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THE FORT MILE TIMES ?* / * VOLUME XVIII FORT MI LL, THURSDAY, APRIL22, 1909 NO. 2 LAST ONE GONE Gen. M. C. Butler Died In Colum bla Wednesday Night WAS SICK LONG TIMI Wm a Major General in the Con federate Army and Wait Appoint ed to the Same Grade In the Arm] of the United States by President McKlnley. Gen. M. C. Butler, the last of th< brilliant general officers South Carolina contributed to the Confederal cause, died at the Knowlton Infirmary In Columbia about 12 o'clock Wednesday night, after an lllnesf which extended through many weeks. His wife and son were present when the soul of this splendid old warrior passed over the river to "rest under the shade of the trees." flnnprti 1 Butlo. ">? > ** u. WUVIUI nttO 111 tut) I 1111 year of his age. On his last birthday. the 8th of March, he embraced the Catholic faith, being confirmed by Bishop Northrop. He was taken to the Infirmary to be treated for sciatica. Gen. Butler's Career. Matthew Calbraith Rut lor born In Greenville, of illustrious parentage. His ancestors on tho Butler side are a race of heroes. They were among tho pioneers of South Carolina, and settled in the northern part of Edgefield county. Ills great grandfather, Capt. James Butler, was killed fighting for his country In the war of the Amerfuan Revolution Ho was a descendant of the Duke of Ormand, the great royalist lelfder In England. General Butler's grandfather, William Butler, was very prominent In |the legislative ^department *of the State, and also served thirteen years In Congress. His father. Dr. William Butler, was surgeon In the United States navy, and was a broth er of Governor Pierce M. Butler, of South Carolina, who fell at the bottle of Churobusco, while leading the famous "Palmetto regiment," and Dr. Butler's other brother was the distinguished Senator, Andrew Pickens Butler. While stationed at Newport, Tt I.. Dr. William Butler married Miss Jane Tweedy Perry, the sister of Commodore Oliver Perry, of Lake Erie fame, and of Commodore Matthew Calbralth Perry, who was tn> first to open our commercial relations with Japan. All readers of American history are familiar with these distinguished naval heroes. After his ntarriag* Dr. Butler re signed from the navy and returned to his native home in Edgefield The mother of General Butler war a woman of many sterling qualities and was much beloved and admired for her grandeur of character and her great heauty, sincere even to hrusqueness and truthful always After the civil war a friend present ed to her General Sickles, of the United States army, saying. "Gen ernl. Mrs. Butler Is a sister of Com modore Perry." Very emphatically Mrs. Butler exclaimed: "I had rath-ei be known as the mother of Calbralth Butler!" Here spoke the mother the heart?the "Coripelia" of th? nineteenth century. The mother ol the "Gracchi" could not. have beet prouder of her "Jewels" than wai this pplendld woman of her nobb sons, of whom there were five whr "wore the grey." General Butler was a lawyer b> profession, and soon aner his ad mission to the Bar married Mist Maria Calhoun Pickens, one of th' handsome daughters of South Caro Una's grand old "war governors," Francis W. Pickens. When tho war broke out Genera' Butler organized a cavalry force and entered (he field ns a captain. Gradr by grade he was promoted, until h attained the rank of major general Bt the desperate battle of Brand; Station, and the most dashing, gal lant. and debonaire figure seen tha* day was this youthful, knlghtl? "Paladin" of the Army of Northern Vlrgina, who possessed all the brilliancy and valor of "Bold Henry of Navarre." In that terrible fight at Brandy Station General Butler commanded a regiment under Gen . J. K. B. Stuart and lost a leg, while General Davis, who commanded the Federals, was killed while crossing the Rappahannock river. It was here, at Reams's Station, that he was promoted major genera! One of General Butler's gallant couriers. who was then only a youth ol 17. and by the way, was a relattvr of the general, has said, "Had Gen eral Butler no other war record hi? victory at the battle of Trevlllar Station will forever Immortallzt him." After the din and smoke of th< battle had died away, and white robed "Peace" crowned our once dee olate land of the "Sunny South.' General Butler returned to his horn* In Kdgeflejd and resumed the prac tlce of