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PUBLISHED THREE A GREAT EVENT Bleriot Crosses the English Channel Sunday IN A FLYING MACHINE Sailed from Les Baroques In France and Landed at Dover in England, Where He Greatly Surprised the People by the Appearance of His Strange Craft. I The sleepy seaport town of Dover, England, says a cablegram, exper ienced the keenest thrill known in a generation when at sunrise Sunday morning a white-winged, bird-like machine with loudly humming motor swept out from the haze obscuring the sea toward the distant French coast, and, circling twice above the high chalky cliffs of Dover, alighted on English soil. A calm Frenchman, Bleriot, a portly and red-mustached man of 37, descended from the saddle, limping on a bandaged foot, which had been burned on his previous overland flight Immediately two compatriots, who had been waiving a big French flag as a signal for the landing place, fell upon him enthusiastically, em bracing him, shouting and pounding him on the back. They, with a few English soldiers and others who hap pened by chance to be on the scene, were the only persons to witness the finish of a most remarkable feat. I Bleriot left Les Baraques, France, three miles from Calais, about 4.30 a. m. Sunday on one of the smallest monoplanes ever used. He crossed the channel in a little less than a half hour, twice as swiftly as the fastest mail steamer. His speed aver aged more than 45 miles an hour, sometimes It approximated 60 miles. He kept about 250 feet above the sea level and for 10 minutes, while about mid-channel, was out of sight of both coasts, and also of the French de I stroyer which followed him, with his wife and friends aboard. The wind was blowing about 20 miles an hour and the sea was choppy. The aviator was swathed in a single garment of drilling, Impervious to the wind, which covered him from the top of his head to his feet, only his face showing. He also wore a cork life | belt. An eye witness of the landing thus describes it: "Very early in the morning a wire rless message was received from Cal ais that Bleriot intended to make! the flight. Then in quick succession came the news that he had lef: and was fast making Dover. Like a Great Hawk. "Hastening to the cliff, I arrived there just a moment before the air ship, which was flying fast, like a gigantic hawk. Bleriot swooped over head, glancing from right to left, and then turned his machine to the m east and came to the ground In the meadow. It circled with consum mate ease and made the landing gracefully but, even though it touch ed the land lightly, it was slightly damaged." By his achievement Sunday Bler iot won the prise of ?5,000 offered by the London Daily Mail for the first flight across the English chan nel, and stole a march on his rivals, Hubert Latham and Count de Lam bert, both of whom had hoped to make the attempt. Bleriot, who speaks a little En glish described his remarkable flight very modestly. "I arose at 3 o"clock," he said, "and went to the aeroplane shed. Finding everything in order on the trial spin. I decided to make tne flight. The French torpedo boat de stroyer, which was in attendance, was signaled, and it put out about four miles. Then I rose into the air and pointed directly to Dovcr. After ten minutes I was out of sight of land and had left the warship well behind. For a few minutes I could not see either coast, nor any boat. I tried to keep at an average height of 250 feet. I might easily have gone higher. This was about the right height, I thought, to clear the Dover cliffs easily. "The machine dipped toward the water several times. The first ob jects I saw were ships off the En glish coast, then I observed Deal. I veered to the southward toward Dover Castle and then saw friends flourishing a flag in a valley suitable for landing. And Then Dired Down. "I made two circles while lessen ing the speed and then dived down, but I came in contact with the ground sooner than I expected. Both the mach'ne and myself were badly shaken. "A few persons quickly assembled and I was helped out, as my injured foot was painful. I am extremely glad to be here." M. Bleriot's friends took him quickly in an automobile to the old Lord Warden hotel by the pier from which mail boats depart. In the meantime, his wife arrived on the I destroyer. She embraced him. weep ing, but they were soon sitting at breakfast, the center of a proud gathering of French