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VOL. XXI. MANNING, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1907 NO. 28 RUIN AND DEATH. A Destrucfive Tornado Sweeps Three States. SCORES ARE KILLED. And Many Buildings Are Destroyed in the Path of the Hurricane. The , City of Alexandria Had a Fearful Experience. Several Other Cities And Towns Were Wrecked by the Awful Storm. A most destructive tornado visit ed portions of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama on Friday, leaving ruin and death in its path. it swept over three hundred miles across portions of the above named States. Parts of four towns were devastated with damage exceeding $500,000. The wind damaged property, crops and telegraph wires throughout its course At least 40 are known to have been killed and five times that number hurt. ,,he tornado oegan at Alexandria, La., soon after one o'clock Friday morning, killing four persons, prob ably fatally injuring three and ser iously injuring thirteen others. Soon after daylight it neared the Missis sippi River, killing five persons at Jackson, La., while at Bauyou Sara, La., at ieast half dozen others were reported killed: There was one fa tal Injury at Jackson. The tornado next appeared at Car son, Miss, where the great property damage was done, and disappeared about noon neir Selma, Ala., where the inhabitants saw whirling clouds rise into the air as they crossed the river. A negro was reported killed near Selma. It is not known now how many people were killed, and will not be known until reports from the cointy aistricts are all in. Alexandria, a town of about 16.000 inhabitants, had a fearful experience When the tornado struck the electric lights went out, the cracking of fall ing buildings could be heard above the noise of the wind, and vivid light ning flashes showed such sights as an empty Iron Mountain passenger train rolling over and over. A heavy hail storm added to the general discom fiture. The main portion of Alexandria es caped -the worst of the tornado, which cut a path through the northern por tion of the town, a residence quar ter. About a score of homes were demolished, fifty were damaged, and all together about a hundred build ings were wrecked, including several business houses. A freak of the wind drove a small section of a house into an empty passenger coach, wedging these two bodies almost inextricably together. In the woods about th town the tor nado cut down trees for about nine miles. Several houses were blown down at Pineville and injuries were reported. The hail did much dam age to crops. At Jackson, La., the insane asylum was wrecked, with a loss about $20 0, 000. In addition to three fe male Inmates many others were injured. Two negroes were ki-lled on a nearby plantation, while reports from the surrounding country indicate that there was probably more loss of life. At Bayou Sara several passengers on the steamer Betsy Ann had a re markable escape. The Betsy Ann was severely wrecked. While break ing timbers from the steamer and from the shore flew through the air the crew got all the passengers safe ly ashore. At Carson, Miss., the Mississipi Central Depot was blown down, also a church, a school house, two busi ness buildings and several cabins; from Carson the storm crossed the State line into Alabama, where it be gan to lose much of its power. Devastation in Alabama. Specials from various parts of Ala bama tell of death and devastation from the cyclone which sw'ept over the southern and eastern portions of the - State Friday. At Bradleyton, the home of Hugh -Farrier, a prominent planter, was blown down, instantly killing Mr. Farrier and his six-year-old son and fatally injuring Mrs. Farrier. The storm tore up the tracks of the .Atlantic Coast Line from Petrey to Patsburg, a atistance of several miles. Probably loss of life is reported from North Perico, where on the plantation of J. C. Moore. a banker of Marion, a row of houses was blown down. During a storm Friday afternoon lighting struck the jail at Selma, knocked down part of the wall of the prison and terrifying the prisoners. MANiY LIVES LOST And Thousands Made Homeless by a Destructive Earthquake. A severe earthquake accompanied by loss of life has occurred at Bitlis, Turkish Armenia, appears to be con firmed, but the number 'of deaths is unknown. According to advices re ceived in New York from -W. W. Pest treasurer of the American mission at Constantinople. the Americans and their peole in the missions at Bithis have been rendered homeless, the snow in the vicinity being 25 feet deep. Assistance was urgently re quested. MARRIED BLIND GIRL. That Is What an Ex-Gov. of Rhode Island Did. Ex-Governor L. F. C. Garvin, re former and woman suffragists, was very quietly -married last week tc his blind finance, Miss Sarah E.