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6 WEIRD _S1p. A Girl Poisoned to Death by a Dead Man, Was WAS HER SUITOR. Takes Fatal Poison tie Left When He Killed llimseli a Month Ago. He Gave tier the D.adly Foison, Calling it a Love - Charm. Stranger than all the tales of the posonings by the Bxmias, and sur passing all stories of death pn.cis by disappointed sweethearts are the citr cumstances surrounding the doth Paterson, N. J., of Mie Agnes Mour ton, a young wcman of ninmeteCn, WhC a month after the death of her suitor. James Boucher, by his own hand, feI a victim to the dead man, a murdrc In deAth. Oaly his surpassirg belief in tMe wonderful power of the young - man's love for hia could ha ve in. pirec the far-reachirg plot and sent the young man to his grave ount that, his sweetheart, innce .txt uf any inr tion upon her own life, bu: Lrust'ngz in the i diiacy of the potiUn Le had left with her at their sad parir g, would soon follow him to tue land ol the shadow. Tne church has set its seal uon n the verdict of murder agaicst the young man, acquitted Miss Morton cf the charge of suicide, althud she confessedly died of poison ar ni.:e ed by her own hard, and permitted her body to be laid at rest in conS crated ground. It was the law of the R man Cath o1o Church wrica foruida tfl6 buriat of the self-slain in oonsecretec-groun, invcked in ttis cise on behalf o M s: Morton, that brought to ligat the re markable story of love, -u-cice andx post n.ortem murder. In a sp c- f five weeks the plot was form.' anc made complete in the duel tragt o. M1s Morton, we!l corn ce d aac socially prominent, who lavd swit her father, Ahxander Mr n, at N. 72 Madison street, met, so-:e mustz ago, James &uzer, a young m in o: excellent arcestry, tbejnepvew of D:. William.A. Norval, cf No. 3S1 Maiz street, a member of the Bjsra o' FPreeholders. The-young man and woman became sweette;rtts, but for some reason there was oij.c:ion t' their marryirg on the part cf Mb Morton's family, and afte.r the Lrp sition to their courtship had contin ued for some time, and bad only ser v ed to cement the bjr.d Lf aff.c:ion be tween them, the young man, deispai irg of his sult,-decided to leave P..tae son. Befo're the final parting the plot foi the death of Miss Morton and uims ii must have formed in his mind, and at the last he put it into exzcu ton. H. gave to his sweetheart just bef ore iiu left Paterson on F,.b:aurt 7 an enve. ope containing a nunLber of tab'sts He told her tha~t ttey w ere a hle por tio~n or charm, and that she shnuic take one of them every time sui thought of him when he was absen that the mysterious power of the tub lets would brir g. the m 'loto a cio:e: communion cf souls, and that U would know she was t ink'r g of rmm The trustful young woman bUl.evc him, and jealbusly guarded the pre cdous tablets, which were in reaita corrosive sublimate, and deaetly. On February 9 Boucher was fount dead in his room in the L~caiiaon; Hotel, in Scranton, Pa. It was a first believed that he had diei of hear failure, but a further exainati m showed that his death had resuilte< from mercurial poiserning. and that ti had coubtless killed himnself. It believed now that he also to:.k corr.. sive sublimate to end his lie. Miss Morton was so affected by the death that she was prostratedi at he: home and unable to attend the funer al of lock upon the face f the deac man. Her grief over his death made her forget about the potio. given tc her by Boucher when they parted. Miss Morton, grievirng over th( tragIG death of Boucher and coustarit ly thinking of him, remombered a fewi days ago the tablets in tne envelope and took a number of ther, rrgarx* less of the pain they caused ner. Shc took them jrst ef ten enough to pr duce the cumulative ctf:.ct which re sulted in her death. When Miss Morton became ill cn Thursday It was believed txot she~ was suffering with gastrits. Seie grad ually grew worse arnd the phnim diagnosed the case as one of p sio but believed it to be ptemain:. S2e was then in a dying comxiticai, and the physicians questioned hr ab un what she had eaten, and f r the first time lkarned of the exis'.e ca of the love tablets. The last rites of the churc'1 st administered to the dying .zri, a":: after her death a searca was md for the tablets of which she had spoke. The envelope whict had canta red them was found, but she had takla - all the tablets. Some p.dar m them remained and this was an Az and found to be corresive - ubli- . A letter written to Bouchrr b;I Ms Morton probably the day after he f but never mailed, was found e-ong her effects, and in it she spoke abut the tablets and her determinat.h n to take them. Dr. McBride reached the tcc':nier. finding that the death was a suicid ~, but the authcri:ies of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Caurch nmaie au In vestigation and ooluded that the dead man was guilty of murder and that the girl was bhmeless in her death. Fnneral services were held over her body in the church au d she was buried in the Cemetcry of tue Holy Sepulchre. For mer Mor-'.i to M erry. Joseph Graham, who spent 25 -en s of his life as a Trappist monk in ite monastery at New Mallor.y. owa, mnd left that Institution a year aso on special dispensation of tey p, is t marry Mrs. Dora Coltern,. yon widow of Dubuque. The~ Tr ..s s have rigorous rutes. The amb rs never leave the monastery. a'dh~ conversations amoag themsa~v s for only an hour each week. T.sen' six years agoGrah, then a Youn ma took the vows of silence anri ntre the monastery. A .ea'ai ased of the society ask -a *i reir s he could go bach into te -crid to market a patent ege b 'whc the monks had paten1ted aete Graham has lived in Duntmq whr he becameacquainted with ai~s. Cc ert. The marrlage will tak place in the spring. GONE T WINIY-EIGHT YZAR3. The Very Strange Experieno of an Ir.diana Phykician. dispatch from Ladoga, Iad., says in 1879 Dr. Byron Mahogey, one Of the promising 3ouUg physicians in that stcion of the state, whose home lf.lq was iVeal, strangely