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PfI I TI ] ? ? 10TH HTEAR. I RUIN DEATH. A Des* iatfivs) ^inado SwBops ThreP States. S' ' . "'l 1 i fxmes Are killed. And Many IIuil?*,,n88 Ape Destroyed \ In the Path of ,the Hurricane. The City of AIexai,,drla Had * Fearful Experience, j^everal Other Cities And Towns Werc Wrecked hy the Awful Storm. \ \ A most dedtrilct,Te tornadb vlsltj ed portions <?f Louisiana, Mississippi i and Alabama on Friday^ leaving ruin and death in Its I)ath^ It swept over three hut d red n1^8 across portions of tba above named States. Parts of four towns were devastated with damage <exceedlr*& $600,000. The wind 'damaged Property, crops and telegraph wires throu&h?ut Its course Alt least 40 are known to have been Hilled and five times that number Ihixtt. ihe tornado us8an at Alexandria, "La., soon after ^ ne o'clock Friday i. morning, killing'^our Persona, probably fatally injur'n? three and seriously injuring t^'rtwn others. Soon after daylight it nea*"ed the Mississippi River, klllinK Ave persons at Jackson, La., wh|'e a* Bauyou Sara. La., at least half dozen others were reported killed. There was one fai tal Injury at Jackson* The tornado ne4t appeared at Carson, Mis*, where 'the great property daunnage was dom? and disappeared aoout aoon near '??e?nia, Aia., whero tho Baw whirling clouds rise Into the air 48 they crossed the river. A negro wa? reported killed near Sel-ma. * It '? n?t known now how many people w?re killed, and will not be know? until reports from the "couri'cy uistrlr1? ar? all in. Alexandria, a ti,wn *hout 16.000 ia^abltants, had ? Jarful experience. T/hen the tornadV struck the electrio lights went out, the cracking of falling buildings could he heard above tho noise of the wind' aQd vivid lightning flashes 3howdd Puch sights as an empty Iron IVfountaln passenger train rolling ove- and over- A heavy hail storm added to the Keneral discomfiture. ' The main portion c'f Alexandria escaped the worst of the tornado, which cut a path through the northern por> tlon of the town, a residence quarter. About a score of homes were lemolished, fifty wer,? damaged, and all together al>out a hundred bulldangs were wrecked, including several business houses. A freak of the wind drove a small :section of a house 'nto an empty passenger coach, wetting these two 'bodies almost lnextr,caljly together, la the woods about fh town the tornado cut down trees f?r about nine miles. Several hou9?8 were blown down at Pineville ar*d injuries were reported. The hail did much damage to crops. ^ At Jackson, I^a., tli? insane asylum was wrecked, with a jJ88 about $200,000. In addition t| three fe male inmates many otheh' were Injured. Two negroes were kl'l?d on a nearby plantation, while reports from the surrounding countiT indicate that there was probably rfiore loss of life. At Mayou Sara Be**"1*' iNHWHiguri) on the steamer Bets/ Ann had a remarkable escape. (The Betsy Ann was severely wrecked- While breakIns timbers from tlie steamer and from the shore flew through the air the crew got all the passengers safely ashore. At Carson. Miss., the Misslsslpi Central Depot was bl?wn down, also ;a church, a school pouse, two business buildings and several cabins; from Carson the stc,rm crossed the State line into Alabatna> where It began to lose much of its power. Devastation in Alabama. Specials from varlt?us parts of Ala hama tell of death and devastation from the cyclone wplch swept ove the southern and eastern portions 01 the State Friday. At- Bradleyton, thd home of Hugh Farrier, a prominent planter, wa: blown down. instaptly killing Mr Farrier and his six-year-old son and fatally injuring Mrs., Farrier. The storm tore uP the tracks ol the Atlantic Coast L.tne from Petrey to Patsburg, a distance of several miles. Probably loss of HTe is reported from North Perlco, where on the plantation of J. C. jfoore, a banket of Marion, a row of house8 was blowc down. nilpir><r a ctnrin s'riday afternoor lighting struck the Jail at Selma knocked down part of the wall of th? prison and terrifying the prisoners. MANY LIVI^M IA>ST And Thousands Homeless bj a IHvstruetlve Earthquake. A severe earthquake accompanie< l?y loss of life has occurred at Hitlls Turkish Armenia, apl>?ar8 to be con firmed, but the number of deathR 1 unknown. Accord!'1? to