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PUBLISHED THREE THEY MET AGAIN After Yasrs of Seperation ar.d Remarried. A GEORGIA ROMANCE A Young Husband and Wife Became Estranged and Parted, and After Marrying Again, They Meet and Renew Vows of Love and Marry the Second Time. A dispatch from Fitzgerald, Ga., to the Augusta Chronicle, tells this story: Bubbling over-with a case of genuine love, mellowed by a twenty five years experience of hardship, yearning disappointment and longing for a lost first love, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. T. Thomas waiked into the of fice of the News yesterday afternoon and asked that their checkered career be published to the world. And such a record! It is truth, every word of it, but there is no fiction half so strange cr romantic. Twenty-five years ago these two were married. After two and a half years of wedded life they lost each other and for twenty-three years, four months and one day they neither saw or heard of each other, until two weeks ago they met face to face, recourted and married again on Thursday night and today are the happiest bride and groom man over looked upon. "Fiction." do you say? If the writer could compose such fiction he would not be grinding away* on a daily paper for bread! With some embellishments of lan guage and connection this is the story as told by Mrs. Thomas her self: "Twenty-five years ago, Mr. Thomas and I were married at Cedar Keys. We both were Georgians, he having been reared in Clinch aud I in Dooley county and our families had drifted down into Florida. He ] was twenty-one and I fifteen and our J native similarities drew us together! and we were married. "For two and a half year? we lived together as happy as most couples do, but I was young and foolish, and, like many girl wives, I had a yearn ing to try my husband's love and show my power over him. W'e had some t:?'fling misunderstanding, in which I was wholly to blame and one morning I ran away from home. 1 did not go far away and it was my intention to write him after a month or two and make him come to me, or if he declined to come, I, of course, was going back home to him. I wait ed two months and wrote. But, lo! he did not come and my letter re turned to "me unanswered. Then I went to him?or where I had left him, but he was not to be found. He had gone in search of me and I knew not where to look for him. "I came back to Georgia, I search ed the country from Atlanta to Ha vana, but nowhere could I find any one who -could give me any informa tion about him, and, after years of search, I gave up hope. Later, a Cuban named Frank Perry wanted to marry me and I finally got a di vorce from my lost husband and mar ried him. "For fifteen years Perry and I liv ed togother aud he treated me weil. We lived some in Florida, some in Cuba and some in Georgia. Kive years ago Mr. Perry died at Jackson ville and I came back to Georgia and started a cigar factory, the only thing I knew how to do. For four years 1 have been making cigars at Wray, Georgia, not far from here., and two months ago I went to* Syl vester and started a factory there. "A little o\er two weks ago I went on an excursion to Tampa to purchase some tobacco for my fac tory. I wont to one of the big fac tories there late one afteruoou, just as the men were leaving and asked ! the watchman where I could see the manager. He was an Italian, and as ' I had forgot how to speak the Italian language I turned to a man I heard speaking English to ask him to in interpret for me I looked him full in the face and my heart leaped into my mouth. "What is your name?" I asked. "Thomas." he said. "George Thomas?" "George Thomas is my name," said he. "Do you k;ow me?" I saked. "No, I do not." "Pointing to a scar on my pcc'? caused from a ?ore in my early life, : I said: "Do you know that so t?" 