law. Gifted with hrllllan intellect and wit, he was regarde< as one of the most effective speaker In Sonth Carolina, a State whlcl has always been noted for her abb logicians and orators. In the autumn of 1876, Genera Butler was elected United State Senator, aad his career as statesman SEVERAL KILLED IN A CLASH BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE In Mexico, Which Is Said to Have * Been St-arted by the l*riesta of the Parish. According to a dispatch received at Mexico the rioting which occurred at Valdardena, a mining camp in r Coahuila, last Saturday night, was more serious than at first reported. thirty-two men being kiled and many injured. The trouble was in} stlgated by Father Ramon Valen zucla, parish priest, it !h asserted, > who lies in a hospital hovering between life and death. ; Fourteen of the rioters were ex1 ecuted by the Government troops, and many were imprisoned. Many Americans reside in Velardena, as the camp is controlled by American capital. The leaders of the mob, which was well organized, avoided attacking Americans or destroying American property. The fighting occurred when the Jefe Politico of the town, an officer correspondent to an American mayor, attempted to stop a religious procession headed by the village priest, the laws of Mexico forbidding such parades. A thousand parlshoners followed the priest, wishing to witness the annual burning of Judas, and when th? orders of the mayor became known, the mob stoned and later burned the house of the mayor, who with his wife, escaped by climbing a rear wall and seeking protection in the American colony. The rioters then stormed a Chinese hotel, looting it of all liquors and foods and terrorizing the neighborhood during the night by their drunken orgy. The police fired on i the mob, many members of which were well armed. The officers were forced to retreat, leaving six of theii number dead in the mam st*t?t. Later troops arrived in a special train and a fierce fight bet wen troops and rioters insued, bringing the total deaths to .12, with n number injured. Father Valenzuela was arrested. 1 One of his followers smuggled a knife to his cell and the priest stabbed himself six times in a violent attempt to commit suicide. He is now in the prison hospital. Quiet was restored. KILLED HIMSELF 1 After Trying ami Failing to Shoot a Young Lady. After trying to Bhoot Miss Jose>hiue AlbertR, Allan M. Fay, aged 23 years, a prominent broker, of Hoson, Mass., shot himself through the mouth in an alley early Wednesday ind died while being hurried to the hospital. Fay had spent the evening with diss Alberts, at her honve, leaving somo time after midnight. He then went to the alley at the rear of the house and fired four shots, three going through the young woman's window, but none reaching Miss Alberta. A policeman who heard the shots "ound Fay lying on his side in the illeyway bleeding from a bullet wound in the roof of his mouth. VIlss Alberts, who is 22 years of age. has known Fay about four years. nd during that time has repeatedly efused his proposals of marriage, it is said. was as grand as his record as soldier ind patriot. Handsome as Apollo, and gifted with a charming personality, his mag letism and loyalty h^ld his friends with "hooks of steel." After General Butler retired from 'he Senate he formed a law partnership In Washington. D. C., with two distinguished attorneys under irm name of "Shelly, Butler & Maron." and on the 28th of May, 1898, 'resident McKinley appointed him najor general of the United States irmy, and his confirmation as such was unanimous by the Senate. Thus we see this kingly major general of *he Confederate cavalry, who so gallantly led his ragged and hungry ' soldier boys on to so many victorious battles, 3 4 years afterward n major general in the United States * army, and commanding an army corps. He was appointed also on the Cuban peace commlssifon and for f some time attended faithfully to his ' trduous duties at Habana. In the spring of 1908 General Rut? ler was one of the distinguished par' ty that visited the Arroyo Rico dis* trlct. in the southeastern section of the State of Chihuahua, in the far* famed Parral mineral belt, 65 miles - northwest of the city of Parral. - This party comprised, among others. General Butler, of South Carolina, 9 the Hon. Jno. K. Cowen, of Baltl more; Admiral W. S. Schley and t General Armstrong of