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VOL. XXVI MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY; OCTOBER 25, 1911 NO. 14 HUNT HIM DOWN rying fe Find the Man 4ccused .t Fourteen Brutal ,ufders WIE HFJPS OCFICERS Suspect in Colorado Springs, Where Six Persons Were Butchered; and Acquainted in Illinois Town, Where Three Others Were Killed, Declares Former Spcnse. That Charles Marzyck, ex-convict, sought by the authorities in connec tion with the murder of five members of the William Showman family at Ellworth, Kas., Sunday night, had been in Colorado Springs, where the six members of the Wayne and Burn ham families were slain, and was ac quainted in Monmouth. Ill., where three were murdered receatly, was the startling declaration made to the1 autiorities by Mrs. Minnie Vopat, Marzyek's divorced wife. All these fourteen victims were killed with an axe. Samuel Showman, brother of Wil liam Showman, head of the murdered family, Wednesday started at the bead of a. posse to search the county. Marzyek is believed to be hidden in the neighborhood. If he is found a battle is expected. Marzyek not long ago served a term for stealing grain from James Vopat. All the members of the Slav com munity who had any connection with the conviction of Marzyek went armed Wednesday, for he is reported to have sworn vengeance on those responsible for his imprisonment. Ira Lloyd, the attorney who de fended Marzyek in the wheat steal ing case, said Wednesday: "I .believed Marzyek will remain in the neighborhood until he has comt pleted his vengeance. After his sen tence he told me that when he was released he woul,' come back and kill the people who were responsible for his conviction and also their chil dren. 'I will put them all in hell,' he said." Evidence furnished by Mr. and Mrs. William Showman is said to be -responsible for Marzyekz's conviction. Nine persons remain here who fear his vengeance. These persons, all of them Slavs, his own raice, are: James Vopat, Mrs. Minnie Vopat, who ob. tained a divorce from Marzyek after his sentence and married Vopat nine months later; their two children, one ten months old, the other three years; John Katke, father of the murdered Mrs. Showman, who tes tified against Marzyek; Mrs. John Katke and three children, Emile, aged 17; Annie, aged 18; Mary, aged 20. As to a possible connection be tween the Ellsworth and other trag edies, Mrs. Vopat says her former husband was convicted of forgery in Colorado Springs a few months ago. She said that it was not improbable that he had .been in Monmouth late ly. The insane cruelty on the pert of the slayer is evident in the Wayne and Burnham tragedies, at Colorado Springs; in the murder of William E. Dawson, his wife and daughter, in Monmouth, and in the killing of the Showmans. Marzyek served in the Philippine war and after his return to this country deserted from the army. He had been in trouble since, for forg ing checks and stealing. Until -he went to the penitentiary he was a constant fugitive. KILLED B3Y A SNOW SLIDE. Man and Wife Overwhelmed in Home by an Avalanche. Stanley McLellan and bis wife were killed recently by a snowslide tbat demolished their home at the Patridge mine on the West of Lake Atlin, Y. T. Victor Carlston, who was standing near the house, was caught up by the avalanche and carried a thousand feet down the mountain. He entered several broken ribs, but will recover. McLellan had just gone into the house to aid his wife in preparing dinner, when the snowslide swept down upon them, crushing the stone building into bits. McLellan was peeling potatoes when the snow overwhelmed his home, and when his body was recov-1 ered the knife was firmly grasped in his hand. When Mrs. McLellan's body was uncovered it was found that her glasses were unbroken. WERE NOT THE ONES. Quest for Capt. Jarvis Results Un successfully. The News and Courier says after a two-day search of the islands about Stono Inlet in an effort to discover the bodies of Capt. Edward L. Jar vis, of the schooner Margaret A. May, and his two brothers, who lost their lives when their vessel was wrecked in the great hurricane of August 27 and 28, the Custom House launch Sumter returned to the city Wednesday afternoon. The bodies were exhumed by the search party, and the evidence failed to substan tiate the report that one of them was that of the gallant and popular sea man, whose many friends in Charles' ton have never ceased to deplore his untimely death. Monument to Gen. Morgan. Lexington, Ky., was the Mecca Wednesday of Confederate Veterans, their sons and daughters, from all over the3 West and South. The oc casion for the gathering was the un' veiling of an 18-foot bronze eques trian monument to Gen. John H. Moran the Confederate leader. KILLS HIS BRIDE MLOST DEPLRABLE ACCIDEN'T NEAR SUiMERTON. Mr. Henry B. Richardson Accidental ly Shoots and Kills His Young and Newly Wedded