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AVANT TALKS CeGrtswi N Says E Has Rimed His Life. f PECIAR SITUATION Man Does Not Know How His Ap. peal Stards-Dr. Bigham Not Yet Heard From-Seems to Be Doubt About Report of the Doctor Be ing in Greenvilk. "Of course it worries me. It haz ruined my life and I never expec' to get over it." said W. B. Avan at the State penitentiary. where h Is held, pending an appeal % ut' supreme court. Avant was qu ;uon ed closely as to the tragedy of &I'-r rell's Inlet, when he shot and ki.led. Mrs. Ruth Crisp Bigham. on a lione ly beech. while he was in :ompany with her husband. Dr. G. C. lj a. I Both Avant and Bigham hav, '.-en convicted for the crime and s-entenc ed to serve a term of three and one balf years each in the State rcson. The prisoner who is now bein" held. until further advices are r'-.-red from the Georgetown sheriff is very young, hardly over 2::. of unkemp' appearance, shoulders slightly stoop ed. brownish hair, gray eye-s and of a nervous nature. The wher- abouts of Dr. Bigham. the husband of tie woman who was killed, is unkjown. Just what will be the next move In the noted case Is not known. Dr. Bigham is at large, although recent ly reported to be in Greenville. W. B. Avant is at the State Prison. though not as a convict. a message having been received by the authori ties from the sheriff of Georgetown just before he was to be mustered In. "to hold him until further in structions." Avant firmly believes that be will get another trial but can not understand why the papers have not been filed with the supreme court. It is stated that the time is out for the filing of the papers and that both men will have to go to prison. The prisoner said that he was per fecEtly Ignorant as to just what his attorney had done in the case and thac he thought that immediately after Judge Watts refused a new trial that the case would be appeal ed to the supreme court. Avant was given to understand before the interview that it was not necessary for him to talk unless he wished to .'nd that he might re quest any statement he might make not to be printed. In his conversation, the prisone: at times grew excited and nervous Questions of general nature he would answer freely, but when asked di rectly about certain phases -f th' case he would exclaim In an excited voice. "that ? refuse to answer." Although he was asked many ques tions concerning the- mysterious case he would give no answers that would make a connected story. He could not remember many of the details o: the killing. When asked who shot Mrs. Big bamn, the prisoner said. "Yes. I sho; her." When asked why the answer came. "I -.ecline to answer." On being asked just what hi? thoughts were when he dhaLverec that he had shot a woman. he hesi tated a moment and said. "I had ne. thoughts. I was scared and nervoum and ran back to the house." "Why did you shoot and kill Mrs Bigham?'' was asked Avant and the usual reply to many questions came. "'that I decline to 'ell you." "Before you pulled the trigger what did you see on the beech wa? the next question asked the prison er. "Something black. sitting on tht ground" was the answer. When questioned further as t< where Dr. Bigham was when the shot was fired, the prisoner said. "I don't know. I 'was scared, he might have been near me." "What did you think the some thing black or dark was on the beech?" he was asked. "I will no: answer that." was the reply. Avant stated that he was married and while not a warm personal friend of Dr. Bigham that he had known him for some time and that Ml:., Bigham had visited his home wr-.. e ral times.. The prisoner w's ' farmer. The killing of Mrs. 1igham w-' most sensational and mysterious int its nature and many theories han' been advanced, but nothing of a denl nite nature is known concerning the crime. Where is Dr. Bigianm? is the ques tion that many are asking. "From what can be learned mien Dr. Bigham is still at large andi 'he last report from him is to the ef fect that he is in Greenville. E:I dently there is some misunderstand ing in connection with the aff 0. Avant hay-ag been arested and s-i" to prisoni and Bigham being out on bond yet. It certainly appears to be illegal for Avant to be In and Bigham out or vIce versa. inasmuch they were both released at the same, time and under identically t~he same' conditions." A report from G'reenvile. where it was claimed Dr. fligham had gone. to visit some of his relatives says: "Dr. G. C. Bigham seems not to 1> In Greenville at present. as he has not been seen within the last few days. It is suppose'd by some, how ever, that he is somewhere in the county with his relative't. "The sheriff of this county has re-J cently received a telegram from the sheriff at Georgetow'? county tell-I ing him not to arrest Bigham. and from this it seems that h' is not considered a fugitive from justice." Dr. Bigham is under a bond of I 31j00 and If the papers for