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'VOL. XXIII MANNING, S. C. W'EDNESDAY, MNARCH 1,10 O3 WELL ONCE MORE Senator Tillman and Mrs sillman Spent Short Time in THE CAPITAL CITY The Senator Talks With Much Inter est About His Fight on Crum and How He Held Up Sixty Senators by Relating Reminiscences Reconstruction. Columbia. March 11.-Senato Mrs. Tillman spent a couple of . -s in Columbia today. Senat-r Tillman was on his way home from the meet ing of the trustees of Cler -on Col lege. Mrs. Tillman had been on a visit to relatives at Greenwood. Senator Tillman looks remarkably well. He said that he had never felt better. His face is well filled. his complexion ruddy and healthy, and altogether he looks well. He is devoting himself to indoor exercise and says It is fine. Senator Tillman says that the Clemson board transacted consider able business. The board has asked that Major Marcus B. Stokes, origi nally of Hampton county, be detailed to Clemson College as commandant to take the place of Capt. Minus. resigned. Senator Tillman expects to spend a month In Trenton. as he does not think the Democrats can do very much in the tariff situation, and he Is satisfied that the Republicans will carry out their policles. Senator Tillman said he did not know what President Taft would do with Dr. Crum. He had heard noth Ing whatever about any appointment for Dr. Crum and worid not be sur prised if he were not appointed to any place, nor would he be surpris ed if he were given some place in Washington. Senator Tillman talks with much interest about his fight against the confirmation of the appointment of Dr. Crum, and said that one of the remarkable things about his fight was for hours he held up sixty sen ators, while he was relating his re miniscences of reconstruction and his light with McLaurin. The senator says he feels quite well, enough to go out on another of his lecture tours, and incidentally he thinks that the "wild talk" in which he indulged while on 1lis lec turing tour had done much to clear -up the atmosphere with regard to the race question. - Mrs. Tillman says that Senator Tillman is not to go on any lecture tours, but she is quite willing for him to go to Europe again. Senator Tillman continues to be much Interested in the Navy Yard at Charleston, and says that he had the work there well cared for in the appropriation bill, and that "as long as he is alive the Charleston yard has nothing to fear."--News~ and Courier. THIS T5 GOOD NEWS. cienfists Say the Earth Won't Have Collision.. Cambi4dge, Mass., March 11. Commenting on the assertion made recently by Dr. Percival Lowell that the earth was in danger of colliding with some large astral body and thus be destroyed, Prof. William H. Pick ering, of the Harvard Astronomo cal Observatory, says that the chance of such an event Is about "one In one hundred millions, raised to the one hundred millionth power." "A more possible danger,' he add ed, "but nevertheless an improbable one, is that the solar system in its ourney through space may come close enough to some such a dark body as to cause a disturbance in the orbital motion of planets and per haps carry some of them, the earth Included, into space. The danger 1s so remote, however, that there need be no popular apprehension about WANT SOLDIERS ARRESTED For Robbing an Eagle's Nest or Jamies Island. - Columbia. S. C-, March 11.-Presi dent Taylor of the State Audirr Society has secured warrants froir Magistrate Fowler here, a-inst th' eleven federal soldiers stationed a Fort Moultrie, accused in an article In the News and Courier of today, of having robbed an eagle's 'nest of it young on James Island Sunday . Mr Taylor is having papers sent down fo: service. The warrant charges th~ men with violation of the act of 1905 OFFICER KILLS NEGRO. Fatal Shooting at the Savannal Union Station. Savannah. Ga., March 11.-Patrol man Walter F'leming shot and kille Ben Divine, colored, of Hendersor S. C., today at the union passenge station in the presence of sever: hundred persons. The negro h~ Staken the officer's club from him b< fore the shooting. The officer's fir! bullet found the negroe's heart, an the nagro ceased his -attack, ai running into the waiting room the station, fell dead. VThree Men Buried Alive. Hamilton. Ohio. Marcht 11. sewer trench eight feet deep cav n today, burying three men. Wh< rescuers reached the bottom of tl sewer they found the dead bodi of James Robinson and Alexana Howard. Thomas Revera was 5N macud alve nbt will probably die. GOES SCOT FREE STANDARD OIL ACQUITTED C ALL CHARGES. The Verdict Was Returned On I struction of tnited States Jud, Anderson in Chicago. Chicago, March 10.