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VOL. XXIII IANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAYS SMLTEMIJER MAKES GREAT FLIGH WRIGHT NEEPS HIS MACHINE ALR FOR OVER AN HOCR. )hio Aeronaut Continues to Bre World Records Establislhed Himself. A dispatch from Washington. D. says Orvill Wright Thursday bre the world's record for umit ad di tance, for a heavier than air flyia machine, which he establishi Wednesday in a bight requiril great skill on account of a ten-mi wind. He circled around the -Ir: grounds at Fort Myer 58 time. 65 minutes and 52 seconds. exceei ing the time of Wednesday's recoi 2light by three minutes and ten se cuds. The flight was witnessed 1 Nnearly a thousand people. Througl out the day the weather was threa ening and Mr. Wright did not aCrI at the field until after 4 o'ciock. I i o'clock Mr. Wright announcE that he' was ready, "Are you going to try to break tl record which you made' yesterday; he 'was asked. "No." he replied, am going up just for a little practic, I maz' make a flight of ten minutf in order to determine at what ral uf speed I have been flying." The aeroplane rose from th ground almost immediately aftE leaving the single starting rail. I continued to climb higher with eac successive round of the field unt it reached an altitude of 75 fee For the first 30 ro.unds the machin flew as smoothly as on its prevlou laights, but from that time on it wa seen to pitch at the turns as the stif! ening breeze from the west struck 11 As the - machine moved from th northern end of the field to the soutb era end, where the "aero-garge" fo storing the aeroplane is locted, M1 Wright kept it several points in th wind. A gust of wind unusual: strong struck the aerial flyer durm the 42d round and it plunged sharP -y. Mr. Wright thin brought hi machine lower, but in the 53d oun he had recahed an altitude of 20 -feet. Mr. Wright came down at th northern end of the field at the en of the 58th round, landing easily. "I encountered a stiff breeze," wer yIr. Wright's first words. His eye were blood-shot and caused him con siderable pain. " don't knog whether the wind or'dust tauses th ritation of my eyes. I had-on a pal ,f goggles, too. Flying tn a wind a [ Id to-day is lots of fun. It's mor port than flying -in a calm . as o yesterday.. The wind must have beei blowing fifteen .or more miles al hour. a - I could tell by the quarter lng of the machine. I kept mucl iger than usual on account of th4 Signal corps officers of the wa department expressed the belief tha Orville Wright will make a speed o at least forty-two miles an hour wit) his heavier than air machine. whicl did such excellent work at IFor Meyer. If he does make forty-tw< 'miles an. hour he will be entitled t< bonus of 20 per cent. over th * ontract price, which would net hin for his machine $30,000, the con ,ract pi-ice being $25,000. The ouR ial trials will be held as soon as Mr Wright announces his readiness. A STRANGE DISAPPEA.RACE. P&ackage Lost by Epress Comnpa Worth Over $30O,000. A dispatch from Portland. Oregon 'says a package entrusted to the cari >f Wells FaT-go Express Coipany a Salem, Oregon. by J. R. Albert, th' president of the Capital Nationa Bank of 'that city and addressed t< Joseph M. Meyers at the Portlan' Hotel in this city containmng note and other valuable papers represet ing over $50,000 is strangely miss iug. As soon as the robbery 'wa reported, to the express company. de tectives were put to work. BATHER DROWNS AT SAVANNA] His Cries for Help Unheard by Dant ers at Isle- of Hope. A dispatch from Savannah. Ga says Ernest Roberts. for ten year hime ringer at St. John's ChurcI nd a well known enurch worke' was drowned at Isle of Hope lat Thursday night while in bathing. 0 a pavilion fifty yards away music fc danees- drowned his cries for heli His wife and children were in thei ome a few feet fronm the rim Good Horse Sense Only the fastidious sense of tast of his horse, saved Robert M--Co: mick of Eat Mountain. Conn.. froi losing $1,300 in liank bills, which I had secured on selling his propert: a few days. McCormick, on returl ing from the bank, -put the bills a sack of feed in the barn. thinkir the money safer there. The ne: morning he fed the horse from tl sack of feed which contained tI blls, and forgot all about the mone until his wife asked him, later. w'he it was. He rushed to tire barn. rer embeing, but to his great .joy foum that the horse had not eaten i oney. He had cleaned up his fe bt the roll of bills jay intact in 1 manger. Abe'rnathy May Die. of Wounds. With both hands land arms swat e. a victim of blood poisonling, frc being bitten ;ny