[THE FORT MILL TIMES
VOLUME XVIII FORT MILL, THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1909 ^ NO. 12 |
rTHE LUMBER CUT
Recovers From the Panic and Is
Again on Deck
INTERESTING FACTS
Of the Buslm-sM That Will Show
Where Moat of the Lumber Comes
*
From and Who Will Bo Benefitted
by Tu.v Put ou it by the
Tariff.
During the year 1908, 31,231 raw
mills in the United States manufactured
33,289,369,000 feet of lumber,
according to a preliminary report
Just issued by the bureau of the ceu?us.
These mills also cut 12,106.000
shingles and 2,986,684,000 lath.
Lumber manufacturing, like every
other industry, felt the effects of the
business depression which began |u
October, 1007. Consequently the
production in 1908 was below that
for the previous year. In 1907 the
put of 28,850 saw mills was 40,256.154,000
feet, the highest production
ever recorded. Notwithstanding,
therefore, that in 1908 reports were
received from eight per cent more
mills than in 1907, the decrease in
lumber cut reported by them was
6ltghtly over seventeen per cent.
Washington, ns for several years
past, still rnnks first among the
States in lumber producliou, its cut
In 1908 being 2,915,928,000 feet?
a decrease of 22.8 per cent over the
cut of 1907. Nearly all the lumber
manufactured in Washington is
Duglas fir, the market for which was
seriously affected by the panic.
Louisiana second, with 2,722,421.000
feet, a decrease of 250,000,000
feet or 8.4 per cent over the cut in
1907. Louisiana is first In the production
of both yellow pine and cypress.
Cypress is a particularly useful
and valuable wood, and apparently,
the manufacturers of it did not suffer
as severely from dull times as d'?l
the manufacturers of yellow pine and
Douglas fir. Mississippi was th?
third state in lumber production in
1908, with a total of 1,861,000 feet
-?a decrease of eleven per cent from
the cut in 1907. Arkansas ranked
fourth, with 1,655,991,000 feet?a
decrease or nearly seventeen per cent
over the previous yenr's output, and
Wisconsin fifth, with 1,613,315,000
feet against 2,003,279,000 feet in
1907.
In Texas, where the lumber Indus-try
is confined almost exclusively to
yellow pine, the falling off was very
heavy. The total cut of the State in
1908 was 1,524,008,000 feet? a de'
crease of 31.6 per cent over the cut
in 1907.
Klght other States manufactured ,
more than one billion feet each of
lumber Inst year. In the order of importance,
they were: Michigan, Ore
gon, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Vlr
ginla, Alabama, North Carolina and
West Virginia. California and
maine, other States which reported
more than one billion feet each in
1907, went just below that figure in
1908. The totals for a few Stateswore
greater in 1908 than in 1907
but thtH was chiefly due to the largei
number of reports secured in thos?
States in 190S. In Georgia, for instance,
a particularly close can vats
Increased the number of mills report
ed nearly one-third, while the result
ing increase in reports of total pro
eduction was only six per cent. In
Massachusetts, 610 mills* reported i
J | cut of 384,526,000 feet in 1908 a
1 compared with a cut of 364,231,00'
^ fi t liv r. 1 9 mills in 1907. In f? |
in 1908; while In 1907, 230 mill
i cut 13 7,23 9,000 feet. A particularl;
large gain Jn njlUlH reported wamnde
in Oklahoma. in 1 907, 1 2"
mills in thnt State cut 140,015.00
feet, while in 1908, 214 mills ci.
158.756.000 feet.
While there aro many very larg
saw mills in the United States, th
small nuns tar on mum do r me iirn
ones, and It Is particularly Interestin
to note how many of these smnl
mills there are in the States whir'
are not now of first rank in lunihe
production. The statistics for Nov
York were collected by the Forest
Fish and Game Commission of th;
State and show there are 2.291
mills. In Pennsylvania 2,224 mill?
reported to the census, and in Virginia,
1.92 7 mills. In North Carolina
reports came from 1,740 mill.-,
* and in Kentucky from l,.r?30 mills
The number of mills reporting from
Tennessee was only forty less than
front Kentucky. In West Virginia,
Missouri, Ohio and Indiana between
1.000 and 1.100 mills each were en
gaged In cutting lumber last year
The average output per mill was 250000
feet iu New York, and 5.2fi0.u0't
feet in Louisiana, these two States
presenting nearly the extremes ol
production by small and large mill?
