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GIVAN A ROA.S a ing Comments in the Recent Elections. ANENT CORLtEYOU. The New York Press Contrasts His Treatment by President Rossevelt With the Deftat of Congress man Babcock by the Peo ple of 1is District. It ought not, says the New York Press, to be necessary to use a steam drill to drive into the heads of Re - publiomns the lesson taught by the defeat of Re presentative Babcock in Wisconsin. The Press there goes on to say: In a district which is noi mn.ly Re publican by several thcasands o! votes, and which gives a tandsome plurality to the victorious, Republi can candidate for Governcr Bibcock has been beaten for re election. And this despite the fact that he was chairman of the Cotgress campaign committee, a powerful member of the systemin the Hcuse, and could com mand resources not available to the ordinary Congress candidate. Babecck was beaten because he was in partnership with the life insurance grafters. He took $2,500 from the despoilers of the widows' and orphans' fund and spent it to maintain tha: part of the Congress m=chine over which he was in command in 1904. The fact was widely published in the Armstrong committee testimony. It was familiar to the vcters in Bab cock's district, and it overshadowed questions of tarift and trusts and the like. Nothing counted much in the campaign but the incident of Babcock taking $2,500 trom McCurdy to finance the political machine of which he was the engineer. The voters of the 3d Wisconsin district decided that a man who would take money which he knew he had no right to take was not fit to look after their interests or those of the country, and they have returned Babcock to private life. Now, does not the fate of Repre sentative Babcock suggest larger possibilities of danger to National Republicanism? Consider the case of Cortelyou. It 1s like Babcock's only worse. All the yellow dog funds contri buted large sums to Cortelyou, and be fattened the funds of the National Republican committee with them. Babecck took cents where Cortelyou took dollars. But the actions of the two men were identical in that each accepted moneys which did not be long to the givers, in that each knew the contributions did not belong to those who made them, in that each concealed the gifts as carefully as the evidence of any felony, and in that both Cortelycu and Babcock spent- the money in the further de hauchery of American politics. The similarity in the cifences of the chairman of the National Repub lican committee and the chairman of the Republican Congress campsign committee stops there. It is when -we ccme to the treatment of the two men that the big difference ccurs. Bepresentative Babcock, not being a member of the Cabinet, but being in charge of the Congress campaign committee, and not daring to face a canvass of the country in behalf of a Republican House with the $2, 500 steal staring the voters in the face, he is retired from the chairmanship. Then when he goes back to his dis trict for a "vindication" the hobnails of public opinion are applied vigor ously where they will do the most good. No very high standard of morals Is required ordinarily for membership in the House, as is prov ed by the fact that Babcock could go there after he had been caught stuffing the malls with franked postal matter during railroad weighing time, and as demonstrated by the presence In Congress for a long time of some men who belonged In jail an-1 have since either been started in that direction or are already in prison. But the 3d Wisconsin district drew the line at being represente-d by a man who helped McCurdy to skin the policy-holders of the Mutual. How Cortelyou was treated for do ig on a larger scale what Babock did was advertised to the country, and particularly to the State of New York, a few days before the talloting, which elected to the Gcavernorship the man most Instrumental in ex posing the partnerghip of Cortelyou and Babcock wIth the dispensers of Yellow Dog funds. For his share in the dirty business Babcock is wip ed off the map of the system at Wasnhington. For hib part In the plunder Cortelyou Is not retired from his position as Postmaster General, but is raised of all things to tne chair of -Aexander Hamilton. The man who would spend in a cladestine man ner trust funds belonging to mem bers of one political party to promote the fortunes of another political party is not punished but rewarded. And * to aggravate the outrage the reward to him for his failure to observe com .mon honesty In the handling of other people's money Is his promotion to the post where he is in charge of the funds of the whole nation! Such Is the difference between the treatment of Babcock by the voters of his home district and the treat ment of Cortelyou by President Boosevelt, although the offence com mitteed by the two men differed only in degree, and to that extent thel wrong done by the Cabinet officer Is' greater than the blooding of the E presentative. The American people have longed looked upon the 'vidication" of Paul Morton from the self-confesse'l charge of crimina.l rebatiag as the topmost point of absurdity reached in American admi~nistrative Govern ment. This height Of folly is scaled by the promotion of Secretary Cowtel you to the Treasury. and the fact is1 all the more emphasized by the beat ing the voters have given to Cartel-1 you's confederate in the 3d Wisconsin'a district. 