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Of Tom Culbertson, Who Busted Moute Carlo Bunk And - COMMITTED SUICIDE. H« Wm Om HoMlrtd ud Fifty Tb«u««<i Praaci tmi the Next Mornlaf He . : ' «rr Was PsaaS Dead CUapiaf a Womaa’i Red Morrocco Packet Beck. Mown Carlo, Jane 23.—Tom Oul bertson, from Texas, murderer and aoldde; Marietta Torini Culbertson, of New York and Texas, strangled end the French republic richer by 160,000 francs because the bank-burst er burned up his winnings—such are a single night's happenings in "gay” Monte Carlo, ▲s your correspondent stops at the Hotel de Paris, opposite tbe Casino, where the tragedies were, In part, en noted, be is In a position to supple meat the scent cable reports. At 4 o’clock yesterday morning most of the second story lodgers of tbe "Faria" were awakened by a pistol shot. My room mate said at onoe: "It’s a colt, I smell copy,” and hast! ly donning our trousers we ran out in tbs hall. The lights had already been toned on full blast. Watchmen, night clerks, scrub women, porters, etc., came scurrying up tbe stairs. A hundred questions In a dosen tongues. Every door on tbe corridor wasscoes- aively tried, the occupants responding, save that of No. 13. "Burst In the door," cried several exalted guests. Notnecoessary, it wm unlocked. The room wm pitch dark, but the fumes of powder and burned paper meeting us a we entered, indl oated that we were on the right track I tuned on the electric light. On the lounge, fully dressed, wm a man's body. By G the American, who burst the bank," 1 beard the night clerk whisper. ——- Indeed, Tom Culbertson, of TexM, the " n * n who promised me "a big story" only a few hours before. Here wm the story: A bole large enough to admit one’s thumb in bis right tem ple. From the wound blood wm oox ing lastly, but a minute ago it must have gushed forth like a fountain. There wm a big pool on tbe carpet and in the midst a giant colt revolver, ly ing below the now llfelSM right hand. The left, raised to the heart, clutch ed a red something, a woman’s pom padaur, velvet and gold, it proved to be. Strange, the silken carrying oords were out. Meanwhile a police Mrgeant and three Carabinieri had marchdd in. They took charge of the body, the room and tbe semi-dressed mob filling It. The sergeant held a whispered conversation with tbe manager and night clerk. Then he demanded aloud: "Does anyone recognise this dead per son?" m d'win men and women re spooded and your correspondent de posited what be knew about Tom Cul bertson's story in Monte Carlo. Fol lowed the preliminary investigation. "As to the body: Life had been extin gulahed some fifteen or twenty minu tes. Contents of tbe pockets: A box of cartridges, some American silver coin and a blood stained bankerchief. The officer dispatched bis men to guard the doors. He also sent for as sistance. "Until further notice, I will be obliged to regard you u my prisoners," he Mid politely but firmly. ‘‘Please take notice that not a soul Is permitted to leave here." The order wm not surprising. At eleven p. m. Tom Culbertson had 160,000 francs of the bank money. Five hours latter he wm dead, maybe murdered, and not a hundred-franc bill left. The guest prisoners were requested to with draw to me part of tbe very large -menl, while the sergeant and officials continued the search for the missing fortune. Suddenly they came open a letter stuck behind the rate card at tbe door, adrwsed to tbe hotel keeper. "Tbe A merlcan report er living on the seme floor, will trans late this for you,” said a note in the corner of the envelope. "To the Hotel Keeper and to Whom It May Concern: I am Tom Culbert son, of,Texas, wm a well known opt ion planter up to ten years ago. Hav ing norelatlves, tbe authorities can do with my oaroass m they please; better sell It to tne saw-bones to pay expenses. As the story of my life oon veys valuable lessons to old and young, the American newspaper, chap whom I met In tbe cafe yesterday, may have It for what It is worth. "Ten years ago when on s business trip to New York, I met my destiny In Marietta Torini,' daughter an Italian violinist. Ear father, used to play In tbe Bowery cafes and restau rants, Marietta accompanying blm on the guitar. 