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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
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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.
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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 . . ^
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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 (
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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. _ _
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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.,
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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.
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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
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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.
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,'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."
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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.
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'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.
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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.
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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
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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.