D1X WILL WIN
The Outlook is Gloomy for the Republicans
Ail Along the Liae.
SOME ACTUAL RETURNS
From thr l>jyilii({ liCtt^rs Srnt Out
In Xrw V"rk by Ihc ttrpublirnn
^ litvp Thein IIm- ('old Shlv.
.\rauuns morj ui ll llfpiliHlran
Oingrevinmn and HLs Sfiowhrs
TbJ Washington correspondent ot
The Stale says Madame ltumorwbo
in cousin 10 Dame Truth is circulating
an interesting report concerning
some ot the happenings
around tho headquarters of the Republican
congressional campaign
committee in Washington.
It is well known that the Democratic
campaign text-book this year
contains some able speeches made by
Republican members of congress (luring
the last session of congress and
during the tariff extra session of last
year.
The committee having in charge
the compilation of the book decideu
that It would be good politics to
condemn the Republican party out
of its triembers'own mouths, and
hence the Republican speeches In the
Democratic book.
These Republican speeches, by the
way, are tiled with some good Democratic
doctrine, which has taken possession
of a wing of the Republicans
because they recognize that the people
were leaning toward the Democracy.
J3ut the interesting retport that
Madame Rumor Is circulating, making
the. Democrats chuckle over it. is
that certain Republican members ot
congress, in their efforts to secure
reelection, have sent out, in bulk,
large numbers of their speeches to
be distributed -among their constituJent?
under their franks.
"Later on, however, It was found
that the coostitutents In some, cases
v ere beginning to lean so strongly
in the direction opposite that supported
in the speeches that the members
in question got busy and scut
messages directing their clerK.s not
lo send out the speeches, as they
were likely to help the other fellow!
Sa far there has been no definite
confirmation of the rumors, as it
would be disastrous to the Republicans
if they were to let such a thing
get out. and every effort is made ic
prevent its confirmation. It is also
positively stated that the rumor 's
not true; but the Democratic chucki
ling goes on; just the same.
But some of the "returns." or replies
sent l>y Republicans in New
Vorh to the appeal of the campaign
committee for funds have actually
fallen in o the hands of the Democrats
and been made public. Une 01
the speeches is that of Charles C.
Cowan of New York. He wrote in"
chairman of the Republican committee
as follows:
"Your appeal of the 12th inst. to
my 'patriotism' has been, duly received
and roud. If 'the Republican
party of New York insists on the ab
solute honesty of public officials,
why does it permit itself to be boss
ed by that self-convicted, all-rounu
inker and hypocrite. Theodore Roosevelt?
If Charles K. \furnh\ :?>!.
Tarn-many Hall are 'enimiea of pood
government' they have never shown
themselves to be anarchists.
"No. you can't count upon m.\ aid.
The comparison which you draw between
the results that would follow a
democratic and a Republican house
of representatives may be very sa'inly
ing to your imagination, but rest
assured that it will be Democratic
and that 1>1\ will be the next governor
of New York and a Denmer.ii
the next President of the Uniiud
States.''
Another Republican, in announcing
that he is going to vote the Dein
ocraic ticket this year for the iirst
time in his life, made the following
remark:
"I have always been a Republican,
but I want to make this point plain:
If 'Mr. Charles P. Murphy is responsible
for Mr. DLx as the Democratic
candidate lor governor, I am one of
those fair-minded Republicans h ?ving
no selfish political interest ?o
aerve who are willing to give Mr.
.Murphy credit for exercising as good
judgment In this instance as he did
v hen he picked William J. Gu> 1101
as the mayorallty candidate tor >Jew
York."
There is talk now of the organization
of "I>ix Republican clubs" In
New York, and they will probably isorganized
in some localities between
dow and November 8.
Found l?ead on Street.
At Hoboken. N. J., a well dressed
man registered at a hotel about I
o'clock Wednesday morning as Mar
tin Egger of Philadelphia. An hour
later his corpse was found ou the
sidewalk below bis room.
tltolern In I/ondon.