a new trial have not been filed with the suprene court. it seems as if he Is destined to serve out his sentence s should he appear. F Bigham is c.aus describ'ed: "A low, heavy-set man. possibly fi--e for nine inches in height, dark red hair, t parted in the middle, medium low t1 forehead. ruddy complexion: e-yes a f light brown. reddened as :: 9. dissipation and granulat-d ey i . He is rath'er boyish in appearance. lean shaven, and when his face ;s 1. in repose he appears rather a mild annered man, in appearance heisf ather yo':nge~r thani his age. :- at MAE HEROES OF THEM H SUPREME COURT TAKES UNPRE(EI)ENTED ACTION. mprison an Ex-Sheriff and Others for Allowing a Prisoner in Their ('ustody to be Lynched. For the first time in American itory. six men ar.- in prison for un.-mpt of the Supreme Court of he Unit.-d States. For the first time. the Federal (overnment has acei men behind tMe bars as an utcome of the iynching of a negro. A: th-- United States jail i Vash ngton. Capt. Joseph F. Shipp. form r sheriff at Chattanooga. Tenr.: Jer miah Gibsou. his jailer. and Luther Villiams. Ni.:k Nolan. Henry Pad .tt and Wm. Maye,. of the same city. lave -gun s.-rvint terms of im risonment imposed a few hours be or- )Y The Supreme Court of th. :nite4 States. Shipp and Gibson had been found tuilty of failing to protect from a noh. Ed Johnson. whose legal exe :ution for rape bad been stayed by -he Supreme Court until It coult review the case. The others hac been found guilty of participatiot in the lynching of a Federal priso .er. Shipp. Williams and Nola: Vere given sentences of ninety days mprisonment each, while Padgett 'ibson and Mayes each received six ty days. As the big barred doors of th, Jai? swung oper. to receive the priso -ers. Immediately after sentence- hai been imposed. Warden McKee stoo< '>efore them. "As least we are in the hands o i soldier:" exclaimed Capt. Ship; vho had been in many a fight fo he Confederacy, as he espied a C 1. R. button on the lapel of Warde \dcKee's cost. Then turning to hi 'Ive fellow prisoners, he said: ''Boys. it will be all right.' Warden McKee has inauguratk methods of punishment at the ja is humantarian as the various clasA es of prisoners will allow, and b was prepared for the reception the six men firom Tennessee. About a year ago. during the in prisonment of an unusually lars number of wor.en, the warden ha fitted up a store room on the fourt door of the jail as quarters for f male prisoners. It was in this larl room. perhaps twenty by thirty-fl feet. that he locked the six prisoner In the room were beds for eac of the prisoners, while at one er was a table upon which "trustie will set their meals three times -ay. A bath room, adjoining tl room. will be used by the priso ars exclusively. Four large circuL widows open to the south and wee giving excellent views of the fro: of the buildings. In fact, so plea ant did the prison'rs find the qua 'ers that Capt. Shipp sent his a torney. Major Clift. to the office the Supreme' Court to withdraw request he had made when senten was imposed. to be sent to the Fe eral prison ai Atlanta. Ga.. inster of the jail in Washington. During the afternoon, the six m<4 received calls from Tennesseeans at others. Sitting on his straw be half reclining on his pillow of stra' Capt. Shipp made this statement: "We are very well pleased wi1 the treatment given us by Wardt McKee. and are delighted wIth tU I uarters assigned us.'' A few hours in jail made Gibsc reminiscent. IHe told hbis comipa ions that this was not the first tin hie had been in prison in Washin, ton. "But the other time I was broug] hiere as a Confederate prisoner.'' I laid. BREAKS THE RI-XXRD. Cotton Expots This Year Largs Than Ever Before. A Washington dispatch says Co ton exports last month exceeded I 'lue those of any ear~er mont in the history of the cotton trade< the I'nited States. The :otal valu of cotton exported in the monthC October, 1909, was, ;ccording to th latest reports of the bureau of sta tistics of the department of cotr merce and labo?. 38S.8S3.Th0. whil no .other month ever reached th eighty million dollar line in the va: ue of cotton sent out of the cout try. The value of the cotton e~s i~orts for the ten months endin with October, 1909. was $.:s.526, 8S3. against $316.693.265 in the cor responding period ot 2907, the high est record ever attaine4 for a 11k period. This highest reco.-d of value o cotton exports, made by the montJ of October and by the 10 month ending with October. 1909. suggest that the value of cotton exported ii the year of 1909 may probably ex eed that of any earlier year in thb history of the export trade. Shouic the figures for November and D~ecem ber equal those of October, the tota alue of cotton export would cros: the 53.'