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THE FORT MILL TIMES I VOLUME XVIII FORT MILL, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 19G9 NO. 14 | f ~ ~ FIRES THE JURY Acquitted Defendants Who Ad< mitted Guilt SERVED THEM RIGHT Tbe Juror* Very Much Dumb-found, ed, Left the Courtroom.Crestfallen Tho Action of Judge Mommiugvi h Generally Approved by the People of York County. A special dispatch from Yorkvllle to the Columbia Record says Judge Memmlnger Wednesday morning dismissed a panel of York county jurors as unfit for further service in his court, because It had deliberately failed to convict of carrying concealed weapons In a case where two defendants openly admitted that they had. pistol*. The case grew out of a picnic row at Tirxah last August where there was promiscuous shooting and two Russells and a Robinson had been indicted for assault and battery with Intent to kill and carrying concealed weapons. There was a good deal of conflicting testimony In the case, but both of the Russells admitted that they had pistols. The jury Tuesday night brought in a verdict of not guilty on all counts. Wednesday morning Judge Memmlnger had the Jury called and tutckly told it that if It saw fit to make Itself and the county of York ridiculous with such a verdict he did not propose to allow it to make him ridiculous. If the Jury saw proper to acquit on the ground of self-defense men who had shot other men in the back, as in this case, that was not his lookout, for he could not help him self, but when it cam" to acquitting defendants of carrying concealer weapons, where there had not ever, been a denial of the charge, it war more than he would stand for. He did not care to criticite tin Jury or lecture It. but ho would no' continue to try cases before it. H? therefore told the members of tin panel to consl<|or themselves dis missed from further attendance or court and Instructed them to get their pay and go their ways. Then turning to the clerk, the jttdg? or dored the drawing of a special venlr. - - ??wt-u nil ot l I men wud which iu un mplaces of the men dismissed. The jurors were dumbfounded fo; * a few minutes and finally left th* court room very much crestfallen Judge Memminger's action, thougl coming in the nature of a surprise has met with unqualified public ap proval. NARROWLY KHCARF.D BURNING. Citi/>eu of Columbia Awakes Wit). House on Fire. Mr. \V. J. Jones had a narrox escape Wednesday morning when th. home iu which he was living tool fire at 9:30 o'clock, iu Columbia Mr. Joues was still in bed, but wu warned In time to get out of th< house without injury. He has ; night job and had not waked u> when the Ore started. The hous in which he lived. No. 1,807 Wash Ington fstreetl was. almost totall: _ destroyed by the flames. Very llttl? VfBfcfc ot the furniture was saved. Th . : house ne~Tt door, occupied by Mn Lubby, was partially burned. Dot; houses were owned by Mr. A. H Boowr, of Columbia, and insurance was carried. The houses were smul dwellings. Several houses in th neighlK>rhood were in danger of b? ing caught by the flames, but wer saved. Mr. Jones had some insur once on his furniture, but he is no sure that he can recover as the poll cy date was out a few days ago. LABORER 8KEK9 GALLOWS. Says He Would Rather Hang Thai ^#iimn 1 lallakf _ "I killed 'Joe' Zizorda by sma^h Ins his skull with a piece of angli Iron," was the cool statement o Steven Cosh when he was accuse of murder in Police court at Wos Newton, Pa., thiB week. "Put you will be hanced for mur der." je was told by the police. "I don't euro whether I hang o not." protested Cosh. "! would jus. as lief hanK as stamp ballast on th? railroad all my life." ? Cosh, aged 30, and Zizorda. ager' 35, were working on tho rallroa' together when Zizorda walked lntf the brush. He did not return anr Cosh started a search. He stum bled over his companion while th> latter was asleep and killed him out right. He declared Zizorda was laz> and was always shouldering hart' work on him. Detective Filled by Tramps. Watching freight trains for tramps at Laporte, Ind.. Lake Shore Detec tlve Charles Sliverslde was killed probably by. tramps. Masked Men Rob Postnfflce. " Threo masked men robbed the ho tel and postoffloo bit in at. L'tah Hoi Springs. lTtab. of $500. two-thirdi being government money. r SEVERAL BURNED TWO READ AND TWO FATALLY INJURED. Fuel Tnnk of Automobile Ripped 0|teu, Throwing Liquid Five on OuN Occupants. Two persons are dead, two mortally Injured, while three others are , more or less seriously hurt as the result of an explosion of the gasoline tank on tho touring car of George M. Hill, late Tuesday night at Jacksonboro bridge, five miles from Sylvania, Ga. The dead: Hew- I lot , llill M I... 1.