Asiatic cholera has reached London.
A man died of the dread disease
In the Royal Free hospital on
Tueaday. This is the first case of
cholera recorded in England in many
years.
RESCUE PRISONERS
Till-: JA1I. IS STOt?IKl? AXD A
MlKDKitKK IS KKIiKASKU. ^
The Mountaineer Friends of u Convicts
Murderer Stormed the I*ri- j
son and Set Him Free.
Mountaineer, friends of John ^
Moore, under sentence to be electrocuted
for the murder of Frank liowi
descended upon the Nelson county
jail at l.oviugston. Va.t at 1 o'clock
r>aiuraay niornin, stormed the building
and rescued the prisoner. It is
supposed he will be taken to the
mountains and liberated.
While the people of the county
were asleep a crowd of 7."> fully armed
men from the mountain section
where the crime was commi ted proceeded
quietly to the county jail.
Admission was pained to the buildnp
and the puards awed into comparative
non-resistance. . The cell
where Moore was locked up soon was
found and he was taken out.
It is feared that bloodshed will r?sult
from an> atempt of the authorities
to recapture the murderer.
Moore was condemned to pay the
(death penalty by electrocution at
Richmond an November 2f?. He h.?o
been convicted of having murdered
Frank Howl in Nelsou county last
may. Many' of the mountaineer
friends of the coudemued man believed
him innocent.
The only telephone wire leading
into the section of the country where
the crime was committed and where.
Moore's friends live was cut before
the rescue operations began. This
leads to the belief that Moore uas
been carried there to be liberated."
SO.MK HOT TALK.
A ('ocuell Uvofessor Culls Teddy an
T multigated Liar.
Twice in one speech at Itbicn. N.
Y.. Frids) nlpht Prof. K. H. Woodruff.
of Cornell University, called
Theodore Roosevelt a liar, once an
unmitigated liar. Ilia attack mad* I
at a political rally over which ae i
presided, threw the house into a up- i
roar. There were cat calls. hisses,
cheers, clapping with a stent-/ shout
behind them all ot' "Parker, Park -r. I
Parker." tor the next speaker, for- i
mer Judge Alton 11. Parker.
Judge Parker sprang to ai.-> f? -1
and t>egg?-d the audieuce to allow i
Prof. Woodruff to lie heard,. The j
noiisier part of the house compliea <
,.iid qui", was restored.
Prof. Woodruff began by opening 1
up the lk'llamy ritorer episode, which ;
Col. Roosevelt only recently declared 1
was ch s?*d. He charged that tne
Colonel denied sending Rellain.\
Storer to the Vatican he was an
"unmitigated liar." and there were i
letters in his office, said the professor.
to hear him out.
The uproar over this attack had i
barely subsided when the professor i
took up his cudgels again. Roosevelt
was twice a liar, he said, when '
ho denied that the late H. H. llatri- man
had subacrlhed to a corruption
fund to be used for Roosevelt's el< - ,
tion to the Presidency. *
I.OST l\ Till-: STOHM.
\\ reck* of \|l t'rvM-U Will Not l>e
Known Soon.
The total ship wrecks in the r.
cent *lorm is not erpeeted to be
complete tor u week, and in pa?t
storms of this kind there have lie -n ,
instances where nearly two months
elapsed i tore the last survivor, w no (
had bee npicked up at sea and carVied
\ > Kurope by some passing <
steamer. returned to give his .?? eount
of oimrades drownded.
Thirteen drownded in shipwreck'
is the most authentic eount at hand;;
Including those reported last nignt
on botit roasts ot Florida, word
came from rft. Augustine that three f
dead had been t'ouud in the wreck'
of an unknown four-mus'.ed sehoon- !
er near Ix lray.
The missing total at least half a
hundred, including the c.rew 01 nine
of the Texas Oil Company's oarg?Dallas,
wlioch broke adrift from hei |
tow during u one huudred-iulle blow
on Tuesday. * <
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MANY MYKS AUK M?ST.
l.lfi'lHiuls Itravfly Strive to Itescre j
Mariners Who Arc lui(M'rillnt.
