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_4iuwS* VOL. XXI. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1906. _No. 1. AWFUL DREAM Of a Man Leads to His Convic tion of Murder. F UNG MURDERID MN In His Own Barn to Make It Appear That He Hail Comnitted Suicide and Then Acttd Oat the Whole Thing In Hils Sleep The trial an% conviction of CharleE R eker at Sibicy, Iowa, recently for the rurder cf August Schroeder have revealed a stor: as strange and dram atic as any thet can be discovered in tbc pagt.s of fic.ion. It is L o strarge and dramatic that it parallels closely, and in many re spets Eurpsse; in interest, the fa mous story of Eugene Aram, which ba becc-me a c isic .n literature, vn! fascinat.d the .Inds of men for man) geoerations. The history of Eagene Aram was in ta first Instance an o currence of re.l life, lke that of Charles Rcker. It was made the .u jee of U Lovel by Bulwer Lytton and of a poem by 'lom Hcod, which con tains s-me of tue most %amiliar and thrlinc- lines ever quoted. Like Eugene Aram, Charles Bcaker waL convy.cd t-y his own involuntarI enaotment of L- . crime. Like Eagere Aram, . e "wi u .cii a murder in a dre.m." The tVt~Lts in both cases would. in the v ew ol a person of po; ticai imaginatin, 5ei. to point to the ex:stenoe t f an bve: giog spirit wbtch pursues z murderer and forces him to give evicence of his own guilt. A ugust Schrc eder was a rich, intel lgr at and indu trious Gcrman farm er, baving a ir ge farm rear Doon, lovw a. He had y ung and handsome wife, koia Scairued-eer. His affaL-s were in txceelert cot diticn. Ha had every reason to be peas6ed witn life. O2 the night of Ju e 30, 1900, hi. WalL, not knowirg way he Dad not re tur-.ed to the bcase, went to the barv to look for him, and there, to her un spekable horror, she founid him jan ing by a rope from a beam. He was store dead. Sie shrieked for help, Lnd immedi ately there came to her assistarce Charles Rock r, principai larm hatur and Adaph Sc roebe r, a brother* o! the dead man. They carried her hall uncntCious bacc to the house and then they cut dc wn the body. Tnere were certain circmstanclC oonieoted wi-h the dett. that mignt have aroused suspicion, but there was apparently no one who could have hac a :novive for ocmmitting the crime On both aides of .Le dead man's wind .pe and under his chin there were bruises of a terriole chaaraceruf, Wrjeh, it might bave been argrued, were no? caused by tns rope with whlen is was suse the deceased hag'.aa Lim self. In the a'tsence of other eviaence than this and of any suspicion agait st any person, the theory of suicide was generally itut rot universally, acoept ed as the true explanation of the tragedly. Mrs. Ec'zoeder was embarrased when she round herself left aione t manage the big farm. Rocker was a very capable farmer and he was pic handsome and of powerful phys'qe Me courted her with great ardor and .In a few months became her husband. This prceeoding excited severe criti cism amo: g the neighrbors, those who. 1.ad entertained suspicions of ROc'tr at the time of Schroeder's death now expressed tnem openly. Ir lconse quence of this Rocker sold we farm and tcok his wife away to'South Da kota. Soon after the marriage the wife dikcovered that he was seifish, brutal, and of an exceedingly violent te mper. She began to look continually for new revelations of his bad character. At last one night the strange oc curence, that is the key note of this history, happened. Between two and three o'clock in the morning Mrs Booker was awakened from a deep Sleep by the savage shouts and violent act1ins of her husband. At first she thought that he was go ing to attack ber, bun then she realtz ed that he was enactirg a seine of fearfui violence in a dream. Sne lay still, fascinatt d with horror, unable to spcak or move. "H,.! August," he yelled. "Now I have done for you. YLou won't worry mc any more with your bullying and meaness, y. u miserly cur." All the while he uttered this lan guage he was c utching the pillow with terrible fury, as It he were ergaged in choking a f; t man to death by crush ing his neck. Presentiy his shouts broke out again. , "Stop that horrid noise, curse you," he cried. "Don't look at me. It won't do you any good. I'll kill you if I have to twist your head off " As he spoke thEse wcrds his strug gles with the pillow Increased in fury for some moments, and he grew quiet er again. Now he seemed to be very busy thrusting his hands into Imaginary places, as lthe were emptying a man's pcckots. Then he lifted the pillow as if it were a great weight, fell out of bed and found himself awake. Mrs. Rocker slept ro more that night. She guesed that Rocker must have been talking of herv frst husband's murder. In the mor' ing Rocker no tiled her terr fled look and asked a r what was the matter. She told him that sine cad heard him talk in his .sleep about choking Augcust. Prchbably RAcker thought that if he 3eft her In teais state of uncertainty she might talk to pe: plo. He there fore confesced to bar and tcld her that if she breathed a word of what he said he v oiid .iilnuer as surely as he had killed Schmcceder. Acco:dl g to thr-cnfession he made waile awake, he had been in great eed of money to meet certain obliga less he could get money it meant ruin an d e xposure. He tried to borrow from