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AWFUL STORY Of the Guinness Murder Gets Blacker and Blacker. KILLED FOUR PEOPLE At a Christmas Jollity at Her La Porte Home-The Blood Lust of This Horrible Woman Surpasses I. Anything of the Kind in Modern1 Times. A dispatch from La Porte. Ind.. says the murder of four persons. she r had invited to her "House of Hor rors" as her guests at a Christmas party. is the latest atrocity charged f to Mrs. Belle Guinness, La Porte's t arch assassin, who is being sought by c the police of practically the whole world. From a careful identification of f the unidentified bodies which have a been recovered from the "soft spots" t of Brookside farm, and the compari- a son of other evidence, it is now al most certain that the woman slayer committed her quadruple crime on Christmas night of 1906. Jennie Olson. John Moo, of Elbow Lake, Minn.. and a man and woman I known only as the "professor and his wife were on that night the victims of the Guinness woman's passion for r slaughter. This discovery corroborates in de tail the statement by Emil Greening. once Mrs. Guinness' chore boy, who has been interviewed in Oklahoma City Greening said that after the party held at Mrs. Guinness' house Christ mas day. 1906, and the ne'xt day, De cember 26, he noted the disappear ance of all the guests. When he asked Mrs. Guinness where the vis itors had gone, she said that the professor and his wife, who were at the house, had gone back to their I school near Los Angeles, California. and had taken Jennie Olson with them. One of the men at the Christmas party is now known to have been John Moo, of Elbow Lake, Minn., but the persons remaining to be identified 1 are the ones described as the profes sor and his wife. Heretofore it has been generally thought that Emil Greening was wrong in saying that there was any woman guest at the Christmas party 1 besides Jennie Olson. The explana tion made was that probably Green ing saw a man diessed in woman's clothes. Four bodies were found in one grave. One of them has been identi fied as that of Jennie Olson -nd an other as the remains of Jim Moo. The third is that of a woman, and the fourth a man of unknown iden tity as yet There are reasonis to believe Mr s Guinness prepared for this slaughter weeks ahead. The graves were dug two months ahead by Brijiski, a Pol ish laborer, who did odd jobs for Mrs. Guinness. The preceeding Oct ober Mrs. Guinness was making girls' dresses, and when asked by ome of the neighbors what she was doing, she said the dresses were for Jennie Olson, who was going away to school. It may be presumed from the shreds of evidence now in the poses sian of County Prosecutor Smith that Mrs. Guinness had plotted to kill three persons on this occasion-the so-called professor, his wife and Jen nie Olson, but Moo with his $1,500 arrived in answer to Mrs. Guinness' matrimonial advertilsement just in time to join the party and to be killed and buried with the others. Men who discovered this large grave with the four corpses say each body had been butchered and dissect ed in the same manner. With a saw the legs were cut in two above the knee, the arms were! removed at the sockets and the heads cut off. The pieces were seperated and were wrapped in burlap appar ently so that the packages could be handled more retadily by the woman. 3. M. Rendan, of Manfred. N I). half brother of John Moo, identified the watch found in Lamphere's pock et. The number on the case and the works, correspond with the numbers given by Rendan as those in Moo's watch. Coroner Mack received a letter from~ Mrs. Henry Witzer, N. 3254 Ma ple street, Toledo, 0., declaring her fear that her daughter, who was a graduate of Valparaiso College, had been a victim of the arch-assassin. The girl disappeared from her home on November 18, 1902, after1 saying she was going to visit a friend in La Porte. She was never heard from again. "We will hang~ Ray Lamphere for his part in the murders committed by Mrs. Belle Guinness at her 'House of Horrors' and we will clear up many of the mysteries which sur rounded the great La Porte case be fore the grand jury completes its work." This statement was made by the' State's Attorney R. N. Smith. as the La Porte grand jury began the se cond day's session of its investigation of the great mystery. Chief of Police Cochrane is in re ceipt of a letter from New York say ing his life will pay the forfeit unless he ceases his activity. Another probable victim of Mrs. Guinness came to light Tuesday when investigation was started for Abra ham Phillips. of Bellington, WV. Va..1 S', left there in February, 1907, 1t c< t La Porte to marry "a rich w: " name unknown. He left hist farm -e other property in West Vir ginia, took a big sum of moneyr with hii 14e has not been seen since. The :Trives of Phillips De lieve the "riaK widow" was Ms Guinness. WRECKED RAILROAD BRIDGE. a e Fifty Pounds of Explosive Discharg- e ed Under the First Span. The new bridge under construc- s tion on the Harlem branch of the e New York, New Haven and