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PUBLISHED THREE Til POOR OLD BILL He Made a Fool of Himself io Refusing to See a Representative. CALLED OPHOVJY ? X ingress man Harrison, Democr*. o > New York, Was the Innocent Vil tim of Taft's Bad Manners, When He Called to Introduce Some of Const! tu tents to the President. . On last Thursday President Taft I declined to reteeive Representative Francis Burton Harrison, Democrat, of New York, who called at the White House, in company with two other Representatives to introduce a number of Jewish rabbis, who took up with the President the question of the expulsion of Jews from Rus sia. The President received the delega tion and chatted with its various,' members for fifteen minutes or'moie. Representative Goldfogel, of New York acted as spokesman for the par ty and, so adroitly had the situation been handled by Secretary Norton, that no one of the callers knew anything of the incident until Repre- j sentative Harrison returned to thej Capitol, and there made a statement to the effert that he had been r? buffed by the President. Mr. Taft based his refusal to see Mr. Harrison on statements, attribu ted by newspapers to the R?presen-1 tative, in connection with his res-| olution in the House, calling upon Attorney General Wdckersham for full informaction as to the connec tion of nis office with the Ballingei Pinchot episoae. Mr. Harrison, ac cording to the White House version of the matter, charged the President and the Attorney General with hav ing willfully attempted to mislead Congress in the back-dating of the Attorney General's summary of the Glavis changes against the Secretary of the Interior. It was the first time Mr. Norton had ever met Mr. Harrison, and when the two were alone, the President': desire having been expressed privater ly, the secretary said he was extreme ly sorry that the first meeting should be the occasion of a disagreeable | duty. He told Mr. Harrison "the Pres ident would not see him. Mr. Har rison, according to Mr. Norton, saic he thought he knew why it was ? the statement he had made regard ing the connection of the President and the Attorney General with the) Ballinser-Pinchot controversy. Mr. Harrison was quoted on May 13 as having said of the back-dating j . of. the Wickersham summary: "The confession of the Attorney General amounts to a conclusion that | the President and Attorney General had agreed to furnish to Congress I misleading information to supply an | official document as of one date, which was really many weeks later.' Representative Harrison was very in dignant, when he returned to the Capitol, ever the refusal of the Pres ident to see him, inasmuch, he said, as he had made the appointment with President Taft ten days ago, and had received no warning that he was to be publicly humiliated. He declin ed to comment upon the incident fur ther than to give a brief statement of what occurred. "When I reached the White House with the delegation," said Mr. Har rison, "I informed Secretary Norton that we desired to see the President. The secretary went to the Presi dent's private office and returned with the information that the Presi-| dent could not see me. I then told Mr. Norton that I had made an ap pointment ten days ago for the dele gation accompanying me to see the Pr sident, and Mr. Norton again con ferred with the President. "When he returned, he informed me that the President would see the delegation accompanying me. but would not see me. I admit 1 was | surprised almost beyond expression. I immediately left the White House. ' Mr. Harrison said he knew of no reason why the President took the action he did, as their previous rela tions had always been pleasant. It was suggested that perhaps the Pres ident had refused to see him because of his introduction in the House some days ago of the resolution ca'linj upon the Attorney General for infor mation bearing upon the preparation of the President's letter, of Septem ber 13, last, exonerating Secretary "Sallinger. Mr. Harrison replied that he did not know whether that was the cause or not. Mr. Harrison is a Democrat aad is serving his second term from the | New York district, which he repre sents. Representative Harriscn made the) following statement: "It is unfortunate for the Presi dent that he cannot stand critici"8"*' it is unfortunate for the country :r.:.