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VOL. XXII MANNS. C. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8,10 u.1 BRYAN POPULAR As a Lecturer and Makes Fifty Thousand a Year. CROWDS HEAR HIM. Ne Won't Speak on Sundays or tei the Benefit of Idividuals, and Is Most Liberal in HiL Treatmeat of Local Managementf. He Always Makes His Owu Terms With Leo ture Bureaus. W. E. Curtis writes in The Chica go Record-Herald: According to the report of his agents, William Jen nings Bryan is making about $50,000 a year from his lectures. Charles L. Wagner, secretary of the Slayton Lyceum Bu-eau, which manages his lecture tours, tells me that he has filled 175 dates during the year 1907 and that his receipts for the season have averazed more than $300 for each appearance. Mr. Bryan stands at the head of the list of platform speakers today for the size of his audience, for the receipts at the box office and for the demands for his appearance. "Mr. Bryan's regular charge at Chautauquas," saia Mr. Wagner, "is the first $250 taken at the gate and half of all the receipts over $500, not including season tickets. He is the -nly man who can make such a liberal contract. For evening lec tures in a course he charges $200 cash as a guarantee and half of all the receipts at the door. For single evening lectures not in a regular course he asks half the gross re ceipts. "His average for the season under these terms has been more than $800 a lecture, and he has probably filled' 175 dates under our management without including his political speech es. He started out on the 6th of Jan uary last and spoke almost every day until September 10, frequently twice a day, and once during the summer three times, morning, afternoon and evening, in three different towns in Iowa. In addition to these he hasI made a large number of political speeches during the year; ne has spoken at conventions, banquets, college commencements, Y. M. C. A. and church meetings, and on other occasions without a fee, of which I have kept no record. "Mr. Bryan uses a special form of contract prepared by himself, which differs in terms from the contracts of all other lecturers. The chief fea tures of his contracts are the stipi lation that the general admission to his lectures shall not exceed fifty cente; that he will not lecture under individual management or where the profits go to individuals. The~ con tract reads: 'It is further expressive ly understood and agreed that this engagement is given under the aus ices of some church, lecture course, literary, educational, fraternal or charitable institution, and all profits realized from this lecture shall 'be used for the benefit of said auspices under which said lecture is given. It is further understood that should this lecture be given under the aus pices of a lecture course there shall be not less than two other, lectures advertised to appear on said course of entertainment.' "Mr. Bryan never spoke for mon ey on Sunday except at Chautauquas where an admission fee is eciarged. He prefers to speak to free audienc es on that day and nearly every Sun day during the last summer he spoke at least once, and usually twice, for some church, some Y. M. C. A., or some college. He always likes to visit small colleges and helu them. I do not know what he charges for po litical sneeches or what arrange mets he makes. I have never had anything to do with them. . "We advertise three lectures for him 'The Prince of Peace' he likes the best himself, and it is the most popular with the people. It is a eu logy of Jesus Chr'ist and His teach ingsand his description of the cru cifiction is one of the most eloquent word-paintings ever heard by human ears. He has delivered that lecture 'at least 600 times and never varies a word in delivery. His memory is so accurate that he never makes a mis take. 'The Value of an Ideal' is an older lecture, and although it is not delivered so often these days it has probabiy been heard quite as many times as the other. 'The Old World and its Ways' is his new lecture and is the result of his recent tour around the world. He delivered that at many Chautauquas last summer and probably 150,times altogether dur ing the past year. 'The greatest indoor audience Mr. Bryan ever had was at Seattle last January, where he delivered ' The Prince of Peace' to about 8, 000 people, and his receipts were over $2.000. The greatest audienee he ever addressed at a Chautauqua was a Carthage. Mo., where 12,000 people gathered to hear him. ^ -He closed his tour for 1907 on the 10th of September with the excep tion of a few political engagements in the Soubh. I wanted him to give me one lecture in Chicago, but he declined because it would be a viola tion of his rume not to speak for the profit of individuals."' "Did Mr. Bryan deliver any lec tures abroad?''" -When he started on his tout around the world he asked me t< have our London representative ax range a few dates for him in Eng la~d. The latter replied he fearec it would be impossible. He explain ed that