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PUBLISHED THREE PETTY SPITE Peary Refused to Allow Dr. Cook's Re cords Aboard His Steamer THEY WERE LEFT AT ETAH This Is What Whitney Cables to Dr. Cook In New York, Who Says it Does Not Matter as he Has a Duplicate, Which Will Suf fice, Commander Robert E. Peary, re fused absolutely to allow any of the records or instruments-of Dr. Frederick A. Cook to be brought abroad the steamer Roosevelt and was thus Instrumental in causing these recordB to remain in a cache at Etah, Greenland, according to Harry Whitney, tbe New Haven sportsman, in a dispatch received in New York by Dr. Cook on Sunday. The meseage, which came as response to one from Dj*. Cook, is as fol lows: "Strathcona. via India Harbor and Cape H?y, N. F., Sept 25. "Dr. F. A. Cook , VVaidorf, New York. "Started for home Roosevelt. Nothing arrived ?or me. Peary would allow nothing belonging to you on board. Said to leave every thing in cache at Etah. Met Capt. Sam, North Star. Did not go back after going schooner bound St. John's. Take steamer home. Hope you well. See "you soon. Explain all, Good shooting. "Harry Whitney." Dr. Cook was questioned as to his view of the situation created by the action ascribed to Commander Pe&ry. but he declroed to say any thing derogatory of his rival. "It may be that the instruments will ar rive this year after all," he said, "and as for tbe records and observa tions, their non-arrival here makes no"difference whatever, as I Have complete duplicates, so that there will be no delay in compiling my story with all its details." Dr. Cook denied the report that he was to bring suit for slander against Peary. 'There is no truth in the report," he said. "I have no intention of bringing suit. Natural ly I am taking measures to .have everything in order in case of neces^ slty; but I have never even thought of filing a suit, and I wish to con tradict such reports at once." If they are still at Etah, Dr. Cook's Instruments may not arrive in New York until the Spring months of 1910. There Is a possi bility, however, of their reaching here this year, as another vessel may have touched at Etah after the Roosevelt left. ISSfiSCS *5por Excuse. 'A dispatch from''Portland, Me., says it ^as'^e?rtie'? -from -a source close -to '^hraOTtfer Peaijy^ teat the cotamaTider^justifiesr his 'action in rejfcsto^-to &l$pT)r. FreSeri&k A. Cdok's^'instruS/^nta^r recorder on board; the homeward bound'steamer Roosevelt? on-fhe? theory SatWe ? had been aware'f^r^sbnie'time'ot Cboifs i^tentfo^n;"'to:''cla^ni tl$e '-d(rscove*ry of the -'North -P^Te~and that;'Peary, therefore] would'sanction nothhig' to aid this project. Gen. Hubbard, president of the Peary Arctic Cl^ makes a different excuse from the*--above for Peary'3 littleness. He says that Peary did not mention any such circumstance to him during the conference with the Arctic explorer last Thursday.' Gen. Hubbard said that undoubtedly Peary felt that Inasmuch as; Dri Cook had intrusted the data to Mr. Whitney, It was important that Mr. Whitney should ' retain sole 'custody of 1t. : Gen. Hubbard left' It to be assumed by his remarks that Com mander Peary'did not desire to have custody of the records which would play so important a part in a con troversy with Dr. Cook. Peary's Chief Witness. All hands on board the Roosevelt were instructed not to talk about1 the controversy. Mat Henson. the j negro cook, who was with Peary in his final dash north, said that he! had talked with every Eskimo who 1 went up with Cook and knew every ? one of them but was not at liberty to reveal what he had learned. Hen-! son said, further, that Cook had prac tically no experience when he went North; that he knew nothing about I building sledges and was absolutely j inexperienced in driving Eskimo ' dogs. Henson said that he was of the opinion that Cook could not even I harness a dog correctely. This is the kind of testimony Peary ex-j pects to convict Cook on. It is total- j ly unreliable. Fired Into Car. L. R. Sires, express messenger on { the Central of Georgia, was fired upon in his car near Mclntyre. Ga.. Friday morning eary b ysome per-! son on the top of the car. The shots were fired through the tran-1 rom, robbery doubtless being the i motive. Sires obtained help from I the mall car, but the man escap ed. ? White Man to Hang. At Baxlev. Ca.. on Saturday. Pate Taylor, a white man. was convicted of murder and sentenced to