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gpai»Bwaai^w^—ii——wwp^ - v ' ■> • "v •."• « ■'-■'•-J./ •' ™ ) Extraordinary Precautions Taken In Preparing the Cotton Report STATESMEN SHUT IN. r « CoaviDcioi D.moflitratioa «t the Pm'* ■cm of tbt Estimate Boom Qirea Two Southern Rep>eseatatlves Wfco Wanted to See How the Work Was D«>ae. 4 : J ’ A letter from Waihiogton aajs Sao* tretary Wilson ft taking; rx .raordlnary prooa^lons against leaks in tbo ootton report. Ho baa had enough of scandal In that connection, and la determined that baroafter no leaks shall ooour, If It takes a corps of watermen to pre vent It In making ready for the De cember rep«t he placed the Individual reports from the various agents throughout the country in an iron box, and then placed over the box, one of the most trusted employees in the department, armed with a large revolver. The faithful guardian of the papers remained on duty all night, tutll he was relieved on Monday morning by the Secretary. Toe Secretary himself took the re ports from tbt box an 1 deliver d them to four men appointed to tabulate and make the required estimates. Tae m n and the precious papers were burr d to a room ami good for them, and to doors of the room were securely look — wd, and guarded on the outside It ^ who w$re ordered to p no one to enter or leave the room the work of the board was completed. Before the board entered the room the telephone connection was severed so that no potsV* oommuoicstion could be bad with the outside world. It took five hours to make the rtqair ed calculations, and the board was kept In close oonfinemsat all that time. A good story la being circulated on Representative Burleson, of Texas, and Representative Bowie, of Ala bama, In oonneotlon with this AUDITORS TO MEfcT. Meeting T« Be Held in Colombia and Will Be Important. ft r \ ■4 ■ ootton report. Oa Monday they visited Secretary Wilson, being much Inter ested In the otton matter. The Sec retary politely invited them to remain and wltoete the method of tabulation, and the precautions used to prevent* leak. Tae two R prasentatives gladly accepted the invitation and were taken to the tabulation room. After witnessing the work for some time, and being deeply Imp'eased with the way in whiea it was done, they thought It was time for them t9,go to the capitol to take their seats at the opening of the session. They thanked the Secretary for what he bad done, donned their over coat* and prepared to 1* ave, when they were told that no one c/uid leave until the work was ooxple.ei. Taey plead and argned, but it was a 1 in vain, so their places in the house re maloed vacant for three more weary hours. They were not permitted even to send a note explaining tbclr situa tion and could not telephone a* -the ' Instrument had been disconnected. So It wm that two distinguished * Oon- greesmen from the South were not present it the lottery for seats, but they were willing to swear there wm bo In tbs D joemhar ot*^n rc- port. Representative Lewis, of Ge rgla, has Introduced a resolution 1 mklog to the adoption of some new method for collecting and tabulatiig ootton stat isties. The resolution provides for ti appointment of a commit se consist ing of sevsn membsrs to lake the whole subject into oousl' , era Ion and avolve a system that will make the ..TUffllrtf W f M IKWiiltifl Fliteen Men Burned. Fifteen men were burned by an ex plosion ip tbs International Harvester Company’s plant at One Hundred and Twentieth 'street and Muskegon ave nue, Chicago one night last week. Tue explosion was ciuasd by a workman thrusting a cold bar of steel Into a furnace of molten metal. In the im mediate vicinity of the furnace at the time sixty men were worklcg. The more seriously Injured were in the fur nace pit. Fallowing the explosion <chaos reigned In the furnace room for several minutes. Molten metal wm hurled about the room and the smoke ‘ and lire that shot from the furnace Allied the room so the workmen were tunable for several minutes to find the •exits. With the groans