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SANK HER FOE
ilflwAc Haoley, a Csddmlt?iskm-'
WAS HRST OF ITS KIND |
'Operated by the Comfedentee in andj
. Abon* Charleston Hsirbor, and
Finally Went Out to Sea and Sank
the United States Sloop of War
. Eonsatonic.
The submarine boat, according to
-the popular idea, is a most; modem
' device, falling into the flying ma
-chine, wireless telegraph age; As a
matter of fact, the submarine of to-,
day has yet to demonstrate its mer
its ao a fighting <naft, though, theo
retically it could accomplish won
ders. Though boats of this kind
Svere owned by the United , States,
BusBia and Japan, not one went into
I action during either.,.the Spanish
lAmerican or the Eusso-Japanese war,
whereas, eo long ago as 1864, a sub
marine torpedo boat did go into ac
tion, attacking and sinking a man
" -of-war.
This distinction, says Harpers
Weekly, belongs to the Confederate
^States submarine Hunley, and crude
and Imperfect as was that strange
-craft, Its general, plan has been folr
?Sowed in the most modern. subma
rines. The Hunley was constructed
In the iron works of Parks & Lyons,
at Mobile, Ala. For her hull the
? builders used what was most avail
. ?ble-?an ordinary cylinder boiler,
torty-elght inches in diameter and
twenty-five; feet long. The limited
interior Bpace was still further re
stricted by partitioning off cornea, t
i^ments- for water ballast, the tanks
"being filled and emptied by valves.
' Heavy pieces of iron were bolted
to the keel m such manner that they
?could be detached by the crew from
the inside in case it. should become
necessary to rise quickly to the sur
face. ?' The screw propeller was at
? -tacaed to a shaft running-through
-the-boat. On this 8haft?>were Bet
-eight cranks at different ".angles.
These cranks were ^grasped . and
worked by the men, who s*t upon
the port-Bide,., the shaft being.sup
ported by brackets on the starboardV
'So eocfined was- the space that.-vhen
.. j the; menr..were ta their placets it. was
" impossible to move from one end 'ofc
I the boat to the other.
; The commanding officer's position
was in the bow, whence, he controlled
i the rudder and the two Iron fins
which sent the boat up or down. The
; -officer also attended the torpedo, the
total armament of the boat. ThiB
. ivas a copper 'cylinder holdmg about
"ninety pounds of explosives, fastened
upon the end of a boom twenty-one
feet long, which extended from the
nose of the craft. The only.means ot
; securing ? fr'esh supply; of air after
the boat had dived was to come to
the surface and remove a hatch cov
Upon tho completion of the Hunley
at Mobile, It. was decided that Char
leston harbor offered the best field
for operations, and she was accord
ingly moved to that city by rail. The
?narrative of her subsequent career
Is brief,., but the story glows with
"heroism and devotion. ?
Despite the strange nature cf the
?craft, It was not found difficult to se
cure a crew, and all was soon in
readiness Tor an expedition against
?the blockading fieet. The crew took
- their place3, the hatch covers were
About to be bolted In place, when,
while still alongside the dock, the
j Tx>at was swamped by a heavy swell,
and every man aboard was drowned.
.' 43he was raised, and another crew
Tolunteered. Again, and In almost
the same manner, the boat was
?swamped at tho dock, six men per
ishing.
After this o-'currence the boat was
turned over to her builder, Capt.
Hunley, and a volunteer crew from
Mobile, men wlw had assisted in her
"building, were more or lees familiar
"with the craft, and who, hearing of
? "the two disasters at Charleston, had
^hastened to offer their Services.
This time it seemed sb though all
things were to work satisfactorily.
The men took their places, the hatch ]
-covers were bolted down, the lines'
wrere cast oCf, the boat moved away
Tfrom the dock and dived gracefully
amid the cheers of the spectators.