disappeared. His relatives and friends searched evry -well and all the streams and .oo1s f r many miles around and ad rtuen for him far a-.d wide. F.va years passEd and the family b -eao- c invi, ced that he was dead. -i nhI M ihoney, his fatLer, spent a smai; fortui e in the search. but at last ave up in. dspair. T;.en Mrs. Mahoney went to Unior Ciry. K n. b1lieving that if her bus bant' was not dcal ,he had been de s rttd br'e eb-a:ned a legal separAtlon La: er see mar i d agair and is now a mct ser cf six ch.ldren. S.turday a well cress d ma-, wbo.i bair was sp-i.kld with white and ho was appirently in good health, cnpped fro n a Monon train at thE L d. ga depot. Not one recognized im and be icoked about in cimplet( Ie wilde-m nt. The man it q iired foi ):. J. C. Mahoney and was taken tt !,s home. Neither recognized th otitr. Dr. J. C. Mahoney was finally con I vinced that his lang missing brothe B;rcn, had returned. Then came thi d1iscovery that the man's mind wa absolute blank a, far as the past wa concerned. He could tell nothang C .VLere he had been. He did not ever know where te bad boarded the Mo. nun tr_.in. He seems tn .rely unabl t real z the great changes that hav ;een wroaght in his absance. A ,ul;ha firt req.estwasto seE hi:zfle boy,' whu was three whet) Dr. M.hLney disappeared from L - Joga twenty eight years ago, and tE seemed uaable to understand that bli "little boy" is now a man thirty on years old. Dr. J. C. Mahoney will keep hi! br3ther at hls home, and will givi him treatment in the hope of restor ing hias naid. The only statement stat throws any ligflt upon his condi ti n is one ooe he frc quently make "M/ head tur.s." His hands ar< w a ti and smooth, showirg that hi has p rf rmed no manuai labor receL I ~.. -._Y. M -.ny a-e inclir ed to believt t at ie har been ccrfined in somf S 1 ckt d ihe Nation. B. ief comment on the recent battli in tae P-alippines was made in th !huse on F.iday by Mr. Jones, wh< , makir-g every allowance for the S -1 relations known to exist be Ie a t'ee presideit and Gen. Wood ne Yas unable to understand how th I I resident could endorse the kill iog of w ,men and caildrtn. It hat succeed the whole nation. "la m: jI iidment," te continued, "this acti. oa the part of the cimmandi! g gen ral cf our forces in the M 2ro pri VIL es cannot be condene'l or ex:,used. Hle regar& d as highly improbabl that th'e Moros totk their children il tacir arms as shiecs and charged th Amer can tro ps. The Mos ccui ot fight in that manner. Jail D) livery. Douglas, Ga., had a wholesale ja: del.very Wednesday night. While th j me:r, S. 0. Bro-sn. was away, 6v nerocs, one charged with murder three with assault with intent t mu: der, at d one with a misdemeanu savedi rff ilhe hinges of the dyor ani walked out wittu no one to h:nder lrack dogs were on sLhe icme withi half aa hour. but'it was .found the cte escap s had washed thleir fee with the disinfectant left in the cor rd or and the dogs failed to take th trail. E .stman Brown, c lored, un der a charge C f assault wish intent ti murder, reiu~ed to go and is now th only prisoner i the jail. R -r. Mkli, m D). Shea D.:ac. IR av William D. Shea, one of th olden and best known ministers il he Mathodist church in the South ihd at his home in Atlanta, Ga., las Thursday, aged 77 years. Mr Shea as ih hi-. eariy life, was a resident 0 Roswell, Ga., was an attendant a te wedding of President Roosevelt: mother. H e was for 15 years presi de nt cf Homn.r Female college, Louisi aa, mnoving afterward to Texas where he attained prominence as Methodist minister. He was super amuatd in 1893, when he returnet to A tiants, where the remainder o his life was spent. Accidemially shot ilimself. Mortally wcunided by a pistol whici had fallen from his pocket and whicl had sce:dentafly discharged its loac into his abdomen, A E. Batele, nigh achman at the plant of the Virgin C --Carler ChemIcal company, lay fo: 11ehours~ callig fo- help Th'2rsday oht. Tr e accident occured shortil at tr 6 t'clock atnd Batele was pickec p by the crew of a switch engine afer 11 o'cl cr. He remsained can cuus untithe end came about 2 'cl ck and gave a full statement ol he peculiar accident. He was sixty rine years of aue and was highly es taemed by all who krew him. Came' Too Late.. T is sad story comes from Savan na, Ga , R.>bert Lee Harper diet Wnesday in the state asylum ad Milien geville.- O2 Sept. 27 he was in j .red an Savan- ab by a Central rail wy engine. Suit was brought and a verdct for $15,000 rendered in his ravor. and this was atmrmed. jnst a few days arto by the supreme .court; Mr. H.arper was born In Augusta and as thirty-four years old He leaves a widow and three children. Tne n j ries he received in the acci dent caused him to be sent to the asyum. Many L f'. A c-r'zy old negress testified recent ly ta Memphis, Tenn. would sink ut of sight on the 27th of March an the ngcoes of that city are leaving te city by hundreds every day. The railroads have aaranged for excursion rains out of the city the 26:h, to reurn the 28th if the city is still I Grocery Crna,.teX' At Jamestown, IDd.,. while nine men wem: sitting about the stove in a grearyT:ursday afternoon, three o0, tmweekilled and live injured by the clapse of the Odd Fellows- hall, which erushed the crocary. P cuifar -accident. J..k Myers, a young white. man, met a peculiar death at Hamersville G2, Wednesday. He was an electric ie:an. While loading a lot of poles the eczk he was using in the work - p . ?w back and broke his nc k. THE MA] HAVR TO WOO BY LAW. And Valawtal for Men to Par t Hair in Hiddle. If a bill wh!ch has been introduced In the house of the Mississippi legisla ture becomes a law men will be de barred from parting their hair in the middle, no male prior to his twenty fourth 5ear may pay court to a girl, and balc-headed wid wers abi.,ve forty and red headed widowers under that age will rot be permitted by law to pay attentions to any girl under eighteen. Race suicide of the Rooseveltian brand was the su ject of the bl.1 which was presented by Representa Uive Tolbert. Toe interest displayed by the members after the title was read proved so great that it was read in full, but the hitch occurred when the question arose as to what c mmit tee to assign it to. Charles Doherty, of Tun!ct county, mangEr agent of the racing string of E ward Corrigan during that turi man's inv.