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vol. xxvn. BARNWELL, S. C. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1908. FOB LAW AND ORDER. Okiau to Be ducked by Striking at theCa m. AV ASBBX8S TO THE P*0?t*. Jk.M*n Will Be Pat la the at aa Early Day to Ontanlae CoajB p Aaeoelattoae of the Law and Order Lea«ae. The executive committee of the Temperance Law and Order league, which was organised fair week, met id Columbia Tuesday night and pre pared an address to be issued to the people of South Carolina. Constitu tion and by-laws were also adopted. It was decided to put a man in t^ie •eld at once. The necessary expenses must be met by voluntary contribu tions. All who are Interested in the welfare of the State are urged to send contributions to the treasurer of the league, Mr. Howell Morrell of Rorrell, Richland county. After the adjournment of the com mittee meeting, the chairman, Capt. XrWv-Hamcl, editor oft hr Bra, stated that the members are very n&ocb In earnest; they have met with much encouragement and expect to succeed. It must come about slowly. Just as the present state of lethargy has come over the State gradually, but the league expects to see the day when the people will see the cause of crime. THB ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE. Hollowing is the address which, was Issued Tuesday night: To the People of South Carolina: The executive committee of the State Temperance Law and Order league, in the discharge of the duty Imposed on theniy wouid address to their fellow dtixens a few considera tions and conclusions as to the deplo rable condition of lawlessneeq existing In the State, a condition well calcu lated to humiliate us in our own eyes sad degrade us in the estimation of the civilized world. It ia sufficient to call attention to the fact that 180 homicides are re ported in the daily papers as commit ted in this State for the nine months ending September 30 of the current year, to show that a tjerrible state of lawlessness exists and to Justify the most earnest and strenuous efforts on the part of law-respecting oitixens to correct it. - Besides this record of blood-guilti ness, crimes of all lesser grades which result from a lawless spirit are on the Increase, while efforts to repress them by the ordinary process of law seem to he singularly ineffective. It is scarcely necessary to recite the catalogue of these crimes against morality and good order. They are known and read of all men. The laws Of God and man are violated with im punity as witnessed by the desecration of the Sabbath, the profanation of the sanctuary of God by scenes of drun kenness, disorder apd bioodshedrtbe violations of the criminal law, and the shameful violation of the dispensary law in all Its restrictive and prohibi tive provisions. and faithful discharge of their official obligations to the public, and by proceeding against them for willful neglect or failure on their part. 4. Especially to secure a full and satisfactory enforcement of the dis pensary law, both against' those en- gaged ln prohibited traffic in intoxi- TTf cants and those who violate the pro- vlitoas of the law while acting as sworn officers of the dispensary. 5. By endeavoring to secure such legislation in the future as will ulti mately prohibit the traffic in intoxi cants for beverage purposes in South Carolina. 1 Its officers shall consist of a chair man, secretary-treasurer, and an ex ecutive committee, consisting ofjjseven members, one for each congressional district in the State, of which the chairman snd secretary-treasurer shall be ex-officio .members, and one or more field workers. - . The chairman, secretary-treasurer and executive committee shall be elected at a convention of delegates from the county leagues hereinafter provided for, and the field workers shall be choeen fey- the executive cbm-' mittee. The term, of office shall be for one year or until their successors The executive committee shall have power to transact such business^ as may promote the objects of the organ ization, and shall meet at Such times and places as the chairman may ap point. The annual convention shall be held in the city of Columbia on Wednesday vening of fair week for the election f officers and the transaction of such usiness as may be deemed necessary. Will be Endorsed. The Spartanburg Journal says Governor Heyward may have lost some popularity in Charleston by with-bolding dispensary profits from that city, but be jbas strengthened himself vastly throughout the state by his determination to see the law enforced in all parts of the state. If the local authorities igoored the dls- penwryTaw Ih Spariinbuyiif thtrcity would not get any of the profits and the same rule ought to bold good In Charleston- The governor and the Under these conditions It becomes a proper enquiry for thoughtful men, what is the cause of this disordered condition of society, and to seek to discover a remedy therefor. The most painful feature of the sit- tiatlon is to be found in the general in difference on the part of the better element to assume their part Id the enforcement of law, and their refusal or neglect to support those appointed agents who are charged with Jtsen- Jbrement. • " . .