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PUBLISHED THBEE SIX MEN DEAD * As the Result of a Terrible Explosion in a Cod Mine THREE FATALLY HURT The Mine Oanght Fire at Once and Late Sunday Night the Flames Were Shooting Up From the Shaft Nearly One Hundred Feet in the Open Air. Near Roslyn, Wash., Sunday night, at least - men were killed and three perhaps fatally injured in a gas explosion in coal mine No. 4,! of the Northwestern Improvement Company. When the explosion occurred, a column of fire was thrown hundreds of feet into the air, igniting the shaft plant and adjoining buil.'iings. Under the Intense heat the hoist of the shaft crumbled and fell. Cinders were blown iu all directions, several buildings in parts of the little min ing town taking file. The citizens were unable to jxtingttlsh the tires and the Roslyn fire department was called out. The mine in the neighborhood of the shaft was burning fiercely late Sunday night, llames shooting up from the shaft nearly one hundred feet into the air. The electric pumps, which supply he town of Roslyn with water, were cut off and the water In the city was very nearly exhausted. It was reported that the shaft was caving in and that other explosions might occur at any mo ment. Rescue partis will be sent into the1 j mine from the slope connecting with the shaft as soon as it is safe for men to approach. * MULE KILLED BY TRAIN. With Boggy it Had Been Left to Wander at Will. A Newberry dispatch to The State says the down freight on the Colum bia, Newberry & Laurens railroad, which passes Newberry about S:li6 every evening on its way to Colum bia, struck a mule and buggy at the crossing on the street leading to Helena, the next crossing above tae fatal Clive street crossing, where so many accidents have occurred here tofore, Saturday night, killiug the mule and demolishing t?e buggy. It seems that the train was run ning very slowly, about six miles an hour, and the mule with the bug gy was unattended. The mule had been left unhitched by its owner, Lee Rutherford, colored, in town, nearly a mile from where the accident occurred, and had walked off with the buggy, going in the direction of its home. The mule was of average value and is tfie second that Ruther ford has lost this year. ? s.-UlREtS resigns. Sends His Resignation to a Big Mass Meeting. A Chester dispatch to The State says at a mass meeting of citizens at the court house Friday night May or Henry Samuels submitted fiis res ignation to lake effect immediately. Mr. J. L. Glenn of the local bar read the resignation, which was ac companied by a request that the meetiag adopt no denunciatory reso lutions. Messrs. M. S. Lewis. T. H. White and L. D. Childs made remarks, calling upon the press, pulpit and citizens generally to accept the resig-J nation and drop all further adverse I comment. The resignation and the accompa nying suggestions were unanimous ly adopted and the big audience ; res ent went home with the outlook clear' for a bigger and better Chester. "I Another Newberry .Murder. As a resutl of a negro barbecue Saturday Newberry county has anoth er murder to her credit. The negroes in the lower section of the county, about seven miles below Prosperity, had a barbecue on Mr. Burr Stock man's plantation. From the facts gathered by the coroner, ii seems that .John Wheeler walked up with a double-barreled shotgun and with little or :io provocation .shot Payton Rawl. * Shoots the Sheriff Sheriff II. .1. Pope of Taylor coun ty, Ga.. lies in a hospital dangerously I wounded, having bseu slim three! times in attempting to arrvs' I It. j I'.'-own ;it Butler, Ga., late Sunday night. The surgeons enternn iiu.'e hope for his recovery. Yin* oflicerJ is too seriously injured tn make a:iv tatement about the shooting auc! as here were no eye witness. -; de;ai!n' f the affair are meager. * After Many Years. A Charleston man who lost his old rim spectacles i:i Cuba about ' ii ime of the Spanish war has been lade happy by the receipt of th?;| lasses a few days ago through thei mils. It has been a lotttc wait, ut there is satisfaction at last in retting back his spectacles The eatber bad almost all rotted off the netal case which had been found in trench around Santiago, but still he glasses arc in good condition. * TIMES A WEEK. UTiCA CRIME SOLVED THEODORE RI?ZO HELD FOR MURDER OF 2 CHILDREN. Lured Three Children to Lonely Ra vine for Purpose of Assault, and Then Shot Two Dead. After puzzling over the case since September 12, the authorities of j Utica, N. Y., have finally solved the I mystery of the murder of Theresa I Procopio, seven years old, and Fer dinando Infusino, two and a half I years old, and the shooting of the lat ter's six-year-old