advices re reived in New York t'rom W. W. Pes treasurer of the American mission a Constantinople, the Americans an< their peole In the n iaalons at Bltll # have been' rendered homeless, th snow In the vicinlt/ being 25 fee deep. Assistance *'* urgently re quested. Witnessed I* Many. Three thousand parsons wltneese the hanging of Fell* Powell at Vi< torla, Texas, on Ti^wlay He wa hanged for the mur^dr of Mrs. A. J Conditt and her foui children In 8?i ' tember 1905. IP p M* 4 .M. QUEER DOINGS. The Peculiar Capers of Glassware in a Darlington House. The Neighborhood Is Mysteified Orcr The Unexplained Antics of Various Articles of Furniture. Very mysterious things are happening at a farm house In the Coun11y of Darlington if the story publish| ed below, which is taken form the Darlington Press is true. The Press says: "W. J. Odom, who llres in the Marty's Crossroad section, claims I I that at the residence of his son, Wlli lie Odom, a curious freak oocurred I from 8 to 1 o'clock Monday night, and from 9 o'clock Tuesday morning. "looking glasses, water buckets, fruit Jars, etc., danced and pranced about In a manner as if possessed with life. A water bucket half filled with water jumped from its shelf in tne room and empted its contents. "It was picked up and replaced, when it jumped again. A bottle of white pine cough syrup leaped from the table a distance of ten or twelve feet and struck the chimney and broke; glass ware, fruit jars and bottles and demijohns cut peculiar antics, fell about in profusion and were broken; one empty jar fell to pieces without moving from its place. I "The people lnethe house carried the bottles, one containing turpentine, out of doors, and these vials returned mysteriously to the room and fall ..ana ?W? ? ? -* IVII U|/V1A iUO UUU1 . A U11ITU W UUUUl eighteen Inches long, sitting on the table, bounded from the table about eleven feet to the middle of the floor and wbb smashed to smithereens. Mr. Odom is dumfounded over the phenomena. "A number of the people in the neighborhood collected and are all mysterfled. The whole community became interested and some thirtyfive or forty people gathered at the house. Mr. Odom is reliable and is not superstitious. He called at the Press office yesterday. J. M. Gray of this city, was at the place Tuesdayevening and witnessed the broken pieces of glass, etc." In a foot note the Editor of the Press says we give the above bb told us by Mr. Odom, who Books an explanation as well as advice as to what Bhould he done. If this mysterious thing happened some plact we would attribute it to an overdose of booze, but as Darlington is a dry county, there must be some other cause for themysterious phenomena. A MONHTKlt HAT. Weighs Most Three Hundred Pouads And Has Huge Lip. The newest specimen at the Bronx park "zoo," New Vork, is a capybara. Imagine a rat weighing 280 pounds, with a huge head, an upper lip a foot long, and one has an idea of the beast. He is the largest of the recent tribe and has harsh, coarse hair more like bristles, than fur. The hair is mixed black and yellow and of dingy appearance. In his native haunts the capybara has a huge fat stomach, which almost drags on the ground. He 1b a water-loving animal and can dive and stay under for eight to ten minutes at a time. The jaguar of South America preys upon the capybara and the Indians kill him for his flesh, which, when smoked, is said to be as delicious as a Watkln's brand Kentucky ham. although it has a certain musky flavor. The capybara makes a sound, if alarmed, somewhat between a dog's bark and a pig's grunt. He was once called the hydrochoechoesus, or water hog, and lives on a vegetable diet. TWENTY MEN BFKNEl). The Flames Spread Hapidly in u Hotel Building. Twenty men were burned to death and twenty others seriously hurt in i fire which destroyed the Italian lotel in the Potrero district of San -'rancisco on Thursduy. The injured were of the lat>orins lass and were usleep in their room, vhen the fire started. Before the ould be aroused the flames ha< pread through the building. The stairs fell and the Inmate: were buried In the ruins, twenty be ing taken out. The on.er twenty ol Lhe injured the firemen rescued. All it is believed, are taken from the de I bris. The injured were rushed to '.he hospital where severa' died while I awaiting treatment. MAHK1K1) BLIND GIltL. i , , ( That Is What an Ex-Got. of Illiodc ? * Island Bid.' > Ex-Governor L. F. C. Garvin, reformer and woman suffragists, war very quietly married last week to his blind finance, Miss Sarah E. Tomllason, in the Baptist Church parsonT age in the villiage of I.onsdale, R. I His three daughters and the bride'f two siBters were present. There wert ] no bridesmaid, matron of honor, noi groomsman. The bride filed hei marriage intentions last week, bul friends of the couple did not know B the ceremony would bo performer! i- so soon. 1 BAREHEADED AT CHURCH, t J That Is The Way a Groenvilh ? Preacher Wants It. ?