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QZ J\ JViD EN OAMDKN, S. C? FH1DAV. .1 ULY H, I?08. UMB XI. -M< ). 2?. SOUTH CAROLINA ITEMS Newsy Items G&thered Frcm Uie Different Sedimis cf South Cerelina. CleiuBon Trustees Meet, C'lcmson College, Special.- At the Meeting of the trustee* of Clemaou ? College he Id hen; la?t week ull mem ber of the hoard were present ex cept Senator Tillman un<l tho lion. J. G. Richards. . ?ho following elections were held: M. Martiu, associate professor, was promoted to the professorship of -? mathematics. lie is a graduate of the Citadel and has taught at Clcxu ?on for ten years. JIuIq Houston, as sociate professor of civil engineering i was made professor of civil engiuecr v ing and applied mathematics, He is i a praduate of Washington and Lee, 4?Ui4 lias taught at Clcmson about live , .years. A. (1. Hhanklin was promoted ,,, io he associate professor of mathe matics, and J. E. Hunter-, B. H. John ?ton, E. W. Hramlett were promoted in line. L. A. Sease, of Newberry I" ?ounty, u graduate of Clcmson, the . first alumnus clectcd trustee, atid for : twenty years u teacher, was olected -assistant professor of mathematics, a His election makes a vacancy on the ; board which the Legislature will fill. The experiment station is as fol v lows; J. N, Harper, director; C. C. ^-'Newman, horticulturist; A. F. Con Tad zo-ologist ; Enoch Harnett, vct ijperinariuu and animal husbandman; jfjH. W. Harre. botanist ; T. 10. Keith, lv, chemist. All these have been con prlieoted with the College and station ^combiner*, and go with the station by1 choice on t!i:- stpaptlfon of station and college. | No director for the agricultural do rr partmenT of the. college was elected, t.. A committee of the trustees will se l lect a man. Dr. C. 11. Shattoch. a I'll. D., of Ijpthe University of Chicago, at pres out at Wabash College Indian^, \\*J?s : olected to the chair of botany and f. forestry. A few other vacancios in the agricultural department will be filled later. Mr. Samuel Evans, of Cheraw, was elected' assistant bookkeeper. Mr. W. D. Garrison was transferred from x tin? "Col lege station to* the coast ex periment station as superintendent. Four inspectors were appointed to continue the work of tick education. The department of agriculture at Washington has appointed 1(5 atMi tional in-ifpclx)! jj. Thq same depart ment has transferred" two Govern ' ment veterinarians to (his State to work under the direction of the Col lego veterinarian. Tie trustees decided to make an exhibit at tho Stafe Fair. The alum ni and former students of (iemsou will hold a big reunion in Columbia during the State Fair Building up Eennettsvillo. \ j Rennet v.-vilio, Special. ? The board j ill' public works for Rennet tsvillc ; lias let the contract for water works. . tii Messrs. Abee ic Edwards, of Hick ory. N. (\ The contract amounts to nearly $27,000 and provides for about six miles of work. The water supply j will be obtained from wells to be sunk on the lot on which is situaUvl ! the power house. The plan provides not for a deep well, but for a su f- 1 lieient number of wells from SO to ' 100 feet deep to supply, flic town with water. This plan was adopted on account of the splendid water to be ?obtained" from such wells and also on account Of the uncertainty of the deep well in this section. The stand "pipe \ViII be erected on the site now occupied by the market, which is on the northwest corner of the Court House square near the centre of the business portion of the town. It will be about ISO feet high and have a capacity of 100,000 gallons or more. ! Difficulty About a Cow. Lancaster, Special. ? A difficulty occurred one day last week between two negroes, Bnrt Frazier and Har vey Massey, on the Witherspoon plan- j tation on Catawba River in which ! Frazicr was shot in the abdomen. I Alassoy using a shotgun. The at tending physician says the woumi'd man will die. The trouble was about a cow. Quits Race For Solicitcr. Newberry, Special. ? County Chair F. H. Dominick recoived a mes sa^v1 from the Hon. E. L. Richardson, of *' (iic-'.