Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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m t. ^ Bf * ,TI til MinNrt •! tin Firmir , i Cv.*. 4 Unloa of Ckiftir THE SENIOR SENATOR m t> » Dfscamm the Legl«Uture, Denonnc- M Oomptilvorjr Education, Speak* PltoMBtly of President Taft, De- feada Olenwon and Scored Some ^ «{'tiMT'jfeiyipi^enkl- J" ,'1. ’ 7"~' A apecial dUpatch from Cheater to The News and Courier aaya an audience Tarloualy estimated at from 1,500 to 4,000 persona gathered on the grounds of Union A. R. P. church, near Rlchburg, Tuesday to attend the rally of the Chester Coun ty Farmers' Union and to hear Sen ator B. R. Tillman and the other apeakers engaged for this occasion. The aenlor Senator seems fully re- Juvenated and spoke with all his old-time force and Are. H* jumped on the mileage system In rogue in this State by which the railroads sell a passenger a mileage book for $20 and then compel the passenger to waste much valuable time and patience In attempting to - exchange mileage for a ticket. He said the whole thing la the fault of the legislature and cautioned the people agalnat putting too many rail road lawyers and frelends of cor porations In the law-making body. “An infernal fool arrangement, he called the present practice. He said he did not know much about the Farmers' Union, but think* It a Food thing, only he beg ged to warn the people against al lowing the organization to become a lever to advance the fortunes of politlciana. He described his mis sionary work in the North, and his endeavors to convert the Northers people to the sane and Southern way of viewing the race question. he denounced the efforts of those who favor compulsory education as a scheme to give the ballot to negroes which It surely will, he said, by com pelllng them to go to school and overiome the educational qualifies tlona, which alone stand between them and the ballot. President Taft, he said. Is a splen did gentleman, a great Improvement over his predecessor, but Is "spread Ing all the molasses he can to catch fllea.’’ He deserbed conditions at the North as regards social problems and drew a beautiful picture of the com paratlve purity that obtains In the South The divorce evil he partlcn larly denounced and called on his hearers to hold fast to the present practice In South Carolina on this subject. Touching on Clemson College, the Senator denounced the newspapers that have been meddling with the situation there, aa he desribed It for the sole purpose of stirring up discord, and offered to compare rec orda of life trustees with those of elected trustees. He also said that no Instance could be shown where life trustees had Ined up en masse on one side of a question and the elected trustees on ths other. He hoped that certain defects at Clemson have been reme died, and the future of the College made brighter. » Certain political foemen In South Carolina, he said, want to write his . obituary, but he Is well and hearty and won't go until he has to. He -t jrarned the people against the "ras cals" and bade them keep their eye ot^ the State Legislature and the lawmakers at Washington. dther speakers were Editor W. F Caldwell, of the Chester Lantern Sollclt&r+J. K. Henry, Col. T. B Butler, of Gaffney; Mr. J. O. L White, president of the Chester County Farmers’ Unon, and Prof W. 8. Morrison, of Clemson College The day passed off quietly, the most perfect order prevatHu*, Masked Robbers. Four maked men entered the home of Charles Rurlew, a store koeper at West Plttbon. Pa., and going to a room occupied by a mer chant and hit wife, demanded of the former the money he received from hia Mies on Saturday. He refused and was knocked insensible. The intruders then bound and gagged Burlew and his wife and ransacked the room. After securing $300, the men set fire to the house and fled. Burlew and his wife were rescued. GOES OVER FALLS RESCUED SAILORS pQUCE GRAFT DESIGN ACCEPTED NIAGRA RAPIDS SWALLOW UP ONE MORE VICTIM. SEVEN SNATCHED FROM DEATH BY THE LIFE SAVERS. In Niw York Amounts to t Mil lion of Dollars in FOR MONUMENT TO THE NOBLE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. Young Man's Brave Efforts Prove Useless, Giant Wave# Finally Over, coming. Driving Him Under. Captain ot Schooner Drives His Vet sel on Shore Thinking Hotel Glare Was Liner's Light. HARD CASH PER YEAR Niagara raplda claims one one more victim. A