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vol. xvm. 'm BARNWELL, S. O.. THURSDAY, MAY 26.1906. NO. 88. WAaESOF SIN. A Florida Man Kills Himself io a New York Hotel A WOM^N WITH HIM The Mm aod Woman Eloped from Be* land, Fla., and the former, Becom* »■. lax Ccascieace Strikea, Ended His life by Takio| Moo phiae. He Left Letters. Herbert Leoa Kepler, a book keep er whose home was Is Delasd, Fla., died In a r om In Sl^aen’s hotel at 40th atreet and Sixth avenue, New York, Thursday, from morphine pofswlnfr. With him at the time was n woman who told the palioe that her name aaflfre Dona Miller and that she left Delsnd with Kepler two weeks ago. Mrs. Miller said Kepler was the son of a Deland physician and that he left Florida mdoenJy bt cause of ftome trouble which he got into there. Mrs. Miller said she left her husband .toeome*with Kepler. She wasdetsln- ed by the police. In the room in which Kepler and the woman occupied the police found two small bottles. One was fllltd aith Morphine and theother nearly empt> Contained a trace of the Jrug Mrs. Miller told the police that epler had been despondent for sever al nays and had told her that unless bis f^ber did something at onoe to fix up the trouble at Deland he feared Bcmethinn dreadful wtuld happen. When Mrs/MIller was arraigned In po lice court she was remanded to the custody of the coroner without exam Inatlon. A note found In'Kepler's room Indi cated that the man nad deliberately token bis life. It was addressed to his nepbt w, Jonn Riy mond^wto Is em ployed In that City, andsahh ‘ Good bye, Jerk. I thank you foniryou have dene. Yon know as well as I for this and win forgive toe. Again, I thank vou, aod again I say a last g< bye. (Signed) Herbert." Raymi told the police that bis uncle at one time was a p: eminent tennis player and that be won the southern oham- pior ship several yrara^ago. . Later Mrs. Miller told the coroner that a portion oLher story as she g tve It to the police was untrue. She had not lived with her husband In several years, she said, and did not fl * from Deland with Kapler. She had been In New Yi rk or vicinity for ieveral years. She also told the corJner that she had been a witness in the William Hooper Young murder case In that city sever al years ago. She had lived in the bouse with the murdered wpipannebe said, and had first Introduced her to Young. Mm. Miller also said that Kepler left a letter ftidrr Si»ed to bis father and mother begging that he and Mrs. Miller he not separated In death aod that his parents and daughter forgive him for hia act. In view of this letter ^tbe police believe that Kepler intend- to kill both himself and the wo- A DRINKING PLACJS Vet Authorised in the fstablishment of User Dispensaries^ Law Allows Pav by Rovalty In Lien of Salary and Diapenaere May Bottle Their Beer. Attorney General • Gunter in a lengthy opinion Wednesday answered three questions propounded by the State board of dispensary directors with regard to beer dispensaries, but It Is not thought that the board itself will make an announoement until Thursday. . The question whether the law al* lows pay by royalty In Hsu of salary la answered In the affirmative as is tbe question as to whether beer dispen sers may bottle their own t*er. The definition of “premises’’ Is lengthy and somewhat oomplicated, but In brief- it may ha said that tbe opinion d-finea “premises" to be whatever the county board designates “premises;’' iu other words the opinion is all that the most fastidious beer dispenser could desire. Says tbe opinion: “In regard to your third request for s definition of ie' word premises, it occurs in sec tlon 661 shove quoted, Is fraught with'difficulty, for It involves to ft 11rest extent s question of fact, differ log In each particular case. From such an examination as I have been able to make of this subject In tbe egal authorities, I am unable to lay down a precise definition for in snob m where the matter has been dis cussed so much depends on thetechnl eal statutes and etreumstanoes the reasoning is of but little aid here. “From a perusal