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SB V - . ' THE FORT MILL TIMES. ? - ? ? - 16T YEAR FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 19Q8 no. 44 THE STATE WINS. Judge Prichard Refuses to Interfere in the Dispesnary Matter. GRAFT HUNT GOES ON. AVhiakey Dealers Who Swindled the ' / State Will Hare to Face the Music or Do Without Their Money That May Be Owed Them By the Old South Carolina State Dispensary Authorities. At Asheville, N. C.. on Wednesday Judge Prichurd in the United States circuit court denied th^ petition of Flelschmann & Co., of New York ana rerusea to appoint a receiver j for the South Carolina State Dlspen- ' eary fund of $800,000, against which there are alleged to bo claims aggregating $600,000. The Judge made his announce- | ment during the afternoon session, after attorneys for the dispensary commission had presented their bill In answer to the sensationul charges made In the Fleischmann petition, which was filed in this court a short time ago. The answer alleges that the claim of Fleischmann & Co. is unjust and Invalid and that there was collusion j and conpslracy between the plaintiff and another firm to defraud the i State and that the State was cheated out of a large sum of money in each of the claims made by the plaintiff; it also alleges that Fleischmann & Co. sold to the State a concocktion with a mere trace of whiskey. The answer declared false the al- i legation by Fleischmann & Co. that the commissioners were wrongfully withholding the money for their own individual interests. The answer denied as false and maliciouss the allegation in the complaint which referred to a conspiracy between Attorney General Lyon and the dispensary commission and demanded proof. Shortly after the court convened for the afternoon session. Judge Prlchard announced from the bench ! uiai ut* Y> uuiu iiu i u. 1111 a iccelver for the dispensary, as he felt : that the funds are now fully protect- ' ed. He directed the attorneys to con- j fine their arguments to the question as to whether this court could assume jurisdiction, the point being ' whether or not this is a suit against the State. Mr. D. L. Rountree of Atlanta, for the commission, consumed the remainder of the afternoonee? ' slon in argument to establish the fact that the State is an indispensable party to the suit. Before the bill of the defendants was read, Attorney General Lyon of South Carolina replied to the allegations made by Fleischinann & Co. relative to the transfer of funds from the jurisdiction of the court, saying that the State of South Carolina was not running away, that the allegation was false. He read a concurrent resolution adopted by the house of representatives Tuesday. In the course of the resolution it was siateu inai the legislature of Souh Carolina in creating the dispensary commission did not consent to suits against, the State for claims as a result of the dispensary muddle. Just before Judge Prichard announced his decision there wb6 a sharp colloquy between Attorney General Lyon of South Carolina and George lb Lester of New York and Alf. S. Barnard, who represent Flelschman & Co. Mr. Barnard asked for time to prepare answers to the affidavits of the commission. He stated that the commission had invited creditors to come to Columbia to prove their claims. But at the same time it was known that some 50 or 60 warrants were ready in the office of the nttorney general on which the representatives of the creditors would be arrested, and instanced the case of the prepresentative for Ullman &. Co., who had been arrested, charged with fraud and required to give heavy bond. Judge Prichard remarked that if he took Jurisdiction he would uppoint a master to sift all charges of fraud to the bottom. The attorney General in reply to Mr. Barnard said: "Of course we hear this cry from those who have defrauder the State. Naturally, when I can catch any of these fellows in South Carolina. I will arrest them. I have no warrant, however, for the Fleischmann representatives and I will agree that they shall come to South Carolina to prove their claims and depart unmolested." He added, i however, that there was a warrant for the representatives of the Anheuser-Itusoh concern. Mr. Mordecai responded that Mr. Farnum, the man referred to. had left, tho State on business. But he would return and meet