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VOL. XX. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 28, 1906. NO. 22. TRIED 10 BRIBE. Friend of Pickpockets Paid a Deputy Sheriff to LET THI M GET AWAY. The Officer Played Out The Game and Caught the Visiting Crooks in a Trap, ?f ho Jls Now in the Mesbes of the Law in Columbia. H. G. Miller of Chiczgo, who has made several trips -from the Windy City to Co-a-bia in the int rest of the pickptccets who were *onvicted Wednesday of last week and sentenc ed to ten years in the penitentiary, has turned out to be a eroek also, a has been intimated by The S;ate since the Chicago man appeared upon the scene. He was arrested for at Lempting to bribe Depuzy Sherff W. C. Catheart to a&s in the reletee or the p crp chets. The following ac Count 01 the mtter from The State will be r-- d wim: i:tere't-: Mr. (at.cart. kigowing the man with wt:.im he was d.aling, laid a clever trap to catch him in his dirt) work and carried it out to-a finish. Immediately after receiving the mon ey he notified Detcctive Thackham, who was aiding him, and then Sheriff Colemaa, his Immediate superior. Sheriff Culeman in turn reported the matter to Judge Hydrick as soon as he ..reached Lue court Wednesday morning. Judge Hyd-ck, acting with characteristic dec.s on, ordered the immediate arreet f 3111-er and Wed nesday night Miller s.ept in the R-ch land county jill with his pal, Shultz and Beckwitn, alias Kavanaugh. Tucaday night as Mr. Cathcart wau on his way to the jail wita the prisor. ers from The court room he was ap proached by Miller, who, in passing, whispered into his ear: "I want to speak to you a few minutes. Come up to the hotel to see me." At the appointed hour Mr. Cat. cart went to the hotel, but found Mil ler at dinner. In a short while he re turned and upon arriving at the hotel was accosted by Miller in front, on the street. He led the deputy sheriff to L seat near the edge ot the p*vement and said: 'I - ant to talk L isiness with jyn." Mr. Cthcart re -lied. "All right, I am ytur man." Miller then commented upon -the sudden adverse turn the case vad taken and displ q ye unUur. LervOLS ness. He se ed Mr. Ca:.hcart to wall with him, I-- tat matters 161 ked serious and asked Mr. Catbeart howx Inuch he wcuid take ".to put Beck with, abas Kvaniugh, and Shuli Z on the ground," meani'-g, it w.~as inferre-. to aid in se-'uriug their rehkase. Mr. Ca-heart seeing that his plan was working cut, repled: "Ye u will have to nair.6 the price." Tne foxy Chicagcanl glarcing ne:'vously arcurna, held up two fir-gers and asked, "How wuld that do?" Mr. Cathcart wanted to know just what ne meant bof tht "Hundreds," replied Mailer. "That's~ all right with me," said Mr. OatL cart. During this time the two men had waked from the Columbia hotel to the postrui,:~e and were reraurning. Mr Catcar; told Mier that th~ey cugh. not to' be seen t~gether arnd that he would go on the other side of the steest and would meet him again at the hotel, while Miller went to the hotel so get the neceary cash. As soon as Mill-?r came out of th~e hotel he suggeted thr-t they take a car, which they did. They rode how ever, only two blocks, to th-e post(.flce. Here they left the cae, walkir.g GOWn Lurel street from Mamn to Sumter. While down Laarel street Miller satedI the deputy sheriff if be cuaewed gum| and being informed that he d:d, Mil ler went imto an ma~ide pocket, bring ng out apaciage ct gum on which appeared mn large letters "ltxie, I won't tell," which he handed so Mr. Cathart. While in the darkest pars of the bicck Miller fruddenly shook ands surreptiouSly with Mr. Oath cart and left $200 in greenbacks In: his palm. They then separated, Mil 1r returning to his hotel and Mr. Cathat going directly to his home, where he reported the matter by teie *phone to the sheriff. -As soon as Judge Hvdrick reached the couira house Wednesday morning Sheriff Coleman reported the brinery to his honor, who called' in Deputy athcart, and~ after hearing a state mnt from him, ordered that Miller be carefullY guarded-and not allowed to leave the court room un'der any cir cumstances. Officers were detailed to keep close watch on Miller and guard the exits of the court room. Miller evidently became suspicious that all was not going well and attempted to leave the court room, when he was stopped by a detective and told that he could not leave the rcom. V~ry soon thereafter, acting under instruc tions from Judge Hydrick, the sherff placd Miller under arrest and gave him a seat in the court ro-om, vwhere he was guarded on both sides during the daiy. Miller has claimed sirCe he has ap *peared in Columbia ia connection with this case that he represented E. F. B gart, a Chicago attzrnaey who had ben employed to defend the pick pockets and would be here when court convened. This Mr. B.ugare has not been heard of so far ann is is not pr* b3.ble that he will be here, as two o~ te piock ekts have been convicteC and the otter has I rfeitea a cs bond of $1 500 by nofl.- arfe . t' has been e~xtremely active in his e: forts to secure the rease of thes m.Parker, whose bond ;-an redue me 8 S5 0-00 to $1.5i0 6ad who wa reesd; h -O tcf that s-:r reeae aO be ule, Ky. b i: dtties and polic departuentsb variu- ur rts'of t.