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GOES TO PRISONs A Very Rich Woman Convicted of Having Cruelly TORTURED TO DEATH Old Maid Servant, Whose Mother In Open Court, While Kneeling Al most at the Feet of the Rich 31ur derer, Just Before She Was Con victed, Prayed That God Would Forgive Her For The Crime In the Criminal Court of Flandreau, S. D., a few days ago, sat two wo men who represented opposite poles of the social world. The rich woman, wife of a millionaire politically pow erful, was on trial charged with murder. Upon her proud face were fixed the eyes of the poor woman, almost friendless and without influ ence of any kind. The charge and the testimony show ed that the rich woman had fiendish ly tortured to death the only daugh er of the poor woman. The haughty face of the rich wo man indicated her belief that no jury would dare convict the wife of her influential millionaire husband. The poor woman, broken with grief look ed dazed. Saddenly she left her seat among the spectators and approach ed the rich woman. Was she about to attack the murderess of her daugh ter? No such thought was in her mind. Her conduct was even more sensa tional. It was indescribably affect ing. Dropping to her knees in the aisle and raising her toil-worn hands aloft, while tears streamed from her eyes, she besought the Almighty to pardon the one who had tortured tc death her only child. 'O God, forgive the murderer o0 my daughter!" she prayed Then the poor woman's mind anc body collapsed, and it was found nec essary to take the mother of deat Agnes Polreis back to her wretched little home in the country near Park ston, S. D., whence Agnes had com< two years before, to be beaten t< death-so it is charged--by her ried mistress, Mrs. Emma Kaufmann wife of Moses Kaufmann, the mil lionaire brewer of Sioux Falls, S. D The story of this instance of al most incredible cruelty practised up on a maid servant by her mistres was printed in these pages a yea ago. Agnes Polreis, a pretty girl o: sixteen, was hurriedly sent fron Mrs. Kaufmann's house to a Siou: Falls hospital where, next day. sh< died. Mrs. Kaufmann was arreste< on the testimony of other servant that she had systematically torture< and virtually beaten the girl t, death. Of course the rich woman was ad nitted to bail. - In answer to the statements of the accussing servant -who said that the woman had r ungovernable temper and that the; were often compelled to flee to th cellar from her dangerous wrath-i was explained that Mrs. Kaufmnann' mind has been affected by the deat of her daughter several years agc The sight of any other girl--espec: ally a fresh one, like Agnes Poireis made her frantic. So strong was public sentimen agains't Mrs. Kaufmann in Sioux Fall that her attorneys obtained a chang of venue for her trial to Flandreu The news that she had been admitt ed to bail caused such a mob to gath er at the jail that she was smuggle< out of a back door to her home where she had to have police prote( tion. Mr. Kaufmann's wealth had prc cured the best legal talent in th West for his wife's defence. Sever a! medical experts were placed ol the witness stand. To them was pu the following "hypothetical ques tions" which catalogue the wound found upon the body of Agnes Pol reis after her death: "Assume the following facts: 2 patient sixteen years old is in a ver; emaciated condition. She has a sor having the appearance of a cut abou one and one-half to two inches lons transversely across the point of th< left shoulder; she has a sore havint the appearance of a cut transversely across the point of the right elbow extending down to the joints; she has a similar sore upon the point o: the left elbow. She has a gangrenous sore upot the point of each shoulder blade; the ring finger of the left hand is dis jointed, with the bone protruding; the cutile is off the ends of the fin gers; the bone protrudes through the tip of one finger; there are numerous discolorations upon the body; the left knee is badly swollen, the skin brok en and off, from the left ankle the skin is off the top of the foot; the sole of the foot is entirely loose, hanging down; the cuticle is off fron the toes and the rest of the foot; the right foot is in practically the same condition. "Such being the facts, state wheth er or not, in your opinion, such con ditions would be due to externel vio lence or disease and its results." Dr. Spafford-In my opinion tc violence. Dr. Rider-In try opinion to dis ease and its results (referring to the disease Diabetes mellitus). In cross-examining Dr. Onley, of Sioux Falls, Prosecuting Attorney Egan asked: "How could the wound on the left shoulder be self-inflicted?" A.-I claim these wound were not self-infiicted. Q.-How could they be inflicted by another? A.-By taking a knife and cutting ac-ross. A part of the testimony of Peter Ericksojn, the man who worked at the Kaufmardm homne; follows: Q.-Did Mr-s. Kaufmann ever threaten the dead girl with violence? A.--She said, "Thy girl is so stub born that I could kill her." - 6.-Did you ever see Mrs. Kauf mann strike or maltreat the girl, Ag nes. A.--I once found the girl on the kitchen floor. Mrs. Kaufmnann a' there, and told me she had poured hot water on the girl to make her get up. Another time, when the girl was on the floor and too weak to get up. Mrs. Kaufmann said, "Don't touc-h her, as she can get up herself if she wants to--she is only working 'n your sympathy." When Agnes tried to get up by grasping a screen door Mrs. Kaufmann roughly jerked the door away. Q -.-Did yo eve eMrs. Kauf mann hit Agnes? A.