.000 dollar line-. This higi water mark in the value of cottor sporte'd is the result of th- comtbi :ation of large quantities and higi prices. W.osman Burned to Death. .At Salisbury. N. C.. Mrs. Sadie irown. aged fifty years. was burned o dea:h at her home Friday. her ody being burned into a crisp. ;he was seated by an open fire, and er dress ignited and in an instant he was enveloped in namnes. her lotbing being burned off. The only ember of the family present wa r father, aged S0 years. blind and elpess. Murderer Caught. The Aiken Journal and Review ys the many friends of Mr. M. S. dd, of Shaws Fork. who was cut >death by two negroes in Mulher . Fa.. some weeks ago will be in ~rested to know that Ed. Semnmes. e negro who escaped, has been rested in Charleston.* .4 Yaluablo Find. .amie. Curry. a fisherman. found af pounds of ambergris in the raits of .luan de Fuca. a few miles I om Port Townsond. Chemists exc SHARP REPLY Io Sezator Tilian's Criticism of the Plan of Fnancing the TAFT LUNCHEON AFFAIR Capt. W. E. Gonzales. 31imnber of the Central Coumittee in Charge of the Arraneement. Explains Why Free Ticket, Were Not I -tied to tihe Columnbia Fuactiou. The foll win sa--m-n as pub lished by,. Capt. W. F. Gonzales. whol was oil the cetrl co-mmitte as th. repre.settativ. tf 'It Cotunhia Cianber of Comi-rce. to provide' f or the. ent.rt'i nf P'resident Taft wh-n h-- 'I;ied Columibia re cenitly: *As a mlenber of tho er-ntra, con mIittev an'! as 'h.- indiividual pri mar:ly respon.;e for the method rof President Tafts ,nt*.rtainnnt at !uncheon in Coumbia. a ni-thod haracterized by: It. Tiliman as indecent.' :adi cri::eiz--d i chorus by a mor- or lev h:tless. unin orn-d or nalicio:s :.wspapers I mnak.- t.-sbon- snt--ment of facts. The '.eious .'.aut upon Co iumbia . Tillman. r.:otdcast throuzth th.- coutry6 :in proe!-s di..-! patch.s. is a :':lection all South C:aroEna. Last win:.. the Presidnt-ele:-t was invi: d to Coumbia by the- Gov ernor. the pres.dent of the' South Carolina lar Association. and pr.-si .Jent of the Columbia Chamber of r Comimerce. He could not then som. Later the invitation was rene'wed by the Governor. the mayor and the president of the Chamber of Com merce. lie accepted that invitation. Three inothns ago organization for the care of the Pre'sident and his entertainnient was begun by th. for mation of a central committee, of which the Governor. repre.enting South Carolina. was chairman. May or Reamer and myself being the oth er members. "The first suggestion for the Presi d n(lot's entertaI imen t was by Gover h nor Ansel. who proposed tenderin; him a luncheon. I opposed that :e plan on the ground that the coming e of the President to the Capital. on the invitation of the city and State. was State-wide in its significance. and his hosts should be the repre seutative m.en of the State: that any formal function at the Mansion must of necessity be restricted. and. there fore. the idea of a State entertain Lr ment could not be carried out. As a substitute suggested inviting a i ertain number of representative mten of South Carolina to participate in giving this luncheon. The cost was estimated at $10 for each host. President. his immediate party an members of his Cabinet. That plan was accepted, the Governor deciding d *o give the President a breakfast. Mr. Taft at that time expecting to arrive here in the morning. Was% State-wide Affair. "Mlembers of committees were later appointed, and the committee jon invitation forwarded to the b thousand persons selected to be gie en the opportunity to participate in entretaining the President. a card of invitation, in stereoTyped form, bearing, as symbolical of the 'scope. an engraving of the flag of South Carolina. There was absolutety nothing upon that card suggesting Columbia as the host. Another card -arried the information to South tCarolinians invited that the first :hree hundred to avail themselves if the invitation. ande pay the amount fixed upon, would participate in the luncheon. "'Invitations were essential be a muse limitation and selection were necessary. No one was Invited be -ause he could pay his way. Of ficial South Carolina. the press, the men of learning and of worthy achievement were recognized as ful b ly as possible in the effort to have 'I assemble he're a r.'pre'sentative and e -ilstinguished body of South Caro iinians to me.et the country's Chief Executive. Private entertainment in * Columbia would have saved the comn -mittee's infinite troubles and trials, but would necessarily have elimninat dthat State feature of the enter e tainment. to which the President so - feelingly referred in his address - here. -*"Fnrther carrying out the State !! wide conc.'ption, a reception commit tee was appoinated. on which every -county in South Carolina had repre - sentation: there were two aldermen L.Jfrom iColumabia :.nd probably a dozen members of the Gea'eral Assembly f on that committee. "'The design and inscription for the menu card. chosen by the lunch .'on committe--. a fu!! month before the event. '-mphasiz.