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VOL. XXII MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1907 NO.6 HOW DID HE DIE? New York Police Have Failed to Solve Mysterious Death. HELD UP AND ROBBED And Later Fid Dead in His Room At the Waldorf, One- of the Swell Hotels of New York. Letter He Wrote Indicates He Expected Death But His Injuries Plainly Evidence a Murder. New York has another mysterious murder or suicide casdthat the police find difficult to solve. Herman Brad-Ii ley Potter, an insurance agent of f Doylestown. Pa.. a man of excellent: t social standing and comfortable means was found dead in his rooms I on the fourteenth floor of the Wal dorf-Astoria Wednasday night, with his skull fractured in two places, his nose broken and bleeding, and bruis es about his legs and feet, showing that he had been horribly beaten. Whether the man was murdered in'( the hotel or whether he was beaten s in the street, and went to his room to I die, is not yet determined. A ques- k tion of possible poison also figures s in the extraordinary mystery. There G Is a suspicion that a jar of white d powder found in the room contained c cyanide of mercury. An autopsy will be held to reveal whether or not there j are traces of the drug in the man's C stomach. At the same time there y was a mysterioas letter written by ej Mr. Potter to his wife in Doylestown. which puts the whole affair in a dif ferent phase. tl It has been proved that Potter was tc attacked by thugs on Saturday night, tc and that he received a cut in the nose T from a blow. He did not receive, d4 however, the wounds that appeared oj on his body when he was found dead. tl There are sufficient in themselves to P have produced death and the physi cians declare they were received sc only a short time before death. M When the man's body was exam- + ined by the coroner he said: "This man has been beaten to iz death. Can't say that he was killed ;s in the hotel, but a murder has been committed." On a table in his room was a letter th addressed to Mrs. H. Bradley Potter. ch Jr., of Doylestown, Pa. The letter ta was on a letter head of the Michigan at Commercial Insurance company, of i Doylestown. The letter in no way threw light on the mystery. 'It read: "My Dear Wife:-In the left hand su drawer of the bureau you will find an envelope of every insurance com- efl pany I represent. Write to every one lo of them and ask them to appoint you th agent. c "Everything I own is in the bo~o on my desk. "Good-bye to you and the children. I forgot to say last Saturday night 1 was put out of business on my way home to the hotel. "I was attacked by three toughs bi and I had quite an experience. I ac tually put two of them to sleep. bmum the third ducked and hit me writh a jj sandbag on the left side of the head. and put me to sleep. . t "He took my wa'tch. locket, cigar ette case, ring and pocket book. "I was picked up by an offie ',r lying in the gutter. Fortunately I had my t room key with me, and the Waldorf means a great deal in New York. "Farewell to you all. Good-bye. a "(Signed) Herman" While the letter would seem to mn dicate Potter knew death was ap proaching, it was agreed the woundsr on his body could not possibly have been self-inflicted, It was shown the letter was written in a strong hand and by a man, who, if in physica. suffering or under a nervous strain. showed no sign of it in his writing. A comparison of the writing to the signature on the hotel register, prov ed beyond doubt that Potter had penned the note. ' Further examination of the room disclosed the jar of white powder. In the trousers of the dead man was found $6.31 in cash together with pa pers and other effects that proved hisV identity. SWAM A RIVER. To See His Sweetheart Rather That: Be Quarantinied. At Philadelphia impatient to see his sweetheart. Lieutenant John B. Richardson, second lieutenant in the Twentyeighth infantry, defied the quarantine laws and plunged into the river. A row boat carried him ashore After drying his garments, he pro ceeded to the home of Miss Helen Elizabeth Grady, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Grady, at 320 West Lancaster Pike, Wayne. They ar ranged for their marriage in St. Mary's church.c The lieutennlant was a passenger on the transport Sumner. He was vexed when he found that one of the ship's company was thought to have I the yellow fever, and he was more vexed when he was held up on the gag-lank and told he would have to stay aboard unmil the sickness of the susp.ct could be properly ding nosed. PICIED VP MESSAGE. One Ship Ogf South Carolina and One at Panama. The steamship City of Savannah while on her way to New York fron3 Savannah got into wireless commn icat ion with a steamship at Panamifl in the Pacific. The distance was toe great to decipher more than a fey. words of the message the other shir was sending, probably