- At the first Baptist church o Greenville on Sunday. Rev. Dr. Z. T Cody announced as an especial re quest that beginning with next Sun d day night's service, ladies would hen J- after leave their hats at home. Thl -a only applies to night services. Th< I. matter has caused a good deaf of dis >- cusslon. but It Is believed the reques will be generally compiled with. BR b ." *~ . ORT FORT MILL, AWFUL CRIME. Negro Murdered and His Body Hidden in a Swamp. BY "INDIAN DOCTOR." Who, With His Wife, Is Badly Wanted by the Barnwell County, Where tho Brutal Murder Took Place, The Murdered Man was a Peaceable, Industrious Negro and Was Well Thought Of. A most awful and brutal murder came to light over in Barnwell County on last Thursday. On WedneBnay, Feb. 27, a man giving his name as Dr. Jeems and claiming to be an Indian "doctor." wub in Allendale, accompanied by a negro woman. He claimed that the woman was his wife After making some inquiries about the town the couple called at the house of a negro named Stokes and hired him to take them across the country in his wagon to Barnwell. After some explanations and upon the urgent appeal of the "doctor" ?nd his "wife," Stokes agreed to take them and started out for the county seat. Stokes failed to return homo on the afternoon of the day he loft with the strangers. Nor the next day did he show up. and his folks became uneasy about him. The third day -.ame, and not having been Been or SonrH 4 >* nuui hid laiiiuj organized a searching party and started out toward Barnwell to gather some information from people along the road. They were told by various parties on the road that a wagon with the three occupants as described was seen to pass along the Barnwell-Allendale road on Wednesday, Feb. 27. They found no difficulty In tracing the wagon to a polilt within about three mileB of Harnwell. Thfey were told by some parties that the wagon turned off at this place and was driven in the direction of a swamp. Later t was seen to come back with only 'wo of the occupants, the man described as the Indian doctor and the negro woman. The negro Stokes was 1 missing. Search was made for the body of, the Allendale negro, it being then believed that he had been murdered and hl6 body secreted, but no trace of him was found. Negrops and whites looked for a week after he was missed, some expecting possibly to find him alive, while others have searched for his l>ody. Days went by without their searches resulting in anything. Thursday the attention of some parties wa? attracted to a large number of buzzards hovering over the swamp, near where Stokes was seen 'ast, some distance from the road, investigation resulted in finding a badly decomposed body, afterwards Identified as Stokes by means of bis coat and shoes. The buzzardB had eaten almost all the flesh off the bones. The body was face down when found and there were evidences which showed that it had been gragged some distance, from a point near the road. The theory Is that Stokes wrb murdered either in the wagon or on the road side and his body dragged into the swamp by the heels. What the motive was is not known, unless it was robbery. The mule and buggy i8 all that the negro Stokes had. It Is certain that "Doctor" Jeems and his negro wife never went to Barnwell. but they were seen to turn toward Williston. The next day, Thursday, Feb. 28, they were In Wil'iston and tried to trade off the mule ind wagon. It Is claimed that the negro woman with the alleged Indian told several hat her home was in Sumter. Stokes was a farmer. He was lbout 22 years of age. and was a luiet, hard working, honest negro ?nd was liked in his community. Kv>ry effort was made to