-The Standa Oil Company of Indiana was tod, found not guilty of accepting rebat from shipments of oil from Whitin Ind., to East St. Louis, Ill. T1 verdict was returned by a jury he federal court on instructions Judge A. G. Anderson, who averrE that he followed the circuit cou of appeals decision as to the verdi returned at the foriner trial of ti same case and on which verdi -Judge Kensaw Mountain Landis a sessed a fine of $29.240.000. Judge Anderson's decision was n( unexpected as he had yesterday tol the government prosecutors that tl proof relied on in the first trial we incompetent, and that it must t complemented or fail. It was wit something of an air of hopelessneE that District Attorney Edwin M Sims, and his assistant attempted t show the admissability of the Ill nois classification to prove the e) istance of a legal rate of 18 cent, which was a vital point in the go* ernment's contention. It was after Assistant District Al torney Jas. -H. Wilkerson had argue for two hours and in the end ad mitted that the prosecution coul not furnish the further proof deeme necessary by the court for a continu ation of the case that Judge Andei son announced his decision. Mr. Wilkerson said that the gov ernment could proceed no furthe and suggested dismissal of the case Attorney John S. Miller, chief coun sel in the case of the oil company immediately moved that there be a: instructed verdict of not guilty. Th court so ordered and the jur-y, whic1 had been excluded during the argu ments by the attorneys, was called i and charged. The decision of Judge Grosscup Baker and Seaman, of the Unite< States circuit court of appeals, re versing Judge Landis, together wit] the decision of the court of appeals was assigned as authority for today' decision. VERY QUEER TALE. Told by Escort of Girl Who Wa Shot. Baltimore. March 9.-Jennie Reed aged 21 years, of this city, was mur dered Monday by a highwayman a Mount Washington, residence sub urb. She and Joe Mueller, to whor she was engaged to be married wer 'n the way to visit friends at Moun Washington. according to Mueller' statement and left the cam at Seventi avenue. When they had walked half: block and were in a lonely place they were stopped by a man. whc ~leveling a pistol, called for their val uables. Mueller said he gave u what valuables he had and then th highwayman demanded a necklac worn by Miss Reed. Her reply Wa a slap in the face. r"'n receivin which, the man fired, the bulle striking the girl hehind the left ea1 Che was carried into a nearby hous4 but death had been almost instar taneous. The highwayman disai peared and is being diligently soug4 by the police. Mueller, who appears to have bee the only witness to the shooting wa placed under arrest. TWEOLOGY AND A BROKEN HEA Hlow One Led to the Other in Cher< kee Negro Church. Gaffney. March 10.-At a ro which occurred in a colore church, a few miles in the counti on Saturday, a negro named W: Gist was arguing some theologic questions, when a negro namt Thomas Jeter took issue with son -f the doctrines promulgated by ti aforesaid Gist, calling him a 1ia whereupon Gist seized a chair ai -'pplied same with such force to tl oranium of Jetem as to brine him 'is knees, and pursuing his adva tage, struck him in the mouth al knocked several front teeth down I throat. As soon as JTeter recover ~ufficiently to come to town he i -'icted Gist for asault and batte 'f a high and aggravated nature, a *he matter will be thr'eshed out ~he Courts. ONE HI'NDRED MEN From One State Caught Pneumoi At Inauguration. Washington, March 10.--A let received here states that of the 8 men which represented the Mas chusetts coast artillery in the in. -gural parade, 100 of them are s dfering from pneumonia, one has d "from typhoid pneumonia and anot ris dying from the same disease. LThe Massachusetts coast artill dwas quartered in National Rifle's -' mory and like many of the ot t troops -were not supplied with co; d but slept on the floor with only a t d mattress to protect their bodies fi tA the drafts which swept in thro *fell in and was drowned. Passenger Train Wrecked. A New Orleans. March 1 1.