sister, Fanny, the crimes which were committed in an isolated ravine on the outskirts of Utica, and which, for several weeks, threatened to always remain a mys tery. The police have not only clear I ed up the case, but in the arrest of Theodore Rizzo, who has been ar raigned and held for court on a charge of first degree murder, they have the brute who butchered tbe children. So complete was the chain of evidence which Chief of Police Brbphy wove arounj the prisoner that the latter broke down and con fessed to the crime when told of the evidence against him. Rizzo's con fession has not yet been made pub lic, as the IS,000 Italian residents of Utica are in an inflamed state of mind over the atrocious deed, hence fears for the prisoner's life are en tertained. Kizzo's confession is complete and binding, he having told the police the full details of the crime. He admits that he lured the three Italian children to the lonely ravine for the purpose of criminal attacking either the Procopio or jthe Infusino girl, and then when they resisted and de clared their intention of telling on him he shot all three of them to seal their lips. When he left the ravine he thought all the children were dead. The Procopio girl and little Ferdl nartdo Infusino were, but Fanny In fusino, though, sorely wounded, soon regained consciousness. She saw the body of her brother lyiiig in the mud at 'be bottom of th<; ravine and she dragged it out among the goiden rod that fringed ue side of tbe beult' and then kept watch over it until a neighboring woman discovered them j the next morning. | Fanny Infusino was taken to a hospital, where she recovered, aud me police immediately set to" w;?rk : .? the case. They made but sl*.v progress, as clews were very few. but the fact that Rizzo was seen corring from the ravine soon after the crime occurred gave them some thing to work on. They built up a strong case against the Italian, but it threatened to fall flat wnen the Infusino girl failed to identify him. . She said, however, he looked some-1 thing like the man aside from the fact that her assailant bad long j hair, whereas Rizzo's was cropped1 clos'i? to' his head. The police soon discovered that he had had his hair cut like this on the day after tbe n??rgfe?, ?ridj when he waa fitted out with a wig the girl identified' L<f.m. ' He was :imme<Uateiy taken j into custody, and his confession fol-j lowed. *. MASSACRE CHARGED TO LITTLE. Mrs. Little in Affidavit Declares He Wore Bloody Clothes. A dispatch from Bluefield, W. Va., says the wife of Howard Little, who 1 was arrested about a week ayp i charged with the murder of "Aunt petsy" Justice, Geo. A. Meadows and wife aud three children, coniessed a few days ago that she washed his blootiy clothing the day after the I murder and in her affidavit she says' nlso that he left their home about j dark on the night of the murder! ?and returned the next morning with ' his clothes all bloody and torn and \ said that he would kill her if she, told anything about his condition, i Ho borrowed a 3 2-calibre revolver, a few days before the crime was com-1 mitled and returned it on the fol j lowing Wednesday with two Cham- \ hers empty. The body of George Meadows was exhumed and two bul-: e's taken from it by DoctorF Rich rdson and White were almost iden j tu a! in weight with the balls taken I from shells belonging to the weapon j Little had borrowed, j Little's wife also turned over the j lantern that he brought home with ? him that night which showed file' marks as if some one had tried to cut off the bloodstains. He was seen i:t the barn next morning folding pu-] pors across his kneo apparently i muting money and he gave twenty dollars 10 a woman with whom in had planned to start for the west a few days aft? r the misr ler was com mitted, with which to buy clothing and prepare for the train. Having done this she returned ona dollar .hi ! eighty cents to Little at which ' time she swears he threatened her life if she revealed any part of their, secret: J Requisition papers have been ap plied for and as soon as they can be secured Little will : ? removed to Lebanon to await hi.? trial. Threats of I; nchi: r?re Fr?1 ?-? mad". Shoots Limself. At Winston-Salem, N. C. Albert; C. VVhatton. one of the most promi np'i: ?