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PUBLISHED THREE THAT BIG FEE That the Dispensary Commission Was To Pay HAS SWIM AWFULLY Like the Darkies' Catfish?Col. Stevenson Sets Forth the Facts Concerning the Share Going to Gen. Anderson, Col. Felder, Major Rountree and Capt. Wilson. The following letter explains itself: The Atlanta Constitution: 1 notice that in an article in your paper -of Thursday last you state the following: "From reliable sources it has been learned that the Atlanta law firm of Anderson, Feld er, Rountree ? Wilson will receive between $150,000 and $200,000 as their fee for their services in win ning the famous South Carolina dis pensary case recently decided in fav or of their clients, and involving about a million dollars in cash on hand, and between two millions aud three millions in claims. This will no doubt be the record fee in the South. "When this firm was employed in the case, it is understood they were given a cash retainer fee of $100, 000 and made a contract for a com mission of so much on the sums recovered." This statement is entirely mislead ing and puts the commissiou in South Carolina in an improper at titude. If it merely concerned my self I should pass it by, but it mis leads the public, many of whom take your paper in South Carolina, and is largely untiue notwithstanding the source of your information may be reliable. In the first place, the fund in voled was only $600,000, the en tire claims being asserted in that litigation against the fund being only $250,000 instead of $3,000,000. In the next place, no retainer fee was paid the Atlanta firm at all, but they simply were given the con tract at their own solicitation, to be paid 10 per cent of the amount which they might reduce the claims by evidence which they would furn ish at their own expense. The total amount of claims originally being $600,000 and the possibility of re duction, therefore, not being over $6.00,000 and if the claims had been entirely eliminated, their fee for that branch of service could only be; $60,000. As a matter of fact, claims have been Teduced thus far some thing like $100,000, which, on that branch of the case, would entitle the Atlanta firm to a fee of $20,000. In addition to that they were to have 50 per cent of what they received back of money that had been paid away illegally and lost, they to bear all of the expense and the commis sion to have absolutely no expense with regard to this. Up to this time nothing has been recovered back, but I will say that these gentlemen have been very ac tive and spent a lot of money and I am very much pleased with their work in that line and believe that they will receive a very considerable amount of money in the long run, but you will see from this state ment that the commission was done a great injustice in stating that they had been paid $100,000 retainer fee and that the fees would probably run up another $100,000 to these gentlemen, but I am sure from my very pleasant association and con nection with them, that they could not have been consult d before you made the statement. In addition to that my private affairs and those )f Col. Abney seem to have been in vaded in that you state that I, as genera! counsel for the commission, receive a stated sum for my servic es. That.is only partially true, for litigation I receive the usual fee, for advising the commission I re ceive a contract price. You say further of these gentle men "by winning this case the At lanta firm has won one of the most sweeping victories ever announced from the supreme court of the Unit ed States. Wh n you reflect that the Atlan ta firm were not employed by the commission even to assist in the proceeding in the United States su preme court but appeared for the reason that they had a personal in terest in the matter because if the courts retained jurisdiction they would be unable to carry out their contract so as to earn any consid erable commission, you Mill see that you have done the other attorneys an injustice in the matter. The fact is. that the firm of St-vettson ? Mat thewson, and the firm of Abney & M?ller were the representatives of thje conimispionV and the Atlanta firm repr sented their own interests which was entirely contingent in the matter and the litigation was so far controlled by the attorney general and the two firms named, that, al though Mr. Rountree of the Atlanta firm insisted strenuotrsly in prepar ing the petition for certiorari that the very question upon which the State has won should not be set forth in the assignments of erorr, and came to Columbia for the pur pose of taking up the matter with us, he was there overruled by us, MUST SERVE TIME IN THE PENITENTIARY FOR KILLING SON-IN-LAW. The State Supreme Court Has so Decided in the Case of S. W. Stockman. Among the cases recently decided by the supreme court was that of S. W. Stockman, who was convicted of the killing of his son-in-law, Hampton J. Hartley, during Christ mas, 1905, in Lexington county, says the Columbia Record. Stockman will now have to serve