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ESTABLISHED IN 18 FINE SET ASIDE THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS, Stands by the Standard Oil Company and Wipes Out the Fine of Nearly Thirty Million Dollars. At Chicago on Wednesday the United States circuit court of appeals reversed the . famous decision of Judge Kenesaw M. Landis, in which he fined the Standard Oil company, of Indiana, $29,240,000. The case Sg remanded to the lower court for ?a new trial. The decision of the court, compos ed of Judges Grosscup, Baker and Seaman, was a scathing arraignment -of Judge Landis, in which it was -asked if the court believed himself above the law in imposing a fine that would fall on. the shoulders of the mother corporation?the Standard 'Oil company of New Jersey when the Indiana corporation alone under the law could be held responsible. It seemed to be the irony of fate that Judge Grosscup . should have "written the / decision of the upper court. He not only wrote the deci sion, but read the decision to the waiting throng in the court room. Judge Grosscup and Judge Landis have not been the best of friends tor sometime, as a result of certain statements made months ago by Judge Landis concerning federal judges who talk publicly on matters which might come under their judi cal attention. When the three judges took their seats on the bench, the court room was crowded to the doors. John S. Miller, Rockefellers famous $50, ?000 lawyer, was present to represent the oil trust. He was acoinpanied hy Attorney Mortiz Rosenthal and several other Standard Oil lawyers. District Attorney Edwin Sims appear ed for the government. All that occurred in court was the 'reading of the last paragraph of the decision. Judge Grosscup read it as follows: "The judgment of the district ?co?rt is reversed and the case re manded with instructions to grant a new trial, and proceed here accor dance with this opinion." That was all and court adjourned immediately. District Attorney Sims held a conference wth Mr. James .Wilkerson and decided! to rush the case to another trial in the f?ll. KILLED BY PORPOISE? Boy in Swimming Off Tybee Island Meets Sndden Death. A dispatch from Savannah, Ga., eays nearly a mile off shore at Tybee Harry Lovett. white, in swimming with Wylly Brunner. son of the Sa vannah health officer, was killed by a large fish that sprang over Brun ner's head and struck the other swimmer squarely, taking him .down into the water. Neither appeared again. From the survivor's descrip tion of the big fish it was probably a porpoise that became frightened when suddenly approaching Brun ner, and leaped to clear him without having seen Lovett, who was follow ing. The boys had been swimming for two miles and their destination is a mile from where the sad accident oc curred. It is believed that Lovett's head and breast were crushed In by the terrific force of the porpoise's leap. THROWN FROM AUTOMOBILE. Suartanburg Doctor Has.a Narrow Escape. A dispatch from Spartanburg Wed nesday says George Moore, the well known mail carrier of Moorer. F. D. Route No. 2, who uses an auto mobile,in serving his route, and Dr. J. M. Lanham figured in an accident that came near resulting seriously. Mr. Moore, who recently purchased a new machine, carried Dr. Lanham out for a ride near Cavins. The machine was running at a rate of forty miles the hour, when it struck an embankmeut, and Dr. Lanham was thrown forty feet into a corn field. Remarkable to state, he was not badly injured. Mr. Moore held on to his seat. The machine was so badly injured that a machinest had to go and repair the damage. MISSING GIRL FOUND. Charlotte Young Lady Discovered at Columbia Union Depot. Miss Mattie Havis. the Charlotte girl who has been missing for sever al days and sought for all ever the section between Columbia and Char lotte, was Monday, afternoon found at the union station at Columbia by Chief of Police Cathcart and Mr. A. E. Cohen, of Charlotte, brother-in law of Miss Havis. When she was met by the officer and her kinsman Miss Havis went with Mr. Cohen to a hotel in the city and they left to gether for their home in Charlotte. ? Tuberculosis From Knife Wound. A dispatch from Spartanburg. says D. Leonard, aged 14 years, the son of Dr.A.D. Leonard, who was drown ed in a pond at Tucapu several weeks ago. died Tuesday at the home of his mother, at ReidviMe. as the result of a knife wound on his knee inflict ed eigb months ago. The lad acci dentally cut himself while handling a knife and tuberculosis developed, causing his death. m. APPEALS TO NEWSPAPERS. Bryan' Calls Upon Them to Collect Funds for Campaign. An appeal by Mr. Bryan to the Democratic newspapers of the country to begin the collection of funds for the campaign was one of the impor tant happenings of the day. The statement follows: "I wish every Democratic paper would begin the collection