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YEAR. FORT MILL. S- C.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 8. 1807. NO. 19.
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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. .
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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
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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.