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THE FOftX MILL TIMES. * 1GTII. YEAR. FORT MILL,. S. C.. THURSDAY, JULY 11. 1907 NO. lo" | BADLY FOOLED. A Clever Negro Posing as an Indian Lionized BY THE RICH PEOPLE Of Now Vork and Of her Northern > Oities and Summer Kesorts.?lie Was Once the Guest of President lioosevelt at the Union lion^ne i . Club.?Kxposed by Two Artists i Wlto Knew llim Well. Those without the pale of Now York soeiely will no doubt he interested to learn that one of the lions of the Smart Set, who has been ex lensiveiy entertained by Mrs. John Jacob Astor, Mrs. John R. Drexel and others, and whom President Roosevelt has consulted frequently in regard to Indian affairs, is no other tliau the son of Mrs. Russet Sage's negro cook says the New York American. Though known in the circles of the elite as Antonio Apache, grandson of the famous chief Cochise, this dusky Beau Mrummel began life as a Louisiana pickaninny under the obscure name of "Tony Simpson." That such is the true identity of a man whom they denounce as "tinmost fantastic fakir that ever fooled New York," was declared by William M. Cary and Kdwin \V. Dealing, both of whom are well-known New York painters of Indian life. "It is about time the true character of this impostor is made publicly known," said Mr. Cary. "lie is not only a fakir, hut a scamp. lie is the same negro who stole a painting from me about nineteen years ago, and in consequence served two years in Sing Sing prison." I "The alleged grandson of Chief Cochise is a fraud." said Mr. Doming. "1 am glad the American is going to expose him for he has been trading on the sympathies of a lot of good people who believed he was an Indian." Antonio Apache, according to the testimony of Mr. Cary and Mr. Denting. has been able to exploit t Incredulity of the Smart Set for th?last ten years because he made deception an art. Not only did he ape the Indian in physical appearance but he also studied the habits and language of the Redskin. On top of his African curls he has been accustomed to wear a wig of coarse black Indian hair, which he brushed almost as smooth as patent le.ititer. Those who have won his confidence say that he posesses an elaborate assortment of scalps, with hair of various lengths, and that he shifts from one wig to another, as Ills hair is supposed to grow. Finally comes the "hair cut" when suddenly lie jumps back Into wig No. 1. Host the natural ebon of his features should dispute his claim of Indian ancestry, he is said to tint his skin with a sort of bronze paint, doing it so skillfully, that he has frenquently posed to artists for "color." As the lion of Fifth avenue drawing rooms Antonio Apache lias been wont to tell of his early life with a great amount of detail which seemed corroborative. It was a far different story than that revealed by the two artists who say he is a humbug. He made 110 mention to Mrs. Drexel or Mrs. Astor of the fact that about twenty years ago he used to help his negro mother peel potatoes and drain spinach in the Sage household. Instead I10 boasted that his grandfather was the* fearless chief Cochise, and that his ancestral realm down in Arizona embraced a territory target than Connetieut. That country even to this day, he said, bore his name. And when he was asked about the habits and customs of the Apaches, he was always ready to descrita them minutely, as if to evidence tin most intimate knowledge of ills peo nlo Society first begun t.i entertain tin alleged grandson of Cochise ahout two years ago, when Mrs. John R Drexel invited a select ntiniher o guests to meet him. lie was caller Prince Anthony by the most charme* of bis admirers, and at once Invita lions from the nn?st exclusive home: of New York and Philadelphia begat to be showered upon him. For a time he dropped out of the social horizon only to appear a stil' greater favorite last Winter at a ball at the home of Mrs. John Jacob As tor. ills dancing attracted specie' notice, ami he was pronounced on< i of the most graceful figures on tinfloor. A certain New York society editor wrote the following in his praise: "Socit.v loves a novelty, and of late it has been delighting itself with en tainlng that