of a fund from its subscribers. There are very few Democrats who could not afford to make contribution and the people will never be able to control the government until they take on them selves the burden of supplying cam paign funds. As long as a few men furnish the money to finance a cam paign the men wiil exert an undue influence upon the government. "It seems that we have reached the . end. of corporate contributions and this is a step in advance but the individuals who control these" favor seeking corporations may still domi nate politics by furnishing the sinews of war. The Democratic party has struck a blow at this system by limit ing contributions to $10.000and pro viding for publicity before the elec tion. The Republican party has so far refused to join with us on this proposition but public sentiment may yet compel it to do so. ?I have no. doubt that the Democratic party will receive contributions from more in dividuals than ever contributed to any campaign and there is no reason why the entire sum necessary should not be supplied by contributions from the masses. If every Democratic pa per will take the matter up and lend a helping hand we will soon have money enough in the treasury to provide for legitimate campaign work and that is all we want." A CALL TO WORKINGMEX. President Gonipers Urges Union Members to Vote for Bryan. A dispatch from Washington in advance of publication In the Fed erationist, the newspaper organ of the trade unionists, President Gom pers, of the American Federation of Labor, Wednesday, night liberated the proof sheets of a democratic edi torial that will appear in the August issue of the paper. There are three double columns of it, much of the type being used in quoting the written demands that Mr. Gompers and his associates made on the Republican and Democratic conventions for insertion in _ their party platforms. Stress is laid -on the anti-injunction planks of both conventions, which are quoted, ana lytical comments by Gompers being added. While disavowing an intention "to deliver the labor vote," Gompers ex presses the opinion that the worker will have to answer to his v fellow workers, as well as his conscience, if his action Is contrary to the political course that is pointed out for him. An argument is submitted . with the intention of proving that the Re publican party is the enemy and the Democratic party the friend of la bor and it concludes with a call to the workers to defeat their enemies for all offices, presidential, legisla tive and judical. BISHOP POTTER DEAD. Episcopal Prelate Passes Away in New York. Henry Codman Potter, seventh Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the diocese of New York, died Tuesday night at Fer'nlelgh, his summerhome, near Cooperstown, N. Y., after an illness of several weeks. The Bishop was unconscious all day and the end, which came at 8.35 o'clock Tuesday night, was peaceful and quiet. The prelate was 74 years old. Gathered at the bedside of the dying churchman were Mrs. Potter, wife of the prelate; Mrs. Mason C. Davidge, who came from California, and Mrs. Sarah Potter, his two daughters: Alonzo Potter, - a son, Mrs. Edward Clark. Stephen C. Clark and Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Clark. Mrs. Charles Russell and Mrs. ,Wm. Hyde, his two other daughters, who are abroad, have been notified. Death was due primarily to em bolism in the right leg. following a long attack of liver and stomach trouble, and the end had been fore seen for several days by the Bishop's I physicians. SIX MEN KILLED. By Premature Explosions Caused by a Careless Powderman. A premature explosion of dyna mite, which occurred while work nieu were preparing a blast at the i improvements to the Cumberland Valley railroad near Scotland, Md., [eavsM the loss o.r three livr-s and a number of others were so serious ly injured they may die. Malloy, the powder man, used a long iron bar Instead of a wooden instrument usually employed to tap the dyna mite in a hole drilled in a rock. The explosion was terrific. Malloy was killed instantly, as was Butler. Ma loy's body was hurled high in the air. Loudon died In the hospital at Chambersburg, where the injured were removed on a special train. An inquest will be held. Beaten By Citizens. Joe W. Tolbert, the white Repub lican who figured so obnoxiously in the race riot at Phoenix. Greef.wood county, several years ago, in vhich a number of negroes were shot to death, was set upon Monday by citi zens of NineFy-Six. given several blows and ordered to leave town. - OfLAJSTGEB IF THEY I VERY HOPEFUL OUTLOOK FOR BRYAN'S ELEC TION VERY BRIGHT. Charles Bryan Says the Ticket Will Sweep Every State West of the Missouri. Mr. Wm. E. Gonzales, editor of The State, returned Monday from Denver, Col., where he attended the Democratic national convention and witnessed the triumphant spectacle of the nomination