his sentence of seven years in the State penitentiary, the supreme court on Friday having affirmed the de cision of the lower court. This case has attracted more attention possibly in Lexington county than any case in recent years. Hamp Hartley was ^one iof the largest dealers in turpentine In the county, and by hard work and close economy had secured a goodly por tion of this world's goods. He mar ried the oldest daughter of Stock man, who is a well-to-do farmer and prominent; in the community. He is a member of the wealthy Stock man family of Newherry county. On the night of the tragedy, Hart ley went to the home of Stockman. He was under the influence of whis key, it was alleged, and a general row arose. At the trial the defense tried to make it appear that Hartley had attempted to insul his sister-in law, Miss Stockman, and that the killing was the direct result of this. But from the testimony of the State's witnesses, it was shown that Stockman was himself under the in fluence of whiskey, as was a man by the name of Taylor, who was a guest at the Stockman home. Taylor has since been killed by his own son at his home in Saluda coun ty. The first time the case was call ed,' the jury failed to agree. At the second trial Stockman was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced by Judge Dantzler to serve seven years iu the penitentiary. Stockman is n-earing the 60 mile post and Is said to be in failing health. It Is not known when he will begin his sentence, but it is supposed that he will make prepara tions to leave home within the next few days. BLACK HAND SOCIETY Charged With Assassination of Florida Man. The assassination of Ginseppe Fic arrota, a wholesale grocery mer chant, and one of the most promi nent and wealthy members of the lo cal Italian colony of Tampa, Fla., has added the third to a series of murders here which have been charg ed to the biack hand during the present year. Ficarotta was going to his home from his place of busi ness at a late hour Monday night and was shot by two men from am bush with shotguns loaded with heavy slugs. He was instantly.killed weapons and fled, weapons fled. MURDER OF MOTHER Is Charged Against a Young Man at Erie, Pn. At Erie, Pa., Delmar J. Young was arrested Monday on a warrant sworn out by County Detective Frank H. Watson, charging him with the murder of his mother, Mrs. Yinnie Young, whose dead body was found in her cellar last Wednesday, horribly mutilated and hidden be neath a pile of old carpst. He enter ed a plea of not guilty and was com mitted to jail without bail for a hearing next Thursday. Hits Him Hard. At Atlanta, Ga.. C. M. Cnllaway, convicted of running a blind tiger, was Monday sentenced to twelve months on the chain gang or to pay a fine of $1,000. so you will see that the Atlanta firm is not entitled to the sole credit of the victory as it was one in the face of the position taken by the firm that the very question on which it was won should not be raised in the certiorari proct edings. The At lanta firm filed a brief, and we were glad to have them do so. They had a personal interest to be con sulted in the matter, but the case was argued by Mr. Abney. who open ed, and by myself, who closed. Mr. Rountree was not even to appear in the argument, but the court hav ing granted thirty minutes additional time, he was given that time to make an oral argument, which came in the midst of the arguments for the attorneys for the other side. It is disagreeable to go into the papers about these matters, but the rank misstatements which have been given wide currency in South Caro lina and which ii causing criticism of the commission, necessitates or.: doing so, and I am sending a copv of this to the Columbia Daily Rec ord, which published your editorial and commented on it in two column article. Please insert this as conspicuously as you did the article referred to and send me a copy of the paper, and greatly oblige, Yours most truly, W. F. STEVENSON. ORANGEBUKG, TARIFF FIGHT Now On In Real Dead Earnest In The Senate HOUSE VOTE MERELY Voiced the Sentiments of the Dif ferent Sections?Senator Smith Gives His Views on the Meaning of the Democratic Platform on the Tariff Question. The Washington correspondent of the Columbia Record says all inter est in the tariff bill has now shifted to the senate, where it was known all along the "Payne act" would in reality be drafted. The votes in the house on the various schedules have merely given voice to the senti ments of the sections represented, but in the senate each vote will leave its mark in the final reading of the bill when it goes to the president for his signature. The significance of these senate votes is underscored by the fact that the president has made it clear that he has no idea of vetoing the Payne bill., whether its real author be Mr. Payne or Sen ator Aldrich. Aside from the general interest the ultimate consumer has in the prices of all articles he consumes, the only paragraphs that are of any immediate interest to South Caroli na, now that the duty