-,. ? ? i ? **111" *-*v *iui| iuioo i iuniiv miiia. The fatally injured: George M. Hill, Jr., twin brother of Hewlett Hill; Mrs. George M. Hill. The seriously injured: Miss Ruble Thomas, badly burned; George M. Hill, severely burned about head and trunk; Miss Lurlinn Cooper, severely burned; George Hlllton, aged 14, painfully burned. Mr. and Mrs. Hill had taken a party of young people for a moonlight outing. While preparing to leave foi town the car was backed onto the bridge, the tank contaiuiug compressed gasoline being ripped off The fluid was thrown over the occupants and flames quickly spread, covering the entire party. The clothing of the two infantF and the women was almost entirely consumed. Several youths gave such ild as they could, but it was not until the shrieking women were dragred into the waters of the creek that 'he flames were extinguished. News of the accident was telephoned to Sylvania from a farmer'* house, two miles from the scene, an'' Physicians were rushed to the bridge The injured were carried to Syl vania at an early hour Wednesday LIQl'OK POI'KKI) INTO SKWKH. t-aureus Sheriff Gets ltid "of Thirty Gallons. Thirty gallons of "good lirkor' 'ourslng down the sewer main of the -ity qi Laurens is the sad tale of ar fticial act by Sheriff f)w ings and lis constables of that place. Some ?ne could not stand the sight, and o "get even" with the sheriff wrotr m one of the cases about to he open-d. "Sheriff John I>. Owings, I,au ens, S. C. Express Prepaid." and hen the laugh was on the officer or bringing out his own "jug" and lestroying it by mistake. The thirty gallons of whiskey have ieen held in the sheriff's office for the (Hotted thirty days. It had been teized, at various times, from persons in and around I,aurens, who .vere under suspicion of selling it v'o claim and delivery papers having teen served upon the officers, it was 'estroyed Thursday morning by due rocess of law. This is the first oficial act of this kind in these parts n many years. ASIIKVILLK IJXKMKX K1LLKI). Pouched High Power Wire Which lie Thought Was Dead. Suspended by his belt from an lectric power pole near the South rn Railway round house, W'ednesay afternoon. J. 11. Leonard, a ineman in Asheville. N". C., in the tnploy of the Weaver Klectrio 'ompany, hung lifeless, shocked to eath by a high-power current comig over a line which he believed to e "dead." The deceased, who went to Asheillo two months ago from Colum'US. Ohio, on account of his wife'} ealth, was one of a force of line ion repairing a break in the trans lissiou lines, and is believed to hnvi let his death when he reached u| -> turn a switch. His comrades or be ground heard no cry, and die' ot know of his misfortune untP bey looked up and saw the dangling ody. Leonard leaves a wife, but o children. PATTEJS A Hlfi TAX PAYER. hitugn Wheat King Has His Assessment Doubled. James A. Patten, who is said by > fellow member of the board of rade to have made a profit of $300.?oo within twenty-four hours Vodnesday, found himself on top of he list of Kvanston taxpayers and >is option on this disMnrtlon he pro oses not to close out for some time. Ir. Patten was assessed this year on *500,000 of personal property, which s twee the amount levied last year. >tr. Patten himself atiked the change. "How much personal property 'URht I to assess you on this year, , \tr. Patten," asked Mr. Milne, Evans on's assessor.- . "How much was-it last year?" aid Mr. Patten. "Something like $250,000." rc ponded the assessor. "Never mind the figure," Mr. Patten interrupted, "whatever It was lust double that now. . I reckon hat'H fix it about right." Mule and Ills Rider KMIed. White returning home from his farm at Washington. Oa , Tuesday night, riding a mule, lightning struck 1 John H Amoson, a prominent young farmer,.killed him and the mule WANTS EXPERT SUNT ABROAD TO COLLECT DOTti ABOUT COTTON. Tf*t of Resolution Passed Hy th? Fanner*' Union at Their Meeting in Columbia Recently. The cotton producers of the State ire very much interested in the federal government sending a cotton xpert to the various foreign coun.rles for the purpose of