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VOL. XXIV MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, JULY ( ST BY POSSE Crgifa DespRab Baricade in HoM Receis Iay Wands. FOUGHT TO THE LAST Barricaded in His Home. with His Si Children Enforctd Prisoner. *Georgia Desperado" Yields Only to Superior Numbe.--House En t'red by Soldiers. Frantically defiant. even while the shadows of death closed around him. and volley after volley from the new Springfield rifles of two State militia companies made a seije of the walls of his humble home. W. H. Bostwick. a white desperado at Irwinville. Ga.. who observed his last Sunday on earth by the murder of two ofIcers of the law and the serious wounding of three others. paid the penalty of death shortly after 5 o'clock Mon day morning. He succumbed to ma ny wounds received from the volleys fred Into the building early dur ing the night ,y a mob of infur Isted citizens or from those of the mUitary. which began an attack af ter four o'clock Monuay morning Almost at the same moment Sher if J. P. Mcnis of Irwin County. who was wounded Sunday. w.hile making a desperate attempt to remove a wounded fellow officer from the deadly Are of Bostwick. expired. J-Is. Gill. another officer. was add ed to the list of wounded during the early fusilade Monday morning. but it is beleived he will recover. Surrounded by his six little skildren. whom he held prisoners almost to the end of the selge. Bost wick. who ha4 declare:1 his Inten tion of dying rather than submit to arrest on the charge of attempt ing to murder his brother-in-law. fought the battle to the last ditch. Knowing that death was near. the desperate man fnally allowed the fear stricken children to leave the house. However. after they were under the protection of the mili tary oMcers. they refused to tar& of the events of the night. Capt. Chas. A. Delang. command ing the !Fitzgerald Guards. de acVed the uneven battle of one desperate man against an equally' determined host In a vivid manner. Capt. Delang's orieinal instruc tions from Adjt. Gen. Scott were te await the arrival of the Albany Guards before taking any steps to capture Bostwick. -Upon arriving at Bostwick's home. however. he found the mob in such a temper that he deemed Immediate action absolutely neces sary. He first called upon Bostwices to surrender, offering him protectiol' from the mob. but the tiemand was stoutly refused, even though accom paied by a threat to take the be siSeged man dead or alive. The offi cer then demanded that the children be allowed to leave the house.- l'ut Botwck also refused this deuaand. The litle ones had spent thet entire night huddled close to the floor fearing at any moment that they would be the victim ot buliets from the guns of the enraged people Capt. Delang ordered his men tc fire a volley into the roof of th' house, following which another de mad for surrender and release o the children was made upon Best wick. who replied with a shot fror one of the three weapons. with whier he was armed. Then came anothe: volley from the soldlery, whic.h cans d Betwick to ask that the livet *of the children be not endangered. The six children were then per mitted to leave the house. and wer. taken in charge by the soldiers. The. would answer no questionis. Thi oldest daughter. Jennie, who ha spent the long night attempting ts shed the younger children, crie< because one of the younger boys ha' been forced to leave the house with out his trousers, and the oldest bo.' was Ill. The children being taken to: place of safety. Capt. Delang agal' demaded that Bo,'twick surrendei but the only reply was a shot f rot' the beseiged man. Then the soldier fired a volley into the lower portin: of the house. . A moment later ofli ers observed that a shIngle h' been removed from the roo.. thi probably being done by Bostwick in order to fire to better advantage. A hai: of lead was thrown into the roof. followed by a thud. which indi cated that Bostwick had fallen t' the foor. Observers then called at ention to the fact that an objec was seen moving through a hole ii he flor, and a volley was fired ii that direction. A rush of the troop: was then directed. t'he belief be lg that Bostwick had been injured~ but this was stopped by a shot fron the building, which struck Jame Gill. who was cared for by a physi Dlelang's men then fired into th building several times. Severa! me: then attempted to enter the building ut were greeted by a final shot fror Bstwck. The Albany comnpan then arrived on the scene and i rus pon the building was made fromt a direct ions. The doors were broke oen atel Bostwick was f'-and upo e fior and althcugh he had pas the point of resistance. and conl nt ev.n give urttern.