wolves several tin during his rccent hunt in wich mountais. United States Marsi: John R. Abernathy. of Guthrie, Okl h i fater-n-la's hcnrCe. ner G rie with his child-ridc- with whr e recenty elope Abrnathy rm dvelpl hydrohI'. o a r*nl his wonds. T KERN cOMING SOUTH. IDemocratic Vice-President Candidato to Tour Southeru States. John W. kvri. Democratic Vice Presidentia candidate. will make a speaking trip in the South in Oct ober. and the national conuittee is now arranging the itinerary, Ile will deliver one or two specles in Mary by land. and will speak in all probabi lity in West Virginia and Delaware the frst week in October. Mr. Kern will speak in Winston-Salem. N. C.. October 7. when the State Fair will be in progress. The Vice Presidential candidate has also been urged to ake speeches in Georgia and Tennessee. Senator le Gore, of Oklahom,a and Geo. Fred Williams. of Massachuseetts. are to s tump the Western States. Coh. Moses C. Wetmore, of th-e tae bureau. announced thai 130 Demo cratic newspapers had joined in the movement to raise a popular sub scription fund with which to run the t Democratic campaign. He says that in his opinion every Democratic Dews Lt paper in the country will join in this d movement. "The Democartic press is doing a great work," said COl. Wetmore, and if all the papers that favor the election of Bryan and Kern would go to work in earnest in this matter of collecting funds I believe we would get the biggest part of the e money necessary to successfully con duct our fight. This is a real contest. e and all our resources will be taxed - to combat the Republican party,% t which will secure the money It needs h through its rich agenle-es that have derived legislatiec protection from .it," COTTON CROP OF 1907-06. Secretary Hester Completes His An mI 1teport on the Crop. In his annual report on the cotton crop of 1-907-08, issued Thursday a night, Secretary H-:ler, of the New ItOrleans Cottn Exchange, quotes ; some very interesting figures in con - neetton with the shifting of the seat s of the American cotton milling in I dustry to the States of the cotton belt. 3 He says that these conditionis have been more in evidence during the season .iust closed than ever before. The consumption of American cotton mjin the South even under the'most un - favorable conditions having been in round figures .193.000, while the North totalled but 1,9 73.00 ot 20. 000 bales less. 1a the increase in the consumption of cotton Virginia comes first. Oklahoma second, ani t Georgia third. L Mr. Hester's -reort of crop of different States is given as follows in thousands of bales, showing a de crease under 1906-07 of 1 , bales. and an increase or 225,978 over that of 190-06: Alabama 171, against 1,289 last Year: Ar kansas 787, against 940 last year: r F1orida 6g. against 6 5 last year; ' asGeorgia1.94 against 1.695las east learhouiaa 70. against 99.>as atyear:oa crississipp1496. against 1,51 last year. Norh Hetroln69, thgaind6lstnear: South aro06ina plete, against 6598 last year. ns seae. reordin37 tet years.ex as ur Co,21.eagainst 4,0 late .yar .n ther ot cops 11.57, agaions at3,511 Tusayea. Dr. HesterLinds ter spid on the Soha of0,661, lstr again sh0,598,095is ya neg wmas thre this. and smale inrove-rred in thecaenhty heas. * Dr. Lindintebc A wlin hD- 1 JroncludeatsTathe Aedfrtedhi eInt therme Court neand wes'n ~t Uni ond punding the W.pL.Ld whe wshred wan sthe he ofvmuderc eatdblishd ao cly. an coern ase Dr. slf-derfhoe LcyLise.. lroe in te cas htrth Lipsey o Dr.s pLd in the aiwhl inhi NawsOultans cnitd Sreasf appeal outing ebeond aboutn th appeal whe fuvsh ue was . Tereidnc estabtrleaer and cobenvincing r rdeted fih oa Emozleefu '~ ChiegfeCmakes ttolfifujaguotof'tho Ne Orble onsia ciy reasure's ofiic the plasd in mthash. rio e ing mb ee Manot U0.i n cio t untrmpt. Tujau was toen.yct cmtrwolrand hs been atace ay e etfi~ed wto lcrial ltiessalt ma v yors. Thie alge embezzrolmn otl1 i lic ondileial: i New. Orlean dur in eeth wast o8 months- .~'d y~ e hGET Fug lFTEEN TEA h e mon hta)e' anr oft Uionr WoAt tempt Ass~aut Goe toPen a1 Atu Becknella ii' , a young wha dnwho 1s Decembe ago.acke .