collecting iata on the cotton trade. By a resolution passed at a meeting of the State Farmers' Union, held recently in Columbia. Commissioner Watson s requested to go to Washington and press the matter with President Taft. The commissioner while In Washington next week will take the question 1 jp. The resolution asks that the representative be selected from the .'otton belt territory. A resolution >f a similar nature was passed at .he meeting. of the National Farmers' Union, held in Atlanta some time ago. The following is the resolution >assod: "Whereas the cotton producers of he South are in need of specific information from the viewpoint of he producer of essential facts us to length of staple, gradingt, etc., that ire required by the consuming manifacturers of foreign nations, tacts hat would be of material value in he development of the cotton growng industry of the United States, 11 industry representing many milioius of dollars in the annual agriculural experts of the United States, ind "Whereas heretofore all special lissions directed to securing information abroad in relation to cotton ia\e been rath?*r in the interests of he manufacturers than the producer?, and "Whereas efforts are now being .lade by the producers to better the rude existing system of marketing otton. and "Whereas thn class of iuformaion needed can only be secured by a n?n from the cotton belt skilled In he growing of cotton and thoroughy familiar with all of the details >f the present local system of gracing and buying crude cotton; therefore, bo it "Resolved, That the commissioner >f agriculture of South Carolina, be equested to voice to the president >f the United States the request of he State Farmers' Union of South \arolina that this matter be given iromnt attention nnrt that il government, through the department of agriculture, or the department of commerce and labor, arrange for a special representative, selectid from the cotton belt territory, to >e sent to the various foreign coun*rles to collect the data needed, and that his reports be published and 'urnlshed to the producer." Kvpcrts in Live Stock. The following resolution, as to he detailing one or more field experts from the United States bureau if animal industry to be stationed in the State for the purpose of advising, directing and assisting in live stock raising and particularly in he raising of beef cattle was also mssed at the meeting: "Whereas we realize the grea' tood that has been wrought in the -ealm of plant indvstrv In South Carolina by the introducci in in the State f the farm de.nonztrivlon w rk by ho United States department of ngMcultue, and "Whereas one of the great?-st needs >f th?? State at this time is a proper in<i intelligent development of the live stock Industry, and "Whereas we believe such developnent as is sought will be more speedily obtained l>v the conduct of such nractical work on live stock lines as is being conducted in the matter of plant life; therefore, be It "Resolved, That the Farmers' ''nion of South Carolina hereby indorses the request of the State department of agriculture: of the secretary of agriculture of the United States and of the United States bureau of animal Industry to detail one or more field experts front the bureau to be stationed in the State ior mo purpose 01 advising. directing and assisting those engaged in or about to engage in live stock raising, particularly in the raising of beef cattle. "Resolved, further, That the secretary of agriculture of the United States he specially requested to give this matter his earliest and most rareful attention." * PROVIDE rX'XISHMKNT. Georgian* f'a-i Rill Making Defamation of Women a Prison Offense. The penitentiary stares scandalmongers In the fare now. The Georgia senate passed a bill Wednesday making it a penal offense to utter false or defamatory remarks about a woman. Heretofore the women defamed had no recourse except In the civil courts. Rut the McCurry bill changes all that and will, it is believed. put a hridle on scandalous tongues, it wa not pasted without long debate, many -eiaators hplievinj ' M Impaired right of free speech. 