Hartford s at Bay Chester. Conn.. was wreck- T' ed by dynainiters Tihur'sday A I charge of fifty pounds of exliosive Ic was discharged under the first span. TI twisting the huge girders and practi- hi cally wrecking the whole structure. Jf Today's outrage followed an unsuc- n cessful attempt to wreck a bridge on the same railroad over the Harlem river ear Wednesay. in CAN'T BE FOUND. In. IE. LEE BRT NSON OF FILOR ENCE, S. C. -las Apparently Disappeared and lfis F riends1l'. Fear that Somiethiig Seri- f oils lias Befallen Him. Mr. f. Lee !trursns;, one of the host lopuiar and highly res;scted itize:s of Florence. has apparently isappeared and no trace of him has een found since last Saturday night eek ago, when he was seen at the anion station in Columbia. Whben he left home he told his amily that he intended going to hart-svon to consult a special-st in egard to his eyes, but it seems that e w"at instead to Columbia. Thrre is no cause known to his amily or friends which would lead in to remain away so long without omrl unicating with them. The officials of the Bank of Flor nce. here he has been employed or se':eral years as assistant cashier. ssure his family and friends that here is absolutely no evidence of ny shortage of funds or irregularity a his accounts. though careful exa ilnation has been made. He is the keeper of records and eal of Harmony Lodge. No. R. K. of >.. and a member of the Florence odge. No. 1.020. B. P. O. E. An information to Mr Brun on's whereabouts will be gratefully eceived by his distressed family and is numerous friends at Florence. * SU..ATHY FOR TILLA1N. tate IIelocratic Convention Regret ted His Sickness. By a unanimous rising vote the tate Democratic Convention Wednes lay adopted a resolution presented ,y Mr. D. L. Sinkler of Charleston, xpressing the sympathy of the party or- Senator Tillman and regretting 1s absence from the councils of the )emocracy at this important time. In presenting the resolution Mr. sinkler said: "The absence of our senior Sena or by reason of his protracted sick less is very regretable and deprives his Convention of his wise counsel mnd able leadership. His prominenc.e n national political circles-his fa niliarity with party conditions and ,he confidence of the people, which e enjoys to so marked a degree, rakes him a potent factor in party sonventions. and I am sure that each )f us will miss him for this gather ing, where he is wont to fill so con spicious a part. ". therefore, offer the following: "Resolved, That the Democrats of South Carolina, in State Convention assembled, express to Senator B. R. Tillman their sympathy with him in his unfortunate sickness. "Resolved.' That we regret his en forced absence and shall miss his able leadership. "Resolved. That it is the earnest hope of his fellow Democrats that he be speedily restored to health and able to return to his active official duties." This is the first time since 1888 that Senator Tillman has missed a State Democratic Convention, and for the last 18 years hie has l.een the dominating figure in the party in South Carolina. It is significant of hanged political conditions that this resolution of sympathy should. come from Charleston. once the stronghold of Anti-Tillmanism. and that it should be adopted with unanimity. SLAYER OF A FAMILY. Confesses the Horrible Crine to the State Officials. Frank Zaztera, a Polish farm hand. has made a confession that he kill ed Mr. and Mrs. William B. Shep herd and their servant, Miss Jennie Bendy, who were fuund murdered in Mr. Shepherd's farmhouse Saturday morming. H~e said he killed Mr .and Mrs. hepherd in order to get the money vhich he knew Mr. Shepherd had in his posession. He waited in the parlor of the house Saturday morning until Mrs. hepherd came downstairs to warm a bottle of milk for her baby, and as he was returning upstairs with the nilk shot her in the side and head ith her husband's shot gun. At the sound of the shot gun. Shep terd came running down stairs. Zaz era was standing in the hall with he gun in his hands and when Shep lerd was half way down, fired a ~harge of shot into his side. Shep 1erd dropped on the stairs and his ody fell upon that of his wife. Zaztera then entered the kitchen ith the gutn. and meeting Jennie 3endy, shot her in the breast. All :hree were instatnly killed. Zazterr hen went in search- of Shepherd'z noney. He told the authorities that le hid the money somewher'e about he house or grounds. FOOTPADhS IN COLUMBIA. )ne Man Sandbagged and Another Held Up on Street. A dispatch from Columbia to The sews and Courier says WV. 0. Sligh. L electrician, was held tip and rob >ed on Lumber street. on Saturday ight, one robber having a pistol and rearing automobile goggles, while he other, a negro, went through his ockets. As soon as possible Sligh otified a policeman on the beat and he robbers were seen and chased. eturning the officer's fire. but ventually escap)ing up the Seaboard racks. Tuesday night Arthur M. Rogers. lineman, was found by a street car onductor insensible in an alley off f Bull