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VOL, XXVII. BARNWELL,.^ C. THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1904, NO 30 A RIOTING MOB Bam 8ix People to Death in Pennaylyania Minin j Town. THE DEM0CK4T8 WDT. 1TJTH0RITH8 ARE POWERLESS. ,s Armed Rioters Pi.trol the Streets snd Threaten o Lynch the Foreman of .he Garrett Coal ) :tne. Ons Man Shot and Killed In an Elec tion Fifth t,v : * . • In an ynlnterestlng general election the Democrats of Louisiana last week swept the State, electing their ticket headed k by Former Justice N. C. Blanchard for governor and practical ly a solid IrepfesentatloQ in both hous es of the legislature. ^ Former Mayor J. W. Behan, an ex- Confederate soldier and prominent su gar planter, beaded the opposition ticket of Lily White Republicans. The regular Republicans put no ticket in the field and practically no negro votes were. past. The Lily Whites control the federal offices here and their contest Wednesday was simply to maintain their organisation. A comparatively large vote was polled in New Orleans, giving Blanch ard a majority estimated at 12,000, but there was gre§t_ apathy in the State, except in a few of the sugar dis tricts. Indications point to a total HE WAS A TRAITOR. Officer of the Japanese Army fold Be rets to the Enemy. TBJ1D AND SHOT IMMEDIATELY. A dispatch from Somerset, Pa., says mty-four hours of terror and riot- reaching a climax in the Burning miner's home with tire cremation of six members of his family, ended temporarily Wednesday night in the mountain village of Oarrett with the arrival of the Sheriff and his posse and the arrest of two men said to be the ringleaders of the mob. Irresponsible bands who have been repudiated by the leaders of the mine ftrike there took possession of the un- protected ^ wp [Wof Vppmaimatelr'BO^Qo" wWtr about eighteen j high staff officers Jo Blanchard’s majority conservatively exclusively at the miners imported by the Oarrett County Coke and Coal Company to work the mines. Threats were made to wreak violence on the non-union men, who hid The armed mob of hoodluffis^the element that always springs up whi a big strike is on, patrolled the streets all of Tuesday night ^nd Wednesday, shooting into the liouses occupied by several of those they, threatened with death, and defying the village authori ties, who were powerless to check the outlawry. THRKAT* mr T-wrnTM/i ^ Ugly demonstrations were made be fore the home of Mine Foreman Mitchell. Bullets were rained through the windows and the mob kept shout ing, “Lynch him,” “Burn Uie house down,” but for-some reason no viol ence was attempted there. The lawlessness reached its height .at 3 o'clock Wednesday morning, when the torch was applied to the house of Jeremiah Myer, who had incurred estimated at 25,000. In the January primary the Democrats polled 72,000. The election was uniformly peace able, the only exception thus far re ported being at Gonzales, in Ascen- blou parish, where Capt. Sam Moore, prominent merchant and:planter and leader of. the Republicans, was in stantly killed by Deputy Sheriff Ed. Smith. Moore attempted to post dodgers containing pictures of two negroes holding odinor positions under the Democratic administration. Smith interferred and shot Moore dead when the latter attempted to drAw a wea pon. ^ ^ The legislature elected Wednesday will choose a United States senator. Senator Murphy J. Foster, having been nominated in. the primary will receive practically the solid vote of both houses. The ticket elected Wed nesday follows: Governor, N. C. Blanchard;lieuten ant governor, Jared V. Sanders; sec retary of state, John T. Michael; at enmity by working daring' the strike toroey general. Walter Onion; audi tor the Somerset Coal Company During the rioting earlier In the night he had remained hidden. He discovered the flames after they had been started in several places and the entire house was ablaze. SIX BURNED TO DBATH. ' Access to the family was cut off and he and a boarder, James SuHlvan, barely had time to escape with their lives. Myer’s wife and t*o children, his daughter-in-law and her two chil dren were burned to death. - The tragedy had the effect of some- .... what quieting the turbulent mob, but this was dispelled when the word went around that Sheriff Coleman, of Somerset, and a posse of twenty-five were on the way to