apprehend the 'Doctor" and his colored spouse and lolice officers and sheriffs are urgenly requested to keep a sharp lookut for them. CANT IH*RT t'8. The South'* Crops Put Her On Kasj Street. The Birmingham News says th< x>rn crop of the Southern States foi 1906 was worth %500,000,000. Th< value of the cotton crop of the South <?rn States for the same year wai about $7 00,000,000. Add to thesi '.ho value of the wheat, oats, tol>acc< and fruit crops, the value of livi stock and poultry, and the value o i Industrial products In the South, am i the total will make It easily under stood why this vast fertile and pro luctlve region cares not a rap abou the turmoil among the stock Jobber \ and gamblers and get-rlch-qulck dls patches of frenzied finance in Wal street. I I1KIDE ANI) OHOOM I'KHISH. r _______ ' Xewly Wedded Couple Rnrn to Deatl In a Hotel. Dr. and Mrs. Lloyd Oare. wer ? burned to death when the River Vlei Hotel at Sutton, W. Va., was destroj ed by fire on Tuesday, causing f monetary loss of $18,000. Dr. an Mrs. Oare were married Wednesda " in Moundsvllle, W. Va., and were e r route to the home of the groom' B mother, Mr*. Mary Oare, where e> wedding supper awaited their eomlo Mrs. Oare was Miss Elisabeth Wli t <rove of Moundsvllle. Dr. Oare wa 2 8 y**rs old snd had Just finished hi medical education. ?Sg ^'V : m ^ "v: ' ; >* J?5rSr? Ml] S. C.. THURSDAY, I UADn nu Tcnnv nm\u un ituui Harriman Says He Asked Him To Save the Republcans. And That He Raised Money to Prevent New York From Going Democrat ie in 1004. A sensation was created in New York Tuesday by the publication of a letter, written in December, 1905, and addressed to Mr. Sidney Webster of New York and signed "E. H. Harriman." Sidney Webster is a lawyer and a writer on political subjects. His wife is a sister of Stuyvestant Fish, who lost the presidency of the Illinois Central railroad a few months ago after antagonizing Mr. Harriman. Following is a portion of the letter referring to his relations with president Roosevelt in the campaign of 1904: "As- to my political Instincts to which you refer in your letter of Dec. 13, I am quite sure I have none and my being made at all prominent In the political situation is entirely due to President Roosevelt and because of my taking an active part in the campaign during the autumn of 1904, at his request, and his taking advantage of conditions then created to further his own interests. If it has been a predicated plot it could not have been better started or cari ried out. "About a week before the election i in the autumn of 1904, when it looked certain that the State ticket would go Democratic and was doubtful as to Roosevelt himself, he (the president) sent me a request to go to Washington to confer upon the political conditions in New York State. I complied and he told me he understood the campaign could not be successfully carried on without sufficient raon! ey. and asked if I would help thein in | raising the necessary funds, as the national committee, under control of Chairman Cortelyou, had utterly failed of obtaining them, and there was a large amount due from them to the New York State Committee. "I explained to him that I understood the difficulty here was mainly caused hr the nn-Stntn ip?rt?ra unwilling to support Depew for reelection as United States Senator, that If he (Depew) could be taken care of In some other way I thought matters could be adjusted and the different contending elements In the party brought Into alllnnce again. We talked over what could be done for Depew and, finally he agreed, if found necessary, he would appoint him as ambassador to Paris. "With full belief that he, the president, would keep this agreement I came back to New York, sent for Treasurer Hliss, who told me that I was their last hope, and that they had exhausted every other resource. In his presence I called up an intimate friend of Senator Depew. told him that it was necessary In order to carry New York State that $200 000 should be raised at once and if he would help I would subscribe $r>0,000. After a few words over the telephone the gentleman said he would let me know, which he did probably In three of four hours, with the result that the whole amount, including my subscription, had been raised "The checks were given to Treasurer Hliss, who took them