street. between Richland and .umber, and a man was bending ov ' him when Conductor Drake first~ aw the body of Rogers. Drake call d for the police and two officers re ponded, but the robbers escaped. here was probably nore than one. ogers recovered consciousness. but uld not tell what happeden to him. he two affairs hap'ened only four locks from each otiher. butt on dif ret sides of Main street in the ortherna section of the city. The songs you cannot recall are THE COTTON PROBLEM NOT TOO LATE TO REDUICE TII ACREAGE. The Farmers Union Advising Its Members to Plough Up Cotton and Plant Grain. The Farmers Union is advi isi.s. its nmlers to plow up 25 per cent. of their cotton just plainted and put the same land in other crops. This is the only effective way to get a pro fitable price next fall and the Union will push the plan to the utmost. The effect of this action on the present crop yet in the farmers hands would he instaneous. The Carolina Union Farmer has the following to say on this subject: The plan to remove the possibiiity of low-priced cotton is simple, prac tical and effective. It is simply to go into your fields and plow up a giv-en amount of cotton and plant the land in peas, corn or some for age crop. This will cause a change of your plans, you say? Of course it will, but the change is absolutely ne cessary to win your fight. You can't afford to follow an uncertain and foolish plan in this contest, when there is a sure and certain way. You can't compete successfully with the cunning brain of the gamblers with out using your own brain and busi ness sense. The way to defeat an enemy is to deceive and surprise him. As a plan for winning this fight for the price of cotton, it is better to plow up the cotton already planted. than to have reduced the acreage to that extent at the beginning. This action taken now is at a time when it is too late for the Southern fools and traitors to increase their coton ac reage, as they would have done. if this action had ben taken earlier in the season. It will not only defeat those who would. be disposed to act the traitor. but it will attack the gamblers' stronghold in a place least expected, and their defeat will be inevitable. It is a fact sustained by his story and by trade conditions that a ten million bale crop of cotton will bring more money in the aggregate than a 15,000,000 bale crop. We are a business organization and as such we must learn business ways from busi ness, men if we succeed. When the manufacturers find that they are not getting as big profit on their goods as they want. they meet in organized "shut down" until the price advances. Inasmuch as the manufacturers have decided to "shut down" rather than pay the Minimum Price for cotton. it is putting into practice the best kind of business sense for farmers to de cide to "shut down" by plowing up a part of their cotton crop. By plowing up a portion of the cotton crop the benefit will come to us in a twofold way. It will cause the price of cotton to advance to a point where the acres that are left in cotton will bring more money than the whole would have brought. There fore. whatever crop we raise on the land where we plow up a certain amount of cotton. that crop will re present a clear profit over and above what we would have otherwise had, in the windup. The corn, peas or cane that is produced on the land on which cotton is plowed up, will add that much more value to our products next fall, and the bestpart about the whole plan will he the beautifully crushing defeat of the gamblers who intend to price our cotton at 8c, or less, next fall. Is the fight worth winning? This is a matter that appeals to the patriotism of every Southern farmer and tests the loyalty of every Farmers' Union man. Shall cotton prove to be an other "lost cause" in the South? Let each individual answer this Question by going promptly into his field and do some plowing that will yield a big ger profit than the same amount of plowing has ever yielded in this coun try. * NATIONAL CAMPAIGNS COSTLY. Amounts Spent by Parties in Presi dential Election Years. Recent dehates in Congress on a national publicity hill have revealed some interesting facts, not the least of these being that as far back as 1860, when Lincoln and Douglass were the opposing candidates of the Renubhlcan and Democratic piarties respectively. tremendous amoutnts of money were expended for campaigu purposes. In only two Presidential elections sice 1860' has the Repub licans spent less than the Democrats Those two years were in 18-1, w'hen James C. Blaine and Grover' Cleve land were the candidates, and in 1892, when Harrison and Cleveland were the nominees of their party. The following, which is believed to be as accurate as it is p~ossible to make it, shows the total experdt tures of both the Republican and the Democratic lparties since 1860: 1800). Abraham Lincoln. $100, 00O0: Douglass. $50,000. 184~4. Abraham Lincoln, $125,000: McC!~alan, $50.000. 1868. U. S. Grant. $150,000: Sey mour. -$75,000. 1S72. U. S. Grant. $250,000; 1-or ace Greely, $50.000. 