~sion of E .gland, mov. d tvuat the mea ure be referred to tht liquor traffin cjmmittee It was fnaal ly ordered to the judiciary committee. Should it become a law wholesal changes in tactics used by young anc old lovers are sure to cccur Thern will be less cour, i-ag and fiirting and more marriages, and ecccrdiog to th a.ithor of the bill there will result 2 notable multiplication of the tumar race. N: man will be permitted to parl his hair in the middle, and before ho may pay attentions to a girl he mus! tirst gain cors-nt of the parents. H will be rc au red to make affidavit tha1 his attentions are serious and thal twere will be no dirtir g. B id headed widow e s over the agi of forty or red-'.eaded widowers unde: forty will be restrictei to c-_urZsih among girls in their home c- unty pas1 Aighteen yea- s of age. Exception i: made for offeers of the state guard o: ,o the state legislature, who are de pend,-d on to use their own coLs::ienc in love affhirs. The measure als-> provides agains any young womaD wearing glasses E cause it is stylish. She must als4 make affida-it when desiring court ship of a widower that she is receiv ing attentions with the idea of form tog -matrimonial allat c-, and tha she will find more pleasure in fryini batter cakes and sewing on button turn in playihg with poodles and pL cats. Provision is made for any couple re larded as members of the old maiC ,ld ba'lelvr class to have them pre so.kd witlr a baby carkiage by tb county board t f supervisors and tha the c.uple vYill be exempt from al tax. The Simple Truth. The South Carolina Churchman, I paper publhbhi d by colored people a B aufort in this state, utters a simp, tru-h when it say.: "The negro ii O.ito is getiing a taste of mob rule Luey have been very loud In dencunC irg us for our patience under simila trials, now we shall look with ver, great interest to see what they ar going to do. Tney should put in prac tice their teachings, and let us dowi this way see how it will work. We hay ve.ry little 'aith in the pretendt d sym patny of our friends in the Nortt; w have long since learned that a grea many of them love us 'afar cff;' tha a ben we are b:ought in c;>ntact witi them, that they are anything bu friendly. We may have a poor char~c mn the Scush, hut it IS the only chanc that we have in this country, an< wisdom would dictate that we mak the best terms posaitle with thosi with whom we have hived all our lives and must continue to live. Call thi truckling if you wish, but It is th naked truth and the sooner we lear; thils truth and act on it, the bette for us as a people." This is the bes advice we have ever seen given thi colored people in a paper edited b: colored men. The day will never comi when the colored people will ha-e sa voice in the councils of this nation and the colored man who now teachei his race that great truth is a bent factor to it. Tnis may sound hars] ,on the ears of some colored peoi~le but it is a simple truth, and any mar who tries to teach to the reverse an enemy to tha negro race and wil hasten its downfall. There is no es sentlal diff~rence between the whit< man of the North and the white mar of S:>uth. Trney both belong to the greatest race of men ever created, ann i the colored man ever gets betweei them and their ambition they wil grind him to powder. Tnis has beei the fate of other pe oples who have at tempted to check the Anglo Saxor race in its match of progress, and it w:li be the fate of the negro race this country L the day ever comes whert he ceases to be a hewer of wood ar~da drawer of water under the white man's super vision. We know that the color ed people generally will deny this prop asition, but it is true nevertheless and time will vindicate it. Offier Sthot from Amnbueb. Tom R~binson, marshal of Winokur, 15 miles north of Fo liston, Ga., wa shot and instautly killed by negroek at that place last Tiaursday night. A crowd of negroes were shooting on the streets and R~binson started towards them for the purpose of putting them under arrest. When the negroes saw the marshall approaching they SEW e ted themselves by the roadside. Oae of them got behind a hog pen and opened ire with a rifle. He shot at R binson four or fiye times before he was shot by the marshall and instant 'y killed. At this juncture another negro nearby opened fire on the mar shal,-with a doubled barreled shotgun, the fint shct penetrating his breast near the heart and kiling him In stantly. Lucius Crawford was placed In jail Tnursday charged with the killing. R .binson was about 25 year. old and leaves a wife and one cnild. A Brital Murder. A most brutal and unprovoked mur der was committed on the James Tripp place in Beaufort County, near St. Helenaville Sunday evening. An it ffnsive old negro nam~ed Samuel Polite went to hunt his cow, and re paired to the home of his neighbor, Ton Lngard. and inquired if he had seeit. L'ngard went out with the )ld man, and, when nearing the creek, struck htm -two blows in his head, kmig him: Lingard escaped. A W anton Marder. Jared Davis, a farmer who was shot last Wednesday by Jonas Hicks, a ne. gro farm hand, at Amer:cus, Ga., died Taursday, ther~ballethavi.,g pen etrated the abdonmen. The shooticg was wholly unwarranted and feeling against Hicks runs high. Judge Littkj ihn wibi be petitiorned to con vene a special term of court for his immediate trIal. Be patient with the old folks and mooth their pathway. ~TNNG TIEISMAN NI A FATHER'S APPEAL. ae Wishes to Find His Litele Son Who Was Stolen. The little son of Dr. S. L. Byers, of Seeleyville, Indiana, was stolen from bis hema one year ago last May. Dr. Byers has spent his entire re sources in setrch for his child and be says unless