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' -' W I FORT MILL TIMES. VOL. XI. FORT MILL, S.C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1), 1902. NO. :S. " \| ATLANTIC CI TV FIRE SWEPT A Dozen Hotels and Over a Score ol Small Buildings Burned. LOSS ESTIMATED AT $750,000 / Aid Sent From Flillnd?dphia and Camden In Time to I'rcvcnt a Moro Sertoli* j Rnroml of IJ.o nvtc i i .1 nil' >1 rilfi UVOS. Mill! 1110 fill U1CS, fanned by a strong southwest "wind, swept along the beaeli front "with amazing vapidity. The local Fire Department worked well and willingly, hut was unable to cope with the flames, and it was found necessary to send to Philadelphia and Camden for aid. The former city sent three engines, and two eame from Camden. They were of vast assistance to the local flremcn, hut it was not until an hour after their arrival that the fire could he said to he thoroughly under control. During the fire the wildest excitement prevailed among the guests of the hotels which later became the prey of the flames. With the exception of the Tarlton and the liryn Mawr all the hotels were open for the season. and most of them were fairly well filled. In most eases the guests had sufficient time to pack their trunks and grips. Those who did not do this carried their personal effects to places Of safety in the best manner possible under tiie circumstances. The beaeli appeared to he the most suitable depositor}*, anil many nondescript heaps of clothing, bedding ami furniture wore to be ?t "ii 01 the sand. This rendered extra vigiian o necessary <m the part of the police. The members of the volunteer tire department acted as special policemen, and Company D, National fluard of New Jersey, was called into requisition to preserve order. The Morris (Juard?. a local organization, were also sworn in as special policemen. All of the guests of burned hotels who were forced to seek other quarters have 1 ecu -.ircd for. Those who were staying Jit the l.uray were sent to the New Ilotel Marlborough, which is nil- i d-r the s.nue management. Others register. <1 a! various hotels aiul boarding iiou?cs. Mayor Ntoy was no. In Ilie city when tiio tiro broke on', having gone to Trenton with a dole ration from hero to urge Inventor M.irpliv to sign lit * I now Atlantic City charter. !!c re1 it ,J to tiiis city immediately after the chnvtor was signed. and issued 1 a statement deploring tin* calamity. In:; expressing satisfaction that it was no worse. Atlantic City's previous hi*: tire was in August. ISh't. when the City Hail block was destroyed including the Opera House, a small hotel and a dozen shons. Knehnlc's Hotel was c.nsidera bly damage. Several other fh'cs have occurred acre, and on each occasion the total destruction of ti e ! town was looked for. hut not until the ! latest conflagration did this possibility J seem assured of realization. Confusion?Mar.y l.ontfvn Arrested?No Ono Killed?Few Injured. * Atlantic City. N. J.?Twelve hotels and more than a score of small buildings adjoining the hoard walk which Is built along the ocean edge, were destroyed by a lire which swept the beach front for two long blocks from Illinois avenue to New York avenue. The local board of Insurance underwriters, after a meeting, announced that the total loss would not exceed $7~i0,000, and the loss to the insurance companies would be about $17.",000. The loss to the municipality in damage to the board walk. etc.. is estimated bv the underwriters as between S7.r?t)0 and $10,000. Charles Fraling, proprietor of the Academy of Music and a drug store in tlie building, said lie was the heaviest Individual loser by the lire, lie placed his loss at upward of SVJo.ooo. and said he carried only $lo.noo insurance. lie was cot prepared to say whether lie would rebuild. Most of the lire victims expressed a desire *.o rebuild as quickly as