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PUBLISHED THKEE BRYAN REPLIES To The Criticisms of Congress man Clark of Florida UNABLE TO APPEAR So He Writes a Letter i.> the House of Representatives of Florida, Which Had Invited Him to Ad derss It?He Discusses Several Matters of Importance. "When a representative cannot con scientiously do what bis constituents conscientiously desire him to do, he ought to be conscientious enough to resign and let them select a repre sentative in harmony with them." This, in brief, is William J. Bryan's attitude on the pending tariff bill, presented in a letter addressed to the Florida general assembly and read in the house Tuesday night. Mr. Bryan found it impossible to accept the invitation extended by the leg islature to come to Tallahassee and address them in answer to Mr. Clark's criticisms of the Nebraskan and certain doctrines contained in the Denver platform. The reading of his letter was greet ed with prolonged applause. "There are two schools of thought," says Mr. Bryan, 'in re gard to the duty of the official: The aristocratic theory is that people elect representatives (to think for them: the Democratic theory is, on the contrary, that people think for themselves, and elect representatives ?to 'give legal expression to their thoughts and to voice their senti ments. "I am suspicious of the official whose conscience is dormant during the campaign and only active when he wants to find an excuse for do ing what his constituents do not want done." Turning his attention from Mr. Clark.. Mr. Bryan addresses himself to certain proposed legislation as follows: "There is a reform which should recfive the support of all, whether thpv believe in prohibition :pr not. Thit= reform is this, that the Federal government should discontinue the issuance of licenses for sale of liquor In territory where leeal authorities decide to prohibit its sale." Touching on trusts and monopo lies. Mr. Bryan declares that "the trust question is on with which the State must deal. Under our dual form of government the monopolis tic corporations have been playing p*eh government aeainst the other. Thev contend that they are engaged in Interstate commercje When the State attempts to legislate, and are staunch advocates of States rights whenever the federal government at temnts to restrain. "The regulation of corporations is nsuallv the most difficult subject with which a lesislator has to deal, because of* the influence brought to bear unon the legislator by the cor porations. "State government should em ploy their powers for the protec tion of the public against the evils of private monopc.y and T believe f. nt the best as well as the simplest solution will be found in legislation fixing the percentage of control which a porforotion shall pxprt over the product in which he dpals." As to thp need of more adequate banking laws he says: "The banks are not now sufficiently secure, as is evidpncpd by the fact that the national government, the State gov emments, counties and the cities all require special security. A large part of the banks prestige is due to the faet that it does business under a charter granted by the govern ment and is so regulated and insult ed a? to give the depositors coni dpnc* in its solvency, and it is only fair." In conclusion Mr. Bryan said: "Tho initiative and referendum a"1 being adonis! by State aft^r State and they perfect our repres?ntati\*fl form of government by bringing the government nearer to the peo ple." A WEIRD STORY. Trained Pack of Wild Animals Eat Up a Child. A weird tale of the lonely north land is brought to civilization by Fred Allingham and two companions, James and .Mack J. Curtln, of Saska toon. Sask., who have bren spending the winter around Moose Lake, I northwest of the Pas, according to ?the Indianapolis News. jL A traper secured a number of l ?ume timber wolves which he train Hi for driving, as they developed re-1 Karkahle endurance and sneed. On ^one occasion the trap' r was away on a long journey. After finishing up a hard day's run in which the1 animals had not received any food, as is the way of treating dog teams while traveling, as th^ driver and the team approached the shanty that was their home, his little three-year old child ran out to meet them. Tho famished animals jumped on her in a flash and she was devoured be fore the father could raise a hand. Seizing a sharp axe from his "boat," the trapper went at the wild reatures and never stopped until e had killed