At Loudon. Kng.. the Fngliau ,
coast is strewn with wreckage a* ? i
result Oi the storm that has rout inn- '
ed lor two days. Tin* casuality list,
alreudj reported is loan.
Friday morning the bodies of five J
-reamen from the coasting steamer
Cranford were picked up oh' flai'tle-:'
pool, it is believed the vessel, which ' 1
carried a crew of twenty, foundered
and tha* the men were attempting to 1
reach shore in a small boat when '
they were lost. Some of the wre?.Kage
coming a shore indicates tint .'
a sailing ship met a like fate. Lifeboats
fro n many points were out ait
Thursday night, and in some instances
affected rescues. in other
ea;+es they were unable to reach J Is- I
tressed crafts.
REJECTJTEDDY
lie Row in the Republican Party is Getting
Warner and Warner.
mm ROGUES FALL OUT
["he Western Insurgent Republicans
Object to Roosevelt's (iiral Straddle.
und iiid Hiin (iootl Bye, Alter
Pointing Out Some of lli.s Double
Face K (Torts West and Fast.
The row in the Republican party
[rows on apace to the great joy of .til
vtao want to see a change in affairs,
rho Des Moines News, one of the
nost prominent Republican newspalers
in Iowa bids Teddy goodbye In
in editorial entitled "Goodbye. Coloicl."
Here is what the News said:
"It won't work.
"The progressive sentiment that
las stirred men or all parties in all
nirts of the country can not be chaiu;d
to any party chariot. Not by
rheo'dore Roosevelt nor anybody
dse.
"Itoosevelt is not the prophet uoc
he leader of progress. He has no
uonopoly on it.
"Roosevelt has had New York
itate to put an O. K. on the tariff
>111.
"He has commended Tat't. the poltical
assassin of Pinchot aud all
hat IMnchoi stands for.
"He indoles Toft's conduct in usng
the patronage club against I.ab'ollette
and Cummins and Poindex;er
and Brls.ow and the other real
insurgents.
"He indorse^ the lawyer cubiuet.
Bullingcr and all.
"He tries to obscure all this
treachery with glittering generalities
vbout "graft hunting." but the people
w ill feel safer in gr. ft hunting
when lhey have fewer Lurtons 011 the
supreme bench, and fewer Oscar
Lnwlers in the department o'' justice.
"Tuft. 100. just now, declared that
lie Is for Insurgency -but Murray
and Wickersham and Hitchcock sit
it his taiiel.
"Roosevelt selects us his permanent
chairman Kllhu Root, who is
the incarnation of the doctrine of
dollars in poli.lcs.
"Roosevelt, bringing Root. J.
Morgan. Tawuey. Lurton. Hitchcock,
mid all the motley crew of plutocrats
mid Hessians of privilege, can not
rnlist in the army of insurgency.
"It would have been as sensible
if .lames Buchanan with Jeff Duvis
mid his outfit had tried to get into
the councils of Abruhnm I.lncoln.
"Insurgency got along pretty well
while Roosevelt was in Africa.
"He can not swallow up the insur
?i iuuYcuit-ui. ana insurgency will
not swallow him with his Indorsement
or the tariff bill, of the president.
and with his Hoots and tirlscoms.
"There can be no stop to InHiil'gt'h'
ry in either the republican or democratic
partiea, and no harm can com*'
ro the movement unless undcsiraable
and eleventh hour recruits are permitted
to fog its councils and pervet
is aims.
"Tall Lsu't welcome as a recruit
*nd Roosevelt's room is far preferable
to his company.
"Let's cut out the red lire and the
leather lungs and ro back to the
patient, dogged tighting of real insurgents.
