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BIOUDY AFFRAY
Three Men Are Wound d in a Pitched
t Baltie Near Cashvillt, S. C.
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SHOTGUNS VS. PISTOLS
OT N. CJ. Alverson, Tally Norris and
/ I ait tor's S<?n Kvrlianiie Shots on
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Cnsliville in Spartanburg County
Wednesday Morning.
The Herald says news reached
Spartanburg Thursday of a battle
near Cashville Wednesday morning
between a farmer armed with a pistol
and two of hiR neighbors with
shotguns. Three persons were seriouely,
though not fatally, wounded.
There has been bad blood for several
weeks between N. G. Alverson,
a brother of Sergeant Alverson, of
the Spartanburg police department,
and Tally Norrls, who has an adJoining
plantation. It started in a
dispute over a house. Further particulars
as to the cause of the quarrel
could not be learned last evening.
The quarrel became more and
more bitter, harsh words were exchanged,
threats made and when the
neighbors met Wednesday morning
they were prepared for violence.
Mr. Alverson came to the boundary
line between his and Mr. Norrls'
plantation alone. Mr. Norris
was accompanied by his two sons one
named Alexander, and the name
of the other has not been ascertained.
'From the accounts of the affair
which leaked out Mr. Alverson opened
fire on Mr. Norris with a thirty-two
calibre revolver, shooting him
in the hip. The Norrises were standing
on their own property, but only
fifteen or twenty feet from Mr. Aiver
son.
Alexander Norrls, It. Is said, fired
at Mr. Alverson with a shotgun. The
latter was fortunately not. facing the
Run directly, else he probably would
have been killed. As it was, tin*
shot struck him sldewise, putting out
his left eye and passing through Ids
nose. Other shots entered his fare
and neck.
Mr. Alverson fell to the ground
hut managed to fire at Alexander,
shooting him in the calf of the leg
and breaking a hone.
Mr. Norrls' other son then fired
at Mr. Alverson from farther a way
than Alexander had been. The shot
struek Mr. Alverson in the stomach.
He returned the lire, while still lying
on the ground, and sent a bullet
% through the other's trousers leg.
The Norrises then retired. Mr.
Alverson. though weak and in great
pain from the loss of his eye, got
on his feet and walked a distance of
two hundred yards bark to his home.
Drs. Posey and Alexander were
called from Woodruff and are attending
to all of the injured. Mr.
Alverson's wounds are said to lie the
most serious. All three are in lied,
but are likely to recover. No arrests
have been made.
Mr. Alverson is about fifty veins
old and has a family. Tally Norris
is about the same ave. One of his
sons is said to lie twenty-three years
old and the of nor twonty-ono.
The scene of the fight Is about one
ixii 1 o from Cashvllle and three miles
from Reldvillo. Mr. Alverson has
been living (hero for iwpnfy-five
years. The Norrlses removed there
about Christmas time.
Sergeant Alverson visited bis
brother Thursday, but found him reluctant
to talk about the quarrel. *
TRAINS fOMK TOCKTIIKK.
Six Persons Met Death in the Terrible
Crash.
In a collision between trains No.
49, the Tloston and Buffalo special,
and train No. 23, on the New York
Central railroad, at Batavla today,
aix persons were killed and 1S seriously
Injured, some of them perhaps
fatally.
The accident took place at 5:30
o'clock when train No. 4 9, due at the
station at 6:35 and ahead of time,
was standing In the station. Train
23, the Western express due at 5:2t?
o'clock, a little late, crashed into
the waiting train from the rear.
i lie engine or telescoped Hie
rear Pullman of the waiting train
and smashed Into a day coach which
was next. Three bodies of passengers
in the wreckage of the crushed sleep- I
er were so mutilated as to make
identification difficult. Beneath one
of the unidentified bodies was found
a silver locket and a Masonic charm
inscribed "Cassius C. Perrin, 9S1
Mecca Temple, NT. Y." *
Cheap Candy Killed.
Eating large quantity of cheap,
colored candy, which its parents had
gotten at a bargain, the 18-nionths^
old child of Mr. and .Mrs. Henry
B Smith, of Montgomery, Mo., became
111 and died before a physician could
be summoned. *
|l Hoggish Freak.