IMinutes passed, then an hour, but
the submarine did not reappear, j
TTpon investigation it was found that
tthe boat had driven her nose into I
?tae soft mud of the bottom with such j
force as to render it impossible for
the crew to back oft and rise to the!
surface. All had died from suffoca
tion.
The Hunley was raised and pre
pared for service again. A'ready she
*nad claimed twenty-three victims, but
.a fourth crew stepped forward in
stantly when a call for volunteers
?was made.
No further trouble was experi
enced, and this crew spent some
time in getting thoroughly acquaint
ed with the boat and her possibili
ties, practicing and rising. It was
found that in comparatively smooth
water it was possible to make a
ispeed of four miles an hour, but if
the water was rough not nearly so
gooi time could be made. As a test
of the time it would be possible to
keep the soat submerged, she was
allowed to lie upon the bottom until
.yihe men could endure the laek of air
ETMES A "WEEK.
SAFELY INVESTED
WHERE THIEVES CANNOT BREAK
THROUGH AND STEAL.
"Circuit Sitter's Wife'' States That
"Major Portion of Wealth of Lun
dy Harris Was l& Heavenly Secnri
ties.
Coonty Court Clerk Hunt,, of Dav
idson county, Tenn., in calling upon
Mrs. Cora Harris (author of "The
Circuit Rider'a Wife") to furnish an
inventory ot her husband's estate,
of which she bad been made execu
trix, received a must remarkable and
unique reply from Mrs. Harris. Af
ter saying that she did not know how
to make the Inventory and apologiz
ing because she had not known it
was her duty to do so, she says
among other things:
"It is not with the intention of
showing an egregious sentimentality
that I say I find it impossible to give
you a complete and satisfactory in
ventory of the estate of Lundy H.
Harris. The part that I give is so
small that it is Insignificant ana
misleading. At the time of his death
he had $2.35 in his purse, $116 in
the Union Bank and Trust Company,
j of that city, about 400 books and
[the coffin in which he was buried,
, which cost about $85. The major
I part of his estate was Invested in
heavenly securities, the value oi
which have been variously declared
in this world and highly taxed by
the various churches, but never
realized.
"He invested every year not less
(usually more) than $1,200 in char
ity, so secretly, so Inoffensively and
so honestly that he was never sus
pected of being a philanthropist and
never praised for his generosity. He
pensioned an old outcast woman in
Barron county, an old . soldier in
Nashville. He sent two little negro
boyB to school, and supported for
three years a family of five who
could not support themselves. He
contributed anonymously to every
charity to Nashville; every old maid
interested In a benevolent object re
ceived his aid; every child be knew
exacted and received penny tolls
from his tenderness. He supported
the heart of every man who con
fided in him with encouragement and
affection.
"He literally did forgive his ene
mies and suffered martyrdom Sep
tember 18, 1M0,. after enduring
three years of persecution' without
complaint He considered himself
one of the chief survivors and was
ever recognized as one of the largest
bondholders in heaven.
"You can see how large his eBtate
was and how difficult it would be. to
compute its value so as to furnish
you the inventory you require for
record on your books. I have given
you faithfully such Items as have
come within my knowledge.
"Sincerely yours,
"Corra Harris."
Dr. Lundy Harris, her husband,
was "The Circuit Rider," William, in
her remarkable story, which was ,>ub
lij'ied in the Saturday Evening Post.
no longer?for two hours and thir
ty-five minnteB.
As the boat, when submerged,
could only be steered by dead reck
oning, it was necessary that any
attack which she made should be de
livered at night, when she could
rise, take a sight, dive and then
steer in accordance with the obser
vation. There was little probability
?Via* th? email ??onnlnir inwor. *>to
only part necessary to bring e.bbve
the surface for an observation, would
be observed on a fairly dark night,
whereas the officer of the submarine
could readily distinguish a man-of
war.
Many attemptB"were made to reach
the blockading vessels of the har
bor, but as the nearest lay twelve
miles away, it was found that only
under the most propitious conditions
would it be possible to go so far out
and get back under the shelter of the
torts before dawn.