of the dispensary aw It Is manifest, however, In deter mining the limits of the ‘premises,’ recourse must be had to tbe action of HE KILLED FOUR. A California Mad Man Tries To Kill Everybody. SHOT HIMSELF ALSO Supposed to Be Grazed by Uqnor, Wil liam P. Robissoo, Goes Forth Will a Winchester and a Pistol qpd Starts Aaother Graveyard is Sandiego, Cal. At Sandiego, OaL, on Monday, Wil liam P. Robinson, a hdHse” sCrvint, ran amuok killing four persons, wounding two others and then killing himself. Toe dead: v - ST A LTilLa &0M4DCB. ibe county board of control, In select log a place for a dispenser to operate. Section 566 directs: ‘The county board of control shall designate or ivlde a suitable place In which to tbe liquors,’ and section 664, authorising tbe county baard to ap point a dispenser: Says ‘every appoint ment so made shall specify the build ing, giving tbe street and- number or oiuUon-in which Intox oitlog liquors may be sold by virtue of the same ’ Wneft the oouaty board has designst- * or provided ‘a suitable place’ in ich to sell liquors that ‘suitable plaqs’ becomes ‘premises’ on which can not be opened nor malt Werfesa provision of ths nature dl reeled to VfHvlduals, premises under such circumstances would be limited to some pltoe\>ver which such Indl vidusl had the Iteal right to t-xerobe authority or control. This rulesp >Hes to tbs governmental agency ha v log tbe selection and'control of tbe place where liquors are sold aod of oourse, can not apply to places over which the eounty hoard b*s no su thorlty. There Is no law authorizing the county board or any other officer to provide a drinktrg place; if sue i be attempted it is wtihuut warrant o law. “It follows that ‘premises’ Is such a plane as Is p-ovlrsd by the comity board for tbe sale ol liq .on and over which the State agenoien have non irol. This trust is devolved upon that body to be perf r - ed acc irding y to the expressed meaning aod pur poae of tbe law." — •— ▼SILXO MU&DBRR83 BEAD Mends for Bis Sweetheart and Will be Married Soon. The Columbia Record says the first Incident In the romance line to occur In Oom mb si or er Watson’s experience with bis new department of Immlgra tlon and agriculture will take tbe form of a double wedding of Scotch coo plea, the ceremony to bepexform ed ih Ocmmtsstoner Watson’s officer It the oapitol building within the next week or ten days. ^ One of the happy grooms to be is James Reid, a handsome young fel low whom Mr. Watson brought hers last October and who inspired by the blim awaiting bis successfully estab lishing himself in this country has been carving 6ut a buqlnt as career for himself at Georgetown. Through ar range men ts made with the depart ment’s agency in Glasgow Mr. Retd’s bride-to be, Miss Schofield, sailed on the 11th from Liverpool on the An obor liner “Columbia.’’ She Is ex pec ted to meet Mr Reid in Columbia the latter part of this week.. Peter Buchan la so charmed with tbe prospects of thts-oonntry that he has determined Jo take a wife before he has been here sixty days. He came here in March from Gtte Head Scotland, but being an expert dairy man be readily found work on a farm right here In Richland county. Bis fiance called on the White Star liner “Baltic’’' from Llverpbol about the same time that Miss Sobofisld startec nut for happiness and A Borne, and the two are expected here on the nmeday or within aday or soot each other. > *- — Killed Blwneift ’ T. R. Tnllos, formerly town mar of Philadelphia, Mim*, and one of i most prominently connected young In Neshoba county, baa oom ml t- ■nlokla by firing a bullet through its brain. After being married for Ive months, domesticTtroablee are to have arisen, sad husband and i agreed toeeparate. As tbe wlfeh > wen b Ing loaded on a wagtn ry to moving, Tullos went tr room and asked to kle« her Iby. After doing eo, he retired to the not ot Aba boon abd Oonflned Over Ftfij Years. Olaleaed Royal Blood. A dispatch from Newborn, N. Y., says Mrs. Heurla ta Ro ilnson. know "toe veiled murderess," dlel at tbs MUteawsn state hospital Wed nesday. She was coov cted