Sculroeder, but he was very penurious and would not lend a ctnt. One day Schroeder took R .eker with him to the country town to sell a berdl of cattle. After this transac tion Schroeder bad nearly $1.000 in cash in his pocket. TUe 1da occurred to Rocker to drug him and roh him. He obtained chloral in a drog store. Tney went to a hotel to celebrate the successful day's business and Rocker contrived to put the chloral in Schoe der's whiskey. Scbroeder was a strong man. and although he bscame d zA under the infiaence of the drug, be was not un c-'nscious. Rocker was too much under observation to attack him in the town, and so he helped him into the buggy and started back to Doon. When they were in a lonely spot he stopped and throttled the balf conscious man, who struggled feariuy until R-eker finally choked him to death. Then Recker took the money from Schroe der's pockets. Rocker drove back to Doon late at nigh;, carr.ed Schrceder's body into tae barn and there banged him in which condition he was found. Mrs. R.cker kept silent about her nusband's confe-siun for a long time, but when in a 1it of demonisc temper heattempted to murder their child by Lhrowing is down a well sae coult ndure things no longer. She gave in. Wor2.ation to the paiee and r d-.. tectives were sent to arrest R.xer, who then, hke Eagene Aram, ''wall ad between with gyvss upon his wr!si.' At first it appeared that the coufes sion could not be used against R ickr: a his trial on the ground that the .vdeLce of a wife canuot be admitt ed against her husband, but then just in th.. nick of tims it was disc.vj;ei ohat he was a bgamUt, and tha. therefore she was not legally his wifL a: was tried and convict-ed or mur aer in thz first degree in 1904 anci sentenced to be banged. He secured a new trial on techica grounds and a change of venue we ranted from Lyon cuunty to 0.cWola ounty of which Sib.ey is the county eaz, oti the ground of pit judice In the iomer place. The nocturnal confession to the wife again formed the evidence. The Jry oelioerated fiteen hours and inally agreed to a verdict of murder i the firs degree, which was foliowed ay a sentence of life imp -iscnment. Backer received the sentence with Uhe cadous remark that it was better han the tUst onee. He is now under ientenca, but a motion for a new trial 4ili be arguevi on O-tober 6. It will be interesting to recall how 0osely the case of Rocker rasemblks he classical one of Eugene Aram. he latter was an EagUsh schoo! eacer in the eighteenth century, ho made great and original research )s in phiolugy. Being in sore neon )f money, he murdered anoid man for ,he go.d that he carried and aid hi )ody in a osve. After this he useo o wander in lonely plces and talk to dmself. O.ze day m this mood he shanced upon one of his little boys. 6nd zo him he related that the nignt eIore he imagined he was commit irug a murder in a dream. Tnen he lecribea the murder wita great viv diess, which is ptrtrayed in poem y Thomas Hood waich commences: le told how murderers waik the earth. Beneath the curse of Cain, With crimson clouds before their eyes And tiames about, their brain; For blooca has left upon their souls its everlasting staini The boy was so impressed with tha wonderful realism cf E agerne Aram's arrative that he repeated it to thers, whose attention was thereby flreted to the crime which had beet ommitted, and as the poem conclud hat very night, while gentle sleep The uichum eyelids kiss'd, wo stern laced men set out- from Lyon, Through the cold and heavy mist, and .Eugene Axam waik'd between With gyves upon his wrist. F5ound1( Dead. Tae Oolumnbiat Bacord says Mr. 3. 3. say, of Barton, who went to Colum bia to enter his daughter at the Co umbia Female iollego, was found ead in his zoom at Wright's hotel Churday morning at 7 40 o'clock, earts disease ha ing rteen the appar me cause of his untimely end. T.ie gas jet near the bed had not been losed, but the fiaw of gas fre m it was ot s:. filent to have produced asphy datiou, even had the room been losed to ventilat on. The th-ory of asphylation, either accidental or sul dkl, is wnoliy untenable, as the large transom was wide oper; but it is arely po'ssible that Mr. Gray's defec te heart was unfavorably affected ard his end perhaps hastened by in aling such gas as escaped into the room during~ his sleep. Efl..cc or a kiiI A South Misscuri editor says he er jys watching a citiz m read a puff of himself in the paper. "Tne nar row minded man reads it over seven or eight times and then goes around and begs all the cop~ies he can. Tnie kindhearted oneC goes home and readl it to his wife and then goes around to the office and pays what he owes. The successful business man, who ad vertises regulary and makes mcn:-y y It immediately starts out to rind the editor, and then the two walk silently down the street and the bus. inss man takes sugar in his'n and both eat a clove or two and life is sweeter, and peace settles down on heir lives for a moment. Sucai is the xerience~ of a mustard seed that fals on dffgrent grt und." Hugh'es Nomi1.ated. The R-'publicanl state convention of L&w Y .rk nominated with practical [unamty Chs-les E. HB!glrs as the canidate of that party. Odell wa deposed of as chairman and boss and [Tiothy L. Wooda~ t, of Brooklyn, was chosen in his stead as chairman. Hughes was Lh crualman