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- PUBLiISHED THK? ** LIFE FOR LIFE Hilton Kiser Hoog at Cimden for the. Marder of Jailer Crook. BE WARNED ALL OF SIN The Crime for Which Kiser Paid the Penalty Was a Most Brutal One? It Was a Deep laid Plot, In Which He Had Two Accom plices. Milton Kiser, alias Henry Hunt ley, was hanged at Cxmden Friday morning at the county jaid at about eleven o'clock for tbe murder of Jailer John Cook. The following ac count of the crime and the hanging we take from The. St; te: Last Spring Jailer Boone was de livering (supper to :he prisoners when he was assaulted by Al. Fields, a notorious criminal with a number of aliases, and several other prison ers. Six of the prisoner! escaped and all were recaptured except Fields, who is still at large.. Jailer Boone lingered some time as a result of his wounds and was finally taken to his^ old country home, where he died several months later. John Cook was appointed jailer in the place of Mr. Boone during the1 past summer. While a carnival was 1 in town Mrs. Coo': took her children j to the carnival ground's to see a bal-.j loon ascension. As soon as Mrs. Cook got away Kr. Cook was called from his room by Mary Jone3, a negro woman, who told him that the water pipes in the cell above hers, occupied by Henry Huntley and Jim Cox were 'eak ing and the water was dripping on her bed. While Jailer Cook was bending over examining the water pipe he i was struck in the head with an Iron j spittoon by Huntley. The spittoon i weighed about 10 pounds. Huntley' and Cox then took his keys away j from him and threw Mr. Cook "into a cell and made their escape, taking the, negro woman with them.. The; woman was captured the night of the escape, but it was several days be-, tore Cox and Huntley were captured. Huntley and Cox confessed later Chat they had entered into a com pact with the woman to make their escape at the first opportunity. Thpv . stuffed cpt'on taken from their mat> resse* into the drain pipe and caused it to overflow and get the negro wo man to call tho Jailer. They were tried at the November term of court an:! were ably defended by lawyers appointed by th? court. Cox whs given a ten-year sentence and Mary Jones one of five years. A crowd of about 100 negroes and whites loafed round the jail this morning while the tanging was tak ing j>Ia-f, :".Rnj- of tiiem eager to see the hangln?, but could not, as all views had been screened. Sheriff Trantham summoned ten witnewes ind four deputies?Willie Whittaker. first deputy; W. D. Star ling, second, and Mr. Herron. third. The negro pas3ed a restless night, but showed no signs of break ing down. This morning be gave out a statement to the press and to two aegro minis-era, Revs. Brown and Boykin, saying that whiBkey, gam bling and women were responsible tor his committing the crime and said for blacks and whites to avoid them, as they would soon get the best of them. He said that when ho struck the jailer be did not Intend to kill him, but only to stun him. Hr eald that he was ready to m.?et his Jesus and did not fear death. Sheriff Trantham read his death warrant at 10:30 and placed th6 handcuffs <>n him. "When asked if he had anything to say, he said. "Yes." "I .vant you, onj and all. to turn your back on sin and don't let old Satan lead you wrong, for this Is what it will bring to you" (pointing to the rope). While the rope and black cap were being a!j.;s?ed he was continually 6&ying, "Lord, save me t'is morning." "Good-bye, Henry," said the sher iff. "Good-bye, all of you," said Hunt-! ley. Tbe trap was then sprung. Two minutes later death ? ..s pronounced by Dr. Dunn and the body was cut down. It will be butted in the pot ters' field. Huntley Is from North Carolina, but h:'s been working around Halle's gold mine and the upper part of this county for tho past year or so. He was awal'lng trial for a charge of lar-1 ceny when he kii.'ed tite jailer. lie was a very iar^e negro and was very uncouth looking and bore a reputa tion as a "mean negro." Mrs. Cook, the wife of the dead Jailer, was present at the hanging and paid that sh-j