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OXIalN g JNEi 'VOL. XXIII AXNNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, JUNE80199N.4 WRECKS SHIPS The Mighty Lake Supar Shows Fury Under a Sale WRAPPED IN MYSTERi Are Many Losses of Ships and Steam ship.-Big Vessels Are as Help less as Smaller and Older Craft on the Waters of the Greatest o Great Lakem. Lake Superior plays no favorites Big modern vessels are as helples, as older and smaller crafts wher great gales lash her waters. As lonj ago as 1SS2, vessel men declared thal ships were getting so large on thi C -t Lakes that their chances of losses or serious disaster were re mote. But the big and little. ancient "hookers" and the finest and larg est of the modern leviathans all look alike to the co!d. beautiful rock and forest brimmed inland sea. It is slow to anger, but its fury at times Is Irresistible. The salt wa ter sailor who makes h-is first trip on Lake Superior in calm weather is prone to sneer at Its dangers. but once be has ridden out a northwest ern gale and witneosed and felt the great shouldering seas, which carry the twisting motion of the ocean. he Is silenced. Lake Superior is now called the "port of missing men" with Whitefish Po.t as "the grave yard of the lakes. The Adella Shores is the latest vic tim of the greatest of the Great Lakes. She vanished from the sur tace with a crew of 15 men. That Is all that is known and perhaps all that will be known. The other day a paddle bearing an inscription. "Adella Shores.** was washed ashore at Whitefsh Point. Indicating that the ship and its crew are some dis tance from that point. but further than that the mystery of the liis aster Is looked in the Icy breast of the mighty lake. A sailor lashed to a plank or to a spar may drift ashore. but no man expects that the Incidents surrounding the foundering of the craft will 4ver come to light. There Is something exceedingly tragic in the loss of any ship in any cIrcumstances. but when one goes down with all hands on board and not a word comes to land to tell the manner of her vanishing it is a knife thrust for the loved ones who await the news with aching hearts and the hope that springs eternal. and the public is awed by the sub '4mity which surrounds such mourn ful events. Everything is left for the imagination, and one can only guess of the gallant fight for life. the possible deeds' of- heroism and of unavailing sacrifice. The body of a man was found. on the shore of Whitfish bay several days ago. Nothing remained where by It mIght be Identified, but from the location where it was discovered the conclusion Is drawn that it is the body of one of the 24 members of the steamer Clems'on. which went down a year ago. The D. M. Clemson and the Cyprus. two of the largest and ne'a'est boats constructed for Great Lake traffic. were claimed by Lake Superior during the last ta' years. Only one man escaped from the Cyprus out of a crew of 25. When the 400. 500 and 600-foot ers were still a dream It was pre dicted that soon lake disasters would be a thing of the past, but the great et loss of life that ever occurred on the inland seas was to the pas senger steamer Algoma. when 70 persons perished. The steamer Man istee went down in November. 1883. The mystery of her loss has never been solved. On the memorable Nov. 27. 1905. the Mataafa and the Ira 1. Owen went down at Duluth and every man on bott' vessels was lost. Twenty-sixc years ago the steamer Winnipeg went down after being burned to the water's edge. And so the tal. goes on and hundreds of other incidents might he recounted dating from the ti.pne that the first Ang-,--Saxon placed his paddle in the mighty inland sea. LURED YOtNG WOMAN To a Buildli. Over-powered and Assaulted Her. Little Rock. Ark., and it suburbs were searched Monday night for an unidentified white man, who, it is charged. beat into insensIbility and assaulted a young woman In an of ice building. Miss Ray Burkhalter. of Pine Bluff. Ark., student at .. local business college. says she was called to the offiee building with a promise that she would be given clerical employment. She was met by a young man. who she decares. overpowered ha'r and assaulted her. after she was bound and gagged to prevent an ourcry. Her face and neck are badly bruised, and her con dition is regarded as serio':s. STORE HOtRS AT FLORENCE. Me-chant Agree Vpon Scheme for Early Closing. Florence merchants have introduc ed an innovation, Under an agree ment now' being ::enerally signed by' them. they will not close their es tablishments at 6 o'clock In the after noon during the summer