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- \ t V .Y* K ' THE FORT MILL TIMES. :n, 7TH YEAR FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. 1908 NO 24 MAKES GREAT FLIGH1 WltlUlIT KEEPS IIIS MACHINE 1? AIK KOH OVEIl AX HOI K. Ohio Aeronaut Continues to Ureut World Itecord* Established b) Himself. A dispatch from Washington. D. C., says OrvllI Wright Thursday broke the world's record for ttme and distance for a heavier than air living machine, which he established Wednesday In a flight requiring great skill on account of a ten-mile wind. lie circled around the drill grounds ut Fort Myer r>8 times in l?5 minutes and 5- seconds, exceeding the time of Wednesday's record flight by three minutes and ten seconds. The flight was witnessed by nearly a thousand people. Throughout. the day the weather was threatening nnd Mr. Wright did not arrive ut the lleUl until after 4 o'clock. At T? o'clock Mr. Wright announced that he was ready. "Are you going to try to break the record which you made yesterday?" he was usked. "No." he replied, "1 ..... I .... 4....I <*.... ? lit rln ......,.t i..t> 4(iii -u)i juov iui <1 iivviv j/t uwtw. I may make n. flight of ton minutes In order to determine at what rate of speed 1 have been flying." The aeroplane rose from the ground almost immediately after leaving the single starting rail. It continued to climb higher with each successive round of the field until It reached an altitude of 75 feet. For the first II0 rounds the machine flew as smoothly as on its previousflights, but front that time on it wus seen to pitch at the turns as the stiffening breeze from the west struck n. As the machine moved from the' northern end of the field to the southern eud. where the "aero-garge" foi storing the aeroplane is locted, Mr. Wright kept it several points in tin wind. A gust of wind unuRuany strong struck the aerial flyer during the 42d round and it plunged sharply. Mr. Wright then brought his machine lower, but in the 53d round he had recalled an altitude of 20" feet. Mr. Wright came down at tin. northern end of the field at the end of the 58th round, landing easily. "I encountered a stiff breeze." wen Mr. Wright's first words, liis eyes were blood-shot and caused him considerable pain. "I don't know whether the wind or dust causes the irritation of my eyes. I had on a pair of goggles, too. Flying in a wind as1 did to-day is lots of fun. It's mori siKirt than flying in a calm as on yesterday. The wind must have been nrtao? in- more miles ail uiunuih v ----- hour, as 1 couU1 toll by tlio quarter lag of the machine. I kept much higher than usual on accouut of tin wind." Signal corps officers of the wni department expressed the belief thai Orvllle Wright will make a speed o! at least forty-two miles an hour with his heavier than air machine, which did such excellent work at Fori Meyer. If he does male forty-two miles an hour he will he entitled to a bonus of 20 per cent, over tin contract price, which would net hiu for his machine $:?n,000, the eon tract price being $'25,000. The o.u eial trials will he held as soon as .Mr , Wright announces his readiness. c A STUANtJK IMSAlTEAItAXC'K. Package Lost by Express Comptiy Worth Over $30,tMH>. A dispatch from Portland, Oregon, says a package entrusted to the care of Wells Fargo Express Company at Salem. Oregon, by J. U. Albert, tin president of the Capital Nation Hunk of that city and addressed to Joseph M. Meyers at the Portland Hotel In this city containing notes and other valuable papers repressing over $50,000 is strangely missing. As soon as the robbery was reported to the express company,'dc ........ I II ? ' n ?? V I V |M(l IU II II i n . I1ATIIRR IHtOWNS AT SAVANNAH Ills Cries for Help 1'nhcanl hy Dane* ci*s til Isle of llopc. A dispatch from Savannah, Gn.. says Ernest Roberts, for ten years chimo ringer at St. John's Church, and a well known cnurch worker, was drowne^l at Isle of Hope late Thursday night while in bathing. On a pavilion fifty yards away music for dancers drowned his cries for help. His wife and children were in their home a few feet front the river banks. bootl Horse Sense. Only the fastidious sense of taste of his horse, saved Robert Mccormick. of Eat Mountain, Conn., front losing $ l,:iou in bank bills, which he had secured on selling his property, a few days. McCortnlck. on returning front the bank, put the bills in a sack of feed in the barn, thinking the moqoy safer there. The next morning he fed the horse front the sack of feed which contained th? bills, and forgot all about the money, until his wife nrked him. later, where t it was. He refhrd ?o the barn, rem enihorlng. but to his great joy found that the hone had not eaten thr money. He l.ad cleaned up his feet] hut the "roll ? f Mils lay Intact in thr mauscr. ? p KKRX COM I NO SOUTH. Democratic Vict'-President Cnu(li?l?tc to Tour Southern States. John W. Kern. Democratic VlcePresidentiul candidate, will make a speaking trip in the South in October, and the national committee is t now arranging the itinerary. He will deliver one or two speeches in Mary' land, and will speak in all probability in West Virginia and Delaware the first week in October. Mr. Kern will speak in Wiuston-Salem, N. C., , October 7. when the State Fair will . be In progress. The Vice Presidential candidate has also been urged to make speeches in Georgia and Tennessee. Senator Gore, of Oklahom.a and Geo. Fred WUItniHK of nro to stump the Western States. Col. Moses C. Wet more, of the finance bureau, announced that 1,500 Democratic newspapers had joined in the movement to raise a popular subscription fund with which to run the Democratic campaign. He says that in his opinion every Democratic newspaper in the country will joiu in this movement. "The Doniocartic press is doing a great work," said Col. Wetinore, and if all the papers that favor the election of Hryan and Kern would go to work in earnest in this matter of collecting funds 1 believe we would get the biggest part of the money necessary to successfully conduct our fight. This.Is a real contest, and all our resources will be taxed to combat the Republican party, which will secure the money It needs through its rich agencies that have derived legislative protection from it." * (XJTTON CHOI' OF 10O7-O8. Secretary Hester Completes Ills An- ; , mini Report on the Crop. in his annual report 011 the cotton crop of 1907-08, issued Thursday night. Secretary of the New Orleans Cotton Kvchange, quotes some very interesting figures in con- ' lection with the shifting of the seat of the American cotton milling industry to tlte Stntes of the cotton ! to.lt I!? says that these conditions have been more in evidence during the 1 season just closed than ever before. 1 The consumption of American cotton in the South even under the most un- 1 favorable conditions having been in round figures 2,193,000, while the ' North totalled but 1,073.000 or 220.000 bales less. In the increase in 1 the consumption of cotton Virginia ( comes first. Oklahoma second, and Georgia third. 1 Mr. 1 lest or'a 'report of crop of different States is given as follows in ' thousands of hales, showing a decrease under 1906-07 of 1,939,0 16 bales, and an increase of 225,97 8 over that of 1905-06: Alabama 1 .171. against 1,2 S3 last year; Ar- 1 kunsas 787, against 94" last year; J Florida 60, against 63 last year: Georgia 1,964, against 1,095 last 1 year; Louisiana 673, against 995 last year; Mississippi 1,496, against 1,511 last year: North Carolina 689. against 663 last year; South Carolina 1,226, against 657 last year: Tennessee 335, against 372 last year; Texas 2,221, against 4.050 last year: Oklahoma 950, against 911 last year. Total crops 1 1,572, against 1 13,511 last year. Mr. Hester putshe spindles in the South at 10,661,- ' 3 08. including old, idle and not complete. against 10,598.095 last year, and remarks that this is the smallest Increase reported in twenty years. " OH. LINOKU At 'Ot l i . e.O. ' lury Concludes That lie Acted in In