splendid specimen of a lost race, Mr. Antonio Apache, a full I blooded Indian, who has the manners of a Chesterfield, the education of a Gladstone and the beauty of a graven image. He Is a most distinguished and interesting man and his society has been sought for by the leaders of the Four Hundred. Mrs. John R. Drexel entertained him in her box at * the Horse Show, and he has been dined and feted by the highest. Mr Apache dresses in the latest fashion and carries himself with impressive dignity." A IIII>i:Ol S Cltl.MK. v lliirned tier llushaml Alive to Will An Old Suitor. Mrs. Kindra Hosstro, aged eighteen years, of Dun mo re, Pa., is in ^ the county jail, charged with having burned her hushund to death that she might be free to marry her former suitor, Ignatz Hutro, who has been arrested as an accessory. The police officials say that Mrs. Hosstro has confessed that she got her .uisband drunk, and whon he was<4tnpelted in bed. poured oil from a IVmp on the bed and then set it on thy SHOT TO DEATH. A Young Man Meets Untimely I Death In Darlington Apparently Accidentally Shot In I Store of J. Wiley Hliodcs, Who Had Rilliculty With Negro. A special dispatch from Darlington to The State savs the fourth of ) July celebration was marred that night by the unfortunate killing of Dide Kilgo, aged 16. of Bishopville. The killing of young Kilgo was a most unusual affair. It seems that young Kilgo had gone to the fruit store of J. Wiley Rhodes for the purpose of making a purchase. While in the store it appears that a negro named Sam Teague was there also and, it is alleged, had insulted the wife of the proprietor. Rhodes came out with pistol in hand, with the intention, it is said, 1 of resenting the insult, to his wife. In t he melee which followed Rhodes' pistol was discharged, the ball striking the negro in the forehead, the bullet glancing, entered Kilgo's head 1 just between the eyes, killing him in- \ Btantly. d The negro, who was only slightly 'i injured, made his escape, and at 10 | o'clock Thursday night was being t searched for and his arrest is expect- t ed, as a witness before the coroner's d jury. The unfortunate young man, ac- t companied by his father, Mr. J. P. s Kilgo, came over from Rishopville to c attend the Foutli of July celebration, f] The elder Mr. Kilgo left in the after- j noon for Rishopville. leaving his son with some friends to return later. u Mr. Rhodes, from whose pistol the fatal bullet was discharged, is re- t garded us a good citizen, and is a v singer in the choir of the Baptist t church. d The affair is greatly deplored in Darlington. f Young Kilgo had just graduated at ^ the Rishopville public school and expetted to enter Furman Jniversity (1 at the approaching session. Sl,It'll ItOdlK. h i Hated t'afe Cashier Skips With Five i a Hundred Dollars. Charles Duncan, the cafe cashier of the Hotel Knickerboker, of New \ York has disapeured with f.lrto The Knickerboker has lost so many cashiers since the ocean resort open- v ed this Summer that Duncan was -v snapped up live days ago, without " even the usual formality of an Indemnity bond. Wednesday he was given the usual bag of $.100 in bills and silver with I which to make change during the day. When night came the bag was VUMIV7U inn III blllT I I I il 11 ?l 1^1'I Willi rocks, rivets-and a couple of paper weights. Not su8i>ectinR it was lockI'd in the safe with the rest of the V as h overnight. Next morning. when the has was '' untied, the substitution was discover- *' ed: hut Duncan hasn't been seen e since in spite of the efforts of the Pinkertons. He is said to come from New Haven, where his father is a ho- J tel man. NAISICOW KSCAI'i:. 