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PUBLISHED THREE TEN ARE DEAD And Forty Are Injured in Head on Collision. FEARFUL ACCIDENT Two Cars on the Chicago, Lake Shore and South Bend Line Strike Each Other, Head-On, Near South Bend, Ten Persons Being Killed and Forty Injured. Ten persons were killed and 40 injured in a werck on the Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend railroad in Porter county, Ind., Saturday night, two of the big electric cars colliding head-on. According tc Gen eral Manager H. U. Wallace, the wreck was due to a disobedience of orders by Motorman G. A. Reed of the eastbouud car, who was killed. Reed received instructions at Gary to wait at Wilson, a short distance west of Baileytown, the point at which the disaster occurred, for the westbound car to pass. The impact of the cars was so great that they were reduced to a mass of wreckage. The eastbound car was going 50 miles an hour to make up lost time. When the crash occurred the east bound car was telescoped and almost demolished. In this train were all of the killed and most of the injured, passengers ou the westbound escap ing with bruises. The two cars were wedged togeth er in a cass of debris. The cries for help caused a scene of confusion for many minutes. Soon, however, the cooiheaded passengers brought order out of chaos and, while some converted the home of E. R. Borg into a hospital and morgue, others rescued the injured. Darkness, greatly interfered with the progress of the rescuers and to make matters worse the nearest tele phone was nearly a mile away. All but one of the killed were in the smoking compartment of the car in the front end. The space was crowded. Titus E. Kinsie, a real estate dealer, and Cordius KUne, both of South Bend, left the smoking room lees than a minute before the crash and escaped death, although the latter suffering severe injuries. Davis Crawford, a chauffeur of South Bend, related a graphic story of the accident. "There were about 50 in our car," said Crawford. ."Most of us had been at the automobile race at Crown Point.- Many of the tired passengers were asleep. Suddenly there was a terrific crash. Motorman George Reed was pinned between the vesti bules of the two cars so solidly that it waB impossible for us to remove the body.'*..... G. A? Schimmel, motorman of the westbound car, said his car was at a full stop, when the eastbound car struck it. He said: "When I saw the headlight, of the eastbound., train in the distance I realized that the motorman had over looked orders. I put on the brakes,, brought my car to a stop and tried to back It. but the air breaks did not release the wheels 'and I could not move before the crash came." It was impossible to run electric cars to the scene, because the trol ley wire had been broken. When physicians reached the secene they found scores of farmers and villagers rushing about endeavoring to care for the wounded and to extricate the dead and dying by the light of a few lanterns. It was necesasry to use axes to release some of the wounded. One of the heroes of the wreck was C. A. Simmons of Benton Har bor, Mich, He lost consciousness immediately after the collision. When he recovered his senses he was lying in the sand near a ditch. Both of his legs were broken, but when Dr. Axe of Michigan City reached him and tendered surgical aid. he refused it, instructing the physician J to give hfs time to others more se riously injured than himself. "My legs are broken," he said, "but my head is all right, and 1 guess 1 can stand it for a while." Mrs. Guy Stutzman of Misawaka, who suffered a deep gash in the back of her head, was holding a small baby at the time of the accident, but the infant escaped without a scratch. YOUNG FARMER A SUICIDE. Mr. Samuel Lang Kills Hmself With a Shotgun. Mr. Samuel Lang, a young man about twenty-one years old. living about one and a half miles from Westminster, committed suicide late on Thursday evening by shooting himself with a shotgun. Young Lang left home on Thurs day, presumably to .so hunting. He failed to return at night and search ing parties found his body next morn ing about 500 yards from his home. It is not known why he committed the deed. * Balloon Accident. At St. Petersburg, Russia, the Count Chamberlain Palitsiu was killed, his wife was fatally injured and two other persons suffered se vere injuries, in a balloon accident there a few days ago. * TIMES A WEEK. THE AWFUL CRIME OF A BLACK FIEND IN GEORGE TOWN COUNTY. Young Lady School Teacher Drag ged From a Buggy and Fiendish ly Assaulted. A dispatch from Georgetown to The News and Courier says: At four o'clock Friday afternoon word was hurriedly, brought to Sheriff Scurry that a criminal assault had just been committed upon the per son of a young woman school teach er by an unknown negro at Crab Hall, a place situated immediately across Winyah Bay from Georgetown, on Waccamaw Neck. The young lady boards at the home of Mr. Huck Cains, and while out driving with one of the Cains chil dren, a little girl, sae was dragged from the buggy and carried