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THE FORT MILL TIMES. j ! 1 " 1 I II I"I i I m ? ... ,m - ? ......?. - ... . I .... I I I . . , . - . . _ , , . ? 16TH YEAR FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1908 NO. 40 WILL RIDE CHEAPER. The Southern Railway Will Reduce Its Passenger Rates. lfakcs This Concession of Its Own Volition and in Appreciation of South Carolina's Kindness. South Carolina will tret the bene, fit, so far as the Southern Railway is concerned, of the reduction in rates made by Legislative enactment in other States of the South, but without the turmoil of Legislative agitation and without the expense of prolonged litigation. The Columbia corresponded of the N ews and Courier says President W, W. Finley. of the Southern Railway, at a conference in the Governor's office Friday stated that on April 1, 1908, the Southern Railway would put into effect in South Carolina the following rates. For straight tickets, 2 1-2 cents per mile. For family mileage books, 2 1-4 cents per mile. For 1,000-mile and 2,000-mile mileage books, 2 cents per mile. The conference was attended by Governor Ansel, Attorney General Lyon, Chairman Caughman. of the railroad commission, and Commissioners Sullivan and Earle on the part of the State, and by President Finley, Vice President Culp, General Counsel Thorn and Division Counsel Abney on the part of the Southern Railway. The conference was held in the office of the Governor and was open, being attended by the newspaper men. Mr. Finley, in a conversational way, put the proposition of the Southern before the Governor, explaining as he went along the reasons for the different rates and the reasons governing the railroad in making this proposition. He explained that the Southern on account of the fairness with which South Carolina had treated the railroads had a disposition to give the State the benefit of the reduced rates, and consequently the Southern intends, without compulsion, to put into effect the rates which it has proposed as a compromise in North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. He felt assured that the agreement entered into would be made effective in these States, and perhaps in Virginia also. The same treatment promised South Carolina would be given Tennessee, which has also been liberal in the matter of legislation. The 2 1-2 cents rate will apply to ?U PI.i. i? an niici-oittu; iKuweuger uusiness on straight fares. The 2 1-4 cents rate for family mileage books, which contain the name of the head of the family will cover books for 500 miles, entailing a minimum expenditure of $11.25 The 2-cent rate for mileage books of 1,000 and 2,000 miles relates to individual mileage books and also to what are termed mercantile books, good for members of a firm or business concern up to five individuals, the names of each of whom shall appear in the book. i ski> iwkis <;iu:.->\ Highly Kwpertcd Farmer of Aiken Commits Suicide Mr. Samuel Bonnett, one of the most highly respected farmers of Montmorenci, committed suicide Thursday by taking paris green. Mr. Bonnett's mind is thought to have been weak, symptoms of such a state having been in evidence for some time. Thursday morning he got up and, it is said, acted rather strangely. Soon after he took a large quantity of paris green, evidently with a suicidal intent, A physician was summoned by telegraph, but before his arrival the drug had taken such effect that little could be done to save him. though antidotes were administered in large quantities. He died Thurs day afternoon. Mr: Bonnett was a good man and j no cause other than that stated can can be assigned for the act. He was a good farmer, a quiet unassuming man and a leader in church work. He is survived by a widow and sevchildren. White Miin limited. A dispatch from Lake Charles, La., says L. H.Coleman, white, was hanged there Friday for the murder of I^eputy Sheriff William Shoemaker, at Dequincy, La., on October 24. 1906. Coleman killed Shoemaker when the deputy attempted to arrest him on a minor charge. Four Persons Murdered* A A 1 1 * ?. repori nas reacnea me coroner at Pittsburg, Pa., that four members of a family living at Grays Mills near there, have been found murdered. No details accompanied the report The coroner has started an investigation. Aged Couple Killed. William B. Dick, aged 82. and hi* sister, Einily Hortage, aged 76 were killed Thursday by an express train on the Reading railroad near Camden, N. J., while crossing the tracks m a carriage, DIRE CALAMITY Predicted by a So-called Prophet In Pennslyvanla. S?yi lli? World Will Com* to u' End la tli? Latter Part of December Next* A York, Pa., prophet, at least one who claims to be