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VOLUME XII OAMDKN, 8. C? FRIDAY. Al'ltlL 2. 1909. PALMETTO HAPPENINGS TOLD IN BRIEFS Occurrences Interest Gl?%ne4 Prom All Sectious / Ike Busy PeJroctte Sfiti Y .ML 0. A. Convention. T^je sixth, annual convention of the ?. Y. M- a A. '* of North and South Carolina, b?ld in Charlotte, N. C., and one of the moat sueccusful of the ?Mire series, caute to a close Sunday night at a meeting held for the spee ial benefit of tba delegates. A meet ing was held for theao in the morn ing and in addition there were the tiaufl special services for men and fcoys at other hours. At the meeting Sunday night talks were roado by Messrs. H. if. King, of Charleston, $. C., Julian M. Smith, Acid secre tary; James ft. Johnson, secretary af students' i?ud boys' work; J. 8. KfutU, office secretory of the infer ?tate executive oorymittce; 1). L. Pro bert, aeeretary cf the Charlotte Y. M. C, i., ; P, Kf . Colbert, secretary of the Y. M. C. A. at Winston-Salem; E. E. Barnett, secretary at the Uni versity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; L. P. Hollis, of (Greenville,, B. C.; O. C. Huntington, of Charlotte, and Dr. Qeorgo J. Fisher, of New York. UnauimoiiH was tlte seutisoent expressed that the meeting had been far more than worth while. "It has more than fulfilled our axpecta tionsj" said many. (J eueral regret ??as expressed that tho meeting which had been so fruitful in results and so pleasant had, like overy thing else, to come to an end at last. Before adjournment, suitable resolutions were passed expressing much grati fication at the cordifil reception and splendid entertainment of tho body by tho citizens of Charlotte. Emnvi Officers Laid Off. Greenville, Special. ? Internal rev enue inspectors, several employes, and raiding deputies, whose services are not absolutely necessary for tho conduct of offices of revenue head quarters in South Carolina, have been told that they can take a rest of 60 days' beginning with April 1. The information coming in the form of a letter from United States Com missioner of Internal Revenue John O. Capers in Washington, was con veyed to four men here this week. They ane: Inspector V. B. McGalia, Special Employe* J. C. MdGrnvev and H. B. Hcndrirk, white men,- and Jas. Bryer, a negro, who has drawn a salary from tho government for looking after denatured alcohol. In Columbia a like letter has been re ceived and thore it will affect eight or ten men. Commissioner Capers .says in his letter that the appropriation for his department is not sufficient to war rant bim in paying he warrants drawn by fhe revenue men. He therefore wants the raiding of illicit stills to cease for two months while the deficit in lua department i* beins? brushed aside, Attempt to Kill Policeman. - Greenville, Spacial. ? Five shots from It revolver in tfro hands of a ?gan who kept himself hidden in tho darkness were flred at Patrolmen At taway early Wedneadnymorning n? ( tho officer was on hiTwft^to bis , borne . But for the presence olSmind of the policeman in dropping to the S round when tho . fli-st shot whin! led y his head he would more than like ly have been hit by the other four that wbieKOd above his head. While on the ground the officer emptied his revolver in the direction whence the leaden mussles flew- but so far as is ,.known he did not strike any one. Officer Attaway has been on the forec for about a year and If Gen erally regarded as bein'g a man who strictly enforces nil ordinanoes and Statute laVvs and for this reason he is attacked by on clement of law breakers which infest the outskirts of P?e pHy. Shot by Brother-in-Law, Saluda, Special.? On Saturday Af ternoon in the Bethany aeetion of] this county L. B. Sample ahot Ms, brother-in-law, J. p. Pitta, in tho yard of the latter. Thp? trouble, it appears, grew out of sojjfrnflitference jpt a patty nature. Both partita arc White. Dr. Kirkeey, who was called [jo attend the wounded man, my? ho is ah** from foot to head. fagro Involves Barnwell White Man t& Confessing a