'His face lighted up. and Living his hand on a panel close by, he said, "Do you recognize that hand?" "Two of bis lingers were partly cut off when a boy. and with these tok ens of recognition we stepped aside and took a seat on the factory steps where In- was night watchman. "And there wt? sat the night out. telling of all we had done and where we had been during the years of sepaiation. " And hero in substance is the story he told me: "After live years of incessant search for me. George gave up in despair aud settled down at Jackson ville. Here he decided to mary again and after getting a divorce from me. married a woman aamod?" Here Mrs. Thomas halted and fin ally said?"Since it is our affair, wo .will not drag otLor names into it, < A S Balles ,lr ].;? :.ug 0, : . Slate House TIMES A WEEK. PUZZLE TO POLICE ALTHOUGH SHE COULD LIVE IN LUXURY AT HOME Pennsylvania Maiden Prefers to Be Chambermaid So She May Have Chance to Steal. Police authorities in Reading, Pa., believe they have a prisoner who should be made a study of by psy- I chologists. The girl, who comes from a good family and whose par ents are able to keep her in luxury, prefers work as a chambermaid and in other humble positions which of fer an opportunity to steal. "Whenever I entered a room and saw jewels or fine dresses," she said, "a voice would whisper in my ear, 'take-them.' I tried to resist the j voice, but could not, and finally I ! took the things. In one room of J the hotel I took two big diamonds i and a pearl pin. No sooner would I got the things to my room than I would feel sorry for what I had doue. The jewels were of no use to me, for I could not wear them without danger of arrest. I did not j want to sell them, so I simply hid them iu my trunk." Police as well as physicians who have examined Miss Florence Al bright declare they believe biie has a dual personality. When Florence was arrested she admitted that she had stolen jewels and women's finery in all the places ill which she had worked. Why ehe went to work and turned thief she could not explain, as she could have had finery of equal value at home. Her father is a prosperous merchant and lives in one of the best houses in the suburbs. The daughter was a student in High school when she j disappeared. Her parents were distracted and had the police as well as private de tectives search for her. They ob tained no clew to her whereabouts until three months ago, when she was arrested on a charge of steal ing jewels worth $1,000 from the home of a physician. It was brought out at the hearing that the girl, after leaving home, had found employ ment as a maid in the physician's | J home and that after taking the j jewels she hid them in a room. On the plea of her father, Flor ence was released. She promised to remain at home, but two weeks after she was discharged her disappearance was reported (to 'the police. She Went to Philadelphia, where Bin? worked in a restaurant ay waitress She admitted later that she stole ! plates, although she had no use. for them. When she was susptected of theft she left the restaurant and found employment as chambermaid iu a hotel. The girl finally left Philadelphia and returned to Reading. Although she knew she would find a welcome in her home, she obtained employ ment a? maid in another physician's [ house. Again she could not resist the impulse to steal, and she took jewels worth several hundred dollars. She was arrested and Mayor Rick sent her to the House of the Good Shepherd where she will remain until she is 21. ? DRINKS POISON FOR WHISKEY. Tarheel Policeman Dies in Agony, an Result of His Mistake. Mistaking a carbolic acid bottle for one containing whiskey. L. I). O'Kelly, a policeman in Salisbury, I North Carolina, drank of the | contents of the former early Sunday morning, and died in great agony within forty minutes. O'Kelly arose from his bed about 6 o'clock and complained of feeling unwell. He remarked that he believ ed that a little whiskey might do him good, searching for the stimulant among several bottles upon the pan try shelf, he accidentally took the wrong bottle, and had swallowed the fatal drink before he discovered his error. j whose families migh' object. George's second wife is dead now, we think, but long ago they decided they could not live together and he secured a divorce from her. "Well, he wandered up and down through Florida and finally sectled at Tampa where he has been employ ed for several years as night watch man for one jf the big factories. And there is where I ran into him two weeks ago. "The next day was Sunday aud wo went to the beach and spent, the day telliug each other of what we had done during that twenty-five rears. It took a loug time to tell it. for on Sunday night I sat on the steps of the factory again all night with George, and the next morning when I had to leave Tampa for my Georgia home, we had not yet finish ed all we