the entire lot. TIMES A WEEK. THE POTASH TAX CONTROVERSY BETWEEN LEVER AND THE DAILY MAIL About the Matter?Mr. Lever Does Not Claim That He Killed the Proj>osed Tax Alone. The Anderson Mail printed the following in its editorial column of j April 20: The glory that Representative Le ver has gotten out of the removal by the house ways and means com mittee of the duty on potash salts is amusing to those who know some thing of the facts. Mr. Lever is a member of the agri cultural committee, and he has doubtless availed himself of whatever advantage this may have offired to urge that fertilizer ingredients be placed on the free list, but it may be positively stated that he was not the only congressman from South Carolina who urged the committee not to tax potash salts, and it is very doubtful if he was.the first to do so. It is also very doubtful if the tax on the raw material will be worth a cent to the farmer. It is certain j that the manufacturers and not the farmers poured in telegrams to the I congressman to have thie tax re moved. We doubt if Mr. Lever can show a single telegram or letter from a single farmer in regard to it. Mr. Lever, with the Democratic party, is voting for free products I of leather on the ground that free i hides with a duty on the products of hides, would help only the manu facturers. This may not be good reasoning, but it is good Democratic doctrine1, and if it is applicable to the shoe manufacturers it is also applicable to the fertilizer manu lacturers. The practice with some national statesmen seems to be to grab every thing in sight. While their right to foist themselves upon the people is not questioned, some little regard should be shown their associates who may be affected thereby. The friends of these public servants should not take press comments touching their favorites too seriously. For instance, this from the Newberry Herald and News: '"Congressman Lever won the fight for the farmers, not only of South Carolina, but wherever commercial fertilizer is used. By the way, who can tell who the other members of congress from South Carolina are? We are proud of Lever. He is a lit tle Newberry college boy." Perhaps other congressmen need to inject more energy into their press agents, or to do a little more press agenting themselves. But the claim made for Mr. Lever is amusing the sensible people. ( Fancy Messrs. Payne. Dalzell and all the other Republican bosses, fall ing into line when Mr. Lever cracks his whip. Fancy their having heard that Lever was opposed to taxing potash salts, and then breathlessly waiting to find out if the report was true. Congressmen from the North, West. East and South, equally in terested, were asked to stand aside until Mr. Lever had his way. Lever spoke, and then the objectionable tax was removed. Hurrah! Also Banzai! The Herald and News may claim l^as much as it pleases for Mr. Lever, but it should not attempt to dispar age other congressmen equally as earnest and equally as faithful in the discharge of duty. The Herald and News' fling comes with mighty poor grace from a city which has recently been given a SSO.000 public building solely through the work of one other member of congress. The Newberry paper displays rank in gratitude, to say the least of it. Letter From Mr. Lever. Editor Daily Mail: My attention has been called to your edifr> "ia:, "Mr. Lever and the 'lax on Potash " in your issue of April 20, in which ! you ridicule the idea of my being ab!?1 I to accomplish the removal of the duty on potash salts and basic slag. Your editorial is an answer to one by the Newberry Herald and News, which gives me all of the credit for this tight. In your answer to this editorial, you go out of the way to criticise me for an alleged claim that I havo never made. T am sure that you want to be fair in all matters, for we have been personal friends for many years, and no one has a ! higher opinion of your ability as a newspaper man than have T, and hence, I want to call your attention \ to rny own statement, published in [ th? Columbia Record of April 9. I The Record's Washington correspon i rioT't h*s this to say: "Mr. Lever | I said this morning thai the whole' ! 'Miration had stood behind him in i i his fiffht. When nnestioned as to i ttir> ofo?t of n,.. "ii"'"dni"nt which 1 I will be introduced. Mr. Lever had j this to say. 'I have received num erous resolutions from tli^ various I farmers throughout the State, and Knave been materially aided by the! j entire South Carolina delegation and' n\h"r tv)on-. 