-ecountry know hix ard 'his c qreerq: well. Every op portrnmty will .' -ie.! hian t. ret urn as his presence is mecre desired tan tl.e cash. If he docs not present bite Gself fr tr.ia a hud will b- forfeited and Solicitor Tim rn wili ror. 7cnd tha.z t $as1. 8500 b' ( ff -d as a reward for his arresl. There are sleo other rewards outstanding for his apprehensicn. Af-or seuring the release of Par ker, Miller a'so made an Effort to have Shblisrelased from j.-.il on the same amount, hus 'h.rn '*e matter came before Asociate Jostice WoodS at chO.mbers, he reduced the bond from 05,000 to 83.500, ani Shiullz was unable to raise the amount. YOUNG MAN ILED. Met Horrible Death Under Wheels of an Enzine. A dispatch from DIllon to The State says Dubois Sellers, aged 16 years, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Sellers of that place was instantly killed Wednesday night at 8 20 o' elock by the northbound loeai freight. This train had been at Dillon abcut two bours, dizeharging freight, and saveral cars had been left standing cn aie tack very near the crossing north (.f the depot. The young man, !a a top buggy, attempted to make this czosing. The engine, that time on the man, was p*ckirg up cars preparatory to leaving. The cars whic:1 hac been standing on the side track prevented the your-g man's seeing the approaching engine until his horse was on the track. The horse, fr'ghteced by the aprioachirg engine, wheeled and drew the rear wheeli of the buggy immediasely j! front of the ergine. Dunois was pitch ed foward in tne entre of the track and his body badly crushed by the er gine. His right leg was broken at the knee, his neck dislocated, head crushed, left eye protruding from the socket, and death was instantan e us. His father happened to be among the first to arrive at the scene of the farful tragedy and with several others appsoached the b dy-- but could not identifv him at first on ac. count of the mutilati -n of his fea tures, but with fearful fLreboding he fund a magezine wiblich be had a few moments bafore given the boy at his ofce to be carried hcmi. Tae most harrowing feature cf tne sad cccur ence was to nttify his mother who was awaitir.g his return, h_.ving his supper ready for him tefcre tLe fire. It was a crusbirg blw and the whole own is appalled. Dubois was a bright iboy, very induszriou with a promising fure. He was to gracua e at DilloL graded s?bcol in June. Buried the Wrong Man. At Chicago on Thursday Mrs. Annie McGreevy caurncd consternation in the court 1om (;f Juttice Call.han, when she rushed in screamilrg at top of her v -ice that she had jJs* met on the street her husband whcm she had buried 13 yeari ago. "I j nt mat him." he shout d. "I thought Le was d. ad. I buiried a man 13 years ago and I thought it was hin. I want him back. He has $300 of my money." When the woman became quiet encugh fr the voice of the jui:tice to be hard, be suggested that she take out a writ of replevin for tihe 8300 and this Mrs. McGreevy did. "He told me that he has been living with another woman," she said, ''and ur. der the name of Thawles. The idea! Lv nog with anather woman and aging his name from Irish to Dutch! El ir nxin!" and Mrs. Mt. :eevy departed with a writ. M xican Oatlaws. A pitched battle recently took place in siie Sierra lyadre Mountains of eico near Tomts between the b..d f J~a olcorade', the noted outlaw, and an escort of seven men conveying a rich tullion trailn from the Dolore. mines to the R'.o Grande, Sierra Madre and Pacific ra!!way. The bullion train ws amourb. d by Colorado and hia gang in one of the wildest portions of the mountain country. Willam Smith, an American, was in charge of he treasure and is guards. The at trek was resisted with desperation ad ithe bandits were fjrced to retreat afer several volleys had been fired and a charge led by Smith was made upon their position. During the fight Smith ws mortally wounded and t so of his men were killed cutright. Colorado, the outlaw chkf, is reported to have 'een woonded. Three of his own were killed. Oae of the mules of the pack train, heavily loaded with bullion to te value of sevaral thousand dollars, sprang over a precipice during the battle and was dished to pieces. Geo, Schadeburg saved his own life and that of his boy b:- hanging to the ties of a railroad trestle with one arm while a train passed. He was crossing ing the Wiscon Cen'.ral Bridge near Mnitovoe Wis., with his two chiIl en. and the younger boy had trailed in the rear. The father heard a traIn approaching and ran back to save the boy. Graspieg the lad in one arm, he swung from the side of the bddge with the othei-iidhld on until ttie train had passed. His arm was severly wented and he was completely ex hausted when assitance r-eached him. A special from Anda.lusia, A'a., an ntrma itoA. t1he ;cumt of a nell town wlhi:e ci Iz-a Thursdsv right nddrn.,ggd a y cu'g lady from one rcmto another, where ihe kept her til4c'clock this mornkdg. A posse kc-caed the kegrro, who w..s idenefIed by his victim and severa.l chil .rn. Tre pos s iarted to the j sil with the ngro, when he breke and ran. Some Ione In the crowds shot and killed the negro as be ran'. slet p Oac3oorW. "Sleep out of