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VOL. XXII MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, JULY 22,198N.4 ? MYSTERIOUS DEATH. POLICE OFFIr-ERS AT TROY, N. Y., ARE BAFFLED. Ffforts to Find Slayer of Nineteen Year-Old Girl. Whose Body Was Found Sunday. Unrewarded. A dispatch from Troy. N. Y.. says out of a maze of the theories which . ufront ,he authorities who arre trying to lift the cloud of mystery :rrounding the death of 19 year <!d Hazei I. Drew. whose body was f -und in an old mill pond near Ave r-tt Park last Sunday, nothing tangi b' e developed so far that points to t>,e murderer the motive for the c(:ime. No arrests have been made, ithough the police have closely <estioned several persons whom it was thought might throw some light can the case. That the girl was assaulted before } e was murdered and thrown into :e pond, is the generally accepted t:eory, but the body was in such a tate of decomposition when found! to make it practically impossible for the physicians to determine that fact. Theories multiply as to the motive for the murder. The girl was not - nown to have an enemy or sweet heart, and the baffled authorities were . - en willing to take up the possibili ty of suicide. The physcian's state ment, however, to the effect that!. there was no water in the lung was ven as proof that the girl was dead before her body was thrown into the 'ond. At the church yard at PoestenKil, c where Hazel's life began, her body C was laid to rest. A bunch of roses t ;adorned the casket, while the Rev. r W. H. E. Richards, of the Methodist ti Church. offered prayer. Only a few t friends and relatives were present. i What the girl did from the time sne left her aunt on Monday. July 6, a until the body was found, remains a untold. Rhody Gunderman and I ank Smits tell of having seen a JTazel on Tuesday night on the road V leading from Averill Park to Taber- T ton. They met her, they say, at a a l oiut in the road cailed "The Hol- j low." A little father along another i r-.ad branches off to the left and leads to the home of Wm. Taylor, an un- s cle of the girl. She may have been on her way to visit some friends in a Taberton or her destination may j have beenther uncle's home. Accord- I ing to Gunderman's story the girl Ii -as carrying her hat in her hand. 1 cone of the numerous theories that I4 developed suggested that a young woman living at Taberton closely re- 1 -'mbles the murdered girl and that P Gunderman and Smith might have I -aen mistaken in thinking -that she ' -n s Hazel. The girl, however, when questoned, said she was not on the ad on Tuesday night, although she had been that way on foot on I -.ther nights. arenavig -The authoritiesarenavrg :u find the suit case -and nandbag 'y1ich the girl carried when she left Troy. , The fact that she did not have them when she met Gunderman I rnd Smith is taken to 'indicate that she may have left them where she has spent the preceding night. The possibility that the bag and ruit case may have been thrown into the mill pond led the authorities to open the gate of the dam for the purpose of draining. After about two feet of water had been let out a heavy thunder storm came up and further operations welre postponed until Thursday. The girl's hat. gloves and eyeglasses were found on - the bank, and there was no indica tion of a strugie, although a suff cie'nt time had elapsed since the girl met her death to have permitted the trampled grass to revive. - The th-eory thast the girl died from strangulation as the result of a corset gring tied about her neck, and "which is said to have been cut at the time of the autcpsy, is not giveni miuch credence by t'1e authorities. The string apparentiy was one that the girl wore about her neck :md it 1rake when the body became swollen by being in the water so long. The authorities do not place much credence in the story that the girl was taken to the lonely pond by a p'arty in an antzimobile. PLEASURE LAUNCH LOST. Twenty-Five of it Seventy-Five Pas sengers are Drowned. A pleasure launch. bound, from Manila to Correligdor Island. carry ing about seventy-five passengers. was caught in a typhoon Thursday and foundered. It is believed that twenty- five of the passengers.' including three Americans. were drowned. The oth ers, numbering about fifty, were nicked up by the British steamer -ueri.. which was passing close to the launch when it .foundered. The Suveric lowered its boats im mnediately and those, together with, the bout~s from other craft that came to the rescue. picked up the fifty passenlgers with much difficulty. ~It is reported that an army of surgeons is among 7he lost. De tails of the disaster have not yet re ached Manila. Corregidor Island is at the entran ce of Manila Bay. thirty miles from the city. Difficulty About a Cow. At Lanceaster on Wednesday a difficulty occurred between two ne groes. Bar: Frazier and Harvey Massey. on the Witherspoon planta tion. on Cantawba river. in~ which Fra -i~ was~ sltot in the at Olomen