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FUBLISHED THKEE FIRES THE JURY Acquitted Defendants Who Ad mitted Guilt SERVED THEM RIGHT The Jurors Very Much Dumb-found ? cd, Left the Courtroom Crestfallen! The Action of Judge Memniinger Is Generally Approved by the Peo ple of York County. A special dispatch from Yorkville to the Columbia Record says Judge Memmiuger Wednesday morning dis missed a panel of York county jurors as unfit for further service in his court, because it had deliberately failed to convict of carrying conceal ed weapons in a case where two de fendants openly admitted that they had pistols. The case grew out of a picnic row at Tirzah last August where there was promiscuous shooting and two Russells and a Robinson had been indicted for assault and battery with intent to kill and carrying concealed weapons. There was a good deal of conflicting testimony in the case, but both of the Russells admitted that they had pistols. The jury Tuesday night brought in a verdict of not guilty on all counts. Wednesday morning Judge Memminger had the jury called and r.uickly told it that if it saw fit to make itself and the county of York ridiculous with such a verdict he did not propose to allow it to make him ridiculous. If the jury saw proper to acquit on the ground of self-defense men who had shot other men in the back, as in this case, that was not his lookout, for he could not help him self, but when it came to acquitting defendants of carrying concealed weapons, where there had not even been a denial of the charge, it was more than he would stand for. He did not care to criticise the jury or lecture it, but he would not continue to try cases before it. He therefore told the members of the panel to coflsictfer themselves dis missed from further attendance on court and instructed them to get their pay and go their ways. Then, turning to the clerk, the judge or dered the drawing of a special venire of 17 men with which to fill the places of the men dismissed. The jurors were dumbfounded for .a few minutes and finally left the court room very much crestfallen. Judge Memminger's action, though coming in the nature of a surprise, has met with unqualified public ap proval. NARROWLY ESCAPED BURNING. Citizen of Columbia Awakes With House on Fire. Mr. W. J. Jones had a narrow escape Wednesday morning when the home in which he was liviug took lire at 9:JO o'clock, in Columbia. Mr. Jones was still in bed, but was warned in time to get out of the house without injury. He has a night job and had not waked up when the fire started. The house in which he lived, No. 1.807 Wash ington jStreetJ was almost totally destroyed by the flames. Very little of the furniture was saved. The house next door, occupied by Mrs. Lubby, was partially burned. Doth houses were owned by Mr. A. H. Iloozer. of Columbia, and insurance was carried. The houses were small dwellings. Several houses in the neighborhood were in danger of be ing caught by the flames, but were saved. Mr. Jones had some insur ance on his furniture, but he is not sure that he can recover as the poli cy date was out a few days ago. LABORER SEEKS CALLOWS. Says He Would Rather Hang Than Stamp Ballast. "I killed 'Joe' Zizorda by smash ing his skull with a piece of angle iron." was the cool statement of Steven Cosh when he was accused of murder in Police court at West Newton. Pa., this week. "But you will be hanged for mur der." h<- was told by the p.<!i'."?. "I don't care whether 1 hang or not," protested Cosh. "I wottM just as lief hang as stamp ballast on the railroad all my life." Cosh, aged 30. and Zizorda. aged were working on the railroad together when Zizorda walked into the brush. He did not return and Cosh started a search. He stum bled over his companion while the latter was asleep and killed him out right. He declared Zizorda was lazy and was always shouldering hard work on him. I>etoctive Killed by Tramps. Watching freight trains for tramps at Laporte. Ind.. Lake Shore Detec tive Charles Silverside was killed, probably by tramps. Masked Men Rob Postoffice. Three masked men robbed the ho tel and postoffice safe at Utah Hot Springs, Utah, of $500. two-thirds being government money. TIMES A WEEK. SEVERAL BURNED TWO DEAD AND TWO FATALLY INJURED. Fuel Tank of Automobile Ripped Open, Throwing Liquid Fire on Car's Occupants. Two persons are dead, two