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B-i 1.1 I r H Roose^^^^HLaunchsd For Friends ^K_ Is a Confidant Of . nr House, Comes Term For White AfS^^^^^^Vconference the Vresu^^^W ^?e White House, Sen&or "Bourne came out Wednesday night In th<? role of chief promoter of a third term for Roosevelt by Inuing an authorized statement declaring that 11 Is the duty of the American people to "command the President to accept a second elective tern." j A dispatch from Washington says the statement cansed a stir in the political waters, for It was made public only an hour before the return of Secretary Taft, the President's putative) candidate. Senator Bourne's statement is as ?? ?? ?? 4 ? uuuns. in ui> u|iiiiiuii a ureal crisis now confronts this country. The reactionaries arv determined if posslKl)le, to obtain control of the Governmqnt and use it for their own personal advantage and to the detrment of I the people. "True Republican politics, as promulgated by Lincoln and enlarged and exemplified *l?y Roosevelt, are the rights of man and the absolute so\ erignty of the people. The issue now before the country 1h: Shall the advocates of the rights and liberties of the people and the power and of the majesty of the government, or the enemies of both, prevail. The people must decide. "I know that President Roosevelt is not. a candidate \o succeed himself. 1 realize that he would greatly prefer that the people select some other person to succeed him in 1908. I am however, convinced that the exigencies of the situation demonstrate the necessity of the people commanding President Roosevelt to accept a nomnation for a second elective term. "The president, equally with any other elective officer of this Government, is, after all, but the servant of the people. If the people command him to serve a second elective term he certainly must feel it his duty to ?lo so. How could he do otherwise? He can no more decline to accopt a iioiiiiiiaiiuii mane i)y a convention, instructed by the people, than he could refuse to serve if we were engaged in war with Hoir.e foreign power and he was drafted. "No man can put hlB personal wishes or desires above the command of the people, and especially no person who has been honored as President Roosevelt lias been by the Amer lean people." This was a day of political conferences at the White House. Representative Parsons, head, of the New York County organization, was one of the visitors. He said that he was Yor Governor Hughes and would aid him to the limit of his ability. "How about Governor Hughes as presidential candidate?" Mr. Parsons whs asked. There wm no answer. it is believed Parsons went to the White House to get the President's O. K. on his Greifter New York legislative reapportionment scheme the same as he did alyear ago when the President approskd a Gerrymander which the courts declared illegal. Friends of the Governor say that Parson's expressions of loyalty will hold only until after a reappointment plan has been passed when he will again openly espouse the cause of Roosevelt. Representative-elect Langley. of Kentucky, talked with the President Wednesday about political matters In his state. Mr. Langley it is understood, came to Washington at the request of the President. President Roosevelt has set aside a l>art of Thursday to see Archie Hughes, the Pos',master of Columbia. Tenn., whose reiuoval from office hap been practically |ccomplished by the H. Clay Evans machine of that State which is a Roosevelt organization. The president will hear Mr. Hughes before making the order for his removal final. Mr. Hughes iu opposed to President. Roosevelt succeeding himself. The removal of Hughes, it is said, will place the President In the position of putting into Federal office only men who ure working for his re-1 nomination. ' SMOKE STACK COLLAPSED. Three Young Women Working in a ( lass Factory Killed. Three young women, employed at T. C. Wheaton & Co's factory, in Miilville, N. J., wore killed by the crushed through a room in which they were working. The dead: Lena Doughty, Lydia Thurwon, Sylvia Gallagher. The velocity of the wind was estimated at 60 miles an hour. The stack crashed th|rough the roof of the plant and into tjhe grinding room occupied by several men and the three young women. 1 All were hurled under the debris. The crash was heard for several blocks and workmen from other parts of }he plant went to the rescue. Among the loscuers were George Doughty, whosd daughter was In the ruins. Hor body was quickly uncovered, but life jwas extinct. Miss Thurston was ,taken out alive, hut died shortly afterward. Miss Gallagher was dead' when her body was found. The otjher employes escaped injury. 