1>pre nf fir'"'1" in thi? i ' fight. Commissioner Watson and I p-nf Harper have responded prompt-: hv r>r,,t splendidly to my request for j information.' " T take it that this is sufficient an swer to your editorial. Ordinarily, I would not feel called upon to make any statement in reference to an editorial, such as the one referred OKANGEBUBG. DREAM OF TRAGEDY WHICH LEADS TO THE ARREST OF THE MURDERER. Three Men Arrested Charged With the Murder and One Confesses to the Chief of Police. Prof. James H. Hyslop, of the American Society of Psych fical Re search, who, With Dr. Isaac M. Funk, has revealed many of the mysteries of spiritualism, relates, in the forth coming Journal of Psychical Re search, the remarkable case of Mrs. Susan Dellinger, of York , Pa. Prof. Hyslop has spent many years in endeavoring to discover any actual facts which would prove the exist ance of a spirit world. In the case of Mrs. Dellinger he believes a ma terial fact has been found. William E. Hooper and his broth er, Curvin, were shot and killed near a little church ya/d at York. Three young men were arrested and charg ed with the murder. Mrs. Dellinger, according to Prof. Hyslop, dreamed two nights after the crime that she had seen one of the alleged slayers, Henry Snydor, pick up a revolver and throw it over the cemetery fence, where it fell by the side of a grave, on which she read in her dream the epitaph of "Curtis Site." On relating her dream the follow ing day to her son, Mrs. Dellinger de scribed minutely where the revolver was seen by her in her vision, and said that it could be observed from outside the fence. The son went t3 the ceme.eiy and found the weapon txactly wiore she had ie-cribed. Sydnor Subsequently confessed to lh--? chief of police, accordi ig to Prof Hyslop, and said that lie had dis posed of the revolver in exactly the manner described by Mrs. Dellinger in her vision. SHERIFF KILLS PRISONER. In a Life and Death Straggle in a Dark Cell. Ely Holmes, a desperate negro prisoner in the Lee county jail at Leesburg, Ga., was shot to death Wednesday afternoon in a hand-to hand fight with Deputy Sheriff H. D. Logan, in a dark cell in the jail, a fight in which the loser could not leave the cell alive. Roth men rea lized this, according to Deputy Lo gan, and when his chance .came he killed the negro. He had entered Holme's cell, and the negro attacked him, it was stated, with a stool, beating the officer unmercifully be fore the latter could draw his pis tol. Then a fight began for its pos session, which ended when Deputy Logan fired, and the negro dropped to the cell floor dead. The officer was exonerated. To Establish Airship Lines. At a meeting of the Wurtemburg Aerial Navy League, it became known that the Zeppelin Airship Company would establish a regular line of airships from Luecerne or Friedrichshafen to North Germany, via Frankfort-on-the-Main, to open for traffice next year. to, but I feel that in justice to my colleagues from South Carolina that I should do so. I wish to say in behalf of all of them, your represen tatives and all, that they are always diligent in all things that affect the interests of South Carolina, and they were no less diligent in helping to remove this tax on commercial fer tilizers, which would have amount ed to a burden of more than a quar ter of a million to the farmers of the State. You ridicule the idea that Messrs. Payne and Dalzil. and other Republican bosses should fall in line when I crack my whip. I freely admit that personally I have no influence with either Mr. Payne or Mr. Dalzell. I am sure, however, that I have many influential Repub lican friends who, in this fight, did not hesitate to let Messrs. Payne and Dalzell and oth> r members of the ways and means committee know , that, they were interested in seeing! I potash salts and basic slag put on [the free list and that this interest was largely due to their friendship I for me. 1 mention among those, I Messrs. Weeks of Massachusetts anil 1 Currier of Now Hampshire, two men ' with whom I have been Intimately j associated with in the many fights' that we have made here for the Ap- i palachian bill. It so happens also that s veral of my close personal friends on the Republican side were, nt the same time, members of the : ways and means committee, and to th< s,' l went. i Of course, you know thai this mat- ! ler of a tax on fertilizers was called j to my attention by a telegram from \ Commissioner of Acricnlturc Wat-1 ?son. l