the (.'mil of tleneral Sessions it I'nion Thursday. Dr. W. L. Kinder was tried on tile charge of murder and found not guilty. in Octobei lost Dr. lander shot l.ucy Kipsev, ;; negro woman, three times, and the woman died two days later. It war proved in the case that the Klpsey woman had several ntonhs before shot Dr. Kinder in the hack while in his office; that she was tried for this assault and convicted. She appealed to the Supreme Court, and war out on ho ml pending the appeal, when she was shot. The evidence* established a clear and convincing! case of self-defence. IX IIAHD KICK. Clerk in City Treasurer's Office Arrested for Knibe/.zlemciit. Chief Clerk Vital Tujague. <?f the j New Orleans city treasurer's office, was placed in the parish prison! Thursday night on a charge of having embezzled about $30,000 in city funds. Tujague was lormerly city comptroller and has been actively Identified with local politics for many , years. The .alleged embezzlement of Tujague makes the fifth shortage of i a public official in New Orleans dur; ing the last iS months. Cot Him at l.aM. Alleging that he is James C. Dun ham. who 12 years ago. it is charged. ? killed three men and three women at ' ^..n'a T'-arh; ra. Ctl.. r?rput'- 1'nlted ' States Marshal I.re McFe. on Thursday. caused the arrest of a roan 1 known in the community in which ' he had resided for a year. Whit more. Texas, us ' 0111" Hatfield. BUBONIC PLAGUE AND ITS SlMtlAl) IX DIFFKllEXT 1XJUNTIUKS 1'uprr l'npaivd by AmLvUiui Surgeon G^uornl T. >1. E?gct Thereon Issued iu Pamphlet Form. Surgeon (&ueral Wymnnu, of the public health and marine hospital service, has issued in pamphlet form goon J. M. Eaget giving a history of the spread of bubonic plague during the last 14 years. No study presents more important Eaget says, than the lines of march lunvu UUUUIIIC piHgUC culling me period mentioned in its advance from the remote endein ic focus of the disease in the province of Yunnan, China, to the numerous countries in all quarters of the globe wherein many instances it has established itself in defiance of the most carefully planned preventive measures. The revival of the plague, l)r Capet says, dates from 1894, when escaping from the western Chinese province of Yunnan, it reached Canton. Between March and August, 1894, the number of deaths from plague in Canton is estimated at 120,000. All classes among the population suffered and rats were found to be affected, but in the foreign quarter of Canton, with a population of about 300. not a single case occurred. During the next year cases of plague were reported In Hong Kong. Amoy, Macao and Foocliow, and in 1 896 sanitary attention throughout the world was forced on the threatening epidemic by its appearance in Bombay. Starting in August the disease spread throughout the whole vast territory of the Bombay presidency and before the end of the 1 year showed a total of 2,9SO cases and 2.288 deaths. I luring that yeni plague reappeared in Hong Kong i where it lias been epidemic ovei < since. I In China there were epidemics at Ainoy and Swatow with many deaths in other sections of the empire and i in tlm following year there were ovei 1 .">0,000 cases in India with a mortal ity of 1 1 7,000. ' In 1900 plague was present- in \ vit) quantT 01 me nuiin. 1 n< Philippine island wore included in i the march of the disease, l.'o death.1 i incurring in Manila. i The most notaide fact in the history of the plague in the western 1 world was the appearance ot 112 fatal . axes in San Francisco, in 1901 in India a great alignment at ion tooV \ : lace, until in 1904, the plague eaus *d the death of over 1,000.000 per- \ sons in India alone and epidemics ( prevailed to a greater or less degree j iu nearly all parts of the world. India, the great center, suffered } terribly in the year 190a but iu the year 1900 there was a great decrease, the number of deaths being about t 332,000, but again in 1 907 there was , it great ?.?