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I JAS. MSifttisfabijliffc v • '<V*' f “*K ^sfes: TOL.XXXII THE LUMBER CUT Rscoms From the Panic and .Is Again on Rack - BARK WELL, S. C*, THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1909 INTERESTING FACTS l* Of the Bastncsa That Will 8huw Where Most of the Lumber Comes From and Who Will Be Bene- fltted by Tax Put on it by the Tariff. /, During the y^ar 1908, 31,231 saw mills iu the United States manufac tured 33,289,369,000 feet of lumber, according to a preliminary report Just issued by the bureau of the cen sus. These mills also cut 12,106,- 000 shingles and 2,986,684,000 lath. Lumber manufacturing, like every other industry, felt the effecte of the business depression which began in October, 1907. Consequently the production In 1908 was below that for the previous year. In 1907 the cut of 28,850 saw mills was 40,256,- 154,000 feet, the highest production ever recorded. Notwithstanding, therefore, that in 1908 reports were received from eight per cent more mills than in 1907, the decrease in lumber cut reported by them was •lightly over seventeen per cent. Washington, as for several years past, still ranks first among the States in lumber production, its cut In 1908 being 2.915,928.000 feet— a decrease of 22.8 per cent over the cut of 1907. Nearly all the lumber manufactured in Washington is Duglas fir, the market for which was seriously affected by the panic. Louisiana second, with 2,722,421,- 000 feet, a decrease of 250,000,000 feet or 84 per cent over the cut in 1907. Louisiana is first in the pro duction of both yellow pine and cy press. Cypress is a particularly useful and valuable wood, and apparently, the manufacturers of it did not suffer as severely from dull times as did the manufacturers of yellow pine and Douglas fir. Mississippi was th' third state in lumber production In 1908, with a total of 1,861,000 feet —a decrease of eleven per cent from the cut in 1907. Arkansan ranked fourth, with 1,655,991.000 feet—a decrease of nearly seventeen per cent over the previous year's output, and Wisconsin fiteh, with 1,613,315.00" feet against 2,003,279,000 feet in 1907. In Texas, where the lumber indus try is confined almost exclusively to yellow pine, the failing off was ver\ heavy. The total cut of the State in 1908 was 1,524.008,000 feet— a de crease of 31.6 per cent over the cut I in 1907.' Klght other States manufactured more than one billion feet^each of lumber last year. In the ojder of im portance, they were: Michigan. Ore gon. Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Vir ginla. Alabama, North Carolina am West Virginia. California and maine, other States which reportei more than owe billion feet each it 1 907, went Just below that figure it 1908. The totals for a few State< were greater in 1 908 than in 1907 but this was chiefly due to the largei number of reports secured in thos< States in 1908. In Georgia, for in stance, a particularly close canvas- increased the number of mills report ed nearly one-third, while the result ing increase in roporta of total pro duction was only six per cent. Ii Massachusetts, 610 mills reported i cut of 384,526,000 feet in 1 908 a compared with a cut of 364,231,00' feet by 518 mills in 1 907. In fee- in 1 908; while in 1907, 230 mill cut 137,239,000 feet. A particular! large gain in n|»U8 reported wa made in Oklahoma. In 1907, 1 2' mills In that State cut 140,015,00 feet, while in 1908, 21 4 mills eu 158,756,000 feet. While there are many very larg saw mills in the United Stater, tie small mills far outnumber the larg ones, and it is particularly interestln: to note how many of these sma! mills there are in the States whic are not now of first rank in lumbe production. The statistics for Nev York were collected by the Forest Fish and Game Commission of tha State and show there are 2,29' mills. In Pennsylvania 2,224 millr reported to the census, and in Vir ginla, 1,937 mills. In North Car olina reports came from 1,7 40 mill. 1 and in Kentucky from l.'BSO mills The numbtr of mills reporting from Tennessee was only forty less than fram‘-'Kentucky. In West Virginia. Missouri Ohio and Indiana between 1,000 and 1,100 mills each were eti gaged in cutting lumber last year The average output per mill was 350- 000 feet in New York, and 5,260,000 "feet If n * t«o dTsi a ilk, -these two- States presenting nearly the extremes o? production by small and large mills Yellow pine. Douglas fir, white pine, oak, hemlock and spruce. In th< order* named, were the woods cut into lumber in the largest quantity Yellow pine has ranked first afnet it anrpasted white pine in the later fflneties, and it is still far in the lead. 