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VOL. XXI. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14,1906. NO. 7 But Balance of Vemocratic State Ticket is Elected. FRAUD IS CHARGFD By the Democrats, As the Returns Were Held Back in the Republican Strongholds in the County Districts For Some Pur pose Or 0.her. A dispatch from New York under date of Nfovember 6 sars a:ording to incomplete returns from all over the State received up to 10 30 o'clock to night, Charles E. Hughes, the Repub lican candidate, has been elected gov ernor of the State over William Ran dolph Hearst the ncminee of the Dem ocratic party and the Independence league, by approximately a plurality of 40,000. Two years ago G3v. Hig gins was elected on the Republicsu ticket by 80,560. There was some doubt expressed to night at to the fate of the Demccratic and Independence league tickets out side of Mr. Hearst, a-varal of the New York newspapers which have been supporting Mr. Hughes, dec'a& Mng that there was a chare that the subordinate offlers of the Democratic and Independence league combination had been elected. The latest figures seem to indicate that Mr Hnghes' plurality above the Bronx will exceed 115.000. To offset this Mr. Hearst/s plurality in Great er New York will probably be from '75,000 to 80,000. In B-ook'yn, where Senator Patrick H. McCarren made a bitter fight against Hearst, the latter carried the borough by a small plurality, probably, 4,000. At one time it seemed that Hughes had been successful in Brooklyn, but the late returns were all strongly In favor of the Democratic candidate. Mr. Hearst has been given a major ity of. nearly 70,000 in Manhattan and the Bronx. Q mens county, which in eludes Long Island C-ty, has gone for Hearst by from 6,000 to 8,C00 and Richmond (Staten Island) bas also given the Democratic candidate a plurality. ALL GETs In BUT EEAWET. With the cfflzial vote of but three munties missing Thursday night, Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler apparently is elected lieutenant governor of the Democratio-Independence league tick et by a plurality approximating 1, to0 votes over M. Linn Bruce, RE publican. To arrive at these figures Bruce's probable pluralities in the 1 conties of Essex, Ontario and Niagara are based on the vote for the Bepublican gubernational candidate. ]Fulton county is also missing ex- I eputng a statement of B:uce's plural ity over Chanler. While slight changes may be made in the return: from several counties, it Is not be lieved they will materially reduc2 Chanler's lead, but on the contrary may Increase it It appears that all the other candidates on the Democratic State ticket are elected by small pluralities. 'rjnNXs HE A ST WII.L WIN~. Chairman Conners of the Demo cratic State committee Thursday issued a call for a meeting of the full committee to be beloi Friday. The object of the meetig is to de' vise plans "to safeguard the interests of the Democratic State ticket " "I decided early today to call the Democratic State committe together to protect the interests of the State gicet," said Ctairman cnners. "From telegrams I have received it is plain that the Begubhcoan machine 2 resorting to Its old thievish knavezy in order to beat our ticket. There is absolutely no doubt that the ticket is elected with the eception of Mr. Harat. There is also absolutely rno doubt that the returns are being held back. There Is no dcubt that Bruce is run ning behind Hughes up :he State I Armly believe that stfficient Inde pendence league votes have not been counted in many counties to decrease greatly the pluralistes of Hughes and possibly elect Mr. Hearst. "We are going to get an honest ount of the v,.te and we are not only going to protect the men making the cavas next Tuesday, but we are go ng to get right to work now on the mater." Blew Ont the Gas. At Pensacola, Fla., a man partially Identifed as W. E. Boger, of Luce dale, Miss., Is dead and his wife is in a dying condition as the result of as phyziation. The couple occupied a room a Wright street boarding house. gaiing to appear sne docr of the room was forced open and the man founa dead. T's womanl is still unconscious Letters in deceased's pockets appea to ideneif) him. There were also four d upon his person two revolv'rs, a dirk and brass knuckles and $350 sswed in the lining of his clothes. Killedl a Fiend. A mob of seyeral hundred white ctzmns from the northern part of Madison County, Fla, went to Mad Ison, the county seat, Friday night, nd after disarmir g the jailer, secur ed a negro prisoner obsrged with as sait on Miss Grambliuig, a young white woman, near Hinson- The crowd took the negro a short distate frm'ail, where they hanged him to a eand riddled his body with bul les. The negro had been identlilee and confessed his crime Explosion or Powder. A powder magazine owned by thE E. L. Dupont Company and situateC at Tinley park, about thirty mile from Chicago, exploded Thursdai with such force that window panet webroken in the home of the Mid thin Clb thee les distant .n akilled, but no other lives were lost. The cause of the explosion i ot known GOT HON[S1CK. FIFTY IMMIGRANT RBEFUSE TO WORK AND Claim That Thirgs