W}'W '
SUES FOR THEM
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Action Brought Against Senator B. R.
Tillman and His Wife Bj
MRS. BENJ. R.TIUMAN, JR.
For the Recovery of Her Two Daughters,
Who, She Alleges, Were Taken
From Her by Her Husban'l,
Who Then Abandoned Her in
Washinirton While She Was Sick.
Mrs. Benj. R. Tillman, Jr., Mon- 1
day instituted habeas corpus proceedings
before the supreme court at
Columbia to compel Senator and <
Mrs. B. R. Tillman to return her
two children to her, aged three and
Ave years, and be perpetually re- ,
trained from interfering with them. (
Sensational are the charges the ,
younger Mrs. Tillman brings against (
her hUBband. They are that after ,
repeatedly outrageously insulting her (
and brutally ant^ cruelly treating t
her while he was drunk; that after
she had given him the Keeley treat- ,
ment, following which he only grew f
worse In spite of promises to reform l
and at times had attacks of deli- (
rium tremens; that after he had <
squandered much of her estate; that ?
she had appealed to his parents, |
Senator and Mrs. Tillman, with the c
result that the senator only insult- ^
ed her and both blamed her for the j
trouble between herself and her hus- j
band and for his drinking to excess v
?that after all this, and much more, ^
her husband, she having gone back (
to him following their separation, fi
for the sake of their two children,
and in violation of their written f
agreement to divide their time be- f
twopn their fntlipr and thnlr mnther
in case of separation, had her order ,
the two children dressed while both s
families were at Washington last (
November, under pretense of taking t
the children on an evening's visit ?
to their grandpartens, turned them [
over to Senator and Mrs. Tillman,
who brought them to South Carolina,
her husband then deserting her
when she was "in a condition too
delicate to mention," he also leav *
ing for South Carolina shortly afterward
and filing a deed at Edgefield
giving the children to Senator
and Mrs. Tillman, alleging in this i
deed his wife's "unfitness and inablli \
ty to rrise my two children as they i
should be raised," although Mrs. li. c
R .Tillman, Jr., has a handsome an- \
cestral home at Edgefield and annual r
rentals in addition of 51.100. t
The younger Mrs. Tillman is of t
bearing giving all the indications a
a delicate beauty, her features and 1
of high birth and of having been a
reared in an atmosphere of culture f
and refinement. is the grand- r
daughter of the 1* Governor F. ^
W. Picking, who v also ambassa- t
v dor to the Ruse/"-, court, where her 1
mother was b* a and christened by t
the czar, P.itschka, which means &
"little darling.' Her mother's sis- c
ter was the first wife of the late a
United States Senator M. C. Butler, r
whom Senator Tillman defeated for v
the senate after the dramntic Till- t
man gubernatorial administration.
She is a blood relative of many of
l the old-time ruling families of the
State, and of course her social stand- ^
lng is the highest.
Mr. and Mrs. Tillman's domestic
troubles anDear to data from thp
tlmo Tillman came bomo to Edgefield
and found Col. James H. Till- d
1 man at his home, but thought he A
| Insulted his wife on this occasion, p
* It Is alleged, he apologized and ack- o
nowledged he had wronged her; Col. n
Tillman, it is suid, was at his ?
kinswoman's innocently playing with g
one of his cousin's children at the e
time Mr. Tillman came in in a rage. /
In an affidavit submitted to the li
court Monday Mrs. Tillman says that b
one occasion she was forced by her b
husband's drunken debauches and I
cruel treatment to separate from e
him, but "not until deponent's hus- I
band under the Influence of excessive
drink made a most outrageous,
false and degrading attack upon de- a
ponent's character, that deponent, so outraged
and insulted flew through s
the nleht time with her two infant t
children from deponent's home at (
'Kdgewood' to her sister's home in c
Edgefield for protection, where she t
remained for several months." f
EHH It would seem from the number n
J5S?nd character of the affidavits read d
jQ&Ionday In Bupport of Mrs. Tillman's ti
fright to the children, that practi- S
Really every man and woman of stand- v
Ring in Edgefield is up In arms agains* C
BKenator and Mrs. Tillman and their 8
Wpon. Among the signers of these y
' affidavits are several relatives of
^ ustice Gary, himself a member of r
he supreme bench. There are over h
' Jklgned by two or more, and several P
' affidavits, practically all of them y
leaving from 25 to 50 signatures. k
ii The signatures include the follow- li
9K1 fng, all testifying that they have a
J ; known Mrs. Tillman either several w
^PHRjtears or from infancy, and that she a
I a woman of irreproachable char- n
| Hkcter, modest, refined, cultnred, dls- a:
u fitted and amply flnan- h
? cially able to care for and educate O
? tatc her own children. ai
\ TJr. J. Tompkins, her family phy T
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SENATOR TILLMAN
BRINGS UP MATTER OP PURCHASE
OF PUBLIC DOMAIN.