---She often punched her with a broom handle. I saw the girl on her knees many times, pleadingly repeat ing the words, "Frau Kaufmann! Frau Kaufmann!" Q. Did you see anything else? A. Before her final sickness, Ag nes was too weak to walk up to her room, so I carried her. Mrs. Kauf mann wanted me to shake the girl first, but I stood her up by a trunk; then Mrs. Kaufmann hit her with a sticek a foot and a half long; the girl cried and I carried her upstairs. Q. Did Mrs. Kaufmann do any thing for Agnes' wounds? A. She put turpentine on her legs. Q. What happened Friday morn ing before the girl died? A. I noticed blood in Agnes ,mat ted hair, but Mrs. Kaufnann told Ine not to mind it. Q. What happened after Agnes died? A. Mrs. Kaufmann, when she heard of it, cried: "What shall I do? What shall 1 do?" Then she made me scrub the blood stains from the floor of Agnes' room -and tear away wall paper with blood stains on it. George Bessler testified that Mrs. Kaufman said to him once, when speaking of Agdes: "She is so stupid, I feel sometimes like killing her." Mrs. J. T. Udell, a neighbor, heard Agnes crying upstairs; saw her in so weak a condition that she could hard ly carry a pail of water down the steps; and saw the girl one day try to run away but return when pursu ed by Mrs. Kaufmann, and was made to march back to the house. Miiss Janet E. Larson, superintend ent of nurses at the hospital where Agnes died, testified that the girl cried out in German: "My head aches! My stomach ach es! I ache all over!" The case of the prosecution was a very strong! one---much stronger, in fact, than was supposed would be presented. The evidence of physici ans who made post mortem exami nationson two occasions, and of oth ers who knew something of the treat ment accorded the girl by Mrs. Kauf mann, was presented and made a art of the evidence of the State. The physicians did not hesitate to testify that three wounds upon the head, and three at the base of\ the skull of the dead girl, taken in con nection with numerous other woundc cuts and bruises found upon her body, arms and legs were sufficient to have caused her death. Testimony was presented showing Mrs. Kaufmann had poked the girl ir the ribs with a broom-stick; of hav ing her bathe her feet in ashes soak ed with water, forming lye, and o: . many other instances of allegec cruelty on the part of Mrs. Kaufmant - toward the girl, this continuing ul to within a brief time before the gir. had to be taken to the hospital, wher( she died, the harsh treatment havin continued when the girl was so weal she could hardly stand upon her feet s Throughout the trial the courtroon I was packed with spectators, and de monstrations against the rich defen dant frequently had to be rebuked - by the judge. The presence of thi poor old mother of Agnes Poireis ex cited much feeling against Mrs Kaufmann. SIt had come to be generally know] that the death of Agnes was the see t ond tragedy in the mother's life, th< first having been the shooting anc killing of an elder daughter by a re jeted suitor. On several occasions the grief stricken mother has wandered to th< Parkston Cemetery, where the re t mains of her younger daughter ar< buried, and in the dead of night ha: Sbeen found weeping on her grave force being necessasy to induce hea to leave the spot. HISSES FROM THlE SPECTATORS. SThe spell of the case, which alread: had divided several South Dakoti communities was apparent in th< courtroom. This was clearly showi during the examination of the stal witness for the prosecution, when th< hundreds of spectators who crowde< 1 the courtroom gave spontaneous an< forceful vent to their sympathy witl - the State and resentment toward th< . defendant. -Hisses came while Erickson war testifyinst in reference to Mrs. Kauf mann, havn on one occasion pour Sed hot water on the girl after shE had fallen to the floor from sheer ex haustion, in order, as she is alleget to have expressed it to Erickson, "t get her up." Erickson testified t< numerous things showing the custo mary harsh and inhuman treatmen1 of the girl by Mrs. Kaufmann.. In spite of the unsriendly senti ment manifested by the spectatorn Mrs. Kaufmann and members of her family appeared confident of acquit tal. When the jury returned to con sider its verdict Mrs. Kaufmann sai between her husband and their growr son Charles. The Court, the Kauf manns and the spectators remained in their seats evidently eqpecting a quick decision. In less than an hour the jury re turned. "We find the defendant guilty of manslaughter in the first degree," said the foreman. The spectators burst into applause, which the Judge sternly rebuked. Mrs. Kaufmann turned deadly paic' and her head sank upon her hand. Charles Kaufmann, her son, burst into tears. Her hosband seemed ut terly crushed. They knew that the least penalty under the law would be four years in the penitentiary. Mrs. Kaufmann was first to recov er her composure. This statement by the Court seemed to give her some comfort: "The Court fixes October 21 as the date for pronouncing sentence upon the defendant. In the meantime she is ermitted to remain at liberty under the bond of $25,000 furnished last June." Sentence was deferred to the date named in order to give time for ar guments for a new trial, which will be made at Yankton on October 10. The conviction of Mrs. Kaufmnann appears to have quieted public ani mosity toward her. Probably she 'need fear no more mnob demonstra ions such as terrorized her upon her~ release from the Sioux Falls jail a year ago. - .PACEAG~E IS LOST Reported That Ten Thousm,: Dollars Mis.sing at Florence. It is reported that an expre~ pack ge of $10i.000 has been lost at the Florence. S. C. omeecc. Superinlteh liet Sadler of Cara totie Sueitn dan )!imaio( of Pin eto ns and three roseI agents hvv been wocrking on1 e ise for sev'ral anys. An arrest Iha'i !milana ma who V11 died in great agony~ from the park of a hen ha givenf al the m flr men a chance to rea a littl s ympa! hy while the EUTAW COUNTY. Gov. Ainsel Has Had a New Prop osition Submitted The Papers in the Case Were Filed