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Relief Has Come to China With 1 Harvesting of Crops. ONE MILLION DIED 1 From Starvation in the Different Famine DistrictM of China. That J Was the Katlniatod Number of i Deaths, But It Ik Thought By Some ; That the Number of Deaths Was I jean. The terrible famine which has raged in central China for several months is now virtually over; the crops planted with the seed distributed by the relief committees are being harvested; the missionaries who have labored so acciduously in the cause of humanity are gradually coming down the coast for a rest, and people are beginning to count the cost of lives and monev. The exact number of Chinese who perished will never be known, but the estimate recently made by a prominent member of the relief organizations, judging from conversations with many workers, was very much exaggerated. He computted the loss in lives at over 1,000,000, but on going carefully into facts it is found that the famine lasted less than eight months, and at the worst period the deaths were said to average 3,000 a day, so that even had this figure been maintained for the full period of the famine the total mortality would have been less than three quarters of a million. The smallest estimate is three times the maximum death rate in the area affected, and this would give nearly half a million deaths. These figures are a fair estimate of the toll exacted by the scourage. It may be said, in short, that the famine has not claimed anything like so many victims as was predicted would be the case. XJiis is due in great measure to the prompt way in which funds were subscribed, especially in America, and the manner in which foreigners, chiefly missionaries who could speak the Chinese language spoke in the central provinces of the empire, responded to the call for workers. JL- i&IIvitj|$ tuc i ava^uo ui laiiimir nan been a silent war in which China alone could have achieved little because of her official system, her bad f financial organization and the crude ? ineffective system of relief which the more honest officials adopted when ( 16ft to themselves. It was reserved for the foreigner to point out the necessity of relief works both for their intrinsic worth and to enable the authorities to distinguish betwee i the really destitute and the mere loafer. Many districts in the famine area can point to the benefits derived from relief works inaugurated and supervised by foreigners; but there are als<tsome where the Chinese officials h^ye followed to good purpose the example set them. To quote but < one example, many miles of the grand canal north of Chinkaling are now in ( good repair, and this will help to prevent a catastrophe in the future sim- j ilar to that which occurred last year when the heavy rains fell. Much of the severity of the famine could have been prevented by public works, of which the neglect can only be regarded as criminal. The difficul- ' ty too often was that officials were ( reluctant to spend money on such works, as they feared they might, soon after the inauguration of the work, be removed to another sphere of labor, and thus lose the large amount of money which it would have been necessary to disburse from ? the local exchequer and which would , otherwise have gone into their pock ets. * I If order were introduced into Chi- i nosp fin?TlPP8 and an *?nd nut tr? thn . sale of positions the business instinct i of the nation would discover that it , is cheaper to undertake such works in time rather than wait until the misery their neglect causes has to be relieved. The two relief committees collected no less a sum than $1,313,000, and all but a small balance has been expended in the saving of life, combined, in some cases, with preventive j measures against future famine. The , small balance, unfortunately, will probably be insufficient for the de- 1 mands made upon it this autumn. < The devastation of whole provinc- , es by floods will not cease until the | imperial government so rearranges its financial system that it can direct , large sums to be spent on adequate , repair of canal and river embank- , ments and the necessary clearing and | deepening of the waterways ot the , empire. PRKAC'IIKH SUNT TO JAIL. lit' In (liven :t<) Ihiys ami Fine for AMtaulfing Liltrarian. The Rev. Eli Tartt, pastor of the J Harrison Baptist church, of Petersburg, V&., which has a membership * of more than 3,000, was before the ' H Mayor's court, recently, to answer \ the charge of assaulting J. H. Ma- J |||? son with a pistol in the law office of i T. C. Johnson, where Mason is em- I A ployed. Tartt had declared that Mason I j?