the big hearted me.b3rs of the p ess come to rds assistance his son will grow up an outlaw and an outcast among the lowest people of the earth. It is a cause that should appeal to averyone and no father reading these lines can do so without a quickening of the heart and a sym pathetic throb. It is believed that if this article is re-printed in the newspapers it will form an endlcss chain that will un cover the lost boy's concealment and return him to his distracted parents. Dr. Byers believes his boy is now on some houseboat on some river wait ing to take the road in the Spring Tnere is a reward of $500, awaiting any information that wiil lead to the boy's rec.very. No qaesticns will be asked and if the abducter himself I would deliver the boy to his parents he would not be molested. The be reaved parents are heart broken with grief and want only their child. If each journal will reprint these lines, they will travel to very ex change table in thi Uaited States and bring back to a wretched home a child who is now no doubt suffering with cold, unfed and wretched to a . degree. Taink of what ycur own feelings would be under similar cir ' cumstanceb! This appeal is indicated originally by a publisher who saw Dr. > B) ers only once, has no personal in r terest in his quest other than the > bond of sympathy that makes the r world akin, and Is inspired from the ; rlit f that the lost b y can only be Sfound thr(ugh the uaited eff,rt of the country press of which he i proud to be a member. His rce.very will be a triumph in advertising and I no editor whose heart is placed right - will refuse this appeal. R'member, ) it may be your child next! The f ol - lowing is a description of the lost boy: - Richmond Byers, if alive was 6 L years old last July, is of light com r plexton, has gray eyes, left eye notic ibly crossed, has a small V shaped nick in the edge of the left ear, has a sharp chin and and a narrow projece - ting forehead. He is rather small foi - his age ard is unusally bright and in. telligent, talking after the manner oi 3 a boy much older. Dr. Byers haE searched among the roving bands tha frequent the United States and be lieves that his son can be found am 'ng traveling j ark dealers, so call ed horse traders or movers. Ae does not think the boy was stolen by genu ine gipsies. He thinks he was taker I by a wandering band that used hin for the purpofe of beggir g in the ,towns along the route. r A WAY WARD GIRL. An Atlanta Young Woman Who Ii S stage S:ruck. s Atlanta. Ga . like other places has t some foolish young women among he: residents. One of these is Blanchi Winters, a handsome 17 year old girl, whose home Is on West Peachtrei street. Tne foolish young womac 2prefers the life on the stage to that 0: s any other, and wanted to commit r suicde because her mother had he: ,taken from the Star theatre in Atlan Sta and sent her to the Home of ti. 4 SG:>od Saeptherd In Cincinnati. 2M ss Winters, who is an unusually r prepossessing looking girl and has t been raised well, recently disappeared e from her home. Her mo)ther institu Sted a search and k cated the recreant a daughter in the chorus of the Star,a theatre of the burlesque class and ,which is~frn quented only by men. s PRlicemena fund the girl In a equal. - irn room, littered with the remnants i of a late supper, and carried her tc ,te police stationi. When her mother Sand Recorder Broyles tried to extiact s a promse from the young woman to igiva up the stage she exclaimed dra matically: ' I wI 1 die bsf ore I give up the istage." SWhen the offce started back to the I cell wish her st~e begged him for. his revolver with which te blow her baains Iout. She said she had rather de than go to the Cincinnati home. She was carried to Cincinnatti home by Mrs. Bonefield, police matron. Her mother is heart-broken over the girls's ac ions. Hurt in a Runaway. The Columbia State says "Mr. Gao. L. Baker, who was painfully injured by be ng thrown from a runaway at 0:ageburg Tuesday afternoon, is improving and is expected to De able to leave his room in a day or two. Mr. Biker, Dr. J. J. Watson, Dr. E. M Whaley and Mr. Brown Hyatt were returnng from a hunt about four miles from Orangeburg when the ac cident in which Mr. Biker was Injur ed occurred. Mr. Hyatt and Mr. Baker wer e in a buggy together and in some way one of the shat s broke and the vehicle ran upon the horse. The animal became frightened and dashed t1T throwing both of them out and dragging Mr. Baker some dis tance. He received a severe blow on one of his eves and three ugly cuts on the back of his head besides being badly bruised about the body. Mr. Hyatt's back was badly wrenched and he was otherwise bruised. He has sumbiently recovered to be out on the streets. The physicians did every thing possible for them and all re turned to the city after the accident on the night train. Su' cida to Avoid Trial L-is Brown, t wenty-nine years old awaiting trial for the murder of Flcs sie R ese, at whom he threw a lighted lamp which exploded, fatally burning the woman, committed suicide in his ell in Norfolk jail tois morning by cutting his thrcat with a sharp pen. knife which he had In some unknown manner smuggled into the jail. Brown was formerly prominent In Ports mouth, Va. He was without friends or money, his family having aban doned him, and grew desperate as the day of his trial approached. During the recent j iil fire here he et caped. but surrendered a few hours later. Thrcw Himself in Front of Train. An unidentified man, about twenti ive years old, threw himrself In front of an elevated train at 42J street and 2 avenue Thursday and was killed. A note bacok Lound upon the body bore uo its fly leaf the inscriptior: " enr Paterson, bandmaster, U. S. G, S C., MARCH 21, 19C TWO NAVAL CADETBHIPP. A Chance for Scme of Onr Bright You- g Men,! The following notice, published by request of Senator TiUman, will doubtless be read with interest by many amoitious young men and their parents in Sohth Carolina: I hereby give n itice that an exan. ination