Yellow pine, Douglas fir. white
pine. oak. hemlock and spruce, In the
order named, were the woods cut
into lumber in the largest quantity
Yellow pine has ranked first sine,
it surpassed white pine in the later
nineties. and it is still far in the
lead. More recently, white pine has
also been superseeded by Douglas fir.
so that now it occupier third place.
Wai-hingtou has been the prlncpal
shingle producing State since the usf
of red redar shingles became general.
?nd it'BUpplied three-fourths of the
SPREADS TYPHOID
HUCH IS THE CHARGE MADE
AGAINST MARY MALLON
Who Is Confined to a Cottage and
Not Allont'd to As^iOctate With
An)* One.
In Mary Million the New York
health authorities have uu unuBual
prisoner on their hands. "Typhoid
Mary." as she is known, because of
her alleged habit of communicating
the fever to others, although immune
herself. Is a prisoner in a small
cottage which she occupies all by
herself on North Drother Island,
where contagious diseases are treated.
She is now seeking her freedom
through the courts.
About two years ago, when Miss
Mallon was a cook in the family of
J. Clayton Drayton, the butler and
two maids suffered from typhoid fever
and in investigating the case the
health inspectors reported that Miss
Mallon, although, herself tmmuno,
had spread the disease to the other
servants. Following her ease fnrth
er back they declared that typhoid
fever had appeared at nearly every
place in which Bhe had lived.
On this evidence the woman was
seized and sent to North Brother Island.
where she has since remained
in the strictest isolation, although
not at all ill. Her meals have been
passed through a window of her cottage
to her and she is permitted to
associate with no one.
Miss Mallon. through her attorney,
declares that she does not communicate
typhoid fever and that her case
is somewhat similar to that of John
A. Early, whom the Washington authorities
have isolated under suspicion
of being a leper.
ADOPTED IX KANSAS.
Bryan's Guarantee Law Endorsed by
Republicans.
The bank guarantee law originated
by Bryan and first adopted in Oklahoma
has been put in effect in Kansas
by act of a Republican legislature.
While the law will effect only
such banks as elect to comply with
it. it is expected that all of the 7 77
States banks in Kansas will place
themselves under its provisions without
delay.
The banks under the new law are
to be partners in a sort of mutual inniranee
company. They will have to
put up a million dollars in State and
national securities to guarantee the
payment of deposits, and the dues or
Insurance premiums will be only onetwentieth
of one per cent annunlly.
In self-defence the national banks
have started a movement to organize
\n insurance company among them
selves to insure deposits in their
banks. Eventually, however, it is expected
that many of the national
banks, especially those in the smaller
owns will decde to denationalize and
become State institutions in order to
participate in the guaranty law.
TILLMAN SEES THE TEST.
The Senior Senator Among the Spectators
of Aeroplane Trial.
A dispatch from Washington says
Senator Tillman stopped discussing
otton bagging and ties, lumber and
ea long enough to witness the trial
rip of the Wright aeroplane at Fort
Vlyer Wednesday afternoon. In com>any
with Senator Elkins, of West
i'irglnia, Senator Tillman quit the
ten ate chamber to study aerial nagitation.
He was close to the air ship,
md when someone told the Wright
!'>rothers who he was he was allowed
o examine it carefully, and asked
nany questions regarding its condruction
and manipulation.,
Edgefield folks need not be surirised
to see Senator Tillman arrive
rom the National Capital some day
n an air ship. Automobiles never
vere to his liking and trains are too
low and out of date for these
nodern days. Air locomotion is the
iroper stunt.
KOl'CiHT A BOLT A WOMAN.
Who (iets Killed in the How Between
the Two Men.
J. W. Mayes, a locomotive engineer,
and Robert Culbertson, both
if Norton, Va., fought a duel in the
dreets of Middlesboro late Tuesday
night. Anna Hayes, over whose affections
the men were jealous, was
(hot twice during the fight and is
dying. Mayes was shot twice and
'nnnot live. Culbertson escaped with
1 serious wound in the arm. Mayes,
mortally wounded. (led after the
shooting, and when the police and a
posse overtook him. is said to have
attempted suicide l?y Jahblng his
throat with a pocket knife.
otal output of shingles last year.
Among the other shingle producing
States. Michigan. Louisiana. Maine,
sod California were the most important.