Mr. Bryan was not popula: in England and he did not think th< publc would pay to hear him speak The British people did not take an: interest in American politics and di not have much respect for Americal poitiianlS, while Mr. Bryan persor aly was practically known in Eng land because of his sympathy for thi Boers during the South African war The writer closes his letter by say DIRE CALAMITY Predicted by a So-called Proph et in Pennslyvania. Says the World Will Come to an End in the Latter Part of Decenm br NexC. A York, Pa., prophet. at least one who claims to be a prophet and whose prophecies have attracted the attention of people who care for that sort of thing, has issued his 1908 bulletin. It is his habit and his livlihood, of course, but this one is more startling than some of those previously issued. The following is his last bulletin: The end of the world. The end of this world will come to an end in winter, in the end of the month of December on a Sunday, in the year 1908. Heaven and earth will pass away. Nineteen hundred and eight will be a year of trouble, such as was never known before, Nation shall rise against nation. Kingdom shall rise against kingdom. There shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes. Rivers will dry up. The fish of the sea will die. The sea will boil up with a great noise. The cities of the nation will fall. Mountains will not be found. Islands will pass away. The city of Boston will sink. New York will go up in smoke. People will flee to the mountains. The land will dry up to get ready for fire. The crops will fail and prosperity will be cut off. The banks will keep on failing. This can not be stopped. Roosevelt will get rid of all his money. The treasury will go dry. People will carry their money in their pockets and hide it in their homes. Families will steal it from one an other. This is the gold that is piled up for the last days. This gold will rust in your pockets. It will give you more trouble than good. Labor organiizations will come un der one head and rule the land. There will be great wrath among the people. Hatred, killing one an other, hanging themselves and child ren will rise against their parents: two against three, and three against two; mother-in-law against daughter in-law. All plagues that are writ ten in the Bible will be brought forth. The land be full of lice. frogs, and crickets and locusts. Whoso ever be stung of the locust will die. There will be signs in tha sun, in the moon and.in the stars. In the end of time the sun will be black, and the land will be in distress. The moon will be as bloodI, the stars will fall and the heavens will be shaken. This coming summer and fall the eleet, the saints, will be gathered together. '-For unto Je sus shall the gatherig be." The bride is getting ready to meet Jess, the bridegroom, and we will be changed in the,'twinkling of an eye and meet the Lord in the air. ing that he did not think Mr. Bryan would draw three shillings in Lon don. I sent this letter to Mr. Bryan and he read it at Franklin, Ohio, im mediately after the lecture that brought him the largest receipts of that summer. It appealed to his sense of honor and he replied that it came just in time to keep him from getting 'chesty. He said that-he in tended to frame it as a reminder. A month later, while he was in our of fice in Chicago, I handed him a let ter from our agent in London stat in that he had an offer of five nounds for one lecture from Bryan in that city and asked me to cable the reply. Mr. Bryan read the letter and then remarked. 'That isn't a bad in crease; he has raised the quotations for my lectures fronm three shillhngs to five pounds in three weeks. Just watch the market and when the bids reach a reasonable figure take a few dates.' "Mr. Bryan did not lecture in Lon don for money," said Mr. Wagner. He spoke for the American Society on the Fourth of July and at the in ternational peace congress, where he made a great sensation. "Mr. Bryan has a standing offer from Winnipeg for two nights for $1,000 a night. The managers of the lecture course there explained that they could not accommodate all whi want to hear him at a single lecture, snd insist that he shall give them twc nights, but he has not accepted. WE have on file more than twelve hun dred applications for the present winter and for next summer, bul have been compelled to refuse their because Mr. Bryan has decided no' to appear upon the lecture platforrr again until after the Presidentia campaign. He could get an engage ment for every night in the year ot his regular terms of $200 a night anc half the gate money. He is in great Ie demand than ever, and I think hiu Ipopularity has increased instead o: diminished, judging from the anxie ty of the lecture managers through We have been acting as his agent fo: four years and have booked him fo an average of 1.50 lectures a yea during that time. He has never al lowed us to book him in Nebraska He has never lectured for money -that State and has declined to do s r 1epeatedly. In his settlements wit committees he has been more genet -ous and considerate than any lectui er I have ever handled. If his auda ence is kept away by rain or by an accident he never insists upon ha full price. He always gives the mar> Iagers tne benefit of all doubts. H has never had a dispute of any s~r although I have known on severn occasions when he has been very bat ely treated. Nor will he allowv ust .engage in a dispute over receipts an -tlemuts on his account." I WILL RIDE CHEAPER. The Southern Railway Will Reduce its Passenger Rates. 