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-VOL. XXIX. BARNWELL, 8. G. THURSDAY. AUGUST 30. plaoed on a stratober and Ibis Aid across |he tests of lbs motor oar. Hr. Lawrtnoe boardad lbs auto with ttia two drtTsrs, holding his umbrella iboYo tbs strlokao girl, and the; ’ t ' n Vo ""* ^ Attacked Near Their Home by a „ BEUTK OF A. HEQE(V bar terrlflo strugule, and was. taken to tbs Lawrence Her Wars Oatberiax Wild Flowers When Attached by the Bralc. Who Knock* «d Oat Oae Eye sad Brake the— Ana of Oae at the —' '' r - ■ *• . . ^ r •' . ' Studies. ^ ?• v- r The Atlanta Journal says: Mist Ethel Lawrence, sister of W. 0 Lawrence, Is baUesad to be dying, ilkd Miss Mabel Lawrence, her nieoe la prostrated as a result of a singular ly brutal and atrocious attempt at Criminal assault made upon the tw< young women by a negro near the Lawrence home on Johnson’s road, a mile frun the end of the Hlgblam avenue oar line, early Monday mom !»«• Not satisfied with fracturing her skull,.gouging out onl of her eyes end breaking her arm, the negro at tempted to strangle her with a ro e, and would have done so had not thi i Interf erred and given the alarm i negro fled, and Misa Ethel Law was pot In an auti mobile anc totbedty. Her nkee eseap with bruises on the head, arms anc bask, which the negro administered with a stiek with wbleh be beat botl ▲t the Wesley Menu rial hospital where Miss Ethel Lawrence was taken, It was said Monday aftemoot that her condition was ertlml that she would Josa one a result of tbeattsek of the negro. It was added that there waa some bops Of the young woman's recovery, although the outcome was dorbiful. The Lawrences are among the me si Influential people of this neighbor hood. Mr. Lawracoe Is manager -c f the Weetvlew Floral company. His alitor, who Is now belie ted to be dying, wee on e visit here from Lon don, England. She Is 27 years sad her nieoe, the daughter of. Mr. Lawrenoe, la 14 years old. The Lawrences lives In e pretty home one mile beyond the end of the Oopenhlll trolley line. The neighbor hoed IS thinly eettled, aed aorumthe road from the he use la a narrow but dense strip of woods, well fitted with tbs aeeulekm It tffars for tbe,prime attempted there Monday morning. It was Into these woods that Miss Ethel Lawrenoe, food of the country after living In the city ..and unto qnalnted with the danger which -“r southern women In lonely inipiTaM, localities, went with her nieoe about 0 30 o’clock Monday hysterical home and Dr. M. L. Fisher, who had bandaged the wounds of Miss Lawrenoe, attend ed to hen alia She reported later as being out of dangerr The newt spread with amsslng q ilcknesa. Not only was the neigh- oorhood quickly Informed of the at- *ek, bat all the country erennd. By the time the county and olty poller *lth the ihsriff’s deputies had arriv *d, fifty men were armed and eager ’or the search. — This band of determined men was tug men ted by arrivals, from the city from Decatur and all the surrounding territory, who had dropped bualneo in the hope that the perpetrator of this crime should not escape. Bloodhounds had been secured fmor Superintendent Tom Dynaldeon’i oamp. They were led to the breast works, and Immediately took thr trail They leaped over the breast works end took a northerly direction The nfgro was oaugbt and le no* n jail at Atlanta. Ho will bs tried snd pnlshed. MIW CO FT 01 PICKER. THEY SHOT HIM. Negro Boy Who Entered t Resi- —dence at Badham TAKEN AND LYNCHED. Wu Tikes Iron J.II Som Alla Bds, Arrested by the Sheriff, aed Shot te Plecee After IdenUfkslioe By a Littte fllrl of the Hoase He Entered. am fhat Is Dotac Good Work Oat in the Weak The Augusta Chronicle seyi Mr. Elbert W. Cramer, of E k City, Okla borne, wee In the olty for a short time Thursday and wu drawn into a con venation by several local plan ten re garding the scarcity of negro laborers and the unwillingness of the average negro to work six days out of seven at this time of the year. ~ Mr. Cramer telle end interesting story of a new Invention of a friend of bis In the west which bu al- futtrnrttr which bids fair to revolutionise the work of cotton picking. It Is a ma chine to pick cotton says Mr. Cramer The principle bf the machine b that of the vaoum or the pneu matic tube. Toe cotton bolls an sucked through the tube and loaded direetly Into a wagon. The tube that receives the cotton reminds one oi jou |a kangaroo. old, | Tm tube is a piece of large-jlud hose made of a