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ItU About Conditions in lite Atlanta Stockade. TREATED LIKE BEASTS Reports Barbarin us Conditions and Superintendent Vining is Thor oughly Incompetent?Revelations Grew Out of .an Indictment of Two Officers for Beating a Negro. "No words can express our sur prise, mortification and disgust at the unspeakable conditions which ex ist at the city stockade." Such is the opening sentence, says the Atlanta .Journal of the report made Friday to Judge Ellis, of tHe ijuperior court ,by the November grand jury, which sent a committee eat to the city chain gang Thurs day afternoon to investigate charg ?B-which grew out of the alleged un merciful beating of negroes by con vict guards. The committee reports that 100 negro men were found cooped up in a small poorly ventilated eating room, which had a dirt floor, and which was absolutely offensive from filth, expectoration and the odor of unclean human bodies. The room where the white men ate, it is stated, was little better, except that I the Moor was of concrete. The sleeping apartments, it is charged, are still more horrible, where masses of numan beings were compelled-to lie down on .mattress es which were as filthy as filth could ?make them. The mattresses .were 'mover cleaned, the blankets were never washed, and one white con vict declared, it is stated, that he was compelled to go for 44 days without once taking off or changing sis clothing. The pants couldn't acre been taken off, on account of tile shackles. This man stated that at the end of that time he was full e? vermin. None of the clothes worn by the white or black convicts looked as if they had ever been washed. ? There were no bathing facilities, no ventilation, no prison discipline, ?o. prison ? rules, declared the grand Jury. ? The same conditions existed in the kitchen where the cooks were unclean women prisoners. The reg ular rations consisted of a piece of earn bread, a piece of fat bacon and a bucket of molasses In which the prisoners were free to dip the bread. The amount was sufficient, but the food itself was such that the grand jury did not see how human beings could eat It. There was no adequate hospital services. One man was found ly ' tng on a filthy mattress like the rest, suffering from fever, presumably typhoid. Another who had a gunshot wound in the breast was-wearing such a rilely dirty shirt over the wound that infection seemed certain. The bame was true of a man with sores on his legs. The modes of punishment, declar ed' the grand jury, seemed barbari ous. The whipping chair was de scribed at length?a wooden affair in which the victim is fastened .Im movable and then beaten with heavy .straps. One of the straps had met al rivets near Its end, said the re port. Club3 and billies were found with which it is alleged the prisoners had been struck. Two rings were found fastened in the walls, about six feet high, and five or six feet apart; to these the auperintendent declared he some times handcuffed prisoners with their arms outstretched and their faces lioward the wall. The superinten dent stated to the grand jury that he never continued this punishment for more than 30 or 40 minutes, but the grand jury had reason to believe that it had been inflicted in certain cases for the best part of a whole afternoon. Bad as these conditions were, the Grand jury believed some kind of at tempt had been made to improve conditions in honor of their vls't New whitewash had been used, and they had been informed that the chains had been taken off certain women prisoners only the day be fore. The grand jury declared that the authorities In charge of the stockade ?naming Superintendent D. M. Vin img specifically?were "entlerly in efficient and thoroughly incompe tent," and declared that many of the guards were not only incompetent, but addicted to drink, as in the case of Officer Cornett, indicted the day before for unmercifully beating a negro, who had been caused to re sign from the police force way back in 1906, because of "drunkenness while on duty." It was declared that some of the guards were possibly honest and in teligent, but that they were power less to do any goo 1 because they lacked proper fTirection. The grand Jury was disinclined to adopt the idea that lack of money was really responsible for the conditions, be cause 't found conditions in the sta bles infinitely cleaner and more de ?ent than in tho places where the j hi?rran beings were kept "like j beasts." | If war r ?o m " 1 that the of WRECKS GALORE RAILROAD ACCIDENTS REPORT ED FROM ALL ABOUT. Several Persons Ar? Killed and Many Are Injured at Different Places by Them. In a collision between a Lake Shore passenger train and a switch engine at East 26th street at Cleve land. Ohio, early Saturday morning, three persons were killed, two prob ably fatally hurt and ten others were bruised. The wrecked train was No. 7, westbound from New York and con nected at Cleveland with the Big Four for St. Louis. , The killed and those fatally injured were members of the train crew. The dead: H. L. Auams, Collinwcod, engin eer of the passenger train. Frank S. Wales, fireman of switch engine. John Frank, switchman. Unknown man. W. J. Burns, engineer of switch engine. Fatally injured: Jacob Carrier, fireman on the pas senger train; scalded. Two Fatally Injured. The Chicago, Burlington and Quin cy Orientfal Limited, from Port land, Oregon, en route to Chicago, ran into a broken rail at Western Springs, 111., 22 miles west of Chica go, early Saturday. All of the train passed safetly over except the three rear Pullman sleepers. They were overturned and aitched. The sleep ers were filled with passengers. Two women were perhaps fatally injured. A score or more were hurt by flying glass. The train was five hours late and was endeavoring to make up time. * One Dead, Two Dying. One is dead and two are believed to be dying as the result of an ac cident at a crossing of the Pennsyl vania railroad at Hurford street, Canton, Ohio. William Haas, 39, drayman, was killed. Ross Burian, with her skull frac tured, may die; Laura M?hr, aged 18, has concuslon of the brain and may die. Catherine Vail, aged 21, was bruis ed and cut, but will recover. . Haas--was driving--a- moving - van and as he passed the Canton Stamp ing Company's plant, the girls, who were employed there, climbed into the wagon to ride to the car line. A westbound passenger train crashed into the van at a crossing. Several Killed. Eastbound Santa Fe passenger train No. .8, the Overland limited, was wrecked at Fulton, 55 miles east of Las Vegas, early Saturday by a broken rail. Several pas sengers are reported killed and many injured. The train went over a steep embankment. KILLED BY EXPLOSION. Spark in Powder Keg Caused Wreck of Mine Tcnament. Four persons were killed, 60 made destitute and one was proba bly fatally injured, as tbe result of an explosion and fire which destroy ed house No. 6 at the Frostbur? mine of the Rochester Pittsburg Coal and Iron Company near Punx sutawney, Pa. A few seconds after the explosion of a keg of powder, into which a spark had accidentally dropped, -\ greater quantity of powder exploded and the two-story building, 75 feet long, was torn to pieces. Six fami lies lived in the building, each with several children and four or five boarders. * BURIED ALIVE. Authorities Looking Into Manner of Man's Death. A special from Antley, Mexibo, says: In the belief that the man was buried alive, and that his death was due partly to rough treatment and asphyxiation, authorities are in vestigating the burial of Salvador Tijerlna. The man went to a hotel at a late hour at night, become vio lently ill and was believed to have died. His burial followed, it is said, at the dirtction of the hotel pro prietor, six Mexicans who had been drinking, interring the body. That he was not dead when removed from the hotel is the belief of the authori ties. ? Postoftice Robbed. The postofflce at Short Creek, Ala., was entered by dynamiters early one morning recently, the safe blown open and several hundred dollars in money taken. Bloodhounds were sent to the scene. * ficial force be reorganized, that a sec of prison rules be created, that the sanitation be improved, that hos- j pifal facilities be installed that | facilities be established for bathing | and that compulsory bathing be in-1 augurated: that the convicts be pro-1 vided with clean clothes, and that J the clothes be washed at proper in tervals, and that they be given bet ter food. ? OBAjNGEBUKG FOUND DEAD Hat Pia in One, While Other Hangs From Clothes Line. TWO AGED SISTERS "Frances Hung Hersel f at 2.1-2 Sat. Mo Two," is Message Written on Box Cover?Hat Pin Wounds Found on Both Bodies?Women Had Lived Alone Fifteen Year3. Two aged spinster sister, Frances and Isabel Ritchie, were found dead Sunday in their home In Newark, N. J. ? The sisters had lived quietly and alone for the past twenty years In the same house. Their source of income was as mysterious as their secluded life, but they kept their house in or^er and paid their bills regularly. The older woman, Fran ces, was 56 years old; the sister, a few years her junior. Frances was found dead lying on the floor, while the body of the oth er sister dangled from a piece of clothes line made fast above the door leading from the dining room to the kitchen. The first indications were that Frances had died from natural causes and that Isable had hanged herself in a paroxism of grief. This .'theory was dispel fd when a small box was found In the dining room, on the cover of which had been written these words: Fran ces hung herself at 2.1-2 Sat. 