-vrrod, asking him to an nounce tliMt on account of business matters, which v^uid interfere with his making tho race .v? had decided to withdraw from the rik.? for solici tor in this circuit. The ajnounce ir.ent was intended to be marl ? "at j t!ie campaign meeting here but n?, delivered to Mr. Dominick after the Electing had adjourned. Mr. Rich ardson's withdrawal leaves Solicitor R. A. Cooper in the race without op position. Murder Trial at Spartanburg. Spartanburg, Special. ? The atten tion of the Court was taken up, in hearing the caso of Will Pcaraon# eolored charged with killing a n&gro . nnmcA Rooks, at Enoree several rconths ago. The case was first tri'ed l>i?t September, but resulted in a mistrial. The jury went out on the _caao in the afternoon, but as yet no verdict has <been reached. It looks as if the jury may remain out all nigbi. , , Tiger Injunctions Oliaokod. Columbia, Spoejal.-? Tho Supremo Court last week i?iuec'< permanent ill' junctions against two plane* in (Col umbia and aixtoon pluoea in Cbarlea ton aljegod to t?o maintaining nuis ance* in violation af the Caroy-( oth* run law. On affidavits presented by Attorney General Lyon several weeks ago temporary iujnnolions woru or dered until a decision wad rendered in one caae. . Those uffectsd %rc ! W, II. Tiller, 71S Main street, n>id the Blanding Social Club, I'aul Hub innon, president, Columbia, arid the following frotn Charleston: Jerry \V. Dunn, II. I). IJarkin, Ott? II. Wietera, the New Charleston Hotel, Kid dock & Byros, H. Jlopkc, Floury II. Rubens, J. U. Williams, Clias. H. Willbur, IJ. Mansfield, L. F. Koester, 8. P. Schiadareasi, the Argylo Hotel, t ho Gj^arloaton Tti/nvorcin, the Gor tnan Itiflo Club, and the Palmetto Boating Club. Attorney General I .yon will shortly apply for other in junctions; The decision of the Su preme Court rendered a few day* ago, means that any clnb selling liquor illegally can bo cloned, and the authorities intend to push every rase where constables submit aOldavilr; showing that the law is being Wiolat ed. Drovo From C< unty. Vorkville, Special. ? About ten day or 'two weeks ago a report gained currency in a neighborhood about wiU nothwiuil . -of.-Y-mkv illu. .. near Clover, that* a horribk* assault had been made on the person of a little white girl. An immediate in vestigation proved it to bo utterly l'nlso and without foundation. Citi zens of the neighborhood made care fid inquiry as to the author of the report, and finally fastened ^ruilt on Bob Howard, a negru On Monday night a number men visited bis home took him out, applied 100 lashes to his hack and advised him to leave I the State, never to return, lie went. It is claimed that lie started siroiliur reports in several other neighbor hoods in which he lntd livew in the i county. Fine Tobacco Prospects. Manning, Special. ? All the tobacco ware house men in Manning are very enthusiastic Over the auspicious open ing of the season, which took place last week, . The offerings were ex tensive, anil the. prices obtained were highly gratify injf, being the best opening prices .obtained here, in a good many years. All the tobacco concerns doing business in South Car olina are. represented hy buyers here, and they rernnir. throughout the rciu son, so that the farmers are assured of competitive prices for all their to bacco. The outlook continues fav orable for the tobacco crop, and t lit* prospect is that the weed will bring ( larendon county several hundred thousand dollars this year. A Strange Animal. Waterboro, Special. ? For s:?n:e days past the people ol' (.ottngevillc have been very much exercised over the appearance in that neighborhood of a s! range animal. It is described by those who have ??ecu it as being entirely different from anything they- hsve ev?*r seen buJ'om in the animal kingdom. It is about the size of a yearling calf, has n head shaped like adog.