H| The latest freak in the pig lino
HA turned up at Pawnee, Okla. It is a
little pig with 'our ears ani eight
^^B legs, and appm x-mt'.y Is going to live
to put them all to use. *
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RADICAL CHANGES J
SUGGESTED IX THE NEW S? IIOOI.
AS RECOMMENDED.
Commission to Revise State's Sjsfm
Reports to I^Kisluture After Year
of Hard Work.
Three amendments to the cons i- ^
tution and important and far-reaching
alterations in the present school
law are recommended in the report
made to the general assembly Friday
by the "commission to examine and
revise the school law of the State
and to recommend changes In the
same." this report, with the accompanying
hill, constituting perhaps '
the most important document yet 4
presented to the 1911-12 legislature. 4
The commission was created by '
joint resolution of the general as- ,
sembly, approved February 23, 1910, s
the suggestion for its creation hav- r
ing been made in the annual report 4
for 1909 of Mr. J. E. Swearingen, 4
State superintendent of education. '
It was directed to "carefully examine 1
and revise the common and high 4
school laws of the State, with power
to recommend any changes in the ex- :
isting law by bill or otherwise," and (
was required to "report to the next 1
session of the general assembly." '
In the resolution, it was specified '
that the following should be mem- '
hers of the commission: "The State '
superintendent of education, the in- I
spector of high schools, the president 1
of ono of the State institutions of '
higher learning, one person familiar
with graded and common school sys- '
terns, ami one person learned in the '
law." Members not specifically des- 1
ignated were to be appointed by the I'
governor. As organized for worn, I 1
the commission was composed of Mr.]'
J. 13. Swearingen. State superintend-j!
ent of e'ucation; Mr. W. II. Hand,!*
State inspector of high schools: I ?r. ;
I>. H. Johnson, president of Winthropj
College: Mr. S. IT. Edmunds, super-|'
intendent of the Sumter city schools,
and Mr. .Mendel I.. Smith, attorney,
of Camden. Mr. Swearingen was !
chairman and Mr. Hand the secretary.
The commission thus summarizes i'
its important recommendations:
"The commission has endeavored j'
to make a practical and progressive i1
report. It has sought to retain the!'
host features of the present law and
to avoid radical or revolutionary !
chances. It has been compelled, '
however, to recommend some important
and far-reachinc alterations 1
in order that the new school law may 1
help to meet present needs and to (
Improve present conditions. (
"1. An intendment to section 2, 1
article II. and to section 24, article :
III, of the constitution, will remove '
the obstacle that prevents many of 1
our best man from serving as school
trustees. Though the constitution
forbids the holdin.c of two offices, 1
this provision has, by common consent.
been widely disregarded. This
amendment seeks merely to legalize I
service to education when rendered]
in connection with other service to j
the State.
"2. The State superintendent of j
education is held responsible for the
arts of the State Hoard of Education, ,
and, in the opinion of the eommis-j
sion, ho should have some voice in i
selecting its members. Tt is, there- j
fore, recommended that section 2.
article XI. of the constitution, he
amended so that henceforth (lie gov- j
ernor shall appoint the Fta'e board i
of education, upon the reeommenda- :
t ion of the State superintendent.
The commission recommends '
the appointment of a State hoard of!
examiners for teachers in order that
the present varying standards may
be harmonized by the establishment
of a uniform method in the examination
and graduation of applicants
to teach.
"4. The county hoard of education
is given large powers in three important
respects: a. To levy a spec'al
county tax. b. To apportion public
school funds, c. To choose from eligible
applicants the county superintendent
of education to serve for a
term of four years.
"t>. The right of ail special school
districts organized under special acts
of the general assembly to adont
their own text-hooks has been withdrawn.
The State superintendent of
eduea'lon is empowered to appoint _
text-hook commission, composed of
five public school men. to act concurrently
vith the State hoard of education
to adopt a dual list of textbooks
and to prescribe unified
courses of study for all the free public
schools of the State.
"<?. The members of the State
board of ex nniners for teachers shall
serve also as division supervisors of
schools, who. under tho direction of
the State superintendent, shall audit
school a> ounts and perforin such
other duties as may tie assigned.
"7. The county superintendent of
education is to he elected by the
county hoard of education, in order
that restricted qualifications may he
demanded of all applicants. The
term of the county superintendent is
made four years, and the minimum
salary In -nv county Is $1,200.