- to thoughts. the expressionl on his fe tres was one . . deth! defying d a tatl of life andie death and 1.-st. hi if his superhunf ne-rse failedt hi one there was no indicationl of tI fact. . Iheath cilimd the despera( sortly after the final rush of ti The Sabbath Aay tragedies and il fia bate semnencctred fouar ml MA LIVES ARE LUM SIX BODIES RECOVERElI AND MORE ARE EXPECTEt'. Twenty-six Houses Along the Lick ing River Are Swept Away and (reat Damage WaV&% Done. A dispatch from Salyersville. Ky.. says six bod1ies were taken from the swo:len waters of the Licking river and fearing that great damage hav been done and that more lives have been kst as a result of a cloudburst near the headwaters of the stream. rescuing parties have left there for the mountain regions to the east. The dead are: Mrs. John Sheppard. William Conley. Unidentified dead. A white man. aged about 50. A white boy. Telephone connection with the scene of the cloud burst has been cut off. 'It is known that twenty-six houses were washed away. Easter* Kentucky has been delug ed with heavy rainfalls for practical ly a week and the storm. which is understood to have been a clouu burst. has put the waters of the ai ready swollen Licking entirel? out of its banks. The wreckage was ob served floating past Salyersville at daylight and the work of roping i houses and rescuing live stock- was begun. This resulted in a short ! Lime in the finding of four bodies. There are no cities or towns of any size above Salyersville on the Licking. but there are several moun tain villages and the country is fair ly well populated. The region is -iicult of access and although there are no railroads. wire communica tion is carried on when conditiona are normal. Six bodies have been recovered. 1 They include Mr. and Mrs. Gayheart and child. John Conley and John Weinerman. farmers, are among those reported missing. 'west of Irwinville. In the crowd I that gathered around the beseiged I home were the most prominent wo men of the community. These did .'not remain at the scene for the pur pose of witnessing bloodg-ed. but -heir hearts went out to the children t who were forcibly confined in the 'iome. There were stern. determin ed faces in that crowd of fully five .hundred mothers. :nany of whom would have defied the deadly fire ot *he Springfield's before they woulo t have allowed one of the children tc I be injured. t The attitude of the women re sulted from a misunderstanding of ? -rders issued by Adjt. Gen. Scott. xho instructed the two compaie: iot to fire from a distance and en anger the children. This misun lerstanding of the orders caused overnor Joseph M1. Brown to be .he recipient of many teiegrams o: irotest during the day.t Immediately following Bostwick's eth a coroner's jury was empanel ed to investigate the tragedy. The erdct was that Bostwick killec himself in order to prevent being aptured. Whether he died from self-inficted wounds, received. the rounds during the fight with citizens r succumbed to the fire of the pringfelds may never be known. he children doubtless know wheth r the father was wounded before .he arrival of the soldiery'. but they ould make no statement. Many acts of heroism were record -d during the bloody selge. mest dabe amon: thee being that of heriff Mclnnis. Seeing his deputy. .C. 11ass. fall. and thinking 'he was oortally wounded. Sheriff Melans ushed from cover and took Bass to i place of safety. and in so doing *eceived the wound which caused is death. He then proceeded to a neighbor ig telephone~ and attempted to- comn iunicate with Adjt. Gen. Scott. at \tlanta. He was unable to talk. owever. and in whispers dictate' he message which caused the Ad utant General to order out t roops. Bostwick literally died with his. boot." on.'' and not until his am nunition. which he had retrenched Sforcing one of his children to face e fire of the mob and take a pis o and cartridges from the body or ne of the dead soldiers, was eC 'usted. did he cease fining. Al ost in his last breath, he sent on. nal shot in the direction of the in 'aders. Young Man In Trouble. A dispatch fronm Laurens to the Zews and Courier says James Y. \allace. clerk in the postoffie. was 'ke Thursday afternoon to Green ille by Deputy Sheriff Major. to be iven a hearing before l'nited States omissioner Magill on a charge of ampering with letter mail, with no nient. Young Lady Drowned. Miss Aimnee C'reary. the 19-year d daughter of H. L. Creary. was rowned while bathing in surf with party of girl friend' at Milon. Fla.. ~ednesday afternoon. Efforts of e companions to rescue her were :no avail. S mallpoEpdeic Nhon county. V'irginna.ha na'!pox epidemic. Fully > cs d -e now in quarantinle in a territonry 'miles lon: arnd tree miles wide. 