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___ t~ alull nuts VOL. XXI M1-ANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST1,197NO46 SOME REAL WAF Casablanca Bombarded by Frencl and Spanish Cruisers. MANY MOORS KILLED. Marines Were Sent Ashore to Pro tect the European Consulates French Have Six Wounded But None Killed-No European Resi. dents Hurt--Outcome of Nativ( Uprising. A dispatch from Tangier, Morocco. says open hostilities have resulted ir the injury of five French officers aud :six sailors, the bombardment of Casa -Blanca and surrounding villages b.y French and Spanish battleships and many casualties among the Moo-s. The French admiral ordered 150 sailors ashore to protect the consul ate and the Moors resented this and opened fire, mowing down the five officers and six sailors. The French battleships Galilee, Duchayla and the Spanish battleship Don Alvaro De Vazan then began the bombardment of Castra Blanca. Town battery an swered but began getting the worst of it so the Moorish commander offer ed to apologize. The French de manded a surrender and will prob ably demand a more substancial re paration. Warships have sent men ashore to protect the European con sulates, and attend the many d sad and injured. Casablanca on the Morraccan coast has been bombarded by French cruis ers, the Moors are reported to have been shot down in large numbers and the town, since last Sunday night. has been practicanly in possession of landing parties from the French ant Spanish cruisers. The first shots were fired by the Moors. The Frenchmen responded with a bayonet charge and the bom bardment of the native quarter with mellinite shells. The Frenchmen had six men wounded, but no one killed. No European residents were hurt. The occupation of Casablanca is a direct outcome of the native uprising which resulted in the killing last last week of eght .uropeans at Casa . blanct. Both France and Spain are hurrying other warships with troops and marines on board to various points on the Morroccan coast for the protection of foreigners. Under the terms of the Algeciras convention these two powers are charged with the policing of the sea ports of Morocco. and their action, at Casablanca has brought no protest from any power. The states of Eu rope have expressed their willingness that France and Spain restore order in Morocco. No other countries are involved. On Saturday night the French nav al officer in command informed the Moorish authorities that he was go ing to land a force for the protection of the French consul. Authorization to do so was given. The force went ashore Sunday morning at daybreak. The Frenchmen were no sooner on the beach than they were fired upon by Moorish soldiers, and in this first encounter tne French forces sustain ed all its casualities. Thie Frenchmen fought their way to their consulate, and then signaled the cruiser Galilee to bombard the native quarter. The Galilee at once opened upon the Moors. She was joined at 11 o'clock by the French cruiser Du Chayla. and both vessels fired until 2,000 rounds of ammuni tion had been expended. This fire is said to have been disastrous to the Arabs. The battery on a fort at the mouth of the harbor fired on one of the French cruisers, but it was quickly silenced and reduced. A second French landing party went ashore and joined the first par ty at the consulate. A tmird party from the Spanish cruiser Don Alvaro de Bazan was landed and occupied the Spanish consulate. The European quarter of Casablanca was not dam aged. The remainder of the European residents of Casablanca are either at their respective consulates or have taken refuge on board German and English vessels in the harbor. Horrible Details. Horrible ,details of the slaughter of Jews, maltreatmmlent of women and pilage and burning of shops at Castra Blanca are told by a passenger who arrived at Tangier Friday from -that port. They say that after the bombard ment of the place began both the Moorish soldiers and Arabs revenged themselves on the inhaabitants, plun dering, killing and burning on all sides. They sacked the custom house ant burned a large part of the city whose streets are so filled with decomposim bodies that an epidemic is threatened. Among the Jews killed was a man under protection of the British con sulate. His sisters were assaulted and carried off by Moors. TRIED TO MAKE PEACE. But Instead Killed the Fatnser of His Sweetheart. Losing his temper because his ef forts as a peacemaker did not suc ceed, Edward Mulvaney. a young man. knocked down and killed his prospective father-in-law. Robert Sea lander, a contractor on Pacific street. Brooklyn. Friday. The killing was the outcome of a quarrel between Mr. Sealander and his son. Mr. Mulvaney, who was calling on Miss Sealander. feared that the digputanlts would harm each oth er, and intervened. -s plea for peace was not heard and the con tractor turned upon him. Argument developed and Mulvani er and Sealander adjourned to thl street to settle their quarrel. Mul vaney struck Sealander a powerful blow onl the he~ad. knocking hi' do-wn. The contractor died shorti. afterward. Mulvaney was taken mn to custody. BITTEN BY A SPID)ER. Greenlville Laundrymlan Suffers