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THE FORT MILL TIMES. S ^ j ...... ' ? . 17TH TEAR FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1908 NO. 3 " ? - . \ I * MARTIN IS MAD. Attacks Ex-Gov. Heyward In tha Baptist Coutier. WRITES WARM LETTER The Superintendent of Education Takes the Courier to Task Concerning a Prediction it Made a Short Time Ago That Ex-Got. ward Would Be Elected Senator at the Coming Primary. Hon. O. 13. Martin, State Suoerin tendent of Education, and a candidate for United States Senator lias opened his letter writing batteries on the Hou. D. C. Heyward, former Governor and also a candidate for the Senate. Mr Mn-fU1. ? * .... ..I. o un ?urnis lO have been aroused by the publication in the Baptist Courier, (Mr. Martiu is a Baptist) under the Note and Comment. Column, conducted by the Rev. L. .i. Bristow, of a prediction that Mr Heyward will be elected Senator and the assertion that he will reflect honor upon his State. Mr. Martin Friday made public a letter to the Baptist Courier in which he refers to the testimony before the investigating committee referring to expenditures alleged to have been made in Governor Heyward's behall by some of his supporters in Spartanburg County in 190-2. In his reply, pub'ished in-next column. Governor Heyward says he has nothing to conceal about this matter, and that the expenditures were made aud investigated by his friends. The item in the Baptist Courier is as follows: "Mr. Dan S. Henderson, who was announced as a candidate for the United States senate to succeed Mr. Gary, has withdrawn from the race. There are still left, however, five avowed candidates, of whom the leading are former Govs. Heyward and Evans. Mr. Heyward has probably gained by the withdrawal of Messrs. Mc.Cullough aud Henderson?two of the most scholarly and intellectual men in the State?and the present indications are that Mr. Heyward will "win out." If he should. South Carolina would have a representative in the senate equal in every respect to any member of tnat body, and one whose acquaintance and influence would be worth a great deal to the state.,k VI,. ? iTinnui -? lA'urr, To the Editor of the llaptist Courier: Dear Sir: The enclosed clipping has been noted by me and also sent to me by Courier subscribers. I regret that you use the Influence of your paper and your gift of prophecy to try to line up the votes before the campaign opens. I have always believed that your sense of fairness would have prevented such action. It is possible to prostitute a religous paper in politics. I wonder if you have read pages 327-346 of the testimony of the dispensary investigation committee? Mr. W. R. Dillingham, of Spartanburg, swore that he spent several hundred dollars for Governor Heyward upon his authority in ine race for governor In 1902. Dillingham said that he was conducting the campaign upon the Mark lianna system. Several men swore that Dillingham collected $50, each, from men whom Gov. Heyward appointed dispensary constables. Some of these fellows had to "borrow money for rent and rations." Chief Kant swore that Dillingham told him that he spent $1,080 in HeyU'u l'fl *u pumni.iirn u *v?or% w "? ?'* 10 U tiiuu I tn^uu* sible under the law for the acts of his agents? Does the Courier stand for this? It is well known that Gov. Hey ward said before Senator I^atimer'* death thnt he would not run for sen ator because of his business matters Did Senator Latimer's death immellately affect Gov. Heyward's business matters so thnt he could get into the senate race in less than an hour? Would ho have much influence in Congress where he would be known as the post mortem candidate? Did you see the dally papers in South Carolina which announced Senator c.atlmer's death and Gov. Heyward's candidacy at the same tline on front page in large head lines? Some of the congressmen apl>ointed to attend the funeral saw them and expressed their opinions of the same. South Carolina generally respects the dead and their families especlall in the solemn hours of their deepest grief South Carolina, too. believe in giving every man a fair change. 