** FOREST FIRES
Sweet With Relentless Fury Over Parts
of Montana and Idaho
MANY PEOPLE PERISH
^ Devastation and Instruction Left in
the Wake of the Flame*, Which
Sweep Over Cireat I>intanc?s, Surprising
Sleepers and Drive Them
Prom their Homes.
(Merciless and relentlessly the forest
fires In western Montana and
Idaho are sweeping over a vast ar<>a,
- - * - ? ?- I...IMvoa 'r.nfn ro
arivmg iunur?u? ui uv...<,
them, destroying small settlements
and wiping out of existence millions
of dollars worth of property. Onehalf
of the town of Wallace, Montana,
has been destroyed, entailing
a lost of 11.000,000 worth of property
and thirteen lives.
Elsewhere In the fire zone the situation
has gone from bad to worse.
The most eerlouB incident is rej>orted
from St. Cos county, where 180 men
encaged in the foresty service are
missing and it is feared they have
been burned to death.
When the fire approached the
camp where there were 2 00 men,
two of the fire fighters took a horse
and, riding the animal to death, rode
from the camp and ordered a party
which penetrated the fire line to bird
creek.
Eighteen of the men were found
In the water, where they ?ad gone
for safety, and were unharmed. From
the remaining 180 men no word has
been received. A relief train equipped
with pack animals, has been ordered,
carrying provisions and hospital
supplies and will endeavor to
get through the fire.
About 1,000 refuges have been
brought into Missoula, Montana.
There is much distress among Lhem
but their wants are being supplied
by Missoula people and they have
been gWen temporary homes. The
first of the train came over the Northern
Pacific Cour d'Alene branch
hrmieht the natients who had
left, the fire spreading rapidly and
Wallbillig believes the camp was destroyed.
There were 25 men in the
camp. *
I Fatal Knd of Ilout.
Another death was added to the
fatal boxing bouts at Philadelphia
when Frederick Castor, twenty years
old. died in the hospital after a sixround
fight with Frank Sullivan
Sullivan was committed to the Jail
without bail to await the action of
the coroner.
been In the Sisters' hospital at Wallace
and as many refusees as could
find places on the small train.
There were 250 on this train and
a second train at noon brought as
many more. These people came from
the small towns along the line between
Missoula and Wallace. Many
* of them had been roused from their
sleep. The people on the train were
those whose summons had been the
first intimation that the fire was
near, as there had been no sign of it
when they went to bed Saturday.
In most instances these escaped
only scantly clad. A woman who
had fled from her home at midnight
gave birth to a child in a box car
;}*iBt after the arrival of the first
train at Missoula. Hospitals are caring
for the sick.
A dense pall of smoke hangs all
over eastern Montana. In Missoula
It was as dark as midnight at five
o'clock, the dense smoke being given
* lurid hue, which had all the semblance
of the glow of fire, which was
probably due to the sun. The towu
of Taft, near the Idoha line, was entirely
destroyed by fire before duylight
Sunday .
(Salter, Just below Taft. has been
abandoned by its inhabitants and is
known to be surrounded by fire. Do
Borgia is seriously threatened and
one man Is missing. At St. Regis
the fire has crossed the river and
threatens outlying buildings, though
no feara are felt for the town
ruarhan is reoorted deserted.
The last word from there is that the
fire is dangerously near and the telephone
operator was preparing to
flee. The area covered is roughly
estimated at 100 square miles, most
of It in the mountains and sparcely
settled. It is difficult to obtain information
from any of the points,
and it is impossible to reach some
of the isolated places at all.
There is a probability that there
has been serious loss of life, as there
are camping parties and lumbermen
all through the mountains, and tlie
tire may have come upon them while
they slept Saturday night or might
have awakened Sunday morning to
find themselves cut off from escnpe.
Oeorge Wallbllllg and two companions
reached Missoula Sunday
night from Adair, a station al>out
200 miles west of Missoula. They
left Adair Sunday morning on horseback.
One horse was riddeu to
death but the men got over the
range.
They say a car of dynamite and
a car of oil at the construction camp
near Adair exploded soon after they
FRAUD IN HIGH PLACES ~
RAILROAD OFFICIALS ARRKSTKD
FOR STEALING. Bl
Rovm^ "Who Committed Suicide,
Seems to Hare Been Connect*-*!