of William J. Bry an by a reunited and revivified par ty. It seems that the West is afire with Democratic enthusiasm and that the South is the only section of the country which is not thoroughly awake to the probability of Demo cratic success. Mr.. Gonzales talked with a great many person's whom he met m dif ferent cities in the West through which.he passed on his way to Den ver and return, and he declared that it was indeed gratifying to hear a number who had always been Repub licans say that they would vote for Bryan this year. "The West," he said, "appears to be realizing for the first time that it has never got anything from the Republican party and, so long as New York and Ohio are allowed to fur nish the president, that the West never will be benefited. "I asked a number of representa tive men why they did not make some effort to get into closer rela tions with the South, both politically and commercially. The idea every where met with favor. "The Bryan managers at Denver displayed great good judgment and tact in handling a number of delicate points, and as a result the unity, at the close of the convention, of many men that previously had appeared irreconcilable was remarkable. The fact that Mr. Bryan while opposed to Johnson for vice president was heartily in .favor of Judge Gray and the knowledge of that softened a good many of the Easterners. Again when they came to examine the plat form, it was found that whilst itl stood for something positive it was radical only to the extent that it pro mised definite reforms, and both platform and speeches gave all the assurance that capital needs' that every honest dollar will have the ful lest protection from a Democratic president and a Democratic admin istration." Mr. Gonzales' attention was called to the fact that there has been some speculation as to why it. had been decided to limit the matter of mak ing public the means of contributors so that those giving less than $100 would not be named. "The reason is that many subordi nates in manufacturers and minor railroad officials and others not in dependent wish to contribute small amounts toward the Democratic cam paign fund but would be afraid to do so if such contributions should come to the knowledge of their em ployers. "Mr. Bryan seemed to be very much pleased with the suggestion that friendly newspapers invite cou trbutions, and? I hope that Somh Carolina will aid to this extent in the great fight for Democracy. "To illustrate the spirit of the Democrats and the new Democrats of the West, I will tell of one big bonded, collarless Nebraska farmer who told me that he had contracted with the publisher of a newspaper in an adjoining town to print a pa per for him during the campaign, the issue to he distributed among his Republican neighbors. 'I've got a little money,' he said, 'and 1 might as well spend some of it that way.' He was then wearing a but ton in the label ? l bis coat on which was printed 'Bryan Volun teers.' For that button he paid $10 as a contribution to the Nebraska Democratic campaign fund." Mr. Gonzales declared that it is known that Judge Gray was prevent ed L'OJr accepting the nomination for vice president because of his de pendence upon the permanent salary which he now has, for If elected,; upon going out of office he would, be too old to reestablish a law prac tice. Mr. Gonzales saw a great deal of Mr. Kern, who looks like a "Confed erate brigadier, is exceedingly pleas ant personally and is an effective campaigner," said Mr. Gonzales. West of which such encouraging re What are the chances in the ports have been sent out?" was an other question which was asked Mr. Gonzales. "Charles Bryan, or 'Brother Char ley' as he is more familiarly kno~n, claims everything West of the Mis souri," was his reply. "The fact is that Ohio is going to present the most strenuous battle ground and is an easy possibility for the Democrats. Missouri, Indiana, Nebraska and Colorado seem already safe in the Bryan column, while California, Washington, Wyoming, Utah and several others in that group pre sent a hopeful field. Of course I put Oklahoma and Kentucky with the solid South." ? ,v.. ' "What about New York?" w/is an jother question which prompted itself. "The Tammany people. 