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r I IATESTCRIMES" L Maoy of the 0!d Reliable Oues Are Now Strictly Out of StyleSOME NEW ONES ON TAP Highway Hoblwry, Burglary ?u<l o Thugglsm Has (iiven Waj to a Vtu*y l^ugc Extent to the Sllrkcr ? il ( amc of l>irk|KH'k?'ts. Forwent ao<l fi s: i'liuflilftiiro Mt'ii. i "lu exact ratio to the ability of the law to discover and promp'ly aud efficiently punish a certain class '' of crimes, will the crlmina s who lire ni by them be compelled to seek other fields of occupation." This is the 1,1 statement of .lodge William N. (leu- " m.ll. of the Municipal court, of Cnltap, a man who has made a study of n crime and criminals during the long " and honorable career he has bad 011 the l?ench in the Illinois metropolis. f There is no other man in Chicago that knows more about the under w world and its operations in that city than Judge OenimlU. and he is re- 0 cognized as an authority u|k>u matters of this sort. Criminal statistics prove that the M crimes have in creased or decreased just in the poportion that the pun- w ishmeutu therefore have been swift and cetnin," co tinned the judge ,l) "Highway robbery, 1 >r instance, is almost a lost art and one does not have to seek far for the reason, l! the robber escapes death at tin 11 hands of the victim he becomes a: inlaw an 1 is hunted like a wile beast. in Chicago arrests for rob- 11 bery have decreased from 1.20# ic 19?o to 7X0 in 1009. "Twenty-live years ago the bur- !' glar was more feared by the public thau auy other criminal. Today SJ housebreaking in the night la almost unknown. ( have ot had a single case of such housebreaking 01 in the 8,000 criminal eases heurd by 111 me during the past three years. "In Chicago arrests for burglay 0 have deocased since 190f? from 1,780 * . P: id u decrease 01 34 per ceut in Uve years. What has brought about the change? It Is not that ' the burglar has become more hone^i. but it is because he has lyund the ^ business more dangerous and kt punishment more certain and swift. "Certain crimes, however, are on ^ the increase. We have in Chiaagu aot less than f>00 professional pickpockets. If the crlmlnoiigista could ^ eramine their heads they might b< ^ taken for bunk clerks. They are of *r the best dressed and best lowking ^ young fellows in the city. They travel in groups of three or four They haunt the crowds and ply theit calling with a skill scarcely equation ^ in auy other profession. They hire j their lawyer by the year sad send ^ him a Christmas present at Christ ' ' hi mas time. "Th?4r number is constantly increasing. Why? Because they know ( that they huve nine chunces out of ten to escape punishment. Seldom ^ do their victims discover the loss cf their pockethooks before they have , . . b< aiade good their escape. (. "Counterfeiting was once the besetting crime of the nations. The j o n nlor toiler has become rare, bat 111 i bis place has come the smooth con- h Mdence man. The number of these ^ fellows has Increased 50 per cost in GC Chicago in live years. It is the safest criminal business outside of that , k 1 f the pickpocket. "The saaie conditions apply to for- f gery, and as a consequence the ar rests for that crime have increased ' 4 6 per cent, in the last live years There have been reformed rob'oerr, and burglars, but ho fur as 1 kun* ^ ever u reformed forger or confidence man, "Much that is hopeful has been , ae.eompltaxied in Chicago during the ' last few years. Of the 202,924 oriniinal cases brought into the courts 1,1 f the county in the last three years *0 per cent, were tried within 24 ^ hours frotn their nTrent and 9o per CI cent, withiu ten days from the arr? r,8. ? "Whlie crimes based upcm frand- |E ulent business transactions have in creased, all of the more serious rimes bare decreased. This docs ^ not include homicide, which has re mined almost stationary. The nnmher of homicides in a city is uo >, riterioa of the crime of a city. They , are usually commit teed by mon and tj women who had hitherto hoen nse- | fill *nd law abiding citizens " ol la An Kn^ine I talked. A loaded pasi.erger train on the f( Ceorgis and Florida railroad spent w last ulght in the woods, three miles i north of Valdosta, (la., because the c< engine balked. An official in his pri- c< ate car was on the train and kept a the passengers supplied with food. v The engine began moving al>out sua- a + rise. m m m h tHiocs Ii?s? JIO Years. S If all men were liko Isaiah Herg, a f Milton Grove, Ind., shoe factories tl would be forced out of business. He has a pair of "Sunday" shoes he has t( worn for 30 years and his "every- '' dav" shoes have been worn for 25 '' jrear?. * "1 _ J Kl'ZZLf. THE tCGS Hil'AKT.MI -XT or A(iIUOl LTl KK ISSLIS A CIUOULAK. 