-case, the deaths number- , ing 1.200,000. For nine years. Dr. Knget says, Hawaii in I9u7 had not been free from plague, hut tin* Philippine Island now seem to be clear of the disease. During the year 1907, 156 cases of plague with 7 0 deaths occurred in Can Francisco, There were atso a few cases at Oakland and other cities neighbors jf San Francisco. At Seattle. Wash., three tatai cases occurred last October. TKX TIM FS XK.Alt DK.VTli. I.idiuiia Man Shows More Vitality Tlia" the "Xine-I.iveU" t'at. Having passed the danger point in his latest nearly fatal venture. John M. McMahon. of Crnwfordsville 'nd.. holds the record for nearly fntal acddets. About n month ago he full into a vat of boiling water Mis skin peeled oft' hut grafting saved his life. McMnhon is ?>."> years ot age. Mis left eye is gone, his left ear. right foot and a little linger arthe only evidences of his narrow escapes. The career of accidents to a man who has more lives than any cat can boast i.egan when he was only seven years of age. He came neat being drowned while swimming. A' ten he tried to hop a train and lost bis right foot. He t-nme near bleeding to death. While still on crutch es while watching the construction of a stone building the clamps on a litter slipped and his shoulder bone was splintered by the falling rock At 1 1 he fell from the top of a tre? . ltd fractured his skull. At IS ho lost his eye and part of his ear through si shooting accident. He tried football 1 ;t years later and was injured in a train wreck. An accident in a foundry and the explosion of the powder mill at Ton to net. Ind.. this spring, brought the number of and difficult sanitary problems. Mr. lives to nine an.J three weeks ago came the tenth. McMahoo declares life is worth living whatever the cost. Heavy Weight Sheriff. Anderson County has uominatcd y man tor ^hTiff. who weighs l-'i pounds. He is said to he the heaviest man in the South. The Andersou people had better t>c on their good bebavler. ^ t WANT'S TO WED ItK'll WIDOW. Young Athlete Kurilishe* New York With latest Komuiitic Humors. Fashionable sojourners at Snyville. L. I., a resort for the wealthy of N't'* York, say no one will be in the' least surprised at any time to see an announcement of the mnrriage of Mrs. Edward Kelly, rich widow of the son of Eugene Kelly and mother of Mrs. Frank Gould, to llulph Craft. 4 year old. athlete, yachtsman and prime favorite all along the shore of the Great South hay. lie is an insurance broker. Mr. Craft has been paying Mrs. Kelly very marked attention for a year, has visited often at her home i and has taken her on automobile 1 trips to Sayville. I When the subject was broached to , Mr. Craft that gentleman did not i seem in the least surprised. And. i what is more to the point, he did not ; deny that, he hoped to make Mrs. i Kelly his bride. lie did deny that < there is a formal engagement of mar riago. "It's all rot." said Mr. Craft at | first, but ho said it in a curious tone, 1 and when the name of one of Mr. Craft's friends was mentioned as an i authority for the rumor that the. matter was being kept secret because j Mr. Craft, Sr.. did not know of it. t the young man. a little off his guard, replied: "My lather knows all about It. He objects to it. But I don't see \ what difference that makes." * t il RT> ST A HS LEFT BEHIND. ????? a Detachment From Battleship Fleet h Looking For Stragglers. J A patrol from the American battleship fleet is still searching for the ' men who failed to go aboard their ships when they sailed from Melbourne, Australia. These number S.*>. Nearly all the stragglers left be-1 hind at Sydney returned to the fleet. 