-d the scope of the function. In addition to the engravings -of the. Capitol. the coat Iof arms of South Carolina and a pealmetto tre.-. th9. declaration that the luncheon was "Give'n to Presi dent Taft by South' Carolinans" was *:onclutsive. of its purpeos.. "At te b:nir't of: the pre-para. tlion it was d.-cre.-d that ther.' should be no 'gu.-st'.' at th.-~ luncheon ex-. e'pt th.e President. his party and mlemb--rs~ of the' Cabin.-t. And there! was none. Every South Carolinian preentwasthere as a host. The re porters for th.e Columbia Record. The News and Courie-r and the. State. Ithe members of all committs--the aen who beore the responsibeilities~ and did the arduous work of prepa tion-wer-e hosts. each contributingi his~ vhare toward making fitting] South Carolina's hospitality to the < nation's official head.t "There are two practicable meth ods of defrayingt the expenses of pub lie banquets. One is by using the f taxpayers' morney to pay for an en-c tertainment from which more thanI 99~ percentum of the: taxpayers must of nee-ssity be excluded, and the k other is that those acting as hosts C do the part of hosts and defray the t costs. By the first plan the manyv pay for the' beneht of the few: by t the latter there is equaality andI juis Ai. id 1h" 'at"r -h span-1 Same Plan Foelloewed Eiwwhere. i "Aft'r Tillman's i2:-bred outbreak 1 in the face of Columbia's and South j 1 ('arolina's apperoa::hin' m er-t. I tookI dent or contemplated so doing. as u the plan followed. Here are ex racts from the replies: "Washington: 'The dinner given o 'resident Taft was arranged by L joint committee of the Chamber >f Commerce and board of trade. rhe committee issued invitations to L few distinguished guests. who. of 'ourse. paid nothing. All others tho attended paid $20 a plate. The ist was limited.' The list. however. vas not confined to Washingtonians. -New Orleans: 'At the banquet -endered President Taft here last 'elruary. just before his inaugura ion. all those who attended were nvited to pay $2. with the excep lon of Mr. Taft's party. the pree of New Orleans) and possibly oul' 3 two guests of honor.' Those in ritations to participate were not :onfined to citizens of Louisiana. "Atlanta: 'I have just wired you .h-t we did exactly the same thin. here in Atlanta. and it is the usual rustom. not only here in the South but in every other city in the coun Iry. . . . It seems to me it I a very sensible custom. . . Some body has to pay. Why not. there for". those who are there in the ca pacity of hosts? . . . So far a: I have heard this is the eanv ;n stance of complaint of this kind or record. "Savannah. -'he Taft banqn" will be attended by 350 p1-rsom About thirty will be guests of thi city: the .20 who are not spec~.C gue-sts will pay $20 per plate for ti occasion. In eighteen years I do n) recall a function of the sort in th: city that was not similarly finance'd Invitations to participat. in thai banquet and its expense-a banquo, given in the namen of Savannah were s"nt to Atlanta .and elsewher in Georgia. "The direct charge that Celun bia was attempting to make the Stat at large pay for her frolic. and tl infamous insinuation that the pla of a committee, of which the Go ernor, the mayor and myself wel the members. had engaged in a mot ey-making scheme. warrants refte ence to what was spent in Columbh aside from the luncheon--whose cos by the way. was not covered by Q. estimated $10 a plate. Aside fro the entertainment in the State Hou the outlay was. as accurately as can now secure the figures. $5.S00. Tillman Tartly Cenurml. "I have no means of dfining ti motive prompting D. R..Tillman make the gross and insolent rep he did to the invitation to be a ho instead of a guest at the lunche< to the President, and it is immateri whether he imagined it an opport nity to hurt Columbia. or to emba rass his political opponents on t commIttee. or to hoodwink gullib backwoodsmen. But his ill-hr. tirade, his maliciously false stat ment of Columbia's position. I charge that our plan was a violati< of hospitality and 'indecent.' wou have been ignored by me had n papers in South Carolina, some them perhaps misinterpreting t committee's silence while the gue was approaching, indulged in wh< ly unjustified, and, as a distinguis ed Georgian writes me. unprecedet ed ccriticism of this city. "That Tillman. who has nev balked at the price of a dinner whi paid for with the money of taxpa ers. should essay the role of a Wa McAllister Is grotesque. The mi: who as a guest of honor in Charis ton 'took the hide off his hosts at then 'rubbed in salt,' and gave Cha lestonians a stomach-turning fro which they needed year'; to recov< the man whose coarsc speech wh< making addresses by invitation h brought the blood to the faces farmers' wives and daughters South Carolina. the man whose pr fanity before women has shocked South Carolina and in Washingt< -this man's criticism. I say. hospitality and etiquette is Kr tesque. The animous is reveale when