all charges. Mr. Stevenson, counsel for the commission, stated there was no intention of inveigling men to South Carolina for the purpose of prosecution. , Judge Prlchard then announced that no receiver would he appointed and arguments on jurisdiction wa< then begun by Mr. Rountree. Heavy Damage Reported. A cyclone is reportod to have dont damage over a territory of consider able extent north of Brook haven Miss., on lost Friday. i Ji ? PROHIBITION KILLED The House Refuses to Pass the Nash Prohibition BUI ' YV. C. T. I*. Delegation Appear** in Ciallery Prepared to Assault the legation With Hymus. The Nash bill to provide for Stat* prohibition was killed by the House Thursday, the vote being nearly two to onn During the progress of debate on the bill a delegation of W. C. T. U. members appeared iu the gallery and took seats Thev had nnon hvmn books in their hands and it was evident that they were prepared to sing hymns at the psychological moment. The attention of Mr Nash was called to their presence, and at his request the Rev. A. N. Hrunson, of the Main Street, M. E. Church, of Columbia, went to the gallery and suggested that it would be better not to make any demonstration Meanwhile Speaker Whaleyrhad instructed the sergeant-at-arms to strictly enforce the rules and suppress any demonstration at once. The ladies, however, acceded to the suggestion of the prohibitionists on the floor and there was no expression whatever The vote on the motion to strike out the enacting words was as follows, the ayes being opposed to the Nash prohibition bill and the nays In favor of it: Ayes?Speaker Whaley and the following representatives: Ayer, Bailentine. Ranks, Reattie, Boyd, Rrantley, A G Rrice, F M Bryan, Cannon. Curson, Carwile, Cosgrove, Cothran, Cox, Croft, Culler, DeVore, Dick, Dixon, Roar. Dowllng, Fraser, Frost, Gary, Glasscock, Gyles, Hall, llarley, Harman, Harris, Harrison, Hughes, Hydrick, Kellahan, Dawson, Legare. McMaster, Miley, Miller, Nlckols, i>ickolson, Richardson, ltucker, Sawyer. Saye. Sellers, Shlpp, Slaughter. K. P. Smith, Spivey, Stillmell, Stubbs, Thomas, Todd, Von Kolnitz Vanderhorst. Wade. Wallace, Wiggins? 62 Nays?Arnold, Bailey, T. S. Rrice, W. D. Bryan, Carrigan, Clary, Clinkscales, Courtney, Derham, Dingle, J. B. Dodd. Douglass, Epps, Gause, J. P. Gibson. Goodwin, Greer, Hardin, f-l * " n 111 Km, juunsioue, jones, iversnaw, Klrven. Lane, Lester, Leitner, McColl, McKeown, Manu. Morrell, Nash, Nesbitt, Niver, Norton, Parker, Pat terson, Reaves, Richards, Robinson. Scarborough, Scruggs, Sharpe, D. L. Smith. J. E. Smith, Verner, Wanuamaker, Wlmberly, Woods. Wyche, Yeldell?51. The following pairs were announced: Hethume nay Qarris aye; Gibson aye, Tatum nay; Mujor nay, Yournans ve; Aull nay, Tompkins aye. The clincher was then put on the motion to kill. t KEEP TO THE RIGHT. The Duty of ChaflVurs is to Ik* on the IxMikout. A decision by the district court of appeals at Los Angeles, Cal., recently declares in effect that automobilists are obliged to look out for the pedestrians and keep from running them down and that pedestrians can not i>e charged with contributory negligence if they do not keep out l of the way of automobiles The dci v-.iBiou confirms a Judgment for J7,; dOO damages awarded Stanley King who had been run down by ! omobile of K. K. Green. <>\ khih>SK <>i m<ikimumbh Itrooklyn Drug t-lerk Saw AppmBcpg of His Daughter. : :H Believing that he had seen th^fef; l?arition of his daughter and this foretold of the nlne-year-ohH ' suffering from scarlet fever , Moeller, a Brooklyn drug olerk,Btj?i an overdose of morphine and d^K|?|| i hotel. Moeller is said to hnvt^Bgjrej the haunting vision on Sunda\^B|f& .ting. He left home on MondaH&jf*! nothing more was hoard of him until 1 he was dying Ui the hotel. t DANCED WITH JACKSON. Dies at the Age of One Hundred and Twenty. At Bristol. Va., Mrs. Mary Ramse> wooa, a native or rcast Tennessee died Monday at the age of 120 years (it her youth Mrs. Wood saw (Jeorgf Washington. Thomas Jefferson and others of the early statesmen. It it : said her best recollect Ion of publh men was that of Andrew Jachson with whom she frequently dancec when a girl. HKVKN ARK CRKMATKI). Collapse of House Causes Flames t< Destroy Wltoie Family. By the collapse of the house o J Anthony Franklin, a negro of Bed ford City, Va., the building was flrei and destroyed the whole family conslting of himself, wife and flv ' children, burned to death. The fam * lly was sitting with the corpse of i . 