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VOL. XXII MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1908 NO. 14 TRAIN ROBE'ERS Attempt to Hold u Train and are aptured. ONE IS BADLY HURT By Being Shot by a Posse of Passell gers Led by the City Marshal oi Sorrento, Illinois. When Order ed to Surrender the Bandits Open ed Fire, Which Was Returned 1W the Passengers With Good Effect. A west-bound Pennsylvania train was held up by two masked robbers at Smithboro. Ill.. on the Vandalia division, early Friday. and after a desperate battle, both men were cap turvd and .crried to Greenville, Ill.. where they are now in jail. - The bandits opened fire when re sistance was offered, as they brought the train to a halt just beyond the Smithboro station, but their fire was returned, and when the last of the -16 shots had been exchanged, one of the robbers was picked up with five ':nilets in his body. He will prob -,1y die. 'City Marshal Emory Brown o! Sorrento, Ill., led the passengers in the fight with the two bandits, and he was badly wounded. One of the robbers' bullets passed through hi body. He was placed in the cia hospital. It is not thought that he is' fatally hurt. The train was going about thirty miles an hour and had started tc slow down in passing through Smithboro when the two bandits with revolvers drawn turned the signal. The engineer jammed on hi* brakes and as he slowed up the ban dits bade him throw up his hands. He stopped the train altogether and was then ordered to quit the cab with the fireman. The two bandits ran to the rear of the train, intending to go through it orfm end to end but by this time a number of the passengers were awake and out of the berths. City Marshal Brown was standing on the rear platform trying to see what wag the matter. As the bandits caught sight of him they ordered him to throiw up his bands. Instead, he whipped out his revolver and opened fire. One of the bandits dropped with a bullet in his. leg. But he. continued to fire. By this time "a number of passenger had joined Marshal Brown on thd rear platform and they accompanied Brown in a sally in the teeth of fur ther fire from the bandits. The unwounded robber took to hu heels, firing over his shoulder as he saw the sally from the train, but he was captured a few yards further ont after he had .put up a desperate struggle. The other bandit was wounded five times before he ceased .ring his revolver. The two robbers were carried or the train, the one robber not wound ed being bound to a seat in the -smoker. Then the engineer and his ireman got back into the cab anc the train was rushed to Greenville. Investigationl after the- train left *disclosed the fact that the two ban Idits had broken into the SmithborC station and taken everything they could find before the train arrived. I is not known -how much they se cured, but Wt Is supposed the booty was left -somewhere in the woods -near the tracks, and search is nov' 'being made for it., LEAVES SWAG BEH1D. New York: Man-Gets Queer Christ mans Preseut from Burglar. Santa 'laus, 'in a peculiar guise. paid a visit ~to John Distler of NewI York City. ins'the night Distler was aroused by a noise* in the dining *room and he at once decided that there was a burglar in the house. Rather than take any chanCes of be ing shot Distler made a great noise in his- room for .the purpose of scar ing the burglar away. He was successful in this and whben he went downstairs he found that none of the family silver had been stolen. On the contrary he found on the table in the dinning room E large quantity of silverware. whici he had never seen before. He he lieves that the burglar 'ysd obtain ed it from some other houses and -being scared by the npise he made fled, leaving it behind. NEGROES LEAVING. They Were Told to Go and They Are .Going. Negroes are rapidly leaving Hen rietta, Okla., where the lynching oi -James Garden, colored. occurrea on Christmas following the murder of Albert Bates, a prominent white buisness man- The black were giv en notic~e to leave town within 4S hours. A' second attack was made on the jail early Thursday morning by a mob of citizens who sought one-eyed negro named Bill Smith charged with inciting Garden to com mit the crime, Sherff Robertson, however, spirited the man aw-ay fron -the mob and took him to Okmnulgee Jim Johnson, a negro. who gave Gar den a rifle also was taken to Okmul * Labor Trouble. According tO a statemen~ft issu~e officially the r-ecent encounters a Iquique. Chili, between nitrate sti ik er and-. the police resulted in th~ kiling of 210 men and the woundin. of aiout fifty. During one of zh encounters the troops fired part.icu -larly at the