~scvoaniS like a n^nrocl: and leaps like a kangaroo. Some por sons who have seen it say that it is affrighted; others that it is vicious and shows signs of attacking them. On the whole it is a most peculiar ! animal. [ Tanner Commits Suicide. Yorkvillc, Special. ? Mr. John ('. "NVhitesidcs, a farmer livinjr near Sharon, in this county. committed | suicicV? on last Friday by shooting himself through the head wirti a shot gun, The deed was due to mental I aberration. lie leaves a wife and several children. ,Dr. Timjnerman Tassss Away. Lexington, Special. ? Surrounded by all the members of his family. Dr. W. II. Timmermn^n passed away at his home in Batesburg after a short but severe illness of pneumonia. Dr. Timmerman was seventy-six years old j last May. He ia survived by hi* wife I and eight children, four boys and j fotfr girls, all of whom are promi nent citizens in the community in they live. The news of bin | death "vill be received with genuino I sorrow fv 'he many friends of this t distinguish a throughout the ! State. V/Mto Haired evicted. Spartanburg, Special. ? D. I 'a* an oM white-haired, grny-beardert man, pleaded guilty in the Court of Sessions on the charge of selling liquor. He looked like Alexander T>ewje Judge Hydriek endeavored .to get the defendantMo promise that he would not sell any more whiskey, but the old man would not promise. He vm sentenced to servo three months or pay a fine of $100. HEARING OF MEHGtH CASf. I Argument lu Southern Railway Merger Caae Before the Bouth Car olina Supreme Court. Columbia, Special The appeal m Che Southern Huilway merp'r rant vva?? arjjued before the Supreme ('purl. I'or the appellant, t h?* South iTii Uailway, Messrs. B. I.. Ahmn, of Columbia, ami A T Smythe, or Charleston, appeared, auii for ( lie State, . respondent . Mi'ssr<? .1 I'lftai i Lyon, Attorney (iimral, and (i. Pun t'Hti JJelliu'gej-, !<?> merly Attorney lienreal. The appeal is from Judge KIukIi '? orde r KiautuiK tjie motion .if tin' Attorney (ieneral ami discon* tinned the suit, which v.a> made for !be purpose ??) htyiomnu a new ao '.ion. Prosperous Crop Outlook. Chester, Special. The prospects of a large v it? l.| o( all kinds of, crop* in his comity arc brighter and more nomising jus! now than has been the ?ase at this season in quite a nuni jer of years. The weather thiough mt the year has been ideal for cul i vat ion. There is a larger acreage n corn than there has been in any v'ear in the last ten; much of tho fertilizer used tiiis year hr.s been *tUv :>lied lo that crop. Tin* cotton fields everywhere are now in lull bloom and n spite of the unusual quantity of ain the stalks are taking ?"i "fruit" lieel \ . Ready for tho Inmates. Charleston. Special. Matters have <o far progressed with the Jacob Washington Franekc Hospital and iiotut. in prupiiiiiiU ..Xiic dt nation for the reception of inmates 'i:..t applications for ad:nissio.i will k> received now. In the recent juarterly meeting of the Ahgeliean Lutheran Society, the rules and 'reg ulation* of the Home were formed ind adopted, thus enabling the in stitution which was founded through the generosity of the late Mr, Krancke to throw open it* hospitable doors to .lie aged and intirm. Elected Delegates to Greenville. Chester. Special.- ? At the quailer y meeting of Wnlker-Gastott Camp, !'. C. \\, the following delegates .vcre dceted to the State We-l'nioii o be held at Greenville next month: I. .J. Me Lit re. \V. H. Hardin, .I. \V. Weed and Alex Wise. A resolution w:.s adoptec'i providing that when a ?oinrade~li<7s a page in tlx- minutes <l?*rtl he set apart to his memory ? the date of his birth, date, of death and the command to which he be longed to be set down as a record. ? Bank for Campobello. "Spartanburg, Special.