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VERY SAD CASE. Could Not Bear to See His Belov ed Wife Go Out TO WORK FOR OTHERS Lost His Reason and Killed Her and Himself-The Couple Had Lived Happily Together Until the Hus band Lost His Health and Spent -His Savings in Doctor's Bills and Medicines in Trying to Get Well. A pathetic case happened in New York on last Wednesday night, when Harry Dhernock awoke and found that in his sleep or in a trance he had stabbed his wife Mollie. four times, he leaped from a third-story window and crushed out his own life on the stone pavement. Mrs. Dhernock, who is in Bellevue: hospital, may not recover. The cou ple lived with the wife's mother, Lena Goodman, and their five-vear old child. They had been married six years and Wednesday was their wedding anniversary. They came to this country from Russia five years ago. The couple were very happy until six months ago, when Dhernock was taken ill and had to give up his work. All the money they had saved went for phy sicians and medicine. When the funds were exhausted, Mrs. Dhernock, 25 years old, and pretty, went out to work to earn a paltry sum to support the little fam ily. The young husband brooded constantly over his ill health, and the fact that his wife had to work. Dhernock was more cheerful Wed nerday and when his wife was about to start for her daily toil, he said; "Come home early today, Mollie; you know this is our wedding anniversary We will have a little celebration; a dinner." Mrs. Dhernock was home prompt ly and they had a merry little party. They retired early and shortly af ter 3 o'clock Wednesday morning the young wife was awakened by her husband. His eyes were open, but glazed. He appeared to look at her, but there was no gleam of intelligence in his eyes. "Mollie," he said, in an unnatural voice, "I am going to kill you." "You wouldn't do that Harry, said the wife, terrified. Without another word Dhernock got out of bed and went to the dress er. He took a pair of scissors from a drawer while his trembling wife watched him, too frightened to ut ter a word. Returning to the side of the bed he plunged the scissors into her left breast, just over the heart. Mrs. Dhernock gave one scream, which aroused her mother. Dhernock, apparently unconscious of what he had done, walked calmly into the kitchen, sat in a chair and lit a cigarette. He was smoking indifferently when neighbors, aroused by Mrs. Good man, rushed into the flat. Then Dhernock was awakened by the noise. "What's the matter?" he asked. "Oh, you have killed her," shout ed Mrs. Goodman. Dhernock, dazed, walked into the-' bed room. His wife, still conscious, lay dying on the floor, w~ale their little girl was weeping beside her. "What's the matter, Mollie?" ask ed Dhernock, his voice trembling. "Don't you know Harry, you stab bed me," whispered his wife weakly. "But I know you didn't mean it." "My God! Did I do that?" shriek ed the husband. Looking intently at his wife for a' moment, Dhernock rushed to the window and leaped out. He landed on his head in the yard, four stories below. His skull, his legs and arms were broken and he received inter nal injuries. Meanwhile soniebody had tele phoned to police headquarters and policomen from the East Twenty second street station hurried to the house. Dr. Mears came in'an am-1 bulance fr6~m Bellevue hospital. Mrs. Dhernock was carried down the stairs to the ambulance. Her husband was taken from the yard and pla.ced beside her. The young wife, with a great ef fort, placed her hand on his face and patted him affectionately. "Oh. Harry, you didn't mean to do it, did you? I know you didn't," she said softly. But he did not answer. He was; unconscious and never spoke again. At the hospital he died, and it is' only a question of a few hours when she will follow him. After the dying couple had been removed from the house the wife's mother became hysterical and she, too, was taken to Bellevue in an am-' bulance.________ Immnigrants Brides. Those American cities where the big passenger steamers land thous ands of immigrants each year wit ness many romantic marriages be tween long parted lovers. Years be fore, the men have left their sweet hearts to build a home in the land of' promise across the sea. There is at long period of drudgery, and there are aching hearts on both sides of the great body of water. But in no other land is industry so quickly and sure ly rewarded. In time there is enough of money to bring over the promised bride. The meeting at the landing is one of joy. 'After satisfying the official at the landing that the bride has come to America expressly to marry the man who claims her there! is a hasty marriage, with friends of their own. nationality as witnesses, and the b ';wy couple proceed on their way to .