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VOL. XXVI MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 27, 1911 NO.10 KILL YOUNG M0 Prmnaent Louisiana Woman Shoot Stadent in Defence of Her Roer SHOT IN WOMAN'S HOMI Both the Families Involved in tht Unfortunate Affair Are Prominel Socially, Close Neighbors, and Have Becn for Many Years Mosi Intimate Friends. Declaring that she had been in sulted, Mrs. J. P. .icCrea shot and instantly killed Allen Garland in the McCrea home at Opelousas. La.. on Thursday morning. Both are prom inently socinlly. The McCreas and Garlands are neighbors. Mrs. McC-ea used a revolver and sent three bullets through Garland's back, any one of which it is thought would bpve produced death. She is the wife of a division superintendent of the 'Frsco Ralroad. Garland's family is one of the most influential 'in that section of the State. Although Mrs. McCrea alleges that she shot Garland to protect her hon or, it is stated that the young man was seated in a chair in her room and that all three lullets entered his body from the rear. They were alone at the time, there being no eye-wit nesses to testify at the coroner's in quest. Mrs. McCre has been placed in jail. Her husband is with her. Ac cording to the sheriff, a charge of murder will be entered against her. Mrs. McCrea will have nothing to say frrther than that she killed Garland to protect herself. Young Garland was a student and a graduate of Tulane University, New Orleans. It is said that he was a slave to his books and cared for little else. Mrs. McCrea was fre quently left alone in her home be cause of business calling her hus band away. On these occasions Gar land was called upon to stay in the McCrea residence. as a protector to ,Mrs. McCrea and the children. Thursday about ten o'clock Mrs. McCrea telephoned to the Garland home and asked to borrow a spool of thread. It was sent to her by young Garland. Garland lived with his grandmother, a widow of the late Henry L. Garland. WILL HELP SOME. Organization Formed in Macon, Ga., to Market Cotton Crop. The organization of a $4,000,000 concern known as the Southern Cot ton corporation with an eye to con trolling the marketing of the cotton of the South was announced at Mac on, Ga., Wednesday, by George Dole Wadley of BolinbrOoke, one of the wealthiest men in Georgia and repre senting financial interests of great extent. Associated with Mr. Wadley, who will be president, are John E. Wadley of Waycross and John T. Moore, Leon S. Dure, Jesse H. Hall. John Mockey and W. E. Dunwoody of Macon. The concern will work in connec tion a string of banks operated by the National Bank Audit Company, of which William Barret Ridgely, former comptroller of the currency, is president- The Southern Cotton corporation will .adv-ance farmers money up to 75 per cent. of the nor nbal price on cotton deposited in warehouses. This cotton will be held, and when the time arrives each year when a correct estimate of the crop can be made, a price will be fix ed and the cotton held until such price is paid. Organization work, it was stated by Mr. Wadley, has started in 1,000 counties throughout the cotton belt In. each county will be an advisory board, all stockholders in the corpor ation, composed of five business men and bankers and 20 farmers. This county board will watch the crop and report to the main offices which will be in Macon. GI-r. Wadley an nounces that Eastern capital has al ready been secured to Insure suc cess- Propaganda will start at once. GIVEN A B[G SCARE. Five Fierce Animals Escape and Ter rify Crowds at Fair. Five fierce animals in a midway menagerie at the Canada Central Fair at Ottawa, Canada, broke out of their cages the other morning a-nd for - early an hour terrified the visitors The only man who was severely ir.jured was Trainer Martin, who was bitten on the leg by a lion, when he finally captured the beast. The escaping ainimals were a leo pard, a jacguar, panther, a big African lion, and what is known as a hybrid. Their escape was first noticed when the leopard thrust his head into a tent occupied by one of Lhe show women. The animals, when pursued. took to the water nearby, but after a ~ severe and exciting struggle 4. crowd of fair employees captured and eaged them all before any fatal ities occurred Those who witnessed the terrify ing spectacle declared that only the rain which was pouring heavily, and prevented the usual crowds assemb ling on the midway, had prevented a calamity. WVill Succeed Watson. The State says it is rumored that James 'Norton, former comptroller general and for several years mem ber of the general assembly. would be appointed commissioner of agri culture, commerce and industries to succeed E. J. Watson at the expira tion of Mr. Watson's term in March. The appointment is in the hands of WILL BE IN RACE SENATOR