^9^B had lied to him about Johnson being i jflftflA out of the city. Johnson is engaged I in taking affidavits in a controversy I RM in|the Harrison Street church. Ma- 1 son is the librarian of the Sunday < school. The defense attempted to I MH^^^Bshow that Tartt was not on the I SB Ktrcet at any time on the day of the f. iSH^^^ssault. i ShnHMB Tartt was adjudged guilty and 1 punishment was fixed at 30 days raH^HflAjail and a fine of $25. Tartt took ffiSBK appeal to the Hustings court. J nBbBmSH was also put under a bond of * E^99BgB^^to keep the peace for a year. 1 n Twenty-Five Years He WW Be Known No More. His Passing in Said to Re l>ue to the Policy the Government line Pursued JTonnrd Him. In twenty-five years, according to I estimates made by government officials, the American Indian-^-that is, the befeathered, blanketed and painted Red Man?will have passed into history and in this country will be known no more forever. The passing of the Indian is due to the policy pursued by tne government. Now, and for many years past, the Indians have been wards of the American government. -They have been nurtured and nrotected and fostered in every possible way. At immense expense the government has provided for them, lest they should starve. Reservations have been given them, food has been furnished them and they havebeen cared for as children. During the past ten or twelve years, a definite policy*has been pursued, the government looking to the limination of the Indian, not in his personality, but in his tribal relations. After years of experience it was found that tribal relations of the Indian were not good for him. They encouraged laziness and shiftlessness. Under the conditions the Indian would not work. He depended entirely upon the government for his subsistence and, having nothing else to do, spent much of his time in fomenting trouble. Congress finally decided to break up, as for as possible, the Indian reservations and to parcel them out among Indians and whites to the best advantage possible. The lands were allotted among the Indians in severalty, wherever that scheme seemed feasible, so that each Indian might have a definite portion which he could call his own and which he was at liberty to dispose of as he saw fit. Many of tne the Indians, particularly of the Osage and Cherokee tribes, are in good financial circumstances. Some of them are doing well on their farms and all of them have better chances than white men are given by the government. Francis E. Loupp, commissioner of Indian affairs, who has devoted much of his life to a study of the Indian problem, is convinced that the only way to make the Indian progressive and self-supporting is to . 1 l ? ?? piace mm on nis own resources, nc says, therefore, that it is the policy of the government to induce the Indians to give up their tribal relations and to mingle with the whites as individuals. Naturally, he says, the Indian is bright and is well able to take care of himself, if he finds himself forced to do so. Placed in surroundings where be must learn in order to live, the Indian will do well in most instances, and that is just what the government is doing now. Commissioner Loupp believes that it will require twenty-five or thirty years to bring about the complete change in the Indians' condition, but\ in the end, the change will be of great benefit to the Indians. One difficulty is being experienced just now that, of course, cannot be remedied by the government. In the allotment of lands in severalty to the Indians, many of the individuals of the various tribes have become possessed of a small number cultivate the lands themselbut the majority of them sell the land and live on the proceeds. The last named class cannot be induced to work at all. They probably will not do'a stroke of work until their resources are exhausted and they will have to work or starve. In view of all the conditions, therefore it is only a matter of time until the Indian shall have been absorbed into the nation and shall have disappeared as a distinct entitty. The Indian of yesterday will have become a tradition and the Indian of tomorrow will work out his destiny as the whites work out theirs and the Indian blood will be a blend of American citizenship. COSTLY' TO JAIL YKCiiJS. 1'rial Will ( (> l)?-?'p 1 nt<? Hit' Pockets of Farmers. It is not likely that farmers of Monroe and Wayne counties, New tfork, will want many yeggmen to risit those districts, since they have counted the cost of placi ng behind prison bars three men guilty of attempted bank robbery and burglary. The men are Fred Scultz, sentenced to life imprisionment for the murder of Edward Pullman, a night watchman; Big Ed Kelly, given a like sentence for the same offense and James McCormick. sentenced to 19 years and nine months for manslaughter in the first degree. The cost of convicting these men will run from $50,000 to $100,000. The yeggmen murdered the night watchman at the villiage of Soaus, while he was trying to prevent them from robbing Knapp's bank, on March 22, 1900. The men were * ?: o?i 111 niu IICAL muiiiiug 111 ninrnester. Seventeen post offices were robbed in New York state within a few months of the capture of these men, and it is believed they were the guilty parties, since the robberies ceased after they were placed behind the bars. Their trials took nearly a year and a half. The robbers did not lack money to fight the law and it is believed that it was furnished by fellow yeggmen. Sev sral Rochester detectives and police testified for the defense as police from Cohoes, Troy and Tonawahda. rhe cases are expected to lead to tome sensational