will be held in the State House at Colurbia, beginning at 9 30 o'clock, 'IueE-iay, April 10, 1906, under the direcLioa of State Sup-rin dant of Eiucation 0. B. Martin and two assistants. Tte cxamination wil be written, aid b: by numbers, and 4be physical exam ination will be con ducted by Dr. J. W. Ba.bcock, witb the assis ance cf two physicans whon he will select. The physical examina tion will be held first and no boy wbc fails in this, can t %ke the mental ex amination. Candda*es in order to bi admitted to the Academy must bi well versed in read irg, writing, spell ing, punctuation and capitals, gram mar, geograp y, United States histi ry, world's history, arithmetic, alge bra ard geometry. The physical r. q urements are: N candidate will be admitted who is un der 16 yeais of age or over 20, who i dcf irmed or afflicte d with any disease He shall not ..e les3 than five feet twi inches, between tb- agesoi 16 and 18 and not less than five feet four inches between tne ages of 18 and 20. At this examinalion two principall will be named to U the vacaLcies nov existing, and three alternates fo each 19carcv. The alternates ar, name so tat in the event of thi principal faili: g mentally or physical ly the bette' qualified alternate ma: succeed to the vacancy. Inasmuch as some of the alternate whom I have appointed heretofoa have failed to put themselves to thi necessa.ry expense of appearing for e3 amination, 1 give notice that in thi case boy no will te permitted to stan the examination who does not pledg himself to ccmply with this requirt ment, should he be given the plae c alternate. After the selection of principals an alternates by this examination thos selected will have to report the secun Taes:ay in Apil, at a place her after designatea for examination, phl sically and mentally by the represeni atives of the civil service commissioni In case of failure then another oppo; tunity will be i fered at Annapolis 0 the third Tuesday in June. Tnis examination is only open t South Carolina boys who are cona fid permanert residents of the State an white. I will be obliged if all State ,apei will copy this rotice. B R. TILLXAN. A R ,a Tragedy. William Thcmas, of Saginaw, Micd igan, a member of the chorus of th "Wonderland" company performin at the Columbia theatre, committe suicide at Washington, D. C., Wec neday night by drinklrg carboli acid while the play was in pr.gres rhomas was an adamirer of Idra Go. dor, a 16-year o'ld girl, aho a membi the company, and who is said to 115 in New York. The suicide was cause by disappointment because she woul not raciprocate his attentions. Afte the show was over, Miss Gordon wet to the hospital to which Thomas ha been removed, and on seeing his bod: said: "I did not know he thoughtE much of me. I did not mean to brea is heart. He misjudged me. Tromas was 22 ;ears old. The coup1 were in' the property room of ti thea re at 8 45. Thomas sat with goblet in one hand and a bottle In th other. Pjuring out the poison he at cued her of playing with his aff? tions, and, sayirng "G'oobby, old girl, drank the poison before she could btc him. The play continued uninte; ruptedly, the audience not bein aware of what had transpired. Vailag, s Detroyed. The offic rs of the steamer Sierr which has arrived at Hawaii, fror Sydney, N. S. W., reports that th eruption of the volcano on the Islan of Savall, of the Saimoan group cot tinues on a largs scale. Three village have been completely destroyed, ir cluding Malaeola, where was locate the finest cocoa plantation on th island. The residences of A. Kin and G. Birieley, have been reduced t ruins and are a total loss. The lay frm the volcano is flowing into th ocean in a stream quarter c~f a mil wide and twenty feet deep, at tb rate of twenty feet an hour. A t nigh a solid wall of molten lava five mile long can be seen reaching far out int the sea. For a distance the sea wate is boiling and the surf breaking ove the fiery staeam. The gnvarnmen recently chartered the steamer Maor to remove women and children fron the zone of d er. Caugt in a Storm. The steamer Tavinni, from-~ the Sa moan Islands, bring additional detail; of the storm which swe pt over Society Pauatu and Cook Islands on Febru ay 8.. The only white person who 1. known to have perished was a care taker who was drowned. The dam age to the harbor at Papeele Is esti mated at 8600.00J and on the whaold Island of Tahiti $900,000. It is be lieved that three schooners were los1 at sea. Heavy seas swept over manj islands, natives seeking refuge bi climbing cocoa palms. Six lives were lost on the island of Tahlic including Father Paul a Cjatholic missionary Tweneyfive persons were drown. ed on Anae Island and six on the is land of Motutonga. Wanted Parkhnrst KiJed. The report of alleged plot to kill Rv. Charles H. Parkhurst was made pubc In New York Wednesday. Mr. Parkhurst has been prominent for years as a pclice reformer. It Is un derstood that the district attorn~ey's c ffle has prepared to sumtrons seve; al witnesses in connection with this plot, which is said to have originated because of a raid made on a disorderly house by agents of the Parkhurst so ciety some time ago. According to the report, a man has been hired to club Dr. Parkhurst at the first op. portunil y presenting itself. Dr. Parkhurst refused to either confirm or deny the report. Murderer Freed. Word reached Booneville, Owsley ounty, Ky., Friday, that the Court of Appeals had denied a rehearing to Hiram Brandenburg, who was re ently c.onvicted of the murder of Bbert Lynch. At an early hour that morning half a dczen friends (of the condemned man entered the resi dence of the jailer, John Biker, and at the point of their pistols co'npel led him to open the door of the prison and release his prisoner. They lock ed the jailer in the cell with his own keys. The jailer says he is certain| he does not krnow who the men were, 6. A VIC PIU OF FATE THAT IS WHAT MAJOR ROWELL SA YS OF R. A. ADAM14, Who Killed Henry Jacques in Colle ton County and is low A waiting FIecution The case of R. A. Adams of Colle ton county has attracted wide atten tion. He Is a white man under sen tence of death. and that is something unusual for S, ush Carolina. He es caped from jail and remiined areund his own home for months, long enough to build a more comfortable house for bhq family, and that, tco, is unusual. 