or the are insurance investigaLirg commzitteO Ithat unearthed so mu1ch rrscality in the macagement i f the insuse ident R osevelt bossed the convention frnm start to finish. CONVIUTBD OF MANSLAUGHTER. Sentenced to Two Years For Killing His Step-Father. Ubi V Millican was convicted of manslauzhter Thursday night at Spartan burg for killing his step-father P L. Cannon, in that city several months ago, and was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. Millican is a native of Orangeburg County and had only removed to Spartanburg with his family a few weeks before she killing, which was caused, by Cannon's abuse of the boy's mother and sister. Many portions of the testimony were revolting In the ex treme, showing great biutality on tb. part of tie deceased toward his wife, Mrs. P. L. Cannon, and towa- d his sLpdaugnter, Miss Giadys Mdulacan, to whom he made repeated advances and one Occasion atte mpted to force her to surrender her honor. Tne first witness for the defense was the defendant, Uai V. Millican, who admitted the killing and also that he had started out from his home with Cannon's rifle In his possesion for the very purpose I killing Cannon. Ho :estfied as so what his mother had sold Lim and as to what his sister .and told hid- in regard to the advances Maae tj her. Eli said that his moth x "d gen the night of the tragedy calltd-upon him to protect his sister'b aenor and tha L the only way that he inew how to do this was to kid Can non. Miss Gladys Millican took the stamd for the d;fense and with tears In her a es gbve her testimony in a clear voic4. Se told of the repeated ad vasas made to her and of the at. Aempt mazle by Cannon to force her ,u yield. Toese, she said, were re peated several times and that ja ti nigat of &.as killing she ,aI sent word down street to her -.or to come home and that upun ais arrival she related Tneie attempts io him. Mrs. P. L. Cannon testified as to Lhe cruel treatment given her by .annon. She stated that she- had avv,:r called on her son for protection rcm Cannon. She stated that Can uon told her of his intention to ruii 1er caughter and that she told him .e wL uld never Ao it. She was tola 3y htr daughter of actions of killing annon and upon the night of the iad found out that Cannon had made other attempt. Her son. Ubi V. illican, arrived home shortly after wards and she called upon him to pro :ect his sisters honor. M!llican left ;he house, r1ae in hand, and she mew nothing until she received tWe neEsage telling of the tragedy. M s anon also stated rnat she was cruelly eaten on the night of the tr3gedy Lad a payslcian tesaified as to her con lition. Several witnesses were introduced )y the deftnse to show the bad char coter of the dead man and several rom his hme in O:angeburg testifi d to the fac that he had told them at he had made a miaake in mar Sing tne old lady and that he was Pog to have the girl. Uai V. Millican is a young man, 18 ears of age; his sister, Gladys being ~wo years younger. He was calm and ~olected througlious the trial with he exception of the time he was on die stand and at one point in his tes ,mony tears camne to his eyes as he elated the troubles of of his family. &n appeal was taken and Millican a released on bail. Negro Euditor Leaves. After having been mysteriously aned that he must leave Augusta >nl account of incendiary publications i his paper, a negro journal, The reorgia Baptist, W. J1 White, a ne go preacher, notified Mayor Allen .hat he would get out Augusta and iver return. He left last week, and 1s pa.per is not to be pubished any more. White went to Aiken witb mre intention of locating there with al paper but he was told to move on, md he moved. Such an incendiary Ihuld not be allowed to reain in the South anywhere. Took the Town. A dispatch from Washington says he following 'telegram was received it the treasury department Thursday rom the collector of customns at Eagle Pss, Texas: "Yesterday about 30 candts and smugglers took posession o Jimin. z, a small town In Mico, 30 mIles acove Eagle Pat s. A fight eznsud with Mexican soldiers; several men killed. Sensational reponbs were ,ent the press describing it as a revo lution. Effbrts may be made to in dne the war department to send troops here. Nothing serious In the situation reported up to the present time." An Old Man. The death is announced at the age of 124 of Christian Freidrich Bier sumpfel, proprietor of a caunty Inn near Jena, Germany. Acordilng to nis relatives he was horn In 1782, and participated in 1806 In the battle of Auerstadt. He is believed to have been G -rmany's oldest man, and per naps one of the oldest in Europe. His youngest son, who Is still alive, is 80 years old and the youngestt grandson~ 49. Serious Charge. Mrs. Clara J. Mahafi'y, of K-tox ville, Tenn., the widow of the late Judge Mahi2ffy, has retained counsel to defend her on the charge of muri dering her husband five weeks ago. A ,emical analysis of Mahiff i's stom acth resulted in the finding of strych nine. T bc state will claim that Mrs. Mhaffe murdered her husband in order to secure his life Insurance. Heavy Sentence. A negro boy 13 years old was tried in the circuli court in Anderson on Friday for gambling. He was convict ed and fined 850 or four mnontbs in jail. The two others he gambled 'with were tried also, sn their