1 think your paper would not loose anything by hearing the ar gumeuts and reasoning before it decides definitely for the people of this state as to whom they shall elect for any office. Sincerely yours, O. B. Martin. Two Shot to Death. A dispatch from Krasnoyarsk, Siberia says a lieutenant of the army named Masloff and a sergeant were shot to death there Friday after having been found guilty by a courtmartial on the charge that they had led the attack which took place last June on the guard house and detention prison prison at Krasnoyarsk. This attack was continued for several daya by revolutionists on the one side and the prison guard on the other. MM \ HEYWARD REPLIES. SORItV MR. MARTIN HAS BEGUN MUD SLINGING. Explains the Spartanburg Mat tar, and Quotes What Mr. Martin Sakl Of Him Last Summer. When Gov. Hey ward was shown a copy of Mr. Martin's letter and was asked If he had any reply to make to this attack upon him. he said: "I am very much surprised and very sorry to know that Mr. Martin has seen fit to begin mud-slinging in the senatorial campaign. When I was not a candidate for the same office to which he also aspires he seemed to entertain for me a very high regard. The people of the state win recall that when Mr. Martin last July got mad with Governor Ansel and made a bitter attack upon the chief magistrate of South Carolina he referred D. C. Hey ward as: "That delightful and considerate gentleman who adorued that ofQce during the past four years.' But since that delightful and considerate gentleman is now Mr. Martin's opponent, and is pronounced by a leading religions newspaper as the probable winner in this race, Mr. Martin Beems to change his opinion of him entirely, but I am certain that he cannot change the opinion of the people of Soutfi Carolina. "The testimony before the investigating eommittee must have been known to Mr. Martin when he spoke of me so kindly last summer, as it has been public property for nearly three years. The people of South Carolina know what sort of campaign I conducted in 1902 and their confidence in me was clearly demonstrated by the fact that 1 was re-elected governor in 1904 without even a hint of opposition.' "As to the alleged expenditures in 1902 in Spartanburg county, as brought out by the Investigation. I have nothing to conceal and have never had. I will be very glad for you to publsh a copy of ths testmony. wncu i nwewun nana you. Hundreds of my friends throughout the state know the circumstances in the case. Between the. first and second primaries I made my headquarters in Spartanburg and necessarily a great deal of expense was incurred. I was under the impression that all of these expenses had been settled at the time but two and a half wears later a statement was presented to me from Mr. Dillingham, which after an investigation by some of iny friends and upon their advic* paid. As shown by Mr. Dillingham's testimony the amount was not nearly so large ' as Chief Paut had thought, and. furthermore, the tes'imony will show that it was entirely disconnected with the Constabulary. "As to my alleged disrespect to Senator Latimer. I wish to say that my candidacy for the senate was not announced until I read in the afternoon paper an account of the funeral of Senator Latimer, and it was announced only because I was leaving the next day for Philadelphia to be absent for sometime on account of the Illness of my wife. Anv previous reference to my probable car.r.icourse witho\>t authorization or incourse without authorization on iu stigation from me. "Mr. Martin's consideration for the feelings of Senator Latimer's family may in his own words he termed post mortem regard, because it is well known that Mr. Martin was preparing to attack the personal and political record of the late Senator had Mr. Latimer lived to enter the campaign. "This Is shown hy Mr. Martin's announcement of his candidacy for the senate." * MYSTKIMOl 8 Ml'KDKit. A New York Woman Found Stabbed in Her Bed. Mrs. Isaac Lieherman, described l>y her neighbors as the most, beautiful woman in the Bronx, was murdered in bed at her home. No. 706 Courtlandt avenue, New York, Tuesday. Her husband, who conducts a shirtwaist store at No. Melrose avenue, a block away, is under arrest on suplcion. Mrs. Lieliernian was stabbed twice as she slept, with a long dagger wielded by a powerful arm. One of the wounds Is through her throat. The other Is through her breast, penetrating both lungs. The knife was driven in from the left side of her body as she lay on her right side in slumber. Lfeberman and his wife occupied a Hat on the second floor of an apartment house at the Courtlandt avenue address. They were childless and kept no servant. Acording to other tenants iu the house they appealed to tie as happy as the average man v.d