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.: "!ifS? *?^^H THE FORT M.ILL TIMES '' VOLUME XVII FORT MILL, THURSDAY, MARCH 25.19(H) NO. 50 FATAL CRASH Of a Train Cuts a Rallwa- Statior in Canada FOUR P*Z?l? KILLED Blowing Out of Wash Pipe oil locomotive, Near Montreal, Forces Engineer and Fireman to Jutup, i and the Train Dashes Into Station, Tearing it l'p. i Montreal, March 17.?Four per- I Bons are dead and thirty others were ' more or less seriously Injured as 1 the result of the blowing out of a wash pipe ou the locomotive hauling j the Boston Express of the Canadian PaclQc Railway this morning, three miles out from the city. Scalding steam filled the cab and the engineer and fireman were forced to jump. ( i 110 train, wnnoui u guiding uauu f at the throttle, dashed Into the ( Windsor street station, through the granite wall into the women's wait- ( ing room, und then into the rotunda, ( where the locomotive, after demol- , ishing one massive granite pillow, was brought to a standstill by anoth- , er. The four persons killeewd ,?.-? v Tho four persons killed wore sit- ? ting in the women's waiting room. v They are: u Mrs. W. J. Nixon, Montreal. ^ Her 13-year-old boh and 8-yearold daughter. Elsie Villiers, 12 years old, of Montreal, A score of jmen wore knooked down when the train dashed through tho rotunda. An investigation of the cause ol flie accident by C.eneral Manage) ? McNicoll disclosed that the break in the boiler was on the fireman') side. Fireman Craig jumped at onct and landed in a snow drift, practirally uninjured. He ran down tin track after the train. Half a milt from whero he jumped Craig fount the engineer lying unconscious b> the rails. His skull had been frac lured. Why, before jumping, tin engineer failed to bring his train tr a standstill may never be known for Cunningham has not regained consciousness, and is not expected v to live. The train crew had no idea there was anything wrong until thi train was Hearing the station. Thei the conductor, noting the excessivt speed at this point applied the air < brakes. They were not strong ' enough to hold the train with the ? locomotive pulling against them, but they did check the speed somewhat 1 The husband of Mrs. VV. J. Nixor. is a train dispatcher of the Canadian 1 Pacific at Medicine Hat, Alberta He had secured leave of absence t< come to Montreal to get his family and they were all at the station t< greet him after six months' separat ion. Nixon's train arrived a shori time after the accident. The man gled bodies of his wife and children were lying on the platform when h? stepped from the train. I1K1NUK DOWN TIIIKF. OOlcor Shoots Negro Store HoIiImi I widen Witti I loot y. Chester, March 17.?Ike Feaster colored, was shot and perhaps fat ally wounded at 2 o'clock this morn ing by Ofilcer J. G. Ilowsee, of tin city police force. Fcastcr had brok , en into the store of T. H. Ward, col ored, and was coming out of tin rear with his plunder, when Ofilcei Howsce, who had been attracted bj the noise, endeavored to halt him Feaster refused to stop and the of fleer fired in the darkness, striking him in the head. He was taken ti tho Magdalene Hospital, where h has remained in critical condition al day. ATTACKS CON8TU1JLARY. Sanguinary Conflict on One of thPhilippine Islands. Manilla, March 17.?A belated die patch from Lake Lakano reports thu' a band of hostile Mores attackei Lieutenant Furlong's detachment oi constabulary at llordog, on the 8tl of March and, after a sharp fight, eight Moros and two members ot the constabulary were left dead on the field, while two soldiers and one civilian were wounded. A company of the 25th infantry and a detachment of scouts have gone to the aid of Furlong's force. The day after the tight a constabulary soldier deserted after stealing five ritles belong ing to members of the detachment. TIED AGENT TO TRACK. Was Liberatinl by Man Just Before Train Passed. Roxle, Miss, March 18.?Ropes which bound Agent Shingleton, of the Mississippi Central Railroad to the tracks over which a train was soon to pass last night were cut by a man who found him as the rumble of the locomotive was heard In the distance. He had been knocked in the head and tied to the track by negroes who attempted to rob the depot. HUGE FORGERY PLOT SPOILKD BY TUB SUSPICIONS OF A LITHOGRAPHKlt. The