Were Kisrepre sented to them Before they Came Over. Claiming that the conditions here were not as had been represented to them by Immigration agents In their European home, fifty of the immi grants who came over on the Witte kind and were sent to Darlington Monday mrrning lef k there Thursday afternoon for Columbia. These im migrants were sent to Darlington at the request of Mr. 1. C. Twitty, gen eral manager of the )arlington Manu facturing company a d president of the Hartsville cotton mills, to work in the cotton mills. After reaching Darlington they declared that they had been told they would get $1.50 a day, house rent and board free, and would be allowed to cultivate free of rent for five years a small tract of land, the land to become their's If they remained for that length of time. When they found that these condi tions did not prevail In the mills here they did not care to stay. Mr. Twit !y tried in e ery way to Induce them to remain, but his efforts were un availing. They would not spend the night in the houses provided for them nor would they go to resturants and boarding houses, at which Mr. Twitty offered to defray their ex penses until they could be sent else where, or until they cared to go to work. They said that they would accept no favors, and spent the night. in the waiting room of the Atlantic osst Line passenger station. Mayor McCullough, Mr. Henry Henning and other citizens opened oegotiations with them, offaring them all sorts of inducements to get hem to do work other than in the sotton mill, but all propositions were ejeted. Hearing that some of their ellow Immigrants were in Columbia, they left the station about 1 o'clock o walk to that city, but Mayor Mc- ] ullough head them off and promised I o give them transportation on the i rain. Tabs offer was accepted and hey left for Columbia on the 6 29 1 train. They arc very homesick, and !clare they are going back to their )ld homes, but It is hoped that they t Pill become satisfied and contented c n Columbia, or wherever they may 1 oete. - As to the immigrants, being brought ;o this country through false repre entations, Col. Watson absolutely pudiates any such suggestion. Col. Watson says that not only was he " eary careful himsell' not to paint an? t alse pictures; not only was all liters- I jre used by the department conser wtive Lad truthful; not only were all he agents employed by the depart. ent instructed to tell prospective mmgrants the exact truth, but he uimself were about among the Immi- f rats before the Witekind sailed rom Bremen and satisfied himself I hat they were acquaintied with just j hat tihey might expect upon reachingC hbis country.4 The immigrants who went to Dar-C ington are Austrians 001. Watson I hink that the whole trouble fs that 1 boey got up tio Darlington, were catC ~ff from anybody they knew and I ~ot frightened and very homesick. He1 ~xpects to take the matter up and to I ~uIkly smooth their troubles for ~hem, providing them with homes tnd work whio'i they will fnd to their iotion. x)&33g8 AL) FRATEERS. cpplied by Women to a Nelgbbeir w oman They Lidn'c ike. Four married women of tihe village f East Sandy, four miles from Frank In, Pa., on Tuesday tireated a neigh or to a coat of stiove polish, mnlaa and teathers. The were arrested, pleaded guilty and paid fines of $10 each. The four women are respeeted mem bers of the community. They are &frs. Verda Lowry, Mrs. Bertha Bringman, Mrs. ~ellie Glaze and Mrs. Hilda Pherson Their victim-was Mrs. Hattie Low ry, a sister in-law of Mrs. Verda Low ry, their husbands being brotihers. The four women called at the home of Mrs Lowry and told her they in tended to humiliate her before the omn~ unity. T wo of the women sels ed her while the other two daubed stove polish on her face. Then mo lasses was poured over her head and feathers were applied. Thus adorned, the woman was :narched from her home tio a railroad camp, where 200 men are employed. There was a suspension of work until the Eelf-appointied vigilance comsnit tee took their victim to tihe outskirtis of the town, where they tied her tio a, tree and left her. A man came along half an hour later and released the captive. Mrs. Lawry came to Franklin and lhad warrents Issued for the women. Sheriff McEihiney went tio East Sandy and arrested all but Mrs. Pherson, who was not at home. When the three were arraigned be. fore Alderman Henderson they plead ed gulsy. Mrs. Glaze said they ha.d no regretis for what they had done. She maid the w.min's actions were intolerable. Mrs. Lowry, the victim, said there was no justification for such treat ment and that she will continue tio live at East Sandy. Dynamite Explosion. At Pittsburg. Thursday one man was killed, two fatally injured and sixteen others seriously hurt in a dy namite explosion shortily after noon Thursday. The men are all foreign ers. They were seated about a fire eating lunch when a dozen sticks of s yDamite, placed near tihe Ire to thaw. exploded. Oae man was blown to p ecs another lost a leg and the eves of a third were blown out. Twc were so badly injured tihat tihey wfll THEY MUST GO. Negro Soldiers Dismissed in Dis grace from the Army BY THE PRESIDENT, And the White