Mas - irg a shotgn. The attenidifl physician says the wounded man wihl die. The trouble was about a cow. Commits Murder and Suicide. After shooting his wife to death at st. Louis. Mo., Martz Martiui on -FridaY killed himself. KILLED BY ENGINE. Horrible Accident Occurred in Co lumbia Tuesday Night. At Columbia Mr. James E. Mike] met a horible and almost instan death Tuesday night just a fe' minutes before the hour of midnigh at the corner of Gervais and Lincol streets. He was struck by a Seaboar< passenger engine at the point wher the tracks of the Seaboard cros Gervais street and his body was drag ged about 100 feet north before thi engine pased over it. Mr. Mikell has been employed fo several weeks by the Seaboard a: a substitute watchman, and Tues. day night he was on duty at the Gervais street crossing, next to the Seaboard station. When the south bound passenger train arrived at 11. 45 p. m., he was at his post and readily gave the proper signals. The engine which brings this train to Co lumbia from Portsmouth is relieved iere by another engine and crew. The engine which brought the train int( .he station had transferred to the siding and was backing, going north :o the Sydney park yards, when it truck Mr. Mikeil. The engineer, Mr. Jas Horton, vidently failed to observe that his engine had struck any object, for he nade no stop after striking the man md was not aware that he had run )ver and killed a man until some 20 ninutes afterward when the agent ,alled him over the telephone and ;o informed him. BODY ON MARKET FOR $30. rohn Barrett, 70 Years Old, Wants to Sell His Body. Deserted by his fortune, which nce smiled upon him, John Barrett, if Middleton, Conn., offers to sell his ody for $50. The offer has been efused by the George Washington mospital, at Washington, D. C. C., o which'it was made, but the offer s still open. . Barrett is about 7, years old. and .though apparently hale and hearty .nd likely to live many years more. e feels that his days are numbered. nd rather than live in want he ould raise the $50 which will chase he wolf away for a while by giving lien on his body. He came to ashington in search of health, hop ag to benefited by the climate. "I don't think there is anything o unusual in my offer," he said.. I have heard of such cases before. nd I know that hospitals pay $50 or bodies for dissecting purposes. ly getting this money I can live a ittle easier for a while, but I he teve that my days are not very ang. and I fear the time when I will ot have a penny. I have been able a the past to pay any room rent romptly and purchase the food that need, but my money is very low FIRE ANSWERS PRAYER aze Consumes Park Preacher Pray ed Might be Removed. Twelve hours after the Rev. Geo. dward Lewis, in a public prayer. .sked that the amusement resorts of rving park, Chicago, where liquor s sold, "might be burned to the ~round," Excelsior park was consum d by fire. The prayer was offered rithin three blocks of Excelsior park a revival meeting in the Emmanfl zel Congregational church. Proprietors of the park. state their oss will reach $50,000 and that they ad taken extra precautions against ire, owing to the preacher's prayer. t is believed the blaze was caused ~y crossed wires. The police are ooking for two menr who were seen n the pai'k just before- the fire. AFTER BEEF TRUST AGAIN. gew York Decides to Investigate Higi Price of Meat. The transactions of the Beef trusi in New York state is to be examined v Attorney General Jackson, of tha' commonwealth. Tired of. the con stant rise in the price of meats, th' people of the state have revolted and Coy. Hughes has heard the pub lic clamor. "I am glad this matter has beex called to my attention," declares At torney Jackson, "as I can not se why, at this time of the year, whel it costs less to keep cattle than a my other season, the trust is chargiml the consumer three and three and alf ets a pound more than it dii three months ago. If I can find an trust officers withini tuis state -yh can be proceeded agaicst. I intend t et after thet. Kills His Wife Robert Wright. aged 32. cut hi -vife's throat and then attempted t commit suicide at their home. fon miles west of McKinney. Tex., Tue day. When discovered his wife wa ying dead on the floor with he wndpipe severed, and Wright. wit several gashes in his throat. wa wandering about the house. heggi for some one to kill him. The coupl are survived by a three-year-old chil who was found sitting on the be near where its dead mother was 1: White-Haired ."Tiger" Convicted. D. Parker. an old white-hair'ec gray-bearded man. pieaded guilty i the Court of Sessions at Spartanbur Tesday mc-rninlg on the chargec slling licuor. He looked like Ale. aader Dowie. Judge Hydrick ei deavoed to get the defendant to pr< mis that he would not sell any mo' whiskey, but the old man would n< promise. He was sentenced to ser' three month or nay a fine of $100 Bartender Charged With Murder Charles King. who served as ba tender in the East Varick hotel. Seneca