Mississippi. It J was In January, 1 894, that General t Butler was elected president of the i Hidalgo Placer Mining and Milling e Company of Mexico. After the death of his first wife. 1 General Butler married Mrs. Nan8 Die Whitman, nee Bostlck, of the old a]Pierre Rober, family of Charleston. THE TURKS SLAY Two Americans in the Outbreak at Adams. WAR ON CHRISTIANS 1 Half of the City Reported Burned in an Anti-Armenian Riot and Sixty Persons Said to llave Ix>st Their Lives?Soldiers Join in the LootingTwo American missionaries have been killed in the anti-Armenian out oreaK ai Adama, Asiatic Turkey, according to information received at Constantinople from that place by telegraph Friday afternoon. At midnight neither the American ambassador, Mr. Leishman, nor the Hritish embassy had received any further news concerning the massacre or confirmation of the reported murder of American missionaries at Adana. Consular telegrams received at Constantinople report that half of the town of Adana has been burned, and that the attacks upon the Armenians are extending into the vilayet. They say that the Hritish vice consul as Merslna, Major PaughtyWylle, who was ordered to Adana when th<^ first advices of the massacre were received- has been wound, ed. Communication with the disturbed district is interrupted, however, and all reports received from there must be taken with caution. The Porte declares the disturbances are subsiding. Two additional battalions have been dispatched to Adana. The Moslem attacks recommenced yesterday afternoon and continued , throughout the night. Large numbers of Christians are said to have been killed. One report, says that sixty Armenians have lost their lives and that many houses have been looted and burned. The first news of this anti-Chris- | tian outbreak said the scone was at Mersiun lmt ?i?io ....... nnn t rruneoiis. I The trouble occurred at Adana, which J is about nr. miles inland from Mersi- I . na. The early reports were declared to have Icon exaggerated and me?aagps received later said only ten Armenians had been killed, that martial law had been proclaimed at Adana, and that reinforcements of troops were being sent Jn from Helrut. J This latest intelligence refers to | disorders that took place after the I situation was supposed to have quiet- I ed down. Adana is a station of the Amerlran board of commissioners for for- j elgn missions with a working force I of five missionaries and thirty-five I native workers; an out-station of the I Synod of the Reformed Presbyte- 1 rian church in North America, and a Bible de|>ot, and sub-agency of the American Bible Society. Adana is a city of 45,000 people. I and is the seat of Government of I the province of the same name. The I people are mostly Mnhamidans, but I there are a considerable numlvr of Christians, including Armenians and I a small Greek community there. The missionaries of the district are at present at Adana for the regular district meeting. They are Mr. and Mrs. William Chambers, the I Misres Webb, Miss Wallis and Miss Borel. Mr. Christy Is at. Tarsus. Telegrams arriving at Athens from Merslna report sanguinary riots at Adana as a result of a demon- I titration against the police, who had killed two persons thpy were trying to arrest. A massacre then began. I in which tlie troops are alleged to have partielpated. Several houses 1 were burned during the disturbance I The dispatches add that the foreign consuls have demanded that warships he dispatched to Merslna. * FOURTEEN PERISH. Hoarding House for I laborers Hunted in San Francisco. At San Francisco six bodies recovered and probably eight or ten others buried in the ruins; six Injured, one fatally. property loss $125,000?these are the results of a fire Friday that desfroyed the St. George Hotel, a lodging house foi laborers at Howard and 8th street. Fight other small buildings were burned. The bodies taken to the inontue were so charreo that identification was impossible. The hotel was a three-story frame building. It was burned so rapidly that none of the 180 guests had time to dress. Many escaped by jumping to the room of an adjoining workshop. Scores clambered down the firemen's ladders, and the fire escapes on the building. Four jumped to safety in a net held by the fire fighters. Slight Earthquake in Peru. An earthquake shack accompanied by subterranean rumblings was felt at. Lima. Peru, this