900 strong," be replied, "went away from Denver seemingly absolutely satisfi ed and the leaders gave every (assur ance that they would not only sup port Bryan and Kern but would work to win. With Tammany working for the ticket, with large accessions of the labor vote and with the legiti mate business interests of New York assured that/Bryan is very 'safe and sane'?from the viewpoint of legiti mate business ?New York becomes debatable ground. I do not believe that the Hearst party can take as many votes from the Democrats as from the Republicans. "Mr. Bryan's campaign will have at least one novel feature," said Mr. Gonzales. "That feature will be the resort to the pen rather than the tongue; to the press rather than the platform. "When I appealed to Mr. Bryan to make as vigorous a canvass as in 1896," said Mr. Gonzales,. "he re minded me that he was now 12 years older, 'and besides,' said Mr. Bryan, i believe I can be more effective in writing arguments for Democracy that newspapers can use If they will, over my signature.' "When I saw him last week It was Mr. Bryan's intention to deliver two, perhaps three, speeches in New York State, one of them In New York city, and six or eight speeches in the States of Illinois, Ohio and Indiana. He proposes to discuss fully some one Democratic principle in each of these addresses. The remainder of the campaign Mr. Bryan expects to stay at home and prepare letters or articles in the nature of signed edi torials for such newspapers as will use them. He will discuss the issues with any Democratic speakers that wish to consult him. "The West is giving* Mr. Bryan much encouragement and he is very hopeful?markedly more buoyant than before the convention." Mr. Gonzales twice visited Mr. Bry an at Fairview, the nominee's Ne braska home. After the adjournment of the convention Mr. Gonzales visit ed numerous places of famed scen ery in Colorado, crossing "the Divide" where the railroad, after going through :;.'! tunnels in 75 miles, crosses the mountain range at an ,elevation of 11,600 feet, where there is perpetual snow hanked on each side of the track. On the 12th of July he was in a snow-storm on the summit of Pike's | Peak while simultaneously there was a thunderstorm in the valley 000 feet below. Young Man Drowned. Joe Herring, a young white man of Latta, was drowned Sunday after noon and three of his companion.' had narrow escapes while in swim ming near that place. Although ? good swimmer. Herring was drowned In water shoulder deep. Suicide Follows Failure. John D. Wood, fifty-two years o? age, suicide i't St. Louis Monday. He recently failed as a truuk mer chant and .vas disheartened because he could rot pay his debts. VY 24, 1908. D AGAIN! ?De Mar in Philadelphia Record. TERRIBLE CRIME. WOMAN; LURED TO DEATH FOR SAKE OP FORTUNE. Induced to Come to This Country by Her Nephew, Who Robbed and Shot Her. A crime so cruelly crafty as to be almost unbelievable Is revealed in the case of Mrs. Ottillie Eberhard, a Viennese widow, whose body was found on the New York, Susquehan na and Western railroad track, in a lonely section near Hackensack, N. J., recently. The police of every Eastern city are searching for August Eberhard, the victim's nephew, who for months importuned her come here with a fortune of $2.600 and her twenty year-old daughter, whom August pro mised to marry. The girl refused to believe that Airgust had anything to do with it. His parents live on a farm near Dutchess Junction, New York. The victim, with her daughter, ar rived at New York last Thursday. Eberhard is employed in a grocery store in St. Nicholas avenue. 1 He settled them at a hotel here and con verted the money into American notes. He took them to the country on the pretext of heat. At. Rochelle park at his suggestion the trio strolled in the fields. Eber hard claimed he had lost the way. A thunderstorm broke. The woman stumbled on the track, exclaiming she had been struck by lightning. Miss Eberhard says there were three flashes from behind a car on a sid ing. As her mother fell the girl felt a bullet graze her own neck, cutting a gold chain. Eberhard urged her to run and as she did so she was struck by two bullets. A nearby cottage cared for the girl till Sunday. The murderer must have shot the widow as she lay prostrate. "REV." WH1TAKER CONVICTED. Found Guilty of Using Mails for Fradulent Purposes. In the United States Circuit Court at Asheville, N. C, Tuesday Judge Newman presiding, the "Rev." Wm. G. Whitaker was found guilty of us ing the United States mails for fra dulent purposes. The accused was found guilty on all six counts on which he was indict ed next day. Whitaker was arrested in Dayton, Ohio, >ast February at tin1 instance of the postal authorities. Whitaker claimed that there exist ed in the Bank of England a fund of $200,000.000, which was the law ful property of the heirs of the Whitaker family, and is alleged to have collected varioufc sums from the "heirs" in all sections of the United States. KILLING AT WILLIAMSTON. Drunken Livery Staule Keeper Shoots Negm to Death. A dispatch from Williamston. Tuesday says Will Suber, colored, is dead, and Deveau French, white, is in jail charged with murder, a re sult of French's drunkenness. French shot Suber at the former's livery stables Saturday, apparently without provocation, aed the negro died Sunday afternoon^ From the information that can be gathered at this time, it seems that the negro, who worked for Simpson & -Martin, nearby liverymen, was passing French's stables, when French, who was drunk, called him across the street to where he (French) was. In a very brief moment French shot three times, and the negro grappled him and took his pistol. But one bullet had entered the negro's ab domen, mortally wounding him. French belongs to a prominent Anderson family. He is married and has two children. The negro. Suber, has always horm an excellent reput? 