Officers Are to be Court maritaled. For the Prst Time In History of Army Has Such as Order Been Issued. Unprecedented in the history of the army of the United States, is the action of the president, just announc ed, In dismissing in disgrace from the army an entire battalion of colored troops because of their failure .to dis close the Identity of some of, their number who bad been guilty of violence and murder. As aa evidence, however, of his intention to be fair to the colored troops, the president has accompf.nied this action by an order which amount to the court nartial of a white army <ffiaer of high grade who was charged with having cast slurs upon the colored iroops. The story of both actions Is iold in the follo~wing official corres ondenoe made public by the military secretary: . ylESIDENT'S ORDER. "The report of an investigation made by Brigadier General E. A aington, inapector general of the rmy relasive to the riotous diatur ance that ocourred at Brownsvik, 'eras, on the night of August 13 L906, and that resulted in the death f one ad the wounding of another tizen of that city, has baen con dered and acted upon by the presi lent. Following are his instructions with regard to the matter: "The White House, Washington, qov. 5.-The Secretary of War: I iave read through General Garling on's report, dateS October 221, sub aitted to me by you. I direct that he recommendations of General Gar Lgton be complied with and that t the same time the concluding por on of his report be published with =r sanction as giving the reasons for he ."Theodore Roosevelt." &ENERAL GAURMWTTON's REPORT. "Following is the concluding por ion of Ganeral Garlington's report, rhich embodies the recommendations hat, by direction of the president, rill be carried into effect immediate r by the war department: "I recommend that orders be Issued a soon as practicable, discharging, rithout honor, every man in Com anes B, 0 and D of the Twenty ifth infantry, serving at Fort Brown, ~exs,on the night of August 13 906, and forever debarring them I eaom re-enlisting In the army or navy 1 f the United States as well as from mployment In any civil capacity un ler the government. In making this scommendation, I recognise the fact at a number of men who have no reeb knowledge as to the Identity of he men of the Twenty-flfth infantry ho actually Alred the shots on the ght of the 13th of August 1906, will incure this extreme penalty. REFUSUD TO TELL. 1 "It has been established by a care l investigation beyond reasonable obt that the firing Into the houses i the citizens of Brownsville while he Inhabitants thereof were pursu ng their peaceful vocations or sleep g, and by which one citissn was cled and the chief of police so seri uly wounded that he lost an arm, was done by enlisted men of the r wenty-ifth Infantry, belonging to a atalion stationed at Fort Brown. ALter due opportunity and notice, he enlisted men of the Twenty-fifth nufantry have filed to tell all that it a reasonable to believe they know onerning the shooting. If they bad. done ao; if they had been willing o relate all the circumstances-in ~tances preliminary to the trouble it is extremely probable that a c'ue muffaiently dedinite to lead to results iould have been disclosed. They ap pear to stand together in a determina on to resist ths detection of the guilty; therefore, they should stand ogether when the penalty falls. A forceful lesson should be given to the army at large, and especially to the on-commIsIoned officers, that tbelr uty does Dot cease upon the drill ground, with the calling of the com pany rolls, making check Inspections and other duty of formal characte'; but that their responsibilities of office aompany them everywhere and at all times; that it Is their duty to be ome thozoughly acquainted with the ldividual members of their respect ive units to know their characterist ics; to be able at all times to gauge their temper, in order to discover the beginning of discontent or of muti nous Intentions, and to anticipate any organised act of disorder; that they must notify their cificers at once of any such conditions; moreover, the people of the United States, wherever they live, must feel assured that the men wearing the uniform of the army are their protectors, and not midnight asasins or riotous disturbers of the peaa of the community In which they may be stationed. OUT OUT THE NEGEO3s "On Otober 5, 190s, a squadron of the NIinth cavalry, an organizatioD of colored troops, reported at Fort Sheridan, near Ohicago, Ill., under orders from the war department assigning them to duty there. Soot after this assignment there appeared in the public press the following ac count of a statement alleged to have been made with regard to the meatter by Colonel William L. Pitcher, T wenty-seventh infantry: "'The negro troops would never have been quartered at Fort Sheridan without a protest if I was to remain in command here,' said Oolonel Pitcha er 'I never liked them and the far e away from me they are kept the better it pleases me. For the life of me I cannot see why the United States should try to make soldiers out of them. Certainly there are enougb fne white young men in this big country to make soldiers of without recruiting from such a source.' PRESIDWNT SCORES COLONEL. Washington, Nov. 6.