of u e ■ murder of Timothy Linagin and o^osftlng the yard the on zed William Stewart. Mrs. Emma Stewart -H. W. Chase. Harry Doddridge. W. P. Robinson. The wounded: Mrs. W. H. Doddridge W. H. Doddridga wss injured hy j ‘ falling out of a window. tDe UD10a ‘ At first Robinson was said to be crazed by liquor, hut later It was said that he had threatened Doddridge for an alleged attempt to have Robinson shangnaled when be was a sailor. It is aald also that he had expressed a dislike for tbe Stewarts. About 8 o’clock Monday morning Robinson left bis house at the oorner of Fourth and A streets and going to jhe apartments in tbe same building occupied by Mrs. Emma Stewart, the andlady, and her son, William, rap- ped for admission. Mrs. Stewart, upon opening the door, was shot through tbe bead by Robinson, who had leveled a rifle Robinson then entered the dining room where Stew- art, who bad been seated at breakfast, was just rising from the b>b e. Rob- nson attacked .him immediately, dunging aTdftg knife Into Stewart’s bo y close to tbe heart and again into the'abdomen. At the second stab Stewart sank td'tbe floor with blood urtng from hit body In a stream. Robinson then returned to hi* room. Reloading hit rifla aod leaving his knife, be dipped a revolver Into his pocket. He then descended to the first floor, one portion of which is used as a carpenter shop by H. W. Chase. Chase probably saw Robinson enter, but paid no attention to him, f r R blPHon app'oached close to him »nd, hu ’d nly throwing up bis jMi ed. the bullet entering C :a-e’n b east close to the heart. Chase die. immediately. From thi carpenter shop Robinson proo eded on his bicycle down Fourth street for several bieoks through the ouslnvss section of the town with the fie still in his hand. He w> nt di rectly to the bouts of W. H Dud- dri ;g p , internal rev nu« coll otor, on the northeast ornsr of Second and H streets. He left hi* wheel at the urb and ran op the steps to the front door, carry irg his revolver In one bend and his rifle m ths other. In re -•pocse to bln ring Harry Doddrl g *. soo of W. H Doddridge, who Is *£L engineer at the Sandiego brewery, ope ed tbe door. W Ribi>i(ion fired his revolver an' young D iddridge sank to the floor with a bullet Just above the heart Death followed before medical tsslx tanoe could . be summoned. Mrs. Doddridge, the yt ung man’s mother, hearing the shot and perhaps wit nesslng tbe tragedy, ran screaming from tbe house Robinson, heariug the screams, started through the house after the woman. As she was FOR HOLDING COTTON Tile Plan for Beathcra Farmers to Fix Its Fries. Letter From Preolden t Harvle dors dan Aa to the Plan fbr a Chain ; . of Cotton Warehomeee. One of the moct Important move ments ever insngursted in the South Is now rapidly taking form, and onoe It Is oom plated, the Southern farmer and cotton grower win be able, for f e first time In history, to set his own pries upon his own commodities, exclusive of tbe outside influenoesof the Well street “bull” and “bear." This is the vast bonded warehouse system, supported by the Southern Colton association. By this it Is hoped tp erect a fireproof warehouse In every community in which 2,000 bales of cotton are marketed. In this way the farmer may store bis cotton snd borrow cheap money on tbe re oeipts, holding the staple until the price Is high enough to warrant him selling. President Harvle Jordan, In a letter given out Thursday, outlines the plan of tire movement as follows: The time has come In tbe South when our business men and farmers must align themselves together for mutual protection and safeguarding tbe great staple crop of this section of The cotton growers pro- KILLED BY BOMB. SHIPS THAT VANISH. .dSK'' A Would-Be Assassin Dies by Its Accidental Discharge | Some Remarkable Mysteries and Se crets of theGreat Ocean. ON HIS OWN PERSON. Detectives Were Abe Blows to Two . • Atoms aid Twefity-fbree People Were Hart The Maa Waa ill - Carry lag the Bomb to Use ea Aaother Maa. A dispatch from Warsaw, Russian Poland, says a workman who was try Ing to avoid the observation