doors If you want to kow the wild jo; of living," was the advc, given to reciety women by Mrs. Berch~s C. Mr:in, an apo~st'e of out nor met~, mn N'w Y:et recently. It s a cure for many Cisnoses. She wearr j:st a simple whae linen or muslin ight zown tad is warm even at 20 below zero. But don't start the habit when it 1s that cold. 1 Y UVORC COURTS. ONE DAY'S SESSION AND THE TRAGEDIES DEVELO ED. Halls Where Are fold Parchments That Fave Made Cbicag> Notorious. What better diversion than a day in Chicago's fiamous divorce court? One may be arsured , f tears ard tragcdj an-! laughter and comedy. Tne first csse is an Eaoch Arden story of real life. Mrs. Miry Oswald is seeking to have her marriage with William G. Oswald annulled. Roy a. E .sman, a clork in a railroad ctlize is the Enoch Arden of the story relat zed to the judge by Mrs. O.swald. The domestic history of Mrs. Os. wald date': back to May 13, 1903, when ae and E-stman were marriod. They liv d happily together, with East man's mother, the court is told until, one day the husband disap peared. 'I waited in vain fcr a letter," says the witness, "but no word came from Roy. Then my mother-in-law infor med me that her -on had cbtsined a 4ivc-rce at Fargo, N. D. At this time Mr. Oswald was calling on me. Fre quently he wanted me to become his wife. I asked R.;y's mother if Ehe was quite sure about the divorce and she tail she was. So Janrary 28, 1904, Mr. Owale and I were mar ried." Were you happy with your second uqhnd also?" asks the judge. "0,-, yes," said the witness, "but one cvening there was a knock at the door. I opened the door and was c(umbfounded to see my first huibond staadirg on the porch. 'What are ycu doing her(?' I asked; 'I thought you had secured a divorce.' " Explanations followed, but Est man, unlike't-he hero of the book who lelt his wIfe her second busband insisted that shi should return to him. "Which one do you love now?" askcd the cjurt. "Well, I don't love either of them any more," replies Mrs Oawald, "for when R -y c ,me back Wilam left me immediately. I wish to have m, marriage wish him annulled and then I intend to apply for a divorce froim my first husband, who is earning $75 .: month and should be made to con tribute toward my support." "1 see, but ycu can't get alimony from both t usbands, you know,'' says Judge Walker as he calls the next Mis Marie Neuberger, 972 Park avenue, wishes a divorce from Isaac J Neuberger, who Is a member of the drm of Nunberger & Brown, whole sale cothiers at 201 Market street. Statutory charges are made by the complainant against her husband. Mrs. Neubsrger Is very nervous as she tells the story of her domestics life. She relates that she and N1eu cerger were marrisd in 1898 and that they lived tcgether until last July, when she discs vared the alleged in dircretion of her husband. "I learned through friends that my husband had transferred his affect tins to other women," says Mrs Neu oerger, and then I began an investi gation." "What did yun learn?" asks the czu-t. "Well I ditcovered that my hus band was mn the habit of fregnenting do antown hotels with anlo her woman whe-n I accursed him of it we separ ate-d." Mrs. Mary Brown Is the nlext one who wani.s a divorce. ' We wsrs never contented," uaid~ Mrs Bro wn in telling about it to the j~lge' "and snilly Rufus packed -up and said he was going away and would never return. He never msed no keep nis promise, 'but that time he did. I haven't seen him sinen." They were married August 27, 1898 anci Brownsleft July 1, 1900~ Jud. Gary will grant Mrs. Brown a d~. cree. Mrs. Maude Robinson, dic'rees, was granted a divorce by'J-Mdk Wai ker frcm her husband, WsXger Ribi son, who is said to have'-dsrted his wifa three years ago. The complainant related that when her husband left her in July, 19Q3, she was compelled to support 'their three children. "Tie oldest boy was elev~n, and I was obliged to send him g.M moun Dains in New York," she-~aid. "Fi nally my aunt suggead:. tht Mr. Robinst:n might be competed to sup port this chi, and we jjeh wrote hIm. We received no naswer until my aunt wrote that we..pere about to oi..ce the sick boy In .the poorhouse. i'his threat fpamed Wditer so that he came and got the -ehid-" VWhere is the b'i now/?" asked the eourt, A E "I have no ideswhere either he or my husband are,"jeplied the woman. Serious Aceldent. The Augusta (I..rald says a serious accident thappene6 Everett Bryan at Langley on Tuees y of last week. Tne ladi while:engs.g In play with anothef boy'T. Denny H zdl, was stuck 1none of niseyes by the shary point. of .an umbrella. The wzunded lad. was attended by Dr. Shaw, of Lng ;ey, who deemed it best that the boy be carried t-o th~e Augusta City Hos pital for treatment, and he was taken to the above institution, where it is nope~d, to save Lia eyesight. The chances are rather against the little felw as tie sharp pains of the un t:a is said to havo pierced the eye b..li. At an early hour Wednesday morn ~ng t~e 1nfanb cand or Mr. John B. Cleauy, of the Trinity sotlon of New oerry county, was rally burned, the I hlid suc'cu-mbing to the Injuries at :ioon. The child was playing before a tire in the ho'use, the mother being absent from the room at the time. In some