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' ' S# 1 ' ' v No One pa the Train Knew of the . s, "T ^Z^wiA V-y Daring Robbery Until the Mee? . . . ? - * senger Was Gotten Out of the Box in Which He Had Been <f '*> Locked by the Robbers. Train robbers on Tuesday night overpowered Express Messenger Thomas L. Hutto, on Southern train No. 17. which passed Branchville little before eight o'clock and which is due in Augusta at half-past ten o'clock, and robbed the express safe of about $200, all the money that was In it. The robbers took nothing else. The following particulars of the robbery we take from the Augusta Chronicle: The robbery occurred between Warrenville and Augusta. The thieves got the drop on the messenger, knocked him senseless, tied his hands behind his back, and threw him into and locked him In a chest. They procured his keys and, at their leisure, ransacked the car. The messenger was liberated at the Union Station in Augusta. The blow with which he was fellod was not severe. He was nearly suffocated from his close confinement in the ch??t. Otherwise he suffered no 111 effects physically. Southern No. 17 makes up at Branchville. It's connections there are with Columbia and Charleston. It's express and mall are through. Ordinarily the train, for the Southern Express Company, carries $2,GOO to $10,000 of currency. Tuesday night's packages were the smallest in years. As stated, as luck had it, the shipments was not more than approximately $200. Thomas L. Hutto has been an oxpress messenger four years. He lives at 20 8 Ellis street. He tellB a very interesting story of the robbery. Hutto was sitting idly on a box in his car?a compartment car, embracing mall and express service?as the train pulled out from Warrenville. The end door of the car?next the baggage car?was thrown suddenly open and a man, his face hidden by a shabby mask of red flannel, pistol extended, ordered "hands up!" Hutto was dazed by the 6Uddeness of it ail, and made no move. "Hands up, I tell you!""was ordered by another voice, and a second man had entered face red-flanneled, pistol extended. Before Hutto could obey the rapid and tierce orders, and as he reached for his gun,, which was in a tin box but a foot or so removed from him, he received a blow, presumably from the man who had entered the car first, and was rendered unconscious. Hut he regained consciousness in a flash?he is sure he was unconscious but a moment. When himself again he found his hands gr^sp1 ed tightly behind his back. A pistol barrel was pressed hard against his spinal column. "Cry out, make any demonstration, and I will pull the ,j>-, trigger!" the robber told him. A package of baby clothing?an express shipment? vas cut open and cords taken theiv ?>om, with which t the messenger was securely tied? hands behind back. ?$?>'- ^ There was in the car an empty express chest four feet wide, five H&CTfc* . . ... ... ireet long ana uiree reet deep, rno robbers threw the helpless messenger Into this chest and clasped it, but did not lock It. They then, having secured Ills keys, went through the ear and safe at their leisure. There Hutto remained until express helpers extricated him at the Station in Augusta. | Tho negro helpers at the Union Station, when they proceeded to the Ctcar. as is customary, to remove the express to the station office, found the door of the car on the right bide?which was closed?unlocked. The end door was locked. The door on the left side of the car was open. Knterlng the car they heard vigorous talking in 'tjhe ^express chest and liberated Hutto, who gave the first Information of the robbery. Conductor J. B. Metz declares that he and no other man on the train had intimation of any thing wrong until after Hutto had been released. The robbers left the train at Broad street, through the down-town side door of the car?the one found open at the station. From his chest prison Hutto could hear them plainly rattle silver. He could hear their voices, but no dis tlnctly enough to distinguish whHt they were saying. He heard one of them call the other "Jim." His experience on the run enabled hlin to locate when the train reached the Hani berg yards, when it crossed the bridge and about when It reached ?road. It was then that the hum of 'I# conversation ceased and Hutto knew m that the men had left the car. He ,V kicked the cheat in the hope