1 t The Captain of a Steamer Sandbaggril and Itolilu'd. *' 0 Captain .1. Cimira, of the steam- e ship Alabama, plying between Tampa c Fla., and Nipe Hay, Cnlia, had a nar- i row escape from death at the hands it" SDViM'lll IDiHriliPix I\f prtUf vvh<? sand bagged hlin and placed his unconscious form beneath a car on the | tracks of the Seaboard Air Line in ;heir water front yard. The captain had obtained a vaea1 ion of a month and had made all 'lis arrangements to leave the city, purchasing his ticket. Later he was ' found unconscious beneath the wheels v ;>f a freight car. When brought to. ' he complained that he had been rob- I bed of his railroad ticket and $1X0 in money. i KILI.LI) IIIS I'ATHKIt. I !au Shot to Death While Heating ' 11 is Wife. I A man named William Taylor was shot to death in Saluda County ont lay last week by his son. It seems | hat Taylor was beating his son. .vhen his wife spoke to him and beg t ;eil his to desist. f He let the hoy go and attacked his wife. The son went to the rescue if his mother and shot his father, %illing him instantly. . Taylor was present at the time stockman killed his son-in-law in Lexington county a year or so ago and was a witness in that case. i LF.l'T Til K l!.\HY. x Ihe Caotaiu Held The Ship Intil 1 >I<* Came. At Now York Henrlk Von Slork. of ' t'oli. la., and his wife Alma, left for j 13urope. on tlie steamship Now AmHterdani Wednesday without their , hahy. They had forgotten the infant , md left it at the hotel where tpey--^ had stopped over night. The oflieers of the ship, when not- , iiied, agreed to delay the sailing of the ship for ten minutes, and the couple hastily returned to the hotel and brought the sleeping baby aboard. UKKKN KYKI) MONSTKK. Causes a Man to hill Ills Wife and ^ Brother. Rexford Dew, living near Wilson, N. C., Thursday shot and killed his young wife, to whom he. had been married only a short time; and a brother whom he alleges has been paying improper attention to the woman. DARING RASCAL. Chester Runyan, Teller of a Trust Company Walked Off In llmnd l>?y Light Willi Nearly Olio Hundred Thousand Dollars of the Company's Money. A reward of $2,500 is offered by a S'ew York surety company for the rapture of Chester li. Kunvan, payng teller of the W indsor Trust comtanv of New York, who, it is charged, >n Saturday, walked out of the trust ompnnv's office with $96,517 of the innk's money stuffed away in his iress suit case. The theft was deetted Monday. It had been executed with a boldness as startling as he deed itself was surprising to hose who had known and trusted he young man. Runyan had announced his ititenion of spending last Sunday with his nother at Rochester, and no surprise vas expressed when he brought his Iress suit case to the hank Saturday, "hough the paying teller cage is in lain sight from the working posiions of other employes the paying oilers vault was literally emptied luring the afternoon. At 12.150 o'clock, Run.van locked he vault doors and leaving the dress nit case# filled with money in the age went out to lunch. In fortyIve minutes lie returned and piekng up the dress suit case, left the J ifflce. No trace of his subsequent ' novements have been discovered. Runyan's wife is prostrated, at ' lirir modest four-room apartment iptown. She, too, had understood 1 hat her husband was to spend Sun- ' lay at Rochester. Runyan. who is 21 years old. lived 1 rugall.v, never gambled, it is said. * ind no interests outside his otlico nd home and was considered a most 1 uatter-of-fact, level-headed person. Mrs. Runyan's brother, John Car ley, a bookkeeper, who lived with he couple declared that his sister ' lad been left penniless. His brother- f u-law, he said, earned $1,S0(1 a year nd the family lived simply. Runyan was born in Rochester. ' /here he worked for a time in a ' rug store. Later lie got a place ritli the Traders' Rank of that city, nd then with the Alliance Hunk, /here he was bookkeeper for five ears. He went to New York about due years ago. KlLliKD II I.MS LLC. t? jectci' Sul?or Found l>cu<i\ffit NewlOhkllt' '.'wive, Quarreling with her. Christen .Tanen of Marwell. Ark., a hard-working Iwede, took leave of his sweetheart, jiila Jones, Sunday night, after his iroposal of marriage had been turnd down, vowing that he intended to ml his life. Nothing more was thought of the nttter until a search was instituted or .lansen, with the result that the ?ody was found in a newly dug grave n the family cemetary on the Jones ilantation, with a tiny hullet through he brain. The facts connected with his love lfair were brought out at the inmost with the verdict being returnd that lie came to bis death from liis iwn hand. A brother of the man r onunitted suicide several years ago t is said. SIIK WAS