Garrett. Angry boasts were made that no attention would be paid to the authorities, but the mob dispersed at night before the poese arrived. , Coroner Louther went to the scene of the burning Wednesday and em panelled a jury, but, after viewing the bodies of the victitns, the inquqe£ was adjourned indefinitely. : KLNRSVKft.roII DAMAOBS. Excitement in official circles in Somerset County- is only a trifle less tor, Martin Behrman; treasuer, J. M. Smith; superintendent of public edu cation, J. B. Aswell. DEVELOPMENT OF THE BOOTH. Interesting FiguKsGiven in Current Issue of Tradesman.. “A Quarter Century -Development of the Mineral Resources of the South ern Statds” is the subject of an ela borate article presented in the current issue of The Tradesman, and in it are glve^ figures wliich tell the eloquent story of the wonderful progress of the South. A table ou tlie value of,the mineral products- of fhe Southern States in 1890, 19U1 and 1902 shows that with the exception of lead, salt, bauxite, etc., mica and corundum and manganese ores, there was an increase in the vahie of all other mainerals in 1902 as ^compared with 1880. The value of some of the minerals such as coal, pig iron, petroleum, clay pro ducts, coke. rinc, phosphate rock and -natural gas. show enormous gains, while the total value of all minerals has Increased 121,7,808,5.16, or 615 per cent. It is also shown that there was to Sen HU Hn Wan Not Allowed Friends or Family, and Was Buried Immediately la J the Court Yard. i" A correspondent of The NewT ork Evening Post writes from Tokioas follows: This is the story of a Ja panese traitor—a Japanese Benedict Arno’4. Since the beginning of the war it has been evident that the Rus sians have been supplied with an Inti mate knowledge of pro spective Japan ese movements. >The originaL plans of campaign were evolved in Tokio, and surrounded with great secrecy; ifetElder Statesmen, and apart from' tf A PROPHET 07 DISASTER. Dreadful Ttttngs to Happen, Accord- % ” ■. - ing taa Hitherto Suefcessftil Seer. ’ «IH,. Hi . • The prophecies of Lee Spangler, a York merchant, who calls himself the last of the prophets, and whose hobby for 12 years has been the making of propbcCes, are creating a stir at York, Pa?, among those who have faith in him.. From time to time during the past 12 years he has issued pamphlets and tracts warning people to prepare for the end of the world In June, 1908. During the war between the British aridxtbe Boars in South Africa he wrote ^ letter to Qeen Victoria in which he, predicted her dearth within six months it^he failed to withdraw the troops from South Africi. In a letter to President MeKln)ey Spangler warned fitffliijfrtnst an assassin. The chost recent of his prophecies to be fulfilled were the death of Mark Hanna and one in the empire was aware of the objective points Of landing troops fronl wliich the first strike was to be made. - Soldiers were moving by thousands —entrained from all - cities, em barked from all ports, but no one knew more than the fact that Japan was carrying war to the main land. Precautions to conceal army move ments'have been the most thorough in history, to the dismay of foreign and native correspondents. But the Japanese officials found that their secrets were leaking. Tl»e first and second army corps were to be landed high in Korea and thrown forward towards Mukden, Lja Yan Chon and other various points. As fast as troops' landed the Russian troops were there, formed in front. AB kinds of impediments lay in the patlKof invasion. The army office here was baffled. The first thought was that Russia's opposition and anticipation of the movement of imperial troops was superior craft—a masterly campaign of defence. But the idea of treachery soon replaced his first thought and the governme set out to be sure before going further. Nine spies—Japanese officers disguis ed as Chinese coolies- were sent out from here. A number were ordered to work along the Trans-Siberian rail way; the others were scattered along the Yalu frontier. Every one of the nine were captured speedily, uner ringly, and put to death by the Rus sians. Without aid from Japan—de scription, etc.