wife. Mines Resume Work. The Ross Run Iron mines in Ruth County. Ky.. owned by Alabama and Mississippi capitalists, have resumed work, after a shut-down during the i financial stringency. This gives work i to about two hundred men. many of whom had spent almost their last dola lar for food since the suspension. * ; L " I WILL N01 RUN. Mr. Feathersfone Announces His Withdrawal From Race. GIVES HIS REASONS. Go*. AbwI Has Climbed Upon His { Platform and .Therefore, His Can- 1 dfdncy, This Year Would Not Help I the Cause of Prohibition.?Got. j Ansel's latest Position on the Li- 6 puor Question Staled. Mr. C. C. Featherstone announced t Friday morning his withdrawal from t the race for governor. His entrance t into the ccntest several weeks ago c was l>efore the exact platform of Gov. \ Ansel was known. i It was supposed that Mr. Ansel t would run on the same platform upon c which he was elected two years ago, i but in a letter to Mr. Featherstone a few days ago. part of which is below- t quoted. It will be seen that Mr. Ansel f now occupies the same position that c Mr. Featherstone nnnounced last fa'l, j namely, a reverse local option law, r under which the counties will all bo v dry until the dispensary is voted in. j thus throwing the burden on the peo- s pie who desire the dispensary. In announcing his withdrawal. Mr. c Featherstone says: t Col. Featherstone*! Statement. j "Several weeks ago 1 -mm I'.tred t my candidacy for governor of South 8 Carolina, upon a S?a;e prohloittoi a platform. p "I believed then and I still believe, v that the people are tired of the 11- q quor traffic, and that they are ready r to take a great step forward and t sweep the legalized traffic out of the u State. r "The anuouncement of my candi- a dacy was made at the suggestion of Dnrno n,,n lnnHli.r. V. I l.l . I stv?i??v; wi WUl ichhiii f-y JM UlllUltlUlIiniO y men who have been with me in the a fight since the campaign of 1S98. , They believed thai there ought to be c in the campaign a candidate who would make an aggressive fight, and v were kind enough to suggest that I K ought to lead the movement. "As I have already stated, person- ( ally it did not suit me to go into the ^ fight at this time, but I yielded to ^ what I conceived to be a call of duty, j "I did not hesitate to say that it fl would be a source of gratification 10 v me to be governor of the State, but c the desire to gratify my personal am- r hition alone would not have been sufficient to induce me to enter the race at this time. "Shortly after the announcement of my candidacy it was publicly sug- 1 gested by Gov. Ansel's friends that he was also in favor of prohibition and that he would offer for re-election on that platform. a "It seemed to me that the cause of prohibition might be weakened by having two candidates in the field. * and that If he would espouse that v cause it would be the part of wisdom f for me to withdraw. "Acting upon this idea and with * the approval of my prohibition friends. I wrote Gov. Ansel (on Feb. 1 29 > that if he expected to make the ' race on that platform I wduld not ( oppose him. ? "I am in receipt of a letter from c the governor informing me that he 1 expects to advocate the reverse of c our present local option plan. lie x says: " 'Mv position on the liquor ques tion is what I call restricted local option?that is, local option as he- i tween county prohibition and county dispensary. Those counties voting to sell liquor shall be restricted to one dispensary in the county and that ( one at the county seat, except in those ( counties wherein there is a city of , more than 2"?,<ioo population, in which counties more than one dlspen- j sarv may be established. This is in , accordance with nty recommendations . to the general assembly as set forth ' in my annual message of 1!>08, is in | the interest of temperance and will minimize the sale of liquor. " 'With the experience that I have '{ had in the past two years in the proposed elections that were desired in some counties on the liquor question. I am of the opinion that it will he better to enact a law by which a county can vote 011 the question of voting in the sale of liquor as above restricted, instead of voting it out,as now provided ?that is. make all the counties dry until a majority of the qualified voters of a county vote to sell liquor in that particular county, and, if a majority of the qualified voters vote to sell, that one county dispensary then be hstablished as above set forth, with the right to vote the dispensary out at a subsequent election.' ' 'This Is practically the plan that 1 outlined in an interview given out Inst In 11.