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PUBLISHED THREE TO SHOTBYPOSSE Georgia Desperado Barricaded io Home, Receives Many Woands. FOUGHT TO THE LAST Barricaded in His Home, with His Six Children Enforced Prisoners, "Georgia Desperado" Yields Only ?to Superior Numbers.?House En tered by Soldiers.. Frantically defiant, even while; the shadows of death closed around him, and volley after volley from the new Springfield rifles of two State militia companies made a serve of the walls of his humble) home, W. H. Bostwick, a white j desperado at Irwinville, Ga., who | observed his last Sunday on eannj by the murder of two officers of | the law and the serious, wounding of three others, paid the penalty ofj death shortly after 5 o'clock Mon day morning. He succumbed to ma ny wounds received from the volleys. | fired into the building early dur ing the night by 2. mob of infur-j iated citizens or from those of the | military, which began an attack af ?er four o'clock Monday morning | Almost at the same moment Sher iff J. P. Mclnis of Irwin County, who was wounded Sunday, while making a desperate attempt to remove a wounded fellow officer from the | deadly fire of Bostwick, expired. Jas. Gill, another officer, was add-i ed to the list of wounded during the) early fusilade Monday morning, but it is beleived he will recover. Surrounded by his six little shildren. whom he held prisoners j almost to the end of the eeige, Bost wick, who had declared his inten tion of dying rather than' submit to arrest on the ch'arge of attempt ing to murder 'his brother-in-law, j fought the battle to the last ditch. Knowing that death was near, the j desperate man finally allowed the fear stricken children to leave thej house. However, after they were| under the protection of the mili tary officers, they refused to talk ofj the events .of the night. Capt. Chas. ?. Delang, command ing the |Fitzgerald Guards, de scribed the uneven battle of one desperate man against an equally j determined host in a vivid manner. Oapt. Delang's original finstruc tions from Adjt. Gen. Scott were to await the arrival of the Albany Guards before taking any steps to, capture Bostwick. ?Upon arriving . at Bostwick'sl home, however, he found the mob in such a temper that he deemed \ immediate ' action absolutely neces sary. He first called upon BostwicK to surrender, offering him protection ? from the mob, but the demand was stoutly refused, even though accom panied by a threat to take the be sieged man dead or alive. The offi cer then demanded that the children i be allowed to leave the house, hut | Bostwick also refused this demand. The litle ones had spent the entire night huddled close to the floor fearing at any moment that they would be the victim of bullets from the guns of the enraged people. .Capt. Delang ordered his men to fire a volley into the roof of the house, following which another de mand for surrender and release of the children was made upon Bost wick, who replied with a shot from one of the three weapons, with which he was armed. Then came another volley from the soldiery, which caus ed Bostwick to ask that the lives of the children be not endangered. The six children were then per mitted to leave the 'house, and were taken in charge by the soldiers. They would answer no questions. The oldest daughter, Jennie, who had spent the long night attempting to shield the younger children, cried because one of the younger boys had been forced to leave the house with out his trousers, and the oldest boy was ill. The children being taken to a place of safety, Capt. Delang again demanded that Bostwick surrender, but the only reply was a shot from the beseiged man. Then the soldiers; fired a volley into the lower portion ] of the house. . A moment later offi cers observed that a shingle had been removed from the roof, this probably being done by Bostwick in order to fire to better advantage. A hail of lead was thrown into the roof, followed by a thud, which indi cated that Bostwick had fallen to the floor. Observers then called at tention to the fact that an object was seen moving through a hole in | the floor, and a volley was fired in that direction. A rush of the troops was then directed, the belief be ing that Bostwick had been injured, but this was stopped by a shot from the building, which struck James Gill, who was cared for by a physi cian. Delang's men then fired into the building several times. Several men then attempted to enter the building, but were greeted by a final shot from Bostwick. The Albany company then arrived on the scene and a rush upon the building was made from all directions. The doors were broken open and Bostwick was found upon the floor and although he had passed the point of resistance, and could not even give utterance to his IES A WEEK. thoughts, the expression on his fea tures was one of death defying de termination. He had fought the battle of life and deafVand lost, but if his superhuman n?