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FUBIJSHgD THREE SHIP BOOZE BACK Odeston BHod Tigers is Closely A Great Deal of Whiskey and Beer is Being Sent Away From Charles ton, the Tigers Being Afraid to Receive the Goods, as " it" would Be Seized. A'despatch flom Charleston to. The State? says three thousand and tw<? hu.ndr-ed - and fiity-six quarts ?l whiskey and 4,680 bottles of import ed beer were loaded Wednesday on a steamship of the Baltimore line and shipped back to Baltimore and im mediate points. The contraband had been consigned to blind tigers here, but never reached the consignees as the police patroled the water front day and night and tb stuff gradu ally piled up on the Wharves.' The greater part of the returned whiskey .ind beer was so undenia bly- contraband that the blind tigers did not even go through the form of attempting to O. K. the bills of lad ing.'-'but simply waited until the vig ilance of the police was relaxed. The opportunity never came, and all par ties concerned thought that the best plan would be to return the liquor to the point it was shipped from. There is at present on the various steamship wharves many times the amount of contraband shipped out of the city, and as the police show no indication of relaxing their watch along the water front, the next week or so will undoubtedly see enormous shipments of whiskey and especially beer, as the latter stuff keeps only a limited time, to their various desti nations. 'Certain enterprising tigers did at tempt to O. K. a limited number of bills of lading for the accumulated contraband but as they were prompt ly refused, the practice was discon tinued. A very limited amount of whis key and beer has without doubt been spirited away in small boats to neighboring sea islands, as the po lice have to confine themselves'sole ly to the land, as they are without means of extending their activity to the water, but as they are on 'the lookout for smuggling of this nature, the amount spirited away is of small moment. The same steamship that carried back the large consignment brought into ? the city - only 2 2--gallons- of whis ' key and-10 barrels di,mbeer, a marked decrease'^rf^the amount 'imported re cefrtljtf A^gianee 3rt!-the pcdi'oe blot tef: shows that-3>etween~September 6 add ,15,r -local - tigers*" forfeited^bail to*'the- .amount b*\$l,150;; - rather than face the charge- of dispensary viblatiom . " ? - WELL HAVE" TO WAIT. No Money to be Had for the Man agers of State Election. The Florence Times says those who bold claims against the State for the last election are doomed to dis appointment. It was thought that being a special election; the managers would be paid out of the small ap propriation made by the last legisla ture; but there were too many elec tions a head of Florence county, and the appropriation was only $600, so that the creditors of the State in this county will have to line up with those in the other counties and wait the appropriation of the next legis lature to collect their claims. The editor of the Times, went over to' Columbia to try and get this money for the managers in Florence coun ty, but was obliged to return empty handed. Bond issue elections and other sj/?dial 'elections have been \ held in a number of counties and that exhausted the funds. No county in 1 which special elections were held at the same time as the dispensary elec-! tion was held can draw money, since j some had to be put out, all dispen- i sary counties were put on the same footing. The Tobacco Crop. The second monthly report on the tobacco situation was made by Com missioner Watson Thursday under the new act. It is for August show ing total sale of 15,265,293 pounds,} which brought $1,125,704.3S. The figures indicate a crop for the year at least two and a half million : pounds. Mullins is the leading mar-' ket. Lake City second. Darlington' third. Timmonsville fourth, and Flor- ' ence fifth. White Men Convicted. At Columbia in the circuit court. Lonnie Hall and John White on trial for the murder of Eber Ash ford,' were convicted of manslaughter.' White was given twelve years and Hall ten years. Hall broke down and cried.. j Three Hurt in Motor. At Syracuse. N. Y.. in a collision I between an automobile and a trol ley car Thursday afternoon. Mrs. | James McKay, of Scranton, sustained a fractured skull and Mr. and Mrs. ! Timothy Conklin, of Troy, Pa., were probably fatally injured. t TIMES A WEpSK. TRAITORS IN CONGRESS BRYAN SCORES SOCALLED DEMO CRATS WHO VOTED ' _hj With the Republicans in Congress : Against the Platform Adopted by I Their Own Party. ' Bryan, the Great Commoner, made a great speech Tuesday at Dallas, Texas. Denouncing him who would Violate a party pledge ratified by the voters of his party as an embezzler of power, Bryan outlined his Yiews as to the tariff before a large audience. I. Mr: Bryan's subject was "Democ racy 'and the TarifT." He emphasized necessity of Senators and Congress men being bound by platforms, say ing he would later suggest a form for such a plank. "If all of the Democrats in the Senate and House had voted against every proposed increase in the tariff, and'for every proposed decrease, we might have made our fight next year upon the party's record without mak ing a specific declaration on items of schedules," said Mr. Bryan. "But in view of the fact that Dem ocrats in both the Senate and the House differed as to the interpreta tion of the Democratic platform, and as to the rates that s-hould be im posed under the various schedules, I believe that it is necessary for our platform to be specific and emphatic. "If we expect to secure control of Congress, we must convince the pub lic that we will, if entrusted with the power, favor material reductions. Unless" our candidates for Congress can agree before the election they are not likely to agree after the election. If each Democratic can didate will state his position, the votersv can select a representative who will give expression to their views, and I am much more anx ious that the representatives shall reflect the wishes of his constituents than I am that he shall agree with my opinion." Mr. Bryan concluded his, address with an extended argument in favor of free raw material. When asked if he would attend the reception to be r,iven Samuel Gompers. president of che American Federation of La bor, on' his return from abroad, Mr. Bryan said: !? "That depends upon the date." When told that it was October 1, he said: "Impossible. That is our twenty fifth wedding anniversary." GRAFTERS WILL BE CONVICTED. Evidence Against Them Said to Be . mt/umtn4j,fji* - ?? ?"?? ? ? . Very Strong; i The Florence Times says the gen eral opinion^in^Columbia is that something is rgoing< to' happen right ha'r'd'to'tne men charged wth graft* ing^iiTthe State "dispensary matters! The evidence given before the grand jury is direct, positive and apparent ly indisputable. It is said that the men on trial are worried. The prose cution ^feels-sure that they will se cure convictions if they have a jury that anything like recognizes their responsibility. The members of the grand jury have-let out'few of the things that were brought out in the evidence be fore them, and they are shocking, so shocking'that the men could not keep the stories to themselves. The tak ing of- money and~money in big slic es, is not even attempted to be de nied, the accused content themselves with insisting that it was not bribery. The cumberous verbage of the in dictment charging that with force the defendants conspired to cheat and defraud the State, has caused a good deal of merriment, the liquor men say that they used force or com puls'in. but found the local parties quite in a receptive mood. The cases may not be brought up at the present term of court, but they will come up if there is time. The jail is full of prisoners and thoie out on bond are let alone un til the jail is cleared. This may take the graft cases over to another term, or to a special ttrm. SHOT HER AUNT. An Alabama Woman Arrested on Charge of Murder. A dispatch from Brewton, Ala., says Sheriff G. A. Fountain returend from Pollard late Wednesday night with Mrs. Will Nowling, who had shot to death her aunt by marriage, Mrs. j Henry Nowling, two and a half miles from Pollard. The latter was a sis- j ter of Martin Lindsey, a millionaire J of Mobile. Mrs. Will Nowling claims ; self-defence. The trouble arose over; the efforts of Mrs. Henry Nowling to put into the house of Mrs. Will j Nowling household effects of a mar-' ried daughter. Ignoring the warning she is alleged to have advanced on Mrs. Will Nowling with a bed slat, j at which juncture the latter fired, , the load of shot taking effect in the heart of Mrs. Henry Nowling. Mrs.! Nowling's father and brother reside at Jay, Fla. | Will Wear Gray. Before lone the inmates of the Confederate Home at Columbia, will wear uniforms of Confederate grey, thanks to the devoted efforts of Mrs. J. W. Bunch, of that city, who has raised by subscription about $S00 for the purpose. OBAKGEBUB?. S. PELLAGRA DISEASE SAID TO BE CAUSED