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__ _ _ Lt Xanuiujg VOL. xxII1 MANNING, S. C. WDEDY ETME .10 DOUBLE TRAGEDY 3AIN SHOOTS DOWN WIDOW i\ TOWN OF SENECA. Slayer Then Kills Himself-Had Been ersistent Suitor for Her Affections Cahninated in the Tragedy. J. F. Hinkle shot and fatally 'wounded Mrs. E. L. Anderson, a 'widow with three children, there at her hime on Main street at Seneca, Wednesday between 1:30 and 2 o'clock, and then killed himself. Mrs. Anderson died at 7:20 that night. It is rumired that 'Mrs. Ander son refused to marry Hinkle and this is said to have caused the trag edy. Hinkle shot at Mrs. Anderson's 'daughter, Christine, once and then at Mrs. Anderson twice, and after wards shot himiself once, the ball en tering his head below the chin and passing through the roof of his tnouth,Iodging'in the brain. He died instantly. One ball entered Mrs. Anderson's left side, passing through the abdo rnen, and one broke her right arm. Hike used a .44 Colt's pistol. Hinkle ~nt into the room where Mrs. Anderson was sitting with sev eral boarders and said to her: "I would like, to pay my board," and asked her to come. into: the dining room, which she did. Upon her re fusal to marry him he -hot her. Hinkle left three letters, one ad dressed to Dr. Doyle of that city, one to the Atlanta Journal and one to the public. In Dr. Doyle's retter he requested him to buy a cheap coffin and bury him beside his first wife in Senace cemetery. Mrs. Hughes of -Richiand, a sister 'of Mrs. Anderson, arrived. about four hours- before she died. Mrs. Ander son's brother, Dr. Cox of Pendleton, was also with her in her last hours. The verdicts of the coroner's jury is ia accordante with the above facts. ;Mrs. Aaterson was a native of An dersin'etnty, wide and priminently conneced. - Another Account. A dispatch from Walhalla, says coroner J. W Hollman. received no tice Wednesday at 2 o'clock to go to Seneca to' investigate A. double trag edy, which occurred at Seneca. eight miles from there, shirtly before 2 o'clock. The tragedy was one if the most barrowing Oconee has witnessed in years. J. F. Hinekle shot and mortal ly wounded Mrs. Emma L. Anderson, properetress- of the Anderson board - ng housewhile they were in a con ersation in the dining: room of Mrs. Anderson's Ilome,_.and as. soon as he bad committed the awful deed. Hinek le turned the weapon. upon himself, i ng-point blank-under his chin, the 1 balf ranging' upward) and' into the brain. Within s' few minutes he had expired before having spoken to any Mrs. Anderson lingered ubtil 8 o'clock that night, when she died 'without ha'ving regained conscious .Andersong neo which was awarded off by her,'on4 breaking her arm and the third. entgring her body between the seventh and eighth ribs and com ing out at the back. erashing through. - her body close to the heart. Mrs. -' Anderson ran from the room and was caught by some one as she fell -- tally 'wounded. SIt is stated that the. frst shot fired 'was aimed. at Mrs. Andeison's daugh ter, two of her children being in the -room with her when she and Hinckle entered the room.' Hinckie engaged Mrs Anderson 1i a conversation muder the pretext of wishing to pay his boisrd bill. It is 'understood that he had been a persistenlt suitor for Mrs. Anderson's affections for some tiriie and that day's tragedy was the culmination of her :refusal to marry him. Several notes were left by him and are in the posession of Coroner Hloliman, but their cintents ba've not b'een made public. For a number of years Hinckle was 'piliceman at Seneca and* was well thought of. For some tine he- and Mrs. Anderson had been quite inti mate. She was a wiman of beauty if face and figure and had many ad mnirers. Jealousy and Mrs. Ander son's persistent refusal of him are gtenerally thought to be the two prime factors that led to the murder and suicide. Hinckie was about 50) years of age and . a widower, and Mi%. Anderson several Wars younger. Her husband has been dead about three years. DIES TO SAVEI DAUGRLTER. 'Woman Plunges luto Cistern of. Scald ing Water and Both Perish. Mrs. James .McMah'anany was dangerously scalded near her home in Loyal Hanna, Pa., Thursday in a futile effort to save her three-year old daughter from death. The child while at play fell into a *cistern which .received the waste stream and hot water from a coal mining plant and was so severeb mn jured that she, died just after being rescued. The mother plunged into the seething cistern and carried her child out. GEORGLt WOMAN ASSAULTED. The Usual Result is Expected to Fol low. A specul from Damascus, Ga., says Johai W. Town. a negro who Thursday night attempted to criminally assault the wife of Joe Wheeler. a white man. is in danger of being lynched. Mrs. Wheeler's screams aroused he'r husbaud and frightened the negro away. A posse captured him latet and he was placed in jail. Feelina is running very high and mot viol mece is feared. ME~ETS