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PUBLISHED THREE WRIGHT SCORES Great Triumph with His Wonder ful Aeroplane. MAKES LONG FLIGHT In His Flying Machine He Suc cessfully Meets the Government Endurance Test and Breaks the World's Aeroplane Record for Two Men as to Time and Distance. A dispatch from Washington says the 'world's areoplane record for two men as to both time and dis tance was1" broken Tuesday evening in a beautiful flight of one hour, twelve minutes and forty seconds? upwards of fifty miles and at a speed averaging about forty miles an hour, by Orville Wright at Fort Myer, with Lieut Frank P. Lahm, of the army signal corps, as a passenger. The former record was made last yean by his brother, Wilbur, joint inventor, with him of the machine in which both achievements were ? performed at LeMans, France, with Prof. Painleve, of the French In stitute, as passenger. That flight ?was one hour, nine minutes and thirty-one seconds. W ilbur was an eager spectator of the flight by his brother. The cheering which heralded the setting of a new mark in the con quest of the air was led by President Taft in person, who had sat an in tensely interested spectator through out the flight, and who insisted at its conclusion upoa personally congratulating the brothers upon their success. This success was all-important to i the Wrights, in that it completed the first of two crucial te3:s of ?.n?.-i machine imposed upon them by '.he United States Government?che bv ca'.ied "endurance test,' wMsa 10 Quired them to remain one hour con tinuouly in the air with one passeng er. Orville did nearly thirteen min utes better than that, and could uave kept on indefinitely?three hours and a half, the limit imposed by the gasoline capacity of the supply tank. Poignancy was added to Monday's achievement of Orville Wright by the realization by everybody pres ent that upon his last attempt to navigate the air with a passenger, that passenger, Lieut. Selfridge, was - killed and he himself terribly in jured. His devoted sister. Miss Katherine Wright, who nursed him through the period of his recovery from that disaster anxiously watched him Monday from the doorway of the shed where the aeroplane is kept, and when he returned unhurt from his flight, gripped him eagerly by the arm, nestled her face against his breast and said: "Bully for you, brother, it was beautiful." It is a question whether this word of praise was not more to him tnan that which came a few minutes lat er, when the President of the United States, who had waited for him at the other end of the great parade (grounds, took him warmly by the hand, and with the other grasping that of his brother, Wilbur, said: "I congratulate you heartily, sir. It was a great exhibition. You beat the world's record." "Yes, sir," replied Orville, evi dently embarrassed. "I beat my brother's record." The President and everybody in the crowd about joined ir>. the laugh ter at this sally. "How did your passenger conduct himself? Did he talk to the motor man?" asked the President. "He behaved very well," replied the aviator. "Well, I congratulate both of you, and I thank you for the privilege of witnessing such a flight," added the President, and again shaking hands with the brothers, he entered his automobile and rode away, amid cheers. "I was nervous at first." said Or ville after the flight. "You know this was my first attempt with a pas senger since?since last year. Grad ually it he machine .found herself, however, and I felt as sure as if I had been swung at the end of a string, with no such problem as di rection or elevation or speed- to solve. I could hear Lieut. Lahm at first, but the terrible racket of the motor soon deadened my ears, and we abandoned all attempts at con versation. I did not intend to land as abruptly as I did, and was try ing some low flying. I misjudged the elevation and before I knew it we struck the ground. T could have remained up another hour or so. but there was no necessity. 