-"This alleg ed statement by Col. Pitcher having been brought to the attention of the president, the folliwing communica tion with regard to It was sent to the war department by Secretary Loeb: "The president directs that an im mediate report be called for from Co!. Pitcher to know whebher or not he is correctly quoted in the enclosed clip pig; and if he Is correctly quoted the president directs that proceedings be taken against him for such punish ment as can be Inflicted. The presi dent thinks that such conduct is but little better than that of the &ffend Ing negro troops themselves. "Very Truly Yours, "Wm. Loeb, Jr., "Secretary to the President." SHOOTING AT HEATH SPRINES. Dr McDow Shot and BadJy Wound ed by Mr. Bridges. A special to the News and Courier from Heath Springs says J. A. Bridges shot Dr. E S. McDow, of LAncaster. at 12 o'clock on the street there Thursday. Three shots were fired, baking effect In both arms and in the left leg. No words passed between them before the shooting. Dr. McDaw started toa buggy to go out in country when Bridges opened fre. The first two shots hit Dr. M3. Daw in one of his arms and in his left leg. McD w turned and ran towards Duncan & Hammond Com any's store, and as he reached the !:ont door Bridges reloaded his sun md shot him in the arm. If McDo-P ad not turned the load would have it him in the abdomen. It all took place so quickly that no one was able o assist the wounded man. Dr. foore, who dressed the wounds, has lot said anything concerning them. ut the general opinion is that Dr. ffoDow will live. Bridges was walking down the treet when McDow started towards tim from the opposite side and he, it said, thoughht that McDow was go ng to shoot so he opened fire. Afte' ,a had had shot one time MeDo eld up one arm as though to ward f a blow and Bridges shot again 9cDow then fell and some of the by tanders tried to keep Bridges fro booting again, but he, it is alleged ushed them aside and reloaded C 1Dow cried for them to keep him om being shot again, but they eemed helpless. I6 is said that McDow had a pistol d i his pocket and so those who were I Lear Bridges were afraid to go up to t rim, as they thought MoDow would a hoot also. Both of his arms were broken and ne was shattered all to pIeces. L. rill be amputated and probably th ther also. He was carried on the P. M. train to the Rxck Hill Hos ital. His wife came from Lancas r immediately after the shooting ocurred. The shooting Is said to ave grown out r ? a long standing: ud between them. Lrehing in Georgia. Jet Ricks, a negro; was lynched ~hursday night at Salt City for the nrder of John Akridge. Hicks as arrested Wednesday at Vienna, I hence he was brought to Moultrie y Sheriff Forehand, of Dooly County, nd Dr. W. W. Stevens, of Sale City. re negro was held temporarily in a I rery stable, whence he was spirited way by Sheriff Forehand and Dr. tevens when news came that, a mob I as gatherIng. ?uey started 'for Sale Jity with the negro, but information ~ae from that place that a mob was ahering there to intercept them. fforts to find the party and apprise hem of this fact faIled. The Moul-1 rie Rifles, commanded by Capt. tdams, left at once for Sale City and apt Adams telephoned that the nilitary arrived too late, for upon he arrival of the negro and his gards Hicks had been placed in the 3ity guard house. The guard house was stormed by a mob which took ihe prisoner out and lynched him. saturday night week Hicks killed Mr. . Lkrdge. A reward of $400 for his irrest had been cff ared. Thursday near Pelham Hicks's wife and another] negro were shot to death by persons mknown. Fiaht With Burgier. An unknown negro attempted to urglarize the residence of W. H. Bridges, a farmer living in the upper part of Greenville county Thursday, nd was shot and slightly woundec y the farmers 14 year old son. Tnere was no one at home at the time but the small boy. The negro 'was in the sot of rifling the contents of a drawer when discovered. With a great deal f pluck the boy attac ced the negvo first with a knife, but being held off' y the negro, who slashed at him with a razor, young Bridges se-cured . gun and put the burglar to fiaut, wounding him with small siot. The negro has not been captured. Inhed in Bed. Disrict Judge Stanley Welsh was assassinated Wednesday night in hih bed at Rio Grande City, Tens, where he was holding Conrt. There is no cl.as to the assassin, There has been great exiteent recently over the election and it is presumed the assassination grew cut of this in some way. Doctor Ku~led by Congressmanl. H. L. Favrot, who Wedeslay was elected to Congress on the Damocratic tickt, Wednesday night shot and tilled 2Dr. H. H. Aldrich1 at Baton Eauge. The sho3ting followed an ar gument over the campaign whici Favrot had won. Fientr Gold. The production of ;old In the mines of South Africa for the month of Jun~e shows the largest produot ever record ed. In the first six months of the current year the production wn near i) $6,000,000 greater unan In th. oor resnngn time last year. FLXE IN WILD TERROR. Panic Caused by Incendiary Fixes