Tho shingles cut In Michigan
lad Maine are chiefly of white cedar,
those in Louisiana of cypress, and
those in California of redwood.
Laths are generally a by-product of
lumber manufacture, aud arc made
to some extent from almost, every
wood that Is cut into lumber. Among
the kinds of lath which are most
proinent are white pine. Douglas Or.
spruce, yellow pine, cypress and hemlock.
SHOT THEM BOTH
Young Indian Kills Englishma;
and Persian.
ASSASIN CAPTURED
An "At-Hoine'' Kvcnlug fur Indfiu
Students Drought to a Sudden Ter
nilnatiou by n Terrible Tragedy
V
Which Seonm to Have Ileoti Fre
meditated.
A dispatch from London says ?
startling double assassination of ?
political character occurred latt
Thursday night towards the conclusion
of a public gathering at the Im
orial Institute. An Indian student
whose name is not known, shot and
killed Lieut. Col. Sir Win. Hutt
Curzon Wyllie and Dr. Calas Lalcaca,
of Shanghai.
Wylie, who had held important
Indian appointments, fell dead or
the spot. Dr. Lalcaca showed sign*
of life after he fell and was hurried
to St. George's hospital but on arrival
there it was found that he was deud.
Those near the assassin seized and
held him until the arrival of the
police. He hud two revolvers, a
dagger and a knife. All were new,
and it is believed the crime was premeditated.
The gathering a? the Imperial Institute.
a building devoted to Indian
and other colonial functions, was an
"at home" to Indian students. I).
\V. Thorburu, one of the guests, thus
graphically describes the scene attending
the murder:
"It was near 11 o'clock, and the
musical program was just concluding
when I saw a middle aged English
gentleman conversing with a
young Indian student dressed in a
dark jacket and wearing a pale blue
turban.
"Suddenly the native drew a revolver
and tired four shots with the
greatest rapidity full at the head of
the Englishman. The shots were
tired with the muzzle of the weapon
close to the victim's face.
"Then came another shot as the
Englishman fell and a sixth which
struck an elderly Indian gentlemun
standing a few yards off and who
fell, shot in the side.
"I rushed at the assassin, and
others sprang forward at the sumo
time. We peized him but he struggled,
and wresting one hand free,
placed the revolver to his forehead
and pulled the trigger. It clicked
harmlessly, as he had fired all of
his shots.
"We shouted for doctors and the
police. Meantime there was a terrible
scene and a commotion and the
folding doors woro finally closed to
prevent the people from looking on
the fearful sight.
"A doctor in th? hall finally cumo
forward and knelt at the side of the
Englishman. After an examination
he said 'nothing can be done for
him.'
"At this moment aomo ono >*
claimed in u horror-stricken voice
'why it is Curzon Wyilie,' then a
stately woman in evening dress came
upstairs from the cloak room to discover
what had happened. Looking
at the recumbent figure and not immediately
recognizing it. she said:
" 'Poor fellow.' She then knell
down and as she looked closely al
the disfigured face a look of hovroi
leaped into her eyes and she exclaimed
:
" 'It is mv husband; why wasn't
1 with hint?'
"It was Lady Wyilie who had lef
her husband only a few minutes be
fore
"Other doctors came hut the:
could find no wound on Laloaca'i
body until the clothing was removed
when a tiny stream of blood fron
the side revealed the position of th<
injury. Screens were placed nrount
the victims and the awe-stricken peo
pie quickly left the hall."
The victims were placed in ambu
lances and removed to a hospital
Detectives searched the assassin.
The attack on Sir William or
rurred on a wide square landing lead
lug to the staircase. Sir William am
i-.au> v> yuit* ? t-i ? jiisi |)11'ji;i i i nu ti
depart when the former was aji
proached by the Indian student. On
bullet shattered the face just belo\
the left eye.
Dr. Lalcaca was a Parsee, and fror
present evidence it would seem tha
ho was shot accidentally. The a?
sassin. who is also a Parsee. is abou
twenty-five years of ape. lie wa
cool and self-possessed after his at
rest. He has maintained an obst;
nate silence. The identification n
the man so far has been impossihh
as a great Dumber of visiting card
bearing different names were foun
on him. Ho will bo arraigned i
a police court. If is reported that h
had in his possession written docv
ments setting forth reasons and iu;
tifieation for the c?ivne
Lieut. Col. Sir William Hutt Cm
zon Wyilio was born in 184*. bein
the youngest son of the late Get
Sir William Wyille. G. C. B. H
was political aido dc camp to th
Secretary of State for India sine
1001. In 18H6 he entered the It
dian staff corps and served i
Iloluchi.stan during the Afghan wr
in J 879-80, and accompaniod Got
j Fir Foberf Phayre'r force to the r<
jlief of Candahar. for which eervic
he nas decorated.