'More recently, white pine hat also been superseeded by Douglas fir. •o'ilht Bofr^Thceufiie* third place. Washington has been the principal shingls producing State since the use of red cedar shingles beesme general, and It supplied three-fourths of the SPREADS TYPHOID $H0T THEM BOTH SP RIT guides man ANOTHER QUAKE eouahimity iarred SLAYER F SUCH IS THK CHARGE MADE AGAINST MARY MALLON - r - Who Is Confined to a Cottage and Not Allowed to Associate With Any One. In Mary Mallon the New York health authorities have an unusual prisoner on their hands. "Typhoid 'Mary," as she is known, because of her alleged habit of communicating the fever to others, although im mune herself, is a prisoner in a small cottage which she occupies all by herself on North Brother Island, where contagious diseases are treat ed. She is now seeking her freedom through the courts. About two years ago, when Miss Mallon was a cook in the family of J. Clayton Drayton, the butler and two maids suffered from typhoid fe ver and In investigating the case the health inspectors reported that Miss Malloh, although, herself immune, had spread the disease to the other servants. Following her case farth er back they declared that typhoid fever had appeared at nearly even- place in which she had lived. On this evidence the woman was seized and sent to North Brother Is land, where she has since remained in the strictest isolation, although not at all ill. Her meals have been passed through a window of her cot tage to her and she is permitted to associate with no one. Miss Mallon, through her attorney, declares jthat she does not communi cate typhoid fever and lhat her case is somewhat similar to that of John A. Early, whom the Washington au thorities have isolated under suspic ion of being a leper. Young Indian Kills Englishman and Parsian. REMARKABLE 8TORY OF GOLD BMJTH WHO TURNS FAINTER. Masslna Again Visftad bySavara Saitmlc Tremor*. EXPRESSMAN CAUSES CHINAMAN TO HAVE BRAIN STORM. ADOPTED IV KANSAS. Bryan’s Guarantee Law Endorsed by Republicans. The bank guarantee law originated by Bryan and first adopted in Okla homa has been put in effect in Kan sas by act of a Republican legisla- ure. While the law will effect only ■mch banks as elect to comply with t. it is expected that all of the 777 ■Rates banks in Kansas will place hemselves under its provisions with out delay. The banks under the now law are o be partners in a sort o( mutual in surance company. They will have to put up a million dollars in State and national securities to guarantee the payment of deposits, and the dues or nsurance premiums will be only one- wentieth of one.„per cent annually. In self-defence the national banks have started a movement to organize ah insurance company among them selves to insure deposits in their banks. Eventually, however, it is ex pected that many of the national banks, especially those in the smaller owns will deede to denationalize and iceotne State institutions iu order to )articipate in the guaranty law. TILLMAN SEES THK TEST. Die Keulor Senator Among the Spec tators of Aeroplane Trial. A dispatch from Washington says Senator Tillman stopped discussing •otton bagging and ties, lumber and ea long enough to witness the trial rip of the Wright aeroplane at Fort dyer Wednesday afternoon. In com- >any with Senator Elkins, of West Virginia, Senator Tillman quit the lenate chamber to study aerial nagl- tation. He was close to the air ship, md when someone told the Wright brothers who ho was he was allowed o examine it carefully, and asked nany questions regarding its con- druction and manipulafion. Edgefield folks need not be sur mised to see Senator Tillman arrive rom the National Capital some day n an air ship. Automobiles never vere to his liking and trains are too low and out of date for these uodern days. Air locomotion is the iroper stunt. FOUGHT ABOUT A WOMAN. Who Gets Killed iu the Row Between the Two Men. J. W. Mayes, a locomotive en gineer, and Robert Culbertson, both >f Norton, Va.. fought a duel in the Ureets of Middlesboro late Tuesday night. Anna Hayes, over whose af fections the men were jealous,-was <hot twice during the fight and la