had to say, and I promis ed him that in two weeks I would wire him if I wanted to hear the rest, and when the two weeks were out, I was glad enough to send him a telegram tu come to Sylvester. "I wanted to bear what else he had to say. and he came." And here George, with a great joy beaming from bis eyes said, "Yes, I wanted to hear what she had to say, too. And she said it was all right," and George broke into a big OKAKGEBUBG, BURIED ALIVE SIES AT WORK IN DEEP TRENCH SUDDENLY PERISH Beneath Thousands of Tons of.Earth, Railway Tracks, Cars and Travel ling Cranes. It is estimated that twenty men perished Friday by the sudden col lapse of the west wall of the new lock at the entrance to the Alex andra dock, Newport, England. The extension of the dock work has been in progress for some time, and fifty men were working in a trench sixty feet deep preparing for the laying of a concrete foundation. Without the slightest warning the heavy shoring lumbers gave way in the middle, and the entire struc ture collapsed and carried down with it thousands of tons of earth, the railway lines on both sides of the trench, many railway cars and four travelling cranes. The men at the bottom of the trench, which was 100 yards long and thirty feet wide, had no chance to escape, but many of these work ing nearer the surface were uninjur ed. The work of rescue was begun immediately after the collapse and three men were taken out alive. The bodies of some of the dead also were rescued. Late Friday night four men, still livinK. were pinned in the debris in the trench. The incoming tido made the work of rescue very dif ficult. The engineers in charge of the work are unable to account for the collapse of the shoring timbers. At midnight the rescuers were still busy with their work. Conversations were being held with a few of the imprisoned mou with the aid of speaking tubes, and stimu lants and cigarettes were passed down to them, but tnere was little hope of rescuing the victims because the removal of the debris that was pinning them down was likely to cause further falls of earth and beams. Up to midnight eleven persons had been extricated, dead or injured, and ir was believed that there still were sixteen bodies under the debris. ? SHOULD BE PUNISHED. "Unknown Tongue" Preacher Run Out of Clinton. A horrible state of affairs came to light at the Clinton Cotton Mills last week. It seems that a man, ot whom nothing is really known there abouts, has been for quite a while a preacher in that community of what is called the "Unknown Tongue" religion. He professed to have various gifts, and, with devilish practices, it is commonly believed, perhaps, a sort of hypnotism he led "silly women captives" in the name of religion. Quite a number of men were the dupes of his religious practices. However, partial discovery overtook him, and he was driven from the town by the enraged citizens. Since his departure facts have come to light, which, had they been known, would doubtless have result ed in much harsher treatment than he received. It is as. erted that a number of wo men have reported to their husbands that tu th; raroe of religion he com manded them to break the Seventh Commandment. .\;-ny of the alleged facts are well-nigh unbelievable, and the whole matter is inconceiv'i bly shocking. KILLED BY LIVE WIRE. Lineman in Rock Hill Mill Met a Sudden Death. Robert Barron, colored, known at "Hud" Barron. a faithful lineman who has. been in the employ of the Water, Light & Bower Company of Kock Hill, for a good many years, was killed Saturday morning about 11 o'clock by coming in contact with a heavily charged wir?.*. The acci dent occurred near Davis' store in the western part of the city while the linemen were at work making a repair. Barron. who was at the top of the pole, had his strap buckled and consequently did not. fall to the ground. Other workmen mount ed and brought him down after which he lived for a few moments only. When Dr. Crawford reached him he was (iead. His fingers were burned to the bone aud flesh charred. Bar ron leaves a wife and several chil-1 dren. I FATALLY SCALDED. _ I Little Chilli Met Accidental Death in Helton. A dispatch from Helton says a little boy about three years old, son I of Mr. 0. M. Stewart, was so badly j scalded by falling in a pot of boiling water Saturday about 1 1 o'clock that he died from the effects of