had come to the jail with her mind made up that if everybody tailed she would spring the 'rap Sberiff T"antham and Jailer Rowe bad two policemen on the outsltle of the jail, who 1 ept perfect order among the morbid crowd. This is' the first hanging -hat has taken place In this county for over 20 years. ? Wltl Help Them. Tha Bishop ot; Greenoble, Spain, has Issued a de :ree forbidding the reading of two local papers, because they are hostile to the Catholic1 church. ;tmes a week. f SOME PLAIN TALK TOO MUCH VICE, WRECKS, SUI CIDES AND MURDER FOR HER. Mrs. Gabrielle S. MuJliner Indulges Gives Her Views of Things at a Woman's Meeting. The New York World says before seventy-five women Mrs. Mulliner read a long paper In which she dis cucsed the menace to jociety of wo men of the half world, unfaithful husbands and divorces. She classed the city of New York as one huge receptacle of everything foul under the sun. "There Is more vice per capita in New York," said Mrs. Mulliner, "than in any other city of the world. There are more wrecks, more bui cides, more Illiteracy, more accidents upon the public highways, more thefts, more murders, more deprav ity, more misery and distress. And the woman who surveys It all and understands It all and wants to bet ter it all is beginning to make of herself a true suffragist." Mrs. Mulliner said the old Puritan standards that had Inspired the writ ing of "The Scarlet Letter" had been mashed 9at. Women, she said, were looking upon the breeders of evil, feminine home wreckers and the like with pity and patience instead of working for legislation that should punish the woman who enters a home and steals a husband as It punishes the thief who breaks In and carries off the silver. "There is such a thing as the un written law," went on the woman lawyer, "and the written law often countenances it If, upon the spur of the occasion, a husband kills the man he finds with his wife. Why should | It not be just as much the recognized right of tho wife to kill the woman ! who steals her husband? That thief I is not stealing alone from the family; she is stealing from the social wel i fare and that of the soul in futurity. Hers Is a marvellously wicked crime, ? I "It is the woman whom the law allows to walk the streets and openiy 'attract men by her bedizement that Is the criminal at the base of New . York's degeneracy, and at the base of the evil in all cities. She is the, community wife. And the decent wo men are not helping conditions uy iping bur in the matter of the hobble skirt, the mob hat and the paint and "csmetic. But even the demi-mon laine and the woman who tolerates "rer*" existence are not the ones to 'dame. It Is the law Itself and the rottenness in politics that see3 the him? calmly through that is to '?lame. Good women should work 'o become elective constituents of -ight-minded men upon the Board ol Mdernitn and in other positions slg ?lificant to the public good. "Raise the standard by setting a value on chastity: Make an infringe ment of that standard punishable by law." Mrs. Mulliner next presented her net topic, divorce. "Every co-re spondent ought to be Impounded in 'he penitentiary for a certain term," 3ho asserted. "Such an offender igalnst the public good Is a criminal of the worBt type." Every women nt the meoting pledged herself to keep a close watch on her own drawing room and to do her part In the proposed purging of society. ? DEATH CA TSE I) BY CARBON GAS. Chicago Physician Snccumbs to Odors Inhated From Gasoline Engine. A muffler on the 'gasoline engine of his automobile caused the death Friday ni5ht of Dr. John Alosius tlemsteger, a prominent psysician of Chicago. Vie died from the effects of carbon dioxide inhaled on WeJ :!6Hda3r while cleaning the apparatus on his machine. The death is said to be the first of its kind on record Hcni?teKer, flm'ing a quantity of .carbon had accumulated in the ? muffler and engine cylinders, poured a mixture of wood alcohol and k-.