months. bu instead will keep open as late a ordinarily, and on Wednesdays wil close upat 2 p. m. Itlissaid th clerks like thsis plan better, as I gves them, th' whoi" afte-noon ol a time thley can pu to eefa at s. . MINERS KILLED SEVENTEEN OF THEM LOST r THEIR UVES IN A .LNE In Peasylvaaia by the Eiplosion of Gas Due to Ignition From a Miner's Lamp. As the result of an explosion of gas In mine No. 4. of the Lacka wanna Coal and Coke Company shortly after 7 o'clock Wedneeday morning seventeen miners were killed and sixte--n Injured. With the ex ception of one, those killed were foreigners. With few exceptions those injured were Americans . It was stated that all the injured prob ably would recover. Superintendent Johnson stated that while the mine has always been regarded as non-gaseous, the explo sasion was due to the ignition of a pocket of gas by the open lamp of a mmner. The mine has only been opreatlr. two days each week. Tueeday and Friday. Those in the mine had en tered the shaft for their daily al lowance of coal for family use. Grouped about the slope entrance of the mine just before the explo sion were several Italians. When the terrible subterranean upheaval of rock and gas spouted skyward, these Italians were caught. Terribly burned and maimed they rushed about the settlement crying for aid. The first man to reacb the surface was A. L. Johnson. son of the super intendent. He is one of the few very seriously Injured. Superintendent Johnson called for volunteers to enter the mine. In the volunteer ranks stood several ,women. These were ordered back. With wet handkerchiefs tied over their faces the first squad of the relief party started down the shaft. 'bf the eight who started four came back with their senses. The others. overcome with black damp, were pull ed to surface with ropes. A second and a third party entered only to be driven back by the deadly gases. hissing and shouting in the lower levels. Oxygen, sent by the Cambria Steel r Works. aided the searchers. and with d safety helmets. a fourth rescue party y succeeded in bringing twelve bodies ti to the surface. Late In the afternoon five more bodies were recovered. i They were found huddled together e In the lower left heading, where a they had died in an evident effort to reach the main shaft. t a SrCCVCIBS TO INJURIES1 1 d Received in Auto-Trolley Smash Up Near Belton. I d A dispatch fromi Anderson sayj the death of the Rev. D. D. RIchard- t: .ion. which occurred at a hospital t4 here, where he was brought soon a after the accident, makes him the - second victim of the automobile- r1 trolley car collision, nine miles east g of here yesterday. His skull was g fractured and he never regained con- 5 sciousness. The body was taken to b Smpsonville, near Greenville. for , interment, accompanied by Mrs. It4 Richardson, who was also injured-.t and who had since been here with h.-r husband. Mr. Richardson was thirty-si years cld. ard pastor of the Second Baptist church, of the ilelton and Gluck mills church here. They had no children. A telephone -nessage from Ninety-Six said that he condition of the Rev. E. A. Mc nowell, another of the injured. is -ery sati'sfactory. Poison Beer Kills Eight Italians b Eight Italian laborers on the 3 ?inew Creek branch of the Chesa wake and Ohio railway, oear Ral -!h Va.. are dead following a wild lebauch with a barrel of beer. The >err haid been set up in their shack t n the mountains and later the men were found dead. The barrel was -aken out and emptIed and a large -attlesnake was found in the bottom -f it. It is presumned that the snake, n its death agonies. injected enough 'f the poison into the beer to kill 'he men who drank of it. COWS CAUSE TRAGEDY. One is' Killed. Jatmes F. Booth. a well known 'Ormer, living three mi!l-a from Statham. Ga.. was fatally wounded Wedneday morning in a pistol duel with his neighbor. B. A. Boyd. He lied from the effects of the wound. Bo~yd wras uninjured. Differences ~f long standing culminated in a fatal quarrel Wednesday. when Boot h re his cow to withg Bo is (Bohs crops. Both men are prominently connected. RURAL MIL CARRIERS Will Hold Convention at Rock Hill in July. Rock Hill wi!! entertain on July and 5. the deinga:es and visitors to tha annual c'onvent ion of the -State Atsocication of Rural 3.ail Carriers. Con.