of their wound ed fellows ringing In their eers, thqy .grouped about helplessly and stumbled •over thoM who had been prostrated iby the blast. Frcm the fumaoe chim ney the flames shot high Into the air tind mould be seen for miles. dkUovMl Woman Milled. A si^pmy.h from Spartanburg to The Bttfe tart Nioay Tinsley, color ed, died Thursday morning from lbs -rffwte ef pistol shot wound rsostved Aunday a* her 4iome on Mxr J. H. Ondd’s farm, near Fuck’s bridge, three .miles from tbe.dUy. The womah liv ed with Id. Tinsley, colored, his two young sisters and,two young brothers. . iAn taqnwt wm held ovef her remains - land the verdiot of tbs Jury was ishe cams to her dsaflt from a g wound, Inflloted either aooldentally or vwlth suicidal Intent. The weapon need -was a 32-eallbr* pistol. There vm no adduced ar the it quit to A—emment oi Property at Tree ket Valee of Vttei Importeoe to tbo Satire State. Comptroller General Jones "means business” tnthe step he hM taken to ward getting the tax amassment of property, real aa well as personal, in this state on a market value b Als, In stead of on an uneven pretonM of a 60 per oent, basis. Tbs circular let ter of Instructions, which he sent out last week to county auditors, assess ing boards end county iqial tlrg boards directing that the law oe strict ty observed with the beginning of the new yeas end that property be assess ed at Its true market value, bM been followed by a call for a oo r vention of opnnty auditors to meet with the comptroller general for a conference to decide npon a plan of action to be pursued evenly and slmllarlly through out the state. Tbs step which the comptroller general hM taken has caused much talk throughout the state and hM Mt property holders to thinking. Otoonrse, It is a sort of revolutionary measure, and while the Justice and the sense of it hM appeal ed to many good business men end big property holders regardless of tbs fact much of this sort of property will be affected, still the thing hM not been generally understood, and there Is a fear also that tbs purpose of the comptroller general to equal zs the property throughout the state more nearly will not be successful under the departure be Is making on account tt the great prefleieney and skill In dividuals and oommunltlM have ac- y long practice and experience in the matter of tax dodging:— "Tbs erroneous 8 Idea appears to have taken hold In varloos parts of tbs state,” Mr. Jones said Wednesday "that this Is s scheme to inerese the taxes. Such is not the case. My oh- jeot Is to get property equalized In this state and stop this shameful tax dodging*. There are some notorlos ex ceptions, but generally speaking the ootton mills and other big property ere being am eased on s genuine 60 per lasti-oe&ir bssie, and small property is be an till qu ing imemed st from 0 to 100 per neat. Only so muob money Is needed to ran the state and county government*, and tbs higher the saseasment tbs greater the yield of money of a given levy, hut the levy may changed. In other words, if the as- iment la doubled throughout the state, the levies for state, county and city purposes may be cut In half. Tbs Inequality and Injustice of the taxation of property In this staterha* been a shame and a dlsgrao; for de- oadaa. * Dispensary Mast Pay. The supreme court of the United States last week held that the nation si gov'rment may properly tax the ttate liquor dispensaries of South Oar olma. Toe action in question was Instituted by tbe sUuTitf.^mth Car olina to recover 1^00,000 paid to tbs revenue officers of the national gov eminent on aooi unt of the sale of liquors by fe'S stele and county dis penser* under tbe dispensary law of South Carolina. Tbe state took the position that as the dispensers sold tbe liquor without £>rjflt they should not betaxed by the government, but the tax hM been collected since 1893 This Is said to have been the first case In which a state unites In one undertaking the exercise of its police power together with the prosecution of a commercial buslneu Justin id In Klrlii*. In Altoona, Ps., thi other night five young men serenaded the lady love of one of the party. A neighbor raised* nearby window and bred a revolver as the party then called a policeman and had them all arrested for disorderly conduct and disturbing tbs peace. In police court the next morning the young mm protested that they were singing love songs, and off .