals to West ern sentiment and thought. Mr. Bry-j an will depend for his election upon the South, with Nebraska, Kansas,, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois. India na and the Dakotas, and he expects! to give Mr. Taft :i great fight In Ohio. 1 where the Republican party is still torn with dissension. It is doubtful, according to political reasoning, if the Democrats wil! give the slighfes< attention to a single Eastern Si-H". unless it is New York. And whether they will do that will depend upon the developments in the entire State. Mr- Bryan plainly .-ays to the coun try I ha I he has studied sentiment in the West, and thai he believes ii will be with him in November. "REBEL ARMY" RUNS AGAIN. Melts Away in the Mountains Before Mexican Troops. Col. Dorantes. commanding 1.000 Mexican troops, encountered Tuesday some 500 "revolutionists" in Hie fbo blls of the Santa Rosa moun tains. 40 miles south of Las Ascas, a courier who arrived at Del Rio. Tex., reports. He says the "rebels" were easily defeated and that they broke into small bands and scattered through the mountains Rurales and number of casualties on either side is not knowu. RG, 'S: C F?lDAY, JUL"! WANTED?AS ENGINEER! DISGRACE IN OLD AGE VENERABLE OREGON POSTMAST ER EMBEZZLED FOR FAMILY. Stole First to Pay Mortgage Then He Stole That He Might Live Be yond His Income. \ ' ? ?.- . Witnesses, sspectators. lawyers and others drawn to Bend. Ore., by the recent land fraud cases were called upon to witness an unusual spectacle when Federal Judge Wolverton sen tenced Alfred H. Grant, the vener able postmastor of that place, to serve three years and six month in the Federal prison on McNeill's is land and to pay a fine of $3,261.76. Grant had pleaded guilty to a charge of embezzlement of Government funds through the conversion of money orders to his private use. For more than 2? years he had been a highly respected citizen of Cook coun ty, and had for years been post master at Hay Creek. Five years ago he was promoted to the more important office at Bend and despite the increase in business which enabled him to embezzle over $3,000, Grant was so trusted that his bond had not beeu raised above $1,000. It does not ap pear that he used a cent of the stolen money on himself or spent it extrava gantly. He stole first to pay a mor tgage on his home, then to furnish his house and make his wife and only child comfortable. Living be yond his income opened the down ward path to ruined character and to prison in shame and disgrace. It was about 10 a. m. when Mr. Grant was brought before Judge Wolverton. As his name was called a pathetic figure, crouching as much as it could in the shadow of a huge deputy marshal, arose and walked hestitatingly toward the center of the chamber. His face was bronzed, and his whitening beard emphasized the darker lines of his seamy face. The man had always borne a good reputation and showed no trace of anything that would arouse a suspi cion to the contrary. Grant bowed his head when facing the bench that he might hide his eyes that were red with weeping. The district, attorney explained the extenuating circum stances. It was with some difficulty thiit Judge Wolverton passed sentence on the man who is a few years his junior. "It is the judgment of this court," continued Judge Wolverton in low p.nd measured ernes, "thai you pay a fine of $3,11.8.54 and he confined in the penitentiary on McNeills island for a period of two years and six months on I he first count: thai yon pay a fine of $143.22 and '.e con fined for a period of one year upon the second count." This made the total fine $3.261. 7G. the amount of the embezzlement, and the imprisonment -1- months. The imprisonment may be reduced three months, upon good behavior. And then after thi? liiiie has expired about 15 months, or fcc two years and Grant can. after further confine ment of 30 days, take the pauper's [oath and be released. The sentence was a comparatively light one as I the limit on each count is ten years. Fleet Sva\ Honolulu. The American f' t of battleships arrived at Hono til! about 1 o'clock Thursday afternoon, according to a late wireless dispatch. e 17. 1908. ?Kessler in St. Louis Republic. HAS PASSED AWAY. DR. TIMMERMAN SUCCUMBS TO PNEUMONIA. He Was III P>ut a Feu Days?Former State Treasurer and .Lieutenant Governor. A dispatch from Batesburg says Ihe entire community was saddened by the death of Dr. W. H. Timmer mau, wno passed a?r?ty at. 7..r>.0 o'clock Tuesday evening after a brief attack of pneumonia. Lr. Timmerman's death **as verv su'Ven, he ha/iiv, been on the street ; Si. day morning. The funeral patty proceeded-from the HVtitnce Wednc.day afte-ooon at "> o'clock. The interment was at 12 o'clock Thursday at the old Tini merman burying ground, near his old home, in Eedgefield county. Dr. Timmerman was twice mar ried, first to Miss Pauline Asbill on Nov. 4, 1S5G. His second wife was Miss Henrietta M. Dell to whom he was married May G. 1879. He is survived by his second wife and the following children of the first wife: Mrs. G. P. Soigler, Eureka; Mrs. B. F. Lewis, Johnston; Mrs. W. S. Mob ley, Thomson. Ga.; J. E. Timmer man of Aiken county and Drs. R. H. and W. P. Timmerman of Batesburg. Hon. George Bell Timmerman, so-, licitor of the Eleventh judical circuit, and Miss Salome Timmerman of Batesburg are the surviving children of the second marriage. Dr. Timmerman was a member of ihe constitutional convention of 1895, and be regarded ibis as one of the greatest