1 . . ^ =: TILLMAN SPEAKS Calls on Audience for Vote as to Nogroo's Rank Carnegie's Music Hall, Where The Senator Spoke in Pittsbnrg, Polio ed For the Occasion. A Pittsburg, Pa., as a precautionary measure twenty-two detectives and a squad of armed policemen were stationed in the Carnegie Music Hall during the address of Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, of South Carolina, who discussed the race problem before the Park Avenue Athletic Club, on Wednesday night of last week. Several exciting incidents occurred during the address, but no trouble resulted. There were ten negroes in the Audience which filled the Music Hall to overflowing. The audience gave the Senator close attention and frequently applauded him at the close of his address, in which be declared the races in the South were gradually becoming more opposed to one another, Senator Tillman called for a vote of the audience as to whether the negro was the equal of the white man. The entire audience except the ten negroes, voted in the negative by rising. One man took exceptions to Senator Tillman's remarks and made several inteupttons. Senator Tillman made him admit that he came from Europe and then bitterly denounced Europeans In America who undertake to judge questions concerning this country, about which they know ( absolutely nothing. The Senator did hlB interrupter up. In speaking of whether the negro can be educated, Senator Tillman de- , clared that Booker T. Washington was the harbor of refuge and safety ( tn urViioV, i^i.U fl?,. ? V..... ~?V. v*/ niiivu |/W|/1V ?IW TT I1V11 \JLUUI places fail and that Booker T. Washington was one negro in ten millions, and was half white at that. Senator Tillman had nine-tenths of the audience with him. AGAINST THE PRKSlltKNT. Roosevelt Denounced for His Attack on Ijabor I?eadcr. The declaration that President Roosevelt Is behind the Western mine owners and state authorities at Colorado and Idaho in an alleged movement to "railroad" Moyer, Heyward and Pettibone, of the Western Federation of Miners, to the gallows, was applauded vociferously Sunday by the Chicago Federation of Labor. in me raosi aramaxic speecn tnat has been delivered before that body in many years Edward Morgan, a member of the Western Federation, bitterly denounced the president. His speech was followed by the adoption of resolutions scoring the president for classing Heyward with E. H. liarrimau and other capitalists. "God forbid that it is true!" shouted Morgan, "but It almost seems that behind the millions of Rockfeller and the Standard Oil company, behind the millions of mine owners, stands the strong right arm of the chief executive of the nation, saying: 'Go to it. Faii upon your prey like vultures, and I will sit by and grin while you gurgle in their blood.' "For seventeen years the Western Federation of Miners, with their blood blazed the way for organized labor in the West. Now, the mine owners, backed by the state authorities, are thirsting for revenge. I can qpe William D. Haywood, the man who refused to be bought or to bend the knee of supllcatlon, forfeiting his life on the gallows for the loyalty he bore to his fellowH He refused to make peace, refused to clink glasses with the mine owners, and now they have hatched this conspiricy to get him by other methods. And they will hang him unless the working class of this country rise up from ocean to ocean and demands that justice be done." FOH XKGltO SCHOOLS Philadelphia UIvph On*' Milium io XrHUH's of the South. One million dollArH has been given lo the negroes of the South for the 'stablishment of rudimentary school? by Miss Anna T. .leanes, a Quakeress of Philadelphia. The Income of the amount given is to he used sorely for assistance in the "southern United States community, country and rural schools for the great class of negroes to whom the small rural and community schools are alone available." Hooker T. Washington, head of Tuskegee institute, and the Mollis II. Frizzell, president of the Hampton Normal and Industrial institute, are named as trustees of the fund, hut neither of the institutions they represent will share in the gift. The deed was executed Thursday and in It Booker Washington and Hollis Frizzell are empowered to appoint a board of trustees in connection with the fund. The Pennsylvania company for Insurances on lives and granting annuities, of Philadelphia, will act as fiscal agent for the trustees. SHE ATE A QUART. Young Woman of llayonne Victim of a Strange Feast, Overindulgence in peanuts caused the death of Miss Rose McCabe. 