'bfNlrinns ('Uim Tii.it the Only Way to I'l ori'iit liable* Is to Muzzle the lki^s. The Columbia State says a <loz"n r more (legs, supposed to have had itiies, have been shot at the request f their o.\ e:s wii'iin the 'last l' it ays in that tilv. T.rree cows an i a rtf, which showed symptoms* of tiu* line, have also been killed recee.;* he police department has klll'-d est a . ;,ral?,. 1 he type of the disease which :s revalent among the dogs t-his suinler is "dumb" rallies, eaile i "blacit URue ' by many poises. Few il uy cases of "\iolent. or " furious* .hies nave been reported. The dog muzzing ordinance whlcti . cently went ii:to eliect was passeu v the city council tor the express urpose of exterminating rabies in lis city. The ordinance was sabtcted to severe criticism when it as first passed, hut it has met with ?ry general compliance on the part [ the owners of dogs. It is claimed that muzzling is the iilv way in which rabies, and conHjuently .hydrophobia, can lie pre nted. A circular recently publisa1 by tlie liureKii of animal industry [ the Fnited States department of ^riculture advocates strongly this iea.su re for the exierminatic.n of the read disease. The nitizzling of do:s was widely aforeed in Kurope a few years ago ad as a result the disease has dis[ipeared trom the countries enforcig ilie law. in regard to the use of the muze on (legs and the consequent devase in rabies, the circular issued f the bureau of animal industry lys: "To prove tho practical value of lose repressive measures, we have ily to observe the results obtained foreign countries. Prior to 1ST;? i iliies had been prevalent in Berlin r many years. In that year a law as enacted, including tho whole ol russia, which provided for the kill g of all dogs suspected of having iblcs. and the miu/linn una all dogs when In public places, bis led to a complete eradication o1 e disoa.se, and no case had oc irred in llerlin since 188:;. I "In Holland since 187r?, rabies be- j g quite prevalent,, dog muzzllug ( us established. The disease immc- j ately begun to disappear, and in 17 9 only three cases were reported, , uce that time the country has been ee from the diseuse, except along ,c Belgian border. "In Great Britain the value of uzzllng, which has been enforced ( spite of great public opposition, is been admirably demonstrated, i 1 889 it v as Hi st adopted, and ie disease had aim st disappeared ( 1 892. when the muzzling was ( opped on account of the deterntin1 opposition. The disease immelately began to increase, and in S9f? muzzling was again enforced he decrease in rabi -s was immeate and marked, and since Novem*r, 1899, the country has been enrely free front the disease. "In Sweeden tJte value of muzing has also been demonstrated. In ict. in all casen where this measure as beer, effectually carried out the sease nas been completely controil1. "The disease lias never been nown in Australia. This is due to le fact that the infections never lined a foothold in that country, and >r a number of years the governent has wisely prevented such an afortnnatc occurrence by laws, .hich absolutely exclude the imporition of dogs into that country. "In countries where steps have ?>en taken to exterminate rabid >?s Holland, Sweden, l*h gland, orwny an J Germany rabies in an h:.s almost disappeared." According to !>r. Henry it. Slack i The Journal-Record of Medicine, ydropliobia is rapidly on tne inease in Georgia. The conclusions cached by Dr. Slack are based 011 le records- of the Georgia Pasteur istitute. He writes: ' When you consider the fact th>t >r four years (from 1900 to 1904) e only Heated 237 patients, and lat 4 4 of them came from west of le Mississippi river, 32 from Alsiama. 24 from Soui.h Carolina, 1 IS less than half! from Georgia, and lat 4S9 were treated in Georgia in 90S a. d lst> in 1909, after these ther States had established Pasteur iboratories, the increase in rabies is ppalllng. The average for the first )ur years of ttiis decade was f?s).:> hile for the last two years it is 87.ft or an increase of over 887 per ant in less than ten years. This crtainly is enough to make us pause nd think what we must do to preen t the rapid spread of tins most wful of all diseases." As to tlie preventative mesures to e taken to decrease rabies, l)r. lnrk merely says: "Muzzle all dogs nd establish a six months' quaranIne." This city has already taken steps o muzzle dogs allowed to run at irge on the streets and a decrease a the number of cases of ' ables is xpected. 