into the woods by her assailant, who or dered the child to flee at the peril of her life. The child's father returned with her to the spot to find the young lady in a terrible plight, and bloody from the fearful struggle which she had bravely waged. The man had fled. The sheriff and his posse is in pur suit with dogs, and numerous par ties of men from the city are scour ing the woods in search of the brute. ? The Fiend Is Caught. John Jenkins, an ex-convict, was arrested, charged with being the guilty fiend. He answers the de scription exactly. He was found in company with two other negroes, and the foot prints at the scene and on the trail were identified al most beyond the possibility of a doubt. The trio were arrested. Jenkins is a native of the Friend field plantation, on Waccamaw neck, but has always borne the charac ter of an idle, worthless fellow. He is about 20 years of age and a black negro. He was described as being very black, and it was found that he bad painted his face blacker than the usual color with soot and grease. This he had attempted to remove, probably after the crime. The dress of the young lady was smeared with this grease. It is said that the. negro was really iden tified absolutely when taken before her. It is stated positively that the young lady was not harmed to any extent, as the man was frightened off. She fought bravely until Mr. Cains came to her rescue. The fiend has been lodged in the penitentiary for safe-keeping until his trial, which will take place soon. He will no doubt be convicted of his fiendish crime of attempting an as sault and be hung. The quicker the better. MEN AND HORSES BURN. Five Men and Sixty Horses Burned to Death. At Duluth, Minn., five men and sixty-eight horses were burned to death, late Saturday afternoon in a fire which partly destroyed the board of trade livery stable. The fact that the men had lost their lives were not known until after the fire had been subdued, when firemen in looking through the rear entrance, through which they tried to escape. The building was also used to store automobiles, and three of these went up in smoke. Various theories are advanced as to the cause of the fire, the most plausable being that there was an explosion of gasoline, a quantity of which was stored on the premises. * ATTEMPT ON DETECTIVES. Law and O.vdcr League Agents Hrtre Trouble in Alabama. A second attempt was made a few nights ago to do bodily harm to de tectives of the Law and Order League, In Montgomery, Ala., who have gathered evidence against the soft drink sellers. The detectives arrived in Mont gomery from Nashville where they wore rushed after being attacked in Montgomery last week. A son of Deputy Sheriff Harry McCord, who resembles one of the detectives, was called away from the jail and se . verely beaten before the thugs rea lized their mistake. Deputy Sheriff McCord is said to have gone in search of his son's assailants with a rifle. * Sold His Wife. The Circuit court sitting in Port land, Ore., will hear arguments this week in the strangest case that has ever appeared on its docket. John ! Braganza, a German, after selling ! his wife to II. Ruddart. for $150, has j bronchi suit against her purchaser on'charge of alienating her affetr 1 tions. Attorneys fail to see how Bragonza can have been damaged as j h claims since he sold, exchanged 1 and bartered his wife. * Chaplain General. Gen. Clement A. Evans, command er-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans, Friday announced the ap pointment of Dr. R. Linn Cave, as chaplain general of the organization. Dr. Cave, who is pastor of the Chris tian church, Nashville, Tenn., suc ceeds the late Dr. J. William Jones. * ORAjNGEBTJBG. A DEADLY CRASH Of an Automobile and Trolley Car Near Belton. MACHINE IS WRECKED Jas. H. Cobb, is Killed, Rev. D. I). Richardson, Rev. E. A. McDowell and Mrs. D. D. Richardson Are Wounded as a Resnlt of a Col listen. A dispatch to The State from Anderson tells of a deplorable ac cident near Belton, on Sunday about midday, as a result of which Jas. H. :Cobb, superintendent of the Belton cotton mills, is dead. Rev. D. D. Richardson, pastor of the Second Baptist church of Belton and tho Gluck Mills Baptist cburch of that city, is in a critical condition in a hospital at Anderson, his wife is slightly injured and Rev. E. A. Mc Dowell of Ninety-Six, field agent of The Baptist Courier, is seriously hurt. The sad accident was caused by a collision between an interurban car of the Anderson Traction com pany and an automobile which oc curred at Breazeale's crossing, nine miles east of Anderson, shortly be fore noon Sunday. The dead and injured were occupants of the au tomobile. The accident occurred at the foot of a sharp grade and as the car was coasting at the rate of about 15 miles an hour. The auto party was sighted by those in charge of the car, Conduc tor C. P. Burriss and Motorman E. E. Sanders, and the usual signal given, there being plenty of time for the machine to clear the cross ing well in front of the car. When the front wheels of the auto, how