Arrest at Milan of Four of the Ringleaders Ileveals an Internotional Company. Rome, March 17.?Special dispatches from this city to Columbia Record says startling developments connecting the extensive operaticns of the international gang of forgers and of checks and banknotes, four ringleaders of which are under arrest at Milan, continue to come to the surface as a result of the international police investigation now in progress. As stated at the time of the arrest a week ago the operations it the gang were confined chiefly o New York and London. The capture of the four leaders yas due to the misgivings of Slgor Polotti, a very skillful lithographer, vhom the forgers had entrusted with he engraving of an immense number >f checks, varying in value from $10 o $200 apiece, which they represent'd were required by the American Express Company for its branch esnbiishments in Rome, Genoa and Naples. Signor Polottl confided the affair o the police, who directed him to troceed quietly with the commission, vhile they prepared a surprise for is many as possible of the gang, vhich during the past two years has tiven untold trouble in America, England. France and Belgium. In Italy last December, after r cries of frauds at Genoa amounting o $60,000, they presented a letter if credit of the Commercial bank of Ulan for $1!>,000 on affirm of priate bankers in New York. The culirits have again and again exploded he New York bank, and the Milan lolice are convinced from a mass f documents and stamps now seized t their lodgings that this criminal ;ang must have had one or more accomplices in the employ of the iank itself. Four members of the gang were aught, red-handed. They aro all niddle-aged, though a considerable iart of their career has been spent n the United States and Great Britin. They had in their possession lewly-made banknotes and checks of he total value of over $2,000,000, irhich they were about to forward o confederates in New York and .ondon for circulation. Oreof Origoni, one of the ringeaders under arrest, comes of a well :nown Naples family and formerly ias an artllley ofllcer in the Italian rmy. He is a nephew of the fanmis Hnnnral MnHnmoul Uo hoo teen a consular agent and representaIve of various commercial firms in apan and North America. The Milan police are elated at the apture, but regret that many mem>ers of the gang are still at large, hough they have clues which are xpected to prove useful to the poice of New York. London and Paris. ALLOWKI) TLX THOUSAND. feubourd Must Pay Tliat Sum to Conductor'" Widow. Savannah, fia., March 17.?The oport. of Special Master Frank M. "Jallaway, appointed hy Judge ParIre. of the United States Court, foi he cases instituted against the Sea>oard Air Line, has been filed with he clerk of the court here, a de ision allowing Mrs. Helle Gray $t0,1)00 for the death of her husband, teing made a part of the record. Conductor W. 11. Gray was killed vhlle on a freight, train running rom Savannah to Denmark, S. C., ?n the bridge spanning the Savanlah river, near Garnett, August 2, 1 907. THMY SHOULD PASS. Two llills Before Congress to Help Kural Carriers. Washington, March 17.?Rural 'rtter carriers will come in for a litle extra compensation during tht lixty-first Congress if the two hills recently introduced by Representatives Hates, of Pennsylvania, and Humphreys, of Mississippi, are enicted into law. The bill Introduced by Representative Hates provides an additional allowance of $150 per annum for subsistence, and that introluced by Mr. Humphreys provides that $250 per annum additional he allowed each rural carrier for the purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons and equipment." TRAIN l\11,1 ,S AbKII NKGRO, Darky, Past Century Mark, Meets hcnth at Newberry. Newberry, March 17.?Ned Kinard, and old negro, was killed at the Southern depot here today. The freight engine was shifting, and Ned had his hack to the train and was or the track. The ear struck h'im and passed over his body, cutting off botli legs. An inquest was held, the verdict being that the death was ac cldental. Ned was a slave of th< late Gen. H. H. Kinard, and wai more than a hundred years old. H< claimed to be over a hundred ant ten years old. IV* PAYS FOR CRIME Benjamin Gilbert is Electrocuted at Richmond, Va. KILLED YOUNG LADY llccntiMe