BY THE USE OF WESTERN GROWN CORN It is Claimed That This Corn Has Not Time to Mature Well Before it is Ground. The dread new disease which first made its appearance in the South several years ago, has invaded sev eral parts of the North. Fifty cas es are now under treatment in Pe oria, 111. It has probably existed undetected in the North many years. Dr. Lavindar of the United States marine hospital service, has proved that pellagra caused the death of two patients who were supposed to have been" scalded to death in the Bartonville, Illinois, insane asylum in 1904 and 1907. They died in bath tubs and their bodies looked like they had been boiled and the r-rse who was in charge of the last ase was dismissed for supposed criminal carelessness. Dr. Lavindar says the appearance of being boiled alive is typical of the disease of pellagra and that death in the bath tubs was a mere conci dence. The result is that the nurse has been reinstated. Dr. Lavindar found forty cases in this asylum on his arrival there. The Knoxville Sentinel, referring to the theory that musty corn causes pellagra, expressed the belief some time ago that the spread of the dis ease was due to the use of care lessly selected corn ground by steam rolling mills instead of the coarse ground corn meal of water mills of the South. The view has been grow ing in strength. Dr. William T. Woodley, of Charlotte, N. C, has written The Observer on this sub ject. He blames the use of shock cured corn which, he says, is not given time enough to dry thorough ly before it is husked and market ed. He says that sixty days longer should be allowed to corn in the shock than to com standing in the field. The season in the West is much shorter than in the South and the farmers push their work so as to get through WiLth cleaning (their fields before winter. Dr. Woodley proposes, therefore, that mills be required to use only corn that has been \cured under supervision. Corn for the table should be cured with-' out stripping the fodder in order to give the ears all the nutriment pos sible. The amount of corn ground for human food is small compared with the total grown and it would be no great hardship to require the mills - to ? 'be - careful- 'In selecting 'it.' . In- commenting-' on*' the T?pid spread of. the disease, the Farmers' Union S?h' s?ys hhte in the "South, whose people1 have'always been" ad dicted to the'use of ?corn-bread in some form or other, pellagra was unknown until comparatively recent years. Before the war and long afterwards, we never knew or heard of a case that indicated any of the symptoms of pellagra. It is as now known and described a very modern disease so far as it relates to the South, and Its present prevalence, if due to the use of corn, may be at tributed wholly to the South's aban donment of the cultivation of corn, turning its attention to the single crop of cotton, and depending ex clusively for its corn supply on the West, where the methods of har vesting and caring for corn crops are such as to make corn an unfit article of food for man. We read the other day that it is not an unusual thing for tome Western farmers to turn their hogs into fields of corn which was regard ed as of inferior quality. We are confident that much of this kind of corn or the meal from it is ship ped to the South and made into bread and eaten by the poorer class of our people among whome, espec ially those in mill districts, pellagra has appeared. We don't believe that Southern raised corn, harvested only when fully ripe, as was done in ante bellum times, and properly ground into meal, will produce pellagra. If the disease is caused from corn, it is this Western corn and its pro ducts on which our people have been feeding ever since they got the cot ton craze. Pellagra, then, which is said to be spreading rapidly through out the South, is going to compel our people to go back to first princi ples, in other words, force them to cut out Western corn and raise their corn supply at home. It seems that something just like this was requir ed to bring Southern farmers to their senses. Some people can be con vinced only by knock-down argu ments, and pellagra is one that seems to be of that kind. The Sun is right. Corn has been the staple food of the South too j long to allow any room for con-j demning it wholesale as has Oc'Jn done by hasty thinkers. But it was home-grown corn that was eaten and home-ground, too, until a few years ago when the markets of the South were invaded by the products of the steam rolling mill. The house