people. The mayor and other Dover officials call ed early and welcomed M. Bleriot in the name of the city and nation as the pioneer of international flight. The townspeople of Dover, who for TIMES A WEEK. STRANGE DISEASE IT KILLS CATTLE AND ATTACKS HUMAN BEINGS. Losses of Live Stock Considerable and Government is Lending AM to Check Its Ravages. Charbon, a strange but deadly and loathsome disease which afflicts cat tle, and which has killed thousands of valuable animals in Louisiana, has attacked human beings now and many men are under treatment. In Leesburg, the county seat of Camer on parish, eight humans have been stricken. Up to date no deaths have resulted. Charbon has afflicted cattle for centuries, but has seldom visited this country. It was known to the ancients in Egypt, and often scourg ed the Asiatic and Oriental countries. It is caused by a germ which enters the animal's skin through an abra sion. It multiplies and causes an inflanxmation which turns into a tu morous or cancerous growth, which terminates in blood poisoning. The disease first made its appear ance about June 1 in two localities in southwest Louisiana, along the Mermentau river, near Lake Arthur, and at Iowa, near Lake Charles. It was not detected in time and spread rapidly over the neighboring parish es. Germs from the dead cattle In fested the ground upon which the animals had died, and were thus communicated to other victims. The United States government, alarmed by the inroads the disease has made, has sent experts from the bureau of animal industry to assist local veterinarians in figHting the plague. They are urging cremation of infected animals and the vacci nation of all others. Once an animal Is infected, there is no known rem edy, but vaccination seems effective in making them immune. Strict repressive measures were successfull in several parishes, but in Cameron, cattle dead of the disease were allowed to lie unburied upon the pr,ajirie and the marshes and swams of flies and mosquitoes car ried the germs to other cattlo. In this parish one-fourth of the ani mals have died. Since the govern ment experts have been in charge, however, the inhabitants have taken heart, and conditions are imoroving. Storm Kills Birds. The Louisiana game commission received news Sunday that about 200,000 birds on the breeding grounds maintained by the commis sion at Battledore, Audubon and Breton Islands, off the southwestern coast of Louisiana, had been killed in the late storm. Many of the birds were of rare varieties. The islands were fiercely swept and completely overflowed by the gulf waters. three weeks have been on the alert for the signal announcement that one of the flying men had started, were caught nappingi A gale was blowing Saturday night and the weather forecasts promised &? strong wind and squalls in the morning. Hence the operators of the sirens on the steamers, which it had been arranged should be blown when the flyer started, were absent from their posts. Only a few persons received the wireless warning of Bleriot's as cent. Lafontaine, a friend of the avia tor, arrived from Calais at midnight. He declined a bed room with the cryptic remark that he had an ap pointment to meet M. Blerlot at 5 o'clock. The hotel people thought the mysterious stranger was joking. Planted French Flag. M. LaFontaine came to the signal landing, the spot which the news papers under whose auspices the flight was made had chosen, on the high ground back of the city, but he selected a cup-shaped depression, called the North Fall meadow, two miles east of Dover, where t he ma chine would be sheltered from the wind in settling. There he planted the French flag. The sailors on the ships in the harbor were the first to discover that Bleriot was approaching. They heard the buzzing of the motor two or three minutes before they could distinguish the aeroplane Then what looked like a big white butter fly glided over their heads, as fast as a train of cars, and with almost as much noise. It reached the cliff near the gray turrets of Dover castle, swooped around twice in broad curves and disappeared. It was not long before half the population of Dover, dressing as they went, were rushing toward North fell meadow. Photagraphers and cinne metographers were crestfallen be cause they had missed the great event for which they had waited so long. Among the first to arrive were two customs officers. Close to their heels were several