absence, and a sealed sentence awaits them. Sent A Good One. Senator Clark of Montana sent a check for 810,000 on Thursday to his niece, Miss Grace Baker, as a wedding gift. The bride lives at Des Moines, lowa, and married a young railroad man. STORM BFEAKS On Gulf Coast and Does Great Deal of Damage. PANSACOL I SUFFERS And the Water Front is Lilrd With Wrecked Ships, Storm Sweeps Up the Gulf Coast, Carrying Destruction in Its Wake. A message from Pensacola, Fla., says the worst storm and hurricane that the Galf coast has experienced since the village of Pensacola on San Rosa island was swept 107 years ago, began Wednesday nIght 3f last week and lasted for a day and night. It was reported that many lives between the city and navy yard have been lost, but as many reports of this character had been current, the report does not obtain credence. It is known. owever, that many of the hou-es in that section were undar from five to 10 feet of water, and many women had been taken from second story windows and carried to safety n boats. The estimated property damage la $3.000 000. Every house In Pensa ola siuffered damage and many roofs are blown off. Telephone and ule graph and electric light wires are among the mass. Tae water front It 3trewn with wreckage for miles or either side of the city, and vessels are piled on the wharves, or where th wharves once were, in utter ruin. Big teamers and many lighter saiLing hips are lying high and dry up it. he city, where the tide has never cen known to reach. M-verywhere tor miles around wharves have beer wept away or are damaged. beyond repair. The electric power was shut off at L o'clock that morning. Tiere is no reet car 'trLfl. and con m inication with the ouLa&le world is practically ut off. The streets of Pensacola are itrewn with timbers, tin rocfing ant )roken glass. This dispatch, with ther telegraphic matter, is being ,arried to Flomaton, Ala., by the Western Uion manager, who makes he trip by train to ascertain the ex ,ent or damage done here and else #here. It is feared great havoc an-i ss of life will be shown when re ports f om the entire section along Jae coast can be gathered. WORST EVER KNOWN. - Later diapitches from Pensacola iay the hurricane was the worst that vor visited that city, and almost ;quilis the Galveston storm so far as ne property lois is concerned. The oss of life will be heavy, but not as )d as at Grlveston. Many dead 3--die have been recovered and others re reported along the shore. The roperty loss is now put at 85,00, 00. The tides from the bay backed nto the city for blocks, destroyin~g omes and making rivers out of the t~reets. When the gale was at its high st Turday morning men, wo n m and children were running fran i about the streets in darkness, the larm of fi--e was sounded and this idded to the confusion. The lr:. started in the Pitt mill, near the bus ness district, and horses of the fire leparment ref used to go out in the weather. With the tin rocfm flying tout them, trees and wires falling ver them, the fireman took theiz sose wagons by hand and rushed down he streets to the scene and after ours of work csntrolled the blaze. AN INrDESCRIBABLE SCENE. This afternoon the water front and business district present an almost Indercibabla scene. .Of the 50 or 60 big steamers at d sailing vesseis lying a the harbor, only five or SIX are Lhere now. They have been driven ashore nd along the water front is a mass of wreckage of steamars, tow boats, launcnes and sailing craft of all de acriptions. Tirty fishing vessels in port have been destroye d and the three big fish houses with their wharves are gone. Enscoee wharf and the Oormandan~f cia and Tarragona wharves of the onisville and N~ -.shville railroad are oadly damaged. Great iron ships ei two and three thousands tons have been driven, not only ashore, but haave gone thro!ugh house., a block rem the water front. Eery house along tbe water front for a distance of ten miles has been destroyed and the wonder is that the loss of 1.f is not greater. Tnae tracks of the terminal railway to the navy yard and Barrancas have all been de stroyed as also the trestles and bridges. Acting Mayor Maura ordared every saloon csed this morning, and 50 extra police cffloers have been sworn in. The homeless families are housed in all portions of the city, but many will walk the streets withcuQa food or a place to sleep until something like order can be brought out of the chaos now existing. Added to the horror of the situa tion is the thelves who are breaking open trunks all along the beach, en tering unoccurpied houses and steal ing everything in sight. Several arrests have been made, but it is impossible to protect property under such conditlions. NAVY YARtD DAMtAGED. No communication can be had with the navy yard, but the report is that it has been badly damaged. And there is no doubt suca is the case. Many warships were there and these have undoubtedly been destroy Every business house from the wharf on Palafox street to the Ualon depot has been unroofed, many glass windows broken, stocks badly dam aged and wires and poles all mixed up together. There are no electric lights, cars or telegraph or telephone service. The track of the L-ouisville and Nash vi on +.he pnsacola and At lantic division has been washed up fo- 30 miles and two engines and car; sent out to the quarantine station have been dtstroyea. Eight sailors frcm the British steam. or ware in the place and as it went *iver they clung to the roof and ive were washed ashore on this side this morning, the other three being drowned. Wails the storm was at its height Wednesday, a stemraer barkentine and schooner were big!