1 am satisfied with the flight and with having surpassed my brother's rec ord." Shocked and Horrified. Any woman in the State of Geor gia who rides astride will become a felon, if the bill introduced in the house Monday by Representative Wright become n Jaw. The states man from Stuart p \er saw a woman ride astride until he came to Atlan ta. He was shocked and horrified by the sight of a pretty girl in di vided skirts whirling along on the back of a medd^some horse. TIMES A WEEK. MAN SHOT DOWN IN COURT BEFORE THE JUDGE AND OTHER OFFICERS. The Husband of a Divorced Woman Kills Her Former Husband About Tbeir Child. A terrible tragedy ?was enacted at Little Rock., Ark., on Tuesday. Shooting over the head of United States Senator Jeffries Davis, W. Y. Ellis, a resident of Pine Bluff, fired a bulllet into the heart of Nathan iel Parker Willis, owner of a liquor cure at Indianapolis, Ind., in the Circuit Court room at Little Rock Tuesday afternoon. The shooting was the tragic ending of a lawsuit brought by Willis ^gainst his di vorced wife, who had subsequently married Ellisfc for the possession of his child. Willis died almost in stantly after he was shot in the arms of his mother, who was waiting across the room, and rushed towards him as he fell in the hallway out side of the court room. Willis secured his divorce a num ber of years ago, and recently start ed the litigation for the possession of the child. Monday he secured an order from Circuit Judge Fulk to take possession of the child, who has been for the past ten days in the custody of an uncle at Pine Bluff and Tuesday the parties to the suit met in the court room to decide where the child was to be delivered. Ellis appeared for his wife, the for mer Mrs. Willis, and Senator Davis represented Willis. While Judge Fulk was seated at a table in the court room, discus slug with Senator Davis the condi tions of the transfer of the child, Ellis pulled a revolver from his pocket and fired point blank at Ellis, who was Beated across the table. A court attache knocked up his arm just as the weapon was discharged and the bullet was embedded in the wall. Willis ran round the table, with Bills close at his heels. The latter rested his pistol against the door jamb just as Willis ran out and fired a second time. Willis fell to the floor, dying, clasped In his moth er's arms. Sheriff Roberts seized Ellis, pulling him into an ante room to prevent any further* shooting. He surrendered his pistol to Judge Fulk and was at once taken to jail. Relatives of the man killed have been summoned to Little Rock. Fol lowing the shooting those in an ad joining room scrambled for an out let, and in the subseqeunt excite ment serious injury to several was narrowly averted. Two attempted bo leap from a window but were restrained. That Senator Davis had a close call is declared by those in the room at the time. Several assert that the first bullet passed through his coat. Explaining a rent in his garment, however, Senator Davis declares that It was torn by catching on an edge of the table as he hastily arose. KILLS WIFE AND SELF. The Man Committed Suicide in the Police Station. In a state bordering on insanity, said to have been brought on by drink and the fact that his wife had refused to live with him, Robert M. Fanning, aged 2S years, went to the police station at New Bedford, Mass., from his home at West Port early Monday morning, and after produc ing a letter in which he had written of having murdered his wife, shot himself in the head, causing instant death. Following directions given in his letter, the officers went to West Port, and at a spot indicated, about a half mile from her home, found the body of Mrs. Fanning, who apparently had been killed with a hatchet. Fanning arrived at the police sta tion in his automobile. He was in such a condition that it was with dif ficulty he could make hmself under stood. He produced a letter from his pocket, and, after making several futile attempts to read it, half hand ed it to an officer. After the officer had read the let ter he asked: "What do you want me to do about it?" "Just this." was the reply, and Failing with a quick motion, produc ed a big revolver, placed the muzzle j to his mouth and fired. He fell dead I instantly. CHOKED TO DEATH j Ry Being Caught ill the Pickets of a Fence. j At Milwaukee, Wis., his neck , wedged between the pickets of a fence, the body of William Lenz. ! aged 45 years, for thirty years a coachman tor August F. Gallun, a rich tanner, was found in front of his employer's residence Monday. Lenz evidently had been strangled. ; The head projected between the pickets ami the arms were resting upon the fence. The knees had crumbled from under him, leaving I the body suspended by the neck. The police say he probably leaned over the fence to res; a while, fell asleep and as his throat caught between i the pickets, slowly strangled. OE