0 BUILDING F ALLS Disesfer In Busiest Section of Philadelphia SEVEN ARE KILLED Thirtjr*ttro People Boiled Beneath the Ruins of a Pfvc-Htorj Building, 1 tVhlch Was Betng Reconstructed. ( Accident Occurs about Ona o'clock 1 1 and Terrifies Passcrsby. i In one of the busiest sections of J the city of Philadelphia, and at a ( time when thousands of pedestrains < were passing to and fro, the fire- i story brick building at the north- ' east corner of Eleventh and Market 1 streets, which was being recon itmrtiwl frtr f T!nUo/l * ? ? .w. % t?v vmvvu v*ua tuipruv^ ment Company, collapsed with a ter- c rifle roar shortly after 1 o'clock ' Thursday afternoon, burying or -1 pinning beneath the ruins 32 per- a sons, 7 of whom ar? dead, 1 miss- ^ ing, 1 fatally Injured and 2 4 more c or less seriously Injured. The dead 1 are: ' Charles Larson, 45 years old, sub- 1 stltute foreman of carpenters. Peter Fritz, 6t> years o:d, carpen- ' ter. * Paul Hanning, 4 9 years old, laborer. 1 SiRniund Tansberg, 23 years old, ^ laborer. * Alvin ?, 50 years old, a Swede. ^ Unknown man .terribly mangled. ^ Fatally injured: James Haggerty, 30 years old, frac- '' tured skull. The two lower floors had been '' torn out and the three upper floors w were shored up by heavy timber. ' Steel girders were bracing the shor- 1 lug. It Is supposed that by moving 9 one of the girders, the eutlre struc- 9 ture was loosened. The crash came without warning, a and the narrow escapes were many. '' The roar of the collapse was heard 0 for blocks. Hy-standcrs and passers- '' by fled in desperation, as It was thought an explosion had occurred. 0 When they realized what had hap- u pened. people flocked to the ruins and * began a series of thrilling rescues. r Het'ore professional aid could be a mustered, automobiles, teamsters' * wagons and all sorts of nearby ve- * hides were filled with the dead or Injured, and hurried to hospitals. It " was a swaltering day and several of the rescuers were overcome by the * h**at and dust tram *h? debris. AJ K most as strennouH as digging up the ? injured was the task of keeping the s congested masses of people from sur- '' rounding too closely the wreckage. ? The walls which were left standing T iuur\vu uu>uit', uui ptMipi? SUTg 13 forward heedless of the danger. For a time service on the subway s line, which runs along Market street R in front of the building was tied up. A woman subway ticket seller, ter- 1 rifled by the crash of the collapse and ^ the shower of bricks and stones that dropped down the subway stair, w fainted in her ooflice. ? Many instances of heroism were s witnessed . One man whose leg was 11 broken was pinned beneath some ^ timbers. When firemen came within ' hailing distance he asked that they p attend the more seriously injured. * The entire fourth floor of the '' building lay slant against the side a of the adjoining building cutting off 1 air In a section twenty feet square >' where it Is believed the missing man is burled. Workmen continued dig- 0 glng in the ruins. CHAXGK IX GKRA1AX CAIHVKT. _ c s Von Itothman - Hollweg Heconn-s c ? Chancellor of the Kinpire. A dispatch from Berlin says Or s Von Hothman-Hollweg has been ap r pointed Chancellor of the Kmpire in j succession to Prince Von Tluelow. ^ Various other cabinet changes are f gazetted. Herr Delhrueck of the , Interior Department, succeeds Di. , Von Mothman-Hollweg as minister of the interior and vice chancellorReinhold Sydow, secretary of the Imperial treasury, goes to the Depac merit of Commerce, Herr Wermuth 1 the under secretory for the Interior becomes secretarv of treasury, and! Ludwig Holle. Prussian minister of Public Instruction, reUres on accouu* i of ill health and is suc-cecicd by Von I Trott Zm Solz. ? - ( ROKBK.RS >fl ST GO. i , I Greenville Citizens Determined to 1 Pnt a Stop to Depredations. < Admitting that tho police force is , powerless to eopa * 1th the gang of burglars that has terrorized Greenville. S. C.. for months. Mayor Mahon has deputized a number of prominent citizens to arm themselves and patrol the streets of the residence district. These men will serve without compensation and announce that they propose to end the reign of lawlessness at the expense of bloodshed if necessary. The homes of the mayor and the chief of police are among i those disposed by the burglars. in<1 though depredations have occur.fd nightly, not a single arrest has been made. MYSTERIOUS CRIME YOUNG MAN WOIXDKP WHILE ffLKKPING IN HIH ROOM. Upon I\rtuiuing From Visit to Fiaocw, Is Awnkem-d tn the Early Xorniuc by a Pistol Shot. Early Thursday morning Edgar L. Shealey ,a prominent young mau of Aiken, was shot in his room, at the home of Misses Reynolds and Mcrjheo. where he boarded, on York