way the cinthes of ths little boy caught fire anid before the fla.mes could be exringuished the body had been terribly burned. Death relieved Itho littie fellow fromn his~ sufiering at about 11 o'cl ck of the same day. LIVED ALONE In d Hut With a Big Fortune Near Her. MISERLY OLD WOM1AN Deposited Her Money in a Bank and Efforts Are Being Made to Re cover from Her the Money Owed by Her Dead Uncle. The procedings which have been instituted before the judge of probate of Richland County in Columbia hold ing up a deposit of $50,000 In the Na. tional Loan and Ejchauge bank by Mrs. S,.llie A. Gibson uaiil the result can be determined of t ffrts made to reoeive an old judgment for 860,000 scured against Mrs. Gibson's uncle, Id "Squlrs" Levi Metz, will reveal a piceureeque story cf an old woman orth perhaps $100,000 living in a tumble-down old house in an alley alone for years with a fortune in cash In an old greasy grip srck. The story as told the Augusta Chronicle by W H. McCow, reads like fition. Here it Is: One of the most disastrous bank railure this state has known was that )f the old Commercial bank here abcut 15 years ago. This was organ ized by C. J. Iredell, now living Iv Virginia, and associates, who are now prominent in Columbia business and ;ocial circles, upon the wreck of the )anklrg firm of Mel z and Iredell. The 3ebts of the Metz and Iredell. concern were paid out of the new bank, which eld a nun-ber of worthless claims )asides notes signed by Iredell as man. ger of the old firm. Suit was brought Lgainst M=z as the only financially esponsible member of the firm, and udgment was cbtained against him or 860,000. Metz, a thrifty Jew from the Datch ork section cf Lnxington cnunty Lcruss the Congaree river from this *unty, at the time owned perhaps L d. zen plantations in this and Lex ngton and Newberry ocunties.. When is was taken up in supplementary roceedig, there was prrctically no roperty in sight to pay the judgmenit hough his lawyers got fat fees. F1 )ally the judgment was compromised or about $4,000. About a year ago Metz died and ils niec3, who had lived alone with 3im in the alley where she now lives, yrought in this will drawn ten years go by Attorney Andrew Crawford, aid had it probated paying the fees n nickles and dimes: "Firat, I give, devise and b; queath o my niece, Sall's A. Gibson, all of ny estate of any nature or kind what eer and wherever the same may e, whether it consist of realty or ~ersonality or choses in sction, or ~lams which now may be dormant >ut which later may be developed iganst the Commercial bank of CJo umbia or other corporations or per ions, or persons against whom I may ave claims or demands. And, secondly, I nominate, consta mte and appoint my said niece, Sallie O. G:bion, executor of my will with ull powers hereby vested in her to ettle, ccmpromise or liquidate any Ltrd all demands which I ha-e against ythers or which others have against ne. "In testimony whereof I have here mnder written my name and afflxad ny seal* at Columbia, in said state, he 10th day of December, 1897. ."LEVI METZ " The will is witneseed by Judge iawf~rd, John A. Civii and Jadge Duncan C. Ray. About six months ago, Mrs. Gib. :o, on the advice of her attomney, de posited in the National Laan and Er shange bank over $10,000 in casnl, gogd and silver. A few weeks agt a city salesman v-on her to sell her some sup plies for~a new frame house she was "You look like a young man I could trust with a secret," she said to him :n a confidential mood, afbher finding out that he was a single man. "I will ,ow you something that looks good to a poor man." She dragged out that old grip sack and poured tuo *ontents out on the bed in front of his startled g.- za. He helped her count it. There was 38,000 of all in bank notes, in de nominations up to $500. Tae young man then dutifully set about to persuade her to deposit it in bank. He told her how she might be murdered and robbed and how safe andz reliable the bank was. She had had what she considered a bitter ex perience with banks and was at first opposed to chsnging the hidinplaQe of the treasure. Finally, after sev eral days visiting her and talking to her the young man induced her .to put the money in bank. Then the story of thybig deposit got out from she bank; and the lawyers got busy.. -AMrs. Gibson has lived in a. very-try ing gtmosphere foci many years, and being naturelly of a nervous temper ament, this suit over her money will probably completely derange her. "When I carried that money to the bznk," she said to me, "one of those tank men tried to nip out a $500 bili with one of those X rays. He got oos bill and ran behind thces bmr be fore I could catch him. People used to always be after my money at home reching through the ceiling-after it with those X-rays," Mrs. Gibson protests that this is all her own money; that she had money and property before she came to livre with her uncle. Sue does not holi Mr. Iredell in tendler 'memory. She rails against him and his associates, -claiming that they have done her uncle out of a fortune of $290,000. A year ago she appealed to the.railroad commission to force Presid-mnt W. (G. Childs of the 3C. N. and L. road to give her a pmss to Nwbarry 60 mnles from