fine grade of rubber covered with wire netting. There la a n ssle Is lined with a series of fins or Sogers. Tbs operator holds the net s e witbln a few Inches of the cotton bolls. Suction senses the bool to be drawn into the noszle, where the fins catch and hold it for the fraction of a second and till the cotton is gently palled away from the boll. The machine Is designed to he fastened to a platform on. the rear About twelve o’clock Thursday at the town of Badham, which is about two miles west of St. Georges, Mr. 8. L. Connor, who Is the mfiiager of Dorchester Lumber company’s stores, wu notified by a negro who earns into the store that he had seen a negro un away from the residence oLHk- - Connor, which is about 150 yards from .he mein store of the Dorchester Lumber company. The view from the store to the house le obstructed to to a. considerable extent by a large ield of sugar cane, which Is growing oetween them. The negro upon ran- alng away from the residence of Mr. Connor wu sun by the negro who in formed Mr. Connor, dodging into the uger cane endeavoring to conceal bimself. Mr. Connor, knowing that there wu no one at the house at the time xoept his IT year old dsughter, went towards the house and went through lie soffit cane field, end came upon the negro biding amo g the eager oene, getting within tune Net of the negro before the negro uw ulna. He laid hands eppa negro ware rot eu and ole hold wu broken mad the n. gm im mediately offered to givp battle to Mr. Connor. Whereupon Mr. Connor truck the negro on the head with his fist, breaking stviral bones in hie oand without visibly wounding the aegro. When Mr. Connor hit him, the negro rolled shout in the sugar cane and ran out of the field into the adj lining woods ana wu soon lost *ignt of. Mr. Connor wu mverely tittle daughter. Tie mother of the little girl find the other children of tbs family are wending a while at WXJ. ——- Gov. Herward, Immadffitely npoo receipt ef Information that trouble was expected, wind Solicitor Hilde brand at Orangeburg: ~ *‘Sheriff Llmebouse of Dorchester county hu Informed me, from Sum mervllle, by ’phone, that about 15 men took e prisoner from him about an heur ago and carried him off. I have instructed the sheriff to iwear In deputies, follow and rooaptnro the prisoner. I would request that you goto the scene usoon as possible and take all steps In your power to uphold the law - Solicitor HHdebrand missed the af ternoon train by just a few minuter end went to Summerville Thursday night. Gov. Hayward Instructed Sheriff Llmebouse to eusprud the In quest until the arrival of the sclld tor. The coroner wu notified by wire to the seme effect. In the lari talk over the ’phone with Sheriff Limehouse, Gov. Heyward received' the Information that the names of some of the lynchers ere known to theiliirlff. ' ^ SUffDB I11D1D. Chairman Ol Democratic Party GalU V On 'Democrats For Aid, TO KILL BIBIES The Torch Applied to Little Car* riages by Insane or REVENGEFUL ENEMY. To All Democratic Voters: If thare ever wu a time In the his tory of the Democratic party for th« manifestation of loyalty and patriot Ism on the part of It* members, It is right now. * If wo are to win a victory and elect a Proeldent two yean hence, we muri first elect e House of K 'preventative* this fall. A Democratic House ear snd will investigate every depart ment of the Government. - With all of them honeyoombed by ‘graft" the edgu of which, only, have been touched by thg,ths sad -pweecatlons, -tbOTr-wltt be revelation of rottennesa that will utound the country and create a de mand for a Dlmooratlo administra tion to clean the Government work shop. y To win the House we need money to defray legitimate expenses and get out our vote. We have no protected monopolies from whloh to draw to fill our offers, u they do thou of the Republican party. We must, there fore, appeal ty loyal Dtmoeiati t» contribution ‘ Will you seed us It.00 at ouoe, and n return fur this we will send yon coplu nf our campaign literature 1s- •u?d by the Committee. You wll! have the thanks of the entire Demo- eratto party for your favorable re •ponu to oar reqaut. Address all remittances to— J M Giipgs, Chairmen, — Maasey Building, Wuhlngton, D. 0. wonndtd In his hand. Men In the vicinity where this af fair happened Immediately formed a 'osac who went in search of the negro. They alao telephoned to St. Georges snd a town poau left on horseback for the aoene of the trouble. After