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. -rtfs 1 * r?T-' ~ ' ^ . ' * .- 4 * -% ~ ** ,,*VS0 ;\'*+-i'y\ \ V % ~ ** v * r *-v ' 1 . ' H % ? ;-/_ "" ' * . - ./ THE FORT MILL TIMES. ? _ 4 ? ??? : j ' " 16TH YEAR. FORT MILL. S- C.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 8. 1807. NO. 19. i ? t ne suspicion that the child was choked to death, taken in connection with the murder of Sophie Kotarer and of an unidentified woman by ( strangulation, leads the police to believe that there is a maniac at large in the city whb is possessed of ah insane impulse to kill women and children by the same method* The body was lying on a strawberry crate, where it apparently had been placed several days ago. and its condition revealed the frightful treatment to which the child had been i subjected. * The girl's l>ody was stumbled upon by a woman who visited the basement of the house at 203 First avenue. it lay upon a berry crate with seemingly no effort at concealment. "You caU say for me," Coroner Harberger declared, "that the crimes In Berlin, of which the newspapers have told have not l?een one thousandth part as bad as the murder of this little girl." At the coroner's direction Gaetano ' Klppolano, whose cobbler shop adjoins the girl's home, was arrested and asked to explain his absence ' from his shop oil last Friday, tie established the fact that he had spent t the day at Bristol, Conn. The girl is said to have frequented ttippOiaho's place and a search j brought to.light a man's shirt which bore red stains. The cobbler was arrained and re! man (led to the coroner e.inoonna ? V?.MUV|?|?C Hofanto, Rippolando's partner, was ' questioned, hut threw little light on 1 the rase and was not detained. The police also began a search for ' a woman who is said to formerly 1 i roomed at the Pritschler house, but * 1 who left there after a quarrel and 1 ' took lodging In the house where the 1 ' girl's body was found. . When the news of the finding of ( the little one's body spread through S the neigh\K>rhood excitement rose to such a pitch that the removal of the a body and the arrest of Rippolano > caused almost a riot. Many thousands of persons were in I the nearby street when the wagon s from the morgue arrived. At sight a of the covered body the crowd vented I Its grief nnd rage In a babel of ton- l gues. The police were compelled to use force to get through the street. i Soon afterwards the arrest of the \ cobbler became known and the crowd < charged the prisoner's shop. Rlppolano had been safely removed to the I Station House, but his shop windows i were smashed and only the determin- c ed front of the police reserves who ( clubbed right and left, prevented 1 greater damage. 1 .fohn Kusmlcho the Russian watchman under arrest as a suspicious per- I son and who is said to have been < seen in the company of the girl i whose body was found in the areaway on Kast Ninetieth street, was remand- | ed without bail until Saturday. No < clue to the murder In Twenty-second | street was secured . Later it was decided to hold Bofanto for examination. Dora Messner, who is said to have been seen In the company of the cobbler, was arrested as a witness. NORTH SKA THAOFIMKS. Schooner Wrecked and British and Natives Fight. The steamer Manuka from Australia, with news of fighting in the ?Jcw Hebrides, has reached Victoria, B. C... In an encounter between Hebrides blacks and a punitive expedition landed from the British cruiser Cambridge, to avenge the murder of a European trader, the blacks killed one bluejacket of the landing party and wounded another bluejacket. The news wan brought, from the Caroline group that the trading schooner Charles and Ella foundered in a hurricane. Capt. Warner and 8 of his crew were drowned. KEBMHAW KEEPS DIHPENSARY State Board of Canvassers Decide* it That it Won. ?hE The State board of canvassers unanimously decided Thursday the appeal In the Kershaw dispensary election iu favor of the dispensary, finding that the election, was illegal on 'f\ account of irregularities. This reverses the finding of the county hoard, which found that prohibition had carried by 84 votes, and It keeps the dispensaries open. The R' prohbitionlsts will take the case to the Suprej^^Jourt on certiorari. Kxpiodks. Dying WORK OF FIEND. Another Girl Victim Is Found In Now York. ATROCIOUS CRIMES. An Eight Year Old Child Aaiuiulted , and Slain?Police Believe a Maniac la Roaming the City, Possessed of 1 An Impulse to Kill Women and < Children?Several Women llave \ Been Killed. , The excitement caused In New ' York city bv the rproxi I crimes against women and children t | was greatly Increased Thursday by ( the discovery of the body of atl eight- , year-old girl In a cellar of art Bast t Bide tenement. The child had been ( assaulted and then murdered, marks r on tuo throat indicating that perhaps me little one had been strangled. . WL - * SUICIDE MYSTERY. A Woman Kills Herself and So , Does a Man Who Knew the Woman Well and i Was Summoned as a Witness at the inquest. Amos R. Rumbaugh, of Washing- t ton, D. C., a close friend of Miss Laura Matthews, the young woman who committed suicide near Broadmoor, Colorado, Sunday night, added borrow and mystery to the gruesome ?ase by shooting himself through the head Wednesday, in the same manner adopted by Miss Matthews. Rumbaugh committed the act in tils room at the Alta Vista Hotel. 