\ he cannot stand the truth. Mj 1 paper statement, at which uH offence, was merely an exposition o. the scandalous fact that the Presi dent had sent to the Senate of the United States an official documment in the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy, of which the date had been wilfully falsified by being predated. My reso lution of inquiry drew out this in formation in a written confession by the Attorney General. "It is of no concern to me that I am not welcome at the White House, but it is of concern to every Ameri VIES A WEEK. DALZELL CHEATED OR HE NEVER WOULD HAVE BEEN RENOMINATED. One of the Cannon's Chief Lieuten ants Faces Fraud Charges in Con nection With His Election. ? Declared the winneT of the Re ? ? ^ ^n nomination for Congress in /<se> ^ *ieth district of Pennsyl vak 0 ongressman Dalzell, the high j. jst of protectionism and the chief lieutenant of Cannon, is up against a fraud contest. His oppon ent declares that with a legal elec tion he would have won in the Pitts bUTg district by 1,500 votes. The first step in his contest was taken when he made out informa tion against J. Harvey Evans, judge j of election of the Third ward, Mc j Keesport, charging him with violat ing the election laws. Other arrests will follow as soon as information is at hand. If Dalzell is named as the I Repubican nominee he may be de feated at the poles for the Democrats are planning to put forward J. A. Wakenfield, iSsq., or Jarnos A. Ful ton. If elected DalzeU's seat may be contested. In his complaint to the court, Dr. Black, DalzeU's contestant, declares he and others saw Evans change bal lots openly, and that the men pro testing were thrown from the poll ing place. In filing his quarterly report be fore Judge John G. Haymaker, in Common Pleas court in Pittsburg last w?3ek Constable J. H. Camp bell, of Turtle Creek, in the Dalzell district, swore that the election board in the Third ward, Turtle Creek, left the polling place unguard ed and went home after closing the polls. The constable said he was sum moned by a citizen, who asked him to take charge, and when he arriv ed at the polling place he found the official ballots strewn about the floor and t?he tally sheets on the table. He also asserted that there had been other persons in the room between the time the board left and his ar rival. The district attorney's office has started an investigation of the violation of the law. Dr. Black has demanded a recount of all the votes of the district and declares that he expects to have the prisons filled with DalzeU's friends before he gets through "and also to have Dalzell out of Congress. If the stand-patters in Congress cannot hold their own in rock-ribbed Pennsylvania where can they expect to win? is the question politicians in Washington, D. C, are asking. Lit* tle interest waataken in the outcome of the fight in Iowa, the heart of the "progressive" territory. Senators Dolliver and Cummings led against every candidate not identified with "progressive Republicanism." In general, it is declared that followers of Cannon suffered in the recent primaries and many of them will have close calls for election. * "HOLY GHOSTER" REBELLED. Woman and Her Children Taken From Vessel. Armed with a writ of habeas Cor pus Sheriff Melville W. Thelethen hoarded the barkentine, Kingdom, one of the vessels of the Rev.. Frank W. Sandford's "Holy Ghost and Us" fleet ot Portland, Maine, and took under his care Mrs. Florence Whit taker, and her four children. In letters to relatives she declared, she was held against her will. Mrs. Whittaker's husband, A. A. Wihittaker, who has been an apostle of Sanford, for 13 years, was aboard the Kingdom, but offered no resist ance. Mrs. Whit taker was one of the colony established in Palestine sev eral years ago. but while her hus band remains true to the faith she has rebelled, as the Sandfordites term it. -? +? m Horrible Accident. Becomming entangled in the run ning gear of an aerial tram, at Can non City, Cal., Merl Kissender, a boy, was carried 100 feet suspended by his thumb 25 feet in the air. Gradually the thumb was torn from the hand and the boy fell to the ground. ? * can citizen that a statement of the truth about the President may ren der it impossible for a Reuresenta tive to discharge his duties. "I came to the White hcise to Gay, not is a matter of pleasure, but ii. the performance of a public duty. I Cane by appointment, made with the Presidential ollice on May 31. to present a delegation of distinguished Hebrews on an important public mis sion. After a delay of forty minutes at the very door of the President's office, I was told that the President would not receive me. It is not sur prising that he did not care to meet r... e tc face anyone who was instru utal in bringing to light the des perate attempt to bolster the Ad ministration case in the Ballinger Pinohot matter, by manipulating public documents. If everyone who is justly criticising the Taft Admin istration is to be barred from the White House, it will become a lone ly place." Representative Goldfogel, as had Representative Keliher, stated that had he known Mr. Harrison was not to be received at the White House, he also would have refused to go in. ? 