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VOLUME XI CAMDEN. S. O.. FRIDAY. MAY J A. 1908 SOUTH CAROLINA ITEMS Newsy Items Gathered from the Different Sections of South Carolina. Hiate Borrows Money. Columbia, Special.-- State Treas urer JenningH has returned from New York, where he went in connection wiih i lit* negotiation of u loan for the Stale. The State ha* borrowed, on lepi'iute notes, the sum of $200,000 #t th?* rate of 41-2 |>er cent,, the running until January. This money in needed for ' pension* and >ther expenses, as the Stute'B income from tnxeh in almost altogether one >'?*? ?' behind. It is possible that an-1 ?i her loan will have to ho made about the 1st of .Inly, when interest on the State's bond debt in due. The State has about three-quarter* ? - ?f niif million dollars, the dwpennary money, on deposit in batiks through nui i lie State at 4 per cent., a?ul at lo?ht +200,000 of this amount is with ?)ut ? question the State'* money, while the bfllaiiec inn;' belong to the cred itors of the late State dispensary. 1'lie State in getting one-half of one per eenl., less for its money than it in paying for its loan. While in New York J:late Treasur *r Jennings was run over by a steam boat. he reports, but suffered no in juries. He went over to Brooklyn Hironph the' tunnel under the Hast . -V river and paid a visit to a friend there. Larger Building on Account of Panic. < *ol u nib-in- Special. ? Superintendent ?if Kducqtiou . Martin i?M??ued n.n.1 Hock TTiTf7 where by fttteitttert ?i meeting of i ho building committee ? I' I he board of trustees, of Win Ill rop College.- This eoinmit tee, eoi.i ?i>iiiig of President Johnson. Mr, W. I. Roddev and Mr. Martin, is now in ? eharge of the construction of the dormitory provided for by the Legis lature at the recent session. The ap propriation by the State is f;?r $4S, ? 100 payable in two annual install ments, and the sum of j|^2.000 lias been given by the Peabody board, so I hat the total cost of the dormitory will be $00,000. It was estimated that with this amount of money a build ing to accomodate 200 girls could be . erected, but owing to the drop in price of building material the eom v inittee now estimates that they can necnre a building to accommodate 250 ifirls. and is working to that end. This same committee is * charged with the construction of the model school provided for* by act of 1007. but on account of differences nmong the citizens of Hock Mill the work of erecting this building, has not yet been starteil. No Clemency Given. Columbia, Special. ? Governor Ansel has announced that he has refused lo interfere in any way with the sen- 1 teiue <>f the court in the case of ?lames Mallov who is to be hajiged it i'?cnnct tsville the 22 of this month. ^ Malloy was convicted of murder and .cnteneed to be hanged last July, -hnl on appeal the sentence was stay id. Now that the Supreme Court ha < sustained the judgment of ' the h>\ cr court, it was sought to iuvoke' x-uitive clemency and secure a com mutation of sentence, but Governor Ansel has declined to grant the pc I it ion. ? _ J. S. Richardeon Indictcd. Greenville, Special. ? The grand jury in the general sessions court re tnrned true bills in I wo eases against .1. S. Richardson, Jr., a young man who was until several months ago Southern express agent in this city. Richardson is charged with a short - n<* > in his accounts of several thou sand dollars, lie is now out of the i-itv, but it i* understood that he will come here and give bond. The case will not come up at this term. Prohibition In Colleton. Waltcrboro, Special. ? The county prohibition committee and township chairman met last week in the olTlcc of Peurifoy Bros. A very interest ing meeting was held and sub-com mit tees appointed in the various town hips. This list, however, is not complete and the township chairman - in each township will have the privi lege of adding to it from time to time as they deem necessary. A Telephone Complaint. Columbia, Special. ? The railroad commissioner has received a petition from the chamber of commerce of Hock Hill, requesting a duct ion in i lie telephone charges made by the local company. At a hearing last! week it was brought out that $2 per month was charged for residence telephones and $3 per month for of fice telephones. This price was in serted in the franchise given by the city and the commission decided that the matter should be brought before the Rock Hill council for aetion be fore anything could be done by the < ni! mission. V , 1 Election in Snmserton. Knmraertori, ? 