Thursday-.AlI Constitutional Re quirements M1et. The State says Messrs. J. C. Evans. A. A. Dantzler, W. M. Fair and J. ). Gates of Ellorce: Gordon \Wiggis, I . D ast and A. B. Bennett of iolly Hill filed a petition with Gov. A Thursday in the Eutaw County m wa; er. The new county is arrange-1 to embrace portions of Orangeburg and Berkeley counties. The Northern boundary of the pro posed new-county begins at a point on the Santee river about eight and one-half miles above Elloree, strik ing the Four Holes swamp near the town of Cameron with the natural boundaries, Four Holes Swamp and the Santee river, on either side. It is understood that the proposi tion has been given the closest at tention for some time and the people are hard at work getting matters in proper condition. The petitions filed with Gov. Ansel, according to_ the registration books of Orangeburg and Berkeley, were signed by over two thirds of the voters within the pro posed cut and the promoters are very enthusiastic over the prospects of success. A map and completed survey, made by Harmon D. Moise of Sumter, was filed with the petitions. and certifi cates from the officials of Orangeburg and Berkeley counties, showing that the proposed new county meets all the legal requirements for the forma tion of new counties. The certificate of the surveyor shows the area to be 4_10 square miles. All of the papers will Ie ref*erred to the attqrney gen ecral. who will see whether the legal requirenents have been complied with. The delegation had reports from the auditors of Orangeburg and Berkeley counties showing that th( taxable property in the parts of thes( two counties that will become a sec tion of the new county is at th present time something like $2,000, 000. The statuary requirement 1, that there must be taxable propert to the amount of $1,500,000 within the area of any proposed new county Some of the territory embraced ii the proposed Eutaw county, is als< embi-aced in the proposed -aIoUI Conaty. which will cause a conflit betveen the two new county propo sitions. It is a novel situation. an( - just how it is to be settled we d< not know, but we suppose the peopi in ...e disputed territory will decio by vote with which of the new coun ty propositions they would rathe cast their fortunes. We do not knov whether this is the law or not, but 1 it is not, it should be. as the peopl in the disputed territory should b, alIc wed to decide the matter fo: themselves. We do not suppose tha either of the new county projector would object to this equitable ani satisfactory mode of settling the mat ter. If the people of the disputed ter ritory votes to throw their fortune wit' hEloree. the St. Matthews peopl would have to extend their lines 1: some other directions to get the teI ritcry they require for their count: Then if both prop)ositionls are vote, dov-n, the terr-itory embraced in eith r oif the propcsed new counties coui not be called upon to vote upon im~nilar propositioni for four year; That is the way Gov. Ansel recent1 decided the ease of Hammond Cour ty and we think he was right. Th E aaw County scheme complicate the matter considerably but we sui pose there is some way out of th tangle- One thinig is certain, the sam Steritory can't be embraced in tw conties, and before a vote on eithe car: be had the matter will have to b adjusted. It is a novel situation an will be watched with interest by th whle State. UNAL EXPLOSIONS. IHave Kilcl Many on Battleshipi: Rlecent Years. The explosion of the gun on th h atleship Georgia has not been th Ionvy accident of a like character tha has occurred in recent times. Amon the first serious accident of this kin' was in the 40's when some trival oc currence kept President Tyler fror being on the deck of the old Prince to when a new gun exploded, killni Secretary Upsher., ut by far the most serious ace; Ident in bygone days was the_ explc sion of a gun on the battleship Mis souri in 1904, when the crew wa -engaged in target practice off th Flrida coast. The gunners wer< trying to make record time in firin th- gun. but in some way the oxygel combined with the other gases laten in smokeless powder. The men hat n t inserted the third charge whe: the exptlosion came. Forty officer: and men were killed. In the inquir: wich followved the crew, instead o bing censured, received the highes praise for -the way in whic they res cued the bodlies of the dead and wounded. . ontebtl in February.19,ontebtl ship Iowa b~y the bursting of one o the I 2-inchi gn'i. kining several 0 the men who were at mess. Again ir 9)' niue men were killed in a tur ret by the explosion of one of thE eiht-inch guns on the battleshil Massachsetts. An order had beerl is en to change from percussion tc electric firing after the gun was cock ed and the breech was open to allow the change to be made. The lanyard was pulled accidentally, the gun dis charged and all the men in the tur ret killed. Since these various ex plc sions the guns oii all the vessels have been strc ngthened so that there is not much liability of accdents at foi mierly. SAVED) HER LIFE B~ Hanging from Tie Until the Traii Had Passed. The New York American says to scape being run down by a D. L. & V. express train on the bridge be' een Bloomlield and Watsessing Thursday, a young woman, whose ne is unknown, lowered herself ffrni te end of a tie, to which she clng until the train had passed by: Engeer Sec-or stopped the t.'ain and the crew ran back to rissist the woman. but before they could rerch hr. she had raised heirsel f up oni the biidge, and run down the eimrank' meat toward East Orange. UIG CROP OF CORN. snt PIlan is Responisible. Theu Stati- says the greatest cr'op of -o:n int thle hiist ory of South Carolina wl e gat heredl this year. acco"'dG. t the reporints that at-c coming in. Mir. E.. .).Smith. president. of the Stuth C arol