0BANG-EB1 LONE BANDIT ROBS TOURISTS, WHO HE HERDS EV PRIVATE. AND Collects Their Valuables, Shoots Out I Train's Rear Lights and Makes Clean Getaway. Shortly before midnight Friday night, eastbound train No. 2, of the] El Paso & South-western railroad was held up by a lone bandit, whu herded the occupants of th? tourist j 6leeper into a private car, compell ing them to deposit their money and valuables in a heap, and made his escape with the plunder across the desert toward ih- mountains. Roagh estimates place the value of his ban! at several thousand dollars. The ^iold-up occurred a mile east of Robsart, N. M., near Corrizo. At this point the robber, who had board ed the train at Corrizo, covered the Pullman conductor and the brai-u man with his gun, compelling them to stop the train. Driving the men before him, he entered the sleeping | car awakening the occupants with a j gruff command to gather their valua-| bles together and proceeded to the | private car of Superintendent G. F. Hawks in the rear. 'One by one the half-dressed pas-j sengers were covered by the robber's gun as they clamored from their berths. Taking his time and exhibit-1 ing remarkable courage, the bandit carefully took an inventory of what each bore in his uplifted hands. The job was through, not a passenger es caping and not one being able to keep anything of value. When all the berths were emptied, the bandit drove his victims into the private car, where all, including Superintendent Hawks, were told to place their property in a pile on the floor. Still covering the crowd with his gun, the bandit swept the plun der into a sack and backed out of the car. As he departed he shot out the rear lights of the train, firing four times. Hastily organized posses are in pursuit of the robber. The passen gers, who have been left destitute for the time being, are being cared for by the railroad company. That the man is an old hand at the game and probably a desperado, who will put up a hard battle before allowing himself to be taken, is be lieved from the manner in which he carried off the daring holdup. Mem bers of the posses pursuing him are prepared to shoot on sight. TALE OF SHIPWRECK. The Captain's Daughter Showed Her self a Heroine. After a three days terrific fight for life in two small boats, 450 miles out in the Atlantic ocean, Miss Eliza beth Erikson, her father, Capt. P. A. Erikson, and nine men, composing the crew, two dogs and a cat, who were rescued in the nick of time by j the British steamer Metis, after hav-1 ing abandoned their barkentine, Good News, of Philadelphia, are re joicing at again being able to set | foot on land. It is a thrilrrag and heart-rending tale of the sea that Capt. Erikson and his crew told on their arrival at Norfolk. Struck by a heavy storm, the Good News sprang a leak. All hands remained continuously at the pumps, but failing to keep her afloat, at noon June 3 the ship was aban doned. The captain's daughter show ed great bravery and after the Good News sank to the bottom she cheered the men. At times it seemed as though the two little boats containing the res cued would be swamped by the huge waves. During three days and three nights of awful suspense a sharp lookout was kept for the approach of a passenger vessel. Monday the Metis hove in sight. Soon the Metis was alongside and the exhausted crew was taken aboard. WOMAN'S BODY IN TRUNK. The Ghastly Find in a Lake in Italy on Friday Last. The badly mutilated body of a woman, believed to be that of Mrs. H. N. Castle, who was Mary Crit tenden Scott, of San Jose, California, was found in a trunk, shbmerged in a lake near the village of Moltrasio, Italy, last week. Wrapped about the body was a piece of old cloth, which bore the initials, "L.," and from letters in the trunk, written in ling lish, it appears that the woman in 1000. lived in 3 4th street, New York city. The