Conditions seemed favorable on
the 17th of February, 1864, how
ever, and late m the afternoon the
Hunley slipped silently toward the
harbor mouth, never to return.
I It was not until the close of the
I war, when divers examined the
I wreck of the United States man-of
i war Housat?nic that the fate of the
submarine was surely known. Then
It was discovered that, when at last
the Huniey had reached her foe, de
stroyed and destroyer had gone down
together, the little craft balng
dragged down by the suction of the
Live Stock Last Year.
There was shipped into Chicago,
during 1910, 14.S29.200 head of live
stock, according to the annual re
' port of the Union Stock Yards com
1 nany just issued. The report shon-s
'an Increase of 141,000 cattle, 90.
'000 calves, 792.000 sheep and a de
I crease of 617,700 ho/s anJ S2.000
! horses, as compared with the previ
ous year. It took 25G.700 cars to
haul the live stock, which Is valued
at $350,000,000.000.
Found in Swamp.
The partially decomposed body of
John Owens, of Amerlcus, Ga., who
recently disappeared from his home,
was found Monday afternoon in Muck
Lee Swamp, three miles from that
place. It is believed he wandered
from home while temporarily out of
bis mind and died from expoeure.
/ O.RAXGEBTJIW.
HOUSE FIRED
By Police to Smoke Oat Aoaixfcfsts and
Si of Hub A> Boned.
BATTLE IN THE STREET
The Greatest Excitement Spreads
Thronghont City of London' as the
Trapped Men Resist Arrest and
Fire on Soldiers and/Police From
the Winden? of a House.
One of the most remarkable crim
inal outbreaks that has ever oc
curred in England took place in Lon
don In broad daylight Tuesday noi
far from the heart of the city. A
band of suspected anarchists directed
Its deadly fusllade from a building
temporarily converted into.a fortress
against hundreds of armed police
men, reinforced by troops and
guardsmen, mounted and on foot,
who had besieged the criminals, final
ly! setting fire to their fortresses and
demolishing it Six of the despera
does were burned to death in the
ruins of their improvised citadel.
A London dispatch says the east
and was thrown into great excite
ment by a pitched battle between
seve?il hundred police and a band
of men suspected of being the mur
derers and the friends of the mur
derers of three policemen who were
killed recently by anarchistic burg
lars.. The suspected ones, the num
bers of which it is not known, oc
cupied a house in Sidney street, a
narrow thoroughfare. The police,
discovering their headquarters, sur
rounded the place and were met with
a volley of" shots from within. A
fapM exchange of shots followed
during which two detectives were
shot, one seriously.
The police after locating their men
and anticipating trouble, had ordered
the houses in the Immediate neigh
borhood vacated before daylight and
throwing a line of officers around the !
square, allowed no one to approach
within a hundred yards of the scene
of the expected battle. The police
lines had been drawn so tight that it
was believed that the inmates of .the
house had no chance to escape. The
police were satisfied that the place
contained the two murderers wanted
and they hod also satisfied them
selves .that, the .assassins had fortified
their home and wore supported by a
numi>er of friends
Whenever the officers approached
the house a volley of bullets Bpat
tered the pavement A detachment
of 60 men with one officer and three'
non-commissioned officers of the]
Scots Guard from the Tower arrived;
later and were served with ball car-j
.trldges. They fired, a few rounds
into the building. There was a lull
for five minutes and then the be
sieged replied. It was impossible to
estimate the number of persons in [
the building as they were armed with
magazl?e rifles, Mausers and Brown
ings and fired with great rapidity.
Last week the authorities were in
formed that men closely resembling
the burglars had rented rooms in
the Sidney street house. Preparing
for a raid on the house, the police
caused the tenants In the neighbor
ing houses to quietly remove from
their homes during the night. De
tective Sergeant Le?son was exam
ining the suspected building from the
rear when he was shot. His brother
officers helned him up a ladder and
ovpr a wall at the back of the yard
ndjolning, while the men in the
hfouse oontinued to Are upon the
party.