keepers who insist on getting the coarse meal of the local mill will probably make no mistake and may rest assured that they are eating one of the finest food-stuffs given by God. In the meantime there is no subject more urgent for the at tention pf the pure food, experts than the corn meal on the market. CU SATURDAY. SEPT1 Eight Trainmen Killed and fifteen Passen gers Are Injured BY COLLISION OF TRAINS A Freight and Passenger Train Gome Together Near Nashville and Fire Sweeps the Debris, Consum ing Two of the Bodies of Those Who Had Been Killed. Eight trainmen killed and 15 pas sengers injured, two fatally per haps, is the result of a collision be tween a passenger and a freight train Wednesday morning on the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis railroad at Pegram Station, 20 miles west of Nashville, Tenn. In the fire that followed at leasit two of the mangled bodies were completely con sumed. The dead: William Mogan, trav eling engineer, Nashville; Joe Gow er, engineer on passenger train, Nashville; Jess Tarkington, engineer on freight train, Nashville; Walter Roach, messenger, Nashville; Sam Whited, fireman on freight train, Nashville; S. B. Welp, brakeman; W. S. Stalcup, mail clerk, Martin, Tenn.; L. C. Bailey, mail clerk, Martin. Seriously injured: Bob Bailey, fireman, Nashville, two ribs broken and left side injured; Ellis Martin, conductor on freight, Nashville, in jured on head and internally, may die. Slightly injured: Capt. T. Jobe, Burton, N. C; William Lunsford, Peachtree, N. C.j W. L. Thomason, Peachtree, N. C.; R. W. Boyd, Al mond, N. C; Mrs. L. M. Lee, Tul lahoma, Tenn.; Mrs. Temple Luns ford, Murphy, N. C.; Mrs. A. C. Thompson, Murphy, N. C.; May Thomason, Murphy, N. C; Mrs. Mary J. Jackson, McClellan; Mrs. John Lively, McFimmville, Tenn.; Mrs. John Dunn, Cumberland Furnace, Tenn.; Mr. John Dun, Cumberland Furnace, Tenn. The collision occurred about 8 o'clock and was. between passenger train No. 4, westbound, and fast freight No. 51, en route to "Nash ville. The wreckage St once caught fire. The baggage, mail, express and smoking Cars of the passenger train and several of the freight cars were burned. But one bag of mail was saved. Through the almost su perhuman strength exerted by the passengers the three day coaches and the Pullman were pushed from the fire and saved. It Is the general Impression among passengers and the trainmen that the fault was with the passeng er crew, as- an order to meet at Peg ram had been issued, and the wreck occurred west of that station. DANGERS OF WESTERN CORN. Its Use May be the Cause of Pella gra in the South. The Augusta Herald very wisely sums up the matter of Western crrn and its results as a food for man and beast. The Herald says it is not in corn that donger lurks, but in Western corn. The reason for this Is clear. Western corn does not fully mature before the season ends. Frost falls upon it before the kernels are hardened and the cob is dry. In this condition it is gathered and housed or stacked. It then goes through a process of fermentation which produces the chemical chang es that convert a healthy food for man or beast into a subtle poison. Fed to horses it gives them blind staggers and thousands of horses and mules are killed by it every year. Eaten by men it produces pellagra. Fortunately a simple preventative will avoid all risks in this matter. That is to use only Southern grown corn either for making corn bread or to feed to the horses. And an Atlanta case may show that grits ground in the North should also be excluded. Let our farmers ponder this matter, and raise corn enough for all our needs. Pellagra is be coming entirely too frequent in the South. ? Bengal Tiger a Suicide. The hunt along the water front of Marseilles. France, for the Royal Bengal tigress that escaped from a steamer in the harbor on Tuesday came to a dramatic end when the animal, mortally wounded and with blood streaming from her head and flanks, fled from her mob of pur suers and with enormous bounds gained the water front. Then she sprang into the sea and was drowned. Players Were Poisoned. Johnny Dobbs. manager of the Chattanooga team, says that the members of his team were poisound Wednesday while playing in August;). All the men who drank from a bucket of water are ill. Two, who did not drink of the water, escaped. Meek, the star catcher, is confined to his bed with a doctor in attendance. It is not known how the poison got into the water or what was the na ture of it. 1MBER 18, 1909. TELLS FARMERS TO HOLD A