'on and no i aus.- is known for the tragedy. OUT FOR BRYAN. Soys the Railroads Do Not Care Who Is Elected. A dispatch from Hot Springs, Va., says: Melville E. Ingalls, formerly president of the Big Four and Chesa peake and Ohio railroads, and still heavily interested in them and in other roads, says that it will make little difference to the railroads of the country who Is elected president this fall. "If It is Bryan," he said "there will be a hell of a time up there, in. Wall street for a month, and then things will return to normal. Ir Taft Is elect ed, there will not be any disturbance, but in a month after election, it will come to the same thing, so far as the railroads are concerned, with either the finner. "Taft is a wise man. a great man, and of judicial temperament. There is no doubt that he will pursue the Roosevelt policies, but he will not talk as Roosevelt has done. "After all, it was Roosevelt's talk ing and not his policies that did harm. It must be admitted that Roosevelt is wild, for a president of the United States. He has not yet sobered. It is nonsense to say that the election of any man will wreck the country. Andrew Johnson and Theodore Roosevelt put a great strain on it, but they were unable to affect it be yond quick recovery. "One of my reasons for supporting Bryan is that I am tired of hearing the panicky talk about his^ election raising Ned with our prosperity. "I don't believe it. Anyhow I am boy . enough still to want to try it and see. ? ".Besides I believe that If Bryan entered the -white house he would become a sober and conservative statesman." MIND BLANK FOR EIGHT DAYS. Resident of Savannah Has a Strange Experience. While relatives believed him wan dering about the country between Macon and Atlanta, and on his way to the latter place, Dan Cannou, whose disappearances during the last ten days have attracted considerable attention, was walking to Savannah and showed up at home Tuesday. He declares that for eight days his mind has been a blank. Yet in that time he rode from Savannah to Claxton on his daughter's bicycle, told strange stories of his plan to ride until he should be west of the Mississippi River and finally dispos ed of the wheel when a chance came for a ride to Macon on a freight train. In Macon his mind suddenly re sumed its normal condition and, leav ing friends who had cared for him without a word of good-bye, he started to walk to Savannah. Part of the journey he made afoot. He was in several hard rains and his more than 50 years, coupled with the exposure and unusual exertion, have left him very ill. The story he tells is that, while suffering from a sunstroke, he made the journey on his bicycle and freight trains to Macon, taking eight days to make the trip. During that time, he declares, he performed no action consciously. A relative went to Macon to search for him, but passed him on the road. A physician is in constant attendance upon him in an ofiort to keep his mind clear. The moments when he is going to sleep and waking are especially carefully watched. DIED FROM HYDROPHOBIA. Dreadful Malady Causes Death of a Girl in Brooklyn. Hydrophobia has caused the death of Florence Kirkman, the six-year old daughter of Ralph Kirkman, Brooklyn. For hours before the child was removed from her home to a hospital her cries could be heard all over the neighborhood where she lived. Six weeks ago the child was bit ten in the hand by a mongrel dog. She was playing in the streets at the time, tossing a ball into the air. As she stooped to pick up the ball, the dog ran at her and hit her. The girl's mother took her to a nearby druugist who cauterized the wound. The wound seemed to heal and nothing was thought of the in cident until about two weeks ago when the girl began to have spells of dizziness. Mr. Kirkman called lu a physician but he thought the dog's bite had nothing to do with the child's illness. Then the child had one convulsion after another. The doctor advised her removal to a hos pital. ARRESTED FOR SETTING TRAPS. Five Negro Fishermen Charged With Violating Fish and Game Law. A dispatch from Beaufort says: At YemasseeMagistrate Roger Pinck ney bound over to the circuit court five colored fishermen for placing fish traits in the Coosawhatchie river. They will have to answer to the charge of violating section 517 of the game laws. There has been general complaint all over that section of the general disregard of the laws to protect fish, and of their consequent scarcity. It is expected