~essman Aiken. at the request of 'he offiers of the organization. lb ,s seen Fourth .tssstant Pon - Smarer General DeGraw and Super inte'ndent of Ruiral D~elivery Spill jmin. and hias the' prontis that on-" , .ne !t :th. w'1i at'ond. - SHOT TO DEATH A GEORGIA FARMER AND HIQ WIFE ARE KILLEL) While at Work In a Fiekl by a Man Who Sueceeds In Making His Escape. A special dispatch fr.m Adrian. Ga.. to the Atlanta Journal says that while at work in the field adjoining their home Wednesday morning. Geo. Howell and his wife were shot to death by Robert Jenkins. Jenkins used a shotgun for his deadly work, and is said to have come upon the couple unawares. Raising -As gun he fired one barrel at How eli. killing him Instantly. Hardly before she realized what z had happened. Howell's wife was fir- c d upon by Jenkins with the other ,arrel. Like her husband. she was I tiled outright. ,mmediately after killing the ouple Jenkins made his escape. I The firing of the shots attracted I he attention of neighbors and a e arge crowd gathered. 1 Both Mr. Hn.well. who is a farmer. tnd is wife. are highly respected z y their neighbors, and when they y earned of the tragedy they were t greatly aroused. b Within a few minutes the men ofly ho neighborhood had formed a fi sse, procured bloodhounds and are tJ tow !n pursuit of the alleged mur- T lerer. t] The caure of the killing cannot be :r scertained. It is known, however it hat Howell and Jenkins had not een on good terms for some time. tl nd it is believed that the tragedy : ras the result of? some previous dis- a ute. S1 Adrian is a smai! village in the b estern part of Emanuel county. d BACK TO LIFE AGAIN. c. edical Record Teals of Some Epei. b w ments. st in Forty-five persons who have died ! ?cently form the basis of a most markable report on bringing the of ead back to life. according to the ew York Medical Record. Of the h, eory of manipulating the heart by ri e hand, seventeen patients were re 2sctated, nine with complete recov rv. The remaining eight died after short time. h1 Forty of the cases treated are said > have been due to the anaesthetic T Iministered. Tho report says that ca i each instance Immediately after Lath ensued. or not more than five inutes afterward. the chest was pened and the heart was given a !rect application of manual massage. "AZner the chest cavity has be-en *ned. the band is forced in and ie heart is grasped. and pushing* >ward the interior thoracic walls. :cordng to the Medical Record. and th.~ ventricles are squeezed * yhemically at about normal beats. ametimes fifteen minutes elapse be-b e any response Is obtained. Dur ig all the time assisents should s busy wIth artificial respiration. r dilne and adrenalin infusions. 'gue traction. intubulation or R 'cheotomy and elevation of pel is and legs." h BARON WAS A Lt"ATIC. ecaptured While Engaging Rooms fu C. at alotel. K A New York dispatch says the ti otel St. Regis management antici- i ated a material increase In revenue h mte Wednesday. when a man of dis- it nguished appearance engaged a ite of eight rooms, and said that fC e and his wife would occupy them. ith two lady's maids and two aets. The man described himself a s Baron Wurz. While the visitor CI -as making the final arrangements fi yr the suite, an attendant from an sane asylum on Long Island arriv- d d and took charge of the caller, ex- S laning to the hotel management a bat he was John Wurz. of Pltts- L eld. Mass., who had escaped the ~ av before. >ROWNED IN LAKE KILLARNEY. a :r ine Tourits and Two Boatmen Lost Their Lives. A dispatch fronm Killarney. Ireland.w avs that a large row boat. carryin g < e American and four Englishb tour-Ik e and four Irish boatmen. was wamnped In a gale while crossirng >wer Kiliarn.-y Lake Wednesday j t te~rnoon. AUl of the tourists and h wo f the boatmen were drowned. a 'e victims were: Mrs. A. A. Hilton d son. of Tacoma. Wash.: Mr. and rs. Loughead. of Boston: Miss M. I. Catum. or Cotum. of Massachu-.. tts (town not known): the Rev. 1. Barton and sIster, of London. ind Miss Florence Wilkinson and ousin. of Bretwood. Essex: Boat nan Con Tooney and Con Bleeson-. one of the bodies were recovered. EXPENSIVE YACATION. 4 Young Banker and Faily Spends ' C a Big Sum. A. Teon. a hanker at Merida. Tuca an. Mexico. and his wife and seven bilren have arrived in Ne'w York., after having spent $1(4.fl0 on a rear's vacation in Europa. Mr. Teon said hat he' had hari a prosperous time in his business and appropriat rd $10n0non for "a good time" for. his family and himself. and that when the money was gonc they camef Thevk will ve Chicago. St Louisc ...A roane. on *hir "a~r homrn. GONE WITH TEAMI Young Man Hires Team and 1 Buggy and Leaves T PARTS UNKNOWN[ Ile Was a Guest at the St. John's Hotel in Charleston, Where He Seems to Have Rtgistered Under an Ast-umod Name for Some Reason. The' News and Courier of Satur- I lay says: 1ze police