be hung. Taylor after a trival quarrel shot from ambush W. A. Belcher, a near neighbor. TIMES A WEEK. PROMPTLY LYNCHED NEGRO HANGED AT PERRY, FLA., FOR KILLING OFFICER. I He Was Swung Up in Front of His Shop "Where the Murder Was Committed. Swinging from a limb in front of his shoe reparing shop at Perry, Taylor county, Fla., the dead body of Charley Anderson, colored, was found early Sunday morning, a mob having imposed the death penalty as a reward for the bullet he sent into the heart of Marshal Hawkins of Perry Saturday night. The place of the lynching was al most at ,the_spot where Marshal Haw kins was slain, the officer having been m the act of placing Anderson under arrest when he met his death at che hands of the man he meant to make a prisoner. The negro's body was allowed to hang until late in the day when it was taken down and shipped to Live Ooak. The killing of the Perry officer occurred at 8 o qlock Saturday night. Anderson was wanted for a minor offense, it is said, and was in his shoe shop when the officer went to arrest him. Hawkins was at the door of the shop when the negro appeared, armed with a pistol, and before the officer could defend himself shot him to death. zAnderson escaped for a time, but was caught several hours later and at 12 o'clock was in the hands of the crowd of men that pursued him. He was returned to his shoe shop and in front of it a rope was placed about bis neck and be was swung I into the air. Bullets were fired into his body and he was left swinging. FARMER HID HIS MONEY. After Fifty Years Tells Where it Was Hidden Away. There was deposited in the First National bank of Logan, W. Va., Fri day the sum of $6,620. This specific deposit has a history as strange and interesting as ever shadowed romance or figured in the tales told of the old-time misers. Milton Mulllns, an aged man who lived at Rolfe post office in Logan county, W. Va? In the owner of this small fortune and the sum deposited represents the'sav ings of 5.0 years..., . "When quite a young,man Mullins began hoarding his savings. At every opportunity he would exchange silver and greenbacks for gold and two or three times a year he would go to the treasure crypt in the rear of his house and make a deposit of gold coin. Year after year be watched the pile accumulate. Even before I the War Between the State he was reported to have had a considerable ?sunrof moneyhidden on his premises 'amr'b^ttj^tff-m^utiers ?rten~trled' to cohjperhis tohlisclose Its''hiding* place-during .the war, but those" at-; temf)ts? we're never successful and,' the" Secret-remained his own until* two days^agd". " : ?' - A few days ago Mullins' wife died and 'he, feeling that he could not long survive "her. decided that it would be better to disclose at once the hiding place of the treasure which represented the slow but reg ular accumulation of 50 years. Summoning J. M'. Perry, a grandson, and some other near relatives, he related the story of his hoardings and gave them directions how to find the money. They went and dug in .the yard as directed and found even $:V,000 in gold and $20 in silver. -Then they proceeded to the barn, ?where in the exact spot indicated by the aged man. they discovered $1,000 in $20 bills makiug $6,020 in all. * HEAD OF THE THEOSOPHISTS Claims That She Has Lived in Dif ferent Periods. At Cleveland. Ohio, intimate friends of Mrs. Annie Bessant, pres ident of the Theosophical Society of the World, declared that their leader had confided to them that she was a reincarnation of Hypatia and Giordano Bruno. "It is certain that Mrs. Bessant has been Hypatia and Bruno." said Mrs. E. O. Peets, president of the Cleveland Theosophical Society. "She remembers all?every day of her existance as those characters." Mrs. Bessant told her adherents that one of the strongest proofs of her claims that she is a reincarna tion of the two characters is that she has been persecuted throughout | her life. She avers her former selves have just been revealed to her after twenty years of hard study in England and India in an effort to clear her past. During the time of Confusius. Mrs. Bessant says she lived as different characters, but can not recall their names. She predicts that she will live again. Chased by Whales. A dozen whales chased the schoon er .lohn S. Preston, Capt. Chantree, > man}* miles while the vessel was pro ceeding toward Boston from Monn! Derert with a cargo (ot" gravel. Capt. Chantree