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CAMDEN, S. C.. FRIDAY. AUGUS'l 20. PALMETTO NEWS ITEMS Things Doing And Happening In Sunny Carolina, Told In Condensed And Pithy Phrase. ? Woman's Monuweot Tund. 'lie < olumbin State of Friday p?b * (lie following contributions by ^ '?r Ionian '# Monument "ma?'1 fWK Andcwon' SPHS Wmrlohton!', -? WoriUro Marion. . . ^'.00 Aiju'n, 4,4 & v!ir?v',n''' ?? :: 2** "-n;, ?? aim <Ir,-,-..vjl|n. . , : ^ -J'iuifftster. .. Abl/(?vj|j?' '' :: :: :: -si t", - ? ... 222.21 , , ? .j j - ,j. ?Jje*u?rfMd SlSOfl Movihiuv. . , . 2i:j;W , .. .. 212.75 U*Vm<?ton Oil O t },l .. .. 20',. 00 mm, " * ? '<*'? 171.", i 'jo.6o l.tii ,Kion . l O.'t.OO /, lrv-- ? ? 102.00 100.58 ' ?? 100.02 tMM-oircc 100.00 ' )f(iticc. ... ' u- rn I , , H:>.f,0 J'oi'clK'KlPi-. . . or, I I j , c.?.4<) niiirilicrtr 8? "5 llnillplo!! .... 7/5 >yr J4>:.tl",1a (J.'J. HO 1 )( KCMS . ^ J J 05 |W<.rt.. .. .V :n ioci \\' ll.amsburg .. .. 2(5. K8 v ollr I (in . . IS "r> B('rlai?'.v 1 Telephone Company Sues, I.aurcns, Special.:r~\Yhat promises j (r> l?o h very interesTwhg suit for dam ages lias been filed with the clerk of court and complaint served on the defendants. It is a claim of dnmasres j to the amount of 450,000 against the Enterprise bank. X. 15. Dial, E. \Y. Martin and IferUog & Co., by the Laurens Telephone company, of| which \V. K. Kiehcy, Sr.? is presi- , (lent. The cause of this action is to] recover damages sustained by the plaintiff when in August, 1!)07, t'lie telephone company was forcibly eject ed from its ijuarters in the building! which stood where the present bank building now is. It is claimed by the plaintiH' that it had charge of the property for the whole yearUnd that it was forced to vacate by the tear ing down of the huildimr. It. was then that the old frame building was torn down and the magnificent new brick .structure was begun. Liquor Law Declared Valid. Columbia, Special. ? The State 'Su preme Court, sitting here, Thursday refused to declare invalid the liquor law passed at the last session of the Legislature. The test of the law was made on a petition brought by Thom as Jellieo, of Charleston, for an in junction restraining t lie Charleston county election otlicials frem holding the liquor election in that county Au gust 17. The law provides for elections in the counties now wet. those voting for liquor to re-open the dispensaries under the system previously in use. The constitutionality of the law was attacked on two grounds. That the subject of the act was not stated in the title and that it is special legis lation. The court will later hand down an opinion stating the reasons for the rejection of the petition. Crop Condition Varies. Anderson, Special. ? Mr. J. W. Rothrock, county agent of the farm demonstration work, has returned from a trip through Spartanburg and Cherokee count ic?. He said that ho found the crops in those counties very good, but not as good as are found in certain sections of Anderson county. Mr. Rothrock savs that about half of the area in Anderson county !>?.? bad crops dut to rain. Working for "Dry Times." Walterboro, Special. ? The follow ing appointment for prohibition meetings for Colleton county linve been made: Friday r August 13, rally at Black Creek; Rev. B. Lacy Iloge of Charleston will address these rallies. Sunday, August 15, Rev. Geo. A. Martin of T.odge will preach at Smoaks Baptist church. Rev. F. 0. S; Curtis will preach to the com bined congregation at Walterboro, Rev. II. J. Cauthen will preach nt "Bethel. There will be combined ser vices at Adams Run, to bo arranged ^ by the pastors in tlio different churches at that place. Dispensary Hearing Continued Until October 1. Ashcville, Special.? Judge Pritch ord. who 1b trmrelL ha* continued until Ooctober 1 further hearing on, the motion of attorney# for the re ceivers appointed to wind up the old South Carolina dispensary affairs asking that n special master be ap pointed to assess damages and costs against the bonding companies. Sev , eral of the attorneys left for their _^cme? Wednesday. . r - - . Child Recovering in Spite of Ex posure. Fwrt Mill, Special. ? A remarkable case of apparent