HOUIiiBLE DEATH. I Aeronaut Falls Five Hundred Feet to His Death. At Waterville, Maine, in full view of 25,000 horrified spectators assem bled on the Central Fair ground late Tuesday. Charles Oliver Jones of Hammondports, N. Y.. aeronaut, fell a distance of 500 feet to his death. Among the witnesses of the fright ful plunge were Mrs. Jones and they were almost the first to reach the side of the dying man. Jones died an hour and a half after the accidet. Jones had been at the fair grounds with his dirigible balloon. "Bcomer ang, known as a Strobel airship, since Monday. He arranged a flight between 3 and 4 o clock but such a high wind prevailed that a delay was necessary. At 4:30 conditions had modified and he gave the word to have the machine released. When the aeronaut reached a height of more than 500 feet the spectators were amazed to see small tongues of flame issuing from under the gas bag in front of the motor. At this time the balloon had passed out of the fair grounds. Many per sons in the great crowd endeavored to apprise Joes of his danger. but several min'utes elapsed before he no ticed the fire. Then he grasped the rip cord and by letting out gas en deavored to reach the earth. The machine had descended but a short distance when a sudden burst of flame enveloped the gas bag and the frame work immediately separating from the bag. Jones fell with the frame of his mo tor and when the spectators reached him be was lying under it; the gas bag was completely destroyed. The physicians who were in the crowd found that Jones had no chance to survive as ~he was injured internally and his spine was broken. Jones had trouble with his balloon the day before on account of the cold weather which caused a number f leaks, through the contraction of the gas bag. It is thought that the bag leaked again and that a spark 'rom the motor caused the disaster. ones was 40 years old. CRASH AT CROSSING Nro Are Killed and Three Seriously i1 Injured. Two persons were killed, two fatal y hurt and three seriously injured sear Ottawa, fI.. Thursday night then an electric car on the Illinois alley railway struck a carriage, in rhich were seated Walter Snell, a realthy farmer and a party of six ersons. The dead are: Daughter of Mr. P and Mrs. Snell, 12 years. Son of Mrs. Lnd Mrs. Snell, 8 years old. The fatally injured are: Mrs. Ma ie Townsend and daughter of Mrs. nell, 15 years old. The serious'y injured are: Mr. md Mrs. Snell and a son of Mrs. ownsend, 8 years old. The crash occurred at a point wher he road crosses the electric line bout six miles from Ottawa. Thee oad was not well lighted and near he crossing there Is a sharp curve thich prevented. Mr. Snell, who was riving from seeing the approach of a . ~ar.' The carriage was directly in he center of the track when the car, oming at top speed, crashed into it. All the occupants of the carriage rere thrown far from the track and he carriage was completely wrecked.a he horses were also thrown away ~rom the track. The car was not amaged and none of the passengers ras injured. CONDITION OF COTTON CROP. Lverage on August 25i Was 76.1 Per Cent of Normial. The crop reporting board of the breau of statistics of the Agricul ural Department reported the aver tge Condition of the cotton crop on August 25 was 76.1 per cent of nor nal. This is compared with 83 on July 5th last, and 72.7 on August 28th. 907, and 73.9, the average of Au ust 25th 4:onditions for the past ten ears. The report by States, giving the ondition on August 25 last and aver-t age for ten years past respectively. i 'ollows: Virginia. ST. 81: North carolina. 80. 77: South arolina, 76. 76; Georgia. 77. 76: Florida. S0. 7Ti: Alabama, 77. 74: Mississippi. 79. 77; t Louisiana. 63. 75; Texas. 75. 69: Ar-t kansas, 83. 75: Tennessee. 88. S2; Missouri, 90. Si: Oklahoma. 70. 77. SENATOR "BEATEN UP." 1 Bad Blood Spilled at Wheeling,W.Va., in a Bankinig House. United States Senator Nathan B. Scott. ot West VirgInia, bears some 30 bruises about his face and should ers as the result of an encounter with e-Senator S. G. Smith. a prominent business man of Wheeling. WV. Va. The men met in the corridor of the Dollar Savings and Trust company in Wheeling. It appears there has been some bad blood between the two ow ing to Smith's recent declaration that the United States senatorsliip in West 'irginia had been bought .at public auc tion for many years. Senator Scott took exception to Smith's statement and called him to account for the same One word bbrought on another until Scott called Smith a liar. Smith declared United States senators are not divine and called Scott a "damned liar"' and the fight was on Cashier L. F. Tifel rushed between the two men but not until Smith had delivered 30 hlows on Scott and the latter had tanded six times. Scott was "all in" at the count. A conference is now being arrange-l to settie the affair as Scott's friends realize the senator was entirely in DROWNED BY