of two detectives on Mtodowa street at noon Friday atambled on the curb of tbe sidewalk and a bomb which he was carrying In bis pocket exploded killing the workman and tap tb detectives and wounding 23 persons. It is believed tbe botub was Intended for Gos-Gen. Maxlmovltoh, who was expected to paas tbe spot on his way from the ca tbedral, where be was attending the service In honor of the cur’s birth- W- “ — ! —>—■— The bodies of tbe vtotlms were lit erally. blown to pieces. A cafe near the scene of the explosion was entirely demolished, all the windows In the neighborhood were smashed and a lamp post was torn out of thr ground. The number Injured by the explosion includes three women, on# student and two school boys. One of tbe lat ter Is detained at the police station, baring bean noticed warning people against going Into Mtodowa street Tbe men who was carrying tbe bomb has been Identified as a Polish shoe maker named Dqbrowolskl, a member of tbe violent seetion of tbe SoctalIsts. Many arrests have bean made since tbe explosion and the police are busy making domiciliary searches. Tbe authorities are convinced that tbe bomb was Intended for the gover nor general. He was attending th > services at the cathedral, which • situated at the oerner of Dluga ano Mtodowa streets, a few yards from the boene of tbe explosion. All the high officials and members of Russian no* ciety there also was present. The gov ernor general had recently been thr* at ened with a bomb attack since the Miy day disturbance. Tbe police accordingly exercise the great- erir rigiifinoe whenever be leaves tbe castle. After the officials had ente ed the cathedral detectives ob>ervdd a poorly dre aed man loitering on Mio- d iws street. Wb?h Che man saw tbe detectives he ran towards tbe entranot of a confectioner’* store, when he eith er tripped or threw the bomb back- war Is at the detect!v a.-*- Tbe explosion occurred only a min* before the people commenced to poor out of the cathedral. Three mh'utes later the governor general would have passed the spot. Jossacks who were hastily summoned soon cleared the streets and the gov erm r general drove by another route to the castle. Friday’s outrage is the sixth of similar character in War»a * sinoe the January diatui b inoes. Ths "dueft the crop and prepare it for mar ket and the sagacity and financial support of oar business men, bankers and merchants are needed to eld in so selling the'crop ss to make the staple bring Its full legitimate value. One of tbe essential featnrss In the future handling of the cotton crop by the producers Is to provide adequate warehouse fsollitles In which to atore cotton and use It sa a collateral to borrow cheap money until the owner Is prepared or ready to sell It TUere warehouses should be ooustruoted In every community where 2,000 bales or more of cotton Is marketed and should be built, operated and controlled by tbe farmers and business men in the local oom muni ties. A great many of theae warehouses will be built this year and the Southern Cotton asaocla tlon will be glad to furnlsb-the latest and most improved plans and speci fications Isbu -d by the fire iosotMoe companies. Rich wareh use should be so constructed as to reduce the dost cf Insurance snd storage to a minimum. Id connection with the warehouse proposition tbe Southern Gotten association tetoso deeply Inter ested in the development of the Got ton Planters’ OjmficU'ftion and Ho d log company, which was organ zed during ths late New OrL ana cotton c nventich. This holding company, If pr> perly tnd nsed and t>ub o. ibod to by the far xers.aud ba-dneht i eo or toe Sou h, can s on envelop Into a p j*-er of strong h to protect tne grow era against any of the ic iemes and devices ho often resorted to by certain clashes for the purpose of depressing toe DM'* of the staple. this company ha* been fix d at tb> par value of one dollar per share, so a to pUoe lb within tne rea.h of svery firmer in tne South. Tue caar tor provi res that no stoosholder wi 1 ever be liable ft r *n amount greater tbaahis suheciiptloa. Every banker la the South has this stock in hand for sale, be.