* State Heady for rmhhition. "As I see the situation now, I believe the State is ready to take even a greater step towards prohibition than this: but such a plan will, practically. give us three-fourths or more of the State for prohibition. "With the p"Hcy of the State declared to be opposed to the traffic, coupled with the good effect produced by the practical workings of a prohibition law, the counties will be very slow to exempt themselves from LEAPED FROM TRAIN. MR. KLY E. SMYTH OF HARTSVILLE COMMITS SUICIDE. lumped Out of Window Without Warning and Died After Being Carried to Columbia. Tha State says as train No. 53 >n the Atlantic Coast Line reached * he 17-mile post, nearing Columbia, Tuesday morning, Ely E. Smith, denented and under escort to the State hospital for the Insane, raised himself out of the seat in the smoking tar and dashed out of the window. The act was done before any of he horrified passengers could stop f ho unfortunate man and when the , rain was stopped and tho body reovered It was seen that there was ' 'ery little chance of recovery. With- 1 n a few minutes after arrival in Col- ' imhia he died and his body was at ^ mce shipped back to his home in , lartsvllle. Mr. Smith has for two years had 1 nental trouble, beiug injured by a ' all front a building. He never re- 1 ovored from the result of tuo in- j urles received by this fall and while t lot violent his mind gradually grew k reaker a, d it was decided to place 1 lira iu the State Hospital for the In- f ane. He wus carried to Columbia, es- ( orted by the chief of police of the own. P. 11. Klrkpatrick. and by Dr. s . L. Powe, who was ou his way to ' he meeting of the State Medical as- J ociation in Anderson. The man was i Iways quiet, although his two com- i ^unions deemed it best to keep a close t iatch on his movements. When :i 'hief Klrkpatrick left his seat for a ? ninute a stranger who came into r he car took his place beside the lun- t lie and a second later Smith had i aised himself out of the car and dis- t ppeared out of the opeu window. Railroad Commissioner Earle, who 8 yas on the car, had the train stopped j nd a short distance back the body ras found. The man was uncons- i lous and a hasty exaxmlnation show- ( d that he had no chance for recov- c rv. On arrival at ^Columbia he was 5 lven medical attention but died with- t n a few mlnuteb of removul from the 0 rain. Tho body was shipped back to t iartsville to the family for inter- y nent.. Chief Klrkpatrick and I)r. { owe regret the affair very much but y iccording to the statement of those j i'ho witnessed the suicide nothing ouia nave stoppeu tne untortunate e nan from his deed. I > INHALED POIBONOlS FUMES f r rhree Employes ol (iuauo Company 11 r Dead and Four 111. t Three colored employes of the Roy- ' ter Guano Company at Macon, Ga., a ame to their death last week from r nhaling poisonous gases while at c vork in the acid chamber of the cora>any's factory and four more are ill c rom the same cause, one probably fl at ally. The coroner empaneled a ury and held an inquest ou one of he negroes for all of the victims, rhe verdict of the jury is that John lilmore came to his death while In he discharge of his duty in employ >f the Royster Guano company, due o the incompetency of Superinteulent Stamps and Foreman Gonsalres." * DIED IN I'RARIE FIRE. Vu Awful Dcutli Overtakes Family in North Dakota. Louis Orian, his wife and five chlllren perished In a prairie fire which iwept the country 12 miles west of Cogswell, North Dakota. Orian hurried his family into a wagon, but lost in a race with the flafes. The fire was spread all over the country by , a wind which truvelled nt 4 0 miles an nour. uozens or [aimers lost barnes and granaries. Live stock was liurned on severul farms. Serjeant country has never known so i destructive a fire. * i ? the operation of the law and to 1 pluce themselves in direct opposition I to the well defined moral policy of the State. ] "Under such circumstances, I do not believe that my candidacy this year would be productive of good to i the prohibition cause and I will not i be a candidate. "Whether the State Democratic Convention will be asked to permit a i direct vote upon the question in the primary this summer, I am not nowprepared to say. I have my own personal views upon this subject, but before any definite conclusion is reached It may ha necessary to have a conference of the prohibitionists. | I am seeking to do what is best for the ultimate good of the cause. "Personally. I shall continue to go into different sections of the State and advocate prohibition. I shall offer my services to any section that may desire them, whether it he to make speeches generally throughout the State or in counties where campaigns are being mude under the pros ent law. "The fight is on and the prohibitionists expect to keep it up until they stop the legalized sale of liquor in South Carolina." 