to some ves i within a few hundred miles of her. MEETING OF LAYMEN Of Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in Columbia. Somue of .the Most Prominent Laymen in the State Were Present and Di. cussed Affairs. Some of the laymen of the Metho dist Church, South, held a meeting in Cblumbia last Wednesday eveuing to onsider certain things connected with the management of the :hurch. The notice of the meeting was very short, or no doubt there would have been a larger attendance. The Columbia Record, from which >aper we take this account of the feeting. says Col. R. W. Simpson, of Pendleton. life president of the board >f trustees of Clemson College. was talled to the chair, and Mr. W. W. atson, of Batesburg, was requested o act as secretary. There were present about thirty aymen and one minister, the Rev. "oke D. Mann, of Oconee. In the >ody were noticed Mr. Cole L. Blease >f Newberry, president pro tem of the tate senate; Mr. W. H. McCaw. a rell known newspaper man of Col mbia: Col. W. W. Lewis. a leading awyer of Yorkville, and commander f the First regiment of state troops: ,o. Thos. C. Hamer, of Marlboro. ergeant-at-arms of the house; Mr. P. ,. Sturkey, of Greenwood. a well nown traveling man; Mr. T. G. Gib n, one of the wealthiest planters of 'reenwood county; Mr. G. Lang An erson, secretary of the Williamson :>tton mills and promoter of the pro osed $250.000 mill at Blacksburg: [essrs. H. C. Strauss, C. P. Hodges, E. Breeden. D. M. D. McLeod. H. Prince. S. L. Nicholls, Stackhouse, As stated by the chairman, the ob ct of the meeting was "to consider te state of affairs in Methodism and o take such steps as may seem fit >ward remeding existing evils." he raising of preachers' salaries was scussed, as was also the question the adoption of a fixed salary for a te presiding elders, who are now ( lid on the precentage plan. Col. Simpson, speaking for his as >ciates. said that he was a loyal ethodist. and wished to see a res- r ration of the church in this state. 1 [here are too many mere sermon- c ers," he declared, "among the min ers, we need a few more Christian I ntlemen." Col. Simpson thought 1 but just that the laymen, who pay e expenses of maintaining the urch. should have some represen- s tion. He thought the laymen should L least have an advisory commission tl touch with the bishop's cabinet. a Col. Simpson had a set of resolu- 0 mns drawn up. which he offered as ggestions. The first of these were d opted. It is in substance, to the L ect that the laymen present were t] al Methodists and would stand for Q e ultimate and highest good of the L urch of their fathers. The object P this was to make it clear in the n' .tset tihat its framers were not seek g the disruption of the denomina- ti >n nor planning an insurrectionary S mpaign., Col. Simpson's second resolution 2 -ought forth comment of one kind e another from almost everyone o esent. It was practically this: k iat the laymen present view with P rrow that spiritual decadence of f e church and the "misanagement" s ts affairs. There were some opposed to this F d some in favor of it. The party a at seemed to be n the majority I ought the resolution too sweeping. f d were of the opinion that so small 1 body of men, at so early a stage of b e contemplated campaign, could s >t safely and wisely take such radi .1 measures. lest they frighten away om thier standard the more con rvative of the laymen who are in 'mpathy with them, but not as yet igned with them openly. There was discussion ad libitum yon this resolution. Members rose id debated the question at length. id hotly. Col. Simpson offered to nend his resolution, by striking out e words "mismanagemnent" and in rting 'unsatisfactory management.' owever, this did not meet with the ajority's favor, and after consider le more debate, a new resolution as drawn up and adopted. "Resolv I, That the chairman of this meet Eg appoint one or three men from ich presiding elder's district to ards organizing the laymen of the wth Carolina Conference'." Early in the meceting Colonel impson, enunmeratinlg a few of the Lymens grievances, said one assess bent of $20,000 was for the support Etwo negro colleges. one in Georgia ad the other in Tennessee. "I ask one well informed minister why .e were paying this um." said Col nel Simpson. "'and- he said be could1 ot find out any reason except that was to pay the salaries of the pres lents." Another assessment of $15. 