- Tom linson, in the Baptist Church parson age in the villiage of Lonsdale, R. I -His three daughters and the bride's two sisters were present. There were no bridesmaid, matron of honor, not groomsman. The bride filed he) marriage intentions last week. but friends of the couple did not know the ceremony would be performed so soon. W itnessed by Many. Three thousand persons witnessec the hanging of Felix Powell at Vic toria, Texas, on Tuesday. Hie wa hanged for the murder of Mrs. A. J Conditt and her four children in Sep tember 1905. QUEER DOINGS. The Peculiar Capers of Glasswarf in a Darlington House. The Neighborhood Is MysteLied Over The Unexplained Antics of Variout Articles of Furniture. Very mysterious things are hap pening at a farm house in the Coun ty of Darlington if the story publish ed below, which is taken form the Darlington Press is true. The Press says: "W. J. Odom, who lives in the Early's Crossroad section. claims that at the residence of his son, Wil lie Odom, a curious freak occurred from S to 1 o'clock Monday night. and from 9 o'clock Tuesday m.rning. "Looking glasses, water brickets. fruit jars, etc., danced and pranced about in a manner as if posressed with life. A waLer bucket half filled with water jumped from its shelf in tne room and empted its contents. "It was picked up and replaced. when it jumped again. A baittle of white pine cough syrup lped from the table a distance of cer. or twelve feet and struck the chimney and broke; glass ware, fruit jars and bottles and demijohns cut peculiar antics, fell about in profusion and were broken; one empty jar fell to pieces without moving from its place. "The people in the house carried the bottles, one containing turpen tine, out of doors, and these vials re turned mysteriously to the room and fell upon the floor. A mirrow about eighteen irches long, sitting on the table, bounded from the table about eleven feet to the middle of the floor and was smashe!d to smithereens. Mr. Odom is dumfounded over the phe nomena. "'A number of the people in the neighborhood collected and are all mysterfied. The whole community became interested and some thirty five or forty people gathered at the house. Mr. Odom is reliable and is not superstitious. ,He called at the Press office yesterday. J. M. Gray of this city, was at the place Tuesday evening and witnessed the broken pieces of glass. etc." In a foot note the Editor of the Press says we give the above as told us by Mr. Odom. who seeks an ex planation as well as advice as to what should be done. If this mys terious thing happened some place we would attribute it to an over dose of booze, but as Darlington is a dry county. there must be some other cause for themysterious phe nomena. HYPNOTIC REFORMING Proposes to Make Over Wrecked Lives of Girls. The use of Hypnotism to reform incorrigible girls is the latest venture of Dr. John D. Quackenbos. the fam ous mental expert, of New York. A rich New York woman, whose name has been kept secret, has provided money to help the doctor along in his experiments on half a dozen girl in - aates of the New Jersey Home for Girls, at Trenton. The girls upon whom the physi cian is to practice his method of heal ing and making over immoral young ives are all about 17 or 18 years of age. These unfortunate girls. ,it is found, nearly all have some one great fault, which ruins their lives and it is the idea of Dr. Quackenbos to ob iterate this fault by using hypnotic suggestion and putting a new and better idea in its place. The girls must undergo regular treatments. They are put to sleep ad when they awake the old idea has gone and the new idea is in its place. Dr. Quackenbos supplies an object in life for the one he takes away. One girl awoke with the idea of being a waitress, another wished to become a dressmaker, and two had a longing for music. The treatments must be repeated, the doctor says. until the new'idea is firmly rooted in the mind and the will becomes strong enough to hold it there. A MONSTER RAT. WVeighs Most Three Hundred Pounds And Has Huge Lip. The newest specimen at the Bronx park "zoo,"' New York, is a cap~ybara. magine a rat weighing 280 pounds. with a huge head. an upper lip a foot long, and one has an idea of the beast. He is the largest of the re ent tribe and has harsh. coarse hair more like bristles, than fur. The hair is mixed black and yellow and of dingy alppearance. In his na tive haunts the capybara has a huge. ft stomach. which almost drags on he ground. Hie is a water-loving 'an imal and can dive and stay under tot eight to ten minutes at a time. The jaguar of South America preye upon the capybara and the Indiam :il him for his flesh. which. when smoked. is said to be as delicious a. a Watin's brand Kentucky ham. al though it has a certain musky flavor. The capybara makes a sound, if alarmed, somewhat between a dog bark and a pig's grunt. He was once called the hydrochoechoesus, or wa ter hog, and lives oni a vegetable TWENTY MEN BU'RNEI). The Flames Spread Rapidly in a Hotel Building. Twenty men were burned to death nd twenity others seriously hurt in a fire which destroyed the Italian Hotel in the Potrero district of San Francisco on Thursday. The injured were of the labormng class and were asleep in their rooms when the fire started. Before they could be aroused the flames had spread through the building. The stairs fell and the mnmates were buried in the ruins, twenty be ing taken out. The oi.er twenty o1 the injured the firemen rescued. All it is believed, are taken from the de bris. The injured were rushed tc the hospital where several died whilP aawaiting treatment. .1 Sent Him a Bomb. At Schenectady. N. Y., Daniel Miu I er was fatally injured by .an infer al machine sent him by express Fri, ay night. .John Hailinan is uindel rrest. believed to be taie author o the crime, the alleged motive beini disappointed love for a girl Milie3 was to marry. Hallinan's conversa tion strgy indicates he is insane. AWFUL CRIME. Negro Murdered and His Bod) Hidden in a Swamp. BY "INDIAN