25 years-old, of No. 9 Linnet street, Bayonne, N. Y.. Wednesday. Miss McCabe had eaten nearly a quart of peanuts. A short time afterward she complained of severe pains in her head. A physician was sent for hut before his arrival the young woman died. Her death is the third in the family In eight months. Her mother died last August and her father in October. _ _ FORT MILL, ' KILLED HIMSELF Because His Wife Found Out That He Was Ill/IUft a niiAi I ICC uviiiu ft uunL urt. BeHlegrd toy His Wife in The Home of Another Woman a Justice of ; the Peace at Ridgewood, N. Y., i Took a IMstol and Blew Out His , Brains Rather than Face the Con1 sequences of His Sin. < Besieged by his wife, while in the i home of another woman, Frederick J W. Gardner, Justice of the Peace in j Ridgewood, N. J., and also Tax Col- ] lector of that town, blew his brains i out Wednesday night while the wo- ? man he had promised to love and j cherish was hammering on the door, j The self-destructon of Gardner, who was a rich man and descendant < of a distinguished line, was attended 1 by dramatic incidents. In the pre- ^ Bence of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Eg- , lin, of Ridgewood avenue, the man went to his death. , There have been many rumors dur- , ing the past few months, that Gardner had become infatuated with Mrs. {t Eglin. The police are authority for ' the statement that he was, but they { do not think Mr. Eel in WAK AW A TP Of I the fact, and believe he treated the Justice as a friend. Mrs. Gardner, daughter of the late Judge Quackenhush of Mahwali, N. J., and herself a wealthy woman, is said to have observed the alleged infatuation, and Id have planned for the trapping of her husband. Wednesday Gardner left his home to make a call. His wife and fifteenyear-old son were in the house. Mrs. Gardner followed him to the home of the Gglins. Gardner entered the Tiiouse and the door was shut. Mrs. Gardner waited a little while, then rapped on the door, and called for the occupants of the apartment to open it. The demand was not complied with at once. Mtb. Gardner continued knocking, and suddenly a rei>ort of a revolver was heard. The wife of the Justice heard it and divined its course. She aimoBt collapsed outside the door. Gardner had gone near a window, pulled the pistol, and shot himself dead on the spot. Only one bullet was required. His body plunged to the centre of the room and lay motionless. ( Whpii tho nnllpo nrrlvoH tHo no!crV*_ i ? v" v""- """O" , borhood was in an uproar, news of * the tragedy having got abroad. Cor- f oner Pell was notified, and took 1 charge of the remains, pending an 1 investigation. The pistol is also in his possession, it having been found ( ciose to the Justice's hand. 1 Gardner had been a Justice three 1 years. He was prominent socially 1 and in a financial way, his father 1 having left him and two other sons ' fortunes. * 1 ??.? ( FOR PROTECTION OF HIRRS i Mr. James H nrjr Rice Made Sec re- , tary of Audubon Society. Mr. James Henry Rice, Jr., has ' been elected secretary of the State ' Audubon society, which the last legislature chartered, and will at once ] begin an active canvass of the state appointing game wardens and other wise seeing to the enforcement of the game laws of the state. "The game laws of South Carolina are practically a dead letter today," said Mr. Rice the other day. "They are violated with faithful regularity throughout the state as to ail sorts of game and flsli as well as to insectiverous birds which should be protected everywhere. It is true the Rnrietv's Intention to nee flint theae laws are enforced regardless of how much unpopularity that course brings up on the heads of the officials of the society. Other states are getting as high as $100,000 a year in license fees and fines, and there is no reason why this state should not get almost that much. It is also the intention of the society to see to the protection of fish in season." COLDK8T APHlIi ON RECORD Shown by Forty Years' Statistics of Charleston Itureau. The coldest April iu the history of the Charleston weather bureau, whose records cover a period of nearly forty years, is now being rounded out with Charleston still registering a dally loss of six degrees and seventenths. The books of Forecaster Grant's department show tliatthe temperature so far this month registers a mean reading of 66.2 degrees, as against the next coldest, April, in 1901, when the minimum was 59.2 degrees. The warmest April In the history of the bureau was in 1871, when an average of 69.8 degrees was recorded. HEAVY IlKlil'tiK The Howiipour in New Orleans Was Extreme. A torrential rain -flooded many sections of New Orleans Thursday and the heavy downpour continued all night. Water was more than a foot deep in parts of Canal street, where the big stores are located. Water backed up in some sections over the deep gutters and covered sidewalks. St. Charles avenue, the . finest street in New Orleans, was a running river for blocks, many resiI dences being completely surrounded. (The precipitation was estimated at lover three inches early Friday with i do relief promised until Saturday. ( m# V