V ..e. A special dispatch from Summer ton says one of the most deplorable tragedies in the history of that sec tion occurred near that place Thurs day morning when the young and newly wedded wife of Mr. Henry B. Richardson was accidentally shot and killed by a gun In the hands of her husband. From the testimony nrought out at the corner's inquest, held at the home at noon, It'appears tnat Mr. and Mrs. Richardson were prenaring 'o drive into Summerton i.mmediately after breakfast. The deceased was in her bed room when her husband entered and pick ed up a double-barreled shotgun from a corner, intending to kill a chicken with it. While speaking to his wife he examined the gun to see if it was loaded, and 'as he closed the breech there was a deafening report, followed by a cry of pain, and the young woman fell mortally wounded to the floor. The entire load enter ed her left side, just beneath the arm, tearing her heart entirely a way and causing immediate death. Just a few days ago the young couple surprised their large cirple of friends by announcing their mar riage, which took place in Augusta, Ga., on the 10th instant. The de ceased was a young woman of 18 years of age, and was widely known and deservedly popular hereabouts. She wais the daughter of Mr. James Douglas Deas, formerly of Camden, but now living at Summerton. 31r. Deas is in the West at the present time. Mrs. Richardson had several bro thers and a sister, all of whom have been notified of the accident. The husband is a young man of great promise,. and is completely over whelmed by the terrible tragedy. The interment was at St. Mark's Chuach, Clarendon, at 3 o'clock on Friday afternoon, 20th Instant. The sympthy of the entire community goes out to the young husband and groom in- his grief. SEVERAL PARDONS GRANTED. Governor Blease's Pardon Mill Still in Good Order. Aaron Williams, a white man who was convicted in Kershaw county in 1903 on the charge of murder and upon recommendation to mercy sen teced to life Imprisonment in the state penitentiary, has been paroled by the Gov. Blease during good -be havior. He left the penitentiary. after a service of only eight years for murder. DeWitt Rogers, who was convicted in Spartanburg county In JJune of this year on the charge of violating the dispensary law and sentenced to six months or a fine of $300, has been iparoled by the governor. Ella Jernigan, who was convicted in Marlboro county in October of 1910 and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary on the charge of manslaughter, has been parcled. The sentence of C. W. V. Benton, who was convicted in -Beaufort coun ty and sentenced to six months' im prisonment or a fine of $200 or six monthn on the chain gang. Since assuming office on Janua-ry 17 of this year the governor has ex tended clemency in 250 cases as fol lows: Paroles 134; pardons 116. COUPLE WHO WERE DIVORCED. Remarry After Living Apart for Fif ty Three Years. 3. S. Herman, a resident of Fuller ton, Neb., remarried his first wife n the fifty-third anniversary of their irst wedding day, after having been married to two other women. After living together for fifteen years, Horman and the woman he has ust remarried were divorced. Horman then married Mrs. Lasy Townsend. f Fullerton, with whom he lived for wenty-five years. She died fif teen years ago, and ten years ago he married Mrs. Margaret Houser, who died recently. Recently Horman wrote his first wrife, and two weeks ago she came to see him. She responded to his ad vances and promised to remarry him. They are living at the home where they began housekeeping. Bottle of Catsup Blew Up. Mrs. Herbert Morgan, of Spring field, Mass., will lose the sight of her left eye as the result of an ex plosion of a bottle of catsup. A bot tle of catsup was on the table when it blew up, and a fragment of glass was imbedded in Mrs. Morgan's eye Drops Frogs Large as Bees. Following a rain storm in Chatham county, Ga., the entire section Is alive with frogs about the size of bees. Even the business section of Savannah is alive with the small creatures which, it is believed, fell with the rain. Mistook Hair Tonic for Whisky. James Finnegan, of St. Joseph, Mo., 65 years old, mistook hair tonic made from peach seeds, for whiskey and drank a pint of it. Hie was un conscious when found by a police man half an hour. later, and died at police headquarters. Killed Over Chicken. In a quarrel over some chigekens. George 0. Chrisman, a rural mail carrier at Winchester Va., was shot and killed at his home by Morris H. Miller a neiglhbor. Miller was arrest di and jailed. DROPS TO DEAl! Eugene Ely, the Famous Aiaman's Ca reer Ends In a Fall at Macen JUMPED TO HIS DEATI Loses Control of Machine, whic] Plunges Downward, and Endeav ors to Jump to Safety-Body Brok en in Many Places, End Comin Eleven Minutes Later. Eugene Ely, the well known avia tor, was fatally injured at the Stat< Fair