With the Speculations.
Three former executive officers of
the Illinois Central company were ar- H
rested Friday at Chicago on warrants
in connection with the alleged
frauds by means of which the railroad
was defrauded, it Is said, of
$1,500,000.
The men were: Frank B. Hurrlman,
formerly manager of lines
north of the Ohio river; John M.
Taylor, formerly general storekeeper B
of the road. oi
The warrants, sworn to by J. T. r*
Harahan, president of the Illinois r*
Central, charge the three men with
conspiracy to cheat and defraud the ei
railroad by false nretensees and
operating a confidence game. B]
Harriman and Ewing were taken ci
to the Harrison street police station ?]
Their bonds, $10,000 each, were t<
signed by a professional bondsman, tl
The allegations in the graft case
are startling. The investigation be- e
gan a year ago. It reached a crisis 9
last spring when President Harrahan c<
began action to recover sum suid to w
aggregate more than a million al- ?|
leged to have been taken from the a
railroad by car repair companies in p
connivance with high officials of the
road. Harrlman, Ewing. Taylor and U
many others of less magnitude re- fi
signed. . , a
Much of the money is said to have CJ
been repaid privately. The name of tl
Ira G. Brown, who resigned the vice- lj
presidency of the road to become the
president of the Monon system, and a
who was found recently at his home v
with a bullet wound in his breast, n
was brought into the scandal. w
Murray Nelson. Jr., attorney for d
the Illinois Central, said Friday that
Hawn's death headed off warrants
for him.
Private detectives working under
the direction of President Harrahuu, *
are said to have unearthed frauds
other than those connected with car
repair bills. There are said to include
the diverting of $1,000,000 or t<
more from new construction funds. c<
The investigators say they have pro- n
cured several confessions which will tl
bo used in their attempt to fasten u
guilt on culpable prisoners. t>
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WANTS TO GKT A DlYOltCK. it
ti
llushand Procured by Advertisement b
Proves Cruel.
After being tied down by the bonds *
of matrimony eighteeen inonihs, dur- P
ing which time the sunshine of hap- n
I) in ess has frpnnpntlv Iwu.n a
by clouds of turmoil and fits of an- M
ger and brainstorms. Mrs. Kllen Mof- p
tltt Dixon, a former pretty school P
teacher of Marion, N\ C., Friday til- a
ed suit at Roanoke, Va., for partial L
divorce and alimony from her aged
and wealthy husband. J. R. Dixon.
While Miss Kllen 'Moflltt was
drumming book sense into the heads -|
of the mountain boys and girls of the
Tar Heel State she grew weary of
the calling of a pedogogue and advertised
for a .husband. The eyes of
the lonely Roanoker fell upon the ad t
and a correspondence ended in mar- c
riage. s
Some months ago Dixon was tried
in the police court on a charge of j
assaulting his wife with intent to
kill. He was acquitted. In the di- s
vorce proeedings the wife alleges
cruelty. The husband claims his j
wife is not entitled to half of his es- j
tate. Mr. Dixon Is now living at
Lynchburg. t
WEVIL IN ALABAMA.
Expert Thinks Cotton Test Will Soon
Get There. >
That the boll weevil will be in
Alabama this fall all tilings now indicate.
If the pest makes as good
time eastward as it did in Mississ- v
ippi, last year, it will find lodge- n
ment as far Into that State as Es- j
cam bin county, across Mobile and | ,
Maid win counties, from the Mississippi
line. However, it is more like- 1
ly that it will Ret no farter thau t:
MolJiU'', Washington and Choctaw. 1
xhich is almost certain, if there is '
a late fall. This is the opinion of "
W.L Pryor, expert weevil man of 11
the Department of Agriculture at
Washington, who is in Alabama to M
take up with the State otllcers the '
first work of elimination and pro- 1
tection. -v
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Two Women Drown.
On Saturday afternoon near Columbia.
Tenn., two youug women
were caught in an undercurrent and v
were drowned, while two young men r
narrowly escaped death in an at- "
tempt to rescue them. The accident
happened on the Duek River, near 51
Duck Island. The dead are Mrs. ^
Virgo Patton, aged twenty-nine, of
Jackson. Tenn., and Miss Christine
Patton. aged twenty, of Santa Fc.