1Fatal IFight. At Grand Rapids. Mich. Mke Word, the pugiliist, of Ssarina, O sr -lo, died Friday morning at o 4 o'clock as the result of a knceout in a fight Thursday night with Har Lewis, of Philadelphia, Ward dido cerbral hemmorrnage, aczor ding .0 ohe physicians who attended M. Hsr- -y Lewis, Referee Byan, cr D~etroit, and Frank O'Brien, Le ais' tra~iner w ere -DS A rEARL. While Eating Raw Oysters in a New York Cafe. At New York William H Blcom, manager of the Ohio Brass company's works in Mansfield, Oeio, struck a. mine of pearls in an oyster in the Cafe Savarin Thursday. Mr. Bloom Is staying in the Hotel Breslin. Thursday he went down town and dropped into the Savarin for a bite to eat. Mr Bloom thought he would like some raw oysters. So the man opened him half a dozen. With four of these oysters this story has nothing to do, The flifth oyster was the one that concealed seven beautiful pearls valued at $500. If he swallowed them whole, Mr. Bloom would have returned to his nappy Ohio hcme ignorant forever, perhaps, of how much he was worth himselfa inside. But in Mansfield they chew their oysters. As Mr. Bloam Ut into the fifth cyster he felt something round between his teeth. Taey have failed to properly mani cure these oysters" he said, and ejec ted the gritty otbeot from his mouth. It was a luscious pearl. In quick successicn he produced six more pearls. "I presume that when you serve oysters on the half shell all that comes in the shell belongs to the guest?" in quiired Mr. Bloom, of Waiter Gustav. Gustav admitted that such was the rule. "Well, you should have some re ward," said Mr. Bloom as he picked up one of the pearls. "I shall leave you the remaining oyster." And he wrapped up all the pearls and told Gustav to thank Mr. Savar in for him on account of Mr. Savarin's kindness and genorcisity and went away. . BROODING OV.R LOSS. A Laly Attempted to Kin Berself With Poison. In a fit of despondency Mrs. Joe Steine, wife of the heaviest loser in the recent fire at Warrenton, Gi., made a desperate attempt to commit suicide Thursday at noon in Augu3ta by drinking poison. She had been vsiting friends In that city hoping to overcome the strain which has resulted from the great loss b) the fire of last week. The Stelne store and building suf fered a loss of twenty thouspind dol lars by fire and there was only six thousand dollars insurance, which it seems was not much -more than enough to pay outstanding obliga tions. Mrs. Steine was stopping at 914 Broad street and some one happened to observe her as she took the deadly dose of poison and promptly summon ed City Physician McLaws, who suc ceeded in pumping up most of the poison and giving counteracting dos es, which put Mrs. Steine out of dan ger after the employment of stringent means. In a statement. to the physician and others present she saId she wish to die as the work of a lifetime had been destroyed in a few short mo ments by the flames and she did not feel able to begin anew the struggle. She is reported as resting very well now and out of all danger from her desperate action. The fiamily is well known through out that section of the state and num rous friends have expressed their sympat-hy over the loss of their prop. erty. Tired of Life. Mr, William B. Oigen, bookkeeper in the Charlotte branch cffice of the Philip Carey Manufacturing Co. com mitted suicide here early Thursday night by asphyxiation. The act was a most deliberate one. Af ter writing adcz~n or more notes to his father, wife, several relatives and friends, he drew the shades in the office, made a pallet on the floor wtih a pillow of ex celsior, out the gas tube leading to the sall heater and tied the free end to his neck. After turning on the gas he threw a felt blanket over hib' head and was dead in a very short time. He leaves' a wife and two children. Profound melancholia, brought about .by .poor eyesight, is said to have been the cause of the rash deed. In a note to his brother, Mr. E P. Tingsley he said: "I am afraid of myself. SometimEs I have been tempted to take all the folks with me, but have resisted the feeling, I docot think I can do so any lon ger." A Wise Woman. There is a wise woman in Pough keepte, N. Y. She is Mrs. James Crawford, who for years has support ed her husband, who drank up all the money he could get while she did sev en washings a week. Little by little she kept putting away savings from her meagre earnings until she bad $100. She caused her husband to be summoned before Justice Carnenter and offered him the 6100 if he wculd sign an agreement to leave the village and never come near her again. Craw ford signed the paper and took the money. Burned to Death. At Alken on Thursday afternoon little Ryan, the 4-year-old son of Mr.. A. J. Haight, was ao severely burned that death resulted Friday morning at 5 o'clock. The child's clothes be came ignited and before It was res cued It was burned fatally. The body as carried to Blackville for inter ment. Mr. and Mrs. Haight have the sincerest sympathy of all in their sad bereavement. Eight Men Buried. A dispatch from Douglass, Arizna, says the eight men were burled un-1 er tons of rock by the premature ex plosion of giant powder at a lime uarry near there. Employes from lhe smelters have been sent to dig -ahem out. Put Them to Flight. While El. B. Goodshall and others were attempting to kill a bull at UJn on the infuriated animal turned on hem and put them to flight, dnring1 which Goodshall -fell and the bull at- I acked him, infl~oting several painful ounds. SECRETARY Wilson has agreed to ethe packers label their steamed yef as "roast beef." He calls it a0 'concesion to the packers." TheT auperzed beef packers are sadly ind leed of some concessionl. Noriro that Mr. Howard Gould is agry because he has a Chinrese broth r-n law. the BHcalon Pa:t sageiy~ bserves that he ought to be tuank- i a it isn't Harry Lehr. There's ti emine optimism for you. SOME N EW 1,ULING-8 WHAT RURAL CARRIERS MUST I AND MjUST NO. DO. 8 Postoffice Official Gives Out a State- 6 ment as to Their Buties, Read It. "Now that the rural free delivery ystem has been so extended In this bountry-in fact it will be but a short time when the merry rural free de ivery carrier will be trotting over 1 the snows and icy peaks of Alaska- 1 the department is in constant receipt 1 of letters to what rural carriers may i arry on their