-We believe it the duty of good oitt- sens of all classes, and especially of Ohristlans, to aid In the enforcement of all laws which have been placed on the statute books by their sanction, and that their neglect or refusal to discharge their duty in this respect is the chief encouragement and sup port to lawlessness. We commend his excellency, Gov. Heyward, for his sincere ejfort to en force the dispensary Tat. and declare dispensary board are to be com mend- ‘-fed for their action in the matter and they will be endorsed by the people of the state. It to be one oTThepurposes of our or ganisatlon to render all available aid and encouragement to him and his officers in their laudable endeavor. In a word we would tail upon our fellbw citizens to come promptly and boldly to the rescue of our State from the perilous position in which we bare been placed by suffering a small mi nority of law breakers to Imperil every true Interest of the people by their criminal conduct. fto this purpose we would urge upon the people la every county and community to unite with us In organ ised effort by forming themselves into leagues for the purposes set forth in the simple form of organisation which la herewith submitted. Howell Morrell, J.W. Hamel, Secretory. Chairman. THE OONSTmXIOE. . The general purposes at the league will be found In the constitution, which Is as follows: This organisation shall be known as the South Oarohsa Temperanoe, Law and Order league. It shall he sup ported by free will offerings and shad Sava for Its objects: 1. To render all moral enoourage- asent and support to the constituted authorities la tbs enforcement of ex- both State and municipal, • COUNTY LEAGUES. ^ ■ -| • :— : ; -—— :: Jf county league shall be formed at each county seat and may maintain branch leagues at such points in the county as may best subserve its Interest, and shall adopt such sim ple rules for its government as may be necessary to carry out the objects of the organization. officers. The officers of the oounty leagues shall consist of a chairman, secretory and treasurer and an executive com mittee in such number as the league may decide upon.' They shall elected annually and bold office until the! r successors are chosen. - ’ - The chairman of each county league shall be ex-officio members of the State executive committee. * Each oounty league shall elect an nually at their meeting in September delegatee to the annual convention In Columbia In the ratio pf one for each member of the general assembly from their oounty. - ——— SOME PLAIN TALK From Senator Morgan in Criticising the Conrso of tho President T THE COLOMBIA* Roosevelt's Wild. loexoeMble Reid, the la What Alai bama Man A BIk Baby. Although physician experienced In the care of very young babies are in credulous, the neighbors of Mrs. Josebh Hurtik, of No. 318 East Sev enty-first street, New York city, ac cept with wonderment the statement of the nurse that a baby boy—the thirteenth in the Hurtik family—who arrived on Friday, the thirteenth of this month, really weighed twenty- seven pounds at birth. Since the news of the prodigy began circulating there has been a steady pilgrimage to the Hurtik home. ~ ' •till Fighting. A dispatch from Manila says Gen. Wood captured the Morp noaltion in the hills of Joky north of TagUbi on the-^Dth irmt., and destroyed the f on the i#thmus, and he earthworks they had thrown up there. Private Martin Brennan of the Four teenth cavalry was killed during the engagement and two privates were wounded, one seriously. The loss on the Moro side is known to he 75, pro bably more, as the grtfend is covered with brush and the bodies are hard to find. Near Dubois, Pa., while three miners were in an elavator eage at mine No.'2, of the Buffalo & Susque hanna Goal company control of the machinery was lost and the cage and men were precipitated to the bottom, a distance of 100 feet. The men were killed almost instantly. They were married and leave families. Eighteen Drowned. The Norweighan