police, and their services were needed to restrain the cu:io hunters, who immediately be gan to pull the machine to pieces for souvenirs. Many others, fore seeing that the monoplane would be treated as a historical relic, wrote their autographs thereon. The city officials conceived a happy thought, and, with Bleriot's consent, raised a tent about the machine and charged six pence admission to view it. The profits from this enterprise will go to the hospitals and the police pen sion fund, and the exhibition did a big business all day. OBANGEBUBG. I STORM DEATH LIST NOW NUMBERS OVER FORTY? WILL GO TO FIFTY. Much More Damage Was Done by the Storm Than Was at First Re ported. A dispatch from New Orleans, La., says with definite reports up to Saturday night of thirteen addition al deaths as the result of the hurri cane in Texas and Louisiana Wednes day the death list totals 41. Also six previously reported missing are still unaccounted for. Dispatches from Angleton, Texas, confirmed the report that Maurice P. Wolfe, his wife, six children and a negro servant had been drowned at Christmas bayou. The six children ranged in age from six months to 10 years. Wolfe assembled his fam ily in a yard away from all buildings and another man helped him hold a large quilt over them to protect them from the rain. What appeared to be a tidal wave then swept the island drowning the entire family. H. B. Roberts, who helped hold the blan ket, was washed against a tree and lodged there until the waters reced ed. Added to these nine were Capt. J. K. Glasscock, who died at Angleton, Tex., of shock and exposure, and Co lumbus Maddox, believed to have lost bis life near Angleton, although his body has not been found. Rock Is land, Tex., swelled the list to 13 with the deaths of John Finley and David Jarvis, farmers, who were buried in the wreckage of their homes. Those massing are: C. H. Dailey, circulation manager of the Galveston Tribune; Onezime Hebert of Creole, La., and foMr members of the crew of the schooner Columbus, blown out to sea from Quintantite, Tex. Practi cally all hope for the rescue of Mr. Dailey has been abandoned. While the various towns and cities which suffered damage in the hurri cane have reported property losses aggregating over $2,000.000, the ab sence of the estimate of crop damage makes mpossible anything like a cor rect measure of the total damage. Many rural sections lost barns and residences not included in the big known damage lists. Austin reported additional damage Saturday as a probable result of the hurricane. A vast torrent of water swept down the Colorado river carry ing a large amount of drift wood. Striking a new bridge which was being built across the stream at Con gress avenue, it carried it away and a large pile driver. The loss was about $10,000. ACCOUNTS DO NOT BALANCE. Georgetown Treasurer Admits Appa rent Shortage of $6,800. A special dispatch from George town says persistent rumors of a shortage in the accounts of County Treasurer J. F. Detyeus have been current 6lnce the 17th instant, fol lowing an examniatlon of the books by Comptroller Jones and Chief Clerk E. B. Wilson, but as nothing of an authentic nature could be ?gathered nothing was mentioned in the papers. It is now definitely stated by those in position to know and in fact is Admitted by Treasurer Detyens, that there is an apparent shortage of about $6,800, which cannot be ac counted for. Mr. Detyens asserts that mistakes in bookkeeping inci dental to the complicated system in vogue in the office is undoubtedly re sponsible for the outstanding balance against him. As Mr. Detyens is a young man of quiet and thrift- habits and appears to have always lived an upright life, the idea of his having used $6,800 of the county funds for his personal ends seems most improbable. He has never gambled or speculated. * CLOUDBURST KILLS TWO. Picnic Party in Colorado Canyon Decimated by Yellow Torrent. Two are dead and two seriously injured a9 the result of a cloud burst that deluged Two Mile Canyon north of Boulder, Colo., Friday. The dead are Verne Carlisle, aged 13, Boulder, and Arthur Dickerman, aged 35, of Greeley. The seriously injured are Mrs. Ab bott of Garden City, Kan., and Miss Bristow, of the University of Colo rado. The victims were members of a picnic party. When the rain began to fall the party sought shelter un der a huge boulder. Presently n torrent two feet deep swept down the canyon. The