FLOOD, 1HOLE FAM1LY (W NEGROES EN GILt'[D BY FLOOD. Not Seen Since Last Wednesday and on Thursday Nothing But Top of Cabin Could be Seen. With the subsiding of the floods come continued stories of destruc tion of property and loss of life. Mr. William Lykes of Lykesland Monday afternoon telephoned The State of a pitiful case. It appears that a negro, Addison Fuller, and his family occupied a cabin which since has been covered to the eves in the flood. The family consisted of a wife and five children, one just four days old. They had a boat with which to make their es cape, but neither boat nor negroes have been seen. It is feared that he and his entire family were drowned. Coroner Walker has been notified and will make investigation at once. Thursday afternoon the house was approached in a boat by Lawrence Erwin, and even then the water cov red the body of the cabin. The cur rent there being so swift the boat nan did not go very close, as he at :hat time thought the ne'groes had abandoned the house. But as noth ng has been heard from them, it is 'eared that the whole family has per shed. It would hai been almost suicidal o have attempted to cross the river o the Lexington side and there were earfully swift currents on the Rich and side. even had Addison Fuller ttempted to come back on the Rich and side it is more than likely that e would have been swamped, and ad he stayed, it is sure that they per shed, for there was no signs of life bout the house. The boatman who pproached did not go near enough o see whether the boat had been aken from the house. The house is et surrounded by water and a party ill go there in boats to inspect the remises. Mr Lykes states that the lace is about 12 miles from him and e would have reported it sooner but hought that the negroes nearby had one so, but the negroes have acted a singularly cold blooded and in fferent manner. FOUR SEAM PERISH. iled by Fumes of Burning Pitch and Oakum in Vesselrs Hold. A dispatch from Boston, says suc mbing to the deadly fumes of burn- ? 1g pitch and oakum deep down in e forepeak of the British .bark ( uritan as she lay at anchor in Presi nt roads Tuesday, four seamen were d focated and a fifth wsa partly over- . )me before he was rescued by ship- c sates. The dead. Harry E. Olsen, Carl Morsen, Peter-. n Becks, George Sunblade. :I The fire, which caused only slight mage, is supposed to have been ~ aused by spontaneous combustion. I The Puritanl, which is a bark of .283 tons burden, was in command Capt. F. WV. Chapiman and had iken on a cargo of 14,000 barrels of I r, oil pitch and oakuin for Vancouv r, B. C. Tuesday afternoon Capt. Chapman nt Seaman Olsen down into the 3 repeak to stow away a sail. When i e man failed to return to the deck I fter some time had elapsed, three a ther men were sent down to investi- I ate. Finally Capt. Chapman. convimc- g that some accident rmust have hap- a med, ordered Mate Hatfeldt- and h eamen Roberts and McLane to in estigate. As -,hey reached the foot t fthe ladder, they almost stumbled a ver the bodies of the- four seamen,3 *ho had gone down before them. oberts was alsi) overcome. The fire t as quickly extinguished and thet odies br~ught to the deck. 1 AIDING FLOOD SUFFERERS. I 'ar Department Gets Report Fromy -its Agent at Augusta. A report regarded as encouraging I as received by the war department t rom Capt. Adolph H. Huguet, of the I 7th infantry, who wAs detailed byC len. Ramsey. commander of the de e department. Capt. Huguet says make an investigation of the needs if the people of Augusta, Ga., strick n by recent floods. In a telegraphic communication to] he departmet. Capt. kiuguet says hat between 4,000 and 5,000 persons destitute circumstances have been )rovided with rations and medicines vy local relief committees. The sup )Iies furnished are expected to be ;ufficiet for pressing needs. On Capt. R uguets recommenda ions the department auithorized him o sup ly shoes and clothing to about t0 men, women and children who 'ost everything they had in the flood. capt. Huguet will make the purchas s locally in order to save the time f shipment. Champion Pauper Dead. A dispatch from Utica. N. Y., says the champion pauper is dead. after being a public charge for 85 years. Iezekiah Monk was born in the Her kimer county p)oor house 85 years ago, spent all his days there and died in that institution Wednesday. Warehouse Burned. At Columbia. Miss.. two warehous es the property of the Lampton com pany and occupied by the Hill Hard ware company, were destroyed hy fire of an unknown origin Wednesday causing a loss of $73.000, partly cov ered by insurance. Civil War Raging in Persia. The troops of the shah of Persia met a decisive defeal. last week. at the hands of men under Satar Khan. Eight hundred men were killed and wounded Civi war is raging in Ta "MDIORTAL SIX Ht'NDREI)." Money to be Raised for a Monunent to Confederate Soldiers. The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier says confeder ate camps throughout the South are receiVing copies of a circular letter being sent to them for the purpose of raising funds to commemorate the deeds of the six hundred soldiers, who braved death on Morris Island and at Fort Delaware in the War Be tween the States. If sufficient funds are raised a suitable monument will be erected in their memory. J. Ogden Murray, of Charleston. W. Va., is secretary of the Society of the "Immortal Six Hundred," and would like to receive any donations that are given for the erection of the monument. The circular being sent out is as t follows: "The Society of the Immortal Six Hundred, survivors of the six hun dred Confederate officers. prisoners of war. who by the order of Edwin M. Stanton, Federal Secretary of War, taken from the military prison of Fort Deleware and placed under fire a of the Confederate batteries shelling the United States troops on~ Morris e Island, S. C., in August. 1864, and kept under the fire of our own guns for forty-two days, fed upon a ration of four rotten hard tack army crack- c ers, with the addition of one ounce of fat meat, and one-half pint of mush, r bean soup each twenty-four h'ours, as our only ration, obtaining our water suply by digging holes in the and and waiting until si'ifficient water inspid and bad, would ooze out to uench our thirst, determined at heir last meeting held in the city of Birmingham, Ala., to build a monu cent to the memory of our dead com ades, who remained true and died g yor the cause of the South under this torture of retalliation. "After this ordeal of fire and star- d ration on Morris Island we were re- C) noved from the island to Fort Pul ski, situated at the mouth of the avannah River. Georgia. At this )int our number was divided; part a et to Hilton Head. S. C., remainder al etained at Fort Pulaski. Our ra ions in both these prisons were alike, en ounces of rotten corn meal, with e 4nehalf pint of cucumber and onion pickle each twenty-four hours. no p1 alt, no grease; nor meat of any kind B as' issued to us, simply ten ounces hi f rotten corn meal filled with bugs t .nd worms and hard lumps. This nj seal was ground by the Brandywine sh fills, 1861. When we picked out the sl ugs, worms and dirt we were com- c elled to throw at least three ounces way unfit for use, and on this ration ec e Trted for sixty-five days, causing he iat dreadful disease, scurvy, amongst ur men." .1h The officers of the Society are: to ;apt. J. L. Hempstead. president; fo -nt. J. W. Mathews, first vice-presi- st ent; Capt. T. C. Chandler, second ot ice president; Lieut W. W. George, olor bearer. Cbnstitut'ional Committee-Major m cD. Carrifigton, Capt. Thomas w 'inckney, Lieut. E~. Lee Bell. 3 Chaplains-The Rev. 'I S. Armi- E. tead, the Rev. George W. Finley, the p' ev. D. M. Layton.~ * WF2 BMITRATS MURDElRER. M iglish Woman Writes Letter to Re- M at corder in Pattersonl, N. 3. c fr The mystery of the killing of Misst aie Sullivan, in Patterson, N. J., o 1896, may finally yield to solution. .ast week Recorder Carroll received letter from a woman In Chester, C gland, which is now being investi tted and may lead to an arrest. Thea ian was suspected at the' time of the lling. The letter follows: "Recorder of Paterson:-I write to 11 you that my husband is the slayer ha fMamie Sullivan, who was killed larch 4, 1896.- He did the deed withb coupling pin, and notwithstandingj e fact that he was arrested and put al hrough a series of questions was al-w owed his freedom. He came to En land later, where I met and married ft im. Two years ago he confided to e that he was the man wanted in13 'our city for the murder. and swore hat If I ever showed him up he would W rave my life. My conscience has roubled me so that I had to write to eli fou of the crime. For God's sake. are mercy on him. I love him ~ early, and this confession has broken y heart and will result in my Ieath."' C: DANCED) HDISELF TO DEATH. tr ~urdy-Gurdy Causes Young Mulatto U to Execute too Many Figures. At Pittsbuirg, on Thursday a young N iulatto "danced himself to death" w -ill probably be the verdict of the w 3oroners jury in the case of Albert f: EIulton,. aged twenty-five, who was t< found dead it his bed. I Hultonwas attracted to the street 1: y the tune of a hurdy-guirdy, and e hrowing the operator a quarter of a I. ollar, told him to repeat the tune r as often as the coin would pay for it. I Then Hulton began dancing. exe cuting two-steps, waltz. jig and buckp and wing steps as the movemenlt changed. A crowd gathered and whien the music for the first coin paid for ceas ed, another one wis passed up and j the dancing continued until the police interfered. Hulto retired to his room and a i doctor was called, when he was found. e said death was due to heart dis ease. due to over exertion.f Twenty-Sven1 Perish. 