possible. In Vcspeot to the money loss the lire is the worst iliat has ever visited Atlantic City. Fortunately, no lives were sacrificed, though probably a dozen persons were slightly injured and burned. I? was reported early in the afternoon that six men had perished In the tlaines. but the rumor was without foundation. The origin of the lire is unknown, lint it is thought that it started In cither Brady's baths or the Hotel Tni-llm. ...i.:.a. . .i . .. .... Him ii iiiijiiiii.i itic pains ;u Illinois avenue and the bonnl -walk. The oily was placed under the guard of a company of militia, which was asked for by the municipal authorities to help the police In preventing robberies. About a dozen men were arrested for robbery. The hotels destroyed and their estimated losses are: The T.uray and annex. the latter formerly known as the Norwood, owned by .1. S. White & Son. $12r?.000; the New Holland, Mrs. M. .1. Bee. .$30,000; Stratford. Arnold W. ' Waidnor, S-IO.OOO: Berkeley, Rrw Brothers. $r?0.000; llrvii Mawr, .T. and K. Ketfer, Slickney, Mrs. I,. V. Stickney. S'Jo.ooO; Kvavd. James T. (lorman. Stio.ooo; Itio (Jraudc. J. 1'. Kilpatrick, $.'50,000: Mervine, K. l'els, $20,000; Academy Hotel and Academy of Music, Charles Krnlinarer, S'jo.oou; Windsor. Jason Wat is (partly destroyed), JMo.ooo; Tarlton, (I. Jason Waters. Slio.noo. The tire was discovered shortly after 0 o'clock a. in., end for nearly live hours the flames raged with such violence as to threaten the city with destruction. All the burned buildings JUINOR EVEKTSOFTHEWEEE! warhinfiton itkms. United States Marshal Thompson, of Oklnlionin, resigned, to the surprise of the Treasury Department. Preparations for beginning the inquiry into the allegations of bribery ia conneetion with the sale of the Danish West Indies were completed. President Roosevelt has refused Senator Hanua's request to pardon ltath- j bone. President Roosevelt reappointed Civil j rUi.riimnf \r T vlwiloatt it ? v another term of four years as Chief of the Naval Bureau of Yards and Docks. The State Department denounced the charges cf bribery made by Captain Christmas as "senseless fabrications." An appropriation of sis.oon. to bo | spent at the President's will in refurnishing the White House, was included j in the Sundry Civil bill. Germany requested the United States to join in an international movement against a wireless telegraph monopoly. OUIt ADOPTED ISLANDS. Aguinaldo, in answer to a subpoena, app- j?ved in court in Manila in the libel suir of two civil commissioners against a newspaper, 'nit his testimony was not taken General Chaffee was about to make a tour of inspection in the Island of Snniar. !'. !. Noriel. tin* only insurgent con oral in 1 tie llold exeept Malvar, was captured in ihe Philippines. Preliminary step? were ! ing taken to establish Initial Stales natal a.:<l coaling stations in Cuba. now t:sric. While in a tit Mrs. Mary TTtvely. of Warsaw, ln.l.. fell into tt pan of boiling sugar, anil v. a . seal:led to death. lo.-'epli 1'otter. l,l..I>? a member of the Sedoud Division ov the Court of Api'i tils. died in Whitehall. X. V. The <>hio I.egi-la;itre will allow a $"<),< too McKluley memorial to be built at t'ne entrance to the Capitol grounds at Colutabus. liegiuabl t". Vandorbilt. at New York City, insisted on paying taxes on $-."0,(??!(> personal property, although be was assessed at only Sit.nun. Five hours' liberty was all that C. C. r-n.i.m.oi .. I.-.,.i.i - , ,, ...