leaders of the strikevrs bnt their aim was poor and the mei SHOT HIS -WIFE Just Before Sitting Down to a Christmas Dinner. Dr. Aesbury Kills His Wife in Kit cnen of Her Mother's Home Just 'After Quarrel. Dr. Walter R. Amesbury, of Mil ford, shot and instantly killed his wife. Anna, a teacher of music in Roanoke College, Danville, Va., as the family were about to sit down to their Christmas dinner at the home of Mrs. Jennie Rees, Mrs. Amesbury's mother, at 220 Metropolitan avenue, Hyde Park, Mass., Christmas Day. Dr. Amesbury was plat . under rrest immediately after the shoot ing. Mrs. Ameshury had come from Virginia to pass the holidays with her sons, Waltar R. Amesbury, and Ira R. Amesbury, who live with their grandmother. Mr.:. Rees. Dr. Anmes burg came frt= Milford, where he has practiced for some time, to the Christmas festivities with the fami Acedording to the police, Dr. Am esbury fired two shots, both of which took effect in Mrs. Amesbury's right side. Her death was almost instan eous. After his arrest. Dr. Amesbury ecared that the shooting was acci ental. He would not make any fur her statement. Mrs. Amesbury was 40 years old nd a native of Kentucky. -Since her marriage to Dr. Ames bury they had lived at different imes in Kingston and Tuxbury. .Iass.. and Corsicana. Tex. Some :ime ago Mrs. Amesbury went to Vir ;inia and began tecahing music in toanoke College. She was an ac omplished vocalist. According to the police Dr. Ames ury became engaged in a quarrel egarding family matters. They were conversing in the kitchen when tuddenly the other members of- the t .amily, who were in the dining room r eard two shots fired. r Rushing into the kitchen the Am- r sbury boys, the oldest of whom i t bout twenty years of age, grappled N rith their father and threw him t< e e floor. After a struggle the re- f olver was taken away from him Ld he was held until the arrival 01 1 he police. . Dr. Amesbury is forty-nine years v f age. He was formerly a surgeon n the British army stationed in 1 ramaica. T FOUND INFERNAL MACHINE 1 Dangerous Christmas Present Sent by Mail Detected in Time. A dispatch from Erie, Pa., says I while distributing Christmas bundles I the South Erie sub-postoitice ~hristmas Eve an employee became ;uspicious of a package, the end 01 ihich had been broken open, anc pon making an investigation the ,ackage was found to contain an in vernal machine, so constructed thai he opening of the box would cause n explosion that would have un loubtedly killed all persons around t, and' set fire to everything in the )uilding. The package was addressed to Ar hie Carr, 2.208 Cherry street, and ad been mailed from that city. The box was turned over to Postmastel 3obell, who called in Chief of folice ~Vagner. The chief cut out thwside ,f the box and exposed a bottle andI ontrivances so arranged tha. the ~pening of the lid would have loosen ed the cork and ignited several matches. The following inscription was or. the inside wrapper: ."You may per haps find the cover will catch a lit tle when you open the box. Pay nc attention to it. Merry Christmas.' . W. Wright, health officer and hemist, after an. examination of the bottle said it contained a high ex >losive. KILLED BY ROBBERS. Prosperous Negro Merchant Found Dead in his Store. A dispatch from Sumter to The State says Coroner S. F. Flowers re turned Tuesday afternoon from the tatesburg neighborhood, where tiu investigated the death of Walte; Blanding, colored. The negro wa: he owner of a store and was fount brutally cut up in his store. No one appeared to know anythmu; f the affair, and Coroner Flowen~ lid not empanel a jury. From al ipearances the murder was doue foi le purpose of robbery, as only N ents was found in the store and the deceased was said to have been doing a good business and to be well off. The body was terribly mutilated with gashes inflicted with a hatchet nd knife that were found near the ody covered with blood. The mur der is being investigated by the ounty authorities, and further ligh1 may be thrown on this-horrible af PHYSCAN COM.DHTS SrICID)E r. Thorn. of Gaston Shoals, Cuts His Throat. Dr. J. L. Thorn. of Gaston Shoals i Cherokee County. committed sui cide Christmas night by cutting his throat. He retired apparently in his usual hea;h. but about a quarter t eleven o'clock he told his wife that e was oppressed by the weight of t~e-covering. She suggested thaT hc throw some of it off. HeI then arose and went into the next room. His wife hearing water dripping on the loor, asked him what was the mat ter. He rep~iad. "Come and see. As she entered the door he sank to the floor, dying in a few secon'i. Dr. Thorn was 1.bout forty years ol ge and