[ spirit guides man
REMARKAULti STORY OK GOLI>
1
SMITH WHO Tl'RXS PAINTER.
Willow Shows Sketches That Iinwi
to Investigation?Psychical lie.
search Experts Tell of Results.
j Tho strange story of the spirit ol
a dead artist taking possession of tb.i
mind of a living man and lmpelltn;
, him to carry ou tho artist's unfinished
work is related by Prof. James
H. Hyslop, secretary of the American
Society for Psychical Research, of
New York, who in connection with
1 Prof. Isaac K. Funk, recently came
1 to the conclusion that the spirit of
man lives after his body is dead.
Robert Swain Gifford, the artist.
" died in 1905 at his summer home
near New Bedford, Mass. Freder'
ick Li. Thompson, a goldsmith, had
met Mr. GifTord only twice and knew
him but slightly. Thompson had
never indicated any ability as an
artist until six months after the
1 death of Gilford, when he did not
1 even know thnt Mr. Gifford had died.
He was suddenly seized with an impulse
to paint a picture, and going
to work on it, he was surprised at
his ability. While he was painting
the voice of Mr. Gifford seemed to
tell him to continue his work he had
started.
Mr. Thompson continued painting
pictures, always .possessed by the
spirit of Mr. Gifford. and found a
ready market for them. Many purchasers
commented on their similarity
to Mr. Gifford's paintings. *
Fearing that his mind was giving
away In 1907, Mr. Thompson called
on Prof. Hyslop. Fly arrangement
he made several sketches for pictures
at the instance of what he considered
to be Gifford's spirit. Prof. Hyslop
looked these up in a safe and then
Thompson went to New lied ford and
called on Gifford's widow, where he
had never been and whom he had
never met. One of the first things
Mrs. Gifford showed him was a
sketch which Mr. Gifford had made
a short time before his death anil
which had been locked up and seen
by no one until a few days ago.
when Thompson called. The sketch
was exactly similar in every detail
to one of the sketches Thompson had
left with Prof. Hyslop.
This fact and other equaly surprising
features in the case prompt
Prof. Hyslop to even a strongor belief
that the spirit lives after death
and that the artist Gifford's spirit
is in communication with this world
through the medium of the goldsmith
Thompson.
FIGHT FATAL Dl KL.
Kiieouiitev" Between Two German
Army Officers.
Although dueling is nominally illegal
in Germany, details of a most
remarkable encounter In which the
preliminaries wero arranged by the
State, are given in a cablegram from
Berlin, which states that Lieut.
' Grimier shot and killed Lieut Zwltzers
near Blankenburg.
Zwitzers, although a married man
with a family, tried to kiss Granier's
> tlancee and n military court of honor
sanctioned the duel and arranged
the tight. Two companies of infant
try kept the grounds. A locomotive
and an ambulance car wero provided
by the State railway to carry the
- expected victim to the nearest hospital.
1 Granier's second shot pierced hif
opponent's lungs, and the wounded
1 man died in the hospital soon aftei
the si>ecial train got him there
Lieut. Granior will probably now
' undergo a few months comfortable
s detention in a fortress, the messagt
declares.
i
a A FT Kit STANDARD OIL.
1
Mississippi Attorney Would Oust ii
from State and Collect Penalties.
.
Application was made Wednesday
in the Chancery Court of Clay coun
?y.. Miss., by District Atorenv A. I,
j Lamb for a perpetual Injunction re
n straining the Standard Oil Com pan;
from operating in the State of Mis
0 :-issippi and seeking to collect penal
v ties aggregating $11,000,000 for al
leged violations of the antitrust lav
n of the Commonwealth.
t The injunction bill recites In detai
j_ the history of the Standard Oil Com
t I'ituy ana tnr mumoas ny which 1
8 is alleged to have sti filed competltioi
in this State,
j. Under the Missis.-ippl rodo a
amended by the legislature in
the State is entitled to recover
8 statutory penalty of $f?,ono a da
for each specific violation of the ante
n trust laws, and the penalties sough
p to he recovered in this case cove
three years. The hearing, it is ur
s. derstood. will tako place at Wet
Point during the November term e
r. i the Chancery Court.
g
Thvee Fatally Injured.