00 is for the educr.tionl of pra.:hers' Mr. P. L. Sturkey, who had been ne of the promoters of the meetingI aid that he recently saw a letter that nade him blush for his church. It vas from one of the presiding elders o a minister, and contained a state ent in regard to collections thiat he mad 'worked the rabbit's foot on em." ar.d 'things" were "fine." The meeting adiourned at half past eleven o'clock. It is expected that another meeting will be held as soon as the appointments are- made In the several presidint eleors dis tricts and an organization will then be effected. (CHOlKF.) TO lEATH'~. Moth Ilon in) Th'(oA C'u-.i" A large' candle moth. flying into his mouth while he was sleeping, lodrixa in the windpipe of ten-year-old Jesse Moore. of Whitesv'ille'. Ky-. and eam'. ~1 his eth within a short time. CHASM OPENED And Engulfed a City and All of its Inhabitants. ONLY TWO ESCAPED. Fifteen Thousand People Was Buri ed in the Ruints of the City of laratagh, Which Was Destroyed by a Terrible Earthquake, Which Was Followed by a Mountain Slide Fears Felt for Other Towns. The earthquake in Italy, an ac count of which was published by us last week. seems to have been worse destructive than at first reported. It seems to have been more severe in other countries than t was in Italy. Later reports say that the entire ity of Karatagh, in Bokhara, has been destroyed by the terrible earth quake which was followed by a mountain slide, in which the entire population, numbering 15,000 were buried. Only two persons survived the disaster, these I eing the gover nor of Karatagh and his mother. Details of the convulsions are as ret unavailable, but the news so far -eceived leads to the belief that a ,reat chasm opened in the valley tbere the city stood and.that almost he whole vicinity was engulfed in >ne pile of ruins. There is also reason to believe! hat other towns and cities in the eighborhood of Bokhara were badly haken by the same convulsion of ature and it is exp4eted that the full ale of death will reach a total which vill make the disaster as one of the reatest in the history of all Asia linor. A dispatch from London says an ouncements from the seismic bur -aus in various world's centers. it is marned that the preliminary tremors egan at about 11.00 p. m., and the trong motion at 11.48 p. m., on ctober 20. The shocks continued ntil 1.15 a. m.. October 21. The origin of the earthquake; it is elieved. is quite different from those corded October 16. and 17, and ay, perhaps be near the antipodes f Washington. The same day. October 20, pro nged seismic disturbances which Lsted several hours during the morn ig of the next day, were announced om the London bureau. The in rum ent on the Isle of Wight and i Bach. Austria clearly recorded e earthquake, which was supposed the time to be at a distance of 3. )0 miles. On October 21. when Karatagh was stroyed. dispatches received in ondon from St. Petersbeg statedl at there had been severe earth ake shocks in Central Asia, at at..murgan, Khokand and other d aces. as well as at Samarkand, C hich caused more or less injury. ~ Karatagh is in Russian Turkes f. one hundred miles southeast of ~ nmarkand. which place suffered ~ eat damage by earthquake on Oct. ~ . The shocks lasted for nearly the r iire day at Samnarkand, toppling C er many houses, but so far as 1 2wn. only two were killed. The. pulation had ample time to flee - *om their houses before the greatest aock came. The weather bureau at Washing n. announced on October 21, that I i earthquake had been recorded. ~ ginning at 11 o'clock the previous ~ ight lasting until early in the morn 1g. Its origin was believed to have ~ en a point west of Australia in the uthern Indian ocean. YERY PATHETIC CASE. . ept the Body of His Sweetheart for Two Weeks. A pathetic story comes from Na les Italy. Eliza Scallisi. a beauti-i i young woman, was engaged to bejt married to a young man named Ales- I ndro. but she died a few days be re the d-tte set for the ceremony d was buried in a local cemetary. Alessandro was heartbroken over is bereavement and one night he ug up tlie body and carried it to is lodging. He embalmed the corps f the young woman dressed it In its ridal clothes and kept it in his I ooms for a fortnight.1 Neighbors finally grew curious: on the fact that the young man1 L'ver went abroad. and peeping one 1 Lay through his shuttered windows hey saw Alessandr'o seated alongside he dead body of the woman who was : have been his wife affectionately olding her hand. The police were afored and Alessandro was arrest d. The body has been buried a ;econd time. *WIP~lPEr) 3INISTER. Wh~ite Caps D)raggedl Him Fromt the Ilomle of H1is "Afiinity." The stern ranchmen of Kremmlin g. sal. had no mercy for the Rev. H. 1-larsha, a retired Mlethodist minister. whenm they dragged him fromth home of his "'affinity." M1iss Rluth Schumacher. and. after horsewhip ping him. took him to his own ranch nd commanded him to remain with his own family. The men were dis guised as whitecaps. The minister swears vengeance just as soon as he is ale t.o leave his bed. Harsha had been comp~letely infat itted with the girl for over a year and she with him. despite the fact that he is over 60 years of age. She is a handsome girl. but that fact did not save her from being placed under arrest the day