-Is is d ported that an Arkansas. Louis] n and Gulf passenger train. bo e south from Little Rock. was dera s by train wreckers during the n r near the Louisiana line, and s- several persons were killed several Ininred. ANOTHER FLOOD IF Threatens Montgomery and Sev eral Other Cities NO FATALITIES YET d But Residents of North Montgomery LV Are Warned to More to Places of Safety-The Negro Quarter Is Inundated--Great Damage Has n f Been Done to Outlying Districts. Montgomery, Ala., March 14. This city is threatened with the e greatest flood known in its history. There is danger tonight of the city being thrown into darkness, the wa ters threatening the steam plants of both the electric light companies d and the gas works. The residents e of north Montgomery were warned today to move immediately and all day the police aided families in get ting to places of safety. Across the river from Montgomery there is a sea of water extending as far as the eye can see. The tops of trees w..ich formerly stood high on the banks are barely discernible. The water is over the Louisville and Nashville railroad tracks at the foot of Commerce sitreet, and the Union _ Railway station is in danger of be Sing flooded. From Elmore county vague re S ports are being received about per sons cut off by the high water on is - olated spots only a few feet above the flood. The United States gov ernment boat Twining has started . on a six mile trip up the river to r rescue a party reported marooned on an island. Sunday the Twining will visit the negro settlements and other plantations along the river. Information reached the city this afternoon that the Tallapoose river has broken over its retaining banks on Lower Wetumka road and that several plantations were flooded. The state convict farm is completely isolated and it is predicted that se rious trouble will be experienced there. Roadis are submerged, mak ing traffice extremely dangerous from washouts. Since noon the merchants of We tumpka have been moving their goods from stores and business is practically suspended. Lowlands of middle Alabama are I submerged for many miles and while no loss of life is reported, a great many head of live stock are believed to have been drowned. The Tallapoose river, which emp ties into the Alabama river nine t miles north of Montgomery, is a raging torrent. This river sweeps around the fine convict farm of the State which is under water. The Lmost serious effect of the high river a here is from the back waters which' Shave submerged the negro section a~nd are encroaching on the manu Sfacturing district. In Selma the plant of the Stand ard Oil Company has been abandon ed and if the predictions are verified, water will be pouring into the power Splant of the Selma light company be fore nightfall tomorrow. In Gadsden the big lumber plant of the Kyle Lumber Company is sub merged and the damage will be con siderable. -From Selma tonight comes a re _port that the home of a negro family tin King's Bend, south of that city, was swept away during Saturday a night and the husband, his wife and a one child were drowned. The names are not known. * p POLISH COUNT A STOKER. s Nobleman Shoveling Coal on the Battleship Georgia. w Philadelphia, Pa.. March 12.-The d crew of the battleship Georgia. whah -y recently returned to the Philadel It phia navy yard after a trip) around al the world, claims the distinction of d having a real count as a stoker. Paul ie Bernard Zurowski is his name. Ac te cording to his own statement. he was r. disinherited by his father in P0 id land while studying at Heldelberg. 1 That was six years ago. He came to to this country and settled in Mil n- waukee. where. after working a id short time. he enlisted. He speaks is several languages and is a good mu d siciani.* ry CONE MAD)E REAR AD)MIRAL. H-e Distinguished Himself With the Atlantic Fleet. Washington. March 12.--Liuet. Commander Hutchinson I. Cone has been appointed head of the bureau of steam engineering of the navy, with the rank pay of rear admiral. He ter especially distinguished himself by 00 safely taking the torpedo boat flotilla sa- from Newport News to San Francisco Lu- in company with the Atlantic bat uf- tleship fleet and was fleet engineer ied under Admiral Sperry during the ier around-the-world cruise, assuming that duty at San Francisco. * cry _ _ _ _ _ _ ar- INJURED BY MOLTEN STEEL. hThree Fatally and Three Severely 'om Hurt in Explosion. Cleveland. March 12. - Thre< workmen were fatally injured ant three other employes seriously hur re- by an explosion at the open hearti ana furnace of the American Steel und Wire Company today. Water com ied ing in contact with the molten met :ght al caused the explosion and ho :hat metal was thrown on the workmen and severely ~burning them. The build in was damaged. WARDENS BATTLE WITH FISHERMEN AND FOUR PERSONS ARE HURT. Wardens' Party Arrested on Charge of Assault But Released Soon After-None Seriously Hurt. Augusta, Ga., March 14.