1 he hour when the fatal shot was tired is not known as it was not I jeard by any one in the hotel and / the deed was discovered only when t >fHcer8 went to his room to ascertain p why he had not responded to the p subpoena to attend the coroner's in- ii juest over Miss Matthew's body 011 a Thursday morning. a When the officers appeared at the i; lotel a bell boy was sent to Itum- r saugh's room to see what w-us the e matter. The boy fbund the door b ocked and could get no response. The officers forced the door open and I .here on the bed Rumbaugh was re- k dining, his brains oozing out onto t :he floor. A hasty examination show- t ?d that the man was still alive, and a le was taken tc a hospital, but at a t ate hour the attending physicians 1 iay he cannot recover. r< That the act Of Rumbaugh was the p lirect result of the death of Miss Statthews Is not doubted by the offi- 1, dais. He was to have appeared as p 1 witness at the coroner's inquest to t ell what he knew of his friend's p .ragic end. Rumbaugh claimed to q ie but a chance acquaintance of the v flrl hut it developed that he know p ?er in (Chicago and also knew C. A. p joey, of Chicago, and Dr. H. A. c" Thomas, of the "101 Ranch." He \ vas frequently a member of the par- ,j les at which Mtsa Matthews and the w ither men referred to were members, p Rumbaugh was the one who ac- ? 'ompanicd Miss Green, the nurse, to w he liverv stable about f> nVlm-li Monday morning to see if Miss Mat- )( hews' horse had returned. It was le who had sent the telegram to ^oey asking that he "do the right hing by the girl" and it was with tim that Miss Matthews left the leter in which was enclosed another etter to Coey. If Rumbaugh did not destroy the . etter left him by Miss Matthews to- t] tether with the letter to Coey, It is . jelieved they will show startling acts that may entangle other people. < rhe telegram sent by Rumbaugh to }oey, taken in the light of his sul- " :lde, has more meaning than before. . t was as follows: "Laura committed suicide on ae- ? :ount of you. Letters left behind, lend $300 at once for expenses." The officers say that the letter . ihows that Rumbaugh knew Coey veil enough to speak to him of 'Laura" and to threaten him. Rum- I1 >augh was about 28 years of age. A tervice medal of honor shows that~_he . lerved with distinction in the Tenth I1 aennsylvania Infantry in the Philip)lnes. * Two brief notes are all that ex? aius the young man's act. One ? iote is addressed "To whom it may " :oncern," and reads as follows: "Ship my body to Mrs. J. H. Rum?augh, Mont Pleasant, Pa.. West- 1 noreland County. Notify the Travel- " *rs' Insurance company of Hartford. " "Iftiin nnH the PV?tnm?l Order of " Ragles, of Scottsdalc, Pa. Amos It. r' flumbaugh." The second note wan addressed to 1 lis mother. Mrs. .1. H. Rumbaugh, at ' he at?ove address. Rumbaugh wrote: Dear Mother: There Is nothing for me to say why I did this awful leed, so lay my body away to rest. I have alwut $3oft on my person. You and Charlie settle things up. "Your son "Richard R. Runibaugh," MOt'KNKD AH DKAD. For Fifty Years Hut Turns I'p to Greet Friends. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Smith, of Armory, Miss., are visiting relatives at Valdosta, Ga. Mr. Smith has the distinction of having been mourned as dead for fifty years and after that time turning up at his old home to meet his relatives?those who were alive. He left home in Twiggs county when he was 18 years of age and went West. His sisters, two of whom live in I^ownes and one in Berrien county, moved away with the family and he lost track of them until last year. He is now 84 years of age and is hale and hearty. Hla meeting witn i his sisters after such a long sepera- I tion was a very happy occasion. i FATAL ACCIDHNT. | Philadelphia Hanker Met Death In I Swimming Pool. President R. Watson, of the Northern National hank, of Philadelphia, ( Pa., was instantly killed in a swimming pool at the Columbia club, one of the most prominent social organl- ( zattons in the city. It is believed he met death by striking his head against the concrete Bide of the tank while diving. TWO FALL DEAD. One Fell in Field and Other at Sight of Body. A dispatch from Americus, Ga.. ggys Bram Goodwin, a Sumter counnkrner, dropped dead Thursday 1n ByNQEfeton field. His brother was raBSgKHkand at the sight of the be fell upon It and exWmF GRAVE CHARGES Against a Priest of Being Leader in Murder Plots IN CITY OF NEW YORK. rhrcatcning Letters lieen Revealed. Four Indictments Against the Armenian, Who Is Central Figure In Hug Merchant Murder Case?