ever, had cleared the first rail of the track, the engine seemed to come to a dead standstill and in a few sec onds the car struck it. The machine was thrown some 20 feet into the air and smashed to splinters. All of the occupants were also thrown some distance and it seems a miracle that all were not killed outright. - .Mr. Cobb's skull was crushed in several places, his left leg and arm were broken and the thigh crushed into bits. He was also otherwise bruised and mangled and lived but a few minutes after the crash. Rev. Mr. Richardson's skull was fractured and his left leg and arm broken and he is yet unconscious. Rev. Mr. McDowell was removed from the scene of the accident to the Belton hotel, where his injuries 'were dressed. He is suffering from a broken shoulder and arm and, while badly hurt, his condition is not serious. He was removed to his home at Ninety-Six late Sunday afternoon, apparently resting well. The injuries sustained by Mrs. Richardson were slight, consisting chiefly of a severely sprained ankle. She is in the hospital at Anderson with her husband. When the accident occurred the party was en route to Dorchester church, three miles north of Belton, to attend a meeting. At the coroner's inquest at Belton Sunday afternoon the jury, after hearing the evidence, returned the following verdtict, /exonerating the men in charge of the car from all blame: "We find that the deceased came to his death by being struck by a trolley car in West Belton, on What 1S known as Breazeale's cross ing, as the result of an accident." * "UNLOADED" PISTOL DEADLY. Xcwberry Farmer Kills His Friend by Accident. At Newberry Sunday morning about 9 o'clock, T. Orlando Wicker, was accidentally shot in the neck by a pistol in the hands of Caldwell Ruff, and died a few minutes later. Wicker, Loamma Ruff and Cs'dwell Ruff, all chatting pleasantly together. Wicker lived about a mile from Ruff's and had called at Ruff's to:' a social visit. Caldwell Ruff walked inside of the house, and, as he came out, the pistol was discharged, the ball taking effect, as stated, in Wick er's neck. Ruff statea that he did not know that the pistol was load ed. Coroner Felker held an inquest during the morning, and the jury in their verdict state: "T. Orlando Wicker came to his death by a pistol I shot wound accidentally in the hands ! of Caldwell Ruff. Mr. Wicker and Mr. Ruff are both young and progressive white farmers, land live on 'he Pomaria road, about j ten miles east of Nebwerry. * Print Paper Taxed. Just before adjournment Friday night the Senate adopted by a vote of -14 to .'!2 the amendment of the Senate committee ,,n -nance fixing a duty of $-1 a ton on print paper, in place of the House rate of $2 a ton, but the other amendments to the wood pulp and print paper schedules had not been acted upon when the Senate adjourned at 7 o'clock. ? S. C TUESDAY. 'JTOP HUMAN MONSTER WHITE FIEND CHARGED WITH ASSAULT IN AUGUSTA. His Own Blind. Fifteen Year Old Daughter, Ettie, the Victim of HLs Alleged Crime. The Augusta Chronicle says Mon roe J. Lee was lodged in the Rich | mond county jail Friday under a war rant charging assault. The warrant alleges that he assaulted Ettie Lee, aged 15 years, his daughter. The man denies the crime. The girl asserts that the charge is true. Is is specifically charged that the crime was committed June 11th. Ettie Lee.is blind. For five years she has been an attendant at the Georgia Academy for the Blind atj Macon, and is now at home on her vacation. The girl says her father had made an attempt to attack her before, and that her mother had protected her. The mother says she sent the child to her grandmother's on the 11th, and the girl returned home earlier than the mother expected. The father came home and found the girl alone. The grandmother was informed by the girl of what had happened and gave the alarm. This is the statement of both the mother and the girl. Monroe J. Lee Is about 50 years of age. He has worked in the cotton mills at odd times. He tried to play at politics occasionally and, now and then, has worked in nearby cities in the street car service. He was ar rested a few days ago by Policeman Hutto and later sent to jail. Seen since he was taken into cus tody he denied the terrible accusa tion made against him. * WHISKEY SANDWICH. This Is the Latest Evasion of tho Liquor Law. A dispatch from Birmingham, Ala., says the sale and distribution of the whiskey sandwich is the latest meth od of evading the liquor laws in the State of Alabama: Loaves of bread, cut and arranged to represent oys ter sandwiches, are sold over the counters in lunchrooms, presumably operated for that purpose, a bottle of whiskey being arranged between the layers of the bread. - It. is said that questionable lunchrooms have sprung up all over the State, in which these contraband goods constitute practically the total bill of fare. The discovery of the whiskey sand wich was made by the warden at the Birmingham jail, whp took it. into his head to examine an apparently in nocent sandwich which was brought to the jail for one of the