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^ijle foIt mill times. 16TH YEAR FO^ MILL, S. C.t THURSDAY, MAY 9, 19Q7. NO. 6. SHOT TO NLL , - ! jig i A Colombia Butcher KM WMIO 1 on His Way to W)riL t * fpp MURDER OR SUCfDE. n Robbery wm Donbtleii Motive, .... . - -l 2T minougn tne Nnlcide jfcory Has1 Been Advanced. He Uallj Carried His Money to ad from His Market. Crime Occrs About Urn O'clock in the Mormg. | Another homicide. wMi evidence of a successful hold up occur red |k the surburbs of Columblaon Thureday morning. R. T. West cot, a |mN cher, was shot and killed, htht'tjilf. his way to his market from tie rsMF dec OS in the aurburb of >averley The affair is a mystery, bu there's ( evidencos that a hoidup and obbery, , such as resulted several vets ago in the double killing of Chtles B. Green, a Shandon merchant, nd Eldgar Marshall, the supposed hihwayman, was attempted. In this case, however, the tobber (If robber there was) did no take any chances, bet shot to kill, The ' fact that the homicide occurW at 1 five o'clock .n the morning, an' that two chambers of Westcott's ow pistol were empty, lends some ccor to the theory of suicide, but therel>elug . circumstances of immaterial jature i which also tend to suppor this theory. But the general inprsslott * is that he was waylaid and mirdered. - 5 Westcott lives In Wavereyj No. ; 1,016 Oak Rtreet, a street wheh'runs a parallel to Main street in Cdunibia. i His home is an ordlnray on, story ) cottage, but seems to have wn a > happy home, containing a hapy and i Intelligent family. It was Wetcott's j cuBtom to arise about G o'clok and I prepare to go to his market, le lost i his left hand several vear* ?n ?r?a his wife usually assisted m in ' dressing. His son. Robert. 1 jtears of age, was usually awaked 'Ax>ut < the time his father left the nie and followed him to the markB The little spaniel dog, Brfliie, went with his master, who was Xustomed to carry his plBtol in h'Rpe hand as he walked along tliejburban streets at this early hour. It was Westcott'R custom, as It was he custom of Charlie Green, the Shndon merchant, to carry money b$k and forth between his market Ad his home, as he had no safe in 'Is innrket. Thursday morning he fllIaivaH thn * />!!Hwo A * >nv luuiuic >10 una ncuusuuaa to follow every day. Arising al>out five o'clock, or * short time before that hour, he icaty ed hiR son. and with his dog starte out. The l>oy in twenty-five minute followed in the usual routine, alone, Oak street, across Gervais street almost to Lady street, where a bj? path was taken through the ground of the Waverley School and betweei the large and small schoolhoua buildings, which stand about tei feet apart. At the corner of the small schoo house, which Is the left as one walk in that direction, the hoy came acrosi the lifeless body of his father, the little dog sitting by his master's body on guard. The pistol was at the dead man's right side. The hoy, paralyzed by grief and fenr, kept his wits still about him and instead of running back home to alarm his mother, went to hh grand father's so that th^ news might , be broken more gently at home. HIf relatives were soon on the scene and 1 summoned physicians, and the ofil. cers of the law. Constable Richardson of Waverle? was the first officer to arrive, and hf kept the crowd back as much as pos nunc, in mum uiiti irncHH IIIIK'II ur followed. Coroner Walker was therr an quickly an possible, and Sherlfl ! Coleman followed. The coroner Be cured from the penitentiary am' from the county chain Rang severs blood hounds, but they failed to flnr' any trail, though put on the scene it a remarkable short time. The body was removed to Van Metre's undertaking establishment where several physicians examined the wound. It was found that th<ball had entered the left'side of tin head, above and to the front of th< ear and above and to the rear of the temple. The ball penetrated the I brain, lodging in the skin on thr right of the head, where It was cut out: It was a 32 calibre. The wound must have produced instant death The unmistakable powder burns on the left side of the head, where the bullet entered, showed concluslvely ? that the pistol when fired was placed almost, if not directly, against the ^ head. If Westcott was murdered?and there Is no reason to say that he was not?the murderer was standing In front of the little school house as the victim walked along the side, and as Westcott emerged from the house the murderer placed the pistol at the nena nua nrca. u was >u iaeii place?If not an Ideal ti*ie of day for a hold-up?and not a likely spot for a suicide. The fact that he was shot in the left side of the head, which wan toward the scheol house, while his left hand wan goi), !s another circumstance to be tfl*en luto consideration. Westcott was fifty yeara i Jage and wan a native of Richland C?nty. He left a %lfe and four cluhSn. He b was formerly an engine** JVfeahout thirteen