1 A dispatch from North Whales says the British hark Aman'Of. for Port Talbot, has been wrecked near the latter port. Only five out a crew of) tirtytw.o were saved. Six bodies have been washed ashore. Calhoun's First Mm-der. Thc first tnurder~ was comumiltted in Calhoun last Monday when onej negro killed another some miles ou' from St. Matthews. The weapon used was a base ball ba?. with. which the kil. -,ushd the skull of the killed. MOODY CONFESSES SAYS ANOTHER ASSISTED IN ROD BERY AND KILLING. One of the Negroes Who Shot PossE at Yemassee Caught-Lynchin, Not Expected. Henry Moody, a mulatto, has been irrested and lodged In jail at iemas see, charged with stealing from At antic Coast Line cars and with be ng one of the negroes who were pur ;ued by a Yenassee merchant and L blacksinith and who shot and kill d the twb Yemassee hien. The Savannah Morbing 2Iews df unday has the followidg story df he capture of Moody and of his con ession: That one of the Yemassee negro murderers has been captured and has onfessed, and that the officers have clue, to the whereabouts of the oth r, is the report brought to Savannah y Chief Special Agent G. S. God old, of the Atlantic Coast Line, who eturned from the scene of the homi ide. Henry Moody is the name of the egro captured. He is a one-armed iulatto, who is known in Savannah, aving been brought to this section f the country by a circus and left Savannah. Mr. Godbold recognized ie negro as soon as he saw him. He in the Yemassee jail. Moody has made a confession of ie railroad thefts, but claims he was )t implicated in the shooting. He ves the name of his companion as elvin Curry, who is a young, heavy t, black negro. Moody says Curry d all the shooting, using a Win rester pump gun, loaded with buck ot Moody told of the haunts of his mpanion, Curry and also what part the country he comes from. He so gave the officers Information by hich they may be able to arrest rry. Moody says there is little Lance of Curry beinig taken alive. The capture of Moody was accom ished by Deputy Sheriff White, of maufort county. The officer was on s way to Jaclesonboro, a short dis ce from Yemassee, when he recog zed Moody on the road. He left e train and put Moody under arrest, gpping up on him and give him no ance to resist. At Yemassee Moody teas identifi by several Yemassee negroes who d recognized the pair at work. hen Mr. Godbold saw the negro, recogized him and advised him tell the truth. ~ This brought rth a full confession. and also in ructions as to how to capture the her negro. A description, of the two negroes ts received by the officers from Ye ssee negroes. It was these negroes io identified Moody. The officers, ning in the chase were Sheriff T. McTeer, of Beaufort county; De ty Sheriff White, Special Agent illiam Elliott, of the Charleston d Western Carolina railway, and rshal W. F. Sloman. Mr. Godbold do6es not think ody will be lynched .at Vemassee, - least, not until the other negro is ptured. He exacted a promise >i the citizens of Yemassee that ey would not lynch MJoody in view his confession. The negroes are charged with the urder of Mr. S. W. Litchfield, of illeton county; and Joseph Francis, negro blacksmith. The murderers d been discovered, breaking into a ilway car and an attempt was be g made to catch them. Tha the negroes' had made a good cul from the broken cars is shown the fact that between $300 and ;00 worth of goods were found ont 500 yards from the station bere they had dropped them when irsued. The goods were stolen om four cars. which had been plac on a siding by the Coast Line, to taken up by the Charleston and estern Carolina railway, and which ere delayed owing to the washouts. MUT1NY AND TRAGEDY. smasted ini Storm, Sailors Rebel and Kill One of Theix'-Number. A dispatch from Sain Fracnisco, al., says news of a mutiny and a agedy on the Chilean bark Eaton all during a stormy voyage in which ie vessel was dismasted was brought rednesday from Tahili. The Eaton Hall was bound from ew Castle. Australia. to Valgaraiso. ith a cargo of coal. On August 13. hen the ship was about 60 miles -omn Theresa reef. a storm sprang up, ~aring tile masts out and littering ie decks with debries. Subsequent while Capt McLean was 'making very effort to bring his almost help ss ship to lport the sailors became iutious and in the trouble that fol wed a sailor was killed. Finally be bark was picked up by a French ower boat- and towed to Papete, there she will he repaired. Woman Perish in Fire. A dispatch from Gadsden. Ala.. says is. Elizabeth M.cNeal, aged 75 years. tnd her invalid daughter-in-law, airs. o-e .icNeal. aged 55 years. were >rned to death Wednlesday might in 'ookout mountain. It is thought thl ire originated from a defective flue. he two women were alone in the iouse at the time. Attornley Sue Harry Ii. Thaw. Papers have been served on H-arry K. Thaw in a suit brought by JTohn B. Gleason. a counsel for Thaw in hiu frst trial, to recover $60.000, th~ balance of his fe of $80,000 whicli the attorney claims his scrvices