in Now York City. At New York one woman is dead, a man is in a hospital suff tring from severe burns, two thousand persons flid from their homes in panic, and thousands more passed a sleepless night as a rcsalt of a series of in cendiary fires in the two blocks bonnded by Sixtieth and Sixty-fir t streets and Columbus and West End avenue early Friday. Scores of per 3ons whose lives were endangered by the conflagation were reEcned by fire men. In all there were five f-es, every one of them incendiary between mid night and 3 o'clock this morning. The rapidly succeeding fires, the crowds of evioted tenants and terrifying ru mors spread through the neighbor hood, with the co stant appearance and reappearance Of fire engines, and the big iquads of police raised the people throughout the vicinity to high pitch of excitement which did not lessen until daylight brought a measure of assurarce, that the in endiarism was stopped for a while. The exalteme..t spread even to Broadway and in the Marie Antionette Ansonia, Belle Claire, Empire and other big hotels, in the neighbor aood of L!nsion Square, the guests were aroused by the commotion in the St. Paul hotel, and the Hotel Huison, roth close to the fires. All the guest were aroused and few slept any more. All the houses where the fires oc ourred were fi &t hcuses, three of them cupled by whites and two by ne ?rees, most of the tenants were in ed when the tires broke out. and es aped.to the. streets in the scanties of 3otting. Frank Morris, of Boston, a I raudeville performer, was arrested on wspicion ct settirg the fires. The piice allege that in each of the fires c re tenants reported that when they 13d from their appartments, Morris fras the f!-st person they met. r Wnen Morris, whose home is in a 3oaton, was arraigned in the police C curt, Fire Marshal Prial expressed he opinion that he was mentally ir. esponsible and asked the magistrrte o commit the boy to Bellevue hospi al for five days for examrination. I ae magistrate refused: and held [orris in 82 000 bail for a further 1 xamination on Sunday. J DERAIL MAIL CAR. . land of Daring Robbars Use Bombs t r in Poland. At R-gow, Russian Pjland, the E ossacks have thus far been unsuc esasful in their pursuit of the ravolu onist train robbers numbering a hun- s -red well armed men who at 9 o'clock C riday night surrounded their station tl brew three bombs at the mail car of mail train while engine - were being , :anged, derailed the car, robbed it. , ad fled with a sum of money now said : > amount to $8650.000. F The station masLer declares the rev- a lutionist hid In neigaborirg forests nd were excellently disciplinod, their v ymmander giving orders through 3 ugle signals. When the robbery was s ;mleted the revolutionists trans- g rc-ed their booty to two wagons andp arched off in military order, singing u ocialistic songs. When the train stoppsd the men rmed with rifles sprang upon all sides n nckly executing orders conveyed by 3j ugie. Gendarms standing in front of he station were shot and killed and e revolutionitts placed sentineis a' il the approachea and cut the tele raph wires. Wuile some of them over owered the trainmen others attacked te escort of the mail car.o Of the three bombs thrown two ex loded with terrific force, blowing the - ars into matchwood, killing five sol ers and mortally wounding eleven a thers. The revolutionists then ran f acked the mail oar, transferred bank s otes, gold and silver to their own ags and unfolding a red flag formed p in military order, marcnmed out 01 he station and entered the wagons hich were in waiting in the forest nd drove di. A detactmant of Cos aks sent for is now in pursuit. 5 DE. MAtTHEWS BUIJIDES. onvicted of Poisoning His Wife Shoots Himself. In a cheap lodging house on ast altimore street, Baltimore, at some ime during the 24 hours paceaeding o'clock on Monday afternoon, Dr . Baxter Mttthews of Greensboro, . C., blew out his brains with a suot rom from a 32 -calibre revolver. Dr. Matthews was conv!cted M~c. ,1906, at Greensboro, N. C , of the misning of his wife Dec. 1. 1905 e hal been ont df custody unier all pending the decisisn Of his ap eal for a new trial, which was de aed him, and relatives and bonds nen have been searching for him for ome weeirs that he might be taken ef->re the court to be resentenced. In the absence of any definite rea. ~n for his t~aking his lif s it is supposec. hat he did so rather than serve the entence, said to be 20 years in the pnnitentiary, to be imposed upon lim. At the lodging hoase where he ended is life he gave the name of E J. raham. Immediately after his canv!ction, which was of murder in the second -egr'ee, Dr. Matthews became a pa tient at Mount Hope R atreat, near this city, and was there under treat ntent for the morphina and 1:quor hbits for some months, finally being discharged as cured. Judge k~oat~ Jury. At Dothan', Ala., when the trial of Wcn. Crockett, a white man. charged 'ith the murder of Lurn Henderson, a negro, ended Friday. Judge Henry Pearce, in diamissing the jury, decler ed that it had acquitted Crockett be ause he was a white man and h~ad killed a negro. In concluding Jadge Pearce said: "If the dead man had een a white