-!tof that --ttion. com tui ted suicide a few days ago by mooting through the head. He had been suffering fron: melancholia for several weeks. * ?RAiNGBBUBG TRIE OF BLACK Siddenly Ended by Jndge Memminger CrJering a Mistrial JURY READ A NEWSPAYER A Copy of The State Found Its Wny i Into the Hotel Room Occupied by Jurors, and One Member Talked! Through a Window to One of HLs Employes. j The State of Saturday morning' gave the following story of the trial: of John Black, which was brought) to an unexpected and sensational termination Friday: Judge Mem minger directed "mistrial" to be written on the record on account of jurors having a newspaper contain ing matter relating to the case. The whole matter is without parallel iu the history of the courts of this! State. One of the jprors, J. D. Perry,' had had verbal communication with the clerk in his' meat market, C. M. Dorn, and the latter had been ar rested and put in the county jail. When court assembled Friday morn ing, Judge Memminger made an of ficial Inquiry into the matter. He had questioned Perry and Sessions, another juror, and was making In quiries of the foreman, J. David, when it was brought out in the most unemotional way that a copy of The State had been read by the jurors in the rooms in which they were lock ed up Wednesday night to keep them from reading newspapers and other wise receiving information from the outside world. Judge Memminger was dumbfound ed. He had asked the question in ah apparently perfunctory manner, and the reply was entirely unexpected. Mr. David was unable to tell much about the newspaper matter and Judge Memminger had every juror ! brought into the court room sep arately and put through a search ing examination. It was learned that The State of that morning contained extracts from other papers making caustic ' reference to the jury which liberated j J. S. Farnum, and there were also pointed comments in the editorial columns of The State. The head lines over the articles detailiug the trial of John Black were also refer red to. Judge Memminger ordered the jury discharged without pay and he I held in custody J. D. Perry and C. M. Dorn until it could bo determin ed what to do with them. Later they were discharged from custody, but were ordered to be within call of the * court at any time, for Judge Mlm minger will be in Columbia next week in the civil court and will then announce his decision. The trial of Jonu Black, charged with bribery, etc., was thus for the present brought . to a conclusion. The effect of Judge Memminger'a action will merely mean another tri al. There was speculation as to whether or not it would not be tanta | mount to an acquittal, techically, hut I Attorney General Lyon said that the ! horn books of the law show that j directing a "mistrial" in an emer I gency of this kind does not mean 1 that defendant has had his liberty put in jeopardy before the jury. Cor issue was not given to the jury to make final determination. But even if the case should be declared to be at an end here, the commonwealth would have no troul.de to bring another. j There has been some speculation j as to what was the attitude of the! jury toward the case. Several ru mors were afloat. One was to the effect that the jury stood 8 to 4 on the bribery charge. One intelligent j juro rtold a reporter of The Statt; that the jury stood 7 to 5 for con viction on the bribery charge and that it was even stronger for con vic'ion on the corruption ami rebate count in the indictment. This juror said there would never have been an acquittal. When the court took recess Thurs day evening, the prosecution an nounced its case closed. The defense Friday morning would have an nounced no witnesses and the argu ments would have started. The prosecution would have sprung a sur-j prise by having its principal speech made by Solicitor W. H. Cobb, who! had been too busy with his own' heavy docket to prepare himself in; the Farnum case. j But as soon as court opened Fri-' day morning Judge Memminger cal led before him F. T. Grimsley, a deputy sheriff, and inquired into the| matters of the night before. Grims-i ley told of arresting C. M. Dorn and1 A. T. Keith Thursday night on Hamp-j ton street under the room in Wright'?I hotel occupied by the jurors in the Black case. Dorn was employed by j one of the jurors. J. I). Perry, and was talking to him about matters at their meat market. Judge Memminger then questioned Dorn and Perry and also Juror Ses-1 sions. who was in the room with Per-1 ry at the time. The foreman of the jury. J. David, was sent for and while under examination by Judg ? Mommincor related the fact that the jurors had been reading a news paper. I After quizzing the jurors singly and separately. Judge Memminge1' said to the jury: "I want to say to you. after the investigation I made this morning. I can not see but one course to pursue, and that is a mistrial of this case will have to be ordered. I do not think the matters which have been brought out show that therj S. C.. TUESDAY. OCTC has been any corruption among you, but there has been serious indiscre tion, and the indiscretion is such that if a verdict of