As the situation became more ser
ious the thousands of onlookers were
driven back and a space was hur
riedly cleared for a radius of half a
mile about the scene of action. The
soldiers kept up a fusllade directed
at the windows of the house and
the men within responded continu
ously. Meantime loads of straw were
hurried to the place for the pnrpose
of starting a firs and smoking out
the besieged men.
Piles of straw were lighted near
the buildings and the flames either
spread to the honee or the anarchists
themselves set fire to the building.
The fire brigade was then summoned
and reached the scene at 1 o'clock
that afternoon. The fire fighters di
vided their energies between trying
to put out the blaze and trying to
flood out the outlaws by streams of
water thrown through the windows.
As the afternoon progressed the
battle waged more fiercely. Another
company of the Scots OuardB was
orderpd out and took up a position
in front of the house at 1:30 o'clock.
At that hour eo furious was the bat
tle and so determined the resistance
of the criminals that machine gunB
were called for. These were hurried
to iSidney street under orders to bom
bard the building should other meth
ods to dislodge the defenders fail.
In the face of terrific odds the
trapnpd men continued a desperate
resistance and every few minutes ap
peared at the windows and emptied
their guns at any one in Bight. The
flames, however, swept up through
the building, driving the occupants
to tho top story. Hard pressed, the
terrorists kept up the crim fight. At
2 o'clock the whole building was in
flames and the desperadoes had been
driven to '.he roof. Here they fired
upon the police and the soldiers be
low.
As the fire enveloped the house
heavy explosions occurred. These ap
parently were of ammunition, with
, S. C, THlfiSD?T^ JAN
KILLED BY MbllS
WHO HELD UP TRAIN AND
ROBBED THE PASSENGERS.
Ose of the Colored Porters on the
., ?" ? .v - f,
Train Shot and Killed and Woand
ed Aitothor.
Southern Pacific train No. 1, the
. overland limited, westbound, was
held up by two*,, masked bandits at
an early' hour Tuesday morning at
Reese, nine miles west of Ogden,
Utah. One( negro..-porter, William
Davis, was shot ^and in?tantly killed
and another porter, A. W. Davis, was
mortally wounded.. A passenger was
Rllghtly wounded^
One hundred .^passengers on the
train were relieved of their valu
ables. The robbers did not attempt
to enter the express car but devoted
their entire attention to the Pull
mans, where they made a rich haul
among the. Callfo'rnTa=bound pas
sengers, holding the train for more
than an hour.
The train proceeded westward. No
passenger escaped the robbers and
the trainmen also lost their money
and jewelry. Ajt -12:30 Tuesday
morning Conductor Cunningham ad
vised the superintendent's office at
Ggden of the holdup. The sheriff
and police department were Immedi
ately notified and| posseB left the city
for the scene of the holdup In auto
mobiles and on ] a special train.
Posses from the' nearby towns are
working toward Reese.
Two masked men stopped the train
at the little watering station- by
throwing the red'light on the signal
stand toward the approaching loco
motive. As it came to a standstill
the bandits covered the engineer and
firemen with their revolvers and held
them until the conductor rushed up
to investigate the delay. He, too,
was placed under] guard.
One of the robbers left the train
men in charge of his companion and
started through the train from the
forward end. He encountered two
porters on his way and when they
disregarded his commands: -he shot
one down and wounded another. A
curious passenger also was wounded.
The shots aroused the occupants
of the cars and when the holdup ap
peared with an open sack and a men
acing pistol, the passengers were per
fectly willing to contribute to his
collection. He w|ent through the en
tire- train, stopping at every "lierth
and making, a &$^x*&]toarcbi;i. Af^.
ter- completing their work the rots
bers drove away In a vehicle.
About four mil 33 from Reese they
met two girls who were returning
home from a dance. One of the rob
bers very politely requested them to
hand over their purses and t9 "beat
it." Although frightened the girls
succeeded in getting, a good descrlp-^
tlon of the bandits, which tallied
with that furnished by the passengers
and train crew.