Murder. Barnwell, Special.? As the reeult a startling confession made Sun lay by QuiVnan Johnson, n negro rho Saturday was convicted of the aurder of Perry Ussery last Novem- , #r, Cheater Kennedy was arrester] tho home of his father near here, i negro admitted killing Ussenr eaid Kennedy bad hireil him and linand Grybba, another negro, w as convicted with Johnson, to , . a man named Holland, andf that had . intended to kill Holland but shot Uisery instead. Killed Two Woman Same Day. Special.? Tho March - tefltt j ?ri?sisal Conrt for this county fitting on Monday morn Lwith Judge J .C. Klugb, of At> on the bench. The most ?m .-efse thus far is the re of Addison LaWson, col etcd more than a year ago mtfrder of two negro women " on the same d*y, and i&tetOed to daatk v A Great Pair la to be Hell. T&o St Ate fftlr"ttitj? year ia going to b<? unusual and extraordinary in many rcaparts. The preparations that are now going on are looking to wai\ls many new and attractive fear luifb o f 'the annual celebration. Aa anaounced recently, by Capt. Jno. O. Mpbley, president, Tuesday of fair week its to he act aside thia year aa "college and sehott day." No charge will b* roado for any atu dent or pupli frocn any college or ached in th? State (or admissions on thia day, and any adult, accom panying a student or pupil on thia day, will Ho granted half rates of ad mission -'(Undents and pupila must get their free adnaiKsion cards from the proper officer* of their institu tiona the week before the fair. All colleges and schools in thia State c.'e Earnestly urged to attend, in bodies and to secure admission cards and information from the sec retary of t|ie State fair, Mr. A. W. L6v<? of Cclarobia, os early in Oc tcber as possiblo. Special raidroad coachcB can bo furnished for the purpose of bringing students and teachera if tho number of passen gers warrant thia and if arrange ments "tore made in time. Tho bench show is to be a feature this year." A great ?!eal ef interest has been manifested in this depart ment and the fair society, will in crease the prises. The aid and sug gestions of all dog owners art re quested. Receiver for Hailo Gold Mine. Lancaster, Special.? -Au applica tion was made before Judge Klugh at Chester Tuesday for the appoint ment of rcccivers for the Hailo Oold Mining Company, tho application be ing made by Horry S. Seeley, of New York, ns trustee for the bondhedders, the bonded indebtedness amounting to $224,000, principal and interest. Thr, trustee vrps- represented at the hearing by Judge Ernest Moore, of tlx* Lancaster Bar, and the law firm of Sutro & Wright, of New York City. ' ? Judge Klugh granted on ord<jr ap pointing Chas. D. Jones, of Lan coster, nnd L. W. Apienaan, of Bayon, N. J., as receivers of the property; ? 9 The order directs that the receivers operate the property at once, so that work at the mine, which has been suspended since the fearful disaster there last year, will bo resumed with out delay. The high character and splendid business abilities of the re ceivers named insures tho speedy re storation of this valubwie mluinfl property to its former profitable and paying basie. Cotton Mills Doing Very WelL Columbia, Special. ? Tha cotton mills of South Carolina are doing very well. Thero it no unusual de mand for goods and with conserva tive buying priccs naturally are not "bcoming. " The press dispatchcs carried thl? important item of news: A reduction from 4 5-8 to 41-2 cents has been made jn standard print cloths. The quotations on nar row goods remain unchanged. While the decline will tend to lower the margin between the cost of raw cot ton and tho price of the finished pro duct, upon which the operatives' wages aro based, it is thought that Ihe rOrcnt reduction in tho pris* of middling uplands cotton will practicr ally rcstoro it. Foil River priccs are not confined to Fa|l Riyep goods, uq fortunatcfy,^. ? rf - . . Fatal Shooting Affair in South Gavq* lina. ? Groenvlle, Special? Jack Fishsr was shot and probably fatally wound ed at Piedmont Sunday by Bob Cliaa tain, both parties