1876. R. 13. Hayes. $950.000; Til den, $900.000. 1880, Garfield. $1,100,000; Ha-f:n cock. $3:55.000. 1884. James G. Blain, $1,300.0'i0: Cleveland. $1,400,000. 18S92. Harrison, $1.850,000: Cleve land. $2,3l50.000. 1896. McKinley. $16.500.000O: Br:. an. $075,000. 1900, McKinley. $9,500,000: Bry an, $425,000. 1904, Roosevelt. $3,500,000; Par' ker, $1,250,000. WHOLESALE EXECUTIONS. Russia Authorities Hanged Twenty T1wo Men at Kiersau. A dispatch from -Kersau. Russia, says a wholesale execution of peaz took place there Friday, when the authorities hanged twenty-two men who took part in the agrarian dlis orders in the neighborhood of' Ek a teinoslay. The men belonged to anl association which was sworn to dt'ive' out the proprietors of landed estate. At the tim'e of the rioting the peas ants drove the land owners from their homes and burned their houses. Many were rendered homeless and great stretches of the country were SEA BIRDS ARE IN PERIL. Need of Wardens to Check Extinction of Nat- n's Scavengers. For want of wardens along the hundred miles of Pacific Coast, re cently reserved as a bird refuge. a circular of the National Association of Audubon Societies says millions of water fowl may suffer death to themselves and their young at the nesting season. With thousands of acres of such breeding havens which they have previously obtained and must patrol with hardy and expert men, the National Association o' An dubon Societies finds itself today utn able to extend its bird guard over the newly acquired stretch of inac cessible sea coast. Unless funds are forthcoming for this economic move ment, officers of the Association say, American bird life will again suffer such ravages as are admittedly bring ing its valuable sea-bird species close to the point of extinction. The cir cular continn.'s:: Both men and boats of the staunch est sort are required for the peril ous work of patrolling the reefs and rocks of the nesting birds in all winds and weather. Some seven thousand dollars were devoted by the Audu bon workers last year to providing this protection against poachers or the diefenceless birds on their breed ing grounds. To extend this service to the new refuges. which the gov ernment has lust ended, several thousands of dollars m'ore will be required. Beyond paying the war dens a dollar a month for the pur pose of their nominal control. the Federal authorities have left the en tire burden of maintaining this little army of bird guards upon the Nation al Association of Audubon Societies. As scanengers the sea birds are the only a_' nts t'hat stand between the people of this country and pesti lence, they declare. Once they become so few as to allow the coast refuge to accumulate, the entire country will stand in grave danger of heing swept by plague. Only the annual five-dollar bills of less than a thousand members of the Nationat Association of Audubon So cieties today support the extensive work of this body. of which the eco nomic movement to preserve the na tion'- sea fowl is only a small part. ith these and the limited endow rent at their command. the workers i the association are today unable to carry out adequately the work cf =.eser eing the spa fowl. which has become national in scope. Unless .everal thousand persons. represent orz every section of the country. en -- with these Audubon workers, tis year. much in the economic cam pagns which demand their support, must be left undone. "The nation's sea fowl must be preserved now or never." said Wil liam Dutcher. president of the asso ciation. at its headquarters, No. 141 Broad way. New York. "To carry out this great eonomie work in time, we must have the moral as well as financial support of at least 5.ono members. I feel sure we are going to find as many and more thinking persons in this coun try -vho will consider it a patriotic privilege to enroll in a movement so essential to the health, wealth, and g~neral well being of the entire coun tr, nttrely aside from sentimental andl aesthetic motives." Diamonds in' America Cnt:ary- to the general impression diamonds are sold cheaper in the United States than in any other coun try. This Is due to America taking wothirds of the output of all mines, the remaining one-third be ing taken by all the other countries c .Ained. Being the 'argest buyers. American deers not only buy at the lowest price, but secure the very choicest stones. This is admitted by Euro pean dealers. There is no duty on rough or un cut stones :oming into the United 8;.ates. The American cutter's work is superior to foreign cutting, as is shown by the fact that nearly every diamond weighing over one-quarter of a carat sold in America, is cut in A merica. On the small cut diamonds, the duty is only ten per cent. against five per cent. in Canada. The purchases of Canada are so small that the lower dty is more than offset by the in craed eost to Canadian dealers. The A merican merchant has a mar ket of 80.00.000 people against Cana das 6.000.000. The Americans have every advan tae to enhance the intrinsic worth of diamonds by the superior work muanship of their cutters and under sell all other countries.