A IIKIiOlNK. laughters of Confederacy Unveil Monuiiieiit to I'biinia Sansoiu. Under the auspices of tlie Gadsen, Via., chapter. United Daughters of he Confederacy, a marble monument vas unveiled at Gadsen to P.mma binsoni, a heroine of the civil war leriod. During Gen Forest's pursuit of lie federal auuy raiders in April, the federal oihcer Colonel >t i eight burned the bridge over Hack Creek behind him and headed : or itonie, Ga., to destroy the con run in*' liiriui y . Miss Sansoni rid ins on Genera I 'orest.'s horse behind him pointed >ut tlie way to a ford a few miles ihove the scene of the hurtling bridge j 'orest's troops then overtook the fed- ' rais and captured them. It is the lilrd monument in (lie south ever 1 >rented to a woman. WAR IN FIVK YKAIIH. Is Predicted Between fapiin and the United States. A special ?o the Pos-Intelligencer i 'roin North Yakama saj>: Rear Admiral W. J. Thompson, U. 3. N., retired, who has arrived here for a short stay, predicts a war with Japan wlthing Ave years. Admiral Thompson says that war is invetiable, but he does not believe (hat Great Brltan will assist her ally In such a struggle and thinks that while the Philltppines may be the real outset of the war, in the end the resourses of the United States must result in defeat for the Japanese. He believes that in tlie event of hostilities France would give Anancial aid to Japan. I\Il,l/KI> IIIMSF.I.F. In I'rcNCiKr of Fight Hundred I'coplc For KymltoMr Reasons. At Seoul, Korea, at a demonstration in celebration of the returning Prince of Pak Yon Mo, a reformer and forclful Korean statesman, who after twelve years' exile, was a fortnight ago welcomed by the emperor as a possible Korean savior, Chung Chain Ong. an educator, killed hlmBelf In the presence of 800 persons, to emphasize the subjection of Korea to Japan. DEAD OR HURT. The Direful Results of Too Much Patriotism in the STATE OF NEW v0RK Seven IVople Killed, Half a lN?/.en Hying and Hundreds living Treat ?-?i in Hospitals in \cw York Day's Kecoial.?One Man HisrliarKiii); 1 ?? volvor Killed llis Aunt, anil then Committed Suicide. A dispatch front New York says Independence Day, ushered in \...h tnitch noise, went ont tonight in a blaze ol pyrotecnics. the most imposing that New Yorkers have ever witnessed. A deafening roar maintained throughout the day by the burning of millions of dollar's worth of powder, gave way after nightfall to the exhibition of fireworks' experts, who lighted the skies with effects of surpassing beauty. Viewed from its hrigmer side, the holiday was truly glorious. A smiling sun and moderate temperature brought (lie tens of thousands to the Ueacli. the public parks and atnusemc lit resorts and everywhere there tvas noise and fun making. In the background the police and ospllal surgeons went grimly about their work of removing the dead and ministering t< the wounded Tonight he police were reckoning tin* cost in asualities of the day's celebration. At a late hour the celebratk n had ost seven lives, a half dozen persons were dying and hundreds of >tl.era were being treated in the hospitals for injuries, ranging from slight burns, with the possibility of tetanus developments. to bullet wounds and lost limbs. Of the dead three died in premature celebrations. The others were silled during the day. In an ecstacy ?f patriotism Arthur Carraro rapidly Uncharged a revolver in his back ?*ard. One of the bullets entered the head >f his aunt, Mrs. Alfonzo Fucarino, ind she fell dead. The nexi bullet. iy design or accident killed the celeirator, wlio fell dead over liis aunt's tody. KlICIll'lllO waii nril\runt"?l mediately committing suicide by bystnnders. Eighteen year old Nlnipa (Irizzanti was struck by a bullet as she stood j tear the open window of her room j lresslng Iter hair. Several Italians were arrested. No motive is known. | Henry Englehardt, aged four years, was killed by a bullet while looking | nit of the window of his home. ( Jesse Guseviter, 111 years old, is , lying from another stray bullet , wound. John Graham, I <i was mortally j wounded by a charge from a toy -an non. James Reneso, t>. was all but burn- , >d alive, when a tire cracker igniied , lis clothing. , Arthur Carfoot. 