-o better and broader lhves than was possible in their na tive land. In a D)eadlock but Prayer Led Thtemt to Verdict. Having been out for 18~ hours and failing to agree, the jury trying Por.. ter and Qentin JIones- brothers. Eatonton. Ga.. for the mlurder iw Robert F. Adams. hel d a short pry er service and then requested the si sentence of 99 years in prp~ison. Mfter singing the hymns. "How Firm T Foundation Ye Saints of the Lord" t and "He Leadeth Me.'' the jur'ymen a~ found a verdict in two minutes. The o ,,-der was te result of a feud. a SPREAD BY MILK. It Is Most Protent Agency in Transmission of Consumption. (overnment Bureau Busy Studying Question of Infection of Cattle With Tuberculosis. Twelve per cent of the deaths of persons of all ages inAmerica are due to the 'white plague.' popularly known as consumption. In practical ly every instance the infection of tu-i berculosis is communicated to peo ple through impure milk and not through the breathing of dried sput um, as generally is supposed. My belief is that the government could do no greater humanitarian work than in providing a fund for the er adication of tuberculosis from cattle. This work could be performed con paratively easily. and. while the in itial cost might be considerable, it would be well worth the money ex pended. Dr. C. E. Schroeder. of the bureau of animal industry of the National Department of Agriculture, made this statement, after a very exhaus tive investigation of the causes which lead to tuberculosis. "If some man of the wealth of An drew Carnegie could be induced to devote some of his riches to the era dication of the 'white plague' his name would go down to history as one of the greatest benefactors of his race. I have no doubt that con sumption practically could be eradi cated from the United States by the application of modern scientific meth ods in the handling of the disease. Every cow in the country ought to be tested for tuberculosis and, if found infested, the animal ought to be killed. Thousand of milch cows undoubtedly are infected with tuber culosis and the milk they furnish carries with it the germs of the dis ease into the human system. "In a vast majority of cases, it has been demonstrated conclusively that the germs of the 'white plague' are introduced into the human system through the alimentary canal. Thence they are carried into the lungs or throat or bowels, where they increase enormousiv. The only way to prevent the introduction of consumption germs into the system through milk is to boil the milk and, of course, that is impracticable in a majority of instances. "I am satisfied from the results of experiments made by the govern ment, that the danger of tuberculo sis from dried sputum is inconse quental. It is nt comparable with the danger of impure miIk, Exper iments have shown that the germs of the disease must be taken into the system through food and milk is the food which is the most extensive con veyer of these germs. Therefore, if we purify the milk supply of a given community we practically eliminate danger of the 'white plague.' " So important are the investigations of the Agricultural Department and of independent scientists regarded that it is very probable Congress may take up the question precisely as it provided for the inspection of beef cattle after slaughter. Several mem bers of Congress now are consider ing the subject with a view to the introduction of legislation providing for a careful inspection of the sourc es of the country's milk supply. The idea is to have an examination made of milch cows, in instances where the milk is furnished to the public, and to provide for the killing of such an imals as may be found to be afflicted withi tuberculosis, the grernent to make an allowance to the owner of the cattle thus kiiled. In this way only, it is urged by scientists, can the "white plague" be eradicated from the United States. SWORE TENGEANCE. A Strangte Proceeding in the City of New York. Kneeling beside the body of Epi fania Arcara, who was stab~bed by a mysterious enemy, his father, mother two sisters, brother, wife and two sons swore to avenge his murder. This weird ceremonial took phlace in the parlor of the Arcara apart mnents at No. 400i East 10.Sth street. New York. with a small shrine of St. Rocco at the head of the hier and( with the tall candles flickering about the dimmed room. Little Pietro. the youngest son of the dead man, did not at first under stand the oath, hut his grand-father then for the first time explained to him the meaning of the venfdettab. :hat he must not rest until he had tvenged in blood the murder of his 'ather. The lad eagerly took the oath with he rest of the fzamily, swearing to :he stature of St. Rocco th:it he .vould never be content until he had! slain the slayer of his father. = IPORTANT IUE~iSlON. tulo liiters Must Stop or Pay totr An limpoertaut dlecision of the Stt supremie Court sustains the :iri uri >le that the' driro'r of an aui tom'fbile n case of danger on any putli: road mnst bring his mfachineo to a .;top and. uesides, shut off his nmoto r. !h'up'e- I enting noises that are likely to righten horses or mules. The decision grew otut of t he suit f Thomas S. and Caroline Roch~estr.~ rho were awarded a v'rdict of $ 175 gainst J1. A. Bull, of Chick Springs. t re-envillec county. T1heir horse rant away .)eca use of right at a machine. and .:: R och- C ster "was injured by beina thrown C tut- of the vehicle. The accidenut -re urred in mid summuer. GIRL A HORSE TH'iEF. 1. ad Launched lunto the hgusiness on~ s a Large Scale. Althbough she is but 1 y ears r t eLizzie Paschiik, a German girl a Spokane. Wash., is a horse thier b ih a pret ty had record. WXhen ar- 11 st'd at Marcus. where she re'entiy a ole a valuable team belonging t., 5] 10. Peter' Paul. thle gi ri conf essed. iis girl I hief drove the stolen teami Spokane, where she goe's to school. ad sold it for $1: .,. She hadl two ~her horse~s ready to take to Spok-p .1 Stn1sationall Episode :n ithe ich ilnd Counity C:>ir. According to the Columbia corres pondent of the Charlotte Observer, Hon. George Johnstone presided over the Richland court last week as spec ial judge, came very near