walls of the can yon were precipitous, and it was with great difficulty that they found places of safety. Six were able to gain shelter, but in aiding their companions Dicker man and Carlisle were swept dowu with the torrent. * Killed Two Cows. In a severe electric storm at Lau- j rens Saturday lightning struck a cedar tree in a pasture near the city and killed two cows, three birds and a chicken, that had sought shelter there from the storm. The cows be longed to Messrs V. M. Holder and Jos. T. Crews. S. C TUESDAY, JUL TRAIN WRECK. Six People Killed and Fifty Three Are Hurt, plugged m a mm Eight Mail Clerks W*"^e Saved From Drowning by the Fact that the Roof of Their Car Was Torn Off, Which Allowed Them to Get Out and Swim to Land. Six lives were lost, three persons were probably fatally Injured and some fifty more were hurt in the wreck of a Wabash passenger train that plunged into the Missouri River thirty miles east of Kansas City Sat urday night. The dead were memibers of the train crew and one passenger. Of the eight cars in the train, five coaches and the locomotive are now in the river. A chair car and two Pullmans remained uninjured. For days floods undermined the roadbed, making it too weak to hold up the heavy trains. As the passenger train was run ning only fourteen miles an hour, the impact of the cars was? not great; but there was great confusion as the cars slipped and rolled into the mur ky water. Eight mail clerks were saved by the fact that the roof of their car was torn off, allowing them to get out and swim to the bank. All were injured. In one sleeping car E. T. King was holding his little son when the crash came. The child was instant ly killed and Mr. King was uncon scious when found. Dr. Turner Lohvech, of St. Louis, was the heroine of the wreck. In thirty minutes she attended twenty seven injured persons. Several wo man passengers assisted her by pre paring bandages. The locomotive of a freight train which was just behind the wrecked passenger train, was attached to the three intact cars of the ill-fated and all the passengers were hurried back to Kansas City. Thirty-one of the injured are now in a hospital. THEIR BODIES FOUND. Capt. Bettison and Wife Victims of the Gulf Storm. The bodies of Capt. R. L. Bettison and his wife, scantily clad and girded with life preservers, were found Fri day by fisher boys at Morgan's Point. The corpses were lashed and clasped together In the tangled seaweed. Capt. Bettison and his wife were among the ten who were swept off the Tarpon pier, Galveston, by the hurricane on Wednesday. Simultan eous with the report of the recovery of the bodies of the Bettisons comes the news that Earnest A. Booth, a dining room boy, who was one of the party, was rescued alive near Mor gan's Point. Booth had been float ing on driftwood for nearly forty eight hours. ? PUBLICLY HANGED. A Fiend Pays the Penalty of His Awful Crime. At Beanlon, Miss., fully five thous and persons witnessed the hanging Friday afternoon of Will Mack, a negro, who was executed for crimi nally assaulting Miss Mamie Meyers, daughter of a farmer, living near Pelehatchie, Miss., on November 17, 1908. It was the first public execu tion which has taken place in Mis sissippi for a number of years, j At the 'aft mo me it Mack admitted his guilt. He went to his death wuh little show of feeling. Among rbcse in the crowd who witnessed the exe cution was the negro's \ictim and members of her family. When the body was cut down there was a wild scramble for pieces of the rope, souvenirs of the hanging. * I CARS FALL INTO RIVER. Accident Caused by Brake Rigging Giving Away. Traffic on the Wilmington division of the Atlantic Coast Line, between Wilmington and Wilson, N. C, is tied up for seventy-two hours, ex cept by transfer and detour of trains as the result of precipitation of 20 freight cars into the Neuse River, between Goldfboro and Dudley, N. C, Friday afternoon. The brake rigging under one of the cars fell as the train was passing over the bridge, one span of which gave away as the cars piled up and a part of the train fell into the wa ter twenty feet below. No one was hurt. * Hardly the I*>H Weevil. A special dispatch to The News and Courier from Lancaster says .Mr. J. I). Nisbet of the Jacksonham sec tion, who was in town, reports what appears to be the effects of the boll weevil's work in his citton. He has not found any of the weevils yet, but the damage to the cotton