on fertilizing salts has been dropped out, are those relating to sea island, or long staple cotton and to lumber. The Payne bill, as it passed the house, fixes a duty of half a cent a cubic foot on hewn sided or squared timber, of 50 cents a thousand on sawed beards and $1 a thousand on sawed lumber not specifically mentioned. Cotton and cotton waste are left on the free list. Democratic senators are planning a fight to put a duty on both these articles, though Senator E. D. Smith is emphatic in his statement that he will not lend his support to any measure that means protection even for local industries. He will vote for duties on 'lumber and ^ea island cotton, but only a duty fixed at a revenue basis. Both these articles, he said, ought to pa-" their share to ward the support of the government, but there is no reason, in his opinion, for taxing the whole mass of con sumers to benefit the comparatively small number of people owning the timber supply or raising sea island cotton. It is a question of the great est good to the greatest number, he said, and that, translated into prac tice, means a government supported rconomically with taxes equaly and equitably levied upon all classes and sections. As to the exact rate of duty this equal distribution of the burden of taxation would imply for lumber or sea island cotton. Senator Smith is not yet quite ready to say, though he is going through the imports, ex ports and statistics of production of both products to ascertain a rate satisfying his mind as fair. The $1 a thousand on lumber carried in the Payne bill, he said, might prove fair on investigation the figures might show that the industry could carry protection of $2 a thousand, and the same thing is true of his attitude on cotton. The Democratic platform does not in Senator Smith's opinion, forbid a Democrat's imposing a revenue tariff upon lumber. His interpreta tion of the Denver document is that the present duties on lumber and its products must be reduced to a fair basis of taxation. "I haven't any idea the Democratic convention meant to say that lumber should be absolutely free of duty," he said, "but simply that it should come down Crom its presvnt exorbitant taxa tion. The paragraph in the Democratic platform to which the senator re ferred reads: "We demand the immediate P?.v of the tanif on wood pulp, p" r paper, lumber, timb if and togs, and that these articles lie placed upon the fro-' list." The plan of the Democratic sena tors in general is one designed to harmonize the conflicting elements of tit ' party with a view to present-! ing a solid front in the coming fight, j They intend to bring in senators from those States interested in a duty on lumber and those interested in a duty on hides by imposing rev i tine duty on both of these articles, and in this way they hope to avoid the desertions from the party that made the Democratic fight against the Payne \y\]] so pitiable in the house. Prohibitory duties wil be brought down to a revenue basis, if the Democratic plan carries through and free list will Ik; moved up bodily to a revenue basis. The central idea in this plan is to give to individual senators their individual demands and yet preserve the seeming of a broad principle?a tariff for revenue only. And in voting this revenue duty, senators from lumber States will be voting a protection to lumber and senators from cattle Spates will be voting pro tection to hides. The same thing will be true of sea island cotton. S. C. THURSDAY. AP! DEATH OF MR. CAUSEY IX AX AUGUSTA HOSPITAL FROM HIS WOUND. Ho Was Clerk of Court of Hamp ton County and Was Shot by a Negro. The Augusta Chronicle says Mr. W. B. Causey, Clerk of Court of Hampton County, died on Monday afternoon a little before six o'clock at the Margaret Wright hospital, having been carried to Augusta the day after he was shot. Mr. Causey was talking on Sat urday last with a negro known as "Peg Leg" Hughes, on the streets of Hampton, when, without any warning, the negro fired upon him with a revolver. The bullet enter ed the right side, passed through the lower part of the right lung and left the body in the hack. He was carried to Augusta by Dr. .1. L. Folk and Dr. J. B. Harvey, both of Hampton. At 3:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon an operation was performed and Mr. Causey lay be tween life and death until Monday afternoon. The case seemed prac tically hopeless from the first. Mr. Causey's wife and his sister, Mrs. Harvey, accompanied the party to the city and remained at the hos pital with him until his death. In order to prevent a lynching the negro was taken to Columbia from Hampton county last Sunday night, and lodged in the/ penitentiary. Hugh-s is accused of attempting to assassinate Clerk of Court W. B. Causeyr, and he also shot Jesse Sheppard, who was with Mr. Causey at the time. Hughes had recently completed a sentence in the peniten tiary for killing a negro. The negro secreted himself in a ditch near where the shoting took place. Hughes would have been lynched had he not been