tie- seald about 7 o'clock that evening. Mr. j Stewart lives in the mill village. The family was making preparations ' to visit some of their relatives at Iva and had taken a pot of boiling wa- j ter off the stove when the little boy] accidentally fell into it, which re-1 suited in his death as stated above. * S. C, TUESDAY, JUI/I PASSED SENATE The Corporation Tax Flan Adopt ed at Last Vote* on the Troublesome Question Reached Unexpectedly on n Mo tion to Substitute the Corporation Tnx Amendment for the Income Tux Amendment. The corporation tax amendment, which was suggested by. President Taft, is an integral part of the tariff bill as that bill now stands. After much tribulation, the Senate reached a vote shortly before ad journing at 7 o"dock p. m. Friday, and the amendment was agreed to, 00 to 11. Many Democrats voted with most of the Republicans for the amendment. Only three Demo crats voted against the provision on the final vote, but some refrained from voting at all. The test vote was ou the substi tution of the corporation tax amend ment for the income tax provision, and on that vote forty-five Senators cast their ballots in the,- affirmative and thirty-one in the negative. On this ballot all the Democratic votes were cast in favor of the income tax, which alb'o received the support of a number of the insurgent Repub licans. There was a steady fire of oratory from the beginning of the session at 10 o'clock until 4:00 o'clock Fri day afternoon. When the fire had ceased Mr. Aldrich took the Boor and made a request/for unanimous agreement for a vote on the corpo ration tax amendment Saturday at 1 o'clock. Previous to presenting this request there had been much con ferring between Mr. Aldrich and Messrs. Bailey, Cummins, Borah and other opponents of the amendment, and it was generally supposed that they had reached an understanding that the vote should be taken Sat urday as suggested by Mr. Aldrich. When it seemed that such a compact was probable, Senator Cummins en tered formal objection to the unani mous agreement which not only had the effect of preventing the fixing of the vote, but of forcing it Friday. The first vote was upon the mo tion to substitute the corporation amendment for the Lodge counter vailing duty amendment and this prevailed, AT, .to 31. The affirma tive vote was cast, entirely by Re publicans, even Senator McEnery, of Louisiana, who has voted with the majority side lor all protective meas ures, throwing his ballot with his own party. immediately following Mr. Lodge withdrew Iiis amendment, and a vole was taken on a motion to substitute the corporation tax amendment for the income tax amendment offered jointly by Messrs. Bailey and Cum mins. The result was an exact counter part of the vote ou the previous roll call. Next came the vote upon the cor poration tax provision upon its own merits, but before this ballot could be reached Mr. Bacon sought to ob tain action upon two amendments to that provision, presented by him self, both of which .Mr. Aldrich mov ed to lay upon the table with suc cessful result. The first provided for an exemp tion of educational, charitable and religious institution?, against which Mr. Aldrich mad- his first point of order. Because he did he fell into a sharp clash with its author. The effect of the point of order was to cut off debate, but Mr. Aldrich chanc ed fo drop the remark that he would "allow" Mr. Bacon to proceed. The form of the expression seemed to in cense the Georgia Senator, and he retorted sharply to the effect that he was "not surprised that .Mr. Al drich should assume such a manner, because he had been dictating to the Senate so \onz that he was accus tomed to use language of that kind." When the amendment was laid on the table by a vote of 42 to 32. the Georgia Senator Immediately pre sented another amendment requiring i the taxation of bonds, which was re jected, 41 to 34. Then, without any preliminaries, the final vote was taken. It was up on agreeing to the corporation tax amendment as a part of the tariff bill. This amendment v.as adopted, 60 to 11. Of the negative votes eight were cast by Republicans and three by Democrats, the Republicans being Borah, Bristow, Bulkeley, Clapp, Cummins, Dolliver, Hey burn and i Lafollette, and the Democrats. Cham-I herlin, Hugos and Sniveler. Fell From Balloon. ,\r Rig Stone Gap. V'a., Saturday, during a Fourth of Jul> celebration.) rid ward Cox, a fanner, was instantly killed. He was watching a balloon ascend and his feel caught in the ropes of the parachute. He was car ried liiui) in lIn; air and fell, receiv-1 ing fatal injuries. * I Memphis Barber Shot. Ed Harelson. a barber, was shot and killed at Memphis, Tenn., Sun day by Henry Nightengale, colored, a former employee. r 6. 