1 A wireless message front the lias- s ship Connecticut says that every one <i hoard. from Hear Admiral Sperry *' lown, gratefully remembered Molhorune, and that all considered the Australian visit the greatest demon- ( itration or international friendship in American history. ^ Tito Argus, reviewing the visit of he fleet to Australasia, says in an R ditorial: "A more orderly body of 11 nen never landed. Otlicers and men v tlike inspired sincere regard and es- ^ cent. Never In history have two ountrles of different flags found such mnteuiato and deep sympathy." c ffouey Was Melted. But Not ill Value. While Frank Marks and his wife, ? >f Strougville, O.. were away from j u ivmiiv, i vvrui iy, iiruuvio rtr?u t lll ll \ j| he premises for the money which he sj vas known to possess, as he was ills- n rustful of banks. Incidentally, the c, hieves lived the barn and the pig t) jen. When Marks returned home u ic searched the ruins of the pig pen sj tnd surprised his friends by uneart ling a lump of gold. He had hidden us money, in gold roins, beneath the y\ lig pen floor, and the intesc heat had o; nelted It. The lump was worth nev- j,, ?ral thousand dollars. * ,1 The Swede Was Innocent. I, While Waldeman Fpstrand. son. if a wealthy hanker, of Guthorg, il Sweden, was being photographed at in iiolice headquarters, I'oughkeepsie . p, \. \ as the murderer of Fred Hdkan son. a companion, word was received j i which set him free. The news stated ; hat Hokanson had been shot by a; fish peddler, who he tried to hold up.!' ipstrand has roved all over the world, tnd his fund having run short, has been working as a farm hand at Fast Fishkiil. X. Y. 0 A ti Farewell Hide Finds iu Tinged,v. Murder and suicide ended the fare- j well ride of Joel F. linker, a carpen- .' tor, and Mrs. Sylvia Hernice, a wid- 11 iw, of Wabash. Ind., on Thursday. j's it is said Mrs. 1 {evince had planned ,l leave for llenton Harbor, Mich., where she was to have been married. and her drive with Halter, an avow- J" cd admirer, was to tell hint his fate. Investigation showed that linker had killed his companion while both were nit of th<- buggy. He then loaded j' her lifeless form Into the vehicle and j11 started to drive hack to Wabash. On.' the wav he killed himself. ' . Ir Child llesciieil F'nnn High Mils-. ^ Little Sophia McTaguo, of South.( Omaha. Neb., was playing on the roof j f of a three-story building, last week.jj when she climbed onto the coping and , fell off. Ten feet below her was a|, mass of telephone wires. On these'. she struck, grabbed them in her little!; hands and held on tightly, yelling j, as she dangled feet above the,| street. The child's brother leaned | far out of a window just by the wires. , grabbed the little one's clothing and , dragged her into the window tin- , injured. . AberiiHthv >1 :?> I?ie of Wounds. With both hands and arms swath ; en. a victim of blood poisoning, from being bitten by wolves several times during his recent hunt in Wichita mountains. I'nited States Marshal John R. Abernathy. of Guthrie. Okla.. President Roosevelt's guide. who "cateb'-s Vm alive." has returned to bis father-in-law'p home, near Guthrie, with hi*- child-bride, with whom be recently eloped. Ahcrnathy may , develop hydrophobia as a result of bis wounds. e I BLAZE COST LIVES ! TOK'HKI) OI F ?V TIIK I'AKKMiSS! striking or a 57.\tni. Tluve IVople Weir lullvd ami an ' Ivutliv lllock Threatened With Destruction. A dispatch from Pittsburg. Pa., says a volcano of escaping gas. touched off by the careless striking of a match, nearly wiped out the family of Rev. George Misqucl, pastor of St. George's Syrian Greek church on Seventh avenue, collapsed an ad- J joining dwelling, burying Its inmates under the deludes of falling walls. I and kindled a tire thot threatened an entire block on Iledlord avenue near Washington street at h:150 > clock Thursday night. The dead: Mrs. George Misquel. aged 2. :?2 2 1 Bedford avenue, found in upper room 1 jurned to a crisp. Jacob, iter son. ? years old. died at : i'nssavant hospital. 1 Annie Magcl, 17. servant at the disquel home, died at I : 1 a. in. at he hospital. The injured: ^ Rev. George Misquel. aged ;15. hi rued about head and arms; bought to have inhaled ilames: coalition serious. ( Isaac Misquel. aged 11. burned ibout face and arms. Amelia Misquel. G. legs and arms ( adly burned. Eighteen months old baby of tin f lisquel. scorched in its cradle, overooked by rescuers. l>ut carried out nst of all. practically uninjured. ( Margaret and Mary McKenna. ol , 20 Bedford avenue, caught In bed " nder collapsing roof and debris. ragged out by firemen: legs and back praine'd. Mrs. Mary Mulligan. 