1 fell In love with the girl at sight. She became my wife, and after settling a comfortable In come on tbe old man, we moved out to our lonely ranch. I am a man of 40, she having Just budded into wo manhood. 1 tried my best to make her forget the difference In our years. Her faintest, inarticulate wishes were commands to me. I bought her every thing she oould think of, but in the end had to reoognizi the fact tbklkl wee too old, too eerious minded for my girl-wife. Frequently I found Mari etta In tears. She said she wm very homesick, but I wouldn’t let her go. the was my first love, and the vary thought of a separation wm madden ing to me. Then en angel came to us, a daughter, beautiful m the mother. But Marietta hated tbe 0ild. She Often mistreated her despite my pro- tent. 1 upbraided, I threatened her, ttgbs dared rate a finger ecainst my My telegrams, by the authorities, thousands spenton private detective* did not bring her beck. But I had Maud. The child wm both mother and daagh- ter to me. I wm her slave. And Yel low Jaok cam* and robbed mf of her. That happened whan I wm 48. It whitened my hair and life lost all Ita charms for me. ' I no longer took any interest in business. Curing only to forget, I took to drink and whiskey’ did me up Id tbe usual space of timt. I wls forced to sell the plantation and, gatnbring the rest of my money, be came a wanderer, following tbe race tracks, for excitement at first, finally to eke out a scant and disgraceful liv ing. -• ■ ; ... This spring I happened to win a considerable amount at ’Frisoo and a good woman, whom I met there, per suaded me to try and begin a new, a better life. I calculated that to do so, I must have money and resolved to go to Mont* Carlo, to win a fortune. If luck smiled upon me, r would re turn and begin ail over in the cotton businesa. ' ‘A week ago I set foot in this earth ly paradise, snd had no sooner don* so when, for some reason or other, my mind snd heart became fljoded with Md robtw); the btnt of Monte Otrlo lnlM , n0M 0 , Mlrleiu j th „ ugtll “bultt” ud ptlnoe tftheM tMll» r H raTlii. her e mr wee the signal for much do wners. Evsry fresh red mouth Mem *d to be Marietta’s, in every dark, flash eye I recognized Marietta’s "Yesterday, late in tbe afternoon, m 1 was going up the OmIdo steps, thought I mw her, s lovely vision, on the arm of one of thoee international dandles with whleh Moute Carlo is running over. I felt lure it way her, my poor, beloved, deluded wife. She smiled, she coquetted, ah* behaved outrageously. 1 heard her -laugh sh, it wm Marietta's laugh. She passed a remark within my hcarlng. So Ma rletta used to talk.' "1 felt that I must ’tvhll* excited and for half an hour or longer wandered'about almlesely in tbe gardens. There wm a good breeze from the bay and the silt air finally restored my equilibrium. I ventured to tbe Cm!no. "Try black," an in ner voice advised. Black loet. I forced it. ‘Noir perd!’announced the rou lette manipulator five Or six times in sucoeasioQ. The gold in my pocket wm getting low. I wm just think lug of qulUing when I heard me the frou-frou of silken when I perceived Marietta’s her voica. And I gathered up all possessed in the world and put it on black. " ‘Noir perd!’ I wm a beggar In a strange country, witb nothing to look forward to but death. Quietly, re signedly I walked out to take my medicine. As soon as I found a half wij secluded spot, I would end It all Once I thought I had discovered i place of safety, but s carabinieri, making the rounds, cussed me to meva on, snd not knowing tbe roads I found myself, after s while, in the neigh borhood of the Casino again, I wm about to sit down for s moment’s rest, when I espied an elegantly dressed woman on s neat by bench. Sbe had tbe sylph like, yet luxurious figure of my Marietta, she had Ma rietta’s eyes, her hair, I saw it all in the bluing arc light, And as I faced her, she instlnotlvdy recogniz .d me. " ‘Mother of my