-ted'. in the Galf, but no tug would venture to Dhem. Waves were running moun sain high and broke entirely over Santa Rosa island Into the bay. F.ve fshing schooners anchored in the bay j br!-ke their cables and-drif ed sea ward, nothing having sLee been i hetrd from them. I In the city the tide backed dp two j and three blocks in the western port, I coming as high a. Government street I and completely inundating that terri- I tory. STRIKES NEW ORLEANS A dispatcn from New Orleans on Thursday said a tr.'pIcal hurzicane has been driving the water of the Gulf of exico in shore for the past 18 hours ith winds of 45 tc. 60 miles an hour. Tae storm had not abated early this afternoon. Great loss of property, bul no lose it life, had been reported up to this afternoon. Never*iele4 great app*e. ,ension is felt for the towns along the Gulf coast, which are cu; off frcm %mmunication with Naw Orleans.. "is apprehenslon was increased by. everal narrow esopes from drown ing reported during the day. The first meagre details to reach the city from outlying districts toid :sf havtc wrought by the Like Pan charterain on the outlying psrtion of New Orleans, the lake having risen about five feet because of the incom Ing water. All railroad, telegraph std telepnone communication was cut f The roadbeds of the different railroads were under water. LEAVES WASTB IN WARE. A dispatch fron Louisvaie, Ky., e says the tropical hurricane, which for a 24 hours has been churning the *a-- a ers of the Galf of K o and doing o nuch damage o'n the coast and far a inland, is whipp!ng - through north I Alabama in a northeasterly direction o :i a velcocity but slightly less than b "he 48 miles an hour recorded in New n Oleaos during the day. Reports -re- .1 :eived by the Associated Press do not e ndicate any loss of life, but the dam- t age to property is enormous. All sire communication is seriously dis- I urranged and in some instances has 9 'esulted in cutting off cities complete-- n y, Mobile, Ala., not having been t] ieard from for nearly 24 hours. a Numerous washouts have occurred, a Due interruption from this cause in mne case extending 30 miles. t S may Accept. a G vernor H.yward has received a vpries from Governors Glenn of 9 y jrth Carolina and Terrel of, Georgia d ,o his invitations to them to use t Oharleston harbor f.>r christen- c ng cruiser North C aroli na 1; %nd the battleship Georgia. Though t te invitations are not accepted both V overnors lndicate that they might e accepted in a certain circumstance. a he say thatif itis found tobe im- a ~ra'cable to christen the vessels in he w.aters of the states after which they are named. that they will be ;'ai to look into the matter of hay ing the ceremonies in Charleston.t pp reciationl Is expressed for th' ordial spirit shown In G .vern~or - aey ward's invitation.a BLIND TIGBR3 IIUXBEOUS. What a Spaitanbarg Papar Scys About That County. The Woodruff News and Review I says: "We are strongly in favor cf 1 prohibition, have always been, pro viding the law can and will be enfor ed. But the question is, is it? Take Spartanborg coanty for example--a prohibtou county where liquor .can e bought on Its highways and by ways. Nt long slnce one of our far mers came into Woodruff with a quart fiask full of liquor when asked where ne got it, said, "From a wa on near Woodruff bridge. They are seiling It to every passer-by-nothing concealed." Again we are told out side of the blind ties there Is a place in the city of Spartarburtg called the clu, which Is more or less, if all that is said Is true, toani a license bar room. Any one (:e ex mpt the working man when we say anyone) can become a member can carry a friend iu at any timo, call for drinks, and drink all they want. No inoney is passed out, but a check Is placed in a box by the member for the liquor, and when pay day comes, wno pays for it? It is surely paid for, or they could not exist. Nowt the question Is, is this (if such exists) is 0 a legal place? If it Is, then pro hibition in Spartanburg county Is a perfect farce. If It is not whr d& a0t tae authories break It up? Then :f it Is legal, it is class prohibition. The man who has the Iinuee ano money can have an open place where he can get his liquor and the poor devil who has not the L nlience anc very little money is deprived of his lram. We see no diiference between. this club and a blind tiger, and we ire going to have prohibition and truly want it Is the duty of our pea to shut up all dens of iniquity. Mouse Kmsa Cat. It Is not often th:-:t a mouse kills a cat. Such a death, however, was meted out last month to a fine black oat in a Cape May hoteL. The eat caught the mouse and began, as cats will, to play with it, to tease It. For some ten minutes this went on. And then all of a sudden the cat found herself struggling for her life Int mouthing the mouse, without desir ing to hurt It, she had Inadvertently half swallowed it. There it was, stuck in her throat, choking her to death. For three or four