Falis, N. Y., is under arre on charge of murdering his emplo; er . John Steinbacher, who was 1: ujued in a barroom brawl. - the arrests will be made. VICTORY FOR BRYAN. REPUBLICAN LEA.DERS ADMIT DEMOCRATS HAVE CHANCE. ti t Hand a Throttle of Party Machinery is Hand of More Seasoned Engi. neer-Attention to New York. In the view of practical politicians in Washington the Democrats have r started well at Denver. It is candid ly admitted by prominent Repub licans there that the beginning of the campaign is under more auspi cious circumstances for the Demo crats than at any period of the party's history since 1892. No one attempts I to account for the fact that harmony seems to have prevailed at Denver ito an unusual extent, and that the whole party machinery seems to have been better oiled than at any time for sixteen years. The only explana tion offered is that the hand of the man at the throttle was that of a more seasoned engineer than in past years. Mr. Bryan, according to shrewd observers, has learned some things. Years have brought with him the knowledge of placating op posing elements. instead of putting them at each others' throats. Men who were ten days ago declar ed that Bryan had no earthly chance of election in November now admit that the beginning made at Den ver is such as to ensure a rattling campaign and possibly. Democratic victory. It all depends, they believe. upon whether the Democratic cam paign is smoothness as the prelimi the same smoothness as the prelimi nary stages. If it is November may bring tidings of a change in govern ment control. There is little question, in the minds of politicians that the fight to be made by Mr. Bryan will be in the West and Middle West. That, it is pointed out. is plainly shown in tne platform. Mr. Bryan went out of his way to put up a platform that would catch the Western people, and as plainly as if he had said it himself the declaration or principles of the Democracy appeals to West -rn sentiment and thought. Mr. Bry an will depend for his election upon the South, with Nebraska. Kansas, Wisconsin. Minnesota, Illinois. India na and the Dakotas, and he expects to give Mr. Taft a great fight in Ohio. where the Republican party is still torn with dissension. It is doubtful. according to political reasoning, if the Democrats will give the slightest attention to a single Eastern State, unless it is New York. And whether they will do that will depend upon the developments in the entire State. Mr. Bryan plainly says to the coun try that he has st-:died sentiment in the West, and tfr ae believes it will he with hi.. -- _.ovember. HURT IN FIRE. Woman Jumps From Second Story With Fatal Result. In a fire at Memphis. Tenn.. Tues day which destroyed the fashionable Jefferson flats. Mrs. F. B. James. Iformerly of Chicago, jumped from a second story window and is now in a critical condition at the Presby terian hospital. Mrs.- J. J. Stein was carried from the building by fire men. Mrs. Elizabeth Mc~onald, living on the fourth floor, did not awake atil she was hemmed in on all sides by flames. Her cries attracted 3re!'en who carried her through a~ window and down an extension lad A few minutes later the roof fel. in over her room. A number of other ocupants of the building were rescued by firemen. most of them clad in their night gar ments. Diamonds valued at $10f.000 were recovered from Mrs. James' room lurng the progress of the fire by Policemen Crosby and Smith. Loss. $25,000. covered by insurance. SHOT THROUGH WINDOW. on of Superintendent of Methodist Orphanagte in Georgia Badly Hurt. At Atlanta. Ca.. Hirmana Jamieson. he eight-year-old son of Superintenl tent Iamieson, of the Decatur Me hodist Orphans' Home. and Mrs. amieson were perhaps fatally'wou~nd d late Tuesday whiie on a suburban ar returning to their home aft'er r. outing given to the orphans of ulton County. As the car was speeding along a hot was fired from a passing freight rain on the Georgia Railroad. which I arallels the trolley line. the' bullet assig~ through the head of the oy and entering his mother's neck. \ho fired the shot is not known, hut ater the entire crew of the freight ;rain was placed under nrrest. At~ 'ending physicians say the boy can ot recover and that Mrs. Jamnieson's . ondition is critical. GONZALES VISITS BRYAN. .