machinery has been set n motion tv t n where- S itouts of "i.inist Hagwood" a young s nan who was last seen in this c!ty E >n Wednesday morning. when he e rove off uith a horse and buggy be onging to Mr. John McAllister. the leeting street liveryman. "Hag- w vood" registered at the St. John bl lotel on Wednesday, June 23. as w :nnist Hagwood. but it is now state d that his right name is Lester Rey- d, olds, of Atlanta. Ga. ri The police do not know what to Ie 2ake of the disappearance of the IL oung man. They received Informa- ir on Friday morning that a light top w uggy and a gray horse. driven by a w oing man answering the description a urnished of Reynolds. had been no ced passing the Seven-mile last l hursday morning. This Is so far j ie only clue which the police have m tet with in their hunt for the miss ig man. W, Reynolds told the night clerk of ki le St. John Hotel early Wednesday h, orning that he had hWred a horse m ad buggy from the McAilister livery a ables. and asked that the outft at e called for at 8:30 a. m. This was 3n. by the clerk over telephone. se r. McAllister stating that this pro- sa ,dure was agreeable to him. On fe Lking possession of the horse and sh aggy Reynolds. or Hagwood. as he a: as then known. drove up Meeting an reet and stopped at the stables cih order to procure a lap robe, at the an ime time ,aslaing Mr. McAllioter gerding the roads on the other side Mi the New Bridge. He then told the liveryman that ea intended to take a young lady out of ding, and did not intend to get *, Lek to the city until late that even- ed g. After the young man had left de e stables no more was heard of m. and after Manager Fogus and r' McAllister had waited all day Rc iursday !t was decided to put the of se into the hands of the police W -partment. Reynolds left behind de m a small trunk, containing some ar :pensive clothes. Through a traveling man. who. on he )uriday morning. inquired after a . th 'n':emxan answering Reynold's de- t ription. Manager Fogus first dis svred that Reynolds had register- w iat the hotel under an assumed e ime. In describing the young manil te traveling man stated that he id only three angers on the right n'i. The hotel man had also no :ed this. and further inquiries con- h nee'd him that "Hagwood" was in b 'ality Lester Reynolds. of Atlanta' RC it. According to the traveling man,.C eynolds' father committed suicide b )out six months ago, and the son T id since been subject to fi',s of me neholia. eki That the name of the missing man a~s Reynolds, and not Hagwood, was t rither substantiated by Mr. Walter f L-ong, a sign painter, of No. 304 int street, who told the police at he was well acquainted with e young man, who had come to see .m several times during his stayt the city within the last ten days. t r. Long was unable to give any in rmntion regarding his friend. Reynolds while in the city stated at he was an expert telegrapher dt xd sign painter. He came to this d ty on Wednesday morning. June 16. e om' Spartanburg, and immediately existered at the St. John Hotel un ir the natne of Ennist Hagwood.t everal Iette~is written by him are I present in the hands of the police. ast Sunday morning Reynolds paid c anager Fogus a part of his hotel Eli. and from general -appearances id not seem to be in possession of 1ar:;e amount of money. The. young man is described as be-E ig of middle height, light complex med' and apparently of about 22 ears of age. The value of the horset rid buggy with which the young man as last sen in this city is estimat I at about $200). Reynolds was well nown with several Puhiman con- f uctors and other rail-oad men, al a r whom speak highly of the young an, and are inclined to believe that ri .. has met with some accident or ith foul play. WANTED ihS CORN. Georgetown Veteran Deserts the State Home.F Veteran R. A. Patterson. of e.orgetown. has deserted the sot- t iers' hotne at Columbia and taken n with the Poor house for bettera reatment. Hle says be didn't lke hie manager or the management of he home and is hapor now. Manag r Starling says Patterson left be ause he was not albowrd to drink res'ly. Hie endorsed the discharge Left to go where be could drink orni litquor in peace and more of African Lion Gets Hunter. r Henry C. Williams. a member of hi he hunting part" of T. S. St. Luis :. nd G;eorze McMillan. was brought o Naivashe. British East Africa.ao .'w days ago, mortally wounded by d Slion. The encornutr with the !on acured in the Sotik distri"'. near FOUND IN CREEK rhe Dead Body of a Young Woman Discovered. 