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I: VOLUME XVI, CAMDEN, S. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, l'J05. NO. il. [OUR SOUTH GREAT EVENT residential Party Received a ? Rousing Ovation [WELCOME WAS BOUNDLESS Everywhere the Nation's OhUf Execu tive Was the Recipient of Typical % Southern Hospitality ? Happy in His Speeches? Well Up on Local j History ? Greeted With Enthusiasm ' by Enormous Crowds. ( The splendid Southern tour of ?'resident Roosevelt began with his Iviiit to Richmond 011 Wednesday. ?Thousands upon thousands of patri fciic citizens poured out at the capital fcty of the Old Dominion to do hom Bge by their presence fo Ihe nation's ret citizen. .No printed account can o justice to the enthusiastic reeep ion accorded the distinguished guests f the etiy and the State. Address ng the tremendous throng present, Ir. Roosevelt, among many tactful, patriotic and timling things, said: ''I trust I need hardly say J^w freat is my pleasure at speaking in his historic capital of your hit^oric State; the State than which no other las contributed a larger proportion o the leadership of the nation; for ?n the honor roll of those American ivorthies whose greatness is not only 'or the age, but for all time, not >uly for one nation for all the \vor!.d, >n this Jionor roll Virginia's name ttfCftVK above all others. And in reeling all of you, I know that no TfJfcODORE ROOSEVELT. >no will grudge my saying a sj>ecial vord of acknowledgement to the vot srans of the civil war. A man would, indeed, be but a poor American who could without a thrill witness the way in which, in city aftei; city, in the North as well a#vin the South, on &very public ' ocdRfeion, the men who wore the blfie and the men who wore the gray how march and stand fillftulder to shoulder giving tangible proof that wo arc all now in fact as well as in name a reunited people, a people infinitely richer because of the ariceless memories left to all Amer icans by you men who fought in the jreat war. Last Memorial Day I spoke in Brooklyn ut the unveiling of the statue of a Northern general, under the auspices of the Grand Army of the Republic, and that great "nudicnco cheered every allusion to the alor ajid self-devotion of the men vho followed Lee as heartily as they cheered every alusion to the 'valor and self-devotion of the men who followed Grant; Roosevelt in Raleigh. Ralcigji, N. 0., Special. ? It was r oosevelt Day in Raleigh and what is said to bo the greatest number of people ever brought together in North Carolina did the President hbnor with true Tar lleel heartiness. city had to face a situation brought about by the sudden death of Gover nor Glenn's brother, but did it clover Jy and well. The features of the day were the wonderful weather, the intense interest, good order and pa triotism of the crowds, the President's personality, his attentions to Confed erate soldiers, and the boldness of his speech, in which he declared for complete govermental ?. control of ?ailways. His character and hi6 talk ivere such as to. appeal to North Car olinians as much as to any people on avtli, for they dearly lave a man who lots things and they were swift and re to reeognire in the President tfclfcf thei^bwii kind of men. HeV Mr. Roosevelt dwelt at length a thXgreat problems of the day. He >ke of the Appalacliian Park, and cussed railway j^te legislation in a nservative, but vigorous way. In a ?, to show that he means 6 definite measure. Crowds Everywhere. tving Raleigh, the Presidential made short stops at Dnrhamt reensboro, High Point? ? Salkbury, and otbe| places, whafa I he ? were out in great numbers to them. ^^VrCharlotto the party taken, to Vanoe Park, where ity thousand pespW had aseem Ucd to see and hear On being introduced fc? said impart: flpdtoe aft OfciilnS^ mX'VT' -"Kf ^ 5 * ,z; r? - ..V ~ (lay. T entered your bur (low a pretty good American, and L leave them a better American, and 1 havo rejoiced in the symptom# of your abounding material prosperity. 