grounds her shortly after o'plock Thursday afternoon, when hi aeroplane refused to rise after a sen sational dip and plunged with hin fifty feet to the earth. In the presence of nearly 8,001 people he fell to the middle of th inclosure of the mile track, almos clearing the machine by a desperat jump he made when he realized hi peril. His body was broken in a scor of places, and he died eleven minu tea after the fall. Just before th end came he regained consciousnes and muttered. "I lost control; I know I am goin, to die." Ely made a remarkable fligh Thursday morning shortly befor noon, ascending to an altitude o 3,100 feet. At 2.45 o'clock he bega his second flight of the day, risin, gracefully from the track inuclosure wnich he circled in a few minutes traveling at about thirty miles a hour. As he was completing the cir cle, he made one of his famous dips apparently to startle the thousand! beneath him who were watching witl straining eyes. The birdlike machini shot down with tremendous veloci ty, the crowd applauded, thinkig thal the aviator would rise, as he hat done countless times before. Bu Ely seemed to lose his grip on th( lever, for the machine continued it. downward plunge to the earth. Realizing his peril, Ely releaset the lever altogether and half jumped barely clearing the aeroplane as 11 crashed to the ground. It was demol, ished, fying bits of wood and meta: flying hundreds of feet. Ely struci with terrific force. Scores rushe acoss the -track to where he lay, , broken, bloody, inert mass, to offel him aid. He was tenderly removed from beneath the wreckage whici covered him, and carried to his quar ters. - The vast crowd, excited and cu rious, rushed forward, but, wer kept In order by the policemen. Ef. forts were made to resuciate the aviator, but he only regained qon sciousness for a moment, before hi death. Even in his unconscious stat his physical agony was manifest. Ely left his wife in New YorlI two weeks ago to come to Macon t< give a series of flights for the Geor gia State Fair, in his Curtiss bi plane. En route he stopped at Day enport, La., to visit his relatives. H4 had been giving spectacular aerial demonstrations at Macon for eighi days, going up on one occasion amid a shower of rain. Thursday he even offered to make a flight by night, painting his craf1 with -phosphorous, "so as to startli the natives," he told the Fair direc tors. The offer was declined. Ely was the first man to alight or the deck of a warship with an .aero plane. During an aviation meet, heli in San Francisco, a distance of aboui twenty miles, and alighted on thi deck of the ' cruiser Pennsylvania which was anchored in San Fra-ncis o Bay. After holding a reception or board the warship, Ely flew fron: the ship back to the camp and land d safely. HEARST COMES BACKI. Declares that He was Brought by the Action of the Party. ,William R. Hearst's announce [ent that he is back in the regula: Democratic fold caused much specu lation In political circles in New York regarding the Independenc4 League's faite. This organization wa: ounded ;by Hearst. Hearst declared himself last nigh1 at the opening rally o-f the local fur son campaign in the first public address he has made sinice returnimn! rom abroad. "I am speaking." 'he said, "as good citizen I hope, and ailso as good Democrat. Murphy and his kind drove me out of the Democratic par ty five years ago, but the commenda ble course of national Democrac: brought me back into the fold." He declared he would continu' his -fight against Tammany Hall' "undemocratic priancip-les." Hearat' audience was composed mostly of Re publicans and Independence Leagut members and his declaration caused a surprise. Poisoned by Walnut Juice. The State says poisoned fron swallowing some juice from the out side hull of a walnut, Kitty, the lit te 7-year-old girl of Mr. and Mrs John Mabon of Eau Claire, died Thursday morning, and Rosa, yers old, is h:n a critical condition Woman Burned to Death. While burning leaves in her wari Friday, at Eton, Ga., Mrs. Wnm Greenlee, wife of the president o1 Eton high school met a horribl' death when her ~iothing .became ig nited, and she was .burned almost t< a crisp. Value of Farm Buildings. The value of farm buildings ir South Carolina in 1900 was $26, 956,00 and in 1910 the figures shov Ithat they are valued at $63,902,000 This speaks well for the South and espeially the farmer. SOLD HER FOR GAIN WOMAN MAKES THIS CHARGE AGAINST HUSBAND. Three Months After Their Marriage She Declares He Bartered Her to Chicago Millionaire. "My husband-that serpent whom I killed last week-repeatedly sold me-sold my body-to a Chicago millionaire. Once rich himself, Pat terson resorted to the worst when he lost his money. He sold me on one occasion to that millionaire for $1,500. The purchaser took me to e Europe and there we-well, I'll drop I the curtain on what we did there. s Do you wonder