-Buiffalo Ex Fisticuffs and Diseipline. It is ciaimed that only by fighting on the part of the crew can discipline on shipboard be maintained in the navy. But if that law were to apply to families and schools, where impul sive young men abound, every comn mnnity in the land would have to maintain mammoth rings for the set tlement of disputes arising every hour of the day. Unless human nature Is changed radically by being transplanted to a warships deck the penalty system sould work there as well as in civil life. If the aggressor in a dispute were required to make an apology or pay a fine or go into irons or to leave the service with a dishonorable dis charge in case he demurred at the milder punishment. there would no toubt be less inclination among sea ien .a.rang~l andi come .to h1ons. Hypnotized for Hiccoughis. ~ynotism was resorted to as a lst resort to save the life of Mrs. 0. Massiner, wife of a prcominent pysician of Bridgeport. Conn., wb^ bd been suffering from hiccoughs fo three weeks. In the presence of hlif a dozen other ph- aians, Drs. Gdfrey and Smith i- .he pa tent to concentrate I... 'nl the ida that she could :c hic cough. AX stale of pai ypnotismn ws brought on and there was a cesoion of the attack. but as the pient came out of the spell she re sued the hiccoughing.* Ilryan Carries Alabama. n the primary election in Ala lbama on Tues'lay Bryan heat John son three to one. This gives Bryan the solid Alabama delegation. A Singn of the Times: "Situation Professional piety is satisfied with GETTING READY. State Democratic Executive Com mittee Meet and Organize. SOME CHANGES MADE In the Constitution of the Party Gen. Wilie Jones Re-elected State Chairman.-The State Campaigni Will Open June 17.-There Will Be Two Campaign Parties. The State says the first meeting o: the new State Democratic executive committee, held Tuesday night. wa very short, but one or two matters of importance were passed upon Those present were: Abbeville-A. W. Jones, Columbia Aiken-B. F. Holley, Aiken. Anderson-H. H. Watkins, Ander son. Bamberg-E. T. LaFitte, Denmark Barnwell-H. F. Buist. balckville Berkeley-J. D. Wiggins, Eutaw ville. Calhoun--T. H. Dreher, St. Mat thews. Charleston-W. Turner Logan Charleston. Cherokee-T. B. Butler. Gaffney. Chester-R. B. Caldwell, Chester Chesterfield-W. D. Evans, proxy CIarendon-G. M. Davis. Summer ton Colleto n-J. W. Hill, Cottageville Darlington-A. J. A. Perritt, Lam ar. Dorchester-Jno. D. Bivens, Giv hans. Fairfield-T. H. Ketchin, Winns boro. Florence-D. H. Traxier, Timmons ville. Georgetown-J. W. Doar, George town. Greenville-J. T. Bramlett. Greenwood-D. H. Magill, Green wood. Kershaw-J. G. Richards, Jr., Lib erty Hill. Lancaster-T. Y. Williams, Lan caster. Laurens-T. B. Crews, Laurens. Lee-W. A. James, Bishopville. Lexington-D. J. Griffith, Colum bia. Marion-J. D. Montgomery, Mar ion. Marlbboro--John. N. Drake, Ben nettsville, R. F. D. No 2. Newberry-Cole L. Blease, New berry. Oconee-W. J. Stribling, Walhalla Orangeburg--Robert Lide, Orange burg. Pickens-R. F. Smith, Easley. Richland-Wilie Jones, Columbia Saluda-W. E. Bodle, Batesburg. Spartanburg-N. L. Bennett, Reid ville. Sumter-L. I. Parrott. Sumter. Union-J. M. Greer, Union. Williamsburg-Phillip H. Stoli Kingstree. York--J. C. Wilborn, Yorkville. As soon as the roll was called and checked up Col. T. B. Crews to-ok the cair and Senator Blease moved that Gen. Wiiie Jones be elected chairman of the State executive committee. This was adopted unanimously. Mr. J. D. Bell was elected secretary and treasurer. Senator Blease reported that the books of the committee had been checked and were found in satisfac tory condition. The report was adopt ed. It was brought out that Charleston wished a change in the Constitution. giving the county the right to as sess candidates for solicitors and con gressmen in that county. It was de cided that the assessments on all candidates for State offices should be the same as hereofore. It was decided to appoint a sub committee wifh Chairman Wilie Jones as ex officio member to arrange the date for the campaign. "The oth er' members of this committee are: C- L. Blease, A. W. Jones and D. G Griffith. There was considerable debate an the idea advanced by Senator Blease. suggesting that the State committee use its efforts to change the constitu tion, pr- -iding for two campaign par ties this summer. Blease stated that he would at the State convention of the party advocate a change in the constitution along the lines mentioned The proposed change was finally recommended by a division vote. It it as follows: "Be it resolved. That the constitu tion of the Democratic party of South Carolina be amended, as follows: "-Amend article 11 by striking ou: all of said article down to the wor" in' on line 6 and inserting in lien: thereof the follwing: "'Before the election in 1908 and each election thereafter, except as herein provided, the State Democrat ic committee shall appoint and ar range for two