Tillman, notorious for lack courtesy, lack of refinement, and f general uncouthness, and boastf of his disregard of the convention attempts to be mentor of Columbia manners. And when It comes maintaining the good name of Soul Carolina, for which he now essa: to be jealous, Tillman's display of a appetite for getting something f< nothing or much for little, whic had its inceipient manifestation wht he was Governor in the cultivatic of a private oat crop at public e: pense. and its latest development I the Oregon land affair, might be de tailed as startling inconsistency be tween the word and the deed.' "If Mr. Taft knew anything abot the reason Senator Tillman gave fc absenting himself from the luncheoi he said nothing about it, but ti joyed a good dinner. A. K." AS BAD AS THE SOL'TH. What an Illinois Republican Pape Says About Lynching. The Springfield, Ill.. Republica: says if the South ever yieled up; more horrible story of human sav agery than comes from Cairo, Ill. we do not recall it, Indeed, it I: impossible that any Southern comn munity could have done so; for how surpass in deviltry and bloodthirst ness the hanging and shooting ant eurning of the victim, the' soakin: f piece's of rope in his blood. the beheading and parade of the he'ad and the cutting out of the heart ane. hipping it into piect's for siouvenirst lh'h only redeeming f.-ature. as th< ew York Evening Post aJse.rves, i:. 'hat the mob did not stick to the :olor line. It butchered a white nurdre'r. too, or one charged with nurde'r. It is altogether as re'volt ng an exhibition of human degrada .ion as the country ever saw, or as ilinois ever saw, and Illinois has >f late been giving several exhibl ons of the kind. The case with hich the public authority broke own is. a particutarly discreditable eture of the case. That spectacle f tg sheriff flee~ng with the priso er through woods and over hills. 'ith the mob In full pursuit-how ollow is shown to be the pretension Cairo to a civilization worthy' of be name' We are now to see hether the State of Illinois can pro ed to anything much better hether the ringleaders of this iod-untnc miob of men and~ 'n-' len are to esctape all punishment tgto their capital crimo. as in 2 case of other Illinois mobs cef tis character. It ikes more thati one thieT tre THEY ARE DEAD The Rescue Work Halted by a Fres lut-! break of Fire in M'-. ALL HOPE IS GIVEN UP (enerad Opinion Around the Mine at Cherry. Illino%. In Which Over Tire lundied Men Were Buriedi Alive Saturday. i. That All Are 11eyond the Reach of Aid. Sunday there was a hope that thel four h-undred miners who were en-I tombed in the St. Paul coal mine', near Cherr.. Il.. were st!ll living. but that hope was given up on Mon day. and it is now believed that all of them are dead. Some of the bodies lie buried beneath thousands of tons of Farth which caved in up on them, and it is doubtful whether many of the bodies can ever be re I rovered. Fans emplov-d in au -fort to car ry fresh air and life down to the imprisoned men served only to en liven some enl'ers which sprang into flames. Soon the heat and -rmoke b.ecame so dense tha,. it was necessary again to seal the mouth of the hoisting shaft and the men down there. whatever their condition, are locked in as effectively as in a dun ~eon. IHop" swung frequently in the bal ance the past day or so. Be4fore the fire broke. out again, rescuers decended four times into the shaft. n Then the rumor circulated quickly throughout the crowds that the men below had beer. reached and that . the reason they were not brought up .. !mmediately was that they were a exhausted by lack of food, and thi -smoke. But the truth was far different M The rescuers did. on one occasion e go down three hundred feet to tht Ibottom of the hoisting shaft. Ther croping their way with electric lamps. and Wept alhve by oxyger a carried wit)- them. they penetrate( 'o 150 feet :.to the bottom gallery iy But none of the miners, either deat ;, or alive was found. o "Hey. are you thete?" cried th< al rescuers. but nothing was heard it U response. r- It was conjectured the -miners ha< le crawled for safety into the recess I es. remotest from the fire. but t -d these parts the rescuers were unabl e. to go without reascending. Befor< is they could redescend. the fire ha< n browen out. Gradually the crowi d about the mouth of the shaft bega ot to thin as hope seemed to wane. of The explorers reported they ha4 te walked in a vein of the mine fo s 150 feet from the base of the shaf 1-j and they had found no living no '..dead body. The atmosphere in thi t- vein was considerably better thai had been expected. With the aid o r the electric lanters the searchers ha4 n been able to see plainly. - In othe: veins leading from th d shaft much smoke was encounterei n and nothing could be seen. Afte - consultation it was determined ti d start the ventilating fan at the op r- posite side of the mine to clear th< :n galleries of the smoke. r. jSome believed that the draft migh n arouse a simmering fire. Others fel is assured the fire had been smother f ed and that ventilation would clea: n the galleri.'s and make them pos >sible for the searchers. n In half an hour the fans wer1 n suddenly ordered stopped. Smok4 fbegan to pour from the main shaft -It was soon learned that fire hat dbroken out afresh. Atemts to drown it provel. futil4 r Aothtmi b.