white. Chaataiq was arrested and lodged in the coun ty jail by Sheriff Poole. The eanae of the shooting is unknown. The hysicians state that Fiiber can live ut a few hours, To Furnish Confederate Home. A Columbia, Special.? Gen. .. Wilia Jones, Coi. D. Cardwell and Com-1 mander W. D. Stalling bavo arranged for thg purchnso of equipment for J 4 ho Confederate Ilomcf Tho Home /ill be opened about May 10. The Legislature . appropriated $12,000 for tlio equipping cf the buildiug. The Richland delegation has appointed the following to select the rural policemcn provided for at ihe Jast session of the General Assembly: Sheriff W. M. CoIemaOi. chairman, ex-officio; L. M. Hook, L. E. Hohan, Oscar Chappell. Dr. - Aide man's Residenoa Nearly Beady . Charlottesville, Special.? The hand some residence of President Alder* man. on Cafjr'e Hill, at the Uaivaiw sitj* of Virginia, ia now practical}? completed. A few fixtnrea-yet re maiii to be plaeed, and then the houftfc it?eif will be ready for oecupaney. Tha work of the landscape gardener on the Hill ia atm to be done, but even now n^uch of the debria has been [cleared away, *a? tf NEWS FROM WASHIKGT6N &oote??it Order AerotoL ?? l??t remaining veatige of the HooneveU order taking marine. off he b?t<(t?hiX>s and cn.iaera of the nit?Ni States navy waa swept away *n<lay ,when IWdent Taft, after i? matter liad been considered at a cabinet meeting, directed that an or ! b* l"?** restoring the marinea ? ^xt,e,,y the ?arae dutiea that they performed prior to their being order ed ashore. Aftrr Congress had plae, provision in the navy appr^ria ?>!? to the effect that a eertain l^rrcnlage of the .i.anne cbip* fchould ho aligned to ship duty, nn order waa j??Ued tha day before * KMudent ftoosevelt went out of of fice restoring the marine. >to ships, but placing (hem under the ordors of ? ?*?ptain? of (h? veaael on which ?oy were to sarve, Under the old or fr j thing* the marinea were giv f- dutiea- 0nc of theae wan <o fight certain guns of the accondary battery. The order placing the* un fer ll,e <'?-eetion of the ship'* ??p_ ta.n made it poasible tQ assign the marines to any sort of duty and to ^pnve them of fighting any part of ? he ?hip'? battery. ' ? ? ? Punish Kidnapping by Death. To define the crime of kidnapping ' Punishment therefor, in ' o DktnH of Columbia." This is Rodenbnrv ?f MM t,Mlt ^eProsoi)tn(i\'e ? ? ? Wnati t0,rinl8h P*nal in July 1913 It developed Wednesday that d, ion-fl'?k'tS no* ?* a" 8nniT"inc of ne oth;zrs "acU h"wi"K I fiuama next Saturday. Y?rk fo! ?.ent^?ys ra-^rtur 10 instead of n oVIook , ! reccss should bo taken resuming ?t S o'clock the rdrr,,nM "n"'' 10:30 r>- m each Rcift Z. ZTIXtT'0"' con ??id that there already We?: .Z^VX0 ly^ade^.Vj ifi8S0,url' minori. t?te >t,id con juT n0K,^r,r" de" ro??zb^r?eiiMby? . XotaehnUf?U^ 'I diMc"" information 'dcaired/ nU 'UP1>ly "" bten'givon m to ' ,iavin* ^^oiirc-rhe'tu", and that the Fitro^M to the tnriff to the rule* mnr?A ^ .f^endment minority to exDre? tov <h* amendments to the bill hv'** UP?n Nomination Confirmed. The Senate Monday confirmed the nomination of Edward W. Durant, Jr., of South Carolina, to b? collec tor of customs for th? distriot of Charleston. Mr. Durant was appoint ed tp -sueeed William D. Crum, the former negro colleotor of tho Charloa ton port. ? ? e Senator Bikini Deafenda the South. Joining with the Democrat# in their proteata against the manner in which the tariff bill ie being made, Senator Elkins (Republican), of West Vir ginia, declared himself and his Slate to be of the South, the interest* of whieh, he said, are "being crucified. He asserted that New England is over-represented on the eommitteo, white thr great Middle Wost and the South are hot represented at all. He said that he understood the commit tee would make a free trade measure for New England, Secretary of War XMokl&aon Will do ; y-? y ? pumna " Seoretary of War. Diekinaon atated at the White House Monday that he Will loave Washington about April lo for bia visit to the Xetfcnme Pans ma. He does not know how long he will be gone, but intends to stay -long enough to fully inform himself aa to work and eonditiona in the canal tone. It is thought probable that "he will eah from one of the Southern porta. MRS. FARMER EXECUIEB; SHE GOHFESSES CRIME The Convict od Murderess Put to Death in Prison at Auburn, N. Y. SECOND WOMAN ELECTROCUTED lira. Farmer Hoped bjr Taking (lie Minnie (u Free H unhand, Al??? Hcnten<<<l to Die ? ller Hours and DotniU of Kxecutlou. Auburn, N. Y.