of attracting the attention of some one? * for he was about to suffocate?but was not successful. He then summoned all his strength and waited till the Union Station was reached, when be renewed his vigorous kickw*** h : On the floor of the express car "..waa&ound a piece of rubber tubing? ' auch as is used on the air brake connections?on one end of which was *'~-*Tp^was8 coupling joint. Hutto had been hit with the rubber hose. There were no signs of the discharged red ' flannel used for masks. No merchandise was disturbed. Hutto'B i pistol was found lying on top of 1 the cheat fa which he was Imprison- i efl. & f. :vs The police got on the case imme- d'.ately. fckrgenat. McArdle and Rey- 1 examinations at the deA 98B. TBksr i"V ' STARTING INVENTION ? TO PROill To Xnct Great KwU jftagneto to Draw Encmy'i1 y Vassijfc Within Reach of Forta.S^ S A dispatch from HKUlL Germany, says a startling nofHwtp^tlon, for the protection of tWMH^S(pjjan coast, tihrbora and seapaHEM* receiving the serious attentlpaftoipttti German naval authorities. A German naval n^ppieer, named Holimann, applied to tfce German patent office for a provisional patent for an Invention whiafe la intended to destroy any hostlle^leet attempting to blockade or attack German ! ywx is. According to the Inventor, stations must he erected along the coast and at the mouths of rivers^ whch will be equipped with the strongest electric magnets that can be manufactured. When these are In action It is claimed that they would exercise sufficient attractive force to make ironclads and other protected vessels deviate from their course. These magnet stations are to situated where shallow and deep water alternate. The hostile ships would be drawn into the shallow water where they would ground and lie helpless at the mercy of the guns of the forts. Although the invention smacks strongly of romance, yet is noteworthy that competent authorities deem it of sufficient importance to be subjected to a thorough examination. In this connecton, it" may be added that electric cranes capable of lifting weights of five tons by magnetism are already in use at German harbors. " FATAL FIGHT ABOVT A FENCE. Father and Son Killed in flow With Neighbors. At Richmond, Ind., a controversy over a line fence between two farms resulted in the killing of Alexander Meek and Raymond Meek, father and son, by Joel Rallshack. Frank Railsback, Sr., and his son, Frank Railsback, Jr., were wounded by the Meeks. The Railsbacks began shipping away the posts. The Meeks went out to the fence where the Rails backs were at work. The elder Meek had a revolver and the son a shotgun. Both fired on the Rallsbarks and Prank Railsback, Jr., fell with a wound in his knee. The elder Railsback was wounded in the abdomen by a shot from one barrel of the younger Week's gun. The Railsbacks retreated, and Joel Railsback, another son, went to the house and returned with a double-barreled shotgun, fired point blank at the Meeks, killing both, shooting each of them in the head. Joel Railsback surrendered to the sheriff. STUDYING CIVIL WAR BATTLES. Army Officers Going Over Virginia Battlefields. The fields of Seven Pines, Fair Oaks and Malvern Hill, which were fought over In the Sevety Davs' battle in which Gen. McClellan's army was driven back from Richmond, then the capital of the Confederate States, were traversed Monday by the 32 student officers from the war college at Washington who are encamped in Sherwood park, Just outside Richmond. Tuesday they visited Cold Harbor, Mechanicsvllle, Frazer's Farm, Gaines" Mill and other secenes of sanguinary engagements. The whole detachment of 3 2 officers and 4 2 cavelrymen will travel through Louisa Court House, Trevllian'B Station and Orange Court House to the theatre of Stonewall Jackson's famous Shenandoah Valley campaign. DEVELOPS HYDROPHOBIA ' ]) After Having Been Bitten by a I>dg Two Years. Those people who claim not to believe in hydrophobia will find it hard to explain the following case, which is reported from WiuBton Sa- ' lem. N. C.: Miss Maude Wimel, 16 years old, daughter of a Forsyth farmer, who was bitten two years ago by a rabid dog and who for the past two days has been manifesting signs of hydrophobia, was declared Monday by attending physicians to be suffering from that disease. It is said she can live but a few days. Buried in Mine. A telegram from Negaunee, Mich., says that Victor Norse and Edgar Ylensen, miners, were burled alive in the Mary Charlotte mine. A large Af * l(nn/vUJ M 41 >?