-came necessaryv to sea 1 th shaft.' s STAND BY(OTTrON CROP. h Preident of Southern Says World Will Call for 20.000,000 Bales. ir President Finley of the Southe.'n h Railway, addressing a large gather n ing of folk from the countryside n of Salisburg. N. C.. Wednesday. and ~ ater speaking at a banquet nf !ne 3 board of trade, expressed the convic -tion that in no area of equal exteat -in th-- world is the agricultural :>ut look brighter than in the routhern *i States, and urged -i, farmer; no't to r nenlect the cultivation of cotton. -*"We miay well look forward to a -time in the not far distant future." said Mr. Finley. "when the world will call on the American cotton planters for 20.000.990J bales every y'ear." rMr. Finley said he did not view wIth any alarm the tendency of young people to lcave the farm. but said he believed the increased at tractions of farm life would soon turn the tide in the other direction. "In viewing the figures." said Mr. 1Finley. "'it is not to be wondered that those responsible for the man agemenut of the railways of the South. seeing the agricultural advance go intg hand in hand with the indus trial development, should have faith in the'ir territory and should be striv .ng to the utmost to increase the carrying capacity of their line's so as o b.- able to prop--rly handle th increase in traffic which is sure to IMr. Finley did not counsel thel grow ng of cotton to the neglect of other crops. but suigge'sted that an incre'ase in production to keep pace.' with the dlemand of the world and that it be accomplished by more intense eni~ivat ion and by the grow ing of a variety of othrcoswt coton.to heprofit of the farmer. C. N. (R1TTENTON DEAD. He W. Fouznder of Florcece Crit Kenton Rec'ue Homes. A dispatch from San Francisco. Ca!.. says C'has. N. Crittenton. ot Nw York. v id.:ly known as the mil linaire :'ound--r of the Florenc" rittetion Rescue Homes for gi:s. ded Tu-SdY ig.ht of: pneumon ' br..e. ~rscue homes in this country and severaz in Japan and ChIna. SUGAR FRAUD EXPOSED FORMER GOVERNMENT S.AIPLER IS ISCHARGED From the <ervice Becau-"e he Tried, Seven Years Agn. to Secure an Inveti;;;ation. Som' ricsh aid racy evidence is being brought out in the investiga. tion of the fraud. perptrated on the governn..it by the members of the Sugar Trubt. now going on in New York. On Wednesday H--nry C. Corsa who one.- was employed as a Gov ernment sampler at Ti-: Americar Sugar Retining Comrpany's docks i Jersey City. has added further inter esting material to the complicatek controversy surrounding the fraud: charged to th.- company and variout custonis officials and employees. Corsa was discharged from th< Government service seven years ag< 1-y reason. as he be1lieves, of hi- ef forts to obtain an investigation. I a lengthy interview he reviews th< obstacles he met. and recites expe riences similar in many respects N those of Richard Parr and Edwi Anderson. who are defending thei respective claims to being the origi nal exposers of corruption in the cus toms house. Wilber F. Wakeman, a former al praiser, brought Corsa's name int the case some time ago, when he a! tested to the fact of his dischargin after he had brought to the gover ment's attention convincing evident of graft, which Corsa says was suw cessfully pigeonholed after he w. ousted. His efforts to obtain r, instatement Corsa adds. were aide from time to time by Leslie M. Shal former Secretary of the Treasur and other prominent men, but noz of them, he declares, was able overcome the grip the Sugar Cor pany had on the New York custom service, or to get for him the e dorsement of George Whitehead. wl succeeded Wakeman as appraiser. In his interview of a few days aj Corsa set forth that he went Washington to present his case Secretary Shaw. and the latter. says, after a long conference. sal "I'll see that you are put back. could demand it right new. B things are working so smoothly t tween Mr. Whtehead and mys< i that I don't want to break in abrul ly on him with this demand." 