TILLIAN CERTAIN TO ASK RE-ELECTION. He Is More Interested in His Farm Operations Than Politics Just Now Though. The Columbia Record says Senator Tillman spent Wednesday in Colum bia on personal business, passing most of the ime with his friend, Dr. Babcock. He returned to his home at Trenton on the afternoon train and carired with him two real pitch forks. The Senator bought the pitchforks uptown and had them sent down to the union station for him at train time. They were wrapped up in pa per until they were unrecognizable, and when he told Dr. -Babcock what they were the doctor insisted they ought to be unwrapped and carried openly by the senator, so the paper was taken off and Pitchfork Ben toted the two pitchforks home on the train without any concealment. -Two of the Senator's friends, Con gressman Lever and Mr R. I. Man ning, happened to be present and as sisted in the opening up of the char acteristic package. It was seen that the tines were tipped with gold and the senator was twitted about :hoist ing the gold standard, against which he used to proclaim eloquently in the days of "16 to 1 or bust." But the Senator is very much moe interested in pitchforks agricultural than pitchforks political. The news that there will be at least one candi date to oppose him for reelection, Col. W. J. Talbert, does not seem to have disturbed 'him at all. Senator Tillnan expects to stand for re-elec 'ion to make at least a few speeches, if4 his health is no worse than It is now, and if he is better he may make a good .many speeches. The Senator enjoys meeting the people and only the strict orders of his physician and of Mrs. Tillman, who has always been his chief advis er, have prevented him from going around more this summer. It is his determination to offer for a fourth term in the senate. That may be set down as certain. If Senator Tillman.is relected or renominated in the 1912 primary, he will on the 4th of March, 1913, be ,in his fourth term as senator from South Carolina. Having served as ,cvernor from 1891 to 1895, he was first elected to the senate in 1894 to succeed Gen. M. C. Butler and took his seat on the 4th of March, 1895. 1e was reelected in 1900 and again in 1966, both times without opposi tion. Col. W. Jasper Talbert, formerly aongressman, has announced he will oe a candidate for senator next year, no matter who else runs. Governor Blease has announced that he will be a candidate for senator if Senator ilman is not in the race; otherwise he will seek reelection as governor. FiEND WILL SOON SWING Pays Penalty About One Month Af ter His Crime.! At Warrenton, N'. C., after ten inutes of deliberation a verdict of 'guilty" was returned- early Wednes ~iay by the superior court jury in the ase of Norval .Marshall, the negro who last Saturday night attacked a white woman and shot and seriously wounded her father and the sheriff of Warren county. .Judge Justice promptly sentenced Marshall to be lectrocuted at Raleigh on October 30. The negro was t'aken to Raleigh t once and lodged in the penitentiary to await his execution. The victim was placed on the stand and told the aircumstances of the attack. The de. endant's only attempt at defense was a plea of insanity. ACCUSE EACH OTHER. Iwo Men in Jail Charged With Mur dering Ones Wife. Each accusing the other, two men re prisoners in the same tier of cells nthe little Lee ccounty jail, charged ith the murder of Mrs. Etta Rich ~rdson Childers at Smithville, Ga., n August 5, last. One is the vic im's husband of six months, the oth r her former sweetheart. R. C. ennedy, Childers and Kennedy vere brought face to face with each ther Wednesday as the former was 'eing 1ed to his cell following his ar Ival from Americus where he was ar ested Tuesday. The erstwhile riv is glared at each other for a mom nt and Childers then passed on to his cell to await formal arrignment. Broke a Man's Skull. Roy and Ben Ghent, white men, were lodged in jail at Lancaster, charged with assault and battery with intent to kill, the alleged victim being a young man named Steele. The trouble occurred Saturday night in the north-eastern portion of Lan caster county. Steele is said to be in a critical condition, his skull be ing fractured. Kept Liquor in Church. Pleading guilty of running a "blind tiger" in a negro church at Lizella. 