police, basing their opin ion on wounds on the head, evident ly made by a blunt instrument, are of the belief that the woman was murdered, and they have taken into custody a Russian, named Constan tine Ispolatoff, 50 years old, whom they suspect of having knowledge of how the woman met her death. * Woman Murdered. At Leavensworth, Kan., Elizabeth Schlutz, a wealthy widow, aged 74, was Friday found murdered in her residence where she lived alone. The murderer had set the house afire. Policemen seeing the fire extinguish ed the flames and then discovered the nude and charred body of a woman. * JRG, S. C, TUESDAY, Jl THE HIGHER UPS High Officers of the Sogar Refining Company Convicted. WERE GUILTY OF FRAUD Aged Secretary of American Sugar Refining Company, Broken in Health, Faces Possible Sentence of Two Years or $10.000 Fine.?Ex ecution of Sentence Means Death. At New York Charles R. Heike, the white haired secretary of the American Sugar Refining Company, was convicted Friday night on one count of an indictment charging cpn spiracy to defraud the Government of customs duties on sugar Ernest W. Gerbacht, former sup erintendent of the Williamsburg (Brooklyn) Refinery, was convicted on all six counts. For James F. Bendernagle, former cashier of the refinery, the jury stood 7 to 5 for acquittal. He will be tried again. This ends the government's second attempt to imprison the group of I men responsible for the vast under | weighing frauds, to which the so I called trust has virtually confessed j by the restitution of more than $2, 000,000 in duty. Heike is the highest official of the company upon whom blame has been fixed, and he now faces a possible sentence of two years in the Feder al penitentiary and a fine of 510,000. ! He is 65 yeors old and broken in health and spirits. His counsel in summing up declared repeatedly that a prison sentence meant nothing less than death. Convicted on all six counts, Ger bracht can be sentenced to twelve years in prison, with a maximum fine of $40,000. He is 53 years old. All three defendants, who were under bond, were paroled in the cus tody of counsel until 10.30 o'clock Saturday, when Court will hear the usual motion in the case of Heike and Gerbacht, and barring some stay, will announce the time of sentence. The trial just ended was started on May 1 , with six dc'( ridants in cluded in the indictment. . Besides Heike, Gerbracht and Bendernagel, there were three minor employees? Harry W. Walner, assistant dock superintendent, and Jean M. Voelker, and James F. Halligan, checkers. The trial had not progressed far, however, when the testimony so in criminated these men that their coun cil entered pleas of guilty. They have not yet been sentenced. Bendernagel had been tried prev iously with Oliver Spitzer, the par doned dock superintendent, who tes tified at the trial just closed, but the jury disagreed. Spitzer got two years and four checkers were sen tenced to one year each. They are still serving time on Blackwell's Is land, but Spitzer, conscience-stricken, made a confession and told a story that resulted in Heike's conviction.* HE LIVED ON LOVE. Man Ran n Matrimonial Bureau for Money Only. David H. Hartman, a young mar ried man of East Petersburg, Pa., was arrested, last week, on the charge of operating a fraudulent matrimonial scheme. His. plan, ac cording to his own confession, was to personify a woman, and. when a correspondence had developed to the point where marriage was proposed and accepted the "bride-to-be" would write for money to pay travel ing expenses. When che money came the correspondence always ceased. Hartman was married a year ago and since then has lived on the fat of the land, being supported on rev enues contributed by victims all over the United States. Hartman, repre senting himself as Miss Catharne L. Hartman, Catharine L. being his wife's name, advertised in various papers for correspondents, with a view to matrimony, passing himself off as a maiden of 4 0 years and heir ess to $18,000. A photograph, which was sent to every correspon dent, was that of a good-looking wo man, the picture of his wife. * CROOK WANTS TO REFORM. Asked the Memphis Police to Lock Him in Station. "I am the boss crook of the coun try and I want to reform," said .las. J. Drury, who says he lives In Springfield, 111., as he walked into the police station at Memphis, Tenn., Sunday night and asked to be locked I up until he could vnd work. Drury says that he has worked with some of the "biggest yeggs'! in the country and has dono time in several prisons. "But I have been given the hot end of it by my pals and want to quit the gahie." He will be held pending an investigation. * Must Steal to Live. Peter Zimmerman, aged S7 years, was released from the Western pen itentiary last week after serving 10 years for horse stealing. He declares he is too old to learn to work and will have to steal for a living. He has spent most of his life behind the bars in various prisons. * USE 14. 