causing an open row in court by a remark he made to a jury. The correspon dent tells the story as follows: After being out 24 hours the jury in the case of Corrie E. Pou and D. B. Shannahan, charged with adul tery. reported that it was unable to agree. Discovering from Foreman Robin son that the point of disagreement was a question of fact, Judge John stone with some show of anger said: -The questions of fact in this case are not complex. They are so sim ple that I shall regard a failure to find a verdict nothing short of a dis grace. Retire again and see if you can't agree." The jury after an hour's further deliberation returned a verdict of not guilty. Whereupon the judge said: "Well, gentlemen, that is your verdict: but the defendants don't be lieve it.'' Up to the time Judge Johnstone reprimanded it the jury in the Shan nahan case stood seven for acquittal and 5 for conviction. When the jur ors went back there-was much criti cism of the judge for the treatment and in an hour the five had come over for the acauittal. When the judge told them that the defendant did not believe the verdict several jurors wanted to rise up in indigna tion and talk back, but other mem bers of the jury retained them. In the jury room there was talk along the same way. "Remember where you are," advised one juror, "and keep out of trouble by holding your tongue. If you don't like what the judge did, tell him about it outside." ARRIVED AT SEATTLE. Two fHundred antd Forty-Two Sur vivors from Wrecked Ship. The revenue cutter Thetis, Capt. A. J. Henderson, arrived at Seattle, on last Thursday night bringing 242 survivors of the wrecked American ship John Currier,, which, in a fog, went aground at Bristol Bay, Alaska. on Augusts 9. The work of rescue constitutes the greatest saving of lives with a single exception in the history of Pacific shipping. The Thetis took over the survi vors at Unalaska, where they were brought by the cutter McCulloch af ter they had spent thirty-four days on a barren beach. Had not assistance arrived an attempt would have been made the following day o reach a settlement a feat considered -o imi possible as to have been a failure and caused the death of many of the par ty. Among the rescued are 130 Orien tal cannery hands and 110 Caucasian fishermen. Capt. Murchison's wife and five young children endured the privations of the adventure. EXPLOSION PLAVS HAVOC. Gas Accident Wrecks a Block and K~ills Several Persons. Two men are missing, severa. more are in the hospital, half a score are suffering from injuries and a whole block is wrecked as the result of an explosion of gas in the cellar of No. 148 Delancey street Thursday at New York. The building was occupied by Si mon Weisberger as a liquor store. Next door on D~elancey street is a big, five-story tenement house. The walls of the latter st ructure are ripped from biasemuent to roof as if they had been rent b~y an earthquake. One man w'as blown over a high fence and fell fifty feet into the Del ancey street subway excavation. An other was blown clear out of the basement of the saloon into the street. The cigar counter and cash register were blown out of the sa !oon and clear across the street. How to Hear Yourself Snore. Most people who snore have an idea that they don't, and many a man has kept awake half the night trying to catch himself in the act and then triumphantly conclude that he wasn't addicted to the pernicious habit. To find out whether you snore or wheth er you don't it is no longer necessary to lose sleep over it, and the finding is likely to be accurate. Get a phon ograph and sleep with your nose pok ed close into the horn. The next day start the machine running. If you have snored during the night the machine will reoroduce the noise with a monotony that will appall you~ and you will no longer wonder whyl your wife can't sleep at night. W~ants ani Editor. Professor Asher E. Gluck of Chicago wants an editor for his monthly peri dical, the biinple Life. He says there tre a number of people ready to join urn in his colony, but he needs a uewspaper to mnakc known has views. Ele has a great mtass of mat ter ready or print, but he is so busy with other imple life work that he cannot at cnd to it himself. Therefore he wants mneditor. Perap~s it will be better 0 let Mr. Gluck himself tell just what le wants. Here it is: "I wnnt arman to come in wi th us I( in the simple life system. No man can , >roperly edit a simple life publication f be is not living the simple lhfe. He nay think he can. but it stands to cason that if he ives the life he will I e a better editor. "I want such a man to live like us, 2 ress like us and act like us. Every- i edy must work eight hours a day. Is ighit hours of editing wlll te cg'liva- ,y mnt to eight hours of tlor scrubbing r r any other task of the simple life alony. "You see, I wear no socks. I go r rcund barefooted. I wear no under othes My stret suit is of linen acid n >sts $2.50 complete. I'm a vege tar- tl "My wife and I live on $3 a week in ii immer an~d $2 in winter. and we hiave lecilest. The editor I employ must at into our way of living, and thene e'll mae a grand success. I have Id those who want wages that I'm a1 rter another kind of a man. 01 "I think a man editing a paper in is bare feet will be more comfcr'iable! body and thus keener in mind than editor in light shoes. I'm af..er the mple life editor." Here is a golden o'pportunity for me fellow who feels that lie has a .11 to the editorial chair. Some