-ro ?eno into them to clean them out.. i He then'started the engine and op ened t'tc cut off valve in the mufiler. | The garage door wns closed and! there, was no other outlet for the! forming carbon gas that rushed into .'the rcom. The physician was ai [ most overcome, bat managed to open jibe door of the garage, which let in the fresh air. lie was taken to Iiis residence, where h? died the next day. Physi-1 cinns who held an auropsv assert thai j neruh wna due technically to poison ing of the heart by the carbon gas. I Dr. Hemstegcr was .".r. year;; old. ? WHOLESALE POISONING. Nearly Every Resident of a Te.xus Village Mnde IIL Six deaths have occurred and prac tically all the members of the entire village of Telfener, in Victoria coun ty, Texas, are ill, ascribed to the OJtlng of food prepared with flour containing arsenic. On Monday the village grocer poured several sacks of flour into a swra barrel and one of his first customers was Joo Brown, a negro. After the nornicg meal the entin. family became 111, two of Brown's children dying the same night. Since ?hon four other deaths have occurred. How the drug ami flour came in contact has not been de-| termined. ? OBANGEBUKGj DARING FLIGHT MADE AT CHARLESTON BY A YOUTHFUL. AVIATOR FRIDAY. Jlmmie Ward, Eighteen Years Old, Circles ?ie Harbor Over the Forts, Goes Out to Sea and Returns. Jimmy Ward, the 18-year-old avi ator, In a Curtis 25-horse power aero plane, save s.orae fine exhibitions of his skill at Charleston on Friday. He made a daring flight across two riv ers, the harbor and out over the At lantic ocean, breaking the world's altitude record for low-powered ma chines, and winning a prize of $5,0u0 by circling over two of the strong est fortifl'ja tions on the Atlantic coaBt, demonstrating the efficiency of the aeroplane as a scout in time of war. Landing gracefully on the beach in front of Fort Moultrle on Sulli van'b Island, he handed a note to Col. Marsh, which the latter signed. Ward then reentered his machine, I rose from the beach and flew back i across the harbor in a direct lin" i to the aviation field north of the city, i He covered a distance of about i;- , miles in 5 \ minutes. Very few people saw Ward be gin his flight from the aviation field, his unsuccessful attempt of the day before having aroused a spirit o.' skepticism. News of the darng at tempt spread rapidly, however, ana many roofs in the city were packed when the airman made his return flight. Leaving the aviation field, he flew first to the navy yard on Cooper river, circling above the plant. He then flew down the river a distance of about five miles to the city, over the upper end of which he passed. I He turned eastward, crossed the j Cooper and Wando rivers and the harbor at a height of about 1,000 | feet. Reaching Sullivan's Iuland at the northern entrance of the harbor, and on which Fort Moultrie Is situated, he circled back over the harbor at a height of about 2,000 feet, passing close to Castle Pinckney. Heading seaward again, he passed directly over Fort Sumter at the entrance ot the harbor and swept for a distance of about a mile and a half over the naiers of the open Atlantic. Turning he flew about the'Isle ol Palms and Sullivan's Island and landed on vbe beach in ,'ront of Fori Moultrie, amid the cheering of sol iiers :Mid otticers. A note which be landed to Col. Frederick ftfcirah, in ?karge of the fort, v. as signed b.> he latter and Ward brought it back .0 the city with him on his return It was on the return trip that hi iroke the world's altitude record fin imall' machines. At a poin. direct!.* ibove Mount Pleasant, a village on :he edge of the harbor and opposit? o the. city, he attained a height oi ?.300 feet, as shown by his baro graph. As the aviation field cann into view. Ward, at that time ovet Cooper river, shut off his power am! ilded for a distance of a mile and a half, landing safeJy and easily. Hf whb shaking a? though palsied as :io3fd for his picture, so terrible had been the strain. 