I I ,'s. C., THURSDAY LABOR UNIONS [ Are Hot After President Roosevelt For What He Said About Moyer, Haywood and Petti* bone. Miners Who Are Charged With Murder Out in Idaho. The committee, consisting of delegates Brown, Abrahams and Henry, appointed by the New York Central Federated Union to call upon President Roosevelt in relation to the lather's attitude toward Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone, instead of leaving for Washington, as expected, decided to abandon their mission. Secretary Bohm, of the C. F. b., telegraphed to the presltent, from , New York inquiring as to a convenlent time at which he would receive ' the committee. Private secretary I Leob explained that the president did not desire to see the committee personally, but suggested that the C. P. U. sent to him in writing anything they wished to communicate on the Moyer-Haywood matter. In this telegram Secretary Hohm stated that some time ago he had written a letter to the president, in which the sentiments and neslres of the C. F. U. had been expressed and hat no answer had been received. No reply has been received to this ast telegram sent by Secretary Bohni Members of the C. F. U., who knew )f the telegrams that passed between Secretaries liahm and Leob, that the >resldent expects his letter to the Chicago federation, to l?e accepted is a reply to tho queries and critl isms of the C. P. U.. also. In comment inc linnn tlio nrnoMnnr. mblished letter, prominent New York abor men said Thursday that he had >verIooked the niaiir point in the proest of organized Inbor. There would lot have l>een the great agitation by >rganlzed lalior on the Moyer-Hayvood case, if it had not been for the awless manner of the arrest and denotation of the accused men. Labor vould have naised no protest againBt he arrest and trial If the constituted luthorities had shown a proper retpect for the legal rights of the ac:used at the time of their arrest. The belief of the working men of he country is that President Rose-" relt and those in whom he confided ihut their eyes to the known facts ind not only sanctioned the kidnapng of Moyer, Haywood and Petti>one, but refused them^the redress to vhlch they,.as citizens," were entitled. Sixty thousand members of organized lal?or in New York City will larade on May 4, as a public rebuke .0 President Roosevelt for his secind atack on Moyer and Haywood. The Central Federated Union haB iccepted the invitation of the Moyer ind Haywood protest conference com-. s nittee, to parade and it will take >art in the great demonstration. Labor meetings were held through- 1 >ut the city and at all of them the | iction of President Roosevelt was de- ' lounced and the decision taken to 1 rnrade on May 4 in honor of Moyer *nd Haywood, and as a rebuke to ' Roosevelt. Every organization that 2 met, instructed its delegates to the ' C. F. U., to present their views at the 1 regular meeting of the union next 1 Sunday. In nearly all the big cities of the ( :ountry similar lal>or meetings were I held, and the action of President * Roosevelt denounced. Labor lead- ( ers in Boston; Chicago. Pittsburg. ( Cleveland, Cincinnatti and Milwaukee 1 were outspoken, in their criticism of the president. A dispatch from Mil- I waukee states that the labor leaders j there have launched a plan for set- ' ting aside a day in May when work j will be suspended and a demonstra- ! tion held throughout the country, as 1 a protest against the position of the 1 president. In Chicago a call was 1 issued for a public, meeting of pro- 1 test to be held May 19 in Grant 1 Park. HUGGED THE DENTIST < Strange Effects of laughing (Ja& On a Young liady. Laughing gas had a very strange effect on a young lady in New York one day last week. The girl, who is twenty-two and pretty,, has l>een undergoing a series of dental operations at the office of Dr. Thomas Taylor, of No. 838 East One Hundred and Sixty first street, for several weeks. One evening some nerves had to he killed, and the laughing gas was administered to deaden the pain. The moment the gas took effect Miss Lovendeski leaped from the chair and clasped Dr. Taylor about he nevk with a hug that would do credit to a polar hear. He tried to extricate himself from the embrace in vain. Then he called for help, and Mrs. Taylor ran in and tried to pry the patient from her huRhand's neck. She couldn't do it, and telephoned to the Hronx Police. The girl when finally torn from the embrace was carried to the Lebanon Hospital, for the dentist thought she might have gone out of her mind. She had been acting strangely for several days, he said. DEIIH IS MAIL Says the President Has a Had Memory or Lies. Eugene V. Debs represented the President as saying in unmistakable words that Moyer anil Haywood were implicated in the murder, thus