routes besidesthemselves and their mail," sad a postoffice de partment official recently. "In the first place, they cant carry any liquid that stimulates either on the inide or outside of their persohs; intoxication means instant dismissal, and they are dismissed when they are detected drinking even off their routes. Nor are they permitted to carry spirituous liquors for the ac comodation of their patrons; personal friendship doesn't go with the depart ment in these cases, and no exceptions are made with the rule. "Rural carriers must carry tb mail and nothing else, even though business houses seek oftimes to make errand boys of them. Carriers must not either in peron or through others, directly or indirectly. solicit money, gif ts or presents. nor issue for profit souveneirs or postal handbooks, nor co-operate with or assist the pub lishers of the. same to secure the patronage of the public. They are also barred from compiling or assisting in the compiling of direc tories for public use. Business firms with large mail lists hiave caused us a great deal of trouble in attempt ing to engage the carriers as their agents, so we have strictly prohibited them from furnishing the names and addresses of patrons on their routes for pay or favor to any business establishment, or to any individual except to the department officials who are entitled to them under the regulations. The department has received let ters from patrons complaining because the caariers refused to carry their milk cans. This is funny, but it is rue, and it shows what some people in the country think the rural dcliv ry service was established for. Car riers are not permitted to carry pas sengers, nor to permit any person other than -authoriz .d postal ctfioisls, to ride with them or to have access to the malls. They must not engage in any business during their prescribed hours of service or to conduct any business after hours which offars tem tation to solisit patrourge on their routes, or whicb by reason of their positions in the government service gives them special advantages over competitors. We rigidly bar them from acting as book canvassers, insurance solicitors sewing machine agents or acting as agent of any kind or occupation. We allow carriers to carry merchandise for hire upon the request of patrons residing np~n their respective routes whenever it will not intfere with the proper discharge of their Official dut is under such regulations the de partment may preecribe. Country storekeepers try to use the carriers vehicles as delvery wagons, but the governmenlt is not In that sort of business. We allow the carriers to receive no cempensation from the sel er of the merchandise and where the merchandise is carried on the request of the patrous for hire for the carrying, carrying must be paid by the patrons. "We get thousands of letters from 11 over the country just on this one point -what carriers may carry on their routes. If the rural delivery patrons would only remember that the govermeut is not in the express business, they would save themselves, the carriers and the department a great deal of trouble." DANTZ LEE WILL CONTEST So As He and Moorer Can Get a 'Little Stake. The commissioners of election for Orngeburg County inet on Tuesday and organizid themselves Into boards of canvassers for the purpose of can yassing and tabulating the vote poll ed at the general election on the 6th Instant. The two boards of this coun ty are composed as follows: Federa-J. A. Berry, chairman; J. C. R hdmond, J. B. Stroman; secretary, M. F. Irabinet. Sate-Jeahn S. Bowman, Jr., Chair man; D). B. Berry and Thos. J. Hart, secretary, S. J. Hollday. There were fewer votes polled in Orangeburg C'unty this year than two years ago. Governor Ansel only received 1,888 votes, and the balance cf the tickets in the State and connty boxes received about the same. For Congrees, Mr. A. Frank Lever rceived 1,979 votes in the county, while the negro, Alex. D. Dantzler, only received 83. It is pr8sumed that D3,niz'er in tends going before Congress with another contest. Jacob Moorer, a cl ored lawyer of this place, who has been conducting these biennial contests heretofore, appeared before the board of Federal canvassers and served the following notice upon them: State cf South Carolina, Seventh Con gressional D.strict. To the board or oounty canvassers for the county of 0:acgeburg. Please take notice that the undersigned, A. D. Dantzler, Republican candidate fori a seat in the 60th Congress from the I 7th ongressional district of South )arolina, protests against the count ing, canvassing, ta*bulating and re ~urning of any and all votes cast at 1 be election held November 6. 1906,] or A . F. Lever, De'.ocratic caudi ate for a seat in the 60th ongress rom the Seventh Congressal districte )f South Carolina, upon the following 1 ~rounds: First, that the laws under which the lection was held, Novemter 6, 1906. i re in violation of the 14 th and 15th ~mtndmnts of the Federal Constiiu ion and should be declared void and, if nne effect: Secnd, that the mann.gen of elec ion were partial and unlawfully per isted a certain class of citizens t :nown as Confederate soldiers, to vote 'j wit~hout the qualifications required of ~ ther citizens, to the great injury and''i rejudice of the Republican cand!