~and~ eie ttmped toc~ w crminally( assalt~ i a .nly and he a tried m flit:n hIrht hiJde Kianghld~ to a. years in: thero Te ot a Hi t Lastd. BUBOMC PLAGUE AND ITS SNPEAD) IN DFFERNT ("i~NTiUES$ Paper Prepared by Assistant Surgeon General T. M. Eaget Thereon ls. sue( in Pamphlet Form. Surgeon Ge.neral Wymann, of the Ipublic health and marine hospital service, has issued in pamphlet form geron J. M. Eaget giving a history ef the spread of bubonic plague during the last 14 years . istudy presents more im portant Eaget says, than the hles of march taken by bubonic plague during te period mentioned in its advance fiom the remote endem ic focus of the dis ease in the province of tunnan, China, to the nihteraus countries in all quai-ters of the globe wherein rna~y Instances it has established it self in defiance of the most -carefully planned preventive measures. The revival of the plague, Dr Ea get says. dates from 1894. when es caping from the western Chinese pro ince of Yunnan. it reached Canton. getween March and August. 1894, the number of deaths from plague in Canton is estimated at 120-000. All rlasses among the jfopulation suffer ed and rat's were found to be affect ed, but in the foreign quarter of Canton, with a population of about 100, not a single case occurred. During the next year cases of lague were reported in Hong Kong Amoy, Macao and Foochow. and in I9G sanitary attention throughout :he world was forced on the threat Ming epidemic by its appearance in Bombay. Starting in August the dis ease spread throughout the whole vast territory of the Bombay resli Jeney and before the end of the ear showed a total of 2.980 cases ind 2,288 deaths. During that year lague reappeared in I1ong Kong there it has been epidemic ever ;nce. in China there were epidemics at tmoy and Swatow with many deaths n other sections of the empire and the following year ther'e were over 50,000 ases in India with a mortal In 1900 plague was present in very cuarter of the world. The hlippine island were included in he march of the disease. 150 deaths, ccurring in Manila. The most notable fact in the his ory of the plagu- in the western vorld was the appeaf-ance of 22 fatal ases in San Francisco. in ~1901 in Iia a great anguimentation too iace. uitil in 1904. the plague cans d the death of over 1,000.00) per ns in India alone and epidemics )revailed to a greater or less- degree n nearly all parts of the world. . India, the great center, suffered eribly in the year 190G> but in the ear 1900 there was a great decrease, he number of deaths buimg about ~32.000, but agaihi ini 1907 there was .great iuurcase, the deaths number rig 1,200,000. For nine years, Dr. ~aget says. Hawaii in 1907 had not een free from plague, but the Phil lppin Island now seem to be clear f the disease. During the year 19-07, 15%, eases f plague with 70 deaths occurred in an Francisco. There were also a few ~ases at Oakland and ofher cities eighbors .f San Francisco. At Seattle. Wash.. three tatat ases occusred last October. TEUN T131ES NEAR DEATH. ~ iiaunxa Man Shows More Vitality Than the "Ninc-Lived" Cat. Having passed the danger point in his latest nearly fatal venture, ohn M. McMahon. of Crawfordsville nd., holds the record for nearly fatal accidets. About a month ago e fell into a vat of boiling water Iis skin peeled off but grafting say-i d his life. McMahoni is h5 years of! ge. H{is left eye is gone. his left ear. rignt foot and a little fiuager are che only evidences of his narrow es ales. The career of accidents to a man vo has more lives than any cat can boast ;egan when he was only even years of age. Hec camne near being drowned while swimmiing. At cn he tried to hop a t:rain and lost is right feot. He came near bleed-! In to death. While still on crutch s while watching the coustruclinu 1 a stone buihrling the champs on a hifter slipped and his shoulder bonec as splinter d by the falling -oek. At 141 ie fell from the top of n free 4nd fractuared his skul. At 1 S he lost his eye and part of hisi ear through a shooting accident. He rred football 1:-; years hater arid was inurd in a train wreck. An aeei cet in a foulndry andI the explosion of the powVder mi,i at Fontalnet. Tud.. t':s spring. brought thbe naumber oi and disficult sanit::ry problems. Dr. lives- to nin'- and three weeks aao con" th" tenth. \McMahon derlares life' is worth living whatever the Five Children Are Su fyorated. Five childr:.n nf -. C.-~dU wr:e suffocated Thnrsday nigbt in a farmi house near New lrigton,. 1iun. wxhile the neighbors. ignorant tht the little' oues wvereC in uh pe-lc~ were endeavoring to saVe the' hous" bold ee-. The parem~s had spent - : 'o v'nuing wxith frientiS. I..d 1.chidren at home. -The Same Old Story Carroil Hal. agd 11- of f9cvi" c N. H.. i" Thursda:y shot anc 'Jl: WANT'S TO WED ICH wt)C) Youn, Athlete Fur~niAies Neiv for Wili Latest Romantic Rlwm. Fashionable sojourners at Sayvilh L. I.. a resori for the wealthy of Ne' York, say no one will be in the leat, surprised at any time to see an ar nouncemnent of the marriage of Mr I Edward Kelly. rich widow of the so of Eugene Kelly and mother of Mrt Frank Gould, to Ralph Craft. 