1 am hero in a great center of cotton manufacture. Within a radius of a hundred miles of this city, perhaps half of the cotton manufacturing in t ho United States is done. I realize to the full, as docs every good citizen, that there must be j a foundation of material prosperity upon which to build the welfare of State or nation, but I realize also, as <Joes overy good citizen, that material prosperity- ? material well-being ? can never be anything but the foundation. It is the indispensable foundation, but if we do not raise upon it the super structure of a higher citizenship, then wo fail in bringing this to the level to which it shall and will be brought. (Applause). And so, though 1 con gratulate you upon what you have done in the wayof material growth. I congratulate you even more upon the ?^reat historic memories of your State. It is not so very* far from here that the Mecklenburg Declaration of Inde pendence was made (applause) ? the declaration that pointed out the path on which the thirteen United Colonies trod a lew months later. ? 'As I got off the train here, I was greeted by one citizen of North (Jaro lino (and I know that neither the (Jovernor, the Mayor, nor the Senators will blame me for what I am gtfjng to say) whose greeting pier sea nnd touched me more than the greeting of any man could haze touched me. I was greeted by the widow of Stone wall Jackson (appleau.se). And we of this united country have a right to challenge as a part of the heritage of honor and glory of each American the reunion of the<r?"ov;U' ? Americans who fought in the Civil War ? wheth er they wore tho blue or whether they wore tho gray. (Applause). The valor shown alike ^>y the men of the Nocth nnd tho mem. of the South as they battled for the right, as God gave them to sec the right, is now part of what we, all *of us, keep with pride. It was my good fortune to ap point to West Point the grandson of Stonewall Jackson. (Applause). 4<Ilere, as I came up your streets, I saw a monument raised to a fellow soldier Of mine who fell in the Span ish war at Santiago-*? to Shipp, of North Carolina. (Applause). The morning of the light, ho and I took breakfast together. It wasn't much of a breakfast, but it w-- the only breakfast that was going, and we were glad to get it. The night before, I had no supi>er, and he and his comrades gavo me out of the very small amount that they had a sand ? wich. In tho morniug they had no material for breakfast but by that time my things had come up and I shared my breakfast t'ith ,the?n. That was at dawn. Before noon, one o? them was killed, and the other (as wo then though) fatally wounded. "And now there are hero men who fought in the great war. We who went in in '98 had tho opportunity to fight only in a small war, and all that we claftn is that we hope .we showed a spirit not entirely unworthy of men who faced tho mighty and terrible days from 'til^to '05." (Applause J. Crop of Children the Best Crop. "And now, in saying good-bye, I want to sav to you men and women that I have been immensely impress ed with North Carolina ? with her ag riculture, with her industries, but that the crop that 1 like best is the crop of children. , (Applause) and I congratulate >Mfth Carolina /on the children seem to bo all right in quality and quantity." (More applause). At the conclusion of the President's speech he was driven rapidly in an automobile to tho station. At 7.45 the train departed for (Jreertville with the President's party. The Charlotte people gave President Roosevelt a x*oyal reception, and ho was delighted. Friday the President paid a visit to his mothher's old home at #l{os well, Georgia, going from thoro to Atlanta, where lie addressed a hun dred thousand people, and received the greatest ovation of his Southern trip. The President was received in a hearty manner at all points where stops were made. At Jacksonville, Flo., a splendid reception was ten dered him, tremendous crowds being present. From Jacksonville he was taken to St. Alienist inc where ho spent Sunday.