week. Many buildings were damaged. No casualties are reported. Murdered Unpaid Cabman. Resenting a demand for hack fare. John Burchfleld shot Zeke Roberts to death at Asheville, N. C... a few days ago. NIGHT OF HORROR ENDS IN TRAGEDY BY STEAME1 SINKING AFTER Struggling Above Waves All Nigh While Her I'nssengerB Wore ii a Panic. Following a remnrkable series o accidents and a tcmpestous voyage the steamer Virginia, from Cinciu natl, O., to Pittsburg, was finally wrecked Thursday night in the Ohit river at Wellesvllle, Ohio. The boat, the largest plying the upper Ohio, went down close tc shore after striking a rock and tearing a hole three feet long in the hull. The pasengers, numbering 50, in a highly nervous condition, as a result of minor accidents earlier in the* evening, became panic-stricken when the vessel met with the last accident and it was with difficulty a crew of 75 men restrained them Although handicapped by darkness, a high wind and drenching rain, the crew managed to place the passengers safely in boats and put them ashore. From here they were taken scantily clad, to a Are engine house In Wellesvlllo and later reached the warmth of a hotel by means of a police patrol wapon. Today the passengers were 6cnt to this city by railroad. The Virginia's trip from Cincinnati was without mishap until Wheeling was reached early last evening. At this point a severe wind storm was encountered and the big packet was tossed about in the Ohio river like a small boat. It was Impossible to effect a landing at Wheeling, and the Virginia continued toward this city. About 11 o'clock the steamer, which is said to have been leaking badly from an earlier accident, entered the channel here. When yet some distance from shore the steamer struck an obstruction with terrific force. The passengers were thrown from their berths. Baggage and valuables wfero forgotten. After the excited passengers had reached the salon they were quickly surrounded by n crew of seventy-five men and quieted. Boats were brought into service and before the steamer settled >all were safely ashore. Most of the passengers were from southern points. TWO 8UICIDKS AT ONCE. Two Vonug Women Cabin Mates Kill Themselves. During the voyage of the Cunard Idner Lucania, which sailed from \Vw Vnrlf fr?f T I""-. 1 * ** " unci jiuui i r 11 i, two young women, who had occupied a second-class cabin together, committed suicide by shooting. They were Margaret Clarke. 2 9 years old, who is believed to have been a resident of Brooklyn, and Annie Miller, 22 years oldja*rfiose former residence is not known. The motive for the double suicide has not been ascertained, and as the bodies were buried at. sea there wili be no inquest. Miss Clarke shot herself Thursday, iho second day out, while in her cabin. Her companion four days later took her own life. WON HIS WIFE. By Making His Ix>coniot.ive Whistle I'lay Tunes. Converting his engine whistle into a steam calliope, says the Pltsburg Dispatch, and playing thereon such times as "Home Sweet Home," 'In he Sweet By and By," "Will You Remember Me?" "Way Down on th? Suwanee River" and many other simple ballads of long ago, Robert Freeman Ellington, engineer on the Southern Railway for more than twenty years, despite the fact that he is still a young man, won for himself a pretty young wife, who first becamo attracted to him after hearing his weirdly fantastic melodies as he drove his iron steed through tho stillness of the night. ALIVE IX HE It COFFIN. Mourning Turns to Joy When Ilnbe Oiwns Its Eyes. Friends and relatives gathered last week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Harrington, of Orange, Tex., to attend the funeral services over the body of their two-year-old daughter. The child had been declared dead, but was not. burled for three days owing to the condition of the mother, who was suffering from shock. When the services began the little tot opened her eyes, gaped and wanted "out of the box." She is now on a fair way to recover from her recent illness. Physicians who declared the chi'd dead are at a loss to understand the case. Half Million Dollar Fire. Following a long series of incendiary fires, two extensive sections ol Rochester, NT. Y., fell prey, this week to flames that for several hourt Beemed to threaten the destructlor of the whole city. When the flrei were finally gotten under control with the help of a heavy rain, ovei ; 