of the quirements are somewhat exacting. it Prof. Gluck claims that the simn e life will more than compensate for e 1 th haerdschirsIe IS DEATH THE END? Or, "If a Man Dies Shall He Uve Again. The Yearning After Perfection is the Soul's 'rophecy of its Own uimor tality. Renan says one evi ene for the truth of immortality may be found in the nobility of behavior it inspir es. The idea that man is but "The pilgrim of the day, Spouse of the worm and brother of the clay. Frail as the leaf in Autumn's yel lo v bower, Dust in the wind or dew upon the flower. A child without a sire Whose mortal life and transitory - fire, Light to the grave his chance crea ted form, As ocean wrecks illuminate the storm." And then "To-night and silence sinks forev ermore!" does not kindle great deeds and strength for any sublime endeav or. Cicero said of the Epicurean creed that it was utterly to be re jected because it led to nothing wor thy or generous. If death ends all, what an impos ture our system of laws on which so ciety is founded! If we must wholly perish, the maxims of charity and justice and the precepts of honor and friendship are empty words. Why should they be binding if in this life only we have hope? What duty do we owe to the dead, to the living or to ourselves, if all will be noth..g? If retribution terminates with the grave, morality is a bugbear of hu man invention. What are the sweet ties of kindred if we shall not live again? What sancity is there to the last wish of the dying if death is a wall instead of a door? What is ob edience to laws but an insane servi tude, justice an unwarrantable in fringement upon liberty, the laws of marriage a vain scruple, and govern ment an imposition upon credulity, if death ends all? There was one nation and only one that ever tried to destroy belief in God and in immortality. France de creed in national convention that there was no God and death an eter nal sleep. The Sabbath was abolish ed, churches were turned into tem ples of reason, the Bible was drag ged along the streets by way of de rision and contempt. Infidelity then reigned and frightful was its reign. Its crown was terror, its throne the guillotine, its scepture the battleaxe, its palace yard a field of blood, and its royal robes dripped with human gore. Gutters were filled with the torn shreds of human flesh. Prop erty was confiscated. The morning breeze and evening wind bore across the vine-clad hills of France the cries of suffering and the shrieks of ter ror, and to carry the metropolis and the kingdom from utter desolation the infidel authorities had to insti tute the Sabbath and public wor ship. Were the belief in God and immortality to die cut in the human heart,. the flood-gates of vice would open wide, plunge the world into the grave- -despair, and consign humanite : dungeons of the damned. All the :rg - that go to prove the exist, -: ad-a God endow ed with st .tributes es are essen tial to ou~ very conception of His character, point out the moral nec essity of a future state of existence and inequalities of the present mor al government will not only be re dressed, but the whole will be shown to b~e holy and righteous. There is sin and there is punish ment for sin, which we dally wit ness. But there is not for all sin such a reckoning in this world as meets the claims of righteousness and justice. Do we not see evil do ings go undetected and many bad men pass unpunished? See how often the righteous suffer and the wicked flourish. When we take a deliberateI view we are naturally led to exclaim: "Wherefore do the wicked live, be come old, yea, are mighty in power? Is there no reward for the right - eous? Is there no punishment for the workers of iniquity? Is there no God that judgeth in the earth?'! And indeed were there no retribu tion beyond the limits of this present life, we should be necessarily oblig ed to admit one or the other of the following conclusions: Either that no Moral Governor of the world ex ists or that justice and judgment are not the habitations of His throne. If the moral government of God, the existence of which our experi ence avouches, is ever to have its ad ministrations perfected and wrought to a complete actualizing of its own manifest princlples, it can only be in m.other state of existence, and the iouble conclusion presses upon usi that there is a future life, and that that life is one of rewards and pun shment.] Earthly providence is a travesty ofi justieon any other theory than that t is a preliminary stage that is to be ollowed by rectification. God must n justice to Himself, before the as- I ~embled universe, send the evil-doerr o desolation, and crown suffering t goodness, to show that He was al- I rays on the side of right. Sin isc >ften in honor here, and goodness in lishonor, and that God may demon trate that He is both just and good, 1 nan must stand again after death. ~he crown must be put upon right: ousness and injustice driven to its 1 wvn place, that .iustice may again a Tow bright and the universe rejoice r 2 its Righteous Ruler. t A future life is needed for the rorking out of that moral complete- d ess which the present never brings. e VTe are cut off when we begin to be c: eady to do something in the world. f Goethe says his belief in the im- t1 iortality of the soul springs from n ie idea of activity-'-"for I have the e: lost assured conviction that our soul ir of an essence absolute. indestruct- ei le, an essence that works on from :ernity to eternity. It is