2hild that died on Sunday when th t i building fell In. FARNUM WANTED "The Beer King" Has Not Been Arrested, Yet But WARRANT IS ISSUED For His ArrfM, and Has Bern Out ( \ Two Weeks.?His Present Where- t nbouts Is Unknown, Hut His At" ' tomey Scoffs at the Suggestion * That Farnuin is a Fugitive From t , , 1 Just ice. j Where is J, S. Farnum? E Is he a fugitive from justice? r Or Is he out on a business trip? 1 To hn o mnn ?f V. ? * * * * * w M xuii ui om il uuijuBiiieusiiKe * methods that his employers do not t know where he is? s Is he aware that the dispensary I commission has had issued a warrant charging him with conspiracy? c Has he seen no South Carolina ? newspapers in the last few weeks, s has he received no statement from his t wife,, no notification from the An- c heuser liuscli Hrewiug company? c If he did know of the existence of o the warrant, then has he not treated the commission with contempt in o evading service of the warrant? 1 These are the questions propounded t hypothetlcally in the meeting of tho e dispensary commission on Thursday n morning says The Stnte. f It was published iu newspapers cir- ? culating as widely as F. S. Farnum o is known that the warrant was is- h sued for him on the 16th day of t January, and the officers of the law v know not his whereabouts. When the commission Thursday c resumed its investigations, the case t of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing as- u soclation was tlrst on the docket. It J had been stated that there would be a t bookkeeper from that concern who t would produce hooks of record. He v was not in evidence at 10 o'clock. At in-'in ?? >.". ? i-.-.i? ? w.uv I..TT v.v/111111 isDiuii wn? iurmany convened. Three times the marshal!, In reg- I ular court fashion, cried the name of the defendant.. No response. Three times the name of J. S. Farnum was called No responce. It j, was reported that a lawyer, the same c who had represented W. D. Roy, ^ and others at a foimer meeting, had c communicated with the Anheuser- ^ Rusch association, to Inquire if they c wished to he present to establish the ^ validity of their claim. This attor- ^ ney had not been advised to proceed i with the case. a With something of mock distress H in his tones. Col. T. B. Felder ad- ? dressed the commission: a "Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: 0 We were hopeful, though not sun- c guine, that Mr. Farnum would be present on this occasion. But he is ^ not. However, I will assume the bur- (| Jen of proof in this case and will c establish by documentary evidence j that the plaintiff has no just claim r against the State." . ^ Continuing, Col. Felder said that ( lie wished to go just far enogh into f the matter to show that this "Rud- , weiser claim" as he referred to it "is c reeking with filth and fraud and is t one of the basest conspiracies on record in all the annuals of this coun- s try." t "Under the laws of South Caro- j Una." he added, this commission is j as much of a judicial tribunal as the a supreme court itself. This commission is vested with the right to serve If Bis- n be >ks, inst rks ' llta he ake der tiffs lent evirib :ord ?red There being no answer when the names of the plaintiffs were called, j Mr. Felder put in evidence a card, : which he stated was the legal acknowledgement of the AnheuserI Buseh Mrewing Association that they 1 had received the registered letter in 1 which the claimants were notified to 1 r be here at this time with certain bonks of record and of evnensos to .'show that their claims were just and . valid. This notification not only auI thoriied and directed and invited i ; the Anheuser-llrewing association ; Hon to produce the hooks, hut also , ordered them to produce J. S. Far1 num as their agent. Except for the card indicating the receipt of the letter from the South Carolina torn| mission, there was no acknowledgement or other statement from tire St. Louis brewers. ' j John It. Cnrr. deputy sheriff, who j was sent to Charleston with the war| rant then testified that the paper had f heen placed in his hands at 10 p. m. - hy Sheriff Coleman and that he had 1 taken the train at 2.15 a. m. for Charleston, that being the most notoe rious