KILLED HIS GUEST.
?. y ? .
Mistook Him for a Burglar and Shot
Him Dead.
Ex-Sheriff E. T.' Hicks Monday
nl?ht shot and killed John Wyatt,
his guest, mistaking him for a burg
lar. The '.ragedy occurred at Hicks'
farm, four miles from Dublin, Ga.
Wyatt got up during the night and
left the room while Hicks was
asleep. The ex-Bheriff awoko a short
time after and called Beveral times
to the man whose dim outline he
saw. Upon receiving no answer, he
shot the unknown. When Hicks
sought to awaken Wyatt, whom he
thought still In bed, he discovered he
had killed his friend. The dead man
lived on an adjoining plantation.
Hicks is prostrated over the affair.
Crushed In Panic.
'Fire and panic, while a New Year
religious celebration was in progress
in.a church on a hacienda, near San
Lulu Potoso, Mexico, cost the lives of
seventeen and serious injury of more
than eighty, chiefly women and chil
dren. The church, which was a
Bmall affair, was packed to Its ui
moBt capacity. In the course of the
ceremonies, a candle fell from its
socket and ignited a quantity of dry
moss, with which the building was
decorated.
Found Frozen.
T. A. Hamstead, aged 60, who
lived alone on a Bmall farm near
Wheelervllle, Ala., was found frozen
to death this afternoon in a field ad
joining his home.
which the terrorists seemed to have
been well supplied. The fire Im
perilled the neighborhood. With the
besieged housn in flamea the besieg
ers temporarily suspended the bom
bardment and set to work to rescue
women and children from the ad
joining buildings. The zone of dan
ger had widened so rapidly that many
norsrtnc T">r? fmicVi* ^IM-iln U<t lim
its. Up to the time that the roof gave
way tbe firemen had made no at
tempts to ^tay the flames, but whan
it was seen that cremation only
awaited ths occupants of the bouse.
Police Inspector McCarthy crept
through the narrow street and forced \
the front door. There was no sien !
from within. The last shot of the j
defenders had been fired. Firemen j
brought up a hose and presently j
were enabled to enter the ground I
floor. The place was flooded and!
search for Us occupants bezun. Soon J
it was discovered that Bix bodies had 1
hw>ti d Iscover?J.
?ABY 5, 1911.
THEY ALL LEFT
A Tragedy cf (he Old Ocean That Has
Remained a Dead Secret
WHAT BECAME OF THEM?
The Mysterious Disappearance of the
Officers and Crew of a Schooner
Found Sailing Along Which Has
Never Been Satisfactorily Ex- i
plained or Accounted For.
The mystery of what became of
the master and crew of the British
bark Inverneshire, which sailed from
Hamburg for Santa Rosalia, Cal.,
and was found at anchor and aban
doned off the Falkland islands re
calls vividly to the nautical minds
the fate of the brig Mary Celeste of
New York, for nearly forty years the
prize riddle of the sea.
The Mary Celeste sailed from New
York for Genoa with a cargo of pe
troleum and alcohol. She was com
manded by Capt Benjamin S.
Briggs of Marion, Mass., with Albert
G. Richardson of 'Stockton, Me.,, as
first mate; Andrew Grillng of New
York as second mate and Edward
William Head of New York, Volkert
Lorenzer, Arien Harbens, B. Lo
renzer and Gottlieb Goodshood, all
Df Germany, as the crew. The cap
tain's wife and small child were also
on board.
The brig was in first-class condi
tion, well manned and well equipped
in every way, and when she sailed
from New York on November 17,
1872, the whole ship's company was
happy and contented. Yet none of
them waB ever again seen, dead or
alive. The brig was found on De
cember' 4 off the Azores, drifMng
aimlessly about in light winds, with
her head sails set and all her other
canvaB down. .?:
There was nothing to show why
she had been abandoned or what had
become of her people. She was thus
found by the brig Del Gratia, from
New York for the Mediterranean,
and after a careful examination Cap
tain Moorehouse of the Del Gratia
put a prize crew on board and sent
her into Gibraltar where she arrived
on ? December 13, 1872, and was
turned over to the admiralty court.