SHORT CROP PUTS THEM IN COMMAND OF SITUATION And They Should Make the Best Use of it by Putting Cotton in the Warehouses. There is no reasonable probability of a large cotton crop this year. The ever increasing demand for raw cotton must be met. Spinners mustl have cotton. The supply being cur tailed, as it undoubtedly will be by this year's shortage, the increased spindles of the world creates an in creased demand, which means log ically high prices for the South's great staple. It is up to the cotton growers of the South to seize this opportunity to reap the golden har vest that invites them to put in the sickle. There should be no bar gain-counter sales for cotton this fall. I urge every farmer to ware bouse his cotton, borrow money on his ware house receipts and pay off his indebtedness. Money is plenti ful and there is no need for him to rush his cotton on the market and glut it during September, October, November and December, as he has so often done in the past. If no ware house is near him it will pay him to ship cotton to the one the nearest at hand. Our farmers should this fall make a supreme ef fort to market their cotton gradual ly, and only at remunerative prices. Already the spinners are counting on buying their supply of cotton during the first few month's of the 'cotton marMetlng season, as they did last year, and as they have done for many years. They expect the bulk of the cotton to be thrown ofl the market in three or four months, the beginning of the selling season. This they hope farmers will do, so as to depress the price. Now, brother farmers, let's view the situation from a business stand point. You have been told for a long time that supply and demand was the only thing that figured in' the pricing of the staple. I want to say to you that the demand is now much greater than the supply. So it is evident that you have the situation in your hands. We cannot make this year, according to the best estimates, more tban eleven and a half million bales, and this means a starvation crop. Statements from Cotton and Cot ? ton Oil News, of Dallas, Texas, are to the effect that the boll weevil has devastated the fields of two States, that Louisiana and Mississippi are suffering from pests and that reports ' received at the Government bureau of entomology at Dallas from the "boll weevil areas" ^f Mississippi and Louisiana show that an average of 90 per cent of the cotton boll squares are infested at present with the weevil. In the Baton Rouge neighborhood Dr. Hunter, who is in charge of the Southern field jrop investigation, says that 95 per cent of the squares are infested, while in the vicinity of Natchez, Miss., 90 per cent is a fair figure. This, Dr. Hunter says, is as bad as the worst years of the weevil ravages in Texas. In all sections of the Mississippi bottoms, I where the weevil is at work, Dr. . Hunter has established substations, j and it is from these that the reports I mentioned above came. Regarding the condition in Texas, at the present time, Dr. Hunter said: "West of a line connecting Weath erford and Austin, the dry weather has had the effect of practically re ducing the damage incident to the boll weevil to nothing. Through the central portion of the State the damage is considerably less than it was last year. But at the same time this report must not be considered as meaning that the ootton crop will be better, for it will not. In the same proportion that the dry weather has affected the boll weevil, it has also affected the cotton stalks." Texas is the hope of the past. Not in the recollection of the oldest inhabitants has the blighting effect of a hot wind of the first three days j of last week been paralleled. That j spell has cost the South fully half million bales of cotton. It is the worst spotted crop, too, within the recollection of the earliest settler. ; The damage to the crop in the South west, and especially Texas, is little short of a disaster, and cotton should be selling for a high price. 1 know some farmers have solo their cotton for future delivery, and they 'v^iU deliver it just as fast as they can. Just think for a mo-1 ment what such a man has done. He has furnished ammunition to the' enemy to shoot him with. He is j killing the goose that has laid the i golden egg. And the man who sells j his cotton this way is one of the worst cotton bears on the market. Of course, such men will be glad for cotton not to go higher than they have sold. So do not be scared wh*n you see them delivering their cot ton. It will soon be out of your way. Let our cotton grow-.; use good judgment, sell whenever the' price will justify, and not oefor-?. I The holders of spot cotton have the opportunity of their lives. 