wert worth. When a man spends all hi:- odc hours puttering around his house th4 neghor women are apt to envy hb IN GRASP OF MANIAC FAITHFUL DAUGHTER NEAR DidATH ON fAFTY TOWER, Quiet in One Instant. Het ather le came Insane the Next and Tried toe Dash His Child to Certaini Death. Seized with a homicidal mania whil he and his daughter were viewing t Chicago from the lofty tower of the i Auditorium building, J. E. Shilling I made a desperate effort to toss her over the railing to death, 300 feet be low. The suspicious 'look in her father's eye as the pair left the eleva- t tor saved the daughter from dea):n. I Men were appalled for a time at the I attempt of the crazed man, but finally t seven were able to bring the kicking, ciawilig and biting manic to cohtrol. He is -now tinder arrest and will be F retui-ined to the Konkakee insane s asylum. whence lie come a few weeks t) ago, apparently cured from his men- ii tal derangement. e The attempt to murder was caused P by a recurrence of an attack of in- E sanity. The father had pleaded the day of the Incident to be taken to E Chicago that he might once more be- P' hold the wonderful city. His daught- g er, anxious to humor him, went along E as a sort of guard and attendant. She E noted the sane way the elderly man P1 paid his insurance and was coming hi to believe he would soon be his form- E er self. When finally they reached H the auditorium the father insisted it that they go ujS and see the city. "All W right' said the girl, and they ascend ed the elevator. Together they climb- e= ed the stairway leading to the bal- d: cony, ond walked around- the tower. e< Then the father and the girl stood still, their eyes fixed on 'the lake. With a suddenness that forbids telling the father turned upon his T daughter and grasped 'hier about the waist. In an instant she was over his head. She screamed for help and twisted in midair. Certain death was below her. The only hope d was that a rescuer might be on the s spot. The descent began but the tb agile Miss Schilling caught the iron Ti railig and held with a deathlike grip. While in the act of getting back to w the platform the enraged father rush- ot ed at her and had her within his grasp a second time but one rescuer came. John Richardson, an elevator start- t er, had noted the look in the man's eye as he left the elevator and was watching his oction Shilling gave a ell of rage and spraig at Riehards3f ce but did not give up his grasp of the tb irl. Richardson fought, buts in an ed nstant the crazed man clutched his hroat and he was all but choked when se ther persons saw the struggle and to rushed to the tower. Two came at as rst, then two more but still the se aniac was too powerful to be over- y? -ome For ten minutes the struggl- W4 ng group swayed to and fro, now in Ni langer of fallig down the stairway ed nd now rushing against the iron roil- th g with a force that tested its ne t-ength. Two detectives arrived ont :e scene and the murderous maniac was overpowered but still he declar-W d his intention to kill his daughter.e iithin a short time the girl had re-h ~overed her composure and was able : walk to a doctor's office. Shilling as taken to the hospital in an am ~uiance. A DUE~hL IN MIDSTREAM. ra~matic Affair Between Two Fisher- m: Al men-A Woman the Cause. sh Enmity between two fishermen saving its origin several years ago, when, it is alleged, the wife of one de 5erted him for the other. reached a spectacular culmination in midstream d f the Mississippi rive'r Friday night w near Memphis. Tenn., when S. L.t Smith and his son were fired upon,theb younger man being killed and the b elder wounded by P. L. Nichols. the re an who,. it is alleged, was aggriev-m d, according to the statement of ja Smith. whio reported the occurrence h to the police, hE Smith asserts that he and his son were returning shortly after nightfall m in a motor boat from tendig their dE ines and encountered Nichols in a ai skiff. The later according to Smith, f~ opened fire. killing the younger man b nd seriously wounding the elder. Nichols escaped. THAw"S NOVEL STATEMENT. T fe opes' to Be in Business in Pitts buirg After His Release. T barry K. Thaw sent a statement last week to friends in Pittsburg,0 from the asylum in Poughkeepsie. N. ti Y.. in which he makes some startling- P assertions and admissions. It is his a stated desire and intention to be back ~ n ittsburg within a short time. take n up some business and devote the rest of his life to it. He declares he will '* lead the old life no more. Among other things he says he and s Evelyn have practically agreed to an U annulment of marriage. but he 8 blames her attorneys for her present t action. He also hlames Attorney 'I Delafleld for influencing and frightenl ig his mother at his first trial so that ( he was branded as a degenerate and t paranoiac. ' SMOTHERED TO DEATH. Socking Fate of' Man in Fire in Mis sissippi Townl. Practically the entire husiness sec ton of Summer. Miss.. w'as destroyed and one man. A. M. Phipps. an em poye of the Summer News, lost his life in a fire of an unknown origin which was discovered in the store buildg occupied by HI. H. t'olk & Co. early Friday. Phipps was smothered( to death while he slept. The property loss is estimated at .