plants, he says, is exactly like that the pests are known to do. This can hardly be the boll weevil. Y 27, 1909. PROHIBITION ROW. LAST YEAR'S BATTLE WILL BE FOUGHT AGAIN. Bill Aimed at "Near-Beer" Dealers Arrays the Legislature in Opposite Camps. When the Georgia legislature ad journed Friday it was evident that the prohibition fight, which everyone thought was stilled two years ago, had broken out once more, and that the battle would have ta be fongfht over again. The Anti-Prohibition ists openly declare in favor of fili busters during the remainder of the session, which is only twenty days. The "drys" promptly forced through a resolution calling the daily sessions at 9 A. M. instead of ten. And they declared Friday night that unless the new "dry" legislation is passed promptly at this session, they will force an extra session to carry out their purpose. A new feature or the row Is a pledge extracted from Governor Brown, before his election, by which he bound himself to veto any liquor legislation that might be passed by the State Assembly. At that time the Prohibitionists did not dream of more stringent "dry laws, but were endeavoring to fight against any measures introduced by the "wets." The ethical question as to whether Governor Brown can sign the new bill is exciting much discussion, and even the "drys" are divided over it. The bill which is causing all the trouble is the one drawn by Repre sentative Hooper Alexander, of De kalb County, making it illegal to buy, sell or possess any liquid bever age which contains even a trace of alcohol. It is aimed at the sale of beer and near beer, under a decis ion of the Courts that to be intox icating a liquor must contain more than four per cent alcohol. The prohibition law enacted two years ago merely prohibited the sale of intoxicating liquors. An attempt to put the bill upon its second reading was prevented by Ellis, of Bibb County, who held the floor until the time for adjournment. Meantime Representatives Alexander and An derson nearly came to blows upon fhe floor, but were separated by friends. < The renewal of the quarrel has attracted representatives of both sides to the scene and the battle is now on. The "drys" frankly say that the time for absolute prohibi tion has arrived. * SNAKE SWALLOWED GOURD. Reptilian Egg Thief Gets His Just Deserts. The Kershaw Era says "Mrs. W. D. Ussery, of the Oakhurst section, recently began missing some of her young chickens and the nest egg from one of her hen nest, and grow ing tired of the lost of her eggs she >ut an egg rhaped gourd about the size of a goose egg in the nest. On ^oing back to trie nest the next day she observed that the gourd had also disappeared. She soon discov ered what had caused the loss of her chickens and egs. "On putting her hand down in the nest to rearrange the straw it came in contact with a monster snake. She immediately summoned her husband, who, with some difficulty, succeeded in killing the pertile, which proved to be a chicken snake about six feet long. On examination it was found that he had swallowed the nest gourd. Since the death of the snake no chickens or eggs have been missed." If any of our readers miss egg from the hen's nest they will now know what becomes of them. ? I SEEN IN COLON. Man Wanted in Tennessee Was Seen There Recently. Goverson Patterson of Tennessee, received a telegram from Governor J. C. S. Blackburn, of the Panama Canal zone Friday, stating that Foy W. Dulaney, the defaulting Circuit Court clerk of Washington County, Tenn., had recently been in Colon, and that he is believed to be in Costa Rica now. The Amercian minister at San Jose has been notified. Du laney left Johnson City about three weeks ago, with about $20,000 of Washington County funds, and left behind a private indebtedness of the same amount. His pretty steno grapher left the day before. * Shot Them Both. At Macon, Ca.. on Sunday, while seated at the dinner table, Adolphus Daniels shot and killed his mother. Rachel Broughton, and fatally shot hi.