steamer. Victoria was stranded during Wednesday night’s storm off Stavanger Norway. Sixteen members of the crew and two persons who were pamengera on board of her were drowned. Five persons were rescued from the steamer. An Old Fool. They have the worst kind of old fools over In Georgia. Recently in Decatur superior'court a min over 60 years of age was Wednesday conviot- ed of kfdnnapping a girl of 8. He the peaoe and good order of oonfeaMd that he wanted to Terms the Making of the Panama Repnblle. The Panama question was up in the United States Senate last week, and in discussing ^ it Senator John T. Morgan, of Alabama, indulged in some very plain talk. The question came up in connection with the an nouncement of the reorganization of senate committees, relieving Mr. Mor gan from the chairmanship of the committee on interooeanic canals. Before the order went into effect Mr. Morgan took the floor and his speech proved to be a discussion of the en tire canal question, with liberal crlt- MrT Morgan discussed at some length the attitude of the president in the matter of the selection of a route for the proponed isthmian canal and in doing so accused him Of using his official position to advance bis per sonal views. One man in the presi dential office may be able; he said, to crush all opposition, but it remained to be seen whether be could crush the statutes of congress. He referred to the Spooner act and said no one could nullify it. The revolution in Panama, he said, wait a Caesarian operation, resulting in taking Panama alive from the womb of Oolombig. In connection with his charge that the president has made the canal question a party question, Mr. Mor gan said: ,r I think that the appeal to party discipline to force bis opin ions on the country, and bis measures of aggression on foreign countries, in addition to his power as commander and ohief of the army and navy which he uses with a dreadful latitude of construction, is so strong a proof of heart failure to the present- wild mo ments that I am encouraged to hope that there are still some barriers that we may rely upon to protect the. peace aud save the oommef&d'of the coun try. I regret that party discipline is to be used as a domestic police force to protect ‘the transit’ in Panama, and to guard the interests of the new canal company. That we will get a canal if one can be built in Panama, I have no doubt, for the president has saffi so. Yet this re sult h not nearly so oertaln or so safe ss if he should obey the Spoooerliw.” Mr. Morgan said that he had only consented to the enactment of the Spooner bill because of his confidence in the good faith of the president in enforcing the law, and now that the president had not seen fit to keep.tbat faith it remained to be seen whether the Senate would support him in that position. The president had.^e said, completed his cappaign against the Spooner act by having Mr. Hay sign treaty with “somebody from Pana ma,’’ who bad.no authority except that conveyed in a cablegram from a Junto at Panama. He read the correspondence bearing upon the revolution to show, as he said that ''the president had known of the uprising In the Isthmus before it began and stood ready with armed ships to protect those engaged in It.” That Assistant Sscretory Loomis’ dispatch that It was our desire to malntolu peace was, Mr. Morgan de clared, the grimmest piece of irony that had ever graced diplomatic an nals. Mr. Morgan expressed the hope that Mr. Hay bad been asleep when some of the messages of his subordin ates bad been flying over the wire. “As for the president,” he said, “he never sleeps on his pdst of duty or de sire, although be sometimes closes his eyes to what Is going on about him He continued that Colombia bad a perfect right to suppress an uprising declared that the United States had failed utterly to observe Its treaty obUgatione in pursuing the course It had token. Indeed L he said, our course there had been such that it would bring down the censure Of future generations upon us, and. he predicted that the Immediate result would be disas trous, causing the loss pf both jnen and treasure. The consequences would be such that the president would have no time for dresms of diplomatic triumphs. ; H6 declared bis opinion that Mr. Hay bad not been a free agent in ne gotiating either of the canal treaties. Ml Morgan said thatthe most strenu ous part of of Jibe career of the presi dent had been oyverpd by his effort to secure a canaljwltb Panama and that the president had resolved when the Hay-Her ran treaty was under oonsid eration to posh the canal through and if authority