prisoners by a relative. The prisoner, Charles Smith, a negro, had only recently attempted to make his escape. The warden was suspicious that something might have been hidden in the unusually large sandwich. Upon| opening the loaf a large bottle of whiskey was discovered. .A rigid in vestigation was then put on foot, which resulted In the discovery that the whiskey sandwich is already an important article of (pmm?rce in Alabama. FATAL LAUNCH PARTY One Man Drowned and a Lady Had Narrow Escape. Advices were received at Charles ton Saturday of the death of S. J. P. Alston, and the narrow escape of a lady from drowning in the ac cident which befell a launch party Friday night proceeding from Young's Island to Rockviiie. it ap pears that the engine of the boat became disabled, and in some way the boat filled with water. Alston safely carried one of the ladles ashore, but with much effort, and it is thought that he returned to the assistance of another, when his strength failed him and he was drowned. The lady that he rescued was unconscious for many hours, and it could not be learned whether she had been later revived. The other two ladies in the launch were res cued. * BLIND TIGERS. J Cherokee County Seems to Have a Goodly Number. A dispatch from Gaffnoy says Mag istrate Scruggs, of Morgan Town ship, which borders on North Caro lina, bot?*id a young whi'e man nam ed Bud Bright over to the Court :>f Sessions on Tuesday ror selling whiskey. The people of that neigh borhood are troubled by the opera tions of blind tigers who ply their trade on Saturday nights and Sun days, it is though) that one or more distilleries are in operation in the Community, and a determined effort will be made to put them out of busi ness. * Swift Justice. Between breakfast and noon din ner, Ed. Bynum, the negro who shot Sheriff Corley, thirty days ago, was taken from the State penitentiary at Columbia, carried to Lexington, ar raigned, tried and sentenced, and taken back to Columbia to begin serving his sentence of ten years. * E 22, 1909. STEALS A PLANK from rhe Democratic Platform of Last Year. TAFT IS THE THIEF He Turns His Back on the Repub-1 lican Platform and Plants Himself i Sqncrely on the Last Democratic j Platform, Hoping by so Doing to Save His Party. Once more, says the Washington correspondent of the Spartan burg Herald, the Republican party has' found it necessary to adopt a plank [ from the Democratic platform, in order that it may save its face. This baa become so frequent and com-! mon of late, however, that It has! ceased to cause surprise. The lat- ] est instance of the Republican theft of Democratic campaign thunder is' in the compromise on the income. tax proposition, by which it is pro posed to submit the matter to the people in the effort to secure an | amendment to the constitution per mitting the levying of such a tax. In recommending to congress the submission of a constitutional amendment expressly authorizing the collection of an income tax Mr. Taft has turned his back on his own record and planted himself squarely on the Democratic platform of 1908. At the Denver convention, July 10, last, the Democratic party made this declaration:. "We favor an income tax as part of our revenue system, and we uvge the submission of a constitutional amendment specifically authorizing congress to levy and collect a tax upon individual and corporate in comes, to the end that wealth may I bear its proportionate share of the I burdens of the federal government." The Republican convention at Chicago in its platform was silent on this subject, but in his speech of acceptance at Cincinnati, July 28, Mr. Taft volunteered this statement: "The Democratic platform de mands two constitutional amend ments?one providing for an income tax and the other 'for the election of senators' by the people. In my judg ment an amendment to the consti tution for an income tax is not ne cessary. I believe that an iucome tax, when the protective system of customs and the internal revenue tax shall not furnish income enough for governmental needs, can and should be devised, which, under the decisions of the supreme court, will conform to the constitution." Senator Bailey has been making some efforts in the direction of se curing such a tax, and these efforts have met with such approval among members of the senate that it is an open, secret in Washington that the compromise which was decided oq i after, numerous conferences among Republicans, one with the president, was. vigorously sought by Aldrlch and his followers, who did not want any such tax. i This compromise will put the mat ter "up to" the people. It will be necessary that two-thirds of the | membership of both houses shall favor the submission of the consti tutional amendment to the people of the forty-six States, and '.hat the legislatures of three-fourts of those States shall express themselves In favor o<* tne adoption of the amend ment. lr is thus seen that the ibi ig that is so r-crvireabl.? to the R^ptm Hcan party?indefinite delay?will be secured. '. It is not generally known out side