0 1 fttit w KILLS HIMSELF After Shooting His Sixteen Year Old Daughter Twice. SHOCKING TRAGEDY 'lecured in a Girl's School at Ashovlllc. The Young Lady had Taken ! Part in April Fool Joke and her Father visits her at School, Shoots 1 Her,and then Commits Suicide. A terrible tragedy was enacted at Xsheville, N. C., on Wednesday. En- , raged at his 16-ycar-old daughter | Nellie, because of a harmless school 1 ?irl prank, I)r. D. O. Swinney. who 1 ecently went to Asbeville, from New fork, fired two shots at her, fatally | bounding her, and tden turning tne v>v?i.ci uii muiseir, tie placeo iu?.: 1 nuzzle lu his mouth and pulled the rigger, dying almost iustantly. | 3adly wounded as she was, with two , mllets ein 111 bedded in her skull, Miss I Swinney ran from the room up-stairs ' 0 the principal's room before she ell. | The tragedy occurned lu the recep- i Ion room of the Normal and Colleg- < ichool for girls, where Miss Swtnney ' lad been a pupil for the past session ( lust what occured prior to the shoot- j ng is not known as there were no . vitnesses and the girl, while still j -onscious could give but a vague , iccount. Dr. Swinney, who, up to 1 few years ago, had been a promi- | itne physician In New York city, , las been in poor health, and of late , t is alleged his mind has been un- , alanced. Recently his dnughter was one of ( i number of school girls, who, as an , tpril fool*8 joke, absented them- , ielves from school, and the father j irooded over the little escapade unil It assumed to him the proportions , >f actual wrong-doing. When Dr. Iwinney called on his daughter at ( he school this afternoon about 3 ( ('clock he was shown into the recep- ( ion room, nnd a few minutes later ( lis daughter came down and went ( nto the room, closing the door bednd her. She sat down at the piano, ( ler father sitting beside her. Half an hour later girls and teaches were startled by four shots ringng out and a few seconds afterwards 4iss Swinney, with blood streaming rom the wounds in her head, cume ushing from the room. In a few iiinutes later the wildest confusion eigned, school girls and women eachers ran here and there, but Miss ( tobinson. the principal, speedily retored order and nastily summoned ' i physician. Miss Swinney was des- ! lerately wounded and there is ?ittle i hance for her recvery. I The room in which the tragedy oc- ( urred showed signs of a hard strug- , lie; chairs were overturned and the ( iano stool, with one leg broken, was ying in the middle of the room. The ather was lying on the floor, at one 1 ide of the room, face downward. ' vith the revolver with four chambers ;mpty tinder him. The attempted ( nurder and suicide were evidently leiiberately planned, a? before going 0 the school Dr. Swinney purshased 1 revolver and two rounds of cartidges at a pawn shop. Although, it is said, his mind has >een unbalanced for some time he tad never been violent and his famiy were totally unprepared for the 'earful tragedy. He was a father-inaw of Dr. J. A. Sinclair, a prominent ientist of that city, and since his reurn from New York a few weeks ago md made his home with him. TERRIBLE EXPLOSION. Towns NY it bin a Had ins of Eighteen Miles Damn:;e?l. Many men were reported killed, several fatally injured and a number missing in an explosion earlv Tuer-I lay morning at the Aetna mil Ik of the I Dnnnnt PnwHor nnmnonv t- vtu I lers, Ind. The shock of the explosion was heard 18 miles away. The wrecked plant employed from l.r?0 to 200 men in the day time, hut the full force was not at work when the disaster occurred. The night shift had just completed Its task when the death-dealing blast startled the town. Houses were dismantled and windows broken hundreds of yards away from the scene. At Chesterton, Ind., harbor, Gary nd Dane Park, a dozen or more miles