mortal ly injured, while three others are more or less seriously hurt as the result of an explosion of the gaso line tank on the touring car of George M. Hill, late Tuesday night at Jacktonboro bridge, five miles from Sylvania, Ga. The dead: Hew lett Hill, Miss Fannie Mills. The fatally injured: George M. Hill, Jr., twin brother of Hewlett Hill: Mrs. George M. Hill. The seriously injured: Miss Ru bie Thomas, badly burned; George M. Hill, severely burned about head and trunk; Miss Lurline Cooper, severely burned; George Hillton, aged 14. painfully burned. Mr. and Mrs. Hill had taken a par ty of young people for 4 moonlight outing. While preparing to leave for town the car was backed onto the bridge, the tank containing com pressed gasoline being ripped off. The fluid was thrown over the oc cupants and flames quickly spread, covering the entire party. The clothing of the two infants and the women was almost entirely consumed. Several youths gave such aid as they could, but it was not un til the shrieking women were drag ged into the waters of the creek that the flames were extinguished. News of the accident was tele phoned to Sylvania from a farmer's house, two miles from the scene, and phvsicians were rushed to the bridge. The injured were carried to Syl vania at an early hour Wednesday. -. LIQUOR POURED INTO SEWER. I Laurens Sheriff Gets Rid of Thirty Gallons. Thirty gallons of "good licker" coursing down the sewer main of the city of Laurens is the sad tale of an official act by Sheriff Owings and his constables of that place. Some one could not stand the sight, and to "get even" with the sheriff wrote on one of the cases about to be open ed. "Sheriff John D. Owings. Lau rens. S. C. Express Prepaid." and then the laugh was on the officer for bringing out his own "jug" and destroying it by mistake. The thirty gallons of whiskey have been held in the sheriffs office for the allotted thirty days. It had been ! seized, at various times, from per sons in and around Laurens. who were under suspicion of selling it. No claim and delivery papers having been served upon the officers, it was destroyed Thursday morning by due process of law. This is the first of ficial act of this kind in these parts in many years. ASH EVI LLE LINEMEN KILLED. Touched High Power Wire Which He Thought Was Dead. Suspended by his belt from an electric power pole near the South ern Railway round house, Wednes day afternoon, J. H. Leonard, a lineman in Asheville, X. C. in the employ of the Weaver Electric Company, hung lifeless, shocked to death by a high-power current com ing over a line which he believed to be "dead." The deceased, who went to Ashe ville two months ago from Colum bus. Ohio, on account of his wife's health, was one of a force of line men repairing a break in the trans mission lines, and is believed to have met his death when he reached up to turn a switch. His comrades on the ground heard no cry. and did not know of his misfortune until they looked up and saw the dangling body. Leonard leaves a wife, but no children. PATTKN A BIG TAX PAYER. ' Chicago Wheat King Has His Assess ment Doubled. James A. Patten, who is said by a fellow member of the board of trade to havt. made a profit of $300. 000 within twenty-four hours Wednesday, found himself on top of the list of Evanston taxpayers and his option on this distinction he pro poses not to close out for some time. Mr. Patten was assessed this year on $.".on,0(j0 of personal property, which 1 is twee the amount levied last year. , Mr. Patten himself asked the change, j "How much personal property] ought 1 to assess you on this year, | Mr. Patten." asked Mr. Milne. Evans-' ton's assessor. "How much was it last year?"' said Mr. Patten. "Semething like $250,000," re sponded the assessor. "Never mind the figure." Mr. Pat- I ten interrupted, "whatever it was just double that now. I reckon that'll fix it about right." Mule and His Rider Killed. White returning home from his farm at Washington, Ga.. Tuesday night, riding a mule, lightning struck John H. Amoson, a prominent young farmer, killed him and the mule. OBANGEBUBO. OFFICER IN JAIL Wyatt IngTam, Jr., of New Orleans Under Charges. Official of Hibernia Bank, Amused of Being Defaulter and Forger, Taken to Prison in Ambulance. Wyatt H. Ingram, Jr., trust of ficer of the Hibernia Bank and Trust Company of New Orleans was ar rested