-Satur day night about 9 o'clock, Pink Wil liams and Charlie Weathersbee, game wardens of the Langley game preserves, Butler Weathersbee, the Langley constable, and a party of fishermen who were fishing on the preserves without the knowledge and consent of the wardens, got into a fight, which ended with several of the fishing party and one of the wardens' party being shot. It is said that Pink Williams and Charlie Weathersbee went out to the preserves to see that no fishing was being done. Upon arriving at the poid they found the party fish ing with nets. Weathersbee wished to have a witnesis for the illegal fishing and sent Williams back to t Langley to bring another man as t witness. While Williams was gone the party of fishermen, it Is said, gave Weathersbee only a short time to leave, and he left within the giv en time. In the meantime Williams, who ad been sent back for a witness, re- t turned with Butler Weafhersbee, the Langley constable, who is a broth r of Charlie Weathersbee, and Will Buck and Colle Watson. Williams, eathersbee, Buck and Watson went q >ver to the party of fishermen and sked what had become of the other eathersbee. The party seemed Ig iorant of the fact that they were :onstables that had come for their arrest, and told the officers what bey had done to Warden Weathers ee. Upon tie officers' trying to ar- e rest the party, the fishermen open d fire. t The fight ended when Charlie %eathersbee was -Wsounded In his I eft arm. Jesse Bush, one of the shermen, received wounds in both egs below the knee, and a hole t brough his hand. He made his es- 1 :ape, and It was thought he was lead. Later his hat was found, In xhich there were 16 holes. He re- 0 rned to Langley yesterday morn- - ng. Proctor, another fisherman, re eived a shot in the head. Ripley. iso a fisherman, was shot in the d ead. The fishermen are said to have one to Langley from Warrenville. "one were seriously hurt. Later in the day a warrant was orn out by the fishing party gainst Williams, Weathersbee and uck, who were charged with assault. hey were arrested and carried to he Aiken court house. Dr. W. B. Vright of Langley and Superintend nt A. T. Smith of the same place ent to Aiken and secured their re ease.-The State. * POISONING SUSPECTED. ody of a White Farmer Has Been Exhumed-. Greenwood, March 12.-The body f Mr. Anderson, who died several reeks ago, was exhumed yesterday ad the stomach taken out and sent o a chemist for examination. Certain developments made the family suspect that his death was not uet to natural causes. Mr. Ander son was a well-to-do white farmer, living about five mile west of town. He was found dead the Friday night before the very cold weather in Feb ruary. He had left his house after dinner to go and fix a pasture fence. He did not return, and when searchers found him he had ben dead several hours. The ground around his body was torn up, indicating that he had died after a great struggle. The night of his death a cat at the house died in a peculiar manner, and the next day all the other cats there died very peculiarly. * WOMEN OF THE CONFEDERACY. Commissionl Appointed to Raise Mon ey for Shaft. Golumbia, March 12.-Governor Ansel has app~ointed the following commissioners to take charge of the fund that is to be raised by the people of the State for the monument to the women of the Confederacy. The commission named today is to raise $7,500, and when this sum is in hand the State is to give $7,500 out of the treasury. The commissioners nanmed today are: Col. T. J. Moore, Moore's; Col. J. N. Brown, of Anderson; Gen.. C. Irvin Walker, of Charleston; Capt. John G. Richards, of Liberty Hill; Capt. Win. B. Gonzales, of Columbia. All the members of the commis;sion were Confederate soldie.. or are the sons of Confederate soldiers. * MAINY LIVES LOST By Part of Mountain Falling in Isle of Jova. Victoria, B. C., March 12.--ews of landslides burying three villages involving the loss of a thousand li.m's at Pendjolo, Java, was brought to day by the steamer Empress of Chi na. A part of Mount Kentjana fell, destroying the village of Tgiboeboe han, and the towns of Wardengsita and Telokbangoe. But one man. on" woman and tr~o children escaped to tell the tale. Tons of earth~ wc-r slipping as the vessel left. c->)wi - were fiocking to see the3 ternil - sight.4 and recover the bodies, most : ly buried deep below tons of earth. .Pestilence was feared. Dogs and - birds were feeding on the bodies SERIOUS GHARGES SUPREME COURT DECISION UPO A WILL CASE Brings Out Sensational Allegation! Against a Minister of the Gospe of Clarendon County. Columbia, March 13.