- ;d -s a large number of county andstat? agents. It Is hoped that] editors of Polish papers there have de- tbe stock to this company will be | elded to publish, If the censor will rapidly hubscrib td to to that tbe pep pie who grow the cotton may be ab'e to b itld up a bulwark of safety he tv en tbems-ives aafi the element which has so long b en engaged In de pressing the cotton market. The ass cl vtion will be glad to fur nish detailed information with refer- enoe to these two Important adjuncts Ftnm Ships that Have Sailed Away 1 and Disappeared Forever flrosi the Bight of Maa. London Tit Bits nys thare an tow things which art so fall of mystery, or which makes inch a powerful ap peal to tbs imagination, astheatoriee of ships that adl gallantly out to sea and of which nothing la evsr hoard or seep after tbe masto have dipped be low tine borison. At present the paT pen are full of tbe records of these marine tragedies. Today, It is tbe Olaverdale, which left Hoof Kong on November 23, for Vladivostok, end of which no trace has been found for over two months; yesterday it was the Royalist, which cleared a few days later from Singapore to Hong Kong, sad has never reached her destina tion; tbe day before It was tbe Idnm, from Noway, which has vanished from human view; and eo on, through the long list of ships that have sailed and disappeared. What are the secrets of these myr terlons vanlshlngg of stately ships with their crews and cargoes? In nineteen oases of twenty the eeoreto lie with the ships many fathoms deeps, and will perhaps caver leap, to light. To this day no ope knows what be came of tbe Olty of Glasgow, which set her sails so gallantly In the Mer sey* half a century aod more ago, bound for Philadelphia, nor was aha seen again after the hills of Wales were Ijst twtew. The Burv»T Castle left London some years ago oc wiong voyage to Aostra Ha. She should have made a final oaU at Plymouth, but she never came within sight of the Hoe, nor has hu man eye ever seen her from the day FIVE MURDERS Confessed to by a Neff© Who ts Now io JaB. Vatr a-— ..sV . Crtl OTHERS PUNISHED Per Some of the Crfapee He Bsjs He Commuted. He Claims to H«ve Ae- saolted a Yosef Weans to Ylrfieia far Which Aneth* Mae Wes Lyached. In a letter to tbe police authorities of Chester, W. Va., a man signing himself ‘‘A. Johnson,” end olataaiag to be a partner of Henry Williams, who was recently executed In Roa noke, Va., has oontoseed to five mur ders and numerons robberies. His reasons for writing are that other men have suffered for hie ertosee end his oonaelenoe troubles him. He says be has been converted. Tbe dates end manner In whieb the dif ferent crimes were committed as fur* nlshed in Johnson’s letter are More complete than the police records, and rhe authorities believe Its ahthenUe- Ity. According to Johnson he killed a woman at Chester, W. Va., two Italians at Union town, Pa., a man at at Mar* i eye ever seen her from the day Hyndman, Pa. and a woman at Mi dropped down the Channel It an’* Ferry, Ohio. He Itoo sIalaM i on May 10, 1854, that Lady Nu-1 assaulted a woman at Staontc of the association’s work to all psr permit It, strong articles denouncing such attacks, it is stated that Gov Gen. Maxim vitoh recently received an annoymoos letter threatening that as he had allowed men, women and etilldren to be snot down on May day, no he would be kiUed vfltb his wife and children, the writer addlrg that even remaining within tbe castle would not save tbem from that fate. Catherine Lubee in Troy In 1853, During tbe trial she wore a heavy veil. Judge Harris, before whom blo was tried, asked her to remove tbe veil, hut she refused, saying that she would rather have any verdict pro nonneed than to remove It. Her doansel, Martin I. Townsen, stated to the oonrt that he could not prevail on her to remove it. Finally she drew the veil for an Instant and, smiling to the Jury, replaced It. She was sen tenoed to be hanged on June 10, 18S3 Her sentence was afterward oommu ted. She was sent to the Auburn state