'o deaths have occurred. Found in Shark. at Vter a lon struggle sonor.l m'-n 't"r"re a man oatini shark 7.-feet e- lor':. weighin'g about lC- tons. ini th o r'its of San Juan Del Fura. he e w-n Port Cresent and Port Angel e. near Seattl?. Wash. In the shark e [he found pieces of bones ad a p :es.e of kodac plate. WHAT WE NEED How to Build Up North and South Care lisa Permanently. EXTRACT FROM ADDRESS of Clarence l'oe. Editor of the 1*ro gres4ve Farmer and GaAette. Ital eigh. N. C.. Before the South Car olina Press A.sociation. Glenn SpriLm S. C.. June 14. 1910. Both Carolinas need and must hare a larger proportion of w.hite people. The whole South. in fact is still too sparcely settled. Our 1 1 Southern States. excluding Texas. support only 16.000.000 people of both races. "and only '10.000.000 white people. while the same area In Europe supports over 164,000.000 white people. And it must bc rc membered that up to a -erta!n point which we shall not reach for cen uries yet, and other t.hings beine mual. prosperity depends upon d.-r dty of population. Ponulation makes wealth. provided that it is normally ntelligent and efficient. Of course. we do not want the owest class European immig-aton. f we can get immigration from Eng and. Scotland. Ireland. Germany. oliand. Swcden. etc-ia countries whose blood has gone to make up ur vigorous American stock- it ould be of great help to us. We re all of us such immigra:. our oelves or descendants of such Immi rants. From some countr'es o outhern and Eastern Europe. on the ther hand. immigration is of a de -idedly lower order and objectionable ecause of a low standard of intelli ;ence and efficiency. On the very same principle. how er. imm!gration of a normal or dgh standard of intelligence and eficiency is desirable. Such immi rration can be had. and ought to be ad-in some measure, perhaps our 'nglish. Dutch and Irish kinsfolk ,cross the sea-but chiefly from our qorthern and Western States. For -ars now hundreds of thousands of he mnost enterprising and progres ve farmers in the Middle West iave been going into Canada with ts long hard winters and bitter cli nate. not only giving up American Itizenship. but actually paying two o three times as much for land in bat inhospitable relion as land of he same fertility commands in the outh. We ought to have brought hese men to the South. T.hey know ur institutions. our language. they tre industrious. thrifty. wideawake nd many of them are of Southern .ncestry who should naturally come ack home. Let's brirg them back. If there were no other reason for dvocating such immigration from he .\orth and West. I should favor t as surest deliverance from our ace problem. The proportion of egroes to whites is too large in ev -ry Southern State. and my hope i. hat ultimately the tides of migra ion and immigration will equalize opulation until the proportion of egroes in no State will exceed 20 er cent. We must train the netro -the more ignorant he is the great -r The burden on the South--but at est the process will be slow, and it present it would probably not be oo much to say that in considering ur w.bole population, including our reat constructive leaders and cap-. ains of industry, the average negra n the Carolinas in economic worth md effeiency is only half as useful the average white man. in other s'ords. in rating general av'erage of diciency we should put the white; an at 100f and the negro at .'.o. so that a county half white and i negro would have an average effit.~ ency of 73. or a .'nandicap of 23 p..: ent, as compa.re' with a count ' with an exclusihe white population of a norma! degree of efficiency. Whether or not the digeren~ce is as much as I have indicated. certain t is that the larger the proportion >f whites, the hig-her the ave-rage or fciency. the more prosperous will be our every industry, and the bet ter it will be for everyv individ.ual itizen. including the negroes them selves. There are just two great ways to buiid up the Carolinas First ind of paramount importance is ed ucation of all our ps e. di I should only supplement this by rut ting more earnest emphasis upon practical education, education that trains for efficiency, not educatior suited to the great urban centers of Europe and the North. but educa tion suited to the' needs of a great. awakening a-:ricultura: citizenilp such as ours is and must be. And second only to education. is im~igratiCat. Now let us start right-not by seeking immigrants from Southern Europe. but by advertising our re sources to the thrifty, enterprising and progressive farmers of the North and West- -men of our stock who only need an invitation t, r~g them come. Emerson was right when he said that 'every man who comes into a city with any purcha.s ale talent or skill in hinm gives to evry man's labor in :.'he city a new worth'' anel if an ignorant negro slave in the old days was worth $1 .'