100 families, numbering nearly 60( persons, were homeless and the prop | erty damage exceeded $500,000. CAUSES MURDER Squatter Refuse To Give Up The Lands - ON WHICH THEY LIVE f Nino Tragedies Have Resulted From n I)cn Which Megan in l'ortlnnd, f > Me., in 183tt and Forgotten Until liands Megan to lie of Much ? Vnlue. Nine assassinations are traceable , to the contention for undisputed possession of 4 00,000 a<*res of land in the State of O'orgia. The recent killing of Pope S. 11111. leader of the Rar association in Macon, is but another link in tho chain of bloody iraKi'tiit'B, wnich takes Its beginning from the organization of a body of capitalists in Portland, Mo., in 1833 to purchase lands in that State. The Norman Dodge Land Company, composed of New York men. Is now seeking to oust. squatters from the territory and finds it is up against a lot of bogus and forged deeds and titles. In some respects the case resembles the Reelfoot Lake fight, in Tennessee. There the settlers had by right of years come to believe that th'ey owned the lake. Here the squatters on the land ohtalned by the Dodges' had remained so long in peace and apparent ownership that they have come to believe the land is theirs by right of possession. Consequently they resist every attempt to displace them. Bloody has been the history of the ' case. Capitalists in Portland. Me., sent 1 their agents into Georgia in 1833 1 and bought large tracts in what are now Dodge, Telfair, Laurens and Montgomery counties. A deed was executed in the name of the Georgia Lumber Company. Later the enmnany became indebted and in 1877 the lands were offered for sale by the Georgia legislature. George E Dodge, of New York, made the pur- < chase. In the meantime nothing had be?n done with the land except to i pay the taxes. , In the course of time the Macon i and Brunswick railroad was con- | strueted and the land became valuable. Mr. Dodge and his fellow own- | ors began to realize something on , their property. Deeds were forged ; and all sorts of schemes were worked ] to get the land away from them , piecemeal. Dodge finally filed a suit ( for injunction and prevented fur- ( ther steals. Tie also turned possession over to his brother, Norman , Dodge, a resident of Georgia. At this juncture Uuther Hall, a lawyer, began to sell deeds In th* J name of the former owners of the^ tract. He was convicted of violating an injunction and sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. Hater he ran for the legislature and in his campaign told the people in the disputed land to "meet Mr. Dodge's agents with shotguns and leave thier carcasses for the buzzards to pick or cram them down gopher holes." This happened in 1890. About the same time the murder of Col. John Forsyth, the resident Dodge ngent, was murdered. ' No less than six deaths, three or four of them by violence, have followed the trial of the case. There have been nine assassinations in Telfair county within the last 25 years, and these have been traceable, it is said, directly or Indirectly to the Dodge land case, the end of which is still far from sight. Pope Hill and Nat Harris have looked afher many of the cases, and it was to look into some of them that Mr. Hill left Macon so recently on his fatal trip to McRae. "Murder will out, and I have no fear Hill's assassin will escape," said Col. Nat Harris, the partner of the murdered man. MARItlKS STKPMOTHKR. Young Man Weds the Widow of His Father. Tt has just been learned that the d-eparture last February from Cornell University of Harrv C Deckwifb twenty-six years of age, and enrolled as a special student In architecture, was for the purpose of urging his suit for the hand of his step-mother, Mrs Eleanor Beckwith, thirty-six years of age, and now a resident of Chicago. Friends of young Reckwith today heard that he had been successful in this end and that a marriage ceremony had been performed last Saturday in Chicago. Reckwith's father died seven or eight years ago. _____________ KILLED IN STREET BY ALTO. i Man Run Down as He Gets Off. Car. Four People Hurt. At Memphis Peter Sullivan was j killed and four other persons in1 jured late Wednesday night when an , J automobile ran down Mr. Sullivan as ( he was alighting from a street car. i Of the injured occupants of the au, j tomobile who were thrown to the j ground by the sudden stopping of ( ) the machine, was Thomas Phetan, - a