9 -. '*r HELD UP TRAIN A LOT OF IMMIGRANTS WKKK LOOTKil I1Y TIIK HA XI >!?.<*. They Couldn't Speak Knglish, Hut Understood What Revolvers Meant and Turned Over Caxli. Within sight of lights of Manhattan. four men held up a coach load of lmnil?r:into - .^v...?.??? .1 If, III, at the j?oint of a pistol, and robbed them of perhaps $r?00 in cash, while their train was still standing ia the West Shore terminal at YVeehaw ken. X. J. A cry of " police!*" from the lookout gave the gang warning and they were able to mingle with the crowd and lose their identity. The lookout was felled by the nl.-ht mirk of a patrolman and is now locked up. There were perhaps a hundred immigrants in the ear. The order for "ull aboard had been given and many had their hands outside the windows, waving goodbye to friends when two men jumped on the reai of the last car of the train and two on the front platform. All four whipped out revolvers and shout*u "hands up, shell out, Most of the Immigrants did not understand the language but the revolvers were wholly inteiiigibic The four men walked down the middle aisle el the car from either end. taking jewelry and cash. They might have got more if a trainman had not stepped to the rear platfotin and, taking in the situation at a glance, ho ran to the s'.ition yelling to the poliep. Hut the robbers had been warned by their lookouts and bolted for the walti'ig room. wheie a thousand persona from the ferries were waiting for other trains. The lookout, who wns arrested, refuses to give his name or tell anything about hiins?'lf or the gang ot men he was operating with, but he will be made to tell all about himself and them too. TIMS SKTS TO SOI TH. Immigrants Are Fust Flocking to Dixie latntl. The day of immigration into the South has arrived'and with it has begun an exodus of Americans who have tried Canada and the Northern States and now have quit that locality for more profitable farming in Dixie land. The tide is carrying with it colonists from Iowa. Kansas. Nebraska and the West and Northwest, and the influx is expected t reach its height about next October. A recent report to the land and Industrial department of the Sou'hern railway shows that since las. May about 50,000 acres of land in Southern Alabama had either beer, purchased or was about to be obtained for Northwestern tirms and cotporations for locating settlers. Large tracts have also been taken in Georgia and Northern Florida since u'n tlrst of the present year. Another movement is that of a colony of Slovaks from Western Pennsylvania to Southern Alabama In Northeast Georgia there has been started the nucleus of a colony for Canada. Individual farmers from Ohio. Indiana and Illinois are buying improved as well as wild lands in Virginia, tlie Carol in as. Tennessee, and Northern Alabama. German and Memmonlte settlers are also traveling to the South lards in goodly numbers. KILLKP HY THAIV Hulled the Italiy Carriage in Front of ik Train. Mrs. Peter Montrelle, failing to see the approach of a passenger train, wheeled the baby carriage containing hfr twin sons. one-y? ar-old, on t.he track in front of it \Vcdne?.day, was unable to snatch it back, and saw the carriage and her bah'. hurled 7f? feet in the air. Wli.Mi she reached them, one of the twins, (iuido, was playing gleefully in tnr* sand, but the other, Joseph, was dead. The accident occurred 9 miles east of Hammond, Ir.d., and fhe train was the Erie Flyer. PI ysicians w.ho attended her after the ac clrtent expressed the fear that sh would not survive the s.hock. Kill* Wife Before Child. In New York in the presence of his five little children, Abraham Koth, a tailor nffer quarreling with his wife. Bertha, plunged a bread knife into -her neck then slashed his throat. The woman died soon afterward in agony. Made Them (Juit. A pest of mosquitoes on the doast of the CJtilf of Mexico has compelled men in Texas to quit work. Voracious swarms attack men and beasts alike. Thaw (lets $11,800. Final distribution of the balance of the estate of William Thaw wpa fade in the Orphans court In Pittsburg, last week. Harry K. Thaw received $11,890.29 as his share. - - - - FOUND DYING MKS. Ji:\\IX(iS