ia Cuo(toGroers' association. asibtc-s thIiis to the inter'st taken in thhe XXWiliamsoni plan. antd he" thini' tha thoe who follow-ed lie :--rmula giv i-n by Mr'. .Mc Iver WX'ill iami han~. made dc large yields and that their pr itis will b~e such as to .iustify "irt - .,- taken ari' Williamson' s ad A Fraud Order Issued Against a Philadelphia Negro. TO RAISE MILLIONS By a Schemne Which the Poslollice Lawyers Clain is a Base Fraud. The Negro Claiimed to Have Been Delegated by God to Uplift the Ne gro Race, but Failed to Convince Uncle Sam. Justus J. Evans, the Philad-1phia negro groceryman. who is individu ally "Archbishop of the Glorious Light of the World Union," and col lectively "The Holy union Royal Trust Company," was declared a fraud Thursday by Postmaster Gen eral Meyer, and denied future use of the mails. Evans is said to be operating a gi gantic scheme to raise money, and, according to the postoffice inspectors who investigated the "bishop," it is not known how many thousands of dollars he has secured from the con fiding negroes. The aim of the "bishop," who pro claims that he is the chosen man of God to save the negroes, is to enlist an army of 700,000 negroes, and from them collect in five yearly payments the sum of $65 each. The revenue derived, which will equal $45,500, 000. he is to spend as he sees fit, ac cording to his armoioneernent. The protest to the postoflice de partment made by the "bishop' against the issuance of a fraud ordez is characteristic of the negro with E smattering of Biblical lore. It is a re markable protest, and it is a certain ty that the prophet, while he claim. to have been given knowledge and power above all men of the earth was overioo!:ed when the Englisl language was handed around. The fanaticism with which th< "bishop" attempts to surround him self is blasted by the cold-bloode< way the law officers of the postoffic( L department have handled his case: "A negro by the name of Justui I J. Evans, without standing or repu tation, who conducts a small grocer: shop," the decision reads, "is engag ed in sending through the mail printed literature soliciting member of the negro race to deposit thei: f savings at the rate of 25 cent s a weel or $1 a month with a trust compan; styled the Holy United Royal Trus r company. t "It is provided that, as evidence o S their savings deposited, they will b furnished with certain so-callei bond in the amount of the deposi and it also pretended that interest a s the rate of 7 per cent. per annur L will be paid on such dep.sits. a "Evans represents that the fund will be devoted to the uplifting c the negro race," continues the d( -cision. "There is no such institutio: or trust company. His pretence a to religious work seems to be but ~guise for obtaining money in a fraud yulent scheme. "E'vans, when asked to what us he was putting the money he colleel Sed and what security he gave for it proper handling, answered that h w ~as responsible to no one but God This answer would be strongly ind c. ative of the unbalanced mind if it assumption of fervor were not cloak for a cunning scheme to de efraud the negro race," concludes th department's order. In answering the charge, th "bishop" did not appear in perso Sbefore the department. His rejoind er begins with the announcement which he claims is indisputable, tha Severy man is his own judge, no mat Ster what he does, no one has a righ to say itis not an honest action. SHe declares that God appeared ti hinm out of a burning bush in th same way as he appeared to Moses took him South and showed him th< negro and said to him: S"I have delivered these people fror bondage at a cost of $6,000,000,001 and the lives of 2.000,000 men, an< now you see they are cowed down b: other nationalities of this country. Evans says he was commanded t< raise them up. He says he complain ed of his weakness, but that he wa 'found to be fit and had been promis ed that 'he would be saved if he di< his work, even if the whole worki gets lost. kThe "bishop" told of gathering hi: army. Of the negroes he says thal some wisely accepted his offer to gel in the band wagon of salvation, whik there were others of the negro lead. ers who refused to this, and who arn now running to the white people and proclaiming that he is an imposter "No honest man believes me -fraud," he declared. Evidently of the opinion that through such a declaration, he woukc have weight with the postoffice au thorities, he told of having writter tolresident Roosevelt just previous to the last presidential campaign, telling how he would make the ne groes vote for him and saying thai he would expect a contribution te his cause when the election was over. He failed however, to say whether or not the president sent the contribu tion. He concludes with this: "You per. mit me to ask you gentlemen what am 1?" The order prohibiting the use of the mails to the "bishop" was issued immediately after the reading of his answer had been accomplished. Acronxout Falls Fromi a Houlloon1 and! is Drzowned. Chiarles Samis, twenlty-onie years old, of U'atlel Creek. 