recovery from a severe caw o? diphtheria ban just oc curred in t litH place. Friday night tho 4-year-old daughter of Walker Lynn, a resident of Fort Mill, whs taken ill at Gostonia, Nr. C.' The parents removed tins child from Has tonia to Clover, this county. Friday night, without knowing the nature of the child's illness. At 12 o'clock Saturday a physician was called it) to attend the child and pronounced the ease diphtheria. The same physician visited the child again Sunday morning and injected lj,000 Units of dipht heretic anti-toVin. Then the parents oJ! the chihl becamo frightened as (o its condition and against the advice of the physician and unmindful of tho great shock to which the child would be subject- i ed, drove through tho country fi'om Clover to Fort Mill, a distance of 'J!i miles, with the little one in a buggy. This was in the J'uce of the fact diphtheria is considered one of tho most contagious and fatal diseases known to "medical science. When the child reached Fort Mill Dr. T. S. Kirkpatrick was immediate ly called in and. lost no time in in jecting 4,0000 more units of diph* t herd ic anl i-toxin. The child is apparently on the road to recovery. Meanwhile, however no placard is in evidence on the outer walls of the Lynn home to warn an unsuspecting public of the contagious disease within. Twcnlve Hundred Girls Ask to Enter Winthrop. Rock Hill, Special.? ^-Preparations are under way tor the opening of Winthrop college on September 35. The college the coining session will accommodate 200 additional students, making a total ol' TOO against 500 heretofore. More than 1,200 applica tions were received from the follow ing States: New York, Maryland, Virginia, North' Carolina, South Car olina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama. Texas, Ar'.nnsn" Illinois and 0 The new dormitory at the college will accommodate the 200 additional girls for this session. The new dining "Toom and kitchen which is . being erected, is being pushed forward as rapidly as possible, the brick work being practically done, and unions some very bad weathor sets in they expect to complete the same about the first of September. The Ameri can Machine' Manufacturing company of Charlotte have tlfo contract for installing the Webster system of beating in all the buildings of the' college and are now pushing that work as rapidly as possible. The size of the new dining hall is 52 feet wide by 212 feet long and the new kitchen 110 by (55, with an extensive pantry in connection. When com pleted, these buildings, together with the new dormitory, will add wonder fully to the facilities at the college.. Mack Freeman Acquitted. Edgefield, Special. ? Mack Free man was Thursday acquitted of mur der. David Scurry, father of the negro, whom Mr. Pope Ilavird of Saluda county is charged with having murdered, was examined in open court by the solicitor, the purpose ; being to ascertain whether the boy is dead or alive. lie testified that he had been informed by one Harriott Abney, who seems to be the wife of the supposed dead man, that his son and herself had married several years after the time he was alleged to have been murdered and that he was now alive and could be produced, being in Aiken county. First Bale is Sold. Barnwell, Special. ? South Caro lina's first bnle of 1909 crop was sold in Barnwell Saturday to Molair and Porter by Mr. R. II. Lutz. The \>ale weighs 455 pounds and grades good middling. Mr. Lutz sold to Molair and Por ter the first bale of cotton for 1908. j The bale was shipped to F. W. Wagner & Co., of Charleston, and sold for 15 cents . Aiken County Excited About Liquor Election. Aiken, Special. ? Tho liquor cam paign is being worked up to a high pitch in this county, and tho present prospects are, that it will be tho most exciting election ever held in this county. Almost every day or two there is some sneaker for the prohibi tion cause. Monday afternoon Mrs. Mary Harris Armor, president of the Georgia W. C. T. U., made an ad dress at -the court bouse to a good sized audience. She was followed by an address from tho eloquent and flowery Seaborn Wright. Dr. L. 0. Stevens Dead. Greenville, Special.