(olubilia Editor Says the Commnonei - \ill Make a Few' Speehes. V. E. Gonzales. editor of the IState. of Columnbia, S. C.. and oan of Mr. Bryan's lieutenants, aftera isit with Mr. Bryan and Mr. Kert 3 at Fairview. Lincoln. Neb., Tuesday f --.The statemient that Mr. Bryan wvill -not make a canvass is incorrect. I .is his nresent purpose. however, tc 'jdeliver no platform speeches, hut t( cmake ten or a dozen political ad tdresses, dealing with the m ore vita e issues as presented in the platform Mr. Kern will make a more cominu ou camp~aign,. and I was assured 1i Denver that Mr. Towne will be n' -less active than if he had been th Ln ice Presidential nominee. t Mr. Gonzales said that campaigt contributions5 will b)e invited b - newspapers in his State, and he h'e Tr ieved every Democratic paper in th NEGRO HANGED. JOHN WESLEY SHEDD PAYS PEN ALTY FOR DOUBLE MURDER. His Crime Was the Killing of George Lawhone and Alice White in May Last. The first capital execution since 1893 in Winnsboro was held in the county jail Friday. The victim of the execution was a negro. John Wes ley Shedd, who at the June term of court was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced by Judge Gage to be hanged on Friday. July 17. Shedd was convicted of the murder, near Ridgeway, of two oth er negroes. George Lawhone and Alice White on May 15, this year. Shedd has never throughout the entire time, since he was- imprisoned. betrayed any visble signs of trepida tion and up t o the time the trap door was sprung 'hemaintained that same composure. He addressed the immense crowd which surrounded the jail in a few words Friday morn ing. telling them to never touch whiskey, to which he attributed the source of his crime, and to live .^ good men should. He confessed to the murder some weeks ago and again Friday morning he stated to his audience that he felt he was pre pared to meet his God and that he believed God would have mercy on his soul. He was then led back into the jail, where the cap was put over his head and face, his hands and feet were tied and the rope fastened around his neck. He stepped upon the trap door and Sheriff Hood shook his hand and told him good-bye. At exactly 11.04 o'clock Sheriff Hood, with a clean cut of a hatchet, severed the rope which supported the trap door Shedd's body dropped six feet into space. The fall, however, was not sufficient to break his neck and he struggled vigorously for several minutes before his muscles relaxed. The examining physicians pronounc ed him dead in 13 minutes after the trap was sprung. His body was taken down and turned over to re latives who carried it to Ridgeway, where it was buried It has been 15 years -since Winns boro has been the scene of a hanging In 1893 two whit- men, Jasper and John Atkinson, uncle and nephew. were hanged by the late Sheriff Ellison in the jail yard. Another prisoner. Starks Means, is now in jail awaiting the Septem ber term of court when he will be resentenced. as the supreme court a few days ago affirmed the verdict of the lower court, which was* murder in the first degree. Means will doubt less be hanged in October. The hanging Friday seemed to have a depressing effect upon the immense crowd of negroes who had assembled from all parts of the country. They were very quiet throughout the entire affair and no disturbance was brought about at * RAILS CAUSE WRECK. One Woman Killed and Several Othier Passengers Hurt. One woman was killed, two were perhaps mortally injured and nearly a dozen persons were seriously hurt wvhen the White Mountain express, of the New York, New Haven and Hartford was wrecked 100 feet west of Greenwich. Conn., Thursday. Spreading rails caused the ten-car train to leave the tracks while it was crossing a bridge over a steamboat road, and five of the passengers cars, including four Pullmans, were hurled into a ditch, where they col lapsed like paper bboxes. That less than fifteen of 180 passengers were killed or injured seems little short of miraculous, as the train was going fifty miles an hour. The most tragic incident of the wvreck was the death of Miss Mar garet Armstrong, of Wayne. Pa.. who was seated beside her mother in one of the Pullman coaches when the train left the tracks. Miss Armstrong sprang from her seat and leaped out of a window just as the car toppled over and she was ground to death as her mother looked on. Mrs. Arm strong fainted from the shock. an" when she recovered consciousness in the hospital she was out of her mind. The doctors administered opiates to quiet her. They say her condition is serious, and that she may die. aninough she was not in jured in the wreck. The other woman who may die is Mrs. A.W. Drake of 17 East 8th street. New York city. who was crushed in one of the cars. An im mediate investigation as to the cause of the wreck is to be made. The coroner has had the engineer and b0th conductors of the train placed under arrest, and he is having the work of moving the wreckage watch ed. This action was taken because of a report that reached the corner that a rotten tie on the bridge caus ed the aecident. There is evidence alleged that the tie wns in such a worm-eaten condition that the spikes holding the rails were pulled out. * Brick Mason Kills Himself. Paul Eichelberger, a brick ma son committed suicide at Orlando, Fa.. Tuesday by taking poison. His body was found in an alley. Eichel berger was recently sentenced to the renitentiary for cruel treatment tc his wife, and the humilation is evi dently what caused him to take his -Non-Enion Miners Resume. All coal mines in the Alabama fiele ot recognizing the union have start d up without any: apparent short age of employes. Pork Breaks Record for Price. Hogs