-? Mrs. Mary Farmer was shocked tp. death lu the electric c huh in the prison he re at 6.1G o'clook a. m. for the murder of Mrs; Mary 13 r en nan at Brownsville. Warden Bsnhsm and - the Rev. Father Hlckev stole noiselessly to the woman's e?ll at 6.45, and the priest began whispering the prayers for the 4ylng. Mrs. Farmer sat on her covich. In one hand was a prayer book and in the other a book on the lives of the satnta. Her head was bowed, show ing where the hair had been cut so that the electric battery would have full play. ' As tho condemned woman arose she gazed about hei: as one in a trance, it may have been that bUo was paralysed with (light. There was a grinding of locks and hiuges as the big cell door swung wide. Mrs. Donigan and Mlsa Gor man, women prlsou attendants, who had kept the death watch during the night, entered the cell, and stood ou either side of Mrs. Farmer. The priest began prayiug In a louder voice and his words seemed to vi brate through the line of cells. The march, irom the coll to the room was hardly more than twenty feet, but tho priest walked slowly, and Mrs. Farmer seemed hardly to move as ?he dragged her heelless She was dressed in a blnok bifur cated gown. Thla gown had been made especially for the execution, apd under its foldn were sifts which bare tho legs so that the straps ^uld be placed next the flesh. There were nearly a score of wit nesses In the room, oil of them grouped- against the furtherest wallB when the door opened and tho white faced prl,est entered. ? Then came the condemned woman. Mrs. Donigan supported her on one aide and Mis:* Gorman on the other. Following thf-m were tho warden And Dr. John Gerln. Tftero wero no preliminaries. The chair had been tested and found in working.-ordw. The slippers were drawn ffor\j Mrs. Farmer's feet, and she was aselsted to the chair, her bare feet resting on the wlre-coverod rest, her head falling baok to a wlre-cov erod aupport. Both arms rested on the sides, also covercd with wires. The men and women attendants worked.JiolseleBsly, quickly. A great strap was fastened a the centre of her body, a second strap bound back her neck, her arms were bound down tight, and then the bifur cated skirt was drawn aside and about the woman's legs, Just above the knees, more straps bound her. Then a cap arrangement, made of steel and'wlros. was fastened about her head, renchlng down on her low forehead almost to her eyes and cov ering the .back of her head to the neck. All was now In readiness. The Warden stepped aside, the priest con tinual to pray, and his voles sounded hollow and ghostly. The Warden dropped his handkerchief. The elec* trlcian turnel on al^power, and In. stantly Mrs, I'armer's muscles becamo taut. Bhe strained against the big straps that bound her until they seemed ready to snap. The current wai turned- off. The woman stopped straining on the straps and fell back, (<he muscles of her body quivering and her eyes open ing and shutting. Fos^ .twenty sec onds the electrician stood ready to again turn on the current. Again the Warden gave the signal, and again the straps strained *s' the woman's body convulsed. Dr, Gerln eame for, ward, He felt the woman's pulse and plaosd his ear nt her h^art. The strapfe were unbuokled and the limp body, still warm, was carried into a rear room and the usual autop, py held. All this ,wblle the men and women who had witnessed the killing of a fallow being stood as It transfixed with tha horror of It all. Thar had been told hor/ Mrs. .Farmer had coi* fessad; how aha had said aha killed Mra. Brennan, hoping to anrioh her ?on. but thay eould not but faal sym pathy for tha poor, atupld arastura who had bean cftllad lnsana by 10 paany parson*. By hfr - confession, In whioh sha took all tha blame, it Is believed Mrs. Farme* hoped to fraa her husband, who la also under aa&tenoa of death, Ha had always claimed that ho took no part In tha murder, ROGERS RAILWAY OPKX, The Virginian n New Factor In Haft ? \ _ Coal Trade. Norfolk. ? A new factor in the soft eoal trade of the world Is the Virgin ian Railway, built mainly by Henry H. Rogers, from Deep Water, West Va.. to Norfolk. 