street. He was shot once with a pistol, and the ball entered his thigh *nd lodged. His wound is not Lhought to be serious, but it is ex:eedingly painful. The shootiug is me of the greatest mysteries that :ity has ever known, and the police. Mr. Shealey. or the ladles of the aouse can offer no satisfactory soutlon of it. Mr Sheatev Is onpao-wd In >' . m'li. ied and Invitations were issued a day >r two ago to his wedding to Miss luby Coward, daughter of Mr. and tlrs. Thomas W. Coward, who reside i short distance from the city e* Ukcn. Wednesday night Mr. Sh^-stey ailed upon her, Miss McGhee at ended a dance with Mr. Wllliaiu durray, who also boards there. Miss teyuolds remained at home, but sh? lad expected to go, when Mr. Sheaey left, and on returning at ahou' 1 o'clock Mr. Shealey called to see ler home from the dance, but findng that she did not come to th< lance, went on home alone. Mist levnolds avers that she left the from loor open and a light burning in thriall. When Mr. Shealey arrived at he house he found the front doc oeked and no light in the hall. )I< rat rang the door bell, and as he was oing so, he says he heard someont calking in his room up-stairs. !! hought, he. says, that it was Mist tevnoids trying to find a match t< trike a light, but Miss Reynold? ays it was not she. She did not opot he door, as she says she left it open nd she thought it was someone long to get entrance to the house. A olored woman, the cook, was sleep as In the house. When Mr. Shealey called Miss Roy oids recognized the voice and go T> and opened the door. Shenle> cent to his room and soon aftej etired. At about a quarter to 1 pistol shot awoke him. and he in tantly arose and went to the door rhlch he found closed. He called t> Miss Reynolds and then felt th? ound for the first time, although lood on the bed shows that the cound had been bleeding before h* ot up. He says he was asleep lying n his hack at the time. A careful earch of the room revcalivl nnfh. ig. No one was there or could anyne be found anywhere In the house 'he colored woman and Policeman lusch, on his beat, heard the shot. ?o one else heard it. Mr. Shealey ays he heard no sound after th? hot was fired. Mr. Murray and Miss IcObee arrived from the dance about o'clock, soon after the shot was red. The room door was shut. The r-Indow opening on a small porch was pen, and he believes that he was hot from the porch. Nothing denite could be found from any tracks. Vhen he came Into his room, he noIced that the window opening on the orch had been opened, notwithstandng, he says, that he shut it before caving. A physician was summoned t once, and he is now resting easiy. The ball haa not been extracted et. Rome bureau drawers were found pen In two down-stairs rooms, but lothlng was missed. Nothing was nterfered with in Shealey's room. Co motive can be ascribed for the rime. The shot was fired from tovards his head, ranging down Mr. Ihealey says ho does not know o! in enemy in the world, and he is mown to be an exceptionally quiet nd well-liked young man. If it w.i; ommltted by a robber, why dil he hoot when Shealey was asleep, and here being no danger to the robber? The robbery theory is not believed tenerally. Hut it was someone who vanted to murder him, what was the uotive? ILLICIT STILLS ON INCREASE. [Mlllliltif IOI1 HfOCllllirt I ... ? ? Mnip ivuunillUC Plants In Georgia. More illicit stills were destroyed n the State of Georgia during the fiscal year just terminated than were lestroyed in Georgia, Alabama, Klorlla. and Mississippi a year ago. says i message from Atlanta. These statements are taken from the annual report of Revenue Agent James ' H. Surber. During the year Just closed. Surber and his assistants raided and destroyed 61fi stills in T.eorgia. 231 in Alabama. 