920 Bedford venue; face cut and back injured. Policeman Peter lianrday. hands lid face burned in rescue work. Policeman \V. H. Larkin. hands urned. wrist cut. Assistant Fire Chief Robert McLinley is convinced that a leaking as pipe in the attic of me residence 1 f the Misquel was responsible for th? <cplosion and fire. " iledtimc had come. Rev. and Mrs 1 lisquel with their four little ones (cut to the rooms on the second lloor '' here were the sleeping quarters of '' ie family. The domestic. Annie Mai?l, a 17-vear-old girl of the same na- N' onality as the priest, followed them p the stairway just in time to catch io force (?t a minding explosion as mateh was struck in tlio darkened >i coping room. The greater part of '1 10 escaping gas seemed io have ac- t(imulated in the mansard tloor about ei 10 second room, however, tor a niin '1' te after the first flash tliere came r. '*' lock that rocked the entire block. The falling debries crashed through w le roof and buried Margaret ant' larv MeKenna. who were sleeping ^ 11 the second floor of the adjoining uilding. This floor in turn partially ave way and Mrs. Mary Mulligan, vlng below the MeXonnas, was < uricd. n The rescuers of the victims were si lrilllng and were etYeeted undei s< lost exciting conditions. The prop- e< rty loss was comparatively small. ? a r ior, c.wxon. h t ays lie is the Worst Kneiny of Kconoinic llc?orm. I'resider.l Samuel (Jumpers, of the merlcan Federation of Labor, at- ,, 'irked the record of Speaker Cannor ^ i the hitter's own home town o' j lanville, Illinois. Ilefore an enthusistic audience of 2,000 labor men ^ i Lincoln |?ark, Mr. (tampers said ome might uncomplimentary things l?out the speaker. He came to ? >nnvil)e for the purpose of making 11 Hpec.h to the laboring men of the '' lace, hoping in tliis way to defeat Tnele Joe for congress in November Among other things h<- said: "Fnele Joe Cannon stands in thh outcry as the worst enemy of vcono- 1 nlc and soeial and political reforn. ' hat the people have." .Ms. Compers read and indorsed an ' (litorial whl< h appealed in the cur- ^ lit issue of a weekly magazine V vhnh declared that of the two men- ' icing evils to this country Rocke 1 eller and Cannon the speaker if he greater evil." The speaker was pictured by Com iers as an obstructionist of the deep- > st. most corporation-bound type i Mr. Cannon w us a hide-bound-nar ow. old politician who sees no good t n any reform, according to the In hoi i leader, who berated the people foi ] [going 'sheep like" to the polls every i dection and sending this man t< , congress. .Negro Hanged in Virginia. l.oe St rot her, a negro was hanged at Madison court houre. Ya.. Friday for attempted criminal assault ot Loola Fryo, a young white woman. He made a full confession and stated that the crime was his second one. 0 Five >lcn Humeri to lb-nth. Five men lost their lives and a S'-ore of i 'i ons were injup 1, s-vrra' of them seriously, in a fire that gutted the Belmont Hotel, at Denver. Colo., a three-story building at 1723 Stout street Thursday morning# SAVKI> ITUttl Til 10 XOOSF.. T?m? Much Confusion in Witnesses' (jives MiirUeh'r but l!ii Yeiies. In the Criminal court. at West Chester, Fa.. Angela DThnienegildo. the young Fhiladelphian. who was charged with the shooting to death of Fassuale deFclico and his son. Alessandro. on the streets of that boi~ough, one Sunday evening a few weeks ago. entered a plea of murder in the second degree. The plea was accepted In view of conflicting testimony as to the facts of the crime. The testimony was to ltie effect that Iteneminio DeOiUlo. who coinmited suicide and was an uncle of the prisoner, had tired several shot at Alessandro. the young shoemaker, and then, when pursued by the