1 1 to I serve the town for the r mining year were elected Tneeday aa follows; In*' ' tendent, Itiehard B. Smyth; wardens, C. M. Davis and W. C. Johnson, lfes . sera. H. A. Ricbboug, J. Q. Ma this and J. R. Esdon received the next highest number of vote*, thongh not enough to elect. These gentlemen ? will win ever at n armnd flcctipg_gb' the 12th inst.? when two additional wardens will be elected. I sxsi Adjustment of Olalms. Columbia, Special,? -In the uiitlvr of the adjustment of claims, and of I ho public'* seeking information along various line.-*, I !?<? railroad com mission has prepared the following circular : "All corporations, Jlrms or iudivid nala doing business in Month Carolina m? hereby invited to submit to thin commission any question of olasui* flcatiou or rate* jibuut which infor mation may be desired. "The commission will be pleased to nasist in the collection of all .just claims against transportation aiyl transmission companies when such claim* am properly made out. "The commission hi?s been quite successful in handling these matters and desires to inform the public gen erally <?f its willingness* to continue this work, though the nuitter of col lecting claims is not strictly speaking imposed on this commision by law." Many New Lawyers Stand Exami nation. Columbia. Special ? in the supreme court examinations were held for a number ??f applicants for admission to the bar. After the examination it was announced thai the following applicants were admitted ami sworn in : ? ?J. P. Carey, Jr., G. J. Patterson, | Ceo. \V. Reaves. Harry N. Grossman, JL. ?!. Boy sin. J. \V. Winyate, ]/. A. 1 TMa lining, G. M- Prlrchnrd, Dnncrlns"? j McKay, J. If. Moore. 1). H."Hill. \Y. j A. Kirby, C. K. Daniel. J . P.. Tarbox, Jj. C. Lemackf, Brown Martin, M. L. j Grossman, H. K. Hitter, L. M. Gasque, , ('. K. Townsend, A. \V. llolniun, J. \V. ; Manuel, |{. Snipes and R. P. (Traynham. The application of Mr. .Martin was afterwards reconsidered as the applicant was not yet of age. Acts of General Assembly. Columbia. Special. ? The State ? printers last Wi'ek delivered to Mr. j William EMiiftt, tlio code commission lev, the tirst bound copy of the acts of , t ho general assembly for the year ! 1 DOS. As soon as the 'requisite num- 1 l her of volumes can be bound they will i he turned over to the State librarian to be delivered to the officers and 'persons entitled thereto. The volume : of the acts .for' I he present year j completes the 2">th volume of the .statutes at large, and consequently contains the index for the yours 1 DOG, and 1!)0S. Tin; index to charters is inserted as a seperate list and not i as a part of the general index as here i tofot'e. The new code will be compil ed. according to law, in 1012. St. George to New York in Touring I Automobile. St. George, Special. ? (Jen. M. S. .Connor of this place i^ planning a trip to N e-vv York city in July by au tomobile. using his Ren touring ear for the trip. Tie will take along with him three of his friends, ar.d they , have the prospect of an. interest ing trip. Gen. Connor, who is acknow ledged to he one -of the best mana gers of an automobile in this section, says that he anticipates no" difficulty i ! at all and feels sure that he can make the trip in five days, provided the ! weather is favorable an?i the roads i not too had. A good deal of interest is being taken in this trip. Littlo Girl Is Outraged. Columbia, S. Special. ? A spe cial from Langley savs that eommu nity is in a state of intense excite ment over a criminal assault Fridnv afternoon upon O-vear-old Lnla Mav Leopard. a prominent farmer's daughter, living about I wo, miles form Langley, by an unknown wliyte man. who has made his escape. Gov. Magoon to Tour Cuba. Havana, by Cable. ? Governor Ma goon, with leading officials ??f the gov ernment, will start on a tour of in fpectioii of the western part of the island. Similar trips will he made to other parts later. When concluded it is believed that Governor Magoon will announce his opinion as to the expediency of dissolving ~4lui pruvis- i ional government, withdrawing the troops and restoring home rule. An Alkcn Barn Burned. Aiken, Special. ? Tuesday night the barn of Mrs. Mosely, who lives two miles from Aiken, was complete ly destroyed. Two mules and on? cow were burned to death, and two more mules were no badly burned that they are