at his home, 1840 State street, in that city, shortly before 6 o'clock Wednesday evening on the charge of being a defaulter and forger. It is alleged that he is between $75,000 and $100,000 short in his accounts. It is declared that Ingram's defal- i cations have extended over a period of 15 months. I Ingram was said to be too ill when the arresting officers reached his home to accompany them to the po lice station, but District Attorney Adams, upon lieing communicated with insisted that the accused be brought to prison without delay. He was carried to police headquarters in | an ambulance. It was reported that Ingram had | made an attempt at self-destruction late Wednesday, but this is without confirmation. It is believed rather that the strain under which he had labored and the recent excessive I heat resulted in his partial collapse. The trust officer is said to have ! confessed to Vice President Pool of the Hibernia bank that his defalca tion would approximate $100.000. It is stated that a check for $5.000, on which Ingram forged the signature of a prominent business man of New Orleans, led to the disclosure of the embezzlements and forgeries now charged against him. Ingram for a number of years has stood high in business and social cir cles of New Orleans. He is a promi nent club man and has been a lead ing member of commercial organiza tions. He married six month ago. He is a native of Henderson county, Kentucky, and is 34 years old. He has been a resident of New Orleans al>out 6 years. His family connec tions in Kentucky. Maryland and oth er Southern States are prominent. Officers of the Hibernia bank state that the loss is not sufficient to af fect the institution in the slightest. It is regarded as one of the largest and strongest banks in the South. TO HELP FIGHT WHITE PLAGUE. Bill Posters and Poster Printers Join Anti-Tuberculosis ('ainpaig^. The National Association of Bill in Convention at Atlanta. Ga., to do nate to the anti-tuberculosis light $1,200.000 worth of publicity. This means that ail over the United States and Canada they will give not only space upon bill boards, but the labor of posting as well, to hints and cau tions to those who have or may be exposed to the white plague. On the heels of this generous offer, the Post er Printers' Association donated $200,000 worth of work upon paper to be printed for the campaign. The officers of the Association say they have assurance that the rail roads and expr- ;s companies will car ry free all the paper for the work, and that the ail.'ed printing trades will be asked to do the printing free. XEGKO SHOOTS NEGRO. Woman the Canse of Probably Fatal Fight. Sheriff March, of Florence, was called out on Saturday night to the plantation of Mr. M. S. Haynesworth near that town to arrest Archie Jackson for the shooting of another negro by the name (?' Wright. It seems a woman was the cause of the shooting. For some time they had been rivals for the affections of the woman in question and when they met on Saturday evening Jackson unloaded a shotgun in Wright's leg. Jackson claims that Wright was trying to thoot him when he took the gun from him and did the shooting himself. Wright is very seriously wounded, and it is doubt ful if he will live, inflammation of the wound having set in. Jackson is now in jail. PROVIDE PUNISHMENT. Georgians Pass Bill Making Defama tion of Women a Prison Oflense. The penitentiary stales scandal mongers in the face now. The Ceor gia senate passed a bill Wednesday making it a penal offense to utter false or defamatory remarks about a woman. Heretofore the women de famed had no recourse except in the civil courts. Itut the McCurry bill changes all that and will, it is be lieved, put a bridle on scandalous tongues. It was no! passed without long debate, many senators believing it impaired right of free speech. lil Children in :$." Years. In his ,';5 years of married life William Toner, a blacksmith, of Wilmington, Del., has been the father of 21 children. The latest addition to his family is a pair of twins which arrived this week. Toner is 57 years of age and his wife is 50. Of the 21 children 15 are living. S. C, SATURDAY. JU BUILDING FALLS Disasfer In Busiest Section ol Philadelphia SEVEN ARE KILLED Thirty-two People Burled Beneath the Ruins of a Five-Story Building, Which Was Being Reconstructed. Accident Occurs abont One