yearn ago fell uiUR^H motIng train, at the union stsiilc^Hnd in V trying < o shove himnelf Vtu^Hf the K way. hi? left arm waa cut^V just W below thle elbow. He then^bt the road and! set up in buainee^H butft cher, hla market being o^Haylor K street, in the city of Columt^B tt is ft a mile frovn his residence to^Hmar ket, and f>e place of tho fa SIMPLY AN OUTRAGE k - aHf* Coffin loft on tt?? Porch of the Baptist Parsonage Be A Cud Wu Left With the Coffin Threatening Her. E. M. Llghtfoot With Death In a Short Time. Orangeburg was stirred with indignation Thursday morning when it became known that some one on the night before had left a coffin on the porch of the Baptist Parsonage, which is located right on the public 8quare in the brght glare of several electric lights. The Parsonage is occupied by the Rev. E. M. Llghtfoot, Pastor of the Baptist Church, and his wife. The community looked upon the outrageous occurrence as a dastardly attempt to wound the feelings of a fearless and outspoken minister of the gospel for some attack he has made upon vice and Its adherents. The coffin, which was discovered ef Mr. Llghtfoot about eight o'clock, was resting on two benches on the front porch. It waa a cheap one, about the slse for a half-grown person. Just under the lid of the coffin wm n card on wblch was written a warning and a threat to Mr. Lightfoot. It read aa follows: "This will be roar last resting place after June 1# next. Good by, Rev. Light foot. P.8., Peace to your ashes. Anon." The note was written In a fairly good band, and was evidently executed by sssae one of average Intelligence. Key. Mr. Lightfoot notified the potion at once, who began an investigation. Later in the day the coffin was recognised by the keeper of a colored undertaking establishment as one that had been taken from his establishment sometime Wednesday bight He said that one of the policemen had informed him that his place was found open about one o'olock Wednesday night. The policeman had told him this Thursday morning, and not immediately arter the coffin house was found open. No fioabt the party was in there then retting the coffin. It is a pity that the matter was not Investigated right then. A young man who works on The Ttoee and Democrat says he saw some one go in this Bame coffin house on Tuesday night of last week, and that he tried t? see what he was up to. bet the fellow knowing that he was watched stood perfectly ailll. He Mid the party he saw was a large, tall man with a moustache. He could not tell whether he was white or col orea. no aouoi mis reuow, wno ?ver he wee, had something to do with putting the coffin on the porch the night after our yotiug man saw him at the coffin house. While no one, of course, believes for a minute that the affair is serious so far as the threats made by the parties are concerned, still the entire community regards the dastardly outrage as an Insult to the entire city, and that it should be ferreted out and the guilty parties made to sutler. It was a malicious, dastardly outrage, and we are glad to know that nothing will be left undone to apprehend and expose any or.e living in this community who would be guilty of such a thing. Several par ties were encaged in it and they will be caught. One Of the worst features of the outrage li its effect on M rs. Llghtfoot who not to the best of health. By accident ehe aaw the coffin and at snce became very nervous, and at jne time It was feared that she would >e prostrated from the effect it had >n her nervous system, it Is a mysery how the coffin was brought up .'brought the streets without being ?een by the police. It was certainly t bold pleee of business, considering he location of the Parsonage and Vhere the eoflln was put. BILLIONS OF HKKKIXG. Atlantic Ocean Is Really a Ureal Food Pond. The herring catch is to Northern urope Orhat the wheat crop is to Anerlca. Few persons, even among fo millions that consume this fish ctllxe its economic Importance. Ac o-dlng to the latest reports more hin 3,000.000,000 herrings are capMi-ed each year. This catch would vdgh not loss than 760,000 tons. It wruld require 25,000 freight cars. win a capacity or 30 tons each t< hail the herring catch from the Atlaitie seaboard Inland. )esplte the unremitting harvest of mai and gall and the cannibalistic rod and ahark the armies of herring -U11 populate the Atlantic And show to signa of firing way to any other yp of flafc. SHOT IN FIGHT. A Km Charged With Murder I^ead* fexdttng Chase. A'. New Toft In a running fight with a doaen policemen Thomas Donahoe, whom the police nought nn the ? a# ?MeM mixi vi uiuiucr, won oiron and rat ally ?m&d?d at the handB ol 'he oolictfMM. Donah oes flght wat op and down Ore escapes and over several roofs Donahoe died after 'he arrival at the hospital. It was a flhot In the shoulder that brought him down- who* ho was obliged tc expose his, sfrflfs body to the police TKRftSUE SUFFKItlNt; One KoadNl Poowaed by the Klslnf of BOX Ravers. Over oss hand red persona are re ported drowned sad 100.000 render ed holmelesa by the liatng of th< Dnelpor, Dneleter nod Dwlna riven In thel vicinity of Odessa. Driver from tihetr homes by the fast rislni watersl the peoft* rushed for th< hills, loavinK ail the household goodi and talking pnwttphlly bo food. Ter rihle suffering Is bound to follow, at tho^arl* withonlXunds. TERRIBUHCTURE . Drawn of tho ConAtons of tho Uppor Cfftpo By a Preacher Who Hod Just Returned from Thai Unhappy and Much Abased Country. j The Rev. Charles Patfleld, of the Congo Balolo MlnRimi. ahn t>.. i?