ANGrEBTJKG ? BRUTE TO SWING Fiend Convicted in Three Min utes by Jury. WOMAN'S ASSAILANTi Sentenced to Be Hanged on August 13?The Scoundrel Was Positively Identified by HJis Intended Vic tim?The Trial Was Private and Orderly?Verdict Pleases All. The fiend who attempted the as sault on the young lady school teach er near Georgetown some weeks ago had swift and sure justice meted out to him by a jury at Georgetown ou Tuesday. Pursuant to the procla mation of Gov. Ansel the special term of court for the trial of John Jenkins, alias "Slippery Jim Joint," for an assault with criminal intent upon a woman was convened there at ten o'clock on Tuesday, Judge John S. Wilson, Solicitor Wells and Stenographer Covington officiating. The grand jury was immediately assembled at the opening of the court and after a short but instruc tive charge by Judge Wilson the rand jury retired to their room to investigate whether or not a prima facia case could be made out against the accused. After remaining out about 15 minutes the grand jury re turned and published the result of their investigation in court, which was a true bill against John Jenk ins for assault with criminal intent as charged. Accordingly a petit ju ry was drawn for the regular trial. Jenkins did not have counsel for hi3 defense and the court assigned Messrs. Walter Hazard and M. W. Pyatt for the defense, while Solici tor Welle and Jamea Wlngate rep resented the State. The testimony began about 11 o'clock. The prosecutrlx was thi first to be sworn. At the request ?f the solicitor and under the act of the last legislature, so providing, every one was requested by thejudgo to leave the court room, excepting the near relatives of the prosecu trix, the attorneys and other neces sary officials during the testimony of the young lady. The prosecutrix while on ths stand, embarrassed and in a falter ing tone, told the story clearly and distinctly, positively identifying the accused who stood before her. Har startling story brought tears to the eyes of many who were present and as she left the court room, passing the prisoner in the box, she said: "I hope I will never see that brute alive again." Several other witnesses testified, among whom were Deputy Sheriff Ward, F. L. Siau, Jr., and several colored witnesses. At the conclusion of the testimo ny the judge charged the jury, as neither side cared to make a speech. The judge's charge was short, clear and instructive. The jury retired about 2:15 o'clock and returned in less than three minutes with a verdict of guil ty with an assault with criminal in tent, as charged In the indictment, for which, under the new act of the legislature, the only punishment that may be inflicted was death. At 2:25 p. m. Judge Wilson solemnly pronounced the sentence of the court which was to the ef fect that John Jenkins, alias "Slip pery Joint,'" must pay the penalty for his crime on the gallows on August 13, next. Jenkins appears to be about 17 years of age, perfectly illiterate and of a very stolid nature. While the sentence of death was being pro nounced upon him he smiled almost incessantly and seemed to have thought that it was smart to be the centre of attraction of so large a ,crowd, which almost bulged the walls of the court house. Jenkins was quietly carried back to the jail house and during the whole trial there was perfect order. Judge Wilson highly commended the people for their action in the mat ter, their 'orderly conduct, and while it was a case of a nature to excite the highest anger, the law was allowed to take its full course and everything will continue orderly until the execution is consumated. Strikes Known Storm. A balloon that, ascended at St. Louis Sunday night landed Monday morning at Savanna. 111., after being in the air eleven and one-half hours. Savanna is about 251 miles from St. Louis A brief message announced that, the balloonist* drifted into a snow storm and had to descend. Accident or Suicide. Louis, the IC-yearold son of Mr. Ashmore Vanderfjbrd, a prominent citizen of the Mt. Tabor section of Union County killed himself Monday morning about S o'clock in a patch of woods about 150 yards from Iiis home. Whether the shooting was done accidentally or inteniially i? not definitely known. Voted Them Out. The Georgia Legislature has voted trading stamp.: out of that State. The hill passed the Senate by a un animous vote on .Monday and will become a law when (lie Governor signs it. All the