hustled off to Columbia. CHARGED WITH LUNACY. Bride of a Few Months Locked Up In Savannah. A dispatch from Savannah to the Augusta Herald says Mrs. John Artley, a pretty bride of three months and a sister of President Harmes of Newberry college, South Carolina, is locked up In the county jail on a lunacy charge. Her hus band is John Artley, well known as a member of the Savannah football team, and of a well-to-do Savannah family. The young woman is residing at a local hotel and is very positive she is not insane and has no inten tion of suicide as alleged. She was given the benefit of an investigation by Judge McAlpin and was released, but was again locked up. She was told at the hotel that she should walk out and take some exercise. She complied and was led to the county jail, where she was placed behind the bari. Mrs. Artley's marriage occurred in January. Previously she was Miss Lillie Harmes. BURNED TO DEATH. Six Men Lose Their Lives in a Steamer Fire. The Captain, which has just ar rived at New Orleans, reports the loss of six lives as a result of an explosion on the Hamburg-American saetmer Carnia, at Port Limon, April 1. The Sarnia, which plies between New York and Central America ports, was tied to a pier at Port Li mon when the explosion occurred. Several hundred cans of kerosene oil were stored in the forward hold, and it is believed that a leak from one of the cans caused the explosion. Five negro laborers and a sailor on the Sarnia were burned to death in the hold. The flames were sub dued before a^ great deal of damage had been done to the steamer, hut a large portion of the cargo, prin cipally cotton, was thrown overboard and much of it lost. A FT ICR MANY YEARS The- Supposed Murderer of a Woman is Found. From a family photograph of Ro sie Tritt, who was murdered 32 years ago at Torre Haut ', Ind.. Sylvanus Burnham. wealthy white-haired Tex as ranchman, banker and Sunday school superintendent, of Ttllla, Tex., is now charged with the murder. A farm band who committed the d cd through jealousy a third of a cen tury ago. is now declared to lie Burnham, who figures as a new Jean Valjean. Severe Earth Shock. At Lima, Peru, a severe earth shock was experienced at three J o'clock Tuesday morning. The movement was from east to west, and was accompanied by subter ranean rumblings. No casualties re sulted. Petrosino Honored. New York paid its tr'bute of grief end respect Monday to the memory of Lieut. Jos. Petrosino, of the New York police department, who was assassinated recently while engaged in secret service in Italy. RIL 15, 1909. THE TAX BILL Oannonced by GovernorJudson Harmon of Ohio At Of the National Democratic Club in New York, the Ohio Governor l'rotests Against the Present Tariff Legislation, the Encroachment of the Federal Government. Denunciation of the principle of protection and of the tariff legisla tion now pending in Congress as a pretence and a sham, formed the keynote of the addresses at the an nual dinner of the National Demo cratic Cub at New York Tuesday night, in celebration of the one hun dred and sixty-sixth anniversary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson. A portrait of Jefferson hung over with American flags, dominated the guest table, at wh?ch (governors Harmon, of Ohio, and Marshall, of Indiana; S-nator Chamberlain, State Senator Grady; John Foy, the club's president; Richard Croker, Alton D. Parker, Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall, and former State Supreme Court Judge Morgan J. O'Brine and D. Cary Herrick sat. Elsewhere at 6 longitudinal tables sat four hundred of the elect of the Democratic, party. A protest against what he declared were growing encroachments of special privilege at Washington, es pecially as embodied in tariff legis lation, was the keynote of the ad dress of Governor Judson Harmon, of Ohio. Asserting that the reduc tions in the pending tariff bill would bo but a mockery of the demand for relief, Judge Harmon declared that real relief never would be secured except under a Legislature and Ex ecutive following Jeffersonian rules and treating taxation as a means of preventure and not of private gain. The steady tendency since the civil war has been to exalt the Federal Government at the expense of the State, said the speaker, one result being the neglect of economy and the embarkation of the Government in to extravagant enterprises. 