. certatinly we maty assume that a thrifty aind inteflirent white Wcs terner. bringing not only himself. b:t in most case:s subhstantia. a.MInr. ulatios as wel:. should be worth~ many iimes as- much ats ain asset t< ti'h St a'.. Soi:t:1i C-aroina had h-'as than )('. usot whites when it should have 3. dnebtb I--afld would then be evet en Sanann neroes. on:y one 1..-:a .ha'21 ettid~ a a~ah BOASTS OF CRIE YOU-THFU'L BUR'GLARS t'.AUGHT llEl-H.AN1DE. Boys Are 17 and IS Years Old and Come of Respectable Faniiie. Had Kit Full of TuoL%, Two well dressed young men. 17 and IS years old. were caught before dawn Thursday. leaving one of the prominent apartments in Washing ton. whih they admitted they en tere: for purposes of robbery. They were Ely 11. Runyon. who says he is the son of Mrs. Emily E. C. Runyon. a physician of Richmond. Va.. and Julian D. Wychard. son of a former newspaper publisher in North Carolina. Each of the yout.hful burglars was armed with revolvers and they had a complete burglar's kit. including a dark lantern. The flashing of the dark lantern was seen by a police man who made the arrests. A re cent robbery of the home of Edward A. Moseley. secretary of the inter state commission, has been traced to the boys. When captured the boys had en tered the office of a physician, and find:ng nothing they wanted. depart ed to discover a more lucrative field for their efforts when the policeman t saw their lantern. The two boys said they came to Washington Tuesday night and reg istered at a hotel. Went out short ly after midnight to operate in a fashionable section of the city. Run yon boasts of exploits In various t cities of the West. saying he had e been trained as a burglar by an adept .ho Is now serving time. Wy- t chard claims that he recently met Runyon in Atlanta. where he had 1 lived, and traveled with him with out knowing his occupation until the v two came to Washington. The boys t will be given a hearing In a few ' days. a HJGHWAYMEN CONVICTED. b t Four Negroes to Pay Death Penalty for Crime. The four negroes Charles Walker. Jim Black. Charles Julian and Ed Weaver. charged with the murder of Motorman Brown. in the Druid Hills treet car hold-up at Atlanta several weeks ago. were convicted of first P egree murder and was sentenced to hang. Although Walker and 0 Weaver had made written confes sions of their guilt and implicated the two other negroes. they swore >n the stand in the trial court that 0 the confession was untrue. There is no doubt of the guilt of all the men - hat have been convicted. Rejected Him: He Killed Her. Blecause Jennie Minkoff. not quite b iS. reacted his attentions. Morris athanson. a young grocer's clerk lay in wait in the hall at her .home n New York and si.ot her through the heart. She fell dead at his fe-t 'athanson then walked to a poice station and remarked that he baa killed his girl.''I setts: Consider for a moment how uch more influential our papers would be. how much ;-nore impor- b tant every institution in the State would be. how much more varied h would be our inidustri;-: ho .nuch ~ easier it would be to get good roads t in counties in which the white popu ation is now too small to maintain them, how easy it would be tc c double tlhe usefulness of our public ~ hools. how quickly we should build railroads in sections which ~ must otherwise remain dormant and ~ bacward for long, long years. hon important our cities should become.d and how much more attractive woud be country life in our thicik ly settled communities, and how much easier it s 'uld be to get wat .r-works and trt. ey lines and local 1 libraries and all the advantages of 1 twentieth rural life: Let us take as our watch word "education and immigration-both of the right sort." In the last census year ZZ4.062 :ative sons and daughters of SoutL. Carolina were living~ in other States eto say no thing of the million sons< und daughters of South Carolina emigrants). while South Carolina had received from other States andi countries only 60).744 settlers. For seventy years now our Caro linas have been going West to build up the new States of that empire. Now let us welcome back their chil dren and neighbors to help us build two great prosperous and pop uluous conumonwealths, where the masses of the people trained to as high standars of e ciency as an, where in the world, shall develop aI symatrical and well rounded civil ization: a splendid and forceful de mocracy of trained, intelligent and thrifty home-owners from among wvhom shall come not only a Jeffer