25. is one of a lo/.en, who had a hand blown off. Lost eyes and lingers and scareaving wounds added to the total of smergency cases. A FKAHFIL, KFI'OIIIL I lie Niimlier Killed ami Wounded <Vh-brating the Fourth. Thirty-seven men, women and hildren are dead and 2,153 are maimed, lacerated or burned as a remit of the Fourth's excess of patriotism in the United States. The number of dead does not include ttveirowned dnrine the rtnv The roster of dead is four more than last year's mortality. A year ago thirty-three persons were dead >n the morning after the Fourth, not Including five drowned. Unfortunately, the death roll will increase day l?v day, and even the late days of August will witness additional numbers. Tetanus, that grim aftermath of gunpowder wounds, laims its victims by the scores and F?ven by hundreds for weeks after the Fourt h. New York leads the cities of the United States in the number of killed and injured. Ten persons are dear. In that city, while six more are so aeriously injured that it is expected they will die in a few hours. Pittsburg, Pa., ran a close second to New York in the grim race, nine persons yielding up their lives on the altar of frenzied patriotism. i meago, aiinougn i ne socona city in tlie union, had only (wo deaths. Springfield, 111., supplied three victims, Chatham, III., two and Aberdeen. S. 1)., two. The following places furnish one victim each: Des Moines. Effingham. 111., (Jreenup, 111., Harrisburg, Pa.. Hartford, Conn., Kansas City, Kan., Mont poller, Vt., Spokane. Wash., and X. Y. The total number of injured, 2,153. is under last year's figures, which were 2,789. The causes of the 2,153 injuries show that fireworks were responsible for 1,046 cases; gunpowder for 347; and firearms for 292. Cannon added 222, while toy pistols came next witli 205, and runaways, caused by explosions, made up the other fortyone injured on the Mat. <;<>T~t\vfi.yf cents. One Firm Ituy.s Sixteen Hundred Rules at That Price. A dispatch from Americus. C?a., to the Atlanta Journal says sixteen hundred hales of cotton for October delivery were bought this morning by an American cotton firm from farmers willing to take the handsome price of 1 2 cents offered. Tints they have sold their crops already at assured price and take no chances of possible declines NAVAL DISPLAY To Be Made in the Pacific by the United States. Twenty or More llnttloships to Assoluble in Sun Francisco llurhor in the Winter. Secretary of the Navy Metcalf in an Interview at Oakland. Cal., where he is visiting confirmed the report that a large part of the United States navy will he seen in Pacific waters next winter. Eighteen or 20 of the largest batleships will come round Cape Horn on a practice cruise and will he seen in San Francisco harhor. "Many false impressions have gained circulation about the movement." said Secretary Metcalf. "1 have held all along that there was practically no significance to this movement from a military standpoint. I might have stated before leaving Washington exactly what I atn saying now. Hut I thought that as \ We Ve\w< concerned the people of Jf\le^'jufffic coast, today would hemic appropriate time to announce the plans, f "It is the policy of the navy department to keep the fleet in American waters as much as possible. It is also our policy to keep as large a number of battleships together as possible. We might as well spend the money in American ports as abroad. In the past we have sent squadrons to various European nations with less advantage than by keeping them at home. "I have planned this cruise around Cape Horn for the practice of the squadron. How long the ships will remain here I cannot say. 1 can promise the people of Oakland and San Francisco that they will see one of the finest naval spectacles ever witnessed in Pacific waters. "I hope the talk of Japenese trouble and of international differences may be dropped by the newspapers. There is nothing to produce any feeling except this talk of the newspapers. The story that Ambassador Aoki is in disfavor with his own government. 