presume tbsit he ^"t In touch with mo first because of the j fact that he lives in my district, and for the reason that I am a . member of the agricultural commit tee, and presumed to he in very o!os-^ touch with matters affecting the agricultural interests nf the conn- ' try. 1 make this statement to yon !n justice to myself and because T am surp that you v.int to be fair, and also in justice to the oth<jr mem ners of the South Carolina delega tion?all good men and true. Very truly, A. F. LEVER. Washington, April 26. S. C, SATURDAY. MA WERE IN PRISON Seaman Had Been Mourned For Dead THEIR SHIP SEIZED An Escaped Prisoner From Ven ezuela Tells a Strange Story About the Missing Captain and Crew of the Whaling Ship Carrie Knowles Thought to Have Been Lost. It may be that Capt. Collin Steph enson and the crew of the Ameri can whaling ship Carrie D. Knowles, long since thought to have been lost at sea, are still in a Venezuelan prison. An American seaman, who gives the name of Payne, an escaped pris oner from Venezuela, has made his way to Kingston, where he laid be fore the authorities an astounding story of the seizure of the Carrie D. Knowles at a Venezuelan port, where she arrived five years ago in dis tress, and the incarceration by the Venezuelans of the captain and his men. The authorities at Kingston have taken steps looking to a speedy and thorough investigation of the case. On January 27, 1904, the Carrie D. Knowles sailed from Province ton, Mass.. on a whaling voyage. Her captain was Collin Stephenson, and her first mate, H. A. Martin. In addtion she carried a crew of about a dozen. Payne asserts positively that all are at the present time con fined in a Venezuelan prison. The vessel was supposed to have been lost in a West Indian storm, with all hands. Some of the men belonging in St. Vincent, and after all hope was given up of their return, their relatives put on mourning and the local insurance company eventu ally paid the claims against it, on the assumption that the sailors were dead. The story Payne told to the police authorities caused great ex citement. Payne declared that the whaler had been disabled in a storm off the Venezuelan coast and had made port in distress. This was five years ago. She war. at once seized and the captain and crew were made pris oners and thrown into jail. The details of Payne's escape from pris on are not known, as the police have him in charge. LITTLE GIRL KILLED. Delivery Wagon Crushes Infant to Death. A special to The News and Couri?r from Greenville says Eugenia Gil reath, the sixteen-months-old daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Gilreath. of Greers, was run over a few after noons ago by a delivery wagon and her skull fractured, death resulting at once. A young white man named Bub Glenn, was driving the delivery wagon, and while looking over an order book, ran over the liile girl, who was in the street. He had not known of the accident until he ha 1 driven a cnu;;!e of blocks. It is said he is almost frantic with grief. The little girl had slipped out of tho house and into the street, where sUh was killed. STRANGE ACCIDENT. Saek of Guuno Exploded and Injur ed a Man. Thursday afternoon on the planta tion of .Mr. 3. L. Moore, between Waterloo and Harris Springs, a very unusual accident occurred. A ten year-old negro boy while trying to untie a sack of acid had his left hand torn and lacerated by a ter rible explosion. No one seems to know the cause of the accident. The shock and jar were It by others at work in the field and resembled dynamite. The boy suffered pro found shock, sand and dirt being blown in his face and ey. s. His thumb and fingers were amputated by Drs. Wilbur and Fennel, who are attending the case. EX-GOV. McSWEENEY BETTER. Condition Still Serious, but Recove ry is Possible. A special dispatch from Hampton to The News and Courier says Ex Gov. M. I'.. McSweeney. who was stricken down while on his way from his office to Iiis r sidenee on Tuesday evening, and who has since that time l.ii in ;? ti unconscious couditioii, is much improved. Although the doctors in attendance entertain hopes of his recovery, still they will not say that he is out of danger. The trouble seems to be acute indigestion, but the former Governor has been in failing health tor the past two years, and Iiis condition is still very serious. Wagon Driver Slain. The strike >f thj bakers at Cni cago Thursday resulted in the mur der of Henry Teetilbohm. a bakery wagon driver. He was shot