—this could not have possibly happened. Then it was that the s‘aff officers, and even the elder Statesmen, were placed tinder the character-racking es pionage of tiie Japanese spy system, and the land invasion had to wait. The old and later records of each in dividual in the secrets were overhauled and scrutinized. No one was exempt ed whose knowledge might have b.en sold to the enemy. Every man was THE LUCKY ESCAPE Of an Invalid Wife Prom Death at the Hands of Her WICKED PREACHER HUPBAND. Rev. Dr. Buckle, Pastor or a Fashion- -On, Elizabeth, able Nevf • Jersey,__ Church, Wanted on a • r , Serious Charge. Charged^by bis Invalid wife with having attempted to murder her by strangling and suffocation as she lay sleeping, and facing arrest and dis missal from his pastorate, the Re?, Dr. George Buckle, for twenty years pastor of the fashionable Grey stone Presbyterian Church at Elizabeth, N. J., fledv Wednesday with •20,000 in cash and securities. Detectives failed the breaking (.nit of the] tofiad hlm, and it isbeiteved that tie has left the State. This is the seqiiel of an amazing and, according to members of the Buckle family, a fiendish attempt at murder. The, only motive attributed -for the alleged crime is that the would be slayer was tired of his wife -because she was an invalid. -' Su M TILLMAN FOR PARKER war between Russia and Japan Spongier says that -his prophecies are revealed to him in visions by the voice of God. He said last night. “When the Maine was blown up in Havana harbor, before I bad heard of the disaster, it was told me in- a vision that a foreign country would perpetrate a terrible crime against this country. Spain was the criminal. Since the blowing up of the Main there has been no peace on,earth. “The Castilians aroused the war spirit, which had been slumbering, andtbey applied the match which has caused the war flame to spread. Tbia was the beginning, the end will be more terrible, more barrowing than it is possible for tbe human imagination to conceive. “The war now going on in the East is insignificant in comparison with the wars that are to follow. Complica tions will arise which will draw many of tbe European nations Into the fighting, and other wars will break out between Europe nations. Within A year all Europ; will be warring. _ “Th^-Cnlted States will be at war with foreign couutries, and there will bloody race wars within her own undarles. have just had a severe winter, but the severity of next Wfttter #111 be grcateiv^fe will have cool sum mers and rigorous winters until tfieT world is destroyed by^flye three and a half years from now. “Just before th3 destruction an archy. will hold sway everywhe There will be widespread tamine^jind epidemics in all lands. Gold will bring about these things tc prepare the faithful and discover and expose the Insincere. “God's wrath will be especially vis Ited upon women. They will lose th«|ir bemty. The Lord will take than at Garrett. At the time Super-, lncrease of g35 6 , 0 -.-o in thp value jntendent Frank Black, of the Gar- I^* ,11-! rett Mines, made his demand for aid he filed an action in trespass against Garrett Borough for a turn net in excess of 125,000 for damages done his company's property by the failure of the borough authorities to protect it The beginning of the present out break came last Saturday night, when a squad of men employed by the Gar rett company went into the village to - T1 followed, dogged, watched. These elected this method toqpunlsh woman for - her great sin of vanity, which she has been cultivating since the expulsion from Eden. “President Roospv^t will be re methods finally seized upon certain i thfr -ed as president as President of United states, but.he'wil) sigh a make some purchases. They were clubbed and beaten and held prisoners lor a time in a butcher shop. After they escaped all apf roaches to Garrett were picketed both by rail and high way, delivery wagoi s en route to the boarding places of the non-union-men- war* turned back, and since tiien they have had much difficulty in getting anything to fiat. Forfuno Awalta Him The New York Journal says George William Miller, son of the^late Charles Miller/ of Williamsburg, N. 4 Y., Is roaming throughoutyttre West igno rant of’the fact that $100,000 of his fathers’s-mouey awaits him At home. For four yfears detectives have traced young Miller back and forth over the country. At tiie beginning of chat time his, father cut off his weekly allowance and told him he would have to make his own living. Young Miller started-’-for California, but shortly after his