1909. EIGHT MEN SHOT ONE PERHAPS FATALLY WOUND ED DY MISTAKE. Desperate Fugitive. Said to be Ex Convict, Wounded Six Pursuers und Was Himself Shot. At lone, Ore., Saturday, eight men were shot in a battle between a sheriff's posse and T. G. Earhart, said to he an ex-convict. W. M. Escue. an aged man of Portland, was shot by members of a posse by mistake and Earhart was wounded in the back after having shot eight of his pursuers. None of the vic tims, with the exception of Escue, is seriously wounded. Earhart sur rendered to the posse after his am munition was exhausted and he was taken to Heppner. The wounded: William Clark, shot in shoulder. Joseph E. Beesly, shot in the face and legs. E. T. Perkins, postmaster, shot in foot. John Johnson, shot in leg. Deputy Sheriff W. C. Cassou, shot in back. Charles Ritchie, shot in leg. W. II. Escue, shot in body, per haps fatally, by members of the pos se. T. G. Earhart. shot in back. Earhart quarreled with E. E. Mil- j ler, on whom he is, alleged to have drawn a knife. Earhart afterward, it in stared, broke into a store and stole a shotgun and a quantity of ammunition. Meanwhile Deputy Sheriff Casson gathered a posse and called on Earhart to surrender. The reply was a shot and then Earhart started to run. The posse fired sev eral dozen shot after the fleeing man, who returned the fire. Earhart took refuge under a ware house, whence he fired at his pur suers, hitting several. Escue, who had been sleeping on the ground nearby, arose, and some members of the posse mistook him for Earhart and fired at him inflicting injuries from which he may die. When Earhart's ammunition was exhausted he surrendered. AUTO TURNS TURTLE. Four Persons Seriously Hurt in Ac cident at Macon. At Macon, Ga., eight persons were injured, four seriously, when the large touring car of J. W. Millirons turned turtle Friday evening. The injured: J. W. Millirons, head cut and se rious internal injuries. W. W. Shropshire. internal in juries. Miss Bessie Shropshire, knee brok en. Mrs. J. L. Millirons. severe contus ions about face. Sand Tor d Garileld, aged 13, badly bruised. Three infants severely bruised. The four latter are not seriously hurt. Mr. Millirons was driving the machine when the accident occurred. He attempted to pass another auto mobile when ho lost control of his car, and it dashed into a barbed wire fence. Three of the occupants wore lacerated by being thrown on the fence. * KNOCKED DOWN IN GAFFXEY. Young Man Badly Hurt While in a Negro Suburb. A young man named Reuben Blan ton was knocked down and severely injured in the negro suburb of Gaff ney, known as Kendricksville, last Saturday night. According to lllan ton's statement he went to Ken dricksville to gel some clothes which a negro woman had washed for him, and after receiving the clothes, when he turned to leave, he was struck on the head with some sharp instru ment, cutting a gash which requir ed 1 1 stitches. Rlanton says there were some negroes dancing in the yard but that he do?'s not know by whom or why he was attacked, and that when he regained conscious ness he was lying at the edge of the yard of the house where the clothes had been delivered to him. The po lice have a clue upon which they arc working and it is likely that the guilty one will soon be arrested. ASSAULTED WHILE BATHING. Young Son of a Prominent Ploricllun Seriously Injured. John T. Lewis. Jr., the youiis son of John T. Lewis, State inspector of convicts In Florida, was seriously in jured near Moss Bluff. Fla., Sunday . morning while in bathing i:i :i lake by Arthur Hull, who i.; is charged, i attacked the lad with a heavy bilietl oi wood, beating him over the head. Lewis was rescuotl by friend-; and carried to Ocala, where an operation i was performed in an effort ti> save i his. life. Hull has nol yet been ar- j rested. The cause of the dilRculty is not known. Voting Lewis' condition! i.