"8. The otate high school law is 1
simplified and strengthened, and the
high school appropriation .increased
to $7r?,000. <
"9. The State hoard of education '
is authorised to classify under a rec- |
ognlzed nomenclature the schools <
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AN AWFUL TOLL
[ight Thousand Babies Facing Death in
Chicago Lab >r War.
SUFFERING PITIABIE
Nu? Striking ( nrmcnt Workers Are
Starving to Death in Staking to'
Tln-ir Cans'1 Legislature May In- 1
vest {gate and Try to lH'vise a Kenedy
for the Trouble.
Eight thousand infants in Chicago
ace death from starvation ana dis>aso
as the result of tho garment j
vorkers' strike, which for four
nonths has dragged its length out
vtth no prospect of settlement in
light. This is the statement of both
:lty authorities and union sympathizers.
the latter of whom are at their
vitg end to obtain milk for the ba- ;
pies In the strikers' home, many of
vhom are already in the shadow of
ieath from want.
During tho past week the health
mthorities reported more than lot)'
*ases of pneumonia and diptheria j
imong these children with a large
lumber of deaths. With the uttet J
exhaustion of the milk supply?now
ess than a week away if charity conributions
do not increase, it is expected
that cold, hunger and illness j
trill quickly end the miseries of
scores of tiie younger children
At least one of the strikers, Mrs
Rose Siegelheimer, has already died
pf starvation. For the support of her
wo children with whom she lived
n a dingy casement, the woman h;:<!
been foraging cruets from garbage
ana. Of r\cn such aid as was avillblo
she was apparently ignorant
ind tho poor provender she found
ivont into 'V1 mouths of her children.
When nature gave out. the woman
Tell across tier miserable pall, and
ivab found ( img by neighbors This
ivas the seventh death due to the
strike.
Many cases of the same sot* are
being reported, and even the adult
strikers are suffering terribly, it is
Inevitable that if aid does not come
disease, starvation anl death will win
the labor war and force tbe hungry
thousands back to toil under conditions
to remedy which they have
given their lives and the lives of
their little ones.
The latest hope for the situatio i
arises from tho action of the Illinois
senate authorizing an investigation
rpf the causes of the strike and an luluiry
into what stens have been taken
to bring about a settlement. Tho
iction authorizes the presiding officer
to appoint a committee of five senators
to go to Chicago and hegin the
strike Investigation at once. The
resolution calls for a report in HO
rlavs. Steps leading to the adjustment
of the strike arbitration and to
fix responsibility, with a view to legislation
making arhtraton compulsory,
are contemplated in the resolution.
Four Too Many.
The Rev. Samuel E. Howard is under
arrest .11 Shelhina. Mo., on charge
of bigamy, lie is accused of having
five wives, three of the marria.es
having been contracted since last October.
an 1 'olle-es of the State.
"10. County boards of education
and school district boards of trustees
.... mil i ' i i ii i i s mmn'S > ! in (I'M
that a majority of their members
may be able, at all times, to form
legal contracts.
"1. An adequate system o' reports
is provided in order that, school statistics
may be reliable.
"12. The State superintendent of
education is required to keep a correct
account of all school bonds and
tax levies provided for their retirement.
"111. Each rounty superintendent
of education is required to submit to
the grand jury a written report
showing, by school districts, all receipts
and disbursements made by
him.
"14. All alterations of whatever
kind in school district lines must be
recorded by the clerk of court. Since
the school district has been made
the unit of taxation for school purposes.
it is absolutely necessary that
school district lines bo clearly and
definitely established.
"la. The most fundamental
change recommended in the report is
the new definition of enrollment,
which bases I h<? apportionment of
public school funds on the average
attendance of pupils. Under this
definition the teacher, the school, and
i in' ii if 11 i('i n?se money every nay a
pupil is'absent, and Rain every day
lie is present.
"tf>. An attempt is made to establish
a perniaii :it State school fund
and a permanent huildinR fund.
"17. The additional expenditures
required by this report will be increase
1 salaries for county superintendents
of education, a small appropriation
guaranteeing to each
school district ono separate school
for three months for pupils of each
race, the salaries of the division supervisors.
all of which will Impose
only slight expenditures above present
appropriations made either oy
the several counties or by the general
assembly."
GAVE UP WIFE
SACRIFICE ON THE ALTAR OF
IA)YE HE LIVES DYING.
Gave llcr I'p to Her Former Sweetheart
and He Goes to the Hospital
to Die.