12 miles from Macon. Ga., Walker Hawtb 'rne, a negro farmer,. Wednesday wae held for the next1 federal grand jury. Hawthorne is said to have kept his stock of liquor concealed under the pulpit. Tramp Comet Seen A Chicago astronomer has sighted a tramp comet, the tail of which may be seen with opera glasses. The head of this comet is much larger than that of Halley's or others noted in re-; cent years. It is visible between 8 p. m. and dayligrht. IS HE HER SON This is the Question That is Pazzli the Deciz ls of Nile, Mich A VERY STRANGE CAS A Man Turns Up in a Little 3ichiga Town Claiming to be Geo. A. Kit mel, Who Is Supposed to Hai Died Sometime Ago and Caus< Much Discussion. A dispatch from Niles, Lich., sa: George Alfred Kimmel, believed t relatives to have been dead for thi: teen years, arrived at his old hon: there from the penitentiary at A1 burn, N. P., late Tuesday and wr identified by former friends and ai sociates. Despite Kimmel's identificatioi however, his mother, Mrs. Stell Kimmel, refused to see him. Tb mother continued to denouce Kin mel as an imposter who was attemp ing to deprive hei- of $25,000 insu ance which she had on her son's lif While dozens of persons positivel identified him as the son for whos supposed death thirteen years ag Mrs. Estella Kimmel received $5,00 in life insurance, an equal numbel was as positive that it was not th same. Theia Mrs. Kimmel, 70 years olc who had asserted that the man wa impersonating her son merely to de prive her of the money she had a] ready received and to prevent th payment of $25,000 more in insur ance to other relatives, scrutinizei the man who claims her as mother. Brougth face to face with the wc man, "Kimmel," just released from five-year term in the Auburn (N. Y. penitentiary, streched forth his arm md said: "Mother! Don't you know me you boy? Don't disown me any longer You know I am your son." Mrs. Kimmel, withdrawing froz the man as he attempted to embrac er, stood sternly scanning his face "No." she said, "I don't see in yo1 mny positive resemblance to my son. The meeting took place at thi tome of Mrs. H. L. Fox, who had al ready accepted "Kimmel" as cousi nd positively identiled him as th< on of Mrs. Kimmel. It was mad4 nown Mrs. Kimmel has no direct in :erest in any money which the insur nce eampanies refuse to pay on th< round that the son is still living, bu hat a $10,000 policy is held by i laughter. Mrs. Edna Kimmel Bons ett, and another $5,000 policy is hel )y a distant relative. "I woild have no selfish motive it lenying the identity of myeson if hi were alive," saId Mrs. Kimmel. "Foi ears I have felt- sure he was dead .nd I can not believe that this mar s -he. It seems Lhat some motherl1 nstict ought to tell me the truth tet when I look at him I do not rec gnize him. He only puzzles me. I1 as almost prostrated me to lool pon this strange'man and have peo ile insist that he is my son." "Kimmel," on looking at the wo an, said he was positive she was hi: nther. "I wanted to take her in my arms.' e said,"' for she looked the same a: ears ago. I love her with all m3 ~eart and can't understand why shei hould insist I am dead. Still, I wil iot worry her, and If she continues t< isbelieve me I shall do as she wishe know I am Kimmel, for I recognidi ~very one." To test his acquaintance with Nile: Kimmel" was escorted about th ;treets. He repeatedly pointed ou andmarks and related instance: rhich citizens said were correct. H ~aled persons by their fu?L names ut many of them professed not to re ognize him as the real -Kimmel. "Now to prove I am familiar wit] :he town," said Kimmel. "I will tel ou that behind that hill there is ig red brick house, on the south sid< f which is a large eimn tree, fron rvhich we used to swing when boys.' very one declared the statemen as correct. There was evidence after Kimme eft suggesting that he had died an~ :he insurance money was asked for rhe l-ife insurance company is sai< o have expended hundreds of dollari n running down a theory that Kim nel did not die. He was traced t< trkansas City, Kan., where, so far at tiis family knew, he was last seen Then a man answering the descrip :ion of Kimmel was found in a daze< ondition in St. Louis. He recover i in a hospital and later left for Nei .ork, where, under the name of An drew J. White, he was arrested on Larceny charge. After more warn Lngs he was found in an asylum i: >ew York and afterward traced ti Auburn penitentiary. Several years after Kimlmel's dis 1ppearance his mother instituted sui Ln the St. Louis courts to secure In surance which she held on his life jury returned a verdict in her fav r and declared Kimmel to legall; lead. Upon this verdict one com pany paid Mrs. Kimmel on a $5,00 policy. Another company which car -'ed a $20,000 policy. however', fough .e claim and carried the matter t higher courts. Served Them Right. In the federal court Meridan, Miss Dr. R. WV. Shaw, of Sumter county Ala., was fined $500. and Daisy Har per, of Meridan, $250, for violatin he white slave law. The case gre' out of the alleged abduction of Lau a Jones, a 15-year-old girl, to Ala bama, where it is said she was dE aed several days by Dr. Shaw fo immoral purposes. Three Girls Drown. Mary Henderson. Rose Ferten an Ellen Lumberg were drowned a -oughton, Wis., Thursday night. Th ire~ aone capsized. LAID TO NO ONE MYSTERY OF MYRTLE HAWKIX DEATH UNSOLVED. Torn