son and a Marshall. not only a lames J. Hill and a Thomas A. Edi son and a Seaman A. Knapp. not on ly men whom all the nation shall know as leaders in industry and in public affairs. but poets and seers. sculptors and artists-if not a Tit ian at least a Rcynolds or a Mille!. if not a Michael Angelo at least a St. Gaudens or a Ward. if rot a Shakespeare at least a Brow ning or a Tennyson. if not a Savonarola. at least some ;:reat religious leader wo shall put the churc~h into vits! reat-ns to modern thought andi ve it a new hapt:~m of .;piritua1l ano r -:'il these until our Iong andI taic years of war aid stru~g::le and rebuilding shall find their fruitage n an outburst of achievement such as our fathers yearned for. and it is iow our high privaAige to help brin; RAN INTO CAR INJULfItNG F011TE Oil MltE PA.SSE.NG;ERS. (eorgia, Southern and Florida Fn gine Ban Into Pas%%enger Trair.. Overturning Coach Near Valdosta. Crashing into a loaded coach oif passenger train of the Georla & I'lorida railroad in the yards at Vat osta. Ga.. Wednesday a loose ea ine of the Georgia Southern and "Irrida railr.'', . !it e ti.-- e-teh. roke it from the r-. br of t1:e rain and carried it o. feet. turnin, t over and injuring fourteen of i massengers and trainmen. The loose engine was on one of he oranches of a Y track wi:h .a: wassenger on the other. Amuou:: tros- 'nju-e .e W. T. Staten. Valiosta. ,hotlder nd 'eft side badly hurt. probable nternal injury. Mrs. F. R. Daniels and lia*e laughter. badly bruised and shoci d. little girl's face cut. Mrs. F. S. Martin. Madsion. Fla.. ide and shoulder injured. Andrew Lettley. Pinetta. Fla.. one boulder and leg broken. Mr. Whittington. Boston. Ga.. ear ut and left side injuded. Conductor Lofton on passenger rain had face cut and throat slash d. Rev. Mr. Funk. Ohio. badly bruis d. W. M. Henderson. Ray's Mill. Ga.. ead and one whole side injured. G. M. Boyd and Dan Thompbon. th of Valdosta. were badly bruis J. W. West. Valdosta. was cut on he face and his side badly bruised. W. T. Lane. Valdosta. face and eck cut and bad bruises. J. W. West and C. W. Sinclair ere sitting together on the side ut he coach where the engine struck. ey were thrown across the car d through vindows to the ground. he coach turned over above them ut they had fallen into an excava on and thus escaped death. BULLETS HIT NINE. ne Principal Dead, Other Dying and Bystanders Wounded. One man is dead. one is dying d seven oher persons are in hot. itals with more or less serious ounds as the result of a duel fought n one of the most crowdei thour ughfares of Cleveland. 0. Tile ouble started in a quarel between rank Viena and Antoine Mercurmo 'er the a-leged ill-treatment of hti 'ife by .\ercurio. The two men ere standing in front of a soloon 'hen they drew revolvers and beg:.:: ring at each other. A number of ersons rushed forward to sepe~rate e. but before the shooting could stopped \'iena was dead. .\ercurio ttally wounded. and seve~n stray ullets had found billets in as tuan. fthe bystanders. BEAR.' CHARMEI> LIFE. ulet Paw'teti Through His Body Without Fatal Result. Robert Roberts. of Oak Grove. la.. elieves that he bears a charmed life. e was the guest the other day of is neighbor. Jacob McGa hI. To cel brate the occasion McGahl decided have fried chicken for dinner and rivited Roberts to help corral a pual t. When the host fired a Win hester rific the chicken's neck was evered and at the same time his. 'uess was perforated by the bullet n the rebound. The bullet pas-ed ntirely through Roberts' body. but n spite of this he ate the chicken iner and the doctors say he wilt et well. EL-PHANTS ON RAMPAGE-' harge D)welling But Are Stopped by Stout Maple Tree. Angered by the efforts of train rs to se'berate them from two small .lei hants. two big elephants belong ng -o a circus Friday engaged in wild charge down the main street f Greely. Colo. The elephants, which were chain d together crashed through a fence nto the front yard of a resident. earing up lawn and shrubbery. They 'ere making straight for the house. ~hich would in all prohability have en wrecked in the collision, when they were brought to a stop by a tout maple tree on eithatr side of hh they atemupted to pass. FOUNt) fEA!) BY TRtACKi. spp-d that Young Man Wa. Kill ed by Train. Robert Wofford. aged 25. son of Mr. Frank Wofford. of Switzer. Spar tiburg county. was found dead Fri day morning beside the C. and W. C. Railrod track. thbres miles east of Woodruff. It is supaosed that he was killed Thursday r.;:nt by a train. .here was a wound on the left sidie of the head. The body was discov ered by thA engineer of a freight train, which passed the place at A 'clok. An inquest was held by the coroner. Prominent Men atrrested. Reulting fr-m the amb'use.Ve and ."rius woundir:: of J.IH. G' '-. eal.iv banicer and mill man and others of latirel Hiil. Fla.. fia' prom~ ient citize'ns of Faleo. .