that the efforts of game warden Wm. Elliott, who presented the case, will stop violations there. Six Men Killed. Six forefgnefs were killed by trains between midnight and daybreali Monday morning on the railread yards at Buffalo. A dense fog was the cause of the accideuts. ?1.50 PER AKSUM.. SWINDLERS CAUGHT QUICK WORK OF DETECTITES BROKEN WALL STREET GANG. Four Are Awaiting Trial and Four Have I'Tcd?Individuals and Cor porations Forced Into Bankruptcy. i Three months ago Lieut. Ben?rd McConville, of the Detective bureau of the police force of New York city, started out to clean up a band of alleged noted swindlers.who had been operating extensively in the Wall street district. The net result or his labor to date is: Convicted and sentenced to state's prison: John Joseph Campbell, Maj. James N. Whelpley, Regulus Ship pey and Charles Barry, alias Bary. Arrested and awaiting trial: John Gundlach, E. Elliott Trautwein, Frank C. Helm and Michael Jacobs. Fugitive from justice: Charles Gardner and three others whose names are withheld from publication at the request of the district atorney. In addition th'j investigation has brought to light crooked note tran sactions that have covered "a period of three years and involved $1,000, 000. Several of the individuals and corporations have been driven into bankruptcy, and an endless chain of litigations has resulted: ?McConville began his crusade by [the arrest of John J. Campbell, a [former member of John J. Rocke feller, Jr.'s Sunday school class." ?e was charged with the' theft: of $3, 000 in notes froTn the 'Delhi Silk company. He admitted the Icriine and confessed1 he had taken part'in a scheme to float $150,000 worth of notes of the Sherman &Cot, cutlery dealers, of Keyport, N. J. CampbelJ. involved in his confession Maj. J. N. Whelpley, an ex-convict with a long police record. Whelpley, un der various aliases, had represented himself as one of the executors of an estate that had money to loan on notes. He would get possession of the notes, turn them over to his con federates, who, would discount them and divide the proceeds. Then Whelpley would change his alias. The holders would seek and sue the mak ers and perhaps be forced into bank ruptcy. Gundlach and Shippey were ar rested for swindling $12,000 worth of notes belonging to Alfred Visch er & Co., manufacturers. When ar rested Gunlach said he had given the notes to Shippey, who said he had turned them over to Jacobs and he said Helm was their possessor. All were held. Barry was convicted of a joint steal with Gunlach in which $108,000 were secured from Sherman & Co., through false repre sentations.' Trautwein is accused of stealing $100,000 in notes issued byi the Hopper-Morgan company, ol Watertown, N. Y., by "trick and de vice." Both the last two companies named were hard pressed on ac count of their losses and litigations are still pending as a result. Gard ner, who is a fugitive from justice, is an ex-convict and Is implicated in several crooked note deals. The successful prosecutions of the mem bers of the gang thus far put on trial have been conducted by Assist ant District Attorney Kindebevger and Appleton, who have been highly commended Mr. Jerome. Detec tive "Bat" Nelson is an assistant in the case. - TALKS INTO PHONOGRAPH. Bryan Adopts Novel Method for Spreading His Political Views. Most of last Tuesday was spent by Mr. Bryan at his homo in Fairview, Neb., in delivering short speeches on the issues of the campaign into a phonograph. Previously he made similar speeches on the records of a competing concern. The intention is to give the speeches wide distribu tion throughout the country. Of his own volition Mr. Bryan announced that he had received $500 from each of the two concerns as compensation for his work. When confronted with the sufees tion by a newspaper man thatNie had accepted money from corpora tions, and thereby had acted contrary to the declared policy of the Demo cratic party, Mr. Bryi.n stated that the whole proposition was a com mercial one. and that he very pro perly could accept pay for his labors. The remittances were not retained by him. but he turned them over to the State and county Democratic committees respectively as a p:\rsonal contribution. ADMIRAL ROJESVEXSKT DEAD, Commander of Russian Fleet In Bat tle of the Sea of Japan Succumbs. Vice Admiral " <?svensky, who commanded the ill-fated Russian fleet which was annihilated by tho Japanese in the Sea of Japan in May. 1905, died at Dad Nauneim. Ger many. Monday. It is believed that the heart affection resulted from in juries received by Admiral Rojesv ensky in the battle of the Sea of Ja pan. Shot While Fleeing. At Winston-Salem. N. C. Edward Scott, serving two years for forgery, tried to escape from the chaingans Tuesday and was fired upon by tr=! guards His body was literally rid dled with buckshot. It is said he can not live.