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i'-f I V VOL. BARNITILL, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6,1008 NO. 23 THE STATEiflNS. PROHIBITION KILLED FARNUM WANTED given GOOD TERMS. Judge Prichard Refuses to Inter fere in the Dispesnary Matter. GRAFT HUNT GOES ON. Whiskey Deal cm Who Swindled the SUte Will Have to Face the Mneie Tin Houtt Rtfum to Pm tha Nash Prohibition Mil W. C. T. U. Delesatioa Appears in Gallery Prepared 16 Assanlt tha Legation With Hymns. Tha Nash bill to proTlda for Sute probrEftlon was killed by tha House Thursday, the vote being nearly tw 1 © to one r' V. ' 1 ■ During the progress of debate on tha bill a delegation of ? W. C. T. U. members appeared in the gallery and took seata They, had open hymn books in their hands and it was evi dent that they were prepared to sing hymns at the psychological moment. The attention of Hr Nash was called to their presence, and at his request the Rev. A. N. Brunson, of the Main Street, M. E. Church, of Columbia, went to the gallery and suggested that it would be better not to make any demonstration Meanwhile Speaker Whaley had in structed the sergeant-at-arms to strictly, enforce the rules and sup- Mess any._ demonstration at once The ladies, ^however, acceded to the suggestion of the prohibitionists on the floor and there was no expres sion whatever ^ The vote on the motion to strike out the enacting words whs as fol- or Do W'ithout Their Money That May Be Owed Them By the Old South Carolina State Dispensary Authorities. 9 At Asheville, N. C., on Wednesday Judge Prichard In the United States circuit court denied th$ petition of Fleischmann & Co., of New York and refused to appoint a receiver for the South Carolina State Dispen sary fund of $800,000, against which there are alleged to be claims ag gregating $600,000. The Judge made his announce ment during the afternoon session, after attorneys for the dispensary commission had presented their iiill ijn answer to the sensational charges made, iq the Fleischmann petition, which yras filed in this court a short time ago. The answer alleges that the claim of Fleischmann & Co. is unjust and invalid and that there was collusion and conpsiracy between the plaintiff and another—Arm , •<©■ defraud the-lowa.The ayes being opposed to the Nash prohibition bill and the nays in favor of it: Ayes—Speaker Whaley and the following representatives: Ayer, Bal lentlne,. Banks.. Beattie, Boyd. Brant- Tey, A G Brice. F M Bryan, Cannon, Carson. Carw^ie, Cosgrove, Cothran. Cox, Croft. Culler. DeVore, Dick, Dixon, Doar, Dowling, Fraser, Frost, Gary, Glasscock, Gyles. Hall, Harley, Harman, Harris, Harrison, Hughes,' Hydricki Kellahan, Lawson, Legare; McMaster, Miley, Miller. Nickols. Mckolson, Richardson, Rucker, Saw yer, Saye, Sellers, Shipp, Slaughter, K. P. Smith, Spivey, Stillmell. Stubbs, Thomas, Todd, Von Kolnltz Van- derhorst, JiVade, Wallace, Wiggins— 62 — Nays—Arnold* Bailey, T. S. Brice, W. D. Bryan. Carrigan. Clary, Clink- scales, Courtney, Derham, Dingle, J. U. - Dodd, Douglass. Epps, Gause, J. P. Gibson, Goodwin, Greer, Hardin, Hinton, Johnstone. Jones, Kershaw, Kirven, Lane, Lester, Leltner, Mc- Coll, McKeown, Mann. Morrell, Nash, Nesbitt, Nlver, Norton, Parker, Pat terson, Reaves. Richards, Robinson, Scarborough. Scruggs, Sharpe, D. L. Smith, J. E. Smith, Verner, Wanna- maker, Wimberly, Woods, Wyche^ Yeldell—51^ The following pairs were announc ed: Bethume nay Garris aye; Gibson aye, Tatum nay; Major nay, You- mans ye;_Aull nay, Tompkins aye. The clincher yras then put on the motion to kinr -— -t • : Stat«£*and that the State was cheated out of a large sum of money in each the claims made by the plaintiff; it also alleges that Fleischmann & Co. sold to the State a concocktion .. with. a. mere trace of whiskey. The answer declared false the al legation by 7 FTeteenmanir Co. that the commissioners were wrongfully withholding the money for their own individual interests. The answer de nied as false and maliclouss the al legation in the complaint which refer red to a conspiracy between Attorney General Lyon and the dispensary commission and demanded proof. Shortly after the court convened (or the afternoon session. Judge Prichard^ announced from the bench that he would not appoint a re ceiver for the dispensary, as he felt that the funds are now fully protect ed. He directed