dispatch from there ■ays August Sparer, an eighteen- year-old boy, a resident of Niagara Falla, went to his death Monday in the whirlpool rapids after a gallant battle -With the giant w*vet J the- lower bridges and-the pool. With three companion! Sporer went for a swim In the river. He struck about at once for the middle of the ■tre&m and then turned toward the bridges. His companions called to him to turn back, for the current is very swift at that point, but he kept on down stream and waa caught In the great sweep, the first break from the smoother waters to the rapids. The boy struggled for a time against the current but to no avail. Then, realizing that he waa beyond human help and waa to -be carried through the rapid which took the life of Capt. Webb, and which have resisted every unaided human effort at passage,,., he deliberately turned down stream and began a grim fight for life. Not in all the history of the river has such a brave effort been witness ed. Although but a frail boy, he went Into the rapids swimming strongly and held his own until he struck the giant wave which curls up opposite the Old Battery elevator Then he went under and for a sec ond was lost tonight of the score of people who stood on the lower arch bridge. Again and again he disappeared only to reappear, each time fighting desperately against the terrible cur rent. Then when within 300 yards of the whirlpool his strength gave out and he sank and was lost to view. Even then he had swum perhaps 100 yards farther than did the great English swimmer. Capt. Webb. Long Island life savers, after a ■lx hours' battle, added another vic tory agalnat the sea to their long list of remarkable rescues Tuesday, when they brought safely to land the cap tain and crew—seven souls In all— een from the three-masted schooner Ar lington, of Boston, w-hich ' went ashore early Tuesday morning in the driving rain and fog off Long Beach, owtke Oouth xtiorB Of Lopf Island. The eighth member of the crew, Madden Pierson, a Swede, put off from the schooner on a raft a line, but was swept out to sea and lost sight of. It. is believed that he per ished. The rescue from the schooner was witnessed by cheering guests of ihe Nassau Hotel at Long Beach and by hundreds of cottagers. The ho tel was Indirectly reeponsible for the vessel'a plight, for Capt. Ira Smith, after having lost his bearings, mis took the glimmering lights in the structure for those of a liner In mid- ocean, and thus misled ran aground. The schooner, heavily laden with •Anthratlc, bound from New York for Mayport, Fla., struqk a sand bar. Pounded by a heavy sea while a terrific easterly gale was blowing she began to yield immediately. The captain and crew climbed out on the bowsprit. The life savers reached the scene soon after daylight. They worked frantically, but in vain trying to shoot a line to the wreck. The high wind and seas made made this mposslble, but after six futile attempts they succeeded in getting a surf boat through the breakers to the lee of the wreck and the rescue of the Imperilled sailors followed. Aside from a broken ankle sus tained by the cabin boy and the suf fering Incident to exposure, which all sustained, no one was seriously injured. The Arlington will be 'a total loss. THEY WERE WENT BACK. LUNATIC KILLS HIMSELF. KPS Fiend Will Hang. Rogers Merritt, a negro, was Tuesday convicted in tke Superior court at Atlanta of criminal assault upon Miss Maggie McDermott, 16 TUkru old,, on the night of June 20 laat. T)ie negro will be sentenced to hang. The assault occurred in •he heart of Atlanta. Miss McDer- ■aott being en route to her home when the negro attacked her. :.-.~ghr— Mod in Mine. ~ - Uncle Sain Detains a Runaway Couple From Prague. At New York the Immigration of ficials have shattered the romance of nlneteen-year-old Beatrice Mayer, who left her husband of a few months and eloped to this country with her first sweetheart, Adolph Grohman, a youth of twenty-three. The young couple who have a plenti ful supply of money, and whose re finement apparently verifies their claims to kinship with prominent families at Prague, arrived in New York on Monday. Mrs.’