His great art of self-sacrifire accomplished
by giving up the English
wifo 1 nVPtl tn thn mnn elm lr?vo<l
Kunisan Tnomata, the son of a
wealthy Japanese of Tokyo, is dying
in the charity hospital at Vicksburg,
Miss., of a broken heart and a wasting
disease, while his former wife
and the man she married are, by
tender attention, trying to make his
last hours easier.
With the stoicism of the oriental,
he suffers and says nothing, but behind
his suffering lies a strange romance.
Almost a decade ago Helen A.
Hunt, whose father was mayor of a
small town near London, England,
and well-to-do, loved a young Englishman
named James Gibson. A
quarrel with her sweetheart caused
the girl to come to America. Eight
years ago she found herself in lloston
penniless. While working in the
store of M. Yamataro there she met
Inomata. The Japanese loved her
and his gentle ways won Miss Hunt.
They were married and went to New
Orleans.
The girl fell ill and Inomata
worked night and day to make
enough money to pay doctors' bills
and hospital fees. His own health
became undermined and he became
despondent. Some months ago,
while Inomata and his wife were in
Jackson, Miss., on business, she met
Gibson, he, too, having come to
America. On sight of him the girl
declared she still loved him and Gibson
swore that he had loved her al,
ways.
After days of silent anguish. Mrs,
Inomata confessed to her husband
that she loved Gibson. The Japanese
listened with stoical silence to the
story and abruptly left his wife tc
I think it over. On his return to theit
'boarding house In New Orleans, Ino!
mata said to his wife:
'1 am failing in health. Ynu go tr
Jackson, bring suit for divorce and I
will not oppose it. 1 will say nothing.
Then go and marry this Englishman
yon love."
The rirl followed his advice. On
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man who had boon hor husband, and
j 'ho man who had boon hor by-gone
(sweetheart. tho woman came tc
i Vickshurg. Hero she and C.ihsou
wore married. That night Inomata
the ltuskin of Japan, went to the
hospital to die. *
Til KY IIAI) XAKKOW KSCAPK,
Two Fariiiei.s Tried to Shoot Ilallooni.sts
in Passing.
J. Cowan Ilulbort and Paul .T. Mo
Cullough, the aeronauts of St. Louis,
whose flight front that city last Sunday
terminated when the balloon
landed near Scooba, Miss., on Monday,
after being fired at twice, arrived
in New Orleans Wednesdaj
morning. They will take a ship from
hero to New York.
"High winds drifted us south
ward." said Mr. Ilulbort, "and in
stead of landing in New York we har
to come down in Mississippi to av-?i.
I being blown out over the gulf.
"After leaving St. Louis a stron?
I wind got us and wo were blowr
across Illinois. Near Mount Vernon
when less titan S00 feet high. w<
heard a shot, and a bullet whist let
through the basket, barely missin?
us. In Kentucky another farmei
fired at us, but we were out o
ran?e."
"We passed over the Wabash rivei
into Indiana and were blown to tin
southeast across Kentucky and Ten
nt'ssop. into Alabama, passing neai
Rirniingham." *
W.WTKi) WATKK, C.IVRN ACID
Young Whlow Confesses (living ("till?
Deadly Poison.
Arrested as she claimed her trunk
at the New York Central station Frl
day, Mrs. Edith Melber, a widow
who says she Is 23 years old, of Sche
nectady, confessed that in a ewami
near Albany last Friday afternoor
she gave her five-year-old son
C.eorge, carbolic acid, from the ef
fects of which he died.
In explanation of her crime, th<
police sav, Mrs. Melber asserts tha
she has been a widow four years
during which time she has had t
[struggle to care for herself am! hoi
child. anil that this battle for an ox
istonoo drove her to take her babv'l
life. She is an unusually attraotivi
young woman, and at the on I of hoi
examination was unnerved and weep
1 ing hysterieally.
| When she made her eonfession, ae
eordlvR to the police, Mrs. Melhe
said that she pave the child the acii
when he asked for a drink. '
Killed in Riot.
At Bombay, India, eighteen per
sons were killed and 24 other
wounded during yesterday's rioting
As usual, the occasion of the Muhar
1 ram festival brought about a elasl
| between Sunnoites and the Shiahs
Troops called out. to restore ordo
fired several volleys Into the mob. '
LYNCH THREE
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K Mob \ttacks the J ail and takes Oat
Negroes and Kills Them.