$ g ~^!led him once there was no / ; ^/fe^ "^S. fact. . Death claimed^^ ^ ?fr j. shortly after the final Tustt^Jf0 0 troops. ? ><5 The Sabbath day tragedies and the final battle scene occurred four miles west of Irwinville. 2n the crowd that gathered around the beseiged home were the most prominent wo men of the community. These did not remain at the scene for the pur nose of witnessing bloodshed, but their hearts went out to the children who. were forcibly confined in the home. There were stern, determin- | ed faces in that crowd of fully five .hundred mothers, many of whom would 'have defied the deadly fire of the Springfield's before they would have allowed one of the children to .be injured. The attitude of the women re sulted from a misunderstanding of orders issued by Adjt. Gen. Scott, who instructed the two companies not to fire from a distance and en danger the children. This misun derstanding of the orders caused Governor Joseph M. Brown to be the recipient of many telegrams of; protest during the day. Immediately following Bostwick's death a coroner's jury was empanel-) led to investigate the tragedy. The verdict was that Bostwick killed himself in order to prevent being captured. Whether he died from self-inflii(!ted wounds, received the wounds during the fight with citizens <or succumbed to the fire of the Springfields may never be known. The children doubtless know wheth er the father was wounded before the arrival of the soldiery, but they | would make no statement. Many acts of heroism were record ed during the bloody seige, most notable among these being that of Sheriff Mclnnis. Seeing his deputy, T. C. Bass, fall, and thinking he was mortally wounded, Sheriff Mclnnis rushed from cover and. took Bass to a" place ?f safety, and in so doing ^received the wound which caused his dea:v. He then proceeded to a neighbor ing telephone and attempted to com municate with Adjt. Gen. Scott, at Atlanta. He was unable to talk, however, and in whispers dictated the message which caused the Ad jutant General to order out the troops. Bostwick literally died with his | "boots'on*,''" "and not until his am munition, which he had retrenched by forcing one of his children to face the fire of the mob and take a pis tol and cartridges from the body of| one of the dead soldiers, was ex hausted, did he cease firing. Al most in his last breath, he sent one final shot in the direction of the in vaders. KILLED IN DUEL. Two Cubans Meet in Woods anil End Differences. Armed with knives and keeping their word to meet at sunrise in the woods near MacFarlane park, in the western part of Tampa, Fla., Tues day morning, Marco Adalo and an other Cuban, whose identity has not yet been established, fought until both had fallen from loss of biood, Adalo dying after proceeding a short distance from where the bloody duel took place. The unknown man was able to make his way to a nearby street, where all trace of him was lost. Two men were seen going into the woods a short distance from thp park at an early hour, both gesticulating The demeanor towards each other was such as to arouse suspicion among the cigar workers who saw them and at the noon hour a search was made with the result the evi dence of a bloody struggle was seen, and later the body of Adalo. Death from Lockjaw. The little 8-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Langford died at the home of her parents in the mill village at Lexington Sunday evening from lockjaw. On las Tuesday the litle girl ran a nail in her foot, but little attention was giv en, the parents thinking of course, that she would soon be well. On Saturday she was taken violently ill and Sunday morning lockjaw set in. The little one was the pride of her parents and her death has cast a pall of sorrow over the entire household. Her remains were laid to rest in the Lexington city cemetery Monday afternoon at 4:3 0 o'clock. Town Almost Wiped Out. Genoa, thi county seat of Douglas county, twelve miles south of Carson City, was almost destroyed by fire Tusday afternoon. The loss is es timated at over $100,000. The court house, Masonic Hall and other brick structures were prey to the flames. A special train from this j city is carrying lire fighting appara tus. The flames now threaten the surrounding farms. Genoa is the oldest town in Nevada, and was the first white settlement this side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Joy Kille Ends in Death. Harold