442 miles. Stoamors will come la the pIer Jor coal for their bunkers and for a cargo of 7(00 tons each. Tha opening of -tbft Virginian Railway will be cele brated here by Mr. Rogers, accom panied by Mark Twain! .. -y -m r ? - ? ?efjjr Chinamen fa Car of Beans. Attracted by tha sound of voices In a box car, which anppoeedly con tained only a shipment of beans. Im migration Afjent Dllworth at Big Springs. Texas, had tha oar opened and arrested sixteen Chinamen, who ara held on a charge of having evad? ad the immigration lywy; ... Corporation Can Bo Convicted. ~"Tfca New Yoriafcourt of Appeals, reversing the Appellate Division,, da* aid ad a corporation can ba convicted at homicide. x - TROLLEY CMS MEET _ IN A FATAL CRUSH Three Persons Killed and Many Passengers Hurt MOTORMEN MISTAKE ORDERS Collision Occur* on i* Curve Between I'llltburg nml i)utlci\ Near Urj - nut Station, Pa. ? Neither Motor iumu Haw the Other Car. Pittsburg, Pa.?- Three person wero killed, two f At Ally hurt and fifteen others su??alned Injuries that necessi tated their removal to,, their homfli In n head-on collision between t*o electric earn on the Pittsburg and Duller Btreet Railway, near Dryant Station. The dead: H. J. Cross, thlrly-five.of Mars. Pa., conductor of the southbound car, died of internal Injuries while being re moved (o a hospital. Alfred W. Snyder, twonty-seven, purchasing agent of the Pittsburg and Butler Street Railways Company, his homo being at New Haven, Conn. Albert Helndman, forty, of thlx city, fare collector on the uorthbound oar. [ Fatally injured: Lon Kelley, motorman of the southbound car, right log fractured j ! and internal injuries. J. \V. Meyers, Bellevue, Pa., a pas senger, right leg broken, injured In terdally. . ?' Snyder and Helndman wero stand ing with the motorman of tho north* bound car whon the accident oc curred, and It Is remarkable that Kelley wbb not killed outright. v Tho accident is said to have been caused by a mistake in orders given the southbound car. This car, which was known as ft limited, had been held up for an hour at a grade cross ing at Mars, Pa., until the tracks there had been cloared of wreckago caused by a frolght car on tho Balti more and Ohio Railroad leaving the tracks. When the line was clear the car Was ordered to go on through to this city. The road Is single-tracked, and the northbound car, running on tho best schedule It could make, crashed Into the oncoming limited at a curve near Bryant Station, throwing the trucks of both cars off the rails. Owing to tho curve In tho road, neither motorman knew of tho ap proach of tho other car until the fcol llslon was Inevitable; both men tried to lesson the shock by applying tho airbrakes and remaining bravely at ..their posts. Doctors wero hurried to tho sceno of tho wreck, and the dead and seri ously Injured wero removed to a hos pital In Butler, Pa, All the passen gers of both cars were shaken up, most of them receiving cuts, and bruises, but only fifteen needed med ical attention aud assistance In reach* ing their homes, SMALLER AMERICAN FAMILIES. Avcrngo in 1700 Wos 5.8, WhJlo i? *000 It Wnn 4.0, , Washington, D. C. ? The Bize of. the average family in the United StateB has decreasotl from 5.8 persons In, 17 90, the date of the first consua tak en In this country, to 4.6 In the same Area In 1900, according to a volume now being prepared by the QonsuB Bureau, Of especial interest from a socio* logical point of Ylew are those statls. tics In the book which deal with fam