after the horse.Thip tiia of her admirer. The girl claims to have wealthy relatives in Texas and Colorado. She lives on a ranch of her own. about a mtile away from that of Hiarsha. The ministers aged and faithful wife is cain fo hi.H ha two chil TO HAVE MORE CASH. The Banks Join in Movement To Increase Currency Bankers Ready to 'rake Advantage of the Provisions for Issuing Currency to Hel) the Stringency. A dispatch from Washington says Treasury officials are agreeably sur prised at the number of banks over the country which have already in dicated their purporse to comply with the suggestion of Comptroller of the Currency Ridgeiey that additional circulation be taken out. Although the suggestion was made only re cently. a large number of telegrams have been received at the department asking for additional circulation. vary ing in arnount from a few thousand dollars to two millions. Sol. Wexler. vice president of the Whitney Central National Bank in New Orleans, who, with other prom inent New Orleans bankers' has had a number of conferences with Sec retary Cortelyou in an effort to de vise a plan by which cotton exporters could get prompt cash returns from cotton shipments said: "The present situation can be re lieved in but two ways: First by the restoration of confidence and the re turn of money which has been with drawn from banks in the East during the recent panic. "Second. 'by the rapid export of >ur cotton, wheat, provisions and cth er products to create a balance of trade in our favor and make importa tion of gold in large quantities possi ble. "The prompt and wise action of lecretary Cortelyou. aided by Mr. dfrgan and other prominent New i7ork bankers. has gone very far to vard restoring confidence and mon y is again being redeposited in the trong institutions of the country. "The Southern situation is more ifficult of solution, owing to the nec ssary delay in transmission of ex hanging bills to Europe and the ime required for the purchase and hipment of gold to this country. "The Southern banks are doing heir part by largely increasing their irculation with the assistance of the i omptroller and the Secretary of the 'reasury which enable them to for -ard their foreign exchange by mail t > New York without requiring cur ency for the entire amount, New c ork can. in turn, as soon as these ills reach the other side, import gold ad then transmit currency in quan ties throughout the agricultural tons of the country. t PROOFS SHATTERED. ne Remark Breaks Down a Strong Chain of Evidence. Circumstancial evidence as proof i a murder trial had another throw wn in Jpdge Chetlain's court in ~ hicago. Ill., last week. The case 'as that of the state against Angelo rpico. charged with the killing ofc alvatore E. Serpico in a barroom ght. The state had built a strong ructure of evider.ce in proof of the ~ an's guilt. The case was about to 0 lose when the fine str'ucture went up I ke a bubble. t Dr. Warren Hunter, coroner's phy- B ician, on cross examination, stated t at Salvatore Serpico was killed by C bullet from a 32-calibre revolver. C he defendant's revolver was a 38- a libre The. defendant has insisted ~ tat he was innocent. Here is the estion that ruled the verdict: C "By the way. D~r. imhter," Mr. V anon, attorney for the defendant, C sked. "have you the bullet that you und in the body?" 1 "Certainly," Dr. Hunter replied. t d lie handed the bullet to the law- t er. t "Why, this is a 32-calib~re bullet." a anlon exclaimed. C The bullet was then placed in the f volver owned by the defendant and I rattled in the empty chamber. Af er only a short deliberation the .jury eturned a verdict of not guilty. U)ASH FOR POLE. iet. Shackeltoni Ready for His. Bold Trip Southwar'd.C Under the auspices of the British ntartic expedition. Lieut. Shackel on. the British explorer,. will soon nake his motor dash to the South ole. The motor is made of esp)ecial y )repared steel, supposed to be able o resist exposure. It is provided with rooden runners for travel over snow. .d spiked wheels for travel over ice. ogs will be unecessary. In a box warmed hy pipes heated I > exxhaust gases, snow may be melt a for drinking and cooking. Foot ~varmers are also heated in the same WHY SHE STOOD UP. oman Smuggler Had Reasons for Refusing to Be Seated. When a fashionably gowned wo man recently tried to "run the cus tcms" at Detroit. Mich., and was ask ed to be seated pending an eximina ton by the woman customs agent, she was much emharrassed. "I pray' you o excuse me." she replied to the agent. The custom agent insisted that the woman be seated. but she still refuis d and grew more and more uncom oable. Het' embarrVasment was explained when it was discovered tnat she had a full grown rose hush concealed beneath her skirt. A HEAVY BABY. He Is Eight Months Old and Weighs' 110 Pounds. W. H. Banes of Matoaka, Chester field county, Va., is the