She Rejected Him as a Lover?The Murder Committed on a Bridge at Norfolk, While the Young Cairl was With Friends for a Little Outing. Richmond, March 19.?For killing his former sweetheart in a moment of jealous rage, Benjamin Gilbert tnfl 111' UfAC nlunt rr\nntn/i In L/? C!l??A? uivwivvuv^u 111 i iivj penitentiary here, where all criminals in this State are now put to death. liecause she had spurned him for the attentions of other young men, Gilbert shot down pretty Amanda It. Morse on Campostella bridge In Norfolk on July 23 last. The girl lingered for twenty-four hours, her death occurring at St. Vincent's hospital to which institution she had been removed immediately following the shooting. Hearing that Gilbert had threatened to kill his daughter, T. O. Morse, father of the girl, went to look for Gilbert, and reason with him. Going the wrong way, Morse missed Gilbert, and twenty minutes later, while still in search of the youth, was told that he had shot his daughter. The father rushed to the scene and the fact that he could find no one to furnish him with a pistol was all that prevented a double tragedy. On the hot summer night Miss Morse and several young friends went to Compostella bridge for a breath of air from across the water. They were conversing on the bridge when young Gilbert approached. Miss Morse's escort, W. G. Mitchell, noticed Gilbert acting peculiarly. Gilbert asked the girl to see him privately. She replied that if he had anything to say to her h? could say it then and there. Gilbert making no reply. Miss Morse turned from him and took the arm of Mitchell to walk further on the bridge. Just ns she did so Gilbert dr< w his piste] and fired three times at her. Two of the bullets entered the girl's back. The third grazed the coast of Mitchell. Gilbert wnulri h:ivr? tuun but for the early arrival of the police. He claimed to have been engaged to the girl and declared that their wedding was scheduled for an early date when she spurned him. Gilbert's defense was general depravity and mental irresponsibility, it being sought at his trial to prove hereditary Insanity. After the trial eight members of the jury petitioned Governor Swanson to commute ^ Gilbert's death sentence to life Imprisonment in the State peniteniiary. The jury in rendering its verdict recommended the prisoner to the mercy of the court. Judge Hanckcl submitted this recommendation to the Governor, who declared that if he should commute Gilbert, ho could not permit another man to be executed for murder, * so long as he occupied the gubernatorial chair. The Supreme Court was then apappealed to, among the grounds being that Gilbert had become insane since his conviction and that the act of the Legislature changing the mode of inflicting the death penaltj in Virginia from hanging to electrocution was "strange and unusual." and, therefore, in conflict with th Constitution of the State. The Supreme Court denied a writ of error on Gilbert's appeal, and Governor Swanson. who had erantod n ii mopoiiu r spites to permit court action, refused to interfere further. Gilbert's parents spent their all in an effort to save his life, even mortgaging their bods to raise money with which to carry the fight to the higher courts. Daniel Coleman. Jr., the lawyer who defended Gilbert, not only .received no compensation, but had to supplement from his own pocket the money raised by Gilbert's parents to carry 011 the fight for the condemned boy. Gilbert after being carried to the penitentiary repeuted and had hi; spiritual adviser write to the parents of his victim asking forgiveness, the youth saying that he could die easier If he had his forgiveness. "SAW AWAY," SAYS AVATCHORN. ( ives Lion Tamer at Ellis Island " Means of Escape." New Tork, March 1 R.? Francis Don is Rcssanade, a lion tamer, who escaped from the detention pen at Fills Island in August. 1907. was arrested recently in San Francisco and returned to the Island, with a prospect of deportation. He told Commissioner Watchorr that he escaped by cutting the bars of his cage with a saw made ol i three butchers' knives. Mr. WatchI orn, who suspects collusion by somt i Ellis Island employe, has given Rols - sanade three more kitchen knives - with these instructions: J "If you can saw your way out s I'll do what I can to save you fron i deportation." 