Greal * Pain From the Wound. Bitten by a large black spider earil Thursday morning. Tilden Batson-l. laundryman of Greenville. was terri blr ill. Two physicians were sum moned before the man got relief fron his sutferinlg. SHOOTS TWO MEN. One is Dead and the Other May Not Recover. A Tragedy in Pittsburg-Twin Broth ers Fired Upon Because They De manded Order in Their Hotel. At Pittsburg, Pa.. Ludwig C. Seze giel, said to be an unattached Polish priest of Chicago. walked in a hotel early Thursday morning and without warning, it is said, wh.pped out a .38 calibre revolver and opened fire upon the two proprietors. twin broth ers named Steven and Andrew Star znyski. Steven died within an hour and Andrew may not recover. The cause of the shooting is unknown. When Sezegiel came to Pittsburg about ten days ago he went to the hotel kept by the brothers, accompa nied by a woman whom he introduced as his housekeeper. They secured an apartment of two rooms. The woman, Francisca Sprock. is held as a suspi cious person. She denies all knowl edge of the shooting. Sczegiel. it is said had been drink ing. Mrs. Starzynski, wife of Andrew, said that about 10 minutes before the shooting her husband had repri manded the pair for making a dis turbance. He then rejoined his ,rother in the dining room, where a few minutes later, she says, the priest appeared. Sczegiel applied Wednesday to the -rector of St. Adelbert's Polish Catho lic church for employment as assist ant. but the request was refused. Francisca Sprock. the priest's fea male companion. stated that she had only come to Pittsburg on Tuesday and was on her way to visit a brother in Cambria county. The police are of the opinion that she had no hand in :he shooting. The priest was committed to jail on a charge of murder. while the wo mnan was held as a witness. DOUBLE TRAGEDY. Killed His Wife and Himself at Roanoke, Va. T. J. Wingfield, aged 50, Thursday shot and killed his wife, aged 25, and committed suicide by her dead body in the Wingfield home in Roanoke. Va. Wingfield left a note in which he said he would kill his wife and himself, giving as his reasons for the act that another man had invaded his nome. The couple quarreled on a back porch and after going into the dining room Wingfield fired two shots through his wife's brain. He picked up the dead body and carried it to a bedroom where he placed it on a bed.! Standing over the bed of the woman. Wingfield cut ais throat. the knife with which he severed his jugular vein dropping on the cheek of the wife. Wingfield fell to the floor and died instantly. The Wingfields came a week ago from Hagerstown, Md. Wingfield had been running on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, with which company he was employed as a brakeman. SERIOUS WRECK. I Four Persons Were Killed and Three~ Seriously Hurt. 1-our persons are dead and three1 ery seriously injured as the re suit of a head-on collission between southbound local freight and an ex tra train on the Western and Atlan tic railroad, one mile north of Dalton,. Ga., at 5 o'clock Thursday afternaoon. The dead: Engineer J. L. Heggie. of. South ound train, Tunnell Hill, Ga. Fireman John Roach. Dalton, Ga. C. F. Colbert, brakeman. Tom Bartenfield, brakeman, Dal- 1 on. Ga. The injured: J. B. Killibrew, engineer north-I ound train, seriously.r -Dilbeck, brakeman, Dalton. t -Cooper. brakeman. Fireman Suddeth of the extra 1 train who escaped by jumping su i~ that the collision was caused b.y the i failure of his train crew to readi their orders. VERY CJAd CALb. Train Runas Into a Wagon Loaded1 With People. At Greenwood onl . ursday pas enger train on the Seaboard Air ine came near playing havoc with a aumer of negroes seatcd in a wagon and belonging to a funeral procession he cowcatcher struck the wagon midships between fore and hind wheels and under crdinary circumn tances occupants and mule would iave been instantly killed. Instead the harness being old, rot en and patched, gave way and the! wagon was pulled away from the' nule. who. not understanding what 1ad happened to the load he was puw in went to eating grass at once. Tb ccupants all had time to jump oul o they were not in any way injuried. The' train ran along with the wag-! n to the station, only about ..'I yards away. The wagon was not hurt much in the fransactionl. it was an unusual occurrence. WAVE OF CRIME. The Record In New York Is Just Thr haebe 1 attacks on wmnand girls in Greater New Yoksince May 4th, and only eight~ convictions. The record of this three monts i witoutparalelin the his toryof te cty. achday adds its quot, ad wtnesesgrowing anger on he artof hepublic. The fig ure. gvenar fo caesreported to thepolce.Undubtdlythere are scrsof other affairs in which those attacked kept the facts secret in or der to avoid putblicity. FAtAL RUNAWAY. A Boy Thrown Out of a Wagon and Killeu. While returning .zui prayer meet ing Wednesday night near Longview. lexas. E team drive by H. Gibson be came frightened and scattered the oc cupants along the roadway. Olde Gibson. a boy, asleep mi the wagon. was Lnrown out and killed. Rev. J. M. Spivey, a Baptist preacher, was injured internally and three others were badly hurt. MOB RAIDS A So-Called