Tenn. Virge Patton, husband of 3
one of the drowned women, and Eu- i
gene Patton. of Rochester New York, 1
after ineffectuaul attempts to rescue
the women reached shore in an ex- c
hausted condition. n
RUNS ASHORE
ritish Cruiser Bedford Hits Rock off
Korean Shore
EIGHTEEN DROWNED
y the Onrush of the Water after
the Ship's Side was Pierced. .Japanese
Battleships and Lighter* Go
to the Kesoue, but the Salvage of
the Disabled Ship i* Doubtful.
Klghteen lives were lost when the
ritish Cruiser Bedford ran ashore
n thp rrvnlrc nf nunlt.net
. wv?? vr? ^uvi^ai 1 imniia, l\w
a, Sunday, according to the report
iceived at I.ondoo by the admiralr.
The men were members of the
ngine room staff.
The accident occurred during full
peed trials of the vessel and the
ruiser was evidently badly holed.
Ince the deaths were stated officially
5 have been due to the iu-rush of
le water.
The Bedford Is an armored cruisr
of the so-called "County" class of
,800 tons, completed in 1903 at a
ost of $:>.530.000. She was armed
rith 14 6-inch guns, had a rated
peed of nearly twenty-three knots
n hour and carries a normal comlement
of 537 men.
A dispatch from Tokio says: "Hurler
details of the grounding of the
iritish cruiser Bedford, which ran
shore on the western portion of
[uelpart Island Sunday shows that
he vessel is seriously damaged and
es in a had condition.
"A number of Japanese warships
ccompanied by lighters and salvage
essels were dispatched from the
earest station immediately, but
rhether the ship can be salvaged is
ouhtful.
TIIF CKXTKIt OF POI'IT.ATIOX.
k>lumbus, Indiana, Knjoy.s That Distinction.
Columbus. Indianna, is the cen;r
of population. It probably will
mtinue to be in t-he vicinity of that
tark' after the full developments of
le thirteenth census bectuue known,
nless the estimates of the census
ureau officials fail. The returns
eceived show a fairly even growth
l all directions from the ceural
point, the result of whicn mn?r
e to leave the point in its present
eneral neighborhod.
Of all the southern stales, Texas
'ill make the best advance in her
opulation, but Georgia also will
i an if est a very creditable growth,
s will the two Carolinas. The South
rill continue to he the most Aiuerian
section In that it will show the
resence of fewer immigrants from
broad than any other portion of the
In ion.
KNDS IN A FIST F1G1IT.
'wo Candidates Have a Ditliculty at
I*ake City Meeting.
'Congressman J. K. Ellerbee, of
he sixth district and. II. A. Ilodges,
ne of the three candidates for hia
eat, had a lively fist fight at the
ongressional campaign meeting in
,ake City Saturday. Mr. Hllerbee detounced
as a malicious lie. Hodges'
tateiuent that fCllerbee was responihle
for the circulation of an antilodges
circular two years ago and
lodges immediately struck Kllerbee,
vho struck back. Ry-standers inerefered
after a double interchange
if hard face blows.
WORK OF JIIiTKH 1.0TKI1
iui-M' F?tidl> Shot t?v Former tin..
pital Atendant.
The man who shot and seriously
rounded Miss Mary Culberson, a
iurse at the Morganton, N. C. Insane
lospital Friday night, is Jose]>h Upon.
a former attendant at the hospial.
He was discharged for unruly
onduct two weeks ago. It is stated
hat Upton was at one time engaged
o Miss Culberson but the engagenent
was broken by the latter a
nonth ago.
Miss Culberson's condition is such
s to make recovery very boubtfui.
t is probable that Upton, who atetnpted
suicide after attackipg the
ouns ladv will >' -'?
? . ? ** 1 I U1U Ills
.ounds,
All AKainfl Him.
Heine sued tor a divorce by his
kite and with all six of the children
eported to he on the side of their
nothor, Hunter James, aged ,r?8, of
lorfolk, Va.. committed suicide. With
shot gun he blew oft' the top of
lis head.
Many Soils Found.
The soil surveys of the I'nited
States government, carried on so far
n L'rt States, have already shown
'00 types of soil. Bringing these!
oils to the highest efficiency will .
onstltute on of the greatest fu'.'urej
idditions to national wealth. *
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CRAZED BY GRIEF
MOURNING DEAD CHILI) MOTHER
ENDS HER LIFE.