o'clock and Terrifies Passersby. In one of the busiest-sections of the city of Philadelphia, and at a time when thousands of pedestrains were passing to and fro, the five story brick building at the north east corner of Eleventh and Market streets, which was being recon structed for the United Gas Improve ment Company, collapsed with a ter rific roar shortly after 1 o'clock Thursday, afternoon, burying or pinning beneath the ruins 32 per sons, 7 of whom are dead, 1 miss ing, 1 fatally injured and 24 more or less seriously injured. The dead are: Charles Larsen, 45 years old, sub stitute foreman of carpenters. Peter Fritz, 56 years old, carpen ter. Paul Hanning, 4 9 years old, labor er. Sigmund Tansberg, 23 years old, laborer. Alvin ?, aO years old, a Swede. Unknown man .terribly mangled. Fatally injured: James Haggerty, 30 years old, frac tured skull. The two lower floors had been torn out and the three upper floors were shored up by heavy timber. Steel girders were bracing the shor ing, it is supposed that by moving one of the girders, the entire struc ture was loosened. The crash came without warning, and the narrow escapes were many. The roar of the collapse was heard for blocks. By-standers/and passers by fled in desperation, as it was thought an explosion had occurred. When they realized what had hap pened, people flocked to the ruins and began a series of thrilling rescues. Before professional aid could be mustered, automobiles, teamsters' wagons and all sorts of nearby ve hicles were filled with the dead or injured, and hurried to hospitals. It was a swaltering day and several of the rescuers were overcome by the h 'at and dust from tht debt is. A! most as strenuous as digging up the injured was the task of keeping the congested masses of people from sur rounding too closely the wreckage. The walls which were left standing looked unsafe, but the people surged forward heedless of the danger. For a time service on the subway line, which runs along Market street in front of the building was tied up. A woman subway ticket seller, ter rified by the crash of the collapse and the shower of bricks and stones that dropped down the subway stair, fainted in her ooffice. Many instances of heroism were witnessed . One man whose leg was broken was pinned beneath some timbers. When firemen came within hailing distance he asked that they attend the more seriously injured. The entire fourth floor of the building lay slant against the side of the adjoining building cutting off air in"a section twenty feet square where it is believed the missing man is buried. Workmen continued dig ging in the ruins. CHANGE IX GERMAN CABINET. Yon Bothnian - Hollweg Becomes Chancellor of the Empire. A dispatch from Berlin says J)r Von Bothman-Hollweg has been ap pointed Chancellor of the Empire in succession to Prince Von Buelow. Various other cabinet changes .ire gazetted. Herr Delbrueck of the Interior Department, succeeds Dr. Von Bothman-Hollweg as minister of the interior and vice chancellor* Reinhold Sydow, secretary of the Im perial treasury, goes to the Hepar inen! of Commerce. Herr Wermulh the under secretary for the interior becomes secretary of treasury, and Ludwig Holle, Prussian minister, of Public Instruction, re Ire-- on account of ill health and is succeuued by Von Trott Zu Solz. ROBBERS Ml ST GO. Grwnville Citizens Determined to Put a Stop to Depredations. Admitting thai the police force is powerless to cop,, with the gang of burglars thai has terrorized Green ville. s. (V. for months, .Mayor Ma hon has deputized a number of prom inent citizens to arm themselves and paired the streets of the residence district. These men will serve with out compensation and announce that they propose to end the reign of law lessness at the expense of bloodshed if ijecessary. The homes of the may or and the chief of police are among those dispoilt d by the burglars, ind though depredations have occur.ed nightly, not a single arre3t has been made. LT 17, 1909. MYSTtRiOUS CRIME ^ YOUNG MAN WOUNDED WHILE SLEEPING IN HIS ROOM. J Upon Returning From a Visit to Fiancee, is Awakened in the Early Morning by a Pistol Shot. Early Thursday morning Edgar L. Shealey ,a prominent young man of Aiken, was shot in his room, at the home of Misses Reynolds and Mc Ghee, where he boarded, on York street. He was shot once with a pistol, and the ball entered