-? Dr. L^ C. Stevens, aged 71 years and for half jo., century o_ pracf itioneer of medi cine in South Carolina, died Thurs^ day quite suddenly, having returned oniy Wednesday from a trip to Caesar's Head. Ho was surgeon of Hart's battery in the Civil war and bad- served the- State- Modical society as president. He moved to Green ville nine years a#o from Barnwell county. - - ; - - -? ? . . . TO HONOR SOUTHERN WOMEN Design That ia Pleasing to Commit tee For Suitable Commemoration of the Southa Heroic Womanhood During the Qroat Civil War. Atlanta, <?a., Special. Helitting in nobility of conception and beauty of execution The subject it is to com inemoratc, the design for tin- monu ment to women of the "Lost Cause" has been completed. It is the work of H Dixie girl, Aliss Belle Kinney. ??!' Nashville, Teiin., ami has bfen ac cepted by several States, It is prob able that all the States which lel't the t'nion in the civil war will adopt"' the design and that jeplicas of the monument will be placed in I lur Cap itols of each. Tlio design t'oV the proposed monu ment is very beautiful and elevating, The central figure, ot heroic size, is thu goddess ot i'amti. At her right, the resting ligure, delicately featur ed, beautiful, but an expression of exquisite sadness, represents the sclf saerilleinjr Southern woman of war tiuiiv Fame is represented as placing a wreath upon the Southern woman's bead, while she supports, at ^ier left, a dying and j-maciat cd Confederate soldier, l<? whom the Southern woman is extending in death, the palm of victory. A year or more ago the I laughters of the Confederacy. and the Sons ol' Confederacy decided upon the erec tion of these monuments in every State capital in Dixie. The work was to have been done bv an Italian sculptor. When his design was sub mitted at the late Confederal ? reun ion in Memphis, it raised a storm of protest. The artist had pictured the Southern woman as a militant and a mazonian figure, carryinir in one band a sword and in the other the banner of the. Lost Cause. This con ception was so foreign to the gentle, suffering and patient woman of the Southland as those who loved her had known her, that the design was re jected by an overwhelming vote. The. angered artist declined to submit an other and Miss Kinney was appealed to. Tennessee has appropriated $'2. 000 throuuh the Daughters and Sons of the Confederacy for a bronze cast of the design. v GREAT ELECTRIC STORM. Reports Gathered Indicate Most Un usual Violence of Electric Comma ticn Sunday Nighi. Reports coming in from various points tell ?.jf a most terrific* elect ric storm Sunday night. Old veterans at Charlotfe, N~. C., declare it seemed a repetition of the .battle- of Gettys burg as the booming, piercing and crashing bolts played a game of vio lence and the sky was incandescent wit li (lashes. Shelby, N. C. ? The home of Mr. Harvey Jetton was struck five times in the electric storm Sunday night. Once it struck a window demolishing the sash and setting on fire a bed by it in which two of his children slept. One was shocked for a short time. While he was extinguishing the fire a siuiiliar stroke up stairs demolished another window near iiis son 's bed. Spartanburg, S. C. ? The storm Sunday night was the worst in many years. For one hour there was not a minute when there was not a flash of lightning. The house of A. L, Sitton was struck and Mr. Sitton badly shocked. ' ' ? ?*? Spartanburg, S. O. ? Fireman Mooney, of the Southern Railway, was struck bv lightning Monday afternoon at Spartanburg Junction while in the act of filling the water tank of his engine with water. A terrific storm was raging and as ho stepped on the tender of his engine to open t lie. tank a bolt of lightning knocked him senseless. At first it was thought he had been killed. He is still in an unconscious condition, but is able to move and mako his wants known. Yuma, Ariz. ? Great damage was done Monday by a heavy rain-storm. For three hours water fell in tor rents, covering the streets a foot deep. Streets and alleys in the lower portion of town were raging streams. Adobe houses crumbled and families were compelled to move out. Rail road tracks on