-Several Other Crimes Are Doing Shown I'pi In New York four indictments now le against Father Martoogeselan, the Armenian, who, it is alleged, Bome imes lays aside his priestly robes to iractice extortion and blackmail. The iriest is just now the central figure n the conspiracy which the district ttorney seeks to prove had for its bject the robbery of wealthy Armenans and led to the murder of the ug merchant, Tavshanjian, and othirs, who refused to be financially iieu. From the slayer -of Tavshanjian. iedroB Hampart zoomian, as he is ;nowu in New York, the police hope o secure a confession establishing hat the youth unwittingly was the .gent of blackmailing terrorists. A runk which Hampartsoomain had in x>well, Mass., has been brought to few York and Its contents may throw ight on the investigation. Of the three additional indictments against Martoogeselan brought n by the grand jury, two charge atempted robbery as did the original ndictment and one alleges extortion, "he latter charges that the priest /as responsible for at least one of he blackmailing letters which quicker followed the death of the rug merhant. The letter was mailed in New rork on the afternoon of inlv ay that TavBhanjian was shot. It . as written In red Ink in the Armen- t in language, and was signed l?y the . ynibol of the terrorists, three hands rith daggers uplifted, poised above red heart. The letter is as fol- J" jws: "Gulabi Gulbenklan & Co., ^ "Brunswick Bid., New York. "Death Warrant: ? "The executives of the Constant!ople Armenian revolutionary terror- , sts organization condemn to death laroutian Gulbcukian, Gulahi Gulenkian and Patrick Gulbenkian, the tiree brothers who, entirely, have . eaf ears to all appeals for national v reedom. Our executive board, havig given its decision to Haroutian ? nd Gulabi Gulkcukian, in America, Ives them twenty-four hours time . j decide between their duty and eath. , Constantinople Armenian Revolutlonary Terrorists' Organization." The letter is dated Constantinople, ' une 27. 1907. [ Following the letter is a postcript. J Iso in red ink, which reads as foljws: "Although neither poison nor anging can prevent us from fulfilling our duty to the end, it is necesary that you should know. If you 8 etray this letter or cause harm to no hnir nn thh Hnswlc nf nnn nf tic gainst that consider your whole fainly whlped out." . "Before this letter came Haroutian # tullienkian. who Is the accusing wit- { less against the priest, had received black Dialing letter demanding $25,'00. hut had not complied with the lemand. The sense of the indictment Is that he priest either sent the quoted leter or caused It to he sent. Also, it s alleged that In September, 1905, '"ather Martoogessian threatened to :ill or cause to he killed, Hedros lanzanjlan, a merchant of 29 Union iquare, unless the latter gave up 115,000 to the Armenian revolutionBtS. Further, it is charged that Father tf artoogessian represented, or caused o he represented, to Mlran G. Kara;ensian, an Armenian, that he would neet death unless he gave $100,000 o the Armenian revolutionary fund, taragensian, It is said, received this communication in the form of a leter on August 29. 1905. The letter idded: "The list Is not finally closed yet. rhere may he several others and you nay he next." The late afternoon develop** an mportant witness, when Magderick Lustrlan. a blacksmith, was examined hy Assistant District Attorney Vlanley. According to information i ater given out at the assistant disrlct attorney's office, the witness said hat he had often attended meetings )f the Hunchakist, at which Mart3ogesslan presided. Continuing, he Is alleged to have stated, that he knew of five different cases, where men had been sent from this country to Europe at the instigation of a man named to murder persons. On two occasions, Lustrian said, he had been chosen to do murder, but managed in various ways to shift the responsibility. Home time ago he was told that he would have to kill Nlkolat Milack because at that time it was believed that Milack was a Turkish spy. According to Mr. Manley, the blacksmith made further startling admissions and furnished corroborative evidence of great importance against tne prisoner, who is declared by other Armenians to have been the moving spirit in the blackmailing