The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, August 20, 1909, Image 1
CAMDEN, S. C.. FRIDAY. AUGUS'l 20.
PALMETTO NEWS ITEMS
Things Doing And Happening In Sunny Carolina,
Told In Condensed And Pithy Phrase.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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*.
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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.
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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.
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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