here. Several years b -fore Meiz made bi. w 11 he had Chief of Police Ratcliffe and a private search bis premises for $11,000 he had lost. While the cbiEf was under the hoose scra'ching about among the co)bwebs, getting dirty and oumping his bead, the vrivate we.' going through things ab..ve him with Mrs. Gibson ace :mpan in him. Finally, when he had about given up hope he spied an old dusty broken pitcher sitting on a narrow leag above a winow. "What's In that pitche??" "0, nottin- t all, that I k-tow of." "1 guess I';1 have to see fir m. self." Further protests that it would be usolm excited h!s suipicions a d he went up after it. He had not laid bands on It before .he realized its weigbt told a story. The pitcher was full to the rim witb gold and silver, which was poured out on the bed, as the private eniled to his superior to come up. Mr. Metz came In and Mrs. GibSon confessed and got down on her knees 'o him begging him to forgive her. He finally did forgivi-her. These are the faczs connected with this incident as they were told by Mr. Ratel ff. BURN flERERS ALIVE BANDIrS LAUGH AS DIABOLIC DEE D IS DONE. Fearfully Horrible Etory From Nex ico. Enrvivor r escribes Ecene. A dhpatch from Durargo, Mexico, says one of the most frightful crimes in the history of that state has just come to light. Taree sheep herders named Felipe Ramos, Zvia Guitterez and Juan Obedez, after being robbed of their flocks, were literally skinned alive; then their quivering bodies were thrown on an immense brush heap and incinerated, by a band of desperadoes which has been operating in the neighborbood of Corrales, northwest of there,'in the foothills of the Sierra Madre mountains The deta;ls are related by Domin ico de Leon, who was one of the four herders attacked In the vicinity of Corrales the morning of Sunday. He say:: 'Myself. Ramos, Gu'tterez and Obo dez had performed our morning devo tions within the sound of the church oells of Corrales Sunday m rnng. Tae other three lay down at the slope of F mound to take a siesta, while I went into the hills in search of a stray lamb. When I returned within a Quarter of a mile of the place where I had left my three companions, b'cod cirdling cries reached my ears, and I recognized the voices of my dearest friends shrieking in frightful agony. Dropting the lamb I had been carry ing, I hurried toward, keeping well withtn the shadow, until I reached a point where I could sce all than was going on and still not be seen. "The scene I witnessed was borri. ble. A score of brigands, armed with. guns and long knives, wild, fierce looking fellows, were dancing around as though intoxicated. A bout a score more were gathe -ed around the prch trate, naked bodies of my former comn panions, who had been stripped of ev cry stitch of clothing. The sec )nd gang of-brigans were engaged mn skin ning R1am. z, Guiterez and Obedez saive, with large knive s. 'The cries of the nefortunate men made me heartsizk and I thought two or three times I must faint. But the frightful sight facinated me and I crept nearer and nearer, until I could hear the b.:gans demandla~g ttie bid ing place of their vicidms money. Tne latter diclared before God that they -a-I none. Ea.ch denial brought forth mere torture for them. Finally col lecting a heap of brush, the brigands having bound the three herders hands and feet, threw them en the heap and set fire to It, watching the 11:>.mes scorch and burn the q-ilvering flesh and laughirng at the sarieks of an gu.ih wrung from the tortured souls of my companions. "The brigends remaired Guntil all was still when corralling the sheep, my o wvn among them, they drove them in a northwesterly direction toward the mount'ains. For myself when the devils departed, I tried to rise but fell back, fainting dead away. "At nightfall I was discovered by the parish priest of Corrales, who was on his way to a sick call to a her der named Fernandez Gousalvos." Hagea Themselves. A dispatch from Coiquit, Ga., to the Atlanta Journal says the coroner hns just returned from Babcock, Ga,, where he went in response to a tele gram from Capt. Jackseon, captain of the convict camp at Babcock, Ga. The coroner says th--a he held ir. quests over the bodios of 0. 0. Thom son, white, and Dock Gaines, colored, both convicts. From what the coro atates it seems that Thomson and Gaines were playing, and Thcmson threw a rope around Gaines' neck in a playf il way and throw the other end of the rope around a piece of shafting while it was running and the end got caught and began to wind the negro. up. Thomson seeing it tried-to get the rope loose from the shafting and he was caught it it and the resuit was both parties lost. their lives. A Lteai- Tragedy. At Dvor; Cal., Mrs. 0. L. Fielder lea.v~ng lier seat in a.