to Chairman Cortelyou. If there was any among them of life insurance companies or any other like organlzatinno r\t pnurco vaii ntnof Hotrn Informed the president. I do not know who the subscribers were other than the friend of I)epow, who was an individual. This amount enabled the New York State committee to continue its work, with the result that at least f>0,000 votes were turned in the city of New York alone, making a difference of 100,000 votes in the general result. "There are between 2,200 and 2.300 districts in Greater New York and in a campaign such as that the expenditure of say, $50 in each district for campaign purposes not including the watchers on election day, would take more than $100,000. 1 "Some time in December, 1904, on my way from Virginia to New York ( I etopped and had a Rhort talk with 1 the president. He then told me that " he did not think it necessary to ap' point Depew as ambasst dor to Paris, as agreed on, in fact favored him for the senate. I had not expected that he was the ono (sic) as to what would be necessary, but he arrogated that to himself, and I, of course, could say nothing further. After that I used what influence I could to have Depew returned to the senate, 3 as I considered there had been an imr plied obligation which should be 1 ived up to. "Tnis is the way I was brought to the surface in the political matters as b I had never before taken any active R part, and had only done what I could 3 as a private citizen might, so you e see I was brought forward by Roosef velt in an attempt to help him, at his j request, the same as I was in the fn. surance matter by Hyde and Ryan by their request for my help. t "Yours sincoiely ? (Signed) "E. H. Harriman." Ilk'/JlV IMCIIT 1 "Let l"s Pray" Says Man Just Rcforf Marriage. I> Just as Justice Stoble started tr Join Robert G. Jackson, the "ten dollar-a-week bachelor," and Mrs e Hello Williams in wedlock at St Louis, lata week Jackson halted hinr "Let us pray," he said. Then h< dropped on his knees and fervidl] a besought heaven to shower the bless d inns of happiness and a numerou. progency. In this pious wish th< y nrlde-to-be heartily joined. Q Some weeks Ago Jackson asked i * JudRo if a man should Ret marriet A on a salary of $10 a week The Jus g tire replied in the affirmative, pub I- lished Jackson's letter, and the lab it orer received marriaRe proposal is from eighteen women, including th i bride. _ _ LL1 APRIL 11, 1907. onirr mft ?nr?T umtr iuu uncni Commits [Suicide Because of the Death of His Neice. A LITTLE BABY GIRL Was Short in His Accounts Several Hundred IKrilars, Hut His Employees are Certain That That Had Nothing to Do With His Killing Himself, as He Could Have Heplaced It. A night of grief and despondency in Oakland cemetary at the grave of his little niece, the penciling of a note at daybreak saying that he was short $600 in his accounts and two hours afterwaids a pistol shot?these were the final incidents in the tragedy of Robert S. Stewart, who committed suicide nenr 193 Gilmer street Atlanta. Ga., on Wednesday morning of last week. Tne Journal says Stewart was bookkeeper for tho Harper-Weathers and Calllcott Mule company, where for the past six years he has been one of the most highly valued and trusted men in the office. Shortly after two o'clock Tuesday afternoon he left his desk, ostensibly for home. .ie lived with his parents in West End, near Gordon and Cascade avenue. When night came Stewart had not returned. No alarm was felt, however, until about 7 o'clock his mother telephoned the office and said that ha had not been seen at the house since breakfast. Apprehension was increased from the fact that he was known to he in ill health. A search was begun for him. On going to the safe to put up the books for the night, W. C. Harper, head of the Harper-Weathers & Callicott company, found a due bill that Stewart had left and which stated that he was Indebted to the firm for something like $foou. The next seen of the bookkeeper was on Moore street at seven o'clock Wednesday morning. A friend spoke to him and tried to persuade turn to go home. "No," he answered, ss if in a dream. "I'm going back to the cemetary. I've spent the night there by Leonora's grave." Then he dissapeared. In a deserted outhouse near 193 (lilmer street a pistol report rang out about 