Her owners. refused to pay the heavy
salvage .demanded and let the salvors
take her.
i Among the officers' effects' which
were sent home was the mate's log,
and this, with other articles, .was
returned to the father. of the lost
sailor, the late Theodore M. Richard
son of Stockton. One significant pas
sage, the last written, appeared in
the log:
"Fanny, my dear wife."
Whether these words were written
by the mate merely as an expression
of affection while thinking of home,
or in a moment of panic and despair
when about to abandon the vessel,
can only be conjectured. There was
nothiDg else about the vessel to Indi
cate the state of mind prevailing on
board when she was abandoned. The
date of this last entry in the mate's
log was November 24. When ten
days later she was boarded by men
from the Del Gratia her stern boat
was gone and it appeared that some
food, probably canned goods, had
been taken from a locker.
Otherwise everything was In such
ship shape that, but for the date of
the last entry in the log, the Del
Gratla's men could have sworn that
the vessel had been abandoned with
in an hour. Her running rigging waB
all properly made fast and the slack
coiled neatly on deck or over the
pinB. The companionways were open,
half-turned music lay upon the rack
of the little cabinet organ in the
cabin and children's toys were scat
tered upon the floor. In the cap
tain's stateroom his gold watch hung
at the head of his berth and in his
wife's room the impress of a child's
head was distinct upon the pillow.
In the cook's galley the coppers
were on the stove, and meat In pro
cess of preparation was on the table.
In the forecastle the men had not
disturbed their chests, no clothing
was missing, and even money had
been left behind. It was plain that
the crew had left her very suddenly:
That the boat was lowered away in
a hurry a?d with some confusion was
indicated by a broken davit
In the 38 years that have elapBed
since the Mary Celeste was aban
doned countless stories, all more or
less fanciful, hrve been written about
her, and numerous theories have been
advanced in explanation of this
greatesfof sea riddles. .Mutiny, dis
ease and piracy have been suggested.
In 1ST? a story was circulated to the
effect that. .Mate Richardson had
been seen hiding in the West Indies,
and that he and members of the crow
had murdered the captain and stolen
many thousands of dollars that the
vessel was carrying. As a matter of
fact, the Mary Celeste carried no
money of any amount.
The only reasonable explanation is
that her master and crew became
alarmed by the rumbling of the car
go and, fearing that her decks would
be blown-off by the accumulation of
confined gas from the petroleum and
alcohol, got out of her in a hurry.
It is well known that oil cargoes
confined under tightly battered
hatches will generate gases, espec
ially when the vessel is pitching and
rolling In heavy weather, and that
these gases, thus confined, will cause
MAN WANTED OATS
BUT HE GOT FIVE THOUSAND
BUSHELS OF PUSSY CATS.
Substitution of Wrong Letter la an
Advertisement Causes Tronbio and
Floods a Town.
The substitution of a lower-ease
letter "c" for the letter **o" In an
advertisement in the Sioux City,
Omaha and local newspapers has
caused John C. Trothers, a grain
merchant of Neligh, Neb., all kinds
of trouble.
Trothers, 'fishing to replenish his
supply of oats, concluded to adver
tise. Writing his advertisement on
a typewriter; he manifolded It and
sent copies to the newspapers as fol
lows:
. "Wanted?Delivered on track at
light 10,000 bushels of cats. Will
pay highest market price."
Not noticing the error he awaited
results, which came sooner than he
expected. Within a week cats of
all kinds and descriptions com
menced to arrive consigned to Troth
ers. Some were Bent prepaid and
others collect They came from, the
East, the West, the North and South.
The agent of the Northwestern roan
became alarmed. Ha was being
swamped by cats and wired the
superintendent for instructions. That
official, not knowing what else to
do, wired back:
"Release all cats not accepted."