^ Tbe-djsplay of genu ine Southern hospitality ' was re sponded to W fitting remarks at all points by tSe President. LaU Nawr Notes. In William H. Jticksson's brief in bU corttWr S?r'fnst Congressman-elect Walter A. Smith his attorneys declare that Mr. Jackson, on various grounds, lost 4,000 ballots 1hat should have Kbeen counted for hhim. Evidence ct the private car line in-, quiry showed that Armour had exclu sive contracts with tnost of tho .South cm railroads. - The ashea ot: Sir Honry Irving were eulombed iu Westminster Abbey." NOT TO BR REPEATED, r 5 Yea," the old Indian fighter wit ?hying. "the whole secret of success ?gin the red varmints wut Jut to VTOit by "experience. The 8kxuc done to we Met that they etrald do ?*eia.~ *??? ?***" ft* ?*.! m? Was At One Time Most Noted .Populist Leader / SERVED LONG IN CONGRESS ? ~ ? / Celebrated as the "Sockless States raan," Succumbs to Heart Disease ? Had Lived in Mexico of Late Years. Wichita, Kan., Special. ? Jerry Simpson died at li.O") o'clock this morning. Mr. Simpson was conscious up fo live minutes before death. The end came without i struggle. Mr. Simpson was born in New Brunswick, on March :H, 1 8TJ. At ) i lie began life as a bailor, and dur ing 23* years followed that pursuit, commanding many large vessels on the (heat Lakes. Ij) the Civil War hi' served in tin* Twelfth Illinois Infan try. He came to Ivtia^as in I8f8. Ori ginally lie was a Republican, but later became a Greenbacker and l'opulist. He was a mem her of Congress J,'i,oiu 181)1 to l.H'J") and from 181)7 to |S<W, being nominated the last time by hot I. the Democrat^ a^l J'opuli-t^. Aftei he left Con/ress, lie moved to Hos well, N. M., where lie engaged up to tJ io time of his death in stock fann ing. lie returned to Kansas a mouth ago and entered a hospital for treat ment. His condition became hopeless ten da>s ago, and since then the patient was kept alive principally by sheer force of will. Ills wife and s<^i were at his bedside at the time of death. Death was caused by enCurisin ol ] the aOrta, Mr. Simpson had b?>en in ill health for nearly a year. Six months ago Tie consulted a specialist at Chicago, who pronounced his case hopeless, Burial will tak? place at Winchita. 'Die Masonic order will have charge of the funeral The Bucket Shop CaHcs. Washington, Special. ? A motion was made before the Supreme Court of the United Slates to advance for an early hearing -the appeal in tie case of Ernest Gntewood. the Kox boro, N. ('., broker, who, the Supreme Co irt of North Carolina decided, was violating the statute enacted by the Legislature of 190"i, which prohibit ed the operation of bucket shops in the State. The motioin for an appro vat of Attorney Genera I Gilmer of NoNrth Carolina, and when it was made by lOx-Ju^e Kobert W. Win ston, of e.onsel for Gatcwood, a letter -?from the attorney general to this effect was produced It is probable ? a decision will be announced in a very short time. Georgia vs. Copper Cos. Washington, Special. ? In the Su preme Court of the United Status, leave wan- granted to the Slate ot Georgia to lile its lnH'~of--vc'Vm plaint in the proceeding 'ligainst tho Ton nq?see and Duektown Copper Com panies, by means of which the State hopes to secure for its citizens relief from the effect of the fumes from the furnace smoke stacks of the com panies which are. located at Duck town near the inter- State line. A rule was also entered in these cases requiring the companies to$ shah w cause why' the restraining order re quested should not be issued. - Killed By a Train. Ashcville, Special. ? Itobert Cordcll a vouiur man employed in the round house of the Southern Hailway Com pany here, was run over by a railway train near here died of the injuries he received. Jle was found beside the track ot two o'clock in the morning wiith both legs cut olf below the knees Fatal ft. and N. Wreck. Knoxville, Tenn., Spccinl ? A wreck on the Louisville end Nashville Kail road at Duff, Tenn., some six miles n< rth of I>:v Pullet to. Icnn., Sunday morning resulted in the death of j three men, as follows. Kiieunn \V I- | ker, of La Follctte. Urea km?.' Cor nell. Oeorvo Cordon, civil engineer, of Louisville, Kv. Mutiny on British Ships. Bahlin, By Cable. ? Reports of mu tiny on botu'd the British shipe, Km peror, in \<*hifcli it is alleged the cap tain and cook were murdered by the crow has been received. The Em peror wtos bound from the West in dies to Hjga with mixed crew of Kus? sians ami Italians. Tho captain and cook were the only Englishmen aboard the vessel. Lack of provis ions made necessary for the ship to put into Swindemund Thcr the crew got drunk and told what, they had doqe^ jtf'he police are investigat ing Storm on Great Lakes. Chicago, Special.? The storm whicl swept over Northern I^aki Michigan LaVa Huron and I?ake Eric was om of the most severe in receipt years As fsr as returns arc obtainnble ten sssssls bare been completely wreeke< and 12 or 15 oUmTs more or less ser creljr dam egtd* * Twelve liw been toy, jand^as th? Ml IH CA1IKA fAAIIiliS Occurrences of Interest from All Over South Carolina General Cotton Market. Adnata, steady W 7-lti (lalvoston, firm.. fi's New OrleuiiH, linn 1)% Mobile, ht('H<IV JWS ?l? <v r? % /* i ^avaniiunt <|U*oi. ... . ^ . . . .:) ??u> Charleston, quiet 09# Norfolk, steady !M 1 - ill Baltimore, nominal 1)7 s New York, quiet 1(1 Boston, quiet 10 Philadelphia, steady 10.'j?> Charlotte Cotton Market. These figures represent prices paid to wagons : Good Middling {).({;> Strict Middling A.W.(ia^ Middling Spartanburg's Tax Values. Spartanburg, S|>eeial. ? After eon siderable delay, occasioned by the fihipnien of the wrong kind of books last spring and the consequent cor rection, along with other matters, Spartanburg county's auditor has completed his abstracts and the sta tistics gleaned theroL'roin tell truth fully and eloquently the story of the city and county's growth and ad vancement. The increase in total val uations for the county for the year 1905 over HM)-1 was .fS'JS,2 Tl^t 'ig ures are: l<or J!)04, for $ 1; t, S"> 1,0-10. The total real es tate value of the eouuiv for the pres ent year is ; personal prop erty, .+t?.(5JM 7 ; railroad property, ?fl, 1811, 7^0. The number of dogs re turned for t ixes was 3,133 at oO cents per head, making $1 />()(>. which ?o<*s to to the school fund. It is doubtful if any county in the State will show as many dogs taxed as that. Thrco Children Left at Home to Die. Hock Hill, Special ? Two colored children that had been left alone in the house vtfere burned to death Sun day and the hou/e and conteets all destroyed in a tire that occurred on the farm of Mr. .J. 11. MvUbr at FJbe ne/.er. The. mother of ihi? children lia<l spread a <|iiilt on the Hour before the lire before leaving and had placed the children there. She had been absent about 15 minutes at her du ties near Mr. Miller's home wlien the tire was discovered. The child ren's bodies were found in the bed in the room where they had been left and are thought to have taken refuge 4 there. They were aged two nnd four years. The negroes are-respected and according to Mr. Miller, bear good reputations. Another deplorable af fair of the same kind occurred on Thursday on the plantation of Mr. B. F. Mcrritt. The child of Shaver McClure, having been left before the lire while the parents went to pick cotton, was so badly burned that it died after five hours of agony. Both cases are hut. repetitions" 6f the Old story that is told every year, that of carelessness. Landrum Selected. Spartanburg, Special. ? At a recent session, the Spartanburg County Bap tist Association decided to build a Baptist high school and since that time have been looking over the Held for the town or pluco offering the best advantages for tko institution. Landruwlias been decided upon. That town ban agreed to donate $5, 000/ cash and ten acres of land, val ued at $1,000. There were several competitors for the school, Inman, CainpObcllo and other points, but the advantages offered by Landrum were deemed superior by the committee. New Enterprises. The secretary of state has issued a commission to