2 4 in Florida. and 10 in Mississippi, a total of 872. A year ago the entire number destroyed was only 470. The revenue officer attributes the increase to the high pr4re and increased demand for whiskey since the prohibition laws began to be passed in the South Million Attended Kvpoition. The million mark for attendance at the Seattle exposition was passed in 42 days, beating both the Jamestown and Lewis and Clark shows, which took 00 and 6f> daNB respect'velT _ ... ... A COTTON TUMBLES DECLINES OVER TWO DOLLARS A BALK ON FRIDAY. * Di-ops Off on Report of Dr. Hun tor That Doll Weevil In Less Threaten* lug. One of the most remarkable breaks in the history of the New York cotton market occurred Friday 09 a result of a special report on the boll weevil situaton by the government entomologist. Dr. Hunter. At the end of the decline, cotton for newcrop delivery was selling at $2 a bale lesa than the closing price of Thursday. The break was marked by panicky liquidation and excitement seldom equalled except in times of complete demoralization. Within half an hour prices declined fully 3T? points and while the market recovered a few i points of the loss the close was barely steady, the general nervousness of 'he trades suggesting a thoroughly unsettled state of sentiment. i The decline was the culmination i >f a gradually increasing lnrk of . 'Idence in tin* stability of piices. vhich nearly reached the 13-eent lev- i 1 earlier in the week, when the low ] Fuly condition report was received, i ihowiiiR a continuation of hot dry i weather in Texas, where the crop was i supposed to he rapidly deteriorating > Bullish interests were disappointed 'hat crop disaster prediction did not i reate enormous demand for con'rnets to insure future supplies. The .eiiing movement which started , iround 12.87 for December early in | the week continued in increasing | volume until at the opening Friday norning December was selling at , 12.15. I'pon the publication of the boll weevil statem ent i.ni.bt.shrdluhrdll weevil statement, indicating that tin* | iest was less threatening this year than last, liquidation reached record- f breaking proportions and tin* decline was not checked until December con 'racts had sold at 1 1 * 1?17 points r below the closiug figures of the preious night, and 05 points i$4.7f> [ tet bale) below the high record of i last Tuesday. There was a slight c ecovery later, with December clos- , ng 12.05 bid, a net loss of 3 1 points r 'or the day. c Rumors of rains in Texas were , enied and hulls pointed out that th? r ondiMons which have restricted the avages of the Doll weevil have also , >een very unfavorable to the plant ( n the Southwest. Rut it is bclievd that a strong hear clique has been r ormed under the leadership of Theo- v 'ore ii. Price and that this cliqm , xerted a strong influence on th? lay's market in the immediate situ f ition. * I'KKAC'llF.H HOL TS ItURGLAK. ^ V Roanokf ."Minister Overcome* M??? I <3 Armed With Hatchet and Knife. When the Rev. W. H. H. Joyce, nnstor of Trinity Methodist church, it Roanoke, Va., entered that ediflct 1 Thursday to into his study he net a burglar who attacked hiui with .1 hatchet. The burglar aimed n blow at the minister's head in an j fTort to brain him, but Joyce, who c is an athlete of powerful build, ward- | d off the blow and in a desperat* struggle got possession of the hatch- , t. The burglar then drew a large 3 knife, but the minister forced him ^ 'o a door. The burglar dashed into the street and the Rev. Mr. Joyce t chased him several blocks. The fleeing man dropped a pocket book f 'ontaining a card that bore the words c 'Tan Rice, aged 22 years." r Drowned at Augusta. 1 Jos. J. VanDyke, a locomotive fire- < man, was drowned Tuesday night at s I.ankey's natatorium, at Augusta, lie went to the swimming pool with t a party of friends, lie was a good i swimmer and dived from the spring i board to come "P no more. It was not known that he was drowned until ? he was missed by the party, who be- \ gan search immediately and found his body In the bottom of the pond, lie is survived by seven children and a wife. Miss Norman Vandyke, a daughter, had just gone to Atlanta for a visit, and has been wired to , return home at once. Sheriff Kills Negro. Sheriff J. G Kakley, of Centerville, Ala . shot and killed an unknown no- , gro Wednesday afternoon, who was j suspected of the brutal murder last ( I week of E. B. Wilson, a nrnminoni merchant of BrJarfiold. Ala. When the sheriff went to arrest the negro he showed fight and was killed. -1 Children in 35 Years. Iii his Ho years of marrlod life William Tonor. a blacksmith, of Wilmington. Del., has been the father of 21 ehildren. The latest addition to his family Is a pair of twins which arrived this week. Toner is 57 years of age and his wife is 50. Of the 21 children 15 are living. I'nuMial Drowning Tragedy. Dragged from a launch by a wire catching her under the chin. Dorothy Bruce was drowned at Iowa Falls, la., this week, as was also Arehio 1 Drake, who Jumped into the water }to bave her. _ i -? - DIVORCE LAWS I Scored by