Witchcraft Sect, Hurling Bomb in Meeting. OLD PURITANIC WAY. The Church Members Rise to Save Perm berwick Hamlet, Comn., From a Hypno1tit-The Mother of a Youth Who Fell Under Evange list's Spell LAads Attack on the House Where Meetings Were Held. Raising the ominous cry of "witch craft," as did their ancestors when they burned Ann riutchinson at the stake three hundred years ago. a mob of Connecticut, farmers stormed a house at Pemberwick Hamlet, Conn.. the other night. They threw a bomb at an itinerant evangelist within. They accused him of mesmerizing the neighborhood. Henry Spilkins, the preacher, es caped deata by a miracle, as did the little flock of "Pentecostals" he had gathered about him. The country side alleges they were saved by Black Art hypnotism. Three weeks ago Spilkins. swarth. hickset and eloquent, found his way into Pemberwick and announced that he would hold Pentecostal revivals until he had converted the "godless community." The farmers for miles about, all prosperous, all orthodox and most of them rigorous Baptists, Methodists or Presbyterians, laughed at the "Salva tionist." as they called him and warn ed to leave at once. The first night he held a protract d meeting in Alvah Wood's hay aeadow at sunset, and Woods, a ceptic. sat on the rail fence forty ards away, his only astener. But next right Woods was there -ith his two daughters and a neigh or, whom he had told that Spilkins put 9p the consarndest interesting st" talk on religion he's ever heard' From that time on crowds attended e revivals. Farm lads took their est girls; others went from curios ty: Woods and his daughters became )penly converted and took the evan elist to thei- big farm house to live nd to preach. Hiram, oldest son of Irs. Burtsell, who has the biggest arm in the neighborhood, joined the new Pentecostal revivers:" the ountry side suddenly became in amed. On Sunday the two regular minis ers in the community preached only o the steadfast members of their ngregations who held offices -in the hurches. These rose up and denounced the ntruder. Woods and his daughters ad been mesmerized by, Spilkins hey said. It was the Black Art he as using to win the little hamlet way from the old Puritan beliefs. 'or the sake of the true religion he ust be put where he could do no ore harm. Mrs. Burtsell joined this faction. er son, she cried, already led astray, ust be save~d from the wizard. And so, ledl by a woman, as wo en egged on their ancestors of other ays, fifty far mers, their wives and hildren, marched upon the Wood's armhouse, where Spilkins and h., tile band of pilgrims sat in meet .ie mob crept to the window and ;ilently watched for a time the ser rice that proceeded in the rustic kit hen, Spuikins was preaching, they aid afterward a weird sort of do trine that no one. had ever heard be re. His black, beady eyes, were red upon the Burtsell boy and his ewest convert. Sarah Jellard, w'ho y inertly with .eyes half closed in e chairs near the table pulpit. Then, into the midst of the "reviv LI. come one of the mob threw a ottle filled with a dark admixture if liquids, which exploded as it struck e itinerant preacher on the head. 1 A moment later and the whole om was blaz:ing, the converts, even > the mesmerist's principal victims. ying out. Spilkins was badly scared. everala others who had been wor hiping with him suffered serious urns. Some say a woman threw the bomb [he other side compllains5 that Spil tins himself exploded it. The District Attorney issued a war at for the arrest of Spilkins. and e Wod girls compelled him to issue ~nother for David Norris. an "outsidl 'r.~ The girls declare it was Norris ho threw the bomb. Trias will be held immediately. uut the countryside is so wrought upl hat the two religious fartions are al nost sure to clash. BECOMES HIS HEIR. 'hinaman Adlopts a W~hite Boy as His Own. Through a documenlt filed in the )ffice of the recorder of deeds of ~chuylkill county. Pa.. Charlie Sing. Chinese laundryman, becomes the >ster father of Charles Hunt. a white ory of Philadelpihia parentage. The oy's mother. grandmother. and reat.grandother. all of Philadel )hia, are parties to the agreement. hey agree that the boy's name shall Iecome Roy Soo Sing, that CAarlie sing shall be his father and in return he boys becomes the legal heir of the andryman. SHOULD SWING. L Appeal That Should Be Promptly Turned Down. Ms. Forrest Gooding, of Washing ton the young woman upon whomz an attack was made near Alexandria. Va.. several days prior to her mar riage. by Joseph Thomias, alias Wright. colored, now under sentence of death for the crime has personal y appealed to Governor Swanson for the commiutationi of the sentence f the prisoner to life imprisonment. SERIOUS CHARGE. Sent lUp on a Charge of Murder and Arson. At a preliminary hearing before .. Calhoun. Esq., John Millan, color ed. was held for the court of general sesons on the charge of murder in onnection with the late livery sta'le fire at Clio in which two persons were urned to death and a number or SHE TOOK THEM IN. A Clever Woman Dupes New York and Montreal. Poses in Canada as Daughter of House of Lichester-Runs Up Bill But Leaves Diamonds to Settle. A dispatch from Montreal, Canada, says