father of Ed-I ward' Banes, a eight-months old boy weighing 110 pounds. The infant was f normal weight at birth. LENDING MONEY To Stock Gamblers By Cortelyou to Be Investigated. Congressmen Say the South Could Get No Such Relief from the Na tional Government. When the resolution of inquiry in to Secretary of the Treasury Cortel you's action in aiding the Wall street banks in the New York crisis in money matters is Introducted in the house by Representative Sims of Tennessee, one of its most ardent ad vocates and supporters will be Repre sentative Oscar W. Gillespie of Tex s, joint author of- the Tillman-Gil lesple resolution that resulted in a federal investigation of the ownership of the coal mines by the railroads. Mr. Gillespie, who has always been opposed to the encouragement by the government of Wall Street ventures, said recently: "What is all this but using the people's money in the stock market >f New York. It appears to me to be a case of the government going to the aid of the stack gamblers of New York. The defense of this action which may be made the subject of .ngressional inquiry, is that New York is the money center of the coun ry, and that deposits of money there will relieve the situation throughout he country. "But I don't believe this is so. Did he sending of money to the few Vork banks relieve the situation in ther parts of the county? Certainly ot. Banks are closing in other parts )f the country right along. The rem ,dy for all this panicky feeling in Vall street and throughout the coun ry, without straining for anything trange or new or novel, is to re uce the tariff to a revenue basis trickly, and force the government to efrain hereafter from going into C Vall street with its funds. That the ariff change is needed is certain. If t t is not needed, why doesn't the Din ey tariff, hailed as the maker of t rosperity, save the day instead of aving your Uncle Sam held up?" e While Southerners and democrats s re attacking Mr. Cortelyou's policy b a the Wall street matter, the re- t ublican statesmen refuse to take ' ese onslaughts seriously. They do 9 ot believe any resolution of inquiry i an be reported favorably by a com- e tittee. or be passed by either the s ouse or the senate. They are grate l to Mr. Cortelyou for having re- t eved the situation in Wall street, nd they believe the country feels' ie same way about it. p KILLS WIFE AND SELF. I a [usband Committs Murder and Sui- a t] cide h His Own Home. b Because his home was broken up t y the intrusions of another man, c hn Childress shot and killed his ti ife, wountled his mother-in-law and mmitted suicide in his home in ti orfolk, Va., recently. Five shots N ere fired, one at the wife, one at the n other-in-law, one into Childress' c n head and a fifth that has not Ii en accounted for. It is sucpected M at this one is in the body of Thom- A s Donaldson. a baggage master on b e Southern railroad. He Is the man t arged with the breaking up of the ~ hildress home and was in the house S short time before the fatal shoot- It ig. ti The shooting was done in the kit- n ien of the Childress home. The fl 'ife's body was found partly outside fthe door. A few feet away the t< usband fell, and on the same floor a y the helpless mother-in-law, in d ie room the police found the little b vo-year-old son crying and begging t at no one be allowed to shoot him d his 1 1-months-old sister. Mrs. s hildress was arranging for a divorce t] om her husbaud on the same after- c on that .she was killed. b ENDED AT LAST. 'ase That Has Been in Court Over a Hundred Years. A case that has been occupying the e urts at Staunton, Va., for over one a ~undred years was ended on Thurs ay in the circuit court by Mayor W. b . Landis, receiver, entering a decree hich is considered final, showing all isbursemenits in the case of Pock vs. orden and Borden vs. Borden. Over 100,000 was involved and various% Lecrees have been entered by almost very lawyer there. The heirs. number four hundred, ere from all pats of the country. l'he final decree approving the set lement of the receiver, Hon. Wil iam H. Landis. involved only about 6,00 One heir, represented in the riginal suit as an infant, died some rears ago, at ^he age of 96 years. ' Nearly every lawyer at the bar for I he past century, has represented ;ome heir. .The papers in the case 'ere so numerous that no man living, ven judge or clerk, was familiar, -ith all of them. THEY WILL HELP. rravlling Men to Work to Aid the C'otton Growers. At the State Fair grounds in Col-1 mbia on Thursday T. P. A. and U. . T. representatives from Georgia, Carolina and other Southern states I assembled and were addressed by Secretary Wes'ton, of the South Caro - ina Cotton Growers' Association. Other speakers were Richard 1. Man ning. of Sumter, George Johnstone. f Newberry, and Henry D. Calhoun., f Augusta. The latter acted as the chairman