and fatally wounded while on his wagon. Y 8, 1909. OF THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS MEANT DEATH TO Calhonn County, Had the Proposi tion Been Known by the People Be- J fore the Election, Says Dr. Dreher. For some time a discussion has been going on in the Calhoun Ad vance about issuing bonds to build a courthouse and jail at St. Mat thews for Calhoun county. ? The ? commissioners proposed that the town of St. Matthews issue bonds to the amount of $20,000 and that the county issue bonds to the amount of $30,000, making $50,000 in all. This proposition has brought on a controversy between Mr. J. S. Wan namaker, who favors the proposition, and Dr. T. H. Dreher, who is op posed to asking the country people to vote more than $20.000, which he thinks is suiilcient. The contro versy is getting quite warm, and is bringing out some ante-election facts that are interesting. Here is Dr. j Dreher's last letter, which we take from the Calhoun Advance of Thurs day: Editors Calhoun Advance: I am sorry that my friend, Mr Wannamaker, and I cannot, agree up on the court house and jail propo sition, but that is not material. We are both private citizens and expres sing our opinion in the newspapers. He, nor the new county commission, nor I, have any more legal right to advise the legislative delegation, per se. than any other responsible citizen, as to waht the county should be bonded for. To exploit the $30, 000 bond issue in the paper and then suggest it be not oppose i "through the press" Is asking rather too much. A healthy and fair discussion of public issues, bereft of all personality and abuse, is the hope of the county. The fact that so few dare to do it. is one of the discouraging signs of the times. The truth never hurts a good cause. If wrong, the sooner it is corrected the better. I have no halter around anybody's neck. I am appealing only to reason and judgment, and want no verdict from any other tribunal. As a school trustee and town commissioner, T "e'ieve that I am fairly well posted upon bond companies and public buildings. As such, T unhesitatingly assert, that $20,000 from the town and a like sum from the county is every cent necessary to construct, a suita ble and highly creditable court house and jail for Calhoun county. More than that, under existing cir cumstances, it is extravagance, pure and simple. My figures were not denied, but jt is claimed that the bonds may be floated at 4 per cent. That is a truly commendable extrication from an awkward corner. "What are the facts? The 5 per cent town bonds for St. Matthews (which pays a sixth of *hc taxes) were patriotically bought by the local banks and sold at pnr. after three years, minus the com mission fee, which was paid by the ban1'?. Tf my friend will sell the 5 pnr cpnt school bonds of district No. 8 within the next sixty or ninety days at par, T will, personally, pay him ? he same commission that his bank did for unloading hers. My heart, soul and body have lv^en set upon having a creditable school building for this district. For this purpose we are allowed $10. noo?the same that, my proposition will allow for constructing a jail. A jail, be it remembered, which, during our fourteen months of ex istence, would not have incarcerated a single white prisoner! Let us grant that the school needs more. "The best architects" figured that $ 1 ">,000 would have served us handsomely. Then shall we argue that twice that amount is inadequate to build a suitable court house. It is unreasonable on the far ? of it. and oont'-iry to a'l ideas of Jeffersonian simplicity. Obi. established coun ties, with trehbled wealth and pop ulation can do as they like. We are in our swaddling clothes, the town and county are small, neither is rich. Then, why force us Into Plutocratic ways and weight us with foolish bur dens before we have earned anything. It is a false doctrine, foreign to every principle of correct business. There is anothi r. and a far more searching reason, in my judgment, why it is neither right nor feasible to insist on $.10,000 from the county. During thai memorable campaign at a meeting in Wimb rlv's audito rium, prominent eitiwns from evprv cnpfjnn of iho )tr"??OS??d rennt v. Were .'in-- f'.e e.-oW that St. Mat th"".