- box at Thurs day's matinee, in the Crystal Palace Tnestre, m~de.her way to tue stag.e and de~er flourishing a revoliver in full -view of the audience shot herself In picting a fatal wound. The audience thougnt the shoti.g part of a bur le que act and-'made no outcry until the screams e the performers in the wings brought a realization that a real trzagedy had lesen enected. Five Bur-nea~ to Death. At -Johnstown, Pa., five persons burned to death, two others seriously injured and four houses completely de Etroyed by a fire which originated in the home of Patrick Grogan, at Tua nel Hill, about 27 miles east of this city. The monetary Icss was about 10,000 partly insured. THE RATE BILL. The Hepburn Measure Adopted by the senate Committee. TILLMXN SKLECM'ED To Report the Bill to the Senate, and Thuns a Temocrat is Given Contr 1 of a !easure Passed by Rf publicans in the Eouse. In the Uaited States Senate on Fri day by a vote of 8 to 5 the senate committee Son Interstate commerce agreed to repot the Hepburn railroad rate bill without amendment, but the resolution ad:>pt;d reserves to tb members of tae c-maittee freedom of action cor.:carng amendments ; ffered in the senate. By a vote if 5 to 3, REpublicans prevailing, Sanator TiL ma.n, a Democrat, was given the hon or of reporting tue bill. Tihis estab lishes a precedent, in that a Republi can senate committee has gi van to a Democrat control cf an important measure passed by a Republican house mnd endorsed by a Rapublican presi -ent. S'nators Ca 1 im and Csrmack were absent and their votes were r - corded only on the main proposition The resolution follows. "Resolved, That the interstate com merce e mmIttee report favorably bc use bili 12987 as it passed the house 'f re presentatlves, it being unde: stood that members of the committee have a right to vote as they choose on amendments or to offer amendments in the senate or, consideration of the bill." Senator Dolliver cffarsd the firsm part of the resolution and Senator Al drich made a motion to amend by ad ling the restrictions concerning amendment. The Aldrich motion prc valled, the aflrmat-ive voi-es being El kins, A:drich, Kean. Foraker, Crane, Tillman, Foster and Newlands. Th neg-itive votes were Dolliver, Clapp and McLaurin. After the meeting. however, Senator McLtu:In said that he had intended to vote for the chiarge and a change was made in the com mittee ;rec-rd, leving only Dolliver a-nd Clapp for the resolution as offered by Senator Dolliver. The vote for the resolution as amended was as fol lows: AMrmative-Cullom, Dolliver. Clapp, Tillman, McLaurin, Carmack, Foster ind Eswlands. Negativ-E kkins, Aldrich, Kean, Forakar and Crane Senator Aldrich then moved that he bill be reported by Chairman K firs, but Senators Dolliver and Till nan protested that some friend of the neasure should make the report, ind S-enator Aldrca amended h otion, providing that tbe report iuculd be made by Senator Till cnan. He stated that the D3a >cratic members furnished th-. m'.j trity of the votes for the bill and that It was proper to have the minor sy "father it." Taia was taken by Senators D~lliver and Clapp as an affort to humiliate them, but they re mained silent. Chairman Elns suiggested that ihe report should be made by Senator Dolliver, who has been one of the men who helped drafn the Hepburn bill, mud a leader in tbe fight to prevent ihe adoption of amendments. Oniv Senator Clapp supported this sugger. tion, which had been made informal y. A vote was then had on the ques ion who should report the bill resul ing as follows: For -Senator Tillman-Aldrich, Kean, Foraker, Crane and McLaurin. For Senator Doliver-E kins, Olapp and Newlands. Not voting--Doliver, Tillman and Foster. Before the Seasion today the resul was in dcubt. The division or the Re publican senators on the question of judicial review of drdera 0 oe inter siate commerce oommissioa left the Demccratic mnembuts in absoluee con trol. It was apparent sltat If they divided the court review amendmen:. would beadopted. Tne minority mem bers, after vainly trying to get to gether last night, held a second con ference early this morning. The ex pression at the conference was to re port the bill without recommendation of any character, but the agreement was not binding. With that under standing the D-mocrats went into the meeting. The minority did not make its decision known and the Hepburn bill was taken up and the "con~serva tive Republican fiction" sought v amend the first seotion. At thas junc ture Senator Doli-ver, leading the forces that were opposed to amend ments, read a tel.egram from Senator Cullom askino; that-ie be recorded against all amendments thaw were not recommended by the committee unan imously and to cast hib vote for the Hepburn bill as it came from the acuse.' - Senator Daliver then moved to re port the He pburn bill favorably as it was paased by the hous and 5aid that on that he would demand that Sena tor Cullin's vote be rcorded. This precipitated a lining up on the orily important contention and the Domo crats desired time for further conen - tation. A recess was then taken unAii 2 p. m. The four inor-ity idembers preent withdreywto begator Tilman's committee room and th~n decided to stand as a unite for'The Depburn bill, with the reservatien provided In the resolution that was finally a.dopted. When the conimittee reassembled Senator Doliver ceilled for a vore on his molon, which-was taken witu the result given ab. V2. S..nagorTillman, who was desixse ted to report the Hepburn bill, said after the comm.teee adjourned: ."It was an unar pecied, and, in one 9nse, an undesired honor and respon sfblity that was tnrulst upon ms. As far as L am able