♦layer was accompanied by her maid and all of them had first cabin passage. They would not have been disturb ed In their desire to land had not cablegram preceded their arrival. It was from Mrs. Mayer’s husband, and asked that they be detained at New Torn. A special board of inquiry has decided that the man and Mrs. Mayer and her maid must be deport ed. Before the board, Mrs. Mayei made an ImpaaUoned plea to be al lowed to land. “Adolph was my school compan- loa, and we have loved each other for years," she said “We wanted to marry, but my folks objected l resisted as long as I could, but In the end they forced me Into this objectionable marriage. I never lov ed my husband, but I do love Adolph. After four months of marital trouble, I decided that the only way to avoid a life of trouble and unhappiness was to run away with Adolph." RELICS OF TRAGEDY. Fifteen Skeletons Are Found In Ex cavation. In Washington fifteen skeletons lying together In such a position as to Indicate hasty burial and three English copper coins bearing the date 1720, found with them during the excavating for the United States Medical School Hospital near the banks of the Potomac, brings to light. It is believed, some Indian or piratical tragedy of early American days. As authentic history sheds no il luminating ray on the case, the finger of suspicion wavers in its pointing looking first toward the rem man, who stole silently along the wooded Potomac banks a century and a half ago. then to a mythical pirate crew which Is believed to have made Its rendezvous in the upper Potomac, sad lastly to a mutiny-infested cave trading vessel. But the bones may remain forever as silent as when they were in their grave. • Was an Inmate of the Hospital for the Insane. A Columbia dispatch to The News and Courier says Emanuel Boland, i middle-aged white man from Aiken county, an Inmate of the State Hos pital for the Insane, who tried to kill himself several months ago while on a railway train In the custody of a guard, on his way to the Insti tution, committed suicide late Mon day by falling thirty feet from the lattice work on a porch to one of the Asylum buildings. He lived only a few moments after striking ’ the ground. The unfortunate man was suffering from suicidal melancholia and had been carefully watched since he entered the Institution. It Is stated that he was In the yard of the Asylum Monday after noon with several other patients and two nurses. While the attention of the nurses was distracted for a mo ment he climbed the lattice of a veranda to the third story and either let go his hold or jumped backward. It Is said that the nurse tried to per- luade him to come down when he was about half way up. The acci dent although deplorable was una voidable. No blame can be placed on any one. Last spring when Boland was being carried to the Asylum on the train, he borrowed a knife from some one ind, while manacled, plunged It into his throat. Inflicting an ugly wound. When he arrived In Columbia he was In a desperate condition. He recov ered from this self-inflicted Injury, only to end his life Monday. General Bingham, Police Commis sioner of New^York, Says That He Could Have Made at Least Six Hundred Thousand Dollars In His First Twelve Months in Office. "I am asked to estimate the money vxloe of ^fSTUand Blackmail in New York each year. No one can make such an estimate with accuracy, but my belief is that the total Is not less than $100,000,000. During my first year at the head of the police department It would have been an easy matter for me to have made $600,000 in bribe money, and $1,- 000,000 would not have been an ex cessive figure at all." Thus writes General Theodore Bingham In an article to be publish ed In the September number of the Hampton's magazine. It is the first public statement made by General Bingham since his removal by May or McClellan from the office of Po lice Commissioner. He writes: "The power of Tammany Hall rests, and has rested for forty years, upon its ability to control the^ po lice, by fair means or foul. A sVroug honest, fearless Police Commission er, supported by Police Maglstratea of ability and integrity and a mayor big enough to conduct his office without fear or favor, can sap and utterly destroy Tammany influence in ten years or even less, provided he is empowered to dismiss and transfer his subordinates for cause, without recourse to the courts. "I do uot believe 1 am unfair In estimating that from fifteen hun dred to two thousand members of the force are unscrupulous grafters, whose hands are always out for easy money.” . . That this Is known by the head of the department