lying. Mayes was shot twice and 'annot live. Culbertson escaped with t serious wound in the arm. Mayes, mortally wounded, fled after the shooting, and when the police and a posse overtook him, Is said to have attempted suicide by jabbing his 'hroat with a pocket knife. total output-of- shingles last year. Among the other shingle producing States, Michigan, Louisiana. Maine, and California were the most impor tant. The shingles cut in Michigan and Maine arc chiefly of white cedar, those in Louisiana of cypress, and those in California of redwood. Laths are’generally a by-product of lumber manufacture, aad are made to some extent from almost every wood that Is cut Into lumber. Among the kinds of lath which are most proinent are white pine, Douglas fir. apruce, yellow pine, cypress and hem lock. ' ASSASIN CAPTURED An “At-Home” Evening for Indian Htudents Brought to a Sudden Ter mination by a Terrible Tragedy, Which Seems to Have Bern Pre meditated. A dispatch from London says a startling double assassination of a political- character occurred late Thursday night towards the conclu sion of a public gathering at the 1m- orial Institute. An Indian student, whose name is not known, shot and killed Lieut. Col. Sir Wm. -Hutt Curzon VVyllie and Dr. Calaa Lalcaca, of Shanghai. Wylie, who had held Important Indian appointments, fell dead on the spot. Dr. Lalcacf* showed signs of life after he fell and was hurried to St. George's hospital but on arrival there it was found that he was d6ad. Those near the assassin seized and held him until Ihe arrival of the police. He had two revolvers, a dagger and a knife. All were new, and it is believed the crime was pre meditated. The gathering at the Imperial In stitute, a building devoted to Indian and other colonial functions, was an "at home"-to Indian students. D. W. Thorburn, one of the guests, thus graphically describes the scene at tending the murder: “It was near 11 o clock, and the musical program was just conclud ing when I saw a middle aged Eng lish gentleman conversing with a young Indian student dressed in a dark jacket and wearing a pale blue turban. "Suddenly the native drew a re volver and fired four shots with the greatest rapidity full at the head of the Englishman. The shots were tired with the muzzle of the weapon close to the victim's face. "Then came another shot as the Englishman fell and a sixth which struck an elderly Indian gentleman standing a few yards off and who fell, shot in the side. "I rushed at the assassin, and others sprang forward at the saim- time. W'e seized him but he strug gled, and wresting one hand free, placed the revolver to his forehead and pulled the trigger. It clicked harmlessly, as he had fired all of his shots. "We thouted for doctors and the police. Meantime there was a ter rible scene and a commotion and th- folding doors were finally closed to prevent the people from looking on the fearful sight. "A doctor In the hall finally came forward and knelt at the side of the Englishman. After an examination he said 'nothing can be done for him.’ "At this moment some one ex claimed iu a horror-stricken voice why it is Curzon Wyilie,’ then a stately woman in evening dress came upstairs from the cloak room to dis cover what had happened. Looking at the recumbent figure and not im mediately recognizing it, she said: “ 'Poor fellow.’ She then knelt down and as she looked closely al the disfigured face a look of horror leaped into her eyee and she ev- claimed: “'It is my husband; why wasn't I with him?’ "It was Lady Wyilie who had left her husband only a few minutes be fore. "Other doctors came but they could find no wound on I^ilcaca's body until the clothing was removed, when a tiny stream of blood tronv the side revealed the position of the injury. Screens were placed around the victims and the awe-striokeu peo ple quickly left the hall.” The victims were placed in ambu lances and removed to a hospital. Detectives searched the assassin. The attack on Sir William oc curred on a wide square landing lead ing to the staircase. Sir William and Lady Wytile were just preparing to depart when the former was ap proached by the Indian student. One bullet shattered the face just below the left eye. Dr. Lalcaca was a Parsee, and from present evidence it would seem that he was shot accidentally. The as sassin, who is also a Parsee, is about twenty-five years of age. He was cool and self-possessed after