\la . the sene of the trouble. were arremd'. :te Friday and will be tried for at te~pting to assassinate Givens, and hs companos. no;:e o! wvhom will HAS HARD LUCI Zeppeli's Great rsip is Wrecked i Treetops. NO ONE INJURED After Unavailing contest With Tet rific Storm and Whirlwind th l)isabled Monster FaIL Helplew, All the Pawengers Lowered t Safety. A dispatch from Dusseldorf. G-.'. say. Count Zeppelin's passenger air ship Deutschland. the highest de veloped of all the aeronau.'s modelS lies on top of the Teutobourgail forests, pio-rced with pine tre stem, a mass of deflated silk an twisted aluminum. The 33 person aboard. after a wild contest with storm. escaped uninjured. climbin down a rope ladder from the wrecl on the pine tops. Herr Colesman. general manage of the new airship company. Chie engineer Durr of the Zeppelin com pany and Capt Kannenburg. who per sonally had charge of the crew o ten and twenty newspaper men hail ed from Dusseldorf at 9.30 o'clocl Tuesday morning for a three hours excursion. The objective point wai Dortmund. about 35 miles from Dus seldorf. but a high bead wind pre railed and an effort was made t< reach Munster, a garrison town. s< that a landing might be made on the parade ground. It was dangerous to attempt a landing in an open field. because 01 the storm. as the metal was likely tc pound to pieces. One of the motor. -efused to work and the other twc were not powerful enough to make any progress in the gale. The ali ship drifted. swaying in the violen1 gusts and sometimes leaning to am ngle of 40 degrees. and all the while the enginenien were at work repairing t-he disabled motor. Whem this was done all four screws were driven under full power. with which under normal conditions, the shil was able to make 40 miles an hour. But the helmsman was unable to :eep his course. as the great craft was swung about at the mercy of the inds. Co.exmann dij not dare to turn he ship around for fear of overturn ng. arnd he decided to drift in the ;ale which was now blowing a, r.hi rate 4A tifty miles an hour towara 3tnabruck. which is also a g-irrison own. If he missed that he would -ontinue cn to Senie. Su-ri;enly he perceived a whirlwind 7nmIng and ascended to a height o: irly 4.tm' fe-*t to aoid the worst )f it. With the whirlwind came a:. Iaanche of rain. After an hot 'e lDeutchlanld came down to persuit f observation andA it was seen thai :he Teutobourgian forest :ay below. The forward motor again stoppec md Colesmann sent five of the cor espondents to the aft gondola to aance the vessel. The ship sanke apidly. having lost much gas in the nigh altitude and dragged along thi :op of the dense forest. A he::v. ranch of a tree broke throuK.h th. rioor of the cabin amitiships. thrcow ing two of the guests to the floot. Dther branches ripped through thc' as compartments and the whole reat structure settled down 30 01 0 feet from the ground. "It is not the fault of the Zeppe n system." declared Herr Cole nann: "that is all ri~tht. It is out wn fault and our benzine ran out. The airship for which Herr Coics manns company had just paid $13. ei' :ooked like a wreck. The frames were broken but the motors were not damaged. The silk was rippet nd had fallen in a torn mass os the topls of the trees. A rope ladder was swung down anm -veryone was mustered below unin. jured except for a bruise or two Two natives identified the spot a: near to Weliendorf. east of Oa bruck. .any persons of the countryside :must have seen the descent and re sultant disaster. Reports of deati were widely spread. A company o infantry was sent from Osnabruck and picketed the wreckage. Banker Shot by Unknown Man. . H. Givens. presidert ofth ank of Laurel Hill. Fla.. and mana ger of the Florida-Alabama Tinmbe combany was shot from ambush o0 the night of June 3ee. as he was pro ceeding on horseback to his home i Laurel Hill. Two charges of buck shot struck him in the arm and Ile but is not likely to prove fata There is no clue to thee would-he assassin. Auto Ditehed. Rev. E. E. Lasnly and Ralph Bied r a hardware man from Fostcori: 0.. were instantly killed Friday. a: M. A. Stoneburier and Jatr.cs M< Connell were probaby fatally ta jured w.ben their automobile jumi ed into a ditch near Sandusky. Th steering zear got out of order an the chauff'eur lost control. Struck by Lightning. During a severe rain and thunds storm at Johnsn Thursday atterno( two large barns of H. Spaf:: Ton< w.ere smick by lightning and buri ed. The barns being filled with pri duce. =hich weas all destroyed. mjele and horse belonging to M Toey were~ also killed. Persistent Suit Cau--es Fatality. Annoyed by his rersistent demar that she become his wife. Mig~ Ro Perrino, aged 15. of Chicago. 