admits the levithans kept uncomfortably close to the coaster, blowing, sounding and gam boling as if they considered an op portunity to race the Preston too good to be overlooked. * ? im OBANGEBTJBG. S A DOUBLE CRIME A Greenville Mao Kills His Wife and Blows Out His Own Brains. MAN USED A SHOT GUN The Tragedy Took Place in the Woodside Mill Village Near Green ville and There Were Only Small Children in the House When it Was Enacted. A dispatch from Greenville to The State says one of the most horrible domestic tragedies that has ever taken place near that city in a num ber of years, occurred at Woodside village Friday moruing when G. W. Gallaway, a mill employe, shot and instantly killed his wife, and then blew his brains out with the same weapon, a double-barreled breech loading shotgun. The crime was committed about 5 o'clock, and there were no witness es, save two Bmall children, who can not give a coherent account of the terrible happenings. It iB supposed that Gallaway and his wife had been on unfriendly terms for a long time, having had sharp words about their son, Ben. There is also a rumor that the husband was suspicious of his wife. When found by Deputy Justice of the village the two bodies were ly ing cuddled up on the bed, side by side. The woman was shot through the back of the head and the entire face of the man had been blown in ?to -a mass of .'bloody .flesh. In --the arm of the man lay the weapon which had been the instrument of the trag edy, a short double-barreled breech loading shotgun, in which were two discharged shells. A lamp was burning in the kitch en. Tiny clots of blood and brains were scattered over the bed and over both bodies. Neighbors heard two shots In the early morning, one within minute or two of the other. No notice was taken of them, however, until about 8 o'clock, when the older daughter of the Gallaway's came frightened and crying 'Co Deputy Justice saying that her father and mother were dead. The officer immediately went to the house, took in the situation, and notified the coroner. * BODIES FOUND ON SHORE. From Clothing Finders Judged Men Had Been Sailors. Section hands on the Louisville ?and ^rashvllle i'uilTtoad i'ound the bodies" of 35 sailors and fishermen near'Duffbar Station, La., Saturday. Thu< brings- the; tot&haumher-of ,dead resulting from last Monday's hur ricane up to approximately 200. The bodies were badly decomposed and were buried near Old Track bed, without identification. Dunbar is a small station on the Louisville and Nashville railroad be tween New Orleans? and Hay St. Louis. It is not far from the Rigo lets, which connect Lake Horgne, an arm of the Gulf of Mexico, with Lake Ponchartrain. During the hur ricane many light draught sailing vessels, heading for the inland wa ter, were swept asnore in this sec tion. From day to day the body of a drowned sailor or fisherman from Bome of these wrecked schooners has been found and es-timates on the total number of dead have been based on the former rate at which these bodies have be<*n discovered. When thirty-six bodies were found in one place at one time, all former estimates as to the number of per sons who lost their lives in the gulf coast, hurricane were completely upset. GUI LTV OF GRAFTING. Collected Money From Various Dis orderly Hou.s<*s. At Chicago Police Inspector Ed ward McCann, charged with "graft ing." was found guilty by a jury which reported in Judge Barnes' court Friday. Sentence was not pronounced and will not be until after the hearing of arguments lor a new trial. The law provides an indeterminate sen tence in prison. Tin- charges against the inspector in charge of the Des Plains street district wer" the mo.-t sensational aimed at a police official in .wars. State's Attorney Wayman stated that "graft" aggregating many thou sands had been collected from dis orderly homes in return lor "pro tection." Killed by Auto. At Tampa. Fla.. Mrs. Lee Rteclf 1 was killed and Mrs. Ai red Money ; and Chauffeur Waiter Beeman were probably fatally injured Friday night when the rear tire of the large tour ing car in which they were riding burst, causing the car to dash into a telephone pole, wrecking it and j throwing the occupants out wi'h ? great force. * I 1. C TUESDAY. SEPTE FRAUD ALLEGED AGAINST THE DORCHESTER BOARD OF REGISTRATION. Governor Ansel Makes Rigid In vestigation and Issues an Order to Show Cause. Charged with malfesance in office, general