distant, citizens thought an earthquake was upon them. Physicians and nurses were hurried to the scene. A number of the injured were removed to the new hospital at. Gary on trains over the Hake Shore and Baltimore and Ohio, and Wabash, Machines Are Demolished. At Pittsburg. Pa.. Fr'dav sixtyeight steel machines, confiscated by the police upon complaint that they were used to operate games of chance were demolished. About 4,000 pen nies were taken from the machines and added to the police pension fund of that city. ... *. FIENDISH BRUTE. ATTKMFTBD AN ASSAULT OX i BRAVE LEXINGTON WOMAN*. hSe ChaNt'd the Hroumlrel With i Gun to Perry, Where lie Whs Ar rested. The State says Chief of Police Sal ley, of Perry carried to Columhh Wednesday night and lodged In th< State penitentiary Alex. Hall, colored charged with attempting crlmina assault upon a Lexington county wo man Sunday afternoon. The negro was arrested at Perr> Monday night by Chief Salley and Wednesday he was taken to the Aiker county Jail. It was deemed wise tc place the negro in the penitentiary however, and Officer Salley carried him to Columbia Wednesday nighi and he Will rnmnln v...... ?* HCIW i\ I suit keeping until the opening of the regu lar term of criminal court in Lexing ton. Sunday afternoon Hall stopped a^ the home of Mr. C. Wint Sox. ai Edmunds, about 10 miles from Lex Ington. Mrs. Sox was the only per son at home. He asked her for i drink of water and she started to gei It for him, when he turned and ex claimed: "You are what I want, noi the water." At the same time h< made a dash for Mrs. Sox. but sh< grabbed a hammerless gun and at tempted to shoot him, whereupon h< dashed out of the house. She did noi know how to operate the gun, other wise she would have been able to til him with lead before he could hav< possibly escaped. Mrs. Sox gave th< alarm immediately and a number ol nearby citizens started in pursuit ol the negro. Chief of Police Sallev of Perry wat Informed over the telephone about the attempted assault and was asked to keep a lookout for the negro. Monday afternoon he located a negro answering the description and held him Tor identification, it is sajd that thf negro feared the result of having Mrs. Sox come to Perry to identify him and admitted that he was the man. requesting that he be taken to the Aiken jali. Sheriff Corley of Lexington was in formed of the arrest of Hall and expected to send his deputy to Aiken for tho purpose oj transferlng him :o the Lexington jail, but the negro Is now in the penitentiary and will "eninin there until the regular term if the criminal court for Lc*4ngton :ouuty convenes. DON'T WANT TAFT. S'rgnt Bishop Creates a Grrat Sensation in New York. Bishop Alexander Walters, head of he African Methodist Episcopal Ziou church In New York city, created wmething like a sensation among the colored worshipers of his denomination Tuesday by delivering himself if a hitter attack on Predident Roosevelt for the part he has played in the Brownsville u air, and declaring that Taft was unfit to be the negro's candidate for the presidency hecause he was with Roosevelt, a party to what the bishop termed "a deliberate plot to discredit the negro race for political purposes." That the bishop's denunciation of the president and Secretary Taft did not fall on ears altogether appreciative was evidenced before the last clause of his letter had been read Several of those present allowed them selves the privilege of groans of dls approval, and at the end Rev. Dr Parks, chairman of the meeting, called attention as delicately as he coult! to the fact that the meeting waa noi to discuss politics, but to considerth< education of the members of tin race. CHURCH THIKF. Woman Arrested for Robbing Wor shippers While at Prayer. As she rose from her knees, cross ed herself devoutly aud walked ou of St. Elizabeth's Roman Catholic church, in Chicago on Sunday, Ma: O'Hara, alias May Miller, was ar rested by a police sergeant and threi patrolmen for stealing the purses o worshippers. The woman's rooms which she occupies with Frank Cun nlngham. a former pockey. wen found to contain between forty an< fifty purses and handbags, all o which are supposed to have been stol en by May O'Hara while she was pre tending to be in prayer and was ii reality searching the scuts in fron of her for plunder. SIXTY-FIVE KILLED [Ij n Landslide* in Canon on Souther Pacific Railroad. Slxty-ftvo Japanese laborers em ployed by the Canadian