retail merchants in the State favor the bill. 8. C, THURSDAY. JUj THAW USED WHIP OX YOUXG GIRLS WHOM HE DE CEIVED BASELY. Testimony That Stamps Him as a Vile Wretch, Who Should be Kept j Locked Up. Harry Thaw sat in the Supreme Court at White Plains, N. Y., on Tuesday and heard a woman's tes timony that made his palled face flush. He saw a pearl-handled dog whip exhibited, and he heard the witness swear that she had seen hlra wield It on the bare flesh of young girls. The witness. Mrs. Susan Merrill, a buxom, pink-cheeked woman of about thirty-five years, opened a new chaper In the life of Stanford White's slayer. She told of alleged acts of his between 1902 and 1905, when he was a young bachelor about New York, before the tragedy on the Madison Square Roof Garden that resulted in his being placed in the State Asylum for the Criminal In sane, from which he is now trying to escape by proving himself sane. Summarized, Her testimony was that during the three years named, she kept in succession two New York lodging houses, where Thaw rented rooms under assumed names, and to which he brought at various times more than two hundred girls. After Thaw's imprisonment, she said, she paid these women at least $25, 000 as the price of their silence, and to "keep (them from bothering Thaw's wife or mother." Tho woman told of finding Thaw on several nccassions lashing the girls on their bare arms and bodies. Thatw, she said, had posed as a theatrical agent and had lured the girls to his rooms with promises of engagements. She testified further that Thaw had frequently behaved in a violent manner in her pres ence, and that she considered his acts irrational. LAME AND BLIND Bt siege ;i New York Church hy Day and Night It is reported that one of the most remarkable religious demonstrations ever witnessed in this country has been brought to a close in the Ro man Catholic Church of St. Jean Baptiste, in East Seventy-sixth street, New York, wherein a little silver case are treasured two small bones that are believed to be from the wrist of St. Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary; On the first of the nine days of the Novena, remarkable 1 cures were re j ported, among them being a woman j who is said to have regained her [ sight. This and many reports of similar miracles caused the little I church to be besieged day and night by the lame and the halt and many pitiful Bcenes were witnessed. vBelieveing parents sent to the shrine children who had been ill from birth, others brought men and women so? crippled that they could not walk and scores of the blind were led to the altar rail .to kiss the little silver case and frequently utter their prayers to St. Anne for deliverance from the physical woes. The rush of supplicants became so great that special details of police men formed the crowds into lines and were always present at the churches to preserve order. Many persons seeking to be cured come from distant cities, and hundreds came from adjacent localities. CHASED THE UMPIRE. He Escaped But Twenty Other Peo ple Were Injured. During a riot over unpopular de cisions by Umpire C. E. Eldridge of the Southern Michigan league, at the concluson of the Jackson-Adrian game at Jackson, Mich., Monday, nearly a score of people were injured when the railing of the grandstand gave way, precipitating them to the ground, 12 feet below. The Jackson team lost the game. At the conclusion some one made a start for the umpire. The crowd in the grandstand flocked to the front of the structure and pressed against Hip railing, which gave way, preci pitating the people nearest it to the ground below. The umpire made his escape, pursued by (he mob. and wiis chased into his room at the ho tel, two miles away, where he was guarded by the police for two hours. Fanner Kills Himself. Mr. Solomon Hall, a farmer whose farm and home is two miles from Hartsville, committed suicide Tues day about 1 I o'clock in the yard at his home by shooting himself in the stomach with a shotgun. n(. lived only a short lime after committing the rash act. Worrying over the sad fact that two fit" his daughters are insane, both of whom are now in the asylum, probably unbalanced his mind. Lightning Kills Mule. Mr. RceYler Pitts of Newberry county had a $200 mule, a fine an: nifli, Killed by lightning a day or two ago. The mule was standing in its stable, when a bolt of lightning struck a tree nearby and deflecting, hit the mule, killing