-: said in be critical. Three Men Drowned. Three negroes and Will Crow, a while man, were drowned in the Mis sissippi river near Hickman, Ky.. Saturday when a skiff. containing nine men, upset during a squall. ?', TV THEY FEAR TEDDY THAT IS WHY THE CORPORATION TAX WAS PASSED. Tin Republican Leaders Arc Afraid That Public Opinion Might Boost Roosevelt. The fear of Theodore Roosevelt lead the two branches of the United States Congress tp accept President Taft's corporation tax, and it will be made a part of the tariff bill, the Senate has about completed. Even as a substitute for the proposed income tax, President Taft's corpo ration tax goea down pretty hard, but the Republican Senate leaders are urging that there should be no split between the majority in Congress and the President, because if fric tion should develop it would only in crease the probability of the nomina tion of Theodore Roosevelt three years hence. Even the corpora'ion controlled sentiment of New England is all in favor of maintaining the great ap pearance of harmony between the leg islative and the executive branches of the government, even if it be comes necessary to make conces sions to the President, in order that there may be no cause for a stam pede to Roosevelt when the next Re publican convention meets. The Roosevelt specter looms up strongly before them, and they greatly fear a return of the strenuous one to the chair. Aldrich and the Senate chiefs have been forced to realize that public re sentment, caused either by legisla tive or administrative action, is like | ly to take the form of an overwhel ming demand for Roosevelt, and it is one of the surest indications of Roosevelt's power for good that these men would rather yield to public sentiment voluntarily than be forced to yield to Roosevelt, backed by the same public sentiment. In all the speculation regarding the effect of the legislation soon to be enacted, both concerning its prati cal operation and the manner of i's acceptance by the public, the thovght of Roosevelt is present in the minds of every Republican senator and member of the House. To the re actionaries he looms a ferocious men ace to schemes of special privilege and corporation aggrandizement. To many of those who have fought the manifest iniquities of the Aldrich bill he affords the only basis of hope that the' public will repudiate both tite bill and its authors. The tariff fight is ended so far is it relates to the rates of duty to be imposed by the bill, and in only two instances was Aldrich defeated. One of these was when he opposed increasing the duty on pineapples; the other wr? the proposed duty on crude oil. In neither of these cases did Aldrich atleaipt to coerce the Senate. Another effort will be made to ob tain a protection lot crude oil when the bill has been reported to the Senate. Senator Pen rose will offer an amendment providing that when ever importation of crude oil exceeds ?10,000 barrels in any one year, then a duty of one-half cent, a gallon shall be imposed upon all imports in ex cess of that in quantity. * STEAMERS IN COLLISION'. Tin- Wbakatine Almost Sunk by the Circe Off Dover. The British steamer Whakatiue running to New Zeland, was towed into Dover, England Sunday, July ?1th, in a sinking condition and beached. The Whakatiue was in collision off Dungeness In a fog with the French steamer Circe. The lat ter was damaged but was able to proceed on her voyage to Rotterdam. No lives were lost. The Whakatiue had 3 00 persons aboard, passengers and crew. She also carried a large number of valu able horses. It was an exceedingly narrow escape from a terrible dis aster, immedliately after vssels [struck the Circe, with the help of another steamer, took the Whakatiue j in tow, but the hawsers broke. The Circo thou steamed to Dover for as sistance. Several tugs put out and proceeded at top speed to the sinking steamer. One of these was lashed to the Wha katinn's side and the pumps were kept at work drawing water from the hold that was almost full. When the liner arrived at Dover she pre sented an extraordinary appearance with her stem lying deep in the wa ter. All the crew were mustered for ward. Six salvage tugs and other vessels were lending assistance in the difficult operation of towing the sii.k i'.\K steamer to the beach. Tire Circe had crashed into her amidships, making a great rent in her sice. :> Lynched in (,'enrgia. Riddled with bullets, the body of Henry Isaac, a negro, was sti! hang ing to the limit of a tree late Friday afternoon, a short distance from the town of Harwick, d.i.. where it was strung up at ."