- stepfather, Maj. Broughton. All parties are colored. It is said the man was abusing the boy's mother. The boy Rred on his stepfather, one of the bullets striking his mother, inflicting a mortal wound. Destroyed by Howitzer. A captive baloon was sent up to an altitude of i.iiiiu feet on the mil itary range at Grisheim. Volleys from rifles and the fire of machine guns were directed against the cap tive without the slightest effect, but the second shell fired at it from a Howitzer totally destroyed the bal loon. TV RABBIT ANu SNAKt FIGHT DESPERATE BATTLE IN AN ANDERSON FIELD. TIio Fight Described by a Farmer Who Witnessed It From a Short Distance. The Anderson Mail says in these warm days when there is little to do to lend spice to life, it is always in favorite avocation to spin yarns. The Mail then proceeds to spin the fol lowing one: It is a day when the fishing pole Is a favorite instrument in the hands of many, and the stories born of that gentle art so sacred to the memory of dear old Isaac Walton are most marvellous to hear. But even more strange than any fish story ever related in the annals of this section is that uncanny tale confided to a sweltering reporter to day by a horny-handed son of the soil. It is no myth either, for he that told it is an honest man and we have no grounds for questioning the veracity of the story. We give' it to the public for what it is worth. "Several days ago," said Mr. E. E. Holcombe, a farmer living on the plantation of Mr. Billy Garrison, 7 miles above the city, "I was in the field with one of my sons endeavor ing to rid myself of some of the grass caused by the recent rains. As we were working along in a 'new ground,' I was suddenly aware of a commotion in a tall bunch of hay some hundred yards or more ahead of me. On closer inspection I dis covered a full-grown rabbit leaping from the cotton row into the bunch of grass and vice versa. Thinking this was a peculiar performance for a rabbit, I requested my son to walk ahead and investigate the cause of the rabbit's strange behavior. On approaching the clump of grass the rabbit ceased his gymnastic stunts and retired to an adjacent thicket. My son began prodding into the grass and presently a racer snake, of some five feet in length and about as large around as a child's arm, ran out of the clump and across the field. "My son gave chase to the snake and soon ended its career with a stick. On closer inspection of the reptile we discovered that a large section of the skin was peeled from its back and its intestines had been torn from its body. We then were able to account for the peculiar ac tions of the rabbit in jumping back and forth Into the grass clump. It was very evident that the snake and the rabbit had engaged in mortal combat, in which the snake had been given the knock-out blow." At this, juncture Mr. Holcombe paused in his narrative and gave vent to a pathetic heart-rending groan. The reporter pricked his ears, for he divined there was yet more to this story. But the old1 farmer only shook his head mourn fully and was heard to murrur, "No more rabbit for me." * CHINESE CHILD SLAVES. Two Little Celestial Maidens Tell Stories of a Hard Life. Two round cheeked little Chinese maids, their almond eyes very, very wide, their straight bangs brushei flat against their foreheads, their black bands lacel wJi sea net silk, hanging precisely down the middle of their backs, stood demurely be fore the New York Children's Court Friday and swore to a story, whien left littJe sympathy in those who heard, for the two elderly Celestial merchants who reported their child ren "missing' to the police on Wed nesday night. For both little girls swore that they had been held against their will as household slaves, harshly (treated and forced to work long hours. They were accompanied by an agent of the Children's Society, who saw them on the day after their dis appearance from Chinatown at an East side parish house. The two made sworn statements which was read in Court Friday. Chin Fing Toy said she was sold in China for $1G0. brought to this country and sold again for $T>00 in gold. "Some mornings," her state ments reads, "I had to get up at 7 o'clock and sometimes had to work right on until two o'clock in the morning. "I would rather die than go back to Mott street." The others name is Moy Yum Toy. Pending full investigation they are held by the Children's Society. Their story has aroused talk of another rigid investigation in Chinatown, which has hardly settled down after the chaos and probing that followed the murder of Elsie Sigel. * River Steamer San,*. The passenger packet Tacoma, on its way from Charleston, W. Va., to Cincinnatti struck an obstruction in the Ohio river and sank late Sun day night. "he passengers were taken off in safety before the boat went down. Valuable Catcher. Good base bail players are