that I shot Patter -son?" 1 This will form the line of defense for Mrs. Gertrude A. Patterson, now ) in jail at Denver, Col., for shooting B and killing her husband, Charles Pat t terson, in the Phipps sanitarium in a that city last week. It means she s will plead "temporary insanity, the a climax of a long series of unspeak able brutalities." e "He spat in my face, struck and called me the vilest name a man can call a woman," she declares, and r shows a bruise on her cheek, which, she said, resulted from her hus t band's blow. "I have evidence In a my husband's own handwriting that f will undoubtedly clear me before a i jury," declared Mrs. Patteison. -Mrs. Patterson told her hideous story without reservation to her at torney, concealing nothiig concern' ing her relations with a Chicago man, . and, at the same time, overlooking nothing which would serve to dis a credit the character of her husband. According -to Patterson's diary, found among his effects, -ie knew . his wife was in Europe in Jan t .uary and February, 1909, and I could not have left her husband in t February on excuse of going to visit her family in St. Louis, as he al leged in divorce suit he had filed against her. "Three months after we were mar ried," said Mrs. Patterson in telling t her story, "Chales Patterson told me . to go to a Chicago millionaire for $1,500. He told me he might take me where he pleased, that -he might have me as long as he pleased and -that the sum paid in cash was his compensation. Four weeks later when the Chicago man and I were in Europe, Patterson wrote me that, unless I returned to him by first boat, he would follow me and kill me He had spent the money then and he wanted me back that he might secure more That was the life t'o which he led me. He sold me at a time when I did not know where my next meal was coming from. "Three months after we were mar ried my husband arranged with the Chicago millionaire to take me off his hands for as long a time as he cared to keep me. We went abroad at once. Our stay in Europe, espec ially at Paris, was just what you might expect that it was. Why go into details?" TWELVE MINERS DBOWNED. Foreman Dies in Vain Effort to Res cue His Men. Destruction of a wall dividing a new and an old shaft in the iron mines of .the Wharton Steel Company at Hibernia, N. J., precipitated great volumes of water on to a gang oL workmen early today. Twelve mein were drowned. All were foreigners except David Slaight, the foreman -who lost his life trying to save his tmen. tThe accident occurred in the new -Langdon shaft 300 feet .below ground, where sixty men were work ing. Between this shaft and the a bandoned one was a ,partition of logs. A blast fired soon after the day shift went to work weakened this barrier so that it gave way before the water in the adjoining ballery. Instantly the water was over the miner's heads. They swamn in the drekness toward the openisng lead ing to a higher. level. Those who lost their lives were unable to swim or were pushed down by .their strug gling mates. Slaight, the foreman, was in a po sition of safety when the deluge came but he rushed Into the sub merged shaft to assist the drowning men and was caught there with .the other victims. * LARGEST IN THE WORLD. Young Woman Weighs Over Eight Hundred Pounds. Miss Gertrude Burke of Chicago, largest woman in the world, Is visit ing at the home of Mrs. H. WV. Hayes, at Alton, Ill. Miss Bu:ke is twenty two years of age, weighs 825 pounds, stands five feet, seven Inches, and some of her measurements are: Armn, 28 Inches; waist, 54; bust, 75. She wears No. 4 1-2 shoes and No.7 gloves. When she was born Miss Burke -weighed -fifteen pounds, and at eight years of age weighed 250. At the [ Hayes home she sits on two chairs placed facing each other. Miss -Burke goes through doors by turn lg sideways, and it is a pretty hard squeeze at that. I Efforts have been made by show -men to get Miss Burke to exhibit herself, but she has never been Stempted. Her parents left her an estate and she does not nced the Smoney. Mule Burn in a Barn. The barn of John Rainey, who 1 lives a fewv miles from Sharon, was - burned Wednesday night. The barn contained 8,000 bundles of fodder -and several bales of hay and other [provender, all of which was lost. ne mule was burned. PEOPLE ARE ROBBED FOR THE BENEFIT OF WOOL TRUST WHO OWN MILLS. The Americans Pay Over a Hundred Million Dollars in Taxes on the Clothes They Wear. The people of the United States pay a subsidy to the wool industry of at least $104,400,000 a year, ac' cording to calculations of the Hon. Oscar W. Underwood, of Alabama, chairman of the Ways and Means committee of the house of represen tatives, who discussed schedule K before the Industrial club, of Chi cago, recently. - After relating the history of the tariff on wool which he said had .been recommended in 1867, after a meet ing of the wool growers of