and apparently- ignored is because the commissioner is only nominal head of the force, he states, while a policeman has of fice for life. Discipline and the question of vested interests should be kept separate, he declares. Graft is hidden in most city ordinances, he says and were enacted to be brok en so that some one could make money from them. He continues: "One day, shortly after my ar rival at Police headquarters an ac quaintance dropped Into my office “Commissioner." he said. "There is a house at No. — W est Thirty- third street, run very quietly. It will be worth $10,000 a month to you"—but the sentence was never finished to my knowledge. "As a matter of fact, the place had never been opened, and the man had t>eeu used as an agent to feel out the department. "A few months later I was of fered $5,000 in cash and $500 a month merely to be seen shaking hands with the proprietor of an up per Broadway cafe." General Bngham states as his be lief that gambling cannot be elimi nated, but that a reasonable law, Imposing heavy licenses and ironclad restrictions can be enforced. Con cerning the Rogues' Gallery, the controversy over which proved his stumbling block, he states that It Is necessary to photograph criminals, but adds that it should be settled by a law not drawn in the interest of criminals. Beautiful, Elevating Portrayal of Helf-Hacriflcefng Devotion of Noble Women of "Lost Cause." Befitting in nobility of conception and beauty of execution the subject it is to commemorate, the design for the monument to women of the "lost cause" has been completed. It is the work of a Dixie girl, Miss Belle Kinney, of Nashville, Tenu., and hat been accepted by several States. It is- probable that all the States which left the union in the Civil War will adopt the design and that repicas of the monument will be placed in the capitols of each. ^ The design for the proposed monu ment is very beautiful and elevating. The central figure, of heroic size, Is the Goddess of Fame. At her right, the reclining figure, delicately fea tured, beautiful, but with an expres sion of exquisite sadness, represents the self-sacrificing Southern woman of the war time. Fame is represent ed as placing a wreath upon the Southern woman's head, while she supports, at her left, a dying and emaciated Confederate soldier, to whom the Southern woman Is ex tending, even in death, the palm of victory. The design Is such that it readily lends Itself to reproduction either of marble or bronze. A year or more ago the Daugh ters of the Confederacy and the Sons of Confederate Veterans decided up on the erection of these monuments in every State capltol in Dixie. The work was to have been done by an Italian sculptor. When his design was submitted at the late Confede rate reunion in Memphis, it raised a storm of protest. The artist had pictured the Southern woman as a militant and amazonion figure, carrying in one hand a sword and in the other the banner of the Lost Cause. This conception was so foreign to the gentle, suffering and patient wo man of the Southland as thos-v who loved her had known her, *hat the design was rejected by an over whelming vote. The artist declined to submit ano'her and Miss Kinney was appealed tc. Tennessea hav ap propriated $2,500 through the DaugheU rs and Sons of the Confed- eiacy for a bronze cast of the design. Other States are raising funds for me purpore and It is believed bv fall each of the former Confederate States will have followed suit. Miss Kinney, the artist, is but 22 years of age and is already i sculp tor of more than national fame She was recently awarded tha con tract for a heroic statute of the late Senator Edward \V. Carmack, of Tennessee, killed by the Coopers. When but a child she received a prlz* at the centennial In Nashville for a bust of her father. She received her education in art at the Art In stitute at Chicago and later studied abroad. She was awarded the con tract for twenty Igorrote figures at the Field Museum and has attracted a great deal of attention In art cir cles throughout the world. Mi States Supply Compan BUT FROM Uff uppllei Plumblnj COLUMBIA. 8. Q. HIDEOUS CRIME classified column Hlddtn by Charity's Cloak In Ntw York City. Game Bam tame—Thres varieties,! also Sebright’s. - Carlisle Got Athena, Qa. WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC A coed worm powder tor hones jinulea. Safe and effective. „ ncelpt al SAjl. T. Wannamaker, Cheraw, 8. C. Fairview House, Clyde, N. C.