both sides of the town were washed out. Davidson. X. ('. ? / very much fk* sircd rain visited all this section of country Sunday night just as people were returning from church. Hut while bringing Messing and gladness to the farmers it meant death to one young ?fcdbrtv. a Mr. Weatherland by liatne, living on the linger place just beyond I3eat tie's Ford. He was kill ed between 0 and o'clock by a stroke of lightning, the thunderstorm in that section being quite severe. Mr. Weatherland bad just dosed down a window and was standing in the door when instantly killed. Mr. 1 Weatherland was about 25 years old and married. Charleston, 9. C. ? A severe thund er-Rtorm visited Charleston Monday afternoon, doing no material damage Tn the city itself; 8<J far rrshasbeen reported, but blowing down all the teleghaph and telephone wuts lead ing into the city, so that for several hours Monday the city was prae world. The established a miles from the Western Union has I temporary office four j mmmm $20,000,000 III LAND SUITS BROUGHT BY GOVERNMENT . , , 755,341 Acres Unlawfully Fenced Restored to United States. $430,096 TRESPASS AND FINES lit Hi Unpatented Entries, Having 404.000 Acres, Cjillfi'lcd Koi' Fruinl Hint Illegality ? il>"5,000 Canes Awaiting Invest Igaliou. Washington, D. C.? -There nro $20,000,000 Involved t it pending suits to recover land to tin1 Government and 141 special agents last year uint 332 now are Investigating alleged land (rauds,- nays the annual report of tbo General Land Olllce in re ferring to Hold work for the la.it tlweal year, There were 755,341, acres of unlawfully fenced lands restored to the Government. Uncle Bain netted 54 30,090 in cash for coul and tim ber land trespnssod and lines in crim inal proceedings regarding lands. t)u July 1 there remained 35,000 cases awaiting Held Investigation Thorp were canceled for fraud and Illegality 3 IS 4 unpatented entries having about 41)4,000 acres, and fifty six Alaska ooal entries were allowed to lapse in face of the special agents' in vest . I gallons. One hundred patents were vacated and ^G,729 acres addi tional restored to the public domain by proceedings in court or in settle ment thereof. ? In timber trespass suits 101 ver dlcts were obtained and $77,077 paid upon such judgments. In the crim inal cases there were twenty-four con victions for trespass, thiriy-nin? for conspiracy, live for perjury, thirty four for unlawful inclosuro ar\d thir teen miscellaneous. Decrees were se cured tn removing forty unlawful in closures. The tines collected were $32,800. and twenty-six prison sen tences were Imposed. Of the suspended . coal cases re maining for action about 7 00 are in Alaska. There remained in the De partment of Justice for sui; July 1, 127 trespass cases, 010 suits u> re cover lands, 177 fencing cases and 4 25 criminal cases. The value of some of the land recoveries is Indi cated by one case wherein coal land?i were returned by a railroad company. The company and its alleged grantees bad paid about $7 0,000 for the lands. Since recovering the lands the Geological Survey has fixed the sell ing price at over $5,000,000, and this on the basis of less than four cents a ton for the coal. Of tin* total moneys collccted about three-fifths was collected since March 1. STOREK RKPER KILLS BURGLAR. Surprises Robber Packing Up Goods ? Companion Escapes. "Woodbury, ? N. J. ? Isaac Haines, who has a general store at Clarks noro. killed a burglar who had bro ken into the place a^f night. A com panion of the man made bis escape. Haines' store hns been robbed sev eral times, and bo had armed himself so as to be prepared for any visits by thieves. He heard a suspicious nolFe in the store, and taking bis revolver went, quietly down to the first floor. In the dim light in the store he saw a man busily engaged in packing up goods. "What are you doing there?" de-. manded liaises. The Intruder made no reply, but put his band bark to his hip pocket as if to draw a weanon. Before the man could reach hla pocket Haines leveled his revolver ^nd fired, and wlth: a groan the burglar dropped to the floor. ATLANTIC CITY FOR G. A. R. Next Encampment to lie neld on New Jersey