guiity were rendered in the case, under the authorities, the defendant would be entitled to a new trial. "I have to look at both sides of a case, and I must look from the standpoint of the State as well as that of the defendant. If I allow the case to go to you, with these matters before me, as have been brought out, the State would have no redress whatever, if you find a verdict of not guilty. The only thing I see to do is to order a mistrial of the case. "I am extremely sorry that this thing should have happened, that you should have been guilty of this in discretion. Every precaution was taken to see that you should be sur rounded and protected from outside influence, and that you should have every possible comfort while in at tendance on this case. It appears from what most of you have> said that you fully realize that you ought not to be reading a newspaper in the jury room pertaining to the case, and if you had proper realization of your responsibility, as you ought to have had, as soon as it was brought to the attention of any of the jury that a newspaper was in there it should have been reported at once to the sheriff; that would have giv en encouragement to the belief that you did realize the responsibility which is upon you as jurors; but none of you did that; the foreman did uot communicate it to me. "It is also on account of the in cident which ? occurred last night, which I doubt If it be any more than an indiscretion on the part of the juror and on the part of the young man who had the conversation with him, but that in combination with the other matter, your having had access to a newspaper and read ing the newspaper in your room, and notwithstanding the strict guard kept over you, these combinations would tend to cast suspicion on any verdict you might render, and it would not be satisfactory to anybody to have a verdict from the jury when this sort of things has happened.' "Now as to what I shall do to you this is a matter, gentlemen, that I will have to decide; It is, a respon sibility cast upon me. I have no I hesitancy in knowing what to do) with respect to the man who commu nicated with the juror and I shall hold him and put punishment .upon him for contempt of this court, and as to the juror who allowed himself to be communicated with, who act ually did not resent the communica tion from the outside,, but actually condoned that communication by im mediately sending out a communica tion to the baliff, which was brought to me, asking that the man be let out on bond instead of resenting that communication, interference or con versation with anybody from the out side, which undoubtedly subjects the juror to serious criticism. "As to that juror I will ask him to remain in the custody of tho court. I will make up my mind later in , the day the proper course to be pur sued with reference to him. As to I the other jurors, I am going to dis charge you gentlemen, am going to i let you go and withhold your pay certificates until I think about this matter seriously and earnestly, with a strict regard to what 1 ought to do in discharging my duty to the peo pie of South Carolina in this mat ter. You all can go, with the ex ception of Mr. Perry, who had the communication; you will not get your pay certificates at the present. I will determine later on what course I will pursue in resepct to what shall be done about your case in this mat ter. "The clerk will enter an order of mistrial on the record, and all jurors will be discharged from further at tendance without pay certificates, except Juror Perry, who will remain i nthe custody of the sheriff. Mr. Dorn must also remain here, and 1 will dispose of his case. As to A.) T. Keith, I do not see anything in reference to his conduct for which j I can hold him responsible. You can let. him go." * NEW TRIAL DENIED. Judge Wilson Overrules Motion of Attorneys for Craft. A Lexington dispatch to The News and Courier says Judge John S. Wil son, nfter hearing argument for four hours, refused to grant, a new trial to Thomas Craft, a young white man in jail at that, place under life sentence in the Penitentiary for hav ing killed Carfield Hutto, another young white man, on the night of December 29, last year. This means that Craft will have to go to the "pen" unless the Supreme Court overrules the motion of Judge Wil son. Craft's attorneys will fight tin case to the bitter end. it is said, and the prosecution is equally deter mined. The grounds upon which the motion was asked is after discovered evidence, the claim of the defence being that )Iutto was killed by anoth er party and that Craft is iunocent. * Col. D. C. Sunders Dead. A dispatch from Walterboro says Col. I). C. Sanders, member of the house of