8:30 o'clock. A negro washerwoman, frightened by the noise ran over to the shanty. She found Robert Stewart stretched on his face and bleeding from a pistol wound through his heart. His hat had fallen behind him and nearby lay a half-smoked cigar, still burning, that he had laid aside to tire the shot. In the dead man's vest pocket was found a note, penciled in a firm, business hand on three seperate scraps of paper, one a part of a National hnnlr p h orlH i of Hnr fu?n aliooto from a scratch pad. In this last message, he intimated that he had lost |1,000 of the company's money last Christmas fit a place he does not name, and that he was erased with grief for the loss of his sister's little child, Leonora Sedden, who died last Thursday. He vaguely hints of a disappointed love, declared that he was weary of living and ended with saying: "Love God. He is good, and you will know It some day, some time." From this letter It also appears that Stewart had gone to Oakland cemetery Tuesday night intending to kill himself by the child's grave. He writes: "I went to the little darling's grave to die but was prevented from doing so. My laht request is that you lay me by the little daHlittf." That S.ewart's self-inflicted death was the' outcome of grief for this baby as well as despotidCrley over his shortage in accounts many Incidents of the past few days go to indicate. With his aged parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Stewart, he has lived far out from the city on Cascade avenue, in the most thinly settled neighborhood of West End. In the family were also his sisters, Mrs. Helena Adams, Mrs. E. Z. Stewart and Mrs. Early Sedden. It was little Leonora Sedden, the 20-months-old daughter of the later who died last Thursday, from her birth Stewart had an affection for the child that was almost miraculous. All of his hours from work he spent in playing with her and she returned his love as if he had been her father. Last Thursday the baby died and was burled In Oakland cemetary two days later. From then until Tuesday Mr. Stewart'? health, which for a year had been ill. more and more rapidly declined i In speaking of the suicide, W. C ! Harper, of the Harper-Weathers & Calllcott Co., said: "I am sure that the shortage ir . Mr. Stewart's accounts is due to nt i criminal ntent on his part. His ex _ . A n/v V* Mn 4 1% #\ nr l\ V* /v ?! Ill |k*n?en were ucavj, uiuu^ii nr- mu - unmarried, and no doubt in time h( would have made good every cent o his indebtnebness. Prehaps we shal find on examining the books that th< deficit Is not so great as he though It was. During the six years he hat been with us, his work has been o the highest character, and we re garded him very highly, as we stil do. , FATAL FIRE. A Mother and Five Children I turn i ed to Death. % r At Passiae, N. J., on Wednosda - of last week a mother and five of he * children were burned to death in - tenement fire. The children range in age from seven months to seve 1 years. 1 Many women and children wer - taken down ladders by the flremei - but the members of the Satupo fan - lly, which occupied rooms on the 3r 8 floor are supposed to have been su 0 j focated by sinoke before they coul 1 escape from their rooms. 3 - % riwi SHOULD BE STOPPED The Letter Chain Exposed by the National Government Which Is Doing All It Can to Put a Stop to the Nuisance hut It's a Hard Jol?. For some weeks people in this section have been receiving chain letters from friends in other sections with the request that they write nine, one each day, similar to the one received. Some people did as requested and others did not. It has come to light, that the scheme was a stupendous fraud, and Hlshop Lawrence whose attention was called to the matter, denied that he had ever dictated such a document. The scheme has grown to such enormous proportions throughout the country until the postal authorities were obliged to take a hand in the matter. The letter is as follows: "Dear Friend and Christian: Relow is a prayer chain just as it was sent to me. so I send it out to others, for I do not want it broken in my hands. God bless you and others to keep it going: " "O, Lord Jesus, we implore thee, O Eternal God. to have mercy on all mankind; keep us front all sin. and take us to live with thee eternally. Amen. "Thisprayer was dictated