-< returned from the upper Congo, has made the following interesting statement to a representative of Reuter's Agency at London. "I have been three end a half years on the Congo, mainly In what are known as the Ablr end Lulango territories, which were visited two years ago by the Congo commission of inquiry. "The Congo admlnlatration has now taken the territorlee of the Ablr Company under direct control, and if you must know what in a practical sense this means. I will answer that question in the language of a native chief to me; If you call a leopard something else, does he become some thing else?" : "Ordinary commercial methods are unknown and the native country, or regular soldiers of the Force Publique, takes the place of the trader in more favored parte of Africa. Some of my colleagues found villages living under the shadow of the sentry rifle. Their reports were forwarded, I believe, to the foreign office. Owing to various causes I have been unable to travel to any extent lately; hut heavy fighting in the Upper Lopori and Upper Maaringa has been admittedly taktag place for several months past. "I do not like to think of-What 1b going on tnere. Just before I left a whole crop of rumors reached Barlnga. Of course. I am not In a position to guarantee their accuracy, but from what we have seen ourselves at Baringa before the advent of the commission, there is but too much reason to believe in their anbatantlal truth. Fighting and massacre, prisoners shot, misery and outrage that is the burden of the story. A pathetic message reached me by devious ways from a long distanoe Inland as I was preparing to leave. Why do not missionaries come up into our country to save us from being killed for rubber.? ,3, "When sheer robbery is the basis of everything what can the outlook be? 'Atrocities' are only one aspect of the question. The system itself is simply dlbolical, resting, as it does, upon forcible appropriation of everything. "On my return home I made a point of visiting Duala, In the German Cameron8, and New Calabar. In the Niger protectorate, to see for myself how the administration works In those colonies, and more than ever did I realize, as I saw and noted'the extraordinary and profound difference between the principles of rule in those places, that everything on the Congo is j& nightmare of brutal despotism and cruelty." The Interview with Mr. Padfleld was submitted by Reuter to a highly-placed official in Brussels, who gave the state. . ,' > < CUT OFF THK1K EARS. i i Act of Robber Struck Terror to The ; Heart* of Women. < ( The latest exploit of the hooligans i of Marseilles has struck terror into | the hearts of every woman in that city. A few nights ago a woman on i her way home was suddenly ap- i proached on the Qual du Vieux Port by a stranger and asked to hand over her gold earrings. She started hack in alarm, and a minute later screamed and foil fainting to the pavement. When she was picked up by a policeman it was found that the )o!>e in her left ear had been cut sff, and the earrings with it. A lady wearing a pair of pearl earrings was accosted by a well dressed man in a quiet street and asked to give up her earrings. She offered resistance and screamed. In an Instant her left ear was cut entirely off, and the thief ran away with the ear. Another woman lost both ears Quite a number of women have been similarly robbed during the past few day8. Several ears have been found, and M. Caviniler, the Marseilles Judge In structlon, has had them preserved in alcohol. In one case the assailant hat. been captured, and Is to be tried before the assizes at Alx, when the ear will he produced as evidence. One resulet of the crimes Is that the women of Marsellles have now begun to discard earrings altogether. SHEEP KIIjIJKD ' Rjr an Explosion of a Can of Dynamite by Accident. An explosion of dynamite at John 1 Linn's sheep camp in Trapper Creek, Hig Horn county, Wyoming, Thurs; day night, killed 700 sheep and completely destroyed camp wagons and 1 other possessions of the camp. The story of the outrage was told by a herder who said that a hand of maak1 ed men raided the camp and after : binding him securely, arranged for * the work of destruction. A similar - attack was made upon a sheep camp in the Trapper Creek section two years ago. , j CAUHT WITH THE GOODS. An Aged White Man in Savannah Confrwd to Theft. ' J. W. Hart, an aged white man 1 held at 8avannah for robbing a house 1 of a large quantity of silverware > Thursday told the police of a number > of robberies that he had committed. 