>vv ul U1IUMII I.III1UCICU lOT II1H men all day and recovered the dead bodies. i Arretted on Huspicton. Prince Russell, a white man of 1 Greenville has been arrested suspect- ' od of making way with his daughter ' who has been missing several days. < I pot. Lieutenant Brttt summoned the < detectives. No arrests have as yet been reported. 1 Hutto says the first robber who ^ entered the car was about 6 feet * 11, and sllmly built. The second 1 robber was of slight build and a lit- 1 tie taller than his companion. Pur- < ther than this, the messenger could 1 give no description of the men. What happened, happened quickly. After Hutto was rendered senseless, he had no further, opportunity to t tee his assailants. . _ i is > MOTHER MAKES ACCUSATION AGAINST HER DAUGHTER. Th* Polio* Heifer* That Loait* Arbogaet fa Guilty of Murder and | Think* She 1* Crazy. The authorities in St. Paul, Minn., , hare the slayer of Louis Arbogast In the hospital ward of the County Jail, but they are uncertain whether mother or daughter did the actual killing. Louise, 23 years of age, I tearlsse. refuses to talk. The mother, I atrs. Minnie Arbogast, escaped a direct accusation because the police , were able to establish clrcusstantlal evidelce that makes It Impossible to prove the charge. She escaped formal accusation because the police forced her to accuse someone else in self-defense. 8he accused LoulBe. The body of Louis Arbfrgkst was found in his bed, last week. The head had been crushed with an axe and gasoline was used In an effort to destroy the remains. When the accusing officers got the daughter and mother together in the mother's cell the girl withstood the battery of searching eyes and maintained her absolute innocence. Finally the mother, in an outburst of desperate appeal, cried: "Louise, it is either you or me. Tell the truth, tell the truth. You were outside father's door when I came from the bathroom. Tou muit tell the truth." The girl was silent. The mother persisted. . She almost shouted,' "You say you didn't do It, but I know you did." But Louise professed to remember nothing and stared straight ahead in silence until the terrific strain was broken by their sob and the two, embraced, weeping bitterly, the girl kneeling by her mother's bedside. The girl was arraigned in court and listened to the reading of the charge. She said she needed no at-1 torney. A plea of not guilty was entered, and the prisioner taken to Jail, the case being continued till Thursday. It is declared at St. Luke's hospital that Miss Arbogast, who Is one of the most beautiful young women of Minnesota is irresponsible and killed her father in a moment of demoniaclal frenzy, caused by hallucinations which have for months lioon niiponl n tr Iiok "She is plainly irresponsible." I Chief of Police O'Connor said: "According to hospital reports and other facts known to - us," said County Attorney O'Brien. "The girl is insane and was not respoasible for her action." The story of the mother, the accusing story which brought Louise Arbogast to the bar, bears out the statements of the authorittes as to the girl's mental ondftion. The very nature of the act, indeed, indicated maniaclal frenzy, the cunnlugness of some of her alleged attempts to cover up the slaying is declared to establish the fact, and the asserted inconsishonciets of her statements after the slaying are said to have been the lapse of cunning due to slip of Judgment, common to crimes committed by the inasne. MURDERED BY HER HUSBAND. Creeps Into Wife's Room and Cuts Her Throut. At Atlanta, Ga., Mrs. George Burge was murdered early Monday [ by a man who crept to the side of her bed while she al*t aud cut her throat with a razor. Her husband is under arrest charged with the killing. A remarkable feature of the case is that the slayer, after killing the woman, picked up her 13-monthsold baby from its cradle and fervently kissed it before running from the room. It is allegod that Hurg?, who had separated froin his wife, threatened her with violence if she did not give him custody of her baby. Three other children of Mrs. Burge?all step-children of Burg?? were asleep in the room at the time. Frank Britton, the eldest of these, was Blightly cut by his mother's j slayer, whom he claims he recognlz- ( ed as his step-father. Barge was arrested at his boarding house. The police claimed that he had blood i on his shirt sleeve, but he said it < waB merely dirt. He said that he < could prove an alibi. < ?ECOItATE SUICIDES' CRAVES. 