1 A short time afterward, accordi: Ito Corsa. he receive: a letter frc > Mr. Shaw stating that Shaw fou his hands to tied that he could nothing. Corsa says his eviden I against the Sugar Company was I the effect that agents of the coml i ny had offered him bribes in retu for his assistance in substituti I sugar of a low grade in samp] taken by the government for te, upon which cargoes were apprais As a part of this evidence, he turn s over to his superiors the money g ien haim as a bribe. fRichard Parr, who is still a dept I surveyor of the port, said that cent investigations have shown tU one man in every five amongt I employees in the weighers' divisi of the New York Lustoms house b been f:>und imliicated in the frau -or is "under suspicion of the m< positive character." THIRTEEN ITALIANS ARRESTE Band of Alleged Counterfeiters A Canght in New York. By the arrest of thirteen Italia Monday. United States secret servi men and the Italian squad of t New York police, think they ha rounded up the leaders of a bal which has trafficked for at least year in a large amount of counts fe:. money made in Palermo. ItnJ and circulated in America. The prisoners, who were taken raids upon several Italian shops at homes in Harlem, include Guissepj Morello, in whose lodging were fout seven alleged "black hand" lette written by him to merchants in Ne Orleans and returned, the police b lieve, by merchants who met the d mands for money, Pasquale Yasi. another of the me had in his possessior. 1.200 counte felt two-dollar bills. LA.NTERN CAUSES FIRE. Negro Attacked Night Watchma~ at Americus, Ga. A loss of fifty thousand dolla: resulted from a fire at Americu: Ga., Thursday ncsht. caused by a unknown negro atticking Nigi Watchman Lee Mc.\ichael, of th Americus Construction Company, an knocking the latter's lantern ove with a club. Shavings were ignite by the fire from the lantern and th extensive lumber yards and variet works of the company were destroy ed. For a time fire threatened dc struction of a considerable portio: of the city. Blefore being checke< ~the flames had covered an area o six acres. Among the other build lngs burned we'r' an unused col< storag- plant owned by S. R. Sim: and valued at $'1.000 and six smnaI dwellings with cont-nts. Yictim of Football. A dispatch fronm Richmond, Va. says sym:pat hetic sorrow pervade< the city for the mother and faml3 of Archer Christian, the eighteen year-old b-..'thack of the Universitl o~f Virginia football team, who. dur ing the game at Washington on Sat urday between the 'varsity and Georgetown U'niversity. was fatally injured in a miass play during the~ last. fve minut'es .of game. and died :reive hours late in a hospital. I Could Not Deliver Cotton. Shannon & Hope, of Sharon. in York e:>unty. a large nmercantile firm at that piae..I :.t sated that thc firm on :h.- strenzth of buying con raer:, wi'h n.'ighboring farmers. sold - TheoryBaing Power made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar Abs e WItLENTER THIEMINE TJYNE IL UNABLE LONGER TO ENDURE TM CRIES OF THE BEREAVED 9 State Inspectors Will Go Down the. I- Shaft and Find Out About the - Men Down There. -We are going down into that Acts of Heroism Performed by d mine today. We will conquer it or . it will conquer us. Unless we suc- Entombed Men in Trying to Save -, ceed, we will never come out alive." the Lives of Others-Mayor of The cry of the widows and or- the Town Appe for .Aid from - phans at the mouth of the fatal mine s at Cherry. Ill.. Thursday morning. Outside Sources. "Open the shaft, open the shaft." E aroused State Mine Inspector Taylor. According to dispatches there are -Let lives be sacrificed to reclaim 1.000 orphans in Cherry, Ill., as a ;o from the mine the entombed dead if result of the terrible mine explosion, to necessary," he said. and unless food in large quantities to Under the supervision of mine In ie spector. hazardous efforts will be Is rushed Into the town many win 1: made to satisfy the frenzied cries be hungry. "We will need aid and I of the bereaved widows and or- plenty of it.- said Mayar Connelly. t phans. They will be braving the "and It must be forthcoming promt , dangers of deadly poisons, noxious qf gases, explosives and the probabili- be great sufer t- ty of a collapse of the fire-charred ing among the destitute families of galeries. Prelminary explorations the miners. While we do not like g by experts showed encouraging con- to ask for outside assisvtance, this am ditions and they determined to take A advantage of the low temperature town is too small to handle the situ o at the bottom of the --mergency ation alone. "Most of our citizens Ce shaft are miners, and the majority of them to It was decided to reinforce the ane down in the mine, in all proba a- air shaft by the erection of scaffolds. bilitY dead. We are doing every ra attaching a hoisting apparatus and thing Ponsibe to handle the propo g explore as far as hunan endurace siton, but it Is too big for a s es would permit. it is proposed to lower Dr. Howe. In charge Of the relief n two men. armored with oxygen hel- work. said that the need of food. o a the moin shftet the .:lereo ating a hn oe tf poreie n ev shatig onrvaldlarso e Chiners and othe plajorill aof t andt gas decided botom oefoc the ainrelownin the situatin Befoproba t, andtacrgsa hisng eppratus anthing lsebe wianll he opo-n e-gsploects fros hmany Sesrn lsobu it. Tse oor wiome as." at