representatives for Colle ton county, died at his home Sun day morning of acute Blight's dis ease at the age of 58. A widow, t\\.; sons and a daughter survive him. rliunps the Track. Near Huntington. W. Va.. pne man j was killed ami four others injured, one probably fatally, when a Chesa-1 pcake & Ohio, engine jumped th. track and turned over into a ditch Friday. Engineer C. W. Perry died shortly after being taken to the hospital. * )BER 5, 190>J EATS HIS CHO Driven by Hunger, Arctic Hi nter Commits F.af.l Crime TO PRESERVE HIS LIFE The Man's Fishing and Hunting Season Had Been a Failure and: Driven Mad by Hunger, He Killed One of His Children and Ate the Little Victim. A Sunday's dispatch from St. John's, N. F., says tragedy in the far North formed the burden of the news brought to port today by the Hudson Bay Company's steamer Adventure which arrived with the crew of the lost Dundee whaler Paradox, and the story of an Eski mo, who driven to cannibalism by starvation, ate his child. The Paradox, one of the fleet of whalers, met the fate of her com panion ship, Snowdrop, when she was crunched in the ice floes off Baffin Land, early in August a year ago. The crew, with scanty provisions, made their way over [the broken ice towards the mainland, and were picked up this fall by the steamer. The Hudson Bay mounted police report, through dispatches brought by the Adventure, the canniablism of the starving Eskimo. The man's fishing and hunting season had been a failure and driven mad by hunger, he cut the throat of one of his chil dren and then ate the little victim. When the man's neighbors learn ed of the horrible crime, they attack ed him according to the primitive I law of their race. The outcast beat off all assaults, shot down several, I of the attacking party and escaped I into the wilderness. His fate is un known. INSISTS HE IS INNOCENT. Man Accused of Killing Wife Sub mits to Interview. At Spartanburg Dock Foster, who is held in the county jail under sus picion of having murdered his wife, Martha Foster, and buried her mu tilated body in a woodland on the suburbs of the city, submitted to an interview, but vsoulu answer few questions. "God knows I am an innocent man," he repeated time and time again. He has not explained his movements on Tuesday and Tues day night, nor has he produced any one other than himself who saw Mrs. Foster In a hack with a negro and a white man Tuesday evening. Fos ter was last seen with his wife Tues day afternoon in the woods where the body was found. CONVICTED OF MANSLAUGHTER. Homicide Trial at Aiken Results in Verdict of Guilty. The first of the quintette of white men of Horse Creek Valley to be tried at Aiken for murder was Thomas Rogers, charged with the murder of Paul Jones. The case was concluded Friday afternoon, asd resulted in a verdict of guilty of man slaughter. The killing occurred at Johnstown, about seven weeks ago, this being the first of the homicides to occur there recently. It appears that the men had previously quar reled, and when Jones was killed Rogers was under the influence of whiskey. Jones was cut with a knife which disembowelled him, and Le died some time later. 4 Trolley Wreck. At Pittsburg, Pa., two men were killed and eight other passengers se riously injured, three of them prob ably fatally, Sunday night in a street car accident there. While a car was rounding a corner at a fair rate of speed one of the axles broke. The car swerved around and upset, the dead and injured being caught in the wreckage. AH the victims were! passengers. Killed the Right Fellow. Enraged at his wife because' breakfast was not ready on time. | Edward F. M?ller, a special detectiwj living in New York, shot at her with i a revolver Sunday and when he s;iwj her fall, turned the weapon against himself aud blew out his brans. ' His wife was not even scratched b.: the bull--t She had fa-ntoo from! i ruru rrihlil Muller died alinc-, m-, slant ly. ? i Fiends Convicted. At Lanreus George Davis and John I Vance, colored, were a few das' ago convicted of rape on the ner son of a white woman in the Gray Court section of tii" county, with recommendation to mercy. I'nderj the new Wharton law Judge Ship,! sentenced the two negroes to twenty years in the penitentiary, it being now left in the court's discretion, as to the penalty under a recom- ! mendation. * j Broke His Neck. Elsin Yawn, a farm":- living be tween Helena and Chauncey, u found dead, lying beside a road about, dusk Sunday. He was return ing from Chauncey. when he was thrown !