1 _______ i Efeogram of Committee for Relief of 1 Unemployed. The graves of suicides in the cemeteries about New York city will be 1 decorated on Memorial Day, May 31. by the New York branch of the national committee Hor ithe relief of the unemployed, according to reso- ^ lutlons adopted at a meeting at New 1 York. * J. Eads How, of 8t. Louis, presi- ? dent of the organization, Introduced 8 the resolution, saying that to deco- 1 rate the graves of ihose who had r died by their own hands a result 8 3f failure to obtain employment or of c hardships created by the industrial depression would do much to bring to the attention of those responsible the conditions of the unemployed. It was also planned to have a pa- e rade as a rival to that of the Grand C \rmy Republic, and to go to the cem- d ?tery at the same time, but with the ti lowers they proposed to placa on e he grave of each suicide a banner ii >r placard calling attention to tho c< 'evolution of the association. Found in Itvler. Altmeyer, six years old, who was A hought to be kidnapped, w&a found | n the river at Newark. GOES FOR ROOT * We Dont Want His Advice Han; Tl Wa Spurn It," ?& Xfi! ? . J __ i M'' 611 DECLARED MR. MONEY "lies Him lio Hack to Um Cstaklllt g( and. Like Rip Van Winkle, Sleep bIc sa Twenty Years," Continues the fl Mississippi Senator, Who Seemed du to be Very Mad. wl te In the senate one day last week gh Senator Root received one of the By most scathing verbal drubbings ever ca delivered In that august body. He brought It down on his head .by a ^ at defense of Chairman Aldrich and ^ his Finance Committee, which, had ^ been assailed by La Follette. who C( complained that he had difficulty in tt obtaining from the committee in- ^ formation to guide him in his course on the tariff bill. i n] When LaFoletto had concluded T Root, who although in the Senate y less than six weeks, has tried to g, ride over older members of the body,' ^ began a general lecture k>f their tariff conduct. He said he did not p care to hear declamation. He. tI thought it undignified and dishon- a orable to get up and make speeches merely to make votes at home, know- 1 ing that no one here was listening* It waa tiresome to him. v< "I, too, have listened," he contin*- n] ued, attempting to raise his voted (| to an oratorial pitch, "to the vituper- j e(,os heaped upon tho chairman of the finance committee. It is utterly o] disgusting." s, Two minutes later he regretted ^ that he had spoken. Senator Money it ambled Into the chamber as Hoot was finishing. {r "I substflje to -every word oE (^1 praise given to that little cherub, Mr. Aldrlch," Senator Money began. p, "I like hi3 angelic face and I believe lf In his divine inspiration. Not one man of us on this side so far as I Ql know, thinks of him other than ft gentleman. "But let me say to the Senator from New Ybrk that we do not care so much for his advice as he y( seems to think it necessary to give. ^ We have not asked for it; we do w not care for it; we spurn it after it r( is given. He is not yet warm in his seat before he begins to tell me i 8( and the other senators whose serv- w ices have been long in this body what we should do. To be sure, he ? is a distinguished man. We all a( know it. The Republican press has o) said so. He himself does not deny it." o] By this time Root, sitting twenty a feet away, had his face buried in his hands. Senator Depew hurried a to his side as if to console him. By ia] some sort of telepathy ho seemed* to know the worst was yet to come, p It was. 0( "For generations this body," went g( on Money, "has gone about the bus- f? iness of the nation in its own i>ocu- 0) liar and yet Bimple way. We, the senators coming from their States ^ elected by the will of their people (emphasising 'the will,' and lnfe.vring that Root had been elected by _. one man only), have tried in our humblest way to settle our differenc- ^ es in a way becoming to senators of a mighty republic. 