Pacific rail road lost their lives in one of th worst land slides in the history o Canada, in a canon of the Albert mountains. The roar of the thous ands of tons of snow, ice and rod carrying before it debris of all kind and snapping off large trees as I they were twigs, could be heard fc miles. Telegraph wires were carrie down by the slide. Only five bod it .have been recovered. t WITH BRYAN x And a Strong Running Mata WW Certainly Win Says SENATOR TILLMAN. ( He Thinks the Democrats Hare a - Magnifirh-nt Chance to Win in NoI vember?In the Northwest Ho Found TliouHHiids of Republicans Who Will Vote for llnan Bccnnso I i Ho Is With Roosevelt on Reform. A special dispatch from Atlanta to [ the Charleston Post Bays Senator t Tillman is much improved at the san5 itarium. but is still weak. In an interview he says: The Democrats have a mngnificient t chance to win. There is a spirit of unt rest aud discontent in the Republican party. With Bryan aud a strong mate we can win. J "Everything now points to Taft ?s the Republican nominee. He is supposed to typify Rooseveltisin, but I believe he would be a different man as President. I do uot believe Roosevelt or any other man could control [ him. ' "In the Northwest I found thousands of Republicans who will vote for J Bryan because they know he stands for the things Roosevelt stands for. Of course, the old conservative Demr ocrats would probably go to the Republican nominee." Senator Tillman expects to sail for Europe in a few weeks. He may de' clde to take a cattle steamer for the . Jong slow trip and ocean air. lie is able to take short walks. KILLED HIMSELF. i ! Au Old Man Follows Advice of f?r. Osier. 1 When a man after nn active life finds himself without an opportunity to continue his activity and through reverse fortune is without means of livelihood to retain honor and prevent himself from becoming a burden on his followmen. it Is desirable that he follow the proposition attributed to Osier. I, therefore, deem it expedient to do so." Tho above abstract from a letter found on the body of .Joseph Child, who committed suicide Tuesday at his boardlug house in 117th street, In Chicago., by inhaling Illuminating gas explains his reasou for his deed. Sixty-live years ulrt without f'iends or relatives, out of employment and with no prospect of finding work aud with his little savings rapidly dwindlng away. Child chose to go to a suicide's grave rather than become a burden on the community. I/OST BOTH liGGH. The Very Sad Fate of An Augusta Georgia, Boy. The Augusta Herald sa>H Tracy Owens, an 1 1-year-old white boy. was run over the other morning in the lpper Hnrrisonville yards of the Geor' gia railroad, at the north end. Both I legs were severed from his body. He was at once carried to the city hospital, where an operation was performed. and he may recover although i It Is considered quite doubtful. The Georgia railroad oflleials state that engine five was in the act of ' taking the cab from the engine In 1 order to leave It on a seperate track. 1 when Owens, who is said to hang 5 around the place often endeavored to ' swing aboard the cab. His footing slipped and legs wero severed. The cab was at once connected up and t heboy sent to the hospital. It is stated that young Owens had been . reqquently warned to stay away from the place. MOHK RODIKH FOUND. ' Death List of Chelsea Fire Now N'umc V her Thirteen. B Two more bodies were found in f the ruins of the Chelsea fire of last Sunday, making tho total number rei covered 11, and the known victims e 13, which includes two who died iu j hospitals. f The bodies found were both males. _ The first found was recovered at 29 _ Marlboro street, where search was n made through the efforts of a sister t of a man who lived at that number and who hns been missing. The body was identified by means of a watch ana ipein as mai u? nsn; urmn, agod 4 2 years, employed as a messenger In Boston. " The second body recovered was found at Poplar street and was that, of a male adult. The list of missing [- persons Is still large and It Is feared I- many of them perished. e if Mother Forgets Baby. a As the clerks in a 14th street dry J- goods store of New York were putr. ting away their stocks for the day Is Friday they were aroused by the waillf Ing of a baby. Search in the nur>r sery revealed a three-monts-old ind fant girl, who had evidently been for>8 gotten by its mother in the haste or closing her day'6 shopping. ________