the west and the wool manufacturers of the east, Congressman Underwood un dertook to show the actual tax im posed on the individual through the tariff. "An illustration of the extent of the burden is afforded by a study of a typical article of comparatively cheap cloth such as enters the ordi' nary men's suit worn by the -great masses of -the people," he said. "The article Is an all worsted fancy fabric, the wholesale English price -per yard of which is sevenity-seven cents, and the. freight to New York, one cent. "The compensatory duty is forty four cents per pound or twenty-three cents per yard, the ad valorem duty forty per cent or thirty-eight cents I.er yard In addition, or seventy-eight per cent of the import price. It re' quires three and one-half yards to make a man's suit. There are at present 92,000,000 persons of the United States. It is estimated one fifth are heads of families, or men making 18,400,000 such sults used a year. There are doubtless an equal number of women wearing woolen making -a total of such cloth, which with the children's suits makes a to tal, figured at the small estimate of one suit a year, 171,200,000 yards. "The taiff tax of 61 per cent per yard, to say nothing of any in crease in tax as it passes to the jobber, makes not less than $104, 400,00 paid each year to subsidize the wool industry of America "On the other hand, the entire duties paid the United States on all Imports of woolens and worsteds in 1910 amounted to a total of less than one-fourth of one per cent of $15,500,000 for the use of the gov ernment and over $100,000,000 sub tracted from the pockets of the peo ple. Is it fair or just or right to main tain these enormous taxes unduly to foster the business of less than one and three-fourths to stagger under this enormous burden? "I do not believe, the American people will justify the president in his veto of the wool schedule. He does not say the rates of duty fixed in the bill presented to him were too high or too low, but says that con gress was not informed and that they must wait the decision of the socalled tariff .board. The congress had all the information it had whien it passed the revision of the tariff schedule, that the Ways and Means committee had when it drafted the Payne bill, which the president signed. "The chairman of the tariff board does not seem to agree with the pres ident as to the ability of that board to secure facts that will aid congress In rewriting that schedule. He said at a banquet of the American Asso cation of Woolen and Worsted man ufacturers in New York 1-ast Decem ber "there are certain things that are difficult to get and one thing is to try to get cost of production." MURDERERS TO BE HANGED. Two Negroes Will Be Executed for Kiling Negroes. At the conclusion of the Court of General Sessions at Chester on Wed nesday, Judge Watts passed sentence on Henry Kee, for the murder of Sam Dye; and Mack Hood, for the murder of Walker Dunlap, sentenc ing them to hang on December 8. These will be the first legal hang' ings in Lancaster county in twenty one years. The last hanging was that of Roach Catoe and Will Cly burn, for the murder of Gus Hen' nis. Out of the twelve murder cases to come up at this term, all except two were tried. Two were convicted o'f murder in the first degree, one with recommendation to mercy, and one of manslaughter. Was Killed on .asreet Car. At Montgomery, Ala., A. C. Jami on, a fruit vender, shot and killed John Bice, a street car conductor, on the rear end of a street ca~r in the heart of the city. Circumstances leading to the killing are unknown. Jamison has been arrested on a charge of murder. Killed a Huge Rattler. A rattlesnake that had as its caudal appendage 23 rattles and a button was killed in Saltkehatchie swamp, several miles from Barnwell, by D. E. Aldrich, last week. The rattles were cut off and brought to Barnwell. They measured five inches in length. Three Natives Were Eaten. News comes from the New Hen rides that a French trading vessel made a raid and a number of na tives were kidnapped. The natives in revenge attacked the steamer and captured three of th~e crew, all na tives. These were killed and eaten. French Miners Killed. Twenty-six have been killed in an explosion in the Bardot coal mine in France while fighting -a fire which has been in the workings since Tues NONE LEFT AL T A The Chiaese Spare Neither Age Nor Sax in LssIcwe of Machas Fj THE DEAD ARE PILED UP Consternation Resiogned at the Capi- H: tal All Day Thursday, and Refu- sb gees from the Fighting Zone Tell b3 of Horrors of Chinese Revolutions fo at Hankow and War Chang. y H A cablegram from Shanghai, China, says six packed steamers ar- A: rived here from Hankow today car- b3 rying refugees. The steamer Belgra- NN via was occupied exclusively by lir- ta eign passengers who were given free of acommodations at the directions of le the consul in Hankow. The