'Me, toe." This lead to the belief that the two old women had carried out a suicide pact. Frances hanging her self first, and the body being cut down by the sister. But further in vestigation brought to light more gruesome details. Underneath her clothing and sticking in the breast of Frances was a hat pin, buried in the flesh up to its black head. The pin had been driven close to the heart to a depth of about four Inch es. Similar wounds, but not of such a serious nature were found on the other body, which leads to the be lief that the sisters may have quar reled and fought. Whether Frances deliberately hanged her sister, then killed her self with the hat pin, or whether the sister found * hanging stable/l the other and then ended her life, will perhaps never be known. Tbe hands of the body on the floor were carefully crossed and the head rested on a sofa cushion. There is a possibility that both were murdered, but the house shows no trace of having been entered by strangers. The women had lived alone since the death of their mother more than fifteen years ago, with a large dog as their sole companion. Recently the dog died, and since that time the women had been despondent. The owner of the house which they occupied, having been unable to gain admittance since Tuesday last, notified policemen who forced entrance. The women were last seen alive on Saturday. ? CENSUS TESTS TOO HARD. OiJy Fifty-four From South Caro lina Passed. Director Durand, of the census bureau, Friday informed Represen tative Patterson that only 54 of th? applicants in South Carolina who recently stood examination, for clerkship in the census bureau had been successful. This covers the entire State. Mr. Durdan seemet' to think that this inability to pas< the examination successfully was no reflection on those who attempted them, but was more to be accour...??i for by reason of the fact that thv questions asked were largely those dealing with manufacturing am*, kindred matters, about which mauj persons have little knowledge. !?? is not yet shown whether anothe" opportunity will be given South Car olinians to try for these plac$s. ? CONVERTS UNDERGO ORDEAL. Shiver for Thirty Minutes on Wharf After Baptism in Frigid Waters. A dispatch from Poughkeepsie, N. Y., says Charles Walker, of Kings ton, Jamaica, has established a new religion sect among the colored peo ple there and Sunday afternoon he baptized two converts In the Icy wa ters of the Hudson. Two converts were attired In loose robes and stoo 1 on the wharf shivering for hilf ai hour after the baptism. A riert time ago "Elder" Walker baptized in the Hudson Mrs. Pleasant Greene, who became violently insane. One Killed, Many Hurt. One woman was killed and 51 persons were injured when the east bound California limited on the San ta Fe collided with the rear end of fhn eistbovnd California express ?t Winona, Arz., Friday. Mrs. Alice Bennett of Hartford, Conn., was crushed to r"eath an 1 22 people on the express were Injured. Twenty nine persons, passengers and dinine car waiters, were Injured on the limitd. ? S. C. TUf.SDAY. DEC THE CENSUS REPORT APPLICANTS FOR THESE PLACES MUST BE ENDORSEL. What Is to Be Required of the Enumerators for the Work That Will Begin in the Spring. United States Census Director Du rand a few days ago issued a state ment from Washington defining the qualifications, duties and compen sation of census enumerators. He states that one of the duties impos ed upon the supervisors by the cen sus act is the designation of suita ble persons to be employed, with the consent of the director of the cen sus, as enumerators within their re spective districts. It is further pro vided that such persons shall be se lected solely with a view to fitness and without reference to their po litical party affiliations. "The census act provides that the enumeration of population and agri culture shall begin on April 15, 1910. and that each enumerator shall com plete the work required in his dis trict within thirty days in the case of rural districts and small towns, and within two weeks in the case of any incorporated city, town, village or borough which had 8,000 inhabi tants or more under the census of 1900. "It is desirable where possible that the enumerator shall live in the district he is to canvass. He should be familiar with its territory and the general character of its people. "The census requires as enumer ators active, energetic persons of good address. Vhey must be thor oughly trustworthy, honest and of good habits. They must have at least ordinary education and be able to write plainly and with reasonable rapidity. In general, preference will be given to former enumerators if they are at present physically able to peform the duties of the position. "Each person seeking appointment as census enumerator must make i written application to the supervis or for the district of which a resi dent, and said application must be made throughout in the handwriting of the applicant, and must be endors ed by two representative business men of the community in which the applicant resides. "All applicants for appointment as enumerators will be required to take an examination, to be prescribed by the Director of the "Census, to deter mine their fltnesB for the work. This examination will be of a practical character, consisting chiefly or whol ly of the filling out of a sample schedule of population from data furnished, and, in the case of enu merators whose work will be in ru ral districts, the filling out of a sample schedule of agriculture. "Each applicant is furnished with an illustrative example of the