-red to sing for the cc u t by way of pr >vlng their Inn jcenoe of the i charge against them. Toe court beard them sing two selection* whereupon the serened rs were in form*] that If the court had preylou sly any dooln m to their guilt It had I entirely disappeared. "Anybody would be josUfled for firing at you, If yoii were making a noise like that,” said the Julge. He lined thorn 16 each. THE GRAFTERS Are Stirred Up By Senator Till man’s Big Pitchfork. C0BRUP1T0N FUND Being Investigated By the Uaited States Senate, Senator Tillman Having la* trodoced a Bill Per That Par- pose, Which Rases After Some Discussion. Thnautjwt of campaign oontribu tlona by Insurance companies occupied the major portion of tbe time of the Uqj.ted States Senate or Thursday. It came up in oonneotlon with Mr. Till man’s resolution calling for InvMtlga- tion of national bank aid In politics and was exploited by the South Oaro llnasenator In aspeech of some length. It was coached In ''haracteiist c Lan guage and attno ed considerable at tention. The resoiu ion dlrccUng tbe secretary of the treasury to report whether the reports of the national bank • zminers show that the banks have made campaign contributions in s adopted at the elose Mr. Tilfman quot'd the charges made by Jur gs P.rker In the Jmi campaign connecting the Republican campaign contributions with tbe fact that Chairman Cortelyou bad it Gent ly retired from the rffloe of secretary of tbe department < f commerce. He also quoted the presldsnt’s reply which he said was "red hot,” and added that not s dollar had been needed to elect the president. Notwithstanding this fact, he said that It had been shown that 61,900,000 bad been contributed for that purpose, that Is, if the news paper men may be believed, "andi” be added,, "they are about as reliable u irctaac ' Taey wiinie nms ttmte as we do, and < ooaslonslly they get orders that such and such a man shall be fly blown. Then they proceed to plant the microbes, tut upon the whole they may be depended upon,” He also made reference to tbe charge, that large expenditures bad been made by the Democrats in the Clevelano campaign, saying It would btvt been fortunate for tbe Democratic party If Mr. Cleveland bad never been elected. He dosed with an appeal for a thorough Investigation, saying that mob a course wu necessary to re store the confidence of the public. The senate adjburdfd until Mon day. BTXAMXB GDIS ASH0R1 And Many of Thoee Aboard of Her Were Drowned. —^ 1 of Mr. Tllhnan’s remaiks. Outlining his reasons for ti e In- q ilry, Mr. Tillman called attention tc sne recommendation made by the president In his annual message of 1904 in'* 19 5 for tbe enactment of a law for protection against bribery and oorrupttoh in connection with elec- felons. 11} quwted wl th tePflolai ant. member of the Arm whieh owns phasis tbe president’s remarks con oerning campaign contributions by corporations. ‘ Our oblef executive has taken a very progressive stand to secure purity in elections,” he said, and added, "every good American will say ‘well done* and look for progress Thirteen Uvea were lost In the wreck of the steamer Lunenberg, which went ashore Wednesday (ff> Amherst har bor Magdalen Islands. A dispatch to that effect wm received at Halifax from Meat CJjve, near tbe scene of tbe wreck, by-L wile, Hart and Son, own ers of the steamer. The steamer had a crew of seven teen and probably carried several pas- sengere, including Mr. Lwlls, * mem ber of the Canadian parliament and a Colored Christian Missionary Who Turned Cannibal. SHOCKING DOWNFALL 01 the Rev. ffilbcrforce. Who Has Bees Arrested fer Butchering sad Eatisg . V * " r ~~- • v ' the Hnrau Beings He Once Trit d to Convert in Dark est Africa. Of all the fancies ever evolved in the Imaginings of Rider Haggard—of all the weird l*gendi that ever came into the light out of the darkness of the African forests there Is none stranger than that Of the Rev. Dr. Daniel Flicklngsr. Wilber force, of Sierra Leone, once missionary-general and now reported to be the war chief of the Impeflal tribe and a devotee of cannibalism. In the whole history of missionary labor among tbo races of the East the story of this venerable pastor of seven ty yeare, sometime called Bishop of the Church of the United Brethren of Amer’ca, who, according to many da tailed dispatches, after forty years of missionary life, reverted by a gradual process of avatlsm to his natural state of pagan and cannibal, stands with out a parallel. ^ Wherever missionary work la Woo mt Last. Herman H. Vorjohn bM been elect ed assessor Lookland, Ohio, after meeting with defeat in twenty-five sucocnelve contests. He Is a pioneer resident of that section and Is now seventy-one years old. The town ship Is quite strongly Republican, bat Mr. Vorjohn antold-Uno Democrat this year wu able to overcome the advene majority. - Bownd Over. "Little Tom” Sudduth and Tom Obaatlne of the Dark Corner section of Greenville county nave been bourn over to court and placed in Jill on tbe charge of making a marderuus assault On James Chris tins said to be Incffan- vs youth at Lebanan on Thankagl “«•- — West D.moeretle Tbs Dsmoorats of Portland, Ms. for the first time In twelve years, skated their mayor. Nathan Clifford ——-- -- 7 -.u,ireceived 4 641, as aralnst 4.429 for show that she was at difference with ^ £«publican eanflllttv, *nj of tbs family. * ' Ifete along tbat Una.” He conceded that tbe secretary might not have tbi facts wanted but he thought he ought to have. InoL- dentaUy, Mr. Tillman said that he had been informed tbat the comptrol ler of the currency has boen Investi gating the subl et of blank eortribu- tlons with tbe view of instituting le gal proceedings Before Mr. Tillman bad proceeded far, Mr Galllpger, who had Wcdae* between Plotou objected to the voonSlderitlbh the reeoluMon at tbat time, said that be bad done so only for the purpose of Inspecting It, that he had done so acd being entirely satis 11*1 m to Its propriety would support tbs resolu tion. ' - - Continuing Mr, Tillman said that the oomptroUer has means f getting information wbloh others have not end added, that If he would "push In his probe he can make dh c jveries that are worth while.” He added tbat reasons for requesting the Informa tion is found in the revelations non 'Oerning the Insurance ocmpanlM, "It dm been shown by the testimony* or oonfessloiuiln mf mbsr of this body,” be said, “toat for ten years the In surance corporations have been mak leg annual donations to the Republl can party with tbe understanding tbat they should be protected fn.m advene legislation at Albany.” He went on to say tbat such revelations were not agreeable. . a ' ■ "I am the holder of a bm 11 policy In one of tbe mutuals’ ’ be said, "tud 1 don’t like to have my dividends cut down In order to give Mr. MoCurdy 150,000 and hm sisters, his cousins, and his aunts 675,ooo taoh ” Ha expressed d ubt as ta the right of the federal au thor itiss to take oon troi of insurance companies and Mr. lale Interrupted to s<y that he agreed with Mr. Tillman on that point. Mr. Bailey asked whether tbe in su ranee company contributions to the republican national committee had been returned to the donors. , 1 understood,” replied Mr. Till man, "that the president was going to have Mr Cortelyou return ‘them, but I don’t know whether he baa done so. I know that I have not got my share.” ’ ?