place of abode and of business - of the said Farnum. A visit was a made to the abode of J. S. Farnum e at the Charleston hotel. Farnum 1 was not there. A second visit and GIVEN GOOD TERMS. rwo Scoundrels Sent to fhe Penitentiary From Lexington. ?or Twenty-Fir* Years Bach For Assaulting a Man au<l Attempting a Worst Crime on a Woman. At the term of the Lexington 2ourt last week the two negroes vho some months ago committed an Lttrorimm assault on Mr onrl Mro llckley, of that county, were tried ind convicted by Judge Wilson to wenty-flve years In the Penitentiary One night the two negroes went to hec ountry store kept by the Blckeys, and while one of them asked Vir. Bickley to come outside and ;ell him some whiskey, the other emained in the store, where Mrs. itidkley also stayed. A gun was lred and Mr. Bickley was shot. At he sound of the gun the negro inside elzed Mrs. Bickley and attempted a lorrible crlm e. While his wife was In the clutches if this brute, Mr. Blch?ey, wounded ind bleeding, staggered into the tore and reached for his shotgun In he corner. The negro hiade his esape, however. The alarm was given ind the two negroes were sought all iver that territory for days. When finally captured sentiment igalnst them was still high, but a ynchlng was prevented. At the rial each negro denied any knowldge of the presence of the other that light and told a story quite different rom the evidence put up by the itnte. Each of them was Indicted n two counts, assault with Intent to 111 Mr. Bickley and assault with inent to ravish Mrs. Bickley, and both vere convicted on both counts. Judge Wilson, In passing sentence, ongratulated the county of Lexingon that a lynching had been averted inder strong provocation and that ustice had been done, regardless of he fact brought out In the evidence hat the Blckleys themselves were lolators of the law In selling liquor. LEVER AFTER MONEY 'or Soil Demonstration Work in Orangcburg, Leo and Sumter. The Washington correspondent of the CewB and Courier says a hearing of onsiderable importance to the peoile of Orangeburg, Sumter and Lee ountles was had in Washington on londay afternoon before the House ommittee on agriculture. Represenatlve Lever, in whose district the hree counties named lie, secured he presence of Messrs. . A. Bonsteel ,nd Frank Bennett, experts in soil urvey work in the department of griculture, in an effort to secure an .ppropriation with which to carry m work alreudy commenced in those ounties. Messrs. Bonsteel and Bennett, who lave been in South Carolina on fre[uent occasions, and who have done onsiderable work in Mr. Lever's district, demonstrated to the cornnittee just what the soil in the counies named can produce under proper conditions anu how much the armers living in those counties could bo benefited by a continuation >f the demonstration work already indertaken there. Mr. Lever believes that h will be iuccessful in securing an appropriaion with which to carry on the work, t will mean much to the farming nterests of all the counties in the leventh district. T111! V'MV IMWTOI, I,AW. Phu Kill Ki\iii){ Size of Gun u Man .May Carry. The new pistol hill, which will be nme a law before the Legislature uljourns provides that from and afer the first, day of July, lfthS', it ihall be unlawful for any one to ;arry about the person, whether con ealpd or not, any pistol less than wenty inches long and three pounds n weight, and it shall be unlawful 'or any person, firm or corporation :o manufacture, sell or offer for sale, ease, rent, barter, exchange or trans port for sale or into this State, any pistol of less length and weight. Any violation of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than >ne hundred dollars or imprisonment for not more than thirty days; and in r:ase of a sale by a person, firm or corporation, the sum of one hundred dollnrs shall be forfeited to and for rho use nf the school fnnil of the county wherein the violation takes place, to he recovered as other fines and forfeitures. Hearch of the premises was made. Again no Farnum. The latter's wife stated that Farnum was uway on a business trip. Mr. T. Moultrie Mordecai, attorney for J. S. Farnum, called the State on the long distance 'phone Thursday night and stated that he had heard in Asheville the allegation that Farnum is a fugitive from justice. 