1910. CALL OF PURE POLITICS PINCHOT SAYS INTERESTS MUST Speaks Upon Conservation and Inci dentally Lambast8 Trusts. Unnam ed Party Spoken of. I Following an informal reception to Giff-ord Pinchot and James R. Gar field at St. Paul, Minn., Saturday evening about 500 members and friends of the St. Paul Roosevelt club filled the large banqueting room of the Ryan hotel, thus rendering a long deferred tribute to Messrs. Pin cnot and Garfleld in recognition of their efforts for conservation of pub lic domains. Justice E. A. Jaggard, of the Min nesota supreme court was toastmas ,ter. Jntroduo)tiing "Judge Jaggard, Hugh T. Haibert, President of the Roosevelt Club, awakened the en thusiasm of the banqueters by a reference to an unnamed new party, "some of the leaders of which," he said, were present. '"This country has lived on its1 capital," said President Halbert, "but at last has awakened to the fact that it will soon expend its natural re sources by the inequitable distribu tion of its wealth in direct violation of the law of equal opportunity for its citizens. This condition has brought about the formation of a new party without name but not without an issue, nor without lead ers. "That party has two wings com posed of these called conservatives and those called progressives, but the real division is composed of those who have at heart the rights of the pejple as against those who favor a monopoly of the benefits of the pub lic domain. "The party may be unnamed, but its leaders are Theodore Roosevelt and our honored guests, Gifford Pin chot and James R. Garfield." Following this speech Gov. Eber hart spoke on "The State and Conser vation," Mayor Keller spoke on "The City and Conservation," and follow ing these two, Mr. Garfield spoke on the "Ultimate Results of Conserva tion." Following this last speech came that of Mr. Pinchot, which was the main event of the evening. Mr. Pinchot opened his speech with a plea for conservation, which he term ed a "moral issue." Then asserting that the country had lost confidence in congress, Mr. Pinchot denounced the manipulation of schedules which, he charged, occurred during the re cent revision. The alliance between business and politics, he declar ed was the snake which the nation must kill. "Who is to blame because repre sentatives of the people are so com monly led to betray their trust? We all are?we who have not taken the trouble to resent and put an end to the knavery we knew was going on. The brand of politics served out to us by tbe professional politician has leng been composed largely of hot meals for the interests and hoc air for the people, and we have ail known it." (Mr. Pinchot went on to point out the dangers which lie in strict ad herence to party, regardless of prin ciples. "A new life," he continued is stir ring among the dry bones of formal platforms and artificial issues." He then urged upon the p-ople the im portance of casting out "watchdogs of the interest" from among the ranks of public servants. Mr. Pinchot said that the old or der of government by the interess was wearing thin und^r the ceaseless assaults of the progressives. The American people, he said, "demand that the special interej;s si all go rut of politics or out of business." The old style leaders, ho assertel. have gone out of date. They are vainly attempting to stay the marca of an aroused public conscience. RIDDLED IX SWA.MP. Negro Shot Almost to Pieces for At Robert Matthews, a negro, was shot and killed in a swamp near Beu lah, 1 tJ miles east of Pensacola, Fla., Saturday following an attempt to as sault a 111-year-old girl. Bloodhounds were rushed to the scene in an au tomobile and trailed the negro tu a swamp. A posse of farmers follow ed on horseback and plunge ! to the swamp. The sheriff and depu ties turned back to get horses, and upon (heir return they found the I negro's body riddled with bullets. I The posse had disappeared. During a thunderstorm ;h tte villc, N. C., Friday 'r'n\v fie ?lt Morgan cotton m:'! ?v"s struck i>y lightning and sc*, on (ire. James Garven, an operative, was found dead near the entrance and is thought to .have been killed by the bolt. The fire was extinguished without great dam age. The Sumter Item says Richard Green, who was probably the oldest man in the United States, died at his horn.'