>y a mule, breaking his neck and bruising his skull against a rock as he fell to the ground. Me leaves a wife aud several children. ' T\V< SiMMES AND THE SUITER SOME INTERESTING GLIMPSES OF OLK STATE HISTORY. The Brave South Carolina Soldier J After Whom the Southern Cruiser Was Named. In speaking of the celebration ol the one hundredth anniversary oi tie iiirth of Admiral Raphael Seniwes. the Indianapolis News says: Throughout the South yesterday the one-hundredth anui?era<iiv of the oirth of Raphael Sediiuet, who bore the title of admiral in the Confed erate navy, was generally observed; That he was a man ol talent and a skillful seaman is without ques tion, as is also the fact that he, as j commander of the Alabama, wnich was finally pounded to pieces on." Cherbourg, France, by the old Kear sarge. did greater havoc to Northern shipping than any other ioan t.n;.t ever sailed a privateer. The name of Slimier, that of his (irst vessel, was as familiar to iDe North perhaps as was thnt of the famous privateer, the Bonne Horn me Richard, commanded by John Paul Jones, of Revolutionary memory, out most readers probably though: t'ae namo Suniter was given to t'ae Semmes vessel in recognition of Port Sumter, in Charleston, S. C, harbor, the first United States strong hoid to fall into the hands of the Con federates. The name of Sumter, however, Is that of a Revolutionary hero, who, with Francis Marion, may be named as the most, distinguished sons of South Carolina in that, strug gle. In the North the name of the first-named hero is comparatively an unfamiliar one, while the name of Marlon has been given to counties, cities and towns tin (many States, North as well as South. Thomas Sumter called "the Caro lina Game Cock," as Francis Marion was called, "the Carolina SwampB Fox," was born in South Carolina in 1734 and died June 1, 1832, hav ing lived to the extreme age of 98 years, outliving by ten years stout old Brig. Gen. John Stark, of New Hampshire, who died May 8, 1822, at the age of 94 years. Stark won great honor by defeating Baum, who com manded a force of Hessians, on August 16, 17T7, at Bennlngton, and afterward defeated a force under Breyman, victorious which led to the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga, which in turn brought France to the aid of the colonies as an ally. Thomas Sumter, after the capture of Charleston, S. C, by the British in 17S?, took the field as a brigadier generol at the head oi a body of light horse and immediately became one of the most active and aaic parti san leaders of the South. His brav ery, endurance and unvarying cheer fulness and-determination cause! him to be adored by his followers. The war over, political honors awaited him. He was repeatedly elocted to Congress, was minister to Brazil and several terms in the United States Senate. And this was" the hero whose name was given to the fort 'in Charleston harbor, where the f.ug was fired upon, rousing the North to action, and this the name of the commerce destroyer commanded by the Confederate admiral whom the South remembered yesterday. HAD A CLOSE CALL. Two Men In Auto That Rams Train Have AVonderful Escape. As a train bound for Mantatton was [lulling out of the Twenty-sec ond avenue station. Path Beach, a few days ago, an automobile in waich were two men dashed down the avenue toward the bay. The chauf feur put on the brakes, out struck i the rear car of the train, and to the passengers it looked as though the two men had been killed. The driver escaped with a bad shak ing up. His "ompanions was buri ed in the air and lan?ed on bis side. \\ hen he got up he brushed j his clot lies, and I)r. I>e Mound, who ' examined him, said that his "s.-.ape ' had been nothing b.-ss than a mira cle. Not a bone was broken. Moth men went home without giving their . names. * Hit by Hall Bat Fifteen-year-old Joseph <;o?.i man. who lived with his parents at No. I 17 Aries street. E .it N* w Vor-;, was watching a number of Soys play ing ball 11our bis home. He was standing close behin . M..\ Meyeir ing. also lii'teeti years old; The lat ter swung bark bis t>..: wtih ..!! bis might and iiccideniaily ??:.- Good man In the stomach. They <;..-:)e;j the boy f a drug store, but by lh?; time an ambulance arrived from St Mary's hospital Goodman wan .)?-..?l ' Disabled by Bees. While engaged in ro^ovt:TJng a house at Clifton No * Spartanburg! county, II. It. Hughes. <??:;?? r, i stirred up a bumble bf.e nest, and j before lie COllid IVtrr.'il :*> .'. phlCC <?.'.' safety, the bees applied th-ir bus)-, noss end to his'iauds an I leg* H?? w:*s forced to quit wor?! ::vi r.:ul to be carried home in a buggy and h<? j was so badly stun?: '.hat he could not walk. ' I Wanted !