— Mr. Spooner—Is ypurs a life pol Icy. Mr. Tillman—It Is. Mr. Spooner—Thin It is not yet time to realize on it Mr. Tillman replied that It wm dlv- idensaod not the policy Itself that he wanted paid. • "These,” be said, "were pitifully small, while McCurdy has peen get ting fat without doing anything.” Mr. Bailey said he had not supposed tbat tbe president could makes second recommendation on the subject of punishing campaign contributors un til the money had been returned "Ah, Mr. Piesldeot,” responded Mr. Tillman, "all tbe Turveydrops and Pecksniffs are not dead yet, al though I would not for a moment be understood M comparing our strenu ous occupant of the Whit* House with thoss characters. What we want Is results and those we do not ssess to have procured so far.’’ • Quoting the testimony of Be niter Piatt before tbe New York commit tee, Mr. Tlliman congratulated that senator upon his itr*!gbifowsrdnMs. ‘ Tnere was no dodging,” fc* Mid, ‘‘and I do not b lleve that a dollar of the money tvsr stuck to his fingers.” He added his conviction, however, that tae oontrlou Mona bad had the effect of controlling the Nsw York legislature In tbe Interest of th* in- suranoe companies. vessel. - ———- When the steamer struck there were seventeen persons on board, in- c uding s crew of aixtesn and Mr. Leslie T ie dead: ’ R. J. Leslie, HaiUfax. H. Moewardr steward of the Lun enburg. „ * R. M. M Djnald, chief engineer. J. Jose, cook. - , B. Hall, cabin boy. J*-M Connell, sailor. E\V. Dqwette, teilor. _ Lophin Vlnuelt, sailor. Joseph Baurgeoes, sailor. A sailor, whose name wad not learned. Tbe Lunenburg had been running the United Brethren, met In solemn conference to arrange a treaty of com merce and peace. From that time tbe friendship of tbs chief for tbe enthn- • tactic young missionaries warmed and grew deeper with the yeara. Too old to change the faithwf his ancestors, he said he would make sc • ff >rt to Impede the work of tbe mis sionaries among his people. Probab ly the aged chief saw the coonmer dal value of a good, friendly under standing with the gentlemen who were In a position to bring him so mqob good trade from England acd Ameri ca. Cllsf of bis people and hdr-appar- ent to bis place was bis fine strapping stripling of fifteen yean—the one hope of his life, the sole remembracoe of th* woman who dial yean before. And when Mr. Ftiokinger, who had the lad uada 1*1* tuition, *t last beg- ged the chief to nlinguish him for good, saying that he would take him to his own home In Dayton, America, the old man c msented. And the first yean of the young e jid’s life in America In tbe home of the good man who had brought him to .this country were yean of golden promise. From the earliest days of his arrival his trend had been to reli gion. / "My path In life Is chosen,” he said, with a smile that showed every gleaming tooth lo his he*d. "I will be a worker In tbe vineyard.” To the theological seminary he went, again graduating with the highest bonon. His way was clear. For West Africa he sailed, and on the ooast for twenty yean he labored, winning converts everywhere and becoming famous for bis eloquence and power, until his re turn to Daytoq. And when he married a woman of his own race and settled down Into a ministry of tbe home o' u *eh, It seem ed tbat tbe main, work, of his life wm complete. But the spilt between the Radteal and Uonsrrvatlve facttOUT Of known, wherever good men and wo men labor through many years for thv the United Brethren drove him Bat version of their benlghted brethren in Inclv, Asia or Afrloa, tbe story Is told and retold with lamentation. Scientists and criminologist* tbs world over will accept the retrogres sion of .this missionary, famou* through tbe East for his eloquence [and Isarolog, to the tribe and a dinner of human fl *ah’ as establishing the eternal truth that the original beast in tbe sivage can never be quelled in centuries of civilization and tbat Mr. Wllberforoe, secretly hungering Mr ugb f(rty years preselon of bis natural self for the flesh for which his bbod craved, and the Idols oC bis forefathers, bM but obeyed the law of orl nature But the good men sod women of tbe white, and. colored taoss who And now those who know his story ° cite two peculiar circumstances almost r ,p * etr e of s military snds since last spring. During a high gale