Mrs. Eva Fox-Strangways, the Eng :ish governess who posed in New York as the daughter of the house of Lichester, and run board bills at prominent hotels, casned wortimiess cnecks, and borrowed .iberally from Miss Louise Kard McAlister, the daughter of Ward McAlister, had rather a picturesque career whae she was in that city. Her methods there were some what similar to taose employed in New York. She came wit. a letter of introduction to Sir William Van Horne, and through him was intro duced iM...Le expensive bnglish set. Her boast- of close relationship to what she called the proudest family in England - gave her an immediate entree to the best peopie in Mon treal. She was introduced to the firm of Henry Morgan & Co., and they were only too glad to serve her. She or dered many beautiful gowns and fol lowing her usual custom, forgot to pay for them. She put up at the Place Viger, and nothing in the ho tel was too good for her. As the daughter of an English earl, she re ceived the most flattering attention from the proprietor down to the beil boys. Mrs. Fox-Strangeways found it pro fitale and pleasant to pose as an in alid. She engaged one of the most rominent physicians in Montreal. nd he visited her regularly up to the time of her departure, which was rather hasty. She did not pay him ror his professional services, but bor owed a sum of money from him with which she was to have paid her >assage to England, "her friends hav ng blundered in some way and mis lirected the draft, probably sending t tc Melbourne." Meanwhile, she had developed an ceptionally liking foi- champagne. It was, she said, ordered by the doc :or. and there were other invalids in ;he hotel at the time who wanted to iave the same doctor. During one of e "spells" when sne was not as ill s usual, she told the story of being ngaged to be married to a wealthy tustralian, whose son, she said, was Lt that time a student at McGill cil ege. Sure enough, a youth was found ho was from Australia, and his ame was the same as that which she ad mentioned. He visited her daily, ven when she was too ill to be seen y any one else, except the docto". feanwhile.the bill was running up at Ln alarming rate, and nothing coin ng in. Her promises were many. hut .ot one was kept. Her hotel bill f ally ran up to $1,000. The end of all was a seizure upon .er goods, including her diamonds, Lnd these were advertised for sale. 'hey sold- for a fair sum. and it is aid that in the end the Place Viger vas not a heavy loss. It was only ~fter she had gone that many promi ment persons felt how badly they had I leen taken in. GROUND TO PIECES. rain Crashes into Carriage Mangling Occupants Frightfully. Four persons. employes of the Not ood house at Allenhurst, N. J., were stantly killed Wednesday night 1 rhen their carriage was run down vy a Pennsylvania passenger flyer,i nown as the bankers' special, at thei ~orlies avenue crossing. They were homas Edwards. a driver, and Lor tta Grace, Jennie McDonald and annah Murphy, waitresses. The Corlies crossing is just south f the local station of the New York a Long Branch railroad, and the sta ion platform was crowded with sum ner visitors, who witnessed the acci-1 lent. Edwards had stopped his team1 mt the crossing, where an excursion rain, drawn up at the station block d the road. As the excursion train drew out. dwards star-,ed his horses, and the ,arriage was squarely on the rails, m'hen the flyer, southbound, and the Lpproach of which had been hidden v the oppositely moving special, tore ~cross the roadway. Horses, carriage 4nd occupants were ground to bits. he bodies of Edwards and the wo-, nen being frighfully mangled. IN GERMANY TO.-' leven Personas Killed and Ten Hurt oin Railway. A passenger train was derailed n Wednesday night between Posen 4nd Thorn. Germany. The two en ines were overturned and three cars ere demolished. The official report ays that 11 persons were killed and d about 101 were injured. Among he dead are Prince Alexandria Beg )toff, two sons of Count Keiserlingk f Mitau, Russia. and a Russian cap ain, who was accompanying them. According to official information he casualties are confied to Rus.AianS Poles and Germans. Several su-:viv rs, who have come in to Berlic. de ar'e that the overturned cars caught re and that terrible scenes ensued. lany of the passengers escaped with LALRGE SHA4RKS CAUGHT. 'hree .Big Onecs Caught on the Char leston Waterfront. Te Post says three large sharks were caught along the river front mi, 3harlestonl on Thursday afternoon by unater fisherman. and their capture axcited a lot of interest f'rom the pas ~engers of the 6:30 boat. A nine foot shark and a six-foot monster were caught off Union wharf, and a five-foot fist got hooked off the old Market street wharf. There were also a~ shark seen off the Mount Pleasant wharf Friday morning. KILL!'Dl HIS WIFE. The Awful Crime of' An Aged North Carolinian. Near Kent, N. C.. Pasom Godwin, aged 73 years, foAnoring a quarrelI vitat his wife, shot her dead Wed nesday. He escaped and the sheriff Is pursuing him with bloo4a-ounds. Godn is armed with a rifle. WALKING TIGERS Caught in Charleston by a Very Peculiar Accident. A Woman Fell And the Crash of Glass and the