Cardinal Gibbons in H an Interview H COMMENDS THE LAWS I In South C:.rolina mill 1'uumUu, ?u?4 h Says Fuuiily Life in Theui Cmh He Favorably ('om|Kiml With Family life in States Where It is I Easy to Obtain IHvorces. I Cardinal Gibbons, in an interview H at Haltimore on Wednesday replied to remarks of former Supreme Court Justice Henry H. Brown on the sub- H Ject of divorce before the Maryland ^9 Har Association at Old Point Comfort Inst week. The Cardinal said: HI "Justice llrown has taken cxcep- BB tion to my view* on divorce and ro- H marriage. Ho is reported to tine referred to the founder oi tho Chris- H Liau religion as an list." * hoe* B| ifiitlnifiits, wlilU> suitable to favored times and circumstances, ore H not adapted to this enllghlen<xl uge. H Tho learned Jurist will pcn.it t ic to H iay that the teachings of Christ have H 'teen the basis of all Christian iogisia lion for nearly 2.000 years, and con H tlnne to be the light and guide of I millions of souls. And there Is no ja mbject which he treats more fully M ind clearly than the question of mar- w rlage. foundation stone of our family I tnd social life. {S in three of the gospels he pro- I Maims the unity of marriage and h termits separation of a married coup- I only in the cause of adultry. I I lo not see why a law which has been ^ ?nforced and cordially accepted in I very age and country where Christi- | ?nit> dominates, should be conslder d obsolete or impracticable in the 'ilited States. "The multiplication of divorces," he Cardinal continued, "is largely iscribed by some writers not to our livorce laws, but to the eager and eckb'ss manner in which ministers >f God officiate at marriage services, lut are not these persons confnunrltig ranee for effect? Divorces are Multiplied not by ministers. who villlngly assist in ill assorted marages, but because loose legislation >n matrimony renders it easy for narriod parties to annual the mariage bond. "If the civil laws of all our States vere as strict as they are in South "nrolina and Canada, the persons ontemplating marriage would selously and n-speetfully reflect; they could study each others disposition md temperament before engaging in contract which would hind them or life. And certainly the peace and ;ood order in the family life In South "arolina and Canada can be favorably compared v(lth Ihe domestic onditions existing In those States vhere divorces can be easily obtatnd." f?l UCl'VUIMV IV ?iciii.m ii. 'ustor .Not Allowed lu llfs Own Church. Dissension iu tho Second United 'resbyterian church, of New York Ity, which led its pastor, the Kov. )r. J. Howard Tate, to have two >olIcemen btationed there during serlces two weeks ago, has become so [rave that Dr. Tate was barred out >f the structure twice. Hack of the Hoard of Trustees' acion in locking the church against he clergyman lies a story in which lis nephew, Paul Tate, formol.v orcanist there, and a young woman inger in the choir figure. The pavnent of $.'>oo for the suppression of t scandal affecting members of the thurch is another feature of tho itory. Accompanied l>y his wife, the pasor went to the church at ten o'clock n the morning, and at eight o'clock u the evening prepared to hold services, On each visit he found tho loors locked, while on the front door vas a placard, which read: "No services today. Church closed ?y order of the Hoard of Trustees." TILM1KDY ON MOHKIK ISLAND. Voting Ladies Just Kscapod Death. Assailant a Suicide. After attempting at about daylight Thursday morning to chloroform two /rmng ladies, tho daughters of Capt. U ieking. head keeper of the light, house on Morris island, near Charlesion. who were aroused by an alarm clock barely in time to save themselves from probable dcjph. Ludvig Iiienrsnn nno nf ' - ? O v/? ? ur aOi-iiM(iui r\ ? ?; 11 ers of tho Morris Island Light House, locked himself in his room, and when officers from Charleston reached Morris Island and attempted to take him prisoner, be first ran into a closet and took a drink of whiskey while the officers eought. to effect an entrance, and then lying down again in the hammock, in which he was accustomed to sleep, he placed his pistol barrel in his mouth and fired a shot, which penetrated his brain and ended his life. The scene of the tragedy, the light house keepers house on Morris Island, is an isolated spot, some ten miles from the city of-Charleston, where the roar of the waves i:- heard perpetually. %