'Makes This Concession of Its Own Volition and in Appreciation of South Carolina's Kindness. South Carolina will zet the berie fit, so far as the Southern Railway is eoncerned, of the reduction in rates made by Legislative enactment in other States of the South, but with out the turmoil of Legislative agita tion and without the expense of pro longed litigation. The Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier says President W, W. Finley, of the Southern Railway. at a conference in the Governor's of fice Friday stated that on April 1, 1908, the Southern Railway would put into effect in South Carolina the following rates. For straight tickets, 2 1-2 cents per mile. For family mileage books, 2 1-4 cents per mile. For 1,000-mile and 2,000-mile mile age books, 2 cents per mile. The conference was attendid by Governor Ansel, Attorney General Lyon, Chairman Caughman, of the railroad commission, and Commis sioners Sullivan and Earle on the part of the State. and by President Finley, Vice President Culp, General Coun sel .Thom and Division Counsel Ab ney on the part of the Southern Rail way. The conference was held in the office of the Governor and was open, being attended by the newspaper men. Mr. Finley, in a conversational way, put the proposition of the Southern before the Governor, ex plaining as he went along the rea sons for the different rates and the reasons governing the railroad in making this proposition. Ee ex plained that the Southern on ac count of the fairness with which South Carolina had treated the rail roads had a disposition to give the State the benefit of the reduced rates, and consequently the South ern intends, without compulsion, to put into effect the rates which it has proposed as a compromise in North Carolina. Georgia and Ala bama. He felt assured that the agreement entered into would be made effective in these States, and perhaps in Virginia also. The same treatment promised South Carolina would be given Tennessee, which has also been liberal in the matter of legislation. , The 2 1-2 cents rate will apply to all Inter-State passenger business on straight fares. The 2 1-4 cents rate for family mileage books, which contain the name of the head of the family will cover books for 500 miles. entailing a minimum expenditure of $11.25 The 2-cent rate for mileage books of 1,000 and 2,000 miles relates to individual mileage books and also to what are termed mercantile books, good for members of a firm or bus iness concern up to five individuals, the names of each of whom shall appear in the book. YETERAN OPERATOR DEAD) Joseph W. Kates, Who Served the Confederacy Weli. A dispatch from Richmond, Va., says Joseph W. Kates, for many years the most prominent telegraph operator in Virginia and perhaps in the entire South, passed away Thurs day night at Manchester. He was at one time superintendent of the South ern district of the Western Union company at Richmond and later gen eral superintendent of the Postal Telegraph-Cable company, with headquarters in this city. Mr. Kates was in charge of the of fice at Manassas, Va., during the battles of Blac~burn's Ford and Man assas and for several weeks did the work of the office by himself. It was he that transmitted the famo)us mes sage from President Jefferson Davis to Gen. Joseph E. Johnston at Win chester, ordering that officer to make a junction with Gen. Beauregard at Manassas. In the fall of 1861 he was again transferred to Richmond and in the spring of 1862 to Columbus, Ky.. where he was operator at the head quarters of Gens. Polk and Beaure g.LABOR TROUBIAM. Strikebrekers Stoned and Beoaten in Muce. Rioting occurred on the streets of Muncie, Ind., between striking em ployes of the Indiana Union Traction cmayand strikebrakers. Shots Iwere fired and stones and other miss les were thrown. .. . Nine persons were injured, those hurt the most seriously beimg Morris Maley. who received a bullet wound in the groin, and Harry Gardner, who was badly beaten. Otaiers were Ihit with stones. Cars were started Friday withoul interruption, each protected by frorr seven to nine strikebreakers. A crowc soon gathered at tne imterruptior: station and in :30 minutes 2,000 per sons surrounded the building. Cars were ston~ed as they started out. <At other Darts of the city cars were stopped and the strikebreaker! were driven off. Two cars .collidet on account of the inexperience o: he motormen and several people ha< narrow escapes. 