mInutes 1 the cat choked and gasped. Then it ell over, dead. And the mouse old ly enough, was disgorged at the mo ment the cat died. The mouse was alive. It lay on the floor a momentj resting. Then it stole away, after1 e triumphant look at the dead body of the cat, whicht ad kl11ad. THE COTTON BOLL WBBVIL. Traveling Fifteen Miles a Week in This Direction. So alarming have recent attacks of the cotton boll weevil become in some parts of Texas, Arkansas and Louis lanna to the cotton crop of this year, that L C. Howard, head of the bu reau of entomology, Department of Agricultare, bas decided to leave Washington, Otober 2, for those tates, determined to remain there antil some definite steps are taken ror the eradication of the havoc play trg weevil. While Mr. Hcward has teen aware 'or some time that the wet vil was at acking the cotton plant in some of ;he Southwestern States with fear u! rearlts, he dli not until a day or wo ago, have any Idea of the damage hat had been do e during the pres nt year. He nas been informed during the as..Law days by Congressman Wal ice, of Lafayette, Columbia county, rk., that In one weeks trip recently vhen an actual count wns kept, the eevil traveled fifteen miles in one eek. That convinced Mr. Wallace hal If the crop in hbs State was to e saved, steps sl-iould be taken at ace in the matter. He then infor ed Mr. Howard at length of the con itions existing in his State as well Slnsomeparts of T-xas and Luis anna. Tue result UL the correspon ence Is that Ms. Rv ward will start o the Southwest at the same time in icated prepared to remain in the en. my's territory until he has either con ered them or until he has to give up ne fight. Wun Mr. Howard arrives in Tex s his first stop w.l probably be at )..llas or Austin. There he will join 'the boll weevil spe-ial a train that ill be made up of plantets who de re to visit the infected districts. hae train will be in caarge of Mr. Lward, though the itinerary illI e in the hands of local cotton plant rm and the raulrosad people in the ctions visited; The party will .con [st of Mr. Howard, railroad cffioiale, tton planters and posalby seversa ion from the bureau of entomology, epartment of Agrculture. The iflals of the roads in toe infected rritorry have given every en-.ourage ient to the efforts twa Mr. Howard I making to deteminue upon s:me fective means for the destruction Lf e weevil. Af ter all the infected districts In ess have been visited and talks had dith farmers Interested In the exter nation of the weevil, the 6raln will ben be sent into Arkansas or Louisl na and the same :o atine will prob bly be followed. " This will be a campaign of educa [on and extermination," Mc, H.award id recently, "because we want to ducate the farmers of Texas, Loulsi niaand Arkansas-the territory- 'nto hich we are going -in the science of ealing with the pest that Is doing housands of dollars damage to theJ otton growers of the c >untry annual r, and also because we propose to ex erminte the weevil In every possible ray." Congressman Wallacs is possibly ore alarmed than even Mr. Howarua nd his assistants, over tne rapidity rith which the weevil Is traveling. Ce valculations recently made by~ dmn when it was found tbat the wee I was travelirng at the rate of fit een miles per;wesak-and In hisa diec o-e.Lumes nim tso beleive that un es somnerhing Is done in his locality , an early datre It will be only a short ime until the great cotton growing reas of Texas and other southwestern tates will be given over entirely to he ravages of the weevil. Mr. Ho~ward does not .inow how ung he will be In the southwest, bough he will probibly remain therc mati some results are secured. Ordlered Fo Leave. M-,j -r Taylor, a demented negro. iing near Holly Hill, came near be ng killed the other night. Mr. A. 3. Bennett's home being open, Tay or entered unoticed, and going up Itairs went into one of the rooms and roceeded to make himself comfor able. He ransacked a trunk and bu 'eau drawers until he found a gown vhich he tore down the front and ut on; over this he put a dressing ack, cutting two holes in It and rawing the ends through to fasten t. Then pulling bedding to the fbor eiswent to sleep. Abcur- 2 a. m. Mr. . D. Bennett, who was visiting at is brother's home, was awakened by iearng some one in his room. It was [aylor. Mr. Bennett would have ot the man but his pistol was be rond reach, so he sprang from his bed atching the man and pinioning his arsto his side he said: "I've a mind i blow your brains out," to which [aylor replied "All right, if it is God's ill l'll go to heaven." After a light iad been made and it was found to be oor, demented Taylor in such fan astic garb, he was taken to tbc ruard house, where he remained un 11 Sunday, when he was sent out of ,own withl the admonition not to re urn. Served Him Right. Some enraged citlz-ms of Toccoa, la., last Sunday morning fi gged Bill edler, a negro, for slapping the little .aughter of J. M. Hogan,superintend mnt of the Capps Cotton Mills. For hi offense the negro was arrested jd 1 dged in the calaboose for the light, and during the 'night he was ietly taken out and given a sound hrashng on his bare back with a uggy trace. The last is said to have )een laid on by strong hands and ith telling sffect. Sadler is a mu atto of the self-important or "cullid