did not exist he had made up his mimHo create it * As to the Panama matter, Senator Morgan said an elaborate treaty been prepared, commission sent and then sent back again to government with power totality treaty. He charged that the treaty with Colombia had been largely driwn by a corporation lawyer. Speaking of the report of the isthmian canal com favorble to the Panama route, Morgan characterised that report ar “the dynamite that has rent-in twain the republic of Colombia.” He said further that the report was a adventure. He declared that If Mr. the field, and be sefems not to feel the obligation of good faith when a more enticing field for unique admluistra- tion breaks upon the vision of this ambitious., spirit.” He declared that it was President Roovsevelt’s ambi tion to have all the glory of construct- vavwo log the canal for his own admlnlstra- tion. ■■ r “Has the president,” be asked, “any excuse for bis failure to oarry into effect the agreement with Nica ragua and Costa Rica unless It be re sentment towards Colombia and grati fication of personal ambition' which the law deprived him of the further power to Indulge? Whatever the in centive be will fail to carry the poof 1 pie with him in his wild and Inexcus able raid.” * ' No plea of “reasons of state” would be acceptable, for reasons of stote are out of place in a republic, and are re garded only as the plea of a tyrant. In abandoning tbe McKinley policy, Mr. Morgan declared that tbe presi dent bad destroyed tbe rights already acquired At much expense of Lime and effort." He declared that Colombia had lev ied blackmail to the extent of 37,000,- 000 and that, acting under the In-i j-strudttmre ofTffir pfefitornt; EhTsecii. tary of state had entered into an agreement that might make it possi ble to collect on the levy. Only the eagerness or the ambition of the president could, he said, have supplied the fulcrum for this transaction, Mr. Morgan reviewed at length tbe Oolomblan revolution pf' 1902, declar ing that Marroquin’s triumph was due not to bis own prowess, but to the assistance of the United States. “All roads that the president travels,” he said, “lead to the Panama canal, but some of his discreet friends should caution him not to burn tbe bridges behind him.” That war bad; be said, deserved the condemnation of all Christendom because of the brutality of Marroquin’s oonduct, and yet know ing this oonduct was such as would have done discredit to the bearer of a scalping knife or tomahawk, tbe United States was the ally of that leader throughout tbe conflict. He referred especially to Marroquin’a Con fiscatory decrees and said that Presi-,. dent Roosevelt must have known or them. ' - ~ Mr. Hanna challenged the stete- ment of Mr. Morgan that President McKinley bad been favorable to the Nicaragua route. “I know of my own personal knowl edge,” Mr. Hanna said, “that when in 1899, it became known that tbe Panama (Company’s property oould be purchased, be gave the question sftri- ous consideration and-investigation, and at bis instance provision was made in the, river and harbor bill for an appropriation of 3100,000 for the nvestigation of all routes. That this request was made because of bis in terest in tbe Panama proposition I know of my own personal knowledge. President McKinley had decided to follow tb&lreoommendation of bis commission, \and that ia what the A BANK ROBBED. Ths Robbers Bind Watchman With Win and Guard Him. opjjm ViBMimTH DY«Axrr»| jf. ■* They Secured Seven ' V Hundred lure in Cash end Fled on a . ' u Hand Oar. A Bold Deed. Bank robbers are again at work in this State. At an early hour Tues day morning, Nov. 24, a band of five white men robbed tbe Bank at Brun son on the Port Royal Railroad. They held up tbe - watchman, Richard Youmans, colored, presenting a revolver in his face. He yielded readily under this persuasion, and was left hound by tour of the men In the custody of the fifth. He was Stood against the side of the depot, with a wire rope tightly about bis neck, and still covered by a revolver, while the jobbers made their-way -tea black- smith shop. This they robbed of tbe tools they wanted for their more seri ous work. With these tools they made their way to the bank. Two of the four were left on the street to keep watch, while the other two went inside, after forcing the door. They blew open the vault and .then blew 6p5fi the safe within the vault, finding 37C0, which they took. There was ^ large amount of money lust received the day before, which was not in the vault, but in a new safe outside the vault. This was not touched, evidently escaping the notice of