of the meeting. Mr. Calhoun said that the travel ing men were going to wcrk with the farmers for mutual benefit; that they had the traveling men's support in anything they should do to aid them in restoring confidence of Southern SOUTH VILIFIED By a Woman Detective Sent Out By the Government. MAKES QUEER REPORT She Says Labor Conditions Here Are Worse than Slavery, and That We Are Trying to Dupe Innocent For eigners to this Part of the Country to Hold T1 - in Servitude, all of Which Is Untrue. The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier sends this queer tale to his paper: Declaring that all through . the southern States negroes by the hun dreds are held slaves in stockades, that peonage is a common occurrence, ind that the whole scheme of immi ,ration is planned to dupe unsuspect ng foreigners and to get them into he cotton fields and the mills of the south, where they will be held in ervitude, Miss Mary Quackenboss, a pecial attorney of the department of ustice, has filed with the department sensational report, after having 4 nade an alleged investigation of la or conditions in the South. < Some time ago Attorney General onaparte decided that it would be good idea to send a woman investi ator through the South to make a 1 ersonal inspection of labor condi- ! ions. Miss Quackenboss was chosen, I nd a fter. spending two or three C ontbs in North and South Carolina, .abara and Mississippi she has C aade her report. She has filed with t le department of justice what she I alls an abundance of evidence tend- C ig to prove that labor conditions in t he South are intolerable and worse, r possible, than they were at the 9 me negroes were freed. t It is understood that Miss Quack boss is yery pessimistic :r to the t access of the movem.-nt that has e een started to divert immigration in s tat direction. This viewr is based 1 pon the fact that as allemaed immi- a rants rave been alarmed through C arning about peonage cases disclos- V I in the South. aliens and negroes in eral instances having, it is dec:ar , been captured on various pre mts and held in stockades in a con- 'I tion bordering on absolut:e slavery. Another obstacle to immigration the South, she says, is the wages aid to laborers and mechanics there. Is reported that wages in the North re from 40 to 75 per cent. bigher, c d that unless there is a change in. te attitude of Southern employers a >th in the wages paid and in the 'eatment of aliens, it will be diffi- t tit to induce immigrants to go to e Southern States. s The general question of immigra n is touched upon in passing by :iss Quackenboss, who devotes the Lajor portion of her report to a dis- t ssion of peonage cases in the Caro- h as, Alabama and Mississippi. It a understood that she advises the ttorney General that conditions are .d in several localities notably ina e Sunnyside colony in Mississippi, 'hich was establishedl for Italians. ie reportS that it is nothing more ora ss than a large plantation, and that t e Italians who live there are very uch dissatisfid with their envivon-5 Lent. t While Miss Quackenboss declines , talk about her visit to the South, d the officials likewise refused tog5 iscuss her report, there is reason to leve that she has made a report mat is startling in many particulars. Why the department of justice ould have chosen a woman to make mese investigations is not yet dis-s osed. The report is undoubtedlyS adly colored. BLACK HAND KILLS 0 o 3Ian Who Refused to Blow Up a Victim. Because he failed to carry out an rand of vengeance,-Vito Greinaldi, member of the black hand society, 'as stabbed to death by members of is own band early Thursday on l :noll street. Brooklyn. e A dynamite bomb was found se- t eted beneath Greinlaldi's coat. V 'hich the police say would have e lown up an entire block had it ex- *v loded. A loaded revolver was found r his pocket.. Papers found on the dead man I roved that Grienaldi was a member the black hand and had started to t namite a man's home who had re used to pay tribute to the society. )etectiv'es says that members of the lack hand followed Greinaldi on hist aission and when he balked at his e ask killed him. A stiletto lay near ~reinaldi's body there were nine c tab wounds in the body. HE HAD NERVE. ~oung Boy Carried His Own Severed Limb Hume.1 Riding a horse near Elida, N. H.. hursday Ben Johnson, a sixteen -ear-old lad, ran the animal into a arbed wire fence and completely levered his own foot, but carrying he severed member, he rode into own, a mile away for treatment, and1 id not faint. WANTED TO LYNCH HI. L Little Girl Assaulted and Choked to Death. The body of Mary Donnelly. aged i sine, was found on the bank of the usqueh ana river at Reneva, Pa..1 Lhe child having been assaulted and :moked to death. There is consider- 1 able excitement and men declare 1 hat a lynching will follow if the nun+Y part i<: found by the mob.i FOUND AT LAST. Moscow Sees the End of a Mov ing War Tragedy. Rich Officer and Wife Who Lost Lit tie Daughter During Bout of Laio Yang Finds Her in Rags. An Associated Press Dispatch from Moscow, Russia, tells a pathetic story. The dispatch says the crowd of promenaders on the Tverskayi wit nessed recently the ending of a war tragedy which had its beginning at the battle of Laio Yang. A smart landau drawn by a fine team of horses drew up to a restau rant. The occupants, a handsome of ficer and his wife, stepped out and at that moment a little beggar girl, tattered and torn, drew near, extend ng her hand with a piteous appeal lor alms. The woman fumbled around in ier pocket-book, drew out the desir d coin and was about to hand it.to :he beggar. But upon catching sight >f the girl's face she uttered a scream .nd rushing forward threw her arms ,round her neck and began hugging .nd kissing her. 'After this the officer and his wife nd the little tattered and torn beg rar girl drove away. The following planation of the scene was obtain d later. During the battle of Liao Yang the iffice was in command of a regiment nd lived with his wife and daughter a a chinese but near the scene of perations. When the fight of the ussian soldiers began they were fol >wed by bands of roving bandits who urned and looted everything they ould lay their hands on. In the panic which followed the isordered retreat, the daughter of he officer's, a very young girl, was >st. A few days later a detatchmeot f Russian soldiers put the bandits > flight and regained much of the lunder. They also found the little irl, whom they took along with em. One of the soldiers took a great incy,to her and when he was wound d and sent to recuperate at Moscow te went with him.. In Moscow the an died and the little girl was left lone to wander the streets and beg. ood fortune led her to the. street here her parents were driving. t WEEKLY PAPER PROBLEM. C hey Must Raise the Price of Sub scription or Quit. t In discussing the increasing ser- i )us problems which now confronts i ewspaper publishers all over the t >untry. The Fourth Estate, whose 3 ame sufficie'ntly indicates its nature ; a publication, expresses the opin- c in that the worse sufferers will be o iose weeklies and semi-weeklies S hich several years ago reduced sub- f. ~ription from $2.00 and $1.50 to' n .00. "This unfortunate cut in price," s ysourcontemaporary "occurred when g e country was in the clutches of a rd times, and the people were not d le' to pay their bills. Now every t) bscription taken at that price is lI night a financial loss. It will be '7 a loss when the new price of pa- e r goes into effect. There is but d e thing for small publishers to do s d that is to increase the price of 'l eir paper. They should not ex- v ct to make the advance less than k ) cents on $1.00 subscription, and p e same amount on $1.50 rates. * d * No subscriber ought to expect to e t a paper nowadays for'such a m as $1.00. The print paper alone s Il be worth nearly that." "That's the way it looks to us," (a s the Charlotte Observer, "Is look- g g to more and more weekly and s mri-weekly publishers and should a ortly look to all the subscribers a ncerned. If the laborer is worthy b his hire and these particular lab ers are to receive and hire at all, no t her course remains."s SHOWER OF HUMAN FLESH.d plosion in Pennsylvania in Whicht Four Men Are Killed. Fragments of human bodies pep- C red with particles of rocks and I rth fell in a shower over the lit.tle t wn of Gwendolen, Pa., Thursday, S hen 500 pounds of dynamite explod i. with a terriffic rsiport. Four men t 'ere torn to pieces and six otheru 3 ~ceived injuries. The dead: Nicholas M. Breeden, foreman, t ennett, Pa. Tilton Thornton, .a negro, Pitts rg, Pa. Stephen Olshafshy, Bennett, Pa. I Andrew Michaelvich, Bennett, Pa. The six injured men, stunned and 1 leeding, ran aimlessly from i~he ene and have not been located. Little is known of the exac'; cause the explosion, but a passuby just efore the accident occurred says ai all fire had been lighted, presumn bly to warm the dynamite. Tht-rn n, who was powderman, went to rork Thursday morning with iustrue ions to dynamite a portion of a hill ide above the Wabash tracks, which as unsafe, the earth endangering~ passing trains. Thornton, surround d ny several of the men, it 1s sup osed, got the explosive too near the1 ire and it exploded. The shock was Iistinctly felt in towns within a rad s of over ten 'miles. KILLED liY CURRENT. Iole Four jnches in Diameter Was Burnled Through Body. Will Templeton. an employee of i he Southern Power Company, wash Lccidentally struck by a current,. 