pronouncing their guilt before their trial. Debs Bald: he president is guilty of extraordinary lapse of memory or of deliberate falsehood. I now challenge the president to deny his speech, of April 11th, as meaning Moyer and llaywood in his charge more than a year ago. If he will not name whom he meant, he must btand branded from his own mouth with calumny and mendacity." F - - * LL 1 , MAY 2, 1007. OPENED FRIDAY The Jamestown Exposition is Now In Full Blast GOV. ANSEL, STAFF Among the Early Arrivals on the Scene. Harbor Is Full of Ships and Hotels Full of Visitors. . Gov. and Mrs. Ansel Showed Many Courtesies. South Well Represented at the Show. Mr. August Kohn, writing to the S'ews and Courier from the Jamestown Exposition says the show is gong to be a surprise to everyone. It s far and way beyound what was expected. The growth of the underaking has been wonderful. Most icople thought it would be an exposition that would flurish on the associations around Jamestown and the social and naval features. Not so. It s the real thing. It is not a Chicago exposition but it is a big thing, bigger than people expect, and it is seautiful. It is not ready. A great leal is in place and ready, but the IniBhing touches are lacking. South Carolina is here to-night to oin Virginia in the celebration incilent to the formal opening of the Ext. '? . - 'uoiiiuu. n i?ii?misfs 10 ue a truly treat event. The hart>or is full of fiant battle ships and the hotels are :hoked with guests, from Governors lown the line. Governor Ansel and lis good wife are being most cordialy received and handsomely enterained on all sides. The South Carolina contingent arlved there Friday morning over the leaboard Air Line and went to the nside Inn. which opened Friday. In he party were: Governor M. A. Anel, Mrs. Ansel, Gen. Wilie Jones, drs. Jones, Miss Reaux Jones, Gen. f. C. Boyd, Col Robert P. Hamer, Col. V. N. Moore, Barnwell; Mrs. Moore, Jol. J. G. Wardlaw, Yorkville; Col. r. S. KvanB, Greenwood; Col. Geo. Y. Coleman, Charleston; Col. D. O. Herlert, Orangeburg; Capt. W. W. Haris. Greenville. The South Carolina Commission liarged with placing an exhibit here raB also on hand by urgent request, ind joined Gov. Ansel's party. There vere on hand on the part of the comnission; Chairman Wm. E. Gonzales, Jr. J. B. Black, J. Kd Norment, Prof, "rank Evans, Capt John G. Richards, 3. Marlon Rucker and August Kohn, ;ecretary. 'The entire party was met on the 'ortsmouth side by directors of the Exposition Company and taken to heir hotel. Col. Elbert H. Aull was nvited to Join Governor Ansel's pary and Joined it at Columbia. During the afternoon Mr. Sheppard nvited Gov. Ansel and Capt. Gon'.ales to a dinner In their honor and n the afternoon Governor and Mrs. \nsel were taken for a drive around he beautiful grounds. The commission visited the South Carolina exhibit and was very much aleased. Mr. Paul V. Moore has done exceptional work and was heartily :ongratulated. The South Carolina lisplay is further advanced than any athers and is all right. President Aull came for the pur[>ose of looking after the Press Asso'Uftion. He has put the afternoon in In conference with heads of departments as to the entertainment of the South Carolina editors when they reach the Exposition. He will also see the Tidewater Navigation people as to side trips, and the terminal and railroad folks as to handling cars, and hotels as to rates. He finds hotel rates under the circumstances reasonable for good accommodations. One of the side trips he is arranging is a boat ride to Old Jamestown. Col. T. B. Butler, of GafTney, Col. B. A. Morgan, of Greenville, Col. Geer. of Belton, Col. 8. T. McGravey. of Spartanburg, who are members of the Governor's staff, arrived Friday night in time to join the party at Governor Swanson's reception. This is simply to let the home folks know that Carolina is here and that all are well. Governor Ansel and his party will join in the festivities Saturday and South Carolina's Governor has been showered with attentions and courtesies. Friday night the whole party attended Governor Swanson's reception. Governor and Mrs. Ansel were in the receiving party. PEC 11-lAlt CASK OF It A 111 KS That Seem To Threaten a Young I ,nu re ns County Farmer. Mr. W. F. Cleveland, a young farmer of the Huntington section of Laurens county, is in Atlanta, at the Pasteur institute under treatment to prevent the possible development of rabies, he having been exposed to the disease by milking a cow whose calf dlod a few days ago exhibiting every symptom of hydrophobia. Thursday the cow went mad and of course the family and friends of Mr. Cleveland are much concerned about hin?. RHIGANI) IK CAPTCRKD His House of Refuge is Illown to Pieces. The notorious brigand, Stanislaus idea, author of many crimes has been