1 (our Persons Murdered. A report has reached the corone: .at Pittsburg, Pa., that four memv di bers of a family living-at Grays Mill -near there, have been found mur o dered. No details accompanied ths d report. The coroner has started al m ietiation. THE LIEN LAW And the Negro as Seen by a Northern Man Who Has Been a Resident of the County of Orangeburg for Near ly One Year. The following letter written by Mr. Beers, of Bristol, Conn.. to the Connecticut Valley Advertiser:, will be read with interest. Mr. Beers is at the head of a huge lumber comp any located near Rowesville, and has been living in South Carolina a little less than one year. He seems to be a close observer. Here is his letter: This is the time of the year when the collector is abroad in this land and when the negroes are in hiding in the woods to avoid meeting him. They have the lien law in force and system of chattel mortgages that means that the negro and the poor white too can and does mortgage not only what he has on hand in the shape of property, but he mortgages the future crop which is not yet plant ed. Already negroes are coming into the stores and buying fertilizers to make the next year's crop. When the crops turn out well it is a good year for the business men, as they make a practice of selling under the liens at an exorbitant profit, but when the year is bad and that year is followed by another bad year, then the mer chant is liable to find, himself in a hole and with a lot of nearly worth less live stock on hand. Under the lien law the man gives a note and mortgage on the crop that he is going to grow, and it is his bus iness to take the first bale of cotton r the first sack of rice or the first of his corn crop and turn it over to his creditor. This he must do before he markets any of the crop to an out sider. As cotton is about the only crop that is grown in this State for the market it is the first bale or bales of cotton that he should turn over, and the negro has more than one way to get out-of doing this. As every negro who grows cotton is well known to the ginners and to the merchants as well, he does this way to get around his obligation. Instead of taking his cotton to the innery he takes it in small quanti ties to a well-to-do negro who man ages to keep out of debt and this ne gro has it ginned as though it was his own and gives them a part of the proceeds. Each ginnery keeps a ree ord of all men for whom they gin cotton and thus there- is no reeord against the negro who has disposed of his cotton without first settling with his creditor. One fairly well-to-do negro who ives a little distance out of Rowes ville and who had about eight acres of cotton this year which should have furnished him with about four bales, have already ginned 13 bales. The egro who thus disposes of his cot ton leaves it at the home of the man who is to have it ginned before day ight 'and he is not seen by the man ho lives there and if he is question ed he can say that he did not see any body leave it there. For the last two weeks there have been riding about the country around Rowesville at least 12 collectors for s many different concerns. They aave been taking in live stock that was sold last spring and in many cas s have nailed up the doors of corn* houses to hold the contents against the owners. One collector for a con ern in Bamberg, 18 miles away. which sells horses and mules has al ready driven off at least 20 head that were sold last spring to negroes. In some cases the negro will give a mortgage on an ox, a horse or a mule that he does not own. Of course this is perjiury and when the collector comes around and finds out what has been done then is the time for the negro to take to the woods and re main there for the next two or three months until the collector has got tired of looking for him. Last spring a negro living near town mortgaged an ox to a concern in part payment of a mule and the collector started to drive away the ox a few days ago. The negro told him that he nad better drive the ox through the streets of Rowesville and then he took to the woods. When the ox was in front of the store of J. F. Boone the latter went out and asked the man where he was going with his ox. Mr. Boone rented the ox, a cabin and 40 acres of land to the negro four years ago for an annual rental of one bale of cotton. Plenty of men in tosyn knew of the circum stances and they satisfied the collec tor at once that he had no claim on the ox and it was turned into the yard back of Mr. Boone's store. One negro, who is in hiding at the present time because he can not meet a claim of $83 for which he made a Ifradulent mortgage, sent in by a Ifriend a night or two since 30 cents to be tendered the collector in part payment. |Two negroes, who are well known to the writter bought a wagon last spring and made a small payment and gave lien on the wagon for the balance of the payment. One of the men paid up his portion during the year, but the other paid nothing. When it was time for tne collector to put in an appearance the mari (who had paid up took a front