1 year old, athlete. yachtsman ani prime' favorite all along the shore o the Great South ljay. He is ail in surance broker: Mr. Craft has been paying Mrs Kelly very marked attention for year. has visited oftei at her hon and has takcen her on autonobil trips to Sayville-: Wihen the Subject was broadhed t< Mr. Craft that gentleman did ho seem in th-e least surprised. And what is more to the point, he did no deny that he hoped to make Mrs Kelly his bride. He did deny thai there is- a formal engagement of mar riage. "It's all rot." said Mr. Craft al first, but he said it in a curious tone and when the name of one of Mr. Craft's friends was mentioned as ar authority foot the rumor that the mat ter was beiniz kopt secret bedause M1. Craft. Sr.. did not Know of it, thb young man, a little olf his guard, replied: "My father knows all about it. He objects to it. But I don't see what difference that makes." 8 STARS LEFT BEHIND. Detachment From. Battleship Fleet Lo&king For Stragglers. A patrol from the American bat tleship fleet is still searching for the men who failed to go aboard their ships when. they sailed frola Mtel bourne. Australia. These number 85. early all the stragglers left be 1ind at Sydney returned to the fleet. A wireless message from the flag hip onnecticut says that every one iboard. iroin Rear Admiral Sperry lown. gratefully remembered Mel orune. and titat all considered the kustraliani visit the greatest demon tration of international friendship n American histery. The Argus, reviewing the visit of :he fleet to Australasia, says in an ditorial: "A more orderly body of avn never landed. Officers' and men ilike inspired sincere regard and es cem. Never in history have two oun-ries of different flags found such mrediate and deep sympathy." lIonjey Was Melted. but 'ot iii Value. While Frank Marks and his wife, f Strougville, 0., were away from tome. recently, robbers searched he premises for the money which he vas known to possess. as he was dis rustful of banks. Incidentally, the hieves fired the barn and the pig en. When Marks returned home e searched the ruins of the pig pen rnd surprised his friends by unearth a a lump of goid. He had hidden zs money, in gold coins, beneath the ig pen floor, and the intese heat had nelted it. The lump was worth sev ral thousand dollars. The Swede Was Innocenlt. While Waldemhan Epstr-and, son a wealthy banker, of Gutborg, weden. was being photographed at olice headquarters, Poughkeepsie, . Y. as the murderer of Fired Hokan san. a companion, wordi was received rbich set him free. The news stated hat Hokanson had been shot by a ih peddler. who he tried to hold up. ppstrand has roved all over the world. 'd his fund having run short, has been working as a farm hand at ~st Fihkill, N. Y-. Farewell Ride Ends in Tragedy. Murder and suicide ended the fare Wll ride of Joel F. Baker. a carpen ter, and Mrs. Sylvia Heri'uce, a wid >. of Wabash. Ind., on Thursday. It is said Mrs. Herince had planned eave for Bentonl Harbor. Mich., rere she was to haid been married, and her drive with Baker, an avow' e admirer, was to tell him his fate. aveetigatonl showed that. Baker had lled hs companiOn while both werc out of the buggy. He then loaded her lifeless fctm into the vehicle and started to drive back to Wabash. Or hee way he killed himself. (hil Re&scued From High Wire. ittle Sophia McTague, of Souti Oaha. Neb.. was playing on the roo: of a three-story bui'dinlg. last week whei she climi-bed onto the coping an el off. Ten feet blo~w her wes mass of telph~oneC wires. On thes' sh strck, grabed themn in her litti hadrs and held on tightly, yelliusl as .hr dangled 30f feet above th s-et. The child-s brother leane! far out of a windCow just by the wires urbbd th. litl one' clothing an' - agd h-r .into theo windOw "n :y~ Elroad. a white woma ahit forty yeatrS old, was shol an kiled by Calhoun Donald. a yout o gheen years5. The shooting of cure'd near Towniville in Ocone I~out hil the woman was in th tiedl piking cotton. The traged was b roug ht ahout by th.-- crimmfl u 'im lc of the womnv. and the boy - o th All'onen~y National baul tisir:. v-ha robb'ed the institl t on M-(O- is engaged im tt pr on bakery tinli at pr-escut is ke! at kneadin breadi dough- The wa t4n-.ries himself on' his .ioke-. e.t. aul Miun was killed anr1 hi BLAZE COST LIVES TOUCHED OFF 1 THE CARELHSS :TRIKJNG OF A MATCH. Three People Were Killed and an Entire Block Threatened With De A d-iup ch fro.