misconduct and negligence, the board of registration of Dorches ter county has been summoned by Gov. Ansel to appear in Columbia to show cause why they should not be removed. A dispatch to. The State from St. George gives the fol lowing about the matter: The board of canvassers took cog nizance of the discrepancy and made a report of their findings to the gov ernor. As the result of this report Solicitor Hildebrand, at the request of Gov. Ansel, came down to St George a couple of days later in order to conduct an investigation In to the affair. He made a thorough and complete examination, going through all of the records in the matter and his report confirmed that of the board of canvassers. One day this *eek Mr. W. H. Towsend of Columbia, former as sistant attorney general, was here for ' the purpose of further looking Into the matter. He secured a number j of affidavits as to the handling of the books immediately prior and after the election. Immediately after Mr. Townsend returned to Columbia the summons were sent to Sheriff Owens for service and they were ser ed on Wednesday of last week. The board of registration is com posed of Elias Doar of Summerville. Bunk Limehouse of Beech Hill and A. W. Rumph of Grover, the first named being chairman. Mr. Doar Is cashier of the Bank of Dorchester and Mr. Limehouse Is a prosperous farmer. . Mr. Rumph, who is about 70 years of age, Is an ex-Confederate soldier. An effort was made to Fecure an interview from Mr. Doar over long distance phone but he could not be got on account of the fuct that the wires between St George and Sum merville are down. The alleged false entries are supposed to have been made on the first Monday In August, this being the last regular meeting of the board before the prohibition election. At this meeting Mr. Limehouse was not present and Mr. Rumnh, accord ing to some of the affidavits, author ized 0. B. Limehouse to act in his place. Mr. Doar, It is claimed, was the only member of the board !n position to issue the certificates. It is claimed that the majority of the additional names were negroes and that they did not appear in person to get the certificates as is required by law, but that they were secured by other parties. The precincts where the irregulari ties are alleged to have occurred are all in the lower section of the .county. The affair has created ho I little Interest In Dorchester county ;and the action of the governor, It is [understood, will employ, attorneys in [ order to defend themselves against :the charges preferred against them /All three members maintain their ; innocence. ? GREAT TIMES IN NEW YORK. Fifteen-Mile Procession of Warships a Feature. The boom of sunrise guns aboard the warships in North river awoke New York Saturday morning to the first day of the celebration which honors the deeds of Henry Hudson and Robert Fulton. The river that Hudson found and where Fulton set his steamboat was the place toward which the eyeB of 5,000,000 persons turned Saturday for the most impressive pageant that ever floated in the New York harbor. A thousand vessels, including war ships from the powers of the world, were present, making a column fif teen miles long. The Half Moon and the Clermont will remain at the foot of 110th street. New York is so overrun with visitors that many ships are being used as hotels to house them. The celebration will last /several days and will be witnessed by millions of people. CONFEDERATE MONUMENT To Be Erected by the Government I at Salem, N. J. To commemorate the lives of the Confederate prisoners of war who died at Fort Delaware during the civil war, a monument to cost $S, 500 will be erected in the Confed erate section of Finn's Point Nat ional Cemetery, near Salem, N. J., and close to the old prison. The war j department has just closed a con- j tract with the Van Amringe Granite Company, of Boston, Mas.-., to con struct the monument of Pennsylvania white marble. It is to be completed by December 1 9, 1 909. The shaft will be 82 feet high. Similar monu ments are being erected by act of' congress throughout the North ! wherever tl :>re many unuinrke! graves of Confederate soldiers. : ? Victims of the Storm. With the list of dead from the tropical hurricane well above 100 . every indication points to a much larger increase of the number of those who perished. ? MJ5ER 28. 