and a rear wheel and the thills and the wagon seat to his home and secreted it and left the other part to be 1ev ied on. IAs the collector was about 20 miles from home a wagon in the conditior that he found that was of no use tc hmadthe parts were left. Later they will be assembled and then the negroes will have a wagon for another year. For weeks past sewing machinE agents have been scouring the coun tryaond Rowesville and there have been as many as 20 machine sshipped to Branchville and Orange -burg, the nearest large towns or either side. The negro accepts thi: taking away of what might be con sAere his property with absolUti SHOOTS HIS WIF72 And Mother-in-law and UTe Shoots Himself. Just at the expiration of the twelve months' pledge he had given the court not to molest his wife, Major H. G. Coates Phillips, one of the heroes of Spion Kop, rushed in to the home of his wife in the vil lage of Crookham, England, Thurs day, and, wounding two visitors and leaving his beautiful wife in the be lief that he had murdered her, end ed his life with two revolver balls fired at close range. His death took place in the presence of his twelve-year-old daughter. It was the wife's good fortune to faint at the firt4 shot fire at her, which just grazed her head. Her fainting saved her life. The wound ed visitors are Mrs. Phillips' mother, Mrs. Lucena, who was visiting her daughter a London solicitor, who had hurried to the village to give his wife legal advice. Mrs. Lucena robably will die of her wound. Mrs. Phillips divorced her hus band in 1906 od the ground of mis conduct while in South Africa, and in the course of the hearing of the case last December, Major Major Phillips entered her home and attempted suicide with gas. After ward on the last day of 1907, he gave his r.edge to the court not to molest his ;-iie for a year, his broth er being his surety. TWO MEN KILLED A Fatal Explosion Occurt ix a Stel Plant. Two men were killed and thirteen njured.as a result of an explosion in converter No. 3, of the Egar-Thomp son plant of the United States Steel :orporation at North Braddock, Pa., [hursday. Six of the injured were Akmericans and the others Slavs. No official statement as to the :ause of the explosion has been made but the old converter men say the :ause can hardly be other than by some molten metal shifting through the soapstone lining of the convert er and coming in contact with the steel sheathing which perhaps was amp. When the explosion occurred the bottom of the converter dropped >ut, throwing fifteen tons of molten metal into a pit where fifteen men were working at ladels. The force f the explosion blew a sheet iron :oof off the converter a mile and arused two walls to collapse. BREAKS LONG FAST. - Tad Eats His First Mlea in Thous and Years. A dispatch from New York says Pythagoras, the toad,took his first meal in one thousand years at the Bronx Zoo. Four flies and an earth worm constituted the meal of the little black creature that had been buried for so many centuries in limestone rock, 590 feet down in the silver mine at Butte, Mont. The ancient toad is s'bowly recov ering his eyesight and the use of his limbs, and is gradually turning green again, as he was in the mid dle ages. He has already emitted several feeble sounds. but the croak had not come back.. stoicism. The writer on a ride a day or two since saw the collector with the mule that had been used all the sunm mer hitched to the buggy to be tak en away and then he went into a field where the only cow of the family as staked out and drove that away. The negro woman and half a dozen children were on the porch of the little cabin to see them driven away and there was no apparent feeling of regret. There need be none, as they had paid only a small part of the pur chase price and they had had the use of the aniinals all through the summer. In this case the man of the family had been at work for the J. H. Blake Lumber company all summer and earned $6 a week and there was no reason why he should not have paid for the animals, ex cept the lack of thrift and, calcula tion that marks the entire race. Last winier there was a call for a repeal of the lien and chattel mort gage laws of South Carolina and the matter is sure to come up agamr in the next session of the legislature. Last winter it was the question of the doing away with the old State dispensary that occupied the time of the legislature, which must by law, adjourn at a given time. All the low country of South Car olina where the negroes are thickesi has become disgusted with the work ing of the law and are solid for thE repeal, while the up country, where merchants have to deal with thai poor white class, demands that it be left on the statute books. Of the seven merchants doing bus. iess in Rowesville all but two have 'ceased to sell goods under a chatte mortgage or the lien law and th( time is not far distant when the ne gro will have to pay cash for wha1 he buys. It will be better for boti races when this state of affairs i: brought about, There