$100.000. partly covered[ by insurance, the buildings destroyed included the recently erected court hse. a hotel, several stores andof ficea ~t~du$and several residences-' OUTLOOK SEEMS BRIGHT. Parker Returns From West With Good News For Democrats. Former Judge Alton B. Parker, *ho has returtied from a visit to the 'acific coast, where he made several peeches for William J. Bryan, con 'erred for over an hour Wednesday Light with National Chairman Mack .t the Democratic national headquar ers in New York. Plans for a speak ag campaign in the East by Mr. 'arker in the interest . f the ticket ere discussed. A report circulated was to the effect hat the former Democratic candidate light be nominated for governor of is State. Mr. Parker had nothing > say regarding the report. As to Democratic prospects generally. Mr. arker said he -was surprised'at the low of early Democratic strength in ie West. I visited Oregon, Wash Lgton and. Modtana," said Mr. Park -, ."and everything there was a asur rising growth of sentiment for the emocratic ticket. "I talked with many Republicans ho told me they were going to. sup )rt the Democratic ticket. Some te one reason, some another. I et an Ohio manufacturer who told e he was seriously considering sup >rting the ticket on the ground that wanted to maincain the. status quo. 1 e said that with Bryan in the White ouse and a-Republican senate noth g could be done and everything Auld go in busienss just the same. . "I am going tomake several speech in the East for the party, but the rtes and places have not been fix MURDER MYSTERY. ro Dead Bodies Found Near Each Other. Washington Pa., has a double mur r mystery. Coroner W. H..Sipe had arcely begun 'is investigation inte e death .of a young man whose . dy was found two miles from there 2 esday afternoon, when the mystery is deepened by tlie discovery of an her body lying fifteen. feet from the E st in a dense snderbrush; The first body was found ina icket close' to the tracks of the ynongahela and Washington rail- 1 ad. It was partially decomposed. 2 irks of a .struggle, were easily dis-. rnable, while the trousers pocketsof e dead man tui'iied inside out point to murder and robbery. At 6 o'clock Tuesday evening men. arching about the thicket for-ciews 4 thp mian's identity-stumbled upon: other partly dcomposed body. - A E arch revealed three hats and -a re- t Iver, iilicatiig that . three men .re ivolved in.the strange -tragedy. I residents of the region who; view- fl the bodies were able to identify I em and it is said not.one in that ighborhood is inissinfg. . Some think it probable that the t o men fought a. duel, which was 9 tched1 by a companion, and that t ch, mortally wounded, crawled into d a thicket to die. KILLS FATHER.IN-LAW. a - sa iAged and Respected Negro, Shot to Death.1 At Cedar Grove negro chirch, two es from Walfierboro, John Henry iderson Tuesday afternoqon fatally ' ot Josh Carter, the latter dying ednesday morning at aylight. For some months Anderson has not 'ed with his wife, but she has lived th her father, Carter. One of An-' rson's children- died Sunday and It ~ I at the shooting took place. . Carter is an aged colored man, who ~ ars a good reputation. Anderson is garded as 'a dingerous negro. Six oths ago he shot a young Mr. Ben mm. The ingquest over Carter's body was Id by Magistrate W. W. Campbelle. ting foi- the coroner. Anderson ade good his eschpe, but, 50 or more ~termined men, 'whites and blacks,< e sciuring the' country for him. A mily feud was the cause of the trou-< e. - COSTLY FIBE IN ATLATA. 1 unk Factory and Box Company Plant Burned-Loss $200,000. At Atlanta Ga., a spectacular fire uesday night 'destroyed the plants1 the Atlantic Trunk Tactory and e Empire Building and Box Comn any, burned a quantity of lumber ad damaged a number of small ooden bjuiflns. The loss is esti Lated at $200,000. The fire spresa rapidly soon after it 'as discovered and a general alarm 'as turned in. Only a narrrow street parated the burning factories fr.om iany residences and it was with reat diffculty that the firemen kept ie flames frorm crossing this street. *he burned buildings are located on adison avenue, between Peters and astleberry streets, and run back to be Central of Georgia Railroad track 'he origin of the fire is unKnown. AN AWFOL SHIPWRECK(. : Out of a Crew of 33 Lost Off the Coaat of Wales. The British schooner Amazon was vreked off Port Talbott. on the coast if Wales. Tuesday, and 28 of the :rew of :;S men went dow'n with her. The Amazon was wrecked in the torm that swept the English channel td the west coast the first of the ueek. Nearly every