expected to die. Thitf is the same barn that wa$ burned a year or two ago, an 1 fnr which a negro was tried and convicted for sotting the fire. This is the third time the bam on this place has been burned during the past few year*. It is not known whether there was in surance or not. The total Ion will amount to several hundred dollar*, i Important Matter Involved. > " Greenville, Special.? The grand jury returned a true bill against H. P. Dill, former chtinganf overseer, who is charged with whipping a con vict. A great deal of interest cen tre* around this eaae, as local attor-1 neya elaira that if Dili is convicted it means the abolition of' the whip ping ** the penitentiary. .QUlf whipping th* prisoner, but claims it waa" nceeeeary, as the latter was insolent. . ; t ? V\' . .. ; m Bin REVEIMS FOLLOW SEARCH IT THE GUINNESS MURDER FIRM Astounding Details tn Regard to the Wholesale, Brutal KIHIogs ou "Comely Widow's" Mice Near Laporte, Ind. ARREST OF THOSE IMPLICATED IN THE DREADFUL CRIm?S . y j ? . ' . Woman Apprehended on Train At I'tlca '^ells Ilfi- Htory ? -Various 'J'litoilt'H ill Kxfiliuintloii of the Mysterious HcWm of A?HUB?inM? thins ? List of Victim*. Laporte, . Ind. ? The certainty that Mrs. Belle Guinness was a cruel alay or of men and children has been made apparent by developiuentH and the me! hod by which she lured her vlc tlmn to tiieir death haH also been made clear. That she, too, "died by the uword," and that her two daugh ters and Kinall boh. whom h1i? dearly loved, were brutally murdered, are the conclusions reached by the au thorities. State's Attorney Ralph If. Smith asserts that there is no doubt that the body of the woman found in the ruin of the burned Guinness home is that of the murderess. The medical experts, after examin ing' the bodies of the woman's chil dren ? Myrtle and Lucy Sorenson, aged eleven and nine, and 1'hilJp Guinness, aged six ? announced that each had been killed by blows on the head. The murdorer concealed the woman's head. If It Is found It Is bo io the suspicion that Mr* Guinness herself wmn not dwad, but thist she had cleverly substituted another wom an's body for her own and disap peared. The Itostrr of Victim*. Hut fur the moment admitting that Mrs. QuIbOMI actually died In the tire which destroyed her owii home and children, its roBter of victims In this tuout battling mystery of crime ytauds:, , OUINNKHS. Mrs BELLE, whose headless body wsh found In the ruins of the Qdlnivcas house after the tire on April 28. BOREN&ON, MYltTLK. aged elev en. daughter of Mm, Guinness, who also lost ber life in the destruction of the residence. SOHBNBON, LUCY, aged nine, youngest daughter of Mrs. GuinuesB, who likewise was burned to death In the Are. GUINNBS8,, PHILIP* aged live, son of Mrs. OuinneBS, whose burned body was found clasped In the arms of the mother after the detUruetion of the Guinness home. HBO KMC IN, ANDHEW, aged for ty, bachelor, Aberdeen. 8. 1)., suitor for Mrs. Guinness' hand, who came to Laporte January &, 190K, and disap peared three weeks later, after draw ing $3000 from the bank. OLSON, JENNIE, aged seventeen, daughter of Anton Olson, of Chicago, whom Mrs. Guinness took to rear when eiKht years old. and whose body Is believed to be one of the four found in one grave in the barnyard. UNIDENTIFIED MAN. believed by authorities to he Ole Budsberg from Iola, Wis., who came to Laporte about a year ago in answer to a mat' rimonial advertisement, and who was not sech after drawing $1000 from the Home Bailk, UNIDENTIFIED BODY, B'>< unde termined, dismembered and found in a three-foot hole. UNIDENTIFIED BODY, sex unde ter mined, dismembered and found in a three-foot hole. UNIDENTIFIED BODY, set unde- j The Unit and the lure Used by Mrs. Guinness. Chicago.? Following u Mrs. (Juinness' "matrimonial ad" by which victims won; lured to death: rKKSOXAL-TOMKLY WIDOW, WHO OWNS LARGE FARM IN ONK OF the tinest. districts 311 LKporte County, Ind., desires to make the Acquaint a no j of gentleman unusually well provided, with viewu of joining fortunes. No replies hy letter considered unless sender is willing to follow answer with per sonal visit. Waupaca, Wis.? The letter which Carl Petersen, of Waupaca, received from Mrs Helle (JuinneHH, who ran the LupoiUi uiunlci kuiu, haa been translated from Norwegian into Knglish, as follows: "Carl Petersen, Waupaca, >ViB.: "Dear Sir? As Home time ago I received from you a letter in answer to my 'ad' in the Scandinavian. I