by Dishop Lawrence. He commands it to be written and sent to nine other persons. He who will not do it will be afflicted by some misfortuneand persons who pay no attention to it will meet with a terrible accident He who will write this prayer for nine days and send it to nine others, commencing the day you receive this, (only one each day), will after nine days experience some great joy. At Jerusalem at the feast, it was said he who would write this prayer would be delivered front every calamity. Please do not let this drop in your hands. I have written this just as I received it. Now. please send it to others. Sincerely, "CHRISTIAN" Through fear of being overtaken by some dire calamity, as predicted in the letter, the recipients have invariably set down and complied whh the instructions to write each day for nine days. It was not superstition that promoted them?of course not, but the men and women receiving the prayer have believed that they would feel more comfortable alter complying with the obligation so solemnly imposed and the neglect of which was severely penalized. As a consequence, millions of prayers have been written and sent through the mails in the form of letters on postal cards. To show the extent to which chain letters might expand if the chain was unbroken for even the tenth power, it may be stated that the total number of letters would reach 3,500,000,000, as may be seen from the following table: 1 9 2 . .* 8 1 3 729 4 6,561 5 59,04 9 6 531,441 7 4,782,969 8 354.120,489 10 3,187,932,450 Total 3,585,932,450 The united States postal authorities have taken hold of the matter and they are trying to supress the Craze. In speaking of the above letter an official of the postal department said: "The Hishop Lawrence referred to In the letter Indignantly denies that he ever commanded or authorized any one to use his name in such a matter. He thinks the originator is either a practical Joker or some religious enthusiast, possibly possessing more piety than common sense." Th? bishop proves that the originator of the "chain" was not a good Christian or he could not have incorporated the falsehood In his original letter, setting forth the supposed connection. The more prayer letters, the more imprecations from postal dorks and carriers. The thing seems to have taken a pernaclous hold upon the supersticious In widely seperated communities, and their name is legion. Theinnocent cause of the trouble has sought to stem the tide and entirely disclaims responsibility for the scheme which has loaded the mails with these prayer letters. The ministers have denounced the fake and urged their congregation to burn the missies and pay no attention to the threats they contain, but still the letters multiply and are seriously overloading the malls. It seems that 1 nothing but common sense will serve i to break up the chain. SKltVKI) HIM 1(K;HT. i A Masher rimtl Forty Dollars for Annoying Ladles. ' The State says one of the most out ' of the ordinary cases that has come . up before the court in a good Ion* while was that of a white man tvhr gave' his name as VV. R. IHshop, ancJ . is a stranger in Columbia. . Monday Hishop got about hall drunk and began "making eyes" a j young ladles on the streets. Police man Ford soon got on to his garni and in watching him a while notice* that the chap was following two la - ' am (lies, wnn, iiiuiny iiruiK ..... frightened by the persistent at ten i- tions of ItiHhop, ran to avoid him. The man was locked and Thurnda did not deny the charge against him He said he was drunk and !f he wa discourteous to anyone he knei r nothing of it. His fine was $40. H a paid up and left, d ___________________ n .? ... .. Hard to I'lraw. At Richmond. Va., Mrs. Maggl Lee, 29 years of age. and twice d ' vorced, Thursday became the hrl(! of Chas. C. Miiler, 4t> years old. Ti *' wedding took place In the ante-roo f adjoining the offlcei of Contno: *1 wealth Attorney JUnttree Polices, the city hall. ; WIS BS. 1 19 no. 2.. mm ? 