1 want to urge you to ware house your cot ton, borrow money on your wart? house receipt, pay off your debts ? and market the cotton, as the woildj ( TW SEIZED A BIG STILL LARGE TUSSAC PLANT CAPTUR ED IN SOUTH EDISTO SWAMP, This is the Eighth Still That Has 'Been Captured in a Year by the Aiken Officers. A dispatch says another of the "big stills" of the South Edisto river swamp is in the Aiken jail yard, having been carried there by Of ficers Samuels, Cato and Holley Wednesday night. The still was a large one, the capacity being about 120 gallons of "mash." Mr. Samuels received information a few day9 ago that Kinney Mon day,, a white man, was in. the busi ness. The information was based, it is said, on Monday carrying molas ses from the Windsor depot. Sub sequently Constables Samuels, Cato and Holley left Wednesday aimed with search warrants for Monday's house, which was searched. Nothing but empty jugs and bot tles were found. These had the fa miliar' smell, but the "tussac" was nowhere to be found. A search of the premises not revealing any whis key, it was continued into the ad jacent swamp. A path from the house was fol lowed into the swamp, and a short distance from the house the still was found, still steaming after a big "stilling bee" had taken place. The big basin and the worm was loaded on the bup;gy, while six fer menters and a "fleeck" stand were demolished. It is said that this still is one of the most famous of the Edisto swamp, having, it is alleged, been in operation for 20 years. The distilled goods could not be located, but all appurtenances were destroyed. This still was found at a point that has not been raided with in a year, 16 miles from Aiken, near Pine Log bridge. Monday raised quite a fuss about the officers' searching his house, but made no resistance. This is the eighth still that has been captured within z. year's time by the Aiken county officers. Aiken is to be congratulated upon having the diligent dispensary officers that she has, as they are a terror to the blind tiger element, and by their good works the violations of the law are kept within a small sphere. WANTS NEGROES TO VOTE. Taft Criticises Law Debarring Them From Voting. President Taft has squarely and unequivically placed himself on rec ord, in a letter to a Washington newspaper as being opposed to suf frage restriction as being manifestly intended to discriminate against the negro race. In answer to a letter asking his opinion concerning the franchise amendment to the Mary land constitution which is proposed by the Democratic.party in Maryland; the president says: "It is deliberate ly drawn to impose educational and other qualifications for ttie suffrage upon negroes and to exempt every body else from such qualifications. This, is gross injustice and is a vio lation of the spirit of the 15th amend ment. It ought to be voted down by every one, whether Democrat or Re publican, who is in favor of a square deal." Dead in His Buggy. Mr. J. Warren Blakely, one of the most substantial citizens of Laurens county, was found dead in his buggy late Tuesday afternoon, the news of which spread rapidly over the city and county and caused many expres sions of regret. Death was in all probability due to heart failure, as he was well when he left home. He was 73 years of age. needs it, and our country will be prosperous. The deterioration of the crop in I all of the States is of such a na ture that it is now too late for it j to recuperate and make anything like a full crop, no matter how favoraDle the seasons may be from now on. So realize you have the situation ia your own hands. I want to urge every farmer to sow largely of wheat and oats; for corn, flour and bacon are now very high. They can be raised for much less than half the cost at which farmers are buying today, and we have every reason to believe they will be higher another year. Let us begin now to diversfy our crops for 1910. Makp home self supporting and self-sustaining, and our country will grow rich. I want to urge upon every farmer to study the conditions of the cotton crop in all the cotton belt States, and I am sure be will not dump his cotton on the market as he has done iu the past. Just a word about cotton seed. Remember the supply this year will be short and the demand great for cotton .seed products. When you sell your seed, be sure to make ar rangements