ship was le; so crowded that mnay of the pas- of sengers slept on the floor of the de hold. Most of the foreigners were cli Russians employed in the tea facto- ki ries and Belgian iron workers, em ployed in the steel works, the Han va Yang arsenal, and on the Peking- ti< Eankow Railway. ti< The refugees declare that the whole or Yang Tse Valley, from Han-kow to er hanghai, is in the hands of the reb-. m ls with the possible exception of one ga )r two of the larger cities to which a provincial officials have& retired with their available troops. It has been in- uc sistently stated here that Kiu -Kiang, St 15 miles below Hankow, is. under th revolutionary control. This is denied, th iowever, by foreign officials and by in the representatives of the Chinese of .ustom service. na Accounts of the revolutionary at- ca ack on Wo Chang as given by the wl refugees emphasize particularly the in nassacre of the manchus in that city. [n the slaughter neither age nor sex pr vas regarded and it is doubtful, the tic refugees say, whether a single rep- it< resentative of the Mnachu race was ye eft alive there. Similar slaughte r of ne :he Manchus followed in Hankow du ind Han Yang, when those cities tis 'll. te, Copies of the Central China Post, ha which arrived on the Belgravia, de- gi scribe the early progress of the revo- an tutionary movement. "The revolu- pu ionary leaders," the palper says, fie 'displayed secrecy, promptitude and in horoughness - qualities seldom pr shown by the governing classes in da aina. But the massacre of the Man'- gr hus in our three .cities is a ghastly li lot on the reputation of the revo- ur utionaries." er Shanghai is a hot bed of revolu- lai :ion and rumors of plots and counter lots rare numberless. A formal ap- na eal issued by the revolutionary a- ty: rents here today says: tri "We appeal for the cooperation of th ur brethren throughout the world. ch hose with money should contribute th, unds; those with wisdom should gr levise plans; those with information ret hould secretly report the enemy's tic ~ondition. We expect that our move- th, nent will succeed. If it fails, the ten he jays' massacres of Hang. Chow and th Kiating, when the Manchus subdued ch~ hina, will .be repeated. th "It is hoped that our patriotic th 3rethren will respond from all fr lirections and with unanimous minds ill turn this universe about." er A proclamation credited to the six revolutionay leader in Hankow is as no ~ollows:1 "I come to save the Chinese peo- os le . I have no idea of acquiring en ,ersonal profit or preference but aim eci >nly to pull you out of the fire and pr: :ure your cankering maladies. Hith- sti rto you have been bitterly oppress- doc d. You have been drowned in a sea cec >f misery by a government of aliens. m< lour rulers have treated you like >astards, not like children.of "Let whoever is animated~ by pa- sp rotic sentiment come quickly and th oin our ranks. With us he will ob-ain ain unending glory by delivering his th ountry from the Manchu barbaian ~ho hitherto has eat'en ouc flesh. ce ~rom now on we shall sleep in his a kin. sir "Let us be merciful even to te: ur enemies. Our soldiers must be th ~areful not to recklessly kill the iti anchus. Let us give them an Op la. ortunity to surrender their uniform gia trI u eapons. If they do not then es field and continue enemies of the gr r olutioary movement, they must bil ' killed. The official announcement this an norning that telegraphic communi- de ation with Hankow had been inter- fe: upted since sunset last night, caus- as sd consternation throughout the ru~ aptal today. tri The wildest rumors of reverses to foi ;he imperial arms spread like wild bil ire, although no definite facts to sup ort them were available. Much of ignifcance was attached to the fact of hat the government has refrained cil ~rom issuing any official ansounce- co nent of a victory in yesterday's en- in agement with the rebels. Will Beat Them Both. the That the next President of the~ so Jnited States would be a Democrat; in hat Mr. Taft would be the nominee of >f the regular Republicans, with La- pr ollette the possible nominee of the nsurgen't faction, wvere the view er >ressed at Lake Charles, La., Wed esday .by Speaker Champ Clark. er: i I 'an Made Him Sleep in Barn, be After deeding the home to his wife wi n return for "love and affection," 1o: ames Gautt, of Los Angeles, Cal., m vho filed suit to regain the property, sh illegs that he was compelled to sleep sh n the barn. Russian Prince Shot D~own. At Novc'-Tcherkash, Russia. Prince Tc [roubetskey was assassinated Wed-in iesday. A student entered a private W :ar in which the prince was travel- Su .ng to that to'wn and shot him sev' M< al times with a. revolver. Tl: HEY DO A GREAT WORI WORD IN PRAISE OF DENOMI NATIONAL COLLEGES. .e Sixths of the Colleges in th United States Belong to that Clas of Institutions. Dr. A. P. Montague, President