'Thf charge is ridiculous,' said Mr. Mordecai, 'The fact is that Farnum is or one of his regular business trips and on his return to Charleston will sur render and give bond, and I so stater to the attorney general. Mr. Lyon "Any charge that Farnum hai closed out the greater part of hii business in Charleston and in com pany with his family, has left th< State is absurd and 1 wish to den it." _ BOLD THIEVES They Get a Sack Containing Three Thousand Dollars BY DARING ROBBERY. The Express Agent at Mansfield, Ohio, Knocked Sensejless and Then the Thlrves (Jot Away With One llag of Money, bat Overlooked Another lias That Contained (y Thousand Polnrs. One of the boldest robberies ever known, took place at Mansfield, Ohio, shortly after midnight Wednesday, when two masked robbers entered the offico of the Adams Hxprss Company there, knocked William Depew, the agent, unconscious, and got away with $3,000. while nearly fifty passengers stood about the station waiting for trains. A bag containing $40,000 In gold was lying near the $3,000, but was ovevrlooked by the robbers. Telegrams wero sent to the police of the nearby towns and as a result. John McCue and Joseph Stevens were taken into custody at New Eondon. They had a sack token from the express office containing the $3,000. Stevens, the police say, confessed and Implicated George McGinity, a friend of Depew's, who was in thei office at the time and was covered I with a revolver during the robbery. According to Stephen's story, the money arrived Tuesday night from! Delphos, Ohio, and was consigned to a bank at Hamilton, Ohio. Stevens said McGinity tipped off the arrival of the money, and cooked up a scheme with him and McCue to rob the office. McGinity was locked up. He denies the charge. SWEPT BY FLAMES. Tli Town of Hnmptnn ll&rd Hit by the Fin' Fiend. une or me most disastrous tires that has visited the town of Hampton in a number of years occured Sunday night at nbout 10.30 o'clock, totally destroying the office of The Hampton County Guardian with the presses and etc, the office of Robert R Sizer & Co, a brick building owned by Senator \V. S. Smith, and two small stores and two small dwellings on Lee Avenue, the principal street. A strong wind made the work of fighting the fire more difficult than ordinarilly and the flames spread rapidly. The insurance on the property was as follows: Senator VV. S. Smith, 1,200; loss $1,000. M. B. McSweeney, Guardian building, presses and practically all of the newspaper and job type. Insurance on printing material and building, $1,400; loss $2,000. W. E. Richardson, dwelling and store, $500; loss $500. Small dwelling, $400; fully covered. The residence and store of J. B. Rivers & Sons and The Hampton Hotel were in danger but escaped damage. The origin of the flro is unknown. GOES Vl? FOR LIFE. From tne Lunatic Asylum to the State Penitentiary. John Beard was convicted at Gainesville. Ga.. of murder on last Thursday and ordered sent to the penitentiary for life, for the murder of W. O. Hammond, his father-inlaw The killing occurred three yoars ago. On the first trial Beard entered an insanity plea He was sent to tho state sanitarium at Milledgevllle. Lately he was declared by the authorities there ha have been restored to mental health. He was brought back to Hall county and arraigned for the killing, conviction resulting. t GOT A MOVE ON HIM. Tornado Made a Sick Man Itun For His Life. A tornado swept through the northeastern portion of Etowah County, Alabama, Sunday night. While no lives were lost, much damn arc* u,'n a Hnnn a nroru?rfu A f Pr*nfo'a Mend, several dwellings were destroyed. The home of llid McCurdy was struck and crumbled like an egg , shell. A 75-year-old bachelor, broth er of McCurdy, was on what was I thought to bo his death bed. In . fear the sick man jumped up and ? fled from the house and got out of . the way of harm. i 1 Right Stores Hurn. Fire yesterday morning swept 1 Fire early Wednesday morning swept . the village of Girard, Ga , consuming s eight stores, the hotel and several s residences. Dr. F. G. Brigham, one - of the most prominent physicians s rushed into a residence to save his y medicine case. He was caught undei the falling roof and burned to death THE APPELT BILL To Impose a Tax of $5,000 on Liquor Drummers, Pnssri the Senate by a Large Majority?It Will Exclude Whiskey Drummers