74 YEKSKLH I.OST \nd Fifty-three People Out of 1,40: Lost Last Year. Out of a total of G.O'il persoue in volved in 1,4 63 disasters to vessels 'it all classes within the. scope of the United States life saving service, on ly fifty-three were lost, and aboui seventy-four vessels were completed destroyer!, according to the annual report of S. L. Kimball, general su perintendent of the service, for the fiscal year, which ended June 30 last. The next expenditures for main taining the service for the year were S2.24n.375.6S. The enactment ot 'he bill passed at the last session of Congress b" the Senate providing for retirement pay for members of the life saving service and others o: the field service and others of the fleh! service incapacitated for duty it -,ir?od in the report. Of th?? i.n-i!; vessels pf a!) kind. which net with accidents, t'ie li'fej savers rendered service to 1.0-17, val ve; with their cargoes ai $10,1"!?. 230. Oilier succor rendered by tin ( life saving service in1 iuded tin- res- j cue of 1P.7 persons fro:.', drowtiins surgical aid to ?0 persons suflorin? | from gunshot wounds, broken Mmiu or bruises and the recovery of !fd'! bndii s of persons who had met death j through i-o or in other ways. Nim of this number wore suicides. ? I CAUSES CHILD'S DEATH. (?'oat Makes Muic Runaway and Up set a Carriage. Willie Coleman. the G-yoar-old boy of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Coleman, who was hurt in a runaway accident at Florence a few days ago, died Thurs day night in the infirmary there. It will be remembered tbat the child and his parents and W. L. Lewis and his wife were returrlng from a visit, in the country rl.iing In a surrey drawn by a mule. The mulo got frightened at a goat and dashed around, turning the vehicle com pletely over and throwing tho occu pants to the ground. All of them were bruised a little but the Coleman child was snriously injured about the i head and congestion of tho brain set I in. S. C, T USE DAY., JANU Sends Pi me rone to United Stales Senate in Place of Di k. Governor Wilson in New Jersey is Trying to Send a Good Man in Place cf Kenn und From New York It is Hoped a Good Man Will Go. Ihe Washington correspondent of the, Augusta Chronicle says Governor Harmon has won out again ana strengthened himself at home ani abroad through the action of the caucus of the Democratic members ot the Ohio legislature in selecting Al lee Pomerone for United States Sen ator to succeed CharleB A. Dick. The friends of Pomerone in the Ohio delegation are confident. th it his selection will be a great thing for tho party nationally, and brinz i n in tie United States Senate another strong man. It is especially pieij ing to friends who are backing Jui*> eon Harmon for the Democratic nom ination In 1912, for they believj thib new evidence of his strength af. snirio will help him naturally abronu. The United States senatorship fight in Ohio is one of the four In which the Democratic party is vitally inter ested. The other contests are 'n NV York, New ler6ey, and one that will be precipitated in West Virgin in to select a successor to Senator Elkins. If the Ohio contest had brought about any charges of corruption or bribery, or even anything savoring of unseemly tactics, it would have been embarrassing to the party and partic ularly distressing the Democracy tn these early days of its triumph. If the interests of the people was not to be served by the retirement of men like Charles A. Dick, Chauncey De pew, and John Kean, then the coun try would not be disposed to trust tbe Democratic party with complete,] national control. Contests in New York and New Jersey are now on. In the former state it is reported that Tammany is in complete control and taat "barles F. Murphy c;:n p*" '.r ;ii United Sta'cs senate any 3 a it mooses. Tho strongest k'r-J ...f ,.r k sure Is being brought to bear or Murphy to the end that he may name "he right kind t?f a man. However. :ny man chosen will be' known as ilrrphy'a choice. Woodrow Wilson, the new gov ernor of New Jersey, is making ;? '?ard light-to prevent the election 0' former Senator Jame3 Smith. He \? 