prominent business man, Is the | most seriously hurt. GOES BACK TO WORK SKNATOR ANI> MRS. TILLMAN GOES TO WASHINGTON. ? ^ The Senator OirrlslHH No Delusions as to Itemocrat.s Getting Anything But Crumbs. The Columbia Record of Friday says Senator and Mrs. B. R. Tillman were here today on their way to Washington, to which point the senator Is headed so as to be on hand for the tnriff debate in the senate. The senator is apparently in splendid health. "I am getting so fat that positively I am getting sad about it. Gained six or seven pounds recently eating hog and hominy down at Trenton. Weighing 200 pounds now. more than I have ever weighed. Hut, by golly, I want tome roas'n ears to ent, and I've got to leave before they come in." Asked if he could not say something rash on which a hardup newspaper fellow might build a good live story, the senator smilingly nodded in the negative. "Haven't got an idea on State or national politics," he declared, giving away indolently to the balminess i of the spring morning. "Well, couldn't you tell us some- I thing about how much hell you are < going to raise about the tariff?" 1 "Oh, what's the use of biting at I the grindstone? Whenever those * Republican ringsters get ready to t pass the tariff they will simply crack t the whip and the majority will trot up and vote as the ring directs. I> t they will consent to give us the rigtit \ sort of showing on German potash * salts we will try to get it, but it t Is all In their hands." t Senator and Mrs. Tillman will stop s over in Roek Hill this evening for a visit to Winthrop col'.ego. * a r INQUIRY TO IIK RKSl'MKD. a i] Attorney General Lyon Says Things Will be Doing. Attorney General t yon who has iust gotten back to Columbia after K extended trips to Augusta, Atlanta. n ind Cincinnati, in the interest of '' the resumption of the dispensary h >f the Federal Supreme Court which ' was announced while he wa? in At- a anta. v "I guees I could tell you a few ' hings we have been descovering re- 8 ;ently on which you could build c i powerful good story," said Mr. e Lyon, smiling In answer to a ques- a tion from one of his newspaper call- r ?rs, "hut I am hardly at liberty to a iu uiai at, mis urae. 1 do not know 1 myself just what tho Stato's pro- f ?rain Is now, as I have not yet had 0 i conference with our attorneys hero, v and as the Governor has not yet. " filled the two vacancies on the wind- ' Ing-up commission but it will be safe v to say that the music will start up 0 now in a few weeks." Mr. Lyon was much "put out" at ' the reoent spread-eagle story that H appeared In The Atlanta Constitution about Mr. Felder's law firm's alleged big--fee of $200,000 iu the dispensary caso. He is satisfied that the Atlanta firm is in no way to blame. Of course, Mr. Lyon Is delighted with the Supreme Court's decision, but its general drift was not a surprise to him. He had expressed himself as confident of victory some time before the decision came out. NIGHT RIDERS BRING TERROR. Threaten to Piny Havoc if Planters Don't Heed. "Night riders" are terrorizing land owners and tenants in the vicinity of Harriman's Ferry, Indiana. William Schrolucke, owner of 700 acres in that neighborhood, reported that twenty men on horseback visited all his tenants and informed them that if they paid a greater rent than one-third of the crop raised, their crops would be mowed down before they became ripe. Thomas Taylor, a wealthy land owner, received by mail a package containing powder and matches, with a note of warning of what he might expect if he insisted on a one-half crop rental. ROTH PASSED AWAY. 1 Only Two Hours Between Heath of 1 Man and Wife. The News and Courier says news was received in Laurens Thursday 1 morning of the death yesterday of Mr. and Mrs. Rrown Whitniire at their home at Young's Cross Roads, about three miles southeast of Clinton. Mr. and Mrs. Whitniire were \ both ill with pneumonia, and early yesterday morning Mr. Whitmlre pased away. A few hours later Mrs. Whitmlre died. Each was about 50 years of age. The burial service of | the couple will be held today at Hurricane Church. Rejected IiOver Tried Murder. Roland Matlack. 