hospital for the insane in 1873 and later transferred to Matteawan Mrs. Robinson was 89 years old. When, a few .days ago, It was oertaln she must die, the physicians at the hospital endeavored to have her re veal her Identity, which ihe had hid dsn since her commitment. She re fused, saying that she had kept tbe secret for 50 yean and might as well let It die with her. Oily once in her long ooofinrment did she ever revial anything about herself, and then she told a physician that tbe came from tba English royal family. Then, as If sfiahtd forgotten herself, she re fused to say anything farther. She hai employed bar time In recent yean in making lioe, which she won. Soma time ago aha made a set of false teeth out of buttons and wore them a large share of the time. A Good Law. Tba “whipping post law" for wife beaten want Into affect Thursday In tbe State of Oragon. Tae law provid es that a man oonvlotod of wife beat ing may be punished with whipping, not exceeding to lathes, bat this la only ah additional punishment as the old punishment by floe or Imprison meat Is atiU in effect under tbe new low. \ man otught sight of her and fired, tbe bul let striking her in the back. She fell headlong upon her faoe in the yard. W. H. Doddridge, who was In bed on the second floor when the commo tion began, jumped or fell out of the window, breaking the bones of his right band and probably sustaining internal Injuries. Robinson searched the house for more people. When he came to the room just vacated by Dridridge be climbed upon tbe bed and placing his revolver t j bis temple fired a bullet which tore off the toe of hia head. There Is no known rea son for thinking there had been 1U feeling between Robinson and any of his viotims. Collector Doddridge says be never even saw or heard of Robin son before^ Doc i or Dies of Smallpox. The N.wherry Obacrver says Dr. M. Q Hendrix, tba most prominent physician of Lexington, died oi Saturday night with smallpox. H must have been a man of rare ability, judging from the tribute of the local paper, though a man of “peouUtr characteristics’’ and of “strong pre Indices.” We Infer from a remark made, by tbe town board of health, In the same paper, that the doctor bad not been vaccinated—this probably belugone evidence of his “strong pre jndoies.” The deotoris wife snd chll dren also had the diseoe, but be wai the only member of the family wh) died. “Mrs, Hendrix now being able to be up and about her household work, and other members of tba taml ly being successfully vaccinated." Wa refer to this oaaa to emphasise two pointer L That the smallpox now prevailing twthe state la of h virulent snd dangerous type; 1: That vaccina tlon la ths only sura HOteaMnn against this to Ur si. ted. The farmers have al ready whipped the fight ss to ilQQ. of cotton acreage and use of I gusoo under cotton for 1906. Novr et tbe people get closer together and continue the fight for their emanolpa- tlon from the dominating lDfluenoee| of the speculators. Harvib Jordan, President Southern Cotton Associa tion. Dragged to Death. Pleaded Unlity. L. P. Obllger, ex-president of the oloaed Wooster, O Ho, national bank, pleaded guilty before Judge Taylor in the United States district court Wed nesday afternoon to a count In one of the indictments charging him with having liaued a draft when there ware no funds in the bank to meet It. Judge Taylor sentenced OhUger to eight years’ imprisonment In the Ohio pen itentiary Obllger Is an ex congress man, ex county treasurer, pest mss tor, at Wuosu r undeLPr sident Cleveland's first administration and.collector of A dispatch from Johnston to Tbe Staty says Mr. Jeter W. Ctlm was killed Thursday afternoon In s’ pecu Marly horrible manner. .Mr. Orim-had been out plowing and about sundown started home from the fi^.d, riding the horse, sitting sideways. In some way the horse bolted, rad Mr. Orim’s feet became entangled In the harness He was dragged for a quarter of a mile, with the horse going at full speed. When the horse was stopped, nearly at Mr. Crlm r s home, the unfor tunate man was still alive but