Fragments of Paper Are No Authorities' Hope to Obtain Ch1 to Identity of Guilty Persons. A special dispatch to The Stal from Hendersonville says the test mony of fifty witnesses has not sol' ed the mystery of the death of XMry tle Hawkins, whose body was foun in Osceola lake thirteen days agi but who was not drowned. The coroner's jury Wednesda s' .und "from the testimony lntrodu< that she came to her death at th - ands of some unknown person c C ,ctsons in a manner and by mear - unknown. This differs from the vei s diet in the first inquest by makin the case one of murder. Immediately after the verdict wa 1, rendered it was announced that th a Hawkins family offered a reward c e $500 for the arrest and conviction c L- Miss Hawkins' slayers. Added to th other rewards offered or promisec this makes a total of $2,500. Dr. W. It. Kirk, coroner, said th Y investigation would be continued, an e if any additional evidence is discover D ed a special grand jury will be em 0 paneled to consider it. There remains three possibilitle e of new evidence. Torn fragments o paper bearing an unfamiliar hand writing were found in Miss Hawkins s room and have been sent to Washing ton to be -put together. On the shor of Osceola lake, near where the bod: was found, there has been discovere a piece of manila paper, blood-stain ed and bearing finger prints. Tho finger prints may be Identified a1 thiose of somebody concerned in ch4 crime. It is expected that Mrs. Bessi4 Clark Guice will be arrested as she ii thought to know something aboui Miss Hawkins' death. A warrant hat been issued for Mrs. Guice in anothei county, accusing her of having per. formed the same kind of crimina operation, as it is said .was attemptei on Miss Hawkins. One of the prin cipal efforts of the inquest was direct ed toward finding who was responsi ble for Miss Hawkins' condition. Testimony that she was seen witi George Bradley, a recently married man, after she disappeared fro=f home was contradicted, as was the testimony concerning other suspi cious circumstances. DOCTOR SOLD COCAINE Wel-Known Laurens Physician Con victed and Fined for It. A dispatch to The State from Laur ins says Dr. C. L. Poole, a weil known physician of that city was Tuesday af ternoon found guilty in the mayor's court on a charge of selling cocaine, Mayor Babb imposed a sentence of $100 fine or of 30 days in prison. Dr. Poole gave notice that he would pay, The mayor announced that the de fendant would be tried tomorrow on a like charge. The witnesses are ne gioes who are alleged to have bought the drug from the -accused' The conviction of Dr. Poole caused a mild sensation. It comes as a climax to a long series of efforts on the part of the authorities to place responsibility for the sale of a large amount of the drug to negroes in the |city. A package of the dust which Dr. Poole is alleged -to have sold to a ne gro who was arrested as he was leay. ing the premises of the defendant a few nights ago, was analyazed by a Columbia chemist, who testified at the trial that the sample submitted was cocaine hydrochlorate. TRIED TO WRECK TRAIN Work of a Fiend te~ Destroy Many In nocent People. 'A dispatch from Chester says das ttardly attempt to wreck the north bound passenger train on the Caro lina & North-western, railroad was lmade at Crowder's trestle just ovei .the North Carolina line Tuesday I morning. The trestle is 50 feet long Sand 50 feet high, and about the mid. -dle of the trestle the spikes bad beez >pulled from the rails a distance of 6C Sfeet. A crowbar was stuck betweer .the ends of the rails. The rail heic - its .position, and the engineer broughi I his train to a stop just in time to a - void a fearful wreck. Many peopl< rmight have been killed. The Deadly Gin. Earnest Eldredge died Wednesda3 night of injuries received last weeli at St. Charles near Sumter. Mr. El dredge had been sent by the Sumtei Machinery company to erect a gir there, and in starting the operation he reached under a gin saw to adjus something with the result that hi: hand was caught and his arm bad13 lacerated. - Fell Into Well t Zan Bradford, white, was killed b: falling into a well in the Armenia section of Chester County W'ednesda: morning. Bradford had been at worn in the well and had signalled the mez .working the windlass to drawv him ul ,saying he felt sick. When within tel -feet of the top he gave way and fel to the bottom of the well, breakini his neck. - Toadstools Prove Fatal. -At Cleveland, Ohio, Thursday Mrs r Elizabeth Chormann died Thursda: from eating toadstools, mistakini them for mushrooms. Her husband Charles Chormann, died a week age i from the same cause. A son, Henry t is convalescent in a hospital, whil e eight others have recovered after des ARE A HEAVY TAX P LNSECTS COSTS FARMBRS MIL LIONS OF DOLLARS. w However Science, Through the Prac e tical