3'Iichi., was drow ned near thle AlIlendale resort a. Gull Lake, after making a balloon ascension before a large- (rowd. . no body of the young man has not1 been recovered. The first hal loon ascenlsion of the season wats advertised to take llace Truesday. WV. :. Mtartin, of Battl e Creek. who has the contcrct. had se cured the services of I larry Laptide, lbut the' latuer refused to go up] at Lme last inuil i hesu.mse his mot her 0;b jected. Saris wa'lkea 01ut of the crowd an-! n'rd n Lap Ilea to te pre' ::. h'e:. boyws i i sigtht. Necessity k eeps: a mani frm''-' Ving A LONi RACE. Eight Men Started on a Spin Around the World. The Race is Nearing Comlpetion, but Only Two of the Racers Are Left. Hale and tanned, but marked by scars made by cruel fetters in a Rus sian prison, Henri Mosse has come from the Far East on the French steamer Admiral Juareguiberry. en route to Paris, striving to win a strange race. The steamer reached San Francis co Saturday night, was held inquar antine until Friday morning on ac count of the presence on board of a large number of Japanese steerage passengers, who are bound for Van i couver, B. C. It was late this morn ing when the Admiral Juareguiberry went to berth at China Basin wharf. Mosse and an Englishman now ir India are.the sole surviving competi tors in a race around the world and both are nearing the end of the long journey. One or the other will wir a price of 50,000 francs by arriving first in Paris. Mosse was chauffeur in the Frencl capital, when the Sportsmen's c!ul of London suggested to the Tourinj club of Paris that each organizatior should furnish four men and sent them out on a competitive tour o: the world, without funds, except tw francs each, the men to travel i pairs, an Englishman with a French man. The four pairs were to go over dif ferent routes. After all preliminarie had becn arranged the start wa made on June 14, 1904. and the limi for the world tour was fixad for Jun 14, 1906. Two of the men started b: the way of Africa. two by the way o America, two by way of England and the remaining couple by way o Asia Minor. Mose and his English companio took the Asia Minor route and gc along well together until Constant nople was reached, in July 1904 when the Englishman, George Most succumbed to an attack of fever. The Frenchman, Mosse, came o: alone, and has had many hairbreadt escapes. At Odessa. on the Blac Sea, he was suspected of being a Ja anese spy, and for twenty-five da3 was kept in chains in a foul prisor His ankles still bear the scars of th irons. Upon being released he pas: ed on afoot and by sea to India. an still later to China. In the district of Bing Sam, in tr interior of China, Mosse was captui t ed by highwaymen and robbed < $20, all the money he had. But I f was well treated by the bandits, wt offered him a Chinese wife if I should care to remain awhile wit t them. t Mosse chose to keep moving, ar I he tramped along until he reache the coast. where he took ship for J: S pan. At Yokohama he joined the A< f miral Juareguiberry and worked h -way thence to this city. He must ieaw 1i the vessel here, for it is a conditic of the contest that he shall travy aover land whenever it is possible. Mosse has been kept posted by ti French club as to his competitor eLetters he has received at differet -points along his strange course ha' a informed him that the couple goir eby the African route were murder< -by treacherous Abyssinians on t -desert, who cut off the heads of i S Frenchman and Englishman. a The two men who went by way - Australia both took sick and died C the same hospital of a fever. TI Frenchman who went by way SAmerica was lost in China, his cor Spanion proceeding to India, whe) -he was at last accounts ploddir -along. tThe victory in the long race res between Mosse and the Englishms Sin India, the only survivors of tl contest. The winner will receive 'prize of 50,000 francs, and there Sno second prize. That Mosse has visited all ti ~strange places he has talked about: proven by the autographs and sea Lof officials in countless out-of-th' Iway places all the way from Paris I 1Yokohama. FRANCE QUIETED .DOWN. Peaceful Solution of Wine Groiver. Strike Now ini Sight. 1While t;he wine growers strikei 1France is still far from being finall settled. the progress Premier Clen enceau ht.s made is very pleasingt President Fallieres. The head of thi present Frenuch cabinet has held seo eral sessions with Marcelin Alberi the Napoleon of the wine growersi the south. wi-h thc result that a: fairs are gradually shaping the4sel yes toward a peaceful end out of rh difficulty. Premier Clemenceau ha the full supplort of the president C the French people in the firm bu patient manner in which he is deal ing with the dissatisfied southerners and the few occasions on which h has been compelled to show the auto~ cratic hand ha~s b)een withl Fallierez full approval antd consent. WVhile thle fact has been g(-nerail: kept secret. it is known that the at tack upon1 the president's lifec recent ly, when he was fired at twice b;, Leon Maille, but fortunately escapiei unhurt. was the result of the win; growers' insurrection and was maid1 by one friendly to their cause. Mar celin Al bert. their leader, has coun seled them to have patience and at tempt nothing but a peaceful solutioi of the difficulty. and in most case: his advice has been heeded. FOU ND 1HElt MAiiED). After [ingi~t tbse-nt Manuy Yea-rs J e oist in a river -collisioni tw ent-'v years ago. a nd who wa's morned ' a' dead by his wife Thur sday nlonl walked ito the h'ome of the '~en--n who had been It e ife O o Iothe man for f?fteen ye.rs. Edmuur Dixon. I he seond hus band learnaing of the e-xpl'ed arriv; of the mian with the trior: cli u packed his suit case. anid as Keeferi entered the front door he went on.: the back. BASE Ball is surely a national in stitution. It is bein~g played fromn one end cf this country to the o'ther', and wit nesed by muillions of peop'e. We doubt i i any game was ever more poplar in anty country than basee ball iin the U nited S:ates. It is a great game. ________ Engl'Iish i'en rists '*e dIisc-over. oer ther e munst bie a spad vtr EIGHT KILLED From Explosion of Powder on the Battleship Georgia. The Cause of the Accident is Un , known, But Was Not Caused by Carelessness. By the explosion of a case of pow der in the hands of a gunner in the arter superimposed turrett of the battleship Georgia in Massachusetts bay Monday, six men were killed and fifteen injured. Not one of the persons in the tur ret escaped injury. The following are the names of those who were kill ed outright: William J. Thatcher, chief turret captain, Wilmington,,Del. Faulkner Goldthwaite, midship man, Kentucky. W. J. Bucker, ordinary seaman, Quincy, Mass. G. G. Hamilton, ordinary seaman, South Framington, Mass. William Thomas, ordinary seaman, Newport, R. 1. George s. Miller, ordinary seaman, I Broollyn. N. Y. In addition to the above the follow ing died after being taken to the h ospital: Lieut. Casper Goodrich. New York. Edward J. Walsh, ordinary seaman Yynn, Mass. Twelve injured remain in the hos pital. of whom Midshipman James F. Cruse of Nebraska and Seaman Jas. I P. Thomas of Brooklyn, N. Y., are - not. expected to recover. The other inen's conditions has not - ebanged since they were carried to the hospital. S he cause of the explosion is not known. DENIES SMUGGLING. L Commander Winslow Says He Di( f Not Evade Paying Duties. a Writing to the Secretary of th( t Navy, Commander Cameron McR - Winslow has endeavored to clear him self from the charges made agains1 him in newspaper articles to the ef feet that he smuggled goods ashori at the time he left the United State. cruiser Charleston, at San Diego, Cal h last June. C It was alleged that he evaded the - duties on wine, high trade cigars s and valuable .curios which were tak. . en to his home. Commander Wins. e low claims that not only did he hav no large amount of wines, cigars oi d curios, but he paid duties on any ar ticles concernng which there was thi sliightest puestion of their being duit e able. Commander Winslow said suc] I wines and cigars as he had, wer e purchased in New York for privat o and official entertainment, and fo e the most part official. He said the: ,h had been on board for about a yea and that what remained of them wa d landed with the remnant. of cabi A supplies and his household good, with no thought of smuggling. Late I in the day when he learned that the: I- might be subject to duty he informe Is the collector of the contents of thi e boxes and paid the duty in all case a where there was a doubt. S .Baling and Handling Cotton. e It has been suggested time ani - again that more care should be give: 0j by the farmers in handling and balin, e Itheir cotton for the foreign market . That much loss is incurred ever 3 year by the farmers of the Souti e through the way they put their cot a ton on the market is no longer ques tioned, and experts in Europe an< ~fAmerica are now giving this impor nr tant matter conside'rable attention e At the recent Cotton Congress il ~Vienna a prominent cotton spinn .of England contributed a valuabi e address on this subjiect in which hi dealt forcably with the evils of loose gly packed and poorly covered cotton SHe also made several valuable circu n lations. and the figures should be suf Sficient to attract earnest attention oi a the part of our farmers and all wh< s deal in cotton. Making all allowances for reduce< e freight by land and sea for the small s er bulk, and for diminished tare s &c., it is calculated by the gentlemai referred to above that the total sav Sing on a crop of 12,000,000 bales, o: which 7,000,000 were sent abroad would be over $33,000,000. At th< height of the last season there wert much complaint of congestion on th< -railroads and delay in transporta tion, and it was said that about 5( per cent more cars were needed t< uprovide adequately for promptly car .rying all the cotton to market. -With proper compression and bal ing the congestion and delay wouk be fully relieved and prompt trans portation and delivery could be mad< with the same equipment, but Mr. nMacalister continued his figuring by assuming that the additidnal equip -ment must be provided for the pres ent method of baling. He estimated that 40,000 cars are now used in car rying a 12,000,000-bale crop, and that 20,000 more ar~e necessary to dc the work with promptness and dis patch. This at $920 for the cost of -each car would mean the investment of $18,400,000 more capital, which~ would be unnecessary with proper compression and baling. It will be observed that this has altogether to do with saving in the cost of transportation and handling, and does not take into account the loss from waste and injury to cotton as the result of the present loose and defective methods or the risk of loss by fire in transit and warehouses and the higher cost of insurance, which one of our own authorities a while ago reckoned at some $20,000.000 for a season's crop. The loL. A waste from these various cause "'catter ed all along the line, but it must in evitably fall upon the producer in a reduction in the price he receives for his cotton. All the cost and risk it is subjiect to in getting to market must be taken into account in determining that price. The economic advantage, to say nothing of self-respect and business pride, in packing American cotton for market in a civilized fash ion ought to be impressed upon all concerned in the production and mar keting of this most important of our exports. The present slovenly meth od is flagrantly extravagant as well as disgraceful. The farmers are pow erless to bring about the necessary reform, unless they are aided by all who ar-e interested in the cotton trade. IT is assented as a fact by those wh o claimn to know that American cton is the worse packed cotton that goes on the European markets. Thisde not only reflect upon our bo ,c iness methods but costs us nmil iono dollars 'n money. a n:. can t th- he remedied? USES HIS KNIFE On a Negro Woman and on a Po lice Officer. He Is Pursued and Shot at By a Posse of White Citizens But Makes His Escape. There was some excitement in Rowesville on last Saturday night caused by the outrageous conduct of a negro by the name of Jim Jones. The correspondent of The State at Rowesville says Jones is a bad fellow generally and he kept up his reputa tion on Saturday night by an un provoked attack on Lavissa