touched high mark at Chico o last week.,.when they sold a er~.0 pe r 100 pounds. SAYS IT'S BRYAN THE "SOLID WEST" IS AFIRE WITH ENTHUSIASM. It is in the South Alone That the Democrats Do Not Seem Thorough ly Aroused. Capt. W. T. Thrower of Cheraw, who attended the national Democrat ic convention as a delegate from the Fifth congressional district, filling Capt. John G. Richards' place passed through Columbia Friday. en route to his home. He was enthusiaste in praise of the Democratic nominees and says he firmly believes that they will win a great victory at the poll in November. "The West is enthusiastic for Bryan and a landslide for the Demo cratic ticket would not surprise me in the least." said Capt. Thrower. "I never talked wth a single man in the Western country who was not outspoken for Bryan. and I talked with many who have heretofore voted the Republican ticket. All of those bolted the Democratic ticket in t 1396 and 1900 will be back in line, T and I am not expecting Taft to get I many electoral votes west of Pennsyl vania. I have doubts of his carrying his own State of Ohio. I talked t with scores of people from Ohio. I some Democrats and some Renubli- c cans, and they told me , - Taft 2 might lose his own State, me of them openly asserting that the State i would be for Bryan and Kern. "To give you an idea of how the Bryan sentiment is sweeping the West, I had quite a long talk with a Mr. E. F. Reinoehl, president and a manager of the Geauga Printing d Company of Chardon, 0.. and 'he I frankly said that never in the poli- t tical history of his section of Ohio a have so many pronounced Republi- t cans announced their intention of 'I bolting the party and supporting r Bryan. Mr. Reinoehl is publisher of a The Geauga Republican. The Geauga c County Record and The Middleford b Times, influential papers in that h ounty, especially among the Ger- r mans. He frankly told me that he e did not consider Ohio safely in the s Taft column and said he looked for tl the biggest loss in Republican votes 0 in that State ever recorded. "I stopped off at Danville, Ky., and talked with a great many people c there, including men who have been a voting the Republican ticket for a years. Not a man did I find who is ii going to support Taft this year. fi They .are 'sose' on the administra- n tion and want a change. Bryan and p Kern will carry Kentucky by the fi largest plurality rolled up for tne t Democratic ticket there in many years. They are enthusiastic for 7 Bryan, and,: there, as elsewhere, I a find that those who bolted the ticket 'I in 1896 and 1900 have come back t into the Democratic fold-and 'they A are filled with enthusiasm. a "On the train, coming through Ten- ( nessee, I struck up with a life-long r Republican who told me that he is c for B'yan, and that other former Republicans in Tennessee wouldt leave the old party this year and give the Democratic ticket their sup "It is everywhere th~us. Of cour-( se, the Democratic ticket will carry the 'solid South,' but as a matter of fact c~ur people are less enthusiastc than any people I -have seen yet. They simply do not appreciate the( ondi.ion that confronts the coun- I try; they have not been keeping up( with the trend of things politicallyi in the 'West. I tell you the folksj out there are already 'warmed up' 3 and they are filled with hope. Watch my predicton, the South and the West will join hands in this election and Bryan and Kern will win a great and glorious victory in Novem-j Capt. Thrower was pleased with the convention; with the sup~reme har~ony which prevailed and with the hearty and sincere praise he heard on every hand about W. J. Bryan. Even those who 'went there p~repared to vote for Gov. .Johnso n. 3 Tudge Gray or others for presiden- 1 tial nominee had nothing hut words of praise fo-r Bryan and the conven t~ion wound up in a grand love feast. Personally Capt. Thrower favored John Mitchell. the great labor lead er. or vice presidential nominee but he i3 satisfied that Kern will help the tickt and may beb the means of placing Indiana in the Democratic column. "Mitchell is a great man. a leader," said Capt. Throw"er. "and 'oild have added to tN strength of the ticket. Well. he did not get the nomination, but he is with us. heart and soul, and the work which he and Gompers will do in the m terest of the ticket will count." n Asked for an expression regarding Wn. R. Hearst's latest utterance. ii which he criticised the Democratic ticket and platform. Capt. Thrower merely said. "Well. Hearst Is a dead one, politically, and no longer has the influence which' he one time ex erted." GOES FROM ASYLUM TO JAIL. Alleged Emnbezzleri in Florida Arrest ed and Will be Tried. G. C. Scudamore, former cashier' of the Pensacola Bank and Trust Co.. a~d charged with embezzling large sums of money from that institution, was brought to Pensacola Tuesd'ay and placed in the county jail. being~ arrested by a deputy as he walked from the grounds of the Florida In-! sane Asylum at Chatahoochee. He