AT SI'AKTANliriu; COMMITS SUICIDE. I The Family While at Breakfast Was Startled l?y Pistol Shots.?Found Wife Dying. A special dispatch from Spartanburg to the Columuia Record siys I Mrs. Marion B. Jennings committed ; suicide Thursday morning by shoot-j ) iz.g herself in the left temple. The shots, two in number, aroused th?j 1 family si* they were at the break-1 i fast table, and Mr. Jennings rushed j j in'o his wife's bedroom and fnund i her already dying, lying in a great j pool of blood. For four months Mrs. Jennings, i had lK*en in ill h? alth and had recently been suffering greatl> from melanr.holia. liut it was not feared that she would do herself injury. On Thursday morning she sent her youngest daughter out of her room, saying she desired to he left alone to sleep, and the act was evidently then meditated. Within a few minutes two shots were heard. vMrs. Jennings secured an old pistol that had been left in the bedroom. T.he pistol was placed against her left temple and the he nl was practically torn c mpleiely olf. The family are prostrated w.th ; itrief. Mrs. Jennings was about a year! or more ago married to Mr. Marlon j B. Jennings, son of Sirte Treasurer) Jennings, Mr. Jennings having formerly lived at Yorkville, where he practiced law for several years after leaving Columbia a few years ago. Mrs. Jennings was also a farmer Co Jumbian, Miss Emma llanahan. a j sifter of Dr. Hanahun of Columbia. She was first married to Mr. Ernest Heard, of Yarkville, ami by that marriage has four daughters, all of whom are at home except one, w.hose home is in Yorkville. About a year ago site was married to Mr. .Jennings. and they made their home in Spartanburg where Mr. Jennings is practicing itis profession. Mrs. Jennings was 3 7 years of age. EE FT A HID EOKTINK. Hy Stranger to Whom He Had Hccn Kind When in Need. Shortly before the Klondike gold boom. W. V. Miller, a ntotornian of Macon, Ga., then living in Atlanta, and known as "Kid" Miller, met J. F. Curley. a broken-down miner stranded and without funds. He took hint in. fed him and gnve him money to take hint as far as Birmingham. That was the last he ever heard of t.h?? bread cast unott the wateis until recently, when ho received word that Curley had died in Dawion City and left him a fortune estimated at $f.(;0.0t)0. Shortly after Curley's death. Dawson City authorities communicated with (Thief of Police Jennings, of Atlanta, asking for news of "Kid" Miller. Jennings traced him to Macon and located him as W. V. Miller, a married, but childless motorman. The news of Curley's will, leaving h:s all to the man who .helped him when he was down and out quickly followed. Miller so far is somewhat dazed by his good fortune, but is still cheerful. TltlKD TO l'ASS TKAIW Alltomohilo Is Run into by Train With l'?tal Results. While racing witn a westbound Denver and Rio Grande passenger train in an automobile Tuesday afternoon, Walter llodgins, of Grand Junction. Colo., .Miss Deonn Adams, of San Francisco, and Miss Gladys Carlyle, of Chicago, were instantly killed, C. 11. Carman, of Grand Junction and Chauffeur Thomas Rocke, of Denver, were seriously injured. The automobile, passed the train and attempted to pass in front of the locomotive. The locomotive struck the rear of the automobile. The accident occurred a few miles from Grand Junction. Very Sail < 'use. John Wilholt, formerly a student at the University of Georgia, and a son of William F. Wilholt, president of the Cotton Oil company of Atlanta. Ga? pleaded guilty to burglary in the criminal court there Friday. He was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. It'. v lllrvuifkn 1m ... Vm.rr.v. Five men. all foreigners, known by numbers, were killed in the quarry of the Nazareth. Pa., Portland Cement company by the premature explosion of a charge of dynami'e. This is the same quarry in which seven men were killed in a similar ' manner a few weeks ago. Hidden from Lynchers. Swinton Fermenfer, a young farmer. and two other men. named Comings and Burtield, are under arrest in I.ouisville, Mass.. charged wit.h the murder of Miss Jennie Sharp, daughter of a planter. The three men were spirited nway from the I.ouisville prison to evade lynchers. . * . \ THE CORN CROP HKi 1XCKKASK IN T1IK .\ll( K.\(iK IX THK SOl'TII. Knormoufi Sums Which Have llirn (ioing W est for Foodstuffs Will laKept at Home. With 20,277.000 arces corn planted this year, being an in crest of 1 535,000 over 1000 and 2.770,000 acres o.er 1908. the farmers of Virginia. North Carolina, South Carolina. Ceoigia. Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi are furnishing very substantial proof of tlie fact that the South is constantly de voting more attention to raising its own food supplies. These lliuroK are from the bureau of statistics of the United States department of agriculture. The acreage in corn for the present year is shown as follows: Virginia 2,14*2,000; North Carolina. 3,072,000; South Carolina. 2.428,000; Georgia, 4,532,000; Kentucky, 3,-1 639,000, Tennessee, 2,718,900; Alabama. 3.524,000; Mississippi, 3,232, Total. 26.277.000. The total >wreage for 1909 was 24,742,000 j in 1908 it was 23,50 1.000. The fl;*,' t indicate that each State sh? .. an increase over 1903 ( in 190' nd an increase over 1909 in 19' The condition of this year's crop ? reported by the department sho*" thi- States of the South leadin .e country. Mississippi being ii" .. Alabama second and Georgia rd. This great increase in the acreage fevoted to corn is considered one on the most hope.'ul signs in the South today. In a letter to the directors of the Southern Railway company, President Kip ley called particular attention to these figures and said: "The increase in the acreage of corn, accompanied, as it is, by a ! quite general adoption of improved cultural methods, is one of the ni-.st encouraging features of Southern agricultural progress. It is one of the results of a general movement throughout the S::uth in the direction of diversified agriculture?a movement which we are endeavoring to encourage and assist as far us we can properly do so." As the farmers of the South increase their yield of corn, iliey will save enormous sums which they have been spending in the West for food products and will consequently themselves realize more from cotton and other market crops. Economic authorities agree in declaring the American corn crop the basis of the country's prosperity since in such a large measure the production of other crops as well as the pork supply depends upon it and a greater yield of corn in the South consequently means a greater share of prosperity for this section. FIGItT ON TIIF. Kit 11><; F. Ollicer Kills Man Who Tried to Throw lliiu in Klver. Police Officer William Caudle was shot below the heart and John Grubhs, of Karnwell, S. C.. said to tie of prominent family, was shot through lue brain and killed in a struggle on the bridge near North Augusta Wednesday afternoon. The shooting attracted a crowd ami fot a time trouine was feared, but the arrival of the police platoon brought quiet. Grubhs, accompanie by a man named Green, both of whom were said to have been drinking. were disorderly on the bridge near the Augusta end. Ollicer Cuedie was ordered to get away and they attempted to throw him over the railing into the river. A fight followed in which Grubhs shot twice. I t.'ie second bullet taking effort. Cutidle then tired and killed his man. Green was arrested. kll.LRI) ON TltAMWW. Mrs. Thus. Ilowle Victim of Fatal Accident. Mrs. Ilowle. the wife of Mr. Thomas Howie, w.hn resided in the Greenplain section of Darlington County, was run over and killed by a train on the Massey Lumber Company tramway road, in that section Tuesday. The particulars of the tragedy have not been learned yet. Mr. Ilowle was in Darlington Tuesday, having gone there to sell tobacco, and it was while he was there that information concerning the death of his wife was telephoned him from that seetion. Mrs. Howie was about thirty yea it old, and was t.he daughter of Mr. Zack Hoseman, of the A11tioch section. English (hit He I tarred. Owing to the discovery of foot and mouth diseases anion, cattle in England, importation of cattle from that country ii to the t'nited States has been prohibited until the extent of the disease is determied. She ItefiiMui Him. Disappointment in love affairs is assigned as the cause of suicide by shooting of Edgar IT Shrork, aged 2f?. of Fort Wayeti. Ind.. in the head. Shock was formerly in the navy. ' crRiora Missorm farm. ** No Fences Rpqulrrtl?Wheeled \>M> cle Nerer l'|Hin It. Within sight of the town of Jasper Wo.. In the O/nrka. a settler ha* a farm which probably Is unlike any other In the world. This farm occupier the table land on the summit of a ridge and Is endured with a fence which no animal has ever broken through. It Joes not rise above the surface of the tarin. out falls sheer from the edge a distance ot many feet. The man who Oomesteaded the tableland had a bard climb up the perpendicular cl>S to reach the coui^ai atlvely level sutnj cult. At one point a Isdge extends out ! a few Inches and along the face ot the cliff at an upward grade By !ollowltig this ledge and making use of occasional points of rocks and o| shrubs growing In the fissures ths discoverer pulled himself to the sumn It and found a surface well covered with soil and a luxuriant vegetation. Gradually he Improv?