scouring the country In the vicinity of Badham for about two hours, they located the negro, wbou name was Willie Spain, and brought him thnu/h the town of Bsdnam on to St. Gaorgu under guard. The ne The girls proceeded along a brook, Md pliifit ferns from the banks Doing ■o, they wen confronted unexpected ly by a tall, slender and very black Apparently he bad walked oat flom concealment In the bushes The girls drew heck in fright. The> the resonant of some olo , little girl,” the negro addressing the nieoe. The girl, frightened hi earnest^ tnreed to to her aunt. The negro followed her. With a stiek he carried, be gave Ittf uMtgtaf blow eorou the hick. •Hack bar *g*w> aarfif arms bced. nad she fell, cry Oh, 1 am dead 1 lam dead l” This wu a ruse to divert the etten* tlon of tiie negro, end he, abandoning Ida rf the prostrate girl devoted hlmulf to the aunt, who had nra to tbs protection of her niece. T!m hruUUtv of bis attack upon her IdkhMly aeems credlUble. - He struck bar with the stick and with his bony end of a wagon. The machine rest* on an Iron eland four feet high. It ro wu delivered Into the enstody of consists of a specially made vacuum Sheriff Llmebouse, who p'aoed him lb fan. It can be operated by a small I i tU gasoline motor or by hand-power, one men turnldg a crank and another directing the ncule. A number of sionuful tuts have been made with tne msoblne. Five .oree pl oolton were picked near E<k ity, this year by one of the machines in competition with fifteen negroee pleklntrbr hand. The machine pick ed five acres at a cost i f «3 oauta an aero egalLit fil.68 an acre for hand picking. WITED8AW&I4HM1GHAT10X And Will Remain at the Headof Ool- n—dfhilW|fa The Columbia Reoordeaya gouged i bernoee He fractured bar skull, atanoat out one of her eyas, ‘ at the bau and hroko with thla, the nagro brought out a ropa, and eUpped It aaonnd the glrl’a neck. By this time, however, tits nieoe had come to her annVt Mrimnoe. There then en sued fi struggle that will bo remem- bared by the yonnger girl, and by the I conduct Miller will iamalB~glbe~bcad of the Stats Colored college at Oranga- burg, u la tbs wish of every white and colored friend of thatlnitltutlop. whloh was born In hie brain, given Ute through hie work and made asue- »j hla. untiring and unceasing ef torts. Thle result wu arrived at Thursday at a meeting of the trus tees of that institution, at which every member but one wu present. “The trusteu without exception requeated President Miller to with draw hie resignation, whloh he did, oeeauu be wu nqiMSted to do ao by white and colored people la nearly ev ery county of the state. He made hie fight for high morality In aobools, schools, hat, regsrdleu of the of the two women teach- The prisoner had not been In jail more than 30 minutes when, without earning a lever car on tbe Southern railway, whloh ruot within 150 fee of the county jail, wu stopped, and a crowd of determined men went Into thr*j ill and took the prisone- iu», plaotA him upon the hand oar and iped away! It la not Iraown bow many pareona were prueht when the pris oner wu retcued from the sheriff or whether any-of them or not partiol- ted in tbe lynching. The negro did not protut hie tnno cense, but admitted that he had gone to the resldeLO) of Mr. Connor and intended to enter the house, hot frightened away by the screams of Mr. Connor’a little daughter, who raw him approaching through the window, andny a baggy passing along road, whloh ir q ilta near tbe naidengs. The adminion upon the part of the prisoner evidently satisfied those who bad hlm in-oostody that he waa the inllty part, butout of abunduooe caution be wu taken by the parti from the sheriff Left la Dark Hallways Pareata. la Two Cases, Had Laddly Changed Plus, •ad Remqprd the lafuts or They Would Have Bece Earned. , • , . | ■- - ■ - — —— — The most cruel attempt at revengr or tho strangest manifestation of In sanity probably ever dealt with by tiu New York Felloe D.partment wat brought to public notice Wedneedai right, when it wu learned that twte in four days efforts have been made to born infants in theIr.oarriages at Nos 536 and 540 Wut One Hundred and Twenty fifth street, the block known u “Baby- -Carriage Row,” when, -vary dev, two hundred and fift) belpleu infante ar#seen. Because oi the work of the manlae. child hater ar vengeful criminal—whatever he 1* —policemen were stationed all Tues day night on the block, and nov mothers will not let their