Work of Entomologists, Saves Much to the Country. e Entomology means the study of [- insects. Not many years ago an en - tomologist was looked upon as a harmless non-utilitarian, and the d world called to mind the picture of , a spectacled and bearded lunatic, wildly waving an insect net and pur suing a flitting butterfly over field and bog. Even now amongst many of r our people the word is synonymous s with "bug hunter." an individual - who collects, kills, pins, classifies and labels what the public broadly char s acterizes as "bugs," said individual e adding not a Jot or title to the in f come of the v'orld, a ditettante who f in no way benefits mankind. Oftlate year the science of ento mology is being-everywhere recogniz ed assof great practical importance. We need only to refer to a few facts io emphasize the terrible destruction . caused by insect pests alone, havoc - which is rated by the millions of dollars and to mention certain appro priations made of late years -to for ward the work of entomology, to show the important part played in our 'economics by insects, and the appreciation of the work of entomol ogists as shown by substantial assist ance& ..rendered them by congress, state.glegislatures, and the various stat<-~nstitutions where the science is ile an important feature of the work.h The average total monetary value of all'?of the farm products of the Unted States each year, based upon government reports, is approximately six billion, seven hundred and ninety four millions of dollars. Our for estry products will average about six billions annually. This added to our agricultural products, makes a grand total of seven billions,- three hun dred and ninety-four milllions. Loss .through insect ravages for one year in the United States has been found -to be. represented by the enormous sum of eight hundred mil lions of diollars, neArly one-ninth of the total output. In other words, eight hundred ianllion dollars might be added yearly to our agricultural and forestry output if we could eim inate the work .of injurious insects. This4g9go not include the annual loss of human life through the agen cy, of insects. Although we. estimate our aver age wheat crop' as worth $450,000, 000, we lose yearly from ravages caused by insects, $1,000,000,000, or more than 20 per cent of the total < output. Of this, the Hessian fly is I yearly responsible for more than . 420,000,000, the cinch bug gets away with $15,000,000, and the balance is 1 sacrificed to locusts, grasshoppers, cut worms, army worms, etc. The corn root form, the cinch bug i and other insecit destroy $80,000, 000 of corn each year. At least 10 per cent of the 'hay I crop,. or $60,000,000 worth of hay, is levied on annually by locusts, grasshoppers, etc. San Jose scale; codling moths, cur- 1 cuos and other pests, rob us of 20 t per cent of our annual $136,000,000 1 fruit crop. We produce annually potatoes worth in the aggregate $150,000.00, I but lose by inesets each year $3 0, 000,000 on this' crop alone. Of our annual ,products, which eas- 1 ily represent $1,760,000,000, 10 per I cent goes each year to satisfy insect parasites, and we might go on enum-1 erating through a long list, the dam-I age wrought by insect pests. 1 However, the -triumph of science in recent years, through the practical wor of entomologists to the agri-I cultural classes each year part of the loss occasioned by insects, has been i one of the most notable achievements - of modern timek. The South has loss annually $12,-1 000,000 in Its cotton raising area,1 through the work of the cotton boll weevil, and in 1904 'in Texas alone about $22,000,000 was sacrificed to this insect. Field work by trained entomologists has shown means of preventing a large portion of this loss. The Hessian fly has, at times, un til made a special study, levied an annual tax upon our wheat of from one to two hundred million dollars, while the codling moth, until reme dies were found for It by entomolo gists, destroyed each year at least $10,000,000 worth of apples in~ the United States. The corn root worm took :nearly or quite $100,000,000 each year out of Lhe Mississippi val ley, until entomologists found - the proper means to combat it. The value of stored products. such as mill stuffs, fruit, cotton, woolen and other manufactured goods, has,I ir the past, depreciated annually $1000,000,000 by inspect attack, but entomologists have found that expert fumigation with hydrocyanic acid gas or bisulphide of carbon, will reduce that nearly or quite one-half. With in the last few years, state and gov ernment entomologists have learned practical methods of combating our :most destructive fruit insect, the San Jose scale, so that growers putting Sthe proper methods Into practice, need no longer fear It. Th's saving, lboth to tree and fruit, directly trace able to the