remmen" type. He had not lived in [occoa very long and report has It ihat he stipulated for and -In consid iration of the discontinuance of the uggy trace performance that his res dence in and about Tocca would ease from that time, or so soon ~hereafter as he could drag himself away. Fiye Killed. Nive persons were killed and 15 in ured by the collision of a passenger r in and a switch engine in the rail 'ads yards of New Prauge, Minn., on vanday. SERVD HIt RIGHT. PROS ETIVE P.RIDE DUN POUNDS TBE BIRIDEGROOK By Subs ituting fur erself the Young W..m-.n Whom Would-be Groom Had Wronged Mary M--Danald is the daughter o' a Brooklyn workingman. She Is 19 years of age andi lives simply wlbh he: loving parents in a rented home In a side street. Mary is not a great beauty, thougb nature has endowed her with a win some face, a shining mass of golden bair and wide (pmn eyes ihat bespeak modesty and simple sweetness. But Mary McDo ald has suddenly prurg from her small Brooklyn world to fame. Through on honorable and el!-sacreficing act this small girl is 2ow known throughout the length vd breadth of the country. Qilte aithout her will or consent, wL-Aout -ven her comprehension, the news papers of all the great cities call her a It was a strmgely romantic story. asst spring Mary met and quickly earned to love Will Tbiorber, a hand ;ome and athletic young d.e cutter, ,mployed in a factory in Newark, N. Thorber took his aeetheart to his 2ome in N- wark to visit his parents 3he pleased them, - nd they her. She as very hippy. The wedding day vas set. I, was all happiness with 9.ry McDczald. Charlotta Carda. At her needle ork to kill the enemy of her country. Aary McDonald, in the midst of her wedding preparatibns, was suddenly :lled, a week before the hour se4 for 2er LULIls, to plan her act of sacri ice. A young man from Newark, not :unting his- words, told her father Zat Will Thorbr was engaged tc narry V.ola Glover the daughter of a LRewark oaker. "Wlat is this?' cried Mary M -Doi 0d, when the story came to her ears 1 love Wil and I trust him, but I nust make sure Uat our marriage is iozorable." With her mother Mary Immediate y went to Newark In tDe shaded par or of the baker's home she mat poor Viola Giover, deep In sorrow and hme. T~ie baker's daughter told hes ad story. From the time she had torn asr hair do wn her back she ha nown Will Torb -r, and she had lov ,d him. Tey were etgaged. Wil; Thoroer deceiven and betray d her. Then the girl was discarded, Ls a broken toy. A hot flash of Indignation spread >ver the face of Mary McD.,nald. "He ihould and must mary you-and save ror good name," sde cried. Brushing Lway her own hot tears she sat- and ianned for the msrrIage-of this g!rl Lnd her own sweetheart. '"Wiaen I lend f.;r you, come," was.her parting astrun Jon. The invitations were out in Brook n. Tne florist came and erected the 2e, and spread about the ualms a; wee-scentea fl.wers. Tbe cay bat krived. Toward evening the neigh ors name fi -ciing 1sa. M'ary was ina er room clad In her soft, white brid i1gown. Thorber, Impatient and hap sy in ~his black clothes, rushed up tairs. 0 . you look beautiful, m; lear," he said, and would have kissed er. *Njt yet," and sne hid hier face. Wnat was the shadow there? Anoiner man migho have seen and ~inus been warned. There was a lullin the .chattering )l she gnest~s when an aged woman, iaring upon her arm a girl who stag gered asil under a weIght o1 sorrow of tIlrness, entered and quietly took a :eat in a corner alm'.st unnoticed. Phey wore heavy veils. Nabody knew eem and few noticed. Presently Mary McDonald entered rhe rio.n. W'i Thorb.r sat surround ad by rriends laughing and cblivious to all about him Naw he strodelforth io meet his bride. "Wait," she said, calmly. Turning to her guest Mary Mc~hn ld, white lace, said in an utgaaver ing voice: "I am sorry, but there must e a change in the wedding plarzs. I am to be a bridesmaid today and not a bide. My brother-in-law, Mr. Gril a, and my cousin here, Gao. Casey, are to be tihe attendants. And this young lady (turning- to the swaying Egure in blacik) is to be the bride." She led Vioia Giover to the side of the staimaring Thorbvr, who stood aghast.. "You are to marry thi- girl," saic the wilite-roned girl to him. "Sae does not want you as a husband, any more than I now do, thouga we both bave loved you, but she needs your name to protect her honor " Wildly Thor ber glanced about him. Te attendants; large, brawny men. stood at windows and doors. Tnere was no escape. Gffi2 produced a wedding ring and cerse. The R -v. A. 0. Meyer step ped in from an adjoining room. And o they were wed. Mary Mc-Donald rst kissed the bride and swept away :ier calding tears. With the swaying bride upon her arm ue bridesmaid led the guest into ruhe doning room where the wedding east was waiting. Thorber started to follw. "Natb this way," commanded Mary McDnad; "that was I' and she pointed to the door. S dzing his hat the bridegrsom. palied fright and hot in disgrace, flud into the street and dsappeared. His wife declares she will never live with him should he return. Same OAi Story. E~ght persons were killed and forty one In jured when a Wabash las m11.. train, running seventy miles an hour, lashed through an open switch and irno a freignet train at Catlin, Ill. The injuries consist mostly cf con eussons, cuts and bruises. It is b~e] lelved that three or four of the twelvt badly bruIsed chl'dren will die. A Later report says that three are known to e dead and that several are miss ing. A number of the injured will die. Domalsa o1 the collision are meager. The force of Impact when the passenger crashed through the rear of the freight was terrif~c. The sngine and several cars were demolish MOBILE STRUCK By the Storm and Bad, u-t by Its Severity. SMALL LOSS OF LIFE But the Property Loss is Pat at Over Three Million Dollars. The City is Put Under Martial Law by the Governor at Once. Loss of life, variously estimatEd at !rom five'to 50 persons, many people 4jured, 5,000 houses damaged, tie usiness quarter devasted, aad a prop .rty loss of fully $3,000,000 is tie of. 