11 shot and perhaps fatally wound Aaotto Ross!. He is in the hos; KilS HE BABE THEN .RUOTHEI INKS DEADiL POISON HERSEI.F. Huband IHeturn. Home to Find Wife and Baby Lifeless on Samc Bed and a Pathetic Note. Haunted by the intolerable fear that she was going insane. Mrs. e Jeanne Hoangsn Catlett gave cyanide of pottassium to her i-months old daughter. Jeanne. Friday afternoon at her home in New York City. and then swallowed a draugh of the same poison herself. Both lay dead on the same bed when the husband, a sup ervising chemist employed by the - Western Electric company. went to - his home that night. Beside the youn: mother lay a long letter to her husband. ''Don't think me cruel to the little life I've ma:'e.'' she wrote. *but rather that I am saving her so much pain. for bodily pain is nothing to this that is either insanity or nervousness-only God knows. She would surely in herit it. "Don't mourn for me. I wish I could go on with just you and our love. My very lfe is one continu ous thought of thankfulness for It but my mind must be relieved. The tension is frightful." Evidently there were moments w-hen the mother yearned to spare her daughter, for farther down she wrote: "If ? leave our oh ,y tell her I k'. - ed her with lots of love and I am so sorry I ever have been cross to her." "Leave my locket on me but wear my wedding ring. I have loved it so and caressed and kissed it so as the outward sign of the happiest mo ments of my life. Pinned to the outside bed room "oor was a note to her husband read-' Ing: ''George. don't come in. Let some one else--one of the boys." Mrs. Catlett who was born in Vir ginia. 24 years ago, and her husband. who is from South Carolina. met her three years ago at Falls Church. Va. They fell in love at frst sight and were married in April. 1909. Since the birth of her daughter Mrs. Cat lett has leen very nervous and her morbidness was increased by the fact that her little girl, named for her. cried much of the time. BLOWS UP SIXTEES. Five Men are Killed and Eleven Are injured in .Miinnesota. Five men were killed and 1I in jured. two of them probably fatally 1y an explosion. which first wrecked .nd then set fire to the sa:oon o: Edward Rushay. five miles of Minne tpolis. Minn.. on the Anoka road Edward Bushay. proprietor of thet place. and George Miller were sc :adly hurned that they will die. The xpulosion of a gas tank in the base mient blew the roof from the build-' ine and fire started immediately. In half an hour the building was ae mxass of burning wreckage. Ernest Osterchild. a porter. rescued bo0th I Rushay and Miller from death In the ' fire. . DESPERADO) (CAl~l'REI). shot Three .Members of P'os'e Whichr Souight to Arr't Hius., Olan Adair. who while barricad ed in the store of John W. Davis near Falco. Ala.. ThursdJay ni::ht shot three memubers of a posse afte: him. was captured later without any trouble and is held at Falco. J. HI. Givan. who was fire'd upor. from amb~ush Thursday unight. for which alleged offense Adair was sought, is not seriously injured. nou is either Alex Givan. brother of the other Givan: B. F. Finley and Geo Coggswell. the others wounded by Adair in .his atembt to avoid arrest First Bail Sold. -The first bale of the cotton crop' of 1914-11 was sold at auction in .ew York Monday and brought 5.. cents per pound. the nroce'eds being so uni: 'or chza-itv. Ths base - picked at Hidalgo County. Texas. weighed about 4 16 pounds. and was ciased as good middiin-. It was '-s -sold at Houston. Texas. on June 2 for $3':.~. and was shipped from there to New York. The cotton pu. chased in New York will be shipped *to .iverpooi where it will again i~e - auctioned. B ig Steamecr Ahlaze. - The Merchant and Miners' steanu ship, which left Philadelphi Thurs day afternoon for Boston. re: urnedi -there Friday. with a se'rbous fire .r her forehold. Th- eighty passengers e v~cre safely landed. They ,l'anceeti and amused th.'mselves lighthearted v en the return trip. unaware of the dangerous fire hes~ow them and -believing that disr:- .nged machin - ery had caused the steamer to put d back. -U..ed Hoy a Shield. SOffcers are searching for John Clark. a::M l.C. and Mack .\cGowan. d who fouight a duel near Haziehurat. Ga. \leGowan was armed with a knif. and Clark with a pistol. As Cark fired his pistol. it is charged. SMcGowan :trasped Dudley Brown, a n 1-year-old boy, who was a spect.i 'T tor. and held 'nim between .himsel!t 1 and Clark. Brown was shot i h breast and is reported dyis Fierce Batti" Expected. .