like the ai mn, which, to our earthly eye, sinks h id sets, but in reality never sinks, at shines on unceasingly.''" tl Browning sa. s: t "I know this earth is not myh sphere. For I cannot so narrow me, but.a that of I shall not exceed it." a; This highu ideal which is not reach- e I on earte intimates an immortal:u e, which may affrde time and scope si WHITE SUPREMACY Vital to the Nation, Says an Em inent German Visitor. There Can Be No Equality of the Races, and the Negro Question Will Give Is Trouble. "Supremacy of the white race must be maintained. Otherwise the American Republic will go on the rocks." This opinion was expressed by Dr. H. Schauinsland, one of the most em inent German scientists who is now making a tour of this country. He is in Washington making a study of the scientific departments of the Government. on which he will .ake a report to his government when he shall return to his home in Bremen. "It is my belief," continued Dr. Schauinsland, "that much trouble is in store for your people in the hand ling of the negro question. Equality of the races coes not exist, except in theory. You may as well understand now that the Anglo-Saxon and Ethi opian will not work in common. Their differences in constitution, in cus toms, in habits. in education-and merely in color-make them substan tially incompatible. In the whole history of the world there is no in stance of the domination of the su perior, by an inferior race. I use the termn 'superior' and 'inferior ad visedly, but in no offensive way. The time will come when a definite line of demarcat-"on will be drawn be tween the white and black races in America. It is possible, although not certain, that befDre that line is drawn it will be necessary for the whites to demonstrate their physi cal, as well as their mental, super iority, To my mind, this is a prob lem pregnant with serious posibili ties for Americans. In the end, of course, the result will be the triumph of the white race. The blacks nec essarjly will have to take a subordi nate position. That will be as it should be and will make for the best in all respects and for all peoples. "I have been most impressed in this country by your marvelous edu cational facilities. They have a wealth of material to work upon and abundant wealth to promote your in mitutions, to carry on your experi stents and to make original investi gations. Already AMerica, in some respects, has surpassed Europe and now we are forced to come to you for new great works of original re search. The scientific, literary and industrial successes achieved by Am erica are forming a new class in this country--a class of brains-from which nothing but good can come to all the world. "One thing I hesitate to speak frankly lest I may be misunderstood. I fear many of your newspapers are giving too much to the publication of sensational matters--matters that appeal rather to the emotions thf x to the rc.asoning power of readers. In America, the newspapers are more widely read than in other country on the globe. They are, therefore, the most powerful educators. In making as they do of murders, elopments and all sorts of purely sensational sub jects of no permanent value they not only are adding nothing to the total of human knowledge, but are, in fact, detracting from the moral pow er of the press." Dr. Schauinslaud, who is accomp anied by his daughter, is rnaking a tour of the world in the interest of the German Government, as well as of the great educational institution in Bremen, of wnich he is the direc tor. FATAL ACCIDENT. Tipped Foul Ball Kills Young Man at Base Ball Gamne. While standing directly behind the catcher, witnessing a game of ball at his home at Walnut Grove, N. C., C. T. Willis- was struck on the temple just above his right ear by a foul which escaped from the catcher's~ mit and received a blow from which he died later. A postmortem examination showed that his skull had not been broken, but ani examination of his brains showed that he had. several hemor rhages from them. He was 32 years old and is survived by a wife and four little children. for its realization. Lowell nobly says in his elegy on the death of Chan ning: "Thou art not dead; in thy higher sphere Thy spirit bends itself to loving tasks. And strength to perfect what is dreamed of here Is all the crown and glory it asks." Theodore Parker on his death-bed said to a friend. "I am not afraid. :o die, but I might wish to carry on ny work. I have only half used the >owers God gave me." Emmanuel Kant argued from the existence of a1 noral law unrealizable here the nec ssity of some after-life. Perfection, s the heritage with which God has I ndowed me, and since this short1 ife does not give completeness, I 1 nust have the immortal life in which :o fmd it. This yearning after per etion and completeness is the soul'se ualification for and prophecy of its s ~wn immortality. I know no view >oint from which the grandeur of ife is more impressive. The high l sparations of the soul are no longer 1 >lasting mockeries. The problem of,3 ife is solved. It is the precursor of5 .possible perfection which to be ealized will lay all eternity under ribute. The vast strides man has made i uring the short compass of his pres-' nt earth-life in his march toward ivilization are a prophecy of the in-c nite possibilities before him in fu-| ire, and death is only a stage in l ian's evolution upward, only anoth-|j c name for birth, introducing him 'if to another grander sphere of the S :ernal process moving on. as Your ~past life has been down hill e. ad toward gloom; your future is up ti ill toward the glorious sunrise. Dying is throwing open the, door sa iat the bird mnay fly out of his net-,g d eagc. and be heard singing in:ie gher flights and in diviner realms. s Although th-ere are only eighteen o igs used in the international code: ly signals, which Is used by warships d merchant zhips all over the world, ro y can be made to represent no few- .ki than 20,000 distinct signals, and by mn e of the coda~ something like 50,000 sh ips an b deignaed.at DASHED IN SIDING. Eight Killed in Wreck on Balti more and Ohio. Failed to Throw Switch and Sharp Curve Completed Arrangements for the Accident. Eight were killed and a score in jured, a number fatally, at Bellaire, Ohio, at 3.15 Saturday afternoon when the Chicago and Wheeling er-: press train on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad crashed into a freight train which was slowly moving on a siding. The wreck was due, it is said, to the failure of an operator to throw a switch. The westbound freight had receved orders to meet the passenger at the western limits of the Bellaire yards, and was moving slowly along the siding. At the point where the wreck occurred there is a very sharp curve which prevents the engineers of the eastbound trains from seeing more than a few feet ahead. The passenger train swunk around the curve very rapidly, being three hours late, and should have gone on in safety on the main line. The switch to the siding, however. had not been turned and the train shot on to the siding and into the freight. There was scarcely time to apply the brakes and no time for the enginemen to jump. The two big engines were reduced to junk by the impact, but the worst damage was done to the smoker, which was tele scoped so completely by the baggage car that every seat was thrown out of the coach. Every occupant of the coach was badly injured. The pas sengers in the other day coach and the two Pullmans were tumbled from their seats, but not seriously injured. Engineer Galbraith was burned to a crisp? by escaping steam. The in jured were taken to the Glendale, W V., and Bellaire hospitals. General Manager Fitzgerald, who was in the neighborhood on an in spection tour, and General Superin tendent W. C. Loree of Wheeling, personally superintended the. rescue work. Great difficulty was exper ienced in removing the injured pas sengers from the wrecked smoaker. Work was slow because every move ment of the debris caused some one to shriek with pain, as the victims were entangled in a mass of timbers and twisted iron. Among the passengers on the wrecked train were the members of Richard Carle's "Spring Chicken" comic opera, which wa's to have play ed at Wheeling that afternoon and evening. All the members of the company escaped serious injury ex cept Alfred Bolby, the musical direc tor. It was found necessary to am putate his right arm, thus ending his career in the profession. He was riding in the smoker and was found with a heavy timber tightly binding him by the arms. The wrecked passenger train left Chicago for Pittsburg and Wheeling at 9.30, last train. The train is di vided at Chicago Junction, part going on to Pittsburg by way of Akron and the other part coming through to Wheeling via Newark. The Wheel ing end of the train consisted of six. coaches. At the office of Superintendent Lorce Saturday night it was said that they were not yet certain which oper ator is to blame for the accident, but a thorough investigation was under way. The property damage will amount to about $60,000. A curious feature of the wreck is that the baggage car and the smoker were the only cars on the passenger train damaged. BRIDGE BUILDERS DROWN. Three Men Victims of Water While Crossing in Skiff. Lawton Wilson of Bainbridge, Ga.. and two negroes employed in the con struction of a' bridge over the Tom bigbee river were drowned while they were crossing the riivr in a skiff. It Is not known what caused the acci dent. The Farmer's Fight. The farmers have the sympathy and support of every right thinking man in their fight to get a living price for their cotton. Whatever affects the welfare of the farmer affects the entire country, and every individual in it. Farming is the foundation of all na tional prosperity, just exactly as the land under your house is the founda ion of that house. The wealth of the United States in the long run con ists of those things that we get out f the earth, plus the human intelli Ience devoted to their use prepara ion or manufacture. When the farmer is prosperous the 2ation is prosperous. Dwellers in cit es forget the farmer very often, but >hey wouldn't forget him for a second f he suddenly ceased to exist or gave ip his diflicult wcrk. The farmer is he most important man in the coun ,ry to us all. Whatever -interferes ith him interfi rs with us all. Then let u sta id shoulder to shoul ter w-th him in his fight against the peculators. THE recent wreck on the Boston and daine railroad rear Canaan, N.