is labor fo: every colored man in the State wh< will work, but he will not work a: he can get credit. He lives in anc Ifor the present alone. A merchant saw a negro beati a horse and told him that if he di( not stop the devil would get him His answer was, "You can not scart a nigger that way by telling him o: something away off in the future,' Promise him something will happei at once if you want to scare him Another nigger was caught in th< act of stealing a pig and was tolk that he would have to settle for it ii the judgment day. His answe: was: "That was a long term of cred it, and he guessed he would go bacd and get another." The negro 1 here t say and he is needed. MANY MAD W OLVES. They Are Rapidly Increasing in the State of Texas Efforts Being Made to Protect Stock and People Who Are in Exposed Places. The ranchmen of this section, says a staff correspondent of The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, are making a desperate effort to eradicate the wolves which infest their pastures. Notwithstanding the fight which has been waged against them for many years their numbers show an annual increase. They srem to thrive witir the settling up of the country. They are not only a menace to the live stock, but of late years rabies has spread among them to an extent that is alarming. Many instances are known of the victim of one of these animals dying of hydrophobia. Since the estab lishment of a state hydrophobia in stitute at Austin three years ago more than a hundred persons have gone there for treatment of mad wolfe bites. The wolves are of the coyote spe cies. They skulk around at night and kill young calves and make away with lambs and kids. The last Legislature passed a scalp bounty law which carried an appropriation of $100,000 to pay for the scalps of coyotes and other wild animals, which cause serious losses to the stockman. iGo-v. Campbell vetoed the measure. Many of the ranchmen have hun ters cmnstantly employed to kill the wolves' wildcat and other depreda ting wild animals. This method of eradication is slow and very expen sive. A few years ago Clement Bonter ant, an Englishman, purchased a ranch west of here. He soon found that the covotes were carrying off most of his calves and lambs. He employed Mexicans to capture half a dozen coyotes alive. He placed a sheep bell upon each of these- coy otes and turned them loose upon his ranch. It was Mr. Bon terant's theory that the belled coy otes would frighten away all the other coyotes of the place. Instead the belled coyotes attracted other coyotes to them and in a few . days each belled coyote had a big flock of followers and these hordes of ani mals were playing worse havoc than ever before. ,After many efforts the belled coy otes were recaptured and the bells removed from their necks. Mr. Bonterant then tried the ex perience of catching coyotes alive and placing them in a pen with man gy dogs which he had brought from San Antonio for that special pur pose. The coyotes soon-contracted the mange and were turned loose. That experiment worked with bet ter success than the one which he irst tried. Nearly every coyote in southwest Texas is now afflicted with the mange. Mad wolves are such a menace to this section thnt many ranchmen have built corrals around their homes as a means of protection for their wives and children against attack by the animals. When afflict. ed a coyote does not hesitate to enter the open door of a house or go boldly into a camp where men are sleeping and attack whomsoever it happen to run across. A few days ago a party of deer hunters were sitting around a camp fire over on the Nueces river, The night was dark and the air chilly. Te men were enjoying the comforts of camp life when they suddenly heard the growl of a coyote and be fore any one could grab up a gun the animal walked into the circle of light and nassed squarely through~ the flames and coals of the fire. It then tuined and started toward one of the hunters. Before the mad an imal could get to him the man man aged to get hold of his gun and kill The coyote when suffering from an attack of hydrophobia will attack and bite full grown cattle. The bite produces rabies in the cattle and the losses of livestock from this cause are considerable. It is very dan gerous to enter a pasture where shere are cattle which are suffering from hydrophobia. The animals charge everything in sight. Tom Hubbard had a gang of Mex icans at work constructing a water hole, or "tank," as they are called, on a ranch near there recently. The laborers lived in an open camp and had taken no precaution to prevent attacks from mad wolves, One night they were lying asleep upon the ground around the camp fire when one of the mad wolves made its appearance among them. Two of them were sent to the State Hydrophobia Institute, where they were treated. The other Mexican refused to take the treatment and on the ninth day after being bitten died. QUEER ACCIDENT. Bioni from a Stove Lifter Caused an Explosion. Mrs. Josephine Cominsky, 18 years old. of