"Listen to that T. R.-built New
Vork platform! It says: "We enthusiastically
indorse 0 Taft.**' * I0a< h
month since his inuaguia.ion has
ion tinned the nation in its high *-.xLimnte
of his greatness of character,
b! t*.
"Rol! It may have contirmcu
Roosevelt's estimate of Tul't. but it
hasn't continued the nation's. Luck |
.t the record of tho?c eighteen
months!
"Taft ran a f . ke republican convention
in Wisconsin to beat LaKoilette.
"Taft tried the patronage club on
Hrixtow.
"Taft excommunicated f'ummin*
"Tat'f tired IMuchot.
"Tat't put I,urton on tin- supreme
bench.
"Tat'f stood for Morgan's Wish r?rihani
railroad bill, and tried :o club
Cummins into voting for it.
"Taft fought I'oindoxter at honi* .
"T.ift bargained with Cannon and
Vldrich. helped their friends und
hamstrung their foes, though the
foes were good party men
"If th.it record 'confirm**' any '? *>itnale'
of Taft thai was held in I! 08
hen Roosevelt knew he gold-bricked
the nation when he handed it the
judicial temperament' package.
"After that New York platform
'hero is no room in any group of par
v for both f loose veil and LaKollelte
>r Roosevelt and Cummins 01 Ifri.-tow
or F'oindexter.
1
"And inxurgenrx can't K< t alonR j
ivithout tin- I .a Pol let t< x, t'nniniinxes.
Ilristows iind I'oindexters.
"So ijoodby. colonel; fake keor o'
rrmrself."'
Will Itui l?l ll?e>|?ilM I.
The Tennessee Conference of the
Methodist Kplscopul Church. Soutn.
has refuilred to build a Methodist '
hospital at Nashville.
PRICE COTTON PICKER 1
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IS PWOXOI Xl'KI) A SICCKSS HY 1
T1IK DALLAS NKWS.
It Says Humlmls Wltncssoil tin* Donv>u.st
ration and llud Tlieir l>oul>t-<
Dispelled.
The Dallas. Texas. News says the
Price-Campbell cotton picker, which
was given a trial near that city a
few days aj?o. was a complete sue
cess. it will be remembered that
this picker was demonstrated in
Marlboro, on Senator John I- McLaurins
farm laa. fall, and that ;
Theodore Price and a number of his
northern friends and associates were
there to see the picker work.
The News says the first practical
demonstration of (the Price-C'amp- 1
bell cotton picker machine to he held
In north Texas was given yesterday
afternoon on the Caruth farm, normeast
of Delias 011 the Sherman-Dallas
interurban line, where a portion
of W. C. Burden's crop was harvested
by uieans of the mechanical
pickt r
The demonstration was witnessed
by about GOO citizens ol Dallas and
the Immediate vicinity. The opinion
of those qualified to know was that
the Price-Campbell picker is a great
success and that one of the great
labor problems that confronts the
cotton growing belt to-day has been
solved.
Many of those who com posed the
party went to the cotton tield in a
mood most skeptical and expressions
frequently heard indicated that the
minds of most of the crowd was tilled
with doubts us to the practicability
of any mechanical contrivance to
successfully supplant the negro ct ton
picker. Knl husi nsiu. iuterest
and belief 111 the invention begau 10
grow b\ leaps and bounds, however,
w h? n the motors whirred and ih
machine started down a cotton row.
The cotton fibre, snatched from
the stalks by a battery of rotating
metal lingers, was carried upwani
and deposited in sacks at the rear
of the machine and as the waves of
the fleecy white staple flowed into
the retaining receptacles tho*c who
watched We'.e changed from skeptics
to admirers. Cotuplimculury remarks
took the place of cri.it istus
that had proceeded the exhibition.
It was another illustration ol the
old time and trite expression, "see
lug is believing. ' Through the medium
ot sight those present realized
that a successful cotton picker was
an actuality and not an unt i ol
nvuruir.