revelations in poi|e circles. IVith a capital of $30,000,000, the paper trust figures that it ought ?le able to beat its competitors to t typ. " 5? Yearn Old. p A dispatch from Melbourne says a miner has sent to the Zoological Gardens, Perth, a live toad which he dug out of a strata of hard cement while sinking a shaft with explosives. It c is believed that the creature has been entombed for centuries. When released from confinement the toad was quite inanimate. Its eyes, which were transparent, with no pupil, gradually became normal, * and it is now in excellent health. i The chamber in which it was con- y fined was perfectly smooth, and there was no room for movement. The toad is now being examined by geo- J logists. The secretary of the Zoological 1 Gardens cites an instance of a toad J being found in a bed of magnesium 1 limestone 25 feet under the earth. 1 The age of the toad was believed to 1 1 e nnn rr*i .?_ < ue u,uw years, x nis creature was presented to the Hartlepool Museum. "It is well known," he says, "that toads at the present day bury themselves in mud when the water in which they have been living dries up, and so remain there till the next rains come. "If a drought sets in, and no rain comes to that spot, there will be no change in the condition of the toad, and therefore, pothing to bring him to a state of animation, and so he may continue for all time, until some one comes along with a plug of gelignite to unearth him. "This seems very hard to believe, but still we have the fact that the toads are there, alive, and so must have got there somehow. In some cases they have been found at great depths under the surface imbedded in rock, as in the present instance. "The toads seem to be in a state of suspended animation, and do not lose weight when in that condition." Ill'HAL ROl'TKN IN THE STATU The Number Now In Operation him] Their OiNtrtbutlon. Some interesting information relative to the operation of free delivery routes in South Carolina was secured by The News and Courier correspondent from the post office department. In the state there are now a total of 650 routes in operation divided among the seven congressional districts as follows: First district, 27; second district, 50; third district, 135; fourth district, 114; fifth district, 140; sixth district. 73; seventh district. 106. Each of the seven districts men-1 tioned has several petitions pending before the department, which will be ( acted upon in the near future. The ' whole number from the state is 56. ( For the United States there are 1 now 37,981 rural delivery routes in 1 operation, which are served by 37,- ( 832 regular carriers. All the routes ' are served every week day except 1 724 which have tri-weekly service. 1 The total number of petitions for 1 the service which had reached the 1 department up to September 1, was 1 54,973, upon which 15,056 adverse ' reports had been made. There are ( now 1,411 petitions for establishment ' pending, 163 of which have been fa- r vorably acted upon and service or- 1 dered established?leaving a balance > of 1,228 unacted upon. 1 111 YAI.FI> CAPTAIN KOFI'KNICK. ( Kllx-rinii lni|N>stcr Cleverly l>ii|?e<l v Army Officials. I The Herman impostor "Koepen- ^ ick,, who created such a sensation v by fooling a whole village, has been H rivaled in his line of cleverness by a , Siberian, who went to Harbin, Sibe- t ria, and passing himself off as an t officer escaned with a neat sum of ^ money. The victims of his bold , escapade were army men and offi- f cials at the Russo-Chinese bank. ( The man appeared at the headquatersof the frontier forces of the f Trans-Amur territory and displaying (i a document, which purported to be . an order, he asked for an advance , of $35,500 to be used in paying his men and buying provisions. So well , did he play his part that a check l. was made out for him and he cashed . it. " He was forced against his will to * take asmall portion of the amount in silver. Telephoning to the barracks v for two soldiers, he had them escort J1 him to the railroad station and left them to guard the money bags for a short time. The soldiers were on 1 guard for 24 hours before the trick was discovered. The "officer" had " escaped. AlItKHII* LIKK A IIIKI>. t ri Snared (Anlly and Smoothly Against v H Strong Wind. t c So successful was the recent trial r at Farnborough, Eng., of the first j military dirigible balloon built in c that country, that British aeronauts e are elated and predict great things v for future successes. In the pres- h I nnnn * 1 Ai\ -LI i v~11\/a aui;ui 1\A/ JATI J5UI1S LI1U snip fi performed beautifully, and with the , j exception of one minor defect; the f breaking of a belt on the machinery, -j acquitted itselt without a flaw. c During the trip the wind was | blowing at the rate of 15 miles, but r the airship had no difficulty in advancing against it. It soared on gently like a ship in a sea-way, the machinery responding well to the f canvas rudder. The airship is sausage shaped, 100 feet long and 30 feet in diameter. It traved at a rate of about five miles an hour. It can carry three men besides the ma- g chinery and