band. KOREAN ARMY DISARMED. The Japanese Killed Forty Koreans In the Operation. A dispatch received at the State Department from Seoul, Korea, says forty Koreans were killed or wounded in a flght precipitated by disarmament of the Korean army. The casualties on tA^Japanese side wore JAILLED AS A WITCH Indiana Woman Accused of Causing Child's Death. It Is Aliened 81m* Has Foretold and Ouused Every Calamity That Has Befallen Fvausville, I ml. The filing of surety of the peace proceedings against Mrs. Margaret Silniore, of Evansville, lud., makes the latest case In which the law has jeen Invoked against anyone accused )f practicing witchcraft. The specific charge was the causing of the leath of a two-year-old son of John Paris, and the incident lead to the infolding of the history of the aged voman. " i In the last ten years she has been 1 auMurmea in tne public mind from 1 i motherly old woman Into a vicious ! ninlBter of evil, whose chief delight 1 s to harass her neighbors and All 1 hem with awe on account of her ' iredlctlons of calamities. In the lm- ' nediate neighborhood of M *s. nil- ' nore's shack nothing Is too terrible J o be believed about her. The wav- 1 ng of a broom from her front door is enough to drive all the children In 1 he community into their homes in * ibject fear. I Ten years ago Mrs. Gilmore, now 1 $0 years of age, was known as an ex- ' optionally good nurse and was pop- ^ ilar in the community. She was * K>orer thun most of her neighliors * >ut managed to make her living by 1 telling vegetables she raised in her 1 garden and by raising chickens for 1 he market. As she grew older she f vlthdrew from intercourse with her a leighbors and then stories of her eccentricities began to crop out. She * vas alleged to have seen visions; to 1 lave predicted storms and inunda- ' ions, sudden deaths and unhappy I narrlages, and in fact every calamity hat befell the people individually * ind collectively. She never professed I o be a clairvoyant or a necromancer, < >ut her reputation was made by jnip- t ilar talk. I The incident that led to the recent <" iroceedlngs was caused by the kill- r ng of a chicken. The Paris family r ives In the same neighliorhood as Irs. Gilmore and her chickenH annoy- c d them. One day the son threw a e tone and injured a pullet, and Mrs. I iilmore Is alleged to have said that t f the chicken died one of the Paris f hildren would contract whooping 1 ough and died within two days. The r it 11 ktmi qito in s nours ana me nay 1 ollowing one of the Paris children i ras smitten with whooping cough r md died within the specified time, t rhe incident caused much comment t ind Anally the action brought by the c ather. The court ignored the charge, say- e ng that these are not the days In s vhich Salem witch massacres are ? tosslhle. The authorities have also \ irranged to give the woman sjiecial f irotection against any possible hos- ] ility on the part of the incensed t icighbors. t AltABS SI.AV KIROPKAXS. J, r dany Killed as Result of Kxterniiiia- 5 tion Doctrine. 1 E I)r. Merle, who has arrived at Tan- f tier, on a German ship which brought t i number of Jews and other refuges t rom Casablanca, is the bearer of a eport showing that the slaughter of { Europeans In Casablanca was the , mtcome of a holy war preached by j Vraha for- the extermination of the j Europeans. ( On Monday a number of Arabs .hlefs entered Casablanca and de- | nanded that the harbor Improvement ] vorks ceased and cited the natives to } exterminate the Europeans . On , fuesday the natives began the at- | acK ny atoning a miropchii who wa? ( lacked to pieces. This was the slg- , lal for a general attack. At least 8 were murdered. While the Jews and Europeans ] were taking refuge on l?oard the German ship, the Mossulmans began to attack the laborers employed on the ( harbor works. They killed several men whose bodies subsequently were lui rned. FELL INTO HIVEH. Great Crush of People on llrhlgc Pushed Six In. Half a dozen persons who were participating in the fireworks display at the dedication of the new *3,000,000 bridge across the Charles river, connecting Boston and Cambridge, Thursday night were pushed Into the river by the great crush of people liehind them. The accident occurred on the Cambridge side of the river near the end of the new brdge. Six men and boys were pulled from the water by the police, and for a time it was believed that one or more had been drowned. Investigation by the police failed to confirm the rumor that anyone had been arownea. DISGUSTED WITH FILIPINOS Election of Dr. Gomez Dlssapjx>ints Washington Officials. The Filipino elections have l?een a great disappointment to the authorltes showing that the masses of the people are still as little fitted for