-.5 A. D. DANTzLER. Protestant. JAcoB MooRER, Attorney for Protestant. The failure of two .Ssvmus Eroks 1: Vashington in one weeszw ant Republican prospery~i is not uni- : GIRL KiLLED EMLP. Ad NotiWant to Go to School was the Cause. At Concord, Ga., rather than go to chool against her wishes, Miss Mary tarndford, pretty and vivacious, sent L bullet crashing through her head ruesday morning of last week at 9 )'clock at her home in Concord, Ga., lying instantly. The young girl left home for school nder protest; declaring she did not ant to study. Instead of going to he school hou :e, however, she re ;raced her steps into the house, secur -d her father's pistol and hurried un bserved to the barn, where she de Lberately plac3d the weapon against ier ear and pulled the trigger. A negro heard the mufled report of the weapon, but thought nothing 'of he matter until two hours later when the body was found by the girls father. Miss Stanford was noted for her beauty and from earliest childhood bed been admired by all her friends and companions, By nature she was of the happiest disposition and a l her recent ill health was the le der in the in the younger social circle of which she was the charming enter. She was the daughter -of Mr. and Mrs. E. .. Stanford, one of the most prominent failies In the town. Her father is a large land owner and lives on the rent from his several plantations. Henry Stantord of At lanta is a brother of the young girl. He has been wired of the tragedy. A BIRD TRAGEDY. The Passenger Pigeon, Once So Plen tiful, Now Extinct. The greatest of all tragedies in the feathered kingdom was tue sudden extiuction, the magical disappearance, of the once countles 1 hosts of passen ger pigeons. The question as to what became of them and why they went has become one of the most puzzling problems of ornithology. Those old enough to remember these beautiful birds have never ceased to regret their unaccountable extermination. One day as numerous as the sands of the seashore and flying in myriads that darkened the sky for hours at a time, next day they have disappeared as completely as if never in existence so completely that a large reward cffbr ed for a pair still remains unclaimed. A celebrated American ornithologist estimated that a flck he saw early in the last century numbered largely over two thousand two hundred and thirty millions, and they would consume sev enteen million four hundred and twen ty.-four thousand bushels of mast every day I These are tremendous flgu:es but many of our older resiers, r mem bering flocks seen in their boyhood, will readily believe them to be true. As late as the sixties It was no un common thing to see in Kentucky, In diana and Michigan, flocks that dark ened the sky in every direction as far as the eye could reach and they would be psssing for hours at a time. It nas been over thirty-three years since any considerable number of these birds were seen south of the great lakes though an extensive nest ug was reported from the regin of Petoskov as late as 1881. Though hundreds of men were engaged in net ting them and captured fully 10,000, 000, It was estimated that not one brd in a thousand was taken. An eye witness declares that this nesting cov ered an area twenty-eight miles long and fully four miles wide while every tree of any size over this extensive space had more or less nests and many were full of them. This, however, seems to have been the last of the passenger pigeon in numbers. Soon thereafter he disap peared as suddenly as the Virginia sora after a frost as completely as the great auk of the southern seas. What became of them still remains and doubtless always will remain one of the unsolved mysteries of science, it was at frst thought that they at tempted to cross the ocean, but un equal to the long flight fell and were swallowed by the waves. A more prob able conclusion Is that in the destruc tion of the forests, which deprived them of their natural food, aided by the relentless persecution of main In every locality, we may find the real explanation of this delorable tragedy in the kingdom of the birds. Bomo in Sc. Peters. At Rome, Italy on last Sunday morning a bomb was exploded In St. Peters, which is the largest church building in the world. The edifice was crowded and an indescribable scene of confusion followed. There were no fatalities. As soon as the choes of the tremendous roar had ssased, a canon sought by reassuring words, to quilet the people, but in vain. They fled in all directions and a number of wcmen fainted. Women* nd childiren screamed and men tried ro protect their families in the crush. The church Is so large, however, that tere was ample room for the crowd o scatter and no one was Injured. N trace of the perpetrator of the leed has been found. . No Chage Wanted A dispatch from Richmond, Va., says by resolation the V.rginia Bap Ast Contnlion Wednesday broke off i relations with the American So siety and ref used to use their publ :tions. The trouble grew out of printing by the house of bib~s for &siatics, in which the Greek word 'baptiso" was translated "dipred." L'he American Society contend their ~raaaton is correct and refused to! ,hange It in Baptist bibles. Ontlaws IKined. A punitive eipedition, which has ;een oerating In Kreutzberg district, usfia, for the last week, has killed inety pasants belonging to the re' plutionary organization, termed ForI St Rangers, who levied tribute on he surronding country. PREIDENT Roosevelt should call be attention of the First Assistant 'ostmaster- General to the Republican ampgn book in which It is declared hat the cost of living has not in. eased perceptibly.- That hardly ag rees with the offcial request for In reased pay for postal clerks due to e increase in the cost of livialg. 'hose who are paying high trust ices can hardly have much faith in publican statements which nave vidently been manufactured to de Dive them. I TE bedeviled policy holders of the 1e Insurance companies are now ang bed to elect their cvn offcers ad only' two years ano they were he Egbled to elect Rocsevelt. Their j: tovud be no worse if they were FORTY-SIX- DIE From a Railroad Collision Which Caused a Wreck, 8 WERE FOREIGNRS. The Wreckage Took Fire and 411 of the Dead Except Two Are Burned Be yond -Recognition.