father changed his mlhd and inaugurated a search for him. Till the time of his heath, three weeks ago, the father, who was In the wholesale grocery business at Broadway and Park avenue, never gave up the quest. His will cannot be probated until he is found. The executors, Messrs Moffat St Kramer, lawyers, have asked the Chicago po lice to aid them. Twelve Miner* Killed. A telegram from Oapucha, capital of tbe-state of Hidalgo, Mexico, stating that an accident had occurred there In which 12 miners lost their livee, by being precipitated to the bot tom of a shaft 350 metres deep. Ti e cause of the accident was tbe break ing of a cable to which was attached i cage containing the men. The occurred In the La Blanca mine. of all mineral' products in 1902, as compared with the previous year.- A. comparative statement is also given of the total value of all mineral products in each of the Sothem states in 1880, 1901 and 1902. Not a single state but shows immense gains in tiie value of its minaa^-products since 1880, while” in some of tiiem a gain is astonishingly large. Alabama, for in stance taking the lead, having increas ed the value of its products by over •87,000,000 and West Virginia by over •56,000,000. Virginia comes next with an increase of •20.(112.000, followed by Tennessee with a wet gain of •18,788.000. Missouri, next in Tank, has increased the value of its mineral output •17,371,000, and Ken- tuky’sgain is nearly •U,000 > 000, and that of Maryland $9, 569,000. The Increase In all the other states, in the order named, is as follows: Texas, •8,949.000; Indian Territory, •4,676,- 000; Georgia, •4,054,000; Arkansas, •3,290,000; Florida/ $2,777,000; South Ca’olina, •1,444,000, and Nprth Caro lina, *1,019,000. The value of the output of minerals m Louisina, •966,- 639, and of Oklahoma, $431,000 in 1902, is all gain, as this industry in each of them was undeveloped in 1880. peculiarities in the life and day’s work of Lieut. Col. Hanzoku of the general staff. V- 7“ Hanzoku had been buying presents like a race track winner. The women of his acquaintance received valuable jewels. The Yoshuwara knew Han- zoku, and the bank of the city showed deposits in his name. All of which was not in the reach of a lieutenant destruction of tbe world by fire colonel's salary. Hazoku was a hard : the coming of Christ.” thousand times for private life agiin. Tiie cares of his office will be the greatest that any Chief Magistrate of % Republic bas bad, and his Anmlnis- tration the most tumultuous of any in the history of the United States. He will be living when tbe end comes. “King Eiward will bo the - last King of England and will witness tbe and DAUOHTER WEDS 8HOKTL.T BEFORE. Romance is blendld with the tragic element of the case, as the murder Is said to have been attempted early Tuesday m( rnlng a few hours after Dr. Buckle solemnized the marriage of his eldest daughter, Ruth, to Rufus Stuart Adams, a wealthy resident of Montclair. Tills ceremony was per formed! in the parsonage-drawing room directl^ under the sleeping apartment wnere/husband, and wife later Had their,terrible struggle. Although the attempted slaying oc-. curred two days ago, it was not until WednesdayTUat the Elizabeth police were dottfied. Because she shrank from the notoriety of a public com plaint, nearly tbiity hours passed be fore Mrs*, Buckle applied %o Police Justice ManSB/ W Elizabeth, ftr a warrant for her husband. ' Before papers could 'be served on the accused pastor, who learned In some mysteri ous Way that his arrest was ihreaten- pdy disapRcared. FAMILY PROMINENT IN SOUTH this pinioned placed bis right knee upon my breast, so that It was impossible for me to move. My strength was rapidly giv ing way, but by a desperate effort I managed to give a feeble scream when be raised the towel slightly to peer inth my face. It was not loud enough to He beard. Tbe moments seemed hours as I struggled there in the dimly lighted room. Just as I began to lose hope and consciousness I managed by a superhuman effort to move., over to the edge of tbe bed and then, exert ing my strength again, I turned a lit tle more and fell to tbe floor. Had 1 been sleeping in the centre of the bed be would certainly have smothered me to deatb. CRIES AROUSE HER DAUGHTER. But in falling I dislodged tbe towel and also struck tbe cradle In which baby was sleeping. Her