-The Recori ;ays a decision was handed down it -he supreme court today on a Claren Ion county will case of unusua: nterest. The case is that of Heler rindal, et al., against the Rev. Rich ird A. Stublett, a Baptist clergyman, ind his wife, Laura A. Stublett, Che contest was over the possession )f a plantation in Clarendon county, which,, aqording to the evidence luoted in the opinion, Mr. Sublett nduced his aged mother-in-law, 89 rears old, to deed to Mrs. Sublett or $7,500, payable after the mother n-law's death, without interest, al hough the circuit court jury which ried the case found that the prop rty was worth $15,000. The de ision is against Mr. Sublett, the inding of the lower court including dr. Sublett's removal as executor nd trustee. Among others the following quies ions put to the juiy. at the trial vere answered "yes" in their ver lict: "Was Mrs. Sarah Tindal (the other-in-law) so enfeebled by old .ge and physical infirmities that she id not have mental capacity suf icient to understand what she was oing at the time of the execution of he said deed?" "Did the defendants exercise un .ue influence on Mrs. Sarah Tindal ,nd did they thereby obtain the ex cution and delivery of said deed?" It appears from the language of he decision that Mr. Sublett re aoved to Texas after marrying Miss ,aura Tindal, and afterward re 2oved to Atlanta, and failing in his rofesslon as a minister, came back o Clarendon county to live on the ome place with his mother-in-law nd her son, Ezra, to whom the roperty was - to go, under the will f the elder Tindal, at Mrs. Sarah indal's death. A year leater Mr. zra Tindal died, after which Mr. ublett took charge and managed the lace as the agent of Mrs. Sarah Tin .al. "Soon after," the opinion says, on account of these new and un easant relations, Ezra Tindal's 'idow and her children left the lace," and then on investigation Mr. ublet discovered that the place nev r did belong to Mr. Tindal, the der, but was Mrs. Tindal's, from er father, Ezra Allen. In 1908 Mr. Sublett prevailed up n his mother-in-law, is is alleged, o make a will dividing the place to three equal parts, one-third to he children of Mary Rembert, anoth r third to the children of Ezra indal and the remaining third to rs. Sublett, Mr. Sublett being made xeutor and trustee, with authority o sell without advertisement. "Strict ecrecy as to this will was enjoined >y R. A. Sublett." Shortly after yard, it is fur-ther alleged, he pre ailed upon Mlrs. Tindal to execute . lease to Mrs. Sublett for eight rears at $100 a year. In 1904 she nade the deed of the place referred o above and died the following year. 'the mortgage being witheld from record for a considerable time." Mr. Sublett is well knowr hroughout the State, both his, owr family and that of his wife having wide connections among prominen people. For some time after giv ing up reside:at pastoral work Mr Sublet conducted evengelical meet ings in different sections of the State His sons, Alvah T. Sublett and Hub ert Sublett, were athletic stars dur ing their career at Furman univer sity and the former was assigne< the position Cf full-back on nearl: every All-Southern football tear chosen during the three seasons h played intercollegiate ball. NEGROES NOT WANTED. Preident Taft Will Not Appoiz Them to Office. Chicago, March 12.-"The passin of the professional Southern negr politician as a Federal office holde by right of color has been made a essential feature in the propose policies of President Taft," says t13 Tribune today in a news article. "Hereafter Southern White Ri publicans will receive the utmo: consideration in filling the 'big' pla' es in the Federal service below ti Mason and Dixon line. The plac< which has been allotted to negro R publicans as a matter of custom wi go to Northern negroes rather the to Southern black men. "News of this complete change. the administration policy has arriv4 in Chicago directly from the Whi House." Killed by Auto. New York. March 11.-Mrs. Le pold Baumann, wife of a wealt: New York furnitusre dealer, w was struck and killed tonight by; automobile owned by Holly C. Est4 a flour merchan't. Mr. and M1 Estee with a party of friends we in the car at the time. Kills Girl and Self. New York. March 11.--Samnt Krobach. 