*!: wnnl'1 build th" court house I -ir, i i.ijt. The fa'-- of the county was I tremblin?r in the balance and its life blond ??!?? f"st ehtiin?: awnv. It was ??t tins critical iunctiire 'ha' the peo ple of S>. Matthews guaranteed the money. ITow much? Fifteen thou sand dollars, a' first, and Hip changes j I were rung, long and loud, neon "Bamberg." More was demanded. Twenty thousand was th n staked, jiml 'hat Rnjtrtan hand, satisfied and1 ! happy, went away determined '<> pull ; I their coats and win the county. That was the battle cry. and we. all sounded It from "Savannah Hunt." creek to the Santoe river. Thpn. to toil me that TWICE that sum is not sufficient! Perish the thought!! My friend and I could have safely I I SEWING MACHINE INVENTED BY GOULDING BUT HOWE GOT THE CREDIT. Goulding Was a Native of South Carolina, and Designed t!ie Ma chine While at College. An interesting story that has more than the ordinary earmarks of truth was tumbled upon by the Greenville Daily N?ws correspondent while rambling around in the vicinity of historic old Abbeville. Here is the story: Back in the 30's there were in the old university at Athens, Ga., two young men who both became after ward Presbyterian ministers of more than local renown. One was a quiet student, who devoted his heart and mind to his books and afterward became, in connection with his minis terial work, a professor in old Ers kin College at Due West. The other, a young man of rest less, energetic, inquiring turn of mind, was always trying fo solve some problem, the solution of which would lighten the burdens of the working people. Among his "new fangle" machines was one which would do the needlework of the family in much quicker time than many seamstresses couid accomplish it. He was enthusiastic about his invention. It was a crude machine, but it did the work?a simple lock stitch mechanism turned by hand and mounted on a stand table or what ever was convenient. His -pride in his machine was such that he show ed it, and discoursed upon it on all occasions. There came one winter between 1830 and 1831, a young man from the North to winter in Georgia. The inventive young student, who was afterward the Rev. Francis R. Collid ing, of Georgia, showed his machine to his Northern friend after their acquaintance. He was struck to see its possibilities, and its value and upon his return North appropriated the design, mechanism and whole machine to his own use without the advance or consent of his Southern friend, and patented the first sew ing machine. The young Northern er was Elias Howe. Young Goulding was amazed and horror struck at what deprived him of his rights, for being a boy of but moderate means he had not yet funds to take out letters patent on his ma chine. This story was told by the daugh ter of young Goulding's classmate above referred to, the late Rev. Wil liam McWhorter. In his teachings in schools and colleges whenever he saw Elias Howe mentioned as the inventor of the sew ing machine, he would always close the book and tell the class the story above given, always ending with the statement: "Now, boys, always re member it was not Elias Howe who invented the sewing machine, but the Rev. Francis R. Goulding, a South Carolina boy at Athens, Ga., University, whose design was appro priated without leave or license by Elias Howe, who saw it while on a visit to Georgia." T'iis story he urged his daughters, who became teachers, to tell their classes also. That justice might be done to the geinus of Francis R. Goulding, a student of Athens Uni versity between 1830 and 1835, who was the inventor of and maker of the first sewing machine. William McWhorter and Francis R. Gould ing graduated at Athens, Ga., in 1835. The two daughters of the Rev. William McWhorter lived near Ab beville and have often heard the story from their father's lips, and know that he was a fellow student of Mr. Goulding. The Greenville News would like to hear from any of the decendants of the Rev. Francis R. Goulding. and with them assist In making a some what tardy atonement to his honor. Will Soon Be Gone. -.Within ten or fifteen years, ac cording to .T. H. Finney, secretary and treasurer of the Appalachian Forestry Association, there will be not a stick of timber standing east of the Rockies and within fifty years the entire country will be as barren of limber as the American desert unless something is done to avert the disaster. said to the people: "We are going to furnish $20,000 for a court house and jail, and we should be glad for yon to put In a like amount in or der that our public build'"- 3 may be an honor to ourselves and our nosterity." but does any mortal man believe that one thousand eloquent tongues could have induced ehher of us to say to