unable tj speak and In that condition be liv ed for abmt 30 minutes. Mr Orlm was 60 years of age and was a C jnfederate veteran. Ha was a farmer and senior member of tbe firm of Grim & Son. The Old Love Revived. Mias May Story, of Thomson, and Mr. L. L. Barker, of Marietta, Ga., were married at Thompson, Ga., waa gent spread bar sails at Madras with 367 of tbe 26th Madras Light Infant ry and other passengers on board. Her destination arts Rangoon, hot half a oentury has gone, and neither Rangoon nor any other port has sighted her. Nearly two years later the Collins Liner, the Pacific, dropped down tbe Mersey with 180 soula on board. She was accounted one of tfaewMbtoat and swifisst vessels of her time—and so, no doubt she was. But she went th» way the Olty of Glasgow had gone a couple of years earlier, and for forty nine yean hat bean lying at tbs tom of tin sea—but wbert, none may know till all secrets art revealed. Tbe trading vesMl Atiantastarted, a quar ter of a century ago, for a short cruise in Bermudan waters, and from that lay to this no poe, knows what Jbe- camirof bar and the 250 souls ibe car ried. - r - ~ On January 28, 1870, the Olty of boston stlied from Halifax (or Eng land, with 101 souls on btard. She wtt an Ihmtn Liner, a fine Ship, splendidly equipped and handled; but she, too, was destined to vanish from the faoe of the waters. -The victim of another still remem bered ocean mystery was the Presl dent, a fine ves«6I which was expected at Liverpool In March, 1841. March passed and Liverpool saw nothing of her. The long delay In her arrival caused great anxiety, and the wildest rumor- began to be circulated. On April 13 news came that her engtnei aod rudder bad been disabled In heavy weather and that she bad pat Into Maderia for repair*, and there natn rally followed a reaction from gloomy foreboding to transports of Joy. The vessel was expected at Liverpool on a certain day, and her arrival was awaited by hundreds of people wto- hsd friends aboard; but the never came, and It was found that the story of her arrival at Maderia was a heart less hoax. All the time the Ill-fated vsstel was at ths bottom of the Oa Novtmber W, L888. »Jiif! sel was seen from tbe beach at sailing toward the Goodwin Sands. She was a fair picture to look on, as she moved over the .waters with her stately spread of sails. But as the eyes of the watchers followed her she wss seen to pause, and' within a fee seconds she vanished utterly from their view. What oaussd this tragi cslly sudden disappearance of a state ly ship? That Is another of the count leas secrets which ths ooean has In Its jealous keeping. Va, for which crime, ha other man waa lynehsd. TKLUi oomruomra talrs. A dispatch from Cincinnati, Ohio, nays Albert Johnson, colored, was ar rested In Newport, Ky., Thursday (or •ending threatening letters through tba malls Ths officers express tba belief that beta tbe same map wrote to the Chester, W. Va, jf polios, confessing various for which other men bed been or about lo bs punished. A o James Mooar, son ofOapt. Mooar, threatening him with wastuned overto tbsUnltsd costal authorities and led to Johnson's , arrest Johnson acknowledged writ- tog the poetal and was then asked: “Did you write that totter to ths Chester, VT Va, ehtof of police?” “Yes, sir, I did aod every word la that letter js true," he “Why 4o vou ooofessloas?’’ “Because I I Intend to lead a better Ufa” “I had three other kill In Cleveland, bat rinse my version I have abandoned that I Informed tbe men that they Hose calls for tbrir Uvea and thought religion was all that had Later Johnson retrsoted bis I meat that he bad killed five I “1 have been had," he mid, “hot I never killed aay one and don't know anything about that litter.” Johnson’s record In Newport in cludes an attempt to kill Asms Phil lips by shooting, hat Johnson that he acted In self defense. « t;. A special dispatch from Oalqult, Ga., to ths Atlanta Constitution says tiiat while Dr. P. E. Wilkin and Him Jennie Eigerton were out bowebaek riding Monday afternoon they ^ two four-horse wagons loaded with soirtti