- Blunder of the Employes of the Road. More than one-half the passengers on an immigrant train on the Balti more and Ohio road were killed or injured in a collision Tuesday between the passenger train and a freight near Woodville, Ind. One hundred and sixty-five passen gers were on the train. Of these 47 were either killed outright or were burned to death in a fire that broke out in the wreckage immediately af ter the collision. The names of all of the dead will probably never be known, as 45 of the bodies were con sumed in the flames or were so badiv burned that identification will be out of the question. Thirty-eight people were injured and several will die. Eigty others escaped unhurt but lost all their baggage and clothing, The disaster was caused by a blund er of some employe of the railroad company, but just where *the blame lies has not as yet been determined. The passenger train, which was load ed with Russian Jews, Servian and Poles, all of the recent arrivals in this country, and bound for Chicago or points in the Northwest, was the second section of a through train from Baltimore. The - engineer . of the freight train, No. 96 on instructions received at McCool, Ind., waited at a siding at Babcock, Ind , to allow the immigrant train to pass. One report is that the engineer of the freight train had not been in formed that the passenger train was running in two sections; the other is that the first section of the passenger train carried no lights or signals of any kind indicating that a secondsec tion was close behind. As soon as the first section of the immigrant train had passed the switch at Babcock. the freight train started eastward.A Pght snow was falling, which increased the darkness of the early 'morning and as the freight was rounding a sharp curve just west of Woodville, the second section of the immigrant train came into sight a short distance away, tearing toward Chicago at the rate of 40 miles an hour. The two trains came together with unslakening speed and in the crash six passenger coaches and several freight cars were knocked into kindling wood and together with the locomotives went rolling down the 10-foot embankment. Fire broke out almost immediately in the wreckage, and altholgh a num ber of the injured were saved by the desperate efforts of the train crew and surviving passengers, the greater part of those who were pinned down under the debris was burned to death. The flames spread through the wreckage so rapidly that it was im possible to save a number of people who were only slightly hurt, but were held fast by timbers that weighted them down. These were burned in plain sight of the throng that stood around the scene of the disaster, ut terly unab~le to lend asissstance in any way. The fire continued until all of the shattered cars were entirely con sumed and of the 47 people whose death followed the collision 45 were burned to ashes. The crash of the collision was so great that a number of farmers and other iesidents of the neigborhood came hastening to the scene, but they could do nothing except lend assis tance to the injured who had already been taken from the wreck. All of the six cars of the immigrant train were knocked into kindling wood, as were three freight cars. Relief trains were sent at once from South Chicago and from Valparaiso, Ind., with every availabe physicsan, and every possible aid was given to the injured. Ugly Murder Record. "During the last five years 45,000 persons were murdered in the United States. More persons were murder ed last year than died of typhoid fev er. This awful total has been due to the way the law was admin srered, and the law Itself is bad and indficent. It is burdened with restrictions and ~technicalities, and in almost every case the criminal has nine chances of escaping to one of being found guilty." So declared Judge Marcus Kavanagh in an ad dress before the alumnae of St. Igan gantus C llege gathered at a banquet at the Great Northern Hotel at Chi cago. He spoke on "E :forsement of the Law in the Large Cities," and vigorously assniled the operation of curts under the jury system. That the United States is the most criminal country in the world, the jury the most loose an i antiquated, and the law the most open to attack are among the assertions made by Judge Kavanagh. Another Death. Mr. Harold Forest Holley, of Alken County, a student of the South Caro-i lina Universiny In Columbia, died Sunday morning of typhoid fever. This is the second death at the Uni versity in the last two weeks from typhoid fever. Mr. Halley was a bright and promising young man. He was the son of Mr. B. F. Holley, of Aiken, and was regarded as a fine student and manly young fellow.I There have been no new cases in twelve days now, and the medical authorities give assurances that I danger Is over. The use of well water for a tsev days, during a break in the regular city supply, Is regarded I as the cause of the cases of typhoid. The Columbis correspondent of The Ne ws and Courier sayvs as the well water is no longer used and there 1 have been no new cases in a fortnight,a the fear of further trouble is regard ed as over. The authorities have theC best of trained nurses and physicians attending the young men who are ick-all are now about well. Brutally fmurdored. At Wilmington, N. C., Bettle John- I on, a negro woman about 25 years of ige, was brutally murdered Saturday ight by Frank James, a loig South ~ arolna negro of badi police record. aturday the woman was assaulted by lames and early Saturday night as she was retumning home from a mag- E strate's ottice, where she had sworn ~ ut a warrant against the man, he ~ Lgain attacked her. With a razor he1 :ut her throat and savagely gashed ier body. Death resulted in a few mo-I t rents frem hen~orrhage. James Is an arge. The fiend when caught should It e made short work of. T 8039N tO DEATbl. |obbers and Patrons of a SaIoon Have Bloody Fight. At San Franciseo two men are sad, two others dying and others I erlously iD 'ared as a result of a pis 01 duel Thursday night in an at emipted hold-up of a saloon by two nasked robbers. Shortly before