captured at Lublin, five miles from Warsaw, Poland. He was wounded after the house in which he had sought refuge had been blown down by artillery fire. Lisa when he saw that the detachment of i>olice was advancing on him, barricaded himself and opened fire on the police, killing several of them. ? jf riME / FOUGHT HARD To Keep From Being Hung for Killing a Man. Had to lk' Dragged to The (tallow* and He Was Executed H.v Main Force. Bob Watts, a young white man, who was hung at Guntersvllle, Ala., Thnrsrtnv ' ? ' - ..?u uniibCU uuuer li able circumstances. He had become possessed of a knife and resisted to the end. Ammonia was thrown into his ceil and he was thus overcome and dragged to the scaffold by force, coughing and moaning piteously. lining asked for a statement he persistently protested his innosenoe, but did not attempt to throw suspicion on anyone else. The drop fell at 8:20 o'clock. Watts was convicted of the murder of Perd Winkles, an old Confederate soldier, who was killed in the fall of 1904. Winkles had just drawn his pension money amounting to $3 0 from the state and was en route home when the discharge of a gun, followed by screams, was heard. Friends who hastened to the place found Winkles lying in the road mortally wounded. The dying man said that Watts had shot and robbed him. Watts was convicted and sentenced to hang, but an appeal was taken to the supreme court which affirmed the sentence. Meanwhile Watts, who h:id been taken to the Hirmingham jail for safe keeping, was pronounced insane and sent to the insane asylum. Further reprieves followed until six different dates hud been fixed Tor tile oxecntion. Recently Watts was declared sane again and Governor Cronier refused to grant another reprieve. Watts all along asserted his innosence. 1?IA.>T TO KILL. Anarchists Make An Attempt On The Life of Prince Albert. At Brussels, Thursday, an anarchist armed with a dagger, a loaded revolver and other weapons was arrested in a church where Prince Albert of Belgium, nephew of King Leopold, and heir presumptive to the throne, was about to visit. One of the attendants of the church accidentally discovered the inun in a confessional box, locked the door, and called the police. Later three other ararchists heavily armed, were arrested In the vicinity of the church. Two of the latter admitted that they were French anarchists. The authorities are convinced that the prisoners had engaged in a plot to assassinate the prince. Prince Albert is the son of the late Count of Flanders, brother of King Leopold. He was born April 8, 1875, and was married October 2. 1900, to Princess Elizabeth of llalvaria. On Nov. 9. last, Prince Albert was officially declared the successor of King Leopold as soverlgn of the Congo Independent state. FOl it MEN MKT OKATH In North Carolina by Being Swept Over Fulls. Qvpnf Avor tho fnlltt fmir mon were drowned in Cape Fear river at Buckhorn Falls. Chatham county, 30 miles from Raliegh. N. C. The dead: Hans Thorson, of St. Paul, Minn , general foreman of a construction company, erecting a power plant; F. B. Brady, of Moncure, assistant foreman, and two negro laltorers. The bodies have not yet been recoveed. Thorson was to have been married at Raliegh Sunday and his finance. Miss Thelma Llndgren, was to have left 8t. Paul last week to join him in Raliegh. The men were in a scow trying with poles to force it from the river hank with the purpose of reaching a landing. The ?cow was caught in the current and carried over the falls. T It A IN RACKS WITH BA R X. The Thrilling Experience of u Railroad Engineer. Engineer Scannon of a Chesapeake and Ohio freight train was the hero Thursday of a thrilling race between a train and a barn with several lives at stake Scannon's train was passing Tohh's Station, Ky., at a good rate, when the high wind that was blowing lifted a big tobacco barn from its foundation and started it rolling down hill. Scannon saw the danger at once and immediately threw the throttle wide open in an effort to outrun the barn. The hip barn crashed into the caimose smashing It. The impact also shattered the barn which collapsed on the thack. Trainmen on the caboose saw their peril in time to escape by jumping. SKHVKI) HIM KHJIIT. Whipped by White Caps for n Serious Offence. A band of "White Caps" a few nights ago in a remote section of Spottsvllle county, Virginia, tarred and feathered a young married man, who-is accused of having betrayed his wife's young sister. The men or the neighborhood disguised themselves and captured the accused man at night while he was returning to his home from a neighbor's house. He was stripped to the skin and given a severe lashing with hickory whips and then tarred and feathered. The name of those involved have not been obtained. 