0. ace unt of rumors which reacbed the governor's office to the (if ct that Adams was threaten irg the lives of people ard had de clared that he would never be taken alive, a reward of $1,000 was cff -red f. r his capture. That was the largest reward on rec rd in this Sta! e The fugitive was captured in his own home, where he had oeen all of the time since his escape. He (if 3red no eff ctive resistanse. The reward was not paid, as the captu-e was effected by the sheriff and his posse and the law does not allow a sheriff to be re warded for arresting a c. iminal in the sheriff's own bailiwick. Maj. M. P. Howell of Colleton, at torney for Adams, was in C lurbla on Friday on his way back to Walter boro after having secured from Judge P ipe at Newberry a stay of the re mittitur in the case of Adams. Maj Howell told a Reporter of The State that his client is languishing in jail, that his family is without means and that he is representing A dams with out pay. This stay of the r mittitur will pre.vent the circuit court from passiDg death sentence before the a supreme court can b ar further a-gu I ments. ThAre is quite a long and in teresting story leadiDg up to the trial of Adams for the killing of Henry f Jacques. These two bad lived very clcse together and had been good I friends, so it is said. Adams' brother rrarried a daughter of Jacques, and I s'e it is who testi fied that she heare - Aams threatening to kill Jacque - and now makes afflavit that sh( swore falselv against Adams b causi , she was afraid of the Jacqies family, - Some time in December of 1902, a a resident of the Cfttagevi ls settle ment, a man named Hyatt, lost a o good - calf Later tt e cow was ser e near the place of W. B. Adams lowinj d as if her calf were in Adams' enclo ure. As Adams was a dealer in cattlh s the re -ple of the neighborhood seem ed to think this a first class j-ke oi W. B. Adams. Sunday afternoon, January 4th, shor 1; after dinner. thi Jacques children began to moo and lov * when they saw W B. Adams. The.r a had been sonetrouble the day befori 9 between them. Trauble was brewins and R. A. Adams, according to bi: own stat- ment, went cut an o -g then e and told the children that if thei ' father w ra at home they wou'd nol *be so inisilting to the Adams children r Mrs. Jacques came out and took pari e in the di-.cuesion, and she charged R A. Adams with having sworn at her She sent her oldest son for Jacq'ues r who returned in about t wo hours It Swas then late in the af ternoon. Wit nesses at the trial state d that the; ~heard Jacques send one of the chil dren for his gun. He, army d with single barrelkd gun, and bi; oldes1 boy with a doube barreled gu-2, ther ewent over to R. A. Adams' house. e The latter swears that he had nol cursed Mrs Jeques and was saspec Ing no trouble, bart he was in the yari drawing a bucket of water. His at tention was attracted by some noise Jacq-2es and his son were tnen witbir 30 yards. "I am going to kill you, said Jacques, cursing Adams In the ylvlest manner. At that he blazed awa; and Adams staggered with blooi spurting out of his mouth. Subse quent examination showed that there were 24 shot in his face, side anc arms, and his wcunds were painf u though not dangerous. Jacqies coolly unbreeched h!s gun and loaded it again. It is said that he went away, saying boastingly that he "had killed the old Crockodile"-meanling Adams. Even Maj. Howell, Adams' lawyer, admits that Adams Is "hard favored,' hence his name "Crockodile." SJacques probably thought he had finished Adams and fired no more. T as wounded man at once sent to Walter boro and informed Maj. Howell that he wanted Jacques prosecuted Maj Howell asserts that Adams was . "blow-hard," a braggart, always r~reatening, but there was no evi rdence to show that he had ever been a dangerous man. He had Jat ques ar' irested and at the preliminary the ac csed was bound cvar to c urt on the charge of assault and battery. Maj. Howell states that Adams had showed a great deal of feelIng, when he first sent for the lawyers, as he was then at home shot up, tus on their persus sons he decided to put the matter in the ct urts rather than try to get yen gea-ice. Later Adams wi nt to Walterboro and told Mij. Howell that he believed his life to bei in danger. He believed that Jacques intended to kill him, arnd he wanted to know the law in regard to carrying a gun on his own premis es. His lawyers dissuaded him f -om any such course, telling Adams that he would hangif he killed Jacques af ter so long a tiine had elapsed ainer the diffitulty. Adams was advised to avod Jacques un:,l the assault and battery case could be tried. A day or bwo later he came back and told M j. Howell that he couldn't sleep for wor rying about Jacques and that he ex pected to be killed by Jacques at any time. He then sent to Charleston and bought a single barreled gun and some ammunition. This state of affairs was kept it up from the 4th of January until the 11th of February, the day of the tragedy. In extenuation of Adams &E?j Howell st ates that his client was a cowardly sort of a man and was afraid of Jacqes, whom he had sien carry ing his double barreled gun around with him in full view of Adams. It was published at the time that Adams had assassinated Jacq tes by shooting him down after iying In wait for him on the roadside, and the newspaper articles at the time stated that Adams had cut the twigs cut of his way so that he could get a good view of Jac ques as he came riding along the road. Maj. Howell descrites the tragedy as follows: R A. Adams, Stephen Ac kerman and W. B. Adams had been engaged In a cow trade in front of Ackeman's gate when a rain came up and R. A. Adams started home. He