midnight ' wo men with handkerchiefs over their face nd revolver in their hands entered he saloon of John O'Connell at iixth and Brannan streets. All the inmates oomplied with the rder to hold up their hands given by ihe masked man except George 0'-., Jonnell, a retired and pensioned po ice cficer, who drew a revolver. and :ommenced Ehooting at a robber near the Sixth Street entrance. The robbers began firing at the policeman, and patrons of the saloon it al nost the same moment. When he smoke of battle cleared away, our men were lying on the floor of he saloon, three of them dying and a Eurth seriously inj ared. O'Connell has two buUeos In his .heat, Steven Lynch was twice shot in the abdomen, Louis Dalatour had ais jaw torn away by a bullet and Kichael Kennedy was shot in tbe ear. Oae of the robbers, Frank Burke, an ex convict- was found dead outside, with his mask still on. O'Connell died soon after belng taken to the ospital. where it is said, that Lynch. and Delatour, both laborers, can not recover. ANOTHER OUTRAGEIN ATLANTA. Negro Beat, Bound and Criminally Aseaulted.White Lady. Some of the negroes of Atlanta must be determined to pull off anoth er riot. Oe of the most drastardly assaults ever perpetrated was that committed there on Tuesday of last week by Joe Glenn, a negro 30 years old, when he entered the home of Mrs. J. N. Camp, on Cascade avenue, about 9 30 o'clock that morning, chok ed Mrs. Camp into unconclousneEs, tied a leather strap around her throat and assaulted her. Leaving his via tim in an unconsclous state he plund ered the house untllgshe,had partly re vived, whenhe returned and attacked her again. He remained unconcerned ly abous ;.he house until shq had re gAned her powerto scream and run 1rom the house, whereupon the then unknown assailant made his escape. Mrs. Camp was found by two men who were passing shortly after 10 o'clock that morning, bound to a tree and terribly bruised and iojured as a result of the negro's criminal attack. She was taken Into the house In a dangerous condition, and there is some question as to her recovery. Mrs. Camp is about 35 years old and has severai children. The Camp home stands aboat~a quarter of a mile away from the nearest neighbor, and she was practically unprotected, The county police and the marshal of 0 1kand City were notified of the crime and at once instituted a search. L,te Thursday afternoon la negro answering theogeneralidescription was traced ta Cascade Spring, and when captured, was found to Imore closely answer the description. When he was taken into the presence of his victim Glenn was at once positively id. ntlied. The cficials anticipated trouble and made a rush for the county jhil, which they succeeded In reaching safely before It was known that G'enn had been either captured or Identified. The negro Is now safe behind the bars, and there has baen no unusual commotion about the city either dur ing the day or night on account of the crime. .Profi- Nft Coat. Mr. Sterrett Tate, replying to a quotation from the New Y.,rk Herald to the effect that as cotton can be gown at five cent per pound, it is unreasonable for the producer to ex ect more than aen cents for it. Mr. Tate successfully ridicules the prop osition that cotton can be grown at lie cents a pound and shows that en cents is too low for the producer to make the reasonable margin of pro fit to which he is entitled. It Is a very simpie matter for a newspaper a thousand miles away from the fields to tell the cotton pro ducer what it costs per pound to raise cotton, but when reduced to Its last analysis advice from the neighbor hood of Wall street is of no more value to the average cotton farmer than would be the opinion of the average cotton producer to a New york spesulator who might be seek ing evidence as to the latest move ments of the Parision bourse. E very Item entering Into the pro duction of cotton has vastly increased during the past few years. It costs more to buy land, fertilizers, stock, utensils, to pay for labor and to meet the expenses of living than ever be ore. The cost entering into the pro duction of a bale of cotton today is almost double the cost cf the making af a ale ten years ago. While It Is true that ten cents will pemnaps meet ctual expenses and give the producer md his family a living, It is not just or the world to expect the cotton rower to be satisfied with only ac ial living expenses. The cotton grower Is just as much mtitled to a reasonable return on his ~ffort, his energy, his time and his vestment as the Wall street broker s entitled to his profit. What would Wall street think if the cotton pro luce should take the position that *ts brokers and business man should y entitled to no more than actual ling expenses out of their business -and yet that is the position assum d towards the cotton growers by a reat many people the world over. What Wall street doesn't know about ihe cost of making cotton would fill great many books. In the meantime The constitution hgain urges the cotton producers of ihe south to let Wall street alone, nd to make its arrangemmats inde endent of advice received from that lirecton. The secretary of the dississippi division of the Southern otton Association was right when ie warned the prodncexs of the south gainst the bear movement emanat rg from Wall street, and it Is notice ble that It comes this year from ome of those who only a year ago were coddling the farmers of the outh with the view, Ovidently, of] working into their confidence to bag i Ig game this year. Notwithstanld ag this cotton has gone above elev n cents, and every pound now on the :arket is worth tnat much at least,C ud if marketed slowly will bring It. THz endorsement of Senator Bailey i 1 a large majority of the Democratic Itate Committee of Texas indicates hat his Implacable enemies are more ois than numerons. )VER NORTHERN MISSIssIFFI AND WESTERN TENNESSEE )n