cries min gled with mine and aroused my daughter in tbe next room. Virginia came in, sbe says, just as her father scrambled to his feet, bpt I was lying unconscious on the floor. She asked him what was the mat ter, and h&'was explaining that 1 had fallen out of bed while asleep. Ije held the towel behind bis back and was still explaining tbe matter when I revived. !l told our daughter that her- father bad tried to murder me and asked her to call tbe neighbors. She rushed next door and awakened tbe ‘Stevens family, an also Dr. II. R. Livengood Mr, Stevens and Dr. Livengood , hur ried to the parsonage and confronted my husband. r Despite my own and the accusations of my daughter my husband deciaraed that be bad nit Intended to hurt me He told them that It was simply a nigbt-mare that I had"had, but when they saw my bruised face aud wrist, where he had clutched me, he was silent. Dr. Livengood insisted upon my daughter and myself spend!.ig the remainder of tbe night at tbe Stevens House, and we left Dr. Buckle with our then sleeping baby at the par- son*ge. RETURNS-TO ASK FORGIVENESS^. On returning home the next morn ing Dr. Buckle bad gone, but he came back in the afternoon and begged me to forgive him. He even began weep ing. I told him that I could never -really forgive him, but that if he He Bays Delegation of This Will Support Hi*. INTERVIEWED BY A REPORTER. Says Hearet te Not the Maa We Roosevelt's Record Want. the Great fee a e. Never has the aristocratic section of truth to our neigbors Snow and Sleet. Wed Sleet fell In Spartanburg needay and enow fell In A Soow also fell in Asheville and lotto oo tbe same day. This weather b unprecedented tor this latitude. drinker, a gambler by European in stincts, a frequenter of uncertain club*, and the Idol of tiie geisha girls. He bore the distinction of introduc ing poker into Japan. He was, how ever, a graduate of a German univer sity, a military tactician of worth, and had been decorated for intrepid service during tiie China-Japanese war. On account of the latter ser vice he held a good p osition on the general staff. - It has beeh stated that before the withdrawal of the Russian embassy one of the attaches.jirranged witti Hanzoku to furnish St. Petersburg with detailed plans of Japan’s pur poses. Tii* Russian at' ache and Han zoku had been very friendly, having been students together in Germany. It is asserted that Hanzoku was, a Burton C*ee Klll*<t Him. Physicians who attended Major Hugh C. Dennis, president of tbe Ri alto Grain and Securities company, whose sudden death ended his connec tion with the case in which United Senator J. R. Burton of Kansas was recently convicted, stated Wednesday that Major Pentis’ death resulted from continually brooding over tbe conviction and sentence of. Se Burton. It was because cf his con nection with tbe Rialto company that Senator Burton was convicted. , They Will Walk. At a large and representative gath ering of negroes at Richmond, Va., Tuesday formal protest was made against, tbe law providing for se tion of the races on street canfjfand resolutions were adopted, tbe gist of which is that tbe negroes of the com munity will walk in future as evidence of the itallty of their protests. Thirt«ea Killed. ~ J An avalanche from the Splthorn at 2 ornlngswe year ago, in a very bad state financial ly, and that he lost during a game his last piece of property. Tiie details of a- tual evidence against Hanzoku can not be had. No word of the affair has even readied the columns of tiie Ja panes press, but within tiie last few days the lieuten ant colonel was arrested, tried by court martial, and shot by a detach ment of riflemen chosen from the hn- perlal guards. Between the end of the trial and the sound of the shots there were only a few hours. Han zoku was watched over by a heavy guard, and was not allowed the honor killing himself; moreover, he was not permitted to, communicate with his family. It is said that he was exe cuted within the palace walls and at the edge of the inner moat. MoH Gigantic Truet. Tue Standard Oil company is said to be engaged in pushing plans to con trol every commodity of the country. It has £>3en known that John D. Rockefeller and associates for sime time past have been prosecuting a systematic effort to control the rail way, coal, steel and iron business of ttfe country. Likewise their growing