DOCTOR." Who, With His Wife, Is Badly Want ed by the Barnwell County, Where the Brutal Murder Took Place, The Murdered Man was a Peace. able. Industrious Negro and Was Well Thought Of. A most awful and brutal murder came to light over in Barnwell Coun ty on last Thursday. On Wednes nay, Feb. 27, a man giving his name as Dr. Jeems and claiming to be an Indian "doctor." was in Allendale, accompanied by a negro woman. He claimed that the woman was his wife After making some inquiries about the town the couple called at the house of a negro named Stokes and hired him to take them across the country in his wagon to Barnwell. After some explanations and upon the urgent appeal of the "doctor" and his "wife," Stokes agreed to take them and started out for the county seat. St6kes failed to return kome on the afternoon of the day he left with the strangers. Nor the next day did he show up. and his folks became uneasy about him. The third day came. and not having been seen or heard from his family organized a searching party and started out to vard Barnwell to gather some infor mation from people along the road. They were told by various parties on the road that a wagon with the three occupants as described was seen to >ass along the Barnwell-Allendale road on Wednesday. Feb. 27. They found no difficulty in tracing the wagon to a point within about three miles of Barnwell. They were told by some parties that the wagon turned off at this place and was driv en in the direction of a swamp. Later it was seen to come back with only two of the occupants, the man de scribed as the Indian doctor and the negro woman. The negro Stokes was missing. Search was made for the body of the Allendale negro, it being then be lieved that he had been murdered and his body secreted, but no trace of him-was found. Negroes and whites looked for a week after he was missed, some ex pecting possibly to find him alive, while others have searched for his body. Days went by without their searches resulting in anything. Thursday the attention of some parties wa" attracted to a large num ber of buzzards hovering over the swamp, near where Stokes was seen last, some distance from the road. Investigation resulted in finding a badly decomposed body. afterwards identified as Stokes by means of his cat and shoes. The buzzards had aten almost all the flesh off the ones. The body was face down hen found and there were eviden es which showed that it had been ragged some distance, from a point ear the road. The theory is that Stokes was mur ered either in the wagon or on the oad side and his body dragged into he swamp by the heels. What the notive was is not known, unless it as robbery. The mule and buggy s all that the negro Stokes had. It is certain that "Doctor" Jeems nd his negro wife never went to Barnwell, but they were seen to turn oward Williston. The next day, hursday. Feb. 28, they were in WVIl iston and tried to trade off the mule nd wagon. It Is claimed that the negro woman ith the alleged Indian told several hat her home was in Sumter. Stokes was a farmer. He was aout 22 years of age, and was a uiet, hard working, honest negro ad was liked in his community. Ey rv effort was made to apprehend the 'Doctor" and his colored spouse and olice officers and sheriffs are urgen tly .requested to keep a sharp look ut for them. CAN'T HURT US. The Southi's Crops Put Her On Easy Street. The Birmingham News says the orn crop of the Southern States for 1906 was worth $500,000,000. The value of the cotton crop of the South rn States for the same year was bout $700,000,000. Add to these .he value of the wheat, oats, tobacco ndi fruit crops, the value of live ~tock and poultry, and the value of idstrial products in the South, and he total will make it easily under :ood why this vast fertile and pro ductive region cares not a rap about the turmoil among the stock .lobbers and gamblers and get-rich-quick dis nthes of frenzied finance in Wall street. BRID)E AND GROOM PERISH. Newly Wedded Couple Burn to Death In a Hotel. Dr. and Mrs. Lloyd Gare were burned to death when the River View Hotel at Sutton, WV. Va., was destroy ed by fire on Tuesday, causing a monetary loss of $18.000. Dr. and Mrs. Gare weide married Wednesday in Moundsville, WV. Va., and were en route to the home of the groom's mother, Mrs. Mary Gare, where a wedding supper awaited their coming Mrs. Gare was Miss Elizabeth Win rove of Moundsville. Dr. Gare was 2S years old and bad just finished his medical education. BAREHEADED AT CHURCH. That Is The Way a Greenville Preacher Wants It. At the first Baptist church of Greenville on Sunday, Rev. Dr. Z. T Cody announced as an especial re quest that beginning with next Sun day night's service, ladies would here after leave their hats at home. Thi! only applies to night services. The matter has caused a good deal of dis cussion, but it is believed the reques will be generally complied with. HARD ON TEDDY Harriman Says He Asked Him Tt Save the Repubicans. And That He Raised Money to Pre. vent New York From Going Dem. ocratic in 1904. A sensation was created in New York. Tuesday by the publication of a letter, written in December, 1905, and addressed to Mr. Sidney Webster of New York and signed "E. H. Har riman." Sidney Webster is a lawyer and a writer on political subjects. His wife is a sister of Stuyvestant Fish, who lost the presidency of the Illinois Central railroad a few months ago after