mob. believing that he had killed Alessanlro. tired a bullet into ?iis own brain, tniid the shrubbery on the Veil lawn. Judge Itutler sentenced IVKrmcne;ildo to serve 20 years in the lOastern '< iiiM-riuill.i, >'lll> nil" Cllill'gp llClllg iressed liv tlic commonwealth, hough it wi?s claimed that tlx- ton , icted man had killed the two del-V ieos. and had wounded Pa trie.. ?hy in the leg and Mike Saraeeni nil he elhow. I.YItCILST Tl ItTLK CAPTl IlKlt. iloitMer Weighing Kill Pounds Is to IVr Seen at llattery Aquusium. A dispatch from New York, says here is on exhibition at the Aquirinin at the llattery the largest urtle ever hoard of hy the Aquarium uthorities. It is or the leather ?aek variety, the largest known sea u r ties. It weighs Sin pounds and was aptured in a fisherman's net ofl lei ford. N. .1. The director of tin iquarium, I)r. Townsend, seen red he turtle from its ejiptor and shipped t to the Aquarium. Kiglit men wesi equirod to lift the turtle into tieirgo tank In the middle of old easth ard'*n building, where the Aquarium > located. Took 973,(HMl Prom .Miners. Six feet tall, handsome, well dressd and highly educated. Wilhelm !) Levy litis been arrested at Cincintin . ().. and locked up on the charge < < inhe/./.ling $7a,U0U from three hanks 1 rniontown. I'a. Warrants tor tin tail's arrest had been mailed t? incinnati authorities. It is alb gee lat the man was a bank clerk and lat he failed to deposit large sums lat foreign-born miners in Peiinsvl anla gave hint for that purpose. Konmiice of Charily Worker. Nine years ago Mrs. Anne Dewees I' Anderson. Intl., then an agent foi ie Indiana Children's Home society. >ok an orphan for adoption to Farm- ! r it. \V. .Morrison's family, near Mo oc, Ind Five years later Mrs. Morson died. Itecuntlv Mr. Morrison let Mrs. Dewees. still 111 charity ork and proposed t<> lier to take linrge of lils home. As a result, the vo will marry soon. \ I'ntal Apple Hunt. Daniel MoKeevor. 17 years old. siding near London, (int., was kill1 near Pottersburg. He was out Hooting with some companions, and ring an apple tree in a field, jump1 a fence, and using his rifle as club, tried to kock thuapples down he gun exploded, the shot entered is body above the heart, tearing a aping wound. Death was iustantan 3U8. Chicken Thief Killed. Shot l>v a watchman. Peter I<lessen, t the poultry farm of \V. S. Cinnell tardea City, L. I.. Andrew lieiny led. the next day, in a hospital from is wounds. Heinz was shot about lidnight and had nine liens in lii* ands when found by the watchman rho had been given a smi to ward tY intruders. Mr. (Unnell had been Hissing choice hens for some time ast. Tliicies Hid Victim's Wooden Leg. Robbers who entered the house ol )scar O'Harrah. railroad tic ket agent t Colliers. \V. Va.. hid his wooden eg. and when he awakened he had o lie, helpless, on his bed. and watch hem go through his clothes and steal ilJ." in money and other valuables Vhen they had finished, the hnrgars told their vic tim that lie would lnd his leg downstairs. Five Children Are Suffocated. Five children of .1. C. flnrdetu vere suffocated Thursday night in a 'arm house near New Mrighton. Minn., while the neighbors, ignorant hat the little- ones were in the place, were endeavoring to save the house hold effects. The parents nan spen< he evening with friends, leaving the hildren at home. The Name Old Story. Carroll Hall, aged 14. of Uanville N. H., on Thursday shot and killed his sister. Flossie, aged 11?. with <" shotgun. The charge entered the neck and death resulted almost instantly. Young Hall was arrested. He says he did not know the gun was loaded. u To Starve Them Out. Joseph Seiurha. ranted "Black Hand" criminal, is i>ejj.