-i Pittsburg. Pa.. says a volcano of e.icaping gas, touch L'd off uy the careless strlking of a I match. nearly wlined out the family ot . Gieorge Misque!. pastor of St, GCeurges Syrian Greek church on Seventh avenue, collapsed an ad joiring dwe!!ing. burying its inmates under the debries of falling walls, aiid 4kil!Cd n!rc that threatened an cntire block on Bedford aVenue near Washingtoii street at 9:30 o'clock Thursday night. The dead: Mrs. George Misquel. aged 32. 922 Bedford avenue, found ii upper room burned to a crisp. Jacob, her son, 4 years old. died at Passavant hospital. Annie Magel. 17, servant at the Misquel home. died at 1:15 a. in. at the hespita, The injured! Rev. George MisqueL agec -5, burned a4but head and arms i thought to have ihhaled lames: con dition seriopus. Isaac Misquel. aged 11, brurned about face and arms. Amelia Miscuel. 6-. legs and arms badiy burned. Eighteen months old baby of the Misquel, scorched in its cradle, over looked by rescuers. but carried out last of all, practically uninjured. Margaret and Mary McKenna, of 920 Bedford avenue, caught in bed under collapsing roof and debris, ragged out b- firemen: legs and back sprained. Mrs. Mary iulligan. 920 Bedford, avenue; face cut and back injured. Policeman Peter Hanrday, hands and face burned in rescie work. Policeman W; H. Larkin. hands burned, wrist dut. Assistait Fire Chief Robert Mc Kinley. is toivinced that a feakirig gas pipe in the attic of tae residence of the Misonuel was responsible for the explosion and fire. Bedtime had come. Rev. aid Mrs. Misquel with their 'four\ little ones went to the rooms on the second floor where were the sleeping quarters of the family. The domestic. Annie Ma gel, a 17-year-old girl of the same na tionality as the priest, followed them up the stairway just )a time to catch the force of a blinding explosion as a maih *as stiuck in the darkened sleeping room'. The greatet part of the escaping gas seemed to have ad cumulated in the mansard floor about the second room. however, for a min ute after the first flash there came a shock that rocked the entire block. The falling debries crashed through the roof and buried Margaret and Mary McKenna, who were slee~Ing on the second ficoor of the adjoining building. This fido~r ii.ttiril partially gave way and Mrs. Mary Mulligan, living below the McKennas, was buried. The rescuers of the victims were thrilling and were effected under most exciting conditions.~ The prop erty loss was comparatively small. * GOMPERS GOES FOR CANNON. Says lie is tile Worst E~nemy of Eco nomic PRcorm. President Samuel Gompers, of the American Federationl of Labor, at tacked the record of Speaker Cannor in the latter's owu home town or Danville. Illinois. Before- an enthus iastic audience of 2,000 labor men in Lincoln park, Mr. Gompers said some migtht uncomplimentary things about the speaker. H~e came to Danviie for the purpose of making a spech to the laboring men of the place. hoping in this way to defeat Uncle Joe for congress in November. Among other things he said: "Uncle JToe Cannon stands in this country as the worst enemy of econo mie ad social and political reformi that the people have.' Ms. Gompers read and indorseA an eitorial which appeared in the eur r.nt issue of a weekly magazine. which declared that of the two men acing evils to this country--Rocke feller and Cannon--the speaker is the greater evil.~ The speaker was pictured by Gom prs as an obstructionlist of the deep et; rost corporation-hound typ~e. M.. Cannon was a hide-bounfdnar row, ld politician who sees no good i any reform, according to the labor leder. who berated the people for oin 'sheep like' to the polls every eecti'on and seadmng this man to congress. Ner~o Hauged in Yirginia. ee Strother. a negro was hanged at Madionl court houre. Va.. Frid3ay fo attempted criminal assault or Loela Frye. a young white woman. Hee made a full confession and s':ate tat the crimel was his second one yi., Men Bunrned to IDeath. c ive men lost their lives and sore of personls were injured. severa of them seriously, in a fire that gut te tethe BeClmronI Hiotel. at .Denver Col.. a thrcee-Story huilding at 1 72: Stut rstree't Th ursday morning. nr.ying Yellowstonle Guard. lhe rcent hold-UP, by a lone roc ageu-, or seven tourist cotches i Seitows.toe' National park. ha i th h*War denartmnTt to t1,Ci u- o ', ch-iff, who weiglhs 42 pounds. Hec is sadid to b. the leavie! a n inthe South. The Anderso ~l ate-~ tr e on their goo SAVED FROM THE NOOSE. Ton Mtluch Confusion in Witnesi Gives Murderer but 20 Years. In the Criminal court. at W Chester, Pa., Aiigela t'8rmenegilt the young Philadelphian. who k charged with the shooting to death Passuale deFelico and his son. Al< sandro, on the streets of that bt ough. one Sunday evening a f( weeks ago, entered