work of entomologists, amout to millions of dollars. Would Make Good. .A Chester dispatch says the friends Sof Circuit Judge George W. Gage ;are urging him as a candidate for ,one of the positions on the supreme >bench to be filled by the legislature at its next session. Judge Gage is qualified in every way for the posi-' tion, and his friends would like to CUT WITH AXE Six People Bclachered as They Slept in Their Beds in Two Houses. A MOST BRUTAL CRIME Bodies of the Unknown Assassin's Victims Discovered by Neighbors Three Days After the Crime Was Committed With Their Heads Crushed and Fearfully Mutilated. One of the most * brutal crimes known to that section for many years has come to light at Colorado Springs Col. Butchered in their beds by some persons as yet unknown, who used an axe, the bodies of six per sons, three in each of two neighbor lag houses, were found there Wed nesday. The heads of all victims had been smashed in and the appearance of the bodies indicated that they had been dead several days and that death came while they slept. A re port says that the murder has been caught and that he has confessed, but this is denied by the police of flicials, who, it is Intimated, fear a ydching might follow such an an nouncement. An axe which had been loaned- to Mrs. Henry F. Wayne, one of the victims, by J. R. Evans, a neighbor, last week, was found, blood-stained by Mrs. Evans on Monday near the back door of the Wayne home. No ttention was paid tothis fact, how ver, as It was thought the axe had been used in killing chickens. The lead are: Mrs. Alice May Burnham, wife of L. J. Burnham, cook at the Modern Woodmen's Satitarium. Their two children, Alice, aged 6, nd John, aged three years. ,Henry F. Wayne, a consumptive, 1til recently a patient at the Wood nen's Sanitarium. Mrs. Wayne and their one-year-old aby girl. The Burnham house is situated at )ale street and Harrison place, and he two houses next to it on Dale ;treet are vacant. Directly in the ear is the Wayne home and close to t is that of Evans. The discovery of Ahe bodies was made by a neighbor, ?ho called at the Burnham hbme. iot getting any response and notic ng a strong odor, she forced an en rance. The bodies of Mrs. Burnham Lnd those of her two children were ound in their beds, which were cov red with blood, and the wall and eiling were also spattered. The woman rushed to the street Lnd gave the alarm. Immediately a lozen persons went to the Wayne iouse, where there had been no signs f life since Sunday, and the same ter ible scene was presented. In the Ieds were the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. ayne and her children horrf317y angled, as in the case of the bodies the Burnham home. That such' a crime had been corn nitted in a thickly settled neighbor Lood and left unrevealed for three lays is regarded as incredible. Not en a footprint-is to be found on the Loor of either house and no one could e found who had seen any one about he premises since Sunday, when all he murdered persons at different ies were in a neighboring grocery. Burnham, who lives at the sani arium where he is employed, about en miles from the e..r i as arrested i-on after' ic 2.irecon-ery of the crime, ut there seems nothing to implicate im in the tragedy. His employers ay he was at work when the crime ust have been committed. He was a~st seen at his home Sunday after ioon, and is said to have left there ~bout 5 o'clock. Little is known of the Wayne fami y except that Wayne came to the odern Woodmen's sanitarium about en months ago from Indiana as a atient. One mouth ago his term in he institulton was up and he brought is wife and child here and rented he house in whch they were murder When brought into thue morgue the bodes were almost u'nrecognizable. rhe heads of all the six victims were ~ither cut or smashed and in almost very case the number of wounds in icated them urderer had cut and ashed until certain that life was ex CAN'T IJSS IN PUBLIC. [ansas City Judge Fines Husband and Wife For Doing So. Kissing one's wife or husband in ublic places In -Kansas City Is ille al, according a decree Issued Wed uesday by Judge Carlisle of the mu ~icipal court. Judge Carlisle fined Ben Shannos and his wife $100 each or kissing each other in Shawnee ark Tuesday night. I always :hought a woman could kiss her hus an whenever she pleased,'' Mrs. hannos said, "What is the use of be ng married if you can't love your usband? We haven't any home, so e go to the park when we finish work." Wanted the Boodle. Eunice Murphy, of Valentine, Neb., ;he girl accused of having Incited a nob to hang her fiance in order that he might inherit his life insurance aas been held by the District Court. 