No. I1 Pearsall street, Long Island City, became angry Thurs day night with Caster Gussus, whc boards with her, and and struck himr on the side with an iron stove lifter. Immediately there was a loud report and Gussus fell to the floor scr e~m Iing with pain. Mrs. Cominsky called an ambu lance from St. Johns hospital. The surgeon found that.Mrs. Cominsky's blow had exploded a cartridge thai 1Gussus had carried in his pocket, and the bullet, striking against a twenty-five cent piece, had driver the coin partly in his side. iiThe hospital doctors cut out the coin and Gussus will recover. The -!coin undoubedtly saved the man's life Mrs. Cominsky was not arrest. ed as Gussus corroborated her story of the accident. SLAIN BY BURGLAR. Another Burglar Slain While Breaking in a Store. George H. Fisher, Newark's Tex ement Inspector, Is Shot Leaning from Window. A burglar shot and killed George H. Fisher, Newark's tenement house inspector, Thursday morning at the Fisher home, No. 110 Congress street, Newark, N. J. At the time of his death Mr. Fisher was leaning out of a window shouting for the police. At the same hour in Williamsburg, David Jaffe, a bird dealer at No. 146 Messerole street, shot and killed a burglar who had forced an entrance to his home. Mr. Fisher, with his wife and their young son and daughter had watch ed the old year out and the new year in. Soon after 3 o'clock in the morn ing Mrs. Fisher was awakened by the sound of breaking glass. She arous ed her husband, and they looked out of the window. They saw two men in the rear of Feindt's store, adjoin ing their home, trying to open a win dow. Mr. Fisher went to the window, raised it and shouted "Police!" In stantly one of the men below the window fired the bullet going through Mr. Fisher's head. He fell across the window sill his head and should ers outside. Mrs. Fisher screamed, and the shot awakened the two children who ran into the room. The mother, son-and daughter drew the body back into the room and laid it on the floor. Dr. Frank Devlin. who was called, said that death had been instantaneous. The only clue that the police have was given by a woman who lives about a block away from the Fisher house. She said she was with her sick child when she heard the shot and screams. She looked out of the win dow and saw the men running along Congress - street toward Jefferson. They turned the corner and disap peared. The man shot by Mr, Jaffe in Wil liamsburg has not yet been identifi ed, but the police are holding a man whom they believe to have been im plicated in the attempted burglarly. Mr. Jaffe and his brother, Morris, were asleep in the store and were awakened by someone trying to open the door. Several times attempts have been made to rob the store, and Mr. Jaffe was certain this was anoth ea. He drew a revolver from under his pillow and fired just as the door swung open. The bullet sfruck the intruder in the forehead and he fell dead. Anoth er man who was with him ran to wards Graham avenue. Patrolman Dahler of the Stagg street station, turning into Meserole street from Graham avenue, saw a man running and arrested him. The man said he was running for a car, but the po liceman took him to the station. There he said he was Thomas Bay ne. of No. 141 Leonard street, but refused any other information. He was held without bail onsa charge of burglary, pending an investigation. Dr. Constantine, of St. Catherine's Hospital, who saw the body of the dead man, said he had been killed instantly. Mr. Jaffe was charged with homi cide and was released on parole. FARMER'S FIGHT TH SWANS. Flock of Birds Attacks JIapanese and His Horse. A Japanese farmer, one of the many who have leased much land around Russellville, Ore., on the Base line road, had a most thrilling adventure with a flock of white swans last week. He was out plow ing in his field, so E. N. Emery says, when suddenly several hun dred swans made their appearance. At first he paid no attention, but they soon began circling close down on him. Then they made a sudden sweep and nearly knocked him down. The swans renewed their attack on the Japanese with more vigor than ever. They dashed at him and struck him in passing from all directions. He sought to drive them off by swinging his hat but this had no effect. He then ran to the nearest fence, followed by part of the flock, and seizing a rail, defend ed himself; but still the swans at tacked him until he had knocked down several. The horse which the Japanese had left hitched to the plow was al so attacked by more than a score of the angry birds. The animal did Ithe best he could to defend himself with his heels and teeth while his owner was wielding the rail at his assailants. Suddenly the whole flock by an impulse took flight, leaving the Japanese master of the battlefield "Itl was the most remarkable and comical fight I ever witnessed," re marked Mr. Emery. "The Japanese certainly had his hands full. Part of the time he was half-covered by the swans. He fought with the same determination that his com