interest in sugar, coffee and cereals is a matter well known. Now it is learn ed that tbe company is endeavpring to control the wholesale grocery busi ness. This developed in the increase, just made. In tbe capital stock of the Eldridge & Higgins company of Co lumbus from a half millloirto a -mi^ lion, two hundred and fifty thousand:' It seems certain that the Standard's owners will ^ake the-new issue, and through the Eldridge company they expect eventually to control the whole sale grocery business of-Ohio, and later of the country. The Standard’s ambition, it is said, is to compel peo ple of the country to buy all goods from it. Elizabeth been so stirred as by this narrowly averted tragedy. This is due oqly to tbe prominence<,of the “ r. Bdfekle;Yrat to thfe populari ty of bisrwlfe and daughters, the two eldest being leaders in the most ex clusive younger set of Elizabeth. '* The marriage of Miss Ruth Buckle on Monday evening was a' society event of the seasob. J)nly one ture, in the eyes of the bride, marred the ceremony—the absence ef her mother. It was learned Wednesday that she bad protested against her husband performing the cerimony, in view of certain allegationa whlch were under consideration by the chufch elders £trthe time. All was otherwise pleasant, however, and the young couple started on tbe way to San Francisco and tbe Orient on tbelr honeymoon. Acpovding to members of the fami ly tbe Buckles retired early, following the departure of thelt-guestB, and by midnight the Only persons In the parsonage were tbe the husband and wife, - with' their severiteen-yearrold daughter Virginia, anl a four-year old baby girl cradled In tbe same room with her parents. wife’s wierd stout. ^ Shortly after midhTgbt, Mrs. Buckle she awoke to fipd her husband standing over her. Frightened by the hatred in his eyes/she hurriedly o’clock Wednesday morning sfapt tbe of Muehlback, In Switzerland. Tbe Inhabitants - were asleep at tbe Urn* ai4 U were killed. .• O * Fatal Accident. When City Oouncilman Cuno Beck er, of Vineland, opened his front gate and entered his yard Wed nesday after a short absence, his four-year-old son, Curtis Becker 4swinging by his blouse from the limb of a big tree, tjiree feet from the ground. Laughing heartily at what he cqnsld- erered tit* boy’s ridiculous predica ment, the,father ran to his son’s res cue, only to find that the body was cold and the face purple and distorted from strangulation. ‘The boy was dead. Iff climbing th* tree he Had fallen, ahd* the collar of his blouse had caught on the end of a thick limb in such a way that he was choked to death. ; 4 ’ # ' ' Would Nell Hia Body- At Kingston, Ont. r the -medical faculty of Queen 1 5 University, atfTts meeting Thursday night, bad before them a letter from a man in central Vermont wbo was in need of money and desired to mortgage his body to the college. He declared that he was no freak and was willing to come to Kingston to be examined and to dgn a document turning over bis body upon his deatb, for a money consider ation to be paid immediately. No amount was mentioned, tbe faculty being asked to make an offer. Tbe communication was filed away, th*| naoiith. faculty not caring to make dealt on bodies which ir.ay,not be procurable for a quarter of a centuery. asked hi no what was the matter. “Oh,” she says he replied, “I just wanted to see If you were asleep.” She complained of having a headache, and he offered to dampen & towel, she said, and put it ou her forehead. What occurred then was told to police Justice Mahon by the complainant, as pale and still bearing "marks of a violent struggle, she vividly described ttif teraribfe^fdealas follows:^ ' Vftiifftttf htmbSfid offered to relieve my suffering I was somewhat surpris ed, as be Seldom showed me any cour tesies of the kind But he left the room and returned in a few minut s w tb a large Turkish towel. Before bilnging it to me he carefully clos d tie door leading Into the adjoin!: g room occupied by our daughter, Vir ginia. •**' Then he brought the towfel. to me. It was dampened with warm water instead jo f cold and I. told liim that * Witin towel would not relieve a head ache. He replied that If was good enough and folded It id a thick square. I noticed this, as we always kept a dim light burning in the apart ment because or our baby, who slept in a cradle near tb! bed. that, for the sake of our children, would try and live with him. \ He said that be would be discharg ed from bis pastprate^if he told tb* truth. Then, as I was firm in my demand, he left and did not come back until this, Wednesday, morning. His hair was dishevelled and he ap- pared to have been walking about all night in the street. again pleaded with me not to ruih"hiigi, and while I was talking over the matter with my daughter he went into his study and took a small Iron box, in which he kept his awn and my property, to the ^value of'f about $20,000 in securities, cash and two large life Insurance policies. Be fore I returned he had left tbe house. 