'he presiding judge declared that !,iss Murphy is just as guilty as the ien who took her sweetheart to a tree and hanged him. Smith Dead Right. Senator Smith says that if the otton men of the South are content o sit down after six years of fight ing and let the speenlators dictate the price of cotton they deserve to be liced He is dead right. STRUCK BY CRUISER -4._ THE'LARGE STEAMER OLYMPIC HA) A CLOSE CALL. Despite Effects of Warship's Special-' ly Designed Ram, Great Ocean Lin er Survives the -Shock. The great steamship Olympic of the White Star line which left South hampton, England, about 12 o'clock Wednesday with a large crowd of re turning tourists, lies off Calshot cas tle at the entrance to Southhampton waters with a gaping hole In her side as the result of a collision with the British protector cruiser Hawke. No lives were lost, and of the 2, 000 or more passengers and crews of the vessels, not one was even injur ed. There also was no panic. The accident took place a few miles from where the American liner St. Paul and the British cruiser Gladiator col lided nearly four years ago. The Olympic left her dock at 11.25 o'clock Wednesday morning, steam ing at a moderate rate eastward on her way to Cherbourg to pick up the continental passengers. She already had on board nearly 1,700 persons, excluding the crew. The first cabin passengers ,were just answering the. call to lunch when attention was at tracted to the Hawke which was un dergoing steam trials. The warship, moving at great speed, followed the liner, but appar ently was quite clear of her but sud denly she swerved and before the passengers could realize what was happening, struck the liner on the starboard quarter near the stern, earing through a section about 40 feet in extent. The miracle is that the Olmypir was not sunk, as the Hawke is fitted with a ram especially designed to sink a.vessel -in spite of its water tight compartments. The liner's rrame stood the shock well, and the watertight doors, which automatical y closed, held the compartments her netically sealed. The Olympic listed slightly to starboard but not to a suf cient angle to cause any serious larm. So far as can be learned the Hawke uffered no more severely. Curiously ough 12 -feet of her upper deck was wisted out of all recognition. The ;tem appears to be completely gone. rhe engines of both shils were stop 3ed immediately, and as sn as the atertight doors were secured the.en nes were set astern and the vessels rew apart. The Hawke sent wire ess messages for tugs and remai-ned -longside until they arrived to con rcy her to Southhampton, where she tropped anchor. Many theories are .advanced as to he cause of the collision, but gen mrally the warship is blamed. It is uggested that the cruiser's steering ,ear failed to act. The naval officers Lnd the officers of the Olympic are rithholding comment until the In ~uiry which the admiralty will insti ute, immediately. The cruiser pro eeded to 'Portmouth under her own team. AVIATOR, ROSENBAUM KILLED micago Airman Falls Fifty Feet at DeWitt, Iowa. At DeWitt, Ia., John W. Rosent aum, of Chicago, was killed late Iuesday, when his,.. aeroplane fell 'rom a height of fifty feet. He had een in the air only twerity minutes hen he lost control of th'e machine. tosenbaum was making a trial flight hen he met death. He* was using .Curtiss biplane, which had been at ;he DeWitt Fair last week. At that :ime Ludwig, an aviator, failed to nake a flight. Rosenbaum this af :ernoon declared that he would prove :hat the machine would fly. He had. ust started a descent when .he lost ~ontrol. The aviator was to have giv n exhibition flights at -Clinton, Ia., ater in the week. HELD UP A NEGRO. L White Man and a Negro Attempt to Commit Robbery. Near Allendale two mena one white and the other a negro, made a bold attempt at robbery about three ,'clock Wednesday morning, when ley drew revolvers on Richard Bury ant, a negro, who lives, on W. F. ooge's plantation, near the ceme :ery, as he was going to town to mar tet a bale of cotton. Just as Bryant vas passing a thicket the two high aymen stepped out in front of him 'ith revolvers and demanded that he alt. They then proceeded to search aim, but found nothing, and ordered :he negro to move on. The robbers re still at large and there seems to be no clue as to who they are. A Young Convict. Willie Jones, a negro girl. 13 years 1d, pleaded guilty to two charges of icusebreaking and larceny in the general sessions court at Lexington Vednesday afternoon, and was sen :enced to serve one year in the State penitentiary. performing such work s she might be able to do. Why Prices TelL. A dispatch from New Orleans says new low price levels were brought a~bout in the cotton market Wednes lay by heavy and general selling, part of which was for speculative bort accounts, part from liquidat ing longs, and nart from spot firms and large receipts. Drugged and Robbed. People should be careful about Irinking with strangers. A young an in