Still cats continued to arrive, and
still Trothe-s refused to accept the
felines, but his troubles did not end
there. Bovb about town had learned
that he was in the mar':et for cats.
They commenced to cacch the strays
and take them to his place of busi
ness. Some days last week he re
fused as many as five hundred cats
brought In by boys and three and
four times as many coming by rail.
It Is estimated that fully five thou
sand cats have ben shipped Into Ne
ligh, and the end is not yet. They
are becoming a nuisance and the city
council .Is about to take action and
order a slaughter of the animals.
BLACK BELT OF CRUELTY.
Ruthless Slaughter of Birds in the
South for Millinery.
Certain sections of the Southern
State? are called "the black belt of
cruelty" In the magazine of a Amer
ican Society for the- Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals Issued from New
York Monday. The bulletin takes
up the slaughter of birds for milli
nery. It Bays in part: . .
"The strict bird laws of the North
can never count for much If our
feathered neighbors have to face an
ordeal of shot and unmerciful, cruel
ty In their winter abodes. In Geor
gia and the Carolinas the wholesale
shooting of songbirds, protected in
the North, is widely practiced.
"It is an ordinary Bight to see ne
gro boys coming into tho towns in
the early morning carrying long
strings of dead robins. Some of our
cherished sonsblrdB.. are netted at
their roosting grounds anc: thousands
are sometimes secured in a night,
only the choice birds being used ana
the others thrown away.
">fournIng doves which in North
ern States are preserved by common
consent by sportsmen and repay the
courtesy by diligent work against
insects, are trapped by thousands in
the South. Florida has been for
years the scene of the barbaric
slaughter of the snowy herons and
egrets, until the beautiful birds are
now on the verge of extinction."
Killed by Explosion.
Hubert Sch'ilz, aged nineteen,
wan killed Monday at Yatkum, Tex.,
while firing anvils in celebration of
New Yesr's day. An Iron ring which
he placed between two anvila filled
with powder burst when the explo
sion occurred, a piece of the ring
striking Schulz in the stomach ana
passing entirely through the body.
Perhaps Lynching.
Posses have been in pursuit all
day of Will Owen, a deeperate negro,
who Tuesday fatally stabbed Deputy
Sheriff Drlce Anderson, of Toombs
county, Ga., while In a buggy under
arrest. A lynching is expected.
Remorse Prompts 8uicide.
{ Stricken with remorse after he had
shot and killed Henry Gilbreath, his
neighbor near Prairie, Miss.. Oscar
Jones, a farmer, fired a bullet Into
his own bead today. He Is not ex
pected tn recover.
a lord rumbling noise like distant
thunder.
The log of the Mary Celeste con
tains numerous allusions to rumb
lings below decks, and indicates a
fenr amon? her officers and crew that
an explosion would take place. EvI
''pntly, If ihin theory holds. Captain
Flri^irs did not know that the dan
ger might have been averted by re
gases to escape, as Is often done.
Assuming that the Mary Celeste's
people left her in a great hurry,
alarmed at the danger of an explo
sion, the ouestion arises, "What be
came of them?" The theory gen
erally accepted by seafarin? men is
that they tried to make a landing on
the Azores, and that the boat was
capsized in the heavy surf, although
there Is no record of either the boat
or any of t.hA hodiep ev*?r having h*?u
nVX> CEOTS PER COPY
ALL SOLD OUT
-? , '?
Votes Auctioned Off at tie PsbOc Srjsare
to the Higtest Bidder.
HAMY ARE COMCTEB
Preachers, Deacons, Merchants, Sfids
Fanners and All Other Kinds-ot
People Sold Their Votes Him
Whole School District is Left Wttb- .
out a Voter Now.
Adams county, Ohio, hereafter
must hide its head in shame. Neirer
before in the history of the United
States has such shameless barter ?a
votes been exhibited.