the corporators of th?; Anderson Banking and Trust Company, which will have a capitali zation of $200,000. The corporators are \V. F. Cox, E. I'. Yandiver, It. E. Burriss, W. W. Sullivan, II. C. Town send, J. M. Evans, N. C. Boleman, George M. Tolly, T. A. Katliffe, Jr. A commission was issued to the Sard is High School Association, of Sardis, Florence county, to be capital ized at $10,000. The corporators are \Y. M Timmons, W. H. MeElveen, T. L. Bolton, K. E. Hudson, .J. C. Hud son, Edwin Langston. The officers of the Bishopville Light and Power Company, chartered last week, arc: A. C. Baskins, president; George M. Stuckey, vice president, aud R. W. McLendon. secretary and treasurer. Capital stock, $17,500. An eleemosynary <chart*r was is sued to the Wofford College Sigma Alplft Epsilon Association. Anderson's Hospital. Anderson, Special.? Willotf camp, Woodmen of the World, has donated to the hospital association tho aum of. $500 for the establishment of r hospital in Andersoif. Other liberal donations have been recently made notably a gift of $1,000 by Mr.. Wal ton Hall of Boston and Um ladies tb* imm ?? of the rattvprit*, an ttaeh enewafsd with th? evtlook. ' - V* ?** - ' f ' '*? ' ... ..... r ? ?- - ? ' - ??? - - -v " Corrupt Business Methods and Po litical Shown Up. OWNED A HOUSE AT ALBANY L> wtdllnj; For l.oblifitli i?| S|?|? t'MpllMl I'hM For by (lie l?o||,.y II oldor.-IVr Jurj In I imiiiI ? AU?B?.d-\V "for**!" M*njr Putt Htt|i|>rulng? ? Mr. Curdy Continues on Stand, Now l\irk City.-The (rail of dollars loading from i!u? "yellow do#" fund of the Mutual Lite Insurance Company Mipply depart nient to th,? Albany ' l?'?ul expenses" has been thoroughly exposed. The Legislative Insui ?niict' Commutes listened to the a:;-:?y.inK dceiaration ut a Mutual Life wLncs> that for the last ten years that com pany had maintained a housent Albany (1'" '"<? lcyislaiive sosjons for the mysterious ami missing a. i\ Fields legislative agent, that tin- I. ills ,,f the cook and the butler, the Janitor and the caretaker, had heen paid hy the policy holders of the Mutual aud had been Hidden from view under blind charges In the supply ?l?>pa r( me:it accounts. In tills house, while legislators, tlio wit "ens said, had lived Appraisal Commis s ..nor Charles.!'. m?-( lclland. of West Chester, a Mate Senator and member ?>l tile Insurance Committee, and ex ? onator (.Iraney, of the same eountv, \\-i iWUs al "lst :1" Assemblyman. \\ hethor the .Mutual also paid their expenses was not disclosed. Such wi li ktu>wn legislative agents as t.Vne \\ oods and Moo I Mukelspiel were not infrequent visitors at the house. Nor did t lie revelations pause here Jim former partner of Fields in a iJobhs Kerry livery siable was shown ? V'*' ,u vv lo'? ;i" ?'.\a turner of the Mate Jusiiiamv Department, mid hr admitted th.-ii for no apparent reason wt,s accustomed to "drop in'' on J-ields at his Mutual J.ite otlJee. Itnt the saddest phase of the proceeding was that involving the testimony of an unfortunate telephone hoy, also an employe of the Mutual, who swore1 that a signature on a voucher fori 9850.1.1 was not Ids. and then twice wroie his signature, which was so al> solutely like the one on the voucher I that the attention tff IMslrlet Attorney Jerome was called to the "apparent perjury. The case of the hoy, Coorge! 1 lunkitt, Is now under ailvisenient hv Assistant Hist rid Attorney Hand, who came to the committee room\and ex amined the signature. A case of perjury or forgeV* A-as certainly shown in this case, ami criminal action of Home sort will ?oou follow. Hut Plunkitt's testimony was not the only surprising instance' of forgetful 1108 8 on the part of a witness, Kdgar iV.'- "0gCVH> 1>roM,,l('l|t of the (Jlohe 1 noting Company, a dummy concern controlled by Lysnndty- W. Lawrence & * tl'i'outih which a portion of tin $400,000 printing business done hv Lawrence for the Mutual was trans acted, and a clerk in tlie Lawrence nrin, suffered an absolute failure of memory when confronted Avith a voucher signed with his name, and, Ike the Phuikitt voucher, bearing the indorsement of A. C. Fields. Equally a ma King was the fcwoi'ir testimony of Frank B. Jordam^fson of Thomas D. Jordan, the ,iu4?felng controller of '.lie Equitable, Wfctf was dlsmissetTliy PieF J?"