'ect of a tropical hurricane which via ted Mobile last week. The storm struck Mobile Wednes iay night at midnight and raged for Many.hours, the wind reaching a ve lociy of 90 miles an hour. Water from dobile bay was blown into che city by -he gale and ior a time stod seven leet deep In the whosesale q .rter trom Royal sMreet to the Alabaa a riv The loss of live Is believed to be nainly among negroes, alshcuzh con litions are so chaotic that Jnforma. ion is indefinite. Shipping sufftared ieverely. Among the stearnrs sunk were the ,. P. ScLuh, MarY E. Stap tes, Mary S. Blese, Cama, H iae 3. Koore, City of Camden U;ited States revenue cutter and many imaller craft. It Is feared that the ,rews of these boats were lost. Mo )ile has been placed under control of, ihe militia. . Nbody is permittd n the streets except newspaper men md persons wearing badges. Much apprehension is felt for the uburban towns. It is feared they isve been obliterated. The chances 6re that the loss of life on Dauphia sland is heavy. Many fishermen live )a Dauphin Island and.other outlying narshy tracts, from which no tidings iave been received. The suffering in Mobile hs severe. Lhe annihilation of transportation 'acilitles has siut off all supplies and mless help reaeaes Mbile from the utside world soon, great distress will esult. Every church la Mobile was dam ged, the Christ chach cathedral anI 3t. Francis Street Baptist church suf ered more than others. T.ae damage o Christ church cathdral.is estimat id at $40,000 and St. Francis Stree# Baptibb c-urch at $10 000. Te revenue cutter Alert was ram ned by an auknown vessel in Mob Ie iver and sank Immediately. Hr crew ire believed to have escapA. All wnarves. from Frascati street, he exareme south end of she city, as .*r up 6he river as Taree Mile creek, ase wrecked. This inclaides the new dobile and Odio docks and the Louis rile and Niashavile docks. Telegraphic comzcmcation is par Llyzed, with no prospec~a of wires for eavtral days. Electric light companies, street :ailways aind, in fact, aul business has' seen suspended. Tue M-:biie and Oaiio railroad was ahe firas road to get Oat of the city. [ts first train left Mobile at 4 a. m. uoday. Nuhmerous sawmills in the northern wd marshy regions have been elsher wasted away by the terrific waves or ~orn to splinters by the wind. Their umber and timbers are to be seen cattered over the city and dloating - lown the slowly faliing river; Tne barbor steamer James Al Car iey plying between Mobile and she. ~astern shore, lies betonaed just scros she river and opposite St. Francis street. Provisions are almost exhausted. Bastaurants feed many but have no supplles on hand. Ham and eggs con ititute their food supply. These, too: will soon become exansted. Whole. ,ale houses lost many thounands of lollars irom the flhod and . willingly pad ashigh as $1 50 pe' hour for sommon labor and earnestly begged men to accept such pay so frantic were whey to save goods. Between 6 o'clock Thursday eve oing and Friday night trees were relied and roofs were crushed 'by han .treds. Tarrough tihe streets, carried by the terrific wind, were hurled 4iousands of pieces of slate, strips of ;in rooting, cornices, shinglei and in fact, all kinds of debris. Bisds were torn from their fastenings ard windos smashedl as thongia of tis me paper. Many persons were seriously injurr ed and out by flying slate, tin and glass. Hundreds of bales of cotton floa.ted through the main streets and were carried out to sea. Cotton not lust in this way was damaged by muddy wa ter. At Fort Morgan, 35 miles down the day, the wind had a much higher ve Locity than at Mobile. Towns along he Mobile and Bay Shore road suffer ad immensely, owing ,to the exposed situations. No word from the coast sowns along the Louisville and Nash rille road has reached Mubile. Tnere s little doubt that many lives were ost, and severe damage done to property. Aong the gulf coast there were many fas~ionable residences. l'he rainfal or two days was 6.47 aches. The 1)3mceratic state convention of New York Wednesd sy nigbs nomrr tated Win. R. Hearst for governor on ih' first baliot oy a large maj irity. Practicaily the only other candidate was Congressman Sulzar, who received iomethaing over a nundrea voesa. esas Is the owner of tt'e New York &merican and other large papers. He was electec Mayor of New Yoirk ]oetl fear, but was countec out, and Mc Dlellan counted in. He wili be o.; os ad by the sc-called "Safe ana aate"~ Democr.ts of the State, he~aus3 he. ights trusts and unlawful comnbings aln_