cit~zen it would not hayt taken you two hours to have returned a verdict of guilty, and I don't set ow any membrer of the jury can go fom this Court House and face hib fellow citizans ini the street." BRYAN'S VIEWS. Thinks Result of Election Shows That Democracy is GROWING STRONGER. Says That McCarren, MchIallan, Jerome and Croker all Contributed to De feat of Hearst, Whose tHroic Struggle Brought Victory to Rest of Ticket. Commenting on the results of Tues day's election William T. Bryan Thursday night issued a statement, in part as folows: "The election of 1906 inicates a trend in favor of the Democratic Party. It proves that the Democra aic party is growing stronger as Re. publiorn policies are developed. In Rew York the party has won a signal victory in spite of the tremendous ff jts put forth in bebalf of the Ad ministration. The Rspublicans had i the money they wanted. They 3ad the support of all the great cor orations and at the close they had 4hatevar influence the Administra Aion could land. The fact that the )emccrats elected every State officer ixcepting the G ,vernor shows that in ,he Empire State the Republican iarty has.been repudiated. The defeat of Mr. Hearst, the )amocratic and Independence League andidate for Governor, while a great :sapoitment to his frienos and to i2e carty, is expilained by facts which ob Mr. Hdghe's vicory of both glory nd political sigulfance. Mr. Mc larren, whom Mr. Hearat denounced s a boss, threw his influence to [uzhes and cut down Mr. Hearst's otes in Brooklyn. Mayor NoClel. Lv, the legality of whose election Mr. earst had denied, used-his influence ,r Mr. Hughes and cut down the [earst vote in Now York. Mr. erome, the prosecution attorney - of J ew York, who had also been attack J by Mr. Hearst, supported the E blican tioket and his irfluence was Alt in Greater New York. Mr. rckar, during the last days of the lmpaign made an attack upon Me. [earst which doubtless weakened 2e Democratic candidate among the 'ammanyites. Mr. Murphy, the ead of Tammany, while supporting te ticket, could not put much en 2usiasm into the campaign owing to 2e personal controversies which he| ad with Mr. Hearat. It is evident, I 2er f )re, that Mr. Hughes owes his| otory nut to R ;publicsn votes, but 1 Democratic voos brought to him y the very mea whom ho and the a.publican leaders hav. been de uncing for years. "Ptesident Roosevelt cannot find ry much cause for rej icing in the ew Yoik returns. To have his own tate go Democratic cannot be| raifying to him and to fiad that hisi ersonal attack upon Mr. Hearst had ttle irtfilience ous4he result, com-| ared witu the irffluenc:: exerted by [c~arren, Murphy and Oroker, will t gladden his Thanksgiving Day. he President's personal attack on [r. Heart was in bad taste, to say de least. "Mr. Hearst Is, of course, disap onted, and yet when all the facts re known he has much to congratu. ste himself upon. He made a tre iendous fight against greais odds, nid while he himself failed of election Is heroic struggle brought victory to be rest of the ticket. His personsl nemies have contributed to his de tat, but the triumph of his ideas till leaves him in a position to con nue the fight for the protection of be public against the encroach ents of predatory wealth. "If the trend toward Democracy ontinues as strong for the nu t two ears as it bad ieen for the last two ears, New York can ha counted mong the Democratic States in 1908 nid Mr. Hearat is in a posilion to ao aliant woak in sEcuring a nations. riumph tor progresiva, Democratic deas. "The Republ'eas have had an ef ective campaign cry in 'standing by he President.' Wnile tne record ,owed that the De?mocrats in the enate and Eouse stood by the Presi ent better ttan V 2e Republicans, tue ~dmrers o.f tae Preside.nt very natur 1iy gave weigbc to his appeal for a bL publin Congress, alinough in naking the appeal the President put ipersonal v~c~ory aoive the reforms hch he has been advocating. Two rears frcm inow that 1apper. will be cf 10 avail, for the Presicent will not be n cite after March 4: 1908. Even 11 1e were a candidate--wnion no friend >f his can as-uime after his repeated :ecaration-ne would have to con rout the third term issue, and who wculd say that that issue al-jne would ct lose the President encuih votes ao make his race noveles.?" Waman Pound Mandered. Mrs, Ernest Gib ;on was fou3nd mur kercd in her coal sned in Lindale, Ga., Wednesday aftsrnoon. Her husband ad Miss Matilca Brewer, employed by the G-bsons as a nurs girl and nousekc eper, are suspected of the erin~e and are held in custody, pend ng the reault or toe coroner's investi ration. Mrs. Gibson returned ho~me to her baby au neon and Miss Brewer ?ported finding her body an hour later. Mrs. Hages, a neighoor, told the coroner that she asw Gibson run from the co si shed and throw away a club a fe w xmmu s~es befo:e Miss Brewer repor;ed tiding the todv. The con ditIon of the body indicates that the woman had been beaten to death with a. club. Gloson is known to have been very attendvo to M'es Bre wer. New tinel Brick. A superior fusl brick of equal parts of peat and coal has been envolved at a Brem -n brickyard. The mixture re slted irom