- ? Applha t ion has been made to the Secretary of State for a commission authoriz ing the opening of the book- of capi tal stock of a bank at ( nmpobcllo, a thriving town in t he upper section of this county, which will be capitaliz ed at $15,000. ,T. "W",.' Simpson, vice president of the Central National. Bank of this city, will be tho prcsi ien!. J. M. Jackson, J. B. Caldwell and T., IV Waldrop. all well known :t it < ? influential citizens of Campoi. llo ar- promoter? of the. bank. Hanged in Winnsboro. Wipnsboro, Speeial. ? The first cap ital execution in 1T> years in Winns boro whh (uirformcd in the comity jail here Friday. The victim was a negro. John West ley shedd, w ho <>:i May 1 U i fill's vear. murdered George Law borne and Alice White, both "olored. near Fiidgewny At the June term of court he was tried ami con victed of murder in the fir* l iVgree. Judge Gage sentenced Shedd to be hanged. Tried to Board Moving Train. Spencer Special. ? William Forest, 13 years old, of this place, attempted to board a rapidly moving train here and fell under the wheels, which mashed one of his feet almost from the limb. lie was picked up by friends and taken to a hospital in Salisbury for the purpose of amputa tion of the limb. Mother Poisono Children. Buffalo, N. Y.. Special. ? Mrs. Isa bella Sahlcn fed her three small children poison and then strangled each with a handerkerehief to make her work sure. She then sent to the trroeery store for more poison, which she took herself. Her three <! iblien were dead when their mo.iirr |wn, iVscoveied, und Mrs. Sahlcn >vns dying. Physicians did what they could for , /her. but it is thought sho cannot survive. Negro Church at Laurens Burns. Laurens, Special. ? During the prog ress of an electrical storm here one day last week, Bethel- African Metho dist Church w-as set on (ire by light ning and within less than an hour the building was in ashes. By reason of defective hose nml low pressure of water, the fire company was un able to cope with th<t flames. The building a wOo^en structure, and the loss is placed At $1,500, with no insurance. i. if, ii i iii cms Delivers Add e ;s at ( p ling of Bath County, Va,, Court POPULAR RESPECT fOR SYSTEM ?Xho Republican ProtsitlonUal Nominiw Assists in the Doqicaticn of l Wow Court Hcucc end In tfce Opening o( Ccurt ;;t (JoraianU.wc, Va.. a Short Difttaoco From Hvt Springs. Whore Ho Is Bpondinj tho ftiwiuicr. Hot Spring.;, \ji., Special. Judge V\ illiuin H. lit 1 1 assisted in (ho opeiv '"fc I ( Ajiii ill tin* dedication of a coiirt. house at <r<*i infiiil. m il, Yn., live miles from Hot Spring*. Tho subject ot his speech waa i ho admin istiatiun ot justice by t lie courts. He \va< gxucto<i by a law aaiwnblage of sojourners at neighboring reports and counfry folk, nuuiy of whuui tiviveiul far to see and h?ir him. He was given a for.lirl welcome. The strength of the judicial.,. ho dcdaiix!, was based on the fan that it rested upon t J it* principle tha* tho p:ople share in t he responsibility for tile work t> | tin1 'court*, in the form oj duty on juiics and in other enpa eit i.es. Criticism of Courts. Tic just ill<-?! proper criticism of ' ! o courts by t4r?* "??ople because b\ ^ncli erit ieisms. ? ? l hose who administer jns tice s??nll I ;?! 1 1 ml they nr.- under tlie critical rye of men ainl women f-imiiiicii-lii-have .1 ! IfSi H.'e ,uX -LLc Ui;Opiv. administered without fear or t'avo \ He could not coinc into the atmos phere of tin* . court, lie said, without a foiling of deep regret that he had ever loft the bench. Ho concluded hi* rrmarks bv congratulating Math county upon the fact that in it tjie two great political parties are nenrlv equally divided, which, he said, was a guarantee against eviln in tho admin istration of the government. Judge Taft was frequently inter rupted by applause. Mrs. Taft aeeom- j panied her husband to the court house v. liich was reached after a drive (iver splendid niounfain roads. TO INVESTIGATE CONTRACTS. New York Cotton Exchange Passes a Resolution Lookyig Toward a Complete Investigation of Present Future Delivery System. New York. Special. ? The board of managers of the New York cotton cxeange passed a resolution for the appiiintim .'t of a special committee to make a complete investigation of the present contract for tho future delivery of cotton as required by the rule* of the exchange and to in quire into other features of the in stitution s policies. Tho action of the board of managers followed a conference recently with the spin niuir msere-i:-. 