ily life, In 1790 families composed of no more than three persons repre sented but one-fourth of the entire number of families, while in 1900 families of similar sise made up near ly forty per cent, of all families. Families composed of six or more persons represented in 1790 moro than one-half, but in 1900 scarcely more than one-fourth of the families enumerated. On the basis of the proportion shown in 1790 there would have been In continental United States in 1900 89,500,000 children, whereas there were less than 24.000,000. In 1790 the Smiths led all tho rest, there being 33,2 4 5 of this ubiquitous family in the country, while other familes followed in the sequence glv en: Drown, Davis, Jones, Johnson, Clark, Williams, Miller and Wileon, These nine 'names represented about four per cent, of the total yrhlto popu lation of 179 Q. CVT WAGES OF 18,000, Republic fron an# Steel Company An* pounces a 10 Per Cent, Redaction, Youngstown, Ohio.? Notices were Sosted in all the works here of the iepubllo Iron and Steel Company of a reduction in wages, effective April 1, About 4000 men are affected lo cally, including all employes from salaried men to laborers, except men identified with the Amalgamated As sociation of Iron, Steel and Tin Work er t. The reduction Is to apply to all works of the company, including nine rolling mills, nine blast furnaces and one steel plant in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois And Alabams, and affecting about 12,000 men. The re duction is approximately ten per cent Professor Alfred Messel Dead. The death is announced of Profes sor Alfred Meseel, the well known German archltcct, at Berlin, Ho was born In 1853. SLEEPING SICKNESS IN PARIS. Missionary Recently In Africa Strick en In Lnxembonrg Gardens. Paris, France. ? A sensation has bees caused by the discovery of a case of sleeping sickness in the heart of Paris. _ The victim Is a missionary of the Order of the Holy Ghost, who dropped unconscious in the Luxem bourg Garden and was oonvey to the Pasteur Institute. He ?ontracted the disease on the upper Ubanghi, a river of Equatorial Africa. Latest News. BY WIRE. Flower Ivy port Demi. Ran FrunoUco, Out. ? Rdward GUI, aged sixty-nine, one of the foremost botanical expert* of (ho pacific Coast, d lo?l at Wont Berkeley. OIIV was a native of New Jersey, unit was a well* known figure at Eastern flower Bhowu. His hohby was rosea. l)i'. Itoln'rt Iloj'liuru Dond, Washington, 1). C.-? -Dr. Robert Reyhurn, who attended President Garfield after lie was shot, died Here, agfd Keventy'Ulx. He was a native of Glasgow, Scotland, Illinois Hank 11oI>|hmI. Kmnghftiw. 111.- The Flunk of Wat won was robbed of- f 6 ft 00 In rash by cracksmen. The robbers also got papers. Olrl Students W i n a Strike. Berkeley, .('al. Twenty young women of the senior class at t ha University of California went on a atrlka reo.onllv. and gained t heir nolnt. when (hey discovered that French novels assigned to them for reading In connection with their French lessons were shocking. Bocretarioa to Take Office. Washington. D. (\- ? Charles T). Norton, recently appointed Assistant Secretary of (ho Treasury to succeed Louis A. Coolldge, resigned, Is ex pected to enter upon his duties on April r>. and C. 1). Illlles, who Is t4o succeed Reek man Wlnthrop as As sistant 8ecre(ary of the Treasury, will tako charge on April 15. Fanny Croaby'h 8()(Ii Birthday. Rrldg.mort, Com, ? TbT blind hymn writer, Faunv Crosby, observod her clghiy-nlntli birthday, when she was a guest n( a reeonMon given In the homo nf Mrs: Orrttlr* ttnetor Hy? (he Fanny Crosby Clrolo of King'" Daugh ters. She wrote n sjieolal livmn for the occasion, whtob. set. (o familiar music, was buiik by (he company. Oldest Steamer Now H7. Providence, U. I. ? Only thirteen years the Junior of the Cl?rmont, Robert Fulton's flrRt pt earner. (ho Bteamor Janiea Morgan has Just been under Fercdal Insnectlon here. The Morgan la the oldest Bteamor In tho country, having been launched at Poughkoepsle. N. Y., eighty-seven years ago. She is uaed as an oyster boat. Sends For Friend; Kills SeK, Chicago, III. ? Dr. C. D. Howes, n prominent physician, aen'f for I). Van Wyngarden, bis close friend, an un dertaker, and then shot himself to death. When Wyngarden reached tho physician's ofllcn he fouud him dead on the floor, a bullet having plsrps:l hlfl heart. Liquor Hill Loses In Minnesota. Bt. Paul, Minn. ? Tho bill prohibit Ing the manufacture or sale of intox icating liquors In this Stato wan killed In the Houso of Representa tives. 