the attorneys to con fine their arguments to the question as to whether this court could as- -sume—jurisdiction, the point being whether or not this is a suit against the State. Mr. D. L. Rountree of Atlanta, for the commission, consum ed the remainder of the afternoon se- sion in argument to establish the (act that the[ State is an indispensa ble party to the suit. Before the bill of the defendants was read, Attorney General Lyon of South Carolina replied to tbe~nllega- tions made by Fleischmann ft Co. ^ relative to the transfer of fundsYrom the Jurisdiction of the court, saying that the State of South Carolina was not running away, that the allegation as false. He read a concurrent res- J ) ution adopted by the house of rep- »Xsentatlves Tuesday. In the course *' <t of the resolution it was stated - t^af the legislature of SunU Carolina'fir creatlng the dispensary commission 4»d not consent to suits agalnkt the --State for claims as a result of the dispensary muddle. ^ Just before Judge Prichard an-, his decision there was a sharp colloquy between Attorney General Lyon of South Carolina and George B. Lester of New York and Alf. S. Barnar<}, who represent ask- prepare answers to the affidavits of the commission. He ltated that the comifNssion had invited creditors to come to Colum bia to prove their claims. But at the same time it was known that som< 60 or 60 warrtfnts were ready in tin office of the attorney general or which the representatives of the creditors would be arrested, and In- _ stanced the case of the prepresentn- tive for Ullnjan ft Co., who^.Jjgd been arrested, charged with fradd and required to give heavy bond. Judge Priehard remarked that if he took jurisdiction he would ap point a master to sift all charges of fraud to the bottom. The attorney General In reply to Mr. Barnard said: “Of course we hear this cry from those who have defrauder the State. Naturally, when I can catch any of these fellows in South Carolina, I will arrest them. I have no warranty however, for the - Fleischmann representatives and I will agree that they shall come 1,0 South Carolina to prove their claims and depart unmolested.” He added, however, that there w^g a warrant (or Ihe representatives of the An heuser-Busch concern. Mr. ,Mordecai resjjpnded that Mr. Farqum, the mafireferred to, had left the State on business. But he w would return and meet all charges. 1 Mr. Stevenson, counsel for the /commission, stated, there was no in- ’ tentlon of invelglmg men to South Carolina fdr the purpose of prosecu tion. Judge Prichard then announced that no receiver would be appointed and arguments on jurisdiction was then begun by Mr. Rountree... KEEP TO THE RIGHT. The Duty of Cbaffeura is to Be on the Lookout. A decision by the district court of appeals at Los Angeles, Cal,, recent ly declares In effect tnat automobll- ists are obliged to look out for the pedestrians and keep from running them down and that pedestrians can not be charged with contributory negligence if they do not keep out of the way of automobiles The de- cisiou confirms a judgment for $*,- 000 damages awarded Stanley King who had been run down by an au tomobile of E. K. Green. .. t -OVERDOSE OF MORPHINE. Brooklyn Drug Clerk Saw Apparition of His Daughter. Believing that he had seen the ap parition of his daughter and that this foretold of the nine-year-old girl suffering from scarlet fever Ajbert Moeller, a Brooklyn drug clerk, took an overdose of morphine and died in a hotel. Moeller is said to have seen ‘he haunting vision on Sunday eve ning. He left home on Monday and nothing more was heard of him until he was dying in the hotel. t DANCED WITH JACKSON. Dies at the Age of One Hundred and Twenty. At Bristol, Va., Mrs. Mary Jtouaakey Wood, a native of East Tennessee, died Monday at the age of 120 years, her youth Mrs. Wood s&jr George Washington, Thomas Je'ffe others of the early statesm said her best recollection men was that of Andrew with whom she frequently when a girl. n and It is public Jachsou, danced M The Beer King” Has Not Been Arrested, Yet But WARRANT IS ISSUED For His Ai'rest, and Han Been Out Two Weeks.—-His Present Where about*- Is Unknown, But His At* torney Scoffs at the Suggestion That Famum in a Fugitive From Justice. Where is J, 8. Famum? Is h£. a fugitive from Justlce?- Or Terhe out on a business trip?