many experiments, and Iter fa:lure to put the peati to use fr ptn ing bricks. I KFPT HIS CASH. GAVE IT TO IiTENDED TO GE A DIVORO. An Aged Man Who Wanted !ome One to Love, but Found it Pxpensive. Hiram P. Holmes, of Wea Hurley, Ulster County, New York, begun an action In the Supreme Court against Cornelius Da M-md, a politician, to recover 8500 which, he says, he paid Mrs. Slater upon condition that she get a divorce and marry him. He al leges conspiracy and false pretences. Holmes Is sixty-seven years old anc a widower. While in search of a house. keeper a year ago, be says, be was urged to see Mrs. Slater, who, he was told, was unmarried and whose real name was Grade Ellsworth. He sayi it was prcposed that If Mrs. Salter would marry and care for him he should ieave her 81,000 at his death. He accepted. Then he received a letter from Gra ole saying that she was married. She wanted 8500 to get a divorce Holmes says he paid the money to Du Mond, who passed it on to Mrs. Slater. La ter, he says, the woman declared she would bring no divorce zction, never intended To bring it and that she and her husband had the money where he could never find it. Mrs. Slater says she Is protected by the following agreement, which Hol. mes exitered Into: "This agreement, entered Into this 2ad day of January, 1906, between H P. Holmes and Grade Ellsworth Sia cer: 1 do hereby make her a present if $500, .which Is to be her own, to ipend or do with as she may see fit, ihe promising to become my house :eeper and compinion. I also agree I o furnish her with money for nice lothes and other necessary expenses, i ,nd, providing we are both satisfied, I promise to give her 8500 more, and t ' she remains with me throughout j ife I promise ber after my death all t hat I own. In case of any dissatis action, then I demand this agree nent and nothing more, she to keep he 8500, but make no further de c aands." . c She went to work for Holmes on anuary 14, and within Ave minutes, j he says, discovered that the aged b can possessed more than a platonic 0 f.ction fo: her. Bua she admits she I greed to marry him, provided she ob- 0 ained a divorce. She still is willing I o carry out her contract, she declar a. j: Previous to. the agreement there 0 ras much correspondence. Holmes's rt letter to Gracie was addressed to Kind Lady." "I am all alone," he C rote, "and I am tired of doing my I, iwn cooking. I am a good and kind e nan, no bad habits, living a Christian fe. I will further say that if you d rish to make"a change and be true f nd faithful to me, I will make over n o you over $1.000 in cash af Aer I get rough with it." Grade 'replied that she was "sur a rised." But she continued. "It would , sem awful nie to have anice cosy ome of your own and some one to e >ve you. As for cooking or baking ou can ask my Mssus. She tells me i am Al, and I think myself I am i ery good at It." d Mrs. Slater can neither read nora rite, and the letter was written by )u Mond at her dictation. Holmes got down to business in his i ext letter, whichis addressed to"My )ear Lady Friend," and continues: 1 'You say before you will cnent to ome I must promise to giveover to cu $500. When I told you what yonu rill get- when I get through with It, [certainly cannot draw out my money ~o give to any one to spend before -ny yes. It is my honest dollars that I ave saved. You say your age IsI wentynine. You wanted to know ny age. I am twenty two years older. In his complaint he swears to being4< izty-seven years old.) My age does 10ohurt me. I feel just as good as if : was twenty years. "Why, dear laay, I am very tender aver a wife; do anything to please ter. The one I lost almost killed me, d if I an accomplish gettinganoth r one, why I would almost think you< ere an angel of heaven come unto e." Mysterious wEt H~ngp. 1 What led to the shooting and kill- I ng of Dr. H. H. Aldrich at Baton B>uge, La., Wednesday night by his ife-long friend and associate, Judge eorge K Favret, is still. unknown. Dr. Aldrich's friends offer no expla 2ation for his death, and Judge Fav rot, after spending the night in jaiJ, ad nothing to supplement his expla ,ation that he had "sufficient cause." t is reported that Dr. Aldrich had seen warned that Judge Favrot would I hoot him on sight. Judge Favrot I is one of the leading figures among ouisiana's democratic congression al nominees and was on TuesdayI lected by a majority demonstrating nusual popularity. Both men were married and were leaders in the social and professional life of Baton Bouge. (iorea by Mad Steer. Trapped in a pen and battling for lisa life with a maddened long-born Colorado steer, Meyer Mlntz, a cattle driver, employed by the United Dress ed Beef Company, at the abat-ir at Forty-fourth street and First avenue, was gored many timee before he was rescued, and he is in a critical condi tion In Flower Hospital. Mintz, who is fity-three years of age, lives with lisa family at No. 868 FIrst avenue. The High-Dive (Cure. In Bevere, Minn., they take drunk ards and give them what is locally called the "high dive cure' by duck lug them in a tank of water situated in a convenient location in town. A couple of dips is all that has been re quired In any case