Flowing of Boose Was Coincidental. Charleston is after the blindtigers and many of them are run in. The Post says the rural police think that in the arrest of Sylvia Washington, Julia Davis and Amelia Bryan, caught last Thursday near the phos phate mines they have practically broken up. the business of the fea male blind tigers. These feamale tigers have a queer place to carry the liquor they sell. They line their skirts with half pint bottles of cheap booze and sell it by the drink or by in bulk. The woman were committed to jail T-irsday by Magistrate Behrens, in default of bond of $300, on a charge of violating the dispensary laws of the county. The system of booze selling was discovered in a peculiar way. One of the women the other day had a particularly large supply 6f whiskey concealed under her skirts, in the lining. It was contained in half pint bottles. She was getting along swimming ly, and was doing a good business without much apparent fear of dis covery as to the methods of carrying the contraband, but unfortunately, she was not so sure footed as some mules are said to be, and tripped up among the rocks in the region of the Charleston Neck. When the feamale tiger fell. there was a crash and a breaking of glass, while her skirts took on a sickly drenched appearance. The cat was ut of the bag, so to speak, fDr it was emonstrated that a living barroom ad been wrecked, as 'twere, and the olice were made wise to a brand new wrinkle in the business. They kept their eyes peeled and as t result three a.rests were made of .eadiale tigers. Sylvia Washington nd Julia Davis were captured near he rock fields of the Cnarleston Min ng Company, and Amelia Bryan was laced under arrest at Fetteresse. The feamale tiger is really some ing brand new. and the skirt trick s another new thing in tiger circles. 'or some time this liquor peddling )usiness seems to. have been in pro ress. It is though that from now on t will cease to find favor among the amsels who were formerly engaged n the business. CO3LMITS SUICIDE. he Sad End of a Prominent Repub lican Politician. George Wallace Delamater, once andidate for governor of Pennsyl ania and who served-as Stat' sena or from Crawford county from 1887 o 1890, committed suicide Wednes lay by shooting in his office at Pitts burg, Pa. Grief over the death of his father. ;eorge B. Delamater. at Meadville, a., on May 6, and the sudden death if his son, James Scott Delamater, in rune at Connellsville, Pa., is believed > be the cause of the suicide. Shirley P. Austin, a son-in-law, rho took charge of the body, declar i that the dead man's affairs are in mo way involved and that he had iothing to worry about. Delamater vas connected with the Prudential ie Insurance company in Pittsburg ud leaves a comfertable fortune to s family, being heavily insured. Senator Delamater has not been ac ive in State politics recently, but iver a decade ago he wielded a great nifuence in political circles. Follow g his service as a State senator, he ecame the Republican nominee for ~overnor through the support of nuited States Senator Matthew Stan y Quay. This was in 1890.4 The Democratic candidate was ~obert E. Pattison? and tne campaign vas one of the most bitterly fought Pennsylvania !or many years. Pat Ison won after a de-sperate battle. )ut only because Allegheny county urned against Delamater. CHASED OUT OF TOWN n AccoUnt of Row Negroes Made to Leave. At Hillsboro, Ill., ill feeling to yards negroes which had been brew g since last Friday night, when ohn T. Maddux, an aged white man vas assaulted by a negro, culminated a race riot Thursday night and a najority of the negroes were chased ut of town. Negroes and whites citizens fought the streets for several hours. ~'inally most of the negroes fled and irder was restored. C. D. Fry, who mas a contract for paying work and mploys negroes, insisted that his em )loyes be protected but to no effect. Fry went to st. Louis declaring hat he procure other negro laborers. tis feared if he brings back a nr'm )er of negro laborers that bloodshed yill result, as anti-negro feeling is at gh tension. ANOTHER GONE WRONG. olored Postmaster Arrested for Making False Returns. The postmaster at Port Royal, S. ). Jones, a negro, is charged b~y the )OStal inspection othcials with embex :lement and making false returns to .he auditor at Washington. Jones is rom Beech Island, near Augusta, and ras working in the shops at the maval station when his appointment ras made about three years ago. HeI a civil service man. Saturday might Jones sent a friend for a large ~uantity of laudanum, but the drug ;ist insisted on a written order and his the friend refused to give. Since ,his time Jones has been carefully -atched. TROOPS COMMIT CRIME. he Turks Invade Persia and Burni Several Villages. The latest advices from the fron ier say that; the Turkish troops, which recently crossed the northwest rrontier of Persia are marching on Urmuia, burning and devastating villages along the route. The Chris :ian village of Mevan is reported to tave been shelled and ninety persons, nluding many women and children, mre said to have been killed. Ten ;irls were carried off. Panic prevails + rmiah. SLAVE GIRLS Imported From