vessel that put nto port Tucsday showed the terrible ~ffects of the storm. and great anxiety s felt for those that are now over iue A number of vetsels were driv m ashore and it is doubtful whether sme of them can be floated. HORRIBLE MURDER. WOlMAN'S DISMEMBE RED BODY FOUND IN TRUNK. Actor Kills His Wife and Cuts Her Body in Pieces-Says it Was Ac cidental. Themostbrutal crime committedin Greater Boston since the death of Susan' M. Geary, a chorus -girl, four years ago, and one much resembling it in its details, was disclosed Thurs day night by the discovery of the torso of Mrs. Honorah Jordan; an ac tress, aged 23 years, of Somerville. in a trunk at No. 7 Hancock street, on Beacon Hill, Boston. Later the head and bones of the limbs -were round in the furnace -of the -Jordan home at Somerville, and the scalp, air and other gruesome remains rere taken from the kitchen range -o the house. Chester Jordan, aged 25 years, an ctor, of Somerville, is held .by- the olice charged with the murder, and ecording to the officers, he: made a omplete confession of -the-erime. According to Jordan's confession, e accidentally killed is wife Tues , lay night in a quarrel at their home, ad because becoming desperate ove ' chat he did- he bought t= ife, razor =and shears, cut p:.:he od and'placed the torso in. atrnk :e thenplanend to take the steane arvard- for-New York and thro'the: ,arts of- the body. overboard. The act that -the Harvard was :)dd off, swing to an accident, disar'anged his lans, and, he was obliged to hire a ackman to take the trunk to a Bos on house to await a more-favorab > pportunity. * HARD HIT 'B }FIR. - hree Thousund:People Home ss and a Loss of $750,000. - A dispatch from Rawhide Ne, ys tfrree thousand people h6meless score or more, inured ;aand pro erty loss of over '$750,000 is-the're- ' ult of a disastrous fire, whstart ' '; d at 9 o'clock=Friday -orning -in )r. Gardner's office, rocated- a:'the Cawhide Drug conmpany's ;u 'anned by a gale the fire sweptxapid south and east to"Balloon avenue d up R'dwhide avenue to within 50 ards of the 'People's hospital. Over a ton acid a half ordynamite ras used in the demolition-of build fgs which in a measure stayed the ames' progress. The volunteer:fire epartmeent and 500 miners worked eroically, blit owing to thf inm able construction of the .buildings y were swept.awaylike tinder At 11 a. m. the business portionof" awhide was a smolderinguin tn ames ieing finally cheeked sonth-of alloon avenue. Among the first buildings to go was ollin's hardware store. whicl con - .ned two tons dynamite, that; ex- -- loded with, terrific reports, hurina - urrning plaziks and boards- a great istance, setting fire sto numerous uiidings simultaneousy. The scenes were similar to- those tthe fire at Goldfield in July,'190, d. at Cripple Creek in ,April,.1896. Many people were injured b~y flying. ebries, but'none is reported serious rhurt.-- - Afamile uas -feared, as all the - -- pply houses and grocery stores were iped out. A subscription list was .started and 1a few minutes over $5,e00 was aised and a relief train starteds from an carying food and beddig All the mining towns of the' State am qickly to the assistance o awhide sufferers with -cash- contri ts.a Francisco' mining -es hange also sent a contribtono GRIEF LED TO SUICIDE. 'Mother Dead; Father Dying"-HIs band an Jail and No Money. Unable to borrow enough money to ary her to her home in Georgia, r.Sylvia -Stoaks ~committed suicide utside the prison walls in Pittsburg .* h ere her husband is doing time un- -- L sentence for larcen~y. Added to hedisgrace of her husband's crime- - ame the lack of funds and. just-when- - he woman was nearly starved a tele ;ra reached her which read:. Mother dead- father dying come ome at once." Mrs. Stoaks tried to borrow -moneY a t could not. Finally a mn gv er r ten cents for coffe Wihti d e bought acid and ended her gre. ri frantic husband is now im te rion dungeon. . - MOTER ON STAND. of Her Two Sons. That the old mother of Capt. Peter aad T. Jenkins Hain's, arrested on ' h'careof killing William B. - Annis at Bayside, L. I.,w ldte hee witness stand to testify concern u he mental condition of Capt. Has prior to the tragedy, was the aseto.last week, of Joseph A. .ssertio, counsel for the defense. - hgh1 broken in spirit End more haan 70 years old, she will be employ ebYtelwesfor the defense not merely as an appeal to the sympath iesofthe jury, bult to tell of the rav ing of the captain after he had heard hihis wfSalleged unfaithfulness to Se is now at Fort Hancock atfend ttothe three children of tlie cap ta and was prostratedhas tihns ofthe tragedy. Shehawiedt issit her sons in the Queens count jail, but Gen Hains, her husbanld. has dissaded her. fearingtatheoda wold be too great a sri nhr The prisoners, thilaer sid have told him they would be happy to see her again, andianwrt her pleadins Gen. .an odSa hewulbighis wife to the city-* he woud brin