Accuses Soathera Pacific ( Holding
Large Tract in Direct Violation
of Grant.
Senator Tillman Monday brought
up in the senate the Oregon land affair
upon the subject of his connection
with which President Roosetrr?lt
nnoo at- n t u mnuaa PO in nnnarnou
"Some of you are familiar," Baid
Senator Tillman, "with my desire
to buy some land in Oregon located
on a land grant, and the effort made
by Mr. Roosevelt to create the impression
that I was playing the rascal
in regard to it, and all that sort
of thing. I have followed up this
matter on account of my personal
Interest then enlisted. Not in the
purchase of land any more, but to
see that the people hare the right
to buy according to the terms of
the grants to the railroads and to
the military roads. I found out long
igo that neither I nor any one else
could buy them according to the
terms of the grants."
He then read a letter he had
written inquiring of the attorney
general if any had been bought in
iccordanco with the resolution of
;ongress passed two years ago.
Continuing he said there had been
i tempest in a tea pot over the llallnger
affair, but that 2,000,000
Lcres of valuable timber land is held
>y the Southern Pacific railroad or
>y the Harriman interest in absoute
and direct violation of the grant
vhich they refuse to sell to anybody.
They have already sold over 500,100
acres contrary to the law, he
aid.
Senator Chamberlain of Oiepon
las introduced a resolution calling
or information on the subject and
Jenator Tillman announced that
vhen that comes up he will have
lomethlng further to say. His refirence
to the famous Oregon land
iffalr was greeted with a profound
iilence and looks of surprise on the
aces of senators.
KEPT CHILD SEVERAL DAYS
ind Then Turned Her Loose as She
Was Not One Wanted.
Greenwood has a great sensation.
V pretty little eight-year-old girl
vas kidnapped and held by an old
legro woman. The unsuspecting
ihild was lured away by the negress,
vho carried her to a secluded spot
tear ine city. The child was held
here for some hours. Her parents
;rew anxious about her nonappearince
in the afternoon and immediatey
search was instituted but without
ivail. The child says that the nejro
woman told her that she was
lot the one who was wanted and
vith this she was set free. Later
he little girl was brought to her
tome by a lady living in the vicinly
where she was held. All of the
mrents of the Greenwood school
hild.-en are in constant dread on
iccount of the statement that the
legro failed to get the child she
vanted. No trace of the negro has
?een found.
COMMITTED Sl'lClDE.
?'ote in Purse Asks That Husband
Be Notified.
At Dallas, Texas, a handsomely
ressed woman, giving her name as
Irs. Nick Kunth of Chicago, was
icked up in an unconscious condition
n iue street mere last Thursday
ight. suffering from laudanum poloning.
She was taken to the Eraer:ency
Hospital, where she is reportd
to be out of immediate danger,
t note in her purse asked that her
lusband In Chicago be notified of
ler condition. She declared that she
lelongcd to a leading Chicago famiy
and expressed regret that her
ffort to kill herself had failed. Mrs.
Cunth arrived in Dallas, Tuesday.
All that glitters is not gold; some
ro blondinod.
iclan; Judge J. W. DeVorpe, memier
of the circuit bench; the Rev.
3. E. Hurts, pastor of the Baptist
hurch at Edgefield; the pastor of
he Presbyterian church at Edgeleld;
L. Wlgfall Cheatham, editor
if the local newspaper; ovei a hunIred
of Edgefield's most influential
natrons; including Mrs. John C.
Iheppard, wife of the governor
irhom Tillman succeeded, and Mrs.
irlando Sheppard, wife of the pa3t
rand master of Masons and many
oung society women.
The real contest will come on the
eturn to the rule, and It will bo a
Itter one, both sides having emloyed
fine legal talent. For the
ounger Mrs. Tillman #nnAHM
leaars. DePasa & DePasa of the Coimbia
bar, and Mr. Samuel McGown
Simklna of the EdgeQeld bar.
rhlle for Senator and Mrs. Tillman
ppear ex-Solicitor J. William Thurlond,
who proaecufed ex-Lieutennt
Qovernor James II. Tillman on
la trial for the killing of Editor N.