dead Maud,’ 1 whispered hoarsely, ‘so I found you at iMt ’ — v " ‘Don’t make s scene, she re turned; let’s go where It’s quiet and talk It over. 1 I took her to tbe out skirts of tbe park, from where tbe pa trol bad Just driven me It wm safe new; "And there I talked to her like a father, like a lover and a father, in every way I tried to move her oold heart for our dead Ma^d’rsake. But the minute sbe saw that r wa^soften- ing; her diabolical \sp!rit y returned. She called me cra^y, mad; She said such m herself, beautiful, young tal ented wm not for such m I, old griz zled, wedded to life in the semi desert. And then the devil took hold of me, too: 1 reached for my revolver. Ma rletta tried to call for help but, losing all self control, 1 took bold of her by the neck.. Sbe struggled, pushed her bejeweled fan Into my face. Her re sistance ceased, before Treat i zed wbat I wm doing I held a dead woman in my arms. ‘'The fright, tbe horror of my mis deed nearly killed me on tbe spot. ‘Why didn’t I use that revolver an hour ago?’ I moaned, ‘then I wouldn’t have this crime added to my list of ■iiifi' 1 ", ” 1 1 ' ■ "But now; vole'8 In the distance: they stimulated tbe instinct of the self-preservation and I dragged the body further into the bushes. Then as I bent over Marietta to take a Ust look at her, I noticed tbe red pocket book banging on her arm. ‘A sou venir,’ I thought, they shall bury It with me.’ I out the striogs and, prompted by jealous curiosity, pressed the lock. I expected to find love let ters, men’s visiting cards; I saw a crisp thousand francs note. And my thoughts of suicide were gone all at onoe, the craziof gamble, gambler's madness seized me. "‘Play red, red,’ whispered tbe voice of passion. 'This pocketbook ii your talisman, rouge means a fortune to you. ’ 1 raised my hand to my feverish temple and, withdrawing it, found it red with blood from tbe wound Ma rietta bad inflicted upon, me with her fan. More red, It wm Inevitable that 1 should win, I stilled the blood, clean ed my cheek and walked to the Casino with buoyant steps." Entering, I re garded myself in one of the high mir rors. Nothing in my appearance re called the adventures of a few min utee ago, recalled my crime. "With the feelings of a winner 1 walked up to one of the Trente at Quarante tables '500 on rcuge ’ L won. 1 lea original and winnings on tbe same card. 'Rouge again,’ 1 won. I left original winnings on the Mm" card. ‘Roug* again,’ 1 won. ‘Rouge,’ ‘Rouge/ ‘Rouge,’ ten .thousand on rouge,’ 'twenty thousand!’ I won and won again 1 won. I won 20 times, and, by the Lord Harry woo 25 times and bunt tbe bank of Mont* Carlo. "I burst the bank, I wm rich, but —tbe recollection struck me like a bullet from a catapult—rich because I had mardered my glrl-wlfe. I wm happy because she was dead, aud here, under my coat was tbe talisman, her red pocketbook taken from her dead to ma only after I bad changed my load of gold Into thonaand francs notes. Up to then, each Is the utter baseness of a gambler’s nature, I bad eetaallv en joyed my triumph, though neve? quite forgetting that it was won at the ox of the dreedfnlleet of Yet not nntll I had weighted all my pockets with papermoney, I realised my situation In full: I wm a mur derer, nay won*. I had taken the wages of my poor wife’s sins to gain a fortune for myself. "TbOM who mw me throw away money, In the safe last night thought I wm; ‘celebrating.’ As a matter of fact I wm anxious to get rid off as many hundred and thousand francs ootes m possible. May they do some good to tbe waiters and others. The money I could not spend, in the abort space of time allowed me, I burned in the open fire place In this room. "This is all I have to say. "Tom Culbjersoh, from TexM, U -U, A^— , xu « « • Your correspondent went out with tbe police sergeant to aeaeh for Ma- retta’s body. We soon found it In tbe spot indicated, where it would hare been discovered anyhow in the early morning,'^ search tbe woods for suicides. The sergtat recogniz d Marietta m a wall known demtmoodalnc, that hung about tbe gambling establishment