1 Louis is now raising blisters oi I his hands. 0 } - ' JURY SHED TEARS SENSATIONAL Ml'HDKIC TRIAL ENDS IN CHICAGO. Ilefensc Was an Alibi?Jury .Took | Hut One llallot?Women Spectators Hysterical. Chicago, March 18.?Luman C. Mann, was today declared not guilty of the murder of Mrs. Frances Gilmore Thompson. Several members of the Jury shed tears when Mann, between choking sobs, thanked them and promised to lead a better life. Attorney Erbstein, who defended the case, was fairly mobbed by dozens of weaping women, who have been constant attendants at the trial, and who insisted unon kissina him The evidence against Mann was circumstantial; his defence an alibi. The jury took but one ballot. With the words "not guilty*' from the lips of the foreman, the scene in court became one of excitement bordering on hysteria. "I've been a bad man, but years from now you will hear of me as an honest citizen,' Mann said in thanking the Jury. Tears were rolling down his cheeks and his sobs made it almost impossible for him to speak. "We knew you were innocent," said one of the jurors, his tears flowing freely. Other jurors furitivoly applied handkerchiefs to their eyes as Mann returned to his mother, throwing his arms about her neck and crying like a child Under cross examination the dedendant was compelled to relate a sorrow story at which his mother hung her head. He told of drinking bouts during one of which he spent $1,000 in a single night of gambling and of low associates. Fanny Thompson, bound, gagged and the fiHger marks of a strangler on her throat was found dead in a rooming house at 1242 Michigan avenue, July 1st last. She had been dead four days, and this period Mann was compelled to cover in minute detail to establish his alibi. Resides himself, he produced more than a score of witnesses. Tho evidence against him consisted chiefly of his acquaintance with Mrs. Thompson, when she was a servant in his father's house, the fact that he wore a cap similar to the one which Mrs. Hamilton, keeper of the rooming house, said was worn iiv uif in it ii who iit-nonipanipa Airs. Thompson to the honse, and a statement made to his sister prior to the tragedy that he "knew a woman whose diamonds he would get if he had to choke her." This statement Mann explained 011 the stand was purely a thoughtless Jest made in the course of conversation in a light vein. SLASH Kit StXHtKS WOMEN. Unknown Culprit Cuts Up Clothes in Subway Station. New York, March 18.?Complaints which are reaching the police indicate that a "slasher" is again at work in New York. Several women have reported that their garments have been cut in the subway station it 4 2nd street. All cases bear a striking similarity which makes it apptar as if the work were being done by one man, using the same sharp knife. In most instances the garments cut have iieen women's coats, slashes a little to the left of the center of the back about 12 inches from the bottom. One woman's handsome coat of broadcioth was badly mutilated in be subway yesterday morning. Two years ago a "slasher" did similar work and while detectives were put specifically on the case, the culprit was never captured. SMITH LOST HIS HAT At the White House When He Called nn Mr Tnfl Washington, March 17.?Senator E. I). Smith, junior Senator from South Carolina, today paid his first official visit to the White House to see the President, and lost his hat there. Representative Moon, of Tennessee, who is said to have the largest head of any man in Congress, with the exception of Congressman llrownlow, also of Tennessee, is supposed to have gotten the Smith headpiece. So far it has not been re covered. BlICIDK AT NORFOLK. Art One to Despondency Kecausp He Lacked Work. Lynchburg, Va.. March 18.?Hans A. Herzfeld, aged flfty-two, a native i of Savannah and bookkeeper for a brewing company here for some time, committed suicide at his home today i by shooting himself in the head. He i was despondent because he had heon f out of work since the saloons closed here. Reward Offered. Washington, March 18.?A reward of $2,000 has been offered hy th< . Italian government for the captun 1 of the slayer of Lieut. Joseph Petro sino, according to official Informatlor i the embassy has communicated t< * the State department. TWO BRAVE MEN AFTER HE INC* SETA RATE I) FOR FORTY-FOUR