Tuesday, which wm ao oompauied by blinding snow Harris*, it Is thought that th* steamer went out of her course In trying to make B nheret harbor and brought up on she rooks that lie some distance off, shore In tbat vicinity. Tbe steamer evidently bad been ashore for some time before she was seen. Efforts were made to communicate wltn her, tut the strong ourrents tbat apent around that point and - tbe high seas made it Impossible to launch a boat. Liter the weather moderated and five of tbe crew came ashore, the twelve others standing by the ship. - Later these attempted to reach shore as the VcS3els showed signs of breaking up, and all were lost exoept Captain Pride. Tragedy Id (Jlty of Mexico. . A dispatch from the City of Mex ico gives further details of the acci dent In which James Russell Parsons, U lited States consul general, lost bis life Wednesday night. Tbe open car riage in wbioh be was driving with Mrs. Pfcrroas and their son wss struct by an electric oar. Mrs Parsons was slightly injured. The boy eeoaped without a scratch. The accident happened while Mr. Par sons and bis family wire going to the central station to bid farewell to friends. The coachman tried to cross tbe street ear track in front uf a rapidly moving car which struck the carriage with terrific force, crushing Itagainst a trolley post. Mr. Par son’s head struck the poet, th* whole top of bis head being taken off. The motorman and driver' ef Aha coach disappeared after the accident and have not yet been arrested. — Clash in Cherokee. Saturday afternoon at Blacksburg United States Commissioner Tresoott and Deputy United Steles Marshall Hallman engaged in a difficulty as to the controversy over Cherokee’s need of dispensary constables. Tresoott drew A revolver but Hallman disarmed blm. Tresoott was unable to get a blow. Hallman getting several effec tive punches. It Is probable ti Tresoott will be prosec ted for carry ing ooLoealed weapons. Caw*ntin the Aou Attempts mads iMt Friday, Satur day, and Sunday and Monday nights to wreck passenger trains on the Georgia Southern railroad as Heart- pins Pa, resulted In' a watch being set. This resulted In th* arrest nesday of Will Born, a negro wm caught In ahe act of laying a tie aeroM the treok. A reward of 6260 has been offered for the arrest. ; Called Oatawd Mardered- J. M: Harrison, a prosperous farm er near Carlo Ga. rough a long life have labored with blind, ceaslees, single hearted devotion for the enligbtetmsntof tbs heathen, stand aghast and In face of fthls aw. ful living spectacle of degeneracy Mk themselves whether tbelr labor cf centuries is, after all, labor spsut In valdTand whether it Is, Indeed, the immutable law of na'.ure tbat the savage strain once Implanted in tbe heart can never be wiped out. Throughout this country the story hM struck deepdnto the hearts of tbe ministers of all creeds, and of those who give bounteously of Ihilr wealth and substance to shed tbe light of civilization on darkened places. And over their hearts and the hearts of the pious men and woman of Wllberforoe’s race hangs a black pall of gloom and shame and doubt of tbs future. Fh two generations bad Mr. Wll berfuros stood as tbe exemplar for all young negro students of divinity of the heights to which they themselves might reach in tbe pursuit of tbelr sacred missloc u and for tbe mission arlee of tbe white race he served as a beacon whenever tbelr hearts failed them In tbe stupendous wo k of eon- version of tbe West AfrJotn savage To thousands of his fellows landing In West Africa, fresh from these shores, he has been as a dear and venerable friend, rich Id experience u in learn Ing and erudition-, an advlseraod guide in the first few troubled mouths of their adventure. And now, back at borne In America, or In England, or lab •rimr still in the wild, they look blankly at each other and Mk how In the nam*of Heaven such things can be As If In reply fall the words of tbs old man to his captors as he wm led to the prison at Sierra Leona, there to await his trial for cannibalism. "If