rades fought the Russians. The ground around where the fight took4 place was strewn with feathers." White Man THanged. A dispatch from Lake Charles, La. says L. H. Coleman, white, was hang ed there Friday for the murder o: Deputy Sheriff William Shoemaker at Deqiuincy, La., on October 24~ 1906. Coleman killed Shoemake when the deputy attempted to arres him on a minor charge. Train Wrecked. A Pennsylvania railroad expres which left Buffalo Thursday night which was due in Philadelphia at 7.3: a. in., was wrecked at Montandon Pa., early Thursday and more than: doze npangers injured. KNOCKED DOWN And Robbed in His Store by a Negro Thief. WILL PROVE FATAL, A Spartanburg Merchant is Murder. ously Assaulted and His Cash Drawer Robbed by a Robber, Who Is Seen in the Store by .a Woman and Child, but He Makes His Escape and is at Large. The Spartanburg Herald of Wed nesday tells of the murderous as sault on Mr. Henderson, a merchant of that city, on Tuesday night of last week -. The Herald says a ne gro robber at the money drawer and the proprietor lying on the floor of a back room in an uncon scious condition, with several hatcpet wounds in the head was what Mrs. Cora Lawrence saw when she'entered the store of -Mr. B. F. Henderson, on North Liberty street, with her little son on the evening above mentioned. She spread the alarm, but the robber made his es cape. All that is known of the robbery and assault is the story told by Mrs. Lawrence. She went to the store about 8 o'clock to get Mr.- Hender-, son to read a letter for her. She carried a small boy along with her. To her surprise she found a negro behind the counter. He had the money drawer out and helping him-' self to the loose silver. She asked the negro where Mr. Henderson was. He replied that fie had stepped out and left him in charge till he came back. Mrs. Lawrence then stated that she would wait until he returned. The rob ber replied that it was no use to do that, because it might be some time before Mr Henderson returned. Mrs. Lawrence heard some .one struggling in the room to the rear of the store room. She looked back and saw Mr. Henderson lying on the floor. She said that she would go back to him, and that all the powers of heaven and earth could not keep her from doing -so. As she passed into the back room the negro hastened out of the front door. She found Mr. Henderson on the 'floor, writhing ii his own blood, with several wounds in his head and the hatchet lying near. him. He was in an unconscious ondition. She set up an alarm and it was not long before a crowd gathered.. Mrs. Lawrence says that slie would know the negro if she saw him again. He was a tall fellow with long mustache. He carried- a heavy stick which was hanging on his arm while he was taking the money from the drawer. One hand trembled as if he were afflicted with rheumatism. He was a stranger. Mr. Henderson keeps store -on North Liberty street, near the over head bridge. He lives alone in the rear of the store. He is a man of. about fifty years of age. It is not known how much money was in the drawer. The policeman went to work on the case at once. A negro by the name of Wallace Williams, who fit ted .the discription of the robber given by Mrs. Lawrence, was ar rested and taken before her, but she said that he was not the one, and he was then released. Wil liams is the negro who was tried for the murder of Doc Westfield, color ed, several years ago and came Mr. . Henderson's skull is fractured in three places as a result of the blows inflicted by the robber. The hatchec with whic1' the work was lone was found beside him. It was covered with blood. A report from the hospital at an early hour Thurs day morning says that Mr. Hender son's condition is critical. USED PARIS GRE5N Highly Respected Farmer of Aikem Commits Suicide Mr. Samuel Bonnett, one of the most highly respected farmers of Montmorec, . committed suiie Thursday by taking paris green. Mr. Bonnett's mind is thought to have been weak. symptoms of such a state having been in evidence for some time. Thursday morning he got up and, it is said, acted rather strangely. Soon after he took .a large quantity of paris green, evi dently with a suicidal intent. A physician was summoned by tel eegraph, bat before his arrival the drug had taken such effect that .lit tle could be done to save him, though antidotes were administered in large ciuantities. He died Thurs day afternoonf. Mr Bonnett was a good man and o cause other than that stated can can be assigned for the act. He was a good farmer, a quiet unassumng man and a leader in church work. He is survived by a widow and sev children.__ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Aged Couple K~illed. William B. Dick, aged 82, and his sister, Emily Hortage, aged 76 were on the Reading railroad near Cam en, N. J., while crossing the tracks in a carriage. Two Tramps Killed. Two tramps were reported killed Friday in a wreck on the Iron Moun tain Railroad at Swarz, La. Five crs of a freight train fell through a +.1tr bridge over a lake.