19(K>. CRASH TO DEATH Four French Aeronauts Die When a Mili tary Balloon Bursts. A HORRIBLE ACCIDENT When the Balloon Burst it Was Over Five Hundred Feet High, and With Envelope Collapsed Car Speeds Downward at Lightning Pace, Crushing Occupants. There was a most horrible acci dent over in France on Saturday. While passing over the national road which leads. from Pari6 to Antibes j at a height of between 500 and 600 feet, the French drigible military balloon, Republique, exploded Satur day morning and fell to the ground. The four men on board were killea. They were: Capt. Marchal, Lieut. Phaure and Sub-Lieuts. Vicenot and Reux. It was the intention of Capt. Marchal, who, was. in charge of the airship, to stop at Nevres, and an automobile containing mechanicans was following the balloon. It was almoet directly beneath it when the ticcjident occurred. The car Cell straight down, carrying the flutter ing remnants of the envelope, and ,the occupants were buried beneath ithe wreckage. All were dead except Lieut. Phaure, but he lived only a few minutes after being removed. The bodies were transferred to the .Chateau D'Averilly, the property of the Marquis de Chavannes. Lieut. Tixier, who was in the au | tomobile, says that the balloon burst I and collapsed. It seemed to oscil I late violently for a moment prior '?to this, as though it had been struck, and it fell with the rapidity of a stone. When he reached the wreck age the car was completely covered with the envelope and not a sound, came from beneath. With the aid of Marquis de Chavannes and peas ants who hurried from the surround ing fields the envelope wa& removed. The spectacle was appalling. The car had been literally crushed, and amid the mass of tangled Bteel and wire every man except Phaure could be seen at his post. Capt. Marchal was in a fitting posture, his body thrown back and his eyes wide open, the bodies of the sub-lieutenant lay mangled beneath the cylinder of the motor. . Phaure's ;body was lying half outside, as if possibly he had tried to jump during the descent. Apparently the death in the case of the three men had been instan taneous from the shock when they ttruck the earth and fee weight of the heavy rig^ng above. Capt. Marchal's skull was crushed. An examination disclosed the cause of the accident. The axle of the right propeller had broken and the propeller had passed through the envelope falling in a field about 130 yard?i away. A careful investigation of the ac cident will be held but the fact that the propeller which was found was enwrapped with twisted wire is com plete confirmation that it flew off and punctured the balloon. Tbo loss of the Republique as sumes the magnitude of a national calamity, especially as. the French had come to believe that the semi rigid type which is the system em ployed in the construction of their dirigibles was. superior to the rigid type which has been adopted by Count Zeppelin of Germany. President Fallieres and Gen. Brun, minister of war, who were informed of the catastrophe while engaged in the inauguration of the first inter national exhibition of aerial locomo tion at the grand palace, were much affected and left the building im mediately. The president directed Gen. Brun to send the condolences of the government to the families of the victims. DEATH OF A MISER With Money in Bank, Deeds in Vault, u Man Start es. One of the most remarkable cases in the history of the coroner's of fice at Cincinnati, O., was reported late Saturday when the body of Christopher Kuhn, aged GS, a cab inetmaker, was discovered in his squalid room at 1622 Central avenue. The man had been dead since Sep tember 6, when, according to neigh bors, he apparently died of starva tion. Secreted in th:' room where he was found were many thousands of dollar?.' worth of securities and deeds to th<"> property in which his room was located and adjoining property along Central avenue. There were keys to a fafety deposit box in the city hall bank and a hank book howing he had on deposit $1.100. Died in the Flood. Gen. Trevino, military commander of the district of north -rn Mexico, who has directed the distribution of aid through the section swept by tin; recent flood, es--tiniaf.es the num ber of live? lost at 2,000. Two thousand bodies were recovered. Between Monterey and Tampico, Gen. Hervinn states, every vestige of cul tivation and the homes and stores of the inhabitants have been washed away and there is still great need of outside aid. * TW GANG OF SWINDLERS A VAST