them "We will give $20.000 and MAY ask you for $30, 000." If not. why not? There Is not a sane man in Calhoun county 'i-j !i lieves to the inmost core of his heart thai i:" either of us had made such a ridiculous and unwise proposition, it would have killed the new county dead as a hammer. Every one must be his own judge of what is tit and proper. I impugn no man's motives. I have no budding angelic wings but 1 cannot, and will not. endorse a proposition NOW, which I would have scorned fifteen months ago. "There is a way which seemeth right to man, but the end thereof is death." T- H- D JO CENTS PER COPY hodjin savld Moslem Marauders Put to Flight by Troops LIVING ON GRASSES Attempt to Set Fire to the City Frustrated?At Harm' Every Man Was Killed, the Mohammedans Sparing the Women and Children Under Ten Years of Age. A dispatch from Hodjin, Asiatic Turkey, says notwithstanding the presence of the troops here, the situ ation is desperate owing to the lack of food and medical supplies. The troops arrived just in time, as the besiegers had succeeded in setting fire to a house on the edge of the city. The fire spread, hut as the breeze was blowing away from the town, only five buildings were destroyed. A heavy rifle fire was kept up against those who tried to extinguish the flames. The Mohammedans outside the walls who seemingly numbered many thousands, pushed their attacks en ergetically against the inhabitants, killing and wounding many. They were so eager to get inside the city and plunder the place that they did not observe the approach of Loufti Bey and his troops until they were close upon them, where upon the Mohammedans fled precipi tately, carrying off all the cattle out side the city. A letter received by messenger from Harni says that every man there has been killed. Only women, girls and boys under 10 years of age have been left alive. The churches and houses were plundered and most of them were burned. The letter, which is from the widow of a clergy man says: "We have nothing to eat or wear. We are living on grass like animals. Worse than this, the Moslems are trying to force the wo^en and girls to become Mohammedans. Already some of the women have been car ried away." Lucius 0. Lee, a missionary here, says: "We are trying to send food to Harni. although it is dangerous, and to bring away the women as well." Much excitement has been cuased here by the attempts of the authori ties to arrest some of those who have murdered Christians. FIGHT TO THE DEATH. A Poultry Raiser Has Contest With a Wild Cat. John Simonton, a poultry raiser, at De-'p River. Conn., had a desper ate battle for his life with a ilfty pound wild cat. Simonton heard a noise among ? he chickens ;befVfre daylight land when he opened one of the henhous es he enocuntered the wild cat. As Simonton's dog jumped at the brute the animal turned and struck Simon ton a blow with one paw that tore his head open. The poultry raiser seized a chili just, as the beast sprang for his face. He missed and the cat sank its claws into his arms. He shook it off, but it leaped again. They went down together and for fifteen minutes were engaged in a terriffc struggle, with the dog as sisting his mastpr the best he could. Simonson finally brought the club down on the wild cat's head, killing it, but. not until he had been fright fully lacerated. HIDES IN COAL MINE. i Will He Forced to Come Out or Starve to Death. An unidentified negro, wanted for murder, is concealed in an abandon ed mine, twenty miles west of Birm ingham, and with a ritle and plenty of food and ammunition is defying the authorities. 11" has been con cealed for four days and it is be li"ved that friends carried him largo supplies before the officers located him. The officers are unable to see down the slope, but the negro in the darkness below can watch their movement at the opening. The depu ties believe that it will be necessary to starve him out. Stamp Oul Black Hand. Determined to stamp out the Black Hand, a number of wealthy Italian residents of New York City are rep resented to have offered $2,?0fi a year to Thomas Colesanto, a detec tive of Waterbnry, Conn., to go to NVw V i k and, as far as possible, tak.- the place of Joseph Petrosino, who was assassinated in Sicijy. Electrocuted. Joe and Isham Taylor; two more of the negroes who figured in the recent terrible Powhajtftan county tragedy in which Mrs./'Skipwith and Walter Johnson were murdered, were electrocuted in the penitentiary at Richmond, Va? Wednesday. S