- Is he a man of such unbusinesslike methods that his employers do not know where he is? Is he aware that the dispensary commission has had issued a warrant charging him with conspiracy? Has he seen no South Carolina newspapers in the last few weeks, has he received po statement from his ife„ no notificatipji from the An- Bi-evffng company? If he did know of the existence of the warrant, then has hei not treated the commission with contempt in evading service of the warrant? These are the questions propounded hypothetically in the meeting of the dispensary commission on Thursday morning says The State. It was published in newspapers cir culating as widely as F. S. Farnum is known that; the warrant was is- suod for him on the 16th day of January, and the officers of |ihe' law know not hts wher^ahoutsr' When the commission Thursday resumed its investigations, the case of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing as sociation was first on the (jftpket. lit had^een stated that there would be^a bookkeeper from that concern who would produce books of record. He was not in evidence at 10 o’clock^ 10:30 the commission Was formally convened. Three times the marshall, /n reg ular court fasfllbrt, cried the name of the defendant. No response. Three times the name of J. 8. Faf- num was called No responce. ' It was reported that a lawyer, thejame who had represented W. D. Roy, and others at a former meeting, had communicated with the Anheuser- Busch association, to inquire if they wished to be present to establish the validity of their claim. This attor ney had not t>een advised to proceed with’ the case. With something of mock "’tffqj.ress in his tones. Col. T. B. Felder aS-* dressed the commission "Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: We were hopeful, though not san guine, that Mr. Farnum would be present on this occasion. But he is not. However, I will assume the bur den of proof in this case and will establish by documentary evidence that the plaintiff has no just claim against the State.” Continuing, Col. Felder said that he wished to go just far enogh into the matter to show that this "Bud- weiser claim'’ as he referred to it "is reeking witlr-fttth and fraud and is one of the baaesLxonsplracies on re- cord in all the annuals of this coun- At the term of the Lexington Court, last week the two negroes who some months ago committed an attroclous assault on - Mr. and Mrs. Bickley, of that county, were tried and convicted by Judge Wilson to twenty-five years in the Penitentiary One night the two negroes went to thee ountry store kept by the Bick- leys, and while one of them asked Mr. Bickley to come outside and sell him some whiskey, - the other remained in the store, where Mrs. Rldkley also stayed. A gun was fired and Mr. Bickley was shot. At the sound of the gun the negro inside seized Mrs. Bickley and attempted a horrible crim e. While his Wife was In the clutches of this brute, Mr. Bickley, wounded and bleeding, staggered into the store and reached for his shotgnn in the corner. The negro tnade his es cape, however. The alarm was given and the two negroes were sought all over that territory for days. . When finally captured sentiment them was still high, but a lynching waz prevented. 4 At the trial each negro denied any knowl edge of the presence of the other that night and told a story qult£ different fioin- the. evidence put up oy the State. Each of them was indicted on two counts, assault with intent to kill Mr. Blckley aha assault with in tent to' ravish Mrs. Bickley, and both were convicted on both counts. ■ - Judge Wilson^ in passing sentence, congratulated the county of Lexing ton that a lynching had been averted under strong provocation and that ustice had been done, regardless of the fact brought out in the evidence that the Bickleys themselves were violators of the law in selling liquor. try." — - .. "Undej- the laws of South Caro lina," he added, this commission Is as much of a judicial tribunal as the supreme court itself. This commis sion is vested with the right to serve writs and to compel attendance. If the parties who are notified by regis tered mall that the claims are to be examined faiTfto present their books, then this court may proceed against them as it sees fit.” Heavy Damage Reported. A cyclone la reported to have done damage over a territory of conaider- able extent north of Broohhaven, Miaa., on laat Friday. _ t SEVEN ARE CREMATED. Collapse of House Causes Flames to Destroy Whole Family. 