30 iles south of Charlotte, N. C., and hole four inches in diameter was )urned through his body from side 0 side in the center of the trunk. empleton was the son of Postmas er Templeton of Monresville. N. C. TURNS PIRATE Russian Torpedo Destroyer Cap tured by Her Crew and BOMBARDS THE CITY Vladivostock, and a Severe Battle Takes Place in Which Several Peo. ple Are Killed-Five Loyal War Vessels Engage the Mutinous Boat, Which Is Riddled and Bun Ashore The Crew Killed or Captured. Hoisting the red flag at the signal masthead, the torpedo boat destroyer Skory, captured by her mutinous crew, steamed out Into the harbor.of Vladivostock Thursday and Imme diately opened fire on the city. This act, following the mutiny of a battalion of army sappers, who at tacked and almost captured one of the barracks, has terrorized the peo ple and t-he city is under martial law. Soldiers are patroling the streets .o one may venture from his home ifter dark on pain of arrest. .The mutiny on board the Skory vas not even suspected by her com nander, Lieutennant Stoer, who gave tis life in the defense of his ship when the crew arose at dawn and )verpowred the officers. They were ncited to this act by agitators from he city, who had managed to get )n board during the nighf; through he consent of a sympathizer with the evolutiohlsts. The moment the mutineers obtain d the upper hand they slipped the able anchoring the destroyer near our other war boats, and steamed ut into the horbor, while a red flag ras run up the signal halyards. Not only did the Skory shell the ity, but the mutineers returned the ire of the forts, and of the four oth r destroyers and two gunboats. Taking a position that would com aand the city ano. regardless of their xspsure to the fire. of the harbor rt, and of the other destroyers, the utineers began to hu!l sheels into he forts and city. Every gun of the kory was worked by the mutineers, -ho appeared to realize that in the nd they were doomed and were de ermined to wheak all injury they ould while they had the power. The sheels of the Skory burst in riany parts of the city. One shell ras aimed at the city hall and burst ag near it destroyed one corner of he building. The gunners on the itinous boat were experts, and tany people were blown to pieces in he streets by the bursting shells. :any houses were destroyed. Fire started in many places in the ty five minutes after- the mutineers ened fire. The close range of the ory, which was not more than a >urth of a mile out, made the aim ore deadly. The torpedo boat destroyers Gar voz, Smely and Serdits and the 2nboats Mandschur and Ravy eamed out and engaged the pirate stroyer, and a pitched naval bat e began. The harbor fort, manned by the welfth Regiment of Artillery, add its fire to that of the torpedo boat stroyers and the gunboats, and on riddled the mutineers' craft. be -Skory's funnels of sheet steel ere torn to pieces, the fragments illing many of the crew.. Her armor ate was pierced by shells, and her cks strewed with dead and wound But her pilothouse, encased in eel, was not.- damaged, and the eersman, who had been manouever g in short circles, so that every n could be used, turned toward the ore when he saw that the Skory ust soon sink. As a last desperate ove the Skory was run through the avy surf and beached. When the few survivors struggled rough the surf from the blood aned decks they were met by sol ers, who manacled them and drag d them to cells. Some of the sur vors were bayonetted by the troops fore the commander interfered. Many men were killed and wound on the loyal boats. Captain Kur sch, commander of the torpedo boat avy, was torn to pieces by one of e Skory's shells. Lieutenant Vas lief, of the Serditz, was wounded. .1 of the destroyers bore marks of lie Skory's fire. One American was 'ounded in the city. The uprising of the Sappers Bat lon was an unexpected as the mut iy. Their attempt to take a barrack. ras defeated by the use of machine ~uns by the rifle regiment quartered ere. A score of the insurgents were illed and wounded and the others uted. HIS SKUVLL CRUSHED. Darlingtonl Man Fatally Assaulted by Two Yegroes. A special from Darlington to The ews and Courier says Tolly Bose an, of the Swift Creek section, was 'atally wounded by two blows struck v two negro boys, Abraham Evans d Abraham Cooper, Thursday orning. One blow was on the front *nd one on the back of the head. 'he skull is crushed and no hope is l for Mr. Boseman's recovery. The trouble came about when Mr. ~oseman, who is overseer on Mr. T. . Rhodes' plantation, spoke to one f the negroes about cursing and fir g a pistol at his son. It is the bus ess of Mr. Boseman's- son to bring p the cows at night and the M"ty of e of the negroes to draw water 'or them. One night he tailed to do t, and when spoken to by young oseman about it he cursed him and ired a pistol at him. When Mr. Boseman spoke to the iegro about it the negro cursed him, 3.nd when Mr. Boseman stooped to ick up a board he was struck down y one of the negro boys and the oth r one &trnek him after he had fallen