Lee, a woman with whom he has lived for the past six years off and on, and by an attack later on Officer Dempsey. It seems that Jones is very jeal ous of Lavissa and Saturday night about 10.30 he found her talking with a group of negroes on the street near the railroad crossing and with out warning he slashed the woman with a big knife and the blow or blows laid open the back side of her head and then caught into the flesh and opened a gash on her back from the neck to the waist line. While none of the wounds are ne cesarily fatal, they were serious ones, as one or two arteries were cui in the scalp and the wound on het back is half an inch deep in places, Officer Dempsey was notified of th' assault and arming himself with 2 pistol, which was furnished him b3 Intendant Stok'es, he ran againal Jones in the dark without knowin, that he was up against his man until Lhe latter made a leap for him. The pistol was not a self acting one, which Dempsey did not know and when he pulled the trigger wAh out having cocked it, it of course diC not go off and Dempsey was over thrown and went down on his bacl in the ditch with the negro, who I a powerful fellow, on top of him an< trying to use his 'knife on him Dempsey called for help and did hi! best to ward off the blows of the ne gro. He was cut slightly in the lef hand and his shirt was cut thre times over the heart, but he was no injured other than the slightest cu on the hand . The white men hai gathered by this time and the negr ran, followed by a fusillade of revol ver shots and by discharges from shotguns, but so far as known he wa not hit in the darkness.. A searc) was made for him until midnigh and it was renewed yesterday, but h was not found. There is no doubt but that he wil return and then he will be placed un der arrest. If he had been foun Saturday night the chances are tha there would have been a dead "nit ger" in Rowesville, as the temper c the young white men was sueh tha they would have taken no chance with the "nigger" armed as he wa and after miakng the assault whic he'did on an officer. FlE FROM THE SKY. German Government Tests One of 11 'Big Airships. SThe trial of the German gover1 ment's big war airship, built undi the auspices of Capt. Von Krogh, wx conducted recently with great secr< cy near Paris. France, the exper1 who witnessed the trial going to ti3 secluded spot by night. It was ax -nounced that later the big gasba was kept at a height of 1,700 yard i for a period of four hours, and wa -under perfect control, moving at - rate of about 25 miles an hour. j The absolute secrecy of the tex prevented particulars from leakin out. It is stated that one advantag out. It is stated that one advani age of the machine lies in th stability of the cigar shaped gal bag which is obtained by two g balloous, one at each end of the shil - The balloons are inflated by two ga .machines on the platform. Roomj - also provided for six men gnd tw .rapid firing guns on the platforn Apparatus is fixed over the balloont balance the whole after a shot or re ducton in the amount of ballast. Tw motors are placed on the platforn but only one of these is used in rux ning the ship, the other being hel for cases of emergency. The firin t of shots had no effect in the opern -ting of the machine. , They Still Live. During the war the Congress c the United States erased the name c M. F. Maury from the list of distir 1guished United States nayal officer because he had joined the Confeder acy. "Poor fools," said Admirt Semmes when the news reached hir of the action of Congress. "M. F Maury will live in history as a dim iitinguished naval officer of the Uni ted States long after every man wh voted to expunge his name from tb list is dead and forgotten." And s it has proved. The whole civilize1 world know who M. F. Maury is bu the men who voted to erase his nam< are dead and forgotten. The pett: spite of these failed to effect Maury After the close of the war Field, wh< built the Atlantic cable, in a 'speecl at a great banquet given in honor o: the completion of that great enter Iprise said "England put up the mon ey, M. F. Maury furnished, the brain: and he did the work." And Maura still lives. "When Jefferson Davis was Secre tary of War of the United States,' says The News and Courier, "ax aqueduct was built over Cabin Johi Creek as a part of the water-worka system of the City of Washington The work was done by army engi neers under his direction, and the names of those who were in authori ty at the time were inscribed on the keystone of the arch spanning the stream. When Caleb Smith was Sse retary of the Interior under Abra ham Lincoln he ordered that the name of Mr. Davis, which had been chiseled into the stone, should be cut out, and it was done. If Caleb Smith ever did anything else during his Iterm of office. we do not know it; but at the time, we have no doubt that he was much trumpeted for this mark of his loyalty to the cause of the Union. "For more than forty years there has been a blank space in the key stone of Cabin John Bridge. Every visitor to the place has asked whose name had been cut out of the stone; nobody has asked who cut it out, so that it has come to pass that Caleb Smith has been forgotten and that Jefferson Davis lives on. This is ex actly as we would have it and as it ought to be." The mean, pett.y spite of Congress and of Caleb Smi.:h fail ed of its object. Instead of their action causing the distinguished men it was aimed at to be forgotten it hat made them more famous, and today they live in history and is known to* tie civilized world, while those who tried to obliterate their greatness1 SAME OLD STORY Thirty People Killed in a Rail Road Accident. THE FEARFUL WRECK Was on Pierre Marquette Excursion Train, Which Crashed Into a Freight Train-At, Lest- Thirty Are Known to be'Dead, and Sev enty Others Are More or Less Ser iously Hurt. Thirty peoplo are dead and more than 70 injured, many cf them ser iously, as the resulc of a head-end collision Saturday morning near-Ply mouth, Mich., when a Pere Marquette excursion train bound from Ionia to. Detriot crashed into.