antagonizing Mr. Harriman. Following is a portion. of the letter referring to his relations with pres ident Roosevelt in the campaign of 1904: "As to my political instincts to which you refer in your letter of Dec. 13, I am quite sure I have none and my being made at all'prominent in the political situation is entirely due to President Roosevelt and be cause of my taking an active part in the campaign during the autumn of 1904, at his request, and his taking advantage of conditions then created to further his own interests. If it has been a predicated plot it could not have been better started or car ried out. "About a week before the election in the autumn of 1904, when it look ed certain that the State ticket woula go Democratic and was doubtful as to Roosevelt himself, he (the president) sent me a request to go to Washing ton to confer upon the political con ditions in New York State. I com plied and he told me he understood the campaign could not be successful ly carried on without sufficient mon ey, and asked if I would help them in raising the necessary funds, as the national committee, under control of Chairman Cortelyou, had utterly fail ed of obtaining them, and there was a large amount due from them to the New York State committee. "I explained to him that I under stood the difficulty here was mainly caused by the up-State leaders being unwilling to support Depew for re election as United States Senator, that if he .(Depew) could be taken care of in some other way I thought matters could be adjusted and the different contending elements in the party brought Into alliance again. We talked over what could be done for Depew and, finally he agreed, if found necessary, he would appoint him as ambassador to Paris. "With full belief that he, the p-es ident, would keep this agreement I came back to New York, sent for Treasurer Bliss, who told me that I was their last hope, and that they had exhausted every other resource. In his jresence I called up an inti mate friend of Senator Depew, told him that it was necessary in order to carry New York State that $200,000 should be raised at once and if he would help I would subscribe $50, 000. After a few words over the tel ephone the gentleman said he would let me know, which he did probably in three or four hours, with the re sult that the whole amount, includ ing my subscription, had been raised "The checks were given to Treas urer Bliss, who took them to Chair man Cortelyou. If there was any among them of life insurance com panies or any other like organiza tions, of course, Cortelyou must have informed the president. I do not know who the subscribers were other than the friend of Depew, who was an individual. This amount enabled the New York Statg, committee -to continue its work, with the result that at least 50,000 votes were turn ed in the city of New York alone, making a difference of 100,000 votes in the general result. "There are between 2,200 and 2, 300 districts in Greater New York and in a campaign such as that the expenditure ef say, $50 in each dis trict for campaign purposes not in cluding the watchers on election day, would fake more than $100,000. "Some time in December, 1904. on my way from Virginia to New York I etopped and had a short talk with the president. He then told me that he did not think it necessary to ap point Depew as ambassador to Paris. as agreed on, in fact favored him for the senate. I had not expected that he was the ono (sic) as to what would be necessary, but he arrogated that to himself, and I, of course, could say nothing further. After that I used what influence I could to have Depew returned to the senate, as I considered there had been an im plied obligation which should be liv ed up to. ."Tnis is the way I was brought to the surface in the political matters as I had never before taken any active part, and had only done what I could as a private citizen might, so you see I was brought forward by Roose velt in an attempt to help him, at his request, the same as I was in the in surance matter by Hyde and Ryan by their request for my help. "Yours sincerely,... (Signed) "E. H. Harriman." BEGAN RIGHT. "LJet Us Pray" Says Man Just Before Marriage. Just as Justice Stoble started to join Robert G. Jackson, the "ten dollar-a-week bachelor," and Mrs. Belle Williams in wedlock at St. Louis, lats week Jackson halted him "Let us pray," he said. Then he dropped on his knees and fervidly besought heaven to shower the bless ings of happiness and a numerous progency. In this pious wish the bride-to-be heartily joined. Some weeks ago Jackson asked a Judge if a man should get married on a salary of $10 a week. The Jus tice replied in the affirmative, pub lished Jackson's letter, and the lab orer received marriage proposals from eighteen women, including the bride.. SHOT WIFE AND BABE. And Then Blew Out His Own De mented Brain. IThe details of a shocking tragedy which occurred at Flint Hill, Rap pahannock county, Va., Saturday week reached Winchestetr on Thurs day. Henry Foster, a young farmer while out walking with his wife and two-months-Old baby, suddenly dren his revolver and shot and almost in stantly killed both of them. Fostei tnen blew out his own brains. N( reasn is known for the dced. GRIEF TOO GREAI Commits'SuicIde Because of thi Death of:His Neice. A LITTLE BABY GIRL Was Short in His Accounts Severa] Hundred Dollars, But His Employ. ees are Certain That That Had