Seashore. Salt Lake City, Utah.? The forty third national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic ended with a fireworks display on Ensign Peak, a mountain rising at the edgo of the city. By a vote of 307 to 293 Atlantic City was chosen over St. Louis as tho place for the next encampment, after a aoirlted fight. After the fipal details of the con vention were disposed of Commander in-Chief Van Sant. ex-Governor of Minnesota, and his fellow-officers, elective and appointive, were in stalled. The Woman's Relief Corps elected Mrs. Fannie W. D. Harden, of Den ver, senior vice-president, and Mrs. .Tennie L. Jones, of Salt Lake City, Junior vice-president. PRAYER KK VEALS DROWNING. I Little Shnvoi* Too Scared io Toll, Un bosoms Himself on High. CIevp'a*td, Oiilo. ? Listening to lier boy's prayers, an Ashtabula mother was startled by overhearing him whisper in earnest tones: l "Dear Cnd, be good to Sammy; for | plvo him. Godv because be fell In the 1 rive . He was only a little boy, and couldn't help it. Ard please forKivo me. too, God, for beiitg with him when he* drowned." j The r.ioiher finally learned that 1 while her son end other boys wero pitying with elsht-year-old Sammy Webster on a raft in the river, Sam my ic'A into the river. The boys ran home without tilling anyone. Search ers recovered *ne boy's body next day. NOTED CONTRACTOR KILLED. Body of .To??*!?h A. Ulundon. of Wasli* ington, Found on llailroad. ? 'Washington. D. O. ? Joseph A. Blundon, a god sixty-one years, one of the most prominent contractors and hulldors of this city, was found badly mangled beside the tracks of the Bal> timore and Ohio Railroad at fclver dale, Md., a suburb. It was nnder Mr. Blundon'a super vision that the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal *ra? rebuilt following the Johnstown (Fa.) flood In 1889. JUDGE SENDS THAW BAD* ID HTM Holds That He is Still Insane and a Paranoiac. MRS. THAW TO CONTINUE FIGHT JtiNliii' T.srtno \. Mill* Says: "Th?* lt'ns<> of (lu* IViitimn'i' NVotilil ll? to ( In1 Public I *i* {it'll and Safely." White 1'laiiiK, N. Y. ? Under tho decisjon of Supreme Court Justice Inane N. Mills. Hairy K Thaw must go back to Matt <>a wan A'sylum. Jus tice Mills dismisses t.ho writ ?>f habeas corpus and remands Thaw to the Slate institution for the criminal Insane Tho decision of Just ft'" Mills makes the way to the divorce court easy for Evelyn Nesblt Thaw. It enables her to bring proceedings that would as sure her Immediate freedom. 1 There Is but onn -crumb ?>t comfort for Thaw in the 7 OOu-wonl opinion I handed down by Justice Mills. This is a suggestion, nmounting to an order, that Thaw be treated more kindly by the authorities at Mattoii wnn, and that his privileges be some w bat enlarged. otherwise the derision was wholly against Thaw, and declared that "tho releutso or (he petitioner would be! dHUgerotis to the public peace and safety." All' the contentions of Uis trict Attorney Jerome are supported, nod It is declared that Thaw ts still insane, still suffering from persistent delusions, and still as much a para-1 noiac as on the day ho'shot Stanford White. Justlco Mills' opinion reviews tho Thaw case at gi^>at length, and, after telling of his commitment as an in sane person at the close of his second trial for murder, Bays there la now upon the prisoner "the burden of proving that ninon the commission of the homicide lie has become witic to the decree that it is reasonably cer tain that his enlargement will now be without menace to the public peace or safety. Where insanity- has gone bo far as actually to take human life, no BenF.lbla person , will be sntistiod with evidence to recover which does lot attain to the degree of reasonable certainty. " From the evidence Justice Mills draws the following conclusions: "Tho insanity with which Harry K. Thaw was afflicted on June 25, 1 9" 0 G , at the time he committed the homicide, was o; ttin kind known as chronic, delusive insanity, or para "tola. This conclusion rests upon tho following facts, which appear to mo to he clearly proven: "There was in his ancestral slock a substantial but not very strong trace of insanity. By 'not very