his ar rest. He has maintained, «n obstl- nate silence. The identification of the man so far has been impotsible, as a great number of visiting cards bearing different names were found on him. He will be arraigned in a police-court-,- H- i* reported that h* had in his possession written docu ments setting forth reasons and jus tification for the ctime. Lieut. Col. Sir William Hutt Cur zon Wyilie was born in 184 8, being the youngest son of the late Gen. Sir William Wyilie. G. C. B. He was political aide de camp to the Secretary of State for India since 1901. TiT T896 he entered the In dian staff corps and served in Beluchistan during the Afghan war in 1&79-80, and accompanied Gen. Sir Robert Phayrs's fore© to the re lief of Ogadahajr. for Which service he was decorated. Widow Show* Sketches That Load to Investigation—Psychical Re search Experts Tell of Results. The sirange story of the spirit of a dead artist taking possession of th^ mind of a living man and impellin; him to carry on the artist's unfinish ed work is related by Prof. James H. Hysiop, secretary of the American Society for Psychical Research, of New York, who in connection with Prof. Isaac K. Funk, recently came to the conclusion that the spirit of man lives after his body is dead. Robert Swain Gifford, the artist, died in 19b5 at his summer home near New Bedford, Mass. Freder ick L. Thompson, a goldsmith, had met Mr. Gifford only twice and knew him but slightly. Thompson had never indicated any ability as an artist until six months after the death of Gifford, when he did not even know that Mr. Gifford had died. He was suddenly seized with an Im pulse to paint a picture, and going to work on it, he was surprised at his ability. While he was painting the voice of Mr. Gifford seemed to tell him to continue his work he had started. Mr. Thompson continued painting pictures, always possessed by the spirit of Mr. Gifford, and found a ready market for them. Many pur chasers commented on their simi- larfTy to Mr. Gifford’s paintings. Fearing that his mind was giving away in 1 907, Mr. Thompson called on Prof. Hysiop. By arrangement he made several sketches for pictures at the instance of what he considered to be Gifford's spirit. Prof. Hysiop looked these up in a safe and then Thompson went to New Bedford and called on Gifford's widow, where he had never been and whom he had never met. One of the first things Mrs. Gifford showed him was a sketch which Mr. Gifford had made a short time before his death and which had been locked up and seen by no one until a few days ago, when Thompson called. The sketch was exactly similar in every detail to one of the sketches Thompson had left with Prof. Hysiop. This fact and other equaly sur prising features in the cafe prompt Prof. Hysiop to even a stronger be- 4*4: that the spirit lives after death and that the artist Gifford's spirit is in communication with this world through the medium of the gold smith Thompson. WALLS DESTROYED FIGHT FATAL DUEL. Encounter Between Two Genii an Army Officers. Although dueling is nominally Il legal in Germany, details of a most remarkable encounter iu which the preliminaries were arranged by the State, are given-in a cablegram from Berlin, which states that Lieut. Granier shot and killed Lieut Zwitz- ers near Blankenburg. Zwitzers, although a married man with a family, tried to kiss Granier's fiancee and a military court of honor sanctioned the duel and arranged the fight. Two companies of infan try kept the grounds. A locomotive and an ambulance car were provided by the State railway to carry the expected victim to the nearest hos pital. Granier’s second shot pierced his opponent's lungs, and the wounded man died in the hospital soon after the special train got him there. Lieut. Graniar will probably now undergo a few months comfortable detention in a fortress, the message declares. AFTER STANDARD OIL. Mississippi Attorney Would Oust it from State and Collect Penalties. Application was made Wednesday in the Chancery Court of Clay coun ty., Miss., by District Atoreny A. L. Lamb for a perpetual injunction re straining the Standard Oil Company from operating in the State of MIs- rissippi and seeking to collect penal ties aggregating $11,000,000 for al leged violations of the antitrust law of the Commonwealth. The Injunction bill recites in detail the history of the Standard Oil Com pany and the methods by which it is alleged to have stiflled competition' In this State. Under the Mississippi code as amended by th« leglsUtnre in 1906.