0 * - By the collapse of the house of Anthony Franklin, a negro of Bed ford City, Va„ the building was fired and destroyed the whole family, eonalting of himself, wife and five children, burned to death. The fam- ily was sitting with the corpse of a child that died on Sunday when the building fell In. , . Mr. Feldei; said that after consults -tion with the attorney general he might ask the comniission to take this action. “Call a case in its order on the docket and when the plaintiffs are in default by not being present and when there is prima facie'evi dence of guilt as to graft and brib ery, then the attorneys would record a request that judgment be entered on behalf of the State. There being no answer when the names of the plaintiffs were called. Mr. Felder put in evidence a card, which he stated wins the legal ac knowledgement of the Anheuser- Busch Brewing Association that they had received the registered letter in which the claimants were notified to be here at this time with certain books of record and of expenses to show that CKefr claims were just and valid. This notification uot. only au thorized and directed and invited the Anheuser-Brewing association tion to .produce the books, but also ordered them to produce J. S. .Far num as their agent. Except for the card indicating the receipt of the letter from the South Carolina com mission, there was no acknowledge ment or other statement from the St. Louis brewers. John Carr, deputy sheriff, who was sent to Charleston with the war rant then testified that the paper had been placed in his hands at 10 p. m by Sheriff Coleman and that he had taken the train at 2.16 a. m. for Charleston, that being the moat noto rious place of abode and of business of the uld Farnum. A visit was made to the abode of J. 8. Farnum at the Charleston hotel. Farnum was not there. A second visit and Two Scoundrels Sent to the Peni tentiary From Lexington. For Twenty-Five Assaulting a Man and a Worst Crime on a Years Harh For ‘mpting against LEVER AFTER MONEY For Soil Demonstration Work in Or angeburg, Lee and Sumter. The Washington correspondeuVbf the News and Courier says a hearing, of considerable importance to the peo ple of Orangeburg, Sumter and Lee counties was had in Washington on Monday afternoon before the House committee on agriculture. Represen tative Lever, in whose district the three counties named lie, secured the presence of Messrs. . A. Bonsteel and Frank Bennett, experts in soil survey .work in the department df agriculture, in an effort to secufelm appropriation with which to carry on work already commenced in those counties. Messrs. Bonsteel and Bennett, who have been in South Carolina on fre- quent .occasions, and who have-done considerable work in Mr. Lever’s District, demonstrated to the com mittee Just what the soil in the coun ties named can produce under prop er conditions anu how much the farmers living in those counties would be benefited by a continuation of Abe demonstration work already undertaken there. Mr. Lfeter- believes that h will be successful in securing an appropria tion with which to carry on the work. It will mean much to the farming Interests of all the counties in the seventh district. — ^—— BOLD THIEVES r W appelt bill NEARLY FREEZES — > They Get a Sack Containing Threl To Impose a Tax of $5,000 on j 0 Death in His Own Refrigerator Thousand Dollars Liquor Drummars. an Atlanta, 6a. BY DARING ROBBERY. The Express Agent at Mansfield, L>hio, Knocked fienselesa and Then the Thieves Got Away With One Bag of Money, but Overlooked Another Bag That Contained For ty Thousand Dolan. ^Qnei, of the boldest robberies etrer known, took plffce at Mansfield, Ohio, shortly after midnight Wed nesday, when two masked robbers entered the office of the Adams Ex- prsa. Company there, knocked Wil liam Depew, the hgent, unconscious, and got away With $3,000, while nearly fifty passengers stood about the station waiting for trains. A bag containing $40,000 In gold was lying near (he $3,000, but was ovevrlooked by the robbers. Telegrams were sent to the police of the nearby towns and as a result, John. McCue and Joseph Stevens were taken Into custody at New Lon don. They had a sack token from the express office containing the $3,000. ^ , Stevens, the police’ say, confessed and Implicated George McGlnlty, a friend of Depew’s, who war in the oiffice - af' iHiT time and was covered with a revolver during the robbery. According Jto». the] ^ money arrived Tuesday night from Delphos, Ohio, and was consigned to a bank at Hamilton, Ohio., Stevens said McGlnlty tipped off. the arrival of the money, and cooked up a scheme with him and McCue to rob the office.. McGlnlty was locked nies the charge.’ up. He de- 8WEPT BY FLAMES. Th Town of Hampton Hard Hit by the Fire Fiend. One of the most disastrous fires that has visited the town of Hamp ton in a number of years occured Sunday night at about 10.30 o’clock, totally destroying the office of The Hampton County Guardian with the presses and eic t the office of Robert I* R Sizer & Co, a brick building owned by Senator W. 8. Smith, and two small stores and two small dwellings on "Lee Avenue, the principal street. A strong wind made the work of fighting the fire more diffiedt than ordinarllly and the flames spread j^pidiy. The Insurance on the property was as follows: - Senator W. S. Smith, 1,200; loss $1,000. M. B. McSweeney, Guardian build ing, presses and practically all of the newspaper and job type. Insur ance -- ^ printing material and bulld og, $1,400; loss $2,000. W. E. Richardson, dwelling and store, $500; loss $600. ; 'Small dwelling, $400; fully cov ered. The residence and-, store of-J. B, Hotel were in danger but escaped damage. The origin of the fire Is unknown. THE NEW PISTOL LAW. The a Man May Carry. The new pistol bill,-which will be- M, n P ,nln. ter the first day of July, 190S, it shall be unlawful., for any one to carry about the person, whether con cealed or not, any pistol less than twenty inches long and three pounds in weight, and it shall be unlawfu' for any person, firm or corporation to manufacture, sell or offer for sale, lease, rent, barter, exchange or traas port for sale or into this State, any pistol of less length and weight. Any violation of this section shall be pun ished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars of imprisonment for not more than thirty days; and in case of a sale by a person, firm or corporation, the sum of one hundred dollars shall be forfeited to and for the use of the school fund of the county wherein the violation takes place, to be recovered as other fines and forfeitures. ■— search of the premises was made. Again no Farnum. The latter’s wife stated that Farnum was away on business trip. Kir. T. Moultrie Mordecai, attorney for J. S. Farnum, called the State on the long distance ’phone Thursday night and stated that he had heard in Asheville the allegation that Far num is,a fugitive from Justice. ‘The charge ^is ridiculous,’ said Mr. Mor decai, The fact is that Farnum is on one of his regular buaii&Mi trips and on his return to Charleston will sur render and give bond, and I so stated to the attorney general, Mr. Lyon "Any charge that Farnum has closed out the greater part of hi* business In Charleston and in com pany with his family, has left the State is absurd and .1 wish to deny It” Passes, the Senate by a Large Ma jority—It Will Exclude Whto- k key Drummers From the State. . . . .rs At the night session of the senate Thursday Mr. Appelt’s bill providing for a license tax, upon liquor drum mers passed a third reading and was ordered sent to the -house, J>ut not until it was amended by providing that the tax shall be $5,000 Instead of $1,000 as proposed in the original bill. DOOR SHUT ON HIM And H. White, Jr., Had Artie Adventure in hia Ice House, Where He Had Gone to See How the Thermometer Was Working and if the Meats Were in Good Condi tion. This is the story of how an Atlan- Tjie bill was taken up under the ta man was lost in the artics Sunday head of special orders shortly after "" ~ ~ ” the night session was convened. Be fore there was any debate, Senator Graydon moved to strike out the en acting words, the vote on that motion being as follows: Yeas (to kill the bill)—Bass, Black. Clifton, Earle, Hough, Laney, Raysor, Stackhouse and Williams. Nays (for the bill)—Appeit, Blease Brice, Brooks, Carlisle, Car penter, Crouch, Gibson, Griffin, Har din, Harvey, Holliday, Johnson, Mauldin, McGowan, McKeithan, Otts, Slnkler. Smith, Sullivan, Talbert, Toole, Townsend Mr. Rogecs—wanted no $1,000 li cense Issued in