a plea of murd in the second degree. The plea w accepted in view of conflicting tes mony as to the facts of the crime The testimony was to tne effe that Beneminio DeGildo. who co: mited suicide and was an uncle of t prisoner, had fired several shot Alessandro. the young' shoemak and then. when pursued by the mc elieving that he had killed Alessa dro, fired a bullet into uis own brai amid the shrubbery on the Veit law Judge Butler sentenced D'Ermen gildo to serve 20 years in the Easte petiteitiarY. only one cuLafge beir pressed by the ' commonwealt though it was claimed that the co victed man had killed the two deF licos, and had wounded Patric. phy in the leg and Mike Saraceni < the elbow. LARGEST TURTLE CAPTURED 13rnstcr Weighing S40 Pounds Is lIe Seen at Battery Aquasium. A dispatdh ftim New York, sa: there is on exhibition at the Aq arium at the Battery the large turtle ever heard of by the Aquariu authorities. It is of the leathc back variety, the largest known se turtles. It weighs 840 pounds and wa captured. in a fisherman's net a Belford, N. J. The director of th Aquarium, Dr. Townsend, secure the turtle from its captor and shippe it to the Aquarium. Eight men wes required to lift the turtle into tl large tank in the middle of old cast garden building, where the Aquariu: is located. DEATH ENDS POVERTY. Wfe's LetteN's Hint That She Migi I Use Poisov Also. That desperation, at his iabilit to oftaifi work drove him to tak some subtle p6ison is the opinio of the New York city coroner, afte an examination of the bodY of C. B rooks. who is thought to have gos to the metorpolis from Portlan4 Ae. In the dead man's pockets ther were found several letters, apparen y written by his wife, in which th witer threatened to kill herself an their children "if your next lette Took $7,004from.Miners. Six feet tall, handsome, well dresE and highly educated, Wilheli D Revy has been arrested at Cincinni ti, ., and locked up on the charge < embezzling $75,000 from t'hree bania ha Uniontown, ?'a. Warrants for th a's arrest had been mailed 1 Cincinnati atithorities. It is allege that the' man was a bank clerk an that he failed to deposit large sun that foreign-born miners in Peninsy vania gave him for that purpose. Romance of Charit; Worker. Nine years ago Mrs. Anne Dewee of Anderson, Ind., then an agent ft the Indiana Children's Home societ took an orphan for adoption to Fan r I. WV. Morrison's family, near 'M doc id. Five years later Mrs. Mo rison died. IRecently Mr. Morrisc et Mrs. Dewees. still In charil work and proposed to her to tal charge of his home. As a result, ti two will marry soon. A Fatal Apple Hwut. Daniel McKeever, 17 years ol residing near London. Ont.. was ki' ed near Pottersbur'g. He was o shooting with some companions, an seeing an apple tree in a field. jum ed a fence, and using his rifie I aclub, tried to kock theapples dow The gun exploded, the shot enteri I is body above thle heart. tearimg gaping wound. Death was iastantt Chicken Thief JKilied Shot by a watchman. Peter Klos at the poultry farm of W. S. Ginne ard- City, L. I., Andrew Hei died, the next day, in a hospital trc his wounds.. Heinz was shot aba m idnight and had nin'e hens inl ands when found by the watchmi w ho had been given a gun to wa of intruders. Mr. Ginnell had be msigchoice hens for' some ti Tltves Hid Victim's Wooden Lel Robbers who entered the house Osa"r 0-Harrahi. railroad ticket ag at colliers. WV. \'a.. hid his wood 10 eg and w'hen he awakened he l to lie, helpless. on his bee. and wa1 ttem go through his clothes and st $1 in money and other valuabt~ when they had tinished, the hu ia told their victim that he s; o fin1 hs leg downstairs. Yon Qihm ~uk Rlobbers Senitenc tu ind erminlate sentence of fr o I ' ears each, in the State fr'atory'. was imposed upon \ lam Tei~nant and Harry Colen yung~ handits. at Sedan. K{an. vo hsrbbd the state bank 31any nteturnl to Work. 1 arge number of mnf retur o.,-ork in the mining distrier. week. The effort f'or a general sumuntin of operations5 in the Al m a coal mines is now on.ad le lethani 10-000 men returnrd DIES ON SCAFFOLD. NEGRO ASSAILANT LEGALLY PUT ist TO DEATH IN GEORGIA. Lo, of _ Strain Increased the Longer He Re r- mained Under the Eyes of the Law and He Trembled Violently. er as. A dispatch from Baxley, Ga.. says Neal Ryals, the negro assailant. of Mrs. Lizzie Overstreet, 'was executed ct Friday morning at 11.35 o clock. Deputies brought the negro from at acon that morning, arriving at ' r, o'clock. From that nour until the b, execution Ryals was in consultation n- with a minister, taking part in a , religious service. n.1 During the morning large crowds e. of citizens constantly poured into the .