it instantly. LY 2f), 1909. GETS VERY WARM Georgia Legislator Denounces Preacher on the FLOOR OF THE HOUSE Representative Anderson, of Savan nah, Who is Fighting the Near Reer Bill, Calls Rev. L. G. Broughton, of Atlanta, a Wilful, I Malicious, Vicious Idar. J Some of the Georgia legislators who are now in session in Atlanta J got hot on Tuesday and said some j very naughty things. The trouble began when Anderson, of Savannah, "who is fighting the near-beer bill, arose to a question of personal priv- j ilege. He was white-faced, tremb ling, and had to moisten his lips several times before he found his' vbice. "I notice," he began, "that a "lo- ( cal minister named the Rev. Len G. ] Broughton, is quoted in the press as j having said in a sermon that I was ' fighting the near-beer bill because I had bought stock in a Savannah brewery after the prohibition bill . was passed, and that I was the only man in the State who had made ' money out of prohibition in Georgia. | I desire to say that this preacher is a wilful, malicious, reckless, malig nant and vicious liar. I fully ex pected to be assailed and villifled when I obeyed my constituents' will and opposed the Alezander bill. But I never even dreamed that a minister of the Gosped, a follower of Him who preached charity and taught truth, would stoop to become a slanderer and a common liar. "In the first place, no Savannah brewery, nor stock in one has been sold since prohibition went into ef fect. Hence this is another lie of the reverend hypocrite. About fif teen years ago I bought ten shares in a Savannah brewery, and paid $100 a Bhare. I was out of the State when the prohibition bill passed, and when I returned and tried to sell my stock, I could not. It is now worth about $50 or $60 a share, but cannot be sold. "This Alexander bill is a new pro hibition bill, and we already have the strongest prohibition bill ever drafted. If it be not enforced, then it is because the officers are negli gent and the people do not want it enforced. I have never placed as much as a straw in the way of its enforcement. But you know you cannot enforce an unpopular law." Anderson sat down in a breathless silence, and little Representative J. A. Slade, slight, dignified and minis terial looking, arose. Slade is from Muskogee county, and is a Baptist minister, the same denomination which Broughton serves. Every one expected a bitter retort to Ander son's outburst. What was the as tonishment of all, then, when Slade went further than Anderson in de nouncing his fellow clergyman. "I was astonished and insulted," he said, "to hear the slander heaped upon a worthy member of this Leg islature by a man who professes to be a minister of the Gospel. I am a Missionary Baptist preacher. I believe in and practice temperance, but do not believe in prohibition. In the name of all good Baptist, how ever, I want to resent this attack upon Mr. Anderson by a long-haired, loud mouthed, itinerant preacher, who has done more harm to the tem perance cause than all the brewers and distilllers in the world. And the really honest temperance advocates should realize that unless they curb these freak extremists, they will see the pendulum swing to the other extreme." Speaker Holden did not let any one else get the floor, declining to recognize several excitab'e members, and calmly forcing a resumption of the consideration of the tax bill, ?roughton's Rejoinder. Dr. Broughton gave out the fol lowing statement in regard to the scathing denunciation he received at the hands of Representative Ander son : "I am glad, at least, if T have done nothing else than force Mr. Anderson to acknowledge in the House of Representatives, where he is posing as the champion against legislation for the prevention of the near-beer evil, that be is a stock holder in a brewery, one, at least, in Savannah, that is manufacturing more near-beer than any other in 111" Stan-. "I: is immaterial, so far as the point I made against his right to sit in judgment upon such legisla tion, whether he has recently hough! slock or not. It is a fact that h" j owns the stock and that lines up with the whiskey interests." Long Canoe Trip. Paddling a distance of 2.00.1 miles j in tin IS-foot canoe in twonty-nine I days. IF. G. Fraseh and T.. E. Bailey, j of Marrisonburg, Pa., reached Xew j Orleans Monday from Pittsbtirg. Entirely Too Sensitive. Laurel La id ley, 12 years old. com I mitted suicide Monday by hanging j