<? t'e Ki i'sl. A! Pans. A'p!ion:-o lianein. a ivurkniaii. on trisl to- the mnr.br of wife, dei-1;1. ed that (.?? killed j her at her own request because her suffering from consumption was greater than she could bear. The man's story was not believed, the medical examiner having declared B?ndln a degenerate. Nevertheless the court acquitted him. * r> CENTS PVR Copy DRIVEN TO CRIME Strange Misfortunes of a West Virginia Hatfield. DIED IN THE PENITEN1ARY Robbed cf His Savings They Wc?^' in Part Recovered and Then 01* Man Poisoned His Wife?An Un usual Case in the History of OM> State of West Virginia. A dispatch from Washington savu a romantic story has been disclosed oy postoffiee Inspectors regarding HarrisoD Hatfield of ?lhe family o| teudists of that name','* who died'io* ? ently in the penitentiary at Mounds ville, W. Va. ? Harrison Hatfield lived near Horse Pen, in the mountains* of West Vir ginia. He was widely known a:i "Old Hatcher," and Was leader of '.he Hatfielrts in the McCoy-Hatfietd feud, which amounted almost to c*vi| war and disrupted several counties on the borders of West Virginia and! Kentucky. One of his. eyes was shot out during a rail which the Hatfieldu made into Kentucky several jcara ago. The Hatfields! owned large areas of land in West Virginia Iron* which they realized considerable money. "Old Hatcher deposited $2,854 inj the Guyan Valley. bank at Logani |W. Va. Subsequently, having needf of the money, he authorized Alex ander H. Trent, postmaster at Horse Peii, to direct the bank to forwawf to him the money by registered mattj, Hatfield called at the postoflke r? ,peatedly for the registered letter, 'but when H arrive on April. S$, 'l907, he had left the office'only| a short time before to assist an in toxicated friend who could not foi 'astride his mule alone. HatQId,&H rected Postmaster Trent to take spe cial, care of the letter, lest it be de stroyed by fire in the postoflke. . An investigation of che fire' and, the disappearance of the letter was; made by postotfice iirispectors. it was discovered that Postmaster Trent had obtained a typewriter from, a Chicago concern by fraudulent repr resentations, to which he confessed. Later Postmaster Trent and bis fath er were indicted for having stolen the registered letter. Postmaster Trent finally confessed to the theft and made a proposition looking to :the refunding of the* money. Ho produced from a jar hidden uriticr the barn the sum of $1,280, which, with $500 obtained from his bondte nien, was eventually turned over to H?^field. Trent was convicted of the ."ime, but esci;Ved from jail and is a fugitive from justice. Becoming in^ne from wo.'ry over the loss of bis money atf^ tnw sudden elation at the recovery of a part of it, Harrison.Hatfield poisoned] [ his wife, who was- an Indian with I man. He was sentenced to the peni tentiary for life and there he dlftd o.nly a fw days ago. It was not until his death that the postoflke inspectors felt justified in revealing all the factB respecting the case. * LEFT HIS CHILD. Sack Pleads Guilty and is Fined Two Hundred Dollars. A Spartanburg dispatch to The News and Courier says H. A. Sack, money delivery clerk of the Southern Express Company at Savannah, enter ed a plea of guilty to the charge ot desertiug his chilld in Spartanburg last Saturday night. He was sen tenced to serve nine months or pay a fine of $2 00. He paid the fine. The case against Mrs. Sack, charg ed with deserting the child, was nolle pressed. Sack says that his wife, ;o whom the child was born about four weeks ago, was nervous and excited, and when she took the - rain Spartanburg left the child in the waiting room of the station. ? Gets a New Trial. At Columbia Wash Medlin wai granted a new trial by Judge M? m minger Friday afternoon following i.-giiments by Attorney Ilenet and Solicitor Cobb. Me'H? was convicted i.: manslaughter a: this term of '.-'Urt. II" was charged with toe murder of Mrs. Victoria Gritlin, a middle-aged white woman, whoso throat was cat '.v:th a razor and who was knocked in the head wiih an ;uo !>} ber murderer er murderers. * Ilrheu to Suicide. Worried by the responsibility ot assisting Aeronauts Wright and Cur ??s, ;it New York, in the prepara tions for their aeroplane (lights at Governor's Island, Quartermaster Serjst. Caron, of the Twenty-ninth in fantry, committed sui i le at Fort Jay. Thursday night, shooting him self through the head with a ride. * Kenterte?*?! for Extortion. \hraham C. Shy. formerly Mayor ef Burkeville, Va.. who was eonvicted r**;:ently o; using the mails to o? tort money from the Pennsylvania H ..'ro..l Company, was a few days sentenc I to eighteen months In : ? goveiunv ,? :.. is . \ ..f Atlant;?. ? Rulers of the World. An exchange says it was CapL Cook who first sailed around tho world, and it was Dr. Cook who has first hitched his sled to the North Pole. It Is the cooks that rule the university. ?