1 have discussed ^ situations and have delivered speech- "c es which I shall continue to do be- j_ cause my countrymen sent mo here to do so. _ "Yet this senator?never before OI having served .n a legislative body j lr ?within the first few days of his existance here, attempts to tell me how I shall proceed with my work." y( "The distinguished and very Jearn- ^ ed attorney from New England might well go hack to his home State and, like Rip Van Winkle, proceed to the al Catskills and sleep for twenty years, 1K and if he should come hack he would know more then than apparently pj he knows at this moment," con- m eluded the MissiHslpplan. or "And he won't be missed, mean- ge time," said Tillman. jCJ Itoot sat like a chastised child. a But his punishntent was not fin- qq ished." LaFolette ro?e as Money ast ar down and said: cj, "I have never been a corporation attorney, never attempted to protect questionable concerns. Rut I wish to say here that I shall speak >n whatever subject and object to "l whatever tax proposed in this body without consulting the Senator from S'ew York. I care nothing for his idvlce; I do care for the good will Cc )f the people who 6ent me here." T1 hi) LEAPS FROM TRAIN. br a [*rlsoner Makes Desperate Effort to a 1 ?.? on Robert Sams, a white man who sj? vas being carried to Anderson for he; rial, jumped from a train on the a Southern Railway near Greenville In do m attempt to escape. The train was re? topped and Sams was found In an to inconsclous condition with face and sal lose broken. He arrived at Ander- drc on in the ea"re of a physician. His ondltlon Is very serious. Sams was rrested at Waynesville, N. C. < gut Gen. Boyd Better. fln, Monday afternoon Adjutant Gen- ant ral J. C. Boyd left for his home li- Nic lolumbia, after founding seve-a' hae ays at Aiken, suffering from an at- me: ick of apoplexy, having been strlckn Friday afternoon. His recovery i rapid and Dr. T. G. Croft feels onfldent of a complete recovery. jn 1 whi They Marry Young. flve Prlnee Jeaeau, heir apparent of the fom byeslnlan throne, 13 years old, was Ha ar^?J a few daya ago to a princess he^ US ABSURDITY OP TECTION SYS| fEM J V, . ..r * * ( ' r P town Up By Sevta to* Tillman/' In His Proposition ^ Tu All' the People for One M so. /\ The tea industry iof the United ates came up for; :a little discut>n in the senate a, iday or two agoV ys Zach McGhee in his letter to ?e State. Dr. * Shepherd of Sunierville, you kr 4CW, Is the tea inistry. He ha j a tea farm imrri alch he grov fs 15,000 pounds f a. Seuator Tillman, in order o tow the abs urdity of the protectli 11 stem, lnt< jrrupted some Repub ln speaker, and Bald: "Now wait one minute?a d i it is acknowledged by the senat r lat we -could obtain $10,000,0 0 y a duty of 10 cents a pound a -a, and. it would not Increase t e ast of tjea at all?so these importe s >11 me?why do we not pick up th it 10,000,000 and give protection o lis Industry down in South Caro ll, where there is one tea produce ? be re is a poor little pulling infa it Mlustry /out in (the piney wools I Summervllle, begging the Unitrd tates for help, and saying If nu an get a protection of 10 ccnti a ound it will be the pioneer In noduclng Into tha.t Southern coiiq ry great industry." Mr. Hale?Let jne say to th* sem>r Mr. Tillman?Will th* senator ate for it, or will he have this cotftilttee report It favorably? 1 w;kit > introduce the amendment. No*, will join you. I v-*S2t protection >r that pulling infant in South Carina?the tea industry?and re lall get $10,000,000 by it, too, "hy not give me protection for tMia ldubtry in South Carolina? Mr. Tillman?I have got a real idustry. One man down there pro-, uces 15,000 pounds of tea. Mr. Hale?If that can become a rosperous and leading contributor > the industries of the United States i against foreign competition? ever so dangerous as now and as will be In the next 30 years?thcu te Republican party will adopt his untliug. 1 have no doubt of.it. Mr. Tillman?1 can only .assure 3U that this gentleman, Dr.i Sheperil, who haa been experimenting ith tea culture (or 20 yeajp, haa :ached that point where, like all le others Ln this country who are lekfng to increase their 'profits, units enough protection to increase ts price. He knows that as soon i ho would get 10 cents per pound triitional, it would raise the value i his tea. Some of us people in South Carlina have an idea that we of the outh are great tea drinkers. That's scause we do not really know much bout the general run of people bout us. Those of us who can trace ur anoestry back to England or nglish Immigrants, and do it wlthut the assistance of a professional snealoglsl or coat of arms nianuicturer, usually drink tea. Many Lhers of us who, while we can not ace our own families back, have een associated with those who can, ifco drink tt-a. But hoar what enator McLaurin of Mississippi iya: "What do you pay for tea now?" sked Senador Halo. "I don't pay anything," aaid Mr. 