- the State is entitled to recover a statutory penalty of $5,000 a day for each specific violation of the anto- trust laws, and the penalties sought to be recovered in this case cover three years'. Yhe hearing," ff Is ufi- The Residents Thrown Into s State of Terror, but it is Believed Thst Only Two Persons Were Killed. Broken Walls Fall and Dust (loud Envelopes the City. Messina experienced two terrific earthquakes about 7:30 o'clock Thursday morning, which were ac companied by roaring sounds and are said to have had a stronger and more' undulatory movement than the earth quake of last December, which de stroyed Messina, Reggio and other cities* laid waste many villages in Calabria and killed 200,000 people. Although the shocks had no such terrible consequences, the 25,000 residents of that city were thrown into a state of terror, They ran Into the streets panic-stricken and nearly the entire population is encamped in the open. The broken walls of the old ruins were thrown to the ground and Mes sina was for a few minutes smother ed in a cloud of dust. The casualties were few-, and the only persons killed so far as is known were a-young woman and her in fant. The w-oman had gone there only a f^w days ago and had settled in rooms which the great earthquake had left relatively undamaged. She was standing at the door when the shock occurred and rushed inside to save her child. Before she could escape from the room the second shock threw down the walls, bury ing both mother and child under the debris. Soldiers and engineers who rush ed to the rescue heard the voice of the mother calling for help, and they worked heroically for several hours, when the/ found the dead bodies, the mother with her child in her arms. The first shock was followed quick ly by a second, and the rumple fled pell-mell to the American quarter, which they seemed to Met was their safest place of refuge. Bo great was the rush to the American huts that th«* authorities were unable to check the invasion and as a consequence these structures which were designed for the most needy of the populace were taken possession of by the first comers. The police, however, drew a cordon around this quarter and a guard was mounted at the bridge lending to it. Many of the panic- stricken people were driven off and orders were issued that no one be permitted to occupy the American quarters pending further instructions. Reggio suffered almost as severe a shock as Messina. LYNCHED IN' GUATEMALA. SLite IFeparUnent Demands a Thor ough Investigation. Demand upon Guatemala for a thorough investigation into the kill ing of William Wright, an American negro citizen, who was clubbed al most to death and then lynched in Guatemala last December, has been made by American Minister William Helmake, at Guatemala City, under instructions from the State depart ment. Reports to the department Intimate that the trial of the man's murderers was a farce, and that there was corruption among the local of ficials having to do with the punish ment. of the offenders. Guatemala's reply to the representative of this government has not been received. ROBBER8 CORNERED. Men Who Held Up Canadian Pacific Train Traced to Mining Tunnel. Detective Draper, of Spokane, Wash., with a pack of bloodhounds, has traced the Canadian Pacific train bandits that held up an express train last week at Kamloops, into an old mining tunnel at Red Guleh, six miles east of Ashcroft, British Co lumbia. Detective Draper has sent for help, as the two men trapped are heavily armed and show fight. One of the robbers was kill$! by Con stable Rucker. He wore clothes bought in Spokane. A valise full of dynamite was found in a boat de serted by the robbers. Good Place for Them. derstood. will take place at West Point during the November term of the Chancery Court. Three Fatally Injured. Ax eight-year-old newsboy, an eleven-year-old office boy and a for ty-eight-year-old tripled man, were probably all fatally Injured a few nights ago by being run down by au tomobiles at Pitsburg, Pa. Only in one instance that of the newsboy, did tbjjfclvw of the machins stop to find out hoW badly hia vlctljn had been bui dian beyond the three-mile limit and he dropped overboard the revolvers, .dirks, slung-shots, knives and other deadly weapons In thirty feet of wa ter. * “ Former Room Mate