1 WIVES GALORE. A Man Arrested in Philadelphia Said to Have One HUNDRED AND FIFTY. Alleged Daughter Is Accused of Running Matrimonial Bureau for Hit* Benefit. Disguised to Please AH. Philadelphia Detective Says Ho Has Found Biggest Bigamy Swindle in History. After the arrest In Philadelphia on Thursday of James Marshall, a picturesque looking Westerner, and Miss Teenie Marshall, or Miss Edith ltoss, his alleged daughter, the first on a charge of desertion and the second on a charge of "false pretence," the police of that city unfolded what ihev claim is the boldest and most multiple conspiracy of bigamy and robbery in history. Edward Bryant, of the Bryant Detective agency, which uncovered the "Mrs. Edith Ross Bureau," asserts that Marshall has at least one hundred and fifty wives, and probably twice that many. He claims to have evidence that in one month the man married as many as six women. , The plan according to the police, was for Miss Marshall to introduce Marshall to the dupes as n rich and gentle suitor. He would appear in a variety of disguises. The marriage would be quickly effected. Marshall would get all the valuables he could from the bride and would desert her. His wives, it is said, are scattered across the continent. The proceedings were brought by Mrs. Marjorie Friel, of No. 1525 Summer street, who applied at the ?. Ross bureau for a husband and got Marshall. She had saved some mon < v irum m*r wages ana Marshall tried to get it. Then he deserted her. ' in the kitchen of the house occupied by Marshall was found a lot of charred paper, indicating that alot of loiters and stationary had been destroyed. Upstairs, in the sleeping room in the second floor, were found about :t,000 letters from women ail over the country in answer to advertisements inserted in various papers by the "Mrs. Fdith Ross Society" the name of the matrimonial bureau operated by the Marshalls. There were also found many botles of hair dye of nil shades, tending to bear out the detectives assertion that Marshall "made up" to represent different types to please the varying tastes of the "society's" feainale clients. A bottle of laudanum was another find. All the articles were kept by the detectives. At the hearing Friday Marshall who is 61 years old, wore a towering and flaring sombrero. The postal authorities are interested in the case, as li is charged that Marshall UBed the United States mails in his scheme to lure women into his clutches. Postal inspector Frank O'Hrien is investigating the case on behalf of the Federal authorities. Moth prisoners were held in $1,000 ball. .he police say the woman is . not Marshall's daughter. INDIAN SWINDLER. Mmlc Ton Ears Erotu tlie Skin of a Wolfe. It took an ingenious Indian to dupe the Treasury department of Clark county, Wis., and swindle it out of a cool $ 1 00 with an ease that ' *" would have put even Cassie Chadwick in the shade. The Indian received the $100 for five pairs of wolves' ears, for which a bounty is paid. After he had gone the clerk examined the ears more closely and found that they were made of pastehoard covered with pieces of wolfskin cut in the shape of ears. The Indian was arrested. COST TOO MICH. An Expensive Way to (let Rid of Rats. In a large warehouse in Liverpool a hoy named Edward Scott was employed to run errands. There were many rats about the place and he was told that if he could catch one and singe its tail all the others would leave. A trap was set and a rat was caught, hut while singeing its tail according to directions the lighted paper blew into a pile of straw and started a conflagation that burned four big buildings and inflicted a loss of half a million dollars. SI'S WIFK A WONDKR. She Remembered the Wad of Money Hidden in The Stove. Almost, too good to lie true was the r good fortune of Silas H. Kayburn, of J Rising Sun, la., who recently sold a . lot of cattle for several thousnnd dollars. Rayhurn has always been . suspicious of banks and bankers and l would have none of them. So he put / his money in an old stove used by J his wife on wash days. The other J . day his wife went to build a fire in the stove but she first removed the j money. SHOT W IFK AM) It/VltK. y i. And Then Blew Out Ills Own l>c8 at mooted llrain. ? The details of a shocking tragedy which occurred at Flint Hill, Rappahannock county, Va.t Saturday [e week reached Winehestetr on Thursj. day. Henry Foster, a young farmer, to while out walking with his wife and two-nionths-old baby, suddenly drew m 'his revolver nnd shot and almost inn.? stnntly klllotl both of them. Foster Inltnen blew out his own brains. No - 'reason is known for the deed. tzal