6 MURDER MYSTERY 'he Vktim Waa the Wife of a Los Angeles Automobile Dealer. Who Had Eeen Marriel a Year. Found by Party of Boys on a Crab. bing Trip. A dispatch from Baltimore, Md., ays practically the entire eastern bore of Maryland was aroused and ?arching Thursday night for one :mmit E. or John T. Roberts. want I in connection wi:h the brutal iurder of Mrs. Edith May Woodill. ife of Gil.rt Woodill. an automo Ile dealer of Los Angeles. Cal., hose nude body, with the skull 'ushed in from a blow, apparently 4ivered from behind; the face hor bly disfigured: the entire body swol n from the effects of several days' amersion. and weighted with an on pot with .lf a dozen bricks, as Wednesda discovered by boys ho were crabbing in Back Creek, tributary of the Choptank River. >t far from the home of Mrs. Wood 's foster father, Capt. Chas. H. lompson. a few miles from Balti ore. Roberts was with Mrs. Woodill hen she was seen for the last town time, Pnd he is accused of LVing committed the murder. The otive for the crime is at present mystery. The police of Baltimore d all other cities to which Roberts ight make hia way, were asked to arch for and arrest him. He is id to be about fifty years old, five et, six inches tall, stoute, smooth aven, with abundant, bushy hair .d a ruddy complexion. He limps d wears a brace on one leg. He timed to be a magazine writer. 4 general correspondent of news pers. le was captured at St. chaels. Md.. Thursday night. Mrs. Woodill went to Baltimore fly this month with the intention spending the summer with her -ter father. Her husband remain only a few days. leaving, it is un rstood for Detroit, whence he in 2ded to return to Los Angeles. om that time. Mrs. Woodill and oberts are said to have seen much each other. Last Saturday Mrs. oodill went to Easton to have some ntai work done. and it had been ranged that Roberts should meet r at Royal Oak and return with r to her home. Roberts missed a train for Royal Oak and drove ere. met Mrs. Woodill and drove th her back here to the landing acre his launch w a oored. They tered the launch and Mrs. Wood was not seen again alive, so far has been learned. invest igations made indicate that ten Roberts and Mrs. Woodill left re they went in the launch to a ngalow that is be-ing built on abert's small farm, near that of .pt. Thompson. and that in this ngalow the murder was committed. or. were found a bloody sheet and attress and portions of a woman's >thes, partly burned. These have en identified as having belonged Mrs. Woodili. There were also uind in the bungalow a pair of rduroy tr-ousers, in the pocket of iich were two letters. One, be v.4d to have been from Mrs. Wood and to have some connection with e meeting at Royal Oak, was dated ne 16. The room. in which these things are found showed evidence of a -uggle having taken place. It was icovered that crabbers in the river rly Tuesday morning were passed a vessel from which they saw an parently heavy object throw'a Into e water with a splash. It is sup sed that the vessel was Rabert's unch, and that it was Mrs. Wooid 's body and its weight that were st into the water. Mrs. Woodill said to have been married to oodill about a year ago. A dispatch from Los Angeles, C-al.. ys the news of the murder of Mrs. lith M. Woodill, the young wife Albert Woodill, president of tha 'oodill Automobile Company, of at city, created a sensation there. here both are well known. Mrs. oodill was 20 years old, and was rmety Miss Edith May Thompson. ward of Lyman J. Gage. former <retarv of the Treasury, now a -sident of San Diego. A CRUEL ERROR. hbought He. Wag, Free But Got Full Life Sentence. A feeling of hope of freedom, held it to a prisoner in a Chicago court 'edncesday, was snatched from him ,a way that caus'ed a sigh of pity >spread among th.- spectators. The prisoner was Franik O'Donnell. "'used of robbing a citizen at the -d4 a rev'olver. The foreman anded the' clerk tw forms, one >r guilty and the other for acquit LI. "Not guilty.'' read the clerk. ah 'niminderity !ai:ing to not.' that he as reading the unsigned form. O'Donnell jumpe'd from' his seat. Keiredly laughing, and wrung his iwyer's band. He started from the vom with his bead ini the air and is eyeos sparklirng. Then the mis ike was dinovered and O'Donnell -as brought back. His he-ad sank n his chest as the real verdict was eive-red. "Guilty and conrdemtned to serve ye term 6f ht ~isura! It.fe iu pris CHEATS THE LAW MURDERER WRITES LAST CHAP TER IN WOODILL TRAGEDY. Robe" Emmett Eastmn Alias' Em mett E. Roberts, Commits Suicide When Capture Seems Certain. A dispatch from St. Michaels. Md.. says the last tragic chapter in a story of crime unparalleled