1 believe, is purely an invention. I know of no reason why Japan and the 1'nited States should not be on the friendliest of terms. SOUill f CMIOPTIC.VS 1ATK. Kentucky Woman Courted Death Through Snake IHte. Mrs. Rose hloom, of Paducah, Ky., is at death's door, with the upper part of her body swollen to frightful proportions, as the result of an at tempt to emulate Cleopatra, the l-hiyptian queen, who. in ancient history, is credited with clasping the deadly cobra to her bosom as halm to wounded feelings after a love episode with Mare Anthony. Mrs. Bloom went to Ohian, Tenn., several days ago from Union City, accompanied by her husband, Mr. Bloom has been missing for several days, and when the doctors were callad in to attend Mrs. Bloom for eonvul sions, they found a live reptile in her room and the woman in a semi-conscious state. Site said she did not care to live longer, and that she had driven into the country for the express purpose of obtaining the poison-spreading adder, a species of native snakes, whose bite is considered fatal. The woman had placed the snake in her corsage and the snake bit her many times. IMlSKli WF.I.I, WITH SALTS. Woman Will I'uy Two Hundred Hollars For Doing It. If Justice Young's judgment stands on appeal to the higher courts, Mrs. Annie Bennett, of Shippenville, Lake Hopatcong, will have to pay Sani McConnell $2(id for having dosed his well with rochelle salts. They are relatives. One day recently McConnell's daughter saw Mrs. Bennett throw a white powder into the well. Her father sent a sample to chemist lie also put some on a piece of meat, which a wandering dog ate and died. McConnell hoarded the well over. A neighbor then told him that Mrs. Bennett had I toasted of having dosed the well with five pounds of the stilts. Chemical analysis confirmed the story. Suit was brought in Justice Young's court, and the $200 judgment resulted. TIIK KKNTK KY WAY. Slew n Man Before the .fudge and the Jury. A dispatch front Pamtsville, Kyv says while listening to Attorney F. A. Hopkins argue a case in the Prestonhurg co.urt house. Joe Fit /.pa trick, it is alleged, walked up behind Andy Coburn and shot him three times in the hack, killing hint. Coburn was sitting near the bar and knew nothing of the man's movements until he was shot. During the panic which followed, Fitzpatrick and a crowd of relatives quietly left the court room and went home. No attempt was made to arrest him. Coburn was lately indicted upon a charge of killing a cousin of Joe Fitzpatrick, and the case was t r.? thlo fnem MJt l*H iirni iii^ i 111 n vOTssi; had .in/rhi> 11ic. And Sim Went (Binning for Him ami Herself. At Now York Mary Balasi, a young Hungarian, shot. Harry Stern four times while he was asleep in i>?d at hia homo In East Hundred and Seventh street Thursday afternoon, believing she had l>een jilted. She then shot herself in the left breast. Both were removed to the hospital with slight chances of recovery. A year ago the girl entered suit for breach of promise against Stern. MILLS FOUND GUILTY Verdict in Gaffney Trial Quickly Rendered. A Kceoiiiiiiemlat ion to Mercy Attach ?*1 to Jury's Finding?Many Surprised at Verdict. A special to The News and Courier from Gaffney says the case against William H. Mills, for the killing of G. Frank Deal, went to the jury Saturday afternoon after four o'clock and In about an hour a verdict of guiiiy oi murder with recommendation to mercy was agreed upon. The verdict was a surprise to many. The charge of Judge Purdy practically removed the possibility of any other verdict. He stated that there was no such thing as the written law recognized by the Courts of the State, and that the pardoning power was in the hands of the Governor and not in the hands of the jury. The jury was instructed not to consider anything pertaining to the unwritten law. The arguments of counsel were able. They took about a day. They were begun Friday afternoon and continued until dinner time Saturday. Mr. Wilson madea n admirable plea to the sympathy of the jury. He referred to Mrs. Mills, who was sitting by her husband, when he pointed to her and said: "That woman was once a beautiful woman. I knew her whenshe was a student at Converse College and she was considered one of the 1 most beautiful women tit that institution. Hook at her now. She is 2-1 1 years old and looks every