honors of his career, despite the fact that he was State treasurer and afterwards lieutenant governor. FELL INTO DEEP WELL. GaJTney Jjad Has Thrilling Experience While at Play. For remarkable occurrences Gaff ney is still in the lead. A lad five year-old son of Mr. Boyd Sarratt, who lives near Limestone College, was playing over an old well with his little brother Monday afternoon, I when the covering, which w;is rotten, [broke'through, with the result thai I the boy wem to the bottom, a dis tance of seventy-five feet, Into seven i feet of water. j The younger child at once gave the alarm, but it was some three hundred yards to the house. The father immediately starlet! for the well, expecting to find his son al the I bottom, bill before he reached the scene of the accident he mel the boy coming to th house. The little fel low, who was barefooted, had climed jout without assistance none the j worse for his thrilling experience, ; 'except a slight abrasion on the back Iof his head. Difficulty About a Cow. At Lancaaster on Wednesday a difficulty occurred between two ne groes, Bart Frazler and Harvey Massey, on the Witberspoon planta tion, nn Ca I a wlm river. In wir h Fra Zior WiiK sliot in the abilomon Mas sey . lug H shotgun. The i tttrimins physician says the wounded nr..n will die. The trouble was about a cow. KILLED BY ENGINE. Horrible Accident Occurred,.in Co lumbia Tuesday Night. ' At Columbia Mr. ,-ames E. Mikell met a horible and almost iustaut death Tuesday night just a few minutes before the hour of midnight at the corner of Gervais and Lincoln streets. He was struck by a Seaboard passenger engine at the point where the tracks of the Seaboard' cross Gervais street arid his body was drag ged about 100 feet north before the engine pased over it. Mr. Mikell has been employed for several weeks by the Seaboard as a substitute watchman, and Tues day night he was on duty at the Gervais street crossing, next to the Seaboard station. Wheu the south bound passenger train arrived at 11. 45 p. m., he was at his post and readily gave the proper signals. The engine which brings this train to Co lumbia from Portsmouth is relieved here by another engine and crow. The engine which brought the train into the station had transferred to the siding and was backing, going north to the Sydney park yards, when it struck Mr. Mikell. The engineer, Mr. Jas Horton, evidently failed to observe that his engine had struck any object, for he made no stop after striking the man and was not aware that, he had run over and killed a man until some 20 minutes afterward when the agent called him over the telephone and so informed him. BODY OX MARKET FOR $00. John Barrett, 70 Years Old, Wants to Sell His Body. Deserted by his fortune, which once smiled upon him, John Barrett, Df Middleton, Conn., offers to sell his body for $C0. The offer has been refused by the George Washington hospital, at Washington, D. C. C, to which it was made, but the offer is still open. Barrett is about 70 years old, and although apparently hale and hearty and likely to live many years more, he feels that his days are numbered, and rather than live in want he wiould raise the $50 which will chase the wolf away for a while by giving a lien on his body. He came to Washington in search of health, hop ing to benefited by the climate. "I don't think there is anything so unusual in my offer," he said.. 'I have heard of such cases before, nnd I know that hospitals pay $50 for bodies for dissecting purposes. By getting this money I can live a little easier for a while, but I be lieve that my days are not very long, and I fear the time when I will not have a penny. I have been able in the past to pay my room rent promptly and purchase the food that [ need, but my money is very low now." FIRK ANSWERS PRAYER Blaze Consumes Park Preacher Pray ed Might lie. Removed. Twelve hours after the Rev, Geo. Edward Lewis, in a public prayer, asked that the amusement resorts of Irving park, Chicago, where liquor is sold, "might be burned to the ground," Excelsior park was consum ed by fire. The prayer was offered within three blocks of Excelsior park In a revival meeting In the Emman uel Congregational church. Proprietors of the park state their loss will reach $50,000 and that they had taken extra precautions against fire, owing to the preacher's prayer, rt is believed the blaze was caused by crossed wires. The police are looking for two men who were seen in the park just before the fire. AFTER BEEF TRUST AGAIN. Vow York Decides to Investigate High Price of Meat. The transactions of the Beef trust in New York state is to bo examined by Attorney General Jackson, of that, commonwealth. Tired of the con stant rise in the price of meats, the people of the state have revolted, and Gov. Hughes has heard the pub lic clamor. "I am glad this matter has been called to my attention." declares At torney Jackson, "as I can not see why. at this time of the year, when it costs less to keep cattle than at any other season, the trust is charging the consumer three and three and : half cents a pound more than it did three months ago. If 1 can find any trust officers within this state who can be proceeded against. I intend to get after them." Kills His Wife. Robert. Wright, aged 32, cut his wife's throat and then attempted to commit suicide a! their home, four miles west of McKinney, Tex.. Tues day. When discovered his wife was lying dead on the floor with her windpipe severed, and Wright, with several gashes in