a prophet and whose prophecies have attracted the attention of people who care for that sort of thing, has issued his 1908 bulletin. It is his habit and his livlihood, of course, but this one is more startling than some of those previously issued. The following is his last bulletin: TU~ 1 al 1 J ? - 1 i at* fiui ui niu worm, ine ena oi this world will come to an end in winter, in the end of the month of December on a Sunday, in the year 1908. Heaven and earth will pass away. Nineteen hundred and eight will be a year of trouble, such as was never known before, Nation shall rise against nation. Kingdomshall rise against kingdom. There, shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes. Rivers will dry up. The fish of the sea will die. The sea will boil up with a great noise. The cities of the nation will fall. Mountains will not be found. Islands will pass away. The city of Boston will sink. New York will go up in smoke. People will flee to the mountains. The land v/ill dry up to get ready for fire. The crops will fail and prosperity will be cut off. The banks will keep on failing. This can not be stopped. Roosevelt will get rid of all his money. The treasury will go dry. People will carry their money in their pockets and hide it in their homes. Families will steal it from one another. This is the gold that is piled up for the last days. This gold will rust in your pockets. It will give you more trouble than good. Labor organizations will come under one head and rule the land. There will be great wrath among tne people, rtatrea, Killing one an- j other, hanging themselves and child- j ren will rise against their parents: two against three, and three against two; mother-in-law against daughter in-law. All plagues that are writ-1 ten in the Bible will be brought forth. The land be full of lice, frogs, and crickets and locusts. Whosoever be stung of the locust will die. There will be signs in tha sun, in the moon and in tne stars. In the end of time the sun will be black, | and the land will be in distress. The moon will be as blood, the stars will fall and the heavens will be shaken. This coming summer and fall the elect, the saints, will be gathered together. 4"For unto Jesus shall the gathering be." The bride is getting ready to meet Jesas, the bridegroom, and we will be changed in thefltwinkling of an eye and meet the Lord in the air. IjABOII TltOt'IJIjRS. Strikebreakers Stoned and Beaten in Munrie. Rioting occurred on the streets of Muncie, Ind., between striking employes of the Indiana Union Traction company and strikebrakers. Shots were fired and stones and other miss les were thrown. Nine persons were injured, those hurt the most seriously being: Morris Maley, who received a bullet wound in the groin, and Harry Gardner, who was badly beaten. Others wen hit with stones. Cars were started Friday withou' interruption, each protected by from seven to nine strikebreakers. A crowd soon gathered at tne interruption station and in 30 minutes 2,000 persons surrounded the building. Cars I were stoned as they started out. At other Darts of the city cars were stopped and the strikebreakers were driven off. Two cars collided on account of the inexperience of the motormen and several people had narrow escapes. gt'EKR ACOPKNT. Blow from h Stove Lifter Caused an Explosion. Mrs. Josephine Cominsky, 18 years old, of No. II Pearsall street, Long Island City, became angry Thurs (lay night with Caster Gussus, who boards with her, and and struck him on the side with an iron stove lifter. Immediately there was a loud report and Guasus fell to the floor sci e. m ing with pain. Mrs. Cominsky called an ambulance from St. Johns hospital. The surgeon found that'Mrs. Cominsky's blow had exploded a cartridge that Gussus had carried in his pocket, and the bullet, striking against a twenty-five cent piece, had driven the coin partly in his side. The hospital doctors cut out the coin and Gussus will recover. The coin undoubedtly saved the man's life. Mrs. Cominsky was not arrested, as Gussus corroborated her story of the accident. At BRYAN POPULAR j As a Lecturer and Makes Fifty Thousand a Year. CROWDS HEAR HIM. He Won't S|tf?k on Sundays or foi the Benefit of {dividual*, and I* Moat Liberal in 1IL< Treatment ot Locul Management*. lie Always Make* Hi* Own Terms With L? cure nurcmis. W. E. Curtis writes in The Chicago Record-Herald: According to the report of his agents, William Jennings Bryan is making about $50,000 a year from his lectures. Charles L. Wagner, secretary of the Slayton Lyceum Bureau, which manages his lecture tours, tells me that he has filled 175 dates during the year 1907 and that his receipts for the season have averaged more than $300 for each appearance. Mr. Bryan stands at the head of the list of platform speakers today for the size of his audience, for the receipts at the box office and for the demands for his appearance. "Mr. Bryan's regular charge at Chautauquas," said Mr. Wagner, "is the first $250 taken at the gate and half of all the receipts over $500, not including season tickets. He is the only man who can make such a liberal contract. For evening lectures in a course he charges $200 cash as a guarantee and half of all the receipts at the door. For single evening lectures not in a regular course he asks half the gross receipts. "His average for the season under these terms has been more than $H00 a lecture, and he has probably filled 175 dates under our management without including his political speeches. He started out on the Gth of Jan uary last and spoke almost every day until September 10, frequently twice a day, and once during the summer three times, morning, afternoon and evening, in three different towns in Isvn.n I- ~ ,1:?: ? _ *1 I- - ? iuna. in auumuii iu mese nc ims made a large number of political speeches during the year; he has spoken at conventions, banquets, college commencements, Y. M. C. A. and church meetings, and on other occasions without a fee, of which 1 have kept no record. "Mr. Bryan uses a special form of contract prepared by himself, which differs in terms from the contracts of all other lecturers. The chief features of his contracts are the stipulation that the general admission to his lectures shall not exceed fifty cents; that he will not lecture under individual management or where the profits go to individuals. The contract reads: 'It is further expressively understood and agreed that this engagement is given under the ausDices of some church, lecture course, literary, educational, fraternal or charitable institution, and all profits realized from this lecture shall be used for the benefit of said auspices under which said lecture is given. It is further understood that should this lecture be given under the auspices of a lecture course there shall oe not less tnan two other lectures advertised to appear on said course of entertainment.' 'Mr. Bryan never spoke for money on Sunday except at Chautauquas where an admission fee is charged. He prefers to speak to free audiences on that day and nearly every Sunday during the last summer he spoke at least once, and usually twice, for some church, some Y. M. C. A., or some college. He always likes to visit small colleges and helD them. I do not know what he charges for political speeches or what arrangements he makes. I have never had anything to do with them. "We advertise three lectures for him 'The Prince of Peace' he likes the best himself, and it is the most popular with the people. It is a eulogy of Jesus Christ and His teachings, and his description of the crucifiction is one of the most eloquent word-paintings ever heard bynuman ears. He has delivered that lecture ' at least 60<) times and never varies a word in delivery. His memory is so accurate that he never makes a mis take. 'The Value of an Ideal' is an older lecture, and although it is not delivered so often these days it has probabiy been heard quite as many times as the other. 'The Old World and its Ways' is his new lecture and is the result of his recent tour around the world. He delivered that at many Chautauquas last summer and probably 150 times altogether during the past yei r, "The greatest indoor audience Mr. Bryan ever had was at Seattle last January, where he delivered ' The Prince of Peace' to about 8,0(H) people, and his receipts were over $2,000. The greatest audience he ever a dressed at a Chautauqua was a Carthage. Mo., where 12,000 people gathered to hear him. "H ?c osed h s tour for 1007 on the 10th of September with the exception of a few political engagements in the Sou h. 1 wanted him to give mj one lecture in Chicago, but he declined because it would be a violation of his ru'e not to speak for the profit of individuals." "Did Mr. Bryan deliver any lectures abroad?" ^ "When he started on his tour around the world he asked me to have our London representative arrange a few dates for him in England. The latter replied he feared it would be impossible. He explained iliat Mr. Bryan vcas not popular i in England and he did not think the public would pay to hear him speak. The British people did not take anv interest in American politico MiU 1 not have much respect for American politicians, while Mr. Bryan personally was practically known in England because of his sympathy for the Boers during the South African war The writer closes his letter by saying that he did not think Mr. Bryan would draw three shillings in Lon- ] don. I sent this letter to Mr. Bryan . and he read it at Franklin, Ohio, im- , i? * ... II meuiaieiy aiier me lecture tnat brought him the largest receipts of 1 that summer. It appealed to his sense of honor and he replied that it came just in time to keep him from getting 'chesty. He said that he intended to frame it as a reminder. A month later, while he was in our office in Chicago, I handed him a letter from our agent in London statinor that he had an offer of five pounds for one lecture from Bryan in that city and asked me to cable the , reply. Mr. Bryan read the letter and then remarked. 