\ elast between whites and ihwY in Simpson countv is imtn3 e rdin;: to rep'orts rea.chinr BtriaCtl i- .liss.. Fridlay P;e'a"s ot arm r!' ' w'hites are >.aid to be scouri-tN .section in search o: several ne...'* e i bile the negroes are said to .e u- arm:; Officers bare bee:: sent :0 th ..rere* BOAT DRFTING Triple Drawing In River Near Naval Academy Tuesday. INMATES MISSING Efforts Weing Made to Iecove. Bot. ies of Young Woann and Two Midshipmen.-La See in Frais (raft, which is Later DLisoctd lrifting on Water. More than a score of middies are searching the waters of the Severn River. near Annapolis. Md.. for the odies of Mrs. Nellie E. Bowyer. wid ow of Joseph Bowyer. and daughter in-law of Superintendent John M. Bowver. of the Naval Academy. ani Midshipmen Grisbie Thomas. of Un ion Point. Ga.. and Snerman M. N son. of Newport. R. I. The three left the Naval Acartemy about 11 o'clock uesday morning. In a sail boat, and this boat was found drifting that afternoon. In it were portions of the clothing that had been worn by the members of the party. It is believed that the midshbp men took Mrs. Bowyer to the bath ing shore used by the Naval Acad my people. and attempted to teah her to swim and. that she. getting beyond her depth, all three were frowned. All efforts to recover the bodies had been fruitless up to a late hour. Mrs. Bowyer and her midshipmem missed the regular launch that ;oes to the bathing beach across the river from the Naval Academy. and ook a half-rater sail boat instead. here they donned bathing suits and again taking to their boat, went :o a beach nearer the unouth of the 'iver, but within sight of the Naval kcademy. While this beach is good, it has reacherous spots. where the depth )f water increases suddenly. There were no witnesses to what occur 7ed. but the discovery of the boat n which they had been and the fact hat no trace of any of the party haa een found leads to the conviction hat all three were drowned. BRIDES ONLY IFEW HOURS. larried Two Prisoners That Had Re ceived Death Sentences. Two brides were made widows a ew hours after the wedding cere ories were performed in the peu tentiary at Vallado.id. Yucatan. ays a dispatch from Mexico City. 6iexico. when theLr husbands faced tiring squad selected to execue hem in accordance with sentences assed upon them after trial by the var department fcr sedition and urder. the accusation growing out if their participation in the recent prising at Valladolid. For several ays a n-umber of prisoners have been ;n trial. Three were sentenced to eath and executed Thursday afte: oon: three were sentenced to fifteen easm and four were sentened to 13 ears and four months in prison. Immediately after the death seal enes were pronaonneed on the three en chaiged with murder tw's a'! apermission 'o marry before ther ere executed. Their requests wer? Tanted by tihe authorities and the oung women to w!;om they were naged went to the prison at the our aareed u.>on for the marriage ermion iee, C.%iPIT.1LIST .1 St'IClDE. Lppearance o~f Mysterious W'ife the (ause of Tra;:edy. As a sequel to the appearance of a woman in t'niontown. Pa.. rei; stered at a hote: as Mrs. Mad Ros nberg. the man whose name she :hus used. committed suicide by fir ing a bullet through his head. It was not known to his friends that the man had married a second time. :iut the wo.cman declares she became his wife in Pittsburg. Rosenberg was worth about $100U.tI00 and for many years had been a principal .tockholder in the Arch Distillery omany. Early in the morning of his death .he appeared on the streets nd discussed business matters with his friends. Hie was 60 years of age in had be.-n living a retired -.de for number of years. ijves With Stitched Liver. Daniel McGowan left the Johnston Wil:is hospital at Richmond. XVa.. la.st week wir.h three pieces of his iver s..w-d toaether. The organ was broken into distinct parts re 'ently when he was run over by a wago.a and it was decliared he could not recover. E.levator Operator Killed. While operating a freight elevator n the candy factory of Frank Block. Atlanta. Ga.. D). E. Skinner. aged .. was cau-:ht between the car and thrid :ioor and crushed to death Frt day. The young man's neck and one of his arms were. broken and the en ?:re body badly mangled.* Lan'ye'r Killed in Elevator. ohr. William Hal~ahan. Jr.. one f the mo--t prominerst member: of h. Philadelpihia bar. was killed la'e Thursaty night as he stepped from a hote-l e:evator 3? C'ape May. Pa. e was caught betwe'en the car and *he floor. his neck being broken. - ('iuiln Waited Fifteen Year'. The !ag n ish of Hilary Roberts. a mlanfcturer of Savannah. Ga.. ws :tlillIed last week when he was ur:ed in a offn made by himself -- rea:-s ago. He was -- years of