. Ganzalea of the Columbia State,
nd Senator Tillman's aon, Mr. Henry
lllman, of Greenwood.
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STANDS TO THE TRUSTS
TAFT TELLS THEM TO BE OP
GOOD CHEEK AND FEAR NOT.
Says He Has No Intention of Interfaring
With Them or Their
Wicked Ways.
President Taft Tuesday made public
the following statement as to
the reports that the administration
is planning a crusade against unlawful
combinations of capital:
"No statement was issued either
from the attorney eenpriil'H oftino or
the White House Indicating that the
purpose of the administration to in
stitute prosecutions under the antitrust
law is other than as set forth
in the message of the president of
January 7, 1910. Sensational statements
as if there were to be a new
departure and an indiscriminate
prosecution of important industries
have no foundation. The purpose of
the administration Ib exactly as already
stated in the president's message."
The statement was issued alter
the president had talked with James
J. Hill, the railway magnate, and
had received Information that prices
were crumbling in New York under
the various reports printed the day
before and that morning. Mr. Hill
on leaving the White House, said
he was sure that the president would
not attack corporations for themselves,
but the sins of the corporations.
If corporations were violating
the laws of the country he supposed
they would be brought to
book.
James J. Hill's visit to the White
House, it was said, was merely a
coincidence. Mr. Hill declared that
he had discussed "general conditions,"
with the president and had
not gone into the subject of the
prosecution of the trusts.
"Normally conditions are satisfactory
in all directions," said Mr. Hill,
"but we don't want a lot of wild
stories to get abroad that will cauBe
depression."
Mr. Hill did not want to discuss
the president's recommendations as
to railroad legislation, saying it was
too important a subject to take up
"off-hand."
"But we do need the rest-cure
badly," he said, adding that the
country should be allowed full time
to hecover from the panic of 1907.
He thought that three or four months
of rest from agitation would do a lot
of good.
ELECTIONS HELD BY HOUSE.
Judges, School Trustees and Other
Officers Chosen.
The following elections were held
Tuesday by the legislature:
Associate Justice?D. E. Hydric^,
of Spartanburg.
First Judicial Circuit?Chas. G.
Dantzler, of Orangeburg.
Second Judicial Circuit?Robert
Aldrich, of Barnwell.
Third Judicial Circuit?J. S. Wilson,
of Clarendon.
Fourth Judicial Circuit?R. C.
Watt', of Chesterfield.
Sixth Judicial Circuit?Geo. W.
Gage, of Chester.
Eighth Judicial Circuit?J. C.
Klugh, of Abbeville.
State Librarian?Miss L. H. Laborde,
of Columbia.
Insurance Commissioner?Fltz H.
McMaster, of Columbia.
Directors Penitentiary?W. H.
Glenn, of Anderson; J. D. Deas, of
Kershaw.
Trustees Clemson College?I. M.
UanMIn t nl.l T-. i. r. .
*><uu?uiui vn x iinriia, 1/. II. HaWlS,
of I.exington; W. D. Evans, of Chesterfield.
Trustees of Wlnthrop College?R.
R. Tillman, of Edgefield; D. W. McI.aurin,
of Dillon.
Trustees University of South Car
olina?S. P. Hunter, Jr., of Dillon;
C. E. Spencer, of York.
Trustees State Colored College ?
G. B. White, or Chester; J. W- Fljyd,
of Kershaw.
PRISONS ARK FULL OF ALIENS.
Influx of Immigrants the Cause of
Increase of Criminals.
That the recent remarkable Increase
in prison population In New
York state is due largely to the
influx of immigrants into the state,
is the conclusion of C. V. Collins,
superintendent of state prisons, who,
in hia nnniinl ?? - ' 1-?_
...? I c^Vi t IU IUC
ture, suggests that the federal government,
which permits these alien
criminals to land on its shores,
should assume the burden of main
taining them till they have served
their sentence when they should be
deported and never allowed to return.*
A census of 4,320 prisoners
in Sing Sing, Auburn and Clinton
prisons, showed that 1,091 or 25
per cent were aliens.
Garfield Opposed Ilallinger.