'lacking James F. Martine, who war endorsed for the semtorship in thf Democratic primary. It is sai l Smith 'b not a proper men to represent New Jersey in the. senate, and th'ii his selection would be a calamity for the party. When ihe pTimarj- was on It wap not thought re.mote.Iy possible that b? WOUld .offer. Now that the op portunity for the people to express *'telr choice la past, he wishes to sub rait his claimh to tho legislature which hp believes Is friendly. Ad vices received, however, are to th' effect that Woodrow Wilson h?.. mough strength to defeat the elec tion of Smith, even If be Is act able to win with Martine. Defying the criticism that hap ?prung up as the result of his active participation in this ft; nt,. which ha? 'ed to him being called a dictator, Governor Wilson has Insisted that he is a leader and not a bosn, and that be Is commissioned by tho peopic to do the very work he Is doing. ?Unless the Ohio legislature can be "Influenced" as wan the Illinois leg islature v.-bb'b cheso Lorimer, It Is sife to say that Pomerone will crime to the senate. He had barely enough votes to elect in the caucus, ai.d thore has been talk of a bolt and toe se lecttco of Eomcone else: but little ??"elsht Is n't: 'l.o 1 to fNp? stories. The Democrats In the Ohio delega tion s:iy Pomerone is all ri^ht and! has no inteicsts to serve apart from; theise of the p: \,\c Had a nv.*n or large wealth, or one ! prominently id-?itifle:l wi'.h the big corporation?, been chosen from Ohio It is conceded it would havg serious- \ lyetnltawK-fi!) finyerpor Harmon. It ' Is not tor) mrch to say t!::!t be nss boon strengthened a; a presidential ::.vc by the action of the dem ocrats 0." his state. The general lin pr ssion here is '' ft he will ?:ve a i ?-oo-J n cremt of .:::ese.f during the! nfxt two years, and strengthen the i ..,;.'.);.: i.viiii;ri aireacy formed off hini as u lea.Irr. T:><? K;?>.i r.v r:.... Mrs. il. 0. Hann ister, wife of the manage? of the Weriern Unio?- tolr egranh oflice at Raleigh, and Ii >r 17 montks-old 3un were aepbyxiritcJ hy a r,"-< heater iu ihe bath room 01 their homo In tha' city Saturday afternoon. The mother enrered the bath room, followed by her cnV.d. Later the servant was horrid*..' ! > find the lifeless t.-?dy of Mrs. Linn nlster on the iioor and that of tLii child across the chair. | What It Cowt. Edmond Then*, a French econo mist, figureB that to maintain Eu rope's armies the past 25 years over $29,000,000,000 have been spent and tsS.cr-o r35-???r- sad n.800,000 pri vates have t ic a constantly excluded from productive industries. ? ARY 10, 1911 SMALL POX SCARE SUMTER REFUSED TO ALLOW TWO MbJS WITH DISEASE To Get Off the Train There, Quaran tined Them All One Day and Sen Them BacK. The Sumter Watchman and South ron eays Tnurs.Iay morning when the eleven o clock train came In two cases of '??mall pox would have bei,n unloaded upon Sumter had it w?\ been for the work or Dr. C. W. llimic of that city who saved Sumt?, from the unwished-for and dreaded v.fdt ors, who were two colorel men bound from Marion to Lynch turg, one of them just getting over the disease and the other just taking )??. They were not allowed to get off a\ Lynchburg, their desired destiuat'T). and so were brought on to Sumter where they would have been set fret had it not been that vhrougu the warning of Dr. Birnie. Mayor Jen ning had had time to notify the health office and station him with a policeman at the depot to keep aitfty any such undesirable visitors. Tim Watchman and Southron says: "It seems that the men came from Marion and were bound for Lynch burg or at any rate that was the way their ticket read. Dr. Birnie jot on the train at Florence with them and when the two men got off at Lynch burg'and were Immediately hustled back on the train by the city officials at that place, who had received no tification of the kind of visitors they were about to receive, Dr. Birnie at once made it bis business to End out what the conductor expected to do with the two cases of small pox. He found that the conductor expected to take them on to Sumter and turn them off the train there. He did not have time to get off the train at Mayesville but he got some one to telephone Mayor Jennings of the two cases of small pox and what the con ductor expected to do with them, when he got to Sumter. "At