in this aee tion of the country was written In the half light of an early summer's dawn Friday. when the man accused of the heartless murder of pretty lit tle May Edith Thompson Woodill a spectre-like form fleeing in a skiff from a posse of determined, relent less pursuers-stood for a moment facing the men who had cornered him on the waters of a narrow creek, then fired a bullet crashing into his heart and fell a lifeless lump into the bottom of the boat, which he had hoped would carry him to a landing place where flight might be poesible. Taking his fate into his own hands and blotting out untold the story of the death of a girl who had moved in the highest social circles of Balti more. Washington and Los Angeles a beautiful, talented girl. who had been a protege of Lyman J. Gage and of Former Governor Frank Brown of Maryland-the man known here as Emmett E. Roberts, but who in reality was Robert Emmett East man, a failed broker of the Consoli dated Stock Exchange of New York. passed beyond the reach of the law and with his going there vanished' the hope of clearing up the motives and baffing details of this strange tragedy. A letter found upon Eastman's body. addresred to Miss Vinnie Brad come. care of Klaw & Erlanger. New York. gave Eastman's ill-sus tained excuse for the crime. It was a rambling account of how he had been out In a launch with a party of men and women. all of whom had been drinking to excess with the ex ception of himself and Mrs. Woodill. and how one of the women in a fit of jealous frenzy had attacked Mrs. Woodill w!th a wine bottle and killed ber; how the remainder of the par~v bad taken flight, leaving him to dis pose of the body and hor an a meana >f e3cape from all his troubles the writer had decided to end his life. SIGEL MURDER PROMPTS RAID. White Girls Found With Chinamen. AII Arrested. A patrol wagon was driven up in ront of Brooklyn police headquar era Wednesday afternoon and Detec aves Carberry and Doyle, aided by Patrolman Daly and Detective Hines ed out three well dressed white girls ind three Chinamenx. They were ai: >rsonern. and were the result of a aid by 2arberry and Dcyle on the aundry run by a Chinaman at 146 Royt street. Brooklyn, N. Y. The sad case of Elsie Sigel had rompted the two detectives to ex ra efforts in the matter of the three ;irls, who were first noticed by the >ffcers in a Chinese laundry on Wil-' ougtiby street. The girls were Rose ennett, aged twenty-two; May Ben ett. aged nineteen, and Ruth La ayette, aged seventeen. The three ''hinese prisoners described them ilves as Hong Kee. Lou Toy and liong Tong, all of 146 Hoyt street. Against one of the men there wilt be a grave charge made by the La fayette gIrl, who is only seventeen' rears old. She was very much dis resse'd over her arrest and fa.Anted twice in the detectives' offce at headquarters while -the lieutenant t the desk wa~s taking the pedigrees >f the prisoners. All of the girls were weeping but the Chinamen did not seem to worry, and maintainea the expressionless stolidity charac eristic of their race. They had1 othing to say except to deny the harge that they had been consorting with the girls. CATHOLIC PRIEST DROWNED. l'nfortunuate Accident at South Beach, Florida. Rev. Father Buckley, of St. Augus tine. Fla.. was drowned at Southf Beach Wednesday afternoon while in< surf bathing. Rev. Butckley, to gether with Father Aloysius of St. Louis college, Jack Spencer, Eddiet Freyber went to the beach at .Z o'clock and were joined by Rev. Father Ray of Tampa. Rev. Father Buckley ventur-* too far out in the i surf and colled for help, Rev. Father Ray going to his assistance. Togeth- : er they battled with the waves until: both became exhaus'ted, when ther separated. Jack Spence'r wenlt to R.v. Fath.-r Ray's assistanc. pull-1 ing him ashore, and by this time Rev. Father Buckley had sunk from view. Dr. Buckley was ordained about one1 year ago and was a native of Ire land. Hfe was in charge of the paris.hi at Tallahassee. Fia., but about thre months ago was transferred to St. AugustiD'. The body was not re coered. Speeding Cau.ed W1reck. Arenording to Commissioner Cau;:h man's report the Southern's fatal freight wreck at Sta last Thuzrsday was cauzs'd by reckless speedin; to; get the train througth to its de nation. .\ few days before the ac cident Engineer Turner was warned that ite train would turn over. FataUy Stabbed. .