China to This Coun try by Scores for IMMORAL PURPOSES. San Francisco to Fight Sin That Is Her Greatest Curse-Mere Chil dre Imprisoned in Low Oriental Dives to Die of Brutal Treatment. Interpreters and Some Lawyers In League With Smugglers. One of the most terrible curses that ever blighted a city is tne slave trafic among the Chinese of San Francisco and other ports of the Pa cific coast. Helpless young Chinese girls, ignorant 6f the ways of the world and unable to speak any other language save the dialects of the in terior of China, are brought to this country through the unscroupulous agencies which deal in human flesh. San Francisco is the center of these evil operations for the West, and St. Louis for the East. Chinese girls are being smuggled into this country by the hundreds and, after they get here, are th rown into vile dens where they are subjected to the most brutal and degrading treatment on the part of their masters and the other Cninese and low whites who frequent the dives. A duel in the street of Chinatown, recently following -the attempted as sassination of a slave importer by a slave agent who demanded money due h'im for bringing a fresh victim to this country, revealed anew to the authorities the horrows of the prac tice and the extent to which it has expanded. The whole system is a network of exil practices, wheels within wheels, by means of which the girls when once caught have little or no hope of escape. When existence in their tiny cells in tue low Chinese dives becomes too unbearable, they take their own lives. Sometimes they manage to escape by the aid of riends who appeal to the missionar ies, who are working night and day Lo save them and who are doing won .erful work against such discourag ing odds. - Chinese slave importers*of San 'rancisco employ many agents who re sent to the old country to get the irls, picked out before hand by other gents working constantly on tae oth r side. When an agent goes to get a irl he tells her parents that he wants er for his wife. According to the hinese custom he pays a genorous ;um for her and she is his. The girl nay be anywhefe from the age of 13 ,o 20 years, the younger the better. is the Chinese think a woman aged rhen she has gone beyond her twen ieth year. The innocent little girl is ,aken by her "husband" on- board hip where she travels as a first clas ,assenger. He buys her costly clothes nd jewels and the poses as an .erican born Chinese who has be >ome prosperous in this country, and 'ho is bringing a bride from his ather's country. This he may do inder the immigration laws. He is provided with marriage pa )ers, which by the way, were made t for him by unscroupulous Ameni an lawyers in league with the slave lealers. The little girl never suspects hat she is geing victimized and does ust as her husband coaches her to 0. The immigration officer converses~ ith'er through a Chinese interpret r usually in league with the slave lealers. If the girl does suspect any hing, the agent makes it worth the aterpreter's while to misiconstrue her ords. Once she is safely past this arier she is as good as doomed, for 'arely is she rescued on her way to1 he den. She is taken to a house in the foul st of the Chinese quarters of San ~'ranisco and placed in a tiny room done. If she submits quietly to a ife of shame it is not likely that her naster will beat her. If she not not ;he is cruelly mistreated until her1 ;pirit is broken. Then she will either one or two thngs. She will go on ying in the little room with one breatn f fresh air a week, submittirng e self to her master's wishes, or she il 3nd her life. If she follows the nst she eventually becomes thin and ,ale, her beauty fades. and she is brown aside to become a servant for e ext slave. BABY GIRL IN BUNDLE. erhant Took tUusual Present Home to Invalid Wife. When Chas B. Cryer saw a couple iraw up to the door of his crockery ;tore of 584 Michigan avenue, Detriot iich. on Wednesday and a woman light bearing a large box neatly tied, nhich she requests him to take nome >o his wife, e took the package with )ut a thought that the contents would ,e other than flowers or some other :oken of regard for M'rs. Cryer, who1 snot strong and is often made the 'cipiet of kind remembrances. He arried it to his home and waited a noment to see what friend had been >o genorous in remembering his wife Stnding by his wife's side he wat hed her untie the cords and lift the over of the box, and there lay a baby ;irl about a month old asleep. The1 ittle stranger was neatly dressed., tnd the thoughtful donor had even pebeed to put the nursing bot le by her side and the nipple in her 'osebud mouth., Attached to the clothing was a note sking Mr. and Mrs. Cryer to keep he baby, if possible, for the writer ew that they would give it a goon1 mne and be kind to it. Mr. and Mrs. ~rer have no intimation of the vs parentage or history. but have cided to keep her, as they are bhildest. FIRED ON POSSE ii a Negro Fell lDead Riddled With Bullets. At Tifton, Ga.. Ji' i Hall was shot d killed by a posse late Thursday ight. Hall and another negro, Tonm ateman. had a dispute about a negro .mian. Hall shot Bateman three :ies and fled. A number of mien ere sworn in as