111 the North a:id !i. width have criiicia-d !'ie irc t hods of the ''??:(,l::,ii.'p. 'The spi,c iel v< mmit \ri!l he appointed later nod will be I'ompos.-il of seven mem beis. inchi.line President Cleorg-i i'n iin'rld.', of tie exehango, v.lio i-> directed bv the board of managers to eiulcuvor di; obtain t.lio active par ticipatiou of the I'nited Slates lu- | lean i !' corporations in that in v ? : id I* ? : dvice upon t ho form- ! K u>\* S i j i i ? j i . c<;f':u;is-ioner of the bin " mi o!' cei porat ions, recently < rit icised the New York exchange for its methods in the hundlimr of cotton contracts,. Tlr* special committee is directed to report by September lai. Admiral Rojontvensky Dead. Pad N*auh< i in , (!'.-r!.ini:y, J>y t able. ? A ice Ad:.iir.".l Ko'cst vensky, who eomir.r.ii'le.l the ill-fated Russian fleet, which was annihilr*' cd by the .Tapapnesc in the Sea of Japan, in M ly, 1 DO."), dirtd here from heart trou ble It i.^; believed that the heart affection resulted from injuries re ceived by Admiral Hoiestvonsky in the batle of the Sea of Japan. Increase in Average Wage. Washington, Special.? Tho average wages per hour in 1 i>07 were 3.7 per cent, higher than i:i 190(5, the regular hours of labor per week were 0.4 per cent, lower than in 1000, and tho number o femplovcs in tho establish ments investigated was 1 per ccnt. .greater than in '000. These aro some of tho fact* of interest in a statement issued by tho bureau of labor as the rn*nlt of an investiga tion of tho principal waee working occupations in t.lfiS) establishments, representing the principal manufac turing and mechanical industries of the country. Missing Young Woman Returns. Charlotte. N. C\, Special. ? Miss Mattie Havis, who disappeared from her home and place of employment here on last Friday without lotting anyone know her destination or the cause of her leaving, was located in Columbia, S. C., Monday night, and was brought back to Charlotte. Tem porary mental aberration seems to have been her trouble. Kidnapper of Young Child Mas Mighty Close CaM SPIRITED AWAY BY OFFICc ^ Wrotch Steal* Child From Camp Mooting and Spirit b Her Away in a Buggy llundrods Join in Search For Man and Girl. But Thoy Aro Not Apprehended Unitl Nightfr.il. Glasshoro, N <1 . Sp? ??in), Chin los lemphill, a voting mini who*e homo s in Clayton, near ho re, narrowly ea 'apcd being lynched by ?? x ?? i t rVsi lent* ?>r this vicinity who luu'? been v rough! to (lie point of fur\ because icmphill luu'i ktjidnappod < ora tiar otj, a 7 -year-old child , wIumo homo i* in Millville, N, .1. Only a <|iiiok ntion of tin* police nut liorit ios in mcro'tly removing Hemphill to tho' A'oddbei v\ jail, it is believed, *avod lis life. J 1 fin I ili i II on Thursday last joined a lolincs* camp meeting hero and bo tanic, it is niid, infatuated with the diihl. Sa'uif*:iv In* fined n teani and foing to ilir homo of |{ev. Mr. darroll vli.ero i he child v\ as . visit inu, offered o drive tin1 clergyman to tlie ca.mp neeting. Tin: offer was accepted and ift cr leaving tin' minister at the ?JI III | ? llep! p 1 1 i 1 1 I el II t lleii to the .1 or "ell home and told Mrs. .larrell that ?c had hi'e:i m j m ( urn, Helen liugin.-. aged eight \ ears, w as at .'lay >\ it li I i M'ti at the tune and Mrs. lain II not <u>pcctiug anything wrong ItlHldlud ? l-h?* I'WM' ebddtVM ? |Ot?? ?arnngo. A halt' hour later Helen running back almost exhausted inn tohl the pastor's wife, that after idin^ about a mile Hemphill slapped lor face; put her out of the carriage m. I drove off with Cora. Quebec Waitfl for Prince. (Jnebcc. Special. ? The (plaint old ?itT is in a Mutter of anticipation >ver the arrival of his royal high less, the Prince of Wales, who will lail into the harbor next Wednesday i board the new British battleship, he [.idoinit able, to inaugurate the innth anniversary of the founding )f ? (Quebec by tho French navigator ? 