during the last two seasons. As stated in the confession, she had been strangled. —__— Today two fresh graves were filled In the "Suidde’s and Murderer’s Cemetery." The gambling concern burled Tom and Marietta aide by side in the clothes they wore at the time when fate overtook them. The Prince of Monaco and the Freneh Republic who profited about not risk my all f 160,000 francs when Tom Culbertson burned his winnings, did not eyen •end flowers. Emils Bkrdau THE WAR 18 OVER. Tbe Confederate Dead Honored in Wiaoonaln by Union Veteran*. Qover- letter from the son of a Madison, Wis., Grand Army veteran, in which be is Tbe Atlanta Journal uyi behind Lnojr /PirreHlt In receipt of a skirts, laugh, informed that tbe graves of many Georgia Confederate veterans at Madi son, Wis., were cared for on National Memorial day, May 30th. The letter wm written by Herbert Siggelko, a prominent attorney, who is first Mr geant of tbe Henry Marnden camp, No. 2, Sons of Veterans. • The letter follows: Maoisom, Wis., June 16^ 1906. To His Excellency, The Governor of Georgia, Atlanta, Ga. Respected Sir:—You are deubtli aware of tbe fact that in our cemetery are buried many Cjnfederatea who died here while prisoners of war Among the number are many from the state of Georgia. It give me great pleasure to inform you that on Memorial day, May 30th, the grivee of these Confederate dead, m hM loog been tbe custom, were decorated with flowers and uniformed squad of Henry Harnden Camp No. 2, Sons of Vet erans, fired three volleys in honor and memory of the Gray resting her*. The members of our G. A. R , Lucius Fairchild Post No. 11, marched Into tbe enclosure and stood thsrs with beads uncovered while the exercises were being observed. e ~ • I am sure I voice the sentiment of the old soldiers and of the veterans in saying that bitterness and enmity to wards you who fought for tbe Gonfed erscy has passed away forever and wlli never again be harbored. We realise that you of tbe south fought bravely and conscientiously, believing your cause to be right, and the soldier of the north fought in tbe Mme way, be lieving his cause to be rlgbt. We may clasp bands across tbe bicody charm of war and bv word and by deed we make known to one another that we are brothers. In submitting tills, I have tbe honor to remain, Very respectfully. liEKBKRT S. SlOGKLKO, 1st Sergeant, Henry Harden Camp NO.fi. — - 1 ^ You’ve come, old Johnny Rebe, and we enre are glad to see yon, says the Louisville Times. We’ve gotten ns a new waatbyr man sine* tbe last time youeasae, and. If any of you get wet, It’ll have te be on tbe Inside, and not from tbe outside. Tbe old town is bound to you on every-day oceaetone by tbe ties of kindred blood, by one ness of interest, by a common beri tags, and the single iparpoae to prove worthy of it; bat the preoeot i» not en every-day occasion. Whatever we are In plain, ordinary times, we are that and a leetle to tbe rise endurin’ of this week. W# Kentuckians think we know a man when we see blm, and, better still, know how to treat blm after we have seen him, and tbe fact that about 60,000 of you old fellows In gray Jackets, with now and then a sleeve empty, or decided that you would like to spend a few days with us In a body and talk over old time* for old times’ lakeland forth* reason that tbe memory of them is an 1 aspiration and tbeir lemon L Ncfro Says He Wm Hired by the Rawlins* to Kilt THE CARTER FAMILY Asd Bora Their Hease After Ik* Marder. A Fenner Friend of the Rawliags Gives Seam Daaiafiag Testi mony AfilMt Them, Ac-. cesiag Them of Deed. rttb now end then a What la believed to be the sequel to a a leg miming, have feud of long standing resulted sA Val in the fid sop of rW? ter. The vouiur neonl* were attracted men we’te sort o’ been expecting you and your sisters, god your wives and your cousins end your aunts, to say nothing of some 30,000 or 40,000 sponsors and maids of honor. We belong to yon tor 366 days out of the year, but for these three days you belong to us; and If there’s anything vou’d like to have done that we happen to have over