will be arrainged for trial at an early date. Scudamore, when arrested a month ago on the charge of embezzling and set free on the plea of insanity, and after many commis sions had passed on him he was de clared to be insane and committed to the asylum. The asylum authori ties recently decided that he was sane ai discharge followed. DISGRACE IN OLD AGE VENERABLE OREGON POSTMAST ER EMBEZZLED FOR FAMILY. Stole First to Pay Mortgage Then He Stole That He Might Live Be yond His Income. Witnesses, sspectators, lawyers and others drawn to Bend, Ore., by the recent land fraud cases were called upon to witness an unusual spectacle when Federal Judge Wolverton sen tenced Alfred H. Grant, the vener able postmaster of that place, to serve three years and six month in the -Federal prison on IcNeill's is and and to pay a fine of $3.261.'76. arant had pleaded guilty to a charge >f embezzlement of Government unds through the conversion of noney orders to his private use. For more than 25 years he had been a ighly respected citizen of Cook coun :y, and had for years been post master Lt Hay Creek. Five years ago he vas promoted to the more important >ffice at Bend and despite the increase n business which enabled him to 'mbezzle over $3,000, Grant was so rusted that his bond had not been aised above $1,000. It does not ap- I >ear that he used a cent of the stolen noney on himself or spent it extrava ,antly. He stole first to pay a mor gage on his home.. then to furnish Lis house and make his wife and nly child comfortable. Living be 'ond t ond his income opened the down ard path to ruined character and to rison in shame and disgrace. It was about. 10 a. m. when 'Mr. irant was brought before Judge Volverton. As his name was called pathetic figure. crouching as much s it could in the shadow of a huge .eputy marshal. arose and walked estitatingly toward the center of he chamber. His face was bronzed. nd his whitening beard emphasized f he darker lines of his seamy face. 'he man had always borne a good e eputation and showed no trace of nything that would arouse a suspi ion to the contrary. Grant bowed is head when facing the bench that e might hide his eyes that were red r rith weeping. The district attorney xplained the extenuating circum tances. It was with some difficulty zat Judge Wolverton passed sentence n the man who is a few years his unior. "It is the judgment of this court," ontinued Judge Wolverton in low f nd measured tones, "that you pay I fine of $3,118.54 and be confined c 1 the penitentiary on McNeills island l ar a period of two years and six a ionths on the first count; that you t ay a fine of $143.22 and be con- r ned for a period of one year upon I he second count.'' s This made the total fine $3.261.- a 6, the amount of the embezzlement, e nd the imprisonment 42 months. E 'he imprisonment may be reduced p hree muonths, upon good behavior. I ,nd then after this time has expired I bout 15 months, or to two years and j rant can, after further confine- t ent of 30 days. take the pauper's t ath and be released. The sentence ras a comparatively light one as , he limit on each count is ten years. t ROOSEVELT'S FRIEND) ELOPE'- 1 )klahoma Marshal Stole Bride He Had Determined to Marry. John R. Abernathy. former Rough tder, and- United States marshal for )klahoma under appointment from >resident Roosevelt was married in )klahoma City. after an elopement a which an angry father was evad- I d. The br1ide is Almira Perviance. 9 years of age.of near Guthrie. Ab ~rnathy is a widower of a year, 32 ears of age and has six children. His rst marriage was an elopment from alveston, Tex. Mr. Perviance ob ected to the mariage on acount of he disparity of age. Abernathy entertained the Presi let at his ranch. then in Coman he county in 1905. and took him on some famous wolf chases. In the ollowing year he was appointed mar hal, despite charges that he was anfit and which were reported to :he President as untrue, the investi ator being Gov. Frantz, another Rough Rider-. POWEDERB MAGAZINE EXPLODES. ine Lives Suffed Out Suddenly in a Washington Town. At Cleelum. Wash., an explosion Thrsday in the powder magazine of he Northwestern Improvement Co.. kIlled nine persons and seriously in jured a number of others. The dead: George Mead, manage of Northwestern Improvement Co's. store: Gilford McDonnells, clerk: Andy Grill, clerk Mrs. Perry Mof fatt, wife of brickmaker: infant child of Mrs. Moffatt. JIoe Rossie, miner: Joseph Pogriaphi, miner: two min ers. Shortly before 5 o'clock Manager Mead and the two clerks from the store went to the powder house to assist in unloading a carload of pow der. How the accident 'happened is not known. A STRANGE ANIMAL. lkople of Cottageville Stirred Up Over Natur-e Freak. X disutch from Walterbor-o says for some days past the people of Coare-ille have been very much exeised over the appear-ance in that neighborhod of a strange anm ral. it is described by those who have seen it as being entirely dif ferent fronm anything they have ever seen before in the animal kingdom. It is about the size of a yearling calf. has a head shaped like a dog, sceams like a peacock and leaps like a kanagroo. Some persons who have seen it say that it is affrighted: others that it is vicious and shows signs of attacking them. On the whole it Is a most peculiar animal.