tbe robbers. After the robbery had been effected, tbe men {vent back to the watchman and the robber who stood guard over him. The negro was left tied while the robbers secured a band car and made off on the railway track towarda Fairfax. Tuesday morning two white men, regarded as suspicious charac ters, were arrested in Savannah and held for identification, as it is thought they might have had a hand in the robbery. T. H. Tuten, vioe president of the bank, and another citizen of Brunson went to Savannah and called at lhe barracks, but oould not Identify tbe meu. Tbe negro watchman ia considerably worsted, having been tied with wire hard and fast. .. Tbe bank has two safe*, ode a Hosier screw door burglar proof which was only recently installed. For tunately tbe robbers did not enter this one. Had they 'done so the low would have been very heavy. Id An Open Boat. Nine men from tbe French bark Francois Coppee who were picked up in an open boat by the steamer Schooner Scotia are still at Gulato bay Cal. The following story of the wreck Qf tbe bark was told by Fred Briken, one of the survivors: “About present executive is doing. So that 8:30 Friday night tbe Francois Ooppee tXIK IEF0&KATI0B. Many Wee tern Settle re Want te Come South to Eeape the Cold. Rev. Dr. Lund, professor of church history and of homiletics in the Unit ed Church seminary at St.* Paul, Minn., was in Columbia last week. This Is the theological school of the Norwelgan branch of the Lutberu church, which hae 150,000 communi cants. Dr. Lund Is himself an immigrant, a oatiVh of Norway, but be waa a babe In arms when be came to this country and he is thoroughly American now. He is fond of the Country of his adop tion, but he declane that he and many other ^Scandinavians find tbe winter climate of Minnesota too rigor ous. g He visits extensively among the peo ple at his denaml nation and wanted to be supplied with information concern ing South Carolina for upon his return be would be questioned closely. He declared that he had no official inter est in seeking this information, but there is a certain unreet among the foreigners who have settled in tbe wwthwwrAitrWWiBtrW^r aBTe IcT tbere has been no change in policy Mr. ’Morgan replied that he had spoken only from the public record of President McKinley and not from knowledge of his private views. “I know,” he a&ld, “that he enter ed into compacts with Nicaragua and Costa Rica to secure the Nicaragua route, and there is no record to show that he changed his mind.” ' - -i • Mr/Hanna—It is incorrect to say that President McKinley pieferred Nicaragua. I know better. It was only the high price of the Panama property that deterred him. A Diabolical Kerenrc. The German ship Octavia, 143 dtys out from Antwerp with a cargo of cement and steel rails to Port Los AugCles, dropped anchor a mile off shore of the latter port late Thurs day; ' The captain 6f the vessel brbught ashore his first officer In a dying condition and Rad him conveyed th j hospitoL. 'The Octevla arrived in port with the sallmaker in irons, ? barged with murder and the vessel’s og showed three sailors buried at sea. TtsesioryYsbTar as It can be learned, portends an unusual tragedy-on tbe high seas.- It sjems that 'abortly.Af ter rounding the Horn, the sailmaker, who, it Is said, was drinking heavily, began making trouble among the crew and Induced three sailors to Join him in a raid upon the whiskey portion of the cargo. In an ensuing drunken fight, the three sailors assaulted and severely beat the sallmaker. Subse quently the sailmaker Induced the same three men to make a second raid on tbe cargo and it is said purposely caused them to drink of a carboy of carbollo acid and they died. . . j' ■ v ■ A Sea Disaster. ~7| A special to The Post-Intelligencer from Juneau, Alaska, says passengers of the steamer Excelsior confirm the loss of the* steamer Discovery.' The Discovery sailed from Nome the latter part .of October and baa not been sighted but once sinco. HJevere stor ban 'prevailed over tbe route she would have-traveled & this port. She bly 50 or 60 passengers, t'of which Js with the steamer’s agent in Nome. >. Accidentally Killed. While out hunting with a party of iriends Thursday, Eugene Betts, a young merchant of Hendera n, N. O., was accidentally shot, dying Instant ly. Robert Orookett fired at a rabbit and Betts received the load In his tmek. teevoked tbeir „ During tbe little war that has been gqfar in See' Domingo our minister residence destroyed by shells dashed upon rocks at some place north of Pointe Reyes. The weather was very thick. Tbe sea was heavy. Tbe bark had been