20 years of age. Is under arrest In Trenton. N. J., charged with attempting to kill his rival. Roland Chadwick. of Philadelphia, and Miss Margaret Summers, a girl of 19 and his former sweetheart. He tried twice to flre into their face but the gun failed to go off. CAN'T BE FOUND 1 Twelve Year Old Child Disappears While On HER WAY TO SCHOOL In Atlanta, (Jwirgin, Little Carrie Cloiuiuons I/eft Her Home on Highland Avenue for tlie Iloulevn.nl School iiiul Has Strangely Vanished, and She Can't he Found. In Atlanta, Ga., the strange and unaccountable disappearance of little Louise Clemmons, 12 years old, is cuaslng great, anxiety to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Clemmons, who llveB as 354 Highland avenue. Since 8 o'clock Monday mornings when the little girl, with the school books under arm, left home for the' Boulevard Street school, she has not returned home, and her anxious mother and father have learned nothing of her whereabouts. All night Monday night her parents spent troubled hours In notifying the police authorities, phoning to relatives In different parts of tho Mty and in visiting the homes of the nrlghborhood in vain, restless ef'orts to find some clue to the whereibouts of the bright little daughter vho had so suddenly and so myseriously disappeared. Little Carrie is a favorite in the neighborhood. She is bright and vinsome and is admired by all who mow her. She Is her mother's only laughter and the mother is about o give away under the anxious train. Mrs. Clemmons was at. first quite .verse to notifying the police or the tewspapers of her daughter's dls- . ppearance. and It was far into the light of Monday, after all possible fforls had been made, that she and ler husband called upon tho police o assist In the search. From the Boulevard Street ehool, where Carrie had regularly t.tended and for which place she p'ft her home Monday morning In icr accustomed manner, comes the nformation that she was not seen t that school at all Monday. She .'as urged by her mother upon leavng to return home immediately after ehool closed for the day and readily onsented. Her accustomed obcdlnee in this respect makes her disppearance all the more of a mystey to her parents and the suspense 11 the more terrible. At first her allure to return did not excite any ears, hut the coming of night withiut the child's appearance brought vith It fear and anxiety. Mrs. Clemnons immediately telephoned to the ionics of relatives over the city vhere the child had often visited mly to learn that she had not been icon. The father was notified at lis place of business, 96 Ivy street, inii the search began. i iif uuiy irace or rjarrie yet learn(1 since her disappearance is that he was s<'en walking down Broad treet, near the Intersection of Broad vlth Mitchell street, Monday about 2 o'clock. She was alone, and yet ier moTher cannot believe her to >e'lost, because, although young, she mew the streets of the city well and >ften run errands to many points n the city alone. This causes Mrs, 'lenimons to believe trat her daugher is being held and not lost, as she annot see why the child would not eturn home if she could, because ,he knows the way. Then, too, 'arrio had often expressed a fondiess for going to Lak#wood to gather the flowers there and Mrs. Clemnons is strongly tempered to belnwHtf^. hat shra went to Lakewpo^ and has alien Into the lake and Is drowned. "Of course, that's looking at it / >n the dark side." said Mrs. Clem- ' nons to a Journal representative, i but I am nevertheless trying to see 1 he bright side, if there is any bright I tide." A When the little girl left home for I tchool Monday morning she wore a lotted blue muslin dress, with a |?j larker bine border. On her head she vore a small tan cap; on her hair vas a rather large blue ribbon bow. ^ ^he wore button shoes and a signet, ring on which were engraved the otters C. L. C. Tier father is a plumber, working it 9 6 Ivy street. CAN'T EXPLAIN SUICIDE. former New York Broker Threw Himself Over CHIT. Ludwig Stetthelmer, the young American who committed suicide by thrnwinrr himself from n cliff nf Tor regeveta. Italy, last Tuesday and who was at first thought to bo#T McPherson," of Seattle, was former- * ly a foreign exchange broker In Wall f street. About a year ago ho favn up his business and began totfhv^l in Southern Europe and Africa. cousin here, Morris Stettheimeri at a loss to explain the fuJqldfc. T.udwig. he gald, was cheerful whon be left here and had considerable money. Prominent Artist a 111 health led John Wolst, ly a prosperous New Yorif iifflst, to commit suicide by polsOd at Loa Angelep this week.