'hainplain. The coming of tho fu me Kin;: of Kugland is a significant "vent in which all Canada is deeply 11 (crested, for aside from the pegean rv of a royal visit it is a notable ex pression of the strong bonds now ex iting between the Imperial govern nent aiui it.s American colony. (J rent passes of troops are being: assembled here to do honor to the future mon ?rch, and to fake part in the Chani ?dain exercises. The harbor already presents a stirring naval spectacle, . ivith the British battleships Kxmonth, A Ibermarle, Russell am! Duncan and the cruisers Venus and Arogant, the French battleships Leon (Jambetta and Admiral Aubre, which will be joined bv .the I'nitod States battle dirp New Hampshire ami later by the l'rince of Wnl??s- s?pf droll, the Indomi 'abb', Minitaur ::i;d other- 'hips the w hole presenting an assemblage of h* latest Droannauirht typos of throe foremost naval powers. Police Abandon Search for Pittsburg Woman. Atlantic City. N. J... Special. ? The local police department has given up its search for Mrs. Beyers, the weal thy Pittsburg woman who was re ported missing on Saturdav. It was staled Sundav that Mrs. Morgan, her companion, intimated that Mrs. I {ov ers is stopping at a beach front hotel and that iho latter has requested that her whereabouts be kcjit secret. Ohioan Dead at the Age of 100. WclLvillc. ()., Special.-? Alexander (}. Wells, Wellville's .oldest resident, and the son of the founder of the city, died suiMcnly from the in lirmatics of old age. his 100th birth day anniversary having been cc.lcbrat ed June :{d last. Mr. Wells came from a long-lived family, his grandfather having died at thr age of lOit. while his father lived nearly 100 years. Lightning Kills One and Injuries An other. Macon, fia.. Special. ? An electrical storm suddenly broke over Bollards, 17 miles from here Sunday afternoon and a bolt of lightning killed young Dan Jlarrcll, son of Frank Mnrrcll, and fatally injured a n"gro, besides shocking many others. Young llar rell with others hsni assembled to play a game of hasc ball when the bolt fell among them without warn ing- , - Another Oi^ Can Explosi m. Winston-Salem, Sj>eeiai. ? While starting a fire in a ^tova by u*e of kerosene oil, /he twelve-year-old daughter of William Owens, of this city, was frightfully burned as a result of the oil can exploding. The girl is in the hsopital and her con dition is serious. Her life was saved by timely arrival hi neighbors Jtvhoi smothered oat the ames by the ut?i of quilt*. FUGITIVE WALKER f BUCK FROM MEXICO New Britain Bank Defaulter landed in San Diego, Cal. WAS PENNILESS WHEN CAUGHT Clmr??Ml Willi ThMuk tin* Ak?'?I KiitHiu'.V'i- Now Dodu fen Thai 1 1 ?? U IimiM'i'iit? -Htory of IIU CrhiirM and WuiMU'riiitfti. San I >iego, Ca I Penniless and In well-worn 1 1 11 r well-kept cfot.hes, Will lain F Walker, who disappeared front Now Hritalh, Conn., February lo. 1.107, lew viug, as (reiiHtirer of the Now Britain Savings Dank, it short age of over u half million dollars, was landed here from the steamer St. Denis. Ills long fight I < > prevent ex t radii ion from Mexico thuw came to hii end. Walker was brought from ICson aga. l-owor California, hy T. F. liaan. Superintendent of the State Police of Connecticut, and Detectivc Hoffman, I of the IMnkerlons. A largo crowd gathered at the pier to see the prisoner landed, and there w ere many cameras p.olhted at the gangplank w lien he started at ho re. Hut he kept his lace hidden and was hurried Into a eah by his two guards. He wuh driven to' a restaurant, fol lowed by the iM'owd. Walker sh<?ws the heavy marks of his long incarceration. His hair and beard of yeiluw-grtt> an- straggly, and Ills face is pasty \v)iitn and heav ily seamed lie had not a penny. When lie was raptured in the mount ains of Lower California be had only $1 ol in his clothes', and this hti's been spent. After trvuuenlly declaring that lie would have nothing to say to the Ttf-wspapcri*, -tin iiniilly m?d? thi* statement . "The light is not yet over. I am an iirnTTcent man. 1 did not ilk** my treatment in Mexico. All the money with which I left New Drltlaln was my own. I have none left " After leaving New Dritain