Those who witneused the demonsi
ration went to the Caruth lariu
.upon imitaton and as guests 01
Theodore H. Price, the heal of the
Priee-Campb? 11 corporation. Four
special ears were run over the Dallas-Sherman
iulerurban line to a
point nearest the cotton held. Most
of the crowd wont on the railway.
Others made the trip in automobiles.
Many t'aruu rs from the section
Arouud the parutli I" ana were
ni. The p.rty w.is composed of
both men ami women and wits personally
directed by Mr. Price.
To <lo*erlbe the cotton picker iu
its niecltanic.il details would take au
expert mechanician and such a d ?
script!on would jrobably tneun li.i.e
* xeept to one familial with mechiaery.
The average observer sees a gu.-oiine
motor machine of t? n or
twelve feel in length. ll is <|.ii1.-?ed
with nhcruiling row of interlocK>ng
metal fingeri through ?. hi.li the
cotton stalks pass. Th< libre is gn .1eiod
into sioragn liags a.fuelled 10
the rear. The difer, or op. ra >r.
occupies a sent over ;u<? tor nrd
w iiee.ls and operates the inuct.ine
uiueli after 'lie ni..um of driving
u autoinoliile.
hi action the cotton picker travels
Wow n he row at the rale of bet?'i(
n three and four miles an hour.
In the deinoustration tin* .stalks ?cro
plucked clean of cotton anil un examination
after the machine had
passed indicated that unopened bolls
and the stalks were uninjured.
The picked cotton after Lh ing removed
foni tlie machine showed
about as clean as when gathered in
the ordinals manner by hand. A
few leaves and slight traces of trash
were to he seen, hut neither was
in greater quunity than is ordinar.ly
found.
In tlie lit Id where the exhibition
was given were shown two hales ol
cotton, one ol which was harvested
w i. h the cotton picker and tlie other
gathered by hand, and it was
notable that although tin* co tun
came from the s me field the grade
of the bale picked by machinery w .is I
better.
oi ? >?i u nifi m i iir u? ihts, l III- I'll. **
Campbell muchim- is 1101 alone a cOiton
picker hut ran be converted to
many uses on tin* farm. Special
equipment makes it -either a plow,
a disc harrow, a cotton chopper or
a stall: cutter, to s.. y nothing of rne
other uses to which jhe propelling
power can tie applieil. Some of the!
advantages claimed fo. the machine (
are: It will pick an acre an hour)
and get alt the open cotton on It..*
plant: it doi-s not injure the plant
uor harm the unopened bolls or delicate
blossoms; it is operated by one
man Arrangements have be?-u m ule
THE SNAKE GOD
Which is Worshipped by a Fanatical
Religious Sect in Haiti.
CHILDREN SACRIFICED
I'ho Ih'tail.H of h ( hn.stlj Atliuir That
lilts Just Coinr to l.ight.?A Uar- 1
1
rel Containing i'ickrli-il liuutuii .
Flesh Fouutl in the House.
I
Some people have a queer idea <
about religion. The "Cologne CJa- '
/.etle" gives details ot a ghastly at- '
fair in Haiti, according to which a
woman named Bsteis Liberia, aged 1
24; lias murdered and eaten live '
children. The woman in question is
a member of the secret religious sect
worshiping ("Voodoo")' the Snake- 1
God. and Inspector of Police !>e Cam- '
bronaT has submitted to the author- '
ilies a full report of his investiga- 1
lions into the matter, front which
the "Gazette" quotes the. follow iug.
In her house I found a barrel
containing pickeled human flesh. the 1
remains of a child, aged about 12.
It is unfortunately well known that 1
the Vaudoux faith has still many
adherents. In name, these natives 1
are Christians: but in secret they remain
devotees of their Snake-God.
and hold private meetings*at which
be is worshipped. The priests of the
ult are all-powerful, aud the sacri- 1
iices are usually animals, but occasional)'.
as in tbe present iustance.
young children are immolated.