other apparatus, having t a lifting power of one ton. It uses the exhaust gas from its engine to " keep the balloon filled. ^ ?????? H Now that Mr. Rockefeller has de- t cided to give out no more inter- t views, there will be less good advice t wasted on a cynical public. r t:t '* * ?'v' >v". ' > ink Franklin, Who Murdered Mr. f Henry Valentine, Convicted * f Murder and Sentenced to be Hang* ' ed on Friday, the Twenty fifth Day . of October. The court was occupied Monday vith the trial of Pink Fianklin, the tegro who shot and killed Mr. Henry Valentine, who went to arrest him as he special constable of his brother, vho is a magistrate at Cope. Frankin was given a fair trial and was lefended, by two colored lawyers Tacob Moorer of this city, and Jno. Vdams of Columbia, but he was conricted of murder and was sentenced i o be hanged on Friday, October 25, tad Franklin, who was placed on , rial with him as an accessory to the \ cilling was acquitted. I Franklin's lawyer knew that he < vas guilty of a cruel murder, but < .hey fought hard on technical i grounds to save his neck. Adams, ] who teaches at Allen University at \ Columbia, as well as practices law, , ?aw that his client had every safe | ;uard of the law thrown around him | 3ne day last week he raised three constitutional objections to the Juries, two based on the Federal Con- i itltution and one on the Constitution < >f South Carolina. Saturday he ar- | sued for a continuance of the case , leading some irregularity connected j with the proper keeping of the coro- , tier's records. In all of his motions to | luash the indictment and for the ; postponement he was overruled by | the Court. i The trial of Franklin and his wife , consumed the entire day, the case ( lieing called on the convening of the Court Monday morning. Franklin, who had been in the State Peniten- i tiary since his arrest for safe keeping was brought from Columbia Mon- , lay morning by Sheriff Dukes, who took every precaution for the safety i f the prisoner. Franklin's wife was kept in the jail here. There was a argo crowd in the city to attend the , trial. It was perfectly orderly and i seemed disposed to let the law take it8 course. Sheriff Dukes took extra precaution to protect Franklin, but there was no demonstration. By orier of Gov. Ansel the dispensary was , closed, and as far as wo itnuw ^"* " svas not a single man under the influence of whiskey and everything passed ofT quietly. The verdict as to ( Franklin gave general satisfaction, < but there are those who think his ( vlfe should he punished for her part n the tragedy. i The crime for which Franklin was convicted was committed by him only , i few weeke ago. and if he is hung ( m the day appointed justice will be neted out to him as it should be to ill criminals of his class. His execution legally a few months after the i commission of the heinous crime will lave a better effect than if he bad i >een caught and lynched immediately ifter he had killed in cold blood an i >flflcer of the law, who had gone to ] irrest him. The crime is fresh in the | nemory of our readers. The doom- \ cd man. Franklin, was a farm hand \ mder contract to Mr. Jake Thomas, 1 >f Cope. For some reason he broke j lis contract with Mr. Thomas and ] vent to work for Mr. Sol. Spires, of i he Norway section, where he was | vlien he bruttally murdered Mr. Val- | ntine. I After Franklin left his employ in j dolation of his contract Mr. Thomas , lad a warrant issued for his arrest >y Magstrate Joseph Valentine, who ( nnt I, I- t 41 " ' ' ' iv;4.?. ino uiuiuvr, v,onsiar>ie Menry ] /alentine, to arrest him. The later < vent to the home of Mr. Carter and ( pent the night and at daybreak the < lext morning he went with Mr. Car- { er to the home of the negro to make ( he arrest. The negro was apparent- f y asleep when they reached the t touse and Mr. Valentine entered the , ront door while Mr. Carter went to ( he rear to prevent his escape. # When Mr. Valentine entered the ront door and reached the bed room loor the negro suddenly opened the loor and fired, striking the constable j list beloiy the heart and felling him o the floor. The negro, then hearing he approach of Mr. Carter at his .ack door, turned and fired in that llrection, inflicting a painful wound, * vhich caused Mr. Carter to ertreat, Vitnesses state that four or Ave shots vere fired and the first three were in luiek succession. The result was hat both Mr. Valentine and Mr. Carer were wounded, as were also the legro and his wife. Franklin fled following the killing ,nd managed for three days to elude lis pursuers. He made his way to lenmark and there gave himself up o Ex-Senator May field, who com inn lea ted at once with Sheriff Dukes . vho went to Denmark, got Franklin ind sent him to the State Peniten- , iary for safe keeping. The murder >f Mr. Valentine created great excite- . nent at the time, nnd had Franklin >een caught it is safe to say that the ' ounty would have been s&ved the ixpense of his trial. Franklin's crime 1 vas a cold blooded one. and he richly j leserves the punishment he will reeive. His conviction was no stir- j rise, and it will meet