77^ WIFE IMPUTES AWFUL Ah for his motive for wishing to smother me, 1 am firmly convinced that bethought it a good opportunity to accomplish his purpose and ' hen explained that It wu heart failure, brought on by the excitement of the wedding ceremony. Only a short tim3 ago I foolishly told my husband that Dr. Livengood, our family physician had cautioned me against taking any violent exer cise, because of heart trouble. By smothering me be could easily have explained that wu heart failure that- caused my death. A* soon as my husband left the bouse I went to sec Judge Mahon, and 1 hope they will be able to place my husband behind the bars. He is unworthy of officiating u a pastor Ha Thinks. Senator Benjamin B. Tillman, of South Carolina, passed through the city Wednesday morning with his family, returning to his' home at Edgefield, says the Charlotte Chroni- clfe of Thursday. On account of a renewed attack of a throat trouble, which unfitted him for work several weeks ago, the senator will not return to Wublngton during tbe present session of congress. ......, When approached by the reporter, in the Pullman where be and bis family occupied a section, the senator was affable and in an unusually pleas ant mood. He said that he had work ed hard during tbe present tension, but now, that there wu nothing else of much Import to transpire during the remaining two weeks, be tbonght that, with his bad throat and a much- needed rest be wu entitled to a vaca- ♦ u A A tion. Senator Tijlman talked with much Interest about tbe approaching na tional convention, and tbe chances of the different candidates for tbe presi dential nomination. ‘ ‘Senator, what do you think of the action of tbe New York convention in ousting Tammany?” “Why, they did exactly right. Ile&rst is not tbe man we want. Tbe people of this country are tiring of tiie radical turn of mind which is now dictating tbe policy of tbe govern ment. Tiie president is an extremist and is trying to get tbe country into all kinds of trouble. A war with a foreign country would exactly suit hi* taste. x The people are beginning to realize that he is unsafe in his policy abdflaethods, and thatheHth* wrong man for tbe high office he holds. “The money men realize bis unsafe ness and will not support him. If tbe {^mo^rate will nominate a good, safe, level-minded, conservative man, tbe people will rush over each other to support him, and he will be eiectr ed. The president cannot stand against It.” “Senator, 1 believe you are a Park er man,” said the reporter. “l am for a good, safe, level-headt ed, conservative man, wbo is bones- in his policies and broad enough to carry them out. ” “Jude Parker l*all that, is he not?” “Well, I bellfe'fe he Is,” uid tbe Senator with a smile. “Da you think New York will cut her vote for him in the convention?” “Yes, without a doubt. Tammany is badly defeated.” The reporter uked Senator Tillman bis opinion as to tbe. sentiment In re gard to Parker In his own state and wu told that, although the conven tion would not likely instruct the delegates how to vote, they would, In all probability, vote u a unltMor Parker. Senator Tillman gave Itu bis opinion that almost all of tbe Southern votes would be out for Parker in tbe convention. “There is a great nationAl prejudice against flighty and unround policy of the president, and he will be over whelmed if that conse ‘vative man Is nominated,” tbe senator said in con clusion. and it is a crime aga'ost man and God for him to do so. Besides attempt ing to murder me, he has neglected me and our children in favor of an other person, and is in every way a dangerous and unfaithful father and hnahknd. " ~ ■ \ A BAD CASE. ■ ,.v An April Blicsard. New Yorttcity