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Twn unwr Awn nwr cu/vr
i hu nuiiu nnu uhl jiiv/i
Ono Vnder Sent euro of Death for
ii
Wife Murder, Awaiting Setting of ?
a
Date of Execution?Two Others ,j
Charged With Assaulting White
Cirls 1 Int Not Yet Tried.
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Storming the Shelby county jail at t
Shelbyville, Ky., on Sunday morning, d
a mob composed of less than 100
men seized and lynched threo lie- "
groes, two of whom were charged *
with assaulting white girls and a '
third sentenced to hang for the mur- 1
der of his wife and held in jail un- 1
til the day for his execution could be s
set. r
Tho three were lynched in differ- ?
ent places, and what first seemed to s
have been a simile lynching was
found to have ben a triple one only
with the finding of the three bodies.
The body of Eugene Marshall, sentenced
to hang for the murder of his
wife, whom ho had beheaded, was
found hanging to a bridge over the
Eminence l'ike, only a short distance
from the jail.
Jim West, employed as a chauffeur
at Shelbyville for several
months and who, it is said, had been
seen throwing kisses at white girls,
and who was charged with assaulting
the daughter of a Shelby county
farmer, was one of tiie victims. lie,
too, was hanged to the bridge.
Wnde Patterson, the third negro
lynched, was also charged with assaulting
a white woman. Patterson
attempted to escape from the niol?
i and was shot and his body thro wn
into a creek.
The mob which attacked tlie Jail
went about its work quietly and fewpersons
knew of tlie triple lvnehing
'I .
innii mo uouies wcro toiiiui several
hours later.
Few of the mob were masked. The '
jail lock was smashed with a sledge
hammer and there was little dillleul- 1
ty in getting to the prisoners.
According to Deputy Jailer llorn- '
back. Jailer Edward Thompson hid '
the jail keys when the mob appeared '
I and later, when the mob became '
more insistent, Hornback let the men '
into the jail oflice. 1
"They said there were three negroes
here they were going to get
or else blow up the jail," Hornback
said. "They kept yelling: for the r
dynamite, while some of the mob
started to beat on the cell locks with
a sledge hammer. About twelve men
had their guns pointed at me. demanding
the keys, but I insisted I
did not know where they were. Finally,
at 3.25, they broke open the
cell door and took out West, Mar,
shall and Patterson,"
i ITI.IiKI) TIIK APOSTLE.
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Chicago Police Interfere With "Aliso- 1
i lute Life" Colony.
Evelyn Arthur See, self-declared 1
. "apostle of a new life" in which all '
I beings will be perfect, is held in jail
I j in Chicago, m., to answer a charge
of disorderly conduct growing out of
, I ms ansniuic mo colony. See in
i I court refused the services of an at1
tornev, saying lie hail the counsel of
> God, and would purify all those presI
out in tlie court room.
, When the police raided See's quar- '
r ters they found two girls, one Ifi
C years and the other 17, who admitted
in court that they had been living
r with See for several months, unehap3
eroned. Mona Rees, the older of the 1
. two girls, according to the plan of
r See, is to become the mother of the
first "nearly perfect" child, she herself
being almost perfect, according
to the cult's teachings. The other
girl, 'Mildred Bridges, was striving
I To attain that state of purity, she declared.
that would place her on the
same plane with the Rees girl.
The "perfect, and hence sinless"
' trio will appear in court at the time
of the final hearing. See will be sent.
' to jail, and the girls probably will '
be placed with some society.
Itattle With Bandits.
'm Three robbers attempted to rob ,
the postolllce at l'tica, Ohio, early ,
, Friday and as a result a pistol battle
( was fought, one of the robbers was
I wounded in the breast and one of 1
t their horres was shot. The robbers j
r seized a mail wagon and two horses
and pid !ng up the wounded man es-|
j raped towards Newark.
r .Adrift on Ice Floe.
Eighty-five fishermen were carried
out into the Caspian sea on an
- ice floe Tuesday. A steamer was rer
quleitioned at Baku and sent to the
1 rescue of (lie men. but the chances
' that any of the number will escape
death is poor.
His New Jot),
s A San Francisco conductor who
. recently embraced religion, was
- called upon to take up the Sunday
i morning offering. He did very well
. until he came to a boy. "Young
r man," he said sternly, "you will have
* | to pay half fare."