leaves a wife and two int> NEGRO BURGLAR Enters the Home of Mr. Wellborn, of Anderson. FIGHT IN A BED ROOM. Mr. Wellborn Found the Daring Burglar in His Bed Room Christ mas Eve Night and Has a Thrill ing Experience in a Hand to Hand Battle With the Thief, Who Has Been Lodged in Jail. The People's Advocate of Ander son, says Will Guyton. colored, has been lodged in the county jail charg ed with a most serious offense. the penalty for which is from five years to life sentence. Between ten and eleven o'clock Christmas eve, Mr. and Hrs. Will Wellborn, who reside in Garvin township, seven miles north of the ity, were awakened from theiz leep by footsteps in their bed room. rhinking at once that a burglar had ntered the house, Mr. Wellborn jumped out of bed to get his trous rs. which had been hung on a chair tear the bed. He had marketed a beef on the E fternoon before and had about $40 n his trousers pockets. The negro vho was ascertained later to be Will Xuyton. also grabbed for the trous rs. Mr. Wellborn and the negr) linched and a fight ensued. The fight continued in the bed oom for some time. The darky suc eeded in freeing himself and start- 9 d for the kitchen. which adjoins Mr. f ellborn's hed room. Mr. Well- t orn followed and the fight was re umed in the kitchen. 0 The darkey finally got loose and t vent out in the yard. where he gath- t red some rocks and began throwing hem through a window in the bed t oom. One of the biggest of these ocks crashed through the window 1 nes and fell in the cradle where a he baby of Mr. and Mrs. Wellborn e ras innocently sleeping. Luckily it f id not fall on the babe and there ore the child was unharmed. a Some of the neighbors of -Mr Well- a orn arrested Guyton the next morn ag and seat for Deputy Sheriff Scott. -ho carried him to jail. - Guyton claims, so it is said, that e was drunk. and that he does not emember entering the house. It i,1 lso said that Guyton owed some oney to a person whi asked him for : on Tuesday afternoon. ti It is said that he told the man c hat he did not have the money t-aen ut that his employer, Mr. Wellborn. Lad it and that he would get it from Lim that night. It is said that the C arkey knew that Mr. Wellborn had r od some beef on the afternoon be- 0 re and knew that he had the $40' ~ a his room. t FATAL BIRD HUNT. t: C I. Young Lad Accidentally Shot by b His Uncle. A special dispatch from Aiken tc he News and Courier says James umphrey, the 12-year-old son o1 ~Ir. C. A. Humphrey. of Atlanta. Ga.s s ras shot and killed Friday afternoon I eor Aiken accidentally by Mr. Ben ~ -t Tyler while hunting. The full harge of a shotgun loaded with bird hot took effect in the boy's head. lit rally tearing it off. Mr. Tyler ii' rostrated with grief, and made hreats of committing suicide. Little James. with his mother and ther members of the family. came ver from Atlanta to spend the holi ay with relatives in and near Aik-' n. The family resided at Montmor ~ni. near Aiken, until a few years go. Mr. Tyler was an uncle of the ead boy. Mr. Tyler. with a large party. in 'luding a number of Aikenites, wett o attend a dove shoot, and James ad his small brother were- present. icking up the birds. They. with Tyler and Dan George. another rel ative. were on one side of the field t the beginning of the shioting. As a drove flew over George fired. kill ng three, and as Tyler raised his un to fire. JTames .iumped in front >f the gun, receiving the full charge n the back of the dead, dying in stantly. Tyler' was crazed with grie&, and said L" was going to kill himself. when he was disarmed. He then fell in a swoon. .Jamies was a bright boy. ad t.he ho>rible accident is greatly deplored. The boy's family is a very prominent one. DINED) AND) WINED). Fleet Officers Guests of the Govern mnent of Trinidad. The captains of the American bat tle ships and staffs were entertained at luncheun Thursday by Sir Henry ~oore Jackson. the Governor of Trinidad. and later were the guests of the Governor at the horse races. The weather was ideal. and the race course was thronged with offi ers and men of the fleet together with a holiday crowd from the city. The American horses carried off the honu s. being rhe winners in nearly all the r-aces, and the visitors gave themselves over to applauding these victories. Little Girl Burned. At Charleston the six-year-old laughter of M1r. and Mrs. Robert M1artin. wvas so. badly bur-ned Chris? inas in playing about a Chbristmnas tree that the child is not expected to live. The little girl either reached for a prsent on the tree or tried te light a candle. ca using her dress to become ignited by a lower candle. and before the flames were exting .ishd ase