Nothing to Do With His Kiling Himself, as He Could Have Re placed It. A night of grief and despondency in Oakland cemetary at the grave of his little niece, the penciling of a note at daybreak saying that he was short $600 in his accounts and two hours afterwards a pistol shot-these were the final incidents in the trag edy of Robert S. Stewart, who com mitted suicide near 193 Gilmer street Atlanta, Ga., on Wednesday morning of last week. Tne Journal says Stewart was bookkeeper for the Harper-Weathers and Callicott Mule company, where for the past six years he has been one of the most highly valued and trusted men in the office. Shortly after two o'clock Tuesday afternoon he left his desk, ostensibly for home. ae iived with his parents in West End, near Gordon and Cascade ave nue. When night came Stewart had not returned. No alarm was felt, however, until about 7 o'clock his mother telephoned the office and said that he had not been seen at the house since breakfast. Appfehen sion was increased from the fact that he was known to be in ill health. A search was begun for him. On going to the safe to put up the books for the night, W. C. Harper, head of the Harper-Weathers & Cal licott company, found a due bill that Stewart had left and which stated that he was indebted to the firm for something like $6vu. The next seen of the bookkeeper was on Moore street at seven o'clock Wednesday morning. A friend spoke to him and tried to persuade im?a to go home. "N6," he answered, as if in a dream. "I'm going back to the cem etary. I've spent the night there by Leonora's grave." Then he dissapeared. In a deserted outhouse near 193 Gilmer street a pistol report rang out about 8:30 o'clock. A negro washerwoman, frightened by the noise ran over to the shanty. She found Robert Stewart stretched on his face and bleeding from-a pis tol wound through his heart. His hat had fallen behind him and nearby lay a half-smoked cigar, still burn ing, that he had laid aside to fire the shot. In the dead man's vest pocket was found a note, penciled in a firm, bus iness hand on three seperate scraps of paper, one a part of a National bank check and the other two sheets 'rom a scratch pad. In this last mes sage, he intimated that he had lost $1,000 of the company's money last hristmas at a place he does not ame, and that he was crazed with grief for the loss of his sister's lit tle child, Leonora Sedden, who died last Thursday. He vaguely hints of disappointed love, declared that he was weary of living and ended with saying: "Love God. He is good, and you will know it some day, some time." From this letter it -also -appears that Stewart had gone to Oakland eetary Tuesday night intending to kill himself by the child's grave. He writes: "I went to the little darling's grave to die, but was prevented from doing so. My last request is that you lay me by the little darling." That S -ewart's self-inflicted death was the outcome of grief for this baby as well as despondency over his shortage in accounts many incidents f the past few days go to Indicate. With his aged parents, Mr. and Mrs. \. F. Stewart, he has lived far out from the city on Cascade avenue, in the most thinly settled neighborhood of West End. In the family were also his sisters, Mrs. Helena Adams, Mrs. E. Z. Stewart and Mrs. Early Bedden. It was little Leonora Sed den, the 20-months-Old daughter of the later who died last Thursday. from her birth Stewart had an af fection for the child that was almost miraculous. All of his hours from work he spent in playing with her and she returned his love as if he had been her father. Last Thursday the baby died and was burIed in Oak land cemnetary two days later. From then until Tuesday Mr. Stewart's health, which for a year had been ill, more and more rapidly declined. In speaking of the suicide, W. C. Harper, of the Harper-Weathers & Calcott Co., said. I am sure that the shortage in Mr. Stewart's accounts is due to no criminal ntent on his part. His ex penses were heavy, though he was unmarried, and no doubt in time he would have made good every cent of his indebtnebness. Prehaps we shall find on examining the books that the deficit is not so great as .he thought it was. During the six years he had ~een with us, his work has been of the highest character, and we re garded him very highly, as we still do. SERVED HIM RIGHT. A Masher Fined Forty Dollars for Annoying Ladies. The State says one of the most out of the ordinary cases that has come up before the court in a good long while was that of a white man who gave his name as W. R. Bishop, and is a stranger in Columbia. Monday Bishop got about ,half drunk and began "making eyes" at young ladies on the streets. Police man Ford soon got on to his game and in watching him a while noticed that the chap was following two la dies. who, finally being worried and frightened by the persistent atten tions of Bishop, ran to avoid him. The man was locked and Thursday did not deny the charge against him. He said he was drunk and if he was discourteous to anyone he knen nothing of it. His fine was $40. He paid up and left. Thorn Caused Death. Pricked by a rose thorn four weeks ago, Miss Anna Free, aged 23 years of Stamford, Conn., died of blood pisnning, the other day. STARVE WITH MONE) Died For Want of Food ani Had Plenty Maintained to the End His Inabilit To Buy Food, but the Surgeon! Found Money. Saying he was too poor to bu food and