1 The officers have recovered about " $300 worth of silverware belonglnff 1 to A. H. Sllcox, of Charleston, whose COST OF LIVING. The Government Statistics Show Highest Level on Record. EVERYTHING HIGHER. Remarkable Increase In All Lines of Household and Personal Supplies Indicated by Recent Complication Of Statistics of Wholesale Prices and the Government to Study Retall Prices. Living expenses are increasing at a rate that Anally has startled the government statisticians?and he is the last mnn In th? wnfM ??? '?' led at anything. For three years the average American housekeeper haB felt the strain af increased household expenses, but until within a few monthB, the matter has not appealed officially to the statistical agents of the governments. Indeed, less than a year ago, figures were made public by the bureau of labor which seemed to indicate that there had been no increase in the living expenses of the average American cittxen. The figures showed that some articles of everyday use in American households had gone up in price, but the general precentage of Increase was so small as to be inconsiderable. At that very time, it was known to every householder in the land that the expensos had increased materially, and that he was paying more for the support of his family than he ever had paid before. Now, these facts have dawned on the government officials. The latest Investigation made by the bureau of labor have thrown some strong light an the subject. The criticism of the reports made about s year ago induced the officers of the labor bureau to Institute an inquiry into the cost of wuuiuBaie amounts or commodities generally used In housekeeping. The comparisons instituted covered a period of seventeen years. The inquiry Into the wholesale prices of such articles of the same commodities is being made. The latter will not be completed for several months yet; but the statistics respecting the wholeiale prices has prepared the statistics for what they will And -in their Inquiry into the retail prices. In the Inquiry only recently completed, it was discovered that the wholesale prices of 258 ordinary commodities had reached a higher level in 1906 than at any previous time in the history of the country. Of course, the period covered by the Investigation was only seventeen rears, hot at no time prior to that liad prices so high been attained as to any considerable number of the articles investigated. On the whole number of articles, the average price In 1906, was 5.6 per cent higher than It was in 1905, and 36.5 per cent higher than in 1897, the year in which the lowest prices of all the commodities were reached in the 17 rear period. The statistics show that the highest level of prices was reached in December, 1906, the average for that month being 4.i per cent higher than for the entire year af 1906, and 6.3 per cent higher than for the corresponding month of the previous year. It is stated by the bureau of labor that the inquiries covered farm products. food, clothing, lumber, building materials, drugs, house furnlshInara nnrt mUrpllnnAniiR rommnHllln* Farm products and chemicals showed a slight decrease from the prices of 1906. but all other products indicated a material increase. The average price of farm products showed, in 1906, only a slight change from 1905, while food products as n whole Increased 3.6 per cent over 1905. Sixty-five of the seventy articles of clothing showed an increase in price, while only four indicated a decrease. In the others there was no change. In submitting the figures, the bureau of labor make no attempt to discuss the cause of the rise and fall of prices contenting itself with a simple statement of the facts as it finds them. It 1b significant, however, that an inquiry is being made into retail prices on the very heels of the other Investigation. STRUCK PRISONER. Negro Who Assaulted New Jersey Women fleaten by Mayor. Edward Gibson, a negro living at Wenonah. N. J., and employed aa a eook at Woodbury, near Camden, N. J., was arrested Thursday night, on the charge of attacking Miss Dorothy Purls, of Wenonah. Gibson attacked the young woman aa she left a trolley car In Wenonah, for her home. He knocked her down, an was about to seize her by the throat when four young men made their appearance and Gibson fled. He was captured In the woods near Wenonah, and given a beating by his captors. Gibson was then taken before Mayor Lawrence, who, when he heard the story, became so enraged that he struck the prisoner in the face. May or btwrencA neia mm ror a nearing before Justice of the Peace Williams, who sent him to jail without bail. A FATA LWRECK Nothing Has Been Heard Of The Missing Crew. It Is now thought that the Italian