and sending a -message to his wife that ho had been killed. in a trolley acci dent, signing a false name to the tel egram ? Walker wont to Rhyolito, Nev., where, It is understood, he bought some property. He then Vame to San Diego, and from here weut to Lower California* in Mexico. The route for the nip Fast bar. not been decided on by Walker's guards. They expect, however, to have him In New Dritain at the end of the week. Story of Walker's Crimes. A' the time of Walker's disappear ance the books of the New liritain bank were being examined by the State Hanking Department. His shortage was first estimated at $640, O00, but. this figure was afterward re duced to $:>4 1 ,SKL\ This Included the funds of the Haptlst Convention of Connecticut, amounting to $0 0, 000. Walker, while a fugitive, sent a confession to the president of Ills bank, in which he said that the loss was occasioned by a bond swindle Into which ho had been Inveigled by a former employe of a Wall Street firm of brokers. The swindlers, he alleged, got $ 1 10,000 in cash at one time, and $24,000 at anot/er time; It was also reported that he had been victimized by a gang of wire-tappers in New York City, who took several thousands from him. When captured on the other Bido of the Mexican boundary line Walker put up a stiff legal fight to prevent ills extradition and his eat.e went fc> the highest courts of Mexico, the final decision being that he should be turned over to the United States and Connecticut authorities. Hartford. Conn ? Wm. P. Walker, the defaulting treasurer of the Sav ings Hank oT New TTrit&In, who Is expected to arrive here within a week, will probable spend the .rem Binds!, of the summer In jail, after being taken before a Judge of the Superior Court on a bench warrant and made to plead It is not exneeted that he will lie i before fall. WOMAN roiSONS DAHIKft. iVrrloi's Wife Also Takes Fatal Dose at Portsmouth, Yn. Portsmouth, Va. ? Mrs. Brown, wife of .lie Uev W. A. Drown, rector of the Kpnscoyial Church at this place, and- her two small children are in a dying condition at her home here as a result of the woman having fed poison to the two babies and then having taken carbolic acid hersell with suicidal intent. Mrs llrown, prior to her marriage. ..as a Miss Komkey Her family Is said to be prominently connected in Alexandria, in which city she waa< socially well known in her girlhood days No reason is assigned for this act of the young mother. Her marital relations have sermingly been happy. She went about her Intention dellb* erately however, poisonini? the two children and quietly -waiting until they were beyond human aid before taking the dose which will result in her own death Thoni..- iviimey Dies In Mnniln. 4 Thomas Kinney, one of thfe leading lawyers of the Philippine Irilahds, died in Manila of peritonitis, follow* ing an attack of appendicitis. Mr. Kinney was born In 'Virginia and lived in New York before going tc ? he islands. Overload Skiff, Two Drown. Two men, Steven Murlln and Will lain Goddard, were drowned and five others warn to safety at St. Mary's, \V. Va., when a skiff in the Middle Island Creek sank under the weight of the load. The seven men were oil field workers of Newport, Ohio. The> wanted to cross the creek, and, nol finding the ferryman at the wharf, started out in a small skiff. Spell 8 Prosperity. The July crop report Is an eicel-l Unt one and spell* prosperity. Latest News BY WIRE. Jn|)aiu'?i Training Ship Arrive*. San FrandBco. ? The training ship Talucl, of tho Japanoue navy, Com niandor Furya, arrived here from Yokohama. i Ik- Tulael has a largo number of cadets on board who ar? on a Pacific cruise. College liar* Tuberculoids Victim*. Salt Lake City, Utah.? JsTo teacher, student or employe Infected with tu berculosis will hereafter bo admitted to the class rooiiiN or buildings of the University of Utah. Hounding Up Rebel* In Tt'xs*, Kl Paso, Texan,? Honlto Soils wa? arrestdd, charged with conspiring la sta.rt a revolution against Mexico. 