'cLaurin. "I don't buy tea; I buy jffee. We don't use tea very much i our part of the country." And that's a fact, true not only ' Mississippi, but of the South gen*ally. I have an idea that it is ue to a larger extent of the whole nintry, to even of New England, tan is commonly supposed. But >ur Lodges, your Hales, your ranes, Aldrlches, Fryes and so on i not l/nnur If an***.. a- 11? ...w iv* >uc; ii< ii'IIK ll) Hie a drinking class, and know little >out the lives of the groat mass of >ople in their States. If Dr. Shepherd Ifved In New ngland, what Senator Hale says Ight be true, they might let him ijoy the epeclal privilege of asssing all the tea drinkers In Amer- : i In order that he might make | profit. But since he lives in South irollna and most of the tea drinkers i e in New England, there is no ' >*rfor him. ] 1 THERE. WAS NO WOMAN i it Only a Poach Basket Hat Float- ' i Ing Along. i The useless bravery of Michael v ?nlin, of West One Hundred and ilrty-eighth street, nearly cost him ( * life. From the Madison avenue ? Wlge over the Harlem river he saw s peach basket hat floating down , b stream and believing there was woman under It, he valiantly leapoverboard and swam to the hat ly to find It untenanted. But his [H*R and other clothing were so ' f?vy that he was unable to reach dock unapsiiatod 'and had gone ' wn several times when he was " icued by the police. He was Bent the Harlem hospital, where It was u d that he had been Almost >wned. Turned Them 3en. Stoessel and Admiral Nebooff have been released from con- ,r sment In the fortress of St. Peter dl I St. Paul, by order of Emperor 1,1 holan. The health of both men ,f t been affected by their confine- ol nt. rf Pi Wild Man Taught. V wild man has been captured the swamps near Prentiss, Miss., } baa shunned civilization for years. Ho refused to eat cooked d when it was ofTered to htm. identified as Marvin Whlte ^whose relative* have long HVSlfl! iL j Southern States Machinery Plumbing 1/ COLUMI ________ EDITORS SCORE .>, Congressman Hallngsworth of Ohio State, V THE MEMBERS LAUGH Ah They Listen to Editorial Clioracteri/.at Ions, Such as "Ass of the First Magnitude," "Contemptible Little Whelp," "One of Sherman's Hums," Applied to Him. The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier says lr David A. Hollingsworth, representative in congress from the 16th Ohio district, had searched during his whole life time for a better opportunity to turn upon himself the ridicule of his colleagues and to make himself the "butt" of the house, he could not have chosen a better time nor better surroundings than he did. Buoyed up by the praise of his Ohio constituency, Mr. Hollingsworth .Monday began an attack on the memory of Jefferson Davis and the good people of Mississippi, who have just placed on the battleship bearing that name a silver service with Davis" likeness. Promptly at noon the Ohio congressman rose in his place with a handful of bitter, stinging articles from Southern papers on his course in the Davis matter. That was the time he thought he would get even, but not being posted in the parliamentary practice of the house, instead of making his speech first and inserting the articles afterwards, he secured leavi of the Speaker to Insert these articles in the Congressional Record, then proceeded to answer them on a point of "personal privilege." Before he had gotten well Into his remarks, ho was shut off as being out of order, only the pieces ho had inserted In the Record remaining. However, the story is best told in the words of one of Washington's afternoon papers, which sajs: "An ass of the first magnitude," "perhaps one of Sherman's bums, who robbed defenceless men and women," "contemptlblo little whelp," "a political nonentity from Ohio," "a pale-faced luminary," "a pusillanimous pigmy from Ohio." These were some of the characterizations bf Mr. Hollingsworth, of Ohio, in editorials