[e An eight-year-old newsboy, a
ir eleven-year-old office lmy and a foi
e ty-eigbt-year-old cripled man. wer
l- probably all fatally injured a fe
n nights ago by being run down by at
ir toniobiles at Pitsburg. Pa. Only i
a one instance that of the newsbo:
=>- I did the driver of the machine stop t
e | find out how badly his victim ha
j been hurt.
ANOTHER QUAKE
Messina Again Visited by Severe
Seismic Tremors.
WALLS DESTROYED
The Residents Thrown Into a State
of Terror, but it is Believed That
Only Two I'eraons Were Killed, i
1 Broken Walls Full und Dust Cloud
K n v el opes the City.
Messina exi>erienced two terrific ,
, earthquakes about 7:30 o'clock
Thursday morning, which were accompanied
by roaring sounds and are
said to have had a stronger and more ,
mutlllntorv mnvdmunt thnn thi, n.i-O.
quake of last December, which destroyed
Messina, Keggto und other
cities, laid waste many villages in
Calabria and killed 200.000 people.
Although the shocks bad no such
terrible consequences, the 25,000
residents of that city were thrown
into a state of terror. They ran into
the streets panic-stricken and nearly
the entire populatlou is encamped in
the open.
The broken walls of the old ruins
were thrown to the ground and Messina
was for a few minutes smothered
in a cloud of dust.
The casualties were few. and the
only persons killed so far as is known
were a young woman and her infant.
The woman had gone there
only a few days ago and had settled
in rooms which the great earthquake
had left relatively undamaged. She
was standing at the door when the
shock occurred and rushed inside to
save hur child. Before she could
escape from the room the second
shock threw down the walls, burying
both mother and child under the
debris.
Soldiers and engineers who rushed
to the rescue heard the voice of
the mother calling for help, and
they worked heroically for several
hours, when they found the dead
bodies, the mother with her child in
her arms.
The first shock was followed quickly
by a second, and the people fled
pell-mell to tho American quarter,
which they seemed to bed was their
safest place of refuge. So great woh
the rush to the American huts that
the authorities were unable to check
the invasion and as a consequence
these structures which were designed
for tho most needy of the populace
were taken possession of by tho first
comers. The police, however, drew
a cordon around this quarter and
a guard was mounted at the bridge
leading to it. Many of the panicstricken
people were driven off and
orders were issued that no one he
permitted to occupy the American
quarters pending further Instructions.
Regglo suffered almost as severe a
shock as Messina. 1
LYNCHED IN GUATEMALA.
State Department Demands a Thor- I
ougli Investigation. ,
Demand upon Guatemala for a '
thorough investigation into the kill- 1
lug of William Wright, an American 1
negro citizen, who was clubbed al- 1
, most to death and then lynched in '
( Guatemala last December, has been '
, made by American Minister William 1
Heimake, at Guatemala City, under
instructions from the Stat" depart- 1
, ment. Reports to the department
L intimate that the trial of tho man's 1
. murderers was a farce, and that there
was corruption among the local ofr
fleials having to do with the punish- 1
, ment of the offenders. Guatamala's ;
> reply to the representative of this 1
government has not been received.
ROHIIEILS CORNERED.
t Men Who Held l*p Canadian Pacific
Train Traced to Mining Tunnel.
f Detective Draper, of Spokane,
* Wash., with a pack of bloodhound?,
* has traced the Canadian Pacific train
" bandits that held up an express train
y last week at Kamloops, into an old
" mining tunnel at Rod Guleh, six
* miles east of Ashcroft, British Co"
lumbla. Detective Drajjer has sent
v for heip, as the two men trapped are
heavily armed and show fight. Ono
' of the robbers was killed by Con"
stable Rucker. Ho wore clothes
I bought in Spokane. A valise full of
II dynamite was found In a boat desorted
by tho robbers.
3 fi<?od Place for Them.
v At Chicago Wednesday 581
weapons which tho police have conit.
fiscatcd In the last six months were
r cast Into the lake. Tho city tug
i- took tho police department custo?t
dinn beyond the thrre-tnile limit and
?f he dropped overboard the revolvers,
dirks, slung-shots, knives and other
deadly weapons in thirty foet of water.
n ~
r- Killed by Lightning.
e Maffett Parker and Nell Latman.
w two bo>s of North Hlrminghara. Ala.,
i- were killod by lightning this aftern
noon. Tho bodies were found under
f. a large tree and the body of their
o ; favorite dog was lying between them
d 1 The hoya were 11 and 12 years old.
i respectively.