I am to die it IF well, I shall die In tbe faltb of my fathers—th* faith that wm bom thousand! upon thorsands of yean ago and which all your Ohristain teachings have not driven out. Tbe forty years In which I lived In yOnr faith war* forty years of a living He. The volcas of my fath ers, of my people whom I bad deiart- ed in my youth, of tbe gods thsfe I worshipped, were ever calling to me to end my days m I bad began And at Ust I beard and went back.” Tbe good men with whom bis life bad been passed pleaded with him, even with tears, up to tbe very gates of the prison to return to the ‘faith that hejMfl abjured. AnQ^lb*., they urge, wltb some anger, -that the stern action of tbs .unnoticed at tbe tlm?, bat now neali ed in avlvld memory. Taere wm In bis wbol# attitude a , an animal stealth that sent a chuider threugb thoM who watobed him. It may be that In the storm of oon tention between tbe two factions of the oburch th* first sense of reMllloo against bis adopted faith—tbe rebel He n that had tbng lain smouldering In hls bean—arose strongwndelear with- 1$ him. - — : - Yet he bravely went tsols to hls duty. The remembrance of the good man—ww sorocgmbHgrave—who A Russian Lieutenant Qeaerat Assassinated by a Wi EVENT Gi8T8 GLOOM Over the City of St Witte’s sad Hopes ef Carryiai Oat Liberties Promised ty th* ’ ” Czar are Fading. Th* St Petersburg correspondent of The Dally Telegraph In a dispatch dated December 6, sent by way at E, dtkuhnsn, Bast Prussia, says: "Lieut. Gm. Sakharcff, minister of war, was today. Tbe government bad deputed Geo. Sakhart ff to visit the provtnea at, Saratoff for the purpoee of quelling ’he agrarian riots there. "A woman belonging to the so- called flying columns” of tbs lutlonary movement ealled at booM of the governor of Saratoff at noon today and asked to Me Gmwxal Sakharoff. "She fired three revolve* shots at tbe general killing blm on tbe •pot.” The tidings reached St. Peseta- burg Wedneaday night. Count Witte charged Lieut. Gen. Rudiger, ter of war, with the task of tbe news to Mme. Sakharoff. "The event hM caused a profound Imi a military dtetater- loomlng spectre ship, which horizon, Is slowly •nd sharpnaM of outline. * I am nersonaUv O unt Witte’s faith in the good and political toot of tbe tPlnklnt cTatto, which reowtiy ss firm m a rook, Is gradually enlrig, and with It his hopes for carrying out of tbaJlbi In tbs emperor's mduif The TageblaWi. fi _ odent 4n a d_ of Xydtkabnaa | | died to hls gate Wednesday about dusk sod shot twice In the breast wltb a shot gun loaded with buckshot and killed In stantly. The murderer up to the prennt time bM not bean apprehen- ed. Sheriff Patterson am summoned and went to the scene of the tragedy tali wm unable to fiad any elue to tbo person who did the shooting. r*L Missionary Board of the tJoRed Breth _ *4° I ren at Dayton, Ohio, inraromarily expelling him on evidence of v his re- trogreasloo precipitated tbe final downfall. , J_ A father's sacrifice Well might tbe word of missionar ies wall over Ids loss, for bis stcry reads like a rarely beautiful romance of olden timM. It was In the days of half a century agon*, when th* light of elvtllzstton wm drawing In darkMt Africa, that tbe great chief of tbe Imperial tribe, tbo most powerful warlike of those times, apd tbs Rev. Samuel Flicking or, plooeer among tbe missionaries of had taken him by tbe band, bold him (sat. But the devoted heart that had been part of himself, that had given fervor and foroe to hls work, was gone. Yet to thoss who watched him closely now—ho wm nemtogly tbs Mme gentle protector of the poor and the stricken that bs bad aver been. His mission school grew larger and larger; hls eburob grew more and more powerfu 1 ; hls Influanw the wid er. Bis o invert* to Coristlanlty were found br the thousand along tbo whole line of the West African ooMt. Hls art m a preacher had mellowed and ripened with the years. Ii wm on the night of a Sunday three years ago that b* returned to his cottage looking very tired and old. Tbe services of that day