(..h it, ?i < \:\*v i ill pi iruill'l ill -VI* lnnta. Ga., secured as a result of breaking jail. Attorney-General Hamlin decided that investment companies cannot do business in Illinois under the Foreign Corporation act. Fire In the chair shop of the prison n < Auburn. N. V.. caused a nanic among i condemned murderers, but none was liurt. I Traffic on 1 lie railroads in the South, which was suspended because of the recent floods, was resumed. The German Kinperor's yacht. Meteor, after a slight mishap, made her j trial trip in a squall and showed great speed and stability. Miss Jane Toppan. who is accused of poisoning the Davis family at Cataulnet. Mass., was pronounced insane. An attempt, which will probably prove ineffectual, was made to bar- I lnoni/.e the Republican factions in Delaware over the struggle for seats in j the Fluted States Senate. Albert T. Patrick, convicted of the murder of William M. Itice, at New York City, announced that he was engaged to marry I Irs. Francis, his landlady. A Rock Island train coming into 1 Fast Pueblo, Col., killed two women and the infant sou of one of them. Thirty days' truce was agreed on by the anthracite, miners and operators during which time the Conciliation Committee will try to avert the threatened strike. rtmr women prisoners broke jail at Fort Scott, Kan., and were recaptured. It developed that Vice-President Andrews, of tlie City pavings ltank, in Deifolt, Mich., operated in millions of dnilurk' worth of stocks and bonds. Shot to death, Magnus Johnson, a ( bachelor. was l'ouud in his home at Alexandria, Minn." KOKKKIN. Tf is expected that tlie treaty of friendship between the (.United Slates and Spain wiil he signed on the return Of .Minister Storcr to Madrid. Williara Stcpb,% ? Temple (lore I. a netton. fourth I'.arl Temple, tiled at Cairo, Egypt. lie was liorn in 1S-17. The foreign trade of Germany for 1PP1 showctl a decrease in the total exp.u'.s and imports, but a marked inerease in the imports from tlie United States. A Uussian subsidized steamer landed do.1'.> > rillcs tit a seaport of Persia on , the Persian Gulf. A large number of Haitian refugees reached Jamaica, and reporte^ the eon MX I 'll l?t . Illlil.' Ill I l.llll il> Pfl lUUJi. The revenue for tin- 1T11 Ito?l Kingdom f'.r tin* quarter ending Mi\.'Ch 31 showed an inerease of .S'-3,091,5G5, dm? in rely to tin' tuldi'.iontil two pence placed < :i tin- income tax. Dr. Krust Lieher, lender of the Centre in tiio Ceriuan llolchstatr, fa. dead. Ho was sixty-three years old. Advices from London made It dnpcnr that there was no immediate prispect | of peace in South Africa. Charles M. Dickinson, United S?ntrs Coiisul-tJeneral at Sofia. has become j. r.-ioua noil ?ratn to Bulgaria, and lost his post by his activity in the ^nse of .Miss Stone. T The general opinion in Iv, inland ^aa \ that there was no elm nee for a K>i3- J tkui evacuation of Manchuria. I 1 i.,m CECIL RHODES'SGREAT GIFT I Many Scholarships Established at Ox- | lord For Americans. RACE UNITY AND PEACE HIS AIM In ii Most liomarkable Will Ho Frovlcio# ?j? r nr r i ?'i? i' '*r Every St;\tr> ntnl Territory, a* Well its For the Itrltish Cnlnnii'K nml Gerumny ? IlirectloiiH For Ills I'iivImI. London.?The will of Cecil J. Rhodes provides for the estnhlislnm nt of colonial scholarships; for two scholarships to each of the present States ami Territories of the United States, and for live scholarships for students of tierman birth. These scholarships arc of the value of JtloOO a year, tenable for three years at Oxford University. The German students are to be nominate I by Emperor William. Commenting on his boniest. Mr. i Rhodes, in a codicil telegraphed fro.a Souih Africa, said: "For a good understanding between I England, Germany and the Unit, d ! Stairs will secure the' peace of the j worid. ami educational relations form < the strongest tie." Regarding the American scholarships Mr. Rhodes said: "Whereas 1 desire to encourage and foster an appreciation of the advantages which, I implicitly believe, will result from a union of the Englishspeaking peoples throughout tool world, and to encourage in the su- J dents from the United States wiio will benefit by these scholarships an attachment to the country from which