Backus, a chaffour. aged 22, and two companions whom he took on a joy ride at 3 a. m. Satur day were injured when the machine crashed linto a telegraph pole at Smeythort. Harold McCarthy, one of the party is in a critical condition and Prank Purtell, the third mem ber bears severe cuts and bruises. ORANCrEBt INJURED BY AUTO WHICH WAS BEING DRIVEN BY J THE PRESIDENT'S SON. 4 J j Laborer Struck by Automo bile Being Driven by Robert Tall. ?Slight Chance tor Recovery. The serious condition of Michael ThioiXMVuiia, an lutu&u lauerer, wno I was strucK .viunu?y oy aa autonio bi.e operated uy uouert iait, son of Presiueut iau, at tteveriy, .viass., nas causoa a .auri ibu change in tue plans ot me 'iait lainuy, wuu Vreie pi enur ing to depart on the Sylpn for New London to attend the Harvaru-Yaie regatta Thursday. instead of attending the races the family will remain in Beverly un less there is an unexpected cnange for the better in the man's conai-| tion. Tne report troin tue Beverly Hospital was tnat he had only a j slight cnante for recovery. Dr. J. 3. Mixter of Boston sent at tue request of the President, ar I rived and is working witn the hospi tal authorities, doing ail that. can j I be done for tne injured man. Robert Taft is badly broken up over the aifair, and spent much of the afternoon at the hospital. Chief of Police has received in- j structions, through the Taft at torney, to see that the wounded man is given every attention. President) Taft arrived in Beverly early Wed nesday morning. A dispatch from Washington says President Taft was greatly distressed when he learned through the Asso ciated Press dispatches, of his son's | unfortunate accident at Beverly, Mass. He immediately sent a long | telegraphic message to his son, which, it is said, contained instruc tions to do everything possible for.| the; injured man. . The following telegram was sent to an old col-) lege friend of the President: "Samuel Carr, Boston, Mass: By an unfortunate automobile accident at Beverly my boy, Robert, struck a street laborer, fracturing his skull. He is at Beverly Hospital. Will you not call up by telephone the best surgeon in Boston and have him visit the hospital at once and tender services to the resident phy sician and do all he can for the in jured man.'' The President then .sent a personal telegram to the injured man, ex-1 pressing his profound regret over the accident ana conveying to the victim his earnest wish for a speedy recovery.. LYNCHING IMMINENT. Race Feeling is Quieting but Lynch ing Is Likely. Advices received from Simpson County, Miss., the scene of a threat ened racial conflict Tuesday, follow ing the killing of Luther Buckley, a white farmer, by a trio of negro fugitives, and later the shooting to death of one of the negroes by a posse,, state that normal conditions are fast being restored and further bloodshed is not anticipated. Ac cording to the most authentic re ports from the remote section where the killing occurred, Buckley was one of a posse searching for Harris on and Robin Jones, brothers and Jim Brady, all negroes, wanted in connection with an attack of a white farmer Saturday night, when he was fired on from ambush and killed. The posse later killed Harrison Jones but the others are still at large. Posses, however, are still searching the woods and should they be appre hended they will probably be lynch ed by the mob. AUTO KILLS TWO. Machine Collides With Freight With Fatal Result Mrs. A. C. Freeman and son, aged I 7, of Arcadia, Fla., are dead; Dr. Robie, of Monticello, is injured to such an extent that his recovery is doubtful: L. L. Camp, negro chauf : feur, will die, and the other occu pant of the car, A. C. Freeman, hus j band of the dead woman, is seriously hurt, as the result of an automobile collision with a Central of Georgia freight train, near Monticello, Ga., at seven o'clock Monday afternoon. T.he train was en route to Athens, and it' was thought that the party, on its way to Macon in a big touring car, after picking up Dr. Robie, at Monticello, did not notice the train or else tried to beat it across the crossing, with fatal results. Two Boys Drowned. Maxie and Sidney Cohen, sons of Meyer Choen, a life insurance agent, and aged ten and eight years respec tively were drowned in the James river at the foot of Twelfth street Richmond Surr*ay. and the father was nearly drowned in an effort to rescue them. He was swept down by the current, landed by accident upon a fish trap after he lost con sciousnes and was restored with dif had not been recovered at ten o' clock Sunday night. Lineman is Killed. An electric current of some 12,200 | voltage Hashed through the body of Vernon Byrum, lineman, at S