will, with pleasure, answer the same. "The reason I .waited for some time is that there have been other answers to the 'ad.1 As many as fifty have been receive*! and it has been impossible tq answer nil. I have -'{ricked out the most respectable and 1 have decided that yours is such. "First, I will tell you that I am a Norwegian and have been in this country for twenty years. I live in Indiana, about fiftv-nine miles from Chicago and one mile north of J>Apoi*t<i. J un tlf? sole owner of a nice home, pretty location'. "There are seventy-five acres of land, also all kinds of crops, improved land, apples, plums and currants. Am on a "boulevard road and have a twelve room house, practically new, a windmill and all modern improvements, situated in a beautiful suburb of Chicago, worth about ?15.000. "All of this is pretty ueau iiaid for. It is in iny own name. I am alone with t href small children, from tiW to eltwon years old. The smallest is ft little boy." the two largest are "girls, all frisk v and well. I lost my husband by accident five years ago and have since tried to get along as well as I could with what help I could hire. ^ 1 am getting tired of this and I have found that it is not well to trust others with no much. ' ' . ? . ; "It is too much for me to look after things, anil things are not as I want them, anyway. My idea of them is to take a partner whom I can trust every thing, and hh we have no acquaintances ourselves, I have decided that every ap plicant I have considered favorably must make a satisfactory dep'ouit of cash or security. I think that is the best "way for parties to keep" away graft efs who are always looking for such opportunities, as 1 have had experience with them, as 1 can prove. ' , "Now, if you think that you are ablje in some way to put up $1000 cash wc can tslk mat tors over personally. If y<iu cannot, is it worth while to eonsiiler? I would not care for you as a hired man. as .1 nni tived of that and need a little rest in in v home and near my children. I will cloAe for this time. With friendly regards. MRS. 1\ S. (JUINNESS. "Laporte, Jnd." *"?" lieved that the manner of the wom an's doath will ho found to havo been like that of h^rthlldreti. ' _ The key to the mystery is thought to lie with Ray Lamphere, former man-of-all-work for Mrs. Guinness. The authorities left tfi^ge" htm "with the murder of Mrs. Guinness and her children and with burning the farm house. Lamphere was madly in love with Mrs. Guinness and had been flouted by her. 1 ! c was poor, an* noyed her with his protestations and. she sent hlru. away. - . - - She was luring men of small means from the West and Northwest to her slaughter house. IJamphere. with the ever watchful eyes of- the lover, be came troublesome. She would no doubt have murdered him and buried him with her other victims In her barnyard had it not been that he was a native and his disappearance would have been more difficult to explain than were those of the men from dis tant points. These merely had left town, gone home, according to her re ports, and that ended the matter. The slaying of the infatuated Lamphere mi^ht havp aroused suspicion and brought about an Investigation. The theory that Lamphere was her accomplice is disputed, lie may have suspectcd her.; qf being in some mys terious way concerned with the sud= den disappearance of the visitors. The authorities arrested and locked up here llessio Wallace, of Michigan City, a woman of the underworld, who assarts that Lamphere had snirt to her that If Mrs. Guinness did not > titat him more kindly ho would send her to the gallows, and also that he would "burn her out." Cn tho night that Mrs. Guinness murdered Andrew Hegolein, tho Aberdeen (8. Dak.) stockman, she sent Lamphere on a mythical trip to Michigan City, near by, to meet a supposed John Moo, or Maa, who, she said, was her?cousin. She told him to wait over night for the arrival of the cousin, and if he did not come in the morning to' return home. When he got home she told him that Hege leln had left on an afternoon train for South Dakota. No one doubted that the woman's body found in the ruins was that of Mrs. Guinness until the ftrat of the series of sensational discoveries led , ? - --- i .. AFGHANS KlLLr.D IN BATTLR. British Forces Ordered to Kvscaste the Khybcr l'ass. London, Bngland. ? Sixty Afghans were killed In the fighting which took place between a largo Afghan force apt! the British troops at a point In the Khyber