She leaped from a Window to Her
Death as Companions of Her Hab)
Looked On.
Mrs. Philiknina .Sincottr.. thirtyone
years old. of No. 32 Havemeyer
Street. Williamsburg, N. Y.. committed
suicide under most pathetic circumstances
late Thursday afternoon.
The woman had been grieving over
Lhp rlDafh a f ? *
? - ? ? mi i.e. umjr uuiiu, rVUBlt",
five years old. who died three weekB
ago.
Kosie attended kindergarten Just
across from her home. Her mother
used to watch the child every morning
as she crossed the street to the
school, and Kosie and her schoolmates
Invariably waved their hands
to the mother before going to their
studies.
Since the death of the child Mrs.
Sincotta has kept an unceasing vigil
at the window overlooking the entrance
to the kindergarten. The little
children came and went daily,
end each time they waved their
hands to (Mrs. Sincotta. The smiling
face of little Kosie was absent.
Mrs. Sincotta brooded over her bereavement.
Latterly, after the children
have entered the kindegarten
each morning. Mrs. Sincotta has been
seen at her window weeping softly.
Thursday afternoon the kindergarten
was dismissed for the day.
The children trooped out into the
street, chattering and laughing. They
spied Mrs. Sincotta at her post at the
window and called to her. They
waved their books and threw kisses.
iThe woman waved her wet handkerchief
as an answering signal.
She watched the children for a few
moments and then, by a strange Impulse,
mounted the window casing
and among horified shrieks from the
children leaped to the street. She
was crushed to death on the pnvement.
Am ambulance surgeon said
she died instantly.
STARVING TO GAIN HKAVKN.
Members of Queer Religious Seel
Forced to Ilreak Fast.
At Los Angeles. Cal., lying on pallets.
too weak to move, detective.found
in a arrovo bungalow, four
members of a queer new sect, who
wore deliberately starving themsel- i
ves to death in anticipation of the
end of the world. There were tw^
men. a woman and a girl of 16.
They had tou<\hed a morsel of
food for six weeks, and for the last
ten days had not stirred from their
couches on the floor of a room that
had not been aired since the long
fast began.
Sunday night officers forced them
to take their tirst nourishment?a
pint of milk divided among the four.
John Irvin O'Neill, one of the four,
said he was the leader of the sect.
whioJi he called I>iacipleB of the Holy
Ghost, with the gift of tongues, and
invited the curses of Heaven down
on those who compelled them to
break the fast.
"The appearance of the comet was
the sign of the end of the world,"
he said. "We are starving, because
fasting will gain us Heaveen. and
there is no better way of getting to
Heaven than starving to death."
His companions. Mrs. Nellie E.
Doyle, aged 4 0. and James E. Butler.
an old man. declared that they
had willingly entered the death fast,
but ti'e girl, Alice I'riffon. accordleg
to the detectives, said she had
been forced to starve and that she
was quite willing to live. *
Ill'ILNKI) TO DEATH.
Her Husband Arrested Charged With
the Crime.
Alma Walker, 25 years of age,
lies dead at her home, seven miles
from Macon, Cla., fearfully burned,
while her husband. William Walker,
10 years old, is in jail, chafed with
having poured gasoline on her from
behind while she was touching a
match to a fire in the kitchen stove
at 10.30 Saturday morning According
to the evidence of a negro w..man,
who helped to attend the victim
before her death, the dying woman
repeatedly raised up and cried,
pointing to her husband, that "Will
did it - he did it." *
They Must Be Itml.
I loriloc nf e"*?"u
v?i uiw{iiiioi,n are interfering
seriously with the work of
constructing a telegraph line across
the desert in the vicinity of Wilcox,
Ariz. The summer rains formed a
vast shallow lake in that vicinity
wherein the mosquitoes have bred.
The gangs of men are beset day and
night and tho work is practically
at a standstill. *
.Money Wiw Stolen.
Captain James .M. Parkins, of
Vlorhead. N. C., cashed a $X00 check
at Newbern, N. C., Saturday and returning
home on the train fell as,
leep. Train officials could not wake
him when he reac.hed his destination
I and brought him to Heaufort. His
money was gone.