was fearfully burned. GROUND TO PIECES. Wealthy New York Lawyer Leap ed in Front of Train. Financial Troubles Caused By the Panic Said to Be the Chief Cause of Suicide. Ernest G. Stedman. one of New York's most prominent lawyers, rated to be worth in excess of $7.000,000, and a brother of Ednund Clarence S;edman. the poet-banker. last week tragically committed suicide by leap ing in front of a local subway train at the Fourteenth street station. The J. C. Lyon Building and Oper tting company, of which he was vice >esident. . treasured and director, ailed for several millions of dollars ast Friday when receivers were ap >ointed and financial troubles are )elieved to be the chief causes of the ucide. Mr. Stedman was president of the kmerican Cushion Elbow company reasurer of the Raritan River Clay ompany, a member of several prom nent clubs, and had offices on Broad ray, where he was a member of the aw firm of Stedman & Larkin. His own house was at 1081 Madison :enue. The suicide could not have select d a spot where his death would ave created a greater sensation. he uptown platform of the sub ay at Fourteenth street was crowd d with persons. mostly women, who ere waiting for trains. when Mr. tedman, who had been observed t alking up and down the platform.g uddenly darted through a group oi omen. jumped to the tracks in t ont of the fast moving uptown rain. Six cars of the train had passed er the lawyer's body before the t -ain was stopped and by that time e body had been terribly mangled. In the meantime the excitement on* e platform had become a panic. , everal women who had seen the man map to death fainted or collapsed nd for several minutes in the wild. xcitement they lay about the plat >rm unattended. It was more than three-quarters of a hour before order was restored d that tains had resumed theit rmal running orders. ANOTHER COTTON PICKER 'ne Invented Over In Augusta Said To Be a Success. The Augusta Chronicle says a pe- I tion was filed in the office of the I lerk of the Superior Court in that I ity on Monday by Bryan Lawrence. illiam K. Miller, Benjamin A. hew and W. 0. Tarver, of Richmond ounty, Georgia, and C. J. Canfield A fCook County, Illinois, asking to incorporated under the name of e Georgia Cotton Picker Compa':y. The principal place of business of e company will be in Richmond >unty, with the right to establishb ranches in any part of this state here the petitioners may desire, or i other states. The purpose of the concern, as ated in the petition, is the manu cture anti sale of cotton picking achinery of all kinds, in the pur it of which they ask the right to ny franchises and patents, to ac-1 umulate real estate, and do all ose other things incident to such business. The capital stock of the concern is > be $25,000 fully paid in. and it ; specified that there stall be no per nal liabillity on the stockholders. eyond the amount of their unpaid ubsription to the capital stock. The organization of the company1 based on the successful invention f a new cotton picking machine. hich has been tested by experts ud farmers and pronounced a sure uccess. If this picker proves a success it ill solve to a large extent the farm abor problem in the South. DIED FROM LOCK(JAW. I)r. Piesen of Chicago Diagnosed His Own Case. Dr. Joseph F. Pies;en, a depart ~ent superintendent employed by a Chicago packing firm, regarded as a Leading authority on lockjaw. (died hursday night of the disease. re ulting from a fracture of the nose which occurred a weekt ago. Dr. Piesen fell down a stairway 'n the labratory of the packing plant. The skin over the nose was broken and the wound bcame infected with tetanus germs. On Christmas Eve the physician was striclken with lockjaw. He diag nosed his own case and with the aid of pencil and paper directed his famn ly to send him to a hospital. He then sent for a lawyer and, made his will. During his illness he constantly joined with the hospital physicians in their consultations and gave it as his opinion several days azm that he could not recover. The 'iate cause of his death war b heart failure following r co ' Famine in Turk The American Board a Conm-is sioners for foreign missions has re ceived advices from the interior el Turkey, showing unusually se'.e' e famine conditions. Bread. is double the usnial-price, and wheat rand othier cereals are considerably h:igher :han last year. Bold Ro1thers. At Chicago five men. nne of whom carried a revolver. robb~ed two other men in the waitina room oVtthe La sale street railway station ja the heart of the buisness section or. the city. Two of the robbers were r rested within a few minutes after ths. SHIP HAD BAD LUCK. Reaches 'Frisco After