'That isn't a bad increase; he has raised the quotations 1 for my lectures from three shillings to five pounds in three weeks. Just! watch the market and when the bids reach a reasonable figure take a few dates.' "Mr. Bryan did not lecture in London for money," said Mr. Wagner. He spoke for the American Society on the Fourth of July and at the international peace congress, where ho made a great sensation. "Mr. Bryan has a standing offer from Winnipeg for two nights for $1,000 a night." The managers of the lecture course there explained that they could not accommodate all who want to hear him at a single lecture.1 and insist that he shall give them two nights, but he has not accepted. We : have on file more than twelve hundred applications for the present winter and for next summer, but have been compelled to refuse Ihem j because Mr. Bryan has decided not to appear upon the lecture platform again until after the Presidential campaisrn. He could i?et an eno-Ho-o ment for every night in the year on ( his regular terms of $200 a night and . half the gate money. He is in great- ! er demand than ever, and I think his popularity has increased instead of ] diminished, judging from the anxiety of the lecture managers through- * out the United States to secure him. We nave been acting as his agent for 1 four years and have booked him for j an average of 150 lectures a year during that time. He has never al- 1 lowed us to book him in Nebraska. ( He has never lectured for money in ( that State and has declined to do so 1 repeatedly. In his settlements with 1 committees he has been more gener- 1 ous and considerate than any lectur- . er I have ever handled. If his audience is kept away by rain or by any accident he never insists upon his ' full price. He alw&ys gives the managers the benefit of all doubts. He has never had a dispute of any sort, ! although I have known on several ' occasions when he has been very badly treated. Nor will he allow us to 1 engage in a dispute over receipts and settlemeuts on his account." VKTKKAX OI'KllATOIt1>KA1> 1 Joseph \V. Kates, Who Served the ] Confederacy Well. A dispatch from Richmond, Va., says Joseph W. Kates, for many years the most prominent telegraph operator in Virginia and perhaps in the entire South, passeaaway Thursday night at Manchester. He was at one time superintendent of the Southem district of the Western ITni'en company at Richmond and later general superintendent of the Postal Telegraph-Cable company, with headquarters in this city. Mr. Kates was in charge of the office at Manassas, Va., during the battles of Blackburn's Ford and Manassas and for several weeks did the work of the office by himself. It was he that transmitted the famous message from President Jefferson Davis to Gen. Joseph E. Johnston at Winchester, ordering that officer to make a junction with Gen. Beauregard at Manassas. In the fall of 1861 he was again transferred to Richmond and in the spring of 1862 to Columbus, Ky.. where he was operator at the headquarters of Gens. Polk and Beauregard. TWO MKX KILLED A Fatal Explosion Occurs in n Steel j Plant. i wo men were tuned and thirteen injured as a result of an explosion in converter No. 3, of the Egar-Thompson plant of the Unittd States Steel corporation at North Brad dock, Pa., Thursday. Six of the injured were Americans and the others Slavs. No official statement as to the I cause of the explosion has been made but the old converter men say, the cause can hardly be other than by some molten metal shifting through the soapstone lining of the converter and coming in contact with the steel sheathing which perhaps was damp. When the explosion occurred the bottom of the converter dropped Out, throwing fifteen tons of molten metal into a pit where fifteen men were working at ladels. The force of the e cplosion blew a sheet iron rocf off the converter a mile and caused t vo walls to collapse. THE LIEN LaW And the Negro ds Seen by a N'.diern Man Who IIuh Been a Kftidrnt of the County of Orangeburg for Near* ly Oue Year. The following letter written by Mr. Beers, of