The god himself takes the form ol
a snake, and his mouth piece is a
priest who is assisted by a priestess,
Kstels l.lberis, the young woman concerned
in the present affair, was at
th" time High Priestess of the cult.
At the great ceremony in honor of
.he Snake-God. the High-Priest and
Priestess sit on a double throne, the
woman being clothed iu nothiug but
a lorgeous girdle.
Worshipers of both sexes attend
with red cloths round their loins. On
an altar stands a wooden box containing
the snake .which is brought
front its box and worshipped by ail
('icoriii, ^1110 uc4ii(; {itilCfU Oil IflP
altar while the populace pray for
the fulfillment of some great public
desire.
Then begins a wild dance, headed
by the Chief Priestess, who discards
her girdle as the dancing grows more
furious and a halt is not called until
the people begin to fall exhausted
to the ground.
If any misfortune has befallen the
people a sacrifice is ottered to the
god. rt was on one of these occasions
that l'steis insisted on the .sacrifice
of a human victim, and, in
concert with a man named Con/.o
Polio, decided to kidnap a girl, a
niece of Comm. The child's mother
was enticed away, and on her return
was informed that the Chief
Priestess had tailed for her daughter.
The mother seemed greatly houored
and a special ceremony was immediately
arranged.
1 .\Vhcn all were assembled the girl
was fetched froni iivr hiding place,
laid in front of the altai*. strangled
by her uncle. Her head was cut 1
ort'd all those present drank sOuie of
the blood, which was collected in a
howl. The tlesh was subsctiueui ly
cooked at Conzo's house and. instead
of being oalen. as had formerly
been customary, was preserved.
Two girls, who had overlooked the
{cooking ot the tlesh. were declared to
have offended the god. and these two
were then similarly sacrificed, their"
deaths being followed by two more
a few days later.
Moid! SCAlttUi tii%% iii ?>f
I>i<l Vol W iiiii I( Kkhih She li.nl '
Itoo/e in Iter \ aline.
The Augusta Chronicle says the
greatest cr> of pain ami claim of injury
after the collision ol the two
trains near McC'orniiek mi last Senday
evening was pin up b> a iichiu
woman, Jenny I'ayne. of (livenwood.
Slii- was supposed to lie liaillv in
jured. and had a lar.'e grip. ol <vhleh
she took too much ran* during the
whole time. She was in the ear
n?*Ki to the baggage car, and her
rar was iiurt so little that less than
$." repaired it. and was on another
trip to Greenwood Monday uighi.
When an ev initiation was made of i
her. and her baggage to gain some :
Ulenrillcation of Iter, the grip w v !
opened and found to lie lull of hottied
liquor^. She was proven to be
hurt about the least of all. and is
thought to have been more seared j
at haviu.? her liquor discovered than!
111 iinvlhine ?.lo..
to exhibit the citfliin picker :?1 I ?i?coming;
Staff Fair, and a patch o!
cotton has ueun planted in the race
course in Held for this purpose.
About two hours were sp'-nt in the
cotton field and different tests a re ,
given the l'rire-Ca inphell picker,
each being successful to a degree
most satisfactory to borh tin- owners
and the spectators. Many compliments
m e re bestowed upon Mr.
Price, and the inventor. Mr. Camp*
bell. was forced to mount a cotton
,bale for an introduction to the
crowd. lie was given an enthusiastic
gree'ing. {
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BLAMES OPERATOR
WHO FAIIiKl) TO UKLIVKH OIU
OK.ItS TO THK TRAIN.
The Telegrapher Says He Pulled th?
Semaphore and That it l-'aJhd to
DLspliiy Signal of Danici'i.
The blame tor the death of the
rictims of the collision on the Charleston
anil Western fjirnllnii
way, which occurred near McCormicfc
on last Sunday evening was
placed on llrowder. the telegraph
operator at that place by the coroner's
jury which held an inquest at
the scene ot' the collisskm.
The tacts elided at the inquest
thowed that till; train dispatcher had
given orders tot the two trains Nos.