they have sprung, but without, I hope, with urawitig utoni or their sympathies from ilie l:iml of their adoption or birth." A provision io the will is that 110 s; ,ident shall lc tpialiUo! or disqualified for appointment to a scholarship on account of race c?i* religious opinion. Mr. Rhodes desires that the sttnlen. ; shall not patronize any partieular lege, hut distribute themselves tlirott: limit the university. Tiie trustees are allowed to suspend or remove any scholar at their discretion. Mr. Rhodes expresses the hope Hint the trustees will arrange an annual I dinner and reunion for all students and scholarship graduates who arc. able to attend, and invite thereto as guests "persons who have shown sym- i pa thy with the views expressed by me in my will." Mr. Rhodes*s will, as published, is a remarkable and voluminous document. Even this is not the entire will, as the executors only gave out the portions which they consider to be of public interest. The will was executed ill 1S!i!l. .\ codicil was attached on the day of Mr. Rhodes's last denarture from England. and another, cabled from t'ape Town, leaves Sjo.o;;ti yearly to keep up the spot in Matoppo Hills where Mr. Rhodes's body is to be luiried. The will further directs that a railroad extension lie made into the Matoppo Hills, so that visitors may go there at the week end to inspect the mnjcsiy and glory of the neighborhood. Mr. Rhodes explicitly says that he is to be buried in an aperture rut in tic solid rock, and that the tomli is to be surmounted by a brass tablet bearing the words: "Here lie the remains of Cecil John j Rhodes." No one else is to be buried there who j lias not deserved well of his country. Mr. Rhodes bequeaths all his landed J property near Ruluwnyo and Salisbury (both in Rhodesia) to trustees, whom he directs to cultivate the land for the instruction of the people of Rhodesia. | His celebrated country place, tlroute Schnur (near Capo Town). Mr. Rhodes leaves as a residence for the "Prime Minister of the Federal (Joveruinent of South Africa," with ?3000 yearly j for. its maintenance. MRS. HA NES GOES FREE. Jury Quickly Acquit* Woman Accused of Killing Mr p-Cliiltl. Mount Holly, N. .7.?Mrs. Howard Haines was acquitted of the ehnrjre of liUirderim; lier infant sti.Ti . . ? vmii^un i | Cwendolin. The jury deliberated 'ess than two hours before bringing in a verdict of "not guilty." After the verdict Mrs. Unities* re- ' turned to the jnil. closely followed by t the jury who bad acquitted Iter. There , she thanki d them over nnd over a Kit in and for the lirst time wept. She was seen in the jail by a reporter and was itslced regarding her future plans, she ; an Id: "1 am heartily glad it's all over. The Vltole ease has been one of spite work j from beginning to end. 1 lmvo been persecuted and tried. I ut have tried my best to bear up its well as 1 ' eouhl. I shall leave Helaiteo and never a.train abbh in such a community of perjurers. My health has not been Rood since 1 have been in jail, and 1 i am thinking seriously of taking it trip abroad. "My husband has had a yacht offered him. and we nitty go very soon for an extended eruise. 1 was pleased with the Judge's charge, ami think it was fair and impartial. My ehihir a will go with me and once more lie permitted to breathe the pure air of llOii 1- <?n ' i! :i iii< s s.",^ Iiosido li is wife while sic was talking and took in every word slu> said. 1!p echoed her sentiments in every partienlar. and said he was going to take her away for n long rest. Two I)oh?1 In Hrili?lj .Minn lllonMrr. Six* men were killed as the result of i nil p.\j>1< don of tire damp in a colliery i at Wigan, Laneashlre. Ihnrland. In a similar accident at Dunfermline, Scotland, four men lost their lives. STALLED IN * BUZZABOl Passengers Snowbound On a Train For Five Days. SUFFERED HUNGER AND COLD Iiiot Rrokr. Out In'tlio I~ I??