self-government as a lot of irresponsible children. One of their selections for the local legislature was the notorious Dr. Dommador Gomez, a man who has been convicted of fraud, is a revolutionist and sentenced to the penitentiary. He is out now only under a juv of execution. His right to a assembly will be contested^^^^^^ does not get him first. the dependence. * BWsn Ithe black hand Is Raldud and Assassins and Blackmailars Art Caught DOZENS ARE JAILED. The United States Steel Corporation Whs Hack of Flan to Kound Them l'p?'Twelve Murders In Two Years Are Attributed to the Organization Which In Composed of a Lot of Ilcspcradocs. After waiting for months and spending thousands of dollars and spreading a drag net that has caught men in four states, the United States Steel Corporation has rounded up ivhat Is said to be the worst gang of tlackhand assassins in the country. Dozens of arrests have been found. ?nd men are in jail in New Castle. Penn.: Youngstown, Ohio; Sharon. Pa.; Plainfield, N. J., and Rochester, M. Y. A dozen murders in the Mahoning md Shenandoah Valleys in the laat :ouple of years are attributable to the jang. For headquarter the gang >icked Hillsville, a quarry town in .awrence county. Pa., a few miles vest of New Castle. Here are locat?d the immense quarries of the Johniton Limestone company. Hillsville, ocally. is known as "Helltown." The juarrles, full of caverns, afforded tiding places that could be searched or a week for suspects without remits. Detectives were started after the cang. Some went to Itally and came tack as immigrants, going to Hlllsrllle, where they worked with the Slack Hand members. The raid was made Saturday afterloon, July 13th, by County Detective x)gan. Detective B. Marshal, of New Castle; Deputy Sheriff Frank Wadllngton. Detective Mehard, several s'ew Castle policemen, and railroad letectives. The time selected for the aid was payday at the Johnson quaries. As the men came up for their mon>y a stranger with a check list scann d them. When a man wanted ap>?ared the stanger would tell him here was something wrong with his invelope. and ask him to step into a >ack office. Before any alarm was aised twelve men had been inveigled nto the room and hand-cuffed. Finaly all the pien were paid off, and tine suspects were still wanted. A tousc in the town was then raided by he police, and the missing nine men aught. The mep under arrest were charg;d with conspiracy to rob and being uspicious persons. Men and women ?f Hillsville. no longer afraid, tell of vhat became known as "flashlights Irlim " 1Bwai>u " I ~ ^ !?. ??? ~r i j tuiife unoiiun ui ight suddenly would be seen all over own. Finally It whh explained that he lights were made by pocket flashights used by Black Hand leaders to icare timid Italians into giving up noney. The lights were ascribed to supernatural causes. Nicolo Ciurlee. who was suspected >y the gang of being a detective, was subjected to abuses and torture such is few white men endure and live. He old his story in a justice's court at he hearing of some of the suspects. Jim Rocs, a grocer, who caused the irrest of Salvat*r Exposito, says he svas compelled to mortage his home lor $300 to meet the demands of the [Rack Hand. Exposito is said to be one >f the few real Black Hand men. John Jotti, arrested in Youngstown i>y Chief McDowell and Detective Kane, 1h said to have conducted a ichool in which Italians were taught the use of the stiletto. It is said that lie had a rubber figure of a man, and rm It were marked the places in which properly to insert the stilletto and cause instant death. Joe Bagnato, who is said to have levied tribute money from Italians for months and finally left Hillsdale with $11,000 in gold, is badly wautod. Joe Pochesso was murdered in front of Sam Sauline's saloon, East Kedernl stree, Youngstown, Sustai110 Martone, a boy of nineteen, is under arrest for the crime. He declares he shot Pochesso in self defense. When asked if he belonged to the Black Hand, he hoastingiy sain he did. The murder of Pochesso, the police say was caused by hia efforts to stop the blackmailing of archItalian women of Youngstown. The l?oy felt so secure that he did noot go fifteen miles away from Youngstown. In South Sharon the police say that Sam Yallous and Sandy Pereno were murdered by the Black Maud. South Sharon workmen at the Steel corporation furnaces are said to have contributed $8,000 to the black hand agents. Two men were arrested Saturday charged with attempting to blackmail a woman by threats of violence. Owners of mills and other Industrial establishments are still fearful of vengeance. One big cement concern near Newcastle, which has $1,000,000 invested in a plant is said to be guarding against Are. In other mills extra precautions are being taken to guard against incendiarism. AGAINST COAST IJNK. ? -* *?