26 years old, of Sha Side. N. J., shot and killed his sw' heart. Miss Susa Pazalica, 22 yes old, at her home tonight. Kroba then shot himself through the he and died instantly. The ,girl b A HUGE CAVE Found In The Adiron dacke Up per New YorK RIVAL THE MAMMOTH Extensive Rooms Under the Mountain Near Standish, N. Y., Which Are Yet to Be Explored-Veteran Gives Some Measurements and Tells of the Pits Which Are Deep. Saranac Lake, N. Y., March 10. Capt. E. E. Thomas, an old-time woodsman, has discovered a great cave in a secluded part of the Adiron dacks which may rival the famous Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. Thom as chanced to strike the entrance to the cavern on the summit of a moun tain seldom visited by travelers, or sportsmen, some time ago, but kept the matter secret until he could make an investigation. Taking a companinon with him, he entered the cavern for 1,000 feet, and as the end was not reached, the extent of the cave from that point on is as yet undetermined. It is situated on a mountain known as "W" Mountain, not far from Stand ish, N. Y. In describing his discovery, the old woodsman said: "The mouth is about fifty feet wide. The first room is fifty feet long, twenty feet wide and thirty feet high. It swarmed with bats, which lined the walls and seemed scarcely able to move. There was a decided smell of sulphur. In 1 the next room, which was about forty by fifteen. feet, we found pas sages branching in many directions, and were unable to explore all of I them. - "With only the feeble rays of a lantern to guide us, we several times narrowly escaped falling into pits. You can imagine how deep some of I these were, when I say that we had time to count fifteen and twenty be fore rocks we dropped into them were heard to strike-and we did not count rapidly. An elk's horn was found by us far inside the cave. "After going a short distance from the mouth there was no vegetation. There is no opening at the base of the mountain and there are no streams in the cave so far as we have yet discovered." TRAIN RAND IKILLED. Will Campbell Run Over by Engine at Greenwood. Greenwood, March 11.-Will Campbell, a negro train hand em ployed in the Seaboard local yards. had his legs cut off whiile at work in the yards early Wednesday morn ing, and died several hours later from the effects of his Injuries. He was run over shortly after 2 o'clock and died at 5 o'clock Wednesday morning. It appeared that Campbell was at the switch waiting for the engine to go up to the tank and return. It would seem that, as the engine came back, he attempted to jump on, but missed his footing and fell under neath. Both legs were cut off. The switching crew was in charge of Yard Conductor Meaders and En gineer Pittman. Mr. Pittman stated that the- engine was going about two or three miles an hour. Camp bell was an excellent train hand, knew his business well, and it seems more than likely that it was a case of accident. It was said at the in quest that Campbell said before he died that he did not see how he could get hurt. A coroner's jury was impanelled and the following verdict was render ed: "Will Campbell came to his death by accident on his own part." CHLOROFORM CRDMINALS. Favors Elimination of Hlanging and Electrocution. Atlanta. Ga., March 11.-Gen. Clement A. Evans, commander-in chief of the United Confederate Vet erans and chairman of the prison > commission of Georgia, advocates r chloroforming criminals who have Sreceived the death sentence. "I believe the law has no right dto do more than take a mnan's life," esaid Gen. Evans. "No living man should witness it. The death cell should be air tight, and the man who t is to die should inhale .the very breath of death itself and should die .e painlessly and alone. Any other s death punishment is nothing short ~of barbarous. Even this is bad II enough." nGen. Evans had already qlualific.d this statement by declaring himself opposed to capital punishment for dany crime save that of attack upon .women. GIVEN EiGHTEEN YEARS. >- Inventor Who Killed Broker Suy as dam Sentenced. .n New York, March 12.-John C. e, Lumsden, the young North Carolina s. inventor, who was convicted of man re slaughter in the first degree on the * -- a-~ of killing Harry B. Suydam. a broker, was today sentenced in the counrt. of general sessions to not el less than 18 years nor more than dv'19 years and six months in State ~t- prison. The broker was shot and rs instantly killed in his office on De ch cember 19, last, after an -altercation ad with Lumsden over money matters, ad Lumsden claiming that the broker * owed him $1,200 on some notes.