- 1 nnil ? l'ro(Vi?sor Tried Suicide? Cold Interne nnd Conl Supply Short ? Uow ; Aid i'iitiilly ltcitched tint Ini pri? otietl Travelers?An Klcctrlciuu's Heroism. St. Paul, Minn.?Passengers arriving on a Great Northern train tell of lu ing snowbound for four days and live ' nights on the prairies of North I>al.oia in the midst of the worst blizzard the Northwest has seen in many years, with only food enough for two frugal meals a day, and with such an atr.011111 of fuel that the woman had to wrap themselves in blankets and the men to wear their overloads day and niirhi to keep from freezing. Tile train "was completely lost to the world, on Tli 11 rsilay afternoon it pieked lis way out of WiHiston in the hope of being aide to reaeh Mill t. some fourteen miles to the east, liefore night. Almost midway. :u a 11?11.? stopping place called Kay. where to .'< are only siding. a water tank and a j eo'al shed, the train was stalled. The engineer thought he could rn:i <h> engine hack to Williston and aid, and. taking the conductor v. 1 '.1 him. started in the trip. The i> -e engine was stuck in a drift in a ? m a short distance out of town and had to be abandoned. Thi?s let; li . in in of eight 1 -caches and nlanii p::. a.alone on ilie siding, wiili all inunicnthm cut off. Tin n began ice l.mg siege, during which the 1 old i d to lio borne :?i:?1 hunger siilh d. There vi:s nil jmiphn! riot on ! first dn.v. The second-class pass n < i*i .r t?m1 Hint tliey must have :i x:t*? !i or more food than too others. xxi.il thoy wiMT in larger numbers ami It <i more ravenous nppeiith s. it was di deult to confine them to tit it* quo!::. Man.\ wi'iv not willing. as tho tlx. tclass passengers insist, d. tliat tho' women jni I children should be fed ami taken care of first, but after s?.nie gumctit they were prevailed upon . subside. Monday evening Professor Colegrove. j of the University of Washington. \v't? had been despondent and morose. : ;- , tempted suicide by cutting his threat with a razor. There was it physiei t <11 the train, but be bad no facilities for performing the necessary operat mi. and it was aits dully necessary to gei into eomniunieatton with one of the neighboring towns. In their desperation tin? passeng : > hrnk-? open everything in lite train's eites!. and in the conductor's box found a i 'lcgraph instritiiient. A young no n. an electrician, faced tne blizzard and tapped one of the wires and attached the instrument. He notified the operators at both Minot and WHlisten of what had occurred. Front each place a snow plow was i started in front of an engine hearing i a surgeon. The one from Minot, after ; a hard night's work, reached the siding early the following morning and the wounded man was removed on the liist train to St. Paul, where he was oared for at the City Hospital. The almost famished passengers who had suffered from the cold and exposure were sunplied with food and warm berths in the first train pushed through the drifts. The rotary plow made tine trip through tlie drift hetween Ray and Minot. but me snow piled in so rapidly tliat ll was | necessary for the rotary to pass I through again and then precede the ! passenger train through the cut. BOY CHAINED TO FLOOR. I'astenrJ Down l?y l'lidlnrk to Whhli Father Had Awny With the K> v. I'erth Anihoy, N. J.?Chained to the floor of the kitchen of liis home 1 *111 ; ??1- ; man William Mcln.tnott found Woltjoe Sahalinsky, a ten-year-ohl boy. McDermott went to the house to And out about a pane of gla-s that the h< y had accldenlally broken ih the st.iv of It. Fagen. McDernmtt saw the boy lying on the floor and noticed that a heavy chain led under the bed clothing that partly covered the hoy. He was horriflcd to And that the chain was tightly drawn around tiehoy's leg, just above the ankle, and padlocked. The father, Albert Sahalinsky, was id work in a stove works and lie had the key with him. MeDermolt at once communicated with Chief Hurke, and was told to got the chain off. MeDormott got a blacksmith to go to the Sabalir.sky home with a tile and a pair of punchers. A crowd or people followed th.? two Mid watched the work of lilin^ away the chain, which rook about ten minutes. MADNESS A VEIL TO MYSTERY. Mr*. Ilrnul", tVaililiiKtmi T\I ?