-n town to witness as'muchi of the exe ig cution as possible. The crowd of h, people was orderly and nothing hap a- pened that was unusual.. e- At 11 o'clock the death sentence was read to Ryals. by the Sheriff n and he was immediately conducted * to the scaffold. Just before execu tion Rya!s was permitted to make a statement to the crowd. He talked in a clear voice and .stead nerve. He gave in detail where be was on the morning of the crime. He said he had always feared the law and had never had a case in court . before in s his life, being 42 years old. He pro i- claimed his innocence to the last. ;t He praised the sheriff and others for their kindness to him, and ask ed God to bold no charges against them. He warned his colored friends He said they didn't have to do any thing'to get into trouble. He said it was a matter of lot or accident. Whe'n asked if he knew who com d mitted the crime, he said he did not. d Rev. John Morris, his spiritual ad e viser. thanked the people of Baxley for permitting the law to take Its e course. The prisoner then offered a long And fervent prayer and then' began singing as the final prepation was made for his execution, and continued. to sing up to the last. He stopped singing long enough to bid every body good-bye. He dropped at 11.35 and was pronounced dead in 16 min utes. e FOUND NOT GUWLfY. r Jury Returned Verdict in Case of D.Linder. e A dispatch from Union says that the case of Dr. W; L. Linder, a prom e inent young physician - of that city, charged with killing Lucy Lipsey, a d negress, was given to the jury at noon r Thursday and they returned. a verdict of not guilty, Dr. Linder in his tes timony. told of various, t~reatening letters he had received from the wo man and that he did not shoot her e until he saw her reach for her hand satchel, in which he supposed she had a pistol. The womaa's dying state sment was put in evidence by state, e in which she declared she1 had not threatened, him, but loved 1him unt6 d death, would forgive-;himu everything and did not want him hurt. * INSECT'S BITE FATAL. Citizens. of Spartanburg Cau-ried off by Blood Poisoning. r, A dispatch from Spartanburg, says i- W. L. Harris. a prominlent citizen, - died Friday after an illness of sever r- al weeks. He was a candidate for re n gister mesne conveyance, and while .y in the campaign in July was bitten :e on the leg by a spider or some other e posonous in'sect. Blood -poisoning * deveoped, which resulted in his death. For many years Mr. Harris was a well-known mer'chant and en L joyed the confidences and esteem of 1- hundreds of citizens- He was presi t dent of, the Fairmont Cotton Mdills d. until a few years ago. p Love does not stp at the bound s ric-s of liking. d UTOPIAN DREAM SHATTERED. a- St. Louis MliUionahire Giveb Up Plan of Ideal Town in Indiana. it is reported that the efforts ol n. N. 0. Nelson, the St. Louis million 11. aire philanthropist and .idealist. to Z onvert the little town of Dublin. Ind., n into a Utopian colony, have met with ut failure. The people of Dublin took uis little interest in his plans to erect .n public buildings in which each citi rd zen was to be a part owner. The pro en perty has been disposed of and will ne be turned into a private residence. *.At first there was a large number oyoung men who took advantage olT the philanthrophy of Mr. Nelson, - ;ut the novelty wore off and the at -ttendance fell away. Mr. Nelson had en planned to spend about 100,000 in ad Dublin enterprises. ~a A BIGGER AIRSHIP. -ount Zepielin Will Build an ImtnenlS liriible This Tiine. Count Zeppelin has completed ar - ranemfents for building a gireatel airship on the shore of~ Lake Con stoeeC. Germany. and~ has leased1 foi -1-50 vears a tract of land for a factory aProf. Hi. Hergesell, of tihe Urniversi hety of Strasshurg. the governmfen at commissioner in charge of the ac :it ceptance of: airships,. talked with th emperor abu air naviagtion. Il majesty commanded that he be kep informed of all the details of fut er developments, and said that h ndchsthe experiments with th :st liveiest interest. r-The emperor expressed the keenlo a-delight that the German nation hr iS o strongly rallied tO the assistant no of Count zeppelin, showing that th to nation is united on great e~ucsnon two Count Zeppelin. he added, can alwa *r,.y or his gOod will and support. I FIREBUG-PREACHER. THE REV. GEORGE GAMIBLE BE GINS THREE-YEAR SENTENCE. Insurance Companies Declare He Has an Unequaled Record-His Oper ations Covered Three States. The Rev. George R. Gamble, itiner ant preacher Civil war veteran with a record for bravery and good soldier ly conduct, is now at the penitentiary in Columbus. 