small*) children out of their eight. — In No. 540 Wut One Hundred and Twenty-firth street then ere fort) 'amllies. Thirty-two tiMes unabl* to walk ar* In tbe itraotare. It there the Second attempt at murder brutal u any' conceivable wu mads the Garten lived had frsqosatly oom plained of the little ones lad had re cently been askadby the fiiente to ro- “I cannot believe any one tried to murder mj baby," raid Mrs. Carte) Wednesday night. ’T think it «i all a mlataka. I have heard then ra been enmity between two familial U ring in this building. In on* of tbt families there la a small baby. Oh, how glad I am I took little Myrtea from the carriage when l earn* m stain. Hid ehe been alaeplng In thr carriage she would certainly haw been killed. ... - “The police have been hen. The) are puzzled over the affair end are In veetigating through tin entire block The horning of the carriage lut Sat urday, when we ware mllu away, ol course adde mystery to the affair.’? jom FI. BIBII01. Two Very laseuiwereM Prohibltlon- lets Score Etch Oibev. At Laurens meeting Mr. Joora wa oa of the first gubernatorial sprak- irs. In the lut part of hit speeeb, he alluded to the unfortunate Inel lent at GreenyUle whloh bu hronght 'him so much notoriety. He gave ar hie reason for slapping OapA Brunson snd the con venation just before hr lid so, practically the same account u printed in The Slate In an Inter flew with him. He repealed, that lx ru undecided whether oar not to spit n Oapt. Brunson’s face or to slat him. “As be la a one-handed man," w raid, "I slapped hla faeces hard u [ could. If I lose votes by defending my honor I can’t help 11." Mr Jones met with a very frigid -eeeption, eo It is said, tut at tin oloee of hla speech then were one ot wo handclaps of a subdued nature. Mr. W. A Edwards fipoke-nvst, snd Oapt. Brunson, haring then ar late on Monday nliLhU The Uvea of- rived, made hie address to the voters- ■two little one* were eu. -During the test part of hie speech hs of Anoibcr lifnchlog. A dispatch from Bateaburg says Ban Ethridge, the 13 year old negro who criminally assaulted little E un ora West on Thursday, wu lynched In a grove about nine miles from there Monday. _JTb§ boy had been captured In Summerland and at that point wu put on a train, pres to be taken to Colombia, the eta • capital. Near Bateaburg ha wu tak ea from the train by two 'meik A poese of more than two nundnd then wok charge of the negro and he wu carried several mllu to a small woods •bore a rope wu plaooed around hie neck he wu asked to make a state- m.nt. Tne boy oonf—ed. He wu swung high on the limb of a tree and hla body riddled with fkdlets. In his oonferaion the boy described hie crime and all the Incidents leading op then to. Ha raid the little six year-old girl wu at play in her father*! and that he want to bar and j oined in the play, after which he enticed bar to an empty stall In A stable end there attempted to suault. « ■ ■ Loalcvs irwt to The Augusta Chronicle says the "r* f^mAr-TrYTrttri Y't *■)■, WUntri and urafi, if she survival, u long u they I are, their white friends In Oner Uv*. They kicked end struck ths lutoi requested their retention negro with all their delicate strength, I aud the uustera yielded to thla pres- tr* tea te kup him from eboklng Mlu I gars from Oharleeton and retained LawreM* with the rope. w them. The younger girl, uemlng that “President Miller raid that ha fait their combined fitrength would be as that he owed tome thing to the Iso the negro’s, broke I away from the etruggle, and ran to- «ud her homa. aeeklog to giro the | filer* and triBg^p-Sharan attba too of bar apeed to the homo of o. II. Hoater, proprietor of the Book taring dairy, and g*ro tho ^lir. Hunter ran baok to the woods trifeh the girl. The negro, taraeTW, -— aiu Mabel run towards tbe is Hs bsd abandoned hla attack -he Lewreoee and fled. The em- of MlseLfirwrenoe wu pitiable and his oempanion lifted her boro her to bar house. An na summoned from tira gEa^fiiihment of Barolaj whloh had been so loyal to the tlvely Identified by the little girl. After toia nothlhg~ wu known of the affair until a volley of perhaps 500 •hots rang ont just west of the town of Badham, and when the sheriff ar rived upon the eoene the lynching party bad all departed, and thare re malned nothing to tell the tale hut the Ufelera body of' Willie Spain, hanging on a limb of a small oak tne, abot beyond noognltlon In the face. Were It not for the hair upoa’ hie mlp