Last Saturday Night Leavir g Death and Destraction in Its Wake. Telegraphic and telephoni comma aications received Sunday night from points in Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee for a distance of several miles, report that territory to have suffered Saturday night an- early Sunday from one of the most destruc tive rain and wind -ms experienced in years. Only meagre details are as yeb ob tainable, but five lives are known to have been lost an: great damage done to property and crops. Railroad traffic is completely demoralized by numer ous washouts, and many trains have neesua'ily been annulled. From the reports so far received the great dam age occurred in the central and Delta regions of Mississippi. At Winona, Misse., the Catholt, Christian and negro Methodist church es and the Hesty brick yard were de molished, and numerous buildings ua roofed and badly damaged. Among the largest buildings damaged at this place are the postoice, Opera Houie the oil mill, the compress, ware house of the Jackson MercaUtile Company and the residerce Cf E. J. Dunkston. Besides these, about twenty five smaller buildings were almost com pletely destroyed. Of those buildings not totally de stroyed, the compress was probably the most badly damaged. The roof of this building was torn off by the wind, which at times reached almost tornado-like velocity, falling on the home of E J. Dunkston, 250 yards away. The wind storm was preceded and followed by hEavy rains causing serious washouts along the route of the Illinois Central Railroad, and badly damaging crops. At Mathison, Miss., serious damage is reported to have occured and a woman killed by a falling building. At Tebula; a falling 'tree striking 'a small frame building, caused it to be set afire a woman and child were burn ed to death. At NonconnahCreekarail road trestle fell under the weight of a switch engine plunging into the swoll en stream carrying with it Engineer 0. V. Peterson and Fireman A. B. Bitchie, who were drowned. West Point, Columbus and Maben, Miss., are reported to have suffered serious damage, but as these points are completely cut off from communi cation it is impossible at this time to acertain the extent. Wolt River, a small stream in the vicinity of Rossyille, Tenn., is out of its banks, the water flooding the sur rounding berritory for many miles. The enire town of Rossville is inun dated,. the water in the public square reaching a depth of four feet and great damage has baen done to proper ty at this place and eastward. A railroad employee reports the people in a state Cf panic, the flood being the worst in the town's history. Q iantitles of loose cotton has been .ahed away, as well as many small buildings and livestock drowned. For a distance of eight miles, between that place and Moscow, Tenn, the water is from one to six feet deep on the tracks of the Southern Bailway. Picture Post Card. N~otwithstanding the fact of the enormous popularity uf the picture post-card a recent order of the Post Offce department-is likely to make these little mail souvenirs even more sought after than ever. This order will make lawful a post-card upon which there is a space upon the ad dress side for written messages. This will enable the sender to keep the picture unmarred and yet write a message upon -the left hand side of the card, the whole of whiich side has been in the past reserved for the ad dress only. This agreement. was reached at the session of the univer sal postal congress during the past summer. This style of post-card has been in use for some time in foreign countries. The admission of it to American mails promises to Increase the number now handled by several millions. A peculiar feature of the post-card is, that although it is sent for one cent, their use has increased the revenues of the department. SENATOR Knox, who by the assis tance of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the geneious help of the Standard Oil Trusts represents the corporations in the United States Senate, has been ealled into consultation at the White House to knoli just what ought to be done by the numerous "and best attorneys in the country, to pre pare the case against the Standard Oil Trust with unusual care." It mht be suggested that most any honest cornfield lawyer could get John D. Bockefeller in stripes, if the Federal judge and jury can be relied upon, but it would seem to a laymen that it would be advisable to keep Knox out of the case. ARIZONA which is entirely under the c~ntrol of the Federal authorities reports a lumber trust plundering her people. Yea, If we fly to the uttermost parts of thw earth the rusts, under this Republican policy of tariff fostering, pursue us and even under the protection. of the federal afficials appoinood by PresidentiBoose velt, the people find no rest from brust exactions. WE agree with the Macon Tele raph that the trouble in the South ern otton . association Is the same that has beset every aesociation orga nized by scuthern farmers. The offi 3ers could not restrain their ambition to branch out, THE Sugar Trust very naturally emurs to being indicted for receiv Lg rebates from the railroads: but tne evidence shows the managers are uilty, but under the extraordinary Ltis of the anministration the rusts will be fined and the real law areakers go free. WIIEN Uncle Joe Cannon began to iuestai1stics in his speeches he borrow d trouble that will Stick to him, for is 'gers' prove just opposite to what1 1 intended. The pEOple are too wide wake to be fooled any m~re by theseI hpubican statesmen sloshing around 1 n a sea of statistics they don't under T~z Atlanta Georgian printed a plmentary reference to Senator ri'man and waked up the Charlessen ?ost and Columbia State, and accord- 1 nig to the Spartanburg ,Tournal these ierformed the same old stunts they ave been doing for 15 years only >roving that a prophet is not without ~ Lono excpt i hisown ounty. qo.uessation In Reign of Lawlese at Pittsburg. Pa. With detectives from cities- of ielghboring StAtes who ar there in the hope of finding Crcoks of national re putation, there has been no apparent 3essation in crimes that have stirred Pittsburg within the past two weeks. Duling Wednesday and early Thura day morning scores Of people were-ar rested cn the streets as suspected characters. Shortly after midnight Thursday a negro who entered the home of David Boney, Perryville Ave. Alleghehay, was heard in the lower portion of the house by a maid, who immediately notified Mr. B-inoy. Mr. Boney fired several shots but the negro- cscap8d. Roney's home is located to a row of ten house nine of which have been robbed during the past two evenings. Dispatches to the Associated Press Thursday night from neighboring towns says the reign of lawlessness has never before been equalled in those suaurbs. At South Sharon, Mercer County, the police found John MA Donald lying in an alley, almost. dead from exposure and fractured skull. At Washington, Pa., bloodhounds have started on the trail of robbers who assaulted Mrs. Cole, wife of the tax collecto' of Green County, whose con dition is precarious. At Beaver Falls, Pa., a thief enter-. en the home of Mrs. Mary Mlr and failing to fald.money chocked her - nearly to.death. The woman fnally broke away from her anlailant and grasping an Iron poker struck him several timesoverthe head..Three white men were arrested Thursday- - night at Somerset, Pa., charged with stealing 8250 and several hundred dol lars worth of governmentstampsfrom the wife of a government revenue col. lector while she was riding on astreet car in Greensburg, Pa., Thursday.: At New Brighton two men were n held-up and assaulted Thirday night by highwaymen. Both men were seriously injured. A general manhunt is in progress at Mc~eesport, P.,.e eral miles from here, In an endeavor to capture lames Taylor, whoiurder ed Isaac Carter Monday evening. -A Swissville, a suburb, extpolice were added to the force Thursday night at a special nieeting of the ounCIL .TMIJNG IN LAUR3NS. A Young Man Shot From Ambua at Goldvifle. A dispatch from Laurens to The. News and Courier says news wasre ceivid there Sunday morning of the killing at Goldville Saturday night of the killing of John Atkinson, ycung mill operative -at the Banna Cotton Mill, located at Goldville. Particulars of the affair -re very meagre, but it is reported ~that At kinson was shot Saturday night as he was passing between the. mil building and the raifroad on his wa home. One report is that he waa in company of two other young men and was fired upon by someone -coneal.d behind a building. On the -other hand, it is stated that Atkinson was alone when the assan got in his work. - Young Atkinson killed his. father John Atkinson, Sr., at Goldville about-two years ago wh~l the old) man, who in a drnkern rage was. whipping Mrs. Atkinson, his wife an'd mother of young Atkinsor . At the following terni of Court. The grand j iry returned "no bll".against At inson. ~He had -a wife and two children. Sheriff Duckett and his deputy have gone to the scene and the in quest will he held this afrernoon. The killing of Atkinson. last night i makes ther fourth murder commited - In Hunter Township since last spring -two white and- two colored-and the third assasination in Linrens County within the last two months one white and two colored. Holst By Mis Own Petard. One of two burglars who attempted to break open asafe in the fceof a large manufacturer at Berin, Ger, has met with a singular death. He and. his accomplice, finding their tools not sharp enough or tempered enough, determined to burst open the safe with some -explosive. They stuffed the lock full with the explosive, pre sumably gunpowder, and attaching an ignited fuse, waited for the result. As the fuse burned slowly one of the robbers approached the safe' to has ten matters. At that moment the gunpowder exploded, and the door of the safe flew open, smashing -inthe skull of the burglar, His accomplice escaped, and as the explosion made hardly any noise nothing was known of the affair till next morning. HIs-Lat Time. W. B. Hearse passed through San Antonio, Texas on Sunday on his way to Mortery, Mexico, where he has mining property. In reference to politics in New York he said; "I will never again be. a candidate. I shall continue to live in -New York and advocate and support the princi ples of refeorin which I have alwrays stood for, but thess principles are now suficiently understood by the general public for It to be no longer neccessary for me to be a candidate, and on that account to be attacked with such bitterness." Explosion Or Powder. A powder magazine owned by the E. I. Dupont Company and situated at Tinley park, about thirty miles from Chicago, exploded Thursday with such force that window panes were broken in the home of the Mid lothian Club, three miles distant. One man employed to watch the magazine was killed, but no other lives were lost. The cause of the explosion Is not known. Tam Spartanburg Journal .says; "The one-sided political conditions in South Carolina form one of our great ist ;drawrbacks. Tais state and the e r S iutheru states need a strong iinurnty party." The Journal's views ould soon be realized if the registra ilon laws are made more liberal, but ye tall to see the benefit to be deriy SECETARY Shaw in a speech at uffalo In the late campaign defended ie Standard Oil Trust and John D. Rokefeller, and yet, the Republican eaders are trying to make the people lieve they are fighting the trusts. cratch a staudpatter and you will id the trust brand hiCden some vhere. Announcement Is make of the ap. ointment of William H. Moody to e justice of tbe United States su. reme court, to succeed Justice frown. Fines imposed for breacnes of the yster law on the Potomac aggregated 465 in ne week