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MANY ARE DEAD
?
From the Ravages of Cholera Over in
Russia and Italy.
DYING BY THOUSANDS
Over Fifty Thousnntl Have I>ie<l in
Kunsia and the Hpideinic Haw InVaded
Italy, Where the People,
I'Hnic Stricken, ai*?> Fleeing for
Their Lives to Other Places.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg
says one week's cholera record foi
Husia shows 23,944 sew cases of
cholera and 10,723 deaths, bringing
the total number of cases in Rusia
this year to 112,985. Of these 50.287
have died, the mortality percent
being 4 4.5 I
The figures are those furnished
by a sanitary bureau covering the
week from Aug. 7 to August 12, ininclusive.
and are, therefore, fuly olfi
clal. Reports from Red Cross societies
indicate (hat the actual figures
are somewhat greater, as it is
a practicaly imposibility to register
every case in an epidemic of such
proposrtion
The epidemic in St. Petersburg
shows a considerable decrease only
265 cases and 138 deaths having
been reported for the six days ending
at noon Thursday in comparison to
the57 cases and 233 deaths reported
the 57 case.s and 233 deaths reported
bhe previous week. The sanitary
authorities of the city believe that
from now on the epidemic will continue
its natural decrease.
The total figures for St. Petersburg
since the first cases wi>ere reported
June 20 show2,079 cases and
730 deaths. The mortality in the
capital thirty five per cent, is much
less than in the southern provinces
owing to the beter hospital facilities
and the experience gained in
two years ago.
Invades Italy.
The epidemis of cholera which
has broken out in Southern Italy
is steadily increasing in the districts
affected, particularly in the town of
Trani, where the number of deaths
already is more than thirty. The
latest previous official report gave
twenty deaths at Trani showing tht
rapidity with which the disease is in
creasing there. The epidemic is ot
a virulent type and the death rate
is high.
Even graver danger is anticipated ,
trom the flying population of the In-1
fection districts, who may bear the
germs of the diHease to regions not i
yet Involved. Trani seems almost deserted
as a resuP nf the panic, 20.000
of the residents, fuly one-half
of the population, having fled the
town. Fully as many have escaped
from thee island town of Barleta.
A dispatch from Home says that
the rej>ort that the epidemic of cholera
which has broken out in Apulia
had spread to Home are emphatically
denied. There have been no
cases there and the general health
better than at any time during the
past ten years.
Although the danger of infection
is not felt there, the pope ordered
the Lazareto of Santa Marta, built
inside the Vatican by Pope Leo In
188f> during the great cholera epidemic
at Naples, but never used because
of the absence of cholera patients,
made ready for any emergency.
The hospital instead has been
employed to shelter pilgrims.
HARI> LI CK OF FARM HAM).
Spent Twelve I>ays in a Well With
Only Frogs to Kat.
A #?#? ? l -? -
nnuuuiiTiK a poie uurty l?*et
below the surface of the earth and
within three feet of eight feet of
water for twelve days in an old,
unused well near Hagley, a station
on the Atlantic Coast Line, in Johnson
county, N'. C.. a young German
was found still alive and in the act
of eat in g a frog.
.Mrs. llattie Watson, whose farm is
near Selma, N. C., and in whose employ
the recent Importation from
Germany was, sent him to Hagley.
On the way he met with two men,
who were apparently intoxicated.
They threatened the German. Thoroughly
frightened, he took to his
heels to escape violence.
'For ten days a search had been
made for the missing man, and the
two men were about to be arrested
for his supposed murder. A searching
party oarehwsly looked down
the well as they were passing by It
and discovered the man. who had
Hirrf iwt'ivt' Qiiys. lie nail
fallen into the well and lodged on
bhe cross pole After telling his
story he lapsed into unconsciousness.
*
Saved by Little Girl.
Ily savins the life of F. Thompson,
of Atlanta, Ga., while "both were
swimming in Lake Maxinku, at Culver,
lnd., Friday, Isabel Fuller, aged
12, daughter of K. H. Fuller, of
itirhmond, Va., became the heroine
of the cottagers of the summer resort.
Thompson is an expert swimmer,
but he was seized with cramps *
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OLD MAN MUST GO
CANNON TOO HEAVY A LOAD TO
CAilltY LONGER.