* SEVEN MINERS KILLED. Terrific Explosion of Gas in Penn sylvania Coal Mine. At Pottsville, Pa., on Thursday seven mine workers were killed and ten others injured by a terrific ex plosion of gas in the Williamstown colliery of the Summit Branch Min ing Company, in the lower part of the anthracite coal fields. The mine was wrecked and set on fire. The dead are: John Riley, Ar thur Hawk, Charles Ricourt, John Whttle, Anthony Frelas. James Bowman, Michael Stakum. The explosion occurred in No. 1 shaft of the colliery and is believed to have been caused by one of the men lifting the gaze of his safety lamp just after an explosion of a shot which brought down a large body of coal. The explosion shook the entire :olliery. The work of rescue was immediately begun and when volun :eers were called for almost every nan at the workings offered his ser rices, which meant a hazardous trip nto the burning mine. Near the foot of the shaft the in ured were found, they having rush :d toward the entrance only to fall >ver unconscious. All of the dead were found a short distance from he shaft battered and burned into tn almost unrecognizable mass. Physicians from Williamstown and tearby villages treated the injured, vhile a number of women volunteer d their services as nurses. Several df the injured were removed to their comes, after receiving temporary reatment, but others were in too erious a condition to be rnoved un i night, and cots were provided for hem. The doctors say three of the njured may die. One of the injured was taken to he morgue, and it was not until .n identification of the bodies was wade that it was found that he was ving. He was badly burned and batter d, but probably will recover. The re in the mine probably will be xtinguished before more damage is one. The Williamstown colliery is perated by the companies controlled y the Pennsylvania Railroad Com any. * GITES JOY TO BRYAY. Jefeat of Taft Man in Western Town t Causes Satisfaction. The defeat Monday of a Taft man or Mayor of Walla Walla, Wash., a tepublicanstronghold, was the cause f much jubilation at Fairview, feb. With unfeigned delight, Bry .n announced the receipt of this elegram from W. H. Murphy, De :ocratic leader of that city. "The )emocrats of Walla Walla, Wash., end greetings. As the first favor ble augury of victory at Monday's lection, tiL home of United State: enator Ankeny, heretofore a Re ublican stronghold, elected Eugene 'austic, Democrat, Mayor over W. . McKean, Republican, by a ma rity of nine hundred and forty wo. Mr. McKean is president of Le local Taft Club."* Bryan declared that the election ras significant, in that it showed to he country that the Democrats have een justified in their forecasts of he trend of political sentiment hroughouit the country.* FELL INTO DEEP WELL. 1 affney Lad Has Thrilling Experience While at Play. For remarkable occurrences Gaff tey is still in the lead. A lad five 'ear-old son of Mr. Boyd Sarratt. who lives near Limestone College'. vas playing over an old well with is little brother M~onday afternoon, vhen the covering, which was rotten. roke through, with the result that he boy went to the bottom, a dis ance of seventy-five feet, Into .seven eet of water. The younger child at once gave he alarm, but it was some three iundred yards to the house. The ~ather immediately started for the yell, expecting to find hIs son at the jottoml, .but before he reached the ene of the accident he met the boy ~oming to th house. The little fel ow, who was barefooted, had climed yut without assistance none the worse for his thrilling experience. except a slight abrasion onl the back :f his head. DROYE NEGRO FROM COUNTY. orkville Black Given 100 Lashes and Tfold to Leave. About ten days or two weeks ago a report gained currency in a neigh ~orhood about seven miles northeast of Yorkville. near Clover. that a horrible assault had been made on the person of a little white girl. An immedate investigation proved it to be utterly false and without founda tion. Citizens of the neighborhood made careful inquiry as to the au thor of the report, and finally fasten ed guilt ~on Bob Howard. a negro. On Monday night a number of men visited his home. took him out, ap plied 100 lashes to his back and ad vised to leave the State. never to return, by noon. He went. It is claimed that he started similar re ports in several other neighborhoods in which he had lived in the county. Swallowed a Ten-Inch Knife. Charles Henry underwent an opera-I tion in the hospital at Hazelton. Pa.. on Friday. in which a ten-inch knife was removed from his stomach. He was entertainling a number of friends at a knife eating, when one of the knives slipped and went down his