o arvard College, Birmingham, Ala. ows the great benefit the denomi tional colleges are to the countr pointing out what they are doinj r the uplift and betterment of thi ung people of the United States re is what Dr. Montague says: In a talk to certain educators o abama, gathered in the First Pres terian church of Birmingham, Di allace Butterck, executive secre ry of the general education boar New York, stated that of the 60, ading American institutions o rning carried on the books in hi ice, 501 were f'ounded by religiou nominations. In this list are in tded Harvard, Yale, Brown an ndred universities and colleges. From this fact alone we see th, .st debt which American civiliza M. Take out from the catalogue o n. Take -out fromt he 1catalogue o r colleges all founded and for gen ations fostered by religious senti nt and sacrifice, and you leavi ps in education which could not fo: century be bridged. These institutions have led the ed ational activities.of the Unite ates; more, ithey have inaugurate ese activities; and, while some o: ese foremost schools have drifte a way from their ancient mooring: religion or certainly of denomi tional control, education in Ameri can never forget its debt to then iile -governed solely by the denom ati.os which gave .them birth. From these institutions have con esidents and supreme court jus :es, senators and ambassadors, ed rs of international fame and law, rs foremost in many states, busi ss men who have made the in strial- life of our land and scien .ts who have interpreted the mys ies of nature. From their door. ve gone forth teachers who hav ven farther vision to edcatioi d preachers who in the leading pits of America, as in the foreigi ld, have given fresh and vigoroui petus to Christian thought ani actice. In short, our country to y would lag far in the rear of th eater nations, were it not for thi es and -the service of colleges and iversities, established .by the gen 1 Christian denominations of om id. In the second place, the denomi tional College furnishes the fines1 pe of democracy. Controlled b3 4stees, elected by conventions emselves chosen by individua: urches and hence by the people se schools are directed for -th( eat people and by their direct rep sentatives. Drawing their inspira >n from the people, responsible t< e people, they live near the grea1 art of the speople. Representing II ei control, as in their studen1 sses, the humblest homes and the ought too of those in affluence ey are exponents of all classes of te America. In the third place, there is no fin training school for economy ani ple living than the average de minational college. Itself supported by the gifts of its n denomination, in a way depend t, it inculcates the principles oj onomy and necessity, observes thi actices of simplicity in living. It. idents must learn the value of lar, and thus they realize the ne sity of careful financial manage So trained, they know not the way: the spendthrift and are taught t< end with a measure of carefulness at conserves in yduthful days, a: the years of their old, resource: at are theirs. This simplicity of living and ne sity for economy do not produce aiggardly meanness or a small par ony; on the other hand, the: ih the true value of money. Thei a knowledge that their opportun as for education com4e from thi -ge-hearted men and women whc re genorously of their means teach them lessons in lijberality; anc atitude for kindness received give: -th to acts of similar kindness. In the fourth place, true religiol d undefiled has its home in ths noninaltional college. There pro sors and students hold the Bible the standard of thought and thi le of action. There Christianity tins its disciples and movement: -world evangelization have thei: There the finest patriotism, that the Christian citizen, teaches lov4 country and inculcates the prin >e of individual service for the untry sand the country's service the parliament of nations. As the activities of the denomina nal gehool came into being with needs of education in our land, will its continuance and develop nt keep) pace with the expansioz American thought and Americar ogress. Two Killed About a Hog. T. Hill and J. M. Revels, farm ;, living near Adel, Ga., were shoi d killed in a quarrel over a hog longing to a tenant on Hill's place tich had gotten into a field be iging to Revels. When the mer t hot words were passed and Hil: ot Revels. A son of Revels ther at Hill through the heart. Fatal Shooting at Cayce. A dispatch from Columbia say. m Bynum, colored, was shot anE ;tantly killed at about 8 o'cl.ocli ednesday morning at Cayce b: peritendent Avant, of the N. C Duffie & Co. saw mill, at Cayce AWFUL STORY Miaiss Are Starving in ChiU ai CaibalisM Is Comms. SEEN UPON EVERY HAND E Heaps of Decaying Dead Piled in Streets and Other Places and Sights are Sickening-Horror of Devastations Produced by Vast Flood Which Swept