man ner of filling the population sched ule and, in country districts, with a copy of the agricultural schedule to which, in the main, the work of the census enumerators is confined. These forms of schedules are furn ished for the information of the applicant and should be studied and I preserved for use in connection with j the examination referred to in the: preceding paragraph. "It will be necessary for each enu merator, before entering upon his duties, to receive a commission under the hand of the supervisor of the district to which he belongs, and to make and subscribe an oath or af firmation that he will faithfully dis charge all the duties required of bim under the law. "The census act also provides that an enumerator, after accepting an appointment and qualifying for the work, can not, 'without justifiable cause,' refuse or neglect to perform the duties of the position; and be will further be required to devote his entire working time to the cen sus work during the period of the enumeration. "The compensation to be paid to enumerators is fixed by the census act, and an allowance of not less than two nor more than four cents for each Inhabitant; not less than twenty nor more than thirty cents for each farm reported, and ten cents for each barn and inclosure containing live stock not on farms, Is provided for all subdivisions where the Director of the Census shall deem such remuneration suf ficient. In other sub-division th? director may fix a mixed rate of not less than one nor more than two dollars per day, and in addi tion, an allowance of not less than one nor more than three cents for each inhabitant enumerated, and not less than fifteen nor more than twen ty cents for each fa m reported, while in su'^-divisions where per diem rates are necessary, because of the difficulty of the enumeration, the enumerators may be allowed, in the discretion of the director, a com pensation of not less than three nor more than s:x dollars per day of eight hours actual neld work each. Except in extreme cases, no claim for mileage or traveling expenses will lie allowed to any enumerator, and then onlv when authority ha? been previously granted by the Di rector of the Census." Attention is also called to the let ter of the President, addressed to the Secretary of Commerce an 1 La bor, a copy of which is appended to the statement, concerning the mat ter of political activity on the part of census supervisors and enumera 'EMBER 2i 190y., I FREE AT LAST An Old Man to Be Released From Con necticut Penitentiary. SERVED FIFTY YEARS Ho Will Leave His Prison Home of Half a Century and Step Out a Free Man Into a World in Which He Will bo a Stranger to Freedom. i When the State board of pardons meets the first of this week it will consider and act upon an applica tion for the pardon of John P. War ren, who is oiiicially designated as convict No. 1 on the roster of the hig Connecticut States prison at Wethersfield. If favorable action is taken by the board, and it is gen erally believed that such will be the case, the coming Christmas will be a happy one indeed for Warren, for it will be his first Christmas out side of prison walls in half a cen tury. On the day that the board meets to consl.ier his case Warren will have completed an even fifty years as an inmate of the State prison. He is believed to be the longest im prisoned life convict In the United States, and possibly in the worid When the doors of the big prison first closed behind him the Civil war had not commenced, railroad trans portation was In its Infancy and such common conveniences of the pres ent day as the telephone, the elec tric car, the automobile and the typewriter were unheard of, not to mention the skyscraper buildings, wireless telegraphy, flying machines, submarine boats and a hundred and one other things with which the present generation is familiar. Wife murder was the crime for which Warren was sentenced to life imprisonment. One day in July, 1859, he invited his 18-year-old wife to take a walk with him, and, coming to a brook near their farm in Willington, a small town In Tolland county, In northeastern Connect! cut, he suggested that they tak? ! their shoes and stockings off and bathe their feet in the cool waters of the brook. She acquiesced, but once near the brook, Warren seized her and held her - head under the foot or more of water until life was extinct. Just what was the motive that actuated the man to commit the deliberate, cold-blooded and apparently unpro voked crime on his wife, none knows, and Warren himself has never talk ed of the crime, since he confessed and pleaded guilty at the time of his arrest. Warren's plea of guilty and his [ attorney's earnest plea for a second degree sentence saved his life and he was sentenced to prison for life on the day on which a notable meet ing was held at Hartford of famous Connecticut patriots, under a call "to save the Union." The war feel ing was just then beginning to be come a factor In national politics but Warren was taken to Wethers field before the war commenced, and, what has happened In the