thel peermit. th ispoposedn toa toe ciDren Hwilegin torg of thuere he twf mamredI tl aig wthi on hin el- rk, snad then the sieedto food, an beitgtad pnthe mte galtleiept be. clterible andmne now tgreatand ds swald. The Ilii i spcorst.e . ltte oodzns ope The ole hoe s iinvegtion fryevae s actone haguno and terplacesl ases an wd garste amotogo the aft in old Out. Thensituation.steor cyans decseaseed thmatustere. ben anythgeseo woenl nd theohian maden nstorac from dead. Staete- drts may itur Tout too ben one. Dt therscee atv the mainio shat heo chden yol rein ta there auner e "fire is o ating ni onvicsaon verasnitud ofe the situatiocn bel Inseigr Thaylrrrno the msemstbeen.b Terhbey Eill nowd ctheis aut inaled al Ilof s nspretodstrs, etemoodytw." Teol oe s Wein are going toht tuhatin hasrnsorn the swowre rae Ifd succeful te wildealTe tem- cden maturdny out waoe arbne.a ). poerte atothes mino" shere ishne anoherc yof eoizemthas herfarm 109 ol a h a0s0e ~ lftm dh ohn of the ion, then shahe .d ee-t the enatng waw." hsha'd magnitude man ho siain a prbe aiepspecior Theor fatepatright fote seen.it Tey ed atthloethtie. and nAl isirdeadintegfreate dscetr mned the sod fl into the ing sat. Tihe 1thain. Frome the motins th eeatr, te sncg is ccssfld. ewih e doctore. aved ons turd" ai a red that ddclaeda the rsc:uerot. here the aother men wfhos was pform-a~ good phynical condition. A~ letie edough oeach th en nrte inhahe benerowd the asembled waouthishan-e. beCag-ad.a 'Waoits inal stan d expecasn ahe aos igt frat oe bilat. edrafuthe peto come. upei All isomin ain Tesfo tedeaeturenn thatladeu sod he wuln. a into taken airot shaftThe shpowed "oWn nwie oth inther fellaows ah dngo material canditifo. th are che.g noweachlthe tured the e . rowdis asembed aouthe uine hrs m cane-od "Wie as butanding expectan _andalmos frni oe er erfused to comeu i redoinain ThPe Remeaur that moad bstayweea, saidhe oudsa as akenin bth haft andsho e, 'thwn agie altef other fellowsa y morningreadings.uh nto gth oute but her r For Tubervulo.is If it Proves to be r pta aeadgtte.Il Successful.Mabitantabaast es' nA simple re-medy for tuberculosis. "We Iasdaothi afr and one declared to be a sure cure,.h eodla a oeu o is announced by a Texas Mlethodist bd nwayhn bu i.I 'a preacher. Ret'. L. G. Grimes, of Cop- okliehwaovrm bsoe ,. peras Cove. Hie is now living in that adde oni h hfH i nlittle town with his second wife, his nthv o eas ecudhv itfrst one having diec with consump- lmeintecgthfistmef etion. h a atdt, dShortly after the death of his .irbt ** d th whte )laue. nd he isese e -There are sam ot of othea feowr e v.ioed ~o apilytha hewasf~ ry~ Enlad Thce iand etthlem conlc y togiveup is wrk.He ht! try isaand. dOn h cne dew ihee qiznt emorhaes ro 'h iu. "Whpeand o asked aot im vafter andtheonl exrcie h coJ~lt he secondt oad the ade nrced Ipn - wa hose!ac idig, hebods ofe anthin ra.Inthem end ~ On dayhe rde o ' 'he andk thed opewil in tesaft. deocrad smit shp t hae hi h.~ ~'noit gavnenth. reat heicory, he f an whle he mit w~~ d ~thecolibed ic the cage teen time twh i' t o tag e. frct ~r.Hueo ~d and the disease de v.-land so rapidtuly Inhate Ihe sn.ar~e Cmosoertdbdet a d to give upsn hi wrk aiHe ihal nie-nos ajrt ofZ9whc qunt hemorrhages.i. from'tu.dhem" undanunrke.fot n.h a.n t nly n lxrie hd cot fot- t fte iealtkeugt a On dtbhre tp~: oRe-- -r. Gres inbad o oe o h -rs smystha shop to'hve his anor-se hm htteowl owt sucr and hi~e tht sit -aengcre tahe rbby h od tesl him:andthatlit ha n~v hd a have otret sdomcide Tathefo symtomof t~nu~nti~l ~nc'. lEngwolad. he orr~epritesi bodfic hada ldy .ridwhowasin he nos, butad.O theyae oneasie os the I ~'a iv~ ~ ~: ho.~ ad e.s eople- and on th wother listh est ~.neto ~r 1~dwh~c sh ne ed n rits ofchne f thenhedtn ~xr'~" toleae. r. rims tldtheon d of the ouealms. As then I he hewhe ws ried andas therd havpe reeill wntan~id democc co'dri ~ ~rhus~an hd aI~z~consicty. pact ianoy betreen th work het' gotadn he forth pwipe. tHoe Iris Lrds ad the Hous of~ a cnvd ccientally o tnhe it:he coal esommons oe thei fige.nal acton itom h- stne~ coa'. Ityscin dote Waceve anther sctage., thcue ore gin.. inhsctan ei. ad i a '' la n a.d mnd ousl ak m ajority of 29. to-c w.fo "som ihiniad waale r.tourne hem-- wd an unborokenfovronon the h. nd has.- thanr he ad a felitfo ato h ieas h td e as moths irad d-t.sin . - toc niuF t hrdz rea in ina t he om the G-prim.-n tRe. .\rld tome Clensand nwgos to hte lords says oha h.- snivr hand anote em-v Wage thears was ouit itois unor rrhang:' a 'six: allstmets curet in a smoall the londs themelve him:and th~t h hs--e ad fa haver noyear decied. Th.t thedy hada ldyfri-ndwh wa inth konwscbu thedy are awae oth - ta e of consumptior.- S he rivs unatin r a wo u preipiat hd ;v--n p a e hop e :and eras con- --~ a crish~s that'ul -ik" r esulte nxetoreda~ t lave a r Grime~s tolad.. ton t~ec he osei itet As the tio~~ t n e- m d .a~d wt ie h Irish- land? h act the m wI l