of Alleged Slay er of Elsie Sigel Confronted by Witness. ^ „... A dispatch from New York says the complacency of Chung Sin, once the room mate of Leon Ling, who la wanted for the murder of Elsie Sigel, on June 9, went all to'pieces Wednes day afternoon, when Arthur Logan, an expreseman, walked into the cell where Chung Sin is held as more than a material witness, and brusquely shouted "Hullo.” Logan is the man who carried the trunk containing the body of the girl down-stairs from Leon’s room on tho day of the murder. He had told the police that Chung Sin is one of the men he saw on the top floor of the house. Chung Sin, on the contrary, has sworn by all his ancestors that he never saw the trunk packed or moved. "You are the Logan said in Chung Sin » presence, "who told me to take the trunk down-stairs care fully. There was another slim fel low w ith you in the room—the same that came over to the office half an hour before to givp me the order to call for the trunk." "AH mistake." protested Chung Sin, "never see you before." The Chinaman's voire broke, and he shook as in fear as Logan was led out, still positive in his identifi cation. Chung was not kept waiting long before he had another visitor—this time -Martin Luria, the chauffeur, who drove a Chinaman and a trunk from the Harlem laundry to a chop suey restaurant in Newark on the morning of June 10. The police had a theory that Chung Sin might have been the fare and not Leon Ling. But Luria could not Identify Chung Sin, and still believes that it was Leon he had In his taxicab. A letter from Chung Bin, written since his arrest, to the Society of the Four Brothers, was intercepted and trans- ated to the district attorney's of fice. It protests that the murder was done by one man, and that, therefore, only the murderer should be held; denounces the authorities and Implores aid of ail membera in freeing him. The police believe more and more that little reliance can be placed n any of the various rewards and offers of co-operation promised by the clans of Chinatown, and accord ingly District Attoreny Jerome wrote John Edincott Gardner, professor of Oriential language and literature la ho University of the Pacific at San Jose, Cal., requesting his co-opera tion in tho case as a trustworthy interpreter. Corpu of CMmmos I Hudioo Moor. LEON LING’S BODY Although Complete Ideal Ulcatioa Ws* Impossible Thursday Night la telieut Features the Body Bean a Marked Resemblance to the Mian* ing Chinaman. A dispatch, from Ntew York Thursday saya, although complate Identification was impossible, thsrs appeared to be a atrong probability that the- body of a Chinaman, which was found floating in the Hadaon River in the upper part of the city, was that of Leon Ling, or William L. Leon, the murderer of Elsto Sigel. The man's height, weight and TO FLY ACROSS CHANNEL. Three Aviators at Calais to Make Aerial Voyage to Dover. Herbert Latham, Count de Lam bert and Henri Farman are on the coast, near Calais, awaiting favorable weather conditions to attempt an aeroplane flight across the English Channel for a prize of $5,000 of fered by a London paper. French torpedo boats are being held in read iness to guide the aviators In their flight and rescue them in case of need. Count de Lambert will make use of a Wright aeroplane. Mr. Farman will uae a new machine like the one with which he made~llTB CeTe^ brated flight from Chalons to Rhelms, except that he has Intro duced an arrangement by which the alighting wheels give way and allow skids to bear the shock of the Im pact. Latham will use his mono place, with which he recently has made a number of successful flights. He purposes starting from the top of a cliff, near Calais, and heading straight for the Admiralty pier at Dover. The distance, as the crow flies, is 21.73 miles. general appearance talllea with that of Leon Ling, but as ths body was nude, except for a silk undershirt, and had been in tha water for more than a week, a thorough esagliwk- tlon will be necessary. Coroner Mc- Fonald, who was the first to Inspect the body, believes that it is Leon's as do a number of policemen, hut until measurements and facial char* acteristies are carefully gone over the identification will remain la doubt. If it ia Leon the cause of hta death will be another mystery, although one theory, that of suicide, would appear reasonable. In salient features the body bore a marked resemblance to Leon