a posse and follow dd Hall. When they came up with :be negro. Hall appeared to be half razed and opened fire on the posse. ris was returned and the negr:o fell ead. Bateman was not seriously THE WIFE WINS. The State Supreme Court Makes An important Decision. A Complicated Insurance Case as to Who Siould Receive the Benefit Decided. The State Supreme Court has just decided a case that is of much impor tance to all people who carry insur ance policies. The supreme court has reversed the lower court in the case of Mrs. hattie K. Speegle against We Woodmen of the World, a suit for in surance money- under the member ship in the order held by the late J. E. Speegle, )ut of whose administra tion of the office of county supervisor of Greenville so much sensational matter developed a few years ago. Mrs. Speegle wins the case before the supreme court and is held to be entitled to the sum of $3,000. i.Lne opinion of the supreme court is written by Chief Justice Pope and briefly recites the facts in the case. On June 19, 1896, J. E. Speegle be came a member of the Wood men of the world and . re ceived a benefit certificate for $3,000, payable at his deata to his wife, Sus an Speegle, and.subject to .ne consti tution and bylaws of the oruer. Mrs. peegle died in March, 1900, and thereafter Mr. Speegle married Miss -attie K. Goodwin, the marriage be ing performed at the Jerome hotel in Columbia. There were seven chil dren by the first marriage. After the death of the first Mrs. Speegle no new beneficiary was nam ed in the certificate. Mr. Speegle died Oct. 17, 1905, his wife, Mrs. Hattie K. Speegle, surviving him. ,ne began action on March 22, 1906, to recover the amount of the certificate rhe defendant coporation .ed a pe tition for interpleader alleging that there was a dispute- between the plaintiff and the children of twe first marriage as to who was entiled to the benefit and prayed tnat it be al lowed to pay the fund into court, and that the children be made parties de endant and contest with the plain tiff the right to the benefit. 'I.e petition was granted and the children appeared and answered. Judge Watts held that they were entitled to the fund, and plaintiff appealed. Chief Justice Pope the quotes the lonstitution and bylaws of the Wood men of the worid organizatioD, sec ion 3, stating the regulationsin re ,ard to payments of benefits. It S provided therein that in case bene its are payable to a relative also eceased at the time of the members eath, and no new designation has ,een made. the benefits shall be due and payable to the member's next iving relations in the order named in his section-to wit, wife, children, dopted children, parents, brothers and sisters. The Chief Justice discusses the 1eaning of the word "next" in this ection, admitting -at there is a ;hade of difference in meaning be ween "next" and "nearest," but con tuding that in this connection the -ord means "nearest." The purpose f the order, he says, is clearly to )rovide by these benefits for depenr lent relations of the members, and tis held that the wife is the first the order named. The respondents set up the con-1 ntion that on the death of the first 'ife here interests in the benefit re rerted to her children. It was fur her claimed that the failure to name new beneficiary exhiiited the in ention that the children should be. e beneficiaries. This, says the I heif justice, is not sustained. Spee- I le had the power at any time to hange the beneficiary under the by aws of the organization, and until s death no one could be said to1 uave vested interest. Even if there had been no second ife the children could have had only a expectancy or contingency in the ,enefit. It is just as probable that he ntended by the failure to name a aew beneficiary that the benefit 'ould fall to his wife. The chief] ustice holds that by his second mar-, 'iage he practically named, or rather nade, in the light of the bylaws, a aew beneficiary, and this caused the sxpectancy of the children to cease. .n these grounds the Judgement of ,he circuit court is reversed. WILLIAMS THE NOMINEE. 'ins Over Vardamian by Majority of 648 for Senator. The Democratic State executive ommitee of Mississippi on Thursday I jeclared Congressman John Sharp Villiams the party nominee for jnited States Senator. 1he returns showed a majority of 348 votes for W?..ams, the totals be ng Wiliams 59.496, Vardaman 58, 46. There will be no contest over Aftersat short caucus between the wo factions, .,. was finally agreed to ihde b)y the semi-official returns as urnished the Secretary of State from rarious counties, and which show hat Williams has a majority of 648 Te motion to decla.e Williams the oninee was seconed by friends of iov. ardamlan. The committee then ornal ly declared Williams nomina ed. TIis is considered a final settle nent of the celebrated contest. THE DEADLY AUTO. wo Men Killed and Two Injured in Accident. A race between two big automo-~ les between Muiwaukee and Okou hee, a distance of about 25 miles, ith a supper and $25 as tihe stake=.1 h'ursday ended in a frightful acci-t lent to one of the cars, restuil g I n the death of two of its occupanls nd the painful though not fatal inl ury of two others.. The