Sumter Mayor Jennings got in a hurry as soon as he had received the telephone message from Mayes ville for he kne wthat it would not take the train long to cet here and ometliln? must he. r'one before it ?ived. He at once got the health of "?ccr by pheno and told him what hif Inty -^a9. He ak<o sent a policemai ?'one to s'-e that things moved smoothly and to help the health of leer In case of nee?. So when the rain nulled in there they were both ??aitins to see that, no cases of tmall 'OT got off !n the city of Sumter '"his they -av t.o. and when-the con iuctor ins'ated, th<ty mildly tel l him 'hat they would tie his train down tc '.he tra^k and kep it there ail day "or him. The conductor objected tc his even mor? tb <r. carrying on the :*!ees "f smali pox which w?.e in the ?moking anarrnient of t'je eclore' ?o?.cb. The ma'rer v.-aa finally Kettied ??y the corch being run outside the "ity limlt3 ind '--ft on a Fide tr^ck -?-hile the reat ol' the train pulled out ?or Columbia. "Health Officer Tow1<>s kept 3 strie! 'harantine on the coach a!) yester day unll hst nigbt when the evening rain pulled out. The coach wltn the 'wo small nor. patients was attached to it and the health officer rode as "ar as the c'ty limits to see that the train did not srop and that the two tndeplrable citizi-ns wert? taken to their home town, or to irome place whore they wore wanter more than they were in Sumter." Small pox seems to be getting com mon In different parts of the State, md It would be best for tbe au thorities- In this city to be on tin lookout. People with the disease, should not De allowed to be travelinz about the State as the negroes above mentioned were. Watch the trains. GIB LS IX SUICIDE PACT. Sisters Drink Tois'in In a Confec tioners Store. Arms entwined and facing a mir rr>r to watch their dying evpreE.-ien?, '?labe! an 1 Ri !.-??! \i Mi : ??????? 11. :Mstor;> ?Td members of a prominent St. ' ouis f::m!lv. drank carbolic acid Saturday nr;rht i:; a confectionery slore. >*abel di^! at ';;?? city hi-', dt?. I r.n ! her siater Isabella is not ?xnec'cd to ti'-e. Dfifrsm taking the poison one orj girls requested the proprietor t-r?| call a policeman. N' ?? until Mabel! fell eff iivr ch >\r, v. rlthh::: in pain !'*as any a?'entien paid to the girls. Tho spcon:! n'sier c?:r,pn< ! to the floor a second after Mabel had coi Inpsod. "We crf> tired of jiving," was the I last messa?s written by the partners !ti the si ll"'?<? rv-t. The -1..',..>? girls drank t';e potions from tod;t water gb3se?. Breaks insanity Record. Furty-iwo men and v.o:nen wer adjudged is'saco Saturday !n vjro bate court at Cleveland. Oh'o. Judge Alexander Haiden. This I. believed by tho officials to bo the largest number of perrons declared mentally unbalanced in one day b 3ue .judve in any city in the world. Breaks Butter Record; Pontias Clothilde de Kelil, a blue blooded Holutein-Frlenlan cow. awned by the Etovens bro;hers, of Liverpool. N. Y.. has broken the world's seven-day butter record by producing 37.28 pounds. The pre vious record was 35.5G poundB. 0 WANT COKN SiW WILL BE URGED TO MEET IN CO LUMBIA THE NEXT TIME. a Strong Delegation Will Be Sent to Invite the National Corn Exposi tion to tho Capital City. The State says the second South Atlantic States Corn Exposition will he held in Columbia during tbe week of December 4 of this year and the prospects are that the Exposition will be a success from every stand point. South Carolina In cooperation wltn other Southern States will send a strong delegation to Columbus, Ohio, to extend an invitation to the Na tional Corn Exposition, to be held In Columbia in 1911. The national corn show will be held in that city this year, from Jan vary 30 to February 12. There will J be over 25,000 exhibits, with prizeb aggregating ?50,000. Every effort will be used to se cure the national corn show. Should j the Exposition be brought South, and] to Columbia, it will be held in con-| nection with the South Atlantic; States Corn Exposition. It is expected that at least $20, 000 will be secured as prizes for the second South Atlantic States Corn Exposition. An