—Fins] view, good water, good table.' Rates $6 and up per week. N« consumptlvee. Dr. F- M. Darla. Wedding Invitations end annouaos-t menta. Finest quality. Correct} ■tyles. Samples free. James H.1 DeLooff, Dept. 6, Grand Rapids, ; Mich. Carried on by People Who Pretend to Be Honest and Friends of Their Victims—Shocking Discovery is Made by the Detectives of the Im migration Department. The crusade against evils In the management of immigrant aid soci eties In New York, which began Tuesday with the barring of two pocieties from Ellis Island, has shown conditions which officials de clare will be called to the-attention Wanted—To hear from owner hav ing farm for sale. Must be in good location and reasonable In’ price. Not particular about size. Carolina Sales Agency, 4 9 E. Rus-: sell'St., Orangeburg, S. C. (Per sons wishing to buy, write us.) Agents Wanted—To sell post cards, rings, brooches, bracelets, albums, etc., gi-en for seeling $1.00 worth. Address Souvenir Post Card Co., Morgantown, W. Va. 8-16-$t RUTLEDGE COUNTY DEFEATED. FEET TOUCH ON BODY. FAMILY FOUND STARVING la the Great City of Chicago la Midst of Plenty. Starving in sight of plenty is the sad fate of a family in Chicago. .John Fitzgerald, 18 months old, is dead of starvation, and his mother, Mary Fitzgerald, Is ill from the same cause. Three other children, all ill from lack of food, passed Monday night In the care of the police, and will be taken to the juvenile .home. These children are Helen, 10 years old; Lilian, 8 years old, and Irene, 4 years old. Mrs. Fitzgerald and her family were deserted by her husband on June 10. For the las^ew weeks family has had nbthln^Ko live on except what was contributed by obtained by pawning articles from the home, which already had been nearly stripped of its furnishings. * Man Thus Located Under Water and Wa* Rescued. When Miss Ruth Rogers leaped feet foremost from a raft on Man hattan beach at Chicago she touch ed one of her feet on a body lay ing Id the bottom of the lake. Her cries when she reached the surface brought former Congressman Chas. S. Wharton, Dr. W. H. Falke and Dr. H. B. Clapp, who were swim ming near. Mr. Wharton dived and assured himself that what Miss Rogers had touched was really the body of a man and after repeated efforts the rescuers were successful in bringing it to the surface. They were aston ished to find that breath still re mained, although the victim was un conscious. When he had been resuscitated after an hour's work, he said he was John Tuzhocki. twenty-three years Old. He was unable to say how he came into hts plight, but it Is be lieved by those who were at the beach that in diving from a post he struck a great rope stretched as a life line and was rendered uncon scious. All the missing miners in the Har- shhft of the Camelia mine, near Pachnca, Mexico, have been account ed tor. The total casulty Hat U three killed gad 20 Injured. Work frartteea- renumed. Fife -broke oqt In this mine laat Saturday, end a adore of miners were reported •t drat to hare been killed. waa received Monday of the ■oar Shatter, Tex., Satur- Deputy Colleo- Ahn Doaildeoa Robert. they over- Killed by Lightning. Two men were killed by lightning at Trlon Factory, Ga., on T^iefday. FfeveV ffi’er %errailtrngTh a row in front of the depot when the bolt descended, killing Sam Ray and Clar ence MoC&nts and seriously Injuring Jeff McCanta. Other men were mocked down, but not serioualy_ln- 1 umr Ugktning damaged the de pot of the Central of Georgia and a livery stable near by. Killed Near WlUiaton. Dan Gaines was shot ana instantly killed by another negro, named Pet* er Green, near Willlaton Saturday night. The men were playing, when reen pulled out n pistol, saying, ‘T believe I will shoot you.” Gaines said, “Well shoot,” he did >0, with •adly affect. It seems 1$ was SLAPPED HER FAUE. ' : Because He Said She Sent Him Un- aeenly Poet Cards. As an uxceuse for slapping his wife’s face, William Schenck, of Cincinnati, O., said that he was the yicUm 0U'-Postal, i^rd that hia wife had sent the cards to him. Judge Hoffman, of the Police court, dismissed the case and told the wife not to send her husband any more postal cards. The husband pre sented several cards to the court. On one was written, "All in, down and out;’’ another showed a hand some young woman, with outatretch- ed arms, and underneath the pic- tare. was printed the words, "I don't care if he never comes back.'’ Another had written on It. "Come la; the water la ftae." TAFT MAY VISIT STAE FAIR Columbia Wants to Change Dates With Augusta. A dLpatch from Columbia to The Charleston Evening Post says it is entirely agreeable to have Colum bia and.. Augusta swap daya. for. en tertaining Mr. Taft, so as to brinf him here on the closing day of the Carolina fair and in Augusta ou the opening day of the fair there. This Is the result of a conference between Chamber of Commerce and Fair So ciety representatives. Mayor Reamer wrote Secretary Carpenter along this line. If the change is made Mr. Taft will come to Columbia from CBhrlestoff “on Saturday morning early and go to Augusta on Saturday afternoon and remain there through Monday. Both Williamsburg aud Clarendon Voted it Down. A dispatch from Lake City, which town expected to be the county seat of the new county, says the propo sition to form the new county of Rutledge out of portions of Wil liamsburg and Clarendon was voted on by the voters In the sections af fected Tuesday and the result was a victory for those who are opposed to the formation of the county by a little over two hundred vtes. The Williamsburg portion of the propos ed county gave 823 votes for the new county and 4 No against. The Clarendon voters, whose precinct was Sandy Grove, gave 45 for the new county and 25 against. The new county to have won required 831 votes In Williamsburg county and 51 votes In Clarendon. So the proposition was voted down in both Williamsburg and Clarendon coun ties. STRIKES HIM ON ENGINE. Lightning Severely Injures a Man in His Cab. The Spartanburg Herald says Frank J. Mooney, fireman on freight train No. 71. Southern railway, was struck by lightning in the South ern Railway yards Sunday night about 11 o clock during the severe rain and electrical storm. Mr. Moon ey was severely injured. At first it was thought that he had been killed, bht an examination by physicians showed that his Injur ies were not fatal, and he was sent to the Spartanburg City Hospital. A report^fromjhe {inspUal^ Tuesday riTgh'f saTO tMl VIr. Mooney was get ting on nicely. He was conscious, but. could not speak. Mr. Mooney was standing on the tender of the engine filling the boil er v-ith, wjuex vthca be jvax, atfnck by lightning. Strange to aay, there was no scar anywhere in the flesh. of Congress, at next session. In an interview a few days ago Repre sentative S. Bennet, a member of the comn^ls^ion appointed by congress in 1907 to Investigate immigration problems says that an inquiry by the commission has shown that 75 per cent of the so-called homes In New York have perverted the purposes for which they Were organized. The most serious charge made by Mr. Bennet is that agents for disre putable resorts have been able to go to the homes and obtain girls, newly arrived from foreign coun tries, who believed that they were about to find employment In desir able places. The agents have paid from $10 to $15 a piece for the girls thus recruited, he says. The commission In getting at the facts here and in other cities, em ployed detectives who #«sed as agents for questioitable resorts. They had no difficulty It is said, in obtaining girls from the officials of certain homes. Similar evils have been found by the commission to exist In other American cities, and the crusade against them s likely to extend to several parts where largo numbers of Imigrants arrive. The commis sion will report to congress early next March. * The communication made public by Commlrsioner of Immigration Williams, In which he called atten tion to certain evils existing In im migration homes In this city, revok ing the privilege which two of them had long enjoyed of sending their representatives to Ellis Island, only scraped the crust of a situation, the details of which are appalling. The Investigation of the Immi grant homes is not confined to the immigrant authorities here. Presi dent Taft has been informed of the evils existing, and both he and Sec retary Nagel of the department of commerce and labor are anxious that the most stringent methods be em ployed to stan^p out - F° r many months the Immigrant commission which is separate and distinct from the immigration service, has been In vestigating these matters and today Representative Bennet