*1 rnul for refusing to sop iny tnformation regarding the $(185,000 , d,?g',' fUMtl of 'th? Equitable, tiiflt lio had no knowledge ns to the whpreatjontff or Ms TiTffiCT: TlU'eeconT secutive exhibitions of such mental atrophy have not been seen at the in quiry hitherto. Still another remarkable feature of this sessldn was tlie effort of .Taints . a,tw??y for the Mutual, to con\Jct Mr. Hughes of unfairness In hit. treatment of witnesses. Mr. Iteck has liad several earlier encounters with Air. -Hughes, faring badly each time, out on tills occasion he was even more unfortunate, for when his attack was enflod Mr. Hughes made a brief, straightforward statement of his con stant effort to be fair to witnesses ami nis frequent self-repression In the face of their evasive tactics. This was greeted by a burst of applause more vigorous than any that has vet broken tlie orderly proceedings of tlio session, and when it ended Uielni.d A. Me Curdy, President of the Mutual, who was then on the stand, are-;* and in a few words expressed his personal ap preciation and approval of Mr. Hughes' courtesy toward him. This left Mr. Heck entirely stranded, and lie sat for several minutes nervously toying with a piece of string. He made no further effort to interrupt Mr. Hughes. SIR HENIIY IRVING'S BURIAL. Deceased English Actor's Remains In terred at Westminster. London, England.? Reality the body Of tlio actor GanrftUTand "^h*der tlie shadow of thfc' statue of Slnikefcfcrare, the ashes of Sir Henry Irving w>?re given burial In Westminster Abbrys thus being aci-orded England's great est tribute to her dead. The Impres sive services pre conducted )n the presence of a congregation which in clude<l many persons fmh*t4he highest official life of England. emlnHit repre sentatives of all the walks of life. The only mourners were Lady Irving and the fonn of Sir Henry Irvipg. ? ? Threatened to Blow Up House. D. B. Wesson, a manufacturer of re volvers at Springfield, Mass., received letters demanding money, under pen alty of having his million-dollar boute blown op vritb dynamite. FILIPINO WIFE WINS DIVORCE. Lieutenant Burbank Must ray Dusky Bride 100 Peso* Alimony a Month. Leavenworth, K?o.? The suit of Con- 1 cepelon Vnaqucz.?4ltc Filipino wife of First Lieutenant Sidney 8. Burbanl Sixth Infantry, hat been decided favor of Mrs, Burbank. Word read Fort Learemvofth Jhal Judge Bate . of the Court ?f/flril Iuatnuee. nt_ llM iw, r. i., my rimL mi* EXPRESS T H I E F C AU GHT j Edward G. Cunliffe Returns $80,000 of His Stolen $109,000. ' iluil Titktn *(?<> Ct??l? from Oi? rittftbortf Onici< of AiImiii* J, } Now ^ork city. Edward George Cuullfft, t he substitute cashier of (lie Adams Kvpross Company's Pittsburg 0 111 00 who ran away Willi $101 .(KM) of the company's money on October I), wan run clown in Bridgeport, Conn. CuulifVo used io lived in Connecticut, and i In* Pinkerton*. believing lie would seek a hitiiOK place in that $<tate, flood oil (lie Ntato wldi descriptions of liim and put u large force to work looking for hint. <r~ In addition, a suit on ho cqntainlng $70.0r<o of (ho stolon money was found aL 'J o'clock iv( night at Bristol, Conn., hy ('kief Arms, of the police force of (hat p'aee, 'i'lie case was found in a cIomh in the roidcnce of Joseph 11. Bonrdmin, a brother In law of Cuuliffe. It had hoon there since October 11. Bonrdman had received It hy express, and not knowing what II was, put it aside. The Bristol police learned of the do livery of (he case yt Boardman's house, and at once started to Investigate. Boiirdmau at unco showed them the rase when they called Ml his house. When Ihoy opened it (he money was re* von led. Superintendent Curtis^, of the Now Kiiglaud l)ivls!on of tlie AiJam^ Fx pross company's service, and three dotecdvcK went (o Ilrlsiol late at night and got (he money. Superiiih udciit Thornhlll told Cun liffe hi midnight of the recovery of thy ?KO,UOO and asked him to tell where (he balance of about $20, ()(M) was. Cuu liffe said ho destroyed It by burning it up. louring (hat It would handicap him 1?ecnii'*e (he hills *:ad the stamp of the same Pittsburg bank. A clue led to Bridgeport, and David <!. Thornhill, of this city, superintend ent of one of the Piukcrtou agencies, wont to (hat city, arriving at 1.30 o'clock in the morning. Four other de tecilvts went with 'him. They got Chief of Police lllrininghain out of bed and made arrangements for a thorough search of the city with the local police assisting the l'iukcrton men. At S o'clock it wall reported to Chief Birmingham that a man answering CunlilYe's description had been putting up at the Trciuont Hotel, in Middle tflreet. Detective Cronln whs sent (here with orders to break Into the room, but the clerk of the hotel, on seeing Cunllffe's picture, said that the man had left/liis room early in the morning. Two hours later Policeman O'Con ncll. on duty u bjoek away from the hotel, and Superintendent Thornhlll recognized their man simultaneously. Thornhlll nodded to O'Connell, and the hitter, walking up behind Cuuliffe, faerd the fugitive about with a power ful clutch on the shoulder. "You're C.unllffo, the man I want," said O'Connell. ? The prisoner was dazed a minute and then "said: "Don't handle me roughly and I'll go along quietly. The Jig Is up, I guess." lie was auctioned tuluutely by Mr. Thornhlll and Chief Birmingham. He admitted that he was Cuuliffe, but re fused to tell what he had done -with vivo money. . There was $290 in his pockets. Clothing, but no currency, was found in nU room. 1'L- k no W? wiiei'-o. the. moneys he said, "and can lay my hands qn it at any time. It Is safe. I will tell all about It whey I get back to Pittsburg." Cuuliffe was taken from Bridgeport to Pittsburg the next morning. Ho said lie had had "a good time with some of the money and had begun to feel that he was safe from arrest. "The only real thrill I've had," he said, "up to the time the policeman grabbed me, "was on the ulght I left Pittsburg. I traveled to New York on the fame train and lu the same sleeper with Manuger Sialer of the olllee In which 1 worked. I saw him pass my berth and dhl not leave the berth until the train was in the city and the other passengers had left the car. I remained in Now York, keeping, under cover most of th> time, until a week ago, when I came to Bridgeport. 1 thought I was safer here than If I remained In the city. ? "Human nature Is frail aud I've made a fool of myself. I've fallon, but I want to say that I regretted It live minutes after 1 took the money. If I lind the chance over again I would be honest. But then what can you ex peet of a married man handling hun dreds of thousands of dollars on a salary of $05 u month? Once when I had $280,000 In cash In my possession 1 was sorely templed to take It. The only thing for me to do now is to go back to Pittsburg and face the music. You needn't bother about the extradl i tion papers." Kcfnses to Tell of Relative*, Who Are Said to Bo Prominent. Dallas, Tex.? W. F. Whitney, who I* ?aid to be related to aa laflneatlal fam ily in New York City and po ?<? > uent DM010 la IP woo- im> wwb at wiw, n miMi im v LIGHT TO FOOL NATURE. AgHk^ilturnl Department Plans to Grotos^Vgetables In Midwinter. Washington^ D. C.? The Agricultural Department^ planning a mean trick on the vcgefAUW kingdom. It Is pro .looting a series of teats to see If cab bage and beets and garden things can not be made td grow as well under electric light as under the Influence of the sun's rays. The Idea is that with the use of the electric light and the heat it will give off the buds may bO placed uuder conditions as favorable for the growth of fruit and vegetabes io winter as in summer. 14 YEARS FOR A. FORGER. WASHINGTON. Tho Philippine Commission paltl the Dominican order $3,!123,000, cloning the friar land deal. Desertions from the enlisted force of the army are on the increase. The re- ^ port of the Judge- Advocate-Ueueral shows that something. more than ten l>er cent, of flu* tntnl op)!?