Pass near Landl-Kbotal, according to a dispatch sent In by a correspondent with the British col* nmn. * A message is published here 'frahr Lahore giving the Afghan dead ?t 80ft, hilt thtiiflmnmalcatlon la dis credited. termincd, dismembered, and found In ! the tame hole. FNIPENTIFIED BODY, dismem bered, supposed to be that of a man fropi Chicago, -found lying face down ward in A box buried In. the barn lot. UNlDHNTl PIJ5D BODY. possibly a man of middle age, recovered from barnyard grave in advanced stage of. decomipt>3iUon. UNIDENTIFIED BODY, probably j n woman, taken with two others from the same crude grave. And m the light of the develop ments the authorities are asking whether two more victims of the woman wili not be found- in Chicago, namely: ; ? ? ? SORENSON, MADS, rust husband of the woman, who died under mys terious circumstances in Chicago, be ! lleved to have been poisoned, but nothing was ever proved. GUINNESS. PHILIP, second hus band of the woman, died at the house of mystery about four years aso as a result of the skull being fractured with a meat chopper which fell from a shelf. Koiir Theories of the Crime*. The bodies here in Laporte and a mass of circumstantial evidence, com bined with a scoVe of suspicious cir cumstances, afford the basis upon which the authorities have built up four theories to account for a series ! of crimes which have startled the whole country. These are: ' Theory No. 1 ? That Mrs. Guin ness, fearing exposure of her long i murderous career, kUled her three , children and herself, 'setting fire to j the hotiBe to conceal crime, supported by circumstantial Identification of body ns hers, and reception of letter Just before tragedy making her fear for life and withdraw money from bank. Theory No. 2 ? That /"Mrs. Guln nets, fearing exposure, fled after kill ing children, putting body of another woman in house to mislead authori ties; head of bt?djr identified as hers not found. Theory No. 3 ? That Ray Lamp here, her farmhand, did the killing from double motive of revenge and jealousy; was seen near house Jnst before the fatal fire, and when told ot ft asked if woman and children St ar ? -? trws- ? r ? ~ " " g~7~i~-?-T v . * Mapte Sweifa in DnII Demand. I Large receipts of maple sugar are a till the feature of the market. The m|ke seems to have bean a large one this spring, and more sugar and *yrup are offered than can be readily sold. Rain and 8sow Benefit Crops. The drouth which had continued for eight mbnths and threatened ao rloua curtailment ot the erope fa Northern Colorado hat been effectn I ally hrofcea tur & rsln and snow storm. raped; also Mr*. Gulnnusa liad cau??d lilH hi r?*Mt ?fveiwl times. Theory No. I - That ??iadiupl# Crime wan committed by a murderous gang with heudquartera iu CblcaKO. fearing exposure by Mrs. Guluneaaof loan series of murders und flr*a for Insurance and money of victim*, abe being uaod a? decoy through matrl luoulal advertisements; supported by shipping of inyaterloua trunks and boxes to her farm from Chicago. My at cry of the Headless iw?iy. Is Mra. Guinness alive? The l.aporte authorities are not agreed upon their answers. There is, llriit of all. the mystery of the head less body supposed to be that of the woman. A careful search of the ruins has failed to reveal a trace of iho head. .How could the woman'a head have been totally Incinerated and the body left Intact? Healdoa, Mrs. Guinness had one strong means of Identification. Her upper sot of teeth wore heavily plated with gold; lu fact, almost entirely covered, the dentist unlng something like $300 worth of the precious metal, Hoven gold watches wero found In the ruins little harmed by the flamea. and the authorities say that If they did not suffer from the heat the gold on the* woman's teeth would also have been unharmed, lu order to be cer tain that the gold is not In the ruins, Sheriff Smutser ordered the searchers to get sieves and sift all of the ashes In the ruins. Tho Prosecutor Rays that certain trunks have already been traced in that way, and he Is now convinced that all tlie bodies' are victims of the woman. The Prosecutor also believes that the headless body now at tho IDOrxue .and which Was found In the ruins of tho Guinness home is that of Mrs. Guinness. The size corresponds , well with hers, and the fact that "the head is missing is not regarded as very strange, for the body lay In such a position that the head would have been covered by the falling walls and thus would havo been exposed to u more Intense heat than any other part of her person. A large glasw bowl, which was found against the left shoulder, was half melted away, showing that the "TTa<r been greater there than at I any other j.