I will en dea -o, to a. cure the pa5sage cf the bill through he :enate With such amendments as wim mike it more acepthable to the business Interests of the country and remedy the evils which have produced such widespread agitation. The policy is essantially Democratic. The pro posed bill has the unanimous support of the Democrats of the house and I hope.that with a few sight amend ments it will get t. e same support in the senate." Senator Tillman said that one of the m'-st essential amendments he should endeavor to vrecure looks to "the absolute divorcs of public car riers, zs such, from the production of cyal, as m!ners, which condition of monopoly has created such a strong feeling of dissatisfaction and anger in the bitumiuous and anthracite coal regions." He has already drafted ay amendment covering thIs point. He said that something also ought to be done to comnel the trunk lines to make connection with spuws and fe.sd i og lines and give themn fair trratment I the distriouticn of cars and cfrer equal facilit'es with other shippers. S--nator Tillman stated that in making the reDort on the bill he would not prepare a formal anal'sls for pre - sentation to the senate. but that the report would simply transmit the ac tion to the senate together with the synopsis of the testimony taken be fore the commIttee He said he wculd p-ess the bill with the view of having the. discussion commencad as soon as convenient and possible. A TR HWIC STORY. WOMAN DROWNED HER THREE CHILDREN AND HERSELP. 'he Tossed Her Children from the Fall River Steamer Ply mouth. The open door of a state room which bad been ocoupled by a woman and three young children on a trip of the Fall River Line steamer Plymouth, from New York to Fall River, Mass., early Tuesday morning led to the dis covery that Mrs. Juhn Wa'aters of Brooklyn, N. Y., had taken the lives of her three little ones and then her own. Mrs. Watters apparently had thrown overboard her two daughters and infant son and then jumped after them. Investigation by the attaches of the steamer indicated that the tragedy cc curred between midnight and 3.30 a. m., the fact of the state room being unoccupied having .been discovered Just before the Plymouth made the Newport landing. The woman left two notes addressed to her husband. In one penciled on the back of an enve - ope she begged forgiveness; in the other, written on wrapping paper, she said that she "had worried" until she feared insanity and could not baar to leave the children. Some hours after the arrival of the Plymouth at her port, Dwight Brady son of Capt. James Brady, collector of the port of Fall River, identided ar t!ces found in the state room as be longing tohis sister, Mrs. Watters, who apparently was coming to Fall River to visit her relatives. Mrs. Wat ers was about 30 years of age. Her hildren were: Helen, aged 4; Doro hy, 2 years, and an infant son of ten onths. * PROSTRATED WITH GRIEF, A dispatch from New York says ohn W. Watters is manager of the nsurance bureau of the nationol As cation of Manufacturers. He was prostrated when told of his wife's eath. To a business associate, Mr. Watters said that his wife had been subject to short spells of insanity and hat she spent some time In a seni arium several years ago. Mr. Wat ers said his wife's troubles were en irely imaginary arnd that their home afe was always happy. Mrs. Watter's mental affection, which it was thought had been prac ically cured, took the form of a de - perate anxiety for her children. A G00D LAW. The Governor WHi Soon Sign the Re formatory Act. The reformatory bill, which excited so much interest during its paassge by he gen~rnl sasmb~y, will soon be signed by the governor and will be ome a law. The bill provides for the establish met of the reformatory and the a; poitment by the governor of a board if seven persons-all men-to control it. In addition to these persons, the ,overnor, the State superintendent of education and the attorney general are ex-officlo members. The members hold their places on the board on a varying scale of years, tc-wit: two for two years, two for four years and three for six years. The remuneration is $3 per diem and four cents mileage. As soon as the board Is appointed it will meet In that city to select a loca tion for the gehool and proceed to build it. Into the institution will go white boys between eight and 16 years cld, voluntarily committed by their pa rents or by themselves. Or, if a mag istrate or-circuit judge deems bost. boy criminals can be sent . to the re formatory In the case of a voluntary commitment, a circuit, probate or cunty court judge inspects the p5 pers. Boys shall, except upon a conviction for crime, remain until 21 years of age, unless sooner dismissed, this dish missal being obtained from the gover nor, a circuit court judge, a supren urt justice or the board Of trustees le board may also allowthis boys leave on probation if desired. When the reformtory is estaeslish ed, the present Lexington refcrmatory will be used for coljred boys, remain ing under the c'ntrolpf the peniten. Miary as it is now-.s An appropiato of $4,500 is made or the .reforma~tory, and also a p::r :pita tsx pill be collected monthly 'om the counties in proportion to the. umbsr of their respec'ive inmates. Stabbed to Death. Charlie- E~nereon, a furmer was 1 ~tabed to death on the strsets . f amar,Darlngton coucty, on Satur. J lay night. It is not known who cid 1 it, but two nogroes are suspected and i sa nder arrest. 