campaign meetings in each county to be held not less than two weeks apart, one of which meet ings shall be addressed only biy can did ates for State offices and the other only by candidates for United States senator, United States house of rep resentativ~es and circuit solic-itor: Provided. That if in any election year there shall be but one candidate for the office of United States senator or no opposition for State offices, the said committee may. in its discretion, arrange or appoint only one meeting in each county.' " After the committee adjoun red the subcommittee met and decided to op en the campaign on June 17. A meeting will be held on May 26 to -range the places of meeting. California for Bryan. The Democratic State Convention of California meet on Wednesday. The delegates to the National Con vention was instructed for Bryan. THE Columbia correspondent of The News and Courier found in Columbia while the Democratic State Convention was in session an. inluential colored Republican who said the negroes would line up for the Democratic ticket if Johnson or, some other man who could command the support of the business interests: was nominated but they would not support Bryan. We would be glad to have the support of all honest, colored men, but we cannot allow them to dictate who our candidate behae in:ure it. .111 Who Want to Cote Must Get New Tickets. In order that the electors raay properly understand the act passed by the last legislature in regard to the re-enrollment of voters we pub lish it below: "Section 1. Be it enacted by the (;eneral Assembly of the State of South Carolina. That the Supervisors of Registration in each County of the State are reruired to re-enroll all the qualified electors in this State during the year 1908. "Sec. 2. That at the same time the said Supervisors shall register all persons who may make application therefor and who may be entitled hereto. "Sec. ?. That for the purpose of -uch enrollment and registration the. said Supervisor shall keep the books of reggistration open at the several County seats every day (Sunday ex elted), between the hours of nine a. m. and six p. in. during the months of uly and August. 1908; and in ad -lition thereto they shall attend, dur ing the month of September, 1908, at least one day in each township, in their respective Counties, of which at least ten days' notice shill be giv en by advertisement in a newspaper publish in the County: and in Coun ies containing fifty thousand inhab itants they shall attend in each city, town of industiral community, con taining three hundred or more in habitants. at least one day upon sim ilar notice." STRAY DOGS KILLED. Greenville Determined to Stamp Out Hydrophobia. The Greenville News says as a re sult of the proclamation issued by Mayor Mahon on Saturday ordering all dogs in the city killed unless they were muzzled, between forty and forty-five were killed Tuesday by the policemen of the city. The officers on leaving the station house Tuesday were given orders by the chief to kill every dog found on the streets, regardless of size or vahie. At five o'clock over forty had been killed and Tuesday night the differ nt policemen in the city reported :nore. The mayor is determined that there shall not be any further spread -f hydrophobia if he can prevent it. For the ext thirty days the order wi'l be in force and if any one. has a dog he had better keep it locked up or muzzled. The dogs kille dwere in all parts of the city. Policeman Rec tor and Caps killed 37 Tuesday after noon. The wearing of a tag does not protect a dog. The only thing to do is to muzzle the dog or keep it shut up. The biting of twelve people in Greenville recently by mad dogs is the cause of this war on the dogs up there. The World Shown Up. Bryan's just characterization of newspaper servility to the trusts seens to have bitterly rankled in the breasts of some of the editorial writers of the New York World, and as a consequence from that day .to this the World lost no opportunity to launch a blow at William Jen nings Bryan. "In the meantime," says Tobacco, a journal published in the interest of the tobacco trade, the Nebraska statesman has paid little v tention to the World's con tinuous attacks, in spite of the fact that the World itself has during the past three month~s furnished the most complete and ample justifica tion for the criticism at which it took offense, by its attitude of ser vile submission to the-tobacco trust -the trust which Theodore Roose velt long ago characterized as the worst of all the trusts "The suit of the United States government against the tobacco has been on trial nine long weeks, the hearinigs were held within a litlte more than a stone's throw of the World officee, and many of the disclosures have been of a most pic turesque and sensational character. Under ordinary circumstances, that s, had it been a bank, or a minor insurance company that had been placed on trial by the government Ithe revelation that came out during the trial would have been accorded many columns of space in