Tragic Voy age from Baltimore. Collided With Another Ship, Which Was Sunk With Part of the Crew In Mid Ocean. The American ship Atlas dropped anchor at San Francisco on Christ mas eve night, 275 days out from Baltimore. It ended a voyage made tragic by a collision off Cape Horn attended by the sinking of another essel, the drowning of the ill-fated craft's captain and the captains wife, mutiny on its decks and death among its crew. On June 6, at 6 P. M., the Atlas struck the Norwegian bark Viking. Capt. Petersen, bound from Ham )urg to Callao. Both were badly damaged by the contact, but the ark fared the worst. In the terror of the night 13 of the rew of the Norwegian bark boarded he American ship, crawling over :angled shrouds and dangling booms. Capt. Pearson and his wife were ot among those who made a dan erous transit, but it was too dark o render aid though the Atlas stood )y all night and next morning the Tiking had disappeared. The Atlas put into Rio De Janerio yr repairs, badly leaking. On the ay to this port a mutiny took place ong the' crew over some trouble -ith the mate, but it was easily uelled. Before the collision off Cape Horn hree of the ship's oompani met Leath. On May 23 J. Schumacher E .nd Charles Nolan seamen, fell from he jib-boom and were drowned. On C une 15 John Hook. sailmaker, died f ind was buried at sea. When the hip arrived the captain's son and t he third officer were ill and the ves- 1 el was ordered into quarantine. The Atlas had a cargo of coal for 0 he United States Government. The f essel had been 102 days out from c tio De Janerio and was overdue. f einsurance had been ordered at 1A c er cent. P The Vilking was a new bark ofi 1;41 tons. Nothing had been heard t f it after it began its last voyage c is :Ne Atlas brought in the tidings t hristm.as eve night. a THE STRANGE SLEEP a t f a Beautiful Young Girl Ended in a S Death. T-he long. strange sleep of Miss 1 dith Wardrop. heiress and Ward oe t . S. Kellem, at No. 237 Willis ave- 9 e. New York ended in death at 5 e 'clock Friday morning in Lincoln 0 ospital. To the last the coma which t emained unbroken for more than C 80 hours baffled the ablest alienists C d scientists in New York. e Miss Wardrop was 16 years old, nd an unusual pretty and intelli- r nt girl. Thursday afternoon last s reek while watching a fire engine C > by, she was stricken at the home I *fher friend, Miss Adrienne La- C toche, a girl about her own age. t The two girls were seated in the 3 aror when the fire bells sounded,r iss LaRoche rshed to the window I nd called her companion.t "Come quick. Edith, and look at I he fire horses," she exclaimed. t She lookd around and found Miss 1 Vardrop motionless_ in a chair. They thought at first she was ir. swoon, but she could not be. re-C 'ived. The family physician could tot arouse her, and finally advised moving her to the hospital. She as taken there and placed in a pri 'ate ward, where all the prominiient )hysicians and specialists in New ork, with few exceptions, had been .o see her during the week of hex ~trange trance. There was no sign1 )f pain. Miss Wardrop was given xourishment through a tube. and had ot loss weight. Her color was good and her ireathing as regular as if she were sleep. All the authorities were advised1 ts to her ailment, but none could1 give it an appropriate name. It was learned later that Miss Wardrop, a short time before she be xame ill, fell from a sleig':, and it is. regarded as possibly the -only ex planation of her coma. GOLD THROWN ABOUT When Street Car Struck Wagon That Was Hauling it. At Chicago canvas bags contain ing gold and silver cin to the amount of half a million dollars were scattered about the corner of LaSalle and Adams streets for a short time the other day, but they were soon gathered up and taken to a place r i safety under the protection of a squad of police. A United States Express company wagon on its way from the North western to the LaSalle street station with a load of specie. guarded by Barney Terbeck and Henry Kerkes, and driven by W. H. Smith. was struck by a Harrison street car. Terback and. Kerkes were thrown to the street and the bags of specie on top of them. Terback received a fractur-e of the skull and Kerkes was badly bruised by the heavy bags of money falling on him. MADE TERRIBLE MUSTAKE hot His son in the Dark for Burg lar. IAt San Jose. Cal.. Ber-tram Somers arly Thursday shot and killed his five year old son. mistaking him for a burglar. The child, it is believed. was walking in his sleep. The par ents were awakened by a noise in the room and. seeing the outline of a figure near the window, they con cued it was that of a burglar. Mr. Somers