Former Secretary of the Interior
Garfield Tuesday appeared befor?
the senate committee on houses and
lands, and opposed the bill submitted
by Secretary Ilallinger, authorizing
the secretary to withdraw the
public lands from settlement, pending
a recommendation to congress
for legislation. i
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YOUNG MAN MURDERED
AND HIS BODY PLACED ON THE 1
R*n,Rn?n Tiitrir
The Fonl Crime Was Committal
in a Hoarding House in Princeton,
N. C.
News from Princeton, a small
North Carolina town twelve miles
from Goldsboro, tell of a homicide
in that town about 11 o'clock Sat- \
uiday night, when Frank Langley,
a young white man, was shot and
instantly killed in a boarding house
run by A. Gis Pearce.
Troy Pearce, his father and two
brothers, Albert and Andrew Pearce,
and a blacksmith by the name of J
Lem Sauls, are in Jail charged with
the crime, which, according to the
reports, was cold?bloodicd murder.
Sauls, the blacksmith, left Princeton
last Saturday night but was captured
later by the sheriff near Setme
and placed in jail. He denied
being in the crowd which did the !
killing, but later admitted that he ,
was a member of the party, but did
not knew who committed the deed. (
John E. Pearce, an uncle of the
Pearce party, was also In the house
at the time of the. killing and says ,
that the crime lays between Troy ,
and Andrew Pearce, that he had re- ,
tired for the night and the clock
in his room had begun the stroke
of 11, but only a few strokes had
broken the stillness, when the succeeding
ones were drowned by the
discharge of a shotgun which was
followed by a blood-curdling yell. .
This is the only statement he would
make. .
The body of the deceased was
placed in a cart by the murderers
and carried down the Southern rail- .
way track about half mile from the '
scene of the tragedy and left on the
rails in order to try and hide the {
crime by letting the train pass over c
the body. The night train going f
west severed the head from the 8
body, but at the coroner's inquest t
held Sunday afternoon, it was dis- (
covered that the deceased came to his
death as the result of a gunshot j
wound.
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PET DUCK MET SAD END. )
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Tamed by a Man in Canada, it Was (
c
Shot iu Anderson. 1
Some time ago while huntlag In c
c
the swamps on Rocky river, Mr. W. t
E. Bray, of Anderson, killed a duel',
and on one of the legs or the bird
was found a silver band bearing the
Inscription "Box 48, Klngsvllle. Ontario."
He at once wrote to the
address, and has Just rec?l\e1 In
reply a letter froln Mr. John T. Min- t
er, manufacturer of brick and the g
in that distant town. He sa/s thai t
the duck shot by Mr. Bray came to t
his home, where he has a small pond j
and a flock of tame gray and black j
"wild" ducks, and Joined the flock i
about the 5th of last August. The c
duck was very wild for a time, but t
about August 20 he had gottun ro ^
it would almost eat out of my g
band," writes Mr. Miner. "Later n
the duck became very tame and r
would follow me over to the tile t
factory and look In at the door, and v
I often threw crumbs of bread and r
corn to It. Then she would follow r
mo into the barn, and knew i
right well where the corn barrel j
stood. I became very much attach- r
ed to the "duck, and wished to see c
if I could get any trace of her after
she left here, so I put the band on
her leg."
Mr. Miner say3 that the duck was
Mr. Miner says the the duck was *
known to him as Mabel, and left
his littlo nnnH ?>"" * n ?* "
V ^vywu uuv/lll DtT J.
He snys he Is a great admirer of
birds and is often called all kinds of \
"green things" because of this fan- a
cy; petting birds and not shooting n
nioro than he does. "But this," c
he says, "is worth a whole season's /
shooting to me. "I suppose," he
continues, "you will think I have a
wheels in my head, and sometimes i
I think the same, but I am a great \
lover of birds and can't help it." t
In his letter Mr. Bray wrote that
the duck had come to the best place v
in the United States, and following d
out the thread of humor, Mr. Miner ?,
writes that the duck was fed In the t
only heaven on earth.
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Kill Each Other. t
A dispatch from St. Petersburg, v
Russia, says more tvan 100 persons v
have been killed and many wound a
an me result. or religious con - (1
diets which have been waged in old d
Hokhara between the Sunites and
the Shiahs for two days. The Sun n
ites demand the replacement of th.> e
Shiah officials by Sunites. At tb9 h
request of the Hokhara an thorities.