L' and 8 to meet at McCortnick.
llrowder failed to give orders to
the conductor ot train No. 8. allowing
the train to clear frctn the station
before the arrival of No. ". the
result being the head on . collision
half way between McCormlck and
1'luiu ftrancli, the next station.
llrowder states that he pulle.d the
semaphore on tb-- receipt of order
to hold train No. 8 at McCormlck
and thinking the danger signal had
worked, he proceeded with his other
duties laying the train order on
his desk. He says that the semaphore
failed to work, leaving tram
No. 8 a clear signal.
He was busy with an unusual ru.->h
of ticket sales and thinking the dauber
signal was displayed did not hurry
about giving the eonductor hia
train order. As soon as he could he
started to tind the conductor and
was dismayed to tind that the train
had pulled out of the station and
that only Its tail lights were visible.
In a few minutes the crush of the
colliding trains was heard although
distuut about two miles and a bail".
SHN'ATF. IN UANCiFJC.
Tteniocn^l". Stand <>ood <'Imnce to
Control Thar Party.
The complex polllicaJ battle of
the day does uof end with the formidable
attack of the Democrats upon
the House ot Representatives
The Cnited States Senate, for years
Republican, is in danger of losing
its old-time eontrol. The Republicans
have now. nominally. 'J6 majori
ty, that in :i majority ot 2G senators
representing Republic in < oust
ituencies. *
IJowertT. umoiii; these L'G must
be Included from seven to 12 * *?n surgent"
senators. who frequently
vote with the Democrats. There are
ft I senators whose terms expires 'his
year and whose seals must be tilled
by the legislatures. Twenty-four of
thesv ?re Republicans. Political c*l
ports think It is possible that by
the time the new Senate is ready
for organization after March s next
there tuay be enough new Democrat*
and new "Insurgents" in otttee *o
turn over completely the control of
that body. ??
It is practically assured that a
Democrat will succeed the conservative
Senator Hale, of Maine. Then.
;qo, "insurgent." senator.-.; WR| puc-.
coe<l Aneatof flinl. of C'jiS^'Ornia;
Senator Rurrows. of .Michigan, and
Senator IMles. of Washington. A*
things are turning out in New York
state, even Senator Drpew ma> trem*
hie for his seat. ^
SCI KUKM llOltltllll.K DK.VTll.
I.ittle 4iii-l Dies from Drinking Whiskey
in I'luy.
A dispatch to The News and Courier
from Florence says one ot the
saddest deaths that has ocurred in
rt.'o
...... .... in .? iuhi; wnne was that of
Martha, the bright and bcaiitilut littio
si\-year-old daughter of Mr. a ad
Mrs. I.. W. Mchrmore, who reside*
In West i'ulinetto street.
11 is stated th.it Martha and two
other little childicu were playing .11
the yard about the home ot her
parents, and one ot theiu suggested
that ih?-y play "doctor." The. suggest
'on was quickly taken up. and a
oi.it.le ot medicine was sought for.
The only thing found was a pint
flash of whiskey, and this liquid was
administered to the little girl.
It was only a short time before
the whiskey began to net in its dinnil
effects and .Vluttha was soon
thrown into convultions. \ neighbor,
seeing the condition of the little girl,
railed to her father, and he quickly *
ran to her. and. picking her in his
arms, curried her into the house, firs.
MelxK'd, Smith and MoMaster wore
hurriedly called, but it is stated
that the child never regained ronsi'iousne.sR.
death relieving her about
fine o'clock Monday afternoon.
liohlH'd ? SMKhmi.
A lone bandit held up a saloon at
Memphis. Tenn.. hacked out with
$7">. then robbed a man with wlc.u
collided and made his escape mi
the space ol three niluutes early
Wednesday.
David It. Mill Dead.
A dispatch from Albany, N. v.,
- cys David It. Hill, ejc-l'nked States
senator and former governor of N- w
York, died suddenly Thursday at
Wo!forts Roost, his oountr} borne.