fifty years that have elapsed since that time, he knows of only indirectly and from what he has been permitted to read. It speaks well for the methodF employed at the State prison that the fifty-year Inmate shows little evi dence of failing powers, either men tal or physical. Though 71, he looks more like a man of 413 or 50 years. He is alert mentally and takes an active interest In all that goes on about, him. In recent years he has been ?allowed considerable freedom in the Institution, though never permitted to leave the prison grounds. If the aged lifer is released through the action of the board of pardons next week he will ho well taken care of during his remaining years by his two younger brothers and other members of his family, all people of excellent standing. It 1b understood that tho application for a pardon has been indorsed by many peorsons of prominence who have interested themselves in his i case. " Zelaya Cables Taft. President Zelaya Priday night ca bled a conciliatory message to Presi dent Taft, saying that he had shown his good faith by resigning In order that Nicaragua might resume friend ly relations with the United States. He added that he proposed to leave the country but stood ready to ac count for his acts as president. ? Three Perish in Icy Water. Laura Currans, who had jiiBt re ceived the prize "for the prettiest i\v\ in the school district," Alma Utterback, her chnm, and Win. John son, the girls' school teacher, were drowned Saturday night as they were trying to reach their homes after a school social, by cronsing Indian creek, near Bedford, Ind., in a row boat. The boat upset and they were unnblo to reach the bank through the icy water. tors. In accordance with this letter any enumerator must sever his con nection with any political committee of which he- may be a member, be fore ent'-rinc: on hi? duties, and must refrain from political activity during his term of employment. * 1 WC PRIZE WINNERS SCHOOLS THAT HAVE MADE GREATEST IMPROVEMENTS. The Names of the Thirty-five Lucky Schools That Received the Awards. The executive committee of the School Improvement Association oi." South Carolina met a few days ago and awarded prizes to 35 schools of the State showing the greatest im provement during the past year. Tne 'prizes given amounted to $2,000, being five of $100 and 30 of $50. The meeting was held in the office of State Superintendent of Educa tion Swearingen. The first prizes of $100 each went to the 4oHe wing scWools: Little Mountain, Newberry county; East oi'. f, Richland county; Willington, Abbeville county; Lamar, Darlington county, and West Union in Oconee county. The second prizes of $50 each were awarded to thje fallowing counties: Clyde, Darlington county; Bishop's Branch. Anderson county; Greeleyville, Williamsburg county; Johnson, Georgetown county; Dou ble Springs, Greenville county; Hick ory Grove, Aiken county; Reels, Greenville county; Fairview, Lexini ton county; Hilda, Barnwell county; Rough Branch, Williamsburg coun ty; Horry Lot School, Edgefield; Hickory Hill, Orangeburg; Lanes Graded School, Williamsburg; Ridge Springs, Newberry; Cameron, Cal houn; Locust High School, Green ville; Earle, Williamsburg; Quarry, Greenwood; Friendship, Laurens; Cedar Swamp. Williamsburg; Pop lar, Orangeburg; Shady Grove, Fair field; Union, Lancaster; Temperance Oak Grove, Barnwell; Golden Spring, Cherokee, and Betheden, Newberry. -. ? . FROST CAUSES WRECK. Two Persons Killed in Crash at Railroad Crossing. Two persons were killed, one fa tally Injured and seven more or less seriously hurt when a Central of Georgia northbound passenger train Friday morning, at 7:50 o'clock, at Harris City, Ga., crashed itno the combination second-class, baggage and mail car of train No. 42, east bound, of the 'Macon and Birmin gham road. The dead: W. A. McCaurde, a by-stander, of HarriB City. J. L. Williams, a by-stander, of Harris City. Fatally hurt: H. C. Rawls, joint ticket agent, Harris City. Injured. H. M. Newman, mall clerk, La Grange, head crushed and spine In jured. E. M. Phillips, baggage master, Macon, Ga., foot broken. J. M. Coleraan, fireman, back hurt. D. W. Allen, of Colombus, passeng er on Central train, bruised about body and chest. Miss Vera Caldwell, a by-stander, bruised about head and neck. Will Gri.TgR, negro porter, finger cut off, other severe injuries. The accident occurred at the cross ing of the two roads and was due, according to statements from rail road officials, to a frosted track. * CAUGHT IN DEATH TRAP. One Fireman and Five Girls Perish in a Big Blade. Fivo girls and Freman Josepb Honor are konwn to have lost their lives when the six-story building In Philadelphia, Pa., occupied by Schrack & Sherwood, manufactur ers of undertaking supplies, was destroyed by fire a few nights ago. Twenty girls were working In the building when the fire broke out. most of whom escaped with the as sistance of police and firemen. It was shown that half a dozen were missing and later it was reported that five had failed to return to their homes. Toner was killed while en gaged in rescue