looked, just let us know, and we’ll not be long In fixing It From Vir ginia to Taxas, from ArkansM to Florida, from Kentucky to the Gulf, from little old fighting ‘Joe’’ Wheel er to the biggest Tarheel private that ever slunsr a knapsack or squinted down tbe bar’l of *n old squirrel rifle, you are welcome to the best on the table, the oobwebbiest lu the cellar, and tbe tenderest In our hearts. THE DIVORCE EVIL, Says Archbishop Parley, la Under mining tha Walls of Society. Archbishop Farley declared at Car negio Hall, In New York, one night Uat week, at the commencement exer ciaes of St. Francis Xavier that the evils of divorce were fast undermining tbe walls of our scoietj and that tbe dosta, Ga., Tuesday night in the amaaslnation of the 17-year-old and the 16 year-old daughter L. Carter, formerly a Baptist ndnls- _ Died Making n Speech. At Cblcpgo S. P. Sherin, formerly old age, stocetary of the demccTjttio national “ c jmmlttee, dropped dead on tbe fl x)r ■of tbe convention ball in tbe Auditor-1*1. New Pin* street lum hotel while making an addrem be fore the delegates to tbe convention of tbe National'Interstate Independent Telephone association Wednesday, of apoplexy. Mr. Sberin wm president of the new long distance telephone com pany of Indianapolis-, and had been se lected by arrangements of the com mlttee to deliver tbe addrees of wel come. He had proceeded well along with hie readlngjfhen he suddenly stepped backwafd and fell to the floor, expiring within a few minutes Mr. Sherin, a moment before his col lapse, remarked to Col. Powers, of Louisville, temporary chairman, that lie was not feeling well. S. P. Sherin, Jr., his son, wm present when his father expired and Immediately took charge of the remains. Old Lady Drowned. Mrs. David Latham, agad 76 yean, wm drowned w Saturday afternoon about two o'clock in Ron creek, 3 miles oortb of Atworth, and within three hundred yards .of her borne on Mr John Gargle’s farm. Sbe wm ap parently well and ate a hearty dinner, but soon afterwards strolled off from the house. Her shoes were found on tbe creek bank and bar bonnet hang ing on a limb near the creek. The water wm not over- two feet deep, where tb* body war found. NO rea son is known why sh* committed sal- eld*. Frightful Storm. One death and damage to property amounting to thousands resulted from an aleotrio storm and eloudburit, which cecurred at Tampa, Fla., Wed- oesday afternoon. Beatrice Collin, aged 7, wM killed by lightning while standing In the door of her home it Exchange, fell la, switchboard and Injuriav young lady operators, whole structure would shortly coilspM should do hand be raised to ward off tbe advance of ibis tendency. The Archbishop said in part: "A continuance of the evil of di vorcc, of tbe sligbtest regard tot the marriage, must shortly lead to tbe downfall of society, nay, It is even now falling, and must soon be dragg ed In the dust. We see that It la going to pieces. ‘‘President Roosevelt, who holds in his hands the trust Imposed by the people of the United States, and who wields his authority in no mistaken manner, has openly announced how be deplores the awful oondlUbo of io- eiety in this regard. "I believe no president since Wash ington's time hM made a more bene ficial effecta on tbe roots of society and the family than Roosevelt has by means of his frank declaration. Not only does the president preach tbe doctrines be believes, but be exempli flee it in hfi~own life, and his own family stands m an Illustration of wbat the nation’s executlvs thinks mid says of the raoe standard* "It is likswisw gratifying to find that the president bM not conflaed to Investigate, followed by a younger child. They were fired upon by some on* from behind the smokehouM. The young lady fell dead, the young man crawled back to the hooM, where he lied, and tbe younger child wounded. Carter fired upon some one prowling in his yard early Wednes day. He says tbe Intruder wm a ne gro. He believes tbe aasMaelns are negroes, but says others may have been instigators of the crime. A dispatch from Valdoeta, Ga., says Alf. Moore, a