active campaign for j the Exposition has already been j launched by the management. Sev-, eral large contributions for the Ex-j position have already been pledged. I The first corn exposition to be held In the South, which was held in Co lumbia from December 5 to 9 was a complete success. There were ove, 700 exhibits. It Is expected that there will be several thousand ex hibits for the second exposition. The exposition ia a permanent affair. Natioual Corn Exposition. ?The following dispatch from Co lumbus, Ohio, where the fourth National Corn Exposition will soon meet, will give some idea of what it really is: The program for the four-'ii an nual National Corn Exposition, tc bo held January :50 to February 11, in the eight immense buildings on the Ohio State Exposition rroiinds; bat ;;i'.:t been completed, and provides for one of th-:: greatest national ?l?itul iural expositions ever held Id tiic world. The buildings are connected b: in ?v-'d walk>: comfortably he?.tej u.n1 brilliantly illuminated, in all >eeem? bling-a great summer garde- with palms ar.d plants und ten Ier growing wops, giving, the visitors a v. hi? of nature, which will mere remind them -?f a balmy June day thai oi the winter season. The ?r^t National Corn Exposi tion will ba a round-up of all State agricultural shows an i a? rict'ltur.ii "nestings. The name, "corn cvpo*: lion," does not mean I hat only corn v.iil bo shown; for all gra*os an 1 grasses, the prize winners only, ox "he various State 6hov.['. will !>* in com petition f">r the valuab?3 national trophies. More than 3.r> R La. tea will have coru petltlve exhibits. Twenty-five State agricultural colleges and expe^iraen stations will have scientific exhibits, each demonstrating Its most ad vanced experimental work. T-iefo ex hibits, which will be In charge of ex pert demonstrators, will deal, Id a practical way, with nearly every ;.'.;nso of the Bclecce of agriculture. For Instance, North Carolina will emphasize the cotton industry, from thp growing plant to the manufac tured article, with cc'ton gin and loom in actual operation: while Illi nois will especially emphasises its soil work. Never before In the history of tho worl.i ha.* there been such a showsn; of rtsuits In agriculture; bas?d on scientific Investigation. Tho federal department of agri culture will be. represented with Its famous exhibit, wbfo.h fills two large '"i-rii*r?? re car3, and which hrs just, been rein rued from the International exnosit'en at Buenon Avres. Import a it among the mnny meet-' !~gs. exhibits end ? her saecial fea ture:; of t'tis greatest of agricultural expositions may be mentioned the I mcc-in n oi the Awerlrtn Breeder!1' .Asscriatlcr., the Ohib Dairymen's As ?nafatiOTt. he National Riiral 'Lir*1 Co-fetencc, tho Ohio Crnc-.-n-ation s rp^clTfon. thr- Ohio Co.t Improve' p?prj Association and numerous live! There will Ii special features of ! I vital h'rcrcft to tbe Y. M. C. A., j ?'r.r.-r'r ?? ro!V;ii . schocl3. tl'o rnrni- J i er and tho. city tu an and their faml-j j rpec':il entert linment restarts will Include a t.wo-rins winter circus; I band concorts ?? ith vocal soloists and .moving pictures; i*!:&i?Ui?i: auts as flagman. ! Crabs Handk?Trhief ami Warn* Truin of Wreck. The moment be emerged from the day coach where he v'an riding at MaAQOt, T.-nn., late 'Friday n'ter noon, riev. j. riaylor, pastor of the Sta?e Street Methodist Church coiuh. of Rristol. and formerly oi Chattanooga. Instantly grabbed a handkerchief and ran a half mile up the track to flag any other train* that ml?ht be coming. Mr. Baylor who Is one of tne most prominent ministers In the Horton conference wa3 forwerly a locomotive engineer and this was his first Impulse. He was injured In a passenger wreck some ye.