^^u ti\e dobr,? , , , A strong chain of bviuww?* :|V^ woven around Hay Lamphere,* th?r hired hand on the Guinness farm, Lamphere and John Maxon, who lind worked for Mrs. Guinness, wero examined about tho house, and tho suspicions of the Sheriff on two im portant points were confirmed. One j was that the murders wore done in a "guest's room" on tho second floor, and that the bodies were hacked to pieces in h "dark room" in the cellar. Lamphere said that the "gueBt's room" always was locked, and that he never was permitted to enter It. He said that two padlockB wero kept on the "dark room," which was built of solid masonry on three sides and with the only opening a narrow door of oak. It is thought that the woman kept bodies In the collar until sho had several for burial. This much la Indicated by the fact thM of two bod ies found together one was In a more advanced stato of decomposition than I the other. Mahogany in Guests' ilouni, 1 The guests' room, It has been found, was luxuriously furnished. Mrs. Guinness ordered the furniture herself In a Laporte store. A set of bird's-eye maple was obtained from a I wholesale house In Chicago, but the , woman rejected it with the remark, "It's too light in color and too hard ! to Veep clean." She Dually accepted a set of mahogany, and it is believed the bill was paid with money from ofie of her victims. She bought the iinest imported curtains for tho room, the item of sale being found in the books of a merchant here. At the time she selected tho cur tains Mrs. Guinness took pride In tell ing of the care she was taking with the room. Sho said she always liked to have friends around, and that they must have tho best she could afford, 'l here Is no doubt that the murders were done In tho dead of night when tho victims slept. In each Hkull holes show there never was a change In attack, and In this tho Coroner sees evidence of tho cunning of tho wom an. He said that the method of kill ing was such that little or no blood would be apillud, and that the instru ment used had a projection or thick needle only long 'enough to cause death by slightly puncturing the brain. Repeated blows were struck, and with each one tho skull was pierced. The Coroner said the first blow undoubtedly caused death in each case. The scene where the bodies have been dug up is attractive. A pretty iron fence surrounds tho ruins of tho house, behind which Is a largo barn and a windmill. Tho s^wt In which the bodies were Interred Is on the side of tho hill, and is surrounded by a woven wire fence. This fenco was a mystery to tho authorities for Home time until It was discovered that the pigs kept by the woman were direct ly behind the stable and tho "hog run" led past the graveyard. The Arrest at Utlca. Utica, N. Y. ? A woman supposed to bo Mrs. Belle Guinness, the arch murderess of the century and tho woman who has made the Crimes of the Benders, Kansas, pale and re calls tho wholesale murders of the Horglas, was arrested on a New York Central train between Syracuse and this city. Tho woman alleged to be the per son who made a cemetery of tho back yard of her home at Laporte, Ind., where she burled hei victims, and who, to make her escape, killed her three children and a woman, whose body she left behind in the burned home to make it appear she had per ished, was on her way to this city. Presumably her intention was to take ' a steamer for Europe. | LORD (JETS DECREE. Woman ProUkU Innocence After Wit nesses Testify. : Bridgeport, Conn. ? Henry Johnson Lord, tno wealthy horseman, of Nich ols, Conn., received a decree of abso lute divorce In the Superior Court here. Judge llobinson finding the al legations of infidelity against his wife, Augustine Emanuel Lord, a Vir ginian. well grounded. Lord n*d named sfc the only co-respondent his wife's negro coachman, Harry Cam. ?MS. foundation of Magnificent Structure to Promote Closer American Intercourse ADDRESS BY PRESIDEN1 With Elaborate 0?remonie? th' Foundation Stone of the N?v Bureau o f American Pepublk# ii Dedicated. Washington, Special.? -'In the per* enee of tin President of t ho United Stated, and of represent ativee oi every oilier American republic, as well as all branches of the national government and of the