? o'ciock Friday morn ing by a small mob. The negro was found under the bed of a little daugh ter of J. F. Headley, a leading Citi zen u' Harwick. He was captured and li"? mob quick!} formed. fO CENTS PER COPY Result of Fourth of July Celebra tions. I TOY PISTOL FATAL The Celebration of the Fourth <>( July Has Its Usual Casualties. Many Are Injured, and as the Re sult Farly Graves Have Been Brought to Sonic. A dispatch from New York says the first case of death by tetanus was recorded Sunday night, although the noisy Fourth of July celebration, does not begin until Monday. Every precaution has been taken by the board of health to deal with the long list of casualties that always fol low a Fourth. Last year the record? stood: Seven dead, 255 seriously injured and hundreds more hurt, of whom ten ultimately lost their eye sight. Twelve distributors of anti toxin have been appointed and a|l the. hospitals have laid in extra supplies. The first victim was a ten-year-old Italian boy, who shot himself in the hand with a toy pistol. The thermometer at 7 o'clock Sun day morning registered 58 degrees, thp lowest mark for the Fourth of July recorded since the weather bu reau was established in New York in 1871. Cannon Explodes Too Soon. Chier of Police Hyatt, of Albany, X. Y. issued orders for the Fourth of July celebration prohibiting the sale of explosives of extraordianry power. _ Through the premature explosion of a cannon, Thomas McQuade was badly burned about the face, arms and hands in Albany. One D*ad, 100 Hurt at St. Louis. A dispatch from St. Louis s:iys one person dead, five fatally and thirty seriously injured and close to 100 hurt were the Independence Day record for Sr. Louis up until Sun da'y night. The more serious acci dents were due to stray bullets or explosions of gas pipe cannon. Hoy's Finger Blown Off. While 10-year-old Manson Taylor, of Elmira, N. Y.. was loading a small cannon with dynam e Sunday eve ning, a quantity of the explosive was discharged bloving off the index finger of the boy's right, hand. Destroyed Hoy's Thumb. A dispatch trom Poughkeepsie, N. Y., says Louis Santo, aged 1) years. I had his thumb torn to shreds Sun day when a dynamite firecracker ox | ploded in his hand i "Sane Fourth" at Cleveland. j To such an extent did the "sane Fourth" idea prevail in Cleveland. Ohio, that up to a late hour Sunday night no casualties had been reported. The city's restriction against the use of explosive fireworks were rig idly enforced and not a firecracker was heard to pop all day. Monday ten thousand children paraded the streets in a "sane Fourth" demonstration. Stable Burned; One Dead. After a skyrocket went through an open window in the hay mow of a livery stable Sunday, at Goshcn, Ind.. the building was burned and I Ray Ronstong, twenty years old, who j was sleeping on the second floor, was suffocated. FIGHT IN THE DARKNESS. Two Georgians Engage in a Bloody Duel in Unusual Circumstances. John Finch, a well known planter, and Jesse L. Cham bliss, formely c county commissioner, were principals in a duel in the dark hours of early morning 10 miles from Americu?, Ca.. Sunday. As- a result Finch has two pistol bullet wounds. Cham bliss stated to officers that he was driving in a buggy towards his home and that he met. Finch, who was. also in a buggy going in the opposite direction. Cham bliss spoke, without knowing who was tin occupant of the other buggy. Cham bliss said he could see the other man raise a, shotgun as if u> fire and that anticipating trouble he drew his pistol and fired. One bul let out through Finch's fingers as they grasped the trigger of his weap on, and another ploughed into his thigh. Finch finally tired but the load of '?hot struck Ch'ambliss' horse and til's animal, pain-maddened, ran away, abruptIj ending the unusual due.. 1 Texas Lumber Company. I Houston, Texas. :ii<> United States Court. Friday ordered 'If dis I rharge of the Kirby Lumber Cou.' pauj from receivership. The Kirby I Coin pan \ went into the hands of re ceivers February I. 1904, on appli cation of the Maryland Tru.-.t Com pany. At that time the liabilities. I aggregated 5:1,850,000, with assets. of 310.000,000. The present indebt edness is Si'.000,000 and the assotfl ?11,000,000.