\t Richmond, Ya.. on a street car; Wednesday Georv. E. Lewis. the con ductor, was fatally stabbed by a young no;rn whom he attempted to put under arrest. for r'efusing to move outt ofT th~ .e . when orderedI. ROBS TAXAS BANK A BOLD BANDIT HOLDS UP CASE [ER WITH PISTOL. Takes Eight Thousand Dolars is Currency and Then C(oily Walki Off With It. In true frontier style, a highway man, described as gentle in appear ance. robbed the branch banking house of the Waggoner Bank and Trust Company in the heart of Fort Worth, Texas. of $S.100 in currency and escaped. The robbery was the most daring atempted in Texas in years. Cash er Walter E. King was alone in the bank after closing time, balanc ing the business of the day, when a man walked In. As the man ap proached the window of the cashier's desk, King looked into the barrel of t revolver. "Make a move or a noise of any kind %and I'll kill you.' was the ;reeting Mr. King received. The cashier obeyed the order. Seizing the roll of bills the man backed out of the door, covering King with the revolver. King ran o a telephone, as he saw the man walking down the street and ming ngling with the crowds with an air >f unconcern. The police reached he scene five ugntes later, but .he robber had disappeared. At the time of the robbery sev ral hundred persons were near the uilding and many noted the arrival Lt the bank and the departure of the nan, but his manner was so 'tand hat he did not arouse suspicion. everal persons declare that he imed into a waiting automobile, Lfter walking several blocks. But the police place little credence n this assertion and it is believed e is still in Fort Worth. Search ng parties are out in force. An in erurban car which left for Dallas vas overtaken by officers in an au omobile. but this obvious means of scape had not been utilized. The loss to the Waggoner banks is overed by insurance. The bank. Lowever. offered a reward of $1,0.). WIFE OF MINISTER SKIPS. Lad to Have Diappeared With Another Man. The congregation of Centenary lethodibt Episcopal church, at New er., N. C.. was greatly startled Sun ay morning when the pastor. Rev. L. C. Beaman, D. D.. announced to hem that his wife had disappeared d could not be located. The pas >r's words were pronounced in as ne oratory as has ever been heard a that pulpit and no word of cen ur' er bitter feeling escaped his 's. It was a very pathetic scene. On Saturday. June 5, Dr. Beamian 'ent to Durham to attend Trinity ollege commencement. Three or our days later Mrs. Beaman left e born, it is said, ostensibly for Locky Mount, but nothing has been eard from her since. Notes found different places Indicate that she as left with a man named Grant. 'ho has been in town for a few The matter was known to but very w prior to the Sunday morning ervices. She was the minister's econd wife and was about the age his -youngest daughter by his first ife. The seCond wife was reared *t an orphan asylum. The Methodist hurh is the largest and most In Luential In the city, and one of the argest In the State an'd Dr. Bea 2an's charge over it has been marked ith a period of prosperity. DEATHS FROM HEAT. housands of New Yorkers Sleep on Beaches, A dispatch from New York says e hot wave which Indicted torture in the East Slde was blamed for at .-st twelve deaths and more than score of! prostrations. No relief oming at night, more than 20.000 ~ersons went to bed on the sandy each at Coney Island. it being the rat occraion this season when resl Jents of the city sought overnight 'ehief at the seashore. The beaches were thrown open to he public and policemen were de ailed to guard the sleepers. Most of hoe who slopt on the sands were vomen and their children, who lived n the crowded sections of the city. The mauimumf temperature or :nety-one degrees was reported at o'cock in the afternoon, but the neit Intense suffering came an hour ater following a hot rain shower, een the wind died out and the air ecame close and sultry. Street thermometers registered as 'igh as nInety-four and a high temn eiraturP was maintained a1: day and 1i of Tuosd~ay night. Wife Beater Slain. Frank Crawford. a farmer living ..'r Selma. N. C.. was struck on he head and his skull crushed by oan in the hands of his thirteen e'r-old son Monday morning. Craw ord had his w if.e down and was beat Lg her andi the boy, not being able ro get him o'f without force. used the w' The bor' has been place-d in jail at Smithfield. Hfuman Blood for Idol. The "Sect of the Crimson Blo~od." '-rme-1 in Permt. European Russia. is acused of making human sacri lees to offer to a red wooden idol. hich the members of the sect s'or ship. Many personis have disappear i reentiv and 11 is thought that HOW SHE DiED Chinaman Tells at Murder of Elsie Seigle. MUCH UGHT THROWN On New Vork's Murder Mystery by a Countryman of the