Out of a voting population of S,0?$
almost 1,071 already have been tsf
dieted, and several hundred tose?
been fined and disfranchised for Uto
years. It is said that the entire
number of fraud cases may reaeV
2,000, or 33 1-3 per cent of the voV
era of the county. It may even ?sp*
ceed that figure.
Already there are charges that afc
least nine other counties in the sama
part of the State are in like condi
tion. Columbus hears that there era
"boodle" counties to the north ns
well. Decent citizens fear the extent
of the promised revelations.
Traffic in votes in Adams county
has not been confined to political
camp followers. People of aU
classes have been indicted and found
guilty.; Deacons In the churches, bus
iness men, professional men and that
bulwark of American liberty, the
honest farmer, have one and all coma
to the voting places and handed in,
their ballots to the highest bidder.
In one school district not a single
voter will be left?that Is In Jeffer
son township, which includes Warns*
leyvllle. Every -male citizen has
been inducted. TwO more ministem,
both of Queen county, were indicted, ,
today. Each received $5 for his vote.
One young, man confessed that h?
sold out to his own father for 9t0?''''
It is said that the buying and call
ing-of votes ha3 been going on in.
Adams county for more than thirty
years. It started with the use of
election funds in Gubernatorial eaav
palgns. "The Hill Billies/' .or;*?sS
denta or^th?^oorer districts Incite
hills,' immediately pounced .iron ?
as a fine method of turning an extra
penny. It was not long before'can
didates for all offices found that aft
amazingly large number of handa
were out The price of votes, which
had been' small in the beginning^
.began to rise. Competition fwe
so keen that men auctioned thee ^al
lots from soap boxes in front of the
court house in West Union. Many a.
county officer has been forced" to ynj. t
campaign assessment of more tham
$2,500 to obtain an office with a sal
ary of $1,800. Running fo~ odea
has meant the financial ruin of. more
than one man. Thu price of votes,
went up from $2 to $20. Moro than
one-third the voting populatijn of
Adams county Is declared to li*-v?
been involved in the traffic. So ra
pacious did the voters become that
the politicians found the situViaa
fast getting beyond their control
'Finally the scandal grew so bad
that Judge Blair started to clean
things up. He tried, by agreement,
to do away, with the buying and sell
ing of votes.
"Boodling started when the old
method of balloting was used," oald
Judge Blair. "When a party work
er bought a man's vote he would
hand the man a ballot and watch him
put It In the box. Under the new sys
tem the voter goes Into the booth,
and shows the j-jdge his ballot If
it is right, the judge signals to the
party worker outside, and, after th?
ballot is cast, the party worker hands
the voter his pay.
"I myself have seen men standing
on the auction block. I saw a farm
er worth $40,000 Btand on a soap
box in front of the court house ia
West Union and auction off bis**vote.
The mayor, the prosecuting attorney
and the town marshal watched tho
auction and did nothing.
"It got so that men openly boast
ed that they wouldn't vote unless
they were paid. I have seen twen
ty-seven men in one precinct Bold ha
a block by a leader. When I raa
for office the first time, six years age,
lone hundred and twenty-seven men
! in Manchester organized and told me
I'd have to pay them or be defeated.
I wouldn't pay. I was elected in the
judicial district, but I lost Adams
oounty."
Some two hundred confessed brib
i ers nave "squealed" and have been
! released under the Informer's act
j However, they hare furnished the
.county ofnesrs and the judge with an
amazing mass of information, on *
I which indictments are being returned
j by the hundred.
Adams county Is in the grip or
I cold and snow and the wind bites
j around the hills, but the vote-sell
ers are com'ng for miles by foot and
: by horse to make their pleas of guilt
and receive punishment. The penal
ty Is the same In each case?a sus
pended prison sentence, a fine of $&,
and dlsfranchisement for five years.
A poverty-stricken preacher was
amonr those who came recently and
admitted that he had eold his vote
i when poverty pinched hard. El del*
.and deacons have testified that they
bought votes extensively.