-a- westbound freight in a cut located at a sharp urve about a mile east of Salem. The passenger train- of 11 cars, carrying the P're Marquette shop. employes- of Ionia and their families to the Michigan metropolis f6r their annual 'exetrsion,- was running at high speed, probably 50 miles an hour, down a steep grade. -. It struck ie lighter locomotive.-of the freight train with such terriffie force as to turn the freight engine completely around. The wrecked locomotives lay- side by side, both headed eastward. Only a few of the fieight cars were dam aged and it was only a few hours' work to. remove all traces' of 'them from the scene. But behind the two wrecked locomotives s' cars of the pastenger train lay piled-in a hope less wreck. Four of the passenger -coaches re mained on the, track undamaged.and were used to convey the dead. and in jured to- 'onia; one coach -was en tirely undamaged with only its for ward trucks off. the rails. - These; were the rear .Ave cars.-. The* two coaches next ahead of those were tel . escoped. The next car forward stood t almost- on end after the" wreck, its - forward end resting on the roadbed and the'rear end-high- in the air-upon. t the two telescoped coaches that .had been following- it. Two . coaches were 'thrown cross - - wise of the -track and lay suspended from bank to bank of the -cut -ive or six- feet above -the railroad.. Of.,the s baggage. coach nothing -wasleft:-.to t show where it had been tossedr Por-- - tions of the baggage car andof the locomotive tender and--freight cars,: I were piled in -an indescribabe mass - - of debris.. The. 28 dead bodies-first -t aken from the wreck were shipped to Ionia, and the injured were placedon two trains; "on of-Whichheaded for tiDetriotand the other for Ionia.-There . were about 35 injuredpeople - each train. b Later in the day-heody f Ed Corwan, .the- head- b'akean of -th passenger train was taken out of the wreck. Firemaud Knowles died- on lief train enroute' to -Detriot brninging the list of dead. to. 0with possi bility that- more -bodies might be found in--the wreckage and that sev e- ral -of :tbe injured- may. die. Responlsibility -is praaced squarely up to the. crew ofathe freight~ train..by s offeer's of the road.- Offiials who ar- - - rived- at the scene-of :the- wreck soon - s after the accident, secured, from, the ,e freight theorders undei- which-it was - running and. which clearly showed g the- position of the passenger excur-' s sion train, and- that the freight IId ,s encroached -upon the .-otber ,train a running time: The special.train was - due at Salem at 9:10 a. m.,-~and-at--. t Plymouth -at 9:30 a. im. It passed Salem'on time. -- e The time card .of, the special was - telegraphed to-the freight crew in th'-e - e form of a train order and this~order - with-the signatures of . the -freighlt -r train crew, -attacffed, was -recovered .by' the officials of' the .road. -- .The - I freight crew left -the scene early, but -s railroaid offcials said that -theyr ex C plained simply -that they- had forgot - ten. The collisioiI-occurried at -1-3C o'clock and the freight train should -- -have- reached balem at 9:10 to .be - within their orders. - FOUND IN DEAD LETTERS Forty-Five Thousand Dollars Return -ed to the Senders. During the (past year the sum of. f $67,456.28 in actual money-was f found in dead- letters,-and $55,271.37' -was returned -to senders., - S The increased efficiency and effect iveness .of tihe division of -dead let ters, bureati of the fourth assistant postmaster general, as evidenced -by he annual summary of the work ac - complished, is very gratifying to the oficials of 'the department, who have & worked- hard to make it: possible to - have every person making use .of the j mails to-receive' back .any misdirect t ed 'or miscarried mail. During :the la-st.fiscal year 12,743,625 pieces of mail matter was received, as comn Spared with- 11,273,9'41 in the fiscal - -year ended- June 30, 1906. ~ 3 Thei-e were returned to -senders 1 3;587,032 letters and 92,628 parcels, E against 2,249,339- letters 'and 90, - 294 parcels in the' previdus- year. In -' - the fiscal year just closed 7,282,928 Scircularts and -non returnable letters - were destroye&, while in the fiscal year of 1905-1906 there were 7,560,-; 749 destroyed. -- During the 'previous fiscal year $61,209.59 was' found in actual cash in dead letters, -and $51,954.16 re - tturned. In addition to this, commer- --- cial paper, including money .orders, checks, drafts, etc., of a total value 'f $2,013,076.36 was removed from undelivered letters during the year. All of this was returned to senders except $7,132.26. THz efforts of those New York negroes to defeat the ends of jus tice by contributing money to pre - vent the negro murderer Duubar from being brought back to South Carolina for trial goes to prove the charge that negro criminals have the Isymathy of their race everywhere. The best friends of the negroes re gret this. IF the-cotton farmer vwill discard the jute bagging and cover their bales with bagging madie from cotton they will take a long step in the di-. rection of their full independence. Will they do t? COLUMBIA repudiates the report that she will not be in the South At lantic League next season. Colum bia is not much of a game winner this season, buL he ia game to the - ore, and will stici: a v-: end: W e hope she will have better Ca~ next season. __ _ _ _ _ _ _ TH- -:State of Georgia wants to try thessperient of prohibition. Should se adopt it we can then study the sbject at close range. Many a man has lost his game by