'He in stanced the action of the last Con eress in appropriating two millions of dollars and the raising of salaries of officials in the face of a growing shortage of revenue, and con tinued: "Now instead of seeking methods of retrenchment to meet a present confessed defioity pf mone than a hundred millions, the President and Congress are devising additional tax es to exact from the diminished means of the people and proposing to issue bonds besides. State of ficials who would propose such a course would not dare to go home to their constituents and would be for ever disgraced if they should take it. "After twelve years of false pre tences, at last, confessed, which have bred and fattened countless monop olies and trusts, it is proposed not to shake off their grip, but just to loosen it a trifle here and there so the people may not be utterly de voured." Of the way the partv lines have been obliterated in the fight in Con gress over the tariff Judge Harmon said: "It is hardly fair for Republicans, at least, to charge with inconsistency Democratic Congressmen who take a hand in this selfish scramble. In the last campaign the Republican candidate for President, openly of fered a share of tariff spoil for Democratic votes. When special fa vors are the order of the day. it is natural for a Representative to think he ought to secure a share for in terests at homo. To do otherwise requires high courage, and wo are proud of the many who show it. in the face of the demoralization which legislating for private instead of public interest always produces." Judge Harmon attacked the policy of spending hundreds of millions of dollars for a canal at. Panama on the part of what he said was a coun try practically without ships, taxed against the possibility of buying any, and with the only proposed means of encouraging shipping, the pay ment of direct subsidies to a favor d few out of money raised by taxes on all the people. The speaker added: "And why tax the people to build a cosily canal and secure ships for foreign commerce, while a tariff system is maintained whose purpose and effect are to discourage or kill foreign commerce, except such as co;;.-is:s in selling our products abroad at less prices than are impos ed on our own people. What Slate Gov? mm nl ever committed such folly?" Killed in Runaway. Mrs. W. C. Langnau, the wife of a wealthy manufacturer and the mother-in-law of former Mayor Mc Kisson, of Cleveland. Ohio, was kill ed In a runaway accident Monday morning. Several of her r latives were injured bul n..u. seriously. Double Traged. H. H. Ramey. of Gillsburg, Miss., was shot and instantly killed by a negro Tuesday evening. , Ramiey's son avenged his father's death by killing the negro. TW PELLAGRA DISEASE CLAIMS TWO OR THREE VICTIMS IN ATLANTA. Doctors at Hospital Issue a State ment About Dreaded and Almost Unknown Disease. The Pellagra disease, about whicn sr. m.;i>> was said a few n onths age. has broken out again in Atlanta, several cses having already b^eii "reported from that city. The Journal says: Mrs. Ellen Fetter, who lived at 80 Wells street, died of pellagra Sat urday at the G?*ady h'ospital and there are now two other patients at the hospital, a man and a woman, who aile dying of the same dis ease. So far this year there have been nine cases of pellagra at the hospital of which six have proved fatal, one patient recovered, and the remain ing two are at the hospital in a dy ing condition. Mrs. Fetter was brought to the hospital sixte.-n days ago, but she was already in the advanceed stages of pellagra and her recovery was impossible. The physicians at the hospitals say that conditions as regards pellagra are serious. They think them so se rious that two of the medical staiT have prepared a work on pellagra. It tells what pellagra is. It tells what the symptoms are, and it tells how it is treated. The danger of pellagra is that it is seldom discovered until it has reached the advanced stage. If dis covered soon enough it might be cured, but if it has secured a firm hold there is no cure. The desire of the doctors is to get the people to realize what pel lagra is, and, when the symptoms develop, to induce the patient to be gin treatment at once. Dr. Summerall, the superinten dent, believes that there are people who have pellagra without knowing it. If they could but discover their danger in time, cure is possible, if not, it is as certainly impossible. The town pellagra patients now at the hospital are, Mrs. Julia Flem ing and J. C. Early. Mrs. Fleming's home is at 25 Atlanta avenue. Ear ly is from South Carolina. The phy sicians at the hospital believe that neither can recover. THE WAGES OF SIN. A Game of Cards Caused Murder and Suicide. At Chicago Joseph Heck, a roomer for twenty years at the home of H. Hesterman, was shot to death early this morning by Hesterman, who a moment later committed suicide. The men were the best of friends, had been playing cards and the quar rel arose, it is supposed, over the game. Hesterman, who was 61 years old, secured a revolver and fired a shot which penetrated his own head, causing instant death. Peter Hesterman, son of the sui cide, was awakened by the shooting and running to the room, found both men dead. The cards were scattered around the fable. The young man declared he heard no argument. JUMPED TO HER DEATH From a Ninth Story Window in New York City. In New York City Mrs. Anita D. Hamilton, said to be the wire of a retired capitalist, committed suicide Monday by leaping from the window of her ninth-story apartment on Fifty-eight street. According to the police, some mystery suurounds the identity of her husband, whose name does not appear to be known in financial