strong 1r meant the fact that no one of his direct, ancestors was ever insane." As a young child he was physically weak and puny, exceedingly nervous and abnormally wakeful. While at school, especially In his earlier yenrs, he had frequent outbreaks of uncon trollable excitement, in which his facial appearance was wild and star ing. Further aiong, reviewing tho his tory of Thaw's life, the Judge says: "About 1901 he became enamored of a young woman, Miss Nesbit, whom he afterward married. She was then by common report and reputation, well known to him, tho mistress or a mistress of Stanford White. She soon assumed that relation to Thaw, and, obviously to account to hi: ? for her former, position with White, told him various wild and grossly improbable stories of tho inception of that rela tion. Although ho (Thaw ) . evidently was himself far from a moral man, ,ho gave absolute credence to the tal?s told him by Miss Nesbit about White. /'Such belief to such extreme ex tent was plainly a delusion. With it there^'came to his mind the convic tion^ 'also delusive in character, *that he had a special mission to destroy White's practices. These delusions had become established, fixed and systematized in hiB mind prior to his marriage. April 4, 1905, and so con tinued at leaBt until after tho homi cide. "Second conclusion: Harry K. Thaw has not yet recovered from his insanity above stated and defined. "All the experts agree that in a case of true paranoia recovery is very doubt ful. "Third conclusion: The enlarge ment of Harry K. Thaw now would be dangerous to the public peace and safety, and therefore cannot bo pei* inittod." An unusual J paragraph in Justice Mills* opinion was devoted to Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw, the prisoner's mother, for whom sympathy and gen tle consideration was expressed. Tho decision of Justice Mills fell heavily upon Thaw's mother, who was so overcome that she wan unwMe to lenve her suite in the Carlyton Arms. But after a conference with Mr. Morchauser Mrs. Thaw issued a statement, i/j which she assailed District Attorney Jerome. * Mr*. Thaw Raises .$100,000. Pittsburg, ? Pa. ? 'Proof that Mrs. William Thaw if: not yet done fight ing for, her son was given when sho disposed of a portion of the front lawn of famous J^ynrihurst to W. W. Wlllock, the canglileratlon being cash and in tho neighborhood of % 1 00,000. It wa.i but recently that Mrs. Thaw borrowed $100,000 on Lyndhurst. VICTORY FOR LOCAL OPTION*. r? * ?** J ..... - South Carolina Supreme Court sus tains New Law. Columbui, 8. C. ? The State Su preme Court refused to declare* In valid the local option liquor law passed at the laat session ot the Legist lature. The test of the law was made on a petition brought by Thomas Jelllco, of Charleston, for an injunction re straining the Charleston County ofll elals from holding the liquor election to that county on August 7. : 8 KILLED, 50 HURT; | IMS MEET HEAD Oil Wreck on Donver and Rio Grande at Husted, CoL | THREE ENGINES IN A DITCH T\vt> <'ars of Oiio Train Telescoped-? , Tlio loo I'MtK'tlltcrM of J tot ll Trains Shaken I j? ? liuur of Train t'row. ; Colorado Springs, Col Fight aro dead and fifty me injured, some fatal ly, as a result of a tumd-on collision between Truln X, northbound, and Train 1, southbound, on tin* Denver and Klo tirande, at Dusted. thirteen inlloa north or Colorado Springs. Tho trains, both running at high speed. HH'i on a curve, and tin ir creWH had no opportunity to avert the collision., Tho northbound train, drawn by two engines, telescoped the baggage ear and smoki r of the southbound, and all three engine* went Into the dileh. More IT i u it 10D ' puShOhgor.H w> rft on , the two trains. The inuibongera were thrown in a screaming mass on the floors <>f the earn and many wrro hurt in the Blnmpede to escape. Tho unhurt went to the aid of the injured, but bo nival wan tho confusion that it required half an hour to eloar tho ears, which were enveloped in clouds of steam from tho engines. Kollef trains bearing Burgeons and nursea wore Kent to the ?ce,no of t he-wreck and the wounded woro brought, to local hospitals. It in said that tho officials