Atlanta a few days ago was given drugged whiskey and robbed by chance acquantiances. Later the ~oung man died from the effects of VOTE IT DOWN In a General Election Canada Rieits Rciprocity Decisively SLAPS US IN THE FACE Political Landside In the Dominion Gives the Conservatives, Opponents of Trade Pact with the United States, More than Fifty MIajocity In Next Parliament. Canada slapped the United States, squarely in -the face on Thursday and plainly said she wanted no closer relations With us, business or polt! cal. In the elections over there on Thursday reciprocity suffered ;a.u overwhelming defeat, along with- the Liberal party which favored 'that trade pact with the United State A dispatch from Montreal says by " a veritable political landslidea the Liberal emajority of 43 was swept away and the Conservative party se cured one of the heaviest majorities -upward of 50-that any Canadian Parliament has ever had. Seven Cab inet ministers, who have served with. Premier Laurier, were among the de feated candidates. The Liberals lost ground In prac tically every province of the Domin ion. Where they won,-their majori ties were small. Where the Coner vatives won, their majorities were tremendous., -Ontario, the lading province of Canada, decla red almost unanimously against the Administra tion and reciprocity. Robert. L. Borden, leader of the Conservative party, will shortly be come prime minister of Canada- He will be supported in Parliameit bY a working imajority of far more than ample for his purpose. The government defeat means that the Filding-Knox reciprocity treaty, ratified by the American Congress in extra session, will not be introduced when the 12th Parliament assembles next month and that a revised-ba f trade with the United States, look ng to closer commercial relations will not be possible in the immediate future. The Conservatives. are.com nitted to a pollcy of trade expan*on within the Empire and a closed door gainst the United States. Although re-elected in two constf uencies in Quebec, the defeat of. the Liberal party also means the retire nent from public life of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, who, for nearly two decades, ias directed the destines of the Do minion. Several times during the bitter campaign, which preceeded the lection, the venerable premier said hat defeat of his party at the polls neant the end of his career. A Liberal membership of 53 from Quebec was cut down to, the suprem ey of the party, but it was in Ontar o that- the Conservatives won their ~reat victories. Spurred on by -ap eals to patriotism and the cry that eciprocity was the entering wedge or annexation, the Conservatives wept nearly everything before them. That province, which in the last arliament was represented, by 35 iberals and 51 Conservatives, will end a delegation to the. next com osed of 13 Liberals and 75 Censer ~atives. A notable feature of the do Eat was the opposition's capture of ~wo hitherto Liberal seats in Saskat hewan. The -results at ten o'clock Thurs fay night, .with a few of iihe distant onsttuencies estimated, were: Province. Lib. Con. ~)ntario.. .. .... ...13 T0 uebec .. .. ........36 ?7 sova Scotia.. .. .....10 .8 Cew Brunswick . .. .. 8 : 5 Prince Edward Island. 2 2 Nfanitbia.. .. ....1 9 saskatchewan.. .. ...7 3 Alberta.. .. .... ..-..4 1 3.ritish Columbis... .. 0 6 Totals.. .. .. ....81 131 Opposition majority, 50. USBAND AND ,WJFE STRICKEX. br. and Mrs. A. N. Ha11 'of Selma, Ala., Die Suddenly. Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Hall of Selma, la., husband and wife, apparently n good health Tuesday night, were oth dead Wednesday, the husband taving died at .midnight and the ife four hours later. The husband ied suddenly and the wife ran to eighbors immediately afterwards re tuesting them to take her to the resi fence of her daughter, stating that he, too, felt death stealing upon her. he was carried to her daughter's omne and died there .at four o'clock Wednesday morning. tMr. and Mrs. -all were among the most prominent eople in Alabama. Their deaths are upposed to have been due to natural auses. Wofford Cuts Out Hazing. The Spartanburg Herald says the tudent body of Wofford college be an the new school year Thursday y adopting a resolution not to en age in hazing of any character this ear. The meeting was presided ov r by Dr. Synder. Wofford has had splendid opening. All For Her Boy. The threats of a son to kill him elf unless he were kept In iponey rove her to repeated forgeries in - rder to provide the funds was ad nitted In police court at Chicago by ~ Mrs. E. -K. Lyon, wife of a wealthy manufacturer Thursday. Struck by Train. Four members of the family of rank Klein, Rockfield, Wis., were cilled, one is dying and andther was injured when the -Klein automobile was struck by a Soo line train at rmntown, ws..