\rs ago while railroading and before entering the ministry. ? T^YO CENTS PER COPY Two YoDDg Bandits Under Arrest SbcoJ and Kill a Policeman. BOLD UP HOTEL CLERK They Are Captured, and While Be ing Taken to Prinoo on. a Streat Car, Murder the Officer Who Ar rested Them and Make Good Their Escape. William Muzzary, twenty years old, and Algot Jackson, discharged bell boy and night porter respec tively of the Hotel McKoy at Duluth, Miss., early Friday held up, robbed and shot the night clerk. Both were arrested and placed on a street car after a chase through the Interstate bridge district and while being taken back to tbe city, asked that they be allowed to go Inside the car. The request was granted. One of the youthful bandits quickly pulled a revolver from a pocket that had escaped the notice of Policeman Har ry Chesraore, who had made the ar rest, opened fire on the officer and killed him. He was shot twice in the lungs and onoe in the forehead. The robbers then held up the pas sengers and crew ot the street oar and at 6:30 a. m. made good their escape over the Northern railroad bridge. The two boys entered the hotel about 3:45 o'clock Friday morning. Clarence Stubsted, the night clerk, and Charles Feasted were standing beside the desk. "Hold up your hands!" shouted one of the boys, pointing a revolver. The clerk and porter thought the boys were jokiug. To show that they were In earnest, one of the boya fired a shot through the floor near the desk and the clerk and porter put their hands up. The boys them marched th^n into the dining room and ordered thorn to stand up against the largo, iron post in the middle of the room. While one of the bandits covered ?be two men with the revolver, the .ihor hastily gathered some table linen and tied their hands to the lost above their heads. The boya then returned to the 's>sk and went through the cash reg ister, taking about ?50 in cash, and made their escape. The two men were later released hy a rubber from the bath parloj? In. the. basement,a,nd : they then gave tbe alt rm. SOLVING aiiEE.VWOOU MYSTER*. Young White Man Arrested for At tacking Miss Pinson. Fletcher Molden, an eighteen-year old white boy, has been arrr; ted at Greenwood in connection v. ith the alleged attempt of robbery at the home of J. F. Piusen cn Reynolds - street The evidence on which the arreet was ?ade i3 clru?sistacti?^ b^ing bused on tho finding of a pair of trousers, which are said to have been identified as his, in a vacant building near the Pinson home with some ot the young lady's hair in one of the pockets. Young Golden is a carpenter and has beer, doing some work our-In the country, though he comes home at nlgtt. An interesting feature ef .the af fair is that young Goldeh's father is the man who shot at a thief who at tempted to rob Pinson's store about a year aqo and w^nt so far as to identify the man by his voice, Axing it cu a young man hero who proved conclusively that it was a case of mistaken identity. There is considerable interest in the eis.;, there being many differing opinions. The peculiar hour, 7 a. ni., at which the robbery aus attempted puzzles mo?t people and also how it ?v:ik posriu'le for a cut, so severe us tn cui Uiu young lady's hair, could be t^a l-; without cutting her skin or Car, Golden asserts his Innocence. * STARVKD TO BtSVClL Woman Miser DK* in Miserable Boom of Cleveland The death from starvation of Mrs. Susannah Drum, seventy-six years nl ?, a; the Cleveland Ohio, Infirmary Saturday night, brought to light iv-3 : rory of an aged ?-?man who, for two ysars past, lived In a smalt, s-quali i vi oiii. el'itiieii hen-elf in rasa and finally served herself to ri-ath in order to ?ive ek-,'ry penny ti?at was -a iihin her grasp On l)ee< inker 29, on complslnt ot neighbors ot her queer actions *die was ; iken before Probate Judge 'lad den tu be examined as to her s-tnity. Out the old woman was no lil and ?oak that she wus sent to tbe In fi i'.i:a ry. She wan supposed to be penniless, but after death cime there wa? fenvd to a cloth ba.c around her no:k S?50 in hills, two bank books calling for several hundred dollars and a mort gage on a farm at Berlin, Ohio. Given Three Years, In the circuit court at Salem, Va,, Thursday afternoon a Jury in tbe case of J. H. Body, white, charged with killing James Mack, a cegro, re turned a verdict of Involuntary man slaughter and fixed Body's punish ment of three years In the peniten tiary. A motion will be made for a new trial.