Bristol, Conn., to the Connecticut Valley Advertiser, will 1 :>e read with interest. Mr. Beers is i at the head of a huge lumber comp- i my located near Rowesville, and has 1 3een living in South Carolina a little ess than one year. He seems to be j i close observer. Here is his letter: i This is the time of the year when J ;he collector is abroad in this land < ind when the negroes are in hiding ] n the woods to avoid meeting him. ( rhey have the lien law in force and I system of chattel mortgages that j neans that the negro and the poor ] vhite too can and does mortgage not >nly what he has on hand in the shape 1 )f property, but he mortgages the < "uture crop which is not yet plant- j id. < Already negroes are coming into ] ;he stores and buying fertilizers to i nake the next year's crop. When the 1 :rops turn out well it is a good year j "or the business men, as they make i i practice of selling under the liens < it an exorbitant profit, but when the ! fear is bad and that year is followed ly another bad year, then the mer-! ihant is liable to find himself in a lole and with a lot of nearly worth-! ess live stock on hand. Under the lien law the man gives ! i note and mortgage on the crop that j le is going to grow, and it is his busness to take the first bale of cotton ! | >r the first sack of rice or the first of ' ] lis corn crop and turn it over to his ireditoi. This he must do before he ' riarkets any of the crop to an outsider. As cotton is about the only l ;rop that is grown in this State for j .he market it is the first bale or v :wles of cotton that he should turn :' iver, and the negro has more than ( ine way to get out of doing this. | As every negro who grows cotton i. s well known to the ginners and to , .he merchants as well, he does this , vay to get around his obligation, instead of taking his cotton to the ginnery he takes it in small quantifies to a well-to-do negro who maniges to keep out of debt and this ne- J ?ro has it ginned as thouvrh it was 1 lis own and gives them a part of the 1 aroceeds. Each ginnery keeps a rec- 1 ird of all men for whom they gin 1 :otton and thus there is no reeord ; J igainst the negro who has disposed j if his cotton without first settling , 3 with his creditor. t One fairly well-to-do negro who j 1 ives a little distance out of Rowes-;! /ille and who had about eight acres 11 if cotton this year which should have < furnished him with about four bales, lave already ginned 13 bales. The i legro whc thus disposes of his cot- i ton leaves it at the home of the man who is to have it ginned before day- i light and he is not seen by the man i who lives there and if he is question- i sd he can say that he did not see any- i body leave it there. For the last two weeks there have been riding about the country around ' Rowesville at least 12 collectors for 1 as many different concerns. They bave been taking in live stock thati i was sold last spring and in many cas- ; as have nailed up the doors of corn bouses to hold the contents against the owners. One collector for a coneern in Bamberg, 18 miles away, which sells horses and mules has already driven off at least 20 head that were sold last spring to negroes. In some cases the negro will give a mortgage on an ox, a horse or a mule , that he does not own. Of course this I is perjury and when the collector comes around and finds out what has been done then is the time for the negro to take to the woods and re-1 main there for the next two or three ! months until the collector has got tired of looking for him. Last spring a negro living near town mortgaged an ox to a concern in part payment of a mule and the ; collector started to drive away the ox a few days ago. The negro told him ! that he nad better drive the ox through the streets of Rowesville and then he took to the woods. When the ox was in front of the store of J. F. Boone the latter went out and asked the man where he was going with his ox. Mr. Boone rented the ox, a cabin and 40 acres of land to the negro four years ago for an annual rental of one bale of cotton. Plenty of men in town knew of the circum-; stances and they satisfied the collector at once that he had no claim on the ox and it was turned into the vard har?k r?f \fr Ronno'u otnfo One negro, who is in hiding at the present time because he can not meet a claim of $83 for which he made a fradulent mortgage, sent in by a friend a night or two since 30 cents to be tendered the collector in part payment. Two negroes, who are well known to the writter bought a wagon last spring and made a small payment and gave lien on the wagon for the balance of the payment. One of the men paid up his portion during1 the year, but the