negro, who wm arrest ed Saturday in connection with tbe aanastnatlon of the two Carter chil dren not far from that place last week, hM mad* a startling oon fas lion. He declares tliat he wm em ployed by Rawlings, a white man, now under arrest for the crime, to aid In the bloody murder which resulted in the assassination of two children. The negro says there wm a plot to kill the entire Carter family and bum tbeir home. Ha declares that Milton Rawlinga shot Carrie Carter and that Jessie Rawlings shot Willie Carter The victims were the 16 year-old dsu ghter and 17 year old sou of W. L. Carter, against whom, it is alleged .the enmity on account At Philadelphia one of the meat neatlonal oaess of forgery that has ever bseu^bsought to light in financial drolasof that city wm dieoloesd last week when It was announced that certificates calling for small numbers of shares of stock had been trad alsot- ly raised to hunditds of tharee, caus ing a loss to certain banka end trust companies of this city of from 8760,- ooo to ti.odo.ood. forgery ia-| valves the name of Benjamin H. Gaa- kUl, whs went to hie grave four weeks ago. Gasklll wm the sole member cf the banking and brokarag* concern tnbwn as BehJ H Glikin fr Comps ny. He had offices in the financial district and his credit wm considered gilt edged. —- v - Gaaklll died about four weeks ago. and at the time of his death he wm believed to be worth about half a mil Hon dollars. He left no will and ad mlnistratora began to dose op his business. A patron of .the firm, whoa* name Is not given, bought from the estate 100 shares of Philadelphia Traction company stock. This wan sent to tbe Philadelphia Traction company’s office to have the trapsfer recorded. The certificate did not agree witb the company's books, and an investigation showed that toe oer tlfloate had bjeo raised from six shares to 100. The stock exchange of which Gaekill wm a member, then lint out notices to its members not to receive stock certificates Trom the GMkill estate. A further investigation brought to light a surprising state of affairs. It wm found that Gaaklll had credited himself on bis own books witb 6,000 shsret of Palladelpbla traction stock valued at approximately 8800,000 wjhile|be traction ecmpsny's back-* showed lie dm only 400 share* It wjlsvmuii «v MAac^STUj msjvrwvu *sv uuij -ww vm- aw hCBl of Rawlings wm directed was alio discovered that he bad rstaed y«u of his labors in this direction to bis own. circle, wholly, bat the fact la made known to me that tbe cab'net hM taken this question up and will deal with It. When tbe beads of our gov ernment take' up A problem of this grave nature there cin be no need of the people doubting that the ques tlons must be gravely considered, snd we feel that much good will bo done if effort Is properly directed." DEATH 0V AUNT EASTER. field to Have Been the Oldest Woman In the United States. The oldest person In,,Augusts, and probably the oldest in the United States died Wednesday afternoon of sajs the Augusta Hsrsld. Euter Matthews wm her name. She wm a colored woman tnd llved afc'm fdt her age wm 136 years. "Aunt Easter," m she wm called, wm born in 1770, and while In slavery sbe belonged to a number of promi nent families of the city. Sbe bad for her iMt owners, tbe Clayton fam lly, and she often spoke of Mr. Tur ner Clayton In her Ust days. The old woman died from old age, she never having ae ache or piin in her Ilf* For the past 76 years the had been living in the city,.and bM resided on Pine street for the past 20 year* The people wbomrshe was living with at the time of her death claimed that she had never complain ed in tbe l#Mt of having an ache or pain. One of tbe ways the old woman had of telling her ag* wm that abe re membered several years before tbe Springfield Baptist church wm built In tbe city, and this institution Is 106 years old. - She claimed Miat she re membered when the spot where the church now stands wm in a awamp. The old woman wm liked by all of the people, both whlto and ojlored, m the often interested them by telling of tbe times she need