throat. Religious War. Within a week two miners have been killed from ambush at Bing am. Uah as the result of a religious ASK GUNIKIl5U IIUNb BRYAN AND KERN ISSUE APPEAL TO FARMERS. Iowa Farmer, Formerly a Republi can, Gives $100 for Campaign Fund, Which Is First Contribution. The first appeal for campaign con tributions by the Democratic candi dates for the presidency and the vice-presidency was -issued Friday, directed to the farmers of the coun try. It is as follows: "To the Farmers of the United State: "The first contribution made . to the Democratic campaign fund this year, so far as we know, was made by an Iowa farmer. Just before the Denver convention niet ,this man, who modestly prefers not to have his. same mentioned, journeyed more than 100 miles to Lincoln with his cntribution of $1O.0, which he left with Mr. Bryan to be given to the sommittee when organized for the :ampaign. "This farmer was born in Sweden .nd for some time after he was nat iralized was a member of the lie ublican party. But he was a -stu lent of public questions and in the ourse of time became a Democrat. [o manifest his deep interest in the uccess of the party and the triumph >f Democratic principles he ,made his free will offering 'o the campaign und. "It is very appropriate that this Irst contribution should -come from. hat great body of our population mown as agriculturists. The farm r has nothing to gain by privilege- - Lnd favoritism; hishope is in the pplication of the doctrine of 'equal ights to all and special privileges o none.' He has been the ictim of l1 special legislation and has suffer d from control of politics by the reat predatory corporations: Now hat the Democratic party has an Lounced its determination not to ac :ept contributions from corporations nd not to. accept excessive contri utions even from individuals and ;o publish all pontributions ~ when ,ver a reasonable minimum, it ought o be able to socure a sufficient sum" rom the citizens who ask from the ;overnment nothing but protection if their rights and consideration for he general welfare. There are undred of thousands of farmers rho are abundantly able to contribu e the campaingn fund. There are housands who could give $100 apiece without feeling it; there are tens of housands who could give $50 apiece without sacrifice and. still more w' ould give $25 or $10 or $5. "As the national committee has tot yet been organized we will ask 'he Commoner to call for subscrip ions to this farmers' fund. Those iving may indicate whether they are willing to have their names nentioned and if the contrbution is ot more than $100 their wishes will >e complied with. All contributions tbove $100 must be made known no natter from whom they come.. "The farmers fund will be turned iver to the. national committee as oon as its permanent officers have >een selected. Who will be the first o respond? The Denver convention vas a people's convention; it adop ed a strong, clear, honest platform L1d its nominations were made with yractical unaminity. Our fight is tfight for the whole people. Our tim is equal and exact justice to all; >ur purpose is to restore the govern nent to the hands of freely chosen epresentatives of the voters. How nany farmers will join in furnish ng the fund necessary to present ;he issues? (Signed) "William J. Bryan.'' "John W. Kern."* PRESIDENT PLANS. Roosevelt Getting Ready for His Hunting Trip Next Year. There is very little Government business being transacted these warm fays at Oyster Bay. On the broad veranda of his home at Sagamore Hill, President Roosevellt sits with books to the right of him and books. to the left of him, books In front of him and a book in his hand. He is not strl4ing campagn literature nor economic methods of government either. but examining charts of the wilds of Africa and reading treatises on how to shooting big game. In deed, these seem to be the President's happiest days, sitting in a big chair, examining a big album containing phc tographs of scenes in British A frica or the Congo, and forming plans for his great hunting trip to the dark continent next year. During the week the-President has had a number of callers who, from experience, were able to give him in teresting details of the manner of. hunting in Arica. Among these visitors were Mr. and Mrs. A. Saund erson, who recently returned from hunting inl Africa. Among these two lion cubs which they gave to the New York Zoological siciety. * Etna Again in Active Eruption. Mount Etna is in active eruption and lava is flowing down its sides. Earthquake shocks are frequent in the vicinity of Milo and Santeramo. Italy. Girl's Life is Cost of One Light. A match, used in lighting a cigar and then thrown carelessly from a window, lighted the flimsy dress worn by five-year-old Christina Stironi, of New York, and caused her death. She was frightfully burned. Fleet Near HonolUlu. The American fleet of batt3shlps arrived at Honolulu about 1 o'clock Thursday afternoon, according to a .late wireless dispatch.