reached for his pistol. and -cd killinge the ch ild instantly. BADLY USED UP By Negroes Who Tried to Rob His Store. RESCUED BY SHERIFF. The Storekeeper, Mr. T. L. Caves, After Being Rescued, Was Taken to the Hospital in Charleston for Treatment. He Was Unable to Give Any Account of the Trouble. The Robbers Made Their Escape. The following account of an ouit rage that took place near Charles ton, we clip from the News and ,ourier of Chrismas Day. The News ind Courier says a telephone call rom St. Andrew's Parish yesterday tfternoon gave information of an utrage committed and the prompt esponse of Deputy Sheriff Joseph oulnot and volunteers was, no oubt, the means of saving the life of homas L. Caves, who keeps' a gen ral store in St. Andrew's, a short istance from the New Bridge ter iinus, across the Ashley River. 'The message was received in the heriff's office about six o'clock and t was to the effect that Caves had een set upon and seriously injured y negroes intent upon robbing his tore. Caves, it seems, was, to some tent, able to defend himself for ome time and, though badly injur d, managed to get inside the store rhen he barred the doors. He then rawled to the telephone and called r the sheriff's office, Charleston. The message sent was to the effect hat he was being murdered and that nmediate help was needed. Mr. Poulnot was in charge of the ifice and lost no time in starting >r the scene of the trouble. He hartered one of the big touring cars om the Charleston Hotel garage, in arge of Chaffeur Johnson, and icking up Mr. Harry Lihnstedt and ater Constable R. L. Knox, sped ovei > St. Andrew's. The men in the ar did not know just what they were face-but they asked no questions nd were ready for any emergency. Arriving at Cave's store, which is t the junction of the shell road and he James Island road, they looked bout for beligerants. None was ir. ight, and then giving attention to he store, they succeded in rouisug fr. Caves, who was just abibe to get > the door and unbar it; weeping ith joy at ,-ie sight of his rescur rs. He was so far spent with loss f blood from an ugly wound over he left eye, that he could give no ac urate account of the trouble, and ly the genearl details were learn There was not a person in the .eighborhood when the automobile opped at the store, and seeing the oditon of the wounded man, Mr. ~olnot decided to come back at ce. Within an hour and a half oif e time of receiving the message r. Caves was at the Roper Hospital ceiving the best possible attention. e is getting along very well, al ough not out of danger. Rural ~oliceman Burton, responding to a elephone call was coming across the ridge when the auto returned. 'here is as yet no clue as to the mis reants who commited the murder us assault upon theeerchant. MASHED THE MASHER irl fronm Alabama Landed a Don key in the Ditch. A dispatch from New York says dapper young man on upper 3roadway the other evening was ollowing a girl whose hands were in huge muffle. Suddenly, at Forty iftl street, one of her hands, clad a two ounce boxing glove dashed ut and sent the masher rolling into he gutter. Then the man picke~d iimself up and apologized to the -oung lady. "I beg pardon,'' she said, sweetly, 'I am a stranger here. I came from labama, and am a stenographer, ~lone in town. But I'll tell you. :here is no man in town who can in tuIt me with impunity. I taught comen boxing in the south-and I'll Leach New York smashers .boxing in he north." RALEIGH GOES "DRY." Decisiv~e Vote for Prohibition in an Election Thursday. By a majority of 547 Raleigh, N. C., on Thursday voted out its liquor dispensary and becomes a prohibi tion city. In the city there were 928 votes for prohibition, 381 for dispensary and two for saloons. The dispensary has been in operation for f~our years, twenty-four saloons hav ing been voted out in favor of the dispensary. The sales have amount ed to about $250,000 a year, with about $75,000 profit, this being placed to the credit of the school fu'd, the road fund and the city ex pnse account. It reduced taxation. ut the voters felt that its influence was not for the city's hest interest and voted it out. The election was a. quiet one. Entire Family Burned. Five persons were burned to death in a fire which destroyed the house of John Clark at Watertown. MIass.. early Friday. Every memb~er of the Clark family met death in the flames. Fatal Burning. Henry 31eiser and Antonia Ober in were burned to death and two other men seriously injured Thurs day in a fire which destroyed the home of Andrew Baltow at Bradford DPa heoigin is not known. REDUCE OUTPUT. The Cotton Mills Declare Cloth Market Need Relief. Eighty Per Cent of New