machine ollided with a bridge ove bi reek, 10 miles west ofdb ~~ldaer ho wrecked ca is owned - Alder enwsth ote nachine, which 'ached its destination in safety. POisONl~I 1Y TOADSTOOLS. cto' Already Dead and Four of Family Dying. Dr. C. P. Dinsmore, aged 50, is lead and four of his family are dy-1 ng as the result of eating toadstools yr mushrooms, at Deep Valley, W. Ta., a country v?aage 45 miles south ias of Wheelng Sunday. NOVEL DEFENSE Of Robt Sassaman, Who Accuses His Sweetheart of COMMITTING CRIME A Very Remarkable Situation-The Brutal KMling o fCarl Miller in May Three Years Ago-The Uni. que Feature in the Case That as Attracted Wide Attention, Not On ly in Missouri But Elsewhere. Charging that his former sweet heart, Anna Bentley, committed the murder of which he is himself ac :used by the girl, Robert Sassanann will present the most novel defense in the criminal history of Missouri when he is placed on trial Monday, at Warrensburg, Mo. The case was called in June, but the venire of sixty men was exhaus ted without securing a jury, and a continuancd granted to the 12th of August. Owing to the great popu lar interest in the crime, it will prob ably be exceedingly difficult to find twelve men who have not formed de :ided opinions. The case against Sassaman rests mpon the assertion of Anna Bentley that the accused man, who was once her lover, killed Carl Miller for pur poses of robbery. Against this charge 3aman will declare that Miss Ben tley committed the deed and iifor ned the authorities that he did it, hrough anger at his marriage to mother woman. It is only the old tory of a woman scorned, if Sassa nan is to be believed-a woman who lid not stop at murder and perjury ;o obtain revenge. Sassaman is of a wealthy family and some of the best attorneys of his section have been. =mployed to defend him. Carl Miller, sixty years of age, was dled May 30, 1904, two and one alf miles west of Holden, and his >ody thrown into an abandoned well. Tearly ffve month had passed before my inkling of the crime became >ublic, when Anna Bentley made the tartling accution against Sassa nan. Officials ent with Miss Bent ley to the scene of the crime, and in he slimy water of the abandoned well the decomposed body of the ld man was found. On the evidence f the girl the coroner's jury render d a verdict that the victim, had come :o his deathat the bands of Sassa man. According to the story told the of icers by the woman, she and Sassa nan made the acquaintance of Miller tt Holden and persuaded him to ae ompany them on a camping trip to ansa. They were delayed by a ,wollen stream and on the night of day 30, at the camp fire, Sassaman lew the old man, and crushed his k'ull with an ax. The alleged motive as the possession of Miller's team nd wagon. A heavy stone was fas ened to the body, and it wasthrown to the old well. Sasaman and the roman proceeded to Kanayv, going o Topeka. In September, Sasaman. ecording to Miss Bentley, deserted er to go to North Dakota with the tention of killing a tweetheart of ers of whom he was jealou.. She nmediately returned to Missouri nd informed on him. Sassaman's story of the crime puts he crime on the woman. The night f the murder, as the old man leaned ~ver the fire to light his pipe, the oman, according to Sassaur's tory, hit him on the head with an , killing him instantly. She then aid to Sassaman: "From now on, obby, you do what I say or you'll et a dose of the same medicine, I m a woman, and if you should tell hat I killed Miller, nobody will be eve you. If I say you did it, they'll believe me and hang you. If you 2arry that girl in St. Louis or have nything more to do with her I'll lay his murder on you the day you get 1arried. After several quarrels with Miss entley in Topeka, Sassaman left ier and went to St. Louis, where he 2aried the girl of whom the Bent y woman had been jealous. The ouple were married in Kansa City,. nd notice of the issue of the license as published in the Kansa City pa )ers. Miss Bentley read it and im ediately made good her alleged breat to accuse Sassaman of the nurder. Owing to its unique features, the ase has attracted wide attention, Lnd popular opinion is about equally ivided as to the guilt of the man or he woman, while many believe. that )oth had a hand in the murderous iffair and are now attempting to hift all the blame on their partner n guilt. _______ MLI)ER A.ND SUICIDE L Woman is Killed By a Man Who Killed Himself. Mrs. Laura Ray, proprietress of the Success Inn," a popular boarding ouse in Asheville, was shot five ies and almost instantly killed Eortly' before noon Thursday, by :obert Murdock, keeper of a stall in e market house, who after empting is weapon into the woman's body, eliberately reloaded and fired three hots into his own heart. The tragedy occurred at the board g house on a busy street and caus d intense excitement. Murdock was nfatuated with Mrs. Ray, who was respectable woman, and repelled his yvances. CANOES GOT TANGLED. wo Young Men Drowned In Race In Ohio. At Defiance. Ohio, were. canoe rac g on the Maumee river Thursday, he boats of Karl Krotz and Victor dansfield became entangled and both nen were thrown into the water and rownerd. Thenie were recover