his thigh and lodged. His wound is not thought to be serious, but it is ex- i ceedingly painful. The shooting is one of the greatest mysteries that | I city has ever known, and the police, i Mr. Shealey, or the ladles of the J house can offer no satisfactory so- I lution of it. Mr. Shealey is engaged to be mar- | ried and invitations were issued a day | or two ago to his wedding to Miss Ruby Coward, daughter of Mr. and i MrS. Thomas W. Coward, who roside a short distance from the city o# Aiken. Wednesday night Mr. S^itey called upon her, Miss McGhee at tended a dance with Mr. William Murray, who also boards there. Miss Reynolds remained at home, but she had expected to go, when Mr. Shea ley left, and on returning at about 11 o'clock Mr. Shealey called to see her home from the dance, but find ing that she did not come to the dance, went on home alone. Miss Reynolds avers that she left the front door open and a light burning in the hall. When Mr. Shealey arrived at the house he found the front door locked and no light in the hall. He first rang the door bell, and as he was doing so, he says he heard someone walking in his room up-stairs. He thought, he says, that it was Miss Reynolds trying to find a match to strike a light, but Miss Reynolds says it was not she. She did not open the door, as she says she left it open, and she thought it was someone try ing to get entrance to the house. A colored woman, the cook, was sleep ing in the house.. When Mr. Shealey called Miss Rey nolds recognized the voice and got up and opened the door. Shealey went to his room and soon after retired. At about a quarter to I, a pistol shot awoke him. and he in stantly arose and went to the door, which he found closed. He called to Miss Reynolds and then fell the wound for the first time, although blood on the bed shows that the wound had been bleeding before he got up. He says he was asleep lying on his back at the time. A careful search of the room revealed noth ing. No one was there or could any one be found anywhere in the house. The colored woman and Policeman Husch, on his beat, heard the shot. No one else heard it. Mr. Shealey says he heard no sound after tin shot was tired. Mr. Murray and Miss McGhee arrived from the dance about 1 o'clock, soon after the shot was fired. The room door was shut. The window opening on a small porch was open, and he believes that he was shot from the porch. Nothing de finite could be found from any tracks. When he came into his room, he no ticed that the window opening on the porch had been opened, notwithstand ing, he says, that he shut it before leaving. A physician was summoned at once, and he is now resting easi ly. The ball has not been extracted yet. Some bureau drawers were found open in two down-stairs rooms, but nothing was missed. Nothing was interfered with in Shealey's room. No motive can be ascribed for the crime. The shot was fired from to wards his head, ranging down Mr. Shealey says he does not know of an enemy in the world, and he is known to be an exceptionally quiet and well-liked young man. Ii' it was committed by a robber, why di I he shoot when Shealey was asleep, and there being no danger to the robber? The robbery theory is not believed generally. Hut it was someone who wanted to murder him, what was the motive'.' ILLICIT STILUS OX INCREASE. Prohibition Breeding "Moonshine" Plants in Georgia. More illicit stills were destroyed ! in the Slate of Georgia during the fiscal year just terminated than were destroyed in Georgia. Alabama, Mori da. and Mississippi a year ago. says a message from Atlanta. These statements are taken from the an nual report of Revenue A gen I lames H. Surber. During the year just closed. Surber and his assistants raided and destroyed Klfi stills in Georgia. 