with universal ndorsement all over the country, j "he solicitor was asisted In the prose- ^ uMon by Messrs. Glaze & Herbert.? "he Orangeburg Times and Demorat. F1VK NKGKOKH KILIiKl) ' t ly a Fast Train While They Were Gambling. Five negroes, their heads close to- ( ;ether, as they were totally absorbed n a game of craps on the Raltimore 1 ind Ohio railroad near Newberg, W. , /a., did not hear the numble of an .pproaching train. They were ground r >eneath the wheels and five killed, he bodies being so terribly mangled I hat identification has not yet been osslble. i PRICE OF COTTON. Ifteen Cents a Pound Possible ' If Farmers Stick Together. t lut Not Unless the Men Who Raise It and Sell It Work in Harmony to Maintain Price. t Last week the Farmers' Union Conrentlon met at Little Rock, Ark., and he executive committee of the Southern Cotton Association met at Jackson, Miss. The most important ac.ion of each of these bodies was to It the minimum price for which cot:on is to be held this fail, and each >f them agreed on 15 cents. If the farmers of the South to any great extent stand by this demand they will undoubtedly get 15 cents. Cotton is now selling in South Carolina above 13 cents, and the crop in Lhls State Is eenernllv unlit t" 1" ? J ?, .TO III U better condition than in the South western States, a condition which would Justify the higher price. But the only way in which the cotton planters can get 15 cents is to hold their cotton until they do get 15 cents. If the crop is rushed on the market when 13 or 13% cents is being ofTered the price will never go to 15 cents. In discussing the matter Thq News and Courier says the question is how far can the two organizations of farmers control the marketing of the crop? The Farmers' Union and the Southern Cotton Association are not exactly antagonistic but they work somewhat on dtfforent lines and are not affiliated In any way. It is impossible to say how far their respective organizations extend and to what extent they can secure an observance of their resolutions. They have taken similar action in recent years and it is umloubtedly true that while their demands have been respected by some planters who do not belong to either organization there have, on tbo other hand, been some members of each organization who have not stood by their resolutions, and consequently the amount of cotton has not been withheld from the market that might have been expected. When the Southern Cotton Association demanded 11 cents the farmers stuck to it and got 11 cents; when President Jordan two years ago demanded 15 cents the farmers sold for less and got a good profit. The truth of the matter is that the farmers of the South consider that 15 cents is a very fine price for cotton especially as some of them have sold cotton at five cents and managed to live. Of course the conditlous then and now are different, hut the facts remain. The matter of sunnlv anrf demand is supposed to fix the price of cotton as of other commodities, but it is not exactly correct to say that this Is the case with cotton if however the farmers by combination in withholding the commodity from the market can decrease the supply they can get their price. The difficulty is that so much of the cotton crop is sold before It is picked, even before it is planted; the farmers who have to sell to meet their fall obligations cannot regard the advice of their more fortunate !>retheren, no matter how good that idvice may be. The organizations tiave recognized this difficulty and tiave endeavored to devise some way in which the stronger may protect :he weaker by providing for the storing of cotton, etc., but these means ire not yet perfected and cannot be it once put in operation. If the farmers' organizations succeed in this effort and cotton goes to 15 cents there will be good times in iouth Carolina this fall. The mone\ :entres report that money is tight and he banks, even in South Carolina, ire not putting out money with great :aution; but if the farmers get 15 ;ents for their cotton and the crop urns out to be as good as the prosicct the farmers will be able a* Christmas to loan money to the banks ind has some to spare. THK C1I>A1>EL HCHOIjA HHI111'Ss Announcement of Successful Contestants and Alternates. Following are the successful contestants for beneficiary scholarships it the Citadel: Abbeville?W. E. Bell, Jr.; alternate, George C. McKelvey. Aiken?B. T. Cripps; alternate, C. 5. Hatch. Anderson?J. C. Pickens and H. \cker; alternates, J. K. Russell and 5. L. McCants. Bamberg?H. A. Ray, Jr.; alternate, C. O. Kirtsch. .Barnwell?S. S. Pison; alternate, none. Beaufort?C. A. Sanders and Mcleod Hutson. Jr.; alternates, none. Berkely?H. F. Porcher; alternate, *. W. Wilkes. Charleston?B. R. Leggc and J. it. Oglesby; alternates, E. H. Carnenter. Jr. and P. H. Gadsden. Chesterfield?J. K. Shannon, Jr.; Alternate A. Brock. Claredon?G. W. Green; alternate t. L. Griffin. Colletcn--J. F. Richer; alternate, W. B. Garris. Fairfield?H. K. Pickens and J. G. Craig; alternates, de Saussure Glarke and S. C. Lupo. Georgetown?W. R. Buie; alternate, Ehrlich Jones. * Greenvil.e?C. H. Fowler; alter