State govern tnenfs, the corneratoue of the propo$ ed new homu of the International Bureau of American Republic# wan laid Monday-. AddrenBes fit t i to the ocasion and expressing the great benefits to be derived from the for mation ot' the Bureau of American Republics iu many ways were made by President Roosevelt, Secretary Root, Mr. Nabueo, Brazillian ambas sador, and Andrew Carnegie, while messages of congratulations and wishes for success in the work about to be undertaken were read from the Presidents of nearly all of the Amer ican republics. A very large audi ence listened to tin- speeches and wit nessed the laying of the cornerstone. The invited guests in addition to thoj-e actively participating in the exercises were Vice President Fair banks, members of the Cabinet, the diplomatic c.oi pi. both houses of Con gress, the Governors of the States and prominent citizen's of Washing ?j'iii and elsewhere. Music for the oc casion \v'&? th? ?laV\"C Hand while the dec or at fnftt ^ grnml stands and smaller huuu.S erected to accomodate the guests were made up largely of the Hags of Ibc twenty-ono American republics. Director John Barrett, of the bu reau, in a very brief talk, in which lie referred to the great assistance given by Secretary Hoot toward the accomplishment of the work and his effort iu behalf of the advances of the bureau work, introduced the Sec retary of State, who is chairman of the governing board of the bureau as the presiding otllcer. Cardinal Gibbon* delivered the invocation, which was followed in turn by an address by Mr. Hoot, the reading of congratulatory messages from Amer ican Presidents and addresses by President HooKeve.lt, Ambassador Na bueo and Andrew (Oarnegic. Cere monies incident to the laying of the cornerstone closed the exorcises. In scribed on the cornerstone are the following words; Cornerstone* Inscription. "Building of t he ? American Repub lics. Kreeted through the public spirited gift of Andrew Carnegie ami I lie. contributions of all the Repub lics upon land provided by the Gov ernment of the I'niled States. Mav 11. 1U0S. The imposing international build ing will stand on an attractive site covering about five acres to the south of and in close proximity of the White House, the State, War and Navy Building, the Corcoran Art Gal lery, and that of the Daughters of the American Revolution. It is also n^r the Washington monument. The dimensions of the building will be approximately ' 1(50x1(50 feet, its main portion standing two stories abovo a high studded basement and being in turn surmounted by dignified babllus tr$dcs. The rear portion in order to cover a capacious assembly hall will rise still higher. The general architecture will surest Latin-Amer ican treatment out of respect !o the fact that twenty of the twenty-one Death Sentence for Two. Now Orleans, La., Special. ? Death sentences were pronounced Monday on Edward llonoro and Jack Pierre, negroes, convicted of murder. They arc members of a sect of negro fanatics who last fall barricaded themselves in a house, and defied the police for several hours. One police man was killed. Congressman Heflin Indicted. Washington, Special. ? The Federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Representative J. Thomas Heilin, of Alabama, with assault with a dangerous weapon. The "in dictment contains three counts, two of which relate to the assault on Lewis Lundy, a negro, with whom Mr. Heflin had a dispute on a street car in this city on March 25th, last. The third count eharges an assault on Thomas McCfcary, of New York, a horseman, who was standing on the sidewalk and was struck by a bullet from Mr. Iieflin's pistol. Street Oar Strike in Parnate!* Brok en. Pensacola, Fla., Special. ? The street car strike was broken Monday when 20 of the union men applied for their positions and "Were immedi ately put to work, relieving the strike breakers who have bsen working ever since the strike va* called. The nn ion m< n held a meeting to decide th? question ot continuing the strike, but only a few voted to continue. r republic* awt of Latin1 ottfjrffi, at thd' I same time poaeesainff such aaonumeu tul cUa*a?teri*tio# arf willl make it bnuoiiiM with tho general ?chow* * for tfi#' imprmnnent of Wa*fWnjgt0i. f it will ho comtt meted throughout of I ated aaU' concrete, with the effoct of h SpaiWah ntuuew linish ami with white marble stepa, foundation# and trimming* A large reading room will . b* a feature where can be