o' clock Monday morning at Raleigh, Acuity. The bodies of the boys N. C, as he worked at stringing the city fire alarm wires, and killed him almost instantly. FKG, S. C, T?HRSDAY,, J Zeppelie's Great Airship Is Wrecked by Treetops. NO ONE INJURED After Unavailing "Contest With Tcr . rific Stonn and Whirlwind the Disabled Monster Falls Helpless. All the Passengers Lowered lu Safety. A dispatch from Dusseldorf, Ger., says Count Zeppelin's passenger air ship Deutschland, the highest de veloped of all the aeronaut's models, lies on top of the Teutobourgain forests, pierced with pine tree stem, a mass of deflated silk and twisted aluminum. Tie 3 3 persons aboard, after a wild contest with a storm, escaped uninjured, climbing down a rope ladder from the wreck on the pine tops. Herr Colesman, general manager of the new. airship company, Chief engineer Durr of the Zeppelin com pany and Capt Kannen burg, who per sonally had charge of the crew of ten and twenty newspaper men hail ed from D?sseldorf at S.30 o'clock Tuesday morning for a three hours' excursion. The objective point was Dortmund, about 35 miles from D?s seldorf, but a high head wind pre vailed and an effort was made to reach Munster, a garrison town, so that a landing might be made on the parade ground. It was dangerous to attempt a landing in an open field, because of the storm, as the metal was likely to pound to pieces. One of; the motors refused to work and the other two were not powerful enough to make any progress in the gale. The air Bhip drifted, swaying in the violent gusts and sometimes leaning to an angle of 40 degrees, and all the while the enginemen were at work repairing the disabled motor. When this was done all four screws were driven under full power, with which under normal conditions, the ship was able to make 40 miles an hour. But the helmsman was unable to keep his course, as the great craft was swung about at the mercy of the winds. Colesmann did not dare to turn the ship around for fear of overturn ing, and be decided to drift in the gale which was now blowing at the rate of fifty miles an hour toward Osnabr?ck, which is also a garrison town. If he missed that he would continue on to Senie. Suddenly he perceived a whirlwind coining and ascended to a height of nearly 4,000 feet to avoid the worst of it. With the whirlwind came an avaianche of rain. After an hour the Deutchland came down to permit of observation and it was seen that the Teutobourgian forest lay below. The forward motor again stopped and Colesmann sent five of the cor respondents to the aft gondola to balance the vessel. The ship sank rapidly, having lost much gas in the high altitude and dragged along the top of the dense forest. A heavy branch of a tree broke through the floor of the cabin".amidships, throw ing two of the guests to the floor. Other branches ripped through the gas compartments and the whole great structure settled down 3 0 or 40 feet from the ground. ""It is not the fault of the Zeppe lin system," declared Herr Cole niann; ""that is all right. It is our own fault and our benzine ran out. Tue airship for which Herr Ooles niann's company had just paid $137, 500 looked like a wreck. The frames were broken but the motors were not damaged. The silk was ripped and had fallen in a torn mass on the tops of the trees. A rope ladder was swung down and everyone was mustered below unin jured except for a bruise or two. Two natives identified the spot as near to Wellendorf, east of Osna br?ck. Many persons of the countryside must have seen the descent and re sultant disaster. Reports of death were widely spread. A company of infantry was sent from Osnabruck, and picketed the wreckage. First Bail Sold. The first bale of the cotton crop of 1910-11 was sold at auction in New York Monday and brought 5o cents per pound, the proceeds being so uruiI ior charity. This baie *??? picked at Hidalgo County, Texas, weighed about 416 pounds, and was ciased as good middling, it was i'S'. sold at Houston, Texas, on June 23, for $375, and was shipped from there to New York. The cotton pur chased in New York will be shipped to Liverpool where it will again be auctioned. Found Baby in Basket. Like Moses of old, a young baby was found near Moreauville. La., Sunday night floating in a protected Willow basket among the rushes along the banks of a bayou. In the place of a ruler's daughter, a mer chant of .Ylorcauville overhauled the unusual craft and unsentimentally summoned the sheriff to make an in vestigation in search of the mis creant parents. In addition to the child the basket contained a bot tle of milk, a one dolar bill and a flask of whiskey. WISTE 30. 