- Ai-?* KA L'IWIopuI I Use * nil l W ? nrriru iu iuv Court. In an Important decision died on Thursday Judge Gary of the circuit court decides in the case of W. C. Oeraty, of Charleston against the Atlautic Coast Line Road, that the Coast Line cannot carry the case into the federal courts on the ground that it is a foreign corporation. The decision says that the road is estopped from contending that it is a foreign because under the constiBBmuilroad* must be domestiis not domesticated II WiMwMwMnUy BUI Bflo DEADLY LIGHTNING Loss of Lifo Much Greater Than Commonly Supposed. Animals Kush Under Trees and Ar?' Caught?Men Also Forget It Is Unsafe Under Field Shelter. Lighnlng has done a great deal of damage in different parts of the State this summer. Many people have been killed by it and many animals have been killed. People ought to use the ordinary precaution to protect themselves from the deadly !>olt. It is very foolish to expose yourself to I lightning, when it is so easy to go in I a hflllKP nnrt nii? ? n ? v?. u? unubVI. OUIllt' people think it cowardly to try ana protect yourself from lightning, hut it is not. It is just as sensible to avoid the lightning bolt as it is to. get out of the way of an oucorumg train or anything else that might hurt you. In America there is no means for ascertaining precisely what is the amount of damage done by lightning. This much also is certain, that scarcely a day passes but the newspapers contain accounts of strokes of lightning which have proved fatal to man or beast. In Krnnce, Germany and England complete statictics are kept of all fatalities with the view to reducing the number if possible. To accomplish this end it has been recommended to attach iron rods to the trunk of trees with one end near the top and the other running into the ground. Lightning rods are also recommended for all buildings. The object is to have the electricity from the clouds conducted to the earth without the terrific force of the bolt jumping from the sky to the earth through the air without a conductor. Cattle and sheep are killed in the greatest numbers by lightning. The reason assigned for this is that they run for trees as soon as they see a storm coming. Trees are conductors of electricity, but are not so good as the body of an animal or a man. The result is that when the current coming down the tree and finds a better conductor it leaves the trunk and jumps into the body of the living creatures under the tree. Men as well as animals have failed to learn that it is dangerous to be under a tree in electrical storms, as it is evidenced by the number of fatalities reported. According to the lightning rod conference held a few years ago in London, the solid rod is the best sort of conductor. Such a rod should be in one piece and run from the top of the tree to the ground. The same should be used on houses. The result would be that when animals run under a tree in a thunderstorm they would not be rushing into great/1un(vAi? Thn i-n/1 nrrtulH ulun l*o " protection to men who forget aud go under trees in similar storms. The iron rod should be pointed. The lightning rod is intended to carry electricity from the earth to the clouds or from the clouds to the earth, as the case may be, without any disturbances in the surroundings of the rod. HOILUH KXIMXiSlON Kills Four People and Wrecks Two Hallway Trains. At Milan, Tenn., four persons were killed outright, another fatally Injured and ten seriously hurt by an explosion of the boiler of an engine on the Illinois Central fast fruit train. The explosion wrecked the train as well as another freifeht on a parallel siding, ltoth trains caught Are and were destroyed. The dead are the engineer and fireman and two tramps. CALSK TKHKOIt. A Hand of iloht>rrs in Maryland Who Koh Homes. A dispatch from Cumberland, Md., says the whole eastern section of the en ant v adioiniuc Pennsylvania. West Virginia in suffering a reign of terror caused by depredations of an organized gang of robbers. Armed men are standing guard over their homes. Not a night passes without several robberies and no clue is left. Heavy rewards are offered, but without causing results. MOTH Kit SlICIDKS. became I>es|Hindent Over the I tenth of Her Son. Mrs. Mary Sykes, a well-known and prominent lady of Greensboro, N. C., committed suicide Thursday by firing two pistol bullets into her body. About a year ago Mrs. Sykes* youngest son died, after a long illness, and ever since she has been very despondent. CHASING FIKNDH. I'osw After Two Who Attempted Criminal Assault. A special from Athens, Ga., says a posse is pursuing two ucgro men who entered the room of two young women students of the summer normal schoor, at Candler Hal) and attempted criminal assault. The girls screamed so loudly that the men were frightened away. TRAIN RAN AWAY Crashing Into Another Freight Kills i i Four Persons. At Atchison, Kansas, Missouri Pacific freight train ran away down Shannon Hill Wednesday morning ! and struck the rear end of another . freight standing on the track. Four persons were killed and two injured. Three of the killed were beating their TWENTY VICTIMS * Found After Tenement in New York Was Burned. BLACK HAND OUTRAGE Fin> Start?