with $197 in bills sewed t( the lining of his coat and vest. Thos Barry, of Jersey City died in the cit3 hospital there of starvattion. Barry was seventy-six years old and lived for many-years at 120 Eru street, in what is known as the Hors( shoe section, his neighbors took ar intense interest in him, so that wher he was not seen about yesterday the police was notified. His apartment was broken intc and Barry was found lying in bed in a semi-conscious condition. He wac sent to the hospital, and. after food had been given to him, he regained consciousness and told of his lack of the wherewithal to buy the necessi ties of life. He also told the police that he had a brother named John J. Barry, who lived in Bowdoin street, Boston. He said his brother was a millionaire, and if communicated with would surely send enough money to buy food for himself. (Thomas.) Barry was tenderly nursed by the doctors, and for a time it was hoped to save his life, but age and a consti tution sorely racked by past self-de nials. refused to respond to the treat ment of science. It was then that the doctors, in an endeavor to ascertain the correct ness of Barry's story about his bro ther in Boston, searched his clothing for some letters or papers., There was a peculiar stiffness about the coat and vest. It felt as If it was lined with paper, and the pa per had a rustle to it. It was paper, indeed, for when the doctors un stitched the lining they found paper money of every denomination, from $1 to $20 bills. Some of these bills were worn and very dirty, and looked as though they may have been in this place of con cealment for many years. All were sewed with a long stich of black thread. There were places that indi cated that a bill had been turned out and another bill sewed in its place. DON'T WANT HIML Draftsmen in Treasury Department Object to Colored Associate. Wilson W. Cooke, colored, of Or angeburg, has created more or less a sensation in Washington, and has be come an issue in the Treasury De partment of the Government. Cooke was unt.- recently instructor of mnan ual training in the State colored col lege at Orangeburg. He is well edu cated and especially well posted in architecture. He is said to have grad uated in a Boston technical shool. Tie office of the supervising arch itect of the Treasury has been very short of draftsmen to work upon the plans for the many new buildings authorized by Congress a year ago. It is usually the custom of the super vising architect to employ draftsmen tenmporiarily without asking the civil. service commission for a list from which to make appointments. A month or so ago the supply of trained men became so scarce that a call upon the eligible list of the com mission was necessary. This list re vealed as is customary three names. There was nothing to indicate the color of any of the candidates and Cooke was chosen frdm the list. The minute he entered the office the white clerks were dumfounded. ne was a negro and would have to work alongside of about one hundred white draftsmen already employed. There was trouble at once. The white draftsmen got their heads together and talked it over. One man, a Vir ginian handed in his regignation without delay. The others immediately drew up a petition to Secretary Cortelyou ask ing that the negro be changed to some other place or dismissed from service. Mr. Cortelyou is a very dip lomatic man as well as a good politi tion. He didn't do a thing to the pe tition but stiOkt it in a pigeon hole and say nothing about it. He didn't even send word back to the white clerks that it had been received. He didn't want to be accused of making further trouble for the ad ministration on the negro issue and so he did something that is not pos itive. The clerks are still agitating but they don't know what to do. Two or three others have handed in their resignations and quit the service rather than work alongside of Cooke, against whom there is nothing ex cept his color. All the snubs that can be directed against him have no effect on Cooke. He holds to the job, does his work correctly and will probably remain where he Is unless he Lalls down in his work and gives the head of his office an opportunity to recommend his dismissal. YOUN... GIRT A HEROINE. Saves Many Lives in a Hotel Fire ini Boston, Mass. Eleven-year-old Louise Plypton proved herself a heroine in a recent hotel fire in boston, Mass. She was in the hotel when she saw smoke filling the corriders on the fifth floor She ran from door to door giving the alarm on tuat floor and then went tc the floor above and was engaged in doing the same thing when she was overcome with smoke.Firemen rush ed to her assistance and rescued her before she became insesible. The fire had been caused by the explosion of gasoline and might have resulted in serious consequences had it not been for the efforts of the heoric girl. '1 hrough her warnini 42,000 worth of jewelry was savec from one of the rooms. Fire Burned a Year. A fire that has been burning sinc< the San Francisco earthquake las April was discovered the other da: by workmen who were digging abou thie ruins of a dry goods store. The: were astonished when they picked ul some bricks to find them red hot The bricks were removed and a clout of dense smoge issued forth, accom panied by a blaze. The fire had beel burning nearly a year without bein! discovered. Jealous Lover's Awful Crime. Made jealous by seeing his