tossed about for a couple of days and Captain Iniye seemed unable to find his bearings. When he struck he bad time to provi sion the boats and then they were launched. In the boat with me were eight others. We got. away safely, Tbe boat taken by tbe captain was dashed against the' foundering vessel and the men in it were thrown into the sea and washed away. We had been drifting around for more than twenty hours when picked up. by the SUUU17 r A Man Brute. While aitting alone In onejpf the offices of the Boston Note Brokerage company oh Milk street Thursday, Miss. Lillian B. Goff, thirty-two years of age, a stenographer was brutally assaulted by a man who entered the apartment and struck her repeatedly on th$ head and arms with a heavy iron drill. It was at first thought that the assault followed a quarrel about terms of a loan but lateFT when an investigation disclosed the fact that 3400 wa^HBifislng from tbe office safe, robbery was assigned as a motive. After regaining consciousness at the hospital, Miss. Goff gave the police tbe name of her assailant and they are now searching for him. He is said to have frequently visited the office on business. give an intelligent answer to their questions. Tbe need of a State bureau of immigration was made evident by bis questions. ., r -- V.- There is one matter which he sug gested which should be brought to tbe attention of the people who are inter ested in bringing Immigrants to South Carolina do not fancy the presence qf the negro as a neighbor. There is that nameless horror which is a constant dead to all Isolated homes in the coun try, but if the colonists should be brought here they would congregate in such a way as to prevent their wo men and Children from being endang ered by tbe presence of negeo brutes. Tbe cheapness, of negro labor asld worries those people who do not un derstand that the negro-farm h%nd it an improvident and idle creature. The stories m to the “arlstoracy” 6f South Carolina seem to have hurt this State In which there is but one aris tocracy now—the aristocracy of hus tle and of enterpriae. Dr. Lund seem ed to be convinced that the settlers would be well received here. The soil here, he said, is not as fer tile as that of Minnesota, but the more agreeable climate is an offret to that. He seems to think the upper part of this State would be an idea soot in which to locate settlers. A WOMAN’S BAs claimed the Wnat Truant HIS PROTEST WAS OF Finally Her, Mother She Wae the Mm tea* j to 'Go A strange esse of mistaken J occurred in New York qmi week. A well-dresat-d, rather young woman was getting avenue ear at Twenty- when the face of a man i car caught bqr eye. Her faoel up with delight, then rage, ttt termination. She sprang back! car and ran toward the man with ontstretebed arms. “Ah, Robert, Robert—st ] cried. Tbe man looked passengers giggled. The off i sitting I STICKS TO BOOKIE. The President Wants to Give Wash- Ingum’s Brother a Job. A special dispatch from Washing ton to the Atlanta Journal says Presi dent Roosevelt’s affection for Booker Washington has been extended to in clude Booker’s brother John. A poetoffloe of tbe second or third class is to be soon established at Bopk- er’s Tuskegee Institute and John is to be madejwetmaster. The orders for this will be issued from the fourth assistant postmaster general’s office at oooe, it is understood. As soon as Oonfiressman Thompson, of the Tuskegee district beard of the plan, he hurried to General Bristow’s office and protested against it. He pointed out that the new poetoffloe would be within a mile of the Tus kegee office which is a violation of the department’s rules. He said Tuskegee bad a fine old School for young ladies which Is of more Importance than Booker’s school, but no postoffice had eveL.bssii proposed for the young ladles’ school. '< Futhermore, he atytled that the establishment of the Office at tbe ne gro Institute would take away from Tuskegee office much of the present businen and In all likelihood would cause a reduction in salary of tbe post master, allowances for olerk hire and other expense. To all the argument General Bris tow ooldly replied that the matter came within the discretion of the fourth assistant-postmaster general and that he would elBrclse his own Judgment. : < President Roosevelt, it is under- ter says, a negi Jen fragged bei wtf tying her, A Brave Girl. After having been bound and gag ged by a negro thief in tbe residence of Mrs. R. A. Barclay on Boulevard, Chicago, a plucky old girl employed as a domestic, burn ed tbe cords from her wrists and chassed the Intruder from the house with a carving knife. This Is the story jurrelated by the girl, whose name is Anna Hastings. Opening the cellar door in response to a knock, she says^anegro seized her by tbe throat, her to the kitchen and after forced a napkin into her mouth, while he proceeded to ransack tbe house. Tbe girl dragged herself to the range aud succeeded in freeing herself, receiving severe burns in the operation. A Centre Hhot. : “While northern Republican papers are denouncing the treatment Of the negro in the south,” says a oontempo rary, “it would be well tot them to give a moment's attention to the treatment of the black man in the north. In tbe city of Uaoolo, Neb.