'Quake Shallowed Harbor. Vora Cruz, Mexico. ? The rccsnt earthquake made the harbor here no shallow that ships drawing twenty four feet touch bottom, Sent to Leper's Island, Boston, Mass. ? Pronounced a leper, Archie Thomas, a sixteen-year old Upton School boy, was sent from the Massachusetts General Hospital to the leper colony at Penlkese Island. He came from the West Indies seven years ago, lie attended Upton High School, ? BY CABLE. Petroslno's Body Shipped. Palermo, Italy. ? The remains of Lieutenant Joseph Pctroalno, of tho Now York City Polleo Department, who wa? assassinated here on tho night of March 12, were placed on board the Cunard line steamer Slav, onla, which sailed for New York City, Shakespea'ro Memorial Theatre, London. ? There was a meeting at the Mansion House to plan a national theatre as a Shakespeare memorial. The committee in charge has decldcd that |2,500,000 is necessary to this end, The Lord Mayor announced nn pnpnymous gift of $378,000, American Company Wins, London, ?Tho United States Shoo Machinery Company, of Boston, Mam., has won its long fight to pre-, yent the Canadian shoe manufacture era from using tho American com* pany'i machines in oontraYenUou ot the terms ot lease*, King of Italy's Promises. Home, Italy. ? The King opened the new Parliament and announced many sociological educational and military reforms. Tho Parliament received coldly the statement that Italy would continue to cultivate her alliances and friendships. i She Poison &1 .100 Persons. London. ? A dispatch to tho Daily Mail 'from St. Petersburg cays that a woman named Popovs has haen ar rested at Samara, cnarged with hav ing poisoned at least 300 persons in the last thirty years. She made a business of rld(|lng wives ot their husbands for * small fee. - Ecuador Csnocls Contracts. 1 Guayaquil, Ecuador. ? The Govern ment ot Ecuador has protested against the determination of the Brit ish and Chilean steamship companies running vessels between Valparaiso and Panama not to call at Guayaquil, and has canceled the existing con tracts with both companies, .... \.L ;?_ ? ? ? . ? ^ . ' Duke to Tour Chile. Santiago, Chile. ? The Dnke of Rlcbmondprnnd General Baden-Powell have arrived here. ftrappect to fiiak* a tour through ths country. SWNGESEISESOFWH ? Mrs. Pierre Lorlllan', Jr., Asphyx iated at Washington, D. C. Mplt'iy of (lit* Death of (lit* Itrilliant Wuiiihii of Smlvly Will Not Ho Solved I'ur the Public. Washington, D. C. - ? Mrs. Plerrd I <o i t 1 In t<l , Jr., oua Of I )?t! moat pjomln. out figure* in variety in tit 1m city, N'uw York, London and Paris, kilted her self in the bathroom of bur home by inhaling, illuminating ?as. Shu died ii< tlie frock she had worn to one of the smartest dinner parties of the sea. hou, in 4 ho homo of Mr*. Richard Towiisend. At the dinner Mrs. Lor i 1 la rd seemed in high spirits, Jauglt Ing and carrying on un animated con vernation, yet site rode away from the place with her husband to prepare for death as soon an sho was alone in iter room. The body was found faco down 011 tho floor. with a spray of diamon'ds glistening In the hair. Tho lingers were covered with rings, and seed pearls lent lustre to the v^omau'* gown.. A brief note was left by Mrs. Lor lllurd, but it was withheld from tho public. It was said, however, the note kuvo no explanation of her act. it ix a mystery. The news or tho suicide ennte as ft shock to auclety. Mr*. Lorillard had sent out invitations to a luncheon. Tiu so wera received by telegraph. The. Townseml dinner was given In honor >r Lady Paget, and among tho