England Mills and One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Workers Affected. The Arkwright Club, which rep resents the cotton mill interests in New England, at a meeting at Bos ton -Thursday voted for the curtail ment of production 25 per cent bo tween now and March 1, in order to relieve conditions In cloth markets of New York, Chicago, Boston and other large entries centres. It was stated several days ago c that a committee previously appoint ed by the Club to canvass the situa tion among the mills had found suffi :ient sentiment to insure the suc- c :ess of the curtailment plan, and I hat a restriction of production was C -egarded as a certainty. The cotton mills of New England V mploy about 185,000 persons under b iormal condition, and it is expected hat at least 150,000 will be affect- t d d by the short time. The urtail- a nent agreement became operative .s .-day, although numerous mills t iave been shut down since Tuesday x .ight. The agreement will affect a large najority of Fall River print cloth nills, the fine goods of New Bedford, b he Amoskege Corporation, of Man-~ tI hester, employing 13,000 hands and N nost of the other New Hampshire 01 actories, the York Corporation, ol V aco, Maine; Pepperill Mills, of Bid- li eford; the mills of Lewiston, w Irunswick and of the points, those w a Lowell em.ploying 20,000; Law- E ence, Holyoke and Chicopee, Mass.,- ti nd mills controlled by large Rhode S( sland interests. p . The mills of Thorndyke, Bonds ille, Palmer, Ware and Warren, ti [ass., and Greenville and New Isp- T rich, N. H., controlled by Bliss -Fy- g an & Co., of New York and Boston, n dopted a shortltime policy a. tl aonth ago, as did the. Monodack, oi . aremont. N. H. Those and ather sE oncerns will reach the end, of cheir m urtailment policy before the'fac ti es in the large centres. T More than 80 per cent of the spin- I les in New England are represented A a the agreement. The majority of tl he mills will run four day a week Ix uring January and February, clos- V ng Thursday nights, thus including E aturday-, a short working day, in V he shut down. a Mills which have contracts calling fC or delivery during the winter are at tl iberty to reduce their production 25 er cent partially before March 1, Ii nd the remainder after that date. h he method of reducing is left large- ti y to the discretion of the managers. cc ccording to some of the officers oi al e texile unions, the operatives pre er to work 4 days a week rather pl han be continuously idlc for a per- ~ d of nearly three weeks. ti The curtailment movement origi.. ti ated in New York commission ouses, which feared a congestion of n ~oods and falling prices in the h pring if the mills continued to oper- h te in full during the winter. c1 DAST4RDLY OUTRAGE s )runken Man Fired Into a Passen- a ger Train. i Augustus B. Stevens, aged 18. aggage master on the Virginia and 0 c. ~arolina Coast Railway, was- shotlt ~nd instantly killed Christmas Day a y John White, aged 20, while the p rain was passing through Hobbs ille, N. C. White is under arrest ud has confessed. A 'group of about 53 men were in a field near the rail-I oad track and a Christmas frolic a as in full blast. Stevens was standing at the open oor of his car, when suddenly a un was fired from the group, the harge striking Stevens in the- head. he train was stopped as soon as ossible, but when the crew reached he scene of thie shooting the memn ers of the frolicking party had fled o the adjioining woods. Later, however, a posse from Hobbsville surrounding the woods and many of fugitives were captured: Among these was John White, who confess ed the shooting. He said he had been: drinking and had no intention of killing anygne when he fired the fatal shot. 'Freight Money Short. According to the - statement made by an official of the Southern railway the entire system has lost during the past two weeks more than $200, 000 in its freight - buisness from the volume of trade last year. The gen eral tightness of the money market and a more conservative and econo mic conduct of trade is attributed as the cause of the reduction of the freight business. Wants to be Hung. At Rome, Ga., Dick JTohnsonl. was awakened by his wife Friday night. Mrs. Johnson had seen a negro standing by her hed. looking down upon her and her husband. Johnson grappled with the negro, but he broke away and leaping through a wizdow, escaped. Furniture Company Fails. The Lion Furniture Company, ol Spartanb)urg has gone into bank ruptcy. The petition to have the furniture company declared bank rupt was made by H. B. Carlisle, re presenting a number of out of town creditors before H. E. Depass, referee in