1910. JUDGE C. G. DANTZLER FIRST JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF SOUTH CAROLINA. Resolutions Adopted and Remarks Made by Judge Robert Aldrich, and Members of the Laurens Bar.1 I In the court of General Sessions j for Laurens county, S. C, his Hon or, Robert Aldricn, presiding Juage, the tohow&g proceedings were'had on June 20, 1910, in respect to tne memory of tne late. Juu0e Charles G. Dantzler: Mr. John W. Ferguson, president of the Laurens Bar Association, said: '"At a meeting of the Bar just held a preamule and resolutions I were unaaimous.y adopted by tue Bar in reference to the death of Judge Dantzler. They were dratt ed by Mr. Featherscone, ana 1 win ask him to read them." The Resolutions. The resolutions were read by Mr. C. C. Featherstone as follows: "Whereas, iL hath pleased AI-J mighty God to remove from our! niiust Judge Charles G. Dantzler, | Judge of me 1st Judicial circuit, bd it resolved by the Laurens Bar As sociation: "1. That we have heard witn sincere regret of the death of Judge Dantzler. He was a Judge of ex ceptional ability, and a man of puri ty and uprightness of character. He was gentle, upright and kind; yet he had the courage of his convic tions, and there was back of all his gentleness a stern adherence to duty. His death is a distinct loss to the Bench and Bar, and to the entire State. I 2. "That a copy of these resolu tions be spread upon the minutes of | the Court, and a copy thereof mail- ] ed to Mrs. Dantzler, and that we ex press to Mrs. Dantzler and children our heartfelt sympathy in this time of bereavement. 3. "That the court which is now in session be requested to adjourn as an evidence of respect to our de ceased brother and Judge." Mr. C. C. .Featherstone. Mr. C. C. Featherstone spoke as follows: "May it please your honor, in pre senting these resolutions I desire to make a few remarks. I have known Judge Dantzler for more than twen ty years. We were admitted in the same class in December, 1SS5. Since that time, sir, it has been my pleas ure to be intimately associated with him, to have been in his home, ana to have had him in my home, and 1 think that the keynote of Judge Dantzler's character was expressed in a few words in these resolutions, He was one of the gentlest, most up right, one of the kindest men that ' have ever come in contact with, and yet 1 have never known a man who j had a sterner sense of what was ?right, and who had the courage of his convictions more than Charlie Dantzier. 1 have seen him while pre siding here at this court, may it please your honor, almost moved to tears when it became his duty to sentence a criminal. As a Judge he was, as I said a moment ago, ex tremely fair, kind and upright in all his rulings, and he had one of the quickest minds I .have ever come in contact with, in fact, my relations were so intimate that I told him af ter he held his first term of Court here that 1 had one criticism to make of him as a judge; 1 said, 'Your mind works so rapidly that you frequently reach your conclu sions before the arguments .have been concluded.' "His record upon the bench was extremely fine. I do not believe we have ever .had a Judge in South Car olina w.ho was more universally pop ular with the members of the LJui than he. "And yet, while I had the greatest regard for him as a Judge and as a lawyer, if I had to speak of him 1 would rather speak of him as a man. I do not believe, may it please your Honor, that there has ever lived in South Carolina a purer Christian spirit than that of Charles G. Dant zler. I have seen him in his home life. I saw him once, 1 recall, a few years a^o, drive up on the public square there at Oraugcburg witu two young ladies in the buggy with him. and saw him get out of his bug gy and in the most polite way assist t.he young ladies out. Some body said 'Who is that yonder?' A gentleman standing by said, 'Oh, that's just Charlie Dantzler and his young girls; he is as polite or polit er to them than be would be to any body else.' He was. I have never known a man whose home life was any purer and sweeter than that ot Charlie Dantzler. "And after all. no maiter what a man's learning may be along the line of the law, w.hat South Caro lina has been peculiarly Messed in. if your honor will let me say so. has been in the purity of character of those who have graced her bench. Take thorn from the time of O'Neall and even back of that, and with only one exception, covering a period of a few years. South Carolina has been peculiarly blessed in the character of t.he men who have graced her bench. And I desire to say here that I have never known a man of purer charac ter, a man of higher and more lofty ideals, that he who has just been taken from us." Mr. John F. Bolt. .Mr. John