From the State. At the night session of the senate Thursday Mr. Appelt's bill providing for a license tax upon liquor drummers passed a third reading and was ordered sent to tho houso, but not until it was amended by providing that the tax shall bo $5,000 instead of $1,000 as proposed in the original bill. The bill was taken up under the t head of special orders shortly after j tho night session was convened. Before there wna nnv ?.?j uvimif, Ot'UUlUr Graydon moved to strike out the enacting words, the vote on that motion being as follows: Yeas (to kill the bill)?Rass, Black, Clifton, Earle, Hough, Lanoy, ' Raysor, Stackhouse und Williams. ' Nays (for the bill)?Appelt, \ Blease Rrice, Brooks, Carlisle, Car- , penter, Crouch, Gibson, Griffin. Hardin, Harvey, Holliday, Johnson, Mauldln, McGowan. McKelthan, Otts, 1 Sinkler, Smith, Sullivan, Talbert, : Toole, Townsend Mr. Rogers wanted no $1,000 license Issued In any prohibition county He did not want to license drummers because they may be debarred by federal legislation. Mr. Appelt fought this and wanted , his bill kept intact. Senator Crouch was strenuous in his support of the bill and favored a $5,000 license. 1 Mr. Carlisle said the courts have held that a license feo will stand 1 the tests of the courts and he favored the bill. Mr Rogers' amendment to prohibit ' licenses in prohlbitio.n counties was killed Mr. Courch had the license fixed at $5,000 per county for soliciting liquor orders, which Is deemed absolutely prohibitive. Mr. Rogers was persistent and " wanted Marlboro county excluded from the bill No license to sell liquor has ever been Issued In that county for 50 years, and he seriously * opposed any and every Ucenso system Mr. Brico said a drummer could now solicit liquor orders In dry counties and as he saw It the prop- , osltiou was simply to collect a 11- ' cense from outside drummer? wii" now solicit orders without paying a cent and he felt the $5,000 license (1 would keep drummers out of the dry counties Dr. Black was opposed to any 3ort 1 of license: ho was not In favor of these drummers coming here at all. He felt that this license would give ' the semblance of authority to nolle- ' It business, lie wanted them barred s from the State. Mr Rogers' amendment, exempting 1 Marlboro county from the provision? of the bill was adopted by a vote of 1 20 to 11. The bill was amen lc 1 r.o as not to apply to Lancaster as well. Mr. Raysor offered an amendment 1 to make it a criminal offenso to slllcit orders. That ho urged would avoid the objections as to a license system. Mr Otts thought this would not 1 stand the tests of the courts. The Raysor amendment was killed. The bill was finally ordered sent * to the house providing for a $5,000 ' license for drummers soliciting II- ' quor orders for Interstate shipment 1 This license Is applicable in each county In which such interstate ship- 1 ment may be solicited. Senator A| - 1 pelt thinks his bill will do ninth to ' kill the promiscuous soliciting of 11- ^ quor orders, which ho declared had ' become a nuisance in his section. t j HE PROTECTED HER. ( Married His Cousin to Prevent Her ' ( M nrrying Another. I 1 i A special to The Augusta Chroni- , cle from Albany, Ga., says the con- | tracting parties to a niarriago Sun- , day were Miss Leinmio Glddens and ( Mr. 13. T. Glddens, both of Worth , county. | Miss Olilrien's father ohlerted to , her receiving the attentions of a cer- | tain young man of the neighborhood. f He ordered his daughter to remain , in the house day and night.. It. T. | Glddens, a third cousin, went, to her , father, and offered to co-operato in | the plan to save her from the objec- , tionahle suitor. , Young Giddens kept his part of the bargain so far as other men were | concerned, hut ho construed the I agreoment liberally in favor of him-' self and married the girl. t , MAN DROPPED DEAD And the Shock on Seeing Him Killed llis Nelce. At MUIvlile, N. J., Thursday. Rollln Nlckleson, a well known oyster shipper, dropped dead Thursday as he stepped from a train on his return home from Savannah, where he had I been ill from typhoid fever. The > body was taken to the home of a , brother near the railroad and when | 5 Mildred Nickelson, a niece, saw it r she collapsed and died In a short; . time. tj NEARLY FREEZES To Death in His Own Refrigerator an Atlanta, Ga. DOOR