other paid n>thing. When it was time for tne collector to put in an appearance the man who had paid up took a front and a rear wheel and the thills and the wagon seat to his home and s ^creted it and left the other part to be lev- j 'ied on. J BHOOTS HIS WIFE am Anil Mother-in-law and Then S boots Himself. Just at the expiration of the twelve months' pledge he had given the court not to molest his wife, Major H. G. Coates Phillips, one of the heroes of Spion Kop, rushed into the home of his wife in the village of Crookham, England, Thursday, and. wounding two visitors and leaving his beautifu1 wife in the belief that he had murdered her, ended his life with two revolver balls fired at close range. His death took place in the presence of his twelve-year-old daughter. It was the wife's good fortune to faint at the first shot fire at her, which just grazed her head. Her fainting saved her life. The wounded visitors are Mrs. Phillips' mother, Mrs. Lucena. who was visiting her daughter a London solicitor, who had hurried to the village to give nis wife legal advice. Mrs. Lneprm probably will die of her wound. Mrs. Phillips divorced her husband in 190G od the ground of misjonduct while in South Africa, and in the course of the hearing of the ;ase last December, Major Major Phillips entered her home and attempted suicide with gas. Afterward on the last day of 1907, he ?ave his pledge to the court not to molest his wife for a year, his brother being his surety. DllEAKS 1-ONtl FAST. load lSats, Hie* First .Meal iu Thousand Years. A dispatch from New York says Pythagoras, the toad.tooa his first meal in one thousand years at the Bronx Zoo. Four flies and an earthworm constituted the meal of the little black creature that had been puried for so many centuries in imestone rock, 590 feet down in the silver mine at Butte, Mont. < The ancient toad is slowly recovering his eyesight and the use of Pis limbs, and is gradually turning ?reen again, as he was in the midile ages. He has already emitted several feeble sounds, but the croak had not come back. As the collector was about 20 miles from home a wagon in the condition that he found that was of no use to Pirn and the parts were left. Later . they will be assembled and then the pegroes will have a wagon for i another year. For weeks past sewing machine ( agents have been scouring the coun- ] try around Rowesville and there have been as many as 20 machines shipped to Branchville and Orangeburg, the nearest large towns on ( either side. The negro accepts this taking away of what might be considered his property with absolute stoicism. ( The writer on a ride a day or two since saw the collector with the mule that had been used all the summer hitched to the buggy to be taken away and then he went into a field wnere cne oniy cow 01 tne ramily vas staked out and drove that away. The negro woman and half a dozen children were on the porch of the little cabin to see them driven away and there was no apparent feeling of regret. There need be none, as they had paid only a small part of the purchase price and they had had the use of the animals all through the summer. In this case the man of the family had been at work for the J. H. Blake Lumber company all summer and earned $6 a week and there was no reason why he should not have paid for the animals, except the lack of thrift and calculation that marks the entire race. Last winier there was a call for a repeal of the lien and chattel mortgage laws of South Corolina and the matter is sure to come up again in the next session of the legislature. Last winter it was the question of the doing away with the old State dispensary that occupied the time of the legislature, which must by law, adjourn at a given time. All the low country of South Carolina where the negrovo are thickest has become disgusted with the working of the law and are solid for the repeal, while the up country, where merchants have to deal with that noor white class demands that if hn left on the statute books. Of the seven merchants doing business in Rowesviile all but two have ceased to sell goods under a chattel mortgage or the lien law and the time is not far distant when the negro will have to pay cash for what he buys. It will be better for both races when this state of affairs is brought about. There is labor for everv colored man in the State who will work, but he will not work as he can get credit. He lives in and for the present alone. A merchant saw a negro beating a horse and told him that if he did not stop the devil would get him. His answer was, "You can not scare a nigger that way by telling him of something away off in the future," Promise him something will happen at once if