had been more than usually exhausting Ncvar, they said afterward, had he preached ao well. He bad take' "Sincerity” for bis text. It wm an address to be re membered for all timer Rut it w recalled afterward that right In the heart of his sermon h* had come to a sudden dead stop, his hand uplifted as though to bespeak stirnoi, hls eyes fixed on vacancy m one who Uetens from If with a great his thoughts, sighed peeply and re- aumed bis discourse. I am very weary,” be said to hls servants. "To-night while I was speak Lug, I beard the sound of the prayer song that I remember in my youth. The song seemed to be born In upon me from tbe'vsry depths of tbe forest. I beard tbe vole* of my brethren raised as though to call me. When they entered the room In the morning his bed wu empty. Yet they did not search for him, but after tbs manner of their race, quietly sat down st their doors and waited. And at last there came a dark time when, they say, for twenty on* long days he vanished from th* ken of all who had known him. Dawned bright and beautiful the morning of tbe twenty-second day, and before the eyes of bis amaz'd aer van Is he stood—tbe same -yet trans formed. For tbe first time in forty years h* wu himself. Within a week th* ohuioh In which be bad preached w a empty and the soboolhouse a dismantled rain. Tbe edifice of two gr aerations wm destroy ed. And now frcm out tbe raceme* of tbe African foreata, ten mflee away from the ooast, came ghastly stories of the saerifloes (ffered up by the trims of the Imperial In return for tbe restoration of their chief; of death feasts in which the flash jf children and women wm eaten. Sp es and scouts, creeping through a thousand paths, oame upon them, and told ef the chief of th* Imperrl seated with hi* wives on a pile of rooks around him, hls men dancing th* fieec* of death rear a corpse. And In a wild medley of Justice end revenge, police and soldiers alike were on the trail of - the. former missionary to huht him, by "day and night, until, In bis own camp, surrounded by hls men, he wm caught and forced to sor* render, and led, a captive, to Sierra Leone.—Hew York ... . ,-5- wora*. Tbe oritleal moment fog Oooat Wilts Is coming when tbs liberal ala* meats win demand bis A rasolutien by M jsoow filamimal of tbe prment notes tbs beginning of the away from Ocont Witte and ■ Indicate that this movement will in intensity soon. ” Tbs troops bar* have re met otdma to be ready la anticipated a*tl-J*wteh tlona Tbe oorreepondent of The 1 St. Petersburg says: "I am on excellent authority of tbe St. Petersburg tain to ooour. "The newspapers print harrowing details of th* whippings by ordmr of Gan. Sakharoff of tbe psammls he wu sent to paeify.” why He was rrr.r.an A dispatch from 8L my* news of tbs samsl nation of Lieut. Gee- Sakharoff, former —of war, who was shot in tbs Governor^'* *g Saratoff, on December 8, had been preoeeded by tbe stories eboot how Sakharoff be aggarlan disorders. Be corralled peasant* with Ooroaek ard then bad them beaten with wblf*. The imemln of Sakaroff — — ■ ^rfled. I. Ill ■ II I woman who committed the cured that she had exeentad one of the terrolemP esetlon of olal revolutionist*. Following Is a deaorlptoo of I rofTs arrival at Hovoanichina, leg* of the province of cams with Oosaaohsand arttUrry. peasants were surrounded and Sakharoff addra mandlng tbat they leaders. Th* village elder replied, boh gave tne general lno Tbe elder wa* Immediately until be lost cmsciomnsm, "Sakharoff retired to tbs bouse, leaving the mercy of the i were drunk^and they tbe peesents polling and beard and evan flesh from their pcamnta were thus maltreated.'" A story of Russian nd tape Is Did by W. T. Stead, while in supreme oomssaad of Russian army In Manchuria, used a rubber-stamp the papers which he had to every day before he ooolddiaw i for hls own borem. The general returned th* signed papers as out of everyday army of 600,000 men had to hie autograph to tbs requWtlon tot hls horses’oats. official ■asays that 6,000 nkflldd of the trouhlm. Jam