himself to a rafter in his father's I barn near Guthrie Center, Iowa. The j boy had been reprimaued by his mother. TW A FALSE ALARM SENATOR TILLMAN'S SON DENIES STARTLING REPORT. Concerning the Serious Illness of ills Father Published by a Wash ington Paper. The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier says B. R. Tillman. Jr., son of Senator Tillmen, denied the alarming reports Monday that had been scattered throughout Washington concerning the serious illness of his father. The stories con cerning tSenator Tillman's illness arose in all probability from the fol lowing, printed in the Washington Post Monday morning: "The shrill voice of Senator Benja min Ryau Tillman, of South Carolina may never be heard in the Senate Chamber again. Senator Tillmari is ill at his home, a farm, near Trenton, S. C. He has been at home for three weeks and his friends say his con dition is so serious that there is little likelihood that he will be strong enough to return to Washington to vote on the tariff bill. The rumor that he contemplates resigning his seat is revived, but Senator Tillman is following the same course he did last summer and refuses to couhrm or deny the report. "Senator Tillman has not fully re covered from the attack of partial paralysis, which seized him last sum. mer. He tried to cure this by an extended tour of several mouths in Europe. The health resorts of the Continent helped him greatly, and he returned to the United States much stronger than he was when he left. While the paralysis has not returned, a general disability from nervous ness has made his life unhappy in the last few months. > "The going of Tillman will take from the senate one of its mos-t pic turesque characters. Pitchfork Ben, as he is called, Is feared of all other senators for the sharpness of his tongue, and the keenness of his wit. No man In the United States Senate is an abler, rough and ready fighter than Tillman. "Senator Tillman's brother, the late George R. Tillman, was a Con gressman from the 2nd South Caro lina district in the House. He was known as one of the most quiet and unemotional men that ever sat in the body. The name of Tillman was practically unknown until Senator Tillman was elected ' Governor ol South Carolina in 1890. He cele brated his election by forcing through the Legislature the dispen sary liquor law in that State. "Always Interested in education, he founded his second college in the State after the inauguration. The first school established through his efforts was the Clemson Agricultural and Mechanical College at Calhoun's old home. Fort Mill, S. C. The se cond school is the Winthrop Normal and Industrial College for Women, at Rock Hill." HAS IT COME TO THIS? Wife Shoots Husband for Playing Graphophone. Because Lewis Einwick. of New port News, Va., insisted on playing his graphophone Monday he is in a hospital with a bullet wound in his leg and arm. and his wife, Josephine K. Einwick, is locked up at the po lice station charged with the shoot ing. Einwick awakened his wife in the morning by playing the grapho phone and when he refused to stop Mrs. Einwick, it is alleged, seized a rifle and shot him through the right arm. Physicians dressed the wound and Einwick was able to walk around the house. Again Monday afternoon he started the machine up, and when he refused to stop it, Mr?. Einwick. it is charged, shot him in the right leg with a revolver. FIFTEEN PERSONS KILLED In the Wrecked Town of Bastrop Bay, Texas. Thai fifteen perrons were killed and ih" town of Bastrop, Texas, de vastated, and the survivors barely existing on a scanty supply of sea food, i- the report brought to Hous ton Tuesday by Captain Pal Renson whi n he returned from a tour of tie' coast swept by the storm of last week. Captain Benson declares that five members of Ihe Wolf families and three negroes were buried by members of his party, on the bench, and the few survivors who remain say they l.uried seven others. The inhabitants are in a pit able condi tion for vain of food water and clothing, and for mile: thi beach Is littered with wreckage of fishing craft. Pistol Totei Killed. Richard Starke, a colored boy. ac cidentally shot ami kfiled himself Sunday nlzht jitsl after coming out of a church on Morrel Hill at Ridge way. Tin- bullet entered the right b-g severing 'he artery, and bled to death. Steam Line to Panama. Charleston i-; to have a direct steamship line ro Panama, beginning in the