you want to scare him. Another nigger was caught in the act of stealing a pig and was told that he would have to settle for it in the judgment day. His answer was: "That was a long term of credit, and he guessed he would go back and get another." The negro is . here to stay and he is needed. I SLAIN BY BURGLAR. Another Burglar Slain While Breaking in a Store. George H. Fisher, Newark's Tenement Inspwior, Is bhot Learning from Wludow. A burglar shot and killed George H. Fisher, Newark's tenement house inspector, Thursday morning at the Fisher home, No. 110 Congress street, Newark, N.J, At the time of his death Mr. Fisher was leaning out of a window shouting for the police. At the same hour in Williamsburg, David JafTe, a bird dealer at No. 14G Messerole street, shot and killed a burglar who had forced an entrance t? his home. Mr. Fisher, with his wife and their young son and daughter had watched the old year out and the new year in. Soon after 3 o'clock in the morning Mrs. Fisher was awakened by the sound of breaking glass. She aroused her husband, and they looked out of the window. They saw two men in the rear of Feindt's store, adjoining their home, trying to open a window. Mr. Fisher went to the window, raised it and shouted "Police: ' Instantly one of the men below the window fired the bullet going through Mr. Fisher's head. He fell across the window sill his head and shoulders outside. Mrs. Fisher screamed, and the shot awakened the two children who ran into the room. The mother, son and daughter drew the body back into the room and laid it on the floor. Dr. Frank Devlin, who was called, said that death had been instantaneous. The only clue that the police have was given by a woman who lives about a block away from the Fisher house. She said she was with her sick child when she heard the shot and screams. She looked out of the window and saw the men running along Congress street toward Jefferson. They turned the corner and disap- ? peared. The man shot by Mr, JafTe in Williamsburg has not yet been identified, but the police are holding a man whom they believe to have been implicated in the attempted burglarly. Mr. JafTe and his brother, Morris, weic asleep in the store and were awaKenea Dy someone trying to open the door. Several times attempts have been made to rob the store, and Mr. JafFe was certain this was anothca. He drew a revolver from under his pillow and lired just as the door swung open. The bullet struck the intruder in the forehead and he fell dead. Another man who was with him ran towards Graham avenue. Patrolman Dahler of the Stagg street station, turning into Meserole street from Graham avenue, saw a man running and arrested him. The man said he was running for a car, but the policeman took him to the station. There he said he was Thomas Bayne. of No. 141 Leonard street, but refused any other information. He was held without bail on a charge of burglarv. ponding an investigation. Dr. Constantine, of St. Catherine's Hospital, who saw the body of the dead man, said he had been killed instantly. Mr. Jaft'e was charged with homicide and was released on parole. FARMKU\S KKillT WITH HTV.VN*. Flock of llirds Attacks Japanese and His Horse. A Japanese farmer, one of the many who have leased much land around Russellville, Ore., on the Base line road, had a most thrillincr adventure with a flock of white swans last week. He was out plowing in his field, so E. N. Emery says, when suddenly several hundred swans made their appearance. At first he paid no attention, but they soon began circling close down on him. Then they made a sudden sweep and nearly knocked him down. The swans renewed their attack on the Japanese with more vigor than ever. They dashed at him and struck him in passing from all directions. He sought to drive them off by swinging his hat but this had no effect. He then ran to the nearest fence, followed by part of the flock, and seizing a rail, defended himself; but still the swans attacked him until he had knocked ,i~ 1 uuwii acvt'i ?i. The horse which the Japanese had left hitched to the plow was also attacked by more than a score of the angry birds. The animal did the best he could to defend himself with his heels and teeth while his owner was wielding the rail at his assailants. Suddenly the whole flock by an impulse took flight, leaving the Japanese master of the battlefield "It was the most remarkable and comical flght I ever witnessed," remarked M?. Emery. "The Japanese certain'y had his hands full. Part of the time he was half-covered by the swans. He fought with the same determination that his comrades fought the Russians. The ground around where the fight took [place was strewn with feathers." f .1