sweet -heart with another man at Portland :Ore., Roscoe James killed Grace 23 Dney and himself. SHOULD BE STOPPED The Letter Chain Exposed by the National Government Which Is Doing All It Can to Put a Stop to the Nuisance but It's a Hard Job. For some weeks people in this sec tion have been receiving chain let ters from friends in other sections with the request that they write nine, one each day, similar to the one re ceived. Some people did as request ed and others did not. It has come to light, that the scheme was a stu pendous fraud, and Bishop Lawrence whose attention was called to the matter, denied that he had ever dic tated such a document. The scheme has grown to such enormous propor tions throughout the country until the postal authorities were obliged to take a hand in the matter. The let ter is as follows: "Dear Friend and Christian: Below is a prayer chain just as It was sent to me, so I send it out to others, for I do not want it broken in my hands. God bless you and others to keep it going: "'0, Lord Jesus, we implore thee, o Eternal God, to have mercy on all mankind; keep us from all sin, afid take us to live with thee eternally. Amen. "Thisprayer was dictated by Bish op Lawrence. He commands it to be written and sent to nine other - per sons. He who will not do it will be afflicted by :;ome misfortuneand per sons who pay no attention to it will meet witr a terrible accident He who will write this prayer for nine days and send it to nine others, com mencing the day you receive this,. (only one each day), will after nine days experience some great joy. At Jerusalem at the feast, it was said he who would write this prayer would be delivered from 'every cal amity. Please d, not let this drop in your hands. I have written this just as I received it. Now, please send it to others. Sincerely, "CHRISTIAN" Through fear of being overtaken by some dire calamity, as predicted in the letter, the recipients have in variably set down and complied with the instructions to write each day for nine days.' It was not supersti tion that promoted them-of course not, but the men and women receiv ing the prayer have believed that they would feel more comfortable after complying with the obligation so solemnly imposed and the neglect of which was severely -penalized. As a consequence, millions of prayers have been written and sent through the mails in the form of letters on postal cards. To show the extent to which chain letters might expand if the chain was unbroken for even the tenth power, it may be stated that the tot al number of letters would reach 3,500,000,000, as may be seen from the following table: 1.. ..............----9 2..........-.81 3.........-.... 729 4.. .............. 6,561 5.. .....-.... 59,049 6.. .....-.... 531,441 7.. .......... 4,782,969 8.. .. .........354,120,489 10.. .... .....3,187,932,450 Total. ... .. ...3,585,932,450 The united States postal authori ties have taken hold of the matter and they are trying to supress the raze. In speaking of the above let ter an official of the postal depart ment said: "The Bishop Lawrence referred to in the letter indignantly denies that ie ever commanded or authorized any one to use his name in such a matter. He thinks the originator is either a practical joker or some re ligious enthusiast, possibly possess ing more piety than common sense. The bishop proves that the origi nator of the 'chain" was not a good Christian or he could not have incor orated the falsehood ip his original etter, setting forth the supposed con nection. The more prayer, letters, the more imprecations from postal clerks and carriers. The thing seems to have taken a pernacious hold upon the supersticious in widely seperated commuities, and their name is le gion. Theinnocenit cause of the trou ble has sought to stem the tide and entirely disclaims responsibility for the scheme which has loaded .the mails with these prayer letters. The minIsters have denounced the fake and urged~ their congregation to burn the missles and pay no attention to the threats they contain, but still the letters multiply and are seriously overloading the mails. It seems that nothing but common sense will serve to break up the chain. COST TOO MUCH. An Expensive Way to Get Rid of Rats. In a large warehouse in Liver pool a boy named Edward Scott was em)loyed to run errands. There were many rats about the place and he was told that if he could catcn one and singe its tail all the others would leave. A trap. was set and a rat was caugt, but while singeing its tail ac co~rding to directions the lighted pap er blew into a pile of straw and start ed a conflagation that burned four big buildings and inflicted a loss of half a million dollars. SI'S WIFE A WONDER. She Remembered the Wad of Money Hidden in The Stove. Almost too good to be true-was the good fortune of Silas H. Rayburn, of Rising Sun, Ia., who recently sold a lot of cattle for several thousand dollars. Rayburn has always been suspicious of banks and bankers and would have none of them. So he put his money in an old stove used by his wife on wash days. The other day his wife went to build a fire in the stove but she first removed the money. Offers Prize for Births. Eager to see the population of Mc Pherson county, Neb., increased, Thomas Rosemanl, a retired batchelcr cattleman. has offered $50 to every baby born in the county and $100 to every couple who get married. Would Lynch Fuedist Adam