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BOLD YOUNG GaNG
TVK NEW YOItK YOUTHS WERE
CAUGHT WITH RIG PLUNDER.
'lie Cellar, Where Tliey Conducted a
"Fence/" Was Filled With Valuable
stuir.
Five young men, comprising the
lost active gang of burglars thai has
perated In New York city in ye.is,
re under arrest charged with lienreds
of the'ts. When Donutv l'olieo
'onunissioner Flynn, with Acting
'apt. Price, of the Uronx Detective
ureau, and five detectives, raided
he den where the plunder was kept
hey found 510,000 worth of pluner.
it is estimated the young fellows
ave taken goods to the value ot
2f?.000 In the past five years. The
risoners are Grover Delsser. aged
7: George Straub. 10; Jesse Swain.
7: Henry Ross, 1 f>; and Herman
Ichultz. aged 27. The first three are
harged with burglarly. Ross ana
ichultz are accused of receiving
tolen goods.
Detectives have evidence implicatng
otlier youths in the wholesale
obberies of recent months and it is
ikelv mor" arrests will follow. At
he hearing of the first five, Schultz
vas accused to teaching the boys to
teal. Th?y swore that when they
vere still innocent, five years ago, ho
rot them under his control, and sinco
hat time has been conducting a
'fence" and profiting through the
sale of their plunder. Young Ross
las been sent to the Children's Aid
Society home. The other members
>f the band will be sent to the pcntentiary.
According to Acting Capt. Price,
lie police have been looking for
M-hultz for some time. Five yei-s
igo he wis an interpreter at Kills
stand, but was dismissed. Later lie
ivod in a basement and it was there
ie was caught when the raid was
nude. He was alone at the time but
ho police waited until the entire
rang had gathered.
There ;\re over 1 rtrt bicycles, a moor
cycle, i dynamo and many sets
?f valuable tools on the list of -roods
dolen. In one'corner was a huge
tamper lincked with valuable silverware,
cut -lass .clothing, whole suits,
Iresses, bolts of cloth, cigars and
rinkets. When the loot had been
oaded in a patrol wagon and taken
o the Morrisania station it filled the
jack room and part of the captain's
room.
Tilt: ItKA/t IXIAN W AY.
rhc Forty-Five Rebels Meet Mysteri
According to reports from Brazil
Tao Candido. loader of tlio recent revolt
in the navy, and I t other mutineers
have met sudden deaths. Canlido
succumbed to gangrene while a
prisoner, 2f> of his assistants died
from sunstroke while engaged in repairing
the fortress on Cobris island,
ind IS others were suffocated in their
ells in the prison on Villegainon island.
When the later of the two recent
naval revolts in Brazil was put down
three weeks ago it was announced
that the mutinous sailors had been
sent to states remote from Ttio Janeiro,
whore they were employed in
the construction of highways and
Call roads.
Since that time comparatively little
news has been gotten out of Brazil,
but there have been persistent
rumors of disturbances in the stafo
nf Para on the north coast due to
political dissatisfaction. *
W AS i.t IB. I,I K S A 1,1,V.
Telephone Kmploye Supplied tlio
Facts to Itobbers.
Fred P. Hoffman, Bell telephone
employe, is in j:iil at Cleveland, (?.,
in connection with several recent
house burglaries, and has confessed
to the police that he was a spy for
a gang of thievee. whose loot has
amounted to thousands of dollars.
He told where the booty could be
found, and the police have discovered
it.
Hoffman kep* up a card index system,
which was also found in the raid
a nhis room and those of Hurt Holsridge
and Arhel Harrison, arrested
as burglars, in which were the names
arid full information about prospects.
Hoffman told the police he would
get information about the houses
when he Installed and removed telephones
The index system showed
how locks were fixed, where the silver
wis ke:?t, size of families, their
habits and other things about them.
Hoards on Train.
Bandits who aro ambitious to hold
up passenger tr ins on the Utah division
of the Union Paeific will encounter
the nu st Improved ritles in
the hands of men who know how to
use them. Under an order from tho
division superintendent, eaeh passenger
train will carry an armed guard.
The plan is the result of the robbery
of the Overland Limited last week
near 0?den, Utah.
Tho hardest fight for the improvement
of the Fdisto river is yet to
come, and every one should do all
he can to meet and overcome it.
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