YEARS Meet for the First Time Since the War and Talk Over Their War Experience. Newberry, March 17.?Mr. Samuel Dixon, of Florence, came to Newberry recently to visit Col. D. A.Dickert. and thereby hangs a tale, says the Observer, which it relates as follows: In the closing days of the Confed MAN STEALS BOY And Holds Him For Ten Thousand Dollar Ransom FATHER WILL COMPLY Tlie Ija<l Is a Son of Attorney Wliitla, of Sharon, l*a., nn<l Was Taken From School by a Stranger?The Hoy's Hat Found in a lluggy In Ohio. Sharon, Pa., March 18.?Ten thousand dollars ransom Is demanded for the return of William Wbitla, Attorney James P. Whltla's eightyear-old boy, who was spirited away from school here this morning by an unknown man, furnishing a mystery which the detectives of the county are being asked to solve. Accompanying the demand for ransom is a covert threat that the boy will be killed unless the money is prodneed. Hundreds of telegrams and telephone messages have been sent to the police of various cities asking their assistance in the search for the boy and his abductors. The first fruit of these came tonight when Chief of Police Crain. of this city, received word that a rig, in which the lad had been taken away, had been recovered at Warren, O., with the child's hat on the seat of the buggy. At 9:80 o'clock this morning a stranger drove up to the east ward school house, where young Wbitla is u pupil in Koom NO. 2, and told the janitor. Wesley Slops. the lad was wanted at once at his father's ofllce. SIops conveyed the message to Mrs. Anna Lewis, the hoy's teacher. who dismissed tlie child. As she was helping him put on his overcoat, she remarked, half jokingly, "I hope that man does not kidnap Willie." The man in the buggy had a dark complexion, dark hair and a stuliby mustache. lie was stocklly built. He spoke excellent English and was evidently Anierlcan-born. When Sloss appeared with the boy, the stranger smiled and helped him up to the seat beside him. lie then drove off in the direction of Mr. Whit la's ofllce. Several persons tonight say a confederate joined the kidnapper before he had left town. Little was thought of the incident, and there was no belief that a crime had been committed until the lad failed to appear for his noon day meal. Becoming worried, Mrs. Whitla began a search, and at the school she learned of what had occurred there three hours before. At 1 o'clock a letter directed to the mother, was delivered to the house by a mail carrier. Mrs. Whitla at once recognized the handwriting on the envelope ns that of her son. Opening it she found the following communication written in a strnnge hand. ?? ?? ??c im?c- vuui u??y mm win return him for $10,000. Will sec your advertisement In the papers. Insert in Indianapolis News, Cleveland Press, Pittsburg Dispatch, Youngstown Vindicator: 'A. A.?Will do as requested. J. P. W.' Dead boys are not desirable." The penmanship and spelling of the note indicated it had been written by a man of fair education. Mr. Whit la decided to comply with the conditions of the letter, and sent for publication to each of the newspapers specified the note it directed him to insert. DEATH OF Dlt. .ION'KS. I 1 The Great War Chaplain of the Confederacy (ione, New Orleans, T,a., March 18.?Ry command of Gen. Clement A. Evans, general commanding. Adjutant General and Chief of Staff William E. Mickle issued from the headquarters or the United Confederate Veterans today an order Riving official notice of the death of Chaplain (len. J. William Jones, which occurred yesterday at Columbus, Ca. After reciting his achievements in military and civil life the order concludes: "Mis devotion to his work and hiu people, his ability as a writer, his eloquence as speaker, his amiability as a companion, stand out with conspicuous brightness, and he has left a record free from stain and worthy of imitation. ' COMIT I.SOKY KIM'CATlON. Superintendent Swear in gen Favor* I<oral Option. Columbia, March 18.?State Superintendent of Education .1. E Swearingon gave out a statement tonight touching his views on thf 1 compulsory education question. Mr ' Swearingon said in part: "While compulsory education is neither need od nor desired in many localities in others it Is eminently desirable I School districts, county and incor J porated towns should he allowed t< i decide the question for itself. Th< passage of a law allowing each schoo i unit to decide this question for itsel ) will soon show whether the peopb wish compulsory education." ciuv.), uuring me spring of 18Gi?, Gen. Hardee, then approaching Cheraw in his retreat before Sherman's i invading army, sent for Col . 