late W. E. Kilgore. Lancaster?B. A. Sullivan; alterlate, J. D. Armstrong. Lexington?C. B. Livingston, al:ernate,J. S. Steadman. Marion?R. F. Bethea; alternate. Charles Gilchrist. Marlboro? Dargan Odom; alterlate Earle Dunlap. Newberry?L. A. Lester: alterlate, none. Orangeburg?S. A. Porter; alterlate, J. C. Fair. Pickens--Louis Kay; alternate, lone. Williamsburg?J. H. Floyd alieriate, R. M. Hemenway. -A QUEER CASE. ___ An Old Man Thinks He Has Found His Son I'Ut the Young Mun Says. He Never Saw His Woulil-Ile Father Anywhere lief ore. ? "TV The New York American says standing in the store of JohnGalvin, a young merchant, of No. 513 Third avenue Brooklyn, John Galvin, a wealthy manufacturer, of Brattleboro. Vt., late Thursday afternoon pleaded with the former to acknowledge their relationship as father and son. "Come home with me, John, Mother wants you ever so badly," said the old man. "I am not vour son. I am not John E. Galvin. I am just plain John Galvin. ahd I have lived here all my life," was the reply to the entreaty, a reply the young man had been compelled to make repeatedly during the past few days. Sorrowing and despondent, the old man departed for his hotel at Fourth avenue and Forty-second street, not fully convinced that he had not been addressing his son. For a week the Brattleboro manufacturer has been haunting the store owned by Mr, Galvin, insisting upon their relationship. So confident was he of the identification he had made of Galvin as his boy who ran away from home ten years ago that he enlisted the aid of the police, and two detectives Thursday visited Galvin at his store and questioned him about the case. "It was just a week ago that Mr. Galvin came in here," said young Mr. Galvin Thursday night. "He told me he had a son who left home in a fit of anger ten years ago. He had searched everywhere for the young man without success. Then he suddenly put his hand on my shoulder and said, "Your mother wants you home, John. Every night she walks out the rear door and through the lawn to the gate, where she looks up the road, waiting and watching. I frequently have to go for her and take her indoors; otherwise she would stay out until midnight.' "Of course I was amazed, and after I had repeatedly denied being his son, 1 asked him what had brought him to Brooklyn and to my home. "He said that Mrs. John Greeuage, of Ninth avenue and Tenth street, Brooklyn, had spent the Summi-i in Brattleboro. He had asked her in his simple way if she ever saw his son John in New York. She told him she knew a John Galvin, and then described me to the father and mother. Both were sure I was the missing son. "I remembered then that Mrs. Greenage had come home and told me about a rich manufacturer, of Brattleboro, Vt., who had inquired auuui mt as mwung one uescnpuon of his missing son. "At first 1 was inclined to treat the old man's search humorously, but the pathos of his story made me feel like giving him all the aid I could. When he still insisted that I was his son and wanted to take me back to his wife, I brought him to my residence at 118 Prospect avenue, and had all of my friends tell him that I had lived in Brooklyn all of my life. 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The passengers who arrived on the ' \ steamship Atlanta from New York at Savannah on Wednesday told a sensational story of an attempted robbery on board the ship and the indignation that was caused by it. It is said t hat there was a stronur tendency to throw overboard one or two men who were suspected of the crime. A young lady en route from New York to Macon about 3 o'clock in the morning was awakened by the presence of a man in her stateroom. She was very much alarmed and screamed at the top of her voice, The passengers on board were alert in an instant and rushed to the aid of the terror stricken lady. She told them she had been awakened by the presence of some one in her state- i room and that as she awoke the in- J trudef had disappeared through the | stateroom window. Immediately 1 mere was a search lor the guilty ] man. | A negro on b^-d was taken in charge. He protested his innocense. A foreigner who was a member of the crew volunteered the information that he had seen the negro coming through the window. Because of the knowledge he displayed he too was taken in custody. The passengers seemed to think that the foreigner was trying to throw suspicion from himself by accusing the negro. "Throw them overboard" suggested one of the passengers. This seemed to voice the sentiment of all the men who were gathered about in various stages of undress having been aroused from their berths by the young lady's screams. It is probable that if the young lady had been able to positively identify the man who had entered her state room that he would have been summarily dealt with by the angry passengers. As it was both the white man and the colored man were released. That Chester (Pa.) bride who fainted at the altar is no doubt being pitied by the girls who are sure they could go through the marriage ceremony without the quiver of an eyelash. 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