F. Bolt, Clerk of Court, spoke as follows: "May it please your Honor and gentlemen of the Bar, I was clerk of the Court when Judge- Dantzler was elected one of the circuit Judges of South Carolina. On his first-trip to Laurens he sent me word ?fchat he wanted to stop at my nouf?e while here. He did so, and I f-o.urtd him j to be one of the finest .gentlemen I that ever entered the dp?rs of my home. And whenever Judge Dant ; zler spent some time at my home 1 I could always feel that I had been benefitted by my association with him. His social conversation was al ways of the highest. He spoke few idle words, but what he said was always to the uplift of those who I heard him, and of th young men especially with whom he came in contact. "When I heard of his death this morning, by telegram, my heart was made sad. We have learned to love him at our home, not only myseu, but my wife and daughters, had | learned to love Judge Dantzler. He was an, upright, courteous gentle man, always considerate of those round about him. And oftimes, when I have seen those gentle man ners of his, it would recall to me what I had been taught of the his- j I tory of the brave men of the old i school of South Carolina gentlemen, I whose examples we hafe been reared to admire and to strive to emulate. I was glad to be associated with Judge Dantzler. "Of course. 1 cannot speak of him as a jurist, for I have never studied law, but as a gentleman, and a high trned Christian gentleman, I can speak of him in the very highest terms. And I shall always remem ber Judge Dantzler as a true friend and as a man who was ever ready to speak an encouraging word to to those around about him. 1 am proud to speak of Judge Dantzler as my friend, and as a high-toned, courteous Christian gentleman. When I heard of his death today, 1 thought, one good man has been transferred from this earthly life to the life beyond, and all is right with Judge Dantzler." Hgihly eulogistic apeecbes were also made by Messrs. R. A. Cooper, F. P. McGowan, H. Y. Simpson, J. W. Ferguson, J. M. Cannon, R. L'. Babb, and R. W. Richey, members of the Lauren's, Bar. All these gen tlemen bore testimony to the high, character of Judge Dantzler. His Honor, Robert Aldrich. | His Honor, Robert Aldrich, pre siding Judge, said:.. ... _.i "While 1 should not have been tin-: prepared to hear of the death of Judge Dantzler, I. was as a matter of fact very much shocked this morning when I was informed that he rad passed away. We have all known for some months that he was ill, and but recently 1 was in formed that his illness was of a fa tal character, and felt it is hard to realize that the career of one who: has filled so large a place in public observation and public usefulness ihas ended. The life and character of Charles G. Dantzler ought to he written by [ some one sifted in that line, and held up as an object lesson to the yout.ii of South Carolina. If I had a son to rear and educate, I do not know a man whose example I would advise him to follow any quicker than I would Judge Dantzler's. When I was much younger than I am now,at the beginning of my pro fessional life, like most young men and young lawyers 1 worshipped at the shrine of intellect. I tried to pat tern my life after the great orators and the brilliant jurists and the pro found Judges of the world. I have lived long enough to know that that is a mistake. The men who move the world, the men who do the work of Che world, the men who reap the richest rewards and enjoy the high est happiness, are men of inodrate endowments; but who are true tu themselves and develop themselves to the height of their paclty. Such a man was Charles G. Dantzler; Me was a man of decided ability: in my judgment of the highest order of ability, lie had the ability to do right at all times and under all cir cumstances?to think right, to act right, and to walk uprightly in all the relations of life. The conse quence was that he commanded the respect and confidence of those who knew him jest, and when it was known that the Judge of the 1st cir cuit, about eight years ago. would not stand for re-election, Judge Dantzler was the unanimous choice of the bar of that circuit. And Uhat is all that the Legislature wanted to know. He could have been elected by the Legislature without the en dorsement of the Bar, but when those in the General Assembly who had a preference for him learned al so that ho was endorsed by the en tire Mar of the 1st. circuit he passed into ofiice without opposition. And it was not long before we all saw that no mistake had been made. Judge Dantzler and myself lived in adjoining counties, and we prac tised together to some extent, some times on the same