any prohibition coun ty He did not want to license drum- ipers because they may be debarred by federal legislation. Mr. Appelt fought this and wanted hls bili kept intact. - Senator Crouch was strenuous in his support of the bill and favored morning and kept himself from frees- 4 ing to death only by dragging the forequarter of beef frantically back and forth for more than an hour as told by the Atlanta Journal. On last Sunday morning shortly after ten o’clock W. H. White, Jr., “ of the W’hlte McLendon company, • wholesale dealers in meats, stepped into the rerngeritbr-of his ware house at 1 and 3 East Wall street, for the purpose of seeing what de gree his thermometer registered. No sooner was Mr. White inside than the door of the ice house banged and the spring lock clicked fast. , • From then until 11 o’clock he had no need to consult, the thermometer to know the temperature. “I have discovered the north pOla,”— he said shortly aftet his release, “and 1 can tell you It's iv had thing — to hunt for." While Mr. White was working bis tnrrdear tb Teep up a faint spark of warmth in his blood, hia carriage with Mrs. White in it was awaiting him in front of Durant’s restaurant on Alabama street. He had called at the restaurant a few momenta be fore to take James S. Gaines and Mrs. Gaines for a morning drive. Mr. Gaines was slightly delayed so Mr. per county fdr !***;_, J ■rs, -which is deemed ab- 1 thlnk 1 » dr °P by the warehouse while Ire’re 'Waiting and have a Inalr Mr. Carlisle said , the courts have held that a license fee will stand the teqts of the courts and he fav ored the bill. Mr Rogers' amendment to prohibit licenses in prohlbltlo.n counties was killed Mr. Courch had the license fixed at $5,000 liquor orders solutely prohibitive. -Mr. Rogers was persistent 1 and waited Marlboro county excluded from the bill No license to selLTi- quor has ever been issued In that GOES UP FOR LIFE. From the Lunatic Asylum to the State Penitentiary. John Beard was convicted at Gainesville, Ga., of murder on last Thursday and ordered sent to the penitentiary for life, for the murder of W. O. Hammond, his father-in- law The killing occurred three years ago. On the first trial Beard entered an insanity plea He was sent to the state sanitarium at Milledgeville. Lately he was declared by the au thorities there ha have been restored to mental .health. He was brought back to Hall county and arraigned for the killing, conviction result ing.' • t county for 50 years, and he seriously opposed any and every license sys tem Mr. Brice said a drummer could now solicit liquor orders in dry counties and as he saw It the prop osition was simply to collect a ).b. cense from outside drummers wip- now solicit orders without paying a cent and he felt the $5,000 license would keep drummers out of the dry counties Dr. Black was opposed to any sort of license; he was not in favor of these drummers coming here at all He felt that this license would give the semblance of authority to solic it business. He wanted them barred from the State. . v Mr Rogers’ amendment exempting Marlboro coanty from the provisionr of the bill was adopted by a vote of 20 to 11. The bill was amen lc l ro as not ta apply to Lancaster as well. to make it a criminal offense to stllc- it orders. That- he urged would avoid the objections as to a license system. Mr Otts thought this would not stand the tests of the-courts. The Raysor amendment- waa killed. The bill waa finally ordered sent to the bouse providing for a $5,000 license for drummers solicit leg li quor orders for interstate shipment This license is applicable in each county in which such interstate ship ment may be solicited. Senator Ap pelt thinks his bill will do mach to kill the promiscuous soliciting of li quor orders, which he declared had become a nuisance In his section. t GOT A MOVE ON HIM. Tornado Made a Sick Man Ran For His Life. A tornado swept through the northeastern portion of Etowah County, Alabama, Sunday night. While no lives were lost, much dam age was done to property. At Coate’s Bend, several dwellings were destroy ed. The home of Bid McCurdy was struck and crumbled like an egg shell. A 75-year-old bachelor, broth er of McCurdy, was on what was thought to be his death bed. In fear the sick man jumped up and fled from the^fl^ttse and got out of the way of harm. v. : • .