- on Manning avenue Sat urday morning. . He was born in Charleston county February 17, 1785, and was therefore one hun dred twenty-five year, three months and twenty-one days old. HANDS OFF. tempted Assault. Killed by Lightning. Old Man Dies. MYSTERY UNSOLVED ALL EFFORTS TO CLEAR UP MUR DER IN VAIN. General Opinion Is that the Death of New York Woman in Italy Was Doublo Murder. The police at Como, Italy, Sunday seemed no nearer a solution of the mystery of the murder of Mrs. Por ter Charlton, of New York, than they were on the day the body was found huddled up in a trunk at the bottom of Lake Como. Searching parties have assiduously dragged the lake in the expectation that perhaps the body of the woman's husband might be recovered or at Irast something ihave connection with the crime, but so far the search ers have labored in vain. The au thorities, so far as they have dis closed, have no information about the missing Charlton and whether .ho is dead or alive is only a matter of conjecture. The opinion is gathering strength that a double murder has been com mitted. This is the view held by the American consul at Milan, Chas. M. Caughy, who is investigating the case. It is pointed out that the amount of blood on the mattress, sheets and curtains of the bed-room in the villa which was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Charlton could not possibly come from the wounds of the woman, which wer-:- in the na ture of severe bruises on the head. Several persons, however, say that they saw Charlton, after th? date of the crime at Moltrasio, and later on at Como. These statements are controverted by the investigations of the police, who have found that the alleged witnesses have been un able to fix dates definitely. ROBBED BY THE SOLON'S. Fish Dealer Testifies as *o Raising Fund to Kill Bill. J. D. McLean of Meredosia Satur day morning walked into the office of the Illinois Stato attorney, at Springfield, 111., did not find him in and then bolted into the grand jury room where he testified. "Yes, I contributed to the funds to kill the fish bill," he said, '1 believe in telling the whole thing," he continued. "I gave the mney to Otto Schweer. He told me it was to be used to defeat the bill. Why, sir, we have been held up and robbed by every legislature for so long that it is high time.we were doing some thing to stop it. They come to us and tell us they have the money and there is nothing for us to do but dig. I told everybody from the start that the thing for us to do is to-come in and tell ev rything we know." GEN. BOYI) VERY SICK. He Had Another Stroke of -Par alysis on Friday. Adjutant General J. C. Royd was stricken with convulsions in his room Friday morning and is not ex pected to live. This occurred just as the court of inquiry investigating the charges he had preferred against Assistant Adjutant General Brock of Improper expenditure of expense money was assembling to render its decision.. The court adjourned for over a week because the transcript of testimony was not ready. The court had not then been advised of General Boyd's illness. CLEARS HIS SKIRTS. Voted the Ticket Since He Was Eleven Years Old. Walter Murphy, Esq., of Rowan. N. C, one of the four candidates for the Democratic nomination for Con gress in the eighth district, said on Tuesday, when asked in regard to the rumor that one of the four men seeking the nomination had voted the Republican congressional ticket in the past, "I have voted the full straight Democratic ticket ever since I was eleven years of age and ex pect to keep it up until I am 400 years old." .Man and Wife Die. Within two hours of each other, .John May, aged T'i. and his wife. Hannah .May. died in the house at rard's Forks. Pa., where they were married -"u years ago. In the same dwelling they reared a family of sev en and eel- brate I their golden wed ding. Both were born within ion yards of where they lived and died. Young Woman Drowned. A young lady while attempting to cross Thompson s creek, near VVades boro, N. C, was drowned on Fri?'<??