aeon all the South as weD as North American * publications besides important liiator . ical data. A beautiful! assvnibly attain I l>er that, for present purpose?, may bo called the f' JTalT of the American Ambassador, rr will provide the only room of its kind in the United Slates especially designed for international conventions, reception* to distfn griished foreigners, arV.f for dipl'o rustic and fiocial events ?f a kitufretf nature. Tlie bureau is strictly an iff ternationnl nnd independent organi zation maintained by tho joint contri bution*, based on population, of the * twenty-one American governments. Nearly $1,000,000 will lie spent ir?' eontsruction and fitting up tho build ing ot which Andrew Carnegie con tributed $7.r)0,000. It will be uiu'tpi-v I not only for Washington, but in all j the woi.M, sol ving as ajn international ; ben<l(|i|jn' Inc or offices iti one nation-' ' a| .capital of twenty-one American ? nafiouM, the nearest approach to it .being tho new Temple of Peace, now beting erected at The Hague. In the coni.se of his address tho I President said: j "This is a memorable occasion for all the peoples of tho Western Hem i isphere. The buihtiug, the eorner : stone of which we lay today, empha ..sizes b(y its existence tho growing ! ? Si? ^olUlftrity oi' interest ond j * i % *v*tjl the peoples of I '"I''"'!"'" ? rj. ^.Vur MOOK- ? j the Now xi orld. It mat k.- - ,? * ; nit ion of the need to knit ever (together all the republics of ! Western Hemisphere, through th#- ? -;rV kindly bonds of mutual justice, good ? . ./*? will, and systematic comprehension. I "At tho outset, on behalf of all of "#r~ us 1 wish to thank Mr, Carnegie for . his generous gift? a gift to all tho * nations of tho New World, and there ! fore pre-eminently fitting as coming ; from one who has so sincerely striven for the rautfe of poaoe among na tions; for while we have yet' n long path to trend before wo eon speak with any certainty of the, day when.. * wnrs shall cease from the earth, wo of this Western Hemisphere, by movements such as thnt symbolized " by this building, have tnken great I strides toward securing permanent ' : peace among ourcslvos." ' . lie also extended greetings to all the republics of the Two Americas, ' and spoke for a closer intercourse be- ?' ^r^-' tween them, not only in trade and .J commerce, but also in the finer rela- ?. lions of life. He expressed his belief .."-Vv':_ in peace ? armed, peace, by way of ! explanation. He colsed with praise of Secretary Root. ? -r1 $125,000 Fire in Charleston. i Charleston, S. C.> Special.- Firev -> ! which begun Monday in. tho yards of the Bui-ton Lumber Company, on tbe Vi*' , Cooper river near the navy yard, was A . gotten, under control after destroying "? ~~ '0,000,000 feet of kiln, dried cypress j lumber valued at about $125,000. , When discovered about noon tho " flames were eating through one of -the , huge stack* and despTlo the prOinpt and vigorous work of the mill force, yf .aided by volunteers from the navy yard and nearby fertilizer works, tho fire wns driven by a brisk wind until it practically consumed all of tho v' )r*. lumber in the yards. Tornado Kills Eight. j Woodward, Okln., Special.? At least eight persons woro killed and ? somen of others injured in the several J tornadoes iii northwestern Oklahoma t Monday evening. Telephone comma ' nieation is entirely cut off from the storm-swept area and tho only other linearis of getting information is by ! stage. The nearest point to Wood j ward the storm struck it Mutual. To Stop Tobacco Growing. Reidsville, N. C., Special. ? A circu lar has been issued by the board of directors of the Mutual Protective Association of Bright Tobacco Grow ers recommending that the entire crop of tobacco of 1908 be pooled at an average of 15 cents a pound and that the 1009 - crop be abandoned.. This means that the association will endeavor to have no crop raised next year at all and count on pooling of tobacco to raise the price of the weed to mxah ft figure as will enable the farmer to do this. Judge B. D. White Appointed. Richmond, Special. ? Governor Swanson announced the appointment of Jodge B. D. White, of PrtoMM Ann*, to snece?l the Tate Jadge It. EL Boykm as ^ttdge of the 28th circuit. Judge : ^Yhito yea* judge & the wwrty com* o* Princess Anne, and was aLio attorney for tbe Commonwealth in many im pertant casee in thafl court. He fo w&V regarded as one of the ablest mem* |bert of the bar in YidtWftto*