*ed force hp.s taken French leave. Charles <1. Dawes, of Chicago, 111., it sold to ho slated to succeed Secretary of the Treasury Shaw. The cost of the President's Soiitjjern, tour In transportation is estimated ~at ' between rtnd JWMX), if he pays the regular railroad rates. > The General Hoard of tho Navy had recommended raising the two battle ship* authorized hy the last Congress from 10.000 tons to 18.000 toni. {lohn C. Poor. Treasurer of the Wash ington Gaslight Company and a well known resident of the National Capital, died suddenly in the city. Congressman Gardner, of Massachu setts, mid B. A. Smith, one of tho larg est vessel owners of Gloucester, saw Secretary Hoot regarding' American fishing rights off Newfoundland. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. The reorganization bill now before tho Philippine Commission providing for reducing the departments of the Government will save $1,250,000 (gold) annually. Orders have been received from Washington, 1). C., for the establish ment of thred, branch postofllces in Honolulu. A complete survey of tlie public lands of the Territory has just tieen finished by the Survey Department, and the Land Office has made a list pf tho lands, showing tliat In all the islands there are 1,710,100 acres of Govern ment lauds. For the llrst time In Its history Hono lulu has pawnbroking shops. Two have started within the past jfyw weeks. DOMESTIC. The Royal Mail Company began Its service between the Isthmus and New York City. James A. Shuttleworth, of Louis ville, Ivy., announced the gift of four teen acres as a slto for a Presbyterian College for Women. The fiercest storm In years swept over Lake Erie, strewing the shore from Buffalo to Detroit with wrecks. ? in a revolver duel Mrs. J. S. Stoops and J. A. Armltage, both of Marshfield, Ore., killed each other. George A. LOyejoy, of Spokane, Wash., who agreed to give up two or three strips of his okln to save the life of a fellow Elks' wife, has sued I>r, C. P. Thomas for $10,000 because the latter removed fifty square inches of cuticle. Legislation for currency reform, will be sought from the next Congress by. the American Bankers' Association. The theatrical season opening at New York has been poor on the whole. ' Every one of Boston's 95,000 public school children found a sent when the schools opened. The sixty-eighth year of the Univer sity of Michigan opened at Ann Arbor with fully 4200 students. ! A Los Angeles. (Cal.) Sundiy-idiool the other day gave watermelons as ; prizes to leading pupils. The Naval Institute, composed of officers of the United States Navr.bss elected nsPrtfildfeiSmear-AdmlralU, P. Qoode. One of the new victim* of smaUpor t~': at Natchez, Miss., is Mis* Mary Cham berlain, a niece of the* Governor of 'Oregon. Military prisoners on Governor'* Isl and. New York City, had to form ft bucket brigade to fight a fire which threatened the prlsou. ./ It was reported at Butte, Mont., that ' the Morning and Evening mines, the ,~ biggest In Coeur d'Alenes, had been sold to New Yorkers for $0,000,000. In Van Ness avenue, San Francisco. Cal., tho city has placed an extra num ber of electric lights, so ns to make It better for the night drills of the Na tional Guard.' The Sheriff of Hartford Oonnty, in Connecticut, has been fined fAO by the JJnlted States District Court for ttjeing T Federal prisoner from the county Jail to ualnt bis Bummer house and ? work atdund his grounds at New Lon> * don. ? Klhg Edward will give a Bible leo* turn to Bruton Church, at Williams burg, Va., to commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of the Anglican Church's establishment on the shore* of tho Old Dominion., A "General CotturtV* to consider the proposed union of the Congregational "* (070,000 members)?5v United Brethren (250,000), aud Methodist Protestant (180,000} Churches has been called to assemble at Dayton, O., February 7? , 1000. "" *?