SHUT ON HIM And \V. 11. White, Jr., Had Artie Adventure in his Ice House, Where lie llnd Gone to See How the Thermometer Was Working and If the Meats Were in Hood Condition. This is the story of how an Atlanta man was lost In the artics Sunday morning and kept himself from freez in* iu ueuui oniy by dragging the forequarter of beef frantically back and forth for more than an hour aB told by the Atlanta Journal. On last Sunday morning shortly after ten o'clock W. Ii. White, Jr.. of the White McLendon conipauy, wholesale dealers in meats, stepped Into the refrigerator of his warehouse at 1 and 3 East Wall street, Tor the purpose of seelug what decree his thermometer registered. No sooner was Mr. White inside than he door of the ice house banged and the spring lock clicked fast. From then until 11 o'clock he had 10 need to consult the thermometer :o know the temperature. "I have discovered the north pole," ho said shortly after his release, 'and I can tell you it's a bad thing o hunt for." While Mr. White was working his lardest to keep up a faint spark of warmth in his blood, his carriage with Mrs. White in it was awaiting tlm in front of Durant's restaurant >n Alabama street. He had called it the restaurant a few moments beoro to take James S. Gaines and >lrs. Gaines for a morning drive. Mr. Jaines was slightly delayed so Mr. iVhlte said: "I think I'll drop by the warehouse I vhile we're waiting and have a look it tho mercury. He back in a minito." When the minute had passed and wenty more had followed tho ladies jrew uneasy. Hy eleven o'clock Mr. laities yielded to their anxiety and et out to Arid the trouble. In the meantime a strange and, or tho time being a terrible drama i-as being enacted in that ice house, tnyono who could have peeped in at he time would have seen a whiteaccd man lighted by the misty blue if a solitnry incandescent globo racng from one side of the box to the ither with a huge quarter of beef in ills shoulder. He would hang the leef first upon one hook and then ipon another, all the while swinging lis arms high above his head and dong a thousand and one Swoboda t tints. "it was either this or freeze," exilained Mr. White. "If a man 1h tard at work ho can live in such a efrigeratort hree or four hours, but f he stands still ho will pretty soon ?o like one of those petrified animals hat, geologists dig up in northern lussia. And so back and forth he tugged he beef until the end of his imprlsinment it looked like a soup bone hat had done duty three days. Once a telegram messenger boy >assed on the alley on which a tiny dde window of the refiigerator op>ns. Mr. White lieard him whistling ind with all his might ho shouted md beat upon the sides of the ice louse. Hut the boy kept on his way inheeding. Then ho began to think vhat might happen. He concluded it first that someone was playing a |oke on him and then he decided hat pretty soon the policeman of ho beat would pass and seeing the leys in the front door would lock hinks up and go away. He conjectured that in the moan:ime Mr. Claines and the ladies would lecido that he had been detained on Mislness and would take a preliminary drive over Jown. However, ho night view the situation, it looked lopeless and he remembered all the dories he had read of travelers being niried under the snow and freezing o death with no earthly sound to ?reei ;nem, except inn lugunrious howl of far away packs of wolves. Every detail of his strange prison rell into harmony with such romances. The incandescent globe cloaked in its chill fog shot forth fantastic rays that seemed like the aurora horealls and the huge blocks of ice that hemmed him in were for all the world like the mountains of Lapland. ily the time the quarter of beef had been frazzled to gaunt skeleton Mr. Gaines arrived. Insido the store he heard the steady beating against the walls and pretty soon recognized his friend's voice in tho muffled shout for help. Mr. White never stopped to see what the thermometer registered when the door was finally pried open and he stood once again in the temperate zone. "I don't believe there's a thermometer with enough notches on It to tell the story," he said. Tlio Kentucky Deadlock. The Joint, assembly of Kentucky took one ballot for United States senator on Friday, which resulted ns follows: Beckham 58; Bradley, 57; Allen 7. . t