EQUANIMITY JARRED
EXPRESSMAN' CAUSES CHINAMAN
TO HAVE BRAIN STORM.
Former Rooin Mn(o of Alleged Slayer
of Elsie Slgel Confronted by
Witness.
A dispatch from New York says
the complacency of Chung Sin. once
the room mate of Leon Ling, who Is
wanted for the murder of Eleio SLgel,
on June 9, went all to pieces Wednesday
afternoon, when Arthur Logan,
an expressman, walked into the cell
where Chung Sin is held as more than
n material witness, and brusquely
shouted " Hullo."
Logan is the man who carried the
truuk containing the body of the
girl down-stairs from Leon's room
on the day of the murder. He had
told the police that Chung Sin 1h
one of the men he saw 011 the top
lloor of the house. Chung Sin, 011
the contrary, has sworn by all his
incestors that he never saw the trunk
packed or moved.
"You are the man," Logan said in
"hung Sin's presence, "who told me
:o take the trunk down-stairs cnreully.
There was another slim felow
with you in the room?the same
hat came over to the office half an
lour before to give me the order to
all for the trunk."
"All mistake," protested Chung
3in, "never see you before."
The Chinaman's voice broke, and
ie shook as in fear as Logan was
ed out, still positive in his identification.
Chung was not kept waiting long
>efore he had another \isitor?this
itne Martin I.uria. the chauffeur,
vho drove a Chinaman and a trunk
rom the Harlem laundry to a chop
luey restaurant in Newark on the
norning of June 10. The police had
i theory that Chung Sin might have
>een the fare and not Leon Ling,
tut Luria could not identify Chung
5in, and still believes that it was
,eon he had in his taxicab. A letter
rom Chang Sin, written since his
irrest, to the Society of the Four
irothers. was intercepted and tiansated
to the district attorney's ofico.
It protests that line murder
vas done by one man. and that,
herefore, ouly the murderer should
>o held; denounces the authorities
uid implores aid of all members in
reeing him.
The police bellovo more and more I
hat little reliance can bo placed
11 any of the various rewards and
iffers of co-operation promised by
he clans of Chinatown, and accordngly
District Attoreny Jerome wrote
lohn Kdincott Gardner, professor of
)riential language and literature in
he ilniverfcity of the Pacific at Sau
(ose. Cal., requesting his co-operaion
in the case as a trustworthy
nterpreter.
TO FLY ACROSS CHANNEL.
Hirce Aviators at Calais to >Iakr
Aerial Voyage to Dover.
Herbert Latham, Count do Lambert
and Henri Fnrman are on the
mast, near Calais, awaiting favorable
leather conditions to attempt an
teroplune flight across the English
Channel for a prize of $f>,000 offered
by a London paper. French
orpedo boats are being held in readiness
to guide the aviators in their
[light and rescuo them in case of
need.
Count de Lambert will make use
nf a Wright aeroplane. Mr. Farman
will use a new machine like the
one with which he made his celebrated
flight from Chalons to
Kheiins. except that he has lntroduced
an arrangement by which tho
alighting wheels give way and allow
skids to bear the shock of the impact.
Latham will use his monoplace.
with which he recently has
made a number of successful flights.
He purposes starting from the top of
a cliff, near Calais, and heading
straight for the Admiralty pier at
Dover. The distance, as the crow
flies, is 21.73 miles.
A NOVEL EXPERIMENT
Makes a Preacher Chief of Police
For One Night.
Mason City, Iowa, is to be policed
ior one nignt. r>y in? pastor or tho
Mothodist church, Dr. Will W. Carlton.
For this one night ho will he
tho chief. The force will obey his
Instructions to the letter.
Mayor Klrschmnn has promised
that ho would proHocuto all cases
brought before him by the preacherpoliceman.
When Mayor Kirschman was elected
to the position, ho. It Is said,
tendered the position of chief of police
to I)r. Carlton. Dr. Carlton refused.
Many persons are not now pleased
with rhe general tono of the city
at night time, so tho proacher was
asked to see what he could unearth.
There will be no public announcement
mad? of th? night, when the
minister is to police the city.