had ridden down the road about 50 yards when he came upon Jacques. also on horseback. They were ap proaching from forks of the road to the main road, with Adams slightly Stephen Ackerman testifies that be saw it and that Jacques had beer lEading a dog with a rupe in his righ band and bad the reins in his left hand. When he saw Adams, Jacque quickly shifted the rope from nis right to his left hand and was re- c - tig with bis right hand for his pis tol in his hip p: cket, under his over coat, w'-en Adams exclaimed, "Stop.I Immediately afterward Adams fired and Jz cq.es fell dead . The load of sht had entered his throat aLd some of the shot were on th: b tck of his lef t band. The defense claim3 that the left hand holaing the reins was eleva ted to a point almost in front of the face, but that wculd appear to be an awkard Position for a rider, and tends to carry out the assassination theory. Adamzs was tried and was sentenc- d to be hanged. Maj. Howell explains this by stating that there was an up rising of public sentiment and that Adams suffered for others. Behling %aa tr'ed fir killing Blitch and was acquitted. -Murdaugh was tried for killing Pipe and was sentenced to serve three years (trd was pardoned at the expiration of two years), There were homicide cises to a runber of seven at the same term of ccurt and the punishment meted cut was in the same proporion as in the cases named In response to public clamor the jury convicted Adams because the otnars acused had escapcd so lightly. So says Me j Howell. And he, dt clarel that if &dams sbtuld get a new trial he would be acquitted. He admits that Adams acted badly. A hen lying in j il under sentenc of death he heard that his family waS suffering for the necessitiEs of life, so le broke jail and went straight to hi home. He was never very far from bis home frcm the time of his escare i: June until he was cpturEd in De ctm er following. In that time b had managed to build a more camf ort able house for his family and was about in the frame of mind to sur render to the sheriff any way when he was taken. M: j. Howell stat a that Adams made no effort to rua away although he kept concealed in the woods nearby whenever be thought he might be sutj-cted to! u v3ill. nce. Men.b3rs of the Jacques family knew of his presence and were writing to the governor to have him arresteo I as they feared the man. Maj. Howell says that sentimet had turned In Adams' favor to such an extent that the sheriff could get nobody to tell him of Adams' movements, nor co)nld he get a posse to go with him to make the arri s'. Adams did not shoot at Sher~ff O vens when the posse took him. The arrest was mide by De puty Sher:ff H. Priolean Henderson, s fearless man. Adams' father was a turbulent, overbearing man and was killed in the field by his own brother-in-law, a veaceale Frenchman named Angus tus Vrdiier. Adams was beatng Verdler with a root when the latt: fired in self defense. Allie Adams has the same kind of bullying disposi tion and was very unpopular. The so called "after-discovrei evi dence" in this case consists of affila vits frcm persons who declare thai they s vore falsely at the former trial. They ha~ve not been arrested for per ,jury. Benevolent Assimiiation. According to the dispatches fromi the Pailippine Islands some more benevolent assimilation has been doni over there. The assimilated were a band of Moros, and it is carefulll expained by Gen. Wood in the effi clal reports that they were a band of outlaws. In stems that Gen. Wood and his troops made a clean job of it. The Moros, who were to be assimila ted, were cught In the orater of an -extinct volcano. They were surround ed in this death trap, and six hur' dred of them, Including women and children, were "pacified" In death. No prisoners were taken, as Gen. Wcod says the action resulted In the extermination of this band of out. laws. Frequently we get a report 01 this sort from our Philippine posses sions. T dere is never any report of the number >f outlaws wounded. There is never any report of the number of prisoners taken. Thae brigands are always exterminated to a man. "But the thing we would like to know," says the Atlanta Journal, "is this are these people really outlaws, in the ordinary, accepted sense of the term, or do the government reports call them outlaws simply because the ad ministration does not wish to admit that its program in the archipelago has never met with the endorsement of the native population, and that, as a matter of fact, armed rebellion has never ceased; arnd nevar will cease so long as some of the natives are able to get tha arms? If these people who are being slaughtered are mneretly dan gercus brigands, who In no way rep resent the real sentiment of the na tive population, there Is some hope that the inhabitants of the islands as a whole will one day become reconcil ed to American rule. But if they are really rebels waging a hopeless war for what they ccnceive to be their rights, and really represent the feel ing of a large part of the natives to ward Americanis, it must be very evi dent that the. cheerful government re [parts concerning the manner in which The Filipinos have become reconciled to American rule are very highly col ored. It would be to the advantage of all parties Simcerned if the admin istratic'n would be quite frank about the matter and let us know whether we are killing outlaws or killing rebels in that country." Meet after Thirty-One Years. A special from Birmiingham, Ala., Thursday says Mrs. C. W. Clifton of Dalesford,IW. 