>?11 ? . Can Never Name Her AfHnilillit. Washington, I). ('.?At the (inrfi Id Hospital it is slated that Mrs. Ada liilbcrt Dennis, th- modiste who was mysteriously assaulted in her r sali ne.several months ago, will never regain her senses. There is every reason to lielieve that sin- will live for several , years, but there is little hope thai site < will ever be able to tell who it was that indicted the terrible wounds upon Iter head and body. To the police the case is just as ntueh of a mystery as it was several months itgo. Mrs. Dennis's erratic talk lias never served to Rive a clue to the identity of the person who tried to murder j her. A SHOT BOERS FOR MONEY murders Which Led to Iho Execution ofTwj Australian Ofticers. German Minsioitnry unit Some of Their Uw 14 Siililirri Who Know of Their Mlsilc*t!? fill On' of the Way. I T.oinloa.?Tlio Moruiuir I.t>:nlor mih- 1 lishes :i Ionv; st<?ry of tIn* crimes which led to tho coml martial ami execution of two Australian otUcers in South Africa, which is just uow exciting keen iudi.mintton in Australia. The Morning I.ossdor asserts that several otlieers of tills psirticulstr incuts- ' lar corps siiot natives like rahhils, ami j that they are even suspected of murdering uieu of their own command against whom they had grudges. The incident which led to their court-ruarthtl was the cold blooded "execution" by those otlieers of ten Itoevs who wore journeying to l'i -torsbur;; with tho objeet of surrendering. It was suppvm d these l'.eers had ^loO.tMid. Actuated hy cupidity the Australians stopped the liners, tried theiu l?y inock <>uri-mat ti..l ami ord* red all ;<> !? shot. '1 his was ilene by a squadron <<.' soldiers sifter souse of the lson-euiuiiiissiotted oilieers luui refused to esivry out tiie death scutciKo. Tito ollloers tltou ransacked the Utter wagons and wore disgusted on limling that i lit* Sloo.tHI'J was in Truiis\nnl paper money. Cent inuiiiu. tin* Morning Leader ? tys a Hi Milan miss-unary i' low rules il s taut l'ront tho s -one ol" "execution" hoard of tho affair. Lieutenant lla.ieoek. 011 of tiio Australians ootiooriio,|, fearing that lie Wouhl divulge his in fo matiou, shot tho iitis.-loiiiuy ?? s.i. This shotting ovoiiiitaliy i at! io a complain, liy tho C<-rnian Co:, til t > < aioial Kitchener, who tni. it 1 u ooitr; martial til Austruil:..: . Statt'tiit'iit li.v tt;o S:riti.?t? IVi rOf'1 i.oadoii. The War UU,ce ha.- ta il tho following stalouu nt in regard t.? ii>e Australians sentenced for murderinvc Uoer prisoners: "Tho itushvoult (.'traiiinooiv, who woto rocruitoil in bout it Afrit.-a, I at; iiioluilotl oilier Colonials, wore miployed, in July anil August, in tin- wildest pail of tho I'rausvaal, eighty mil s nurthoast ol' ' 'ietersburg. a ml took a certain number of prison is. Crave i irregularities 011 the part of certain officers of the corps eaine to '.lie knowledge of tl (? military authorities in <> toiier, and an exhaustive :n\estigatioii was ortlerctl l?y Ceueral Kitchener. "As a result of tiie inquiry, ti\o oflieers wire tried hy eourt-inartial at 1 'ieterslntrg in January. I'.tirj. ami wore found guilty, as principals or accessories, of twelve murders. Ueuieliaills Ilatii eel. and .Worant were sent; m od to death, which was carried out. I .u i? otiic. rs \v?-iv ill*" i dru g-d v. iili i ill- UHll lit 1" nl Uev. V. H.