1 f ?? is the seventh man arrested bore sine,, the outbreaks at Cuaas Grande* and I. as Vacua. "r ? Flits' lb-union End*. Dallas, Texas. -*-Tho Talks' reunion of t f) 0 K ended, tlie Grand Lodge ad journing to meet In Lob 'Angeles on July ll.l 009, I'itxi Hub- ?>f New Cotton In, APhiip, (Tit. ? ? Deal L. Jaekaon, n'oui:hcri\ County's well known ne gro far, imp. brought In tho first halo of i ?? o v; cotton, lie beat last year'ft record by two days.- Deal Jackson has ho i n the "first bal?" farmer of Georgia every season for twelve or fifteen r?. Small Clct eland Gaul; Close*. I'levpbind. Ohio ? Th? Farmers' and Merchants' Mnnk'.n*- Company j closed Th.e 111 > ? I '? 1 1 r>c? ;:r.<l r-pofts nro [estimated to l?n about $SUO.00"0. Tho failure is fa-Id to buvo ben <lue to the inability o f tho bank to renlize upon loans. Governor Corf. GreefsGovernor Glenn Si'a Girt. N. J. ? Governor Fort went t<> Asbnrv T'arW. accompanied bv Colonel Austen Colpnte. of his staff, to nil v liis respects to Governor' Glenn, of North Carolina. Peons in Guatemala. San Francisco. ? Kidnaped Into slavery and captive for eighteen years, nineteen survivors of a hand of several hnn'dred arrived here front the coffee plantations of Guatemala. * Oriuinnlly they came from the South Sea Inlands. Officer Fined For Making Kycs. San Francisco. ? For "making ? eves" at some women of Monterey, Lieutenant Gordan A. Dennis, sta tioned at the Monterey Presidio, has been fined JSRO nnd ordered confined \r to his post for thirty days. The sen tence was imposed by a courtmartlal. Cause of Railroad Wrecks. Washington. D. C. ? That defectlvo steel rails furnished to the railroads of the country are responsible for a large number of railway wrecks was the contention of certain members of the Safety Appliance and Block Sig nal Bbard, while in session here.. Violations of Safety Appliance Law. Washington, D. C. ? The Attorney General transmitted to United States attorneys information against eleven railroads for violation of the Federal safety appliance law. Thoro were seventeen violations. <.*w! One-Time Jockey Dies at 110. Seguln, Texas. ? George Coleman, a negro, lit) yearB old. died at his home here. I In belonged to the Llud say family, of Kentucky, when a slave, and was a famous jockey seven ty-five years ago. riding at New York, Philadelphia, Washington and other racing centres. $ . Boston Clubman a Suicide. Boston. ? William E. Sllsbee, slxty three years old, ofari old Salem fam ily, committed suicide. Ho was a graduate, of. Harvard and a member of many clubs. BY CABLE. Kermt Horses Sell Well. Newmarket, England. ? James R. Keene's ypnrllngs, nlthongh not look- - lug their best on account of their hurried departure from the United States, brought exceptionally good prices at the sales here. Nine colts brought an aggregate of $10,700, and ' ten Allies $13,875. Honduras Rebels Capture Town. Tegucigalpa, Honduras. ? The Hon-,] duran Insurgents Captured the town, of Porvenir, on tho north coast, and' then attacked Ceiha, another Atlantic!^ l>ort. At Celba they were repulsed; ' They also have been beaten In then south, and are fleeing back to Salva-,, dor. Waldorf Aster For Parliament. Plymouth, Bngland. ? Waldorf As-' tor, the eldest son of William Wal-> dorf Astor, was cshosen as Conserva-*. tlvo candidate for member of Parlia ment from Plymouth at the next gen eral elections. ? ? ? ? -v.r - . Fairfax Files Ills Claim. . *'i London. ? Albert Klrbv Fairfax :hu natlvo of Virginia, has formally petU: Honed the House of Ix>rds for leavo. to plead his claim to the peerage- un*^ dor the title and dignity of Lord Fair- ' fax of Cameron; v r . -- Plague llrvaks Oat in Azores. Lisbon, Portugal! ? The bubon!?rk plague has made Its appearance on the Island ot Terceira, one of the. Aatorta group, j ? ? - IH'greos For Amcrlcnn RUliops. r~%r. Cambridge, England. ? Honorary degrees were conferred upon a num ber of Archbishops and Bishops aU: tending the Lambeth Conference.! The prelatet.thttB honored It^udo. "{Be ft r?hop or wufirsavrMNrtinrBtfiiogr of Massachusetts, who received the degree of LL.D. ?