for the price of meal and hulls, or you will be caught in a trap. You probably have used good judgment in growing your crop, and it behooves you now to use better judgment in selling. I). Harris. Ex-President State Farmers' Union. Pendleton, S. C. i O CENTS PEBCOPY FIGHT TO DEATH Sanguinary Duel of Sisters-in-law ij Chi cago Apartment House. ( ' - ? M ? BOTH DIE IW STRUGGLE Sirs. Julia Tripp and Mrs. Jacob ' Silvers Perish in Hand-to-hand i , Combat. With Pistol and Knife. They Lived in the Same House and ' Had Frequently Quarrels. Mrs. Julia Tripp, and her sister in-law, Mrs. Jacob Silvers of New York, are-both dead as the result of a pistol'and knife duel between tho two women in Mrs. Tripp's apart ments at Fifty-sixth street and Prai rie avenue, a fashionable residence district of Chicago. It is said Mrs. Silvers' husband left her about three months ago because of ber peculiar actions. Mrs. Tripp was the wife of a superintendent of a manufacturing firm of Chicago. There were ten bullet wounds and one cut en the body of Mrs. Tripp.' Mrs. Silvers had a bullet wound in' the chest and several knife slash es. Only one revolver was found in tjie apartments, jbujt eigat empty shells indicating that the revolver was emptied and reload).! ?/??ring the.' struggle. The iurnish'.igs o f the apartments were in disorder :md in* every room there- W3:"0 evidences of a desperate struggle. Mrs. Tripp was ful'y dressed but Mrs. Silver was in her unlerc'ocinng. Mrs. Silver had been staying at the1 Tripp home for about a month, and the two women are said to. have had frequent quarrels principally over the division of household duties. One strange feature of the case is that no one heard any shots. The appeals for help were heard, but; no one made any attempt to enter the apartments until after the police had been called. Shortly after 3 o'clock in the afternoon Mrs. Tripp appeared in the railway in the front of her apart ment screaming for help. / "I am being murdered in here!" she shouted. At almost the same time a woman in a. blood streaked night gown was seen .at the rear entrance of the i apartment by the janitor. "Come quick and save me," she cried. "I am being killed." When the apartment was entered ( blood was found on the parlor cur tain, and several pictures had been broken and chairs overturned. In? a bed room off ? the parlor Mrs. Tripp was found lying on the floor fully dressed. , Her face and waist were covered with blood and a pool had formed beneath her. She was dead. Separated from this bed rom by portiers was another room. Mr?. Silvers lay on the bed in this room and her night gown and the bed i Ktlothjf s'were covered with , blood. Blood was gushing from a deep cut in her forehead. She was uncon scious and died later. At Mrs. Silvers' right side was a revolver, and on the ffoor were a number of v shells. Search of the rooms fail. J to disclose the knife, with which the cuts ha.J jeen made. PLACED IN PRISON. Preacher Accused of Abducting a Young Woman. Rev. Wallace M. Stuckey, pastor of the Christian Church of Williams burg, Kansas , and editor of The Wilfiamsburg Star, is confined in the county jail on the charge of having abducted Lorena Sutherland, sixteen years of age, daughter of a wealthy farmer or Williamsburg from her home. The girl, originally a bru nette, but now a blonde, also is in custody. She will be returned to her parents and be used as witness against the accused preacher. In every principal feature the case is like that of Hew Jere Knode Cooke, pa.*tor of St. George Episcopal church, of Long Island, N. Y., who deserted his wife and children and tied to San Francisco with .Miss Lo retta Whaley a few years ago. Kindness Reworded. Mrs. Ceo. Bramer, of Methuen, Mass., has received word from attor neys in the Cilly Islands that R. J. Ribstock, a man whom she and her mother befriended in Bermuda, had willed her about $1,000,000 in rail road stocks and bonds. When Mrs. Bramer met Mr. Ribstock in Bermu da, .-he then was unmarried and with her mother did many little kindnesses for him in his old age. He was eighty at the time. Where is Haviland? Henry Haviland, a former Boston man, last heard from nearly twenty five years ago in the vicinity of New York, is sought by a firm of lawyers in Boston as the heir to an estate left in the hands of trustees by Hav iland's wife when she died in 1886. Was an Old Man. Isaac Brock, who died in Waco, Texas. Saturday, was said to have been 121 years old. Basis for this claim rested on a record in the old Brock family Bible.