*• Eight Stores Born. Fire yesterday morning swept Fire early Wednesday morning swept the village of Girard, Ga., consuming •ight stores, the hotel and several residences.. Dr. F. G. Brigham, one of the most prominent physicians, rushed Into a residence to save his medicine case. Ha waa caught under tha tailing roof and burned to death HE PROTECTED HER. Married Hia Cousin to Prevent Her Marrying Another. A special to The Augusta Chroni cle from Albany, Ga., says the con tracting parties to a marriage Sun day were Miss Lemmie Giddens and Mr. B. T. Giddens, both of Worth county. Miss Gidden’s father objected to her receiving the attentions of a cer tain young man of the neighborhood. He ordered his daughter to remain in the house day and night. B. T. Giddens, a third cousin, went to her father, and offered to co-operate in the plan to save her from the objec tionable suitor. " Young Giddens kept his part 6f the bargain so far as other men were concerned, but be construed the agreement liberally in .favor of him self and married the girYt man Cropped dead And the Shock on Seeing Him Killed Hk Neice. At Millville, N. J-, Thursday, Rollln JN’lckleson, a well known oyster ship per, dropped dead Thursday as he stepped from a train on bis return home from Savannah, where he had been ill from typhoid fever. The body waa taken to the home of a brother near the railroad and when Mildred Nickelson, a niece, saw It she oollapeed and died in, a short time. _ - • ' ^ * at the mercury. Be back in a min ute.” “ '• When the minute had passed^and twenty niore had followed the Tad lea grew uneasy. By eleven o’clock Mr. Gaines yielded to thoir anxiety and set out to find the trouble. In the meantime a strange and, for the time being a terrible drama was being enacted in that ice house. Anyone who could have peeped in at the time would have seen a white- l aced man lighted by the misty blua of a solitary Incandescent globe rac ing from one side of the box to the other with a huge quarter of beef on his shoulder. He would hang the_ beef first upon one hook and then upon another, all the while swinging his arms high above his head and do ing a thousand and-one Swoboda stunts. “It was either this or freexe,” ex plained Mr. White. VTf.a man ia hard at work he can Bye in auch a refrigerator^ hree Or four hours, but if he stands still he will pretty soon be like one of those petrified animals that geologists dig up In northern Russia. ^ And so hflck and forth he tugged the beef until the end ot hl* impris onment it looked'Hke a soup bone that had done duty three days. ' ' Once a telegram messenger boy passed on the alley on which a tiny side window of the refrigerator op-, ens. Mr. White heard him whktllng and with all his might he shouted and- beat -upon the" sides of the ice house. But the boy kept on hia way unheeding. Then he began to think What might happen. He concluded at first that someone waa playing a joke on him and then he decided that pretty soon the policeman of the beat would pass and seeing the keys in the front door would lock thinks up and go away. —*— He conjectured that in the mean time Mr. Gaines and the ladies woqld decide that he had been detained on business and would take a prelimi nary drive over Jown. However, he might view the situation, it looked hopeless and he remembered all the stories he had read of travelers being burled under the snow and freezing* to death with no earthly sound to greet them, except the lugubrious howl of far away packs of wolves. Every detail of his strange prison fell into harmony with such roman ces. The incandescent globe cloaked in its chill fog shot forth fantastic rays that seemed like the aurora borealis and the huge blocks of ice that hemmed him in were for all the world like the mountains of Lapland. By the time the quarter of b«ef had been frazzled to gaunt skeleton Mr. Gaines Vrrived. Inside the store he heard tl^e steady beatftys against the waftslqijd pretty soon recognised his friend’s voice in the muffled shout for help. Mr. White never stopped to -see what the thermometer registered when the door was finally pried open and he stood once again in the tem perate zone. “1 don’t believe there’s a ther mometer with enough notches on It to tell the story,” he said. The Kentucky The joint assembly took one ballot for United ator on Friday, which Iowa: Beckham 18 Allen 7. .