of turpentine* In attempting te pass the first wagon the horse Miss ton was riding * - Forreet Honored. At Memphis, Tenn., to ths aooom panimentiof martial music and in the presence of thoqsandf of citizens an^ visitors the equestrian bronzi stane of Lieutenant General Nathan B Forrest was unveiled Toesday after noon In the park that bears the Con federate general’s name. Tne status Thursday, and created quite a ripple Mdttmtot/tom tto tM thu tb. 11, ta. work ot tb, wolptor, »teth4« Cleveland’s second administration. Two Fisher Dais Csucht. G. W. Streeter of Bolton, N. Y , caught in traps In the Bolton moun tains recently two fisher oats, animals rarely seen in this part of the country. The animals have heads which rssem- ble that of a bear. They weighed about ten pound t (fitch. They possess a fins black fur, wlri^k Is valuable. Mr. Streeter says tba animals are ferious and will put np a good fight. engagement of Ml<w Story to a pro minent young mad of a neighboring town had been'announced, the wed ding,to be solemnised In Jane. AH ar rangements had been made for this wedding, which wss to be the society •vent of thejpeason, but It appears that an old sweetheart appeared upon the soeoe, with the reshit above men tiooed. The newly married couple left Immediately for Marietta, Ga, where they wiU make there future home. Nut*t H*4 Aay.'- ~ President Hadley of Yale Uni verity was one sf tbe speakers at the dinner I of the Oorahlll Alumni, of New York | city. Dr. Hedley told a story of a result wss that Miss Eagsrtoa toll under tbe wagon and was erabed to death. The horse that Dr. Wilkin was riding wss so mangled that it wss kill ed. Dr. Wilkin was slightly hurt. Mias Eagerton was the adopted daughter of Mrt Floyd. The body will ha In terred In the family burying grounds near Brinson, Ga. A party of young people will escort the body to its last restlug place. u«u Bin Pag. The Philadelphia Enquirer says that Nan Patterson was In this dty today and signed a cod tract to appear on tbs Ugeof the Harlem Music bail, Hew York»At a salary of t2.000 a weak. II Is said the arrived here In the nuon aod returned to immediately after tbs nad been dosed. Miss Patterson, It is understood, was represented by Attorney Daniel J O’RslUy. log to tbe Enquirer, sos Is to i in an act at tne bead of six chorus girls. The length of tbs gigement Is not known. 1b HarU Lwek. It was east in Paris. Little Mis Bradley, a great grand daughter of the dead hero, pulled the rilken eord which exposed to view the handsome monument. Ths munldpti efflesrs declared a half holiday and the olty was crowded with visitors. | j Drowned off UM, tetaad. As ths climax to a run of Hsrtlook,# Ths Charleston Post says J. Amos ■ r ° ie P # h McBryde^a wril known riri* Kelly, a painter employed on tbs Iris I ** n °* 0° luna bui, GA, of Palms by Contractor H. D. Sohua- was drowned Wednesday after noon off ths Island. Hs toft the beach In a boat, which was over turned by the waves In sight of tbs shore, and the unfortunate painter sank without the possibility of help artifljtal Hash . lust too foot Wedeesday. from his delivery shotgun. He-ha and It causing the A hole about the rise of A blown through his right . ^ The Laat aarvtvor. The body of Hiram Crook, ths lari -urvlror of the war of 1812 was oar* acd laid away in the Cypress Hills Uttto boy whose mother had died and being rendered tom. His body has | doe6Qr . cemetery with foil military honors, whose father had married a/ain, bav not yet been recovered. Kelly with oeosssary. w "pw Accompanying the body were Crook’s log two sons by ths second wife. ‘ I his wife and ohfld lived In tbs nsr of ^oth hu reet. not very three surviving sous snd one daughter had a mother aod I’ve got a stop-1 Mr John D. Oappelmann’a zesiratee, borne wss ournen. a. —Pnl'ander Oronk, aged 81. William, oaofcber,” said the boy, “but Billy auo 1200 Rutledge avenue. He was » **“ • llre sged 82, John, igedfifiandMrt Bs»a | Harry, all they’ve fdt is t stepmother, uf kindly disposition md * Rawiey, aged 7L ITbspnsvav bad any teotttsr.” | iotas wnea dabooft ,»...