day of 30." Solicitor Sease made a very strong argument and one that told on the jury. A motion has been made for a new trial and will he argued on Monday morning. Should the judge not set 1 the verdict aside the case will he fought out in the Supreme Court. Sentiment is very much divided as to the verdict. Many thought that < the prisoner would he turned loose, j while some thought he would get some punishment and a few years' < sentence as he did. A petition for a s pardon would get many signatures at this time. 1 mcAYKitv kkcog\izi:i>. i Walter Stewart, Colored, Awarded a ' Pine Gold Waeli. I Waller Stewart a poliu-nil i???rt.?. *>n Southern train. No. lit!', running , l?etween Columbia and Savannah, , who showed so much bravery in his efforts to save the life of Knginner < Gibson in the fatal wreck on May it0. , litis been awarded a handsome watch | by the local branch of the Brother- , hood of Locomotive Engineers in re- } cognition of his faithfulness. , The circumstances of the wreck i will be well remembered. All who , read the accounts of the accident were struck with the presence of . mind and courage displayed by the , porter. ( Stewart, who was the first member j of the crew to reach the point where ( t tie engine went over the trestle. , crawled down the trestle, through the , stream, into the dark swamp beneath. where Engineer Gibson would have , died had it not been for the porter's | quick thought. Calling for a rope and mail sacks , he had Engineer Gibson lifted to the bridge and there did everything possible for him. Mrs. Gibson, who joined her husband at Allendale said afterwards that never would she forget the kindness shown by Stewart. The watch presented to Stewart bears the following inscription: Presented .. . r . To Walter Stewart By R. L. E. Division K."? For Bravery In Rescuing T. K. Gibson in Wreck tit Savannah River, May X<>. 1!??>7. HP I DOI N G \VltK('ki:i). IJy Rag of I'oivdrr Thrown Over the Transom. Mxstorious explosions partly wrecked two buildings, one in Manhattan and one in Itrnoklvn Wednesday. In the former case a hag of nun powder was thrown over the transom of Winghing's Chinese laundry. A fuse was evidently attached, for the powder exploded, damaging the laundry and llosenthai restaurant adjoining. The laundry and restaurant are under a five story apartment building. A panic followed, though no damage was done to the upper .floors of the building. The explosion was evidently carefully planned. Winghing says he is at olds with none of the Chinese tongs and Rosenthal denies that lie has received any threats from (Hack Hand or other similar organizations. The Mrooklyn explosions was under ai Broadway tenement, it is unexplained. The exxplosion did litth damage, but a fire followed, which was quickly extinguished. KIIXKI> ON IIAIX FIKLH. Lightning Strikes One Player Head and Stuns I'.ight Others. At St. Anthony, Iowa, lightning struck one man dead and shocked eight others Sunday afternoon while tliov were nlaving a game of baseball. Albert Laplant, on second base, was killed as he was catch lot? a ball thrown to him by the catcher. A blinding (lash of lightning was followed by a deafening peal of thunder, and the startled spectators ^aw nine players lying on the field apparently lifeless. Kight were only stun ned but young Laplant was dead when help reached him. All of the others ure In a serious condition. Laplant was twenty-two years old. More than one hundred people witnessed the tragedy. TERRIBLE CRIME. ? Buried His Wife's Little Daughter Alive in aRefuseHole. MYSTERIOUS CASE.^j Pretty Little Seven Year Old Mary * New I in Burled Alive lly ller Step- I father, Irwin Lewis, Who Is Now In Jail.?Lewis Admits llurybig Her Hilt Heelares That lie Thought Her Dead. Hurled alive by her stepfather was 3 the tragic late or pretty, little sev- ' fljl en-year-old Mary Newlln, for whose death Irwin i,e\\is is now iu jail at Chester, Pa., awaiting the action of the grand jury. Lewis, thought admitting that lie I"! r it?