'Va., and Mrs. J T. Kizberly of Dallas, Texas, mother anc~daughter, after a separation of 31 years. met today. Mrs. Kinberly the daughter, remembers being stolen from her home when 5 years of age. She was finally rescued by worthy people in T zas, the gypsies being placated with gold. The mother and daughter located each otbez only last month and met here by appontment. They left Immediately for Texas. Shot in a Cafe. Ephrianl Hall, aged 25, was shot and fatally wounded in Spencer's cafe, Greenville, on Saturday night after mldnight with a pistol. There were five men in the placed at the time,j most of them under the influence of hisey. xm&D ABaRST UJ IJER P441a Policeman's Du!y Took HIm D wa Shaft and Into Taunnel. A New York policeman had a queer experience recently. A dispatch from that city says Patrolman Norton is 'taking it easy" at his home after making an early morning arrest under ondittons remarkable for even the New York police eepartment. Down a 100 foot shaft in a bucket and then through a succ ssion of ati iocks to a point imore than 100 feet :ut under the East river in searcoi of a negro desperado, who had just .mashed a comrade's skull with a steel drill. is not an ordinary morn ing's job, even for a patrolman. A q2arrel L var a crop game led to the bsault. Ou: there, 125 feet from the river bank and 165 feet below the surface, the world seems far away and remote. The wounded man's ccmpanion s'ood by and sav the thing done, too fuscl nated with terror to move a finger to save him-until It was too late. P.trolman Norton learned of Ve assault shortly after It had taken place, and that the negro, Co'eman, had remained In the air lock. He riastened to the siaft head and had the erg: aeeri g staff lower him down the clear hu-dred feet, between the clammy, dripping rock walls, in the small bu-ket ribat even the sand hogi arc careful with, to the bottom, where ne started cif into the yawning black ness of the tunnel m uth toward the ftirst air lock. - He finally reached a po'nt where be couid c mmunicate with the half dr z. :n men, amorg whom was Coleman, remaining at the head of the line, .'ext to the'shield. He ordered them .o 6 me out and they came wi leg nogn, especially the negro, who en deavored to push by the policeman. But the latter was too quick for him, and had him safely unaer arrest be fore .e reached the foot of the shaft. KILLID HBER OWN SISER. A Terrible Tragedy in Atlanta~ caused by Jealousy. At Atlanta on Friday Mrs. Edward M. Sandifer, aged 25 years, shot and killed her sister, )[iss Otappell Whise. mant, aged 18, alleging that she com mitted the deed because of her bus band's attention to her victim. The iead girl was to have been married this week to a young business man f Seneca, S. C., and all plans for the marriage had been practically com pleted. Mrs. Sandifer went early Friday to the home of her brother-in-law, D. P. Danbam, with whose family Miss Whisemaut made her home, and en terc d the sleeping room of her sister. What words passed between the two were known only to the two, but soon four shots rang out and Miss Wh's:, mant fell, wounded in in the breast just above the heart, and in ether vital parts. She died half and hour later without having spoken. Mrs. Stancifer went to her home and telephoned to. her brother.1n law's home, asking if Miss Wh~senant was dead. Being informed that she had died, M:s. Standifer expressed no regret for her act, and said she would filow Mr. Dunham's advice and surrender to the police. She was arrested later. During the day she convened freely with the police off ials, declaring she had "avenged her outraged womanhood." E Mi. Standifer came to Atlanta about two years ago from Gadsden, Ala., where he married his wife. His father, he says, is W. E. Standifer, Uoited States marshal at Gadsden, and his urc'e, W. H. Standifer, he asserted, is assistant United States district attorney at that place. He was detained at the po lice station after his wife was arrest ed, on the suspicion that he may have had some guilty knowledge of the crime. The dead girl Is said to have been engaged to be married to . E. Sitton, of Seneca, S. C. Ltaborer Crushed to Deat b. William. Wilson, colored, an (m ploye of the Chicora Pno'ephate comp any, was crushed last Thursday be iween two cars, dying instantly. He was loading a car when another car was being pushed by several laborars Into position for loading.' Wilsdh was between the hars that he was loading and the approaching car, but he seem ed to be unaware of its approach and was horribly mang-ed The empty car was pushed back and the bEdy extr'c ated, be'ng sent to his home on Nas sau street. The coroner found no blame on the men who shoved the empty car upon unfortunate man and they were not arrested. This is the seond death from mangling in three days, the elevator conductor of the Ryal Bag and yarn factory having met his death in being crushed on Tue'ay between 'the elevator and the floor A Good Law. The Sportanburg Journal says the police are keeping a watchout on the cocaine "sniffers" since the c xsalne and morphine ordinance, passed at a recent meeting of the city council, went int(o (if set. The ordinance makes it unlawful for either drug to. be sold in the city except by a pre scription from a regulir licensed phy ician. The use of cocaine was becom ing widespreai amnong a ceitain class f colored people, but now that a stringent ordinance prohibiting, the sale of the drug the ''sniffars" will find a dmlcoit matter to secure the white powder that furnishes them so much delight.__________ Rebels Beheaded. The leader of the rebels of Kuang Si province, and three others, who were 1mplicated in the attack on the house of Rev. Dr. Andrew Beattie, Amercan missionary, at Fati, In Feb ruary. were beheaded, March 12. The executions passe d :if quietly and with t3o unusual'incident. Assassinated. T. C. Thompson, colored, was shot ad killed on the placs of Dr. J. B. Steppe at Switzer, Spartanburg coun ty, on Saturday night between 12 and one o'clock, while he and severel others were sitting round the fire. The wea pon was a llhotguu and It was fired from the outside through a win Got Twenty Year. Tr. 3. B. Matthews, the Greensboro physician charged with the murder of hs wife, was found guilty on Fdiday ,f murder in the second degree and was sentenced to the penitentiary for 10 years. Death in a sn(wslie. A dispatch from Norway says a now alvalanche at Lofoten Islands riday buried a number of fisher-A" nen's uts. Re'cuers extricated 21