2'.', I in Alabama, IN in Flor ida, and 1(1 in Mississippi, a total of S72. A year ago the entire number destroyed was only 470. The revenue officer attributes the increase to the high price und in creased demand for whiskey since the prohibition laws begun to be passed in the South. Million Attended Exposition. The million mark for attendance at the Seattle, exposition was passed in 4 2 days, beating both the James town and Lewis and Clark shows, which took 90 and 6"> days respect MURDER AND SUICIDE DOUBLE TRAGEDY ENACTED AT SUMMER RESORT. Man Kills and Robs Another?When Capture is Near at Hand Takes Poison. A dispatch from Port Huron, Mich., says Louis Rosenberg, a cigar-maker of Cleveland, Ohio, was murdered early Thursday morning on a lonely island in the St. Clair flats, just above the Joe Bedore summer re sort. A few hours later Frank Elbera, also of Cleveland, charged with the murder, was also found dead from a dose of poison, self-administered, ! when he found arrest was imminent. A third Cleveland man, Sam Friable, ! is held at the county jail as an ac complice to the murder, and has made a confession to Prosecutor (Stewart of the details or the cold blooded killing. The three men met at Bedore's Holed, where they had gone for a vacation. Wednesday night at a dance Rosenberg showed a large sum of money. Thursday morning his body was found lying face downward in the rushes on the shore of a lone ly islet about five hundred feet from the dance hall, a deep gash in the back of his head. When officers ar rived they found the dead man had been stripped of every cent. As the officers returned to the ho tel with the body, they heard a man inside scream: "I've taken dope, help." The man, who proved to be Frank Elbera, died in a few minutes. In his room was found a revolver and some bloody clothes, with nearly $200 in money. The officers re garding robbery as the motive, took into custody Elbera's roommate, Sam Frisbie, also of Cleveland. Frisbie, who was hurried to the jail and examined by Prosecutor Stewart, told a sickening story of the cold-blooded fashion in which Elbera knocked Rosenberg in the head with the butt of his revolver and then held the cigar-maker under water until he was drowned. Frisbie said that race hatred as well as greed seemed to enter into Elbera's attack on Rosenberg. "I'll get that Jew yet," he says Elbera frequently remarked during the several days the men had been together. During ti e dance Wednesday night Frisbie declares that Elbera coaxed Rosenberg out of the hall and over to the island on the plea that he would meet some girls there. Frisbie says he accompanied them. At the head of the is'md. Elbera suddenly attacked Rosenberg. The cigar maker screamed for help and ran toward the river. Elbera, ac cording to Firsbie. chased him out j into the water, struck him with the revolver and then forced his head , under the surface where he held him until Rosenberg was drowned. Frisbie says that his only part in the murder was to as-ist Elbera in dragging Rosenberg's body out of the water into the rushes where it was found. PREACHER ROUTS BURGLAR. Boanoke Minister Overcomes Man Armed With Hatchet and Knife. ! When the Rev. W. H. H. Joyce, I pastor of Trinity Methodist church, j at Roanoke. Va., entered that edifice Thursday to go into his study he met a burglar who attacked him with a hatchet. The burglar aimed a J blow at the minister's head in an I effort to brain him, but Joyce, who I is an p'hlete of powerful ;mild. ward ed off the blow and in a desperate struggle got possession of the hatch et. The burglar then drew a large knife, but the minister forced him to a door. The burglar dashed into the street and the Rev. .Mr. Joyce chased him several blocks. The fleeing man dropped a pock et book containing a card that bore the words " Dan Rice, aged years.'' Drowned at Augusta. Jos. J. Van Dyke, a locomotive fire man, was drowned Tuesday night at Lankey's natatorium, at Augusta. He went to the swimming pool with a party of friends. He was a good swimmer and dived from the spring board to coin,, up no more, it was not known that he was drowned until he was missed by the party, who be gan search immediately and found his body in the bottom of the pond. He i- survived by seven children and a wife. Miss Norman Vandyke, a daughter, had just gone to Atlanta for a visit, and has been wired to return home at once. Sheriff Kills Negro. Sheriff .1. C Kakley. of Ceiiterville. ' Ala., shot and killed an unknown lie- ! gro Wednesday afternoon, who was suspected oi the brutal murder last | week of E. B. Wilson, a prominent merchant of Briarfield, A'a. When j the sheriff went to arrest the negro hi showed light and was killed. Unusual Drowning Tragedy. Dragged from a launch by a wire catching her under the chin, Dorothy : Bruce was drowned at Iowa Falls, la., this week, as was also Archie Drake, who jumped into the water ? to save her. 7O CENTS PER COPY divorce laws Scored by Cardinal