to have in the days gone by. Her reoollecUon perfect, oven in her last day* Drowned In Salndn River. A dispatch from Newberry The State says news reached there late Wednesday evening of young Robert Langford In Saluda river near Kempeon’s ferry, about 2 o’clock Wednesday. Ho had gone oat to hU uncle’s, Mr. Preston L. Living ston, to n seining parly and with his friend, Homer Steven* preceded tbe older mew end went into tbe river. When tbe other* Mr. Livingston, Mr. Chapin Lake, Mr. *»vir and Mr. Pick Tbe roof of the Roberta building, oo- ena Steven* arrived they wen met by copied by the Peninsula Telephone Homer Stevens, who told them of thi drowning. Up to 8 o’clock on Wedaw day "trritri tha body had not bom a long-standing feud Tbe negro says that Rawlings, be fore leaving fur Valdosta on the tbe afternoon preceding tbe night of crime, earned bis supper to him lu order to keep him from going home. A gun with which one of tbe children wm killed wm found near the seen*. Tim McDonald, a well known citi zen of the Hahirs distrlet, and neighbor to Rawlings, cam* to Yal dosta on Saturday morning and made a statement to Solicitor Gene ral W. E. TbomM, which Is more damaging to the Rawlings. MjDod aid bad been a friend of Rawliags, but on bad terms with Carter, ho hav ing angaged in a light wlthhlma year or more ago, in which be inflicted a knife wound on Carter that came near being fatal. Presuming on Me Don aid’s bad feeling toward Carter and friendship for himself, Rvwiings talk ed freely to McDonald of his comity to Carter, and threatened the Utter’s Ufa, and made an Implied threat to murder tbe entire family. He went to McDonald on the day after th tragedy to borrow money, saying that be bad been to town to get ItCbut wm unable to do so, and must have a xmslderable sum. Riwllngsalao went to McDonald on the day of the trage dy to get bis gun, which be bad loan ed to the latter some time before. The Cirter children were shot to death Ust Tuesday night in their yard at Hahlra by assassins wbo fired on them under oover of darkness from be hind the smokehouse. Mr. and Mr* Carter and (heir children, unoons3k>us of danger, were pleasantly conversing in the sitting room of thel? home. About 9 o’clock tbe bark of the fa ml; ly dog wm heard and the father rose to Investigate. At tbe same time, the children, a boy and girl, left their seats, telling their father that they would go. The father remained and tbe children left tbe house. Hardly had the boy and girl stepped in tbe yard when the report of a pistol wm beard. It wm followed by a second shot. Realizing that something aw- happened, the father ran to tbe Window. Although the night was dark, Carter saw several men hiding about the house. He knew at onoe that his own life wm In danger, and after telling his wife to keep quiet, he began whet afterward proved to be an all-nigbt vigil. Groaning with pain, tbe seventeen year-old son of Carter crawled into tbe house. He said he and his sister bad boe.i fired on by men in hiding behind the smokehouM and he ex preasd tbe belief that on* of them wm a Rawlings boy. His sister wm in stantly killed. The boy lingered but a short time when he died. Oar lex and bis wife, seated beside tbe body of their dead son, remained watching all tbe night through. As the streaks, of dawn began to appear they saw fig uree in the yard stealthily move away. The body of the dead girl whteh wm left on tbe groued all night, wMaf ter daylight removed to the houso by the heartbroken man sod bU wife As quickly m possible, Carter comma □lost* d witb bin nearest neighbor and soon others gathered at his home. Track* made by tbe Imprint of shoes, were seen about ‘ the smokehouse and other portions of th* yard. As these tracks are of various sizes, the fact is establlsbfd that several perrons were Implicated in tbe killing. Tbe arrest of th* Rawlings followed. There la eablo- talk af lynching, _ end only the assurance that a special term of court will be called to try tbe a» eease to have any effect on tbe enraged men. The Rswllhgi are all in jail, where they will remain