-~er' in a coal mine at Scottsburg, 111., and the police purpose to starve hint out. DIES ON SCAFFOLD. ? M-H.'IU) ASSAll^VNT LKMALLY I'lT TO DKATII IN (JKOIUMA. Strain Increased tin* Loii^ir Mr lie* iiiainrtl I lider tlir Kyes of Cl?r Uiv? ami Ifr Trembled Violently. A dispatch from I lux ley. Ma., says NeaI Ityals. tlir negro assailant of Mrs. l.iz/.ie Overstrcet, was executed Friday morning at 11.35 o clock. Deputies brought the negro front Macon that morning, arriving at 7 o'clock. Front that hour until the execution Ityals was in consultation with a minister, taking part in a religious service. During tin- morning large crowds of citizens constantly poured into the .own to witness its much of the execution as possible. The crowd of people was orderly and nothing hap| pened that was unusual. At II o'clock the deutlt sentence .vjts read to Hyals by the Sheriff itid lie was immediately conducted to the scalTold. .lust before execuion Hyals was permitted to make a statement to the crowd. He talked i 11 t clear voice atld stead nerve. lie tave in detail whore lie was on the Horning of the crime. He said he had always feared the law and had never had a case in court before in lis life. being I- years old. lie proclaimed his innocence to the last. He praised the sheriff and others for their kindness to hitn. and ask d (!od to hold no charges against hem. He warned his colored friends. He said they didn't have to do anyhing to get into trouble. He said it ?vas a matter of lot or accident. When asked if he knew who committed the crime, he said lie did not. Uev. John .Morris, his spiritual adviser. thanked the people of Huxley for permitting the law to take its con rse. The prisoner then offered a long ind fervent prayer and then began dngiug as the tinul propartion was made for his execution, and continued *o sing up to the last. He stopped singing long enough to bid everylody good-bye. Ho dropped at ind was pronounced dead in 1 <*< minutes. l ot NH NOT (ilTliTV. lury Helm tied Verdict in fav of l>r. IJinlei'. A dispatch from I'nion says that he ease of Dr. W. L. Hinder, a prominent young physician of that city, ...? - - ? ?>?.. ii ?nii KiiuiiK i?uey Lipscy, a tegress, was given lo the jury at noon Thursday and they it*turned a verdict i not guilty. I?r. Under in his testimony told ni various threatening letters he had received from the woman and that he did not shoot her until he saw her reach for her hand satchel, in which he supposed site had a pistol. The woman's dying statement was put in evidence by state, in which she declared she had not threatened, hint, lmt loved hint unto death, would forgive him everything and did not want him hurt. <;i:ts i \ i: \ns. Young White Man of Union Who Attempted Assault (iiM's to I'eu. Arthur lleckuell. a young white niitu wlto last December attacked and attempted to erimiually assault a voting white girl of respectable family and who was tried at Union last week, was on Friday sentenced by Judge Klttgh /to 1 T> years in (Instate penitentiary at hard labor. 0 I toy .Murders Woimui. Mayntc Klroad. a white woman about forty years old. was shot and killed by Calhoun Donald, a youth of eighteen years. The shooting or uried near Townville in Oconee county while the woman was in the field picking cotton. The tragedy was brought about by the criminal intimacy of the woman and the boy's fat her. Many Itetnrn to Work. A I urge number of men returned to work in tin- mining district, last week. The effort for a general resumption of operations in the Alabama coal mines is now on. and it is estimated that during the week no less than 10,000 men returned to work after an idleness of over two months. * I lank Wrecker Kneads Itoiigli. "Hilly" .Montgomery, former cashier of the Allegheny National bank, at Pittsburg, who robbed the institu tion of $2.nun. is engaged in tne prison bakery and at present is kept at kneading bread dough. The warden prides himself on his joke. had Auto "I.nop the Loop." Their automobile turning turtle, Paris Fletcher, a real etate man of St. Paul. Minn., was killed and his wife was seriously injured last week.* Increasing Yellowstone Guard. The recent hold-up. hv a lone road agent, of seven tourist coaches in Yellowstone National park, has iod the War department to double tar garrison of the park