the World from day to day. "But it was the tobacco trust that was on trail, and so the Werld Ifound it convenient to ignore the proceedings. except upon such rare occasions as something could be twisted and contorted in such a way as to appear favorable to the tobac Ico trust. On those rare occasions, the World would accord space to the trial of the tobacco trust, but truth to tell, such matter as was allowed to nine its way into print 'in the World at those times, read as though it had been carefully edited and amended at tobacco trust -head quarters, before being put into print. "It would be useless for the World to assert that reports progress in of the trial of the tobacco trust were crowded out by more important news, for the simple fact that on many days while the trial was it New York, there was an actual dearth of news, and the World was compelled to pad out trivial and commonplace occurrences to great length in order to fill its eolumns. "But no sooner is the taking of testimony in the case temporarily at an end in New York than the World find that it has plenty of space in its news columns to devote to a state ment issued by the tobacco trust in its own defense, and which it may he incidentally remarked is a tissue of misrepresentation-to use no harsher term-from begining to "In other words it would seem to be the settled policy of the World to allow real news of a character that would prove vitally interesting to I many of its readers to be crowded out of its columns so long as there 1s the slightest possibility that snch ews might prove distasteful to the ' tobacco trust; while on the other hand the World will accord the most ar.ple space to any matter to which the tobacco trust desires to give publity, regardless of whether it be news, whether it be true, or whether it be of the slightest inter ,est to the World's hundreds of thous sands of raeders." SENATOR Tillman was right whCn he said that no instructions were needed for the delegates from this State to Denver. The State Con- r vention was a regular Bryan love- C feast, and no man opposed to his: nomination had 1hre A-o.t 'a 4 EN MSA IN FooD and strictly prohibits the sale of alum baking powder So does France So does German3 has been made illegal in Washin bia, and alum baking powders a inous. To protect y when orde and be very sure you get R Royal is the only Baking PoN Cream of Tartar. It adds t someness of the food. PRAYED FOR A HUSBAN). ged Bride and Groom Declare "God Brought Them Together." The Holiness mission, in' Kansas City, is the center for many surpris es, but none was more so than when Julia Henrietta Hase, who is known affectionately as "God's little wo man," arose in the meeting and said: "For 13 years I lived with a drunk en brute I called husband. Twice he turned the garden hose on me. Many times he made me sleep on the floor at the foot of the bed with his dogs. At last he died. "That was ten years ago, and for ten years I prayed for a husband who would please me and the Lord. Five months ago I met Job Lyou in this very mission and God's voice told me he was the man for me." Here is the Rev. Job H. Lyon's story: "Five months ago I was called up on to preach in the mission. God was with me that night and I saved five souls. But all through my ser mon something kept pulling me to look at the little gray-haired woman. who sat beside the organist. When ever I looked at her a thrill shot trough me and rhe shouted, 'Amen, rother.', "She was Sister Hase, whom I sall wed in the pulpit of the Ameri ma Army barracks, at Missouri and rand avennies. "Was it aniy trouble to woo and in her? No, for the Lord led me very step of the way. I met her Iter the service and saw the love ght in her eyes and she saw the ght in mine. It is God's will that e should wed." The bride is past 60 and the room will never see 70. They will >end their honeymoon and the re ainder of their days in Louisiana, o. * Will Nominate Johnrson. - The Washington Post says: "Gov enor John A. Johnson of Minneso a will be nominated before the enver convention to head the emocratic ticket by Representa ve Winfield S. Hammond of the econd congressional-district of Min essota, the man who defeated for cogress former Representative ames T McCleary, one of the repub ean leaders during his service in' te house. Hammond nominated overnor Johnson for both his erms as governor of Minnesota, and both times Johnson swept a normally' epublican state into the democratic olumn. 'Unquestionably,' he said Johnson will carry a large propor son of the southern states in the cvention.' " Congressman Ham ond is the dame man who says Gen. Miles would make an ideal rning mate for the Minnesota overnor." It will be seen by the above that they are very close polI tcal and personal friends, and it is lkely that they agree on the Miles proposition. WAS TEMPORARILY INSANE. hicago Woman Cast Hler Two Chil dren Out of Window. While temporarily insane, Mrs. mma Loftgren, 25 years old, of 337 orth Albany avenue, Chicago threw r baby girl and her three-year old y, Arthur, from the second storyj 'ndow of her home at 10:15 o'clockj ast night. Both children probabi. 