(i lis little-' V stepdaughter, declares lie did not murder her, or snow she was living when he buried her. "I thought ^ her dead when she fell from the car- tl riage barn," he moaned in his defense ?it the coroner's investigation. Hut his excuse was so flimsy,and the weight of the evidence against him so great that he was quickly remanded to <"il to await the January term of court, and it was only the prompt work of the sheriff and his deputies in getting him quickly out of the little courthouse at Avondnle, where the hearing was held, that saved the young Pennsylvania farmer from death at the hands of tne mob. Lewis' partial confession was wrung from him by District Attorney MacRlree on the day iu which his stepdaughter's tiny body was found by \V. C. Shelley and John O'Drloti, deputy sheriff, in a hole thai Lewis had declared ho dug to bury soino refuse iu. The one essential feature to establish the murder without r. Jon lit on tho young stepfather, the >idmission that he killed the child, MacKlree was unable to get. Ou the contrary, the farmer insisted his stepdaughter's death was due to her fall from the carriage shod roof, and that he buried the body after finding I he child dead, giving as his reason that he wished 10 spare his wife who is in a dedicate condition, the shock if her daughter's death. But the alert prosecutor was procured for just such a move as this, ind startled the vast audience at tho Inquest by producing medical evileiico to show that the child died >t' strangulation and suffocation. There was not a mark nor a bruise ... I.n.l.i ,-.f I >-" ol.tl,* ' ?... ? -? ?*? * in i??Mj ui ' i " * 'i r.111- II<II. i?t boon assaulted, us iutiinntoil. On lier nook, however, were Lho marks >f tinners, showing some one had gripped the child h.v the throat, and .vound tightly around the neck there ivas also a piece of string, fixed tight nough to produce suffocation. This partial confession upon the stepfather's part removes all question >f kidnappers being mixed up in the jase, as was at. flrst thought, and it is the opinion of everybody in Chester county that when the cell doors dosed on lrvin Lewis, the girl's real murderer had been safely secured. I'ho prosecution Is said to liavo two witnesses under cover who will say that Mary Is ?"Md to have told them that some one in her own home had tried to kill her twice during the winter. The child is said to have divulged the attempts rpon her life while telling how much afraid she was of her "dad," meaning young Lewis "I always run and hide when I see him coming," the dead child is reported to have said to the two witnesses before she finally disappeared. That she stood In deadly fear of her stepfather has been learned from men and women who have worked about the Lewis farm or visited it, and who, on several occasions, watched meetings between the dead girl and her accused parent. There aro lunnv who reside in the vicinity of the allowed crime who helieve that. Lewis is crazy, and that it will bo necessary to either ,ake him to an insane asylum or have a commission inquire into his state of miml before his trial, still months distant, is heguu. MtOWNLH TWO I'KOI'LH. llilge Fish, Hooked to 't rolling Line, 'I*iti-ii Ileal Over. One day last week ('. T. Chambers and Mrs. (I. Cutter, of Ionia, die-It., w? nt fishing in Chippewa Lake. Their boat was turned over by a fifteen pound pickeral, and both of them were drowned. The fish lifironiipj hooked on a trob.i.g tied to a cleat in the boat ran under tlio craft, and upset it. Searching parties on rafts with grappling limits I rought Ho fish to the surface, dead, and still attached to the hook. The body of Chambers was found later, but that o| his companion is si ill missing. FATA L FHHIT. One Negro Kill Another In Charleston on Thursday. A dispa tch iToin t'ltnriesmii ssnya among th< moat aei lout* eat untitles A ..i the Fourth of .f 111> ?r;ii ion wan M the stabbing affra.v on t eorner of South and Drake slreols, when Mart r Plckney killed Sainl. (irnnt. The no- I, groes had a hand to hand light, nnop armed with a razor and the other\ a knife, both being hadly eut, butl Grant getting the worse J i ii;i:i> o\ Molt. < Five Persons Killed mid Twelve Wounded Ity Soldiers. Seven workmen were &rr< od in afl ilio i.nit.a v of Tei eh-. Prussia, and^| ill i 1111 ?i inn III effect tlietr release furred if) tt^^H mob, killing five and wounding twelve. / ?