0., to serve a three years sentence for arson. Insurance company officials say that he has more incendiary fires charged to his account than any other man that they have knowledge of. Gamble was convicted of setting fire to a gristmill near Zanesfield. Logan county, 0., on the -night of Oct. 7, 1906, two weeks after he had purchased the property -for $1,600, paying $1,000 in cash, and only two days after he had insured it for $3, 500. At the time of tne fire Gamble was several miles away. He receiv ed a telephone message, advising. him of what had occurred, but, accord ing to the evidence: brought out by the defense, it seemed incredible. Next day Gamble contiacted wit a man in Cleveland to settle his clai with the insurance compames agre ing to pay him a commission of five per cent. And this little negotation led to the downfall of 'the Rev. Mr. Gamble. Under any but extraordi nary circumstances a man would want to save the five per cent. There have been many irs- which seemed more suspicious than the grist mill near Zanefield, but there are no fires of this character in the , state~ -of Ohio which do not receive the immediate attention of a branch of the state government concermng yhich the public has but scant know edge. This department is* that of the state fire, marshal, the position now held with credit - by Gen. W- S Rogers. of Cleveland. Two weeks after Gen. Rogers as sumed Office. Gamble was .guietly arrested by Sheriff E. R. -Bumph reys, of, Logan - county. He was picked up in Los Angeles, Cal.. hur ried back to the scene of his cnme and -within five weeks had entered upon his term of three years in the penitentiary, dsepite the bittern' fought contest in the courts. Relying not alone upon the feloilY committed in Ohio, but exerting ever effort to establish the seemingly 'im possible claim that the kindly cOun tenanced old.veteran was'a-iving ex ample -of 'Dr. Jekyll and. Mr. Hyde on a monumental scale, . the detec ttves in the department of the state fire marshal accumulated evidence which legally demonstrated the dpli city of the man. plying a meek but honorable trade by day, he isq depicted as.' havin, trough a period of at, least 15 years, applied, the torch by nigfit. With rckless abandonment, counting not at all upon contingencies which might deliver him into the hands of the -law, eidenty fascinated by 'the midnight deviltry, yet always profiting hand somely and operating with. mary~elous uccess and security, the old man, now trning his three score years and fve, can look back and count him-. self a most fortunate mortal in not hving entered a prison cell in earl ier in life. GAVE HER HUtSBAND) POISON. Aderson Negro D~ead from Eating "Rough on Rats" in Ris Food. 'Eliza Moats, a negro woman 40 years old, was placed in jail at An derson Friday afternoon charged with the murder of her husbands ' Evdence at the coroner's inquest was to the effect that she had admin istered rough-on-ratk mixing the. pison with .his food. Arsenic was found in the stomach after the cemical examination made by Dr. 3. C. Harris. The negroes lived on a farm, seven miles northeast of Anderson. Moats' worked hard in the field all of Wed neday and was apparently in good health, being of powerful build. After eating supper he became ill, and Dr. Harris was called the follow ing morning. He suspected that something was wrong, and as the negro died a few minutes after he arrived he removed the stomach and brought it there. where it was eamined. The coroner's inquest was held and a verdict returned that Moats came to his death from poison ad ministered by his wife. She wa ar rr2': by tlbe cororefl.-r and commmle' dosn't' ring something in the way of encoragement." On the back o the envelope of the letter. which was addressed to "C. H. BrookS. 169 Duan street. care of W. L. Raan~ge, with Armour & Co.."~ was .. don't feel as bad as I did when I wrote this letter. Read between the lines. I will write a better one Suunay. Cheer up-you will soon be W. L. Ramage. in wh'ose care the letters were addressed. declares that be knew very little of Brooks. He said that he believed that at one time Brooks had been a practicinig. phsician. but had later become a traveling salesman. It is the theory of the coroner that the man. through his nowledge of drugs. procured and took some rare poisonl. An au topsy will be performed to deter min inpositively .the cause of i To starve Them Out. J'seph Sciurha. wanted as a ""Blak Hand"' criminal. is besieged 'in a oal mine at Scottrburg. I1l0. -' them picnprpose to starve him