CONSPIRACY TO DE FRAUD PEOPLE IS ALLEGED. i Eighty-five Men Indicted in Iowa on Charge of Using Mails ,'n Swindl ing Operations. At Council Bluff, Iowa, James C. I Mabray and 84 alleged associates, I were a few days ago indicted by the I United States grand jury for the southern district of Iowa, charged with conspiracy to defraud by ille gal use of the United States mails. With the exception of Mabray and three or four others, none of those indicted are in custody and for that reason the names of the defendants were not made public. It was stated the list -included many persons known In criminal an nals in all parts of the country and that nearly every name is followed by from one to four aliases. Each of these alleged confederates had a number, which is given as one of the aliases according to the defend ant. Although specific amounts are not mentioned in the indictment, it is authoratively stated that the amounts lost by the alleged" victims-^bf-Mab ray and others named will exceed $500.000. The sums lost run from $1,500 to $30,000, the latter sum having been placed on fake horse races, according to the evidence at hand, by a Missouri banker. Victims in la States, the territory of Alaska and the Dominion of Can ada are named in the indictment, Indicating the wide range of terri tory over which Mabray and his as sociates are alleged to have plied their vocation. As a basis of operation tbey used, according to the Indictment, the cities of Council Bluff, Davenport and Burlington, Iowa; St Louis, Little.; Rock, Seattle, Denver and New Or leans?, to which places it is alleged victims were taken by the numerous steerers. In setting out the specific instanc es in which violations of the postal laws are charged, the indictment in cludes copies of many sensational letters said to have been exchanged between Mabray and his associates which refer to alleged "deals" and name various sums of money as hav ing changed hands as a result of the operations of those mentioned in the indictment. , ? j ,?; One of the letters is dated from a New York hotel, and , invites "Friend John," who, it is alleged, is Mabray himself, to go to New York city, declaring "I have^a town might across the river from New York in Jersey, a swell track and ab solute protection. The sheriff and prosecutor and police; they will be absolutely right on the job during working hours." It is expected the trials- will begin at Red Oak, Iowa, during the Novem ber term of court or at Des Moines in December. Sylvester R. Russ, special assistant to the attorney gen eral of the United States, at the in stance of the deparment of justice is taking part in the prosecution. * SHOOTS HIS KINSMAN. A Man Probably Fatally Wounded His Brother-in-Law. D. D. Fields, one of the wealthiest plauters of Emanuel county, is dying at his home at Adrian, Ga., while hi.-' brother-in-law, M. J. Webb, is a prisoner in the jail as the result of a fight between the two men in an open field near Adrian Friday night. The two men jointly owned a farm and disputed over the divis ion of the crop. At first they fought with fists but Webb ended the troub le by drawing his pistol and shoot ing his kinsman through the head. Fields dropped unconscious to the ground, while Webb, it is said, de- i clared his intention not to submit to arrest. lie was not taken into custody. Fields' brother is sheriff of Emanuel county. *. j SHOOTS HIS DINNER GUEST. J. F. Boarcher Resents Upsetting of Coffee on Tablecloth. Some of the folks of Lawrence burg. Ind., must have queer idea-' about hospitality. Recently T. K. Ititzie was Invited to eat dinner at the home of J. F. Boarcher and a few minutes after entering the house he was carried out with five bullet holes in his body. He acci dentally turned over a cup of cof- i fee on tin' table cloth and resented reproval of the act of his host. Ronrchher .not his revolver and emp tied the live chambers in Ritzie's body, and In- is now at a hospital in a dying condition. Boarcher es caped. People who dine at Hoarch er s must be careful at>out their rof fee. * Tried to Take His Life. Despondent over his paralyzed con dition. Geo. .1. Rhodes, 40 years old, j Saturday slashed his thorat three! rimes with a pocket knife and then . jumped in'.o the lake a; Lakewood I near Atlanta, in an attempt to com-j mit F-uieide. Rhodes grasped a pole j under the water but his failing strength caused him to relax his hold and when he came to