-s . . v 11 li isvli there was siroug suspicion t 1i:ii lit y (*0tlimitled the .utird r, the ovMeuo was not considered sulhcicit lo jm lily their conviriion. Lieutenant Whim \v;is found guilty of murder ami v.. sem in od in denih, Inn there wt'iv nt igaiiug circumstances. and il:o s .. tciifo was cuuunutod n? lil'c Imprisonment at pi ual servitude*. ".No doul>l exists as to |lie guilt "f the accused, whose plea, in extenuation. that a iiuuibei' of I heir corps were ill-treated by the liners, was uoi s islained by the evidence at the trial. Tlie sentences are such as woul 1 have been indicted on any ollieeia sliuiluriy guilty." I*nblie ()|tiuion tn Aufit ratio. London. The Times"s Melbourne correspondent says public opinion has changed in regard to the execution ill South Africa of Australian oiiieors for the murder of Boers. The Australians, says the correspondent, deeply resent the stigma cast on the good inline of their soldiers by a few Australians who were not members of the regular c n tingents. CENERAL DELAREY DEFEATED. Canadian* Kiglit Till l.v?ry Mim Wan Killrtl or U tMiiidfil. London. - The War oillce has re eoived the following telegram from General Kitchener: "Brigadier-Genera! XV. Kitchener reports as follows: "'1 .scut Cookson and Kcir fron Yriekuil t<? reconnoitre toward Hart Uiver. Tlicy struck the track of gun and carried oil a running light for eight miles in the open. " 'liner reinforcements advanced red lighting ensued and was continued till the enemy was repulsed on all sides. Commandants Iielarey and Kemp tried in vain to persuade the Boers to renew the action. Fifteen hundred Boers took part in the light'. "'I Mir lo.?'s were severe. The Canadian Kifles especially distinguished themselves, one party under Bicutpii ant Bruce (.'arruthers holding a pos< till every man was kilh d or wounded."' WOULD ADMIT WOMLN 10 BAR. ll:iryl:iiiil l.rgiitlHturn t'a??rii > > i in li:> terciii of .Hi** Mmtilnx. Annapolis, Md. Tiie House passed the Senate 1 >i 11 to permit the admission of women as members of the l>:;i hy a vote of .">1 to An amendmeiil was adopted to 1 he effect that no one should he denied admission to the l'ttr "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." The hill was introduced in the interest of Miss Etta Maddux, who was graduated from a Baltimore law school last year, hut was debarred hy decision of the courts from practicing in tiiis Stale. The young woman worked for the passage of the ltill at Annapolis through a large par* of the ession. i > * SERVANT'S WL GRIME Killed Mother and One Daughter and Wounded Little G:r!. ENTICED ONE VICTIM TO DEATH After Sltnnt l?\; Family, Negro llutlrr l*f. Drtrclltr* Into llu> I louse mill K?c:tj?o<l, !tut CmifrKM'it Whrii ?r? ?;?? ?|>aivu iiiiu nir <u ArretUM Tragedy Occurred in l*hllud?*l|>lim. Philadelphia. Pa. IYarinjr that lie would he arrested for theft, William II. Lane, a eolore.l hutler. shot ami killed lus employer, Mis. Flla .1. Kurlnisli. Iiit twelve-year-old daughter Madeline, and probably uiorally womided another daughter, l-'.Ioise. ttued seven years, at their home in tills: eity. l.ane escaped froin the Ii(idm>. but was captured and confessed hit? crime. Mrs. Furhush lived with Iter two daughters in a tine four-story house, which was well furnished. Lane hail been Iter butler since Christmas, an > she bad am tii. r e.cored servant, a woman. fi tty M ra. Fttrhush bad beet* ml- IVZ small nanmm- of money. She iinoi urn mi' |> 11? < . w.'ii nt gnu : a inves'igntlou. whi< Ii v as still in progress w in a the iia: vy oeettrred. Si:s-i' .11 f.-ll tin i.nie. ami a warrant was .worn out for his arrest. rding .