told some things of what It had done. In getting at the facts the commls- siofr employed Its own detectives— women who posed as agents for ques tionable resorts. They had no diffi culty getting girls, and Invariably when these girls were questioned, it developed that they thought they were going to a place of quite anoth er character than they had been hired for. In applying for girls to work for them the agents of the disreputable resorts, Mr. Bennet says, did not stipulate that they wanted them to go as inmaes. "They didn’t need to go In to the life unless they wished to," the agents were careful to say. Mr. Bennet was not ready to give the names of any of these homea, which he gave so black a character, but it Is safe to say that the reports of the commission, when it Is made, at Washington, will be a startling one. It Is also to be expected that the homes which have perverted the avowed purpose for which they were organized will be put out of busi ness with scant ceremony. Make Your Owe Will—Without the aid of a lawyer. You don’t need one. A will is necessary to protect your family and relatives. Forme and book of instruction, any State, one dollars. Send for free UUra- ture telling you all about It. Mof- fetta’ Will Forms, Dept. 40, 894 Broadway, Brooklyn, New York City. Announcement. This being our twenty-fifth year of uninterrupted success, ws wish It to be our “Banner year." Our thousands of satisfied cus tomers, and fair dealing. Is bring ing us new customers dally. If you are contemplating the par^ chase of a piano or organ, wrlta as at once for catalogues, and for oar special proposition. MALONE'S MERIC ROUSH, Columbia, 8. O. ~ WOOD, IRON AND STEKL iSHWJ^PUUg| LoiraAaD^Sk/rls&T'AucufrA. GA. WEST POINTERS FIRED. President Orders Dismissal of Sev eral for Hazing. By direction of President Taft, seven cadets were dismissed from the United States military academy for being involved In the hazing of Rolando Sutton. Cadet Sutton was a brother of James N. Sutton. Jr., of the naval academy, whoae death was Investigated at Annapolis recent ly. The cadets ordered dismissed are: John H. Booker, Jr., of West Point, Georgia, first class; Richard W. Hocker, of Kansas City, Mo., third clasa; Barle W. Dunmore. of Utica, N. Y., third class; Chauneey C Devore, of Wheeling, W. Va., third class; Gordon Lefebvre, bf Richmond, third class; Albert E. Crane, of Dawarden. Iowa, third claF«, and Jacob S. Fortner, of Do than, Ala., third class. Mail Clerk Arrested. Frank J. Stewart, a negro railway mall clerk, running between Augusta and Atlanta, was armtefi Tuesday afternoon by Deputy United States Marshal J. P. Murray, charged with embezzling a decoy letter. Regis tered mail has been missed on the Georgia Road on a number of oc casions recently and the officers claim that they will be able to trace much of the stolen gods to Stewart. Shoots Young Lady. At Portsmouth, Ohio, enraged be cause he had' beep jilted, Harry Biles, 18 yeare old, Tuesday shot and fatally wounded Miss Minnie Clarke, 17 years old, at a crowded street corner. When Mias Clarke refmsfd to return a Hug, Bits* drew -4 j a revolver and shot her through the back, the bullet penetrating the right lung. Blitt was arretted. 1 Hung for Three Months. After hanging for about three months to a tree near a public road, near Pittsburg, Pa., along which hundreds of . persons nkaft. daily the body of a man, apparently aboat 70 years of age, was found a few days ago by berry pickers. No clue as to the Identity of the supposed suicide was found on the body. A SLICK CROOK. Worked a Slick Game on a Private Detective. Thomas D. Stewart, the head private detective agency In ] burg, has reported to the Chi lice that he was robbed of money and Jewelry while stopping a downtown hotel In the lake He went to Chicago In com with a man who had offered him to the man who, he responsible for the dynai the Pennsylvania railro near Pittsburg several n and for whom there is a $5,000 offered. The de his guide slept in the same the hotel, and when the woke up one morning he to companion and all h|L» gone. Wild Story Afioet. A dispatch from Chariest State says a wild report lated over the country the effect that Charleston destroyed by an earthqt Ing many telegrams of it press associations and The report is said to from Atlanta. The foi 'probtfirty the mrspenl graphic communiratic tornoon by the wind storm. Kfeb;