yet, and one chron to offender Walnut Grove who was immessed one evening has never shown up In Revere since. Battle With Bubbes. Marshal Glover and Deputy Sheriff Lake were killed on Fridaylh:a fight~ with two men who had robbed two stores in Kinnewick, Me. One of tte robbers was also killed and the otiher wan antred. FOUL PLAY. Evidzat in the Mysterious Death Of a Preacher Who DIED IN THE WOODS Near Crhig's Crossing Just Off Augusta, ft. Family Rdfases to Accept Body of Rev. A. . Rojabn After It Had Been Identified by. Prty-one People. The Augusta Herald says the mys bery surrounding the death of Rev. A. E10 jahn s being leared,and Itde 'eloped Thursday that there isan ug ly shadow in the back ground that will probably never take a defnit form. It was noticed, as the supposed tramp, who died in the woods near raig's Crossing, on the Sunday after. noon of October 28, lay at undertak ng estahlahmentof Mr. B. E Elliott, hat there was an ugly bruise upon bil nose, and that two of his front meth were out. At the time, the marks being upon the body of a supoosed insignificant iramp, no sspicions were aroued. gowever a chain of evidence develop ,d since to tae effect that the man 2ad been severely beaten, and the ystery of his being In the woods has an solved. Were it not for an.unusual happen ag, the death of Bev. A. E Bjiann. n apostolic minister, would have been orever an unsolved problem to the eneral public, and most especially to is flock at Langley, who waited in Sin for his coming. After being identified by forty-one members of the apostolic faith, who mducted the funeral service at the dertaking estah11shment last -Sun. ay afternoon, the body was Bent to allaston, Pa., all expenses necessary aving been telegraphed by a brother t1e dead preacher-Becently Mr. B. Ellott was mystified by the re ipt of the following telegram from dlaston, Pa.: "This is not the body of A. E.Bo ft; advise disposition. Produce body return money. (;igued:) "FRANK BoAm." R-v.- T. H. Benson, of Langiey, S. I, was in the city Thursday morn g and stated that he was unable to rplain the strange circumstances. Forty people have identified him," elared Mr. Banson. "He was a close end of mine, and I can produce any people who saw the body and ho knew it to be Esv. A. E Boj4M, Dallstown, Pa. I have letters In ty pocket from him, and I have vritten him numbers of tumes at-Dal stown, many of the letters being rwarded to him at other places." Mr. Benson took fromt his pocket !ae key to the mystery surrounding he death of the humie ministier, who itributed his money among the poor d never took up a collection. A por on of the letter Is as follows: "My head feels a littile sore tioday, at I am glad thatlIcan say that I as knocked down for the truth and r Jesus' sake. I tiold the man when LB hit me the firstiliok back of the ad that Iwas willing todie for J s. A negro tried to take him away." The letter was written from Rok gham, II. O., and borethe datS of eptember 28, one' month from the ime he was found dead In the woods r. Benson Is sure that the severe eating caused insanity, and that the man wandered In the woods until he led. The letter further stiated tihat is was knockd down becausehe do iared that swearing was of the devil, Mr. Benson stiatied tihat the unfor anate mninister assisted him in a re rival at Langley last April, and made toss of friends, so many that he was vited to return. He was probably n his way, when he became involved the diffieulty. A paihesic circumnstaneaB incident to e death occurred when he was dying the lonely wood, some kindhearted ierson thinkring him a tramp offered tim a cup of coffbe, for which he off red in payment his lasti nickel. 1t Is not known why his family ro sed his body. Ginnera Beport, The amount of the cotton crop of .906 ginned up to November -1, as ording to a bulletin issued Thursday y the census bureau, was 6.865.597 ales, counting round bales as nal ales against 6,457,595 last year. 'ae number of acsive ginnerles is lven as 27,481 againstr 27,802 last rear. The amount of conson bales rnned follows: Alabama 6%2,810, rknas 304 423, FlorIda 34,81, leorga 1,001,124, Indian Terrirsory 189 575, Kentucky 671. Lonislanna 38 800, MississippI 582,430, Missouri 3 879, Nort-h Carolina 311,515, Ok ahoma 116.243, South Caroli, 550, 68, Tennlessee 94,283, Texas 3,535, 578, Virginia 5.421. Guarding Againae Trouble, The war department has ordered , battalion of tine T wenty-sixth In !antry, white, at San Anltonio to pro eed to Fort Bena to replace the three ~ompanes of the T wenty-fifth color d regiment, who were mixed up In he Brownsville, Texas, trontle and who have been ordered dlismissedl. rm the army. This action is tiaken as a precantionary measure, although ia serious trouble Is feared, when t a president older of dismissal 1s Oarrel out. Itis deeled best to be ont ie safe side. Antag one. The largest marine gasolene engine in the wor'd Is abouti to be shipped from Baltimore to Bussia. It is of 1,60 horse power, and is one of four ordered by tihe ezir's government at a cost of 8100,000 from White & Mid dleton to go Into Lake submarine torpedo boats. The firm Is expseliing similar orders from theo GernMa gov9 rmnt