<? hallo's r- uiossion. ltc? - aw Mrs. Furottsh ? tinting a !' .? roll o hills. Knowing whore site k? >c ! money he V..?!tal his time, ami at r i <.;>p irtwi'e uimietit lute in the i ?i :ilinr he s'Mo te 'he morning Mrs. Furhush m <> it the money. ainl nitostionetl him. h tt lie denied all Ui'fvh e. e ? ' having m-si the money. p : 111 r tort the i wottlil l?e i a! to 11iin, .oil hnt Mr-. Fitrloi h w.aiiil ha\e him arrested, later i?:anae 1 .o murder the ta'titer iit*i( lier children. oti the house, ami ah- ipjiear. A? it o'clock lie went to the thinl foo<- amI found .Mrs. Furhm-'i in our o:' the luhhlle rooms. iie shot her twice, oiiee in the lungs, ami Hut* through the heart. S o died instantly. Fioise. whi was in another rootn. hearing the noise, ran to see what was the matter, anil as site entered I ..am* sine her in the abdomen. She fell, anil lie thought h?> had also killed h r. Without attracting the attention o( the other servtttit. who was ironing in tiio k.iohell. I.aiio wioit i.> !>.? * door :iml <-;i 11? 1 in Madi'line. wli.i was aUafiu;; on roller >-1.:r? s oil I' . dilowal! . He (old her that In"* ie vailed her. Madeline climbed fi:ti without re; nln. 'ht sU.i" She went in( > a room mljofiiirrir 1 *i wliic'i h 'f : 11 |;I. I- I; y dead. I.. ' followed licr, and i - > he called ! r lonth tin* nejrro 111ot h< tiif< 11:. ltoari. killiu.i; In r liv--taa;Iy Lam*, in his eon fos-'oil. >:;ys I o tit; .< l mit deil i ? roi> 11 . lion Ho i|iii?*lclv found Sl.'tO. tv > wat< lies and a imok. \\ lii'e ho was son; . hiua; I 11:.* .Jewelry lie v... ; I:i * v;*rui > ??I by thr* arrival of two ? ial |>oIi<'p?mor. who had a warrnnl for his nriv*?i ore lii" eharye of larceny. '1 hoy asl;?'d io m-o Mrs. I'urhurii. I.ai'" showed l limn to I lie sifiiiiu: roo:.i oa tin* second iioor and said if?would call Ids tnisi.es . Uoro.jii/.iua. i.no of tlio 111on as aa ollh'or lame has lily donned his overo >:it and oscaueil hy i li roar of t h house. i in* policemen. lic.n iir^ a rim;;tr. fiariod :iii invf.ilion. Mini on I In* third floor hallway found lit V Kloiso. '!'< lli?* poliocnn-n sin* s: "William shot niy mother and ni.v lor ami tri <I to kill mo." Sim was t mediately sent to tho hospital ji ; I tin* Jiolioo dragnet whs put in in ition. I.MI10 was traooil to the IViunyix aii'm Uailroad station at Mamdoi:. wli< "?. lio was recognized hy otto of tho j?olioomen lm linil :t?liiiiltc<l to tho h orse*. Tho ollioors lnistloil him <.n a t'orryhoat ami out oi' tho jnrisuh lion oi' \< \v Jorsoy. At tho polioo station I.. no s;si?I fo w is sorry for what ho had done. Later I.alio was tain 11 to ilm hospi ji'. wlicr i:ioiso iilonr iii<<I iiiiii, saylnc;: -llo is William I.atio, th> 111:111 \vln? killed my lnollior ami sister ami tried to !;ill mo. \ on know yon did. W'ilfiani." 111 his presence lior statement was taken. ami I.aim |>11 i tho soal of a<o;iraov to it hy saving: "Mvorytinu r tho child has said is true." SIX PERSONS BURNED TO DEATHI'ullirr unil l-'ivo f'lillalrrn IVrlsli in u t'in* \i>ar .Inliinlown, I'm. .Tohnst.iwii, I'm. Six persons were biirnod to (loath in Prosper Hollow. a mile from tho outskirts of the oily, in a tiro wliioh destroyed their homo. The dead: i'liilip I'. Mitclmll. !".* 1 liftj : I ire if ,\< .n:s, I". M ' il it. Mtrcil fo?IV i-cn; Mary Martha Mlt'-hel!. jtirc.l twelve: fharl's Kdward Mi. . hel?. :r-_r< I eleven: .lesse M. Mi ehell, : i >ht; \lie ! *?*;*.nee< Mi? ! !. . ! 'I lie family had reined, wilii the r:;eeption of oii?> son. wiio was siway. Mrs. Miiehell and her daurhler So* pitia were th" first to i a with !" :l hy ilie heat and smoke o! the flames. They woke the father and ran ont. and vreained for h !">. Xeiuiihors. were nroused. 1 >ttt they eoiihl do iioili in:; hut siaiul helplessly l.y and wnteli the house hn n, ami with it the father and live ehihlreii. Mitelioil rushed down stairs to fhtkilehen to ;;ef some water to eiliri (TUish the fire, hut when lie reaehetl the first floor he saw it was impossililo to save the house. He then return. <1 up stairs atul perished in the httrnin^ rafters of his own house, trying to bave tlie liv< s of his eliihlreu. i ? .< -1