*<l in tlie Store and Spread With Sueli (Cupidity that Seore Met Death and iik >lany Itadly (turned. The (todies of the Dead Were FoiiihI in Many Unexpected Places Among the Itnin.s. A shocking loss of human life and the destruction of property worth more than one million dollars, were caused by tires in New York and its immediate vicinity in the 2 4 hours ending at eight o'clock Sunday morning. The tire wave struck Coney Island and before it subsided Steeple Chase park, a score of hotels and many amusement attractions were in ruins and many persons homeless. Four women were discovered dead in a closet where they had rushed to hide from the flames. The body of a woman was found lying over a child as though she had tried to protect It from the flames. Five bodies were found crowded around one doorway on the top floor, showing that they had been struck down while trying to escape. After an all night search of the ruins of six story tenement on Christie street, burned shortly after midnight, the police announced that there were twenty victims of the lire. The bodies of the dead were found in all sorts of unexpected places to which the people had fled when the fire broke out. Almost all of the bodies were burned beyond recognition, many to such an extent that it was impossible to distinguish the sex. A majority of victims, the police believe, were women and children. The burned building was a tenement common to the east side, with a store on the ground floor and apartments tip stairs crowded with tenants, mainly Italians. The (Ire started in the store and swept through the building with such rapidity that a flfth of the 100 tenants met a horrible deatu. another score, though they escaped, wenmore or less burned. It is thought the tire was caused by an explosion, a citizen reported J hat he heard a loud report and saw the store window crack and fall to pieces. If this is true it is possible that the great loss of life is due to a Black hand" outrage. IN SANK MAX Tried to Throw Ilis Child From a .Moving Train. Frederick Ford, or I'nuaucipnia. became insane in a New York Central Express train after leaving Albany, N. Y., and made several efforts to kill his two year old daughter by throwing her from the window of the train as i( was speeding along but was prevented by passengers. Me also tried to make away with himself by leaping from the train, but was restrained, and held captive by members of the train crew until New York was reached, when he was "sent to llelevue Hospital. A It IV Hit AT HIS PLF.ASl Ui:. Tobacco Magnate I'limps Karitan Almost I try for 11 is i'ark. In an effort to make his two thousand acre park like fairyland, with gushing fountains, cascades and beautiful lakes, for his bride during their honeymoon, .lames It. Duke, presdent of the American Tobacco Company, has pumped the Karitan river at Sumerville, N. J., nearly dry. Duke has on his estate artificial lakes covering an area of several hundred acres, besides innumeral fountains and waterfalls and these are supplied from the Karitan river by a pumping station. ALMOST TO Til Severely Lasted for Tolling Tolmrco* (trowing Secrets. John Itockert was severely whipped by unknown parties at Guthrie, Ky., early this week. Switches were used, the tlesh being gashed and pieces of his clothing driven into his flesh. He is in a precarious condition. The men told Itockert that he had done a little too much talking last year about the time the tobacco plant beds were scraped, and they had come for a settlement. AGKI> MITtltUltKlt. An Old >lan Hlectrocutod In New York Prison. Charles Honier, aged seventy-eight years, old and white headed, was " * * .??iMolnr nf l?Vl?V19E eiectrocuiea im m?- m.i...,. . and .Johanna Freheir at Auburn, N. Y., Wednesday. The old man walked to his death without a quiver, alhough the authorities had feared a breakdown. Twice the fatal current was turned on before the doctors were satisfied. FOI'Nlt CHOKKIi. The Bodies of Two More Women Are Found. New York has an epidemic of murders. Two young women were found choked to death Monday and Wednesday. The bodies are at the morgue unclaimed. One has been identified as that of Sophie Kohrer of Buffalo. The identity of the other is unknown.