fall, and operating a boat, carrying mail and freight, every nine days, running independ? ntly of the government line, now running be tween New York and Panama. O CENTS PER COPY CHILD'S RESCUE Was More Than Two Hours in A Vary Nirrow well. FELL BACK TWICE When She Whs Almost Out, but Fi nally Was Taken Out After a Re markable Singular and Harrowing Experience, During Which the Lit tlie Girl Showed Great Courage, "W. R. B." the Fort Mill corres pondent ' of The State, says word reached that place Monday morning of a harrowing accident, and a most remarkable escape from death, which Sunday afternoon befell the 8-year old daughter of C. Cook, a white farmer of the Belair neighborhood, seven mile* from Fort Hill. Me says the child was playing about the yard and. in some way fell into the well, which is 30 feet deep, contains about eight feet of .vater, and is walled with 18-inch *ena COtta piping. The child screamel while falling and her parents discov ered at once that she was in the well. Intelligent effort was immediate directed toward the rescue of '.ho child, who displayed the remarkable presence of mind, after sinking the depth of the eight feet of water and rising to the surface, of bracing her body with knees and back on oppo site sides of the piping to avoid drowning. A rope was quickly lowered and the child told to grasp it. This she did, but when drawn to within a few feet of the mouth of the well the child's strength failed and she fell to the botton of the well a second time, but again rose to the surface of the water and grasped the rope. After the lapse of an hour or more the child was again persuad ed to swing to the rope while her parents for the second time attempt ed to draw her from the well. Again, when almost within ono arm's reach of the parents, the child let. go the rope and for the third time sank to the botton, but fortun ately rose to the surface of the wa fer as formerly. The rope was again quickly lowered and once more was in the hnnds of the child. This time, however, the child was not to be presuaded to undertake the ascent?she was all but exhaust ed, but had sufficient strength left to hold to the rope and thereby save herself from drowning. Another hour passed and little hope of rescuing the child was left. Finally a pair of steeyards was se cured and tied to the end of a second rope. This was lowered and the child told to fasten one of the hooks to her clothing. In this way she was at last rescued, after facing death for more than two hours. SKIPS WITH THE CASH. Bank Officer Takes Bank's Money With Him. The First National Bank of Tifton, Ind., has been closed because its as sistant cashier, Noah R. Marker, has skipped, taking with him between $00,000 and $60,000, all the cash that was in the bank's vaults when he left. Marker, after sweeping together the money, set the time lock on the same so that it could not be opened until 9 o'clock Monday, and left Tif ton on a traction car for Indianapolis Saturday evening, telling people that In' would spend ? Sunday with his father and mother. Nothing further has been heard from him. Marker left a note on the desk of his brother, William Marker, cashier of the bank, saying that he had gone for ever and that he had taken "enough money to pay his ex penses." The fact that he had emp tied the cash box was not known un til thi> time lock gave admittance Monday. VOUXG LAD POISONED. \Ur. Morphine and Soon Died From IN Efferts. The voting son of Dr. James, a prominent physician of Greer, died >:iv',y .Monday morning i:i most ex srn riatiug agony. The father hurried ly leaving horn.' Sunday afternoon accidentally dropped a bottle of mor phine <?!! the porth floor and the lit tle fellow picked it up and, when discovered by his moth* r. had eaten the greater part of the contents of the bottle. A physician was quickly summoned and a stomach pump ap plied. The poisoning had advanced too far to be overcome. The sad ac cident has mst a ...loom over the v. hole town. Two N'evv ('rep Bales. Two Georgia farmers Monday mar keted new crop cotton, J. W. Avera selling a bale at Qiiitman and Deal Jackson one at Ali.any. The latter i- a negro farmer and has held the "first kilo" record for years. Ho fold hi- first bale last year on July 17. ? Killed by Pit* bed Ball. During a game of ball between two rural teams al Ramer. Ala.. Satur day. William Grantham wag fatally hurt when a pitched ball struck him in the temple. He died Monday.