of tho road placu tho blame of the wreck upon tho crew of Train H, who wore ordered to in Get Train 1 at Hunted. It is asserted the crew mistook a switch engine and cars for Train 1 and believed tho track was clear. The doad are: Frank 1 M. Frederick, St. Louis; C. 8. Brown, Jerrico Springs, Mo.; J. A. (lossngc, Husted, Col., fireman of train; It. F. Parkins, Colorado Springs; J. K. I'arker, Denver; J. It. ?Parker, Chicago; two unidentified men. Among tho injured are: Andrew .Tacobfion, Old Ham, S. I)., internal Injuries; 13 1 met* .lokisch, Virginia Falls, 111., leg broken ; J. I. Frank, McPherson, Kan., leg and head cut; F. J. Sftdluck, St. Louis, head cwt? legR broken; Mrs. T. M. Randolph, Okmulgee, 01;la., Internal Injuries; Fay Sleek, Kansas CMtv. slightly in jured; Jonn VV. Huberts, Cambria, Mo., head cut. legs broken; E. C. Whltsidc. itrrrlco Springs, Mo., back Injured; Henry C. Shipmnn, Chicago, ribs and leg broken; J. W. Leafgren, Axtell, Neb., legs cut; O. C. Skinner, Topeka, Kan., ribs broken; F. C. Tannehillo, Dos Moines, Iowa, arm broken; John Holnhart, Carson'; Iowa, leg broken. II LACK HANI) RUINS ORCHARD. 12.*# Trees Chopped Down After Own er Ignores $.">000 Demand. Lockport, N. Y. ? More than 125 three-year-old fruit trees in tho or chard of Joseph Rotuiido, a wealthy hotel keeper at tho western limits of tho city, wore chopped down. Rotundo has been pursued by the so-called Ulack Hand for a long time. Last October he received a letter de manding $ r> 000. A decoy package was used, and in a desperate flght Vinco Gallbauo was shot by the po lice, who surrounded him when ho went for the mouey. He recovered, and is serving two and a half years in prison. On April 5 Inst a similar letter de manding S3000 was received by Ro tundo. He paid no attention to It, md in a short tlmo afterward a bullet - whistled Into his room at night. On August 7 ho received another letter, demanding $5000. KILLED AS AUTO LEAPS BArflC, William H. Dodd I,okck Life When Miichino Skidfe. Svrnruse. N. Y ? William H. Dodd. of No. 109 Waveriy avenue, this rir.y, \ retired school teacher, was killed by an automobile in which he was riding when it skidded over a twenty-foet embankment at Belle Isle, about ire miles west of the city. His son, Dal las Dodd, was injured, two of his ribs being broken. Theodore Clarke and Herman Tamkln, of the City Engi neer's Department, were In the party, but escaped without serious hurts. The car was being turned from & canal bridge on the State road. It was following a heavy rainstorm that the accident occurred. Dodd and his vin were taken to the Hospital of the (lood Shepherd, whore the father died a few minutes after reaching it. RUSSIA'S WISHES TO RE MET. Appropriate Regulation* For Nriviga tion of the Siingarl to Bo Drawn, Pekin, China. ? Tho question of opening the Sungari River to inter national trade will be settled by tho negotiation at Harbin, Manchuria, ot a set of regulations for Its navigation that will meet tho peculiar local re quirements of Russia. Tho matter of tk-ade on the Amur Riv'or will bo negotiated by Itself. ' No Politic* In Census. v~" President Taft, at Beverly, Mass., issued an order to Secretary Nagel to discharge any census supervisors or enumerators who take any part in politics during their terms ot office. -i ? ? f v " ?. . i MOTHER SLEW THREE BABES. wm i i ' ? * - ? ' Chlrjum Woman Then 0Vw*?ltted Sui cide by <jin? Inhalation. Chicago, 111. ? Mrs. Marie Handzel tnrned on the gaa in the bathroom and committed suicide and slew her three boy babies. She carefully bathed and dressed ? her three children, one four years old and twins two year* old, and carried them Into th? bathroom. Mrs. HahtUel h*d beert 1U fnr som<r Itlme. She left four other children, ranging from six to sixteen years. ' ' ' ? * y- ,r.i* Latest News. BY WIRE. Milton, Del., Humeri. \ Dover, Del, ? ? Milton, n blinking font-town of 8000 inhabitants thirty eight miles boHth of hero, wan nearly vriiied out by lire. Of 170 huildlngH ? - bubliiosa eutatdl:shmentH and rest* donee5~?oyly twelve were left bland* lug, Admiral Thomson Don*!, > Seattle. ? Hear - Admiral Judnh Thomson, U. H. N., retired, died ?it Providence Hospital after e lon^. Ill ness, aued sixty-seven. General Funston Ituys a Fn rm . Leaven worth, Kan, ? ? Brigadier* Oeneral Frederick W. Funston baa purchased ? farm at Highlands, Ala meda County, California, which he Intend# to make bis homo when ho retires from the army, 9 1 no, 000 Fire at lteeort Camden, N. J. ? Fifteen buildings at Washington l'nrlw u ple:i*nro re sort ten mili-.s lnun here, w<m?? <l? Bt roved by fire. The loss In estimated at $160,000. A small panic occurred' anionc? 