Iionicwortli Gives Out the Notice of
Slaughter, Which Make** Uncle
Joe Talk Out I'luinly.
Reflecting the views of the adminj
istratlon, it is said Representative
Longworth of Ohio Rave out a statement
in which he says he will never
sunnnrl 5ru,ol>n? -
, , - .inn viiiiiiLi again and
do?*s not believe that Cannon ever
:nn be re-elected. This is regarded
] as the actual beginning of a real
tight against Cannon.
"Mr. Cannon in -his speeches so
far in his campaign and in reeenf
declarations has made his candidacy
for speakership an issue. I for one
don't propose to dodge that issue,"
said hongworth.
"I shall oppose Cannon's election
as speaker and in the manner 1 consider
proper. 1 made up my rniud
before the adjournment of the last
session of congress that Cannon
could not be re-elected speaker and
my opinion hus been strengthened
since.
"1 am absolutely convinced If
there is full attendance at the Hepublican
caucus that he cannot be
again elected speaker.
"I have a genuine affection for
Cannon us a man and 'highest respect
for him as having splendid
fighting qualities. I have supported
him five times for the speakership,
but cannot do so again.
"I repeat 1 shall oppose the re-election
of Cannon to the speakership
and 1 ain firmly of my opinion that
his re-election is impossible."
The fact that the statement wan
given Immediately following a conference
at the summer whitehouse
regarding the plans for the coming
congressional canu>aign is taken as
indicating that President Taft and
Vice President Sherman are behind
the movement to eliminate Cannon.
Speaker Cannon, when shown the
dispatch from Heverly regarding the
statement given out. by Representative
Longworth, said:
"Mr. Cannon declines to answer
any statement which Mr. lyongworth
I may or may not have made until he
l 04WIO * *
owo hi., i uu um. answer statements
which I believe to be fakes that mischievous
parties make.
"It is time enough for me to answer
the president of the United
States if he has any statement to
make touching on the Republican is in
of the speaker of the house of representatives
when he makes that
statement under his own hand. I
will not fight wind mills tilled by
bree7.es blown from lungs of political
or personal enemies, or cowards."
CAIiIiKII KiiLKitllK'K BLUFF
Where Those Telegrams and f>'tter*
(' ame From.
A correspondent of the Klngstree
County Record says when "Congressman
Ellerbe first started out on
the campaign he dramatically waved
a hunch of letters and telegrams
over his head and said that f>,000
voters of the Sixth district, including
lumbermen, merchants, lawyers,
hoards of trade and farmers, had
asked him to vote for a duty on lumber
in violation of his pledge. He
further said that anybody, including
his cempetitors. was at perfect
liberty to examine these papers,
which of course was an Kllerbee bluff
but his opponents called his bluff
and got possession of his papers.
They have been carefully gone over
and acuraXely counted and instead ^
of the boasted L,000 there are ouly
14;t attached to the letters and tele
prams and every one of them in the
timber business or allied Interests.
No* a single one from a farmer and
' orsumer of timber, aud very few
* ;?m this .-"*.?te.
Helping Their Krlenrl.
A writer of the County Perord
says "H. .1. Mcl.nurin, of S in.ter.
8. C.. secretary of the lumber association
(lumbermen don't call It a
trust, oh , no! ? is flooding the Sixth
with his circular "To All Lumbermen"
urging all lumbermen to votefor
Mr. Ellerbe because he had serv<?!
their interest so well by his vote
against free lumber.
Motorhoat Kxplodes.
Near Lake Charles, La., Pauline
Wood ring, six-year-old daughter of
S. T. Woodring, a prominent lumberman.
died Saturday as a resnlt of
injuries received in the motorboat
ft 1 c\a 1 n n in K" /"i? ^
. ... i..c v.?ii ?i?i?-u river, sevoral
other people were seriously
burned.
They Can't Vote.
Four hundred regular Republicans
in Hurke county. N. C.. failed
to pay their poll tax and are disfranchised
this election, also 6!> doubtful
voters, while not a I>emocratic
' voto will be lost in the county for the a
samu reason.
Fell Tliroujth Skylight.
While in search of thieves in an
oflice building at Roanoke, Virginia,
Patrolman A. I> lliner fell througtv
a skylight and was instantly killed.. ,
He w;is thirtj right years old. >" "4
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