Ling. The teeth wer« good, as were Leon's; the height about five feet, fonr inch es, which was Leon’s height, and the weight 125 pounds, which was aboot Leon’s. The age appeared to be about twenty-five or thirty years. Leon's age was given out by the police as thirty. An antopey will be performed. The coroner's jury wee unable to arrive at a conclusion ae to how the Chinaman met his deatb. Early Thursday morning Ung Yow, an inconspicuous, hard working Chi nese laundryman of the Bast Mde. was found by hia neighbors strung between two wt*h tubs with his bsed beneath the water of one and hie feet in the other. There were bloody finger marks on hia neck, bloody footprints on the floor and a knot ted cord about the man'a neck. In" the cash drawer the police found one cent. All attempts to connect the murder of Ung Yow with the murder of Elsie Sigel by Leon Ling have failed. Investigation soon showed that Ung Yow wax 'beaten over the bead with flat irons, probably by more than one man. and then flung in the tuba. He probably died by drowning vhile unconscious. i y ‘M CHINESE DEIJVERER. Out law Is Making Much Trouble For the French. A NOVEL EXPERIMENT At Chicago Wednesday 681 weapons which the police have con fiscated in the last six months were cast into the lake. The city tug fbbl The police department- eusto- the gsnertt tone - of the city Killed by Lightning. Maffett Parker and Neil Latman, two boys of North Birmingham, Ala., were killed by lightning this after noon. The bodies were found under a large tree and the body of their favorite dog was lying between them. Ths boy« wer« 11 and 13 years old, respectively. Makes a Preacher Chief of Police For One Night. _ Mason City, Iowa, is to be policed for one night by the pastor of the Methodist church, Dr. Will W. Carl ton. For this one night he will be the chief. The force will obey his instructions to the letter. Mayor Klrschman has promised that he would prosecute all cases brought before him by the preacher- policeman. - When Mayor KirschmaB was elect- ed to the position, he. It la said, tendered the position of chief of po lice to Dr. Carlton. Dr. Carlton re fused. Many persons are not now pleased French colonial authorities in Up per Tonquin, China, are having no end of trouble In their efforta to check the onslaughts of Ds Tbam, a notorious outlaw, and hia followars. From private advice* the government is informed that for humanitarian and political reason# the officials are unable to adopt the necessary sharp and ruthless measures which the flora ye against villages favoring French rule seem to demand. Tham’s fanatical followers havo now spread the report that he ia the divinely appointed deliverer of tho Chinese from the French. His men are armed with rifles while the na» lives defend themselvea only with sharpened sticks. Chinese who are favorable to the French, when caught by the outlaws, are carried to the forest, tied to trees and there left to die, after their tongues have been mutilated. ^ De Tham appears to be gWirded by a special providence. He has never been captured, although at times be could touch the French soldiers ns they pased his hiding place. On one occasion they pressed so cloee that the intrepid outlaw killed his wits and child to make certain his SS- ‘ rape. Frequently he has sent mem bers of his hand to parley for sur render while he and the rest have wormed their way ont of a tight place to their stronghold fa the hi tie BURGLAR KILLS POLICEMAN. Caught in Act of For to Store—Shots Exchanged. 1 HBgr Policeman Henry at night time, so the preacher was asked to see what he could nnearth. There will be no public announce ment made of the night when the minister is to police the city. Sudden Death. Aiken was again startled and sur prised Tuesday morning by ths\sud den death of Mrs. Julia B. Kennedy, who dropped dead while odhabing her hair before a looking glam at her residence there. Thin is the third suddsa death of prominent women In Aiken in a lew week*. At Chicago Schnadle was killed Thnrsday hy a burglar be was attempting to n*» real. The burglar, who is thought to be a negro, wee Towing on to a store at Wabash avenue and Thirty-fourths stmt when surpris ed by the policeman. In an eschango of shot! the _ l iceman was wounded, dying n fin minutes later. HR assailant In nl thought to be wounded. . I ~ Killed by ’ rr, rm th in unel*,. jV'* prominent as IRicai police killed by a be *o her bM