and tattered olotbu upon hla form, it would taka somewhat clou Invutlgation to utlsfy one’s self that a human being had there died. N Immediately upon losing his prison er at the hands of the determined crowd, Sheriff L’.mehonae called np and himself In the put Governor Heyward over the long dla ton years, hence he yielded to their nq last. Ha thanks every newspaper in the state, white and colored, that bu sustained him In thla fight, and will continue to do hie very- hut for the Interests of the school u long u ho Jfi-afi lie head, — Bloody Affray. At Buffalo, N. Y., two men are dead, two more probably will die u a nanlt of a deeparata fight with Stil ettos between firo Sicilians Wsdnes- day night. Two btothers were match ed against three brothers. Frank 8ardiim* ooe of tbs three Bardina brothers, wu klllad on the aoene of tho battle. Raphael Balsltrie, who to aet ra peaoa-makar, wu In the abdomen and track and fie a hospital. Donantaa Oe- who are to have debs fibs stabbing, in the death of tho tanoe telephone and told him of tbe coourrenoe and the governor Instrnot ed the sheriff to do all In hie power to prevent the lynching, bnt ardently at that time the lynehlng party bad parformod its work. Sheriff Lima- home proceed In a few deputiu and went in pursuit of the lynching party, only to find the body of Spain and tbe parties who killed him not to be found. Thle negro Spain wu a stranger In this locality, and had worked for the Dorchester Lumber company, at Bad ham, a short while at Intervale. Ha claimed that ho oarae from North Carolina. He wu about 21 years of ago, and wu raid to ha a aulian, worthlera nagro. What tho pufpou ot tho nagro wu In hla fadsnvor to naldanofi of Mr. Oonqor can ha Imagined without mating ft In full In thla report, for he wu loafing around the town of Bartlrara and evidently knew that then wunoona « lit. ease men’’oontlnuu successful the polios are slowly but surely that objectionable clara out of community, or at least reducing prusnoe to a mlnlmun. Thursday iwo Carolina hoboes shook the dust of thatr native state Into the Savannah river and allghthd on Georgia soil. They had not been here long enough to uk for a drink whan Offioer John son nabbed them. They will be tried on Friday. The vegetable garden la beckoning. Negroes and loafers of all raeraaro beginning to learn that they muat work If they want to stay around Augusta. If they persistent ly refuse It la “23’* or the olalngang Waxes of Mn. Jeremiah Thomas, sixty yean old, a well-known whiskey agent of Wash log ton, N. J., end who wu until re cently proprietor of tho only hotel, in Oxford Furnace, committed suicide by sending a bullet Into hla head In the barn connected with Councilman Walter D. Guliok’a lumber yards. While conducting the Oxford Hotel a year ago Tnomaa eloped with E la, the wife of Ellah Teeter, a farmer. They were gone several months, and upon reluming to tide neighborhood Teeter sued Thomu for damages and alao began proceeding for a divoree. Mr. and Mrs. Jamas. Carter, who Hv* in the building, had been spud ’ng a vacation in Massachusetts They returned Monday night. Thai) six month-old baby Myrtea wat whee’ed through the hallway, aft*) '.he family had bun ebeerily greeted by the Utile army of neighbors and children who always throng tbe crowd id street. The Garters intended to return to the street after they bed changed their clothes. Mrs. Garter pushed the carriage into a nook where the hell light wonld not shine In the child’s eye*. Than aha changed her nind about leaving the infant there snd took her upstairs. Tbe Carters live three fl’ghte np The wife said she would wash babj snd then piece per In tbe carriage igaln. Carter changed hla u he opened the door to go iownitairs, he smelled amok*. The )dor wu wafted through the oorri- lore, end Carter, withe ut making any distuibanoe to oauu panic, quickly traced It. He found the oarrtage, la which a fcwmlnutcs before hla only child bad oeen, blazing In the nook under tbe stairway. man, horror-stricken at the what hot hie wife Chang leaving Myites in tnh'hallway. yeUed. Neighbors wen* to his aid. hat before the fi .mas could be extinguished tbe vehicle wu a charred mass. „• No ordinary fin, earned by spon tanooua combustion or a lighted match, could have so quickly com 1 muolcated Itself to every part of the carriage. It wu obvious that the vehicle wu Ignited at half a dezsn points. *— In five minutu the newt had fiofif from one end of the -row to the and mothers Immediately dla fid mothers’ agitation. Many •curried to their roams, others deter mined that not for a mlnnts of the day wonld they leu sight of their cherubs. -.. . — - Invutlgation by tbe police showed the woodwork in the hall- It had not had time to Ignite, how- ever. Detective wen hurried to the mens and elveral ware placed,open •cored Mr. Jones with a eeathing re suke. In speaking of Jones, Oapt. Brunson said be had noaeed to tenet tim. But the time will come. “He knew the crowd wu around him and he know I could not react aim. it wu a low, cowardly, brutal ut." Wbou be aald this there wen load cries of “Hurrah for Bruoaou” from all sides of the bin*- and loud band- daps. “Without eurslng,” replied Oapt. Bruneon, "I think I ran chart oterisr | this man: If yon taka tbe QjIIj ml you haffibls gold, if you take Oarker ot ‘Dombe* would happened had igedW mind about ML a the nail way, yelled. »nt NO- <12. ===*S5 The Utt’e Republic Has ■ QrO War On Head. ONE LEADER KILLED. D.clslve Efl{s|<m*it Near fu Lab la Wbicb a Naraber Were Uled, Woeaded aad Takea Piheaera ta f ate CaptareCHy. It looks m If tbe young republic of ‘ub* hu a civil war on her heads. A itspatoh from Havana ran General Rodriguez, commander of the rural roart. Wednesday night, affira relat- og tbe incidents of the day, raid to ba Aseodated Prera:. “Yon can mU tbe American people firat Cuba la wtlnly competent to x>pe with the Ineumoiloo. Tbe 11 off of rumors In ail dlraotione about the jrgeulzation of Insurrectionary bands in great nnmbere an not ban* oat by wparta, or, to fir u oan ba .ha faeti. “Thereonlte of'the eo rater al bn Luis is atill not known finitely. Tbe much-talked-of mo ram In bnta Clara provUme bunot I Aountered, aad no oaro been uen there by our farose. ‘We have today equipped and >ut In variou direotions 200 volun- snd Bon’ it if you take Arbaoea of lira A Pompefl’ you aw hil Ding, If 3 the Gospel of Luke it lea hU treaobary. Wrap, thus human akin and I present Adam Oran* Jooesl"— Ths crowd fairly roared denunciation of Jones relied, “Ho gofi yon Mr. Jcnea «u ben In Iranrena. Why Oo Vo Ooilexe. Why chop all day with a dull ax? | ske an hour off and grind your ax Ton will accomplish more by night ly work all your life with I time to educate, dtactpHnfii train I yourself for the work before you? j The ooUcge trains for leadership. What Is your porpora? To to a third-1 Tho London Dally Telegraph’s To- klo cor respondent says that the Japa- oonaul at Yanoouvnr, having re ported that it is Imponible for hi« to obtain a mtiafaetory or foil report of tho kUHng of Japanero poachers by in the Aleutian Islands, hu decided the Japanrai government carry cat Ue your life rate? Reoeat i gradui hu by two hundrod tltifij the adt age stops with the tb* oollogo graduate hu n tanfold bn terof mntiwnt she the high eohool graduate of the ease because ot what bad occurred on Saturday night at No 636. There a similar dastardly attempt to Incin erate a baby bad hew made. . As In the cue ot the Carters, the Inoandlary did not make make sore that hla prey wu where he believed It A Mrs. Parker bad left a baby carriage under the hall stairs, as Mra. Carter had, and tbe, too, took tbe precaution cf carrying her child to her apartments. It wu only a few mlnntes after tbe Infant bad been placed in its crib tbatsmoke began to filter through the halls and tenants traced the suffocating odor to tim oar- rlage, whloh waa abhzj. At that tlma It wu not thought. anyone had Intentionally tried to destroy the carriage and Its supposed occupant. Bat when Monday night’s oocumnoe wu related none doubted that tbe two fine were started by tbe band, and with the ram* intent. The police believe that the incen diary la a maniac, whose insanity this frightful form. They do not, however, loom the theory that tbe burnings may bar* bean do* ^ to a tblret for revenge, but what tha connections between the Par ken 1a eo far as Detectives Wednesday apartment hi two fine have tie wi; hat Two aged 3d hanging, tha other by _ Catherine Hoar, aevanty-flve, of 326 Stegg street, wu found hanging I rom a transom tn her room. She had | bten in ior several been closely night. Mrs. Emily Of NO. 645 the police ray, ever two sons, had often thraatesradl suicide. Tho Jroung men quarrelled | again Thursday aad the to the bathroom, eloeod tha window I and door, tonrad oo the gas, and than, wrapping beraelf in a blanket, lay down In tha tab. She wu found there