5s. m ? ,-.xp NO. 5. ' " S*PJ| AWFUL TRAGEDY. Young Man Who Was About to Marry Shot by AN OLD SWEETHEART. After Killing tin* Young Alan tlio Young Woman, Who Hatl Just Ar rivcti in lin* City, I'ut the Weapon to Her Hody and Sent n Dull Through H<'?* Own Heart, Which Killed Her Instantly. An awful tragedy was enacted in Oil City, Pa., on Wednesday night of last week, when T. E. Ross, thirtyfive years of age, a clerk in the postofllce. was shot and killed by Miss Isabel) Stroup, 2 8 years old, a former sweatheart, who immediately shot herself through the heart. Moth victims of the tragedy were of prominent families. The shooting occurred in the office of Dr. George W. Magee, where Miss oiroup had called Ross by telephone while he was dining at his home. I)r. Magee knew nothing of the tragedy until he returned and the two bodies partly prevented the office door being opened. Miss Stroup was employed in a hospital in Bradford, Pa., and arrived here at noon. She went directly to the physician's office from which place she called Ross. Three shots were fired at Ross. Two lodged in the forehead and one in the heart. Ross was to have married Wednesday night Miss Drusilla Sampscll of Oil City, Pa. There were no witnesses to the shooting. Ross was dining nt !. una with his family, discussing the coining marriage ceremony, when the telephone rang. His father answered the call and a woman's voice made inquiry Tor *Thad." Mr. Itosa called his son. and the young man. after answering, picked up his hat and informed the family he had to go to the doctor's office for a few minutes, J but would return as soon as he could. 1 This was the last time his pnrents saw him alive. What took place in the office no one will ever know.. When I)r. Magee returned from lunch and opened the door he found the dead bodies. In a chair in the corner of the office sat Ross, his head lying back on the chair and blood streaming from a bullet wound In his neck. His forehead was burned with powder, where a bullet entered his brain. Another ball had pierced his heart. Miss Stroup was lying a few feet away, face downward, where her body partly blocked the office door. Blood was flowing from a wound in her left side. Ross had seated himself in a large chair, and apparently while talking to the girl, had placed both hands in his trowsers' pockets. The girl wore long black kid gloves, but before doing the shooting had slipped both her hands from the gloves and they hung loose from her wrists. It is thought she walked over to the chair in which Ross was seated, and, shielding the 32-calihre revolver with her dress, fired the first shot at his heart. Wishing to make sure of her work the girl then fired two more Standing over her victim she then shot herself. The revolver dropped from her hands and was found near her body. Miss St roup was born in this country 28 years ago. Both her parents are dead, and she is survived by one sister and two brothers, who live at Coalhill. Ross was thirtyfive years old. lie was employed in the postoffice at Oil City. He was a veteran of the Spanish-American war and later served in the Philippines. Before the shooting those in the building heard no loud talking between the couple. CAKIIIK NATION OKCL1NKK Tlie Offer of a Civil War Veteran to \ Marry Her. The New York World says Mrs. Carrie A. Nation has had a ofTer of marriage from a Civil War veteran, living in Virginia, and in the current issue of her newspaper, the Hatchet, she thus tells why she has declined it: "Lonely and despondent at times because he hasn't a wife, Thomas Flanagan, of Virginia, wants to marry. And he sings his song of "Can't you see I'm lonely? to Mrs. Carrie A. Nation. She received the letter of proposal from this ardent admirer on Friday, and wants an early answer 1 so he can arrange his affair. 1 "But he will receive the marble II,. ...Ill n?l fricri/l mill I HV'ttll. II*- Will H' t tnu I I Ihiu in aivi Mrs. Nation says she is wedded to her work and that she can't wed a man. "In his letter Plahagan says he Is a government pensioner at $12 a month and has $275 in the hank, together with a house and some land. His wife died some time ago, and ever since he has Iwhmi lonely, and at times despondent." SHOOTS HI ST Hit TO I?i,.\TII ls>nd From Shot (>1111 Filters Face Of The Girl. At Huckhead, Ga., Arthur Cochran, twelve-year-old son of Mr. William J. Cochran,, accidentally shot and killed his little two-year-old sister, Myra, Thursday morning at nine o'clock. Arthur had been out hunting and unon his return home he was tinbreeching his gun and it was accidentally discharged, the whole load going into the face of his little sister, who was lying on the bed. The parents are overcome with grief, this being the only girl in the family and everyone was devoted to her. So much for the careless handling of firearms.