until thay are tried. Drowned lw River. Virgil White, a promising young lawyer, wee drowned lu the Dae Moines river Monday morolug by the oapeUlng of a canoe at Dae Moines, low* . He wm the eon of Hon. Fred E. Whit* ex member of oongrem and Dineratlc candidate for.gov- of low* Edited Stocks and | Reined Seek the Advice of the South’s Most Skillful Physician—He will Coun sel and Advise Any Sufferer on Any Disease Without Chtoge —25 Years of Experience. Valuable Books Rree— Write for Them. ValwA r*’ ' stock certificates of the United Rill ways of New Jersey from 2 to 200 and the certificates of tbe Erankford and Southward Street Railway company of this city from 2 to 20. The latter •took is worth 8460 a share. Gaekill kept two accounts, one re cording the transaction of his custo mer* which wm correct, and another giving his own transaction* His books showed that he wm losing from 815,000 to 826,000 a year In hie busl n«* HI* method of operation was to obtain eertifleatea of gilt edged •ecurlties calling for. one, two, three or some other small number of shares, ndee the figures eadgive them m se curities for large loan* At leMt six banks'and trust companies of this city admit;holding fraudulent aecuri ties for large loan* A financier who has been making an investigation said that the amount of money loaned on the raised certificates will aggregate between 8760,000 and 81,000 000. It is believed that, very little will be recovered from the estate. •d nod Most Reliable Specialist. Every afflicted reader of this paper la invit ed to coneult Dr. J. Newton Hathaway of At lanta, Ga* the South’* oio* Reliable Special* iatt'on any disease, abeolutely without charge. This great specialist has had over v twenty five years of expe-ience in the studv and traat- ireat of diseases of a chronic or linserins na ture, and we unhesitatingly say tha there is no .case, no matter how severe, that he cannot thoroughly understand from the verv first, and prepare the correct tree ment, which ia bound to effect a perms nent core. By the aid of his sysiem of home treatment, he places at thedisposa* of every sufferer his advaaoed methods of treatment, of which a ia tha Orig inator, no matter where ha nr aha reside*. FREE MEDICAL ADVICE If you suffer from any disease of a chronic natnre, such as Nervous Debility, Stricture, Vatic -cele. Blood Poitou, Kidney or Bladder Trouble, Diseases of the Heart, Liver or stom ach, Throat and Lung Trouble, Loet Manhood, Hydrocele, Drina-y Disordeta, Skin Djatasta Rheumatism* Catarrh or private diseases of Ken, such as Gleet, etc., and diseases peculiar to women, etc, etc, do not neks the mlatalm of consulting your home doctor, who will charge you anywhere from -i to for con sultation alone, but sit down and write to Dr. Hathaway. He will counsel end advise yon without one cent of charge. He is the recog nised authority on three dPrases in this coun try, and you can, therefore, appreciate tha value bis opinion of y -nr case would ha to you. He has bean eeubikhed in Atlanta for ye: rs and years, and his reputation is not equalled by any other phyahsi n. Hava so hesitancy in writing him. He will u all Left Prison in a Box. —v Harry Hammond, a oonviet In the Miami state penitentiary tent up from St Joseph in 1898 for fifteen years for murder In the second degrt* es caped In a shoe-box, and but for the faet that he bad failed to provide suf ficient air holes wopld probably be a free man. Hammond oonoealt d him self in tbe shoe box In the prison fa* tory and wm started on the trip te Chicago. At Cedar City, just across tbe river from Jefferson City, tbe box, in which be wm securely nailed up, lay for some time on the station plat form aod thw agent heard groans com ing from the box. Tbe box wm opened and Haunsob penitentiary. id wm taken back to the Fatal Boiler Explosion. . A boiler at the mw mill of the Curtis Attalla lumber plant exploded Thursday, killing James Watt* Will Rjeeon, Gus OMb and Marlon Mad dox. O Smith wm fatally hurt and Barney .Works earioualy Injured. . 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