1). A. ( Dickert, of Newberry county, of the ^ famous old Third regiment, and told him he had a dangerous and impor- ' tan work to he done, that was to i carry a message through Sherman's < lines to General llood, who was then , down toward Savannah, and tell s General Hood where to meet Hart dee's army. The general knew of < some of Col. Diekert's scouted the | mission and was permitted to select 1 his companion. Captain Richard O'Neal recommended to liitn a young ] man in his company by the name of { Sam Dixon, saying that he was quiet | and cool and not afraid of danger. Colonel Diekert selected Mr. Dixon, ; and he accepted without hesitation, j They knew that they would have ( to disguise themselves to get through i Sherman's lines, and that if caught j their lives would pay the forfeit; ( but that did not deter them, and ? they set out on their mission? < strangers hitherto, but now strone i friends, bound together by a'common i cause and a common danger. Th y | fulfilled their mission, passing twice i through Sherman's lines. ( Some time ago Mr. Tom Harrell, | of Newberry, was in Florence and | was talking with Mr. Dixon, who now i lives there, though at the time above | spoken of he was from Richland county. Mr. Dixon askt d him if he i knew a man from Newberry named j 1). A. Dickert. Yes, lie said, be t knew him well; saw him very often, i From that a correspondence ensued j between the two former comrades- | in-arnis, resulting in a cordial and ; pressing invitation from Colonel . Dickert to Mr. Dixon to visit, him in ( Newberry. On Tuesday Mr. Dixon j came, ami the two men, who had braved death together forty-four ( ytars ago, stood face to face for the ; first time since then. Doth men j have held their own well, Mr. Dixon | being particularly active and bright; ? tall and as straight as an Indian; of i quiet demeanor, but cheerful and | full of life?like a young man but i for his gray hair; and gray hairs | have ceased to be a sign of old age. The men are now 6e, there being ] three months difference 4n their ] ages. When they performed th? < dangerous feat of carrying General | Hardee's message they were little i more than boys, and yet had seen four years of hard fighting. i Speaking of Mr. Dixon, Colonel Dickert said that he was the bravest and most cheerful man under hardships and dangers ho ever saw. POSTMAKTKU vr FLORKNCK. S?*vornl .Xspiinnts for the l'lace Are Working l*'or It. Washington, March 17. Senator B. I). Smith went to see President Taft today about naming some one for the Florence postoflice to succeed Josh Wilson, the negro, who was recently named for another term by Mr. Roosevelt, and who failed to have his nomination stick. Senator Smith, of course, wants a Democrat if lie can squeeze one in, and it is understood that if a good Republican can not be found Mr. Smith may be called on to name a Democrat. At this time, however, the Republicans are being mentioned here for the place, Cassell and I.athrop. Cassell's father is n member of the House from Pennsylvania, and is said to be working for his son. CRIMINAL CAliKRKSSXESS. Though Pistol Was t'nloaded and Killed a Man. Spartanburg, March 17.?While fooling with a pistol supposed to be unloaded. Sam James shot Perry Roister, his brother-in-law, at Dreer. this morning. James was trying to clean an old pistol and Leister was sitting in a chair watching hint. The pistol w? nt off accidentally, the hall entering Loister's forehead, penetrating tho brain and causing In1 stant death. James is prostrated with grief. TIIHEE WERE KILLED. Coast Line Train Loaves Track at I'ikeville, X. C. * Charlotte, N. C., March 17.?A - fast passenger train op the Atlnniic . Coast Line jumped tlie track at Pike. ville, a flag station between Oolds horo and Wilmington after midnight J killing the engineer and fireman, a and Hrakeman OfTert. Conductor 1 W. H. Newell and several pasengers f were seriously injured. Details of e the accident could not be obtained at this h)ur. THE NEW BILL On the Tariff Brought in Early On Wednesday MAJORITY MEASURE Introduced by Chairman I'nync, of the Ways and Means Committee?Free Reciprocity With Cuha and Philippines Except on Sugar and Tobacco. Washington, March 17.?Chairman Tavne of the ways and means committee introduced a new tariff bill today. It provides for a ? 