his throat, was wandering about the house, bogsinc: for some one to kill him. The couple are survived by a three-year-old child, who was found sitting on the bed near where its dead mother was ly ing. Brick Mason Kills HimseL. Paul Eichelberger, a brick ma son, committed suicide at Orlando, Fla.. Tuesday by takinc poison. His body was found in "i alley. Eichel berger was recent I v sentenced i<> the penitentiary fer c-.I treatment to bis wife, and the nuinilaUon is evi dently what caused hi n to take hi life. \ $1.50 PEB ANNUM. TALKS OF PRESIDENCY WHAT WHITE HOUSE OCCUPANT MUST HE AND HAVE. Democratic Nominee for President Contributes an Article to Colliers Discussing tbe Office. Win. J. Bryan, the Democratic no minee for President, has written an article entitled "My Conception of the Presidency" for the July 18th issue of Collier's Weekly. Mr. Bry an says: "The President's power for good or for harm is often overestimated. Our Government is a Government I of checks and balances; power is distributed among different depart ments, and each official works in co operation with others. In the mak ing of laws, for instance, the Presi dent joins with the Senate and House. He may recommend, but he is power less to legislate except as l majority of the Senate and House concur with him. The Senate and the House are also independent of each other, each having a veto over the other, and the President has a veto over both; except that the Senate and House lean, by a two-thirds vote, override (the President's veto. The influence \nt the President over legislation is. therefore, limited. He shares re sponsibility With a large number of he people's representatives. Even in . [the enforcement of the law he is hedged about by restrictions. Ho acts through an Attorney General (whose appointment must be approv ed by the Senate) and offenders against the law must be prosecuted in the Courts, so that here again the responsibility is divided. In the making of important appointments he must consult the Senate and again of necessity be compelled to exercise care and discrimination. "The most important requisite in a President, as in other officials, is that his sympathy shall be with the whole people rather than with any fraction of the population. He is ? [Constantly called upon to act in the capacity of a Judge?deciding be tween the importunities of those who seek favors and the rights and in terests of the public. Unless his sympathies are right the few are sure to have an advantage over the many, for the masses have none to present their claims. They act only at elec tion and must trust to their repre sentatives to protect them from all their foes. "Second, the President must have a knowledge of public questions and the ability to discern between he true and the false; he must be able to analyze the conditions and to de tect the sophstries that are always employed by those who seek unfair advantages. He must possess the moral courage to stand against the ? influence that are brought to bear in favor or special interests. In fact the quality of moral courage is as essential in a public official as to either right sympathies or a trained mind. "A President must have counsel lors and to make use of counsellors he must be open to convictions. The President is committed by his plat form to certain policies and tlu plat form is binding; he is also committ ed to certain principles of Govern ment and these he is in duty bound to apply in all matters that come be fore him. But there is a wide zone in which he must act upon his Judg ment, and here he ought to have the aid of intelligent, conscientious and faithful advisers. The laws provides these, to a certain extent, tn giving him a Cabinet and the Vice 1 resi dent ought to be made a .member of the Cabinet exofficio, in order, first that the President may have the bene fit of h.o wisdom and knowledge of affairs; and second, that the Vice President may be better prepared to take up the work of the President in case of a vacancy in the Presiden tial office. There ought to be cordial relations between the President and ? those who occupy positions of influ ence in the co-ordinate branches of the Government, for our Government is not a one-man Government, but a Government in which he chosen re presentatives of the people labor to gether to give expression to the will of the voters. e "But the Presidency is the highest postton In the world, and its occu pant is a factor in all national mat ters. If he is a devout believer In our theory of Government, recoglnz es the constitutional distribution of powers, trusts thoroughly in the people and fully sympathizes with them in their aspirations and hopes, he has an opportunity to do a splen did work. He occupies a vantage ground from which he can exert wholesome Influence for each for ward movement. ' ?'The responsibilities of the office are so great thai the occupant ought to be relieved of every personal 'am bition, save the ambition to prove worthy of the confidence of his coun trymen: for this reason he ought to enter the position without thought or prospect of a second term; while burdens of such an office are heavy, and while the labors of the office are exacting and exhausting, the field of service is large, and. measuring its greatness by service, a President, by consecrating himself to the public v,i il, can make himself secure In the affections of his fellow citizens while he lives, and create for himself a. permanent place in the nation's his* tory."