Russian troops and machine guns
have been sent from Samarkand
the scene of the fighting. g
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Shot Him Down. ii
John B. Tatum, a prominent resl b
dent of Autauga, Ala., was shot down u
Sunday night by an unknown man r,
and instantly killed. Tatuin was on n
his way home with his sop-in-law p
when the shot was fired from anr>- t'
bush is said to have been the result o
of an old feud. e<
ACCUSED OF LOBBYING
fUBPRESEltTATIYE W1CKKRSHAM
SAYS MAJOR RICHARDSON
rhreatened Him for Accusing Him
of LiobbyLng for Special Interests
and for a $7,300 Job.
Scrambling at Washington for advantages
in matters of Alaskan legislation
has culminated in a demand
by Delegate James Wickersham that
Secretary of War Dickinson to order
3ut of Washington, back to Alaska
or to military duty, Major W. P.
Richardson, chairman of the Alaska
Road Commission, whom he
charges with exerting too much influence
upon congressional committees.
While the Alaskan legislative
council bill was before the senate
committee on territories. Delegate
Wickersbam charged that Major
Richardson was in Washington
claiming to be the adviser of the
administration on all matters relating
to Alaska; that he was in fact
lobbying in behalf of special interests,
mentioning among others the
Suggenheim Interests, and endeavoring
to perpetuate himself as chairman
of the road commission and at
:he same time legislate himself in- <
0 the office of Commissioner of the
Interior, an office created by the
\laskan legislative council bill, at
1 salary of $7,500 a year.
In his letter to the secretary of
var, Mr. Wickersham says that he
vas met by Major Richardson as ho
ame from the committee room and
n an angry tone threatened by the
irmy officer for what he had said to
he committee. Speaking of this en;ounter
Mr. Wickersham says:
"He said that only his position
ts an officer in the army and my
tosition as a delegate in congress
jrotected me. I shall perforin my
luty as a delegate from Alaska with>ut
fear of assault from Major RichirdBon,
but I most earnestly protest
igainst being threatened In the caplol
by an officer In the army for
taring to perform such duty.
"It 1b bad enough to have him
obbylng around the corridors In an
'ffort to Impose himself bb a part
>f a military legislature upon a
tolpless and law-abiding American
Oinmunlt V In time nf nea no tn In
:rense his own salary and evade his |
lutles in the army, without hnving
lini threatening the representative |
>f those people for perfomrlng his (
longressional duties, and I protest {
igainst his violence and insolence." c
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WORK OF HEROES. t
taring Rescue of Two Women and |
Four Children.
Two women and four little chil- ?
Iren, overcome and trapped by f
imoke and flame, were rescued in f
hrilliag melodramatic style Wodnes- t
lay by Firemen Kelly and I.add at '
i fire in a five-story frame tenement, i
<o. 16 Mill road. Jersey City, N. J. <
The firemen were lowered by ropes |
lown an air-shaft from the roof of c
he adjoining apartment house and 1
vere pulled back, with their uncon- a
icions burdens, by thei? comrades.
The blaze was discovered in the early c
norning and it was thought all the
enants were out of the buildings, '
vhen cries were heard from the wo- '
nen and children, who had been pen- t
ted in by the fire on the stairways. (
The air-shaft had Ween converted 8
nto a fiery pit, but the firemen, by I
nuking two trips, effected the res
:ue without accident. c
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SAYS WOMEN KOHIiKI) II1M. 4
I New York Hunker Despoiled of .
Rig Amount of Cash. a
1
In New York Wednesday nigh* ?
Varner M. Van Norden, the banke- a
ind president of the Van Nordea t
i'rust Company, was robbed of $28,- t
100 as ho was leaving the Waldorf r
Istoria. . 1
With the arraignment a few days K
igo of- Bessie Roberts, alias Kitty
)owoll, of Chicago, and Annie '
Villiams, alias "Chicago Maggie, ' t
he story was made public. e
Mr. Van Norden saw two women e
calking along Fifth avenue. One A
Iropped a pocketbook and Mr. Van c
sorden politely picked it up and re- e
urned it to her. ^
A hearty slap on the hack was the 0
iomewhat startling and unconven d
ional manner In which one of the d
vomen signalized her thanks. Thera 8
# , 4, , , , I*
mo a (jiuiuBiiMi 01 manKS a no iiows 1
,nd one of the women fainted sudlenly
on Mr. Van Norden's shouler.