* GOES TO WORK IN DEAD EARNEST TO FIGHT CONSUMPTION. Aiken Employs a Trained Nurse Who Will Devote Al of Her Time to Tuberculosis. The Columbia Record says Miss Susie S. Ravenel has been employed by the Aiken County Antituberculo sis League, as a trained nure, to as sist in its work of prevention of the white plague. The league has been very active in its inauguration of a war against consumption. Although the league has been organized only a few weeks, practical results are iow being obtained, and the people ire being instructed in the means >f preventing disease. It is only recent years that means .or cope with this dreaded disease tave been discovered and this knowl dge is not yet prevalent among the >eople; and the dissemination of this Cnowledge is the primary object for I ,he league in this county. No dues tre paid for membership in the eague, but voluntary subscriptions 4 tre being received by the officers for I he prosecution of the work. Many )f the Northern visitors have liberal- I y helped in this work. ~ Miss Ravenel has already com- i nenced her work. She devotes the orenoon to the work, making visits :o all parties who may need her I ssistance. No charge is made for i ier assistance, which is given not rom a charitable standpoint, but Ls a matter of giving valuable sug- I ,estions for the caring of patients Lnd prevention of the spread to oth r members of the family, and the blic, with whiom infected persons f -tv come in contact. Miss Ravenel ias had long experience as a nurse, Lnd she has entered the work with L spirit. She will make periodical -eports to the president of the eague, Dr. Filmore Moore. The trained nurse will conduct ier work in conjunction with, and n harmony with the board of health. Jiss Ravenel will also consult with he physicians of the city, and work t n conjunction with them. Such ases that are reported to her, as eeding assistance, advice, or in any nanner that she can help them, she vill visit. The object of this is, of ;ourse, to prevent the further sbread >f the disease, and it Is stated that vhere persons refuse to heed friendly nd voluntary suggestions for the I afety of the people against tuber ulosis, such cases will be referred o the board of health, to take sucb Lction as they see fit for public afety. MURDER WOMAN'S HUSBAND. 'Rev." Wolfram and Mrs. Malinda Lockhart Locked Up. Atlanta, Ga., March 10.-Charles T. Wolfram, whom calims to be an >rdained Holiness preacher, and Mrs. Valinda Lockhart are being held in he county jai on charges growing1 >ut of their discovery together in :he former's room on Marietta street. 'he arrest was caused by woman'" ausband, James 3. Lockhart, whom. :he two prisoners claim, they had alanned to murder. Wolfram is author of several so 2alled religious books, and earned a lvelihood selling them on the streets. M~vrs. Lockhart is a strikingly hand some woman, and apparently intelli gent. She has not lived with her husband for two years, becauce, as she claims, Wolfrain was found to be her "soul-mate" or "affinity." Religious attraction led to their association, is is claimed, and to re move all carnal barriers they hal de cided to remove Lockhart by the poison route. Their nerve failed at the last moment and Lockhart still lives to enjoy his estate of $10,000 or $15,000.-Augusta Chronicle. SHOULD) SHUN SOFT DRINK3. Government Pure Food Expert Warns Girl Students. Washington, March 10. - The dangers of "the soft drink habit" and the innocence with which girls become addicted to it, were empha sized tonight by Dr. Harvey, with WV. Wiley, the Government's pure food expert, in a lecture before one hun dred girl students at Holy Cross Academy. "If you only know what I know about what those soft drinks con tain you would abstain from them,'' he said. "It will surprise you to know that most of them contain more caffeine than coffee, and a drug which is more deadly. So beware of the soft drink. It is more harm ful than coffee, and I advise all young people against the use of this stimulant. Perhaps you would be initerested to know I have collect e-d more than one hundred samples of soft drinks sold at soda foun tains, and each contains caffeine, and many of them a deadly drug." THEY DESTROY CROPS.' Poisoned Wheat to Bait Prairie Dogs in the West. Washington. March 11.-Poisoned '.heat is to be used as bait to kill off 'he prairie dogs. the stockmen's en -my. that now infest Arizona and New Mexico and have become a me nace to the forest ranges there. On ranch lands prairie dogs have proved 'lestructive to a variety of crops, in eluding wheat, grain, potatoes and sugar beets: while on grazing lands they destroy so much grass that the grazing capacity of the land is re duced 50 to 75 per cent. The fores: service is employing every effort t< A PRIEST SLAIN In His Study at Newark, N. J, by Assassins SHOT AT WOMAN ALSO Three Men Walk into Boom of the Rev. Erasmus Ansion and Shoot Him to Death-Dead Priest Had Ousted Several Trustees, Causing Much Dissatisfaction. Newark, N. J., March 10.