circles. It is said that he is traveling in the South. DEFIED OFFICERS. Farmer Got Drunk and Terrorized the Town. Louis Truhn, a Berrien county, Mich., farmer, after drinking heavily Monday night, dynamited a building, attempted to stab his father-in-law and four other members of his fami ly; barricaded himself in his home. [ where lie had stored dynamite and gun powder, and defied the posse from which he had escaped. After several hours. Sheriff Johnson cap tured Truhn and Jook him to jail. Youthful Murderer. At WinstonirSalem. X. ('., Marion Sholton, age 16, made a sneering remark Tuesday about some mules driven by Oscar Woolwlne, age is. When the latter resented the as persions east upon his long eared beasts, Shelton shot and killed him. Xon Partizan Census. II . stated that President Taft, has directed Director North of the census bureau <{o disregard party lines in securing suitable men for supervisors and other appointive places under the new census act, in structions, it Is said, have reference to the South. 0 O CENTS PEKCOPY FOOLED A CROOK Taken For An Easy Mark But Landed a Thief IN HANDS OF POLICE How Mr. A. H. .Johnson, of Wash ington, Ga,, Did Up a Light Finger ed Gentleman on a Recent Visit to the City of Atlanta, Who Thought He Was Easy. The Atlanta Journal says A. H. Johnson, who calculates, in the light of recent events, that Washington, Ga., is good enough for him, came to Atlanta last week to see the sights. His appetite was wheted for moving picture shows and when he allighted at the Terminal station he remarked to a well-dressed young man lolling gracefully in the wait ing room that he was willing to go the limit on them. The young man said that he was next to the latest racket on moving picture shows and that he had tips on some that are better than a cir cus. "All the expense is on me," said Mr. Johnson, from Washington. "You are too kind," said the young man. Arm and arm they went down the street and Mr. Johnson's coat was throwing back in such a way that his watch fob was well displayed. In the early afternoon they found them selves on Fair street, near Grant, and the young man suddenly stopped with an air of consternation. "You've lost your watch," he ex claimed. Mr. Johnson grabbed hit- pocket and started. "Rut I know who's got it," said the young man. "Who?" begged Mr. Johnson. "Gimme five dollars and I'll get it. He lives near here and he'll give it up for that, and there won't be any trouble. I think I saw him take it." With the young man leading and holding five dollars in Ms hand, the two struck up the street. Mr. Johnson from Washington was told to stay at the corner and the voting man went into a house. He came out with the watch in his hand. "He says you'll have to give him another five dollars,' he said. They were then standing at one end of the Bell street bridge. Mr. Johnson from Washington suddenly caught the young man round the waist and lifted him up bodily, start ed across the bridge with him. Holding the young man in his arms he walked the entire length of the bridge. "I'm going to ifiKe you to the po lice station, by gum," he said, "and then we'll see. I'm from Washing ton, Georgia. I am. You can't fool me." Hut Officer Hamilton who happen ed to be passing by, met the two at the end of the bridge, the young man still in Mr. Johnson's arms, and in vestigated affairs. The young man said that Mr. Johnson was drunk and was trying to maltreat him. The officer, how ever, says that Mr. Johnson was not even drinking. So he arrested the young man and will have him tried in police court Tuesday morning The young man's name is Ed. Rigatti, and he lives on Fair street, near Grant. He is now under a bond of $.'00 for larceny from the person. Tl^e watch ,and ,'the five dollars are in the possession of Of ficer Hamilton, and Mr. Johnson from Washington is waiting to show these smart. Atlanta folks, what's what. Kenilworth Inn Burned. Fire of unknown origin broke out at half-past two o'clock Tuesday morning at Kenilworth Inn, one of thp best known hotels in the South, three miles from A?hjevUlle. The fire is alleged to have started in the kitchen. The guests were roused, and as far as is known all succeeded in making their escape. December and May. S. L. Tittle, a well-to-do fanner of Stole 'S county. X. G., aged 47, elop ed with the 14-year-old daughter of IT. A. Tulp. a merchant of the samo county. When the couple got off the train at Germantown they were met |>y the irate father of the bride, who attacked Tuttle, beating him unmercifully. Killed Himself. On the eve of his second trial on the charge of embezzling Broome county funds. Arthur W. T. Black, former clerk of the Brocme county board of supervisors, and former chairman of the Broome county Re publican committee, committed sui cide by shooting himself through the bead. Ran Amuck. - Arthur Green and Cora Chatman, colored, were Willed outright and Philip MeClellan, and another negrc were shot, but not seriously, by James Freeman, colored, who got on the war path this afternoon at Mill dale, Fla.