Gibbcns in an Interview COMMENDS THE LAWS In South Carolina and Canada, and Says Family Life in Them Can Be Favorably Compared With Family Life in Stales Where It is Easy to Obtain Divorces. Cardinal Gibbons, in an interview at Baltimore on Wednesday replied I to remarks of former Supreme Court Justice Henry B. Brown on the sub ject of divorce oefore the Maryland Har Association at Old Point Com fort last week. The Cardinal said: "Justice Brown has taken excej ? t-ion to my views on divorce and re marriage. He is reported to hue referred to the founder at the Chris tian religion as an 'idealist," whose sentiments, while suitable to b ss favored times and circumstances, are not adapted to this enlightened ;?g<. The learned jurist will permit inc to say that the teachings of Christ have been the basis of all Christian legisla tion for nearly 2,000 years, and con tinue to be the light and guide uf millions of souls. And there is n-?> subject which he treats more fully and clearly than the question of mar* riage, foundation stone of our family and social life. "In three of the gospels he pro claims the unity of marriage and permits separation of a married coup le only in the cause of adultry. I do not see why a law which has been enforced and cordially accepted in every age and country where Christi anity dominates, should be consider ed obsolete or impracticable in the United States. "The multiplication of divorces." the Cardinal continued, "is largely ascribed by some writers not to our divorce laws, but to the eager and reckless manner in which ministers of God officiate at marriage services. But are not these persons confound ing cause for effect? Divorces are multiplied not by ministers, who willingly assist in ill assorted mar rages, but because loose legislation on matrimony renders it easy for married parties to annual the mar riage bond. "If the civil law? of al! our State.? were as strict as they are in South Carolina and Canada, the persons contemplating marriage would se riously and respectfully reflect; they would study each others disposition and temperament before engaging in a contract which would bind them for life. And certainly the peace and good order in the family life in South Carolina and Canada can be favor ably compared v(ith the domestic conditions existing in those States where divorces can be easily obtain ed." DISSENSION IN CHURCH. Pastor Not Allowed in His Own < 'durch. Dissension in the Second United Presbyterian church, of New York city, which led its pastor, the Rev. Dr. .1. Howard T?te, to have two policemen stationed there during ser vices two weeks ago. has become so grave that Dr. T?te was barred out of the structure twice. Back of the Board of Trustees' ac tion in locking the church against the clergyman lies a story in which his nephew, Paul T?te, forraely or ganist there, and a young woman singer in the choir figure. The pay ment of $.'00 for the suppression of a .-caudal affecting members of the church is another feature of the story. Accompanied by his wife, the pas tor went to the church at ten o'clock in the morning, and at eight o'clock ill the evening prepared to hold ser vices. On each visit he found the doors locked, while on the front door was a placard, which read: "No services today. Church closed by order of the Board of Trustees.'' TltAUEDY ON MORRIS ISLAND. Young Ladie- Just EsrajHMl Death. Assailant a Suicide. Alter attempting at about daylight Thursday morning to chloroform two yoiuig ladies, the daughters of Capt. Wieking. head keeper of the light house on Morris Island, near Charles ton, who were aroused by an alarm dock barely in lime to save them selves from probable death. Ludvig Jacogson, one of the assistant keep ers ol the Morris Island Light House, locked himself in his room, and when officers iron; Charleston reached Mor ris Island and attempted to take him prisoner, he Hrsl ran into a closet and took a drink of whiskey while the officers sought to effect an en trance, and then lying down again in the hammock, in which he was accustomed to sleep, he plated bis pistol barrel in his mouth and fired a shot, which penetrated his braia and ended bis life. The scene of the tragedy, the light house keepers' house on Morris Island, is an isolat ed spot, some ten miles from the city of Charleston, where the roar of the waves is heard perpetually, ?