bark, Orlente, stranded near Ponyers Hill on the North Carolina coast will prove a otal wreck. Nothing has been heard from the missing crew of tho Orlente. SLEEPLESS WONDER Man Claims Ha Has Not Slept For Thirty Years. Ho Rests in Bed at Night Bat Spends The Time in Rending Books and Papers. Most men find it difficult to get the required eight hours sleep In every twenty-four. Few are able to live and work on less than the allotted number of hours that should be given to rest. One man. however, William Warner, who resides a few miles from Great Barrlngton, Mass., comes forward with the startling statement that during the past 30 years he has not closed his eyes to sleep. He is sixty years of age and in robust health. His physicians can assign no reason for his long period of insomnia. Mr. Warner Insists that his statement is true and is willing to have any and all comers investigate and see for themselves. Mr. Warner was born In New Marlboro, Mass., a few miles from the place where he now resides. He is a farmer and spends his days working in the fields. At night he goes to bed about midnight, taking books and papers with him. There he reads and rests until dawn appears, when * 1 * " * no miBTB miu gu?8 8DOUI (US CIUTIOS on the (arm. Ho never sleeps, but goes to bed for the purpose of resting his body. Mr. Warner is a veteran of the Civil war, having served in Company F, Second artillery. In his younger days he had one romance. The day for his wedding was set and all was In readiness for his marriage, when the bride-to-be fled by night and nothing since has been heard of her. For years Mr. Warner lived in the hopes of her return and often sat at the window watching for the coming of his sweetheart. He is still a bachelor. About 30 years ago he suffered a severe illness and since that time he has not been able to sleep. He was in the grove near his home when he became unconscious. He remained in this state for days. When he recovered the past was a blank to him. He had forgotten everything that had gone before, but he could not sleep. He is as young and active as a man of 40 years. He stands six feet in his stockings. Warner has made a success of farming and has a large trade n vegetables and other produce. Within a short distance of his home is a cemetary where his ancestors for several generations are buried. During the past fev years Warner has become a believer in spiritualism. His bed stands at a place he can see the firravastonen In the eemetary. He declares that he often converses with the spirit of his dead father. Anything associated with sleep seems to have terrors to Warner. He Bays he would try hypnotism to see If that would cause him to sleep, but he fears that once he closes his eyes In slumber he may never awake. Warner is a man who has never tasted intoxicating liquors. He buys tea by the case. He keeps his own house. In referring to his trouble Mr. Warner calls it "a scientific manifestation of power." B17ROL.AR HAD A HEART He Wouldn't Rob House of Death, Rot Went Elsewhere. W. W. Waltneight. of Bellevue, Pa., whoso baby died early Sunday night, was awakened by a slight noise made by a burglar, and thinking the nurse who was attending his sick wife was in the room sat up and inquired what was wrong. The burglar, turning up on him, pull Ad a revolver and told blm to "lie down and keep quiet." Instead Waltnelght asked the Intruder If he knew that he had made a mistake and that he bad entered a house In which death had Just rocently occurred. The burglar, impressed, withdrew the revolver and aaked Waltnelght to tell htm about It. This was done, and at the close the burglar expressed sympathy and regret for the Intrusion, and returning a watch he had stolen left the house. The night prowler made up for this loss, however, by making heavy thefts In other nearby houses. FATAL FALL. Hurled to Hie Death From Top of High Building. At Atlanta Alber J. Stevens, an Englishman, was hurled to death and three other workmen narrowly escaped being killed by the fall of a section of coping on the new Andrews building on Marietta street Thursday morning. Stevans fell a distance of seventy feet and was horribly crushed. He died at me urany Hospital an hour later. The three other workmen who were working with Stevens saved themselves by jumping backward when the coping gave away. The exact cause of the accident is not known. Stevens was an ornafental brick mason, and was 24 years old. He had been in Atlanta only about two months. THKY ROBBKI) CARS. Several Men in Columbia Arrested 01 Serious Charge. At Columbia Mr. R. R. Sealey, pro prietor of a retail grocery store, wai arrested by detective M. Harrisoi of cae 8eaboard road Thursday 01 the charge with the theft of $30( worth of tobacco, sugar and rice which were located in an outhouse o his relative. Thomas Howell, a far mer living near Jacob Station, six teen miles south of Columbia on th< Seaboard road. Other arrests are ex pec ted. It la believed that there ha been a conspiracy on the part of sev eral men to rob cars In the yard or at the stations near Columbia | VOTED IT DOWN. After a Full and Free Discussion of the Matter Citizen* of Sandy Ran Township, Lexington County, View New County Project With Disfavor. In response to a call that had been issued a few weeks ago by prominent citizens of Sandy Run Township, Lexington County, a large number of voters assembled at Spreading Branch school house, in that township. The purpose of this meeting was to discuss and decide upon the advisability of iolnlntr tKa naanl. ?