which ho had read in the house of representatives' Monday as the basis of a question of privilege affecting his resolution recently offered protesting against the portrait of Jefferson Davis on the silver service to be presented to the battleship Mississippi. These editorials accused him of "waving the bloody shirt," and appeared In the Dally* Clarion-Ledger, of Jackson, .Miss., April 30; The Southern Sentinel. of Ripley, Miss., May 6; the Shreveport Caucasion, of Shreveport, La., May 4, and one other paper, name not given. Tho reading of the editorials caused a great commotion, and at times moved the members to great laughter. Finally Messrs. Hartlett, of Georgia, and Fitzgerald, of New York, objected to further "lumbering up the Record," and demanded that th? Speaker rule on the question of privilege. \In an elaborate opinion Speaker Cannon held that Mr. Hollingsworth had not been attacke i hi his representative capacity, and he was not permitted to proceed further. Later Mr. Hollingsworth sought unanimous consent first to print a speech on the subject, or "dse to address the house for thirty imimies. ftir. Harrison, of New Vork, objected, whereupon, Mr. Hollingsworth wanted the Speaker to ell him why tho objection was fnade. "The chair cannot tell," said tho speaker suavely, "what moved tho gentleman to object, because ho Is lot a mind reader." Thin s.-^Idy convulsed Che house vith laughter. Interest in the proceeding waa n ightened by. the fact that Mr. Harison's father, ltnrton Harrison, was ecretarv to Jefferson Davis during he lVar. Young Man Drowns. I At Fitzgerald, Ga., Harry Stover, ' 7 year-old son of Rev. Stover, of ' he United brethren ichutfch, wa|s 1 rowned a few days ago while bath rig in a cret k. He was a member f the ernrliintlnir elnce r-*t I'n r. ?' erald high school, and would have | eceived hlR diploma from Governor mlth Friday. f Mains Goes to Prison. c At Flushing, N. Y., where he war iod, Capt. Peter C. Mains was Mon- ? ay sentenced to serve an indeter- e ilnate sentence of from eight to rIx en years in prison for the killing I ' William E. Annls. The sentence t. ads, "At hard labor In the State's ison." Supply Company JOM US ^Supplies ^JSupgHeg^P^^P 31 A. S. C. STEAMSHIP LOST WAS SINKING WHEN CREW I rrsiIKI? OFF IN BOAT. I | TIipjt Benched 1 .nnd After Thrf? I I n.? -?? ? - ?j ~ ?am iugiiis Hard Work, in | Having Sena. After having ?It?h up all hope of ever beelng lani m'-'in, Cnpt. Aro*son and Ills crew of five of the British steamer Roanoke, which west to ' pieces twenty-five tnllea off the I Azores on March 26. arrived In New York on the steamship Gollia. Loaded down with a cargo of salt from Santa Paolo, Spain, for St. I John, N. 11., the Roanoke ran into a hurricane when lf>0 miles off Fayal. which cut her canvas Into shreds. A jury sail was rigged and th? crew managed to get the sinking vessel to a point twenty-five miles from the Azores when the sea? carried away the deck house. The only life-boat on the Roanoke had been so damaged by th? storm that it was necessnry to repair it with canvas. As the Roanoke nettled Capt. Aronson and his men got under way in a small boat. They rowed the twenty-five miles into Fayal through raging seas, the work requiring three nights and three days. In that time they passed two steamers which did not reply to their flaring torches. At Fayal they were so exhausted that they were kept in the hospital until the Gallia touched there and brought them to New York. BURN KI) TO DEATH. Poured Oil on Smouldering Fire in Ktove From it Can. Special dispntch from Savannah to the Augusta Chronicle savs Mrs. Robert Axt was so horribly burned nt her house at 413 Thirty-second street, west, Tuesday afternoon, that her death followed shortly after she | had been removed to Park Vie* itariu m. Mrs. Axt wns found rolling In the sandy street in front of her homo heating in vain at the flames that burned ?very vestigu of clothing from her body. Sho had poured oil over a smouldering tire in a stove in her homo and the resulting explosion scattered fire over her. She ran into the street screaming and neighbors fonnd her , writhing on the ground in the death ; agony. Good intentions is a mighty bad thing to go to law about. ^ CLASSIFIED COLUMN Heal bargains in second hand cars, runabouts and touring cars. 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