of senatorial circles just how much trouble this income tax prop osition has caused the members of the "Aldrich ganf?." They have had numerous conferences and consulta tions, and have even taken polls of the senate, and sounded men on the proposition, to ascertain their atti tude. The results of these sound ings revealed a support of Senatoit Bailey's income tax proposition (to which Senator Cummins succeeded in having his name attached) that was anything else than pleasing to the leaders. And so the activity was begun which has resulted in the compromise proposition. Naturally the "straight-out." in come tax advocates are much per turbed over the present stale of af fairs, and they propose to carry the fight further. They claim that Senator Aldrich has a very narrow margin of majority who will support the compromise, and they hope yet to secure enough votes for a straight-out income tax amendment to the tariff bill to carry their point. The proposed amendment to the constitution, which was introduced hy Senator Nelson, provides for the submission to the several States of the question of amending the consti t ii, ion of the i'liited Slates so r.s to give congress the right to levy a tax on income. The proposed amend ment is as follows: "That, congress shrill hrive the power to lay run! colled direct taxes on incomes, from whn'lever source derived, without apportioning the I same among the several States." * Shipment of Alligators. A carload of alligators, said to be the largest number ever shipped over a railroad, left New Orleans for Los Angeles Thursday. VERY QUEER SECT MO LOK AXES BELIEVE THEY WILL POSSESS AMERICA. Six Hundred Families Have Settled in California, Where They Con tinue Their Quakerlike Customs. One result of the Russian-Japanese war has been the immigration of the Molokanes from Southeastern Russia to California. The sect is one of the most peculiar in the Russian em pire and is very much like the Qua kers, long known for their abhor rance of war and the use of fire arms. The Molokanes are not num erous, but they came to America after a "voice from the Lord" had told one of their elders that America is the "Promised land" to them. They believe that the eighty or ninety millions of Americans are to be dispossessed as were the Canan ite6, and that they will either be driven out or made the slaves of the "chosen" 600 families or about 4.000 people. These immigrants call themsolves "spiritual Christians." The Bible is their whole library. They have no priests or pastors. Any man can become an elder who learns to read and is able to recite the Scripture?. An elder, being the head of a fami ly and "learned in the Scriptures" has patriarchial powers. All proper ty among the Molokanes is held on a community basis. All earnings are turned into the community treasury. The sons of the families marry as their elders arrange and then bring their wives and live under the paren tal roof. Frequently seven or more sub-families are housed under the same roof and eat at the same table. The community houses are usually unsanitary, unventilated and a men ace not only to the inmates but lo the community at large. The religious meetings of the Molokanes are typical of the people and their religion. The men?who hang their hats and overcoats in the rear of the room?like schoolboys ?sit on one side of the room, the women and girls opposite. The eld ers and more devout sit about a plain table covered with a white cloth in one corner. A religious service be gins with and largely consists throughout of the chanting in uni son, in the Russian tongue, of Bible psalms learned by rote. The weird, monotonous intoning of the psalms in measured cadence is the distinc tive feature of the meeting. It is song service, preaching and prayer continued. The Molonkane asks for no license to get married. After the details have been arranged between the heads of the respective families there is a journey by the bride groom and his friends to the house of the bride-to-be. The bride and bridegroom then proceed to the church, at the door of which they are met by an old woman with a big. round Russian loaf of bread in one hand and a handful of salt in the other. The bride and bridegroom are now made to sit down to a small table and partake of a little of the. bread and salt, after which the eld ers pronounce them man and wife and give them their blessing and the holy kiss. A public appearance on the street to show that they are married and a generous feast at the house of the bridegroom complete the wedding festivities. * DEAF AND DUMB CHILDREN*. Remarkable Result* Shown at Exer cises Attended by the Parents. Remarkable results of the instruc tion tuf deaf und dumb pupils in pub lic school No. 47, in New York city, were determined before the parents of the 122 children. Not one of the pupils was able to articulate a sylable at the be ginning of the school term. At the exercises there were fifty who made themselves perfectly understood In all parts of the big assembly hall, some of them reciting pieces of po etry and others delivering