> y The girl, who was 17 years old attempting to cross Thc~pc creek, which was running swifi a ! full, when she was drowned. Her .?omnanion, another girl, was rescu ed. To Help Save Birds. Mr. Russ-11 Sage Saturday at New York gave $1T>,000 to the National Association of Audubon Societies for its work in the South. Earlier in the week she save $">00 to the as sociation. The $15,000 is to be used in educational work in tte South. TWO CENTS PEK COPY TWO MEN HELD Charged With Marder Committed Five Months Ago JAILED WITHOUT BAIL I John M. Wise and M. C. Tidwell, Both of Watts Mill, in Laurens County, Are Said to Have Killed Clarence White, Who Was Found in Ditch by Railroad Track. The arrest Saturday afternoon of two young white men, John M. Wise and M. C. Tidwell, both of Watts mills, Laurens, on a warrant charging them with the murder, five months ago, of Clarence L. White, caused quite a sensation. Both men are held without bail and have been committed to jail. The warrant was sworn out Satur day before Magistrate John JB. Hud gens by Virgil A. White, father of C. L. White, and the arrests were made by Sheriif Owings and Deputy Culbertson. The apprehension of the accused is a result of some cl:ver detective work and tends to clear up the mys terious circumstances which at the time ".urrounded the manner in which Clarence White sustained in juries that caused his death nine days later. Young White, a railroad employe with headquarters in Laurens, was found in an unconscious condition on Monday moroing, January HI, in a ditch, beside the railroad near Watts mills. His skull was fractured, and there were marks of oth-r injuries on his body. Nine days later he died at his home, near Owings. While foul play was first consider ed, the general beltsf was that he was a victim of an accident. Now it appear that he told his father a few days before his death that two unknown white men attack ed him as he was walking the rail road track towards the city Sunday night, January 3 0, and after knock ing him in the head with a heavy stick or blunt instrument, they rob bed him and threw him down a deep embankment into the ditch where he remained until found. RAZORED HIS THROAT. An Old Colored Man Commits Sui cide in a Shop. The Charleston Post says "John Smythe, an old colored man, cut his throat from ear to ear Friday morn ing shortly after 9 o'clock, at a barber shop conducted by R. Fen nix, in Elliot street, and the negro died two hours later at Roper Hos pital from the effects of the gash which he made upon his neck. "Smythe entered the shop of Fen nix, snatched up a sharp razor, and inflicted the fatal wound across his throat. He staggered from the shop and fell in a pool cf blood near the front steps, where he was taken up by Policeman Dugar and sent hur riedly to the Roper hospital. Smythe seemed determined to make a good job of the slashing, for he pushed the razor blade firmly back against the handle, and getting a tight grip on the dealy weapon, proceeded to slash his throat." ? CATS DESTROY A HOME. Husband Is Driven Out in Despair by Wife's 32 Pets. Cats are cited as the cause of a suit for seperate maintenance be tween Dr. Robert A. Pierce, a teacher in Tufts Dental School, in Boston, Mass., and Mrs. Pierce, a noted cat fancier. Last October the Pierce home was broken up and the wife is the complainant in court. Opposing the testimony of Mrs. Pierce, Dr. Pierce declares his wife owns 32 cats which crawled and mewed about the halls and rooms of their home. They slept in the bath tub by day and at night produced such volumes of melody that sleep ing was next to impossible. He de clares that they ate regularly at the table, crept into coat pockets and made temporary homes in hats and other wearing apparel. ? Man Falls Dead. During the progress of a baseball game at Thomasville, Ca.. Friday be tw en Thomasville and Bain bridge, Albert Adams, of Atlanta, express messenger on the Atlanta, Birming ham and Atlantic railroad, and form erly lightweight prize fighter, fell dead in the grandstand when a ball was knocked ovr the fence. Bride Shot at Altar. cause she changed her mind at tMo appearance of a rival and refus f" marry him. Basilic Martinez "*.-?? bed Bonita Garcia to -ieath at ? wnsville, Texas, Friday. The Liidal party were standing at the al tar for the ceremony to be perform ed when the trag-dy occurred. Killed by Auto. Lewis S. Bachaud, a lawyer of Woonsocket, R. I., was killed, and) four other men injured when a tour ing car owned and driven by Arthur P. Dauray, crashed at full speed in to a heavy machinery dray on the Providence road late Friday night.