2 A FATAL FIRE. Three Cadets Burned to Death and Nine Injured at . MILI ARY SCHOOL At Kernyav, Obio, Where. Severs Buittings Were Destroyed, Res alting in a Financial Loss of One tiandreJ Thous and Dolars. Prtial ly Insured. Three are dead and nine seriously i3jared and saveral others more or l1ss hurt as a result of a fire which destroyed Milner hall, Kenyca Mil tary academy, Delano an. North halls and North annex at Gambier, Oio, early Saturday. Tne fire broke out at 4 a. m. while ne students and coi iege antaaritie3 were asleep anc qiickly spread through the buildings uamed, which were consumed. The starch for the missing boys, the bod ies of whom it is now certain, are In ohe ruins, was kept up. till late SatUi day af Lernoon when the walls of the burned strunctures fell and their rc covery is now iegarded as Improbable for some time. The search during the day was IM peded by the fact that the ruins were still red hot and made passage through hem nearly impossible. The falling walls barely-missed D:. Pierce, presi dent of Kenyon, and Begents Wiant and Widiams, who were leading a party of rescuers through -the ruins. Mhe dead and injured are all students' A the military academy' and Old Ken yon. Parents, sisters and brothers of the .Caa su' 1 j.?Lrea bLudentw arrive on very train. Tae news of the fire pread qaickly all over the State and Egrams were sent at once by the unilege autaoritis to parents of the )ys mjured. Tne mnsages were not nade alarming; but even while mildly .Lating toe ease aroused grave appr ensions and the arZious fathers and nothers h::.va rushed to aid their .'Jvqd uz.es. The-property loss by the destruc onq 1. the bukidings Is estimated at $100,0J4 wit80 per cent. insurance. Following is a list of the missing and Injurer: Missing, believed to be dead: Henderson, Everett, 18, of Illinois. Kunkel, Winfield Scott, 15, of Asha. b!mla, 0. Fuller, James J., 18, of Warren, 0. Tne injured: Barnes, Harry 0., 1leveland. spine inj.'ed and leg brok n from jumping four stories, may k; Baker, Lenox W., Cleveland, in erua*ly ir jured, j imped four stories; Nho.son, J. Uuderwood, Steuben vlile, terribly burned ab: u body, may ii; Shiannon, R A., Wellsville, N. Y. >aaly bruised from jumping; Thier weckser, Homer, 0.k Harbor, 0O., >adly burned about the arms; Bierell, - a. G., Colum~bus, feet badly burned; away, F. B., commuercial master, adrain, Micia., Internally Injnred, nay di-e; Dorsey, W. 0., Dallas, Tex is, bsdiv'-bruiled, jumped three stor-. es; Brown, Arthur, Cincinnati, stfl lent of 04d K ,ny.onl, baaly cut while si.stmin tae rescue. Barnes was one of the last to leave te Delano hall, and j 2mped from the :urth story windos maan a blanket. The blaaket gave way and he was precipitated onto the pavement, sus abing injuries to tho back. One leg v," broken, He will die. E-ghty-five boys wer in the dormi ~ory wnen .he lire b-oka~ our. An e fort was made to eff.cs the military fmation but the younger student ~orgot their military training and u.ed about the burning building in apanic, shrieking and crying for help. JFenl Eighty Feet. The mangled remains of three white man were found Wednesday morning eneath a hign trestla of the Isaufs yille and Nashville railroad leading to Ceir bridge across the Tennesee iver. Several hours later they were dentified by Dr. 0. B. Jones of Scar aoruh, Tenn., as three young men ,ho lived in his vicinity, Win. Dun away, Win. Turpln and James Gamn le. All were unmarried. Dnnna ay and Turpin were 30 years of age and Gamble only 18. Thaey were green :ountry boys and the tneory ad ganced is that they stepped from tbe train, Immedately after the station name sad been called, while the train was ,tanding on the erestle which is fulhy 80 feet high. Turpin's body was ound lying across that of Dunaway, while Gamble's body) was not more han three feet frm the other two. ~jck Hanged. Johann Hoch, the wife murderer, was hanged at 0hicago on Friday. He as dead two minntes after the trap m~s sprung. A short time before the tour set for the execution Hoch's at nrneys filed a petition in t'he United hates circuit c.urt asking Federal in erventlon to save Hoch. Tae petition .aid that the State authorities were ndeavoring to excute Hoch in viola on of the Fourteentha amendment of he Constitution and without due prc ess of laws. T.a petition was de ed. AS Sorry Feow The sorriest man on earth Is the ~ellow, who will sit around and cus s own to'wn. If I lived astride of he north pole 1 would call it home ud ha ready to boost It up. If I ~ould not say anything nice about It would say that my ice bill didn't ~ome r-lgn: I wou1l~d not stay in a own I had to cuss-not while the rorld is as big as it is now, A White iend. A dispatch from Andalusia, Ala.,. ays that a white ma.n named Ox nas een arrested on suspicion of being an 6ccessory to the assault on Mrs. J. L. y at that plaee Thursday, for which ie negro edigree was shot to death y a posse Wednesday. Ccx was ar atrd at Georgiana. Ala.t