# OA ** " *" ? #w.m.u0 mv vii oi. mauoewB In their efforts to form a new county out of a portion of Orangeburg County and that section of Lexington. The meeting was called to order by Dr. Brooker, of Swansea, who stated the object of the meeting. Mr. Nathan B. Wannamaker, an Influential citizen of thot community, was unanimously elected chairman and a secre tary wan also chosen. In order that the matter be brought before the body, the following resolution was offered for adoption: "Resolved, That we, the voters of Sandy Run Township, in mass meeting assembled, do regard with unqualified disfavor any movement from whatever source?whatever and subserved?that contemplates the dismemberment of our county but cutting therefrom any township or section or any part thereof, or that in any way imperils the integrity of the same." As there were present a number of gentlemen from St. Matthew's who came there as promoters of the new county, the motion which had been made to adopt this resolution, was temporarily withdrawn, and a motion was made and carried that these gentlempn nnrt a ironllomon ? ?? ?? w gvuvivMinn nuv *? OD | present from the city of Orangeburg bo allowed the privileges of the floor that they might participate in the discussion. Mr. J. Scottowe Wannamaker, Mr. Wlmberly and several other gentlemen and Mr. J. H. Funderburg, from Orangeburg, were in-< vlted to take part In this discussion. Mr. Wannamaker then made a speech of about two hours against the adoption of this resolution. He put forth the argument of the new county advocates and endeavored to show the peole of Lexington that It would he to their advantage if they would withdraw from Lexington coun ty and become a part of the new county, which would have St. Matthew's as its county seat. He devoted most of his time in making charges of extravagence and mismanagement against the officials of Orangeburg County. He said the Court House officials were receiving extravagant salaries for their services and that the county expenses were annually on the Increase. He also claimed that the county commissioners were entirely too extravagant In their management of the people's money; that too much was spent for bridges and roads, and that this fund was not equitably distributed. He also said that the lands and property of this county were assessed at too high values and consequently made the taxes burdensome upon the people. He explained why he thought the newspapers and politicians of old Orangeburg County were opposing the new county Bcheme, and charged them with having selfish motives for so doing. Ho spoke for nearly two hours, hut seldom referred to Lexington County or its officials. Orangeburg affairs seemed to have been on his mind, and this did not aid him much in solving the problem for the solution of which these Lexington people had assembled. After Mr. Wannamaker completed his speech Mr. Funderburg addressed the meeting in support of the resolution and endeavored In a brief manner to present the contrary facts. He defended the action of the Orangeburg officials and while he admitted that a great deal of money was being spent by the county commissioners he had no facts to show that the people did not get the benefit of every dollar of this money. Kven if this extravagence were admitted. it would have no bearing on the resolution before this body, as that was purely a I^exlngton matter. These people were not concerned In Orangeburg county affairs. Mr. Funderburg replied to all the n/teHnani rwilnto of IK r U'annamflU. |?ri VKIIVIIl. |/UllllO UI mi . vv miuumwn er's argument, suggested to the people to let this experiment alone and remain with Lexington, as to make the change would he a leap in the dark. Islington Is not a heavily taxed county and they would certainly i have their taxes Increased If they went Into a new county, which was i shown by the average rate of taxation In the six new counties for five years as compared with the rate they are now paying. lie claimed that amputation of a portion of Orange; hurg County would not he the proper i remedy for expensive administrations and If they thought the officials were i too extravagent they should elect i others. 