The woman revived and a fow t:
ninutes later Mr. Van Norden mlsv b
d the $28,000. The women were h
eld In $30,000 bonds. c
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Died of Hahies. o
At Durham, N. C., Dennice Manum,
a young boy died of a typical a
ase of hydrophobia Monday morn- w
ig at Watts hospital. Tho young Ci
oy was taken to the hospital Satrday
night and ho developed rahles
apldly. Prior to the treatment the
ladstone had heen
'J U|I- H
lied and nobody was anxious. For N
wo days ho suffered the horrors c!
f the damned and had to be chain- si
d to the bed. Iw
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GREAT FLOODS
Dm in France Spread Destruction to
Life and Property.
RIVERS STILL RISING *
The Region of liiundution is Steadily
Enlarging and Villages in
Scores of Places Aro Entirely
Submerged, the People Fleeing
For Their Lives.
Advices from Paris say that the
floods have brought disaster to a
large part of France. The Seine
is now a raging torrent and rising
at the rate of more than half an
inch an hour. As it furiously rushes
seaward It sounds the message of increasing
misery and dcstructiou
The victims of the flood number
more than 100,000 and the monetary
losses incalcuable. Thousands of
poor are hopelessly ruined and aro
fleeing to Paris. The government
urgent measure has requisitioned
army and navy material to house
the sufferers, and boats for the rescue
of the stricken, as well as those
imprisoned in the houses in the flood
centres on all sides of Paris.
The region of inundation is steadily
enlarging, and villages in scores
of places, are entirely submerged,
the people fleeing for their lives and
abandoning everything. In many
cases the soldiers have been obliged
to use force in compelling the Inhabitants
to evacuate their homes.
Hundreds of them refused to leave.
clamoring only for food and water.
In Paris the situation is rapidly
becoming worse, the floods sparing
aeither the rich "or the poor. The
lood is insidio Invading the
capacity built area on either side of
:ho winding Seine, undermining tho
'esidences and public buildings and
'orclng the evacuation of many houses.
All the streets in the south
eastern section are running rivers.
Every hour helps to complete the
le-up of the telephone, telegraph
ind railroads. The subways and
tram service are deminishing and
n every section gas and electrio
Ights are failing.
Paris is practically cut ofT South
ind West, and if the present coniition
continue the question of food
iupplie8 will become menacing. The
lenate unanimously adopted an apiropriatlon
of $400,000 for national
ellef and various societies are sendng
out calls for aid. President
fallieres heads the list with $4,000,
ind other gifts aggregate $40,000.
The entire population of Iver5ur
Seine and adjacent places, which
ire completely covered with water,
ire in a desperate state. Only the
ops of the houses at Alfortville are
risible, the water averaging 12 feet
n the street. At this place, since
5 o'clock Tuesday morning, 3,000
>ersons have been rescued by boats,
ind 30,000 others have found safety
>y their own efforts. In many towns
ilong the rivers the houses are colapsing
and the wreckage is whirled
>ff in the stream.
The rtescue work at Alfortville
vas hampered by lack of light,
lut the rescuers had more to conend
with than the turbulent waters.
3roups of Apaches had gathered and
eon were engaged in the work of
iracy. They seized several of the
oats and robbed rescued and resuers
alike. In soine cases they enered
the houses and carried on their
lepredations. Finally a force of
oldiers drove off the lookers
There were many cases of drownng
and death to the aged sick
,s a result <->r ? -?????
auuv.it una exposure.
""wo instances of death were partieilarly
pathetic. Aged ami infirm
ind finding themselves unable to
nove, a man and a woman nunged
hemselves to a bed post. The hosiltal
at Ivory, containing 2,000 paients,
is surrounded by water and
;rave results are feared.
President Faliieres and Premier
lriand made an automobllo tiip
hrough the flooded districts in the
astern section of Paris. Thev wn Hifi
through some of the streets, kneo
leep in mud and water, and saw the
rowds fleeing, men tugging at vaiiss
and trunks, and weeipug women
>urdeiied with children and al sons
f household belongings. Tho conitions
are nr?r>?n??~
.KKouiug, una me presient
and premier hastened r way to
eek means of relief for the sufering
people.
Wonderful Invention.
The first line of trolleyless elecric
cars in the United States will
o started at Newark, N. J., this
ummer. Twenty cars supplied with
urrent from storage batteries will
e operated over about eight miles
f track. If the new storage syssm
is successful there it will probbly
be adopted by the corporalton 1
rhich controls most of the street
ars In that section of New Jersey. J
Starting Young. fl
Although she is less than seven- J
?en years old, Florence Kneipp, of
fewark, N. J., is under arrest
harged with bigamy. Tho police
ty that she has admitted marriages J
ith two men during tho past year.