1il die. The crazed woman was pro ented from jumping from the win w herself by nor husband. who rian nto the room in answer' to the boy' res of help. f'atal Explosion. At Quarr, Fia.. Tuesday Wt. T. Mc mad was seriously injured and his~ ine year old son was instantly killed ':'the explosion of several thousan' ynamite caps. The boy's body was I eated. He had just handed i ather some tobacco when the e'xplo o occurred. It is evident that Mr. Ilonald cut into a cap wane11 trim nng off the copper wire from a lo: fcondemned material. Young Girl Shot Father. At DubIurquie. Iowa, defending h.' other with a rifle. Miss Madue Fliem r.g::0 years old, shot her father. et Flemring, in the head. lie ot expiected to live. lFleming. ar mdirg to t he you:ng womn's si a et to the police. wa~s abou't. to) :I ck her mothe'r when shre fire'l. Site 's arrested lut relea:ser 'on hr" ' :: :~gnizan'e. The symp:athy of' I1 mmuniy is with the yorug'womna Failure i.s often t he rcsult of ef 4 7 r The sale of alum foods ,ton and the District of Colum re everywhere recognized as ourself against alum, ring baking powder, BAKING POWDER oyal. der made from Royal Grape o the digestibility and whole. Hydrophobia on the Increase. There' is no doubt about hydro phobia becoming more common in this State as the years go by. There was a time when a case of hydro phobia was a rare thing, but now its is a very common thing. There is an unfortunate tendency on the part of some to depreciate the im portance of rabies and hydrophobia on account of their rarity, while others have been led by the frequent mistakes .in diagnosis to deny the existence of these affections alto gether. But there is no doubt of its existence, and it kills more people than one unacquainted with the statistics would imagine. The Journal of The American Medical Association says "it is re ported that epidemic rabies exists at present in one or more states of the Union, and there are probably few states that have not a few cases of this disease among dogs at all times while instances of human infectin are not unknown in any section. * In this respect the United States corn pares unfavorably with Europe. The. total annual mortality from hydro phobia in vhis country is from 100 to 300. In England the muzzling order has been followed by a com plete disappearance." Dr. Hart. an expert on such mat ters, says "the disease among dogs is increasing. In and about Wash ington its frequency during the last ten months has been alarming; in 1907 a positive diagnosis of rabies was made in 44cases, and of these 33 were found in the District of Coluni bia or its immediate neighborhood. These 33 animals bit 16 people, 46 dogs, 2 horses and 2 cows. Nor is the disea-e less common in other parts of t ia country; Dr. Hart well observes that the preventive meas ures at presentbeia taken are al together inadequate, and urges that stringent measures should be tak en to stam->, out the awvful disease. All dogs should be muzzled and those found running at large. un muzzled shiould be killed. This is what was done in England, and the disease has completely disappeared. The life of one person is worth thousands of,dogs. The Mayor of Greenville, where some twelve or more persons were bitten by mad dogs in a week, 'hos issued a procla mation requiring all dogs running at large to be muzzled. He gave the police orders to kill all dogs found on the streets without a muzzles re gardless of their value or their own ership, and in less than three days over one hundred dogs have- been killed. If all the cities and towns throughout, the country would fol low the good example of Greenville by drophobia would soon be a thing of the past. Timh .more of Bryan. The Lincoln, Neb., Journal, a Republican paper, says: "It has been informally agreed among the people here that Lincoln is to be polite and non-partisan this year. When democrats from outside came to Lincoln in 1386 and again in 1900 they found the town plastered with McKinley pictures. It was so hu miliating to Mr. Bryan that he pre ferred to go away to see the leaders >f his party rather than have them :ome here to see him. Now a gen ral feeling of tolerance and good tatre is in the air, and whenthe de noratie statesmen come they .will e received with toleration. A part f the change will be due io busi iessconditions, bnt most of it comes rom the reaction from the extreme a rtisanship that prevailed here ght and twelve years ago." This ndicates that the Republicans of ebraska are more friendly to Mr. ryan than they were in 1896 and 1900. verifies to some extent Sena :or Tillman's prediction that thous mds of Repudlicans throughout he West will vote for Bryan in he coming -elect.' -. :h' .J:,ni ays part of -he chai'e wi --d. o business conditions," auu these amec buy :as conditions will make nany :a vote for the Democratic andida,. which we believe will and him in the White House at 'ashington. Hurrah for Bryan. The public is quick to detect sham,