work. The ruin* are being searched for the bodies of the dead. * TWO KILLED IN PISTOL DUEL. Plantation Manager and Negro Ten ant Slay Each Other. Walter McEachern, manager of a plantation store IS miles from Clarksdale, Miss., and a negro ten ant. Charles Brazzel, are dead as the result of a pistol duel which took place in the store at 2 o'clock Sun day afternoon. The ne.yro fired first on McEachern, it Is said, following an altercation over a trival mat ter. Further trouble is feared, as feeling against the negroes is run ning high in tnat community. * Cigar Ignites Bath Rube. Thomas Velen!Ine Cooper, former ly collector of the port of Phila 'elpaia, was burned to death at his home in Media, Pa., Sunday. Whil smrkin? a cigar in the sitting room of his home, he either fell asleep or suffered a paralytic stroke. His hath robe became Ignited and he wTfi r?c i '?<-fo:-e fie flames were dis ?(?\ -re . liieoibers of his family. * > CENTS PiSH COPi' WHO IS SHE? Norfolk Authorities Unable to Discover tie Identity of STRANGE YOUNG LADY Who Attempted to Commit Suicide nt a Hotel at Virginia Beach o? Last Wednewlay, and Who Refus es to Reveal Her Name or P'sice of Residence. Having thus far successfully re sisted every effort to ascertain .ier i..entiy the strange young woman, who at Virginia Beach last week, signed herself "Ruth Morton, Chica go," prior to attempting suicide, < both by laudanum and shooting, still lies conscious at St. Vincent's hos pital at Norfolk, Va., with the mys I tery surrounding her case as deep as ever. Though with three 22-calibre pis tol wounds in her head the girl be gan to improve and Sunday night it was said that her attending phy sicians now believe her recovery to be quite likely. For the first time since she was secretly brought to the hospital last Thursday the girl Sun day agreed to take food. For the first time she manifested interest in her probable recovery. She had re peatedly declared she wanted to die and have buried with her a man'a handkerchief and a bunch of with ered violets, which she brought with her to Virginia Beach. One of the strangest features of the case is that the police depart ment, after all the publicity given, has not received a single inquiry from the outside world concerning the girl. In an effort to obtain some clue to her identity a woman wa^ Sunday sent to her bedside to ques tion her. The girl was firm and th.1 women left without the desired in? formation. Apparently the only possible clue to her identity is the laudanum phial found with the girl marked "Willow Drug Company, SomervUle, Mass." She had destroyed everything by which she might be identified, evea having cut from her hat tbe name of the place where It was bought. "I came to Virginia Beach to d.'e because of the remoteness of the place," Wrote tha. girl in the note she had left, which also told of $25 Bhe had with her to be used ;n bsr burial. FORT LAWN FIRM FAILS. Rise in Cotton Drives .1. B. Daniel & ^o. to the Wall. Papers have been sent to the United States Court at Charbsston asking that Mr. J. B. Daniel, of Fort Lawn, trading as J. B.- Daniel & Co., be adjudged a banrupt. The hearing has been fixed for next Mon day, and the big store at Fort Lawn will be closed at that time. Th<j proceedings are not in voluntary form, but will not be contested by Mr. Daniel. Mr. Daniel's failure is due to his selling 1,000 bales of cotton at 10 cents, or figures about like that, thinking when the staple rose to be able to get enough off bis own farm and buy the remainder t-> com plete his contract, but the continued rise in the price and the almost en tire failure of his own crop put him something like $17,000 to $20,000 to the bad, and he was unable to meet his obligations. * "CORPSE" SAT UP. But Later Relapsed and the Funcrnl Proceeded. At Terro Haute, Ind., as an un dertaker started to prepare the body of Edward Murphy for burial, the supposed dead man arose in bed and yawned. "I feel better after that long sleep," he said. Murphy had been in a state of coma for ten hours. He had been an invailed for a long time. But the undertaker soon was recalled, for Murphy really died later, after joking about his "first death" to the frightened embalmer. .? Rock Island Train Wrecked. En.trineer Tom Walker and Fire man P. W. Bauer, both of Tucson, Ariz., were killed ten persons, most ly trainmen, seriously injured, and thirteen others were cut and bruis ed Sunday when an East bound Rock Island train, operated over the Southern Pacific tracks, was wreck ed W'-st of Ilenson, Ariz. * A Long Train. A train of 120 steel cars, carry ing six thousand tons of coal and lrawn by a single engine left Roa noke for Norfolk, Va., over the Vir ginia railway. The 'rain was six feet more than a mile in length and is said to be the longest ever drawn by one locomotive. * Given Up for Dead. A dispatch from London says threa hundred persons on the Austrailian liner Waratah were officially given up for dead a few days ago and the $1,2")0,000 insurance claims on tbs steamer were paid at Lloyds. The Waratah has been missing since July. ?