10,>00,000 issue of Panama canal bonds, re-enacts provision for the issuance >f treasury certificates to the amount >f $ur?0,000,0O0, provides for gradit?ted iiih> ritance tax similar to the New York State law and imposes littles Oil maximum and minimum liases. Cotton seed oil, iron ore, tallow, llax straw ami undressed tlax, mechanically ground wood pulp, tildes, and works of art more than twenty years old are placed on free iist where coffee remains. Tea is taxed eight cents per pound, tnd internal revenue tax on heavy trade eigaretts is increased sixty cents and on those weighing less han three pounds to the thousand, t is increased to Lumber is at fifty per cent, refined sugar, five me-hundredths of a cent per pound: rude gypsum, ten cents per ton; fire-brick ten per centum and valorem, steel and iron schedule, from forty to fifty per cent; tin plates, ninety per cent; bacon aiul hams, mo cent; dextrin and starch, onenaif cent; wool, shoddy and waste, five cents, and boots and shoes and leather goods, from forty to fifty [jcr cent. Bituminous coal and agricultural mplcments Imported from countries [lerinitting free entry of these ariclt's from United States, are admited free of duty. Other reductions ire on marble, plate glass, mien, eadliearing ore, wool, grease, barley ind barley malt, tlax gill nettings, dngle yarns and threads, oilcloth, otton shirts and collars and printng paper. Increases in duties are made on jliicory root and roasted coffee and irtieles used as a substitute for coffee, cocoa, spices, coal tar dyes, Keeno's cement, asphaltuin. Hour .par, zinc in ore, osier or willow, fig,-*, lemons, pineapples, Mercerized fabrics and gloves embroidery and lncernaking machines are to be imported free until July 1911. Kroo reciprocal trade with t ho Philippines is provided for. hut limiting free sugar to 300,000 tons; wrapper tobacco, to 300,000 pounds; tiller tobacco, to 300,000 pounds, iiul 150,000,000 cigars a yenr. The exemption is confined to products of the islands. The continuation of the Cuban reciprocity provisions of Itinglcy hill are continued, provisions for drawbacks and method of valuation are extended and broadened. Increases in cotton schedule are: An additional duty of 1 cent per yard on mercerized fabrics (a new process of manufacturing invented since present law was enacted). Also small additional duty on lappets. There is also an increase duty on stockings, fashioned and shaped wholly or in part on knitting machines. In his statement on (lie hill, Chairman Payne said: "The hill provides for reciprocal free trade with Philippine islands, on all articles, hut limiting sugar to ho Imported free of duty to 300,000 tons: wrapper tobacco to 3 00,000 pounds and 3,000.000 pounds of filler tobacco and 150,000,000 cigars in any one fiscal year. The excess of sugar, tobacco and cigars to pay full tariff rates." A section is inserted pres< rwUu; Cuban rocinroeit v' provisions of flHHK out law. Tax on elgaretts i*p increased, those weighing over Mhreo I!? pounds per thousand, from J? to W $3.50, and those weighing lcssflMFottt DKI'OT l>F.STlt<>VFI> HV lTM||ta Flumes Consume t'liimi i> >w fn Louisville, Kv., Mnrchfl the destruction here tnnigl|t;a? 3 ;i;,! local terminal for five o utry's leading railroa will probably hem lit by ? Low Mjjjuon t station. ^ i;rossen wir?'s in 1 "'^i|WW| 11113 big struct nor. which w?crofl4fd by the Illinois Central in 1S$Q? clused the blaze, which ma^H^^Bmpty shell of t he depot before tire, fire department of the city, which was called, had arrived. W. G. ltoach. chief clerk to Superintendent higan of the Illinois Central, fell through a skylight. All other occupants escapfd unharmed. l'sing the depot were the Illinois Central, the Rig Four, the Southern, the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern and the Chesapeake & Ohio. The rescue of a woman telhphone operator from the fifth stnry by firemen and tho great height to which I the flames rose made the flr*t uuubui ally tpectacular. * ?' A