2000 picnickers at tho park. No one was injured. New American Vessel*. Washington, D. C. ? DuiThg last month 143 ?all and steam vessel# of 25.023 cross tons were built in tho United States, aecovdlug to a state ment issued by thu-Durettu of N'aviga* tlon. Fifteen Dnttloshlps Assembled. Norfolk, Vn.?--The fifteen vessels of the Atlantic battleship licet assem bled on the southern drill grounds, east. of the Virginia Capes, thirty-lour miles off shore. Kill A cent at JUs Post. Stanford, Ky. ? J. C. Englemnn, a?ent of the Queen and Crescent, at Kind's Mountain, was assassinated in his ofllce. lie was shot lu tho back of tke head. v Shock Kills I/lfe-Sftver. Lewes, Del. ? Shocked by the ter rible death of his niece, Mrs. Georgo Chase, who was burned to death by an exnlodlne gasoline stove. Captain ... Theodore Salmons, captain of the Lewes life-saving station, dleil from I heart failure brought ou by the shock. "Uncle Tom" Court Ho, use Destroyed. ? Lexington, Ky. ? Tho Court House ?t Wnahlnjrtnn Mnunn C.onnt.V, In ?which "Uncle Tom," of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" fame was sold, was struck by. lightning and destroyed. The build* in k was erected in 1794. It was the sale of the aged negro that gavo Har riet Beecher Stowe tho basis for her story. ? Former Danker Leaves Prlgon. San Franclfcco, Cal. ? . J. Dalzell Drown, former manager of tho Cali fornia Safe Deposit and Trust Com- '? pany, and who helped to dissipate $9,000,000 belonging to 2000 depos itors, is out of San Quentin Prison a freo men. Drown turned State's 'evi dence and was sentenced to only elgh* teen months on one Indictment. Five Durncd In Home. Hancock, Mich.? Five persons, lost their lives when the residence of Ed ward Dloftno was burned. They are Mrs. Dldnno, Edward Dlonne, Jr., aged eight; L?e Dlonne, ian infant; * ten-year-old girl named Racine and a fifth pciBon whoso name was not learned. Miss Klkins' Marriage. Londcyi. ? King Edward's aid Is in voked to overcome Queen Margher ita'a opposition to the marriage of the Duke of the Abriizzl and Mill '' Kathertne Klkins, by Americans in the King's set in London. Regent Rules in Abyssinia. Addis Abeba, Abyssinia. ? In view of the precarious health of King Men ellk, full powers of regency have been granted to Rns TeBama, the guardian of Prince Lldj Jeassu, the heir pr??J sumptlve to the throne. No Jap. "Warship For Falton Petes. Tokio. ? Vice-Admiral Salto, Min ister of Marine, expressed regret that Japan cannot be reprtsented at the Hudson-Fulton celebration, owing to the distance from Japan to New York. Mrs. Parkhurst Coming. London. ? Mrs. Parkhurst, the suf fragette leader, will make a trip to the United States and will deliver a series of addresses in the larger cities there. ~ China Awaits Japan's Proposals. Pekln, China. ? China has agreed to the Japanese proposition to reopen the negotiations regarding the An tung-Mukden Railroad at Mukden at such time as Japan selects and awaits propositions from Japan relating to Manchuria. * 288,70? Swedes on Strike, Stockholm.- The striking work men of Sweden continue to return to work. Out of a total of 480,000 workmen engaged In Swedish indus tries, 286,762 are on r.irlke, bat * , small groups ot these men are con tinually retiirotna to their labors. C. Turkey ia Unsatisfied. Constantinople. ? The Pprte has de cided to nddrpft* a xmLfl . to Greece, m wmcti il wnl u? stated that Greece's reply trt HOT"' Turkish note concerning Cre|e is un | -satisfactory. France Worried Orer Tariff. Paris. ? The annour,. the present tariff afcreeinc United States will come to October 41 Ixas^causett here. The hope is expr Government will avoid