worth big money. President Murphy of the Chicago National League Baseball Club is quoted as emphatically de claring that he would not take ?50, 000 for Catcher Kling. iO CENTS PEBCOPY SAME OLD STEAL Much Vaunted Reduction is Put ting the Rates BACK TO OLD LEVEL Th0 Mention of Taft's Viccory Malkes Aldrich Smile?Leader of High Tariff Men Well Pleased at Pros pect of Getting Conference Report Adopted and Bill Signed. In his Saturday's letter to The State Zach McGhre says there is some talk toc".ay, not much in those circles chiefly concerned for the fat9 of the Republican party to the effect that President Taft has "won his fight" for downward revision. Some Republicans who have been denounc ing the tariff bill are now saying It is going to be a good bill. All this means that adjournment is nigh. "Revision downward" has come to mean putting rates back to the Ding ley law, the protests against which brought this session of congress. Mr. Aldrich and the high tariff advocates smile, for things are going their way. The conference report will doubt less be made Tuesday and there will be some talk, but the practically unanimous impression here Is that both houses will accept the confer ence report and Mr. Taft will sign it. It will be a decided raise from the Dingley law on many items of common consumption. While rates on some things, espec ially those which the manufacturers buy, are lowered, in no case is there a material cutting of rates on what the manufacturers sell. Cotton bagging goes back on the dutiable list, and the cotton schedule will remain, to all effect, upon prices just as Mr Aldrich has written It. As to Mr. Taft's winning a fight, he can not win a fight until he first gets into one. He has been begging Mr. Aldrich to put certain raw materials which the manufacturers buy on the free list. Mr. Aldrich naturally would want them on the free list, but to draw the fire from articles which the people buy and which the manufac turers sell the wily Rhode Islander holds out. He wanted to give the president a chance to Ajax a while longer and get the people shouting. Now he may yield and give, the manufacturers their materials free. That is the victory today again at tributed to Mr. Taft. Some minor and wholly Immaterial cha. <?es may be made on some of the finished products to make a feint of the con stistency, but the members of the conference committee are not telling even of these Zach McGhe'e. GROOM A SLAYER. Bride of Memphis Man Makto Him Confess Murder. James W. Robinson, who was ar rested at Denver. Colo., Friday on suspicion of being J. L. Byrd, wanted in Memphis, Tenn.,- for the murder in 1907, of Jas. Black, a shoe deaf er of that city, confessed that be was the murderer. Byrd was mai> ried two weeks ago at Colorado Springs and with his bride was en joying his honeymoon at Denver. Robinson confessed at the behest of his bride. After the chief of po lice had questioned Robinson for some time, Mrs. Robinson exclaimed: "Jimmie, if you are the man, tell them. It will make no difference to me, because I will stick by you, no matter what the circumstances." Robinson, white and shaking, then said: "Chief, I am the man you want. I killed Black because ? I thought my life was in danger. Wo engaged in an argument over a base ball bet, and he started towards me? with an open knife in his hand. ? I seized the only weapon at hand, a shoe stretcher, and struck him over the head with it. 1 did not mean to kill him." ? SHORT IX HIS FI NDS. City Treasurer of Rock Hill Is Placed Under Arrest. C. S. May, former city treasurer of Rock Hill, has been arrested and put under bond for his appearance at Court. This action was taken by council after several sittings, when the report of the Amercian Audit company was received and digested. The amount named by Mr. May, who confessed his shortage to his bonds men several weeks ago. was $0,100. He persists in the statement that this is correct. The amount given by the Audit company is $14.070.04. It is stated by council that this amount might be reduced by a small amount if there were any receipts of t!i>' dis bursements for the present year. The receipts and vochers for 'his year having been destroyed, it was found impossible to check these late.' than December 31, 1908. ? Twenty Were Killed. At St. Petersburg, Russia, twenty workmen were killed and a larger number injured Friday by the col lapse of a building in the course of constructin. *