Othe? guests were Secretary of the Navy Meyer and big wife, Senator and Mrs. Aldrich, Senntor and Mrs, Lodge, Senator Kllhu Hoot, Mr. and Mrs. Hubert iiacon. Lady Clifford, Colonel nnd Mrs. Colin CanipboJI, Kfchr- Admiral Cowles, Captain Arcfii ba'-d iiuti, military aid to President Tnft, and Count Moltke, the, Dnniaii Minister, nnd .ho Countess. Mrs. Lorillard wnp one. of' the most popu? lar women in Washington. Sho wan ? ToTty-ntnir- ymm o!d ???! -hfrd? e^e?t- ? the winters '.tur^ for many year*. Mr*. CulhertMCn Committed Suicide. Vincennes, Ind.? Mm. Jessie Lse Overton Oulbrrtaon, the bride of t.h ree month?, was not murdered. She killed herself lifter arranging u hys terically dramatic situation to throw the murder on another woman. " police discovered a letter which proved boyonl a doubt that MrB.Cul berison, the victim o t acid, wrote the threatening Altera which she had asserted were left in the windows ,of her home. This letter was written to Mr. Cnlbertson a abort time before their marriage and was dated Bridge- , port, ill.* When the writing was compared tv|*h that of the threatening letters it matched lo a dot. Upon closer ex amination It was found that the water mark in the paper upon which all the letters were written was the fame and that tho envelopes wero of the tamo make. A search of Mr*. Culbertson's room revealed the cause of a mysterious light flash that had been seeu by Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Brazelton, parents of the dead woman's husband. The cause was a small electric flash light, and It had been hidden In the room. In tho past week this light had often been eeen In the house and had gone a long way toward causing Mr, and Mrs. Brp.zeltou to believe thai efforts were being made to scare tho young woman to death. Mrs. Culbcrtson would often report to them in the evening that she would see the strange light and said she knew those parsons who were trying to kill hor were reapoQiJblo for it# three lives lost in kirk. Alarm Given by Dog Probably Sa?eil Many Lives at Canadian Hotel. r Cornwall, Ontario. ? The Wlndeor Hotel was destroyed by fire. Three I persons were burned to death, and two so badly Injured thoy were re moved to the hospital. The damftge to the building amounts to $25,000. The dead are: George llagley and John Gallen, Philadelphia, Pa.! Ray mond Duquette, Winchester, Ontario. The fire occuved at 1 o'clock at T right, and moa'. of the occupants of the building, of whom there were thirty- two, escaped In their night clothes. Tho alarm was first given by' a small dog belonging to a board er, whose barking arouaed the sleep ing guests aud probably itYfftf lives. J OH BRAKE MAN'S LIFE. While Plains Jury Award* Verdict Against l lie New Haven Road* White iMaitii, N. Y, ? A Jury fa Part 1, of the Supreme Court i*Vf Mrs, Rhoda Fulki $12,000 tor the death of her hueband, ft brakoraan OA the New Haven Road, Mri. Fulki sued thu road for $100,000 dtmagei for the death of Fulkg on July 7? 190#, at Monut Vernon, it was charged hat while a train was being backed on a switch the en? g.neer applied the airbrakes, which brought the train to a sudden stop, and Fulks was thrown to the road bed. Hla skull was fractured and he died lu a short time. Mining Engineer Kills Promoter. Leon H. Brady, a mining engfneer, shot and killed Joseph Flanagan, a mining promoter, at Kansas City. Mo. The shooting toqk place In thiL? Brady home. ^Flanagan's homo is la Cleveland, Ohio, where his family lives. Brady, when arrested, told the police that Flanagan attacked Mrs. Bfady In the ball of their home, " IfT T1 if ' jr"*T;t*'iyjr . . ' -'?] MILLINERY EXPERT KILLED. Mmc. Hnnt Die* In Chicago Hospital as Resale of Injuries. Chleago, 111. ? Mrs. Ida Hunt Mar. tiMJl, known throughout the United ? states as Mme, Hant^. and lecturer on milttpery, died a? a hospital as the Result of having been struck by a street car. Mme. Hunt, whn 'for many years bad been president of the National . Milliners' Association, and who had managed numerous annual milliner^ * exhibitions In Chicago,