side, sometimes on opposite sides, and I do not. think I ever saw a truer mind than his?a mind capable of reasoning correct ly from premises to conclusion. And while metaphysicians may not agree with me. I believe that his ability to I reason correctly is explained by the [fact that he always tried to reason rightly. "It is very gratifying to me, and will .be to the lawyers in our part of the State, and to the Bar at Orange burg and to his family, to know that at this distance from his home he was so highly valued and so much TWO CENTS FEK COPF Triple Drowning in River Near Naval Academy Tuesday. INMATES MISSING Efforts Hein?; Marie to Recover Bod ies of Young Woman and Two Midshipmen.?Last Seen in Frail Craft, which is Later Discovered Drifting on Water. More than a score'of middies are searching the waters of the Severn River, near Annapolis, Md., for the bodies of Mrs. Nellie E. Bowyer, wid ow of Joseph Bowyer, and daughter in-law of Superintendent John M. Bowyer, of the Naval Academy, and Midshipmen Grisbie Thomas, of Un ion Point, Ga., and Sherman M. Ne son, of Newport, R. I. The Uirce left the Naval Acauemy about 11 o'clock Tuesday morning, in a sail boar, and this boat was found drifting that afternoon. In it were portions ot the clothing that had been worn by the members of the party. It is believed that the midship men took Mrs. Bowyer to the bath ing shore used by the Naval Acad emy people, and attempted to teach her to swim and, that she, getting beyond her depth, all three were drowned. All efforts to recover the bodies had been fruitless up to a late hour. Mrs. Bowyer and her midshipmen missed the regular launch that goes to the bathing beach across the river from the Naval Academy, and took a half-rater sail boat instead. There they donned bathing suits and .again taking to their boat, went to a beach nearer the mouth of the river, but within sight of the Naval Academy. While this .beach is good, it has treacherous spots, where the depth of water increases sr 2nly. There were no witnesses to what occur red, but the discovery of the boat in which they had been and the fact that no trace of any of the party has been found leads to the conviction that all three were drowned. FIVE KILLED IN EXPLOSION; Gas Tank in Basement Blew Roof from Saloon. Five men were killed and eleven injured, two of them probably fa tally, by an explosion, which* first wrecked and then set fire ' to the saloon of Edward Bushay, five miles north of Minneapolis, on the Anoka road, Tuesday evening. The identified dead afe: Eugene Hainlin, Edward Hammish and Chas. Siggelkow. All three were residents of Minneapolis. Two bodies'remain unidentified. Edward Bushay, the proprietor of the place and George Miller were so severely burned that they will die. Tiie explosion of a gas tank in the basement blew the roof from the building and fire at once started. In half an hour the building was a mass of burning wreckage.' BOLD BANDITS. Hold Up Train and Rob the Passen gers of Valuables. Three masked bandits held up the second sei t ion of Oregon Short Line train No. 1 northbound which left Ogdeu. Utah, at {.30 o'clock Tues day morning. All of the passengers in ilnj train were relieved of their valuables and the express passenger was compelled to deliver the con tents of the sate. The exact amount the robbers obtained has not been reported. Two passengers were in jured. Rejected Him; He Killed Her. Because Jennie Minkoff. not quite IS. rejected his attentions. Morris Nathanson, a young grocer's clerk lay in wait in the hall at her .home in Now York and shot her through the heart. She fell dead at his feet. Natnanson then walked to a police station and remarked that he had "killed his girl." appreciated. "You are making no mistake, brethren, to think well of your ju diciary while they live, and the con sciousness that they will receive your meed of praise when they are gone, 1! they deserve it. strengthens their arms and holds up their hands in their elt'oris to serve you and to serve their people. None of us can stay here long, but all of us can act rightly, to the best of our human rs'iHKy. what time we do stay here, i'li;! the Knowledge that we will be appreciated by those whose good opinions we value is very comfort ing and very sustaining. "I will order the preamble and resolutions spread upon the Journal of the court, that a copy of them pe engrossed and forwarded by the clerk to the family of Judge Dant zler, and that they be published, to gether with the remarks made on this occasion, in the papers of Laur ens County, and of Columbia and Charleston, and that in honor of the memory of the Hon. Charles G. Dantzler, deceased, that this Court be adjourned sine die."