* H., I >y which 25 passengers were killed and 0 or more injured adds to the alarm ng casualties of the present year. For bree months ending March 31, there I ere according to the Interstate Comn aerce commission, 421 passengers ands mpoyes killed, and 4,920 injured. J e TEE Southern Division of the Assol ated Press has unanimouslygendor t d Major J. C. Hemphill, the abis andg mial edito- of The News and Couitp g r, for United States Senator f-om b outh Carolina. The members of th be sociation have proven themselves )od judges of senatorial possibili TE Greenville Evening Piedmont ,ys that "let-up" squea', which or inated ir' Wall street and has been. hoed on many editorial pages was o attcd gordl and hard when the At ruey General said; "Business men va ight to wish to have the laws strict- Ot and impartially enforced." ca of A T Chicago, John W. Miller, a rail- h ad clerk, confessed to attempting to 1 and rob Edgar Mt. Crumb, a dia- dri ,n- broker. The hourding of loanbi arkse be said, had made him d ..n-i jris HOLD THE COTTON. An Urgent Address to the Peo ple of the South. Clear Presentation of Case as Seen in the West by President Smith of Cotton Association. The State says Mr. E. D. Smith, president of the South Carolina Cot toi association, has returned to Co himbia and found hundreds of let ters awaitinir him asking for advise as-to the disposing of cotton. To all of these Mr. Smith replied, "Hold your cotton." Other letters urged him to issue an address to the people and ac'cordingly the following was given to The State Friday: "After a trip through the West, I find on my return numerous requests from dIfferent parts of the State asking me to urge the people to hold their cotton from the market until the price set by the Southern Cotton association and the Farmers' union is reached. "If ever there was a time when the conditions were clear and un mistakable, without there being any complications, it is now. It is a clear case of pure speculation against real conditions. To put the case as it is, so that any one may see what tribute we are paying to gamblers because we are not organized to withstand them, the facts are these: The mills have sold their output for months ahead- on a basis of 15 cents per pound; the demand for goods at these prices increasing; the price of the manufactured article actually advancing; theisupply of cotton in sight, the present crop unquestiona bly short, probably 2,000,000 bales less than last year; the demand for cotton for the current year far in excess of the supply; the condition of the crop steadily deteriorating; the mills running full time eager for cotton; no alarming conditions in the money market; no complica tions at home or abroad, particular ly with the spinners 30 days ago buying cotton cheerfully and profit ably ot 14 cents and 14 1-2 cents per pound. Yet in the face of all these favorable conditione the price has dropped from 2 1-2 cents to 3 cents per pound. Why? Because a few speculators, who neither- grow ,nor spin cotton. please to have it so. The question is squarely up to the South, the whole South, the mer chant, the banker, farmer, lawyer, doctor, preacher and laborer in any and every vocation, avocation or profession,.whether they will tame ly submit to this outrage, whether they will allow these gentry to ex act a toll from us, at their pleasure, of from $10 to $25 per bale or whether they will put their price on their property and refuse to accept any other. The only answer to this absurd decline is to refuse to take the prices offered. "In the West they are making a brave stand. They are complaining bitterly that the Atlantic States are not standing for the price agreed up on. How true this is, I am not able to say. Let every man in. South Carolina who has cotton to sell drop me a postal card saying how many bales he has and how many he will| hold. I will compile thenumber and give it to the public, so that we may know what to depend upon. If we would absolutely refuse to sell a bale of cottod now, stop receipts, then reaction would be immediate. "The only possible way to remedy this. outrageous condition is to refuse to submit to it. "With present conditions warrant ing 15-cent cotton, acknowledged by all parties to be worth 15 cents, if the people put it on the market at present prices, then we acknowledge that neither the law of supply and demand, the conidition of trade and finance, or the cost of production have anything to do with the price or value of cotton, but simply the caprice of a few millionaire gamn blers. Surely we are paying dearly for the privilage of being disorga nized, for being without warehouses, without organized capital to hold our cotton. "Can not each community meet at once and devise means, where there are none, to help each other to hold cotton. It will take organized co operation to accomplish our purpose. "Every bale sold at the present prices mneans a gift of $15 to $20 per bale to the gambling bunch to en able them to take a like or a great er amount from your next bale. "Ex-Gov. D. C. Heyward, who is president of a warehouse company in this State, informed me that he is doing all in his power to secure funds and to provide warehouse fa eiiities for the farmers in this emer gency. So that all parties interested aan communicate with Ex-Gov. D. C. Heyward in reference to the mat r"."E. D, Smith." CR USHED) BENEATH WHEELS~ rwo Lady D~elegates to Bible Conven tion Killed by Railroad. Mrs. Henry Holmes and Mrs. UT. G.1 WIunsell of Springfield, Mass.. dele rates to the convention of Bible Stu lents of America, in session at Nor- I olk, Va., were run down by a Nor olk.