— mark tbe name—with its Republican majority of almost 3,000 tbe negro delegates to a great religious conven tion this month were denied aooom- modations at tbe hotels.” This to published •« Hf Mr. foot. “What! You don’t know your wlfel Ob, my husband, i hand!” she cried, 'v, *„ * > This was too much tor Wtoie He Jumped to hii feet, < waiting arms and fled to the The woman picked up shouting “My husband, my ht stop him I” and gave the passengers, determined f fun out. The man ran lifcn • i across Twenty-third street, him, dodging through the tlie woman. “Stop him, stophiml* she “He is- my husband! He toV mist! He’s got four win breath failed her. ’ ,m Policeman Barry saw-the i ning and caught him ip Tbe woman followed by tbs | and a hundred laughing people up in a second. PROTESTS UNAVAILING. “I am not, I am not,” thei gasping. At this the woman fell to 1 him as a bigamist. Barry was too much for him so ( pair to tbe station-house, woman repeated her story; man said be was Rupert waiter, of No. 116 Lawrenae Tbe woman said she wae Mm. i enoe Reynolds, of No. 984 avenue. “I am not this woman! and she will cost me my Job,” walled. “Are yon sure this man to husband?” asked Sergfc Place. “Bare? Of course I am sura, I live with him you deny it, either!” tbe cried cringing Price. COULD PENENBEE NO! “Can’t you identify him Don’t you know of any him?” Mrs. Reynolds .could think distinguishing marks, hot sha into a rage at tbe sogg didn’t know her own sergeant suggested be her friends to tbe verity her belief. The-thought i her ts good. ‘ “There to my mother. Mia. Kreixer. She will know him/ said. “And tbsre is Martin Wetoa. you deny knowing him?” Price sat down in tbs back waiting for tbe identift nervous at the prospect, nolds walked around, staring at him to verity her i tion. Finally Mrs. Kreiser i at the door by the trli Reynolds with the sl/ood, is responsible for the creation of the new office and the signal honor to be paid John Washington, who is a ginger-cake colored citizen, with flow ing side whiskers. * A teoman Convicted. At Stanton, Va., Mrs. Ellen Bailey was found guilty Thursday of plan- wreck which occurred on the orfolk and Western railroad at Greenville last December. Tbe Jury fixed her punishment at 10 years In the penitentiary. x Her son, James Bailey, and Joseph Kennedy have been convicted of wracking the train Bailey was condemned to serve 18 rears in the penitentiary while tbe jury in the case of Kennedy brought In a vtrdjct of murder In the first de- gree. . Lamer Palariec Wanted. A dispatch from Columbia to tbe Charleston Post says Governor Hey ward is being importuned 1 to suggest to the Legislature in bis annual mes sage that the salaries of the members of tbe State board of dispensary di rectors be inoream} to 31.500 per an num instead of the present sum of 3400. Much influeboe Is being brought to bear to encompass this. The Gov ernor has not indicated. what action •be purposes to take ia the matter. Dead, fej Four man were burasd to death tad property km she bad foundjopr recreant ! Mr' EXAMINED,BY THE Price was brought Kreiser looked at tom walked around him and! from all sides, while the onlookers. “No, Florence, it is not be. was much taller.” Mis. as her verdict. Just then Martin W< Tbe news was given to him bias, aud be walked waiter, who began to «rti again. “Not tall enough by a foot i ert,” he announced, after < spection. ; a.: -Jm, “Ha, ha!” laughed Prioe ginning to seetiie Join, will let me be off to get my, Sergeant said he guessed | had been made. “And please', tbe i come out to look for bring a foot-rule along*” i be bowed himself out of thei Mrs. Reynolds him turn tbe coraer*, home. Killed by Fraocis M., the of Mr. and Mrs. Jl 519 Huntiogtoa i fatally burned by an and shortly after 1 tie one died. The near the table uj stood. As ft foil oil covered hie. < soon in a blase, badly burned la flames: w, a a**:* Omaha, Hob., four Area amounting to 3300,000 by airs Thursday at The naaaee of