Slayer of the Girl-fhe Went to the China man's Room Alone and Was There Murdered. That New York murder mystery has been solved. Baited and intimi dated by detectives Chu;Ag Sin, one time room mate of Leon Ling, told Tuesday afternoon of Elsie Sigel's murder. U'nder the terrific pressure of the "third degree" the little Chi .2aman admitted that he had seen the body in Leon Ling's room, that he had touched it while it was still warm, that he had smelled drugs and had watched Leon Ling's plans for getting the body in the trunk, where it was found horribly decom posed. Chung Sin is 35 years old. He was arrested at West Walway, N. H., and was brought to New York Tues day morning. He was ballied, per suaded and entangled in a mass or significant questions. It was not un til late Tuesday. however, that his spirit was sufficiently broken or suf ficient inducement were offered, as the case may be, for him to cast aside his air of stoldness and tell of the death of the young missionary. Then, smoking cigarette after cigar ette to quiet his nerves, the China man told brokenly but with brutal bluntness of the girl's death. From the man's story. It is appar ent that Elsie Sigel first was drug ged with chloroform and then chok ed to death. She was killed appar ently on the night of June 9. al though Chung Sin appeared a little mixed in his dates. But he says that early in the morning of June 10 he heard a strange noise in Leon's room adjoining his and looking over the transom saw the girl lying on the bed with a bloody towel over the mouth. He passed through the room, he says, to go out to wash his hands, and as he did so felt the body. which was still warm. He went down to the chop suey restau rant below and then returned to the room. Leon. in the meantime, had cov ered the body with a blanket up to the chin and had pulled a trunk to the middle of the floor. The trunk Leon was calmly emptying, prepara 'ory to placing the body therein. Tle rope with which :'e body was bound was lying on the floor at the time, according to Chung Sin. Once 4gain he went down stairs, said Chung Sin. where he remained until Leon called him. When he entered the room the body was not visible, having been bound with the rope and placed in the trunk. At this point of the story the Chinaman was asked savagely if he hadI not assisted Leon in putting the body in tae trunk. Chung stared perceptibly, but said that he had no hand in it. "I did not see her no more," said Chung Sin. "and when I asked Leon how she died he said she had bitten her tongue and bled to death." Leon told him, Chung Sin added, that he was going to send the trunk to Jer s'y City, thence to Europe. As a matter of fact it lay untouched in the stufry little room until Sun Ling, proprietor of the restaurant below, noticed the oder about the building 'tnd summoned the police. U'ntil Chung Sin's complete ac count is made public it will not be explained why he saw the dead girl and the preparation for the removal of the body with such apparent un conce'rn at the time. Also, despite repeated interrogations he declined to say just what happened in the rear room when the girl was murdered. He admitted having heard a scuf tle n the room during the night and told of Elsie having arrived on the previous afternoon, the day when she disappeared from he! home. "Did Leon take her there or did she go of her own accord." he was asked. "She went there alone," he repli ed. "Was she in love with Leon or Leon in love with her?" was another question. At thIs Chung Sin relapsed into silence' and then only smiled and shook his head. He indicated, how ever. that the giri ,had sought out the Chinamian. Incidpatally he said thar Leon Ling and Chu Gain had come to blows over the girl in China town some weeks ago. The police theory is that Leon killed the girl because of her attention to Chu Gain. Sold His Wife. Thr-~ Circuit court sitting in Port !and. Ore.. will hear arguments this "'."'k in the stranges-t case that has er.-r appeared on its docket. John Braganza. a German. after selling bis wi~ to Hi. Ruddart. for $150, han broght suit against her purchaser u charge of alienating her affec tions. Attorneys fail to see how Bragonza can have been damaged as a claims since he sold. exchanged and ibartered his wife.* Mutiny Leader Killed1. .\'-cording to news r'eceived at Ma'Mia Lieut. Noh!*. with a company of the Twenty-third constabulary, on ~June 18. struck pa-t of the Davao mtineers and killed Sergt.acade mla. l.'ader of thy' mutiny. In the ensing figt. Sergt. Hewsonl. of the :Ame~rica3U forces. who killed the mu'. s--', era wounded during