& Western switch engine in that ity Saturday night almost within ight of their husbands and instantly ( Ailed. No headlight was on the tender of he engine nor was there a flagman n the running board as the trair aeked out the Merchants' and Minm rs' warehouse across Main street. The crew declare they heard n< rreams and saw no one. although ye witnesses say that the women 1rieked at the top) of their voices. Caught by the brake beam of the ~nder their clothing becanme entan- c ed in the rods and they were drag d for several hundred yards. Their >dies were found a few feet apart. SIX H UNDRED DRO.WN. e rw -cat Loss of Life in Prevailing Floods in Japan. Japanese advices just received tel! great loss of life due to the pre- t ling floods in Japan. The river to inashiga, overflowed its banks and th ised the destruction of the town j Fukucheyama, near Violo. SiN du ndred of the inhabitants were as >wned. being unable to escape to ~her gr'ound1. owing to the sudden. e of the river, which rose over U ELEVEN KILLED. Cage Plunged Down Shaft Caus ing Death to Occupants. IN A MICHIGAN MINE Seven Were Fatally InjuredSome Pathetic Scenes-Brake Gave Wa As Cage Was Descending, and It Shot to the Bottom of the Shaf With the Speed of a Bullet P Dead and Injured in a Mase By the plunging of a cage 675 feet down the. shaft of the Jonesand' Laughlin Steel company at Negaunee Mich., Saturday, eleven men - were killed and seven fatally injured.- .% The cage was making itsfirstde scent for the day when the brake on, the hoisting drum gave way. -41'fwo other men sprang to the assitan the one at-the brake wheel but combined efforts did not avai, and the wire cable continued- to uniree from the drum like a weighted-t from a lubricated bobbin. The a shot. down 2040 feet before a liln the rushinig cable caused .lt-toI7t Then the cage dropped with a d to the -bottom of .the shiff, ties ty catches failing to opehA r surging of. the cable 'i its-n :N, tore out part of the side-of the - house and ripped out severals - about the shaft house. The machin'ery Installed Is not-e tirely new, but it had leen tho g ly overhauled. Worknien at the-b .... tom of the mine -inediately about removing-the dead ,he had- hurled -the bodies togeth they lay- in one mass rnr h-f several- still- -breathin were They are fatally .hurt. Thousands of persons sooncon gated about the mine shaft. In crowd were the wives and chld the.two hundred men empioyed n mine'- Ech thought t1at elie one -was- in the cage. Itwas two hours -before the- cbr ab'e-as" justed 'so that the- caeoedu raised to .thW esurfaceand th turned over to -relatives. When the miners camefrom - der ground and many anxidUS" and mothers were relievd -pense, ,their- joy added WOth.oW. C, of those. bereaved! nade the awful. Priests and ch~deales among the people consollng theid begging them to be'cali, hours. before a semblc e came to' the excited- miners-id-the"r> families. ELjECTROCUTE nSWBG A Machinist Meets -S- me Dea At New York aumacblPier - Pollumi, met ja te'rilblen 'stag death in a- gar ge -in W la bu i Brooklyn, ini which he was emi~yd~' He went to the cellar to get - pie~. of shafti-ig, and "'presently Cha e~ 'Reilly, the proprietor of the ~rg;-~ and Johng Foley and another-eihpioy-~-'~ ee heard' him screaming 'ai-agon They ran --lown tb'e cenar a ar which are wood,"to find him- writi about in -four inches of water Swhich covered the cellar floor' . Foley leaped into- the water to ai Pollum, but suffered a severe-sick-, the water being heavily charged witlr electricity. H -regained the steps,' however,: and quickly got a- pair o . rubber gloves. - By ;means of these ~ and .a plank Pollum iras taken from the water but be soon~ di'ed. -' An electric cable'runis intothe gar- . age cellar and from 'it the batteries-W of automobiles are char~ged.. In some way the insulation~ on part of~ti cable had been scraped off, which - permitted the current .to escapeinto the water which had leaked into the cellar.' -- - - - FAID1ERS CO fBNE. ' The Grain Growers in the Northwest - Will Fight Harriman. Wheat growers in the Palouse belt, south of Spokane, Wash., where sey eral counties willl each -feld'more than 9,000,000 bushels of grain-this season, have organized a farrs union for the purpose of handling their - product and establishing inde pendent warehouses to combat' the Oregon Rail-road and Navigation com pany, operated in Washington and Oregon as part of the Harriman sys tem. James Walters, a bonanza rancher " of Garfield, is at the head of the or ganization, which has already sip ped. 500,000 bushels of wheat to thea Pacific coast over an opposition road,4 w'hich, it is given 'out, will get the 'est of the business. He says that is soon as the crop is harvested the. inion will' organize the farmers in ~very town and hamlet. in the inland mpire, embracing 150,000 square ailes. FOUR PERSONS KILLED. 'ollision Between Freight anti Work Train Neai Alamo, Ga. Four persons were killed 'early on unday in a colli'. n betweena eight train on the Seaboard Air' .ie railroad near Alamo, Ga. The bodies of the four men killed ere taken to Americus aboard. a '~ pecial train. -The dead are: - Engineer Charles Hines of Amern The ' colored fireman and colored rakeman. An unknown white man, supposed I be a tramp. The conductor escap I injury, as the caboose was not de tiled. The wreck was caused by a ashout. Little -information regard- " g the wreck has been received. "But," asked the proprietor of the mgtong apartments. -"o you thfnl Is man is the best one- : :' :'? r janitor?" ~"The best ever!" replied e mana~ror. "He has been an le in, a e:::man and a street car con ctor. l'e's as sassy and Impudent he cn be."--Philadelphia Press. [T is a great pity that Carrie N~a )n can'L stum'j]e on her "af~nity"