-Three men whose features appear to have Jeen concealed by their heavy over :oats and slouch hats, walked into :he study of the Rev. Erasmus Ansi )n, pastor of the Polish Church of 3t. Stanislaus, this morning and >pened fire upon him. Three bul ets from their three revolvers hit the >riest, killing him instantly. The trio turned to make their es ape and found their way blocked )y Mrs. Antonio Sewrzytska, the iousekeeper. One of the visitors urned 'his revolver upon her, inflict ng a wound which Is likely to prove atal. Then all three made their es ape. The police were put to work on he case within a few minutes of he murder and by noon had -ouaded up four suspects, one of rhom the housekeeper, now in St. arnasbas Hospital, thought bore a esemblance to the leader of the trio vho had done the shooting. The oth rs she was unable to identify. All our denied any knowledge of the af air. No adequate theory to account'for he attack upon the priest has been resented to the police. It was learn d that there has, recently been con iderable factional trouble In the con regation, and Father Ansion, when Le came from Paterson to take harge of the church five months ago, ade several changes which are said o have caused widespread dissatis action. All the men arrested are members >f St. Stanislaus church, and the olice ordered the arrest of all the ormer trustees, whom the dead riest ousted when he took charge f the parish. The police tonight arrested three en, suspects, all Poles, who reside tear the church. At the same time t was announced that the belief was rowing that the pries,.s assassins vere not Newark men, although it Vas thought that the murder has >een planned, here and that some of hose under arrest may be abld to hed light on these plans. A crowd of 5;000 Poles gathered arly tonight in front of the rectory n which lay the body of the murder d priest, expressing their grief and lemanding to see the body. The >olice succeeded In getting it under ontrol by promising to grant Its de nand. Accordingly, a double line of olice was arrayed from the street hrough the house, and for two hours >r more the Poles marched in single ie past the casket In which the >ody lay. FOUND GUILTY OF MUEDER. Laurens Breaks a Record Covering Fifteen Years. Laurens, March 10.-For the first ime in about fifteen years a Lan rens fury has returned a straight ver ict of murder without a recommen dation to mercy. This occurred this afternoon in the Court of General Sessions, when the jury returned a verdict of guilty in the case of the State vs. John Henry Anderson for the murder of his father-in-law. It will be recalled that 'Anderson shot and killed old man Joseph Carter at the Cedar Grove church at the funeral of one of Anderson's child ren. He shot him in the back, and without immediate provocation. Anderson will very likely be sentenc ed on Saturday. Two cases of attempted criminal assault were tried today In .the - General sessions Court, one against a young white man, Albert Duncan, accused of attempting to ravish a young girl in Waterloo Township, the home of both. Duncan .was found guilty with mercy recommend ed by the jury. The other case was against Will McCollough, colored, charged with attempting to ravish a young white girl in Sullivan's Township. The jury returned a ver dict of not guilty. WEATHER CLERK EXPLAIN~S low He Made Such a Mistake About the Weather. Washington, March 8.-Just how it happened that there was such a blizzard in Washington March 4, and in the fact of his telegrams to Mr. ft, on the night of 3rd that the weather would be clear, was ex plained to the president today by .illis L. Moore, chief of the United State weather bureau. Prof. Moore admitted he had waited for several days with some timidity be fore attempting to "spay his respects" to Mr. Taft. Mr. Moore has an explanation which he brought to a climax with all sorts of proof that no such "highs" and "lows" ever before produced such a snomstorm. IBurned to Water's Edge. Queenstown, Md., March 12.--The Chesapeake' bay steamboat Love Point, Capt. Clarke, belonging to the Maryland. Delaware & Virginia -Railway Company, was burned to the water's edge while lying at the wharf at Love Point at 11 o'clock last