Felty is being sought by a posse, bent on lynching, near Celeste, Texas, where he shot and killed'Os car Brown, the 1 5-year-old son of a neighbor, with whom he was at war over a boundary line. WIVES GALORE. A Man Arrested in Philadelphia Said to Have One HUNDRED AND FIFTY. Alleged Daughter Is Accused of Run ning Matrimonial Bureau for His Benefit. Disguised to Please All. Philadelphia Detective. Says He Has Found Biggest Bigamy Swin dle in History. After the arrest in Philadelphia-on Thursday of James Marshall, a p1( turesque looking Westerner, and Miss Teenie Marshall, or Miss Edith Ross, his alleged daughter, the first on a charge of desertion and the se cond on a charge of "false pretence," the police of that city unfolded what they claim is the boldest and most multiple conspiracy of bigamy and robbery in history. Edward Bryant, 6f the Bryant De tective agency, which uncovered the "Mrs. Edith Ross Bureau," asserts that Marshall has at least'one hun dred and Mfty wives, and probably twice that many. 'He claims to have evidence that in one month the man married as many as six women. The plan according to the police, was for Miss Marshall to introduce' Marshall to the dupes as a rich and. gentle suitor. He would appear in a variety of disguises. The marriage would be quickly effected. Marshall would .Set all the valiables he could from the bride and would desert her. His wives, it is said, are scattered across the continent. The proceedings were brought by Mrs. Marjorie Friel, of No. 1525 Summer street, who applied at the Ross bureau for a husband. and got Marshall. She. had saved some. mon ey from her wages and Marshall tried to get it.* Then he deserted her. In the kitchen of the house occu pied by' Marshall was found a lot of charred paper, indicating that alot of letters and stationary 'hed been destroyed. Upstairs, in the sleeping room in the.second floor, were found about 3,000 letters from women all over the' country.in answer to adver tisements inserted. in various papers by the "Mrs. Edith Ross Society" the name of the matrimonial bureau op erated by the Marshalls. There were also found many bot es of hair dye of all shades, tending to bear out the detectives assertion that Marshall "made up" to repre sent different types to please the varying tastes of the "society's" fea male clients. A bottle of laudanum was another find. All the articles were kept by the detectives. At the hearing Friday Marshall who is 61 years old, wore a towering and flaring sombrero. The postal au thorities are interested in the case, as it is charged that Marshall' used.. the United States mails in. his scheme to lure women into his clutches. Pos tal inspector Frank O'Brien is Inves tigating the case on behalf of the Federal authorities. Both prisoners were 'held in $1,000 bail. she. police say the woman is not Marshall's daughter. GREAT HIDDEN WEALH. Money and Valuables That Have Been Lost at Sea. - The computed value af hidden treasure in th!e world runs 'away up into hundreds of millions of dollars. n the bottom of a lake in Columbia there is gold and silver jewels val ed at $500,000,000. On Cocos is land there is burifdi pirates' loot val ued at several hundred millions of dollars. Fifteen million in Spanish gold re poses n the Armada -galleon- which was sunk to prevent capture in Tom bermory gay, off the island of Mufll. Spanish vessels, sunk In Vigo bay, hold $140.00 0,000 in gold, silver and precious stones. Buried in the Black river mountain in Maurittuis is pr ivate wealth valued at-$150,00,000. A- ship wrecked off the coast of St. ohn's Cape Colony, is bulging with 5,000,000 is specie. A British war vessel wth $30,000,000 In gold and valuables went down before the Rus sian gunfire at Sebastopol, and it is still down with all its wealth. Jewels and gold worth $5,000,006 are hidden on the Mediterrean Island : f Alboran. A bushranlger who rob bed hundreds of Australian gold dig gers, and who was killed in one of his raids, has the wealth hidden some where between Melbourne and Balla rat. Stores of gold is believed to be :oncealed in certain oases in the Lib ian desert. Thirty million dollars' worth of the buried treasure of the Incas IS still buried in Bolivia, and the untold wealth which the Romans cast Into the Tiber many cen turies ago, has never been recovered. Norman jew els, the crown of King Alfred, and the ancient English regilia are buried . in the Wash. IND)IAN SWINDLER. Made Ten Ears From the Skin of a Wolfe. It took an ingenious Indian to dupe . the Treasury department of Clark /county. Wis., and swindle it. out of a cool $100 with an ease that would have put even Cassia Chad wick in the shade. The Indian. re ceived the $100 for five -pairs of wolves' ears, for which a bounty is' paid. After he had gone .the -clerk examined the ears more closely and found that.they were made of paste ~oard covered with pieces 'of wolf skin cut Ia the shape of ears. The Indian was arrested. FATAL FIRE. A Mother and Five Children Burn~ ed to Death. At Passiac, N. J., on Wednesday of last week a mother and five of her children were burned to death In a tenement fire. The children ranged. in age from seven months to seven years. Many women and children were taken down ladders by the' firemen, but the members of the Satupo fam ily, which occupied rooms on the 3rd floor are supposed to have been suf focated by smoke before they could escape from their rooms.