orations. Miss Margaret A. Regan, principal of the scho'd, said that t^e teachers now believe there is no reason win every person should not be taught to peak. * PICNICERS SHOCKED. Outlines of Tree Appear on Chil dren's Bodies. At a Sunday School picnic near Sparta. (Ja., Friday, a thunderstorm came up suddenly, and lightning i struck a tree under which sixteen children had gathered for protec tion from the rain, shocking each severely. Many wore strangely af fected, the outlines of the tree ap pearing as if photographed, on die bodies of several of the children. No fatalities have resulted but several of the children are in a serious con dition. * Lightning Destroys Barn. Lightning destroyed a barn on the plantation of Mr. R. II. Haines, seven miles south of Anderson, together with its contents, including a fine mule. $40 worth of feed stuffs and a number of farm implements Fri fO CENTS PER COPY A GIRL'S BODY Found In a Trunk In a New York Chinese Den. HAD BEEN MURDERED j Proved to be Elsie Sigel, Who Had I Been Interested m Missionary Work Among the Chinese of New York?The Case is Surrounded hi Great Mystery. Elizabeth Sigel, daughter of Paul Sigel, of New York city, and grand daughter of the illustrious Franz Sigel, the German warrior who en listed his services with the Union Army during the civil war, is, ac cording to all indications, the vic tim of one of the most sordid mur ders in the history of New York. If she is not the Victim the police are confronted with a remarkable series of coincidental facts. Taken from a trunk in a room of I a Chinaman above a chop suey res taurant in the tenderloin, the body, I in a state of decomposition whic.i makes identification difficult, lies in j the morgue. When the story W3s i told, Mrs. Sigel, with as much ten derness as possible, cried "My God, Elsie," and fainted. Sun Leong, proprietor of the res^ taurant, who also conducted the rooming house above, disappeared shortly after the discovery of tbe murder, adding further to the mys tery. The case has many unusual features, notable among which is the fact that a Chinaman had been known to call at the Sigel home, pre sumably with the sanction . of the parents. Elizabeth, or Elsie, was 20 years old, and was greatly Inter ested in work among Chinese. Mr. Sigel arrived at the morgue at midnight. Arrangements were made so that the badly disfigured face could be seen to best advantage, but Mr. Sigel would not say that it was his daughter. In fact, the police say, he declared positively that it was not, but be declined ;o look at various letters and other bit* of evidence which would seem to indicate that it was she. Thres .Chinamen were arrested as materi'i) witnesses. Mrs. Florence M. Todd, a friend of the Sigel family, called %. the morgue, and aft^r viewing the body, identified som ? of tn; lindercio'.s ing as that worn by Elsie Sigel. Mrs. Paul Sigel, when shown the jewelry found in the trunk containing the body, identified it as that worn by her daughter, Elsie. * HEAVY VERDICT AFFIRMED. Supreme Court Upholds $2."?,0<M> Damage Suit. The supreme court a few days ago rendered a decision which amounts to a judgment of $25,000 against the Southern Public Service corpora tion and the Florence Light and Power Company. Suits was brought by Mrs. Maud Langblin and Geo. W. Laughlin and by Lawrence Edward. Laughlin of Florence against these two concerns for injuries received by Mrs. Maud Laughlin and Edward Laughlin, her son, because of a heav ily charged wire which hung down in the street in Florence and inflict ed injuries on both. A suit for $50. was brought in the case of Mrs. Laughlin and for $25,000 on behalf of the boy. The jury returned a ver dict of $17,000 in the case of Mrs. Laughlin and $8,000 in the other case. The supreme court dismissed the appeal on the exceptions raise*} by the attorneys for the defendant. * WHISKEY USED BY PUPILS In Public Schools of Bnyonnc, New Jersey. The report that drunkenness pre vailed among the pupils of the Bayonne, N. J., public schools has been verified, despite the denials of the city officials, by a special com mittee of the school board whose report sustains the charges madetbg Dr. Henry A. Abbott, medical'di/is spector, that many children attend-, ed the school under the influence. The board has issued an appeal to parents, teachers and pupils to do their utmost in discouraging the use of intoxicants by the* children of the city. It was also resolved to enforce the law forbidding the sale of cigarettes to boys under sixteen years. ' Wife Shot by Husband. Rosa Slun k, of Cincinnati, O.. was shot and prohahl} lataly injured this week by Andrew Heek, a former in mate dt a reformatory, whom she had married to reform. Deck was sent to the reformatory, and Miss Shuck worked for his pardon and tinally procured it. and they were married immediately. Man Stronger Than Engine. Noah James, a lumberman, of Lau rel, Del., gave an exhibition of his strength this week when he pulled a gasoline launch belonging to Har vey D. Hitchens, going at full speed, back to the wharf and tied it there. ?