wu visited with a small snow storm !5[?dnesd&y morn ing, “tbe beautiful” Yafttag at inter vals for several hours. It warm* cold and raw as a December day. grams from points in New York state and,points in New England also re port snow and bitter "cold at those points. From Buffalo comes a report of nearly a foot of snow In that city during the night and a bHzzard which raged several hours. * 1 V l -■ . # ■SB J' TOWEL COVERS NOSE AND MOUTH. Suspectiing nothing, I permitted h m to lay tbe tcwel over my face, but remarked to him that it wu too ft.r down, u itr'covered my nose and He said-, “No matter; you will feel better in i few moments.” ■r I wu grateful because of his un- usual kindness, anl wu slow te real ize that tha towe wu being' firmly and gradually pressed closer. Then came tbe awful realization thatl was at the mercy of a murderer. His tosh.ted on her returning look of hatred, which I had noticed upon awakening, now came into my ilndand I tried to scream. But It wu useless. The damp towel com pletely- shot off utterance and my breath .wu rapidly leaving me/'> •» Several times Lyapped on the hud of tbe bed with my.ring in hopes of Shot Herself Dead *t the Grave oi Her Sweetheart. A dispatch from Berlin, Germany, says Miss Edith Bricont, of NeV York, ended her life at the grave of her fiance in a cemetery near this city Wednesday nighty shooting herself through'the hurt. The young woman wu to have left for New York Thursday by way of Hamburg, and bad gone for "a lut look at her sweetheart’s resting place. Miss Bricont, wbo had lived for the lut few years abroad, met a young civil engineer lut Fall by the name of Bose, who wu studylhg Tiere, and they quickly fell in. love. . Their.en- gagiment wu announced at out month ago. Miss Bricont wu in Wietbaden when she heard of Roee’s illness, and wltt her parents and brother ao once bun led back to Berlin. They arrived too ate to see the young man alive The young woman refused to leave the scene of her sweetheart’s deatb and lived with his sisters. Her pa rents, wishing to divert her attention, to New meet at t York, and they were all to Hamburg and sail Thursday. Wednesday she uked to be allowed to go to Rose’s grave for a last time alone. After sbe had been in tbe cemetery for a abort time an attend ant hurd a shot and, going to tbe . _ place where be had sun the young arousing my daughter. in the next woman, found her stretched room. As soon as my husband hwrd her lover’* grave daid^ 1 my bua An American Lord. Albert Kirby Fairfax eldest son of tiie late John Con tee Fairfax of Prince Georges county, Maryland, and In heritor of his titles of Lord Fairfax and Baron Cameron in the peerage of Scotland, has assumed these titles and lias taken his seat among hi*^ peers in the British House of Lords. Mr. Fairfax went to London two years ago to accept a position in a bank, and with no idea of giving up his ~ American citizenship. His claims to a peerage were too well known how ever and he was soon sought by mem bers of the aristocracy. * Then he wu - adopted u the legal heir of a wealthy Englishman and now he has consented to assume the titles named. The title of Lord Fairfax wu first worn in this country by the man wlio wu a friend of Washington. It has never been allowed to lapse, being confirmed for ever to the family heir by special royal grant. Big Output of Gold. _ The enarmous output of gold coin age at the Philadelphia mint contin ues at a-rate which surpasses all pre vious records. Since February e, up to April 16, there hu been coined •60,18(1,390 in S20 gOid prices. Tbe coinage during.the week beginlngi Monday, April 11, and ended on Sat urday, April 16, inclusive, aggregated •11,202,600 in gold, an average of • nearly $2,000,000 per dhy. On the lut day of this record-breaking week, tbe coinage W8s ti£b a re cord-breaker. The weight of the gold to produce this one week’s coin age wu over forty-two tons. This vut coinage of gold In so short r time, it wu announce 1 at the mint, bu never been equalled by the mtnta of any other nation, nor by any mint in.thls country. A Big Fire. -The total line by the fire wl strayed the wholesale district ronto Wednesday night will, ing to th^most conservative esti reach $12,000,000; the total' Is $8,360,000. The area swept by are embraced 14 acres and from to 7,000 persons art thrown out employment. i -IN HHNV