> ) the ledgs until he could carry up tools and seed. Rv blasting and dr.Iling he cleared a narrow 'rail up which hs was aide to take first aonie pig*- and then h cow. Later on he took up a horse An.1 that to-day Is the condition of the curiously protected farm. No vehicle has turned a wheel within Its limits of pa'lsndes. The live stocU has multiplied and consumes the grain raised. Some stones thrown across the trail cojnple'eVy ' fence in the hogs and rattle When tile farmer has slock to sell he drives the an i ma Is down the private trail and strikes the road to Jasper.? Kansas City Si nr. Honks Returned After Years. With the best system nud careful watching books go astray, but it Is hard to write them of! as entirely I "lost." since they have a way of turning up that is only paralleled by | the cat of lyric fame. The other day at the de3k of one of the oldest city Institutions, the i Philadelphia library at Locust and Juniper streets there was returned by a fair borrower, a book that had been cut a little over three years. Fortunately for the borrower, no fines were exacted and after she had gone >ne question as to whether the woman had not established a record, was asked. "No, Indeed," said the librarian. "We have In the library several volumes that were held ten. tlfteen and twenty years, and one book that was returned to ug after being gone for over m century! It Is one of a valuah.e set of the classics, and after succeeding In hiding Itself so long, finally turned up In Holland, where Its label declared Its lawful place of abode and the honest finder lost no time in forwarding It to Philadelphia Yes. we have books out still longer, and I hav not tht least doubt that some o. _a?m will yet find their way hack to our shelves." I>?*opest Roofed of All Hates. The age long hatred of the whits race tor the black, yellow and other colored races is by no m^ans oneaided. It is fully mutual. Years so Livingston observed that There must be something in tho appearance of white men frightfully repulsive to the unsophisticated natives of Africa; for on entering villages previously unvisited by Europeans, if we met a child coming quietly and unsuspectingly toward us, the moment he raised his eye* and saw the men m 'bags be would take to his heels in ? n agonj of terror. such ng we might feel if we met a live Egyptian mummy at the door of the British Museum. Alarmed by the child s wild outciles, the mother rustles out of the hut. hut darts hack again at the flr.? glimpse of the fearful apparition. Dogs turn tall and scour off In dismay, and nens. abandoning their thickens. fly screaming to the t ips of ihe houses." The same is true, though perhaps Is a lesser degree, of the other colored races. tl' I. ?U- r*.i iii-?t- un- i i|)N UO. "Bet I can teil yot. something yo? don t know about the tipping system In the cloakrooms of aonie of tho large cafes.' remarked a midnight diner to his wife "Why ? don't the small boys Just pocket all they ?et?" Inquired she. "Pocket! Their uniforms arc made without a sign of a pocket so that none of the tips can find a lodging there; those hoys get nothing but a salary which Is paid by a man who has purchased the cloakroom prlvlege for a9 high as Ave thousand a year. The tips are all turned In to him. You can Imagine what tho privilege Is worth when he can ay down .bat sum for the rl^ni." The t><>mlnce'a Kail. A Carthage minister Jokingly told a friend an Interv.ew would cost hua ten cents. The latter pretended to take the matter seriously and pre a?*nitu uiui wnn ien ptnnies. Tbf minister then arose to protest and while rising his chair skidded and he stumb'ed. And now the friend ia tellng everyone he meets, how upset the minister was a' having to refuse a contribution.?Kansas City Star. The man who borrows may not be able to wear better clothes than the man who lends, but he usually does. Just the same. It takes a good many years of strenuous experience to enable a man to profit by the knowledge be i acquired ai college. i J