bankruptcy. WHO WAS SHE? The Body of Unknown Woman Found in a Pond NEAR CITY OF NEWARK Night Watchman Recognizes Feal tures as Those of a Woman He Saw Going With a Man in Direc tion of Pond Early Christmas Day. Clothing Found Suggests Owner of Refinement. A murder combining the elements *f mystery _ and deliberate cruelty ras committed on the Hackensaw feadows, in the town of - Harrison, T. J., early Thursday, and the'nude ody of ,the victim, a comely woman f perhaps 30 years of age was found early submerged in the icy waters f a little pond. Only the feet pro cted when chance passers-by broke te icy in which exposed portions 'ere encrusted and dragged. the ody ashore Thursday- afternoon. The dead woman was finely fea ired; her hair and nails gave evi ence of a recent scrupulous toilet ad such of her clothinx. that was bsequently found suggested in tex ire and- style an owner of refine tent. The pond in which the body 'as thrown Is made by the overflow -om the Passaic River and is direct across the.river from Newark. The body has not been Identified at it was pretty' well established tat is was not that of a resident of ewark or Harrison. Two men, who -cupied a yacht near where the body as" found, are detained by the po ce, but the -most important clue as furnished by Peter Coogan, a atchman employed by the Marine gine Company,,. who recognized te .body as that of. a woman he-had en crossing the meadows in com my with .a man early.thatday. Later he -saw the man alone. He. ten carried a bundle in his arms. he man was short and stout. Coo Ln, whose duties keep him in the ighborhood 'of - the murder, told e police: "While outdoors at two o'clock I w this woman in company with a an crossing the meadows,.going in C direction if. the. pond. tay' pssed so near me that am able to reosnize the 'woman's atures. Some time later,.perhaps, e man returned and again .aat eu e; this time in the direction from hich the two had. come when. -I rst saw them.- This time the man as alone. , In his arms' 'he carried bundle which he had not had be re.. In build he was short. and tick set." Two girls returning to their home Harrison long after midnight ard a woman's cries floating -over i~e marsh land. -They seemed .to me from the direction of the pond id sounded like "spar<- me"* an~d elp." Nearer the girls were ap roached by a well dressed stranger ho accosted and followed them' un 1 they met a policeman, when he trned and fled.. The girls had a good view of the can under an electric light and while a was well and neatly dressed his ands showed either that he was ac istomed to manual labor or had 're mtly been engaged in work that >iled his fingers. Life had been extinct, the coro er'said; about twelve hours 'when ie body was found. A mark on the eck indicated that strangulation 'as the manner of death. Scratches i the legs and trunk, and pieces of nder forced into the flesh showedk iat the body had been dragged long a cinder path, which skirts the ond. Along the path the police picked p a white' silk waist, a skirt and a air of silk garters. -Following the ath the police came upon the yacht Idle Hour,"~ which was tied up' at point on the Passaic about 300 feet rom where the body was found. On he yacht the -police say that they ound a seal skin and fur neck piece'. The occupants -of the yacht were dbert Thompson, 41 years old,. of slizabeth, a boatman, and Frederick E.irinan, 38 years old. -Both were mploed on the boat. Thompson aid tlfat he found fur pieces" near he cinder path. The police found on the boat tishes enough for three dinners. The nen, however, said that they had no -isitor on the Idle Hour. The police aid they had practically nothn Lgainst the- prisoners, but would Ae ain them until further. inquiry could >e made. An autopsy will be per ormed . as soon as it can be ar -anged; FATAL ACCIDENT. 'ausd by a Boy Having Dynamite in His Pocket. Dan Bradley, the 16-year-old son >f a widow at Pratt City, Ala., died' hursday as a result 'of injuries re-. :eived in an explosion of dynamite it a Christmas party. The boy car ied a piece of dynamite in his coat ocket. While on the porch he was' tarred, and the dynamite exploded. The boy's right leg was torn 'off, and his body was thrown viole'tly hrough a window into the parlor where the guests were assembled several boys and girls were knocked down, and others were badly shaken up by the explosion and by .the 'boy, stricking them. The house wba d ly wrecked. Sorrowful Occurrence. At Clinton Mr. F. A. Dorrity s lit- - tie son was burned to death-Christ nas eve. The mother was idressing the children to go away .for'Christ mns. She went out. a-iew minutes and when she returned~the little .feld