Sudden Death.
Aiken was again startled and surprised
Tuesday morning by the Midden
death of Mrs. Julia TV Kennedy,
who dropped dead while combing
her hair bofore a looking glass at
ber residence ih?re. This is the
third Midden death prominent
worueu in Aiken in a few weeks.
SLAYER FOUND
Corpse of Chinamen Found in
Hudson River.
LEON LING'S BODY
Although Complete 1 dent illcnt ion
Was Impossible Thursday Night in
| Salient Features the Body Bear*
a Marked Iiesemblance to the Mivs
ing Chinaman.
A dispatch from ?ew York
Thursday says, although complete
Identification was impossible, there
appeared to be a strong probability
that the body of a Chinaman, which
was found boating In the Hudson
River in the upper part of the city,
was that of Leon Ling, or William
L. Leon, the murderer of Kleie
Sigcl. The man's height, weight and
general appearance tallies with that
of Leon Ling, but as the body wa?
nude, except for a silk undershirt,
and had been In the water for more
than a week, a thorough examination
will be necessary. Coroner McFonald,
who was the first to inspect
the body, believes that It la Leon's
as <lo u number of policemen, but
until measurements and facial characteristics
are carefully gone over
the identification will remaiu in
doubt.
If it is I.con the cause of his death
will be another mystery, although
one theory, that of suicide, would
appear reasonable.
In salient features the body bore
a marked re.-emblance to Leon Ling.
The teeth were good, as were Leon's;
the height about five feet, four inches,
which was Leon's height, and the
weight 12f> pounds, which was ubout
Leon's. The age appeared to bo
about twenty-five or thirty years.
Leon's age was given out by tlio
police as thirty. An autopsy will bo
performed. The coroner's jury was
unable to arrive at a conclusion as
to how the Chlnninan met his death.
Early Thursday morning Ung Yow,
an inconspicuous, hard working Chinese
laundry man of the East Side,
was found by his neighbors strung
between two wash tubs with his head
beneath the water of one and his
feet in the other. There were bloody
finger marks oti bis neck, bloody
footprints on the floor and a knotted
cord about the man's neck. In
the cash drawer tho police found
one cent.
All attempts to connect the murder
of Ung Yow with the murder of Elsie
Slgel by Leon Ling have failed.
Investigation soon showed that
Ung Yow was beaten over the head
with flat irons, probably by more
than one man, and then flung in the
?uhs. He probably died by drowning
vhile unconscious.
CIIIX KSK 1>KI.I V KURIL
Out law Is Making Much Trouble
For the French.
French colonial authorities In Upper
Tonquin, China, are having no
end of trouble In their efTorts to
check the onslaughts of De Tham,
a notorious outlaw, and his followers.
From private advices the government
is informed that for humanitarian
and political reasons the officials ar?
unable to adopt the necessary sharp
and ruthless measures which the
forays against villages favoring
French rule seem to demand.
De Tham's fanatical followers have
now spread the report that ho Is the
divinely appointed deliverer of the
Chineso from the French. His men
are armed with rifles while the natives
defend themselves only with
sharpened sticks. Chinese who are
favorable to the French, when caught
by the outlaws, are enrried to the
forest, tied to trees and there loft
to die, after their tongues have been
mutilated.
Do Tham appears to be guarded by
a special providence. He has never
been captured, although at times ho
could touch the French soldiers as
they pased his hiding place. On one
occasion they pressed so close that
the intrepid outlaw killed his wife
and child to make certain his escape.
Frequently he has sent members
of his band to parley for surrender
while ho and the rest have
wormed their way out of a tight
place to their stronghold in the hills.
ni'KOLAH KILLS POLICKMAV
(ought in \rt of Forcing Entrance
to Store?Shots Exchanged.
At Chicago Policeman Htnry
Schnadle was killed Thursday by a
burglar he was attempting to arrest
.
The burglar, who in thought, to
bo a negro, wast forcing an entraneo
to a store at Wabash avenuo and
Thirty-fourth* street when surprised
by thy policeman.
In an exchaugo of shots the policeman
was wounded, dying a few
minutes later. His assailant is also
thought to be wounded.
Killed by Bomb.
Marie Bakhtadzo, who baa been
prominent as an agent 'of Pu*
. li'ical police of Tiflls. Slbefla," was
killed by a bomb that, had been sent
to her hy an unknown perron in a
| basket of cherries. ^