8TOLK W1TOUT RKAHON. Hank Clerk Said He Dld'nt Know i Why He fttolc $50,000. Charged with stealing $50,000 in bonds from the Trust Company ol America, in New York, W. O. Doug' lass, a clerk of the company, ha* 1 been arrested and remanded wlthoul | hail. He was caught in a hotel ' where he had registered under at assumed name. ' Douglass had been In the employ " of the company for several yeara ant * wad never suspected of dishonesty B He said he took the bonds about tei - days before and that he had no rea son for doing ao. He did not^avei - try to dispose of them. His salar: was $7,600 a year and he was no known to be In financial vent. MANY KILLED. In an Explosion at Canton, China, on Thursday. HUNDREDS WOUNDED. Fifteen llutldiii|c? Hazed, Score* Seriously Wrecked, nud Section of MiMtslve City Wall Thrown I>own. Residents in Foreign Quarter Not Hurt. Pagoda Ksenpes. Heavy Property I/oss. Poor old China Is always in trouble. Very great destruction of life and property was caused at Canton Thursday by an explosion of a gunpowder magazine. Twenty-one bodies have already been recovered from the ruins. Hundred of persons were Injured. Fifteen buildings were razed to the ground, and over a hundred were seriously wrecked. A section two hundred feet long of the massive city wall was thrown down. The historical, many-storied pagoda escaped with Rlight injuries. Ontcials and staffs of the hospitals are doing their best to succor the sufferers. In the Shamien surburb, whore the foreigners live, the shock caused by the explosion was felt, but the residents were unharmed. Some idea of the force of the explosion may be gathered from the fact that roofs of houses a mile distant from the exploded magazine were blown ofT. A number of mportant Chinese and foreign mercantile establishments were completely demolshed. Hodies recovered fmm "m -,. i... ~ wua vuv I Ullin In the vicinity of the magi/.ine wero shockingly mutilated. Many corpses were without heads. The officer in charge of the magazine was among those killed, nnd when his body was recovered a pipe was found clutched in his hand, which suggests the possible cause of the explosion. FIGHT FOR A SQUAW Indian Ilrave and White Man Both Claim Bight to Woman. Even the indians are up to dato and air their love affairs in court. Such 1b the case of Jack Wilcox, n Quiniault brave, who lives on the reservation at Aberdeen. Wash., and who has instituted proceedings to recover his wife, against Hilly Snell, a white man. The woman in question is an Indian and for 17 years Bha was the faithful wife of Snell, bringing him up a family of six children. Then the dashing young brave appeared and his stories turned her head. She eloped with him, after he pursuaded her that the first marriage was not legal. It was not long before the brave and his bride returned to the reservation and Rilly Snell won her back again, much to the chagrin of Jack Wilcox. The first marriage was performed by an Indian agent. If the contracting parties thought the first ceremony legnl It would be binding. If the womnn did not thing it legal when she eloped with Wilcox Bho would not be guilty of bigamy. CAUGHT ON THE FLY. Sheriff Captures Man From Window of a Flying Engine. One of the most sensational cap tures or nn escaped jail breaker ever effected occurred early Thursday morning alont the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad, near Mlnon, Pa., when Chief of Police Mlneemover, of Dnnvllle, leaning far out of a speeding locomotive, seized Charles Sutton by the collar and swung him on board, a prisoner. , Sutton had broken out of the Mon tour county Jail several hours before and believing that he would try to escape along the railroad, Sheriff Williams and the chief of police got a locomotive crew together and started in pursuit. While running about 20 mlle6 an hour they suddenly espied in the glare of the headlight Sutton leaning back against a box car on the adjoining track to let the locomotive pass him. He did not suspect such speedy pursuit, and did not realize his danger until Mincemoyer's strong arm shot out and seized him. FIVK MK.V DKOWNKD Captain and Four Men Drowned Am They Row Out to Vessel. At Pars Christaln, Miss., the drowning of five men of the schooner Sioux on Monday night came to light Thursday, when the bodies of two floated ashore and a third body was seen off shore. The missing include Captain .lones Connelly, formerly of Baltimore. lie and four sailors started to row out to their schooner Monday evening, but they never reached the vessel. What accident befell them has not been learned. The Sioux is from Biloxl, Miss. TWENTY HUKT IN WRECK Fast Train I^eft the Track and Two 1 Passengers Fatally Hurt I A fast passenger train on the Ral1 timore and Ohio railroad on the Ohio f River division, was wrecked forty1 five miles below Parkorsbury, W. Va.t Thursday afternoon injuring 20 i persons and two fatally. It wrji . running at the rate of sixty miles x an hour. The baggage car lert the y track, causing the engine and Are t ears to follow and the rear coaches to turn over the embankment.