Central China. Advices from Shanghai say that f millions of people face starvation in Central China. Parents are eating their children in the flood-stricken districts. Marauding bands are -in control and head the fight for the 3 survival of the fittest. Missionaries f coming fron the interior state that s the situation surpasses anything s within the history of the country.. - From Ichang to the sea, a disL-: i tance of a thousand miles, the valley of the Yangtse is bordered by heaps B of decaying dead, while the black - flag and canibalism holds undisputed f sway. The flood-devastated. villages f are overrun with starving -Chinese. - The water-sodden ground is-.past:all - cultivation. The rice crop- is com. a pletely destroyed, and even the grass r along the river bank has been utl. lized for food. Not a dog, rat or - bird that could be captured 1a b'een spared. I The same conditions prevail In all the valleys of Central China. te I ports from the interior proclaim .a 5 state of anarchy. All trade is su6 pended and the principal cities will - soon be in a state of siege, with their inhabitants facing starvation, .the - government is unable to cope with the conditions. Mili6ns of dollars in food are needed at once. Driven from -their homes by the - floods, thousands of refugees fled to the hills and camped- on. the sides. - in little mat sheds. Here they hav been making pitiful efforts to pre - serve their lives until the subsiding - flood gives them an opportunity to 3 return to their homes. They brought with them in their fight small stocks of rice 'but in the weeks- of waiting this has been exhausted- and L iow they are eating anything that holds nourishment. On the hillsIles they are digging into the ground with their bare fingers to get roots of weeds and grass and some have mixed clay with taeir rice ix order to give it more bulk. In Anhui province the refugeef have overrun the wheat fields which were recently harvested and . are gleaming the stubble of every grain which was left by the harvesters. Those who have been able to, reach the larger citiis are offering their children for sale, many little girls being sold for a few dollars and the boys for a slightly larger-amount. In the smaller villages which have been.' -cut off from any food supply for: weeks canibalism Is the depth to which starvation 'has driven the flood i victims. Many parents have eaten their own children. Ordinary flood statistics are insl> nificant in comparison to those whI~h.. are necessary in enumerating the -extent of this flood. For a thousand' -miles the Yangtse is a vast Inland lsea, its former course serving- onily as a channel in the stream, which stretches away to the horizon' or the. hills on either side. For two huN dred miles to the north of the Yangste the Han is out of its banks and south of Hankow, Tung Ting lake is so far out of Its banks, that it has flooded villages fifty miles in land. In one village six .hundred were drowned, In another three hin dred. At least ten thousand were drowned in the villages and towins alone. An area as large as a Eluropean country, is under water, Its crops ruined, and its population nomeless. As to the number which are. starving? -two millions is as conservative est'. inate, the most conservative of ;any -which have .been made. After a three-weeks' trip through the flooded region, it is my opinion that the.. -number will exceed 2,500,000. In Anhui province alone the hom'eless number half .a million. In the Tung Ting lake region there is an equal Inumber and t-hese two sections covert only a small part of the vast area of the flood. From American standards their necessities of life are ridiculously small. A dollar will supply a whole family with food for a week: A'hun z dred dollars will keep a village .In comfort for a month. Poverty such as is ever present in China, Is and known in America, just as suffering such as is caused by this flood Is unknown here. There may be hun gry people in America but none Is starving. In Changteh and In othe cities in the flooded district;' they are dying by the hundreds daily of actual starvation. In all of these cities you mayse bands of refugees so weake frique starvation that they can scarcely lift their hands to receive the pennytu' give them You can see dozens of those who retain some strengtf-o body fight like madmen over 'h ps. session of a bit of rice wbtha . been spilled in the mud.Ras and dogs are being eaten i a j other race would eat them Mdfe~ to it by the pangs of hunge Z .. To add to the horrors of he -uation, thievery and piracyha~ broken out In the big andT~misera~ trefugee camps. Formerly ho many are now able to obtain.1id theft, and hunger 'has drlyn, to murder for a quart of -rli , kill whole boat crews Ina orie gain possession of a few d rFollowing the arrest of~41 .tobacco stores In Minneapolis, .the lid has gone down tight'O. sale of cigaretts in n