the sur face he was rescued and hurried to a hospital. It is believed he will recover. * O CENTS PER COPY TURNED LOOSE Jiirj Says Jas. S. Farnum is Not Guilt; of Charge of Briber; to ALLEGED GRAFT CASES "Beer King" Fac^ Another Charge of Bribery and is Implicated In Two Other Cases?John Black, Former Dispensary Director, to Be Tried This Week. James S. Farnum. on trial at Co lumbia for several days on the charge ?of bribery in connection with the ['alleged 'dispensary "Graft," walked, from the Rjebland county court, house Saturday afternoon a tree man, the jury, after six hours deliberation having returned a verdict of "dot guilty." ' 1 He is charged in several other indictments, but unless he is tried along with others on a charge of1, conspiracy his case will not come*1 up at this term of court. Thus has ended one of the most brilliant legal combats in the his tory of jurisprudence in South Caro lina; ? Of special significance is the fact also that the State has not made good on the first of the alleged dispensary graft cases that was awaited with so much interest. ' The jury took only one ballot and stood at first 11 for acqulttajP. and one for conviction, according*, to the statement of one of the jurors^ The losing of the first case will not deter the State from pushing the charges against the others that are^ indicted according to an intimation by Attorney General Lyon. Attorney General Lyon when ask ed convefning the trial shortly after the verdict bad been rendered by' the jury be said: "I have nothing to say, the testimony in the case 6peaks for itself.'' He made no definite statement as* to the future action of the State other than to state that the case against John Black, charged with ac: cepting a bribe would very prob ably be called on Wednesday. This statement was made in the court Saturday afternoon on the request of Judge Memmlnger, who had pre viously asked that other cates be ..triefl ..during next week other than the remaining "one agaibst Farnpro. Not talking officially, the attorney general however, intimated that the first defeat would not deter ihp course of the State in reference to. the other indictment' in the allege^ dispensary "graft," ? - When pressed for an official state ment, the attorney general said, "I have heard it rumored that the !jury declined to bring in a verdict against ?the defendant because "they woi^tf .not convict on the testimony of ah.. accomplice. If this.rule is to be.fol lowed It will always be a practica?' Impossibility to ever convict one for bribery, for testimony in such cas es, must always come from an ac complice." The attorneys for the defense wore naturally very much gratified at the result of the trial. ? EAT*} FROM BOY'S HAM). Reptile Nibbles Bread in Fist of Sleeping Chiid. A Chicago dispatch says .Mr. J. Martin Grant, of K. F. I). No. 2, who was in the city Friday, tol.d of a thrilling adventure at Mr. A. Ross Durham's Friday night, in which Mr. Durham',', little son, Charlie, was subjected to great peril from the presence of a deadly snake. It seems that the little fellow had gone asleep on the porch after supjver with a biscuit In his- hand, when Mrs. Durham who had been attracted to the porch, was horrified to see a tremendous highland mocc-usin nib bling at the biscuit and endeavoring to wrench it away. With a scream she jerked the boy back and a col ored domestic dispatched the snake with a ho?1. The reptile wa*- intent on the bread, and after the child was drawn away, went quietly on eating, the bread, which bad been left on the Moor. * AUTO TURNS OVER. Kills Lady and Catches Vive, Roast ing a Man Alive. One person was burned lo death, .'?nother instantly killed and a third burned, when an automobil.', driven by .lohn McLondon, ran off an eight foot embankment near Amerieus, Ca.. on last Friday. McI>'!idon and Miss Viola Herman, one of bis com panions, were pinioned beneath the wrecked car, which caught lire. Ethel Hilt, another member of the party, although severely bi;rn?d, ran screaming to Amerieus two miles dis tant to give the alarm. Miss Her man's neck was broken by the fall and death was instantaneous, but McLondon was literally roasted ali vi?. * Sav?'d From Storm. Tabs of hardship and destruction fif lit"'* and property continue to come in from the Gulf storm of las; week. In Grand Caillon, La., floating on a bit of plank was found a nine month-old baby, alive after three days without food.